WHITE MARBLE STATUE OF THE QUEEN(VICTORIA)
EDWARD EIGHT (BLACK MARBLE)
LORD CORNWALLIS BRITISH GOVERNOR GENERAL OF INDIA
SIR EVAN NEPEAN GOVERNOR BOMBAY 1812-1819
Tanna, is the outpost of British dominion(PRESENT DAY THANA )
He found Bombay, as he says him- self, " a desert " ; but, all unconscious of the fact, he made it blossom as the rose. A silent revolution was going on in this decade, much of which was due, no doubt, to Mackintosh
I803. — During the famine, in the village at the top of the
Ghauts (Khandala ?), 1110 dead bodies were seen lying, some of them at the door of their own houses
Also note a birth announced in Vaux's tomb, near Surat. It is roomy enough to live in, but a birth in a tomb is unique, at all events in prose.
In Scott's Lady of the Lake we have Brian — " Bred Between the living and the dead."
Church and Kirk — Religious and Philanthropic enterprise — Marriages, births and deaths
Om June 19th, 1715, Cobbe preached a sermon m furtherance of building a church in Bombay, which fired the zeal of the community.
After the sermon he waited on Governor Aislabie, and here is Dr. Cobbe's own account of the interview : — " Well, Doctor, you have been very zealous for the church this morning."
" Please, your Honour, there was occasion enough for it, and I hope without offence."
" Well, then, if we must have a church, we will have a church. Do you see and get a book made, and see what everyone will contribute towards it, and I will give first."
The Governor subscribed Rs. 1,000, leaving a blank for the Company's subscription, which was afterwards filled in with Rs. 10,000. The church was erected and opened in 1718.
very little change was made in its internal economy, and the pews and seats remained unaltered for a hundred years.
In 1818, exactly a century after the church had been opened for the first time, the pews were altered, and new chairs set down. Being entirely re-seated, the interior presented quite a different aspect, was much more comfortable for the worshippers, and more seemly for a house of God, inasmuch as some invidious distinctions between the well-to-do and common people had been abolished. On Christmas day, 1818, it was re-opened with considerable eclat, when Archdeacon Barnes preached a splendid sermon. It was announced that Divine service would be held at 10 A.M. and 4 p.m. every Sunday. .
The Kirk. St. Andrew's Scotch Kirk, near the Apollo Gate,
was opened for public worship on April 25th, 1819. The Key. James Clow preached a sermon, and his text, taken from Nehemiah, was — " And we will not forsake the house of our God." The Church as a body was in existence some years before this, and its beginning was in this wise.
A small advertise- ment, in the most conspicuous part of the paper, appeared in the Bomhay , Courier : — " Card. " Divine Service, according to the forms of the Church of Scotland, will be performed next Lord's Day in the Mess hall of the King's Barracks at 10 a.m. Government House, November 15th, 1815. "James Clow." Mr. Clow, no doubt, was a guest of the Governor. Here, then, in the barracks, for two Sundays, Divine Service was holden. But the place was found too noisy and otherwise unsuitable
After this the church services were held in the Court House, where, on week-days, the Criminal Sessions took place, now (1893) the dining-room of the Great Western Hotel.
There was to be no excuse for want of psalm books, for Baxter and Co. advertise that they had received a supply — " In Methe : Translated and diligently compared with The Original Text, More plain, smooth and agreeable to the text than any heretofore allowed by the authority ot the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, and appointed to be sung in congregations and families. Pkinted by Authority."
Between 1815 and 1819 the congregation had not been idle, for I read that on February 4th, 1816, after Divine Service, the following gentlemen were ordained elders of the Scotch Church : — John Stewart, Hugh Stewart, John Taylor, M.D., and William Erskine. Erskine was Sir James Mackiu- tosh's son-in-law, now, or shortly after, Master in Equity, and known in future years as the author of the Life of Babcr and other works.
There had been great difficulties about a spire. The "powers that be" (Sir Evan Nepean, Governor, 1812 to 1819) objected to a spire. The mattar had to go to the India House, and two years elapsed before authority was obtained to erect one. These were the days before the Queen worshipped in Crathie Kirk. At length the spire was finished. It was a groat boon to the master-mariner, for it competed with the tall brab trees on the Castle bastion as a guide into Bombay harbour. The spire, like most Scotchmen in their early years, had a hard time of it, and in its upbuilding was a type of the progress of religious liberty, which, after getting man)- hard blows and knocks, still points the way to heaven.
