JOURNAL OF REV JAMES GLASGOW 1857 -

transcription in progress by John Glasgow Faris, a great great grandson farisjohn@gmail.com

Appointed to missionary service by the Presbyterian Church in Ireland in 1840 he and his wife Mary arrived in Gujarat in 1841. With their two surviving children Minnie (Mary) and Annie they returned to Belfast in 1850.  In 1854 he returned to Gujarat, mainly based in Surat engaged in translation and publishing, leaving his wife and children behind.  A third child Harriet was born in 1851.  His loneliness is apparent and he is transparent about the difficulties of relating to other missionaries.  [?] marks places which I have found hard to decipher.  sic indicates that what may seem to be a mistyping actually reflects the manuscript as e.g. monday for Monday. I add some notes in italics here and there and also page numbers.

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1857- August 1. Saturday, Surat.

I have to commence this volume by stating that today I was visited with a slight fever.  In the evening it passed off; and I retired in comparative refreshment to my rest.  Often I have been visited with fever in this land; and these fevers have generally been [?] induced [?] by riding in the sun.  But it becomes me to record my thankfulness to God, that no fever has ever clung to me; and that from the other disease of India I have been free.  My main source of corporeal ailment is simply occasional indigestion arising from my sedentary life.  I often think that I weakened my constitution while in Castledawson by my frequent public speaking, having addressed meetings in the pulpit and otherwise at home and abroad, five times a week on an average during the five years of my home ministry.  I also think that my despising of warm clothing and medicine tended to take away the freshness of youth prematurely.  But I must not forget that it was the blessing of a sound constitution that enabled me to do this; and that now at the age of 52 that constitution is unbroken and vigorous though not so elastic as it once was.  Let me thank God for strength given me to persevere in duty and humble myself at the thought of how little after all I accomplish.  O Lord!  Give me a saving grace to employ the remnant of my years and days in the work which thou givest me to do.  Whether living alone or re-united to my dear wife, go thou with me up through the wilderness.

Glasgow was minister in Castledawson, Co Tyrone prior to getting married and moving to India in 1840  His wife and children stayed at home when he returned to Gujarat in 1853.

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1857 9 Aug. Sab. - Surat   I preached at  Ambrolia from Heb 2.3 to the company of railway conductors; and visited one of them later in his bed. Was employed during the week as usual at translation (Exodus & Leviticus)  wrote yesterday to my wife and daughter Mary and to Rev J McKee and to Rev Jos. Taylor now in England.

23 Aug. On the 11th. Inst.  I again preached at Ambrolia on Is. 50.11 showing how the lights that men kindle for themselves light them only to sorrow. On the 14th received home letters delayed by weighty rains.  I feel concerned to hear the children are unwell and trust in a day to hear that they are restored to health.  They are returned to Belfast having been removed from Walthamstow.  I trust their education may progress and their souls prosper.  I was gratified that their dear mother had gone with them to Bangor where sea air may benefit her and them.  Yesterday after long delay my poetical tract the [?] Traffic of Faith [?]  was printed off; for the Gujarati Tract Society.  I am writing another to be called if printed ‘Corruptible treasure”.   Yesterday I despatched my letters to my dear wife and second child, and to my brother A. D. G.  Have practically consented to write another review for the Bombay Quarterly.  This morning I preached in Gujarati from 1 [?] Cor [?]. chapt. 2 [?] late half [?]   Have been reading McCosh & Life of [?] Livingle [?], with [?] Reviews [?] etc.

Have to record much gracious dealing with my soul; and believe I feel an amount of strength imparted under the want of which I have often mourned.  But let me again rejoice with trembling and walk humbly with my God.  Oh! my condescending Savior sic draw me near to thee and away from the vile and the low and the impure and every imagination that rises in rebellion against thee.  So fill my heart that I may delight in thee and feel no room for old things.  To thee be glory.  Amen.

Their daughters Minnie (Mary) and Annie were boarders at a school for missionaries' children in Walthamstow, England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walthamstow_Hall

A.D.G. was Adam Dickey Glasgow who served in Gujarat from 1842 to 1855.  In 1857 he was at home and unwell and we shall read on page 14 of his brother’s great sadness that he was advised not to return. 

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1857 Sept. 19 - Friday - Surat.  On the 20 Aug. Thursday evening I preached in the Mission church from  Prov. 4.18 and on the 27th. Aug. from John 17.3 - On 27th August I preached at Ambrolia from 1 Cor. 3.2 and on the 6th Sept. I preached in Guj from 1 Cor. 7.1- - - 31.  On the 13th Sept I preached in Ambroli from John 1.29 On yesterday evening (17th Sept, Th.) I preached in the Mission Church from 1 Pet. 4.18.   

20 Sept. - Sab. - Surat.  This morning I conducted the pub service in Guj. lecturing on 1 Cor. 7.32 to the end. At the [?] springs [?] of last full moon I had a slight attack of fever.  I think it threatened to be considerably serious; but I adopted the American mode of taking quinine at the first feeling of the symptoms.  I took 3 grains of quinine, and after an hour 3 grains more.  The result by the blessing of God was that the fever after a little struggle of the cold fit was conquered and in about two hours I was able to resume my translation work.  Since that time to obviate constipation to which I have almost since my return to India been feeling a growing tendency I have occasionally taken a tea spoonful of tincture of senna with a little magnesia.  I am thankful I feel in very good health at present though in Sept. which I have been led to account more unhealthy than October, - the popularly expected unhealthy month.  I am preparing to write another Review for the Bombay Review on the Antiquities of India and the [?] Indications [?] of the Dispersion of nations.  Have proceeded nearly to the end of Leviticus in the translation work.  Contemplate returning to Rajkot in the month of November.  Have invested £100 in the Govt. 5 percent loan through the Oriental Bank Corporation Bombay.  I think it my duty to live in plain style. Have no furniture which would be worth sale - my property is my library.  To glorify God is the end of my present life; it is so more fully my hope.

 

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1857 - Sept. 27, Sab. - Surat.  …This morning I preached in Ambroli from Mat.7.17…20.  Also in the evening I accompanied Mr Montgomery to the [?] Ghikeuta School  and addressed a considerable [?] crowd [?] of Hindus.  On Wednesday the 23d Instant sic recd. letters from my dear wife and children   thankful for tidings of their continued bodily health  Oh! that their souls may prosper.   When shall I be privileged to see them?  Yesterday news reached us from Lahore via Ahmedabad of the fall of Delhi - no particulars as yet.  Have had communications from the Rev J McKee and the Rev G. Cook &c. &c. with letters from the Secretary of the London Bible Soc.  respecting Mr McKee’s proposal to provide 100,000 N.Test in Guj.  Had also a correspondence with the Rev. W. Wilson and the Rev W. Peyton, in reference to the latter’s contemplating to be a candidate for a collegial situation to ascertain whether he would willingly join our Mission, & whether the Free Church be willing, in order that if no obstacle existed I might represent the case to our Directors, merely for consideration.   May God if he intend to bring any things out of this, enable us to see the way.

Oct. 4. - Sab. night - Surat.  Today I lectured in Gujarati from 1 Cor.8 at 1 o’co.  In the evening a service was observed according to our [?] account [?] for humiliation and prayer for India, in compliance with the Governor General’s invitation.  I preached from Rev.14.1….6  —

Oct. 9. - Fr.  Surat.  Yesterday evening I preached in the Mission Church from Exod. 32.26.  The day before yesterday I had my usual overland - thankful to learn that my family were well - and that my mother was so far restored from her late serious illness as to be able to walk again.  Oh That the light of God’s countenance may shine on her to the close.

Delhi was recaptured from the mutineers on 21 September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Delhi

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The Holy Child Jesus

Jesus went to Zion hill,

When he was of tender age,

So shall the little children still

In the church’s prayers engage.

With his parents there he went

On the solemn festal days;

So let Sabbath time be spent

Sweetly in Jehovah’s praise.

Jesus sat in the conclave

Ne’er before in boyhood shone

Circumstances so sweetly grave.

All with solemn awe looked on.

Hoary rabbis [doctors] with suprize sic

Heard the tender voice of youth

With the wisdom of the skies

Utter mighty words of truth.

Jesus to his mother said

“Did it not occur to thee

It behoves my heart & head

At my Father’s work to be?”

So let young disciples say

“In our morning’s golden prime

We shall serve our God and pray

Event improve our time.”

Jesus with his parents then

To their humble home returned;

More than sinful sons of men

He with holy ardor burned;

Yet with them in sweet accord

He was found in duty’s way.

So let children in the Lord

Learn their parents to obey.

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Jesus grew in wisdom high
While he greater stature gained;
Favor sic in his Father’s eye
And man’s eulogy obtained.
So my Harriet - while days
Once elapsed, no more are thine.
Walking in thy Savior’s sic ways
Learn in moral worth to shine.

1857. - Oct.12 - M. Surat.  Yesterday morning I preached at Amroli from Gals 6.7  Various readings. [?]  In the evening went to a school.  Today I posted letters to Mrs Glasgow & the above verses to Miss H. Glasgow, with letters to my brother Mr A.D. Glasgow and to Rev. J. McKee and one to Dr. Morgan especially on the [?] nations [?] their causes and the signs of the times such as bodies of natives offering up prayers to God.  [?] [?] I have translated the power on “[?] on Earth. [?]” I am preparing the Gujarati Paraphrasis for the press; and am translating some Gujarati songs and writing an article for the Bombay Review.  May God direct and bless my various studies.

Oct .14. Wednesday - Surat  today I received the Manuscript of my Hymns, approved except that the want of funds form an obstacle to their present publication.  The only person opposed to them is Mr Moore, who I am sorry to observe appears to have regarded me with jealous feeling almost ever since his coming to India.  I can discern no cause.  I laboured hard and I believe in the utmost kindness to teach him Gujarati, and like an eagle stirring up the nest.  I did my best to draw him out in speaking.  He seems to have forgot all this.  I pray for charity to throw a mantle over his sin, and for light to know my own heart, — that if I have unwittingly offended him I may [?] feel true [?] repentance .  I pray that his temper [?]s may be mollified.

Harriet was their youngest daughter and great grandmother of this blogger.  Did this poem for her inspire her passion for poetry?  She had verses published as an adult.  Interesting that Glasgow used what we would call American spellings for "favor" and Savior".  

Mr Moore may be Rev Dunlop Moore who served in different countries, ending in Pittsburgh, USA

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1857. Oct.18 - Sab. Surat. Today I preached in Gujarati from 1 Cor 9.1….16  In the evening I accompanied [?]  & Mr [?] Hormasji to the Medurapur school house to address people.  It is the last day of the Hindu festival Devali when the people are [?] mad [?] on their idols.  I have occupied much of the day in reading & meditations, yet cannot boast of cleanness.  I rest in God’s love, but alas I have to reproach myself with much shortcoming.   Oh my God leave me not to myself , for one hour.  Enable me to follow Christ in meekness towards all - towards even any brother who is weak and vain enough to be petulant towards me.  Let no cause of this [?] [?].  Believing that Mr M___e feels so towards me give me wisdom to overcome this feeling with love.

1857 Oct.30. Fr. - Surat.

Last night in the Mission Church I preached in English from Mat.13.33. - This was intended to terminate for the present these week evening services.  On last Sabbath morning I also closed the service at Ambrolia which Mr Montgomery and I have conducted alternately since the beginning of the rains..  I preached from Psalm 89.15.  In both these cases I was enabled to preach with freedom & had expressions of acceptance from some.  May the Lord follow the humble labours with the conversion of souls.  I had from Mr M. a letter in reference to the entry on last page, making awkward apologies.  I have sent to my dear wife the remainder of the Poem “Treasure on Earth.”   I had no letter from her by last mail but I heard from the Rev J. McKee that she and the children are well.

Dec. 4. - Friday -  Rajkot. - After more than a month of journal omission let me record the changes that have occurred.
Received from my dear wife two mails together, as she had [?] one [?] from me.
On the 5 Nov. I sailed from Surat with Messrs Montgomery and Hormasji.  We came down the river in a [?] muchevai [?] and had a [?] person [?] in waiting for us.  We landed in Gogo on the 7th Saturday.  On the following evening I preached from Mat.13.33 in Engs.

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1857.
On Monday the 9th and tuesday sic the 10th we held presbyterial sederunts.  I was appointed to write an admonitory letter to Mr Young [?] in connexion advising him to study Gujarati speaking and to try to teach [?] [?].  I felt thankful that I was able to maintain an unruffled demeanour towards brother Moore.  He seems considerably subdued in spirit, though still displaying something of the pedantry which is his weakness.  I grieve that he is suffering from ulcerated throat and to learn that up to the date of this paragraph he is still not recovered;  [?] [?] may rise from scrofula.  [or not recovered from it; it may rise from scrofula].  How thankful it becomes me to be for the large measure of health I have enjoyed; and how I ought to sympathise with a suffering brother.  I pray that the visitation may be sanctified to me as well as him and that conscious of my own weakness I may grow in charity towards those of brethren, and in love to their persons.  Alas my my poor wayward heart.
On thursday sic the 12th Nov. Mr Hormasji and I started for Rajkot making a stage daily, sabbath excepted which we spent at [?] Dhasa.  We preached on the way in the villages where we [?] stayed [?] & gave away some tracts.  We reached Rajkot on the night of Wednesday 18th Nov.  Coming to Gogo and in Gogo I suffered much from toothache.  I then heard of nitric acid as an effective remedy.  I had it twice and found it effective in instantaneously annihilating the pain.  A slight touch with a pen to the decayed part of the tooth was all.  But the pain returned on the way.  I applied the acid so as to thoroughly saturate the carious part.  The pain disappeared and no twitch even of it has since returned.  I [?] [or I therefore] have to believe the nitric acid if well applied, to effect a remedy both immediate and final, and thus to be invaluable.
On the 22nd. Inst. I preached & read the morning service in the Eng. Ch. - Prov. 4.18

"sederunts" from Latin "they sat"  Presbyterian technical term for meeting or “sitting” of a church court.

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1857- Dec. 4 - Rajkot.  Mr Hormasji has preached in the [?]Lucbdu [?] bazar in the town and in the Pura as well as the Leper Hospital, and conducted the Sabbath vernacular service in the mission house.  I have daily domestic worship  a [?] hall [?] is very useful & servants & others on the premises assembled.

I have been occupied with a carpenter for 10 days in putting up shelving for the Mission books and tracts.  On the 2nd Inst. I sent out [?]Keshavran and [?] Khandra with a [?] hind [?] cart and the Mission [?] bullocks [?] to sells tracts and books.  I pray that God may acknowledge their endeavour to sow the seed and bless the work to these agents as well as to many.
Dec. 6. Sab. night - Rajkot. Today at 11. I read the mg. serv. in the Eng. - Mr Hormasji preached.  Also in Gujarati at 4.  We both taught in the Sabbath school.  I had conversation with different natives who did not resist the truth by words - Oh! when will hearts be opened ?

Dec. 20. Sam. night- Rajkot.  On Dec. 13 I preached in the Engl. Church on Ps.89.15  Having taken Mr H. to various public places to give him an opportunity of addressing people.  Some Parsis have heard him with civility.  In obedience to a resolution of Presbytery I wrote a lengthened admonitory letter to Mr Young respecting the [?] misinformation [?] in advice with the Moderator the Rev. R. [?] Martin.  Mr Young has written a very lengthened reply, which to me is not very satisfactory.  I have spent some time in reviewing a manuscript of Guj. Grammar. by Mr Hope Govt. School Inspector and have made many remarks but recommended its publication.  Today spent in various readings, principally of the views of the older Eng. & Scotch writers on the creation of the World.  Conducted the Sab. School.

The English Church in Rajkot was Church of England.  It shows unity in mission that Glasgow and Hormasji (see Dec 6 above) were as Presbyterians permitted to and willing to conduct worship in an Anglican church.

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1857- Dec.27- Sab. night - Rajkot
On Friday Christmas Day I preached in the Eng. Church on Luke 2.14.  A Christmas Day service (except on a Sunday) is a comparatively recent thing in Irish Presbyterianism, becoming more common post ? 1950.  Glasgow seems comfortable to follow the Anglican pattern of Christmas Day worship, but note that no Christmas Day service is mentioned for the Mission Church.

In the week I sent off sheets of proofs and copy of Numbers to Surat  I translated at Numbers 15, 16, & 17 & finished and sent off to Mr Taylor of Bombay a review of Indian Languages.  I also wrote and copied a reply to Mr Young’s letter to me occasioned by mine to him by order of the Presbytery.  Mr Hormasji left me on Thursday morning.  I found his stay pleasant and hope he was useful while he stayed.  Yesterday I received Dr Morgan’s letter which I posted to Gogo.  Dr Morgan is almost certainly Dr James Morgan, convener of the Foreign Mission Board.

Today [?] answers [?] came.  No letters from Mrs G. or other friends.  On Saturday I wrote to her and to my eldest daughter and to my brother Adam.  I enclosed the first part of a paper to my wife on the first 3 verses of Gen.  And to-day I finished that paper.  I conducted the Sab. Sch.   Attended the Eng. ch. at 11.  And conducted vernacular service at 4.  I am every night reading a scripture lesson to the house watchman or [?] puggy [?] who cannot attend in the day.
Among the [?] disputations [?] of the eternity of matter I spied the following in Dick’s Theol. Let. “If matter be eternal, it is self-existent, - i.e.. it possesses necessary existence.  It must be omnipresent and unchangeable.  From this I add it will follow that there could be no motion.  For matter is impenetrable; ∴ no part could find room to move.  If it be said that the whole universe may be uniformly moving forward, I reply this is impossible for since by the supposition matter is infinite it fills infinite space, &

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no vacuum remains in which it could occur.  Besides motion is change and that which is eternal is unchangeable.

Dick’s 2nd argument against the eternity of matter however is the static fallacy, resting on the false assumption that all infinite are equal.

The voluntary argues that because belief is free and independent, government should not establish any religion. The advocates of establishment argues that government’s belief is that they should establish religion.  If therefore other belief should be supported why not this?
1858, Jan. 1.  I finished the old and introduced the present by writing the 2nd Canto of my Poem “Britain’s Mission” and I sent a copy of it & the 1st Canto written about a year ago to Dr. W. in Bombay.
Jan4. On the 2d and 3d I added a 3d Canto to the above and I sent a copy of the 2d & 3d to Mrs G. today.  Yesterday I preached in the Eng. Church from Ps. 89.15..

Jan.10. Sam. Raj. To-day I preached in the English Church from Is.50.11.  I every sabbath preach in Gujarati and conduct the sabbath school.
Instead of my salary as Guj. Trans. I have received a query why I left Surat without leave? From this I conjecture that my appointment has terminated.  If so I shall believe the matter providential , and intended for good to me and to the Mission.   I was under no engagement to stay in Surat and it was never intimated to me as a station.  But sometimes underlings of government do strange things.
I have been reading Nolan on the Integrity of the Vulg. Greek New Test.  He makes it probable that Eusebius in the Constn. Edn. of the script ejected 1 John 5.7 and changed Acts 20.28 and 1 Tim. 3.16 to favour Arians.  He proves the great antiquity of the old Italic Version - and the existence of 3 recensions. —

Dr W in Bombay is quite probably Dr James Wilson a Scottish missionary who served for a long time in Bombay (welcoming and advising the Irish missionaries in 1841)

Is it a coincidence that Glasgow mentions more of his reading on various topics while In Rajkot?  Did he now have more time, not doing government work?

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1858 Jan.10

Sleep bears the same relation to death that is corporeal death that dreaming does to the disembodied state of the soul.  This analogy might be largely developed but I merely note the idea as one of the millions which pass thro’ my brain and which I might hourly be noting more the book always at hand and did not employments intervene.

1 In sleep the body rests - the mind is active.  Though I believe contrary to Locke that the mind never sleeps, yet for the present analogy it is enough that it dreams, - often dreams.  At those times at all events, it seems as if away from the body, and to see things which are not present to the bodily vision, even [?] more  tho [?] not covered by them lives [?].  So while the body slumbers in the tomb, the soul is active and conscious.
2 A good conscience produces pleasant dreams and the spirit of the godly reconciled in Christ and sanctified, will enjoy a blessed state of consciousness between death and the resurrection.

3 Sleep implies wakening, and reunites the mental consciousness with the bodily organization.  Before we dreamed to hear and to see, when the ear and eye were not at all at play.  Now these organs are again enlisted in doing their day’s work the soul.  So the soul that maybe wandered in the [?] survey [?] of God’s vast works, will at the resurrection combine its bodily and mental functions.

4 Body & mind rise refreshed from sleep, - especially the former.  So will the body rise - a glorified body, and the soul refreshed with heavenly beatitude unite with it in God’s everlasting praise and service.
Various analogies are tenable [?].
1858 Jan 24 - Sab. night -Rajkot. On last Sab.I preached in the Eng. church from Exodus 32-26.  In the afternoon in Gujarati from 1 Cor.11 to 22.  Today I did not preach in Eng. as the chaplain is at the 

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station.  At 4 p.m. I preached in Guj. from 1 Cor.11.23 to end.  Had interesting conversation with two inquiring Mohammadans together and me alone.  I have finished Nolan, and followed it by re-reading Dr Davidson and the Rev. Scott Porter on 1 John 5.7.  I think they do not at all answer Nolan who has decisively proved that the African church was for the [?] truth [?].  The celebrated passage in Cyprian is undoubtedly a quotation of 1 John 5.7, but not 5-8 as attempted as attempted to be evasively but poorly shown.  I think Nolan is right regarding the disciplina arcani.  It is a part of Romish policy.  The Romish church were right in attempting to retain the verse, but in this as in almost everything their crooked policy has marred the truth.  I think too Nolan is right in showing that the text even if admitted is not nearly so strong  proof of the doctrine of the trinity as the numerous other other N. Test. testimonia.  If I were a unitarian sic in the sense in which disbelievers in the trinity sic absurdly as well as calumniously arrogate the term, the phrase “these three are one” would not embarrass me for a moment, - without a noun to either of the numerals, while the baptismal commission and the apostl. benediction would I think move me to silence; for they are not an abstract which may be explained at [?] [?] at Nestorians, Eutychians Sabellians &c did; but equal honour and prayer directed to the divine three.
Oh God purify my soul, enlighten me to do thy will and grant me to know of the doctr. whether it be of God, that from all error I may be preserved — whether under the name of orthodoxy or heterodoxy, - make me to detect [? detest] and spurn it.  And sanctify me through thy truth in Christ  Amen.

Within Glasgow's lifetime the Synod of Ulster by which he was ordained had identified itself as orthodox and trinitarian in doctrine with a requirement to subscribe the Westminster Confession of Faith as a subordinate standard for truth and against error.  There emerged in 1840 with the union of two orthodox synods the Presbyterian Church in Ireland (whose first act was to appoint James Glasgow and Alexander Kerr as missionaries to India).   So this was a live issue.  The manuscript tradition "Textus Receptus" has at 1 John 5.7 "in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one" It is generally accepted that this is a later addition.  Glasgow seems to be moving to that position, basing his affirmation of the Trinity on the baptismal formula in Matthew 28.19 and the apostolic benediction in 2 Corinthians 13.14. [but see his comment top of p 14 on the Waldensians, a pre-Protestant Christian movement founded by Peter Waldo c. 1173].  His prayer following shows that this for him was no mere matter of theological debate.

"disciplina arcani" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disciplina_arcani) "teaching of the secret"  was a point of controversy between Protestants and Roman Catholics, the latter arguing that sensitive points of doctrine such as the Trinity and the nature of the Eucharist were taught through secret oral tradition.

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     That the Waldenses in their ancient worship and Conf. possessed 1 Jo. 5.7 is a most decisive  and unanswered point. Next to Scripture I give credence to them.
      1858 - Jan- 29 - Rajkot. [?] In.

       Received this day the overland bringing me the important but not pleasing news that my brother has resigned his post of Indian missionary.  His long continued nervous state of health made him and his friends apprehensive that he might not be fit for the Indian climate again.  I must acquiesce in the will of providence.  I believe that this will be made subservient to purpose of good.  I pray that God may bless it to my brother and his family.  And open other paths of usefulness before him and that he may send forth labourers in his harvest.  I feel deeply at the thought that I may never see my brother in this life.  My heart runs over all our early [?] merriment and all our intercourse in our [?] adult [?] life.  Oh that we may be led in the path of holiness to meet in the Gen. Assembly above. See the closing remark in this Journal in 1890.  Let me indulge in the hope that even in this pilgrimage , in Ireland, or in America, it may be given me to see him and his —-

     1858. Feb. 8 - Mon. Rajkot. — Yesterday I preached in the Eng. church from 1 Cor.2.2. and in the afternoon in Guj. from Mark 9.1 …. 12 —- am reading “Miller’s testimony of the Rocks.” and Livingstone’s Book of Central Africa.  Witnessed for the 1st time in my life an execution.  Baptised child of Mrs Simpsons sic ——
      Feb.14. Sab.night - Rajkot  Today I preached in the English Church from 1 Cor 10-31. and in the mission house at 4 ocl. from 1 Cor.13.  Had an audience of the goldsmith caste and half a dozen of the 

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[?] grasici [?] and other castes after the service.   Have been greatly moved at the tidings of my brother’s resignation of the Mission.  Yesterday on reading his letters detailing it to me I felt constrained to retire and commend him to God in prayer.  This in some measure relieved my heart, yet I could not rest the quarter part of the night.  The services of the sanctuary may have had a comforting effect on my mind —- and I have freely and I hope affectionately laid before him my advices and expectations as to the future.  How strange and often how dark is the way in which we are led.  Oh! that God may make [?] in clearer light and more strength to serve him — that my brother’s want of confidence in himself may be made to give place to strength by grace and that he may in a cold climate be blessed with more bodily vigour.  And oh that I may be enabled in faithfulness to persevere in my  missional work, and may be privileged to meet many as crown of rejoicing in the day of the Lord Jesus. - On the 18th Ash Wednesday I preached in the English church from Joel 2.12 “Rend your hearts &c”  As on Christmas Day 1857 Glasgow is content to observe an Anglican ritual tradition and is invited to preach.  Contrast his conflict with Rev Robert Easum in Ahmedabad in 1861 p 82 

          1858 - Feb. 22st Sab night - Rajkot

     Today preached in the Eng. from Acts 9.11 “Behold he prayeth.” In Guj. at 3 ½  from 1 Cor. 13 last half .  and in Eng. at 5 in the Mission house from 2 Cor. 5.20 “We pray you in Christs sic stead” &c. after which I baptised a child belonging to a Mrs King wife of a trumpeter .  24 - Wednesday - Raj. - My mind saddened at my own condition.  I am to myself a mystery. My heart tells me I rely on Christ alone.  I am conscious of no doubts as to the [?] fulness [?] of Christ’s grace its fulness and applicability to me.  I am also deeply impressed with the belief that I have felt and feel its effect in my heart.  Why then have I not more comfort? Or is it so that in my loneliness, Satan is permitted to

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sift me as wheat?  Oh! that my victory over the old man were as complete as my delight after the new man.
          I am reading Livingstone’s Travels in Africa.  The features of heathenism there are very like what they are here.

          The trial of the so called King of Delhi is proceeding.  I think it proved that the plot preceded and led to the late Persian War.
         1858 - Feb.26. Th. night Rajkot
              My mind has been repeatedly puzzled by remarkable and not very pleasing features of poor humanity —— the disposition of juniors to push their seniors to the wall.  In every profession we find those of each stage of life pressing hard on those just before them or [?] these [?] on their antecessors.  The juniors who scoff their seniors seem to make no account of the fact that they as fast as they become seniors are destined to be treated in the very same style.  It is a part of the same general principle by which a young man despises the experience of others.  He thinks himself too wise for that.  It may be very good for others but what needs he  [?] he for its [?] seesaws?  Now generally the one who thinks he has the least need for it is just for that reason the very one who needs it most.

              I remember well when reforming measures were all the order of the day in the church of my fathers; and it was found necessary to set aside some old men under suspicion of their being tainted with erroneous doctrine.  Now this was all right.  But there lurked in it very much of a feeling that an old man just because he was an old man was a dunce.  I have lived to be the 

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victim of this propensity in only a single case.  The junior in question probably does not think what he is doing.  It is more with him the nature of pedantry than aught else.  He thinks all the learning in the Mission is between his two shoulders  Those who have a more extended and thorough knowledge of science by far than he are nothing in his estimation; and those whose knowledge of Indian languages are greater than he will ever acquire are in his estimation no better than [?]  ….ish [?] prattlers.  I trust he wills settle down into more of good sense, and the prevalence of his better feelings.  One thing that may be expected to contribute much to his cure, will be his own treatment by juniors in the course of events.  This I trust may be blessed for his good.
       1858. Occupied to-day (26 Feb) in correcting a proof sheet of the first 4 chapters of Numbers.

            Have been thinking why it is found so difficult to procure missionaries; and think the chief reasons as follows

         1 The want of numerous baptisms.

          2 My own residence here without my wife makes them think it a life of great privation.

          3  The disturbed state of India.

           4  The demand at home and in the other missions.
            5 I fear there also exists a want of spirituality.

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1858 - Mar. 17. W.- Rajkot  On the 28 Feb I preached from Rev. 2.7;  on the 7th Inst. from Acts 27.31; and on the 14th. Inst. from Luke 14.23.  all in Eng.  During the same time, at the Guj. service, I have expounded 1 Cor. 14 & 1st part of 15. —
     21 March - Sab. Rajkot - preached on 2 Tim 3.16 - and on 28th March from the same subject.  Have been going on with the Guj. Sabbath Services as usual - and with the Sab. school.  Have had numbers of people in the evenings.  Two or three individuals seem to be impressed with the truth.
     Have finished in my translation with Deut.
     April 12.  Have finished Judges and am now employed on the book of Job and have done 11 chapters.  If I am spared to finish Job and Psalms I hope to translate the Minor Prophets.

     Have written some weighty and important public and private letters on which I humbly supplicate the div. blessing.  They will be found in my letter books.  One is a letter to the Directors, proposing to be permitted to go home next year & to write a work on the present Position of India and the duties of Christians with the prospects.  May the Lord in this bring his own will into operation and make it work for his church’s good and mine & the conversion of men.  I do not repine at my loneliness here.  But I feel oh! I feel it. Yes with an intensity of which before I had no conception. For never in my life was I thus left alone before except in

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the time of some of my tours through the province.  After my return I was at one time with my brother and sister here,  sister = sister-in law Adam Glasgow’s wife at another with Mr & Mrs Wallace; at another with Dr & Mrs Wilson in Bombay, at another with Mr Montgomery and Mr & Mrs Wallace in Surat.  Now I can stand at peace with very few Europeans and only about two of them with whom I can associate.  I meet with plenty of natives but ah! that is not [?] society except during the time of giving instruction.    My musings my desk works my walks my rides my meals all all are [?] monotony.  I endeavoured to court the society of a few pigeons but they were too shy to come to the door to be fed.  The rats [?cats] have left my dwelling - so scanty is the [? their] supply of food.  They experience different times from those when children were scattering their crumbs in all directions.  The lizards seem so small as not to attain their healthy growth.  My sparrows are not one in ten of what were in former days.  Even the house flies seem to me lean and poor compared with those of former years, though to this privation I could well submit.  But let me not forget the great in the little __ I have tolerable health, though sedentary and comparatively languishing [?] as much as I require, plenty of books, no lack of work —-  And most and I must best of all although for a time [?almighty] and merciful God has tried my soul and out of severe conflicts brought to the enjoyment of much peace.  Oh! let it redound Messiah’s praise —-

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1858 — April 18 Sab. night - Rajkot.

    Conducted the sabbath school in the morning.  Pub. worship at 4 in Guj. from the end of 1 Cor. 15.  Have proceeded half through the book of Job in Guj. Translation.  Spent to-day in reading from the book of Job, with Barnes and other commentators Barnes - Albert Barnes, an America Presbyterian (1798-1870) whose commentaries were widely used.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Barnes_(theologian)

and annotators, and also in readings from [?] Grab. Hon. Mos. [?]   Am also engaged in preparing a 1st Gujarati Reading book for Government, and I have above 50 pages done of the translation of Keightly’s Outlines of History.  Keightly’s Outlines of History  was one of the early volumes of Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia (1829) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Keightley   I commenced last week a proof of Numbers 6 to 10 and of nearly the last of Guj. Hymns.

   1858 May 21- Fr.-Rajkot.

                 A list of the principal
                 Essays, letters, papers, Reviews, which I have    
                 at different periods published.

1 A Paper on the State of Religion, — published in the Orthodox Presbyterian. vol 2 [?] 1826
2 Reports of the Belfast Juvenile Society
3 Verses in a publication of said society.
          Note. __ I was Secretary of this Society for some years in the earlier part of my college course.  We held annual meetings and monthly meetings -
raised funds at a penny a week, and voted them annually to the leading Missionary Soc.  Pres. Epis. Meth. Baptist Morav. &c and to Tract & Sunday & Bible Societies.  I thus learned catholic principles which I can never forget.
4. The Sunday School Jubilee —

Belfast Juvenile Society: probably not to be confused with the Belfast Juvenile Association, auxiliary to the Ulster Society for Promoting the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind.  The Wellcome Collection https://wellcomecollection.org/works/vtef36g5 (accessed February 2021) carries reports from the late 1830s, where it seems that school students met in an auxiliary type of group, raising money and being entitled also to vote for recipients of benefit.  But the Juvenile Society that Glasgow mentions raised funds for missionary work rather than for social outreach.

Morav. = Moravian 

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published by McComb.  I wrote the [?] Novation [?] part of it.

5. A Critique on a pamphlet against Presbyterianism by the Rev. J. Carlile Belfast — vol. 5. —pp. 19
6 A Defence of the same in reply to an attack on me by Mr Godkin.

7 A n Essay written for the Divinity Hall and read also in the Common Hall and published in the Orth. Presbytn. “On the Preparation for the Coming of Christ.”
The Common Hall was and is (fully rebuilt 1965) the central meeting place of Belfast Academical Institution (now RBAI)
8 Enigmas on [?] at different Times in the Belfast Almanac.

9 Mathematical Questions and solutions in the same.
10. A Letter in the Ulster Times Newspaper and a second in the Newsletter in reply to attacks on Presbyterians in the former paper at the time of publication in [?] Derry of Presbyterianism Defended.
[in left margin beside 10] Christian Ethics series in orth sic Pres vol. 5 pp. 15-

11 one or two pieces of poetry and Letters on Creeds in the Dublin Record.

12 Papers on Church Government in the Orth Press 2d series vol.1. pp.20 vol.3 pp 7

A pastoral Letter in Do. written when I was in the South on the Mission work.  pp 13- Note. On that occasion I was instrumental in commencing the congregation of Moyvore.  Rev. of Presbytn. Def. Do. vol.2 pp. 10.

Dr W. A Addley in his pamphlet "Dr James Glasgow" [Belfast Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland 2016?] pp 17-18 surmises that this work in Co Westmeath in the summer of 1838 was undertaken in part as a preparation for church planting in Gujarat and that there were common methods between mission work in the South and West of Ireland and those employed in Gujarat.  Moyvore Congregation was linked with Mullingar in 1915 and closed at some point after that.  Addley notes that the Pastoral Letter was addressed to the Congregation of Castledawson and may have been intended as a farewell address.

[in left margin beside 12]  Review of our Scottish Forefathers do.  pp. 5 Killinchy Do. pp. 6

13.  The Calendar in the 1st [?] November of McComb’s Almanac 1840.

14.  Letters in the Herald continued from the time of my landing in India.

15.  Poetry at some times in the [?] Oriental Christian Spectator and [?] also in the Nation’s Friend.

Oriental Christian Spectator, a periodical founded by Dr John Wilson from 1830 to 1860.  https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wilson,_John_(1804-1875)_(DNB00)

16.  A Editorial on the [?] Millerians in the Bombay Gazette.

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17  A Paper in the O.C. Spectator on the Qualifications for the Christian Ministry.

