MISSIONARY PAMPHLETS:
The Alexander Duff Collection of Missionary Pamphlets
Contents of Reels
REEL 1
Book 1 - Miscellaneous Missions, 1872-1873
(Handwritten manuscript index at front)
Various pamphlets including:
The Gospel in Spain
The American Board of Foreign Missions in Turkey – Rev G Wood
Syria and Lebanon Schools
French Protestant Missions Relief Fund
Mission premises at Constantinople
Statement and appeal on behalf of the North-East Coast Mission
Syria
Kolapoor Mission 1872
British Syrian Schools
Hungarian and Bohemian Bursaries
The Mission of Inquiry of the Lebanon Schools
Spanish Evangelization Society
Mount Lebanon Schools
The Evangelical Church of America in Turkey
A short report of the Protestant Deaconess Hospital in Alexandria
The French Canadian Missionary Society
Female Education in India and South Africa
Jottings on Colportage in connection with a Metropolitan Tabernack Colportage Association
Waldensian Mission in Venice
Missions in the mining districts
A sketch of the Buxton Mission and Elgin Settlement, Raleigh, Canada West
England’s East African Policy
Letters from the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Cape Town, and the Bishop of Natal
British Syrian Schools
Miss Clugston and her work – Rev W G Blaikie
Notes of a visit to Norfolk Island, the Head Quarters of the Melanesian Mission in November 1872 – from the journal of the Bishop of Auckland
Livingstonia
The proposed mission to Lake Nyassa by A Duff
Proposed mission at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika, Central Africa
Kafinstan
Necessity of a mission building fund for India and Africa
REEL 2
Book 2 - Indian Missions
Various pamphlets including:
Urgent claims of India for more Christian missions
Indian Missions: their modes of operation
Brief memorial of the Rev J MacDonald
Brief review of the Madras Free Church Mission during 1857
American missions in Burmah
Letter by Duff
Notes of a visit to Satrunjaya Hill, near Palitana in 1868 by J Burgess
Converts from the Government and Missionary Colleges and Schools
Continued history of the Lodiana Mission
Military missionaries for India
Scottish missions in India by Rev W Miller
History of the Church Missionary Society in Bengal
Free Church Female Institution and Orphan Home
Mission success in Java
Madras Free Church Mission
Association for Promoting the Spiritual Welfare of Europeans in India
The Santals
Anglo-Indian Christian Union – Winter mission to India
The history and present position of the Bombay Medical Mission
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Book 3 - Indian Missions
Various pamphlets including:
Madras Mission
Voice from Ceylon – the present State of British connexion with idolatry in the Island of Ceylon
Church Missionary Society
Brief memoir of Rev Rodolph De Rolt
Statistics of missions in India and Ceylon
History of the Serampore Mission
Claims of the missionary enterprise on the medical profession
Education as a missionary agency in India
The Missionary Societies of Great Britain
Religions of India
8th report of Female Society of the Free Church of Scotland for Promoting Christian Education of the Females in India
Sermon preached at St Paul’s, Calcutta
Brief account of the Jubilee of the Church Missionary Society
Rangoon
Bootan
Balasore
Midnapore
Surat
Batavia
Samarang
Chittagong and Akyab
Amboyna
Nagpore
Gowkati
Brief exposition of the principles, operation and prospects of the Church of Scotland India Mission
Bombay
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Book 4 - Indian Missions
Various pamphlets including:
Petition of the Calcutta Missionaries
Continued History of the Lodiana Mission
China and the Chinese Mission
Indian Missions
Statistics of missions in India and Ceylon
The first Protestant Missionary to Bengal
The Baropakhya Christians and Judge Kemp’s unrighteous decision
Memorial respecting a mission from the Free Church of Scotland to Nagpur in Central India
Free Church Mission, Bengal
Memoir of the late Rev G Weigle
Urgent claims of India for more Christian missions
Brief exposition of the principles, operation and prospects of the Church of Scotland India Mission
The faithful missionary
Statistics of missions in India and Ceylon
List of works lately published by W H Dalton
Subscribers to the Duff Memorial Fund
The results of missionary labour in India
Hindu Medical Missions
Explanatory Statement respecting the recent proceedings of the missionaries of the Church of Scotland in Calcutta
Speech on foreign missions and America
Present state of the Tinnevelly Mission
Observations on the extension and present condition of the ... mission of the Church of Scotland in [India]
The Missionary’s warrant and the Church’s duty – a sermon
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Book 5 - Indian Religions
Various pamphlets including:
Sermon preached in the Free Church, Calcutta
Hindu Idolatry
Separation from the Church of England
The Bible in India
Propositions regarding marriage and divorce as they affect native converts to Christianity
Clericalia
Observations on the Hindoo and Moohummudan Laws of Inheritance
The objects and constitution of the Calcutta Temperance Home
Decrees of the Supreme Court and the order of the Board of Revenue in the matter of Pacheapah’s charities
