Memoirs of the Right Rev. Daniel Corrie, LL.D., first Bishop of MadrasCorrie, Daniel
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Memoirs of the Right Rev. Daniel Corrie, LL.D., first Bishop of Madras
Corrie, Daniel
Church of England -- Bishops -- Biography; Church of England -- Missions -- India; Corrie, Daniel, 1777-1837
“The only other case that occurs to me, is that of Fuez
Musseeh, baptized in 1817. At seventeen years of age, he
became a Mahomedan purely from the abhorrence of idolatry
expressed in the Koran; he remained upwards of twenty
years a strict and indefatigable disciple of the Koran,
living as a Fakeer and obtaining great honour among his
countrymen for his supposed sanctity. At length, being
disgusted in his own mind with the practices recommended by
his spiritual guides, and wearied with his own ineffectual
labours after holiness, he abandoned all his honours as
a Religieux, and bought from a lady a copy of the New
Testament, if haply he might find in it that rest for his
soul he had hitherto sought in vain from other quarters.
He sought, and found, as his conduct hitherto leads us to
think, the object of his pursuit.
“I have met whilst residing out of Calcutta, with very many
natives, who from reading the Scriptures, have had all
prejudice against Christianity removed; and some of them,
as Joy Narain Ghossaul, at Benares, have been set upon many
works of benevolence and charity, from their knowledge
of duty as learned from the Bible, though they have not
derived _all_ the benefits to be desired from the copies
of the Scriptures circulated among them. How far this
partial good is to be appreciated, each Christian will form
his own judgment. As a preparing of the way of the Lord, it
is by no means to be undervalued, and future labourers will
reap the fruit of the precious seed which the Bible Society
has been sowing in India with so much diligence for several
years past.”
The memoranda which occur in Mr. Corrie’s Journal after his return to
India, are very few, but under date of June 11, 1821, he remarks:--
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