The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-15
BISHOP OF NAGPUR.
RIGHT REV EYRE CHATTER-
 TON, D. D.
Noted Clerical Divine is a Brother of the Wife of Rev. Mir Bell of st. Paurs Church, This City

tails of the work carried on by the Fro testant Episcopal church in British h. dia, including the recent visit ot the Prince and Princess of Wales to that i that country. The Bishop of Nagpur IS brother of the wife of the Rev. Rob ert Bell, of St. Paul's church, this city, and the following extracts from the magazine will no doubt be read Wlth interest by many of their friends, as well as many of those interested III the
 work of the Protestant Eplscopal
 church all overthe world:
 DIOCESE OF THE INDIA CENTRAL
 PROVINCE PART OF BISHOP
 CHATTERTON'S QUARTERLY
 LETTER.
 Shortly before Christmas l jourheyea from Jubblepore to Gwalior. i'll re-
 sponse to an invitation from His High
 ness the Maharajah Scindia, who nau very kindly asked me to be one of ms
 guests, during the visit of their Royal IHfghnesses the Prince and Princess or
 Wales. To describe all the interesting
 sights and ceremonies which one VII
 messed during these few days mlght
 well fill the whole of our small maga-
 zine. From the moment. of the afflVal
 of the royal party, when thirty beauti- fully trained elephants covered With
 grotesque devices, carried them to the
 palace, right up to their departure
 something of fresh interest was eon7
 stantly arranged by the Maharalah
 and for his guests. The pageant ot Ehe iTurbar when the Maharajah presentel , his leading nobles to the prince was extremely interesting, and the cercno- nial both ancient and impressive. one lived for an hour in feudal days agaln' The Durbar Hall itself, which is said to , he the most beautiful Dunbar Hall m India, thoroughly lent itself to the : scene. Then came a morning review ol 2 nearly ten thousand troops and in the = afternoon mimic battle ciumlnatAs ] in the destruction of a fort, which was r as one of our leading generals who e was present informed a friend of mlne l Ian admirable picture of real blttle' 3 Each night the historic Fort of Gwall- e or. with it's frontage to the palace oi ,, flly two miles, blazed forth with brll- }. liant Examinations from end to end, On | the night of the royal arrival the ilish' b of some thousands of flr2 balloons mus
 have mada the inhabitants of Mars
 wonder what great event was taxing
 place on our small earth And so tht < time fled by until Christmas eve ah' e Christmas day came to bid us reJole' if over more enduring joys than any e pleasures which this changing life O l ours can give us. Their Royal High ,- nesses attended church on both Christ f. mas eve-dhe Sunday before Christ " mae) and Christmas morning; when 10 say that the Church of St. Petras MO l. rar looked just like a pretty little VII {, lage church in the homeland, l nav n simply stated the bare truth, and m az y ing so have given 1t what IS 10 many m us I am sure, the lightest pralse' ,- musical part of the two morning ser ,d vices, and especially the Christina ;+ hymns. was beautifully rendered py +s selected number of the string band 0 e, the Tenth Royal Hussars who were as q sisted by dozen of the vocalists ot tn r- regiment. most of whom were mempel n of the Mhow choir. AS the Tenth Roy +o al Hussars are the Prince of Wale' eo own regiment, there was something pc of culiarly appropriate in their presenc " at our services. The offertories for ot ,li Pro- Cathedral Enlargement run ' amounted to nearly $50 rupees, an
 were I think very encouraging l al
 pleased to know that their Royal Higf Fl nesses enjoyed their Christmas service of at Gwalior; and a charming mement ,s- which I have received from them, WI ek I trust remain with me to remlna me u- so historic an event.
 n- THE WORK OF BISHOP CHATTEI an TON
 ,,a A meeting with the object of 10 .r- warding the work of Bishop Chatle i, ton. of Nagpur, Central India, was he .,i at the Gymnasium, Ormond road, aa, Thursday afternoon. The chair. WI oi. occupied by the Right Rev. Bish ,r,, Johnson formerly Bishop of Calcut ,at and Metropolitan of India), who w io ,uo supported by Sir Frederic Lely, K. C., -ho E., e. s. l.. late chief commissioner o1v the central provinces of India; the he eh E. Hensley, missionary at Jubbulpor oli' the Rev. A. w. Bartlett, vicar of Sr o ton and commssary of the Bishop 1as m Nagpur; the Rev. Max Binney clear od Richmond; and others.
 ''Au The chairman, in the course of 10
 opening address, said that he felt esr
 eial interest in the object of the met oA' ing as he was for great many yea
 associated with the country that " "' now comprised in the diocese of Ma , nur. It was more than twenty-h |io1 | years since he first visited that part onl India, and at the close of his stay the
 a great scheme that they had in Ina oh' was the creation of that additional d oh' cese. It was not completed when
 left India. and it had been to him o" great pleasure to watch the completi t" of the scheme, and to find his friel ,.e MT Chatterton, appointed bishop 1 t diocese of Nagpur was one-siXth or iio1 diocese of which he had charge WI ins he first went out to India in lSl6 lcut those days the whole of Burma and 'le north India to the frontiers of Afghf lpi- istan and down to Nagpur and acr @ll nearly to the sea on the other side oali came into the great diocese of Calcut
 u There was a range of hills stretch
 almost entirely across India, and in ,r region of this barrier, which shut In Ganges on the south, there were
 widest tribes of all India. The peoT
 inhabiting this region were in mar
 contrast with the highly educated H
 dus, whom many people regarded
 lthe ordinary people of India. It ou
 not, however, to be forgotten that tn
 o. ;,, Ty,lio many nnnnIns in the m