Discourse delivered at the Hindoo College
Christianity in India
Public scripture examination, Benares
Relation of Islam to the Gospel
Converts from the Government and Missionary Colleges and Schools
First fruits of India unto Christ
Works by Rev Duff
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Book 6 - Indian Education
Various pamphlets including:
British system of instruction as adapted to native schools in India
Scholarship exams of the Government Colleges and Schools in Bengal
Present state and results of Government Public Instruction in India
Principles of historical evidence and the paramount importance of the study of history to the educated natives of India
Rules of the Calcutta Public Library
Papers connected with the questions of erecting a university building
The educated native; his position and responsibilities
History of female education in Calcutta
Past and present state of education and civilization in Ceylon
Programme of the 26th annual exam of pupils attending Free Church of Scotland Institution in Calcutta
Roman letters to the languages of Asia
The Romanizing System
The Anglo-Hindustani Alphabet
Letter to Senate of the University of Calcutta
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Book 7 - Indian Education
Various pamphlets including:
Hints on Government education in India with special reference to school books
Memoir on the education of natives of India
Means of ascertaining public opinion in India
The educated classes of Calcutta
Female education in Bengal
One Alphabet for all India
Hindu Vedas
Sub-divisions of knowledge and their mutual relations
Idolations and immoral teaching of some Government and university textbooks in India
Substitution of the Roman for the Indian characters
Study of living languages
Report of meeting pupils
New era of English language and English literature in India
Inaugural lecture
Calcutta unit - classical languages
Rise and progress of rational, medical education in Bengal
Scientific principles of agriculture considered as a branch of public education in India
Rev Duff’s letter on subject of native education
A specimen of a new method of the differential calculus called a method of constant ratios
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Book 8 - Foreign Mission Methods
Various pamphlets including:
Fifth memoir of Serampore translations
The Friend of India
Ministration of the Holy Spirit in the Gospel
Sermon preached in the Free Church, Calcutta
Sermon – Jesus, the resurrection and the life
Works by Dr Wilson
A missionary’s wife
Memorial – Kenneth Bruce Stuart
Contributions
Memorial discourses
The Christian’s work and day
Origin of Gossner’s Evangelical Missionary Society
Letters of Indophilus
German Lutheran Mission
Duff on education in India
Sermon on missionary education in India
Jews of Cochin
Hindu Medical Missions
Missionary Herald
Indian Christian Workers in CMS Missions with special reference to the CMS Native Church Council in Punjab and Sindh
Missions to women in India
Women’s work in India
Borneo Church Mission
Century of Protestant Missions
REEL 9
Book 9 - Foreign Missionary Appeals
Various pamphlets including:
Evangelization in the world - closing address
Sermon preached at the opening of the Free Church general assembly – “Thankfulness”
The Great Commission and its fulfilment by the Church
Extract from “London Bicycle Club Gazette”
Mission to the Mohammedans of Arabia and Somaliland
Address on missions
Report – The Keith Falconer Mission, South Arabia
Keith Falconer building fund
Evangelization of Arabia
Report of journey to the Red Sea ports, Somaliland, and Southern and Eastern Arabia
Quarterly missionary paper
Co-operation in foreign missions
Memorials to two Christian soldiers
Charge delivered at the Third Clerical and Lay Synod
Proposed company of the ministry of Jesus, for the Diocese of Lahore
Speeches delivered in the Free Assembly Hall, Edinburgh
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Book 10 - Missionary Pamphlets Volume 1
Various pamphlets including:
Lecture – India and its Evangelization
Home organisation for foreign missions
Claims of Christian missions and their relation to the unity of the church – a speech
Letter by Rev Dr Duff on the present state in India
Evangelistic Theology
An inaugural address
World-wide crisis
Closing address
Hindoo Castle
Preaching to the Hindus
The field or home and Heathen populations contrasted
Evidences of Hinduism examined
The Zend-Avesta and the religion of the Parsis
Hindu religion
Hints on mental discipline
Salvation and faith viewed from Christian and Hindu standpoints
Thoughts on idolatry
Light for the Heathen and the Church’s duty – a sermon
Glimpses of the missions of the Free Church of Scotland in Nagpur, East Berar and the Nizam’s dominions
REEL 11
[Book 11] - Missionary Pamphlets, Volume 2
Various pamphlets including:
Spiritual Autobiography
Romance of modern missions
New College Missionary Society, Edinburgh
First fruits of India unto Christ
Incidents illustrative of the progress of the foreign missions of the Free Church
An address urging the claims of the Heathen upon the students and pastors of the reformed Presbyterian church of Scotland
New Hebrides – Is France or Britain to annex them?
England’s sins and India’s martyrs
Speech
Short account of the opposition to Christian mission work
Short historical view of the Baptists
Letters from the Lady of an Officer of Engineers
Lecture to children and youth on the history and character of Heathen Idolatry; with some references to the effects of Christian missions
The Brahmo Somaj vindicated
Theism examined
An essay on sincerity
Ali and Beebi – a story of the Indian mutiny
Doctrines of the Salvation Army compared with scripture
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Choice Missionary Pamphlets from 1709
Various pamphlets including:
The Epistle Dedicatory
Letters
Memoir, relative to the translations of the sacred scriptures to the Baptist Missionary Society in England
William Carey
The Incarnation
Success of Christianity and modern explanations of it
Hindu religion
The Zend-Avesta and the religion of the Parsis
Duff’s Leben und Birken
Dr John Wilson’s Leben
The inner citadel of religion
A cry for missions and missionary spirit
Shrines
REEL 13
India Volume I, 1801-1853
Various pamphlets including:
Remarks on Mr Dick’s sermon
Church of Scotland's foreign missions
List of contributions to the fund for the support of the General Assembly’s Indian Mission
Brief exposition of the principles, operation and prospects of the Church of Scotland’s India Mission
Church of Scotland’s India Mission
Sermons
Funeral Sermon
A vindication of the Church of Scotland’s India Missions being the substance of an address
Female education in India
Bombay
Conversion of a Brahman
An appeal to Christian sympathy on behalf of the thousands of sick and diseased natives in Calcutta and its neighbourhood
A discourse
Report of proceedings at a special meeting in the society in connection with the Doveton College
Warning from the East or the Jesuits as missionaries in India
History of native education in Bengal
Sermon
Memorial for Rev W C Fyfe
Auguste Comte – the positivist
Educated classes of Calcutta
Urgent claims of India for more Christian missions
Native female education
REEL 14
India Volume II, 1835-1885
Various pamphlets including:
Narrative of a missionary journey
Cave-temples and monasteries
Research in the West of India and adjoining countries
Six schools of Indian philosophy
Hazors of Jabin and Kedar
Bombay branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Sermon
Indian Military revolt
Sermon
Memorial discourse on the death of Rev S Hislop
Hindu Gods and their incarnations
Sermon
Address to Mr Mitchell
Recent investigations in Zend Literature
Journal of the Bombay branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Observations on the extension and present condition of the Scottish Church in India and on the mission of the Church of Scotland in that country
Brahmanism: creation and sacrifice
Review of Dr Wilson’s book on Indian Caste
Notes of missionary work and experience in 1863
Extract letters from the Rev Dhanjibhai Navroji
Sermon
The Parsee religion
Manners and customs of Parsees
Monument to the memory of G Edsall
Inquiry into the Parsi religion
The true devotee, described being extracts from the Dnyáneswarí - a commentary on the Bhagvadgítá with an English translation and explanatory notes
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India Volume III, various dates
Various pamphlets including:
Jesus Christ; Europe and Asia
The Jubilee meeting of the Free Church institution, 13th July 1880
Church of Scotland General Assembly’s Institution, Calcutta
Report of the annual distribution of prizes to the pupils of the General Assembly's Institution, 6th April 1880 and a letter to the members of St Andrew’s Church and other recent reports, 1880
Report – distribution of prizes, 1879
Report of meeting held in the General Assembly’s Institution, 8th February 1879
St Andrew’s Bengali Church, Upper Circular Road, Calcutta
Annual report of the Calcutta Mission to the Foreign Missions Committee, Church of Scotland, 21st April 1880
Calcutta open-air preaching case
Legend of Harry and the Missionaries, 1882
Open-air preaching in the public squares of Calcutta and an explanatory statement by the Revs G Kerry, K S Macdonald and A J Bamford, 1881
Rajah Ram Mohun Roy, the Bengali religious reformer, 1879
Corrected statistics of the Church of Scotland, 1874
Report of the Copalgunge Evangelistic Mission, 1879
