Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER XVI MISSIONARY OF THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND
- CHAPTER XVII CONTINUITY OF THE WORK
- CHAPTER XVIII LORD HARDINGE'S ADMINISTRATION. — “THE CALCUTTA REVIEW”
- CHAPTER XIX DEATH OF DR. CHALMERS.—TOUR THROUGH SOUTH INDIA.—HOME BY THE GANGES AND INDUS
- CHAPTER XX DR. DUFF ORGANIZING AGAIN
- CHAPTER XXI MODERATOR OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.—BEFORE THE HOUSE OF LORDS' INDIA COMMITTEE
- CHAPTER XXII IN AMERICA AND CANADA.—SECOND FAREWELL TO CHRISTENDOM
- CHAPTER XXIII THE MUTINY AXD THE NATIVE CHURCH OF INDIA
- CHAPTER XXIV LAST YEARS IN INDIA
- CHAPTER XXV IN SOUTH-EAST AFRICA.—THE MISSIONARY PROPAGANDA
- CHAPTER XXVI NEW MISSIONS AND THE RESULTS OF HALF A CENTUUY'S WORK
- CHAPTER XXVII DR. DUFF AT HOME
- CHAPTER XXVIII PEACEMAKING
- CHAPTER XXIX DYING
- INDEX
- Plate section
CHAPTER XXVIII - PEACEMAKING
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER XVI MISSIONARY OF THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND
- CHAPTER XVII CONTINUITY OF THE WORK
- CHAPTER XVIII LORD HARDINGE'S ADMINISTRATION. — “THE CALCUTTA REVIEW”
- CHAPTER XIX DEATH OF DR. CHALMERS.—TOUR THROUGH SOUTH INDIA.—HOME BY THE GANGES AND INDUS
- CHAPTER XX DR. DUFF ORGANIZING AGAIN
- CHAPTER XXI MODERATOR OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.—BEFORE THE HOUSE OF LORDS' INDIA COMMITTEE
- CHAPTER XXII IN AMERICA AND CANADA.—SECOND FAREWELL TO CHRISTENDOM
- CHAPTER XXIII THE MUTINY AXD THE NATIVE CHURCH OF INDIA
- CHAPTER XXIV LAST YEARS IN INDIA
- CHAPTER XXV IN SOUTH-EAST AFRICA.—THE MISSIONARY PROPAGANDA
- CHAPTER XXVI NEW MISSIONS AND THE RESULTS OF HALF A CENTUUY'S WORK
- CHAPTER XXVII DR. DUFF AT HOME
- CHAPTER XXVIII PEACEMAKING
- CHAPTER XXIX DYING
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
The contrast between life and work in India and life and work at home is so marked as to be keenly felt by the official, the merchant and the missionary when they bid a final farewell to the East. There the governing class, whatever be the motives of individuals among them, live for others; here the mass struggle for themselves. There the contact of differing civilizations, the conflict of civilization with barbarism, the light and the colour of oriental peoples and customs, the exhilaration caused by the fact of ruling, call forth latent powers, suggest great ideas, kindle the imagination into creative action, and of middle-class Englishmen make an aristocracy in the highest or ethical sense of the word. Here, on the plane level of stay-at-home life, varied only by occasional glimpses at the parallel civilization of the continent of Europe, there is no elbow-room, there are few careers save those in pursuing which the finer powers are blunted by the struggle for success. Competition in its worst as well as best forms sours the nature, starves the fancy, and obstructs the energies of the men whom it helps above their fellows. Men who would be statesmen and rulers abroad remain narrow and unknown at home. And if this contrast is in the main true of the professional and trading classes of our country, as they are abroad and at home, it is emphatically so of the clergy, of ministers and missionaries.
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- The Life of Alexander Duff, D.D., LL.DIn Two Volumes, with Portraits by Jeens, pp. 495 - 518Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1879