. Missions and missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church . ard that the kotwal was a Turk; thathe went with the 93d Highlanders from the Crimea,and came to India with them; and that he was a veryshrewd man. I supposed, of course, that he was a big-oted Mussulman. What was my surprise when I askeda native in uniform if he was the kotwal, to be toldthat a young man who had been by my side during theservices, and whom I had supposed to be an English-man, was he! The kotwal walked nearly home with us. He askedif we could not manage to preach Christ without men-tioning his name, as the M
. Missions and missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church . ard that the kotwal was a Turk; thathe went with the 93d Highlanders from the Crimea,and came to India with them; and that he was a veryshrewd man. I supposed, of course, that he was a big-oted Mussulman. What was my surprise when I askeda native in uniform if he was the kotwal, to be toldthat a young man who had been by my side during theservices, and whom I had supposed to be an English-man, was he! The kotwal walked nearly home with us. He askedif we could not manage to preach Christ without men-tioning his name, as the Mohammedans became so angrywhen they heard it. We explained the matter to he said he saw the force of our reasons, and thst,cf course, as it was our purpose to preach the Gospelof Christ, we must use his name. On Jul) 24, 1859, Dr Humphrey baptized the fiislconvert, Zuhur-ul-Huqq, and administered the LordsSupper for the first time in the Hindustani language,to seven persons. On account of his defection fromMohammedanism, Zahur-uI-Huqqs father and brothers. After the Storm, 383 were exceeding mad against him, and would not al-low him to visit them. His wife and two children werewith them at his home in a village some distance fromBareilly. He tried to appease them by kind words, butthey would not heed him. His wife would not see could pacify them but for him to abjure theChristian religion. He was in Bareilly for the purpose
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