At his request, Aidan, one of the fittest of the Columban band, was sent to carry on the work of Evangelization in Northumbria, which happy event may be reckoned as the first permanent planting of the Gospel in the Eastern Border.
"In the Border Country"
W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett
The persevering and well-directed efforts of the American missionaries for the Evangelization of the Armenians, and the field of Christian labor which was thus opened, took firm hold of J.Y.'s mind; he longed to visit the schools and congregations in Isnik and Brusa, and probably only abandoned the journey at this time in the hope of undertaking it at some future day.
"Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel"
John Yeardley
In Montgomery's hymns we may hear for the first time the missionary note in English hymnody, reflecting the newly-awakened zeal for the Evangelization of the world which had gripped the English people.
"The Story of Our Hymns"
Ernest Edwin Ryden