The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Valpy French, First Bishop of Lahore, Volume 2

The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Valpy French, First Bishop of Lahore, Volume 2

Author: Herbert Alfred Birks

Publisher: Andesite Press

Published: 2015-08-11

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 9781297687839

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The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Valpy French; First Bishop of Lahore Volume 1

The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Valpy French; First Bishop of Lahore Volume 1

Author: Herbert Alfred Birks

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781230327266

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...be heard at times through noise of two women quarreling and vociferating. "Ah," said a man who sat by, "that's where there are two wives to one husband." He seemed to know all about it. Two little service-' with Jalalu'd-din.' 'I found no plan so successful for gathering a good and attentive audience as making straight for the mosque and inquiring for the moollah. Instead of hanging about the village and having one's object suspected, this was a definite and straightforward object; and besides often meeting in this way on equal terms with the moollah, the khans and other respectable villagers would congregate in the mosque--beside the young divinity students from Swat, Bajour, &c., who form a mendicant class like some German students, and come from across the frontier, drawn by the fame of the more learned moollahs, and seem a highly intelligent and studious body, always at their books, except when begging their bread, and at times listening with much curiosity, even with rapt attention, to the message. I could not but feel much drawn to these youths, for that some at least are serious truth-seekers I cannot doubt, and one could not but hope that God's Word might, through their lips, cross that strange mountain barrier and take root in lands wo are forbidden to visit. 'In Manakai, near to Attock, I made my way to the mosque as usual, and after some difficulty got to the presence of the chief moollah, an old and venerable man. I found it was not convenient to him to receive a visit as he had a whole conclave of moollahs (a sort of clerical congress). The few minutes I sat they kept dropping in one by one. The others rise as the brother moollah comes in. and he embraces them hastily one after the other in his arms, ...


Imperial Fault Lines

Imperial Fault Lines

Author: Jeffrey Cox

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780804743181

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This book tells the history of Christian missionary encounters with non-Christians, as British and American missionaries spread out from Delhi into the heartland of Punjaba part of the world where there were no Christians at all until the advent of British imperial rule in the early 19th century."


The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Valpy French

The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Valpy French

Author: Herbert Alfred Birks

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2015-11-20

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 9781347119761

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.