Related Letters - 1907.09.27 General Instructions of the Committee for the Fukien Conference

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Rev. C Shaw Miss M. Searle Miss W. M. Hitchcock Miss J.B. Ramsay

Church Missionary Society, Salisbury Square, London, E.C.

Dear __

We enclose herewith a copy of the General Instructions of the Committee which were delivered on Sept 29th, the receipt of which, together with this letter, you will have the goodness to acknowledge.

On arrival in the Mission you should obtain, through the Secretary of the Mission, fresh written instructions from the Governing Body in the Missison as to your duties and, if they think necessary, as to your responsibility towards Fellow-Missionaries.

In the event of your being under the impression that, in addition to the Regulations and Instructions which you have received in writing or in print, any special arrangements have been made in your case by verbal or unofficial communications which seem to you to modify the bearing of those documents, it is important that you should ask to have those special arrangements communicated to you officially in writing, and if possible before you leave this country, to prevent the possibility of any future misunderstanding. Failing this, you must expect it to be taken that the Instructions and Regulations are in force for you as for other Missionaries.

With earnest prayers for your future welfare and usefulness,

Truly and affectionately yours,

(Sd) B Baring-Gould (Sd) F. Baylis Secretaries

Second Set of Instructions

Rev. A. Sills Miss C. E. Tatchell

Church Missionary Society, Salisbury Square, London, E.C. September 29th 1907

Dear __

We enclose herewith a copy of the General Instructions of the Committee which were delivered on Sept 29th, the receipt of which, together with this letter, you will have the goodness to acknowledge. There are a few matters of detail not mentioned in the Instructions on which it is requisite you should be informed.

  1. You must consider the FuhKien Conference as the Representatives of the Parent Committee.
  2. From the you should obtain, through the Secretary of the Mission, written instructions as to your particular duties in the Mission, and, if they think necessary, as to your responsibility towards fellow-Missionaries, particular Superintending Missionaries. Our communications to you on all matters of business will be made through the Fuh Kien Conference, or thro’ the Secretary of present the Rev. LL Lloyd, and you will address yours to us through the same channel. Without this arrangement it would be impracticable for the above representatives to possess that full information which is necessary in order to enable them to discharge their important functions. You will, however, consider yourself at liberty to address to us direct any private or confidential communication which you may think requisite; but when the interests of another are concerned, such communications should be made only under very exceptional circumstances, and the use to be made of all confidential communications, as well as the propriety of communicating them to any person affected, must be left to our discretion.
  3. The Committee wish you to write with the same freedom and unreserve as if your communications were address to the Parent Committee direct, as the above representatives forward to them all official communications received form the Missionaries. Should a difference of judgment unhappily arise between you and the above representatives which cannot be adjusted on the sport, you will be at liberty to refer to the matter to the Parent Committee, only they expect that you will follow the directions of the Fuh Kien Conference pending any such reference home.
  4. Your salary is determined by the Committee on the same general principles which regulate those of the Society through all its Missions, that is to say, of duly providing for the real wants of the Missionary in the prosecution of her or her work.
  5. Your position on arriving at the Mission Station to which you are appointed is to be regarded as probationary. Annual reports of your progress and efficiency will be sent to the Committee from the Authority in the Mission entrusted with that duty, and it will lie with the Committee to decide, by resolution, when your probation has satisfactorily ended. The study of the language of the country will be your first employment, and the Regulations of the Society require that Missionaries should not enter upon any responsible charge until they have passed certain examinations in the vernacular. Any work undertaken in the meantime must be carried on in subordination to other Missionaries on the spot, unless it be otherwise ruled by the Fuh Kien Conference.
  6. The Committee attach much importance to your sending, at the close of each year, an Annual Letter containing a digest of your labours and proceedings through the whole year; and to your keeping an exact account of any public money that may be expended by you or under your directions. They will be glad to hear from you from time to time, and as soon as may be after your arrival in the Mission.
  7. You will be supplied, should you feel it necessary to apply for it, with the sum of lb6 to meet your embarkation and other incidental expenses on the way out. For the expenditure of this sum or any portion of it you will have the kindness to account to the Secretary of the Mission, and any balance which may be in hand after your arrival is to be handed to him.
  8. You will already have received a copy of the Regulations explanatory of the relations between the Society and its Missionaries.

In the event of your being under the impression that, in addition to the Regulations and Instructions which you have received in writing or in print, any special arrangements have been made in your case by verbal or unofficial communications which seem to you to modify the bearing of those documents, it is important that you should ask to have those special arrangements communicated to you officially in writing, and if possible before you leave this country, to prevent the possibility of any future misunderstanding. Failing this, you must expect it to be taken that the Instructions and Regulations are in force for you as for other Missionaries.

With earnest prayers for your future welfare and usefulness,

Truly and affectionately yours,

(Sd.) B. Baring-Gould (Sd.) F. Baylis Secretaries.

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