316 BRITISH SOCIAL SYSTEM. 



since extended their operations to various other P*<«rftte 

 empire. In 1816 they founded an establishment at Oal- 

 cutta, where for some years the, met with very htde sue 

 ce s but having in 1823 formed a settlement at Kidderpore 

 S the vicinity of the capital, they saw themselves in the 

 c 'en r of a circle of villages, which showed a much greater 

 disposition to embrace the gospel than had appeared in ^any 

 other district. In 1826 an idol was removed from a H ndoo 

 temple, and the building converted into a placeof ChnsUan 

 worship. The society have even succeeded in forming a 

 small native church in Calcutta. _ 



The Church Missionary Society, instituted in 1S0U, Ui- 

 rected their first exertions to the civilization of Africa, and 

 particularly to the settlement at Sierra Leone. It was not 

 Till about 1812 that they began to employ agents m Cal- 

 cutta and Madras. These establishments have since been 

 very "really enlarged, so as to render this one of the chief 

 theatres of their pious exertions. They have particularly 

 sou -lit to promote their object by the erection of schools, in 

 which a communication of the superior knowledge possessed 

 bv Europeans accompanies, or prepares for initiation into 

 sound religious views. This society have now stations, 

 with catechists and native assistants, at Calcutta, Dum-dum 

 Culna, and Burdwan (large towns in the west of Bengal), 

 Buxar, Benares, Allahabad, Gooracpore, Cawnpore, Ba- 

 reilly, A gra, Meerut, Canoul. In Western India they have 

 one at Bandora, seven miles from Bombay; in the : south, 

 at Tellicherry, Cochin, Cottayam, and Allepie (about thirty 

 miles south-east of Cochin), Palamcotta, Mayavcram (160 

 miles south-south-west of Madras), Madras, and Puhcate. 

 The Scottish Missionary Society have some stations at 

 Bombay A fund has also been recently established under 

 the superintendence of the Church of Scotland, for the pro- 

 motion of this important object. The managers have sent 

 out several missionaries to Calcutta, and founded schools 

 there.* 



* \mphi. vs Missions^** the authors of this history have not 

 decme u „ ss rv o advert to the existence o^^T,™',",'^ 

 fn British India bv Amem-an Christians, it is considered but just that in 

 an Amerle an iditibn the ■uci-essful exertions of the American Hoard of 

 Fort; Morons and the Bap 1st Board of £«£> ^E^ 1 ' * 