One night, in the year 1826, it was shivered to pieces by lightning,
and so its troubles were not yet over. Its enemies, of course, said that its promoters were punished for their audacity. The promoters treated the matter as a secondary consideration, compared with previous obstructions.
Like Ajax, they could defy the lightning, but they dared not defy the India House. The Kirk's motto is nee tanien consumebatar ;
so they built another Spire, which remains to this day, unscathed by man or the violence of the elements.
Mr. Clow's portrait still hangs in the vestry. About thirty years ago the native servants were beginning to hold it in such veneration as to do pooja to it, a proceeding, of course, most abhorrent to the feelings of the then padre — Cook or Macpher- son. A white sheet was hung over the portrait, which exor- cised the evil spirit, and put an end to the worship of the dead.
I read that in 1852
an organ was in use in the Bombay Kirk.*
The Calcutta Scotch Kirk had one so far back as 1818 —
Liix ex Oriente, of which Scotland has tardily availed itself. The apotheosis of Englishmen by natives of India is a curious subject. "We all remember Nicolseyn and his saints. I am certain the natives will be doing pooja to Sir Albert * April lOlh, 1852,. £500 raised for organ, which was in due course sent out from England. — it. Andrew's Sesbiou
Sassoon's equestrian statue of the Prince of Wales in another generation. Look at that statue almost any time of the day you' like, and you will see a group gazing at it. They are much exercised to understand
Statue of Queen Victoria, Bombay
why the Queen's statue is white (marble)
and the Prince's black (bronze) !
NATIVES (INDIANS) WORSHIPPING PHOTOS AND STATUES
I notice that Colonel Wallace's tomb at Siroor was, as early as 1818, decked with flowers. In 1840, when Nesbit was there, they were praying to his ghost, and the worship may still exist
. There is the very fine monument, in the Elphinstone Circle, to Cornwallis.
Go when you will, you will see flowers placed on the open book, or garlands on the figures. This is not a new custom. In 1825 it was thought by the natives to be a place of religious worship, and they called it Chota Dewal.
Govern ment tried to stop this, and issued some vernacular notices that it was a mistake. But it was of no use, for when these feelings take possession of the natives they are not easily eradicated
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| THANA FORT |
I803. — During the famine, in the village at the top of the
Ghauts (Khandala ?), 1110 dead bodies were seen lying, some of them at the door of their own houses
Also note a birth announced in Vaux's tomb, near Surat. It is roomy enough to live in, but a birth in a tomb is unique, at all events in prose.
In Scott's Lady of the Lake we have Brian — " Bred Between the living and the dead."
Church and Kirk — Religious and Philanthropic enterprise — Marriages, births and deaths
Om June 19th, 1715, Cobbe preached a sermon m furtherance of building a church in Bombay, which fired the zeal of the community.
After the sermon he waited on Governor Aislabie, and here is Dr. Cobbe's own account of the interview : — " Well, Doctor, you have been very zealous for the church this morning."
" Please, your Honour, there was occasion enough for it, and I hope without offence."
" Well, then, if we must have a church, we will have a church. Do you see and get a book made, and see what everyone will contribute towards it, and I will give first."
The Governor subscribed Rs. 1,000, leaving a blank for the Company's subscription, which was afterwards filled in with Rs. 10,000. The church was erected and opened in 1718.
very little change was made in its internal economy, and the pews and seats remained unaltered for a hundred years.
In 1818, exactly a century after the church had been opened for the first time, the pews were altered, and new chairs set down. Being entirely re-seated, the interior presented quite a different aspect, was much more comfortable for the worshippers, and more seemly for a house of God, inasmuch as some invidious distinctions between the well-to-do and common people had been abolished. On Christmas day, 1818, it was re-opened with considerable eclat, when Archdeacon Barnes preached a splendid sermon. It was announced that Divine service would be held at 10 A.M. and 4 p.m. every Sunday. .
The Kirk. St. Andrew's Scotch Kirk, near the Apollo Gate,
was opened for public worship on April 25th, 1819. The Key. James Clow preached a sermon, and his text, taken from Nehemiah, was — " And we will not forsake the house of our God." The Church as a body was in existence some years before this, and its beginning was in this wise.
