File:Bombay and western India, a series of stray papers; (1893) (14778792764).jpg

Identifier: bombaywesternind02doug (find matches)
Title: Bombay and western India, a series of stray papers;
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Douglas, James, 1826-1904
Subjects:
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
, and call up some most memorable scenes inBombay history. Not all war, nor the piercing asunder of thatbig Maratha cloud which hung over Bombay for a century, butconquests as real, as permanent, and as noble over ignoranceand vice. The godly life and the heroic death are here por-trayed and point the way to the regeneration of mankind.Every man, whatever be the sect or creed that claims him,must feel as he enters these walls that he is in presence of theillustrious dead—illustrious so far to us that they have shed aglory round our island. But we do well also to remember tliat men have been here,and on tliis very spot, who have widely extended the margin of * December, 1815, Scotch Service first held in Courthouse.—BombayCourier, 1815. ilie Bombiy Tract Society was founded in the vestry of St.Andrews Church in 18-7.—Statement of Agent, Bombay Tract Society inSt. Andrews Church, December 4, 1887. First missionaries (American)lauded 1813, were threatened with expulsion.—Ibid. 1^
Text Appearing After Image:
ELI2.V PIVETT. 249 history ami the hounds of pliilusophic researcli. As we treadthese silent aisles we seem to hear voices coming back fromthe ancient days, for you need not doubt that Clive and Nelsonand Wellington have all liecn here, though history records itnot.* So, nothing doubting, we in our own way hll up thegap. Yes, here Arthur Wellesley on bended knees withAungiers silver chalice at his lips may have thanked AlmightyGod for liis great deliverances at Argauni and Assaye frombattle, murder, and sudden death. Here Mackintosh may havebreathed the words wliich he afterwards jienned at Tarala : Ifeel, as in the days of my youth, tliat liunger and thirst afterrighteousness wliich long habits of infirmity and the low concernsof the world have contributed to extinguish. t Or Napier mayhave stammered out, I have ctmquered Sind, liut I have notconquered myself J Long ere this some of the noblest and the fairest in our littlecolony had been gathered into this granary. One notably so,El

Note About Images