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STEPHEN HISLOP, OF NAGPUR BY JOHN WILSON, D.D., F.R.5 BOMBAY e bt ediododhe DEPOSITORY OF THE BOMBAY TRACT AND BOOK SOCIETY FORT j PRINTED AT THE ¢« EXCHANGE PRESS g R 1864 WORKS BY DR, WILSON. THE LANDS OF THE BIBLE VISITED AND DESCRIBED, in an Extensive Journey undertaken with special reference to the Pro- motion of Biblical Research and the Promotion of the Cause of Phi- lanthropy. With Maps and Illustrations. Two vols. medium 8vo, g price £1 16s., -extra boards. THE PARSI RELIGION, as contained in the ZANDAVASTA, and Propounded and Defended by the Zoroastrians of India and Persia UNFOLDED, REFUTED, and CONTRASTED with CHRIST- IANITY. Demy 8vo, price 16s. THE DOCTRINE OF JEHOVAH ADBRESSED TO THE PAR- SIS: a Sermon preached on the occasion of the Baptism of Two Youths of that Tribe, May 1839. With Supplemental and Illustrative Documents. Third Edition, foolscap 8vo, price 2s. 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L > 1 v % 47 /A i) @ &5 A 099‘ i = & Ay ?4 A =y @ T \ 23 PREFACE Tue publication of the following discourse has been requested by many membels of the congregation in Bom- bay to which it was ori mally addressed ; and by many Christian friends elsewhere residing who continue to feel that the missionary cause has suffered a great loss by the death of the esteemed., laborious honoured, and devoted StepuEN Hisrop, by whose sudden removal from this sublunary scene its delivery was occasioned The author much reorets that, owing to unavoidable circumstances, its appearance should have been delayed to the present time In printing the discourse, it has been thouoht right to expand it by enlarging the quotations originally made in it from Mr. Hislop correspondence and other sources ; and to add to it, in an Appendix, a brief Note on the Results of his Geological Researches, and a very interesting account of his Last Hours, most kindly and considerately addressed to Mr. Hislop’s bereaved and deeply-afflicted partner by R. Temple, Esq., Chief Commis- sioner of the Central Provinces of India The pamphlet as it stands, is inscribed, as an imperfect (and it is to be hoped only provisional) Memorial of the departed, to his numerous friends in India and in. Britain, who remembe and admire his work of faith, and labour of love, and 4 patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of God and our Father ; and this, with the earnest request that they may unite in the prayer, that the great Lord of the Harvest may speedily send forth many duly quali- fied labourers to the great field of our Eastern Empire, to take the places of those who have lately fallen, and to enter into important and claimant spheres of exertion and enterprize which have not yet been occupied. Bombay, June, 1864. DISCOURSE. “ He (Christ) gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers.”—EruEs iv. 11. THE term apostle is generally applied to those disciples of the Lord Jesus who were chosen and commissioned by himself to go and teach all nations—to do the pri- mary work of instructing the peoples of the earth to whom they found access in the great facts of his incar- nation, atonement, and exaltation. It was required of the twelve who formed their complement, on the first Z organization of the Christian church, that they should be of his followers who had accompanied him during his personal ministry, “beginning from the baptism of John unto that same day that he was taken up.” They were special witnesses of theresurrection of Jesus, having them- selves seen him and conferred with him, and participated in his gracious and potent influences, after his rising from the dead. When Saul of Tarsus was afterwards added to their number, he had this qualification, as well as those who had been appointed before him. Of this transcend- ently interesting man, on the personal appearance of the Lord to him near Damascus, the Lord said, “I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. DBut rise and stand upon thy feet : for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness, both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in which I shall appear unto thee.” Paul, in consequence of the all and authorization which he thus received from the Lord, the peculiar revelations which were vouchsafed to him. the abundant labours which he was strencthened to perform the remarkable sufferines and trials which he endured, and the unsurpassed success which attended his ministrations, declared himself to be “mnot a whit behind the chief of the apostles He distinouished between himself as an apostle of Jesus, and the faithful men who laboured with him in the Gospel Even when he allowed others to unite with himself in his epistles to the churches, he wrote with a distinct recognition of his own peculiar position :—* Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ throuch the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, unto “ Paul, an the church of God which is at Corinth ;” apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which 1s at Corinth ;” “ Paul, an apostle (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ. and God the Father, who raised him from the dead ;) and all the brethren which are with me, to We the churches in Galatia,” and so in other instances are safe in holdin then, that though the term apostle (awooroxos) simply means one sent, 1t 1s restricted in the New Testament to the limited number of persons who were commissioned and commanded by the Lord Jesus, in his own person, to go forth to the work of Others have been, and now are, discipling all nations. the messengers of the churches, and sent forth according to the spiritual and providential call of Jesus ; but they are not apostles in the New Testament primary sense of the term The prophets mentioned in our text, like the apostles are those of New Testament times for, with the apos- tles, they are introduced to notice In our context in -3 e connexion with the ascension of Jesus. Their designa- tion was given to them, as can easily be shown, not be- cause they necessarily or exclusively spoke of future events, but because they spoke, like the prophets of old, under the guidance of the Holy Ghost. | Of evangelists (literally, announcers of the glad tidings) 1 mentioned in our text, as well as of apostles and pro- phets, it is said in the Form of Church Government ~ agreed upon by the Assembly of Divines at Westmins- ter, that they were extraordinary officers of the church which have ¢ ceased.” For this expression of opinion | no scriptural authority is adduced. It probably ori- ginated in the belief that the evangelists were ministers of Jesus engaged in the work of evangelization exclu- 1l sively under the immediate direction of the apostles. 1 It may well be called in question, as it actually is by many devout and intelligent Christians. The designation “ evangelist” occurs in the New Testament only in two other places besides our text.*® In the first of these instances it is applied to Philip, who was also one o of the seven deacons; and in thesecond, to Timothy, who i} 18 charged by Paul to “ do the work of an evangelist.” Philip, both at Samaria and on the road to Gaza, when S d he communed with and baptized the Ethiopian eunuch, acted independently of his fellow-labourers, and to a f certain extent on the direct admonition of the Holy 0 Ghost. Timothy, who did some ministerial service un- der Paul, did not cease to be an evangelist on the death ? of that apostle (if he actually survived him) or when at f any time he acted merely under a sense of his own res- J ponsibility to God. An evangelist I consider to have L2 been, in the scriptural sense of the denomination, a pro- i # Acts xxi. 8; 11. Tim iv. 5, claimer of the glad news of salvation, without his being fixed to any particular congregation, and who engaged in carrying on the evangelistic work more especially among the unconverted. The designation is emphati- cally applicable to our modern missionaries, foreign and domestic, who bring glad tidings of good things to those who ‘know them not. The work of these ministers of Christ is primarily and essentially that of evangelists. It was principally because the Church of Christ was for long very imperfectly discharging its own functions that the opinion was hazarded that their office had ceased. Puastors and teachers are universally allowed to be con- tinuous officers and’agents of the Christian church. Of the apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers noticed in our text, it will be observed that, whether ordinary or extraordinary, they are all spoken “ Unto every one of us is given of as the gift of Christ. grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.” Wherefore he saith, * when he ascended up on high he led captivity (thatis, all captivating powers) captive, and gave (it is recetved n the sixty-eighth Psalm here quoted, the reception preceding the gifts, and being for the gifts) —agave ¢ifts untomen ; ... and he gave some, apostles ; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists ; and some, pas- tors and teachers.” Similar doctrine is taught in other passages of the New Testament, as in the twelfth chap- ter of the Epistle to the Romans, and the twelfth chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians. The inference from the whole teaching of the New Testament on the subject is, that the true messengers and ministers of the church are indebted to the risen and exalted Saviour for their qualifications for, and call to, their *work of faith, and It is no ground labour of love, and patience of hope.” Y of 'eX'ception to the statement that the majority of the apostles were designated to their office before the ascen- sion of Jesus. It was only when they had received “ power” after that the Holy Ghost was come upon them, d that they were to be witnesses unto Jesus both in 0 Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto f the uttermost part of the earth. The baptism ofthe Spirit received by the Son, and sent by the Son on his ascen- sion into heaven, was their real and effective ordination I to their work. So it has been in reference to the true and devoted servants of the Lord, in agency and work, i} in all ages of the church. So it is at the present day. So it will be while saints require to be perfected, while d the work of the ministry has to be done, while the body i, of Christ has to be edified. The only call to the office gl of the ministry approved by God is that which originates 1l with God himself. It was the choice of God which the " church at Jerusalem was anxious to ascertain in the 16 selection of an apostle in the room of Judas (who was nd Paul and Barnabas guide to them who took Jesus). d, were called by God to the work of the ministry among J the Gentiles, before they were set apart to it (by prayer ) and fasting) by the prophets and teachers of the Church b at Antioch. It is Christ who, by his providence, raises (98 up agents for his work, and who by his Spirit imparts D to them that spiritual wisdom and knowledge which become available for the instruction both of his people, ter il and of those who are ignorant and out of the way. It is Sbt He who gives that love to the person and cause of b the Redeemer, that zeal for his honour and glory, that (1 compassion for perishing sinners, that devotedness to the service of the Lord, and that faith in the power of his nd Hld word, which constitute the essential qualifications for, 2 10 this e and call to, ministerial office ; and all that man can do in TSt the work of ordination is humbly to recognise these qualifications in those in whom they exist ; to bind over, exalte Lord. by solemn engagements, those professing them to minis- SOV terial fidelity ; to commend them, by fervent prayer, to (o 1ith, ATong the divine blessing, in connexion with their work of f: and and labour of love ; and to grant them facilities for or- Je ser derly and decent service in the bounds of the churches, or in the exterior parts of the world to which they may LX) be sent. ered ¢ Divine grace is neither held nor bestowed by offi e N with 1} e ; and it is not office which secures grace, but grace el which fits for office. It is the spirit of antichrist which teaches that man is the medium of calling down and remar dispensing, by tenure or functions of office, or by out- a5 Dressly ward ceremonies and services, the grace of God needful ook 1 to make either a Christian man or a Christian minister. which, The very act of prayer in ordination shows that minis- VﬂlltS, terial grace is derived from that Holy Spirit whom the Lagt Saviour died to purchase, and lives to bestow.* Jesus OTieyg himself continues to make and to give evangelists, pas- are g tors, and teachers. To Him, His Church must ever look h’] an for its workmen, in believin o , fervent, and persevering o) ~\d° pu prayer. Let faith in his power and willingness to provide ity agents for carrying on his own work be ever cherished ha\‘e fi and exercised. He who made one who was a persecutor, Zence ; and a blasphemer, and an injurious instrument of evil, By his disciple, minister, and apostle, will still do all that ang is needful to raise up messengers to convey his glorious dﬁ}' m gospel even to the ends of the earth. Sitéi})zlJ The recognition of the ministers of Christ as his own C(Jlnmj gift is alwaysbecoming. There are times, hoxvexiel', when 4 e Lol LALE —— % T * Beo Scrmén b_y thc, author at the onilhm’-ti-on of Mr. Hislop in * Evan- gelization of India.” ang y, 11 and ndon this recognition of the evangelists, messengers, N the S0 ministers of the Divine Word as the gifts of the risen and dover, exalted Saviour,is specially incumbent'on the people of the ) IS Lord. One of these times certainly is when God, in his sovereign but all-wise providence, removes marked men ayer, 10 of farth, among them from their work on earth to their reward for or- and work in heaven. Our loss on these occasions 1s to be seriously estimated, and rightly improved. The urches, examples set before us in providence, are to be consi- t}’ may dered and followed (as far as they are in accordance red by 1 with the will of God) as well as those which are record- L ‘gl’“ (e ed in the Divine Word. When God speaks to us in a t ywhich remarkable way by the sudden and unexpected, and im- m and pressive deaths of his servants, we have seriously to by out- look to what is taken from us, as well as to the lessons ﬁeedful which, in the solemn manner of his removing his ser- mister: s vants, he is striving to impress on our souls. om the Last Monday the following most affecting and Jesus grievous intelligence, with the substance of which you are all doubtless acquainted, reached us from our faith- f, o ful and esteemed brother in the ministry, Mr. Cooper of yer Jook Négpur :—* With very profound grief, and deep solem- eyering nity of spirit at the mysterious providence of God, I prow'de have to communicate to you the unspeakably sad mtelli- erishel gence that my beloved friend and colleague, Mr. Hislop, secutory 1S no more. He has been very suddenly taken from us, of el and in a way that we little anticipated. Early on Thurs- I that day morning the 8rd