{
  "bookName": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
  "authorName": "M. K. Kuriakose",
  "publisherName": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
  "publicationYear": 2011,
  "chapterNumber": 68,
  "chapterName": "c.1807. Monuments to Christian Frederick Schwartz",
  "pageFrom": 82,
  "pageTo": 83,
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      "pageNumber": 82,
      "ocrText": "82\nHISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA\n67. WILLIAM CAREY'S PROPOSAL FOR A WORLD\nMISSIONARY CONFERENCE (1806 A.D.)\nOn 15th May, 1806, William Carey wrote to Andrew Fuller, the\nSecretary of the Baptist Missionary Society, proposing the convening\nof a decennial world missionary conference at the Cape of Good:\nHope (South Africa), with the first meeting being between 1810 and.\n1812. Fuller dismissed the proposal as a pleasing dream.' Though:\nthere was actually no connection, much was later made of the fact\nthat the World Missionary Conference held at Edinburgh in 1910\nwas convened just one hundred years after Carey had first proposed\nthe convening of such a meeting. The original letter is preserved in\nthe vestry of St. Mary's Baptist Chu Church, Norwich, England. Cited in\nRuth Rouse and Stephen C. Neill, eds., A History of the Ecumenical\nMovement, 1517-1948, p. 355.\nThe Cape of Good Hope is now in the hands of the English\nshould it continue so, would it not be possible to have a general\nassociation of all denominations of Christians, from the four\nquarters of the world, kept there once in about ten years? I earnestly\nrecommend this plan, let the first meeting be in the Year 1810,.\nor 1812 at furthest. I have no doubt but it would be attended\nwith very important int effects; we could understand one another\nbetter, and more entirely enter into one another's views by two\nhours conversation than by two or three years epistolary corres-\npondence.\nThe churches are numerous; but as they are in general poor,\nand are obliged to be supplied with priests from Goa, one vicar\nholds upon an average five or six churches. The number of\nChristians composing these churches must be great, as all the fisher-\nmen are Roman-Catholics.\n68. MONUMENTS TO\nCHRISTIAN FREDERICK SCHWARTZ (c. 1807 A.D.)\nChristian Frederick Schwartz (1726-1798) was a German missio-\nnary who is especially well known for his various public and diplo-\nmatic services during the time he was resident in Tanjore as a missio-\nnary and English chaplain. In his memory the Raja of Tanjore\nand the Madras Government erected monuments in Tanjore and the\nChurch of St. Mary in Fort St. George, Madras, respectively. Cited\nin Jesse Page, Schwartz of Tanjore, pp. 184, 187-188.\nMonument erected by Raja Serfojee at Tanjore\nTo the memory of the\nReverend Christian Frederic Schwartz,",
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      "pageNumber": 83,
      "ocrText": "SOURCE MATERIALS\n83\nborn at Sonnenburg of Neumark, in the Kingdom of Prussia,\nthe 26th of October, 1726\nand died at Tanjore, the 13th February, 1798,\nin the seventy-second year of his age.\nDevoted from his early manhood to the office of Missionary\nin the East, the similarity of his situation to that of the first preachers\nof the Gospel produced in him a similar resemblance to the simple\nsanctity of the Apostolic character. His natural vivacity won the\naffections, as his unspotted probity and purity of life alike com-\nmanded the reverence, of the Christian, Mohammedan and Hindu;\nfor Sovereign princes, Hindu and Mohammedan, selected this\nhumble pastor as the medium of political negotiation with the\nBritish Government, and the very marble which here records his\nvirtues was raised by the liberal affection and esteem of the Raja of\nTanjore, Maha Raja Serfogee.\nMonument erected by the British Government of Madras Presidency\nSacred to the memory of\nThe Rev. Christian Frederic Schwartz,\nWhose life was one continued effort to imitate the example of\nthe Blessed Master.\nEmployed as a Protestant missionary from the Government of\nDenmark, and in the same character by the Society in England\nfor the Promotion of the Christian Knowledge, he, during a period\nof fifty years, went about doing good', manifesting, in respect to\nhimself, the most entire abstraction from temporal views, but\nembracing every opportunity of promoting both the temporal and\neternal welfare of others. In him religion appeared not with a\ngloomy aspect or forbidding mien, but with graceful form and\nplacid dignity. Among the many fruits of his indefatigable labours\nwas the Erection of the Church at Tanjore. The savings from a\nsmall salary were, for many years, devoted to this pious work, and\nthe remainder of the expense supplied by individuals at his solici-\ntation. The Christian seminaries of Ramnadporam and in the\nTinnevelly province were established by him.\nBeloved and honoured by Europeans, he was, if possible, held\nin still deeper reverence by the Natives of this Country, of every\ndegree and every sect; and their unbounded confidence in his\nintegrity and truth was, on many occasions, rendered highly bene-\nficial to the public service.",
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