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South American Misstonary Society. 
 
 (Instituted first as the Patagonian Mission, 1844. ) 
 
 Patrons : 
 
 THE ARCHBISHOPS OF CAN 
 AND DUBLIN; THE BISHOPS 
 
 TERBURY, YORK, ARMAGH 
 OF LONDON, WINCHESTER, 
 
 &c., &c., 
 Vice=Presidents : 
 
 Very Rey. the Dean of Windsor 
 Very Rev. the Dean of Worcester 
 Rev. W. Acworth, M.A. 
 
 Rev. Preb. Samuel Adams, M,A. 
 Rey. W.H. Barlow, B.D. 
 
 E. W. Bird, Esq. 
 
 C. H. Bousfield, Esq. 
 
 Sir W. T. Charley, Q.C. 
 
 J. Fair, Esq. 
 
 Rey. C. R. de Haviland 
 
 Rev. George Despard, M,A. 
 Baron de Ferrieres 
 
 James Inskip, Esq. 
 
 Rt. Hon. Sir John H. Kenn- 
 away, Bart., M.P. 
 
 Rev. Canon Kirby, M.A. 
 
 Rev. Preb. MacDonald, M.A. 
 
 Arthur Mills, Esq. 
 
 Wilson Noble, Esq. 
 
 Rev. Preb. Webb-Peploe, M.A. 
 
 Ven. Archdeacon Sinclair 
 
 J. Holt Skinner, Esq. 
 
 Horace Smith-Bosanquet, Esq, 
 
 Rey. A. A. Welby, M.A. 
 
 Committee : 
 
 CHAIRMAN—Hen 
 
 Rey. C. G. Acworth, M.A. 
 W. Barnett, Esq. 
 G. 8. Bournes, Esq. 
 D. M. Fox, Esq. 
 Rev. A. R. Godson, M.A, 
 
 . Thos. Garnett, Esq. 
 E. Neston Habershon, Esq. 
 Rev. W. F. Hancock, M.A. 
 Rev. A. J. Harvey, M.A. 
 Rev. J. Harding, M.A. 
 Rev. Walter Horne, M.A. 
 Rev. Evan H. Hopkins, 
 W. Hughes-Hughes, Esq., J.P. 
 Rey. J. Kirkman 
 
 ry Morris, Esq. 
 Rev. F. A. C. Lillingston, M.A. 
 
 | William Macandrew, Esq., J.P. 
 
 Rev. J. W. Marshall, B.A. 
 Rev. W. Martin 
 
 Rey. W. R. Mowll, M.A. 
 J. H. Norman, Esq. 
 
 A. R. Pite, Esq. 
 
 Capt. Granville Smith 
 Commander Sulivan, R.N. 
 
 
 
 Commander L. F. G. Tippinge, 
 
 R.N. 
 Rev. Wm. Windle, M.A. 
 Edw. Woods, Esq. 
 E. Harry Woods, Esq. 
 
soc 
 
 SAMS various Stations of the Society in South America, 
 Che Falkland Islands, and Tierra del Fuego are under the 
 ; superintendence of the 
 
 Rieut Rey. W. H. STIRLING, D.D. BISHOP or THr 
 FALKLAND ISLANDS. 
 
 Treasurer: Str MARK W. COLLET, Barr. 
 
 Monorary Solicitors : 
 Mrssrs. VALPY, CHAPLIN, & PECKHAM, 19, Lincoln’s Inn 
 Fields. 
 
 honorary Auditors: 
 Messrs. WENHAM, ANGUS & Co., Chartered Accountants. 
 
 ‘honorary Pbysician: E. A. KIRBY, Esq., M.D. 
 
 Secretaries ; 
 Clertcal—Rev. R. J. Stmpson, M.A. 
 Lay—CaPTaIn EDWARD POULDEN, R.N. 
 
 Provincial Organising—REV. H.S. Acworru, M..\., 
 Chobham Vicarage, Surrey. 
 
 Assoctation Secretaries: 
 Rev. G. W. GRUNDY, B.D., Cropthorn, Anderton Park Road, 
 Moseley, Birmingham. 
 Rev. ALAN EWBANK, M.A., Ingleside, Argyle Road, Ealing, W. 
 Rev. H. MAHONY, 55, Belgrave Square, Dublin. 
 Fissoctation Secretary for Dondon, and Accountant : 
 Mr. THOMAS FARMER. 
 
