[Methodist Missionaries]. [Jaffna Auxiliary Bible Society]

Circular. Dear Sir: The Regular Half-Yearly Meeting, of the General Committee of the Jaffna Auxiliary Bible Society, Will (D.V.) Be Convened at the Wesleyan Mission House... [caption title]

Nellore: March 17, 1871. Broadside, 8.25 x 5 inches. Old horizontal folds, minor toning. Very good. Item #5815

An unrecorded broadside calling a meeting of the General Committee of the Jaffna Auxiliary Bible Society (JABS) at the Wesleyan Mission House in Jaffna in March, 1871. The Jaffna Auxiliary Bible Society is an arm of the British & Foreign Bible Society focused on distributing Bibles and engaging in scriptural education within the Jaffna district of Sri Lanka. In the present broadside, the secretary of the JABS, Thomas Good, writes from Nellore, and lays out the business of the meeting in six line items. The meeting is meant to include Devotional Exercises, a reading of the minutes from the last meeting, "Brief Verbal Reports of Bible Work," sub-committee reports, a reading of a paper by Rev. L. Spaulding on the "best method of doing Bible Work," and a discussion of said paper. Original materials held by institutions relating to the Jaffna Auxiliary Bible Society are almost exclusively either their printings of various Books of the Bible into Tamil or later annual reports. Ephemera from the society's work in Sri Lanka is almost nonexistent.

Price: $450.00