instant (September, 1863), he left 101 10US g Sitabaldi in good health and spirits to join the Chief Commissioner (of the Central Provinces of India), who his OV had written for him to come and examine some tumuli 5 \\’h@ﬂ at Takulghat. This was done during the day of Friday; >n « Tval and in the evening while returning to Bor1 on horse-back, 12 a distance of three miles, he fell into a deep nald (tor- broug rent, bed) and was drowned At the time of the melan- our fe Tow fc choly occurrence he was quite alone, and the night was very dark. The Chief Commissioner, Mr. Temple, had neetn gone on before him, leaving two sowars (hor semen) to h\\e fi the s escort Mr. Hislop to Bori, where dinner was prepared for the party. There is a Government school at Takulghdt that I and in order to have an opportunity of examining it and she 0 delivering to the pupils his master’s message, Mr. Hislop lexful allowed darkness to overtake him, and then hurried to 11EWS As the nald had risen consider- join the party at Bori llp()ll ably, Mr. Temple found the place where they had est oy crossed in the morning dangerous, and sent back a words dum) chaprasi (messenger) to meet Mr. Hislop, and tell him to b cross a little further up It seems that the chaprasi e missed him in the darkness, and went on to Tadkulchat fatl fyg seekino him In the meanwhile our beloved brother nore g had out-ridden the sowdrs, and arriving at the very E8pec spot that was to be avoided, and pr obably not expecting and og any obstruction from the nald, was suddenly precipitated Hoy into deep water and here, after a short struggle, the bl 0u rr] b beloved father and founder of our Nagpur mission passed Tethry away into glory everlasting The horse galloped on to Decegsg Bori, and this was the first intimation to the friends Chll(h o there that something had happened. A search was then Suffepe instituted, and after three hours the body was found in mfj\t t the water Oh ! what a stunninge blow i1t was to us Smal] all, and especially to his dear wife, on Saturday morn- Indj, me when the sorrowful news reached us Captain falley Puckle, a Christian |brother, and one of the party, who Pat of but for sickness would have been with Mr. Hislop, when 0y gy, in all probability the melancholy event would not hav His letter was occurred, wrote me the particulars 8 o)) 2 LY (tor- brought by a sowar, and Oh ! it is impossible to describe elan- our feelings. Deep, very deep, and intense was our sor- WS row for the beloved partner who was expecting a joyful e, hod 3 meeting with her husband that morning. With hearts 1) 10 like to break Mrs. Cooper and I went over to make known e for the sorrowful tidings to her. She met us with a smile ohit ; that pierced us as a dagger; but from our countenances . and she soon surmised that all was not as usual. With won- islop derful composure and resignation she received the sad d 10 news, and ever since has been enabled to cast herself sider- upon the Lord. As a mission we are plunged in deep- ¢ had est grief, and have a feeling of awful desolation. The words of the Psalmist best describe our state, ¢ I was iack i i £ dumb, I opened not my mouth, because Thou didst it ‘ Help Lord, for the godly man ceaseth ; for the faithful laprési fail from among the children of men.’ I can write no ot other more at present. I know you will all pray for us, and especially for dear Mrs. Hislop. God only is our help very octing and comfort.” How much lamentation and sorrow these sad tidings ;)imted brought to us all in Bombay, and especially to us the le, the brethren and fellow-labourers of the departed, it is un- passed on {0 necessary to say. Our sorrow is not merely for wife and children so sorely bereaved, though they (as the greatest ends sufferers in the case) are the objects of our deepest and s then most tender sympathy. It is also for ourselves, in whose md small and feeble ranks in the warfare of the Lord in to W India, a faithful and devoted fellow-soldier and leader has o fallen ; for the solitary mission in the central and remote }31)t&i11 part of the country, which has in a moment lost its zeal- f WhO ous and able founder and father under Christ ; for the hen native and European churches at Ndgpur, to whom with i have his colleagues, the departed so constantly, and prayerful- I o 14 18 11 ly, and efficiently ministered ; for the Free Church of Scotland, whose first messenger, after its separation from of 1 the Scotch ecclesiastical establishment in 1843, he was to Wi 11 the heathen world, and whose band of labourers in India, g notwithstanding great and peculiar encouragements, is still Fat so limited ; and for evangelical Christians everywhere, i 1€ (h sympathizing with the work of the Lord in this great but sin-bound land. All the parties here mentioned must feel I I this sore bereavement in no common degree, for itdeeply well affects the interests of them all. the By some it may be ) spoken of as an * accident ;” but there are no * accl- the dents” in the all-comprehending providence of God, which Wa extends to every object which exists, and to every event ar which occurs. The hand of God was in actuality, though pt not in miraculous speciality, as really dealing with the pool Degs ofwater in which our dear brother sank to rise to the re- [ife gions of glory, as with the fiery chariot which Elijjah en- scho tered to be conveyed to heaven. There were a great scho many circumstances concurrent in the case which are of Tem a striking and impressive character, and which seem to Chy indicate to us the purpose of God as to the actual issue. Pri They are such as the delay in starting from the school e Ref; by the way where Mr. Hislop terminated his zealous Slcal missionary labours; his outriding his escort to get speedi- st ly to the resting-place of his honoured friend Mr. frig Temple ; the sudden rise of the river which he had easily of passed in the morning ; and his missing in the dark the messenger who had been purposely sent to warn him of aug the danger which existed. But independently of these t&sy combined incidents, we have the assurance that in this, 0f tf as well as in all other cases of the removal of the Lord’s I 11‘ people from this sublunary scene, it is the determination 10r Our bereavement of God which is carried into effect. 3] rch of is from the Lord;and it has been ordered in the exercise from of that wisdom which cannot err, of that faithfulness vas 10 which cannot fail, 'and of that love which is never want- Indn, ing in the chastisements administered by our Heavenly issfil Father. It is our duty to seek to know and to practise where, the lessons and duties which it emphatically teaches. at bt Christ’s gift of our brother to the evangelistic work in st feel India, let us earnestly,though briefly, contemplate,—as | A y eepl J well as the more prominent lessons to be learned from y he the withdrawal of that gift. 900l Mr. Hislop was born at Dunse, in Berwickshire, on which the 8th September, 1817. He was trained up in the event ways of the Lord by godly, affectionate, and prudent hough parents; and through the grace and mercy of God he e pool became, it is believed, decidedly pious in the morn of life. he 1e- He received his early education first at a private I en- school, and afterwards at the parochial and grammar school of his native place—the same seminary, I would great are of remark, at which a great hero oif the liberties of the Christian Church, the late Dr. William Cunningham, em 10 1316 Principal of the New College, Edinburgh (the most effective propounder and defender of the doctrines of the school Reformation of modern times) received his primary clas- ealous sical education. He was preceded and encouraged in his peedi- studies by an elder brother, (one of my own intimate M friends and fellow-students,) who is now a minister of the Free Church of Scotland, at Arbroath, and the him Of author of an able and original work on the Papal Apos- tasy;* and by another who was for some time the Head .’ »[he,se of the Free Church Normal School at Glasgow, and who ] '[th? [0 d's is now the proprietor of a very successful boarding school ] o for youth sceking : liberal education. His »Q(‘,Hegiat@ pafion ;ement “* The Two quylous, 16 education he principally received at the University of Def Edinburgh,* where he was a distinguished student, $0 Hu honoured by his professors, and respected and esteemed st by his associates, as a young man of genuine moral prin- cipleand piety, of amiable character, and of most promising of talents and attainments. At the Divinity Hall of ha the same University, too, which, under the promptings I and leadings of the word and Spirit of God, he attended pre as an aspirant for the Christian ministry, he enjoyed the 101 R lectures and tuition of the marvellously-endowed, devoted, el and eloquent Chalmers; of the acute, and learned, and tio) accomplished Welsh; and of the zealous, kind, and cour- of teous Brunton, whose able services in the early years of al our Indian missions we cannot forget. The last year al of his theological studies was in the New College of the ace Free Church, under the two first mentioned professors the He and one of their distinguished surviving colleagues. | was chosen by Dr. Welsh to assist him in carrying his con excellent work on Church History (of which he lived to of ¢ publish only the first volume) through the press; and by by his patience, learning, andresearch, he contributed a good o deal to the verification and accuracy of its numerous e quotations and references. With the study of the word Chy of God he combined, what is so genial with it, the study hut of the works of God, of which the Psalmist says, “The I works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them 4 that take pleasure in them; his work is honourable and thy glorious...hehath madehis work to beremembered.” He por looked to the depths below as well as to the heights above, the and to the wide face of the earthon which he trod. To Gal Geology, that late but fascinating science, he devoted the his particular attention. In his native county he had St % e attended the University of Glasgow for one Session. g I v of before his view the remarkable field of observation which Jent, so effectively excited and sustained the inquiries of a med Hutton (James), a Playfair, and a Hall, who, notwith- prin- standing some errors of theory, were among the fathers Ising of British geology ; and in the vicinity of Edmburgh he Il of had what has been appropriately called the natural Museum of the Science. He gave decided mdications of tings nded pre-eminence in this department,though he was determined | the topursue itonlyin subordination to the still higher wi sdom ofed, —that of seeking to win souls to Christ. With his prepara- tion in study for the ministry, he combined, in the families ,and COUI of Sir Alexander Wallace and Mr. Murray of Mouswald, s of at various times, the tuition of the young, which seems almost a necessary preparation for distinguished practical yea.r |f ﬂ]B acquisition and appreciation of distinct knowledge, and for $501 the successful communication of it to those of riper years. He There were several rather remarkable circumstances connected with the call of Mr. Hislop tothe great work ; s éa\ f0 of an Indian Missionary. In 1842, my agency was asked by a most benevolent and able (and afterwards distin- d by guished) officer of the Indian army (Captain, now Major- good General, W. Hill, C. B.) towards the establishment of a TOUS Christian Mission, to which he was most willing to contri- rord bute for him the large sum of twenty-five thousand rupees, udy in the important but neglected field of Central India, with ‘The Négpur as its head-quarters. I immediately addressed fhem the friends of our missions at home respecting it (sup- o ﬂﬂd ported on the occasion by the concurrent judgment of He the missionaries in India, including that of Dr. Duff of Ve Calcutta, most cordially and vigorously expressed); but To the growing and thickening troubles of the Church of \,fot(ﬁd Scotland prevented its receiving that attention which 1t / merited. When I got to Scotland in the following year, 3 18 after my long journey through the Lands of the Bible, (hu il I at once applied myself to the matter in view. There D 1V1 were difficulties in the way. The Free Church had to Chr provide for its own wants, in the sustentation of its OIS ministers, who, to preserve the liberties and independ- CILC ence of the Church, had in the noblest spirit surrendered nt the endowments which they had enjoyed from the State, pm’r according to the constitution of the country, invaded for I the first time by a majority of the members of the civil maft courts; in the necessity of providing churches, manses, as schools, and schoolmasters’ houses, for the congregations C()ﬂg and seminaries adhering to its communion, and thrown JLee on its care; in the theological colleges which it had to i form and support for the instruction and training of its Sav candidates for the holy ministry; and in the provision Hol“ which it had to make for the maintenance of the mission- 10t aries of the undivided establishment, who, whether bt labouring among Gentiles or Jews, had, without a cone single exception, adhered to its communion, and for their faley efficient encouragement m the different branches logy of their evangelistic enterprize. To talk of a new and mission, and that in a new and difficult field in a n {} native Indian State, in these circumstances appeared to nth some to be hopeless of the desired result; but it was and made in faith, and as far as the resolution of the Foreign fo 1} Mission Committee was concerned, it met with success ey within less than two months after my arrival on the Wi shores of Britain. This was very much owing, under o God, to the interpretation of the call from India which the (not without his usual caution) was made by the hallow- Chy ed and honoured Dr. Gordon, the Convener of the mis- llop sion Committee, who, after the various explanations ) alle which he received, saw it to be clearly the duty of the vary 1Y ible, Church to follow, in regard to the case the *leadings of [here Divine Providence.” I shall not despair of the abiding i to Christian liberality of a church which acted in this of 1t generous and blessed, because generous, way, in the circumstances now hinted at, whatever retrogressions epend- dered in the support of Christian missions, from inattention or State, partial indifference, may, as at present, for a season occur. d for The first concern of the parties thus interested in the avl matter was to look out for a suitable missionary. Where ANSES, was he to be got in the multitude of newly-formed ations congregations needing pastors, and of stations needing TOWIL preachers? Had he not been raised up, prepared, and ad to given by the Lord himself,—by the risen and exalted of 188 Saviour who has received gifts for men, and who has the vision Holy Spirit and his influences at his disposal, he would ss100- not have have been found. The deep and genuine, ether but unostentatious, piety of Mr. Hislop, who was then b & concluding his extended course of study ; his superior talents, and attainments