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
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 Georgina Hogarth
The home mission work is in its beginnings, and these are manifestly feeble and inadequate.
From Aliens or Americans? by Howard B. (Howard Benjamin) Grose
"And I hope," said Marty, "that I may find my lifework in some of the new home mission fields we have been learning about this week."
From John Wesley, Jr. The Story of an Experiment by Dan B. Brummitt
Now, if you will allow me, I am going to tear up 242 that sermon on foreign missions, and start a little home mission of my own by sending you to bed.”
From Hepsey Burke by Frank N. (Frank Noyes) Westcott
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