yR 8 खौवन-ब्रिड । তেও আমাদিগের কথা সমর্থনা করিবে । বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় মহাশয় লিখিয়াছিলেন ;- I was then living in Cornwallis Square as minister of ChristChurch. He called one day and introduced to me as a religious inquirer almost persuaded to be a Christian. After two or three interviews and a great deal of conversation, I was impressed with the belief that his desire of becoming a Christian, was, scarcely, greater than his desire of a voyage to England. I was unwilling to mix up the two questions and while 1 conversed with him on the first, I candidly told him that I could lend him no help as regarded the second question. He seemed disheartened and came to me less frequently after that. * * One day I incidentally mentiuned to a friend of mine, high in office, the curious case of a student of the Hindu College, wishing, at the same time, to be a Christian and to go to England. My friend felt very much interested in the case and expressed a desire of seeing the enterprising youth. I mentioned the fact to Dutta, when I saw him next, and at his own desire, gave him a note of introduction to the gentleman I have referred to. That gentleman received him very cordially and gave him every encouragement in his views, and even introduced him to Mr. Bird, then Deputy Governor of Bengal.' যে সন্ত্রান্ত ও পদস্থ ব্যক্তি মধুসুদনকে বঙ্গদেশের শাসন-কৰ্ত্তা বার্ডসাহেবের সঙ্গে পরিচিত করিয়া দিয়াছিলেন এবং যিনি তঁহার উদ্দেশ্যসাধনে সহায়তা করিবেন বলিয়া মধুসুদনকে আশ্বস্ত করিয়াছিলেন, তিনি যে কে, বন্দোপাধ্যায় মহাশয় তাহার উল্লেখ করেন নাই । কিন্তু তিনি যেই হউন, সংসারানভিজ্ঞ মধুসুদন যে, তাহার আশ্বাস-বাক্যে প্রলুদ্ধ হইয়াছিলেন, তাহাতে সন্দেহ নাই । এরূপ অবস্থায় ধৰ্ম্ম-বিশ্বাস অপেক্ষা ty psih grupyong
- National Magazine, Vol VI, No 1 page 35 “Michael M. S. Datt” by K. M. Haldar, .
