Rev John Philipp Menge

Moved with his father and brothers from Lübeck, Germany to London in 1830, after his mother Charlotte Stapp died in 1826.

From: London St James Chronicle And General Evening Post: Thursday, December 27, 1838

Students in the Church Missionary College Islington. Deacons.—John Hawksworth, appointed to Madras; 1 John Snithurst, appointed to British North America; Foster Rogers, appointed to Madras ; John Philip Menge, appointed to Calcutta.

Ordained from the Church Missionary College, Islington, London in 1840.

Embarked for Calcutta as missionary, February 1840. Arrived safely in Calcutta, 28th June 1840.

From: http://www.archive.org/stream/sketchesofchrist00wilk/sketchesofchri...

Garukhpore is another of the Church Missionary stations. It is situated about 500 miles N.W. of Cal- cutta, and about 160 miles N.E. of Benares. It was first occupied by the society in 1823. Its present establish- ment comprises a church, parsonage, and seminary at Garukhpore, and a native Christian colony, about three miles from the station, on the borders of a forest nearly twenty-four miles deep, and girting the station on the north of the river Raptee, and to a considerable distance south. At this settlement there is also a church, called ' the Church in the Wilderness,' and an orphan asylum.

The Reverends J. P. Menge and Charles Wendnagel, from whom recent accounts have been received, are at present the Society's missionaries. An account of its origin and progress may be seen in the publications of the Church Missionary Society.

See also: http://www.archive.org/stream/missionaryregis03unkngoog/missionaryr...

(Describes life on the mission, and role of Margaret Menge as teacher)

See also https://archive.org/stream/memorialsanindi00wgoog/memorialsanindi00...

Records held in Church Missionary Society Archives: http://calmview.bham.ac.uk/record.aspx?src=QuickSearch.Catalog

XCMS - Church Missionary Society Archive B - Foreign Division OMS - Overseas (Missions) series

I1 - North India mission	 C O - Original papers [incoming]	 24-331 - Letters, journals and papers of individual missionaries, catchists and others	 202 - Menge, Rev. John Philip H.

Letters, Gorakhpur 1841-1852; Lucknow 1858-1866; Kangra 1867-1868 /1-22 Letters 1840-1842, 1845, 1847, 1849, 1852, 1858, 1860, 1863, 1868 including: /3 Includes journal extracts 1842; /10 Includes journal extracts Dec 1848 - Feb 1849; /23-27 Letters to secretary of Corresponding Committee 1861, 1863, 1865-1866; /28-31 Journals: Dec 1845; Jan-Feb 1846; Dec 1860; Nov-Dec 1862; /32 Account of tour to the border of Nepal Dec 1845 - Feb 1846; /33 Account of visit to mela at Magar (14 Miles from Gorakhpur) Dec 1846; /34 Account of visit to villages in Gorakhpur district Dec 1849 - Jan 1850; /35 Journal of trip to Calcutta Oct 1850 - Jan 1851; /36-48 Reports 1843-1844, 1846-1853, 1867-1868; /45 has copy of account of origin and progress of Gorakhpur mission written by Mr. Leupolt in 1841; /49-57 Annual letters for 1858-1862, 1864, 1867-1868; /58-61 Medical certificates 1848, 1853-1854, 1869

On the relation of Islam to the Gospel : Translated from the German of Dr. J.A. Moehler by the Rev. J.P. Menge. Author: Johann Adam Möhler Publisher: Calcutta, 1847.

Preached at Harwich, 5th November 1856.

Baptist Missionary Magazine: http://www.archive.org/stream/baptistmissiona10commgoog/baptistmiss...

"January 21, 1840, public instructions were delivered to Rev. John Philip H. Menge, destined to Calcutta"

Buried in the Cimitero Monumentale di Milano (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimitero_Monumentale_di_Milano). This cemetery is well worth a visit through Google Earth (45°29'13.81" N 9°10' 41.75"E)

From: http://www.ampltd.co.uk/digital_guides/cms_section_vi_parts_1_and_2...

Missionary Journals

These journals give vivid and interesting descriptions of the missionaries’ work and experiences. Rev J P Menge’s journal for Jan-Sept 1843 describes his tour from Gorakhpur to Juanpoor:

Accompanied by Mrs M I left Gorruckpore on the 4th of Jan 1843 and reached in the course of a few hours Belipaar, 10 miles from Gorruckpore where our tent was pitched.

4th Jan Belipaar is a very beautiful and romantic spot. The Tope under which our tent was spread consisted of immense trees, which in consequence of their innumerable branches and thick foliage afford a very gratifying shelter in the middle of the day from the heat of the sun. In other respects too this spot was highly interesting; every tree, in fact everything about us appeared to teem with life. A variety of birds tuned their voices to the praise of the Almighty; and delightful and instructive was it to perceive the busy ant employed in providing for its maintenance and secure housing…. Towards evening I went with the Reader into the village, but unfortunately not being aware that there were several small villages in different directions, which all belong to Belipaar, we did not choose the one where the greater number of peasants resided. However the whole of the male part of the village, to which we had gone, soon made their appearance; and then desiring the Reader to read through the Catechism, I took the opportunity of directing the minds of these poor benighted creatures to the One True God and Jesus…

From THE ASIATIC JOURNAL AND MONTHLY MISCELLANY MAY-AUG 1841 p.524:

From: https://archive.org/stream/indianmissionary00murd_0/indianmissionar...

" When entering a village, I generally ask for the most respectable man in it. When a Pandit resides there, I generally go first to his house ; if there should be more than one, I try to find out who is the most learned, and go to him, otherwise I go to the house of the principal landholder, and ask him to send a man to collect as many as he can of the villagers, telling them at the same time that the Padri Sahib had come to teach them God's word, or make known to them the glad tidings of salvation. In this way generally a good number come together, to whom I then preach the Gospel.

Sometimes I find it more convenient to all parties if I go to a place of the village, most commonly under a large shady tree, where the villagers are in the habit of collecting. I also, whenever I go to a new place, endeavour to find out on what day markets are held in the neighbouring villages, to which I then resort, and have the opportunity of preaching the Gospel to a good number, who come perhaps from four to ten villages round about to attend the market." — Rev. J. P. Menge, " Lucknow Report," 1862.

Marriage:

from THE ECCLESIASTICAL GAZETTE, OR MONTHLY REGISTER OF ... 1877 p.81

"The secretaries reported the death, at Milan, of the Rev. J. P. Menge, formerly of the North India Mission, in which he had laboured for nearly forty years"

From INDIAN MISSIONARY DIRECTORY AND MEMORIAL VOLUME by Brenton Hamline Badley, 1876

"MENGE, JOHN PHILIP. 1840. Now in Europe"

From MEMOIR OF ...H. VENN. THE MISSIONARY SECRETARIAT OF HENRY VENN, published 1882. p354

"In the evening read missionary despatches. To-day I have had another ... came to say that he wishes to get an English church in Italy like Menge' at Milan

Obituary in THE CHURCH MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCER AND RECORD 1878 pg. 763

From: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Menge

John Philipp Mengé († 1878) war ebenfalls CMS-Missionar und kam 1840 nach Gorakhpur, wo er bis 1852 wirkte, dann in Lucknow 1858-1866 und 1867-1868 in Kangra; nach seiner Rückkehr 1870 wurde er britischer Kaplan in Mailand, wo er auch starb (nach CMS-Archiveinträgen)