Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIX. THE LAST YEARS OF ALEXANDER DUFF. iR. DUFF exercised a most wholesome influence on the University of Calcutta from the day of its establishment, as a member of the Senate, as the President of the Faculty of Arts, and as a member of the Syndicate. His connection with that learned body was beneficial to the country, not only from an educational, but also from a Christian point of view. It was chiefly through his influence that the Christian element was not entirely eliminated from the studies prescribed for the undergraduates of the University. During the last years of his sojourn in India, Duff was connected with another association, called the Bethune Society, of which he was elected president in 1859; and he continued to preside over it till the day of his final departure from the country. Though the Bethune Society is not a learned body, in the usual sense of that phrase, it afforded Duff an important sphere of usefulness, as it brought him in contact with the best educated and most influential native gentlemen of Calcutta. And the eloquent addresses which he delivered, month after month, at its meetings, though not of a distinctively Christian character, at least made Christianity respectable in the eyes of the native gentry, and sowed in the minds of not a few of the rising generation the seeds of heavenly truth. Towards the end of the year 1862 a new feature was added to the Mission by the arrival of Dr. Robson as a medical missionary. And here I cannot help shedding a tear over the untimely grave--and he died only a short time ago--of a dear friend and brother, and withal one of the most amiable and most excellent of men. Dr. Robson was universally liked by Hindus as well as by Mohammadans for his meekness, for his...
