,,memoirs ,,of ,,the ,,right ,,rev4 ,,daniel ,,corrie1 ,,ll4,d4 ,illustration3 ,woodman1 ,sc4 ,daniel ,corrie1 ,,lld4 ,first ,bishop of ,madras4 ,london1 ,published by ,seeley ,c4 ,fleet ,street ,jan4 #ahdg4 ,,memoirs ,,of ,,the ,,right ,,rev4 ,,daniel ,,corrie1 ,,ll4,d4 ,,first ,,bishop ,,of ,,madras4 ,,compiled ,,chiefly ,,from ,,his ,,own ,,letters ,,and ,,journals1 ,,by ,,his ,,brothers4 ,,seeley1 ,,burnside1 ,,and ,,seeley1 ,,fleet ,,street1 ,,london ,,mdcccxlvii4 ,,leonard ,,seeley1 ,,printer1 ,,thames ,,ditton4 ,,preface4 ,as the greater portion of these ,memoirs of a loved and honoured brother1 have been derived from his own papers1 it is hoped that the risk of representing him other than he really was has1 in a great measure1 been avoided4 ,in making use1 however1 of such materials as were in the possession of the ,editors1 they judged it to be desirable to give somewhat copious details of their brother's earlier ministerial labours1 because they conceived that it was then that the principles and motives by which throughout life he desired to be actuated were most severely tested4 ,the ,editors were of opinion1 too1 that whilst many of the particulars connected with their brother's earlier labours in ,northern ,india1 would be new to the great proportion of the present generation1 these records of 8the day of small things0 could not be without interest and use to all who may be engaged in the work of ,missions4 ,to account for the delay attending the appearance of this ,volume1 it may be proper to state1 that1 independently of the time consumed in the transmission of some papers from ,india1 many unforeseen circumstances prevented the brother who had undertaken the task1 from preparing any portion of these ,memoirs for the press until ,august1 #ahde4 ,at that time it pleased ,god to visit him with a serious illness1 which ultimately brought him to the grave2 and thus the responsibility of completing what an abler hand had commenced1 devolved on the only surviving brother1 who1 in his turn1 has not been altogether free from those interruptions which arise out of the duties and afflictions of ordinary life4 ,it remains to acknowledge1 with thanks1 the obligation of the ,editors to the ,lord ,bishop of ,oxford1 for the ,letters which the subject of these ,memoirs addressed to the ,rev4 ,d4 ,brown1 the ,rev4 ,h4 ,martyn1 and the ,rev4 ,j4 ,sargent2 to the ,lord ,bishop of ,calcutta1 for the account of the ,visitation of the ,upper ,provinces1 which appears in pp4 #ebi and seq2 to the widow of the late ,rev4 ,j4 ,buckworth1 for letters addressed to her husband2 and to the ,archdeacon ,harper for letters and information connected with the ,diocese of ,madras4 ,it will be seen also1 that the ,editors of these ,memoirs have been much indebted to the correspondence of their brother with ,mr4 ,sherer1 of the ,bengal ,civil ,service1--himself recently numbered with the dead who are waiting for the resurrection to eternal life4 ,january #bh1 #ahdg4 ,,contents4 ,,chapter ,i4 ,,his ,,early ,,life--,,and ,,ministrations4 page #a ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,,departure ,,for ,,india--,,voyage--,,arrival ,,at ,,calcutta4 page #bc ,,chapter ,,iii4 ,,at ,,aldeen--,,appointed ,,to ,,chunar4 page #dg ,,chapter ,,iv4 ,,settlement ,,at ,,chunar4 page #fe ,,chapter ,v4 ,,residence ,,at ,,chunar4 page #hh ,,chapter ,,vi4 ,,visit ,,to ,,calcutta--,,arrival ,,of ,,his ,,sister4 page #aah ,,chapter ,,vii4 ,,removes ,,from ,,chunar--,,arrives ,,at ,,cawnpore--,,illness ,,of ,,mrs4 ,,martyn4 page #adj ,,chapter ,,viii4 ,,residence ,,at ,,cawnpore4 page #agh ,,chapter ,,ix4 ,,cawnpore--,,coel--,,return ,,to ,,calcutta4 page #bja ,,chapter ,x4 ,,calcutta4 page #bbg ,,chapter ,,xi4 ,,agra4 page #bde ,,chapter ,,xii4 ,,voyage ,,to ,,england4 page #bhj ,,chapter ,,xiii4 ,,return ,,to ,,calcutta4 page #bie ,,chapter ,,xiv4 ,,removal ,,to ,,calcutta4 page #cbj ,,chapter ,,xv4 ,,cawnpore--,,calcutta--,,return ,,of ,,mr4 ,,thomason--,,death ,,of ,,bishop ,,heber4 page #cga ,,chapter ,,xvi4 ,,arrival ,,of ,,bishop ,,james--,,consecration ,,of ,,the ,,bishop',s ,,college--,,death ,,of ,,bishop ,,james--,,visit ,,to ,,the ,,upper ,,provinces4 page #dae ,,chapter ,,xvii4 ,,government ,,retrenchments--,,plan ,,for ,a ,,college--,,death ,,of ,,mr4 ,,thomason--,,abolition ,,of ,,suttee--,,arrival ,,of ,,bishop ,,turner4 page #ddf ,,chapter ,,xviii4 ,,disquietude ,,concerning ,,the ,,anglo-,,hindoo ,,college--,,death ,,of ,,bishop ,,turner4 page #dha ,,chapter ,,xix4 ,,arrival ,,of ,,bishop ,,wilson--,,baptism ,,of ,,natives-- ,,ordinations--,,visitation ,,of ,,the ,,upper ,,provinces4 page #eai ,,chapter ,,xx4 ,,delay ,,in ,,his ,,nomination ,,to ,,the ,,bishopric--,,narrow ,,escape ,,from ,,death--,,summoned ,,to ,,england--,,visits ,,the ,,cape ,,and ,,st4 ,,helena--,,his ,,consecration--,,interview ,,with ,,the ,,king--,,arrival ,,in ,,madras--,,visit ,,to ,,tanjore ,,and ,,tinnevelly4 page #efc ,,chapter ,,xxi4 ,,church-,,building ,,fund--,,subscriptions ,,for ,,the ,,irish ,,clergy--,,the ,,madras ,,grammar ,,school--,,memorial ,,to ,,government--,,primary ,,visitation--,,death ,,of ,,mrs4 ,,corrie--,,ordination--,,death ,,of ,,bishop ,,corrie4 page #fjc ,,memoirs1 ,,etc4 ,,memoirs1 ,,etc4 ,,etc4 ,,chapter ,i4 ,,his ,,early ,,life--,,and ,,ministrations4 ,daniel ,corrie1 the subject of this ,memoir1 was born on the #ajth of ,april #aggg1 and was the eldest surviving son of the late ,rev4 ,john ,corrie1 for many years ,curate of ,colsterworth1 in the county of ,lincoln1 and ,vicar of ,osbournby in the same county1 and afterwards ,rector of ,morcott1 in the county of ,rutland4 ,the history of the early part of ,mr4 ,corrie's life will be best told by the following extract from his private ,journal1 dated on his twenty-seventh birthday3-- 8,alas1 when ,i look back1 what a dreary waste appears6 ,seventeen years spent at home without a thought of ,god or salvation1 though ,i had the benefit of family worship1 and abundance of good advice4 ,the succeeding four years ,i spent with ,mr4 ,e41#a principally in ,london1 and its neighbourhood1 exposed to every temptation4 ,the first serious resolution ,i made of reformation was on the night of ,february #aj1 #agih1 on which ,i heard of my mother's death1 which1 occurring suddenly1 was a great shock to me4 ,i loved her most dearly1 and had much reason to do so4 ,being totally ignorant1 however1 of my own depravity1 and in darkness as it regarded the work of the ,redeemer1 ,i soon broke all my resolutions4 ,in ,may #agih1 ,i returned to my father3 and1 being removed from my temptations1 ,i was in hope of effectually reforming myself2 but1 alas6 on every convenient occasion1 ,i became the prey of my former temptations4 ,in the ,october of that year1 we removed from ,colsterworth to ,grantham1 where ,i became still more strict1 attending every month at the ,lord's ,table2 but ,i was still ignorant of the way of salvation4 ,in the summer of #agii1 ,i was entered of ,clare ,hall1 ,cambridge2 and before going into residence1 ,i met frequently with ,mr4 ,g4 ,n41 who took much pains to direct my views aright2 but ,i obstinately withstood him1 and succeeded too fatally1 ,i fear1 in hardening ,c4 against his admonitions4 ,still1 ,i was destitute of true peace1 and determined on greater strictness1 such as fasting and penance1 c4 c4 ,i went into residence at ,cambridge1 ,october #agii2 but instead of further reformation1 ,i spent my first year in a round of dissipation4 ,still1 however1 ,i maintained appearances1 being seldom out of gates after ten o'clock1 or being absent from chapel4 ,i went occasionally to ,trinity ,church1#b though ,i was much disgusted with what ,i heard there4 ,during the summer of #ahjj1 ,i had time for reflection1 and returned to college in the autumn1 with some faint desires of doing better4 ,at ,christmas of that year1 ,i was appointed to an exhibition at ,trinity ,hall1 and removed thither in the ,january of #ahja4 ,i now began to feel a growing attachment to ,mr4 ,simeon's ministry1 although ,i seldom ventured to take a seat4 ,returning home in ,june #ahja1 reformed in a great degree in my outward conduct1 and with desires the world could not satisfy1 it was my happiness to find ,john ,buckworth1#c at his father's2 who1 taking me to visit some religious people1 ,i insensibly began to love their society1 and to perceive that it was the way of life ,i desired to follow4 ,i reflect with much gratitude on the kindness and forbearance of my friend ,buckworth1 who led me on by degrees1 till ,i ventured to speak to him of my state2 and from that time ,i have experienced a pleasure in the ways of ,god before unknown4 ,yet1 alas6 ,i began to be proud2 and returned to college in ,october #ahja full of self-conceit4 ,i now attended ,trinity ,church regularly2 but my walk was very uneven4 ,about ,christmas ,i fell grievously1 and continued for about a fortnight full of terror1 and without resolution to proceed4 ,it pleased the ,lord1 however1 to raise me up again2 and since that period ,i have had no distressing apprehensions respecting ,god's willingness1 and the ,saviour's sufficiency1 to save to the uttermost40 ,with reference to what ,mr4 ,corrie terms in the foregoing extract1 a grievous fall1 he expressed himself to his friend ,buckworth1 in a letter dated ,dec4 #be1 #ahja1 as follows3-- 8,i was too forward and presumptuous in my notions of acceptance with ,god1 and of an interest in the ,saviour2 and ,god has thus left me to myself1 to prove to me the pride and deceit of my heart4 ,i have been ashamed of my ,saviour1 and he has withdrawn from me the sense of ,his presence2 and dismay and a fearful looking for of judgment has taken possession of my soul4 ,yet the anxiety and longing after ,his presence1 which ,i feel1 leads me to hope that ,he will not cast me off for ever4 ,god1 ,thou knowest my heart3 ,thou knowest that ,i trust not in my own self for strength to serve ,thee4 ,o shut not ,thy merciful ears to my prayers60 ,after keeping the usual number of ,terms in ,cambridge1 ,mr4 ,corrie was ordained ,deacon on ,trinity ,sunday1 ,june #ac1 #ahjb1 by ,dr4 ,tomline1 ,bishop of ,lincoln1 to the curacy of ,buckminster1 in the county of ,leicester4 ,his views and feelings with respect to the christian ministry1 are expressed in the following extract from a letter written about the time of ordination to ,mr4 ,buckworth3-- 8,the ministry appears to be indeed an awful undertaking3 the nearer the time approaches1 the more difficult do the duties of it appear4 ,at ,c4 the obstacles seem to be greater than elsewhere4 ,o for a firm reliance on that grace that can overcome all obstacles1 and make even a bed of thorns easy60 ,shortly after ,mr4 ,corrie had been ordained to the curacy of ,buckminster1 he received an appointment to that of ,stoke ,rochford also4 ,on this latter curacy he resided1 until in #ahjf he accepted a chaplaincy to the ,east ,india ,company2 and his correspondence with ,mr4 ,buckworth1 affords us some notices of his early ministerial life4 ,in a letter dated ,november #aj1 #ahjb1 he writes1 8,i yesterday met a large party from ,skillington at ,n4's4 ,you know ,i never was among them before4 ,i felt little edification3 their manner of expression1 and many passages in their hymns1 were not in unison with my frame4 ,i felt not that #8,nature's last agony was o'er2' or that #8all was torn from my bleeding heart2' but thought that #8would to ,god this were my experience6' ,o that ,i might love ,him supremely--that ,i might burn with love in return for ,his matchless goodness6 ,but1 what ,i most objected to was a hymn1 beginning1 #8,abraham when severely tried1' and in the third line1 #8,he with the harsh command complied4' ,i may not be correct in any except the marked words2 but surely nothing can be #8severe1' or #8harsh1' which proceeds from a ,god of love1 who is engaged to make all things work together for our good4 ,send me word1 dear ,b4 what you think of these things3 whether these remarks are not the offspring of a captious and weak head2 or whether it is an artifice of ,satan to prevent me from profiting by their company2 for1 certain it is1 ,i feel little of that elevation ,i have often felt after religious conversation4 ,i spent the evening of ,sunday at ,mrs4 ,b4's1 ,i trust profitably4 ,some of their relations were there1 and went away seemingly impressed4 ,may ,god fix what was said on their hearts6 ,i spoke to them from my favourite subject1 #b ,cor4 viii4 #i4 ,the subject of our poverty1 and the way in which we were made rich in ,christ1 were the principal topics ,i dwelt on4 ,o that ,he would be pleased to own the labours of the very least of his servants1 who am not worthy to be called a servant6 ,blessed be ,he who has #8laid help on one that is mighty2' and blessed be ,he who knows how to pity our infirmities1 and will send his ,spirit to teach us what to ask for4 ,how my praise for ever flows1 to the adorable ,trinity for that grand scheme of redemption6 ,while ,i write1 ,i feel the efficacy of ,christ's atoning blood to purify souls polluted as mine4 ,o when shall redemption in its fullest import appear6 ,when shall we begin the triumphant song of the redeemed1 #8,to ,him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood6'0 8,march #g1 #ahjc4 8,my time1 sorry am ,i to say1 has passed heavily of late4 ,such backwardness to communion with ,god1 such slothfulness in ,his service3 so many painful apprehensions with regard to temporal inconveniences3 so many distressing doubts with regard to retaining ,stoke6 ,you1 perhaps1 will not wonder when ,i tell you that1 what with inward conflict and outward service1 ,i am brought very low2 or that these unbelieving fears have provoked the ,holy ,spirit of ,god to leave me1 in some measure1 to wrestle with those inward and hidden corruptions of my heart1 which1 like a troubled sea1 throw up mire and dirt in abundance4 ,yet by this1 if by nothing else1 do ,i know that the ,lord favours me1 since my enemies1 who have assaulted me so continually1 have not prevailed against me4 ,and though my soul is cast down2 yet do ,i not doubt but that1 when the ,lord sees fit1 ,i shall praise ,him1 and again rejoice in the ,god of my salvation4 8,you desire to know how ,i go on1 that is1 ,i suppose1 how the work of the ,lord prospers4 ,o that ,i had more to tell you on this head6 ,at ,sewstern1 ,i have reason to fear that my hopes were too sanguine4 ,miss ,n4 was last week attacked very suddenly with a fainting fit4 ,it happened to be the day ,i was to drink tea with them4 ,i found them much alarmed2 and1 it gave me an opportunity of speaking on the necessity of a speedy application to ,christ4444 ,may the ,spirit of ,god apply it to their hearts6 ,at ,easton1 ,i was called to visit a woman who has been long confined1 though till lately unknown to me4 ,i trust that the ,lord has indeed visited her in mercy4 ,i found her at first in a very contented state1 supposing1 7in her own words71 that she had #8a good repenting heart4' ,i endeavoured to convince her that by nature no one has a repenting heart1 but on the contrary that it is only evil1 yea #8desperately wicked4' ,on my return a few days after1 ,i found her in much anxiety1 saying that she had been deceived in her opinion of herself1 c42 and though her doubts are not yet removed1 ,i trust she disclaimed all other ground of confidence but the ,redeemer's merits4 ,this is matter of much comfort to me2 and ,o what comfort that ,i have myself been taught these things6 ,might ,i not have been #8a blind leader of the blind4' ,might ,i not still have been the slave of ,satan1 and been his instrument in destroying souls8 #8,o to grace how great a debtor6'0 8,april #be1 #ahjc4 8,soon after my last letter to you1 peace began to dawn upon my soul2 and by imperceptible advances gradually to increase4 ,i have since then enjoyed in general a settled calm2 though of late ,i have been severely exercised by the revival of corruptions which ,i had hoped were in a great measure subdued4 ,the ,lord has let me plainly see that the seeds of these evils still remain4 ,at the same time ,i have reason to bless ,his name1 who has made me more than conqueror4 ,mr4 ,newton's letter on ,temptation suits my experience on that subject2 and it has been the instrument of much comfort and strength to me4 8,you perhaps have learned from the newspapers the sudden death of ,mr4 ,cholmeley4#d ,he was riding with some friends near his own house1 and fell from his horse in a fit1 and expired in a few minutes1 without speaking a word3 he was buried last ,saturday4 ,how loudly do such providences call upon us to be in continual readiness2 not only to awake from sin1 but to be diligent in the improvement of our talent1 that when our ,lord cometh1 ,he may receive ,his own with usury40 8,colsterworth1 ,june #h1 #ahjc4 8,your letter directed to ,high ,street1 followed me hither4 ,i should have answered it sooner1 but have been much engaged in catechising1 attending visitations1 c41 besides my usual avocations4 ,with yourself1 ,i have to complain of much deadness of soul2 though ,i enjoy now and then a passing glimpse of the ,divine goodness1 for which ,i have much reason to be thankful1 and which keeps my soul athirst for ,god1 and leads me to long for brighter manifestations of ,his love4 ,i cannot but adore the condescension of ,jehovah1 who1 ,i trust1 smiles upon my labours1 and owns ,his own work in the most worthless of ,his creatures40 8,stoke1 ,october #ca1 #ahjc4 8,what obligations am ,i under to you for the part you have taken1 in leading my feet into the ways of peace6 ,but1 what infinitely greater obligations do ,i owe to the ,friend of ,sinners6 ,that name1 the #8,friend of ,sinners1' endears the adorable ,saviour to my soul2 and gladly would ,i leave all things here below to see ,him as he is1 and love ,him as ,i ought4 ,but ,his time is best3 and it is infinite condescension that ,he grants us here some visits of ,his love1 and gives us to taste a blessedness begun4 ,when ,i read your letter1 ,i was almost ready to envy you the pleasure you must have enjoyed during your stay in ,london2 but a little reflection reconciled me to my confined situation4 ,though you were feasted with spiritual dainties1 yet unless your spiritual appetite was good you would pine in the midst of plenty2 and1 blessed be ,his name1 where ,he creates an appetite1 ,he will surely satisfy it1 were it in a desert4 #8,if ,elijah wants food1 ravens shall feed him4'444 ,i have in general enjoyed much comfort in private1 but my public duties have not brought me so much consolation4 ,so much of self mixes with all ,i do1 that it mars my peace2 and1 ,i fear1 hinders the success of my labours2 though it seems the highest presumption to limit the ,almighty1 or to suppose that a #8potsherd of the earth' should obstruct ,his designs4 ,the ,sunday preceding the ,fast-day1 ,i endeavoured to prepare the minds of the people for that occasion2 and was happy to find that it was not without effect4 ,the three churches were crowded4 ,i took my text from ,psalm lix4 #a1 #b4 ,i have read lately two of the ,homilies1 #8the ,homily on the ,misery of ,man1' and #8the ,homily on ,salvation4' ,by the advice of my father1 ,i reserve the others for the festivals for which they are appointed4 ,i hope this may have the effect of removing prejudice--the ,lord grant it may6 ,i can appeal to ,him that my desires are to be useful in ,his vineyard4 ,may that sovereign grace be magnified which has inspired the desire6 ,yesterday my father administered the ,sacrament for me at ,buckminster2 the number of communicants was unusually large1 though it is a time of the year in which the people do not usually attend in numbers4 ,i hope this is a token for good1 and an encouragement to persevere and wait the ,lord's time4444 8,my dear friend1 forget me not at the throne of grace3 thither ,i always bear you in my mind1 and ,i have much need of your prayers1 that ,i may have utterance given me to declare the mysteries of the ,gospel4 ,this is all that is worth living for1 to make known the riches of ,divine grace1 and to be instrumental in winning souls to ,christ4 ,yet1 ,o what coldness and backwardness ,i feel even in this delightful service6444 8,did you1 my friend1 partial as you are1 but know the thoughts that haunt my soul1 and pursue me even into the pulpit1 your good opinion would1 ,i fear1 be turned into disgust4 ,but #8this is a saying worthy of all acceptation1 that ,christ ,jesus came into the world to save sinners4' ,this is all my salvation1 and all my desire2 and this shall be all my theme1 #8,worthy is the ,lamb that was slain4 ,from this hold1 ,satan has not prevailed to drive me of late4 ,to this hold will ,i cling1 for ,he that is my righteousness is also my strength1 and in ,his strength ,i shall be more than conqueror4 ,may the soul of my friend #8blossom as the rose2 and be as the garden of the ,lord1 well watered every where and fruitful6'0 8,london1 ,december #bj1 #ahjc4 8,i rejoice that you seem to expect no further hinderance to your ordination at ,easter4 ,i hope you will be abundantly blessed in your labours1 for truly nothing else can satisfy a soul thirsting after the honour that comes of ,god4 ,we need much patience1 dear ,b41 that after having done the will of ,god we may inherit the promises-- #8,god moves in a mysterious way1 ,his wonders to perform1' and1 when our finite capacities can discover no good working1 ,he is bringing about the purposes of ,his own will4 ,often has he given my impatient soul to see this3 in a moment hushed the storm of raging and impetuous passions2 and made1 even when all in prospect seemed gloomy1 a great calm4 ,this experience has been of great service to me1 in enabling me to impart consolation to others1 and to comfort them with the same comfort wherewith ,i myself have been comforted of ,god4 ,o the heights and depths1 and lengths and breadths1 of the love and condescension of ,god1 to submit1 as it were1 to the caprices of the creatures of ,his hand1 yea1 of the rebels against ,his government6 #8,is this the manner of men1 ,o ,lord8' ,i feel1 indeed1 according to your expression1 that #8without all-sufficient grace1 quickly would my heart return to the indulgence of those things which my judgment tells me1 are nothing but vanity and sin4' ,in the review of my experience since ,i came hither1 much cause of praise appears4 ,that promise has been very abundantly realized1 #8,he will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able1 but will with the temptation make a way to escape4' ,and having this experience ,i would gladly #8cast all my care upon ,him1' who1 ,i trust1 #8careth for me1' in expectation that ,he will #8keep me by ,his mighty power through faith unto salvation4'0 8,stoke1 ,february #ad1 #ahjd4 8,i anticipate much pleasure in your company and from hearing you preach in some of my churches4 ,i have1 however1 ,i trust1 learned in some poor measure to #8cease from man2' nor do ,i expect either pleasure or comfort further than as a ,divine blessing shall attend our communications4 ,the work of the ministry seems to be followed with little effect in this place3 for my own part1 however1 ,i have felt much freedom from slavish fear2 and have delivered my message with boldness4 ,if it were the will of ,god1 ,i should rejoice in some visible effects2 but ,i desire to resign myself to ,his pleasure4 8,the ,methodists have at length established preaching at ,sewstern2 and1 ,i understand1 some have been brought under convictions by their means4 ,if the work be of ,god1 ,i would gladly bid it ,god speed2 and if it be of man1 it will come to nothing4 ,the ministers of the ,established ,church labour under some disadvantages1 from the necessity of having so many parishes to attend to1 c4444 ,every day convinces me more of the necessity of subordination in religious1 as well as civil affairs4 ,the want of this is the cause of that mania1 if ,i may so speak1 which prevails among the ,methodists1 and bids fair in time to turn them all into preachers and no hearers4 ,they seem to look upon preaching as the only instrument of conversion1 and overlook other means1 such as reflection1 self-examination1 c42 hence their various backslidings1 falling from grace1 c41 with the many reproaches that are brought upon the gospel thereby4 ,these things make me lament sincerely1 the defection which1 ,i fear1 daily takes place from the ,establishment4 ,pure in her doctrines1 and apostolic in her constitution1 our ,church seems1 indeed1 #8the pillar and ground of truth2' and the best means1 under the great ,head1 of keeping men in the simplicity of the gospel4 ,i would not1 however1 say with ,mr4 ,d4 that there is no salvation out of her pale4 ,i would rather pray1 earnestly pray1 for a revival of vital godliness in her sons4444 ,o that it would #8please ,god to illuminate all ,bishops1 ,priests1 and ,deacons1 with true knowledge and understanding of ,his word2' and enable them to shew its real power both in their preaching and living44440 8,april #d1 #ahjd4 8,i should have answered your letter sooner1 but have been both very unwell and very much engaged4 ,mrs4 ,b4 left this life for a better1 in the night of the #bfth ultimo4 ,i was in the house at the time of her departure1 and ,i trust profited by the awful event4 ,she was sensible at the last1 though for some days she had been wandering4 ,frequently during her illness1 she confessed that she had no hope but in the blood and righteousness of ,christ1 and wished to receive ,him as her ,king to make her holy1 as well as her ,prophet to teach her1 and her ,priest to atone for her transgressions4 ,it was matter of surprise to me to hear her express herself with a correctness on the work of the ,redeemer1 which had been unusual to her2 and did not seem to be expected from one who had become so late in life acquainted with the way of salvation4 ,i have felt more than ,i had expected to feel from the departure of one of my most constant and attentive hearers4 ,may the effect be lasting6 8,i have of late had reason to bless ,god for some visible testimony of ,his acceptance of my labours4 ,soon after you left us1 ,i went to visit an old person and his wife at ,sewstern1 and trust that the man is in a hopeful way4 ,some persons at ,easton1 too1 have been awakened1 and now meet for the purpose of social worship4 ,the multitude1 alas6 continue inattentive3 but1 one soul saved1 and that the meanest or weakest of ,god's creation1 is abundant recompense for a life of toil and labour4 8,last ,sunday1 ,i exchanged duty with ,mr4 ,g4 at ,w4 ,it is grievous to observe so small an attendance at public worship4 ,it seems a beacon to warn us of the ill consequences of irregularity4 ,when a man shews a contempt for the institutions of the church to which he belongs1 the profanum vulgus1 though dull enough in general1 can easily see the motive that keeps him in the church1 and they learn to despise the person who1 for the sake of emolument1 will continue a member of the church40 ,to the foregoing notices of ,mr4 ,corrie's early ministerial labours1 may be added an extract from his ,journal1 dated ,april #aj1 #ahjd4 8,on ,trinity ,sunday1 ,june #ac1 #ahjb1 ,i was ordained ,deacon4 ,i trust ,i had a desire to do good to the souls of men2 but it was1 as ,i now perceive1 very faint1 though ,i hope my labours have not been in vain4 ,and now1 ,o ,lord1 ,i desire to adore that sovereign grace1 which plucked me as a brand from the mouth of the devouring flame6 ,i would pour out my soul in gratitude1 to that dear ,redeemer1 whose intercession has delivered me from so great a death2 and would bless the ,holy and ,eternal ,spirit who has enlightened my dark understanding1 so that though ,i know not the hour1 nor the day1 nor the month1 nor even the year1 when ,he graciously wrought savingly upon me1 yet ,i can say1 #8,whereas ,i was blind1 now ,i see4' ,o ,holy1 ,blessed1 and glorious ,trinity1 let thy choicest blessings descend on ,mr4 ,simeon1 who1 regardless of the frowns he might incur1 faithfully warned me of my danger2 and let thy watchful ,providence ever protect my friend ,buckworth1 dearer than a brother2 and1 ,o1 pardon my manifold sins6 ,this is all my hope1 that the blood of ,jesus ,christ cleanseth from all sin1 and that ,his ,spirit is powerful to subdue the most inveterate corruptions4 #8,on thee alone my hope relies1 ,at thy dear cross ,i fall1 ,my ,lord1 my ,life1 my ,righteousness1 ,my ,saviour1 and my all4' ,impart to me from thy fulness1 and let me evermore be abounding in thy work4 ,i trust thou hast given me to desire the furtherance of thy glory4 ,enable me to act accordingly1 and to live to ,him who loved me and gave himself for me4 ,let nothing ever prevail to allure me from ,thee1 neither the hope of preferment1 nor the fear of opposition4 ,i have a deceitful and desperately wicked heart1 but ,i trust thou wilt never leave me nor forsake me1 seeing thou hast given me to hope in thy word40 ,during the ,easter ,term #ahjd1 ,mr4 ,corrie returned to ,cambridge for the purpose of keeping his ,law ,exercises2#e and on ,sunday1 ,june #ajth1 of that year1 was ordained ,priest at ,buckden1 an event which he thus notices3-- 8,this day ,i have been admitted to the sacred ,order of ,priests4 ,i have much1 ,o ,lord1 to be grateful to ,thee for6 ,i was kept calm and collected during the examination2 and1 7glory be to ,thy name67 ,i have been given to feel1 in some measure1 my insufficiency for these things4 ,make me1 ,i beseech thee1 more sensible of this1 and grant that the solemn transactions of this day may never rise up in judgment against me6 ,let me be a light in the world1 showing forth thy praise2 and make me1 both in life and doctrine1 an example to ,thy flock4 ,lord1 excite in my heart strong desires after the welfare of immortal souls2 and grant that those to whom1 ,i trust1 thou hast sent me1 may be #8turned from darkness to light1 and from the power of ,satan unto ,god4' ,to thee ,i look3 on thee ,i would depend4 ,blessed ,jesus6 be thou my righteousness and my strength4 ,fulfil all the good pleasure of thy will in me40 ,in answer to a letter received from ,mr4 ,buckworth1 who1 the ,easter previously1 had been ordained to the curacy of ,dewsbury1 he writes1 ,august #bdth1 #ahjd3-- 8,i rejoice to hear of the success of your ministerial efforts4 ,o that the ,lord would hasten the time when ,satan's kingdom shall be finally demolished1 and the kingdom of the ,messiah established on its ruins6 ,you will now have another snare to contend with2 the ,lord having been pleased to own you for his servant1 ,satan will now seek to exalt you beyond measure4 ,we tread in a narrow path3 dangers stand thick around3 a single false step may lead to consequences most ruinous4 ,o what need of watchfulness6 ,may the #8,watchman of ,israel' guard you2 then will you be secure indeed6 ,for myself1 ,i can but just discern the pulse of spiritual life to beat1 and that chiefly by the struggle between sin and grace4 ,alas6 ,i have no active exertions to reflect on4 ,that ,i am not the willing captive of natural inclination is all that ,i can say4 ,since you were here1 ,i have been obliged to apply for medical aid1 and have found considerable relief 7thanks be to the chief ,physician67 so that ,i am now in usual health1 except that ,i am oppressed with a languor which distresses me exceedingly1 and leaves me only able to sigh and cry4 ,how cheering the consideration that #8our life is hid with ,christ in ,god6' ,there it is secure4 ,how animating the thought that #8when ,christ who is our life shall appear1 then shall we also appear with him in glory6' ,o the wonders of redeeming love1 that worms1 rebellious worms1 may not only hope1 but confidently expect such transcendent blessedness6 ,for ,christ our ,head having endured the cross1 to deny ,him the rewards of ,his sufferings would be an injustice incapable of entering the ,eternal mind4 ,what shall ,i render to the ,lord that amidst all my deadness1 this hope is not taken from me8 ,my help it standeth only with the ,lord2 and though ,i am destitute of sensible comfort1 yet ,i am enabled to rest upon the unchangeable word of promise1 that those whom ,he has justified1 and to whom ,he has given the love of holiness1 the inseparable companion of justification1 ,he will infallibly glorify4 ,with respect to the work of the ,lord1 ,i hope it prospers among us4 ,i hear of good being done1 and that is some comfort to me4 ,amongst your numerous friends1 let me beg of you to remember me at the throne of grace3 none more stands in need of your earnest supplications4 ,whilst ,i can keep hold of the promise1 ,i am encouraged3 but ,i assure you1 it is indeed a warfare1 a struggle1 a race4 ,you are often1 often present to my mind2 and while ,i have any apprehension of the inestimable value of spiritual blessings1 ,i will not cease to pray that you may be enriched with the choicest of them2 and that we may be permitted to join in the songs of the redeemed40 8,stoke1 ,november #ab1 #ahjd4 8,it is some time since ,i heard of you1 but hope you are well3 if so1 the less matter whether ,i hear of you or not4 ,however1 pray snatch some passing hour to let us know how the work of the ,lord goes on at ,d42 for1 let matters go how they may with ourselves1 still will we say respecting the success of the ,gospel1 #8,good luck have thou6' ,there is in man a desire to be something1 somewhere2 and this desire is1 beyond a doubt1 the moving spring of much of that forwardness we see in many touching the promotion of religion4 ,howbeit1 the ,gospel is furthered4 8,you will be surprised to hear of the death of ,james ,p4 ,he was buried at ,colsterworth about a fortnight since4 ,with my father's permission1 ,i preached at his funeral to a crowded church4 ,the effect ,i know not1 but my own heart seemed hard and insensible as a rock2 and1 indeed1 though ,i have proof that my labours are owned by my gracious ,lord1 yet ,i seem like ,gideon's fleece1 dry in the midst of divine dew4 ,my hope1 however1 and my confidence1 is kept immoveably fixed on the rock of ages2 and ,i have to bless ,god for a growing devotedness to his service1 an increasing determination to be the world's fool for the sake of ,christ1 and to count ,his reproach my highest honour40 ,an entry in his private ,journal1 dated ,january #bgth1 #ahje1 manifests the same distrust of self1 and the same earnestness for the good of his people4 8,at ,skillington1 this morning1 ,i felt an earnest desire1 had it been ,god's will1 that ,i were able to preach extempore4 ,i had so strong a desire to communicate to the people what ,i felt of ,god's goodness1 that it seemed a restraint to confine myself to my paper4 ,but1 ,lord1 thou knowest what a proud creature ,i am4 ,thou seest how ,i covet the praise of man1 and in mercy to my soul hast made me #8slow of speech4' ,o make me of quick understanding in the ways of godliness6 ,at ,stoke1 ,i felt something of the same spirit remaining1 some longings after ,god in prayer1 and some breathings for his blessing on the people during the sermon2 but at ,buckminster1 how changed6 ,wandering thoughts and imaginations4 ,how manifold are the mercies1 how infinite the patience of ,god6 ,o when will it be that my heart shall be immoveably fixed on ,god3 when shall my soul become as a weaned child8 ,blessed ,saviour6 thou art my ,friend1 my ,advocate1 my ,head of influence3 visit me with thy salvation3 smile upon my poor1 imperfect1 defiled labours1 and glorify thy name in my weakness60 ,april #ajth1 being his #bhth birth-day1 is thus noticed3 8,yesterday1 ,i was twenty-eight years of age3 but1 my heart ever prone to forget the ,lord's mercies1 ,i forgot to make any reflections on the ,divine goodness in bringing me thus far4 ,lord1 ,i would remember1 to the glory of thy rich and free grace1 that thou forgivest my transgressions1 and coverest all mine iniquities4 ,i have to praise thee that thou hidest me from the strife of tongues3 thou makest my way very pleasant3 thou strewest my path with flowers3 thou hast also given me some tokens that ,i have not run unsent1 by blessing my poor attempts to the consciences of my people1 and awakening some of them1 ,i trust1 from the sleep of sin1 making them to hear thy sweet voice speaking peace to their souls4 ,if a worm may be permitted to plead with his ,maker1 ,o let my cry enter into thy ears1 and awaken many sinners amongst us to come to ,christ that they perish not6 ,yea1 ,lord1 give me to see ,jerusalem in prosperity3 nor would ,i cease to plead with thee till thou hast answered my prayer4 ,i would praise thy holy name for a growing determination to glory in nothing save in the cross of our ,lord ,jesus ,christ4 ,i would bless thee for a disposition to count reproach for his sake as my highest glory4 ,i plainly perceive that #8all who will live godly must suffer persecution4' ,i cannot hope to enter into heaven but #8through much tribulation1' even as thy choicest servants have done4 ,o enable me to keep my eye ever fixed on ,jesus1 that ,i may not be weary1 or faint in my mind6 ,when ,i look back1 the brightness of thy favour makes my unprofitableness dark indeed2 and ,i should have just cause to fear1 that the avenging sword of thy justice would cut me down as a cumberer of the ground2 but ,jesus liveth1 making intercession1 and therefore ,i am not consumed4 ,nor shall ,i ever be consumed1 seeing1 #8,he is able to save to the uttermost4' ,to all thy other favours1 ,o ,lord1 add a heart to trust thy word2 and henceforth let the love of ,christ constrain me to a more constant and uniform obedience4 ,thou knowest that ,i love thy law2 and though ,i come far short of its requirements1 yet there is not one jot or tittle that ,i desire to have altered4 ,i consent to it that it is #8holy1 just1 and good1' and desire to conform my whole spirit1 soul and body1 to its divine precepts4 ,let thy ,holy ,spirit1 then1 carry on the work thou hast begun6 ,write thy law upon my heart2 put it into my mind2 and let me be changed from glory to glory1 till ,i become #8meet for the inheritance of the saints in light3' whither1 in thine own good time and way1 bring me of thine infinite mercy1 for ,christ's sake4 ,amen40 ,in the ,easter term of #ahje1 ,mr4 ,corrie was admitted to his ,l4,l4,b4 degree4 ,it was during this visit to ,cambridge that the subject of a chaplaincy to the ,east ,india ,company was strongly urged upon him by the late ,mr4 ,simeon4 ,after much and serious consideration1 it seemed to ,mr4 ,c4 to be his duty to devote himself to the spread of the ,gospel amongst the heathen4 ,an appointment to ,india was accordingly obtained for him1 through the influence of the late ,mr4 ,william ,hoare2 and the following extracts from ,mr4 ,c4's journal and letters will exhibit the state of his mind1 in the prospect of quitting his curacy1 for the purpose of exercising his ministry in a distant land4 8,july #beth1 #ahje4 ,i have for a long time neglected to note down the workings of my soul2 but ,i would now remark1 that when ,i have been in my best frames1 my mind has been most resigned to the work of the ,lord in ,india4 ,yet ,i feel much cleaving to creatures1 and a want of resignation4 ,lord1 teach me to know1 and do thy will6 8,oct4 #fth4 ,as the time approaches for leaving ,england1 more anxiety of mind arises2 though blessed be ,god1 no desire to draw back from the work4 ,o may ,i be found but faithful6 ,lord1 strengthen and support me in the work4 #8,give what thou commandest1--and then command what thou wilt3' let thy will be done in me1 and by me2 and in life and death let me be thine1 through ,jesus ,christ1 thy dear ,son1 and my beloved ,saviour4 ,amen60 ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,j4 ,,buckworth4 8,november #ab1 #ahje4 8,from my last you would1 perhaps1 expect to hear from me before this2 which might have been the case1 but that ,i received information1 when in ,london1 that the fleet does not sail for ,india before ,january next4 ,it is not likely1 therefore1 that ,i shall leave this place ,stoke before that time2 unless1 indeed1 ,mr4 ,d4 should meet with a curate to supply my place4 ,he is now in ,london2 and1 as my engagement with him ceases at ,martinmas1 should he meet with any person at liberty to enter on the curacy1 ,i cannot expect1 nor do ,i desire1 to continue longer4 ,he returns this week1 when it will be determined4 ,on my way from ,london1 ,i stopped at ,cambridge1 and read prayers for ,mr4 ,simeon on the ,thursday evening4 ,it was highly gratifying to see very many gownsmen attentive hearers of ,god's word4 ,one might compare it to so many messengers waiting for instructions1 with which they were about to post off in all directions4 ,the ,lord increase their number1 and long continue ,mr4 ,simeon at ,cambridge1 an invaluable blessing to the church and nation6--,i feel some degree of regret at leaving this place2 and1 especially on account of some who manifest an attachment to the cause of ,god1 whilst yet they are far from being what ,i could wish them4 ,i experience something of what the ,apostle expressed towards his people1 when he declared he #8travailed in birth of them till ,christ were formed in them4' ,o that the ,lord would #8cut short his work in righteousness1' that ,i might leave them with a prospect of rendering an account of them with joy6 ,i reflect with much dissatisfaction on my conduct whilst among them3 so little of the example of ,christ1 so little of warmth in public1 so little of zeal in private1 so much ignorance1 and inexperience in stating the truths of ,god1 that ,i fear lest their blood should be required at my hands3 almost involuntarily my soul cries out1 #8,deliver me from blood-guiltiness1 ,o ,lord1 and my mouth shall sing aloud of thy righteousness6' ,o the horrid wickedness of soul-murder6 ,how infinitely valuable must that blood be1 that can wash out so foul a stain6 ,o may ,i ever experience its healing and cleansing power2 and may the consideration of the richness and the fulness of redeeming love animate me to greater exertions1 and fill my mouth with more exalted praises6 ,lord ,jesus1 let thy power rest upon me1 and thy strength be perfected in my weakness6 ,out of the mouth of a babe and suckling in ,divine knowledge1 ordain praise and glory to ,thyself6 ,let my dear friend say1 #8,amen1' to these unconnected petitions2 whilst1 through grace1 my prayers shall continue to ascend1 that every needful gift and grace may be bestowed upon you1 that you may be enriched with all spiritual knowledge and understanding2 and that you may have utterance given #8to declare the whole counsel of ,god4'0 8,january #acth1 #ahjf4 8,i have not heard further respecting the time of sailing for ,india1 but am getting ready for a removal on the shortest notice4 ,with much thankfulness ,i inform you1 that my mind is quite tranquil in the prospect of leaving everything dear to human nature4 ,i have1 indeed1 sometimes1 painful convictions of my insufficiency for the great work before me2 but am in general enabled to believe1 that #8as my day is1 so shall my strength be4' ,the affection my people express for me fills me with shame1 that ,i do not more deserve it1 and with fear lest ,i should be tempted to think of myself more highly than ,i ought to think4 ,it has pleased my gracious ,lord1 however1 to give me of late a deep experience of my own depravity1 and of my unworthiness of the least of his mercies4 ,my dear friends seem entirely reconciled to a separation4 ,i trust that we shall be able to part without the sorrow of those #8who have no hope4' ,o how great the condescension of our ,redeemer ,god1 who stoops to so close an union with sinful worms3 who allows the sons and daughters of corruption to address ,him as their ,husband and their head2 and salutes them as ,his spouse and ,his beloved6 ,methinks such honour1 so undeserved1 might well engage our every thought1 and make our every inquiry only1 #8,what shall ,i render1 c48'0 #a ,a friend who had expressed an intention of providing in life for ,mr4 ,c4 #b ,the church of which the late ,rev4 ,charles ,simeon was then ,incumbent4 #c ,the late ,rev4 ,john ,buckworth1 ,vicar of ,dewsbury1 whose father was an inhabitant of ,colsterworth4 #d ,montague ,cholmeley1 ,esq4 of ,easton ,hall1 near ,grantham1 one of ,mr4 ,corrie's parishioners1 and grandfather of the present ,sir ,montague ,j4 ,cholmeley1 ,bart4 #e ,it was now that ,mr4 ,corrie became more intimately acquainted with ,henry ,martyn than he had before been4 ,,chapter ,,ii4 ,,departure ,,for ,,india--,,voyage--,,arrival ,,at ,,calcutta4 ,early in the year #ahjf1 ,mr4 ,corrie took leave of his relatives and parishioners to embark for ,india4 ,at that time1 a voyage to ,india was looked upon as a much greater undertaking than it is considered at the present day4 ,accordingly on ,mr4 ,corrie's departure from his father's house1 the parishioners pressed round to take their leave of him2 many of them deeply affected1 believing 8that they should see his face no more40 ,after a prosperous journey to ,london and ,portsmouth1 he embarked 7,march #cj1 #ahjf7 on board the ,asia ,east ,indiaman1 bound to ,calcutta4 ,mr4 ,c4 was accompanied by a brother-,chaplain1 the ,rev4 ,joseph ,parson1 one of his most attached ,college friends4 ,among the passengers were many cadets1 to several of whom ,mr4 ,c4 was made useful1 and became in after life their friend and counsellor4 ,some particulars of the voyage are subjoined from ,mr4 ,corrie's ,journal and ,letters1 which shew the lively interest he took in the welfare of all around him1 and indicate the steady purpose with which he kept in view the great work before him4 ,in his journal1 ,mr4 ,c4 writes under date of 8,april #ajth4 ,this day ,i have completed my twenty-ninth year4 ,in the review of the past year1 ,o what reason have ,i to adore the divine mercy4 ,soon after ,i had determined on going to ,india1 which was in ,june last1 it pleased ,god to work by his word1 and to raise a general attention to eternal things1 amongst my people at ,buckminster and ,stoke1 giving me real favour in their sight1 for which ,i desire to praise ,him1 confessing that ,i am not worthy to be ranked amongst the meanest of ,his ministers4 ,some amongst them1 ,i hope1 were brought to ,god4 ,o that they may continue to walk in the truth2 and may each amongst them become ,christians1 not in name only1 but in deed and in truth6 ,since ,i have been on the point of departing from ,england1 every objection to the undertaking has been removed from my mind4 ,my heart is set on the work of the ,lord in ,india2 and ,i would not draw back1 as far as ,i know myself1 to be made ,archbishop of ,canterbury4 ,i have taken leave of my dear friends1 most likely for ever in this world4 ,i would dedicate every faculty of my soul and body to my redeeming ,god4 ,lord1 accept me1 working in me that which is well-pleasing in thy sight1 through ,jesus ,christ my ,lord and ,saviour2 to whom with ,thy blessed self1 and ,holy ,spirit1 ,three persons in one ,jehovah1 be all glory1 and honour1 and praise1 now and for evermore4 ,amen6 8,april #adth4 ,on ,saturday afternoon1 and yesterday morning1 the wind blew quite a hurricane4 ,in the night of ,saturday1 ,i could not sleep for the tossing of the ship3 ,i lay meditating on death1 and found my mind calm and resigned2 but saw nothing in whatever ,i had done on which ,i could rely for a moment2 saw nothing1 in fact1 but what was deficient and defiled with sin4 ,yet1 in the consideration of the atonement1 and intercession of ,jesus1 ,i could look without dismay1 though not with any sensible joy1 to a judgment-seat4 8,yesterday the wind was too high to admit of divine service4 ,much consideration about our danger during the preceding night2 but1 alas1 little disposition to praise the ,lord for his goodness6 ,some few of the passengers listened with attention1 whilst ,i read a sermon on the poop4 ,i had much conversation at intervals with several of them1 on the subject of religion2 and found some disposed to attend4 ,yesterday1 passed one of the ,salvage islands3 to-day one of the ,canaries 7,palma47 ,no one who has not been for some time out of sight of land can conceive the delight which the view of these created2 or the refreshment they afforded the eye4 ,as stupendous monuments of the divine power1 they ought to have raised more adoration in my heart to the great ,supreme4 ,but1 alas6 ,i find the more ,i get familiarized to the wonders with which ,i am surrounded1 the less sensibly ,i feel my dependence on ,him in whom ,i live and move4 ,blessed ,saviour1 ,o let me be accepted1 and ever preserved through thy intercession1 and kept by thy power through faith unto salvation4 ,amen40 ,whilst off the coast of ,africa1 ,mr4 ,corrie relates that the ,lady ,burgess1 one of the ,indiamen in company with the ,asia1 struck upon a rock3 8,the masts were cut away3 the pinnace1 contrary to expectation1 floated1 7for she filled with water17 and soon after was driven clear of the breakers1 with about forty persons4 ,as many as could swim plunged in1 and about seventy at length got into her4 ,the boat also was manned1 and1 by the exertions of the chief mate1 the ladies1 7six in number17 were put into her1 and none allowed to go with them1 lest1 being crowded by too many1 she should be swamped4 ,the captain and some others who could not swim1 were saved by laying themselves on planks2 and1 being drifted by the waves1 were afterwards picked up by the boats4 ,the ,leopard's boats saved about twenty-five4 ,the ladies were received on board the ,nelson2 the greater part of the crew were taken up by the ,melville1 and some by the ,sovereign and ,alexander4 ,about fifty perished2 amongst whom were the first and sixth mates1 the purser1 and twenty-four cadets2 the greater part of the others were ,asiatics1 with some soldiers40 ,with reference to this melancholy occurrence1 ,mr4 ,c4 writes3 8,sunday1 ,april #bj4 ,this morning has been spent in great anxiety4 ,about two o'clock1 ,i heard guns firing as signals of distress4 ,when day broke1 the wreck of a vessel was seen on the rocks1 off the island ,benevento4 ,about eight boats were observed at a distance1 and at ten o'clock we perceived one making towards the ,asia4 ,soon after1 a passenger of the ,nelson1 and one of the mates of the ,lady ,burgess1 came on board1 from whom we learnt that the unfortunate ship was the ,lady ,burgess1 which was gone down with every part of the cargo4 ,six ladies1 passengers1 reached the ,nelson in safety4 ,the mate1 after putting the ladies on board the ,nelson1 returned to the wreck1 when her poop remained above water sufficiently to preserve life3 on returning a second time1 nothing was seen but part of the bowsprit1 every creature had disappeared2 but the ,commodore1 having sent several boats to their assistance1 suggests a hope that all are saved4 ,what reason have we of this ship to adore a kind ,providence for being directed a different course6 ,alas1 that such indifference1 nay base rebellion against ,god should still appear6 ,o let me not be as those who know not ,god1 but grant me such a due sense of all thy mercies1 ,o ,lord1 that my heart may be unfeignedly thankful1 and that ,i may show forth thy praise not only with my lips1 but in my life6 ,amen40 ,the ,journal proceeds3 8,april #bcrd1 ,st4 ,iago4--,went on shore with the purser4 ,on landing was struck by the scenery1 which was quite new to me1 and highly picturesque4 ,within the beach there is a low valley1 having the appearance of a marsh1 with shrubs growing in the shape of a pine-apple2 it had a very pleasing effect4 ,water was here procured for the fleet4 ,the town stands on a hill1 on the right of the valley2 and within the fortifications4 ,at the foot of the ascent1 and on the beach1 were three officers riding on small lean ponies4 ,their clothes1 ragged and much worn1 were such a contrast to an ,englishman's idea of the word #8officer1' as to excite a smile4 ,further on were some slaves1 in a state of nature1 employed in breaking cocoa-nuts4 ,at the entrance of the garrison stood a sentinel1 without shoes or stockings1 his other clothes hanging in rags1 and having no lock to his musket2 altogether1 he reminded me of one of ,sancho ,panza's guards4 ,in the town1 which consisted of two rows of huts1 we found poultry1 pine-apples1 cocoa-nuts1 c4 c4 for sale4 ,the natives perfectly understood what are called #8the tricks of trade4' ,i am told they sell a kind of ,port wine of inferior quality1 mixed with rum to keep it from going sour2 they have also a kind of gin1 extracted from the sugar-cane4 ,their women are the most disgusting figures that can be conceived2 many of them having only a covering round the waist2 the men too like men in general2 but one1 a ,caffre slave1 was about seven feet high4 ,the country presents a most barren appearance1 being very hilly1 and seldom visited with rain4 ,after staying about three hours1 ,i returned to the ,asia1 most thankful that my lot had been cast in ,britain1 and admiring the kindness of providence to that happy isle4 ,long may a gracious ,god exercise the same fatherly care over it6 ,long may ,england flourish1 as the place which ,god hath chosen to put his name there6 8,sunday1 ,april #bgth4 ,i had service on deck to-day1 the sailors being very attentive2 was much affected with languor1 so that the day has passed in an unprofitable manner4 ,i had a long conversation with ,g41 and hope well of him again4 ,thought much of my dear relations2 and had an affecting sense of the value of former privileges1 #8when ,i went to the house of ,god1 with the voice of joy and gladness4' ,o for the happy time when ,i shall be privileged to draw near to ,god without restraint6 ,blessed be ,his name for some sweet seasons in private4 ,o may the impression of them remain1 and be productive of holiness in heart and life6 8,may #crd4 ,yesterday the wind sprung up1 a light breeze1 and continues to drive us two knots an hour1 after a calm of three days4 ,in the night1 we had a very narrow escape from running foul of the ,alexander2 the boats were about to be lowered from the idea that the ship might go down by the concussion4 ,what reason to be thankful for preservation6 ,o for a due sense of all thy mercies1 my ,god and ,saviour6 8,friday1 ,may #aath4 ,this day had divine service on deck3 in the evening had a conversation with ,v4 on the doctrine of the ,atonement4 ,he seemed much impressed1 and said he had never before considered it2 but hoped he should now make it the study of his life4 ,lord1 work in him both to will and to do for ,jesus ,christ's sake6 ,amen4 ,i would record1 to my shame1 how feeble my efforts are for the eternal welfare of those around me2 and1 when ,i think of the shame ,i feel1 ,i desire to be roused to greater exertions1 lest ,jesus ,christ should profess himself ashamed of me at the last day4 ,o the piercing thought of being excluded from thy blessed vision6 ,prevent it by thy grace6 let me not fall1 ,i pray4 8,may #ahth4 ,service on deck4 ,found much sweetness in private devotion1 with a disposition to pray for my dear relatives and friends by name4 ,my mind tolerably fixed on divine things1 with boldness to speak to any that came in my way1 on the subject of religion4 ,i have of late observed with pleasure a great change in ,p4's views and sentiments respecting scriptural truths2 and a practice more correspondent thereto than formerly4 ,this morning1 he spoke with much feeling1 on several experimental truths of ,christianity2 and ,i humbly hope1 is no stranger to the power of them4 ,o that ,i may be enabled to walk in wisdom towards him1 and that he may be an honoured instrument in turning many to righteousness6 8,sunday1 ,june #ast4 ,i have neglected to make memoranda during the past week1 and fear it is a symptom of spiritual decay3 yet1 ,i find1 in general1 much fixedness of mind in private prayer2 and sometimes much tenderness of spirit4 ,the ,bible is my delight and daily counsellor2 and ,i think ,i watch every opportunity of calling the attention of those around me to the things of eternity4 ,yet1 ,i would confess to my shame1 that these attempts are feeble1 generally very unskilfully conducted1 and little calculated to produce a good effect1 and chiefly confined to more intimate associates4 ,i plainly perceive that without a great exercise of divine power1 ,i am totally unfit for the work of introducing the ,gospel amongst the heathen2 and much fear lest the objects of time and sense should divert me from that pursuit4 ,yet1 ,lord1 thou knowest that to be instrumental in turning many unto righteousness is my highest ambition4 ,this is the determination of my judgment2 though1 alas6 my affections draw me powerfully to court the favour of man1 and to covet ease4 ,i perceive myself poor and blind1 and miserable1 and wretched1 and lost1 and undone2 but ,o the joyful sound of wisdom1 righteousness1 sanctification1 and redemption in ,christ ,jesus for ruined sinners6 ,blessed ,lord1 grant me a spirit of faith1 that ,i may apprehend this dear ,redeemer2 and by virtue of union with ,him may obtain acquittal from all condemnation1 and daily become more like ,him1 in righteousness and true holiness60 ,to the ,rev4 ,j4 ,buckworth he wrote as follows3-- 8,we are in hopes of reaching ,madras in nine weeks from this time2 so that before you receive this1 which comes by way of ,st4 ,helena1 ,i shall1 by the divine permission1 be in ,india4 ,indeed1 on this element1 in a peculiar manner is the apostle's limitation to be attended to1 #8,if the ,lord will1 we shall do this or that4' ,my dear friend will be ready to fear that an account of our spiritual voyage is to be excluded from this paper4 ,would that ,i could gladden your heart with tidings of a large fleet steering for the haven of everlasting blessedness2 but on this subject my materials are scanty1 though1 blessed be ,god1 some news of this kind ,i can send you4444 ,we have twenty-two youths on board1 going as cadets to ,india3 of these a few allow me to talk freely and familiarly on the best subjects2 the others treat me with civility1 though sometimes they are shy of my company4 ,one ,i sincerely hope is pious1 though very volatile in his disposition3 another attaches himself very much to me1 and is much separated from his companions4 ,these are the most promising among us1 #8the gleaning grapes1 one or two1 on the top of the uppermost boughs4' ,i have distributed several ,testaments1 and other books2 but observe no increase at present4444 8,my thoughts lead me now to ,dewsbury1 where ,i fancy ,i behold my dear friend and his dear partner1 happy in each other1 and happy in the love of ,jesus2 but not without some thorn1 to remind them that their ,god has a more complete happiness in store for them4 ,you will not need assurances that my daily prayers ascend on your behalf2 nor need ,i ask you to believe that words cannot express the interest ,i feel in your welfare4 ,may the richest blessings of ,providence and of grace descend upon you both2 and may you bring much honour to the ways of truth1 by your lives and conversation1 till1 full of days1 and full of grace1 like shocks of corn in harvest1 you be gathered into the heavenly garner6 ,i long to be publishing glad tidings of salvation to poor ,indians1 and am daily studying their language for this purpose3 an ,asiatic on board helps me in acquiring the pronunciation1 and in return1 receives instruction in the ,new ,testament3 he evidences a teachable disposition2 laments the folly and idolatry of his countrymen1 and ,i trust will one day become a witness against their abominations40 ,but to return to the ,journal3-- 8,june #hth1 #ahjf4 ,on a review of this week1 ,i feel much cause for humiliation1 and much for praise2 for humiliation1 that ,i gather no more boldness in the cause of ,god and of his ,son4 ,yet1 ,i am thankful that my silent refusal to conform to the vanities around me is not unobserved2 and that a sneer about saintship is not unfrequently indulged in1 when ,i am present4 ,i rejoice in these tokens of my separation from the temper and practices of the world2 yet ,i would look to more certain evidence of my love to ,jesus than this1 even in the devotedness of my heart to ,his service and glory2 and in the love ,i feel for perishing souls around me4 ,alas1 my evidences are very few3 yet ,i think ,i would rather be a door-keeper in the house of ,god where ,i might see ,his face1 than live in the richest palace on earth2 and to be instrumental in turning sinners #8from the power of ,satan unto ,god1' is more desired by me than to be ,emperor of the world4 ,these are my sentiments and desires3 ,o ,lord1 let them not evaporate in empty speculations for ,jesus ,christ's sake6 8,thursday night4 ,i would record to the honour of ,divine grace1 the goodness of ,god to my soul4 ,rose this morning at half-past five1 found much earnestness in prayer1 and my mind much disposed to that duty1 but little if any sensible comfort4 ,prayed particularly for a believing1 waiting spirit1 which has been graciously vouchsafed4 ,i have observed two or three instances of answers to prayer1 in the waiting frame of my mind2 in the attention ,i have been able to give to study1 and in some other particulars4 ,lord1 keep me humble and thankful for ,jesus ,christ's sake1 ,amen6 8,june #bith4 ,i have neglected to make memoranda of my state4 ,abstained from dinner1 with a view to afflict my soul before ,god1 on account of my own sins1 and the sins of those around me4 ,o ,lord1 without thy divine influence ,i fast and pray in vain4 ,the sins in myself ,i would particularly note are1 a backwardness to think on divine subjects2 a general deadness in religious duties2 a coldness of affection towards the ,lord ,jesus ,christ2 a want of zeal for ,god1 and of love for souls2 and a fear of censure and reproach1 which leads me to suffer sin on my neighbour unreproved4 ,with respect to those around me1 their profane swearing1 their neglect of ,god and ,his worship4 ,o will not ,god be avenged on such a people as this8 ,will not this floating city be sunk in the mighty waters1 for the wickedness of its inhabitants8 ,o ,lord1 let my cry come before ,thee1 in behalf of this ship's company1 through the mediation of ,jesus ,christ6 8,sunday1 ,july #fth4 ,this morning a most tremendous gale came on4 ,went on deck at five o'clock4 ,the vessel rolling so as once to ship a sea on the lee-side2 every person seemed apprehensive of danger4 ,for my own part1 ,i do not recollect to have been afraid1 but ,i felt much awe and seriousness1 in the thought of appearing before ,god4 ,in the afternoon 7two o'clock71 a man fell overboard from the foremost main-yard4 ,by the uncommon exertions of ,mr4 ,walker1 the third mate1 and four of the men1 he was taken up alive1 and gives hopes of recovery4 ,mr4 ,w4's conduct on this occasion merits the greatest praise1 and has much endeared him to every one on board4 8,july #bjth4 ,read ,church ,history and ,persian4 ,the ,commodore spoke an ,american1 which left ,calcutta on ,may #bh1 and which on ,june #bbnd1 spoke a ship at sea1 and received information that a frigate1 supposed to be detached by ,jerome ,buonaparte1#f put into the ,cape and was captured by ,admiral ,popham2 from whence it is concluded that ,jerome ,buonaparte either followed the frigate into the ,cape and was taken1 or proceeded to ,india4 ,two country ships had been captured in the straits of ,malacca4 8,thursday1 ,july #bdth4 ,in addition to the news heard on ,tuesday1 learned from the ,commodore1 that the ,american told him a general peace had been brought about in ,india4 ,o that #8the ,prince of ,peace' would establish ,his dominion among those perishing heathens6 ,every day brings me acquainted with some new proof of that wretched slavery which they are under to the powers of darkness4 ,my mind is bent on the work of the ministry amongst them4 ,i think with delight on the time when ,i shall be able to address them1 in their own language1 on the glorious truths of the gospel2 and am thankful that ,i find diligence and ardour in the acquirement of ,hindoostanee4 ,yet1 when ,i reflect on the backwardness and timidity that possesses my mind in this matter1 among my present associates1 ,i am ready to fear lest ,i should be diverted from my purpose4 ,lord1 hold me up1 and bring me through1 more than conqueror1 for ,his sake who1 ,i believe and feel1 #8loved me1 and gave himself for me6' 8,thursday1 ,august #bast4 ,this morning heard that ,ceylon was in sight2 went on deck soon after1 and saw land1 but very indistinctly4 ,at half-past one the shore presented a beautiful object2 a great variety of trees1 hills1 and plains4 ,my mind more affected than ,i can express1 with a sense of the goodness of ,god1 in bringing me thus far in health and safety4 ,i feel no inconvenience from the climate1 and very little of that listlessness ,i so much feared4 ,o for a heart to praise the ,lord6 ,surely1 surely1 ,i am more ungrateful than any of ,god's children2 for ,his child ,i feel ,i am6 ,o write thy law on my heart2 and let my obedient life bring glory to ,thee1 through ,jesus ,christ6 ,o how ,i long to be declaring the way of salvation to perishing souls6 ,o let me have that faith which overcomes the world2 set me free from every entanglement2 keep through thy word those on board whom thou hast disposed to consideration2 fortify their minds1 and keep them from the tempter's power1 to the glory of thy grace1 ,amen1 ,amen6 8,sunday1 ,august #bdth4 ,rose this morning at five o'clock4 ,after prayer--in which ,i found earnestness1 and tolerable fixedness of mind1 though no stirring of affection--went on deck4 ,read in the epistle to the ,hebrews1 and found much light flash on my mind in reading4 ,saw more clearly than ever the distinction1 yet consistency1 between the old and new covenant4 ,at eleven1 read a sermon from ,walker2 afterwards joined in prayer with ,w1 ,p1 ,g1 and ,v4#g ,i found much enlargement of heart1 and much freedom of expression in prayer4 ,lord1 keep me humble2 and1 ,o bless these my associates6 ,convince them of sin2 lead them to ,jesus2 make them strong in the ,lord2 and be a spirit of adoption in their hearts1 for ,jesus ,christ's sake6 ,lord1 bless my dear relatives4 ,o give them grace to walk before thee with perfect hearts2 and supply them with every needful earthly blessing4 ,feed them #8with food convenient' for their station1 and finally crown grace with glory4 ,amen6 ,no prayers on deck1 or in the cuddy4 8,monday4 ,yesterday afternoon1 a strange sail came in sight to the northward4 ,cleared for action1 and lay at quarters all night4 ,expect to reach ,madras to-morrow morning by six o'clock4 ,every one seems unsettled in prospect of going ashore2 my own mind has caught the contagion4 ,nothing to advantage has been done to-day4 #8,lord1 save or ,i perish4' 8,wednesday4 ,were disappointed in our expectation1 by a strong current which set us so far to the westward that we were obliged to tack1 and wait for the sea-breeze1 which to our great joy sprang up about three o'clock2 and brought us into ,madras roads1 where we cast anchor exactly at ten at night4 ,yesterday morning the air was much impregnated with the flavour of the productions of ,asia1 having a smell like the sickly smell arising from sweetmeats4 ,the entrance into the roads was very delightful3 the light-house before us1 the ,european residents' houses on the left1 showing lights from various quarters2 the ,nabob of ,arcot's palace lighted so as to appear brilliantly illuminated4 ,all these were pleasing objects to eyes accustomed to look only upon the wide extended ocean for four months past4 ,the striking of clocks1 too1 was most gratifying to the ear4 ,my mind was much affected with a sense of the ,divine goodness1 in bringing us thus far in safety and peace4 ,as soon as we were anchored1 two boats came from ,admiral ,trowbridge for despatches2 and a ,catamaran1#h with three natives charged with letters from the ,town-major to the ,commanding ,officer4 ,these natives presented a most disgusting appearance to a stranger1 especially an ,european stranger4 ,they have no covering1 save a small piece of cotton round their waists2 and a cap1 like a fool's cap1 of fine basketwork1 in which they carry their letters3 and1 being entire strangers to our language1 my mind was affected with dismay and horror4 ,retiring to my cabin1 despondency almost overcame me4 ,my native country1 with its healthy climate1 and hospitable inhabitants1 came forcibly to my mind4 ,those loved objects seemed for ever gone3 dear relatives for ever fled6 ,in exchange1 a sickly climate1 a burning soil1 a heathen population1 were to be my associates4 ,alas6 how these considerations depress my spirits1 while a sense of my own unfitness to encounter any of these obstacles1 leads me to consider this as a place of banishment1 and an untimely burial-ground6 ,yet have ,i not freely chosen this undertaking8 ,and1 has not ,god power to bring me through8 ,and1 is ,he not sovereign of ,asia1 as well as of ,europe8 ,and1 is ,he not ready to save here1 as there8 ,o my foolish1 unbelieving heart6 ,i see the truth of these suggestions2 yet unbelief prevents me from taking the comfort of them4 ,o ,lord1 work faith in my heart2 and enable me to glorify thee by a firm reliance on thy promise1 that thou wilt not leave me1 but wilt make me #8more than conqueror through ,him that loved me1' even ,jesus thy ,son3 to whom with ,thee and the ,holy ,ghost be glory for ever6 8,this morning several boats filled with natives came off3 the rowers1 like the ,catamaran ,jacks in appearance and dress3 the masters or duboshes1#i having white muslin coats and petticoats4 ,these duboshes are very obsequious1 very pressing of their services2 and have written characters1 as from former masters2 but many of these are evidently forgeries4 ,many of our ,bengal passengers are gone on shore4 ,i felt too depressed to go2 and too much interested in ,v4 and ,y4 to leave them on board4 ,y4 ,i hope1 seems in some measure1 established in sound principles and practice4 ,v4 alas1 discovers a backwardness to converse on religious subjects2 and ,i fear1 shuns me1 lest ,i should trouble him with them3 he is1 however1 very regular in his conduct2 and much respected by his associates4 ,but1 ,oh6 what avails a mere name to live8--,he is now gone on shore4 ,y4 remains on board1 with the other ,madras cadets1 until an order for their disembarkation arrives4 ,o ,lord1 keep them by thy power6 ,o let not ,satan triumph over them1 for ,jesus ,christ's sake4 ,amen4 8,,madras1 ,wednesday evening1 ,aug4 #bgth1 #ahjf4 ,went on shore1 and was much annoyed by the clamorous importunity of the natives1 who were waiting in hundreds on the beach to carry the luggage1 or otherwise serve the new comers3 their harsh language1 and their almost naked bodies1 their eager and obtrusive offers of service disgusted and wearied me exceedingly4 ,with some difficulty1 ,i got through the crowd2 and1 on arriving at the ,new ,navy ,tavern1 found some of my old shipmates4 ,here we were again importuned by duboshes who were eager to serve us4 ,we made choice of one who proved a notorious cheat3 he made off with six rupees given him to hire a bandy2#aj and ,i know not yet how much linen he may have stolen4 ,the profusion of silver or gold rings which the natives wear on their arms1 their ancles1 their ears1 and their toes1 appeared odd to me2 their offers of service and their whole conduct1 whilst ,i was on shore1 have impressed my mind with an opinion of their deep depravity1 and their entire want of principle4444 8,on ,thursday1 ,august #bhth4 ,parson and ,i went to call on the ,london ,society's missionary4 ,though unknown to him1 and though carrying no letter of introduction1 yet ,i was certain that if he were a real missionary1 we should be welcome2 and ,i was not disappointed in this expectation4 ,we received a cordial reception3 ,martyn having mentioned my name1 we soon became cordial4 ,he appears a humble pious man1 not destitute of ability1 with a degree of zeal3 his education appears to have been confined4 ,here we learned that ,dr4 ,ker1 the ,senior ,chaplain1 had a letter for me from ,martyn2 and that1 being obliged to go to ,seringapatam for the recovery of his health1 he had left it at the house of ,mr4 ,torriano4 ,thither ,mr4 ,l4 drove me in his bandy1 leaving ,mr4 ,parson to walk back to the inn4 ,on arriving at ,mr4 ,t4's1 ,i found the letter1 enclosed in one from ,dr4 ,ker1 recommending me to accept ,mr4 ,t4's invitation to take up our abode with him2 which we did1 and experienced much hospitality and kindness4 ,mr4 ,t4 is a self-taught ,christian indeed3 his son is a sensible and very pious youth1 and showed us much brotherly love2 and from the ,lieutenant we received great regard4 ,next day ,mr4 ,p4 and myself called on ,mr4 ,v4 and found him very reserved3 he afterwards1 on further intercourse1 became more sociable2 and engaged me to preach for him on ,sunday the #cast2 which ,i did1 and took for a subject the character of ,josiah4 ,the ,governor1 c41 were present2 and the church was pretty full3 the congregation was very attentive2 though some1 ,i hear scoffed2 but others expressed their approbation4 ,in the evening ,p4 officiated at the chapel1 ,black ,town1 and expounded the first chapter of the ,epistle to the ,romans4 ,i went to hear ,mr4 ,l4 who preached from ,psalm xxxvii4 #dj4 ,during our stay on shore1 ,i went often to the cadets' tents1 and have reason to be thankful4 ,found ,v4 and ,y4 kept free from the vices of the place4 8,friday evening1 ,sept4 #eth4 ,i read a portion of the church prayers1 and addressed an exhortation to the boys at the ,asylum4 ,there are about two hundred half-caste boys educated there1 and maintained by public subscription4 ,dr4 ,ker is ,superintendent2 and ,mr4 ,l4 is acting ,master4 ,during our stay at ,mr4 ,torriano's1 our apartment was a tent comfortably fitted up1 where ,mr4 ,t4 generally 7his son ,v4 always71 comes morning and evening to join in worship4 ,the fort is a most complete structure1 seemingly defying the power of man to take it3 the buildings within it are very sumptuous4 ,the ,black ,town far exceeds my expectation1 in the commodiousness of its houses1 and in their structure2 but the streets are narrow2 and the dust and filth in them render the town exceedingly unwholesome4 ,i do not find the heat by any means so oppressive as ,i expected3 morning and evening it is as cool as summer in ,england4 ,i frequently walked several miles4 ,the ,europeans are1 in general1 very averse to the idea of evangelizing the natives4 ,the chaplains consider it as a hopeless case2 and others look upon it as needless and impolitic4 ,i lament that my mind was not more affected with the stupid idolatry of these depraved people4 ,their pagodas abound2 and their attention to them might shame people of purer principles2 whilst their depraved morals show that their religion is confined wholly to externals2 and that they are incapable of communion with a holy ,god4 ,these considerations ought to impress me more4 ,o the unconquerable hardness of this stupid heart6 ,yet1 blessed be ,god1 who has reconciled my mind more to the work of the ministry here2 and has influenced me to prefer the honour which cometh of ,god1 more than the favour of men4 ,i think ,i am more determined than ever on publishing salvation to these ignorant heathen4 ,i have to lament that my mind seldom experienced any sensible comfort in ,god1 whilst on shore3 deadness and oppression overspread my soul for the most part2 yet1 ,i do not recollect1 except on one occasion1 that ,i attempted to shun the reproach of the cross2 and1 in general ,i was enable to introduce serious subjects4 8,sunday1 ,sept4 #gth4 ,came on board the ,alexander1 in consequence of the ,asia being ordered round by ,penang1 to take troops to ,bengal3 much heaviness of mind on account of the state of those around me4444 8,saturday1 ,sept4 #acth4 ,on ,tuesday evening last1 we came to anchor off ,masulipatam4 ,during that day1 in making in to the shore1 the ship was found in three and a half fathoms 7she draws three fathoms27 consequently great alarm prevailed1 every one expecting that she would strike instantly4 ,the wind being brisk1 the ship answered the helm2 and1 by the ,divine favour1 we got clear of the danger4 ,in the afternoon1 a ship which had been in sight for some days1 hauled her wind and stood our course3 this raised a suspicion of her being an enemy2 the drum beat to quarters and every preparation was made to prevent her boarding us4 ,after some time1 she hoisted ,danish colours1 and came to anchor near us off ,masulipatam4 ,during these two times of alarm1 ,i recollect to have been much more anxious as to the event1 than on former times of danger during the voyage2 and have reason to fear ,i have suffered damage1 especially since we left ,madras4 ,this ,i know has been the case1 and ,i bless ,god who has given me to feel it1 and to lament it1 and to strive and pray against it2 and 7blessed be ,his name7 not in vain4 8,on ,wednesday1 ,parson and myself went off together with two officers of the king's regiment3 after a most unpleasant passage of twenty-four hours1 we arrived at ,masulipatam1 a distance of not more than six miles in a straight line4 ,our delay was owing to the land wind1 which1 blowing directly opposite1 drove us far to leeward1 and obliged the men to push the boat along shore with long poles2 a tedious and laborious operation4 ,on entering the fort1 we found that ,colonel ,norris 7to whom we had a letter of introduction from his father-in law1 ,mr4 ,torriano17 was in the fort4 ,we went to his house1 and on being introduced to his lady1 presented our letter1 which she opened1 and sent to the ,colonel1 who was on a committee at the barracks4 ,breakfast was got for us immediately1 and every attention shown us2 after breakfast1 the ,colonel came in1 and ordered us change of clothes2 after we had dressed1 he came and shook us very kindly by the hand1 and said1 he had an order in his pocket1 which obliged him to be particularly kind to us4 ,this order he punctually obeyed1 shewing us every mark of attention possible1 and even regard4444 ,the propriety of conduct necessary in ministers1 the characters of many eminently pious missionaries1 and of ,christ and ,his ,apostles1 were the principal subjects of conversation4 ,may ,god give a blessing to our poor attempts to spread the savour of ,jesus' name2 and may the ,colonel's kindnesses to us be abundantly repaid out of the fulness of ,christ6 ,after passing twenty-four hours very agreeably1 and ,i trust not unprofitably1 we left ,masulipatam yesterday about three o'clock1 with the purser2 and though detained a short time at the entrance of the river1 from want of water1 we got on board the ,alexander by five o'clock3 the anchor was weighed1 and we set sail as soon as possible4 8,tuesday4 ,yesterday ,i was very unwell in consequence of drinking too much water3 the day passed in a restless1 unprofitable manner to myself4 ,in the evening1 ,i was enabled to speak to the surgeon on the utility of prayer2 which ,i did because of some sarcastic remarks made1 as to the uselessness of the ,bible and ,prayer-book in time of action2 we being suspicious that there was an enemy's ship in view4 ,he was silenced1 and afterwards showed me more than usual attention4 ,we were looking out all the afternoon of yesterday for a pilot2 and came to anchor at ten in the evening in ,saugor roads1 amidst a fleet of ,indiamen homeward-bound--two ships of war1 with many country ships--a most gratifying sight2 though1 ,i confess1 ,i felt little pleasure4 ,the remembrance of dear relatives filled me with deep regret1 whilst the prospect of being instrumental in furthering the ,lord's work in ,india filled me with joy2 and ,i felt ,i could forsake all for ,christ's sake4 8,thursday4 ,we came to anchor in ,diamond harbour4 ,the sailing up the river was delightful2 the green herbage and foliage most refreshing to the eye2 and the numerous population raised wonder how provision could be found for so many persons4 ,the whole shore1 as far as the eye could reach1 appeared one continued village on each side4 ,the sight of a burying-ground for ,europeans at ,diamond harbour1 with several monuments erected therein1 tended to lessen my joy2 as did the death of ,captain ---- of the #ggth1 for whom the colours were hoisted half-mast high1 and who was buried in the sea the evening we lay at anchor1 in ,saugor roads4 ,captain ,c----1 ,ensign ,w41 ,parson1 and myself1 left the ,alexander in a budgerow1#aa about nine o'clock1 and sailed from ,diamond harbour about half past ten in the evening4 8,friday1 ,sept4 #aith4 ,i went on shore in the morning at ,fulta1 and sending some provisions on board to my chums1 remained till flood-tide1 which was not till two o'clock4 ,my mind was much gratified with the scene2 the green fields appearing here and there between the groves1 were very much like scenes ,i remembered in ,england2 many birds were singing much like the nightingale2 herds of cattle1 of the buffalo breed1 with herdsmen tending them here and there on the bank4 ,a dead body floating on the river created much horror in my mind2 and the bird called the adjutant excited much surprise4 ,at ,fulta ,i found a very elegant inn1 and accommodations very reasonable4 ,having placed a chair at the gate-way on the elevated situation on the bank of the river1 the opposite bank appeared covered with villages1 and the surface of the river with boats4 ,i took out my bible1 and read the #fjth chapter of ,isaiah4 ,the precious promises of the enlargement of ,christ's ,church came with much power to my mind2 the last verse was very encouraging1 and raised much joy1 from the hope that ,i might be honoured to be one of #8the little ones' who should #8become a thousand1 and a strong nation4' ,the prospect of all these swarms of people bowing to the sceptre and dominion of ,jesus1 filled my soul with exultation4 ,i found much freedom in prayer1 and spent some time in joy and rejoicing4 ,the budgerow being much longer in coming up than was expected1 occasioned great anxiety2 and1 to my shame be it spoken1 impatience4 ,o how fickle is my mind3 but ,jesus liveth1 and ,he changeth not6 ,blessed be ,god for ,jesus ,christ6 ,i came on board about two o'clock this afternoon2 and we are now at anchor about ten miles below ,calcutta4 8,sept4 #bast1 #ahjf4 ,yesterday morning1 being tired of waiting any longer for a fair wind1 ,i left the budgerow about five o'clock1 and came up in the tow-boat to ,calcutta4 ,the scene on each side of the river was much the same as during the preceding day2 but being indisposed from want of food1 and by exposure to the sun1 ,i felt but little lively joy4 ,read in the ,bible1 and ,newton's ,hymns2 and found much desire to be grateful for preservation during the voyage1 for meeting with kind friends1 and for the abundant supply of every temporal want2 above all1 that notwithstanding my manifold failings1 some sense of my obligations to ,god in ,christ still remains4 ,the sight of ,calcutta afforded me great satisfaction3 the approach to it was tedious2 and ,i felt some impatience at the perversity of the boatmen4 ,alas1 the depravity of my nature is but little subdued6 ,i walked up to the church1 and inquired in vain for ,martyn3 went to ,doughty's hotel1 where ,i met ,v4 at the door1 who1 ,i feared1 was oppressed in spirit and suffering from the effects of climate4 ,i took some refreshment1 and was about to go forth in quest of ,martyn1 when a note arrived from him1 desiring me to go to him in the college4#ab ,i set off immediately1 and was received by him with the most lively demonstrations of joy4 ,here ,i was desired to take up my abode2 and here ,i am fixed for the present4 ,mr4 ,brown1#ac to whom ,i am indebted for my present entertainment1 appears a sensible1 determined1 pious man2 very different from the descriptions ,i heard of him during the voyage40 ,on the same day1 in which these particulars are noticed in his journal1 ,mr4 ,c4 sent a letter to his sister2 written1 as it appears1 at intervals during his voyage1 and communicating information up to the period of his arrival at ,calcutta4 ,the letter itself is not less remarkable for its plain good sense1 than as manifesting that strong natural affection and love of country1 which entered so largely into the character of the writer3 8,from the date of this letter1 7,sep4 #bast47 you will perceive how much longer our voyage has proved than at the beginning of it we hoped it would4 ,twenty weeks are completed since we left ,portsmouth3 the usual time a voyage of the kind occupies is about fifteen weeks4 ,the chief part of our delay was between ,st4 ,iago1 and the ,cape of ,good ,hope4 ,before we arrived at ,st4 ,iago1 we had fair and strong winds2 and since we got round the ,cape1 the weather has proved most agreeable4 ,a thousand anxious thoughts daily fill my mind on your account3 separation from you has only tended to show how much my comfort depended on you3 scarcely for two successive waking hours has your image been out of my remembrance4 ,i am very anxious that you should come out to me2 and ,i am very anxious respecting your voyage4 ,you have little1 humanly speaking1 to fear from dangers of the sea4 ,your greatest inconvenience will arise from not having a person with whom you can communicate freely3 to be under a restraint of this kind1 for five months1 is a greater evil than you can at present suppose4 ,you will1 no doubt1 hear of some lady coming out1 with whom you can take half of a cabin2 and if such an opportunity offers1 you need not hesitate to embrace it4 ,but you will need to use great caution how you trust strangers2 and by no means be too familiar with any of the passengers1 till you have had time to observe their dispositions3 the evil of a contrary conduct has appeared very strikingly with us2 and still more so in some other of the ships of our fleet4 ,it is very easy to assume an appearance of gaiety and good-humour1 when people only meet occasionally1 and for a short time2 but when they come to live together1 and are obliged to meet each other at every turn1 without ,divine grace1 few tempers are found sufficiently accommodating to maintain that forbearance1 and to make those concessions1 which are absolutely necessary to peace and comfort4 ,hence1 when by an unguarded confidence1 persons of contrary dispositions and habits have committed themselves to each other1 they soon become mutually disgusted2 family circumstances are exposed2 weaknesses ridiculed2 and contempt and hatred follows4 ,you see ,i write under the idea that you will not leave ,england till you hear of my arrival in ,india4 ,i have only to add1 that my health is much improved since ,i left you4 8,since ,i began this letter1 a variety of events have taken place1 and crowd so fast on my mind1 that ,i know not where or how to relate them4 ,on entering ,madras roads in the evening1 the lights reflected from the houses built on the shore1 with the sound of the sentinels' voices passing the word1 and the striking of the clocks1 formed altogether the most remarkable impression ,i recollect in life4 ,after having for five months been separated from the civilized world in a great measure1 and having seen only the boundless ocean1 and occasionally hailing some of our consorts1 you may suppose the entrance into society was highly gratifying4 ,my joy was silent1 and chiefly expressed in ejaculations of praise to ,him who had so graciously preserved us through the great deep2 nor were wanting prayers for my native land1 and for the many dear objects left behind4 ,this pleasant temper of mind was1 however1 of short continuance1 as soon as we came to anchor1 some of the natives came off in catamarans2 they were almost naked1 and very savage in appearance4 ,the consideration of being1 in all probability1 to spend the remainder of my life among such wretched beings1 filled me with melancholy2 and rendered me sleepless during the greater part of the night2 and the whole of the next day1 ,i was very unhappy4 ,but you will perceive my sin and unbelief in this matter2 as their wretchedness should rather have excited compassion and anxiety for bettering their condition3 the idea of no further comfort remaining for me1 certainly arose from the absence of the proper influence of that precious truth1 #8,if ,he give peace1 who then can cause trouble8' ,i perceive this clearly now2 and ,i am thankful that ,i am able to take the comfort of it to myself4 ,during the whole of our stay1 the anniversary festival of one of their idols was celebrating at a pagoda or temple1 in sight of the house where we were4 ,their chief solemnities were celebrated during the night2 and consisted in most wretchedly bad music1 something like bad bag-pipes1 accompanied with a tom-tom1 or small drum unbraced1 and incapable of music2 with these1 at intervals1 loud shouts were set up by the people1 and something of a song in praise of their idol sung in alternate strains1 which were responded by the people to each other in a sing-song tone of voice4 ,o what a blessing is the ,gospel to mankind6 ,well might the angels sing at ,messiah's birth1 #8goodwill towards men1' no less than #8glory to ,god6' ,how lovely does ,christianity appear1 contrasted with the absurdities of these pitiable heathen6 ,o1 how privileged is ,britain1 where ,divine truth shines forth in all its purity6 ,may my happy native land know the value of her privileges1 and improve them3 ,o that1 to latest ages1 her rulers may continue nursing fathers1 and nursing mothers to the ,church2 and use their widely-extended influence in rendering their colonies happy as themselves60 #f ,in #ahjf1 ,napoleon placed his brother1 ,jerome ,buonaparte1 in command of a squadron of eight ships of the line1 which were ostensibly destined for the ,west ,indies4 #g ,cadets4 #h ,a species of raft used by the natives of ,madras4 #i ,a kind of general ,agent4 #aj ,a kind of gig4 #aa ,a native travelling boat4 #ab ,the ,college of ,fort ,william4 #ac ,the late ,rev4 ,david ,brown1 at that time ,chaplain at the ,presidency1 and ,provost of the ,college of ,fort ,william4 ,,chapter ,,iii4 ,,at ,,aldeen--,,appointed ,,to ,,chunar4 ,on ,mr4 ,corrie's arrival in ,bengal both he and ,mr4 ,parson took up their abode with ,mr4 ,brown at ,aldeen1 a short distance from ,calcutta1 and remained under the same hospitable roof until they proceeded to the stations that had been assigned to them respectively by the government4 ,henry ,martyn was their fellow-guest for a time1 and with that honoured servant of ,god ,mr4 ,corrie's intimacy was close and brotherly4 ,mr4 ,c4 was also in the habit of preaching regularly during his residence with ,mr4 ,brown1 and of maintaining constant intercourse with the whole body of ,christian ,missionaries in ,calcutta and ,serampore4 ,in his ,journal1 too1 occur many intimations of the anxious affection with which he regarded such of the ,cadets as remained within reach of his visits1 or were willing to correspond with him4 ,a peculiar regard for the welfare of young persons was1 in fact1 a distinguishing feature of ,mr4 ,corrie's character4 ,early in ,december #ahjf1 ,mr4 ,corrie and ,mr4 ,parson left ,aldeen1 the one having been appointed at ,chunar1 the other at ,berhampore4 ,as respects ,mr4 ,c4 it will be seen1 that during the whole of his journey to the place of his destination1 the subject of the conversion of the heathen occupied a large portion of his thoughts4 ,,first ,,impressions ,,of ,,calcutta4 8,calcutta strikes me as the most magnificent city in the world2 and ,i am made most happy by the hope of being instrumental to the eternal good of many4 ,a great opposition1 ,i find1 is raised against ,martyn1 and the principles he preaches2 this gives me no uneasiness--by the help of ,god1 ,i will stand fast in the doctrine of ,christ crucified1 and maintain it against all opposition4 ,but1 ,lord1 grant me the wisdom that is from above1 that ,i may act with discretion1 and in nothing give unnecessary offence6 8,at three o'clock1#ad ,martyn preached from ,rom4 iii4 #ba-bc1 the most impressive and best composition ,i ever heard4 ,the disposition of love and good will which appeared in him must have had great effect2 and the calmness and firmness with which he spoke raised in me great wonder4 ,may ,god grant a blessing to the word4 ,o may it silence opposition1 and promote religion for ,jesus ,christ's sake1 ,amen4 8,tuesday1 ,sept4 #cjth4 ,i have neglected for some time to make a memorandum of occurrences2 but remember1 that in general1 my mind has been without any lively sense of divine things2 though my heart has been going out much after ,god4 ,the joy expressed by the few serious people here is very great2 and were not those comforts withheld which ,i have been some time favoured with1 their kindness would have a tendency to make me proud3 for1 ,oh6 ,i feel an evil heart cleaving to the world1 though not under its former shape4 ,i am not without a secret uneasiness1 that ,i have not talents to render me equally acceptable with others4 ,this is not to be content with ,god's appointments2 though1 ,i think1 ,i would not have others brought to my standard1 but would rise to their's1 that ,god may be more glorified4 ,i have received great kindness from ,mr4 ,brown1 and much benefit from his conversation4 ,blessed be ,god1 ,i feel no disposition to shrink from the shame of the cross1 but hope1 with boldness1 to declare myself a fellow-labourer with ,martyn1 in the controversy excited by his preaching4 8,i preached on ,sunday ,sept4 #bh1 evening1 at the ,mission ,church1 from #b ,thess4 i4 #g-aj3 my mind was somewhat impressed with the importance of my office1 both before and during the service4 ,i trust the furtherance of ,god's glory1 and the good of souls1 was1 and is1 my prevailing desire4 ,went up to ,serampore yesterday1 and in the evening was present at the marriage of ,mr4 ,desgranges4#ae ,mr4 ,brown entered into their concerns with much interest4 ,the pagoda#af was fixed on1 and lighted up for the celebration of the wedding2 at eight o'clock the parties came from the ,mission house1 at ,serampore attended by most of the family4 ,mr4 ,brown commenced with the hymn1 #8,come1 gracious ,spirit1 heavenly dove6' ,a divine influence seemed to attend us1 and most delightful were my sensations4 ,the circumstance of so many being engaged in spreading the glad tidings of salvation1--the temple of an idol converted to the purpose of ,christian worship1 and the ,divine presence felt among us1--filled me with joy unspeakable4 ,after the marriage service of the ,church of ,england1 ,mr4 ,brown gave out #8the ,wedding hymn2' and after signing certificates of the marriage1 we adjourned to the house1 where ,mr4 ,brown had provided supper4 ,two hymns given out by ,mr4 ,marshman#ag were felt very powerfully4 ,he is a most lively1 sanguine missionary2 his conversation made my heart burn within me1 and ,i find desires of spreading the ,gospel growing stronger daily1 and my zeal in the cause more ardent4 ,but ,o #8my leanness' in comparison of these #8burning and shining lights' around me4 ,yet1 in the strength of ,jehovah will ,i go forward1 and will tread in their steps1 and pursue them at a distance1 though ,i may not hope to come near their attainments4 8,oct4 #ajth4 ,i have for some time past been oppressed with a sense of the want of spiritual affections3 my heart as cold as ice1 no mouth to speak of1 or for ,god3 deadness in prayer1 and languor in every spiritual duty4 ,i perceive my great insufficiency for the work of the ministry2 and lament exceedingly my small opportunities of education1#ah and my sinful negligence in not better improving those ,i had4 #8,god be merciful to me a sinner1' and perfect praise to ,himself out of my weak and unskilful mouth6 ,last night ,i went to the ,mission-house1 at ,serampore and supped at the same table with about fifty native converts4 ,the triumph of the cross was most evident in breaking down their prejudices1 and uniting them with those who formerly were an abomination in their eyes4 ,after supper1 they sang a ,bengalee hymn1 many of them with tears of joy2 and they concluded with prayer in ,bengalee1 with evident earnestness and emotion4 ,my own feelings were too big for utterance4 ,o may the time be hastened when every tongue shall confess ,jesus ,christ1 to the glory of ,god the ,father6 8,on ,friday evening1 ,oct4 #ajth4 we had a meeting in the pagoda1 at which almost all the missionaries1 some of their wives1 and ,captain ,w4 attended3 with a view to commend ,martyn to the favour and protection of ,god in his work4 ,the ,divine presence was with us4 ,i felt more than it would have been proper to express4 ,mr4 ,brown commenced with a hymn and prayer1 ,mr4 ,desgranges succeeded him1 with much devotion and sweetness of expression3 ,mr4 ,marshman followed1 and dwelt particularly on the promising appearance of things2 and1 with much humility1 pleaded ,god's promises for the enlargement of ,zion2 with many petitions for ,mr4 ,brown and his family4 ,the service was concluded by ,mr4 ,carey1#ai who was earnest in prayer for ,mr4 ,brown3 the petition that #8having laboured for many years without encouragement or support1 in the evening it might be light1' seemed much to affect his own mind1 and greatly impressed us all4 ,afterwards we supped together at ,mr4 ,brown's4 ,the influence of this association remained on my mind1 and shed a divine peace and composure through my soul4 8,sunday #abth4 ,this day ,i preached at the ,new ,church from ,gal4 vi4 #ad4 ,the ,governor ,general1 c41 attended4 ,i felt a good deal of palpitation before ,i ascended the pulpit1 but afterwards experienced great composure of mind2 and had no idea that any one would be offended1 being conscious that ,i was speaking the truth4 ,i found much earnestness in prayer before1 and after1 divine service4 ,god grant an increase to ,his own word for ,jesus ,christ's sake6 8,oct4 #acth4 ,i came to ,serampore to dinner4 ,had a pleasant sail up the river3 the time passed agreeably in conversation4 ,in the evening a fire was kindled on the opposite bank2 and we soon perceived that it was a funeral pile1 on which the wife was burning with the dead body of her husband4 ,it was too dark to distinguish the miserable victim of superstition2 but by the light of the flames we could discover a great crowd of people3 their horrid noise1 and senseless music1 joined with the testimony of some of the servants1 convinced us that our apprehensions were founded on fact4 ,the noise continued till ten o'clock1 and the fire was kept burning till that time4 ,my mind was struck with horror and pity4 ,on going out to walk with ,martyn to the pagoda1 the noise so unnatural1 and so little calculated to excite joy1 raised in my mind an awful sense of the presence and influence of evil spirits4 ,o that the ,lord would command his word to run and be glorified1 in casting them out1 and placing in their stead the mild influence of his ,gospel6 8,oct4 #ahth1 #ahjf4 ,on ,wednesday last1 ,mr4 ,brown1 ,parson and myself proceeded up the river with ,martyn1 to set him on his way to ,dinapore4 ,we landed at ,ghyretee1 and walked through a most delightful avenue2 afterwards through a neat village 7for this country71 and arrived at ,chandernagore about seven o'clock3 we took tea at a tavern1 and went on board our budgerow1 about nine o'clock4 ,after joining in prayer1 we retired to rest4 ,on ,thursday morning1 we proceeded to ,chinsurah1 on foot1 through groves of fruit trees2 we arrived at ,chinsurah soon after seven o'clock1 and received a most hospitable reception from ,mr4 ,forsyth3#bj after dinner1 we went with ,mr4 ,f4 above ,bandell2 and after worship1 returned to ,chinsurah in paunchway4#ba ,yesterday morning1 the weather having commenced rainy1 we determined to return to ,aldeen1 on account of ,mr4 ,brown's boat becoming uninhabitable4 ,we first engaged1 according to arrangement1 in alternate prayer4 ,mr4 ,brown commenced with reading a portion of ,scripture1 singing a hymn1 and prayer1 which order was observed by ,p41 myself1 and ,martyn4 ,a sense of the ,divine presence was experienced by each of us1 and our consolation in ,christ ,jesus abounded2 so that we left our friend without regret1 and he parted with us cheerfully2 each persuaded that ,god was with us1 and would be our #8shield and exceeding great reward4' 8,oct4 #bbnd4 ,on coming down the river1 ,i saw the figures of ,doorga#bb paraded on the river1 and the indecencies of idol-worship4 ,my mind was inexpressibly grieved2 and most earnestly did ,i desire to be able to address the poor deluded heathen4 8,nov4 #crd4 ,for some time past ,i have made no memoranda of the state of my mind4 ,alas1 my wretched backwardness to any really good thing6 ,in general my heart has been hard and insensible1 though my desire has been to the contrary2 and ,i have had but little inclination to pray1 though no disposition to give up prayer2 and sometimes have experienced enlargement of heart1 and melting of soul in prayer4 ,i have preached several times at the ,old ,church1 and once at the ,new4 ,my purposes of labouring among the heathen are1 ,i bless ,god1 more fixed2 and a desire to be at my station1 and about my proper work1 grows upon me4 8,when ,i hear of a spirit of covetousness which has affected many1 ,i fear and tremble2 and ,i think something of that disposition was working within me this morning4 ,oh6 how often have ,i said that ,i desire not to leave one shilling behind me at death4 ,i would record my own declaration1 beseeching thee1 ,o ,lord1 that ,i may be enabled to trust thee for future supplies1 and to live by faith upon thee for daily bread6 8#bdth1 ,for some days past my mind has enjoyed quiet and peace with ,god2 my indisposition has been in a great measure removed1 and ,i can speak and act as usual4 #8,praise ,god from whom all blessings flow4' ,my mind has been calm and resigned to the will of ,god1 in the prospect of my destination1 and in my preparation to set out for ,chunar2 but little1 alas6 of lively affection1 with much wandering of heart in prayer4 ,the youths who came out with me have been much on my mind4 ,my dear relatives have not had so particular an interest in my prayers as at some other times2 but their welfare is exceedingly dear to me1 and the prospect of having my sister with me very cheering4 8,nov4 #bith4 ,this morning ,mr4 ,brown1 ,parson1 ,mr4 ,thompson#bc 7of ,madras71 and myself1 met in the pagoda at ,aldeen1 to consult in what way we may most effectually promote the glory of our redeeming ,god in the earth4 ,after prayer by ,mr4 ,brown1 and after some conversation1 we agreed1 #ast4 ,to join in the views1 and aid to the utmost of our power1 the purposes of the ,british and ,foreign ,bible ,society3 #bndly4 ,to help forward the translation of the ,scriptures into the languages of the ,east1 as much as in us lies2 and to take the expense of the ,sanscrit and ,greek ,testaments upon ourselves3 and #crdly4 ,to make a quarterly report of our prospects1 our plans1 and actual situation in our various stations1 as far as the ,church is concerned1 to ,mr4 ,brown2 who will add his own1 and cause a copy of the whole to be transmitted to each individual4 ,after prayer we separated4 8,dec4 #h4 ,to-day set off for ,chunar4 ,in the strength of the ,lord ,god ,i go forth4 ,o1 prepare a people for ,thyself1 and make me the instrument of gathering them into thy fold6 ,keep me by thy mighty power in body and soul2 and enlarge my heart that ,i may delight in ,thy will1 and lay out all my time and labour in ,thy service6 ,amen1 ,lord ,jesus4 ,amen6 8,dec4 #acth4 ,on ,monday last ,parson and myself left ,aldeen1 to proceed to our stations2 ,mr4 ,brown and ,mr4 ,thompson accompanying us4 ,we arrived at ,chinsurah about three o'clock1 after a quick sail up the river1 the tide being in our favour3 we called on ,mr4 ,forsyth1 with whom we spent the evening4 ,mr4 ,f4 conducted family worship1 and was excellent in the application1 and very fervent for the fulfilment of many precious promises4 ,the presence of ,god was with us4 ,mr4 ,f4 gave me favourable intelligence respecting ,general ,m4 at ,chunar1 to which place ,mr4 ,l4 had sent tracts1 which had been noticed with approbation by the ,general4 ,i hope the ,lord has prepared my way4 ,yesterday morning1 after breakfast and family worship1 we set forward1 ,mr4 ,forsyth accompanying us4 ,in the evening we walked on the bank1 whilst the boatmen hauled our boat along4 ,the encouragement and comfort his conversation raised in my mind will1 ,i hope1 never be forgotten3 much lively and spiritual conversation passed1 chiefly on the means most suitable for us to employ under present circumstances4 ,we concluded by commissioning ,messrs4 ,brown and ,t4 to buy ,bibles1 ,testaments1 and ,common ,prayer-books1 to be sent to us from time to time for distribution4 ,our friends left us to return to ,calcutta4 ,a sweet composure fills my heart3 and1 without regret1 ,i leave all that earth and sense hold dear1 to do thy will1 ,o my ,god6 ,let me find strength according to my day2 and call ,thou me to any thing in which ,i may most glorify ,thee4 ,leave me not for a moment2 for though now1 #8by thy goodness1 thou hast made my mountain strong1' yet if thou hide thy face ,i shall be #8troubled6' 8,dec4 #adth4 ,yesterday morning we left ,sook ,saugur3 in the afternoon our attention was arrested by loud lamentations3 we observed a dying man put into the river to expire2 this1 in the opinion of the ,hindoos1 insuring ,paradise4 ,we were much shocked at the spectacle4 ,lord1 how long1 how long shall ,satan triumph8 ,four out of six are killed in this way1 and hurried out of life40 ,on the #afth of ,december1 ,mr4 ,corrie writes to his father3-- 8,i am now on my way to my station at ,chunar1 five days' journey from ,calcutta1 and three from ,berhampore4 ,to this last place ,parson is appointed1 and we are together in the same boat2 after which ,i have eight weeks' journey alone4 ,i have1 however1 several introductions to christian friends on the way1 and ,martyn's station is before me1 where ,i intend to stay a few days with him4 ,my mind is at perfect ease1 and my soul happy in the love of ,god1 and overflowing with gratitude to the ,giver of all good4 ,much and unexpected kindness has been shewn me in this strange land2 and ,i have found that whosoever forsaketh aught for ,christ shall reap an hundred-fold #8in the present life3' how1 then1 can ,i doubt the fulfilment of that part of the promise which relates to the life to come8 ,in the house of ,mr4 ,brown1 every attention that affection could think of has been shewn me4444 ,the country through which we have come1 is1 in general1 very pleasant1 though flat4 ,we walk on the bank morning and evening2 and amuse ourselves with finding out resemblances1 or fancied resemblances to scenes we remember in ,britain4 ,we have every comfort we can wish for2 and our morning and evening worship1 consisting of singing1 prayer1 and reading the ,scriptures1 tends to revive our souls2 whilst we walk as friends1 and take sweet counsel together on the ends and means we purpose in our ministry4 ,i have written so often that ,i forget what ,i may have said to you2 but you who know how much ,i am the creature of impulse in every thing--except my expressions of affection for you all1 and in matters of fact1--will not judge of the state of my mind from one single letter4 ,i allude especially to what ,i have written respecting the conversion of the heathen4 ,you know1 what ,i now know1 how sanguine ,i am in schemes that my soul enters into2 and oft have ,i made calculations and statements which have afterwards made me blush4--,the state of society among our own countrymen here is much altered for the better within these few years4 ,the ,marquis ,wellesley openly patronized religion2 whether from motives of state policy or not1 it is not ours to judge4 ,he on every possible opportunity1 made moral character a sine qu non to his patronage1 and sought for men of character from every quarter to fill offices of trust4 ,he avowedly encouraged1 and contributed to1 the translation of the ,scriptures into the native languages2 and wherever he went1 paid a strict regard to divine worship on the ,sunday4 ,before his time1 all causes were tried in the courts of justice1 through the medium of interpreters2 but by the ,college which he instituted1 he furnished the natives with judges capable of determining from their own knowledge of the language1 and judgment on the evidence2 and has thus laid the foundation of peace and justice1 such as ,asia before knew not4 ,he has been the saviour of ,india to ,britain4 ,the state of the natives in a moral point of view is deplorable2 the most shocking indecencies form a part of their worship2 and lying1 cheating1 c41 are not considered crimes4 ,two youths who were seriously impressed during the voyage1 and one who was our fellow-passenger1 and has since been brought to consideration1 are going on consistently in the ways of wisdom4 ,these first-fruits of our ,indian engagement afford me the most lively encouragement1 and the strongest hope that ,god is with me of a truth4 ,o may ,he be a spirit of power in my own heart1 and a word of power in my mouth1 that many may be turned unto righteousness3 then ,i am sure that you will bless the day that took me from you1 and we shall rejoice together in the loving-kindness of our ,god60 ,but to return to the ,journal3 8,december #ahth4 ,this evening we are at ,plassy4 ,walking on the bank of the river1 we passed an old man brought down to die by the river-side3 he exhibited signs of considerable vitality2 and certainly no symptoms of immediate dissolution4 ,my spirit was stirred within me2 and a ,brahmin coming past1 ,i began to talk to him on the wickedness of killing men in this way4 ,he said his shasters#bd commanded it1 and that the doctor had pronounced the man dying4 ,i told him that ,god did no injury to man2 that ,he was good2 and1 therefore1 the shasters were not ,god's word2 and that ,god was displeased at such proceedings2 he understood me1 and pleaded their customs4 ,i answered1 that the custom1 the shasters1 and the people1 were all bad2 and that when he died he would go down and lie in fire for ever4 ,he evidently understood me and seemed confounded4 ,i then told him that at ,cutwa1 a ,sahib lived1 who would give him the true word of ,god1 and recommended him to go there4 ,it appeared1 however1 that he came from ,moorshedebad1 and showed no disposition to return to ,cutwa4 ,passing on1 we found a party going to ,juggernauth4 ,i asked one of them1 ,why he went there8 ,what use it would be to him1 and what good it would do to him8 ,he seemed confounded1 and made no reply4 ,i told him also of the anger of ,god1 and of the fire after death4 ,a ,birajee#be came running after us to beg2 he was an old man4 ,on being told by him what he was1 ,i said to him1 that he was a lazy man that would do no work1 but only eat1 and that ,god was angry with him1 and that when he died he would go down to fire for ever4 ,he was surprised at this reception1 and could only plead his age4 ,i recommended him to ,cutwa4 ,this is my first effort at missionary work3 but ,o1 how ,i blush1 and abhor myself1 for the imperfect manner ,i speak for ,god4 ,i know enough of the language to have conveyed different ideas1 and more of them1 but ,i am nothing1 and know nothing4 ,lord1 grant me wisdom and utterance2 and1 ,o1 smile on my feeble attempts for the furtherance of thine own glory1 through ,christ ,jesus6 8,dec4 #bast4 ,we are now by the kind providence of ,god at ,berhampore4 ,on ,friday ,mr4 ,grant and ,mr4 ,ellerton stopped our boat1 about one o'clock1 and we stayed at that place all night4 ,we met1 also1 with ,messrs4 ,b4 and their friends2 one a youth from ,england1 by the ,nelson4 ,they also stayed with us2 and in the evening1 we were joined by two officers1 going down to ,calcutta4 ,we made a party of eight1 and sat up till twelve1 talking to little profit1 chiefly about the siege of ,bhurtpore4 ,yesterday morning we separated1 and were accompanied the whole of the day by the ,messrs4 ,b41 who joined with us in morning and evening worship4 8,dec4 #bcrd1 #ahjf4 7,bogwongola74 ,yesterday morning we waited on ,general ,p4 and afterwards visited the place appointed for public worship1 a large upper room4 ,in the afternoon1 we visited the hospital4 ,i drew near the bed of a man apparently in the last stage of disease1 who received the word with tears1 and requested me to pray with him4 ,having made this known1 ,p4 invited the others to draw near3 a large party collected from all parts of the hospital4 ,i expounded the third chapter of ,st4 ,john's ,gospel1 and prayed4 ,much attention in the poor men4 8,i left ,berhampore this morning at seven o'clock2 and1 after passing through a well-cultivated and fertile country1 arrived here at twelve4 ,i am now on the great river1 proceeding to ,mr4 ,creighton#bf at ,gomalty4 ,i am much pained at heart on account of separation from dear ,parson1 and disheartened at the prospect of being so long on the way to ,chunar2 and tired with the importunity of the natives4 ,never1 never have ,i felt so keenly the separation from dear relatives2 but ,i have no wish to draw back1 but would pray and hope that 8,god will be the strength of my heart1 and my portion for ever10 in and through ,jesus ,christ4 8,dec4 #bfth4 ,last night ,i arrived at ,gomalty1 and found a very kind reception from ,mr4 ,creighton4 ,in the course of conversation1 ,i have learned that he1 with ,messrs4 ,ellerton and ,grant1 have instituted about twelve schools in the villages1 in this neighbourhood1 in which many children of the poor natives are taught to read and write2 and christian tracts1 and the ,new ,testament in ,bengalee are read to them1 and by them4 ,one ,brahmin objected to the reading the ,holy ,scirptures2 but1 some parts of them being read to him1 his objections were removed1 and he considered that they were very good4 ,in one of the schools the master is a ,brahmin1 who teaches these tracts1 c42 though he says1 that if the sentiments contained in them prevail1 the ,brahmin's power will soon be at an end4 ,the salary allowed the teachers is five rupees#bg per month2 for which they teach as many children as choose to come4 ,in one school about seventy or eighty children attended at first2 and about forty still continue to come4 ,in this school thirty have been taught1 and are gone off to different employments4 ,many of the boys have made considerable proficiency in reading and writing2 and through them1 the knowledge of the ,scriptures is diffused to a considerable extent2 the consequence is1 that much less dissension is found in the neighbourhood2 so that when the native missionaries come amongst them1 the people are much more ready to hear them than in other districts4 ,they hear1 also1 with much attention1 and in general approve of ,christian truth4 8,dec4 #bgth4 ,to-day ,mr4 ,creighton sent for the schoolmaster of the place with his little charge1 about fourteen3 some others were in the habit of attending1 but were at this time absent4 ,the method of teaching is by writing the character in the sand1 and then pronouncing the letter2 thus they learn both to read and write at the same time3 some of the children have made considerable advancement4 ,the manners of the children are much the same as those of children at home2 and much gratification did their contented faces and their little tricks afford me4 8,dec4 #bith4 ,yesterday morning ,messrs4 ,w4 the two ,b's and ,a4 came over to attend ,divine worship4 ,at ten o'clock we went and heard the ,bengalee missionaries preach to their countrymen3 the three appear to be humble and sincere ,christians4 ,those who understood them say1 that the preaching was very energetic and eloquent4 8,gomalty1 ,jan4 #ast4 #ahjg4 ,i would begin the new year by reviewing the old4 ,the mercies of the past year are many and great2 and1 for these mercies1 ,i am bound to be exceedingly thankful4 ,during the voyage1 my attempts were not without some good effects on the minds of ,v4 and ,y4 especially3 the ,lord made my presence a restraint on some who would otherwise have been more profane1 and gave me favour in the sight of many3 kind friends have been raised up for me in ,india1 wherever ,i have come1 and all my wants have been abundantly supplied4 ,these mercies call for the loudest praise to ,him who rules on high2 but especially do spiritual mercies call for gratitude3 that ,i have been kept from gross sins before men2 that ,i have not been permitted wholly to restrain prayer before ,god1 or to cast off ,his fear2 that ,i have been enabled in public preaching to declare what ,i believe to be the whole counsel of ,god2 and that some tokens of ,divine approbation have been granted to ,his word4 ,i feel a growing boldness to speak for ,god in private1 and something more of a power to cast off the fear of man4 ,these are subjects which may well furnish matter for everlasting songs4 ,i would record what ,i feel still wrong1 that ,i may be disposed to live more simply on ,christ for strength as well as righteousness4 ,i find a disposition to seek the applause of men1 which sometimes leads me into words and actions which grieve the ,holy ,spirit1 and wound my own soul4 ,there is a sinful nature2 a disposition to rest in the form of godliness2 and a spirit of indolence which causes me to waste hours and days to no profit4 ,these things grieve and bow down my soul4 ,i would1 also1 record my purposes1 that ,i may be bound to perform them4 ,i intend to keep aloof from visiting parties at ,chunar1 as much as ,i can2 to establish worship as often as possible2 and to teach and preach ,jesus ,christ1 #8publicly and from house to house1' both to professed ,christians1 and to the heathen4 ,but1 when ,i reflect how most of my resolutions have hitherto come to nothing1 ,o ,lord1 let thy power rest upon me6 ,i would record my most earnest desires1 to mark the ,lord's dealings with me1 and ,his answers to prayer4 ,my first desire is1 that a #8door may be opened' at ,chunar1 and that ,i may have power to enter in thereat1 that so #8the word of ,god may have free course and be glorified' in the conversion of souls4 ,secondly1 that my dear family may be the special objects of the favour of ,jehovah2 and that my dear sister may come out to me1 if it be the will of ,god1 otherwise not4 ,thirdly1 that ,v41 ,y41 and ,b41 may be kept from the power of the devil1 the world1 and the flesh2 and that they may be redeemed and preserved from all iniquity1 and have liberty to serve ,god without fear4 ,fourthly1 that the choicest mercies both of ,providence and ,grace1 may descend on all whose hearts have been disposed to favour me2 and that the ,government of ,india may be disposed to permit1 at least1 attempts for the conversion of the natives2 and that the kingdom of ,christ may come4 ,and1 ,o ,lord1 ,i would devote my life1 my strength1 my every faculty1 and every gift of grace1 nature1 or providence1 wholly to thy service and glory6 ,i offer myself to ,thee4 ,o pardon1 accept1 and bless me1 through ,jesus ,christ2 and bring these purposes to good effect1 for thy name's sake6 8,jan4 #fth4 ,left ,mr4 ,creighton at ,gomalty yesterday morning4 ,in travelling1 found my mind somewhat stayed on ,god4 ,i welcomed the budgerow1 and the dreary river1 as old though inconvenient friends1 who would put me in the way of active usefulness4 ,i was much pleased with the school in ,mr4 ,c4's bungalow2 and1 from the pleasure the ,brahmin showed1 in making the scholars read the ,bengalee ,new ,testament1 ,i have a hopeful presentiment that the kingdom of ,satan1 thus divided against itself1 cannot stand long4 8,jan4 #afth4 ,this morning1 ,i visited the wells near ,monghyr4#bh ,one of the wells is cold2 but close to it1 another bubbles up water1 like the bubbles that rise from the bottom of a caldron as the water grows hot4 ,i found this water so hot1 that ,i was scarcely able to bear my hand in it4 ,here1 they say1 ,ram's wife bathed1 after she had been stolen away1 and recovered again by her husband4 ,many ,brahmins and ,faqueers were staying there2 and were very importunate for money4 ,with a buckshish#bi ,i offered tracts1 and was immediately told that a ,sahib1 a short time since1 had left many4 ,a very interesting boy1 about fifteen years of age1 read in one of the tracts1 and told me that it meant1 ,there is only one ,god1 and that all their poojahs1 c41 are vain4 ,i spoke to him1 and an old man1 with several around2 the boy seemed to understand perfectly what ,i meant2 and said1 that when he understood the matter thoroughly1 he should leave off poojah2 and1 as ,i spake of hell as the portion of wicked men1 several behind showed symptoms of scorn4 ,the old man discovered much impatience1 but1 for the buckshish1 stayed till ,i had said all that ,i thought necessary4 ,the boy's father manifested uneasiness1 and evidently wished his son away2 but for the same reason permitted him to stay4 ,the father said1 that ,adam was first created1 and that all men are his children3 that the world was drowned1 and then ,noah became the parent of us all4 ,i replied that it was true2 and that ,adam and ,noah worshipped ,god1 and paid no regard to poojahs and the river4 ,why1 then1 did they pay that regard to the creature1 which was due only to ,god8 ,he answered1 that when ,god should give all the world to be of the same opinion1 it would be so4 ,to which ,i replied1 ,that it was true2 and that in ,england we worshipped ,god as ,adam and ,noah did2 and that now the word was sent to him4 8,jan4 #bfth4 ,on ,friday1 ,i left the budgerow1 and came through a most fertile country to ,dinapore4 ,i observed some of the customs of the natives which explained passages of ,scripture4 ,in the evening1 the conversation of dear ,martyn seemed to drive away all pain2 but weakness soon made me wish for rest4 ,yesterday1 ,i preached here to an attentive people1 from ,matt4 vii4 #ba-bc4 ,some of the officers scoffed4 ,oh6 what cause for thankfulness in the sweet communion ,i am favoured with in ,martyn1 and in the kindness ,i meet with on all hands6 ,o for a heart to praise the ,lord for his goodness6 ,o for power to do ,his will1 to love ,his work2 and for a spirit of compassion for perishing souls6 8,jan4 #bith4 ,just leaving ,dinapore to proceed to ,chunar1 in tolerable health and spirits4 ,i have found but little of spiritual comfort2 though much pleasure in communion with dear ,martyn4 ,my purposes of labouring amongst the heathen are much revived1 encouraged and strengthened1 by the conversation of this dear friend3 we agreed to exchange letters every other ,monday4 ,i found the vanity of worldly pursuits in the society ,i went into2 and perceive afresh that ,god is alone the fit and satisfying portion of the soul4 ,o may ,i live under this impression1 and may my life and conduct testify that it is a divine impression6 8,feb4 #aeth4 ,on approaching ,chunar1 the appearance of the fort struck me as beautiful2 but1 from the reports of its unhealthiness1 ,i was ready to consider it as my grave1 and approached it with a heavy heart4 ,i have found some earnestness and liberty in praying for a blessing on my entrance in amongst them4 ,i trust the ,lord will be entreated40 #ad ,on ,sunday1 ,sept4 #ba4 #ae ,one of the ,london ,society's ,missionaries4 #af ,the ,hindoo temple of the idol ,bullub1 which the ,brahmins had deserted4 ,mr4 ,brown had repaired1 and fitted it up as a family chapel and study4 ,the pagoda was1 also1 sometimes appropriated to the accommodation of ,mr4 ,brown's particular friends4--,,memorial ,,sketches ,,of ,,rev4 ,d4 ,,brown1 p4 #acg4 #ag ,baptist ,missionary4 #ah ,during the four years that ,mr4 ,corrie resided in the neighbourhood of ,london1 little or no attention was paid to his education4 #ai ,baptist ,missionary4 #bj ,one of the ,london ,society's ,missionaries4 #ba ,a small covered boat4 #bb ,one of the principal ,hindoo female deities4 #bc ,the ,rev4 ,marmaduke ,thompson1 late ,chaplain at ,madras4 #bd ,holy books4 #be ,a kind of religious mendicant4 #bf ,superintendent of ,indigo works4 #bg ,about ten shillings sterling4 #bh ,the celebrated hot-well named 8,seetacoom10--the fountain of ,seeta4--,,bishop ,,heber',s ,,journal4 #bi ,present4 ,,chapter ,,iv4 ,,settlement ,,at ,,chunar4 ,chunar1 the first scene of ,mr4 ,corrie's stated ministry in ,india1 used to be a place of greater importance than it is now that the frontier of the ,british ,empire has been so much extended in all directions4 ,the fortress is spread over the sides of a high rock which is washed by the ,ganges2 and although the place is not considered unhealthy1 yet during some months in the year1 the heat at ,chunar is intense4 ,the ,europeans stationed there1 when ,mr4 ,c4 was chaplain1 were all military1 and for the most part invalids1 who1 though unfit for active service1 were equal to garrison-duty4 ,besides those ,europeans and some ,sepoys1 there were a few half-castes of ,portuguese extraction1 and some native women who followed the army4 ,without the cantonments was a ,hindoo and ,mahomedan population amounting to #aj1jjj or #ab1jjj souls4 ,the ,europeans1 also1 at ,secrole 7about twelve miles from ,chunar7 became afterwards part of ,mr4 ,corrie's charge2 whilst the vast heathen population of ,benares1 with its cruel and senseless superstitions1 opened out a large field for the exercise of missionary zeal and christian philanthropy4 ,the extracts given below from ,mr4 ,corrie's journal and ,letters1 will explain the nature of his official duties1 and missionary operations4 ,it will be seen that he had many obstacles to encounter in his efforts to impart the knowledge of ,christ to those 8who lay in darkness and in the shadow of death40#cj ,among the many trials1 too1 which his faith had to sustain1 not the least will appear to have arisen from the determined hostility to all missionary labours1 manifested by the ,government of ,india2 in forgetfulness1 it may be presumed1 of the great truth1 that as 8the kingdoms of this world are0 destined to 8become the kingdoms of our ,lord and of ,his ,christ10 all opposition to the spread of ,christianity is hostility to the 8,king of kings40#ca 8,sunday1 ,feb4 #bbnd4 ,this day ,i begin my labours at ,chunar1 and have much reason to adore him who heareth prayer1 for smoothing my way1 and opening a door of hope that good will be done4 ,i arose at five o'clock this morning and prepared for divine service4 ,at seven o'clock1 ,i went to the place of worship1 and found there the effective artillery-men1 the garrison invalids1 and several of the others1 with the ,colonel1 ,captain ,p41 ,lieut4 ,a41 and the invalid officers ,d4 and ,h4 with some other officers of the ,fort4 ,observed several very attentive4 ,at half past nine o'clock ,i went to the hospital1 and found a table set1 and the people very ready to hear1 and attentive4 ,now1 ,o ,lord1 8,do thou the gracious harvest raise1 ,and thine alone shall be the praise40 8,feb4 #beth4 ,this evening ,i went to see the ,roman ,catholic chapel1 a small place of about eight feet square1 surrounded with a veranda4 ,a dish with spices1 and another with flour1 were placed on the altar4 ,a ,padre comes occasionally1 but he has not been here for the last two years2 he has baptized several native women connected with ,europeans2 but ,i cannot find that any other natives have been baptized by him4 8,feb4 #bgth4 ,yesterday and to-day1 ,i had an opportunity of talking with some poor women1 ,portuguese ,roman ,catholics1 about ,jesus ,christ2 and found some relief to my own mind in recommending ,him to their regard4 ,from one ,i learned 7what indeed ,i had heard before7 that at ,bettiah1 situate in what used to be the old kingdom of ,nepaul1 eight days' journey inland from ,chuprah1 all the inhabitants are ,roman ,catholic christians3 a padre resides amongst them1 and they have a church4 8,march #hth4 ,the week has passed with little profit4 ,i received a letter from dear ,martyn1#cb which comforted me not a little4 ,on returning from public service1 ,i found some earnestness in prayer to ,god for my flock2 for the ,church in ,india2 and her ministers2 for my dear relatives2 for my former flock1 and all who pray for me2 but especially for my dear country1 her government1 her ministers1 her people2 and for all christians4 ,after dinner ,i called in the ,bettiah-christian1#cc and found him intelligent1 and very attentive to his padre4 ,he gave me the history of the creation and fall of man1 with a mixture of fable1 and some confusion in the connexion4 ,he seems to know nothing experimentally of ,christ2 and1 if ,i understood him rightly1 considers that the sin of ,adam1 which fell upon his posterity1 is removed by ,christ2 and that now by attending to the sacraments we obtain pardon of sin4 ,god grant me wisdom to deal prudently with him3 he appears sincere1 but not very humble4 8,march #ith4 ,this morning ,i went to the hospital1 in consequence of a message from a native woman1 who is desirous of baptism3 she appeared anxious to go in ,god's way1 as she expressed it2 and with tears said1 that from her heart she desired baptism4 ,on my asking her whether she was a sinner8 ,she replied1 ,that before1 or towards ,god1 she was a sinner3 but on being further questioned1 confessed she did not know wherein she had done amiss1 except it were in living in an unmarried state2 looking wistfully at the man4 ,i took occasion1 from this confession1 to speak of the evil of this circumstance1 and of the only way of obtaining forgiveness1 through the blood of ,christ4 ,she promised to keep this word in her heart1 and to pray according to my directions4 ,the man appears sensible of the evil of his present habits2 and promises that1 if the woman lives1 he will marry her4 ,i am at a loss