"I Malabar: Kannanur & Talatscheri 1905 / Letters and Reports from India: North Kerala, Cannanore to Telitscheri. 1905"

This volume consists of the following sections: Malabar District Executive Committee (35 documents); Malabar District Conference and Synod (23); Cannanore (20); Talatscheri (55). Select list of interesting documents (based on the captions given in the section indexes): Response by missionaries to criticism on the part of the Mission Committee in Basel (Malabar District Executive Committee 6-7) Systematic plan for pastors’ houses in Malabar (Malabar District Executive Committee 13- 17) Further education for catechists (Malabar District Executive Committee 18; Talatscheri 118) Draft regulations governing the dressers in local small hospitals (Hilfsspitäler) (Malabar District Executive Committee 19-24) The reports and minutes of the Malabar District Conference and District Synod (14-15. Nov. 1905) were brought together in a 97 page printed Protocoll (District Conference and Synod 35) MSS of substantial lectures/reports by the missionaries Peter and Bader on mission in Malabar in the last 10 years in comparison with earlier times (District Conference and Synod 36-7) MS report on the proposal to found a mission station in Manjeri (District Conference and Synod 38) MSS of two lectures/reports on Youth Groups in the church (District Conference and Synod 40-41) Six of the reports on individual stations are written by missionaries, four by indigenous pastors (District Conference and Synod 45-54) The Evangelist Charles Hermon’s lecture "How do we bring up the members of our congregations to take part in mission among non-christians?" (District Conference and Synod 55) Missionary buying books in Arabic (Cannanore 58) Petitions by the weavers Stephan Puduscheri and Augustin Peter (Cannanore 69) Upgrading the training of women teachers in the BM (Talatscheri 85-7) Esra Salem, teacher of physical education, asks for admission to the teachers’ seminary (Tellitscheri 98-9) Malayalam Language Committee report (Tellitscheri 105-7) General report on travelling evangelisation in North Kerala (Talatscheri 112 & 124; 123 (with students of the Pastors’ Seminary); ) Gowindan becomes Henry (Talatscheri 115) Report on Anjarakandi (Talatscheri 125) Talatscheri 126-130 are annual reports on individual named schools. The annual reports by Pastors Stephan Kallat and Samuel Ambattu about the Talatscheri and Nettur congregations (Talatscheri 131-2) have been translated into German.

1905

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