SORABJI KHARSEDJI

[s. 712] : Died August 14, 1S94. A Parsee of Bombay. Amid the bitterest persecutions he confe ed his faith boldly and clearly at the police-office, where he was under police protection before the magistrates and a great; company of Hindus, Par.sees, and Mohammedans. To escape from the abuse to which he was exposed in Bombay, he accepted service under the SPG at Ahmedabad in the summer of 1842. Later he entered the CMS divinity cla at Nasik, and was engaged in conducting the orphanage and building the Christian settlement of Sharanpur. In 1878 he was admitted to deacon’s orders at Agra; and from 1882 he resided at Poona, serving as an honorary mi ionary. He was familiar with the two gre.at Zoroastrian languages, the Zend and Pehlevf, to the mysteries of which only Parsee high priests are admitted. And this has made his book on The Comparison of Zoroastrianism and Christianity a valualilo addition to Parsee literature. His works, entitled Zoroaster and Zoroastrianism, and Life of Christ, were left by him unfinished. He was a member of the Gujarati Bible Revision Committee; and the New Testament portion of his work, and all of his work on the Old Testament, except one book, were finished just before his labors ceased. His heroic death, as well as his consecrated life, was the means of the spiritual awakening of many Parsees and Hindus of Poona. The booklet (CMS), How a Native Clergyman Died, written by his daughter, is an impre ive work. 712