4. MISSIONARY SOCIETIES AND RELIGIOUS ORDERS
Church Missionary Society, Jesuits, London Missionary Society, OMF/BEM, Redemptorists, Sisters of the Holy Infant Jesus.
Carpenter, Kathleen. The password is love in the New Villages of Malaya, Highway Press, London, 1955, 84pp.
Cole, Keith. A history of the CMS of Australia, Church Missionary Society, Melbourne, 1971. pp.152-164.
Lee, Arnold and Kathleen. Spotlight on Malaya, London, 1962.
Murray, Jocelyn. Proclaim the Good News. A short history of the Church Missionary Society, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1985, pp.225-8.
4.2 Jesuits
Schurhammer, Georg, SJ. Francis Xavier, his life his times. Volume III : Indonesia and India 1545-1549, 1980, pp.3-51, 217-282; Volume IV : Japan and China 1549-1552, 1982, pp.5-26, 320-341, 581-616, 644-646, Jesuit Historical Institute, Rome. Definitive work on Xavier.
The major depository of primary archival material is the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Much of this is also available on microfiche.
Bays, D H. ‘Christian tracts: The two friends,’ in S W Barnett and J K Fairbank, eds., Christianity in China. Early Protestant Missionary writings, Harvard University Press, 1985, pp.19-34.
Bohr, P R, ‘Liang Fa’s quest for moral power,’ in S W Barnett and J K Fairbank, eds., Christianity in China. Early Protestant Missionary writings, Harvard University Press, 1985, pp.35-46.
Broomhall, A J. Hudson Taylor and China’s open century. Book one: Barbarians at the gates, Hodder and Stoughton and the Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1981. Note references to Malacca and Malaya.
Byrd, Cecil K. Early Printing in the Straits Settlements 1806-1858 - a preliminary enquiry, National Library, Singapore, 1970. Complete and annotated references to material a good deal of which was printed on missionary presses. Includes Chinese and Malay material written by the LMS missionaries not listed here.
Cheeseman, H R. ‘Dr Robert Morrison and Malaya,’ British Malaya, July 1950, pp.52-53.
Davies, Evan. Memoir of the Rev Samuel Dyer, sixteen years missionary to the Chinese, John Snow, London, 1846, xvi + 303pp.
Harrison, Brian. ‘The Anglo-Chinese College and early modern education,’ in Kernial Singh Sadhu and Paul Wheatley, eds., Melaka. The transformation of a Malay capital c1400-1980, OUP, Kuala Lumpur, 1983, vol. 1, pp.297-310.
Harrison, Brian. ‘The Anglo-Chinese College at Malacca, 1818-1843,’ in C D Cowan and O W Walters, eds., Southeast Asian history and historiography: essays presented to D G E Hall, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1976, pp.246-61.
Harrison, Brian. Waiting for China. The Anglo-Chinese College at Malacca, 1818-1843, and early nineteenth century missions, Hong Kong University Press, 1979, 212pp.
Hill, A H. ‘The Hikayat Abdullah: an annotated translation,’ Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 28(3), June 1955. [whole issue] A rare view of how the missionaries were seen by their Malay teacher.
Ibrahim bin Ismail. ‘In quest of the Malay Magazine (1821-22),’ Indonesia Circle, 21, March 1980, pp.45-48. Edited by C H Thomsen, the only known copies are in the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Ibrahim bin Ismail. ‘Missionary printing in Malacca 1815-1843,’ Libri, 32(3), 1982, pp.177-206.
Ibrahim bin Ismail. ‘Samuel Dyer and his contributions to Chinese typography,’ The Library Quarterly [University of Chicago Press], 54(2), April 1984, pp.157-169.
Legge, Helen E. James Legge, missionary and scholar, Religious Tract Society, London, 1905.
Milne, William. A retrospect of the first ten years of the Protestant mission to China. (Now in connection with the Malay, denominated the Ultra-Ganges Missions.), Accompanied with miscellaneous remarks on the literature, history and mythology of China &c., Anglo-Chinese Press, Malacca, 1820, viii + 376 pp.
Milner, A C. ‘Notes on C H Thomsen: missionary to the Malays,’ Indonesia Circle, 25, June 1981, pp.45-53.
