Evangelism and the Syria-Lebanon Mission: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1869-1910

Evangelism and the Syria-Lebanon Mission: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1869-1910 provides invaluable content on social conditions in Greater Syria and Lebanon and on efforts to spread the Christian gospel during the nineteenth century.  Documenting the church’s educational, evangelical, and medical work, these are records mainly of incoming correspondence from the mission field and outgoing correspondence from the Board headquarters.

This archive contains 20,455 pages of primary source documents including:

• Correspondence
• Minutes of meetings
• Receipts of sale and inventories of supplies
• Diary accounts
• Annual reports on mission work
• Personal and field reports including information on the number of newly-organized churches, ordained ministers, and church members

Collection in the archive:

Board of Foreign Missions Correspondence and Reports, 1833-1911: Syria-Lebanon Mission

Source Library: Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA