The Life of the Right Reverend Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, D. D., Late Bishop of Calcutta, Volume 2C. J. G. & F. Rivington, 1831 - Missions |
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adverted appear APPEN archdeacon arrival authority believe Bengal Bishop Heber Bishop Middleton Bishop of Calcutta Bishop's College blessed Bombay Brahmins Ceylon CHAP chaplains Christ Church Missionary Society Church of England circumstances clergy colony consecration considerable course Court cutta difficulty diocese district committee Divine duties ecclesiastical effect endeavours English episcopal establishment European expected favour feel Gospel Gospel in Foreign governor heathen Hindoo holy honour hope India institution interest labours language letter Lord lordship Madras Majesty's Majesty's government Meerut ment mind mission college missionaries native object observe ordained Parsees Penang perhaps persons preached present principal proceedings Promoting Christian Knowledge Propagation purpose received religion residence respect schools sent shew Society for Promoting spirit station T. F. CALCUtta thing THOMAS FANSHAW MIDDLETON tion truth visitation whole XVII XVIII XXII XXIX XXVI XXVII zeal
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Page 211 - I have been in the deep; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 155 - ... the part of a lover of truth is to follow her at all seeming hazards, after the example of Him, who ' came into the world, that He might bear witness to the truth.
Page 364 - Chase from my labouring breast ; Thy grace it is which prompts the prayer ; That grace can do the rest. 4 My life's brief remnant all be thine ; And, when thy sure decree Bids me this fleeting breath resign, O ! speed my soul to thee.
Page 302 - I have to request that you will take an early opportunity of waiting upon the treasurer of Christ's Hospital with the enclosed, being the amount of my donation to the noblest institution in the world! and an imperfect acknowledgment of what I owe to it, as the instrument of a merciful Providence.
Page 17 - Hindoos, having no object in such attainments beyond secular advantage. 3. For translating the Scriptures, the Liturgy, and moral and religious tracts. 4. For the reception of English Missionaries, to be sent out by the Society, on their first arrival in India.
Page 398 - THE FIRST PREACHERS OF THE GOSPEL PRODUCED IN HIM A PECULIAR RESEMBLANCE TO THE SIMPLE SANCTITY OF THE APOSTOLIC CHARACTER. HIS NATURAL VIVACITY WON THE AFFECTION, AS HIS UNSPOTTED PROBITY AND PURITY OF LIFE ALIKE COMMANDED THE REVERENCE, OF THE CHRISTIAN, MAHOMEDAN, AND HINDU.
Page 16 - Society, the establishment of a mission college, in the immediate vicinity of this capital, to be subservient to the several purposes ; — 1. Of instructing native and other Christian youth in the doctrines and discipline of the Church, in order to their becoming preachers, catechists, and schoolmasters. 2. For teaching the elements of useful knowledge and the English language to Mussulmans or Hindoos, having no object in such attainments CHAP.
Page 421 - They do nothing but by the express sanction of the Metropolitan consulting and employing them : their use of the Anglican Service for themselves and families at one of his Chapels, is agreeable to the catholic practice of these Christians (who allowed the same 250 years ago to the Portuguese Priests, as to persons rightly and canonically ordained, even while they were resisting their usurpations), and is totally unconnected with any purpose of obtruding even that Liturgy upon the Syrian Church :...
Page 408 - ... and divine revelation. At the same time, to those who are not biased by prejudice, and who are, by the grace of God, open to conviction, a simple enumeration and statement of the respective tenets of different sects may be a sufficient guide to direct their inquiries in ascertaining which of them is most consistent with the sacred traditions, and most acceptable to common sense.
Page 279 - Governor-general for the time being, and except all such persons as by law and usage take place in England before our chief-justice of the Court of King's Bench...