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Wilbur B. Stover
b. 1866
A Church of the Brethren missionary and writer, he spent decades in western India and wrote books that brought missionary work to a wider audience. His life and work reflect the early twentieth century Protestant mission movement at its most energetic and personal.
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Charlie Newcomer
by Wilbur B. Stover
About the author
Born in 1866, Wilbur Brenner Stover became known in the Church of the Brethren as an early missionary to western India. In the introduction to one of his books, The Great First-Work of the Church—Missions, he is described as having spent twenty-eight years in mission work there and as the first in his denomination to answer the call to serve in what the book calls "pagan lands."
Stover also wrote to explain and encourage missionary work. His published books include Missions and the Church and The Great First-Work of the Church—Missions, and a later book about him, Wilbur B. Stover, Pioneer Missionary, shows that he remained a remembered figure within Brethren mission history.
What stands out most is the combination of practical service and advocacy. Contemporary material presents him not just as a preacher abroad, but as someone who studied seriously, wrote clearly, and tried to persuade the church at home to take global mission work seriously.