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 . rs contention that theCompany had a high sense of its religious obligations, and thatChurch work owed much to its auspices and support; the author makes it plain that the Company cherished no hostilityto Missions, . and that the Companys servants were everready to further Missions in moral and material ways. INDIAN CHURCH MAGAZINE. [The author] places his materials freely at his critics disposal,that h
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 . rs contention that theCompany had a high sense of its religious obligations, and thatChurch work owed much to its auspices and support; the author makes it plain that the Company cherished no hostilityto Missions, . and that the Companys servants were everready to further Missions in moral and material ways. INDIAN CHURCH MAGAZINE. [The author] places his materials freely at his critics disposal,that he may judge for himself whether the Company have earnedthe distinction of having been properly careful of the religiousinterests of their employees. CHURCH TIMES. The East India Company proves to have been far more aliveto its spiritual responsibilities than has been supposed . whenmissionary zeal was by no means characteristic of our Church. BRITISH WEEKLY The record is gratifying and creditable to the is not likely that his book will ever be displaced by a morecareful account. London : SMITH, ELDER & CO., 15 Waterloo Place, all THE VEN. THOMAS ROBINSON, ARCHDEACON OF MADRAS, 1828-1835. THE CHURCH IN MADRAS BEING THE HISTORY OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL AND MISSIONARY ACTION OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY IN THE PRESIDENCY OF MADEASFROM 1805 TO 1835 BY THE EEV. FBANK PENNY, LATE CHAPLAIN IN INDIAN SERVICE (MADBAS ESTABLISHMENT) WITH ILLUSTRATIONS VOL. II LONDONSMITH, ELDER & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE 1912 [All rights reserved] TO THE MEMOEY OFTHE HONOUKABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY THIS EECOED OF THEIK ECCLESIASTICAL POLICY AND ACTION IS MOST BESPECTFULLY DEDICATED PREFACE This volume of The Church in Madras advances the storyfrom 1805 to 1835, when the first Bishop of Madras arrivedon the coast. As was stated in the Preface of Vol. I, the book is notintended to be an exhaustive ecclesiastical or religious historyof the period. Missionary effort is includ
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