The Bengal Church Council
Church Missionary Society in lower Bengal held at Chupra, Krishnagar, May 20th and 21st 1880
Regulations for Native Church Councils for North India were published by the Church Missionary Society in London on the 20th July 1876
Formularies of churches compiled for the Indian Presbyterian Alliance by Rev G M Rae, 1880
Appeal by the Foreign Missions Committee of the Free Church of Scotland for the formation of a mission building fund, 1874
Infidel literature and proposed effort to bring Christian truth before university students in India
Proposed circulation of the scriptures among university students in India
The Evangelization of Arabia
The dark places of Calcutta
A sermon preached in St Andrew’s Church on Thursday July 28th, 1859
Letter for Rev James Chalmers Herdman
Letter to the Christian instructor
The religions of India – plea for India missions
Missions of the Free Church of Scotland in India and Africa (maps)
First Indian report of the Bauleah Mission in connection with the Presbyterian Church of England, 1863
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India Volume IV
Various pamphlets including:
Letter from Rev J Braidwood, 1841
Meeting to present a farewell address to Mrs Anderson of the Madras Free Church Mission
Sermon preached by the Rev Alexander B Campbell, 1862
Honesty in the ministry of the Gospel: an address to students
Our Scandinavian forefathers: two lectures, 1862
Letter from Rev William Miller
Opportunity the authorative guide of the church, 1877
Female education in India, 1878
The greatest of the judges
Hinduism and Christian education – two lectures
Caste in its relation to the church
Memorial respecting a mission from the Church of Scotland to Nagpur in Central India
Mission work among the Mahars, Bhandara
The despatch of 1854 on “General education in India”
Brief narrative of the origin and progress of the church
Report of the committee appointed by the Conference on Foreign Missions, 20th and 21st November 1861
Report of the Glasgow Ladies’ Association in aid of the mission building fund of the Free Church, January 1874
Statement and appeal from the general conference
Christianity in Ceylon
Introduction to the Rig-Veda Sanhita, 1852
Legend of Khoolnah – an original tale for the Christmas vacation, 1862
Poems by R F F, 1855
REEL 17
India Volume V
Various pamphlets including:
Opening address
“Watchman, what of the night?” 1885
Evangelization for the world, 1886
Report on educational works and appliances
India since the mutiny, 1874
Narrative of the Mutiny of Bolarum in September 1855
Journal of Volunteer, 1857
Who is to blame for the Indian mutinies? by K Macqueen
Letter on foreign missions
Christian education for India in the mother tongue
The government of India and the Christian movement in the 24th Punjab Native Infantry
Memorial to the Queen
Letter on the religious neutrality of the government in India
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India Volume VII (Volume VI appears to be missing)
Various pamphlets including:
Many sermons
List of members of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
Sermon, 1779
Sermon, November 30th 1817
Missionary Intelligence, September 1829
Farewell Sermon
Introduction on missionary discourse preached in St Paul’s Cathedral, Calcutta, January 23rd 1845
A pastoral letter from the Bishops of Calcutta
Obituary notice
Suggestions regarding the necessity of an accurate and uniform Bengali Christian terminology
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India Volume VIII
Various pamphlets including:
Vindication of the Church of Scotland’s India Missions – being the substance of an address, Wednesday May 24th 1837
New era of the English language and English literature in India
Duff’s letters to Lord Auckland about native education
Appendix
The cause of Christ and the cause of Satan
Appeal to Christian sympathy on behalf of the thousands of sick and diseased natives in Calcutta and its neighbourhood
What is meant by the indiscriminate circulation of the Holy Scriptures?
Proposal for a monument to John Knox
Duff speech
Proceedings of the Union Missionary Convention
Duff speech on foreign missions and America, May 29th 1854
Duff farewell address
What is caste? How is a Christian government to deal with it?
