Albert William Bailey
Albert William Bailey | |
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Church | Christian and Missionary Alliance; South African General Mission |
Personal details | |
Born | 1873 Maine |
Died | 1955 | (aged 81–82)
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Missionary and minister |
Albert William Bailey (1873–1955) was an American missionary to Southern Africa. He served as a minister in New York and as a missionary to
Biography
Albert William Bailey was born in Maine in 1873. He worked as a minister in New York before joining the
In 1910 he accompanied the leader of the General Mission, Frederick Stanley Arnot, to Kaondeland (in Rhodesia, modern-day Zambia) at his request as part of an initiative to spread Christianity into the upper reaches of the Zambezi River.[2] Later that year he established a mission at Chisalala and another at Lalafuta two years later. In 1913 the General Mission decided to expand into the neighbouring Portuguese colony of Angola.[1] Bailey crossed into Angola in 1914 and constructed a temporary house on the banks of the Luanginga River, in an area where no missionaries had operated before.[3]
Bailey was keen to translate the bible into the local language, Mbunda, and sat on a translation committee that worked towards this.[4] Bailey personally translated the Gospel of John into Mbunda in 1916 and ordered the printing of copies of this at Kamundongo in 1919.[5][6]
In 1917 Bailey had established a mission at Muye in Angola.[7] The Plymouth Brethren's Christian Mission in Many Lands began operations in the region in 1921 and the Southern African General Mission and Bailey co-operated closely with them.[2]
Bailey published the autobiographical Commission and Conquest in South Africa in South Carolina in 1928. He resigned from missionary work in 1948 and died in 1955.[1]
References
- ^ ISBN 0-313-25887-2.
- ^ ISBN 9789982300100.
- ^ Tucker, John T. (1933). Angola, the Land of the Blacksmith Prince. World Dominion Press. p. 70.
- ^ Tucker, John T. (1933). Angola, the Land of the Blacksmith Prince. World Dominion Press. p. 147.
- ^ Missionary Review of the World. Funk & Wagnalls. 1919. p. 465.
- ^ Tucker, John T. (1933). Angola, the Land of the Blacksmith Prince. World Dominion Press. p. 146.
- ^ Bible in the World: A Record of the Work of the British and Foreign Bible Society. British and Foreign Bible Society. 1935. p. 31.