| Description | Answers to questions on "subjects which will be brought forward for the consideration of the missionaries at the meeting at S. L. and on which each will previously write his mind". The following topics were put to them:
The advantages to schools amongst the heathen and their disadvantages as regards hindering preaching and in encouraging the natives in worldly aspirations. Whether the number of children should be limited. Should the boys be taught to read and write in their own language. How could the schools be improved. The practicability and advantages of missionaries living in a native town and the question of what suitable towns there are within reach of Canoffee. Whether missionaries' salaries and widows' allowances are sufficient. The best arrangement for household servants. How to achieve union and brotherly love. Whether the following could be made subject to a committee of missionaries at S. L.: drawing bills, movements of missionaries, new building in settlements, purchases of canoes, general extras. Whether to have biannual meetings of missionaries. What should be told to prospective missionaries. Would a fixed yearly rent be better that presents to headmen. How can the 'grammiters' be instructed. How can preaching best be undertaken. The advantages of an annual visitor and a missionary ship.
In response to a request there are also extracts from the Bashia registers of baptism, marriage and burial by Renner and those for the Isles de Los by Klein. |