 Chief Clerk: Mr. J. T. ROWLAND. 
 Remittances can be paid to Messrs. BARCLAY, 
 RANSOM & Co., Ltd., 19, Fleet Street, E.C; 
 and to the Secretary, S.A.M.S., from whom all 
 information can be obtained by application 
 personally or by letter, to 
 Society’s Orrice—1, Clifford’s Inn, Fleet Street, London, E.C. 
 

 
 Capratn ALLEN F. GARDINER, R.N. 
 
 Founder of the South American Missionary Society. 
 
 Died of starvation at Spaniard Harbour, Tierra del Fuego, about 
 September 6th, 1851. 
 

 
 South American 
 
 MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 
 
 HIS Society was first established in 1844 as 
 the Patagcnian Mission, with a view to 
 convert the South American Indians to the 
 knowledge of Jesus Christ. 
 
 Captain ALLEN GARDINER, R.N., the founder 
 of the Society, spent many years of his life, and 
 much of his private resources, as a Lay 
 Missionary. He specially set his heart on 
 South America as affording a wide and almost 
 unoccupied field of labour for Christ. Owing to 
 the antagonism of the Romish Church in the 
 South American Republics, the hostility of the 
 
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 heathen natives, and the lack of support from 
 England, he was repeatedly baffled. Finally, in 
 1850, he and six companions landed in Tierra 
 del Fuégo, near Cape Horn. After many 
 months of great suffering, borne with most 
 heroic fortitude, and Christian patience, they 
 succumbed to disease and starvation, the arrange- 
 ments for succouring them having miscarried. 
 Allen Gardiner was the last survivor, and _ his 
 journals to September 5th, 1851, were providen- 
 tially preserved, and recovered by Captain 
 Morshead, H.M.S. “ Dido,” and are now in the 
 possession of the Society. The life and labours 
 of Captain Gardiner are among the most interest- 
 ing of Missionary records, and the account of the 
 sufferings and death of his companions and him- 
 self, their Christian fortitude, and resignation to 
 the will of God, is one of the most thrilling stories 
 ever told. (See “Story of Allen Gardiner.’’) 
 His prayer was :— 
 “Grant, O Lord, that we may be instru- 
 mental in commencing this great and blessed 
 
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 work; but shouldst Thou see fit in Thy 
 
 providence to hedge up our way, and that 
 
 we should even languish and die here, I 
 
 beseech Thee to raise up others, and to 
 
 send forth labourers into this harvest.” 
 Among his dying words were these :— 
 
 “T am passing through the furnace, but 
 blessed be my heavenly Shepherd, He is 
 with me, and I shall not want. He has kept 
 me in perfect peace, and my soul rests and 
 wattsonly upon dimes, ©.iee All Iipray 
 for is that I may patiently await His good 
 pleasure, whether it be for life or for 
 death, and that, whether I live or die, it may 
 be for His glory. I trust poor Fuégia and 
 South America will not be abandoned. 
 Missionary seed has been sown here, and 
 the Gospel message ought to follow. If I 
 have a wish for the good of my fellow-men, 
 itis that the Zrerra del Fuégo Mission may be 
 prosecuted with vigour, and the work in South 
 America commenced.” 
 
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 Other memoranda and suggestions, carefully 
 written out by Captain Allen Gardiner shortly 
 before his death, strongly intimated his earnest 
 wish and hope that an organisation would be 
 set on foot with a much wider scope, under the 
 title of the SourH AMERICAN MISSIONARY 
 Society, and having for its object as follows. 
 
 SOUTH AMERICA. 
 
 The Continent of South America contains an area of more than 
 
 SEVEN Minions of square miles, and a population of about 
 
 Forty Mituions. The only Church of England Mission in South 
 
 America, except that of the S.P.G. in British Guiana, is that 
 of the 8.A.M.S. 
 
 “Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every 
 ereature.”—StT. Mark xvi., 15. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 OBJECT S— 
 
 Missionary, Ministerial, Lvangelistic. 
 
 I. Misstonary work among the heathen, by 
 preaching the Gospel to them. 
 
 II. Ministerial work among Europeans settled 
 in or visiting South America, by engaging 
 clergymen and others for employment 
 among them. 
 
