Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1899 — Bishop Welldon's Linguistic Feat. [ARTICLE]

Bishop Welldon's Linguistic Feat.

Dr. Welldon, the new bishop of Calcutta, has accomplished a linguistic feat Six months after h|s arrival in Indlahetook a full confirmation service In the Bengali dialect at Ranaghat in the diocese of Calcutta. There are many in the episcopacy who take up the study of the Indian tongues, but throw them up in dispalr. Bishop Welldon, however, persevered, and got on so well that besides the service named, he has already given a sermon in the Bengali vernacular, which is the one mostly spoken in the Calcutta diocese.