Records of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, 1843 [manuscript]. [1843]

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Records of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, 1843 [manuscript]. [1843]

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Minutes of the 24th annual meeting of the Wesleyan Methodists Missionary Society - Australian District. Group of six extensive manuscript reports from the Missionaries in Australia to their headquarters in London, reporting on their activities in Australia throughout the year (1843). Each letter bears a ship letter mark from Sydney. Contained in the reports are lists of preachers, novice preachers, finances, reports on the establishment of chapels and day to day matters. In addition there are extensive reports on other matters including a disciplinary hearing against one missionary for being intoxicated, and a report on a schism between the official Weslyan meetings and a rival group. One report contains a table setting out the state of the missionary church in Australia as it stood in that year. Such were the difficulties in sending back letters to England (in view of the distance and the hazardous sea journey) that the Missionary Society split up its annual reports into different parts which were then copied and transmitted via different ships, on the principle that not every ship would be lost at sea on the journey home.

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The work of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society began in Australia in 1818 when the Rev. Samuel Leigh arrived in Sydney to found a mission for convicts in New South Wales. Missionaries from each District were required to meet in an annual Synod, the minutes of which were sent home to London. From the description of Records of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, 1843 [manuscript]. [1843] (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 277138718 British society which m...