Although the title of the book is "Sunny Singapore", it is about Christian missions in Malaya (including Singapore) in their geographical, historical and social setting. The author is more than qualified to express his thoughts having spent 25 years of missionary work in Malaya.
- Title
- Sunny Singapore : an account of the place and its people, with a sketch of the results of missionary work
- Creator
- Cook, John Angus Bethune, 1854-
- Subject
- Missions--Malaysia--Malaya
Missions--Singapore
1826-1867 Straits settlements
1867-1914 Port city
Christianity
Heritage and Culture
Personalities
- Publisher
- Elliot Stock, 1907
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, 9442 KB, 201 p.
- Table of Contents
- Preface
Foreword
Introduction
I. Macao and Canton : Robert Morrison
II. Malacca : William Milne
III. Malacca and Hong Kong : James Legge
IV. Straits Chinese and Malays : B.P. Keasberry
V. Sunny Singapore : Sir Stamford Raffles
VI. The Straits Settlements
VII. The Federated Malay States
VIII. The English Presbyterian mission
IX. The Singapore Chinese churches
X. A tiger story
XI. The Sultanate of Johore
XII. The Chinese trinity of evils
XIII. Episcopalian missions in the Straits
XIV. The Chinese abroad
XV. Netherlands India
XVI. Americans and the Chinese
XVII. American Methodist Episcopal Church
XVIII. The Philipine Archipelago
XIX. The land of sunrise
XX. The French in the Far East
XXI. A Roman Catholic stronghold
XXII. Straits Chinese institutions
XXIII. Leper hospitals and island
XXIV. Chinese guilds, clubs and temples
XXV. The Chinese Christian association: Chinese public opinion
XXVI. The China of the future
XXVII. 'The best is yet to be'
Index
All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2003.
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