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<p> a missionary of India, was born at Bellary, Southern India, in 1820, where his father was a missionary of the London Society. He was educated at the Bishop's College in [[Calcutta]] and at Glasgow, graduating at the latter place in 1845. In the same year, having been accepted by the London Missionary Society, he left [[England]] for Gujerat, where he labored for thirty-four years, the last twenty-one years in connection with the Presbyterian Church of Ireland. He died in 1881. Mr. Taylor, besides translating the [[Confession]] of [[Faith]] into Gujerati, wrote two of the best grammars in that language. The natives of Gujerat are indebted to him for a History of the [[Christian]] Church, founded on that of Dr. Barth, as well as for a Book of Christian Practise and a Manual of Devotion. Several of the best tracts in the list of the Gujerat [[Tract]] and Book Society are from his pen. He also translated the Shorter Catechism, and was engaged at the time of his death on a translation of the [[Philosophy]] of the [[Plan]] of Salvation, which he left unfinished. (B.P.) </p>

 

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