Christianity in India: An Historical Narrative |
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afterwards alarm appeared appointed Archdeacon arrived attended authority Baptist Bengal better Bishop Heber Bishop Middleton Bombay Brahmans British Government Calcutta Carey cast century chaplains character Charles Grant Chris Christianity in India Chunar Church Church Missionary Society Claudius Buchanan cloth College congregation converts Corrie Court of Directors declared despatch diffusion duty East India Company ecclesiastical England English in India episcopal establishment European faith favour Gospel heart heathen Henry Martyn Hindoo Hindooism honour House idolatry interest interference Juggernauth labours language lives Lord Teignmouth Lord Wellesley Madras Mahomedan ment mind ministers Mission moral natives of India never officers opinion pagodas Post 8vo preached President priests Protestant Reginald Heber religion religious respect Schwartz Scott Waring Scriptures Serampore sermon servants Simeon sionary spirit temples thing Thomason thought tianity tion toleration Tranquebar truth Vellore visited Warren Hastings whilst worship wrote young zeal
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Page 494 - We declare it to be our royal will and pleasure that none be in any wise favoured, none molested or disquieted, by reason of their religious faith or observances, but that all shall alike enjoy the equal and impartial protection of the law...
Page 216 - Tis in the advance of individual minds That the slow crowd should ground their expectation Eventually to follow ; as the sea Waits ages in its bed till some one wave Out of the multitudinous mass, extends The empire of the whole, some feet perhaps, Over the strip of sand which could confine Its fellows so long time : thenceforth the rest, Even to the meanest, hurry in at once, And so much is clear gained.
Page 213 - I sat in the orchard and thought with sweet comfort and peace of my God, in solitude my Company, my Friend, and Comforter.
Page 415 - First, that the interference of British functionaries in the interior management of native temples, in the customs, habits and religious proceedings of their priests and attendants, in the arrangement of their ceremonies, rites and festivals, and generally in the conduct of their interior economy, shall cease.
Page 209 - But let us hope that the sea-air may revive him ; and that change of place and pursuit may do him essential service, and continue his life many years. In all other respects, he is exactly the same as he was ; he shines in all the dignity of love, and seems to carry about him such a heavenly majesty as impresses the mind beyond description. But if he talks much, though in a low voice, he sinks, and you are reminded of his being
Page 274 - Committee, that it is the duty of this country to promote the interest and happiness of the native inhabitants of the British dominions in India, and that such measures -ought to be adopted, as may tend to the introduction among them of useful knowledge, and of religious and moral improvement.