Page:The Message and Ministrations of Dewan Bahadur R. Venkata Ratnam, volume 3.djvu/20

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It was with genuine pleasure that I perused your book.” Likewise, writing in acknowledgment to their esteemed friend, the Maharajah Saheb of Pithapuram, two good representatives of the healthful Christian Clergy across the waters express themselves with the same sympathy, and soundness of judgment. Says Dr. llosslyn Bruce of Sussex : “ I am very sincerely touched by the very beautiful w’ork which you have so kindly sent to me. The addresses are so human and so living that they cannot but be based on the only solid rock of eternal truth: and the religion in them is identical with ours.’^ And the Rev- A. .T. Skinner, himself the Hoad of a Public School at Marlow, shrewdly observes of the author, " He must have been a very wonderful man, and gifted with a great insight into the inner workings of a boy’s mini. I feel sure.* also, ^lat you t ourself must have stimulated him, or at least encouraged him in his plan of education-’’

Votive wreaths of btiutless admiration like these, richly and variously woven round last year’s volume in like manner