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CHARLES JOHN CORFE

NAVAL CHAPLAIN--BISHOP

 

 

BY
THE RIGHT REVEREND
BISHOP MONTGOMERY, D.D., D.C.L.

 

 

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE
RT. REV. MARK NAPIER TROLLOPE,
Bishop in Corea

 

 

 

 

THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS
1927

  

Introduction

Chapter I. The Early Years--Ordination
Chapter II. His Naval Career
Chapter III. The Beginning of the Episcopate
Chapter IV. The Quarterly Intercession Paper and the Society of the Sacred Mission
Chapter V. Corea. The First Years.
Chapter VI. The Years 1897 to 1904. Relations with S.P.G., His Music, Benefactions, and Some Character Sketches
Chapter VII. Resignation--Further Labours--The Last Years.

PREFACE.

Those who have enabled this short memoir to be written have perhaps rescued almost from oblivion (at least so far as the young generation is concerned) a remarkable personality. Moreover Charles Corfe inaugurated efforts which have now become known to Churchmen everywhere. It is sufficient to say here that he created what is now known throughout the Anglican world as the "Quarterly Intercession Paper," and he was also the founder of what is now the Society of the Sacred Mission at Kelham. In addition he was a naval chaplain than whom there can never have been anyone more beloved and more respected. The following pages are an attempt to set forth a life with such achievements, combined all through with a beautiful and winning nature.

H.H.M.

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