 Ill. Evangelistic work among the Roman 
 Catholic population and others, by special 
 services, by Sunday Schools, and by the 
 distribution of the Scriptures and suitable 
 literature in their own languages, 
 
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 OTWITHSTANDING 
 aN the discouragement 
 ==" = =caused by Captain 
 
 Gardiner’s death, 
 the; ReviGaar. 
 Despard, Captain 
 Sulivan, R.N., and 
 the Review |v 
 Marsh, persevered 
 in their efforts for 
 South America,and 
 in 1854, the “Allen 
 Gardiner” Mission 
 vessel was sent out by the Committee. A settle- 
 ment was formed under the superintendence of 
 the Rev. G. P. Despard at Keppel, one of the 
 Falkland Islands. The natives of the adjoining 
 coasts were communicated with, and many from 
 time to time visited Keppel, and learnt some- 
 what of Christianity and civilization, while the 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 missionaries acquired the Fuégian language. 
 In 1859, another definite attempt was made 
 to found a Missionary Station on Navarin 
 Island, at Woollya. Again failure was the 
 result, and the missionary and all the crew 
 of the ‘‘ Allen Gardiner” except one, were 
 massacred as they were engaged in prayer on 
 shore. Thus once more all hope, humanly 
 speaking, seemed gone; but brave and loving 
 hearts were still found to carry on the work both 
 at home and abroad. In 1863, the Rev. W. H. 
 Stirling went out as Superintendent of the 
 Mission, and in the following year the Society 
 was re-named the SourH AMERICAN MISSIONARY 
 SOCIETY. 
 
 Mr. Stirling brought four Fuégian youths to 
 England, who gave evidence of the success of 
 the work of the missionaries, and, returning in 
 1867, he, in 1869, spent seven months in a small 
 wooden hut among the natives of Ushuaia, on 
 the mainland of Tierra del Fuégo, trusting his 
 life in their hands, and in full reliance on God’s 
 
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 merciful protection. His faith and courage were 
 signally rewarded. He gained great influence 
 over the natives, and this noble venture of his 
 has been the means, under God, of firmly estab- 
 lishing Christianity and civilization in Tierra del 
 Fuégo. Towards the close of 1869, Mr. Stirling 
 received a summons from England, and was 
 consecrated in Westminster Abbey, December 
 21st, first Bishop of the Falkland Islands. 
 
 During the Bishop’s absence the missionaries 
 from Keppel made a regular settlement at 
 Ushuaia, which, under the superintendence of 
 the Rev. Thomas Bridges, who went out as a boy 
 of twelve with Mr. Despard in 1854, assisted by 
 his devoted fellow-workers, became A NATIVE 
 CHRISTIAN VILLAGE AND DISTRICT, 
 
 The “ 4llen Gardiner” Mission ship, which 
 for many years attended to the necessities of the 
 Southern Stations and Keppel Island, is dis- 
 continued, other means of communication being 
 now available. 
 
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 The /uégians were among the most degraded 
 of all heathen people, and given up to every vice 
 and abomination, and without any belief in a 
 God of any kind. The late Charles Darwin, 
 
 F.R.S. (who eventually became an annual 
 subscriber), wrote of them as being in the 
 
 “lowest state” of any people in any part of the 
 world, and considered them utterly incapable of 
 being Christianised or civilised. Now there is 
 in Tierra del Fuégo a Christian Church, with 
 schools, orphanage, and Bible and Mothers’ 
 Meetings, and some of these Indian aborigines, 
 “clothed, and in their right mind,” live in 
 cottages with gardens attached, and follow the 
 various occupations of civilised life, while parts 
 of the New Testament Scriptures have been 
 translated into their own language by the Rev. 
 T. Bridges. 
 
 The English Admiralty issued a _ notice 
 to all the maritime nations of the world, that, 
 within certain limits of the Fuégian Archipelago, 
 shipwrecked mariners would be treated kindly by 
 
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 the aborigines who had come within the influence 
 of the Society’s work. In 1882, testimony was 
 borne by Captain Bové, the commander of the 
 Italianand Argentine Antarctic Expedition, which 
 after shipwreck in Slogget Bay, was rescued by 
 the “ Allen Gardiner ”; on this occasion the 
 King of Italy had a gold medal specially 
 designed, and presented to the Society, in 
 recognition of its services in the cause of 
 Christian humanity. 
 
