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Memoir of the Late Rev. John Reid, M.a., of Bellary, East Indies
Memoir of the Late Rev John Reid Ma of Bellary East Indies Author:Ralph Wardlaw Subtitle: Comprising Incidents of the Bellary Mission for a Period of Eleven Years, From 1830 to 1840 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1845 Original Publisher: J. Maclehose Subjects: Bellary (India) Missions Religion / Christian Ministry / Missions Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the orig... more »inal. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VII. PRIVATE AND MISSIONARY LIFE-1836,. 1837. His work was now onerous and exhausting, Mr Hands being gone: -- yet his health and vigour were wonderfully maintained. -- After enumerating his various daily engagements, -- which I purposely omit here, as they occur again immediately in other connexions, -- but which, assuredly, were more than enough to be regularly gone through for any length of time, by even the most vigorous, without a speedy exhaustion of both physical and mental energies, -- and especially by one so anxious as he was that all should be done and done efficiently, and so sensitively self-accusing if aught was left undone, he adds: -- " The Lord is, however, very very gracious, and gives me infinitely more than I deserve of his aid and blessing. That I and my fellow- labourers are not labouring in vain, I have cause for gratitude. There are at present a good many, about ten persons, whom I know to be under deep convictions, four of whom are now candidates for church-fellowship -- two Tamil, and two country-born. Several others are in ahopeful state. These good things keep me up wonderfully ; and, I do hope, make me more diligent and faithful. I would, indeed, desire to be kept humble; and I hope I shall be, for really I see more and more how much I need to be so. What a poor, helpless, sinful, faithless servant of the Lord I am ! Oh, how wonderful that the Lord should...« less