home mission
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of home mission
First recorded in 1830–40
Example Sentences
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Declared he: "We are returning home, mission accomplished."
From Time Magazine Archive
After further study and preparation he worked under the auspices of the home mission in the North of Germany, and afterwards in connexion with the mission among Jews in the West of Germany.
From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.
In the fall of 1921 Dr. Stokes's congregation voted almost unanimously to devote the funds hitherto used for home mission work to the maintenance of a legislative bureau at the State capital.
From The Patient Observer And His Friends by Strunsky, Simeon
If you think the balance between the home mission and the foreign mission justly held in the present time, I do not.
From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Hogarth, Georgina
Bible societies constitute an independent branch of the home mission.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.
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