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Memoirs of the Right Rev. Daniel Corrie, LL.D., first Bishop of Madras

Chapter 2: PREFACE.
By Daniel Corrie
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The memoir traces the spiritual formation, pastoral labors, and administrative career of a Church of England cleric who served for decades in India, recounting early struggles with faith, ordination, and missionary work at multiple stations. It follows voyages between England and India, parish and educational initiatives, interactions with fellow bishops and civil authorities, debates over reform and native education, efforts in church building and ordinations, and extensive pastoral visitations across provinces. Personal bereavement and the long delay before consecration give way to eventual service as a bishop in Madras, with concluding reflections on his final years and ecclesiastical responsibilities.

LEONARD SEELEY, PRINTER,
THAMES DITTON.

PREFACE.

As the greater portion of these Memoirs of a loved and honoured brother, have been derived from his own papers, it is hoped that the risk of representing him other than he really was has, in a great measure, been avoided. In making use, however, of such materials as were in the possession of the Editors, they judged it to be desirable to give somewhat copious details of their brother’s earlier ministerial labours, because they conceived that it was then that the principles and motives by which throughout life he desired to be actuated were most severely tested. The Editors were of opinion, too, that whilst many of the particulars connected with their brother’s earlier labours in Northern India, would be new to the great proportion of the present generation, these records of “the day of small things” could not be without interest and use to all who may be engaged in the work of Missions.

To account for the delay attending the appearance of this Volume, it may be proper to state, that, independently of the time consumed in the transmission of some papers from India, many unforeseen circumstances prevented the brother who had undertaken the task, from preparing any portion of these Memoirs for the press until August, 1845. At that time it pleased God to visit him with a serious illness, which ultimately brought him to the grave; and thus the responsibility of completing what an abler hand had commenced, devolved on the only surviving brother, who, in his turn, has not been altogether free from those interruptions which arise out of the duties and afflictions of ordinary life.

It remains to acknowledge, with thanks, the obligation of the Editors to the Lord Bishop of Oxford, for the Letters which the subject of these Memoirs addressed to the Rev. D. Brown, the Rev. H. Martyn, and the Rev. J. Sargent; to the Lord Bishop of Calcutta, for the account of the Visitation of the Upper Provinces, which appears in pp. 529 and seq; to the widow of the late Rev. J. Buckworth, for letters addressed to her husband; and to the Archdeacon Harper for letters and information connected with the Diocese of Madras. It will be seen also, that the Editors of these Memoirs have been much indebted to the correspondence of their brother with Mr. Sherer, of the Bengal Civil Service,—himself recently numbered with the dead who are waiting for the resurrection to eternal life.

January 28, 1847.