CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY ARCHIVE
Section IX: Middle East Missions

Part 3: Palestine, 1880-1934

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Foreign missions catalogue covering Palestine pp 81-90

G 3 P O Original Papers 1880

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; report on British Syrian schools, Damascus, Lebanon; reports from Ramleh near Jaffa and from Nazareth mission; minutes of the conference of the Palestine mission; printed report of a missionary conference in Constantinople; report on the Bible mission founded by Mrs Bowen Thompson in 1860; report of a missionary journey through Jordan by Rev F Bellamy; report on Bishop Gobat’s Memorial School, Mount Zion; letters from Rev F A Klein regarding translation work.

G 3 P O Original Papers 1881

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; annual letters from the missions; minutes of the conference of the Palestine mission; report on the Jaffa mission by Rev J B Longley Hall; report on the Preparandi Institution, Jerusalem; report by Mr Selick on Jaffa and Gaza.

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G 3 P O Original Papers 1882

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; report on Bishop Gobat’s Orphanage, Jerusalem; notes on the Nazareth Church Endowment Fund; minutes of the conference of the Palestine mission; reports on the Nazareth, Jaffa and Hauran missions; letters from Rev F A Klein and Rev J B Longley Hall; information on CMS burial grounds in Palestine; plans for missionary buildings; report on a preaching visit to the Moslem villages near Jerusalem; report on the British Syrian Schools and Bible Mission.

G 3 P O Original Papers 1883

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; report of B Hassoon on preaching tours to Bedouins of the Belka, November 1882; report of a preaching tour by Mr J Nyland to Judea; letters regarding the opening of a Bible Depot mission room in Cairo; details of the opening of the first mission buildings; correspondence regarding the Coptic Church; minutes of the conference of the Palestine mission; report on the Bishop Gobat Orphanage; reports on the Jaffa, Jerusalem, Nazareth and Hauran missions; estimates of the mission for the year; letters from Rev F A Klein; report of the British Syrian Schools and Bible Mission.

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G 3 P O Original Papers 1884

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; details regarding the necessity for doctors to pass a Turkish examination; report of the work carried out in the Palestine missions, 1883; estimates for the year; minutes of the Palestine mission finance committee; report on the Preparandi class, Jerusalem; report on the Spring conference of the Jerusalem mission; reports on the Jaffa, Nablus, Gaza, Hauran and Nazareth missions; letters from Rev F A Klein and Rev J B Longley Hall, Secretary of the mission; a plea for more workers by the Association of Female Workers.

G 3 P O Original Papers 1885
(1-90)

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; minutes of the Palestine mission finance committee.

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G 3 P O Original Papers 1885
(91-end)

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; notes on grants to the Palestine Native Church Council; report from Ramallah; minutes of the conference of the Palestine mission; minutes of the Palestine finance committee; report from the districts of Jerusalem and Salt, Jaffa, Nazareth and Hauran.

G 3 P O Original Papers 1886
(1-178)

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; plan of the CMS property at Ramallah; minutes of the first meeting of the Native Church Council in Palestine; statistics showing the number of teachers, persons baptised etc; minutes of the conference of the Palestine mission and of the Palestine finance committee; reports from the districts of Nazar, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Gaza, East Jordan and from the medical mission at Gaza.

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G 3 P O Original Papers 1886
(179-279)

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; plan of Bishop Gobat’s School; minutes of the Palestine finance committee; reports on Biblewomen; sketch of the mission house at Salt.

G 3 P O Original Papers 1887
(1-149)

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; details of Turkish law with regard to education in Syria; statistics of the Nazareth district; minutes of the Palestine finance committee; newspaper cuttings; photograph of the mission house at Gaza.

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G 3 P O Original Papers 1887
(150-277)

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; annual report of Bishop Gobat’s School, Mount Zion, Jerusalem, 1886; minutes of the Palestine finance committee and the conference of the Palestine mission; reports from the districts of Nazareth, Jaffa, Nablus and Gaza.

