15/53 It was organized by the members of the Established Church in London in 1701[1] to do missionary work among Indians and Negroes. They were required to instruct the children, to teach them to read the Scriptures and other poems and useful books, to ground them thoroughly in the Church catechism, and to repeat "morning and evening prayers and graces composed for their use at home."[2] [Footnote 1: Pascoe, _Classified Digest of the Records of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts_, p. 24.] [Footnote 2: Dalcho, _An Historical Account of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina_, p. |