how to proceed3 to refuse her baptism will evidently be a grief to her2 and ,i hope she is awakened to a sense of her sin4 ,may the ,lord direct me6 8,march #aeth4 ,i went yesterday evening to the barracks2 and if circumstances had been favourable1 should have married the persons above-mentioned2 but find ,i should have broken military regulations if ,i had done so4 ,to-day1 the man seems unwilling2 but the woman expressed dread at the thought of continuing in sin4 ,i have observed1 on several occasions1 when explaining christian subjects through a native who understands ,english1 that they the natives have a great reluctance to speak of ,jesus ,christ1 and never do it till ,i urge it again4 8,march #agth4 ,a letter from dear ,martyn dispirits me2#cd as1 from the dislike manifested to his schools1 ,i may see how little is to be hoped for3 yet we expect opposition2 why then should ,i be dismayed8 ,o my soul6 hope in ,god6 ,notwithstanding1 ,i have engaged a schoolmaster1 and am waiting to see the result4 ,i have employed myself to-day in translating the ten commandments into ,hindoostanee1 with the assistance of a moonshee4 ,he could not1 for a long time1 understand why ,god is called a #8jealous ,god4' 8,march #ahth4 ,a native woman has been with me1 expressing her desire for baptism4 ,i made the moonshee read to her the ten commandments2 and could not help smiling to hear one ,hindoo explain the law of ,god to another3 she exhibits no humility4 ,the ,bettiah-christian pleased me much this evening3 he mentioned four good works which ,god approved of2 three of which ,i understood to be faith1 love1 and obedience to the law4 ,i replied1 that if faith was in the heart1 all the other good works would follow2 if we really believed the love of ,christ to sinners1 we must love ,him in return4 ,he answered1 that it was true2 and said1 ,if faith is not in the heart1 none of the other graces would be there4 ,all this was said with a seriousness and gravity which looked very like sincerity1 if it was not really so4 ,a female attending the woman who has applied for baptism1 interfering very improperly1 was desired to hold her peace4 ,she left the room with marks of great anger1 having before exhibited symptoms of uneasiness2 especially when the seventh commandment was repeated4 ,so does ,satan rage when his strongholds are attacked6 8,march #bbnd4 ,in conversation with ,mooney ,lol and ,moonshee1 on the necessity of making inquiry for ourselves in matters of the soul1 ,i remarked an expression which has dwelt much on my mind3 #8,when we have a king of our own to order us in the right way1 we will then walk in it4' ,this1 with other circumstances1 convinces me of the impolicy of the ,government1 in withholding ,christianity from the natives4 ,they are tasting of ,british liberty2 but1 having no principles to guide them1 when they feel their strength1 they will expel the ,british2 whereas now1 if missionaries were permitted1 they would1 in two generations1 probably all embrace ,christianity4 8,march #bfth4 ,this evening1 after conversation with the native woman1 ,i baptized her1 with earnest warning not to trust to the outward sign4 ,she said1 ,she had been a sinner1 but that she would pray to ,jesus1 night and day1 to make her free from sin1 and would be ,his slave1 and serve ,him for ever4 ,after the service she cast her eyes up to heaven1 and kept them fixed for some time1 with an appearance of most ardent supplication4 ,afterwards ,i went home with ,sergeant ,m',d41 whose wife1 though a ,roman ,catholic1 wishes to communicate4 8,april #bnd4 ,yesterday morning ,i went to the barracks4 ,i asked the native woman whom ,i lately baptized1 whether she prayed8 ,she answered1 #8,yes4' #8,what do you pray to ,god for8' #8,to make me well in this world if ,he pleases2 and if not1 to take me to ,himself4' ,i endeavoured to impress on her the necessity of asking all in ,christ's name2 which she seemed to attend to very diligently4 ,the man was impressed4 ,in the evening ,i went to bury a child2 and spoke to three invalids1 plainly and at length1 on the necessity of winning ,christ4 8,april #fth4 ,i learned from the ,moonshee that the old schoolmaster1 in order to keep his scholars from the free school1 circulated a report that ,i should send the children to ,calcutta2 which1 it seems1 keeps many back2 but this notion1 however1 is now done away with4 8,april #hth4 ,yesterday the ,bettiah-walla came again after an absence of a fortnight4 ,he said he had been unwell2 and his appearance bespoke it4 ,he told me that he was poor and helpless without ,jesus ,christ4 ,to-day he came again1 and read1 with evident interest1 the fourteenth and fifteenth chapters of ,st4 ,john2 especially the promise of being one with ,god and ,christ4 ,the account of the fruitless branches also impressed him2 and he confessed that his heart was backward towards ,god4 ,this morning the children of the school came to me3 ,i was much struck with their appearance1 and artless manners4 ,the ,bettiah-walla received the ten commandments with reluctance3 the second is not in his number4 ,i took several occasions of pointing out to him the name of ,jesus1 as the only medium of access to ,god2 and observed that we must not pray to saints4 ,at hearing this1 his countenance fell4 ,o that the ,lord may lead him into all truth6 8,april #ajth1 #ahjg4 ,this day ,i have completed my thirtieth year4 ,i have been reviewing my birth-day memoranda1 and ,i feel quite abased4 ,alas6 where is the blessedness ,i experienced some time back2 or was ,i then under a mistake as to my real state8 ,i suspect that much of animal feeling mixed with my former experience1 for ,i think my soul is as fixed as ever1 in knowing nothing upon earth but #8,jesus ,christ and him crucified4' ,yet1 ,o my ,god 7for mine thou art7 search me6 ,the ,lord's mercies to me are innumerable3 if ,i should attempt to number them1 they exceed the minutes of my existence2 but alas6 my heart is insensible2 my affections are as cold as ice3 ,i am become a stone to the fear of death2 and the terror of the ,lord1 rather than the sweet love of ,jesus ,christ1 seems to constrain all my doings4 ,there is not a desire1 ,i think1 to keep back a tittle of ,god's word4 ,i even feel the time long till the ,lord's day returns1 that ,i may have an opportunity of warning poor sinners3 yet when it comes my heart is heavy2 and ,i go with a kind of sullenness and desponding tardiness to ,god's work4 ,o that it were with me as in months past6 ,the ,lord has marvellously hid me from the strife of tongues1 has wonderfully supported my feeble mind1 has enabled me to seek the salvation of souls with a boldness unusual to my nature2 and has given testimony to the word of ,his grace in this place4 ,he supports me in solitude1 and enables me to spend days alone without weariness3 praised be ,his name6 ,the undivided and glorious ,trinity are worthy of my adoration and love4 ,o rather let me go mourning thy absence to the grave than attempt to satisfy my soul with contemptible trash6 ,yet1 in thy manifold mercies1 let me taste thy love1 and praise thee in the use of all that thou bestowest6 ,the prosperity of ,zion is my earnest desire3 the conversion of the ,british and the heathen1 the success of my preaching1 schools1 and private attempts to do good are the subjects of my daily prayer4 ,o that the ,lord would bless these feeble efforts1 would perfect that which belongeth unto me6 ,into thy hands1 ,o ,lord1 ,i commend my soul and body3 and look with humble hope to be kept by thy power through faith unto salvation4 8,martyn alarms me by expressing a wish for my removal4#ce ,i feel very reluctant to it2 and am enabled to resign myself to ,god in prayer1 even to die here2 if1 in this way1 ,he will be more glorified4 8,april #abth4 ,this evening1 ,i buried the native woman whom ,i lately baptized2 and spoke to the people from #a ,cor4 xv4 #cc4 #8,evil communications corrupt good manners4' ,o ,lord1 grant thy blessing6 ,let thy promise come1 and then shall sinners in great numbers be converted unto thee60 ,the following ,letter to ,mr4 ,buckworth dated ,may #bbnd1 #ahjg1 contains some interesting particulars of which there is no record in the ,journal3-- 8,from the first of ,january till the beginning of this month1 ,i was much affected by this climate2 and did not begin to recover till ,april4 ,thanks to a kind ,providence1 ,i am now quite well2 and have escaped that first attack on arrival1 which has carried off four of my fellow-passengers4 ,the effect of this climate was felt as severely by my mind as my body3 a listlessness and languor rendered any little exertion a burden3 even my devotion was for the most without life or activity2 and1 alas6 little of that lively spirit ,i1 in some poor measure1 enjoyed in ,england1 remains with me4 ,i bless ,god who enables me to live on ,christ as my #8,all in ,all' and keeps alive in my heart a sense of the value of ,his favour1 and the excellency of the #8purchased possession4' ,the absence of lively feeling ,i conceive to be occasioned by the want of #8the communion of saints2' and ,i remember1 with tears sometimes1 those days #8when ,i went to the house of ,god with the multitude of those that kept holy day4' ,i am very far1 however1 from being without marks of the ,divine favour3 ,i am enabled to spend weeks alone without weariness2 and to find pleasure in those studies which may qualify me for extensive usefulness4 ,we have here about three hundred ,europeans1 invalids1 and officers2 of the latter ,i see little1 although we exchange mutual civilities3 perhaps1 ,i am not three hours in a week1 on the average1 in civilized society2 though ,i might be much more if ,i chose1 but find it my duty and privilege to avoid much visiting4 8,one ,sergeant has embraced the truth in love1 ,i trust2 and some others are hopeful4 ,a native1 descended from ,roman ,catholic parents1 has been daily with me2 and we read the gospel in ,hindoostanee together3 he is a man of good understanding4 ,when ,i found him here 7,february7 he had not seen the ,scriptures3 he now understands much of the general sense of the gospels2 and evidences a pleasing spirit of enquiry4 ,i am not at present1 however1 without fears respecting his real conversion4 ,should it please ,god to work effectually in him1 the blessing to his poor countrymen might prove incalculable4 ,you will wonder1 perhaps1 that ,i do not speak with rapture on the subject of the conversion of the natives2 be assured1 dearest ,b41 no subject is nearer my heart2 and this ,i feel assured of1 that whilst health and strength remain1 my life shall be devoted to the furtherance of this work1 as well as the more immediate objects of my present appointment4 ,the works of the devil are here manifest1 and excite an abhorrence in my soul1 which1 by the grace of ,god1 will to the last make me labour to destroy them3 but the effects of my labours are not1 according to human appearance1 likely to be immediate4 ,the rising generation seem to be the most likely subjects2 and some favoured servant of ,christ may1 probably1 lay my head in the dust1 and enter on his labour here among #8a people prepared for the ,lord4' ,but #8they who sow and they who reap shall rejoice together' in the day of our ,lord's appearing4 8,the superstition of this country is of such a complicated kind1 that ,i can say nothing with certainty about it1 at present4 ,almost every person has a different idol2 or a different account of the same idol2 and the objects of their worship are innumerable4 ,a circumstance that took place yesterday morning1 may help to shew you the folly of their worship3 its wickedness1 in some respects1 cannot be named4 ,the fort of ,chunar 7in which ,i live7 is a fortified hill of about two miles in circumference2 the ramparts command an extensive view on all sides1 and most mornings ,i take a walk upon them before sun-rise4 ,it seems1 that the first founder of this fort and his tutor are both canonized1 and are supposed to preside here still1 and are worshipped as tutelar deities4 ,yesterday morning1 at the south end1 most remote from the guard-house1 ,i found the firelock1 turban1 and sacred drinking-vessel of one of the sentinels3 a brahmin was placed by the sentry-box1 and was observed by me below4 ,i passed on4 ,as ,i returned1 he spoke2 but ,i did not stop4 ,thinking afterwards that he might be ill1 ,i called a servant1 and sent him to see4 ,now observe4 ,he said that1 at three in the morning1 he had seen two figures of men approaching1 that he challenged them1 and that they immediately flew upon him1 beat him unmercifully1 and1 after he was stripped1 kicked him off the rampart1 ten feet at least 7the ramparts were certainly seven feet high74 ,the ,jemadar 7a native officer7 who1 with others1 was come to his assistance1 was very angry with him1 and said these figures were the identical founder of the fort and his tutor1 who dwell in this part of the fort1 and have thrown two sentinels over the parapet for interrupting them3 this the brahmin before mentioned believed1 and this opinion was current4 ,i asked how this god came to beat him1 a brahmin1 so sacred a man8 ,he readily answered1 ,that the tutor is not a good1 but a bad spirit2 and they worship him to keep him from doing them injury4 ,i said to some others1 that it was quite plain that even a brahmin himself was not beyond the power of these demons2 how then could they expect the brahmins to defend them8 ,they were silent2 but evidently not convinced1 as they offer goats in sacrifice1 and pour out wine in libations1 which they fancy the demon eats and drinks4 ,i told them not to be so profuse in their offerings1 lest ,bhyzoont should become so wanton as to destroy them all4 8,a rich ,brahmin told me yesterday that if any one died in ,benares1 or within ten miles of it1 he would undoubtedly go to heaven1 though he were ever so great an offender4 ,i told him ,i would come some night and plunder his house1 and then go to ,benares1 and so secure both present and future riches4 ,he saw my meaning1 and said with a smile1 #8there is no need for ,sahib to take any money by force2 my wealth is all at his feet1' and so evaded my argument4 ,i could fill volumes with conversations of this kind1 but they have no more seeming effect than words spoken to the air2 so deeply-rooted is error in their minds1 and so congenial are their lying idols to the corrupt nature of man4 ,i should not1 however1 forget the power of ,god1 nor limit its operation4 ,this ,i feel sure of1 that the young1 with means of instruction1 will grow up ashamed of their idolatry2 and means of instruction are not now entirely wanting4 ,my three dear sons in the faith 7young officers who were fellow-passengers7 continue to walk in the truth4 ,o1 were the ,british all true ,christians1 the conversion of the heathen world1 humanly speaking1 would be comparatively an easy work6 ,the appointment of ,chaplain is1 in this point of view1 important40 ,it will be recollected 7p4 #fb71 that a short time before ,mr4 ,corrie left ,calcutta to proceed to ,chunar1 he had consulted with ,mr4 ,brown and other friends1 as to the means by which they 8might best promote the glory of ,god in the earth10 and that among other means that were deemed likely to contribute towards so noble an object1 one was1 that each of the parties then present should forward a quarterly report of his ministerial plans and prospects1 to ,mr4 ,brown in ,calcutta2 who1 having appended his own observations1 should transmit a copy of the combined reports to each individual4#cf ,it was considered that a mutual knowledge of the facts and observations which might be accumulated in the course of each other's labours and experience1 would tend greatly to encourage and direct them as individuals1 amid the difficulties which the ,missionary and ,chaplain had then to contend with4 ,the first of these ,reports seems to have been made on the #fth of ,april #ahjg1 but no copy of ,mr4 ,corrie's communications is met with among his papers1 of an earlier date than the ,report which is here subjoined4 8,chunar1 ,july #f1 #ahjg4 8,the same routine of engagements and employments offers little of variety1 either to amuse or profit my honoured brethren2 but the idea of being under an engagement to communicate something on this day1 has been no little spur to activity1 that ,i might have something to relate to them4 ,the motive ,i feel to be an unworthy one2 but those among whom ,i am placed may have been benefited from it1 and our plan will redound to their benefit at least4 8,my mind has at times1 been sorely exercised with temptations to give up all exertion in the cause of ,christ1 and take my ease like those around me2 more especially1 about a fortnight since1 the improbability of success1 the sneers of the world1 the dread of singularity1 were the chief engines the enemy attacked me with1 respecting the ,europeans2 respecting the ,heathen1 his suggestions were chiefly1 the opposition of government1 the extreme ignorance of the natives1 the fear of commotions in the country1 should ,i attempt their conversion4 ,these1 like fiery darts1 were at different times1 and in divers ways1 cast into my soul1 and grievously wounded me4 ,i bless ,god1 whose love is everlasting1 that ,he has rebuked the tempter4 ,i look back as one who has escaped shipwreck1 barely with life2 and ,i feel determined1 through the grace of ,christ1 to count not even life dear unto myself1 so that ,i may finish my course with joy1 and the ministry which ,i have received of the ,lord ,jesus1 to testify the gospel of the grace of ,god4 8,we have had divine service regularly every ,sunday morning1 at sun-rise1 in the fort4 ,our commanding officer has for some time left off attending1 though he continues very civil and obliging4 ,he makes ill health an excuse2 although he has occasionally been in the fort soon after the time of worship1 and without any cause but his own pleasure4 ,another officer has also left off attending1 although for some time after my first arrival1 he was regularly among us4 ,some others have all along been irregular in their attendance1 and continue to come occasionally4 ,the gentleman and his wife1 ,i alluded to in my last report1 do not go on as ,i had hoped1 though they are very kind1 and my only intimate associates4 ,although he does not enter into my views1 he yet talks familiarly with me on the subject of religion1 and tells me his own views and feelings respecting it2 which1 together with their regular attendance on public worship1 made me to hope they were under a divine influence4 ,but1 oh1 the love of this present evil world1 is a clog which weighs down the souls even of those who know more of its vanity1 than these persons at present do4 8,among the common men1 ,i trust some good has been done1 although little to lasting benefit1 as yet4 ,i mentioned a sergeant of ,invalids1 who joined himself to me soon after my arrival4 ,he is now in the hospital1 and seemingly in the last stage of sickness4 ,he made a profession of godliness in his youth1 in ,england1 it seems4 ,he is now greatly alive to the consequences of death4 ,he is become extremely communicative1 and in comparison of what he used to be1 eloquent4 ,his experience is such a lesson to backsliders1 as makes me anxious to communicate it separately1 when the final scene may be closed2 and1 therefore1 ,i shall say nothing more of him here4 8,a ,serjeant on the pension-list1 has1 since my last1 evinced considerable concern for salvation2 and is1 ,i trust1 in a fair way4 ,another ,serjeant also reads1 and assents to the books ,i lend him1 and ,i am told1 is somewhat reformed in conduct2 but still is by no means a hopeful character4 8,the native woman whom ,i baptized1 died and was buried1 ,april #abth4 ,the man with whom she lived1 is since married1 having expressed great concern for his former conduct1 and thanks for my admonitions2 declaring1 at the same time1 that he never before was told he was doing wrong1 in this respect2 and that1 for the fifteen years he has been in this country1 he had not seen a clergyman1 to his knowledge1 till ,i arrived here4 ,another has put away his native woman2 and another is now desiring to be married1 but his commanding officer refuses to give permission1 on the score of the woman's character4 8,no public worship as yet has been established at the barracks1 chiefly in consequence of my health having been very unsettled4 ,i am anxiously hoping to be able soon to have opportunity of speaking to them publicly the word of life4 ,it oppresses me with grief1 when ,i can feel as ,i ought1 that many1 perhaps #aej1 of the number of ,invalids1 seldom1 or never join the public worship4 ,the man who for some time has read prayers in his dwelling on ,sunday mornings1 continues to do so1 being lame1 and so unable to come up to the ,fort2 ,i fear1 however1 he is without experience of the love and grace of ,christ4 ,on ,whitsunday ,i administered the ,lord's ,supper to four4 ,thus far respecting the ,europeans here1 whom ,i consider myself1 in a peculiar manner1 called to attend to4 8,at ,secrole1 which ,i visited last week1 ,i found a merchant of real piety1 though from his relating of a vision1 he is1 in my opinion1 something enthusiastic4 ,he devotes much time to the relief of poor and sick natives4 ,he1 for some time1 read prayers on ,sunday mornings and evenings1 to the few artillery-men in their barracks2 till1 on his imprudently administering medicine to a sick man1 he was forbidden all communication with them4 ,he1 however1 still reads prayers and a sermon1 in his own house1 on ,sundays1 and some join him4 ,one artillery-man1 he speaks of1 as a true christian4 ,he had not before met with any who could understand him1 and had frequent thoughts of writing to ,mr4 ,brown2 but feared that his letter would not be welcome4 ,he is a stiff churchman2 and when ,i asked him whether he had read the ,missionary ,magazine1 which ,i saw in his shop1 he started at the idea1 and said #8,he never had any connection with ,dissenters4' 8,respecting the heathen1 ,i have instituted four schools for the instruction of children2 two on each side the ,fort4 ,on either side1 one for ,hindoos1 and one for ,mussulmans4 ,in one ,hindoo school are thirty-seven3 in the other thirteen4 ,in one ,mussulman school1 are twenty-two2 in the other sixteen4 ,in all eighty-eight children4 ,of these a few now know their letters1 and ,i am much exercised in mind respecting the introduction of the ,scriptures among them4 ,the ,gooroos are quite averse to any books2 it has never been the custom1 they say1 for them to read books2 and the ,mahomedans have books4 ,i trust the ,lord will guide me1 and not suffer me to mar his work by my extreme ignorance of the best mode of proceeding4 ,the nearer ,i approach the work1 the greater appears its difficulty1 the more ,i feel my own insufficiency4 ,if any good is done among us1 how evidently will it appear to be of ,god4 8,not having a copy of my last report1 ,i know not whether ,i mentioned some native ,roman ,catholic ,christians who daily attended me for reading the ,scriptures4 ,only one of four continues to come1 and he seems to be in earnest4 ,he has with great reluctance been brought to confess1 that at least the purgatory of the ,papists1 their transubstantiation1 and prayer to saints1 have no foundation in ,scripture4 ,he has read the ,gospels through2 ,st4 ,john twice1 and we are now going through ,st4 ,matthew a second time4 ,he has brought his wife and family to ,chunar2 and has expressed a wish to instruct his native brethren1 if ,i will find him subsistence4 ,after many expressions of this kind1 ,i told him1 that he must consider that the ,company give no authority for this2 that he must expect no more favour than others1 from the ,british2 that ,i would only support him with necessaries1 but should expect his children would be taught to earn their bread2 and desired him to reflect seriously on the subject1 and make it matter of prayer to ,god4 ,he has not expressed so much eagerness since this1 as before4 ,he1 however1 has much conversation with the native baptized persons2 tells them faithfully of their sin and heathen practices2 and ,i think is himself a true ,christian4 ,he yesterday explained to me the ,parable of the ,sower very exactly1 without reference to our ,lord's explanation4 ,it may not be amiss to transcribe a few remarks ,i have noted down respecting this man's knowledge of divine truth4 ,i understand him better than he understands me1 but ,i enquire of him the meaning of what ,i have said1 till ,i find he has caught the idea ,i wish to convey4 8,saturday1 ,may #afth4 ,the ,bettiah-walla remembered very exactly what ,i explained to him yesterday of our ,lord's discourse with ,nicodemus2 he1 also1 remembered very correctly the explanation of the allusion to the brazen serpent1 repeating what ,i had told him of that transaction4 ,on asking him1 in what sense must we look to ,christ2 he answered1 ,jesus ,christ is not now on the cross3 but1 as ,he said to ,thomas1 who seeing the prints of the nails in his hands1 cried out #8,my ,lord and my ,god1'--#8,blessed is he that hath not seen1 and yet hath believed1' so it is with our hearts that we must look to ,him2 and believing that ,he hath given his blood for us1 and having our hearts made clean by ,his ,spirit1 we shall not perish1 but have everlasting life4 ,he explained ,john iii4 #ag4 7without being asked7 very scripturally1 and evidently with a sense of its value4 8,may #ahth4 ,in the afternoon1 ,i had pleasure in acquiring the ,hindoostanee4 ,on asking the ,bettiah-walla what was meant by the declaration1 #8,no man can come to me except the ,father which hath sent me draw him2' he answered1 #8,no one desires to come to ,christ unless ,god enlighten his mind1 and dispose his heart4' ,on asking him1 ,what is meant by the expression1 in ,john vi4 #dj4 #8,seeing the ,son2' he replied1 #8,seeing ,him in his word1 and with our hearts4' ,he has had a conversation with a ,mahomedan1 who concluded with saying that ,mahomet was the last prophet4 ,the ,bettiah-walla answered1 #8,according to their own book ,jesus is ,noor-,ullah1 i4 e4 the ,son of ,god1 that ,he died1 and rose1 and went up to heaven1 and will come to judgment3' ,the ,mahomedan consented4 ,bettiah-walla3 #8,your prophet is sleeping1 as you allow2 whether is greatest1 a sleeping or a living prophet8' ,he allowed that the living one was the greatest1 and promised to come again to-morrow4 ,the ,bettiah-walla answered to my question1 #8,how it is that if any man will do ,his will he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of ,god4' 7,john vii4 #ag47 #8,the ,holy ,ghost will come upon him and make his heart glad and holy4'0 8,on one occasion ,i discovered him in a fault1 which he confessed with tears1 making no attempt to conceal it1 and ,i believe has not fallen into it again4 ,it was at a time ,i perceived him to be much puffed up with his attainments1 and would gladly have made him feel the force of the apostle's words1 #8,let him that thinketh c4' 8,my chief employment has been the study of ,hindoostanee1 in which however ,i have made but little progress1 from frequent indisposition4 ,my experience has in general been of a very painful kind4 ,accustomed to enjoy the communion of saints1 and the comfort of their faith and love1 ,i know but little1 ,i perceive1 how to live by faith4 ,that passage has been the food of my soul for some time past4 #b ,cor4 i4 #bb4 ,the name of ,jesus has been refreshing #8as ointment poured forth2' and in this name1 ,i doubt not finally to triumph40 ,it may not1 perhaps1 be considered foreign to the purpose of these ,memoirs to relate1 that the sergeant of invalids referred to in the foregoing ,report of ,mr4 ,corrie's proceedings1 was the son of a dissenting minister at ,st4 ,albans1 and had been religiously brought up2 but that1 having cast off the fear of ,god1 he had run a sad career of sin and intemperance1 until arrested in his course by the sickness which proved fatal to him4 ,many short notices occur1 in ,mr4 ,corrie's journal1 of the sergeant's last illness2 and a fuller account of him appeared at the time1 in the ,cottage ,magazine4 ,it may suffice1 therefore1 to state that after the unhappy man had passed through many alternations of terror and despair1 in the fearful expectation of a judgment to come1 there was reason to believe that he went down to the grave in hope4 ,respecting the ,bettiah-christian and the ,mahomedan who are noticed in the ,report1 some further account occurs in a letter to the ,rev4 ,j4 ,buckworth4 8,august #bnd4 #ahjg4 8,by a letter received this day1 from my sister1 ,i learn the very agreeable tidings of your presentation to the vicarage of ,dewsbury4 ,this event takes away indeed1 every latent hope that your lot might have been cast in ,india2 but the souls of the people of ,dewsbury are of equal value with those of ,asia2 and ,i earnestly pray that you may reap a rich harvest of souls as a reward of your labours among them4444 8,but whilst ,i am taken up with those whose faces ,i have seen in the flesh1 you are wanting to know how the work of the ,lord prospers in ,india4 ,i can only say that the general aspect of spiritual affairs is pleasing4 ,were you to ask particulars1 ,i could not1 perhaps1 satisfactorily tell you why ,i say so2 yet the progress of translation of the holy ,scriptures1 with the increased numbers of faithful enquirers1 is surely matter of hope4 ,i could dwell much on the labours of that dear servant of ,christ1 ,martyn1 in translating1 and in exerting himself to propagate the knowledge of salvation among ,europeans and heathen2 but1 without an intimate acquaintance with this country and people1 much explanation would be necessary4 ,for myself1 the climate has so much affected me as to make the retrospect of my life nearly a blank3 some fruit1 however1 has already appeared4 ,praised be ,he who #8giveth the increase6'444 8,the native ,christian ,i formerly mentioned1 has renounced the errors of ,popery1 of his own accord1 after a good deal of argument in favour of his old opinions4 ,i believe him to be sincere1 and that his heart is right with ,god4 ,sometimes he seems amused rather than grieved with the opposition of the ,jews to our ,lord2 but this1 though it gives me pain1 is not so much to be wondered at1 from the extreme want of reflection manifested by all the natives4 ,i now allow him support for himself1 wife1 and two children4 ,he is very ready in reproving and exhorting a class of people1 descendants of the ,portuguese1 who are very numerous in ,india1 and are nominal ,christians4 ,he warns them faithfully of the sin and folly of people called ,christians1 living as do the heathen2 and1 at my instance1 he reads to them the ,scriptures very frequently3 so that ,i hope he may be made an instrument of good4 ,by his means1 also1 a ,mahomedan has been brought at least to doubt the divine commission of the lying prophet4 ,this man now frequently comes to me4 ,he has read the ,sermon on the ,mount 7which ,i happily had by me1 translated into ,persian1 by a ,mr4 ,chambers1 now dead7 and manifests a very pleasing earnestness in search of truth4 ,nearly one hundred and twenty children are learning to read1 at my expence3 the circumstance of being able to read the ,scriptures when put into their hands will be of no small advantage2 as the custom of the son's persisting in the business and steps of the father1 precludes the multitude from ever thinking the knowledge of letters desirable4 ,indeed the character in which their sacred books are written is not allowed to be read by any but ,brahmins4 ,the written and printed characters are the same2 as they have had no printed books till of late2 so that in learning they have an advantage over us1 as they learn to read and write at the same time1 first making the letter with chalk1 or in the dust1 and then pronouncing it4 ,i have had much pleasure at times in exercising the proficiency of the children4 ,some of them have countenances expressive of every good quality3 the difference of the complexion is forgotten under the impression that #8of one blood hath ,god made all the families of the earth4' ,a small present delights the little fellows2 and they sometimes come up to me with smiling faces1 as ,i pass2 and make salaam with great appearance of attachment4 8,i have said that appearances are pleasing3 you will conclude that ,i speak comparatively4 ,alas6 ,i ought to weep day and night at the reflection1 that in this small place there are about #aj1jjj1 souls #8sitting in darkness and the shadow of death6' ,o that the ,lord may speedily open a door for the entrance of ,divine light among them6 ,i am learning the native language as fast as my slothful nature1 and the unsettled state of my affairs1 calling me continually here and there1 will let me4 ,my ,moonshee can now perfectly understand me3 and when ,i tell him my meaning1 he points out the proper word4 ,in this way1 besides my reading for instruction1 ,i have translated the history of ,joseph2 and also to the sixth chapter of ,genesis2 and have got to the seventh of ,acts4 ,these will soon be useless1 as better translations will be to be had2 but they are of use to the above-mentioned native ,christian for himself1 and those who listen to his conversation2 and these exercises improve myself4 ,i shall begin ,persian soon 7,d4 ,v47 ,the ,hebrew is a key to the ,arabic2 and ,arabic and ,persian are so blended with the ,hindoostanee1 the popular language of this country1 that without the knowledge of ,arabic and ,persian1 ,hindoostanee cannot be perfectly understood4 8,in order1 too1 to translate accurately1 you know1 the knowledge of ,hebrew and ,greek is necessary4 ,you would be astonished at the subtilty with which the ,hindoos 7,i mean learned ,hindoos7 argue on religious points4 ,a rich man of this place one day visiting me1 we entered into a discussion respecting one of their incarnations of the deity4 ,the incarnate ,god1 from their account1 married many wives1 had many children1 c4 and when ,i observed that these things could not be the actions of ,god1 assigning my reasons1 c4 he readily answered1 that the deity having taken to himself a human body1 these actions were the actions of the man1 and the godhead residing in him had no part in them2 that ,i acknowledged ,messiah ate1 drank1 slept c41 which were as little the actions of ,god1 as those related of ,krishnoo4 ,i answered1 that the body being the instrument of the soul1 needs refreshment to support it in its labours2 but that the body cannot accomplish any of its desires without the concurrence of the spirit that actuates it2 so that this multiplying of wives1 and other acknowledged sinful actions1 would not have been accomplished by ,krishnoo without the animating spirit4 ,he at length left me1 something in anger4 8,i have written this at different intervals1 which may apologize for its blots and inaccuracies3 but why should ,i make apologies to you8 ,with what inexpressible tenderness does the remembrance of the sweet counsel ,i have taken with you1 return at times6 ,i can now1 in my mind's eye1 view the roads we walked together1 the houses we visited1 the companies we frequented2--the hymns we sang together1 the petitions we joined in at the throne of grace1 are many of them fresh in mind2 and1 when ,i am in tolerably good spirits1 they delight me exceedingly4 8,but1 my general experience is of a more painful nature3 doubts and temptations press hard upon me4 ,the enervating effects of the climate make all my graces wither2 and ,i go on rather in the spirit of sullen obstinacy than under the influence of the constraining love of ,jesus4 8,i hope you have written to me4 ,think of a solitary being1 on the top of a hill ninety feet above the level of the water1 without a creature near to speak a word of comfort1 or to suggest a word of advice2 and you will not think an hour thrown away that may support and animate his soul in the pursuit of #8a kingdom that cannot be moved4'0 ,the anniversary of the day on which ,mr4 ,corrie arrived in ,calcutta1 is marked by the following entry made in his journal1 8,september #bjth1 #ahjg4 ,on this day of the month last year1 ,i arrived in ,calcutta from ,england4 ,i have determined1 through grace1 to keep new-year's-day1 my birth-day1 days of ordination1 and of my arrival in ,india1 as days of examination into my state and views4 ,on reviewing the memoranda connected with this day1 ,i find great cause for thankfulness and praise4 ,what ,i proposed1 in the first place1 in coming to ,india1 was the propagation of ,christianity amongst the heathen4 ,i had little idea of the difficulties attending this work2 yet1 blessed be ,god6 ,i have not lost sight of it4 ,four schools will1 ,i trust1 prepare many for reading the word of life1 when it is ready for distribution4 ,the native ,christian has profited greatly by the ,new ,testament3 he appears truly pious2 and his desire to instruct others1 whilst1 ,i hope1 it proves his own sincerity1 will1 no doubt1 be beneficial to many4 ,my prayers1 also1 have been answered as it regards this place4 ,one is departed in peace3 one or two others are1 ,i hope1 impressed2 most are attentive2 and favour is shewed me by all4 ,i have experienced much mercy in restoration to health2 and especially in the restoring to me the joy of ,god's salvation2 and the ,lord continues to #8defend me with ,his favour as with a shield4' ,i feel in danger from the love of the world2 yet1 ,i hope1 ,i shall be able to overcome it4 ,i have often dedicated my all to ,god2 and ,i do again now devote my all1 especially myself do ,i give up4 ,i ought to have made greater proficiency in the ,hindoostanee2 but ,i trust1 through the power of ,christ1 to be more assiduous for the future40 #cj ,luke i4 #gi4 #ca ,rev4 xi4 #ae2 xix4 #af4 #cb ,see the ,journals and ,letters of ,henry ,martyn1 vol4 ii1 p4 #ba4 #cc ,mr4 ,corrie relates 7below1 p4 #gc47 in what way1 his acquaintance with this ,bettiah-christian commenced4 #cd ,see ,journals and ,letters of ,henry ,martyn1 vol4 ii4 p4 #bh1 #bi4 #ce ,on account of the effect which the heat of the climate seemed to be producing on ,mr4 ,corrie's health4 ,see ,,journals ,,and ,,letters ,,of ,,henry ,,martyn1 vol4 ii4 p4 #db4 #cf ,journals and ,letters of ,henry ,martyn1 vol4 ii4 p4 #da4 ,see some of the like quarterly communications from ,mr4 ,brown1 printed in ,wilkinson's ,sketches of ,christianity in ,north ,india1 pp4 #ade and #afi4 ,,chapter ,v4 ,,residence ,,at ,,chunar4 ,although ,mr4 ,corrie had been but a short time at ,chunar1 yet it was evident that his ministerial labours there had begun to excite attention both among ,hindoos and ,mahomedans4 ,he had not1 indeed1 acquired such a knowledge of the language of the country as satisfied his earnest desire to make known among the heathen the glad tidings of salvation1 yet he had made progress in ,hindoostanee sufficient to enable him to hold important communications with the people of the country4 ,we accordingly find in his ,journal and ,letters more frequent notices of his personal intercourse with the native population4 8,sep4 #bast4 ,an ,old ,brahmin came from ,benares1 whom ,wheatly told me of4 ,he knows most of our church-catechism4 ,he told me that the answers to two questions1 those respecting our duty towards ,god1 and our duty towards our neighbour1 contained the sum of all good4 ,for a long time he had a very bad opinion of the ,english4 ,the ,mahomedans1 he said1 do abstain from one kind of meat2 but the ,english eat every thing4 ,this bad opinion was confirmed by hearing a gentleman1 whom every person praised as a good man1 in a great rage1 using many abusive expressions to a servant for killing a rabbit which should not have been killed4 ,but when he read the holy ,scriptures1 he found them pure1 and that our practices were not consistent with them4 ,this led him to ask whether ,i thought all the ,english would be saved8 ,i answered1 ,no3 which startled him very much4 #8,i greatly fear1' said he1 #8on that account4' #8,if ,i lose caste1 and afterwards come short of heaven1 ,i shall fail in both worlds4' ,this he said with tears4 #8,but1' said he1 #8,i thought it must be so1 because the tenth commandment says1 ,thou shalt not covet1 c4' and then he told me a story of an ,english collector1 who took by force a little spot of ground that he had devoted to the reception and entertainment of sick travellers1 when he would not sell it to him3 which stumbled him greatly4 ,baptism1 and the eating of meat1 which1 he says1 disagrees with him1 are the rock he appears likely to split upon4 ,i told him the truth1 and pointed it out to him from the ,scriptures4 ,the ,lord render it effectual to his salvation6 ,i gave him a ,new ,testament1 at which he expressed great surprise1 saying1 he supposed it would cost several rupees2 nor did he think my reason 7viz47 the love of ,god1 in giving his ,son for me1 sufficiently constraining to induce me to give away a thing of such value4 8,sep4 #bgth4 ,the ,brahmin came on ,tuesday2 and1 after many endeavours to evade the force of ,god's word1 agreed1 with much weeping1 to be baptized4 ,i have some doubt of his sincerity on this point4 ,he is gone to ,calcutta4 8,dec4 #aath4 ,yesterday1 an old ,mahomedan called on me3 we had a long conversation on religion4 ,after some previous talking1 he said #8,the deity is above our comprehension2 we are blind1 and speak of ,him as blind men do from handling an elephant2 each one according to his apprehension of the part he handles4' ,i answered1 #8,true2 but if a man possessing sight were to behold the elephant1 he would describe it properly2 and we might believe his report4' ,he answered1 #8,yes4' #8,such1' ,i replied1 #8were the prophets and apostles1' c4 ,this led him to speak of the various prophets in whom1 he said1 we trusted4 #8,our services said he are confessedly unworthy of ,god1 therefore there is need that a worthy ,mediator be found1 c4 one who wants nothing for himself1 but can merit for us4'0 ,agreeably to the resolution which ,mr4 ,corrie had formed1 to observe ,new-year's-day as one of several days for self-examination1 we find him observing in his journal3 8,chunar1 ,january #ast4 #ahjh4 ,i praise ,god who has brought me thus far in mercy2 and ,i perceive a good monument of praise on the review of the past4 ,my first desire1 on last ,new-year's-day1 was to be enabled to be useful here2 and ,i mark an answer to prayer in that ,i am heard with attention1 and have evidently obtained some influence amongst the people4 ,one1 ,i believe1 is gone home to ,christ2 whilst ,i trust1 three others have entered on the narrow way4 ,the ,government yet prohibits attempts at conversion2 and the kingdom of ,christ1 to outward appearance1 has made but little progress in this land2 but there is mercy vouchsafed sufficient to encourage me to pray2 and there is still cause for prayer4 ,the ,bettiah-walla and two others have been raised up to me2 with other hopeful appearances amongst the native women4 ,i bless ,god for renewed health of body and vigour of mind2 and for somewhat of increasing patience and diligence in the work of the ministry4 ,with respect to my resolutions1 ,i find ,i have visited more than ,i wished to do2 but less than ,i might have done1 and more than ,i hope to do for the future4 ,i praise ,god that ,i am not so much ashamed of the ,gospel of ,christ as ,i have been2 and that ,i have been enabled to preach ,jesus ,christ from house to house1 in some small degree2 but1 ,i have done far less than ,i might have done3 ,yet1 ,o ,lord2 ,i ought to praise ,thee for thy mercy3 ,thou hast wrought all my works in me6 ,i know ,i am a sinner2 but thy grace is sufficient for me1 and by thy grace ,i am what ,i am4 ,the native schools have refused books2 but ,i hope to establish a ,christian school1 and desire that my whole life1 spirit1 soul1 and body1 may be occupied in the work of the ,lord40 ,the quarterly report transmitted by ,mr4 ,corrie to ,mr4 ,brown1 on the #dth of ,january1 #ahjh1 supplies us with an outline of the progress of religion at ,chunar up to that date2 and touches upon the great practical difficulty1 inseparable from that loss of the means of subsistence1 which converts from heathenism usually have to endure4 8,let us begin our correspondence with erecting an ,ebenezer to our gracious ,lord1 who continues us in the land of the living1 and gives us opportunities of obtaining a great nearness to ,his blissful presence1 and a more exalted station among those who turn many to righteousness4 ,i might well1 in the review of the past year1 dread the imputation of unprofitableness1 but yet ,i perceive it a dishonour to the grace of our ,redeemer1 to disparage the smallest appearance of ,his grace in myself1 or in others2 and though ,i am sure ,i must say1 #8,lord1 when saw ,i thee a stranger1 c41' ,i consider it my duty to credit the precious declaration spoken by our great ,bishop1 respecting himself and his 1 #8,though ,israel be not gathered1 c4' ,is4 xliii4 8,pursuing the plan suggested with so much propriety by our senior brother1 ,i have to observe that since my last1 some changes have taken place in our society1 which seem upon the whole to have been for the better1 as we have gained a captain of artillery1 of great decorum of manners1 both in public and private4 ,of our old members1 ,i am persuaded that the seed of the word has put forth the #8tender blade' in the lady and gentleman ,i have before alluded to2 whilst considerable alteration in the outward conduct of another gentleman is noticed2 but ,i fear1 #8one thing' at least is lacking in him4 ,by four out of the six families here1 ,i am asked to say grace at dinner1 which when ,i first arrived was unusual4 ,i know not what ,i ought to think of this1 knowing well that in ,christ1 nothing availeth but #8faith that worketh by love2' yet perhaps something is gained4 ,the ,lord help me to be more devoted to his glory1 that ,i may not seem to countenance them in stopping short of the #8new creation6' ,one person is often very contemptuous towards me1 but finds no one to join him at present4 ,among the common ,europeans little but discouragement appears3 only one seems entirely from under the dominion of outward sin4 ,he is the sergeant ,i have mentioned1 and appears a subject of divine grace4 ,several are approvers1 and attendants on public worship1 but the sad abuse of the late holy festival has damped my hopes respecting them4 8,the first ,sunday in ,november1 having prepared a moveable tabernacle1 it was erected at the barracks1 and divine service has been performed there every ,sunday evening since4 ,on the first few occasions forty or fifty attended1 yesterday there were about twenty-five4 ,these are1 for the most part1 very attentive1 and a good deal of devotion appears among them in making the responses1 c4 ,about six1 perhaps1 attend divine service twice a day4 ,at the hospital one man seems piously affected1 another humble and resigned2 both these have been long ill and seem daily decaying4 ,one1 the first time ,i spoke expressly to him1 declared with much earnestness1 that he believed he had never offended his ,maker2 he now speaks a different language4 ,one man1 who was greatly alarmed during a fit of sickness1 is1 ,i fear1 resting in a 8form of godliness10 though his outward conduct is decent1 and he comes every ,sunday evening to join in worship with me4 8,at ,benares1 where ,i occasionally go1 the pious merchant ,i have mentioned1 appears much grown in #8grace and in the knowledge of our ,lord and ,saviour ,jesus ,christ1 c4' ,he reads the service of the ,church of ,england and a sermon from some author1 twice every ,sunday and every ,wednesday evening1 in a tent erected for that purpose4 ,one ,wednesday evening ,i officiated there among twenty-seven1 who heard the word with much attention4 ,one artillery-man of the lately arrived party1 the merchant speaks of as hopeful4 ,but ,i find that last week a restraint was laid upon the artillerymen from attending3 ,i trust it will soon be removed4 8,among the ,company's servants there1 one known as a proficient in ,hindoo literature1 has discovered himself well acquainted with evangelical principles4 ,another ,company's servant seems to me one of the ,lord's secret ones4 ,i trust there is among us #8as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done1' one or two4 8,but what ,i have to say on personal experience will cast further light on the religious state of our society1 or rather1 it will cast a shade on the prospect4 ,notwithstanding these agreeable particulars already presented1 there is little farther outward acknowledgment of ,god among us2 there appears as yet no disposition to speak and act openly as the dependent creatures and avowed subjects of the ,most ,high2 so that1 except now and then in private1 ,i cannot give vent to those feelings which ,i find it my duty and happiness to cherish4 ,on this account much of my religious exercises pass without that delight in ,god which ,his love and mercy demand2 and my experience in general is that of the ,psalmist1 when he said1 #8my heart breaketh for the longing 4' yet our state before ,god depends in no respect on frames and feelings2 and though miserably defective still in every point1 some greater degree of boldness for ,christ in public1 and something of resignation to labour in his vineyard though no fruit should appear1 ,i acknowledge as the work of his free ,spirit1 by whom ,i trust to be upheld unto the end4 ,my preaching since my last1 has been on the following among other subjects1 #8,god is not a man1 c4' 7,numb4 xxiii4 #ai47 #8,in this was manifested1 c4' 7#a ,john iv4 #ai47 #8,how shall we escape1 c4' 7,heb4 ii4 #c47 8,the state of the natives here has lately attracted much of my notice4 ,from their long intercourse with ,europeans1 native habits are much laid aside4 ,they are generally greatly addicted to drunkenness1 and are proverbially dissolute4 ,they are1 in consequence1 very little awed by the ,european christians4 ,i am assured that they are usually ready to enter into personal contest with any of the ,european invalids1 who may attempt to lord it over them2 and except from those who eat the salt of the settlement1 none of us have many tokens of respect paid us4 ,in the four native schools1 there are at present seventy-five scholars2 those mentioned as reading books have left the schools from some cause or other1 and no more books have been received4 8,the native women connected with the ,europeans1 have assembled on ,tuesday evenings in the ,fort1 and on ,friday evenings at the barracks4 ,the usual numbers at both places is from ten to sixteen4 ,for these much of my time has been taken up in translations1 c4 ,yesterday1 in the fort1 a congregation of nineteen attended prayers in ,hindoostanee4 ,i used the translation our dear brother ,martyn favoured me with1 excepting a few words altered to the dialect of this part of the country4 ,on these occasions the native ,christian1 ,i before mentioned1 is of the greatest service4 ,he has acquired a tolerably accurate idea of the plan of salvation1 and enlarges1 with much evident feeling1 on the heads ,i suggest from the portion of ,scripture before us4 ,he officiates as clerk in the ,hindoostanee congregation1 and yesterday read the lessons1 and explained and applied them as ,i suggested to him4 ,the effect of his exhortations lasts4 ,this man is afflicted with an asthma1 which lays him up now and then2 but the eagerness with which he returns to teaching the native women1 indicates1 ,i trust1 his heart to be right with ,god4 ,some differences took place in his family some time since1 which disturbed me a good deal2 but no fault has appeared in him4 ,in a late fit of illness1 ,i found he had a book of prayers1 containing addresses to angels1 c4 ,several of the women have learned from him the ,ten ,commandments1 the ,lord's ,prayer and the ,creed2 and it excited a gleam of holy joy yesterday to hear several repeating these after me1 and also whispering some of the responses4 ,this reminds me of a school in which an ,european teaches ten children for me1 some of them orphans1 and some who are not eligible to the school in ,calcutta4 ,since the establishment of evening worship1 one of these children has repeated the ,church catechism and some questions of ,scripture ,history1 with an accuracy rather surprising considering their years4 ,these also join in the responses and in singing the ,psalms1 and increase the #8,hosanna to the ,son of ,david4' 8,two youths1 one the son of the native teacher1 are on my premises1 and read twice a day in the ,hindoostanee gospel4 ,one discovers no capacity whatever1 nor does the word seem to affect him in the least4 ,he has made considerable proficiency in the knowledge of the letters and reads the gospel without much difficulty1 but can seldom at the end of a verse1 tell the contents of it4 ,the other discovers considerable quickness of apprehension1 and gains knowledge readily2 but as yet gives no evidence of any heart-work begun4 ,him ,i intend1 if it please ,god1 to appoint teacher of a school1 in a short time4 ,i know now of six children1 the offspring of native ,christians1 whom ,i wish him to instruct2 two children now attend him4 8,of the women who were candidates for ,baptism1 one1 it appears1 is living in sin3 and on my refusing to baptize her till the fruits of repentance should appear has given up seeking instruction4 ,the other appears very sincere2 she comes a considerable distance1 into the ,fort1 twice a week 7on ,tuesdays and ,sundays7 and is herself1 as far as ,i know1 of unblemished life4 ,but some circumstances connected with her daughter1 has made me defer ,baptism1 which seems to afflict her2 and she promises to pursue whatever line of conduct ,i may point out4 ,the difficulty is in suggesting what these people are to do for an honest livelihood4 ,i am already engaged in disbursements beyond what my pecuniary circumstances point out as prudent2 and to tell them to trust in ,providence whilst no means of subsistence appear1 seems to savour too much of fatalism4 8,let me1 therefore1 conclude with proposing to the consideration of my brethren1 ,the best mode of employing native ,christians who may be destitute of subsistence8 ,and ,i think to ascertain this1 it may be of service to enquire1 ,what are the manufactures most engaged in at our different stations8 ,and1 perhaps1 a barter might be established among themselves1 without much of our personal interference1 if communications were opened between them2 which would certainly be desirable40 ,in a ,letter to ,mr4 ,buckworth1 written a few days later than the preceding ,report1 ,mr4 ,corrie enters more into detail respecting his ministry among the heathen1 and the method of teaching employed by the native ,christian of whom mention has so frequently been made4 8,your welcome letter of ,february last reached me ,november #ast3 and ,i sat down instantly to read and answer it2 and have filled three sheets of paper which would have been sent had opportunity offered2 and1 from your affection for myself1 would have amused you4 ,i find on review1 however1 they are very unsatisfactory2 and must select from them a moderate-sized epistle4 ,you rightly suspected that the climate might affect my body1 and by consequence my spirits also2 as some of my letters to you will shew2 but1 thanks to the ,lord our healer1 ,i am as well1 and have been for some time1 as at any period in my life4 ,mary had told me of your presentation to ,d2 had it taken place before ,i left ,england1 the pleasure of being a fellow-helper with you would probably have kept me there for life2 but ,he who knows what is best for us has ordered it otherwise2 and ,i am unspeakably content4 ,at the same time1 ,i little knew my own unsuitableness for the work ,i am engaged in2 yet #8hitherto hath the ,lord helped me3' and1 though ,i groan under a sense of my shortcomings1 ,he has not suffered me to go back from ,his sacred ways3 and has1 moreover1 given of ,his ,divine presence4 ,these opportunities of writing call forth all my former feelings towards you2 and ,i am conscious1 that though so widely separated1 we are one in the ,lord ,christ4 ,but ,i must refrain1 and give you some account of matters here40 ,after having adverted to the fears of the ,indian ,government lest the animosity of the natives should be excited by any attempts to convert them to ,christianity1 ,mr4 ,corrie writes3 8,i suppose we should be taken to task1 were we to preach in the streets and highways3 but other methods not less effectual are to be used1 and less likely to produce popular clamour4 ,natives themselves may and can be employed1 with the greatest advantage1 in ,evangelizing their brethren1 whilst the ,minister superintends1 and directs and encourages4 ,i have great reason to be thankful1 that the ,lord has raised up a native christian1 born of ,roman ,catholic parents1 who1 from ,march last1 has been daily with me2 and now1 having acquired a sufficient knowledge of the way of salvation1 is daily employed in instructing others6 ,a despised race1 whom the ,europeans have attached to themselves1 hear him with great attention2 and some with evident profit4 ,he is at present very ill2 but ,i trust the ,lord will spare him to us1 when more extensive plans will be engaged in4 8,at present1 there are seventy-five children in my native schools learning to read1 which will tend to undermine the superstructure whose basis is ignorance2 and ,i purpose establishing a school for native ,christian children1 of whom ,i know now of six1 and shall find more4 ,the bulk of the people are wretchedly poor from their indolent habits1 which never let them lay up for a rainy day4 ,when a ,mahomedan gets a little money1 he usually spends it in debauchery2 and a ,hindoo works no more till it is gone4 ,this is the character of the people3 hence1 beggars innumerable swarm2 many truly wretched objects1 who often make one retire with overflowing eyes1 unable to supply them all4 ,of the ,europeans1 several are very attentive2 and my labour is evidently not in vain1 though ,i know only of one or two ,i can speak of with good hope4 ,of my three dear young friends1 two are going on delightfully3 one of these has lately been with a detachment against a native prince who refused his tribute1 and saw some hot work3 twelve of his brother officers fell on the occasion1 but he received only a slight wound in the knee3 the dear lad is much grown in spirituality since then2 and is not without trials of #8cruel mockings3' he writes to me once a week1 and ,i endeavour1 by writing constantly to him1 to encourage him to stand fast4 ,away from the means of grace1 and without a single companion like-minded1 he plainly stands by faith4 ,the other at ,madras goes on well1 and has the #8communion of saints' to resort to4 ,the third1 a most affectionate1 sensible youth1 is1 ,i fear1 led captive2 though not1 ,i think1 with his will4 ,oh6 my heart yearns over them1 in consideration of the many1 many obstacles in their way6 ,the demon that oppresses ,europeans in this land1 #8goeth not out but by prayer and fasting4' ,example1 opportunity1 solicitation allure them to the paths of death2 and few1 alas1 return from them6 ,those ,i allude to1 are from eighteen to twenty or thereabouts2 from which you will see at once the danger they are in40 ,on the subject of missions ,mr4 ,corrie adds3 8,the nature of missions seems little understood1 even by those whose hearts the ,lord inclines for the work1 till they come into it4 ,mr4 ,cecil's sermon1 before the ,church of ,england ,missionary society1#cg of which ,i have only seen extracts1 is1 ,i think1 an excellent discourse on this subject4 ,the work requires the patience of a ,job1 with the prudence of an ,apostle3 and ,o1 the self-denial required6 ,how little ,i am fit for the work1 my brother well knows2 yet here1 by the good providence of ,god1 ,i am well content1 and determined to count not even #8life dear' so that ,i may make #8full proof of my ministry1' and #8finish my course with joy4' ,i could fill sheets with conversations respecting religion1 which ,i have had most days1 with some one or other of the natives4 ,their duplicity makes it1 beyond measure1 difficult to know when they are convinced1 or even silenced4 ,the least appearance of impatience on my part makes them consider me angry2 and not a word more will they argue1 but yield every thing4 ,i may say to you1 the friend of my bosom1 that my natural impatience is somewhat abated2 and ,i am not conscious of having offended in this way often2 but even what is the effect of eagerness and zeal1 is construed into a passion1 by a people whose highest perfection consists in restraining the feelings1 and whose despotic government rendered disguise necessary to existence and peace4 8,the same submissive disposition in the people makes it difficult to know when ,i am understood2 as they do not either acknowledge their ignorance or ask explanation4 ,the dialects of the different provinces are so different as to make them nearly different languages4444 ,among the learned and the ,mahomedans1 much ,persian and ,arabic is introduced into their language1 which to the ,hindoo is unintelligible2 and1 it is now well known that a person who learns the language from books only1 will not be understood by the bulk of the people4 ,this ,i am aware of1 and ask questions from the women above-mentioned2 when ,i often find the meaning has been imperfectly1 or not at all understood2 which leads to fresh explanation4 ,one specimen of our mode of proceeding1 ,i have made a memorandum of1 and which may amuse you3--,after having read the first chapter of ,genesis1 which ,i translated1 ,i suggested to this native ,christian to enlarge upon the following heads1 which he did in this manner1 #8,learn1 first1 the honour put upon man by ,god3 ,he gave him dominion4' #8,see1' continued he1 #8the elephant2 one blow of his would be instant death1 yet he goes here and there at man's word4' #8,observe the power of ,god3 ,he commanded1 and it was done1 c4' #8,let a man try to create an ant1 he cannot do it2 let him try to make a hair1 he cannot do it3 yet look at the hills1 c41 ,god made them2 and think not that ,he used labour3 no1 the word of ,his mouth was sufficient4' ,i suggested1 #8,how ought we then to fear this great ,god6' ,he proceeded1 #8are you not afraid of your masters2 are you not fearful to offend them lest they should punish you8' ,this was so feeling an appeal that they answered1 #8,yes1 yes6' #8,o then1' said he #8how ought you to fear an infinitely powerful ,god6 ,he is infinite in strength2 and1 if you sin against ,him1 you deserve infinite punishment3 and think how great punishment ,he will inflict6' ,one of them at this fell a weeping4 ,i observed1 #8,see the goodness of ,god in providing such comforts and accommodation for man in this world4' ,he went on to speak of the greater love of ,god in providing a salvation for our souls1 which he spoke of with much warmth2 the women hanging upon his words4 ,these occasions are often productive of sweet sensations to my soul3 whilst yet the want of positive evidence of grace in them the people so instructed generally makes me to go heavily4 ,most days are devoted to close study of the native languages3 the ,hindoostanee proper ,i can understand1 though not to speak it with any fluency or accuracy3 and ,i also begin to know a little ,persian1 which is a very agreeable study4 ,i rise at day-break1 breakfast between seven and eight1 take a slight repast about one1 and make my principal meal when evening sets in4 ,then my mind is usually too exhausted for study1 and sweet would be the society of some with whom ,i could talk freely of what ,christ did1 and said1 and suffered for us here below4 ,for the want of such society1 very little of the lively feeling ,i enjoyed in ,england enters into my experience3 yet ,i am conscious of some more boldness for ,christ1 and fewer deviations from ,his holy ways than before2 for which ,i adore ,his free grace by which alone ,i stand4 ,these expressions ,i owe to your affection1 who will fear1 perhaps1 for me2 lest by any means the tempter gain the better of me4 ,o1 that ,i could say this were never the case6 ,yet1 though ,i should justly be deemed a fool for thus boasting to others1 yet ,i may call upon you to rejoice with me that ,i have obtained help from the ,lord thus far1 and have a hope that ,i shall never be ashamed4 8,from all that has passed1 ,i see further proof that to preach nearly or quite ,christianity1 and live as the world lives1 is the way to popularity3 to live and preach so as to fancy to recommend ,christianity to the carnal mind1 is the way to be little esteemed3 to live godly in ,christ ,jesus is the way to win souls1 and to obtain friends1 with persecution here1 and with the certain expectation of glory hereafter4 ,o ,holy ,ghost1 write these truths with deep conviction on my mind2 and let my soul know nothing on earth but ,jesus ,christ and him crucified60 ,when it is considered that the labours of a native ,teacher cannot but be of great importance1 even in the most effective state of ,missionary arrangements1 it will not excite surprise that in ,mr4 ,corrie's circumstances at ,chunar1 the illness of the ,bettiah ,christian should occasion him anxiety4 ,mr4 ,c's journal1 however1 affords pleasing evidence that the ,bettiah-walla in his sickness1 found consolation in that gospel which he seems to have been earnestly desirous of making known to his countrymen4 8,jan4 #gth4 ,i sent off to-day a copy of the ,gospels1 and of the ,morning ,prayer1 and ,ten ,commandments1 to ,bettiah1 at the request of a person who is said to be the ,sirdar#ch of the ,christians there1 and of whom even the padras stand in awe3 he is represented1 also1 as understanding ,persian1 ,portuguese1 and a little ,latin4 ,i dined with ,captain ,m----2 after sitting silent for some time1 ,i was induced by some remarks of ,major ,general ----1 to enter into a long argument in behalf of ,christianity1 as the ,general maintained ,mahomedanism to be equal to ,christianity3 the argument arose from my remarking that ,i thought men would invariably be guided in their conduct respecting temporal affairs by their religious opinions4 #8,this1' he said1 #8was a great mistake1 and had led to the most disastrous effects3 that no greater misfortunes had come on mankind than the contentions between ,christians on religious pretences4' ,i answered1 that these were not caused by ,christianity2 and ,gibbon himself being judge1 ,christianity was only the pretext3 and on a comparison between ,christianity and ,mahomedanism1 ,i was enabled so to speak as to leave him without reply4 8,jan4 #aath4 ,yesterday1 the ,bettiah-walla was seized with fever4 ,i asked him how he was1 as it regarded spiritual things3 he said1 #8,happy4' ,to-day he is worse3 but1 in answer to my question1 he told me1 #8that he was not afraid of death1 but of sin4' ,in the evening ,i took ,mr4 ,g4 to see him1 who kindly offered his services4 ,we found him in danger3 he told me that #8his mind was fixed on ,christ ,jesus3 who could do all things4' #8,i am1' said he1 #8in ,his hands2' and1 in answer to my question1 he told me #8he found comfort4' ,i have prayed that the ,lord will spare him2 and ,i trust he will be continued to the ,church here4 8,jan4 #agth4 ,the ,bettiah-walla better3 but very low3 he speaks of every event as proceeding from the mercy of ,jesus4 ,after having spoken to him of the ,redeemer1 ,i asked him if he remembered ,christ's words1 7,john iv4 #ac1 #ad47 #8he that drinketh1 c4' he took up the words and finished the passage1 adding1 with a significant expression1 #8,how can ,i forget ,him8' ,and many other declarations were added of ,his grace and greatness4 8,jan4 #ahth4 ,twenty-two women attended1 and heard the history of ,ishmael1 with much attention4 ,the ,bettiah-walla1 speaking of the trouble occasioned to ,abraham and ,sarah1 by the strife which arose from their sin in the matter of ,hagar1 spoke so feebly1 yet with such affection1 of the love of ,christ1 through whom they received forgiveness1 and through whom we too must seek forgiveness1 that most of them wept4 ,i could scarcely contain myself for joy4 ,o ,lord1 make thy word effectual6 8,a ,tickour woman who was desirous of baptism in answer to my questions1 and without any suggestion that could lead to such answers1 said1 #8that her heart is much employed in thinking of her ,creator3 if it were not1 what could she expect of good either here or hereafter4' #bndly1 #8that ,god as ,creator and ,lord has a right to command us2 and that she is disposed to obey ,his will in all things4' #crdly1 #8that ,jesus ,christ is ,god1 who came into the world for us sinners1 and through whom we may obtain forgiveness1 and the favour of ,god4' #dthly1 #8that in order to this1 we must lay hold of ,him with the heart1 pray to ,him1 and beg forgiveness4' #ethly1 #8that to be baptized1 and not to act thus1 must needs brings down greater evils upon us2 and in the world to come1 surely great destruction will be our lot1 c43' with much more to the same effect1 in a spirit of seeming sincerity and earnestness4 8,jan4 #cast4 #ahjh4 ,on ,friday evening1 thirteen women 7native7 attended at the barracks4 ,sergeant ,w4 told me that his native wife1 a short time since1 entered into a long conversation with a ,brahmin1 and exhorted him to forsake his idolatry1 which he acknowledged to be unreasonable2 but the loss of caste frightens him4 8,saturday1 ,feb4 #f4 ,just returned from burying a drummer's wife4 ,the ,bettiah-walla explained that ,i was not praying for the dead1 but that we might have grace to walk in ,god's ways4 ,he told them1 that when the breath is gone1 the soul is fixed in an eternal state2 and that in the last day1 the body too will be raised and partake with the soul of happiness or misery3 he concluded with an exhortation 7in which he mixed many quotations from scripture7 to watch and pray that that day might not come upon them unawares4 ,many natives were present1 who listened with deep attention2 except one or two who laughed4 ,at my gate ,i found a blind beggar1 whom the ,bettiah-walla also exhorted and who went away2 as ,i have often seen the poor glad to get a rupee and to be off4 8,feby4 #ajth4 ,this morning a ,brahmin came to me1 who declared #8that the ,sanscrit language is not the invention of man1 but came from ,maha ,deva's#ci ,bni3 that four genii1 who remain about the size of children of eight years of age1 hearing the sound of the drum1 repeated the sounds1 from whence1 having written them1 they collected the twenty-five letters of the alphabet4 ,on my asking him1 how so many letters could be collected from one sound2 after some dispute he said1 #8,maha ,deva's ,bni was not like to any now in size1 but at the day of judgment it will sound again1 and strike all with horror4' ,i then inquired1 who committed this language to writing in the ,shasters8 ,he answered1 #8three ,fakeers1 to whom the four genii communicated it4' ,on asking where they lived1 he mentioned #8a jungle near the hill3' on asking where the hill was1 he could not tell2 and1 after a long argument1 went away promising to bring a map1 and shew me the situation of the hill2 #8which1 however1 is beyond the snowy mountains1 in the land of the genii4' ,to this ,i objected1 that as the ,shasters confined the residence of the ,hindoos to this country1 the religious men would never call their own place of residence unholy2 and1 therefore1 it must be in this land4 ,we parted with the promise of his coming again4 8,feb4 #abth4 ,yesterday1 the ,brahmin came again2 and1 after much conversation said1 #8there is no difference in places2 and that only the ignorant worship stones1 c41 but the fear of popular displeasure keeps them silent4' ,in the evening1 he came again1 and we had a sharp dispute1 chiefly on the distance of places3 his ,shasters describe ,hindoostan as seventy-five millions of miles long4 ,my moonshee and the ,brahmin had a warm argument4 8,feb4 #bast4 ,the ,tickour woman gave notice that she had found sponsors4 ,on calling her1 ,i asked her if it was the intention of her heart to be the slave of ,jesus ,christ2 to which she replied in the affirmative1 with great fervency1 saying1 #8that it was her desire to walk in ,his paths always4' ,i reminded her of what ,i had been reading in ,john xiv41 #8,he that hath my commandments1 and keepeth them1 he it is that loveth me2' to which she answered1 #8that her desire was to obey ,his will2 that it may be well with her both in this life1 and the next4' ,she then used some expressions of admiration at the grace of ,god to sinners2 and on my saying1 that when the ,bettiah-walla returned1 ,i would appoint a day for baptism1 she fell on the ground at my feet in tears1 putting her hand on my shoes1 and raised her hand to her forehead4 ,on being asked a few days afterwards #8why she so earnestly desired baptism2' she said1 #8that she might be directed in the right way2 obtain pardon of sins and receive ,god's mercy2 both in this world and that which is to come4' ,she then entered on a long history of her life1 told me that her husband died and left her in poverty1 that she went about begging1 till her daughter was married1 who1 after much ill usage1 was at length left destitute2 and now1 to her grief1 is connected with ,p4 #8,it was of no use1' she said1 #8to walk in ,god's laws1 and in this way1 for three or four days2 or1 in attempting to deceive me1 for that ,god knows her heart2 and should she attempt to deceive me1 ,god would punish her both in this world1 and the next4' ,i left her1 desiring her to consider whether she would cause her daughter to take a separate house2 which is evidently a trial to her1 and which will1 in good earnest1 prove her sincerity1 if she does40 ,the first anniversary of ,mr4 ,corrie's ministerial connexion with ,chunar is thus commemorated in his ,journal3 8,it is a year to-day ,feb4 #bb4 since ,i commenced my public duty at ,chunar2 and1 on considering the way in which the ,lord hath led me during that period1 ,i find great cause for thankfulness that ,i have not laboured in vain3 some doors of usefulness have been opened1 and some good has been done4 ,many amongst the invalids are altered for the better in their conduct2 several of them have married1 and two artillery-men1 ,i would fain hope1 are serious and impressed4 ,amongst the ,hindoos1 some1 ,i trust1 have been brought to the knowledge of ,jesus ,christ2 yet1 ,i think1 ,i am not so spiritually-minded as ,i was before ,i left ,england3 though1 ,i think1 ,i am more constantly fixed1 and more undeviatingly aiming1 at the end of my ministry2 yet ,i fear that the warmth of spiritual affection is gone2 but ,i will #8do again my first works4' ,o thou whom my soul loveth1 grant me that #8gold1 white raiment1 and aye salve1' which thou hast in store for needy creatures2 heal me for thy mercies' sake60 ,it has been already stated that the ,europeans at ,secrole were regarded by ,mr4 ,corrie as part of his ministerial charge2 but as ,secrole was a kind of suburb to ,benares1 he was necessarily brought into contact with the ,hindoos resident in and about that #8very citadel of ,idolatry4' ,hitherto1 however1 it does not appear that any opportunity had occurred to ,mr4 ,c4 for seeing much of the native city4 ,under date1 therefore1 of ,march #b1 #ahjh1 he writes3 8,yesterday morning1 desiring to see ,benares1 ,i went down the ,ganges in a small boat2 but was greatly disappointed at the appearance of the city1 which stands entirely on the west side of the river4 ,one place1 the residence of ,badshahzada1 has the appearance of ruined magnificence2 and several ghauts are extensive and laboured monuments of superstition3 but the smallness of dimensions of the buildings around makes them appear nothing1 to an ,european4 ,amidst them all1 ,i came to the ,british flag1 flying at the ,ghaut ,mangees stairs1 which excited grateful sensations4 ,idolatry is plainly on the decay4 ,our boat line getting entangled with another boat1 much abuse was bestowed on the ,feringhee40 ,mr4 ,corrie relates1 that on this occasion he preached to some natives of ,benares1 as well as gave instruction to the ,european soldiery4 ,three weeks later than this visit he was called upon to baptize a ,brahmin1 who after many strugglings of conscience had been strengthened by the grace of ,god to #8confess the faith of ,christ crucified4' ,an account of this event is given by ,mr4 ,c4 in a letter to his father1 dated ,march #be1 #ahjh4dj 8,i have to tell you of the baptism of a ,brahmin at ,benares1 on ,wednesday last1 when ,i was down there1 which will gratify you much4 ,you must remember that he understands enough of ,english for common purposes2 and most of our conversation was in ,english4 ,he came to me in ,september last1 as ,i wrote to some of you2 he had before been seeking after truth2 and a pious merchant at ,benares had given him a ,book of ,common ,prayer3 this was the chief instrument in his conversion4 ,the two answers respecting #8our duty towards ,god and our duty towards our neighbour' struck him forcibly2 and he learned many of the prayers1 and much of the catechism by heart4 ,he was1 however1 greatly averse to baptism in ,september1 and argued that he could serve ,god in private1 and even promote ,his cause more1 whilst he refrained from the open profession of ,christianity4 ,i pointed out from ,mark xvi4 #af1 and ,john iii4 the necessity of attending to #8the outward and visible sign1 as well as the inward and spiritual grace1' if we would #8make our calling and election sure4' ,he left me with tears1 acknowledging that ,i spoke truth2 but absented himself until ,january last1 when he again went to the pious merchant1 saying he had been very ill1 and now found that none but ,jesus ,christ could save him3 he would1 therefore1 give up all for ,christ4 ,after much intercourse1 on ,tuesday last ,i asked him1 #8,are you willing to be baptized8' ,answer1 #8,yes1 ,i have no other ,lord1 no other ,saviour1 but ,jesus ,christ3 ,he is ,god1 and my ,god4' ,what makes you think ,him ,god8 ,answer1--#8,why1 ,sahib1 ,i don't know how many times ,i may have been in the world before1 or whether born at all1 or not1 before this time2 but ,i have continued a great sinner still1 7the ,hindoos believe in the metempsychosis17 a very great sinner1 ,i believe3 ,i went to ,juggernaut and here to ,benares1 and here and there 7mentioning other places7 to poojah 7worship27 but ,i was still very bad1 ,sahib1 very great sinner4 ,when ,i found no good among ,hindoos' worship1 ,i went to ,musselmans1' to ,lucknow1 7mentioning a great mahomedan doctor there17 to enquire2 but found no good in ,musselmans' religion2 but all bad1 very bad4 ,then ,i met with the ten commandments1 and these two1 my duty towards ,god1 and my duty towards my neighbour3 this my heart say good1 very good3 this is ,jesus ,christ's word1 and ,i pray to ,him for ,his grace1 and ,he gave me understanding3 now ,i know the true ,god2 my heart love ,his word2 and ,i no more love sin1 or bad way2 therefore1 ,i know ,jesus ,christ is ,god1' with more to the same effect4 7,you will perceive that if men set themselves to seek ,christ in this way1 we should have no ,arians or ,socinians47 ,i then asked1 ,what do you think will be after death8 ,answer1 #8,i shall go to ,god2 what else1 ,sahib8 ,now ,he has given me grace1 ,i am all light within3 will ,he put light with darkness again8 ,no1 ,i shall go to ,god after death4' ,will you forsake your family and friends8 ,answer1 #8,my father1 ,sahib1 very old3 he wash in ,ganges1 and make poojah3 ,i cannot help him1 but ,i will love him1 ,i will honour him1 as ,jesus ,christ's word is3 ,o6 ,i cannot help him1 but ,i will make prayer for him3 ,i must follow my ,lord ,christ2 there is no ,saviour but ,he3 ,hindoos1 ,musselmans1 all worship devils1' with more to that effect--adding #8,ever since ,i was with you1 ,sahib1 my heart was full1 and now1 if you please1 ,i will be baptized4' ,after prayer1 we separated3 next day when he came to me1 ,i asked him1 #8,have you thought much of the matter1 and are you willing to forsake all for ,christ8' ,he answered1 #8,i have made much prayer to ,god for ,his grace2 and now ,i will forsake all for my ,lord ,christ3 you will pray1 ,sahib1 that ,he will wash me1 and make me clean3 you will mention before ,him for the old sinner1 a very great sinner1 an old rogue1 very bad1 very bad sinner2 that ,he will save me1 and give me grace1 that ,i may love ,him with all my heart4 ,i cannot keep ,his commandments without his grace2 but ,i will pray always1 and love ,him1 and cleave to ,him 7laying hold of his own garment with eagerness27 and1 ,i will always speak truth1 and take care of my words4' ,all this with the expressive action of the natives1 who have more action than even the ,french in conversation4 ,at the time of administering the sacrament of baptism1 he made the responses from the ,book of ,common ,prayer1 with much feeling3 when addressed in the service1 he shewed the most lively attention1 and was very earnest in the prayers3 after the service1 he shook hands with all present1 expressed with tears his thankfulness to ,god for his mercy to so great a sinner2 and said he would serve ,him for ever1 and devote all his time to learning ,his word more perfectly that he might instruct others40 ,although there was much to comfort and encourage ,mr4 ,corrie in this manifest example of the power of divine grace1 in the conversion of this ,brahmin2 yet by an entry in his journal1 dated ,march #cast1 we find him complaining3-- 8,i have for several days laboured under sad spiritual decay2 and have been dreadfully oppressed with the fear of man2 and very backward to every good word and work4 ,when the ,brahmin consented to be baptized on ,tuesday1 the enemy raised an alarm in my mind respecting what the effect might be2 tumults among the natives2 anger on the part of the ,europeans2 removal by the government3 these suggestions greatly distracted me3 and ,i got me to my ,lord right humbly1 who mercifully delivered me from all these fears2 and all these difficulties vanished2 yet1 at the time1 ,i felt none of that joy or gratitude ,i ought1 on account of the triumph of the cross40 ,the ,journal proceeds3 8,april #ajth1 #ahjh4 ,to-day ,i am thirty-one years of age4 ,i praise ,god that ,i am in the land of prayer2 ,i have been praying for a right spirit of self-examination4 ,it strikes me as remarkable in my experience1 that although ,i could be always on my knees1 ,i am usually straitened1 perplexed1 and confused in prayer3 wandering thoughts perplex me beyond measure2 and my imagination is wild and troubled1 yet without order1 even in vainly flying from one scene to another1 and musing on the greatest improbabilities4 ,my mind is1 through grace1 settled and grounded in the ways of ,christ2 and1 ,i am persuaded that ,i shall never leave the heavenly way1 because the ,lord will keep me in fear of forsaking it4 ,i have no enjoyment in worldly company1 or amusements2 otherwise1 ,i have nothing of assurance1 as ,i have understood it3 and though ,i consent to every tittle stated in our #agth ,article1 it works nothing of #8unclean living or presumption4' ,it does1 however1 preserve me from despair2 for1 ,i never should be delivered but by the ,spirit of ,christ3 nor1 could ,i hope that ,his gracious influence would be granted to my prayers1 were it not for the unconditional1 covenanted1 love of ,god in ,christ ,jesus4 ,i have many short1 but sweet1 visits of heavenly grace4 ,my soul is frequently melted down in praise1 for the ,divine condescension towards me2 but little of abiding joy1 or realizing faith1 stays with me4 ,i find #8the work of righteousness' to be #8peace4' ,more of my time has been employed for ,god1 than ,i could once have thought possible to give2 yet few days pass that my soul is not overwhelmed with a sense of short-coming3 hence1 ,thou1 ,o ,christ1 art all ,i want6 8,we have had some slight awakenings here 7,chunar7 during the past year3 one in ,august2 but it is1 ,i fear1 come to nothing1 except ,h4 who may have found mercy of the ,lord3 the others have turned backward1 and ----1 died in consequence of intoxication4 ,at present a greater enquiry is excited than ever3 three are come out 7from the world7 and several are anxiously concerned4 #8,the ,lord knoweth them that are ,his4' ,now1 my soul1 look to it lest thou let any of those things #8slip' which thou hast heard and learned of ,jesus4 ,o1 for a spirit of grace and supplication3 for #8good understanding in the ways of godliness4' ,o1 for the conversion of souls6 ,lord1 hear me in these matters3 prosper thy work2 let thine own kingdom come4 ,bless my country1 my family1 my friends3 and1 ,o1 accept a poor worm who offers himself unto ,thee4 ,take me1 as thy dear-bought purchase2 and secure me unto thyself4 ,let my life bring glory to thy name2 and my death bear testimony to ,thy faithfulness and truth3 let me live1 and die to ,christ ,jesus1 ,amen6 8,in the afternoon1 ,i baptized the ,tickour woman1 by the name of #8,mary4' ,satan continues to mar my comfort2 though he cannot1 through the grace of ,christ1 prevent the word of ,god4 ,when ,i baptized the ,brahmin1 he raised in my mind such a fear of the anger of those in power as almost drove me to my wits' end3 but now ,i see that all was over-ruled for good1 in order to prevent my overweening conceit of myself in this matter40 ,it will have been observed1 that ,mr4 ,corrie not unfrequently complained of the loss of health4 ,the cause might no doubt be traced to his want of due regard to the trying nature of the climate of ,india to an ,european constitution4 ,repeated notices occur1 therefore1 in ,mr4 ,c4's ,journal and ,letters1 of a languor and general debility which threatened to lay him altogether aside from duty1 if not to render it necessary for him to quit the country4 ,at this time1 however1 a material change for the better seems to have taken place in his health2 for in writing to his father under date of ,april1 #bj1 #ahjh4 ,mr4 ,c4 remarks1 8,a gracious ,providence who has followed us with goodness and mercy all our days1 has prospered me thus far4 ,you will bless ,god with me1 who upholds me in perfect health 444 a most surprising change seems to have passed upon my constitution1 so that ,i feel very little inconvenience from the heat4 ,last year ,i was obliged to have recourse to medicine to keep me from fainting2 now1 though the hot winds have been blowing some weeks1 ,i feel active and cheerful as when with you4 ,a sigh of regret at our separation often1 indeed1 interrupts my joys1 and sends me with tears not unfrequently to your ,father and my ,father1 to your ,god and my ,god4 ,o1 praise to a precious ,redeemer1 through whose love and grace so lasting an union has been brought about1 which swallows up even natural ties1 or rather rivets them by an indissoluble bond6 ,all painful idea of separation and distance is lost in the consideration of that better country1 where we shall meet to part no more for ever6 8,you will rejoice to hear that the word of ,god is not without increasing witness among the soldiers4 ,eighteen attended the sacrament of the ,lord's supper on ,easter-day1 most of whom are serious and attentive2 and many are regular at our evening worship1 where they attend voluntarily4 ,among their wives also great attention continues to be paid2 and knowledge1 at least1 is increased4 ,the ,brahmin whom ,i baptized came up 7from ,benares7 last ,sunday2 and after attending worship in ,hindoostanee1 expressed much delight4 ,he proposed1 as a doubt1 what would once have been an article of faith with him3--#8,sahib1 you have been so little while in this country1 and yet know the language so well1 ,i think you must have been a ,hindoo before you were born in ,england1 and1 therefore1 your fresh language came to you so quick again4' ,a fortnight since1 ,i baptized a woman1 who is evidently seeking sincerely the kingdom of ,god4 ,yesterday1 she expressed her gratitude for instruction1 by saying1 #8,i am a poor woman1 and have nothing to offer to ,sahib in return for his favour1 except three fowls which ,i shall send to-morrow1 if he will please to accept them4' ,on my saying1 ,god has given me plenty1 she said1 #8,true1' but it is my duty to lay my neck beneath ,sahib's feet4' ,the language of the common people is1 indeed1 full of compliment2 but none of them show a disposition to give any thing away1 except in some instances where grace seems to open their hearts4 ,another1 the wife of an ,european1 who seems the best ,christian of them all1 on my noticing a little dog1 sent it to me next day1 begging my acceptance of it4 ,to excuse myself1 ,i said it was too young1 and she is now keeping it for my sister1 and takes great pains in teaching it to beg1 c4 that my sister may be amused with it when she arrives40 ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,j4 ,,buckworth4 8,april #be1 #ahjh4 8,the heat of the climate induces a despondency entirely unknown to you4 ,i perceive plainly that this despondency not a little infected my mind most of the last hot weather2 which was1 perhaps1 increased by continued ill health4 ,i have been enabled1 however1 to hold fast my integrity2 nor ever have handled the word of ,god deceitfully2 nor has the word been without witness4 ,a great increase is now made to my evening congregations1 which are my only joy1 they coming voluntarily2 and on ,wednesday next1 ,i begin a weekly lecture4444 ,i am1 through mercy1 now in perfect health1 and usual spirits2 and see it #8good for me to have been in trouble4' ,my present mode of passing my time will give you1 perhaps1 pleasure1 certainly amusement4 ,on an average ,i do not dine from home above once a week1 and seldom see any of my equals here1 except a family1 who1 ,i hope1 are pious1 though their progress is slow4 ,from morning 7five o'clock till eight7 ,i attend to my own private affairs1 with a little exercise3 then till three or four1 learn the native languages2 when every day1 either some of the natives come to me to read the ,scriptures1 or ,i attend some place of meeting for that purpose4 ,mr4 ,martyn writes to me weekly3 he is preparing a copy of the gospels in ,hindoostanee for the press2 this will be an invaluable acquisition3 the one we have is so learned as to be unintelligible to the vulgar for the most part4 ,i have altered the version of ,st4 ,john's ,gospel which we use4 ,the ,acts of the ,apostles especially delight the native teacher3 ,i have told you of ----2 you would be surprised to see the effect it has upon him2 and the eagerness by which it is heard by others4 ,i feel it to be too little regarded by myself1 and am too apt to consider the divine manna a common thing4 ,i send my father by these ships the history of a ,brahmin's conversion1 whom ,i lately baptised4#da ,i baptized a woman a fortnight since2 and several of the soldiers' native wives4 ,sinners are plainly under good impressions2 but1 ,oh6 the patience and perseverance necessary to deal with them6 8,dr4 ,buchanan is on his way home3 whatever he may publish will give you a true and clear insight into religious affairs here2 except that you can have no idea of the magnitude of the work of conversion1 unless you were here40 ,in the ,journal1 ,mr4 ,corrie relates 8,may #adth4 ,yesterday morning1 ,i went to ,wheatley's hospital4 ,the ,dhobee#db only seems truly in earnest3 he said that since he first heard the word1 his heart had been much taken with it2 that the more he hears it1 the more he esteems it2 and that he is happy in it4 #8,jesus ,christ1' he says1 #8is the creator and preserver of all things1 who will take him to ,god's presence2 or if not1 ,his will be done3 yet he will serve ,him2 and has forsaken ,satan's works1 and will return to them no more4 ,satan's works are worshipping stones1 poojah1 c4 c4' ,here one of the bystanders said1 #8,satan's works are also lying1 stealing1 c4 c4' ,to-night ,anselmo#dc is ill4 ,on my speaking to him1 he said1 #8,whether well or ill1 ,i am always begging for pardon of sin from ,jesus ,christ3 ,i am not deserving of it1 but am worthy of hell2 yet1 as ,he died for sinners1 ,god for ,his sake will hear me3 this is my constant hope2 but now1 indeed1 ,i need more grace and support4'--,praise ,god for these things4 ,o for patience and perseverance in the ,lord's work6 8,,secrole4 ,july #beth4 ,according to leave obtained1 and notice given1 ,i came down on ,friday evening with the view to perform divine service yesterday4 ,on ,saturday morning1 ,i waited on the general1 who received me with the most chilling coolness4 ,he told me that he had nothing to do with divine service1 or the artillery-men2 and that he should not interfere3 he had heard nothing of divine service1 except from my application4 ,mr4 ----1 who had been forward for my coming down1 on hearing of my arrival flew quite off1 and said1 #8they could do as well now as before1 without divine service1' he1 however1 came yesterday morning4 ,a congregation of at least sixty assembled2 and after service1 ,mr4 ,a4 thanked me1 and said he hoped they should give me encouragement to come amongst them oftener4 ,afterwards1 the ,brigade ,major came with a message from the general1 7who did not come to church7 saying1 that ,i was #8at liberty to come and go as ,i pleased1 but the artillery-men and officers could not be permitted to attend so far from the lines1 for fear of the natives seizing the guns whilst they were at a distance3 if the court-house were used to assemble in1 or a place of worship erected near the lines1 he should have no objection2 but all this was to be kept a secret4' ,well3 blessed be ,god1 who hath opened a door here for ,his word6 ,had there been no obstacles thrown in the way1 it would have been unusual4 ,satan never yet freely and without a struggle1 resigned his dominion4 ,o ,lord1 ,i have no might or skill to resist this great enemy2 neither know ,i what to do2 but mine eyes are towards thee6 ,in the morning service1 ,i was sadly amazed by the presence of so many of the great ones of the earth2 but after the service commenced1 these feelings vanished4 8,aug4 #bdth4 ,on ,monday ,i went to ,mirzapore1 where ,i saw an old ,fakeer1 the most wretched victim of superstition ,i have met with4 ,he has been a great traveller1 and by the strange noises he utters1 and the inhuman appearance he puts on1 causes the people to take him for some great one4 ,he struck me as strongly under ,satanic influence4 ,i endeavoured to gain from him some idea of his creed2 but could not4 ,narsingha1 who is celebrated in the ,bhagavat ,geeta1#dd is his titular deity1 whom he considers equal to the other gods4 ,i am confounded at the thought that1 from the conduct of the ,english present1 ,i was prevented warning him as ,i ought of his danger4 8,aug4 #cast4 ,yesterday was spent at ,ghazeepore2 much talk about religion1 and religious people2 but little religious conversation4 ,in prayer1 ,i have been sometimes enabled to make my #8requests known with thanksgiving2' but have felt great backwardness to the public services of the ,church4 #8,lord1 be merciful to me a sinner6' for that ,i suffered the rain to prevent me from going to the evening worship2 and that when ,i have spoken unto the men1 it has been in a cold and indifferent manner6 ,i see in ,robinson#de of ,cambridge 7whose life ,i read yesterday7 how far a person1 and even a minister of religion may go1 and yet be as #8sounding brass or a tinkling symbol4'0 #cg ,printed in the ,proceedings of that ,society1 vol4 i4 p4 #agi1 and seq4 #ch ,head4 #ci ,the ,chief ,deity4 #dj ,the substance of this account was afterwards printed in the ,missionary ,register1 vol4 i4 p4 #cag1 and seq4 #da ,see above pp4 #aaj1 c4 #db ,a ,native washerman4 #dc ,formerly a ,roman ,catholic4 ,see below p4 #abe4 #dd ,a poetical ,exposition of the doctrines of a particular school of ,hindoo ,theology4 ,it forms an ,episode in the ,maha ,bharat1 one of the great ,hindoo ,poems1 and has been translated by ,wilkins4 ,an abstract of it is given in the ,quarterly ,review1 ,vol4 #de4 #de ,an ,anabaptist preacher1 celebrated in his day for his extreme opinions1 both as respected politics and religion2 who1 after having written a #8,plea for the ,divinity of ,christ1' rejected ,christianity and died a ,socinian4 ,,chapter ,,vi4 ,,visit ,,to ,,calcutta--,,arrival ,,of ,,his ,,sister4 ,in the beginning of ,september #ahjh1 ,mr4 ,corrie left ,chunar1 for the purpose of meeting his sister at ,calcutta on her expected arrival from ,england2 and on his way thither he spent some weeks with ,mr4 ,martyn1 at ,dinapore4 ,several foreboding expressions occur in ,mr4 ,corrie's ,journal respecting the possible termination of the unsatisfactory state of health in which he found ,mr4 ,martyn4 ,with the purpose1 therefore1 of relieving that excellent person from the pressure of clerical duty1 ,mr4 ,c4 remained longer at ,dinapore than he had at first intended4 ,of ,mr4 ,martyn1 also1 he writes1 8,he entertains the opinion that he shall die before long2 and desired me to tell ,mr4 ,brown that should he die before my return1 he trusted he is in the ,lord1 and happy4 ,he wishes1 if it please ,god1 to be spared on account of the translations1 but with great earnestness he said1 #8,i wish to have my whole soul swallowed up in the will of ,god4' ,he then observed1 #8,when ,i look back1 ,i see nothing that affords me satisfaction3 all my consolation flows from the free grace that is in ,christ ,jesus3--that grace which is now offered to-day1 this is alone what comforts my soul4'0 ,considering the brotherly affection that subsisted between the two friends1 it cannot be a matter of surprise1 that when1 under these circumstances1 the time for parting approached1 ,mr4 ,c4 should have experienced some depression of spirits4 8,this morning10 he writes1 8was a mournful time with me4 ,i could scarcely express myself from the acuteness of my feelings1 but tried to suppress them4 ,i have no idea1 however1 but that ,i shall meet him again1 if ,i am spared to return2 but ,o6 let me not boast of to-morrow1 but learn to die daily40 ,when ,mr4 ,corrie reached ,calcutta1 his joy on meeting a beloved sister was somewhat modified by the intelligence which she brought that one of his letters#df had been printed in an ,english periodical4 ,the distress and alarm which this circumstance occasioned ,mr4 ,corrie will be readily accounted for1 when it is recollected that a violent dread of ,missionary operations in ,india1 had at that time taken possession of the minds of many influential persons1 and that a motion had even been submitted to the ,court of ,east ,india proprietors for expelling from ,india1 all the ,christian ,missionaries who were then labouring there2 and for preventing the circulation of the ,scriptures in any of the languages of the ,east4 ,nothing could be more probable1 therefore1 than that the publication of any accounts of ,mr4 ,corrie's labours among the heathen1 would draw down upon him the displeasure of the ,indian government4 ,that such1 at least1 was the persuasion of ,mr4 ,c4 is plain enough1 for in announcing to a relative1 the safe arrival of his sister in ,calcutta1 he adds3-- 8,i received little of painful intelligence by her except the news of my letter to ,buckworth being published4 ,i trust he has not published any more of them4 ,i cannot write to him just yet on the subject1 lest ,i should say something that might wound his feelings3 he has caused me more grief than any event of late has caused me40 ,soon afterwards he more fully expressed his apprehensions in a letter to ,mr4 ,buckworth himself4 8,i heard some time since by a friend1 that #8a letter from one of the ,bengal chaplains who came out in #ahjf1' had been published1 and in the then state of the court of ,india ,directors towards the evangelization of this country1 might be of great detriment4 ,mary afterwards brought me word who the offending chaplain is1 and who the friend is that has published his letters4 ,i confess that for a time ,i felt myself wounded in the house of friendship4 ,in the eyes of the world1 pride told me that my character would suffer2 and ,i still expect to see myself caricatured by the ,edinburgh ,reviewers1 or by some such enemies to all serious acknowledgment of ,god4 ,my brother will say1 what is character c41 to being useful to the cause of the gospel8 ,and so say ,i1 if loss of character stand in competition with that cause2 but really ,i am sure there must in my scrawls1 written in the fulness of my heart1 be ample matter for criticism2 and truly the gospel needs not such a sorry assistant2 especially if the publication should operate either to my recal1 or to restrictions being laid upon me here4 ,so well assured am ,i1 however1 of the purity of my much-loved friend in his motives for thus sending me into the world as an author1 that ,i shall love the rod even that smites me by his hand3 and he will rejoice that ,i stand ready to glory in the cross of ,christ1 and count myself honoured1 if thought worthy to suffer shame for ,his sake4 ,i hope you have not sent any more of my letters to the ,christian ,guardian2 and that if you judge any description of the people or customs1 c4 interesting1 you will give it as an extract1 and without my name and place of abode1 further than ,india4 ,i must absolutely forbid you to publish what ,i am doing4 ,let the great day of the ,lord make that manifest4 ,i am sure ,i shall be found an unprofitable servant1 and #8this shall be my only plea1 that ,jesus lived and died for me4'0 ,during the whole of ,mr4 ,corrie's stay in ,calcutta he took up his abode with the ,rev4 ,david ,brown1 from whose counsel and directions he seems to have derived at all times the greatest advantage4 ,to the relative referred to above1 he writes on this occasion2-- 8,we are now under the roof of ,mr4 ,brown4 ,i cannot tell you how much we are indebted to this man of ,god3 he has been1 and is to us younger chaplains1 a father in ,israel4 ,his affection for us exceeds the affection of most fathers for their children4 ,his letters convey the instructions of a ,bishop1 with the tenderness of a brother4 ,i trust we feel his worth and value it aright40 ,yet ,mr4 ,corrie's anxiety to get back again to his people at ,chunar1 did not allow him to remain long in ,calcutta4 ,in the letter just now quoted he observes3-- 8,my few sheep are in the wilderness without a shepherd1 and some of whom ,i hoped better things ,i hear are gone astray3 these thoughts make every place strange to me except ,chunar4 ,there is no one thing on earth worth living for1 but to be employed in our blessed master's service1 to be ministering in obedience to ,his will to the spiritual and temporal good of mankind4 ,when my soul ceases to labour after this1 life will be no blessing to me4 ,how precious the idea that saints are kept by the power of ,god6 ,this is the ground on which ,i build my hope1 of perseverance to the end2 and ,i know whom ,i have believed4 ,he who has given me to know the name of ,christ1 and to trust therein1 will enable me to draw out all the virtues contained in that precious name to support me under temptation1 and to enable me to holiness of living40 ,owing1 however1 to the tedious nature of the passage up the ,ganges1 ,mr4 ,c4 did not reach ,chunar till the middle of ,january #ahji4 ,on his way1 he spent a week with ,mr4 ,martyn at ,dinapore1 and preached there on ,christmas-day #ahjh4 ,on the following ,new year's day1 he placed on record his recollections of the past year3-- 8,chuprah2 on the way back from ,calcutta to ,chunar4 ,sunday1 ,jan4 #ast4 #ahji4 ,i desire to review this year past1 as in ,god's presence1 and to note down ,his dealings1 as ,i shall give account at the judgment-seat of ,christ4 8,first1 let me note ,his mercies ministerial1 in the success of my labours at ,chunar2 where a society of fourteen are united in the ways of ,god2 second1 personal1 in the preservation of life1 and the vouchsafing of excellent health2 the bringing my sister1 who is now with me1 and promises to be indeed a helpmeet for me4 ,third1 spiritual1 inasmuch as the ,holy ,spirit is not withdrawn from me2 nor has the purpose of living only to ,god forsaken me3 ,i see that nothing is worth living for1 but to live to ,god4 ,i determine1 the ,lord being my helper1 to live to no other purpose4444 ,i am not so watchful of myself as formerly2 but ,i renew my purposes1 would do my first works1 and go on unto perfection4 ,i seem1 as far as ,i know myself1 kept from the love of wealth2 but this is1 in some degree at least1 from lavishness1 which hurries me often into the other extreme3 against this1 too1 do ,i resolve2 and would use this world's goods as one that must give an account4 ,the work of the ,lord among the heathen shall be attended to1 with fresh vigour4 ,i can say nothing of the ,hindoostanees at ,chunar1 nor of the ,schools2 but ,i hope to do more for them than ever4 ,o ,lord1 let past mercies be remembered1 as a constraining motive to future exertion2 and1 whilst ,i would mourn for my sins and short-coming1 ,o keep me in time to come for ,christ's sake4 ,amen40 ,under the date of ,chunar1 ,jan4 #bd1 #ahji1 he writes1 8,have been at home ten days1 and ,i trust have not been quite forgetful of the goodness of ,god1 in taking me out and bringing me back in safety3 but ,i feel and deplore my hard heartedness and corruption4 ,on ,sunday week resumed duty at ,secrole1 twenty attended4 ,here1 on ,sunday last1 five services have renewed something of my former pain in the breast4 ,but1 alas6 my labours seem all to have been in vain4 ,not one seems to have stood his ground4 ,my heart is greatly cast down1 and would fain shrink from any further trial4 ,self and worldliness combine to dishearten me from the work of the ,lord4 ,o ,lord1 leave me not1 but revive thy work in me for ,jesus' sake6 ,amen40 ,in a letter addressed to ,mr4 ,buckworth on the #hth4 of ,feb2 ,mr4 ,c4 gives utterance to similar feelings of discomfort3-- 8,notwithstanding the many objects new to you1 with which ,i am surrounded1 ,i scarce know what to write to you about3 it is a time of great spiritual dulness with me2 and1 owing to the indisposition of the native teacher1 the great work we have chiefly at heart seems at a stand4 ,my strength is laid out1 in the mean time1 among the ,european soldiers2 and1 alas1 to little seeming purpose 444 ,i am ready to be weary of what appears so hopeless a task as the turning of men1 so incorrigible1 from the error of their ways3 these workings of my mind are too glaringly impious to escape even my half-awakened perception1 and the greatest of all opposition ,i find to spring from my desperately wicked heart3 ,i trust something of self-abasement1 for this horribly rebellious spirit1 exists at the same time4 8,you know all the controversy that has arisen at home respecting missions to this country3#dg there is no knowing what the end of such opposition to ,christ's kingdom will be4 ,we have been in expectation of a visit from the ,french over land4 ,the late events in ,spain may be the means of keeping us longer quiet here4 ,the ,french would perhaps have established their system of worship where they could have got footing2 and any mode of ,christianity would have been preferable to the idolatry and superstition that overwhelms this unhappy land4 ,my principal employment now is with a school of ,christian native children1 five in number3 some of them read easily the ,holy ,scriptures in ,hindoostanee2 and a gleam of joy sometimes enlivens my mind while hearing them4 8,feb4 #aeth4 ,since writing the above1 the old native ,christian has been enabled to renew his labours2 and another christian child is come to school4 ,i have had one of those sudden attacks you happily know little of in ,england2 it has not yet left me2 but my times are in ,god's hand4 ,i find it is good to be afflicted3 my soul returns unto her rest2 and1 ,i bless ,god for a desire only to know and glorify ,him3 this ,i think ,i can say is all in all with me4 ,you will have heard of the ,roman-catholic mission established in this country4 ,my ,catechist is a fruit of this mission2 and four men and four children in my employ besides4 ,they are natives of ,bettiah in the kingdom of ,nepaul1 i4 e41 the old kingdom of ,nepaul2 for now the ,british posterity of ,japheth are dwelling in almost every corner of the tents of these sons of ,shem2 and the old limits of most of the states of this country are in consequence altered4 8,one man from the same place passed the whole of your summer with me here2 and daily read the ,scripture with me2 in which he seems to be taught of ,god4 ,on returning last ,september1 he withstood the ,missionary 7an ,italian7 to his face1 respecting the praying to saints1 bowing to images c43 he was1 in consequence1 excommunicated2 and1 on being taken ill soon afterwards was beset by two agents of the missionary1 who sounded threatenings of hell1 c41 in his ears2 and declared his body should be cast on the dunghill4 ,distressed1 it seems he paid a fine to be restored to the ,church1 and soon after died4 ,in his last days1 he begged some one of his relations to convey his thanks to me1 and to commend his children to me4 ,the message is come1 and the unfeigned tears of these few ,christians here on learning the end of ,anselmo1 were a striking proof of the sympathizing spirit induced by ,christianity1 compared with the hard and unfeeling spirit of the heathen4 ,on the map of ,hindoostan you see the country of the ,seiks2 their capital is ,lahore4 ,the state consists of a number of independent chiefs1 under a nominal head2 many of these chiefs have sought our aid against the oppression of their head2 and1 as the country they inhabit lies in route of any overland invading army1 we have sent a force in aid of the petitioners4 ,two of my young friends 7very dear to me in our common ,lord7 are with this force4 ,the principal matter of interest to us in this expedition is1 that these ,seiks are1 as a nation1 ,deists4#dh ,much superstition1 indeed1 is among them2 but they are neither ,hindoos nor ,mussulmans2 and profess themselves worshippers of one invisible ,god4 ,such a state of mind seems favourable to a reception of ,christianity2 and1 may we not hope our intercourse among them may be the means of bringing them acquainted with that only name whereby they must be saved8 ,martyn is going on1 in company with the converted ,arabian1#di in translating the ,scriptures into ,persian4 ,i have seen the ,edinburgh ,reviewer's remarks on the ,missionaries#ej and critique on their ,journals4 ,it is to be regretted1 perhaps1 that in some expressions they are open to ridicule2 but it is a subject of gratification that in none are they open to reproach4 ,these same gentlemen would gnash their teeth to find ,hindoostan1 from near ,delhi1 yea from the ,seiks' country1 to ,cape ,comorin1 planted with ,christians1 who daily pray for the coming of ,christ's kingdom in their lands2 and who1 in their intercourse with those around them1 recommend the gospel of ,god our ,saviour in a way not such as will excite insurrection1 but induce veneration and ultimately conversion4 ,a preaching life these ,edinburgh reviewers themselves cannot gainsay2 and these less enlightened heathen are less disposed than they to withstand it4 ,but little visible effect will appear in our day2 the next generation will find a people #8prepared for the ,lord4' 8,our dwelling is on the banks of the ,ganges4 ,the common mode of travelling is by water1 in commodious boats1 dragged1 when the wind is adverse1 like barges4 ,at this distance from home1 hospitality to strangers seems to me a peculiar though painful duty1 as it breaks in too much upon my leisure4 ,there is no such thing as an inn2 and very many of the passers-by are young officers1 whose situation is1 in general1 far from being comfortable4 ,to these ,i would be especially kind1 as being also less noticed by many who judge of the attentions due to them by the wealth and rank they possess4 ,those youths who are now here join readily in our family worship1 and delight me when ,i hear them repeating the ,lord's prayer after me with seriousness4 ,dear lads1 my heart yearns over them1 exposed as they are to every kind of temptation1 without a rudder or a pilot4 ,may ,god take them into ,his direction60 ,soon after the date of the foregoing letter1 ,mr4 ,corrie was again suffering from illness4 ,an attack of fever rendered it necessary for him to place himself under medical care2 but throughout the months of ,february and ,march1 his disorder seems to have yielded so little to the remedies applied1 that he was almost laid aside from duty4 ,thus in his ,journal under date of ,march #aith4 he remarks3-- 8,march #aith 7,sunday47 ,to-day--not in a condition for public worship3 so there was none in the morning4 ,a merchant and others came to breakfast2 and ,i had family worship with them4 ,i have been considering my ways1 but am1 alas ,i sadly clouded1 so that ,i can remember but little4 ,my impatience respecting the backsliding professors has appeared1 as it is1 sadly inconsistent3 ,i ought to have pitied and prayed for them more1 and felt less anger4 ,i bless ,god for more composure of mind1 and drawing out of soul towards ,god4 ,i see1 however1 ,i have little of zeal for ,his glory and house4 ,i would have a more single eye in this matter4 ,i would desire my own salvation as a means of displaying the glory of ,his grace4 ,i would desire the salvation of sinners1 that ,he may be glorified4 ,i would engage in proper means for these ends1 with a single intent that ,i may bring glory to ,god1 and that ,god may be glorified in me4 ,let my own personal trials be all sanctified to this end6 ,give grace1 ,o ,god of grace1 to this end2 and the glory shall redound to ,thee1 through ,jesus ,christ1 the ,saviour60 ,and again1 a fortnight later1 he writes3-- 8,easter eve4 ,to-morrow the ,lord's ,supper is to be administered4 ,alas1 my soul1 how many sacred opportunities of this kind have been little better than profaned4 ,long did ,i attend the ,lord's ,table in my own self-confident spirit1 and the same day saw me break the vows ,i had solemnly made4 ,when this self-confidence was in some measure discovered1 the ordinance became more profitable indeed1 but the contrary spirit grew upon me2 and for some time1 ,i fear1 the consecrated elements have been too little considered4 ,lord6 never let me fancy the means any other than the channels of thy grace2 but ,o1 enable me to discern the ,lord's body at his ,table1 and #8with meek heart and due reverence1' feed upon ,him by faith6 ,my illness1 ,i fear1 does not leave me2 at least1 weakness grows upon me4 ,i seem anxious to live4444 ,i would live to glorify ,god1 too1 though he needs not my wretched poor services4 ,i would have my will swallowed up in ,his4 ,o ,lord grant me grace to this end1 then come life or death1 all will be well4 8,easter-day morning1 #bnd ,april4 ,both in public worship1 and afterwards1 ,i trust the ,lord was present to heal us3 the people were very attentive4 ,i remembered my native land1 with sweet recollection1 the tabernacle of ,god1 and the communion of saints4 ,for my companions' and brethren's sakes will ,i seek thy good1 ,o ,britain1 the ,zion of the earth6 ,o may these impressions of love and grace remain upon my soul6 ,enough ,i see1 even in this day's services1 though unusually joyous1 to render precious ,him who bears the iniquities of his people's holy things40 ,in the beginning of the following month1 however1 a letter to the ,rev4 ,david ,brown contains the intelligence that it had pleased ,god to recover ,mr4 ,corrie from his illness3-- 8,chunar1 ,may #aa1 #ahji4 8,i ought to have made known to you before this1 the safe arrival of the ,bibles and ,new ,testaments4 ,we have no troops here at present to dispose of them to4 ,the ,europeans hereabout will take a few to distribute at prime cost4 ,a fortnight since beloved ,martyn passed this by dawk4#ea ,he staid only three days1 and you will have heard by this time of his safe arrival at ,cawnpore on the #bith4 ult4 ,sabat has left us this morning4 ,the heat of his temper broke out against a washerman who had changed a sheet1 but there seems no doubt of the grace of ,god being in him4 ,he lived with us since the #gth4 ,at ,benares1 he had intended to pass some days1 but about forty persons who had formerly known him1 came tumultuously to the boat1 and after much confused dispute1 he thought it prudent to come on here4 ,we have for some time been engaged about a ,church at ,benares2 a subscription of about #cjjj ,rupees has been made1 and a spot of ground is fixed on4 ,i trust now all opposition is silenced1 though not entirely done away4 ,the hearts of some haters of all good have been brought to give money even4 ,one family is highly respectable and regular in religious duties4 ,one young officer has become a new creature4 ,of the rest1 few alas6 seem willing to go any further4 ,martyn wishes for my removal4 ,i did not desire it before he came1 now ,i should have no objection to it4 ,less labour than is now put forth on1 perhaps in all1 eighty people1 7for the remainder give me no opportunity of labouring for them17 would serve for eight hundred1 and if winning souls be our highest wisdom1 the more we win1 the wiser we shall be accounted4 ,yet the fear that my ,benares congregation would be left without a shepherd1 makes me glad to continue4 ,at ,chunar1 all seem dead and lifeless4 ,some of the poor women are indeed1 growing in grace1 and that should not be accounted little4 ,one of them two days since1 on asking her in what way she must attain to ,god's presence with peace1 replied1 #8,if ,i remember the name of ,jesus ,christ3 and repenting of my sins1 put my trust in him1 ,i shall doubtless attain ,god's presence4' ,several are equally well informed1 and ,martyn expressed great satisfaction at their attentive repetition of the responses1 in prayer c4 ,sabat holds my poor old man in utter disdain for his comparative ignorance4 ,sabat is indeed a very superior man2 none of the ,moonshees can stand before him4 ,he is most amusing with his logic on all occasions4 ,some of the gay friends of a pious young officer1 asked him if it were not written in ,scripture1 that men shall become bears8 ,he1 in the simplicity of his heart1 asked ,martyn and myself at ,dinapore1 before ,sabat1 if there were such a passage of ,scripture8 ,sabat replied1 #8,o if there is such an expression in the word of ,god1 it must be true2 and we will prove it by logic4' 8,i think ,i expressed a wish for the tables you mentioned1 of ,arabic c4 with a copy of the ,persian of ,matthew when ready4 ,mr4 ,myers#eb would send them and they would be highly useful4 ,i am happy to say the complaint ,i was ill of has quite left me1 and ,i trust it is good for me that ,i was in trouble4 ,it is good in any way to have the heart separated from this ensnaring world2 to be led to have all its fresh springs in ,god4 ,would it were more thus with me6 ,i groan being burdened with an earthly1 sensual1 devilish nature4 ,i wish ,i could hear oftener of you and your's4 ,i am in hopes those communications that respect our project may pass through my hands to ,martyn2 it would cause only one day's delay4 ,the subject of the conversion of the natives is much more discussed among us4 ,i know two converts to the subject from reading ,buchanan's ,memoir which ,i lent them4 8,my ,christian ,school goes on well4 8,beside the ,christian children1 ,i have six ,christian men1 and some families40 ,the anniversary of ,mr4 ,corrie's ordination is thus noticed by him3-- 8,saturday1 ,june #ajth4 ,this day in #ahjb1 ,i was ordained a ,deacon at ,buckden1 and on the #abth of ,june #ahjd1 a ,priest1 at the same place4 ,to-morrow may suit my purposed season of examination2 and ,i pray ,god to enable me to this needful work4 ,first1 to look over my present spiritual state4 ,secondly1 ,to examine my views in the ministry4 ,thirdly1 ,to pray for my ,native ,school4 ,o ,lord6 vouchsafe a spirit of grace and supplication for ,christ's sake6 8,sunday1 ,june #aath4 ,have been considering my ways2 and respecting my personal experience1 it is but too apparent that ,i have for some time laboured under a spiritual decay4 ,the commencement of it seems to have been soon after this time last year1 when my spirit began to faint in outward duties2 and ,i hurried away from them to ,calcutta4 ,the ,lord does not leave me2 and ,i trust will not leave me2 yet1 ,o my soul1 fear being given up to work iniquity4 ,much reserve1 ,i am aware1 in my outward conduct is worn off3 respecting this1 ,i would hope the needless scrupulosity ,i indulged is going2 yet connected with my private experience1 ,i would be jealous over myself with a godly jealousy4 ,frivolousness and levity in tongue and action1 ,i would watch against4 ,lord1 instruct me1 and teach me in thy way6 ,in the ministry1 ,i have failed greatly in respect of searching out the lost sheep of ,christ's flock2 nor have ,i a proper sense of the hurt and hinderance arising from this negligence4 ,lord1 grant me a due sense of the ,saviour's dying love1 and of the soul's worth6 ,i think ,i do attempt the edification of those who come in my way2 and have less fear of shame and reproach for ,christ than once ,i had4 ,i find a growing facility in speaking ,hindoostanee2 and ,i trust of late more earnest intention of seeking opportunities of propagating the ,gospel4 ,my views in coming to ,india ,i would hope are not altered2 to live and die here2 and to spend my strength and substance in this land is1 ,i think1 my purpose4 ,the little children are becoming very interesting to me4 ,o1 that they may become partakers of the grace of ,god in truth6 ,my native servants ,i would try to make wise unto salvation1 and often am earnestly engaged in instructing them4 ,lord1 grant me sincerity and simplicity in dealing with these2 and enable me to repent of my sins1 to #8do my first works2' and #8leaving the principles of the doctrine of ,christ1 go on unto perfection4' ,i feel how entirely it is ,thy work to accomplish this in me1 then grant me thy ,holy ,spirit graciously for ,christ's sake4 ,amen60 ,with what sincerity of spirit1 this recital of his inward resolves and feelings was penned1 may be gathered from the renewed activity with which ,mr4 ,corrie's restored health was devoted to the employment of every means within his reach1 that was calculated to extend the knowledge of ,christ4 ,to ,mr4 ,brown he writes early in ,june #ahji3-- 8,i have at length begun the ,arabic and ,hebrew2 and with the help of the ,arabic1 ,hebrew and ,hindoostanee1 hope to get a correct ,hindoostanee version of the ,psalms for the black flock4 ,the #east ,psalm they are learning by heart40 ,similar notices of his application to the study of the ,oriental languages occur1 also1 in ,mr4 ,corrie's letters1 about this time1 to ,mr4 ,martyn4 ,yet the external circumstances with which himself and fellow-labourers in the work of the ,lord1 were all this while conversant1 were far from encouraging4 ,in the letter to ,mr4 ,brown quoted above1 ,mr4 ,corrie complained3-- 8,my harp has long been #8hung upon the willows4' ,every thing around us bears the image of spiritual death4 ,what little profession there was among us1 has issued in nothing that appears decisive40 ,and a few weeks later1 after recording in his journal that he 8had often experienced the ,divine ,presence and grace10 whilst lecturing in public 8on the ,epistle to the ,galatians10 ,mr4 ,c4 adds3-- 8,i am1 nevertheless1 cast down greatly with the little appearance of good working among us3 the soldiers seem hardened to all addresses ,i make3 the old native ,christian has not been lively of late4 ,when not living near to ,god1 ,i seem afraid of the doctrine of grace1 as it is called2 when my soul is deeply affected with divine truth1 ,i can trust ,god with the consequences of ,his own declarations40 ,whilst having thus to lament the spiritual apathy around him1 ,mr4 ,corrie did not on that account slacken his exertions toward hastening on the day1 when 8the stream of ,ganges shall roll through tracts adorned with ,christian churches1 and the holy hymn be heard beneath the shade of the tamarind40 ,accordingly he writes to the ,rev4 ,charles ,simeon3-- 8,aug4 #b1 #ahji4 8,a door of usefulness has been opened #8among those of mine own nation' at ,benares1 where ,i have been enabled to attend every third ,sunday1 and now materials are collecting to build a place of worship with1 by subscription4 ,some of the principal people there oppose the measure by their private influence1 though they have given money for the work4 ,the report of the death of one of the chaplains above1 renders me anxious1 lest ,i should be removed before this scheme is accomplished2 but ,i know the accomplishment of it rests not with me4 ,i now confine my public engagements to the mornings1 except one service in ,hindoostanee on ,sunday evenings4 ,i have mentioned a native ,christian who reads and expounds the lessons on these occasions1 so that my labour is but small when he is present4 ,just now1 he is at ,benares1 with a view1 if possible1 to establish ,christian worship among a number of ,portuguese and native ,christians1 who reside in various capacities there4 ,he goes from house to house among them1 but has hitherto had little success4 ,only three attend worship4 ,i may remind you1 that he conducts public worship according to our ,church form1 translated4 ,the ,gospels we have1 and ,i have translated the principal particulars of the ,old ,testament history4 ,i may mention that the wisdom of ,god is manifest here1 in recording the faults of the ,old ,testament saints4 ,a maxim among all classes of ,natives1 seems to be1 that every person1 by obeying his own religious guide1 will attain eternal blessedness1 and several of the ,mahomedans have been offended1 at my asserting that ,moses1 ,abraham1 ,david c41 were sinners3 the proving these saints to have been sinners by nature1 as ourselves1 overturns this conceit and makes them to seek out a ,saviour1 who is himself in no need of salvation4 ,to this point1 when ,i have opportunity1 ,i always bring a ,mahomedan1 carefully avoiding disrespectful mention of his ,prophet4 ,the ,hindoostanee women attend1 though not in such numbers as at first1 yet regularly1 and ,i have no doubt some of these most despised of the human race1 will be found at the right hand of the ,judge1 in the great day4 ,a few evenings since1 a poor blind creature caused my heart to joy exceedingly1 by her artless commendation of the ,redeemer2 any praise of myself might have arisen from servility1 but1 the epithets she applied to our ,lord1 could have been learned only from the ,scriptures4 ,for some time much of my attention has been directed to the education of some native christian boys4 ,watts' first ,catechism they can repeat1 and a prayer for morning and evening in private2 two of them have begun ,persian and make quick progress3 there are in all five1 from seven to twelve years old1 and some younger children will soon be admitted4 ,i am attempting to introduce our own mode of teaching1 and when at home1 hear them twice a day4444 ,no pains have been spared by the ,italian ,missionaries1 at ,bettiah to frighten1 or allure my old teacher from me1 and one man1 who had learned the way of ,god more perfectly here1 and on going back refused to pray to saints1 c41 was excommunicated and grievously persecuted until his death1 which took place soon after4 ,the uproar about ,missions has been heard of here1 but no one feels any of the alarm expressed at home4 ,i hear occasionally1 from some friends at ,malda1 of ,mr4 ,m4 who has very poor health2 some poor helpless creatures have lately received baptism there4 ,you will not suspect me of depreciating his labours1 by this expression2 those among whom ,i myself minister1 are as despicable as human beings can well be4 ,their influence on the general cause can be none1 their individual souls are precious40 ,mr4 ,corrie had now been three years in ,india1 and it will have been seen that those years had not been spent in self-indulgent inactivity1 or had been unfruitful in great moral results4 ,yet he writes3-- 8,sept4 #bjth4 #ahji4 ,this day completes my third year in ,india2 and though ,i could write a journal of events that would set me off in the eyes of men1 ,i know myself to be an unprofitable servant4 ,i have reason to cry1 #8,deliver me from blood-guiltiness1 ,o ,god2' from the blood of souls6 ,the perverseness of the natives draws out my perverse temper4 ,i perceive my mind of late too much taken up with the dignity religion inspires the mind with1 raising it above the petty cares and mean jealousies of an earthly mind3 yet1 ,o let me never be high-minded but fear4 ,i desire to renew my dedication of myself1 my all to ,god2 to purpose greater exertion and more labours among whites and blacks4 ,lord1 ,i pray thee1 grant an increase of spiritual influence1 that ,i may go on from grace to grace6 ,o1 let me not faint nor tire1 for ,jesus' sake1 ,amen60 ,the following letters to his ,christian friends1 bear witness that ,mr4 ,corrie was enabled1 in some measure1 to carry out the desires and purposes which his ,journal records4 ,,rev4 ,d4 ,,brown4 8,chunar1 ,oct4 #ab4 #ahji4 8,i have had our meeting service this morning4 ,cold myself and lifeless and stupid4 ,i wonder the people attend at all1 they are so little excited to run the ,christian race4 8,the ,christian ,native ,school goes on as well as it can4 ,the children1 sometimes nine in number1 are reading the ,scriptures in ,hindoostanee4 ,i have nearly finished a corrected edition 7about the #dth7 of the history of creation1 ,noah1 ,abraham1 ,isaac and ,jacob1 ,joseph1 ,moses1 