Church Missionary Society collection box, circa 1920.

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[London : CMS, c.1920]. Wooden box, 140 x 70 x 70 mm, with chromolithographic label on one side illustrated with peoples from CMS missions around the world and worded: CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. SPHERES OF WORK: AFRICA, INDIA, CEYLON, CHINA, JAPAN, PALESTINE, EGYPT, THE SUDAN, PERSIA ETC. / METHODS: EVANGELISTIC, PASTORAL, EDUCATIONAL, MEDICAL, INDUSTRIAL, ITINERATING, TRANSLATIONAL ETC. / HEAD-QUARTERS: SALISBURY SQ. LONDON, E.C. 4 ; a much later label on the underside is proof that the box remained in constant use up until the 1980s; surface scratches overall, commensurate with extensive use, although the illustrated label has survived in good condition. From the National Library of Australia Guide to the Records of the Church Missionary Society (as filmed by the AJCP) The Church Missionary Society was formed at a meeting in London on 12 April [1799] attended by 16 clergymen and nine laymen. Its original name was the Society for Missions to Africa and the East . The founders belonged to the Evangelical wing of the Anglican Church and included several members of the Clapham Sect, such as William Wilberforce, John Venn, Henry Thornton, Charles Simeon, James Stephen, Charles Grant and Zacharay Macaulay. The Society received contributions from a large number of supporters and was able to send lay and clerical missionaries to many countries and regions: West Africa (1804), New Zealand (1809), India (1814), Ceylon (1818), Constantinople (1819), North-West America (1822), Egypt (1

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