Indian Recollections

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. 1832. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. Yet there are those who hail the Sabbath day, And rest from worldly toil; whose prayers ascend At early mom to God, and thankful praise Flows in wild numbers. - O let the lay Dwell on the signal victory, obtain'd O'er the dark strength of ignorance.--Lawson. State or Religion In Calcutta--Inattention To THE DUTIES OF THE SABBATH--ANECDOTES CHAP UISS--INDO-BRITONS MR. KTD's WORK INDO USCE TO BE LAMENTED ITS ETILS NATIVE FE AH SCHOOLS BISHOP HEBER's MISTAKE--REV. D.SCHMID'S LETTER ANECDOTES. The moral aspect of Calcutta is much more pleasing now than it was thirty or forty years ago. When the first Baptist Missionaries visited this city of palaces, they could find no Christian friends with whom they could unite in the devotional exercise of the Sanctuary; and in 1803, W they first opened a house for religious wor8ip in Calcutta, very few persons amongst the European residents paid any attention to the sacred duties of the Sabbath--so much so, that it s now often asserted in Calcutta, that the only sible sign of its being the Sabbath day was, the hoisting of the flag at Fort William, and by the same signal floating upon the ships in the river. If indeed any difference was made, it was only to commit sin the more greedily, river parties and nautches being the order of the day. Since that period the conjoined efforts of pious clergymen in the Establishment, and the missionaries of the Baptist and London Missionary Societies, have, under the Divine blessing, produced the most important change in the habits and thoughts of the European and Indo-British inhabitants. At the period above referred to, only two places of Christian worship existed in Calcutta, the Presidency and the Mission Churches, and these were very thinly attended. The Rev. ...