the children of ,israel1 ,joshua1 ,samuel1 ,david1 ,solomon1 the division of the ,tribes1 ,elijah1 ,elisha1 the ,acts of the ,apostles1 the first ,epistle of ,john4 ,four of the children have ,watts' first ,catechism perfect1 with prayers for morning and evening4 ,two of these have begun ,persian ,grammar1 on a new plan of my own1 after the ,english mode of question and answer4 ,we have ten ,christians about us with whom ,i read and pray1 most mornings1 in ,hindoostanee4 ,one youth appears truly pious and reads and explains the ,scriptures1 admirably to others1 most evenings after dark4 ,a few of the ,hindoostanee ,women appeared to be guided by the fear of ,god1--perhaps four or six4 ,the others complain of hearing nothing but severe language1 and told the ,native teacher lately that #8as he was paid for instructing them1 he ought not to deal so severely with them6 ,he told them1 he was not paid to flatter them4' 8,i have lately been looking into the ,arabic and ,hebrew1 but ,i entirely despair of making any proficiency in them4 ,the ,hebrew ,i shall go on with4 ,even by the help of the ,lexicon1 ,i gain great pleasure in observing the roots and their connection with the languages around us4 ,if ever you pray for me particularly1 pray that ,i may endure to the end3 that patience may hold out3 that ,i may be faithful unto death4 ,may richest grace be multiplied to you and your's40 ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,j4 ,,buckworth4 8,nov1 #a4 #ahji4 8,i often turn a look of regard towards highly favoured ,britain1 and a tear starts whilst ,i bid it a long adieu2 but to a weary pilgrim any lodging is welcome1 any place of abode agreeable2 so in ,hindoostan1 my weary head shall rest1 and my longing soul mount up from hence to meet her redeeming ,god4 ,there1 my brother1 we shall meet2 till then1 let our willing feet1 our heads1 and our tongues be employed in spreading the ,saviour's glorious name4 ,the ,saviour6 ,o what endless charms ,dwell in the blissful sound6 ,your sermon referred to would have suited my people here4 ,in much weakness and fear1 indeed1 ,i have been among them4 ,the ,evening ,lectures ,i told you of exhausted me entirely2 and conspired with other circumstances to bring on a liver complaint1 from which1 ,i sometimes think1 ,i am not quite free3 but ,i am able to endure my labour4 8,you expect to hear of my black flock4 ,my native teacher is1 at this time1 laid up with ,asthma3 his notions of divine truth grow more clear daily4 ,some of the ,hindoostanee wives of the soldiers have1 also gained good information on christian subjects2 and from forty to sixty regularly attend public worship on ,sundays1 and once in the week4 ,i have nine ,christian men and women1 and six children about me2 with these ,i read and pray in ,hindoostanee every morning ,i am at home4 ,one lad of them appears truly pious2 he has been with me most of the time ,i have been here2 he reads and prays in the evenings with the others generally4 8,one night lately ,i heard him expounding part of the sixteenth chapter of ,st4 ,john with much feeling and propriety4 ,i have the charge of him entirely2 ,i begin to love him1 and think his disposition gentle and well-inclined3 he always attends at meals for his portion4 ,the other servants1 at times1 ,i hear tell him he is become an ,englishman2 and seem to envy him not a little4444 ,i could fill sheets with the conversations ,i frequently have with the natives4 ,several promising appearances in individuals1 have come to nothing4 ,i am1 therefore1 glad that ,i have not written any thing about them4 8,there has been a serious disturbance here 7and it is not now quite over7 between the ,mahomedans and ,hindoos4 ,the former destroyed a pillar1 long an object of superstition amongst the ,hindoos3 on which account the latter carried swine and slaughtered them in the ,mosques4 ,one hundred and forty have lost their lives2 but not all from religious difference1 many taking occasion of the affray to gratify private revenge4#ec 8,i can say nothing of my prospects3 all you can picture of the difficulties attending this work is far short of the reality4 ,i can only say1 to live and die in this work1 or to labour until ,i can do no more1 is my not hasty purpose1 formed1 ,i trust1 on no self-sufficient grounds1 but on the grace1 mercy1 and comfort of an unchanging ,god and ,saviour4 8,i am writing a little daily in ,hindoostanee1 ,persian1 ,arabic1 or ,hebrew4 ,my school employs me two portions of the day4 ,i am cheered sometimes with the hope1 that ,i am educating ,missionaries2 but it seems hardly possible they should escape the pollutions around them40 #df ,that dated ,aug4 #b1 #ahjg4 #dg ,the controversy alluded to grew out of the publication of ,dr4 ,buchanan's ,memoirs on the ,expediency of an ,ecclesiastical ,establishment for ,india4 #dh ,see ,ward1 ,view of ,history1 c4 of the ,hindoos4 ,vol4 ,,ii41 book #g1 ch4 #d4 #di ,sabat4 ,for some account of this person1 see ,buchanan's 8,star in the ,east40 pp4 #bc4 c4 ,he afterwards apostatized1 left the ,british territory in ,india1 and went into the service of some of the native princes2 but in some quarrel that occurred he was suspected of treachery to his patron1 was put up into a sack and cast into the sea4--,hough's 8,history of ,christianity in ,india40 vol4 #d4 p4 #chi4 #ej ,an article in the ,edinburgh ,review for #ahjh1 entitled 8,indian ,missions10 written by the late ,rev4 ,sidney ,smith4 ,at the head of this article are given the titles of the principal controversial pamphlets1 which appeared at that time on the subject of ,missions to ,india4 #ea ,post4 ,mr4 ,martyn was then on his way to his new station at ,cawnpore4 #eb ,mr4 ,corrie's future father in-law4 #ec ,a more particular account of this affair is given below1 in a ,letter to ,mr4 ,simeon4 ,,chapter ,,vii4 ,,removes ,,from ,,chunar--,,arrives ,,at ,,cawnpore--,,illness ,,of ,,mr4 ,,martyn4 ,at the end of the year #ahji1 ,mr4 ,corrie having been directed to remove from ,chunar to ,agra1 made preparations for proceeding to the latter station4 ,in the meantime1 however1 he suffered so much from the illness mentioned in the preceding letter to ,mr4 ,buckworth1 that for three months he omitted to keep any record of his proceedings4 ,on the #crd of ,feb4 #ahaj1 he observes3-- 8,february #crd4 #ahaj4 ,i have had much searching of heart in review of my purposes and projects at different seasons of my life1 often purposing diligence in acquiring languages2 at other times my chief desire and labour being wholly in the immediate duties of the ministry2 and1 to be altogether separated from mere visiting society4 ,i perceive myself to have succeeded in no one scheme2 and am to this day unprofitable and without ability to any good4 ,long1 long have ,i known this in theory1 but evidently did not think it of myself4 ,may this sad experience lead me to true humility and deep contrition2 may it lead me to prayer1 and to diligence in the means of grace6 ,the sickness upon me is more violent than last year1 but seems yielding to medicine2 for which ,i would bless the ,lord1 and devote myself to ,his cause4 ,these two ,sabbaths ,i have been laid aside from public work1 and fear ,i am not sufficiently humbled4 ,o1 how ,i ought to thirst after the courts of the ,lord6 ,i think ,i should greatly regret being kept from the ministry another ,sabbath1 but am ready to give up all hope of success from my own labours4 ,i know this is from a forgetfulness of the ,scripture1 and of the power of ,god4 ,lord1 awaken a spirit of faith and prayer6 ,the old man goes on instructing the native women1 successfully1 in a few cases1 ,i hope4 8,the ,roman ,catholic padre1 with a fair carriage towards me tries all he can in private to counteract this old man4 ,o1 that ,i were as in days and months past3 and1 ,o1 that the ,lord would make ,his word to prosper among us3 and1 ,o1 that ,he may direct and prosper my way to ,agra1 and make me there a blessing for ,jesus' sake60 ,the chief circumstances of interest connected with the remaining portion of ,mr4 ,corrie's residence at ,chunar1 are related in the following extracts from his letters and ,journal4 ,as1 however1 in those extracts there occur some allusions to an ,institution1 which about this time sprung up in ,india1 a few words of information will not be out of place4 ,the patronage which the ,marquis ,wellesley 7then ,earl of ,mornington7 extended to a plan for translating the ,scriptures into the languages of the ,east1 had excited the hope that our rule in ,india would become the means of imparting the knowledge of the true ,god to millions of our fellow men3 but the retirement of that large-minded ,nobleman from the government of ,india1 was followed by that determined opposition to the diffusion of the gospel among the natives of ,hindoostan1 of which so many traces have already appeared in the pages of this ,memoir4 ,the consequence was1 that notwithstanding all attempts of ,dr4 ,buchanan1 ,mr4 ,brown and others1 to procure translations and copies of the ,scriptures2 and though aided in their efforts by grants of money from the ,bible ,society in ,england1 yet there was a famine of the word of ,god even among the native ,christians of ,india4 ,this dearth of ,bibles seems to have pressed more especially upon the ,christians of ,tanjore1 so that in a sermon preached in ,calcutta1 on ,new-year's day #ahaj1 ,mr4 ,brown was induced to make an appeal on their behalf4 ,the result was that a liberal subscription1 headed by ,general ,hewitt1 the commander-in-chief1 was raised for the purpose of forwarding the distribution of the ,tamul ,scriptures in ,tanjore4 ,encouraged by the success which attended this effort to procure a larger circulation of the ,word of ,god1 ,mr4 ,brown and his friend proceeded to originate measures of larger enterprise4 ,they established a ,bibliotheca ,biblica1 an institution which consisted of a 8,translation library0 and a 8,bible repository40 ,the 8library0 was intended to contain the ,scriptures in the original languages1 ,lexicons1 ,grammars1 works on ,biblical criticism1 and generally1 all such books as were likely to be useful to translators4 ,the 8,bible repository0 was designed to contain ,bibles and ,testaments in all languages1 ,european as well as ,asiatic1 to be disposed of at moderate prices4#ed ,it will be seen that with 8this judicious and efficient instrument0 for good1 ,mr4 ,corrie readily united himself4 ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,j4 ,,buckworth4 8,march #ab1 #ahaj4 8,i cannot recollect how long it is since ,i was favoured with a letter from you3 so many are the accidents to which our letters are exposed between ,britain and ,india1 that ,i attribute the little intercourse we have had to some of these2 and1 therefore1 add one more to the many letters ,i have sent you2 and trust to hear of you when opportunity serves4 ,sometimes my mind has been deeply affected with the idea of growing old without a friend1 or solace of declining years4 ,gray has well described the feelings of ,nature in the lines3 #8,on some fond breast the parting soul relies ,some pious drops the closing eye requires4' 8,it is the privilege of faith1 indeed1 to raise the soul above creature dependencies2 and1 ,i bless ,god that1 in general1 ,i am enabled to say #8none of these things move me4' ,still1 ,i cling1 with the fondest recollection1 to the hours ,i have spent with you1 and the advances in knowledge1 and ,i would hope in grace1 my soul made in your society2 nor can ,i endure the thought of our intercourse being at an end4 8,in this strange land1 ,god has also supplied several whose letters and occasional visits are a source of great comfort and encouragement to me4 ,i believe the number of true ,christians is increasing among us1 and as these abound #8the desert will blossom as the rose2' and this wilderness shall be glad for them4 ,the only principal cause of concern is the small advances that are making towards the evangelization of the ,hindoos and ,mahomedans4 ,if you cast your eye over the map1 you will perceive the distance between the different abodes of the ,europeans2 and then1 suppose even at those stations something may be doing toward this work1 how is the intervening space to be supplied8444 8,i am recovered from another attack of the liver1 much severer than last year's1 and which prevented me from public duty for three ,sabbaths3 ,i reckon these interruptions as the choicest blessings4 ,the vain mind is tempted1 in full health1 to lay up for many years2 but these warnings strongly impress the exhortation1 #8whatsoever thy hand findeth to do1 do it with thy might4' 8,my ,european flock1 as to numbers1 has been at a stand of late3 some of them1 however1 are now grown unto some stature in ,christ2 and are a source of great refreshment at times4444 8,the old native ,christian has improved of late1 and some of the native ,christian flock give good evidence of a true conversion4 ,at times1 whilst ministering among these1 my heart overflows with delight2 and the simplicity with which they express themselves is very striking4 ,i only wish the number of them was greater3 for1 alas6 who1 in comparison hath yet #8believed our report8' 8,i am removed from this station to ,agra1 once the imperial city1 where are the most splendid remains of fallen greatness in ,hindoostan4 ,one of my dear young friends1 whom ,i heard of yesterday1 says1 #8,you are the first who has been commissioned to preach in that ,nineveh repentance and remission of sins4 ,i see a peculiar honour conferred upon you by this appointment4 ,may ,god prosper you6' ,my soul responds1 ,amen6 ,the ,lord grant my entering in among them1 may be #8not in word only1 but in power1 and in the ,holy ,ghost1 and in much assurance4' ,hitherto ,i have been prevented from proceeding1 but trust shortly to go on my way1 by the will of ,god1 rejoicing4 ,one comfort attending the journey is1 that it will take me by the abode of dearest ,martyn2 and with him ,i shall make some stay4 8,we regret deeply that no more chaplains1 who would lend a helping hand1 are coming over to assist us4 ,in three years1 ,i have been preparing myself1 ,i would hope1 for greater exertions1 by learning languages1 c42 and have done some little here towards founding a ,christian church2 but now1 alas6 the work1 to human appearance1 will be at a stand4 ,my old deacon wishes to go with me though1 and ,i shall take him2 though at first it seemed better to leave him with these #8few sheep in the wilderness3' but those of them who are most serious have husbands somewhat like-minded1 and1 therefore1 are less likely to suffer wrong2 and the old man will be very useful in a new place4 ,most of the ,christian men go with me1 in one capacity or another2 though they are a heavy expense to me4 ,where we are going1 ,i purpose to colonize them1 if ,god in his providence shall supply opportunities4 ,oh6 were you but here to talk over these subjects with me6 ,you cannot well have a due idea of this country1 nor of our proceedings1 unless you were to be with us2 but ,i must restrain my feelings1 and rather give you some information that will amuse you4 8,two days since1 a ,brahmin in authority here1 and with whom ,i have had many disputes1 took away a copy of the gospels1 after ,i had read to him some particulars of the death of ,christ1 which impressed him greatly at the time4 ,my removal has made him very anxious2 and sometime ago1 when ,i was first ordered away1 he came1 and after many expressions of concern said1 #8,sir1 ,i have a great favour to beg before you leave this place2 pray cause to be written for me your account of the first beginning of things1 with the genealogies of the first ages4 ,before you came1 ,i never heard these subjects spoken of1 and when you are gone1 no one will take the trouble to unfold us any hidden thing4' ,he has now the beginning of ,genesis1 and the four ,gospels4 ,affairs on the continent have taken a most disastrous turn#ee to our apprehension2 but #8the ,lord reigneth2' and one thing we cannot but rejoice in1 the fall of the man of sin40 ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,d4 ,,brown4 8,march #ae1 #ahaj4 8,i yesterday sent off by banghy#ef ,de ,coetlegon's ,sermons1 and some chapters of ,genesis in ,persian1 translated by my ,moonshee from my ,hindoostanee translations4 ,it is on this account ,i sent the ,sermons1 as the ,moonshee would give me no peace until you should have a specimen of his performance1 and give your opinion whether or no it will be of any use to go on in this way4 ,the occasion of doing thus much arose from some ,mahomedans about the court at ,mirzapore desiring from me some account of the books of ,moses4 ,mr4 ,ricketts1 the judge1 was passing this1 and some people in his train4 ,they called upon me and immediately expressed a wish to see some of the translations they had heard ,i employed myself about4 ,i produced the epitome done by ,gladwin1 it seems1 at the request of ,mr4 ,clarke4 ,this they read for an hour at least1 and on going away begged a copy4 ,afterwards the ,molwhee told the moonshee that the ,koran gives a more particular account of things than our books4 ,to this the moonshee answered1 that what he had seen was a very concise abridgment1 but if he were to see the original he would forget the ,koran4 ,this brought on a violent dispute4 ,to make good his assertion1 the translation you have a copy of was made1 and the remainder of the epitome added4 ,one chapter was first sent to ,martyn1 who approved of it1 and now you must also see it4 ,our ,cutwal#eg here is a ,hindoo1 and has often1 with heat1 contended with me about the comparative authenticity of our books2 but on the prospect of my leaving seems softened1 and has of his own accord begged a copy of the beginning of ,genesis and of the ,gospel2 which he has got4 ,he often contends eagerly with the ,mahommedans1 and puts them to silence by the arguments he has learnt2 and on the riots at ,benares a great concourse of ,mahomedans came to him and my moonshee4 ,one night they continued to dispute until midnight1 not respecting ,hindooism and ,mahomedanism1 but entirely respecting the ,mahomedan and ,christian writings4 ,i hope ,i am getting better1 but not so speedily as last year4 ,my flock is already as without a shepherd4 ,i have not been among them for a month4 ,a few came to the house on ,sunday evening1 but the exertion on the occasion1 though little more than family worship1 has thrown me back40 8,april #c1 #ahaj4 8,your last letter found me very unwell1 so much so1 that greatly as ,i wished1 ,i could not engage in answering it4 ,i have no fear of being forgotten by you1 yet these tokens of your regard are indeed very acceptable4 ,it seems a weakness in my nature that makes me cling to creatures as ,i do2 and the same weakness is the source of what you are so kind as to call by a softer name4 8,it would be a cause of deep regret to me to be excluded from your #8,translation library2' you will really oblige me by inserting my name among the subscribers1 and ,i will make an effort to set all straight with you and all the world4 ,after deducting the amount of the house here1 which ,i have sold and am to be paid for in ,august1 ,i do not owe above #cjjj rupees3 yet ,i do owe all ,i am1 and all ,i ever shall have in my power1 to such purposes as you propose4 ,i will endeavour first to be just1 and then ,i will glory in devoting my all to the propagation of the gospel in ,india4 ,the doctors say there is no occasion for my going down the country1 but ,i shall be guided much by ,mr4 ,robinson4#eh ,he is near at hand2 yet come ,i shall not without some alteration for the worse4 ,i have now very little pain1 but am weak and incapable of application4 ,i should rejoice more in visiting ,aldeen than ,cawnpore even1 for the children are all very dear to me1 and their playfulness delights me4 ,i hear ,martyn has received the packet from you1 and has heard from ,mr4 ,simeon that ,cambridge university voted ,buchanan1 a ,d4,d4 degree4#ei ,i hear general ,m4 wishes to reside at ,ghazeepore with the #fgth4 ,the poor old man has thrown obstacles in the way of our church till the materials are likely to be lost1 but the congregation increases in proportion to the general's opposition4 ,w4 has often #cj at ,divine ,service1 and usually about #bj4 ,they sing hymns1 and are generally a very interesting people2 though but a few1 as usual1 give evidence of any change40 8,chunar1 ,april #bh1 #ahaj4 8,your papers have reached me in safety2--viz4 #ast4 a report for #ahji4 #bnd41 the ,agra books and papers4 #crd41 the ,bibliotheca ,biblica c4 ,the #8,translation library' must prove highly useful4 ,i have some of the books you have mentioned--,a ,golius1 ,dictionarium ,arabicum1 ,schultens1 ,life of ,saladin1 ,stillingfleet's ,origines ,sacr1 ,wells's ,geography1 and others1 which shall be sent down1 if you please2 except ,golius1 which is to be delivered to ,martyn's care on my arrival at ,cawnpore4 ,but the #8,bible repository' delights me4 ,this is beyond all your other highly meritorious labours1 for the benefit of the present generation4 ,i shall send it round here1 if ,i have time1 but ,i have only eight days more here1 and on my arrival at ,agra will make it public4 ,on receipt of the ,report1 ,i sent it to some acquaintance here4 ,one sent it to a rich ,native#fj in the city1 who reads ,english2 he has returned it with a ,hoondee#fa for #ajj rupees1 and an address to the ,bible ,society4 ,i shall1 ,d4 ,v4 send it off to the ,secretary in due form on ,monday1 and he may send it for publication2 it appears to me an event that would interest at home1 but you will judge when you see the whole4 ,it has delighted me highly4 ,i have been this week at ,benares taking leave4 ,e4 is not yet arrived4 ,the old gentleman there is most gracious always to myself1 but is a raging bear behind my back against all our measures4 ,it has called forth all my little energy to make the poor stand ,i have against his influence4 ,the ,church has been delayed under various pretexts twelve months1 but the materials were collected4 ,i made those efforts since ,march1 and at length got permission to begin last week4 ,robinson undertook the superintendence as a last resource--and his offer was accepted4 ,the gentleman1 however1 attacked him when the work was begun1 and called me by name1 ,augustus ,brooke1 and the ,salmons1 fanatics1 c4 ,i fear this will make ,e4 less forward than he might otherwise have been1 but ,i have left a few ,bibles and ,testaments at ,wheatley's for sale3 most are already supplied4 ,though ,i have not sold one ,bible1 ,robinson is anxious to get the ,church ready by the time you arrive4 ,you can find a congregation4 ,several families and some individuals spoke out on my coming away1 the fulness of a gracious heart4 ,i often think of an expression in a prayer of old ,carey's1 in the pagoda1 #8that in the evening of your residence in ,india you might see the light of truth shine abroad4' ,your's and his prayer are1 ,i trust1 heard4 ,there will be a change in ,european ,india1 yea there is a change2 infidels are beginning to hide their faces1 and the young are growing up at the different stations1 with a reverence for the ways of ,god4 ,i perceive the married especially most easily prevailed with4 ,yesterday1 on an occasion of extraordinary awakening1 ,i1 after two or three visits1 administered the ,lord's ,supper to a young ,captain and his wife1 and the wife of another officer4 ,the latter had called her husband from a party1 and entreated him to join our worship2 he could scarce refuse4 ,she appears serving ,god with all her mind1 though not with all understanding3 ,i have just been sending her a book4 ,it pleases ,god to continue me still in much weakness1 and no little fear as to my long continuance among you4 ,if ,i desire any thing in life but to speak and act and write for ,him1 ,i pray ,he may graciously disappoint me and hide from me the evil that would follow2 but if ,he has given me a desire to glorify ,him1 ,i trust ,he will spare me a little that ,i may shew forth ,his praise60 ,it may not be uninteresting to mention1 that the letter which ,mr4 ,corrie states to have been written by a ,hindoo to the committee of the ,bible ,society1 is printed at length in ,mr4 ,owen's ,history of that ,society1 7vol4 #b4 pp4 #cf-ch47 ,in transmitting the letter1 ,mr4 ,c4 observed3-- 8,this native has acquired a considerable fortune1 in some employment under our government1 in which it was necessary for him to read and write in ,english4 ,on being pressed by arguments urged for the supreme importance of ,christianity1 he excused himself by saying1 #8,he thought if it were so1 the ,british government would have made the ,christian religion known to their subjects in this land4' ,this objection he urged in a variety of ways1 and here the discussion ended4 ,on receiving the report for #ahji1 in answer to this1 he sent an address to the ,bible ,society1 written by himself1 and now in my possession1 requesting that it might be corrected2 which was done1 retaining his own expressions as much as possible40 ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,d4 ,,brown4 8,may #gth4 #ahaj4 8,this morning we left ,chunar1 and are now on our way to ,cawnpore4 ,i have recovered greatly of late1 but now my sister is fallen unwell1 and thus we are kept dependant1 and trust we find it best to be so4 ,on ,saturday morning1 ,mr4 ,e4 arrived1 but did not let me know4 ,i however heard about mid-day1 and straightway sent an invitation to our house4 ,in the evening he came1 and next morning ,mrs4 ,e4 and the infant2 and we have left them this morning in our former habitation4 ,i preached a farewell sermon yesterday morning1 from ,romans x4 #a41 first3 pointing out the meaning of salvation as including deliverance from danger3--the danger arising from sin1 the necessity of salvation from sin if we would avoid its consequences1 as well as to make us meet for the inheritance c4 and second3 ,why ,i wished them to be saved1 viz41 from the consideration of the misery of ,hell1 the joys of ,heaven and the pleasures of religion here4 ,there was great attention4 ,i said a good deal too1 in the conclusion1 on the strain of my preaching among them1--that ,i was aware many did not like it1--but pointed out the necessity of delivering my own soul1 as well as my desire not so much for their favour and approbation1 considered in itself1 but as connected with salvation4 ,here ,i intended my successor should hear something of my opinion of our works4 ,in the evening1 my little flock were full of expressions of kindness1 and ,i think it was a season that will be remembered4 ,the ,hindoostanees came in a body1 and made loud expressions of regret at my departure1 many of them weeping aloud4 ,in the evening too ,i baptized three ,caffres1 the servants of a gentleman1 and who had for some time been under instruction4 ,many were present1 and we begun the service by singing some verses from ,veni ,creator4 ,two of them gave pertinent answers to some questions on ,christianity2 and on their repeating the creed in ,hindoostanee most present were melted to tears4 ,mr4 ,g4 has1 it seems1 professed to the ,general that he will never go to ,benares1 unless he is ordered1 and the general has declared he will never order him4 ,the ,church however is going on under ,mr4 ,robinson1 and much interest is excited about it4 ,the military have desired him to make the building a handsome one1 and they will add to the subscription4 ,thus in spite of ,satan and those he leads captive1 the work of the ,lord prospers and will prosper4 ,i have had packets of letters on leaving1 and am astonished at the kind acceptance my little more than abstaining from evil has met with4 ,it seems to be a wonder among them1 that ,i performed my official duty when called upon2 and especially that ,i should express my readiness to serve them4 ,dear ,mr4 ,r4 is greatly excited of late towards the best things2 his heart has been deeply touched by the death of his youngest sister1 and he is tenderly alive to the blessedness of those who die in the ,lord4 ,this is a happy event just now1 when some of the society there1 7especially one ,captain7 seem seriously seeking to secure the better part4 ,they know his ,father's character1 and the advantages he has enjoyed2 and also they have seen him more retired and more attentive to his duty than most2 and they seem now to look to him for information4 ,we know however1 how slow of growth the heavenly plant is1 from the untowardness of the soil it falls into2 we know how many blights and thorns it is exposed to3 though some good appears1 we still are not content1 but1 filled with hopes and fears1 we watch for the event4 ,i told you ,i had sent the plan of the library to ,major ,wilford4 ,he had not understood me1 so ,i intend writing again4 ,i enclose his note with the papers1 it will give you a more correct idea of his mind towards this work than ,i can4 ,i fear ,e4 will not take any trouble to make known the ,bible ,society proceedings4 ,i send a copy of the advertisement to ,wheatley's shop1 where it will be seen by many2 and have left one dozen ,bibles1 and two dozen ,new ,testaments1 with ,mr4 ,e4 at ,chunar4 ,dr4 ,w4 ,i find1 does our cause good against his will1 by his incivility and grasping after fees4 ,do you indeed come up the country8 ,martyn talks of my remaining a month at ,cawnpore3 at any rate ,i hope to leave there to conduct you to the imperial city4 ,it perhaps would be of importance to get ,martyn to resign the service1 and give himself to the translating and printing the scriptures4 ,he will not eat the bread of idleness1 and it is clear his present labours will bring an early period to his life4 ,i scarce know how to write it1 but so it is4 ,i will give you a faithful account from ,cawnpore40 ,the following letter1 addressed to the ,rev4 ,mr4 ,simeon of ,cambridge1 contains a kind of retrospect of ,mr4 ,c's labours at ,chunar1 and is on that account given at length1 at the risk of the repetition of a few circumstances which have been already mentioned4 8,may #ith4 #ahaj4 8,i know it will be agreeable to you to hear of the progress ,i am making1 if it may be called progress1 in the appointment ,i hold4 ,three years last ,february1 ,i arrived at ,chunar1 with very imperfect views of the nature of the work ,i had engaged in2 the habits and character of ,europeans undergo an almost entire change1 after a few years residence here1 so that our work among the ,europeans takes a different turn from the work of the ministry in ,england4 ,we have to argue for the sanctity of the sabbath1 the extensive import of the seventh commandment1 c41 before we can speak of the evil of breaking these commandments4 ,the necessity of caring about the example we set is decried1 as1 say they1 #8those we live among do not own the authority of the scriptures c4' ,my labours have not1 however1 been in vain among the ,europeans4 ,a small society among the soldiers1 ,i left at ,chunar1 and some of them will no doubt endure unto the end4 ,of the higher classes many individuals are exemplary4 ,a church1 or rather chapel1 is erecting at ,benares1#fb and though my successor expresses no zeal for the success of it1 ,i doubt not instruments will be raised up1 and sent forth in due time4 ,i would to ,god1 some of the many young men around you1 were but excited to engage in this service4 ,as to privations1 save that of separation from dear earthly ties1 which is indeed a severe privation1 we have only to fear being lulled into indolence and fatal security4 ,our countrymen here ought to be held in high estimation1 and a soul saved in ,india is indeed a brand snatched from the burning1 whilst it is usually1 also1 a valuable member restored to society2 for scarcely any motive1 but that which the gospel supplies1 can rouse from the apathy and overwhelming influence of an enfeebling climate and systematic lust4 8,soon after ,february #ahjg1 ,i met with a ,native ,christian1 who engaged in reading the ,hindoostanee gospels with me1 and in ,september following1 we began worship in ,hindoostanee1 to the native wives of the soldiers4 ,these had been baptized by ,roman ,catholic priests1 but were deplorably ignorant of every christian truth4 ,i began also with a ,moonshee to translate from the books of ,moses2 and though ,i blush often in review of these first attempts1 they were useful in conveying some idea of the truth1 as the ,native ,christian1 by repeated efforts on my part1 gained a correct notion of the subject1 and by his exhortations c4 conveyed it to them4 ,about forty continued to attend once in the week1 and once on the ,sabbath1 till last ,lord's day2 some of these ,i trust to meet at the right hand of the ,judge #8in that day4' ,two of them are truly spiritual1 and many of them unexceptionable in conduct4 ,the change in those who attended instruction1 is manifest to all4 ,i baptized during my residence at ,chunar1 two men and three women2 the men and one woman unconnected with ,europeans1 and all except one man are walking unblameably4 ,beside these1 many ,roman catholic christians come from time to time1 and several of these are in my service4 ,i have five christian children also1 who are going with me1 that their education may not be hindered by my removal4 ,there is with me also1 a youth about seventeen1 whose parents are the children of ,europeans2 this lad gives hope that he is a partaker of the grace of ,god1 and is going with me for the express purpose of learning the way of ,god more perfectly1 that he may become a teacher of the christians here1 in general lying in darkness as much as the heathen4 ,his purpose at present is1 #8according to the language of each people1' so that he requires instruction in ,english and in the native languages also4 ,my native flock1 on my coming away1 expressed their regret by many tears1 and some by loud lamentations4 ,the old teacher goes with me1 as there are many native christians at ,agra4 ,i wished to have left him behind2 but circumstances1 with the advice of beloved ,martyn1 induced me to let him come as he desired4 ,he will probably soon return4 ,the tumult about missions has subsided here1 though the generality of the ,english are as averse to it as ever4 ,a riot took place at ,benares last ,september1 which the alarmists here will no doubt make all the use they can of1 in their reports home4 ,a quarrel#fc took place between the ,hindoos and ,musselmans1 in which some lost their lives4 ,report at first magnified the number to three hundred1 but ,i have seen a copy of the official report to government1 and the following1 you may depend1 is the truth4 ,in the reign of ,aurungzebe1 a ,hindoo place of worship consisting of a ,temple with a sacred ,well within the enclosure1 7or church-yard7 was seized upon by the king's order4 ,the temple was appropriated for ,mahomedan worship1 but the ,hindoos had still access to the well4 ,whilst the ,mahomedans were in power1 no disputes arose1 for the ,hindoos consider the king's order one road to heaven4 ,since the ,english have had dominion1 many causes of mutual complaint have risen up1 from the disrespect shewn by the different sects to each other in their worship4 ,the ,mahomedans1 in their petition to government1 state1 that amongst other indignities1 the ,hindoos had on a late festival1 placed an idol in the pulpit of the temple by way of contempt1 whilst the ,hindoos1 in their petition1 relate similar instances of disrespect1 shewn to them by the ,mahomedans4 ,the immediate cause of the riot was as follows4 ,an idol being some time since dug out of a ruin1 a ,fakeer began to make it the object of his worship4 ,for this end he built over it a mud shed1 and afterwards a thatched little house1 on the border of the disputed ground1 where the ,mosque and ,well are4 ,a rich merchant at last vowed before this idol1 that if he might but have a child1 he would build a stone house over it3 he had a child1 and in building the house1 encroached on the ground the ,mahomedans claimed1 who straightway collecting1 demolished the idol1 and killing cows1 sprinkled their blood on many temples of the ,hindoos1 and destroyed a sacred pillar4 ,the ,hindoos retaliated1 and killing hogs1 sprinkled their blood on the ,mosques4 ,to prevent these fancied pollutions there was much violence on both sides2 and five men were killed and many wounded4 ,the soldiery put an end to the tumult4 8,may #ag4 ,i dispatch this from ,allahabad4 ,i heard here from ,martyn1 who is in usual health1 and with whose company ,i hope to be refreshed in eight or ten days1 if the ,lord will4 ,this is a large station of ,europeans1 and is highly deserving of a chaplain4 ,it is1 at present1 in the ,cawnpore district4 ,i have several occasional duties as they are called1 to perform for ,martyn1 and am detained three days on that account4 ,i may have mentioned1 that at ,benares a merchant calls the soldiers and people of his own description to worship in his house on the ,sunday and once a week2 and here an inferior officer in the ordnance department does the same4 ,he tells me he had last sabbath a congregation of fifteen4 ,i have lent copies of the ,village ,sermons at both places1 and they use the ,church of ,england prayers4 ,but the unhappy pride of rank c4 which prevails here to an extent you have no idea of1 prevents their influence from reaching far1 though they are witnesses of ,god1 #8epistles of ,christ1 known and read of all men4' ,had we a few more ,colonel ,proles1 7whom ,i believe you know17 the presence of more chaplains might be better dispensed with4 ,he officiates unweariedly1 as priest1 as well as prince of the host2 and you will be gratified to hear1 that very decided marks of favour from the commander in chief have been shewn him of late4 ,he is just put into an important command at ,delhi4 ,i have had a more severe attack again in the liver this spring1 from which ,i am1 through mercy1 recovering1 and perceive these visitations to be most merciful appointments2 ,i hope they may be sanctified to me4 ,i trust your health may be restored by this1 or that at least1 you may be continued to keep open the doors of ,trinity ,church for many years40 ,the spirit of self-devotion in which ,mr4 ,corrie left ,chunar to proceed to his new station1 may be seen in these letters3 in his ,journal1 also1 he repeatedly expresses his desire1 that his removal to ,agra may be for greater usefulness in the ministry1 and 8that his profiting might appear unto many40 ,very earnest1 too1 are his expressed prayers1 that the ,christian youths who accompanied him might by his means be 8led to ,god1 through ,christ1 in holiness of life20 and that he might be 8enabled to walk circumspectly1 so that the ,lord might sanctify his intercourse with them40 ,and his petition with regard to his own soul was3-- 8,o ,lord1 my inmost thoughts inspect1 and teach me to know myself as thou knowest me2 and not to think of myself above what ,i ought to think1 but to think humbly6 ,o1 help me1 mighty ,lord1 and make me a blessing to many60 ,mr4 ,corrie reached ,cawnpore on ,saturday1 ,june #b4 #ahaj1 and next day1 writes3-- 8,june #crd4 #ahaj1 7,sunday47 ,i arrived here yesterday morning4 ,for some days preceding ,i have been unsettled1 and unable to apply myself to any good purpose4 ,to-day ,i have had much sweet conversation with ,martyn1 but ought to lament a want of spiritual affection4 ,in prayer dead and lifeless1 unaffected with the importance of what ,i am about4 ,o ,lord1 revive me6 ,this morning ,i preached to the #hth ,light ,dragoons1 but sadly without feeling myself2 and ,i fear they too were4 ,o thou1 who canst make the dead to hear thy voice1 raise us to a life of righteousness6 ,the ,general here is very attentive to religious duties4 ,i love him for what he does2 and pray1 as do others1 that he may be blessed in well doing4 ,o ,lord1 direct my way to ,agra1 and make me a blessing there60 ,on the following ,sunday we find him noting3-- 8,june #ajth4 #ahaj4 ,i have been endeavouring to review my ways1 as connected with the ministry ,i engaged in this day1 in #ahjb4 ,i perceive how greatly ,i have offended against my engagements1 in respect of personal holiness1 of motives in my ministrations1 and of intercourse with the world4 ,i would admire the goodness of ,god1 my ,saviour1 in hiding me from the strife of tongues1 in bearing with the unhallowed fire of my public services1 in preserving me from returning to the world4 ,especially ought ,i to praise ,him for any acceptance he has given me in my work4 ,i have been made acceptable to many who know ,god1 and it is no small honour to be instrumental in building up ,god's church4 ,some are gone to the grave with hope in the name of ,christ1 through my instrumentality1 especially ,dr4 ,b41 and a young man at ,sewstern4 ,on the voyage to ,india1 ,r4 ,y4 was roused to consider the instructions a pious father had given him2 and ,g4 ,v4 led to choose the better part4 ,a young man ,i was told1 was alarmed on account of his sins from the first sermon ,i preached at the ,old ,church1 ,calcutta4 ,b4 at ,chunar is walking in the narrow way3 and ,i hope ,g4 will lay hold on eternal life4 ,among the soldiers1 ,i reckon three at ,chunar1 who seem truly seeking life eternal1 beside many others more or less hopeful there4 ,but1 ,i fear for them all2 so desperate are their situations1 and trying their circumstances4 ,but1 perhaps ,i ought to bless ,god above all for the three native women1 viz41 the wife of sergeant ,w4 of ,william ,b4 and of ,john ,w41 they seem to be truly #8partakers of the benefit2' and may the ,lord grant that ,james may go on unto perfection4 ,o may the ,s's be found among the happy few2 with ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,y4 now in ,calcutta6 ,i often think ,i labour in vain2 and alas6 in comparison of the world lying in wickedness1 what are these few8 ,but1 how far do they exceed any reward ,i could possibly have reckoned on1 considering my own weakness1 inattention and worthlessness4 ,my ,god1 ,i bless thee for these6 ,these are my joy and crown3 now1 let me watch over my own soul2 and1 ,o thou ,spirit of life1 and love1 and liberty1 accomplish in me complete redemption6 ,prosper my way to ,agra1 and prepare much people to thyself there1 for ,jesus ,christ's sake6 ,this evening attended the funeral of ,captain ,w4--,h4 ,m4 #ecrd4 ,regiment4 ,the band played before the corpse2 and a more affecting scene ,i have not witnessed for a long time4 ,god1 ,i praise thee that ,i have not been cut down as a cumberer of the ground4 ,o1 teach me so to number my days that heavenly1 holy wisdom may be my only pursuit60 ,mr4 ,corrie had not been long at ,cawnpore before it became apparent that ,mr4 ,martyn's health was in so unsatisfactory a state1 as to render it necessary that he should be relieved from the duties of the station4 ,mr4 ,c4 was in consequence detained there to assist ,mr4 ,martyn4 ,his own account of this circumstance is contained in a letter3-- ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,d4 ,,brown4 8,cawnpore1 ,july #ajth4 #ahaj4 8,i have been upon writing to you daily for a long time1 till at last ,i know not well what ,i have to tell you4 ,when ,i arrived here1 ,martyn was looking very ill1 and a very little exertion laid him up4 ,since then you will know that ,i have been ordered to remain here for a time1 to assist him2 and he is already greatly recovered4 ,his appearance is much improved4 ,his rest and appetite much more regular1 and he is altogether better4 ,it will be well1 however1 if his former weakness does not return1 when he shall again be left to the whole duties of this large station1 for his frame is by no means suited for strong labour4 ,for myself1 ,i am well1 and as strong as ever ,i recollect to have been4 ,if ,i can but avoid a return of the fever1 ,i may last a long while2 but it is not for us to boast of the morrow4 ,i am under the same roof with ,martyn4 ,sabat is within call2 and of him you will be glad to hear that he is far more respectful and careful in his intercourse with ,martyn1 than he used to be4 ,he seems to feel that he has gone the #8length of his tether1' and is evidently anxious to keep on good terms4 ,he seldom omits doing something in the translations daily2 so they proceed regularly4 ,i am greatly pleased with his corrected ,persian gospels1 which ,i can read with facility2 and having read much of the ,shah ,nameh1 think the style much like that book4 ,the ,hindoostanee ,new ,testament will1 ,i suppose1 become a standard for future editions4 ,to any one acquainted with the ,hindoostanee of ,gilchrist1 it will not be very difficult4 ,i am decidedly of opinion that the style of any translation for this country1 ought to be high rather than low2 as it will be the duty of expounders to understand and explain it2 and one low expression will make the whole appear contemptible4 ,hard words1 also1 when judiciously inserted1 are no great detriment to the sense1 whether understood or not1 as ,i have often found from the children4 ,i have seen very little of the people here1 beside the religious soldiers4 ,i hear sad accounts from my former flock at ,chunar4 ,a young man1 a physician beloved in the ,lord1 writes me from thence1 that those ,i thought most staunch among the men1 are fallen into sad drunkenness again2 and one of my native ,christians1 too1 has turned out very ill there4 ,i had fitted up a small church there1 and left it for the use of the serious men2 but it is turned into worse than a #8den of thieves4'0 ,in the letters which follow1 will be found many particulars connected with the studies and habits of life of ,mr4 ,martyn1 which cannot fail to be read with melancholy interest4 ,somewhat minute accounts1 too1 of the progress of the last illness of that sainted person1 occur in the letters to ,mr4 ,brown1 and which it has not been deemed requisite to omit2 for it can never be thought superfluous to relate 8after what sort0 the servants of ,god 8have closed up their days on earth40#fd ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,d4 ,,brown4 8,cawnpore1 ,july #ca4 #ahaj4 8,you will have received mine of the #adth4 which will have set you somewhat at ease4 ,martyn is much affected by your anxiety about him2 but he says1 he does not consider himself in danger2 and this morning said1 he thought a month's silence would entirely restore him4 ,i try all methods to induce him to leave the translation for a few months1 and sometimes seem to have prevailed2 and then a little refreshment makes him think himself well4 ,the worst sign seems to be that for a month past he is rather weaker than stronger4 ,on my first arrival he recruited greatly for a fortnight1 but is now1 to say the best1 at a stand4 ,he has agreed to go on the river to try the effect of change and silence2 and as soon as a boat can be procured will go towards ,futtygur4 ,he objects to going to sea at present1 that the cold season here will be beneficial1 and that the damps and fogs of ,calcutta would be less so at this time2 and that he is determined to leave this in ,february next1 in order to get to sea in ,march4 ,but1 the truth is1 he expects the ,new ,testament to be done in ,arabic by that time1 and that then he shall be more at liberty4 ,the state of his health seems this3 he is easily fatigued1 and then gets but broken rest1 with confused and distressing dreams4 ,a very little exertion in speaking produces pains in the chest1 with almost total loss of voice1 and almost all these symptoms are produced by the evening of every day4 ,he is sparing in his food c41 as usual1 but takes sufficient nourishment1 although1 he says1 with little appetite1 but from a sense of necessity4 ,i think you will consider immediate relaxation necessary1 as ,i do1 and have urged so repeatedly1 and in such a variety of ways1 that any one but himself would think ,i wanted to succeed him here4 ,but that to me would be one of the painful circumstances attending his removal4 ,i think the wisdom and goodness of ,god evident in my former appointment and in my present destination4 ,i can do a little in a quiet way for the furtherance of our common cause1 but this large station would both occupy my whole time and make my deficiencies more conspicuous4 8,aug4 #ast4 ,my heart is seldom so much at ease as ,i wish it to be when ,i write to you4 ,our dear brother will not believe that he is in any danger2 nor is it likely he will die immediately4 ,a little care makes him feel better1 and now he hesitates about going on the river at present4 ,he has for some days been from morning till night with ,sabat at the ,arabic1 getting ready the first seven chapters of ,matthew3 when that is done he is going on with ,fitrut in ,genesis4 ,i wish it had been convenient for you to come up2 you could have taken him back with you1 vi et armis3 but that is past4 ,he speaks of himself as threatened with consumption1 with all the composure others speak of a legacy2 but thinks it is not yet begun in him4 ,the failure of his voice1 and his poor thin frame1 make me fear the worst2 and ,i tell him freely my chief hope of a cure in him is from a removal from this place and cessation from labour immediately4 8,i can write you of nothing else at present4 ,this subject occupies most of my thoughts2 ,i dare not dwell upon the probable issue4 ,but we may #8have all things and abound1' whilst we have our ,god and ,saviour4 ,that hymn ,i sang with a heavy heart1 when ,i first left your paternal roof for ,chunar2 and daily find it suitable4 ,the #8sin that dwelleth in me' makes my life heavy2 and but for the invisible hand1 ,i should entirely faint1 or #8become a rebuke unto the foolish4'0 ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,j4 ,,buckworth4 8,cawnpore1 ,aug4 #af1 #ahaj4 8,i am now under ,martyn's roof3 you know of my removal to ,agra4 ,on our way thither1 we found our brother so unwell that ,i applied1 and was ordered by the ,general commanding1 to remain here for a time to assist him4 ,we enjoy all the comforts of religious society we can desire4 ,i am as happy as ,i can desire to be on earth4 ,had ,i been with you1 as you kindly suggest1 ,i could not have been more so2 and1 perhaps not so useful4 ,i am thankful no such temptation offered to detain me in ,england2 the wish to have been a #8helper together with you1' would probably have prevailed above all others4 ,it is in vain to conceal that my health has suffered from the climate2 and chiefly from imprudence4 ,the necessity of cessation from labour it imposes is most painful4 ,i bless ,god for these sicknesses1 above all ,his other mercies1 as connected with the salvation which is in ,christ ,jesus4 ,i trust ,i know that he is blessed who is instructed whilst undergoing correction4 ,at times1 ,i have had such views as ,i cannot describe1 of the excellency of the rest remaining for ,god's people1 so as to make me #8desire to depart and be with ,christ2' but1 these sweet moments are alas6 only of short duration4 ,how does the corrupt nature emit clouds of vain and vile passions1 which obscure and darken the greater part of my days6 ,blessed be ,god for ,jesus ,christ6 8,the account of one day will give you a general idea of our whole manner of life4 ,we usually rise at day-break1 and ride out4 ,martyn and ,i breakfast between six and seven o'clock3 then read the scriptures with a ,polyglott before us1 and pray4 ,martyn then goes to his study4 ,i go to see ,mary2 and she and ,mrs4 ,s4 are learning ,hindoostanee in order to be able to speak on religion to their female servants2 and if circumstances favour1 to get a school of female native children4 ,i am their teacher4 ,mrs4 ,s4 has a school of ,european children belonging to the regiment4 ,i return to reading1 usually ,hindoostanee or ,persian4 ,at eleven1 my ,christian children come to say the lesson they have been learning with the native schoolmaster4 ,in the middle of the day we have a repast2 and then resume reading till four1 when the ,christian children come again to read in the ,hindoostanee gospels4 ,in the evening we meet1 usually1 at ,captain ,s's1 or ,martyn's1 when we sing some hymns1 with reading and prayer before we separate4 ,this is the peaceful tenor of our way4 ,at the intervals1 two days in the week ,i visit1 and pray with1 the sick in the hospitals3 on the ,sabbath1 public worship2 in the morning at the drum-head of one of three ,european corps lying here1 in rotation2 in the evening of ,sunday and ,wednesday1 we have social worship with a goodly number of pious soldiers in a public building fitting up1 but not yet ready to open as a church3 besides these services once a fortnight there is public worship in the ,general's house4 ,except the soldiers1 all our other ,english rank as gentlemen4 ,we have here only these two classes1 except a very few persons in trade4 8,i do not consider myself at home here2 and am longing for ,agra1 that ,i may commence more extensive plans among the heathen4 ,my ,christian boys are becoming very dear to me2 one especially is very intelligent and hopeful3 they will be well grounded in principles2 and ,i pray ,god to give them spiritual understanding4 ,they come to me with their little complaints1 and their ,arab black faces often make me very merry2 nor would ,i leave the often painful1 because tedious task1 of attempting to make them wise unto salvation1 even to be the helper of my beloved ,buckworth4 8,i know not if ,i wrote to you on our leaving ,chunar in ,may4 ,the native teacher has returned thither2 and ,i reckon some of the native christians there to be truly spiritual4 ,i hope to have a large native flock at ,agra3 there are few ,europeans there1 which will leave me more leisure than ,i have here4 ,respecting our brother ,martyn1 his health is far from good1 his constitution far from strong3 he is going to sea before long1 7,d4 ,v47 to try sea-air4 ,may ,god render it effectual to his restoration6 ,his life is beyond all price to us4 ,you know what a profound scholar he is1 and all his acquirements are dedicated to the service of ,christ4 ,if ever man1 since ,st4 ,paul1 could use these words1 he may1 #8,one thing ,i do1 c41 7,philip4 iii4 #ac1 #ad47 ,he has1 with a learned native1 finished the translation into ,hindoostanee of the whole ,new ,testament2 which is ready to be sent to the press1 when money is supplied4 ,he is going on with the books of ,moses4 ,sabat has finished the four ,gospels1 the ,acts1 and to #bnd4 ,corinthians1 in ,persian and ,arabic1 which ,martyn compares with the ,greek4 ,the ,bible ,society helps nobly1 and will continue to foster #8the day of small things' among us4 8,it is in my heart to live1 if health permits1 and to die1 among these people4 ,this1 my brother1 is my true life1 ,i find2 and often1 in the anguish excited by the idea of seeing you all no more1 ,i use those words1 #8,cease1 fond nature1 cease thy strife2 and let me languish into life4' ,to live to ,god is life indeed4 ,i am infinitely unworthy of the place ,i fill1 and miserably defective in every part of it2 but no one else offers to supply my lack1 so that the little ,i do would be left undone1 were ,i not where ,i am4 ,may ,god keep me faithful unto death6 ,yea1 faithful is he1 therefore ,i shall endure3 through his power1 ,i shall meet you before the throne4 ,it matters not1 then1 where we are for the short time of our day40 ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,d4 ,,brown4 8,cawnpore1 ,aug4 #ag4 #ahaj4 8,i have made three attempts at a report respecting our brother's health4 ,on the #aeth4 he was very lively1 and then talked of not going even on the river4 ,yesterday he was weaker1 and last night had a violent attack of sickness1 which has not entirely left him yet1 and has brought him to a lamentable state of weakness4 ,what to do ,i don't know4 ,i have urged his leaving his studies and trying change of air1 in every possible way4 ,to-day1 indeed1 he talks again of going on the river1 and ,i hope to keep him in this mind4 ,your applications for ,arabic have set him to work anew with an ardour that nothing but death can repress4 ,from seven in the morning till near or after six in the evening 7save a little interval at mid-day17 he is at work with ,sabat1 and ,mirza ,fitrut4 ,in vain ,i warn him of the consequences4 ,never was any one so inattentive to health1 or so unskilful in sickness4 ,i was up with him much of the former part of last night3 and without somebody he would be worse from his unskilful applications4 ,he is indeed most tractable as to meats and drinks1 but there my authority over him ends4 ,he will have told you of the delay occasioned by want of an ,arabic scribe4 ,i don't know how many copies1 but ,sabat says ten1 have been attempted of the beginning of ,matthew for you1 and have failed4 ,i wrote to ,major ,wilford lately1 to ask him if he would read and give his opinion of the ,sanscrit ,gospels4 ,i have received his answer this morning4 ,he says1 #8,i rejoice to hear of the progress that is making in the attempt to diffuse the knowledge of the word of ,god among the ,gentiles1 but ,i lament that hardly anything has hitherto been done worth notice1 to diffuse it among the ,hindoos4 ,every thing seems calculated for the ,mussulmans4444 ,the ,sanscrit translation of the gospels is useless1 for the proud and stubborn ,brahmin will never read it4 ,we want a good translation in ,hindee1 pure ,hindee4444 ,where the ,missionaries at ,serampore have learned the ,hindee1 ,i am at a loss to divine4 ,i hope their assistants do not understand a word of ,persian4 ,with regard to the ,sanscrit translation1 ,i am very unwilling to have anything to do either directly or indirectly with the ,serampore school2 but in the sincerity of my heart ,i wish them success4 ,it was my intention to have leisurely erased all the ,persian words out of my friend's' 7,hunter's translation1 a copy of which ,i gave ,major ,w47 #8version2 for ,i am not in the least afraid to revise his or any other version1 even publicly4 ,it has not been in my power hitherto 7from ill health71 and ,god alone knows when ,i shall be able to resume my studies con amore et spirito4'--,thus far ,major ,wilford40 8,cawnpore1 ,sept4 #d1 #ahaj4 8,our brother it seems1 has told you1 he is so well1 all further reports respecting his health are needless4 ,i would1 however1 prove how ready ,i am to comply with your wishes1 though1 ,i hope too1 all anxiety respecting ,martyn's recovery is at an end4 ,it seems he requires only rest4 ,it is to be hoped1 his constitution is not unsound1 but has been greatly tried by his continual exertions4 ,during the last fortnight the change for the better in him has been very evident1 but on ,sunday evening1 the pain in his breast returned1 sufficiently to shew him1 he must not fancy himself what he once was4 ,he began to ask1 why he should go to ,calcutta8--being so much better2 but this feeling of his former complaint1 has1 ,i hope1 put all doubts on the subject to flight4 ,indeed ,i have made his leaving the station a condition of my remaining4 ,the ,general has consented to my being put in orders to remain here1 till ,martyn's return1 and to give ,martyn an unlimited leave of absence4 ,so now1 on the #ast of ,nov4 he purposes leaving this for ,calcutta1 and is meditating schemes of usefulness on his way down1 and among the native1 ,armenian1 and ,arabian christians in ,calcutta4 ,it will be of much importance that you should see him1 and talk with him face to face1 about the translations1 c4 ,sabat1 ,i told you1 is much more on his guard and more respectful towards ,martyn1 but causes him great uneasiness1 by the slow progress he makes in his work4 ,it is indeed very trying to our brother1 as1 without some change1 the translations will hardly ever be brought to an end4 ,it is needless for me to say anything about the subscriptions1 c4 as ,martyn writes to you so fully on those subjects4 ,for my own part1 ,i am anxious1 that some translation should be got ready for circulation in ,india2 there is yet1 none that seems suited to the population we are among2 and my views are chiefly confined to these people2 among these ,i shall probably live and die1 but no extensive good can flow from the labours of any1 till the ,scriptures are ready to be delivered to them4 ,i am therefore more delighted with your intention of publishing the ,hindoostanee gospels1 than the ,arabic1 whilst ,i pray you ,god's speed with both4 ,about one fifteenth of the population of this country is ,mahomedan1 and of that fifteenth part1 not one in five hundred knows ,arabic2 but many of them are acquainted with and admire the ,persian1 and all of them understand the ,moors1 as it is called4 ,many too of the ,hindoos understand it1 and a skilful reader could easily make it understood by all4 8,sep4 #ab4 ,thus far ,i had written as above1 but your frequent letters from and to ,martyn1 made me think it unnecessary to send this4 ,in consequence of your last1 ,martyn intends leaving this1 as soon as boats can be procured for himself and ,sabat1 but it is uncertain when that may be1 as boats are in great request for the ,general and his suite4 ,martyn had frequently expressed to me his opinion respecting the incorrectness of ,sabat's ,arabic1 as well as complained of his slow progress4 ,it is likely1 however1 that his work will be found better than your last would suggest3 so few are qualified to criticise ,arabic1 that probably many of the objections raised1 will be found groundless4 ,i think1 however1 dearest ,sir1 to give the light of life to the population of ,india is no small honour put upon your ,committee1 and ,i hope you will put the ,hindoostanee translation1 ,martyn is bringing down1 to the press straightway4 ,we have1 during last week1 been often on the river in a borrowed pinnace1 and the effect has been good to us all4 ,our dear brother continues to mend1 but the length of his life will depend much on his desisting1 or not1 from public duties4 ,he would soon be laid up again1 were he to begin to preach4 ,he would1 at all events1 take half of the duty last ,sunday1 but beside not being heard by half the ,regiment1 he was obliged to shorten the service1 and with the ,faqueers in the evening1 brought on the old pain in his breast4 ,the same employments as before occupy me1 so ,i have nothing new to write to you4 ,our society of soldiers increases1 and we are inexpressibly happy together4 ,mrs4 ,s4 has been unwell1 but is recovering1 and indeed we have mercies multiplied upon us without number4 ,may we have grace to be more thankful40 ,it may be proper here to state1 that the ,committee referred to in this letter1 as being instrumental in giving 8the word of life to the population of ,india10 was a ,committee formed in ,calcutta for holding correspondence with the ,british and ,foreign ,bible ,society in ,england4 ,this corresponding ,committee was definitely organized in ,august1 #ahji1 having ,mr4 ,brown for its ,secretary2 and measures were then adopted for carrying forward approved translations of the ,scriptures in the ,arabic1 ,persian1 ,hindoostanee1 and ,telinga languages4#fe ,that to 8live and die among0 the people of ,hindoostanee1 which is here only expressed as a probability1 had become a settled purpose with ,mr4 ,corrie1 may be gathered from his ,journal3-- 8,sept4 #bjth4 ,this day has completed my fourth year in ,india4 ,my intention of remaining in ,india continues the same1 and of seeking the furtherance of the gospel among the heathen4 ,these ,christian children engross much of my time2 but not so much prayer as they ought4 ,i would purpose to pray more for them4 ,oh6 may ,i have grace to be devoted to the ministry6 ,i do determine to be so1 the ,lord being my helper3 my determined choice is the doctrine of ,christ and him crucified4 ,o may my affections be more taken up with ,god6 ,a variety of circumstances have of late made me feel that the best of creatures are subject to vanity4 ,i would complain of none1 for the most vain are far preferable to me2 but1 ,o may my soul be more taken up with ,god6 ,draw me1 ,o ,lord the ,spirit1 and ,i will run after ,thee6 ,martyn is now going to ,calcutta and to sea2 and ,i remain here for a time4 ,i feel my bodily health far from strong40 ,and in writing to a near relative1 about the same time1 after mentioning the intended departure of ,martyn from ,cawnpore1 and the consequent changes1 ,mr4 ,c4 adds1 8,these uncertainties make us more and more to feel that this is not our rest4 ,i do rejoice in the blessed hope of a rest remaining for the people of ,god4 8,one of the godly soldiers departed this life last night4 ,his end was peaceful and blessed4 ,his last words to me1 yesterday morning1 were1 #8,i desire to depart and to be with ,christ as soon as possible4' ,a day or two before1 on my asking him how he was1 he said1 #8,waiting to be made free from corruption and fit for ,god4' ,and at the same visit he said1 #8,blessed ,saviour6 ,he has done great things for my soul4' ,his life1 for some time past1 had been suitable to the gospel4 ,this is the third who has been taken from the little flock since we came here4 ,blessed be ,god1 who raises up one and another to supply their places4 8,one of the officers has joined himself to our meetings for worship1 c4 and is a hopeful and pleasing young man1 and a great encouragement to the poor soldiers1 who for a time were much discouraged by their superiors4 8,we have had several instances of very awful awakenings of conscience in the prospect of death4 ,one person1 a week or two since1 could not contain his feelings in the midst of the many sick around him1 in the hospital1 but openly accused himself1 and loudly called for mercy4 ,however1 the generality1 alas6 are careless1 notwithstanding these and other solemn warnings4 ,a gay1 smart young ,captain1 a short time since was seized with a fit in a large company1 at dinner1 and died during the night4 ,a great crowd attended his funeral1 and all the solemnity and pomp of military parade attended1 but alas6 the impression passed away4444 ,there are indeed a few 7and the number is increasing7 of godly people1 scattered up and down1 who are each a light in his place40 ,the references which are found in the foregoing letter and in the letters which follow1 to the 8incorrectness of ,sabat's ,arabic10 and to the 8rage0 of that unhappy man1 8against the moonshees of ,calcutta10 are explained by the circumstance1 that just before ,mr4 ,martyn left ,cawnpore1 he had received intelligence from ,mr4 ,brown that the translations of the ,gospels into ,persian were considered to be too imperfect for publication2 whilst it was insinuated that ,sabat's translations into ,arabic were but copies from some old version4#ff ,this apparent failure in an object so near his heart1 as the translating of the ,scriptures1 occasioned great distress of mind to ,mr4 ,martyn2 and all the evil passions of ,sabat were exasperated by the imputation cast on his learning4 ,in these letters1 may be but too plainly traced the unrestrained workings of that pride1 selfishness and violence in ,sabat which afterwards ended so mournfully1 though not unnaturally1 in his apostasy from the 8faith which0 always 8worketh by love40 ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,d4 ,,brown4 8,cawnpore1 ,oct4 #d1 #ahaj4 8,our brother ,martyn left this on the #ast for ,calcutta1 in better health than for some time1 so that1 but for the ,arabic translation1 he would perhaps not have been persuaded to leave this at present4 ,since ,i wrote to you1 ,i have had a specimen of the violence of ,sabat1 and the inexpressible trouble ,martyn must have had with him4 ,it began before the last letter of yours came1 about boat-hire4 ,he began by writing that ,martyn ought to pay for his boat4 ,on this ,martyn referred him to you1 but he evidently wished not to speak to you on the subject4 ,soon after this1 your last arrived1 and ,martyn did not tell him the whole of its contents2 at first only said1 you were more than ever urgent for their going down speedily4 ,as the time drew near1 he one day came in1 and after much cross-purposes1 demanded to see the order for his going down1 or he would not stir2 intimating that ,martyn had some sinister motive and interested purpose in taking him down with him4 ,it is impossible to convey to you an idea of the aggravating manner and expressions he used4 ,i lost patience1 and told him plainly1 how unchristian his conduct was1 and how little like the gentility he pretended to4 ,martyn then read him your letter1 which filled him with rage against the ,calcutta moonshees1 c41 and he determined to set off instantly1 and put them all to flight before ,martyn could arrive4 ,this manner lasted two or three days1 when an invitation he had asked for1 came from ,baillie1#fg and away he went to ,lucknow1 purposing to return the third day4 ,instead of returning1 he sent a note to say1 he would stay twenty days1 or a month1 and would translate and ,baillie would inspect2 and so he would come down to ,calcutta armed for the contest with the objectors there4 ,martyn was hurt at this1 and wrote a statement of the circumstances to ,baillie2 telling ,sabat also1 he should set off as he intended1 should go to sea1 and that the disputed translation would remain in suspense2 and of course1 as he could not go on with the work1 it was likely his salary would be stopped2 adding also1 that his family would be obliged to remove into another bungalow1 as my sister would come here4 ,on this1 ,sabat wrote in the most earnest manner1 for ,martyn not to go without him2 at the same time saying1 he should stay four or five days longer4 ,to this ,martyn paid no attention1 but set off1 and yesterday ,sabat returned1 full of rage against him1 and purposing to set off to-morrow or next day to overtake him if possible1 and at all events to procure from you full redress of his many wrongs4 ,there is little hope that any person but ,martyn1 supposing them capable and willing to superintend ,sabat's translations1 could bear with him2 and indeed when the work would be finished by him1 it is difficult to say4 ,his unsteady and haughty temper is likely to prevent his ever doing extensive good1 not to say1 that the love of money has too evident hold of him4 ,he has procured boats4 ,he is now full of expressions of concern about his wife1 who is within a month of having a child3 and indeed his concern is proper enough1 but had he set off as was first agreed1 he might have been now in ,calcutta4 ,for my part1 ,i feel quite alone and a stranger in the midst of this large society4 ,parson1 you may have heard1 is wishing to come here under the idea1 as he says1 that ,i was going away1 to leave ,martyn sinking under the duty4 ,i had not thought of so doing2 but heartily glad shall ,i be to give place to him1 as my own strength is not likely to hold out long under the constant duties of this station4 ,the folly and dissipation of the higher sort1 cast me greatly down4 ,how to deal with them1 ,i know not4 ,the church was opened last ,sunday1 which may give me more opportunities with them1 than ,i should otherwise have had4 ,a few of the poor receive the word gladly1 and they are our joy and crown4 ,your opinion of the ,native boys1 has caused me great disquietude4 ,i was convinced of danger as to their turning out well1 but hoped not quite so much as you describe4 ,it has made me more watchful over them3 but ,i shall make a fair experiment with them4 ,i trust all your family are enjoying good health1 and as much comfort as this world of sin and sorrow will admit of40 ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,h4 ,,martyn4 8,cawnpore1 ,oct4 #h1 #ahaj4 8,yours of the #crd4 from ,allahabad1 came only yesterday4 ,we were thankful to hear you had got so far in safety4 ,i received the enclosed also yesterday1 and sent one or two of less consequence for you to ,calcutta4 ,we had a very large congregation yesterday1 beside the morning service with the #ecrd4 ,i have escaped with a severe head-ache this morning2 ,i trust to be quite well to-morrow4 ,i called at ,r----#8s1 ,g----#8s1 ,e----#8s1 and ,b----#8s this morning1 so am making great progress in my work1 ,i hope2 though this of calling is a very insignificant part of it4 ,i have1 since you left1 seen in the life of ,president ,edwards1 that he thought ministers should consider their talent for conversation1 and1 if they cannot improve conversation c41 should stay at home4 ,if ,i had the least pretension to his usefulness in the closet1 ,i should be inclined to dwell there4 ,the gateway to the church shall be put up as you wish2 at present we are busy making ,sabat's house sweet4 ,i have got the christian children close by the book-room1 and hope to have a watchful and effectual eye over them now4 8,i wrote to ,mr4 ,brown on ,thursday1 and gave him a particular account of my opinion of ,sabat4 ,i told him1 what1 ,i fancy1 ,i did not tell you in the former cover enclosing ,mr4 ,brown's1 that on ,sabat's return from ,lucknow1 he expressed great warmth about your going without him1 and the subject of your letter to ,baillie4 ,it seems he was sorely hurt at your writing to ,baillie on the subject2 ,baillie had shewed him the letter1 c4 ,he wished me to side with him in thinking you had treated him as a ,hindoo1 c4 ,after many words1 ,i told him1 that no other person ,i knew1 would have borne with him as you have done2 and that all the christians in ,europe would think so1 if the circumstances were known4 ,this stopped his violence2 and during the few remaining days he shewed great humiliation1 and at parting seemed much cast down4 ,i hear he had been beating the dandees1#fh and they all ran away at ,georgemow1 but as ,i have heard no more1 suppose he got off somehow4 ,the ,mirror is come this week as usual2 when you arrive1 be so good as to order it to come in my name1 as ,i wish to continue it4 ,there have been enquiries respecting you1 from everybody ,i have seen1 and as many kind wishes for your speedy return in health40 ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,d4 ,,brown4 8,cawnpore1 ,oct4 #aj1 #ahaj4 8,i sent off yesterday by banghee1 a correct copy of the ,hindoostanee ,new ,testament1 for ,martyn at your house2 he has one copy with him beside4 ,i heard from him from ,allahabad on the #crd41 he was going on his way prosperously4 ,i have sent some letters that came here for him1 to meet him at ,patna4 ,shepherd will be here in a few days4 ,he was to leave ,meerut on the #ast4 ,i have then the whole range of the ,doab4#fi ,our new church was opened1 as ,i told you1 by ,martyn1 and we had a larger attendance on ,sunday last4 ,the natives are greatly pleased with the bell2 they argue for the antiquity and holiness of their own use of bells in their temples1 from the ,english also using them4 ,the ,sherwoods are living next door1 and have made a gate into our garden4 ,the continual calls of duty of one kind or other1 leave me very little time with them4 ,i have got the christian children within call of my window1 and entirely separated from the other parts of the premises4 ,mary talks of beginning a school for native christian girls4 ,she can read the ,persian character pretty readily1 and we have a promising half-caste boy1 who will be her schoolmaster4 ,we are progressing1 ,i think1 both among the ,europeans1 and in our little establishment for the natives2 yet1 ,i know not why1 my mind is almost always cast down and without hope4 ,the select meeting of the poor soldiers is a source of much1 and almost the only refreshment to me4 ,i would desire greatly to begin a meeting with the #hth ,light ,dragoons1 where many of the men are hopeful1 but ,i fear my bodily strength would sink under it1 for as it is1 ,i cannot keep quite rid of a cough and other symptoms of weak lungs4 ,i know1 however1 that my ,redeemer liveth1--let me quietly leave all with him1 and he will bring it to pass6 ,when will the chaplains ,dr4 ,b4 mentioned1 arrive8 ,simeon says1 he can get no chaplains to come out2 even worldly men dread our climate so much1 they will not encounter it40 #ed ,owen1 ,hist4 of the ,bible ,society1 ,vol4 #b4 pp4 #a-cb4 #ee ,alluding probably to the successes of ,napoleon in ,germany1 which terminated in the treaty of ,schnbrun4 #ef ,carrier4 #eg ,a kind of ,police officer4 #eh ,son of the late ,rev4 ,t4 ,robinson1 of ,leicester4 #ei ,pearson's ,memoirs of ,dr4 ,buchanan1 vol4 #b4 p4 #baa4 #fj ,named ,jounarain ,ghoshaul1 a resident in ,benares4 #fa ,bill of ,exchange4 #fb ,mr4 ,corrie laid the first stone of this ,church1 on the morning of ,tuesday1 ,april #bi1 #ahaj4 #fc ,a full account of this religious tumult is given in ,bishop ,heber's ,journal4 #fd ,hooker1 8,a remedy against ,sorrow and ,fear40 #fe ,owen's ,history of the ,bible ,society1 vol4 ii4 pp4 #ad1 #ae4 #ff ,see ,martyn's ,letter to ,mr4 ,brown1 dated ,sept4 #aj1 #ahaj4 #fg ,the ,english resident at ,lucknow4 #fh ,native boatmen4 #fi ,the whole country lying between the rivers ,ganges and ,tumna4 ,,chapter ,,viii4 ,,residence ,,at ,,cawnpore4 ,after ,mr4 ,martyn had taken his departure for ,calcutta1 the clerical duties connected with ,cawnpore devolved upon ,mr4 ,corrie4 ,some idea of the varied and laborious nature of those duties will have been gathered from the foregoing correspondence1 and will have been sufficient to explain the anxiety with which the arrival in ,india of additional ,chaplains was made the subject of enquiry4 ,not the least fatiguing portions of a ,chaplain's duty were the long journeys he was repeatedly called on to make1 for the purpose of solemnizing marriages between ,europeans1 and administering the ,sacrament of ,baptism to their children4 ,two journeys of this kind ,mr4 ,c4 had to undertake within a month after he had been in the sole charge of ,cawnpore3--one into ,bundelcund1 the other to ,coel1 distant at least #bjj miles up the country4 ,in the latter journey ,mr4 ,c4 was accompanied by a young friend2 and under date of ,nov4 #bj1 remarks1 8,,coel4 ,arrived here this morning1 to marry a couple4 ,i have reason to be thankful that my pride1 and angry feelings have been more in subjection towards the servants this journey4 ,i have1 however1 to lament one instance of undue anger2 but1 in general1 their perverseness has not caused the impatience and excitement as on former occasions2 #8be not high-minded1 but fear3' #8by faith ye stand4' ,during the journey to ,mynpoorie1 ,g41 expressed1 on the whole1 true christian conduct1 love of the word of ,god1 and prayer1 and often feeling impressions of his own unworthiness before ,god1 and the need of the ,holy ,spirit's grace1 to perfect him in holiness2 which1 also1 on ,sunday evening1 he spoke of1 as if he felt their comforting and sanctifying power4 ,may the ,lord ,god1 the ,saviour1 confirm1 strengthen1 and establish him6 8,at ,mynpoorie1 the proposition for public worship was readily entertained1 and most of the station1 7in all fifteen17 attended at the judge's house on ,sunday4 ,i preached on the benefit of the scripture history1 with some boldness1 and comfort to myself2 and there was a great attention given2 and afterwards two baptisms40 ,it would seem from circumstances noticed in his ,journal1 that in consequence of his declining to take part in some frivolous amusements that were going on at ,coel1 ,mr4 ,corrie did not meet with that kindness and social regard which he might naturally have expected2 and his affectionate spirit seems to have been somewhat deeply wounded4 8,o my ,god60 he observes1 8,i bless thee that thou didst deign to look upon me1 and to call me to the adoption of a son1 through the grace of ,christ6 ,i have said unto my soul1 #8,the ,lord is my portion in the land of the living4' ,why should a soul its thirst bemoan1 who has a fountain near8 ,i would not take one step backward to conciliate their favour4 #8,let them return to thee1 but return not thou to them4' ,jerem4 xv4 #ai4 ,my soul adores the divine will in this command4 ,no more would ,i go to the world4 ,i have observed much of late1 what ,newton expresses in the hymn1 #8,prayer answered by crosses4' ,i have been desiring to be more dead to the world1 and the ,lord has been pleased to make it bitter to me40 ,his ,journal then proceeds3-- 8,agra1 ,nov4 #bfth4 ,arrived here yesterday morning from ,coel4 ,in the morning1 on viewing the magnificent remains of this city1 ,i was not duly sensible of the vanity of earthly glory4 ,o that my mind were always alive to the vanity of present things1 in comparison of eternal6 8,in consequence of orders from ,colonel ,b41 the ,european artillery1 to the amount of four hundred1 attended divine service in the dewan4 ,i stood on the marble slab which was occupied formerly by the vizier1 when handing up petitions to the emperor1 in the balcony above4 ,many of the officers attended2 ,i preached from ,malachi iii4 #ah4 ,i much fear they did not understand me1 but a general attention was given3 in the afternoon1 ,i went out to ,nonilla1 and baptized three children2 several of the young officers attended1 and kneeled down very devoutly4 ,my heart rejoiced1 and was raised to ,god for a blessing upon them4 ,to all appearance1 they are such as our ,lord1 in the days of his flesh1 would have loved2 my soul desires their salvation4 ,oh1 that the ,lord would take them effectually in hand6 ,oh1 the depth of divine wisdom and knowledge6 ,alas1 that these engaging forms of human nature should be slaves of sin1 and so1 objects of the divine displeasure4 ,just and righteous are thy ways1 ,o king of saints6 ,oh1 how ,i ought to praise ,god for the acceptance ,he gives me among men who yet are by no means conformed to ,his word6 ,oh1 may the good ,lord make them willing and obedient1 that they may be blessed with all spiritual blessings in ,christ2 and1 may all their kindnesses be returned a hundred fold into their bosoms60 ,some further particulars of ,mr4 ,corrie's journey up the country1 as well as of his flock at ,cawnpore1 are found in the following letter4 ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,h4 ,,martyn4 8,cawnpore1 ,dec4 #ba1 #ahaj4 8,i returned last night from ,muttra and ,agra1 and found your's of the #crd instant4444 ,if ,i were in ,calcutta1 ,i should vote against your preaching every week4 ,if you will not take rest1 dear brother1 come away back1 and understand1 if you can1 from those in power1 if ,i am to be permitted to remain with you here1 or not4 ,at ,agra there will be little labour among the ,europeans2 some good1 ,i suppose1 might be done among the native christians4 ,i this time visited the ,roman ,catholic place4 ,the premises are large1 but every thing going to decay from the covetousness of ,angelo4 ,there is a church of one long room1 the roof arched1 at the east end a round recess1 like the ,mosques of the ,mahomedans1 and a picture of the ,virgin with a child half as large as herself1 over the high altar4 ,at ,agra we had no public worship on ,sunday2 there was nobody in garrison1 and the ,artillerymen were a far way off4 ,colonel ,m4 sent after me a draft for #afjj rupees666 ,i suppose he meant to try1 whether a mighty bribe would not prevail to draw me from our purpose4#gj ,i returned it with thanks1 and have heard no more of the matter4 ,i have been with ,captain ,p4 who commands the #ecrd1 and he will send to desire the ,regiment to be marched to ,church on ,sunday4 ,i hear from ,c--1 that the society continues to walk in the fear of the ,lord1 and are1 ,i hope1 multiplying in number4 ,some new members are to be admitted to-night1 ,i do not know how many4 ,i regret to hear1 the man of the #hth4 you remember1 has been behaving ill since ,i was here1 yet there is one it seems1 who is disposed to come out from among them4 ,he has been often with ,c--1 so ,i shall go down as ,i intended and fixed with the schoolmaster of the #hth4 though the above man was the first encouragement1 and must now be kept at a distance4 ,i should not forget to tell you1 of dear ,harrington's continued stedfastness1 and attention to the men when ,i am absent1 which is no doubt one reason of their consistency4 ,s4 has invited the religious men to a dinner on ,christmas day4 ,they must be greatly comforted by these circumstances1 no longer constrained to hide themselves through fear of man4 ,we are all well1 blessed be the ,lord our ,saviour4 ,may you increase in strength of body1 and be strengthened with all might by the ,spirit in the inner man4 ,love to all the saints4 ,all here wish you grace1 mercy1 and peace4 8,i shall proceed with all care with ,mirza4 ,there is no fear of any further inconvenience4 ,i have resisted2 he has submitted2 we are now as before4 ,i have not seen him to-day1 but will1 7,d4 ,v417 write fully about him in a few days40 ,letters which ,mr4 ,corrie addressed to ,mr4 ,martyn and ,mr4 ,brown respectively1 a week later than the preceding date1 give a pleasing account of the state of the congregation at ,cawnpore2 and supply1 also1 a specimen of the difficulties with which the earlier ,missionary labourers in ,india had to contend1 in their efforts to secure translations of the ,word of ,god into the native languages4 ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,h4 ,,martyn4 8,cawnpore1 ,dec4 #bf1 #ahaj4 8,yesterday divine service was appointed at eleven4 ,few of the soldiers came1 but the body of the church was entirely filled with the gentry4 ,colonel and ,mrs4 ,w4 came1 and brought many of the officers of the #hth4 ,the civilians too1 were all present4 ,we had upwards of fifty at the ,lord's table3--three complete tables4 ,among them the above and ,dr4 ,m41 ,captain and ,mrs4 ,e41 ,mr4 ,g4 ,s4 and ,harrington of the #ecrd1 with many of the soldiers beside the society4444 ,there were three more admitted to the society on ,friday night4 ,on ,sunday one part of the #ecrd were marched to ,church4 ,at two1 ,i therefore went to the school-room of the #hth1 and about thirty came4 ,one of them has lately been several times to the ,church3 several of them were disposed to be attentive4 ,s4 had a number of the religious men at dinner4 ,harrington dined with us1 and after dinner we went over and staid awhile at ,s4's4 ,it was a very happy time4444 ,mr4 ,g4 has been reading ,newton on the ,prophecies1 and has now ,edwards on ,redemption4 ,this1 with his attendance yesterday1 and general sobriety1 looks well4 ,captain ,g4 and ,p4 are both unwell2 ,e4 is better3 ,i fear his impressions are gone2 ,b4 has been unwell too2 perhaps you do not know him1 he is an acquaintance since you left4 ,indeed1 ,i have seen them almost all1 but have not been at the mess4 8,yesterday ,i baptised my little boy by the name of ,osman ,daniel4#ga ,the child afterwards was reading the ,gospels almost all day4 ,i have not shewn your muvishtee to ,fitrut4 ,he has got to the end of ,joshua1 and does on an average more than two chapters a day4 ,beside that without your reviewing his work1 it will be but little worth2 and if he were doing it by task work1 it would be still more incorrect4 ,the first discontent he shewed was only the usual policy of an ,indian to try how far his influence extended2 ,i took no notice of it1 but positively refused his demands2 and for two or three weeks made no inquiry after him1 on which he came entirely into the old plan4 ,he comes every day1 and we translate a collect or two3 and in this way ,i shall have the ,prayer book1 as well as the ,bible translated4 ,we have begun a little work of ,mrs4 ,sherwood's also1 in the manner of the ,pilgrim's ,progress1 which ,i tell him1 he shall receive some gratuity for doing4 ,this seized upon him instantly1 and he would fain have taken the book with him2 but ,i would not allow that1 lest the greater work be hindered40 ,mr4 ,corrie's private reflections on the religious services mentioned above1 were as follow3 8#beth4 ,dec4 #ahaj ,a large attendance at church1 and above fifty attended at the ,lord's table4 ,o may their souls be nourished by grace divine6 ,my own heart all the morning unfeeling and hard1 during the whole of divine worship2 and at dinner on going to ,s4's4 to see their party of godly men1 and joining in a hymn with them1 my soul melted under a sense of the ,lord's grace and love to me4 ,o may this impression remain2 and may its constraining influence attend me6 ,prepare me for my evening work1 ,o ,lord the ,spirit1 ,amen60 ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,d4 ,,brown4 8,cawnpore1 ,dec4 #bf1 #ahaj4 8,i send enclosed a letter to ,martyn2 if he is gone to sea1 you will peruse it1 and send it after him4 ,the account of ,fitrut and the translation1 you are concerned in1 as much as he is1 and ,i shall give you an account of our progress from time to time4 ,we are all here very busy in one way or other1 but with all our bustle we should not be missed if taken away from the face of the earth4 ,i trust1 however1 some seed is sowing1 that may spring up another day4 ,the half-caste lad1 ,i have had now a year1 during which1 not one instance of misconduct has come to my hearing4 ,yesterday he seriously devoted himself to the work of a ,missionary1 after a free choice1 on my part1 given him1 to be a writer1 or any thing else1 ,i could serve him in4 ,he has begun to-day to learn ,latin from ,lieut4 ,harrington1 who is teaching one of the officer's sons1 and an orphan ,european boy1 ,latin4 ,he is now about eighteen2 he is reading and writing ,persian too1 and learning to translate into ,hindoostanee his native tongue4 ,the other native boys make considerable proficiency4 ,i keep a strict hand over them40 ,on the first day of the new year1 ,mr4 ,corrie again wrote to ,mr4 ,martyn1 but it was chiefly about private matters4 ,the letter1 however1 to ,mr4 ,brown1 which enclosed that to ,mr4 ,m4 is of more general interest4 ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,d4 ,,brown4 8,cawnpore1 ,jan4 #a1 #ahaa4 8,i send another note for ,martyn4 ,he tells me you must wait for paper from ,england before you can print the ,hindoostanee4 ,the late arrivals in our department are not favourable specimens of their labours at ,cambridge and ,leadenhall street4 ,they are frightened1 ,i fancy1 by the ,twinings1#gb c43 but yet what can they do if men will not offer themselves8 ,during my late journeys in these parts1 ,i observed the idol-temples and the mosques1 in most places falling to decay1 and with little appearance of being frequented4 ,here and there a rich underling of some of the ,company's servants has retired and built a pagoda to commemorate his ill-gotten wealth2 but in general1 the spirit and fury of idolatry does not appear4 ,i have thought much1 if the time were but come for the labourers to enter in1 the gospel would not fail to be attended to4 ,but where are the labourers8 ,at best1 ,i was never but an under-servant1 and now my hands are full of ,europeans3 and the ,company's ,chaplains will always be so1 unless there were more of them4 ,may we have more of the spirit of prayer1 that the ,lord may #8give the word1' and then #8great shall be the company of the preachers6' 8,i have very little comfort in the work of the ministry among the ,europeans4 ,i consider it always a secondary consideration1 yet how to be doing it more for the heathen1 ,i know not4 ,at ,agra1 ,i suppose there may be greater opportunities2 but ,martyn will not hold up many months under the duties of this station1 so ,i hope to be continued with him40 ,the following extract from his ,journal informs us of ,mr4 ,corrie's private occupations and purposes3-- 8,january #bnd1 #ahaa4 ,i am much occupied in reading ,greek1 and other exercises1 tending1 ,i hope1 to mutual benefit with ,h41 but let me not deceive myself in fancying it all duty1 when it is all so agreeable4 ,the children have made considerable progress during the past year3 as much as ,i could expect4 ,james has begun ,latin1 under the express idea of becoming a teacher of others3 and may he have grace to give himself willingly to this work6 ,i am very much taken up with schemes for the furtherance of the gospel2 but little is yet done4 ,the ,europeans require more time and labour than ,i have to give to them4 ,blessed be ,god for some success among them4 ,o may they who fear ,god increase in number6 ,during the year1 my proficiency has been very scanty3 some knowledge of the history of this country1 some proficiency in ,hindoostanee2 the ,hindoostanee catechism3 these are my chief employments1 beside my ministry among the ,europeans4 ,i purpose to be more in the study of these languages1 more in writing sermons1 more attentive to the children2 to translate the ,pilgrim's ,progress1 the ,prayer book1 and any other work that may be useful to the children4 ,lord1 direct my steps1 and make me an instrument of good for ,jesus' sake1 ,amen60 ,it will be recollected that1 in consequence of a sermon which ,mr4 ,brown preached on ,new-year's day1 #ahaj1 an important effort was made to supply the ,christians of ,tanjore with ,bibles4 ,encouraged1 it would seem1 by the success which attended that effort1 ,mr4 ,martyn1 whilst in ,calcutta was induced to occupy ,mr4 ,brown's pulpit on the #ast of ,january1 #ahaa1 for the purpose of making 8,an appeal on behalf of #ijj1jjj ,christians in ,india who were in want of a ,bible40 ,this ,sermon not only produced a lasting effect on those who heard it delivered1 but having been printed and widely circulated1 called forth among the ,europeans in ,india1 a strong feeling of sympathy in behalf of the native ,christians1 and contributed mainly towards the formation of an ,auxiliary ,bible ,society in ,calcutta4 ,it is to these circumstances that allusion is made in the following letter2 although the ,auxiliary ,society was not actually formed till the #bast of ,february4#gc ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,d4 ,,brown4 8,cawnpore1 ,jan4 #bh1 #ahaa4 8,i am much pleased with the idea of an ,auxiliary ,bible ,society4 ,i wonder the thought had not occurred before4 ,when we receive ,martyn's sermon ,i hope we shall be able to get you help from this place4 ,i have mentioned the sermon in several places1 and it will be read here with great eagerness4 ,we have no support from our new ,general3 he sets but a very indifferent example to the community1 whilst he is quiet and civil enough in private4 #8,to the poor the gospel is preached1' and they receive it1 though not in great numbers4 8,i have had five long journeys since ,november1 and expect to go to ,bareilly next week to attend two marriages4 ,at the other end of the cantonments ,i have lately begun to assemble the ,light ,dragoons on a ,thursday evening4 ,at first many came1 and a few still continue to attend4 ,most of our ,hymn-books are distributed1 and numbers of the ,bibles1 but few of the ,new ,testaments4444 8,i am at present in very good health1 and strong to labour4 ,we have service three times on ,sundays1 and on ,wednesday1 ,thursday1 and ,friday evenings4 ,the distance between the two ,european regiments1 makes double labour1 but 7blessed be ,god67 it is not labour in vain4 ,and whilst there is no service that could well be dispensed with ,i can do nothing better than patiently #8spend and be spent1' while strength remains4 ,even now the hospitals are sadly neglected1 but the godly men1 and especially ,harrington1 supply the lack with great diligence40 ,of the journey to ,bareilly 7about #agj miles distant from ,cawnpore7 there is a short notice in ,mr4 ,c's ,journal1 dated1 8,february #bast4 ,i have had a journey to ,bareilly4 ,h4 went with me to ,futtyghur4 ,i have reason to bless ,god for preservation from angry tempers during the journey1 and for the much sweet converse ,i had with ,h4 ,in riding along1 our manner was to read a sentence from a book1 and to converse upon it2 or sing a hymn4 ,in this way weariness was prevented1 and my heart often burned within me4 ,let me however watch and pray that the things which ,i have wrought be not lost4 ,o1 may ,i never be suffered to faint or grow weary in the heavenly way6 ,my inward frame and spirit is sadly prone to this4 ,i have to drag this #8body of sin' along with me4 ,how often would my spirit sit down to rest2 or1 wearied with the constant load1 yield to the death6 ,lord1 preserve and uphold me to the end6 ,amen40 ,during the two months following the date of this extract1 ,mr4 ,corrie was chiefly occupied with the ordinary clerical duties at ,cawnpore4 ,besides these however1 he did not cease to employ himself in urging on the translation of the ,old ,testament into ,hindoostanee1 which ,mirza ,fitrut had commenced under the superintendence of ,mr4 ,martyn2 and ,mr4 ,c's correspondence about this time shews him1 also1 to have been actively engaged in furthering the objects contemplated by the ,calcutta ,bible ,society1 and in collecting subscriptions for it4 ,thus in a letter to ,mr4 ,brown1 ,mr4 ,c4 observes1 8,april #h1 #ahaa4 8,i wrote to ,fitrut on the receipt of your last4 ,he sends word1 that he is unwell1 but will come over soon4 ,i expect him daily1 but suppose he will raise obstacles4 ,the copy of ,martyn's sermon which ,mr4 ,t4 sent me1 has not been at home a day since it arrived4 ,applications from all hands are daily made for it4 ,the people are astonished at the number of ,christians in ,india4 ,whilst they have been objecting to conversion1 behold a harvest is already gathered6 ,i have the promise of many subscriptions1 chiefly1 indeed1 from those who have not much to give2 but till ,i can tell them all about you in ,calcutta1 ,i know not exactly on what ground to ask for subscriptions40 ,and1 again1 in a letter to ,mr4 ,brown1 during the same month3-- 8,by ,fitrut's desire ,i send you the enclosed4 ,before it arrives1 you will have determined on his request4 ,he is now ready to set off1 but that ,i do not choose absolutely to promise the increase of salary he wishes for4 ,in the meantime1 he is going on translating1 and he comes every morning for an hour or two1 to superintend my translations also4 ,no banghy has yet arrived with sermon c41 but ,col4 ,p4 has written to ,lieut4 ,l41 assistant commissary here1 requesting his aid and exertions for the ,bible ,society4 ,he sent a sermon and a copy of the proceedings1 c4#gd ,mr4 ,lumsdaine1 accordingly1 is getting subscriptions from his friends4 ,the general has given #bjj rupees1 and the plan of the society is generally approved4 ,the public attention has been greatly excited1 and our friends here thought it advisable to give the subject all the publicity possible2 so yesterday1 ,i gave notice from the pulpit1 that on ,sunday next1 ,i shall preach a sermon on the subject of the ,holy ,scriptures1 and state the views of the society lately formed in ,calcutta1 in aid of the ,british and ,foreign ,bible ,society in ,london1 c4 ,i had before waited on ,mr4 ,l4 and agreed to act in concert4 ,thus1 more advantage to the cause is likely to arise than we ever hoped for2 we want only copies of proceedings1 c41 to gratify the attention thus far excited1 before it subsides4 8,the religious men of the #ecrd41 ,i understand1 mean to give each a month's pay4 ,they say1 they have before been called upon for a month's pay1 to help to carry on the war1 much more will they contribute #8to the help of the ,lord against the mighty4' ,i have great reason for thankfulness for the acceptance the word of ,god has among us4 ,the church is usually crowded in the part allotted to the gentry1 and our societies increase considerably4 ,even the wild ,irish ,roman ,catholics of the #hth ,light ,dragoons1 pay great attention1 and the ,thursday evenings attendance increases4 ,a sergeant1 his wife1 and several others of them1 appear in good earnest seeking salvation4 ,the ,company's ,europeans are the least attentive1 and indeed1 with a few exceptions1 the ,company's officers are the least constant at church4 ,i have a ,hindoostanee congregation of nine1 every morning1 and am going through the ,epistles with them4 ,the half-caste lad ,i have mentioned1 has began to read to them4 ,he continues to give good hope that his heart is in the work2 and the children also1 continue improving4 ,i am often greatly exhausted from the frequent public services1 and feel often much inward weakness4 ,should ,i ever be relieved from this1 ,i would try to get to sea for a few weeks1 just recruit strength1 and prevent the frame from giving way entirely4 ,i have many thoughts about ,benares2 if you send the copies of proceedings to ,e41 ,i fear he will never distribute them4 ,you should send some to ,robinson4 ,i am desirous to see the proceedings of ,martyn1 when you can spare his letter4 ,you cannot suppose how widowed ,i feel from his absence4444 ,mr4 ,y4 tells me there is a ,bible ,depository in ,calcutta4 ,who has the charge of it8 ,i have been applied to for information about it1 but could give none4444 ,to-day1 ,i have a letter from ,martyn dated #aith ,march1 #8,bombay1' containing extracts from ,simeon1 on not taking fees1 far more pointed than his cautions to ,p40 ,but assiduously occupied as ,mr4 ,corrie thus appears to have been in furthering every plan that promised to yield moral benefit to his fellow-men1 he was nevertheless alive1 at the time1 to the importance of watching over the state of religion in his own soul4 ,on the anniversary of his birth-day he writes3-- 8,april #ajth4 ,this day ,i am thirty-four4 ,it was the night ,i heard of my mother's death1 ,february #agih1 that ,i first remember my resolutions made to be religious4 ,till the summer of #ahja1 ,i went on sinning and repenting1 as ,i thought2 but quite ignorant of the author and finisher of salvation4 ,in the latter end of that year1 my views of scripture truth became more distinct2 and1 since then1 ,i have gone on my way1 #8looking unto ,jesus2' but every year has brought me1 it should seem1 only experience of my own depravity4 ,true1 ,i have experience of #8the ,lord's mercy1' too1 in that ,i am #8not consumed2' and the fulness1 freeness1 and efficacy of the #8fountain opened' to purify my guilty soul is so fully known to my soul1 and my own hope in that #8blood shed for the remission of sins1' so stayed1 that my own guilt does not dismay me1 as it otherwise might well do3 at the same time1 one propensity after another to evil starts up so unavoidably1 that doubtless1 my soul is #8full of wounds1 and bruises1 and putrifying sores3' to ,thee1 therefore1 ,o divine ,physician1 do ,i turn my fainting eyes4 ,i come to ,thee for healing1 that it would please ,thee to cast the salt of ,thy grace into this impure fountain1 that the streams may be purified from the noxious qualities1 which now render unfruitful the whole field of the soul4 ,o ,lord1 ,i pray that the overflowings of sin may be restrained2 teach me to watch and pray2 quicken me to diligence in this work1 and service2 enable me to #8give attendance to reading1 to exhortation1 to doctrine2' to #8give myself wholly to them1 that my profiting may appear' in the edification of thy people1 through the ,lord and ,saviour ,jesus ,christ60 8,june #ajth4 ,this day nine years ago1 ,i was ordained a deacon2 and on the twelfth of ,june1 two years after1 a priest4 ,i have sinned grievously in respect of personal holiness2 and1 during the last year1 also1 ,i fear1 as much as ever4 ,i know not what to do against my strong foe1 #8whose name is legion4' ,the ,lord knows ,i purpose perpetual enmity with every sin2 and1 ,i think1 if it were the will of ,god to take away every disposition to evil1 ,i should rejoice2 but1 at the same time1 should require such measures of grace to keep me humble1 as seem out of the way of ,god's usual method to bestow4 ,indeed1 when ,i feel such a disposition to self-importance in a very short time1 if my evil dispositions are quiet1 what devilish pride should ,i not be puffed up with1 if my heart were freed from corruption4 ,blessed be ,god1 ,i can say1 that no sin hath dominion over me2 yet do ,i not justify myself3 though ,i am often surprised1 and get a spiritual fall1 yet the enemy cannot keep me down3 by faith ,i rise1 by faith ,i stand2 and #8in the ,lord have ,i righteousness and strength4' ,i have been at ,cawnpore about a year2 and since ,october have had the whole charge3 ten are added to the 7religious7 society since then2 and several are enquiring after the ways of godliness4 ,some of the light dragoons1 7especially sergeant ,r47 are1 ,i hope1 seriously impressed4 ,gracious ,god1 ,i praise ,thee for these fruits6 ,i have to mourn my unprofitableness among the better sort4 ,i think ,i am not suited to do good by much visiting1 and1 therefore1 stay at home4 ,i have been employed a great deal in translating for the children2 and ,nicholas is very hopeful3 these in all are six1 besides those who came yesterday4 ,god of all grace1 the ,father of our ,lord ,jesus ,christ1 give me a larger portion of the ,holy ,spirit's grace3 make me holy in body1 soul1 and spirit2 #8holiness becometh thy house4' ,o ,lord1 my soul is athirst for holiness4 ,teach me how to preach holiness through the ,spirit1 and by the ,saviour6 ,but1 ,i am forbidden by the doctors to preach1 on account of this liver4 ,may ,i pray the more for the souls around me3 ,o for a spirit of grace and supplication6 ,to ,thee1 ,o ,lord1 have ,i dedicated myself2 at thy table1 yesterday1 did ,i give myself away to ,thee2 and1 though the watchful enemy robbed me of part of the benefit1 yet1 ,i know1 thou hast accepted me3 ,thou didst sit at thine own table2 it was a season of refreshment to many1 as well as to myself2 about fifty attended2 in the evening1 a large congregation4 ,i hope soon to establish worship for the ,hindoostanees2 ,james1 ,i trust1 is fully bent on this work1 though he has a good deal of youthful levity about him4 ,lord1 bless all my flock1 my dear family1 and friends6 ,bless my soul1 ,o ,lord1 and let my soul praise ,thee at all times60 ,the following letter to ,mr4 ,simeon1 whilst giving a general outline of the religious condition of ,cawnpore1 as presented during ,mr4 ,corrie's ministrations at that station1 explains also1 the lofty1 self-denying principle on which both ,mr4 ,martyn and himself had decided to waive the accepting of any fee for the celebration of marriages1 c4 8,cawnpore1 ,june #d1 #ahaa4 8,as your ,indian friends are1 at this time1 widely separated1 ,i shall not be likely to trouble you with repetition of intelligence from this quarter1 and ,i know you will take part in the hopes and fears attending the work of the ministry in this place4 ,you will1 ,i hope1 hear from ,mr4 ,martyn himself from ,persia2 the last ,i heard of him was from ,bombay1 ,march #aith4 ,he had benefited little1 or nothing1 from the change4 ,since his departure1 ,i have had much encouragement in my work4 ,i began with a very discouraging impression of my unfitness to stand up in his place1 but the word delivered in weakness1 has been attended with power to several4 ,ten have been added to the religious society1 and several are on probation1 in one of the ,european ,regiments2 in the other1 some good has been done1 and even from among the ,company's ,artillery-men 7surely the most hardened against all good1 of any set of men ,i ever saw7 five are become regular attendants at the ,lord's ,table4 ,we might have hoped for more abundant fruit2 but that it was the ,divine will ,i should be laid up a third time with the liver1 and obliged to desist from all labour but the ,sunday's duty4 ,i am now so affected with mercury1 that ,i cannot appear next ,sunday1 but ,i am happy to say1 that for several days the pains have left me1 and ,i trust the disease has subsided4 ,i hope the life1 thus repeatedly renewed to me1 will be more than ever devoted to the work of the ministry1 for truly ,i find no life like living to ,christ4 ,his service is perfect freedom and a great reward6 8,my absence from the ,irish regiment has been most felt2 as in the ,english regiment1 one of the officers1 a nephew of the late ,dr4 ,elliston of ,sidney ,college1 has supplied my lack of service1 by reading c41 having #8first given himself unto the ,lord4' ,we have every ,wednesday evening a party of friends1 who take sweet counsel together4 ,it consists1 when altogether1 of a ,lieutenant of ,dragoons and his wife1 the ,paymaster of the #ecrd and his wife1 an ,assistant ,surgeon1 the above ,lieutenant1 my sister1 and a young lady who is living with her2 we sometimes have beside1 another ,surgeon and his lady1 who have been brought up among religious people2 an officer on the staff here1 and1 now and then1 a friend from the country2 and there are others1 who approve and are hopeful1 though they do not yet care to come out from the world4 ,when we thus happily meet1 we are encouraged to think1 the whole world must speedily bow before the word of the ,lord2 but1 alas1 we return again with the complaint of ,melancthon4 ,the multitude1 alas1 tread heedlessly the broad way6 8,you will know of the formation of an ,auxiliary ,bible society in ,calcutta4 ,it has raised #8no small stir about that way4' ,here we have had good success1 but the enemy also has been at work4 ,my application to the ,commander of one of the corps here1 was yesterday returned1 with many concessions as to the purity of our motives1 but representing this new association as the most dangerous thing imaginable1 and praying me1 and others1 to desist from promoting the objects of it4 ,in two entire regiments1 out of the five1 we have been thus hindered1 but blessed be ,god1 we have a majority1 even in point of numbers4 ,one undeniable benefit has arisen from it1 even to the ,english2 for after a sermon ,i preached on the subject1 ,april #bhth1 we had a greater number of applications for ,english ,bibles1 than for many months together before4 8,during this month my school of ,christian boys has increased to nine4 ,i hear them myself twice a day1 and find they learn even quicker than many ,english boys4 ,some of the parents1 seeing how desirous ,i am to retain these children at school1 plague me not a little for money to support themselves also1 saying they must otherwise remove to some other place1 and take their children with them4 ,the ,christian man ,i left at ,chunar1 has within these few days arrived here1 having left his charge4 ,the house ,i fitted up1 is still used for public worship by the ,europeans1 but no one pities my poor black flock1 so they are again left in the wide wilderness4 ,a few of them1 who have1 ,i trust been made partakers of the ,holy ,ghost1 and have tasted of the good word of ,god1 attend the service in ,english1 though they understand nothing of what is said1 yet they hear the name of #8,jesu ,kreesht1' and1 that1 they say1 #8is pleasure4' ,at this place there are many ,christians of ,portuguese descent1 but1 in language and manners1 quite ,hindoostanees4 ,through two of my ,christian people1 who1 ,i trust1 are real ,christians1 a desire has been excited among them for hearing and reading the ,scriptures4 ,the youth ,i have mentioned1 of ,european descent1 is with me still1 and very promising4 ,i hope to establish worship in ,hindoostanee1 in a month's time1 for the above native christians here1 and to make this lad officiate4 ,if ,i were able to officiate myself1 ,i would not set him so forward yet1 but our friends here advise that1 considering the difficulty of again putting affairs in the train they now are1 we had better secure the present opportunity1 and hope and pray that the ,lord will be with us1 till ,martyn's return1 when he will find the way he had prepared1 somewhat carried forward1 and may enlarge it after1 as he judges proper4 ,he had addressed himself to the multitude at large who used to assemble every ,sunday evening1 on his lawn1 till his health and strength were exhausted4 ,my health and strength have been brought nearly as low1 though ,i have a stronger constitution to renew upon2 so ,i set the above servants to work at the houses of individual ,christians1 and now hope to establish a small congregation from among them1 against our brother's return4 8,from ,bombay1 ,m4 sent me a part of a letter of your's1 on the subject of fees1 which he desired me to consider4 ,i beg leave to state a few particulars on that subject for your information4 ,first1 all in the army1 below the rank of ,captain1 are obliged to use the strictest economy1 in order to maintain a family4 ,a ,captain may live without care1 but1 if it be considered that he must send his children to ,england for education1 it will be easily believed1 that every married military man1 who has a family1 is likely to be poor to the end of his service1 with the exception of a few1 who get staff-appointments1 and they are almost the only ones who are ever able to return home4 ,when we are sent for to a distance1 the expences of travelling are paid by the parties1 which usually costs from forty to sixty pounds4 ,it is usually the younger officers who marry1 for the old ones almost all live in sin3 and indeed from the above circumstances1 together with the few opportunities of religious instruction1 most of the young ones too2 and some have told me plainly1 that they could get nobody to marry them1 and if they could1 they had not money to give1 as was usually expected by the ,chaplains4 ,for these causes1 from the first1 ,i wished to decline being an obstacle in the way of any4 ,sometimes young men marry the daughters of old ,indians by native mothers1 but though the father could often give a fee in this case1 he has himself sacrificed conscience to money1 and thinks any one would do the same1 and how are we to convince him to the contrary1 but by refusing his money8 ,the civilians who marry1 are also usually of the younger part1 and have nothing to spare without borrowing1 which they can do indeed too easily4 ,the elder civilians are altogether as preposterously paid to excess1 and indeed there are very few of them1 who are not in consequence1 so vain1 and carry themselves so high1 that ,i know not how we can shew them the folly of trusting in these things1 but by refusing the opportunities of obtaining them4 ,on this head1 there will he difference of opinion1 but my humble judgment is1 to renounce the fee1 to convince them by all possible means1 that a man's life consisteth not in these things4 ,in so doing1 we are not injuring our successor1 because he has a sufficiency of income for all the purposes that his station in life can require4 ,i suppose you do not care whether we be able to keep a carriage1 or not1 if we should ever return2 and suppose we save but enough to pay our passage to ,england1 the retiring pension is an abundant provision for our necessities4 ,i suppose1 that even a chaplain marries1 and has children1 then even he has plenty to educate them1 though his usefulness here may be thereby confined1 and in what situation would it not be so8 ,i see no motive for receiving fees that ought to be entertained a moment1 but that of taking them to give to the poor1 and such has been the state of things among the ,british here hitherto1 that the mention of such a motive would have excited derision1 as mere hypocrisy4 ,it has never been conceived1 that a man came to ,india1 except to make money4 ,after all1 dear ,sir1 we have no such thing as a regular fee2 we are military chaplains1 and the general could order us to officiate1 in any part of the district1 there being no legal impediment3 you can recover the accustomed offering by law2 we have no law on the subject1 nor do the soldiers ever1 on any occasion1 offer a fee4 ,we have indeed custom on our side1 but it is a custom that has made the name of ,chaplain an offence4 ,would government but appoint a regular supply of ,chaplains1 and let any reasonable fee be appointed1 for occasional duties1 as a part of their subsistence1 it would be well4 ,o1 ,i wish that some of the young men around you1 did but see the different stations of ,india1 where numbers of their countrymen are actually falling into the jaws of infidelity and deism1 for the want of some one merely to remind them of the customs and opinions of their native land4 ,they come out boys2 they leave the ,sabbath and public worship behind them2 they straightway fall into sinful habits1 and grow to argue for that1 which they would once have blushed to mention4 ,but what1 if the young clergy knew1 and pitied1 and were willing to come over and help us1 what could they do whilst the way is shut against them8 ,consider1 this district contains1 ,i know not the exact number1 but ,i know twelve subordinate stations1 at each of which1 there will be from twenty to forty ,english and native ,christians in the ,company's service2 at ,allahabad1 one hundred miles to the east1 there are about two hundred ,europeans alone2 at ,futtyghur eighty miles to the west1 there are at least as many1 and at ,bareilly not much less than a hundred4 ,to these places1 the ,chaplain of ,cawnpore must go1 to celebrate marriages1 for this is the only duty he cannot be dispensed with for2 but as to all other religious services1 they are left entirely destitute1 and from the long habits of indifference they have been in1 it is not always1 even when we do go1 that we can have public worship4 ,o1 dear ,sir1 ought the immense revenues of this fruitful land to be wholly appropriated to the purposes of merchandize6 ,ought the souls of our own countrymen1 not to speak of the natives1 to be weighed in the balance against bales of silk and cotton6 ,surely this system will have an end6 8,mr4 ,thomason was so kind as to send me some ,christian ,observers1 with the paper war with the ,christian ,advocate4#ge ,these are exceedingly interesting to us1 and you cannot confer a greater favour1 than by forwarding to this country1 supplies of ,christian ,guardians1 ,eclectic ,reviews1 ,christian ,observers1 c4 ,we can lend them about1 they are read with avidity1 and excite much conversation about religious books4 8,i hope this will find you renewed in the outer1 as well as in the inner man4 ,the ,lord can send by whom he will1 but my soul would mourn to hear1 that that candlestick1 which was the means of guiding me into divine light and peace1 was removed from ,cambridge4 ,may your latter days1 dearest ,sir1 be more blessed than the former1 and when heart and strength shall fail1 may you have the assurance in your own soul1 that ,god is the strength of your heart1 as well as the portion you have chosen for ever6 8,if there were to be a quantity of copies of the ,christian ,guardian sent out yearly1 they would be eagerly purchased by the religious soldiers1 and would be highly useful4 ,the ,christian ,observer is above their modes of thinking4 #gj ,mr4 ,martyn and ,mr4 ,corrie had agreed to decline all fees for the solemnizing of marriages1 c4 ,the reasons for their decision on that matter are given at length in a letter to ,mr4 ,simeon1 dated ,june #ad1 #ahaa4 #ga ,a little boy who was rescued from death1 during a famine1 and brought up by ,mr4 ,c4 #gb ,twining was the name of the gentleman who was for expelling all ,missionaries from ,india4 ,see above p4 #aai4 #gc ,history of the ,bible ,society1 vol4 ii4 pp4 #ajh1 and seq4 #gd ,the ,calcutta ,auxiliary ,bible ,society printed #ajjj copies of the first six ,reports of the ,parent ,society1 for circulation in ,india4 #ge ,dr4 ,e4 ,pearson1 ,master of ,sidney ,sussex ,college1 ,cambridge1 between whom and ,mr4 ,simeon1 some ,pamphlets were exchanged on the subject of ,mr4 ,simeon's preaching4 ,,chapter ,,ix4 ,,cawnpore--,,coel--,,return ,,to ,,calcutta4 ,the illness which ,mr4 ,corrie mentions in the foregoing letter1 as having #8obliged him to desist from all labour1 except the ,sunday duty1' now continued to increase upon him2 so that1 in the beginning of ,july he was not only laid aside from duty1 but confined to the house4 ,from his ,journal it appears1 also1 that he suffered greatly from the exhaustion consequent on fever2 and that he was much harassed by impatience and a nervous irritability of temper4 ,added to this1 ,mr4 ,c41 states himself to have been distressed by the #8mournful view1' which his mind took #8of the desolate state of professing ,christians in ,india1 scattered as sheep upon the hills4' ,with the hope1 therefore1 of recruiting both health and spirits1 he spent a fortnight or more on the river4 ,his correspondence at the same time1 shews that the pressure of bodily sickness did not prevent ,mr4 ,c41 from occupying his mind with plans for the permanent welfare of ,india4 ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,d4 ,,brown4 8,cawnpore1 ,july #aa1 #ahaa4 8,since ,i wrote to you1 ,i have been entirely laid aside4 ,a fever seized me1 and ,i thought ,i was following ,des ,granges2#gf but after some days1 through divine mercy1 it left me1 exceedingly weakened1 so that although now1 in my own opinion1 able to officiate in public1 those about me will not let me4 8,i had a letter from ,martyn1 dated #bdth4 ,april1 at ,muscat4 ,he gets no stronger1 ,i fear2 but you will have heard from him yourself3 ,i begin greatly to wish him back again4 ,since ,i have been confined to the house1 ,mr4 ,sherwood and ,mr4 ,harrington have1 in turns1 read to the people in church of an evening4 ,i am much gratified by this help2 it relieves my mind greatly4 ,at the same time the numbers fall off4 ,the preaching of the ,cross is the usual means of salvation4 ,i am well aware that none of my sermons can be compared with those they read1 in point of composition1 c4 and yet the people go to sleep under them2 and those who shewed some love begin to #8wax cold4' ,i wish1 therefore1 to renew my public work1 that #8through the foolishness of preaching1' some may believe and be saved4 8,my ,moonshee1 as you will expect1 is on the way to ,serampore1 he left this place near a fortnight ago4 ,fitrut alarmed him greatly at last1 by telling him that he knows ,sabat is his great enemy1 and that nothing but disgrace and loss of character will ensue to him4 ,fitrut is himself gone to ,lucknow1 he is at work on the ,psalms1 having passed by ,esther and ,job2 he has given in as far as the #cgth4 ,the translation is1 in general1 very excellent4 ,i hope that the ,psalms1 when properly corrected1 will be printed separately2 no good will be done to any extent1 till the ,scriptures are printed2 therefore1 ,god be thanked for the ,calcutta ,auxiliary ,bible ,society6 ,y4 told me of the opposition to the measure at ,madras4 #8,it must needs be that offences come1 but woe to that man by whom they come4' ,i expect there will be a #8,hue and ,cry' raised by the opposers at home to this society3 but it is founded on a rock4 8,i have been thinking much about a representation being made to somebody or other at home1 7perhaps the ,archbishop of ,canterbury71 on the subject of the want of ,chaplains in ,india4 ,as everything is in a state of tranquillity here1 and the revenues are flourishing1 perhaps it might be attended to4 ,at ,allahabad there ought to be a ,chaplain1 and at ,futtyghur1 and at ,rewaree and ,kurnaul4 ,at ,allahabad there are always two companies of ,artillery1 and a large society besides2 and at ,rewaree1 and ,kurnaul about the same4 ,at ,futtyghur1 one company1 and a large society of ,commissioners1 ,civilians1 c4 ,and at ,benares1 there is certainly need of a chaplain2 there should also1 at ,cawnpore and ,chunar1 be one ,king's chaplain1 at least at each station1 or an additional ,company's chaplain4 ,i am told how little likely such a representation would be to produce the desired effect1 but there is no saying4 ,if you1 the senior1 were to draw up and sign something of this kind1 and send it to the juniors for their signatures1 it appears to me1 it would certainly be attended to1 especially if the ,king should recover1 and the present ministers remain in office4 8#aeth4 on the river4 ,i have been so out of spirits as not to be able to write to you as ,i could wish1 so delayed sending off this4 ,i ought not however to detain the ,society's money4 ,i fear a voyage to sea will be necessary to get me quite well4 ,i was reduced so much that the doctors made me leave off mercury2 but they talk of making me begin again to use it1 three times a day4 ,they say1 there is little or no danger in the complaint2 it may be so1 but ,i would have my #8loins girded about' and my #8lamp burning4' ,i lament the falling off of the people at church1 whilst ,i rejoice ,i am much comforted by the faith and love of the helpers supplied to me40 ,but notwithstanding the means used by ,mr4 ,corrie for the recovery of his health1 it pleased ,god still to afflict him4 ,the medical men accordingly continued to prohibit his performance of any public duty for at least six weeks or more4 ,during this cessation from duty1 he took advantage of a summons to marry a couple at ,coel1 to perform the greater part of the journey to that place by boat on the river1 and purposed to spend a short time at ,coel for the benefit of change of air4 ,many days1 however1 had not passed over before ,mr4 ,c4 took cold1 and his #8frame began to sink and his spirits to languish4' ,he therefore decided on returning to ,cawnpore1 and proposed taking ,agra in his way1 having been engaged to solemnize a marriage there4 ,but before he reached ,agra1 the fever returned upon him with great violence1 so that he was detained on the road and reduced to a state of extreme debility4 ,some account of this journey is given in a letter4 ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,d4 ,,brown4 8,coel1 ,august #bg1 #ahaa4 8,i made a journey by water to this neighbourhood1 and then by dawk to this place4 ,we convened the settlement for public worship on ,sunday1 and had evening service with the family4 ,they are very kind to me1 and ,i hope ,i help to remove the prejudices of some against the cause we wish to serve1 by bringing before them sometimes the other side of the question about missions4 ,the commanding officer here is an intelligent man2 he favours the ,bible ,society1 as you will know4 ,i have lent him a copy of ,martyn's ,hindoostanee ,new ,testament3 he says that he will have it copied and sent to the ,portuguese1 drummers1 c4 ,he is somewhat acquainted with ,persian and ,arabic1 and expresses himself gratified by what he has seen of the translation4 8,i ought to have written to ,moonshee before this1 but for a month ,i have not been near a post-office1 except just in passing ,futtyghur4 ,i am greatly benefited by change of air1 and hope my little flock are suffering no lack1 through the kindness of ,harrington and ,sherwood4 ,but ,i fear staying away longer than needful1 and am now anxious to be at ,cawnpore4 8,agra1 ,saturday1 #cast4 ,i have had a severe attack of illness1 which laid me up on the road to this place4 ,a whole day ,i was in a wretched ,bazaar1 and learned something of the value of home and friends to a sick man4 ,but my mind was undisturbed4 8,lord1 ,i believe thou hast prepared1 ,unworthy though ,i be1 ,for me a blood-bought1 free1 reward ,a golden harp for me40 8,i am confined to ,colonel ,bowie's quarters1 and was only just able last night to marry the young people4 ,i am sorry to find the ,bible ,society has been so little encouraged here2 but ,i cannot go out to see people on the subject4 ,the surgeon here tells me1 ,i must go to sea40 ,yet after a few days repose1 added to ,god's blessing on the kind attentions of his host at ,agra1 ,mr4 ,corrie was sufficiently recovered to allow of his proceeding on his journey1 and before his arrival at ,cawnpore he found himself much recruited in strength4 ,as1 however1 he seems now to have been convinced1 that his illness was chiefly to be attributed to the frequency of his preaching2 ,mr4 ,c4 considered it to be his duty to resolve to be more careful in that respect for the future4 ,still1 with reference to that matter he remarks in his ,journal3-- 8,i trust it is with a single eye to future usefulness that ,i purpose to be more careful of my health1 and to be less engaged in preaching40 ,but when he was again settled among his flock at ,cawnpore1 ,mr4 ,c's purpose to be 8less engaged in preaching10 was but partially carried into effect4 ,he writes1 for example1 under date of 8#ahth4 ,sept4 #ahaa4 ,i have been thinking of three separate courses of sermons4 ,first1 for ,sunday mornings3 to begin with man's ruin2 justification2 illumination2 separation from the world2 progress in the #8fruits of the ,spirit4' ,secondly1 for the ,wednesday evenings3 a view of the church of ,christ2 its establishment2 progress2 and final triumph in the world1 notwithstanding the opposition of ,satan3 a course from ,matt4 xvi4 #ah41 on the plan of ,edward's ,history of ,redemption4 ,thirdly3 to translate into ,hindoostanee1 to be read by ,james to the ,hindoostanees1 a ,commentary on ,genesis i3 on the original state of man2 the fall2 the promise in succession1 on to the history of our ,lord in the gospels40 ,and1 again1 in a letter3 ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,d4 ,,brown4 8,cawnpore1 ,oct4 #aj1 #ahaa4 8,i could put twenty copies of the ,new ,testament into immediate use1 and we go on very lamely without them4 ,writing is slow1 incorrect1 and expensive4 ,nothing will be done to purpose1 till we get printed copies in abundance4 ,three of the pious soldiers are learning ,hindoostanee1 that they may1 as they say1 be able to exhort the heathen4 ,one of them is a superior young man1 and very humble and unobtrusive4 ,he has long wished to be able to talk with the ,brahmins at a certain pagoda1 near the river1 where he goes often2 and purposes reading the ,new ,testament to them1 when he can get one4#gg 8,the ,lord adds to us one by one1 according to his promise4 ,since my return1 three have joined the society1 and all walk orderly4 ,our ,hindoostanee worship was well attended last ,sunday4 ,moonshee ,fitrut is come back from ,lucknow2 he yesterday gave me the #bast4 chapter of ,proverbs1 the ,old ,testament is completed so far4 ,i have given him a place of abode on the premises1 and done every thing to induce him to go on quietly4 ,this work will1 ,i hope1 be done in three or four months2 and1 