Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER I THE BOY AND THE STUDENT
- CHAPTER II THE FIRST MISSIONARY OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND
- CHAPTER III THE TWO SHIPWRECKS
- CHAPTER IV CALCUTTA AS IT WAS
- CHAPTER V THE MINE PREPARED
- CHAPTER VI THE FIRST EXPLOSION AND THE FOUR CONVERTS
- CHAPTER VII THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA — THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND THE CHURCH
- CHAPTER VIII THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA—SCIENCE AND LETTERS
- CHAPTER IX WORK FOR EUROPEANS, EURASIANS AND NATIVE CHRISTIANS
- CHAPTER X THE INVALID AND THE ORATOR
- CHAPTER XI DR. DUFF ORGANIZING
- CHAPTER XII FISHERS OF MEN
- CHAPTER XIII EGYPT—SINAI—BOMBAY—MADRAS
- CHAPTER XIV FIGHTING THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL
- CHAPTER XV THE COLLEGE AND ITS SPIRITUAL FRUIT
CHAPTER IX - WORK FOR EUROPEANS, EURASIANS AND NATIVE CHRISTIANS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER I THE BOY AND THE STUDENT
- CHAPTER II THE FIRST MISSIONARY OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND
- CHAPTER III THE TWO SHIPWRECKS
- CHAPTER IV CALCUTTA AS IT WAS
- CHAPTER V THE MINE PREPARED
- CHAPTER VI THE FIRST EXPLOSION AND THE FOUR CONVERTS
- CHAPTER VII THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA — THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND THE CHURCH
- CHAPTER VIII THE RENAISSANCE IN INDIA—SCIENCE AND LETTERS
- CHAPTER IX WORK FOR EUROPEANS, EURASIANS AND NATIVE CHRISTIANS
- CHAPTER X THE INVALID AND THE ORATOR
- CHAPTER XI DR. DUFF ORGANIZING
- CHAPTER XII FISHERS OF MEN
- CHAPTER XIII EGYPT—SINAI—BOMBAY—MADRAS
- CHAPTER XIV FIGHTING THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL
- CHAPTER XV THE COLLEGE AND ITS SPIRITUAL FRUIT
Summary
So early as the beginning of the year 1832, while Mr. Duff was steering his apparently frail boat in the very trough of the sea of Hindoo society, with no assistance and little sympathy from his own countrymen, he was called to minister in St. Andrew's kirk to the Scottish residents, and to help the Eurasians and the native Christians in their earnest struggles after toleration for themselves in the eye of the law and a good education for their children. Thus early he began the afterwards lifelong labours which ended in the establishment of the Anglo-Indian Christian Union, and in the creation of the Doveton Colleges of Calcutta and Madras.
St. Andrew's kirk—in 1813 the fruit, like its fellows in Bombay and Madras, of much talking in obscure Scottish presbyteries, and much petitioning of Parliament by synods and general assemblies since 1793—had never justified its existence. How Dr. Bryce, its first chaplain, went out to Calcutta in the same ship with Bishop Middleton we have told. A bishop must have his cathedral; so St. John's church, consecrated by the ministrations of Claudius Buchanan and Henry Martyn, to which Warren Hastings, his council and all the “factors” in the settlement used to walk to morning service, was enlarged and dubbed by the necessary name, until Bishop Wilson built St. Paul's Cathedral.
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- The Life of Alexander Duff, D.D., LL.DIn Two Volumes, with Portraits by Jeens, pp. 233 - 270Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010