_Convocation and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel_ (Vol.
viii., p. 100.).--The Archdeacon of Stafford, in his last visitation
charge, at Stafford, May 23, 1854, said of Convocation:
"He was not aware that the two venerable societies, The Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and The Society for
Promoting Christian Knowledge, owed their existence to it."
Atterbury, writing to Bishop Trelawny, March 15, 1700-1, says:
"We appointed another committee, for considering the methods of
Propagating the Christian Religion in Foreign Parts, who sat the first
time this afternoon in the Chapter House of St. Paul's"--Atterbury's
_Correspondence_, vol. i. p. 88.
Though the venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts does not owe, strictly speaking, its _existence_ to Convocation, yet
it certainly is indebted to it, both for the general outline of its
operations, and also for its name.