The Life of the Right REV. Daniel Wilson, D. D., Late Lord Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...villages, and were startled by the determined and uncompromising condemnation of Caste to which they listened. "On its being honestly and irrevocably abolished," said the Bishop, " the life of these missions depends." On Christmas Day, services were held for both Europeans and natives, and four hundred native communicants assembled round the Lord's table. No confirmation was administered, nor any conference held, because of an unwillingness to interfere in any way with the functions of the Diocesan. A miniature of Swartz was presented to the Bishop, and he took away one of his inimitable letters written to young Kohlhoff, then a lad, as follows: --"Nov. 1780.--Dear John. I have sent you ten pairs of stockings by Thinappen. I hope you have received them. Hereby I inclose a letter from your father; he wondereth that you have not acknowledged the receipt of the biscuits. Yesterday we meditated on Philippians iii. 8. What an excellent Christian was Paul Now he exhorteth us to be his followers in renouncing all and choosing Christ: that by him (1) we may be justified, for we have no righteousness of our own, though sin we have indeed; (2) be sanctified and made conformable ath of Jesus and the mind that was in Him; (3) be glorified and enter into the joy of our Lord. May the blessed Spirit lead us to that effectual saving knowledge of Christ. "I am your affectionate friend. C. F. Swartz." A hasty visit was also paid to Trichinopoly; and, after five nights travelling, and nine times preaching in sixteen days, the Bishop returned to Negapatam, and, finding his ship ready, sailed for Trincomalee. Here, "being almost worn out," he rested for six days, and was refreshed by the intercourse and friendship of his brother of M...