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- MEMORTAL DISCOURSE

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ON THE DEATH OF.

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THE REV. STEPHEN HISLOP, OF NAGPUR

BY JOHN WILSON, D.D., F.R.5

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| MEMORIAL ]jISCOURSE

ON THE DEATH OF

THE REV. STEPHEN HISLOP OF NAGPUR

L’}'( JOHN WILSON, D.D., F.R.S.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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Of evangelists (literally, announcers of the glad tidings)

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mentioned in our text, as well as of apostles and pro-

phets, it is said in the Form of Church Government

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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

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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-

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sively under the immediate direction of the apostles.

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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

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of the seven deacons; and in thesecond, to Timothy, who

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18 charged by Paul to “ do the work of an evangelist.”

Philip, both at Samaria and on the road to Gaza, when

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he communed with and baptized the Ethiopian eunuch,

acted independently of his fellow-labourers, and to a

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certain extent on the direct admonition of the Holy

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Ghost.

Timothy, who did some ministerial service un-

der Paul, did not cease to be an evangelist on the death

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of that apostle (if he actually survived him) or when at

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any time he acted merely under a sense of his own res-

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ponsibility to God.

An evangelist I consider to have

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been, in the scriptural sense of the denomination, a pro-

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# 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.”

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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,

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that they were to be witnesses unto Jesus both in

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Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto

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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

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to their work.

So it has been in reference to the true

and devoted servants of the Lord, in agency and work,

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in all ages of the church. So it is at the present day.

So it will be while saints require to be perfected, while

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the work of the ministry has to be done, while the body

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of Christ has to be edified.

The only call to the office

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of the ministry approved by God is that which originates

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with God himself. It was the choice of God which the

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church at Jerusalem was anxious to ascertain in the

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selection of an apostle in the room of Judas (who was

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Paul and Barnabas

guide to them who took Jesus).

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were called by God to the work of the ministry among

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the Gentiles, before they were set apart to it (by prayer

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and fasting) by the prophets and teachers of the Church

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at Antioch.

It is Christ who, by his providence, raises

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up agents for his work, and who by his Spirit imparts

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to them that spiritual wisdom and knowledge which

become available for the instruction both of his people,

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and of those who are ignorant and out of the way.

It is

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He who gives that love to the person and cause of

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the Redeemer, that zeal for his honour and glory, that

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compassion for perishing sinners, that devotedness to the

service of the Lord, and that faith in the power of his

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word, which constitute the essential qualifications for,

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and call to, ministerial office ; and all that man can do in

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the work of ordination is humbly to recognise these

qualifications in those in whom they exist ; to bind over,

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Lord.

by solemn engagements, those professing them to minis-

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terial fidelity ; to commend them, by fervent prayer, to

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1ith,

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the divine blessing, in connexion with their work of f:

and

and labour of love ; and to grant them facilities for or-

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derly and decent service in the bounds of the churches,

or in the exterior parts of the world to which they may

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be sent.

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which fits for office.

It is the spirit of antichrist which

teaches that man is the medium of calling down and

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dispensing, by tenure or functions of office, or by out-

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ward ceremonies and services, the grace of God needful

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to make either a Christian man or a Christian minister.

which,

The very act of prayer in ordination shows that minis-

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terial grace is derived from that Holy Spirit whom the

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Saviour died to purchase, and lives to bestow.*

Jesus

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himself continues to make and to give evangelists, pas-

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tors, and teachers.

To Him, His Church must ever look

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for its workmen, in believin

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, fervent, and persevering

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prayer.

Let faith in his power and willingness to provide

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agents for carrying on his own work be ever cherished

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and exercised.

He who made one who was a persecutor,

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and a blasphemer, and an injurious instrument of evil,

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his disciple, minister, and apostle, will still do all that

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is needful to raise up messengers to convey his glorious

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gospel even to the ends of the earth.

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The recognition of the ministers of Christ as his own

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gift is alwaysbecoming. There are times, hoxvexiel', when

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and

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this recognition of the evangelists, messengers,

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ministers of the Divine Word as the gifts of the risen and

dover,

exalted Saviour,is specially incumbent'on the people of the

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Lord. One of these times certainly is when God, in his

sovereign but all-wise providence, removes marked men

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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-

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dered and followed (as far as they are in accordance

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with the will of God) as well as those which are record-

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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.

