单词 | mission station |
释义 | > as lemmasmission station mission station n. ΚΠ 1828 I. McCoy in Kansas Hist. Q. (1936) 5 243 Here we intersected a waggon road leading from the settlements on Missouri River to Harmony Mission Station. 1860 W. Shaw Story of my Mission 471 He said that since he had been at the Mission Station, he had seen it was a very good thing to have abafundis or ‘teachers’ among them. 1876 W. Booth in H. Begbie Life W. Booth (1920) I. xxv. 417 What is a Mission Station?.. It is not a building..; it is not even a society, but a band of people united together to mission,..to christianize an entire town or neighbourhood. 1936 C. Chewings Back in Stone Age p. xi The road to Glen Helen from the mission station lay through the Finke Gorge. 1996 Independent 13 Jan. 3/5 [He] spent nine years as a pilot supplying mission stations in Irian Jaya. < as lemmas |
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