18  Extract from a Sermon on the death of the Rev. A. Kerr.

Rev. A. Kerr Alexander Kerr his pioneer colleague who died in Rajkot of fever in August 1841

19  Three [?] Letters on Christian Union published in the Bombay Gazette previously to the formation of the Evangelical Alliance.
20  Papers in the Natives Friend on [?]Macius’ Co-d-e.
21  A Paper on Baptism in the O.C.S.
22  Specimens of my English versions of some Psalms in O.C.S.
23  Do. in Banner of Ulster.

24  Prefatory Remarks on my Gujarati version of the Psalms.

25  Translations of Jain Hymns in C.C.S.
26  Sermon in O.C.S. on Joshua 22.20.
27     Do.           Do.    on
28     Do.           Do.    on Dan 2.44
29  Appeals on behalf of the Mission in Do.
30  The Heart of Faith in Do.
       republished by Guj. Tr. Soc. under the name of The [?] Traffic of Truth.

Guj. Tr. Soc. Gujarat Tract & Bible Society still in existence.

31.  Papers in the Irish Presbyterian and poetry in Do.
32.  One or [?] letters in Children’s Miss Herald.

33  Sermon in C.C.S. on Hindu Errors.

       ————————— on Future State.

34. Papers in [?] Guyananpaht. [?] on East & West, and Pecularity of [?] World’s Astronomy.

35  Review in Bombay Quarterly on Wilson’s Book on Infanticide.

Wilson’s Book on Infanticide published in Bombay in 1855 by Dr John Wilson a long time friend and adviser to the Irish Presbyterian missionaries.  https://books.google.gg/books?id=RHsOAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_book_other_versions_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

36  Review of Allen’s Book on India.

37 ———— Caldwell’s Compendium [?] lyceum of Indian Languages

38  Treasure on earth a Poem in O.C.S.
39  Britain's Mission in Do.
40 - on the Being and Attributes of God. ——————— 

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                                 Gujarati Publications

60 - 1  Christian Conduct

24    2  Small coll. of Hymns.

68    3  Prayers.

32 - 4 A Tract on the relapse of a convert.

150  5 — Publn of 50 Psalms.

51 - 6.  On the Being & attributes of God.

45   7.  1st Reading Book   .

52   8.  2nd Ed. of Do. enlarged & improved 

104   9  course of Instruction

342 - 10 Scripture Extracts, with commentary

452 11 Psalms.

88 {12  Paraphrases

     {13  Original Hymns

     {Translated Hymns

104  15 — course of [?] apologetic New Edition

         16  Books of New Test. viz.

1572

     Old. Test.    viz.

[in left margin]

Many papers in the O.C. Spect. 

and in the Guyan [?] dijuth in 1857,

1858, 1859, 1860

1867  Feb Mar & Apr Work of Spirit and its relation to Baptism pp 20

Review of Wilson’s Lands of the Bible.

Rev of Morgan’s Essays  ?? Vol. pp 12

Review of Ida [?] [?]  Irish Pres. Vol. pp 120

India   Irish Press. vol. pp 5

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1858 — May 1.. Sat. Rajkot.  On the 29th of the last month we had another shower accompanied with thunder and lightning.  A flood was produced in the river.  I have finished the book of Job in Guj. transl.  Thanks to God for the providence which has brought me this far.  Today I commence the Book of Psalms.  Oh! May the Spirit give light.  It is my purpose if this fulfil God’s good purpose to proceed with the Minor prophets after the Psalms.  Other books will I trust be done by other well qualified hands.

June 7. — Mond. Rajkot.  Have been very closely occupied during the month with translation & correspondence (see Letter Book)  My Edn of the [?] Book of Nat. Theo is sustained by Govt. & ordered to be printed.  I have finished my revision of the [?] Class Book; but I fear my restoration of of scriptural passages omitted in the former Edition may not be sustained as Government may sic timorous on the subject.  I have had no English service, as most of the Europeans have been at the sea side, except of some pensioners and their wives on sabbath sic and thursday sic evenings.  In the beginning of this month I had an [?] examination of the schools, & gave some books as prizes, and some bits of clothing to the little girls.  Had a letter from a friend in Bombay to-day, expressing approbation of my last review in the Bombay Quarterly.  Had an account from my dear wife of her having suffered from a severe attack of the Indian fever.  It is trying to be far away in such circumstances; and all I can do is to bow to God’s will and await 

Indian fever is likely to be malaria which can recur over years.  At this point the Glasgows were till least than half way through their ten year period of separation.

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the appointed period of our reunion — whenever God may evolve that time. 

1858 - June 30 - W - Rajkot.  Have finished a lengthened Review of Livingstone’s travels in Africa and sent it to the Bombay Quarterly - at the request of the publisher.  I pray that it may do good to readers.  I have endeavoured to write like a chris ian [?Christian] on geography, geology, zoology, Botany &c.  I have also finished a Paper on the Scripture Doctrine of Angels proving as I believe that the souls of believers in heaven are angels.  I feel it somewhat remarkable that my mind was drawn several days before the 30th May on which day I began to write that paper [ later insertion afterwards followed up in a series] - and I have learned by a letter from my dear wife today, that on the 21st May my beloved mother departed this life.  Could it be that her spirit had intercourse with mine soon after its separation from the day [?clog] of clay?  Oh! my mother, if in the arrangement of Providence thou art permitted to visit me and be my “ministering spirit”, how wilt thou feel interested in me in the stranger’s land.  Let me avoid even in thought every that would have wounded thy sanctified feelings when thou wert on earth.  Though thou art not an object of worship thou art an object of love.  Though to make thee an intercessor were to sin against my Redeemer, and to do what thou wouldst forbid as the angel forbid John to worship him - yet as thou didst in my tender years [?] describe a blessed influence over me, so may thine angel ministrations be to me a means of grace - and of consolation.  I believe thou art

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now in Heaven because I am well assured thou didst trust in Christ and love him in the days of thy pilgrimage.  Beloved mother my heart yearns and drops come to my eyes when I think of thee.  But I am not sad.  I sorrow not as those who have no hope.  Thy heart Christianity was one of the means perhaps the great means owned of God to make me a Christian.  Thy influence was always on the right side.  Long long have I learned from thy example to respect a prudent and conscientious mother favourable for the remainder of my pilgrimage on earth.  With thee and other ones beloved on earth I trust to sing my Savior’s sic praise.  And now O gracious God, my Father, my Redeemer my Sanctifier, bless this dispensation to my growth in grace; and enable me more fully to think feel live and act to thy glory.  Amen

1858 - July 12 - Monday - in Rajkot.
On 20th June I resumed service in the mission house in Eng. & preached from 1 Peter 4.18.

June 27 from Tit. 2.11

July 4 from Tit. 2.12,13

July 11 from Tit. 2.14

On the 21st May I spent some time in writing out a list of the various papers and fragment sic I have published in the course of my life.  In doing so, I cannot tell how, but the subject of angels was so formed in my mind that for some days I had it constantly in my thoughts and I from the first and I from the first jotted down some thoughts as they arose tis it grew into five letters which I addressed to my wife in my [?  Biummsutterly] - and I have sent the whole to the Editor of the O.C.S.under the title of letters to a lady.  I have I believe 

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proved from Scripture that the souls of believers in Heaven are angels.  When I learned [?] last overland of my mother’s death on that day 21 May, a train of thought came with lightning rush over my mind, and I could not and cannot now resist asking myself could the spirit of my mother have visited me on the very [?occasion] of its separation from the body and awakened that course of thought that grew into my letters on angels?  That it was so I cannot prove.  That it is probable I believe; for I see clearly that the ministering spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation are angels but chiefly angels of Adam’s race.  These whole trains of thought have been in my mind a fountain of happiness.  I thank God for them, - by whatever ministration they came.

Today I posted letters to my daughter my brothers Adam in Belfast and Robert in Australia.  I enclosed to the latter and to my wife copies of verses entitled “To my mother in the angel world”.  I also enclosed verses on Prayer and God’s laws, suggested by news of the last mail that my daughter Annie was severely ill with scarlatina.  Though I give way to no gloom and though my wife’s letter was encouraging and I hope in a few days to hear of her recovery I know the awful nature of that malady and cannot avoid the question how shall I bear it if unfavourable tidings come.  Oh God if yet she is in the land of sic living & it be thy will restore her to serve thee in life and to be the light of my eyes.  If thou hast as I trust but know not already restored her let not thy goodness be forgotten by her, or her sisters or her parents - and let us be more abundant in thy service and more athirst for thy grace.  Amen.

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1858 - Aug 8 - Sab. night Rajkot.

On the 18 July my text in Engs. was Rev.1.7.

———-25————————————Ps. 89.15

———-1 Aug——-————————-Prov.4.18

———-8 ————————————-2 Tim.3.15

To my papers on Angels I have added a letter proving that Gabriel is a created angel of human origin and making it probable from Script that he and Moses are the same person.

  Today I commenced an examination of the subject of angel ministration and pray that it may be as pleasant and as profitable to my mind as the previous letters have been.  I sent to the O.C. Spect. the verses which I transmitted last mail to my daughter.  I have been written to from Bombay recommending me to have my Letters on Angels republished at home.  This I may perhaps do when I complete the subject.  I am written to to sic to write a review of an Infidel production of an Indian officer  - rather an exposée of it.  I am also written to review Dr Wilson’s forthcoming work on India 3000 years ago.
The last 3 mails have brought me accounts of sickness in my house-Annie especially very ill with scarlatina.  She was so much better as to have walked downstairs twice.  I am anxiously waiting to hear by next mail what her state is.  I fear too her mother may be over fatigued tending her - And I am far off and cannot tend even sympathy until a month too late.  Even prayer comes late; I may now pray for her recovery and she already, or already enroled sic in heaven.  Still I have this privilege that the misfortune may be sanctified to me and my dear ones.  I have finished the Translation of the Minor Prophets - But I still have much work.  The prospect is that I may have to go to reside in Surat until transln of Bib. is finished and publishd.

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1858-Aug.14- Sat. night. Raj. I recd home letters.  My dear Annie; but her mother I fear greatly weakened - I wrote yesterday - also wrote my sister and Mr Doads of Clough in reply to a letter & receipt from the heir [?] of the money I had voluntarily paid to the Crawfords.  Though I was not of “of” inserted in different colour of ink and possibly different handwriting - Tenant Right was a cause close to the heart of his daughter Harriet and her husband John Acheson.  It is possible that she inserted the comment. opinion that the landlord had been wronged by my father yet lest my judgment should be wrong, I felt called on by conscience to remove [?] the possibility of an error on the side of my father.  The parties who as landlords received the money proposed to publish to my honor [?], but I have refused consent, not thinking it suitable to be trumpeted..  I thank God for putting this into my heart because Mr Doads informs me two of the parties are very poor - one especially Mr W. Crawford. [the next comment inserted in different colour of ink and possibly different handwriting]  Tenant right would have refused this payment as over payment of rack rent?

I have finished the Exposée of the Infidel book in a Poem of about 500 lines in two parts. - the Universiad.  I sent the first Part to Dr W.  I have made out upwards of 20 Theorems on the common [?] diagram to Euc. 1.47 and entered them in another Memorandum Book.

15th Sab.Evg - Rajkot.  This morning I preached in Eng. from 1 Cor 10-31 - School.  Guy,. serv. at 4.  An interesting visit of two [?] Dhundias from [?] Sarahai.

Yesterday I finished a satire of about 500 lines on a small Book by Gen Jacob called “The Progress of Being in the Universe” - a grossly infidel in its character.  I propose sending it to Dr W. for publication if he think it calculated to be useful.  I pray that it may be [?] digested for good.  I have attacked its error with unsparing hand, but as I believe I never saw the author I have no personal feelings.   https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lpG1CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT36&lpg=PT36&dq=“The+Progress+of+Being+in+the+Universe”&source=bl&ots=qP88s4F7yf&sig=dj5d5uMGYimdrlbqp00cEupBadY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjp_fHIweHYAhWPHsAKHaH7AiEQ6AEIKzAB#v=onepage&q=“The%20Progress%20of%20Being%20in%20the%20Universe”&f=false gives an account in the Saturday Review of General John Jacob 1812-1858, an officer in NW India whose "small book" was fiercely attacked by some clergy.

1858 - Aug - 29. Sab night Rajkot.

I preached this morning from Exodus 33.19 in Engs  [?] Later in Gun. on Gal 6.8 to end.

In my Thursday evening prayer meetings I have lectured on the Rev. from the beginning to 16th. chapter.

I had letter from one of a party of pensioners who have gone to Deesa speaking strongly of the benefit the whole party had 

Letter from Annie to her father
Donaghadee

July 23rd 1858

I cannot send more to keep underweight.
My dearest Papa
We are at Donaghadee now, at Miss Smiths she has got some pretty canary birds four young ones and two old ones one of the young ones is so pretty it is black and yellow  Harry and I went in one day to see them the smallest of them is covered with down  Miss Smith has got such a nice little nest for them.

Willie is staying with us for a week he came down on Monday morning.

Sinclare Minnie Willie and Harry are going to walk out to Mrs Montgomery’s this afternoon if it is fine  Mamma and Aunty and I are not going.

We have got a scrap-book and we are putting pictures in it we bought the book we have done the first two or three pages of it.   I remain your loving Annie.

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derived at which I feel thankfulness that the field of usefulness was opened to me.

I have sent to the press all the revision of Dr W.’s Translation of Joshua; and am now sending my own Translation of Judges.

Received this day the overland.  While thankful that my daughter seems recovered I am grieved to learn that Mrs Glasgow received such a shock from entering into the sea that she was insensible for some days.  This makes feel the trying nature of my position.  Oh that God may sanctify the whole course of this providence to me and mine.  And may [?] patience crown my feeble labours here.

1858 - Sep 5 - Sab. Evng.  On Wednesday and Thursday last, I went to the public [?] mula [?] or fair held annually at Rajkot & preached the Gospel.  Many were attentive.  One conceited youth opposed.  I asked him to reconcile the divine justice and mercy & thus got rid of him.  During the week I have preached much in the house.  My thursday sic evening lectures in English on the Rev. continued.  Last thursday sic evening I finished the 16th. Chapt.  My view the result of my studies in these lectures is that the 7th Trumpet sounded at the Reformation.  And that the 1st vial represents the Jesuit Institution; —— the 2d the wars excited [?] since the Reformation for the suppression of Protestantism; —- 3 the retribution these brought upon the papists; —— 4th Military experiences; —— 5 Papal darkness 6th Turkey wasting.  7th Begair [?] in 1848.  The 3 frogs are Despotism, Popery and Islam —- suggested by Pharisees Sadducees, & Essenes.

Today I preached in English from

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Acts 27.31 and in Guj. from the beginning of the Epistle to the Ephesians.  Both times I felt considerable freedom and felt thankful.  It, the Guj Serv. had several native hearers who were attentive.  I spent the rest of the day after the school in studying the subject of Angel Ministration, and writing of the commencing thoughts respecting and collating the Scripture Testimonies.  The 5 Letters I have sent to O.C. Spectator on Angelology have appeared.  I purpose to send them more.  May the Spirit of Grace guide me to write truth and only truth.  Amen.
1858.  Sept.15. W. Rajkot On Sabbath mg last I preached in Eng. from Rev. 2.7, and in the eveng in Guj on Eph. 1.3 …13.  A munshi formerly baptised by Dr W. Bombay came here.  I think of trying him in the work of a catechist.  On the night of the 13th. inst. I dreamt that I was made Moderator of the Gen. Assembly and that a member said to me “It is now 10 o’cl and you must have your opening address ready by 12.  I began to ponder what I should say; and I awoke, and behold it was a dream.  The morning after I was writing one of my [?] sections on angels and among other things a para on dreaming.  Had it been the morning before I should at once have said, the writing of that para was the suggester of the dream.  As it is, it is possible the train of thought that led to the writing of the para may have suggested the dream, though memory could not trace it.   I was a little curious to know whether any tidings from home, such as the death of the present Moderator who is an aged man, might at all correspond with it.  I could not think of any occurrence applicable to myself to which it could point of containing in it any intimation.  My overlands have just come and contain nothing of the kind.  I am thankful my dear wife was improving in health though still very weak.  She longs to see me at home.  Oh! that God may instruct me what I ought to do and order all for our our spiritual; and provide for our bodies as he knows best.  I think in the month of November I shall proceed to Surat there to remain while engaged in the Bible in Guj.

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1858 — Sept. 19 — Sab. Evg.  To-day I preached in Eng from Is.60.22 and in Guj. from Eph. the last part.

Sept. 26  No Eng serv. to-day as the Christian families who waited on my ministry had left the station.  Had Guj. serv. at 4 [preaching from Eph. 2.1 DELETED] conducted by the Rev. H. Pestonji who had arrived here last night with his family from Gogo.

Oct.3  None came for Eng. serv.  Mr H. preached in Guj. and dispensed the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper in Guj. We had 8 communicants.  On Thursday and Saturday evenings we held preparatory prayer meetings.

On Monday we sent out 3 men in colportage.  Colportage is the distribution of publications, books, and religious tracts by carriers called "colporteurs" or “colporters”, a practice carried out in Ireland for very many years by the Irish Mission of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.   

Oct. 10. The Rev H. Pestonji conducted Eng. and preached from [BLANK]  After the sermon I baptized the infant son of Capt. J. S. Brown 1st assistant Pol. Agent.  Some officers attended. 

Oct. 17  I preached from Prov. 27.7 in Eng.  I am hopeful some officers may become attenders.

On tuesday sic and friday sic last we had an Examination of the Vernacular Schools.

My “Progress of Egoism” is published in the O.C.S.  and of my two letters on Gabriel and Michael I have corrected proofs.  I have sent two others on the Ministration of Angels.

I have been written to from Madras to furnish a discourse to natives for a volume of elect discourses which is to be published.

I have received news that my daughter is restored to health, for which mercy I desire to bless God. —My wife’s health very precarious.  This and my long separation from her, are causes which should make me more than I feel myself to be.  I fear I have not sufficiently felt this to be a discipline from God, and not sufficiently put to myself the question: ‘Why is God dealing thus with me?”  Alas!  I know my indwelling sin has been such that God might well have made the discipline much more painful - nay instead of discipline might have made it the heavy chastisement of the wicked.  For ah how evil has my heart been!  How slow am I to submit my desires to God’s will, and in my very inclinatn sic and practice to glorify Him as I trust be made to do in Heaven.  Oh! that Christ would reign over every feeling of my heart!

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1858 - Nov. 21 Sab - Rajkot.  On the 8th inst. I preached in Eng. from 1 Pet  4.18 and I separately preached in Guj. from Eph 2nd chapt.  Mr Hormasji and I went to public places weekly.  Once I preached; on other occasions he.  My accounts from my family have been encouraging for which I bless the Lord.  I wrote to my bother Robert in Victoria - am sorry he is so dilatory in writing me.    May the Lord watch over him and his family.  My brother Adam is still unsettled.  God grant that the Spirit of God may lead him to usefulness and to improvement of soul as well as to temporal support for his family.

My Review of Livingstone’s Trav. in Africa has appeared in the Bombay Quarterly

I have finished another Review - on Dr Wilson’s ‘India 3000 years ago’ for the same 

I have also completed the Discourse above alluded to for the Madras Society.  My prayer is that God may make it a channel of grace to those who peruse it, and for this end that He may give it wide spread, and lead to its translation into vernacular tongues.

I am thankful to be able to record that I have finished and sent off for the press the letters 10 and 11 on Angelology, forming the completion of the subject.  In this subject I have felt growing heart interest to the end.  It originating in an awakening of heart, such as I had scarcely known before.  My spiritual feelings have since flowed on more clearly & strongly.  I feel my self placed nearer the world on which I must shortly enter and as if I were in actual converse with its inhabitants.  Hence I cannot but believe that God has made this a means of promoting my growth in grace, while I desire to write this very humbly considering how frail I am.  This also strengthens my conviction that what I have written is the truth.  Error does not sanctify.  Christ sic prayer is “Sanctify them through thy truth!”  I see various kindred spirits rising to my thoughts like points in a landscape brightening under the advancing morning sum.  Whether I ever be enabled to commit them to the press I trust God will determine for the improvement of my own spiritual state and that of others, & that he will thus bless what has already gone forth.

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1858. - Dec. 15 - W. - Surat.  On the two sabbaths Nov.21 and 28 I read the sermon lately sent to Madras on Acts 28.28 & assisted in conducting the sabbath school.  On the 28th Nov. at 12 ocl I administered the Lord’s supper sic in Gujarati and at the English service in the evening I baptised Charles Glasgow infant son of Rev Hormazdji Pestonji,.  On the next day I prepared for leaving the station.  On tuesday sic my luggage moved off principally my books.  On thursday sic evening I took leave of my amiable and worthy friends the Hormazdjis regretting to lose their society and making two stages of the way in bullock carts, I rode a third and overtake the luggage  I spent the sabbath at Dhasá, and had a respectfully attentive audience in preaching the gospel.  Here with only the Bible to read I found sweetness and loneliness; and I expressed in poetic form the thought and prayers suggested by a “sabbath in the jungle”.  On the night of the 7th. Dec. I reached Gogo, and on the night of the 9th I sailed for Surat fully expecting to reach it on Saturday morning.  But to my mortification I was landed only on the sabbath morning.  In Gogo I had received the letters of my dear wife very thankful to learn that my dear ones were all well.  I was saddened however to hear that a niece Mrs. Bell now resident in Victoria after giving birth to an infant was suffering puerperal mania.  I wrote some 7 or 8 letters in Gogo and since my arrival here I have been occupying in arranging my room, in carrying on correspondence and in reading and visiting.

Dec.26 -Sab - Sur. - On the morning of Sab the 19th I preached in the Mission Ch. the first half of the sermon I had written on Acts 28:28. __ On the 24th Inst. I addressed natives in the Ghikanta schoolhouse.  Have been occupied principally in revising copy and proofs; and in reading Henry Rodgers’s Essay on Edwards his life, and some of his writings.  Am much pleased to find in Edwards two statements agreeing with my views of angels; and one to a similar effect In Dick’s philosophy on a future State.  Think of making them with some remarks an Appendix to my letters.  Many and deep have been my thoughts in consequence of this reading.  On comparing the experience of Edwards with my own, while I

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fear I come as far short of his piety as of his intellectual power, yet I think I see my experience more in conformity with his than that of any other whose biography I have read.  It has pleased God since I came hither to visit me with weakness & pain arising from the fatigues of my journey.  Yet I am thankful that I am experiencing benefit from it in [?] awakening impressions producing heart searchings and fixing my longings more on celestial things.  Spent yesterday evening out & was grieved to be obliged to take a stand on the defensive against a gentleman who though I trust pious, yet in a dogmatical way gave utterance to such sentiments as these, — that infants are not in Heaven but a separate state, that therefore they cannot know their parents — that happiness is imperfect till the resurrection — that none but the unbelieving Jews are Jews &c.  In such case while I make it my rule to start no controversies, yet I feel bound to bear witness to the truth when it is assailed; and I feel deeply how difficult it is to do it wisely. —- with firmness of matter and gentleness of manner .  With faithfulness and yet with temper.  I was not conscious of any want of the latter quality, yet whether I might have descended as well by yielding a little to dogmatism, is to me doubtful.  Oh that God may fill me with the faithful yet mild spirit of Christ; and that He make the friend to whom I refer grow in the grace of gentleness.

"infants are not in heaven ..."  Glasgow's concern to refute this view may have been driven by his loss of two infant daughters, in 1841 and 1845 buried in the English Cemetery at Rajkot.

1859 - January 23 - Surat. -  On the morning of the 2d Inst. I preached the remainder of the discourse on Acts 28.28.  As Mr. M. is absent among the villages I have the services each sabbath.  At one o’cl I preach in Gu. lecturing on Mat.  On said day I began with the lst chapter.  At 4 1/2 ocl sic I preached from the end of Eph. 3. —— 9th Jan.  I preached in Engl. from Rev. 7.14 to end.  1 ocl Guj. Mat. 2. — 4 1/2 o’cl. Eph. 4. — 16 January - English Is. 54.15. —- 1 o’cl Guj. Mat.2 & 3. — 4 1/2 o’cl Guj. Eph. 4. —- 23, Morning Rev. 22.17. —- 1 o’co Guj. Eph.4.

During this month I have had much correspondence.  Have revised copy of 1st and 2d. Samuel

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corrected proofs, and sent two articles to the O.C. Spectator, — one an appendix to my letters on angels and another “night thoughts” a vindication of the doctrine of special providence and of prayer.

In my sermon this morning on Rev.22.17 I differed from the current interpretation , which makes “the Spirit and the bride’ invite the world to come while I am of opinion that they address Christ and solicit him to “come”.  The latter invitation is Christ’s invitation not to the world which as such is not invited, but to men individually as thirsty and willing.  If this be truth O my Savior sic write it on my own heart and on the hearts of those who heard it this day.  If not, teach then me to know this portion of thy gracious dispensation aright.

1859 5th March - Sat. - Surat. -
  On 30 Jan. I conducted three services - in Eng. I preached from John 1.16 and lectured on Mat.4. at one vernacular service and on Eph.3 at other. sic  On 5th Feb. I lectured in Guj. on Mat. 5.1&c

13th Feb. I preached in English on Zech. 9.12 and lectured in Guj. on Eph.4.1&c.

20th Feb. I lectured on Mat. 5 & on Eph. 4.
27th …. I administered the ordinance of the Lord’s supper sic—- making part of the service in Eng. and part in Guj.
To morrow [?] morning [?] I trust to preach from Ps. 86.11.  And to treat of the jarrings & distractions in the heart, and how to have them all allayed.

Mr D. M. has been here from Gogo most of the time since last entry.  He is labouring under ulcerous affections in his feet and legs, which seem to indicate a defective constitution.  Though his tendency to vanity is not yet eradicated, he is improving in the development of christian sic character.  I am thankful to say that excepting an offensive tendency to despise or mock at age, I have not found occasion to express disapprobation.  On this point I simply said: “of young men there are two classes — those who will themselves be old and those who will not be spared long enough to enjoy that privilege.”  I think this consideration was felt as less has since then said.sic  Mr R. M.
D.M. Dunlop Moore  R.M Robert Montgomery 

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remarked the expression as conveying a salutary lesson.  I am proceeding steadily with the Bible work.  My letter book will show a variety of letters written on special subjects.  I am thankful at the sic receiving tidings from my family that all were well.  I had an encouraging letter from my brother Robert in Victoria.  No recent letter from my brother Adam; but I learn that he is getting on with steady though not rapid success with his school in Belfast.  And I am gratified that my dear wife has placed my daughter under his care.  Our meeting of presbytery sic was held last month.  Mr Hormazaji not able to be present; but I duly informed him of the proceedings.  We were very harmonious and felt God’s presence.  We appointed the first Monday of March at 9 for special prayer for revival & the raising up of more missionaries.  — I have continued to send papers to the O.C.S. and find the course of thought profitable as bringing me more to look to Christ.  I am giving a seriatim attention perusal to the works of President Edwards.  His views of the communion I had not previously read.  While I agree with him, - I wonder at the unnatural tone that must then have pervaded the American church.

Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758), third president of Princeton for a brief period in 1758, was born in East Windsor, Connecticut, where his father was pastor. The only son in a family of eleven children, he entered Yale when he was not yet thirteen and graduated four years later at the head of his class. …

In 1728 he succeeded his maternal grandfather as pastor at Northampton, Massachusetts, where his preaching brought remarkable religious revivals. But he alienated many of his congregation in 1748 by his proposal to depart from his grandfather's policy of encouraging all baptized persons to partake of Communion and instead to admit to this sacrament only those who gave satisfactory evidence of being truly converted. He was dismissed in 1750.

He moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, then a frontier settlement, where he ministered to a tiny congregation and served as missionary to the Housatonic Indians. There, having more time for study and writing, he completed his celebrated work, The Freedom of the Will.

Edwards was elected president of Princeton September 29, 1757, five days after the death of his son-in-law, Aaron Burr, Sr., second president of the College. He was a popular choice, for he had been a friend of the College since its inception and was the most eminent American philosopher-theologian of his time. 

https://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/edwards_jonathan.html

[list of preaching from March 6 to April 17 1859]

Closely engaged in carrying on the Bibl. transln. correcting proofs - wrote a paper in Eng. Guj. for the Guyanaipak [?].  I have written a dissertation on the computation of prophetic times.  Have been examining for Government the Reading Books in Guj of Mr Hope & have sent to Gov. the 1st pt of the Guj Translation of Keightley’s Universal History.  Have been reading Edwards - Stuart on Rev [?]  Am blessed with health and must humbly regard ? record God’s gracious dealings with my soul, but confirm with shame my exceeding short comings.  [?] I desire, - I desire to be for the Lord.—

Keightley see note at bottom of p 20
 

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JBljk6DejBAC&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&dq=edwards-stuart+revelation&source=bl&ots=3wjuJyOAzF&sig=aQv1gQO-ZlHCCFEZtF28QVcu5E0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjc8MbUmNncAhXLB8AKHTeBCWsQ6AEwCnoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=edwards-stuart%20revelation&f=false  refers to studies by Jonathan Edwards (1723) and by Moses Stuart on Revelation (1845)

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1859- May 1 Sab. Surat  Preached in Eng. from Mar.16.16

        2 Preached in a school house from Mat.24.9

          On the same day I baptized Jane Eliza infant daughter of R. Young Superintendent of the Mission Press.
        May 8.  Preached from Eph. 6 and Mat.6.  Readings in Edward’s sermons. &c.
                    15. Preached in English from Prov.23.26.  Received from my wife the Princeton Theol. Essays which I have been reading with interest.  Learned able and sound.  All ? An honour to America.
                    22 Preach in Guj. from Eph. 6 & Mat.6.  Have been writing a long paper on the dates of the Gospel of John and of Revelation, for the purpose of making it appear that both were in writing before the destruction of Jerusalem and that  Daniel’s prophecy of selling of vision and prophecy meaning the completion of scripture was fulfilled just before Jerusalem fell.

                   29  Preached in Eng. from Ps. 61.2

             June 5  Preached in Guj. from Eph. 6 and Mat. 7

                     12 Preached Guj. from Rev.1.1-11 - on this morning the weighty raison prevented any service in English.
                     19 Preached in Engl. from John 3.30.  examined the class of sabbath scholars as I always do when Mr M. preaches, he doing it when I preach —

Have finished the paper above alluded to on John’s Gospel and Revelation.  Have found the study very profitable for which I desire to be very thankful.  Have been reading in Elliott Stuart & Burgh also [?] Haugsternburg [?}on the Revelation.  None of these satisfactory but I think from 1862 to 1867 there will be heavy though not yet final blows inflicted the great Antichristian systems of Popery Greek Church and Mohammadism.

Have studied very specially the number of the Beast, & of his name 666, or 616.  Also made our about 30 solutions, - all converging on those great systems of error.  Propose writing a paper for the O.C.S. on the subject.
Have been receiving news of my dear wife’s and family’s health, for which I bless the name of my God.  Had an encouraging letter from my nephew in America - that he is now a divinity student under Assoc. Synod.
Associate Synod probably the Associate Reformed Synod  http://boydroots.net/si_presbyterian.html  “The Scots-Irish began to emigrate in large numbers from Northern Ireland in the second quarter of the 18th century and brought their own Presbyterianism in the form of the Associate (Seceders) and the Reformed (Covenanters) Churches that had separated from the Church of Scotland in both Scotland and Northern Ireland. These Ulster Presbyterians conflicted with the largely New England educated (Harvard and Yale) Puritan Presbyterians. In 1753, these Scots-Irish immigrants formed the Associate Presbytery of Pennsylvania. In 1782, the Associate Presbytery and the Reformed Presbytery united to form the Associate Reformed Synod”

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1859. - August 6. - Sat night -Surat  [a list of preachments including one evening “I walked to a schoolhouse and preached in Gujarati.”]

July 21  Day of National Thanksgiving.  I conducted prayer in the native congregation and gave an address on the causes of thanksgiving.
July 31 Lord’s day I preached on the pacification of India, from Dan 4.27.  This Discourse I have since copied and sent to Dr. Wilson of Bombay with permission to insert it in the Oriental Chris Spect. if he judge expedient. 

I am doing my best to press on the work of biblical translation.  We are now preparing the copy of 2nd Chron. for the press.  It was committed to Mr Y. who merely made an English Translation and got it translated by a pundit.  The mistakes are glaring, so as often to the often unintelligible from the pundit’s merely translating the separate words of Eng. phrases instead of the phrases themselves.  This greatly violates both Hebr and Guj idiom.  Mr Y. knows the words of Hebrew well but is not at all adequate as a translator.  

I have much trouble and vexation on account of a proposal to reprint a Tract called [?] Pansopeia, and a condemnation by Rev H.P. which was the cause of much offence to Rev. R.M. & Rev. D.M. with whose offence I could little sympathize sic, as the faults found with the Tract were obviously in part just.  I am endeavouring to gain consent to have the objectionable parts expunged.  I trust I have been instrumental in approximating the [?] brethren [?] to harmonious views, but not without acrimony towards myself from D.M. who however wrote penitent letters afterwards.

Rev H.P. = Hormazdji Pestonji?
Rev R.M. = Rev Robert Montgomery
Rev D.M. = Rev Dunlop Moore

I have received accounts of [?] usual health in my family. I began at the beginning of last month to reckon the probable time of my return home for a time at least.  4 ½ years = 54 months.  Since that date a month has glided away.  If I can but have the grace of patience, I trust I may be spared yet to see my dear wife and daughters in the flesh.

It was to be in April 1864 that this wish was realised.

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1859 Aug. 7-Sab.-Surat.  [preaching details]

Aug 28 … on the same day at 1 o’cl baptized sic five adults - one Parsi and four Hindus, and also the infant child of one of them.  Immediately after which the Rev R. Montgomery dispensed the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper.  It was a day of privilege and of hope, & thankfully remembered.

Sep. 4 [preaching detail]

The Sermon on the pacification of India is now in the press.  It will preserve the record of my views respecting the late troubles in India.

During the month we have heard much of the Irish revivals, and our hearts have been gladdened.  I begin to entertain the hope that God may be proposing to do what human wisdom has so failing of accomplishing the emancipation of Ireland from popery. Oh! that God may bestow it in his time - and that he may purify beloved presbyterianism like a refiner of silver.  This is what we need in this land.  I have been much impressed with the view of this in 1 Cor. 14.24,25, from which we learn that occasional hearers of the heathen coming in were convinced and falling down, confessed that God was in his people.  There appear thus two designs in the bodily manifestations.

1. That some may be sympathetically awakened in seeing the effect wrought on others.

2. That strangers to the church may be [?] taken and brought in and convicted and saved.

3. We must humbly remember that where wheat is sown Satan will sow tares - and we must be prayerful & endeavour to discriminate and know what is of the Spirit of God.

I have finished a paper which cost me much labour on the Number of the Apocalyptic Beast, - and am getting it printed for private circulation. —-

Sept.11 - Sab. - Surat [preaching detail]

Had for the last two sab. an aged officer who has not before been known to attend church.  May God bless the word to open his mind to the gospel, and make him know the truth in Jesus, & see the light that will dim the world which has so long dazzled him.

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1859 - Sept. 18 Sab. Surat [preaching details]

I have been much impressed by the meaning of Col. 1.20 and the exposition of it in Howe’s “Christ’s [?].  Howe is probably John Howe (1630-17050 an English Puritan minister, at one time a chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, with some experience of living in Ireland.  https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Howe,_John_(1630-1705)_(DNB00)

There is a reconciliation (αποκαταλλαζαι) through the blood of the cross, for all things both in heaven and on earth.  This applies the benefits of the death of Christ as much to the inhabitants of other worlds as of ours.  But it may be said this would be universalism.  I answer: whatever it is in regard to our world the same is it in regard to others.  But in our sic it is universal in regard to individuals.  Neither is it there.  Did Glasgow actually mean “it is not universal in regard to individuals.  Neither is it there”…?

