A Baptist Governor of Madras in 1716

Abstract

"MINISTERS always figure largely in the story of a church or a denomination. Not so often do we have the opportunity of knowing an ordinary member of a church, who showed in his daily life the result of the teaching he received and the religious company he kept. Such an opportunity has just come by the publication of the private letter books of Joseph Collet while he was a servant of the East India Company 1711-1719. These glance at the part he played in commerce and public life" but being his private letters, deal rather with friends, family and his religious life."