that year to Calcutta . He established himself in Burma the next year . In 1814 the American Baptist Missionary Union was formed . The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions was formed in 1837 .
" In A . D . 1800 , . . . the overwhelming majority of Christians were the descendants of those who had been won before A . D . 1500 . . . . Now , in the nineteenth century , came a further expansion of Christianity . Not so many continents or major countries were entered for the first time as in the preceding three centuries . That would have been impossible , for on all the larger land masses of the earth except Australia and among all the more numerous peoples and in all the areas of high civilization Christianity had been introduced before A . D . 1800 . What now occurred was the acquisition of fresh footholds in regions and among peoples already touched , an expansion of unprecedented extent from both the newer bases and the older ones , and the entrance of Christianity into the large majority of such countries , islands , peoples , and tribes as had previously not been touched . . . .
" The nineteenth century spread of Christianity was due primarily to a new burst of religious life emanating from the Christian impulse . . . . Never in any corresponding length of time had the Christian impulse given rise to so many new movements . Never had it had quite so great an effect upon Western European peoples . It was from this abounding vigor that there issued the missionary enterprise which during the nineteenth century so augmented the numerical strength and the influence of Christianity ." --Kenneth Scott Latourette , A History of the Expansion of Christianity , vol . IV , The Great Century A . D . 1800-A . D . 1914 ( New York : Harper & Brothers , 1941 ), pp . 2-4 .
Pages 327 , 329 . [ Return to Pages : 327 , 329 , 399 ] Prophetic Dates . --According to Jewish reckoning the fifth month ( Ab ) of the seventh year of Artaxerxes ' reign was from July 23 to August 21 , 457 B . C . After Ezra ' s arrival in Jerusalem in the autumn of the year , the decree of the king went into effect . For the certainty of the date 457 B . C . being the seventh year of Artaxerxes , see S . H . Horn and L . H . Wood , The Chronology of Ezra 7 ( Washington , D . C .: Review and Herald Publishing Assn ., 1953 ); E . G . Kraeling , The Brooklyn Museum Aramaic Papyri ( New Haven or London , 1953 ), pp . 191-193 ; The Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary ( Washington , D . C .: Review and Herald Publishing Assn ., 1954 ), vol . 3 , pp . 97-110 .
Page 335 . Fall of the Ottoman Empire . --The impact of Moslem Turkey upon Europe after the fall of Constantinople in 1453 was as severe as had been the catastrophic conquests of the Moslem Saracens , during the century and a half after the death of Mohammed , upon the
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