One friend objected that it involved the salvation of Satan.  But no - In this world there are the lost; and if there be in other worlds what objection lies against the doctrine? Men’s day of grace came to an end.  So has Satan’s.
Rom 8.19 …22, Eph. 1.10-3.9,10  Col.1.20 are instances in which Paul appears to have made deeper revelations respecting Heaven than any other inspired writers.  And is there not this very obvious reason why we might expect that he would be inspired to do so, - that he alone was caught up into the 3rd Heaven - he saw the heavenly state.  He heard indeed words which were unutterable as not being in any human language; but this is not a reason against his writing in human language the truth respecting Heaven which human language will express.  It may be said “Eye hath not seen nor ear heard nor hath it extended into the heart of man &c”  But this is answered in the next words “God hath revealed them to us by his Spirit.”  Altho sic neither eye ear nor imagination have presented Heaven to us, yet the Spirit has given a spiritual perception which gives as much incipient knowledge of it as we need in this world.  What we know is real and the same kind as the whole - wanting only in degree.

An aged officer has twice heard me preach who never attended church before.  Ah! God give him indeed a heart, to know thee.

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1859- Sep.25- Sab. night- Today I lectured in Gujarati on the 4th and 5th seals.  I have been prevented from undertaking other duties in consequence of swelled gland under my right jaw.  All the week I have been but in an indifferent state of health but have had some peace & other remedies which I trust are being blessed to my restoration.  My mind still occupied with the subject of angels.  I begin to see that the benefit of Christ’s atonement, - “reconciliation through the blood of his cross” extend to all in heaven as well as all on earth.  As the all on earth does not include all individuals so neither does it in heaven, else there would be no fallen angels.  I purpose if God will to investigate this topic and add a letter on it to my letters on angels.  My heart is much stirred at the tidings of revivals.  Often my eyes overflow at the thought of my Redeemer’s love to so unworthy a soul as mine.  I hate my sins and the paramount thought that death brings before me is, that when it comes I shall sin no more.  But this implies all heaven, Christ’s presence and the same everlasting grace which keeps other heavenly species will keep me in holiness throughout eternity.  Oh my Redeemer grant me more of thy Spirit to enable me to walk more worthy of this high vocation.

Oct. 2. Sab. night - [?] Rejin [?] Preached this morning … and in the evening at a school house in Gujarati.  Spent the day principally in examining the nature of angel ministration.  I find one or two friends verbally admitting it, yet nullifying by denying that angels exercise any good influence over us.  If this be so I cannot perceive any ministration that is left them.  I intend to write an additional letter on the point.  My sermon on the thanksgiving for the pacification of India is now printed in the O.C. Sp.  May God make it a means of usefulness.  I am thankful for much expansion of religious principle and enlarged views of doctrine.  I am constrained to say I experienced a revival on the 24th May 1858 the day of mother’s death which I have comfortable reason for believing that I had enjoyed sanctifying grace many years before that period, yet my growth in grace was not equal to duties, privilege or wishes - and it pleased God to show himself to me more fully

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than before.  The effect of what I then felt has moved my heart ever since, and I pray it may do so to the end.  I think I feel myself more mild and charitable, more warm in prayer and less controversial, though I think it my duty strenuously to maintain the truth.  Oh God give me grace to shun every way of sin & evil habitude of thought & make me a more pure & genuine disciple of Christ.  

1859 - Oct.10 -M. morning. Surat — Yesterday I lectured in Gujarati in the morning from Mat. 11.20 to the end; and a t 1 o’co. on the 5th & 6th seals.  I have been occupied with the topic alluded to in the last entry, - answering objections to the doctrine of angels, -showing that evil agents are not more active in diffusing evil than [?] they good. - that they communicate with mind directly but if they be supposed by means of the body still as the body acts on the mind so powerfully they may not the less teach the latter and present motives.  I am reading Ranke’s Lives of the popes sic - a wonderful revelation of continual of sic worldly wisdom & iniquity.

Leopold von Ranke (German: 21 December 1795 – 23 May 1886) was a German historian[1][2] and a founder of modern source-based history.[3][4] According to Caroline Hoefferle, "Ranke was probably the most important historian to shape [the] historical profession as it emerged in Europe and the United States in the late 19th century."[5] He was able to implement the seminar teaching method in his classroom and focused on archival research and analysis of historical documents. Building on the methods of the Göttingen School of History,[6] Ranke set the standards for much of later historical writing, introducing such ideas as reliance on primary sources (empiricism), an emphasis on narrative history and especially international politics (Außenpolitik). 
In 1834–36 Ranke published Die römischen Päpste, ihre Kirche und ihr Staat im sechzehnten und siebzehnten Jahrhundert (The Popes of Rome, Their Church and State in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) (3 vols.). … In this book, Ranke coined the term the Counter Reformation, and offered colourful portrayals of Pope Paul IV, Ignatius of Loyola and Pope Pius V,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_von_Ranke

That Christ made an atonement for angels seems plainly taught in Col.1.20.  But it is objected that sic are free from sin.  But were they always?  The Scripture no where sic says so.  What then means the fallen angels not keeping their first estate or principality?  Answer.  They lost it as wicked men lose their sic, while the holy angels were saved as holy men.  But suppose the good had not sinned still there were three things they wanted which could only come by the blood of Christ.  They were liable to sin; yet they now are sons of God.  This they could not become until established in holiness by a Mediator.  2 Christ by his mediatorial merit became their Head & it was necessary to work that merit for them.  3  All in his kin are filled with his Spirit to preserve them in holiness.  This it was necessary to purchase.  This Christ did.  

1859- Oct.16 Sab. night- Surat Preached this evening from 2 Cor.5.21.- Last week I wrote a lengthened reply to objections which some friends made against one part of the ministration of angels, - their influencing the revival.

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Respecting the state of Adam, in innocence & the state of unfallen angels, I can subscribe to the popular idea which says they did not need a Mediator.  Of rational beings without sin all that can truly be [?] predicated [?] is that they would be exempt from suffering.  In this condition they would be objects of divine condescension or compassion; but to make them objects of divine complacence i.e. of the full divine love they must have merit.  To obtain this they must have a meritorious head - Christ.
2 Angels were called in scripture “sons of God”.  But this could not be so long as they were in a fallible state.  On fallible creatures God could not look with the complacence of a Father; nor could a being be a Son of God and afterwards fall away and perish.  Hence to make them sons of God they must have had an interest in the incarnation of the Son of God, which though then future was available to them as to the patriarchs of man’s race.  It is no objection that he took not the nature of angels; for that only means that he became incarnate in the race of Abraham and did not take the nature of a disembodied spirit.
3  Without the indwelling of the Spirit angels could not be living temples and objects of divine complacence; and without an interest in Christ they could not obtain the Spirit.

4  Without this they would have no assimilation to God akin to the human sanctification.  But even to Adam growth in sanctification would have been necessary.  Even Christ tho sic sinless sanctified himself.

Thought presented itself to-day sic which I think right to note for remembrance.   I remember a tract in these columns.  “God commands”-“The creature prays”- “the Lord promises”  But this I think both incomplete and out of order.  The creature cannot pray unless on the ground of promise: Hence promise must precede

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prayer; and be succeeded by the fulfilment.  But on the ground of mere command the creature can confess sin & inability.  The order will thus be

1 God commands
2 The creature confesses
3 The Lord promises
4 The creature prays

5 God fulfils or answers.

A tract on the principle of this with texts of each might be edifying.

1859 - Oct.23 Sab Evg. - Surat. [preaching details ending with “Yesterday evening I preached in Gujarati at the Rani Falav schoolhouse.

In my study of Rev. 7 I think I have received a clear and truer view than before of the Kingly and priestly character of the people of God.  The usual interpretation is that the same persons are Kings and priests.  Now the meaning of John seems different.  

1  The 4 living Ones perform the priestly work proclaiming God’s holiness and praising Him.
2  The four & twenty elders as Kings are seated sober and crowned 

3  The angels stand around.
The heavenly society thus consists of Kings priests and messengers.  These messengers whether of Adam’s race or others join in the singing of redemption.  Thus all ages are indebted to Christ.
1859. - - Nov.2 - W. - Surat.  [preaching]  Spent an hour (as I am doing daily) in reading the scripture with Ali Akbar a munshi a candidate for baptism in whose heart I trust the grace of God is.  Was thankful to learn by letter yesterday that my dear wife’s health was better when she wrote than it had been for a long time.  Had occasion to say a word of remonstrance to Mr M. my coadjutor in the Guj. Transl. of Bib. for frittering away time at other matters & keeping me waiting & holding back the press.  On of his errors is want of system & this keeps him always

Mr M. is probably Rev Dunlop Moore, whom Glasgow had previously found hard to deal with.

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in a hurry, always late, too many irons in the fire.  He did not display as much of humility as high christian profession would have led me to anticipate but retaliated in words at which most men would have placed in high resentment.  E.g. when I told him that he sometimes gave offence by his reproofs he replied he did not believe me.  I trust I entertain no resentment and I believe I was mild & unruffled through the whole.  I receive his subdued tones and trust he will learn a little more [?] self knowledge [?].  I am writing at night a poem on the words “Blessed are the people that know the the joyful sound.” The introduction in the long blank verse of the Sanskrit and the body in Miltonaic blank.

1859- Nov.13- Sab.Surat.   [record of preaching]
Montg.[Montgomery] is in Bombay, having gone to meet his wife.  In the week I copied out the remainder of my letters on the theme of completing the N.T. so as to make them ready for the press.  I have been sending preparatory to the press. sic part of Nehemiah and Job.  Wrote letters of welcome to the new missionaries Messrs Shoobad & Steele through Dr Wilson, - and to Dr. Mitchell on his return, also to Messrs Hormasji Montg. Wilson & Moore.
Nov.21 _Mon. _ Surat Yesterday morning [preaching details]  On Saturday night Mr Montgomery returned from Bombay accompanied by Mrs Montgomery whom I was truly glad to see.  Rev.Dr., Wilson, MrsWilson Rev Messrs Shoobad & Steele from the U.P. Church of Scotland to Rajputance.  At sic o’clock Mr M. baptised two Hindus in the training of whom I had been cooperating.  At the evening service Mr Steele preached in Eng. & Dr W. dispensed the ordinance of the Lord’s supper sic.  I have received photographs of my dear family.  Minnie is finely grown said to be like her uncle Adam: Annie to be most like me.  Harriet said to be very pretty - so reported to me by Mrs M.  The two so changed I fear I should not know

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them if I met them in a strange place.  What a strange dispensation is my pilgrimage in this land and yet I trust there is good in it and that God will make it terminate in such a way as to enable me to understand this.  To his name be all praise in Christ.  Amen

To Annie on her lines as a Moth [?] for a postage stamp case.

If but a single nugget shine,
The colonist expects a mine.
A single mellow fruit will show
The soil where millions more may grow.

So, Annie, in your graceful lines,

The mental quality that shines
If sanctified in early days
May yet shine in noble lays.

For a Bedroom Bible.

When the nightly season, Time for rest affords
Let thy thought & reason, Ponder on the words

Written in the pages of this book sublime, -
Book of ancient ages, Book of earth and time.
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Book of inspiration, Book of God’s great law
Book of consolation, Book of solemn awe

Book of Jesus’ merit, And the Father’s love
Of the Holy Spirit, And of Heaven above.
——
Let its truth remind thee, Of the depth of sin
Let the world ne’er blind thee, To the work within
Of the Spirit sealing Intellect and will,
And of faith revealing more of Heaven still

——
Let thy chosen treasure, Be thy Saviour’s love,
And the purest pleasure spring from things above.
In the path of duty, Walking all thy days,
Grow in holy beauty, Fit for endless praise.

1859. November 27, Sab. Surat  [preaching details]

Sent an hour in instructing Ali Akbar a candidate for baptism.  May God give him grace to confess Christ before men.  Read in Pearson on Infidelity and the 1st. Psalm in Syriac.

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1859. Dec 5- M. Surat.  yesterday evening I preached in Guj. from Ex. 34.23.  Instructed the Munshi who is seeking baptism.  On Saturday night there was a great fire which consumed according to all reports from 150 to 200 houses.  Have heard from my wife yesterday that my brother has made application for having me elected in the room of Dr Wilson by the Presbyterian College in Belfast of whose death I only heard by last fortnight’s mail.  I pray that God may give me work in what ever part of his vineyard may be best for his glory the good of [?] my family & myself, for Christ’s sake  Amen. 
Robert Wilson was professor of Biblical Criticism.  The application for Glasgow was not successful.
Dec.11. Sab. night _ Surat.  This morning I went to Amroli the Railway Station and preached in Eng. from Gal. 6.7 and at 1 o’cl. I preached in the Mission Church from Rev. 9 - 6th Trumpet.  Instructed Ali Akbar [‘Rahman’ deleted - Abdur Rahman, a Muslim was the very first convert, hence most likely Glasgow’s mistake] the candidate for baptism.  Have been invited to go to Gogo to solemnise the marriage of Bachubai Hormazaji to the Rev. Lol Bihai De of Calcutta.  Completed a Poem on the Joyful Sound and sent a copy to Dr Wilson.  Kept its counteract in my copying Book & then sent 1st sketch of it to my wife & a copy to my brother.  For my wife I sent a caloytic of myself [probably a calotype an early form of photograph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calotype ].  Am reading Syriac at intervals.  While writing the above poem I sometimes felt in elevated & good states of mind.  But days of comparatively listless [sic ? listlessness] pass over me.  And yet I would on any day surrender my religious enjoyment — may God increase and sanctify it still more to his glory in Christ.  Amen 

Dec. 18 _ Sab. Surat.  This morning I preached in Guj. from John 1.14-35.  In the evening my place was supplied by the Rev. Lal Bihai De of Calcutta who preached in English.  On friday sic I preached at the mid Pur school in the city in Guj.  Had letters from home: but little additional news on the subject mentioned ? by last mail noted on the date of 5th Inst.  Expect to go to Gogo to marry Miss Hormazaji.  Reading Syriac nightly. Recd. from my wife Dr Killen’s history.  [A History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Belfast, 1853 a continuation of James Seaton Reid’s work]

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1859. - Dec. 25 - Sab night - Surat. This morning I preached in Guj. from John 1.35 to end.  At 1o’clock I baptised Ali Akbar, Mr Montgomery putting the questions.  May God give grace to the [?] convert to stand fast in the purity of the Gospel, through Christ.  Amen.  This evening I preached in English from Eph. 4.1. felt freedom & [?] earnestly hope good may have been done - [?] desire to look for the Spirit’s outpouring.

No mention of Christmas Day. See top of p 10 for 1857 in Rajkot and note.

28’ W - proceeded to Gogo hastily, as we had delayed waiting for a certificate for the marriage from the Ahmedabad Registrar.  It having arrived we started

29 Th.  At sunset we reached Gogo - via Daudi
30 & 31 Held presbyterial meetings.

1860 - Gogo - January 1 - [?] Held Guj. services at 9 and 12 — and preached in Eng. at 6 pm  Phil.2.15

2 Monday - At 9 o’cl. a.m. I solemnised the ceremony of marriage between the Rev. Lal Bihai Dé of the Free Church Mission Calcutta and Bachubai daughter of the Rev. Hormazdji Pestonji of the Irish Presbyterian Mission, in the Mission Chapel Gogo, in the presence of Mr Wyllie Assistant Political Agent Rajkot and Mr [?] Auding, Governmt. surgeon Gogo, and of Rev Robert Montgomery Marriage Registrar, and Mr and Mrs Hormazaji and others, - the bridegroom being 30 years of age and the bride 21. 

3 Tuesday - We started yesterday at 11, a.m. sic and reached Surat to-day at 8 a.m.

4 Overland letters came to friends none for me - which leaves me with[?] anxiety respecting my dear wife who had had fever before her last letter - I commit her to God.

6 Fr. Recd. the Dec. No. of the O.C.S. with the last two letters of my Examination of the date of completion of the N.T. or “Sealing the Vision and the Prophecy”  Have heard from Dr Wilson that the Scotch brethren gone to [?] Raphutance have both suffered from fever.  May God give them restored health.  Have heard also that the Rev. Jos. Taylor has been received with enthusiasm and [?] church by the Directors.  This will supply me to [?] Borsuch; but alas it adds 3 stations and only one labourer.  - Lord let thy church be awaked.

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Written in Mrs Hormazaji’s Album

Truth: - it is the still small voice
Saying to the mind, -
“Make the priceless pearl thy choice;
Leave all else behind.”
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Truth: - it is celestial light
Beaming from above
Opening to faith’s clear sight
All the world of love.
——

Truth: -in thee O blessed Lord
Saving truth is found; -
Let the treasures of thy word
In our hearts abound.
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Truth ’tis by the Spirit born;
Never left to die;
But a hundredfold when grown
Treasured in the sky.

Gogo
3 Dec. 1859

[should that be 31 Dec.?]

John 14.6. ——-

1860 - January 8 Sabbath - In the morning preached at Amroli from Phil 2.15; at 1 o’cl in the Mission Church from Rev.10.

Jan.10 Mr Montgomery after preparing to start for Borsad became unwell, which detained him.
Mr Cobold is eager to leave the station and return to England.  Such is the divine disposal

Jan 15, 22, 29 Feb 5 [preaching details]

Have all week been very closely engaged in carrying Job through the press and in superintending the [?] Dyan cupola [?], & writing a Bimonthly for the O.C.P.

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1860- February 12 - Sab. (Surat)  [preaching details]

18 Sat.night. - Surat - Closely engaged in giving in copy of Psalms & correcting proofs of end of Job & beginning of Psalms, in tracking correspondence as home letters &c.  Received home letters; learned of the death of Rev. D. Hamilton York Street Belfast, - a faithful minister; and of the arrival of the Rev. J.V.S.Taylor of our Mission

19 Sab. night -Surat  [preaching details]
I am now occupied in study hours in making two Biblical Note Books, - one of Hebrew, Sept. & Syr. Words; the other of improvements in the English Version.  Have been reading Hist. of French Prot. Refugees.  Sab. (Surat)  [preaching details]

The name of Mrs Stowe has led me to read “The Minister’s Wooing”.  I am rather disappointed.  I expected more of a great principle in it,  while it is but common place love [?] tactics handled in a sprightly way with a streak of piety here & there and rather too much of the new school divinity and a freedom with the real characters of Hopkins and Burr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Minister%27s_Wooing  “Hopkins” is Samuel Hopkins and “Burr” Aaron Burr, both based on historical characters.  The book was first serialized in the Atlantic Monthly from December 1858 to December 1859, and then published in book form first in England by Sampson Low, Son & Co.  It is interesting that James Glasgow was reading a copy in India in the middle of February 1860.

I find a good attendance in church.   I rec’d in Wednesday and today a number of letters from various young persons in Coleraine sent by Rev. J. McKee.  Sent it to Borsad.

Feb 26 - Sab night - Surat - This morning I lectured in Gujarati from John 5.16 in [?] - at 1 o’cl  from Revn. 13. 1…10; - and in the evening in English from 2 These. 1.10
On friday sic I received a letter from Mr Shoobad of the new Scotch Rajputance Mission mentioning the painful fact of the death of his colleague the Rev. W. Steele.  Learned that Mr Taylor may be daily expected here; and that Mr Cobold is to sail for England via the Cape about the 1st. May.  I am advanced as far as Ps. 63 in giving in copy to the press.  I am thankful for health.  Notwithstanding my great shortcomings I enjoy such good hope through grace.

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1860 - March 4. Sab. night - Surat.  To-day sic at 1 o’cl I lectured on the latter part of Rev. 13 in Gujarati - the Rev. J.V.S. Taylor recently arrived having preached in the morning and the evening.  To-day sic recd. letters from Mrs G. & Harriet.  Thank God all were well.   Oh! when will the time come of my rejoining them?  My heart can assure —- when God sees it good, - though my ignorance cannot tell why or when.  Letter to-day from the Rev. Dr. Wilson.  probably Dr John Wilson of Bombay  A Rajputance chief has presented a bag of Rs [?] and presents to a similar amount.  While politicals are afraid to let missionaries enter that province one of its Kings is fulfilling prophecy in giving his gold to the cause of God - to pay travelling expenses through his country.  News have come sic that England and France are going to take the Pope’s territory from him.  If they do it will mark 1860 as a wondrous year, yet interpreters have not marked it out for any leading event.

11 March Sab. night - Surat  [preaching details]  News of the death of three ministers at home [? at peace]- D. Hamilton of York - street, a man I much admired, W. McHinch of Dundalk who sat with me in the Senior Maths class - both nearly my age.

Glasgow names only two of the three, perhaps because he knew these two better.  History of Congregations [1982] records: David Hamilton first minister of York Street installed in 1840, previously in Connor.  First convener of General Assembly’s Mission to the Jews 1841  appointed in 1852 convener of the Assembly’s Church and Manse Fund Committee and Moderator of the General Assembly 1854.  He “died in 1860 after contracting typho-typo-gastric fever in the course of his pastoral visitation.”; McHinch“(lic. Belfast) … was ordained on 15 June 1852.  He … died of fever, caught by visiting one of his sick parishioners.  His death occurred on 7 Jan.1860”  McHinch must have been doing something else for 20 years prior to ordination perhaps teaching?

I have been examining respecting titles of God in Old T. & find that מלאך יהוה was used until the end of the Judges, when it ceased to be a special name and was applied to [?] as κυριος in Greek & Lord in Eng. From that time ‘Lord of Hosts’ is the Messianic Title.  I see much light in the Psalms and in Zechariah in the course of criticism.  May God grant that criticism may be always subservient to the devout reading of Scripture.  I wrote and sent to my wife and Dr. Wilson a revision in dactylics of Psalm 68.- which I think but lamely translated in the Eng. Standard vers.  I also sent my dear wife a copy.  I also wrote lines on the death of the Rev. W. Steele noted above. bottom of p 51 On Monday the Rev. J. Taylor left via Gogh = Goga the port where the Glasgows and the Kerrs landed in 1841 for Borsad.  Am thankful for sustained health in the midst of close work.  I feel that the Spirit of grace is leading me in the way of action through contemplation.

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1860 - March 18. Surat  [preaching details]
26th March - Monday morning Surat On yesterday morning I resumed the service in the Library, Amroli Railway Station & preached from 2 Cor. 5.21.  At one o’cl I preached from Rev. 14 the middle part in Gujarati.  —- I think the chapter reveals the operation of two orders of angels viz. 1st living men; 2nd celestial spirits. 

I Living men —  1st. angel Rev. 14.6 preaching gospel

                            2nd ____________ expounding prophecy

                            3 ______________ warning of
                                                            the judgements
                                                            esp’y on antichrist

II Celestial Angels:- 1. Christ Rev. 14.14 Reaping the harvest
                                  2. A ministering angel interceding
                                  3. Angel to reap the vintage, who
             appears to be the Holy Spirit.
                                  4. Angel to call him to do it.
The harvest means the gathered of saved souls.
The vintage, means national judgments
Both these have run on since the Reformatn.

1st. April. - Sab. night Surat [preaching details]  Today I got letters from Mrs G. and Annie.  All well - thanks to God for continued goodness.  I have now given into press as far as Psalm 130 & recd. proofs to Ps. 75 . -  Am reading Baxter’s Saints’ Everlasting Rest.  It is rich and beautiful but more negative than positive, what heaven is not rather than what it is, what the saint is exempt from rather than what he gains.  Hence I feel a little disappointed though there is still much in it of the saints’ [?] gain. yet sic in my opinion not enough, - nor enough of the heavenly occupations  There is more in Bunyan’s Visions of Heaven.

7 April. Saturday I posted home containing one of which I sent my wife a copy to Dr Morgan.  In it I do not ask him to support me for the professorship; but I enumerate the principal things I have written and translated, the languages I have studied &c, & the facts that appear to favour my election.

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   1860 - April 9, - M. morning - Surat   [preaching details]  My soul’s experience is various.   I feel delight in scripture and yet lament dulness sic of heart.  I am almost always thinking of heavenly things, feeling notwithstanding, the tendencies of this old nature.  I hope I am sensible of growing grace, yet know that if left to myself but a little I should fall.  Lord make thy grace sufficient for me.

15 April - Sab. night - Surat.   [preaching details]   Spent last week in making proofs of Psalms 79 to 89, - and in revising for press my translation of Hosea and Joel.  Received encouraging letters from home.  How much I owe to divine grace.  Learn that enemies are detracting from my classical knowledge.  If since leaving college my course of life has not providentially been in the line of Greek plays, I should willingly [?] meet detractors on the knowledge of Sept. Syriac. - not to speak of Hebrew ——— but humbly, let me not be provoked to vanity.  For whatever I have been led to know of my bible let me thank God for the course of study through which He has led me in missionary life.
23 April -  M. - Surat - Yesterday [preaching details] Read Princeton Essay Sabbath and Sanctification.  I have some time since given to the press the last of the Psalms and and am reading proof up to  Ps.104.  Have my translation of Minor Prophets revised as far as Mic. 5.  M. & I are revising Mr Ws Proverbs.  I am eager to get the whole completed: for in the event of my not being called home I wish to return to Rajkot & to spend most of my

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time in preaching the gospel.  

I have been expounding the Revelation and came to the belief that the period of the 7th trumpet was the Reformation.  This opened to my mind some scope in understanding the vials.  These I take to mean

1 Vial  The earth = the Empire generally
            The sea = Jesuits and Inquisition.

2 Vial   The sea = maritime countries isles
             blood = wars of Europe naval more especially waged for the counter
             reformation 

3 Vial   The rivers and fountains = North Italy and other scenes of persecution       
             Retribution on popery

4           The sea = governments, especially that of the pope sic 

             Popish taxation (see Ranke) see note on p 44
5           Seat of Beast = The temple or church.  

             Darkness and Impenitence
6           Euphrates = Turkish empire 

             Its decline and fall

             Three frogs (Jewish sects, Pharisees, Sadducees & Essenes = Puseyites &
             papists, as pharisaic 2 Infidels and political religionists; 

             3. Monkery & all ? austerity .           
             Armageddon only an assembly for battle.  But terminated by
7 Vial   begun in 1848 and still pouring.

1860 - April 29 - Sab Surat  [preaching details]

The Pharisees sought miracles and were enraged at the preaching of the fulfilment of prophecy.  So do those of the churches of Rome & of Greece at the present day.  Yet miracles are evidence only to those who see them — the fulfilment of prophecy may be known to the world.  Miracles were useful until prophecies were fulfilled; prophecy is in its nature accumulating.  Prophecy also brings men to the Word of God.

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1860 - May 6 - Sab. night - Surat [preaching details]

I have finished revision of translation of the Minor Prophets- and yesterday translated the first two chapters of Ezekiel.  I believe I have been favoured with a true understanding of the prophets sic vision of the living creatures and of the “wheels” - which so puzzle commentators, and in which so much of jargon is substituted for explanation.  There are these words אוֹפַן translated “wheel” means precisely “orb”;
 גַלְגַל also translated “wheel” means more properly “circle”;- and “rings” mean “circumferences”

The 4 living creatures = the ζῷα (beasts) of the Revelation are the ministering spirits;

Where the Holy Spirit influences them they go on their missions from orb to orb.

The fire, lamps, beryl &c all refer to the azure sky and the celestial bits [?].

One wheel upon the earth naturally refers to the earth’s rotations and revolutions.

A wheel in the middle of a wheel = one orbit within another, & the revolving motion involved in the revolution.

They (the living creatures) went by four, i.e. together in harmony.

The wings or circumferences were so high that they were dreadful, that is sublime.  Surely the vast extent of the solar system is so without carrying the thought further.

Where the living creatures went the wheels went.  This seems to represent the ministering spirits, as employed in accordance with [?] causing the planetary motions.  This gives them a wider field than Satan who is only the prince of the power of our atmosphere.  

This firmament of crystal was over their heads  [?] previously [?] obvious.

It was said unto them O wheel is not intelligible in the English; but should be translated.  The orbs were called one circle = the solar system.  In God’s house are many mansions.

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They turned not as they went: they move on in their orbits without variation or intermission.  On the lifting up of the living creatures above the wheels (orbs) were lifted up.  This implies that the movement of the living creatures is not confined to earth.  The translation is in their going up from the earth orbs went in near (Heb) them, - as we leave the earth we get nearer them.
1860 - May 13 -Sab. night Surat-  [preaching details].  Sent to the O.C.S. the remainder (two long letters) of my remarks on celestial services.  I now propose in order to complete my work for the press to write a translation and commentary or rather paraphrase on Extracts from Ezek. 1st & 10th. chapters as per last page, and my view of the cherubim, and of the Kings & priests & angels in Rev. chaps. 4 & 5.

May 20th. - Sab. Evg - Sur.- [preaching details]
Read Baxters’ sic Saints’ Rest & made one or two notes in my Hebrew Lectionary

May 27- Sab. night-Surat. - [preaching details]  Read Macgill in various manuscripts &c. & Chalmers’ Nat. Theol.  Also studied & made notes on the Heb. of Psalm 133 & other passages in Heb. Note Book.

Had a letter to-day from my wife.  Feel concerned at learning that she & the children had been ill with cold and sore throats.  Fear it may have been influenza.  How trying to wait a fortnight before hearing again.  But consoling to commit them to the God of grace.  I have now 30 chapters of the book of Ezekiel translated into Guj..  Hope after this book to have no more to translate but only to revise.  Heard from Rev. J. McKee that family well.  Felt thankful at this & at hearing of the recovery of Rev. W. ? Ready ? Ready ? Reilly who was mentally afflicted.  [? Heard] of a minister in Rev - Wilson Cookstown !! “God moves in a mysterious way.”

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1860 - June 4. - M.mg. Surat.  [preaching details]  Spent much of the day in reading Fairbairn’s Herm. Man. [Patrick Fairbairn Hermeneutical Manual; or, Introduction to the exegetical study of the Scriptures of the New Testament (1858).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Fairbairn] and in making notes on Psalms 129 - 141.
June 10, - Sab. night- Surat -[preaching details] .  Translated from Heb. or rather [?] Sheil. [?] Syriac a part of Dan.2 and entered in my Bible Note Book a remark on the Gr. & Heb. of Is. 9.5,6. showing a difference of four letters in Heb. makes it agree with the Greek.  Also read in “Princeton Essays”. Felt fatigued after breakfast from the weeks sic works & slept an hour - was refreshed before the evening & preached with some comfort to a more than usual congregation in the place.  Hear of outbreaks of a native [?] devil [?] dervish in Gogo & learn that he is now doing harm in Rajkot. - O Lord overrule all & convert such.
June 14. - Thursday - This day I finished the translation of the Book of Daniel into Gujarati.  This I did in five days.- the speediest translation which I have made, - too speedy to be continued for I feel that the labour of the last 5 days, if continued with would speedily break me down.  I also laboured very closely which [? while] engaged on the book of Ezekiel.  I feel much thankfulness in considering that I have no more to translate , though much of revision yet lies before me in the books from Song to Malachi - the first four of which are in other hands: - the remaining 14 in mine.
In the old sic Testament there are 928 Chapters.

Of these I have translated 527. ———-
My previous work in translation of the New Testament was as follows
In the New Testament there are 260 Chapters
Of these I translated —————81  ———
In the while Bible there are 1188 Chapters
Of these I translated — 608 ———
I have thus been privileged to live to translate more than half the Bible.  Of the remaining parts translated by others, the labour I have had in revision, was almost on the whole equal to that of translation.  I had in the N.T. the valuable cooperation of of Messrs McKee & Wallace; and in the old sic Testament chiefly that of Mr M. and Hormasji - much aid in fixing terms

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and principles having been rendered by the Gujarati Translation Committee, which sat in Surat and Gogo for the greater part of two month sic in Feb. & March 1855, and afterwards by a sub committee consisting of Rev. Dr. Wilson, Rev. J. Wallace, Rev. H Pestondji, Rev. D. Nauraji , and myself.  Dr. Wilson Mr. Wallace and myself spent about two months at Callian and at Mataurium on the same work.  For the work carried on thus far to God’s name be praise; and may that Word be speedily brought home to all the Gujarati speaking population, through the Spirit of Christ. 

Hormazdji Pestondji, mentioned by RHS Boyd as involved in the Bible Revision 1883-1899 http://www.gospelstudies.org.uk/biblicalstudies/pdf/ijt/12-3_083.pdf

1860 - June, 17 - Sab . night _ Surat.  [preaching details]  Spent part of the day in studying Ecc. with notes; and in reading from the Princeton Essays.  The affection of thought affected by the German and French pantheistic theists, [? atheists there is a gap before theists] is equally shocking & contemptible.  The men who rave so that they do not materially understand one another are to all appearance men of deficient mental powers - who could not master mathematical science.  If not they are arrant knaves; for it is impossible that reason if possessed can confound cause & effect in the way they do.  The sophism that they are not atheists because they call the universe God is too [?] futile to deceive but the shallowest mind; for it is only form of saying no author of the universe different from itself exists; and if a man a thing is its own author, he may as equally admissible that a triangle has four sides.  How sweet the relief to withdraw from such trash to the plain and lucid lessons of the Bible.  Glasgow’s anger at this teaching seems to be reflected in his disjointed syntax: better to read “if a man says a thing is its own author, he may as equally admit that”

Respecting the meaning of some texts I have not infrequently occasion to dissent if not also in expression from some of the popular views I hear expounded here & with may be met in many places.  For example our Lord’s allusion to the widow & donation of a mite is frequently called his commendation of her, while the text says nothing of commendation; and if this interpretation were but acted on it would soon break down all sic christian liberality.  A man gives all his living.  He is immediately a pauper & must be relieved.  It is no answer to say he may work for more: for

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that when earned must also be a part of his living and he must give that also.  If the thing be a rule of duty at all it cannot mean what a man is to do once in his life.  If it be duty all should do it.  There would then be a community of goods, if the society gave only to its own members.  But in this scheme whatever advantages it may be suppose to possess liberality could not exist; for as none would possess, none could give.  Or if the christian society gave its all to the world there would be one great charity followed by one everlasting cessation.  Hence the interpretation given to our Lord’s words cannot be his meaning.  What then was his object?  To condemn her?  By no means.  She may have been right.   To rebuke the false charity of the Pharisees ; to show them that in it there was no merit; & that they had no ground to boast of the quantity of their benefactions for in that work there was no value unless they placed their liberality on a true basis.  But did He not teach that men ought to be liberal?  Certainly he did in other parts of his instructions.  Here he made light of the amount by making a mite more valuable & thus it was the principle that he [?] inculcated.  Elsewhere he taught that “it is more blessed to give than to receive”; and that we ought not to let our left hand know what our right hand doeth”sic  It will not & does to serve the cause of liberality to wring it out of a text by misinterpretation.  We have the duty taught in many places by fair interpretation; and largely acted upon by christians sic ; but I have never heard of known of any christian moved to liberality by the widow’s mite.  The fact is the reverse: they give a mite a trifle & call it their mite and lay a salve to their consciences that they have imitated the widow. No wonder: - the interpretation and plea founded on it are equally [?] human and equally hollow.  Better would it be to imitate the [?] purest ever flowing liberality of such New Testament characters as Gaius 3 John. &c.
I learned [from] last overland that the chair of mathematics in Queen’s College Belfast is vacant & that my brother is a candidate.  I sent a testimonial, procured one from Mr Montgomery & wrote to Dr. Wilson informing him of the fact and asking one from him.  May God grant this if He know it for my brother’s good in the large & high sense, 

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otherwise grant the blessing which he knows will bring no sorrow with it.  His brother’s application was not successful.

Have heard of the death of a kind christian friend the Rev. W. Brown of Coleraine.  Many drop away.  Let me not presume on my [?] unsuitability in frail corporeal life ; but “be always ready”.

1860 - June 25 - Mon. - Yesterday morning [preaching details] … in the evening from Philemon 3.  In my sermon I have stated the question: why grace & peace from the Father  the Son spoken of without mention of the H.S.?  Answ: - Because the H.S. proceeds from the Father & the Son - and He it is who works grace & peace in the soul ∴ as the Spirit precedes these causatively so if these are obtained the Spirit is already possessed.  I spent much of the day in reading Hebrew.  I have found in several instances of special petition, even a little while on my knees, is a strong preparation for uttering the gospel in a healthy tone.  The earnestness felt there is still alive in the pulpit.

