"Indien. Erste allg. Missionars-Konferenz in Mangalore 1929./ First [Basel] Missionaries’ Conference [after the First World War] Mangalore 1929"

The minutes of the conference (13 pp in German) are part of section 1 of this file. The rest of the file consists of some 35 sections of documentation presented to the Conference, or in some other way linked to it. NB The index may turn out not to be fully accurate. Interesting headings: (3) staffing plans for the Basel Mission in India, (4) salaries, and (33) on salary scales for pastors and evangelists (5) vehicles (8) the organisation of the Mission and (9) the question of church organisation important, and including papers submitted by local churchmen; (28) Church and Mission, (29) Devolution in the Christian Church of South India; (14) Relations between older and younger churches (4 pp. duplicated, n.d. and no author). (10) special matters concerning Kurg and the Nilgiris (11) links with Mirigama (Sri Lanka) (12) reduction in scale of expenditure (13) Agenda for a meeting of the National Christan Council (16) Palghat and the Badagara High School (including general questions of higher education, and an open letter in English in an Indian periodical addressed to G. Fischer in Karkala). (17) Bible courses in the congregations (18) Preaching to non-christians (19) transfer of property and the administration of property (20) mission industries, (36) Commonwealth Trust and the Basel Mission Trading Co., / Memoir by G. Herbert. (21) the Preachers’ Seminary Tellicherry (25) manual training and industrial education (including a paper in English from S.A. Furtado) (27) Summary of concerns in welcome addresses to Hartenstein (31) General report by Albert Münch Oct. 1928 & report of the Malabar Christian College for 1928 (32) Petition (35) Basel Mission Press and Book Depot (40) Letters between A. Schosser and N. MacNicol of the [Indian]National Christian Council. Note: for the formulation of the Basel Committee’s response to the minutes of this Conference see C-4-5.2 § 4 below.

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