. A cyclopedia of missions : containing a comprehensive view of missionary operations throughout the world : with geographical descriptions, and accounts of the social, moral, and religious condition of the people . , deacon. The mem-bers of the church soon formed themselvesinto a society for promoting temperance andChristian morals in general, and 2-4 ruleswere drawn up by Babajee himself. Con-sidering their source, and how lately theirauthor was a blind and degraded Brahmin,they fonn a document of very great interest.(See Annual Report of the Board for 1833).In January, 1833, 20 natives requ
. A cyclopedia of missions : containing a comprehensive view of missionary operations throughout the world : with geographical descriptions, and accounts of the social, moral, and religious condition of the people . , deacon. The mem-bers of the church soon formed themselvesinto a society for promoting temperance andChristian morals in general, and 2-4 ruleswere drawn up by Babajee himself. Con-sidering their source, and how lately theirauthor was a blind and degraded Brahmin,they fonn a document of very great interest.(See Annual Report of the Board for 1833).In January, 1833, 20 natives requestedbaptism, one of whom was the aged motherof Dajeeba, who was strongly opposed toChristianity for some time after the conver-sion of her son, but who finally yielded andgave up her last idol to the missionary. Babajee died of cholera, in April, death was felt to be a very great loss totlie mission and to the cause of Christianity,in India. Although he had become an out-cast by renouncing Ilindooism, he wasmuch respected by all classes. His memoir,in two volumes, written by one of the mis-sionaries, may be found in the Library of theAmerican Board. The mission at Bombay , S ( IslaitinujWur BUortal.
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