Abstract
The Church Missionary Society and the Rossville Mission Press
Highlights
There is a wonderful anachronism in the English Bible which provides a most fitting introduction to any consideration of the history of missionary printing, and to the study of the missionary field press in Rupert's Land
An ironpen is a splendid metaphor for the printing press, and graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever clearly reflects the aims of the missionary printer, who strove to make an indelible impression
In 1853 and I854 an attempt was made by the Church Missionary Society to gain control of the Rossville Mission in the Hudson's Bay Company terrtories
Summary
There is a wonderful anachronism in the English Bible which provides a most fitting introduction to any consideration of the history of missionary printing, and to the study of the missionary field press in Rupert's Land. Mason's books, except the Conference Rules.x x One other book, the third Rossville edition of the Gospel of St. John, was printed with Church Missionary Society support.
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