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Last Monday the following most affecting and

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grievous intelligence, with the substance of which you

are all doubtless acquainted, reached us from our faith-

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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,

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and in a way that we little anticipated. Early on Thurs-

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day morning the 8rd instant (September, 1863), he left

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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

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at Takulghat.

This was done during the day of Friday;

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and in the evening while returning to Bor1 on horse-back,

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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

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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

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escort Mr. Hislop to Bori, where dinner was prepared for

the party. There is a Government school at Takulghdt

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and in order to have an opportunity of examining it and

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delivering to the pupils his master’s message, Mr. Hislop

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allowed darkness to overtake him, and then hurried to

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As the nald had risen consider-

join the party at Bori

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ably, Mr.

Temple found the place where they had

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crossed in the morning dangerous, and sent back a

words

dum)

chaprasi (messenger) to meet Mr. Hislop, and tell him to

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cross a little further up

It seems that the chaprasi

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missed him in the darkness, and went on to Tadkulchat

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seekino him

In the meanwhile our beloved brother

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had out-ridden the sowdrs, and arriving at the very

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spot that was to be avoided, and pr obably not expecting

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any obstruction from the nald, was suddenly precipitated

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into deep water

and here, after a short struggle, the

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beloved father and founder of our Nagpur mission passed

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away into glory everlasting

The horse galloped on to

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Bori, and this was the first intimation to the friends

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there that something had happened. A search was then

Suffepe

instituted, and after three hours the body was found in

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the water

Oh !

what a stunninge blow i1t was to us

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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

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in all probability the melancholy event would not hav

His letter was

occurred, wrote me the particulars

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brought by a sowar, and Oh ! it is impossible to describe

elan-

our feelings.

Deep, very deep, and intense was our sor-

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row for the beloved partner who was expecting a joyful

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meeting with her husband that morning.

With hearts

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like to break Mrs. Cooper and I went over to make known

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the sorrowful tidings to her.

She met us with a smile

ohit ;

that pierced us as a dagger; but from our countenances

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she soon surmised that all was not as usual.

With won-

islop

derful composure and resignation she received the sad

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news, and ever since has been enabled to cast herself

sider-

upon the Lord. As a mission we are plunged in deep-

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est grief, and have a feeling of awful desolation.

The

words of the Psalmist best describe our state, ¢ I was

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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

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small and feeble ranks in the warfare of the Lord in

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India, a faithful and devoted fellow-soldier and leader has

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fallen ; for the solitary mission in the central and remote

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part of the country, which has in a moment lost its zeal-

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ous and able founder and father under Christ ; for the

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native and European churches at Ndgpur, to whom with

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his colleagues, the departed so constantly, and prayerful-

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ly, and efficiently ministered ; for the Free Church of

Scotland, whose first messenger, after its separation from

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the Scotch ecclesiastical establishment in 1843, he was to

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the heathen world, and whose band of labourers in India,

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notwithstanding great and peculiar encouragements, is still

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so limited ; and for evangelical Christians everywhere,

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sympathizing with the work of the Lord in this great but

sin-bound land.

All the parties here mentioned must feel

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this sore bereavement in no common degree, for itdeeply

well

affects the interests of them all.

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By some it may be

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spoken of as an * accident ;” but there are no * accl-

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dents” in the all-comprehending providence of God, which

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extends to every object which exists, and to every event

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which occurs.

The hand of God was in actuality, though

pt

not in miraculous speciality, as really dealing with the pool

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ofwater in which our dear brother sank to rise to the re-

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gions of glory, as with the fiery chariot which Elijjah en-

scho

tered to be conveyed to heaven.

There were a great

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many circumstances concurrent in the case which are of

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a striking and impressive character, and which seem to

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indicate to us the purpose of God as to the actual issue.

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They are such as the delay in starting from the school

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by the way where Mr. Hislop terminated his zealous

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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

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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,

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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.

That you and your children may receive from above that consolation

which can alone mitigate such a bereavement, is the hope of the large

cirele of friends who cherish your late husband’s memory with the high-

est respect and regard.

Believe me to be yours sincerely,

R. TEMPLE.

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