 In 1888, a new station was opened on one of 
 the Wollaston Islands, ceded to the Society’s 
 agent for this purpose, where the late Mr. Burleigh 
 and Mrs. Burleigh, by the blessing of God, met 
 with remarkable success. With the view of 
 obtaining a better climate, this station was 
 removed in 1892 to Tekenika Sound. ‘Thus, 
 “Bread cast upon the waters has been found 
 after many days.” 
 
 Captain Allen Gardiner’s ardent desire to 
 carry the Gospel to the Indians of the Chaco is 
 
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 being effected by the very important Mission to 
 the Lengua, and other aboriginal tribes, west of 
 the Paraguay, which was begun in 1888. Mr. 
 W. B. Grubb and his eight assistant missionaries, 
 including two who have been medically trained, 
 are rapidly acquiring the languages, and develop- 
 ing a most promising field. 
 
 In 1894, the Society’s Jubilee year, the scene 
 of some of Captain Allen Gardiner’s earliest 
 efforts for the Indians of South America, namely, 
 Araucania, was entered upon after Bishop 
 Stirling had reported on the possibilities for 
 Mission work there. The result has been the 
 establishment of Rev. C. A. Sadleir, Rev. P. J. 
 Walker and seven assistant missionaries at Quino, 
 Cholchol, and other centres of Indian population 
 in South Chili. A rough translation of the 
 Gospel of St. John has been made, and very 
 hopeful work accomplished. 
 
11.—Mintsterial Work. 
 
 This work is carried on in the interest of 
 British subjects resident in South America, and 
 the sailors who visit its ports. Merchants with 
 their staff of clerks and their families, persons 
 engaged in agricultural pursuits, miners, factory 
 hands, and artificers of all kinds, are settled in 
 the towns and country districts of South America 
 Were it not for the intervention of the South 
 American Missionary Society, many of these 
 would be as “sheep without a shepherd.” The 
 abolition of the Government Consular Chap- 
 laincies made it more than every necessary that 
 the Society should develop its Ministerial work : 
 and hence, in 1864, it established its system of 
 CHAPLAINCIES. 
 
 Since the first institution of the Chaplaincies 
 the following are the principal stations occupied 
 by the Society :—present stations (including 
 Missions to Seamen) areas follows :—In Brazil 
 —Rio de Janeiro, San Paulo, and Santos, 
 
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 *Pernambuco. In Argentina—*Alberdi, 
 *Cordoba, Tucuman, Concordia, *Patagones, 
 Chubut. In Uruguay—Fray Bentos, *Salto, 
 Paysandu, &c. In Chili—Coquimbo, *Con- 
 cepcicn, *Lota, Coronel, *Quino and neighbour- 
 ing Colonies, Straits of Magellan. In Columbia 
 —Carthagena. In Panama — Isthmus of 
 Panama. Stations no longer occupied: In 
 Brazil — * Rio Claro, Morro Velho. In 
 Argentina — *Rosario, Alexandra Colony, 
 Barracas, Bahia Blanca, Fraile Muerto, Buenos 
 Ayres Camps. In Uruguay—Colonia. In 
 Peru—Chincha and Guanapé Islands, Callao, 
 Aricaand Tacna. In Chili—Santiago,*Chajaral, 
 *Las Animas, Antofagasta, Lebu. 
 
 The Society receives appeals for assist- 
 tance from other places. It remains with 
 English Church people, and Christians generally, 
 to find means for increasing the number of those 
 who will seek to maintain a high standard of 
 spiritual life in the English communities. The 
 general idea being, that, to obtain the services of 
 a resident clergyman, local support to the extent 
 of at least one-half of the stipend and expenses 
 of appointment should be guaranteed. 
 
 
 
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 111.—Evangelistic Work. 
 
 One of the objects of this Society is to carry 
 on work among the Roman Catholic population 
 and immigrants of various nationalities. Some 
 have sought out the Society’s Chaplains and 
 Lay Missionaries for information and guidance, 
 attended services held in their own languages, 
 and sent their children to the Society’s Schools. 
 The Society’s Chaplains and Lay Agents are 
 expected not only to be accessible to all enquirers 
 after truth ; but to acquire the languages of the 
 different countries, and to read, expound, and 
 distribute the Holy Scriptures to the people as 
 opportunity offers, and to establish Sunday 
 Schools for the young, and periodical services 
 for adults wherever practicable. Services or 
 Sunday Schools in Spanish or Portuguese, or 
 other European languages, are or have been held 
 at the places marked thus *, under No. II.. The 
 Committee desire that this essential branch of 
 their work should be largely developed. 
 