in literature, science, and theo- e logy ; his marked good sense, meekness of disposition, ches new and soundness of judgment ; his zeal and perseverance in the acquisition of diversified knowledge ; his interest mn 8 in the Students’ Missionary Associations of the University ed t0 and the New College ; his kind attentions and courtesies i 7as to the beloved native convert, Mr. Dhanjibhdi, who had pegh accompanied me in all my journeyings to the West, and 16Ces3 who had joined some of the classes which he was attend- il the ing ; his faithful and zealous discharge of the duties of mder Y the Secretaryship of the Female Society of the Iree hick Church of Scotland for promoting the Christian Educa- ﬂl O“r. tion of the Females of India, to which he had been , T called ; and his manifest aspirations after usefulness in afions various ways, pointed him out as a desirable agent for of the z 20 mission serviceabroad, andnot merely for mission service (o abroad, but for mission service in a comparatively un- ena tried and difficult field. He was quietly sounded on OWI the subject first by myself, and afterwards by Dr. Gor- In for don ; but though he had at first his own misgivings, very €A naturalin the peculiar circumstancesof the case,he gaveno e negative to the proposal which was made to him to take Jiell the matter into his solemn and pm)yolful consideration. ﬂtl Well do I remember the many communings, incidental He Ass and formal, which he had with me on the subject. made many anxious inquiries about the duties which TEa would be expected of him in India, and of the nature of 10 the field which he was invited there to occupy; but he he did not put a single question respecting his own support when engaged in the work of the Lord, or respecting l the position in society which he might be expected to the occupy in India. His decision, not hastily formed and hol never to be abandoned, was in favour of his going to India. fen His offer of service, supported by suitable testimonies 10 and testimonials from Dr. Welsh, Mr. Brydon of Dun- a score, and other fathers of the Church, was at once most litt thankfully and joyfully accepted by the Mission Commit- S tee. When the engagement was reported to the Chris- i tian friend with whom the proposal to establish the ang migsion at Ndgpur originated, he immediately forwarded the to me the payment of the large sum which he had pro- WY mised, with the interest upon it from the day he had Of commenced his 001'1'egpondouce respecting its destination. N He used the following noticeable words on the occasion : iy «T thank the Lord that from the hour he put it into my kn heart to place this money at your disposal for a mission to these parts, I have had much peace of mind. I am assured that the desire which was put into my heart came from 21 I'Vice God, and his grace has supported me throughout, and un- enables me to say, ‘All things come of thee, and of thine I o own have I given thee.” Another zealous friend of (or- Indian missions,® who had been mainly instrumental in very founding the German Mission to the Gonds, in the forests TEno east of Ndgpur, the majority of the members of which had been carried off by epidemic cholera, expressed himself T‘nke tion ready to contribute liberally to the I'ree Church Mission ental at Nagpur on the understanding that it should employ as e Assistant Missionaries the two survivors, which was vhicl readily agreed to. Thus the cry was very distinctly heard e Of from distant and long-neglected Nagpur, “Come over and ut he help us.” Mr. Hislop’s license as a preacher of the Gospel took pport place in the early part of 1844 ; and he was ordamed by oting od to the Free Presbytery of Edinburgh to the office of the and holy ministry as a missionary to India on the 5th Sep- tember of the same year. On this occasion I was called ndis. to preside, and conduct the services, the discourses and 1(\1ﬁ€3 addresses connected with which are published in my D 7 little work entitled * The Evangelization of India.’ The most season was one of peculiar interest and solemnity to Mr. qit- Hislop, who enjoyed in connexion with it the sympathy s ] [hG and prayers of many warm ax;d attached friends. About the same time he was united in marriage to a help ded everyway meet for him—the pious and amiable daughter | pro- of the Rev. Mr. Hull, a minister of the Church of 0 hﬂd England, and granddaughter, by her mother’s side, of ation Erasmus Middleton, whose Evangelical Biogr gion + known. aphy 15 well 0 m}' Mr. and Mrs. Hislop, along with a Christian friend jonto sm"f‘d * D. F. McLeod, C. B. TOU 22 destined to assist in the Female School operations of our Iy | mission in Pund, left Southampton for Bombay in the me | beginning of November 1844 ; and, without their com- whi panion, who had been taken ill on the voyage, they ar- and rived on the 13th of the following month in Bombay, wel The same esti- where they received a cordial welcome. mate was here made of Mr. Hislop’s qualifications for and missionary work that had been formed in Scotland. Mr. AN Nesbit thus expressed his judgment of these qualifica- sett] tions - —* 1t would appear that in the selection of the Mr. Hislop, you have indeed enjoyed the guidance and AL blessing of the Great Head of the Church. His esta- the blished piety, his enlightened zeal, his calm ‘and steady Wa purpose and patience, hissweet disposition and temper, his €V powerfulintellect, and hishabits of substantial thoughtand 10§ strict reasoning, mark himoutas peculiarly fitted, not only B for missionary work in general, but for commencing el and carrying on the operations of a mew and untried whi sphere. His early departure, and that of his amiable o wife, both Mrs. Nesbit and myself very much regret. Wit They purpose leaving this on the 2nd of January.” of t Before starting for Nagpur, on the day here mention- g ed, Mr. Hislop thus recorded his own spiritual impres- Lier sions and aspirations connected with his arrival in India, the and the great work in which he expected to be engag- Wi ed:— This day brings me to the commencement of a 'mg new year; and this land, to which, through the good- ness of the Almighty, I have been led in safety, is to Sl01 me a new scene. Oh! may my heart be renewed more i) and more! Many and clear are the intimations I have 1)1\0 received that I have been brought here by the hand of gy the Most High—intimations which were begun in my the native country, but which have been continued during Tey) 23 f our my voyage, and since its termination; and it becomes | the me therefore solemnly to consider the obligations under com- which I am thereby laid to give myself unto the Lord, Y ar- and then to his service in connection with the spiritual nba}.v', welfare of my heathen neighbours.” osf1 Mr. (now Dr.) Murray Mitchell accompanied Mr. for and Mrs. Hislop to Ndgpur, to give them his kind assist- } Mr, ance on the journey, as well as to aid them in their fica settlement at the head-quarters of their mission. By LQ€ the way they took lessons from a Pandit who accom- and panied them, thus commencing as early as practicable esta- the study of Mardthi, the language with which after- cally wards they had principally to deal in their general , s evangelistic ministrations. The party—having made a and not useless digression to see the ancient Buddhist and only Bréhmanical Excavations at Elora and Ajant4, which so (g well illustrate the creeds and customs of India, with ried which a missionary is daily brought in contact—arrived hle at Ndgpur on the 22nd of February, 1845. They met, o with a cordial and most kind reception from the friends of the mission at that place, including its first proposer, Jon- and from the soldiers of the 21st North British Fusi- Ies: liers, who were delighted to enjoy the ministrations of l(hﬂw their countrymen in the distant part of the world to g which they had been carried without any provision hav- ofa ing been made for their pastoral care. ood- Mr. Hislop’s usual residence in the sphere of his mis- § 10 sion was at the British Camp of Sitdbaldi, about a mile 7€ from the city of Négpur, which, with the surrounding ave province, remained under the native Mardthd Govern- L of ment till about eight years ago. Shortly after reaching i the scene of his labours, however, he for some months g resided at the larger camp of Kampti, about ten miles A 24 distant, removing to itin October 1845.* Here his first pop educational labours commenced, in a school taught through Kar the medium of English. Writing of this school Mr. Desi Hislop said :—* At that time the native teacher arrived ten) from Bombay, who was to conduct the secular part ot Pr our mission school, and now the institution is in active TS We have altogether on the roll the names 101 operation. Of these four are Europeans, a few of fifty-nine pupils. ing are Indo-Britons and native Christians, and the greater Suy The Hindus, who fim part are Musalmans and Hindus. are the most numerous of all these classes, speak the (hb( All Tamul language, as do all the native Christians. m are engaged in acquiring an English education, and all day are regularly instructed in the truths of the Christian Tu religion. There is much darkness of mind and hard- No ness of heart among the native community; but I trust fl I that God, in his own good time, may do great things for A our little seminary. At present we have no vernacular ing schools, as at your other stations, from which to draft (a the more promising youths for our English Institution ; of but if the Lord will, we hope to be enabled to enlarge for our operations to that extent by and bye.” ol This school, principally consisting of camp-followers from the South of India, has, with fluctuations such as ffn' [} might have been expected, been maintained by the 0 mission to the present time, more- for the sake of the iy parties immediately connected with it than for the Nag- pur province in general, in which the Maréthi-speaking for the # Of Nagpur and its military appenda; oes Mr. Hislop thus wrote in 1858 : “ Nagpur has a population of 12( ),000 ; Sitdbaldi, one mile to Hi nine mile s to the north-east, of 50,000. the west, of 15,000 ; and K&mpti, Tl The last two are military cantonm ents, and include a body of immigrants from Southern India who have followed the Madras troops. Sitabaldi, which is also the principal Civil station of the Provinee, has been selected as the residence of the Missionaries.” g 2 D first popula,tion predomina,tes. Writing of other services at ough Kampti, Mr. Hislop said :—* Since I came over here, M besides preaching to Témul Christians through an in- Tived. terpreter, I have had divine service on Sabbath for the art of Presbyterian soldiers in the Artillery school-room, the ctive use of which has been kindly granted by Colonel Wynch JATES for that purpose, as well as for our weekly prayer-mect- g few mngs. On the last Sabbath of November, the Lord’s eater Supper was administered in this cantonment, for the first who time, according to the Presbyterian form. About thirty k the disciples encompassed the table of the Lord, all meeting Al in spirit, as I trust, with the Master of the feast. The q al day selected was in anticipation of the march of the Scots stian Fusiliers, who were under orders to proceed to the hard- North-West Provinces of Bengal to be in readiness in trust the event of hostilities being commenced in the Panjab. g for A small but devoted band of that corps joined in renew- alar ing their sacramental engagements of fidelity to the Qadt Captain of their salvation, according to the simple rites Hon; of their fatherland, from which they have been separated for many a long year.” The public service for the large soldiers at Kdmpti, and also a prayer-meeting instituted ywers for their benefit, have been maintained to the present 28 time ; one of the Missionaries going weekly from Sitabaldi - the to corfduct them. They have all along, through the the divine blessing, been productive of much good. Nag An English school similar to that at Kampti was soon LILHI“ formed by Mr. Hislop at the smaller camp of Sitdabaldi, the vernacular languages of its pupils being principally e 10 Hindustani and Tamul. This school has also been main- 1iC t0 J( (U tained to the present day. A more important seminary than either of those now mentioned, however, was the Anglo-Vernacular Institu- 4 26 that tion soon formed by Mr. Hislop in the city of N agpur, among the proper inhabitants of the province speaking pare But the Mardthi language, the study of which (I would here TeCe remark ) he zealously and successfully pursued, acquiring also at the same time considerable proficiency in Hin- My dustdni. sid This, the head-school of the mission, received from Mr. Hislop and those connected with him in the Call work of the Lord much attention. It is of the same of character as the Mission Institutions at the Indian pre- ?v-at‘e sidencies which are so well known, and the model of LIy which was that, so remarkably blessed of God, which to | was founded at Calcutta by Dr. Duff in 1830. In it the to | both the elementa,ry and higher branches of knowledge have been taught, the latter through the medium of the wh hag English language. It is now more prosperous than ever, having been furnished with suitable buildings, according atﬁ ( to a plan furnished by Colonel Boileau ; but all along it of \ has been as a light shining in a dark Pplace. From its sde commencement, it was associated with a series of useful st Marathi schools, at first located in various parts of the ledg city of Négpur, but now joined with it under the same It § roof. In effecting the junction of the schools here alluded i to, certain difficulties have been experienced. They were hoy thus explained by Mr. Hislop in his report to the last par General Assembly :—* Our own schools are aided by a ther Government grant, which amounts to £23 per mensem. ol In April last those in the city were all accommodated Wit under one roof in the new building, which is finished, as nuy far as regards the interior, though there is still a portico fel] to be added to the front. As was anticipated, the fi scholars of our single institution in the city do not come for up to the old aggregate of the separate schools there. Sllp( tlop This is chiefly Ojvi11g to the small desire for education 27 hopur, that still exists here—a desire which does not impel aking parents to send their children to a distance to obtain it. When we A here But there are other causes of diminution. Ly received the Government grant, we imposed a fee on our - Hin- pupils, small indeed, but still such an innovation as con- ceived siderably to reduce their numbers. Again, when we in the came into friendly relations with the chdmbhdrs (dressers same of skims and shoemakers esteemed a low caste) in the ] pl’@* water controversy, a very natural result of their success lel of in procuring the means of refreshing their bodies was which to lead them to seck knowledge for the improvement of Int their children’s minds. Thence & few of them proposed to send their boys to our new school. The principle on ledge ofthe which our schools have been conducted from the first, eVel, has been to pay no deference