The Church's Marching Orders: Or Suggestive Thoughts on the Missionary Work (Classic Reprint)
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And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward. (ex. Xiv.
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History of the Origin, Development and Condition of Missions Among the Sherbro and Mendi Tribes in Western Africa (Classic Reprint)
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Matrimony. Abuse of women Funeral ceremonies. Witchcraft Theology. Devil-worship Gregrees.
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Ethiopia, Or, Twenty Years of Missionary Life in Western Africa
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Fifty-Five Year of Active Ministerial Life (Classic Reprint)
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The modesty with which the author refers to his own labors and gifts to the colleges and other institutions of the Church, gives merit to this book, which enriches the biographical liter ature of the denomination.
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Daniel Kumler Flickinger was an American Bishop of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, pioneer in the establishment and long a leader in the extension of their missionary work.
Background
Daniel K. Flickinger was born on May 25, 1824, near the village of Seven Mile, Ohio, the son of Jacob Flickinger and Hannah Kumler. He was of Swiss descent, his father’s ancestors being Swiss Mennonites, and his mother, the daughter of Bishop Henry Kumler, Sr.
His father was a prosperous farmer, local preacher, and operator of a distillery.
Education
Opposed to higher education, he refused his son’s request to be permitted to go to college in lieu of receiving a $5, 000 farm when he was twenty-one.
As a result, a common-school training was all Daniel received until after he reached his majority, when he attended a seminary for a year with a view to entering college. Poor health, however, thwarted his ambition.
Otterbein university, Ohio, gave him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1875.
Career
In 1850, Flickinger joined the Miami Conference of the United Brethren. After a year on a circuit he bought a home in Oxford with the intention of studying at Miami University, but the death of his wife, leaving him with two children, the youngest a week old, again kept him from college.
From 1851 to 1855 Flickinger preached, traveled in the West with Bishop Jacob Glossbrenner, and was city missionary in Cincinnati. At the 1853 autumn session of the Miami Conference, Flickinger was ordained by Bishop David Edwards. He was appointed as Junior Preacher (with William R. Rhinehart) on the circuit consisting of Dayton, Miami Chapel, and Beavertown.
The United Brethren established their Home Frontier and Foreign Missionary Society in 1853, and in January 1855, with D. C. Kumler and W. J. Shuey, Flickinger sailed for Africa to select a mission site. This enterprise was the beginning of a long career of strenuous missionary activity.
In 1857 Flickinger made a second visit to Africa, and that year the General Conference elected him secretary of the missionary society. This position he held, except for a short break in 1857 - 1858, until 1885. From 1885 until 1889 he was missionary bishop.
After the division in his denomination, which occurred that year, Flickinger supplied various churches, some of them Congregational, until 1895 when he withdrew from the liberal and united with the radical wing of the United Brethren, serving as its missionary secretary from 1897 to 1905.
Soon after, Flickinger returned to the liberal branch, reuniting with the Miami Conference in August 1906.
Twelve times he journeyed to Africa, being shipwrecked twice and once nearly dying of fever; and eight times to the missions of Germany; besides making frequent visitations to the conferences and mission fields of the United States. He kept careful diaries, contributed much to church periodicals, edited the Missionary Visitor from 1865 to 1885, and wrote books.
Among the latter are: Offhand Sketches of Men and Things in Africa (1857); Ethiopia, or Twenty Years of Missionary Life in Western Africa (1877); The Church’s Marching Orders (1879); Our Missionary Work from 1853 - 1889 (1889); and with W. J. Shuey, Discourses on Doctrinal and Practical Subjects (1859).
In 1907 Flickinger published an autobiographical work, Fifty-five Years of Active Ministerial Life. He attended the Miami Conference at Dayton, August 23 - 28, 1911, and died on August 29, at Columbus, Ohio. He was buried at Oxford, Ohio.
Daniel K. Flickinger became corresponding secretary of the United Brethren Church missionary society in 1857, and held office by reelection till 1885, when he was chosen foreign missionary bishop. He has made twelve missionary tours to Africa, and done work on the frontiers of the United States and among Chinese emigrants.
Personality
Daniel K. Flickinger is described as "a small man, of slight build, never in robust health, but of keen temper and dauntless purpose. He cared nothing for brilliancy or showy methods, but only for results. . .. In his consecration and utter abandonment to his work, he stood out quite alone".
Connections
On February 25, 1847, Daniel K. Flickinger married Mary Lintner, who died 4 years later.
On January 9, 1853, Flickinger married Bishop Glossbrenner’s daughter, Catherine, who died in August 1854.
On October 30, 1855, Flickinger married Susan Woolsey, a mission teacher.
Daniel K. Flickinger had 4 children, who grew to maturity.