Cecil Polhill: Missionary, Gentleman and Revivalist

John Martin Usher, Ph.D. (2015), Regents Theological College, is a Research Fellow in the Institute for Pentecostal Theology at the College, and Visiting Lecturer of Church history at the University of Birmingham (2018-present) and previously at the University of Roehampton (2012-2019).

• AcknowledgmentsForewordList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsIntroduction1 From Eton to China (1860–1885)2 Imperial China: Frequent Danger and the Power of the Holy Spirit (1885–1888)3 Mysterious Tibet: The Land “in Gross Darkness with Hardly a Gleam of Light” (1888–1900)4 Life in England, “for China and Tibet, and for Worldwide Revival,” Prayer and Activism between Leaving China and Discovering Pentecostalism (1900–1907)5 Embracing and Leading Early British Pentecostalism (1908–1910)6 A Vision Realised, “The Tribes Abound and Are Clamouring for the Gospel,” Polhill and the Pmu at the Tibetan Border (1910–1914)Appendix 1 The Testimony of Wang Tsuan Yi (Uang-Ts’Ong-I)Appendix 2 Full Text of the “Memorandum of Agreement between the China Inland Mission and the Tibetan Band” 1896BibliographyIndex

"Usher’s book has left few bibliographic stones unturned. The scope of the research is amazing... Usher, the editors of Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, and Brill are to be thanked for producing what will long be a crucial standard work for the study of UK Pentecostalism, Pentecostal mission, and more generally of global Pentecostalism." - David Bundy, Manchester, UK, in: Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association (2022).“It is extremely rare to find, among those who have written on early Pentecostal figures, many who have taken the time to work in such detail and it may be the first such study that I have found on a British figure. It is first rate.” – Cecil M. Robeck, Jr., Professor Church History and Ecumenics, Fuller Seminary.“Undoubtedly highly original and a significant contribution to knowledge…some truly excellent archival research underpinning the writing….” – Andrew Davies, University of Birmingham.