I have been meditating the first idea of what might develope sic into a useful series of papers fitted afterwards to make a volume
Title:-“The Relation of the Covenants.”

Some of the chapters to be as follows

The First and Second Adam
Prophecy and Fulfilment
Type and Antitype  Single & Double Sense
Prophets and Ministers
Synagogues and Church

The Gospel in the Law
The Law in the Gospel

The Church in the Wilderness

Quotations from the Old Testament

The Two Canons & their Connexion. Old T. usage v ??
Old & New Jerusalem
The World to Come

Faith Antecedent & Subsequent

Angel Ministrations

The Many Offerings & the One Offering

The End of the Old Age & the Next
The True Israel & the Remnant

The Promised Lands

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1860- July 1 - Sab. night Surat. To-day sic at 1 o’cl I lectured in Guj. on the last half of Rev. 19.  Overland came on friday sic - I am thankful my family were well.  My dear friends printed & circulated my short letter expressing my willingness to accept that professorship, if [?] harmoniously offered with good hope of usefulness.  Learn by note from Dr. Morgan, that Dr. Graham, Dr. McKee, Dr. Niblock, Mr. Porter & Mr. Witherow are candidates.  Mr. P. is son in law to Dr. Cooke, who cannot be blamed for supporting him.  Yet on account on being distributor of reg.don. he will have undue influence.  Regium Donum [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regium_Donum] was the “Royal Grant” paid from 1690 until 1870 to Presbyterian ministers, in respect of being loyal to the Crown but not entitled, unlike the established Church of Ireland, to tithes.  The “distributor” was indeed a person of great influence as he signed off on who was entitled to the grant.  

The testimonials to me from India left Bombay on 17th May while the 28th May my brother published my letter. They are therefore too late.  But my brother had resolved on publishing the testimonials.  So here I remain simply passive, not offering myself though to accept.  I trust in the providence of God to overrule the hearts of the assembly and do what is for his glory & if this is for my good, to open the way & fit me for the devolving duty.

I have a variety of views respecting the vexed question of Hebrew tenses, which if leisure permit I may commit to writing.  The Hebrew grammars and lexicons are conflicting and unsatisfactory - some as Stuart making ו in certain cases conversion, though the exceptions are perhaps more numerous than the rules.  Others, as Lee decrying the conversion power.
I think the following facts  of importance.  

1 Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers have their first word or 1st verb with ו  This marks them as continuous [?] works and not as separate books.  

2 Deuteronomy does not so commence.  This marks it as not continuous.  The reason is —- it is a resumé starting all novo.

3 The last chapter of Deut. (which should obviously be placed 1st. of Joshua) and also the 1st of Joshua both begin with ו which marks them as continued history.

4 The same applies to all the books - Ruth 1 Sam., 2d. Sam. - 1 Kings & 2d. Kings, marking them as conveying unbroken history.

5 The books of Chronicles are different.  They start from the creation; and are an independent history;  according sic 1 Chron. does not commence with [vaw]; 2d. Chron. being continuation of 1st Chron

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does.  

6. Ezra continues 2 Chron. & commences with ו 

8. Neh continues Ezra & commences with ו
9 Esther continues Nehemiah & commences with ו
10 But Job which belongs not the line of history does not commence with ו
11. The Psalms commence variously _ never with ו

12 Prov. Eccl. & Song commence with titles.

13 Isaiah & Jeremiah commence with titles.

14. Lam. commence sic with dirge like abruptness.

15 Ezek. and Jonah commence with ו and they are probably continuation - Ezek & Daniel to whom he alluded [?] is by name — and Jonah of Joel.

I purpose if God will to write a sermon on Mat. 12.32 with the view of so explaining the unpardonable sin, as to leave it no more perplexing.  Though I find not explanation of it that I can admit, I do not think it a hard text.  My object will be strongly and without little controversy about the unpardonable sin to to bring out the doctrine of the atonement & the Spirit’s work.  The problem is then plain.  If a man blasphemes Christ the atonement is available and if brought by the Spirit to have faith in it He sic receives pardon.  But if the Spirit is blasphemed, his sanctifying work is rejected.  There is no 2d. remedy: the man has forfeited the one salvation & so he perishes.  May God instruct & honour [?] this fully [?] clearly & to the profit of others.

1860- July 9 - Mon. Mg. - Surat [preaching details]  Yesterday part of the day was spent in reading Fairbairn Her, Man. on the title “Christ” etc.  
Fairbairn’s Hermeneutical Manual — Hermeneutical Manual or, Introduction to the Exegetical Study of the Scriptures of the New Testament, by Patrick Fairbairn: Edinburgh T&T Clark 1858

“Patrick Fairbairn (1805-1874) was born in Berwickshire, Scotland, studied at Edinburgh University, and was an outstanding scholar among Scottish Presbyterians. After 27 years in pastoral service, he served as divinity professor at the Free Church College in Aberdeen before becoming principal of the Free Church College, Glasgow, for 18 years until his death. His more notable works include Typology of Scripture, and commentaries on Ezekiel and The Pastoral Epistles.

In his Hermeneutical Manual, Patrick Fairbairn calls readers to a sober examination of the Bible. He follows the historic Protestant practice of allowing the Scriptures to stand as their own witness and interpreter.”  https://www.theopedia.com/patrick-fairbairn  

The Gen. Assembly has now been five days over; and in all probability my case is decided.  I am thankful I feel no concern & if the tidings of want of success reach me, I shall I hope believe that the professorship would not have been good for me.  Suppose my teaching respecting Heb. points & manuscripts, the quotations from the O.T. the age of the N.T. &c did not please, I should then find myself on a bed of thorns. Hence

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it would be great folly for me to assume that my election would be good because gratifying to my heart by bringing me to my dear family.  I have dreams regarding returning home two or three time along with Mr Mont but purely idle ones the result of wearying thoughts of every day - fancying myself landing in Liverpool, or strolling among mountain scenery which was at once Ireland & India, causing [?] hotels where all was filth & disrespectability &c.  If I attached any weight to these might sic fancy myself called home, yet not finding it to my comfort.  In about 37 days I expect the intelligence of the Assembly.  As I believe the vote has already been taken I can no longer pray as I did that God may direct according to his Will and wisdom for me for my good and that of others to His glory - otherwise not.  But I can still and do confide in His providence & say whatever dispensation he has granted may He enable me to improve.  If my lot is cast for 3 1/2 years more in this land, may He qualify me for more labour & grant fuller success for Christ’s sake Amen

I have written and sent to the Spect. a paper On Solomon proving especially from 1 Kings 11.1-8 and I think quite conclusively that Solomon was no sensualist  and had no plurality of wives.

I wrote a paper on Nat. Theology for the last No. of the [?] Greyan Dipath [?].

The subject of the sabbath does not seem to be exhausted in any work to which I have access.  I have thoughts of preparing a sermon on it from Heb. .8 or 10.   The Jews had multiform sabbath of days, of years, and of jubiles. sic  Yet without this Paul says: if Joshua had given them a full & ultimate sabbath, David long after Joshua would not have spoken of a sabbath yet future. On this principle the apostle asserts that the sic christians have a sabbath; and as to the Jews so to them the sabbath is both present and a matter of both hope and promise.  To illustrate this let me observe that

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a week or sabbath of days comes from the word for seven which itself comes from the Hebrew word for fulness   In the one great idea of a sabbath we may expect a [?] multiplicity.  We may first indeed distinguish it into three - the ante-Messianic, the Messianic or Christian, and the celestial; but when we go more into the subject we shall find seven sabbaths in one.  The Sabbath is like the hues of the rainbow.  It is one as the white light of the sun is one.  But it is three, as that light resolves into red, yellow and blue sic.  Again it is seven as these colours refracted through the prism present seven prismatic colours to the eye.  Each is a type of part of God’s Sabbath.

1 The Edenic Sabbath  This represents rest from the work God created & has ever since done so.  During the world’s history his work has been not to create new species but to redeem & sanctify.  Man began to exist near the close of the sixth day which must be viewed as a geologic age [?]  And [?] he had the work of naming the animals which implied the acquisition of a knowledge of their natures.  This sabbath was short; but the cause it was broken off by the fall.  Heb. 4.10 

2 The Patriarchal Sabbath  - Rest from the fall.- marred and broken by man’s apostasies and not observed with due regularity, for want of a stated ministry - but still keeping man under its law, and still affording seasons for public worship.  As long as God’s sabbath was in existence, so long man could not be without a Sabbath.  hence the fallacity sic of supposing the Sabbath to be merely Sinaitic.  Heb. 4.3.

3. The Canaan Sabbath - rest from wanderings.  This brought with it national observance & a stated priesthood, and a penal sanction.  But it was not final; for in David’s day there was still a danger of not entering into it.  Heb. 4.8.

4. The Christian Sabbath  - rest from the curse of the law - a further extension of sabbath privilege but still requires the admonition to beware of cursing [?] of its highest privilege which is therefore still future.  Heb. 4.1 -

5. The Millenial rest - rest from the curse of the earth - the full development of the [?] last [?] [is “day” missing?] Heb. 2.9 Is.35

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6.  The Spiritual Sabbath - rest from sin.  The perfection of holiness.  The celestial service Heb. 4.11

7.  The resurrection Sabbath, rest from the dominion of Death.  The full eternal rest.  Heb. 4.14  Rev. 7

1860 - July 15 - Sab. night _ Surat _ On Tuesday past I preached at a school house on “the strait gate” [preaching details]  I spent part of the day in reading Fairbairn’s [?] Journal & making various notes in pencil

With the week now ended must have ended the General Assembly.  As I think I have reason to suppose I am elected professor sic Biblical Criticism.  I pray that if it be so God may qualify me, in 3 respects 

1  To profit by it in my own soul , & to be the means of profit to the souls of dear
    friends.

2  To be instrumental in impressing on the minds of the students much important truth in Biblical Criticism which I find little or not at all, developed in books: but which I think I am not presumptuous in thinking important to views of the Bible at once scientific and devout

3  To make me an instrument in supplying what seems to me desideratum — a  missionary in the college — the Pres. coll. for in the Queen’s coll. which is only secular it is vain to look for it.  The students and must I not add the professors have too evidently been slumbering in this matter, as is plain from the want of missionary lectureships, and from the fact that except the Rev. D. M. the Presb. has as yet furnished no foreign missionary.  May God if the [grant struck through] appointment has been graciously allotted to me, that I may have grace not to slumber in this matter.  If He has ordered it otherwise may the Spirit send a like unction on the person chosen.

From an intimation in a letter I see it possible though not probable that a minister is endeavouring to be elected under tenant right influence.  This if realised will have an unhappy effect on the mission work, from a spirit of opposition to me & from other causes.

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1860 - July 19 - Th. -Surat  I find by calculation that on this day in order to complete my period of 21 years in service of the For. Mis. I have yet in prospect 1260 days to end of 1863.  What mighty events may occur in that interval.  What remarkable events have occurred in 1859 and in the current year.  The events have been occurring too rapidly for the expounders of prophecy.  It is now plain that the ten horns are now hating the [?] & consuming her.     [thoughts on “popedom’]

FROM THIS POINT THERE IS A SELECTIVE TRANSCRIPTION.

July 29 - … - Received Home letters.  Mrs G. & children well - cause of much thankfulness.  She still hopeful regarding professorship.  Mr McK. thinks Dr. Gr. will not be successful & will leave the church in consequence — much to be regretted.  I learn from him and Mr W. that Witherow by party and Porter by patronage are formidable; and that the election may be stood off to a Committee.  This patronage (Dr C.) may do.  I feel little concern and think it more likely that it is all over now and that party has carried it.  But whatever God has granted me may He sanctify to me my family & the good of the church & mission, — whether by influence on students or by influence here.  Dr C. = Dr Henry Cooke, arguably the most powerful person in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland in that era.

I have drawn up a synopsis of “Times & Seasons” on eras & dates of prophecies fulfilled and unfulfilled - especially to point out the years of ending of the numbers 1260, 1290, 1335, and 2300, or their prophetic equivalent in [?] reduced time, 1242, 1272, 1316 and 2267.  The coincidences with history appear remarkable.  Several of them remarkably compare in years very much the present time.  And show that little but the days of the 7th Vial remain before the [?] christ beginning of the millennium.

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   1860 _ Aug. 2.  Rule for the weather said to be taken by Marshal Bugeaud from an old Spanish manuscript: Thomas Robert Bugeaud Marshal of France 1784-1849 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Robert_Bugeaud 
“11 times out of 12 the weather will during the whole lunation be the same as that which
  occurred on the 5th day of the moon if on the 6th, the weather was the same as on the 5th.
  And 9 times out of 12, the weather of the 4th day will last throughout the moon, if the 6th
  turns out to be like the 4th.”
Add 6 hours to the 6th day t make up for the daily intention between the [?] 2pass and the meridian.

Aug. 5_  Sa. _ Sur. [preaching details] 

During the week I have revised part of the Guj.transl.of Isaiah given me by R.M.  I find in the Bombay Guardian a letter explaining briefly the prophetic views expressed in last page, which he will not be willing to admit, as it conflicts with what he had expressed before.  I have been reading various article in [?] Kit. Journ. Sac. Lit. and of Leiden Journ. Heb. &c. &c.

Aug. 12. - Sab. Sur.  This morning I preached in Guj. from the parables of the mustard seed & leaven in Mat. 13. _ and hope in the evening to read a sermon written last week on Heb. 4.10. in which I seem to myself to have extended the view of the sabbath by finding it a septuary in relating to God & man.

I have heard that a telegram announced the arrival in Bombay on friday sic of the Europe mail.  I may therefore about next tuesday sic expect letters, and as in them I hope to hear news of the Gen. Assembly, so I hope to hear if anything and what has been decided regarding the professorship.  This therefore is probably (i.e. unless the Assembly refer it to a Committee) the last sabbath of my uncertainty regarding it.  I may read that from the time [?] of a candidate starting on tenant right principles, I think with less merit than some others he will be the man.  Dr C.’s patronage may have done much for his son-in-law.  Party has probably done more.  I should thankfully have gone to my family and spent the remainder of my life in training students hopeful thereby to have the church’s mission sure — but enough if God see not this best.  Oh! that He may give me more qualification for the work He gives me to do.

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1860 - Aug. 16. - W. Surat.  Today received home letters. Patronage has prevailed. Letter from Rev. J. McKee consoles me by saying how high I stand-in the public estimation. I find that I had the elite of the Assembly on my side —- that is my main consolation so far as my situation is concerned.

[Aug] 26

In the week I had finished & sent off to Dr W. for O.C.S. a full & correct copy of my lecture on Solomon.  Meantime a proof of the first and imperfect copy which I had sent him came.  I added a final sentence — still the printed lectures will not be so good as that I have in writing.

No newspapers came from Ireland by last mail, so that I am still in the dark respecting particulars of Assembly business so I am endeavouring to be patient until next mail I hope that said intelligence may come.

30 Aug. Letters came from Mrs G. A.D.G. & Rev. J. Wilson 

31 Aug. A single Banner.  No news relating to me.
1 Sept. Another Banner.  No news.

3 Sept. Monday. Surat. yesterday at 1 o’cl I preached from Rev. 21.4 … 8.

I learn that I had 90 votes — and that party carried the day.  My absence and my not having applied [?] [?] recommendations have operated ags me.  I am informed that the Rev. Dr. Durham  [CHECK] in proposing me spoke exceedingly well.  I feel aggrieved at certain persons especially Dr Br. who promised to second my nomination.  My friends inform me that I had the elite of the Assembly on my behalf.  But whatever I may think of men, let me bow to the will of God and be only the more zealous in my work here while God pleases to keep me here.

Mr M’s absence at Dumas a coastal village about 13 miles from Surat  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumas_Beach has confined me to housework all the week, printing of Isaiah.  Have seen in the O.C.S. my article on Solomon very unintelligibly printed.

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1860 - Sept. 17 - M.- Surat

On Saturday morning I rode to Dumas whence I returned this morning.  Yesterday I had a short service in Guj. for the servants and in the evening I walked to Bhimpur now known as Bhimpore and preached to Kolis. https://www.everyculture.com/South-Asia/Koli.html  I asked them “Do you thinking sic fishing (their occupation) sinful.  They replied “yes”.  Then why, I inquired, do you not leave it off?  They answered “God gave us this trade.”  This exemplifies to a large extent the state of the native mind.  I told them all were sinners by breaking God’s law and that there is one Saviour to whom all are invited to look.

Oct. 7 Sab. - Surat

I have been engaging myself in writing a commentary on Zechariah’s prophecy.  It is the most difficult in the Bible.  But it will repays sic study.  I find it growing too copious in the [?] comment [?], the reason of which is the necessity of settling the meaning of the “the Word of the Lord” the “Scroll of the Lord” and the Lord of Hosts; and some critical points.  These I purpose to put into the form of introductory tractates; and then to keep the whole in moderate compass.  I trust in this, among other things to be able to explain the supposed inconsistency of Matthew’s quotation of Jeremy instead of Zechariah by showing that Mat. quotes part of the words of both as in other places e.g. Mat.10.11.  I hope also to show in the latter part the untenableness of the premillenarian theory.  And I hoped to be profited and edified by the study.  It leads to the examination of many recondite points in Heb. criticism, - as the meaning of the Word of the Lord, the proper translation of גאמרת.   3 the angelus interprets &c.  The question of the authorship I do not think difficult.  Partly it is attributed to Jeremiah only to square with Matthew’s quotation.  But it squares without that.  It consists of two parts Visions and oracles.  It brings the minds close to the christian dispensation.

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1860 - Oct. 28.- Sab night. - Surat.  

I have finished the Commentary on two chapters of Zech.; and trust I am receiving light.  In this I am encouraged, from finding difficult ap. [art?] from the spelling {?] auday [?]; and what before seemed perplexing becomes easy!  Nor do I see that this is the mere fruit of learned study; but of a disciple & some consistent views of the prophetic visions.  For this I bless God and take encouragement both to pray and to proceed in my work.  Whether I may be spared to publish I cannot tell; but maintain the study and the writing are profitable and a source of interest and enjoyment to my soul.  I have finished three Tractates of a preliminary kind  1 On the Personal Word or Dabar Yehovah; - 2d. on Yehovah Sabaoth or Lord of hosts; - 3/ On the Malaak Yehovah or Angel of the Lord.  There will be a 4th answering objections; - a 5th on the Integrity of Zechariah - that is that it is the work of one prophet. - and a 6th on the nature of prophetic Visions.  If I live to finish this work I shall feel much favoured by God’s providence.

Nov 5th. - M.- Surat. - 

In the course of last week I completed two Tractates, one on the Angel of the Lord; and one answering objections to my view.  I have been endeavouring to get books for comparison.  Besides those in the libraries here I have got only one - Sale’s Horae Solitanae on the titles of Christ.  It is like most other books it only quotes texts with sic [without?] examining their meaning.  This is increasingly unsatisfactory.  i have also been reading [?] Herrgensberg on Daniel & Zechariah.  It is satisfactory especially on the former.  It for internal & Tregelles for external evidence should be read on the genuineness & authenticity of Daniel.  S. P. Tregelles 1813-1875: Remarks on the Prophetic Visions in the Book of Daniel 1847  https://archive.org/details/remarksonprophe01treggoog/page/n4

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1860 - Nov.12 - Mon. Mg.

All this week I have been much taken up with the Commentary.  Have now entered on chap. 4.  Think some of the prophets absolutely full of significant symbols.  It is the hardest portion of the scripture to expound, but though a deep one it is peculiarly rich! - And I feel thankful that after having it in view for a number of years I have been led to set about it.  Oh! Spirit of grace grant me continued light to know its truth & explain it to others.  Have received some encouraging [?] comment [ ? ?] respecting it especially from Bombay, whence Dr Wilson kindly sent me one or two books.  Have written him  & Dr Murphy of Belfast respecting the ואמרח in Zech 1.2  [?] as taken imperatively.

Nov. 18. Sab night - Surat.

Sun evening had overland letters.  Thankful to learn that my family were well, especially that Annie’s cough previously reported to me had gone.  I have advanced into the 5th chapter of Zechariah with the commentary and given into the press as far as Jeremiah 20th chapter.  I feel encouraged in my work by more clearness than I anticipated shed upon every part as far as I have come.  But I find I must send home for some books.  Though I am possessed of many of the greatest value I want some of those that refer to this portion of scripture.  Though much of Zechariah refers to the earlier times of the christian [?] yet it leads me to think of the signs of the times and verily those of the present lead me to anticipate the speedy fulfilment of some chronological prophecies.  In 1862 in grounds entered in my journals several years ago I look for heavy strokes in the east as [?] spoken on.  And in the West not only on popery but Puseyism or which is substantially the same Eng. popery.  Zechariah however does not mention dates, but is remarkably rich in [?]  sisimal [?] almost every word being symbolical.  I hope in about half a year to have this work ready for publication.  If I were at home I should be able to carry it better through the press, and to gain access to books without the expense of purchase.

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1860- Dec. 2 - Sab night  [preaching details]

I have proceeded in the Commentary on Zechariah to the middle of chapter 6 and have 11 chapters translated into English literal prose.  I am also making a clear metrical version and metrical paraphrase.  For all these works may the Spirit of God grant me light.  I have felt much refreshed by the arrival of the Rev James McKee from Ireland and by the account furnished of the revivals - the anecdotes of cases transcend all public accounts.

The course of conversation respecting persons [pushed] my mind into trains of thought respecting the stronger association of sincerity with hypocrisy of which history and observation furnish multitudinous examples.  The pharisees of our Lord’s day were lamentable examples of hypocrisy; yet they thought that by crucifying Christ and persecuting the disciples that they were doing God’s service.  On the same principle may be explained the conduct of Mohammed and of that popish persecution; and of many nominal protestants.  Whatever be the philosophy the thing is fact.  Nor does the philosophy seem to lie very deep.  The Jews were satisfied that they were the prophets of God - so far they were sincere.  But they wanted the personal religion to which they made pretences.  Herein consisted their hypocrisy.  Papists think their church true.  This is sincerity but they resort to many knavish pretensions of miracles to support it.  This is the soul of hypocrisy.  Mohammed thought he was right in teaching that there is one God; but to gain success he made many lying pretences.  Thus he also convicted himself of hypocrisy.  Sincerity therefore is not the slightest proof of the absence of hypocrisy.  The two principles cooperate and commingle in the same person.  No sincerity is valid except it be the result of the teaching of the Holy Spirit.

I have been disappointed of letters from my family &c. last mail.  Mr Y. is now making arrangements for returning home with his family - which cause the press  embarrassment.  I do not sympathize in all the opposition made to him by Mr M. who by his slowness to a large extent kept back the printing of the Bible —

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1860- Dec.10 - M.  [preaching detail]  On Saturday I posted my home letters.  I am now making preparations for going to Ahmedabad where I trust to preach for some time.  Oh! that the Spirit may be poured out on me and those who hear me.  On Sabbath last and today I feel thankful for an enlargement of heart. - which is I earnestly trust a “time of refreshing from the presence of the Lord.  Lord give my present impressions permanently so far as thou occupy [?] them for thy Spirit’s work.  All the dross that is mine do thou mercifully purge away.  O Lord, leave me not for an hour to myself; for ah! I have not strength to stand without thee.  Let thy grace work its full victory over the old man in me.  And thine be glory for ever.  Amen

I can look back on the past and trace the gracious hand of God leading me along the path of life.  My knowledge of Christ in boyhood was an intellectual conviction with more in it of hope than of faith.  My standard was alas not high; yet I cannot but think that seeds were implanted by the Spirit, which though slowly have progressively but not equally grown.  My first communion (in Broughshane) was a refreshment.  In my grammar school and classical career, I conscientiously attended public worship.  Prayer and Bible reading became less regular though not dropped.  And the time of refreshment was my residence in the house of Rev. Dr. Paul of Carrickfergus.  My college courses had in it too much of - not intellect but its pride;  too much ambition and too much of the vanity of what is good in itself science.  Yet I had my Bible, attended addresses regularly, was punctually at my sabbath class, was secretary of a favourite Missionary society; and made speeches advocating the missionary work with perfect sincerity in every word I uttered yet with too much of the man & too little of the christian sic.  Another period of refreshing was my ordination: - and especially I may say during my five years of ministry, especially the latter part of it my religious experience was considerably developed.  Another refreshment I felt in my entrance of missionary life.  This deepened in my visit to & labours at home. Home furlough 1851-54  In May 1858 I trust I am not mistaken in having a visit of the Spirit of God.  If I have not fully lived up to this, I am thankful for strong and new impression of it opening me upward?.

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1860 - Dec. 17 - Sab. night - Surat
[preaching details]   Biblical reading and writing.  Had letters from my wife and eldest daughter after a month owing the letter being overweight & sent back from the dead letter office.I am thankful they were well.  Mrs G. informs me that the Rev. M Meneely of Ballymacarrett met her & told her that he had voted for Porter & never gave a vote with so much pain.  When a wealthy minister could be so [?] in what a contested state of dependence must the poorer minister be!  Mr Moore writes me that he cannot support me as he does not agree with my views; but that he would gladly support me in Mathematics & Nat. Phil. - subjects in which he knows nothing of my attainments except by hearsay for these subjects were never exemplified in our intercourses:he ∴ could give no true testimony.  How is he sincere in offering it?  Besides he stands so low in these subjects that if I wanted testimonials I should [? no] more think his of any value.  I am gratified at receiving a copy of one sent home by Dr M Mitchell, who knows from much scientific and literary intercourse for 20 years what I can do, and whose testimony is even more flattering than I expected.  The church man judges more impartially than my own brethren.

Yesterday I was much grieved at an unseemly storm of passion vented on me by Mr Montg for no offence, other than that I could not [?] surrender my own opinion to his regarding the translation of ברית and διαθήκη and the meaning of these words.  This impiously [?] domineering [?] over his senior.  I pray to be enabled not to be moved by - nor be agitated by it nor to give cause:- and I pray that his temper may be mollified and [?] dampened.  I am now longing to be off to Ahmedabad, - though I cannot [?] the work & the press is to be supplied with [?] owing to his slowness in giving in his revision of copy.  I finished and sent to Dr W. a [?] revision of Zechariah.  I am writing a paper on Matt. 22;sic23 to refute the objection drawn from it against the N. Testament.  Though alas too weak in the divine life, I feel that a supply of grace is not withheld., I have seen I trust answers to prayers in the Spirit’s communication of strength and refreshing.  Oh! Lord grant me perseverance & progress.  And give me wisdom to enable me to work with weak friends here & correspond with such at home.

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1860 Dec. 19th - We started at 9 a.m. & have arrived at the travellers’ bungalow Broach for breakfast.  In the evening Mr Montg who accompanies on me on my tour and I went into the city.  He preached to a crowd. [? A young man?] spoke to me at the close.  I invited him to the bungalow.  He came and then and next day we especially Mr M. had much conversation with him.  He professes to belong to a new sect, - that of Bechan and to worshiping simply truth, = the abstraction [? 21-21].  Next morning I proceeded alone to the town and preached at the principal gate to a large crowd who were quiet & attentive.  Only one man [?? followed]  One man said: it is very good.  The colporteurs who accompany us have distributed a few books.  Broach is a station that may be more easily and favourably worked from Surat by train.  30 miles, or 20 Kos.  kos is an ancient Indian unit of measurement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kos_(unit)  A shower of rain.  

20th - Th. evening we came 6 Kos or 9 miles to Samani to which place we had forwarded our tent.  Next we preached in a Jain temple, and in the bazaar.  Attentive hearing but little inquiry.

21.- Fr. In the evening we reached Jambusar [?] 8 Kos or 12 miles.  Having a difficult stage before us which our men could not without some difficulty have made on the next (Saturday) evening, we staid sic over the Sabbath.  On Saturday evening I went to see the Mission house; - for we had put up at the travellers’ bungalow, as being nearer the town.  The Mission house is built on open plain of rather sandy soil, like that of the Baroda district.  There are cotton fields at some distance.; but the place is rather barren.  The distance is about 2 miles.  I cannot tell why the Rev. A. Cabold who built it chose that situation unless he had a hope of purchasing land from government and forming a settlement.  I should think however the land is almost all occupied , as the town is large & there is a good deal of industry & commerce.  The house is of brick, two stories, brick floors and veranda with a balcony in the second story sic, facing the east, the floor (board in) of which is much eaten by white [ant?] and rotted by the breaking in of the rain from which it is not protected.  The ground, - some 3 or 4 acres is well filled with cactus but there is no gate & no

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avenue, nor sign of ingress & egress.  I observed a mission tent in one of the lower rooms, and above stairs a few parts left I think by one of our colporteurs who stayed there some time.  On Saturday evening & Sab. mg we preached to large crowds in the town.  [There were some prepared to believe in left margin]  1860 December 24 M. morning we started early & reached Delawan, [?]  9 Kos or 13 ½ miles after crossing the river Mye [?Mahi]  Though it sic the time of lowest neap tide, our horses sic saddles were dipping in the water.  Mr M. found water a little shallower than I, by keeping a few yards higher where the carts passed without wetting any of our boxes.  This is one of our mission stations.  The house is good & tolerably strong but ill furnished - doors & windows rude work.  There is little to invite in the place.  It is an accumulation of sand hills on the bank of the river which however is not in view from the house.  Here is located one of our catechists Gugaran one of our oldest converts: - one of those to whom I preached in Baroda in 1846 before the Dehwan and Borsad stations had been opened.  He received us kindly showing all the hospitality in his power, in return for which I left with him several copies of the principal Gujarati publications.  Some other Christians from Borsad are also here.  One man has fields and raises various crops.   - In the evening we preached to very considerable audience, some of whom had learned portions from Gungaram & from missionaries, who have spent some time.  The last was the Rev. D. Moore who was much disturbed by a murder of two men committed by a native christian sic whom Mr Moore had baptized at Gogo, & who was since sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to transportation for life.

N.B. no mention of Christmas
26- W. morning, we came 6 Kos 9 miles to Virsad where we had caused our tent to be pitched, and the Rev. J.V.S. Taylor met us. - a distance of 5 Kos to the west of Borsad.  We preached in the tent at midday, and in the town in the evening, to good numbers of people - few books were sold.  The country is fertile and so continues all the way though much of the road especially from Khua [?]  to Ahmedabad is heavy with deep sand.

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On the 28th we came to Sojitra where there is a bungalow.   It is a Gaikawani [?] town.  We had large numbers at noon in the street and in the evening in a Government school. 7 Kos

1860 - Dec. 29  Sat. mg. we came 8 Kos to Kheda.  In the evening we walked about a mile to see an English church.  It is large & finely built but 3 miles away from the town and one from the camp so that even if the people were christian sic its utility would be much less than it might have been if it had been in a more favourable situation.  It is indeed situated on a bend of a small [?] called Sedi , & adjoins the Baroda road.  On sabbath morning rode into the town & preached to a large number.  At 11 we had an English service.  Two gentlemen & a lady - all the Europeans at the station, attended.  In evening being already fatigued we went in a cart into the town & again preached to large numbers in the evening.  There is some inquiry in the place.  Here and in all the previous places the Borsad colporteurs have been & have circulated books.  For this reason fewer are circulated now.  The word has been spoken, and many know the leading facts of it.

31 Monday morning, we started & came to Sali where we spent the day & night.  In the afternoon we preached to good numbers though the village is small.  From the bungalow in which we spent the last hours of 1860, we started in the morning of the New year sic, thankful for blessings, humble under the sense of the shortcomings during the year, & with prayers for grace for the year on which we had entered.  N.B.  New Year apparently had greater spiritual significance than Christmas.  Thus we reached Ahmedabad; went to the Lovely [?] bungalow where we breakfasted.  We then proceeded to a quad rangle sic in the centre of the city, where we pitched our tent.  Here is our present sojourn., I received one or two letters, but fewer than I expected.

2 January 1961. Received one or two letters to-day sic; but am disappointed at the non- receipt of my dear wife’s & children’s letters.  Trust to receive them to-morrow. sic  Have had various calls from inquiring natives, who are inviting us to establish a mission.  They are principally young persons.  Some speak a little against Christianity; but comparatively little.

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On the whole progress is visible over the country.  More to hear and fewer to object.  The people are in better condition than those in Kathiawar.  Education is not always followed by the laying aside of prejudice but it is easier to deal with the educated than the uneducated.

1861. Jan. 3.  Went to a Hindu temple & sought admittance, but were repulsed wrathfully.  We retired to the steps in front, where Mr M. preached to the people.  We have had work to do in the correction of these proofs of Jeremiah from Ch. 9 and on to about 20.  I wrote and posted a letter to my dear wife, enclosing one to my dear daughter M.E. Glasgow & one to Dr. Morgan briefly sketching our operations on the way, - also manuscript to my wife rather half of the metrical version of Zechariah.  Made some visits in camp in the 3 & [?]

From 4 in the afternoon I felt an attack of diarrhoea and griping which had been gradually coming for some days.  I was able however in the evening to walk out a short distance to the front of the gaol, where Mr. M. preached to a large crowd.  Some interruption was made by pupils of the Government school.

Jan.5. Dined early in Major Alban’s whose wife is a pious person.  At noon having obtained leave from the Session judge J. Waisen Esq. we visited Jivo a man baptized by Mr Moore who in his service committed the murder of two men with a hatchet.  His sentence is commuted from death to transportation for life.  He seemed I hope feels the penitence he expresses.  He says he reads the N. Test. daily.  I was so deeply moved at seeing him that I could not command many words as my emotions poured out in tears.  I requested Mr. M. to pray.  In the [?] evening I walked out alone & addressed a vast crowd who were perfectly quiet.  One man in the crowd expressed decided approbation.  And then who a little English followed and declared his belief in what I had preached.  He solicited a book.  I gave him a copy of the Scriptures [?] b y te. He promised to read it & said he would do to. morrow sic (Sabbath).  May the Word have free course and be glorified.

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1861 - January 15 - In. Ahmedabad. To-day Mr Dhaijibhai arrived and spent the day with us in my tent.  In the evening after having waited in hope of seeing the Scotch missionaries en route to Rajputance, Mr M. & I started at dusk & missed the missionaries even in the road as it appeared they had entered by a gate while we issued by another.  We travelled in native carts all night and reached Kaira at 7 o’cl. in the morning of the 

16th Jan. - W. Kaira, where being fatigued , we passed the day, sending servants & Mr. M.’s carts on.

17 January Th. - Reached Sujitra.  In the evening we were agreeably surprized sic by the arrival of Mr Hormagajii from Rajkot.

18th.- Fri.- reached Borsad. - found all well.  In the course of the day Mr McKee and Mr Wallace arrived having come to Baroda by train.  There by the good hand of our God we were all spared and privileged to meet, and on the same day.

19th. Saturday. We held two sederunts of presbytery.  I was Moderator.  So I preached.  My text was Zech. 10.1.  I endeavoured to impress the duty & importance of prayer for the outpouring of the Spirit on ourselves as well as on the christians sic & the heathen.

20 Sab. - Borsad.  I preached in Guj from Tit. 2.14 and baptized two children viz. 1 John Rhauris [?] born 11th Sept.1860 son of Rev.Jos. V. S. Taylor of our Mission and of Georgina Anderson (Brodie) Taylor his wife

2 Henry born       day of      1860 son of Sar Gandbhia Member of the Borsad church and inhabitant of Borsad.

21 M. Borsad - Presided at digging of first sod of the foundation of the new church to be erected for the Borsad christians by liberality of Major Wallace Resident at Baroda.

22 Yesterday & today were hospitably entertained by three of the native christians - Desai Joitibai, a woman & Guidbhar.  I returned to Sujitra in south of Ahmedabad where I purposed to spend the remainder of the cold season, after which the presbytery have appointed me to Surat.

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1861 Jan.24.- [?] Thr. - Reached Ahmedabad after a ride of 20 miles from [?] Kairim.  Spent the evening in reading and meditation.

