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Pioneers and Founders

CHAPTER VII
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By the same hour in the morning he had peacefully passed to his rest.
One more Bishop of Calcutta we have since mourned; though the shortness of his career was owing to accident, not disease or climate.

But with Daniel Wilson the see of Calcutta became established as a metropolitan bishopric, and ceased to possess that character of gradual extension which rendered its first holders necessarily missionaries.

True, it needs many subdivisions.

Four Bishops are a scanty allowance for our vast Indian Empire, and the see of Calcutta has a boundary scarce limited to the north; but these are better days than when it included the Cape, Australia, and New Zealand.

The Bishop has now more to do with the development of old missions than with the working of new ones; and there can be no doubt that though there has been much of disappointment, and the progress is very slow, yet progress there is.


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