The church in Madras (Volume 2): being the history of the ecclesiastical and missionary action of the East India Company in the Presidency of Madras in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . odical visits. The question was submitted to Archdeacon Shortland, whopraised the Lay Trustee and recommended that the servicesshould always be conducted at Mysore by a layman of theChurch. He attributed the disorder which had arisen to a compromise of the Churchs principles by allowing theMethodist preachers to officiate at all. On the receipt of thisletter it was decided at Mysore at a meeting of the
The church in Madras (Volume 2): being the history of the ecclesiastical and missionary action of the East India Company in the Presidency of Madras in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . odical visits. The question was submitted to Archdeacon Shortland, whopraised the Lay Trustee and recommended that the servicesshould always be conducted at Mysore by a layman of theChurch. He attributed the disorder which had arisen to a compromise of the Churchs principles by allowing theMethodist preachers to officiate at all. On the receipt of thisletter it was decided at Mysore at a meeting of the ChurchCommittee to ask the Commandant, Major Codrington, toarrange for the services between the visits of the Chaplains. Seven miles from Mysore is the cantonment known asFrench Rocks. Here a native infantry regiment had beenquartered from the year 1830, when Seringapatam was givenup, by reason of its unhealthiness, as a military station. Inthe year 1840 the officers of the 2nd , built a chapel,where they could have divine service. It cost As theydid not want it on any day except Sunday they allowed the 1 The whole correspondence is in the File Book of St. Marks, UJ ceO(ft >?2 o D Id 5 o .4 o Ih <CO h(ft CHURCHES BUILT BETWEEN 1825 AND 1835 329 Wesleyan missionary to use it for his school purposes on theother days of the week, and they placed it in his charge. Whenthe 2nd , had left the station the missionary appearsto have persuaded himself that the building was handed overto him in fee simple, and he gave it in trust to six Wesleyanmissionaries, one of whom was John Garrett, to be held bythem for the Wesleyan Missionary Society. When the Chaplains from Bangalore visited French Bocksthey had to borrow this building for the services of the intention of the officers of the 2nd , was that theyshould use it as of right, but there is no doubt that they ex-pressed their intention badly. In 1849 the Archdeacon wasappealed to. He kn
Size: 1301px × 1922px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., boo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjecteastindiacompany
