CLARK, Robert

[s. 196] : Born 1825, at Harmston Vicarage, Lincoln shire. He took his degree as twenty-eighth wrangler at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was at once ordained to be his father’s curate. In 1851 he offered himself to the CMS, and was sent to the Punjab Mi ion. He was one of the first two mi ionaries of the CMS to the Punjab, being stationed at Amritsar. In 1854 he was one of the first two CMS mi ionaries to Peshawar, and went there at a time when many believed that preaching the Gospel would be followed by a a ination of the preacher. In most of the important stations in these provinces he did pioneer work. The most of his mi ionary life, however, centered at Amritsar. As secretary of the Punjab Bible and Religious Book Societies, he did much to provide and diffuse Christian vernacular literature. He was a good organizer, knowing how to make the most of men. In 1877 he organized the Punjab Native Church Council, and in the following year he established the Alexandra Christian Girls’ School at Amritsar. After the publication of his Commentaries on the Gospel of St. Matthew, St. John, and the Acts of the Apostles, he received a Lambeth degree of Doctor of Divinity. Dr. Clark retained the office of Chairman of the Church Council for nearly ten years, the secretaryship of the CMS Mi ion till 1897, and the honorary secretaryship of the CEZ for a longer time. In 1900, the seventy fifth year of his age and the forty-ninth of his mi ionary career, he entered his rest at Kasauli, in the Him a lay as. 196