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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER XVI MISSIONARY OF THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND
- CHAPTER XVII CONTINUITY OF THE WORK
- CHAPTER XVIII LORD HARDINGE'S ADMINISTRATION. — “THE CALCUTTA REVIEW”
- CHAPTER XIX DEATH OF DR. CHALMERS.—TOUR THROUGH SOUTH INDIA.—HOME BY THE GANGES AND INDUS
- CHAPTER XX DR. DUFF ORGANIZING AGAIN
- CHAPTER XXI MODERATOR OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.—BEFORE THE HOUSE OF LORDS' INDIA COMMITTEE
- CHAPTER XXII IN AMERICA AND CANADA.—SECOND FAREWELL TO CHRISTENDOM
- CHAPTER XXIII THE MUTINY AXD THE NATIVE CHURCH OF INDIA
- CHAPTER XXIV LAST YEARS IN INDIA
- CHAPTER XXV IN SOUTH-EAST AFRICA.—THE MISSIONARY PROPAGANDA
- CHAPTER XXVI NEW MISSIONS AND THE RESULTS OF HALF A CENTUUY'S WORK
- CHAPTER XXVII DR. DUFF AT HOME
- CHAPTER XXVIII PEACEMAKING
- CHAPTER XXIX DYING
- INDEX
- Plate section
CHAPTER XXIV - LAST YEARS IN INDIA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER XVI MISSIONARY OF THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND
- CHAPTER XVII CONTINUITY OF THE WORK
- CHAPTER XVIII LORD HARDINGE'S ADMINISTRATION. — “THE CALCUTTA REVIEW”
- CHAPTER XIX DEATH OF DR. CHALMERS.—TOUR THROUGH SOUTH INDIA.—HOME BY THE GANGES AND INDUS
- CHAPTER XX DR. DUFF ORGANIZING AGAIN
- CHAPTER XXI MODERATOR OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.—BEFORE THE HOUSE OF LORDS' INDIA COMMITTEE
- CHAPTER XXII IN AMERICA AND CANADA.—SECOND FAREWELL TO CHRISTENDOM
- CHAPTER XXIII THE MUTINY AXD THE NATIVE CHURCH OF INDIA
- CHAPTER XXIV LAST YEARS IN INDIA
- CHAPTER XXV IN SOUTH-EAST AFRICA.—THE MISSIONARY PROPAGANDA
- CHAPTER XXVI NEW MISSIONS AND THE RESULTS OF HALF A CENTUUY'S WORK
- CHAPTER XXVII DR. DUFF AT HOME
- CHAPTER XXVIII PEACEMAKING
- CHAPTER XXIX DYING
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
In the eight years ending 1863, which formed the third and last of Dr. Duff's periods of personal service in India, he enjoyed a foretaste, at least, of that which is generally denied to the pioneers of philanthropy in its highest forms. “One soweth and another reapeth,” is the law of the divine kingdom. The five years from 1830 to 1835 had been a time emphatically of sowing the seeds of a new system, but that had borne early and yet ripe fruit in the first four converts. The eleven years which closed in 1850 had been a time of laying the foundation of a second organization and of consolidating the infant Church. But, thereafter, educated and representative converts, Hindoo and also Muhammadan, flowed into it. One year saw so many as twenty, while catechumens became catechists, these were licensed as preachers, and these ordained as missionaries, themselves privileged to attract and baptize converts from among all castes and classes of their countrymen. At one time Dr. Duff found himself alone in the Bengal Mission, with his earlier converts become his colleagues and only Mr. Fyfe at his side. At another he rejoiced in reinforcements of young missionaries from Scotland. All around he saw the indirect results of his whole work since 1830, in native opinion, British administration, and Anglo-Indian society, the progress of which, having reached an almost brilliant position under-Lord Dalhousie, was not only not checked, but received a new impetus in the Mutiny under Lord Canning.
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- The Life of Alexander Duff, D.D., LL.DIn Two Volumes, with Portraits by Jeens, pp. 355 - 395Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1879