{
  "bookName": "History of Christianity in India: Source Materials",
  "authorName": "M. K. Kuriakose",
  "publisherName": "Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge",
  "publicationYear": 2011,
  "chapterNumber": 67,
  "chapterName": "1806. William Carey’s Proposal for a World Missionary Conference",
  "pageFrom": 82,
  "pageTo": 82,
  "pages": [
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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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}