| Description | Many of the papers include the name and date of the committee meeting for which they were intended. The sequence is partially numbered in red or blue crayon (largely 1912-1921 papers). There is some duplication in the contents as occasionally material has been filed under more than one alphabetical entry, for example, the interim report of the Candidates' Committee on the future training of missionaries (men) 1918 can be found under C (Candidates) and T (Training).
To facilitate searching, in the listing below the main subjects for each letter are listed in alphabetical order at the beginning of each section. Includes:
A: Accounts, Africa and the East, annual reports, appeals, associations: Accounts Committee memorandum relating to signing cheques 1925; resolutions of the General Committee concerning Associations with appendices B and C 1921; resolutions of the General Committee concerning Associations 1922; memorandum on the contribution list in the Annual Report 1914; 'An Appeal for the Untouchables' by Geo. Denyer, Blackburn (relates to scheme for training teachers to go to India to 'carry on Normal schools for the training of 'outcaste' teachers through whom alone we can hope to win these millions for Christ') 1917; report of the Africa and the East Exhibition, London 1922, received and adopted by Executive Committee 1923.
B: BCMS, Birmingham, Board of Study, bungalows: Bible Churchmen's Missionary Society paper by D. H. C. [Bartlett]: 'Why a New Society?' 1923; Birmingham Congress resolutions for submission to the General Committee 1920; findings of the Birmingham CMS Congress 1920; Special Committee report on recommendations of the Board of Study dealing with the preparation of missionaries for educational work 1921; CMS memorandum on the use of Mission Bungalows (particularly where Indian pastors take the place of Europeans) 1923.
C: Calcutta [Kolkata], candidates, Canton [Guangzhou], Central Board of Missions, China, committees, Congresses, Conscience Clause: paper for consideration by the Executive Committee concerning legal rights of missionaries in China 1925; interim report of a sub-committee considering the future training of men candidates 1923; first interim report of the Special Committee on the Candidates' Department 1924; further statement on Church and Mission in India setting forth principles to be used for handing over work in India and Ceylon [Sri Lanka] to diocesan control 1924; digest of a draft constitution for the proposed Union Theological College in Canton [Guangzhou] 1914; recommendations of the Group 1 Committee concerning the proposal that CMS share in a Union Theological College, Canton [Guangzhou] 1914; CMS memoranda of the Committee on the Findings of the 1913 Continuation Committee Conferences in China 1915; memorandum of a sub-committee to consider the new constitution of the Diocese of Calcutta [Kolkata] and the relation of the CMS Bengal Mission to it 1917; report of the Sub-Committee on the Committee System of the Society 1918; interim report of the Candidates' Committee on the future training of missionaries (men) 1918; letter of invitation to become a member of the new Home and Foreign Committee [1919]; report of a sub-committee appointed to consider a report presented to the Central Board of Missions concerning the 'new call and new opportunties for spreading the Kingdom of God throughout the world ' 1919; report on the Central Missionary Fund 1920; draft minute of the Group 2 Committee entitled, 'Church and Mission in India' further to the report of the 1921-1922 delegation to India concerning the relation of CMS and workers to diocesan developments and Indian congregations and workers, with a reprint of the 'Church and Mission' section of the delegation's report 1922-1923; report of the Reconstruction Committee (concerning the Executive and General Committees) 1924; resolutions of the CMS Cheltenham Congress (concerning CMS finances) [1921]; Conference of Missionary Societies in Great Britain and Ireland: Committee on Christian Education statement of policy relating to proposals to introduce a Conscience Clause in Indian Education [1921]; interim report of the Conscience Clause (India) Sub-Committee 1921; report of the Reconstruction Committee (concerning a scheme for CMS administration with reference to Executive and General Committees) 1923; letter to members of the Executive Committee inviting participation in committees (including list of committees for 1922) 1923; resolutions of the CMS London Congress concerning future direction of CMS work [1922].
D: Delegation: CMS report of the delegation to Egypt and Palestine (proof) 1921.
