PARENTAGE
33
women of India[1]. This combination of employment on his part was indeed extraordinary. Reverend Missionaries have done as much as he did for Oriental study and for Native education, but then they had not the care of European congregations. Reverend Chaplains have done as much as he did for these congregations, but then they had not also the affairs of missions nor the Oriental studies to engross them. Take him all in all, he was one of the best clergymen that the Church of England produced during the early part of this century, he was a power for good in the strange land where he pitched his tent, and a beacon for his generation in India.
- ↑ See the account of her by J. W. Sherer, a very competent authority, in Annie Child, 1892. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. See also Sarjent's Life of Thomas Thomason: passim.
