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THE WORK OF THE BAPTIST

MISSIONARY SOCIETY IN

EUROPE.

BY THE REV. WILLIAM LANDELS, D.D.

THE WORK OF THE BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY IN

EUROPE.

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HE Society's work in Europe has been conducted on so small a scale, and the greater part of it has been of such short duration, that its history necessarily occupies but little space.

FRANCE.

THE Mission in Brittany was commenced in 1843 at the instance of the Baptist churches in Glamorganshire, who wished to do something for the evangelisation of their Breton kinsmen. The Rev. T. Jenkins had already opened a station at Morlaix, when the Rev. W. Jones, of Cardiff, wrote requesting the Committee to take charge of and support the work. After inquiry, this request was agreed to, and, on December 7th of that year, Mr. Jenkins was accepted as a missionary of the Society. With him was associated for two or three years the Rev. John Jones, of Pontypool. In 1848 the Committee were uncertain how far they were justified in continuing their support of the Mission. The work, however, was continued, and after a few years considerably extended, several Frenchmen being employed by the Society to work with Mr. Jenkins as teachers, colporteurs, or evangelists, and stations were opened in adjacent towns and districts, such as Tremel, St. Brieuc, Guinghamp, and Brest. On the decease of Mr. Jenkins, which took place in November, 1872, his son, the Rev. Alfred Jenkins, who had completed his studies at Regent's Park College, was appointed to take charge of his father's work at Morlaix, and has since laboured there with tokens of the Divine blessing. Questions again arose as to the desirableness of the Society continuing its work in that country, and on January 21st, 1885, it was resolved that the time had arrived when the Society might wisely withdraw from Brittany, leaving the

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