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attempts were made to bring the two together, but nothing came of it. Also
the Mission College wrote Ziegenhagen requesting that the Society not take
Schultze into its service. But since Ziegenhagen had already recommended
to the SPCK that they should accept Schultze as its missionary, he chose not
to convey the Mission College’s request to the SPCK. 85 Thus, two distinct
mission efforts were being pursued by 1728. Both of them were supported
financially by Ziegenhagen and the SPCK. Both looked to Halle for help in
meeting their manpower needs. But one of them continued to be under the
direction of the Danish Mission College; the other was supervised directly
by the SPCK.
With Schultze no longer in Tranquebar, the Danish Indian Mission
functioned smoothly. Dal was finally ordained in 1730 and was then
accepted as a full-fledged missionary. Bosse, Pressier, and Walther who had
arrived in 1725 worked together amicably among themselves and with Dal.
Financial support was more than adequate. Membership in the mission grew
annually more than in any earlier period. 86
In Madras, meanwhile, conflict again erupted. The efforts of the SPCK to
get manpower from England had again met with failure, partly because
missionaries were paid only 60% of what chaplains to the East India
Company received. However, Francke had been able to send two additional
Germans to work with Schultze in Madras: J. A. Satorius, and later J. E.
Geister. By 1733, the SPCK through Ziegenhagen was receiving letters of
grievances from each of the three missionaries in Madras. Realizing the
potential damage which they could do to the mission, Ziegenhagen
convinced Henry Newman, the secretary of the SPCK, to limit knowledge of
their contents to a very small circle and to try to work out the differences on
his own. Even the members of the Special Committee set up in 1710 to deal
with the India Mission were not told. The Special Committee eventually
learned about the difficulties and chastised Newman for not informing them.
Numerous further letters to try to reconcile the contending parties were
sent to the missionaries, without success. Eventually in 1737, Sartorius and
Geister left Schultze in Madras and they began new mission work in
Cuddalore, another English-controlled territory between Tranquebar and
Madras. For the rest of his life, Ziegenhagen continued actively to support
the Danish mission in Tranquebar, as well as the English missions in Madras
and Cuddalore, both personally and through an offering which he received
annually in the German Lutheran Court Chapel.
In addition, Ziegenhagen made personal contact with the missionaries as
they passed through London on their way to India. The experience of Johann
Philipp Fabricius, who served first in Tranquebar and then in Madras, is
85 Ziegenhagen to Schultze, 26 January 1730.
86 Norgaard, 143-46.