Duff’s Hindu girls’ school
Explanatory statement
Proposed mission to Lake Nyassa
Foreign missions
REEL 20
Quarterly Missionary Paper, 1852-1900
Foreign missions of the Free Church of Scotland (India and Africa)
Quarterly Missionary Paper, March 1858 to December 1872
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Madras pamphlets
The Madras Free Church Mission
Report of the Madras girls’ day school and Balica Latasala, 1867
Madras Free Church of Scotland Mission, 1869
Appeal, more especially addressed to the Christian females of the country
Madras Mission, Free Church of Scotland, 1870
Madras Mission, Free Church of Scotland, 1872
Madras Mission, Free Church of Scotland, 1873
Madras Mission, Free Church of Scotland, 1874
Report – Madras Medical Mission, December 31st 1873
Report of work among Caste Hindu females in Madras, 1874
Free Church of Scotland Poona Mission, 1874
Report – Madras Medical Mission, December 31st 1875
The royal visit to Madras, December 13th to 18th 1875
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Pamphlets 1900
Report of Santal Mission, 1898
Report of Bengal Mission, 1898
Report of Bengal Rural Mission, 1898
Assembly address, 1899-1900
Presbyterian Church of England – reports of church work and financial statements, September 1897 – December 1898
Claims of Christian literature in India, appeal to missionary societies
Essay of principles of translating the Holy Scriptures
Vernacular studies in Madras
The duty of public service, 1898
The King of the world or Christian imperialism, 1899
Things Primary and Secondary and other church matters, 1899
The Indian loyalty - a lecture
Mysore under the Wodeyers
Mononmanigam: the first Tamil play after the Shakespearean model
Radicals in English poetry: Byron
Radicals in English poetry: Shelley
Report on the Madras Observatory for the year 1897-98 and Eclipse Expedition of January 1898
The training of mission workers while in school, 1899
Encouraging of vernaculars, November 1898
Dedication Day 27th January 1900, tenth anniversary of the young men’s Christian association
The place of Christian education in the story of India
Letter to former students of the Madras Christian College
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Assembly Addresses, 1866-1872
Addresses, India
Miscellaneous, 1852-53
Proposed modes of extending the foreign mission operations of the Free Church of Scotland with an appeal for increase of means and more fervent prayer by Duff
Addresses: Foreign Missions, June 1866
Addresses: Foreign Missions, May 1867
Addresses: Foreign Missions, May 1869
Addresses: Foreign Missions, May 1872
The Evangelization of India
Popery and Jesuitism: the enemies of true knowledge and consequently of mental, moral and social improvement
Calcutta temperance tracts
The recent religious movements in Norway, 13th August 1873
Foreign missions of the Free Church of Scotland
Historical sketch of the foreign missions of the Free Church of Scotland
Light for the Heathen and church’s duty – a Sermon, October 1872
2nd annual report of the Scottish Anti-State Church Association, February 1851
The coming struggle among the nations of the earth
The Bible or Rome? A question for 1852
Protestant religion - no novelty
Edinburgh Irish Mission and Protestant Institute
Memoirs of the public and private life of King George IV
Description of the view of the Naples and scenery, 1825
New era in medical science
Medical works:
Consumption curable
Pulmonary diseases
Asthma
Other disorders of the chest
Whooping cough
The press on Mr Macaulay and the Edinburgh Election
The People, the Parliament, and the Lords of the Treasury
The peace party
The cost of warlike armaments and panics
2nd annual report of the Scottish Anti-State Church Association
Medical testimony
13th annual report of the Edinburgh Total Abstinence Society, September 1836
14th annual report of the Edinburgh Total Abstinence Society, 1857
16th annual report of the Edinburgh Total Abstinence Society, 1859
17th annual report of the Edinburgh Total Abstinence Society, 1860
Report of the Committee of the Grassmarket Evangelical Mission, 1850
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Minor works of Rev John Wilson D D of Bombay (many of the texts are damaged)
British Sovereignty in India, a sermon, 8th November 1835
The Oriental Christian Spectator, January 1841
Jesus, the resurrection and the life, a sermon, 1st March 1863
Memorial discourse on the death of Rev S Hislop of Nagpur
Two addresses (opening and closing) of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland in May 1870
Report of an address on Indian missions, May 1818
British and foreign evangelical review, July 1871
Presentation of a testimonial to the Rev John Wilson, 15th February 1869
Bombay branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 17th February 1870
Address to India
Lecture on the religious excavations of Western India
The life and labours of Rev Dr J Wilson of Bombay
Repression of female infanticide in the Bombay presidency
Aboriginal tribes of the Bombay presidency
Catalogue of J Wilson’s library, April 1876
Catalogue of other various libraries (belonging to missionaries)
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Miscellaneous
Annual report of missionary, educational and benevolent institutions connected with the United Presbyterian Church
Report – United Presbyterian Theological Hall Missionary Society, September 1804
Proceedings of the Synod of the United Presbyterian Church, May 1857
Disestablishment and disendowment of the established churches of England and Scotland
17th report of United Presbyterian Mission in Rajpootana, 1868
Annual report of the home and foreign missionary operations of the United Presbyterian Church
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