The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-08-24
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Life In Bombay-Dr. stoao's Interesting Let.
Correspondence Of ne lateI,igeacar
BoMBxy, INDIA, July 3l.-I would not
be surprised itmy Wheeling friends would
enjoy hearing a little about our work in
Bombay. While you sleep We work. l
don't mean by this statement to reflect
upon YOU at all. But 1t is q fact that our
working hours in Bombay are your sleep
ing hours. Shortly after your sunset is
our sunrise. Still in thinking Of you at
home 1 can't put QUO the lights, shut up
Z thestote, and think you oil In bed at our
eight o. clock in The morning. can only
think OF you as up and about your work
like other folks totiing around me.
Asa rule the larger pait Of the work Of
the day in lndia Is done before 10 o'clock
in the morning. People going TO Office
before B,o'clock a. NJ. and returning at ten
tolbe housed up until four. This is on &C.
count Of the great heat. Ihaye preached
AZ half-past SIX in the morning. Here in
Bombay our Sunday school gathers at A.
i M. We have what we call clt0td hdsrGh or
"little breakfast at q o'clock Sunday
morainy aud our burd hasrah at halt-pass
eight. Between these meals We attend
our iirst sunday school, The inst meal
consists Of q cup OF cocoa and rotEmak.rau
or in American bread and butter and the
ineyitableplantain or banana. The sec
ond meal Is o square one. AS soon as II
is dispatched We ate of to the other aide
Of the city to attend the second school.
Followlngt the latter l always preach 70 o
congregation which gathers az II o'clock
A. NJ. We return TO the parsonage for
tiiin at r. N, dine at five and preach to
one evening congregation at 8 o'clock.
Our preaching service never lasts be.
.yond or less than sixty minutes. have
10 crowd all / have 70 say into less than
forty minutes. DR.. Thoburn's rule was
never 10 preach longer than thirty min.
utes, and as he had me In training three
years 1 was compelled TO walk Or talk
accordingly. think both my people and
myself owe him debt Of gratitude. He
says he was taught this lesson IN sermon;
izins by q British Colonel who invited
hint hold o Sunday service among bis
troops, but warned hun at the same time
that he must be under military discipline.
The brusque officer said, You shall have
Just sixty minutes. You must not be one
minute Late, and you will be expected to
confine yourself 10 the hour. The drum
will.beat TO the minute"
DR.. Ihoburn has often remarked that
I that was the best training he ever re-
ceiyed. lie learned to dlyest his sermons
OF all unnecessary wadding-only fire
powder and ball ut his men. Gould you
nave seen him as i did for three years
preaching every Sunday evening to con.
gregationB from nine hundred 70 twelve
hundred strong, and rarely without some
one answering his call and publicly rising
for PRAYERS, you would understand how
well he knew how to preach the gospel.
ASyoung man whose grave / saw o few
DAYS since in our Bombay cemetery once
saiti 10 his brother, ~ won't go TO hear
Thoburn again. II doesn't matter what
( his textmay be he always takes fifteen
minutes out Of his sermon TO preach to
me.l' AZ another time while describing
certain characters, o man jumped up in
the audience with the cry, What, me
STRIP / find I've wandered 70 Calcutta
/ and Dr.. Thoburn when started out TO
talk Of Bombay and my work.
Our Saturday evening service is always
followed by an aiters ice Tor which the
congregation Is inyitedSto remain. This
lasts as q rule abouthalf an hour. We al |
ways in this meeting call upon parsons to |
rise for prayers or in some public manner
sigaify their desire To accept Christ as o !
sin pardo Savior. We don't always
have responses, but still we inyaribly in.
yite people 10 sCome 10 Jesus LAST Sab
bathnight three arose, first o native wo.
man d servant in the family Of one OF Tour
members, behind her arose an English
lady whose son o few weeks before had
been converted, on the opposite side Of /
the church q Parsi stood up. The Parsi
arc desciendent Of the ancient Persians Of
the days OF Cyrus and Darius. 1 hope
some time to write more July about
this strange people, Two Sunday even.
ines MO d high caste native rom Madtes Il
q yefy vel educate ia l5indop was convert
cd. He IS not yet pap tized butts intend
ing tobe.
LAST "Wednesday evening at the pfayer
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