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Image from page 348 of “Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon” (1891)
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Title: Indika. The country and the people of India and Ceylon
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903
Subjects: Sri Lanka India
Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts – University of Toronto
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Doctors general pastoral care.At 6.30 I preached again to the Dhurrumtolla congregation,and ordained two men to the ministry. At 8.30 I attended theSeamans Bethel, which was one of the Doctors agencies forreaching the large seafaring population of Calcutta. This wasmy fifth service for the day, with the thermometer among thenineties. In intellectual appearance, in culture, in a profound and breath-less interest in every part of the service, I have never seen thiscongregation in the Dhurrumtolla church surpassed. It is abusy street through the week—say, like Canal Street in NewYork, or Cheapside in London—and yet people in Calcutta make VO.TAQE FROM MADRAS 1 CALCUTTA. 319 no question as to where the church is which they wish to at-tend. The equipages before the church, at the time of themorning service, were so numerous as to make it difficult tocross tlit- street from the parsonage. It is only in the UnitedStates thai the drift of population empties a church in the busi – > r –
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ness part of the city. Even in England, nobody cares thai SaintPauls is at the very heart of London trade, and that Paternoster Row empties into the churchyard, and that the entireellipse is filled with small shops. The church is there, and I 320 JNBIKA. is enough. It is precisely the same in India. It does not mat-ter if the church is in the midst of native houses and petty shops.It is the service of which the religious Anglo-Indians think, andno questions are asked as to where the church is situated. Thelesson is one which we, in the United States, should learn, andbe quick to put into practice.
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