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The Benares Magazine

1852

Secondly there was the important fact that the reported addition to the number of the Chaplains is not only uncontradicted but is distinctly attrbuted to an increased attention on the part of the Goverment if not of the East India Directors to the wants of the Church in this land. [...] Our ancestors of the epoch of the Reformation had reason to be thankful that they lived at a time when no utilitarian Newspaper had ifluence in the Councils of the State for assuredly if such principles could have warped the mind of Elizabeth the publication of the Bible would never have been allowed until ])rake had effected the circumnavigation of the globe. [...] Why should not the members of the services and the whole of the Christian community contribute to the due maintenance of Religion ? Why should not the whole income of the Indian Services bear a tax of one per cent. [...] I I.—The present insufficiency of Chaplains is the Bishop's grievance.;— The present insufficiency will be increased by the Regimental system in the ratio of 3 to 2 ; — Therefore the Bishop's grievance will be increased by the Regimental system in the ratio of 3 to '2."MARCHING CHAPLAINS AND THE FRIEND OF INDIA." 11 We have said that we are no believers in the reality of the conjecture which impu [...] After resting a couple of hours they were supported to the village and coducted' to the house of the native preacher ; and to the honour of these humble Christians let it be recorded that they rceived these destitute and famished Europeans with the most tender solicitude for they felt that they owed a debt of grattude to the race of those who had brought to them the glad tidings of the
humanities general
Pages
183
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120300
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Preface
i-vii unknown view
I.Marching Chaplains and the “ Friend of India.”
1-12 unknown view
II.A Tale of the Sunderbunds
13-21 unknown view
III.Keats and his Friends
22-50 unknown view
IV.The Reformation In England. no. I
51-65 unknown view
V.The Eternity of Sound
66-78 unknown view
VI.The Life and Times of Bishop Ken
79-140 unknown view
VII.A Pair of Pictures
141-157 unknown view
VIII. Native Education in the North-West Provinces
158-174 unknown view

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