| Description | Present: G. Udny Esq, Rev. T. Thomason, Rev T. Robertson
1. Proceedings
2. Account of monthly expenditure of Agra mission, with present state of accounts
3. 6 April 1814: Agra: copy of letter from Corrie to Thomason and G. Udny: provisions in East India Company's new charter for providing religious instruction for Europeans in India gives opportunity for missionary work also; descendants of Europeans and others professing Christianity deserve attention not only on their own account, but as a medium through which the nation as a whole might be approached with greatest success; suitable places are Berhampore, Monghyr, Bagilpore, Patna, Danapore, Buxar, Benares, Chunar, Allahabad, Cawnpore, Agra, Delhi and Meerut; a schoolmaster might be placed at each place to teach the children and hold services for the native Christians; government should be prepared to permit this and by this means at least the professedly Christian section of the community would "be brought to feel a common interest with us", which is not so at present; civil institutions have supplied information on moral right and wrong and the increased respectability of late years amongst the Company's servants has also helped; as civil liberty becomes better understood by the natives, unless they also gain ideas of a righteous life and contentment and obedience to the powers that be, "which the gospel alone supplies, more political danger is to be apprehended than from any temperate attempts at evangelisation"; of these attempts the plan of schoolmasters would be the least objectionable
4. 1 July 1813: copy letter from Corrie to Thomason and Udny: evangelistic work in Agra progresses so well that it has been necessary to start a school there; asks how far CMS might help with expenses; proposes formation of Auxiliary Missionary Society in Calcutta [Kolkata] ; suggest that counsel should be taken with CMS as to ordination of native ministers; there is space enough in the property taken in Agra for the erection of a church when necessary; "there are members of our communion carrying on native schools at Chunar, Bareilly, Meerut, Rewaree and Benares [Varanasi]. Through these many opportunities of furthering the gospel would be opened to an Auxiliary Society":
5. 13 July 1813: Agra: extract of letter from Corrie to Michael D'Rozario: describes work in Agra
6. Proposal to form fund to support work in Agra with list of subscribers |