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Charles Domingo Seventh Day Baptists and Independency

Charles Domingo Seventh Day Baptists and Independency CHARLES DOMINGO SEVENTH DAY BAPTISTS AND INDEPENDENCY BY HARRY W. LANGWORTHY (Cleveland State University) Charles Domingo is well known in the history of Nyasaland as an independent church leader, a pioneer critic of colonialism and as an associate of Joseph Booth. As more is learned about his life the more he emerges as a complex, contradictory even tragic figure.2 Was Domingo the forthright independent thinker who was not afraid to stand up to Europeans for his beliefs,3 or "a little fellow and very sensitive, and easily influenced by his surroun- dings, "4 or both? Domingo's early life is well known. As a waif of three or four years, he was picked up by William Koyi in Quillimane and brought up first by him in Ngoniland of northern Malawi and then by Robert Laws in Bandawe. He was regarded as a promising scholar and received the best education then available, culminating in theological training at the Overtoun Institution. In late 1902 he successfully completed his probation and was licensed to preach. Over the next six years he served as a preacher and especially as a teacher in Chinyera, Khondowe and then Loudon. He was thought of very highly, but http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Religion in Africa Brill

Charles Domingo Seventh Day Baptists and Independency

Langworthy, Harry W.
Journal of Religion in Africa , Volume 15 (2): 96 – Jan 1, 1985
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© 1985 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0022-4200
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1570-0666
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10.1163/157006685X00156
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CHARLES DOMINGO SEVENTH DAY BAPTISTS AND INDEPENDENCY BY HARRY W. LANGWORTHY (Cleveland State University) Charles Domingo is well known in the history of Nyasaland as an independent church leader, a pioneer critic of colonialism and as an associate of Joseph Booth. As more is learned about his life the more he emerges as a complex, contradictory even tragic figure.2 Was Domingo the forthright independent thinker who was not afraid to stand up to Europeans for his beliefs,3 or "a little fellow and very sensitive, and easily influenced by his surroun- dings, "4 or both? Domingo's early life is well known. As a waif of three or four years, he was picked up by William Koyi in Quillimane and brought up first by him in Ngoniland of northern Malawi and then by Robert Laws in Bandawe. He was regarded as a promising scholar and received the best education then available, culminating in theological training at the Overtoun Institution. In late 1902 he successfully completed his probation and was licensed to preach. Over the next six years he served as a preacher and especially as a teacher in Chinyera, Khondowe and then Loudon. He was thought of very highly, but

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