25 Jan. [?] Fri. Rode to Dr Barrett’s & learned that the chaplain, [?] Easum, had objected to our use of the church buildings (they do not call it a church for the bishop of Bombay so styled did not consecrate it when lately here.  It is a large building, not sufficiently church looking).  I had to wait on the General, the Brigade Major, the Colonel of [?] 14th N.I.  In the evening at 4 o’cl I attended a levée of the Governor who has visited this place.  

N.I. = Native Infantry
The Oxford University Calendar for 1853 lists Rev Robert Easum as graduating MA through Lincoln College.  https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zeozAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA307&dq=Rev+Easum&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_zue2q__oAhWtQhUIHQ8LANcQ6AEIMDAB#v=onepage&q=Rev%20Easum&f=false

In the Bombay Civil List a Rev Robert Easum is recorded as Chaplain to Ahmedabad and Kaira from 1860 to 1864.  https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1YMIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA113&dq=Rev+Robert+Easum&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjR3PLWrP_oAhU0RhUIHcYqApgQ6AEIcjAJ#v=onepage&q=Rev%20Robert%20Easum&f=false
26 Sat. - According to advice of Dr Barrett, Colonel Montgomery & Captain Wauchope, I sent to the Brigade Major who is personally friendly (Captain Hewitt) an application for the above church to preach in during my stay at Ahmedabad.  - Am waited on by Mausackle who renews the application he previously made for baptism.  The Brigade Major has replied promising to lay my letter before General Williams & let me now at an early hour to-morrow sic.

May God dispose as He sees right.

27 Sab. - Ahmedabad camp.  The church buildings refused by the chaplain.  I wave sic any remarks on Puseyite bigotry.  I preached in the mess room of the 14th N.I. the mess room of which Regt. I had often used for a similar purpose 20 years ago in Rajkot. Mat.12.31- 
N.I. = Native Infantry

Puseyite a reference to the “High Church” movement in Anglicanism, often known as the “Oxford Movement”  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Movement in which E. B. Pusey (1800-82) was influential.  As an Irish Presbyterian missionary would be doubtful about the office of bishop viz. “the Bishop of Bombay so styled” and the Puseyites held the three branches of the Church to be Anglican, Orthodox and Roman Catholic, one can understand the coolness between the Presbyterian missionary and the Anglican chaplain, although Glasgow did have more positive encounters with Anglicanism elsewhere. e.g. “1857- Dec.27- Sab. night - Rajkot On Friday Christmas Day I preached in the Eng. Church on Luke 2.14.”

30 An official from the Brigade Major stating that the commanding officer Gen. Williams had submitted my application to him to the chaplain, who said without consent of the bishop he could not give it (would not).  Spent afternoon with Dr. N. a pious friend.

31 Requested by Capt. A.W. Graham to baptize sic a child. Spent the evening with him.

Feb. 1. Formed acquaintance of Captain & Mrs. [?] Murray. - Preached in the street.  Mausackle persists in application for baptism - great difficulties owing to his having many debts due to him & lawsuits to recover them - especially his having a [?] 11-13 or concubine whom he says he would give up but who does not wish to part from him.  He says he has not lived with her for seven years.  Europe Telegram here yesterday.  As Glasgow often mentions the arrival of the “overland” post, he may be commenting that this is the first time news has reached him from home by telegram.

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1861 February 2d.  Very busy writing reports for Government on Nat. periodicals Nat = Native? - and in the evening preparing outline of sermon on James 5.16.

3 Sab. Disappointed of preaching in camp by the fact that the chap. has service at the same hour on the first Sabb. of the month.  I attended and heard a tolerably pretty nothing on 1 Cor 15.56, - a rich subject [?] surely.  To have James Glasgow listening to your sermon especially with the background of page 82 may have been daunting for the “chap.” = chaplain.

4. Monday - Ahmedabad. Received letters from my wife, from Annie, - Dr Denham and Dr Murphy. Sent a 2nd Document to Gov. of Report on periodicals. Baptised Archibald William Gordon, born on 8th January 1861 son of Archibald Graham Captain of H.M.’s 4th Regiment N.I. Bombay army and of Margaret Janet (Grant) Graham his wife.  N.I. = Native Infantry

10 Sab. night - Ahmedabad - During the week I preached in the streets, and almost daily at my tent.  People coming prevented my going to the street.  An audience at the tent though smaller is more attentive than the multitude in the street.  I was occupied in seeing Eng. friends & in corresponding in writing to some home friends.  Every morning I read a chapt of Hebrew and the same of the Sept.
Sept. = Septuagint - Greek version of the Old Testament  I am at present at Ps. 22.  On thursday sic night the Rev. J & Mrs McKee arrived en route to Rajkot..  On sab. sic evening he preached for me in the house of Dr Nicholson in camp.

16 Saturday night.  Was occupied this week as last.  Mrs McKee had fever for two or three days.  They started this morning at 4 o’cl. for Dholka en route to Rajkot.  I am now at Ps. 38.  I have been reading Liebig’s Letters on Chemistry.

Justus Liebig, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Giessen published in English (translated by JM Gardner) in 1856 (New York) “Familiar Letters on Chemistry: And Its Relation to Commerce, Physiology, and Agriculture”  “… with the purpose of facilitating chemical truths to the practical arts of life”.  https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VbhDAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Justus+Liebig+wikipedia&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjX48f97ffoAhXEgVwKHWQaBdIQ6AEIMDAB#v=onepage&q&f=false  Glasgow took a lively interest in many areas of study beyond theology e.g. mathematics.  This morning I received my overland news.  Mrs G. & the children I am thankful were well.  My brother A.’s prospects of a useful situation not very encouraging.  May God lead him aright , for this & the growth of his soul in grace.  I have written to Rev. Dr. Denham of Derry (in reply to him) in reference to some of my published articles e.g. on Solomon, the republication of which he recommends.  I have also written to the Rev. Dr. Murphy, Belfast, in reference to some points of Hebrew Syntax and to my nephew W. Thompson Glasgow, in reply to queries respecting the asteroids.  Had an interesting letter from my nephew, - the Rev. J. Glasgow Armstrong asking direction about his ministerial studies.  Learned that Mrs [?] Marty of Surat had small pox.

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1861. - Feb. 17. Sam. night. - Ahmedabad - This evening I preached in Dr Nicholson’s house from Jam. v.16.

Feb.24.  Preached from Zech. 10.1- 1  During last week I had various visits from natives at my tent, and was much occupied also with their walk. Wrote to my wife and various friends at home.  Rev. Dhaijibhai arrived and spent a couple of days with me.  We went out together and preached in the street to a large audience.  I have visited the Government school (English) twice.  Have been solicited to administer the Lord’s supper, sic which I propose if God will to do, before leaving the station.

Feb 26 This sic having accepted an invitation from Dr Jack [?] Barrett from Belfast to be his guest I moved to beside his bungalow in camp.  

March 3 Sab. evening - Ahmedabad.  Today I preached at Dr Nicholas’s house from 2 Peter 1.4.  I have enjoyed the society of Dr & Mrs Barrett who are I hope really pious persons.  He is a regular observer [?] of family prayer.

March 10.  During the week have been much occupied with press work.  Visits from natives are fewer now in consequence of the distance from the city.  Visited the city once in the week.
The chaplain Easum in this place has given a melancholy but alas in this country too common example of bigotry.  He refused the church in camp even though unconsecrated;  and he altered hour of service for the evident purpose of interfering with mine.  But he is not the only culpable person in this matter.  There are some who showed a desire to wait on our services until they found a prelate or his minion against us.  Then they turned away to walk in the way pleasing to the powers that be. The evidence of truth is never brought to view.  It is assumed that prelacy is true and whatever accords not with it false.  Or it is thought no matter where the truth lies, it is best to be of the religion patronized by the government.  One officer on the same ground made demur to the giving of the 14th. Messroom without being asked asked again after having been granted once.  I decided that if it must be repeatedly asked , I would not go to it.  Dr Nicolson, a Scotch presbyterian liberally gave his house; and there we have assembled for worship.  Man’s anathemas do us no harm.  I trust there is reason to believe that good has been done.

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a candidate for baptism who is anxious for the communion of the church.  His baptism must precede and I have been deferring his baptism to test his character though I believe his sincerity in professing the faith.  Oh God by thy Spirit grant me light and grace for this day’s duty - and to these and to the European candidates for communion grant the gracious influencing of thy Spirit.

1861.-11. Mar. M. Ahmedabad camp - Yesterday I preached at the usual hour 1/4 to 5 o’cl.p.m. from 1 Pet. 1.17,18 and then administered the Lord’s Supper to about 12 communicants of whom two were the natives referred to in last entry.  The one of them

Mansukle I baptized in the house of J. Barrett Esq. M.D.  May the Spirit of God lead him in the [?] true way.

* [see below]

He did Reval [?] in the fashion of these [?] to offer me R’s 50 to make dinner; and when I would not hear of it they put Rs 16 into my hand.  But I explained to them that we condemned their people for making marriages deaths &c occasions for expense, and that I could not encourage them now to do it.  They acquiesced but handed over to me a brass idol 6 lbs in weight representing the Vamana a [?] devout avatar of Vishnu according to Hindu mythology.

The communion was to me and I hope to all present a sweet opportunity.  It is a privilege seldom enjoyed by presbyterians here unless where they conform to the Episcopalian & unscriptural mode.  

Presumably Glasgow is referring to the Anglican practice of coming up to receive the elements, possibly while kneeling, whereas in the Presbyterian mode the elements are received with the communicants seated in their places.  

16 March. Saturday - Ahmedabad city.  On Wednesday I left my friends, the Barretts & came to the house of Captain A.W. Graham.  Have found many quite ready to listen in the streets.  Not so many wait on me in a guest house, as did when I was in my own tent.  I have managed to preach once more in camp to-day sic and then to-morrow sic to start on my journey Suratwards.  I have posted letters to my wife, my daughter Harriet & Dr. Morgan, as I was afraid I might not make Surat in time for the 1st [? last] overland mail.  The wife of the convict [?] Jivostrangly solicits baptism, and the lady whom she serves is desirous it should be done.  I am weighing the matter & looking for light.  [God] and the Spirit grant their ? them? light in Christ. - Amen!
[in left margin] 17th March. Baptized Ralan the wife of Jivo in the house of Captain Alban, Ahmedabad.

[interspersed after *] lives in Raipur chaklie [?] -[?] [?] 

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1861-. March 18.-M. In the morning I sat for a photograph by Mr. Fad [?] in the house of Captain Alban.  After breakfast I took leave of Captain & Mrs. G.  And rode to Láli  a settlement approx. 12 miles S of Ahmedabad  In the evening I preached in the village.
19th. Kheda.  Was a little unwell, - the result of yesterday’s ride in the sun.  I did not go to the town which is 2 miles distant from the traveller’s bungalow.

20th. Nadiád.  In the evening I preached in the town.  The only Christian they named as having been among them was Gungaram.  But Mr. Taylor was there in the cold season.  I passed through and preached in this town on this line of road 18 years ago.
21st. Anand Mogri [?] - Preached in the town to a large number.  An old brahmin avowed that he worshipped a stone.  Several seemed to feel the folly of this.

22nd. Friday - Wasad.  Preached in a school of the indigenous kind without books.  Gave a small new sic Testament to a man from Surat in Gov. Rev. employment.
23rd. Saturday- Baroda.  Staid sic with Dr Dear-

24th. Sabbath - preached twice in Eng. ch. in the morning from Heb.12.29 and in the evening from Heb. 4.10

25. March - M. - Reached Surat by train. found sic various letters, especially my family letters.

29 I preached at Ghi Kauta.

31st March Sad. - [preaching details]

April 2 - Sent a copy of the Gujarati Pilgrim’s Progress to Kavaldás a Hindu christian sic in Alimud [?] who partook the communion with me for the 1st time.

Recd. Dr. Morgan’s monthly letter & sent it to J. [?] W.

5th & 6th Sent to Dr. W. at Mahabilsharan a copy of translation of and Notes on “Obadiah”, proving this Prophet to have written, not as some vainly represented after the Chaldean capture of Jerusalem, but in the time of Jehoshaphat.
6. Sent a copy of the same to my wife.

7  Sab - Surat - [preaching details]

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Surat.  Daily teaching in Eng. school which is growing larger.  Sorry to hear that the McKees have not been well.  Busy still with Guj. Bible.  Have given all Ezek. to the press; and also the commencement of Daniel as Dr W. who was too do it has not yet sent copy though I wrote first months ago and more than once.  Think he is offended with me because I have [?] the book intended for my own satisfaction though it is now coming to use.  

1861 April 14. Sam [preaching details]  Rev. J.V.S. Taylor has been here.  A woman was baptized by him in the Mission house & next married to one of the Borsad christians sic
17th April - W. -Surat.  Received my home letters - my family I am thankful were well.  Dr. Morgan has replied to my letter of inquiry about time of going home by saying that the 2½ years I spent at home cannot be deducted.  My letter shows I did not ask it though I showed that it would be reasonable nor did I expect it.  He considers my service to date from my appointment Assembly on 10th July 1840.

18 April. Thursday morning - I have just finished a paper headed “Our Nearest Neighbour”  on the moon - to prove it an ovoid with most of land and water on the further / ? flatter hemisphere.
I have been recently and some months engaged in studying Malachi.  I believe it was not written in the time of Nehemiah’s Govt. but by Sairon [?] the first about 300 B.C.

Since my return here I was seized with a cough accompanied with pain in or near the liver or pyloric end of stomach.  I have relieved it by clothing a little warmer than the heat induced me to wear.  I am thankful it is practically gone: And sic I have been graciously sustained by Providence in my tour and return.  It was a comfort to find some pious people in Ahmedabad, and to have been permitted to baptize two persons.  From the former of these Mansukle  see 11 March 1861 I have received a sensible & good spirited letter.  Though mourning my short comings I feel much sustaining grace.  I cry for the outpouring of the Spirit, not only on the heathen but on Christians - on those of our missions, on the missionaries, and on myself.

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1861- April 21. Sab. night  [preaching details]
Have completed an Eng. translation of Malachi to bring out the meaning more- truly than most versions do.  I have plan of a paper sketched prove that the Malachi wrote about 300 B.C.  Have sent copies of my paper on the moon to Dr Wilson, Mr W.T. Glasgow presumably his nephew, William Thompson Glasgow, older son of Adam Glasgow, born 1842 & Rev J. Wallace Gogh.  Very busy all month with Engl. & Guj. Translation work on the short ?   I daily teach in Eng. school which is increasing.  To-day sic received my home letters - my family well.  Some promising verses sent me by my youngest child.  Harriet was to become a published poet.

Though full of concern for the vineyard of friends & others, I am alas too languid in keeping my now vineyard.  Oh that the Spirit my convict more of spirit and life.

May 5.- Sab. night_ Surat.  Preached at 1 o’cl in Guj from John 10.  Was much busied during the week with preparing a paper on Malachi proving that he wrote & completed the Canon about three centuries B.C.  Preached in the evening at Rani Salav [?]

May 12th. [preaching details]  Very busy all week with English and [?] pass work - giving a copy of Hosea, correcting proof Ezekiel.  I have with aid of Abdul Rahman prepared an Urdu version of my Poem on the Mutinies called Britain’s Mission which I am getting printed interpaged with the translation in hope it may inculcate the lesson of England’s duty.

Have been studying Hebrew tenses  I think the  conv? tenses should be called incipient and terminate, i.e. the future consequent a past denotes the beginning of action, as he proceeded to say &c. ; while the past consequent on a future directs to make complete action. The former is never perfect or pluperfect; the latter never the first, but always the 2d. part.  This considered so remarkably peculiar to the Heb. is the language of vision making the speaker witness what he writes; and is the language of inspiration. It ∴ furnishes a proof of divinity possessed by no other book.

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1861 - June 3- Monday morning - Surat.   [preaching details]

I have completed a translation of the 1st two chapters of Genesis in to sic English according to what I believe the true division of the paragraphs and appending a long list of queries philogical & geological.  My object is to free the inspired narrative of difficulties, and bring out its true meaning in relation to geology.

My letter from home shows my dear wife partially restored from a cold; and mentioned that a dear friend is but [?] sick of himself.  Though I hope not intemperate, yet I fear he is so in the estimation of many, and that he has lost heart in consequence of disappointment in obtaining situations.  I trust that he has knowledge of the grace & that this will revive and restore him.  But I am filled with painful concern for him.  O God my Saviour I have no resource but thee.  Show him thy mercy, deliver his soul from the enemy & grant me the joy of witnessing the deliverance.  This do O Lord by thy grace who didst die for the chief of sinners.  And the friend who I trust has the life of grace but too long has been depressed in mind on account of fancied worldly difficulties, through amounting in wealth. Lord grant him Comfort — And O my Saviour deliver me from harassing & sinful thoughts & fit me to walk in thy light by thy Spirit.

Yesterday the rains commenced - the earliest I remember - with some thunder - copious rains yesterday morning & this morning.

10 June, - M. - Surat [preaching details]

On the 14th received home letters.  Thankful my family were well.  But am deeply grieved that a dear friend who has sunk in the way of drinking is brought to pecuniary need in consequence.  My wife in a spirit worthy

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of her has expressed an intention to contribute of her means to relief.  For this I am thankful - but grieved that I cannot do anything myself for another month until my letter of [?] coming mail reach home, when it may be too late, as he may have left the country.  She also informs me he has begun to abstain.  I trust I may regard this an answer to prayers I have been putting up for him to Christ.  And oh make this painful circumstance profitable to my soul in making more watchful against wandering thoughts & personal pride & vanities.

1861 June 15th 16 June 23  [preaching details]

28 June - letters from home announcing that my brother & family are proposing to go to New Zealand while my wife is assisting in preparations.  May God be their shield & open my brother’s way to usefulness.  I feel thankful to learn that he is improving in health; but newly concerned that he will be away before I can console him.

30 June.  To-day I preached in Guj. from Luke 13.24  I am suffering from severe cold & had difficulty in speaking - I do not go out to a school this evening.

The news I have been receiving has been blessed to enliven my heart.  I trust to live in higher tone in all time to come.  Oh that the Spirit may breathe the grace so to do.

7 July. - Sab. night. Surat - [preaching details]

Making vocabulary of Heb. pret. verbs to illustrate of the law of [?] converseries

20 July. [preaching details]

Commenced writing lectures on the 1st. 2 chap. of Genesis “Man & his antecedents, or The Geology of Moses”  Going on with the Minor Prophets printing - All the manuscript is in type now.

Have sent to many friends my poem Britain’s Mission - and received varieties of compliments respecting it.  I trust it is doing good in [?defining] the lesson it was meant to [? teach] -

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1861- 28 July 1861- Sab. night - [preaching details]   Going on with the work of last week.  More favourable news respecting A. for which I feel thankful and believe that prayers have been [?] said.  [A. probably =his daughter Annie]

4 Aug. [preaching details] 

Have been engaged in writing my 2d lecture on Geol. of Moses.  Trust it prove useful & pray that I may be preserved from ever [?] [?] in truth by the Spirit of God.

11 Aug. Surat. Sab.- [preaching details]  I visited a person in consumption; read, and addressed him and prayed.

18 Aug. 1861 Sab. night [preaching details including from John 1.12 “full of grace and truth”]  O Lord fill me with these and qualify me for the work & bring home thy word to he hearers for the sake of Christ my Redeemer.  Amen. -

25 Aug.  [preaching details]

27 Completed & sent my Tractatus V. to [?] Ludianich.  Received Markius & Blaney on Min. Prop & ? Zech. from [?]

31.  Writing anew my paper on the Moon with enlargement & fuller proofs & notes.

Good news from my dear wife & children.  Blessed be the God of providence & grace.

Sep 1 Sab- evg Surat.

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Saturday night- Have been engaged all this week in writing my Paper on the Moon.  have sent a copy to Mr Wilson: one to my wife to show to Dr. Stevelly Qu. Col. Belfast. John Stevelly, professor of natural philosophy at Queen's College (1849–1867), was born in Cork and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1823 he was appointed professor of natural philosophy at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, a position he retained until taking up the post at Queen's College. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/professor-john-stevelly-17951868-169048 & one to Rev. Dr Irwin to show to the Fac. of Princeton.

Sep 9. M. morning [preaching details]

I have commenced the transcription with improvements of my commentaries on [?]  Wrote to my brother to be received on landing in N. Zealand.  Wrote Rev. J. Hall Dublin respecting Psalms & Tunes.

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1861- Sept 27- Monday- Surat.  [preaching details]

Busy all week correcting proofs of Zephaniah Haggai and Zech.  And of my 5th Tractatus on Zech. I have also sent to Dr Wilson my Commentary on Zech. Chap I 1 …17 -

Yesterday I wrote to my wife and youngest child - to Dr. Morgan and T Rev. S. J. Moore Ballymena.
Sept. 22 [preaching details]

I have finished commentary on Zech. to end of ch. 7.  And trust to be spared to dedicate the whole to the service of Christ.  My notes in this book have [?] [?] in former years mainly my thoughts and feelings have drawn away into the channels of [?]for publication of scriptural annotation.

Sept. 29 Sab. evg.- Surat.  In this week I have written commentary on Zech. 8th. Chap.. On friday sic evg I preached at a school, - [preaching details]  I am thankful for continued good news from my wife and children.

Oct. 6  Yesterday evening I preached at Maicuapur.  And I have written that greater part of a Tractatus on the Integrity of the Book of Zechariah, showing that the chapters after the 8th were not written by another author.  [preaching details]  Have written to Dr Murphy a critical letter on Gen. 4.

Yesterday I have finished last heading to the proof sheet of Malachi by which I trust my work of Gujarati biblical translation is complete.  Let me be deeply grateful to God’s providence for sparing me to edit this Gujarati Bible sic both Testaments notwithstanding my unworthiness in God’s sight.  May the Spirit accompany the work for the conversion of the heathen and make my study of the scriptures in his hand an instrument of spiritual improvement to myself & of usefulness in the church in whatever department of labour he may allot me.  By his grace my purpose is to complete this com. in Zech. the metrical Version of the Psalms lectures on Genesis 1 and 2 &c.  But let God’s gracious purpose be mine -

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1861- Oct.27 - Sab. night- Surat- [preaching details]   Freed at length from the work on Gujarati Translation I am giving my study hours to the commentary on Zechariah.  I have entered on the 11th chapter and have sent the 1st chapter to the O.C.S..  I have published 5 Preparatory Tractatus.  I have added another at beginning of ch.9 on the Zechariah authorship of the whole remainder of the book.  I propose if God will to prefix an Introduction to the whole justifying the spiritual interpretation which I adopt. And to give some of the text [?] best [?] quotations in the notes - and the metrical mode a little free.

I have received a letter from the Secretary of the Royal As. Soc. Bombay to inform me that my paper on the moon has been received by the Soc. and is in the press for the forthcoming No of the Society’s Journal.  https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015024028543&view=1up&seq=179&q1=Glasgow   Art. VIII On the Moon’s Figure, Rotation, and Surface, by the Rev. James Glasgow D.D. presented 10th October 1861  pp 121-142

I have written some clerical friends requesting the names of tunes adapted to the Psalms, - not according to any metrical version, but the spirit of each psalm.  This may aid me in selecting the best meters in completing the version which I have as far as the 10th Psalm already.

O Spirit of Christ be Thou my Teacher that in this commentary and these Psalms I may be preserved from error & enlightened to expound clearly thy mind in every part of the inspired word; - and that I may led by thee to know as I study it, its sanctifying effect in thy hand, and that through me this may be transmitted to all readers.  To thee [?] O God of peace with the Father and the Son be all praise  Amen —

Nov.3.- Sab. morning - Surat [preaching details]

The week in [?] tracking and writing on Zechariah.

Nov. 10- Sab. - Took place of Mr Montgomery on account of the birth of his child and went to Amroli and preached …

In the week I went with two brethren to [?] Jambrasia to attend a meeting of presbytery where all but Mr McKee assembled, his wife’s health not admitting.
17 Nov. Sam. - Sur  [preaching details]

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1861 - Nov.24 - Sab. night Surat - [preaching details].  During the greater part I have been suffering from neuralgia of the right side of my face and head.  I trust in a day or two to go to Gogo and thence to make a tour to Rajkot.  I feel much concerned for the health of Mr McKee and for that station.  Have sent to Dr. W. the commentary on Zech. 2.1-4.  And to-day received the Oct. No. of the O.C. Spect. contains the commencement of said commentary.  May the Spirit of grace be my Teacher to the end] and bless the work.

Nov. 25 at night I started in a [?] band boat for Gogo - reached in 19 hours.

Dec. 2.  This morning I started for Rajkot. I had staid sic over the Sabbath, for the purpose of assembling the native christians sic to whom I preached.  I had also an English service.  During the days I remained here I had numerous natives from several villages [?] who purchased upwards of a rupee’s worth of Tracts.

Dec.6. Sat - reached Rajkot, eager to visit my friends the McKees who were suffering from family afflictions.  I strove to administer consolation.  Both are full of faith and love.  His health yielding makes him apprehensive of being obliged to leave India.  And the medical authorities advise Mrs McKee’s return home.  She has been confined to her couch for 5 months after a haemorrhage.  Is expecting confinement.

I have preached in the town and suburbs & I am daily taking part in instructing classes - principally on Scripture and Geography.  I have also been endeavouring with Mr McKee to keep alive some silk worms to raise up industry at the station.
About Jan.24 Dr Johnson ascertained that Mrs McKee is not in the family way, - that having ended with the haemorrhage.  She is ordered to ride and take exercise.

1862  Jan 31. Friday I started for Gogo.

Feb. 4  I reached Gogo having spent the Sabbath at Dasa, the people I found very willing to hear.

In Daucká I had a good audience in the town.
Feb. 6 at night sailed for Surat, with Col W. Lang.
Feb. 7 at night reached Surat.
____ 8 Received Photographs of Annie & Harriet, finely executed and making the two children appear very beautiful & interesting in my eyes.

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1862 - Feb. 9. Sam.  [preaching details]

Had news of continued health from my dear wife  Found Rev J.V.S. Taylor here, and Mr Montgomery at Borsad.  Mr & Mrs McKee now en route to Gogo.

17 Feb. M. Sur. Yesterday morning I preached from Psalm. 24.4.&c. in Guj.  I have been employed most of my time since my return in making up arrears of correspondence and of government work, and in teaching classes in the school and instructing Mupawanji the student

24 Feb. M. mng. - Surat - Yesterday [preaching details]  I have written to friends in New Zealand, Calcutta, America, England & Ireland, all the copies (except the Journal) of my paper on the Moon, with favourable notice of it extracted from the Elphinstone paper.  Elphinstone College Bombay may have been connected with the Asiatic Society in whose journal the paper on the moon was published - see p 93 above  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elphinstone_College  I have written to Rev S.J. Moore B’mena Ballymena Co Antrim a lengthened letter on psalmic versification & music.  Have written Dr. Morgan explanatory circumstances respecting Mr Hormasji’s case.

Mar. 1. Sat. night - Surat. To-day sic received letter from my dear wife and from the children at Walthamstow.  My wife mentioned news received from my brother’s family at sea about seven weeks expected sail from New Zealand, - he in health, a new man and preaching with much acceptance.  Lord give grace and follow the work with blessing & enrich his own heart & provide for his family — After long delay this little piece of news has shed a light over my heart. Oh bless the Lord my soul:—

Mar 2_ Sab. _ Surat  This morning I preached in the church in Guj. from Psalm 27.1  Have been reading the Scrip with Mehuwanji the student on sabbath evenings.  Had an interesting letter from Mrs Nesbit who expresses complaint of the same nature with [?] mine of a colleague here in Surat who was enraged when the late Rev J.A. James Rev John Angell James was minister of Carrs Lane Independent Chapel.  Much interested in missions and admired by CH Spurgeon, he died in 1859.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Angell_James  of Birmingham mentioned my name as a scholar And who nettled as it would seem by others being styled doctor exclaimed bitterly: “haughtier doctors of divinity”  In all such cases I have not used a syllable of recrimination.  But though if I know my self I am enabled to maintain an agreeable temper, I pray to entertain also a forgiving one and ah! I know that in other points of christian sic attainment I have much that needs forgiveness.  Oh my Saviour make me by thy spirit more like thee: and to the brother give enlarged & [?] supplying grace.

9 March. Sab. morning I preached at Amroli from Prov. 27.7. Have sent copies of the Gujarati Bible to Rev. W. McClure Londonderry & to my wife, and letters to Dr Morgan respecting the cases of Rev H. Pestonji & Rev. J. McKee.  Have finished Zech. ch. 13.  Am tracing relations of Gujarati to Syriac.

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1862 _ Mar. 20 _ Th. Surat.  [preaching details]

To-day sic I have brought to a close the expository part of my Commentary on Zechariah.  The “thoughts suggested” by the last 6 chapters have yet to be added.  I have all along prayed for the teaching of Christ by his Spirit.  And I have in my mind much of a conviction that I have been privileged to receive it.  this conviction I found in the consistency which I have been able to give to the interpretation; and on the remarkable manner in which the mere consistency of interpretation has made the greatest difficulty vanish; on the ease with which I have been enabled to render passages about which translators have been much at variance, on the harmony with the New Testament which I have been able to discover; — and especially in the profit I have received from the study.  It has enlightened my mind respecting all scripture, so that much which I thought I knew, and did know according to their current and recognized sic interpretation I now see with other eyes.  I bless God that I feel more independent of human authorities, and more entirely satisfied with the inspired word than ever I did before.  While I differ very materially from all the interpreters of this book that have preceded, I entertain the profoundest respect for some of them.  There is much of truth in Jer. [?] and Theodoret; Coccius and [?] Marakius, in Gill & Henry.  The last though not pretending to deal with the text critically is by a wondrous spiritual instinct to a large extent correct.  Nareanne and Blaney perceived glimpses of the truth.  Calvin’s views are expansive but not sufficiently definite.  In his day they could not be.  Henderson with something good is often disappointing, and steers over a difficulty by giving what he calls an unusual sense to a word and instead assigning any reason.  Moore probably Moore, T.V. – The Prophets of the Restoration, or Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi, a New Translation with Notes  1856 a recent American writer has evaded all difficulties and produced a light readable volume calculated to be pleasing and propitiate to non critical readers.  All of these labour under error regarding visional revelation and the angel of Jehovah, which they totally dissevere from the New Testament sense: and [?] aspecting literal & symbolic terms , which they are constantly taking in a physical sense.  This book cannot be brought into too close a juxtaposition with the sic apocalypse.  It is the Apocalypse of the O.T. and like that it is peculiarly rich in views of Christ and his Kingdom and promises which bring present comfort and in presenting bright prospects of the future.  But though Zechariah saw more of the future than any previous prophet had done, and saw the Millennium as a distant landscape, he saw it not sic John was privileged to do, and still did see so bright as John into the eternal church and its blessedness.— 

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1862 - March 23 - Sab. night- Sur.  On thursd. sic  I posted to my wife the 1st vol. of the O. Test. Guj.  On friday sic I posted to her a collection of my letters on Angels from the O.C.Spectator;  and Saturday letters.  On friday sic I posted books to my brothers in Australia and New Zealand.  And in the evening I visited the school in Maidia pur.  ——- This morning I preached in Amroli from 2 Ki.5.18 - and at o’cl sic in Guj. from Psalm 28.9.  And taught my servants and their two boys a chapter in Gujarati.  And Heb. & Eng. Bible and a passage of McCosh with Maharanji.  probably  James McCosh Professor of Logic & Metaphysics at Q.U.B. 1850/1 - 1868 and thereafter Principal of what was to become Princeton University.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McCosh  The book was likely either The Method of Divine Government, Physical and Moral (Edinburgh, 1850, 5th ed., 1856, and frequently republished in New York) or The Typical Forms and Special Ends in Creation (Edinburgh, 1855; New York, 1856)

April 7 Mon. Surat —[preaching and teaching details]  sent two mathematical problems to the Professor Hughlings of the Elph. Col Bombay for publication.  I.P. Hughlings published in 1869 “The Logic of Names” An Introduction to Boole's Laws of Thought

Sab April 6 [preaching details]

I have been investigating the meaning of the Soma so much spoken of in the Vedas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_%28drink%29 & have rejected the common interpretation of the learned of it being the asapias vida [?]  I prove it to be the grape wine … …

The longer I continue in life I see the more cause to trust in God and the less in man.  Christians though the [?] excellent are alas full of jealousies and envies and bad tempers.  Some of the Missionaries exemplify some of these unhappy qualities strongly.  They are all blandness with friends who come from a distance, or in writing to those with whom they have only epistolary correspondence but rough [?] & sour & carping with the who are doing more and better work than them themselves sic.  If you differ from their opinion they will [?] but argue [?].  And when their correction is [?] refuted they will run away in a passion rather than hear what they cannot answer.  On the other hand if you express in any way agreement with them they will turn against themselves to get into antagonism to you.  That I have for the last 5 years been enabled to to bear all this & much more without ever being [?] ruffled or moved to the utterance of a hasty word I can only ascribe as I desire to and humbly to the assisting grace of the Spirit.  If a word in com

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mendation of me is uttered by any parties at home, I am met with bitter remarks as if it was I that had done something evil.  Thus when the late Rev. J.A. James of Birmingham in writing to our Directors said you have your men of learning mentioning my name, his words for months afterwards were bitterly repeated here as if I could prevent the mention of my name by a good man whom I never saw and who I would have supposed was not aware of my existence.  Various similar examples might be quoted.  At the same time I desire to moderate my feelings by two considerations.  One is to keep in mind my own [?] errors and faults; for though I have done nothing & manifested no spirit towards being [?] to draw out any ebullitions [?] of temper, I confess my great fault and sins against God.  Even his wife well knows that he is frail in this respect and tries to keep him in order but often gets bitter words, which she does not deserve, for she is a discreet & good woman.  He scowls at native christians sic and gives offence to all Europeans with scarcely an exception who have lived at this station a few months.  The 2nd thought is that I desire both to cultivate charity & think charitably.  Though I lament that his high professions [?] are not born out by his temper yet - I trust the Spirit will school him to a better mind - and I hope I see some beginning of this..

1862_April 12 Saturday. To-day I got overland letter from my dear wife - much concerned at receiving no letters from my brother Adam since his leaving Ireland, but was thankful to learn that my wife had received encouraging letters from his wife.  They had landed.  He was in much better state & making application to presbytery to be received.  His eldest son had got a good situation with custom house.  While anxious for more news, let me be thankful for the goodness they have so far experienced.  This news came by previous mail.  One presumes that mail went more quickly from New Zealand to British Isles than from New Zealand to India.

13th April _ Sab. Surat  In the morning I preached in Guj from John 6 32.  In the Evening sic in Gujarati from Psalm 23.5 and administered the Lord’s supper 20 communicants present.  My address was founded on the words “The Lord is my shepherd”.  I felt mental tranquillity though not high elevation.  I trust the congregation were edified.  I feel that the grace of God is about & within me.  Yet I strive against vexatious and dreary thoughts and selfish impulses that hurt me.  I tremble at the thought of losing aught which God has given me of spiritual growth.  I am up borne in the comforting assurance that He will not only keep me to the end, but grant me growth in grace to full developement sic for the society of the just made perfect.  Oh! for the grace to avert from me every [?]

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thought of a kind displeasing in my Saviour’s pure eyes, while already sensible to the weakness of some brethren in more places than this, and while condemning their frailty, I love their persons, and pray for their fuller sanctification.  I pray that I may be enabled to think less of the jealous, ungenerous angry views they take of me, to be enabled to overcome these by external gentleness and internal heavenly mindedness, to disregard the present and live for the future.  I have been much gratified by an extract from a letter to my wife from Miss Hester the superintendent of the Walthamstow School speaking in very hight terms of my two daughters then especially Harriet, as to attainments evident and hopeful piety. — May Christ by his Spirit make them his own.

