Stanhope, George:

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THE EARLY CONVERSION OF ISLANDERS, A WISE EXPEDIENT FOR PROPAGATING CHRISTIANITY. A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATIONS OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS; AT THEIR ... One of a series of sermons preached before the members of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, notable for its remarkable plates of a proposed college in Barbados. George Stanhope, Dean of Canterbury, lays forth the main purpose of the Society: "The very Being and Design of this Society tends to the more perfect Accomplishment of...converting our Traffick and Navigation, into Means of establishing the Christian Faith, among those yet barbarous People, with whom we deal abroad." The Society's missionaries focused their work on North America and the West Indies.One instrument by which the Society produced "a large Increase of Knowledge in the Natives of those very Countries" was "by settling a College in one of these Plantations, which may nurse up, and send forth, Numbers of able and faithful Ministers to assist in this Blessed Work." The college of which Stanhope speaks is Codrington College in St. James Parish, Barbados. Still in operation today, Codrington College was founded after Christopher Codrington, Barbadian-born British soldier, plantation and slave owner, bibliophile, and colonial governor, bequeathed his estates to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Construction began on the college the same year as the present pub

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