please ,god to spare ,martyn to put the finishing hand to it1 will be the greatest work1 as to utility1 ever accomplished on this side of ,india4 8,beside my other employments1 ,i have now to translate from ,henry's ,commentary on ,genesis1 which serves as a ,hindoostanee sermon on ,sundays4 ,i know nothing else you will desire to hear of1 from this place4 ,the miserable squabbles which disgust the world at this place1 ,i am happy to know little about4 ,happy privilege to be #8redeemed from a vain conversation1'--to be delivered #8from the present evil world6' ,o1 for more power to proclaim aloud the year of release6 ,my strength increases1 but not a third in the way of public duty is done1 that might be done4 ,i preach twice on ,sundays1 and on ,wednesday evening2 and meet the society on ,fridays4 ,i hope to begin my weekly meeting with the ,dragoons on ,thursday next3 but ,i believe it would be right for me to leave off1 in that case1 my present ,wednesday evening engagement4 ,but the three hospitals are sadly neglected2 ,i can only visit those who are very ill4 ,i dare not preach in the wards3 my breast and side are on fire this morning1 from last night's exertion4 ,yet1 the cold season being set in1 increases my strength1 and ,i have no expectation but of doing well enough1 until the heat commences again4 8,we have had lately a remarkable instance of the freeness and fulness of redeeming love1 in the case of a soldier's wife1 who died here4 ,i am collecting a few particulars which ,i may send you40 ,the 8particulars0 here referred to1 do not occur in ,mr4 ,c's correspondence or ,journal2 but a notice of an interview he had with a dying soldier a short time before the preceding letter was written1 may not be omitted3-- 8,yesterday evening ,i went to the hospital1 to visit ,j4 ,he has been ill some time4 ,he considers himself in a decline1 and indeed1 seems to be so2 he began by saying1 that #8he felt very composed in his mind1 looked upon the world as done with1 and no longer any thing to him1 and would be happy1 if it were the ,lord's will to take him to ,himself4' ,i asked him when he supposed the ,lord began to make him a partaker of ,his grace8 ,he said1 #8it was at ,chunar he first began to consider1 and there he became somewhat enlightened1 but lately his mind had become more confirmed and strengthened4' ,not wishing him to be deceived1 ,i reminded him of some improprieties since he left ,chunar3 he acknowledged #8that he had been often led astray1 and found his heart often going wrong2 but for these things he was heartily sorry1 and hoped by the grace of ,god to prevail against them3 indeed1 for some months past1 he had been more alive to religion than ever4' ,i asked him the ground of a sinner's hope towards ,god3 he replied with some cheerfulness1 #8only the ,lord ,jesus ,christ4' ,i asked what he expected ,christ would do for him3 he said1 #8to save him1 and make him a partaker of salvation with the saints in glory4' ,i pointed out the meaning of the word #8saint1' and asked him #8if he considered that ,christ1 if he saved us1 would make us holy1 and that heaven was the enjoyment of a holy ,god1 and therefore1 a happy place4' ,he said #8that even now he was happy only when sin was subdued within him2 and to be freed from sin in heaven1 would be complete happiness4'0 ,amid labours such as these1 ,mr4 ,corrie writes3 ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,j4 ,,buckworth4 8,cawnpore1 ,oct4 #cj1 #ahaa4 8,i am recovering from an illness1 that has nearly laid me aside1 ever since the #bdth of ,april last4 ,the ,lord my healer1 ,i hope ,i may say1 renews my spiritual strength1 as the outer man is brought low4 ,it was brought on by undue previous exertion4 ,i trust ,i am taught that this is not the ,lord's will4 ,without a miracle1 we cannot hope our flocks will be fed with the bread of life after our decease2 to abide with them is1 therefore1 most desirable1 and to use the means for preserving health to minister among them1 necessary4 8,you will have heard of the establishment of an ,auxiliary ,bible ,society in ,calcutta4 ,doubtless the night has passed away1 and the true light is now arising upon ,india4 ,mr4 ,martyn is gone for change of air1 hoping to recover health1 and1 perhaps1 avoid the threatened beginning of a consumption3 he was at ,shiraz1 in ,persia1 on the #bfth of ,june2 and is at work on a ,persian translation of the ,new ,testament4 ,his translation of the ,new ,testament into ,hindoostanee1 is just put to the press2 we greatly long for this work to appear4 ,you know1 he was assisted by a learned native1#gh who passed six years in ,england1 and is well acquainted with the ,english language also4 ,the translation of the ,baptist missionaries into ,hindoostanee1 is really too defective to be useful to any extent4 ,you will not accuse me of depreciating their labours3 #8,i speak the truth in ,christ4' ,i have the greater part of their work4 ,the ,christians about me lay it aside1 and prefer the parts of scripture they have of ,martyn's translation4 8,the above mentioned learned native is living on our premises1 and goes on translating the ,old ,testament2 in any difficult passage he consults me about the meaning4 ,he has translated to ,isaiah1 and is now engaged on that book4 ,this work1 please ,god to spare ,martyn to come back to correct it by the ,hebrew1 will be a glorious work for ,hindoostan ,proper4 ,this part of ,india is still without a translation1 except that of the ,baptist missionaries4 ,two of these missionaries have gone to ,agra3 ,i was there lately and saw them2 they had not then got quite settled4 ,the natives of that quarter are very independent and fierce in their manners1 the ,mahomedans especially4 ,you have heard of the population of ,india1 but can have no idea of its immensity unless you saw it2 so that a man may visit ,i cannot tell how many villages of three hundred1 four hundred people and upwards1 in a circle of six or eight miles3 there seems1 therefore1 little need of itinerating according to your idea of the word2 but you may think to how little an extent all that the whole of the missionaries now in ,india can do is likely to be felt4 ,yet the day1 ,i am certain1 has dawned that will never set till all ,india shall see the glory of the ,lord4 8,of my own proceedings1 ,i have little to say2 my native school consists of ten2 four of whom can say the whole of ,watts's scripture catechism 7but indeed one of the four has just left me to go to his friends who live far away74 ,i read the scriptures and prayers in ,hindoostanee with them in the school-house every morning1 and am helped greatly in these exercises1 by the youth ,i have mentioned1 of ,european descent4 ,since ,september1 we have had worship in ,hindoostanee2 in church on a ,sunday afternoon1 fifty or sixty native ,christians sometimes attend1 and usually thirty or forty2 my own people have learned to sing translations of psalms and hymns to ,english tunes3 they are very fond of them1 though ,i know the poetry is very poor3 ,i hope an ,indian ,watts may be raised up ere long1 to regulate the psalmody of the ,indian church4 8,you would wish to know what success ,i perceive in the midst of our labours4 ,of the ,europeans1 about fifteen or sixteen have been added to our society during the last year3 of the natives1 ,i cannot speak so certainly4 ,one servant of our own has been piously inclined sometime1 and ,i hope he is now a decided character2 and one1 whom you would call a footman1 who used to have all the vanity and foppery of that class at home1 is become attentive1 not only to his employment1 but serious in worship1 and diligent in reading at leisure hours4 ,i have a particular regard for this youth1 and shall greatly rejoice in his turning to ,god3 he is married1 has good natural talents1 is of a pleasing appearance2 and though one is often short-sighted and deceived1 ,i fancy he would make a good missionary1 if he had a heart to it1 which ,i often pray may be granted him4 8,i must not forget to tell you how happy ,i am at my beloved sister's having commenced a school for native christian girls4 ,she has so far mastered the language as to be able to read ,hindoostanee easily1 and to understand it pretty well4 ,the little girls work as little girls do at home1 and say a lesson1 and learn the ,assembly's shorter ,catechism1 which ,i translated long ago1 and by frequent corrections have got nearly worthy of printing4 ,these things were hardly ever thought of for women in this country3 now and then among the ,mahomedans1 a woman is found who can read1 but ,i have not heard that this is ever the case among the ,hindoos4 8,at leisure hours1 ,i am abridging ,milner's ,church ,history1 and have finished the first two centuries1 and even translated about half the first3 the scholars ,i have had so long are growing great lads1 and want something now beyond mere school-books3 one is a promising boy1 and the others are as children at that age usually are40 ,the expectation which this letter shews ,mr4 ,corrie to have entertained of his recovery from the illness1 under which he had been suffering during the preceding six months1 turned out not to be well founded4 ,although he had latterly been somewhat more attentive to his health1 yet the disease of the liver now returned upon him with increased severity1 and altogether laid him aside from public duty4 ,yet in a letter to ,mr4 ,simeon1 dated early in ,november1 #ahaa1 ,mr4 ,c4 writes3-- 8,one expression in it a letter from ,mr4 ,s4 has brought before me an entirely new train of ideas respecting my duty in the ministry4 ,you express thankfulness1 that you are enabled to do the little you do now1 compared with former exertions4 ,i perceive it is an inexpressible favour to be employed in the ,lord's service at all2 and instead of being uneasy at not being able to do more1 ,i ought to be thankful for some health1 and inclination to do something2 and when health is withdrawn1 it is as much a duty to suffer1 as in health to do1 the ,lord's will4 ,alas6 ,i seem to arrive so slowly at proper views of divine things1 that opportunity is gone before properly understood40 ,with reference to a friend1 who after having decided on going to ,india as a chaplain1 changed his mind1 as the time for his leaving ,england approached1 ,mr4 ,corrie adds3-- 8,mr4 ,l's family ,i know1 and regret that he has withdrawn his hand from the plough4 ,it is true1 that the pain of separation from relatives1 and dear1 dear ,britain1 can be known only to those who have endured it2 but truly an hundred-fold recompense attends it4 ,no one can understand the pangs ,i endured1 at times1 between the time when first1 in your rooms1 the idea of carrying the gospel to heathen lands took possession of my mind1 and the period of my leaving ,england4 ,yet dear as all the places1 persons1 and privileges enjoyed at home still are1 ,i would not return to them on any consideration ,i am at present acquainted with4 ,here the light of the glow-worm even is splendid1 so gross is the surrounding darkness2 and every stone put into moral order is so much rescued from chaos40 ,the following extract from ,mr4 ,c4's ,journal will explain the nature of the communings which he held1 at this time1 with his own heart3-- 8,sunday1 ,nov4 #agth4 ,i am prevented this day from attending public worship4 ,o1 that ,i were more alive to the importance of the ministry1 and more fitted for the sacred duties of it4 ,i do not lament1 as ,i ought1 the interruption of any duty1 nor am humbled1 as ,i ought to be1 under the mighty hand of ,god4 ,i think that the world and the fear of man have less hold1 of me but am afraid it is more from a spirit of misanthropy than faith4 ,i see the folly of natural men3 ,i feel the best of creatures to be miserable comforters2 ,i fear ,i despise them1 rather than look above them to ,god4 ,how deeply do ,i perceive and feel1 that nothing but the power of ,god can make me #8a right spirit1' or #8create in me a clean heart4' ,may the ,almighty ,god1 the ,lord1 whose office it is to quicken the souls of men1 renew my whole body1 soul and spirit1 and command a blessing upon those around me1 who all need his influence as much as ,i do myself2 some to be converted1 some to be guided in the narrow way2 one and all to be fitted for heaven60 ,the continued absence of ,mr4 ,martyn from ,india1 induced the government to appoint another chaplain to ,cawnpore1 without1 however1 superseding ,mr4 ,m4 ,this1 therefore1 left ,mr4 ,corrie at liberty to proceed to ,calcutta1 for the purpose of recruiting his health4 ,as1 however1 it was not unlikely that the new chaplain might think it his duty to confine his ministrations exclusively to the ,europeans at ,cawnpore1 it became desirable to provide for the carrying on of those missionary operations for the instruction of the native christians and others1 which had been originated by ,mr4 ,martyn4 ,the idea of training up a class of scripture-readers for that purpose1 presented itself to the mind of ,mr4 ,corrie and his friends at ,cawnpore3 and in this they seem to have anticipated a project to the same effect which had been about that time adopted by the ,society for ,missions to ,africa and the ,east1 at the suggestion of their corresponding committee in ,calcutta4#gi ,with this purpose in view1 therefore1 ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,sherwood had for some time been learning the language of the country1 and had been teaching a class of natives and half-castes to read the ,hindoostanee1 that these might become readers of the word of ,god to their heathen1 as well as to their christian brethren4 ,it was with reference to this1 among other matters connected with his removal from ,cawnpore that ,mr4 ,c4 writes ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,d4 ,,brown4 8,cawnpore1 ,dec4 #c1 #ahaa4 8,i do now purpose1 ,d4 ,v4 to bend my course to ,calcutta1 at the close of the cold weather2 which will be just two months from this4 ,a constant head-ache oppresses me1 and makes it necessary to avoid the violence of the hot winds2 but ,i could not be better even in ,england1 at this season1 than here2 and till ,e4 arrives1 ,i cannot move2 and he will not be here till relieved by the ,chaplains from below4 ,your letter of yesterday rejoiced us all exceedingly--the reading scheme ,i had determined to pursue1 to the utmost of my ability4 ,we had prevented your views on the subject1 by measures for continuing the gospel here4 ,one of the ,christian youths that has been with me almost five years1 has been induced of his own accord to offer himself to this work4 ,he seems truly pious1 and labours indefatigably to qualify himself to teach others4 ,he is about twenty years of age1 and under the management of the ,sherwoods will be one of your first readers4 ,another of the boys is better qualified than the above1 but is not old enough2 he gives every evidence of seriousness4 ,another of the boys is as forward in learning2 but ,i have no hope at present1 that his mind is at all under the influence of what he learns4 ,i have seen no occasion for any ,committee for the management of this affair4 ,take the whole management of it yourself2 especially as the less that is said of it among the ,english the better4 ,no one can find fault with me1 or any individual1 for supporting readers2 but the ,alarmists would be up in arms1 if they heard of supplies from home1 appropriated to such a purpose4 8,i know not how to account for the story of the ,pilgrim4 ,i was asked about such a book by some ,natives1 when ,i was at ,chunar3 ,i think it must be a work of a former ,roman ,catholic ,missionary1 of whom ,i have heard1 and who seems to have been a true ,evangelist4 ,i know the ,christians of ,bettiah have a book1 written in the way of a ,dialogue1 in which the errors of the ,brahmins are refuted4 ,the ,pilgrim1 by ,mrs4 ,sherwood1 ,i translated in part1 but ,fitrut got so angry with it at last1 he would not go on2 and the copier1 who is a ,hindoo1 said he should be obliged to give ten rupees in a feast to the ,brahmins1 to atone for his fault in writing such a book4444 ,fitrut is to-day employed on ,isaiah lxiii4 ,he has for some time been very much out of humour2 a perfect comment on the apostle's words1 #8hateful and hating4' ,i let him fume1 till his ill-humour is evaporated1 when he becomes humble4 ,he has been in to-day1 to beg he may go with me to ,calcutta4 #8,in heaven or in earth1 he has none but me to depend on2 and he cannot be happy if ,i leave him behind4' ,i told him ,i have no authority to take him down1 and no boat-hire to give him4 ,he said1 #8he would pay his own boat-hire1 if you should not see fit to give it him1 when he got to ,calcutta4' ,i told him1 #8he must not expect anything of the kind3' and so he left me4 ,the ,roman ,catholic ,priest is over from ,lucknow1 and seems greatly altered from last year4 ,he now professes to be desirous his people should be taught to read the ,scriptures2 and ,i hope we shall get something established under his inspection4 ,it is true he has little appearance of serious religion2 but he affects at least great indifference to the sign of the cross1 c41 and may serve as a drawer of water for the temple-service4 ,he has taken away a copy of ,genesis for himself1 which1 he says1 he will read and expound in church40 ,and in another letter to ,mr4 ,brown1 of somewhat later date1 ,mr4 ,c4 observes3-- 8,we have been expecting to hear from you about the reading system1 and especially we have been longing for news about the printing of ,martyn's ,translation4 ,mr4 ,e4 is on his way to this place1 and will be here about the #ajth proximo4 ,the work we wish to carry on will1 ,i fear1 suffer1 especially among the ,light ,dragoons4 ,there is a little leaven evidently implanted there2 some of them begin to assemble for reading and prayer2 but they are only as children beginning to walk1 and ,i see no one to take them by the hand3 but the ,lord will provide4 ,we are got into a plan that promises well1 if pursued4 ,i say we1 for you know my helpers of the #ecrd2 and ,mrs4 ,d4 of the ,light ,dragoons1 has been induced to offer herself to superintend the school of the ,light ,dragoons4 ,i have added questions and scripture proofs to the ,church ,catechism1 which the children are getting off4 ,at ,christmas1 we had the children of both regiments at church1 to be catechised1 and my sister gave them tea and cake4 ,we had several to see them1 and it was the most festive day that has been known here4 ,i am sure ,i have never felt so attached to any place as this2 yet it appears to me that ,i should not remain here4 ,the ,hindoostanee worship will be carried on under the inspection of ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,sherwood4 ,the youth ,i mentioned labours diligently to qualify himself for instructing the children and women1 and appears more and more devoted to the work in spirit and in truth4 ,at this time there are on these premises 7i4 e4 on ,sherwood's farm7 about twenty children learning to read the ,hindoostanee gospels4 ,we are greatly perplexed for books for them1 though no time has yet been lost with them4 8,i am beginning to pack up ,martyn's books2 but have not disposed of his house yet4 ,indeed ,i am loth to think he will not come back to this place2 you well know how much the funds of the ,bible ,society may suffer if there be no one here to recommend the subject3 and1 indeed1 the disposition of the ,british in these parts1 in general1 towards the evangelization of ,india1 will be no little affected by the opinions held at this large station4 ,this makes me greatly desire ,martyn's return hither4 ,but have you1 or has any one in ,calcutta1 heard from him lately8 ,we have begun here to lose our care for the objects of his journey1 in the care for himself40 ,respecting the progress of the translation1 ,mr4 ,c4 adds3-- 8,fitrut left me about ,new-year's-day1 for ,benares1 and parted by no means friends4 ,he was at ,lucknow1 ,july1 ,august1 and ,september3 in ,october he came back and went on well with his work till ,november #bjth1 he then came to say1 he wished to go to ,benares1 ,i begged him to finish ,isaiah1 of which only a few chapters remained4 ,he wanted to borrow money also1 which ,i refused1 as ,i know he is not in want1 but has many hundred ,rupees out at interest4 ,he went on sullenly till the end of the year1 doing only the few remaining chapters of ,isaiah4 ,i wished him to have #ajj ,rupees for forty chapters1 which he refused3 so at length ,i was obliged to say1 #8,i should expect the whole to be done in four months'4 ,he then asked1 if his salary was not to be continued till ,martyn's return8 ,i told him1 if he would stay and help me in my ,catechisms1 c41 his pay should be continued1 but that ,i could not think of going on in the trifling way he had been doing lately4 ,he then talked of applying personally to you1 with a vast deal of nonsense about sharing in the profits of the ,translation1 c4 ,i told him1 you had not sent for him2 that he must not expect boat-hire1 or any indulgence from you3 and thus we parted4 ,i have sent him this month's salary through ,mr4 ,robinson1 but hear nothing further of him or of his ,translation4 ,i have got the whole of the ,old ,testament from him to the end of ,isaiah1 and bound up in small volumes4 8,you will by this time have heard of or seen ,mrs4 ,h4 ,they were here the first ,sunday in the ,new-year4 ,i preached on the uncertainty of life1 not knowing she was in church4 ,the subject affected her greatly1 but she was in a most heavenly temper of mind4 ,i fear her end is near4 ,may my end be like hers6 ,o1 how little can the world spare such lovely examples of piety2 but he who gave her as a light for a season1 can raise up other more numerous instruments to shew forth ,his praise4 8,when we shall be able to leave this ,i cannot say4 ,i have five months' leave of absence from the #ajth of ,february40 ,but before ,mr4 ,corrie left ,cawnpore1 a portion of his ,european congregation was called into active service1 by some disturbances in ,bundelkund4 ,it was on the day before ,christmas-day that he parted with the soldiers who were members of 8the society10 so often mentioned2 and in recording this circumstance1 he adds that many of them were persons whose 8light so shone before men10 that1 he trusted 8glory was brought to ,god thereby40 ,he seems to have been much depressed in spirit on the occasion2 and was made more deeply sorrowful by the intelligence which reached him early in the following ,february1 that some of his military friends had fallen in an unsuccessful attempt to gain possession of ,callinger1 an extensive hill-fort1 about #aej miles from ,cawnpore4 ,mr4 ,c's first impulse1 on hearing of this disaster1 was to proceed direct from ,banda1 7where he then happened to be7 to the scene of action1 for the purpose of attending to the wounded men2 but being unable to obtain any 8help for the journey10 he reluctantly returned back to ,cawnpore4 ,he states himself1 however1 to have 8felt as if he had neglected his duty2 or1 at least1 had been sadly deficient in ,christian love40 ,he1 therefore1 writes1 on the #aath4 ,feb4 #ahab3-- 8,i had prepared all to set off into ,bundelkund on ,monday ,feb4 #i4 when news came of all being settled4 8,god grant that the impression made on some may be lasting6 ,and1 ,o1 may ,i have grace to give myself to follow the ,lord fully1 and to be ready to every good word and work6 ,i have been considering my unprofitableness this morning1 and have much reason for deep humiliation40 ,and under date of ,friday1 ,feb4 #acth4 ,mr4 ,c4 observes3-- 8,from the conversation in the ,society this evening1 it appears that most of the men had their minds exercised with thoughts of death during the late march4 ,a4 ,h4 sent word #8that his mind was more refreshed with the considerations of the grace of ,god1 and love of ,christ1 than ever he experienced before2 that one morning especially1 whilst marching along1 he felt such a hatred and weariness of sin1 that the hope of being speedily removed from the seeing1 hearing1 and feeling of it1 was highly agreeable to him4' ,here was real and rational courage40 ,the chaplain who had been appointed to supersede ,mr4 ,corrie at ,cawnpore1 having arrived toward the end of ,february #ahab1 and entered on the duties of the station1 ,mr4 ,c4 made immediate arrangements for his journey to ,calcutta4 ,he lingered for a short time in the hope of being able to see some of the soldiers who were expected back from ,callinger1 but failing in this1 he left ,cawnpore on ,friday the #bhth of ,february1 having first placed four native youths and a native ,christian reader under the direction of ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,sherwood4 ,the young person of ,european descent1 of whom mention often occurs in the preceding ,journal and letters1 accompanied ,mr4 ,c4 to ,calcutta1 in order that he might there follow out the study of ,greek and ,latin1 with a view to his being afterwards employed as a missionary4 ,respecting the religious condition of the native congregation which ,mr4 ,c41 left at ,cawnpore1 he observes1 under date of ,march #a1 #ahab3-- 8,in ,september last1 we began ,hindoostanee worship1 which has been attended sometimes by fifty or sixty1 but irregularly1 and generally by about twenty-five4 ,i have read among them ,genesis1 with the ,gospel of ,st4 ,matthew4 ,left ,goon#hj reading ,exodus1 and the ,acts4 ,i had translated ,henry's ,commentary on many parts of ,genesis1 which is left with ,mrs4 ,s4 ,some of the women had learned more or less of the shorter ,catechism1 and one the whole of it1 and had been baptized and married3 several of the people manifested great concern at my coming away4 ,i ought to feel more thankful1 and may well have great searchings of heart on my own account4 ,i have done much duty as to quantity1 of late2 but have much cause for humiliation in respect of the formal manner of doing it4 ,o ,lord6 enliven me1 and let me be enabled to profit by this journey6 ,enable me to be a witness for ,thee in every place2 and to fit myself for further usefulness by due observation of ,thy providences6 ,restore me to health1 if it be ,thy will1 that ,i may shew forth ,thy praises60 ,as ,mr4 ,corrie was now passing through the scenes of his former labours1 some portions of his ,journal are subjoined4 8,march #h4 ,above ,mirzapore1 last night1 when on shore1 ,i observed a ,brahmin at his devotions1 and wished to enter into discourse with him4 ,after some questions1 ,i asked him1 #8,what benefit he expected from his devotions8' ,another ,brahmin answered1 #8,what but that ,narsingha should supply food to fill his belly4' ,i observed1 #8that many who never made poojah#ha were supplied with food3' ,he said1 #8,if any would make poojah he might serve us1 and we would provide for him2 but they that lived there by themselves made poojah1 and ,narsingha provided for them4' ,but ,i asked1 #8,in the world to come what do you expect from your devotions8' ,to this he answered1 #8,who knows what will be in the life to come8' ,one of my ,dandees on this said1 #8,sahib asks about your ,shasters and your religion3 he is a ,brahmin among the ,english as you are3 he marries1 says his prayers1 and gives to the poor as you do1 if not1 why should he enquire about your religion1 who else of the ,english would enquire8' 8#aeth ,march4 ,i have to-day been officiating to the congregation in the new ,church at ,secrole3 on going1 had felt thankful for being permitted to worship in this place1 and prayed that it might be indeed a house of prayer4 ,o may the ,lord grant a blessing to his own truth1 and bring many sons unto glory at ,chunar6 ,on ,wednesday1 had public worship at ,church for the ,english and ,hindoostanee2 many attended4 ,i was grieved at the spirit manifested by ,mr4 ----and others there4 ,the bitterness of their spirit is what ,i lament1 and their contempt of all subordination4 ,o may my own soul be more attentive to obey my ,lord in spirit and in truth6 ,i seldom enjoy nearness to ,god3 ,i do not walk closely with him1 but suffer company1 reading1 and undue indulgence of myself to interfere with time of devotion4 ,lord1 ,i beseech thee to enable me to lay aside every weight1 and to run1 looking unto ,jesus6 8,sunday1 ,march #bbnd4 ,at ,chunar1 ,serjeant ,williams' wife1 on my asking her if she yet knew the way of acceptance with ,god1 answered1 #8,it is through ,jesus ,christ3 ,he is1 indeed1 himself the way2 and ,i continue day and night in the consideration and expectation of his mercy4' ,at ,buxar1 an old woman who seems in a dying state1 on my asking her how sin could be forgiven1 said1 #8,surely in no way but through the ,lord ,jesus ,christ2 ,he took our nature upon him1 and endured suffering and death for our sins1 and now through the mercy of ,god we shall be saved4' ,i asked her what she thought of the employment of heaven8 ,she said #8,she should there see the ,lord ,jesus1 and love and worship him for ever2 and that those who do not love and worship him on earth cannot enter heaven4'0 ,in a letter to ,mr4 ,brown1 dated #fth4 of ,april1 after mentioning several of the foregoing particulars respecting the state of things at ,chunar and ,buxar1 ,mr4 ,corrie adds3-- 8,during the short stay ,i made at ,gazeepore1 ,i could find never a vestige of dear ,martyn's labours4 ,one man expressed great love for his former pastor1 but lamented that all are fallen into decay4 ,perhaps the latent spark may again be lighted up1 if they again come under #8the joyful sound2' but1 ,o1 what are they doing at home1 that none are found to come and help us80 ,the recurrence of his birth-day was not forgotten by ,mr4 ,c4 as an occasion for self-examination and thanksgiving4 8,april #aath4 ,yesterday1 ,i was thirty-five years old2 the day did not pass unnoticed1 though ,i fall sadly short in the spirit with which ,i would serve ,god at all times4 ,i praise ,him who hath kept me wonderfully of late1 so that though ,i am conscious of many falls1 yet he hath raised me up1 and restored my soul1 and made me watchful3 ,i have devoted myself anew to the ,lord my ,saviour1 and hope my conscience witnesses truly that to me to live is ,christ1 though in no one duty do ,i live as ,i ought3 the heathen especially ,i would live and die with4 ,i praise ,god who renews my bodily strength3 to ,him would ,i surrender myself4 ,o give me to live more simply by faith in ,jesus1 and to live a life of closet communion with the ,father and the ,son60 ,in a like happy and watchful spirit1 ,mr4 ,c4 continued to pursue his journey3-- 8,sunday1 ,april #aith4 ,during the last week1 ,i have been in the ,muta-bangha ,nulla1#hb the shore on either side presents a gaudy1 flattering view2 ,i have in general been enabled to keep in mind the harbour of eternity1 and trust to attain to the desired haven through the abounding grace of ,god the ,saviour4 ,this morning ,i was a good deal favoured in prayer2 may the savour of thy grace1 ,o ,lord1 remain with me6 ,o how much to be desired are thy courts3 how happy the men who1 with joyful experience of thy grace are always praising ,thee3 one day1 ,o ,lord1 in thy heavenly sanctuary1 ,o how will it blot out the remembrance of all the trials and conflicts attending this militant state4 8,tuesday4 ,from the very winding course of the stream1 we are not yet at ,chinsurah3 ,i hope to reach there this forenoon3 yesterday ,i was unable to attend to any thing1 and am much the same to-day3 the journey thus finishes miserably4 ,i forget mercies in a manner that ought to humble me exceedingly1 and become in consequence1 a prey to temptation4 ,instead of being thankful for preservation c41 ,i kick against the hand that upholds me1 so that ,i must close with acknowledging it to be #8of the ,lord's mercy that ,i am not consumed2' and #8what shall ,i render unto the ,lord8' 8#bbnd4 ,arrived yesterday about four at ,chinsurah1 and passed the evening with ,mr4 ,forsyth3 learned many gratifying particulars from him respecting the progress of the gospel2 and had much profitable conversation on the signs of the times4 ,o may ,i have that preparation of heart which is from the ,lord1 that my journey may not be in vain6 ,thanks to the ,lord1 who healeth my bodily infirmities2 and ,i trust1 my spiritual ones also4 ,o may ,i have grace to give myself wholly to him60 #gf ,the missionary mentioned in p4 #di1 and who died of fever at ,vizagapatam1 ,july #ab1 #ahaj4 ,hough's ,history of ,christianity in ,india1 vol4 iv4 pp4 #bfe1 c4 #gg ,after relating this circumstance1 in a letter to ,mr4 ,simeon1 ,mr4 ,c4 adds1 8,the ,edinburgh ,reviewers need not be alarmed1 for he is a man of superior understanding1 as well as superior piety1 and will neither profane the temple1 nor insult the ,brahmins40 #gh ,mirza ,fitrut4 #gi ,proceedings of the ,society for ,missions to ,africa and the ,east1 ,vol4 iii4 pp4 #bch-bdb1 #dbf4 #hj ,a native ,christian reader4 #ha ,worship4 #hb ,one of the channels which connects the ,ganges with the ,hooghley4 ,,chapter ,x4 ,,calcutta4 ,on the #bdth of ,april #ahab1 ,mr4 ,corrie arrived in ,calcutta1 and took up his abode with ,mr4 ,thomason4 ,he found his friend ,mr4 ,brown in a very debilitated state of health4 ,during the preceding six months1 ,mr4 ,b's strength had been manifestly failing2 but now his illness had assumed so threatening an aspect1 that a sea-voyage was recommended as the only human means1 that promised to ward off the danger of death4 ,mr4 ,brown accordingly consented to make trial of that remedy2 and having expressed a great desire that ,mr4 ,corrie should accompany him in the voyage1 the two friends left ,calcutta early in ,may1 and on the #adth of that month1 embarked on board the ,dover ,castle1 with the intention to visit ,madras4 ,the first effect of the sea-air was beneficial to both4 ,respecting his friend1 ,mr4 ,corrie observed3-- 8,mr4 ,brown1 since his coming on board is much recovered1 though still very weak4 ,he has1 at times a great deal of his former wit1 and sound sense in conversation4 ,he observed1 that he had generally found considerable scrupulosity attended with little understanding1 and some defect in morality40 ,this record is dated on the #agth of ,may3 and on the #cjth1 ,mr4 ,corrie writes3-- 8,many events have taken place since writing the above1 which ,i would remember4 ,we lay at ,saugur till the #bcrd4 during that time ,i was much occupied about ,mr4 ,b4 and cabins1 c4 ,i had time1 however1 to get near some of those around me2 our discourse was all upon religion3 on the #bcrd41 we weighed anchor1 and went down to the first buoy3 on ,sunday the #bdth1 owing to the confusion attending heaving the anchor1 c41 we could not have worship4 ,i employed myself most of the morning in reading ,paley's ,sermons4 ,mr4 ,b4 was too ill to attend to any thing2 about #b o'clock on that day1 as ,mr4 ,b4 and ,i were talking1 we perceived the ship to touch ground2 and1 after two or three scrapings of that kind1 fairly stick fast3 all appeared alarmed on deck2 the masts were ready to go over-board1 and the decks began to heave3 during this time the rudder broke off3 in about half an hour we were carried into deep water1 but obliged to anchor1 the ship being unmanageable3 she was found to leak1 and all hands ordered to the pumps3 on her first striking1 ,mr4 ,b4 quietly observed1 8,it is the ,lord1 let him do as seemeth him good20 then quietly putting on his clothes1 we came up into the captain's cabin1 and remained there all the time3 on ,monday1 we attempted to float up with the tide1 but the wind failing1 the ship went toward the sand1 and the anchor was lost3 in consequence of this all became dismayed1 and it was recommended that the ,colonel and ,lady ,elizabeth ,murray1 with ,mr4 ,b4 and myself1 should go on board the pilot schooner2 we went accordingly1 but here great troubles awaited us4 ,mr4 ,b4 fainted through fatigue2 and as there was only one private cabin1 he would not take it1 but remained on deck the whole of that day and night1 and till the evening of ,tuesday1 when we were taken on board the ,baring3 here we had a quiet night1 and next day ,mr4 ,b4 appeared quite revived2 but the following night1 having got chilled in his sleep1 he arose very unwell1 and from what ,i observed1 ,i first began to think he would not recover3 on ,friday1 we got up to ,fulta1 where ,mr4 ,b4 again appeared better1 but having been worse during ,saturday night1 he resolved to come to ,calcutta on ,sunday1 where he now is1 in a very weak state1 at ,mr4 ,harrington's4 ,during all these changes1 ,i have felt little of either hope or fear1 pleasure or pain2 the plague of a hard heart has seized me4 ,god grant me never to think well of myself1 till ,i can feel more of his hand in my daily history6 ,this insensibility began on going on board the yacht1 where my retirements were interrupted1 and my time broken up2 being hourly with ,mr4 ,b41 and constantly on the watch to wait upon him1 destroyed my time on board2 and now1 ,o ,lord1 ,i would return to ,thee1 do thou quicken me1 as thou art wont6 ,i found the evening prayers in church very grateful on ,sunday1 and the sermon suitable4 ,god6 ,i thank thee for these visits3 ,o enable me to remember them thankfully6 ,the general temper of ,mr4 ,b4 was deep humiliation2 the penitential psalms he said were just suited to him1 and often he praised ,god for his word1 and for the record of his dealings with his saints3 often he said1 #8the ,lord's will is best2 ,his way is best1 ,his time is best2 ,he doeth all things well6' ,he said1 #8a man does not know the wickedness of his heart till he grows old3' he had been more sensible of ,satan's attacks during the last two years than at any period of his life3 the ,office for visiting the ,sick he often read1 and expressed his feeling of how suitable it was40 ,fatigue and exposure to the weather1 added to the want of sustenance proper for an invalid1 so worked upon the exhausted frame of ,mr4 ,brown1 that notwithstanding all that medical skill and the attention of friends could do for him1 he closed his mortal career within about a fortnight of his return to ,calcutta4 ,as regarded ,mr4 ,corrie1 his health still required that he should try the efficacy of a sea-voyage1 and therefore he made arrangements for embarking for the ,isle of ,france1 at the beginning of ,july4 ,in the meanwhile1 however1 he was occupied in various clerical duties1 and paid the last tribute of affection to his deceased friend1 ,mr4 ,brown1 by a funeral sermon preached in the ,presidency church4 ,with reference to this and the circumstances connected with his intended voyage1 ,mr4 ,c4 remarks3-- 8,diamond ,harbour1 ship ,bengal1 merchantman1 ,july #e1 #ahab4 ,since my last memoranda1 how many striking events have occurred1 and how little1 alas1 improved6 8,on the fourteenth of ,june1 ,mr4 ,b4 departed this life4 ,i have learned1 from this event1 the absolute necessity of keeping the mind in a humble1 waiting posture4 ,lord1 may ,i watch and pray1 and have patience to endure1 that ,i may inherit the promises4 ,i have had frequent public ministrations2 amongst others1 preached on the twenty-fifth in the new church1 a funeral sermon for ,mr4 ,b41 it had the effect of removing prejudice from the minds of some2 the enmity of ---- is too apparent1 but he can go no further than permitted4 ,o ,lord1 look in mercy on the congregation at the new church1 and take not the light of thy truth from them6 ,the frequent calls into the heat1 with many interruptions1 rendered it needful for me to seek change1 and behold ,i am here1 ,i think by the will of ,god4 ,i hope to get rid of the disease of the liver1 but the failure of my lungs1 ,i am conscious of1 will not be so easily repaired4 8,i am in the ,lord's hands4 ,agra seems on all accounts best fitted for me1 presenting less labour among ,europeans1 and more opportunities of schools1 c4 among the natives4 ,lord1 bring me thither1 if it be thy will6 8,july #abth4 ,i have been detained here beyond my expectations2 my mind generally at peace through ,jesus ,christ4 ,i have humbled myself1 and renewed my repentance1 and trust ,i am at peace through the blood of sprinkling4 ,during the week have had many conversations with ,p42 and1 ,i hope1 with good effect2 he has been extracting the passages that refer to ,justification1 and said last night1 he is determined to give the subject thorough consideration4 ,in prayer ,i have had more freedom than on shore1 and have been led1 from reflecting on ,god's care of his church1 to pray for the enlargement of it in ,india40 ,whilst detained on the shores of ,india1 ,mr4 ,corrie received a letter from ,mr4 ,buckworth1 which called forth the following reply3-- 8,july #bj1 #ahab4 8,a letter of your's without date1 reached me yesterday1 and delighted me much4 ,i have had many apprehensions respecting your continuance in this #8vale of tears3#8--fears for myself and for your flock and family1 not for yourself4 ,i trust that as it is better for us that you should remain2 you will be given to us for a season longer4 8,you and ,i have both erred in excess of labour2 we know who hath said1 8,i will have mercy and not sacrifice40 ,i do not1 however1 regret having done what ,i could4 ,it is here1 ,i trust1 we do not presume in expecting pardon for our iniquities2 and though we might have served our generation more effectually by simple dependence on the promised blessing1 on quiet unconsuming labour1 we may hope when our head is laid low1 others shall enter into our labours4 ,the prospect in this land is indeed very discouraging on this head4 ,government continues its determined opposition to every thing tending to bring the light of the ,gospel before the heathen4 ,it is now1 also1 a melancholy consideration that so many of their native subjects1 bearing the ,christian name1 are left to #8perish for lack of knowledge4' ,would to ,god something might be done on this subject in the new settlement of the ,charter6 ,surely the religious public at home1 will make an effort to bring the circumstances of the ,indian ,church before ,parliament4 8,i am highly gratified by the account of your young friends who have devoted themselves to missionary labour4 #8,say unto them1 be strong1 fear not4' ,how earnestly do ,i wish a way were opened for them to this land2 how gladly would ,i hail them as brethren2 but1 unless they could come in some way accredited from home1 such is the state of things here1 ,i could not serve them much4 ,there is no hindrance cast in my own way1 but such as the ,gospel meets with every where2 but what ,i mean is1 that very little could be done to procure the consent of ,government to their stay1 unless they had leave from home4 ,by the ,charter1 the ,company ought to have schoolmasters as well as ,chaplains for their ,european regiments2 could none of the ,london friends procure schoolmasters to be sent here8 ,mr4 ,thomason is greatly in want of an assistant in the old church1 ,calcutta2 could not one of your young friends get ordained1 and come over to us8 ,whilst ,mr4 ,brown was alive1 ,mr4 ,thomason had help2 now he stands alone in ,calcutta4 ,besides1 the #8,society for ,missions to ,africa and the ,east1' want to send a missionary to ,ceylon1 a most important field of labour4 ,i would urge their coming to this land1 if a way were opened1 in preference to ,africa1 because here the natives are not sanguinary1 and the land is under ,european government2 and also1 because though ,i have lost my health1 and others also1 yet ,i think another who should follow my advice might here live to the age of man1 notwithstanding the difference of climate4 ,mr4 ,desgranges destroyed himself2 #8the zeal of ,god's house ate him up1' ,i think may be said of this member of ,christ1 in his measure2 and the same of beloved and honoured ,martyn4 ,notwithstanding the opposition of ,government1 a work is working in this land1 which the despisers wonder at1 and know not how to resist4 ,the public sentiment appeared gloriously on the foundation of the ,calcutta ,auxiliary ,bible ,society2 even those who oppose officially1 saying they obey orders from home1 cannot resist the ,christian argument in behalf of the many already baptized4 ,missions have uniformly been discouraged by the ,british government here1 yet we find ten or twelve thousand converts among their subjects2 and now many1 very many of our ,british fellow-subjects here are awakened seriously to their own state1 and to a sense of the duty we owe them4 ,some young officers1 ,i know1 have schools in their own house1 where they educate the native christian children they find about them4 ,at every ,european station1 there are some of these children4 ,one married officer and his lady have collected about twenty1 and pray with them in ,hindoostanee every morning4 ,let these considerations1 my brother1 excite a spirit of prayer for us here2 among your young brethren1 at your quarterly meetings1 make mention of our affairs1 that we may have a place in your joint supplications2 and ,god grant that some of them may be led to offer themselves to the help of the ,lord60 ,then1 after mentioning some particulars respecting the state in which he left his flocks at ,cawnpore1 ,chunar and ,benares1 and which have already been related1 ,mr4 ,corrie proceeds3 8,what a dreary waste from ,benares to ,calcutta6 ,there are indeed1 several worthy individuals in that place2 but 8,the sound of the church-going bell ,these beautiful plains never heard2 ,never sighed at the sound of the knell1 ,nor smiled when a sabbath appeared40 8,mr4 ,martyn is in ,persia2 ,i heard from him1 dated ,march #bjth from ,shiraz2 he had finished a copy of the ,new ,testament1 and of the ,psalms1 in ,persian1 and was employed on the book of ,daniel3 he purposes going into ,arabia1 to prove specimens of ,arabic translation1 before his return4 ,i baptized four converts a few days ago1 the fruits of a ,native brother's labours1 who possesses good ministerial abilities1 and promises great usefulness4 ,of the ,baptists1 ,i may speak in a body4 ,their chief success is in ,calcutta1 where some1 in most months1 are added to them4 ,they have some brethren at ,agra2 some at ,dinapore1 or ,patna 7which are close together17 but ,i hear of none persuaded by them except a young officer1 who was awakened by some means at a distance from ,christian society1 and having none that he could advise with1 wrote to them2 and from one step to another seems now disposed to join them4 ,he has been persuaded to pause4 ,their labours in ,chinese and ,sanscrit are valuable1 because they have proper helps2 but their other productions are inferior4 ,of those who have joined them in ,calcutta1 it is no disparaging of their individual worth to say that they are mostly of inferior rank4 ,i hesitate not to say1 they prevail by legal considerations for the most part2 and ,i lament that their prejudices against the ,church of ,england will not suffer them to take one step beyond their own narrow enclosure4 ,but may the work of the ,lord1 as far as it is ,his work1 prosper in their hands1 no less than in ours3 and may we all be found one in ,christ ,jesus6 ,for myself1 ,i write this on board of ship in ,saugur roads1 at the entrance of the river leading to ,calcutta4 ,i am going to sea on account of a liver-complaint1 which has afflicted me now upwards of three years1 and does not give way to medicine4 ,i am told1 it has not yet injured my constitution1 but ministerial labours completely counteract the effects of medicine1 so that ,i can only hope for a cure from rest and change of air4 ,i feel it a duty to try these2 and for this purpose came down from ,cawnpore40 ,scarcely had ,mr4 ,corrie put to sea1 when he again had to encounter the perils of the deep4 ,writing on the #cast ,july1 he remarks3-- 8,on the #bgth it began to blow a gale1 which continued the whole day with great violence3 and though its violence abated in the evening1 it has been blowing weather ever since4 ,yesterday1 we were obliged to heave overboard #cgj bags of rice1 it having got damaged from the water we shipped continually1 and gave the ship so great a lurch that we were afraid she would sink1 the pumps not being able to keep her clear4 ,on ,monday especially1 our danger was apparent1 and my mind was at first a good deal discomposed4 ,i retired to my cabin1 and on a review could say that ,i have not wasted my health in self-pleasing1 that however mixed my services have been with sinful motives1 yet the furtherance of the gospel has been my chief aim1 and now ,i am here seeking renewal of strength1 much against my own inclination2 but at the urgent importunities of friends3 and if it please ,god to restore me1 ,i intend no other work or way but to serve ,him in the gospel of his ,son4 ,such reflections encouraged me to draw near with faith to ,god in ,christ4 ,i was favoured with freedom of access1 and by prayer and thanksgiving1 was enabled to #8cast my burden on the ,lord1' and to hope for and expect the preservation afforded4 ,i1 at the same time1 devoted my body1 soul1 and spirit anew to the service of ,god my ,saviour2 and ,i do now renew that dedication1 and purpose through thy strength1 ,o blessed ,saviour1 to know nothing1 and follow after nothing1 but the knowledge of my ,lord ,jesus ,christ1 and the diffusion of his blessed truth4 8,august #crd4 ,the wind still boisterous1 and often stormy2 this destroys our comfort with the poor attendance we have on board4 ,i endeavour to improve my mind by reading and conversation with ----1 who seems to come more and more into true notions on religion2 may grace be vouchsafed him1 that he may feel their importance1 and rest upon them6 ,during yesterday and to-day we have been returning to nearly our former way2 the wish of putting into some port has been much present with me1 and the hope of being able to return1 without going to the ,isle of ,france1 has made me too anxious4 ,o ,lord1 give me grace to be submissive to thine appointments6 ,i know not what is best3 thou1 ,lord well knowest3 ,o direct1 controul1 and support my soul6 ,the sight of the raging sea1 which at times made me feel powerfully the presence and majesty of ,god1 ceases to have that effect3 because others apprehend no danger1 ,i am ready to conclude there is none1 and so live without that looking unto ,jesus which is my duty and my privilege4 ,o ,lord1 though to human apprehension danger is not nigh2 yet my life is in thy hands1 and thine are all my ways2 and in the practice of these words ,i desire to live and die4 ,amen60 ,owing to this stormy weather1 contrary winds1 and a strong current1 the ship made but little way1 for after a fortnight's sailing1 ,mr4 ,corrie found himself no further on his voyage than the ,cacoas islands4 ,the captain then decided to retrace their course somewhat1 with a view to getting to the westward1 and that object was accomplished so far that toward the end of ,august1 the ship was slowly working her way down the coast1 and on the #fth of ,september entered the ,vizagapatam roads4 ,it appears however1 from ,mr4 ,corrie's ,journal1 that the prospect of a long and tedious voyage1 and the consequent uncertainty as to the time when he might get back again to ,india1 often #8filled his mind with painful anxiety4' ,the return1 too1 of former pains in his side1 he regarded as being chiefly occasioned by #8the want of regular food and exercise4' ,these and other considerations weighed so powerfully on his mind that for some time previously to coming within sight of the coast of ,india1 he had decided to abandon the voyage to the ,isle of ,france1 and to #8disembark at whatever port the ship might put in4' ,on reaching ,vizagapatam he carried that purpose into effect4 ,this place had then been occupied for about eight years as a central station by the ,london ,missionary ,society2 and was1 moreover1 a place of much interest to ,mr4 ,corrie1 as being the scene of the labours and death of ,mr4 ,desgranges1 who is so feelingly mentioned in the foregoing letter to ,mr4 ,buckworth4 ,here1 therefore1 ,mr4 ,corrie remained for more than a fortnight in the house of ,mr4 ,pritchett1 the ,london ,society's missionary4 ,during his stay at ,vizagapatam1 ,mr4 ,c4 notes on 8,september #bjth4 ,this day six years ,i arrived in ,calcutta3 ,i scarcely know what to say or think of the time gone by4 ,i feel myself an unprofitable servant4 ,my coldness in prayer2 my want of love to the ,bible2 my generally reading other books in its stead1 oppress me with a sense of guilt4 ,the favour shown me here is very humiliating1 being so much more than ,i deserve4 ,o ,god1 give me grace to know and do thy will1 and to delight in thy law60 ,mr4 ,corrie's departure from ,vizagapatam is noticed as follows3-- 8,september #bcrd4 ,on board the ship ,union1 leaving ,vizagapatam4 ,arrived here on the #fth1 wrote to ,mr4 ,pritchett1 and went on shore by invitation1 in the evening1 to their family worship4 ,i have been hospitably entertained ever since1 at the mission-house1 though owing to the lowness of the place1 and consequent heat1 ,i should have preferred a higher situation4 ,i have observed in general that the missionaries are men of true piety1 and of more candour than ,i expected3 they receive ten pagodas per month from ,government 7a pitiful sum17 for which they officiate as ,chaplain to the station2 but do not baptize or marry4 ,they have public worship in the court-house on ,sunday1 and at the house on top of the hill2 the attendance is generally good4#hc ,i officiated at the latter place the two ,sundays ,i was there4 ,on ,sunday last ,i administered the ,lord's ,supper to twelve2 and last night married a couple2 baptized eight children1 and preached in the court-house in the evening1 and afterwards administered the ,lord's ,supper to six4444 8,though the missionaries are doubtless good men1 yet ,i see decidedly the advantage men who have been brought up from youth with attention to learning1 have over them4 ,i suggested a native ,christian school1 and it will1 ,i expect1 be adopted2 and according to my views of the subject1 will supply a door of entrance among the heathen4 ,may ,i remember their ,christian love1 and be excited to imitate it6 ,may the remembrance of the attention shown me operate to render me more anxious to deserve it6 8,september #bdth4 ,last night we were obliged to come to anchor off ,vizagapatam4 ,this morning a slight breeze sprung up2 and we are now1 #d a4 m4 losing sight of hospitable ,waltere4 ,my heart1 ever cleaving to creatures1 viewed ,mr4 ,p's house several times during the day1 with regret at leaving it4444 ,i know1 ,o ,lord1 that thy salvation is life eternal1 and that in thy light alone does light and joy appear to the soul4 ,o ,lord my ,god1 lift upon me the light of thy countenance for the sake of thine ,anointed60 ,the following are also extracts from ,mr4 ,c's ,journal3-- 8,sunday1 #bgth ,sept4--,this has been a most unprofitable day2 the temper of those on board seems more removed from the christian temper than any thing ,i have seen4 ,a contemptuous disregard of every thing sacred reminds me continually of the caution not to cast pearls before swine2 yet let me not suffer sin upon my neighbour unreproved4 ,i have attempted to pray1 and have gone over the usual subjects2 but1 alas1 with little heart3 it occurred to me the increased number of names ,i have to mention ought to make me mark more decidedly the power of ,god towards me4 8,october #fth1--,below ,kedgeree4 ,during the last week1 ,i was occupied a good deal with some writings of ,madame de ,stael2 and could not but be thankful for more comfortable views of religious truth than she can afford3 ,i felt how absolutely absurd all her theories of happiness are1 and how insane her most exemplary characters4 ,at the same time1 ,i felt a fear lest any foolish pride of sentiment1 or fine feeling1 should tempt me to forsake the fountain of living waters1 and was led to pray with some fervency for a more simple regard to the word of ,god1 and more attention to it4 ,on ,sunday1 the #dth1 we fell in with a pilot1 and yesterday evening anchored in ,saugur roads4 ,to-day1 we are at anchor below ,kedgeree light-house4 ,i have felt much thankfulness for a safe return to this land4 ,i know not whether or not my side is well1 but feel that ,i am weaker than formerly2 easily affected by the heat1 and do not soon recover from the use of medicine4 ,i have1 however much reason to adore the love and kindness of ,god my ,saviour1 that this land1 once the land of banishment to me1 is become a land of promise4 ,i return to it not by constraint1 but as a home3 there are sisters1 brothers1 and dear friends in the ,lord1 to whom my soul cleaves1 and to whom ,i am welcome4 ,o my ,god1 surely ,i owe thee myself1 my soul and body6--,i have owed to thee my days2 thou hast delivered me from the great deep1 and my soul shall praise thee6 ,my work among the ,british1 my native schools and teaching1 to these employments ,i consecrate my days40 ,on the evening of ,thursday the #hth ,october #ahab1 ,mr4 ,corrie reached ,calcutta1 and on finding that ,mr4 ,thomason was laid aside from duty1 by an attack of illness1 ,mr4 ,c4 undertook the services at the ,old ,church for a few weeks1 until his friend should be convalescent4 ,it was not his desire1 however1 to remain long absent from his own station1 now that his health had been in a great measure restored to him1 and he1 therefore1 made preparations for proceeding to ,agra4 ,but before leaving ,calcutta1 ,mr4 ,c4 was united in marriage to ,elizabeth1 the only child of ,mr4 ,w4 ,myers1 a gentleman whose name has already occurred in these memoirs as among the friends of the ,rev4 ,d4 ,brown4 ,respecting ,miss ,myers1 the observation of ,mr4 ,thomason was1 in reference to her marriage with ,mr4 ,corrie1 that she was #8one who entered into all his missionary views1 and was indeed a help-meet for him4' ,it was now1 also1 that the ,christian friendship which subsisted throughout after-life between ,mr4 ,corrie and ,abdool ,messeeh1 may be said to have commenced2 for the sincerity of ,abdool's profession of the gospel having by this time been well proved1 it was decided that he should accompany ,mr4 ,corrie to ,agra1 as a ,scripture ,reader and ,catechist4 ,an outline of the history of this remarkable convert to the ,christian faith1 was drawn up at the time by ,mr4 ,corrie1#hd and has been frequently reprinted2 so that it would be superfluous1 in this place1 to do more than to supply such a brief sketch of ,abdool's earlier life1 as may serve for the elucidation of some particulars respecting him1 which are given below4 ,it will be remembered1 then1 that ,abdool was a native of ,delhi2 but that when arrived at man's estate he accompanied his family to ,lucknow2 being all the while a zealous ,mahomedan4 ,from thence he removed to ,cawnpore1 where he was so impressed by the preaching of ,mr4 ,martyn1 that he became a candidate for baptism1 accompanied ,mr4 ,m4 to ,calcutta1 and was1 after due probation1 admitted into the church of ,christ1 by ,mr4 ,brown1 on ,whit-,sunday1 #ahaa4 ,from that time until he joined ,mr4 ,corrie's family1 ,abdool lived in ,calcutta or the neighbourhood1 suffering much opposition from the ,mahomedans1 but being the instrument of much good to many of his countrymen4 ,at the latter end of ,november #ahab1 ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,corrie took leave of ,calcutta for ,agra1 ,abdool with several ,christian native children occupying a boat by themselves4 ,abdool employed himself during the journey in teaching the children to read1 c41 and in composing hymns to native measures4 ,these he was in the habit of singing with the children and servants when the party came to anchor for the night4 ,as also1 the journey from ,calcutta occupied many weeks1 it was customary to remain at anchor throughout every ,sunday that occurred on the way2 and on those occasions ,abdool used to collect together the boatmen and others on the banks of the river1 and explain the scriptures to them4 ,on many occasions1 too1 he maintained arguments with ,brahmins and ,romanists on subjects connected with their respective superstitions2 but1 as copious accounts of those disputes are given in the printed journal of ,abdool's proceedings1 it is not considered necessary to repeat them4 ,the result usually was to call forth much hostility to ,abdool1 and to expose him to personal danger4 ,thus1 from ,cawnpore1 #agth ,feb4 #ahac1 ,mr4 ,corrie writes to his brother-in-law3-- ,,to ,j4 ,w4 ,,sherer1 ,,esq4 #8,we expect to leave this about the #beth2 we should have gone before now1 but that ,abdool ,messeeh is gone to ,lucknow to visit his family1 and will not return until the #bdth4 ,i was not for his going1 nor did he intend to go1 but on his writing from ,allahabad1 a brother and nephew of his came over here1 and received him with much affection1 and told him1 that his father1 mother1 another brother and three sisters1 with their children1 had determined on coming over1 if he would not go to see them2 professing also1 that all his family wish to become ,christians together with him4 ,there has been a great stir at ,lucknow about his conversion4 ,a crowd assembled one night about his father's house and demanded that he should openly renounce ,abdool1 or they should suspect him also of becoming a ,christian4 ,he and the brothers said1 they would not renounce ,abdool1 who had always behaved kindly1 and now wrote to them with great affection4 ,a tumult ensued1 which required the interference of the ,cutwal2 and the report was carried to the ,nabob's son1 if not to the ,nabob4 ,the great men took the part of ,abdool's family1 and reproved the others2 but under these circumstances1 ,i did not think it advisable for ,abdool to go over1 nor would he but for the desire manifested by his family to cleave to him4 ,this made him determined to run all risks1 and also because his sisters' husbands threatened to forsake them1 if they came over here2 and ,abdool argued it was not right for him to be the cause of their disobeying their husbands1 so he would go to them4 ,indeed his whole conduct manifests a great deal of discretion and good sense1 though no superiority in understanding2 so that ,i fear nothing from indiscretion1 and have sent a servant of my own with him1 and hope the ,lord will be his defence4 ,in a letter1 however1 which ,mr4 ,corrie addressed soon after this to ,lieutenant 7now ,captain7 ,peevor of ,h4 ,m4 #agth foot1 he states that ,abdool 8was obliged to retreat privately10 from ,lucknow1 the rage of the ,mahomedans was so great against him4 ,yet it appears that 8his father1 mother1 two brothers and two nephews1 had all professed their readiness to embrace the gospel10 and that the nephews returned with ,abdool to ,cawnpore4 #hc ,from the period of their first arrival at ,vizagapatam1 the ,missionaries seem to have been in the habit of conducting public worship according to the ritual of the church of ,england2 and proceeded to translate the ,english liturgy into the ,teloogoo language4 #hd ,missionary ,register1 vol4 i4 p4 #bfa-bff4 ,,chapter ,,xi4 ,,agra4 ,mr4 ,corrie and his party reached ,agra on the #ahth of ,april #ahac4 ,there he was made acquainted with the death of ,mr4 ,martyn4 ,in a letter to ,mr4 ,sherer1 and with reference to that event1 ,mr4 ,c4 writes3-- 8,we arrived here in good health1 and found your letter containing the affecting intelligence of ,martyn's death3--to us afflictive1 to him happy beyond expression4 ,i thought of writing immediately1 but could find nothing beyond lamentations to express2 lamentations for us1 not for him4 ,he was meet for the 8inheritance of the saints in light10--my master is taken away from me1 ,o for a double portion of his spirit6 ,the work of printing and distributing the scriptures1 will henceforth go on more slowly4 ,it is impossible to have so lively an impression of the importance of supplying the written word1 where people have not intercourse with the spiritually needy4 ,you all feel for the poor ,english1 because you now and then talk with them1 and have demonstration of their ignorance on eternal things4 ,thus those who enter among the heathen have a demonstration on the subject1 which constrains them to pity them1 and to exclaim1 #8,o that they had but a ,bible6'0 ,shortly after his arrival at ,agra1 ,mr4 ,corrie enquired for1 and obtained a house1 every way suitable for the residence of ,abdool ,messeeh4 ,the rent was agreed upon1 and possession in part given1 but in the meantime ,abdool's circumstances becoming known1 the owner of the house1 a ,mahomedan1 departed from his agreement1 and would not accept ,abdool for a tenant4 ,but shortly afterwards a property called ,boottats ,kuttra1 a court in the middle of the principal street in ,agra1 being put up for sale1 it was bought by an ,english gentleman1 who generously gave it for the purposes of the mission4 ,in this place ,abdool ,messeeh regularly conducted ,divine ,service twice on ,sundays1 and once1 sometimes twice1 during the week4 ,he had family worship also1 daily with the ,native ,christians1 who resided in or near the ,kuttra4 ,some account of these missionary proceedings is given by ,mr4 ,c4 in answer to a letter from ,mr4 ,sherer4 ,he writes1 on the #hth ,june #ahac3-- 8,the plan of a ,native ,free-,school ,i admire greatly2 and have no doubt of its utility and success4 ,i have been proceeding on that plan ever since ,i came to the country4 ,james#he failed me1 and one of the boys1 7,simon7 through the wickedness of his parents1 is likely to fail me also2 yet ,i do not despair4 ,osman is one of the cleverest of any1 in ,english2 ,nicholas1 most solid2 ,abdool's two nephews are promising1 especially the younger1 ,shumsher ,rham4 ,we have a tribe of younger ones1 and a whole host of little sons of drummers4 ,j4 ,a4 is coming1 on the first opportunity1 to be my ,english master for them2 which will relieve me much1 both as to time and labour2 after two disappointments1 and many attempts1 we have at length obtained an old premise in the city4 ,this is the fourth day we have been in possession2 and a school is already collected there4 ,the whole city rings with this1 to them new doctrine2 and copies of the ,new ,testament are eagerly sought for3 not a tongue moves in opposition2 which is a matter both of surprise1 and congratulation4 ,abdool ,messeeh is greatly called forth2 and his heart becomes more and more in the work1 as people come forward4 ,two or three1 indeed many1 have professed their wish to be baptized2 but perhaps these are not the most hopeful1 for being most forward4 ,the subject has now got amongst the ,english2 and they evidently don't know what to make of it4444 ,the people in the city generally speak of the school with great approbation1 and hope it will be made a college4 ,the establishment for the whole is now1 a ,molwee #bj ,rs42 an ,ostad #aj ,rs42 a writer #g ,rs42 and a schoolmaster for the little boys #h ,rs42 besides ,durwan #c ,rs42 and about #be ,rs4 for the maintenance of children1 c4 c4 ,so that1 ,i fear1 ,i cannot enlarge much our present establishment40 ,although it had hitherto been the unchristian policy of the ,indian government either to discountenance all efforts to raise the moral and religious condition of their subjects1 or to leave them to be altogether dependent for instruction in the great truths of revealed religion1 on the personal zeal and narrow resources of a few private individuals1 yet a better state of things appeared now to be at hand4 ,the various missionary societies1 and the religious portion of ,britain at large1 regarded the renewal of the company's charter to be a favourable opportunity for pressing upon the attention of the legislature1 the destitute condition of ,india with respect to the gospel4 ,this was accordingly done1 and the result was1 that during the month of ,june #ahac1 the parliament affirmed the necessity for a ,church establishment in ,india2 voted that it was the duty of ,england to promote the moral and religious improvement of her subjects in ,india2 and that facilities ought likewise to be afforded to persons desirous of going to ,india for the purpose of accomplishing those benevolent designs4 ,this favourable change in the policy of government was of course unknown to ,mr4 ,corrie1 when he addressed the following letter3 ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,,mr4 ,,simeon4 8,agra1 ,june #bc1 #ahac4 8,what will the new charter bring to light in respect of our #8project1' as ,mr4 ,cecil used to speak8 ,the desirableness of some extension of our present establishment1 is beyond all dispute3 the most careless among us cry shame on the want of attention of our governors to this point4 ,if we had a sufficient establishment of proper chaplains1 there need be little further anxiety about evangelizing ,india3 but who are to supply the places of ,brown1 ,buchanan1 ,jeffreys1 and ,martyn8 ,it seems almost as if ,mr4 ,carey's prophecy were coming true1 that ,god would not employ us in the work of evangelization4 ,amidst the great attention we hear of1 excited to the distribution of the scriptures1 how comes it1 none of our ,brethren offer themselves to come and distribute the word of life8 ,and what are we1 who believe ,episcopacy to be the ,order of the primitive church1 to do for duly ordained pastors1 from among the native converts8 ,i write thus freely1 my honoured father in the gospel1 for now ,mr4 ,brown and ,mr4 ,martyn no longer bring these subjects before you1 and ,mr4 ,thomason1 though he is nearer the scene of action1 has really no more to do with the natives than you have1 nor does ,mr4 ,parson give himself to this work4 ,mr4 ,thomason has more to do as ,minister of the ,old ,church1 ,secretary1 etc4 etc4 than one man ought to have1 and this situation must always occupy one3 and ,mr4 ,parson gives himself wholly to the ,british soldiers1 among whom he is eminently useful4 8,i am now next on the list of ,chaplains to be appointed to ,calcutta1 and if ,i must go1 there will then be no chaplain out of ,calcutta1 to enter into the affairs of the ,natives4 ,there is no town in ,india1 where a person may not be usefully employed in missionary work1 and for superintendance1 ,calcutta is a preferable situation1 but then there must be something to superintend4 ,at present1 ,i am in some perplexity on this subject4 ,god has been pleased to make the labours of ,abdool-,messeeh very acceptable in this place in general4 ,i yesterday sent off to ,mr4 ,bates a copy of his journal from ,march to this time2 there are eighteen children at his school in the city1 and six candidates for baptism3 the whole city1 containing a population of upwards of fifty thousand1 is moved1 and very little opposition has appeared2 none that deserves to be called opposition3 the ,kazee#hf has begun to move against us4 ,i trust we shall give no occasion for tumult1 nor have ,i the smallest fear on that head4 ,martyn's translation is admired as a composition1 no less than as containing important truth2 could he look from ,heaven and see ,abdool ,messeeh1 with the translated ,new ,testament in his hand1 preaching to the listening throng1 and could he know of ,mr4 ,m4's wish to follow his steps in this work1 it would add fresh delight to his holy soul6 ,now this prospect of a rising native church makes one reflect1 what is to be done for them4 ,could ,abdool ,messeeh be properly ordained1 he is1 in my opinion1 for humility1 zeal and discretion1 most eminently worthy of the ministry4 ,fervent and experimental piety with such matured judgment1 ,i never expected to meet with in a native of ,hindoostan1 and such are the sentiments of ,mr4 ,m4 and another ,christian friend1 now with us1 respecting him4 ,but according to my views on the subject1 he cannot with propriety administer the ,christian ,sacraments2 and my successors would not1 perhaps1 admit him to their presence4 ,it seems my duty1 to decline all removal1 as far as ,i may be permitted1 and1 ,i trust1 ,i shall be able to do so1 though it would1 in many respects1 prove a trial both personal and otherwise4 ,the ,armenian bishops1 and the bishops of the ,syrians1 have occurred to me1 if their ordinations be considered valid4#hg ,if ,i had any suitable helper to whom the work might be committed1 ,i should perhaps1 think it advisable to take the privilege of furlough1 for the recovery of my strength1 if it please ,god4 ,the great quantity of medicine1 ,i was obliged to take1 reduced me much1 and the right side is still very tender4 ,i trust in this1 and all my ways1 to acknowledge the ,lord1 and doubt not1 he will guide me aright4 ,may his kingdom come more fully in my own heart1 that ,i may do his will in all things60 ,the success which1 under the divine blessing1 had so signally marked the labours of ,abdool ,messeeh at ,agra1 was not unattended by correspondent difficulties4 ,the loss of caste and the consequent destitution which followed the native converts1 required to be alleviated by supplying them with sustenance1 until some employment could be found for them4 ,the schools also1 which had been established under the favourable circumstances1 mentioned in the foregoing letters1 were necessarily attended with a certain regular expense4 ,as1 therefore1 ,mr4 ,corrie's resources were altogether inadequate to meet the stated and increasing demands upon them1 he applied to the ,calcutta agents of the ,society for ,missions to ,africa and the ,east1 to ascertain how far assistance might be looked for from that ,society4 ,he suggested to them1 at the same time1 that an auxiliary missionary society might be formed in ,calcutta1 which might aid the work he had in hand1 by monthly subscriptions4 ,he advised1 moreover1 that a few friends of missions should form themselves into a committee1 for the purpose of considering how native converts could be best employed1 and their children be brought up to trades4 ,the result of this application to ,calcutta1 was the formation of an association1 and the collecting of subscriptions to the amount of four hundred pounds1 the express objects of which were to enable ,mr4 ,corrie to 8establish and support native schools at ,agra and elsewhere40 ,subscriptions from private sources also1 were not wanting4 ,to a friend who took an interest in the ,agra mission1 ,mr4 ,corrie writes on the #bnd of ,aug4 #ahac4 8,i was far from expecting any separate contribution to the work here1 but do not even wish to refuse it2 for sure ,i am that of money thus spent1 we shall be able to say at last1 #8what ,i have given away1 remains4'0 ,he then goes on to inform his correspondent1 that 8,the ,sunday 7,july #be47 before yesterday was the beginning of our visible edifice4 ,the foundation is1 ,i am persuaded1 laid in ,christ4 ,the ,hukeem#hh and ,abdool's nephew1 are both not only enlightened in mind1 but informed also in judgment4 ,the former once led a party to fight for ,islam1 consequently his conversion has called forth more of the spite of the enemy than we before have seen4 ,several have told ,abdool plainly1 that under any other government they would have risen upon him4 ,i observe without saying anything to any around4 ,mr4 ,h4 talks to every body in the same strain1 and then tells ,e4 the remarks people make4 ,why6 ,i know before hand what such people will say40 ,the ,hukeem mentioned in the preceding extract1 was a ,mahomedan from ,bhurtpore1 and physician to the ,rajah's family4 ,his first acquaintance with divine truth was through the medium of the ,pentateuch in ,arabic1 which a ,romish priest had lent him some years before the date of the letter just quoted4 ,afterwards1 meeting with a copy of the gospels translated into ,persian1 by ,sabat1 the ,hukeem became convinced of the truth of ,christianity1 but made no open profession of the gospel2 until under the instruction of ,abdool1 he learned 8the way of ,god more perfectly10 and was baptised by the name of ,talib ,messeeh ,khan1 on the ,sunday above-mentioned4 ,his baptism occasioned so great a sensation among the ,mahomedans1 that ,abdool's house in the city was for some days a constant scene of comers and goers4 ,the disciples of the various ,musselman saints came in bodies 7sometimes of upwards of forty7 to enquire about the mode of initiation into the ,christian ,religion4 ,the eldest nephew of ,abdool was baptised at the same time with the ,hukeem4 ,these promising appearances1 however1 brought with them correspondent anxieties1 so far as respected ,mr4 ,corrie2 for in writing to ,mr4 ,sherer 7,aug4 #ah1 #ahac17 he remarks3-- 8,i never before felt the care attending the winning of souls as now2 and never before so entirely felt my own perfect insignificance and folly4 ,while all was only beginning1 there was food for vain glory1 and no occasion for suspicion or watchfulness4 ,now time has been given for probation1 my rest sometimes departs from me lest ,satan should gain an advantage over us40 ,mr4 ,corrie then goes on to inform ,mr4 ,s43 8,the ,hukeem ,i baptized proves a man of superior understanding4 ,he has begun ,hebrew1 and if he proceeds as he has begun1 will prove a most valuable corrector of the ,hindoostanee ,old ,testament1 which ,mirza ,fitrut has translated from the ,english4 ,he is not1 however1 so obliging in his disposition as ,abdool ,messeeh4 ,the eldest nephew of ,abdool has been1 ever since his baptism1 quite another creature1--lively1 devoted1 and the servant of all4 ,he is on your fund1 as a ,reader2 and the ,hukeem receives for himself and family #bj ,r4 till he becomes qualified for some office in the church4 ,to prove the sincerity of the ,fakeers1 ,i hired forty ,bigohs#hi of land1 and they have laboured with readiness for their bread1 in clearing1 weeding1 watching1 c4 ,this has been a present extra expense1 but ,i am told the grain will produce a return4 ,in consequence of the scarcity1 multitudes of poor are very ill off1 and a subscription1 at the suggestion of ,mr4 ,f4 was entered into for their relief4 ,the sum amounts to #ae ,rs4 a day1 and ,abdool and ,i are the ,almoners3 a more troublesome and unthankful office ,i was never engaged in4 ,two months1 it is thought1 will put an end to the present distress4 ,three ,schools1 beside the one at home1 are gaining ground4 ,the supply you mentioned could easily be appropriated1 and when something is determined1 ,i will send down a statement of items4 ,i refrain at present1 lest ,i should seem to claim what will come as an offering to the ,lord4 ,i feel it would be an honour to live on bread and water that all might go in this work and way2 but the claims of justice and family demand attention also40 ,occupations of various kinds now so multiplied upon ,mr4 ,corrie1 that his private ,journal was but irregularly kept4 ,the completion of seven years' residence in ,india was1 however1 too marked an event to pass unnoticed by him1 and he therefore writes3-- 8,agra1 ,sep4 #ai1 #ahac4 ,to-morrow will complete to me seven years in ,india4 ,many mercies have attended me1 and many instances of ,god's gracious dealings1 which ought to be had in remembrance1 to ,his praise1 and my own comfort and encouragement4 ,the death of ,mr4 ,brown1 and afterwards of ,mr4 ,martyn1 deprived me of two pillars on whom ,i leaned partly for so long a time3 and to this hour ,i feel my earthly masters to be taken away from me4 ,there is now none on earth1 to whom ,i look for guidance as to what ,i should do in my ministry4 ,for a time this discouraged me2 but the ,lord mercifully made my way plain1 and his work here is going on with seeming success4 ,for this work ,abdool ,messeeh was raised up1 and qualified1 and sent of ,god4 ,he is eminently humble1 teachable1 persevering1 and zealous4 ,two were baptized from the heathen on ,july #be3 and eight more1 with three of their children1 on ,august #be4 ,there are now many catechumens1 and upwards of ninety children in school1 at three places4 ,keeping the journal of ,abdool's labours1 has interrupted my private journal2 though1 after all1 they are quite distinct4 ,in general1 my mind has been too much occupied in the outward work4 ,i have lived too little in the habit of ejaculatory prayer2 and contented myself with very little of spirituality of mind2 so that if success had depended on me1 it must utterly have failed4 ,but the spiritual temple grows up #8not by might1 or by power1' but by the ,spirit of the ,lord4 ,oh may he carry on his work within1 and enable me to grow up into ,christ in all things4 ,i have engaged too largely in expences1 considering the natural claims upon me4 ,the schools and native christians stand me in not less than #cjj ,rs4 monthly2 while building c4 is likely to involve me in debt4 ,the heart of ,mr4 ,b4 was1 indeed1 mercifully disposed to give ,kuttra2 and help is promised from other quarters1 and ,i doubt not but the ,lord will provide1 since1 ,i think1 ,i seek not my own vain glory1 but ,his worthy praise and honour4 ,for some days past1 ,i have experienced a sensible return of the liver complaint4 ,what this may be the forerunner of1 ,i know not4 ,it would be a painful trial to cease from labour now1 though that may be needful to try my humility1 whilst1 ,oh what may it prove to my ,european flock6 ,who shall speak to them1 or make known the way of salvation8 ,lord6 direct me in this matter4 ,enable me to give myself to meditation and prayer3 and grant me to know and do thy will4444 ,praised be thy name1 who hast kept me in my purpose respecting coming to ,india4 ,the love of souls1 more than of wealth1 or earthly honour1 ,i trust1 still1 through grace1 predominates2 and may grace reign in my soul1 through righteousness1 unto eternal life1 through ,jesus ,christ40 ,it was soon after the date of the preceding extract1 that intelligence reached ,agra from ,england1 that it was intended to publish a memoir of ,mr4 ,martyn2 and ,mr4 ,corrie in consequence1 addressed the following letter ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,j4 ,,sargent4 8,agra1 ,nov4 #a4 #ahac4 8,i have very lately learned through ,mr4 ,thomason that you have undertaken to draw up a life of the ,rev4 ,h4 ,martyn4 ,it will be of use for you to know that when he left ,cawnpore in #ahaj to seek change of air1 ,i was with him1 and persuaded him to leave in my hands a number of memorandums he was about to destroy4 ,they were sealed up1 but on his death1 being opened1 they prove to be ,journals of the exercises of his mind from ,january #ahjc1 to #ahjg1 inclusive4 ,they seem to me no less worthy of publication than the ,journal of ,mr4 ,brainerd1 if more books of that kind should be judged necessary4 ,since the beginning of #ahjg1 ,mr4 ,m4 favoured me with almost a weekly letter1 in which his various employments and engagements for the furtherance of the gospel in this country1 are detailed with occasional very interesting remarks4 ,this correspondence ceased on my being ordered by our commander-in-chief to assist ,mr4 ,m4 in the duties of the station of ,cawnpore1 when ,i took up my abode with him from ,june till his departure1 ,october #ast4 ,other letters passed between us after that time1 and it is my intention to send you copies of all the above correspondence1 together with his private ,memorandums4 ,the latter1 with copies of ,martyn's letters from ,feb4 to ,july #ahjg1 were sent off this day to ,mr4 ,thomason in ,calcutta1 to be forwarded to ,england by the first opportunity1 and the copies of the remaining letters shall follow as soon as may be4 ,of course ,i have omitted to copy what seems purely personal3 yet much remains which you will perhaps judge unnecessary for publication1 and will exercise your own judgment on that head4 ,all the extracts seem to me1 however1 to cast light on the progress of missionary work in this land1 and may perhaps be thought interesting to those who take a concern in ,indian affairs4 ,these extracts give so full a view of ,mr4 ,m's character that nothing remains for me to add4 ,only ,i may say1 a more perfect character ,i never met with1 nor expect to see again on earth4 ,during the four years we were fellow-labourers in this country1 ,i had no less than six opportunities of enjoying his company2 the last time for four months together1 and under the same roof all the time2 and each opportunity only increased my love and veneration for him4 8,i conclude the above intelligence will plead my excuse for writing to you without previous introduction1 and ,i was anxious it should reach you through the nearest channel4 ,your brother in ,calcutta has told me several times of your welfare2 and during beloved ,martyn's life ,i used to hear of you sometimes4 ,your person1 whilst a student at ,king's ,college1 was well known to me1 and your character admired1 though ,i had not steadiness of principle sufficient at that time to imitate you2 and consequently had no pretensions to an acquaintance with you1 though ,i often greatly desired it4 ,to that #8,father in ,israel1' ,mr4 ,simeon1 ,i owe all my comfort on earth and all my hopes respecting eternity3 for through his instrumentality the seeds of grace1 ,i trust1 were1 during my residence at ,cambridge1 especially during the latter part of my stay1 implanted in my heart1 and have influenced1 though alas6 unsteadily1 my after days4 8,from this far country you will however desire other tidings1 if any4 ,the discussions in ,parliament respecting the religious part of the ,company's charter1 give me much pain1 as both friends and opposers evidently view the subject imperfectly4 ,the opposers know full well1 or might know1 that if every servant of the ,company in ,india were a clergyman1 so long as we go on as heretofore1 it would not excite an enquiry scarcely from any native2 he would conclude it was the ,english caste1 and there his reflections would end4 ,on the other hand1 it seems premature to connect the conversion of the natives with an ecclesiastical establishment1 for unless our ,bishops should be men1 not only of learning and sobriety1 but of zeal1 they will never hold out against the discouragements a residence in this country presents4 ,indeed1 in this work1 a man must engage with the spirit of those words--8,though the fig-tree should not blossom20 c4 ,it is not that the evangelization of ,india is a hopeless project1 or that to attempt it is attended with political danger2 for the story ,general ,kyd produced in the ,house of ,commons1 to shew the danger of interfering with the natives1 is both erroneously stated and ridiculously applied4 ,the idea of grave ministers of religion going out to shoot monkeys1 would not have been entertained in any other connexion but as supplying an objection to ,missions4 ,but the young men were not destroyed by the natives2 the elephant on which they rode took fright at the clamour of lamentation and displeasure raised by the people on the monkey being killed1 and plunged into a deep place of the river ,jumna1 when the ,howdah on which they sat getting loose from the elephant's back1 the young men were drowned4 ,general ,kyd would perhaps say1 he had seen ,chaplains in ,india shooting monkeys1 and he should at the same time have the candor to state1 that none of that description made themselves obnoxious to the natives by their religion1 and consequently there is nothing to fear from an establishment of that kind4 ,the work of evangelization is however1 going on2 the instruction of the natives already bearing the ,christian name1 opens a way for wide and lasting benefit4 ,ever since my arrival and short acquaintance with this country1 it has appeared that natives will be the great means of converting their brethren4 ,mr4 ,martyn has done what no native could do1 and what had not been done before1--left an idiomatical and faithful translation of the ,new ,testament in the ,hindoostanee language4 ,this language is known pretty generally by those tribes also who do not use it in their usual conversation4 ,this city is near the ,mahratta states1 and the resort of people from all parts of ,india1 who all understand the tenor of this translation1 as has been abundantly proved40 ,as illustrative of the importance which ,mr4 ,corrie attached to the having many schools1 it may be mentioned1 that about the time the foregoing letter was written1 he had it in contemplation to obtain leave of absence from ,agra1 with the view to visit different stations1 and to establish schools wherever it might be practicable4 ,with reference to such a plan1 he writes ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,i have had it in mind to ask leave of ,government1 to go to different stations to institute schools for the ,native christian children4 ,all that would be required would be1 private unlimited leave of absence1 with directions to report or not1 as they might think proper4 ,sir ,george ,n4 would1 ,i think1 make no objection1 if the noble ,earl did not2 and if he were put into possession of the real state of things1 ,i think he would rather encourage4 ,it would be a peculiar glory on his government to take measures for bettering the state of the ,native christian subjects1 as well as of the other classes of natives2 and sure ,i am that the way in which ,i propose to proceed1 would excite no jealousy among the natives1 but rather call forth their esteem for our national character40 ,at this time1 too1 the accounts ,mr4 ,c4 received of ,abdool's proceedings at ,meerut1 7where the latter was on a visit71 were of the most encouraging kind4 ,he was gratified1 also1 by the intelligence that ,mr4 ,vetch was at work at ,delhi1 among the ,armenian and ,portuguese ,christians there4 ,the opposition to missionary labours at ,agra1 had moreover1 for the present ceased1 whilst the schools were prospering as much as could reasonably be expected4 ,as however1 any changes among the chaplains would1 in all probability1 occasion ,mr4 ,c4's removal from ,agra1 it became an object of great solicitude to him that so promising a state of things should not retrograde1 for want of adequate superintendence and pecuniary support2 and he1 in consequence1 addressed the following communication to the ,secretary of the ,church ,missionary ,society1 in ,england3-- 8,agra1 ,e4 ,i4 ,dec4 #ca4 #ahac4 8,you are made acquainted through the ,rev4 ,mr4 ,thomason1 with the labours of ,abdool ,messeeh1 who is engaged as a ,catechist for the ,society for ,missions to ,africa and the ,east2 and of the success attending them4 ,since our arrival at this place in ,march last1 forty-one adults1 and fourteen children of theirs1 have been baptized into the faith of ,christ1 and all continue to walk in the truth4 ,the prospect of increasing numbers is very encouraging1 and as several of the converts are men of learning and of some influence1 there seems ground to hope that lasting benefit is intended by our ,almighty and most merciful ,father to this place4 8,the want of useful books in their own language will1 however1 render the ,native converts for a long time in need of ,european intelligence and firmness4 ,though the grace of the gospel be sufficient for their individual salvation1 yet they are not sufficiently acquainted with the history of mankind1 and especially of the ,church of ,christ1 to enable them to calculate on the probable consequences of any particular mode of conduct3 nor can they for some time reap the benefits to be derived from the experience of those who have gone before them in the good way4 8,i feel1 therefore1 anxious to call the attention of the ,society of which you are ,secretary1 to this part of the world2 and to beg1 that1 if practicable1 a ,missionary may be sent over to take charge of this infant church4 ,the place of worship and the premises now occupied1 should with pleasure be made over in perpetuity for the use of the ,mission2 and ,i think ,i may affirm1 that the friends of religion in this country would find sufficient support for the person whom you may send1 without his continuing burthensome to the ,society4 8,among the reasons why a ,missionary should be sent to this country1 in preference to any other1 ,i would beg leave respectfully to suggest two2 viz4 the teeming population of ,india1 and the protection of equitable laws1 which put it in the power of a ,missionary to do more good with less personal inconvenience here than in any other heathen country4 8,the objections raised at home to the evangelization of ,india1 on the score of political danger1 are founded in entire misrepresentation of the subject4 ,it seems not to have occurred to either friends or foes of the measure1 that there are none among the natives who have the means1 whatever might be their will1 of resisting the ,british ,government4 ,almost all the ancient reigning families are reduced to a state of dependence3 nor at any time1 did ever the zeal of the ,hindoos lead them to any formidable opposition even to the intolerant and avowedly proselyting ,mahomedans3 so that neither do past experience nor present probabilities oppose any difficulty in the way of publishing the gospel in ,india4 8,besides1 it might well be expected that reflecting men should discriminate between a senseless attack upon images1 processions1 c4 and the simple inoffensive statement of ,divine truth4 ,the former might well be expected to rouse every bad passion of the human mind2 the latter will always command respect if not obedience1 whilst the same ,divine truth assures us his word shall not return void4 ,our method is to state the plain truths of the gospel with little or no reference to any other system called religion4 ,by pointing out the ,scripture doctrines of man's fall1 through the transgression of ,adam1 and his recovery by the ,lord ,jesus ,christ1 which appeals to matters of obvious and general experience1 usually such a sensation is produced as leads some one or other to examine what foundation he rests upon2 and the result is always1 that there is salvation in none but in ,god incarnate6 8,permit me also respectfully to solicit the attention of your ,society to the subject of providing ministers from among the ,native converts3 for it seems out of the question ever to expect a sufficient number of regularly-ordained ministers from ,england4 ,the ,liturgy of our church translated1 has been of singular benefit in this place3 and every circumstance in the case of a church newly gathered from among the heathen1 demonstrates that the order of our church is that of the primitive ,christian churches4 ,whatever may be said in favour of the liberty of people to choose their own ministers1 or in favour of extempore prayer1 in a more advanced state of ,christian education and experience1 does not apply in our circumstances3 and it follows of course1 that a person who should be the means of planting the gospel in any city or place1 remains the superintendent and umpire in all cases requiring arrangement4 ,under this persuasion it would be painful either to leave a native congregation without a pastor1 or to usurp authority4 ,i would humbly1 however1 request advice and help on this head4 ,abdool ,messeeh seems1 for heavenly-mindedness1 discretions and zeal1 to be worthy of the ministry3 and we are endeavouring to qualify some promising young ,christians in this place for the ministry1 by instructing them in the learned languages of this country1 and in ,hebrew3 to which we propose adding the study of ,greek1 and thus we hope they may one day be found worthy of ,episcopal ordination4 8,the ,rev4 ,mr4 ,thomason will forward this3 and ,i trust no apology is necessary for endeavouring to draw the attention of the ,society1 of which you are ,secretary1 to this quarter4 ,the opinion of one who resides on the spot1 and whose personal safety1 attachments and interests are much more involved in the subject than any retired ,indian1 may perhaps be considered worthy of attention1 however insignificant the writer may be4 ,i may be also allowed to express anxiety1 that the church to which ,i belong may take a conspicuous part in the progressive work of evangelization now going on in this country2 since she possesses facilities above all other ,societies1 and her ordinances are best calculated1 in my opinion1 to ensure edification1 and that the work should not fail in after-generations40 ,early in ,january #ahad1 ,mr4 ,corrie left ,agra on a visit to ,delhi2 and was there met by some natives from ,meerut1 who were desirous of baptism4 ,one of these was a ,moonshee1 in the service of ,dr4 ,r41 and who1 from conversation with ,abdool ,messeeh1 and the reading of the translated ,scriptures1 had been convinced that #8,jesus is the ,son of ,god4' ,another was a ,molwee1 a native of ,rampoor1 who had1 in like manner1 been led to expect salvation only through ,christ4 ,a third was an aged ,birajee1 who possessed great influence among the natives1 but whose faith in the ,hindoo and ,mahomedan systems had been completely shaken by the deistical writings of ,cuber1 a satirical poet1 who lived at ,benares4 ,this ,birajee had made many enquiries respecting the ,christian religion1 and once thought of joining the ,romish sect1 but was deterred from doing so by finding that they used images in their worship4 ,he had ultimately been brought to a knowledge of 8the truth as it is in ,jesus10 by the perusal of the ,new ,testament1 a copy of which1 in the ,nagree1 he had lately obtained4 ,for the sake1 therefore1 of these and other natives1 ,mr4 ,corrie determined on a visit to ,meerut4 ,there he had the satisfaction to find a congregation of from twenty to thirty ,christians1 under the direction of ,mr4 ,bowley1#ij assisted by the ,hukeem from ,agra2 and after due enquiry and examination1 he baptized the ,rampoor ,molwee and the ,birajee1 on ,sunday1 ,january #cj4 ,on the following day ,mr4 ,c4 baptized also a native woman1 and returned to ,agra early in ,february4 ,it may here be mentioned1 that the success with which it pleased ,god to mark the labours of ,mr4 ,corrie and his friends at ,agra1 made that city a place toward which those1 not unnaturally1 looked for assistance1 who were anxious for the spread of the gospel among the tribes of ,northern ,india4 ,mr4 ,c4 was therefore1 frequently requested to supply1 from among the converts at ,agra1 scripture-readers1 to be employed at other stations4 ,in answer to an application of that nature1 he writes-- ,,to ,,captain ,,peevor4 8,feb4 #c4 #ahad4 8,i have been thinking who ,i could send you as a reader2 but really fear that none of those at present with me1 are fit for the appointment4 ,it requires some time to make them acquainted with the ,scriptures2 and some time for them to lay aside the old ways of thinking1 in which they have been brought up3 so that only one1 like yourself1 who would bear with them1 rather than expect them to bend in all things to you1 could be intrusted with the care of a very recent convert4 ,abdool ,messeeh's nephew is1 next to his uncle1 the most deeply humbled of the new converts2 and him his uncle does not wish to part with1 at present4 ,i will1 however1 when we reach home1 write to you further on the subject2 for you must know we left ,agra on the #ajth of ,january1 and have been at ,delhi and ,meerut40 ,yet the quick succession in which first one native and then another had been added to the church at ,agra and elsewhere1 was so unusual a phenomenon in ,india1 that some of the friends of missions seem to have been apprehensive1 lest converts should have been admitted to baptism1 before the sincerity of their faith and repentance had been sufficiently tested4 ,on that point1 therefore1 ,mr4 ,corrie writes in answer ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,,mr4 ,,thomason4 8,many kind and cordial thanks for your cautions respecting baptism4 ,i have in no instance administered that sacrament but where there seemed experience1 as well as knowledge1 of the grace of ,god4 ,even the youths seem convinced of sin1 and aware of the necessity of avoiding it4 ,but the further we advance1 the more arduous does my post become4 ,nothing has occurred to make me doubt the sincerity of any of the baptized1--but others have tried to deceive4 ,i wish all the converts could remain with me2 but it is no sin in them that they cannot live without food2 and ,i cannot maintain them all40 ,mr4 ,corrie then adds1 on the subject of scripture readers3-- 8,the ,hukeem discovers great reluctance to leave1 but at the request of ,s4 for a native ,christian1 he goes on ,thursday next1 and ,abdool ,messeeh goes with him on a visit4 ,he will be in as good hands as here3 his son is likely to prove a treasure4 ,he is quite familiar with the ,arabic of the ,koran1 is very quick of comprehension1 needs seldom to have a lesson repeated1 and is devoted to study4 ,his frame of body is but weakly2 and thus devotedness to learning is accompanied 7as is generally the case7 with less appearance of zeal for others4 ,how few1 like ,martyn1 live only that they may impart knowledge6 ,this youth appears a sincere convert4 ,he and two others are1 henceforth1 to have a lesson daily in ,hebrew4 ,in two months he has learned to construe the ,english ,new ,testament2 and purposes acquiring also the rudiments of ,greek40 ,the following extracts from letters written about this time1 afford additional evidence of that caution and godly wisdom1 by which ,mr4 ,corrie's missionary labours were directed3-- ,,to ,j4 ,w4 ,,sherer1 ,,esq4 8,agra1 ,march #d1 #ahad4 8,i have little to write to you about1 except what is connected with the affairs of our ,church here4 ,the number of converts and present inquirers on all hands1 renders attention to our concerns necessary that #8the work should not fail4' ,i do not write down the tenth part of the interesting particulars that come to our ears from ,delhi1 ,meerut1 and the ,mahratta country3 all which1 though1 if considered in respect of individuals1 comprehends but a very insignificant part of the population1 yet shews1 ,i think1 that 8the report is gone forth10 and enquiry begins to be made4 ,labourers also1 are1 ,i trust1 springing up1 qualified for the work of instruction4444 ,the ,rampoor ,molwee seems very disinterested2 and is by far the most clever man we have yet had4 ,the ,moonshee1 who accompanied him1 is not very superior1 but appears sincerely disposed to impart what he knows2 and expresses a wish to go into the lately-acquired territory1 towards the ,seiks1 where his family resides4 ,at ,delhi1 the king's sons1 it is said1 have got a copy of the gospels4 ,praised be ,god1 nothing actually wrong has yet appeared in any of the converts1 though it may be supposed that ,i am sometimes tired with their complaints and requests40 ,,to ,,captain ,,peevor4 8,agra1 ,march #bj1 #ahad4 8,i have by no means been forgetful of your wishes respecting a reader1 but have not yet been able to determine anything for you4 ,the success attending the word is very gratifying and encouraging2 but it requires time to acquire information sufficient to become a teacher of others2 so that ,i hesitate even to wish the new converts to leave this place3 and for another reason also1 viz4 lest through temptation or unwatchfulness1 anything amiss should appear in them2 when you know how the enemy would triumph4 #8,there are your converts6' would be the cry4 #8,so would we have it6' ,but be assured1 it is as much my wish as it can be your's1 to send the light of the gospel to you as fast as possible4 8,i do not know that our plan of schooling is by any means the most advantageous4 ,it is simply this3--,before nine o'clock1 the children learn by heart1 catechism or grammar1 in the way of question and answer4 ,after that ,persian2 and after mid-day1 ,english4 ,this school consists of ,christian children4444 ,the natives are so irregular in their habits1 and so entirely negligent of time1 at the same time so ignorant of the advantages of regularity1 and improvement of time1 that they fly off if too much troubled on the subject4 ,in this work ,i am often reminded of that passage1 #8,ye have need of patience1 that having done the will of ,god1 ye may receive the promises4' ,may we be followers of them1 who1 through faith and patience1 inherit the promises6 ,faith we acknowledge to be a heavenly principle1 but often look for patience in ourselves2 which1 alas1 is no more of ourselves than faith40 ,within a short time of the date of this letter to ,captain ,peevor1 the fall of two of the baptized from 8their stedfastness10 occasioned ,mr4 ,corrie some distress1 although his knowledge of the native character had prepared him1 as has been seen1 to expect that offences would sooner or later come4 ,as regarded his own experience1 however1 all outward trials and perplexities only seem to have led him to depend more simply on the divine aid4 ,thus on the #ajth of ,april #ahad1 7,easter-day7 ,mr4 ,c4 writes3-- 8,to-day ,i have completed my #cgth year4 ,an eventful year the last has been1 from the spiritual enlargement of the ,church1 both among white and black4 ,many trials1 too1 have sprung up from the same cause2 and often ,i am at my wits' end4 ,i find all creatures1 in themselves1 but miserable comforters2 and ,i have1 at times1 a deep1 deep feeling of the disorder and misery introduced by sin2 of the strange perverseness and blindness of my own nature in particular1 and of human nature in general4 ,my own folly and perverseness appears1 in the preference of outward labour and bodily exercise to spiritual obedience1 and mental discipline4 ,yet1 at times1 ,i have stronger views than ,i ever had before1 of the excellence of the ,divine nature1 and the blessedness of knowing1 and being with ,god4 ,i trust my heart is not weary of this work1 though often groaning in it4 ,god has raised pecuniary help1 but the responsibility attached to it makes me sometimes wish to decline it4 ,mr4 ,b4 is coming to help in this work1 which ,i should rejoice in3 and the ,molwee1 from ,rampoor1 promises to be a #8burning and a shining light4' ,my dear wife grows in union of heart and labour with me2 and1 on the whole1 ,i have nothing to regret but my own hardness of heart1 whilst ,i would set up an #8,ebenezer' to my covenant ,god6 ,amen40 ,it was at this time that ,mr4 ,corrie1 at the suggestion of ,mr4 ,thomason1 addressed a letter to the committee of the ,church ,missionary ,society in ,calcutta1 on the subject of missionary schoolmasters4 ,in that communication he observed3-- 8,agra1 ,april #f1 #ahad4 8,the circumstance lately come to our knowledge respecting the provisions in the ,honourable ,company's new charter1 for affording religious instruction to our fellow subjects in this country1 leads me to submit the following considerations to your notice1 to be forwarded to ,england1 if you approve1 for the consideration of the ,church ,missionary ,society4 8,the state of those descendants of ,europeans1 and others professing ,christianity1 at the different ,european stations1 has always appeared to me worthy of attention1 both as it respects themselves1 and as a medium through which the natives in general might be approached1 with the greatest success4 ,there are many persons of the above description at ,berhampore1 ,monghyr1 ,bagulpore1 ,patna1 ,dinapore1 ,buxar1 ,benares1 ,chunar1 ,allahabad1 ,cawnpore1 ,agra1 ,delhi1 ,meerut1 and other inferior stations4 8,at each of these places1 a schoolmaster might be placed with great advantage4 ,his ostensible1 and indeed first duty1 should be to educate ,christian children1 and to conduct public worship for native christians4 ,the ,divine blessing would1 doubtless1 attend the education of these children2 and some of them would be led to choose the work of instruction2 and would go forth among the natives1 with tenfold advantage over any ,european missionary4 ,as these people are in general very poor1 the schoolmaster must be supplied with a maintenance1 and1 together with the christian children1 should give instruction in ,english to as many children as he could attend to4 ,the ,native christian children might learn the principles of religion in ,hindoostanee2 and be farther instructed in the language of the country1 by means of native instructors1 under the superintendance of the ,european master2 whilst the latter would instruct them in ,english1 and thus open to them the stores of ,european learning4 ,many of the natives would rejoice in an opportunity of having their children taught ,english1 gratis2 and the necessary intercourse with a schoolmaster1 for this purpose1 tends greatly to remove prejudice1 and to prepare the mind for the reception of ,divine truth4 ,at each of the above stations1 a way appears to be prepared for the propagation of the gospel2 and a soil made ready1 as it were1 to receive the seed of christian instruction1 the fruits of which would spread through the land4 8,the modes of instruction used by our ,church are1 also1 exactly suited to the state of the people professing christianity at these places2 and they are usually as anxious for the prayer-book1 7translated7 as for the ,new ,testament4 ,if our ,society could but supply labourers for this field1 doubtless1 on a proper representation of the subject1 government would readily permit them to proceed hither4 8,their ,christian subjects have a claim upon government for such permission1 to say the least3 and in this way1 part of their subjects would become attached to them no less from duty1 than from interest4 ,the professedly ,christian part of the natives1 are as little attached to us as any other2 a sincere lover of his country cannot but wish that this portion of the population1 at least1 should be brought to feel common interest with us4 ,our civil ,institutions have furnished much new information to the natives1 on the subject of moral right and wrong2 and from the increase of respectability1 of late years1 in the ,honourable ,company's servants1 as well as from the growth of real piety among them1 much religious knowledge is gone abroad2 add to this1 also1 the considerable distribution of translations of the ,scriptures1 in various languages1 of late years4 ,from all this1 an attentive observer cannot but conclude1 that as the subject of civil liberty becomes better understood by the natives1 more political danger is to be apprehended from this quarter2 unless it be counteracted by those motives to contentment1 and obedience to the 8powers that be10 which the gospel alone supplies1 than from any temperate attempts at evangelization4 ,of these attempts1 the plan of schoolmasters1 such as our society could approve at the different stations1 as above suggested1 seems to me the least objectionable1 and to imply no cause of irritation whatever in the natives4 ,whilst there is every ground1 from reason and ,scripture1 to expect that the blessing of ,god would attend endeavours of this kind40 ,as1 also1 the government of ,lord ,moira then professed to have in contemplation some scheme for the education of the natives of ,india at large1 ,mr4 ,corrie thought it his duty to write to ,sir ,george ,nugent1 to request that the ,native christians might not be overlooked4 ,with reference to that important matter he observes in a letter ,,to ,j4 ,w4 ,,sherer1 ,,esq4 8,april #ba1 #ahad4 8,i fear lest the school-plan proposed by government should swallow up all the funds government can spare1 in mere literary objects1 and the gospel be left still to depend on the charity of ,god's people4 ,there is nothing in ,arabic or ,sanscrit1 as at present studied in ,india1 that can enlarge the mind or prepare it for the gospel3 so that if ,christians also are not to be educated1 we shall be just where we were40 ,but whilst ,mr4 ,corrie was thus busily occupied with plans for the extension and perpetuating of divine truth1 his health had again begun to decline2 for in writing to his brother-in-law1 he concludes some observations on the state of religion at ,agra1 with the remarks3-- 8,the care of these things tends greatly to increase the inflammation in my side1 which is as bad as ever it was at ,cawnpore1 though ,i trust it will1 as hitherto1 give way to medicine40 ,in this expectation1 however1 ,mr4 ,c4 was disappointed4 ,his illness so increased upon him1 that early in ,july #ahad1 a voyage to sea was decided upon1 as the only means likely to prolong his life4 ,in the letters which ,mr4 ,c4 wrote to his friends about this time1 he speaks of himself as being greatly tried at the thought of having 8to leave a variety of hopeful prospects and persons1 without knowing how they would terminate20 and in his ,journal observes3-- 8,july #ca1 #ahad4 ,having been recommended by the medical men to go to ,england for the recovery of my health1 application has been made for leave to do so4 ,my mind is1 in consequence1 much occupied by the subject4 ,sometimes it is suggested that ,i am weary of the work1 and wish to run away from the difficulties which the various tempers1 and wants of the people impose upon me4 ,but certain it is that my frame is so shattered that these difficulties agitate me more than can be conceived1 and so as to prevent my gaining strength4 ,on the other hand1 ,i think the horror ,i feel at the sea-voyage1 with the expence and trouble attending it1 would prevent my undertaking it from mere self-pleasing motives4 ,i feel1 at the same time1 so little ability to benefit the cause of missions at home1 that ,i see no good1 in that view1 likely to arise from the journey4 ,only a wish to recover strength to serve ,god in newness of life1 ,i think1 is uppermost1 though many base and foolish thoughts intrude themselves40 ,before1 however1 taking his departure from ,agra1 ,mr4 ,corrie administered the ,lord's ,supper to fifty-nine native communicants1 and on the next day 7,aug4 #ahth47 he committed the congregation to the care of ,mr4 ,bowley and ,abdool ,messeeh1 8amid many tears on the part of the new converts1 and much sorrow on his own40 ,respecting that season of interest and solemnity1 ,mr4 ,c4 writes3-- 8,the will of the ,lord is to be acknowledged in my departure1 no less than in my arrival at this station4 ,during the preceding sixteen months1 seventy-one natives have received baptism1 of whom about fifty are adults2 about half of them ,mahomedans1 and the other half ,hindoos4 ,of these1 one has been expelled1 six have apostatized1 four are gone to their friends1 and are1 we hope1 holding fast their profession2 and others are occupying different stations1 as readers and ,catechists3 several catechumens remain to be further proved4 ,i would remark1 that exactly in opposition to the popular opinion among ,europeans in ,india1 the more learned converts1 and those who had been ,fakeers1 caused us the most anxiety and trouble4 ,in this1 as in other respects1 the ,lord's ways are not as man's ways2 and his gospel will make its way in this country1 as usual1 first among the poor and least regarded of mankind40 ,it remains only to remark1 that as the preceding pages1 in connection with the published ,journal of ,abdool ,messeeh1 make it appear1 that the moral results of ,mr4 ,corrie's short residence at ,agra were neither few nor unimportant2 so1 it is believed1 that the following observations addressed by him1 soon after leaving ,agra1 to a friend desirous of information respecting the natives of ,india1 will shew1 that his labours had not been prompted by a blind or indiscriminating zeal1 but were regulated by the enlightened convictions1 and feeling heart1 of a ,christian philosopher4 8,the population of ,india consists of ,mahomedans and ,hindoos2 though the majority of them are ,hindoos4 ,the common people of both classes1 are much alike in habits1 and superstitions4 ,there is little that is social in the general religious worship of either ,mahomedans1 or ,hindoos2 except at certain festivals1 when they resort in crowds to the place of assembly2 and their respective processions are celebrated in much the same noisy and unmeaning manner4 8,in different parts of the country there are ,durgahs1 or tombs of eminent ,mahomedans deceased2 which are endowed with lands1 for the support of persons to read the ,koran at them4 ,this is supposed to have a happy effect on the state of the deceased4 ,at these places1 an anniversary is generally observed1 which is attended as a fair1 by the people1 no less than to make offerings at the shrine4 ,there are certain idol temples1 also1 by making pilgrimages to which1 ,hindoos think they benefit deceased ancestors1 and forward their own future happiness4 ,at these tombs and temples1 the priests entertain disciples1 who are instructed in their respective creeds4 8,except at such places1 the generality of ,mahomedans observe the times of daily prayer according to their inclination1 wherever they happen to be4 ,in large ,mahomedan towns1 indeed1 a few assemble at the ,mosques on ,fridays3 at ,agra1 the number1 7except on festivals17 was usually six4 ,the ,hindoos1 also1 make their offerings at the idol-temple1 at the time most convenient to themselves4 ,so that there is no general appearance of religious observances among them1 except at the festivals2 when the whole country wears the appearance of a mountebank-show4 ,on these occasions1 a portion of time is given to hear the history of the prophet1 or god1 connected with the occasion2 and rich individuals unite to pay a pundit1 or learned ,hindoo1 who reads to them1 usually in the evening1 portions of their books1 in a chaunting tone of voice1 and explains sentence by sentence1 to the audience1 as he goes on4 ,by such means the ,mahomedans1 especially the higher classes of them1 are acquainted with the principal names in the ,old and ,new ,testaments1 and with some particulars of their history2 with the exceedingly gross intermixtures which are to be found in the ,koran4 ,the ,hindoo books1 also1 contain some stories derived from the books of ,moses1 or from ancient tradition1 mixed with much fable4 ,these facts1 on which all agree1 serve as points on which a ,christian may engage them in conversation1 and from which by rational deduction1 he may prove them in error2 whilst the ,holy ,ghost alone can convert them to the acknowledgment of the truth4 8,the general habits of both ,mahomedans and ,hindoos greatly assimilate4 ,they alike bathe their bodies1 under the idea of rendering themselves more holy in the sight of the ,deity2 they alike observe the distinction of caste1 and avoid eating with certain classes of men2 they alike revere ,fakeers1 or religious mendicants2 they alike pay adoration to the rising or setting sun1 the new moon1 and to recently-lighted lamps2 and they alike implore1 in their prayers1 the intercession of deceased persons1 reputed holy2 and observe times and seasons1 accounted lucky or unlucky4 ,they all believe in ghosts and apparitions1 and the active agency of evil spirits4 ,to guard against their influence1 they wear charms3 and depend on the aid of some particular patron god or saint4 ,the more religious enrol themselves as the disciples of some renowned holy man3 and in sickness or under any calamity1 or with a view to obtain some desired object1 they multiply charms1 or increase their offerings1 at the tomb or temple3 make vows1 or offer in sacrifice a goat or a fowl1 sometimes a buffalo3 and on the day the ,mahomedans commemorate ,abraham's offering up his son1 a camel is sacrificed1 the flesh of which is eagerly sought after as holy meat4 ,hence the arguments used by ,abdool ,messeeh1 respecting the necessity of inward purity4 ,the insufficiency of any mediator1 but one that is ,divine3 the doctrine of the atonement by the sacrifice of ,immanuel3 the happiness of having an ,almighty friend1 patron1 and protector2 and being under the teaching and guidance of the ,holy and good ,spirit2 were equally applicable to ,hindoos and ,mahomedans2 and his instructions proved equally attractive to both descriptions of people4444 ,the difficulties in the way of improving every class of native ,indians1 are greater than any one can suppose who has not been acquainted with them4 ,they are not1 however1 of a nature to demand great bodily exertion or much severe privation4 ,they arise from causes which require a common measure of understanding2 and an intimate acquaintance with human nature1 as described in holy ,scripture4 8,persons whose intercourse with the natives relates merely to temporal concerns1 can have little idea of their peculiar habits and prejudices4 ,it is thus that ,i account for the very incorrect reports respecting the religious state of the natives of ,india1 and which have been published in ,england by some who resided years among them4 ,i have even known men of real piety1 whose situations led them to much intercourse with the natives1 for mercantile and other temporal purposes1 express it as their opinion that nothing less than a miraculous interposition could convert them to ,christianity4 ,i account for this from the circumstance1 that they find such a disposition to chicanery and imposition1 in the natives1 as requires the exercise of a degree of authority and even of severity1 in men dealing with them1 which is unknown in ,england4444 ,from having lived always under an absolute1 military despotism1 the natives of ,india1 beside that natural propensity to selfishness1 which in them is uncontrolled1 are cautious how they offend their superiors2 and such they consider ,europeans of almost every rank4 ,they must have had much proof of the forbearance and gentleness of a white man1 before they will ask questions on any subject1 further than he appears disposed to answer2 and they will be cautious how they answer to his questions1 lest they should unintentionally offend4444 ,this servile spirit does not give place entirely1 even on conversion4 ,it renders much patience and tenderness necessary in dealing with new converts1 no less than with the unconverted4 ,they have very little idea of an option being allowed them in things indifferent2 and will often appear hesitating and indecisive1 when their only fear is offending their superiors4 ,so that the impossibility of benefitting1 or improving the moral state of the different classes of native ,christians1 is asserted by many of the ,british1 equally with the impossibility of the conversion of the ,heathen40 #he ,the youth of ,european descent so often mentioned in ,mr4 ,corrie's correspondence4 ,he accepted a clerkship of some kind in the ,company's service1 in preference to becoming a missionary4 #hf ,native judge4 #hg ,in a letter addressed about this time to the correspondents in ,calcutta of the ,society for ,missions to ,africa and the ,east1 ,mr4 ,c4 recommends them #8to advise with the society1 as to the ordination of native ministers1 without which1' he adds1 #8the ,sacraments cannot be regularly administered1 nor any permanency looked for in this work4' #hh ,a native physician4 #hi ,the ,bigoh or ,bigga is less than an ,english acre4 #ij ,who afterwards became so well known as a devoted and eminently useful ,missionary ,clergyman4 ,,chapter ,,xii4 ,,voyage ,,to ,,england4 ,it was on the #ahth of ,august #ahad1 that ,mr4 ,corrie left ,agra4 ,on his way to ,calcutta he paid visits to his friends at the different stations on the river1 more especially at ,chunar and ,benares1 the scene of his earliest ministrations in ,india4 ,whilst at the latter place1 he received intelligence that ,mr4 ,bowley and ,abdool ,messeeh were so discouraged by some difficulties that occurred soon after his departure from ,agra1 that both 8were ready to desist from the work of the ,lord40 ,this occasioned great sorrow and anxiety to ,mr4 ,c41 inasmuch as he not only anticipated the breaking up of the native congregation which he had been mainly instrumental in gathering around him2 but1 also1 that it might afford matter for triumph to the enemies of missions4 ,with reference to this subject1 ,mr4 ,c4 observed in a letter ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,if ,abdool should give up in discouragement1 my plans would be much set aside4 ,but #8,jehovah ,jireh1' must be my motto4 ,this perplexity brings me often to my knees1 and therefore ,i hope will work for my good4 ,an expression of ,mr4 ,brown1 in our last intercourse1 often occurs to me3--#8,instead of praying always and not fainting1 we faint always and never pray1 till we find ourselves in a strait4'0 ,on reaching ,calcutta1 ,mr4 ,corrie found that all his medical friends concurred in the opinion that a sea-voyage was absolutely necessary to eradicate his disorder2 but as his wife's expected confinement did not allow of his immediate embarkation1 ,mr4 ,c4 employed himself during his stay at ,calcutta1 in setting on foot a school for native christian schoolmasters4 ,he had an opportunity too1 of becoming acquainted with ,bishop ,middleton1 who had then recently arrived in ,india1 and of submitting to the consideration of that prelate1 many circumstances connected with the state of religion in that country4 ,on the #ast ,january #ahae1 ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,corrie went on board the ,h4 ,c4 ship ,europe1 with the intention of proceeding1 in the first instance1 to the ,cape of ,good ,hope4 ,but on arriving at the ,cape1 ,mr4 ,corrie was recommended to proceed to ,england for the benefit of the colder climate2 and with this advice he considered it his duty to comply4 ,in a letter to ,mr4 ,sherer1 dated from ,cape ,town1 ,march #bi1 #ahae1 ,mr4 ,c4 relates3-- 8,this morning ,i have written to the ,adjutant ,general1 enclosing a medical certificate of the necessity for my going on4 ,our own ,surgeon ,n4 an old practitioner here1 ,dr4 ,h4 and ,dr4 ,s4 the garrison-surgeon1 concur in opinion1 and without hesitation on the subject4 ,i ought1 ,i believe1 to consider this as the voice of ,providence1 and to acquiesce in it1 as ,i hope ,i do4 ,but the whole of this dispensation has proved the greatest trial ,i ever met with4 ,i cannot see my way at all in it2 and ,i go on1 driven1 as it were1 by circumstances4 ,i foresee innumerable difficulties before me1 without one certainty of good to follow1 and utterly despair of profiting myself or others in ,england4 ,i am called to walk by faith more than ever3 sense is all opposed40 ,shortly after the date of this letter1 ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,corrie sailed from the ,cape for ,england1 and after a prosperous voyage1 landed at ,southampton on the #bbnd ,june4 ,here ,mr4 ,c4 was made acquainted for the first time1 with the publication of the ,journal of ,abdool ,messeeh1 and the interest excited by it4 ,he heard also1 with sorrow1 of the death of ,dr4 ,buchanan4 ,on reaching ,london he was visited by several of those friends who interested themselves with the progress of the gospel among the ,hindoos2 and at an early day attended a meeting of the ,committee of the ,society for ,missions to ,africa and the ,east1 to communicate to them information on missionary subjects4 ,he was1 also1 invited to attend a ,committee of the ,london ,missionary ,society1 to answer enquiries respecting their prospects in ,india4 ,on all these occasions ,mr4 ,c4 endeavoured to shew1 that from the co-operation of many pious individuals among the ,english in ,india2 from the readiness with which children were sent to school whenever opportunity was afforded1 and from the eagerness with which translations of the ,scriptures were received by many among the natives1 there appeared to be fair prospects of good being done among them4 ,he pressed upon his friends at the same time1 the fact1 that but little or nothing had yet been effected in ,india1 for want of a sufficiency of labourers1 and that nothing would be done without them2 that wherever missionaries thoroughly acquainted with the language of the country had resided1 they found plenty to do1 and that though few of the natives of ,india in comparison with the multitude1 shewed any concern for religion1 still the number of such as did so1 exceeded the opportunities of instruction4 ,it was a gratifying circumstance to ,mr4 ,c4 to observe1 from the eagerness with which all persons with whom he conversed1 enquired after the progress of missions among the heathen1 that there had been a great increase of zeal for the spread of divine truth1 as compared with the state of religious feeling at the time he left ,england in #ahjf4 ,he expressed himself1 also1 agreeably surprised to find that the increased regard for sacred things which he observed in ,london1 was not less visible in his native village and county2 in the more orderly observance of the ,sabbath1 and in the attention that was given by the gentry and clergy to the education of the poor1 to ,sunday schools1 and to the support of different religious societies4 ,on the other hand his affectionate nature was afflicted by hearing of the death of neighbours and friends2 by learning that some with whom he had formerly 8walked in the house of ,god as friends10 had turned aside from the simplicity of the gospel2 and by having to witness the many other changes which the lapse of years never fails to bring about in families and localities4 ,deep therefore were the emotions called forth both in preacher and hearers1 when1 for the first time after his return from ,india1 ,mr4 ,corrie occupied his father's pulpit1 and urged his surviving neighbours to use the numberless changes and trials and deaths1 that had occurred since he last addressed them1 as a reason for increased anxiety to secure to themselves an enduring inheritance4#ia ,no sooner1 however1 had ,mr4 ,c4 somewhat recruited his health1 than he visited his friends1 in different parts of ,england2 taking occasion to plead the cause of missions1 both from the pulpit and at public meetings1 as opportunities occurred4 ,such portions of his time1 also1 as were not thus occupied1 he devoted to a revision of the ,liturgy in ,hindoostanee4 ,his purpose was1 if practicable1 to carry out with him to ,india1 a reprint of that important translation1 for the use of the native ,christians4 ,in the spring of #ahaf1 ,mr4 ,corrie was engaged to preach the anniversary sermon for the ,church ,missionary ,society in ,london4 ,with reference to that