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4. MISSIONARY SOCIETIES AND RELIGIOUS ORDERS
4.1 Church Missionary Society
 | Carpenter, Kathleen. Come in ... to the household of
God, Highway Press, London, 1958, 96pp. New Village
work by CMS missionaries, particularly in Jinjang. Carpenter,
Kathleen. The password is love in the New Villages of
Malaya, Highway Press, London, 1955, 84pp.
Cole, Keith. A history of the CMS of
Australia, Church Missionary Society, Melbourne,
1971. pp.152-164.
Lee, Arnold and Kathleen. Spotlight on Malaya,
London, 1962.
Murray, Jocelyn. Proclaim the Good News. A short
history of the Church Missionary Society, Hodder and
Stoughton, London, 1985, pp.225-8.
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4.2 Jesuits
| St Francis Xavier Church, Petaling Jaya Silver
Jubliee, We are the Church ... The church on mission, 31
July 1987. 76pp. Schurhammer, Georg, SJ. Francis
Xavier, his life his times. Volume III : Indonesia and
India 1545-1549, 1980, pp.3-51, 217-282; Volume IV
: Japan and China 1549-1552, 1982, pp.5-26, 320-341,
581-616, 644-646, Jesuit Historical Institute, Rome.
Definitive work on Xavier.
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4.3 London Missionary Society
The major depository of primary archival material is the
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Much of this is also available on microfiche.
| Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir, The Hikayat Abdullah,
OUP, Kuala Lumpur, 1970. [see also A H Hill] A rare view
of how the missionaries were seen by their Malay teacher. Bays,
D H. ‘Christian tracts: The two friends,’ in S
W Barnett and J K Fairbank, eds., Christianity in
China. Early Protestant Missionary writings, Harvard
University Press, 1985, pp.19-34.
Bird, Isabella. ‘Missionary printing in Malacca
1815-1843,’ Libri, 32(3), 1982, pp.177-206.
Bohr, P R, ‘Liang Fa’s quest for moral
power,’ in S W Barnett and J K Fairbank, eds., Christianity
in China. Early Protestant Missionary writings,
Harvard University Press, 1985, pp.35-46.
Broomhall, A J. Hudson Taylor and China’s open
century. Book one: Barbarians at the gates, Hodder
and Stoughton and the Overseas Missionary Fellowship,
1981. Note references to Malacca and Malaya.
Byrd, Cecil K. Early Printing in the Straits
Settlements 1806-1858 - a preliminary enquiry,
National Library, Singapore, 1970. Complete and annotated
references to material a good deal of which was printed
on missionary presses. Includes Chinese and Malay
material written by the LMS missionaries not listed here.
Cheeseman, H R. ‘Dr Robert Morrison and
Malaya,’ British Malaya, July 1950, pp.52-53.
Davies, Evan. Memoir of the Rev Samuel Dyer,
sixteen years missionary to the Chinese, John Snow,
London, 1846, xvi + 303pp.
Harrison, Brian. ‘The Anglo-Chinese College and
early modern education,’ in Kernial Singh Sadhu and
Paul Wheatley, eds., Melaka. The transformation of a
Malay capital c1400-1980, OUP, Kuala Lumpur, 1983,
vol. 1, pp.297-310.
Harrison, Brian. ‘The Anglo-Chinese College at
Malacca, 1818-1843,’ in C D Cowan and O W Walters,
eds., Southeast Asian history and historiography:
essays presented to D G E Hall, Cornell University
Press, Ithaca, New York, 1976, pp.246-61.
Harrison, Brian. Waiting for China. The
Anglo-Chinese College at Malacca, 1818-1843, and early
nineteenth century missions, Hong Kong University
Press, 1979, 212pp.
Hill, A H. ‘The Hikayat Abdullah: an annotated
translation,’ Journal of the Malaysian Branch of
the Royal Asiatic Society, 28(3), June 1955. [whole
issue] A rare view of how the missionaries were seen by
their Malay teacher.
Ibrahim bin Ismail. ‘In quest of the Malay
Magazine (1821-22),’ Indonesia Circle, 21,
March 1980, pp.45-48. Edited by C H Thomsen, the only
known copies are in the School of Oriental and African
Studies.
Ibrahim bin Ismail. ‘Samuel Dyer and his
contributions to Chinese typography,’ The Library
Quarterly [University of Chicago Press], 54(2), April
1984, pp.157-169.
Legge, Helen E. James Legge, missionary and scholar,
Religious Tract Society, London, 1905.
Milne, William. A retrospect of the first ten years
of the Protestant mission to China. (Now in connection
with the Malay, denominated the Ultra-Ganges Missions.),
Accompanied with miscellaneous remarks on the literature,
history and mythology of China &c., Anglo-Chinese
Press, Malacca, 1820, viii + 376 pp.
Milner, A C. ‘Notes on C H Thomsen: missionary to
the Malays,’ Indonesia Circle, 25, June 1981,
pp.45-53.
