foreign mission ExamplesWord Origin noun
Origin of foreign mission First recorded in 1800–10 Examples from the Web for foreign mission Historical Examples of foreign mission
It exists peculiarly in Asia, the greatest of all foreign-mission lands.
Quiet Talks with World Winners
S. D. Gordon
Now, without doubt the sending of the missionaries has vastly improved conditions of human life in the foreign-mission lands.
Quiet Talks with World Winners
S. D. Gordon
The Christian standards present in our American life, and absent from these foreign-mission lands, make an enormous difference.
Quiet Talks with World Winners
S. D. Gordon
And this experience of Bishop Bashford’s is being repeated, over and over again, throughout the foreign-mission world.
Quiet Talks with World Winners
S. D. Gordon
It has come to be one of the great expressions of the unifying spirit of the Church on foreign-mission soil.
Quiet Talks with World Winners
S. D. Gordon
British Dictionary definitions for foreign mission foreign mission noun
- a body of persons sent to a non-Christian country in order to propagate Christianity
- a diplomatic or other mission sent by one country to another