circumstance he wrote ,,to ,j4 ,w4 ,,sherer1 ,,esq4 8,i am appointed to preach that sermon1 which ,i would gladly have avoided3 but it was said1 #8,that many would be discouraged if ,i held back2 for that the idea would be1 that the subject of missions was not considered so important by us in ,india1 as it has been represented here4' ,i therefore consented1 leaving the issue to ,god40 ,before preaching the sermon1 however1 ,mr4 ,corrie availed himself of ,mr4 ,simeon's judgment and experience2 and in transmitting a copy of the manuscript to that honoured friend1 he observed3-- 8,i am deeply sensible of its defects4 ,being anxious to introduce a number of facts1 not1 as ,i think1 sufficiently known1 there is too little ,scripture quotation2 and ,i feel it to be wanting in a devotional spirit1 though ,i hope the relation may occasion a feeling of compassion1 and excite to exertion in behalf of the heathen40 ,this hope seems1 in some measure1 to have been realized1 for the accounts given at the time1 state that this sermon1 which was preached on the #cjth of ,april1 and grounded on ,isaiah xliv4 #bj1 awakened peculiar interest4#ib ,as1 also1 it embodies ,mr4 ,corrie's convictions respecting the moral condition and responsibilities of the heathen1 and developes the means which his experience led him to regard as best calculated to rescue the ,hindoo from debasing superstitions2 a brief abstract of the sermon cannot well be omitted4 ,let it be observed1 then1 that ,mr4 ,corrie purposed in the first instance 8,fairly to meet the objections made against missionary efforts1 as if the present state of the heathen were unavoidable--as if they were scarcely accountable for their errors1--and our solicitude on their behalf were therefore superfluous40 ,to meet objections of this kind1 he goes on to trace the origin of all false religion1 and in this1 observes that 8,intercourse with heathen nations had inclined him to the opinion1 that the original revelation made to our first parents after their fall1 is the ground of all the worship offered up throughout the world4 ,that the dispensations of ,god to ,noah and to the ,church before him1 must have been known to the family of ,noah1 and would be remembered by his immediate descendants2 and carried by them into the different countries1 whither they were afterwards scattered4 ,hence1 it was1 he apprehended1 that the custom proceeded1 of offering sacrifices in worship1 by the heathen tribes of every description1 as the only means of pacifying the ,evil ,spirit2 who1 according to their apprehension of him1 is going about seeking whom he may devour4 8,but there are many circumstances in the state of the idolatrous nations of the east1 that discover a still later acquaintance with ,divine revelation1 than the time of ,noah4 ,many coincidences in the fabulous histories of the ,hindoos with the writings of the ,old and ,new ,testament1 indicate that the forefathers of that race were not altogether ignorant of the subsequent circumstances of the church of ,god4 ,their present deplorable ignorance and error1 cannot therefore1 be said to arise from any appointment of the ,almighty2 but from their wilful neglect of those notices of his will with which they were originally favoured4 ,the sins of the fathers are thus1 in an especial manner1 visited upon their children4 ,the neglect of parental instruction1 by a just connection between guilt and punishment1 involves their posterity in ignorance1 which is the parent of superstition1 and the fruitful source of their miseries and their crimes4 ,this view of the subject ought1 therefore1 to be kept distinctly in mind2 that we may not charge ,god foolishly with being1 in any other way than by the instituted order of connection between cause and effect1 the author of that blindness of mind1 and hardness of heart1 which excludes the heathen from the divine favour4 ,the declaration of ,god1 by the prophet ,hosea1 respecting ,israel1 is true also of the heathen1 though in a subordinate degree3 #8,thou hast destroyed thyself4' 8,these observations are in a particular manner applicable to the idolatrous nations of ,india4 ,in their present circumstances1 viewed by the light of revelation1 they evidently appear #8without ,god and without hope in the world2' not only as they are without ,christ1 but as their own religious views and feelings render them totally incapable of enjoying ,god1 or of participating in the happiness of the heavenly state40 ,then after reciting many of the superstitious practices of the heathen1 and shewing that the efficacy of any religious rite which they might perform1 was not regarded by them as being1 in any moral sense1 dependent on the state of mind in the worshippers2 whilst on the other hand their idea of sin1 being connected with the neglect of ceremonial observances1 and not with moral delinquencies1--they allowed themselves in all kinds of sensual indulgences1 without any compunctions of conscience or feelings of shame2 ,mr4 ,corrie proceeded to observe3-- 8,how then can we avoid the conclusion1 that the religious views and feelings even1 of these miserable men1 do1 in the very nature of things1 exclude them from the approbation of ,god1 and incapacitate them for the enjoyments of the heavenly state8 ,it is impossible that a sinner1 going out of this world1 in expectation of any thing corresponding with earthly honours1 amusements or enjoyments1 should not be met by disappointment and shame4 ,it is impossible1 that a soul utterly ignorant of holy1 spiritual1 and intellectual enjoyments1 should find any place among #8the general assembly and church of the first-born2 the innumerable company of angels1 and the spirits of just men made perfect4' ,here1 therefore1 the christian takes his firm stand against all who oppose missionary efforts4 ,the heathen1 not only according to the unerring word of ,god1 but by the evidence of facts1 are in a perishing condition4 ,without ,christ1 they cannot be saved4 #8,he that hath the ,son1 hath life2 and he that hath not the ,son of ,god1 hath not life4' ,and myriads of these immortal spirits are passing into eternity1 whose state and dispositions prove them to be utterly alienated from the favour of ,god1 destitute of spiritual life1 and fatally incapacitated for the enjoyments of a better world4 ,for without dispositions suited to the enjoyments of the heavenly state1 they could no more comprehend the happiness arising from them1 even if admitted to a participation of heaven1 than a brute can enjoy the pleasures of reason4 ,and unless this be kept in mind1 it can scarcely be hoped1 that a due measure of zeal for the salvation of the heathen will be maintained among us40 ,mr4 ,corrie then went on to give his reasons for regarding 7#ast47 ,the distribution of the ,scriptures in different heathen languages2 7#bnd47 ,the establishing of ,missions2 and 7#crd47 ,the education of youth2 as being among the most likely means1 under the ,divine favour1 to further the rescue of the heathen from their perilous condition2 and he concluded by earnestly exhorting his hearers to do all in their power to aid in a work so pressing1 and involving such fearful responsibilities4 ,there seems to be no doubt but that ,mr4 ,c4's ,sermon on this1 as his addresses on other occasions1 whilst conveying to the religious portion of the community1 a more accurate conception of the moral condition of the heathen world1 served also to deepen the convictions of many1 that it is a primary ,christian duty to be unwearied in our efforts to bring the heathen 8out of darkness into0 ,god's 8marvellous light40 ,it was plain also1 from his letters and communications with friends1 that this awakened interest on behalf of missions1 acted very beneficially on his own mind4 ,his experience whilst in ,india had been such1 that he had to bear up not only against the ordinary difficulties inseparable from the missionary life1 but also against the hostility of the government1 the indifference of his fellow-countrymen in ,india1 and the misgivings of even good men1 as to the possibility of converting the heathen4 ,he had1 moreover1 in a great measure1 to maintain schools and teachers1 and scripture-readers1 out of such resources as his own income and the occasional contributions of a few ,christian friends might supply4 ,but his residence in ,england had brought to his knowledge the encouraging fact1 that there were thousands in his native country1 who had become earnestly desirous of promoting the best interests of their fellow-subjects in ,india4 ,with reference to this circumstance1 ,mr4 ,corrie had occasion to remark3-- 8,i was frequently favoured to witness the lively interest expressed1 by persons in all ranks of life1 with regard to the state of the heathen4 ,the bare mention of some of the cruelties and superstitions we daily witness1 drew forth tears of commiseration4 ,the news of a single soul turned from heathen darkness to the light of the gospel1 drew forth bursts of praise and thanksgiving to the ,god of all grace and mercy4 ,nor were these empty expressions only2 for the abundant contributions throughout ,britain1 for carrying on the work of ,missions1 proved that multitudes were sincere in those expressions of interest in the cause40 ,when1 therefore1 after a residence of nearly two years in ,england1 ,mr4 ,corrie prepared to return to his former scene of labour1 he carried with him both a deeper impression of the importance of the work in which he had been so long engaged1 and also1 the cheering consciousness that in such difficulties as might hereafter occur in his missionary career1 he would be accompanied by the prayers and sympathies of thousands4 ,nor could he overlook that additional encouragement to exertion1 which had recently been supplied by the kind and public manner1 in which his labours at ,agra had been commended by the ,bishop of ,calcutta4#ic ,it may be also here mentioned1 that although the frequent public services in which ,mr4 ,corrie engaged1 had not allowed him repose sufficient to recruit his health so effectually as could have been desired1 yet he was unwilling to let pass any opportunity that occurred to promote the cause of missions4 ,within a few days1 therefore1 of his departure from ,england1 he agreed to attend a meeting of the ,committee of the ,church ,missionary ,society in ,london1 for the purpose of addressing two missionaries who were about to proceed to ,india2 and the next day he preached a farewell sermon at the church of ,st4 ,mary ,woolnoth4 ,on the #adth of ,april #ahag1 ,mr4 ,corrie embarked on board the ,carnatic1 ,indiaman1 with his wife and infant daughter1 and the same day sailed from the ,downs4 ,there were on board the ,carnatic1 besides his own family and those of the two missionaries above mentioned1 upwards of forty passengers1 and a detachment of soldiers4 8,we have about three hundred souls on board10 observes ,mr4 ,c4 in a letter to his father1 8but how to set about attempting their good1 it is difficult to say40 ,as regarded himself1 ,mr4 ,c4 added3-- 8,a solemn1 but not a painful feeling1 sometimes fills my mind on recollecting my father's house1 and the distant prospect of again beholding it2 but the consideration of the #8house not made with hands1' quiets every anxiety1 and the sure and certain hope of meeting there may well reconcile us to temporary separation4 ,i have had many thoughts of late1 about the variety of religious divisions in ,england1 and see clearly1 that most of them arise from excess of spiritual advantages2 and thus the means intended for their good1 become to many an #8occasion of falling4' ,no view of religion but what affects the heart1 temper1 and life1 is of any avail for eternity4 ,the great facts of the ,trinity in ,unity1 the incarnation and vicarious death of the ,son of ,god1 the promise of the ,holy ,ghost1 all these remain true and certain1 though all men should deny them4 ,the influence they have1 therefore1 upon my heart and life1 is the great thing ,i have to attend to4 ,if ,i do so understand and feel these truths1 as to engage me in private1 and influence me in public1 the end for which they were revealed is effected in me2 and ,i shall be led by them to the issue they promise3 otherwise they serve no good purpose to me40 ,on approaching ,madeira he again wrote to his father3-- 8,you will be glad to hear that we have proceeded thus far in safety4444 ,our ship is in all respects most comfortable1 so that in all things relating to our voyage1 we1 as yet1 have only cause for thankfulness4 ,i hope we may be carried to our desired haven in peace1 and that you will hear of our continued welfare in that far country2 and that we may yet again see each other in the body1 to recount new mercies1 and to excite to renewed praises4 ,my mind is kept in perfect peace2 and ,i am enabled to keep the object of my calling steadily in view4 ,less of determination1 as to what ,i shall do1 than on my first going to ,india1 but ,i trust a full determination to do what my hand findeth to do1 in its time and season40 ,in a private memorandum1 ,mr4 ,c4 remarks3-- 8,my mind is1 ,i think1 more resolutely and deliberately set upon the work of the ministry in ,india2 more disposed to spend and to be spent in that service2 and to glory in it4 ,i am in danger from the reasonableness and propriety that appear to me in so doing3 for though it is indeed a reasonable thing1 to offer body1 soul and spirit to the ,lord's service1 yet reason cannot enable me to do it4 ,the quickening grace of the ,holy ,spirit can alone keep the soul alive to ,god4 ,the experience of the ,saviour's love alone1 constrains dull nature1 even when regenerated1 to activity in saving souls4 ,o for more experience of a ,saviour's love6 8,may #ajth4 ,during the past week1 ,i have had much thought of life1 as a state of endurance1 rather than enjoyment4 ,we endure a ship in order to go to ,india3 a cabin1 in order to attain to a house3 medicine1 in order to health3 the society on board1 because we cannot get away3 the inmates1 in hopes of doing them good4 ,in the view of these circumstances1 ,oh6 how great does the goodness of ,god appear1 in ,his long suffering and patience6 ,may it lead me to a more entire repentance4 8,august #crd1 #ahag4 ,came to anchor in ,madras roads1 at nine o'clock ,a4 ,m4 ,our voyage has been very favourable1 in respect to weather and speed4 ,at sea1 off the ,cape1 heard by a vessel1 from ,bengal1 of the death of ,mr4 ,myers3#id this has proved a severe trial to us2 but the certainty that he died in the ,lord1 prevented us sorrowing immoderately4 ,thus the ,lord is mindful of us1 and lays no heavier burden on us than we can bear40 ,the ,carnatic reached ,madras early in ,august1 and remained there for ten days or a fortnight4 ,during that period ,mr4 ,corrie and his family were the guests of his kind friend1 the ,rev4 ,marmaduke ,thompson4 ,in a letter written to his brother from ,madras1 ,mr4 ,c4 informs him that 8,there is a growing respect for religion in this place4 ,indeed1 there are many instances of serious religion throughout the ,presidency1 both among the ,civil and ,military servants of the ,company4 ,the ,chaplains have entered into a regular communication with each other in connection with the ,committee of the ,church ,missionary ,society1 and at some stations things seem wonderfully prepared for them4 ,at one station where ,mr4 ,spring is1 ,tellicherry1 he found that through a native ,christian1 whom ,god had stirred up to read the ,scriptures to his neighbours1 thirteen of the heathen were anxious to be baptized1 some of whom have accordingly been baptized4 ,we hear too1 that near ,delhi1 a company of about five hundred people had collected to converse on the subject of the ,christian ,scriptures1 which had been circulated among them1 and that they had resolved to be ,christians2 although they professed an unwillingness to associate with the ,english1 on account of their eating all kinds of food4 ,i hope they will learn the ways of ,god more perfectly40 ,the ,carnatic sailed from ,madras on the #bjth of ,august1 and arrived at ,calcutta by the end of that month4 #ia ,mr4 ,corrie's text on the occasion alluded to1 was #a ,john ii4 #ag4 #ib ,see ,missionary ,register for #ahaf1 p4 #ahe4 #ic ,see ,bishop ,middleton's ,sermons and ,charges1 p4 #aig4 #id ,mrs4 ,corrie's father4 ,,chapter ,,xiii4 ,,return ,,to ,,calcutta4 ,although ,mr4 ,corrie1 at the time he landed in ,india1 was one of the ,senior chaplains in ,bengal1 and on that account had a claim to reside in ,calcutta1 yet as a junior chaplain had been appointed to the ,presidency during ,mr4 ,c4's absence from the country1 it was decided that the latter should proceed to one of the out-stations1 until a vacancy should again occur in ,calcutta4 ,to ,mr4 ,c4 was accordingly assigned the chaplaincy at ,benares4 ,before1 however1 he proceeded to that station1 he addressed himself to the work of missions2 the natives as usual flocking around him4 ,in reference to that object1 he writes to his brother3-- 8,calcutta1 ,sep4 #bb4 #ahag4 8,i find a great progress in public opinion respecting the spread of the gospel4 ,a ,diocesan ,committee1#ie and ,school-,book ,society1#if and ,hindoo ,college1#ig are formed2 in addition to the ,bible ,society1 and ,church ,missionary ,committee1 before existing2 considerable exertions1 also are making to enlarge the ,free ,school1#ih which now boards1 clothes and educates upwards of two hundred children4 ,but notwithstanding all these favourable appearances1 vital religion has even more than ever to struggle with2 a form of godliness without the power of it2 a scheme of doctrine approaching to the truth1 but still not the truth itself1 is the fashion of the day4 ,true religion does however make way1 though it #8cometh not with observation4'0 ,on ,sunday1 #abth of ,october1 ,mr4 ,corrie preached a sermon at the ,old ,church in ,calcutta1 on behalf of the ,church ,missionary ,society4 ,this seems to have been the first discourse delivered from the pulpit of the ,established ,church in ,india1 with a professedly missionary object2#ii and was on that account not without its effect4 ,after the service1 a native-convert was baptized by the name of ,fuez ,messeeh4 ,this person had come from ,bareilly to ,calcutta1 and had been for several months under ,christian instruction4 ,the account which he gave of himself to ,mr4 ,corrie was1 that at the age of eighteen1 being disgusted with the idolatry of the ,hindoos1 he became a ,mahomedan1 and lived so strict a life as to gain many disciples by his reputed sanctity4 ,that finding no peace of mind amid the practice of all kinds of austerities2 and having1 in the meanwhile1 heard much of the gospel1 he contrived to obtain a copy of ,martyn's ,hindoostanee ,new ,testament2 that he read it1 and was led 8to know and feel that there is none other name under heaven1 given among men1 whereby he must be saved1 but only the name of our ,lord ,jesus ,christ40 ,it was on the evening of ,nov4 #ag1 #ahag1 that ,mr4 ,corrie left ,calcutta for ,benares4 ,the following are extracts from his ,journal at this time3-- 8,we have in company1 ,abdullah1 baptized in ,england2 ,fuez ,messeeh1 baptized in ,calcutta2 ,noor ,messeeh1 baptized at ,agra2 a ,christian ,khidmutgar1#ajj baptized at the ,lall-,bazaar ,chapel in ,calcutta2 ,khristnoo1 baptized at ,agra2 the five ,christian youths1 under the patronage of the ,church ,missionary ,society2 and several ,christian families4 ,during the #aith and #bjth1 we had an opportunity of witnessing two distressing instances of the unfeeling conduct of the ,hindoos1 towards the sick and dying4 ,on one occasion1 two women were employed1 at the river-side1 filling the mouth of a child with mud4 ,miss ,b4 asked them if the child were ill8 ,one of them answered1 #8,yes4' ,miss ,b4 #8,you are going to kill it outright4' ,on which they began to laugh1 and talk with each other2 and prosecuted their work of death4 ,farther on1 a sick man was laid1 with several people sitting round4 ,a young and handsome ,brahmin was attempting to bind a weight round his neck1 in order to sink him in the river1 which the sick man was resisting1 with marks of much remaining strength4 ,abdullah called out1 #8,take him into some warm place1 and he will recover3' to which the ,brahmin answered1 with a significant nod1 #8,aye1 ,aye1 we will put him into a warm place3' on which the persons around laughed aloud4 ,on the evening of the #bast1 ,fuez ,messeeh1 whilst walking on the bank of the river1 said among other things1 that #8at times he experienced such delight in contemplating the love of ,christ1 that no relish remained for earthly things4' ,noor ,messeeh1 7who appears truly a partaker of the grace of ,christ7 joined us2 and after some time asked1 with seeming interest1 #8,whether if a person sinned after believing in ,christ1 he might hope for forgiveness8' ,one of the ,christian youths enquired1 #8,whether if a person did not believe in ,christ1 and yet practised virtue1 his virtue would be accepted of ,god8' ,these questions seem to me1 to explain the doctrine contained in the xvi4 and xviii4 ,articles of our ,church4 ,the situation of native ,christians1 in respect of the ,mahomedans and ,heathen1 point out to them the necessity of faith in ,christ1 in order to acceptance with ,god2 and at the same time1 teaches them the inefficacy of a mere profession of ,christianity4 8,sunday #bdth4 ,our ,christian congregation consisted of seventeen4 ,fuez ,messeeh read first the #aafth ,psalm1 and afterwards the xvi and xviith chapters of ,st4 ,john4 ,he was himself evidently affected by the repeated references to our ,lord's divinity1 and spoke to the others on that subject2 and of the great condescension of the ,saviour1 in becoming the surety of sinners2 with the love that ought to subsist among ,christians3 saying1 #8they ought to be as the eyes in the head1 which though they dwell in two sockets1 yet were intent always on the same objects2 and constituted but one organ of vision4' 8,at ,augurdeep4 ,in the evening went into the village1 where is a celebrated ,idol temple4 ,fuez ,messeeh entered into a dispute with a ,brahmin1 before twenty-five or thirty people1 assembled for poojah 7worship47 ,the ,brahmin was forced at length to confess that ,idolatry was inexcusable3 on which an appeal was made to the bystanders1 who declared that the ,brahmins led them astray4 8,dec4 #bbnd1 at ,bauglipore4 ,visited the ,roman ,catholic ,christians here1 whom we found still in great poverty1 and complaining of the neglect of their priests4 ,gave ,augustine ,clementis 7who professes to wish for a school and has several children of his own7 ten rupees towards erecting a shed1 and engaging a schoolmaster1 with a promise of further assistance4 ,left with him1 for the use of the intended school1 one copy of the ,new ,testament in ,persian1 one copy in ,hindoostanee1 and one copy of the ,psalms in ,persian4 ,gave him also a copy of the ,psalms1 and some copies of family prayers1 in ,hindoostanee1 for distribution4 8,buxar1 ,jan4 #ah1 #ahah4 ,had divine service this morning in ,english1 and baptised an ,israelite1 aged fifty-five1 who has been long in our military service1 and who seems spiritually alive to the true character of ,christ1 as the promised ,messiah4 ,in the afternoon had service in ,hindoostanee4 ,twenty-five adults1 beside our own people1 attended4 ,the anxiety manifested by several of the ,jews for religious instruction1 is very pleasing2 and must1 if possible1 be gratified4 ,may the ,lord raise up a suitable teacher2 and direct and prosper me in my wishes to erect a place of worship for them60 ,no sooner had ,mr4 ,corrie arrived at ,benares1 7,jan4 #bf4 #ahah47 than he projected a missionary establishment in the neighbourhood of that large and populous city4 ,the following extract from a letter addressed to the secretary of the ,calcutta ,committee of the ,church ,missionary ,society1 will explain the objects he had in view3-- 8,three native ,battalions are usually cantoned here2 two are now at the station4 ,i have been taking measures for the establishment of a school for the younger drummers and fifers1 and for the children of native ,christians attached to these ,corps4 ,i have already twenty-four names of children1 whose parents desire that they should become scholars too4 ,we also1 on ,sunday ,feb4 #hth4 began ,hindoostanee worship1 and about fifteen of the above class attended4 ,for the school1 ,i have met with a small bungalow conveniently situated1 offered for six hundred rupees4 ,in this bungalow ,mr4 ,adlington could also reside for the present4 ,i beg1 therefore1 that the ,committee will consider whether they can adopt this bungalow and premises for a ,missionary residence2 or whether they would wish ,mr4 ,adlington to reside altogether in ,benares2 and that premises should be procured for him there on his return from ,agra8#aja ,let me repeat1 then1 that at this place there are immediate calls on the ,society for assistance2 and that not merely in the hope of probable benefit1 but from the actual wants of professing native ,christians2 whilst many of the natives1 ,mahomedan and ,heathen1 are awakened to discern the importance of ,christianity1 and will probably be encouraged or discouraged by the readiness or otherwise which we manifest in meeting these wants of our ,christian brethren40 ,mr4 ,corrie had the satisfaction to find that the ,committee in ,calcutta readily entered into his views1 and authorized him to purchase the premises referred to in the preceding letter4 ,he was thus enabled to open a school1 to the support of which many of the ,european residents at ,benares contributed1 by monthly benefactions and subscriptions4 ,early in ,february ,mr4 ,corrie visited ,chunar1 his first station in ,india1 and where the native church was now under the care of ,mr4 ,bowley4 ,it appears from the report he sent to the ,calcutta ,committee of the ,church ,missionary ,society1 that ,mr4 ,c4 found the mission at ,chunar in a satisfactory state4 ,under date of ,feb4 #i1 #ahah1 he writes3 8,on the #eth instant ,i went to ,chunar3 it was rather late in the evening when ,i arrived1 but ,i found several of the converted ,hindoos waiting to see me4 ,next morning at seven o'clock1 about eighty of the native ,christians attended for divine worship4 ,they began by singing a hymn1 in the native measures1 on the sufferings of ,christians4 ,the regularity with which they sung1 and the earnestness most of them manifested1 greatly affected me4 ,mr4 ,bowley expounded the ,parable of the ,wise and ,foolish ,virgins2 and concluded the service with prayer4 ,among other things1 he prayed for a blessing on the king1 and on his nobles in ,england1 and in ,india4 ,i mention this not as a proof of ,mr4 ,bowley's loyalty1 for that was known long before1 but to shew how the labours of such men tend to attach the natives of ,india to the ,british nation1 by uniting their most important interests4 ,at ten o'clock1 about one hundred ,europeans attended divine service in ,english2 after which1 twelve of their children were baptized1 and eleven marriages celebrated4 ,at three p4 m41 the native congregation again assembled to the number of about ninety adults2 when1 after evening prayer1 ,i endeavoured to explain to them and apply the second ,psalm4 ,it appears that the usual number of ,europeans who attend ,divine service regularly in ,english1 is about forty1 and the usual number of native ,christians who attend worship in ,hindoostanee1 is about seventy or eighty4 ,the number in both congregations has been gradually and regularly increasing1 and testifies of itself to the diligence and exemplary conduct of ,mr4 ,bowley1 and of the blessing attending his labours4 ,the little ,i was able1 in my short visit1 to see of the state of the people1 impressed me deeply with the value of his labours4 ,i knew the degradation of both ,european invalids and their native wives and families1 from three years residence among them1 and now to behold so many of them adorning by their lives the doctrine of ,god our ,saviour1 was to me most gratifying1 and will be considered an ample recompence for all their contributions1 by the supporters of our ,society4 ,there being but one place for both the free-school and the congregation to assemble in1 ,i could not see the scholars at their tasks4 ,three or four children of parents1 who can afford it1 pay half a rupee per month2 with which1 together with voluntary contributions of some of the pious soldiers1 ,mr4 ,bowley has provided wall-shades for evening service1 and supplies the lights4 ,i1 also1 conversed at ,chunar with ten ,hindoos1 who appear to be fully convinced of the truth of ,christianity1 though not yet prepared to encounter the consequences of an open profession of it4 ,some of them even join ,mr4 ,bowley occasionally in prayers4 ,one of them1 on being asked1 what he considered the great peculiarity of the ,christian religion8 answered1 ,that in every other system of religion1 works were made a condition of justification1 but that in ,christianity1 only faith in ,christ is required2 whilst1 wonderful to say1 it produced more exemplary holiness than any other system40 ,by a statement which ,mr4 ,corrie put in circulation at ,secrole1 dated #aath of ,march1 it will be seen that he was not unmindful of the duties connected with that station3-- 8,it having been found on enquiry1 that many children of ,christians1 chiefly connected with the native battalions1 were without the means of instruction1 a school was established in the lines1 in the month of ,february1 for their benefit1 which now consists of the following number and description of scholars3 #d ,adult ,christians1 learning to read ,hindoostanee in the ,nagree character4 #b ,adult ,hindoos1 learning to read ,english4 #d ,young men1 who were educated for a short time in the ,orphan school4 #d ,christian youths1 who with the last-mentioned1 form one class in reading1 writing1 and casting accounts4 #e ,christian boys1 who read the ,new ,testament1 and write4 #aj ,christian boys1 learning first lessons in ,english reading and writing4 #b ,mahomedan boys1 learning first lessons in ,english reading and writing4 #h ,christian girls1 learning to read ,english4 -- #ci0 ,of the above-mentioned boys1 eight1 it was stated1 were orphans1 or the children of parents who were too indigent to maintain them2 the consequence was that they had to be provided with sustenance as well as education4 ,to the school was also attached a ,christian ,moonshee1 whose office it was to read the ,scriptures morning and evening1 to as many ,christians as chose to attend2 and on ,sundays1 to read the service of the ,church of ,england1 and a previously-prepared exhortation1 7both in ,hindoostanee7 to the native ,christians in the lines1 of whom about thirty or forty1 with their children1 were in the habit of regularly attending4 ,the object of this statement was to make the ,european residents at ,benares acquainted with the missionary operations in progress among them1 and to afford them 8an opportunity of contributing to the support of measures1 the beneficial tendency of which they were so well able to appreciate40 ,the result was that the schools at ,secrole received such an increase of patronage1 as to be almost wholly supported by local contributions4 ,about the middle of ,march1 ,mr4 ,corrie again visited ,chunar4 ,in a letter from ,benares1 dated ,march #bd1 #ahah1 he writes3-- 8,i attended at ,chunar last week4 ,on ,good ,friday1 we first had divine service in ,english1 in a barrack2 and afterwards in ,hindoostanee1 at the ,free-school4 ,the number of communicants after the first service1 was seventeen4 ,of the native congregation1 twenty-seven females and two men remained to commemorate the death of our ,lord4 ,almost the whole congregation were in tears during the sermon1 in which ,mr4 ,bowley set before them the ,saviour's sufferings3 and during the communion1 the greater number appeared to be deeply affected1 and all of them exeeedingly serious and attentive4 ,there was an evident blessing vouchsafed to us1 and1 in my own case1 a lively sense of the ,divine presence1 which seemed also to pervade the whole congregation4 ,friday before1 ,i heard thirty-two native ,christians read1 who have within these few months1 most of them1 and all of them since ,mr4 ,bowley came to ,chunar1 begun to learn1 some the ,persian1 others the ,nagree character2 and some of them now read the ,scriptures in ,hindoostanee1 with fluency1 and all of them expressed much delight arising from their new attainment4 ,indeed1 a remarkable tenderness of conscience seems to distinguish most of them2 and their altered exemplary conduct is the talk of all1 and as usual1 by some ridiculed1 and by others commended4 8,on ,thursday1 ,i catechised the first class in the ,free-school1 consisting of seven boys1 who not only repeated their catechism correctly1 but answered very intelligently many questions ,i asked them1 arising out of the catechism4 ,they also repeated passages of ,scripture1 which they got off as tasks1 and the whole class repeated verse by verse1 the thirteenth chapter of ,proverbs4 ,some of the children in the ,free-school1 and their mothers1 who are amongst the most exemplary of ,mr4 ,bowley's congregation1 are the families of non-commissioned officers belonging to native corps now in the field4 ,it must strike every reflecting mind what a comfort establishments such as that of the ,church ,missionary ,society at ,chunar1 must be to ,europeans of the above class4 ,if instead of leaving their wives and children comparatively unprotected1 and exposed to the temptations of this heathen land1 they could place them where their children might receive education at little or no expense1 and their wives be receiving good instruction1 instead of being left to every wind of temptation1 surely much of the pain arising from separation in time of war would be alleviated4 8,the school-room being too small to contain the ,native congregation1 and encouraged by the ,committee's#ajb approbation of my wish to build a larger house for their accommodation1 ,i desired ,mr4 ,bowley to look out for a proper spot to build upon4 ,a house and premises1 contiguous to the barracks1 the owner refused to dispose of to us2 and this led us to fix upon a spot about two hundred yards further from the barracks1 and on two sides bounded by the ,native town4 ,the possessor1 ,mr4 ,turnbull1 was applied to for it1 and he begged ,mr4 ,g4 ,robinson to go up and fix a price on it4 ,mr4 ,r4 accordingly went with me last week and valued the premises at #ejj ,rupees4 ,on this being reported to ,mr4 ,turnbull1 he generously wrote1 saying1 that he begged ,i would accept the ground for the purpose intended4 ,this1 ,i hope1 is a token for good1 and may be taken as an encouragement to proceed4444 ,i think there will be no difficulty in raising #d or #ejjj ,rupees for our intended church40 ,mr4 ,corrie had the happiness to find that these anticipations were not premature1 for on a subscription paper being put into circulation1 the ,marquis of ,hastings was pleased to head the list of contributions by a donation of #ajjj sicca rupees1 towards building a church at ,chunar4 ,encouraging1 however1 as was this improved state of feeling in favour of missionary labours1 there remained abundant scope for the exercise of christian zeal4 ,in a letter1 addressed to his brother about this time1 ,mr4 ,corrie writes from ,benares3-- 8,in a neighbouring district 7with the magistrate of which ,i am well acquainted7 during the last year1 two widows were burned on an average every month2 six lepers were buried alive1 or drowned1 by their friends2 and not less than one hundred persons destroyed themselves by drowning1 in fits of passion1 under the idea that their ghosts would haunt the offending party4 ,such being the strength of passion in them1 you will not be surprised that murders are exceedingly frequent3 and1 what is worst of all1 their religion encourages these excesses4444 ,the progress of the gospel is slow1 but advancing4 ,the unholy rivalry of some who differ from us in modes of worship is a stumbling-block to a few2 and it grieves me to be often obliged to spend my time and my breath in proving the lawfulness of infant-baptism1 and the propriety of baptism by sprinkling4 ,satan thus divides1 but he shall not finally prevail40 ,it was now the will of ,god to exercise the faith and patience of ,his servant1 by a no less severe affliction than the death of an only son4 ,how great this trial proved to ,mr4 ,corrie1 will be seen from his letter on that occasion-- ,,to ,,mrs4 ,,myers4 8,april #i1 #ahah4 8,our dearest ,grandmama will have heard the melancholy tidings communicated to ,mr4 ,sherer yesterday4 ,i judged it best1 that1 if possible1 the heavy affliction should not come upon you suddenly4 ,your still bleeding heart will more severely feel this arrow of the ,almighty1 winged no doubt with love1 but piercing to the very quick4 ,our lovely boy was becoming inexpressibly interesting4 ,he was taken with a severe attack nearly three weeks ago1 which yielded to strong medicine1 though he never was after as before1 but seemed mending1 when by some means1 he caught a severe cold4 ,the doctor says it was of the nature of ,influenza1 and many in the house have suffered from it4 ,on ,saturday morning we sent for the doctor2 medicines did not produce the wished-for effect1 and we had a very restless night on ,saturday4 ,on ,sunday morning my heart began to sink on his account1 and the ,lord's prayer in ,church tried both my principles and my feelings4 8,throughout ,sunday1 little alteration appeared2 but he rested so well on ,sunday night1 that the doctor on ,monday morning pronounced him out of danger4 ,about eleven he altered for the worse4 ,his little sweet countenance assumed an appearance of eagerness1 and about twelve he was manifestly convulsed1 though not strongly4 ,on this1 our doctor called in another skilful medical man1 who happened to be at the station1 and new medicines were tried which promised partial relief1 and the fond mother began again to hope4 ,about twelve on ,monday night1 he was in great pain1 and the work of death was evidently rapidly going on4 ,we commended him to our covenant ,god in prayer4 ,i pleaded1 as well as ,i was able1 ,his promise to be the ,god of our seed1 as well as our own ,god4 ,i prayed for the child as a member of ,christ's mystical body and a branch of the true ,vine2 and besought that the suffering child might be remembered in the suffering ,christ4 ,our prayers were mercifully heard1 and our babe from that time suffered comparatively little4 ,about five on the morning of the #gth1 his soul seemed longing to mount upward4 ,we again in prayer commended him to our covenant ,god1 and about half-past five1 he ceased to breathe without a struggle or even a sigh4 8,it seemed to me inconceivable that my mind should ever have become so confused respecting the truths of ,scripture4 ,during the whole of ,tuesday1 and on ,tuesday night especially1 ,i became alarmed lest any thing extravagant should escape me4 ,my ,god ever graciously kept me from bringing a reproach on the principles ,i preach3 but ,o6 ,i seem only now to have begun to understand many of them4 ,i now know what is meant by the bread of affliction1 and the water of adversity3 ,i now understand the #chth ,psalm in a way ,i never did before2 and though even at this moment no one ,scripture could ,i point to1 and say that it supports me1 yet1 ,i feel myself on safe ground1 and seem secured on all sides from danger4 8,i hope the bitterness of this death is past to us both1 though our bereavement 7as ,i conceive it ought not7 will never be forgotten4 ,we are constrained to abstract our thoughts from the lovely object that bound our affections so fast2 and do1 we hope1 rejoice in his gain1 whilst we mourn our sad loss4 ,my understanding yesterday received a lesson from ,anna4 ,when we sat down to the ceremony of dinner1 she became raving for water4 ,sometimes it was #8,dear papa1 give ,nana some water4' ,then with a curtsey to nurse1 #8,please ,nan1 give ,nana some water4' ,then with anger crying for water2 but though our hearts were bleeding for her distress1 we would not give her water for her hurt4 ,thus1 thought ,i1 our heavenly ,father is looking down upon us4 ,he heard our prayers1 our tears for the life of our babe2 ,he saw our distress1 and ,he doubtless pitied1 but for our good1 denies our desires4 ,oh1 may the ,holy ,spirit send home the lesson effectually6 8,on entering the pulpit on ,sunday morning in heaviness of heart1 when ,i pronounced the sentence #8,our ,father which art in heaven1' it powerfully came to my mind1 #8,is he less a ,father than thou art1 that he should not care for thee and thy child8' ,lord6 ,i believe1 help my unbelief60 ,in acknowledging the christian sympathy of ,captain ,peevor1 expressed in connection with this domestic sorrow1 ,mr4 ,c4 writes3-- 8,we try to realize the truths you kindly bring before us2 but it is hard to walk by faith when sense and sight so powerfully attract the contrary way4 ,we are not1 however1 without experience of the grace of our ,lord2 and hope the lesson intended may not be lost upon us4 ,one day in this school of adversity1 has taught me more than years of ease and prosperity40 ,it was now1 also1 that ,mr4 ,corrie communicated with ,,the ,,rev4 ,j4 ,,buckworth4 8,benares1 ,march #ad1 #ahah4 8,you will see by the date1 where ,i am stationed4 ,the place is important1 on many accounts4 ,it is central1 and near several missionary stations3 but we want helpers at ,chunar1 my first station in ,india4 ,mr4 ,bowley's labours have been greatly blessed to the christian part of the population2 who were #8as sheep without a shepherd1' till he went among them4 ,mr4 ,adlington is at this time visiting dear brother ,abdool2 of whom he writes very favourable accounts1 as to spiritual things2 but his bodily health has greatly declined1 and is declining4 ,a few have been added to the church at ,agra2 and several bearing the christian name1 seem to have experienced a new birth unto righteousness4 ,with respect to the public state of affairs1 you will hear of the wonderful events which have taken place here1 during the last six months2 by which the whole continent of ,india is become subject to ,british authority4#ajc ,very critical have been our circumstances repeatedly1 at one place #abjj of our troops were assaulted by a greater number of thousands--at another place1 #c1jjj of our troops were set upon by #dj1jjj2 and such is the inconstant nature of the natives of this country1 that in either of the above affairs1 had victory declared against us1 the whole of ,india would have been in a flame4 ,this1 then1 is the ,lord's doing1 and it is marvellous in our eyes4 ,we have many praying souls now in our ,indian army2 and the number is increasing3 and we know that our ,god is a hearer of prayer40 8,april #i4 ,since ,i began my letter1 it has pleased ,god to relieve you of the charge we put upon you1 respecting our ,infant4#ajd ,he was removed from our sight on the #gth1 and is now with his ,father and our ,father1 with his ,god and our ,god4 ,i know not how to write about anything else1 but yet ,i wish not to fill my paper with the expression of feelings which1 no doubt1 every one in similar circumstances experiences4 ,i shall only say1 that ,i seem never to have known sadness till now40 ,this extension of the ,british rule in ,india1 by opening out wider fields for missionary exertions1 rendered1 also1 the want of labourers more sensibly apparent4 ,hence ,mr4 ,corrie writes ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,,mr4 ,,simeon4 8,benares1 ,june #af1 #ahah4 8,i write now to acquaint you with the death of one of our chaplains at ,cawnpore on the #bbnd instant1 that you may1 if possible1 get some proper person appointed in his place4 ,our honoured friend ,mr4 ,grant1 will not be backward to use his influence1 if it can avail--and may ,god grant1 for the honor of his gospel in these lands1 that a true minister of his word may be sent out4 ,it is inconceivable to those not on the spot1 how much pious well-educated men may effect1 above the usual run1 even of pious men who come out as missionaries4 ,if translations be to supply the gift of tongues1 then those translations ought to come as near the character of that gift as possible4 ,now the ,serampore translations all1 ,i fear1 fail entirely in idiom and every recommendation4 ,of their ,hindoostanee translation1 ,i can speak from some knowledge1 that it is calculated to displease the least fastidious1 by the mixture of ,persian1 ,arabic1 and ,english words in it1 as well as by the turn given to many phrases1 from the literal rendering from the ,english4 ,thus1 #8on these two hang all the law and the prophets1' the word used is literally1 #8suspended as from a peg4' ,such is my own feeling respecting this translation1 that ,i should abstain from giving it to an intelligent ,hindoo1 and no other could make anything of it2 and at this place1 we have1 in consequence1 nothing to meet the enquiries of the ,hindoos1 except a catechism translated by ,mr4 ,bowley1 which is read with avidity4 8,divine providence is1 ,i hope1 opening a door of great usefulness here1 through the means of the ,baboo ,joy ,narian--a kind of ,deist1 who is about giving up a house1 and #e1jjj4 to endow it as a school1 to our ,church ,missionary ,society4 ,the house in ,benares we have actual possession of1 and it is now undergoing a little repair1 with a view to commence a school of general learning1 of which ,mr4 ,adlington will be the superintendent40 ,the name of ,joy ,narain will be remembered1 as that of the rich native at ,benares1 who1 some years ago1 sent a letter and a benefaction to the ,bible ,society4#aje ,it appears that the same benevolent individual had at that time formed1 also1 the design of building and endowing a free-school1 by means of which the poorer classes of his countrymen might receive education4#ajf ,he seems to have gone so far as to have himself drawn up a plan of the institution1 to have commenced building a suitable house1 and to have offered to pay for the support of a schoolmaster and assistants2 but1 from some cause or other1 nothing had been definitely settled up to the time that ,mr4 ,corrie was appointed chaplain at ,benares1 after his return from ,england4 ,soon after ,mr4 ,c4's arrival at that station1 however1 ,joy ,narain brought the subject of the free-school before him2 and the following extract from a letter addressed by ,mr4 ,c4 to the committee of the ,church ,missionary ,society1 gives the substance of what passed between ,joy ,narain and himself3-- 8,he proposes giving a large house in the city for a school1 endowing it with #bjj ,rs4 a month1 7about #cjj4 a year17 ,mr4 ,adlington to be the teacher4 ,i suggested to him to let us have the house on ,mr4 ,adlington's arrival from ,agra1 to begin operations2 and that for the present ,mr4 ,a should derive his support from the ,church ,missionary ,society1 whilst he 7,joy ,narain17 should pay for books and incidental expenses4 ,this seemed to delight him4 ,i proposed that he should make the ,church ,missionary ,society's committee trustees of his endowment2 reserving to himself the approval of their agent1 who1 if approved of at the end of one year1 should be confirmed for life2 or1 during conformity with the rules of the endowment2 which1 ,i proposed1 should be for general learning3 our ,missionary to be at liberty to receive enquirers after truth1 in his private apartments1 after school-hours40 ,to these several propositions1 ,joy ,narain cordially assented1 and although at the date of the foregoing letter to ,mr4 ,simeon1 the property was not legally made over1 yet the school-house had been put into the possession of the ,church ,missionary ,society4 ,the school itself was opened on ,monday1 ,july #ag1 #ahah1 under the superintendence of ,mr4 ,adlington2 the second master being a young man1 country-born1 but educated in ,england1 and intimately acquainted with the colloquial language and manners of the natives4 ,mr4 ,corrie observes1 however1 to the ,committee of the ,church ,missionary ,society3-- 8,to give full effect to this gift of ,joy ,narain1 you must send us one or two men of as good education as possible1 and as soon as you can find them4 ,the disposition to hear and receive the word1 is increasing daily among the natives4 ,many of the rich and learned ,hindoos1 especially of this city1 seem ready to welcome the gospel40 ,and again to the ,committee in ,calcutta3-- 8,a man of learning should by all means be sent out to that school1 both to release ,mr4 ,adlington1 and to occupy a post than which there is none more conspicuous in all the sphere of missionary labour2 and1 it ought1 therefore1 to be supplied accordingly40 ,it was whilst engaged in watching over the first beginnings of this ,institution1 that ,mr4 ,corrie wrote to his brother1 8,july #bi1 #ahah4 8,this country becomes daily more and more interesting to the christian4 ,the paramount influence of our government now seems to hold out some degree of permanency to our rule2 and1 in consequence1 the natives are less embarrassed with the fear of the return of former superiors2 and the consequent persecution that would have followed any attention to our religion4 ,considerate men among them1 therefore1 begin to speak out their dissatisfaction with ,idolatry2 and to enquire what better we have to offer them4 ,this disposition is most providentially met by the institutions which have risen amongst us of late3 and the hand of ,god in disposing all things for the spread of ,his truth1 seems evidently displayed4 ,first1 there is the ,diocesan ,committee1 which confines itself to supplying those only who understand ,english1 with bibles1 prayer-books1 and tracts4 ,next1 the ,church ,missionary ,society1 which supplies the native christians with bibles1 and prayer-books in the native languages3 as well as its more direct objects4 ,then the ,school-,book ,society1 which supplies elementary books in all languages1 for all description of persons2 and then the glorious ,bible ,society1 like the #8lion which covereth1' embracing all classes and climes1 in the distribution of the words of life eternal4 ,if to these be added1 the labours of missionaries of different denominations1 it will appear that the kingdom of ,god is near to ,india4 ,of missionaries1 however1 we have as yet1 but a scanty supply4 ,may the ,lord of the harvest1 thrust forth labourers into ,india4 8,in the beginning of this month ,i baptized1 at ,chunar1 a ,brahmin1 and a ,moonshee1 in the presence of the native christian congregation1 and of many ,heathen and ,mahomedans4 ,the ,brahmin declared that he had visited all the places reputed holy by ,hindoos1 from ,brindrinath in the borders of the snowy mountains in the ,n4 ,w41 to ,juggernauth in the lower parts of ,bengal1 but found nothing on which his mind could rest1 till he heard the gospel at ,chunar4 ,that he found all the ,hindoos in error1 and plainly told them so2 in proof of his being in earnest1 he broke off the ,brahmin's cord1 7or1 as he called it1 #8the lying cord1'7 before them all4 ,the ,moonshee bore a similar testimony respecting the insufficiency of the ,mahomedan faith4#ajg ,three more are waiting for my next visit to ,chunar in order to be then baptized4444 ,these are encouraging circumstances2 may ,god grant us his blessing to improve them to his glory60 ,but besides relating such encouraging circumstances as these1 ,mr4 ,corrie's correspondence contains many incidental notices1 also1 of his intercourse with natives of all classes4 ,thus on the #ahth of ,august1 he informs ,mr4 ,sherer3-- 8,we are going on as usual here1 doing a little3 #8unknown and yet well known4' ,several of the high ,natives have visited me lately2 chiefly from the intimacy they perceived ,mr4 ,bird#ajh had formed with us2 but it led1 though they meant it not1 to religious discussions4 ,a near relation of the ,rajah of ,benares1 took away yesterday a ,hindoostanee ,new ,testament1 and ,hindoostanee ,prayer-book1 with evident desire1 after a long discussion on subjects connected with them40 ,and1 again1 in writing to the same relative in the month of ,october1 ,mr4 ,c4 observes3-- 8,joy ,narain's school goes on very well4 ,many of good caste and family now come for instruction in ,english4 ,the enquiries they make on religious subjects1 have led to the conviction1 in several1 of the folly of idolatry4 ,indeed1 ,i am obliged to refrain at times from talking with them1 lest the whole design should be obstructed by the rapid progress some of them are making in ,christian knowledge40 ,the school here mentioned1 having1 by ,deed1 bearing date ,oct4 #ba1 #ahah1 been legally placed under the control of the ,calcutta ,committee of the ,church ,missionary ,society and their successors1 ,mr4 ,corrie was requested by ,joy ,narain to draw up1 in ,english1 a detailed statement of the plan and objects contemplated by the school4 ,a draft of the statement was1 in the first instance1 #aath ,nov4 #ahah4 submitted by ,mr4 ,corrie to the ,agent of the ,government at ,benares1 and was afterwards translated into several of the languages of the country1 and circulated among the natives of ,india4 ,as illustrative of a remarkable moral movement1 towards the maturing of which the subject of these memoirs materially contributed1 the document is too important to be omitted4 8,the following statement of the object and plan of the ,institution1 is published1 with a view to engage such support as may enable the managers to extend to the utmost the benefits it is intended to convey4 8#a4 ,in this school1 four languages are taught1 viz4 ,english1 ,persian1 ,hindoostanee and ,bengalee4 8#b4 ,for the purpose of affording instruction in these languages1 an ,english master1 as superintendent of the ,institution1 is engaged2 proper assistance and learned teachers in the other languages respectively1 are also retained4 8#c4 ,it is intended to maintain1 as well as educate1 a number of poor boys1 who are to be accommodated in the house1 as soon as proper arrangements can be made1 and a small daily allowance will be made to such poor boys as cannot be received into the house1 to such extent as the funds may admit of4 8#d4 ,the benefits of the ,institution to be at the same time open to all who are desirous of availing themselves of them1 without regard to caste or country2 and for this purpose1 teachers1 paper1 pens and ink1 will be provided gratis1 for all the scholars2 it being left to the option of such parents as can afford to pay for their children's education1 to contribute at their pleasure to the general expenses of the school1 and thereby to extend the benefits of it further to the poor4 8#e4 ,the primary design of teaching the above languages being1 to enable industrious youths to obtain for themselves a comfortable livelihood1 the first care will be to instruct the scholars in reading and writing grammatically1 and in the most necessary rules of arithmetic2 together with the government regulations on the subjects of police1 and ordinary affairs3 after which such youths as desire further improvement1 may be instructed in general history1 geography1 and astronomy4 8#f4 ,no scholar to be admitted into the school under seven years of age1 except such as are on the foundation1 nor any to be admitted to receive maintenance from the funds who are above eighteen years4 ,each scholar to remain in school1 if practicable1 at least two years1 but no scholar to receive pecuniary support beyond the period of seven years1 nor above the age of twenty1 unless for the pursuit of some study approved by the managers4 8#g4 ,all the scholars are required to attend regularly every day1 to abstain from all improper language in school1 and to maintain a respectable moral character in society2 without which no scholar can be admitted1 or if admitted1 be retained on his ill conduct being discovered4 8#h4 ,the school to be open to all visitors every ,tuesday1 and all contributors to the funds to be admitted to inspect the accounts on the second ,tuesday in every month4 8,it being intended to form a library and museum also connected with the school1 as soon as practicable1 any donation of natural curiosities1 or of books1 in ,english1 or in any of the languages of ,india1 7especially grammars1 dictionaries1 and books of history7 will be thankfully received2 and a book will be kept in which the names of donors will be recorded1 with the nature and extent of the donation40 8,benares1 #aath ,november1 #ahah40 ,at the time the foregoing statement was put into circulation1 there were no less than one hundred and sixteen scholars in the school2 but it had already become apparent that the monthly sum granted by the founder1 was by no means sufficient to meet the necessary expenses of the establishment4 ,joy ,narain therefore1 made a formal application to the ,governor-,general in council for pecuniary assistance1 when ,lord ,hastings1 with the ready attention which he always manifested for the moral improvement of ,india1 ordered a regular monthly allowance to be contributed from the funds of government toward the efficient maintenance of the school4 ,but the residence of ,mr4 ,corrie at ,benares was now drawing to a close4 ,he received about this time1 an appointment to the vacant ,chaplaincy at ,cawnpore2 but before he could proceed to that station1 a vacancy had occurred at the ,presidency by the departure of the senior chaplain on sick-leave4 ,this event was the occasion of ,mr4 ,corrie's recall to ,calcutta4 ,he accordingly left ,benares in ,december #ahah1 amid the regrets of a large body of respectable natives1 who had seen so much reason for regarding him as the friend and promoter of every institution which was calculated to promote their welfare4 ,it could not1 therefore1 but be a matter of gratification to him1 to be followed to ,calcutta by the subjoined ,address written in ,english1 ,persian1 ,hindoostanee1 and ,bengalee3-- ,,from ,,the ,,inhabitants ,,of ,,benares1 ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,d4 ,,corrie4 8,for several years past we have entertained a desire1 that no one would indulge in any kind of controversy1 and that all theological discussion might cease amongst us4 ,for the attainment of this our desire1 ,joy ,narain ,maharaj1 often attempted to establish a school1 but was never able to accomplish his design4 ,when you arrived at ,benares1 and kindly engaged the superintendence of a school1 in the which instruction should be afforded in the ,english1 ,persian1 ,hindue and ,bengalee languages1 from that time our wishes began to be realized3 seeing that as at all times it is a difficult thing to collect individuals of different religious principles1 you by your investigation1 liberality and kindness1 c4 caused upwards of #bjj to lay aside their religious prejudices and engage in the same pursuit4 ,since when1 by the will of ,god1 you were pleased to embark for ,calcutta1 your condescension1 liberality1 and charity2 your kindness1 love for the truth1 and enmity to deception2 your excellent understanding1 convincing knowledge1 and acquaintance with the theological works of the ,christian religion2 your ,christian-like conduct1 your affording instruction to those desirous of being more acquainted with the way of salvation by the mediation of ,christ1 and meeting the views of the learner2 are subjects of daily conversation1 and cause us to admire that prudence which1 aloof from the violence made use of by those of other dynasties1 causes ,rajahs1 ,baboos1 great and learned ,pundits1 ,mouluwees1 ,moonshees1 in fact the great of the city1 to court your friendship4 ,a remembrance of these things occasions much sorrow1 and produces a desire for another interview4 ,here we trust that ,god ,almighty will again suffer us to meet1 and that as long as it please ,him to retain you in ,calcutta1 ,he will not fail on your account to bless both us and the school40 7,here follow the signatures of ,joy ,narain and of #bff other natives of ,benares47 #ie ,formed in #ahae4 #if ,instituted ,may #ahag4 #ig ,originated by natives in ,aug4 #ahaf4 #ih ,established in #aghi4 #ii ,see ,missionary ,register for #ahah1 p4 #ddh4 #ajj ,a kind of footman4 #aja ,mr4 ,adlington had gone to ,agra to visit ,abdool ,messeeh4 #ajb ,the ,calcutta ,committee of the ,church ,missionary ,society4 #ajc ,by the termination of the ,pindarry and ,mahratta wars4 #ajd ,that of ,godfather4 #aje ,see above p4 #adi4 #ajf ,joy ,narain's own account of the circumstances which led him thus to consult the good of his countrymen1 may be seen in the ,missionary ,register for #ahai1 pp4 #daf1 #dag4 #ajg ,a fuller account of the baptism of these persons is given in the ,missionary ,register for #ahbj1 p4 #abc4 #ajh ,the magistrate of the district4 ,,chapter ,,xiv4 ,,removal ,,to ,,calcutta4 ,it was not without regret that ,mr4 ,corrie quitted a place which he had found 7to use his own words17 8a scene of delightful labour40 ,in anticipation of his probable removal from ,benares1 he had written some time before ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,,mr4 ,,simeon4 8,i am at a loss to decide how to act should my removal be determined on by ,government4 ,you will see a report of our ,church ,missionary proceedings here1 no doubt1 by ,mr4 ,thomason4 ,there is a great deal too much said in it about me1 especially should ,i be removed soon1 so as to be prevented establishing the plans in agitation4 ,but ,i pray ,i may be able to go on in simplicity of mind1 in obedience to the will of ,god's providence1 and seek nothing for myself2 who am indeed nothing1 and deserve to be the #8off-scouring of all4' ,if ,i were professedly a ,missionary1 and had the same prospect of entrance into this very citadel of ,idolatry1 ,i should consider it a call to live and die in this place2 but as a ,chaplain of the ,government1 am ,i not to consider the disposal of ,government1 as the voice of providence to me8 ,i can truly say that1 in the prospect of leaving this place1 #8,i am oppressed2 ,o ,lord1 undertake for me6'0 ,before proceeding1 however1 to ,calcutta1 ,mr4 ,c4 visited ,chunar1 and there administered the ,lord's ,supper to sixty communicants1 of whom half were native ,christians4 ,he drew up a plan1 also1 for the future guidance of those who were engaged in the mission at that place and ,benares1 with a view to secure regularity and efficiency to their exertions3 and in this he so arranged as to secure the cooperation of all the parties1 for whose guidance his directions were intended4 ,it may be mentioned1 too1 in connexion with the mission at ,chunar1 that ,mr4 ,c4 had employed himself1 during his residence at ,benares1 in carefully examining and correcting a revision of ,mr4 ,martyn's ,hindoostanee translation of the ,new ,testament1 into ,hindoowee1 which ,mr4 ,bowley had found it necessary to undertake for the sake of the native population1 among whom he laboured2 and which was afterwards printed by the ,bible ,society4 ,at the close of the year #ahah1 ,mr4 ,corrie commenced his journey to ,calcutta4 ,on the way thither he touched at ,buxar1 a place to which he had frequently paid missionary visits2 and where a great desire had often been manifested on the part of the ,christian inhabitants1 to have a schoolmaster or ,missionary located among them4 ,as a proof of the anxiety which these ,christians still cherished for the advantages of a stated ministry1 there was now placed in ,mr4 ,corrie's hands a list of about seventy persons1 7chiefly of the less wealthy class17 who were willing to contribute certain monthly payments toward building a church1 and the maintenance of a ,missionary4 ,on reaching ,calcutta1 among the first objects of ,mr4 ,corrie's care was1 the placing under proper instruction some ,hindoostanee youths1 who had accompanied him from ,benares4 ,he had for some time been in the habit of devoting much attention to their education1 with a view to their future usefulness as teachers2 and he now placed them in a school for ,hindoostanee boys1 which the ,calcutta ,committee of the ,church ,missionary ,society had just established in that city4 ,with reference to the importance of such an ,institution1 ,mr4 ,corrie had long entertained a decided opinion4 ,in a letter1 anterior to this period1 he had observed to ,mr4 ,sherer1 8,i see so strongly1 and experience also in my connection with the adult converts1 the improbability of finding steady1 judicious pastors1 except from among those who have been educated in ,christian studies1 that ,i should like to devote the rest of my days to the instruction of native youths1 with a view to the ministry4 ,that may be better done in ,calcutta than elsewhere1 from the greater readiness with which books may be had1 and especially help for the instruction of others got ready4 ,besides1 future ,missionaries will act with greater effect1 aided by well-educated native brethren4 ,so that in every point of view this appears to be a prime object1 to educate for the ministry40 ,as respected himself1 it is scarcely necessary to state that the scene of labour at the ,presidency was1 in most respects1 widely different from that to which ,mr4 ,corrie had been accustomed in the provinces4 ,in a letter to his brother1 dated early in #ahai1 ,mr4 ,c4 relates1 as a specimen of his engagements1-- 8,mr4 ,parson and myself go on happily in our joint ,chaplaincy4 ,the ,bishop is absent at ,madras1 where1 we hear1 he is confirming1 in his sermons1 all ,mr4 ,thompson's labours4 ,he is in many respects a valuable man4 8,i have lately been appointed ,honorary ,chaplain to the ,military ,orphan ,institution1#aji where ,i officiate every ,sunday ,morning soon after six o'clock4 ,at the ,cathedral ,i read prayers or preach at nine2 and the same at eight in the evening4 ,i take the weekly occasional duties in turn4 ,i am1 also1 ex officio1 a ,governor of the ,free ,school1 and a member of the ,select ,vestry2 who are ,trustees of charities distributed to the monthly amount of #c1daa rupees1 among #efh ,pensioners40 ,the connexion with the 8,select ,vestry0 here mentioned1 did not however prove without its difficulties2 for it happened that ,mr4 ,corrie commenced his duties at the ,presidency before a dispute had subsided1 respecting the mode in which that ,vestry was constituted1 and the authority which they claimed to exercise4 ,it seems to have been the custom for the members of the ,vestry to re-elect themselves annually1 so as to admit new members into their body only as vacancies occurred by deaths1 resignations1 or departures for ,england4 ,they had customarily1 also1 appointed the officers connected with the ,church1 now called the ,cathedral4 ,but it appears that at the ,easter preceding ,mr4 ,corrie's connection with the ,cathedral1 a certain number of persons opposed the re-election of the ,select ,vestry1 as being contrary to the practice usual in ,england2 and the senior ,chaplain1 at the same time1 claimed the right to nominate the churchwardens4 ,the ,select ,vestry1 on the other hand1 regarded themselves 7and had long been so recognized by government7 as special ,trustees for a ,church which had been originally built by private individuals2 and for the due distribution of certain funds1 arising mainly from legacies left for charitable purposes1 and under the administration of the ,vestry4 ,however much1 therefore1 to be deplored1 might be the animosity and indecorous language1 into which some of the parties concerned in the dispute1 seem to have been betrayed1 it cannot be a matter of surprise that the ,vestry1 as a body1 should hesitate to abandon long-acknowledged claims1 and to hand over to other persons1 the distribution of certain charities which they conceived to be legally entrusted to the ,vestry4 ,to such a length1 however1 had the dispute respecting this matter been carried1 that both parties complained to the ,governor ,general in ,council2 and the ,government had given it as an opinion1 rather than as a decision1 that the vestry should remain in possession of its accustomed functions1 until the authorities in ,england might judge it proper to interfere4 ,but notwithstanding this opinion on the part of ,government1 the opponents of the ,vestry revived the dispute1 at the ,easter of #ahai4 ,much correspondence seems to have taken place on the subject1 and many hard words again to have been used2 and ,mr4 ,corrie as one1 among others1 who considered it their duty to maintain themselves in the position which had been thus sanctioned by ,government1 became1 as a matter of course1 the subject of reprehension on the part of those1 who opposed the claims of the ,vestry4 ,yet it is stated by those who were in ,calcutta at the time1 and were also well acquainted with the facts of the case1 that the subject of these ,memoirs was enabled so far to keep apart from the bitterness of this strife1 as to exhibit throughout 8the prudence and meekness becoming the minister of ,christ40 ,with the exception1 however1 of passing occurrences such as these1 there was but little diversity in the duties which now fell to ,mr4 ,corrie's lot1 beyond what may be found in the life of a parochial clergyman4 ,the history of any one day was1 to a great extent therefore1 the history of the succeeding month2 and so on1 from month to month3 for as it was not yet certain1 whether the senior ,chaplain1 who had gone to the ,cape1 would return to ,india or not1 ,mr4 ,corrie could not regard himself as more than a temporary resident at the ,presidency1 and did not therefore feel at liberty to engage so actively in the concerns of several religious societies in ,calcutta1 as he afterwards felt called upon to do4 ,but when intelligence reached ,india1 early in #ahbj1 that the senior ,chaplain had proceeded to ,england1 and ,mr4 ,c4 thus became entitled to succeed to the vacant chaplaincy1 he began to lay himself out for some steady course of missionary labour in ,calcutta and the neighbourhood4 ,one of his first movements was1 to endeavour to collect a native congregation in ,calcutta1 by means of ,mr4 ,bowley1 who had come down from ,chunar to superintend the printing of that revised ,hindoowee translation of the ,new ,testament1 which has been already mentioned4#aaj ,the ulterior object ,mr4 ,corrie had in view in this was1 to provide a sphere of labour for ,abdool ,messeeh1 who was expected to reach ,calcutta in the spring of #ahbj1 and whose state of health might probably render it desirable that he should remain there for the future4 ,mr4 ,corrie was1 also1 desirous to excite a deeper interest for missionary objects1 among the poorer classes about the ,presidency1 in the belief that less attention had hitherto been given to effect this1 than1 on every christian principle1 seemed necessary4 ,as having now1 also1 undertaken the office of ,secretary to the ,church ,missionary ,society in ,calcutta1 ,mr4 ,c4 was in better circumstances to direct these missionary plans4 ,some account of his occupations1 is given in a letter to his sister1 who had returned to ,england3-- 8,may #ai1 #ahbj4 8,abdool ,messeeh is here3 ,i am daily at work with him1 writing a ,commentary in ,hindoostanee1 from six in the morning till breakfast and after1 if ,i am not called away4 ,we have got him a house in ,meer-jan-kee-gully4 ,it is a roomy 7upper-roomed7 house1 but out of repair2 so we get it for fifty rupees a month2 and here he collects the poor four times a week4 ,the ,church ,missionary concerns occupy me too a good deal2 and we are setting up a printing-press in my go-downs4#aaa ,to-day the first sheet of a tract is printing off1 as a beginning40 ,soon after the date of the foregoing extract1 ,mr4 ,corrie had an examination of the boys of his ,hindoostanee-school1 in the presence of the members of the ,calcutta ,committee of the ,church ,missionary ,society1 and of such other persons as interested themselves about missionary objects4 ,his many avocations did not admit of his undertaking the superintendence of a larger number of scholars than that with which the school had commenced2 but the result of the examination proved1 that the benefit derived from being habituated to christian example and the progress which the boys had made in a knowledge of the ,hindoostanee ,new ,testament1 the ,hindoostanee ,catechism1 and the principles of the ,christian religion in general1 were of a very encouraging nature4 ,impressed1 therefore1 with the conviction that a ,christian education was of the greatest importance as a means to render the natives themselves efficient instruments of ,god to their countrymen1 ,mr4 ,corrie welcomed the idea of establishing a missionary ,college by the ,bishop4 ,with reference to that circumstance1 he wrote to his brother3-- 8,i am quite sure that all men will rejoice in the establishment of the ,college2 although learning alone will do but little4 ,it therefore appears to me more than ever necessary to maintain strenuously the labours and plans of the ,church ,missionary ,society4 ,under these feelings ,i was led last ,thursday into a long conversation with the ,bishop1 respecting ,missionary proceedings1 in which the ,church ,missionary ,society and its views were brought forward and discussed4 ,the ,bishop's chief objection was1 that the sending out of ,english clergymen as ,missionaries1 would prevent the ,east ,india ,company from making such a provision of ,chaplains1 as they ought to make4 ,as far as it goes1 the argument is just2 but ,i think he ought rather to adopt such ,missionaries1 and by pointing out to ,government the benefits produced by them1 to draw forth ,government support1 which otherwise may not be afforded in any way40 ,it may not be amiss to mention1 that however much ,mr4 ,corrie might be occupied by matters of public interest1 he did not neglect the charities of social life4 ,on the contrary1 he did not allow his gate to be closed against any who might have a reason for desiring to hold communication with him4 ,and1 as in ,india1 persons arriving from ,england1 or visiting the ,presidency were1 at that time1 regarded as having an almost unlimited claim on the hospitality of the residents in ,calcutta1 ,mr4 ,c4 was seldom without his share of such guests4 ,this circumstance1 added to his natural kind-heartedness1 gave occasion to one1 who loved him1 and who was then under his roof1 to remark1 #8as long as he lives and wherever he lives1 he will have as many people about him as fall in his way2 until every corner be occupied1 and he himself is left without a corner4' ,to many of the younger portion of these visitors ,mr4 ,c4 was1 also1 oftentimes the instrument of great moral good2 and in such cases it was his custom1 as occasion served or might require1 to address to them a letter of encouragement or direction1 after they had left him4 ,an extract from a letter to ,capt4 ,moyle ,sherer1 ,h4 ,m4 #cdth regiment1 and who had been on a visit to his brother in ,calcutta1 may serve to illustrate the spirit of such communications3-- 8,calcutta1 ,may #bg1 #ahbj4 8,you are by this time settled with your regiment1 and begin to find exactly how the minds of those around you stand affected to the principles of true religion4 ,some painful discoveries will probably have been made1 and on the other hand1 perhaps1 consolation will have arisen from unexpected sources4 ,such is the beginning1 especially of a life of piety4 ,we are apt to wonder that what we see so clearly to be rational and necessary1 is not equally seen by others when brought before them2 and the result is1 to make us feel more experimentally that what we have learned on these subjects1 has not been from man's teaching1 but that ,god has been leading us by ways that we knew not4 ,the discovery of our own inbred sin is what is most distressing at this stage4 ,indeed1 to the end of life such ebullitions of the sin that dwelleth in us1 occasionally take place1 as almost confound the ,christian1 and send him back to his first principles2 and it seems as if the whole work of religion were yet to begin4 ,yea1 how often does this inward enemy impel him to the very brink of disgrace1 and he escapes as by miracle1 from temporal no less than eternal ruin4 ,such is my experience up to this day2 and now1 what with the experience upwards of forty years have supplied of the world's insufficiency to afford happiness1 and of the power of sin1 unless ,god prevent1 to work temporal and eternal ruin1 the grave begins to appear a refuge1 and ,i have a deep conviction that they only are completely blessed who are in heaven4 ,i think you were quite right in not taking part with the ,wesleyans till you know more of them4 ,by degrees the truly sincere will draw to you as their natural superior1 and you will be able to direct their reading and to regulate their affairs far more to their advantage than they can do themselves40 ,during the ,october of #ahbj1 ,mr4 ,corrie was afflicted by the death of one of the elder of the ,hindoostanee boys1 who were in the school under his care4 ,the youth in question was a ,hindoo by birth1 and when a child had been purchased up the country1 from his parents1 during a season of scarcity4 ,he had therefore been under ,christian instruction the greater part of his life4 ,it seems that he died of consumption1 and that during a long illness1 he had afforded satisfactory evidence that he had not received a ,christian education in vain4 ,the death of this youth was not long afterwards followed by the removal of the remaining youths1 to assist in the schools at different missionary stations4 ,before1 however1 ,mr4 ,corrie's ,hindoostanee scholars had been thus dispersed1 there had been admitted among them1 for the purpose of receiving instruction in order to baptism1 a ,hindoo youth who had been servant to a converted ,moonshee4#aab ,this youth1 when full of the idea of making the pilgrimage to ,juggernauth1 had accidentally fallen in with the ,moonshee1 and accompanied him as far as ,benares4 ,in consequence1 however1 of the conversations1 which he held with the ,moonshee on the subject of religion1 his faith in the efficacy of a pilgrimage to ,juggernauth had entirely abated1 by the time they reached ,benares3 and he accordingly returned back to ,delhi with the ,moonshee1 in the capacity of servant2 although he left his master1 after a while1 to avoid the scoffs of his ,hindoo acquaintances4 ,he could not1 however1 rid himself of the conviction that his master was right1 and became so uneasy under that conviction1 that he quitted his home in search of peace of mind4 ,eventually he made his way to ,calcutta1 and became an inmate of the ,hindoostanee school there1 and in due time was baptised4 ,it may here not be uninteresting to relate1 that after ,mr4 ,corrie became ,secretary to the ,calcutta ,committee of the ,church ,missionary ,society1 he was in the habit of employing himself as he found opportunity1 in contributing to the pages of a #8,quarterly ,circular1' which first appeared in #ahbj1 and contained from time to time1 a summary of #8,missionary ,intelligence1' for the use of ,missionaries and others1 at the different stations in ,india4 ,among his contributions to this periodical may be mentioned a series of papers1 containing a #8,sketch of the progress of ,christianity in ,calcutta and in the provinces of the presidency of ,bengal4' ,mr4 ,corrie had often been struck by observing the importance attached by historians to but imperfect records of former ages1 provided those records happened to bear the marks of authenticity2 and he conceived1 therefore1 that some future historian of the church of ,christ in ,india1 might possibly derive assistance from a notice of such facts and circumstances as that #8,sketch' might be the means of rescuing from oblivion4 ,it may with truth be added1 that no person then living was better qualified than ,mr4 ,c4 to record the more recent occurrences connected with the history of ,christianity in ,bengal1 he having himself been not only a careful observer of all that concerned the progress of true religion in that ,presidency1 but also the personal friend of those men of ,god1 who had immediately preceded him1 and to whose zeal and labours may be traced the first origin of almost every religious institution in ,bengal4 ,the ,calcutta ,diocesan ,committee of the ,society for promoting ,christian knowledge1 having now1 also1 directed their attention to the translation of religious ,tracts into the languages of ,india1 a translation into ,hindoostanee1 both in the ,nagree and ,nustaliq character1 of 8,sellon's ,abridgment of the ,holy ,scriptures10 was assigned to the superintendence and revision of ,mr4 ,corrie4 ,having been requested1 moreover1 by the ,committee of the ,calcutta ,bible ,society1 to state for their information1 such particulars illustrative of the benefit attending the circulation of the ,holy ,scriptures1 as might have fallen under his own observation1 the following was his reply3-- 8,calcutta1 #fth ,feb4 #ahba4 8,in compliance with your request that ,i would state any circumstances within my own knowledge1 tending to shew the good arising from the distribution of the ,scriptures alone1 ,i have endeavoured to call to mind some facts in corroboration of my general feeling of the good arising from the measure in question4 ,the benefit arising to professed ,christians is not1 ,i believe1 within your contemplation1 otherwise ,i might say much respecting the benefit the native ,christians on this side of ,india have derived from the ,bible ,society4 ,during the prevalence of the ,mahratta power1 many ,christians were employed in offices of trust by the ,native princes1 chiefly in situations connected with the army4 8,i had1 whilst residing at ,agra1 frequent applications from ,christians of that class1 and many of them sent from far1 for copies of the ,persian and ,hindoostanee translations3 to shew the need they stood in of such supplies1 ,i may just observe1 that a ,christian of the class referred to1 in the service of the ,burthpore ,rajah1 on applying personally to me for a copy of the ,new ,testament1 was asked if he had ever perused the ,gospel in any language8 he answered that he had never even seen the ,book2 and in the figurative language of the country1 added1 that #8he knew not whether the ,book was made of wood or paper4' 8,among the most remarkable instances of ,mahomedans and ,hindoos deriving benefit from the ,scriptures alone1 the following occur to me3 8,in #ahac1 a ,mahomedan ,hukeem came to me at ,agra from ,burthpore1 saying1 that he had many years before read the ,pentateuch in ,arabic1 a copy of which had been given to him by a ,roman ,catholic priest3 that about two years before the time he came to me1 he had obtained a copy of ,st4 ,matthew's gospel in ,persian1 from reading of which he had become convinced of the divinity of ,jesus ,christ4 ,this man1 with his son1 was afterwards baptized4 8,the next instance that occurs to me1 is of an aged ,hindoo3 this man from reading the writings of ,cuber1 had been led to renounce ,idolatry1 and finding the ,law and ,gospel spoken of by ,cuber1 as divine books1 he was for several years anxious to possess a copy4 ,after several ineffectual attempts to procure a copy from ,english gentlemen1 he at length obtained the ,gospels in the ,nagree character4 ,he was also afterwards baptized4 ,a third instance of good derived from the ,scriptures alone1 was ,burukut ,museeh in #ahac2 he got a manuscript copy of ,job1 which he perused with great interest2 afterwards he got a copy of the ,psalms2 then ,isaiah2 and finally the ,new ,testament in ,hindoostanee4 ,his exemplary life and happy death are recorded in the ,missionary ,register4 8,the only other case that occurs to me1 is that of ,fuez ,musseeh1 baptized in #ahag4 ,at seventeen years of age1 he became a ,mahomedan purely from the abhorrence of idolatry expressed in the ,koran2 he remained upwards of twenty years a strict and indefatigable disciple of the ,koran1 living as a ,fakeer and obtaining great honour among his countrymen for his supposed sanctity4 ,at length1 being disgusted in his own mind with the practices recommended by his spiritual guides1 and wearied with his own ineffectual labours after holiness1 he abandoned all his honours as a ,religieux1 and bought from a lady a copy of the ,new ,testament1 if haply he might find in it that rest for his soul he had hitherto sought in vain from other quarters4 ,he sought1 and found1 as his conduct hitherto leads us to think1 the object of his pursuit4 8,i have met whilst residing out of ,calcutta1 with very many natives1 who from reading the ,scriptures1 have had all prejudice against ,christianity removed2 and some of them1 as ,joy ,narain ,ghossaul1 at ,benares1 have been set upon many works of benevolence and charity1 from their knowledge of duty as learned from the ,bible1 though they have not derived all the benefits to be desired from the copies of the ,scriptures circulated among them4 ,how far this partial good is to be appreciated1 each ,christian will form his own judgment4 ,as a preparing of the way of the ,lord1 it is by no means to be undervalued1 and future labourers will reap the fruit of the precious seed which the ,bible ,society has been sowing in ,india with so much diligence for several years past40 ,the memoranda which occur in ,mr4 ,corrie's ,journal after his return to ,india1 are very few1 but under date of ,june #aa1 #ahba1 he remarks3-- 8,i have been endeavouring to call my ways to remembrance1 and find enough to be humbled for in the review1 but a difficulty as to how ,i should speak of it4 ,this difficulty ,i wish to account for4 ,formerly ,i could write of my state with ease2 lately ,i have neglected to make memoranda4 ,i have certainly been much employed in public matters4 ,my duties as ,chaplain1 and as ,secretary to the ,church ,missionary ,society1--the schools1 the press1 leave me very little time1 and that little ,i find difficult to apply to a good purpose4 ,my want of retirement prevents the right use of the little ,i might have4 ,i am deeply conscious that the evil propensities of my nature are by no means eradicated2 and ,i ought to be alarmed that they do not more alarm me4 ,i feel daily that ,i sin1 and resolve daily against my propensities1 yet daily am more or less overcome4 ,oh6 ,i desire to awake to righteousness6 ,i desire to be alarmed2 to be saved from sin1 and quickened and made alive to ,god4 ,o ,spirit of light and love1 of power and of a sound mind1 work in me to will and do of thy good pleasure6 ,i see1 in reading the epistle to ,titus1 that except in such points as are agreeable to my nature1 ,i am far from the character of a true minister of ,christ40 ,there is reason1 however1 to hope that ,mr4 ,corrie's ministrations in ,calcutta were not altogether in vain4 ,at any rate1 it is well known that his labours were unceasing1 whether regard be had to his duties as chaplain1 or those connected with the ,church ,missionary ,society1 and the superintendence of the native schools4 ,in the ,december too1 of this year1 he was appointed to preach the sermon at the third visitation of ,bishop ,middleton2 and in the same month printed1 among the ,quarterly ,missionary ,intelligence1 a biographical sketch of his old friend ,joy ,narain1 who had died at ,benares in ,november4 ,but that which now more especially occupied the attention of ,mr4 ,c4 and others1 engaged in conducting the affairs of the ,church ,missionary ,society in ,calcutta1 was the education of the native females of ,india4 ,the state of society had until lately1 seemed hopelessly to exclude the native female from all share in the benefits of education2 but the success which had attended a school set on foot by the ,baptist mission1 had induced some friends of religion in ,india1 to communicate with the ,british and ,foreign ,school-,society in ,england1 with a view to extend the means of instruction to the females of ,india1 as widely as practicable4 ,funds were in consequence1 raised for that purpose2 and ,miss ,cooke1 a lady of education and piety1 arrived in ,calcutta during ,nov4 #ahba1 for the purpose of devoting herself to the work4 ,it was early in ,january #ahbb1 that the ,calcutta ,committee of the ,church ,missionary ,society1 took measures for the formation of female schools1 under the superintendence of this lady2 and such was the success attending their first efforts1 that three schools were in operation by the middle of ,february4 ,it was then thought desirable to bring the subject more distinctly before the residents in ,calcutta1 in the hope that the friends to the moral and intellectual improvement of the natives of ,india1 might be induced to assist in carrying on this important and difficult undertaking3 and to ,mr4 ,corrie it was assigned1 to draw up and circulate the following address3 8,,native ,,female ,,education4 8,the importance of education1 in order to the improvement of the state of society among the natives of this country1 is now generally acknowledged1 and the eagerness of the natives themselves for instruction begins to exceed the opportunities hitherto afforded them4 8,but to render education effectual to the improvement of society1 it must obviously1 be extended to both sexes4 ,man requires a #8,help-meet2' and in every country the infant mind receives its earliest impressions from the female sex4 ,wherever1 therefore1 this sex is left in a state of ignorance and degradation1 the endearing and important duties of wife and mother cannot be duly discharged2 and no great progress in general civilization and morals can1 in such a state of things1 be reasonably hoped for4 8,such however1 with few exceptions has hitherto been the state of the female sex in this country2 but a happy change in this respect seems at length to be gradually taking place4 ,a most pleasing proof of this occurred in the interesting fact1 that thirty-five girls were among the number of scholars1 at the last examination of the ,school ,society1 in the house of one of the most respectable natives in ,calcutta4 8,the arrival of a lady of judgment and experience1 at such a crisis1 for the purpose of devoting her time and talents to the work of native female education1 could not but be regarded1 by all interested in the improvement of society among the natives of this country1 as a most favourable event4 8,this lady 7,miss ,cooke7 was recommended1 in the first instance1 by the ,british and ,foreign ,school ,society1 to the ,calcutta ,school ,society2 but the ,committee of this ,society1 being composed partly of native gentlemen1 were not prepared unanimously and actively to engage in any general plan of native female education4 ,most of these1 however1 have expressed their good-will towards such a plan1 and their intention of availing themselves1 as circumstances may admit1 of ,miss ,cooke's disinterested services to obtain instruction for their families4 8,under these circumstances the corresponding ,committee of the ,church ,missionary ,society have cordially undertaken to promote1 as they may be enabled1 the objects of ,miss ,cooke's mission4 8,miss ,cooke will1 as she may find opportunity1 afford instruction at home to the female children of the higher classes of natives2 and at the suggestion of an enlightened native gentleman1 a separate school will be attempted1 for poor female children of high caste1 with a view to their becoming hereafter teachers in the families of their wealthy country-women4 8,miss ,cooke has already made sufficient progress in the acquirement of ,bengalee1 to enable her to superintend the establishment of schools2 and having been attended in her first attempt by a female friend1 who can converse in ,bengalee1 some interesting conversations took place with the mothers of the children first collected1 in which ,miss ,cooke's motives were fully explained to them4 ,soon after1 a petition was presented to ,miss ,cooke1 in consequence of which1 a second female school has been established in another quarter of the town1 and a third school has been formed in ,mirzapore1 near the ,church ,mission-,house4 ,thus three schools are already established under ,miss ,cooke's immediate care1 containing about sixty girls2 and the disposition manifested towards these schools by the natives1 affords reason to expect that a wish to have female schools will in time become general4 8,it is intended therefore1 to erect in a suitable situation in the native town1 a school-room1 with a dwelling-house attached1 in which an extensive system of female education may be attempted2 and this plan1 so peculiarly within their province1 is submitted1 with much respect and confidence of success1 to the sympathy and patronage of the ladies of this ,presidency1 by the corresponding ,committee of the ,church ,missionary ,society4 ,whatever assistance may be afforded1 either as donations or monthly subscriptions1 will be exclusively applied to the purposes of female education1 and a report of progress will be submitted1 from time to time by ,miss ,cooke1 for the information of subscribers40 8,calcutta1 ,feb4 #bc1 #ahbb40 ,the result of this appeal was1 that within a few weeks not less than #c1jjj rupees were subscribed for the furtherance of the object contemplated2 the ,governor ,general1 ,lady ,hastings1 and others of the first distinction being among the most liberal of the contributors4 ,nor was it among the least remarkable circumstance connected with this great social movement1 that a highly respectable ,brahmin wrote and circulated a tract1 for the express purpose of recommending to his countrymen the importance of female education4 ,he urged it also1 as the duty of every parent to rescue thus their female offspring from that state of degradation1 to which 7as he proved from history7 the women in ,hindoostan were not formerly subject4 ,with reference to these and similar occurrences1 ,mr4 ,corrie writes to his brother4 8,calcutta1 ,april #ai1 #ahbb4 8,our missionary engagements are becoming more and more important2 and opportunities for extending our plans more and more frequent and easy3 ,but with all these prospects1 a spirit unfriendly to the gospel is gone forth amongst the natives1 and they are commencing ,deistical politicians4 ,four native newspapers have started in ,calcutta2 two in ,bengalee1 one in ,hindoostanee1 and one in ,persian4 ,they cannot all stand long1 but they mark the spirit of the times4 ,they are all under an influence unfriendly to our ,church establishment3 but we are getting on with our schools1 having now upwards of four hundred boys1 and one hundred and thirty-four girls1 under our ,church ,missionary ,society1 within the boundary of ,calcutta2 while the ,diocesan ,committee have several schools in the suburbs4 ,the youth in these schools will1 we hope1 grow up with impressions favourable to our views of things40 ,on ,wednesday1 ,may #bf1 #ahbb1 ,mr4 ,corrie preached a sermon at the ,old ,church1 in aid of the ,society for ,missions to ,africa and the ,east4 ,the sermon was afterwards printed with the fifth report of the ,calcutta ,committee of that ,society1 and contains some valuable remarks on the advantages connected with direct instruction in the faith of ,christ1 over the education which merely imparts such knowledge as has reference only to the affairs of this life4 ,one sentence may here be cited as illustrative of the great change which the mind of ,india had undergone1 since the time when ,mr4 ,corrie could labour for the conversion of the heathen1 only at the risk of incurring the censure of government3-- 8,our ,church1 with reason we think1 calls herself ,apostolical3 now1 what is this but missionary8 ,and a portion of missionary spirit has always resided among her members4 ,time has been1 indeed1 when this was regarded by many rather as a mark of dissent2 but now1 blessed be ,god1 she seems to be rising1 through all her ranks1 to her high and proper character as a missionary body40 ,about six weeks only had passed since the delivery of this discourse1 when ,mr4 ,corrie was summoned to attend the death-bed of the ,bishop of ,calcutta1 who was called to his rest after but a few days' illness4 ,considering the peculiar circumstances of ,india1 and the then novelty of episcopal rule in that country1 it could scarcely be expected that ,mr4 ,corrie1 among others1 should be able to recognise the wisdom of every act of ,bishop ,middleton's administration1 and the equity of the control which that able prelate claimed to exercise over the temporal as well as spiritual affairs of the chaplains to the ,east ,india ,company2 but his correspondence abundantly shows that he could well appreciate the ,bishop's character4 ,with regard more especially to the cause nearest his heart--that of missions1 ,mr4 ,c4 considered it to have derived from the deceased prelate1 exactly that kind of sanction which was then required2 it wanted only official countenance1 and the reputation of orthodoxy4 ,to labour for the moral improvement and conversion of our heathen fellow-subjects1 used to be regarded as characterising a party in the church1 and as proceeding from a kind of fanaticism that would endanger the stability of our oriental empire4 ,but the interest which ,bishop ,middleton had taken in the ,missionary cause1 had given reason to believe1 that official dignity combined with a high reputation for sound judgment and secular learning1 were not incompatible with the conviction1 that our rule in ,india had every thing to hope from the spread of ,christianity2 and that it was not fanatical to suppose1 that so vast an empire had been committed to our governance for the noble purpose of making known the ,son of ,god1 to a people who were ignorant of ,him4 ,within two months of the death of ,bishop ,middleton1 the ,archdeacon of ,calcutta fell a victim to the ,cholera2 and as that circumstance rendered it necessary for the ,government to delegate the administration of the affairs of the ,see to other hands1 ,mr4 ,corrie and ,mr4 ,parson were commissioned to exercise such jurisdiction as by law might be warranted1 until a successor to ,bishop ,middleton should arrive from ,england4 ,in a memorandum1 penned about that time1 ,mr4 ,corrie writes3-- 8,sep4 #bhth1 #ahbb4 ,this day sixteen years ago ,i first landed in ,calcutta4 ,how altered the state of society6 ,then ,mr4 ,brown was senior ,chaplain4 ,he had at time dear ,martyn in his house1 and received ,parson and myself into his family4 ,now he and his wife are numbered with the dead1 and all their children returned4444 ,how many other changes1 also1 in the state of the religious society of ,calcutta1 so that ,mr4 ,u4 only remains of the friends of religion in his class of society of that day4 ,how varied has been the scene of my own ,indian-life6 8,in respect of public affairs1 great changes1 also1 have taken place4 ,in ecclesiastical matters great changes4 ,a bishop and archdeacon appointed in #ahad1 and ,bishop's college has been the result4 ,the subject of missions has thus1 by degrees1 become one of acknowledged duty and advantage to society4 ,the bishop hurried off by sudden death3 the archdeacon taken off not two months after1 more suddenly still3 ,parson and ,i appointed to exercise their functions pro tempore4 ,i would1 however1 remark especially the state of my own mind during this long period4 ,i came to ,india chiefly with a view to the propagation of the gospel2 and that view1 ,i trust ,i can say1 has not been lost sight of4 ,my time has been principally devoted to that object4 ,my money1 too1 has chiefly gone in that cause4 ,i trust a mission has been established at ,chunar1 ,agra1 and ,benares1 through my humble means1 which will go on1 and #8increase with the increase of ,god4' ,in ,calcutta1 the labours of ,secretary to the ,church ,missionary ,society1 in addition to my own official duties1 have helped to bring on the loss of strength ,i am now suffering under4 ,but ,i would be aware that the state of heart is chiefly to be attended to4 ,and here ,i can see no one duty so performed1 that ,i dare think of it in the view of presenting it to ,god2 and were it not that ,jesus is the righteousness and strength of all who believe1 ,i could not entertain the slightest hope4 8,for about three months1 my ancles have swollen occasionally1 with bad digestion1 and aching of the limbs and legs4 ,the doctor says it is the effect of climate2 by which ,i understand that my frame is debilitated sensibly1 by the heat4 ,he says1 rest is the only remedy1 and ,i am come to ,pultah ,ghaut#aac for rest1 and retirement4 ,my prayer to ,god is that ,i may be made fully alive to my real state1 and may not waste away without feeling the tendency of such a wasting4 ,i desire to have my loins girt about and my lamp supplied with oil2 so that1 whenever the bridegroom is announced1 ,i may be ready to enter in4 8,i desire to be more spiritually minded2 and to have more of a realizing faith1 as to the truths ,i am exercised about day by day out of the holy word4 ,i would fain see religion on the increase among us2 and have more abundant fruit of the word4 ,oh6 that the ,spirit were poured upon ,europeans and natives6 ,oh6 that the kingdom of ,christ were established in my own heart6 more settled in my family2 my flock2 and on all around generally4 ,oh6 that the salvation were come out of ,zion4 ,then should this nation be glad and rejoice2 and ,he whose name is ,jehovah1 be acknowledged throughout the land4 ,amen40 ,the debility of which ,mr4 ,corrie here complains had so increased1 that the medical men decided that it would not be safe for him to remain in ,calcutta during the hot weather2 and moreover1 advised a long sea-voyage as the best means for recruiting his impaired health4 ,he did not1 however1 think a voyage to be of so much consequence2 yet early in ,february #ahbc he quitted ,calcutta1 accompanied by his family and ,captain ,stephen of the ,engineers1 and went to reside on the coast1 near ,juggernaut4 ,for the first eight or nine weeks of his residence at ,pooree1 ,mr4 ,corrie's health had been greatly restored2 but the anxiety and fatigue which he underwent in attending the sick-bed of ,captain ,stephen1 who died at ,pooree on the #ajth of ,may1 brought on a serious attack of fever4 ,in this state he attended the funeral of his deceased friend2 but being too unwell to proceed through the service1 he was carried home in a state of the greatest exhaustion4 ,in the course of the day1 however1 ,mr4 ,corrie revived sufficiently to allow of his writing to ,mr4 ,thomason1 an account of the last illness of ,captain ,stephen2 after which the fever returned with such violence that for several days the sufferer was scarcely sensible4 ,the following is his letter3-- ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,t4 ,,thomason4 8,pooree1 ,may #aj1 #ahbc4 8,the last sad offices having been performed for your beloved son-in-law1 ,i will endeavour to recal some of the pleasing expressions which fell from his lips during the last week1 both with a view to the comfort of his friends1 and to indulge myself on a subject which engrosses all my thoughts4 ,my acquaintance with the dear departed commenced in ,september #ahad1 when ,i saw him almost the whole of every day during about a week4 ,again in #ahag and #ahah1 our intercourse was renewed both at ,ghazeepoor and ,benares4 ,he was then1 it is almost needless to say1 strictly correct in his conversation and general conduct1 but did not exhibit that serious impression of divine truth which latterly appeared in him4 ,when we went on board the schooner1 ,i soon discovered a marked difference in him in that respect4 ,there was an evident love of religious exercises1 and religious books2 and ,i observed more than once a serious attention to private devotion4 ,from that period our intercourse was unreserved1 and his general conversation and remarks1 such as belong to godliness4 ,he joined us regularly in our morning and evening family worship4 ,he frequently spoke of his expectation that his illness would end in death1 but we hoped otherwise2 and nothing particular1 as to his views in the prospect of such an event was mentioned4 ,he had never been free from bowel-complaint since we came together1 and during the early part of the week commencing ,april #bg1 he complained of an increase to his disorder from having taken cold1 though no such appearances as usually attend a cold appeared about him4 ,he kept up as usual till ,friday the #bnd of ,may1 when he did not come to breakfast with the family1 but came out to dinner4 8,on ,saturday he did not leave his room4 ,on ,sunday ,i went into his room1 and asked if ,i should join him in reading the word of ,god and prayer1 since he no longer could join with us4 ,to this he gladly assented1 and began to speak of the great mercy of ,god towards him in preserving him from acute pain1 whilst he felt himself sinking gradually4 ,i read the first lesson for the day1 and he made several remarks on the applicableness of the admonitions to the spiritual state of the ,christian4 ,being drowsy1 from the opiates administered to allay his disease1 he desired me to defer praying till the afternoon4 ,in the afternoon he was quite awake1 spoke of the mercies of ,god toward him1 complaining also of his want of gratitude to his ,god and ,saviour4 ,i spoke to him of what ,i thought of his state when at ,ghazeepoor in #ahad1 and especially some remarks he then made on hymn singing1 and expressed my delight at his now altered feeling1 and the ground of encouragement it afforded him4 ,he said that he had strong convictions of sin before that time2 that he owed much to his deceased ,aunt ,stephen1 who had tried much to impress his mind with a sense of religion2 adding1 #8,i know now why ,christians take so much pleasure in hymn-singing2 they love to dwell upon the ideas conveyed by the words4' ,i may here observe that he several times1 since we have been at ,pooree1 spoke of his ,aunt ,stephen1 and of all his family1 and the obligations he owed her4 8,to-day he also mentioned his wish to partake of the ,lord's ,supper1 before his intellects should become clouded4 ,on ,monday1 ,may #eth1 he asked me if ,i were prepared to administer to him the ,lord's ,supper4 ,as no time had been mentioned the day before1 ,i proposed to put off the celebration till next day1 when we would make it a family ordinance2 to this he cheerfully assented4 ,i do not recollect any particulars of what fell from him that day1 but his conversation was always with reference to his dying soon1 and filled with thanksgiving to his ,god and ,saviour for the comparative ease in which he lay1 and especially for the hope of heaven which he enjoyed2 often exclaiming that it was all of mercy1 and entirely flowing from the ,saviour's merits4 ,on ,tuesday ,may #f1 his mind was confused all the morning from opiates2 about two1 ,p4 ,m4 seeing him collected1 ,i asked if he would now have the ,sacrament administered8 ,he said he wished to be more awake and would postpone it till the morrow2 adding1 #8,i have committed my all into the hands of my blessed ,saviour1 and ,i can trust him to keep me sleeping or waking4' 8,on ,wednesday he was taken up with some temporal matters1 and wrote the letter which ,i forwarded to you on that day4 ,afterwards ,mrs4 ,corrie and ,i went into his room1 and we all1 ,i trust1 by faith fed on ,christ in our hearts1 with thanksgiving4 ,our sick brother was much alive during the whole of the service1 and read the passages in which the congregation join1 with much clearness and fervor4 ,on going into his room about an hour after the service1 he broke out1 #8,oh1 may this dispensation be blessed to my dear ,esther1 that she may give herself wholly up to ,god1 and fix all her love on him alone4 ,she has a deep sense of her own unworthiness1 and ,i bless ,god for the piety that is in her4' ,on ,thursday ,may #hth1 there appeared no alteration in the state of his disease4 ,two surgeons from ,cuttack having arrived1 our own doctor brought them to see him4 ,they went into the next room to communicate their thoughts on his case1 when he heard them agree that nothing could be done for his relief4 ,on my going into his room after they went away1 he seized my hand with all his remaining strength1 and said1 #8,oh my dear friend1 how much am ,i indebted to ,god for placing me at this time with friends1 who do all they can for my comfort1 without concealing their concern that my soul should be prepared for death2' adding much on the evil too many medical men are guilty of in cherishing hopes of life when their patients should rather be thinking of death1 and contrasting the difference of his present circumstances with what they would have been had he gone1 on leaving ,calcutta1 among strangers and irreligious persons2 then adding praise and thanksgiving to ,god4 ,on the early part of this afternoon ,mrs4 ,corrie went into his room1 when he presently began to speak to her as for the last time1 praying that her husband might be spared to her1 and her children1 and to the church1 adding many expressions of his regard and affection4 8,on ,friday1 ,may #ith4 ,on my entering his room early1 and enquiring after his state1 he said1 #8,i have had a wretched night1 not in body1 for ,i have been easy1 but in mind4 ,i have been thinking of this and that treatment which might have been used2 but it is all wrong1 and thus my wickedness brings its own punishment4 ,i have much tried to repent of my daily wickedness1 and of my wicked life4' ,adding a good deal on the subject of ,god's ordering all our affairs1 and the duty of looking above human agents--and said1 #8,o never did weary traveller desire his home more than ,i desire my rest3' most cordially acknowledging with me the duty of submission1 and joining in prayer for an increase in faith and patience4 ,some favourable symptoms appeared1 but he seemed to build nothing on them4 ,for several days we had an ,european ,sergeant to sit up at night4 ,he has expressed his surprise at the constant patience our brother manifested1 and told me1 that he was much in prayer during ,friday night4 8,on ,saturday morning1 about half past three1 a violent discharge of blood took place1 and again about five4 ,i went into his room just after the latter1 and found him prostrate indeed4 8,he began at once1 #8,o my ,god1 suffer me not to fall from thee3 make my repentance sincere1 and let my faith stand firm--,o6 accept me1 unworthy6 for the merits of ,jesus ,christ4 ,i am wretched and miserable1 let my soul be cleansed in his blood and presented spotless before thee2 bless my dear wife and children1 bless my dear father and mother1 bless you 7addressing himself to me17 and your family2 and ,god make you a greater blessing than ever to the church1 but don't waste your life in this country1 go home and do good among the poor4 ,o ,god6 bless all the doctors who have attended me1 and let them not forget their own mortality amidst these scenes2' adding prayers for such generally as he might at any time have had disagreement with4 ,on my reminding him of our blessedness in having an advocate with the ,father to render these petitions available1 he added strong expressions of the mercy of ,god towards him1 and of his earnest desire to be at rest with ,god2 adding #8,o ,god1 thou knowest that ,i love thee1' and asked me if ,i thought it wrong to pray for his dismissal4 ,he spoke of his temporal affairs as settled1 and said he had no anxiety about his children1 the ,lord would provide for them4 ,about #g1 on going into his room1 ,i spoke respecting the little probability when we first met that ,i should survive him3 he began to pray for blessings for me1 adding1 #8,bless the ,lord1 ,o my soul1 and forget not all his benefits2 who forgiveth all thy sins1 who healeth all thy diseases4' ,adding with emphasis1 #8forget not all his benefits2 that he had been forgetful all his days1 but the ,lord had shewed him great mercy4' ,from that time he spoke little4 ,being removed to another bed1 he dosed much from medicine4 ,about ten1 observing him restless1 ,i asked if he wanted anything8 he said #8,no4' ,if he retained his peace of mind8 ,he said1 #8,his mind had become very confused4' ,and on reminding him of the #8,advocate with the ,father1' he faintly added1 #8,bless ,god for all the way ,he has led me1' or to that effect4 ,about eleven1 seeing him restless1 and less of consciousness about him1 ,i asked him if he knew me1 he said1 #8,yes2' and in answer to my question1 #8,if ,i should pray for him8' he said1 #8,yes2' but there was no respond to the few petitions ,i offered up1 and he was no longer sensible4 ,at half-past one1 another discharge of blood took place1 which led us to think him expiring2 but the spirit lingered till half-past two1 when1 we doubt not1 he entered into his much-desired rest4 ,i may tell you1 though ,i mean to send a medical statement of the fact1 that the three doctors ascertained after his death1 that the liver was perfectly sound1 but the colon had become ulcerated2 and at length1 a blood-vessel being eaten through1 the discharge above-mentioned ensued1 and brought on dissolution2 but that this must have happened at no great distance of time1 and that no change of climate or treatment1 could have prevented the fatal result4 ,this morning the beloved remains were committed to their parent earth1 in the ,pooree burying-ground4 ,the burying-ground is an enclosed square on the sands of ,juggernauth4 8,those sands1 after almost a year from the ,rutt ,jattra1 are still strewed with the whitened bones of the wretched victims of this ,indian ,moloch1 and ,i indulged the idea1 whilst standing by the grave1 that we were taking possession of the land in the name of ,jesus our ,lord4 ,without disparagement to a few other remains there interred1 and of whose history ,i know nothing1 ,i knew that we were committing to the earth the remains of a member of ,his mystical body2 and will ,he not bring in the remnant of ,his elect1 and shall not these1 at present1 wretched ,hindoos1 bow to ,his sceptre1 and confess ,him #8,lord1 to the glory of ,god the ,father8' ,then1 instead of that heartless brutality with which idolatrous remains are treated1 decent burial will be given them2 and instead of the howling of jackalls and wild dogs over their remains1 #8,devout men will make lamentation1' though they will not sorrow as #8those who have no hope4' ,these remarks1 dearest brother1 are indulged in1 rather to ease my own heart1 than to comfort you and your sorrowing family4 ,i am inexpressibly afflicted for this my brother1 but what is my grief compared with his family's8 ,i send off this blotted and only copy1 both that you may receive it within a due time of your knowledge of the afflicting event2 and that no discretion may remain with me as to multiplying copies4 ,mrs4 ,corrie joins me in tender sympathy to all your house40 ,for the remaining portion of the month of ,may1 ,mr4 ,corrie continued to gain no strength4 ,a change of air was1 therefore recommended1 and he removed to ,cuttack1 about fifty miles inland4 ,there it pleased ,god to recover him surprisingly fast4 ,but in a letter to ,mr4 ,sherer1 dated ,june #ac1 #ahbc1 he observed3-- 8,by the frequent attacks of illness ,i have of late experienced1 our thoughts are sometimes directed towards you in ,england2 but ,i must remain another year in order to the pension4 ,the ,lord only knows what time may bring forth4 ,i feel most reluctant to leave ,india1 and nothing but necessity shall lead me to leave it at present40 ,ten days later ,mr4 ,corrie writes to his brother3 8,cuttack1 ,orissa1 ,june #bc1 #ahbc4 8,you will have heard the reason for my being here1 so ,i will not repeat the history of my ailment4 ,i am1 through ,divine mercy1 much better1 but this enfeebling climate is not favourable to the recovery of strength1 especially at the age of forty-six4 ,you accuse me of writing despondingly1 ,i am not aware of any such feeling2 though sickness induces reflection1 and #8it is a serious thing to die4' ,although my faith in the ,redeemer is unshaken1 and affords at times strong consolation1 yet the presence of sin often clouds the view4 ,but ,i will not fill my paper with such reflections4 8,on the death of the ,archdeacon about two months after that of the ,bishop1 ,parson and ,i were appointed ,ecclesiastical ,commissioners4 ,the ,archdeacon of ,bombay remonstrated against our appointment1 and some of the ,chaplains have acted without reference to us4 ,we have gone on quietly2 as in fact1 there is little for us to do officially2 and ,i should not wonder to see in some of the high church ,reviews1 7if opportunity offer7 accusations of neglect4 ,the fact is1 the ,bishop has no authority whatever beyond what his personal character may procure him4 ,the late ,bishop laboured all his ,indian life1 to establish an authority independent of the local ,government4 ,this was resisted covertly by the ,government1 and was felt to be a grievance by the ,chaplains4 ,i rejoice greatly in ,mr4 ,heber's appointment1 and trust it is a token for good to the established church in ,india4 ,nothing short of annihilation as a society1 will be refused him by the ,church ,missionary ,society in ,calcutta2 and in truth1 everything short of a separate existence for it1 was repeatedly offered to the late ,bishop4 8,i should not have entered on this subject1 except to tell you how in the providence of ,god1 ,i have been affected by events40 ,during ,mr4 ,corrie's absence from the ,presidency1 the ,rev4 ,isaac ,wilson arrived from ,england1 and the ,calcutta corresponding ,committee of the ,church ,missionary ,society having thus obtained the aid of a clergyman1 whom they could appoint as secretary1 decided on forming a ,church ,missionary ,association1 as had been done at ,madras4 ,up to this time1 it will be remembered1 the concerns of the ,society for ,missions to ,africa and the ,east1 had been conducted in ,bengal by a ,committee appointed originally from ,england2 so that although the friends of religion had by this arrangement possessed the means of substantially contributing to the support of ,missions1 yet they had not been formally embodied in a ,society4 ,the jealousy and opposition of ,government to ,missionary operations having now1 however1 somewhat abated1 it was thought important to take advantage of the first favourable opportunity that presented itself1 to place the ,church ,missionary ,society on a more definite footing4 ,the arrival in ,india of an episcopally ordained ,missionary1 who could render essential aid to an object that appeared so desirable1 decided the corresponding ,committee to take measures for the formation of an ,association so soon as ever ,mr4 ,corrie should return to the ,presidency4 ,this he was enabled to do during the month of ,july1 and accordingly on the #cast of that month1 the best means for forming such an ,association were taken into consideration4 ,on the #aath of ,august another meeting of the corresponding ,committee and their friends was held1 at which rules for the conducting of a ,church ,missionary ,association were provisionally agreed upon2 and with a view to a public meeting towards the end of the month1 copies of the proceedings of the ,committee were in the meantime printed and circulated for the information of the subscribers to ,church ,missions in ,bengal4 ,on the #bhth of ,august a public meeting was held1 and the ,calcutta ,church ,missionary ,association was formed1 ,mr4 ,corrie being chosen the first ,president4 ,in the ,report of the proceedings on the latter occasion1 it is stated that 8,the ,rev4 ,d4 ,corrie1 in accepting the office of ,president of the ,association1 addressed the meeting in a speech which breathed an ardent spirit of piety1 of affection1 and of zeal for the sacred cause of ,missions4 ,it would be impossible to convey any adequate idea of it by a cursory mention in this place of the persuasive topics then so feelingly urged4 ,suffice it1 therefore1 to say1 that1 as ,mr4 ,corrie himself was deeply affected1 so he made a deep impression upon the whole audience40 ,the formation of this ,association was not1 however1 effected without some little opposition1 but as that appears to have arisen from a misunderstanding of the motives and relative positions of the parties concerned1 and was speedily allayed1 it is therefore here mentioned merely in deference to the truth of history4 ,respecting his own affairs ,mr4 ,corrie wrote to ,mr4 ,sherer1 then in ,england3-- 8,calcutta1 ,sep4 #aa1 #ahbc4 8,we are all1 through mercy1 quite well4 ,we cannot be so much alone as my state of body requires1 but we are more alone than when you were here1 and our souls and bodies benefit by it2 though ,i cannot but regret the partial exclusion it occasions from some of the excellent of the earth4 8,of public affairs ,i can say nothing1 except that a ,committee for public ,instruction is formed4 ,this was planned under ,mr4 ,adam's reign4 ,a picture of him was voted after ,lord ,amherst's arrival1 by a great meeting at the ,town-hall4 ,mr4 ,a4 is gone to ,bombay in very bad health4 8,our great man1 the ,bishop1 will soon1 we hope1 be here4 ,he will come opportunely for our ,missionary affairs1 and his coming will prove1 we trust1 a blessing to many4 ,they say he means to make the senior ,chaplain ,archdeacon2 whether that means ,mr4 ,shepherd1 or myself1 ,i know not1 and am not anxious about it4 ,i should lose in point of emolument1 but the ease would suit me in my present state of health4 ,i trust ,i can bless ,god for an increasing indifference as to outward things and distinctions4 8,mr4 ,jetter1 about a fortnight since1 baptized a young ,brahmin2 and inquirers increase at ,mirzapore4 ,the place is becoming known4 ,it is now1 also1 assuming a pleasing appearance40 ,according to expectation1 ,bishop ,heber reached ,india at the beginning of ,oct4 #ahbc4 ,so soon as ever it was known that the ,bishop had reached ,saugur1 ,mr4 ,corrie1 as senior chaplain1 ,mr4 ,abbott as registrar of the diocese1 and ,principal ,mill of ,bishop's ,college1 went down the river in the government yacht1 to conduct his lordship to ,calcutta4 ,on ,saturday1 ,oct4 #ahth1 the ,bishop was installed in the ,cathedral1 and on the following ,monday was pleased to appoint ,mr4 ,corrie to the ,archdeaconry of ,calcutta4 ,with reference to that circumstance ,bishop ,heber wrote to ,mr4 ,williams ,wynn4#aad 8,i have bestowed the ,archdeaconry1 much to my satisfaction1 on the senior resident chaplain1 ,mr4 ,corrie1 who is extremely popular in the place1 and one of the most amiable and gentlemanly men in manners and temper1 ,i ever met with40 ,in a letter from ,dum ,dum1 ,nov4 #c1 #ahbc1 announcing his appointment to the ,archdeaconry1 ,mr4 ,corrie also informs ,mr4 ,sherer3-- 8,we are miserably off for ,chaplains1 and you will see from the date that ,i am at ,dum ,dum doing duty there until we get a reinforcement4 ,i am1 however1 but weak1 being on the recovery from a fever which was brought on by going out in the heat1 to marry a couple about the middle of ,october4 ,i had become quite unfit for the ,presidency duties4 ,the sight of the ,cathedral used to make me ill1 from the weak state into which ,i had fallen2 and ,i trembled like a leaf in the breeze when ,i ascended the steps of either desk or pulpit4 ,at the same time ,i could not leave the country1 not being entitled to the pension1 for a year to come4 ,i am now relieved from those distressing occasions1 and my mind is eased of a burden4 ,i feel that1 humanly speaking1 ,i may yet be strong here1 and do a little in the ,missionary cause40 ,nor were these ,mr4 ,corrie's anticipations with respect to his health premature2 for being now released from the duties of the ,cathedral1 he gradually recovered his strength1 and attained to such a healthiness of appearance1 that persons who had not seen him for some time1 could scarcely imagine that he had been so seriously ill4 ,but besides the beneficial change which had thus been effected in ,archdeacon ,corrie's personal condition1 it was no small satisfaction to him to find1 that in carrying on the affairs of the ,church ,missionary ,society1 he could now have the advantage of the support and direction of his ,diocesan4 ,for the difficulties in the way of co-operating with that society1 which appeared insuperable to the late ,bishop ,middleton1 having been either surmounted or removed1 it became the pleasant duty of the ,archdeacon1 to propose that the ,bishop of ,calcutta should be respectfully requested to accept the office of ,president of the ,auxiliary ,church ,missionary ,society1 which was formed in that city1 on the #ast of ,december #ahbc4 ,nor1 after the active part which he had taken in the proceedings of the ,society1 could it be otherwise than gratifying to the ,archdeacon1 to hear ,bishop ,heber1 on that occasion1 publicly express his lordship's conviction1 that the ,church ,missionary ,society1 in conjunction with others of a similar nature1 had been the means of accomplishing extensive good4 ,for the two months following the occasion here referred to1 ,archdeacon ,corrie was chiefly resident at ,dum ,dum4 ,to his brother he writes from 8,calcutta1 ,march #aa1 #ahbd4 8,our hot season has commenced4 ,during the cold season we have been residing chiefly at ,dum ,dum1 the ,artillery station1 seven miles from the fort1 where1 since my preferment1 ,i have done the ,chaplain's duty4 ,mr4 ,crauford1 now ,chaplain of the ,old ,church1 having friends in the ,artillery regiment1 with whom he spends some days every week1 has agreed to take the duties of ,dum ,dum for the present1 leaving to me the charge of the old church4 ,in this ,mr4 ,wilson1 a ,church ,missionary1 assists me2 so that ,i have had1 as yet1 no relief1 except from the occasional duties of this large place4 ,and indeed1 this was all ,i desired1 as1 when not exposed to the sun and consequent fatigue1 ,i am as well as ,i am likely1 with my nervous frame1 to be anywhere4 ,we must now consider ourselves fixed here for seven years1 should life be prolonged4 ,what may be necessary for our children in that period1 we know not4 ,hitherto they have enjoyed good health2 and if it please ,god to continue it to them1 we do not mean to separate them from us4 ,but we experience in fact1 ,i trust1 as well as in theory1 our dependence on a higher power1 and are disposed to do what may be ,his holy will1 as we discover it4 8,of our public affairs you hear through public channels4 ,of private and family affairs ,i do not like to say much on paper4 ,the bishop has proved toward myself most disinterested and kind4 ,had he been less impartial and less feeling than he is1 ,i should not now have been here4 ,repeated attacks of fever had so weakened me1 that ,i could not go through my duties2 and here no unemployed clergyman is at hand to help a friend in need4 ,i was therefore1 preparing for a voyage to the ,cape1 which by draining our resources would both have kept us low in circumstances1 and would have sent me back to what had proved a distressing situation4 ,we cannot therefore1 but feel the hand of ,providence in the very considerate kindness of the ,bishop4 ,he has met with much annoyance1 ,i fear1 in consequence1 from quarters where submission to ,episcopal authority used to be the order of the day2 but which1 like all order not founded on ,scripture principles1 is only submitted to when on their own side4 ,i do not say that ,episcopacy is not founded on ,scripture1 but that1 all obedience to it does not rest on the same foundation4 ,i can truly say1 ,i never took a step in our ,church ,missionary proceedings which had not the sanction of episcopal principles4 8,we have now three ,missionaries from the ,society for the ,propagation of the ,gospel4 ,the ,college has begun operations1 and ,i feel no little satisfaction that the first student is a youth previously prepared by the ,church ,missionary ,society4 ,he is given up to the ,society for the ,propagation of the ,gospel1 partly because they have funds unappropriated1 and the ,church ,missionary ,society has not1 and partly because ,i could not find among our friends the support ,i wished for in respect of this youth4 ,alas6 how much of human infirmity cleaves to us all2 for ,i do not pretend to be free from it1 and others see more1 perhaps than ,i should like to acknowledge4 ,our ,bishop is the most free from party-views of any man ,i ever met with4 ,in a ruler this is beautiful1 and ,i have felt the benefit resulting from it4 ,but a few years ago it seemed as if it was impossible to exercise such a spirit4 ,certainly ,bishop ,heber in those days1 would not have been raised to the ,bench2 when unlimited submission was the only condition of cooperation4 ,some would have given up the ,church ,missionary ,society1 and have resolved all the ,episcopal ,societies into the ,diocesan ,committee4 ,i withstood it1 and held what is now acknowledged1 that the ,bishop is 7such7 in his office alone1 and that whenever he sits in committee1 he sits as a private member1 and not as ,bishop4 ,hence he can sit in any ,society conducted on episcopal principles4 ,the time indeed seems approaching when all societies will send out men of a similar spirit1 and then our co-operation will be complete4 ,the three men1 of the ,society for the ,propagation of the ,gospel1 appear truly pious1 though as yet they manifest not that love of prayer and religious exercises which maintain religion in its power4 8,i long to hear more of you all1 but we must be content1 ,i believe1 to endure this longing as a necessary concomitant of our voluntary banishment4 ,i earnestly wish you would1 as you have opportunity1 direct the attention of young men of piety to this country4 ,of twenty-six ,chaplains allowed for ,bengal1 only thirteen are present2 the distress consequently is great1 especially in ,calcutta4 ,no one of us can be ill1 or omit a sermon1 without casting