to caste ; and in our classes at Kémpti and Sitdbaldi, which are composed of youths rding of South Indian extraction, high and low stand side by g it m 1t side. But in Nagpur where Brahminical influence 1s strong—strong- both to eradicate the desire for know- jseful ledge from the minds of the lower classes and to repress of the it, should it, in any instance be found to spring up, our same principle was scarcely ever put to the test. When, Juded however, the little chdmbhdrs were brought by their were parents to our doors, consistency required us to admit » Jast them, though at the loss of many of our ‘twice-born’ h 1] scholars. But the loss is not to be compared, we trust, jsell with the victory. By all these causes combined, the dated number of our English and Marathi pupils in the city d, fell from 420 to 240. But what we lost in numbers we 1AL 0 gained in efficiency. Now all these classes find room th e for orderly expansion, and are kept under constant oMe superintendence.” This judicious treatment of the ques- here: tion of caste, though causing, pro fempore at least, a loss gfion i 28 dials of pupils, is much to be approved. It is a shame to the Governmental educational authorities and agents, in many by { parts of India, that they leave missionaries to contend and with the gigantic evil singleahanded. evel It was some time, in consequence of the prejudices of whe . the people, before anything could be done at Ndgpur as il regards female education; and the amount of success in Bra this department of the mission has hitherto been but in- il considerable, though the children and adults forming its the own wards have generally been taught to read. Mr. His- Stﬂﬁ lop’s last notice of this department of his mission is as fol- TUns lows:—*“ On the 18th July (1862) we revived our city the girls’ school, which for want of accommodation and other Irre causes had become extinct. It is difficult for people in don other parts of India to understand the obstacles in the the way of female education. However, it is a cause of nlls thankfulness to perceive progress even in this department soul of our work. Besides the 26 female pupils who are 1t he learning Mardthi under Mrs. Hislop, there are 13 who AL are acquiring Englishand Témul under Mrs. Cooper. Of Proy course, in neither of our girls’ schools are fees exacted. 200 We think ita great point gained to secure their attendance the i without bribing them to come.” Iy Of the great need of educational as well as of other oy evangelistic appliances in the province of NAgpur, the chilg following concise statement, prepared by Mr. Hislop in (O 1858, bears ample testimony :—* The Free Church Mis- rea sion 1s set down in a province with an area of 76,000 beey square miles, and a population of about four-and-a-half all millions. C The inhabitants in the western, or more cul- I tivated part, speak Mardthi, and in the east a corrupt War dialect of Hind{; while in the south a few are found to the use Telugu. In the jungly tracts various aboriginal Cone 29 0 the dialects prevail, which, with the exception of that spoken 111311‘\’ by the Kurkus or Moasis, may all be classed as Gondi, niend and bear a close affinity to Tamul. Musalmans, who everywhere use their own language, constitute some- 1ces of what less than a thirtieth of the population, the abori- ur as gines a twelfth, and the remainder are Hindus. 88 T Brahmins abound in the larger towns, more especially ut - in the city of Nagpur, where, till recently, they directed 0 1ts the royal conscience, and filled most of the offices of His- State. As might have been anticipated, caste feeling as fol- runs very high, and education is at the lowest ebb. In 1 ity the capital itself, the whole number of children at school, other irrespective of those under the instruction of the mission, )1@ i does not exceed 900 out of a population of 120,000. In n the the immediate vicinity, a traveller may pass through e of village after village, each containing from 1,000 to 2,000 ment souls, without a school, almost without a reader, unless are it be the Patel or headman, his clerk, or the village ; who astrologer. Taking themetropolitan zillah as a whole, the (r proportion of readers is believed to be only one in every 1ctel tod 200 of the inhabitants. If, however, we look beyond to ,Lu ance the other four districts, where there is a large inter- mixture of aboriginal tribes, we find the people still more rude and illiterate. It is well known that these Omﬁ he children of the forest have no written language of their p I own, and perhaps not a dozen of them have learned to Mis read any other tongue. From observations that have been made on mission tours, it is conjectured that taking -d all classes of the people together, in Ch4nd4 only one ail in 300 is able to read, and in Bunddrd and Chind- ward, one in 400. In the remaming zillah of Raipur I uPt d to the proportion must be still lower, as will readily be 071 il conceived when it is stated, that a colporteur of the 30 mission, in 1856, travelled from Négpur to its sud- star der or chief station, not indeed by the most frequent- ash ed route, but nevertheless passing through a number of and hels considerable villages, and throughout the whole distance of 200 miles, he saw only two schools with an aggregate fa of attendance of 40 boys, more than half of whom have since been dispersed by the discontinuance of one of the 001 schools. Probably one in 700 or 800 is the proportion mte of readers in the extensive district of Raipur.” The of ; statistical information here given may be relied on as an trar Mr. Hislop con- Ve approximation to the facts of the case. ducted the most minute inquiries not only into the topo- wh oraphy of the whole of the Négpur province, but into the ‘all) social and religious state of its varied tribes and tongues, 1de including those in the most depressed condition. - Thiswas e, work specially worthy of a pioneer missionary. In the h Ay researches which he conducted in connexion with it, he f 1¢ ever manifested a spirit of pure benevolence and humani- 1o ty, striving particularly to remove all injurious misun- Iy derstandings and misrepresentations. In one of the last To letters which I had from him, he thus replied to an in- Ch quiry which I had addressed to him relative to a hor- he rible charge long brought against one of the olden tribes Sll\l of a district belonging to Ndgpur: “ I cannot delay my Crug reply to your question regarding the reputed cannibal- h&te ism of the aborigines east of Amarkantak. I had ob- hy Ay served the account given by Licutenant Prendergast, the (in Alexander’s E. 1. Magazine, 1831,) and, as it has in- ! ¢ fluenced the statement of many writers since, I had in- a ] tended, whenever I put together all my notes on our ) jungle tribes to prove its inaccuracy; but I must now edy content myself by giving a very decided denial of its Dy truth. Lieutenant Prendergast never witnessed an in- St 31 sud- stance of cannibalism among the Binjewdrs, ;)1‘ Bunderwars, en- as he writes the name; his whole proof is vague rumour, her of and the admission, as he supposed, of one concerned. I fance believe the fancied admission must have originated in non- fegate have familiarity with the native language and customs on the part of Lieutenant Prendergast. Withhismind full ofa foréjgn of the conclusion, he asked his native friend a question, which he rtion intended to convey the idea whether he ate of the flesh The of a man not a Binjewdr. The Binjewér, on the con- 28 trary, with his mind full of caste pride (for such exists ) COI- even in the forest) hears the words as if it were inquired fopo- whether he was in the habit of eating from the hands of o the any one lower than himself. Revulsion from the latter 71ES idea is more likely in India than from the former, even 1§ Was were the practice of cannibalism admitted. But all who 1 the have visited the east of Amarkantak, and passed through t he the Binjewars, assert that there is no such thing as eat- - ing of human flesh heard of or practised among them. sun- I write this at the table at the other side of which Mr. ) Jast Temple is seated. e returned from Sambalpur and ) In- Chatisgad about three weeks ago. During his tour hor he had frequent dealings with Binjewdrs, but not one was suspected of cannibalism.” 7ihes The reports of the savage V In}' / cruelty of the forest tribes generally originate in the - hate of the higher castes contiguous, and some Europeans | ob have only to credit these reports, without inquiry, to keep [’g‘dSty these tribes exterior to the pale of their benevolence. s 10 Well is it that the herald of the cross presents himself i as the friend of both the oppressed and depressed. Mr. Hislop’s evangelistic efforts were not confined to our now education. In the second year of his residence at Nag- f 18 pur he began to preach in the Mar4thi language, the ) I study of which he had diligently pursued from his first 32 —_—_—— ing arrival in the country; and this he did both to children cibl and adults, till the sudden close of his career, not only ber: at stated times or places near his usual residence, but Yei‘ in the course of extensiveand frequent itineracies, under- e taken principally in the cold season.* He delighted les publicly and widely to proclaim the Gospel message to TWoi all classes of the natives of India; and he derived much sfar encouragement from his missionary journeyings, as well f0 as from his ‘regular local services. In the course of these Wi journeyings he distributed (often by sale) large numbers The of copies and portions of the scriptures, and religious life tracts, in various languages, which he received principal- ful His teaching and his ly from Bombay and Madras. Car preaching he found admirably to harmonize together, and His friends, who to prove auxﬂiary to one another. Tece knew and appreciated his talents and acquirements, some- ) times regretted that he did not attempt authorship in the Had he been nearer to a mnative ar native languages. of press than he was, the case might have been otherwise. I Mr. Hislop’s discourses, both in English and the and othe native languages, were thoroughly scriptural, the Tho sound because they were scriptural. They were and o | result of much meditation, thought, study, Bar prayer; and they were very carefully constructed and calle arranged. They were full: of. impqrtant and edify- h 18- 1§ # Tn 1858, Mr. Hislop thus wrote respecting this department of m sion work :—“ The Word of Life is made known every Lord’s Day to the 06y Mamil Christians of Kémpti and Sitdbaldi by catechists , and by the . Baba Huyj missionaries through their interpretation, while Mr. Hislop and Mr on alternate Sabbaths preach to the converts using that language. Every his | Sabbath morning a meeting for prayer and exposition of the scripture in ity Marithi is held, for lack of better accommodation, in the shade of the mission-house, where from 2 00 to 300 scholars regularly assemble from Hm the city. Opportunities are embraced during th e week, of preaching to adults in the city, while visiting the vernacular schools ; and a month is diﬁe usually spent every year in proclaiming the Gospel in the villages f&ﬂe around.” 33 Idren ing matter, expressed in plain, but appropriate and for- cible, language. They were delivered more in a deli- , only berate and solemn, than in a fluent and energetic manner. ) hut mder- Yet they secured the attention of his hearers, and were d eminently profitable. Both the more mtellicent and the iC e | less intelligent classes of his hearers found in them a \ge fo word in season. It was evident to all that he did not much stand up in the pul pit; orin the place of public concourse, 5 ell to glorify himself, but to glorify his great Master. 'these With mere rhetorical art and finesse he had no Sympathy. mbers The sincerity and honesty which he manifested in private igious life, he carried into the pulpit; and the calm and peace- ncipfd- ful earnestness which he manifested in the pulpit he nd s carried into private life. 7, aud Both in teaching and preaching Mr. Hislop early , Who received both valuable assistance and co-operation. some- “ The German brethren” (associated with him on his in the arrival at Négpur, he wrote) *were the survivors pafive of a Gond mission commenced at Amarkantak, which, IS in the mysterious providence of God, had lost its g the other four members by disease in the course of a week. ] and Those simple pious men, however, were not long spared 0 ﬂlC to labour at their new station. In August 1845, Mr. and Bartels, after giving promise of much usefulness, was Jand called to his rest, and in May 1848, he was followed by edif}" ) In 1847 he re- his devoted countryman Mr. Apler.’ / of mis- ceived an able colleague from Scotland, the Rev. Robert a7 to Ifl@ Hunter, M. A., who was altogether congenial to him in l“m the )H"Bﬂb& his religious views and feelings, literary and scientific ’ Fery attainments, and Christian sympathy and affection. Mr. ipt gre i , 0 f the Hunter remained with him, faithfully labouring in the il fro different departments of mission work, till his health g © s mﬂn failed him in 1855, when he returned to his native coun- ¢illag®s 5 (9 b o (3% try. He was succeeded by the Rev. J. (. Cooper, who ther had hadtwo years’ experience of missionary labour in our il d flourishing mission at Madras, and who has proved entirely he1 of a kindred spirit, faithfully devoting his energies to the actt work of the Lord. When in 1858, Mr. Hislopproceeded SEV to Europe (where he remained for two years) for the the benefit of his health, his place was occupied by the Opll devoted Rev. Adam White, M. A., and afterwards by the muc Rev. Richard Stothert, m A., whom we have the valued prof privilege of now having with us in our mission in Bom- duty To the native agents, graciously raised up by the bay. 182 Lord at Ndagpur, I shall immediately allude. 18V Mr. Hislop and his colleagues did not long labour at thes o n 1its Négpur, without witnessing the divine blessin o7 8010 higher form, rest on both their general evangelistic and 10 The cases of con- educational efforts and enterprizes. he version which from time to time he has reported have, hey in some instances, been of a specially interesting charac- ( i § ter. The first of these was that of Jadavaji, the Patel, & or headman, of the village of Vishnur. Writing of the him to myself in December 1847, he said :—* He is ﬂle j an excellent man, very shrewd, and well educated con- ey sidering his privileges. He has a wonderful knowledge pau of the scriptures, and I believe they are within his conf heart. Still, having been brought up in a village, Wor and spent in it a life of upwards of sixty years, he Whi has many habits which would be better wanting ; and Iy which do not mar the character and habits of your [he The chief defect is an young and well-trained converts. 