who preached, lectured, and wrote on the subject.7 Efforts to establish colleges of mission, however, were frustrated except for the remarkably influential University of Halle, founded in 1702 by August Hermann Francke for the purpose of “training of missionaries for India.”8 Though one can find notable exceptions, Protestants generally were as dilatory in beginning the teaching of mission as they were in becoming part of the Christian missionary effort. Other than a few isolated lectureships, almost