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Gulian Lansing was born at Lishaskill, Albany County, New York. His parents, John and Eliza Lansing, by ancestry were Dutch and of the Dutch Reformed Church.
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Gulian Lansing was born at Lishaskill, Albany County, New York. His parents, John and Eliza Lansing, by ancestry were Dutch and of the Dutch Reformed Church.
Lansing graduated from Union College in 1847 and left the church of his fathers to study theology in the seminary of the Associate Reformed Church in Newburgh.
In 1850 Lansing was ordained in the church in Newburgh for missionary service, and went out to his church's mission to Jews in Damascus. Returning in 1856 from a visit to America he stopped for reasons of health at Cairo, where two Associate Reformed missionaries had recently established themselves. He remained in Egypt all the rest of his life. In the first year he began preaching and teaching in Alexandria. The formation of the United Presbyterian Church of North America in 1858 by the consolidation of the Associate Synod and the Associate Reformed Church caused changes in missionary organization in Egypt. With the coming of new missionaries, the important United Presbyterian mission was established which devoted itself chiefly to the people of the degenerate Coptic church, though it reached out also to the less approachable Moslems.
In 1860 Lansing moved to the mission's headquarters at Cairo, and bore a foremost part in the new developments. Active and sociable, he did much of his best work by direct contact with the people. He soon made a voyage up the Nile, in a boat which he procured for the mission, preaching and distributing Bibles. In this and later journeys he was accompanied by the fifth Lord Aberdeen, one of the many influential travelers whose interest he enlisted.
Some of his journeys were described in his Egypt's Princes (1864). They resulted in the establishment of several new missionary stations in the Nile Valley. To his courage and practical wisdom the mission mainly owed its first building in 1862 and the much larger quarters completed in 1881.
He was a good Arabic and Hebrew scholar and taught in the mission's theological school. He assumed as his special responsibility the defense of converts against persecution, obtaining the help of the American consul-general and the United States government. In the systematic attempt of the Coptic hierarchy to destroy Protestantism, beginning in 1867, he undertook to gain from the khedive protection and redress. From 1886 his strength declined, and he spent much time in England and America, but his last year was passed in Cairo.
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Lansing was married to Maria Oliver of Lishaskill. In 1865 his wife died of cholera. The following year he married Sarah B. Dales, also a missionary.