The Results of 180 Years of Work as Set Forth in Letters of Colonial & Missionary Bishops, Extracted Chiefly from the Annual Report for the Year 180; To Which Are Added Some Historical Notes of the Growth of the Church and of the Society's Labours in Dive (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1882 Excerpt: ... V.--ASIA. The first non-Roman Mission in India was established 1705, in Tranquebar, by Ziegenbalg: it was opened under the auspices of Frederick IV. of Denmark, and was largely assisted by theSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, to whose care many of its congregations and schools were afterwards transferred. The first Mission of our Church in India was established at Madras by S.P.C.K. in 1726, the first Missionary, Schultz, a German Lutheran, being followed by Schwartz and Kohlhoff. In 1824 these Missions were transfered to S.P.G.: There were only five Missionaries, but twelve chief stations. S.P.C.K. opened also a Mission in Calcutta, in 1758; John Kiernander being at the head. In 1814 Bishop Middleton was consecrated first Bishop of Calcutta, and in 1818 the Society commenced work in India, setting 5,000 at the disposal of the Bishop for general Missionary purposes: in the following year it gave 45,000 towards the foundation of Bishop's College, which has recently been removed from its original site and transferred to a new site in the City of Calcutta. In 1841 the Society commenced a Mission at Cawnpore, where two of its Missionaries were massacred in the Mutiny of 1857. In 1852 the Society devoted 8,000 out of its Jubilee Fund to the establishment of the Delhi Mission, which was commenced by the Rev. J. Stuart1 Jackson, and the Rev. A. R. Hubbard. The progress made almost immediately excited the anger of the natives, and in the Mutiny the Mission was swept away and the Rev. M. J. Jennings, the Chaplain, and the Rev. A. R. Hubbard, the Missionary, and Mr. Sandys, a Catechist, were killed at their posts. It was long before the Mission recovered from these terrible death blows; but the Rev. T. Skelton, M.A., now Principal of St. Pa...