10 (Q inability and perh&ps a slight disinclination to commu- nicate what he knows to others. If left to himself he LIV e would read and pray all the day, and enjoying the sweets they of religion himself, he would make little effort to extend Prof o~ 2 I, Who them. However, we hope that when he gets into the I oUr villages, and meets with men to whose habits and manners mh‘d}' he is accustomed he will show greater self-denial and o the activity.” This expectation was happily realised. Of eeeded several domestic servants who had been led to embrace or the the truth as it is in Jesus, he expressed a very favourable y the opinion. Of one of them he said, “ He evidently feels by the much of the power of true religion, and he adorns his aled profession by an honest and faithful discharge of his Don- duties as unto the Lord.” Of another he wrote, “ He by the J is a respectable scholar in his own language (Telugu), and is well acquainted with the popular Hindu books. While e at these were the only subjects of his study he had no con- m 1S sciousness of sin, as he found that the conduct which was ¢ and most agreeable to his own inclinations was attributed in COM the Rdmdyana and other such works to the gods whom have, he was taught to revere and obey. The first book of a 191ac- different tendency which he perused with attention was Y at EJL', a copy of the Indian Pilgrim, which he received from He there learned for the first time g ol the Nagpur mission. e 18 the nature of the Gospel; but still salvation was not C on- | desired until he was made to feel his sinfulness by com- Jedge parihg his life with the requirements of the divine law as contained in the book of Exodus. p his Convinced now by the I uc ] a0, word of God of his need of a Saviour, the knowledge o he which he had derived from the tract recurred to his . qd mind with an unusual feeling of suitableness and power. Then it was, as he himself states, that he was constrained }'(Jl I a0 to give himself up to the Saviour, and to solicit baptism - according to Christ’'s command.” A youn () o , but mtelli- If he gent, Brahman pupil of the Ndgpur Institution, who had \\’GE"[S there and at the missionhouse received much instruction, professed his attachment to the cause of Christ before he ctend 36 1863 was “of age” according to the Hindu law, and threw flons himself upon the protection of Mzr. Hislop. The Nagpur TN R4ja (on the application of his father) demanded his fi f extradition asa minor ; and the Acting British Resident at Nat 4 the native court, according to the interpretation which he put on the treaty with that court, ordered his delivery to ing. the native authorities, without entering into questions Josit respecting the youth’s discretion, or, in the first instance whic at least, seeking for guarantees as to his humane treat- 1f the ment. The consequence was, that the youth, adhering In to his convictions, was imprisoned by the R4j4 for nearly i four months. He seemed tohave been guilty of some have concession to heathenism when he obtained his liberty ; l( but for this, ere long, in the mercy of God, he became the 1 penitent, and returned to the mission, where, after further 1 ¢ He has instruction and due probation, he was baptized. g‘oin; now for many years evinced the sincerity and strength of oical his religious convictions by a walk and conversation oy th These cases I allude to as becoming the Gospel. also specimens of the work of conversion, effected under the ng { ministry of Mr. Hislop and his associates at Nagpur. Read That all the others which there occurred were equally ( olp( satisfactory, however promising at first they might be in Inent the eyes of Christian charity, I am not able to say. ally Neither have 1 any warrant to make any mmsinuation to Judie the contrary. Missionaries, as is to be expected, have 1, their trials with their flocks as well as ministers deal- depa ing with the hereditary profession of Christianity in n; aroy highly favoured Christendom. In Mr. Hislop’s last iS [ Report, the number of "natives admitted into the Weat] church at Négpur on their own profession of faith Unfyy m Jesus is stated at sixty-one. The number of full Thy communicants at the date of that document (\I arch, of d 3 ¥4 threw 1863) was forty-five, including some from other sta- adherents not com- dgpur tions ; the number of baptized ed s municants was forty-one, and of baptized children Jent af fifty-four, making a total of one hundred and forty of ich he Native Christians under the charge of the Mission, form- eIy {0 ing a body of professors of our holy faith in an interesting st100S position in this great country, the steady increase of stance which by the divine blessing, may be reasonably expected, {reat- if the Ndgpur Mission be vigorously supported. In the body of Christians here alluded to, several hering 1 i A R AN suitable Christian agents, raised up by divine providence, cal ib‘ some have been found. Two of them, including Mr. Baba fer s Pandurang, who suffered imprisonment at the hands of .-)ﬂ'ﬂ y - the native R4j4 at the first commencement of his Christ- ian course, and his friend Mr. V. Ramaswami, have, after arther J has going through an extensive course of general and theolo- ffh of gical instruction, been licensed as Preachers of the Gospel One is a Catechist, ation by the Free Presbytery of Bombay. {) also acting as a teacher ; eight, including one study- i ing for the ministry, and another, who is a Scripture 0L 1I Reader, are Teachers. One, Apaya, an early convert, is a 1 In connexion with the duties of the last 18 Colporteur. n mentioned agent and other Christian brethren occasion- ally associated with him, the following interesting and judicious statements and suggestions are from the pen of Mr. Hislop himself :—* Colportage is no unimportant _pave department of the work at Nagpur. Carried on in and 3 ml around the mission stations throughout the whole year, it is extended during the cold season and part of the hot ,v Tt weather to the utmost limits of the Province, and not the fa11l unfrequently into the adjacent territory of the Nizdm. e Thus on an average as many as 5,000 copies of the Word 1 ! of God and religious tracts and books, realizing about Jarc! (9] 8 Rs. 300, are annually disposed of, in T4mul and Telugu, Exper andin Marathi, Hindi and Urdu, aswell as English. The bay I Pema vernacular works in number amount to seven-eighths of by th the whole, though they bring only one-fourth of the price. and | The Colporteurs while selling take occasion also to preach. the ¢ Frequently interesting incidents occur. This year one of e these agents penetrated into the Hyderabad country as far as Ty as Mahadevapur on the Godavari. In a secluded village hreth named Yidilawdrd he met a Telugu woman of the cow- two o herd caste, who not only could read herself, but was the gy engaged in teaching her younger brother the valued art. Site § Such was her love of learning, that in the absence of he g money she took off from her arm the only silver bangle which she wore, and, having had it cut in two, gave one In of the pieces for some portions of the Telugu Scriptures Now which she had selected. A great part of the following (hris night she spentin conversation with the Colporteur on EVer § the meaning of various passages which she had at once with The number of Christian publications ing., 1 begun to peruse. now circulated by sale throughout Nagpur and the 04, Tark neighbouring districts is more than equal to the gra- tuitous distribution formerly effected on tours, while APpes there is no comparison between the two systems in liarly v 1‘egard to the feeling of satisfaction with which the books iHStru are putinto circulation. By the present mode, mendi- Comm cancy, which in this land has been exalted into a religi- o {hy ous profession, is resisted ; the spirit of dependence, Spry which animates all classes, and even enters the Christian ol Vi Church, is discouraged ; and, for every book that is \Vﬁg‘ 4(*; é distributed, the receiver furnishes the surest pledge of leagy N which the case admits, that it shall be preserved, read, The ,C()g]‘ i and valued. The plan, which is here cordially recom- 0 sold a mended to all who have not yet tested it, is no local Teagop '/) [y (3] elugy, experiment, for it has been adopted throughout the Bom- . The bay PreSidency. It is no novelty, the working of which remains to be seen, butitisan established practice, followed hths of by the missionaries of Western India for the last ten years, ) price. .and fully realisin g their most sanguine expectations.* In pread : the experience of the Ndgpur mission, which has to do with One of people speaking Tamil, as well as those using Mardthi, it s far illage has been found equally applicable to both ; and if only 6 COW- brethren in the south were to agree to give 1t a trial for L Was two or three years, little doubt need be entertained that od art. the evils resulting from the long continuance of the oppo- nee of site system would be surmounted, and the change would be attended by the most beneficial consequences.” bangle Ve 0né In all his intercourse with the people of India, I would now remark, Mr. Hislop had ever a benevolent and phures Wil Christian aim, directed by the soundest judgment. He IU ] ever sought to make good impressions on the minds of all i ol with whom he was conversir 19, Or o whom he was instruct- t onee ing, in the house, in the school, in the church, on the 110 15 road, on the street, orin the fields. He was careful to d the mark any favourable symptoms which might make their 0Td appearancein those whomhe addressed, and he was pecu- while liarly attentive to religiousinquirers, giving them personal s I instructions and advice, directing their reading, and re- Tooks commending them to hold communion with those likely to nend- do them good. He was, in an important sense, the main- 1’€1ij;j'i' spring of the native agency of the mission, counselling and i e1Ce M\Hdﬂ * Since 1832, when the “ First Exposure of Hinduism,” for which there was a great demand among the natives, appeared, the plan of selling at Ih” I least some publications and tracts, in a few instances even at their full | 06 0L cost price, has been acted on by one or two of the Bombay missionaries, rea Ly The publications of the Bombay Tract and Book Society are, as a rule, sold at reduced prices. el 1l An advance on some of these might now be reasonably made. \ 1:] d 40 encouraging its members to the full extent of hm power, Tt and regarding all parties, whatever their position might (ent be, with attention and favour. The consequence of all hish this was, that he was universally loved and esteemed, and parti exercised a salutary influence far and wide. hoo A similar remark may be made respecting the power it for good which Mr. Hislop uniformly exercised among nect all classes of Europeans, and particularly those connected these with the military and civil establishments of this land, other who formed the majority of our countrymen with whom stud: he held intercourse. While seeking the Christianization Doth of the natives of India, he could not view with indifference way the dechristianization (alas! too frequent in this remote petel land) of those who were bone of his bone and flesh of his Tndi flesh, from the highly-favoured Isles of Britain. All Eu- ) ropeans coming within his reach, he sought, and often not Dra ‘) without success, to make even auxiliaries (by their pray- Ings ers, contributions and efforts) in the evan gelistic enter- impo prize. Hispublic preachings, hismore private recommen- slls dationsand exposition softhe divineword at Bible meetings — and family pm*ties, his genial and instructive conversa- Week. Sitdhe tions in the ordinary intercourse of life, his exemplary Regiy years, temper and conduct, and his valuable and extensive $eas0] correspondenoe, will long be remembered with gratitude the § and profit by hundreds. His spirit was eminently ca- 1‘resqu tholic, and could give no just offence to evangelical Nee ’>y chaplains and bishops P\W‘\‘a Christians of any denomination. h}'ter like-minded with himself, he was viewed as a brother S{ll\‘g and fellow-labourer, with whom they had pleasure in Ieet the iy co-operating.™ Tnegt, it of g Iogt % The following is Mr. Hislop’s last notice of the operations of the Négpur mission among our countrymen :—* For them we conduct a h(’l't‘, of ff 41 S POTEL, The influence of Mr. Hislop among Europeans in 1| might Central India was often extended and maintained by e of all his high scientific attainments and interesting researches, ned, and particularly connected with geology. In the neighbour- hood of Négpur, where several remarkable formations 1 p()\\'t‘l' unite, some interesting pages of the book of nature con- | among nected with the olden world lie exposed to view ; and mected these (which had more or less attracted the attention of is Jand, other naturalists) Mr. Hislop, after much attention | whom study, and inquiry, was able to decipher and expound, nization both in an intellicent and truthful spirit, and in such a fterence way as to secure the interest and sympathy of other com- Temote petent observers, not only at Ndgpur, but throughout | of s The fruits of his researches India, and even in Europe. All Eue appear in several able papers in the Journal of the Bombay fren mot Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, and of the Proceed- b T ol )I’:I‘X" ings and Journal of the Geological Society. The most ; {‘1}'[(‘1" important of them is one ‘ On the Geology and Fos- ymiel s sils of the Neighbourhood of Négpur,” in preparing Il ngs week-day and a Sabbath service in each of the two European stations of nverst Last month we bade adieu to H. M.s 91st Sitdbaldi and Kampti. mplat 'y Regiment, which has been stationed in our province for the last four ; years. To that period some of the men will look back eternally as the \H N s season when they found the Saviour. One who confessed his Lord for froad g the first time here, is now on his way to Rjputiné to join our United ] i a Presbyterian brethren as a Catechist. He promises to be a workman that ‘}I. needeth not to be ashamed. The 91st has been succeeded by the 1st “O{hk« Royals, which being an English corps does not contain so many Pres- | L]J]&‘H byterians as the other. Nor are there so many who follow the Captain of Jyrothe! Salvation. However, there are a few warm-hearted Christians, who meet regularly for prayer among themselves, and with them, though for Sl T L I the most part members of the Episcopal Church, we count it a pleasure to meet, when we go on Saturday evening to Kdmpti. For the head-quarters of the regiment there, the prayer-house opened last year is found to be a most suitable place of spiritual retirement for the detachment stationed here. My house has been opened as a retreat for an hour from the noise ns of the barracks, and for reading the word and prayer.” 