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122 listened to the missionaries. At last he professed himself a Christian. At once there burst upon him such a storm of opposition as can be but faintly realised by us who live in a Christian land. In the graphic and touching words of one of his daughters, "Imprisonment, desertion, stoning, were the least he had to suffer. They sent him out oar-less and rudderless to sea, in a tiny boat once, hoping he would be drowned, and added to all, of course, was the wrath of his people; his father and his uncle disinherited him, and his mother died of a broken heart." But the faith of the young convert was proof even against such attacks as these; the grief and anger of his parents moved him no more than the persecution and cruelty of the priests, and the existence of British justice in the country prevented them from carrying their opposition further. As soon as he had attained the necessary age Mr. Sorabji was ordained, and henceforth devoted his life to the work of the Church Missionary Society. His labours have been greatly blessed, both as a teacher and a preacher, though, perhaps, his most important work has been done with the pen. He is a member of the Committee for translating the Bible into Gujerati, and has also published a work on Zoroastrianism and Christianity. In this book he not only shows how inferior is the religion of the Parsis to that of the Christians, but also shows good ground for denying that the Zend