Morrison, Robert. Memoirs of the Rev. William Milne, DD. Compiled from documents written by the deceased; to which are addded occasional remarks by Dr Morrison, Mission Press, Malacca, 1824.
O’Sullivan, R L. ‘The Anglo-Chinese College and the early Singapore Institution,’ Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 61(2), 225, 1988, pp.45-62.
O’Sullivan, R L. ‘The departure of the London Missionary Society from Malacca,’ Malaysia in History, 23, 1980, pp.75-83.
O’Sullivan, L. ‘The London Missionary Society: a written record of missionaries and printing presses in the Straits Settlements 1815-1847,’ Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 57(2), 1984, pp.61-104.
Tomlin, Jacob. Missionary journals and letters, London, 1844. In Malacca and Singapore from 1827 to 1836.
Remarks concerning the Protestant Mission, Prince of Wales Island, Malacca, 1826.
Statement of receipts and disbursements concerning the erection of the Malay Chapel, Singapore, A.D. 1823, Singapore [Mission Press], 1824, 3pp.
4.4 Overseas Missionary Fellowship and Borneo Evangelical Mission.
The OMF began work in Malaya in 1952 and the BEM in Sarawak in 1928. Publications and records can be found at the OMF International Headquarters, 2 Cluny Road, Singapore 1025. A major collection of archives is at the Billy Graham Centre, Wheaton, Illinois. For journals note Millions and East Asia’s Millions. See also The Field Bulletin, later OMF Bulletin [staff magazine] and the BEM Newsletter of the Borneo Evangel Mission, Melbourne. A number of miscellaneous publications and articles from the BEM are listed in Conrad P Cotter, comp. Bibliography of English language sources on Human Ecology. Eastern Malaysia and Brunei, Department of Asian Studies, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1965, p.41f. Minutes of North Malayan Field Conferences from 1953 to 1969 are among the parish records of St Luke’s Anglican Church, Telok Intan, and photo-copies are held at Seminari Theoloji Malaysia.
Bray, Jenny, Longhouse of fear, Borneo Evangelical Mission.
Cole, R Alan. Emerging pattern. CIM work in the Diocese of Singapore and Malaya, London, China Inland Mission / Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1961, 48pp.
Day, Phyllis. Sold twice. the story of a girl in West Malaysia. Original story by Norah Rowe; illustrations by Nancy Harding, OMF, London, 1968, 31pp. Paper. True story of the conversion of a girl sold as an infant and later bought back by her mother.
Hunt, Gillian. All the pieces fit, OMF, Singapore, 1987, pp.28-157.
Lees, Shirley. Drunk before dawn, OMF, 1979. Story of the Borneo Evangelical Mission now part of the Overseas Missionary Fellowship.
Lees, Shirley P. Jungle Fire, Oliphants, 1964, 94pp. Spread of Christianity among Borneo tribal groups in the 1950s.
Lees, Shirley and Bill. Is it sacrifice? OMF/IVP/STL, 1987, 192pp. Experiences with the Tagal people in Sabah and other work of the BEM/OMF in East Malaysia.
Nightingale, Ken. One way through the jungle, OMF/BEM, 1970.
Newton, Brian William. A new dawn over Sarawak: the church and its mission in Sarawak, East Malaysia, MA thesis, Fuller Theological Seminary, 1988, 198pp.
Peterson, Robert. Roaring Lion. Spiritism in Borneo challenged by the power of Christ, Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1968, 1970.
Rusha, Gladys. Truth to tell in Borneo, 1969, Oliphants.
4.5 Redemptorists
4.6 Sisters of the Holy Infant Jesus
Jenkins, P. SJ. Where there is darkness. The story of Mother St. Mathilde Raclot and her companions, Sisters of the Holy Infant Jesus, pioneer Missionary Sisters in Malaya and Japan, nd. [1968?] np. [Sisters of the Holy Infant Jesus, Kuala Lumpur?] iv + 189pp. hb. Personal experiences of the first Sisters.
Wong, Suk Siong. ‘The Order of the Holy Infant Jesus in Selangor (1899-1967),’ Malaysia in History, 27, 1984, pp.57-82.