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A riveting story of one man's life and ministry during the explosion of Christian missions in nineteenth-century America, Against the Gates of Hell is the biography of Henry T. Perry, a missionary to Turkey from 1866 to 1913. Based heavily on previously unpublished letters and diaries from the ABCFM (American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions) archives in Harvard's Houghton Library, Against the Gates of Hell provides an eyewitness account of the last years of the Ottoman Empire, years that are the foundation for the modern Middle East. Perry's diary also reveals a life wholly committed to Christ, by his example challenging the reader in his own Christian walk. Here too can be found ...
Henry Perry arrived on the first voyage of the "Prince Regent" on 27th January 1820. A convict sentenced to 14 years at Lancaster Assizes on 20th March 1819. He married Mary Bernard at Cunywong Creek (in the Yass region of NSW) on 31st July 1845, she was from County Cork in Ireland. Other family names: Tuffy; Logan; Downey; Johnson.
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