"My Spirit Remaineth Among You."

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XV, Issue 1, 1 July 1924, Page 411

"M y Spirit Remaineth Among You."

Here is an illustration of the Spirit 5 s marvellous working* A Governor becomes a deacon to train for the work of a niissipnary m the country he? was sent -=o.ut --to govern as the King-!s representative. Sir.: Nicholas Dpdd Beatsoh Bell F K.€;S;l.j E.jG XE.j-.late' Governor pf Asisjam, .has;*; beejftv prdaijiedv and •intends; ; tp.-;^ga^e i . iii Chjirch work at Whitby, Ydrkshirfei

for a time, and 'then to return to India as a missionary. Sir Nicholas was sent to Edinburgh Academy, aiid later to Baltipl, where he obtained the Boden Sanskrit Scholarship, = and took a first-class m the- Oriental School m 1889. He was appointed a member of the" Executive Council of Bengal m 1914, and m April, 19iB, jairifecL the headship of a province as Chief Cohimissibner of Assam. The glittering prize of the Governorship-; ih-Council was m his grasp, but he held it only for a couple of months until Sir William Marris, one of the intellectual authors of the reforms^ was free to take it over. The reason for the refusal was the desire to serve India as a missionary, and he -had some experience of this ; work before coming home to take Holy Orders. His services were accepted by the Oxford to ■ Calcutta, . and : his novitiate , was spent with Father Dougr ks, M.P., at Bahala, a small Bengal village, where. Father / Douglas - has lived -for many-years, barefooted m a mud-ilbored, palm-leaf thatched .hut, and has won the great affection, of the people. A man who begins; his training m such a stern school , as. the Oif brd Mission . to Calcutta shows jfchat he means to be a missionary indeed— "Barbados Magazine."