E: Education, estimates, exhibitions, expenditure: World Mission Conference Continuation Committee memorandum of the Special Committee on Education (American section) on the proposed Union Christian College for Women in Madras [Chennai] 1914; memorandum by T. H. Baxter, dated 1914, regarding a proposal to hold a large CMS missionary exhibition in London in the autumn of 1916; memorandum concerning estimates of expenditure 1914; statement of expected reduction of expenditure 1915-1916; draft report of the Emergency Committee concerning the Society's financial deficit 1920; Conference of Missionary Societies in Great Britain and Ireland: Committee on Christian Education statements of policy relating to proposals to introduce a Conscience Clause in Indian Education nd [1921]; interim report of the Conscience Clause (India) Sub-Committee 1921; report of the Education Policy Committee 1921; Board of Study for the Preparation of Missionaries paper entitled, 'The Preparation of Missionaries for Educational Work' 1921; report of the delegation to Egypt and Palestine (proof) 1921; resolutions recommended by the Group 3 Committee concerning the report of the delegation to Egypt and Palestine Missions 1921; Conference of Missionary Societies in Great Britain and Ireland Committee on Christian Education 'Statement of Policy in regard to Proposals to Introduce a Conscience Clause in Indian Education nd [1921]; report of the 1922 'Africa and the East' [exhibition] London 1923; interim report of the Estimates Committee 1921; report of the Special Committee on the Financial Position of the Society 1920; report of the Estimates Committee (on the Society's financial position) 1922; report of the Estimates Committee for 1922-1923 dated 1921; financial statement for year ending 31 March 1921 [1921]; draft report of the Executive Committee on the estimates for 1924-1925 dated 1923; report of the Special Committee appointed to advise on recommendations of the Board of Study dealing with the preparation of missionaries for educational work 1921; draft tables of available income 1918/1919-1922/1923 and expenditure and estimates 1923.
F: Finance, Foochow [Fuzhou], A. G. Fraser: proposed provisional agreement for the Foochow [Fuzhou] Union Medical College 1914; report of a sub-committee appointed to consider the Society's financial position 1915; paper entitled, 'CMS - the bare facts of the present financial situation' [c 1920]; memorandum for the guidance of Corresponding Committee Secretaries and others in charge of missions concerning the conduct of official and financial mission business 1889; paper for the Executive Committee giving statements by Rev E. L. Langston and A. G. Fraser concerning a speech by A. G. Fraser (who had undertaken Garfield Williams' work during his absence in Africa) which Langston alleged disparaged CMS missionaries 1924.
G: Girgaum, Gleaner's Union, guest house: Quarterly Paper of the Guiana Missionary Association (connected with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel) entitled, 'The Guiana Leaflet. A Voice from "The Land of Six Peoples"', number 13, January 1926; report of the Executive Committee Quiet Day October 1925 including questions submitted for group discussions 1925; papers concerning a scheme for a missionary guest house suggesting a block of service flats for missionary families at Selly Oak (with plans and elevations) [1925]; paper concerning the use of part of CMS owned Girguam Estate (Bombay [Mumbai]) 'for the use and benefit of the Indian Christian Church connected with the Society' referring to the 'Indian Christian Compounds' (parts of the Estate let to Indian Christians) 1916; circular letter concerning proposed changes in the Gleaners Union including the change of name to 'The Missionary Service League of the C. M. S.' 1921.
I: Income, India, instructions to missionaries: draft constitution of Travancore and Cochin [Kochi] Diocesan Council, its commitees, Councils and Boards 1926; General Instructions to missionaries departing to missions autumn 1924, 1914, 1915, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1922 and 1923; report of a conference on village education in India held at Church Missionary House, London 1920; draft minute of the Group 2 Committee: 'Church and Mission in India' further to the report of the 1921-1922 delegation to India concerning the relation of CMS and workers to diocesan developments and Indian congregations and workers with a [1922] reprint of the 'Church and Mission' section of the delegation's report 1922-1923; memorandum on the use of mission bungalows 1923; interim report of the Conscience Clause (India) Sub-Committee 1921; draft tables of available income 1918/1919-1922/1923 and expenditure and estimates 1923.
K: Kikuyu, Kennaway Hall: proposals for a federation of societies in British East Africa (Kikuyu) including General Committee resolutions 1914; report of the Kennaway Hall Visitors concerning proposed alterations at Kennaway Hall 1920.
L: Laws, London Congress: resolutions of the CMS London Congress concerning future direction of CMS work [1922]; schedule of proposed alteration in [CMS] Laws for consideration January 1919; report of the sub-committee on the Committee System of the Society 1918.
