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Thirty years in Madagascar

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An experienced missionary offers a first-hand narrative and historical overview of decades of engagement in Madagascar, blending personal memoir, mission history, and eyewitness accounts of persecution, martyrdom, and conversion. The author documents the spread and consolidation of Christian institutions—churches, schools, Bible revision—and describes district journeys, local customs, and missionary challenges, mixing sombre episodes with lighter anecdotes. Chapters trace the island's passage from entrenched traditional practices through gradual Christianization to political upheaval culminating in the end of the monarchy and the wider establishment of mission infrastructure. The account is illustrated with photographs, sketches, and maps that accompany factual and reflective commentary.

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Title: Thirty years in Madagascar

Author: Thomas T. Matthews

Release date: February 23, 2023 [eBook #70113]

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: The Religious Tract Society, 1904

Credits: Peter Becker, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THIRTY YEARS IN MADAGASCAR ***

THIRTY YEARS IN MADAGASCAR

OXFORD

HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

THE REV. T. T. MATTHEWS.

THIRTY YEARS IN
MADAGASCAR

BY THE REV. T. T. MATTHEWS

OF THE LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY

WITH
SIXTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
AND SKETCHES

SECOND EDITION

LONDON
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY

4 BOUVERIE STREET AND 65 ST. PAUL’S CHURCHYARD
1904