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This article seeks to bring to attention a hitherto little-known  account of missionary life among the Xhosa people in the Cape  Colony during the period 1838-1843 as contained in  “The  minute book of the Missionary Board of the Glasgow Missionary  Society, adhering to the principles of the Church of Scotland, in  Caffraria, and in the neighbouring Colony”  (MBGMS). The  Missionary Board was responsible for providing adequate  material infrastructure and logistical support to enable the  accomplishment of the aspirations of the Society. The author  argues that such mundane work is often neglected in modern  missiological historiography, which focuses rather on the more  “‘spiritual”  aspects of mission work. The historiographic  approach adopted in this article is that of modern narrative  history. By focusing on some of the themes, trends and struc- tures presenting themselves in the record, the MBGMS is  permitted to speak for itself with relatively little retrospective  interpretation. It is demonstrated that the Board made an  important contribution to the achievement of the goals of the  Glasgow Missionary Society, as seen in the rise of a Xhosa  middle class and the emergence of a significant group of black  intellectuals, whose voice and influence  are  being recovered  after years of enforced neglect

The trivial round, the common task: minutes of the Missionary Board of the Glasgow Missionary Society (1838-1843)