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| Date transcribed | 2011-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Jane Britcliffe, Peter Schofield, Penny Tipper | | Comment | List of Ministers of the Church of Scotland who served in India or South Asia, extracted from Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae |
| | Section | India  | | | Volume No. | 7 | | | Page No. | 699 | | | Surname | MacFarlane | | | Christian Name(s) | William | | | Body of text | MACFARLANE, WILLIAM, born Drumbuie, Strathbraan, Perthshire, 5th January 1840, son of Robert M, farmer, and Ann Stewart; educated at Madras College, St Andrews, and University of St Andrews (he was the most distinguished student of his time, so excelling in mathematics that he was offered £600 to proceed to Cambridge for further study in that science but declined, having dedicated his career to the ministry); MA (1858); licensed by Presbytery of St Andrews in 1862; assistant at St Columba's, Glasgow. In 1865 at a missionary meeting, on the question being asked, ""Who will go?"" M stood up and quietly said, ""Here am I, send me""; ordained to Gyah 1865; transferred to Darjeeling 1870; died in his sleep 15th February 1887. He was unmarried. His sister, Margaret Ann, accompanied him to India, and was his constant companion and co-worker. The St Ninian of the Eastern Himalayas, he was founder of the Darjeeling and Kalimpong Mission, one of the most laborious of missionaries, a man of devout consecration, indomitable perseverance, and unflagging faith in the ultimate success of his endeavours. On the day of his death he was busily engaged in the erection of a building to be the Training Institution for Native Catechists. He had his first furlough after sixteen years of service, in 1881, when he revisited Scotland, addressed 329 meetings, creating and increasing confidence in the mission work of the Church. A church, built to his memory, was opened at Kalimpong 1st November 1892. [Home and Foreign Mission Record, April 1887 ; Weir's Hist of Foreign Missions of the Church of Scotland (portrait), 103.] |
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