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 Religious Toleration exists in almost every 
 State in South America. 
 
 Thus the Society aims at “ preparing the 
 way” for the diffusion of light among the 
 Roman Catholic population of South America, 
 and of the knowledge of Christian faith and 
 practice “As the truth is in Jesus.” 
 
 With the view of developing this important 
 branch of its work, the Committee have 
 appointed -Mr. William Case Morris, as Spanish- 
 speaking Evangelistic Missionary in Argentina, 
 (explained more fully in the Society’s Annual 
 Report for 1896). Mr. Morris has for several 
 years carried on a_ successful Evangelistic 
 movement among Spanish-speaking people . in 
 Buenos Ayres. 
 
 They have also transferred the Rev. W. H. T. 
 Blair, Miss Blair, Miss Searle, and Miss Pegrum 
 to Alberdi, with the view of increased Evangelistic 
 work in Spanish and Italian, as well as Ministerial 
 work amongst English people. 
 
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 Eigbt Ways in whicb the Work of 
 the $.A.MD.5. may be assisted. 
 
 1. By Prayer. That the kingdoms of this world 
 may become the kingdoms of the Lord 
 and of his Christ; that God will bless all 
 efforts to extend the knowledge of the Gospel 
 of His dear Son, and the various branches of 
 the work of the Society in South America. 
 
 2. By becoming a Subscriber, and getting others to 
 become so. 
 
 3. By having a A/tsstonary Box and Collecting Cards 
 in your own house, and getting others to take 
 boxes and cards for collecting. 
 
 4. By using your influence to obtain Sermons, and by 
 promoting General and Drawing Room A/eetings 
 and Lectures on behalf of the Society. 
 
 5. by promoting Working Parties for making clothes 
 for the use of the Indians, or for sale in aid of 
 the general funds. 
 
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 6. By organizing Local Associations, and especially 
 Juvenile Associations ; and acting as Secretary 
 or Treasurer. 
 
 7. By buying and taking in the Magasine and other 
 Publications, and inducing others to do the same. 
 
 8. By donations in life or bequests by will. 
 
 
 
 Extract from a letter of the late Admiral Sir B. J. 
 SULIVAN, published May, 1885 :— 
 
 ‘“Mr. Charles Darwin requested me to forward to 
 the Society an enclosed cheque for £5, as a testimony 
 of the interest he took in their good work. On 
 January 30th, 1870, he wrote :—‘The success of the 
 Tierra del Fuégo Mission is most wonderful, and 
 charms me, as I always prophesied utter failure. It 
 is a grand success. I shall feel proud if your Committee 
 think fit to elect me an honorary member of your 
 Society.’ ”’ 
 
 The late most Rev. the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTER- 
 puRY spoke as follows, at the Annual Meeting of the 
 Society, April, 1885 :— 
 
 “If this Society proceeds as it has begun, it must 
 become’ very great indeed. The work appears to me, 
 
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 from all I can learn about it—and I have studied the 
 Report very carefully—to be done in a thorough, steady, 
 earnest, progressive way, and I am sure that the spirit 
 of the Lord is animating those who are doing such 
 work under such great difficulties. Beginning modestly, 
 and having so vast an enterprise before us, if we only 
 will preserve the spirit of prayer, and live in the faith, 
 that God will give great things into the hands of those 
 who trust Him, we may believe that the work of this 
 Society will be one of the greatest that shall have been 
 accomplished in the history of the promotion of 
 Christianity. We must earnestly commend the Secre- 
 taries to the Local Associations, that they may support 
 them well, and may increase that really trifling sum 
 which is at the disposal of the Society to deal with 
 South America in the name of the Church.’? 
 
 BisHop OF LONDON (Dr. Temple), Exeter Hall, 
 April 30th, 1886 :— 
 
 “ There ts a great work for this Society to do, and 
 if we are to send missionaries from this country to do 
 the Lord’s work in other countries, it is gutte clear 
 that this Society has precisely the same kind of claim 
 which the other two societies are constantly pressing 
 upon us.”’ 
 
 
 
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