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 . had tobear the brunt of the attack of General Sir E. K. Williams onthe Vestry school, and made a reputation for himself by thejudicious tone of his letters ; Henry| Deane (1835-42), whosucceeded in restoring unity of sentiment with regard to themanagement of the school; and G. E. Morris (1848-54). o 2 196 THE CHURCH IN MADRAS At the beginning of the nineteenth century Captain GeorgeElers was with the 1
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 . had tobear the brunt of the attack of General Sir E. K. Williams onthe Vestry school, and made a reputation for himself by thejudicious tone of his letters ; Henry| Deane (1835-42), whosucceeded in restoring unity of sentiment with regard to themanagement of the school; and G. E. Morris (1848-54). o 2 196 THE CHURCH IN MADRAS At the beginning of the nineteenth century Captain GeorgeElers was with the 12th Regiment at Trichinopoly. He relates 1that when he was there money was collected during one coolseason for the purpose of giving amusement for three days,with public breakfasts, ball, &c, and sports for the men. Withmore or less regularity this custom was kept up during thecentury, so that everyone in the south of India knew whatwas meant by the Trichinopoly Week at Christmas time. Theestablished practice of friendliness and hospitality has madeTrichinopoly with all its heat a pleasant memory to everyonewho has been at any time stationed there. 1 Memoirs of George Elers, p. :? >—.iflK .* J^(:M ^1 ST. JOHNS CHURCH, TRICHINOPOLY. CHAPTEK X THE COMING OF THE MISSIONARIES What led to their coming. The effect of the reports. The debatesof the Stock Proprietors at the India House. John Thomas. W. London Missionary Society ; its agents. The agents. Theirreception by the Company, the local Government and the officials. Bingel-taube. Cran and Des Granges. Loveless. Gordon and Lee. John Thompson. Judson and Newell. The Tanjore The Their difficulties and their agents. Meadand Knill of the at Nagercoil. The kindness of Col. , Bailey, Baker, and Fenn in Travancore, invited by His opinion of them. The Wesleyans. Arrival of Lynchand Mowatt and Hoole. Hooles autobiography. Non
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