1862 —April 17 - Surat. Thursday.   To rest my wearied frame and at the same time quietly occupy my mind until a few minutes of sleep should come I laid myself, as I am sometimes [?] on my couch.  In the paragraph before me the words of Jesu sic met my eye, and in the same instant came like an echo of heavenly music over my mind.  I had of course read the words mayhap many hundreds of times: “I have need to be baptised of thee and comest thou to me?”  and however [?] many other words of scripture might more pointedly [?] the attention of many, and at many times might have been more impressive to myself.  But what I thought & how I felt I do not describe for in human vocables I could not clothe it.  Though I have fallen above in to a simile, it is idle to employ simile for none will answer.  That I was not asleep I may perhaps say for I was conscious of the situation in the room, at least up to that instant, and of the matter which I had had up that point, yet that I was awake I cannot well say for the world was to me a virtual nonentity.  it may give me some idea of a prophet’s vision ecstasy.  I know no new visions and prophecies are given since vision & prophecy were sealed with the books of the N.T.  But does not the H.S. reveal to us what is written?  Does he not take of the things of Christ and show them to us?  Do we not pray that He may sanctify through the word of truth? & are these prayers worthless?  Do we not expect an answer?  I cannot say I felt as if I were out of the body; for I have had not recollection of having any thoughts of body.  I cannot say like Paul I heard words which it is not lawful to utter.  For I heard no words.  For I felt feelings or was absorbed in a mental state which it is impossible for me to describe for which I have no phraseology.  I cannot call it elevation though I was doubtless in an elevated mood.  I cannot call it rapture though there was in it a tone of feelings I would not barter for a life time of thought & emotion.  I cannot call it a bright train of thought, for if I can predicate thought, it was not a train but the concentration of the whole mind in one idea shall I say, — nay the words began by suggesting the idea of Christ but of successive thought I have no remembrance, it gradually passed away in a storm of tears without any [?] signs of sorrow left with me as a [?] the impression of one of the nearest approaches to the tone of feeling that that pervades the upper [?] society   Spirit of grace grant a sanctifying & comforting effect though Christ my life  Amen —

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1862. April 21st. M. Surat.  Yesterday I preached Amroli from 1 Chr. 28.9 “If thou seek Him.” &c. Was favoured by fullness in speaking; but grieved at the recklessness pf Sabbath duty exemplified by heads of the railway compy. in taking away almost all the people for presentation of a railway carriage to the Gaikawar. [Mahratta gāekwār, prop., a cowherd.] The title of the sovereign of Guzerat, in Western India; - generally called the Guicowar of Baroda, which is the capital of the country.  https://www.wordnik.com/words/guicowar.  In the evening I preached at the Rani school house to a considerable number from “whoseover shall call on the name &c.”

April 23 W. Surat. To-day I received the first letter from my brother Adam since his arrival in N. Zealand. Mentions that all were well, - the he has got a congregation in the Free Church Dunedin, & his son W.T.Glasgow a good situation in the Custom house.  For these mercies I thank thee O God while I pray that the grace of personal holiness and abundant fruitfulness may be given his whole family.

April 28 - M. Surat - On Saturday morning Mr M. returned from Dohad [?] very ill with congestion of liver.  

Yesterday morning I preached in Gujarati from Mat. 24.14 and in the evening from His.4.14.  On saturday sic my wife’s letter came - news good - Providence always good-

May 5. Preached yesterday morning from Ps.32.1…3. And in the evening from Hos. 4.12

May 7th.  I finished the composition of the ‘thoughts suggested” by the various [?] [?] of the Book of Zechariah.  I feel continued thankfulness which the Spirit of God has graciously given by which in regard to many points where I’ve felt otherwise [?] Have felt principal doubt has enabled me to say I see.  O God grant that it may conduce to the diffusion of the light of truth, and every word which is not truth enable me in translating to cancel, & in place of all such breathe thou unadulterated into my mind & let it flow from my pen through Christ My sic gracious Mediator. Amen.

To-day I post overland letters  ———-

May 12.__ M. Surat  Yesterday I preached in Gujarati twice: - in the morning from 2 Cor 4.3, and in the evening from Acts 15.15 quotation from Amos.  Sent part of the day in reading the Hebrew Bible & part in reading the life of Leighton whose adoption of the worst form in which prelacy ever appeared is one of the greatest puzzles in Church history.  Alexander Leighton (c.1570 – 1649) was a Scottish medical doctor and puritan preacher and pamphleteer best known for his pamphlet "Zion's plea against Prelacy: An Appeal to Parliament" that attacked the Anglican church and which led to his torture by King Charles I. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Leighton  His son Robert became a bishop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Leighton_(bishop).  One presumes Glasgow was reading a life of Robert and not Alexander Leighton and the puzzle is why the son of one who suffered for his attacks on prelacy would adopt the system so fiercely criticised by his father.  I read with Hupawanji the student  the first three & and sic verses of the 1st chapter of Hebrews, ending with prayer.  Today received letters from my wife & from Annie & from Rev Hormazdji Pestonji, at Geneva. 
May 15.  I find in my journal of December 1849 an interpretation of chronological prophecy in which I anticipated 1854 as a remarkable year.  Now in that year commenced the Crimean war which led to the  [?] the Mohammedan punishment of death for reminding Mohammedanism.

In the same page I find I have [?] as in three [?]  places anticipated 1862 (thus 620 + 1242 ≈

 1641)

letter from Annie Glasgow 

Belfast

April 29th. [1861?  Adam Glasgow was in New Zealand by April 1862]
My dearest Papa
Do you think I am anyway improved in writing - Uncle Adam says I am.  On Easter (Monday) the Glasgows and Robert James dined here and they were all here in the evening  I wish you had been here Papa  Aunt Tucker wanted us together but Mamma wanted to have Uncle Adam here and his family  it was a very wet day and we could not get out to roll our eggs so we had to roll them on the parlour floor  The door got shut very tight and a good many of us were trying to open it at last Uncle Adam opened it then Uncle Tucker and he shut themselves in again to try if they could open it again.  I remain your affect. daughter Annie Glasgow.

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as a signal year in matters concerning Antichrist, _i.e. as I have expounded in print articles in O.C.Spect of different years, not the total of all Antichrist in one year, for this exact rock [?] over a number of years but some striking facts indicating his impending fall.  Now while a third of the year is expired I see enough to confirm me in the idea —e.g. In America slavery likely to be abolished and already announced as abolished in the historical district of Columbia, In England, the trial of heretical ministers in the Church of England; in Italy the impending loss of Rome, the last relic of the pope’s temporal power.  Add to this the first fight with ironclad ships (Manassas and Monitor) which probably draws to a virtual termination the bright sailed glory of naval warfare.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironclad_warship#First_battles_between_ironclads:_the_U.S._Civil_War  In 1864, 1866, 1867, 1868 I anticipate more decisive results, as expounded in some published papers.

1862 _ May 18 _ Sab. night _ Surat.  This morning I preached in Guj. fromMic. 4.5 _ at 1 o’cl from Ps.33. 3 [?] & in the evening in Eng. from Phil. 3.20.

May 24 Saturday. Have been occupied in my studies in a critical paper on Gen. I.  Posted a letter to my wife on friday sic the 23rd & now learn that the steamer sails to-day so the letter will be too late.

25th [preaching details]

1 June _ Sab night _ Surat _ [preaching details].  Spent most of the day in Her. bible reading.  Have been comparing various places of scriptures respecting creation.  Divines are correct in asserting the non-eternity of matter; but they greatly err in fixing on Gen.1.1. as the proof of it.  Some assume that we should antecedently expect the Bible to commence with a statement of the creation of all things out of nothing.  But that [?] is inmeasurably sic unlikely.  Scarcely any truth has puzzled thinking men so much as the creation of matter.  For myself I feel it no difficulty; but this is because I do not attempt to explain it.  Of the fact I am as certain as of the theorems in Geometry that there are not two eternal beings.  It may be said time is eternal i.e. duration.  But duration is not a being.  To speak of creation out of nothing as if nothing sic a material is not the proper statement of the question but causing a beginning of an existing …Now man in every work causes some thing to be which was not before.  And it is surely quite

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accordant with reason that omnipotence should be able to make matter begin to be.  It must be certain that if God willed He could give a second moon to our earth by simple origination of matter.  I do not admit [?] I can admit nothing  poss. “If I do not admit that I can admit nothing”.  For to originate life is surely to human conception harder than to originate an [?] earth or a gas.  Men see that life has begun; but they forget they can form no conception of how.

Still this truth certain as it is, his sic [?]is  among the light doctrines of theology.  Our Confession and Catechisms begin not with it.  Why then should the Bible be supposed to begin with it?  In point of fact the Old and New Testament both begin with serious practical matter of fact ___ the experience of God’s people and certain [?] & the facts that cluster round the advent and infancy of Jesus.  The earliest inspired documents are

1 The 88th Psalm}  See the titles which rest on as [?]

2  —89th——— }  good authority as the Heb. points

3—-90th———-}  for which many stickle [?]
4 The Book of Job

Now if the work of creation e sic nihilo should lie at the opening of it scripture as we have it in the opening of the 90th Psalm & in the 38th cha sic of Job.

The creation of Gen.1.1 is the construction of the present cosmos as is plain from Mat.19.6, __ Mark 10.6 __ 2 Peter 3.4 __ Rev. 3.14 __ from all which we see that the beginning was not antecedent  to the six days, but the six days within which  God made Adam and Eve male & female.  The construction of this world was the beginning of the creation of which the new heavens and earth will be the completion.  

1862 - June 9 Mond. Mg. _ Surat _ Yesterday I preached twice in Guj. in the morning from Luke 1.18 — end [?] and at 1 o’cl from Isa. 25.7-8 .  The subject of the trees of Eden aroused [?] my attention yesterday.  I agree on them as different from the creation of the 6 days which were seed bearing plants and fruit bearing trees but nothing is said of flowers fragrance or edibility  The trees of Eden appeared with man & were specially adapted for his pleasure and use.  They are 1 pleasant to view = flowering; 2 good for food = edible fruits  gums &c.; - 3 The tree of lives sic = scented trees or rosacaea; 4 the tree of knowledge of good and evil = plants of intoxicating and other medical qualities.  Its deleterious influence as tending to specific or slow [?] death, made it an emblem of death.  And death once [?] passed gave the knowledge of good and evil if an eternal damnation [?]  The pleasing and [?] of the tree of life are made in many places of scripture and plans [?] of Christ’s righteousness and intercession.  The word life

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which is in the Hebrew plural form חייח is not an adjective as set down in the Concordance, but a noun in the Gen., as it is frequently in the singular.  It corresponds to Gr. αω  [?]  [?]  [?].  Its primary ? effect is that of the emission of particles of odour.  So when Moses speaks of the breath of lives חייח, he uses the word breath רוח Spirit in the sense of wind.  It is not by ?this but by the image of God that he teaches the spiritual nature of man; for the breath of [?] is as much predicated of the ?hearts as of man.  It is to the leaves of the tree of life or odours is to be [?], as is plain from Ezek.47.12 “The leaf thereof of the tree of life) for medicine,” - /// תרומה - Gk. υγειαν health, Eng. Marg. “wounds or bruises”.  The word is from רוח [?] into powder - odiferous powder.  Rev. 22.2 has θεραπεια not medicine,  which would be φαρμακον but ministering to health.

1862 -June 16 - Mon. night  Yesterday I preached in English from. Ezra 5.1,2.  Was engaged in Heb. devotional reading.  Great rain.  Disappointed of Europe letter.  wrote in the week to Dr Mullins of Calcutta,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mullens  “His efforts in producing statistics relating to work done in India were significant to the fundraising abilities of missionary societies in Britain.” statistic sic information and also some inquiries relative to the identification of the soma with the vine. see note on soma on p 96 above.
June 23_Mon_ yesterday I [?] the service in Ambroli.  Had a cheering letter from my brother informing me of the opening of his church and other interesting aspects of his usefulness and comfort.  I preached at 10 o’cl in Guj. from Is 32.1…8.   Gave Mupawanji  a doctrinal lesson on the Rule of faith.
Note_ all the season since my return from Rajkot I have been instructing these young servants and another boy.  I have this day 22 pages written of a paper on “the Natural & the Spiritual body” in which I believe I see truth from the scripture which divines have not seen.  May God enable me by his Spirit to see the central truth if I have not yet seen it.  And if this which seems to me so plain be in any thing [?] may he enable me to attain the actual revealed truth in regard to the great future hope, and to realize sic its value in my heart & life, through Christ my life _ Amen.

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Extract of Report of a Committee of the Board of Directors indexed ? by the Board in the For. Mis. Rept. of 1859 and adopted by the Assembly of that year.

\\ III Ad. to the 3d topic, - a fixed retiring allowance for for missionaries who have spent their strength in the field - those ? who only one opinion ?, that this ought to be determined upon.  They recommend that it shall not be less than £150 p annum for life, and that there might be instances in which it might be more.  Here however they suggest that certain stipulations be made so precise as to prevent future misunderstandings.  The following may be named: 1. In any case where the health would be lost in the service of the Mission, there should be some provision made, although the period of service should be short - say 10, 12, or 15 years.  2. When the missionary returned after such a period of labour with health adequate to the duties of a ministerial charge at home & chose to resign his connexion with the Mission he should not be considered entitled to {?] retiring pension.  3.  Where he returned after an active service of 21 years not including any time he may have spent on leave at home, he should be considered as fully entitled to terminate his missionary life, & claim the full retiring allowance.  Should he however have still health to undertake the work of the ministry at home & be asked to do so, he should be at liberty to enter into an engagement with any congregation so calling him, & it would be at the option of the Directors to make such dedication in his pension as would be warranted by the addition to his income arising out of his ministerial charge.  If he still desired and felt himself equal to return to his missionary toil abroad he should be at liberty and encouraged to do so, & should he be spared to labour 5 years [?] [?] or any longer period of time & then return to his native land he should have at least £200 a year for a retiring pension so long as it pleased God to spare him”

Arrangements for missionaries’ pensions were of obvious personal interest to JG, especially with him hoping to return home fairly soon (which came to pass in April 1864)

1862 _ June 30 M. Surat _ Yesterday I preached in the morning in Guj. from John 14.6;- and in the evening in English from Col. 1.19,20.  I have committed to writing two letters on the resurrection of the body & have on paper the substance of 3 more to complete my treatise on the Society of Heaven.  I am led into various ideas which are new so far as not being propounded by man.  It gives me embarrassment to differ from the theologic world yet with the conviction of truth as shown from the letter of scripture I cannot but ? to it.  May God grant me by his Spirit his light.  Respecting the Heb צטר and the Gr. σωμα  My idea is [?] that they are [?] [?] but that the flesh will perish.

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1862 - 6 Aug.- Sab. night - Surat.  This morning I preached in Amroli and baptized sic Margaret infant daughter or Mr James Davidson, of the Carriage Department Railway Co. Amroli and of his wife.About one o’cl, I preached in the church in Guj. from Ps.36.5-6.  I have finished the transcription with improvements of the five letters referred to in my last entry.  A friend has written to me recommending me to write a prize [?]Essay on the Vedas for which the best is to bring Rs 1200 & the 2nd 500 & the [?] [?] is before 1 Aug. 1862.  I have some idea of doing so as it may lead me to some useful purpose my ideas regarding the Vedas.  I think as they are the ultimate stronghold of Hindus & appealed to as such, the true unfolding of their meaning will do much to upset the whole.  May God be my ?wisdom  in this and then I shall [?] [?] a [?] of flesh and blood.

On the 13th July morning I preached in the church in Guj. from John 14.30 and in the evening from Neh.9.20

In the course I finished the letters on Hades and heaven the same as alluded to above in the [?] and spiritual body.  I had encouraging letters from my dear wife and learned that my two dear daughters have carried off lots of prizes at Walthamstow.
On the 20th I preached in Ambroli in the morning from Rev. 22.17; and at 1 o’cl. in the church from sic

On the 27th I preached in the morning in the church from 1 Thes. 5.19 ; and 1o’cl. in Guj. in the church from Gal.4.13 on which occasion I baptized two children one surnamed MacKean about two years of age son of Deva Rathan a member of the church and the other Hanna infant daughter of ?Francikaud a member of the church.  The wife of the former is a heathen, of the latter a baptized person.

In Gen.6.12 God says because man had corrupted his way, he would corrupt the earth — since [?]  that [?] wasn’t having [?] used.  This implies that God would make the earth less salubrious which accounts for the shortening of human life.  Also in Gen. 8.20 God says he will not add to curse the earth which means that now the curse is full, He having first cursed the ground & 2. the earth’s [?] [?] earth’s axis was changed its rotation must have diminished.

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Take a terrestrial globe.  Suppose while it is revolving on its axis that it could be instantaneously attached to two new points on the universal meridian, and disengaged from the present poles, every force of its present rotation acting in planes perp. to its present axis which would be resolved [?] [?] it its new axis, which as to rotation would be lost.  The other in planes perp. to the new axis.  Therefore the whole rotation would be diminished.

Cov. — If as many of the learned theorise [?] the deluge was produced by a change in the earth’s axis, the effect must have been a diminution of the earth’s rotation.  And as the waters of the deluge receded the earth must have returned its old axis, which must have produced a second diminution.  Therefore on this hypothesis the rotation must have been much more rapid before the deluge than now; and henceforth [?] much [?] [?].  So that the question of the longevity of man may have been more apparent than real.

Besides in Gen.6.12 God said that at the deluge he would ? the earth (see Heb. Gen 6.11/12)  It ? therefore have become less salubrious.  These two considerations should answer all cavils on the subjects of antediluvian antiquity.

1862, _. Aug  11 Mond. mg. Surat.  Yesterday morning I preached in the church in Guj. from Isaiah 50.10 & in the Evening sic in Eng. from Esther 8.16,17 showing the book to be an exemplification of providential ?directing & ?availing, God hiding Himself as he does in his works.

In last week I got an interesting letter from my nephew William T. Glasgow in Dunedin New Zealand.  The Government Gazette also announced that the Bombay Government have appointed me a Fellow of the Bombay Univy.  Though this be only honorary yet as giving an important to our status as missionaries in the eyes of natives let me be thankful to God’s providence for it.  Good news from my dear wife.

Aug. 17 Sam. evg. - Surat.  I preached in Amroli from [blank] at 10 o’cl in the church from Gal.4.5.
I learned from a friend that my name appears in the Government Gazette as a Fellow of the University of Bombay.  This I regard chiefly as a literary honour though it gives me a seat & vote in the Senate of the University, of which right my distance from Bombay will not enable me to make much use.  But let me be thankful to God, that Government do stand so much aloof as formerly, & pray that there ?
Maybe he meant to write “that Government do not stand so much aloof …”

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may soon come when Government & University & the people will all be Christ’s.
1862 _Aug 31 _ Sab. Surat.  This morning I preached in Amroli from 2 Thess. 1.12 ; and at 1 o’cl in the church in Guj. from Is. 54.2.

Sept. 7  In the morning I preached in the church in Guj. from Is 6.22 and in the evening in the church from Job 19.25,26,27 &c.

Sept. 15 Surat. M. mg.  Yesterday morning I preached in the church in Gujarati from Heb. 2.20 and at 1 o’cl. in the church from Eph. 5.18 … 20; and in the evening in the church from Isaiah 12 besides instructing classes.  This morning I feel languid but otherwise I am thankful to being in health.  Such exercises leave little time for Sabbath reading and make it a day of work to the services.  Mr Montgomery is absent at Dumas for [?] benefit of health.

Sept. 22 M. Evg.  On Saturday I went to Dumas to [?] recruit health.  I had worship with the servants in the morning.  In the evening I walked to the village which took me 30 minutes going and as many returning.  The village consists of detached houses surrounded by hedges, so that it is very difficult to have access to people .  I began to converse with one man in the middle of the road, — for street it cannot be called.  I soon had a crowd — many of them women — who listened attentively.

I am grieved at the obstinacy and wrongheadedness of some of the brethren who are forming words [?] [?] [?] [?] contrary not only to the [?] brethren but contrary to plain reasons given and without giving or being able to give any reasons themselves.  Without adequate critical acquaintance with the N.T. and without adequate Gujarati reading, they are seeking to [?] in Parsi words.  This I am sorry to say is part of that system of jealousy and envy which led one to say “Hang all the doctors of divinity, — hang them all.”  If he were one I believe I would have no such feeling toward him.  The same individual when it was published that Rev. J.A. James of Birmingham had spoken of Glasgow & Young as scholars, bitterly & several times exclaimed ‘your Glasgow and your Young”.  While such narrowmindedness exists in the mission there is a strong inducement to wish me to leave to some new hands the mission work & retire to finish my days with my family and in preaching & visiting.  May God endue me with the grace of self [?] & endurance.  I had a letter from N. Zealand making me an offer of a congregation near Canterbury.  But I have replied that I purpose God willing to complete my India time.

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1862 _ September 28. Sab. Surat - In the morning I preached in the church from Jer. 8.22; and at 1 o’cl. in the church from Phil 1.6 and in the evening in the church in English from Ps.23.1. ___ During the [?] ensuing week I have been investigating the passages in the Bible which are so translated as to appear indelicate; and I have come to the conclusion that the translators were highly culpable. This applies especially to Jerome and the translators who have followed him, - as Luther, the Douay sic, the English, French &c.  Thus in

Gen. 38.9 Why is the word “spill” introduced. sic It occurs no where sic in the Eng. Bib.  and here it is שִׁחֵת to corrupt. םא also which is translated when means it and also an interrogative see ver. 17.  Thus the ver. teaches simply that Onan refused to take the woman as his wife.  

Deut.22.13…21 the “tokens” are put in by the Translators sic —— and the word for virginity is a plural masc בְּתוּלִים the masculine if virgins means [?] of paranymphs or companions of the bride groom which the friends of the bride supplied to give her away as we would say.  Also the word for “cloth” does not mean cloth but robe - wedding garment.  The man’s accusation was “I was going to marry her, but I found no paranymphs and no wedding garment, thus she was not given to me. sic

1 Sam. 5.9 There is no Heb. words sic for the “secret parts”.
Is.3.17  פת does not mean secret parts or nudity as rendered.  It occurs but twice in the sic & in the other instance 1 Ki. 7.50 means “hinges” —

I published in the September No. of the Elph. Sch. Paper, a theorem for proof by the 1st book of Euclid.  A correspondent of higher pretensions has in the Oct. No. declared his belief that it is impossible at the time when my demonstration was in the hands of the Editor and of friends in Surat, Ahmedabad and New Zealand to whom I had communicated it.  Thus I am vain enough I must confess to crow a little over him as he had previously [?] squabbled.  He had previously alleged that a demonstration of mine “was not new as I thought but contained in some text [?] I have this day written to Bombay to demand a friend a sight

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of such text book.  I believe none such can be produced. The demonstration for which I claim originality on behalf of myself and my brother A.D.G. he having discovered it separately, relates to sine (A+B)  It is of course possible that it might have been known to others, though I do not believe it was.  Adam shared his brother’s interest in mathematics and is almost certainly the former student ‘Adam D Glasgow from Belfast” commended by James Thompson (father of Lord Kelvin)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon%27s_theorem   He would have been taught maths. by Thompson at Belfast Academical Institution, which was also attended by James Glasgow.

1862 Oct.-Oct.13 Mon. M. mg. Surat.  Yesterday at Noon I preached the church in Guj. from Jer.35.19, illustrating parental influence and duty, & dissuading from heathen marriages, & illustrating by the example of Lot, who evidently obtained his wife in Sodom, & who brought ruin & marital disagreement on himself.  His daughter said: our father is old; but he was a young man without any mention of wife or children when he accompanied Abraham to Canaan.  Only 24 years afterwards Sodom was destroyed, so that he could scarcely have been 50 probably little more than 40 years of age when he fled to the cave.  His daughter then did not mean “old” in years, but crazed (derived probably from γηρασ old age.  The calamity was enough to drive him to insanity, in which he may have fancied his wife still with him; and of this his daughters may have taken advantage.  Mental imbecility prevents not the productive power.  His daughters gave him wine not to intoxicate but excite.  In all this being beyond the province of sanity he was not accountable..  This accords with his being in the N. Test. called a “righteous” man.  Lot may have been as older than 20-30 when he accompanied Abraham.  We don’t know how old the daughters were when they became pregnant.  If they were 20 or so, Lot could have been 84 (40+24+20).  Glasgow’s interpretation that they made him drunk in order to excite him is not borne out in the text, where rather it seems he was drunk to insensibility.  2 Peter 2.8 calls him a “righteous man” in the context of being vexed by the wickedness of Sodom.  Sadly, one can be righteous in one context and not in another.

In the evening I preached at the funeral of a guard of the railway carriages called Hern.  It is to be feared that many such men hasten death by drinking.  My address & prayers were solely for the living.  Glasgow may have felt he had no evidence to say that this man was in heaven and he would not have wanted to be seen to support in any way the Roman Catholic and high Anglican custom of prayers for the dead.

14th Oct. M. Surat - Received overland letters and started by railway for Anand which reached in the evening. a journey of approx. 120 miles - at least 4 hours, possibly more

15th I met the Meghawar [?] believers in the house of the school in the town — examined the scholars and addressed a considerable number, who all profess the faith.
16th I reached Borsad in the night.  Had visits during the day from the christians sic and from labourers in two or three villages of the Meghawar [?] caste.  Morning service daily at 7 o’cl.  I have commenced lecturing on Zechariah.
19th. Sab.  Borsad __ lectured [?] at 3 services — at 7 am Psalm 23  struck through;  at 12 on Jer. [?] 23.1 “our righteousness; at 3 o’cl on Gal 4.3.

23rd Started for Jishavasipur the new christian sic village which I reached on Saturday evening accompanied by Gunjaram - an aged 

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christian sic friend.  Received a kind welcome from Desai whose son I baptized in 1846 & from Behan & Aja & Bhaipa & the women.  I slept in the school room & was Desai’s guest.  Next day sabbath I had services lecturing in the morning on Ps. 23 ; at noon on Luke 13; and at 4 on Rev. 14.1…6.  I also catechized sic the children.  

1862 - Oct.27. Monday morning - I inspected the [?] fields and think favourably of the settlement.  Started after breakfast & came to Lali, these to Karia.  Slept a a sic little at the house of  — [?] Naimie Esq the judge, who was absent.  I wrote him explaining the circumstances.  He invited me to stay longer the next time. On tuesday sic we reached Borsad.

During the remainder of the week I had various calls from natives - some from politeness and some to hear - and I administered medicines to a good many.  Contagious diseases prevail.

Nov.2 Sabbath - Borsad -Preached from Acts 2.38 39 and baptized 4 children viz.
Asa daughter of Girdhan & his wife Auriel, the child being 17 days old

Mary, [?] daughter of Gamblia & his wife Kaleal - age of child 2½ months

Sara,  daughter of Viro and his wife Kauker, age of child 1½ months

Rena,daughter of Ishwan, & his wife Jactibai, - age of child 28 day. sic

As the father of the last is not a baptized man. the mother presented the child.  He joined however in asking for the rite and was present.

At the close of the service I breakfasted with with Gungaram.  Came to ? Ausiad preached at 2 to an audience of Megharais in the government bungalow; dined & rode to Borsad where I met an audience of the same class, amounting to more than 150, who paid earnest attention to the truth.  They affectionately shook hands at parting.  And next morning some of the people put into my hands two of the idols they had long worshipped; but now renounced; and also some of their string of beads.  I have received some of their traditional poetry, which points to an Israelitish origin.  Their deep degradation fulfils Lev. 26.39-42.  This seems so strange that it will scarcely gain credence.

Nov. 3 Monday - returned to Surat by train.  During the week busy in pulling up demands of correspondence &c.

Saturday 8 Nov.  Posted letters to my wife & to Annie - and to Dr Morgan.  Have taken a very new [?] view of the sons of God in Job, Genesis &c. - 

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1862 - Nov. 9 Sab. night - Surat - preached in the morning in Guj from Phil. 2.15; and in the evening from Prov. 4.18.  Have thought very differently from the generality respecting the primitive sons of God.  Angels were never so called.  Adam & Eve must have multiplied in Eden, else they did not enjoy the promise of increase.  But no procreation is spoken of till after the fall.  yet Eve was ( הָיְתָה the past tense) the mother of all living  Gen. 3.20.  Therefore sons of God were created by the [?] medium of her maturity  — Adam being simply the origin of Eve & therefore of humanity but not the father of any until after the fall - only the federal head.  the sons of God were the nephilim.  This word is not properly נפילים [?] fetters as some make for this would require [?] to make the hip hil participle נפלים (fallen the past or present Lal participle )  In Boothroyd on Gen.6.4. it may be objected that in the only instance in which the word is used (Nu. 13.34) it is נפילים; but this may only be an irregular form of the same.  They are the same way translated in the Syriac & Greek.  If the latter stand for מנפילים renders it fall or fallen, it properly describes the warlike Anakim.  But in Gen. 6.4 It sic means the fallen those who had shared in the fall of Eve their mother the sons of Eve who were born in Eden by creation, not procreation , and were therefore sons of God, and who being as posterity of Eve and though her of the blood of Adam, sinned in him & fell with him: this explains all the places usually felt to be very mysterious in which sons of God are mentioned, and also why Adam did not know his wife until after the fall, and why the name Adam is generalized and why painful gestation and corporeal  [?] are only pronounced after the fall; and why she is called the mother of all living; and why man’s days in Eden were 120 years; for there is a gross inconsistency in applying these 120 years to the days of Noah.

15 Nov.  To-day I received home letters — thankful my wife and children are well.  Mr. M. arrived last night after a voyage by the Cape.  As by temper, jealousy & ingratitude he gave me various causes of offence and manifested no penitence, I am determined to avoid all familiarity, & not to contradict his rambling assertions and on the other hand not to be wanting in polite courtesy & official attention.  Accordingly I wrote him to Bombay a note of welcome, which even in the above circumstances I am able to do conscientiously, believing that God in his own way will humble him & make him useful.  When he came in the night I rose to receive him, and [although ?] I have avoided any questions, I have entered into conversation.  May God enable me to act with prudence & give no just cause of wrath.

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1862 - Nov. 16 - Sab. night - Surat.  At noon I preached in the church in Gujarati from Phil. 3.17,20.  To-day Mr McKee arrived from Bombay.  Received a letter from Dr Wilson inviting me to Bombay.  I propose to go before the end of this month if God enable me to see my way to do so.  These objects are presented to be accomplished - to attend the Examinatn of the Gen. A. Inst.; to attend meeting of the Committee of Bible Society to vote on opening meetings with prayer; - and to attend a meeting of the Senate of the University.  I think it of some importance to exercise my right as a fellow in the hope that some other missionaries may be chosen.

Nov. 22. Sabbath morning.  In the week Mr Moore arrived from Gogo.  Yesterday news arrived that Mr Taylor had fever.  Mr Montg. also had fever here in the course of the week.  My mind still bent on Hebrew studies and still I discover more of the wonder of the Bible.  I purpose if God enable soon to [?] write a dissertation  on “the image of God or [?] elective sonship” in which I shall comment and explain passages of scripture that are felt to be [?].  I have written to my wife and to Annie & Harriet my dear children.  Annie & Harriet would have been at Walthamstow School, Mary/ Minnie was presumably in Belfast with her mother, which may account for her not being mentioned. To the former I gave an account of the Dheds, showing from their traditions that they are Israelite.  https://www.facebook.com/meghhistory/posts/the-dheds-of-gujaratthe-population-of-india-proper-overlooking-the-later-immigra/1696736173716537/ gives an unflattering account of the Dheds as a group originally from outside India.  To Dr Morgan I wrote this fuller statement with parts of their poetry translated.

At 1o’cl I preached from Phil 4.6,7 in Gujarati.  As I sat in church this morning my mind wandered if I may so term an utter exhaustion from the objects of sight and hearing around me.  I forgot the sermon and the preacher, the church & the sabbath.  I forgot the present and was away in the future.  I forgot time & had a mental glimpse into eternity.  I felt my death at hand; and had an impression like the consciousness that my hour was come.  But I had no idea of death as awful.  I thought only of the glory of Christ: I had no impression of any visible form but such a perception of glory that I found myself exclaiming “Oh!  I have got new eyes.  I see the glory.” I started back to the consciousness of the eternal world.  My eyes filled with a flood of tears which I felt obliged to conceal with my handkerchief.  But how blessed and how happy should I be, if I could but shed such tears every day of my pilgrimage.  Such a brief interval was [?] seen with the [? years] of common life.

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1862 - Dec. 6 - Sat. Bombay  On the 24th 25th & 26th the presbytery sic was held.  Mupawanji [?] was was examined passed & appointed to evangelize.  I moved that the moderator should write to Mr Harmasaji on the ground of Dr Morgan’s letter to him offering to aid his return to India.  The presbytery were stubborn and only consented to give me a copy of the resolution against which I had protested to authorise Mr Dharmijibhai to send it to him.  This I consider a clumsy mode of backing out of their awkward position.  

On the 26th I left for Bombay - - was sick on board the steamer but could not throw off.  This accumulated bile in my system and for 6 days I was [?] [?] under a low continued fever.

Dec. 5  I am thankful I am now quite well.  How great the divine goodness.

Dec 6.  Yesterday evening I conducted a prayer meeting at St Andrews sic Church and was thanked in cordial terms.  Sent an official letter to Government. —- sent a mathematical communication to the Editor of the Elph. Sch. Paper.

Dec. 8. Monday morning. Bombay. Yesterday morning I preached in the Free Church from Heb.12.29, and gave a statement regarding the Hughwans in Gujarat.  I feel thankful that my health is nearly restored.  I was able to speak with considerable ease and found a well filled church with an apparently attentive audience.  But I had to stand on a stool; and instead of a pulpit  there is a platform with a small desk, so that I felt in a manner giddy or insecure which embarrassed me a little.  I have had no views so bright as I longed for, the last few days.  I am removed from my work; but this with my sickness has left my mind inactive, but I trust soon to be at my work again.  Oh! May God pour out more of his Spirit on all our Missions and not on the Mugwans alone but on all classes.  This awakening & the Maharaj case are among the signs of the times for this year in this land.  In Europe the G[?] revolution.  In America the proclamation of liberty to the slaves & the apparent success of the federal Government sic

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1862. Dec. 11. Bombay  I posted letters to my wife , & my daughter Minnie and to Rev. Dr. Morgan.

Dec. 12 Friday I posted a letter to my nephew Rev J.G. Armstrong Sidney? Ohio U. States

Dec. 13. Sat. Bombay I wrote the following in a ?baby’s Album.

“Ask ye of Jehovah rain”       Zech. 10.1

Here is God’s open invitation

Here ye will not pray in vain.

Come ye then with expectation
That the God of grace will deign

On those hearts in dull prostration
which have sadly sighing lain
Showers to send for animation:

“Ask ye of Jehovah rain”

But the treasured cloud is distilling

On the slaves of sin and pain

[?] [?] falling, filling

Fertile field & arid plain

Till a countless “people willing”

Like men’s rainbow drops [?]

one with new [?] thrilling

“Ask ye of Jehovah rain”

Rain in rich & copious shower

On the people faint yet fain

To partake thy vital powers

Granting, let them not complain;

To refresh thy church’s bowers

Do not living streams restrain,

Fructifying Sharon’s flowers:-

“Ask ye of Jehovah rain”

16 Dec. M. Bombay - Yesterday morning I preached in English in the Corn ? Hall of the Fr. Ch. Inst. Proverbs IX.  Heard Marathi serv. by Dr W. Dr John Wilson, leading missionary in Bombay Spent the rest of the day in reading.
22 Dec. On Saturday I attended an exhibition in Khoja Eng. School - a new sign of progress of knowledge in Bombay.  Some speeches were made.  I spoke in Gujarati.