additional labour on men already fully employed1 whilst the ,dissenters are in number strong2 both exhibiting variety to draw people1 and relieving each other from too much work4 8,our ,government has declared war against the king of ,burmah1 and an expedition is ordered against that country4 ,we have had skirmishing already on the borders1 and have lost some officers4 ,happily there is no power in the interior to disturb us at present4 ,runjeet ,sing1 the king of ,lahore1 is moving on the banks of the ,indus2 and it is said an army of observation is forming on the ,bombay side1 to watch him4 ,we are all well1 and expecting a journey through the ,upper ,provinces in company with the ,bishop and family1 to commence in ,june40 ,before the time arrived for undertaking the journey here mentioned as in prospect1 ,archdeacon ,corrie was called upon to officiate at the ordination of ,christian ,david1 a native of ,malabar4 ,this person had been a pupil of ,schwartz1 and had for many years been employed as a catechist in ,ceylon1 by the ,society for promoting ,christian knowledge4 ,he had proved himself to be so faithful a labourer1 in the ,christian cause1 that except for some legal scruple on the part of ,bishop ,middleton1 he would have received ordination from that prelate in #ahba4 ,he now came to ,calcutta1 bringing with him the recommendation of ,archdeacon ,twistleton1 and for a title1 a colonial chaplaincy to which he had been appointed by ,sir ,edward ,barnes1 the ,governor of ,ceylon4 ,the day fixed upon by ,bishop ,heber1 for the ordination of ,christian ,david1 was ,ascension-day 7,may #bg1 #ahbd17 and on the following ,trinity ,sunday1 he was ordained priest4 ,with reference to that most interesting event1 ,archdeacon ,corrie wrote ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,calcutta1 ,june #aj1 #ahbd4 8,i had to examine him on such points as a missionary to the heathen1 unacquainted with ,western science should know4 ,the ,bishop was so pleased with my questions and ,christian ,david's answers1 that he has sent a copy of them to the ,archbishop of ,canterbury40 ,after some observations on private matters1 the ,archdeacon then adds3 8,all public religious affairs you will learn from the ,missionary ,register4 ,a ,ladies' ,society for promoting native female education2 ,lady ,amherst1 ,patroness66#aae ,who would have dreamt of this a few years ago8 8,we set out next week with the ,bishop1 but a difficulty has arisen about my being absent at the same time with him ,i being ex officio ,commissary4 ,this will in all probability bring us back from ,chunar4 ,i have got over the hot season without a fever1 and am now tolerably well1 though constrained to keep in doors4 ,i look forward to coming to ,england as a dream of which the reality is barely probable4 ,o1 may we be more in the contemplation of our heavenly home6 ,i have no reason to be dissatisfied with the world1 further than as sin renders it uneasy to me1 sometimes me to it2 and my children will perhaps be better off by my remaining here4 ,for the rest1 ,i have but little anxiety2 and home is home1 in a ,christian1 as well as in a worldly sense2 nor shall we be at home until we get to heaven40 ,the difficulty referred to in the foregoing letter1 as regarded the absence of both ,bishop and ,archdeacon from ,calcutta at the same time1 having been surmounted1 ,bishop ,heber1 accompanied by his ,chaplain1 ,mr4 ,stowe1 commenced his journey toward the upper provinces on the #aeth of ,june1 #ahbd4 ,archdeacon ,corrie1 with his wife and children1 followed in a separate budgerow4 ,after three days voyage on the river1 they parted company2 the ,bishop and his chaplain proceeding to ,dacca1 whilst the ,archdeacon and his family passed on by ,berhampore1 and ,malda1 to ,bhaugulpore1 where they were to wait for the ,bishop4 ,but in the meantime ,mr4 ,stowe was taken dangerously ill at ,dacca1 and died there on the #agth of ,july4#aaf ,bishop ,heber joined the ,archdeacon's party on the #ajth of ,august1 and proceeded to visit the several stations of ,monghyr1 ,patna1 ,dinapore1 ,buxar1 ,benares1 ,chunar1 c41 in succession4#aag ,when1 near ,allahabad1 the ,archdeacon wrote to his brother3-- 8,sept4 #ab1 #ahbd4 8,we have seen much done here in the way of preparation2 but then it is much only as compared with the former state of things4 ,with reference to what remains to be done1 nothing comparatively has been accomplished4 ,the country near ,allahabad1 which the ,english possessed when ,i arrived in ,bengal1 extended in length about twelve hundred miles1 by an average breadth of one hundred and fifty or two hundred4 ,that constituted the ,bengal ,presidency4 ,the ,ganges may be considered a line running through the length of the tract1 dividing it into two parts4 ,throughout this extent1 there was only one place of ,protestant worship and that in ,calcutta2 and not a building appropriated to worship out of ,calcutta1 belonging to the ,english4 ,there are now in ,calcutta four places of worship in the ,established ,church2 besides the ,mission ,college1 and three ,dissenting ,chapels4 ,there is a ,church at ,dacca1 ,benares1 ,chunar1 ,futtyghur1 and ,meerut4 ,churches are in the course of erection at ,agra and ,cawnpore4 ,whilst at the old stations of ,dinapore and ,berhampore1 public worship is still performed in an empty barrack4 ,there are at ,monghyr and ,benares1 dissenting ,chapels1 and perhaps at some of the upper stations also4 ,all this has not been accomplished without considerable individual exertion1 as well as public support3 and though individual piety is still lamentably scarce1 yet much more of public attention to religious observances prevails than formerly2 and also much more of individual piety4 ,with respect to the natives1 when ,i arrived in the country1 a few converts were found at ,serampore2 and a few1 ,i believe existed at ,dinapore3 nor were there any attempts to convert the natives entered upon beyond those places1 except at ,cutwa1 where the late missionary1 ,chamberlain1#aah had settled4 ,now1 we have a few native converts in ,calcutta1 at ,burdwan1 and at ,cutwa and its branch in ,beerbhoom2 at ,monghyr1 ,buxar1 ,benares1 ,chunar and ,meerut4 ,in each of these places1 a few converts are found2 and what will eventually work greatly for the good of the heathen1 some of the ,roman ,catholic converts1 and descendants of ,europeans1 who had become quite native in their habits and language1 are attracted by the labours of the missionaries at those places2 and in some of them1 as at ,chunar1 where the native congregation is the largest on the side of ,india1 the ,roman ,catholics constitute the chief part4 ,besides these1 ,i might mention ,meerut1 and ,futtyghur1 where missionaries are labouring1 and some converts have been gained4 ,thus where all was darkness1 now1 here and there1 a glimmering of light begins to appear4 ,but a reference to the situation of these places on a map1 and of the small number to whom the means of grace have proved effectual at each place1 will shew you how little has yet been accomplished4 ,how much remains to be done1 ere this people can possess even the means of knowing the way of life6 ,we are now1 as you know1 attending the ,bishop4 ,his visit cannot fail to increase the disposition of the ,british to help on the work of missions4 ,at ,buxar1 he sat down in the hut of the native catechist1 and heard the ,christians read2 and questioned them in their catechisms2 at ,benares1 he went in his robes to the ,hindoostanee chapel1 where ,mr4 ,morris officiates1 and pronounced the blessing2 and the same at ,chunar4 ,he has acquired sufficient ,hindoostanee to give the blessing in that language4 ,also at ,benares1 he administered ,confirmation to fourteen native ,christians1 and afterwards the ,lord's ,supper3 and at ,chunar to fifty-seven native ,christians4 ,he asked the questions and pronounced the prayer1 in ,confirmation1 in ,hindoostanee1 and also the words addressed in giving the elements in the ,lord's ,supper4 ,in the latter ordinance1 he was assisted at ,benares by ,mr4 ,morris2 and at ,chunar by myself4 ,but1 in general1 ,i have not been able to do more than attend him in public2 my state of weakness not allowing of visiting or dining from home4 ,some of the old alarmists still remain1 who1 by these proceedings1 are silenced if not convinced2 and scoffers are put to shame4 ,the ,bishop1 also1 visits all the missionary native schools1 as he proceeds2 and the ,missionaries are greatly encouraged by the interest he takes in their proceedings40 ,the ,archdeacon then adds3-- 8,i must say a few words about myself4 ,the season has not been favourable1 as yet1 for restoring my strength4 ,we have had comparatively little rain2 and the east wind failed by the #bjth of ,august4 ,since then the west-wind has blown3 and now in the afternoon blows hot4 ,the river is fallen as much as is usual in ,november4 ,notwithstanding1 ,i am greatly stronger than when in ,calcutta1 and have no positive disease3 at least ,i think so4 ,we now begin to feel the coolness at night--the forerunner of the cool season4 ,six weeks will bring it here4 ,i then hope1 with care1 to recruit1 and feel much the goodness of ,god in allowing me this hope40 ,on the #bgth of ,november #ahbd1 ,archdeacon ,corrie addressed the following letter to ,mr4 ,buckworth1 from ,cawnpore3-- 8,you will have heard1 from my friends1 of the debilitating effects this climate has at length began to have on my frame2 but ,i am thankful to be able to say1 that ,i am better this year than last4 ,knowing the cooler nature of this part of the country1 at this season of the year1 the ,bishop kindly invited me to accompany him on his visitation1 and here we arrived early in ,october4 ,the latitude is five degrees higher ,north than that of ,calcutta2 and1 being within two hundred miles of the ,snowy ,mountains1 is more than proportionably cooler4 ,your parish news is very interesting to me2 and the increase of your places of worship must be a source of great gratification to you4 ,if it should be given me to be your helper in one of these ,churches1 separate from occasional duties1 some day1 it would1 ,i trust1 be a comfort to both of us4 ,but it becomes us more than ever not to boast1 or lay plans respecting the morrow4 ,we have now passed a fair proportion of the days usually assigned to man2 and besides this1 we have both personal experience of a dying nature4 ,i feel for my own part1 how sickness even may lose the effect of impressing the idea of death2 and have hourly need to pray for more of that quickening ,spirit1 who alone makes us and keeps us alive to ,god and things divine and eternal4 ,our situation here is quite different from yours1--we have no parish annals to record4 ,i arrived at this station on the day fourteen years after sainted ,martyn had dedicated the ,church4 ,the house he occupied stands close by4 ,the view of the place1 and the remembrance of what had passed1 greatly affected me4 ,i arrived on the ,sunday morning1 after divine service had begun2 7the ,bishop having come on the day before7 and1 as the ,chaplain is sick1 ,i had to assist in administering the ,sacrament2 and well it was1 on the whole1 that none present could enter into my feelings1 or ,i should have been overcome4 8,you wish to hear tidings of our ,bishop2 and1 from public sources1 you will have heard of the favour he shews generally to the righteous cause4 ,of the natural amiability of the man1 it is impossible to convey an adequate idea4 ,our children speak of him always as #8the dear ,bishop4' ,i merely mention this to shew how lovely he appears in his general temper and habits4 ,his conversation is very lively2 and from his large acquaintance with books and men1 very instructive1 and tending to improve those he meets with2 whilst he industriously seeks opportunities of public worship1 ,sunday and week day2 and urges on all the importance of attending on the means of grace4 ,surely this land has cause of praise to ,god1 that such an one has been placed at the head of affairs here6 8,at this station1 there are about two thousand five hundred ,christians1 and the chaplain being sick ,i remained here1 to do the parochial duties4 ,having accompanied the ,bishop to ,lucknow1 where we were entertained by the ,king of ,oude1 ,i returned hither4 ,the ,bishop presented the ,king with a ,bible1 and a ,book of ,common ,prayer1 in the native language2 and the ,king was so taken with the ,bishop1 that he begged to have his picture2 which was accordingly taken immediately1 by an eminent ,english artist1 whom the ,king keeps in constant pay4 ,the ,bishop went on his way to ,meerut1 ,delhi1 and ,agra2 at the latter place ,i hope to meet him1 about ,christmas2 ,i am now therefore in a sphere ,i greatly like4 ,on ,sunday last ,i had two full services2 and attended a meeting with the ,dragoon regiment on ,wednesday1 and with the ,foot regiment last night1 and feel no ill effects2 by which you will judge of the bodily strength which is mercifully renewed to me4 ,i have one of the learned native converts with me2 and he is collecting the few native ,christians here1 and we shall1 ,i hope1 be useful to them also40 #aji ,instituted in the year #aghb4 #aaj ,see above1--p4#cbb4 #aaa ,a printer and printing-press1 sent out by the ,church ,missionary ,society1 had just arrived from ,england4 #aab ,moonshee ,mooneef ,masseeh1 who was baptised at ,chunar in #ahah4 #aac ,a place on the river ,hooghley4 #aad ,journal1 c41 vol4 #c4 p4 #bcj1 #bnd edit4 #aae 8,the ,ladies ,society for ,native female education in ,calcutta1 and its vicinity10 was formed on the #beth of ,march #ahbd4 #aaf ,see ,life of ,bishop ,heber1 ,vol4 ii4 pp4 #bag1 c4 #aag ,it has not been thought necessary to notice in detail1 the many interesting occurrences which have already been related in ,bishop ,heber's ,journal and ,correspondence4 #aah ,one of the ,baptists4 ,,chapter ,,xv4 ,,cawnpore--,,calcutta--,,return ,,of ,,mr4 ,,thomason--,,death ,,of ,,bishop ,,heber4 ,it was because ,archdeacon ,corrie did not find himself equal to the fatigue of travelling1 that when the party reached ,lucknow1 it was decided1 that instead of proceeding with the ,bishop1 he should endeavour to recruit his strength by remaining stationary for a time at ,cawnpore4 ,from that place1 therefore1 he writes ,,to ,,the ,,rev4 ,,mr4 ,,thomason4 8,cawnpore1 ,dec4 #bf1 #ahbd4 8,i have been expecting1 for some time1 to receive a few copies of the last ,report of our ,calcutta ,church ,missionary ,society4 ,i am very desirous of endeavouring to help the funds2 but cannot well make applications without giving some information as to our plans4 ,i begin to fear that even if about eight copies were dispatched immediately1 they would not reach me in time1 as ,i am only waiting the ,bishop's decision as to my movements4 ,i have now done the duty here1 for five ,sundays1 and expect to be here about three ,sundays more4 ,i could much have wished ,mr4 ,torriano#aai to have arrived before ,i leave1 but he will find his way comparatively smooth4 ,you know ,i brought ,fuez ,messeeh with me from ,benares1 where he was doing little1 and had fallen ill4 ,he is still prevented by the cough1 which has for some time affected him1 from doing all ,i believe he is willing to do for the gospel4 ,i have every reason to believe him to be a partaker of ,divine grace2 though his talent in communicating what he knows to others1 is not great4 ,he1 on our arrival1 brought a few of the families of the ,christian drummers and fifers to our house1 for ,sunday worship2 and about six of their girls are learning to read ,hindoostanee and to sew1 with ,mrs4 ,corrie4 ,about three weeks ago1 ,mr4 ,fisher1 ,peter ,dilsooke and his wife ,ruth1 with their two sons came here4 ,they had a chit letter from ,mr4 ,fisher1 and ,i have since written to him1 and ascertained that he thinks well of them as ,christians4 ,i have retained him on ten rupees a month1 to teach such ,christians adults as wish to learn to read the ,scriptures in their native tongue1 and ,nagree character1 and he has a school in the lines1 of eight adults2 and his wife teaches the ,christian girls in our house1 their two boys go to the ,free ,school4 ,there are three native corps here generally4 ,the ,christians connected with them are not fewer than sixty or seventy2 and there are many of a similar class connected with the many public offices of the field command1 besides a considerable number of poor people of the same description1 who resort to ,cawnpore1 as the ,calcutta of the ,upper ,provinces4 ,the native population too1 is wonderfully increased since ,i was resident here4 ,on the whole1 this place calls loudly for ,missionary help2 and ,i greatly hope something may be done1 at least for those who profess ,christianity1 and understand only the native language4 ,already our congregation on ,sunday last had increased to about twenty2 and ,i am writing to ,chunar for copies of the native catechism1 and ,nagree hymns1 which are much desired by some of the ,christians4 ,i happily got a supply of the ,scriptures in various languages4 ,should the ,bishop decide on my residing in the ,upper ,provinces1 these stores will prove invaluable2 and become the means of blessing1 ,i hope1 to many4 ,the duties of a ,chaplain1 ,i know from experience1 leave him1 at such stations as this1 little leisure for extra-parochial engagements4 ,as ,i shall have more leisure for such pursuits1 with liberty to remove from place to place1 ,i shall consider it a peculiar happiness to be the means of establishing christian worship1 for the class of people who are to be found at every station professing ,christianity1 and knowing only the native language4 8,i believe no copies of the #8,outline of ,ancient ,history1'#abj have been sent to ,bombay2 will you be so good as to send twelve or twenty copies to ,mr4 ,farish1 as a specimen1 that more may be sent if required8 ,the first class of native youths1 in the ,free ,school here1 are reading it2 and get1 from the former chapters of the work1 such information on the early religious history of the world1 as they would not otherwise at present obtain4 ,this ,free ,school will1 ,i hope1 prove very useful to this part of the country4 ,there are ten boys and ten girls already on the foundation1 on the plan of the ,calcutta ,free ,school4 ,many poor ,christian day-scholars1 and seventeen natives1 are learning ,english4 ,there are also1 belonging to the ,institution1 a ,persian and ,hindee school1 containing together about one hundred children2 who read only the ,school-book ,society's books4 ,the young man who is schoolmaster1 is a conscientious man1 and attends diligently to the duties of the school4 ,the divisions you have heard of nearly annihilated the school for a time2 and an opposition school was opened for day-scholars4 ,this will eventually do no harm4 ,competition will produce exertion1 and education will be better forwarded4 ,it is wonderful how much a little superintendence may help on these things1 where there is no selfish end in view1 and no seeking of preeminence2 and ,i cannot but hope ,mr4 ,torriano will prove a great blessing to this place4 ,how would it have rejoiced the heart of ,martyn1 could he have had the chief authorities associated by order of ,government1 to assist him in the work of education2 and how gladly would he have made himself their servant in the work1 for ,jesus' sake6 ,one poor blind man1 who lived in an outhouse of ,martyn's1 and received a small monthly sum from him1 often comes to our house2 and affords a mournful pleasure in reminding me of some little occurrence of those times4 ,a wealthy native too1 who lived next door to us1 and who was intimate with ,sabat and ,abdool ,messeeh1 sent his nephew to me1 a few days ago1 to make #8,salaam2' and to express to me the pleasure he derived from his acquaintance with ,martyn4 ,these are all the traces ,i have found of that #8excellent one of the earth1' at the station40 ,the ,archdeacon remained still another month at ,cawnpore1 and then proceeded toward the valley of the ,dhoon1#aba with the intention of spending the hot season there4 ,he writes to his sister1 in a letter dated 8,march #f1 #ahbe4 8,we left ,cawnpore on ,january #bd2 were one ,sunday at ,futtyghur1 and two at ,meerut1 and are to-day at ,muzuffernugur1 three marches ,n4 ,w4 of ,meerut1 and in sight of the snowy mountains4 ,at ,futtyghur we met dear old ,abdool1 who is grown remarkably larger1 but is reduced in strength4 ,at ,meerut we enjoyed the society of several excellent persons4 ,mr4 ,fisher has regular service in a fine church1 on the plan of the cathedral in ,calcutta1 on ,wednesdays and ,fridays1 besides the morning and evening service on ,sundays4444 ,i was much pleased with what ,i saw of ,mr4 ,f41 and his labours are blessed4 8,we are proceeding to the ,dhoon1 a valley on the first range of hills4 ,we expect to reach the ,ghaut#abb in five days1 and to be at ,dehrah1 the head station on the ,dhoon1 by next ,sunday4 ,we have in company with us1 a son of ,mr4 ,layard of ,uffington1#abc who has suffered from the climate1 although he has been only a year in the country2 but will1 ,i hope1 recover among the hills1 as he has no symptoms of serious illness about him4 ,i am1 through great mercy1 quite well4 ,i do not expect1 indeed1 that my nerves1 never strong1 will be ever what they were2 still ,i am well1 have recovered my former appearance and size1 and have nothing to complain of4 8,i have daily more cause for thankfulness in my present appointment4 ,being confined to no station1 ,i can go generally where ,i am likely to be most useful2 and retreat1 as we are now doing1 from the violence of the hot winds4 ,the country acquired by the ,nepaul war is likely to be of great service as a retreat for invalids from the burning plains4 ,there is a mountain near ,dehrah in the ,dhoon1 which can be climbed with some difficulty1 and has a fine level top where we can pitch our tent1 and have the thermometer at #fj during the month of ,may4 ,there we expect to pass the months of ,april and ,may1 and to descend when the rains threaten2 and so return to the plains4 ,farther on1 the climate is equally favourable2 with a greater range to roam over2 but we are content to take the nearest shelter1 as ,i have no desire after field sports1 and we are happy enough at home4 ,we have one of the ,agra youths1 named ,amannee1 with us1 so that we make a congregation of six1 and enjoy the repose of the sabbath much4 ,we have a couple of small camel-trunks filled with books1 and so carry with us food for the mind as well as the body4444 ,thus you know all our affairs4 ,surrounded by temporal mercies1 ,i trust we are still saying1 #8,whom have we in heaven but ,thee1 and there is none on earth1 c4 c4'0 ,to his brother1 the ,archdeacon writes3-- 8,dehrah ,dhoon1 ,march #cj1 #ahbe4 8,i am so much recruited in strength as to indulge the hope of some further years of further endeavour for the good of ,india4 ,you hear of our public affairs from public sources1 but there are certain discouragements in the situation of affairs1 both as it respects church and state1 which you will not hear1 and which it is scarcely worth while to fill one's paper with4 ,he #8whose kingdom ruleth over all1' is engaged to make #8all things work together for good to them that love ,him1' and with ,his love in our hearts what need disquiet us8444 ,our difficulties in church-matters arise chiefly from want of cordial union1 and from the fluctuating nature of our ,society1 which renders it necessary to begin our affairs anew every few years2 and causes the labour of communicating intelligence to be continually recurring4 ,but the church generally is1 ,i doubt not1 advancing among us2 and we must not grow weary2 however1 of necessity1 we grow less able to do what we would4 ,in our ,bishop we have all we can have in one man1 to unite us and to help our work by its various instruments4 8,you would be delighted if you could visit us in our present situation4 ,we are living on the ridge of ,kalunga hill1 near where ,general ,gillespie fell ten years ago4#abd ,the house we occupy is a kind of hunting bungalow1 three miles from cantonments1 belonging to the commanding officer here4 ,leopards in plenty live around us1 and some of our workmen going a few days ago to drink water at a pool1 in a recess in the wood1 spied a large tiger on the opposite side4 ,we1 however1 have nothing to fear from them2 and now the novelty is over1 the day passes in our usual studies and pursuits1 very happily4 ,the children and ,i ride on ponies1 through the path-ways1 early in the morning2 with a few men with large sticks ahead1 to frighten away any thing that might come among us4 ,we have had snow on the neighbouring hill1 within a week1 and specks of it are still visible4 ,we contemplate ascending the second range of hills1 about #h1jjj feet above those we now are on2 and to pitch our tent there1 during the approaching months of ,april and ,may1 where the thermometer ranges1 we are told1 between #fj and #gj4 ,here we are happy to have it1 from twelve o'clock to six1 about #hj4444 ,even this is a relief unspeakable from the plains1 and our nights are cool2 the wind regularly setting-in1 in the evening1 from the snowy mountains4 ,i have nothing to say about this people1 7who differ a good deal from the people of the plains17 because ,i know but little about them40 ,in another letter to his brother1 dated #fth of ,april1 ,archdeacon ,corrie observes3-- 8,i have told ,g4 that our ,bishop confirmed about #aej adult natives1 at the different ,church ,missionary stations between this and ,calcutta2 which shows that we labour not in vain4 ,the progress1 though slow1 is still a progress1 in respect of the diffusion of ,divine truth1 in these parts4 ,it will be an especial care to establish seminaries1 at the principal stations1 for the instruction of native christian youths1 on as permanent a footing as we can4 ,our territories1 in this part of the world1 are beginning to be too extensive4 ,we can scarcely hope to have men1 at the head of affairs1 always of capacity enough for such a load of government2 but ,he who ruleth over all1 will doubtless use us for some good purpose1 to this benighted land4 ,may those of us who feel the importance of this subject be up and doing6 ,there is a general falling off amongst the ,hindoos1 from their former system4 ,they have no reverence for the usual forms of an oath4 ,they set little by the ,brahmins generally2 and1 except on festivals1 and at particularly celebrated places1 their idolatrous rites are fallen into considerable disuse4 ,the ,hindoos1 too1 much more generally than formerly1 keep the ,mahomedan festivals4 ,these facts are noticed by all the men in office1 throughout the country4 ,from this1 however1 no good has1 as yet1 arisen1 to the righteous cause4 ,though less observant of their own rites1 they know nothing of the gospel that they should value it4 ,their festivals resemble an ,english fair1 much more than what we consider by the word #8worship2' and it is not to be wondered at1 that the natural man loves these occasions2 or that a people so circumstanced1 should at first turn away from the humbling1 self-denying truths of the gospel1 when set before them4 8,these regions1 the ,dhoon are becoming much resorted to at this season by the ,british1 on account of the coolness of the climate4 ,i have a christian youth with me1 whom ,i daily instruct1 and we met here a ,brahmin1 who has been baptized by one of the ,baptist ,missionaries4 ,he would not stay with his teacher1 having been long used to a roving life4 ,he seems quite convinced of the supreme importance of ,christianity4 ,he reads the scriptures with me2 and ,i hope may grow in knowledge1 and in grace40 ,to ,mr4 ,sherer1 who had just arrived in ,calcutta from ,england1 in company with the ,rev4 ,francis ,goode1 one of the ,company's ,chaplains1 the ,archdeacon writes3-- 8,may #be1 #ahbe4 8,the arrival of ,mr4 ,goode1 after some recent comers1 is a source of much thanksgiving4 ,i can now say1 as far as the church in ,india is concerned1 #8,lord6 now lettest thou thy servant depart1 either to some retreat for a time on earth1 or to the rest which remaineth6' ,i speak only in respect of the prospects of the church at this ,presidency1 which1 from the several valuable ministers she now possesses1 may well do without so bruised a reed as ,i am4 8,mr4 ,newton1#abe you will know1 is now the financial secretary of our ,church ,missionary ,society4 ,he1 above all our ,committee1 has been with me like-minded1 entering with all his spirit into our concerns1 and looking our difficulties in the face4 ,having1 as ,i hope1 got ,mirzapore into some form1 we must go on cautiously2 by which ,i mean1 have our resources in view before we extend our plans4 ,i am now anxious to get the ,female ,central ,school built1 and to extend no more1 but rather contract the present scale of small schools40 ,it will have been seen that it was in ,bishop ,heber's contemplation1 that the ,archdeacon should permanently reside in the ,upper ,provinces1 that by this means more effectual assistance might be rendered to the ,bishop in administering the affairs of his vast diocese4 ,it was however1 ultimately arranged that whilst ,bishop ,heber was visiting ,madras and ,bombay1 the ,archdeacon should proceed to ,calcutta4 ,with this object in view1 ,archdeacon ,corrie left the ,dhoon1 in the beginning of ,june1 for ,meerut4 ,from that place he wrote ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,june #be1 #ahbe4 8,we have been here 7as you will have heard through ,mrs4 ,ellerton7 a week4 ,i feel some comfort in the idea of being a hundred miles nearer to you1 but here1 ,i apprehend1 we must stay a month at least4 ,the season has been unusually warm here4 ,for several years past1 the seasons have proved irregular1 but this year the regular hot winds have been blowing1 and the natives anticipate a plentiful production of the fruits of the earth4 ,we are tied in the meantime2 and on every account ,i must not expose myself to the heat more than ,i can help4 ,we are at present in a bungalow which ,parson and his family inhabited most of the time they were at ,meerut4 ,it is in ,mr4 ,fisher's compound2 and here1 ,i believe1 we must stay1 for no other place is to be found4 ,an additional regiment of ,cavalry and one of ,infantry1 are to be here1 so that every corner is filled4 ,we have been living with the ,fishers almost entirely1 but have now got their leave to supply ourselves in this bungalow4 8,mr4 ,f4 is more attended to than any chaplain in the country1 by the upper classes1 as well as by the lower2 and has a wide correspondence among conductors1 writers1 c4 at surrounding stations4 ,he has also a native congregation4 ,this is doubtless his proper work4 ,a missionary1 however1 would not at all interfere with any thing doing here4 ,it is evidently of ,god alone1 that the few natives professing christianity have been drawn together and kept together4 ,many are reported as prepared for the reception of christianity at ,delhi1 and ,mr4 ,h4 ,fisher yesterday went to reside there1 with ,anund ,musseeh4 ,anund has been unwell with the small-pox1 and unable to attend ,mr4 ,fisher1 for scriptural instruction1 as the ,bishop desired2 so that his ordination must be postponed until some more distant period4 ,i am anxious to hear from the ,church ,missionary ,committee respecting ,abdool and ,bowley1 in answer to my letter of the #adth of ,april4 ,if ,i hear nothing ,i shall bring them down1 considering the ,bishop's wishes sufficient authority40 ,to the same relative1 the ,archdeacon again wrote 8,july #bc1 #ahbe4 8,we purpose leaving this ,meerut at the end of ,august1 and shall get down to you speedily4 ,i told you that the heat affected me1 but by keeping quiet1 ,i have avoided feeling more than languor4 ,i have not yet called on any1 except one or two in the next premises around us4 ,i have always assisted ,mr4 ,fisher2 and kept his flock together during twelve days he was absent at ,lehornupore and ,deyrah1 where his son ,john is4 ,he and his son ,samuel had a narrow escape from drowning1 on their return4 ,one of the mountain-torrents came down suddenly4 ,a ,suwarr1#abf who was with them1 escaped with difficulty1 together with his horse4 ,samuel's horse was carried down a good way1 but both his and ,mr4 ,fisher's horse1 being in better heart than the ,suwarr's horse1 got over4 ,a pedestrian1 who attempted to swim over1 was drowned4 8,we have now the rains1 but scantily4 ,the natives begin to say the rains will not be heavy this year40 ,in accordance with the purpose expressed in the foregoing letter1 ,archdeacon ,corrie left ,meerut on the #bbnd of ,august4 ,in a letter addressed to ,mr4 ,sherer1 on the #beth of that month1 the ,archdeacon remarks3-- 8,we left much good at ,meerut1 and passed our time pleasantly2 and1 ,i hope1 not unprofitably4444 ,we are in sight of ,futtyghur1 from whence ,i shall dispatch this4 ,goodness and mercy continue to attend us4 ,the weather is unusually favourable for us1 but the country requires rain4 8,at ,meerut we had a ,bible ,society ,sermon on the #adth1 and a public meeting on the #afth4 ,considerable interest1 above former years1 was excited1 and a fair collection made4 ,some converts to the cause1 also1 among the upper classes of ,society40 ,on his way to the ,presidency1 ,archdeacon ,corrie visited ,cawnpore1 ,chunar1 ,benares1 and other stations with which he had been before time connected or acquainted4 ,with regard to ,cawnpore1 he observed in a letter to ,mr4 ,sherer1 dated 8,allahabad1 ,sep4 #ab1 #ahbe40 8,i wrote to ,mr4 ,thomason1 from ,cawnpore1 about a native chapel4 ,i am happy to tell you that little1 if anything1 will be needed from the ,church ,missionary ,society to accomplish this object4 ,i put a paper into circulation before ,i left1 and there was enough for present purposes being raised at the station4 8,on the ,sunday1 which ,i passed at ,chunar1 about two hundred attended ,divine service1 of whom about forty were unbaptized inhabitants of the place1 and most of whom attend every sabbath-day4 ,some of the scholars who have received instruction in ,english1 afford the most pleasing hopes of their sincere conversion40 ,and in a letter to the same relative1 he writes from 8,benares1 ,sep4 #bf1 #ahbe4 8,we are detained here longer than ,i wished1 but ,i hope to do something for the mission by the delay4 ,our friends are each doing what he can in his sphere4 ,they have suggested that ,i should write a letter to the ,committee1 which might be printed in the ,monthly ,intelligence1 giving some account of the schools and congregations4 ,i will send such a letter1 and it may be printed or not40 ,with reference also to this subject1 the ,archdeacon informs his brother in a letter dated 8,oct4 #aa1 #ahbe1 above ,monghyr4 8,mr4 ,h4 ,fisher1 at ,delhi--his father at ,meerut3 ,mr4 ,torriano1 at ,cawnpore--have each a native missionary who labours around them1 and instructs especially those natives who profess christianity4 ,this last class is fast improving1 ,i would fain hope1 in knowledge and character2 and thus they become #8,epistles of ,christ1 read and known' among the heathens3 and the reproach which formerly attended the gospel is lessening40 ,thus wherever the ,archdeacon might be1 the subject nearest his heart was1 the progress of the gospel among the heathen4 ,it was on the #beth of ,october #ahbe1 that ,archdeacon ,corrie arrived in ,calcutta1 on his return from the ,upper ,provinces4 ,among the first things to which the ,archdeacon directed his attention1 were the affairs of the ,church ,missionary ,society1 which he found to be as prosperous as could well be expected4 ,at the end of the following month he was gladdened by the ordination of his long-tried friend ,abdool ,messeeh1 who1 together with ,messrs ,reichardt and ,bowley1 was admitted into the order of ,deacons1 by ,bishop ,heber4 ,the ordination took place on the #cjth of ,november1 in the ,cathedral of ,calcutta1 and in the presence of a large congregation1 among whom were more than twenty clergymen4 ,it was remarked by one who was present on that interesting occasion1 that 8,nothing could equal the joy of ,mr4 ,corrie3 he appeared as if he could just then adopt the language of ,simeon of old4 ,he has watched the gradual progress of every thing3 he could remember when matters assumed a far different semblance40 ,on the #bcrd of ,december the ,archdeacon attended the ,bishop at a public examination of the children educated in the schools maintained in the ,calcutta ,ladies' ,society for ,native ,female ,education2 when1 during the examination1 the ,rajah ,boidenauth came forward and presented the ,society with a donation of #bj1jjj sicca rupees1 toward the erection of a central school4 ,one of the great objects which the ,archdeacon had long had in view1 was thus in the progress of being realized2 and as a preliminary measure1 he obtained permission to place under the ,ladies' ,society1 those ,female-schools at ,burdwan which had hitherto been supported by the ,church ,missionary ,society4 ,these several causes for rejoicing were not1 however1 without a corresponding draw-back4 ,the hot season of #ahbe had been unusually unhealthy1 and among others who had suffered in health were ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,thomason1 especially the latter4 ,this decided ,mr4 ,thomason to return to ,europe early in the spring of #ahbf4 ,mr4 ,sherer1 too1 having accomplished the object for which he went out to ,india1 was preparing to return to his family in ,england4 ,the ,bishop1 moreover1 left ,calcutta on the #cjth of ,january #ahbf1 for the purpose of holding visitations in ,madras4 ,under these circumstances ,archdeacon ,corrie writes to ,mr4 ,sherer1 then on the point of embarking for ,england3-- 8,feb4 #bb1 #ahbf4 8,a feeling of desolation oppresses me1 which ,i try to shake off1 by looking to ,him who possesses all fulness1 in order to supply his needy dependents4 ,in ,p4 ,i lost my worldly adviser1 and in ,mr4 ,thomason my religious helper3 but the ,lord liveth4 ,in you1 ,i will not say how much we seem to have lost2 but this much ,i cannot but say4 ,there is no possibility of my following you in less than five years1 and what may occur before then1 who can tell8 ,it would be presumptuous to say any of us shall see that period2 and yet there is no doubt a secret hope that we shall4 ,how ,i shall part with the mother and the children1 ,i know not4 ,it seems as if they ought sooner to go into a more favourable climate1 and if it were necessary1 ,i suppose the necessity would go far to reconcile me to it4 ,my heart goes with you to ,morcott and ,colsterworth2 may you be carried to them in health and safety1 and may the peace of ,god attend your meeting with them6 ,it seems superfluous to say anything about my love for them4 ,they need no assurance of it2 yet it is a relief to write about it40 ,some further account of his condition is given by the ,archdeacon ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,march #ad1 #ahbf1 8,we continue much as you left us4 ,the wet has set in1 and the monsoon has been almost constantly against you4 ,the ,bishop was twenty days reaching ,madras4 ,this will delay your progress2 but great is our happiness in knowing that winds and waves obey ,his will1 8whose we are1 and whom we serve40 8,our ,friday evening services have been but irregularly attended4 ,the ,government dinners have1 no doubt1 interfered2 and next ,friday ,lady ,a4 has an #8at home4' ,shall we ever have #8the powers that be' on our side8 ,yea1 doubtless1 it shall be even so4 8,you will know all about ,lord ,a's recal before this reaches you4 ,may it please ,god to send us a ,governor who will at least own his duty in respect of the ,god of ,christians6 ,the most painful thing in the present administration is1 that our duty as ,christians is not recognised4 ,policy is avowedly the idol worshipped4 8,i am thankful and happy in my present situation4 ,i know not what time1 if permitted to me1 may bring forth1 but ,i cannot at present conceive of happiness in leaving my station4 ,a few short years will unite us all1 ,i trust1 where probably natural feeling will be absorbed in relationship to ,christ1 but not1 ,i apprehend1 be forgotten4 ,in the mean time1 while passing through this #8valley of ,baca1' let our correspondence serve as #8pools of refreshment4'0 ,,to ,,his ,,brother4 8,calcutta1 ,april #aa1 #ahbf4 8,before this reaches you1 we hope you will have received back our dear ,sherer1 well in all respects4 ,in this changing world1 we know not what a day may bring forth1 but we are taught that 8sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof20 and1 therefore1 ,i will anticipate none of those things1 evil to nature1 to which both he on the water and his family on land are liable1 but trust that your meeting has been joyous and thankful4 ,we go on much as ,sherer left us4 ,the fall of ,bhurtpore and peace with ,ava1#abg leave the country externally quiet1 but in so extended an empire1 composed of such discordant elements1 we are less1 in reality1 settled4 ,two native regiments at ,bhurtpore refused to go into the trenches2 the business was hushed up1 but a discovery was made of the state of the native mind4 ,the fact is1 that #8the powers which be1' while they fear the smallest movement in favour of ,christianity1 fear nothing when saving money is concerned4 ,whereas the native1 if he be liberally dealt with1 will give you his caste even1 if you do not demand it all at once4 8,the ,lord reigneth10 must be our motto2 and though we cannot but see what is doing1 must refer ourselves1 to ,his power1 providence and grace1 to order all things as shall be for ,his own glory4 8,yesterday ,i completed forty-nine years4 ,great goodness have ,i experienced1 great ingratitude am ,i conscious of2 but great is the mercy of ,god my ,saviour2 infinite the value of ,jesus' blood4 ,therefore ,i will hope on1 and expect to be preserved by 8the power of ,god through faith unto salvation40 8,he restoreth my soul for his name's sake40 ,within a few days of the date of the foregoing letter1 ,archdeacon ,corrie received the afflicting intelligence that it had pleased ,god suddenly to remove ,bishop ,heber from this scene of trial1 to the church triumphant in heaven4 ,appended to a copy of the letter from the ,rev4 ,mr4 ,doran which announced this event1 and the circumstances by which it was accompanied1 the ,archdeacon wrote ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,calcutta1 ,april #ae1 #ahbf4 8,by the copy on the other side you will see with what a heavy stroke ,god has smitten us2 doubtless in mercy1 though we see it not now4 ,nothing can be added at present to ,mr4 ,doran's account4 ,all here is mute astonishment4 ,public and individual concern is spread over all4 ,i will send all the public documents1 and will take the first further opportunity to send more particulars40 ,these particulars are too well known to need repetition in this place1 but the following extract from a letter addressed about that time by the ,archdeacon to his brother1 may not be without interest3-- 8,you will hear from other sources of the loss all ,india has sustained1 in the death of ,bishop ,heber4 ,my first impression was to inform ,sherer1 who1 from being so lately among us1 could judge more readily of our feelings on the occasion4 ,i have printed1 and privately distributed1 a sermon preached at the time2 and have sent some copies to ,mr4 ,pratt4 ,mr4 ,robinson subsequently archdeacon of ,madras1 took some copies to send home1 with a sermon of his own1 preached at ,trichinopoly1 the ,sunday after the ,bishop's death4 ,we cannot but be anxious as to who will succeed to this see4 ,our late beloved ,bishop was so entirely a ,missionary1 that we can scarcely hope to see one like him2 and in respect of temper and beauty of general disposition1 to expect the like of him seems utterly hopeless4 ,in what ,i have said of him in the sermon1 ,i have said what ,i know his views were on certain points1 rather than expressed my own4 ,such was the natural amiability of ,bishop ,heber's character1 that it was often difficult to say whether he acted from nature or grace4 ,but whatever might be judged by some1 at times1 to be errors of judgment1 the general tenor of his life was so opposed to worldly maxims1 and what the world would have wished him to follow1 that there seems no doubt grace was the ruling influence of his conduct4 ,the great number of subscribers he obtained for the society for the ,propagation of the ,gospel1 shews what an influence he had obtained2 and how many he had drawn over to support the ,missionary cause40 ,the sermon here alluded to1 was preached in the ,cathedral ,church of ,calcutta1 on ,sunday1 ,april #bc1 from ,heb4 xiii4 #g1 #h4 ,in a short notice prefixed to the sermon1 the reason for printing it is stated to be 8not any idea of its pretensions to literary merit1 but a sincere desire on the part of the author1 to improve the melancholy occasion of it1 to the good of a community with which he had been connected nearly twenty years40 ,the ,archdeacon added1 that as 8all who approached their late beloved and venerated diocesan1 could not but admire his brilliant conversation1 various acquirements1 and commanding talents1 it was hoped that1 the perusal of the sermon might tend to recommend1 to some at least1 the cultivation of those principles of ,christian piety which spread a charm over all his other great qualities40 ,the limits within which it is desirable to comprise these memoirs1 do not allow of the insertion here of the vivid sketch of ,bishop ,heber's ministerial life in ,india1 which this sermon contains1 but as1 in the letter quoted above1 specific reference is made to the ,bishop's 8views on certain points10 it may be proper to quote the outline of the doctrines which the ,archdeacon states himself to have 8heard the deceased prelate preach10 on different occasions4 8,it was the word of ,god which he administered4 ,for man1 fallen from ,god and far from original righteousness1 he preached a full and free redemption by the blood of ,christ--justification by faith--the need of the ,holy ,spirit's grace to incline and enable man to repent1 and to bring forth fruit meet for repentance1 persuading man1 by the terrors of the ,lord1 to flee from the wrath to come1 and by the mercies of ,christ1 to be reconciled unto ,god--the pleasantness of religious ways--the comfort attending the death of the righteous--the terrors of a judgment-day to the impenitent1 and the rewards of the faithful servant--setting forth every ,christian duty in its relation to ,christian principle1 in his own peculiarly lively and impressive manner40 ,it is scarcely necessary to add1 that ,archdeacon ,corrie was among those who met in the ,town-hall of ,calcutta1 on the #fth of ,may1 for the purpose of expressing their deep concern at the loss which ,india had sustained in the death of ,bishop ,heber1 and for devising means by which the memory of the labours of that man of ,god might be transmitted to future generations4#abh ,on the #ahth of ,may1 the ,archdeacon1 after having long desired to see such an object accomplished1 was called upon to take part in the ceremonial of laying the foundation-stone of a ,central ,school for the education of native females4 ,four years1 it will be remembered1 had now elapsed since female education in ,india had been first commenced on a general plan2 but the difficulties in the way of such an undertaking were apparently so serious1 that but few could have ventured even to hope that such an inroad on ,hindoo prejudice and superstition could have been made1 as that above five hundred females should already have been brought under instruction in ,calcutta and the vicinity alone4 ,the ground purchased for the site of the school and other requisite buildings1 was in the centre of the ,hindoo population1 and about half a mile to the north of the ,church ,missionary station at ,mirzapore4 ,the foundation stone was laid by the ,lady ,amherst1 prayer having been offered up by the ,archdeacon for the divine blessing on the undertaking4 ,many natives 7particularly women and their daughters7 were present1 on this interesting occasion2 and the ,rajah ,boidinath ,roy1 through an interpreter1 congratulated the ,lady ,amherst on the success which had crowned the exertions of her ,ladyship and the ,ladies of ,calcutta2 expressing also1 his deep sense of the gratitude which himself and others entertained for the benefits which might be expected from the education of his country-women4 ,the demise of the ,bishop devolved on the ,archdeacon the administration of the affairs of the diocese during the vacancy of the ,see4 ,in writing to his brother he therefore observed3-- 8,calcutta1 ,june #bi1 #ahbf4 8,we are now residing in the ,episcopal house1 which ,government allows me to use1 as ,commissary for the ,see1 and gives me the ,bishop's salary instead of my own4 ,it is a new thing to me1 to be consulting ,burn's ,ecclesiastical law1 ,gibson1 c4 ,there is1 indeed1 no power vested in the ,bishop of ,calcutta1 for ,government reserve the decision of every point to themselves2 and the letters patent give no independent authority4 ,yet such a man as ,bishop ,heber will be applied to from all parts of ,india1 on points affecting divorce1 wills1 c41 and his opinion will be received as law3 so that such studies as ,i have mentioned1 are not in vain4 ,the love for antiquity1 indeed1 which some entertain1 overlooks1 ,i think1 too much the present race of men2 and sooner than deviate from ancient modes1 would suffer them to pass out of life in their ignorance2 but ,i have as yet discovered no ground for such rigid adherence to rules adapted to the ,church in a settled state1 and am sure the early ,evangelists did not observe them4 8,all things here begin to assume their usual appearance again1 except that our beloved ,bishop no more occupies his seat among us2 and that a second ,escutcheon1 hung up in the ,cathedral1 reminds us1 that two ,bishops have passed away from among us4 ,my mind seems wearied with considering what may be destined for our ,indian ,church4 ,the work of ,missions had assumed a regular form4 ,in the south of ,india1 regular help1 and enough of it1 would give ,christianity an almost established form2 so many ,natives profess ,christianity4 ,may ,god be gracious unto the land1 and send us a man of a right spirit60 ,by the advice of the medical men in ,calcutta1 the ,archdeacon decided on a journey up the river1 as for as ,benares and ,chunar4 ,he1 therefore1 left ,calcutta in the month of ,july #ahbf1 visiting several of the out-stations as he passed along4 ,on reaching ,benares1 one of the chief objects of his attention naturally was ,joy ,narain's school1 in the founding of which the ,archdeacon had taken so much interest4 ,he had now the satisfaction to find the ,school in excellent order2 there being in it one hundred and thirty-one boys under daily instruction4 ,besides this1 he found that two youths who had been educated in the school1 had been engaged ever since ,january last1 as assistant ,english-teachers in the free-school at ,cawnpore1 and were giving satisfaction2 and that the success of those youths in thus obtaining a comfortable provision for themselves1 had recommended the school to the good opinion of the natives of ,benares and the neighbourhood4 ,the ,archdeacon found1 also1 that six other schools had been established1 in different parts of the city1 in which1 among other books1 the gospels were read4 ,with reference to these schools he observes3 8,the streets of ,benares1 being for the most part very narrow1 the boys assemble in long ,verandahs1 and the passers-by see and hear all that takes place4 ,this1 though unfavourable for the purposes of a ,school1 yet causes what the boys read to be heard by many2 and sometimes a hundred people1 and upwards1 will crowd around1 while the boys are examined1 in the previous week's ,exercises3 and thus their knowledge is diffused40 ,on reaching ,chunar1 the ,archdeacon records in a memorandum dated-- 8,chunar1 ,sep4 #ag1 #ahbf4 8,it is twenty years since ,i reached ,bengal1 having arrived in ,calcutta on ,saturday1 ,sept4 #bj1 #ahjf4 ,i had appointed the #bjth4 ,sept4 as a day for calling my ways to remembrance2 but have aforetime too much neglected this duty3 and ,i fear interruption on ,wednesday1 the ,anniversary of my actual entrance on life in this land4 ,many sinful causes have of late years1 prevented me from making ,memoranda of the state of my mind1 as formerly1 but ,i have thus deprived myself of the power of calling many things to mind1 of which ,i ought deeply to repent2 and am constrained to pray1 8,cleanse me from my secret faults10 secret and hidden by forgetfulness from myself4 ,early in #ahai1 ,i arrived at the highest emoluments in the way of ,chaplains4 ,in #ahbb1 ,i received increased emoluments as a ,commissary for the ,see2 and now enjoy alone1 all the advantages arising from the second vacancy of the ,see4 ,i feel decidedly1 and painfully1 that large means have not been of advantage to myself1 or family4 ,my own soul has gradually lost much of the liveliness ,i once possessed in religion4 ,the readiness to labour1 the willingness to attend to the poor1 the pleasure of going here and there to serve others1 either officially or of choice1 is greatly departed from me4 ,increased years1 and debility1 may have a share in this indisposition to active duties1 but are far from being the whole cause4 ,i am deeply conscious1 also1 that the receiving of so many persons from time to time into our house 7though in many cases a mere returning of civilities1 or rather favours previously by us received1 and a debt of gratitude1 and in almost every case appearing to be an exercise of hospitality7 yet the numbers at table1 consequent desultory conversation1 c4 weaken the power of religion in me1 and ,i seem to myself to have no strength in comparison of former days4 ,i have many thoughts how far this company and constantly full table have had a share in my loss of health4 ,i would especially call to mind1 my dulness in secret duties1 and how seldom ,i can #8take hold on ,god4' ,i read and kneel in devotion1 but too generally without apprehending or appropriating any benefit4 ,deeply humiliating as this is1 ,i yet bless my ,saviour that it is no worse2 that ,he has not cast me utterly from his presence1 nor taken ,his ,holy ,spirit from me4 ,i am conscious of a desire to be #8as in days past1' and of some endeavour after it4 ,but ,o6 ,i have much ground to regain2 many days to redeem1 and fewer left to work out my salvation in4 ,the cross of ,christ is my only hope and glory4 ,the ,lord1 ,i think1 knows ,i desire to be crucified with ,christ2 and to have all iniquity taken away4 ,lord1 work thou in me to do1 no less than to will6 ,oh6 incline and enable my dear partner to bear in mind more and more1 the subjects of our late conversations2 that our own souls and our lovely and beloved children1 may be improved in every grace of the ,spirit2 and that our light may yet shine before men1 to the glory of our heavenly ,father4 ,preserve our dear children in health2 and ,o6 give them spiritual healing and blessing4 ,make us more and more one in ,christ ,jesus4 ,help me to walk circumspectly1 and to behave in present circumstances as becometh the gospel of ,christ4 ,o keep me from any fall1 either in public or private2 and lead me in the paths of righteousness for thy name's sake4 ,other plea have ,i none3 other refuge have ,i none4 ,to thee1 to thee alone ,i cleave4 ,a poor feeble vine1 ,i would cleave to thee as the stem2 and in thy strength alone be strong4 ,quicken me more and more4 ,lead me from strength to strength4 #8,hold thou me up1 so shall ,i be safe8' ,o6 forsake not the work of thine own hands4 ,i am thine1 save me4 ,amen40 ,as it was at ,chunar that ,archdeacon ,corrie commenced his missionary labours1 his account of the state of the native church there may not be omitted4 ,he writes3-- 8,the congregation of the ,hindoostanee worshippers1 is rather on the increase4 ,the day ,i was there1 upwards of two hundred attended1 of whom at least fifty were unbaptized natives4 ,i conversed with some of the recent converts1 who appear to be really sincere4 ,among them some are natives of villages in the neighbourhood1 who1 at first1 were greatly opposed by their relatives2 but retreating to ,chunar1 they continued to receive renewed strength and encouragement1 by attending on the means of grace4 ,by repeating their visits home at intervals1 they have at length overcome prejudice so far1 as to be heard with attention1 on the subject of their change2 and in one case1 the convert 7who is one of several brothers1 ,brahmins1 who are the principal cultivators in the village7 has been acknowledged by his family1 and allowed to resume his place among them4 8,of those natives who attend ,christian worship1 one whole family have become candidates for baptism4 ,the first of the family who became impressed with the subject of religion1 was the eldest son2 about two years ago1 he proposed himself for baptism1 but his father entreated ,mr4 ,bowley to delay1 and he also would consider whether he should not join the son4 ,mr4 ,bowley on this account recommended delay to the son2 he has continued steady1 and now the father and mother1 and some other members of the family1 are resolved to embrace ,christianity40 ,on the #bjth of ,september the ,archdeacon commenced his journey back to ,calcutta4 ,when above ,rajemahl1 he wrote ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,oct4 #d1 #ahbf4 8,at ,benares and ,chunar1 our friends are greatly improved1 and their usefulness and comforts increased by the ordination4 ,there is also more of ,christian union and love among them1 and their work prospers4 ,we call on the chaplains and missionaries as we pass along1 and on few besides4 ,we hope to reach the ,berhampore river to-day4 ,we have been mercifully preserved1 during our journey on this uncertain river4 ,by going leisurely1 we have not had an alarm1 while most persons we have met with have lost boats1 or been some way annoyed4 ,what lies before me ,i know not4 ,i regret not having regularly to preach1 for though ministers are too apt to read the ,scriptures for others1 ,i find it good in any way to be kept close to them4 8,i sometimes long to visit you all2 but vain are such longings1 for after all1 we are only that to each other which ,god makes us4 ,the light of ,his countenance alone1 maketh whole2 and ,i should have no comfort in leaving my post1 without some more evident necessity than appears at present40 ,archdeacon ,corrie arrived in ,calcutta toward the end of ,october1 and early in the following month 7,nov4 #abth7 was present at the opening of a new chapel at ,mirzapore1 in which it was intended to have the services of the ,church of ,england statedly conducted in ,bengalee4 ,not long before ,bishop ,heber left ,calcutta on his last visitation1 he had recommended the ,church ,missionary ,society to make a pecuniary grant toward the building of the chapel1 and the ,archdeacon had laid the foundation-stone of it during the ,april of this year2 the object mainly contemplated in the erection of it being1 to afford native ,christians and such natives as might be enquiring after ,christianity1 an opportunity for attending the worship of ,god1 conducted in their own language4 ,on this occasion1 a considerable number of native ,christians were assembled within the chapel1 and the doors were thronged by crowds of ,hindoos and ,mahomedans1 who were attracted to the spot4 ,on the day following1 the ,archdeacon writes ,,to ,,his ,,brother4 8,calcutta1 ,nov4 #ac1 #ahbf4 8,from ,sherer you will learn our own affairs1 and will know that since he left us we have been up to ,benares4 ,we are rendered uncomfortable in this large house by the decaying state of some part of the walls2 so that our personal comfort is not increased by the enlargement of our limits4 ,and so ,i have found it in every advance in temporal circumstances2 something or other connected with it1 has always prevented increase of enjoyment4 ,all true happiness dwells in the mind3 and ,o1 8,what shall ,i render to the ,lord10 that the peace of ,god1 through ,christ ,jesus1 is no stranger to my breast8 ,too often1 alas1 have ,i had reason to mourn my backslidings in heart1 and temper1 and conduct2 but if guilt removed return1 the power of the atonement may1 also1 be again and again proved4 8,i find myself more a bishop than during the former vacancy of this ,see2 but here again the passings-by of some1 the reluctance with which others apply for what they cannot do without1 c4 might well embitter this temporary elevation also2 but that1 ,i trust1 ,i have learned to forbear in some measure1 and to forgive as ,i expect forgiveness2 so that no breach has occurred with any of our body4 ,i am bound both in conscience and consistency to take part in those measures which have1 all along1 given offence to some1 whilst they are obliged also to take me with them in their plans4 ,the reluctance1 however1 is on their part1 for #8so that ,christ be preached1 ,i rejoice4' 8,now our cold season is set in1 ,i think with reluctance1 of returning to ,england4 ,here1 ,i trust1 ,i am useful in helping on projects for the good of many thousands2 in ,england1 a small parish would be all ,i could undertake the charge of4 ,nothing1 therefore1 but decided inability to remain in ,india should make me leave it4 ,our children1 indeed1 cannot here fully comprehend that flow of the ,christian affections which the interest taken in all classes at home calls forth2 and whether ,i shall be able to part with them and their mother1 for three years1 to visit ,england1 ,i know not4 ,i greatly shrink from such a separation4 8,you will have read the life of ,dr4 ,e4 ,d4 ,clarke1 and will have seen the intense desire with which1 when abroad1 he sought letters from home4 ,now something similar has always dwelt in me1 though wife and children1 dear as life1 have consoled me under long silence from home4 ,the life of ,clarke is admirably well done4 ,i remember the person of the biographer1 and admired his fine delivery of a sermon at ,st4 ,mary's ,cambridge2 the subject of it ,i have forgotten4 ,but that is a long time ago1 he must be getting old now1 and ,i am following fast after him40 ,during this month 7,nov47 it was1 that a circumstance occurred of some interest1 as indicative of the feeling of the native mind1 with regard to ,christianity4 ,it appeared that for want of funds1 the ,committee of the ,church ,missionary ,society in ,calcutta1 were intending to withdraw their missionary from ,culna1 a populous town and district on the west bank of the ,hooghly1 where schools had been established4 ,but no sooner were the principal native inhabitants of the place 7who were chiefly of the ,brahmin caste7 apprised of that intention1 than they presented a petition in ,bengalee1 to ,archdeacon ,corrie1 requesting that the missionary might be continued with them4 ,among other things1 they observed that3-- 8,they acknowledged that they formerly entertained some slight degree of apprehension of our sacred books2 but that in consequence of the ,rev4 ,mr4 ,deerr making known to them these our ,scriptures1 not only had their fears entirely vanished1 but they considered that these books were deserving of unqualified reception1 and highly beneficial2 and on this account1 they considered themselves equally benefitted1 and rejoiced1 as much as a man born blind when he receives his sight40 ,it having been decided to appoint an assistant to ,mr4 ,bowley1 in the mission at ,chunar1 ,mr4 ,landeman1 who was born in ,india1 and well acquainted with ,hindoostanee1 was the person fixed upon4 ,previously1 however1 to the departure of this gentleman from ,calcutta1 a meeting was held 7,dec4 #ae1 #ahbf17 in the ,church ,missionary ,library1 at ,mirzapore1 when ,archdeacon ,corrie delivered an address to ,mr4 ,landeman1 in which he took a brief review of the circumstances connected with the then state of missions1 and the duties arising out of them4 ,the whole address was characterised by that large-mindedness1 singleness of heart1 and tenderness1 which the ,archdeacon was wont to manifest on occasions like these4#abi ,as several months had now passed since the death of ,bishop ,heber1 the intelligence of the appointment of his successor1 was daily expected to reach ,calcutta4 ,thus the ,archdeacon writes ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,calcutta1 ,january #be1 #ahbg4 8,it seems that the news of ,bishop ,heber's death had reached ,england overland in ,august4 #8,the ,osprey1' and #8,barett1' carry official accounts4 ,we shall now soon hear of a successor4 ,the head of the ,church reigneth1 let the earth rejoice2 and may we wait the result in patience4 ,you will hear that ,mr4 ,mack published1 in the #8,monthly ,friend of ,india1' an attack on our ,mirzapore friends2 very unkind1 and mistaken4 ,it has recoiled painfully on their own head2 for ,adam1 who is now editor of the ,bengal ,chronicle1 has taken it up1 and #8,john ,bull1' has responded2 and the old sores about ,serampore premises1 imperfect translations1 and fallacious statements1 have all been laid open again4 ,we have kept silence1 though called upon for explanations1 c4 c41 and the storm is a little blown over4444 ,the time of difficulty in our funds1 7viz7 the end of our year1 has come on1 and ,i am often much cast down in mind4 ,great temptations arise to withdraw1 and leave things to themselves3 for few come freely to take a part4444 ,but is not the cause of missions the cause of ,christ8 ,i fear really for those1 who1 with the opportunities now afforded1 can overlook that cause4 ,it seems pure selfishness1 to be content that these natives should go on in ignorance and sin1 so we get but to heaven ourselves3 and it is often1 ,i doubt1 fear for myself1 rather than love for the heathen1 that keeps me1 in a measure1 at the ,missionary helm4 ,but here ,i must stay3 yet after all1 if ,i wear away1 some might feel it then incumbent on them to take it up more efficiently4 ,doubtless a principle is at work in this community1 which will lead the population forward rapidly in knowledge and character generally2 and if it be not rightly directed1 those who neglect the present season of operation will suffer3 but ,i shall not see that time1 rapid as the progress is4 ,new states are plainly no place for a person who possesses a competency1 and can enjoy repose4 ,india especially1 is not a country a man who knows anything of ,england would choose to grow old in4 ,here1 in a peculiar degree1 the mind is forced to look off1 both from the ,church and from the world1 to the ,rock1 ,christ40 ,,to ,,the ,,same4 8,feb4 #bb1 #ahbg4 8,we are now more out of the way of such a bustle as we formerly were subject to1 being1 7as ,i think ,i told you7 fixed in a nice little house at ,cossipore2 but ,i fear falling into the opposite extreme2 for when we cease to do all we ought for the good of our fellow-sinners1 we sin against the law of ,christ4 ,surely1 there is as little peace in retiring1 selfish ease1 as in bustling ambitious publicity4 ,i returned a few days since1 from ,burdwan4 ,the fields indeed1 in that quarter1 seems #8white for the harvest1' but both ,mr4 ,perowne1 and ,mr4 ,deerr1 are obliged to leave their posts1 and seek change of air4 ,mr4 ,bowley is1 also1 becoming well attended to1 about ,chunar4 ,isaiah lx4 #d1 #e4acj has been much on my mind1 as applicable to these two spheres of ,missionary labour at this time2 and fear fills my heart1 whilst it is enlarged with gratitude and thankfulness4 8,what may be the effect of such a commotion as seems approaching1 on the powers that be1 and how we shall provide for the increased calls for men and money1 ,i know not4 ,but surely ,he whom we serve in the gospel of ,his ,son1 can1 and will appear for us4 ,rumours have reached us about a new ,bishop1 and men unknown to missionary fame1 have been named4 ,this seems sad3 let us in patience wait the event4 8,government has given forty rupees monthly to ,chunar ,church2 and the same to ,gorrikepore ,church3 and ,i am not without hope of getting a monthly salary for ,bowley1 as ,minister on the ,establishment1 to a congregation of native ,christian subjects of the ,government4 ,yesterday was the ,bible ,society anniversary4 ,an excellent report1 drawn up by ,mr4 ,goode3 all our old plans are going on1 sometimes briskly1 sometimes heavily4 #8,faint1 yet pursuing1' my habitual motto40 ,in the following month1 7,march #ae7 ,archdeacon ,corrie again visited ,burdwan1 for the purpose of examining the schools there1 and also for making enquiry into the conduct of the head ,pundit connected with the mission1 who1 for some time had been carrying on a system of double-dealing4 ,it appeared that this ,pundit had induced no less than thirteen ,brahmins 7most of them school-pundits7 to apply to the ,missionary at ,burdwan for ,christian baptism2 and that1 as a preliminary step1 they had accordingly been receiving daily instruction from the missionary1 and evidencing the while a good deal of apparent sincerity and earnestness4 ,at length however1 one of the number went to the missionary1 and told him1 that all that had occurred was mere hypocrisy1 and had been kept up at the instigation of the head-,pundit2 that the only object they had in view1 was to induce1 if they could1 the missionary to 8report them as enquirers after truth20 their notion being1 that if that were but once published1 they would have the missionary in their power1 as they thought that1 for consistency's sake1 he must keep up appearances1 and so be obliged to continue them in their schools1 and pay them their wages4 ,it has been thought desirable to mention the particulars of this transaction1 because a repetition of such or similar attempts to deceive missionaries1 may be expected to occur the more frequently1 in proportion as the profession of ,christianity becomes more common among the natives of ,india4 ,it does not seem1 however1 that the ,christian missionary need be unduly depressed by the occurrence of such instances of the sad depravity of the native character2 for whilst deploring the miserable condition of the deceivers themselves1 he will know that even they must have received more distinct ideas of divine truth than they otherwise would have had4 ,for himself1 he will learn how little confidence can be placed in any profession of ,christianity1 which does not originate in a change of heart1 by the power of the ,holy ,ghost4 ,still1 the ,archdeacon found some encouraging circumstances connected with the mission at ,burdwan4 ,in the report of his visit1 he relates3-- 8,i had some conversation with ,manick1 a ,brahmin who was baptized on the #afth of ,december4 ,he had been for some time employed by different missionaries4 ,i asked him1 #8,what he had seen in ,christianity which led him to embrace it8' he replied1 #8,in the ,hindoo poorans and shasters there is no certainty3 one asserts one thing1 another1 another2 but here is a clear way'--#8,in what way in particular8'--#8,more especially in the way of worshipping ,god3 in other systems a variety of ceremonies and rites must be observed2 in this it is required only to pray to ,god alone'--#8,what have you learned to pray for8'--#8,daily ,i pray for pardon of sin2 for this ,i daily require4'--#8,what do you understand by sin8'--#8,whatever is not according to ,god's commands4' ,he then1 in answer1 repeated briefly the substance of the ,ten ,commandments2 and said that every one must labour to fulfil them to the utmost of his power1 though no one could do it perfectly4 ,a good deal more conversation followed40 ,the next communication from the ,archdeacon shews him to have been still anxious respecting who might be ,bishop ,heber's successor4 ,it is addressed ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,calcutta1 ,april #g1 #ahbg4 8,it is now a year since ,providence was pleased to withdraw our ,bishop1 and we have no tidings of a successor4 ,we shall no doubt1 hear in due time1 but the delay of arrivals keeps us1 also1 in ignorance how matters stand with those who are dear to us in the bonds of nature4 ,since the beginning of ,january1 we have continued to reside at ,cossipore chiefly4 ,the quiet1 freedom and airiness of the situation is very agreeable to us2 and when a ,bishop arrives1 ,i shall have less occasion to be so frequently in town4 ,the ship that carries this1 carries also ,mr4 ,perowne and family4 ,his removal just now is very painful1 on account of the mission1 as you can well judge4 ,deerr will reside there2 but declines taking charge of the mission4 ,mr4 ,wilson will go up every month3 he has been three times since you left us2 and is very acceptable to the people2 and we may hope the work will go on4 ,dear ,abdool ,messeeh is gone to his rest4 ,a tumour somewhere in the back1 of which he had nearly died two years ago1 proved to be a carbuncle1 brought on mortification and death4 ,he always spoke of it as a boil2 and his little medical knowledge proved indeed a fatal thing to him4 ,but his end was according to the tenor of his life1--peaceful1 intelligent1 resigned4 ,his last sensible breath was expended in singing a hymn1 of the kind and meaning of that in ,simeon's collection1 8,lord1 remember me60#aca ,an obituary is sent home1 which you will no doubt see4#acb ,mr4 ,reichardt will now have the principal charge at ,mirzapore4 ,his ,german order and system1 is becoming very important to us4 ,there are three catechists1 who ought to be lectured once a week at least3 and an account kept of their labours for the information of the ,society4 ,mr4 ,w4 seems as if he could not do this4 ,he will talk and preach from morning to night2 but this particularity seems to him1 resting in the letter2 but ,reichardt thinks otherwise1 and rightly2 and will labour also to render the whole a spiritual service4 ,my sphere1 as far as it appears1 is about ,benares4 ,there our friends require only to be led2 and ,i feel ,i have no power to command4 ,i am expecting #cjj ,rupees a month from ,government for ,mr4 ,morris1 as minister of ,chunar4 ,greenwood is coming down to the ,calcutta ,grammar school1 perhaps has arrived there2 and ,morris can officiate also in ,hindoostanee1 leaving ,bowley free to itinerate4 ,the ,society will be relieved1 in part1 by these means1 besides in some degree accredited by ,government4 ,indeed1 since ,i have been in charge1 ,government has done every thing ,i asked4 ,both ,mr4 ,h4 and ,b4 and ,lord ,combermere1 have1 in official matters1 shewn much kindness2 and ,i ask nothing else4444 ,the expences of the mission1 of necessity increase1 as the work increases4 ,bowley now requires three bungalows in different villages1 where influential people have embraced the gospel2 and their neighbours desire1 also1 to hear more of #8this way4' ,mirza ,bagir1 son of the traveller1 ,abu ,talib ,khan1 was baptized last month4 ,mr4 ,w4 ,bird was the means of his becoming acquainted with the ,scriptures1 and sent him to ,bowley for baptism40 ,in a communication addressed1 in ,may1 to the ,church ,missionary ,society in ,england1 the ,archdeacon enters more fully into some of the encouraging circumstances1 and prospective difficulties1 then attending missions1 and which are touched upon in the letter given above4 8,opportunities open on every side for missionary work3 but we cannot meet them4 ,i agree entirely1 that the prospect of good1 and not present local patronage1 should move us in attempting new plans2 but everywhere the population is very large1 and access to them comparatively easy4 ,government has granted to ,mr4 ,morris at ,chunar #cjj rupees a month1 in consideration of services rendered to the native congregation2 but new openings round that station call for increased help4 ,one convert baptized last year1 has1 from his fisher's death1 become heir of his property in land3 a place of worship is required in his village2 with a school1 and a native catechist4 ,a ,zemindar1 also lately baptized1 possessing property in land in a village opposite to ,chunar1 has called for the same kind of aid3 a bungalow is building1 and a catechist will reside with him4 ,thus success in our labours entails increased expense4 ,we may hope that ,divine ,providence will raise up aid2 but at present1 we see not how4 ,we may indeed1 hope that the days of indifference on the part of the ,british are gone by1 and that our ,bishops will continue1 in succession1 to uphold the work of evangelization2 but it seems to me that the most trying period for all our plans may yet be to come4 ,till help be raised up among the natives1 or the ,government take up the subject1 the work will be up hill3 we cannot expect the natives to join heartily till they taste the good of what is brought before them2 and that will not be1 humanly speaking1 till the young now educating1 grow into active life4 ,the ,government has given a precedent at ,chunar1 of helping to afford instruction to converted natives2 but till congregations are collected1 ,government1 on the present system1 cannot help directly4 ,fifteen or twenty years then must pass on this 8,system of ,mendicancy10 as ,bishop ,heber well termed it2 and as we feel it to be1 in a way which you at home cannot well understand3 you address congregations where all acknowledge the duty1 and profess faith in ,god for its success--we mix with those who scarcely acknowledge the duty or utility of attempting the conversion of the heathen1 and have no hope of success4 ,we are encouraged however1 to persevere2 and ,i trust that our faith will be found of a kind more precious than gold that perisheth1 though it be tried1 and sometimes as by fire2 and that1 after all1 chiefly from within40 ,during the summer of #ahbg1 the ,archdeacon had his equanimity somewhat disturbed by the intelligence that the sermon which he had printed on the death of ,bishop ,heber1 only for circulation among his own friends1 and those of the deceased prelate1 had been made public in ,england4 ,with reference to that circumstance1 he writes ,,to ,,his ,,brother4 8,i am filled with concern to hear that my sermon has been reprinted in ,england4 ,it was intended to be purely private1 and ,i sent some copies to be distributed privately4 ,it will be fine game for the reviewers3 well1 ,i must be content4 ,no man ever less sought publicity1 or was less fitted for the trials connected with it4 ,i have been led from one step to another1 and it is singular that those with whom ,i have felt most closely united1 have seemed least to rejoice in my advancement from time to time4 ,i have acquainted you with some of my experience in the school of authority2 and it has made me desire retirement more than ever2 yet how ,i shall leave this country1 except ill-health compel me1 ,i know not40 ,it must not be omitted to mention1 that with the administration of the diocese of ,calcutta1 during this vacancy of the see1 was connected a more active attention to the operations of the ,society for ,propagating the ,gospel1 and of the ,society for ,promoting ,christian ,knowledge1 than the ,archdeacon had before felt called upon to give4 ,to this was added an occasional correspondence with the ,english functionaries of those ,societies4 ,the following communication addressed to the secretary of the ,society for ,promoting ,christian ,knowledge1 will not be read without interest3-- 8,calcutta1 ,sep4 #ae1 #ahbg4 8,i had yesterday the honour to receive your letter of ,march #ast41 and beg to offer my best thanks to the venerable ,society for ,promoting ,christian ,knowledge1 for its acceptance of my offers of service1 and to yourself for the obliging manner in which your communication is conveyed4 ,on the subject of the ,native schools1 ,i would respectfully call your attention to the condition on which ,i proposed to transfer the funds to the ,society for ,promoting ,christian ,knowledge2 viz4 8if the ,society for ,promoting ,christian ,knowledge send out no more ,missionaries40 ,it is with reference to the superintendence alone any difficulty can arise4 ,my humble opinion is1 that all the ,societies in the ,establishment should strive together in the good cause1 and each support as many schools as it can1 each at the same time supplying superintendence for its own schools4 ,in this way all classes who support our ,establishment will be induced to lend their aid2 and it is agreeable to the constitution of human nature1 and not contrary to the gospel1 that each ,society should labour to support its own schools whilst it rejoices in the prosperity of all4 ,the superintendents being amenable to one ,society1 whilst the expenses of the schools are supplied by another1 has led1 ,i must say1 to less exertion1 and a less strict economy than would otherwise have been the case2 and as in the case of the ,rev4 ,mr4 ,d',mello at ,howrah1 some of his schools being supported by the ,society for the ,propagation of the ,gospel1 whilst others of them are supported by the ,society for ,promoting ,christian ,knowledge1 causes a perplexity in our proceedings1 which the public will not take the trouble to understand4 ,my purpose1 however1 in writing now is not to oppose but merely to put you in possession of the true state of things here1 and my earnest endeavours shall be directed in conjunction with the other friends of the ,society here1 to promote its interests and uphold the credit it has justly acquired by its long and most beneficial labours in the cause of pure and undefiled religion4 ,in its ,english department it is unrivalled1 and the edification afforded by its lending libraries in this country cannot be expressed in adequate language4 8,there is a circumstance connected with the support of native schools which has not been prominently brought forward2 viz4 the providing of school-books4 ,this is a source of considerable expense1 but without incurring it1 schools are utterly inefficient4 ,the school-book ,society supplies its books to religious ,societies at half-price2 these are mostly of a mere elementary character1 but necessary in their place4 ,besides these1 our ,diocesan ,committee printed an edition of the discourses1 miracles1 and parables of our blessed ,saviour1 which has long been expended4 ,the ,diocesan ,committee's ,national schools have been supplied from time to time with copies both of the whole ,new ,testament1 and of the ,gospels and ,acts separately1 by the ,calcutta ,auxiliary ,bible ,society1 and with copies of a catechism on the evidences and leading doctrines of ,christianity1 and of ,watts' catechism1 and of dialogues on the events related in the book of ,genesis1 by a ,mr4 ,ellerton1 from the press of the ,church ,missionary ,society 7all gratis17 in ,bengalee4 ,last week at a meeting of the ,diocesan ,committee's ,society for the ,propagation of the ,gospel1 ,i submitted to the meeting the necessity of printing the books most sought after by the ,natives1 after the gospels1 viz4 ,watts's ,catechism and ,ellerton's dialogues1 at the press of ,bishop's ,college4 ,a question then arose1 at whose expense should they be printed1 the ,society for ,promoting ,christian ,knowledge1 or the ,society for the ,propagation of the ,gospel8 and this question is to be discussed next quarterly meeting4 ,in the meantime the schools will be supplied from the former sources4 ,the ,rev4 ,mr4 ,tweddle has been resident since ,june last in the ,society's house1 connected with the ,russypuglah circle of schools1 and is greatly encouraged by the attention which many of the adult population pay to the subject of ,christianity4 ,several have professed their desire to be baptized1 but he delays a little to prove their sincerity and impart further instruction4 ,in that neighbourhood the desire for schools is very urgent1 and all1 be it observed1 are willing1 ,i might say desirous1 that the ,christian ,scriptures should be introduced4 ,the objection to the ,scriptures seems chiefly among the ,brahmins and ,pundits1 and they counteract1 without great care on the part of the ,missionary1 the willingness at least of the people to know something about the ,gospel4 ,the wise and the learned among the ,hindoos1 as formerly among the ,greeks1 are1 generally speaking1 least disposed to attend to the things which belong to their peace4 ,to the poor the gospel is preached1 and they will receive it2 and as a wealthy native lately observed to me respecting native female education1 #8,we shall soon be obliged to teach our daughters letters1 for all the poor are becoming more knowing than the rich3' so the superiority of character which ,christianity produces in the poor will force the rich to reflect on their ways4 ,till then1 we shall have to struggle with scanty funds and poor converts2 and how long that may be1 ,god only knows1 but in due time we 8shall reap if we faint not40 ,if you will have your schools prosper1 and produce the fruits of righteousness1 pray send ,missionaries2 but allow me to say1 other kind of men are wanted here1 than would suit well enough for ,north ,america4 ,we want1 besides good character1 activity1 aptness to learn languages1 and to impart instruction4 ,a ,missionary who should come here merely to impart instruction in ,english would only waste his ,society's money1 disappoint the expectations of those who sent him1 and expose the ministerial character to contempt4 ,the natives can perceive1 and do admire the disinterestedness of a man1 who can be content with little1 whilst he spends his strength in native labours2 but a clergyman living among a few ,europeans at an out-station1 without other employment1 would be liable to be considered as on some account or other disgraced2 like some who have been dismissed the service of government with a pittance to subsist on4 8,i might perhaps have omitted to write now1 as we have heard of the appointment of a ,bishop2 but ,i am anxious to afford to those who1 like yourself1 take an interest in the ,church in ,india1 information respecting the true state of our affairs4 ,the reviewer of the church in ,india notices the many applications to ,bishop ,heber for ,missionaries2 and as an indication of improved feeling among ,europeans here1 it is a most gratifying fact2 but if it should lead any to offer himself as a ,missionary under the idea that ,english services were the chief thing required1 and this idea should not be corrected by those who send him forth1 the effect would be to misapply missionary-funds1 and to fill ,india with a poor clergy to the saving of a rich ,government4 8,accept1 ,i pray1 my unfeigned apology for any thing ,i have written which may appear irrelevant or uncalled for4 ,as far as ,i know myself1 my only desire is to promote the interests of the ,established ,church in these lands4 ,i shall not again intrude myself on your attention2 and at the age of fifty1 in a climate like this1 and after twenty-one years service1 cannot expect to be of much use to a cause1 the prosperity of which constitutes my chief joy40 #aai ,rev4 ,josiah ,torriano1 ,vicar of ,stansted-,mount-fitchet1 ,essex1 formerly ,chaplain to the ,e4 ,i4 ,c4 #abj ,a school-book written in ,hindoostanee1 by ,archdeacon ,corrie4 #aba ,a full account of this part of ,hindoostan1 with views of the scenery1 is contained in 8the ,himalaya ,tourist10 edited by ,e4 ,roberts4 #abb ,the mountain-pass at ,hurdwar1 the entrance to the ,dhoon4 #abc ,near ,stamford4 #abd ,general ,g4 fell at the commencement of the ,nepaul war1 in an heroic assault on the fort of ,kalunga1 on the #cjth of ,october #ahad4 #abe ,edward ,a4 ,newton1 ,esq4 now of ,pittsfield1 ,massachusetts1 ,u4,s4 #abf ,a horse soldier4 #abg ,bhurtpore was taken by storm on the #ahth of ,january1 #ahbf2 and peace was concluded with ,ava towards the end of the same month4 #abh ,an account of the proceedings on that sorrowful occasion is given in an ,appendix to the ,life of ,bishop ,heber4 #abi ,the address is given at length in the ,missionary ,register for #ahbg1 pp4 #dhi1 c4 #acj 8,lift up thine eyes round about and see1 all they gather themselves together1 they come to thee2 thy sons shall come from far1 and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side4 ,then thou shalt see1 and flow together1 and thine heart shall fear1 and be enlarged2 because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee1 the forces of the ,gentiles shall come unto thee40 #aca ,the following literal translation of this hymn is given by the ,archdeacon in his memoir of ,abdool3-- ,beloved ,saviour1 let not me ,in thy kind heart forgotten be6 ,of all that deck the field or bower1 ,thou art the sweetest1 fairest flower6 ,youth's morn has fled1 old age comes on2 ,but sin distracts my soul alone2 ,beloved ,saviour1 let not me ,in thy kind heart1 forgotten be6 ,see ,missionary ,register1 #ahbg1 p4 #dec4 #acb ,ibid4 p4 #ddi-dec4 ,,chapter ,,xvi4 ,,arrival ,,of ,,bishop ,,james--,,consecration ,,of ,,the ,,bishop',s ,,college--,,death ,,of ,,bishop ,,james--,,visit ,,to ,,the ,,upper ,,provinces4 ,although ,dr4 ,james was consecrated ,bishop of ,calcutta on the #crd ,june1 #ahbg1 yet intelligence of his appointment to that ,see1 did not reach ,calcutta till toward the close of the year4 ,in the meanwhile questions and difficulties had arisen1 which the authority of a ,commissary was not sufficiently recognised to settle1 and the letters of the ,archdeacon contain1 in consequence1 many expressions of anxiety for the arrival of the ,diocesan4 ,to his brother he writes3-- 8,i have sent home several folios of late about ,missions and other matters3 some private to ,mr4 ,sherer1 some to ,mr4 ,bickersteth4 ,if you have any curiosity about such matters1 you may gratify it by referring to those sources2 for ,i am weary of the subject1 though it is getting every day more perplexing1 and deserving of more attention40 ,the domestic affairs of the ,archdeacon were1 also1 a source of trial2 for the health of his children 7especially that of the eldest17 had of late been gradually suffering from the climate1 until it became necessary to arrange for sending them to ,england1 accompanied by their mother4 ,in the prospect of this separation from his family1 he writes ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,nov4 #ab1 #ahbg4 8,altogether1 we concluded that it was the will of ,god that they should proceed to ,england4 ,wherein we have decided amiss1 the ,lord pardon us2 for ,i am painfully certain that not every movement that comes recommended by fair appearances1 is from above1 but often to prove whether we trust ,god or not40 ,and after the day of actual separation had arrived the ,archdeacon writes ,,to ,,his ,,brother4 8,calcutta1 ,dec4 #ad1 #ahbg4 8,the ship which carries this1 sails at the same time with the #8,duke of ,lancaster1' which carries my earthly treasures4 ,i try to think of my children as going to school1 and their ,mother going to take care of them4 ,this1 in our circumstances1 is duty2 but ,i have known no trial to be compared to it1 except parting with ,mary1 when ,i went the first time to embark at ,portsmouth4 ,i cannot1 in sober thought1 bring myself to resolve on following them2 but much may arise to render it proper1 if not necessary3 and as ,i made no positive resolve on leaving home about returning1 ,i make none now about remaining here4 ,when our infants were called away1 their ,mother and others in their stead were left4 ,now all are going2 but there is hope1 in every sense1 of meeting again4 ,i feel too proud1 ,i fear1 of my children1 as most parents perhaps do4 ,their ,mother and ,i have enjoyed as much of happiness1 as earth affords2 and remembrance of happiness only will follow her3 whether ever to be renewed1 ,he only knows certainly who is engaged to make all things work together for our good40 ,the time was now approaching when the ,archdeacon was to be relieved from his duties as ,commissary1 for within a month of the date of the preceding letter1 he writes ,,to ,,his ,,wife4 8,january #ba1 #ahbh4 8,the ,bishop is at length arrived4 ,he was installed yesterday4 ,on ,monday the report of the #8,mary ,anne's' arrival reached us2 on ,friday ,jan4 #ag1 we went down1 ,messrs4 ,eales1 ,abbott1 ,mill1 ,cracraft1 ,prinsep 7the younger47 ,we found the ship at ,culpee1 near to where we met ,bishop ,heber4 ,bishop ,james resembles him much in appearance and manner4 ,he is evidently of a kind disposition1 and for my own part1 ,i have much reason to be satisfied with my reception4 8,i have not ascertained any of the ,bishop's plans1 nor perhaps has he yet settled any4 ,i mentioned the residence in the ,upper ,provinces1 but he did not think the ,archdeacon could be spared from ,calcutta1 on account of the frequent absence of the ,bishop40 ,the bishop1 however1 expressed a wish that1 subject to his own instructions1 his correspondence with the ,chaplains and the ,government1 should be carried on by the ,archdeacon1 but it does not appear that any plan to that effect was settled4 ,as regarded himself1 the ,archdeacon occupied his comparative freedom from public business1 in assisting the chaplains in their clerical duties1 in finishing the translation of the ,prayer-book and the ,homilies into ,hindoostanee1 and in superintending a translation of the ,prayer-book into ,persian by ,mr4 da ,costa4 ,these were all afterwards printed1 either by1 or by the aid of1 the ,prayer-book and ,homily ,society4 ,with reference to these occupations1 the ,archdeacon writes ,,to ,,his ,,wife4 8,feb4 #ab1 #ahbh4 8,i have been officiating at ,howrah1 and the same sermon enabled me to assist ,goode2 so that ,i have not been idle1 and am much the better for it40 ,and again3-- 8,i know not what ,c4 has taken to ,england for you3 ,i told him to take you a copy of the translations of the ,common ,prayer4 ,i send three copies1 by this ship1 to the ,prayer ,book and ,homily ,society4 ,it is found fault with1 as ,martyn's ,testament was2 but ,i care little1 as time will bring to light the labours ,i have gone through2 and those who can improve it may40 ,he adds-- 8,i have been much moved by the affection of the ,hindoostanee congregation for ,john ,adlington4 ,he has always been more disposed to suffer in silence1 than to complain2 yet after some time the ,native ,christians became so attached to him on account of his ministrations1 that one day1 on going to ,church1 he found a punkah#acc hung up for him4 ,the place for the ,communion table being bare1 one begged to be allowed to place a mat on it4 ,another placed a carpet1 where ,john stood to minister2 and lately one came and said1 he had been so comforted at the ,communion1 that he begged to be allowed to present a silver cup1 and wished to know what shape ,john would have it made in4 ,these are genuine expressions of ,christian ,native feeling1 beyond what has appeared here2 for ,bowley is a great disciplinarian1 and his people are more under awe than ,john's flock4 ,these facts the ,hindoostanee ,homilies brought to my mind2 for the translation is now read to the people40 ,it has now to be observed1 that as the frequent correspondence which the ,archdeacon maintained with his wife1 during the time that she was absent from ,india1 affords a kind of ,journal of the writer's own feelings1 and of such occurrences as passed under his notice1 little more for the present is necessary than to subjoin extracts from his letters to her4 ,thus1 under date of ,april #gth1 he writes3-- 8,i should tell you that ,mr4 ,deerr had a most interesting occasion last week1 at ,culna2 he has baptized five persons there1 and another offered himself4 ,the new ,christians begged the baptism might take place in their quarter of the large spreading town4 ,no appropriate building being available1 ,mr4 ,deerr had a table set under a tree1 in a large ,mango grove2 the table covered with #8a fair linen cloth1' and on it a marble basin full of pure water4 ,the ,christians sung a hymn4 ,about one hundred and fifty assembled4 ,mr4 ,deerr preached from 8,hallowed be thy name40 ,all were hushed in silent attention2 not a sound besides ,mr4 ,deerr's voice1 except the gentle sighing of the breeze among the branches4 ,mr4 ,deerr hopes a good impression was made4 ,a little circumstance characteristic of the people must be added3 after the service1 an old woman came up to ,mr4 ,deerr full of bustle1 #8,sir1' said she #8one of your ,christians owes me money1 command him to pay me4' ,mr4 ,deerr said this was not a suitable time for such business4 #8,sir1' replied she1 #8if ,i am not heard in so holy an assembly1 where shall ,i get justice8'0 ,it might seem an unkindness to his memory to keep back another portion of the same letter1 illustrative as it is 7with many other extracts that might be given7 of that enduring strength of natural affection1 with which the subject of these ,memoirs was so peculiarly imbued4 8,this is a day1 on several accounts1 to be remembered by us4 ,it is your birth-day2 it is also close on my own4 ,it is a day long to be remembered1 too1 for the sorrow we were visited with ten years ago2 when our ,john was removed from this scene of trial1 to behold his ,father's face in heaven4 ,it is fit that we should call these things to remembrance2 whilst deep humiliation becomes us1 before ,him who has been about our path all our days4 ,we have much1 also1 to praise him for1 both as it respects the past1 and the present4 ,i think of you now as about the ,channel1 approaching your desired haven4 ,how the weather may have proved1 and what the society on board ship1 and whether my children have escaped all accidents1 and how your health has been8 ,these are anxious questions to which ,i must wait some months for an answer4 ,to what1 also1 may await you in ,england4 #8,is my father yet alive1' the #8old man' to whom we all owe so much8 ,but why perplex myself on these accounts8 ,i could not but observe yesterday1 how blessed is the appointment1 that time alleviates the feeling of loss4 ,what agonies did we endure1 when our ,john was taken away8 ,of ,emily1 ,i confess1 ,i think less1 because ,i knew her not as you did2 but now it seems well1 that they are safely lodged in the ,lamb's bosom1 and it would be unkind to wish them back4 ,o may our two remaining loves hear the ,saviour's voice1 and in their early youth1 know the love and kindness of ,his heart60 ,the ,archdeacon afterwards forwarded to his wife1 the following memorandum3-- 8,calcutta1 ,thursday1 ,april #aj1 #ahbh4 8,this day completes my fifty-first year4 ,the last year has proved very eventful in several respects4 ,the change in my circumstances by the departure to ,england of my wife and children1 is great and painful beyond my expectation1 though ,i anticipated painful things4 ,the change in the circumstances of the ,church ,mission1 by the sickness of several1 and the defection of others1 is painful to a degree4 ,a blight seems to have come over my temporal prospects2 and much reason is there for self-examination1 as to why ,i am thus3 but ,i need not go far1 nor search long4 ,to my own soul1 at least1 the cause is so obvious as to silence all complaints4 ,if these be not for my individual sin1 yet my sins deserve much more of mortification and shame4 ,in company1 vain words and compliances leave a sense of sin that would drive me to solitude3 solitude cannot be improved without the grace of solitude4 ,indolence1 preference of amusement to profit1 want of delight in the ,scriptures2 in public and in private1 in the pulpit and in the closet1 in capacity to benefit myself or others1 is brought more power fully home to me1 as ,i advance in life4 ,and will it ever be otherwise8 ,and how can ,i meet death in this state8 ,i know theoretically the fulness1 freeness and sufficiency of the ,saviour's grace1 but am ,i a partaker therein8 ,i can think of my beloved family without exertion1 and follow the intimations of my wife's will1 though she be far removed from the knowledge of what ,i do1 or power of contradicting me2 were the love of the ,saviour as really in me1 would it not operate in the same way with reference to ,his will8 ,i know it would2 and pray to be kept from self-deceiving4 ,o1 may ,i take no rest until ,i have the evidence of that faith in me which worketh by love1 and overcomes the world1 the flesh and the ,devil6 ,i resolve that thus it shall be1 the ,lord being my helper4' ,amen40 ,in a subsequent letter the ,archdeacon writes to his wife3-- 8,i have been very busy since ,i last wrote4 ,a poor creature who killed his wife in a fit of jealousy1 sent for me last week2 and ,i visited him several times before the day1 and on the morning of his execution4 ,my dreams for several nights were of prisoners and fettered captives1 imploring help4 ,the man was a native of ,dacca1 a ,native christian1 spoke ,english with considerable fluency1 and had acquired1 from attending on ,michael ,rosario1 a considerable knowledge of ,scripture3 and had not his awful crime called for more pungent sorrow than he exhibited1 he might have passed out of life with a good name for christian knowledge4 ,to his own master he hath given an account4 ,the day after this poor creature left the world1 ,i was startled by a note from ,g4 saying1 #8his brother was indeed gone6' ,we had heard1 of his 7the aid-de-camp7 illness1 but had no idea he was in danger3 but so it has come to pass4 ,that finely-formed youth1 who was1 perhaps1 too proud of the personal advantages ,god had given him1 was seized with fever1 and sunk under the effects1 of it in a few days1 aged twenty-one6 ,poor ,r4 ,g4 when he found his brother was in danger1 spoke to him of the ,saviour3 and the dying youth1 it seems1 poured out a prayer1 that1 for ,christ's merits1 he might find a place in ,his kingdom4 #8,and this1' says ,r4 ,g4 #8is the only ray of light that this dark dispensation affords4'0 ,the following letter records an interesting passage in the history of ,bishop's ,college1 ,calcutta4 8,may #af1 #ahbh4 8,yesterday was ,ascension day1 and it was a #8high day' at ,bishop's ,college4 ,the consecration of the chapel and burial-ground took place4 ,all the clergy were invited by advertisement4 ,the ,bishop said that he should be at the ,ghaut1#acd opposite the ,college1 at five o'clock in the morning4 ,i left home1 therefore1 at four3 ,latham and ,adlington went with me4 ,we arrived first2 and as the ,bishop had said that his coach would be full1 we took advantage of a dingy1#ace and passed over before him1--but there was no meeting1 or any reception at the ,ghaut4 ,we mustered at ,mill's2 and from thence proceeded to the place appointed for a burying-ground4 ,m4 had prepared a shepherd's crook1 gilt1 with an ornamented staff2 and this was carried before us1 by a ,native christian from ,madras1 with a coat of crimson colour1 such as you know they wear on the coast4 ,we then assembled in the anti-chapel of the chapel1 and the ,consecration service began2 the gilded crook being carried before us1 up to the ,communion-table4 ,the ceremony was then gone through1 and ,m4 preached the ,sermon from ,malachi i4 #b4 #8,from the rising of the sun even until the going down of the same1 my name shall be great among the ,gentiles1 c4' ,in the conclusion1 he quoted part of the prayer used by ,bishop ,middleton1 on laying the first stone2 and pointed to his monument on the wall4 ,i was1 perhaps1 the only person present besides himself1 who had taken part in that ceremony4 ,mr4 ,schmidt1 the ,old ,church organist1 had been engaged1 with his three school-singing boys1 and also a finger organ for the occasion4 ,they chaunted #8,the ,venite1' #8,te ,deum1' #8,jubilate1' and sang an ,ascension hymn before ,communion1 and after ,communion1 an anthem from the eighth ,psalm4 ,the ,armenian deacon was present in his festival robes1 which were of yellow stuff1 with a collar worn as our scarf1 figured with large crosses embossed4 ,the ,bishop provided a breakfast in the hall1 to which forty persons sat down4 8,may #ahth4 ,we are just returned from the ,cathedral1 ,w4 and ,j4 ,adlington were ordained priests4 ,henderson preached the sermon4 ,dear ,john1 as pale as death2 but he got through without distress4 ,when we commenced the ,communion ,service1 and ,i was reading the prayers for the ,church militant1 the remembrance of the last ordinations1 and of the beloved ,bishop ,heber1 came so strongly upon me1 that ,i could scarcely give utterance to the expression of thanks for those departed in the faith and fear of ,god our ,saviour3 ,i1 however1 got through4 ,the whole congregation were kept the whole time1 but only ,mrs4 ,james1 and ,miss ,o4 communicated1 besides the clergy40 ,in the letters which ,archdeacon ,corrie wrote about this time1 he frequently mentions the failing health of ,bishop ,james4 ,thus he writes in a communication1 dated 8,calcutta1 ,june #cj1 #ahbh4 8,the ,bishop left this place last week1 for the ,upper ,provinces4 ,he continued very ill past ,chinsurah4 ,he has constituted me his commissary for this ,archdeaconry1 and the other ,archdeacons for their's respectively2 and so devolved everything upon us1 reserving only the power of interfering when he pleases2 and that before any definitive sentence shall be passed1 reference shall be made to him4 ,had the former ,bishops done this1 they might both1 perhaps1 have been alive still2 and had not the present ,bishop their fate before him1 he might not have thought of such a measure2 and if there be a real necessity for it1 as to a considerable extent there is1 there should be more ,indian ,bishops40 ,this deputing of the administration of a portion of the diocese to the ,archdeacon1 necessarily increased his occupations2 yet his correspondence intimates that he neither declined to perform ordinary clerical duty as occasion served1 nor to attend to affairs of missions4 ,scarcely a month however had elapsed1 ere increased illness obliged the ,bishop to return to ,calcutta2 and so seriously unwell was he on reaching that place1 that it was not considered advisable for him to land4 ,respecting the ,bishop's state of health1 ,archdeacon ,corrie writes1 ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,calcutta1 ,august #h1 #ahbh4 8,bishop ,james has been1 and now is1 at death's door1 from liver complaint4 ,he was affected with it in ,england1 and this climate has excited the disease1 almost to death1 if indeed he survive4 ,he has sent in his resignation of the bishoprick1 and is gone to ,new ,anchorage to embark on board the ,huntley1 for ,penang4 ,he told me that his plan is1 to stay awhile at ,penang1 and go from thence to ,bombay1 and1 if possible1 to ,new ,south ,wales1 and so to ,england4 ,thus we are again without a ,bishop1 although he will be nominally so1 whilst he remains within the ,company's territories40 ,with reference to missions1 the ,archdeacon adds3-- 8,a blessing is vouchsafed to ,deerr's labours1 beyond most4 ,he has lately baptized eleven persons1 viz4 five at ,burdwan1 and six at ,culna4 ,our ,report exhibits sixty added to the ,church2 and since ,may #ast1 fifteen more4 ,simon1 one of my school-boys1 has resigned a salary of eighty rupees a month1 to engage 7unsolicited7 in ,missionary work4 ,thus1 among many discouragements the gospel grows among us40 ,during the ensuing month the ,archdeacon had occasion to visit some of the stations on the river2 and observes in a memorandum3 dated 8,fultah1 ,sep4 #ah1 #ahbh4 8,by unexpected circumstances ,i find myself here1 just twenty-two years since passing a day here on my first arrival in ,india4 ,how altered for the worse is this place6 ,how many changes have ,i seen since then6 ,how altered in contrast1 are my circumstances6 ,a stranger then1 wandering1 friendless1 and in my own apprehension1 poor2 for ,i understood in ,england1 my salary would be three hundred pounds a year1 and was warned that it would supply no superfluities4 ,though this was a mistake as to sterling amount1 and there was something1 ,i apprehend1 of a pious fraud used1 to prevent my taking the appointment from temporal motives2--though ,i have enjoyed much beyond what was then contemplated by friends or myself1 yet ,i am still poor2 though1 blessed be ,god1 neither friendless1 nor without a certain object in life4 ,when ,i say poor1 ,i mean in worldly reckoning1 for ,i am rich1 in not caring for riches4 ,i have long seen that they add neither to personal worth1 nor public usefulness2 except as used with a single eye1 to the grace and goodness of ,god in granting them4 ,as to objects1 ,i now see what is practicable1 in reference to the spread of the gospel in the land1 which ,i was utterly ignorant of when ,i came here in #ahjf2 and what reason for thanksgiving to ,god is there1 that times and circumstances are so much more favourable now6 ,then all was untried and uncertain to a great degree2 now the work of ,missions is better understood2 success has been in many instances granted to it1 and the duty and probability of success of the work made1 in a considerable degree1 manifest40 ,at the time the foregoing remarks were penned1 the ,church in ,india had been again deprived of her chief pastor1 by death2 although the intelligence of ,bishop ,james' decease did not reach ,calcutta until the #agth of ,oct4 ,in apprising ,mrs4 ,corrie of that mournful event1 and of his preaching the ,bishop's funeral sermon1 in the cathedral on ,sunday morning1 ,oct4 #ai1 the ,archdeacon writes3-- 8,i took for a text ,job xxx4 #bc1 8,i know that thou wilt bring me to death1 and to the house appointed for all living40 ,i offered-- 8,i4 ,some reflections on our situation in the world4 ,as rational creatures1 we are subject to a law which we have broken1 in consequence of which death reigns4 ,but a reprieve is proclaimed1 and an offer of escape from the second death made by ,jesus ,christ4 8,,ii4 ,christianity can render the prospect of death and the grave1 comfortable--#8a house1' #8a home4' 8,,iii4 ,but it is by self-application that it does so2 8,i know that thou wilt bring me to death40 8,,iv4 ,and by a determination to live under the influence of the self-application4 8,i know10 is experimental1 not mere theory4 8,application1 #ast4 ,let every instance of mortality around us1 lead us to set our house in order2 thus we shall be growing in capacity for the enjoyments and employments of heaven4 ,nor can our conduct1 in this respect1 fail to have a powerful influence on our general character1 as members of society4 ,he who thinks not of death1 and of preparation for it1 cannot set an example of religious living to others4 ,he who wilfully postpones the subject1 will shun solitude2 the concerns of a future state will be1 as much as possible1 kept out of sight1 and temporal considerations will be all in all4 8,finally1 with reference to the occasion of my appearing in this place to-day1 to men who live not under the impression of death and the grave1 the removal of one after another1 of the chief pastors of the ,church1 will appear in no other light1 than the removal of secular persons4 ,the improvement in the religious condition of our own community being suspended1 and the consequent influence such improvements might have had on the immortal interests of the natives1 among whom we dwell1 being interrupted1 and to a considerable extent postponed1--these will not enter into the consideration of those1 who value not ,christianity as the only ground of a sinner's hope2 the only guide of his judgment and practice4 ,how many of our countrymen now proceeding in an irreligious course1 might1 by the example1 and the exertion of great attainments put forth in the service of religion1 aided by the influence of high station1 have been turned to a life of righteousness6 ,how many of the youth1 among our countrymen at our stations1 exposed to every wind of temptation1 with scarcely any controlling influence1 might by such exertions1 and such influence1 have been saved from premature death1 and rendered heirs of everlasting life6 ,these and similar considerations1 will not enter into the calculations of men who live only for the present world4 ,true ,christians1 however1 whilst they sympathise with bereaved relations and friends1 mourn chiefly the loss of the immortal interest of mankind1 involved in these1 seemingly premature1 bereavements4 ,they will pray that surviving ministers may be enabled to redouble their diligence and zeal2 as their work is no less1 and their disadvantages greater4 ,they will pray that the ,lord of the harvest may send suitable labourers into the great and important field of labour2 and then1 whatever may be the result as to others1 our own enjoyments will be heightened1 by conscious attention to the duties which present circumstances call us to2 and we shall be kept in patient continuance in well doing2 waiting for that glory1 honour1 and immortality1 which the ,lord1 the righteous judge1 will give to all who love his appearing40 ,by the premature death of ,bishop ,james1 the administration of the diocese of ,calcutta devolved for the second time on ,archdeacon ,corrie2 and it could scarcely be supposed1 but that the increased demands on his time which these changes brought with them1 would to some extent debar him from corresponding so frequently with his friends1 as he might formerly have been able to do4 ,we find him1 therefore1 now observing to his valued friend1 the ,,rev4 ,j4 ,,buckworth4 8,among the causes of my not writing to you1 one is1 that much of what ,i write home is published1 so that you know generally what ,i am about4 ,this circumstance1 also1 has contributed to the difficulty ,i often find in writing to friends4 ,the publication of my letters has at times occasioned me great uneasiness1 chiefly on my own account4 ,you cannot but know how little qualified ,i am for the public sphere unto which ,i have been called4 ,you know1 also1 how little in early life ,i intended it2 and1 ,i can truly say1 ,i have never desired it1 and now greatly wish for the shade1 my proper place4 ,another cause of my unfrequent correspondence is1 the wearisome1 inward conflict ,i endure1 with little or no intermission4 ,i travel1 indeed1 heavily on the heavenly way4 ,few1 ,i think1 can be burdened as ,i am with the body of sin and death4 ,my views of the plan of salvation have been clear1 ,i apprehend1 from the early part of my course2 and ,i may thank you1 in no small degree for this2 but every now and then1 the evil of my heart breaks out1 as it were1 more inveterately than ever1 and ,i seem ready to perish4 ,the text of the first sermon you preached at ,stoke1 is my stronghold at this time1 ,psalm xxv4 #aa1 8,for thy name's sake1 ,o ,lord1 pardon my iniquity2 for it is great40 ,it needs infinite mercy1 and infinite merit2 and both are manifested in ,christ ,jesus4444 ,these interruptions1 and the differences which have arisen amongst the religious public with you1 make me fear the latter day glory is not to be revealed so soon as once was generally apprehended4 ,i see no reason to differ from ,scott's general view of ,scripture truth2 but ,i observe most of those at home1 who contend so strenuously for the personal reign of ,christ1 and those here1 who have been most dissatisfied with ,missionary matters1 are high doctrinal men4 ,well1 the counsel of the ,lord shall stand4 ,his hand goes not forth even now in vain3 where humble men persevere in setting forth the ,saviour1 as the sinner's only hope1 some are drawn to ,him4 ,souls are added to the ,church frequently1 at almost every ,missionary station2 and the ,word of ,god is taking root1 up and down this part of ,india4 ,three remarkable instances have lately come to light1 of individuals far removed from each other1 in the upper parts of the ,presidency1 receiving incidentally the ,new ,testament translated1 taking it home1 and1 after understanding the blessed contents1 calling their friends and neighbours1 to hear the ,scriptures read4 ,in one case1 the man was murdered2 though it is thought for his wealth1 rather than in a way of persecution4 ,in another case1 the man was obliged through persecution to flee from his native place1 and in the third case1 as a brother of some influence in the place1 has taken a decided part in favour of the gospel1 it is hoped more good will result to the neighbourhood4 ,but the labourers are very1 very few2 and if larger salaries are not to be given to ,missionaries1 the number must diminish rather than increase4 ,it seems as if we must labour more1 to raise up labourers on the spot4 ,this has always been an object with me2 but ,i have had but little success4 ,now1 indeed1 some young men1 born in this country1 are coming forward to offer themselves for ,missionary work4 ,the characters of such1 in a natural point of view1 are almost always less robust than that of ,englishmen4 ,their bodies are generally feebler1 and the mind seems to partake of the same4 ,they1 however1 assimilate more to the natives2 seem to bear with their feebleness of character1 and meet the case of the unconverted with more readiness than ,englishmen can do1 from the entirely different channel in which their ideas flow4 ,it is1 perhaps1 never intended that the ,indian should equal the ,european in energy2 and we must be content with things as the ,god of nature intended them4 ,my attachment to the country increases1 as my acquaintance with the people1 and1 also1 the language1 becomes more familiar4 ,i must mention1 that during the last year1 and with the help of competent assistants1 ,i have translated and have printed a complete copy of the ,book of ,common ,prayer4 ,every letter and tittle of the ,prayer-,book is now clothed in the ,hindoostanee language1 and will become increasingly useful1 as the borders of our ,zion become enlarged40#acf ,at the beginning of ,november #ahbh1 ,archdeacon ,corrie set out to visit the ,upper ,provinces of ,bengal4 ,a ,journal of his proceedings is contained in his correspondence with his wife4#acg ,thus he writes from 8,burdwan1 ,nov4 #h1 #ahbh4 8,i yesterday1 at half past ten o'clock1 went to ,bogbonar3 ,candy and ,hammond went with me4 ,i felt relieved on getting away from ,calcutta4 ,at twelve the tide turned4 ,i had a long look at our sweet ,cossipore abode4 ,the ,ganges is unusually full this season1 so that by the time ,i reached ,serampore1 the tide turned again4 ,i stopped therefore at ,marshman's1 where ,mrs4 ,j4 ,marshman gave me a kind welcome4 8,bearers being procured1 ,i set off soon after four o'clock1 for ,chinsurah2 but it being ,kalee-poojah1 they were tipsy4 ,at first1 they shouted and joked2 afterwards1 getting tired1 they quarrelled1 and scolded1 and1 amidst deafening noise1 ,i did not get to ,herklot's till #h o'clock4444 ,i set off for ,burdwan1 where ,i arrived before ten this morning4 ,deerr and his family are well4 ,they have two fine children1 a boy1 and a girl1 very like each other1 and the picture of health4 ,my mind is kept in a measure of peace4 ,i have begun the book of ,joshua1 for travelling reading4 ,i trust ,joshua's ,god is with me2 and that ,i go on my way according to ,his will4 8,sunday1 #ith4 ,this has been a day of mixed feeling4 ,in the morning1 ,i met the native ,christians at family worship4 ,there were twenty-two present4 ,there are two sick1 and three absent1 making twenty-seven adults1 besides children4 ,a converted ,brahmin read #a ,cor4 xi42 and ,deerr interpreted what observations ,i wished to make to them1 on the ,lord's ,supper4 ,they seemed to understand4 ,something also was said to the women1 on the honour conferred on them by the gospel1 in restoring them to their original state1 as the helpmeet of man1 and fellow-servants of the ,lord4 ,they seemed to understand1 and were very attentive4 ,at ten o'clock1 ,divine service in ,english2 about fifteen present4 ,knowing that the ,bengalee worship was waiting1 ,i did not prolong the ,english service beyond half-past eleven--got back to the ,mission-house quarter before twelve o'clock2 but the ,bengalee worship did not commence till half-past4 ,after a selection from the morning prayer1 and a hymn1 ,deerr preached on the institution of the ,lord's ,supper4 ,i found that three men and two women had not been instructed with reference to the ,sacrament1 and at my desire they withdrew4 ,the ,lord's ,supper was then administered to ten men and six women2 ,i read the prayer of consecration in ,english4 ,i then pronounced the words in ,bengalee1 which ,i had written down in ,roman characters2 and gave the bread1 and ,deerr the wine4 ,the whole went off1 ,i trust1 in an edifying manner2 and1 on the whole1 thankfulness prevailed4444 ,one end of my coming was1 by this means to try some1 and promote the edification of others4 ,it is found that being baptized merely1 does not prevent return to caste3 partaking of the ,lord's ,supper does4 ,in consequence1 one tried to evade putting the bread into his mouth2 and another1 on drinking of the cup1 nodded slily to another1 as much as to say 7in my interpretation of his look and manner7 #8,we are caught4' ,this is sad3 but some are sincere beyond all doubt2 and1 ,i may be mistaken in my judgment of others4 ,mrs4 ,deerr and her sister say of the women1 that their carelessness 7as it appears to me7 is merely their shyness at the appearance of a stranger4 ,one thing was very pleasing1 they were almost all well-looking people2 clean1 and nicely dressed--and gave me the impression of being the better sort4 ,the two ,i have mentioned as sick1 are a young ,brahmin and his wife4 ,he is upwards of six feet high1 with quite the erect1 independent look and manner of the ,brahmin--,he is of the highest caste4 ,one uncle is ,treasurer to the ,commercial ,bank2 and a cousin is the ,dewan#ach of the ,burdwan ,rajah1 at one of his ,purgunahs4#aci ,notwithstanding the favourable appearances here1 it would be easy for an unfeeling man to break up the work2 and render what is doing1 matter of worldly scorn4 ,the ,english around are too careless to take notice of what is doing2 and too ignorant of the ways of the people among whom they dwell1 to judge rightly4 ,i have always been averse to exciting too much attention in them to missionary work1 knowing how easily an ungodly man might turn it all into ridicule4 ,but from my inmost soul1 ,i rejoice even in these very imperfect beginnings--,i am sure they are the beginning of better days4 8,nov4 #bjth4 ,i am now within four coss eight miles of ,benares1 on the ,calcutta side of the ,ganges1 waiting for bearers1 who ought to have been waiting for me4 ,you are made acquainted with my intention of visiting the missions here4 ,i wrote to you from ,burdwan on the twelfth4 ,on that day ,i went to ,bancorah1 and had a rainy and very tiresome journey on account of the broken road4 ,i received great kindness from ,dr4 and ,mrs4 ,clarke--,dr4 ,c4 laid my dawk1 so as to admit of my resting every night at one of the stageing bungalows1 and ,i am1 thus far1 rather refreshed than otherwise by the journey4 ,i am glad to have travelled this road2 for after having traversed in all directions the valley of the ,ganges1 ,i had no idea of the varied scenery which borders on it2 on the west side1 as well as the east4 ,about one hundred miles from ,calcutta1 at ,bancorah1 the ground begins to rise3 the range of hills we saw at ,cuttack1 runs on the left hand 7going upwards72 and you proceed through an uneven surface of country1 7the scenery a good deal like the ,dhoon17 ascending for a hundred miles more4 ,then a table-land commences1 of nearly another hundred miles1 but abounding in ups and downs2 and presenting1 at different points1 views such as we saw in the ,himalahs2 only by no means on so grand a scale4444 ,at about three hundred miles from ,calcutta1 steep ghauts occur2 and by degrees1 the traveller gets to the plains you know so well4 8,nov4 #bb1 #ahbh4 ,i arrived about twelve o'clock on the #bjth at ,secrole4 ,on the way from a large ghaut1 where ,i crossed the river1 a new1 tall steeple1 pointing to the skies1 attracted my eager eyes1 as ,i approached ,secrole4 ,you cannot conceive what a picture the ,church is now become4 ,the inside enlarged by the removal of the internal wall1 to the north1 and the south2 and the verandah inclosed4 ,a new pulpit and reading-desk of really exquisite workmanship2 and the front of the organ-gallery of the same2 executed1 as the whole has been1 under ,mr4 ,j4 ,p4 ,prinsep's immediate eye4 ,a well-proportioned stone font1 placed near the west entrance2 and the whole arranged with real taste and propriety4 ,i could fill sheets with all ,i see and hear4 ,i will only now add1 that the state of this station affords a striking comment on the sin of despising the day of small things4 ,i used to come1 first to ,wheatley's back parlour1 and meet a few writers and artillery men4 ,we then got an unoccupied house1 and all the station assembled2 but next week1 an alarm was taken3 #8,the discontented would take advantage of our assembling1 and fall upon us1 and cut off all the ,english together4' ,general ,m4 would no more allow the artillery-men to attend4 ,thomas ,b4 declared he would not again venture into such a ruinous dwelling2 but strange to say the house is yet standing4 ,we then assembled in ,s's4 house1 every third ,sunday3 and after two more years1 ,i ventured to circulate a proposal for building a place of worship1 out of which1 by remarkable progress as you know1 has sprung the present commodious and really elegant structure4 ,the new ,missionaries are not arrived here yet2 nor likely to be here for ten days to come4 8,chunar1 ,nov4 #bi4 ,to my great joy1 the church is substantially repaired1 looks better than ever1 and is likely to stand a century4 ,i yesterday had evening service3 the ,church was full2 not less than two hundred and fifty people1 including three officers and their families1 of the ,regulars4 ,last ,sunday ,i had service twice at ,secrole4 ,p4 was here4 ,to-morrow ,i purpose having service twice here4 ,this will testify of my strength2 for indeed1 not being1 by my situation1 called to it1 ,i would not attempt so much1 if ,i suffered from it4 8,benares1 ,dec4 #fth4 #ahbh4 ,crauford1 ,wilkinson1 ,bowley1 ,eteson1 and ,frend have arrived2 who1 together with ,proby1 make seven ,padres3 and to-day ,mr4 ,adams1 of the ,london ,society1 and ,mr4 ,robertson1 of the same1 came in4 ,we commenced soon after ten o'clock1 and continued till after two4 ,we4 discussed the signs of the times1 with reference to the spread of the gospel among ,europeans and ,natives in ,india4 ,the utility of schools where boys leave early1 and the evidences required in adults1 in order to baptism4 ,each spoke in turn1 and1 on the whole1 order was kept2 and all seemed gratified4 ,it was admitted1 that the progress of the gospel advances4 ,many instances were adduced of its gaining a hold on the native public4 ,one man1 eighteen coss from ,allahabad1 heard the gospel from a ,missionary2 and received a copy of the ,new ,testament4 ,he read it at home to his family2 his neighbours also came to hear1 till the usual effects began to appear2 some siding with him1 others opposing4 ,lately he came to ,mr4 ,crauford1 to know what he must do4 ,a ,fakeer received a gospel1 and sent it to his village in ,goruckpore district4 ,his brother1 a ,thannadar1#adj had1 also1 received a gospel from ,mr4 ,wilkinson4 ,the two brothers now unite in reading the ,gospel1 and collect their neighbours to hear4 ,the raising up of native teachers was also adduced3 and the power of ,divine truth1 in rendering aged ,hindoos active and industrious in spreading the knowledge of the gospel1 instanced in several cases4 ,schools were admitted to be of incalculable value2 especially as rendering the visits of the ,missionary welcome to the adults of a village2 and1 it may be hoped1 in preoccupying the mind with some degree of useful knowledge2 though1 as yet1 no direct instances of conversion have come to light in the schools4 ,it was agreed1 that repentance towards ,god1 and faith in the ,lord ,jesus ,christ1 should be required in candidates for baptism3 but it was also agreed1 that the fruits of these would appear in vast variety1 and be differently judged of by ,missionaries2 so that no one should judge another in the admission of converts4 ,in the evening1 ,i preached in the ,church from ,john xvii4 #bj1 #ba4 8,neither pray ,i for these alone1 but for them also which shall believe on me through their word2 that they all may be one1 as thou1 ,father1 art in me1 and ,i in thee1 that they also may be one in us2 that the world may believe that thou hast sent me40 8,december #abth4 ,yesterday we passed at the mission bungalow4 ,mr4 ,e4 from ,ghazeepoor also joined us4 ,so that there were eight padres4 ,the forenoon was passed as the day before4 ,we discussed the influence the personal character of a ,minister is likely to have on his office2 and agreed to some resolutions on a prayer-union1 as formerly set on foot by ,mr4 ,brown4 ,this may prove a blessing to others also4 ,at dinner1 much discussion arose about recording conversations with natives on religious points2 and the general opinion was favourable to its utility4 ,i was asked to print my sermon1 preached on ,wednesday evening4 ,if ,i see any prospect of usefulness1 ,i may do so4#ada 8,dec4 #acth1 #ahbh4 ,this evening1 ,i have experienced the greatest pleasure in ,hindoostanee worship1 ,i can remember ever to have done4 ,about sun-set1 ,i rode into the ,bazaar1 and saw a crowd2 and on approaching1 ,i found the missionaries with ,tryloke1 raised on the steps of a door2 ,t4 arguing with great seriousness1 and perfect calmness of manner1 and the people listening attentively4 ,there had been levity1 it seems1 displayed by some of the crowd before ,i came2 but they were then all serious2 and ,t's manner and appearance were very patriarchal4 ,i was much solemnized by the scene3 we then adjourned to the preaching-house4 ,charles prayed and read our ,lord's discourse with the woman of ,samaria1 with a comment1 adding also some appropriate remarks of his own1 and ended with prayer4 ,kewal ,messeeh1 then1 commenced a hymn1 in ,hindoostanee2 and a few joined him4 ,the measure also was ,hindoostanee4 ,the words1 and his correct manner1 affected me much2 and arrested the attention of many of the hearers4 ,it was to the effect of 8,o ,jesu1 ,saviour1 ,god1 shew mercy20 and then instanced several proofs of his power2 and the last verse was an exhortation to trust in that mercy1 as the only safe way of salvation4 ,tryloke then read a sermon on1 8,there is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth40 ,he read with animation1 but towards the conclusion of his prayer1 his earnestness for his neighbours1 and especially for his own family1 was very affecting4 ,he seemed to wrestle for a blessing upon them4 ,doubtless these are the fruits of the ,spirit2 and ,god's presence is evidently with them4 8,sunday evening1 #adth4 ,this forenoon1 a full church at ,english service4 ,at three o'clock1 p4 m41 ,mr4 ,frend read prayers in ,hindoostanee1 with wonderful propriety1 considering the short time he has been in the country4 ,his pronunciation is distinct1 and he would be perfectly understood1 though some words were imperfectly expressed4 ,after prayers1 three adult converts from ,hindooism were baptized by ,mr4 ,bowley4 ,the mother of one of them came in an agony to church1 and also his brother2 but he refused to forego his purpose4 ,after church1 the poor woman seemed more resigned1 saying1 #8her son was old enough to judge for himself2 and she did not know what might have moved him to the step4' ,the family live near the church4 ,another was a teacher of a school2 the third was brought to the faith of ,christ by means of an ,indigo planter1 and sent hither for baptism4 ,he gave his mala#adb to ,mr4 ,eteson1 saying1 it was once his treasure1 #8but now1' said he1 #8these are my treasures2' referring to a ,hindoostanee ,prayer-book and ,new ,testament he had under his arm4 ,after the baptisms1 ,mr4 ,wilkinson preached in ,hindoostanee1 on the baptism of the ,eunuch4 ,i could not but be very thankful for the means of instruction thus supplied4 ,i felt how much better the people of this place were off1 in respect of means of grace1 than when ,i resided here2 and1 ,i think1 ,i was1 from my heart1 content to sink in the scale2 and that these devoted servants of ,christ should become in every way more useful1 and as ministers1 more honourable2 and may an abundant blessing follow the instructions afforded here this day60 8,dec4 #beth1 #ahbh4 ,this day has been a day of thanksgiving4 ,at church1 ,i preached1 and administered the ,sacrament of the ,supper1 with ,proby4 ,thirty-eight attended the ,lord's ,supper1 of the ,english congregation2 and ,i found ,mr4 ,eteson had above twenty communicants1 at the ,hindoostanee ,chapel4 ,p4 is1 at times1 all gloom1 as if this were a day of vengeance for ,benares2 and the people were filling up their measure of wrath4 ,i maintain1 that he would be of an opposite opinion1 could he have seen the place twenty-three years ago4 ,i am much importuned to go to ,goruckpore2 and propose leaving this to-morrow night1 by dawk1 for that quarter4 ,i go only five stages by bearers2 and then expect to find a buggy the rest of the way4 ,you will conclude1 that at times1 ,i feel anxious about who may be the next ,bishop2 and you will1 ,i know1 give me the earliest intelligence you can4 ,the two young men last arrived promise well2 and at times1 ,i am ready to think that means for forwarding the kingdom of ,christ are rising up around1 which may render my services of little consequence1 and then1 ,i should think1 ,i had better withdraw4 ,but who shall reckon on to-morrow8 ,may we labour for the things which are eternal2 and whether in ,india or ,england1 we shall have the presence of the ,saviour to support and comfort us6 8,goruckpore1 ,dec4 #bi1 #ahbh4 ,on ,sunday ,i preached twice for ,mr4 ,e4 ,in the morning1 the singers sang a psalm-tune ,i do not recollect to have heard since ,i left ,colsterworth4 ,it reminded me strongly of early days4444 ,the band-master was clerk3 and is a man of real piety1 and more than common propriety of manners4 ,the singing is well conducted there4 ,a new church is building1 on a plan supplied by ,bishop ,heber2 but the drain of money1 caused by the ,burmese war1 has caused all matters which require money1 to go on very slowly1 ever since4 ,at nine o'clock in the evening1 ,i left ,mr4 ,e4 and came on in a palanquin towards this place4 ,through the kindness of ,mr4 ,bird and ,mr4 ,wilkinson1 ,i had five relays of horses1 and a buggy waiting on the road3 so by seven in the morning ,i mounted the gig4 ,on the bank of the ,ganges1 ,i found ,mr4 ,bird in a tent1 waiting for me1 with breakfast ready4 ,we made a comfortable meal1 and he afterwards drove me through a country1 finely cultivated1 to ,goruckpore2 where we arrived just after sun-set4 ,this district has been reclaimed from the forest nearly1 since the ,english gained possession2 and a quantity of the forest-trees remain1 in scattered clumps1 which give a rich appearance to the country4 ,it is in sight1 too1 of the perpetual snows2 and is seldom scorched as the plain of the ,ganges is4 ,r4 ,b4 has a house of the best style of the ,moffusil1#adc surrounded with quite a park4 8,tuesday1 #cjth4 ,after breakfast1 ,i set out to explore the mission-premises here2 and was much gratified indeed with the general appearance4 ,first1 came the ,christian houses1 situated close to the town2 with a field of about three acres in cultivation before them1 towards the high road4 ,on the north side of this field stands the seminary1 as it is called4 ,a pucka#add building1 with two lower rooms at the north end2 and over them one sleeping room4 ,the whole verandahed all round1 with tasty pillars1 in front of the dwelling part4 ,this forms a most comfortable abode for a single man4 ,in this will dwell a country lad1 named ,raphael1 whom ,i brought up from ,calcutta4 ,he seems to have received religious benefit from ,crauford's ,friday evening catechizing1 at the old ,church room2 and is mentioned in the last ,report of the ,church ,missionary ,committee1 as a missionary student4 ,he came over here with ,wilkinson1 from ,benares2 and you will be glad to hear that both ,w4 and ,r4 ,b4 are favourably impressed with what they have as yet seen of him4 ,next to the seminary1 eastward1 across the road1 is the ,church1 at present levelled with the ground4 ,the last year here was unusually rainy4 ,the earth became so saturated with rain1 that all the wells were running over2 and the sandy soil becoming thus impregnated with moisture1 the foundations of the ,church gave way4 ,r4 ,b4 with his usual decision1 pulled it all down2 and is now employed in rebuilding it on piles1 and on a broader foundation2 intending1 also1 a less ponderous roof4 ,behind the ,church1 eastward1 is the parsonage2 a very pretty and commodious building4 ,it consists of a lower room to the west1 and one of similar dimensions to the east2 with two rooms on each side2 a verandah all round1 and corner rooms to each side3 a complete ,indian dwelling1 outhouses in abundance2 and a fine garden1 kept up by the prisoners sentenced to hard labour4 ,the whole extent of ground is about twelve acres2 which is made over to the ,mission1 including the site of the ,church4 ,i must not forget to mention a nice building1 nearly finished1 intended for christian girls3 and called1 in joke1 #8the nursery4' ,sarah ,bowley was to have come here1 to take charge of it1 but this plan is suspended1 owing to the departure of ,dr4 and ,mrs4 ,clarke4 ,perhaps ,bowley and his daughter will come here1 for the hot season2 and then the plan will proceed4 ,all these temporal advantages1 the ,mission owes to ,mr4 ,b2 and it is a matter of thankfulness that he has notice of being appointed ,commissioner here1 on the new system2 and will now1 7if spared7 in all probability1 continue here several years4 8,you will now have some idea of the external state of this place2 but cannot adequately conceive of the beauty of the situation of this part of ,india4 ,but now for the better part4 ,on my going into the ,mission-house1 all the ,christians collected1 old and young2 and the room was filled4 ,i could not speak to them all at once1 and so proposed a hymn4 ,we sang the thirty-fourth of ,bowley's ,hindoostanee translation1 and then some from ,betteah were introduced1 the children of persons who had received copies of the ,gospels from me at ,chunar1 and which are kept now as relics4 ,raphael1 one of my school-boys1 is major-domo of the christian settlement2 and shewed it to me with great glee4 ,the aged ,zemindar1 and several converts from ,islam1 conversed for some time2 and two or three ,hindoo devotees sat #8clothed' beside us1 #8and in their right mind4' ,on coming away1 ,i saw one of these talking with great earnestness to a fat ,fakeer1 covered with ashes2 he seemed to be repeating ,scripture to him1 but ,i did not stay to hear1 lest ,i should put an end to the discourse4 8,wednesday1 #cast4 ,this morning at eight o'clock1 ,i assembled with the ,christians at morning prayer in the school-room4 ,forty-three were present2 of whom about ten or twelve were boys1 of ten or twelve years of age or under2 the remainder adults1 male and female4 ,the morning ,psalms were read1 in alternate verses1 in ,hindoostanee4 ,the third of ,st4 ,matthew was then read1 and the latter part commented on by ,mr4 ,w42 a hymn was first sung1 ,i should have said1 and all concluded with prayer1 by ,mr4 ,w4 ,thus the word of ,god grows and increases4 ,about two1 p4 m4 ,i went again to the ,mission-house1 and read the second ,homily1 and part of the third1 with the ,zemindar1 and an intelligent young convert from ,islam and a few others4 ,they entered into the subject earnestly1 and much conversation arose out of different parts of the reading4 8,january #ast4 #ahbi4 ,i1 this morning1 went on the top of the house before sun-rise1 and had a sight of a peak of the snowy mountains4 ,it brought strongly to my mind ,masoree ,tabea1 and the happy days we passed there in #ahbe3 my heart yearned after our sweet children1 and ,i tried to pray for them1 that this may prove a happy year to them1 and that through all eternity we may rejoice together4 ,we had a ,new-year's day service1 with the native ,christians2 it was to me1 and ,i believe to several of them1 an interesting service2 ,i spoke to them on life as a journey4 ,i am almost constantly with you in spirit2 and associate you in all my poor prayers1 for mercy1 and blessing4 ,to-day news have arrived here of various movements1 seemingly propitious4 ,may divine grace accompany them to those concerned2 and they cannot fail to prove so6 8#agth4 ,i have told you of all the people ,i met with1 up to ,monghyr4 ,on the #adth1 ,i got to ,boglipore1 and walked to the cantonments of ,his ,majesty's #crd ,regiment1 now stationed there4 ,they are on the ,calcutta side of the old station1 and the distance is considerable4 ,i was rather heated1 and could only leave word with a serjeant1 that ,i would come up next morning to the school-house4 ,after a while1 the school-master came to my boat1 a pious young man who received the knowledge of the truth under a ,chaplain in ,new ,south ,wales4 ,he has been the means of drawing eight others to join in a religious society1 and seems an estimable character4 ,next morning1 at nine o'clock1 ,i went up and found the commanding officer1 ,colonel ,c41 at the mess-room2 and five children with parents and sponsors assembled4 ,the ,colonel went with me to the school1 where ,i catechised the ,protestant children1 and gave each a little book4 ,he then went with me to the hospital1 where ,i read prayers2 and exhorted the convalescent1 about twenty or thirty in number4 ,the ,colonel then took me1 in his gig1 to his bungalow1 and introduced me to his wife1 and a grown-up daughter4 ,there was a little son also1 who seemed greatly pleased with a book ,i gave him4 ,i was much pressed to stay and dine with the mess1 but ,i had accomplished what seemed in my power1 and declined the civility4 ,i gave a good many of the tracts and religious books ,i mentioned1 as having been brought out for me by ,mr4 ,eteson1 to the schoolmaster for distribution4 8,jan4 #bbnd4 ,i am near ,cutwa4 ,it had been my intention to go over to ,maldah1 from below ,chandree2 but unexpectedly this river is still open2 and the ,manjee#ade said1 it would make five days difference1 as to the length of the journey2 beside the delay of going over to ,maldah3 and ,i have been long enough absent from ,calcutta1 at this time4 ,i hear1 also1 that the ,governor ,general is about ,maldah1 shooting2 so that ,i should have had little comfort in the visit4 ,at ,berhampore1 ,i called on the ,d's1 ,mr4 ,hill1 and the new ,chaplain1 ,mr4 ,wintle2 but remained only about three hours3 there seemed nothing to detain me4 ,i am expecting to see the ,v's41 this evening1 or early to-morrow1 at ,krishnagur1 to call at ,culna1 and perhaps meet ,mr4 ,deerr1 and inspect the schools4444 ,my recreation is drawing to a close1 for the present1 for ,calcutta has never been a residence of my choice4 ,on the whole1 my journey has yielded all the pleasure ,i expected4 ,i have kept free from colds1 and have reaped all the benefit of the change and variety4444 ,i have met with kindness everywhere2 and seen much of a religious nature1 to encourage4 ,from long acquaintance with the natives1 ,i have also derived amusement1 beyond any other time1 from observing their innocent sports4 ,but alas6 their language1 even when in sport1 is sadly corrupt4 ,however1 ,i see more and more1 how little those who do not mix familiarly with them can know them4 ,their whole conduct may be construed either seriously1 or as in joke1 if necessity oblige them to conceal their real meaning4 ,christian knowledge is doubtless gaining ground1 wherever ,missionaries dwell4 ,at ,monghyr1 ,mr4 ,m4 told me that many natives now come to hear the word regularly4 ,mr4 ,hill1 at ,berhampore1 told me the same4 ,the interruption they used to meet with seldom occurs2 and many listen attentively to the end of a discourse1 instead of going out and in1 as formerly4 ,still1 it is but #8the day of small things2' and1 respecting the general population1 but a very few come under the #8joyful sound4'--,i heard1 at ,monghyr1 of a wealthy farmer1 as you would say in ,england1 near ,sheergotty1 who received a ,hindoostanee ,new ,testament1 from ,mr4 ,bowley1 in one of his journies back from ,calcutta4 ,the man read it to his neighbours also2 and other ,missionaries1 who have since met with him1 were delighted with the love he shewed for the truth4 ,this man has lately been murdered2 it is thought1 on account of valuable ornaments he wore2 but the particulars are not known4 ,these incidental occurrences shew the value of itinerant labourers40 #acc ,a board suspended from the ceiling1 and having ropes attached by which to swing it to and fro1 for the purpose of cooling the room4 #acd ,landing-place4 #ace ,a small kind of boat4 #acf ,it may here be mentioned that the ,creed of ,st4 ,athanasius1 as translated in this ,prayer-book1 so attracted the attention of the learned ,mahomedans1 and the demand to possess it became consequently so great1 that ,archdeacon ,corrie was induced to have several hundred copies of it struck off for separate circulation4 ,one of those persons1 on applying for a copy of the ,creed1 observed1 8,now we know what you ,christians believe40 ,the ,archdeacon on relating this circumstance stated1 also1 that nothing could exceed the bitter enmity against the doctrine of ,christ1 which the exposition of divine truth contained in that ,creed1 seemed to stir up in the ,mahomedan heart4 #acg ,many particulars connected with this ,journey1 and not contained in the following pages1 may be seen in the ,missionary ,register for #ahbi4 #ach ,chief ,minister or agent4 #aci ,a large division or district of land4 #adj ,a kind of police-officer4 #ada ,it does not appear that the ,sermon was ever printed4 #adb ,rosary or string of beads4 #adc ,out-stations4 #add ,brick4 #ade ,steersman4 ,,chapter ,,xvii4 ,,government ,,retrenchments--,,plan ,,for ,a ,,college--,,death ,,of ,,mr4 ,,thomason--,,abolition ,,of ,,suttee--,,arrival ,,of ,,bishop ,,turner4 ,it was on the #cjth of ,january1 #ahbi1 that the ,archdeacon arrived at ,calcutta from his visitation of the ,upper ,provinces4 ,he found some of his friends preparing to leave ,india2 and others suffering from the effects of climate4 ,among the latter was ,mr4 ,thomason1 who had been returned to ,india only a few months1 but whose health had altogether given way4 ,with reference to such changes as were thus going on around him1 the ,archdeacon writes ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,march #aj1 #ahbi4 8,i cannot at present see it my duty to prepare for leaving ,india4 ,it is not1 as you justly say1 a country to grow old in1 but my health is wonderfully renewed1 and the work of missions1 instead of becoming plainer1 is daily becoming more difficult4 ,it would appear that ease makes men more fastidious1 yet the work does prosper4 ,piety does1 however1 appear now to be more requisite here than in ,new ,zealand1 as you well know that men of mere worldly principles can scarcely bring themselves to believe1 that the natives of this country need conversion4 ,a person of these principles going forth as a ,missionary1 therefore sits quietly down among the people1 and if he superintend a school or two1 thinks he does all that is practicable4 8,conjecture tires as to who may be our next ,bishop1 but ,i think we might have learned from the past1 to #8cease from man4'0 ,then with reference to the measures which had1 about that time1 been adopted1 for the purpose of revising and curtailing the whole expenditure of the three ,presidencies of ,india1 the ,archdeacon adds3-- 8,all here are in amazement at the turning of all things upside down1 in the service2 and know not what to expect4 ,it is concluded that something is in view with reference to the renewal of the charter1--but what1 no one can conjecture4 8,as yet1 we see not in #8the powers that be' anything more favourable to true religion1 than formerly4 ,education is encouraged1 as it has been for some years past2 but1 as formerly1 entirely from private funds4 ,no hope of aid from government is held out4 ,the only favourable symptom that ,i am aware of1 is1 that ,mr4 ,w4 ,b4 is to become a member of the ,committee of ,public ,education4 ,he has had experience of the ease with which ,christian instruction can be imparted2 and will do all he can to improve the present system40 ,soon after the date of this letter1 the ,archdeacon again alludes to the state of public affairs in a letter ,,to ,,his ,,brother4 8,at present there is great uneasiness throughout every part of the community4 ,the whole system of civil administration in the upper branches1 is changed1 and the most lucrative appointments cut off4 ,the same duties are performed by the same men in another manner1 and on reduced emoluments4 ,the army has been reduced two companies in each ,regiment1 by which a crowd of young men are made supernumeraries2 and the pay at some places is reduced1 which it is thought is only a prelude to its being reduced generally4 ,among the natives great alarm has been occasioned by an enquiry set on foot respecting all lakhrage lands1 not hitherto rated in the ,government books4 ,these consist of religious endowments and lands granted by former ,governments for services done to the state4 ,these1 in some cases1 have been resumed1 and no holder of such estate is certain of retaining it4 ,in the public offices many clerks have been dismissed1 and by the civil arrangements above alluded to1 very many are thrown out of employment4 ,so that no one of any class or condition is satisfied2 and some parts of the army are all but in a state of mutiny4 ,the most sober-minded ,i know of1 think the making all these changes together1 injudicious4 ,the necessity of economy is the reason assigned for all this1 but surely the splendid entertainments given by the ,court of ,directors in ,london1 look not much like a necessity for taking from the mere subsistence of subaltern officers4 ,i try to be silent and to wait the end4 ,certainly the personal character of our rulers seemed to promise us brighter prospects as to the encouragement to be afforded to ,christian plans and improvement4 ,but no--they give liberally of their own substance to ,societies1 but not a rupee1 or a smile of approbation must come from ,government2 so that the 8system of ,mendicancy0 must continue some time longer40 ,with reference to the same subject1 the ,archdeacon writes3-- ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,aug4 #af1 #ahbi4 8,a thirst for learning ,english has discovered itself all over the country2 which no doubt1 looks hopefully1 as to improvement4 ,it is dispiriting1 however1 that we have so few ,missionaries1 and next1 that the ,government shut their eyes more obstinately than ever against every thing in the shape of ,christian knowledge4 ,in answer to an application for aid to a school at ,meerut1 in which ,mahomedans1 ,hindoos and ,christians are taught together1 it was said1 that it would not be right to appropriate funds intended for native education to instruct children of ,europeans1 i4 e4 ,indo-,britons4 ,and ,i have been applied to for an opinion about the removal of the ,chaplain from ,howrah1 it not being right1 ,government thinks1 to supply from funds raised from natives1 a religious establishment for ,europeans1 except for the ,company's servants4 ,i am endeavouring1 with no little anxiety1 you will suppose1 to combat this view of things1 and have been much assisted in the matter by ,w4 ,b4 who is a near neighbour4 ,i wish you were nearer ,london1 to speak a word to some of your old friends1 now in the ,direction1 to get a distinct recognition of the right of native ,christians1 including country-born1 to a share in the public measures for the improvement of the country4 ,i have written to ,p4 and shall write to ,mr4 ,a4 to ask it1 as he may1 of ,lord ,e4 and the ,board of ,control4 ,i am hopeless1 yet the abstract right of the claim might gain a hearing where personal interest is out of the way2 and the ,government has always acted on the principle that the country-born should share40 ,yet this settled determination on the part of the ,indian ,government1 to leave ,christianity and ,christian education to shift for themselves1 had not the effect of slackening ,archdeacon ,corrie's exertions to secure by private aid1 some of those advantages for the ,christian population1 which he had solicited in vain from public resources4 ,two months anterior to the date of the foregoing letter1 he had put into circulation in ,calcutta1 the outline of a plan for establishing in that city an ,institution1 which should aim at promoting the interests of true religion in connection with large and liberal education4 ,in forwarding a copy of this outline1 he writes3-- ,,to ,,his ,,brother4 8,calcutta1 ,august #ai1 #ahbi4 8,by the enclosed1 you will see what has been occupying me1 in part1 for some time4 ,the class of ,indo-,britons1 or ,east-,indians1 as they begin to call themselves1 is increasing very fast4 ,besides the number in charity schools1 there are not less than five hundred in boarding schools1 in this place4 ,not above one hundred perhaps can pay1 so as to remunerate the masters2 yet they are all descendants of gentlemen4 ,hitherto they have generally been idle1 and dissipated2 possessing all the vices of both father and mother1 without any of the redeeming points in either4 ,you will conclude there have always been exceptions4 ,but1 within these fifteen years1 a change has been going on2 and a great improvement is becoming visible among that class4 ,yet they have hitherto had no bond of union1 and stand separate from all established order4 ,the ,dissenters1 being more on a level with them in most respects1 and really exerting themselves for the improvement of this class1 would gain the majority of them ere long4 ,i hope1 if we can bring the plan of the ,prospectus to bear1 we may succeed in establishing a connecting link between the ,church of ,england1 and these really ,colonists4 ,the lower branch1 or a ,grammar-school1 is first to be attempted2 about twenty thousand rupees are set down1 in shares and donations2 and with a like sum in addition1 we shall be able to make a beginning4 ,a master will be wanted from ,england4 ,we could1 ,i think give him #ejj a year1 and a house1 worth here on the lowest scale #bej more2 with a per-centage on any profits that might arise4444 ,we have a good deal to contend with3 first1 our ,governor-general1 to my great dismay1 has all but avowed that the improvement of the ,christian part of the ,indian community is no part of his duty4 ,next1 a most extensive forgery of ,government-bonds has been discovered4 ,three hundred thousand pounds1 it is said1 is not the whole extent of it4 ,many who deal in the funds1 find they have bought forged bonds2 consequently it is not a good time for subscriptions4 ,and last1 not least1 ,liberalism prevails here too1 as in ,england2 and will neither do good itself1 nor agree to any scheme proposed by others1 if religion be included4 ,but we must do what we can4 ,o6 my heart sickens at the proceedings of ,parliament2 and ,i feel resigned1 at times1 to give my bones to ,india1 ,england being no longer the land of attraction it was4 ,another discouragement to the scheme inclosed is1 that it has been declared to be opposed to ,bishop's ,college2 whereas it will prove a powerful auxiliary1 by supplying youths whose abilities and dispositions have been tried as students1 and candidates for ,missionary work4 ,i am just now1 also1 much occupied with a correspondence with ,government1 on the subject of supplying religious instruction to ,christians not in the immediate service of ,government4 ,i hold that they ought to be supplied4 ,the correspondence1 ,i expect1 will be referred home4 ,but who cares for religion in high places at home8 and what can the ,archbishop do1 his office being so little set by80 ,it remains now to subjoin an outline of the ,archdeacon's views1 respecting such a liberal education on ,christian principles as1 in his judgment1 was calculated to meet the anomalies and exigencies of the several classes of ,british subjects in our vast ,eastern empire4 ,he proposed1 then1 8,that a ,college should be founded in ,calcutta1 in which1 whilst the various branches of ,literature and ,science should be made the subjects of instruction1 an essential part of the system should be1 to imbue the minds of the youths with a knowledge of the ,doctrines and ,duties of ,christianity4 8,that this ,college should be1 in every way1 conformable to the ,united ,church of ,england and ,ireland4 ,but as there are also many in this land who are not members of that ,church1 and who are at present completely excluded from the means of bestowing upon their children a liberal education1 it was further proposed that persons of all persuasions should be permitted to attend the various classes in the projected seminary1 under certain restrictions1 but without such restraints as should go to interfere with their religious opinions4 8,that in conducting the ,institution1 a liberal and enlarged course of education should be pursued1 adapted to the respective attainments of the ,students2 the ,college to be divided into two departments1--a higher department for the elder1 and a lower department for the younger students4 8,the system to comprise ,religious and ,moral instruction1 ,classical learning1 ,history1 ,modern ,languages1 ,mathematics1 ,natural ,philosophy1 ,medicine and ,surgery1 ,chemistry1 ,jurisprudence1 and other branches1 as time and circumstances might admit of and require4 8,the ,college to be open to the sons of native ,gentlemen1 as well as to all denominations of ,christians2 and to be divided into two sections1 viz41 one consisting of those who should conform in all respects with the regulations of the ,institution1 to be designated #8,members2' the other section to consist of those only1 who might attend the classes for the purpose of receiving instruction4 8,the advantages of the ,institution to be available for all ,students1 with the exception of some theological privileges1 which unavoidably would have to be restricted to the #8,members' of the ,college3 no student1 not being a ,member of the ,college1 to be required to comply with any religious form of worship1 provided he submitted to the general system of education1 pursued within its walls4 8,the benefit of attending any course of ,lectures in the higher branches to be afforded to all who might be disposed to avail themselves of it1 under the preceding and such other regulations as might be specified4 8,all students entering as #8,members1' of the ,college1 to be required to conform in every respect1 to the ,doctrines1 ,usages and ,forms of the ,united ,church of ,england and ,ireland2 and ,members of the ,college only to be received as resident students within its walls1 and these to be subject to such rules of discipline1 and to such an extent1 as may thereafter be agreed and determined upon40 ,the great principle however1 which it was purposed to embody in the projected ,college was1 that whilst in a ,christian community every system of general education ought to comprise instruction in the doctrines and duties of ,christianity2 and whilst1 in the then existing state of society in ,india1 to compel all students to comply with the forms of ,christian worship1 would be to defeat the object which it was conceived the ,institution would effect1 yet that in all education the ,,word ,,of ,,god ought to form an indispensable element4 ,it was maintained by the ,archdeacon that without this1 the acquisition of other branches of knowledge could neither be conducive to the happiness of the individual1 nor to the welfare of the state4 ,it was1 intended1 also1 that the ,college should expressly have in view the upholding of the ancient ,institutions of ,england1 and the inculcation of those doctrines and that discipline which were professedly held and taught by the ,established ,church4 ,it was proposed1 therefore1 that none should be 8members0 of the ,college1 who were not also members of the ,church of ,england2 and that these should1 as a matter of course1 be required to be present at ,divine ,service to be performed within the walls of the ,college1 and to be instructed as ,church-of-,england-men4 ,it was whilst matters of such public importance engaged the attention of ,archdeacon ,corrie1 that intelligence of the death of ,mr4 ,thomason reached ,calcutta4 ,in noting that event the ,archdeacon writes to ,mr4 ,sherer3-- 8,you will have heard of the ,church's loss in the death of ,mr4 ,thomason4 ,a blank is made not likely to be soon filled up4 ,i preached a funeral ,sermon last ,sunday morning1 7,august #i71 in his old pulpit1 and did him what honour ,i could1 but far beneath his worth40 ,the ,archdeacon had1 also1 now to encounter a bereavement which more nearly touched his natural affections4 ,his father had died during the spring of #ahbi2 and therefore1 he writes ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,august #bg1 #ahbi4 8,yours of the #fth of ,may1 with ,henry's note enclosed1 came to hand yesterday afternoon4 ,the black seal led me to forebode the event which the contents of the letter confirmed4 ,his great age made such an event probable1 and to be looked for2 and with the hope that we have that death to him was gain1 we cannot complain1 much less #8sorrow as those who have no hope4' ,a great1 great blank is1 however1 occasioned by my beloved ,father's removal2 and soon the elder branches of his family would be strangers to those around them on earth1 but for the dear charges given to themselves40 ,from his ,journal 7now so rarely kept7 some insight into the ,archdeacon's private communings is obtained in the following memoranda3-- 8,sep4 #aa1 #ahbi4 8,if spared to the #bjth1 ,i shall have been twenty-three years complete in ,india4 ,many things of late combine to weigh down my spirits4 ,the defection of ,missionaries1 and now of ,l4 who though unwell1 would not wish to stay if well4 ,the inclination of ,government1 to withhold all aid from christian ministrations1 even among ,christians3 beginning1 at once1 by withdrawing the ,chaplain from ,howrah4 ,the death of my father2--and anxiety for my family1 constitute a load of care4 ,i am not constitutionally prone to despond2 but neither can ,i throw off impressions as some can4 ,the care therefore1 of answering government1 and providing for ,howrah 444 whilst they have rendered me anxious1 have1 also1 stirred me up to exertion4 ,yesterday in conversation with the ,governor-general1 ,i was enabled to speak freely1 yet respectfully ,i hope1 on the duties of ,missionaries4 ,i pointed out to him the different line of study1 and reflection on ,missionary callings1 required from that of a ,minister to instruct ,christians2 and the wrong done to the ,english societies and the ,english public1 by employing ,missionaries otherwise than as ,missionaries3 and appealed to him1 that1 notwithstanding the duty due to this ,government1 whether as an ,english gentleman he could wish the mother country to be burdened with the charge of the religious instruction of ,india8 ,that1 ,i was quite certain1 that by providing for the support of ,christian instruction1 as occasions arose1 7on a moderate scale7 that this ,government need not be burdened2 and1 at the same time1 ,england would be relieved4 ,he said with regard to ,howrah1 he would consider more of the matter40 8,sep4 #ai1 #ahbi4 8,in conversation with ,sir ,charles ,grey1#adf on the subjects lately started by ,government1 respecting the duty1 or otherwise1 of applying revenues1 derived from the natives of this country to the support of religious worship among ,christian settlers1 he said1 the anomaly ought not to be applied to that one subject alone3 it commenced in our taking upon us to govern the country at all4 ,a people of strange tongue1 and customs every way foreign to theirs1 come1 and sit down among the ,hindoos1 and make them pay for administering laws1 to which they had been unused1 and introduce usages abhorrent to their modes of thinking4 ,now1 if we can do this in one respect1 why not in another8 ,and if in mere political and prudential matters1 for their good1 as we say1 why not in respect to religion1 which we hold to be the greatest of all good80 ,it will be seen that the same important subject had been adverted to1 in a letter1 which in the prospect of the renewal of the ,east ,india ,company's charter1 the ,archdeacon had recently addressed ,,to ,,the ,,archbishop ,,of ,,canterbury4 8,there are some circumstances in the state of ecclesiastical affairs here1 which it seems desirable your ,grace should be acquainted with before the renewal of the ,east ,india ,company's ,charter1 with a view to their being put into some way of order at least1 and settled by an acknowledged rule4 8#a4 ,it is not distinctly understood how the law of marriage stands in this country4 ,it is acknowledged that the marriage acts have not had1 and have not now1 any force in this country2 but ,bishop ,middleton held that this ,see1 being attached to the ,province of ,canterbury by ,act of ,parliament or the ,letters ,patent1 has become subject to the ecclesiastical law of ,england1 which requires marriages to be celebrated by a ,clergyman1 and within ,canonical hours4 ,and this rule was generally adhered to till the late ,bishop consented to an order of ,government sanctioning marriages by public ,functionaries1 both civil and military2 and directing them to be registered by the ,registrar of the ,archdeaconry3 and thus matters stand at present4 ,some of our first lawyers say1 that marriage by a layman is to all purposes good2 others say1 only to some purposes2 that it binds the parties1 but confers no right of dower on the widow1 or of inheritance on the offspring4 ,it is of great importance that some declaration on the subject1 by authority1 should be set forth4 ,i know that a good deal of anxiety is at times experienced by some who have been married by laymen2 and several sons of men of rank and property are among the servants of this ,government1 who may eventually be deeply affected1 should any irregularity be discovered in the present system4 ,up to ,march #ahbh1 the ,chaplains were on all occasions applied to1 to celebrate marriages1 and they had often long journeys to make for this purpose2 but now1 unless they be near at hand1 many do not care to send for them1 whilst the sanction of the ,government makes no difference whatever in the law of the case4 ,an easy remedy would be1 the keeping the number of ,chaplains always full1 taking measures that ,chaplains retiring should be obliged to an early determination on the point soon after their return to ,england1 and not1 as at present1 be allowed to linger on for years1 keeping their places unsupplied4 ,an increase of ,chaplains is1 ,i fear1 out of the question2 yet would it not be1 if but a common regard for the credit of our religion and the religious welfare of ,christian subjects existed where it should4 ,in many of the districts of this ,presidency1 especially in those most favourable to the growth of indigo and sugar1 and in some degree in all of them1 many ,christian settlers have fixed themselves4 ,a ,district1 your ,grace will know1 is as large as an ,english county2 and if a ,chaplain were appointed at the chief station1 where most of the servants of ,government reside1 and where there are generally from five to fifteen families1 they would be at hand to celebrate ,christian rites in the ,district2 and on ,festivals1 part of the ,christians resident in the ,district would resort for divine service to the head station4 ,if want of funds prevented such appointments1 the necessity must be patiently submitted to1 but from the ground-rent of the whole country1 surely the ,east ,india ,company ought to make some reserve for religious purposes beyond the mere wants of the military4 ,but this is connected with another point to which ,i would now entreat your ,grace's attention4 8#b4 ,hitherto it was thought here1 that only the fewness of the ,christian portion of the inhabitants prevented appropriations being made from the resources of ,government for their religious instruction3 but it is now answered1 that ,christians have no claim on ,government for religious instruction1 and that in fact it would not be right to appropriate revenue derived from the natives of this country1 to the supplying of ,chaplains to ,christian settlers4 ,now the settler1 properly speaking1 7i4 e4 persons whose birth-place is in ,britain1 and who are still looking to ,britain as a home17 are few in number4 ,there are not above #ajjj of that description beyond the boundaries of ,calcutta1 and not half a dozen of them in any one place4 ,they are scattered over the face of the country4 ,but if by settlers your ,grace understand descendants of ,europeans born in this country1 and of which class many of the ,indigo-planters1 scattered up and down the country1 are1 and include in them descendants of private soldiers by native mothers1 and children of all descriptions of ,british1 and who have been increasing for more than #ajj years1 it will1 ,i think1 appear that the term is not applicable to them4 ,they are1 to all intents1 native-born subjects of this ,government1 the offspring of the soil4 ,of this class there are in ,calcutta not fewer than #djjj2 and at all the principal stations of the army1 and in every place where ,europeans have been stationed1 they are to be found from #cj to #cjj at each4 ,i have placed the subject in this light that your ,grace may be aware of the true state of the class ,i have in view4 8,it is said that ,european settlers have no claim on this ,government for a religious establishment4 ,i will not stay to argue that point2 but then1 ,i maintain1 that these ,indo-,britons are native-born subjects of the ,british ,indian ,government1 and1 therefore1 have a claim on a ,government not only ,christian1 but proprietors of the land3 in fact both king and landlord4 ,it has been officially announced that schools in which the children of ,europeans 7i4 e4 perhaps removed six generations from the ,european stock17 are taught together with ,hindoos and ,mahomedans1 have no claim on the funds appropriated to native education4 ,shall we then apply to the ,british ,parliament for an annual grant1 as for ,canada8 ,the main object then is to procure from the proper quarter an acknowledgment of the duty of applying some part of the revenue of this country to the education and religious instruction of native ,christians1 in their proportions1 as to that of ,hindoos and ,mahomedans4 8,it is only lately it has become known here that the ,east ,india ,company's ,charter is to be renewed in the next session of ,parliament1 which must plead my excuse for this intrusion40 ,it was about this time that ,archdeacon ,corrie supplied the place of the ,government chaplain at ,barrackpore1 in the absence of the ,rev4 ,h4 ,fisher1 who had proceeded up the country4 ,except in that particular1 there occurred but little variety in the occupations of the ,archdeacon4 ,his letters1 however1 mention his desire for the arrival of the ,bishop4 ,thus in writing to his brother he observes3-- 8,i am by no means at ease in my appointment1 from the increasing ill-will of people who neither do any thing to purpose themselves1 nor will let those alone who are doing what they can4 ,and if ,i add1 that we have at this time the hottest weather ,i have ever experienced in ,bengal1 having no cessation day or night1 for nearly a week past1 and no immediate prospect of change--the catalogue of ill may seem complete4 ,but1 ,o6 no ill have ,i experienced1 compared with the least ,i every day deserve2 and much of mercy remains to mingle in the cup4 ,the departure of my beloved father from ,colsterworth1 seemed much to weaken my tie to ,england1 his death still more4 ,this country may now become my home for the remainder of my pilgrimage4 ,my strength is wonderfully renewed1 yet ,i cannot conceive of any in ,england1 not positively ill1 experiencing the lassitude ,i am seldom free from4 ,yet the younger sons of the best ,english families1 are coming out in this service in crowds1 and even the heirs apparent to titles2 such we are told is the difficulty of providing in any creditable way1 for the sons of the gentry40 ,the ,archdeacon adds3-- 8,i know not whether you have time to read ,reviews4 ,i think they are1 as far as the facts detailed can be relied on1 the history of ,providence1 and the last article#adg in the ,quarterly for ,april1 seems on true grounds to forebode much distress to ,britain4 ,this also falls in1 ,i think1 with the prophetic intimations respecting these times4 ,i see no ground whatever1 for the doctrines of a #8,personal ,reign1' or a first literal resurrection1 but ,i do think with ,scott1 that the witnesses are about to be slain4 ,mr4 ,faber's idea of trouble at hand1 seems just in agreement2 though ,i have no idea of two ,churches being represented by the #8witnesses4' ,there can be but one true ,church2 but whether it be the witnesses continuing to prophecy in sackcloth1 still1 the result is likely to be the same2 and ,england now in league with the ,apostacy1#adh must not expect to escape the plagues1 under which it shall utterly perish4 ,babylon is already fallen in the purpose of ,god1 and unless ,england purge away the leaven that has crept into her1 with ,babylon must be her end40 ,about the middle of ,november #ahbi1 the ,archdeacon was released from much anxiety1 and depression of spirits1 by the return to ,india of ,mrs4 ,corrie4 ,in announcing her safe arrival1 he writes ,,to ,,his ,,brother4 8,nov4 #cj1 #ahbi4 8,to me the mercy is beyond expression4 ,you can never know the depression of a separation such as ,i have experienced4 ,death alone could have rendered it more hopeless1 but scarcely less painful3 but thanks be to ,god it is over1 and if it be ,his will1 may no such trial befal me again6 ,our anxieties are now about our children4 ,they seem placed in most desirable circumstances3 may the blessing of ,god but attend the instructions they receive6 ,whilst we cannot but desire that they should acquire useful knowledge1 and not be altogether without the knowledge of the usual manners of their class in life1 our hearts' chief prayer and desire of ,god for them is1 that they may become wise unto salvation4' 444 ,how precious that promise1 #8,i will be thy ,god1 and the ,god of thy seed6' ,but for this what could we do for them at this distance8 ,but our ,god heareth prayer2 ,he remembereth his #8covenant to a thousand generations4' ,in reading ,deuteronomy1 the expression1 #8that it may be well with thee and thy seed after thee1' supplies both a stimulus to duty and an encouragement4 ,whilst we are about our ,lord's work here1 ,he will be merciful and gracious to our children40 ,it was now that there occurred an event of great moral and political importance to ,india4 ,all the ,missionaries in ,calcutta and neighbourhood1 had some months ago presented a memorial to ,lord ,william ,bentinck1 respecting the cruel practice of widow-burning2 and ,government had been in the habit of discouraging that revolting superstition without venturing directly to prohibit it4 ,but1 after satisfying themselves of the feelings of the ,native army and ,native community1 the ,governor ,general in ,council1 took the decisive step of adopting a ,regulation on the #dth of ,december1 to the effect of declaring 8the habit of ,suttee1 or burning or burying alive the widows of ,hindoos1 illegal and punishable by the ,criminal ,courts40 ,soon after the date of this ,regulation1 ,bishop ,turner1 7who had been consecrated in the preceding ,may17 arrived in ,calcutta4 ,the ,archdeacon having mentioned in a letter to his brother1 that the ,bishop preached in the ,cathedral for the first time on ,sunday1 #acth ,december1 observes 8,bishop ,turner seems to come in a spirit of ,christian conciliation4 ,i will not say much lest ,i should be disappointed4 ,he is1 however1 liked1 and will be popular in all probability40 ,then after having stated how much the account which ,mrs4 ,corrie had given of his relatives in ,england1 had 8rekindled in him a desire to be again among them10 the ,archdeacon adds1 8,i am however thought1 ,i find1 a party man in ,church politics1 and it may be so in part1 but how far it is right or not you cannot tell4 ,i have said to ,h4 that it is an easy matter for you at home to cast your guinea into the treasury of this or that ,society1 in the hope that good will arise from it2 but the application of your bounty1 is a more difficult operation4 ,whether ,jesus ,christ shall be set forth in the glory of ,his grace before the ,gentiles1 or shall be made a mere #8,master of the ceremonies1' as ,hervey#adi expresses it1 to introduce to the ,divine presence human merit1 is no indifferent question4 ,and here we have to decide upon that question1 in the application of ,english liberality4 ,but indeed1 brother1 ,i try to watch over myself in this respect also2 and if ,i had opportunity1 could cooperate with even a ,papist1 in the conversion of the heathen4 ,i do think1 however1 that what ,i have done has effected good40 ,then with reference to the late ,government ,regulation he observes1 8,if ,i should say nothing about the abolition of ,suttee1 you would think it strange4 ,great honour has the ,government gained in this matter4 ,addresses of congratulation to ,lord ,w4 ,b41 from the ,european ,society1 and from the ,hindoo also1 and ,mahomedan classes1 are getting signed by numbers40 ,to his ,sister1 also1 the ,archdeacon writes 8,dec4 #ag1 #ahbi4 8,the glorious abolition of ,suttee1 will distinguish the present ,government1 when the discontent arising from retrenchment will be forgotten40 ,then with regard to the expected renewal of the charter of the ,east ,india ,company1 he adds 8,the more general admission of ,europeans into this country seems determined upon2 which will help forward the progress of ,christianity1 in its remote consequences2 but will probably ruin many in a temporal point of view4 ,from all ,i can learn1 commerce is a losing concern to the merchant generally4 ,the mere agent1 of course1 deducts his commission from the scanty produce1 and thrives4 ,but what is all this to you1 ,i begin to think1 although1 indeed1 in its consequences1 it may extend even to ,morcott4 ,a few years1 ,i have heard some experienced men say1 is likely to produce a general crash2 and then our dividends and pensions may be put in jeopardy3 so that mere selfishness might make one alive to national affairs2 whilst to the ,christian they supply matter for much prayer and solicitude before ,god4 ,my favourite theme1 inspiration and song1 is much involved in all this progress of things4 ,it may be that in time of adversity men may consider how much their all depends on ,god1 and may become more careful of missionary work1 which is so peculiarly ,his own4 ,we have had days of ease and outward prosperity1 and little heart has been found1 and little of a right spirit1 even in those who favour the righteous cause40 ,of the new ,bishop of ,calcutta1 the ,archdeacon observes-- 8,he promises to be everything desirable in his station1 and you will be glad to hear that he approves of all my public acts4 ,i have shewn him1 also1 a letter which ,i wrote to the ,archbishop of ,canterbury1 all of which he approves and said1 that he had nothing to do but to follow up the views there stated40 ,within a month of the date of this letter1 one of those failures in the mercantile world occurred1 which some 8experienced men0 had anticipated4 ,the ,archdeacon1 writing 8of general news10 observes ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,calcutta1 ,jan4 #h4 #ahbi4 8,the failure of ,palmer's house has created the most extensive ruin for a long time experienced4 ,three millions are said to be the extent of the debts3 they promise to pay half1 but it does not seem to be expected4 ,this1 with the forgeries you have heard of1 amounting1 ,i am told1 to twenty-two ,lacs1 have given a lesson of the uncertainty of riches such as perhaps never occurred1 at one time1 in any single community before4 ,it is impossible to enumerate the losses sustained by individuals4 ,some reduced from wealth to nothing2 others from a pittance to beggary4 ,truly #8riches make to themselves wings and fly away1' but this will make no one1 it is to be feared1 less eager in the pursuit of them40 ,after relating some private matters connected with the state of society in ,calcutta1 the ,archdeacon proceeds 8,the ,bishop held his first ,visitation last ,wednesday1 the #fth inst4 ,he had appointed me to preach1 and afterwards ,i was requested by the ,bishop and ,clergy to publish the ,sermon4 ,the ,bishop told me privately that it was the thing of all others1 he should wish to send to ,england at this time4 ,i feel grateful for the acceptance1 whilst ,i cannot but feel1 that time and circumstances1 and not the merits of the ,sermon1 call it forth4#aej444 ,the ,bishop seems bent on conciliation1 with more decision than his predecessor4444 ,he has become ,patron of the ,calcutta ,bible ,society1 ,president of the ,church ,missionary ,society1 and is to preside this evening at a public meeting of the ,bible ,association in the ,town ,hall4 ,he has attended the examination of schools1 at ,mirzapore1 ,mrs4 ,wilson's school1 the ,female ,orphan ,asylum1 and other ,institutions4 8,jan4 #afth4 ,among the sudden changes which occur here frequently1 not the least unexpected1 is the severe illness of the ,bishop's ,chaplain1 and the necessity1 as the doctors affirm1 of his return to ,europe4 ,in consequence1 the ,bishop requested as a personal kindness1 that we would take up our abode with him4 ,after two days deliberation1 we have agreed to do so1 not without much apprehension on my part4 ,to keep a conscience void of offence1 both towards ,god and man1 will1 ,i fear1 not be easy2 but many advantages may arise from the arrangement1 if we can but keep the even path of duty4 ,the ,bishop may be rendered more happy in his work2 and social prayer1 which were he alone must be omitted1 will also help to keep up in him1 as well as in us1 proper feelings as well as right views4 ,i shall benefit by his conversation1 and learn somewhat of the altered state of society in ,england1 as all ,i hear leads me to conclude4 ,our mutual official duties may be more readily effected1 and the plans of the various ,societies carried forward40 ,the following notice of passing events1 as given in the same letter1 may not be without interest3-- 8,you would be delighted to see how crowded the ,old ,church now is4 ,yesterday the ,bishop preached there4 ,the city is now divided into parishes1 and each is to have its own vestry1 and care of its own poor4 ,yesterday a sermon was preached1 and #agec ,rs4 collected for the poor of the ,old ,church district4444 ,the ,bishop has confirmed #cag persons1 which1 considering that a confirmation was held in ,june1 #ahbh1 shews a rapid increase of population40 ,on the #ahth of ,february #ahcj1 the ,archdeacon and his wife went to reside at the palace as the ,bishop's inmates2 and the following memorandum1 which occurs under that date1 in his private ,journal1 does but reiterate the sentiments contained in the preceding letter3-- 8,we have to-day entered on a new course1 by taking up our abode with the ,bishop1 on his invitation4 ,it has been the subject of much anxiety with us1 and of prayer4 ,the reasons which determined us to this step are these3--#ast4 ,the ,bishop's kind invitation3--,his loneliness from the departure of ,mr4 ,carter2 and the hope that our being here1 may help to keep up the habits of domestic religion to which he had for some time been accustomed4 #bnd4 ,on our own part1 the desire to benefit by his conversation and extensive acquirements2 and to be workers together in the progress of improvement1 both in and out of the ,established ,church1 especially in the work of missions4 #crd4 ,as it respects our usefulness in society1 we shall be prevented shewing hospitality to the same extent as formerly2 and if it should prevent any of our young friends1 who are aiming at improvement in personal piety1 from visiting us1 the change will be unfavourable2 but it will1 also1 cut us off from much unprofitable visiting and expence1 to which1 of late years1 we have been much exposed1 and by which ,i have been much tried4 #dth4 ,we shall be much more under restraint than in our own separate dwelling2 but shall at the same time see more of each other1 and for this we have been sighing for years past4 ,o that we may but be enabled to improve the opportunities afforded1 to our mutual growth in every gift1 and especially in the love of the ,saviour1 as well as those things which make for our everlasting peace6 ,for this we are insufficient of ourselves4 ,may the grace of ,christ rest upon us1 and then shall we prosper60 ,during the year #ahbi an edition of the ,book of ,common ,prayer in ,hindoostanee having been printed by the ,calcutta ,corresponding ,committee of the ,prayer-,book and ,homily ,society1 under the superintendence of ,archdeacon ,corrie1 he forwarded a copy of that important work to ,england1 for the purpose of having it presented to the public library in ,cambridge4 ,his reason for doing this is thus stated in a letter1 of ,march #e1 #ahcj1 ,,to ,,his ,,brother4 8,i have been led to do this from our ,bishop taking the trouble to send a copy to the ,bodleian ,library at ,oxford4 ,if it be worthy of a place in the one1 as the ,bishop thinks1 it may be equally so of a place at ,cambridge40 ,the history of a work by means of which the ,services of the ,church of ,england were first made accessible to the ,native christians of ,hindoostan1 may not here be omitted1 especially as that history has been supplied by the ,archdeacon himself4 ,to the ,secretary of the ,calcutta ,corresponding ,committee of the ,prayer-,book and ,homily ,society1 he writes 8,when ,i began this edition of the ,book of ,common ,prayer in ,hindoostanee1#aea it was at first intended to have altered very little from the ,compendium1 printed by the ,prayer ,book and ,homily ,society in ,london1 but a near adherence to that model was soon found impracticable4 ,i will here state1 that the above ,compendium1 which is usually ascribed to the late ,rev4 ,h4 ,martyn1 was the fruit of my own labour fifteen years ago1 and that with very inadequate help4 ,it seems but due to that eminent scholar1 that ,i should publicly avow this1 as his translation of the ,new ,testament1 shows how inferior the ,compendium of the ,prayer ,book is to his style1 and how altogether unworthy of his fame4 ,the ,compendium however1 has answered an important purpose2 the want of something of the kind was so much felt by many native christians1 that it was eagerly adopted by them1 and its imperfections even have gained currency among them4 8,it was at first intended1 also to have printed a small portion only of the new edition1 with a view to collect the opinions of competent persons1 respecting the execution2 but the difficulty of obtaining such opinions1 from the complete occupation of the time of every public ,functionary in his official duties1 is well known2 and the delay that must inevitably arise on that plan1 to the accomplishment of a work much needed1 seemed to urge the necessity of making the most of present time1 and of using the assistance providentially supplied1 whilst it could be had4 ,on this account the whole of the ,book of ,common ,prayer1 including every part of the ,rubric and ,articles of ,religion1 has been printed4 ,the ,state ,prayers1 as they are usually called1 are not included1 nor the ,psalms3 the latter1 are printed separately by the ,auxiliary ,bible ,society1 and can be supplied in that form to congregations prepared to use them4 ,after the translation was finished1 the native assistants were necessarily retained1 till the work should be carried through the ,press3 this afforded opportunity for translating the ,ordination ,services also1 and #ajj copies were printed4 ,of the whole ,book three hundred copies have been printed2 and to #ajj copies of these are added the ,ordination ,services4 ,these1 it may be said1 are not likely soon to be brought into use1 but that seems no reason why the mode adopted by our ,church1 in these services1 and the scriptural sentiments they breathe1 should not be laid open to the natives of this country4 ,besides these complete copies1 #ajjj copies of the ,psalter have been printed for more general distribution4 ,owing to my absence from ,calcutta1 more of the ,occasional ,offices were added than is usual in such a ,compendium2 but though a little more expence has thus been incurred1 the work is more valuable4 ,one thousand copies1 also1 of the ,morning and ,evening ,prayers and ,litany1 with the occasional ,prayers and ,thanksgivings1 have been printed in ,nagree1 for the benefit of ,christians who use only that character4 8,it seems necessary to state1 that some ,english terms have been retained1 an explanation of them being given in parenthesis1 where they are first used4 ,on this point there will probably be a difference of opinion1 but as the ,english terms are familiar to ,native ,christians connected with the ,british2 and the words1 ,sacrament1 ,baptism1 and such like1 derived from the ,latin ,scriptures1 are used by the numerous ,roman ,catholic ,christians of this country1 the retaining of them in the ,prayer ,book1 is at least useful to these classes1 whilst it is obvious1 that the words1 ,lent1 ,whit-sunday1 and some others1 do not at all explain the events they are used to distinguish1 and a word common to several classes of christians1 and to which they all attach the same meaning1 may as well be used as any other1 whilst it tends to unite them by a common phraseology4 8,the assistance ,i have received from a person brought up in the country1 and well versed in the writers1 both in ,persian and ,hindoostanee1 most esteemed by learned natives1 allows me to hope that the translation1 generally1 is likely to bear the test of candid criticism4 ,the chief objection which ,i anticipate1 arises from the difficulty of clothing many ideas peculiarly ,christian1 in popular language4 ,the natives of this country1 at the same time1 generally have the ideas themselves to acquire1 and the christian teacher may therefore as readily explain the meaning of an appropriate term1 as1 by using circumlocutions1 lower the standard of the language and keep his people in a low state of mental cultivation4 ,i will only add that often the attaching a shade of difference to the meaning of a word1 would lead to a conclusion unfavourable to the translator1 without cause3 ,i am at the same time aware1 that improvements may be made in the work1 and hope1 if life and opportunity be vouchsafed1 to bring forth hereafter a more perfect edition40 ,in the same letter to his brother1 which is referred to above1 the ,archdeacon states 8,our affairs here go on in one uniform course of public grumbling1 and private discontent4 ,all who are touched by the retrenchments of ,government1 think they have cause to complain1 and the army are certainly hardly used4 ,but ,i try to have little to say in these matters4 ,missionary matters and education1 supply sufficient employment without going into politics4 ,we would fain make faster progress1 but sickness1 and obstacles arising from climate1 hinder us2 and we must be content to follow the course of ,providence1 and not to force it4 8,you will have heard through ,sherer1 that we have become part of the ,bishop's household4 ,i find his conversation very improving3 he is naturally cheerful1 and our intercourse is easy and agreeable4 ,a part of his plan is to constitute his ,archdeacons1 his commissaries1 and to delegate to them the details of the respective ,archdeaconries4 ,i continue1 therefore1 a ,bishop in partibus still1 and having such opportunities of reference to the ,bishop on all occasions1 ,i am not likely to commit the interests of the church4 ,the only point on which ,i differ from the ,bishop1 is on the policy of allowing ,missionaries to engage in ,english duties4 ,this is a far easier employment1 than proper missionary work1 and it is1 moreover1 a misapplication of ,missionary funds4 ,it will also prevent1 ,i fear1 the ,east ,india ,company1 from contributing as they ought1 to the support of a ministry for their christian subjects4 8,i scarcely know what part of our history here will most interest you4 ,the abolition of ,suttee will no doubt be heard of all over ,europe4 ,the last year presented a return of #hjj widows1 and upward1 consigned to the fire in this presidency4 ,of these upwards of #fjj took place in ,bengal2 so that in this one province the strength of the practice lay4 ,a considerable sensation has therefore been felt in ,calcutta1 but no where else4 ,at ,benares1 ,suttees have been even prevented1 and the poor widow 7glad no doubt7 retired quietly home1 saying1 ,such was her fate4 ,what has been said against the abolition in ,calcutta1 has been chiefly by some of the most wealthy4 ,they are not1 however1 united2 arguments pro and con are discussed among themselves1 with great freedom1 and no little acrimony1 and they exhibit the spectacle of a family divided against itself4 ,i wish you were more of a politician4 ,we require on the renewal of the ,east ,india ,company's charter1 that some further expression of public opinion should be shown1 on the subject of christian education4 ,years ago1 ,mr4 ,wilberforce obtained that #ajj1jjj rupees should be appropriated towards the moral improvement of this people by education4 ,the said sum is indeed appropriated1 but it is to ,mahomedan and ,hindoo learning1 such as it is3 now what is required is1 that ,christian education should also have a share of the public support40 ,the following letter to ,mr4 ,sherer1 about the same date1 supplies some interesting particulars connected with the state of society in ,calcutta4 8,we have been now nearly a month in the ,bishop's house4 ,our mode of life is as follows3 prayers at eight o'clock1 when the bishop sometimes expounds2 and again1 also1 at half past nine o'clock in the evening4 ,we breakfast after prayers2 have tiffin#aeb at two o'clock1 dinner at half past six or seven4 ,one evening1 7,friday7 any person who is not afraid of the ,bible1 is welcome to come in at eight o'clock1 and after tea the ,bishop reads and expounds1 and dismisses us with prayer4 ,in the season of ,lent1 the ,bishop catechizes in the ,cathedral1 on ,wednesday mornings1 and preaches in the evening on ,fridays4 ,he is frequently at the ,thursday evening lecture4 ,he visited lately with me at ,burdwan1 and takes a lively interest in ,missions2 preaches in ,bishop's ,college ,chapel1 on ,sunday evenings1 to the few students and others1 and enters much into the affairs of that institution4 ,a ,chapel is commenced at the free school1 and a ,mariner's ,church at the custom-house is preparing1 and the building of a ,church at ,howrah is in progress4 ,a form of an association for the better observance of the ,lord's day has been drawn up by the ,bishop1 and sent to the ,chaplains1 and all the dissenting ,ministers2 and yesterday1 sermons were preached in all the ,churches and ,chapels here1 on the duty of sanctifying the ,sabbath4 ,from these particulars1 you will judge what spirit he is of4 ,in our habitual intercourse he is cheerful1 communicative1 and instructive2 and hitherto1 all has gone on very happily1 with every promise of continuing to do so4 ,among the changes the ,bishop has brought about is1 the establishment of charitable committees connected with each church4 ,they have been in operation above a month1 and promise much good1 both from the prevention of imposition1 and the right appropriation of charity4 8,the ,hindoo ,college is working faster than its present supporters wish4 ,the youths are growing up free-thinkers2 and lately1 some of them partook of a feast with one of the infidel christian teachers4 ,the thing got wind1 and the parents 7one a ,brahmin7 became alarmed4 ,an inquiry was set on foot1 and the thing hushed up1 but a strict injunction issued1 that religion in any shape should not be mentioned to the pupils4 ,it has occurred to me that these high and rich ,hindoos1 may soon find themselves obliged to urge the ,government to pass a regulation1 that loss of caste may not deprive individuals of property4 ,a pro-suttee party is set on foot4 ,radah ,cant ,deb and others being members4 ,they call themselves the ,dhurm ,soubah 7which1 as you have been so so long away1 ,i may translate for you7 8the righteous association20 but they have already fallen out about a treasurer3 and strong recriminations are published1 which promise little co-operation among them4 8,o how greatly do we need steady good men at ,mirzapore4 ,the situation of the mission-premises is becoming more and more important4 ,all the modern reformed ,hindoos reside in that quarter2 and a man of fair attainments and attractive character placed there1 might become a mighty instrument of good4 ,well3 no doubt the right person will be forthcoming in the right time40 ,as explanatory of the labours of ,bishop ,turner1 mentioned above1 it may not be out of place to state1 that of late years ,european paupers had increased to such an extent in ,calcutta1 that not only had the charitable funds in the hands of the ,select ,vestry at the ,cathedral1 become inadequate to meet the exigencies of the distressed1 but frauds had been practised with such facility on the charitable part of the community1 that it became necessary to provide for the fuller investigation of the cases of applicants for relief4 ,to remedy these evils a 8,charitable ,society0 was formed at the suggestion of the ,bishop1 which was carried on by a ,central ,committee of ,superintendance aided by subordinate ,committees1 corresponding in number with the ecclesiastical districts into which ,calcutta was divided4 ,it will be seen1 also1 by the following memorandum1 dated ,april #aj1 #ahcj1 that the ,archdeacon1 for his part1 had not been unmindful of the necessity of labouring for the public good1 though his success seems to have fallen short of his wishes4 8,in reviewing the past year1 much cause1 both for humiliation and for gratitude appears4 ,in my own experience1 a sense of defect and failure cannot but be felt4 ,i can see nothing accomplished either in a public or private view4 ,nothing have ,i attained but to know more deeply that ,i am nothing1 and must be indebted wholly to grace3 yea1 to grace pardoning grievous despite1 leaping over opposition1 and #8carrying off the prey1' without corresponding effort on my part to fall in with grace4 ,in public ,i attempted to establish a school for the country-born4 ,the scheme was too large2 and1 in yielding this point to ,n----1 my own folly appears4 ,i failed also with ,howrah1 through the opposition of unreasonable men4 ,but both these objects are likely to be attained by the ,bishop3 and in this #8,i rejoice4' ,let good but be effected1 and #8,i will rejoice4' ,other schemes ,i had in mind for the furtherance and establishment of the gospel1 which are approved by the ,bishop2 especially the plan of endowments1 in which ,i hope something may be accomplished4 ,i have been much tried in respect of ,mirzapore4 ,expectations from the school baffled and likely to fail1 from the failure 7for so it is in fact7 of ,r4 ,missionary prospects much clouded1 from the lack of instruments4 ,yet doubtless the working is advancing1 and the gospel is spreading4 ,these are matters of much thought with me4444 ,if ,i could1 with propriety1 withdraw to a quiet missionary station1 my mind would have what at all times seems best for it2 but to withdraw from a post to which ,i have been called1 without a clear dispensation leading to it1 would embitter such a plan4 ,i see nothing for it1 but patiently to abide in my present situation1 and to wait till affairs indicate what ,i ought to do4 ,may ,i only be preserved from giving offence in my public or private capacity2 and may ,i have grace to improve opportunities of working in the service of the gospel60 ,but notwithstanding this somewhat dispirited view of the results of his labours1 the hopes of the ,archdeacon respecting the establishing of a school for the country-born1 seemed about to be realized so soon as that important project was taken in hand by the ,bishop4 ,in a letter which the ,archdeacon wrote on the #bcrd of ,april #ahcj1 he observes ,,to ,,his ,,brother4 8,i wrote to you some time since respecting a project for a school in this city4 ,we are still busy about it1 and not without hopes of succeeding in establishing it4 ,great obstacles1 however1 occur4 ,our ,government just now is too much on the ,utilitarian system2 which seems to mean1 #8,that every one must do the best he can for himself1 seeing that no aid is to be afforded4' ,one thing this will work1 which for this country will prove beneficial1 whatever it may prove to ,old ,england--it will render this country independent of ,england4 ,it is well1 certainly1 that the resources of this country1 both individual and general1 should be called forth1 and with a little forbearing care1 they might for ages be auxiliary to the mother-country2 but by refusing present aid1 unkind feelings are called forth1 and where no obligation is conferred on the one hand1 no gratitude is felt on the other40 ,the letter in which the preceding observations are contained1 was not finished until the #aath of ,may1 under which date the ,archdeacon adds3-- 8,nothing further has occurred here worth remarking1 except that a master has unexpectedly turned up for the ,grammar-,school4 ,pray do you ever think of ,india in a political point of view8 ,how the charter is constituted1 or whether it can be altered for the better8 ,we seem to want some attention from home2 and ,i would fain hope we shall get it now the charter is again to be discussed4 ,we are under the regulations of the ,government as to abode4 ,if one would establish a school1 or promote education in any way1 we are liable to be banished to ,england1 if ,government should not happen to like our project2 and1 if it does1 we must ask leave to pay the expences out of our own pockets1 for not a ,rupee will ,government give3 and yet in this presidency alone1 seven millions sterling are drawn annually from the land1 and as much more from monopolies of salt1 and opium1 and from certain duties6 ,is none of this to be laid out otherwise than to promote increased dividends in ,leadenhall ,street80 ,an able head-master having thus been obtained in the person of the ,rev4 ,j4 ,macqueen1 it was determined on the #dth of ,june #ahcj1 to establish the 8,calcutta ,high ,school10 on a plan arranged by ,bishop ,turner4 ,to provide for the educational department1 it was proposed to raise a sum of money by transferable shares1 which were to bear interest arising from dividends of profits2 the shares to be paid by instalments1 and the proceeds to be vested in the names of certain ,trustees4 ,a ,committee of management and visitors was appointed1 and such regulations agreed upon as were calculated to give efficiency and stability to the school4 ,but that at which the ,archdeacon chiefly aimed was1 if possible to obtain from ,government1 or the benevolence of individuals1 an endowment for the ,school4 ,but the little prospect there was of assistance from the former source will be collected from a letter written by the ,archdeacon ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,june #ag1 #ahcj4 8,our increased acquaintance with the ,bishop renders us more at home with him1 and we see more to admire in him4 ,he is by far best suited for this appointment of any who have occupied it4 ,with more practical knowledge of men1 and of parochial matters than any of them1 he has large views of usefulness2 and1 with perfect propriety of language1 states them to ,government4 ,had we a man who had any fixed views of ,government at the head of affairs1 something effectual might be accomplished for the religious welfare of ,india1 but when ---- is on one hand1 and ---- on the other1 of ,government1 what can be expected but fancies and crudities8 ,and such seem most of the public acts at present4 8,i may mention to you that in a ,report on ,ecclesiastical affairs lately made up by the ,finance ,committee1 the employment of missionaries generally1 without regard to class1 and ,roman ,catholic priests1 was recommended1 to prevent increase of chaplains2 and the principle broadly affirmed1 that ,government is not bound to supply the means of grace to any besides the ,european troops1 to which the charter binds them4 ,this gave opportunity to state other views and principles1 which must have surprised certain persons not a little4 ,you need not be surprised1 should you hear of the ,bishop's arrival in ,england a few months hence2 as it is quite evident1 that should the ,home ,government depend on the information derived from this quarter1 nothing will be done for us in an ecclesiastical point of view2 and twenty more years of this miserable system will be perpetrated1 which can only end in confusion almost irremediable40 #adf ,chief ,justice4 #adg 8,on the state and prospects of the country40 #adh ,the allusion is to that legislative alliance with ,popery which marked the year #ahbi4 #adi ,theron and ,aspasio1 ,dialog4 vii4 #aej ,the text selected on this occasion was #b ,cor4 iv4 #e2 the purpose of the preacher was to shew #ast1 8,what is the subject-matter of a faithful minister's teaching20 and #bnd1 what 8,his object and aim in his labours40 #aea ,the edition of #ahbi4 #aeb ,luncheon4 ,,chapter ,,xviii4 ,,disquietude ,,concerning ,,the ,,anglo-,,hindoo ,,college--,,death ,,of ,,bishop ,,turner4 ,on the #bjth of ,june1 #ahcj1 ,archdeacon ,corrie left ,calcutta in company with the ,bishop1 with a view to attend that ,prelate in a visitation of the ,upper ,provinces4 ,they proceeded1 however1 only as far as ,chunar1 circumstances having decided the ,bishop to defer his ,visitation of ,delhi and the intermediate ,stations4 ,the ,bishop and ,archdeacon1 therefore1 returned to the ,presidency by the latter end of ,september4 ,one result of this journey was1 to create a greater anxiety than ever in the mind of the ,archdeacon1 that in the contemplated renewal of the ,east ,india ,company's ,charter1 some more efficient provision should be made for the spiritual wants of ,india1 than had hitherto been the case4 ,on that important subject he writes1 ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,calcutta1 ,oct4 #f1 #ahcj4 8,the times are troublous both at home and abroad2 discontent is spread through every branch of this service1 in many cases unreasonably1 in many the privations actually inflicted cause much distress4 ,your political atmosphere seems very cloudy2--what may follow the death of ,george ,,iv4 we dare not conjecture4 ,it affects my mind especially1 with reference to the renewal of the ,east ,india ,company's charter4 #8,the ,lord reigneth1' might well serve on this head1 as on the affairs of ,england2 but ,i have no call to interfere in the latter1 whereas ,i must plead for ,india4 ,do1 beloved brother1 look about for aid in this matter2 affairs here in reference to religion are more and more pressing4 ,the young civilians are now sent out of ,calcutta soon after their arrival1 qualified or not1 so that at the small stations1 there are more than formerly4 ,you will remember that out-of-the-way place ,azimgurh3 there are five civilians1 three young officers1 and a doctor1 with the usual ,cranies3#aec such is the general increase at our ,stations4 ,now1 a ,chaplain at each of such stations1 is too much at present to expect1 but such a number as would admit of a ,chaplain from ,benares1 ,gazeepore1 or ,gorruckpore1 visiting the subordinate stations at stated intervals1 might and ought to be allowed4 ,instead of this1 it is recommended from this ,government1 to reduce the present number of ,chaplains to seven1 and to secure the occasional services of ,missionaries1 of any and every persuasion1 and to abolish the ,scotch establishment altogether4 ,our ,house of ,commons seems indeed at a low ebb4 ,from what a height of splendour1 in eloquence and lofty feelings at least1 is ,parliament fallen4 ,i look in vain for an advocate for poor ,india1 in all that passes1--at least as reported here4 ,perhaps a dissolution of ,parliament may bring to light some #8gem of purer ray2' though it is rather to be feared lest ,india be lost sight of amidst contending politics at home4 ,i can tell you in confidence1 that our ,bishop has represented to the powers here1 that by such a scheme of ,church arrangements as above1 ,government would recognise ,missions1 which they have never done2 have no control over the agents so authorised2 and that by a variety of procedure in those employed1 confusion probably would ensue4 ,whereas if they are serious in their attempts to extend sound knowledge1 by extending the ,church establishment1 and taking more pains than at present to secure fit persons1 they might provide a body of most efficient agents in forwarding the improvement of the country4 ,i need not tell you1 except to refresh your memory1 that were a ,clergyman of respectable character and attainments placed at ,krishnaghur1 and every other ,sudder#aed ,station1 the indigo-planters would in time avail themselves of his services1 by coming in with their families at the ,festivals1 or receiving occasional visits at their houses2 besides1 there might be a school under his own eye at home4 ,would not many of the planters be induced to establish a school each1 which the ,chaplain would occasionally visit1 c48 ,all this has been stated to the ,governor ,general1 who at the time is friendly1 but is hopeless as to the ,court of ,directors4 ,our ,bishop is of opinion that were the subject taken up judiciously at home1 by a person not suspected of party spirit2 and the ,bishop of ,london1 and ,archbishop1 who are both desirous of ,india's religious welfare1 were judiciously instructed how to proceed1 and fully and truly informed of the state of things here1--that the ,duke of ,portland1 for instance1 and many in high places would join in furthering an extension of ,church establishment1 along with other measures4 ,the subject taken up singly1 our ,bishop fears1 would not find sufficient patronage4 ,i have said all ,i can1 to urge our ,bishop to go home himself4 ,it would1 ,i know1 be a venturing of everything1 and myself1 perhaps1 durst not1 were ,i in his place1 make the venture1 yet circumstances seem to call for it4 8,a controversy has arisen on the subject of missionary exertions1 most unexpectedly4 ,the whole history is in point4 ,i will send it to you by ,captain ,j4 next week4 ,the missionary of the ,scotch ,general ,assembly1 and ,mr4 ,hill1 opened a ,lecture in a house in the square1 opposite to the ,hindoo ,college3 some of the youths attended2 the ,college council forbad them60 ,the history here referred to1 is too instructive to be omitted4 ,it appears that not only serious christians1 but the friends of morality and social order generally1 and many of the parents of the students in the ,hindoo ,college1 had become alarmed at observing1 that whilst the system of education pursued in the ,college was subverting the pupils' faith in ,hindooism1 it was substituting no other faith instead4 ,many of the students1 in fact1 were becoming sceptics1 others downright atheists4 ,to obviate1 if it might be1 the mischievous consequences likely to result from such an education as that1 it was determined to give the students an opportunity for becoming acquainted with the evidences of ,natural and ,revealed religion4 ,in order to this1 ,mr4 ,duff1 the ,missionary of the ,scotch church1 having offered the use of his rooms for the purpose1 ,mr4 ,james ,hill1 one of the ,missionaries of the ,london ,society1 began a course of lectures on the evidences of religion2 and many of the students of the ,hindoo ,college attended4 ,the subjects discussed were exclusively religious1 and were listened to with marked attention4 ,but no sooner did it reach the ears of the ,managers of the ,anglo-,indian ,college that these lectures were attended by some of the students1 than that attendance was prohibited by a public order2 as if ,christianity were the only religion that ought not to have a hearing4 ,it was stated at the time1 in excuse for such of the managers of the ,college as were ,europeans1 that they had signed the order of prohibition with a great degree of reluctance1 and only because some of the parents of the students had required the council to interfere2--but it was not easy to understand how the interdicting of those ,students from listening to ,christian missionaries1 could be distinguished from an act of religious persecution4 ,with regard to the principle on which the ,hindoo ,college was carried on1 it was stated by ,archdeacon ,corrie in a letter to ,mr4 ,sherer1 that at the first interview which the ,archdeacon had with ,lord ,william ,bentinck1 he was led to observe to his ,lordship that the ,college was breeding up a race of ,infidels and ,philosophers so called2 and that the first petition for a ,colonial council would probably come from thence4 ,the same subject forms a prominent portion of a letter1 in the following month1 ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,calcutta1 ,nov4 #d1 #ahcj4 8,i wish sometimes ,i could have an hour's conversation with you1 for ,i know not how to set about writing all you would like to hear4 ,ram ,mohun ,roy is a passenger in the ,albion4 ,it is said he is become a ,fakeer1 and does not lose caste by this proceeding4 ,he has not called on the present ,bishop4 ,the ,hindoo college is working the ruin of caste2 and1 unless better principles be insinuated1 the ruin of ,british interests4 ,miss ,b4 visited the college last week1 and examined one of the classes in history4 ,she asked about ,america1 and was informed very accurately of its form of government1 with high commendations of the limited power of the ,president2 and also of the office being elective4 ,on being asked if this had always been the condition of that country1 #8,it was answered1 8,that they were formerly a ,colony of ,england1 but that on being taxed excessively1 they had taken upon them the governing of themselves1 as10 said the youth1 8we shall one day do40 ,to the question1 of what religion were the ,americans8' ,it was answered1 #8,protestant christians generally1 and that ,unitarianism was making rapid progress among them4' ,mr4 ,duff1 the ,scotch ,missionary1 goes a good deal into the debating ,societies1 which these ,bengalees have established lately among themselves4 ,politics and religion are excluded from the subjects of discussion1 but when discoveries in science or government happen to come up2 ,france is eulogised unboundedly1 and ,america2 but ,england1 if referred to1 always depreciated4 ,thus our ,rulers are preparing a scourge for their own backs4444 ,i hope1 too1 the counteracting influence is at work4 ,mr4 ,duff has a school of upwards of #bjj1 in the ,chitpore road1 in the house where first the ,anglo-,hindoo ,college was held4 ,the ,methodist missionaries have established themselves in that street1 a little below the ,nietta ,bazaar1 and have a school of #aae ,portuguese boys1 and also some girls2 and are collecting a ,congregation of that class4 ,we have seventy boys at ,mirzapore2 and now a regular congregation of upwards of thirty ,christians4 ,mrs4 ,wilson goes on as usual2 and a school is1 ,i hope1 in a fair way of being permanently established on the ruins of the ,grammar ,school4 ,it is called the #8,high school1' and has ninety scholars1 country-born4 ,a very energetic master is at the head of it4 ,a ,mariners' ,church has been fitted up just behind ,fairlie and ,co's4 house in the ,strand4 ,the attendance of sailors has not yet been large1 but we hope the place is gaining attention40 ,soon after the date of the foregoing ,letter1 the ,archdeacon was attacked by fever1 which almost incapacitated him for attending to any public duty4 ,the transition1 from the hot to the cold season1 was this year so sudden as to cause great unhealthiness in ,calcutta4 ,the ,archdeacon complained1 in his correspondence1 of feeling great debility1 and an 8inefficiency arising from lengthened residence in that wasting climate40 ,it was during this sickness that the following memorandum was penned3-- 8,nov4 #ba1 #ahcj4 ,i have had much meditation of late on the inward witness of the ,spirit1 as a part of christian experience which few cultivate as they ought4 ,besides the acknowledging of the truth of ,god's word1 there must be an acquaintance with1 and belief of its contents2 and the experience of it as influencing our tempers and every action4 ,without this latter1 there can be no #8assuring of our hearts before him4' ,may ,i be enabled to realise this latter truth1 and persevere in seeking such realising views of ,god's mercy in ,christ1 as shall enable me to say1 #8,he loved me1 and gave ,himself for me6 ,with this witness ,i shall be enabled to pass on the few years that seem to remain1 with more courage1 decision1 and usefulness40 ,it was not till the middle of ,january #ahca1 that ,archdeacon ,corrie recovered some degree of health4 ,then it was that he writes1 ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,january #ae1 #ahca4 8,we are1 through ,god's goodness1 in our usual health again4 ,i had been ill since the beginning of ,november with a cold1 and for a time1 with fever4 ,the news from ,france#aee has given occasion to balls and dinners1 and speeches at the ,town-,hall here3--may excesses be prevented1 and may the liberty obtained for ,divine truth1 be used for extension through the whole continent of ,europe4 ,doubtless1 #8,the time of the end is coming1' but what its distinct features will be1 ,i think the ,scriptures do not define1 except as to the righteousness and peace that shall prevail4 ,here truth advances with slow steps1 but it is on the advance1 doubtless4444 ,missions are every where receiving additions to their converts1 though you know how little as yet the people can be said to be interested40 ,,to ,,the ,,same4 8,february #bd1 #ahca4 8,missionary work looks more encouraging than ,i have ever known it here4 ,the classes are adding to their numbers1 especially in the villages to the south and west of ,calcutta3 at a village called ,rass-poonjee twelve miles south east1 the ,church ,missionary ,society has a school4 ,i was there on ,monday last with our ,missionary ladies4 ,there are about fifty children1 and a new movement appears in sixteen adults formed into an exercising school to learn to read4 ,the school-house was filled with people1 who listened very seriously1 in several instances1 with marks of approbation3 whilst1 through a native ,christian who understands ,english1 ,i set before them the fall of man1 and the means of his restoration to ,god and happiness4 8,mrs4 ,c4 and ,i went to ,burdwar last week4444 ,we staid a week with the ,v's4 ,twenty-two of the ,european residents attended the communion on ,sunday4 ,among them your shipmate1 ,m4 ,s4 who is judge there4 ,a gratifying fact was established from considerable observation1--that not an individual educated in the ,mission-schools1 has been brought as a culprit before the magistrate there4 ,the ,d's have also #abj girls in four schools4 ,i was grieved to observe that amongst these favourable appearances there are few instances of conversion so deep as one could wish4 ,the natives see the temporal advantage of being under a sahib's protection1 and though sufferings connected with loss of caste are1 to a degree1 unavoidable1 other benefits accrue to them4 ,this is evidently favourable to the general diffusion of ,christian knowledge1 but we need greatly1 more of the ,holy ,spirit's grace4 ,this has set us on a union in prayer1 after the method proposed by ,mr4 ,brown in #ahjb4 ,i will send you soon some of the #8proceedings4' 8,a newspaper called #8,the ,reformer1' has been set on foot by natives1 in ,english1 of which four 7weekly7 numbers have appeared1 which ,i will also send you4 #8,the schoolmaster is abroad1' but1 as ,i have stated before1 the influence at work in the #8,reformer1' and all in that connexion1 is anti-,english1 and ,christian only1 as it cannot help being so4#aef ,but you will be glad to hear that a lecture on #8,morals1' is proposed for the ,hindoo ,college40 ,then after referring to some of the religious movements which have already been mentioned1 the ,archdeacon adds1 8,with all these favourable appearances1 you will understand that many perplexities arise in the detail of things4 ,the truth of that saying often appears--#8that if ,christianity were not divine1 its own friends would prove its ruin4' ,it may not appear so manifest at home1 but here1 where the contrast between truth and error is so marked1 the errors of those holding the truth work much evil4444 ,would that we had some addition to the #8moral strength1' as ,lord ,wellesley used to call it1 of our department6 ,what will the new ,charter produce8 ,he who knoweth the end from the beginning1 is well aware2 and knoweth how to overrule all to his own glory6 ,o for a stronger faith to look within the veil1 and to credit what the ,saviour saith both in respect to one's self and the world at large6 ,i know not how it is with you1 but ,i cannot but feel that the evening of life is drawing on2 and the expectation of escaping from these uncertainties to the possession of eternal realities1 is at times welcome40 ,the 8union in prayer10 to which the ,archdeacon here refers1 was the result of a meeting of ,clergymen1 held at his suggestion1 in the ,old ,church rooms in ,calcutta1 on the #bhth of the preceding month1 8to take into consideration the propriety of uniting in prayer1 and engaging others to do so1 for the outpouring of the ,holy ,spirit40 ,it seemed to himself1 and others conversant with ,india1 that the state of religion among professing christians1 and the widely extended ignorance and error of heathen nations1 were such as to call forth the sympathies of all who desired to further the prosperity of the ,church of ,christ1 and the conversion of the world4 ,considering1 however1 that it is only by the ,almighty power and grace of ,god the ,holy ,ghost1 that 8the whole church is governed and sanctified10 and that the preaching of the ,gospel is in an age or country made effectual to the conversion and salvation of those who hear1 it was agreed by the ,archdeacon and his clerical friends1 to set apart individually a stated portion of time for the purpose of praying ,god 8the ,father1 that for ,christ's sake1 ,he would pour ,his ,spirit upon all flesh40 ,they agreed1 also1 to engage their congregations and friends1 as much as possible1 to unite with them severally in prayer1 at the same stated time and for the same great object4 ,the resolutions agreed upon at the meeting were subscribed by the ,archdeacon and the other ,clergymen1 and were embodied in a circular1 in which also were pointed out the special objects for which the influences of the ,holy ,spirit should be sought4 ,this circular seems to have been reprinted1 and made the subject of supercilious animadversions in some of the ,calcutta newspapers4 ,nor was that matter for surprise2 since persons who had deluded themselves with the belief that science and merely secular education1 were alone sufficient to make man what ,god would have him to be1 could not be expected to understand and enter into the convictions of those who regarding the grace and influence of the ,holy ,ghost to be essential to the true civilization of the world1 prayed and laboured accordingly4 ,the allusion by the ,archdeacon to the 8errors of those who held the truth10 was called forth by the circumstance that some in ,india had been unsettled by a ,treatise on ,faith1 written by ,mr4 ,thomas ,erskine1 a ,scotch advocate1 and which had recently reached ,calcutta4 ,this book1 though of but ephemeral existence1 seems to have produced discussion at the time1 and excited in the ,archdeacon some fears lest it should have diverted the attention of his friends from the great truths which accompany salvation4 ,his own reflections on ,mr4 ,erskine's opinions are contained in a memorandum1 dated 8,april #aj1 #ahca4 ,to-day ,i have attained fifty-four years1 and of these1 twenty-nine spent in the ministry4 ,in review of the past1 chiefly unprofitableness and unfaithfulness is to be seen4 ,my own defects are certainly becoming more apparent to myself3 the fulness and freeness of the ,gospel become increasingly glorious1 and nothing but full1 free1 unconditional forgiveness of all sin1 and justification from all things1 would meet my case4 ,with reference to the past year1 ,i do hope some progress has been made4 ,much enquiry has been stirred up by ,erskine's view of the ,gospel3 ,i have examined it with much anxiety1 but see no reason to change my former views on that subject4 ,pardon is full and free to all who receive ,christ1 because life eternal is in ,him2 and whosoever receives ,him cannot fail of life eternal1 yea1 possesses it with ,him4 ,there may be some occasion for ,mr4 ,e's charge against some for referring exclusively to fruits as an evidence of faith4 ,i think ,i have met with some who1 whilst they acknowledge justification to be exclusively of faith1 yet depend on works to justify their faith2 and thus their dependence1 after all1 is on works4 ,such1 as far as ,i know myself1 is not my feeling40 ,it has here to be stated that ,bishop ,turner had quitted ,calcutta at the end of ,september #ahcj1 with the intention of visiting the other ,presidencies4 ,his ,lordship had proceeded overland from ,madras to ,bombay1 and from thence had gone to ,ceylon4 ,during his ,visitation he had maintained a regular correspondence with ,archdeacon ,c4 and seems now to have been on his way back to ,calcutta2 for the ,archdeacon writes1 ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,calcutta1 ,april #cj1 #ahca4 8,our kind ,bishop is not yet returned1 but we are expecting him daily4 ,he left ,colombo on the #dth for ,jaffna1 c4 to ,madras2 and thence by sea hither4 ,he is much out of heart with ,ceylon in everything but as respects ,missionary work2 and he says that the ,church ,missionary ,society has done1 and is doing enough there1 to answer all the expenditure ever incurred by it4 ,i am desiring him back greatly1 the times seeming to call for him here1 for which his wisdom and pious liberality will1 ,i hope1 be found just suited40 ,then follow some instructive particulars respecting the ,anglo-,hindoo ,college4 8,the ,hindoo college you knew when yet in embryo1 and your conclusion of an argument with ,h4 ,m4 is beginning to be realized1 #8,well1 well1 build away1 and some will come after you who will use it in a proper manner4' ,the mode proceeded on1 has succeeded in detaching many of the ,hindoo youths from religion of every kind4 ,in sentiment this has appeared for three or four years1 it now begins to appear in practice4 ,at the late ,east ,indian dinner1 sixteen ,hindoo lads had bought tickets to go1 actually determining to break through all restraints4 ,this was however prevented2 ,sir ,e4 ,r41 ,mr4 ,c41 and ,j4 ,y4 were the means of preventing their young friends from doing this open violence to ,hindoo feeling2 but one youth of the ,moterjee family has left his home1 and taken a house1 determined to live in ,european fashion4 ,he was1 also1 about to marry a young woman of ,portuguese origin1 one of the ,de ,rozio family1 but this ,i am told is put off4 ,the main mover in the meeting among the ,hindoos is ,d41 the poet4 ,mr4 ,h4 ,w4 became so convinced of the need of morals to the ,hindoo ,college system1 that he proposed a moral philosophy lecture1 and ,d4 as the lecturer4 ,w4 ,b41 who is one of the ,committee of ,public ,education1 let his colleagues1 who had consented1 know the character of ,d4 and it was agreed best to postpone the appointment2 and now ,d4 is dismissed from the ,hindoo ,college on a charge1 by respectable ,hindoos1 of ,atheism4 ,he stoutly denied the charge2 but they said1 #8,we see your works4' ,it is evident the ,english ,i have named1 are at their wit's end4 ,the young men say1 they will no longer be guilty of the hypocrisy of upholding ,hindooism4 ,christianity they have been warned against as an ,english prejudice2 and they seem to hate ,christianity and ,england heartily4 ,their advisers now say1 #8,wait for ,ram ,mohun ,roy's return4' ,in the mean time1 some of the youths are gone to other schools4 ,upwards of fifty have left the ,hindoo ,college1 six are entered at the ,high ,school4 ,mrs4 ,wilson has a party daily of from ten to fifteen who come expressly to read the ,scriptures with her4 ,one begged for an ,english ,testament1 ,mrs4 ,w4 said1 #8,you can understand ,bengalee better1' but1 said she1 #8,i dare not take a ,bengalee one home4 ,an ,english one my friends will not suspect1 and ,i can read it at leisure4' ,two come daily to ,mr4 ,sandys at ,mirzapore1 professedly to be assisted in preparing their lessons2 but they always also read the ,bible4 ,they are not of the first in wealth2 that class seem to a man opposed to every thing ,english4 ,not a movement in favour of religion in any form is heard of4 ,this has arisen in a degree1 from the part ,r4 and his friends1#aeg have been and are playing4 ,they complain as if they had lost mighty privileges once in possession1 and claim to be employed by the state1 as a matter of right4 ,this ,i think has arisen from ,government having withheld all patronage from plans of ,christian improvement4 ,the little they are advanced above former days1 is entirely through their own exertions4 ,yet two thirds of them are raised above the station their fathers held1 and their pretensions are ridiculous4 ,with them1 however1 the enlightened ,hindoos seem disposed to make common cause4 ,they can effect nothing at present1 but the impolicy1 not to say the sin1 of withholding christian instruction is now beginning to appear40 ,in a letter to ,mr4 ,sherer of a somewhat later date1 the ,archdeacon mentions other incidents connected with the ,hindoo ,college1 which may here be fitly related4 8,the ,hindoo ,college10 he writes1 8has borne some fruit1 not agreeable to those who planted it4 ,the young men are many of them licentious to a degree4 ,the more moral of them are scoffers at all that is good4 ,one very clever youth1 after feasting with his friends on beef1 c4 threw the bones into a neighbouring ,brahmin's compound4#aeh ,the ,brahmin and his friends attacked the convivial party1 and a sad fracas ensued4 ,one of the lads comes often to me1 and ,i am not without hopes of him40 ,bishop ,turner arrived in ,calcutta on the #dth of ,may #ahca1 but he was in a state of health1 which excited much apprehension among his friends4 ,as also1 his health continued to decline after his return to ,calcutta1 a voyage to ,penang and ,new ,south ,wales was recommended1 in the hope that his valuable life might be prolonged2 but the rapid decay of the ,bishop's strength rendered it necessary for him to abandon all thoughts of leaving home4 ,on the #bith of ,june a still further change for the worse took place2 so that ,archdeacon ,corrie writes1 ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,july #d1 #ahca4 8,i regret to say that our ,bishop is in but a very indifferent state4 ,he came back to us early in ,may unwell2 and the debility has increased till hope of his continuance among us is well nigh taken away4 ,his disease is some internal disarrangement4 ,this was excited into activity by the fatigue and heat he had to endure whilst on his visitation of the other ,presidencies4 ,he is dying1 we fear1 of debility1 with occasional paroxysms of short breathing4444 ,i do not like to give up the hope of his living3 though it would seem unbrotherly under these circumstances1 to let a ship go without acquainting you with our state4 ,to me the loss would be the greatest ,i have experienced out of my own family4 ,the kindness and confidence with which he has treated me1 and the benefit ,i have derived from his conversation1 must ever be deeply felt4 ,to the ,indian ,church the loss will be greater than any yet suffered4 ,he unites the best qualities of his predecessors1 with the knowledge of the business of a clergyman1 in the conducting of schools1 management of charities1 c4 c4 ,just now three ,p4 ,m4 his medical attendant reports the ,bishop worse4 ,the ,lord be gracious to this land1 and bring light out of this darkness60 ,within three days of the date of this letter1 the ,indian church was deprived for the fourth time of its chief ,pastor1 by the death of ,bishop ,turner4 ,among the ,archdeacon's papers is the following account of the last illness of the ,bishop4 8,on ,saturday evening1 the #bnd of ,july1 the ,bishop first spoke to me as if he were not to remain in ,india4 ,after our evening drive ,i accompanied him up stairs1 and he indicated a wish that ,i should sit down with him in the drawing-room4 #8,he was going to ,penang1' he said1 #8and if he did not recover there as he expected1 should proceed to ,new ,south ,wales4 ,he now had seen enough of the ,diocese to judge of the state of religion generally amongst us4 ,he thought the state as favourable as1 under present circumstances1 he could well expect4 ,he judged too it would be progressive4 ,there is a sad deficiency of clergy1 but1 notwithstanding1 many active agents are at work3' and he alluded to several laymen1 especially officers1 of whom he had spoken1 as wisely and diligently attending to schools in different places he had visited4 #8,that no difficulties manifested themselves1 at present1 in the administration of ecclesiastical affairs1 and that he should leave ,india without anxiety4' 8#b4 ,the ,bishop had intended to have crossed the river next morning1 in order to partake of the ,lord's ,supper1 in ,bishop's ,college ,chapel4 ,i was afraid he might not be able2 and had made arrangements for the duty at ,barrackpore1 in order to remain with him3 as ,i had1 indeed1 before1 from his saying early in ,june1 after he could not go to church1 #8these dull ,sundays destroy me4' ,i had1 therefore1 remained at home two ,sundays2 and though he said nothing on the subject1 ,i had the satisfaction to see that it was agreeable to him4 ,on the evening of the #bnd1 the ,bishop said1 #8he felt it would be too much for him to cross the river2' and he gladly assented to my proposal to have communion at home1 after my return from morning sermon1 in the ,old ,church4 ,accordingly1 about half-past-twelve1 on ,sunday1 the #crd1 the ,bishop1 ,mrs4 ,corrie1 and ,miss ,bird1 assembled in the drawing-room3 preparations having been previously made4 ,it was a very solemn occasion4 ,he was able to kneel only whilst receiving the elements4 ,after communicating1 ,mrs4 ,corrie left the room1 being much moved1 and unwilling to give him pain by shewing it4 ,after a short pause1 the ,bishop said1 #8,how many blessings have we to be thankful for8' #8,i have often enjoyed these ordinances in administering them1 but a person must be in my circumstances to feel the value of them4' #8,i have growing evidence that ,i know in whom ,i have trusted3' and then went on to contrast the uncertainty attending science1 with the certainty religion supplies4 #8,a little knowledge of science1' he said1 #8makes us confident2 but as we advance1 we feel less certainty2 whilst the more we advance in religious knowledge1 the greater certainty we attain4' ,i here left the room1 and the ,bishop continued in conversation with ,miss ,b4 for some time respecting family matters4 ,in the evening1 the ,bishop retired1 for the first time1 before tea4 8#c4 ,on ,monday1 he did not leave his room2 and his medical attendant being now in the house1 ,i merely saw him twice1 on going into his room to enquire after him4 ,in the evening he went out in the ,tonjon1 and spoke to me1 on the bank of the river1 about a marriage which he had been consulted upon2 but he was soon tired1 and retired to his room1 without coming into the drawing-room4 8#d4 ,on ,tuesday1 he did not leave his couch4 ,i saw him early3 he was very unwell2 and his medical attendant being constantly with him1 ,i did not go into the room again till about #d ,p4 ,m4 ,he then requested me to make known to ,mr4 ,robertson of ,bareilly1 the state of weakness into which it had pleased ,god to bring him4 ,after which he said1 #8he enquired not after ,mrs4 ,corrie1 but he felt deeply the kindness she had uniformly manifested4' #8,he desired his kind love to her2 and that she should be told he felt his obligation4' ,on my saying that1 #8had he been able to come into the drawing-room1 she had hoped to see him in the evening1 and would be glad to come to his room3' he said with emotion1 #8he thought he would rather be spared4' #8,he did not1' he said1 #8speak much to me on the state of the diocese2 ,i knew it as well as he did1 and in some respects better2 and added1 #8,i say with truth1 ,i feel no reluctance to leave things as they are4 ,there was nothing of importance claiming immediate attention1 and should any difficulty arise1 you will get over it4' 8,the faithfulness of ,god to ,his word was referred to by him2 and on my mentioning an expression of the late ,rev4 ,d4 ,brown1 on his death-bed1 viz4 #8,the ,lord's will is best4 ,his way is best4 ,his time is best4' ,the ,bishop added1 #8that he greatly needed the intercession of his friends1 that such might be his state of mind4' 8#e4 ,in the night of the #eth1 the ,bishop being restless1 the doctor asked1 #8if he would like me to come and sit beside him8' ,on his assenting1 ,i was called2 ,i went to his bed-side1 he took me kindly by the hand and said1 #8he feared he interrupted me4' ,he then began to say1 #8how happy he should be1 could he speak to the natives in their own tongue2' and referred to his head-bearer4 ,i offered to speak to him in ,hindoostanee2 but the ,bishop said1 #8not now1 he is fearfully untutored4' ,he spoke a good deal on subjects of religion1 connected with his own state2 of the insufficiency of learning1 talents1 c4 c41 without the blessing of ,god2 how often ,god brings about great things by small means2 and instruments we should not have thought of4 ,after about an hour1 he asked me to pray with him2 then said1 #8he would try to compose himself to rest4' 8#f4 ,wednesday1 ,july #fth1 was a day of intense and incessant suffering1 from difficulty of breathing4 ,he seemed unable to attend to any thing2 but on ,miss ,b4 going into the room1 he desired her to read to him a ,psalm1 and conversed about a quarter of an hour on points which occurred in reading4 ,about #d o'clock ,i went into his room3 ,i observed1 that #8,i feared he had had a trying day4' ,he said with emphasis1 #8,very4' 8,on my saying1 #8that when he felt able to attend1 if he would just express his wishes1 ,i should be glad to wait upon him for prayer3' he assented4 ,he after some time observed1 in broken sentences1 7for his articulation had become indistinct7 #8,that we do not arrange matters in religion sufficiently for ourselves4' ,more ,i could not understand4 ,in order to keep up the train of thought1 ,i said that #8our mercy consists in that the covenant is ordered in all things and sure4' ,he assented1 and said1 #8but to those who were orderly there might be more of joy and peace in believing4' ,i said #8in great bodily distress1 it seemed to me1 there could be little beside a child-like reliance on a father's care and love4' ,he said1 #8,i have an assured hope3' and added1 #8that we want ,god to do some great thing for us1 that shall prevent the necessity of humiliation1 and closing with ,christ4' ,after this ,i read a hymn1 #8,jesus the way1 the truth1 the life4' ,he said1 #8that one feeling was universal1 it pervaded all hearts4' ,in continuation ,i read the hymn1 #8,this ,god is the ,god we adore2' and then prayed out of the ,visitation of the ,sick1 ending with the ,lord's prayer1 and #8,the grace of our ,lord1 c41' to which he added a fervent #8,amen4' ,after a pause1 the ,bishop broke out in prayer3 #8,o thou ,god of all grace1 stablish1 strengthen1 settle us4 ,have mercy on all1 that they may come to the knowledge of the truth1 and be saved4 ,there is none other name given by which they can be saved4 ,other foundation can no man lay4' ,on his ceasing1 ,i added1 #8and this is a sure foundation4' ,on which his feelings were much moved2 and the doctor coming in1 our conversation ended4 8,in the evening1 it was found that the ,bishop's articulation had failed4 ,he spoke no more after the above recorded prayer1 expressing feelings amongst the most appropriate that could have occupied the thoughts of a dying man4 ,he manifested little1 if any1 consciousness1 during the remaining hours he lived2 breathing the whole time with great difficulty4 ,about ten o'clock he was helped from his bed to an easy chair1 from which he did not again move2 nor did he appear to sleep1 or to get the least repose or cessation from suffering4 ,his appearance exhibited the most perfect picture that can be conceived1 of patient endurance4 ,not a word or a look indicated a wish or a want4 8#g4 ,about half-past-six1 he changed for death4 ,i read the ,commendatory ,prayer1 and we watched for his departure4 ,about half-past-eight1 another change came on to a state of less suffering1 but of more weakness2 and the lingering spirit took its flight1 at a quarter before ten on the morning of the #gth of ,july40 ,the ,archdeacon appended the following note3 8,i have not inserted the answers ,i made1 on many of the occasions here referred to4 ,what is in the third person is the substance of what was said2 and the words as nearly as ,i could remember them4 ,what are given as the ,bishop's words1 were spoken as written40#aei ,having watched over the death-bed of ,bishop ,turner1 there yet remained to the ,archdeacon the afflicting office of preaching the ,funeral ,sermon4 ,this he did on ,sunday1 ,july #ajth2 and one who was present on that occasion related1 that the preacher was enabled to discharge 8with firmness and strength of voice1 though with deep feeling10 the mournful duty which had devolved upon him4 ,the estimate which an almost brotherly intimacy with the deceased enabled the ,archdeacon to form of ,bishop ,turner's worth1 was thus summed up3-- 8,we have left us1 in the character of our departed ,bishop1 an example of one who sought glory1 honour1 and immortality1 by patient continuance in well-doing4 ,he began where the scriptures teach us to begin--with personal religion4 ,he had low thoughts of himself4 ,he was seriously affected with a sense of his frailties and unworthiness1 and rested his hope of salvation1 only on the mercy of ,god in ,jesus ,christ4 ,he had attained1 in a remarkable degree1 the spirit of self-controul2 so that he was to a considerable extent a copy of the great ,shepherd and ,bishop of our souls1 whose word is 8,learn of me1 for ,i am meek and lowly40 ,he took ,revelation for his guide2 and whilst the ,tri-une ,god of the ,bible was the object of his adoration1 the will of ,god was the rule of his practice4 8,in his peculiar office he came near to the apostolical standard given in the ,epistles to ,timothy and ,titus4 ,of his learning1 and capacity for perpetuating an order of ministers in the church1 it would require one of a similar measure of learning and piety to speak1 but all could judge that as a ,bishop he was blameless and free from reproach4 ,moderate in all his habits and pursuits4 ,disinterested in a high degree1 and free from all suspicion of the love of money4 ,he was apt to teach--a true labourer in the word and doctrine--sober in judgment--wise to solve difficulties--of a compassionate spirit--and heartily desirous of men's eternal good4444 ,the lively sense he had of his own responsibility rendered him more keenly alive to such defects in any of those under his authority1 as might hinder their usefulness1 or do injury to the cause they had solemnly pledged themselves to serve4 ,he felt himself bound1 therefore1 when occasion arose1 to reprove and to rebuke #8with all authority4' ,an assured hope that in being released from the body1 he should be with ,christ1 strengthened our departed ,prelate to endure protracted and intense bodily suffering with patience and fortitude not to be surpassed2 till at length1 being released from this strife of nature1 he entered into that eternal life to which he had long aspired60 ,with reference to the death of the ,bishop1 ,archdeacon ,corrie also writes1 ,,to ,,his ,,brother4 8,aug4 #f1 #ahca4 8,at first my mind was more stunned1 than by any loss yet experienced4 ,it seemed such a mark of divine withdrawing2 and yet the deceased would have argued the contrary4 ,he used to say1 that #8designs which took all at once1 seldom held a long course3' and ,i desire to draw this inference1--that seeing the ,lord tries us1 ,he will at length establish us40 ,by the demise of ,bishop ,turner1 the ,archdeacon had for the fourth time to administer the affairs of the diocese4 ,in the letter just quoted he adds3-- 8,i am again ,commissary for this ,see1 and feel myself adequate to the charge4 ,the routine of duty is familiar to me2 and ,i can act with more decision from feeling my ground40 ,at the same time he had to contend alone with such difficulties as might occur1 there being less of co-operation oftentimes than would have been desirable4 ,the ,archdeacon's observation on that point in another letter is1 that 8,a ,bishop has but to signify his will1 and those who do not like it1 will not oppose it2 but with a mere ,locum tenens1 friends argue and opposers shew themselves4 ,i do what ,i can to carry friends with me1 and overrule1 as ,i am able1 objectors1 or leave them behind4 ,i feel as before and more than ever1 the undesirableness of power1 beyond a small measure4 ,not to recommend measures of emolument c41 to ,government1 is to #8act unkindly2' and to interfere to prevent abuses is to be an #8enemy4' 444 ,but in nothing have ,i more to be thankful for1 than in the strength given me to bear these things2 persisting at the same time1 in the measures ,i think right40 ,this kind of wear and tear of body and mind1 coupled with separation from his children and relatives1 seems to have very much tended to foster a desire in the ,archdeacon to leave ,india at the first opportunity that might warrant such a step4 ,his feelings with regard to that subject1 had indeed been so frequently expressed1 in his own correspondence1 and1 also1 in that of ,mrs4 ,corrie with their children1 that his family fully expected that he would return to ,england when the newly-appointed ,bishop should arrive in ,calcutta4 ,it was therefore1 with reference to this1 that he writes ,,to ,,his ,,brother4 8,calcutta1 ,oct4 #bb1 #ahca4 8,i yesterday received a letter from ,mr4 ,goode of ,clapham3 he had seen you a few days before he wrote1 and said you were expecting that ,i might be on the way home4 ,i dare say ,i write very differently on the subject at different times4 ,to-day we have had rain1 and the thermometer being only #hb1 ,i feel active2 and after all1 much of the want of elasticity experienced1 must perhaps be put to the account of years4 ,i know not whether you read ,blackwood1 but the article #8,christopher ,north taking a day's shooting1' reminded me of much of the cause of my own ailments4 ,on buttoning on his gaiters and preparing for the walk1 he found his instep had lost something of its spring4 ,this is my case1 and it would be vain to expect to regain that spring1 in any country or clime4444 ,what ,i have sometimes thought of1 as to coming home1 is to leave this about ,january #ahcc2 but circumstances may put it off to #ahcd1 even if life be spared40 ,then with reference to what was called the 8,reform ,bill10 and the origin of the 8,trinitarian ,bible ,society10 the ,archdeacon observes3-- 8,all affairs here appear flat1 compared with the spirit-stirring events that are occurring around you4 ,i1 on my first voyage1 attempted a ,poem1 beginning with something about1 #8,britain1 the glory of all lands4' ,parson got hold of it1 and by his well-deserved raillery cured me of the only poetical fit1 with which ,i was ever visited4 ,but whether ,britain is to continue the glory of all lands1 appears now to be doubtful4 ,well3 we must look more at the ,church2 of which #8glorious things' are still #8spoken4' ,the part of it called the ,church of ,england1 is exposed from within as well as from without4 ,captain ,gordon's proceedings1 if persisted in1 will throw the weight of the ,bible ,society into the dissenting interest1 by withdrawing the wrong-heads in the church who adhere to him40 ,on the same subject the ,archdeacon observes ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,we have heard with much concern of the proceedings of ,captain ,gordon and his friends in the ,bible ,society3 to me it indicates the breaking up of the ,society1 and the splitting of the religious world into small1 powerless parties4444 ,how it grieves one to see men pass by all the political patrons1 the trafficking beneficiaries1 c41 c41 and make this ado about ,socinian participation in giving away ,bibles6 ,the whole of their arguments go on the idea of the ,bible ,society being the ,church1 than which nothing can be more vague3 not one act of church-membership is performed by the ,bible ,society40 ,about the same date the ,archdeacon writes ,,to ,,his ,,sister4 8,the sound of most of the controversies which occupy you at home1 reaches us here2 and ,i think there was some reason for the accusation against many pious ministers1 who make sanctification almost the ,saviour3 whereas true and effectual holiness arises from clear views of reconciliation to ,god by ,christ4 ,not theoretical views1 but that heart-felt sense of the preciousness of the ,saviour1 which only those who experience it can understand1 and which every believer should seek to realize more and more4 ,on the other hand1 we have an instance or two of young converts entering into this view1 so as to go beyond their experience1 and afterwards to become greatly perplexed4 ,may we1 dearest sister1 learn more and more of that expression1--#8,the life ,i live 444 ,i live by the faith of the ,son of ,god8'0 ,among the important objects which engaged the attention of the late ,bishop ,turner1 was that of providing additional accommodation for public worship2 and by his lordship's exertions in that respect1 arrangements had been made for building three additional churches in and about ,calcutta4 ,one of these was designed to be connected with the ,free ,school2 so as not only to enable the whole of the children in that establishment to attend public worship on the ,school premises1 but1 also1 to serve for the accommodation of the immediate neighbourhood in which the ,school was situate4 ,many circumstances1 however1 occurred after ,bishop ,turner's death to retard the completion of the ,free-,school ,church1 but this having been at length effected1 the ,church was opened on ,nov4 #bj1 #ahca1 the ,archdeacon preaching on the occasion1 from ,matt4 xviii4 #aa4 ,the sermon was afterwards printed2 and on mentioning this in a letter to his brother1 the ,archdeacon observes3-- 8,i know the ,sermon is worth little but for local circumstances1 and that ,i have had to contend with some cross-grained spirits1 since the ,bishop's death1 to get the ,church opened at all4 ,the ,sermon will1 ,i hope1 counteract their misrepresentations with the public40 ,some additional and more striking results of education without religion1 began now to attract attention4 ,those ,hindoo philosophers1 as they were called1 who boasted of their desire to rescue their countrymen from ignorance and superstition1 had begun to take alarm at the freedom with which some of the natives1 who had been educated at the ,hindoo ,college1 were attacking the ,brahminical faith and morals4 ,they therefore1 somewhat inconsistently1 resolved to hold no communication with any who impugned the ,hindoo system2 and went so far as to procure the ejection from house and home1 of the native editor of a paper called 8,the ,enquirer10 because he continued fearlessly to expose ,hindooism4 ,on the other hand1 the sceptical and infidel portion of the ,native community1 avowed their sentiments whenever occasion occurred1 and acted out their education without reserve4 ,a curious incident1 illustrative of this state of mind occurred in the ,december of #ahca4 ,a large importation of 8,paine's ,age of ,reason0 had arrived from ,america for sale in ,calcutta1 and a native bookseller1 by way of experiment1 fixed the price of the book at one rupee4 ,at first1 a few copies only were sold at this low price2 but the work was found so exactly to fall in with the principles and tastes of the young enlightened ,baboos of ,calcutta1 that at the end of five days the bookseller had not a copy of ,paine's blasphemy left1 although the price had been raised to as high as five rupees the single copy4 ,as was to be expected1 moreover1 the same ,hindoo liberalists1 who persecuted such of their native brethren as exposed the ,brahminical superstition1 were ready enough to avail themselves of an opportunity to shew their hostility to ,christianity4 ,they accordingly had portions of the 8,age of ,reason10 translated into ,bengalee1 and published in one of their newspapers2 calling upon the ,christian missionaries at large1 and on the ,archdeacon by name1 to answer ,paine's infidel lucubrations4 ,several1 however1 of the most respectable of the ,hindoos in ,calcutta1 expressed their disapprobation of this proceeding1 and deprecated all notice of the publication4 ,at ,christmas-tide the ,archdeacon took part in the admission of some native converts into the ,church of ,christ4 ,it was on the #bfth of ,dec4 #ahca1 that the ,chapel at ,mirzapore was filled with native ,christians1 the children from ,st4 ,james' and ,infant ,schools1 and the friends of missions1 from ,calcutta and neighbourhood4 ,divine service commenced by the ,native ,christians singing a ,bengalee hymn2 and during ,morning ,prayer1 the ,sacrament of baptism was administered to ten native adults1 and eight native children4 ,at this season1 too1 it was1 that there was an examination of the schools1 and a dinner provided for the native ,christians and their children2 of which the following lively account was given by the ,archdeacon ,,to ,,his ,,daughters4 8,the christians at the ,church-,mission-house1 dined all together on ,monday last4 ,there were #aij who sat down to dinner1 as they report of the ,lord ,mayor's and other such feasts2 and why may we not say so of this feast1 though they all sat on the ground8 ,they had1 moreover1 three courses and a desert4 ,plantain leaves being placed1 one for each1 with a little space between4 ,they then seated themselves1 each behind this plate of ,nature's manufacture4 ,then came the cooks1 and gave1 one1 a large spoonful of rice1 another1 a portion of vegetable curry4 7,i should premise1 there was rice enough for each1 placed at once1 and a small portion of curry47 ,this latter being discussed1 a portion of meat-curry was then placed beside the remaining rice1--after this1 sweet-meats1 and then fruit4 ,when all were arranged1 and ready to begin1 ,roop1 the catechist1 said a grace2--rather too long1 ,i thought1 as1 ,i dare say1 thought some of the hungry children4 ,they seemed all very happy4 ,it was a day of thankfulness to many of us4 ,ten years ago1 there was not one christian connected with this ,mission2 now1 of these about one hundred and fifty are connected with ,krishnagur4 ,some of them residing in the neighbouring villages1 the remainder were guests1 connected with other ,missions4 ,all were feasted for about four pounds1 which your papa supplied4 ,there were some ,english friends1 too1 with ,mr4 ,sandys4 ,we all assembled in the ,chapel for worship at twelve o'clock1 and it was quite filled2 so that if things prosper1 as we hope they will1 the ,chapel must soon be enlarged40 ,except when occasions like these called the ,archdeacon from home1 his time was now chiefly spent between ,calcutta and ,barrackpore4 ,he appears1 too1 to have continued the custom originated by the late ,bishop1 of allowing any friends who might chuse to attend his family-worship on ,friday-evenings2 and to many were those social meetings the means of instruction4 ,respecting himself1 he observes in a memorandum1 dated 8,barrackpore1 ,april #bb1 #ahcb4 8,on the #ajth of this month1 ,i completed #ee years4 ,great mercies on the part of ,god1 great ingratitude on my part1 appear in review4 ,such has been my history throughout4 ,i do not look on it as a thing of course1 but as a proof of the inveterate nature of human depravity2 and as setting forth the unutterable condescension and love of ,god1 the ,saviour4 ,i would not have it continue2 whilst ,i am sure if left to myself it will continue1 and continuing must exclude me from ,heaven4 ,my expectation1 and my desire is1 to be saved from sin2 and ,i thank ,god1 through ,jesus ,christ1 that thus it will be4 ,the prospect before me1 if life be spared1 is full of anxiety4 ,i feel very reluctant to quit ,india4 ,i had intended to have spent my life here2 but that implied an useful life4 ,my present appointment has operated to make my defects more manifest4 ,who would have thought1 when ,i was glad of release from the duties of the ,presidency1 7being from debility unable to perform them17 that so much publicity would have followed8 ,who could have calculated on the ,bishops being removed1 one after another8 ,this is the ,lord's doing4 ,if ,i have not brought discredit on my religious profession1 it is also of ,him4 ,he has hid me in #8the secret of his pavilion'3 ,i feel this most sensibly40 ,the ,archdeacon's correspondence shews that the anxiety here expressed respecting the future1 was much increased by the accounts which reached ,india of that turbulent spirit1 which now pervaded ,england2 and which had been called forth and fostered by unprincipled men2 who1 in the absence of arguments1 derived from truth and righteousness1 in favour of their schemes of reform1 did not scruple to recommend the use of the brick-bat and the bludgeon4 ,thus in writing ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,april #be1 #ahcb4 8,the overland news have reached us up to the #acth ,january4 ,very troublous times seem coming over you4 ,may the ,lord avert or guide the storm1 as ,he surely will6 ,but who may be swept away in its violence1 who can say8 ,what anxiety you must have experienced about ,lucy during the riots at ,bristol6 ,and now again burnings have commenced in various parts4 ,these things make the prospect ,englandwards very dreary1 and add to the natural indecision of my mind as to what it may be right to do1 respecting having our children here1 or going to them4 ,yet ,i expect and confidently believe1 that when the time comes our path will be plain40 ,and with reference to the same subject he writes ,,to ,,his ,,brother4 8,the rejection of the ,reform ,bill by the ,house of ,lords1 seems very disastrous4 ,i think they did their duty1 but the late promotions in the ,church look as if the proverb were about to be realized1 #8,quem ,deus