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MMS/Special Series/Biographical/Home/Box 1391
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On hearing of their intentions to send missionaries to the West Indies outlines a statement of the Methodist missions in the 'Archipelago'. Forty to fifty thousand attend ministry of [Wesleyan Methodist] preachers with nearly ten thousand of those being members of the [Wesleyan Methodist Missionary] Society. Proceeds to list society numbers in Tortola & the Virgin Islands, Antigua, St Christopher's, Nevis, Monserratt, Dominica, St Vincent's, Barbados, Grenada and Jamaica. Explains how their missionaries are fully supported. Explains that after initial reluctance planatation owners are allowing Methodist missionaries to preach and how additional missionaries are being dispatched. Indicates the [Wesleyan Methodist] Society intends to expand into Tobago, Anguilla, Providence Island and Bermuda.
Asks the [London] Missionary Society to suspend operations and intended plans with regard to the West Indies until the next [Wesleyan Methodist] Conference to allow them to decide to further the spread of the Gospel as they have 'at present no other work among the Heathen'. Can't see how they [LMS] will gain from preaching in the area unless it is specifically through their 'Calvinist Ministers'. Estimates that the population in English speaking areas to be no more than seven hundred thousand. States he is asking them to only suspend operations in Jamaica until the August Conference.
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Item 11 Coke mss list
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1 item
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Open
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| Copyright: |
Copyright held by Council for World Mission |
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For permission to publish, please contact Archives & Special Collections, SOAS Library in the first instance |
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English
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Latin
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CWM/LMS/Home/Home Office Extra/Box 1A, Folder 1, Jacket D
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Transcript apppears on page 230 of 'The letters of Dr. Thomas Coke' edited by John A. Vickers (2013).
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Archive
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