The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-08-06
EonfE NEW BooIxs.
B,.tsry or the society Tor the Propagation
.,. of the Gospel.

Church oil tnglunu uuTluR tio iaot tWO Ceu'
:. turies by the Society for The Propagation Of IN,
81 G,Scl On Eoreion Parts is but I'm perfectly REQ
. ognlged in this country or. for that matter, In
70 Great Britain itself Some eight years ago II
2 was proposed to print the m an uscrDt journals
: OF the society from its Incorporation in 1701.
IN 10 tho end OF the eighteenth century. The
scheme however. was abandoned. because the
. p. ost ut which Ave large auarto volumes could
(, be produced seemed to be prohibitive. the
9 more so as the societys work In the
present century would still be left to some
future day. The preparation even OF digest
Of the vast materials at hand seemed to be a
task beyond the powers OF any officers OF the
society but IL has nevertheless been under
q. taken by Mr. c. +. PAscoE, who has finally pro-
iuced complete chronicle OF tho socicty's
work in all pnrts OF the world from 17ol to
8 1892. Considered as n monument OF intelli-
/, gent industry. this digest well deserves tho
3 praise of the Archbishop OF Canterbury. who
=. hns called 1t "a marvellous book" For Amer
u: icans. tho interest In tho compilation Of Mr..
81 Pascoes book lies chiefly in tho light 1t throws
on the work performed By the society In the
. American colonies UP to the close OF the
Revolutionary War.
. word as to the scale on which the opera
lions OF the society have been carried out.
Tho annual income at It's disposal has In
y. creased from about $3.50 In 1701 to nearly
s850OOO in 1892. With the exception OF the
= Falkland Isles every colony Of tho British
empire has. at some time or other. received
aid from It. From the first 1t has organized
; direct missions to the heather. but 1t has also
devoted large part OF its resources to build
ing up tho colonial churches rs missionary
centres. No fewer than twenty OF the Ameri-
can diooeses and all but ten OF the English.
colonial. and missionary dioceses include
. missions which were planted by the society.
In most cases before the foundation OF tho
See. It appears that 107 Bishops have been
supported. wholly OF in part. from the socetys
funds. The loyalty OF tho missionaries sont
out by this association to the Church Of
i. England may DO inferred from tho fact
that OF tho 1903 employed between 1902
, and 1892. only three cases Of SO.
cession to other Christian bodies are
reported. while tho accessions from such
bodies during the same period number ut
least los. The operations OF the society arc
now carried on in ltty-one diocoses. tho num-
Der, of languages in use being fifty three. A
little more than one-fourth OF its funds Is all
that is now allotted to Christian colonies:
about Ave- eiRhths are expended on the con-
version Of the heather. and uron establishing
native churches within.the empire. while tho
remainder is devoted to missions in foreign
countries such as China. Corea, japan. Rorneo
MADAGASCAR. and the Hawaiian Islands. OF
the $50 ordained missionaries now on Its list.
no are natives OF Asia, and thirty eight ma
tives OF Africa. In the society's colleges there
are about twenty-siN hundred students: and
twenty-thrce hundred lay teachers. mostly
natives. are employed In the various missions
In Asia and Africa. in the schools Of which 49,
600 children ore receiving instruction.
The origin OF the Society for the PropaRa-
ton OF the GOSPEL may be traced to what may
be called the religious association movement
Of the seventeenth century. This movement |
had been preceded by a well-known mission
ary undertaking. which receives In this volume |
the attention which It deserves. In 1916 John !
Eliot the apostle Of the North American rcd |
Lasn. begah his iabors In New England and !
continued them INIT. his death In 1890. |
Through his tracts tho wants OF the Indians
became known in England. and SO impressed
br Thorn was the Long Parliament that In
Jnly. tG40. an ordinance was passed ss.nt-
fishing .. corporation for promoting and prop
SgatinE the Gospel in New EaglAnd. sen-
sral nc!sction or behalf O: this society. was
made. at Cromwel's direction, throughout:
England and Wales. att produced yearly sin
r. liousand dollars most q: which WAS invest
"a III Engiisi lana3d property. BY means
OF the income. missionaries we've maintained
smons .hs natives si Nav England and
Ns@ York. On the Restoration III, ccrror.-
ton became dcfuno.. but was revived W
Charles II. IN 1882. tho nov charter being OBJ
sAtned mainly through Inc exertlon OF tho
9or. Rotfcrt Boyle, who Cocaine the first Gov
amor. The wor:: Of t.is company won't on in
New ENGLAND NJ to 1875. and. after AN inter-
val II eleven years. caused by Tho American
Noyoiue!en. its Operations we're tfa ns.c.rel to
Kew Brunswick. Sat thence. IL 1897. to other
Earts oi British Americas. rhiA the first mia
atopary soojN.- founded IL Enclund. Is scn-r-
ally Eacva as The Now EnGant, Company"
"a Reconstructed In 1902. /. VAS limited 20
fctty-ave members. conslsi,E OF churchmen
and disSenters- The next In portnnt religious
association o-4aniaad II England WAS the
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
which held It's FIRST meeting In March. 1889.
Tho main rcrposo o. this Institution vas de-
clsrad to be. So for AZ foreign parts wore cor |
:erned, the GSinG parochinl Libraries through |
out the plantations. especially on tho continent
OF North America" The enrlGym ent OF mis-
uionarles dsvolycd Oh rev organization. tho
Society tos .hc PROPAGATION q. $40 Gospel in
Eoreign F2rts. which was formed In 17ol I'M
der the AUSPICES @. Archbishop Tension n,d
largely thrcag!; tho exertiorc OF Or. BRAY. who
had visited the American colonioE In 1919 and
organized. rs FAR &C he thea COLD. tho Church
OF England In Maryland. The society thug
started found during tho crsstcc rart o. the
eighteenth century It's principal mission a,,d
among tho English colonists sott,e! aloaC tho
east coast u North america. iron. Maino to
GcorRin. together with thc negroes and With Tho
Indian tribes who dwolt further inland. These
colonies. rs Ia vel! known. we're first settled w
private adventurers. mostly Representations Of
divers denominations dissenting 'roa tho
mother Church vet TOO U:uok divided among
themselvcstc preserves in some PARTS as. for In
stance, In North and South (;arolha cy.p tina
form OF reGicr. Tho illustrations o! the
Church OF England wers accessible only at u
few places in Virginia. NNrYaCi Now York,
and In the towns @! Ph!lad9plia and Boston.
while the neighbornE Indians hnd boon in
strueted partly by the Jcsu!ts and partly by
lohn Eliot and agents o! the Now England COM
nany Until l7S5 tho Society for the Propaea-
lion OF the Gospel labored to plant the Church
OF England in those regions. The difficulties
which the undertaking encountered were due
partly to tho comparative strength of the dis
senting bodies. partly to the unwiingness or