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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1860 Excerpt: ... PRIMARY VISITATION. 183-1--1830. ElfDOr 8 CHARGE--VOYAGE TO PEXAXO--SCEXERT--PRODUCTIONS--POPULATION--EPISCOPAL REVIEW--PEXAXO HILL--SINGAPORE--CHURCH BUILDING--SCHOOLS--LAXDIXG AT MALACCA--JOSS HOUSE--DUTCH HOUSE--MOULMEIX--COX8ECRATIOX OP THE CHURCH--CEVLOX--T8 TROUBLED STATE--MARRIAGE LICENSES--BIBLE TRAXSLATIOXS--DUTCH PROPONENTS--COTTA--SPLENDID SCENERY--KAXDV--AN-CIENT TEMPLE--KINO'S PALACE--BBUD'S TOOTH--INTERVIEW WITH ADIGARS AND PRIESTS--BADDEOAME--SEVERE STORM--LANDING AT MADRAS--SOUTHERN MIS-SIONS--CASTE QUESTION--TANJORE--CONFERENCE WITH THE NATIVES--8WARTZ--TIUCUIXOPOLY--CORRESPONDENCE. The primary visitation was held in the cathedral on August 13th, 1834, when twenty-one clergy answered to their names. The sermon was preached by Dr. Mill, the Principal of Bishop's College, and the charge occupied an hour and a half in its delivery. It had engaged the bishop's earnest attention for some months, and had been written and re-written several times. Some excitement almost necessarily followed; so that when the clergy gathered around him, and he commenced his opening address, by saying--" That in the short space of twelve or thirteen years a. fifth Bishop of Calcutta should be addressing his reverend brethren from this chair, is a most affecting memorial of the uncertainty of life, and of the mysteries of the divine judgments. As to man, all is weakness and change. The pastoral staff drops from the hand before it is grasped. Measures are broken off in the midst; and we must look to the mercy of God alone for the settlement and future safety of our apostolical branch of Christ's holy Catholic Church in India;"--his feelings were overpowered; all the circumstances connecting together the past and the present seemed to rush upon his mind; his voice fal...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150166274
- ISBN 13 9781150166273
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages342
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