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 . ery remained in posi-tion and in use until 1870, when there was a desire to bring thechoir and the music to the east end of the Church. The pipeorgan, which required repair, was discarded and presented toChrist Church in the Port, and a new reed organ was purchasedby the congregation in its place. It was a poor exchange,for the pipes of the old organ were good ; the instrument onlyrequired a renewal of
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 . ery remained in posi-tion and in use until 1870, when there was a desire to bring thechoir and the music to the east end of the Church. The pipeorgan, which required repair, was discarded and presented toChrist Church in the Port, and a new reed organ was purchasedby the congregation in its place. It was a poor exchange,for the pipes of the old organ were good ; the instrument onlyrequired a renewal of some of its mechanism. Sixteen yearslater the reed organ was sold to the Tanjore Mission, andanother pipe organ of good quality was obtained from ship which brought it out encountered a severe cargo shifted, and parts of the instrument were was no one in the station who had any knowledge of themechanism of an organ. But as an example of what can be 1 In borrowing from the Diocesan Record of 1893, p. 88, I am merelyborrowing what is my own.—F. P. 2 Despatch, April 26, 1826, 6, Eccl. 3 Letter, Dec. 15, 1826, Eccl. ; Despatch, July 23, 1828, 4, o 0- O z Io Io en D Z I o CHURCHES BUILT BETWEEN 1805 AND 1815 193 done when there is a will to do it, it may be mentioned that thedamaged parts of the instrument were repaired, the wholeorgan was put together and tuned by the joint effort of a CivilEngineer, an English and a native fitter employed on therailway, and the Chaplain. The same year 1826 saw the separation of the Chaplaincyand the mission funds. When the garrison left the Port, theynot only left behind their Church, but also their Vestry fundand their school for soldiers A vestry composed ofBritish officers and civilians in the Companys service hadmanaged the fund and other parish affairs from 1771 tillSt. Johns Church was built in 1812. Their proceedings wererecorded in a book in the same orderly way as was done atSt. M
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