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years essentially a clerical society, a network of evangelical clergymen who kept up a correspondence based on their knowledge of their own parishes and congregations. Around 1812 the society began to develop local auxiliaries with a penny-a-week subscription. Not only was there an increase in finances, the society began to receive applications from viable candidates of whom the members of the clerical circle had never heard, and this at a point when missionary work was being identified with the ‘white man’s grave’ and heavy mortality. The broadened base of support, the approach to something like mass mem-bership, necessitated a broader literary appeal. A whole new literature appeared along the trail first blazed by the Baptist Periodical Accounts. Missionary lit-
DOI link for years essentially a clerical society, a network of evangelical clergymen who kept up a correspondence based on their knowledge of their own parishes and congregations. Around 1812 the society began to develop local auxiliaries with a penny-a-week subscription. Not only was there an increase in finances, the society began to receive applications from viable candidates of whom the members of the clerical circle had never heard, and this at a point when missionary work was being identified with the ‘white man’s grave’ and heavy mortality. The broadened base of support, the approach to something like mass mem-bership, necessitated a broader literary appeal. A whole new literature appeared along the trail first blazed by the Baptist Periodical Accounts. Missionary lit-
years essentially a clerical society, a network of evangelical clergymen who kept up a correspondence based on their knowledge of their own parishes and congregations. Around 1812 the society began to develop local auxiliaries with a penny-a-week subscription. Not only was there an increase in finances, the society began to receive applications from viable candidates of whom the members of the clerical circle had never heard, and this at a point when missionary work was being identified with the ‘white man’s grave’ and heavy mortality. The broadened base of support, the approach to something like mass mem-bership, necessitated a broader literary appeal. A whole new literature appeared along the trail first blazed by the Baptist Periodical Accounts. Missionary lit-
ABSTRACT
The elite group kept alive the movement that had such epoch-making significance. It was not entirely a socially elite group, but rather mixed and fairly representative of active Protestant Christianity. It held seigneurial rights to a lay fiefdom; its symbolic figure was the penny-a-week collector reading a missionary magazine.
