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Title: An Indian pilgrimage; travel notes of a visit to the Indian fields of the Church of Scotland
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Ogilvie, J. N. (James Nicoll), 1860-1926
Subjects: Church of Scotland
Publisher: Edinburgh, Blackwood & Sons
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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by is the oldGarrison Church, where, one Sunday in May 1857, theEnghsh regiment was at service, without their rifles,when hell broke loose at Meerut and its fires spread allover India. To-day Meerut shows no trace of these olddays of tragedy, and as a place to live in is appreciatedby soldier and civilian alike. IsText morning, Friday, 25th November, saw us up at4 A.M., and stealing away as noiselessly as possible fromthe bungalow of our kind host and hostess, to catch atrain for Agra. Mr Jamieson saw us off, and six hourslater we were met at Agra station by Mr Mackenzie,chaplain to the Kings Own Scottish Borderers. Agallant regiment is the K.O.S.B., and more than happythe relations of the regiment and its chaplain. Threemonths later the regiment was to move to Egypt, andregrets at losing its chaplain were already freely spoken.The parade service held on the Sunday forenoon in thelarge Garrison Church was one of the finest in all ourIndian tour. Far off one heard the pipes coming ever
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03u < 03 05 o Lahore, Meerut, Agra—With the Chaplains 71 nearer, then the great body of braw young men filedinto church. The band of the regiment led the praise.Perfect reverence and sustained attention all throughthe service, and nowhere was it more tense than whenwords of loving remembrance from the Kirk at homewere spoken. Then the collection, taken up by twosergeants, the Benediction, and the !National Anthemat the close. Once more the skirl of the pipes, and tothe call of a stirring Highland air the brave lads marchedaway. But not quite all. There was Communion thatday, and over thirty remained behind to break breadand have fellowship with Him whose love and poweroverleap the widest seas, and whose hand was laid inblessing at once on us who bowed the head in Indiaand on our loved ones far away. An officer, two ser-geants, and a private distributed the elements, the officerbeing Major Youngson, son of a well-known Aberdeenelder of the days of my own youth. Alas ! since thatda

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