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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 XXII - IN AMERICA AND CANADA.—SECOND FAREWELL TO CHRISTENDOM
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
Among the American visitors to Edinburgh, the historical capital of Presbyterianism, in 1851, was Mr. George H. Stuart, a merchant of Philadelphia. With what Dr. Duff afterwards described as “all that marvellous readiness and frankness peculiar to the American character, though himself originally an Irishman, a combination therefore of the excellencies of the two characters,” he introduced himself to the Moderator of the General Assembly at the official residence. As he had sat spell-bound by the addresses of that year, and had been roused by the contagious enthusiasm of the Missionary-Moderator, he determined to invite Dr. Duff to visit the Churches of the United States. “You must come to America,” exclaimed Mr. Stuart as he burst in upon the wearied orator, “you shall have a cordial welcome.” And observing the gathering frown of dissent, he prevented refusal by the one argument which was irresistible, “We want to be stirred up there; there is plenty of material there, we need only to be stirred up.” At the beginning merely of his financial crusade, Dr. Duff had anew to stir up his own Church and country. But it came to be understood that, if the invitation were renewed when that should have been completed, it would be considered. Meanwhile a formal request for a visit came from the Synod of Canada. Repeatedly did Mr. Stuart write and plead, and cause not a few ecclesiastical and public bodies to do the same.
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- The Life of Alexander Duff, D.D., LL.DIn Two Volumes, with Portraits by Jeens, pp. 251 - 306Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1879