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- 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 XXVII - DR. DUFF AT HOME
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
Turning aside from the public conflicts and the official cares of the Missionary's life, let us rest awhile with him, so far as the stranger may do so, amid the sanctities of home and the intercourse of friendship. Of domestic joy and social delight he knew less than most public men, less even than most Anglo-Indian exiles, although his nature yearned for the one with a Celtic intensity, and was drawn out after the other with a chivalrous impulsiveness. In this he was like the first of missionaries, who in solitude turned from the scoffing philosophers of Athens to the seething mass of sinning idolaters in Corinth, determined not to know anything save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Absorbed in daily and nightly toil after the highest quest and the divinest ideal, he could give to wife and child, friend and society, only the time which the exhausted body forced him to steal from incessant energising. What to most men forms the sum of life, was with him an accident in living. This and the method of his work, the exacting punctuality which marked all his duties, enabled him to live many lives, making his fine physique the ready slave of his impetuous spirit.
Hence, as no one desired the solace of family and friends more, the fervour with which all his relations with those he loved were surcharged, and the fascination which he exercised over the men and women whom he grappled to his soul.
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- The Life of Alexander Duff, D.D., LL.DIn Two Volumes, with Portraits by Jeens, pp. 465 - 494Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1879