A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818, credited to Elisabeth G. Stryker, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818 by Elisabeth G. Stryker. Read in English by Larry Wilson. This is a brief biography of Samuel J. Mills who was instrumental in establishing the first missionary society in the United States, and also the first Bible Society that began distribution of millions of Bibles around the world. His final mission was to Africa where he helped found what become the country of Liberia. He died on the return voyage at the age of thirty-five. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818
• Author credits: Elisabeth G. Stryker
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 1:08:21

Catalogue topics

• missions
• christianity
• religion
• evangelism
• missionary
• samuel j. mills
• presbyterian
• hawaii

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction and Preface — 3:45
2. 01 - Ancestry--Birth--Boyhood--Conversion — 9:10
3. 02 - College--The Haystack--Efforts To Spread The Interest in Foreign Missions — 8:00
4. 03 - Obookiah in Hawaii--in America — 8:30
5. 04 - The Sandwich Islands with and without the Gospel — 3:57
6. 05 - Mills at Andover--the American Board — 5:34
7. 06 - An Apostolic Journey in the United — 4:46
8. 07 - Mills' Second — 4:38
9. 08 - The American Bible Society--the United Foreign Missionary Society — 7:49
10. 09 - The American Colonization Society--Mills, as Its Agent, Visits Africa — 9:24
11. 10 - The Last Journey — 2:48

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