6 42 which he had the able co-operation of his colleague, Mr supp Hunter, like himself an accomplished naturalist and tures another “ On the Tertiary Deposits associated with Trap- the 1 of N Rock in the East Indies, with descriptions of the Fossil Shells This is not the place to state in detail the varied S I0ay findings of these valuable scientific memoirs. An at- ar tf the tentive perusal of these must show to every 1‘mde1 that thcy bear the impression of high talent and accomphsh natio ment ; and that much thOUOht and time must have the h been spent in their elaboration Was this expenditur God of talent and opportunity of action, justifiable in the case Sequ of a missionary, whose main business is with man need earth ine the salvation of God ? This question, Mr Hislop Seven told me, he had often seriously put to himself, answering fifyn 1t in the affirmativ The study of the works of God lale in their own measure, he found to be refreshing to his of v own mind, exhausted by other occupations, and nutritive fo] of his own piety, feeling, as he must have done, that what Jeney is worthy of God to create is worthy of man to behold oy For his ability and acquirements in natural history, €y bl} he felt himself responsible, as for the other talents com- Tany mitted to his charee In their use he found he could ﬁtt ) exercise a beneficial influence on all his fellow-students (iffe of nature with whom he was priv illeced to associate conty an d communicate The results of his researches he 0 th found to be subservient to truth, and consequently of Some of them he used olorifyimg o the God of truth ) to explode local pretensions and superstitions of an sury injurious character Geology was to him what Botany holy, was to the venerable and devoted Dr. Carey—his pas- G()d ] time in the more serious business of life. The fear of COtny muﬂmu 11 pm\mt\ (hvn\hod In certain mmd\ on the - RERSEEE I o et 0f N wndl\ See \«)'( \ in 1]1( \ elja [UnSy ) e, M. supposition of their hostility to the Divine Serip- and tures is- altogether groundless and wunreasonable, for 1 Trap- the utmost harmony must exist between the DBook Fossil of Nature and the Book of Revelation, though man varied may err in the richtful interpretation of the one at or the other. An In the writings of Moses we find announced or that the great fact, so widely and long forgotten by the mpﬁsh- nations of the earth, that * In the beginning God created - have the heaven and earth” ; and that creation, the product of \ditare God’s unlimited wisdom and power, had its order and WU sequences, “ For in six days the Lorp made heaven and 1 need- earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the | n seventh day.” How do the discoveries of geology tes- wering tifying to the existence of the world for ages of incalcu- 0 God lable duration, and to repeated creations, in their course, t his giit of vegetables and animals, the remains of which are still to be found embedded in the crust of the earth, affect the trifive | what general question of an authoritative revelation from God 11 JALE founded on miraculous testimony 2 They tell us thatsince every creation is a miracle, and that as there have been N ml many miraculous forthputtings of the divine power in 1d (A i fitting the world for the abode of man, there can be no difficulty in supposing that miraculousinterpositions were (P (e continued after the formation of man, for his instruction 1 { in the nature and responsibility of his position as the lord IL}“ of the world on which he dwelt, and the intellicent and ministering priest of the visible universe by which he was ) Il surrounded ; and that even after he had fallen from his )bk ) 4Ny holy and happy state by the transgression of revealed law, nad God may have actually condescended to hold direct inter- course with him, in order to make known to him a scheme Y’]L of salvation by a Redeemer, and maintain him and his UL believing descendants in a state of allegiance to him-as the +4 God both of mercy and holiness.* What do they (com- he 10 bined with those of Astronomy) with the intimations of ed change and even decay, which they furnish, but give em- phasis to the humble, but sublime, praise of the Psalmist :— Or oD hast thou laid the foundations of the earth And the heavens are the work of thy hands They shall perish, but thou shalt endure Yea all of them shall wax old as a garment i As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end ore What does the enlargement of our ideas of the six days and how or creative QPOChb with their morn and eve, encouraced lﬂXe by geology (though it cannot yet mark the beginning ed ¢ and end of even the characteristic and dlstmcrulshmcr pro- tol ducts of some of these epochs), but give empha&s to the Wit impressive declaration, that *“ One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day the and give power to the voice of the Eternal Wisdom 07es making the majestic proclamation which we see in the Lt ichth chapter of Proverbs, in which we find a progres- ung sive creation, with what may be long intervals, distinctly toy alluded to: Was I was set up from everlasting ey From the beginning, or ever the earth was When there were no depths I was brought forth o) When there were no fountains abounding with water sa] Before the mountains were settled : Before the hills was I brought forth : Dle While as yet he had not made the earth nor the ﬁelde con Nor the highest (elementary) part of the dust of the earth ofk If God still refrains from creative work, and his Sabbath still continues since his last creative action connected with for lee our system, what may have been the measure of his nat; working days but such great ages as aeology indicates the Geology, enlarging our vision with its glimpses into the Con vista of the past, and yet losing itself in the immensity 011 #* See “Star of Bethlehem” by the Authoz i » 1 J com- behind it, and showing everywhere the powerful work- 18 of ing of the agencies of fire and flood, ordained and direct- ¢ Cl ed by God, leads us devoutly to exclaim, 51— Lo, these are parts of his ways But how little a portion is heard of him ? But the thunder of his power who can understand ? In the prosecution of his varied missionary labours While he Mr. Hislop had his distinctive trials. bore the name of the Lord before the Gentiles days, and Kings, it was shown to him as to Saul of Tarsus, .1'aged how great things he should suffer for his name’s sake. He had several severe attacks of illness, connect- ning ; pl'O' ed especially with Indian fever, one of which drove him o the to his native country for a couple of years, commencing with the close of 1858. Lord He was bit, in several parts of lay"; the lower extremities of his body, by a rabid dog, to the om, gfeat alarm of his family and friends. He was greatly n the distressed by the surrender to the tender mercies of an unenlightened government the young Brahman convert ores incfly to whom we have already alluded, and to find that he was forcibly deprived of his liberty, and kept in confine- ment for many weeks. His house was broken into by a mob, when another inquirer took refuge in it, the as- sault on that occasion being so violent that a considera- ble fine was inflicted on the native government for its connivance in the case. He was nearly killed by an- other mob in the city of Nagpur, having been mistaken hhath for a political agent, expected to carry into effect some yith necessary measure displeasing to the supporters of the native administration, which had terminated soon after 1 i 1es ¢ the death of the Bhonslé Ré4ja in 1854. During the o the continuation of the native administration he was greaﬂy nsity grieved by the salutes fired by our troops nominally to H. Highness's honour when he appeared in public at na- 46 t1ve heathen festivals. Respecting this matter, he thus amal wrote to me, “ I should despair of convincing the natives min that the honours paid to their princes on their religious (ove festivals are mere 1°oya1 salutes. So long as the British (i Government pay their respect to a Hindu Rédjé only on fion the day of Réma or Ganésha, or any other heathen holi- CX{e day, and omit their compliments on every other day of M the year, so long will they believe that they choose the schoc day not on account of the King, but in respect of the sty occasion.” When the native government passed away, exter he was no less grieved to find merely discretional grants, from given to Hindu temples, continued as under a heathen all i administration. Though not willing that any encourage- Deryf ment should be given i any form to native error and Asge superstition, he was much respected and beloved for his maf benevolence and beneficence by the native community. It Tmn was to him that in the sad year of 1857, a plot to destroy lhugt the Luropeans of Nagpur was revealed; and it was Selfy through the information thus given to him, that, in the Sl goodness of God, that catastrophe was averted. He Caste faithfully followed the Lord through good report and wells through bad report. mth Though Mr. Hislop ever did full justice to the Dritish oran authorities at Nagpur in his communications to his of § friends, he expressed particular delight with remarkable NS improvements, which began to appear in the administra- B tion of the province in 1862. Writing to me on the 27th fict of August of that year, he said, “In Captain Dods, the Misg head of the (Educational) Department, your Presidency thay Our has furnished us apparently with an excellent man. Pecty Chief Commissioner is another Sir Bartle Frere for the Hig, friendly interest which he takes inmission education, and in inﬁm every plan for the good of the people. I have scl(lom seen esth P 4 { > thus aman like M. Temple for energy of body and activity of afives mind. His Administrative Report recently submitted to 21018 Government is a most comprehensive one, but it was re- ritish quired, being actually the first on Ndgpur since the annexa- [y on tion. We have made an application for grants-in-aid to the extentof Rs. 240 per mensem. I think it will be conceded. } hob- Mr. T. sees the propriety of establishing no Government ay of e the school in Nagpur city, where we have one, and where the lf th desire for education isstill small. He has also to a certain extent reversed the order for the exclusion of Marathi avay, from the Courts. He is seeking his information from rants, athen all quarters, and forming his plans after mature deli- beration.” When writing his Report for the last General Jrage- r and Assembly, he said, * The past year has been one of marked material progress in this province. The arrival of Mr. o s Temple has in this respect been a signal blessing.” In xh Hlustration of this remark he noticed ¢ the prohibition of S0y self-inflicted torture in the worship of idols,” in hook- . Was swingin (@) o , and body-piercing by swords; the * abolition of ) the caste-distinctions in drawing water from public tanks and He W7 wells > the restoration of the vernacular Marathi to use and . in the courts of Nagpur J and the extension of (liberal) ﬂﬁﬁh grants-in-aid (in compliance with the famous Despatch of Sir Charles Wood of 1854) to the schools of the 0 hls mission. rk;ﬂ)l@ But we must now draw this discourse and imper- jstra- fect narrative to a close. A greater loss in the Indian 9Tth H Mission field could scarcely have been sustained by us ) . the than that which has occurred in the sudden and unex- Jency pected death of our dearly beloved brother StePHEN (Jur Hisrop, just when he had reached the very zenith of his . the ndin influence and usefulness in Central India, and the high- est hopes,—founded on his exemplary and exalted charac- el 48 ter, his unreserved and untiring devotedness to the Pre saln evangelistic enterprize, his sound and sober and enlight- ened judgment, his high scientific attainments and dis- the coveries, his affectionate attachment to the fruits of his of t own ministry and of his fellow-labourers in the Gospel of Lor Christ, and the respect and esteem with which he was (oI universally regarded by all who knew him,—were cher- not ished respecting his advancement in his noble career. i That loss, however, has been ordered and effected by God Joses himself ; and in the view of it we must humble ourselves Sane We must do under his sovereign and powerful hand. hest more than this in connexion with this sore affliction and Whe oreat bereavement. We must consider the purposes of hi which in the all-wise and holy providence of God it is th(% 1 fitted to subserve. Itis certainly aloud call for those hee of us who are still spared in this great field of India, yet I so little regarded, to abound more and more in the work a (o of the Lord, and for the friends of missions at home to prals seek and to send without delay new auxiliaries to fill up flong and extend our broken and limited ranks. Let us most (rod, anxiously and prayerfully seek the improvement of the g affliction which has befallen us, lest the strokes of the hlgh Lord’s displeasure,—administered in wisdom, love, and to by be faithfulness, but marking judgment as well as mercy, the ] multiplied upon us both in Heathendom and Christendom. vy Let us at the same time acknowledge and feel that our Lord public loss is the gain of our departed brother personally if g considered, and the gain of that heaven, the expanding Pasto treasure-house of God’s holy ones, into which he has entered. (both In the providence of God he was doubtlessly Of the prepared for the change which so suddenly awaited him.