The Life of Alexander Duff Volume 1 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XVII. 1844-1848. CONTINUITY OF THE WORK. The Rural Stations.?The Story of Bansberia.?Missionary Brotherhood.?Sir James Outram and the Sindh Prize-money.?Sir Henry Lawrence.?Reorganization of the Mission Completed.? Conversions and their Relative Value in Christianizing different Classes.?The Seven Baptisms.?The Native City again moved. Rival Hindoo College taught by Jesuits,?The True Zanana Teaching.?The " Pilgrim's Progress " in Bengalee.?Successful Vindication of the Rights of Conscience.?The Cry of " Hindooisra in Danger " Renewed.?The Government Propagating Secularism. ?Intolerance of the Hindoo Priestly and Wealthy Families.? More Baptisms.?Dr. Duff's Life Threatened.?His Intrepid Reply " to the Native Gentlemen of Calcutta."?Necessity for a Home, Church, and Manse for the Converts.?Life in Dr. Duff's Family.?Charge to the Four Free Church Catechists.?Mrs. Colin Mackenzie and the Rev. Goluk Nath.?Mercantile Failures in Calcutta.?Epistle from the General Assembly to the Converts. ?Dr. Duff's Share in the First Jubilee of the Church Missionary Society. Having thus founded and organized his second college, the Free Church General Assembly's Institution, Dr. Duff's next care was for the branch schools by which the educated catechists and converts were evangelizing the rural districts. Takee, the first, was the property of the Chowdery clan of Hindoo landholders. They too remained faithful to their alliance with Dr. Duff. To secure a healthier position in which European missionaries like Mr. Fyfe could live without serious risk, they removed the school from the somewhat inaccessible rice swamps to their town residence in Baranuggur, a northern suburb of Calcutta, now known for its jute factories and industrial prosperity. The Established 38. THE STORY OF BAXSBE...