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IMIARCHC, 1903. 
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, KANDY. 
Sfceuart Place, Colombo, Jan. 19. 
Sir,— I see that the Jubilee of the Consecration 
of this Ciiurch is to be celebrated on Sunday 
next, the festival of the conversion of St. Paul. 
Towards the erection of this church the S. P.O. K. 
contributed liberally ; and at a meeting of the 
aociety, held at 67 Lincoln's Inn FieUls, April, 185.3, 
the following letter by Bishop Chapman giving a 
brief history of the church was read to the Board. 
The letter was written at Nuwara Eliya, February, 
1853 
The history of the erection and consecration is 
as follows:— "On my waj to this hill station of 
the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 
for a short sojourn in its invigorating and 
bracing elimate, at an elevation of 6,000 feet 
above the sea-level, I passed a week as the guest 
of His Excellency the Governor, at Kandy, for 
the purpose of consecrating lis church. It was 
the first work aided by the generosity of the 
Committee since the capital of theKandyan Kings 
became subject to British rule, and before the 
island of Ceylon was created into a separate See. 
It shared again, on my arrival, in the bounteous 
aid afforded me by the Committee in their hearty 
"godspeed " on my departure from England. It 
was one of the earliest works I visited, when in 
progress under the energetic and most effective 
superintendence of Lieut. -Colonel Philpotts, R.E., 
brother of the Bishop of Exeter. It is gratifying to 
me to acknowledge this publicly to the Committee 
my sense of obligation to one who has long since 
left our island. Without his valued aid and most 
persevering efforts, amid unlooked-for diliioulties 
and obstructions, I doubt whether the church 
would have Jjeen so successfully completed. Before 
he left us for China he finished the external fabric 
and tower ; and provided the interior fittings in all 
becoming order, sufficiently to enable me to 
license it for use in divine service, where it was so 
urgently needed. The exertions of its late most 
earnest and lamented pastor, the Kev. F. Von 
Dadelszen, originally a missionary of the Society 
for the Propagation of the Gospel, from King's 
College, London, while in England on sick leave, 
enabled him to furnish the windows, communion- 
table, and rails, timber for the roofing, ami a rich 
East window. Little, therefore, remained to 
complete it for consecration ; and his last act 
almost was to obtain from the Government with 
the kind assistance of Sir George Anderson, a loan 
of £1-50 for this purpose. But he was not permitted 
n the mysterious dealings of God's providence, 
to which we bow submissively, to witness the 
ulfilment of his heart's most earnest wish. He 
was seized in August last with brain fever and 
dysentery ; and after a few weeks, sank under it ; 
to the great sorrow not of his own people only, but 
I may say of the whole church in the island. The 
consecration, therefore, was an occasion full of 
saddened interest. A' I the clergy in the Central 
Province assisted in it. Surrounded as it is on 
almost every side by Buddhist temples, two of 
which adjoin its enclosure, I fixed the Conversion 
of St Paul, the chief Apostle of the Gentiles, for the 
solemnity to give both the dedication and name 
to the church. The building is large and massive, 
and, though not, perhaps, architecturally in very 
correct taste, has a good elevation, being in the 
form of a cross, and having a good tower. The 
interior, being without aisles or pillars, affords an 
ample area of, I believe, 120 feet by 80 feet, with 
a chancel and transepts. The soldiers of the 37th 
Regiment formed the choir on the occasion as on 
every Sunday with their band. I preached to a 
full congregation ; and having many memorials 
before and around me of him who had been its 
first exemplary and devoted chaplain, and had 
laboured so earnestly to build up the spiritual as 
well as the material fabric of which he had the 
charge, I could not be unmoved. The ■very pulpit 
in which I stood was a tribute of affectionate 
regard to him from the non-commissioned officers 
and soldiers of the 15th Regiment who had felt the 
blessing of his faithiul and fearless ministrati jns 
among them when stricken with that scourge of 
the E ist, the cholera, a few years ago. The desk 
from which the prayers were read was the gift 
of an intelligent native, a Sinhalese of high 
Kandyan family, who had been converted to 
Christianity and had attached himself to the 
English congregation, having an entire command 
of our language to speak and write, as well as 
understand it. Indeed, I might correctly have 
applied the tribute to his memory as far beyond 
one of ' dull cold marble ': ' Si queris nionumen- 
tum, circumspice.' I shall ever look upon the 
church itself as his monument (knowing chat in 
many hearts he will so live as best the Christian 
pastor should live) — though dead, yet speaking to 
them by his warning voice now that he is gone 
from us, as by bis example while among us. 
On the following Sunday, as tlie first after its 
coneecratiou at an early service, the holy rite of 