* tl | anW] * For an interesting account of Mr. Hislop’s last hours, see Appendix B. nt 49 ) the Precious in the sight of the Lord was the death of this lioht: saint, though it was not marked by human eye. It was 1 dis of s the hand of the loving Saviour which received the spirit of the departing one, and now that spirit is with the ;pel of Lord. A Christian loses his life, when his days are ¢ Was completed according to the will of God ; but he loses cher- not his soul. He loses not his title to eternal life, which areer. is the purchase and gift of his Lord and Saviour. He 5’ (od loses not his moral nature, which has been renewed and selves He loses not his heaven- sanctified by the Holy Spirit. st do bestowed capacity of enjoying and glorifying God. nand When his flesh and heart faileth, he finds Gop the strength 1'poses of his heart and his portion for ever. When he leaves | 1t 18 the earth he goes to heaven, where, without measure, those he enjoys the fruition of God. b@}@ﬁ We must all admit that our dear departed brother was work Let us all a God-formed and a God-given evangelist. me 10 praise God for his original power and talents, and educa- fillup tional culture; for his call to the family and church of { 10st God; for his thorough preparation for the Christian )f the ministry ; for his commission and appointment to the of the high-places of the field; for the blessings vouchsafed , and to him and through him when engaged in the work of Sl the Lord; and for the fruits of his service, and the ’v7 pdom. savour of his example which he has left behind. To that At our Lord and Master who formed and gave him, let us look, onﬁn\' if not now for apostles and prophets, yet for evangelists, ndng pastors, and teachers, “for the perfecting of the saints o has (both in number and character) for (or, towards) the work sl of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the it 'V' / knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.” (is B 7 50 of While we honour God for his gifts let us pray for their (1 mcrease. Let us do this especially in the view of the the wants of India (with its two hundred millions of inhabi- the tants ), which we have not yet, with any degree of ade- X quacy, been taken into the practical consideration of b even benevolent Christians. In this great country, th there is an almost immeasurable field, yet unbroken, th nay, covered with pestilential and poisonous growths of fol ages of error, delusion, superstition, fanaticism, and im- morality ; while in the comparatively few spots that have been partially cleared and cultivated, a most promising harvest is beginning to appear. Let us then pray to him who is alike the Lord of “the field which is the world,” and the Lord of the harvest yet to be reaped from the wide extent of that field, to raise up and send forth labourers into his harvest. Those who have been already rovided, and so many of whom have already fallen even on the high places of the field, are surely earnests of good things to come in this matter. Let all waiting the call of the Lord to his own ministry be very attentive to that call when it may be addressed to them in the divine pro- vidence; and let them be ready to carry the Gospel message to the very ends of the earth, believing that the place of duty, however remote and trying, is the place of spiritual safety and privilege. Let those who perhaps cannot work be so ready to give, as that all our mission- ary churches, societies, and institutions, shall be able to say (like the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions on its fiftieth anniversary) that they have found the means of sending to, and supporting in the heathen world, all candidates for missionary employment who have appeared to them really fit for the discharge of 1ts duties. The woes and wants of India, morethan those 51 of Macedonia of old, send forth the piercing and affecting their COME OVER AND HELP US. the cry, Unhappy indeed are hab- those who lend a deaf year to that cry ; and who disregard the plain and authoritative command of the risen and ade- il Of exalted Saviour, GO YE AND DISCIPLE ALL NATIONS. Blessed are those who, obeying that command, die in 1y, the Lord from henceforth : Yea, saith the Spirit, that oken, they may rest from their labours; and their works do !s' of follow them. m: have jsing ) hm tld," the forth eady evel good that 5 pro. ospel f the co of thaps sl00- Je f0 g ﬁE haVB the 'ment" p 00 Of 0 080 fio fro APPENDIX. the mif dlld e of (A) NOTE ON THE RESULTS OF al MR. HISLOP'S GEOLOGICAL RESEARCHES. a In the paper ¢ On the Geology and Fossils of the Neighbourhood of tow Nédgpur,”* Mr. Hislop takes a general view of the Physical Geo- wh graphy of the District; gives a history of the geological observations ap made in it; classifies and describes its rock formations; notices its superficial strata; and refers to its fossils and minerals, which are more 1l particularly described by Mr. Hunter. He thus sums up the results of 1ts his researches :— W “ In tracing the geological history of this district from the facts that A have been brought forward, we are made to feel that the early.epochs 1) are involved in the utmost obscurity. While in many other countries 1 the records of what took place in Palceozoic times have been preserved il in successive strata of the earth’s crust, in the Dakhan they have been { Lt It is not until we come down to the Jurassic era wholly obliterated. aft Then we of that we meet with archives whose characters can be read. { 1g find that Central India was covered by a large body of fresh water, which stretched southward into the Peninsula, and eastward into Ben- i gal, while on the north and west it communicated by some narrow channel with the sea. On the shores of this lake earth-worms crawled, Ing and small reptiles (frogs) crept over the soft mud. In its pools sported IHQ flocks of little Entomostracans resembling the modern Estheria, min- Ru gled with which were Ganoid fishes and Labyrinthodonts.f The streams which fed it brought down into its bed the debris of the Plutonic and Metamorphic rocks which then constituted the greater h(#\ part of the dry land, and which were covered with an abundant vegeta- Dy Un * This paper, which appears in the Geological Journal, Vol. XI., is reprinted by II. i J. Carter, F. R. 8., in his ¢ Ggologicall Papers on Western India.” Hy 1 For an interesting account, by Professor Owen, of a Labyrinthodont (Brachyops gy Laticeps), obtained by Messrs. Hislop and Hunter at Mangalf, sixty miles south of Nagpur, see the Geological Journal, Vol. XI., and Mr, Carter’s * Geological Papers on Western India,” pp. 288-301. f\'_n\u 3 tion of Ferns,* most of them distinguished by the entireness of their fronds Low-growing plants with grooved and jointed stems inhabited the marshes ; and Conifers and other Dicotyledonous trees, with Palms aised their heads aloft Meanwhile Plutonic action was going on and strata, as they were formed, were shattered and reconstructed into a breccia and finally an extensive outburst of granite elevated the bed of the lake and left it dry land. The sea now flowed at Pondicherry \l and Trichinopoly, depositing the cretaceous strata which are found there i N ¢« At the end of this epoch Central India suffered a depression, and was again covered by a vast lake, communicating with the sea, not od of (feo- towards Cutch as before, but in the neighbourhood of Rdjamandari, to which the salt water had now advanced When the lake had during its ations appointed time furnished an abode to its peculiar living creatures and 5 1fS plants, it was invaded by an immense outpouring of trap, which filled up 016 1S Of its bed, and left Western and a greater part of Central India a dreary waste of lava But these basaltic steppes were ere long broken up A second eruption of trap, not now coming to the surface, but forcing hat a passage for itself under the newer lacustrine strata, lifted up the super- pncha Since then, to the east, nires incumbent mass in ranges of flat-topped hills. water has swept over the plutonic and sandstone rocks, and laid down ryed quantities of transported materials impregnated with iron, and some time ee after there were deposited in the west a conglomerate, imbedding bones 16 61 of huge mammals ; and above it a stratum of brown clay, which imme- 0 We diately preceded the superficial deposits of the black and red soils atel, The title of the last of Mr. Hislop’s papers indicates its contents :— ) Ben ¢« On the Tertiary Deposits associated with Trap-Rock, in the East atow Indies, with Descriptions of the Fossil Shells Notes on the Fossil anlel Insects by Andrew Murray, F. R. 8. E., and on Fossil Cypride, by T Pﬂltt | Rupert Jones, F. G. 8., are added to it. i Before treating of the Fossil Shells which form the bulL of Mr. The Hislop’s text, he notices two minerals from the immediate neighbour- f the hood of Nagpur These, when examined and carefully analysed by 11L&ttr Professor Haughton of Dublin, have been found to be new to science mtﬂ One of them, that accomplished chemist and mineralogist has denominated it Hislopite and the other Hunterite In the Hislopite, Professor b‘ H Haughton found ““ a remarkable combination of calcareous matter, which gives the outward form to the whole crystal, with a grass-green silici achjop ol (03 A valuable and beautiful collection by Mr. Hislop of some of these Ferns is to be grs O lJ found in the Museum of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 54 i A S ous skeleton of glauconite, which, on analysis, he finds to be a hydrated U tersilicate of protoxide of iron,” or, in. more technical form :— Jre 3RO Al#2 O3 tem } 38 084 38 HO. The Hunterite, neglecting the lime and magnesia in it, which are in- by considerable, is found to consist ¢ of five atoms of a hydrated tersilicate 10t of alumina, combined with one atom of a hyaline silica of admitted composition.”—or mn 5[Al2 08,38 03 + 3 HOJ+[ HO 3 8 038 ] Ist After noticing the sites of the fossil shells, extending even to Rdjd- As mandari (at the apex of the delta of the Godévari) on the S. E. coast (s of the peninsula, Mr. Hislop describes first the new species (and in three instances more distinct examples than those formerly seen) of Lossil Freshwater Shells from the Ndgpur Province; associating with them the names of some of his scientific and literary friends. They are the following :— Melania, Hunteri; Paludina, normalis, Deccanensis (‘Sowerby ), Wapsharei, acicularis, Pyramis, subcylindracea, ‘Sankeyi, Taklienses soluta, conoidea, Rawesi, Virapai; Valvata, minima, unicaranifera, multicarinata, decollata, Nagpurensis ; Limnee, oviformis, subulata (Sow.) attenuata, Telankhediensis ( 8 var. ) Spina; Physa, Prinsepii (Sow.), normalis (3 var.); Unio, Malcolmsoni, (discovered by Dr. Mal- colmson, but named by Mr. H.) Deccanensis, Hunteri, mamillatus, offe imbricatus, Carteri. He then describes thirty-six new species of an( Fossil Estuarine Shells from Rdjdmandars :— Fusus, pygmaeus ; Pseudo- Sy lwa; elegans; Natica, Stoddardi; Certthivm, multiforme, subeylindraceum, 1t 1 Leithii, Stoddardi; Vicarya, fusiformis; Turritella, praelonga ; Hydro- Thy bia, Ellioti, Carteri, Bradleyi; Hemitoma ? multiradiata ; Ostrea, Panga- diensis ; . Anomia, Kateruensis (8 var.); Perna, meleagrinoides; Area, b, striatula ; Nucula, pusilla ; Lucina, parva, Kellia ? nana ; Corbis, ellip- Py tica; Corbicula, ingens; Cardita, variabilis, pusilla ; Cytherea, Wilsoni, g Wapsharei, Rawesi, Jerdoni, elliptica, Hunteri; Zellina, Woodwardi; ) il He concludes Psamobia, Jonesi; Cordula, Oldhami, sulcifera. by had noticing two new fossil shells from the Narbadd, the Bulimus Oldham- ianus, and the Pisidium Medlicottianum. you The principal value of all 8¢ these shells is found in their use as historical documenta. Their testi- ho it o mony is that on which Mr. Hislop much relies in his judgment of the Vigy comparative age of the rocks in which they appear. well From the thirteen specimens of Fossil Insects placed in his hands by C0ny Mr. Hislop, Mr. Murray infers that ¢ the Entymological Fauna of Ndg- RHII[ (Wb ¢ Jadby rated pur, at the era of these fossils, was probably smaller than that of the present day ;”’ and that they point more to a warm climate than a temperate one. © - Mr. Rupert Jones, F. G. 8., describing the Fossil Cypridee procured licate by Messrs. Hislop and Hunter, from the neighbourhood of Ndgpur, notices theirlarge variety, and the perfect preservation of their carapaces. itfed The specimens of these Cypride presented by Mr. Hislop to myself in Bombay, are so minute that only the eye of an experienced natural- ist could have discerned them in the matrix in which they were found. Riji- A similar remark may be made on some of the shells, which Mr. H coast describes, as the Hydrobia Ellioti, the Hydrobia Carteri, etc. i ) of ating ends. (B) LAST HOURS OF THE REV. S; HISLOP. (Related by R. Tempre, Esq., Chief Commissioner of the ), SES, Central Provinces.) jferd, nlata . The Residency, Ndgpur, September 9th, 1863. sepil My peAr Mrs. Hisnor,—In common with many other friends, I must Mal- |atus, offer to you the expression of my deep condolence in your most melancholy and sudden bereavement. At the same time, as it so happened that es 0f audo- several of your late husband’s last hours on earth were spent with me, it may be acceptable if I give you a brief account of what passed during cplil, Thursday and Friday last, the 8rd and 4th September. }/dw- Early on Thursday morning Mr. Hislop arrived at Bori from Nag- ngd- pur. At Bori the party consisted of Captain Mackenzie, Lieutenant Arc(l y I had a conversation with Mr. Hislop that even- ellip Puckle, and myself. ing before breakfast. He began by asking about the results of the new Jsoud, [ ar‘di ; Educational System in the Wardah district, through which our party had recently been touring ; and he seemed glad to hear that the several q }l\ young men who had come up from Bombay .to teach in the village han- schools were proving successful, as setting an example of progress, and f all at least of intellectual enlightenment. Whatever might be the right fsti- view on higher questions, he certainly thought that the State did so far f the well in_diffusing some light among the villages in the interior of the He then ds by country, which he described as sunk in the deepest ignorance. alluded to the Mission school in the Ndgpur city, and to the grants-in- Nig- 26 aid. I think he said that an additional teacher was expected from ghat Scotland ; that one had been advertised for, and that suitable candidates the | might be expected to come forward. He then adverted to the intention lovd of the Mission to establish a new school in the Sitdbaldi bdzdr, for S which also a grant-in-aid was proposed. He said that he expected to ofa open it very shortly, and that the only difficulty had been house- prof accommodation, which difficulty he had now overcome. It was remarked and that when education was being diffused among the villages, something Tetmr ought to be done in Sitdbaldi, which was immediately under the eye of Thu head-quarters. He then showed me several scientific and antiquarian Db journals illustrative of Druidical (or Scythian) remains, found alike in Lien (Great Britain and India. a8l After breakfast he read a chapter from the Bible to the party, and 1M offeredupa prayer. Shortly afterwards the conversation which took place Tk was about the conversion of heathen youths. He said that Hindus were tleve more accessible to the persuasive and convincing truth of the Gospel at Hisls an early age than at any other age; and that their consciences were i He mentioned the circumstances of then more tender and impressible. tcnt, the conversion of a Mardthd youth some years ago, and of the efforts, ging, partially successful, of the parents to gain influence and authority over of fir the youth. He soid that in his father’s house the youth was treated Tegar as an outcast, and relapsed into sin; that afterwards, when unques- par tionably a major (that is, arrived at full legal privileges) he returned to whi the mission. Reference was then made to the recent case of Hemndth clear of Calcutta. Mr. Hislop seemed to think that the judicial opinions outy recently given differed from those given by Chief Justice Burton at Wy Madras ; but agreed with that of Sir Erskine Perry at Bombay (in the vy He said that it would be case of Shripat, in his thirteenth year). Sph‘it‘ satisfactory to missionariesin India, if it were finally decided by the o ab highest judicial authority, as to whether or not a heathen parent could the | prevent his child when under age from openly professing Christianity. earyg He thought that a child of sufficient sense and discretion might even, \ A though under age, be allowed without any hindrance from parental l S, Jeen authority to profess Christianity. exhy Being occupied I did not see him more that day, till the afternoon, Whic when we rode out to Tdkulghdt, a village three miles distant from 00cag; Borf. At Tdkulghdt we looked at a number of stone-circles of a Druidical character, and it was determined that excavations should & er Whig then be made in several of these, and the mnext day, in search of Hunt buried remains. Returning that evening through the village of Tdkul- Td’l\u‘ 57 from ghdt, we met a newly-appointed village schoolmaster in company with dates the landlord of the village. We spoke to the men, and told the land- ention lord that he should give the schoolmaster all the assistance he could. 