Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts

A second Anglican society, founded just after the SPCK, the SPG became the inheritor of South India's earliest Protestant congregations. When the older partnership of Lutheran pietists and the SPCK could no longer sustain the Tamil stations, the SPG stepped in to keep them going, carrying that long pioneer effort into the Anglican fold.

It arrived the way a neighbour takes over a long-tended garden when the first planter grows too old — not to start fresh ground, but to keep an old one from going to seed.

• Founded in England in 1702
• Took over the older South Indian stations as the SPCK's local work declined in the 1820s

Sources: frykenberg-christianity-india p.180 · frykenberg-christianity-india p.249