Frons his affectionate brothers dois. ow his birth birthday. Sept 14 857 THE RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF INDIA THE TRIDENT, THE CRESCENT, AND THE CROSS: A VIEW OF THE RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF INDIA DURING THE REV. JAMES VAUGHAN, Nineteen Years a Missionary of the C.M.S. in Calcutta ; AUTHOR OF FULFILLED PROPHECY, A PILLAR AND GROUND OF THE TRUTH;' THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA;' ETC. LONDON: LONG MANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1876. All rights reserved. PREFACE. いろ THIS DAY two years ago did I, after an absence of nineteen years, once more behold the white cliffs and green fields of Old England. That period of banishment was a season of mingled sorrow and joy, but of more joy than sorrow. After so many years of missionary toil I brought back with me two decided convictions; these were, that, of all lives the Missionary's life is the most happy, and of all work Mission work is the most important; and I came home resolved, if God should enable me, to illustrate these convictions in a treatise which, by His blessing, might help to convey them to other minds. The brightness of returning joy was followed by a dark night of unlooked-for trial. This necessarily delayed the execution of my plan; but it seemed no sufficient ground for relinquishing it. It is now completed; and, strange though it may seem, I almost lament that fact. I cannot but look back with a sort of lingering regret to M640559 |