Anti-missions movement, John Mason Peck review

Peck in chapter 7 is confronted with the growing opposition from the anti-mission movement. In an area where Isaac McCoy (one of our unsung missionary heroes) had lived previously, they were now grappling with this idea that missions and societies were not biblical. Here's an excerpt:

"Soon [Daniel] Parker’s diatribes against missions were being heard in the Wabash District Baptist Association (Illinois and Indiana), the very place where Isaac McCoy had ministered. His father, William McCoy, was a Baptist preacher in Kentucky. Isaac McCoy and his family moved to Indiana Territory in 1804 and became pastor of the Maria Creek Church (org. 1809) in Clark County, Indiana. His influence for missions upon the pioneer settlers was felt in the entire region. Having served the Indians in the area and later in Michigan, Missouri, and Kansas for some 30 years, “the apostle to the Indians” last words were: 'Tell the brethren to never let the Indian mission decline.' ”

Our latest book - John Mason and Sarah Paine Peck: Missionaries Extraordinaire - is at the printers. Lord willing, we will be able to release it by mid-October.

Picture is of Isaac McCoy (1784-1846).