Yesterday at 1 oct I conducted the service in Hindustani in the Free [?] Institution.  I have bought and have been reading Bishop Colenso’s book in which he impugns the Pentateuch history.  I see no difficulty in replying to it all.  It will elicit many replies probably beyond its merit.  He seems deficient in knowledge of the Hebrew.  [?] [?] the times in which we live.  May we know - that out of all events God is evolving his high purposes.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Colenso The thought-provoking questions put to him by students at his missionary station encouraged him to re-examine the contents of the Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua and question whether certain sections of these books should be understood as literally or historically accurate. His conclusions, positive and negative, were published in a series of treatises on the Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua, over a period of time from 1862 to 1879.^[13][14] The publication of these volumes created a scandal in England and were the cause of a number of anguished and patronising counter-blasts from those (clergy and laity alike) who refused to countenance the possibility of biblical fallibility. I forwarded on Saturday to Saturday Minutes and proposals respecting new Ed. of Guj. N.Test.

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Dreams (stanza of “Never more” slightly varied

In the [?] halls of dreaming
Many airy vistas, seeming
Real and in sunlight gleaming

1862 - Dec.29 - M Bombay - Yesterday morning I preached in the Fr. As. Institution at 7½ o’cl from Zech. 10.1 I have been much engaged in reading works to which I have access here.   On the 27 I had my overland letters from my wife and children and Dr M.’s.  Mrs G. was suffering from cold in her bones.  This makes me wait more anxiously for next mail.  But I do not overlook the fact that her state of health was a month before my reading of it.  This makes special prayer at the time impract

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icable.  When  friend is ill besides sic us we can see & pray with that friend in reference to the present suffering.  But when we can only read that a friend was ill a month ago, we know not whether it may have ended in death, recovery or lingering illness.  All I can now do therefore is to pray that if it has pleased God to spare life the visitation may be blessed, that if health is as I trust restored, it may be followed by growth in grace, and that if weakness is continued God may grant health as far as it is for his glory & my dear wife’s & children’s and my good.  Thus I can suit the case to my Father in Christ.

1863 - January 1- Th- Bombay.  A year is gone and another has presented his face.  I cannot quarrel with the old; for Providence has been gracious to me.  But my quarrel is with myself for not rendering due returns for all that my Saviour has done for my soul.  I am going to the Free Church to address the worshippers on the occasion.  Oh that the Sp. of grace may give me light and utterance.  And oh that I may with refreshment of spirit begin another stage of the journey.  Endue me with devout affection of my Saviour.  Fill me with a forgiving spirit to meet the petty annoyances that daily spring from brethren .  Change them from spiritual pride to true humility, from envy and jealousy to love, from irritability  to gentleness, from implacability to reconciliation, from dogmatism to a better tone of studying thy word.  And if in the secrets (the עלמם Ps.90.8) of my heart there rest these or any other besetting evils lurking of which I am not conscious, do thou by thy grace eradicate them, and make me more like to thee.  Lord grant to my dear wife and children and all relations a year’s blessing.  Gran this to the friends whose guest I am, and to all whose influence is meant for my good.  grant thy blessing on the church here this day.  And to me to know the path of duty & to walk steadily in it that he year may be one of spiritual growth, & fruit of labour and internal peace & joy in them.  Amen.
Jan. 3 Fr. Bombay. to-day in company with Dr. Wilson, Dr. Somerville & R. Drymen Esq. I visited the Vihar Water Works, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vihar_Lake among the Mountains of  Sahyadri.  Seems a crater of an ancient volcano.  Scenery wild and abounding with palmyra trees.

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1863 - Jan. 7 Wedn. Bombay.  On last sabbath I preached in Hindustani from Rev 4.5.6.  On Monday addressed the pupils of the Institution of the Free Church.  To-day I sailed for Surat in the [?] Khlox steamer.h   I feel refreshed in the prayers that were offered up during the last three days — this being the week of prayer and one of the prayer meetings being held in Dr Wilson’s house.
Jan. 9. Fr. I reached Surat in health for which I feel thankful. And I found friends well.
Jan 11 Sab. night to-day I preached in English in our church from 2 Kings 22.

Jan.13 Tue I attended a tea meeting of the Rev. Dhaijibhai in which he stated among interesting facts respecting Bombay that my Guj. Psalms were used for singing by some members of [?] Presby and that in consequence he would take 100 copies with him to Bombay.  He also mentioned a case of a native much benefited by the perusal of my Gujarati scripture Extracts.  For this encouragement let me feel humbly thankful and trust that God may own my feeble labours.  I learned in Bombay that a sister of Mrs W. had written her that my [?]letters on angels in the O.C. Spect. had proved very comfortable to a [?] man on his death bed.

Jan 15. Th. I got my home letters.  Thankful to learn that my wife was better of the feverish [?] she had been complaining of.  Heard of the death of Dr. Dill who was ordained at the same time with me In Cogh Coagh 8 miles from Castledawson in Co Tyrone where JG ministered 1835 -1840. in my sphere of labour.  He was younger than I and strong.  Let me walk humbly with God and study to advance heavenward.

Jan. 18 [preaching detail]  Rec’d. the Rev. J Killen’s “Our [?] in Gl.  Do not much like his seeing of God as too material.  He had not the true doctrine of angels, but something of the truth regarding cherubim .

Jan. 25. Sab. Evg.  Have preached in Eng. from Eccl. 7.16, exposing human schemes in religion.

Note: — on my return from Bombay I found a box missing containing my D.D. credential, a Government certificate of Ru foo in the 5# [?], a collection of coins & stones, and clothes useful at this season. I since found that Mr McKee’s servant had carried it off by mistake to Rajkot.  This was a trial to faith and patience.

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1863. Feb. 1. Sab. night _ On friday sic evening I preached at Maidnapur, Dhaujibhai & Muhuwaji were also present & preached.

To-day I had my overland letters thankful to learn that the dear ones were well.  This evening with Dhaujibhai I preached at Rani Talav a lake near Idar, a town in Sabarkantha district.

Received from R. Young Edinburgh a Pamphlet on Heb. Tenses most likely the author of Young’s Analytical Concordance  https://www.ccel.org/bible/ylt/ylt.htm dedicated to me among other learned names.  I see he has taken one or two hints from my letters to him.

Feb. 8. Sab. night - Surat: This morning [preaching details]
I have read in Heb. the 6, 7 & 8th & 9th chap sic of Genesis.  And I see much reason to depart from current interpretation. 1. That the 120 years usually and absurdly assigned to the building of the ark have no connexion with that period but with the Eden period.  2. Noah’s sons were nearly 100 years of age and had wives but no children.  They may have been married in preparation for the peopling of the earth.  But they had wives before God gave them command to build the ark (Gen. 6.19).  Therefore the building of the ark occupied no long time.  ∴ there is no need to assume the objection from the rotting of the timber in a ship 120 years old sic

  From Gen. 8.4….7 we learn that [?]113 days at least after the ark rested on the Ararat mountain the tops of other mountain were seen.  Yet 40 days later (v.9) the waters were on the face of “the whole earth”. ∴ “whole earth” is not meant in universal terms. — 4. From ch. 9 v. 10 we learn that on the earth there had remained beasts besides those that went out of the ark.  ∴ we do not require to find room in the ark for all species on earth, but only that may have been in the district.  — 5  There is no mention of the sea, the great deep being תהום the atmosphere.  The vast rains were sufficient to produce the deluge.

Feb. 15 -Sab. night _ Surat = Preached this morning from Ezek. 5.7….9 on divine government & Song 4.16.  I felt much freedom in expounding this.

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1863 Feb. 18  Wedn. Surat.  I am going to expound at the prayer meeting in Guj. Rev. 8th chapt:  I have sought light & believe I see this more clearly than before, and differently from the scheme propounded in any book that I have read.

1 The Angel who has incense is Christ, because as his incense goes up with the prayers of all saints He is thus distinguished above them all.  There is only one such. 

2 The trumpets were used for purposes both civil and military as well as religious

(a) the first followed by hail and fire.  Hail was a [?] plague in Egypt and by pickling the ground produce a variegated colour. THEREFORE it was the colour of the horses of Gnostic Arian &c heresies in Zephaniah; and here denotes the falling of these on the population of the Empire.  Fire denotes divine agency, but in these cases that of wrath.  They were mingled with blood because persecution was inflicted by heretics.

(b) The 2nd Trumpet announced a burning mountain = a Kingdom of wrath hurled on the Empire..  This predicted the whole of the Gothic invasions.

(c) The 3th sic announced a falling star.  This was the [?] Emperor in 476 or 493.

(d) The 4th announced a darkness which darkened 1/3 of the sun’s disk.  An eclipse is characterised by being visible over a certain territory which the Naut. Am. = Nautical Almanac? always states.  The sun is Christ.  The darkness is caused by thick clouds hiding the sun over 1/3 of the Empire = the western in distinction from the east and Africa.  The moon or church is darkened over the same territory: and the stars or ministers.  The day is darkened - knowledge obscured to the same extent.
(e) An eagle (according to best codices, is seen flying & heard predicting 3 woes.  This is prophecy.  The Eagle sic is one of the 4 faces of the Zoa. (Ch.iv)  The 1st is a lion = church government expressed in the discussions of councils and assemblies; 2 a calf expressed in the patient labour of ministerial visitation from house to house; a man expressed in the preaching of the gospel message 4 An eagle high of flight & far sighted expressed in the study of revealed prophesy sic.

Feb 22 _ Sab. night Surat - [preaching details]  Thankful to have heard of my family’s health.  A Jew, Mr Moses Isaac Sayer’s application for baptism of whom I think favourably.  May God grant him grace to know & own Jesus as Saviour God.  My heart feels this event strongly; but I wish to make no high sounding or boastful [?] entries.

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1863 Sab. night Surat [preaching details]  Was occupied much in this week in instructing Mr Sayer who is well acquainted with the Jewish arguments from his own father & uncle.  The latter promised to make him the heir of more than £10,000 if he would not become a christian sic.  I have also been instructing on the subject of the communion Mr Kumar, a Hollander who is engaged here in the erection of the Station house on the Railway.  A Mohammedan a relative of the Mulla the head of the Boras here comes to get astronomical lessons , and would willingly leave Mohammsm if he could get to England.  But his heart does not appear awakened.

March 8.  Sab. night Surat. I date on sabbath night to assist my eye in {?] the sabbaths here after; but I am making this entry on Monday morning.  Yesterday I preached in the morning in Gujarati from the often repeated words of Ezek. in reference to righteous & wicked men: - “Ye shall know that I am the Lord.” [preaching details]  Am reading a Rev. of Ed. of the Greek Testt. in the Quarterly __ and Dr Brown’s Horae Subsecivae  John Brown FRSE FRCPE (22 September 1810 – 11 May 1882) was a Scottish physician and essayist best known for his three-volume collection Horae Subsecivae (Leisure Hours, 1858), which included essays and papers on art, medical history and biography. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(physician)

On the evening of friday sic 6th March we held a meeting by appointment in the Mission church for religious service.  Mr Montgomery preached after which I administered the rite of Baptism to Mr Moses Isaac Sayer above mentioned, whom we commend to God & the word of his grace.  His age is 29.  He is employed in the Railway Telegraph Department at a good salary; has an uncle named Michael Sayer who long ago became a christian sic & an agent of the church sic Mission Soc.  His father & another uncle are of the Jews living at Cochin.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochin_Jews  He is unmarried.

March 15 - Sab. night - Surat [preaching details]

March 22 - Sab. night - Surat [preaching details]

March 29 - Sab. night - Surat [preaching details[page 120]

1863 - April 5 - Sab. night - Surat [preaching details]

April 5 - Sab. night - Surat [preaching details]

I have received my home letters thankful that my family were well.  Received the Evan. Chr. for      in which a violent attack is made on Mr Y’s Transl. of the Bible and sight [?] to see my name among recommenders of Mr Y. as a Hebrew scholar.  The article displays a bad spirit but weak critical power.  On the verse or half verse in connexion with which he introduces my name, he makes 3 egregious Heb. blunders (Prov. 23.31):— 

1 That יִתֵּ֣ן means “bubble” a word which has no existence in the Bible.

2  That יִ֝תְהַלֵּ֗ךְ means going down a man’s throat

3  That במֵישָׁרִ֑ים means easily.

Had a long conversation with Dr Ross to-night about the human mind which he makes to be material.  It arose out of remarks on Colenso’s books. see note at foot of p 113 The ground taken by Episcopalians is that he is a bishop and cannot be unbishoped or deprived of office.  But if the English church cannot do this, it is not a church.

19_ Sab. Ev. Surat  This morning I preached in Amroli from Mat.1.21 Dwelt on the name, - the salvation, - and the thing from which.  Trust a good impression was produced; and 1 0’cl in Eng. from 1 Thes.4.16 to the end.  Had a carping assault on my exposition of “we who are alive, and remain” by Mr Moore, but a feeble one.  I have finished a first draught sic of an Essay on the Vedas.  But I think I speak too plain for Hindu judges.  And on that account question the utility of giving it in.  But I pray for light regarding the disposal of it and if any mistake exist in what I have written I pray that I may be led to see it in copying - and if I have missed any truth or the refutation of any error as I ought, I pray for light to that end also through Christ by the H.S.  I have been asked to write an Introduction to a Guj. Dic. & have consented.  I have received good [?] from Revs McKee, Wallace, Dhaiji bhai Shoobad & Ballantyne.

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1863 - April 27 Mon.  Surat.  [preaching details]

I have finished a first draught sic of an Introduction to Mr Shapurji’s Gujarati-English Dict.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapurji_Edalji  I expect my home letters to-day sic.  I sent home by last mail testimonials from Rev. J. McKee, Rev. J. Wallace, Rev. Dhaijibhai Nauraji, Rev. W. Shoobad and Rev. H. Ballantyne.  I have since received one from Rev. G. Bowen, which I hope to send next week.  I have made metrical version of the Remainder of Job’s reply to Eliphaz, concluding with his appeal to Christ’s atoning merits.  I commit my case to God in the prospect of returning home.  I wish for employment in my Master’s service.  I fully believe that God will work for my good.  I feel my self unworthy, yet I feel his grace has made me what I was not and am assured it will [?] for glory in full deliverance from all the sin I hate in my body of death.

May 3 _ Sab. _ Surat [preaching details] Have been occupied in writing my Essay on the Vedas.

May 10 _ Sab. Surat [preaching details]  Mr Taylor solicited me to baptize a child for him; but as Mr Montgomery was to preach I suggested  that he should baptize, which was done.  

May 17 - Sab - Surat = [preaching details] Received home letters this thursday sic the 14th.  [preaching details]

May 18.  Posted letters to home and to N. Zealand, from which one item of news was not very cheering.  presumably that his brother Adam was unwell.  Employed on my essay on the Vedas — Have sent in resignation of translator ship sic to Govt. _______

20 Received a letter from Dr. Duff of Calcutta  Scottish missionary pioneer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Duff_(missionary)giving me a highly favourable testimonial for the Derry College Professor ship sic.  This I sent home to the Secretary.  I have sent in all 12 testimonials , though I do not put myself forward, yet if proposed & 

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elected I shall count it a call of providence.

1863 - May 24 Sab. night  [preaching details]  Had a long conversation on American affairs slavery [?] &c. Felt much interest in reading Psalm 89 in Heb.  Feel strongly the soil of some men and am not insensible to my own but am the more impelled to glorify the grace of God in Christ. -
May 29 Within this month thus far I have transcribed and sent to Mr. Shapurji the Introduction to the Guj Dict alluded to under date April 27.  And I this night have written the 175th page of an Essay on the Vedas and kept a copy of the whole by my copying [?], with 14 pages of Appendix contain the Sanskrit Texts referred to.

31 May Sab. morning On last night I wrote p. 185 of my Essay on the Vedas.  Gracious God grant me strength and wisdom to bring it to a close and open its way to usefulness.  Let not prejudice judge it amiss nor false christian sic obstruct it.  I am about to proceed to Amroli to preach on Rev.22.  O Lord by thy Spirit grant me light that the word on the page and the Spirit in my heart may produce fruit to the conversion of the unconverted — and the edification of every child of God who shall hear — and that I may be profited  Lord make thy word profitable to all my kindred this day to conversion and improvement.  Let thy church this day gather in many. Let Glory redound to Father Son and H Spirit.  Amen

June 6, Sat night _ Surat.  I wrote the 237th page of the above Essay.

June 7 - Sab. night _ Surat.  [preaching details]  Dan 9.24. Showing the great objects accomplished in the 70 weeks.  I have entered in my note Book sic a translation fo the passage.  I felt dyspeptic to-day sic but thankful to be able to speak [?].  My mind felt in need of the day’s calm [?] after the continued strain of composition of the Essay.  May God’s blessing on it  sic

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1863 - June 19. Surat.  On Monday I finished the body of the Essay and am now engaged in getting it copied & copying part myself - Have 2 appendices - contents & Preface still to write.  Govt. have not yet accepted my resignation of the Translatorship.  I have translated the Queen’s Indian Proclamation in Gujarati.  Yesterday I wrote my overland letters to my wife and eldest daughter, to Dr Morgan and Colonel Lang Glasgow.  Learned last overland that Dr. K. of Belfast had endeavoured to prevent my return home - This is a proposed breach of faith of which I do not think the church will be guilty but I am sorry that even one member proposed it.  I am sorry I cannot give him credit for a good motive as he was the proposer of Dr Graham for the Professorship, so apparently he now [?] to keep me out of the way of the Derry college.  This is unfair; but God will order what is good.  Whatever I think of man, I cheerfully thankfully devoat sic now to God’s providence — what He may evolve will work for good Rom. 8.28.

21 June  [preaching details]  Have been reading the history of some post-reformation Popes and I think their conduct manifests the sign of Anti christ.  I think Daniel’s prophs. of the 70 weeks ill translated and ill explained  See my translation of it in my Old Testament Note book.

25 June  Th. Surat Received from my dear sister in law in N. Zealand, informing of the removal of my dear Brother sic Adam by Death sic.  ’Tis a trying dispensation, but mixed with mercy.  Oh Gracious Redeemer be the friend of the widow and the orphans; and grant me of thy Spirit to improve the dispensation.  To enable me to write placidly in this topic will require time.  Mean time, may God gracious sic soothe my heart.  The illness that ultimately preyed on him had long clung to him.  In the beginning of his last illness he expressed to his dear wife emphatically his reliance on the blood that cleanseth from all sin.  His illness terminated in softening of the brain; and he slept away, —I humbly trust in peace

To-day sic received letters referring to this from my dear wife and from Dr. Morgan,  The affliction is alleviated in various ways.

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1863 28 June _ Sab. _ _ Went to Amroli in the morning but had no congregation , owing to two mornings of great rain and this also a threatening morning.  At 1 o’cl. I preached in the church in Surat from1 Thess 5.23,24  The text “Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.  He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.” may surely have arisen from his grief.  The thought of my brother is constantly in my mind.  The past rises daily more and more and so does the future.  I trust I shall be able to write more collectedly as my feelings get time to present him fully before me.  But in the mean time it has a solemnising and edifying effect upon my heart.  Oh my Saviour, grant such effect to be permanent.  To=night sic I purpose to write to his widow, & to friends in Ireland — a trying task.  May God enable me to do it truly wisely profitably, and comfortably to myself and to them

July 3 Friday afternoon - I have finished the prize Essay on the Vedas - the body of which I had compiled before.  Now I have added 5 appendices, a full table of Contents - list of authors.  ,Preface, mottoes and title ————

July 5. Sab. night - Surat.  Yesterday I posted letters to Mrs A.D. Glasgow in N. Zealand, to my wife and daughter Harrie to Dr Morgan, & to my nephew the Rev. J. Glasgow Armstrong, all relating to my brother’s death.

[preaching details]  In the evening I preached in English from1 John 1.7 “The blood of Jesus his son cleanseth from all sin.”  I felt freedom in speaking and I draw comfort from the text.  I believe my dear brother trusted in that blood.  For myself and all my weakness I lay myself at Christ’s feet with entire reliance.  I know my sins, though not the depth of the fountain of evil.  But I weep over them and I pray daily in my closet from my very heart, for a saving interest in Christ, and for fuller working of the Spirit in me.  I am thankful that I feel a strong hold taken on my mind by this dispensation, awakening but not depressing me.  Oh sic Lord grant that I may not subside into listlessness.  Give me the joy of my salvation.

12 July - Sab. night - Surat - [preaching details]  In the evening I rode out to the Railway to see Mr Kamaar, [?] of station passes etc. who was sick. I found that he was better & had gone to our church to attend the service.  Yesterday I had my letters from home, domestic news good no public news.  

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affliction.  Let me be thankful that God has disappointed my fear.  I did not indeed amount to what is sometimes called an impression.  I feel strongly that health is the time to enjoy and give utterance to religious experiences; and that religious experience is not at all what I see in many who plume themselves in their piety talking about religions.  I have seen a missionary now in this country who talks freely in a pious strain twice laid prostrate, and apparently in danger, yet both times he was almost silent.  I have seen in my pastoral visitations typhus fever patients so prostrated as scarcely to speak, until life ebbed away.  Some esteemed and I hope truly as genuine christians sic have been distressed with painful doubts; and where the brain has been diseased some have died in a state which otherwise would be accounted despair, e.g. Cowper  the poet and hymn writer William Cowper, friend of John Newton.  We are not to despise the expression of faith and hope.  They are consoling to friends.  Sometimes it is to be feared they are deceitful.  I have heard it remarked by a faithful minister that he had seen some dying without fear, who according to his opinion of their lives ought to have been afraid.  Some such may have been genuine believers though of small attainments; others may be self deceivers.  It is not for us to judge.  The christian sic who is diffidence sic or shy in expressing experience, but whose faith is uniform, who exemplifies what is upright & true, whose family devotions are pathetic & who brings up his children in the fear of God, leaves comfortable evidence behind him that he relies on & seeks to follow Christ.  Such I believe was my brother.  His painful & long continued disease had its depressing effect on his mind as well as on his body.  He is beyond my prayers; but not beyond my faith and hope.  These prompt me now to pray that I and those dear to him may be enabled so to follow Christ that we when called may enter the celestial society, where I humbly trust to meet my eldest brother & sister, my father & mother & My sic youngest brother. ADG was born in 1815, ten years after JG.  O Lord by Spirit sic prepare me and all surviving relative sic for this blessed transition.  These views strengthen my wish to be with my children, that I may use my prayerful endeavours to train them aright.  Alas I know my weakness.  I have sought this by my letters yet oh how feeble my efforts _____

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1863_July 20 _ M. mg Surat -[preaching details] I have versified Psalm 71 in L.M. and 72 in 8s & 7s.  And I have written a sketch in 4 pages of my brother’s life and character, with a page of private remarks for personal friends (see my letter book).

July 27.  [preaching details]  Yesterday I received my home letters.  Good news of my dear family.  My heart was very full; and I poured it out in prayer.  I feel sure of the Spirit of God’s influence in the frequency & earnestness of my prayers.  Received news that my Essay previously referred to has come to hand.  I have learned that my dear daughter Annie had got the Prize for an Essay on the Reformation at the Walthamstow Institution.  May God who gives a modicum of intellectual power & taste sanctify it to his service in Christ.  The letter from Dr Morgan the Mission Secretary informs me that the Directors passed a sic unanimous resolution appreciatory of my missionary life and authorising me to leave India on the 1st January 1864.  May God graciously make my way plain, & bless my restoration to my family, and open a field of usefulness at home, that as a professor or writer or both as well as in preaching I may work while it is called to-day. sic

3 Aug. M. Surat  [preaching details]

10 Aug. M. Surat  [preaching details]  Having during these two weeks been engaged in the chronology of the Psalms.  I have prefaced it by a dissertation on the titles, showing them to [?] unspecific & often wrong.  I classify them into Psalms of the patriarchal, - Egypt, - Wilderness - Judges, - Davidic, _ and post Davidic periods.  I think the book of Yasher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Jasher_(biblical_references) included in the psalms.  I have three Parsi [?] coming at times to read.  I trust God may bless their inquiries.

17 Aug. M. Surat  [preaching details] … I continue the study of the psalms.

24 Aug. M. Surat  [preaching details]  My wife contemplates meeting me In London, - on which account I shall stay a month later for if I sailed on 12th January, I should be dragging her to London early in February.  I had an encouraging note from Dr. W. most likely Dr Wilson of Bombay respecting my prize Essay.  May God grant it to be useful for his service in Christ sic Amen.

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1863 - Sept. 13 _ Sab. night Surat  [preaching details].

The previous Sabbath was spent at Dumas.  I had scripture reading, exposition & prayer with servants, & went out to preach in the village but after proceeding for more than a mile I was caught by drenching & obliged to return all wetted.

I have been employed in my study hours in investigating the chronology of the psalms.

Sept. 20 - Sab. night - Surat.  [preaching details]

Have spent some time in packing my books for consigning to Ireland via the Cape.

Sept. 27 - Sabbath - Surat.  [preaching details]

Last night I versified Ps. 143 in L.M. couplet.  I have now completed a table of the chronology of the Psalms - finding the Book of Psalms to be only that of Yasher with additions by David, Solomon, Elijah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zechariah & Malachi.  And the original Book of Yasher consisting of Psalms by Job, Heman Heman the Ezrahite,the author of Psalm 88, Ethan Psalm 89 has title "a maschil or contemplation of Ethan the Ezrahite", Moses, Deborah, and Samuel, ending with the anointing of David.

Oct.4 - Sab. night. Surat.  [preaching details]

I have been struck with the fact that there seemed a want of sympathy in the family of Noah between Ham & his brothers.  This suggested other facts.  There were three races of men at the time when the deluge came.

1 The Sons of God.  These were not by procreation from Adam, but by creation from Eve, & therefore represented by Adam.  they sic fell with him, and are in Gen. 6 called nefelim, fallen or fallen ones.  They were intended to typify the incarnation & to produce a human race without incest.  They were therefore married to daughters of Adam & Eve.  This made no incest as though he sons were born of Eve it was not by generation ∴ the law of nearness of kin had no application to them.

2  The posterity of Seth a Son of Adam & Eve.  He may have obtained for a wife one of the [?] in descent from the Sons of God.  But would not this be incest?  No: it is not forbidden in Lev. 18.  The daughter of a sister is forbidden but not the grand daughter which is an sic step more remote. [?] with the sons of God daughters may be implied, which I think the better founded opinion.

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3 The Race of Cain propagated of course by incest, as they were removed to the land of Nod & separated.  Nod I think = Nad, Sanskrit for River, the banks of the Indus was called ….. the Seven Rivers.  [?] given by the Persian to explain blackness is probably from Ham which means black, = blacked or lamp blacked by the sun.  The neighbouring county of Kabul, may have been named from Cain whose oriental name is Zabul or Zabil.

To Cain next after Satan & the ground the ground sic the word אריר arúr is applied.  It is indeed cursed; but is literally parched or dead ref. cognate to Lat  areo ardeo aridus &c.  Therefore Cain was doomed to blackness [?blacken] & the mark of Cain must have been the woolly hair of the negroes.
Japhet, Shem & Ham were apparently sons of Noah by three successive wives.  Japhet’s mother of the race of Seth; Shem’s of the race of the Sons of God; and Ham’s of the son of Cain.  Thus Noah gave him  name of blackness from his mother.  His son was called Kanaan (the low one) but may it not have been connected with that of (Cain) Zain, the Z and K being in Shemitic sic cognates as Arab. & Heb. often interchanged.

The Japhetites (the name meaning fir or white in complexion, would on this hypothesis be nearest the complexion of Adam & Eve.  The Shemites would have that of the Sons of God a shade darker by reason of their more immediate participation in the fall; while the Hamites have the complexion to whichCain was doomed.

Objection.  Would not this justify negro slavery?  No certainly, — no more than Noah’s prophecy that they were to be a servant of servants &c a prophecy - not a command.  Their [?] is the same account for it as we may.  The next sentence in different ink and possibly a different hand was written later as may be judged from the reference to “the late American War” which ended 9 April 1865  God’s threatening of the punishment of Cain is a powerful protection to them: example in the late American War.  

Oct. 31 _ Sat. night Surat [preaching details 11th, 18th, 25th October]

Since the entry of 4th October I have the

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1863 _ Oct. 31 Surat -       following Psalms versified - viz. the remainder of 89, then 58, 123, - 84 (2nd part) - 24, - 102 (1st parts) - 90, - 104, - 124, -77 - 105 - 121 - 82 - 115.  See copying sic Book for copies and my chronology of the Psalms in Do. for the [?].

I had yesterday encouraging letters from my brother Robert, and my nephew W.T. Glasgow & by last mail good news from my dear wife.

I have been worried by a piece of silly jealousy on the part of one of the brethren assembly who tells me that a periodical Christian work has said that the Gujarati Bible was due to me and he demands of me to contradict.  This I protest against for two reasons: - 1 because I was not in any way [?] conceived in the statement nor responsible for anything except the true report I gave to the Bible Soc. Bombay and which appeared in the last Report copies of which I sent to Ireland; 2 because as the Secretary of the Translation com. I was the cause of the New Translation, for the Bible [sc. Society?] had passed a Resolution to reprint the old Translation, in which I [?] and [?] them to consent to a new translation;- 3 Of it I did with my hand more than 2/3 of both O and New Test [?] [?] [?].  Therefore to contradict the statement [?] another [? expression] which readers would understand that all had translated alike which would be grossly unjust towards me.   If it is urged on me I can only commit my cause to God humbly praying that he will keep me humble & preventing any joining to the injury of his cause, - through Christ Amen.  It is a pitiable weakness of the brethren that two or three of them instead of thanking me for doing more than themselves are filled with envy & detract from every thing I do.  But I pray that I may receive the grace of non retaliation, and be able at home to sit them all in the most favourable light.

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1863 - Nov. 1 - Sab. Evg Surat

Baptized Gracey Hanna, infant daughter of of Antonius Gabriel fitter for the Railway co. at Amroli and his wife Charlotte Fenwick.  The child was born on the 3rd. May 1863 —

[preaching details]  On friday sic I had a letter from nephew W.T. Glasgow of Dunedin for which I felt thankful as all were well.  It enclosed a paper which he found on his father’s desk, containing an outline of a course of projected sermons, followed by a very pathetic and appropriate prayer.  In this I feel a true consolation and a ground of hope, that he cultivated the religion of the closet i.e. that he had an interior spiritual life, religious in private as well as in public.  Of this O my Saviour, make me feel more.  Refresh my heart  and deliver me from every feeling that is low and unworthy; ,make my [?] grow and graciously grant me fruit of my past labours among heathens & christians sic  And to thee be glory & honour  Amen.

Nov. 8 - Sab. night - Surat  [preaching details]

I have now 100 of the Psalms in a new English metrical version. —— Last week spent mainly at this. — May the Spirit of God teach me the truth & spirit of the psalms & give me spiritual fruit through Christ  Amen

12th - Surat - Sat for a photograph.  Employed in giving lessons to natives and in versifying Psalms.

15th - Sab. eve - Surat.  [preaching details]  We propose starting to-morrow for Goga to hold a presbyterial meeting.  To-day I have been anxious & distracted respecting my boxes of books £260 nearly in value, which I sent off to Bombay on the 3rd Inst. and of which I have yet heard nothing.  Lord if it be thy will, spare this [?] perplexity and enable me to profit by it for sic

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And now O Lord rule in my heart, and in the hearts of my brethren when we meet; that both I and they may see the error wherever it exists which divides us; and that we may be sic mutually be mild; and graciously forgive in turn the hearts of those who are jealous of me; and endue with that meek & quiet spirit which will turn away anger  by soft anger, and yet with the faithfulness which will deal honestly by brethren, and the prudence which will discern just & right things.  Let the mind of Christ be in me; and to thy name in Christ O gracious Father be the praise.  Amen.

Have given a small donation to a native christian sic library which is just formed by the members of the church & purpose to present them with two dozen volumes of the few books not already sent off.

Had good news from home.  My dear wife expresses her readiness to consent to my being absent a little linger, if I think of visiting Palestine.  I have been corresponding with Dr H. Miller of Bombay who spoke of such a journey.  Had I time I would like to visit the east of the Jordan - Gilead Moab & Ammon; and oh how I think I should like to stand on the mount of Olives, at the site of Bethany or where my Saviour ascended.  But as yet I feel uncertain as to my course — a month or two will determine.  Gracious God direct & preserve me.

1863 _ Nov. 16 Mon. night Embarked for Gogo.

Nov 17.  This night I reached Gogo by bundee boat in company with Rev. R.M. Jos.V.S.T. & D. M. ie Robert Montgomery, Joseph Van Someran Taylor, Dunlop Moore

Nov 20th During the last few days the presbytery sat.  Our brother Rev J. McKee was ill in consequence of a fall at [?] Bhadli, one stage from Gogo, on the way.  He sat with the presbytery only while giving in the report from Rajkot which was a very satisfactory one.  The business of the presbytery passed over in harmony.  More than one member admonished Mr Moore to give up his enmity to me.  Not one ever hinted such a thing to me: they knew I entertained none.  How he felt I cannot tell, when he joined with the rest in the following resolution, for which I feel thankful to God, & pray for grace to be able to walk worthily and to work while it is called to-day. —

“Dr. Glasgow having brought before the Presbytery the decision of the Board of Mission Directors, approved by the General Assembly, that he will be at liberty to return home at the beginning of next year, requested he sanction of Presbytery to his doing so: —- whereon 

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it was resolved that in sanctioning Dr. Glasgow’s retirement from India the Presbytery feel bound to record their due thankfulness to the great Lord of the harvest for having called him to this field, for having spared him so long, and enabled him to labour so abundantly in his Master’s work, and their sense of the great value to the cause of Mission in this land of his highly consistent christian sic and ministerial character, taken in connexion with his eminent  gifts and [?] agreements [?] during all the time he has gone out and come in among them; and their earnest hope and prayer that He who now calls him away in his Providence may follow his labours with an abundant blessing; and open up doors of usefulness for him in the church at home, and continue to make use of his great gifts for the furtherance of the cause of missions.

Extracted from the Minutes of a meeting of the Presbytery of Kathiawar 

held at Gogo on the 19th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three.

R. Montgomery

(Pro tempore) for the time being Clerk of the Presbytery

I expressed in a short note to the Moderator my thanks, my good opinion of the brethren (though in regard to one this would need a qualification), the value I attach to their testimonial (partly because I thought the jealousies of one or two which had previously to some extent given me trouble would have made them silent), and my prayerful hope of hearing of greater results than any yet reached.  I now feel gratified and thankful that the brethren allowed the better and I hope true feelings to prevail.  I had prayed often that the Holy Spirit might rest on us all; and I trust that though mingled with our weakness and errors we all were influenced by his grace.

  1863 22 Nov. Sab. night.  [preaching details]

23 M.  This night Mr McKee went to Surat in hope of benefit from change of air and medical aid.  I have engaged to go to Surat without him if necessary.  The presbytery had appointed me to accompany him to Rajkot for the purpose of exhorting the native

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christians sic to faithfulness and avoidance of all mingling in any superstitious customs of their relations.

1863 _ Nov. 27 Friday - have heard from Mr McKee.  Somewhat better.  Hopes soon to return: wishes me to to remain in Gogo a few days.  Have visited two schools.  This evening I preached at one of them. No opposition.

Have heard of the death of the Governor General Lord Elgin.  Newspapers give various reports of a very troublesome war originating in Sittana North east of Peshawar  https://indianculture.gov.in/archives/operations-against-sittana-fanatics  Have had reading of the Hist. of the chinese sic war - articles in Good Words and investigations of many examples which I exhibited to Mr Wallace of the variableness of the Vaw conversive  [?] in Heb.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vav-consecutive

Nov.28.  Received encouraging letters from my Brother sic Robert in Victoria; and my nephew W.T. Glasgow in Dunedin.  Thankfulness for general good news; but sorry to hear that a mental affliction of my niece Mrs W.J. Bell still continues. See p34 puerperal mania  O God grant her restoration to a right mind both temporally and spiritually through the grace in Christ by the influence of the Holy Spirit the comforter.  I fear that from her father she may have inherited some taint of brain disease as none of my family ever manifested any such symptoms.  O Lord [?] it in mercy to her & her family.

