The Church Missionary Society, founded in 1799, became the great evangelical Anglican agency in India. It sent gifted linguists like Rhenius into the Tamil south, and in the 1840s opened work among the Telugu people of the north, where Henry Watson Fox and Robert Noble built a mission and a school at Masulipatam for a population to whom, as they noted, no Anglican clergyman had ever before been sent.
Where others had crowded the southern coast, the CMS walked inland to a door no one had knocked on — a field of millions with not one messenger yet sent.
Tradition
Regions
Stations
What they did
- Founded in 1799 as the evangelical Anglican mission society
- Sent Rhenius to Madras in 1820 and on to the Tirunelveli field
- Opened a Telugu mission in the north, with Henry Watson Fox and Robert Noble pioneering work and a school at Masulipatam
People
Sources: frykenberg-christianity-india p.249 · fox-memoir-telugu p.73 · fox-memoir-telugu p.74