Morrison, Robert. Memoirs of the Rev. William
Milne, DD. Compiled from documents written by the
deceased; to which are addded occasional remarks by Dr
Morrison, Mission Press, Malacca, 1824.
O’Sullivan, R L. ‘The Anglo-Chinese College
and the early Singapore Institution,’ Journal of
the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society,
61(2), 225, 1988, pp.45-62.
O’Sullivan, R L. ‘The departure of the
London Missionary Society from Malacca,’ Malaysia
in History, 23, 1980, pp.75-83.
O’Sullivan, L. ‘The London Missionary
Society: a written record of missionaries and printing
presses in the Straits Settlements 1815-1847,’ Journal
of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society,
57(2), 1984, pp.61-104.
Tomlin, Jacob. Missionary journals and letters,
London, 1844. In Malacca and Singapore from 1827 to 1836.
Remarks concerning the Protestant Mission, Prince
of Wales Island, Malacca, 1826.
Statement of receipts and disbursements concerning
the erection of the Malay Chapel, Singapore, A.D. 1823,
Singapore [Mission Press], 1824, 3pp.
4.4 Overseas Missionary
Fellowship and Borneo Evangelical Mission.
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The OMF began work in Malaya in 1952 and the BEM in Sarawak in
1928. Publications and records can be found at the OMF
International Headquarters, 2 Cluny Road, Singapore 1025. A major
collection of archives is at the Billy Graham Centre, Wheaton,
Illinois. For journals note Millions and East
Asia’s Millions. See also The Field Bulletin,
later OMF Bulletin [staff magazine] and the BEM
Newsletter of the Borneo Evangel Mission, Melbourne. A number
of miscellous publications and articles from the BEM are listed
in Conrad P Cotter, comp. Bibliography of English language
sources on Human Ecology. Eastern malaysia and Brunei,
Department of Asian Studies, University of Hawaii, Honolulu,
1965, p.41f. Minutes of North Malayan Field Conferences from 1953
to 1969 are among the parish records of St Luke’s Anglican
Church, Telok Intan, and photo-copies are held at Seminari
Theoloji Malaysia.
| Bray, Jenny, Longhouse of faith, Borneo
Evangelical Mission, 1971. Bray, Jenny, Longhouse of
fear, Borneo Evangelical Mission.
Cole, R Alan. Emerging pattern. CIM work in the
Diocese of Singapore and Malaya, London, China Inland
Mission / Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1961, 48pp.
Day, Phyllis. Sold twice. the story of a girl in
West Malaysia. Original story by Norah Rowe;
illustrations by Nancy Harding, OMF, London, 1968, 31pp.
Paper. True story of the conversion of a girl sold as an
infant and later bought back by her mother.
Hunt, Gillian. All the pieces fit, OMF,
Singapore, 1987, pp.28-157.
Lees, Shirley. Drunk before dawn, OMF, 1979.
Story of the Borneo Evangelical Mission now part of the
Overseas Missionary Fellowship.
Lees, Shirley P. Jungle Fire, Oliphants, 1964,
94pp. Spread of Christianity among Borneo tribal groups
in the 1950s.
Lees, Shirley and Bill. Is it sacrifice?
OMF/IVP/STL, 1987, 192pp. Experiences with the Tagal
people in Sabah and other work of the BEM/OMF in East
Malaysia.
Nightingale, Ken. One way through the jungle,
OMF/BEM, 1970.
Newton, Brian William. A new dawn over Sarawak: the
church and its mission in Sarawak, East Malaysia, MA
thesis, Fuller Theological Seminary, 1988, 198pp.
Peterson, Robert. Roaring Lion. Spiritism in Borneo
challenged by the power of Christ, Overseas
Missionary Fellowship, 1968, 1970.
Rusha, Gladys. Truth to tell in Borneo, 1969,
Oliphants.
4.5 Redemptorists
O’Brien, Kevin J. Redemptorists in
Singapore-Malaysia, Navjiwan Press, Singapore, 1985,
217pp. History of 50 years in Singapore and 25 years in Ipoh.
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4.6 Sisters of the Holy Infant Jesus
| Dames de Saint-Maur. Centenary Souvenir. Mission of
the Sisters of the Holy Infant Jesus in Malaya 1852-1952,
Lyon, 1952. Jenkins, P. SJ. Where there is darkness.
The story of Mother St. Mathilde Raclot and her
companions, Sisters of the Holy Infant Jesus, pioneer
Missionary Sisters in Malaya and Japan, nd. [1968?]
np. [Sisters of the Holy Infant Jesus, Kuala Lumpur?] iv
+ 189pp. hb. Personal experiences of the first Sisters.
Wong, Suk Siong. ‘The Order of the Holy Infant
Jesus in Selangor (1899-1967),’ Malaysia in
History, 27, 1984, pp.57-82.
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