Had from Mr M Young in Bombay & received bills of lading of my boxes 12 in number of books value £250 roughly = £31,000 today - the missionaries’ salaries were £350 pa. & duplicate documents of Insurance sic in the House of Messrs Nicol & co. Bombay, consigned on board the Inkerman https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/19924/lot/80/ “Named for the victorious Crimean War battle on 5th November 1854, the full-rigged Inkermann was built, probably as a speculation, in New Brunswick, Canada, and completed in 1855. Registered at 1,307 tons and measuring 214 feet in length with a 39 foot beam, she was purchased by Sinclair & Co. of Belfast and traded out of Liverpool under their colours until disappearing from record after 1870.”

to Messrs Loudon & co. Liverpool & Thomas Sinclair  Belfast. Likely a provision merchant and shipowner based at Tomb St Belfast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sinclair_(politician,_1838–1914) e  The Missionary Herald in different places refers to the help offered by the Sinclair firm in transporting to India. eg ten tons of types for the Surat printing press free of charge  Miss. Her. August 1856 p 96  I pray that if it do please the God of Providence he may grant these aids to my studies to be safely consigned home for my use, and that I may be enabled to use them for his glory, in his power, and may be preserved from all errors, and that if He see meet He may by means of wealthy friends put me in possession of such other  treasures of biblical learning as may effectively aid me in elucidating his word, & edifying the church to the full extent of my [?]sphere & humble name.  & to him God of my salvation be all praise.  Amen.

1863.  Nov. 29 Sab.  News just came in from Mr McKee.  On friday sic was better & desires me to stay [?] at [?] again - [?] diarrhoea, requests

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me to proceed to Rajkot, & bring Mrs McKee to Gogo.  Gracious God I commit him in body, soul & spirit to these & the word of thy grace.  Guide me so that I may be kind & faithful in comforting & sustaining.  If it be thy will O God gracious sic restore him to her and to the mission.  If it be otherwise put it in me wisely and tenderly & faithfully to act the brother’s part.

Mathematical &c books for me from my dear deceased brother in Dunedin offered by my dear nephew 

Robinson’s Gr. & Eng. Lex.

Logic by J. S. Mill 2 vols

Mechanics for Practical Men possibly Mechanics for Practical Men by James Hann & Isaac Dodd, Newcastle 1833  https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bM5ZU2aG-KUC&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

Mulcahy’s Mod. Geom

Wood’s Arg. by Lund

Companion to Do.

Salmon’s Conic Sections

Pickle’s ———— Do.

Todhunter’s  Do.

———————- Dif. & Inst. calc.

Young’s Anal. Geom. 2 vols.

Lardner’s Euclid  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius_Lardner

Thompson’s Pl. & Sph. Trig.

Snowball’s        Do

1863 - Dec. 8 -  Rajkot - Tuesday -  On Monday evening I sent off my servants and luggage; and on tuesday sic morning I started on Mr McKee’s horse - reached Wasty at 11 - was starting at 4 p.m. for Dharamkie when a special messenger brought me letters from my wife and daughters - travelled in the bullock cart all the rest of the way to Rajkot, by rather forced marches giving myself & servants little time for rest except in the carts - reached Dharuka on evening of the 1st; - Dasa on evening of 2d; - Babra on morning of 3 - Adkot on morning of 4th - Landhar on that evening & leaving the servants, and procuring change of bullocks, after a cup of tea, I travelled in the night resting in the gadi ? a cushioned seat ?  only & reached Rajkot early in the morning of Saturday the 5th Dec.  Thankful to find Mrs McKee well.  In the course of the day encouraging news came in from Mr McKee, and Dr Morgan’s monthly letter , in which he states the prospect of students giving themselves to the Mission, and says that Mr Hormazdji has published a pamphlet severe on him and some of the brethren.  This I greatly regret; for it will widen the breach too wide

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already.  I do not approve of this publication; but neither do I approve of the conduct of some of the brethren towards Mr Hormazdji.  He erred in leaving India without permission; but he left in very ill health which should have produced commiseration.  The bitterness to him displayed by Mr Mont. Montgomery  Mr T. Taylor and Mr Mo. Moore previous - years previous, was quite unjustifiable, arising from criticisms by Mr H. on a Tract called ´Pan Sopári,  a parcel made of betel leaves and other ingredients called pan sopárí, which comprises betel leaves, areca or betelnut, catechu, quicklime, aniseed, coriander seed, cardamoms and cloves https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nEPhDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA231&lpg=PA231&dq=´Pan+Sopári&source=bl&ots=_XwkrURTIM&sig=ACfU3U0nNkeMZWOOvey-CucoC1o2jUHh9Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiAyti82c31AhULa8AKHfFbD4IQ6AF6BAg6EAM#v=onepage&q=´Pan%20Sopári&f=false   which he condemned as unsound in doctrine but which the others approved.  I had long previously found fault with the tract for employing the smoking of opium to illustrate the Lord’s supper, and for other things of an objectionable nature.  Of course I thought Mr H. right on the whole.  But bitterness of feeling on both sides has since that date festered on.  May God eradicate it from the hearts of all.  Mr H. aspires to sic much no doubt to be European in everything.  He thinks a native missionary has a right to be sent to Europe for health.  The ministers at home , and the majority at [?] heart of the European missionaries here don’t think this.  Mr H. also as it seems to me represents the wish of native missionaries to be put on the same salary with European ones.  This is not generally the feeling of European christians sic in or out of India.  This lies deep at the root of the perplexing difference that exists.  It is the contrivance of Satan the mission [?] walk.  It is so, on which ever side the error lies.  The Directors it should be confessed were liberal with Mr. H. granting him £200 per annum when other native missionaries had only £150; and after I had written that in my judgment only £150 should be given him, the same as he had in the Fr. Ch. Miss. Bombay.

https://kingscollections.org/victorianlives/p-r/pestonji-hormazdji    Hormazdji  Pestonji 1820-1891 Professor of Gujarati and Marathi, 1865-1873 at King's College London.  At Wilson College, Bombay he worked on the translation of the New Testament into Gujarati; then served for a few years with the Irish Presbyterian Mission in Kathiawar; on return to India in 1873 he joined the Baptists was sent by the Baptist Missionary Society to Poona as a missionary 1873-1890.

Born into Parsi family in Bombay, converted to Christianity 1839; his wife and baby daughter were taken away from him because of his conversion and his wife was given in marriage to another man; was eventually reunited with his daughter who was also baptised and had married a prominent Indian pastor; later, Pestonji married a German woman and moved to London.  Published with Revd Dhanjibhai Nauroji, Gujarati version of the New Testament, 1852 for Parsees; later became highly critical of the missionary movement and wrote an inflammatory pamphlet, all copies of which were destroyed; A native ministry in India, and what became of it: in connexion with the Irish Presbyterian Mission in Gujarat, in the case of their Parsi missionary, the Revd Hormazdji Pestonji; with prefatory remarks by a friend of Indian missions, with Dr. James Morgan, pub. D.R. Collie & Son, 1863

This is to human appearance the last visit I can pay to the Rajkot station.  I can contemplate the place with very varied feelings.  Glasgow’s “varied feelings” may have included the graves of his first two children alongside that of his colleague Alexander Kerr in the English Cemetery at Rajkot.  I look on the plan all built, planted, laid out by the heads and hands of my dear devoted brethren and by my own. It is a little demesne A demesne or domain was all the land retained and managed by a lord of the manor under the feudal system for his own use, occupation, or support  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demesne 15 acres and a wood of trees of our own planting now stately and large, and crops of cotton and tal, sesame now cover the ground.

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The house is in good order, and the last house, the government one alone excepted, at the station.  But while far from insensible to the beauty of the plan, the thought of the absent and the dead, have my heart almost dead, — seared and dry — while I look on it. And what of the christians sic?  Few alas and feeble.  Yet I think I see much encouragement & look for good fruit by the outpouring of the Spirit of God.  We have met for Guj. prayer every morning.  On Sabbath morning, the scholars assembled as usual; and then and in the evening the christians sic met for worship.  There were present 24 native christians sic old and young and the unbaptized [?] made of two.  Their circumstances are straitened owing to the very high price of grain.  They seem, on the whole, sincere in believing, and show affection.  Some defects in conduct are known; but not more than among native christians sic at other places generally.  The most painful case is that of a woman , whose husband when in the service of Mr Moore, had been baptized by him, and who afterwards took the life of one person & nearly that of another with a hatchet.  He was sentenced to death; but by the representations of missionaries aided by a judge, it was commuted to transportation to the Andameans for life.  His poor wife got me when in Ahmedabad three years ago to petition for leave to go with him.  This was refused.  However just sentence of banishment therefore, Government made a separation for life between husband and wife which is surely morally and ought to be legally a divorce.  Yet the woman is not held at liberty to marry.  This I believe cruelly unjust to her.   Besides in a religious point of view, the laws laid down by Paul in 1 Cor.7. make desertion, a release of the deserted party & this is the view taken in the Westm. Conf.  She ought therefore to be admissible to as second marriage.  But she has not been.  In the circumstances it appears that she has erred and is pregnant.  I much fear that is brethren do not judge her case in a full view of all the circumstances that she may still be left to herself.  Mr M. found some tendency to assimilate in some practices of relatives, such as beating the breasts at funerals.

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I trust after admonitions which have been made, & will be that these things may cease.  I am impressed with the belief that God has some of his people here.

In regard to industry it must depend on the produce of the ground — and this at present on the growth of cotton — and I hope on the culture of silk.  Much of this may depend on the health & strength of Mr McKee.  In this as in all else the Lord will provide the means for his own work.  May He hasten to great results.

I was lately led to examine the expression of Christ “They have their reward.”  This meaning is more than questionable.  One or two ex. in the classic Gk. of the verb απεχω with μισθον in the sense of receiving wages, are given in lex.  But the N.T. usage contains no clear case of this.  But the receiving of wages is expressed by another verb απολαμβανω as in Lu. 6.34 - 16.25 - 18.30 - 23.41 - Ro. 1.27 - Col. 3.24 - 2 Jo.8 sc.  The only places in the N.T. in which απεχω can be even supposed to have the positive sense of “receive” are Mat 6.2,5.16: “they have their reward” (Eng.)  Nor is this a fact: - that those aspiring to the praise of men gain this reward.  I think it is far otherwise.  They come short of it.  The praise they seek is replaced by censure & the imitation of evil motives.  Occasionally the praise is gained — far more frequently lost.  Our Lord would not then have laid it as a rule, that they who practise religion for show gain what they seek.  Besides this interpretation assumes what appears to be false, - that the reward spoken of is the praise of men, while the 2nd Ver. expounds it as “the reward from our Father in heaven” That says Christ they fail or come short of or miss.  

Lu. 6.24 “ received consolation” (Eng.) But this our Lord makes a reason for pronouncing a woe.  It must mean they forfeit their consolation.  JG seems to miss the plain sense here and in Matthew 6 that the rich/hypocrites do receive an earthly reward/consolation while they forfeit a heavenly blessing

Phil. 4.18 “I have all”  (Eng.) But the previous context  contrasts fulness and hunger, &c.  And therefore the connexion requires the continuation of the contrast: “I am short of all, and I abound.” I don’t think so JF

Philemon. sic 15 “Receive him,” -  Onesismus.  This is seized on by advocates of slavery to justify the retention even of a christian sic slave.  Paul it is said remanded to his master the converted run

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away slave.  But give the true translation and the argument vanishes: “lose him, do without him” - no longer a slave but a son.  It is thus a clear & valid argument for emancipation.

1863 Dec.9 W.  Was ready to start for Sadhán in company with Mrs McKee, - one object of my coming having been to admonish and exhort the native church and another to conduct Mrs McKee to her husband in Gogo, when a note came from E.B. Scott Esq. requesting me to baptize a child that was apparently near death.  I proceeded to his house and in the meantime Mrs McKee delayed starting.  I pointed out the truth, that he ought not to rely on water baptism; and on questioning him obtained a clear confession of the faith; and I baptized sic the child. ------ Percival Raynold – Baliol son of Edward Baliol Scott, civil Engineer sic and Emily Bastard Scott his wife.  The child was born the 23^rd October 1863.  

10^th Thursday - traveled from Sadhan to Askot - Left four or five tracts with the porter wala at his request for sale in the village – and gave one to a traveling bráhman .

11^th Friday came to Babra, where Mrs McKee got a letter from her husband filling us with thankfulness for his continued recovery.  

12 Saturday  -- came to Dasú  Got another letter on the road from a gádimán of the [? Securitenor]  In the evening on my invitation a considerable number of people came to the bungalow and I addressed them.  Some of the people are favourable to the truth.  O LORD open their spiritual eyes.  A number came again this morning.  I have a sold a few tracts.  The servants have been in for a short service.  I read & expounded Christ’s conversation with the woman of Samaria.  On the way I have been reading in the Ev. Witness and a little work on the Reconciliation of Geology with Moses – it should be with the interpreters of Moses; for between the Hebrew of Moses and Geology there is nothing to reconcile.  The difficulties lies sic in the translations.  Have had much interesting & profitable conversation with Mrs McKee on many sacred subjects.

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  1863   - Dec. 14 Mon.  Dhauker – Spent the sabbath at Dasú.  Had people both morning and evening at the bungalow to hear.  Had much quiet conversation with Mrs McKee and the servants and one or two others in for Guj. Prayer.  I read and expounded the conversation of Christ with the Samaritan woman,  We started a little before midnight and after 11 hours on the road came here in time for breakfast.  Yesterday,  this morning & all on the way I have pursued much of the Ev. Witness.  Some matter good, not all of high order.   The Editor’s style is anything but grammatical.  Still it promises to be useful.

15 Dec._ Tuesday morning, reached Wartej. Vartej is 16 miles from Ghoga - over 5 hours walking And starting in the evening of the same day we reached Gogo - found Mr & Mrs Wallace well.  And Mr McKee gaining in health, a great cause of thankfulness.  On friday sic  I went to the village of Bhari Padvo where Mr Wallace had his tent.  In the evening a congregation of about 31 dheds sic a low caste associated with handling of animal carcasses assembled to whom we both preached, — I from Christ’s conversation with the woman of Samaria showing inter alia how a woman was made the means of bringing many to the faith. 

1863 _ Dec. 20 Sab.  I had an audience of about 50, all dheds sic except two or three  christians sic.  From Rajkot I wrote to Rev J.W. probably John Wilson of Bombay a critique on Mat. 6.2 showing that απεχω does not mean have but miss or come short of - to be without a thing.  [? n Lit. [? i]n Phil. 4.18  “I want all, and abound”   what follows is hard to read and seems to be a going over of the discussion at the bottom of p 138   In fact the verb in Matthew 6.2 is not απεχω but εχω.

Dec 25 I went on board a boat at Goga and next evening after 14 hours I reached Surat.   I found Mr & Mrs M. [? well] and my letter containing money for my passage home.  No mention of any Christmas celebration.  Contrast that a week later (142) he mentions “old year verses”  - it seems that the turn of the year held more spiritual significance.

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1863 _ Dec 27- Sab. night Surat. -  To-day sic at 1 o’cl.  I preached in Guj. from John 4.28 -36; and at 5 ½ o’cl. in English from Eph. 5.14.  I showed that the sleeping and the dead are not the same, the former being indolent believers who need revival; the latter unconverted persons.   The call to the dead is the H.S.’s call of which the human utterance is but a means.  The death is not [?] total [?][?] to our powers, - it is incipient death like of [?] death, while the intellect is alive, like a disease [?] whose mortification if not cured will destroy the whole body.  Such death is quite consistent with accountability ; Oh may God revive me from my deadness and have fulfilled to me this blessed promise of light through Christ.  Amen.  Ephesians 5.14b Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." 

29. Tu.  Surat Messrs. Moore & Taylor arrived from Ahmedabad & Brosad to attend a presbytery convened pro re nata  lit.  “for a matter born” i.e. a special not a regular meeting to reply to the pamphlet of Rev. H Pestonjii.  see bottom of p 134  “Mr Hormazdji has published a pamphlet severe on him and some of the brethren.”  

30: Wednesday - Surat  They met in Mr Montg’s study —. Presbytery was constituted — two or three hours of very desultory conversation.  It was then moved that the Presbytery  issue a statement condemnatory of the pamphlet  to be signed by all members.  Neither approving of the pamphlet on the one hand nor of the wrathful spirit of the members on the other, — I moved the previous question, — 1 because I did not think the judging of a book presbyterial work, presbyterian sic church history furnishing no proper examples;  2 because I thought it highly unbecoming in the Presbytery to descend into the arena with Mr H.;- 3 because they in delaying themselves clear of his charges were constituting themselves witnesses and judges in their own behalf; 4 because if the charges of wilful falsehoods they made against him were true, they would be under necessity of bringing him to trial and suspending him sine die, lit. “without day” for an unspecified time which would involve the expense of bringing him out to appear, and would be most unseemly before the heathen: 5 because they ought wait for the letter from Dr Morgan.  — This was agreed to and the statements written by the members were read during that day and all thursday sic with almost interminable tirades against the pamphlet  It was agreed that the statement by Mr Wallace  should be signed by all of us, I consenting with some

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difficulty to sign it, but only as the statement of a missionary meeting not of presbytery sic, and I refused to sign any other.  — Next day friday sic Dr Morgan’s letter came stating that Mr H. had been invited to Belfast to a conference, made explanations and suppressed the pamphlet and satisfied the Directors, who offered to send him to India, and he consented in a few weeks to go. — The presbytery sic at once turned round ignored what they had agreed to and passed a strong resolution adopting the statement [?] refused instructing each member to send a separate one,  and urging the Directors to accept Mrs H.’s resignation.  I dissented for three reasons - 1. Because his suppression of the pamphlet left no reason to rescind the resolution?s passed a month ago in Gogo; - 2 because I thought a conflict with the Directors very undesirable - 3 because I thought it most unwise to take any presbyterial action without correspondence with Dr Morgan.

I must ever feel strong disapprobation of the spirit they displayed - while equally disapproving of the pamphlet, I cannot admit that that justifies them in making themselves a set of wranglers and evil speakers; for admitting the offence to be not small, and his words very offensive,  their accusation oft iterated for three days went far beyond the reality.  I could conscientiously  have protested much more strongly than I did — but I wish to make the difference as little glaring as I could for I desire & purpose with God’s blessing to reconcile the presbytery sic with the Directors - to save the presbytery sic from themselves for which they repay me with undeserved sneers.  If Mr H. can be restored in terms of his humility and answerableness I shall be glad.  If not it is time to dismiss him when he refuses to submit.  He appears to have submitted the Directors in the mean time.

O God, give me grace to see my errors if I have erred in this painful case.  Of right grant me not only the acquiescence of my conscience  - which I feel but clear light - And wherein I believe both the brethren  & Mr H. to have erred, mercifully grant them wisdom and grace to reverse the error - & grant all for Christ’s sake.  Amen.

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1863 -  Jan. Glasgow may mean Dec. 31 - Surat - Old year verses  See my letter copying book.

1864 - Jan 1 Surat . Letter from my wife - thankful she was well.  dear Minnie suffering from whitlow in a finger.  I have in hand a draft from the Treasurer for £125 to pay my passage home - and received one of £50 from the same to meet any necessary expenses.  £125 roughly = £15,500 today - the missionaries’ salaries were £350 pa.  

2 Jan. Wrote various friends.  Received yesterday a copy of a Guj. and Eng. Dictionary By Mr Shapurji Edalji  https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=lcsubc&key=Gujarati%20language&c=x  with an introduction which I wrote for him.

3 Jan. Sab. - Surat - This morning I preached at Amroli.  As members of the presbytery were present Inhad not any other public officiations.  I instructed a Parsi - Ruttanji who has been coming pretty often for the purpose.  Have been employed in making critical notes on the Book of Genesis.  I comfortably believe that God is giving me light.  The more I read I see the more clearly that the Pharisees by the [?] produced in fact [?part] a pharisaic commentary which faithfulness to the doctrine of scripture requires me to reject.  And I see by the constant strain of Hebrew that modern Grammarians have done a like injury by their false doctrine of vav cons.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vav-consecutive

10 Jan - Sab. night - Surat. To-day sic at noon I baptized Robert born 12th December infant son of the Rev. Robert Montgomery minister and missionary of the Irish Presbyterian Church and of his wife Mary McAuly Montgomery resident at Surat.  In the evening I preached in English from Col. 4.5 on which subject I had at 1 o’cl preached in Gujarati.  The new missionaries to Rajputance arrived to-day sic from Bombay - Rev Messrs Gray and Martin with their wives & Dr Shields a medical missionary.  It is cause of thankfulness to see the number multiplying. Would I saw it more speedily so in our church.  On friday sic evening I had heard a lecture by Dr [?] Hang on the Parsi books.  It was a very poor specimen of oratory.  He did not defend the Parsi religion but parses though the city are going about representing him as saying that though being a christian sic he cannot embrace it yet that it is the best religion.  It is very [?] & disgraceful on his part to [?not keep a course?].

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1864 - Jan. 14 - Th. Surat.  On Saturday last I wrote home letters, to my wife, my daughter Harri, & to Dr Morgan - in the latter giving an account of the facts that occurred at the Presbytery & my views respecting H. I. case above noticed, and my reasons for dissenting from the hasty & violent resolution of presbytery.  

1865

14 January  more on parousia

Jan 25 - W.  I started for London, with my dear daughter Harriet, to leave her at the Walthamstow Mission School

Feb. 3 Fr.- I returned to Belfast.  On Saturday I had an interview with Mrs Pye Smith
possibly the widow of  Rev Dr John Pye-Smith FRS, FGS (25 May 1774 – 5 February 1851) a Congregational theologian and tutor, or daughter-in-law wife of DR Ebenezer Pye Smith respecting my nieces in N. Zealand.  I offered to be their Guardian if admitted to the Institution.  This may be the Walthamstow School.  Their father Adam D Glasgow had died in March 1863. See JG’s note on receiving the news on 25 June 1863   On Sabbath I heard Dr Hamilton preach, - little animation.  In the evening I heard the Rev B. Noel, easy & earnest - plain & pointed, - not strong but persuasive.   - On Monday I visited the school again. - On tuesday sic I heard a lecture from Rev. W. Arnop [?] in Exeter Hall on “Rivers”  Awkward beginnings and laboured paragraphs - considerable power. - On wednesday sic I visited the Asiatic Strangers’ Home in Blackwall Stepney.  I found only five persons from India to whom I preached in Hindustani. Col.  Hughes the secretary was not present.

14 June against a book on Sonship of Christ by late Samuel Tucker father of brother-in-law Edward Tucker

17 June Psalms not by David nor Genesis by Moses

Derry Standard is saying that he is too old for a chair at Magee.  He ought not to have left the mission field.

5 September preached in Newtownbreda

 9 July about his rejection by the General Assembly for a professorship at Magee College, he says “the tenants’ right party prevailed although 315 voted for me.”

24 October date of Regeneration of the Disciples - not before Ascension

December Assurance

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22 April O My Saviour grant me more of thy Spirit’s divine influence for preaching the Word this evening, for thy glory, the people’s profit & my own spiritual nourishment.  Amen

21 May  prophetic year 1866

1866 7 October he writes on the situation in Greece, Palermo, England and on Fenianism in America where things are sad and hurtful.  “Political strength may be given in Ireland by liberals (not truly so) including too many Presbyterians.” 

November  One sign of times is proposal to unite Greek, Latin and English churches.

18 December  breakfast meeting of Religious Tract Society Comments …

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9 June evening  Went to hear Rev I Nelson with whose discourse I was ill reconciled

27 September 

The Trade Unions of Manchester and Sheffield have been enforcing their strike by murder.

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24 April   It has been rumoured that that my nephew the Rev James Glasgow Armstrong of St Louis Missouri has joined the Prelatic church in America.  I am apprehensive that this may be true; as in a letter some months ago he spoke in apologetic terms of the prelatic system.  May God lead him to Knowledge of the truth.

16th July 1870  Pope’s infallibility proclaimed and the same day war was proclaimed by the Emperor of France against Prussia.  Strange coincidence!  Who shall truly anticipate the result?  As to the terrific war that thus comes Shame on wretched Spain as the cause of it.  Why did they seek a King at all all?  The example of the United States might have taught them that a President once in four years might at much less expense give government all its power and unity and why did they resort to the Prussian family, the most grasping and therefore the most dangerous in Europe?

Men here talk idly and ignorantly as if Prussia were fighting for Protestantism, a thing the Prussians whether Prince or people do not dream of.  As to which side may win I pretend not to prophesy as many people about me in newspapers and with glib tongues are ignorantly doing.

Here all people seem to be on side of Prussia.

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4 February  Last week occurred the capitulation of Paris.

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1873  instrumental music

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1874

disapproves of views expressed at British Association meeting in Belfast

28 August  Sabbath Worship regulation of C of E expected to check ritualism and Romanism.

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12 February  of the state of religion I can say little.  Though the visit of Mr Moody did good it was not unmixed good.  Some not fit to be proper Sabbath school teachers, began to fancy they could preach better than the ministers and broached Plymouthist views —  This is partly subsiding.  But a spirit of evil speaking takes the place of personal piety, denouncing everyone who does not take “I believe that Jesus died for me”, instead of “I believe in Jesus who died for me.”  And weeks of prayer meetings though good diminish house to house visitation and interfere with family worship.  

The southern congregations that use organs are refusing compliance with the repeated decisions of the general assembly.   The Bible wine mania has in part subsided.  But Dr Lus very much in the exceedingly ill temper of a vanquished man has published a rambling pamphlet and threatens another in reply to the speeches at the Assembly.

2 December Harriet has finished story Frank and Grace in India and has had published a volume Fairyland by Ward & Co.

25 December  “But Mr Boag was a Presbyterian - there’s the rub.   Yesterday Sabbath letters delivered but no delivery today.  More regard to Church’s Festival than to Lord’s Day.

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9 November comments on Sunday Closing Bill

My dear daughter Harriet has since last July been engaged to be married to John Acheson Esq. of Portadown.  We look prayerfully and hopefully on this as a prospect of blessing to both - May God in Christ confer the blessing Amen.

1877- Dec. 26  At my house 82 University Street by special license sic by the Rev. J.H. Moore Elmwood, assisted by me (opening prayer) and Rev. Joseph Acheson (concluding prayer) the bridegroom’s father my daughter Harriet was married to John Acheson of Portadown.  God grant to them abundant blessings through Christ.  Amen.

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July 1878 I have in this month vacated my house in University Street to a tenant and I have come to reside in Armagh Road Portadown - in order that my wife and I may be near our dear daughter Harriet and John Acheson.

British Israelites   refutes proposition that the Anglo-Saxons are the ten lost tribes

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10 July General Assembly Instrumental music

30 August

As instructed in last entry we spent the month until yesterday in Carnlough … There were two weeks of prayer meetings — the first weeks by Rev J. Mounton Smyth who accompanied the singing with a trumpet while a lady played the harmonium.  The effect of the praise was greatly marred by this and the singing of Sankey’s hymns to almost total exclusion of Psalms.  The The 2d. week the Rev. Mr Stevenson [?] of Dublin conducted the meetings — harmonium but no trumpet.  We had the regular presbyterian services in Glenarm & evening in the Town Hall of Carnlough.

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1880 April 13 The elections for a new parliament are nearly over and have run so marvellously in favour of liberalism that “we are as men that dream”.  In Co Armagh for which no liberal ever sat before we brought in the liberal Richardson at the [?]. 

I think also that the new ministry are likely to abolish Grand Juries, which are generally condemned and institute County Boards; and that this will have the effect of working up the power of the Home rule system; and the liberal majorities have so far operated favourably on Romanists [?] 

1880 - 11th Oct.  A 2nd grand daughter born in 5th June - and baptised by me in the 2nd Portadown Pres, church on 19 Sept. & named Mary Frances Acheson.  Known in the family as Molly, she took a degree in Mathematics from Girton College Cambridge and taught for a while until to her marriage in ? 1920 to Samuel McCaughey Faris, a tea blender in Cork, younger brother of Rev George Faris who had married her sister Grace (1885-1973) in 1912.  John A Faris (1913-2011) (son of George and Grace) who specialised in mathematical logic commented that she was the cleverest of them all.

31st Dec. Portadown - The old year running out.  We are in strange times.  — the tenants rising against landlords all over Ireland.  I always thought landlordism not founded on right., — its tenure being from Kings who had no right, or seizures by violence: but I never [?] account] to see this  asserted as now; and I almost tremble to see it; for as it is to come before parliament , the danger is the House of Lords may reject any reasonable measure & so drive the nation into rebellion.  Protestants and Romanists are united in this.  They demand what was called in Portadown at meetings before last election in last April, “the 3 Fs.” = Fair rent, Fixity of tenure and Free sale: — these to be followed by Free purchase and proprietorship of each tenants’ sic property.  In Israel every man’s land was his own — so in Egypt under Joseph — So in U.S. & Canada — so in France— so in India — so in Belgium — so in Australia — so in N. Zealand 

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1881 - 19 March - Portadown _Saturday night.    Another drenching season would awfully intensify the sufferings of Ireland.  —  The expected land bill has been now delayed two months by most persistent obstructions made by home rulers & land leaguers to a peace preservation bill & a disarming bill both of which the ministry thought very 1881 urgent.  The obstructionists were determined to permit the parliament to get nothing done in order to drive them to a repeal of the union.  By this they have so far kept back the land bill and done immense harm to Ireland.  To overcome this the French Cloture was partly imitated.initiated?

a motion for “closure” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloture#United_Kingdom

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14 June -Fri - Portadown  Our Gen. Assembly has sat, and decided the Music question for the time by majorities of 21 for ordering the removal of the organ out of the Newtownbreda church, and of 42 for their removal from other churches Enniskillen, Queenstown, Carlow and Bray.  But there is a dogged disposition to rebel against the Assembly, which I believe will split the assembly - a minority becoming Independent.  In the meantime this wretched hankering after praising machines  is going far and has done for 13 years to eat out vital religion from among us.  May the Spirit of God work a counter-action, & revive us in these times of deadness.  Artificial revivals got up by Mr Moody & others are not favourable — they are followed by light notions Plymouthism salvation armies and augment conscious spiritual pride, leaving men no better in their lives.  We should seek revival by prayer for the Spirit, faithful preaching & pure worship - not by histrionic performance.

1 September  has been with Achesons in Larne.  Visit of nephew Rev J G Armstrong from Richmond

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6 June General Assembly instrumental music

21 August  War in Egypt has turned his attention to Isaiah 19.23-25  He has preached sermon on this on 20th and 27th  - a prophecy of railways: “He shall cause locomotion with iron rails between Egypt and Assyria

1882  Oct.29 Sab. Portadown - in the Edenderry Presbyterian church Portadown I baptised my granddaughter Annie Crawford Acheson who was born 5 August, 1882.  The Rev W.J. Macauley Pastor of the church took part in the Service.  O God take the little one to Christ as his, & by thy Spirit work in her saving grace, to thy glory.  Amen.

Anne or Nan as she was known (d.1962)  became a sculptor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Acheson  The Ulster History Circle has placed a blue plaque to commemorate her at First Portadown Presbyterian Church aka Edenderry.

9 December Dr Murphy has strange prophetic notions

1883 - Jun 23 - Sat - Portadown  On the 4th June our Assembly met.  Though it did not sanction Instrument it declined by a small majority to discipline the refractory.  It is a painful sign of the times.  In this our Assembly followed the Free church which has been in a state of delusion.  We have receded from Presbyterianism to congregationalist ground.  Still though the church has failed in faithfulness, the mass of members are faithful.

Meetings are being held in Portadown at present & members are assuming the blue ribbon as a means of safety against drinking and inducement to it.  This is a pharisaic craze in forgetfulness that Christ censured Pharisees for making broad their phylacteries (Mat. 23.5).  Intemperance is a great evil but it should be reformed on scriptural principle.  Dr Edgar adopted abstinence from distilled spirit.  Then came Father Mathew with a pledge and a medal; then Good Templars - then unfermented wine - and now blue ribbons - and in America the compulsory Maine Law - which ought to come under the name of local option - the option of forcible suppression.  If this is carried, illicit distillation, smuggling, shebeening, and apprehension with bloodshed will prevail.  Moral advocacy and avoidance of impossibilities is what christians sic should aim at.  Anything else is hopeless.  This what I have thought since in 1831 I first joined the Temperance Society.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_ribbon_badge  accessed 7 May 2018 states that the movement which originated in USA was inspired by a Bible verse, Numbers 15:38-39, which says: "Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments, throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue : and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them.”

Glasgow was prescient about the results of "forcible suppression" in the era of Prohibition in the USA in the 1920s.

November 1884  Bigotry is a frightful evil.

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Feb. 18 - W. Portadown.  On Monday the 16th at 6 o’cl. I got a telegram leading me to anticipate the last hours of my dear wife.  I started by the 1st. train, got home at at 1:35 but not in time.  She had slept away without pain.  She had turned towards Rev W. J. Macaulay praying; and when he took her left hand she gave him the right, with a gentle pressure.  She is gone to the house of the blessed I am well assured; for she always believed & always loved her Saviour.  I am now alone after 45 years of wedded life.  In a little time I shall go to her.  I am indeed surrounded with the most loving of friends.  But none the less the blank remains to be filled up only in heaven.  Farewell for a time dear dear Mary.  This has made a break in my college work, - of only 4 days, but still much to be regretted in preparation for examinations.  But it could not be evaded, and though I feel [?] greatly ungirded for work I must try;  and I trust God will give me strength, - more I hope indeed in working than in drooping and repining.  The will of the Lord — Oh! that I may learn its lesson.

My daughter Annie Crawford is on her way from Paris.  We hope she may arrive in time to see her mama’s loved face though in death yet still wondrously like herself, even apparently many years more youthful - before her coffin lid close over her.  God preserve her by land and water.  H. Acheson and A. Tucker did all that care could do to alleviate pain but it was more weakness than pain that brought on the crisis.

April 12 _ Portadown.  Since dear Mary’s death, I have felt alone in the midst of society.  But I was obliged on the monday sic after 19th Feb. the day of the funeral, to return to my classes in Magee college; and I believe I was better working than I would have been sitting alone in my study.

JG was lecturing in Magee College Londonderry.  If he had been in Belfast, where he also had teaching responsibilities) he would have got back to Portadown much sooner.

H. Acheson is presumably their daughter Harriet and A. Tucker Mary's sister Anna (1809-1894) who married Edward Tucker, I think without issue.

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28 August captiousness of instrumentalists

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17 May not pleased with state of church  More reflections on Home Rule

8 June Home Rule reflections

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8 June General Assembly instruments 

8 August heard a choral service in Westminster Abbey which I thought a mockery of worship

1888

April 25 - W. Dunavon Portadown 

The winter has ended & the spring far advanced  I have been blessed with usual good; God has graciously kept me to green old age, notwithstanding all my great unworthiness.  Christ is all my salvation.  My work in both colleges passed over pleasantly.  In the end of the year my son-in-law, on the death of a director of the York Street Flax Spinning Co. was chosen a director.  In January he with his family came to Belfast.  He took a furnished house in lower sic Crescent.  

.  He purchased a fine house called Cranmore between Windsor & Balmoral and is now settled there.  His eldest son attends the Queen’s college.  The second serves his time & Combe Barbour & ?? & to go into his father’s business.  The two youngest attend the Roy. Belf. Inst. His daughter Mary in lovely maidenhood is her mother’s companion.

1889 17 September   has been visiting Mt Randal change of name from “Cranmore” not mentioned.

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27 May - Thurs Portadown.  My birthday & entrance to my 84th year.  I am a wonder to many & to myself.  The fact has led me to the 86th Psalm in which I always took a deep interest.  The Psalmist speaks of crying to God daily.  This language I can adopt; but alas with what feebleness & coldness & yielding to the things of the body.  Oh Lord give me more of the H.S.’s life & fire, that with adoring heart I may [?] run and not acquiesce in mere form.  The jubilee of the Gen. Assembly is approaching when attention will be drawn to those who have survived since the Assembly of 1840 - of who only some 24 remain - of whom I am one, I would anticipate meeting the general assembly of the first [?] born in heaven 

reference to Hebrews 12.23 the word given here as “born” is possibly something else ? the first with us in heaven