M: Memorials, mission bungalows, missionaries, misunderstandings (1922), Dr Mott's Conference: memorandum on missionaries' home payments 1926; report of the Memorials sub-committee (with manuscript annotation) 1918; 'Report and Recommendations of the Educational Committee upon the Findings of Dr Mott's Conferences in Asia in 1912-1913' [1913]; memorial concerning the present position of CMS 1917 and memorial paper nd [c 1917]; letter from F. J. Liverpool, chairman of the Special sub-committee appointed to consider the memorials presented to the General Committee 1918; report of the Memorials sub-committee [1918]; text of a memorial to the General Committee from Church of England laymen 1918; General Instructions to missionaries departing to missions 1914 (with manuscript amendments), 1919 (proof), 1920 (proof) and 1921; resolutions of the CMS Home Committee further to the Central Board of Missions' report on 'The Missionary Work of the Church' 1919; memorandum on mission bungalows [1923]; report of the special sub-committee appointed further to resolution of the General Committee July 1922 and 'unrest' concerning CMS doctrinal position 1922 with an amendment to section III of the report to be proposed by J. C. Proctor of Liverpool 1922 and related papers; proposals for membership of a sub-committee to be appointed dependent on the outcome of the Bishop of Liverpool's resolution (loosely inserted with a partial second set of papers relating to the 1922 resolutions); paper, dated 1922, entitled, 'The First C. M. S. Manifesto 1799' giving the text of a paper by John Venn 1799 reprinted in C. Hole's 'Early History of CMS'; letter addressed to the signatories of the three memorials presented to the General Committee enclosing the report of the [Memorials] Sub-Committee; proposed amendment to the report of the special sub-committee [appointed further to resolution of the General Committee July 1922 and 'unrest' concerning CMS doctrinal position]; statement on comity among missions ('Comity at the Home Base') by the Conference of Missionary Societies in Great Britain and Ireland 1919; instructions to CMS members of committees of the United Council for Missionary Education [1922]; regulations concerning missionaries' pensions (revised) 1922; special committee report relating to preparation of missionaries for educational work 1921.
N: Native agency: report of the sub-committee on Bishop Tucker's resolutions (self support and 'native' Christian agency) 1914; 'Memorandum on the support of native agency in the mission field' 1914.
O: J. H. Oldham: summary of J. H. Oldham's address to the Executive Committee further to a five month visit to Africa (including a report on CMS educational work in East Africa) 1926.
P: Patna, publications, pensions: reports on the Society's publications 1919 and 1921 (with comparison tables of figures for 1913-1914 and 1918-1919 compiled 1919); Pensions Committee report concerning missionaries' pensions and retirement ages 1921; revised regulations on missionaries pensions 1922; paper for the General Committee concerning the Patna University scheme [India] 1914; recommendations of the Board of Study for the Preparation of Missionaries concerning missionaries for educational work 1921; recommendations of Group 3 Committee further to the report of the delegation to Egypt and Palestine Missions 1921.
R: Reconstruction and review committees: Reconstruction Committee report (concerning the Executive and General Committees) 1924; amendment to section III of the report of the Special Committee to be proposed by Mr J. C. Proctor of Liverpool [relating to Executive and General Committees] 1922; Reconstruction Committee report 1923; further interim report of the Review Committee (for the General Committee December 1920) 1920.
S: Subscriptions, secretariat: subscribers leaflet concerning a tax free scheme for CMS subscriptions 1925; part 1 of an interim report of the Special Committee on Secretariat and Staff (amended in consultation with the Secretaries) [?1923]; 'Social aspects of Christianity' 1920.
T: Telegu, Tinnevelly [Tirunelveli], Bishop Tucker: draft minute on transfer of CMS work in Tinnevelly [Tirunelveli] to diocesan control 1924; paper concerning Telegu Mission governing body, nd [early 20th century]; proposals regarding the Tokyo Divinity College 1914; report of the sub-committee on Bishop Tucker's resolutions 1914; resolutions submitted to the General Committee concerning proposals for an appeal entitled, 'C. M. S. Thankoffering for Peace' 1918; interim report of the Candidates' Committee on the future training of missionaries (men) 1918.
V: Village education: resolutions of the conference on village education in India held at CMS headquarters (nine missionary societies represented) 1920.
W: Wigram House, women, World Missionary Conference: memorandum concerning Wigram House 1926; reports of the sub-committee on the Work of the Office, 1915; World Mission Conference Continuation Committee memorandum of the Special Committee on Education (American section) on the proposed Union Christian College for Women in Madras [Chennai] 1914; recommendations entitled, 'Winter Plans, 1913-14' from a conference held at Westfield College, Hampstead 1914; proceedings of the fourth meeting of the Continuation Committee of the World Missionary Conference, The Hague 1913; sub-committee report concerning representation of women on CMS committees 1914. |