G 3 P O Original Papers 1888
(1-150)

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; details of Turkish laws regarding the opening of Christian schools; minutes of the Palestine finance committee; notes on the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews; journal of a catechist in December 1887 in the Jebel district; pamphlet printed by the Methodist Mission to Palestine; list of services and meetings in the Jerusalem mission.

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G 3 P O Original Papers 1888
(151-331)

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists such as Rev Klein and Rev J B Longley Hall, Secretary of the mission; minutes of the conference of the Palestine mission and the Palestine finance committee; minutes of the Native Church Council of Palestine; correspondence between Dr F J Harpur and Major General Haig regarding the situation in Palestine; details of dealings with the Turkish government; report on the Preparandi School and Printing Press; annual report of Bishop Gobat’s school; reports on the mission districts.

G 3 P O Original Papers 1889
(1-100)

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; work of Biblewomen; list of boys attending Bishop Gobat’s School, Jerusalem; statistics for the dispensary at Salt and of the Palestine mission showing the number of teachers, scholars and native communicants; minutes of the Palestine finance committee; reports of native catechists’ itinerations around the mission districts together with their autobiographies.

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G 3 P O Original Papers 1889
(101-338)

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; report on Bishop Gobat’s School; minutes of the conference of the Palestine mission and the Palestine finance committee; reports on the missions stations; minutes of meetings of the Native Church Council; notes on a visit to Kerak by Major General Haig; reports on the Gaza medical mission.

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G 3 P O Original Papers 1890
(1-180)

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; translation of Arabic pamphlets; minutes of the conference of the Palestine mission and the Palestine finance committee; notes on a proposed hospital at Gaza; annual report on Bishop Gobat’s School; reports on Ramallah, East Jordan and the medical mission at Gaza; minutes of the Native Church Council; report of a deputation to the CMS mission in Palestine and Egypt by J Richardson and R Long; detailed report on the schools and staff in the Palestine mission; estimates for a proposed mission house in Jerusalem; plan of the mission compound at Nablus; report on Druse schools , Mount Lebanon by Louisa Procter.

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G 3 P O Original Papers 1890
(181-314)

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; report on the CMS Printing Press in Jerusalem; details of the Nazareth Native Church endowment fund; minutes of the conference of the Palestine mission and of the Palestine finance committee; reports on the East Jordan and Jaffa mission districts.

G 3 P O Original Papers 1891
(1-150)

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists including Bishop Blyth and Rev G Nyland; minutes of the conference of the Palestine mission and the Palestine finance committee.

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G 3 P O Original Papers 1891
(151-end)

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; minutes of the conference of the Palestine mission and the Palestine finance committee; minutes of the Palestine Native Church Council; reports on the mission districts, the Bishop Gobat’s School and the Gaza medical mission; annual report of the Jerusalem Bishopric Mission Fund; newspaper cutting regarding the resignation of Bishop Blyth.

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G 3 P O Original Papers 1892
(1-200)

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; statistics for the Jaffa mission district; correspondence from Edith E Newton regarding women’s work; details on the CMS School for Girls, Jerusalem; minutes of the conference of the Palestine mission; an appeal on behalf of religious work in the Turkish Empire; instances of interference by the Turkish government into the work of CMS in Palestine; annual report of Bishop Gobat’s School, Jerusalem.

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G 3 P O Original Papers 1892
(201-444)

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; regulations for language examinations; reports on the mission districts, Bishop Gobat’s School, the Printing Press and the medical missions at Gaza and Nablus; statistics for schools and churches in Palestine, arranged by mission district; minutes of the Palestine finance committee; report on the Palestine Medical Mission and Nurses Fund; plan of the English cemetery in Jerusalem.

