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 record of his varied work, including the three and thirty years of educational service amidst Christian, Muham.madan and Hindu surroundings, “he never lowered his flag”, as the Ohrhtian College Magazine aptly put it in commendation of his ‘ Kao Bahadur ’ distinction.

“ Half-battles for the true I ‘ Nay, it is far from proper to say that his is a combative, militant natiu'e. A born fisher of men, he never once betrays Jhimself into the least little obtrusion of himself or his views. Ibuber, as a candle unconsciously throws its beams, he is a silent radiating centre of illumination in v hose presence it slowlj' becomes impossible to think a mean thought or utter a debasyig word. Those who only know of him or know him but from a distance often fancy liim too ])rone to impress liimself dogmatically upon others or to imbue them didactically with his faddistic view's of things. Siispicious hostility thus fears aggressive proselytism in him ; but at the same time its very absence, in truth, is exactly what he is blamed for by some sympathising friends. The fact is, he simply lives