Bishop Wilson's Journal Letters, Addressed to His Family, During the First ...
Bishop Wilson's Journal Letters, Addressed to His Family, During the First ...
Daniel Wilson
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I wish you could have seen the ceremony yesterday of laying the first stone of our two new Gothic churches, or^ rather, a church and chapel — the immense throng of people, all the soldiers drawn out, all the officers, all the gentry, thousands of natives ! A numerous Masonic Lodge assisted. The Senior Civil Servant laid the stone at the church, and the Brigadier at the chapel. I was much overdone with the exertion of addressing perhaps 3000 people in the open air, whom I contrived to make hear.... To God only be glory, in Christ Jesus! AUahabad, Feb, 12, 1837. I have been meditating this calm, sweet morning, on the ways of the Lord towards me, on the position in which I now am, on my prospects, dangers, duties, fears. I hope Digitized by Google 216 JOURNAL LETTERS. on this day four weeks to be in Calcutta, after an absence of one year and five months. Two passages of Scripture are on my mind ; 2 Cor. vi. and Ps. xlvi. : " By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report : as deceivers, and yet true ; as unknown, and yet well known ; as dying, and, behold, we Kve ; as chastened, and not killed ; as sorrow- ful, yet alway rejoicing ; as poor, yet making many rich ; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.'' Such is the Minister's lot, always remembering the immense inter- val between Apostolic inspiration and power, and our ordi- nary duties and qualifications.
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