Annual Report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America.

Singerman ID: suppS081

Year: 1838

Entry: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions. Annual Report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America. no. 1-121; May 1838-May 1958. New York.

Author/Editor: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions

Location: New York, NY

Holdings: In most academic libraries

Title: Annual Report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America.

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Language: English

Notes: For reports of missionary activity among the Jews in the United States, see "Proposed Mission to the Jews" (8th Report, 1845, p. 27). In each successive year, there is coverage of outreach to the Jews in New York, Philadelphia (only in 1850-54), or Baltimore (only in 1851-55). Rev. John Neander, a converted rabbi, was engaged in missionary outreach to the Jews between 1849 and 1877, first in New York, later as minister of the First German Presbyterian Church in Williamsburg, or Brooklyn’s Eastern District (1874 is his last signed report; the unsigned reports for 1875-77 explain Neander’s near-total attention ministering to his congregation coupled with mounting frustration over converting the stubborn Jews). The 21st Report (1858) contains a good retrospective overview of missionary work carried out in each city by Revs. Matthew R. Miller, John Neander, Frederick J. Neuhaus, Bernard Steinthal, and Julius Strauss. The 20th Report (1857) mentions visits to inmates incarcerated in "The Tombs" prison located in Lower Manhattan. Note the "Extracts from the Minutes of the Board at Ninth Annual Meeting" (9th Report, 1846), emphasizing the Christian imperative to launch a mission to the Jews. Title varies.