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Title	May 4, 1819 letter from W. Alers Hankey to Thomas Haweis
Post Date	May 4, 1819
Author	Hankey, W[illiam] Alers (1772-1859)
Recipient	Haweis, Thomas (1734-1820)
Date	1819-05-04
Physical Description	4 pp. total; 3 pp. text; 1 p. address
Dimensions	41.1 x 26.3 cm
Location (Box, Folder)	Box 1, File 55
Address From	London
Country From	England
Transcriber	Gareth Lloyd
Plain Text Transcription	From William Alers Hankey in London to T.H. In accordance with the recommendations contained in T.H’s letter to Mr [George] Burder, the directors [of the London Missionary Society] have appointed Thomas Walker of Piccadilly, London, to the office of trustee, which appointment T.H. had himself declined on account of his advanced age. Walker is zealously attached to the work and serves the society already as chairman of one of the committees. Hankey needs from T.H. the authorization needed to effect the transfer (power of attorney) and this should be documented in the presence of two witnesses who must state their place of residence and occupation etc. They are now looking forward to the society general meeting and they know that T.H. will be present with them in spirit. The news from India is encouraging. There is no recent news from the Pacific but the society is advertising for two fit men to travel there to advise and encourage the mission. A letter has been received from Messrs [John] Campbell and [John] Philip – they are at sea and three thousand miles into their journey. He is sorry to inform T.H. that their dear friend Rowland Hill has met with an accident – he fell through a trap door. It is hoped that he will make a good recovery. It will certainly be a trial to Hill if he cannot attend their meetings. His best regards should be passed to [Elizabeth] and his son and daughter. T.H.’s reply should be sent to Hankey, addressed to Robert Farrand esq. in London. (1 sheet, 3p.) 4 May 1819 George Burder (1752-1830) was one of the most influential and energetic evangelicals of his day. He was born in London, a son of a deacon at Fetter Lane Church and a mother who was converted by George Whitefield. Burder set up in business as an engraver while also traveling as an itinerant preacher in London and Staffordshire, where his father owned property. Burder was ordained as a Congregational minister in 1778 and served as a pastor in Lancashire and Coventry, while at the same time preaching extensively in the countryside around. He was also a very popular writer whose published sermons were translated into other European languages and had a wide circulation in Britain and America. In 1793 Burdett was one of the founders of the Warwickshire Association for the Spread of the Gospel at Home and Abroad and in 1795 he was appointed one of the first directors of the London Missionary Society. In 1803 Burder moved to Fetter Lane Chapel in London and also took over the editorship of the Evangelical Magazine and helped to establish to the British and Foreign Bible Society. John Campbell (1766-1840) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and exercised an itinerant ministry before becoming a Congregational minister and taking a pastorate in London in 1802. Campbell was an enthusiast for foreign missions and became a director of the London Missionary Society. In 1812 he was sent to South Africa to report on the state of the work there. He made extensive enquiry into the situation, traveling 3000 miles by wagon and foot. Campbell arrived back in England in 1814 and published an account of his journeys that quickly went through three editions. He was then asked by the society to go to South Africa again in company with John Philip. Campbell’s specific task was again to travel throughout the colony enquiring into progress. After his return to England, he published a second volume of his travels in 1822. John Philip (1777-1851) was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, son of a weaver. He abandoned his career as the manager of a spinning factory in protest at the conditions there and entered Hoxton College in 1799 to train for the Congregational ministry. Philip served pastorates in Berkshire and Aberdeen where he established himself as the leading evangelical preacher in the city. Philip was a leading supporter of the London Missionary Society and was asked to travel to South Africa with John Campbell to report on the state of the work there. He arrived in the Cape Colony in February 1819 to commence a famous ministry. He was actively and sometimes controversially involved in relations between the government and the missionary interest. Convinced that colonial policy was unjust with regard to the native inhabitants, Philip returned to England in 1827 to lobby the government. It was partly as a result of Philip’s agitation that all His Majesty’s subjects in the colony were granted equal civil rights in 1828. Philip returned to South Africa to find that his sympathy with the native peoples had made him deeply unpopular with both the Afrikaners and British settlers. He was blamed by many for a frontier war in 1834-35 and was even accused of inciting the conflict. In addition to his work for British missions, Philip also encouraged the French, Americans and Rhenish Missionary Society to initiate work in South Africa and was regarded as an advisor to all these interests. Philip believed fervently in the concept of common humanity and equal rights and towards the end of his life, was increasingly dismayed by the growth of the idea that the white race was superior. He retired in 1847 to the ‘Cape Coloured’ settlement at Hankey and is buried there in the ‘coloured’ cemetery. Rowland Hill (1744-1833) was a son of Sir Rowland Hill of Hawkstone in Shropshire, and a brother of the evangelical Sir Richard Hill M.P. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge where he led a Holy Club similar to the one at Oxford. Following graduation, Hill spent four years preaching around England and Wales. After many refusals, he was ordained a deacon in the Church of England in 1773, but was denied Priest's orders because of his persistent itinerant preaching. Hill served as a curate in Somerset but continued to itinerate for the Countess of Huntingdon, until she withdrew her support in 1781. Hill settled with his wife Mary Tudway at Wotton-under-Edge in Gloucestershire and built his own chapel there, to which he welcomed evangelicals of any denomination. He also built Surrey Chapel in London in 1783 and acquired a third chapel in Leamington Spa in 1831. His custom was to divide his time between his chapels, employing assistant ministers to preach in his absence. Surrey Chapel was the focus of Hill's ministry. It had seating for three thousand and at one time had thirteen Sunday Schools attached to it - Hill was the the pioneer of Sunday Schools in the capital. He also sponsored a Dorcas Society for the relief of poor married women, an almshouse and a school for poor girls. He was also an enthusiastic supporter of the London Missionary Society and served as the first chairman of the Religious Tract Society. Hill's eloquent and eccentric preaching attracted large congregations and he was still preaching six or seven times a week until a short time before his death. While professing to be a loyal Anglican, he refused to admit any restrictions on his own ministry. An early ecumenist, Hill was particularly devoted to the cause of evangelical unity and refused to allow any doctrinal restrictions to be placed on the work of the British and Foreign Bible Society. No stranger to persecution in his early days, Hill became a much loved and respected figure.
Notes	William Alers Hankey was the second treasurer of the London Missionary Society
Digital Resources Type	Image
Digitization Date	Digitized: 2012
Digitization Process	Digitization process: Derivatives resized at 4030 pixels in height or width
Digital Publisher	Bridwell Library, Special Collections; Perkins School of Theology; Southern Methodist University
Rights	Permission to publish materials must be obtained from the Head of Special Collections of the Bridwell Library
Decade	1810-1819