Children’s Home Missions. Vol 1., Nos. 1-11.
Delaware, Ohio: Miss Mary Belle Evans, 1896. Eleven issues, 144 pp. total, paginated continuously. Fine condition. Item #List3529
Martha Van Marter (1839–1931) was a Methodist Episcopal editor and missionary educator associated with the Woman’s Home Missionary Society. She edited Children’s Home Missions, a periodical designed to promote Protestant missionary education among youth and to cultivate support for domestic mission work, including outreach to Indigenous communities, immigrants, and rural populations. Operating from East Orange, New Jersey, Van Marter was part of a transnational network, with Mary Belle Evans of Delaware, Ohio, publishing the periodical. Offered here are the first eleven issues of Children’s Home Missions, which covers a range of religious topics for the juvenile audience, with a patriotic bent, including articles on various schools giving an overview of Methodist education during the period. We find only one other example of the series in OCLC.
Price: $300.00