12 August 2021 | Grantham, UK [David Neal, tedNEWS]
It was William Ings in 1878 who started the publishing work in the United Kingdom as a colporteur (literature evangelist). It’s recorded that he’d publish 1,000 copies of denominational periodicals and tracts and circulate them among the ships in Southampton and then door-to-door in the city. As David Marshall1 notes, while Ings made ‘use of thousands of the American Signs of the Times magazines . . . he grasped the importance of putting the Adventist message into an English context for English readers’... Read more
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