"Malabar & Nilagiri 1890 / Letters and Reports from India: North Kerala and the Nilgiris. 1890."

This volume consists of the following sections: Malabar District Conference Executive Committee (42 documents); Cannanore (31); Tellicherryi (26); Chombala (20); Calicut (40); Kodakal (11); Waniyankulam (3); Palghat (14); Keti (22); Kotageri (11). Selection of interesting documents (based on the captions given in the section indexes). The minutes of the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Malabar Widows’ Fund January 1890 are in English (Malabar District Conference Executive Committee document 1). Frohnmeyer becoming member of the Executive Committee and the Mission’s School Inspector for North Kerala (District Executive Committee documents 5, 6 & 8) Revision work on the Malayalam bible (District Executive Committee 15 & 16). Minutes of the District Conference November 1890 are at Executive Committee documents 17-26. Minutes of the District Synod, also November 1890, are at documents 27-39. Main substantive themes discussed: Starting a girls’ boarding school in Calicut (Executive Committee 17-20) Introducing small-scale industries in BM congregations (Executive Committee 21-25, Synod 27, including reports by Evangelist Nathaniel (22), Pastor Chandran (23) and Dr Christ in Basel (24). Preaching journeys and the distribution of tracts and bibles (Executive Committee 26) Church elders and their responsibility over against the problem of alcoholism (Executive Committee 27 & 38) The mission house in Chowa will be demolished and the material used for a catechist’s house in Anjerakandi and the High School in Nettur (Cannanore 44) Visiting the festival in Taliparambu (Cannanore 68) and at Tirumathamkunnur (Waniyankulam 172) A German translation of the annual report for Chowa written by Rev. Taikandy is at Cannanore 73 The timetables of the Preachers’ Seminary, the Teachers’ Seminary and the Christian High School in Tellicherry are at Tellicherry 83-83. Mrs Frohnmeyer writes an annual report of the work of the Bible Women (Tellicherry 97); The problem of financial support for pupils in the High School (Tellicherry 90, 90a and 91) Pastor S. Chandran’s original English 7 pp annual report for the Tellicherrycongregation is at Tellicherryi 98, C. Hutten’s translated 13 pp annual report on preaching journeys is at Tellicherry 99. The church elders in Chombala decide whether to purchase the house of Paul Suprien (Chombala 103). The life of the deceased pastor Joseph Jacoby (Chombala 112). A non-christian woman in the neighbourhood of the mission house (Chombala 114) Purchasing land in Calicut (Calicut 121-130, 133-9) The weaving factory (Calicut 148) "Paul Karunagaran, the hermit of Perambra", by Gustav Peter (Calicut 149). Medical mission (Calicut 152 & 159) German translation of a Quarterly Report and an Annual Report by Nathaniel Amkandam about his preaching journeys (Calicut 150 & 155) The annual report of the Calicut congregation is by Rev. J. Padiath (Calicut 153). Gustav Peter’s annual report includes specific references to Putiangady, Korapura, Coilandy and Collam (Calicut 156-7) On the salary paid to the "Church Peon", the unemployment of baptismal candidates and Christians, and on the economic situation of the congregation in general (Kodakal 161). Relief payments (Kodakal 167). The congregation in Kodakal requests a tile works (Kodakal 165-6), so does the one in Palghat (Palghat 175-7, 179-182) Baptisms, and the baptismal candidate Batshakutti (Kodakal 168) Life story and baptism of a Muslim married couple (Palghat 185). Mrs Lutz on the work of Bible Women in Keti and district (Keti 209) The history of the mission station in Kotageri (Kotageri 218) The Indian pastor Kanaka reports on his activities (Kotageri 216 and 220).

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