List of articles available for download

A brief synposis of each article is given below, together with a selection of keywords. We recommend that you use the website search facility and the keywords to find articles of interest.   Please note that the article numbering bears no direct reference to the number of items available for download.

Article Number: 1 - Extract from Minutes May 16 1835 The London City Mission was founded in May 16, 1835. This article contains the main points from the hand-written minutes of that first historic meeting.   Key words: Richard Dear, William Bullock, David Nasmith, Superintendents.

Article Number: 2 - Instructions to Agents May 20 1835 The London City Missionaries were at first called "Agents". The principles established in 1835 are still used to instruct new recruits today. Key words: District, visiting.

Article Number: 700 - A missionary and his concertina Edward Blanchard played his concertina at open air meetings. He recounts that five years after a particular meeting, he was blessed to meet a man who was converted through this ministry (c. 1875). Blanchard’s concertina is now in the LCM’s Archive Room. Key words: Kennington Road, Lambeth Walk, Spurgeon’s Tabernacle, Open Air meeting.

Article Number: 701 - William Henry Evans (1856-1943) William Evans was a native of Madeley in Shropshire and came to London at 20 years of age, having previously worked as a coal-miner. He was a missionary to Nasmith District, Hoxton, between 1888 and 1936. Key words: Captain Thom [LCM Superintendent], Mr Spong.

Article Number: 901 - London Medical Mission beginnings This article about the London Medical Mission was taken from The Medical Missionary Record of 1886. The London Medical Mission began in October 1869 and their first premises were at the corner of Endell Street and Short’s Gardens, near Covent Garden. The three main divisions of the work were the Dispensary at Endell Street, the Convalescent Home and the Holiday House. The article contains three images.   Key words: St Giles, Dr Saunders, Medical Prayer Union, Dr F.A. Pring, Folkestone, S.E. Railway Company, ministry to children, lending library, singing classes, Wonersh, Brasted Chart.   Note: The London Medical Mission was absorbed into the London City Mission in 1950. In particular, the Mission acquired their land and building in Covent Garden which was subsequently incorporated into the Peabody Trust re-development in Neal Street. The Mission retains a lease to use part of the development as its Cafe Eterno.

Article Number: 902 - London Medical Mission - The beer-shop cellar in St. Giles's This article was taken from The Christian, Thursday June 22, 1871. 'By the help of the readers of The Christian, we have gathered and fed and taught upwards of eight thousand men and women of the homeless classes'.   Key words: Endell Street, St. Giles's, Whitefield Street Mission Church, Mr. Thomas's Home in Euston Road, Field Lane Refuge and Home for Servants, Metropolitan Dormitory Association, Drs. Waring, Macalden, and Ward.

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