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G 3 P O Original Papers 1893

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; minutes of the Palestine finance committee and the conference of the Palestine mission; reports on the mission districts and Bishop Gobat’s School; a missionary’s diary of evangelical work in Jerusalem; details of the Nazareth Native Church Endowment Fund; map of Jerusalem; report on a visit to Constantinople; plans for an English church at Jaffa.

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G 3 P O Original Papers 1894

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; constitution and regulations of the Kerak mission, a mission to the Arab tribes of Moab and Northern Arabia; details regarding women workers; minutes of the Palestine finance committee and the conference of the Palestine mission; reports from the mission districts and the Nablus and Gaza medical missions; minutes of the conference of Native Pastors.

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G 3 P O Original Papers 1895

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; minutes of the Palestine finance committee and the conference of the Palestine mission; report of Bishop Gobat’s School by the headmaster, Frank T Ellis; plans for a hospital in Gaza; reports on the mission districts; report on the Ladies Conference detailing work carried out in Palestine; photograph of Bishop Gobat’s School.

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G 3 P O Original Papers 1896

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; minutes of the Palestine finance committee and the conference of the Palestine
mission; plan of the mission house at Salt; report of Bishop Gobat’s School; list of native evangelistic agents by district; report on the Ladies Conference, Jerusalem with details on each mission; reports on the mission districts; journal of Edith Watney; details regarding a proposed hospital at Nablus; report of Acca and Kerak medical missions.

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G 3 P O Original Papers 1897

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; minutes of the Palestine finance committee and the conference of the Palestine mission; journal of Edith Watney; report of Bishop Gobat’s School, Preparandi School and Printing Press; plans for buildings at Salt; report of the Ladies Conference with details on their work; reports of the mission districts and Acca and Kerak medical missions; “Outlines of Christian Doctrine” by Rev H C G Moule in Arabic.

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G 3 P O Original Papers 1898

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; minutes of the Palestine finance committee and the conference of the Palestine mission; proposals for initiating self-support in the Native Church; reports on the mission districts and the medical missions at Nablus and Kerak; report on the work of Rev C A and Mrs Marley at Acca; report on Bishop Gobat’s School; minutes of the Palestine Women’s conference with reports on the districts; minutes of the conference of European and Native Clergy, Jerusalem; annual report of Jerusalem and the East Mission Fund with photographs.

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G 3 P O Original Papers 1899

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; report of Bishop Gobat’s School; minutes of the Palestine finance committee and the conference of the Palestine mission; details regarding the Vekilate of the Protestant community in Turkey; reports on the mission districts; report on the condition of women in Palestine; report on women’s work in Palestine; history of the Protestant church in the Holy Land; pamphlet on Miss Louisa Procter’s Mission at Schwifat, Lebanon with photographs.

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G 3 P O Original Papers 1900
(1-119)

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; list of outfits and equipment needed for a male missionary in Palestine; minutes of the Palestine finance committee and the conference of the Palestine mission; Female Education Society work in Nazareth; history of the orphanage at Nazareth; reports on the mission districts and on Bishop Gobat’s School; minutes of the Women’s Conference; report on the Vekilate of the Protestant community in Turkey.

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G 3 P O Original Papers 1900
(120-end)

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; a scheme for separation and divorce in the Episcopal church in Palestine; minutes of the Palestine finance committee; reports on the mission districts and on Bishop Gobat’s School.

G 3 P O Original Papers 1901
(1-100)

Includes: General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; minutes of the Palestine finance committee and the conference of the Palestine mission; reports on the mission districts and on Bishop Gobat’s School; minutes of the Palestine Women’s Conference; report on the Nazareth Orphanage; report on the dealings of European missionaries with Native Agents.

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G 3 P O Original Papers 1901
(101-end)

General correspondence from missionaries, bishops and catechists; minutes of the Palestine finance committee and the conference of the Palestine mission; memo on the organisation of the Palestine mission; minutes of meetings of the Women’s Standing Committee; reports on the mission districts and on Bishop Gobat’s School.