A small advertise- ment, in the most conspicuous part of the paper, appeared in the Bomhay , Courier : — " Card. " Divine Service, according to the forms of the Church of Scotland, will be performed next Lord's Day in the Mess hall of the King's Barracks at 10 a.m. Government House, November 15th, 1815. "James Clow." Mr. Clow, no doubt, was a guest of the Governor. Here, then, in the barracks, for two Sundays, Divine Service was holden. But the place was found too noisy and otherwise unsuitable
After this the church services were held in the Court House, where, on week-days, the Criminal Sessions took place, now (1893) the dining-room of the Great Western Hotel.
There was to be no excuse for want of psalm books, for Baxter and Co. advertise that they had received a supply — " In Methe : Translated and diligently compared with The Original Text, More plain, smooth and agreeable to the text than any heretofore allowed by the authority ot the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, and appointed to be sung in congregations and families. Pkinted by Authority."
Between 1815 and 1819 the congregation had not been idle, for I read that on February 4th, 1816, after Divine Service, the following gentlemen were ordained elders of the Scotch Church : — John Stewart, Hugh Stewart, John Taylor, M.D., and William Erskine. Erskine was Sir James Mackiu- tosh's son-in-law, now, or shortly after, Master in Equity, and known in future years as the author of the Life of Babcr and other works.
There had been great difficulties about a spire. The "powers that be" (Sir Evan Nepean, Governor, 1812 to 1819) objected to a spire. The mattar had to go to the India House, and two years elapsed before authority was obtained to erect one. These were the days before the Queen worshipped in Crathie Kirk. At length the spire was finished. It was a groat boon to the master-mariner, for it competed with the tall brab trees on the Castle bastion as a guide into Bombay harbour. The spire, like most Scotchmen in their early years, had a hard time of it, and in its upbuilding was a type of the progress of religious liberty, which, after getting man)- hard blows and knocks, still points the way to heaven.
One night, in the year 1826, it was shivered to pieces by lightning,
and so its troubles were not yet over. Its enemies, of course, said that its promoters were punished for their audacity. The promoters treated the matter as a secondary consideration, compared with previous obstructions.
Like Ajax, they could defy the lightning, but they dared not defy the India House. The Kirk's motto is nee tanien consumebatar ;
so they built another Spire, which remains to this day, unscathed by man or the violence of the elements.
Mr. Clow's portrait still hangs in the vestry. About thirty years ago the native servants were beginning to hold it in such veneration as to do pooja to it, a proceeding, of course, most abhorrent to the feelings of the then padre — Cook or Macpher- son. A white sheet was hung over the portrait, which exor- cised the evil spirit, and put an end to the worship of the dead.
I read that in 1852
an organ was in use in the Bombay Kirk.*
The Calcutta Scotch Kirk had one so far back as 1818 —
Liix ex Oriente, of which Scotland has tardily availed itself. The apotheosis of Englishmen by natives of India is a curious subject. "We all remember Nicolseyn and his saints. I am certain the natives will be doing pooja to Sir Albert * April lOlh, 1852,. £500 raised for organ, which was in due course sent out from England. — it. Andrew's Sesbiou
Sassoon's equestrian statue of the Prince of Wales in another generation. Look at that statue almost any time of the day you' like, and you will see a group gazing at it. They are much exercised to understand
Statue of Queen Victoria, Bombay
why the Queen's statue is white (marble)
Kala Ghoda Statue.JPG
and the Prince's black (bronze) !
NATIVES (INDIANS) WORSHIPPING PHOTOS AND STATUES
I notice that Colonel Wallace's tomb at Siroor was, as early as 1818, decked with flowers. In 1840, when Nesbit was there, they were praying to his ghost, and the worship may still exist
. There is the very fine monument, in the Elphinstone Circle, to Cornwallis.
Go when you will, you will see flowers placed on the open book, or garlands on the figures. This is not a new custom. In 1825 it was thought by the natives to be a place of religious worship, and they called it Chota Dewal.
Govern ment tried to stop this, and issued some vernacular notices that it was a mistake. But it was of no use, for when these feelings take possession of the natives they are not easily eradicated
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