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Decade ago a strapping young German Catholic priest, who had entered the order of Oblates of Mary Immaculate after serving as a War pilot, found himself stationed for home missionary work near Berlin's Tempelhof airport.

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Money No Obstacle, Like Landis, Bill Douglas is the son of a missionary�a threadbare Scotsman from Nova Scotia who was a Presbyterian "home missionary," a sort of religious circuit rider.

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The idea came to him more than three years ago, when he heard a home missionary say that there are 30,000 Protestant church buildings in the U.S. in which no regular services are conducted.

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Foreign and home missionary activities will be reduced respectively 10% and 15%.

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In the summer of 1868, a native preacher was sent to Zeitoon by the home missionary society of Marash, and was allowed to remain unmolested, with ample opportunities for preaching the Word.

From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Anderson, Rufus