1, for Mr. Hislop remarked that it was of consequence to raise the character ted to of a schoolmaster in the eyes of the natives, inasmuch as the scholastic 0Se- profession was not so highly esteemed as it ought to be by the villagers, arked and i1n the interior. We then returned to Bori. Before the party thing retired to rest that evening, Mr. Hislop offer(zd up prayer as usual. 0 of Thursday was spent in this way. aTTall Early on the morning of Friday the 4th, Mr. Hislop, together with ke Lieutenant Puckle, rode over to Tdkulghdt along with Mr. Jackson, an assistant overseer, and some workmen, to excavate those Druidical . and remains. I was busy that morning at Bori, and did not join them at Tdkulghdt till eleven o’clock. Captain Mackenzie did not go till place ere eleven o’clock. Lieutenant Puckle returned to Bori, leaving Mr- pel at Hislop and myself at Takulghdt. ere Just then we (that is, Mr. Hislop and myself) took breakfast in a 05 of tent, close to the place where Mr. Jackson and his workmen were dig- Wisk ging. Immediately after breakfast Mr. Hislop read the 5th Chapter of first Thessalonians. orer On referring to that chapter you may perhaps ated regard it as a providential coincidence that a man should read out that particular chapter on the morning of the day, in the evening of .1\\'3&‘ ed 10 which he was unexpectedly to die. But I believe my recollection is nith clear that this was the chapter. It is specially preparatory for the cutting off of life in the midst of health and strength He then offered 1008 up a prayer as usual. I remember that he concluded by soliciting the n al divine blessing on all that had been, and was still being done for the the spiritual conversion of the heathen in this land. After that he observ- d b 4 the ed at some length on the efficiency of the Divine word in convincing the human conscience. jolﬂd He said these things with a solemnity and earnestness that come quite clearly to my remembrance. ity After that we walked out and looked at the excavations that had yelly been made, and the various articles of iron and pottery that were being 3115;11 exhumed. He remarked on the external appearance of the country: which was that morning fresh and green, the sky being stormy, with 0011, occasional sunshine. He said that this visit recalled to his recollection 701 a period of fourteen years ago, when he first saw the place, and since of 8 which he had not seen it. He alluded to a former colleague, Mr. ould ] of Hunter, in whose company, T think, he said that he had first visited al- Takulghdt. 8 —_— 58 Alluding to ordinary and public affairs, he remarked, that men whose conduct was conscientious before God were those best to be trusted in all affairs of life. Then we walked about, looking at the ancient circles of stone, and E speculating on the character, habits, and institutions of the people who raised them, or rather who arranged them. He thought that all the d remains then before us were tombs and burial-places. I asked him whether he supposed that these people had any temples or such like L places of worship. He said he thought not; that probably they wor- shipped some spirit, or some of the elements; and that perhaps they 4 had sacred groves, but nothing more. He observed that every one of f the circles of stones had one outside stone towards the east. I asked him i whether he thought that these people were migratory in their habits, I He did not give a positive opinion on that, but said that the large number I¢ of circles, or supposed tombs, indicated that a considerable population tu must have resided at this spot for some time; that there were, he be- Yo lieved, some eighty of these circles, in each of which at least one person i or perhaps several persons had been interred. He added that it was S not possible to tell how many persons had been buried, inasmuch as the to He said that bodies had been burned, and the others only interred. wh when the Hindus first came to this part of India, they probably found Jilt these people in possession, and conquered them; that then, he supposed, ‘dlh they became mingled with the lower castes of Hindus; that the Al dwellings of the conquered were swept off the ground; and that these curious burialplaces were all that remained. We then went to the top a of a hillock close by, and pointed out the various rows and cross rows al of these stone circles extending over the plain. thy Descending from this hillock, we met some natives from the village, exh among whom was a man who had, some fifteen years before, assisted ang Mr. Hislop in examining the circles in this very place. They recognised Then we met a Mardtha each other, and conversed about those times. Sty gentleman of high rank (Ndndjirdo), who owned a large village in the 8()’ neighbourhood. - Mr. Hislop asked what had been done regarding the Lk school in that village; and by his advice I gave Nédndjirdo various par- Lig ticular directions regarding the enlargement and improvement of this I, school, and the Nind went off to execute them. At thattime Mr. Hislop said that he would, if possible, visit that school, and also another With ligy Government school on his way back to Négpur the next day. LN We then repaired to the tent and sat down. Mr. Hislop began 10y { mentioning various forms of infidelity which he had known at different Th{‘w 9] 9 0S¢ times to exist in sections of Anglo-Indian society; adding, however, il that there was much less now-a-days. He then adverted to the fear that an actual infidel must probably entertain of death. He thought and that a hardened infidel must have an apprehension (though perhaps who unacknowledged) of future punishment, and that even the thought of {he absolute annihilation after this life, if really entertained, must be awful. him We then began speculating as to whether any person could possibly ke persuade himself of annihilation after physical death. WoI- Mr. Hislop then asked me if I had read Guthrie’s Sermons, and they alluded to the vigorous nautical imagery contained therein; remarking e of that the waters of the sea afforded many awful physical illustrations of him those spiritual dangers against which the preacher had to warn men. s, He then alluded to recent discussions at home regarding the Apocrypha, mher remarking that it ought never to be placed on a level with the Scrip- afion tures, and that if it were read authoritatively, or bound up in the same s De- volume with the Bible, there was danger of its being taken as a part of 1800 the inspired word of God. He affirmed the perfect inspiration of as Scripture, and the extreme danger of private judgment being permitted s the to consider which parts of Scripture were to be believed absolutely, and that which not. Thence he turned to the Free Church of Scotland, to the purity of its origin, and to the disinterestedness of its founders. He und osed added that its leaders were men who had suffered for their principles, t he and were men of great power and might. these The above was the last serious conversation which he ever held. It was now afternoon. 1 t()p I proposed that we should go back to Bori. He 108 said that I had better start, as there might be business awaiting me; that he would stay a little, and classify the various things that had heen exhumed from the circles, and would examine the school at Tdkulghat, Hﬂg& and would be in time for dinner at Bori. _gistcd I then looked at the various things which were being classified and ;nis ol started for DBorf, seeing Mr. Hislop no more. rithi That evening, about i th() 8 o’clock, a horse of mine, on which Mr. Hislop was to ride home from 10 the Tdkulghdt, cantered up riderless to the bungalow at Bori, where Lieutenant Puckle and I then were. This led us to apprehend that g }1&1‘ l 1S Mr. Hislop had been detained and lost his horse, or possibly had met with some accident. fislop I instantly despatched two parties in search of him with torches, it being then dark. One of their party was accom- A()[hel panied by the torch-bearer who had just accompanied me on the same road, and the other by the horsekeeper of the horse I had just ridden. begﬁn forea These partics searched the ground in different directions, between Borf 6O and Tikulghdt ; and not finding him, came on to Tdkulghdt. Midway they found a small stream with water in it, fordable at some places, but at others deep and rapid. At Tdkulghdt they enquired of Mr. Jackson regarding the object of their search. Mr. Jackson said that Mr. Hislop had left Tdkulghdt for Bori about dusk that evening, and that as he had not arrived at Bori, and had not been met with midway by the searching parties, something must have happened. Mr. Jackson then went, together with the two searching parties, and fresh torches to the stream already mentioned. They went to a part of it where the water, when the parties last saw it, had been deep and rapid. In the mean- while, even in that short interval, the water had rapidly subsided; and there they found Mr. Hislop in the bed of the stream, drowned. The hody was at once brought to Bori, and examined by a medical officer. Every effort at resuscitation was made without avail. The water had rapidly risen to a height of some ten feet above the bed, and had as j rapidly fallen. When the searching party first arrived, the body must have been deep below the muddy turbid waters, and was not visible ; | when they returned shortly afterwards, the water had subsided from a ] depth of ten feet, to a depth of three feet, and then the body was found. The accident must have happened about half-past seven, or a quarter 4 to eight, and the body was found soon after ten o'clock. The arrival g of the horse at Bori occurred a few minutes after eight, so that Mr. | Hislop must have passed beyond human aid, even before we had the | first notice of danger. §f Tt appears that he was alone when this melancholy occurrence took i place, and therefore the exact manner of its occurrences can be inferred only. But from enquiry made that very night, it is ascertained that about evening he proceeded from the tent to the village of Tdkulghdt : close by, having arranged the several articles of antiquarian interest 1 which had been discovered. This was about sunset. Mr. Jackson was ¢ In the village he examined the the last European that saw him alive. b This was the last act he there school in the presence of the villagers. ] performed. He then mounted the horse, and rode off for Bori. It Ia must have been getting dark. He might have taken a guide or a af torch-bearer, as such were already in the village. There were two mounted orderlies of mine there; but he doubtless thought the road 1 perfectly safe, being through cultivated ground, when he had passed g And indeed the road was over once that day, and twice the day before. Ig perfectly safe, ordinarily. But on that particular evening, a stream al which runs past Tdkulghdt had become suddenly swollen by rain, which sh 61 ay had fallen i the neighbouring hills. Into this larger stream there hut falls the lesser stream intervening between Bori and Tdkulghdt. And S0IL it appears that when the larger stream becomes suddenly flushed with \Ir the flood, it throws a back-water into the lesser stream. It was this hat back-water which filled the little stream as above described. The stream the itself is narrow ; not more than five or six yards broad, but its bed is hen more than ten feet deep. It is ordinarily empty; and was so empty the when Mr. Hislop had previously seen it. But its depth was very vari- ter able : and at places it was fordable even when filled with water. I had - myself that evening forded it with entire safety. T had also told a it nd servant to wait at or near the stream, and to show Mr. Hislop the best Il i place to cross at. This man was looking out for Mr.Hislop, but did not meet him. cer had Mr. Hislop, then, left Tikulghdt about dusk on horseback. For a 2ecsi lﬁ} short time after leaving the village the horsekeeper was with him. st But coming to open, smooth ground, Mr. Hislop cantered on, leaving )il 2 the horsekeeper behind. This man returned then to Tékulghdt, intend- m & ing to come on to Borf in company with other servants ; he was the nd last person who saw Mr. Hislop alive. Mr. Hislop must then have er cantered on for half a mile and more, till he came to this little stream, val which is a mile distant from Tdkulghdt, and two miles from Bori. M Arriving at the stream, he must have ridden into it, supposing the the water to be shallow. The fact of water being there may perhaps have struck him as peculiar, but he knew that it was generally empty, and foﬂl\ doubtless supposed that it did not contain much water now. Moreover, ued it was getting dark. In reality, however, at that particular point the f hat water was deep, and the horsé on getting into it may h ave plunged. it at Certainly I infer from examination of the bridle and saddle, that both 11(}\[ rider and horse must have been immersed ; and that the rider was vio- lently disengaged from the animal. 8 He clung for a moment to the the grassy bank and then sunk. The horse was a strong, quiet, and steady Jere animal ; he recovered himself and got across the stream without the It lamented rider. Life must have been extinct within s fow minutes. ord after submergence. o And thus befel an accident which, thou gh to human apprehension most melancholy, is yet to spiritual apprehension a cause of thankful- rond ness to the divine will. For we know by faith that the deceased is lQ\Cd removed to the presence of God, while we are left to labour on 8 amidst all the doubts and uncertainties of the world. l'eﬂm It is a precept that we should live each day as if it might be our last. hich Now, it is a fact that o 26 Mr. Hislop’s last conversation on earth was of a deéply serious import, and that his last act was one of enlightened kindness to ignorant natives. Though wemay notbe sorry as those without hope, yet we may humbly acknowledge the judgments of Providence, which are often most strikingly manifested by the sudden removal from amongst us of the best and wisest, in the very zenith of their usefulness. The merits of Mr. Hislop’s missionary labours are well known, and will be long remembered. The zeal of his spiritual ministrations among his own countrymen is thankfully regarded by many. He did, moreover, accomplish much by way of maintaining a high moral and intellectual standard among all classes at Ndgpur, European and Native. During many years his educational efforts diffused among the natives the in- fluences of Christianity. Even now, natives of intelligence are saying that the loss of his benevolence and knowledge will be severely felt. He was further gifted with scientific ability and aptitude calculated to afford important aid in material improvement; in the good government He of the natives, and in the advancement of practical knowledge. had, in short, by personal character and excellence become a real and living institution at Ndgpur. His death is regarded not only as a private, but also a public misfortune. 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