vult perdere c4' ,what can result from the influence of such men but laxity of doctrine and of practice1 and changes in every department8 ,change may be required in some things1 but they should be men who fear ,god and reverence his word1 who make the changes4 ,well3 the ,church shall stand to which we belong4 ,the ,rock1 ,christ1 is not to be shaken by these convulsions4--,yet these troubles in ,old ,england distress me much1 not only for the sake of the land of my fathers1 but as affecting the determination ,i shall be obliged to come to1 if spared a few months longer1 as to return or not return to you4 ,sometimes friends here say1 ,i shall have the offer of becoming ,bishop1 or one of the ,bishopricks of ,india4 ,this ,i do not myself think2 or when the thought occurs1 it creates only fear lest the offer should be made4444 ,ever since ,i left college1 present duties have required present exertion2 and if ,i have any reputation for discretion1 it is1 because like the owl1 ,i have preserved silence on points on which ,i was ignorant4 ,with these true thoughts of myself1 every occasion of publicity has brought me only secret humiliation2 with1 at times1 overflowing feelings of thankfulness to ,god1 who #8out of the mouths of babes ordains praise4' ,but now my secret desire is for privacy4 ,this perhaps1 is at the bottom1 after all1 of that hankering ,i feel after what ,i always called ,home4 ,though ,england since our father's death1 presents no particular home to my mind1 the ,island generally is home2 and should it be the will of ,god that ,i come among you1 a small circle will bound my affections4 ,and yet ,i should soon love all those whom my brothers and sister love1 and all who have shewn kindness to the children of our love4 ,but when ,i should be loosing my cords and preparing to take down the earthly house of this tabernacle1 ,i may be in danger of becoming more attached to the passing scene4 ,so1 after all1 there is no safety but in fearing always4 8,all things here continue much as usual1 except indeed1 that the great reductions in the army have led to the display in several parts of the country of a disposition to plunder and to insurrection4 ,it is not1 ,i apprehend1 from dissatisfaction with this more than with any other government1 which might have been in possession4 ,but it is human nature unrestrained by the outward or inward influence of ,christianity3 and our men in authority will not learn1 how much they owe to the ,gospel1 even as it respects this life1 in restraining the evil passions of mankind4 ,a small offering to the idol1 of any plunder gained1 sanctifies the remainder to the possessors3 and now that so much country is left without the presence of any military force1 why should not the natives help themselves to whatever is within reach8 ,this is the spirit at work in much of this land40 ,meanwhile the preaching of the gospel was not without effect1 for the ,archdeacon was able to inform ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,july #g1 #ahcb4 8,in our mission this year1 #ajh have been added to the ,church1 of whom seventy-two are adults2 and there is a growing willingness in the natives to listen to the ,gospel4 ,we have a converted ,jew1#afj also1 seeking the welfare of the lost sheep of the house of ,israel2 and ,mr4 ,wolff is in the ,punjab on his way hither4 ,he has been imprisoned1 bastindoed1 made to work as a slave1 and scarcely reached ,peshawar alive2 but now ,runjeet ,singh1 hearing of his connection by marriage with the ,governor ,general1 has sent him a guard of honour2 and he who was yesterday literally a beggar1 finds himself treated as a prince40 ,in the following month the ,archdeacon had the happiness to witness the baptism of one of those native youths1 who have been already mentioned in connection with the ,hindoo ,college in ,calcutta2#afa and of whom several1 by attending the lectures of ,mr4 ,duff and ,mr4 ,hill1 on the ,evidences of ,religion1 had been led into a belief of the truth of the ,bible1 as a revelation from ,god4 ,the youth in question was baptised in the ,old ,church on the #bfth of ,august1 and soon after became a student in ,bishop's ,college4 ,the decided preference1 however1 which this youth and others evidenced for the ,church of ,england1 seems to have occasioned much annoyance to many1 of whom better things might have been hoped4 8,the ,baptists10 as the ,archdeacon writes to his sister1 8did all they could to prejudice them the native youths against us3 so that when the youth referred to1 came to talk over the ,baptismal service1 all the usual objections were familiar to him2 but he was satisfied with the explanations so often rendered of them4 ,these10 adds the ,archdeacon1 8are little refreshments amidst much to depress us3 for the spirit which is abroad in ,england1 is also spreading here4 ,many are not only disposed to favour dissent1 but to discourage the ,church4 ,here1 where are no tithes or exactions to complain of1 we might expect to be let alone4 ,but no3 we must be pulled down1 if possible1 from the elevation we have gained4 ,our ,governor ,general and his ,lady have done much towards this1 by going alike nearly to ,church and meeting2 so ,mr4 ,j4 ,hill publishes a book to explain1 as he professed1 the principles of ,independency1 but it is in reality a collection of the bitterest things which have been uttered from time to time1 against ,establishments in general1 and the ,church of ,england in particular4 ,it has however1 answered his end with few or none2 whilst it has exposed to many the bitterness they would not believe could dwell under so meek an exterior40 ,so again the ,archdeacon in writing to his brother observes3-- 8,here we have no tithes1 no collection of ,church-dues1 to call forth ill feeling4 ,we interfere in no way but in our religious character1 yet this offends40 ,it might truly be said that there was 8much to depress0 the spirit of a ,christian1 when such persons as ,mr4 ,hill professed to be1 could have so carefully treasured up1 to be poured forth as occasion served1 8the bitterest things which had been uttered against the ,church of ,england20 because such a proceeding must have given reason for doubting the religious sincerity of the parties themselves4 7,phil4 i4 #ae2 #a ,cor4 xiii4 #a-c47 ,whatever evils might have been connected with 8establishments in general1 and with the ,church of ,england in particular20 no person with truth could charge those evils upon that ,church in ,india4 ,on the contrary1 it was impossible to overlook the extensive good which our ,church was at that moment effecting1 in every corner of the ,eastern empire2 and that by means of funds as unconnected with the ,state1 as ,mr4 ,hill himself could have desired4 ,if history and experience therefore1 had not explained1 that it was ,episcopacy and not ,establishments that called forth the sad exhibition of ,independency of which the ,archdeacon complained1 this outbreak of ,mr4 ,hill and his friends must have appeared most unaccountable4 ,the ,archdeacon therefore1 being fully aware that the question to be decided was1 8,the office of the ministry1 is it of ,christ1 or only by the suffrages and allowance of the people80 reprinted1 7but without any allusion to ,mr4 ,hill's book17 ,hey's tract on the three-fold ministry of the ,new ,testament2 and as subsidiary to this tract1 ,dr4 ,mill printed ,chillingworth on the ,apostolical institution of ,episcopacy4 ,both were eagerly read1 and many who scarcely knew the difference between the ,church and dissent1 had now their eyes effectually opened4 ,amidst such causes for sorrow1 there were counterbalancing occasions for rejoicing4 ,in the letter to his sister already referred to1 the ,archdeacon writes3 8,i am not without fruit in my own sphere4 ,several respectable ,mahommedans have come most mornings1 for some months past1 to read the scriptures with me4 ,two of them were baptised about a month since1 and two are to be baptised to-morrow 7,sep4 #e47 and new enquirers are often appearing2 so that there seems a prospect of a native ,church being gathered from that class1 in time40 ,the baptisms here spoken of as expected to occur1 took place in the mission-chapel at ,mirzapore on the #eth of ,september4 ,one of the parties baptised was a young person of talent and great respectability1 who had gone through the usual course of education at the ,mahommedan ,college1 with a view to his becoming a ,molwee4 ,the sacrament was administered by the ,archdeacon1 who conducted the service in ,hindoostanee4 ,after the baptism1 he addressed the ,european portion of the congregation1 exhorting them 8to take heed1 lest whilst the natives of ,india were thus entering into the kingdom of ,god1 they1 the professors of the ,christian name1 should come short of everlasting life40 #aec ,writers4 #aed ,chief station4 #aee ,respecting the revolution which placed ,louis ,philippe on the throne4 #aef ,nothing could be worse than the state of the ,native press about this time4 ,besides papers published in ,english1 there were nine or ten in the ,bengalee language1 some of which contained the most polluting language and sentiments4 #aeg ,these were the ,anglo-,indians1 who1 for some time past1 had been clamouring for political privileges4 #aeh ,it will be remembered that animals of the ox-tribe are sacred among the ,hindoos2 so that whilst the 8feasting on beef0 manifested the greatest contempt for ,hindooism on the part of the youths2 no greater insult and profanation could have been inflicted on the ,brahmin than to have ox-bones thrown into his premises4 #aei ,some notices of ,bishop ,turner are collected in the ,missionary ,register1 for ,march and ,may #ahcb4 #afj ,mr4 ,samuel4 #afa ,see above pp4 #did1 et seq4 ,,chapter ,,xix4 ,,arrival ,,of ,,bishop ,,wilson4--,,baptism ,,of ,,natives4--,,ordinations4--,,visitation ,,of ,,the ,,upper ,,provinces4 ,the ,rev4 ,daniel ,wilson had been consecrated to the ,see of ,culcutta early in this year1 and was now approaching the shores of ,india4 ,it appears that on his appointment to the ,see1 ,dr4 ,wilson had written to ,archdeacon ,corrie to inform him of that circumstance1 and had kindly taken occasion to express a desire that the ,archdeacon would for the present continue his services in ,india4 ,with reference to this estimable prelate the ,archdeacon writes ,,to ,,his ,,brother4 8,dr4 ,wilson has not yet arrived1 but is daily expected4 ,i know no one more suitable to have been sent among us1 but our expectation must be from ,god alone4 ,it would cost me a severe pang were ,i told ,i should not be allowed to visit ,england again1 yet the prospect of remaining here is not painful to me2 and it is chiefly on our children's account that ,i have thought of retiring4444 ,you are not likely to know1 unless ,i tell you1 that ,mr4 ,charles ,grant has written me a very kind letter1 stating why ,i was not called home to be made ,bishop4444 ,i am more than satisfied1 for ,i desire not the office4 ,i have felt a measure of the responsibility attached to it2 experienced what it is to be set on an high place #8as a mark for envy to shoot at2' and above all1 ,i know to a demonstration how much more such men as the last1 or the present ,bishop can effect1 beyond my utmost ability40 ,that it might meet his lordship as soon as he should arrive in ,india1 the ,archdeacon addressed the following letter ,,to ,,the ,,bishop ,,of ,,calcutta4 8,oct4 #b1 #ahcb4 8,the news of your appointment to ,india1 reached this country at the latter end of ,july1 and caused thanksgivings to ascend from many hearts4 ,your two kind letters did not reach me till ,september #ba1 so that the time had passed for addressing a letter to the ,cape4 ,this will1 we hope1 meet you before the end of this month1 on the ,sibbald's entering the ,river1 and in good health1 and without disaster on the voyage4 ,our hearty congratulations are offered1 and prayers that your entrance in among us1 may be #8in the fulness of the blessing of the ,gospel6' 8,from what you are reported to have said at the ,church ,missionary ,society's anniversary meeting1 it would appear that you had been led to expect that arrears of business await you1 to be arranged3 ,i am happy to say that not a case1 that ,i am aware of1 is in arrear2 that though much interesting business connected with our public institutions1 will claim your attention1 nothing in the way of official arrangement remains for your decision4 ,i am most happy to observe your intention of endeavouring to preserve health4 ,our former ,bishops no doubt had the same purpose1 but they did not take advice from those more used to the climate4 ,i shall1 please ,god we meet1 explain to you how both ,bishops ,heber and ,turner brought on1 inadvertently1 their own end4 ,there is nothing in the climate to prevent most constitutions continuing1 with care1 to enjoy good health4 ,at the same time1 it has appeared to me that no particular age is more favorable than another2 or that there is any such thing as becoming inured to the climate1 so as to bear exposure at certain times4 ,experience teaches us to avoid certain situations and not to expose ourselves to the climate at certain times1 if we can avoid it2 and this is all1 in my opinion1 that any one gains by long residence here4 ,all this will soon become familiar to you2 and ,i have no doubt1 under usual circumstances1 you will be able to go through all your duties with comfort4444 8,i shall say nothing of my own affairs1 except that ,i was not intending to leave the country this year2 and that it will be my delight1 as well as duty1 to be assisting in every way ,i can40 ,on the report reaching ,calcutta that the 8,sibbald0 had arrived in the river1 the ,archdeacon1 as on like former occasions1 obtained the use of one of the government vessels1 met the ,bishop1 and conveyed him to ,calcutta4 ,his lordship arrived there on the #dth of ,november1 and was installed on the next day4 ,the ,archdeacon was thus relieved from some of those anxieties which were connected with official duties1 but he was not without trials of a domestic nature4 ,the ship in which his wife had embarked for ,england in the middle of ,december1 was wrecked off ,coringa1 on her passage to ,madras1 and the passengers only saved by taking to the long-boat4 ,they ultimately landed at ,masulipatam1 and the fatigue and exposure to the cold which ,mrs4 ,corrie and the other passengers underwent1 proved of no lasting detriment to them2 but all their luggage was lost4 ,a letter addressed to his wife soon after her departure from ,india will give some idea of the nature of the ,archdeacon's occupations at this time3-- 8,january #f1 #ahcc4 8,the last few days have furnished increasing occupation4 ,on ,wednesday ,i breakfasted with the ,bishop1 and arranged with him for the examination of the candidates for ,ordination4 ,i then went to ,da ,costa1 who has been too ill to leave home1 and corrected two proof sheets of ,isaiah1 in ,persian1 and two of the ,new ,testament in ,hindoostanee4 ,i returned home at two o'clock1 when the ,natives1 who read the ,scriptures with me1 occupied me till four4 ,on ,thursday ,i was occupied nearly the whole of the day in writing to ,g4 on his offence2 and in the evening the ,bishop dined with your mother and ,i1 and we talked over ,church affairs4 ,on ,friday1 there was a meeting of the ,high ,school managers1 to appoint ,lambrick pro-tem1 head1 and young ,thompson second master4 ,i then went to the examination1 of ,native ,schools at ,mirzapore1 the best by far we have had3 ,dunsmore their superintendent4 ,this kept me till #b o'clock4 ,i came home and found the candidates' papers for my inspection1 which by close application ,i got through by dusk4 ,i then went to ,a4 ,s4 to dinner at six1 and from thence to the town-hall1 to the ,bible ,association general meeting1 at half past #g o'clock1 and home at ten4 ,the ,bishop took the chair1 ,bannerjee spoke well1 but too long4 ,yesterday ,i wrote two public letters1 and prepared notes of an address which the ,bishop wished me to make to the candidates for ,ordination1 and their duties as they related to this country4 ,at four ,i went to the ,molwee's1 and conversed awhile with about a dozen natives on ,john iii41 and then came home to dinner4 ,now for some fragments4 ,a ,moonshee is to be baptised on ,wednesday1 who many years ago received a ,new ,testament at ,dacca4 ,he cannot remember the date1 but it was from the ,chaplain who was there before ,s4 ,he has been reading this1 and enquiring at different places2 till at length1 convinced of the divinity of the ,lord ,jesus ,christ1 he wishes to take up his ,cross4 ,he appears more spiritual than the ,molwee2 but you know we must not too readily trust appearances4 ,he has a wife1 who1 he says1 is persuaded also1 and they have two children4 8,past #b o'clock--,we have been detained at the ,cathedral till now1 and have had a most instructive discourse from the ,bishop1 ,acts xxii4 ,the ,ordination of two deacons and seven priests altogether1 is indeed a new sight in ,calcutta4 ,the ,cathedral was crowded1 and the service full of interest4 ,at the ,communion afterwards1 one hundred and fifteen attended4 ,many appeared deeply affected40 ,mrs4 ,corrie having proceeded from ,masulipatam to ,madras1 the ,archdeacon obtained leave to join her there1 with a view to arrange for her passage to ,england by another ship4 ,he was consequently absent from ,calcutta until the beginning of ,march4 ,on the #ith of that month he writes3-- ,,to ,,his ,,wife4 8,i found things here of a mixed nature2 some pleasing1 some painful4 ,of the pleasing was the baptism of twenty-five ,hindoos in ,mirzapore chapel1 on the evening ,i arrived4 ,the ,hindoostanee congregation much increased4 ,a fine youth of about eighteen1 the son of an ,englishman1 but abandoned by the father1 has with his ,mother1 sought instruction4 ,he is dressed as a ,mahommedan4 ,another youth of the same description1 was confirmed1 but ,i have not yet seen him40 ,some particulars of the then state of society1 which the ,archdeacon communicated in a letter to ,mr4 ,sherer1 may not be omitted3-- 8,march #cj1 #ahcc4 8,you will learn from other sources the great distress which prevails through the failure of the great houses here4 ,one point of retribution ,i cannot but think is observable in the recoil of the ,free-trade system4 ,they were the men who maintained the ,hurkcaru and ,india ,gazette1 to vilify the ,company and to run down the ,government2 and just in proportion as they injured the interests of the ,company1 their own were injured4444 ,of public matters you will1 also1 hear4 ,we have now a newspaper at ,cawnpore1 at ,meerut1 ,agra1 and ,delhi4 ,the ,delhi paper has an article on the misconceptions of the ,natives1 shewing how easily they are led away by rumours1 c42 which seems to point out the impolicy of these very newspapers4 ,the subject of ,missions is daily gaining ground2 yet opposition is at work underhand4 ,paine's #8,age of ,reason' has been circulated to a large extent among the educated ,hindoos2 and a very plausible work written here1 but printed in ,england1 entitled #8,christianity of human origin1' has got considerable currency40 ,it was during the ,march of this year that the ,archdeacon1 among others1 resigned his office of governor of the ,free-,school in ,calcutta4 ,for a considerable period the affairs of the school had been a source of contention at the ,presidency1 in consequence of a difference of opinion between the governors and the committee of that ,institution1 respecting the management of the charity4 ,it was therefore at length agreed that the points at issue should be submitted to the arbitration of the ,bishop1 it being at the same time understood that his lordship's award should be final4 ,one portion of the award was that the governors and secretary of the school should resign their office1 in order thus to allow of such a reconstruction of the government of the ,school as might seem calculated to compose the existing differences4 ,the ,bishop himself led the way1 by resigning his office of ,patron2 and the ,archdeacon readily followed so disinterested an example4 ,soon after this1 the ,bishop of ,calcutta decided that the ,archdeacon should make a visitation of the ,upper ,provinces4 ,an application was accordingly made to government for the purpose of obtaining travelling allowances for the occasion2 and early in ,may an ,order to that effect passed the ,council4 ,before leaving ,calcutta the ,archdeacon relates ,,to ,,his ,,wife4 8,june #i1 #ahcc4 8,the subject of ,infant-,schools is to be taken up by the ,bishop4 ,yesterday most of our friends among the ,chaplains breakfasted with him1 and a meeting was resolved on1 to be called next ,monday at the ,bishop's4 ,lord and ,lady ,w4 are full1 also1 of the subject1 and are to give largely1 c4 ,a central school is to be built1 and a ,master and ,mistress to be sent for from ,england2 so that the little one on which you bestowed so much care1 and which ,mr4 ,u4 let die a kind of natural death1 is to be succeeded by a magnificent offspring 7shall ,i call it872 and ,bishop ,turner will yet speak to the place in this way1 though his name be forgotten4 ,a meeting1 also1 is called to forward steam-communication1 which has been taken up anew at ,bombay2 and ,lord ,w4 is1 also1 aiding individually2 and we are to have answers to our ,letters in four or five months1 if not to have leave of absence for six months1 with permission to visit ,clapham1 without loss of pay or batta4 ,such are the topics of the day40 ,in the same letter the ,archdeacon mentions an occurrence which will not be read without interest3-- 8,one of the youths who was to have been baptized on ,whit-sunday1 was seized in the street1 by his relatives1 and carried home to ,bunhoogly4 ,he had been there confined in a room for fifteen days1 threatened1 and was to have had a maddening potion administered to him1 but for the cries and entreaties of his mother1 whose love for the fruit of her womb prevailed over her superstition4 ,the youth bribed a servant to carry a letter to ,bannerjee1#afb and he with young ,henry ,r4 went in a palanquin carriage on the ,berhampore road1 on ,sunday ,evening the #bnd1 when the lad escaped2 fled to the appointed place of meeting1 and1 getting into the carriage1 was brought to ,mirzapore4 ,a rich uncle1 one of the ,dutts1 came on ,friday last with a ,brahmin1 and tried to coax the lad away again2 promising him all sorts of liberty1 and every thing1 but leave to become a christian4 ,the youth stedfastly refused4 ,on this a complaint was lodged at the ,police office against ,bannerjee1 charging him with violently carrying off the lad1 but they could not sustain the charge1 and the case was dismissed3 and here the matter rests at present4 ,he is a very intelligent lad of sixteen1 but short of his age4 ,i had an interesting conversation with him on ,sunday evening1 too long to write to you1 but the substance of it was as follows3 #8,a full conviction of the truth of ,christianity4 ,its suitableness to mankind as revealing a ,saviour1 and the lad's own individual need of pardon of sin1 and of grace and strength to bear his trials1 and to obey ,god4' ,the poor fellow was very feverish from the agitation he had gone through4 ,mr4 ,s4 was preparing tea for him1 and he slept in one of ,s's room for security4 ,how little we know of such difficulties in the way of salvation6 ,our ease and levity are equal impediments1 and perhaps sources of greater danger40 ,the youth mentioned in the foregoing letter was named ,brijonaut ,ghose1 and had been educated at the ,hindoo ,college1 but afterwards became a pupil at the ,mirzapore school1 under ,krishna ,mohun ,bannerjee4 ,there1 it appears1 he was in the habit of conversing freely with his companions respecting the follies of ,hindooism1 and this having reached the ears of his parents1 they became apprehensive that their son would embrace ,christianity1 and so forbade his attendance at the school4 ,his absence was not particularly noticed at the time2 but on his returning again after some time had elapsed1 he stated the reason for his absence1 and shewed a greater desire for instruction in the great truths of revelation4 ,the opposition to his attending at ,mirzapore1 now became more decided on the part of this youth's parents3 they took him to their home1 confined him to the house1 and had him carefully watched for several days4 ,the youth1 however1 contrived to escape1 and instantly went to ,mirzapore2 but as the friends of that ,institution were1 for every reason1 anxious not to make converts by stratagem1 it was decided that a temporary residence should be provided for the youth1 and a ,brahmin provided to dress his food1 that he might not lose caste4 ,but before a residence could be obtained1 the youth was again captured by his relations1 and subjected to the treatment which the ,archdeacon's letter relates4 ,so soon1 therefore1 as ever the youth found himself rescued from the unnatural violence of his parents1 he earnestly desired to be baptized4 ,and as there was no doubt respecting his fitness for baptism1 so far as concerned his knowledge of the ,gospel1 and the sincerity of his faith in its promises1 there seemed1 at first1 to be no reason for disappointing his desire2 especially as baptism would effect a complete separation of the youth from his relatives1 and thus prove a certain protection against their future persecution4 ,to prevent1 however1 any suspicion that so solemn a rite had been hastily administered1 or that the ,missionaries had acted from unworthy motives1 it was considered better that the baptism of the youth should be deferred4 ,but in the meanwhile the father of the youth obtained a writ of ,habeas ,corpus from the ,supreme ,court in ,calcutta1 calling upon ,bannerjee to produce ,brijonaut ,ghose1 and to shew cause why he was detained at ,mirzapore or elsewhere4 ,bannerjee1 of course1 appeared in ,court with the youth1 and stated1 through the ,advocate ,general1 all the circumstances connected with the youth's history4 ,the ,court1 however1 decided that the parents were the natural guardians of their children1 and the youth was therefore ordered to be delivered up to his father4 ,it was in vain that the youth personally expressed his unwillingness to return home1 and alleged his dread of the repetition of the violence which he had already experienced3 the ,court did not feel called upon to interfere until the dreaded violence had been actually offered2 and consequently reiterated the order for the boy to be given up to the father4 ,the poor fellow was then seized hold of by his father2 but it required considerable exertion to get him out of court4 ,he wept most bitterly1 repeated his appeals to the judges1 seized hold of the table at which the barristers were seated1 and was only dragged away inch by inch4 ,this unusual scene gave rise1 as it will be concluded1 to much discussion1 and in its probable consequences was of no ordinary importance3 it occurred on the day on which the ,archdeacon left ,calcutta2 who in announcing his intended journey to his brother1 observes3-- 8,my visitation out and home1 will embrace a circle of between #bjjj and #cjjj miles4 ,i have no fear as to health2 and for the rest1 ,i have the word of truth1 #8,i will be with thee in all places whithersoever ,i shall lead thee4'0 ,full particulars of the ,archdeacon's proceedings are contained in his letters to the present ,bishop of ,calcutta1 and in his correspondence with ,mrs4 ,corrie3 it is from both these sources that the following information is derived2-- 8,on the #acth ,july1 #ahcc1 ,i went to ,chinsurah1 and found dear ,b4 on the steps of the ,church to receive me4 ,passed a peaceful day on the #adth with him4 ,having been less at ease for want of repose1 ,i enjoyed ,saturday as much bodily as mentally4 ,on ,sunday morning ,i preached to the soldiers3 and in the evening ,b42 there was a collection made both times for the ,church ,missionary ,society of about #ajj ,rs4 ,the church in the evening was nearly as full as in the morning4 ,captain ,j4 came up to see a friend1 and passed an hour on ,sunday with me2 he breakfasted with us on ,monday morning2 and he and ,b4 came on with me to ,bandel4 ,i thought much of the many partings we have had in these places4 ,beloved ,mr4 ,brown came up with ,martyn and ,parsons and me to ,forsyth's here in #ahjf2afc and again with ,parsons and me in ,november of that year4 ,m4 and ,miss ,c4 and ,i paid ,f4 a visit here in #ahab4 ,now where are most of these8 ,their place others fill4 ,yet the work of the ,lord goes forward6 8,i consider my journey now commenced4 ,the weather is favourable2 the wind fair and steady till toward evening1 but not strong2 and very cloudy4 8,reached ,santipore1 ,july #afth1 and expected to be at ,culna by breakfast time4 ,arrived at ,culna by nine4 ,mr4 ,a4 came down to the boat1 and we afterward went up to the ,mission bungalow and staid till evening4 ,their mode of life is just what people at home fancy of ,missionary life in ,india2 the house was clean and airy2 the children are kept in such order as ,christian children should be1 playful yet obedient4 8,i was nearly a day sooner than was expected2 only two of the four schools were sent for to be examined1 and of them only the first classes1 and a few of the second4 ,there were forty-one boys3 they read with great correctness the #fth of ,st4 ,matthew3 and generally gave correct explanations from notes supplied to each school by ,mr4 ,a41 explanatory of what they read4 ,they read with equal correctness ,ellerton's ,dialogues1 #eth ,ch31 and are expert in their explanations2 the whole of this book the boys had read2 it is a great favourite among the scholars2 and a few days since four youths1 who had been educated in these schools1 came to ,mr4 ,a4 and requested a copy of each of the ,dialogues for their private use4 8,mr4 ,a4 has a school of sixteen girls in one of the rooms of the bungalow2 one of them a few months since was1 with her mother's consent1 baptized4 ,there is also an ,english class of about thirty2 their proficiency was not so manifest4 ,the teacher is a ,mahomedan1 who learned ,english at some school in the ,chitpore road4 ,mr4 ,a4 speaks of a great and favourable change in the respectable natives towards him4 ,this appears among other things1 in some wealthy people1 who had set up a school in opposition to one of the mission schools1 having1 after some conversation with him on ,christianity1 given up their school1 and sent the boys to his4 ,culna is a great mart for grain1 so that tracts are carried from this to many distant parts of the country1 and ,mr4 ,a4 speaks of strangers1 who come to the market1 as desirous of obtaining tracts to carry away with them4 ,in the evening twenty-one of the native ,christians attended for worship4 ,mr4 ,a4 leads the psalmody with his violin1 just loud enough to keep them in tune2 the effect was very pleasing4 8,july #ahth4--,we crossed the river1 after leaving the mission house1 for freer air4 ,mr4 ,a4 came with me4 ,it reminded me of our visit with the late ,bishop1 when he had in like manner crossed the river with us4 ,we spoke of him with much affection1 and especially of the good judgment displayed in his remarks on ,missionary operations4 ,in the night there was much rain2 but yesterday the wind was fair1 and steady without rain1 as far as ,nuddea4 ,i staid at the mouth of the ,jellinghee an hour1 expecting that ,mr4 ,r4 might have come from ,krishnaghur to the neighbouring factory to meet me1 as ,i had written to him about my plans from ,chinsurah4 ,he was not come1 nor is it of consequence1 as ,i could not have gone at that time to see the ,nuddea school4 ,we proceeded very slowly1 yet reached a point near the factory with the upper-roomed house4 ,there was a fine plain covered with growing rice4 ,a clever-looking young brahmin1 in part owner of the field1 came up to make salaam4 ,i engaged him in conversation by setting the young baboo to ask him questions2 no good seemed to follow2 but on the passage 8,come unto me1 all ye that labour and are heavy laden10 c4 being read1 ,i observed1 that if the brahmin would admit1 that sin is a burden1 it would make him uneasy2 so that ,i feared he would put away the invitation4 ,he became thoughtful1 and left us a little seriously4 ,the #ahth passed rather uncomfortably4 ,i had called the moonshee1 and had just commenced reading the #ast of ,acts with him1 when we began to move round and round6 ,the river had made on both sides a deep indent into the bank2 and the water was boiling like a whirlpool4 ,after some time the dandies made the side2 but the river ran a perfect sluice4 ,i got on shore1 and after two or three trials the pinnace was dragged with much difficulty out of this situation4 ,but for a mile1 the river ran with like violence2 and ,i had to walk all that way2 the day was clear and the heat great2 ,i had a chattah1 and walked no faster than the dandies1 who were bending to the earth almost in their endeavour to drag the pinnace on4 ,i abstained from water though exceedingly thirsty2 and only moistened my mouth with a wet towel1 and after an hour's repose felt no inconvenience4 ,the river still ran very strong1 and has been very tortuous since passing the ,jellinghee4 ,about twelve a heavy fall of rain came on2 the men fastened the pinnace slightly to the bank2 and all came on board for shelter4 ,this continued till three1 when we set off again1 and a strong wind springing up1 we made head against the torrent4 ,the rush through the water was by no means pleasant2 but we were mercifully brought to a quiet resting-place about half-past-six1 ,p4 ,m42 the wind died away and we had a cool refreshing night4 ,during the day at intervals1 ,i had much conversation with the moonshee on points of religion in which he is interested4 ,we read also two chapters of the ,acts1 and conversed much on the contents4 ,there is little expectation left of our reaching ,berhampore on the #bjth1 which ,i much regret4 ,it is ,his pleasure1 however1 who is the ,god of ,providence1 as well as of ,grace4 ,the river is now rising rapidly2 and as it has not yet overflowed its banks1 we have to contend against the whole strength of the stream1 especially at every turning4 ,on the #aith our progress was small4 ,about eight ,a4 ,m4 heavy rain came on1 so as quite to obscure the horizon3 this detained us till near noon4 ,we tracked when the wind lulled2 small rain fell till near four ,p4 ,m41 when the wind rose1 but not fair for us4 ,at length at ,dewan ,gunge the course became fair1 when we fell again upon a whirlpool2 but the wind carried us slowly through1 and with some exertion we reached a point near ,cutwa4 8,i was here strongly reminded of my first visit in #ahjf1 when ,i walked through the sun from ,dewan ,gunge to visit ,chamberlain4#afd ,the matted bungalow1 his first wife's tomb1 visible as we sat at table1 and the delicate little girl1 the daughter of that wife1 sitting by him1 and his mourning for the recent loss of his second wife1 and the melancholy all these circumstances cast upon our conversation1 were vividly called to my mind4 ,then his primitive mode of living1 vegetable curry1 and spring water1 gave me a feeling of veneration for his character4 ,i well remember too how in the evening ,parson's lively conversation cheered him and he came on the next day with us to ,plassey4 ,at parting we sang ,chamberlain's much used hymn1 8,o'er the gloomy hills of darkness1 c40 ,i well remember the energy with which he used to sing4 ,he is now singing the #8new song' in livelier strains1 and his work has not fallen to the ground4 ,the moonshee could not come on1 on account of the rain4 ,it is subject of much regret to find myself on the evening of the #bjth ten coss from ,berhampore by land1 and not less than fifteen distant by water4 ,but ,i am not conscious of having lost an hour since ,i left ,chinsurah4 ,if ,i could have foreseen the obstacles1 which have arisen from the winding course and strength of the stream and failure of wind1 ,i might have passed without visiting ,culna1 but these reflections are now in vain4 ,may ,i but have wisdom and strength to improve such opportunities as may present themselves at ,berhampore6 8,i arrived at ,berhampore in the forenoon of the #bbnd ,july1 and called on the chief military person and made known my purpose of remaining over the following ,sunday4 8,on ,tuesday forenoon ,i inspected with ,col4 ,t4 the place newly appropriated for divine service4 ,it is fitted up with pews for seventy or eighty of the upper classes1 and with benches for the private soldiers4 ,it is supplied also with two chandeliers of eighteen lights each1 and abundance of wall shades for evening service4 8,on ,wednesday ,i examined all the classes in the regiment school1 consisting of sixty boys and forty-two girls4 ,the upper classes read their scripture lesson with distinctness and propriety1 and were pretty ready in ,crossman's ,catechism3 this was their chief attainment4 ,in the regimental library there are between #cjj and #djj volumes of a miscellaneous kind2 few treating of religious subjects4 ,to keep up the library1 sergeants subscribe four annas a month1 corporals and privates one4 ,there are #bac subscribers4 ,the ,christian ,knowledge ,society's library is confined chiefly to the hospital4 ,on ,thursday forenoon ,i called on some of the ,civil servants1 and on ,friday visited the hospital1 and read to and exhorted the more dangerously sick4 ,mr4 ,m4 arrived to-day2 but went at once1 being very poorly1 to ,mr4 ,p's house1 which is about two miles from the barracks4 ,on ,saturday morning ,i made some preparation for the following day4 ,at half-past-six ,a4 ,m4 on ,sunday1 7the #bhth of ,july7 the regiment was marched to church4 ,there are in the whole #gjj men1 of whom about half are ,protestants1 and some of these being on duty1 those who attend are very sufficiently accommodated1 which was by no means the case in the place formerly used for their assembling4 ,mr4 ,m4 was too unwell to assist1 so that ,i had the morning service on my hands1 and the sacrament1 of which notice had been circulated3 twenty persons attended4 ,at half-past-three ,p4 ,m4 about thirty convalescent out of the forty-two sick assembled in the ward of the hospital4 ,in the evening ,mr4 ,m4 read prayers4 ,there were about #aej soldiers present2 and all the pews were occupied as in the morning4 8,these are the principal events in the way of duty which occupied me at ,berhampore4 ,a station school would be very desirable for the many poor ,christian children1 unconnected with the army2 but in the absence of a chaplain1 and from my own inability to endure the exertion1 and indeed from want of time1 nothing was done towards such an object4 ,i had much pleasure in renewing acquaintance with several ,i had known up the country2 but could benefit them little1 being always made unwell by the morning's exertion4 ,the wind has almost quite failed these two days1 which renders the heat more oppressive4 8,there is a mission here of the ,london ,society4 ,mr4 ,h4 has been at ,berhampore several years1 and is much respected4 ,the success among the natives has been very limited2 but he is very diligent in endeavouring to make the truth known1 preaching once or twice a day in their bazaars and villages40 ,in a letter to ,mrs4 ,corrie dated 8on the ,ganges10 ,august #ast4 the ,archdeacon1 after having given a detailed account of his equipments1 c4 adds3-- 8,now for my companion4 ,he is a baptized ,hindoo1 of respectable1 though not wealthy connections2 was educated at ,mr4 ,hare's school2 attended first ,mr4 ,derosario1 and afterwards ,mr4 ,duff3 became a teacher in ,mr4 ,duff's school1 and was finally baptized in the ,scotch congregation4 ,he is now on the way to ,futtyghur2 ,r4 is ,judge1 and a pious young doctor ,m4 with him have established a school1 and wish for a native christian teacher4 ,well3 this youth1 by name1 ,gopy ,nath ,mundee1 was recommended as a schoolmaster2 and to go with me1 was thought by pious friends in ,calcutta1 a favorable opportunity4 ,a place in the baggage-boat was assigned him1 together with a learned ,mahommedan enquirer1 who will thus1 ,i conclude1 get a free passage to the upper provinces4 ,he is reputed wealthy1 and asks nothing but a passage from me4 ,the other youth finds the pinnace more comfortable than the baggage-boat1 7i4 e4 the boat laden with scriptures and tracts1 for ,i have no baggage7 and the second night he coolly proposed sleeping on my couch in the outer cabin4 ,this ,i told him would be inconvenient to me1 but that he might sleep in my palkee1#afe on the top2 and there ever since has been his domicile4 ,he is up as soon as ,i am1 and at first his want of acquaintance with the peculiarities of our habits was trying to me1 but ,i had to deal with a christian1 and must not offend him4 ,by degrees we became intimate1 and ,i begin to explain to him our ideas of propriety4 ,he is1 ,i have reason to believe1 a christian2 has taken my observations in good part1 and now ,i find little to interrupt my comfort1 beside what the constant presence of any except my beloved family would occasion4 ,i find him especially deficient in scripture knowledge1 and in doctrinal divinity4 ,hence1 of late1 every morning exercise is a lecture on some point of scripture4 ,we1 to-day1 commence for morning-worship the ,psalms4444 ,about ten the ,molwee comes when he can2 and he has also found out the comfort of the ,pinnace2 so that he now comes daily4 ,he reads the scripture in ,hindoostanee1 with me first1 then he and the ,baboo mutually instruct each other4 ,the ,baboo learns ,hindoostanee from the ,molwee1 and the latter ,english from the former3 but here ,i am often appealed to by both4 ,i must add that the ,baboo 7his age is twenty7 has begun in consequence of previous conversations1 to read the scriptures in ,bengalee to the dandies4 ,he offered to instruct ,ameer1#aff but he said tauntingly1 #8,o no3 ,i failed once1 and ,i'll have no more to do with it4' ,to-day we entered the troublous ,ganges4 ,a squall came on soon after we entered2 then a lull1 which left us on a sand-bank in the middle of the river40 ,in a letter to the same1 dated ,aug4 #gth1 he writes3 8,yesterday being very anxious respecting the objects of my journey1 ,i looked into ,bishop ,heber's journal2 and ,i see more clearly what ,i have to do4 ,his being a ,bishop1 his lively conversations1 and especially his coming to confirm1 raised an interest wherever he went1 which ,i can have no pretension to expect4 ,but at ,berhampore1 notwithstanding my inability to go amongst the people privately1 all the station attended ,divine service1 and instead of ten or twelve as usual at the ,lord's ,supper1 twenty attended4 ,for this encouragement ,i feel thankful1 and trust1 as health returns1 ,i may at the station before me be the means of quickening attention to the things which belong to salvation4 #hth4 ,stationary in a jungle1 the weather cool1 the night again stormy1 the wind still contrary4 ,i had an interesting conversation after breakfast with the ,baboo1 explaining to him the subject of the annual ,atonement and year of ,jubilee of the ,israelites4 ,we read the xvith and xxvth of ,leviticus1 and the corresponding passages in the ,hebrews4 ,it is gratifying to observe the pleasure these discourses give him1 and truly1 ,israel in ancient days ,not only had a view ,of ,sinai in a blaze1 ,but saw the gospel too4 ,i have these few days been studying the ,levitical ,institutions with renewed interest and benefit4 8,august #i4 ,yesterday evening1 about ten of the dandies were led to sit down by us on the top of the ,pinnace2 and by keeping the ,baboo to interpret what ,i said to them1 they were detained for an hour1 conversing on the subject of a mediator4 ,by degrees they were led to see that ,jesus was more worthy than their prophet1 and they appeared very serious in their manner4 8,i have been engaged with the ,molwee and ,baboo in new arranging the words in the ,persian ,litany1 which is nearly accomplished4 ,in the evening1 four of the dandies again seated themselves near to us on the poop1 and by degrees they were led again to the subject of a mediator1 who could pay our debt of sin1 and procure for us pardon and acceptance with ,god40 8,reached ,monghir on the #agth1 in time to give notice for divine service the next day4 ,mr4 ,w41 the ,commissioner1 had returned home only the evening before4 ,his return was favorable1 as he opened his house as on former occasions1 and at half past ten1 all the ,christians at the station assembled4 ,at ,boglipore1 there are not above twenty ,christian residents2 at ,monghir there are seventy or eighty1 it being a favorite station for invalids to take up their abode4 ,in reference to the country and climate1 the station would be one of the most desirable on this side of ,india1 the opportunities of doing good are many4 ,on the opposite side of the river1 is the district of ,purneah1 where many ,indigo ,planters are settled1 and visits to that district at suitable seasons might be made very profitable to the residents4 ,mr4 ,w4 told me that those invalids who have families are gradually leaving ,monghir1 in order to settle where their children can have gratuitous1 or cheap education4 ,a ,baptist ,mission has been established here many years4 ,their ,hindoostanee congregation consists of about sixty of all ages2 only fifteen of these adults have given up caste for christianity2 the remainder are of mixed race4 ,mr4 ,l4 who principally officiates in ,hindoostanee1 has a chapel also near the large bazaar1 and1 though he had no regard to the court-house when the chapel was built1 the suitors in the court attend in great numbers4 ,he has sometimes #djj hearers2 on ,sunday last about #aej were present4 ,mr4 ,m4 the other ,missionary1 in conjunction with his brother-in-law1 receives pupils1 both boys and girls4 ,at this time they have twenty-one boys1 and eleven girls4 ,these are most of the particulars which will ,i think be interesting to you4 ,on ,monday morning early1 a wind from a favourable quarter sprang up1 and carried us round the fort1 and we are proceeding not rapidly1 but on the whole favorably4 ,this sudden change of wind prevented me from writing from ,monghir4 ,i hope to send this from ,patna by the end of the week4 ,i have looked over the route ,i have to take1 with the respective distances of stations4 ,i shall send a sketch of the journey by land soon4 8,mr4 ,l4 mentioned that he some time ago met at ,boglipore1 with one of the hill-men who understands ,hindoostanee2 and wishing to know something of the hill language1 he engaged this man to teach him4 ,after a time1 he began to attend seriously to the ,new ,testament1 which they read together2 and he seems to have experienced a decided conversion4 ,this man is very anxious to impart the knowledge of ,christianity to the hill-men1 and is preparing to return as a missionary among them4 ,he has been once1 accompanied by a native ,christian2 and on giving his people an account of the new life on which he is entered1 was not rejected1 but invited to return and tell them more of this way4 8,on ,thursday the #bbnd ,august1 we arrived at ,patna about half past one ,p4 ,m4 ,as my stay would be short1 ,i thought it better to remain in the boat4 ,at that station ,i found much to gratify1 and to lead to expectation of good1 if proper means are devised4 ,the ,chaplain came to see me on arriving1 and ,i dined with him in the evening2 the conversation was on subjects connected with our work4 ,he spoke of ,wolff's visit here1 and the impression it had made on several2 his own mind was much stirred up to the consideration of the spread of the ,gospel4 8,there is no appropriate place of worship at ,patna4 ,divine service once in the forenoon1 in the court-house1 is all the public duty performed1 there being no place fitted for evening service4 ,a gentleman who has an appointment in the opium department maintains a boys' school of about thirty scholars near his house1 in which the ,gospels are read by the more forward boys4 ,he entertains also a pious ,christian youth1 educated by ,mr4 ,wilkinson1 who assembles his servants and others for worship on ,sundays4 ,the collector's lady has two boys' schools of about thirty each1 and a girl's school in which about the same number are taught4 ,i examined the girl's school2 and besides the junior classes1 who are instructed in catechism1 and elementary reading1 there were five who read fluently in any part of the four gospels 7,nagree character73--they repeated the ten ,commandments1 the ,creed1 and the ,lord's ,prayer1 and gave as good an account of the fall of man1 the promise of a ,saviour1 the life and sufferings of the ,son of ,god1 and the purpose of his death1 as most children in a ,christian school might be expected to do4 ,these instructions are given in a great measure by the collector's lady herself4 8,when leaving ,patna on ,saturday morning the ,church missionary teacher brought a petition signed by about thirty householders1 ,mahommedans1 praying for a school4 ,if an efficient teacher could be supplied by any of the church societies1 here is a fine opening4 ,the population is immense1 and several of the ,english residents at ,patna would willingly countenance the undertaking4 ,i trust the matter will not rest till a school be established4 ,i was told by more than one1 that since ,mr4 ,wolff's conference with the ,mahommedans here1 much attention has been manifested by many of them to the subject of ,christianity4 ,wolff's chief disputant is very desirous of obtaining a work in ,persian or ,hindoostanee on the evidences of ,christianity1 to meet the enquiry excited among the natives4 ,he frequently comes to a friend in the opium department1 and converses on the subject4 ,this gentleman obtained subscriptions1 and sent to ,calcutta for copies of the ,persian ,pentateuch1 which have been read by the learned natives1 and many copies in ,hindoostanee have been taken from the catechist4 ,he speaks of several respectable ,mahomedans1 who occasionally attended the ,sunday morning worship conducted by the native ,christian2 and the attention he meets with generally1 when he goes out to speak to the people and distribute tracts1 is very encouraging4 ,some of the families here meet on ,thursday evenings1 at each others' houses to read a chapter1 a sermon1 and prayer4 8,a scheme was on foot lately to commence a native college2 but funds are not forthcoming4 8,on the #bdth ,i came from ,patna to ,dinapore4 ,on arriving ,i received a very civil note from ,general ,o',h1 and soon after called upon him2 he kindly invited me to take up my abode with him2 but ,i am engaged to ,mr4 ,r4 ,at ,dinapore the chaplain labors almost beyond his strength4 ,on ,sunday morning ,i preached to a large congregation from the text ,matt4 xxv4 #ac4 ,in the evening also the attendance was good1 and ,i preached again4 ,next day ,i was very weary and staid at home1 consulting with ,r4 on some alterations in the church1 and on forming a ,church ,missionary ,association4 ,on ,tuesday morning ,i examined the regimental schools1 consisting of forty two boys1 and nearly as many girls3 and afterwards the station school of forty one boys and girls of all ages and descriptions1 as you may judge from there being five sepoys among them1 one ,irishman also belonging to the artillery4 ,we did not get home till near ten1 having commenced soon after six1 both a good deal fagged4 ,mr4 ,s4 from ,patna1 and ,mr4 ,l4 the ,commissioner1 had come up to see us4 ,wilkinson too was come from ,goruckpore for change of air4 ,he has had a severe illness1 and the doctors say he must visit ,england in order to complete recovery4 ,i fear the change recommended is quite necessary4 ,his congregation amounts to #acj1 and he speaks of his assistant as quite competent to the charge of them1 and worthy of confidence4 ,if a new missionary should arrive1 he might go there to learn the language2 and he could attend to the one ,english service on ,saturday4 ,i trust some arrangement of the kind may be accomplished should ,mr4 ,wilkinson's departure be unavoidable4 8,they lately lost a little boy of seven months who seems to have been a very precious child3 he was carried off in twenty-four hours3 there was no doctor in the station4 8,on ,wednesday at half past #f ,a4 ,m4 we assembled in the ,baptistry1 and formed a ,church ,missionary ,association4 ,there were six officers present and many privates and others4 ,you will see the particulars in the ,christian ,intelligencer4 ,there are about #bjj natives professing ,christianity at ,dinapore4 ,at present ,mr4 ,r4 employs a pious ,drummer1 an ,east ,indian1 who assembles them on ,thursday evening2 from thirty to fifty attend4 8,after breakfast on ,wednesday ,i came away1 being commended to ,god in prayer4 ,the wind blew fair and strong and we reached ,chuprah by night4 ,s4 and his wife are at ,chuprah at present4 ,i wrote him a note1 not intending to go up1 but he constrained me to promise to breakfast with them the next day1 which ,i did2 and the affection manifested by them was very gratifying to me4 8,on the #cjth 7,august #ahcc17 the day was oppressively hot1 and the night exceedingly close1 so that no relief could be found any where4 ,i rose weary to a degree4 ,by #d o'clock1 it being full moon1 ,i set the people off3 and when they were gone1 ,i had a bathe on the deck1 and never experienced the force of the expression so sensibly1 ,as cold water to a thirsty soul2 the refreshment was indescribable4 ,i thought the next morning to have had a similar enjoyment2 but the night was cool1 and the morning breeze made me shiver1 and ,i was glad to escape from the water4 ,such are the changes in this climate6 8,we could not make ,buxar on ,saturday3 but ,sunday1 ,sept4 #ast1 we arrived at mid-day4 ,at #d ,p4 ,m4 ,i went to ,hindoostanee service1 the catechist read the prayers3 there were twenty women and three men present1 besides ,mrs4 ,m4 and her child2 she reads the ,scriptures to the women1 when her husband goes on ,missionary journies4 ,but few of the ,europeans attend ,english service in the forenoon3 and the numbers in the ,hindoostanee congregation are filled up as its members are removed by death or otherwise4 ,it is reported that the station is to be abolished as a ,government post4 ,about twenty children1 male and female1 of ,european invalids are taught to read and write by a sergeant1 who officiates as clerk1 for which he has twelve rupees a month from ,government1 and the children pay eight annas a month4 ,their proficiency was very moderate4 ,the mission as far as ,i could judge1 languishes at this place1 as at ,patna1 for want of superintendence by an ,english ,missionary4 ,a few of the old faces were there2 among them ,mary ,caroll1 an interesting character4 ,she came to my boat this morning1 and enquired after ,mem ,sahib1 and whether ,i had taken the pension1 and were going from the country1 as she heard4 ,she said if ,mem had been here1 she should have got some tea2 so ,i gave her a tea-cup full to take home with her4 ,she is feeble and failing1 but never misses service1 and responded cordially to my remarks on the end of time1 and the love of the ,saviour in preparing a place for his people4 ,at #f ,p4 ,m4 the little chapel was full for ,english service1 when ,i officiated to about eighty4 8,after evening service ,i went across the river with ,m4 ,s4 and the doctor1 and enjoyed a cool refreshing night in his quiet bungalow4 ,this morning early 7the #bnd7 ,i came over to the pinnace and had much conversation with ,m4 on the affairs of the ,mission1 and gave such advice as circumstances seemed to call for4 ,i left him such books and translations as ,i had brought and could spare1 of which he was in great need4 ,i saw also an interesting young convert1 baptized three years ago at ,lucknow by ,mr4 ,bowley4 ,his answers to my questions1 on his views of ,christian truth1 were very satisfactory4 ,as usual he is forsaken by his ,mahomedan friends1 a brother and mother4 ,he teaches a school here of fifteen ,mahomedan boys1 who receives ,christian instruction from him4 ,m4 came over at #h ,a4 ,m4 and we went to breakfast with ,colonel ,bird4 ,i feel as if my visit here was very opportune4 ,may the ,lord1 even our ,god1 grant his blessing1 ,amen6 ,i know not how ,i have omitted to notice a shock of an earthquake which occurred on the night of the #bfth ,august1 between #aa and #ab4 ,the motion continued for hours1 and exceedingly alarmed the whole country4 ,at #bj minutes before #ab it was most violent2 when every window shook1 and many houses cracked3 some of the native houses at ,patna are thrown down1 and some ,european so damaged as to require being rebuilt in part4 ,no shock of so long continuance has occurred in the memory of man4 ,all were roused1 and most left their houses for the open air4 ,i did not leave my cot2 but ,mr4 ,r4 came and stood by me for half an hour1 occasionally going to comfort his wife and mother4 8,on the evening of ,september #crd1 a gale came as we reached ,ghazepore4 ,it blew fresh all the night1 but being from the east we suffered nothing4 ,mr4 ,t4 kindly asked me up2 and1 after breakfasting with the ,chaplain on the #dth1 ,i came to his splendid abode4 ,it rained hard all the #dth and #eth3 in the night my cook and baggage-boats were swamped at the ghaut opposite the mausoleum4 ,all the school-books and the ,scriptures1 which ,i was taking up the country1 are spoilt4 ,of my own ,i lost nothing2 but am detained over ,sunday to get another boat4 ,i have visited the school and shall preach on ,sunday4 8,on the morning of the #gth1 ,i examined the regimental school4 ,there are above #ajj boys and girls in one large room3 the greater part are boys1 and the girls who attend are of tender age4 ,the exhibition was on a low scale in scripture reading and catechism and accounts4 ,the commanding officer told me he was aware of the comparatively low attainments of the school-master sergeant2 but he had no one of equally good conduct whom he could substitute1 and he thought good example of great importance to the children4 ,there are but few sick in hospital at present2 the chaplain told me he visited them weekly1 and from cot to cot4 ,i had the whole service on the morning of the #hth1 ,mrs4 ,r4 being unwell4 ,in the evening ,i preached also1 and the attendance was very considerable1 as ,i was told is very usually the case4 8,i arrived at ,benares about midday on the #ajth2 and on the #aath early went to the ,missionaries of the ,church ,missionary ,society to inspect the endowed school in the city4 ,there are #adi boys2 of these fifty receive instruction in ,english4 ,we began to examine them at six1 and continued engaged with them till nine4 ,i enclose a list#afg of the boys1 exhibiting their progress2 and in respect of the ,english ,i have much pleasure in reporting most favorably4 ,the pronunciation of the youths is better than ,i have found in any other native school2 and the first class is really proficient in the subjects enumerated opposite their names4 ,a box of books for schools entrusted to me by ,lady ,w4 ,bentinck1 supplied some very useful rewards1 and the youths seemed much gratified with them4 ,i regret that from the extreme heat ,i was unable to attend equally to the other department of the school4 ,i merely enquired into the nature of the instruction they are receiving4 ,they all read the scriptures in the languages they learn1 and the ,hindoostanee teacher would not be satisfied without our waiting to hear his class repeat a part of the ,christian catechism in use4 ,the school is under the immediate charge of ,mr4 ,s41 and the ,rev4 ,mr4 ,smith has till within the last month frequently given instruction in the week4 ,the ,rev4 ,mr4 ,leupolt has now undertaken that charge4 8,on the morning of the #abth ,i visited the female school4 ,there are eighty in usual attendance2 but here ,i was from the heat obliged to confine my attention to the first class4 ,this consists of eighteen1 of whom thirteen were present4 ,these read in two places of ,st4 ,matthew's ,gospel with readiness in ,hindee4 ,they read also in ,genesis1 and in a small abridgment of ,scripture ,history4 ,they answered questions on the subjects they read intelligently1 and shewed a fair acquaintance with the leading truths of revelation4 ,they repeated with accuracy the ,scripture catechism in use1 and finished with singing together a ,christian hymn4 ,this it seems they at first objected to learn2 but now they are fond of this part of the school-exercises4 ,specimens of marking both in ,english and ,hindee were exhibited1 which shew much proficiency4 8,mr4 ,smith collected the scholars of the three ,hindee schools at the ,mission premises3 but from the excessive heat ,i was able to attend to only one school4 ,in this about half the number1 7fifteen7 are reading portions of our ,scriptures2 but the schools have not long been in operation1 and the proficiency of the boys was accordingly small4 ,in consequence of the detention at ,ghazepore1 ,i was unable to give a ,sunday both to ,benares and ,chunar4 ,it was agreed therefore that ,i should preach a ,missionary ,sermon at ,benares on ,sunday4 ,i went by land to ,chunar and am happy to say ,i found ,mr4 ,bowley perfectly restored to health1 and capable of his usual labours1 after having for several years seemed decaying4 ,there have been no additions of late to the native congregation1 though there have been several enquirers4 ,mr4 ,bowley is at present engaged in a correspondence with the chief ,molwee at ,lucknow1 who having1 as he concluded1 discomfitted ,mr4 ,wolff in argument1 sent his statements to ,mr4 ,bowley1 challenging him to answer them if he could4 ,it is remarkable that he heads his pamphlet 7not printed7 ,testimonies to ,mohammed contained in the ,christian ,scriptures2--literally1 ,glad tidings of ,mohammed from the ,prophets and the ,gospel4 ,the misapplication of his quotations is glaring2 but the fact of our ,scriptures being read1 though not quite new1 is thus confirmed4 8,on the morning of the #adth we visited the boys' and girls' school2 in the former are above forty1 and ,i was glad to find that some fine lads1 whom ,i saw here in #ahcj1 have found provision at the neighbouring stations as writers1 c4 ,the present school consists of rather small boys4 ,in the girls' school are upwards of sixty2 these are much attended to by the lady of the ,adjutant1 and exhibited a very satisfactory proficiency in ,scripture knowledge and the ,catechism2 besides being well instructed in needle work4 ,mr4 ,e4 catechises both boys and girls on ,sunday mornings in ,church before divine service1 when some of their friends are also present4 8,the ,church ,missionary ,association is in beneficial operation2 they raise funds for the support of 7,i think7 three readers of the ,scriptures1 and two native schools4 ,on the whole my mind is much set at rest on some points1 respecting the ,mission at ,chunar by this visit4 ,the ,lord grant his blessing6 8,on ,sunday1 the #aeth ,september ,i preached for the ,church ,mission at ,benares1 and #aef ,rs4 were collected after the sermon4 ,this1 considering that the ,chaplain raises about #acj ,rs4 monthly for the support of the native female school1 was beyond expectation4 ,to faithful labours and consistent character much of the success of the plans for assisting the ,mission1 both here and at ,chunar1 is to be attributed4 ,the state of ,english society1 both at ,ghazepore and ,benares1 is very favourable to ,christian projects4 ,may ,god raise up1 as in due time ,he no doubt will1 suitable instruments for extending the knowledge of ,his saving name6 ,on ,tuesday morning ,i passed an hour at sunrise with the ,missionary brethren in reading and prayer1 and came away to ,juanpore in the evening4 8,at this place is a pretty little ,church in the ,gothic style4 ,there are three principal residents1 by whom chiefly the funds have been raised4 ,lady ,william it seems kindly said to ,mr4 ,b4 at ,allahabad1 when told of this undertaking1 that she would pay for glazing the windows2 this has been done and #abj ,rs4 are owing1 besides which #bbj ,rs4 were due for partial pewing4 ,on ,sunday1 ,september #bbnd1 ,i officiated in this pretty building4 ,the advantage of having an appropriate place for divine service was never more manifest than here4 ,in the morning the whole ,christian community assembled1 in number thirty-five2 of these fourteen remained to partake of the ,lord's ,supper4 ,in the evening there were twenty present1 and about this number usually assembled on ,sundays twice a day1 when the judge1 collector1 and commanding officer officiate in turn1 reading the service of the ,church1 and a printed sermon4 ,these three families meet also for social worship at each other's houses on ,thursday evenings4 ,there is a ,catechist of the ,church ,missionary ,society at ,jaunpore4 ,his name is ,mirza ,yusuf ,bukir1 a son of the celebrated traveller1 ,abu ,talib ,khan4 ,this man resided at ,allahabad when ,mr4 ,w4 ,bird was there1 and obtained from him a ,new ,testament in ,persian1 and occasionally asked of ,mr4 ,bird explanations of passages4 ,this led to his conversion4 ,he now instructs the ,christians connected with the native regiment at ,jaunpore1 and reads the scriptures to the servants of two families4 ,mr4 ,brown derives assistance from him also in translating tracts for circulation1 when his public duties allow him any leisure1 which is seldom4 ,i had the pleasure to baptize ,mirza's wife on the #bdth1 after several years of refusal to receive the ,christian religion4 ,this shews his perseverance2 and all the friends at the station bear testimony to his consistent piety2 though it is thought he has not sufficient employment where he is1 and ,i wrote to ,dr4 ,c4 at ,patna on the subject of his being employed there1 to which ,mirza perfectly agrees4 ,a youth taught in the ,church ,missionary school at ,benares will1 ,i expect1 be entertained in the native college at ,jaunpore as a teacher of ,english4 ,it was at one time in contemplation to have placed him in a school in connexion with the ,church ,missionary ,society2 but there not being sufficient funds at disposal1 it was determined to have ,english taught in the native institution1 for here1 as every where1 the people are desirous of education in ,english4 8,my bodily strength is considerably renewed2 but the confinement of the boat1 equally with dawk travelling1 has prevented my deriving all the benefit ,i trust ,i may now hope for1 at least on reaching ,cawnpore4 ,i am preparing a different route to that which we talked of together4 ,by the one then proposed ,i could1 if health held out1 by scarcely intermitting a day of travelling or visiting schools1 reach ,bombay by the middle of ,march1 and then1 if a ship be ready to sail1 reach ,calcutta by the end of ,april or early in ,may4 ,but unless duty called1 ,bombay would be out of my way2 and ,i cannot but own that the spirit of enterprise has much departed from me4 ,i shall now propose to go from ,cawnpore to ,saugor 7not included in the former plan7 expecting to be there the second ,sunday in ,november2 at ,mhow the first ,sunday in ,december2 ,neemuch the third in ,december2 ,nuseerabad at ,christmas2 ,agra the first or second ,sunday in ,january2 then ,muttra1 ,delhi1 ,meerut1 ,kurnaul1 and to the snowy mountains during ,april1 ,may and till the middle of ,june2 return by ,meerut1 ,fettyguhr1 and the ,ganges1 so as to reach ,calcutta in ,july1 or early in ,august4 ,this would not make my absence from ,calcutta above three months longer than in the former scheme1 and would keep me upon my own ground2 and in the hills ,i should have useful employment4 ,but in the view of such a journey ,i cannot but feel how appropriate the language of the ,apostle is1 ,if the ,lord will8 ,i do trust my resolves are all formed in that spirit1 and ,i often do feel that a reconciled ,god is near at hand4 ,if the ,bishop could but make this tour ,i should expect ,god would greatly bless his visits4 ,i find every where some who seem waiting for the kingdom of ,god1 and a few who love and live on the ,gospel of our ,saviour4 ,a marvellous change in public feeling has certainly taken place among the upper classes of our countrymen1 in respect of the disposition to favour good plans4 ,it seems a pity that their means of supporting such plans should be shortened just now4 ,i was expecting the society of a valued young friend from ,cawnpore to ,mhow1 when behold6 the youth has found for himself a wife2 and the lady cannot travel such long stages as ,i must make4 ,i must therefore proceed alone1 with my own thoughts to keep me company4 ,i leave this1 ,d4,v4 on ,monday evening by land1 having left my pinnace here3 ,i intend to stay over the heat of ,tuesday at a staging bungalow2 go forty miles to ,futtypore1 where are ,christian friends2 stay with them till ,thursday evening1 and proceed to ,cawnpore so as to arrive by ,friday to breakfast4 8,on the #beth ,september1 ,i arrived at ,allahabad1 and on the #bfth went to breakfast with the ,chaplain2 and afterwards with him visited and examined the school in the fort4 ,there are twenty boys and eight or ten girls receiving instruction3 of these eight or ten are orphans1 and their schooling is paid for out of the sacramental and other collections3 and also paper1 pens1 and books are supplied to the school4 ,the other children pay three and half ,rs4 each a month1 as remuneration to the teachers4 ,the proficiency of the children was very moderate1 except in the ,church ,catechism1 in which about twelve of them gave ready and intelligent answers to questions4 ,there1 as at other stations1 the reward-books supplied to me by ,lady ,william were gladly received4 ,on the #bhth1 ,i was unwell1 and obliged to lie by4 ,on the #bith1 towards evening ,i examined the native girls' school1 where several ladies of the station met me4 ,by the care of friends here a large compound close upon the bazaar has been obtained1 and a very commodious school-room erected from funds raised on the spot4 ,this was the first time the school was used1 nineteen girls were present1 all children of ,mahomedans6 ,it is expected that the number of children will not increase4 ,of those present ten read with fluency any part of the ,hindoostanee ,new ,testament1 and repeated correctly the ,hindoostanee catechism in use4 ,the school is under the care of an officer's widow1 assisted by a poor woman1 who teaches the lower classes4 8,a catechist of the ,church ,missionary ,society is also stationed here1 named ,david ,batavia1 originally from ,ceylon4 ,he reads prayers with the ,native ,christians in the invalid lines1 amounting to from ten to fifteen2 and also to about the same number of christians of the same class in the fort4 ,he goes about from time to time distributing tracts1 and conversing with the natives about ,christianity4 ,his piety and benevolence are admitted by all who know him1 but no extensive good has yet appeared to result from his labours4 ,he resides in a house which was given to the ,church ,missionary ,society1 by the ,rev4 ,mr4 ,crauford1 when he was ,chaplain here4 ,the house is well situated for a ,missionary's residence4 ,on ,sunday morning we had ,divine ,service in the garrison at six4 ,there is now only one ,company of ,artillery here1 and of these many are ,roman ,catholics2 so that only about forty were present3 but the conductors and others connected with the magazine1 who with their families reside in the fort1 exceed sixty2 and with a few from cantonments made a congregation of about #ajj4 ,i preached in the morning1 and in the evening at the circuit bungalow1 where upwards of thirty attended4 ,the partition-wall in this bungalow is about to be removed1 when it will be much more commodious for public worship than in its present state1 and it is expected more will attend4 ,on ,sunday evening last--those who came late could with difficulty be seated4 ,the situation of the ground about the fort is below the level of the ,ganges during the rains4 ,the river is kept out by an embankment1 which was this year in danger of giving way4 ,the ground is thus low for a distance of about two miles from the fort1 where on a rising ground the ,military ,cantonments and ,civilians' houses are situated4 ,no ,church could therefore be erected nearer than about two miles from the fort4 ,a vacant space may there be found close to the circuit bungalow1 the nearest point to the fort4 ,so that there must always be two congregations at this station4 ,mr4 ,r4 ,bird has informed you of the numbers and growing importance of ,allahabad2 as a ,missionary station it is become of very great importance4 ,a numerous and wealthy population reside in the bazars1 engaged extensively in trade2 and the town being at the junction of the rivers ,ganges and ,jumna1 will increase in proportion as the country is prosperous4 ,the numbers who now resort to the ,board of ,revenue and to the ,sudder ,court will give opportunity of circulating the glad tidings over all upper ,india2 and ,mr4 ,l's experience at ,monghir has led me to build much on this resort of strangers4 8,futtypore1 ,october #crd4 ,at this station there are only four government servants2 and only one of them married4 ,the judge and doctor are old acquaintances of mine1 and ,i am staying a day to break the journey to ,cawnpore1 where ,i hope to arrive to-morrow morning4 ,a school is maintained by these few residents here1 the medical man giving a good deal of his time to it1 and also to a hospital where many sick poor are attended to3 the expense of this is also maintained by friends on the spot4 ,the population being to a considerable extent ,mohamedan1 the school is not so well attended as is desirable4 ,i visited it this morning3 there were thirty boys present2 of these six have made some proficiency in ,english under a native1 educated in the school at ,cawnpore4 ,his proficiency is very moderate1 and his scholars accordingly come on slowly4 ,they were reading the #crd chapter of ,st4 ,matthew1 having with much patience and good management been brought to read our ,scriptures4 ,at first much opposition was made to their introduction4 ,they are aware1 they say1 that from reading these books people become ,christians4 ,here as every where the field is open for ,missionary labour4 8,i have here met with an officer who has travelled the route ,i mentioned a few days since by ,saugor to ,mhow1 ,neemuch1 ,nuseerabad1 and ,agra4 ,i was apprehensive that there might be dense jungle to pass through1 and danger from malaria2 but he tells me the country is pretty well cultivated1 and that there is no jungle to speak of2 that the aspect of the country1 moreover1 is interesting1 much beyond these level plains4 ,i seem therefore fixed in that plan4 ,i shall be ready to leave ,cawnpore1 ,i conclude1 by the last week in ,october2 and will send before ,i proceed1 a detailed account of the progress ,i expect to make4 8,i leave here the young ,baboo who accompanied me1 and whose conduct has been uniformly ,christian and correct4 8,i arrived at ,cawnpore on the morning of the #dth ,october4 ,from the wish not to lose time1 ,i had left my boat at ,allahabad and proceeded dawk1 as ,i had to that place from ,benares1 via ,jaunpore4 8,this mode of travelling made me very unwell1 and prevented for a whole week my taking so active a part as ,i otherwise might have done4 ,i was also prevented visiting ,lucknow1 which ,i could have done only by dawk4 ,i wrote however to ,mr4 ,greenwood for information4 ,he also came over for a day to ,cawnpore1 and represented his situation at ,lucknow as pleasant and his prospects as encouraging4 ,he receives every attention and aid which ,christian kindness can devise1 from the chief authorities there4 8,october #f4 ,i attended ,divine service at the church bungalow1 and stood up once more in ,martyn's pulpit4 ,the place is a little enlarged1 by adding the portion where the communion-table stood1 to the body of the building1 and adding another space to which the communion-table has been removed3 and also a small vestry4 ,i was rather late from the distance of ,mr4 ,w's4 bungalow1 and this prevented my mind1 in going1 from dwelling on the well-known scene1 and by-gone experience4 ,the congregation was full and attentive1 and my mind a good deal solemnized by the service4 ,so that on returning1 the remembrance of ,martyn1 and the ,sherwoods and ,mary1 with the occupations of that period1 came powerfully to my recollection1 and ,i could not prevent the tears from flowing rather plentifully4 ,they were not1 however1 tears of regret altogether1 for joys departed4 ,a sense of much short-coming in duty mixed in my feelings2 and the forgiving love of ,god1 with the prospect of all joining in thankful adoration in the realms of bliss1 greatly preponderated4 ,i almost involuntarily began to sing3-- 8,thy mercy1 my ,god1 is the theme of my song40 8,the two ,chaplains at ,cawnpore perform their public service on ,sundays at the riding-school of the ,lancers1 where the horse and foot ,artillery also attend1 and at the church bungalow1 where ,h4 ,m4 ,infantry regiment attends1 and the civil servants and other inhabitants of the station4 ,this duty the ,chaplains take alternately4 ,evening service is always held in the church bungalow at half an hour after sun set2 and this duty the ,chaplains divide between them4 ,besides this there is an evening service on ,tuesdays at the ,magazine1 for the families connected with that department2 on ,wednesday evening in the small chapel on ,mr4 ,w's premises1 where many of the riding-school congregation attend1 and on ,thursday evening in a large room near the ,infantry barracks4 ,on ,sunday evening also there is evening service in the chapel of ,mr4 ,w's premises4 8,the attendance on these occasions is generally full1 especially at the church bungalow on ,sunday evenings1 when a very considerable number of the upper classes1 as well as others1 are regularly present4 ,i officiated at all these places1 except the riding-school3 being prevented by illness from going out the ,sunday ,i was at liberty for that service4 ,on ,sunday1 the #bjth1 ,i preached in the church bungalow in behalf of the mission here1 when #fie ,rs4 were collected and #ajj ,rs4 sent afterwards1 besides some blank tickets1 which would make the collection upwards of #ajjj ,rs4 8,there is an establishment at ,cawnpore called the ,free ,school1 established and partly maintained by private contributions2 and to which ,government allows #djj ,rs4 a month4 ,in this there are at present seventy-two children learning ,english1 of whom eighteen are christians who are boarded and clothed also from the funds4 ,there is a ,persian class1 and also a ,sanscrit class4 ,those who learn ,english all learn together according to their proficiency4 ,several native youths have become qualified in this school for public offices1 and have obtained situations of considerable emolument4 8,connected with the mission are four schools1 superintended by different friends1 who take an interest in them4 ,these have each an ,english class1 as well as scholars who learn ,hindoostanee or ,persian4 ,about #bej of these boys assembled in the church bungalow on the morning of the #abth4 ,i was obliged to confine the examination to the ,english classes1 which occupied us from sunrise till after nine4 ,the first class of the ,free ,school boys had made the greatest progress1 and their pronunciation of ,english was very correct2 but the best boys had been provided for in various ways lately1 so that those present had not advanced far4 ,a few of them had some knowledge of grammar1 and could point out with readiness the position of countries and remarkable places on the globe4 ,the boys of the magazine school were next in proficiency1 and a class in ,hindoostanee read with admirable accuracy and readiness portions in the ,hindoostanee ,new ,testament1 which they at the same time translated4 ,the ,rev4 ,mr4 ,c4 officiates in ,hindoostanee at the church bungalow1 at #d ,p4 ,m4 on ,sundays and ,thursdays4 ,i attended on one occasion2 there were six men and six women1 which constitute the chief of his regular congregation4 ,a catechist1 brought up by ,mr4 ,bowley1 has been stationed here about three years4 ,he goes into the bazaar almost daily to converse with his countrymen on the important subject of religion4 ,he is spoken of as maintaining a steady christian character4 ,he officiates as clerk to ,mr4 ,c4 and reads the chapter1 which ,mr4 ,c4 expounds after prayers4 8,i examined the school of ,h4 ,m4 #ddth1 which is in the best condition by far of any school ,i have seen during this journey3 the general reading and knowledge of the ,english language1 the acquaintance with ,english history1 and accuracy in dates1 the proficiency in geography and arithmetic of the first class of the boys1 consisting of seven1 was exceedingly pleasing4 ,three of them also read ,hindoostanee4 ,the first class of girls also were very well instructed1 and these classes1 as well as the lower ones1 were all well acquainted with the ,church ,catechism4 ,there were #ajj of both sexes4 ,the school of the ,lancers consists of about seventy2 their proficiency was not so good1 having been interrupted by sickness4 ,the mortality of this station has been great this year1 beyond most other seasons4 ,the heat both for intenseness and continuance has this year been unusual4 ,the register between ,july and ,september exhibits a list of #bbd buried4 ,the children of the regiments have been carried off to a great amount4 ,on account of this sickness the duty of visiting the hospital came heavily upon the chaplains1 especially on ,mr4 ,w41 as these visits were mostly made during the day1 when his colleague was unable to go out in the heat4 ,a considerable seriousness has been wrought in the minds of the generality at the station by the mortality around1 in connection with the labors of the chaplains4 ,the attendance at the ,lord's ,table1 one of the ,sundays ,i was there1 amounted to #aae1 of whom ten were native ,christians2 and it was said not to be a large communion4 8,the collections on these occasions are liberal1 beyond what is found at most other stations4 ,the subject of missions for several years past has been brought frequently to the notice of the congregation1 and a box with two openings is carried round to collect the offerings at the communion2--one marked ,missionary1 the other ,charitable4 ,the collection is usually about #bjj ,rs4 and stated congregational collections are also made4 ,a charitable committee has been formed some time2 also a ,missionary committee4 ,the charitable committee relieves weekly between #djj and #ejj poor3 the ,missionary committee have in hand now about #aj1jjj ,rs4 8,it is not decided what kind of ,missionary ,institution shall be established1 or in what manner it is proposed to conduct it4 ,the want of schoolmasters qualified to teach ,english is1 however1 becoming manifest1 and any plan which would supply this want would be deserving of warm support4 ,it is not in the first instance a ,missionary1 so much as a schoolmaster1 that is called for in a variety of places at this time3 men who would teach grammatically on a small allowance4 ,the free-school at ,cawnpore might serve as the lower branch of such an establishment4 ,at present1 as soon as qualified to earn from #bj ,rs4 a month and upwards1 the scholars leave school4 ,a plan must therefore be adopted to retain promising youths till they become sufficiently instructed to instruct others4 8,i was requested by the ,chaplain to state particularly the condition of the station libraries4 ,during his ,government1 ,lord ,hastings induced the ,court of ,directors to send out a library to each station of ,european troops4 ,these were mostly supplied according to a list ,lord ,hastings himself sent home1 and are generally speaking of a useful tendency4 ,no additions have1 however1 been made to the list first supplied1 and some additional supplies are greatly needed4 ,in the ,infantry regiment the commanding officer has encouraged the resort of the soldiers to the reading room1 and a considerable spirit of reading and improvement prevails in ,h4 ,m4 #ddth4 ,the soldiers1 assisted by the officers1 have added1 ,i believe1 to the ,government stock2 and many of the soldiers' wives have benefitted also by the ,library3--a circumstance too unusual hitherto in the army4 ,the appointment of ,librarian1 and also the care of the books1 was originally assigned by ,government to the ,chaplains of stations1 but this order has not been properly attended to4 8,in the ,cavalry ,corps at ,cawnpore1 the public library has not been encouraged1 and on ,government determining to erect a new reading-room1 the ,chaplains were not consulted as to the site or dimensions4 ,the situation of the new reading-room is not considered favorable for the resort of the soldiers1 and no less than #fjjj ,rs4 have been expended1 when a room of half the cost would have equally answered the purpose4 ,if ,government were to republish the order placing the station libraries under the charge of the ,chaplains1 and to order that in all arrangements respecting the libraries and schools and the rooms for them1 the ,chaplain should be of the ,committee1 it would conduce greatly to the efficiency of these institutions2 and if either from public or private sources a few suitable books were from time to time added to the existing stock1 it would tend greatly to keep up a spirit of reading among the soldiers40 ,from ,cawnpore1 the ,archdeacon proceeded to ,banda4 ,he arrived at that place on the evening of ,saturday1 ,oct4 #bf1 and on the ,monday following received letters from the ,bishop of ,calcutta1 informing him that it was the intention of the authorities in ,england1 to appoint him to the ,bishopric of ,bombay1 which an act passed this year for the renewal of the ,east ,india ,company's ,charter1 had enabled his majesty1 ,king ,william ,,iv41 to erect4 ,the directions of the ,bishop also were1 that the ,archdeacon should forthwith return to the presidency1 preparatory to his proceeding to ,england4 ,the intelligence which the ,bishop of ,calcutta conveyed1 was altogether unexpected by the ,archdeacon1 and occasioned him some embarrassment4 ,the calls upon his pecuniary resources had of late been many1 what with the charges attendant on the education of his children1 and his wife's voyages to ,england1 added to some loss by the failure of a house of agency4 ,unless1 therefore1 government should provide for the expenses1 which a voyage to ,england1 for consecration1 would entail upon him1 he could scarcely avoid contracting some debt for the time2 and that he felt would scarcely be right for him to risk1 at his period of life4 ,these1 and other considerations which were likely to affect the future welfare of his family1 the ,archdeacon candidly stated to the ,bishop of ,calcutta in a letter from ,banda1 in which he further observes3-- 8,i turn my face toward ,calcutta to-morrow1 ,d4,v4 ,i had reached just the border of my former local knowledge1 and should have been very unwilling to give up the prospect before me had ,i proceeded much further4 ,i had taken no measures directly or indirectly towards the attainment of the honor and responsibility in question2 and trust ,i may hope that ,god will guide and second my poor endeavours to serve the ,church according to ,his will4 ,if then ,i say ,i turn toward ,calcutta with some reluctance1 it is merely lest what ,i have stated should prevent my going to ,england4 ,if prevented going1 the omission of visiting the remaining stations would be in vain1 and the loss sustained for no good purpose4 ,for1 little as ,i feel capable of effecting1 yet good will ,i am persuaded follow these passing visits4 8,our ,church goes on her way1 doing what she can2 too secure1 perhaps1 that her endeavors are generally known and appreciated4 ,those who separate from us tell all they do1 and seem sometimes to make much of little4 ,to those at a distance they however seem the only people at work1 and in consequence are applied to for books and for information on missionary subjects1 and for missionaries and school-masters4 ,mr4 ,d4 for instance1 has been applied to1 to supply a teacher at ,allahabad2 and at ,banda he was applied to in the first instance to supply a teacher at ,futtypore4 ,in visiting the stations1 ,i see almost every one who is disposed to take an interest in missions1 schools1 c4 ,they have almost all been educated in ,church-of-,england principles and modes of worship1 and would all prefer receiving aid from us1 and remaining connected with the ,establishment4 ,these visits bring them acquainted with what is doing among their own friends4 ,they will learn where to look for help1 such as they can in all respects approve4 ,in this way some1 who were inclined to good1 are led to come forward openly1 and the cause of truth and righteousness gathers strength4 ,the disposition to establish schools is increasing everywhere2 and if half a dozen teachers could be got at once1 they might be set to work4 ,with reference to this subject the ,high ,school might become an important ,institution1 and would be well employed in educating some of the best boys with the expectation of being useful as school-masters4 8,i must travel to ,allahabad by land1 which will occupy about ten days2 and then ,i shall hire a boat to proceed downwards4 ,a letter is ten days reaching ,calcutta from this2 so that a few lines1 if you see cause for changing my course1 would meet me at ,benares4 ,i could even then return to ,saugor by a more direct route1 and pursue the plan before intended with the loss of not more than a month4 ,i have made observations in my progress with reference to future visitations1 which ,i intend to commit to writing with a view to aid in enabling to do more good40 ,to the same prelate he writes3-- 8,nov4 #abth1 #ahbc1 near ,gazeepore4 ,on arriving at ,benares yesterday morning1 ,i found your favor of the #eth inst4 8,at ,benares ,i was not less than #bjj miles from the point whence ,i returned2 ,i should therefore1 had ,i delayed at ,benares1 have been able to march straight to the hills1 without time to accomplish any thing at intermediate stations4 ,i think therefore you will approve of my coming on at once to ,calcutta1 as ,i am now doing4 ,i could not have borne so long a journey by dawk4 ,i passed ,sunday last at ,chunar1 and took part of the duty with ,mr4 ,e42 ,mr4 ,smith officiated twice at ,benares4 8,i am happy to state that ,messrs4 ,knorpp and ,leupolt are such proficients in ,hindoostanee1 as already to be able to undertake the duties of the native ,christian ,chapel40 #afb ,the ,native ,christian master of the ,mirzapore school1 and the person who had formerly been ejected from house and home for editing the ,enquirer4 #afc ,see above pp4 #ed1 #ee4 #afd ,see ,martyn's ,letters and ,journals4 ,october #bcrd1 #ahjf1 for one or two notices which will illustrate what is here said4 #afe ,palanquin4 #aff ,one of the attendants4 #afg ,from this list it appears1 that the first class 7of #i boys7 could read1 spell1 and translate ,goldsmith's ,history of ,england to p4 #gg1 and ,scripture ,lessons1 on the ,history of ,joseph to p4 #ad4 ,they committed to memory the #aagth ,no4 on ,agriculture1 and #bdhth ,no4 on ,astronomy1 of ,blair's ,preceptor4 ,they worked exercises on the #adth ,rule of ,syntax of ,lennie's ,grammar2 the ,rule of ,three2 #acth ,problem on the terrestrial globe of ,goldsmith's ,grammar of ,geography1 and were committing to memory the #bnd part of ,watts' ,catechism a second time4 ,,chapter ,,xx4 ,,delay ,,in ,,his ,,nomination ,,to ,,the ,,bishopric--,,narrow ,,escape ,,from ,,death--,,summoned ,,to ,,england--,,visits ,,the ,,cape ,,and ,,st4 ,,helena--,,his ,,consecration--,,interview ,,with ,,the ,,king--,,arrival ,,in ,,madras--,,visit ,,to ,,tanjore ,,and ,,tinnevelly4 ,the ,archdeacon arrived in ,calcutta1 from his visitation1 on the #cjth of ,november #ahcc4 ,he there learned1 it seems1 that his probable destination had been changed2 for in writing to ,mr4 ,sherer1 he observes-- 8,you are aware of the intention of those in power1 respecting my being appointed to ,madras4 ,i have not sought1 and may therefore1 ,i trust1 receive the appointment as from ,god1 and expect ,him to guide and uphold me in the duties of it4 ,to have gone home without so public a designation1 would1 in some sense1 have been more agreeable to me2 expecting1 as ,i must1 to be often called before the public3 but to have taken #8sweet counsel' once more with you and my family would have been a great gratification4 ,should the appointment take place here1 it will be like taking a final adieu of you all1 as it respects the life that now is40 ,it appears1 however1 that for several months he received no further communications on the subject of the ,bishopric4 ,thus he writes ,,to ,,his ,,wife4 8,feb4 #f1 #ahcd4 8,i have received several letters from various quarters on my rumoured preferment4 ,in the mean time1 ,i hear no more on the subject4 ,i am not1 however1 in the least anxious4 ,i am sure whatever be ,god's will must be best4 ,i have no reluctance to remain here40 ,the ,archdeacon was now1 in fact1 on board a pilot-schooner1 cruising in the bay of ,bengal1 with a view to recover himself from the effects of a bad cold4 ,from thence he writes ,,to ,,his ,,brother4 8,the renewal of the ,east ,india ,company's ,charter promises great and important changes for this country4 ,they are all intended by the framers of the ,bill2 without any regard to religion in any form4 ,how far ,god will overrule this proceeding in rulers professedly ,christian1 remains to be seen4 ,certain it is that great changes have already taken place1 in both ,european and ,native ,society4 ,in the latter1 any real good has been effected through ,god's blessing on missionary exertions4 ,to this1 ,government in former days was opposed2 now it is not so3 and we require only men and support1 to spread the christian knowledge far and wide2 and we do hope ,divine ,providence is favouring the purpose1 and will supply the means4 ,as to our ,european ,society1 a friend who was with us lately from ,madras1 says1 that in all the ,society1 chiefly mercantile1 he came in contact with whilst with me1 he saw or heard nothing in general offensive to christian feeling4 ,this from a stranger1 and one capable of judging1 speaks well for ,calcutta4 ,indeed1 at this time1 every pulpit in ,calcutta1 and the adjoining stations1 is supplied with a faithful preacher2 and the example of our beloved ,bishop makes even the timid bold #8to declare the whole counsel of ,god4'0 ,,to ,,his ,,sister4 8,march #d1 #ahcd4 8,before this reaches you1 my destination will be fixed4 ,if not removed from this presidency1 it is probable my residence henceforth will be at ,agra1 the seat of the new residency1 as next in authority to the ,bishop1 who will continue at ,calcutta4 ,in either case1 the prospect of you and ,i meeting again1 is removed to a distance ,i do not like to let my mind dwell upon4 ,when ,i recur to ,stoke1 a thousand overpowering recollections crowd upon me4444 ,for myself1 my days have passed as a dream4 ,i have had much enjoyment1 but seem not to have accomplished any one thing as ,i might have done4 ,i was beginning to anticipate much enjoyment in the society of ,sherer and my brothers1 but that seems to be deferred for a season1 if it ever arrive4 ,the anxieties attendant on domestic life have been comparatively few4 ,the loss of children ,i now contemplate as a gracious appointment1 fixing by a process at the time painful1 two olive-branches in the ,paradise of ,god2 and if it please ,god1 that ,eliza and the children reach me in safety1 no earthly care will more1 ,i think disturb me4 ,yet ,i know cares will arrive1 but as my day is1 strength will be vouchsafed40 ,in the month following the date of the foregoing letter1 ,archdeacon ,corrie had a narrow escape from death by drowning4 ,the circumstances attending the danger to which he was exposed1 are thus related by himself in a letter ,,to ,,his ,,brother4 8,calcutta1 ,may #f1 #ahcd4 8,i may mention that on the #bbnd ult4 ,j4 ,jackson and ,i set off to go to ,ishipore1 or the ,government powder-mills4 ,through the kindness of a friend in the ,military ,board1 the use of a house there had been assigned me1 for two months1 near to our valued friend ,major ,powney2 and we were going to take possession4 ,we proceeded in a bholiah1#afh with a fair wind1 and had reached opposite the grove1 when an alarm was given that the ,bore#afi was coming in4 ,john and ,i had just time to get from under the cover1 when1 sure enough1 a foaming breaker was close astern4 ,the first wave the boat surmounted1 but then #8broaching to1' as sailors say1 the second wave turned her bottom upwards4 ,john and ,i and all the people1 ten in number1 were plunged into the deep4 ,i for some time could not rise1 and swallowed a good deal of water1 when ,i providentially became involved in the sail1 by the aid of which ,i reached the surface2 and my servant 7,wahid7 who was swimming in search of me1 presently seized my arm and drew me towards the boat1 which was floating up with the tide2 and by degrees ,i got upon her keel4 ,john had some difficulty also1 in reaching the boat2 and we were picked up by a friendly ,indigo-planter1 who himself narrowly escaped4 ,he gave me a blanket1 which prevented cold1 and at ,tittagur1 we got from ,mr4 ,bateman1 at the ,bishop's country-house1 a change of clothes1 and in the evening we returned by land without suffering any inconvenience whatever4 ,the news somehow got abroad1 and ,i have received much sympathy1 and more tokens of interest in my fate than ,i expected4 ,the danger was imminent1 but was over in a few minutes40 ,in a memorandum penned on the day following that on which this accident occurred1 after reciting the foregoing particulars respecting it1 the ,archdeacon adds3-- 8,on finding myself below the flood the thought occurred1 #8,is my end come8' ,but ,i do not recollect that any ejaculation or any cry for help escaped me4 ,afterward in ,mr4 ,p's boat there appeared danger from the roughness of the weather1 when ,i did refer myself to ,god1 to be disposed of according to ,his will1 without reservation4 ,i have this morning before day1 solemnly called my ways to remembrance before ,god1 and have solemnly #8received the ,atonement1' if ,i never received it before2 desiring to receive ,christ as my sanctification1 as well as my righteousness2 having proof even since this event1 that unless ,he sanctify as well as justify me1 ,i shall remain unholy still40 ,during the month of ,july1 ,mrs4 ,corrie and her daughters reached ,calcutta in safety1 and in the meanwhile the ,archdeacon had received directions to proceed to ,england for consecration4 ,he observed in a letter addressed1 on the #bdth of ,june ,,to ,,his ,,brother4 8,a few days1 since1 ,i received from ,mr4 ,grant an official notice of my nomination as ,bishop of ,bombay1 and desiring me to come home for consecration at my earliest convenience4 ,i have received a verbal consent from the chiefs in authority here also1 to send me home on service with the same allowance ,i now have1 till ,i enter on my new appointment4444 ,i will say nothing of the prospect before me1 but that ,i feel rather depressed than elevated by it4 ,bombay is as new to me as it would be to you1 except that ,i know what it is to bear this climate and people40 ,it was found1 however1 that the ,indian authorities had no power to allow the ,archdeacon to receive his present stipend until he should enter on his new appointment4 ,the reason indeed why the ,government at home could give no definite instructions until now1 respecting the ,archdeacon's movements was1 that although the provisions of the new charter allowed of his appointment to one of the additional bishoprics1 it decided also that his stipend as ,archdeacon should thereupon cease1 and that his allowance as ,bishop should not commence until he actually landed in ,india1 to exercise the duties of his office there4 ,but as under such circumstances he felt called upon to decline the office1 it was in contemplation to send out a bishop from ,england who1 in conjunction with the bishop of ,calcutta1 should consecrate the third bishop in ,india4 ,the difficulty alluded to having however been surmounted1 the ,archdeacon writes ,,to ,,his ,,brother4 8,august #d1 #ahcd4 8,i am happy in the prospect of enjoying your society for a season again4 ,i think we shall correspond with more intimate1 though ,i scarcely conceive we can with warmer1 feeling than before4 ,my heart has always clung to the idea of brothers and sister as1 next to wife and children1 the strongest tie to earth3 and my visit home will1 ,i am sure1 only strengthen this feeling4 ,i wrote to ,h4 in ,may1 of my expectation of coming home in ,september4 ,some rumours had led me lately to conclude that ,i might be spared the journey and voyage2 but last week ,i received a notification from the ,commissioners for ,indian affairs1 that ,his ,majesty has granted me a pension of #hjj a year1 to be drawn only when deriving no emolument from ecclesiastical preferment in ,india4 ,this we conclude ,mr4 ,grant meant as a supply for the expences of visiting ,england for consecration4 ,it is all he can do2 and the ,court of ,directors are altogether so opposed to the increase of the number of ,bishops1 that they will afford no aid whatever4444 ,i expect to embark in ,october4 ,it was in ,october last that ,i was first informed of the preferment intended for me1 but till ,june last1 had no certainty3 and now the difficulties by sea and land1 and especially the separation from family1 render the prospect far from cheering4 ,i do not pretend to be insensible to the distinction implied in being a bishop1 though heartily glad that no #8,lordship' is connected with it in this instance4#agj ,i know ,indian society well2 and know that from the familiarity with which all in the service mix1 from the ,ensign or ,writer of six months standing1 to the ,general or grave ,judge of the ,circuit1 that a man coming with a title is viewed with much jealousy3 and unless1 like ,heber1 he make himself one with them1 whilst every sentence he utters proves his mental superiority1 he will rather be shunned than sought4 ,as it is1 whilst ,i seek not theirs' but them1 ,i may1 as in time past1 be permitted to do a little good in my way40 ,archdeacon ,corrie had made every preparation for proceeding to ,england1 intending that ,mrs4 ,c4 and his daughters should remain in ,india2 but the health of his wife began so decidedly to fail again1 that the medical men peremptorily decided that her only human chance of recovery was from a voyage to the ,cape4 ,this unforeseen domestic trial prevented the ,archdeacon from embarking so soon as was originally arranged2 but on the #abth of ,november he quitted the shores of ,bengal in the ship 8,exmouth40 ,it pleased ,god to grant him a prosperous voyage to the ,cape1 where he arrived with his family on the #acth of ,january #ahce4 ,after a stay there of some days1 the ,archdeacon embarked for ,england1 taking with him his eldest daughter1 the rest of his family remaining at the ,cape4 ,in a memorandum dated ,feb4 #acth4 he remarks3-- 8,we left ,st4 ,helena yesterday evening about #g o'clock1 and have thus far had a fair and favouring wind4 ,on the #aath ,i went with ,anna to visit ,napoleon's grave4 ,the spot is sequestered1 and might well attract his notice in life4 ,he used frequently to retire1 and read under the trees which now overshadow his tomb4 ,great was the kindness of the ,english ,government towards him2 but his restless mind could take pleasure only in troubled scenes4 ,he was a great instrument in breaking down old barriers to the progress of ,divine truth4 ,may ,god in mercy supply the means of establishing ,his truth1 on the ,continent of ,europe and in all the earth6 ,i received much civility from the ,governor1 ,his ,majesty's ,commissioners and others4 ,only one ,chaplain in the island1 and he sickly4 ,the population is about #e1jjj4 ,there is a good deal doing in the way of schools4 ,a ,free-school contains one hundred and twenty boys2 ,plantation day-school fifty-five boys1 and twenty-two girls4 ,four evening schools ninety-two3 four girls' ,day-schools1 fifty-seven3 ,hutsgate1 twenty-six4 ,in all1 #eab children1 of whom sixty-nine are supported by ,government1 and sixty-eight boys1 and twenty-five girls by the ,benevolent ,society4 ,there are about #cjj ,chinese settlers2 industrious1 but ignorant4 ,for these a school-master is to be recommended by ,his ,majesty's ,commissioners4 ,mr4 ,brook1 however1 told me1 that they have families by the race of mixed blood1 and that their children go to school and become identified with their mother's class4 ,the labours of the ,chaplain are too much for his health3 another is greatly needed40 ,on ,tuesday ,april #g1 the ,archdeacon and his daughter landed at ,dover from the #8,exmouth1' slept at ,canterbury1 and proceeded the next day to ,london1 where he was cordially welcomed by ,mrs4 ,wilberforce ,bird1 the daughter of his valued friend1 the late ,rev4 ,david ,brown4 ,he remarks in a memorandum1 dated ,april #abth4-- 8,i have been prospered hitherto in all my expectations4 ,i have endeavoured to pray for pardon and grace to guide me--all that ,i have aimed at hitherto1 has succeeded4 ,may ,i be enabled to receive the good1 so as not to be elated and so grieve the ,holy ,spirit to leave me to darkness and corruption4444 ,the views on the way to town were enlivening on all sides4 ,multitudes of small1 most comfortable dwellings1 well deserving the name of #8,the happy homes of ,england2' besides the stately houses scattered up and down3 whilst increasing buildings at every place1 indicate high prosperity1 and give an appearance of comfort that goes to the heart4 ,but comfort is inseparable from duty1 and my duty seems to call me away from these fair scenes to a literally and spiritually1 #8dry and barren land4' ,may ,god but go with me1 for he can open springs in the desert40 ,in obedience1 therefore1 to the calls of duty1 the ,archdeacon did not consider himself at liberty to remain in ,england longer than might be absolutely necessary for accomplishing the object of his voyage4 ,within a few days1 therefore1 of his arrival in ,london1 he waited upon the ,archbishop of ,canterbury1 to receive his ,grace's directions respecting such matters as might be preliminary to consecration4 ,the ,melbourne administration having1 however1 just at that time returned to power1 the unsettled state of things consequent upon a change of ,ministry1 occasioned some delay in the preparation of the official documents connected with the defining of the boundaries c4 of the diocese of ,madras1 to which see the ,archdeacon had ultimately been nominated4 ,in the meanwhile1 the ,archdeacon took occasion to communicate with the ,committees of the religious ,societies in connection with the ,church2 and had the happiness to receive from all1 the assurance of their willingness to aid him to the utmost of their power1 in furthering his plans for the good of his future diocese4 ,all the time that was not taken up by such necessary occupations as these1 he spent with his surviving relations and friends4 ,his oldest and most valued friend1 ,mr4 ,buckworth1 he was not permitted again to meet on earth2 for that servant of ,god died during the very week1 in which the ,archdeacon reached the shores of ,england4 ,it was whilst visiting his relatives that ,archdeacon ,corrie writes ,,to ,,his ,,wife4 8,june #e1 #ahce4 8,i have now to tell you that the ,archbishop has fixed ,trinity ,sunday1 as the day for my consecration4 ,on the #adth instant1 ,i expect1 therefore1 if the ,lord will1 to be set apart as ,bishop of ,madras4 ,this news ,i received yesterday2 and ,i awoke this morning with such an oppressive feeling of the case1 as to compel me to arise and pray for relief4 ,the ,saviour's grace can render me even an instrument of good2 and in this consideration alone ,i find any thing like repose40 ,before returning to ,london1 the ,archdeacon visited ,cambridge1 and was there admitted to his ,doctor's degree1 by royal mandate1 on the #aath of ,june4 ,he proceeded to ,london on the following day4 ,the day appointed for his consecration having arrived1 he was admitted to the episcopate by the ,archbishop1 assisted by the ,bishops of ,lichfield1 ,carlisle1 and ,bangor2 the preacher on the occasion being the ,rev4 ,josiah ,pratt4 ,in a memorandum1 in which ,dr4 ,corrie noted down the particulars of the service in which he had been engaged1 he remarks3-- 8,i awoke in the morning at four o'clock1 and set myself to prayer4 ,i then read in the ,epistles to ,timothy1#aga and the ,hebrews1 with a view to the service before me1 and was enabled to realize in a small degree the pardoning mercy of ,god1 and to hope for grace in all time to come4 ,i then asked for mercies suited to my apprehension of my present state2 for relatives and friends2 and for the ,church of ,god at large4 ,during the service at ,lambeth1 ,i entered with some fixedness1 into the sentiments expressed in the prayers2 and intend to review them frequently1 to bring my vows to remembrance4 ,when having the robes put on me1 the language of the ,church in ,isaiah came to my mind1 and ,i prayed to be clothed with the garments of ,salvation1 and the robe of righteousness4 8,whilst standing before the table in my rochet1 ,i thought of ,latimer1 led to the stake in his long shirt2 and1 ,i trust1 desired to be found faithful unto death4444 ,on the whole1 ,i bless ,god for the grace vouchsafed to me this day1 and only desire that the impression may remain2 which past experience teaches me will not be the case1 unless ,thou1 ,o ,lord1 carry on that1 ,i trust1 ,thou hast began4 #8,forsake not the work of ,thine own hand1' for ,jesus' sake1 ,amen and ,amen40 ,soon after his consecration1 ,bishop ,corrie remarks in a letter to his wife1 as he notes also in a memorandum3-- 8,i am not yet reconciled to my change of signature4 ,the meaning of the change ,i understand to be1 that those who are appointed to rule in the church of ,christ1 take the name of that portion of ,his body 7,he being ,head and ,bridegroom of the ,church7 to which they are1 in the language of ,scripture1 #8married4' ,if my new name do not remind me of allegiance1 and tend in some degree1 to bind me to obedience1 it will not operate as it ought to do4 ,i find1 however1 the same old nature still within me1 and that it changeth not with a name4 ,may a new nature1 as well as a new name1 be wrought in me60 ,on the #ahth of ,june1 the ,bishop had1 by special appointment1 a private audience of the king4 ,the account of this interview with ,king ,william ,,iv4 was recorded at the time by ,bishop ,corrie1 and is too characteristic of that kind-hearted sovereign to be omitted3-- 8,i went to ,st4 ,james' at four o'clock10 observes the ,bishop1 8and had an interview with the king alone4 ,on entering his closet1 his ,majesty came forward1 offered his hand which1 kneeling on one knee1 ,i kissed4 ,he then desired me to sit down2 and detained me about half an hour4 ,asked1 ,where ,i was educated8 ,where born8 ,how long ,i had been in ,india8 ,my income8 ,pension8 ,how long ,i was going out for8 ,my motives in going8 ,whether ,i had any relatives1 c4 ,saying1 amongst other things1 #8that the ,indian ,bishops ought to have a house3 that he did not like the cutting down of salaries2 feared it would bring back the old abuses2 expressed a high opinion of the ,indian servants of government1 and much interest in the welfare of ,india2 wished me health and strength to perform my duties2 told me not to remain in ,india1 if my health failed2 and said he should be happy to hear of a ,bishop's appointment to ,bombay4 ,he then most graciously dismissed me40 ,on ,friday the #ahth1 the ,bishop attended the ,committee of the ,society for the ,propagation of the ,gospel4 ,the ,bishops of ,lichfield and ,bangor were present2 and at the request of the meeting1 the last-named prelate drew up a resolution congratulatory of ,dr4 ,c4 on his appointment to ,madras1 and expressive of the good wishes of the society towards him2 after which he took his leave4 ,the next day1 the ,bishop and his daughter went on board a steamer at the ,tower-stairs and joined the 8,exmouth10 which was then lying in the ,downs1 and in which they had secured a passage to ,madras4 ,at four o'clock that evening1 the anchor was raised1 and the ship got under sail for her destination4 ,during the following week1 however1 they did not make much way1 for on the #bfth of ,june1 the ,bishop writes ,,to ,,his ,,brother4 8,off ,plymouth4 8,the wind has been contrary1 as you will conclude from the date of this4 ,it is still contrary1 but having now sea-room1 the pilot is about to leave us4 ,farewell1 then1 to ,england1 probably for ever2 though ,i have no presentiment or resolve on that head4 ,and farewell to beloved relatives4 ,how happy are we in the prospect of dwelling together in the #8city which hath foundations6' ,in this1 surely1 we who have lately met are favoured2 and truly thankful am ,i for this communion with you4 8,we'll praise ,god for all that is past1 ,and trust ,him for all that's to come40 ,there were on board the ,exmouth1 several passengers2 among whom were the ,rev4 ,m4 ,wilkinson and his family1 returning to their missionary labours in ,india4 ,besides passengers1 were one hundred recruits1 with their officers1 proceeding to join ,h4 ,m4 #afth regiment of foot4 ,on ,sundays1 as the weather permitted1 the ,bishop was in the habit of celebrating divine service on deck1 and of admitting daily to family-prayer in his cabin1 as many as chose to attend2 whilst ,mr4 ,wilkinson collected from among the soldiers1 a ,bible-class of sixteen1 with whom he read the ,scriptures every day4 ,in the evening of the #fth of ,september1 the ,exmouth reached the ,cape of ,good ,hope1 where the ,bishop had the comfort of finding his wife's health greatly recruited4 ,as1 also1 the ,chaplains at the ,cape were in expectation of ,bishop ,corrie's return1 they had prepared their young people for ,confirmation1 and he accordingly administered that rite on the #abth of ,september1 to #aej candidates4 ,on that day also1 his youngest daughter was married to ,mr4 ,george ,bird1 of the ,madras civil service4 ,on the #acth1 the ,bishop with his wife and daughter sailed from ,simon's bay1 and reached ,madras on the #bdth of ,october4 ,on the same day1 previously to landing1 he recorded the following memorandum3-- 8,after several days of very slow progress1 we are now1 through ,god's goodness1 in sight of ,madras1 but unable to go in1 until the sea-breeze springs up4 ,uninterrupted mercies have followed me through the voyage home and hitherto4 ,much favour has been shewn to me by many of the excellent of the earth4 ,persons in authority have manifested great civility4 ,supplies forthcoming in the most ready manner1 and from unlooked-for sources4 ,i trust some knowledge on various subjects has been acquired by me1 and some increased attention to the holy ,scriptures4 ,new duties now await me1 and the prospect often oppresses me1 lest ,i fail4 ,keep thy servant from presumptuous sins1 and enable me to walk humbly with thee4 ,let no elation1 on account of outward circumstances1 find place in me2 nor depression on account of conscious inefficiency1 prevail to hinder me from doing what ,i can6 ,may ,i be enabled to order my household in a becoming manner4 ,prepare my ways1 ,o ,lord1 with those in authority2 and enable me to act in all things as the servant of ,jesus ,christ60 ,bishop ,corrie having landed at ,madras on ,saturday ,oct4 #bd1 was installed at ,st4 ,george's ,church1 during the morning-service1 on the following ,wednesday4 ,archdeacon ,robinson officiated on the occasion4 ,for the first few weeks after his arrival in ,madras1 the ,bishop occupied himself almost exclusively in making himself acquainted with the state of things around him4 ,thus on the #aeth of ,december1 he writes ,,to ,,his ,,brother4 8,i have been taken up hitherto in exchanging visits of civility4 ,i have preached1 indeed1 in all the churches1 of which we have six in ,madras1 and one at the ,mount1 six miles distant4 ,i have1 also1 visited some of the schools1 and been making myself acquainted with the state of things here as to religion4 ,it is low enough with respect to the descendants of ,europeans4 ,a district ,visiting ,society is much on my mind1 as a means of getting at individuals1 in a more direct way than has been attempted hitherto4 ,i think ,i begin to see my way in this matter2 but feel often much oppressed4 ,we have several good men amongst the ,chaplains2 but ,i am not yet familiarly acquainted with them1 and our communications are consequently somewhat stiff4 8,madras is not at all like ,calcutta2 we live in houses surrounded by large gardens4 ,ours stands in between two or three acres1 and is quite private1 though in the centre of the place1 and about three miles from the landing-place4 ,the surf which breaks on the shore all along the coast1 is constantly sounding1 and at first attracted our notice2 but it is now become a common thing4 8,the ,missions in the south are in much confusion1 in ,tanjore1 from the caste question2 in ,tinnevelly from ,rhenius's separation4 ,i am requested to visit them next month40 ,the question of caste here alluded to1 was in truth none other in principle than that which troubled the ,church in the first ages1 7,gal4 ii4 #c1 c47 and in like manner had created divisions and heart-burnings among the native ,christians at ,tanjore4 ,scarcely had ,bishop ,corrie arrived in ,madras1 before he received a long petition from some of the native priests1 native catechists1 schoolmasters and other native ,christians in ,tanjore and its vicinity1 requesting1 among other things1 that the injunctions left by the ,bishop of ,calcutta respecting the total abolition of caste1 might be somewhat relaxed4 ,it was with reference to that circumstance1 that the ,bishop addressed the following letter to the senior native catechist at ,tanjore3-- 8,madras1 ,dec4 #bi1 #ahce4 8,i lately received a letter in the ,tamul language1 which has been translated for me1 and purports to be from several ,christians1 inhabitants of the villages over which you were formerly ,catechist4 ,they express great regret on account of your removal1 and complain of those who are at present placed by the ,rev4 ,missionaries to instruct them4 ,it is my purpose1 8if the ,lord will10 to visit ,tanjore about the middle of ,january1 when ,i will endeavour to ascertain what is the true character of the ,catechists complained of1 and will take such measures respecting them as the case may require4 ,in the mean time1 you will be so good as to make known this my purpose to the parties who wrote the letter4 ,i wish at the same time1 to beg of you1 who have so long been a teacher of the mercy of ,god to others1 to consider anew the question of caste4 ,can you hold it as a ,christian principle that ,god is a respecter of persons1 and that those who are high-born1 can1 on that account1 claim to come first to the table of the ,lord8 ,no man of any caste1 who is an unbeliever1 or an immoral person1 or profane breaker of any of the commandments of ,god1 ought to be permitted to come at all to the ,lord's ,supper2 and ,i am certain that due respect will always be shewn to respectable ,christians1 by true ,christians who may be inferior to them in temporal circumstances4 ,but you will not1 ,i think1 wish to maintain that any one can claim precedence in spiritual things1 merely on account of natural birth or any outward distinction4 ,i need not quote to you the scriptures1 that in the ,lord ,jesus1 8there is neither circumcision1 nor uncircumcision1 ,barbarian1 ,scythian1 bond nor free20 but 8as many as received ,him1 to them gives he power to become the sons of ,god40 8,i pray ,god that you and others1 who are leaders in the ,lord's army1 may candidly consider this point in a purely ,christian view1 and without reference to any past proceedings4 ,i desire to come among you as a peace-maker1 and restore harmony among you if ,i can4 ,i greatly lament the distress which many1 ,i hear1 are suffering2 and if you1 who are leaders1 will meet me in the spirit of ,christian love1 some of the distress may be removed4 ,not only1 therefore1 in regard to the purity of the ,christian doctrine1 but from love1 also1 to your countrymen and fellow-christians1 ,i hope you will be for peace40 ,the separation of ,mr4 ,rhenius at ,tinnevelly1 from the ,church mission at that place1 had occurred before ,bishop ,corrie reached ,madras4 ,it appears that early in #ahce1 ,mr4 ,rhenius had most unjustifiably published a tract for the purpose of impugning the government1 ritual1 and discipline1 of the ,church of ,england1 notwithstanding that he stood connected as a missionary with the ,church ,missionary ,society4 ,however painful it might therefore be1 to that ,society1 to dissolve their connection with a person who had for twenty years zealously laboured as a missionary1 yet1 under the circumstances of the case1 they felt bound in consistency1 as conscientious members of the ,church of ,england1 to declare that the relationship which had hitherto subsisted between ,mr4 ,rhenius and the ,society was at an end4 ,in this decision ,mr4 ,rhenius readily acquiesced1 and quitted ,tinnevelly in ,june #ahce1 having previously delivered over all the concerns of the ,church-mission there1 to the ,society's representative4 ,within a few months1 however1 ,mr4 ,rhenius thought proper to return to ,tinnevelly1 at the invitation of some dissatisfied catechists2 and the natural consequence was1 that the whole mission at that place underwent a change from a state of organization and peace1 to a scene of strife and disorder4 ,it was with the hope that some remedy might be suggested for this lamentable state of things1 that the ,bishop thought it of importance that he should ascertain personally what might be done for peace and order4 8,i go10 he observes1 in a ,letter to his brother1 8at much personal and pecuniary inconvenience4 ,it will cost me #ajj2 but my instructions are called for1 and ,i cannot direct in the dark4 ,i go with much fear and distrust of myself2 but by calm investigation1 and taking no hasty steps1 ,i trust ,i may effect some good40 ,in a memorandum which the ,bishop made ,january #b1 #ahcf1 in the prospect of the journey1 he states3-- 8,i have examined the ,madras ,asylum1 both male and female2 and the high school at ,vepery4 ,examined also1 the native girls' school of the ,church ,missionary ,society4 ,in all of them a very considerable knowledge of ,scripture is found4 ,i have received ,mr4 ,hickey1 as a ,missionary to the ,portuguese congregation of the ,vepery ,mission2 and am endeavouring to bring about a district ,visiting ,society for ,black ,town1 and to have the ,church-building fund confined to this ,diocese2 which seems agreeable to all ,i have met with1 who wish well to the object4 ,i have taken steps towards issuing marriage licences4 ,in all this1 there is all the prosperity ,i could desire3 yet never at one period have my trials been so great4 ,the experience of that ,pope1 who is said to have doubted of his salvation1 more and more1 as he advanced in the ,orders of his ,church1 till having gained the highest step1 he utterly despaired1 sickened and died1 has been much on my mind4444 ,frequently ,i awake in the night with a feeling of dismay inexpressible1 as to what may be the end of myself1 and in respect of the objects contemplated by my office4 ,intending to visit ,tanjore and ,tinnevelly1 ,i am at a loss utterly how to proceed1 or what to attempt4 ,i am indeed oppressed3 ,o ,lord1 undertake for me4 ,i will still thank ,god1 through ,jesus ,christ our ,lord60 ,it was on the #aath of ,january #ahcf1 that ,bishop ,corrie left ,madras on his mission of peace4 ,the incidents connected with this journey are related in the following correspondence with his wife and family1 or in occasional memoranda3-- 8,sadras1 ,jan4 #ab1 #ahcf4 ,i arrived here at #d o'clock this morning1 just #aa hours after the ,palkee left home1 and this included the passage of the river after ,i left you1 and the delay at the first stage of nearly half an hour4 ,the bearers therefore1 travel faster here than in our country3 they do not change shoulders so often1 but go generally a swinging step1 which is very uneasy4 ,the road lay all the way within sound of the surf1 and here the ,bungalow is not above a gun-shot from the sea4 ,there is one old fort1 and many descendants of ,dutch1 all very poor2 the ,bungalow is in very nice order1 and has accommodation for three parties4 ,a ,colonel1 his wife1 and some children1 with an ,ayah1#agb came in about #g2 they have two rooms1 and ,i one1 but we see nothing of each other4 ,notwithstanding the noise of the bearers1 and the jolting of the ,palkee1 ,i slept a good deal1 and had a nap after arriving1 although a disturbed one4 ,fish and eggs were provided for breakfast1 and ,i am as comfortable as ,i can be from home2 but ,i feel much a stranger and very lonely4 ,my thoughts are often with you all1 and heavy thoughts also arise as to the result of my journey4 ,the more the state of the ,tanjore people is enquired into1 the more difficult it appears to deal with them4 ,their teachers have countenanced much that is wrong among them1 by administering among them1 without reproving their errors2 from which they at length have concluded themselves blameless2 and in looking over the list of charges urged against them1 many seem matters of choice1 which we all observe or not according to taste4 ,may ,he in whom alone is wisdom and strength1 give me both to perceive and to know what things ,i ought to stipulate for1 and grace faithfully to fulfil the same2 and may ,he #8turn the hearts of the disobedient' among them1 #8to the wisdom of the just6'0 8,myaveram1 ,jan4 #ad4 ,i arrived here at half past six1 and having changed my clothes and reposed a little1 purpose giving you a brief sketch of my journey thus far4 ,i am in the house of ,sir ,henry ,montgomery1 the deputy ,collector of ,tanjore1 but have not yet seen him or his lady4 ,the whole way ,i have come is1 as to country1 not only without interest but very dreary2 partly ,i suppose1 that being along shore1 the sea air is unfavourable to vegetation4 ,the road was to ,sadras firm and good1 after that to ,pondicherry1 partly sandy1 and partly lakes of water1 and partly on the very brink of the sea4 ,since leaving ,cuddalore1 at first sandy and heavy1 then stiff soil1 but no made road2 and it took twelve hours to travel about thirty-six miles4 ,we crossed four pretty broad rivers during last night2 two of them branches of the ,coleroon1 a name renowned in ,orme's account of ,hindoostan1 and which ,i little expected ever to behold4 ,on two of the rivers are ferry boats1 provided by ,government1 good and substantial2 but all the other boats ,i have been obliged to use are both comparatively small and very fragile4 ,the water has nowhere been deep1 though enough to give a good ducking4 ,the ,coleroon even might have been passed by wading1 but the bearers professed fear of ,alligators4 ,the song of the bearers continues the same all the way as at ,madras4 8,one mode of adorning their temples1 is peculiar to this part of ,india4 ,near a ,hindoo ,pagoda on this side ,sadras1 ,i observed a colossal figure of a man seated on a throne4 ,for a time ,i could not make out what it could be4 ,yesterday morning1 the same kind of figure presented itself with a spearman on each side standing by it1 and in front a huge figure of a horse4 ,yesterday evening1 passing near a shady grove there seemed to be a row of tigers guarding the entrance1 which in the gloom of the twilight appeared at first very formidable3 and just before ,i reached my present position1 a row of elephants1 and figures of men on horseback1 seemed to guard the entrance to a temple2 and behind were figures as of a flock of sheep4 ,this is all ,i have seen new on my way4 ,this place is like a garden in not quite a wilderness1 for the country seems fertile1 but irregularly cultivated2 and a pretty lawn with a variety of flowers in front1 gives a lovely appearance1 to my eye1 which has seen nothing like it since leaving ,madras4 ,i must not1 however1 disparage ,cuddalore2 but it is an old regularly formed town1 with #cjj ,european pensioners scattered about it1 besides the gentry1 civil and military4 ,i passed yesterday from half past #i till half past #d1 gaining useful information on missionary matters4 ,contrary to my former experience on this point4 ,i sleep a good deal during the night1 so as to require no sleep during the day4 8,twelve o'clock4 ,at breakfast1 met ,sir ,henry and his lady4 ,they are nice young people1 and both seem very happy and intelligent4 ,they have been here five years1 quite sequestered3 he has been eleven years in the service1 but looks considerably younger1 with fine speaking eyes4 ,they go home next year on furlough4 ,they make me very welcome1 and ,i have a nice apartment1 all in the bungalow style4 ,tanjore forty miles3 ,i am to be driven part of the way in the evening4 ,the christian ,catechist1 and some of his people have been to see me2 about #fjj young and old are under christian instruction4 8,i am not yet half on my way2 the distance looks at times dreary1 and the old idea of dragging a lengthened chain1 applies a little to my case4 ,may duty prevail as it ought1 and my chains will feel proportionably lighter6 ,think of me when on your knees6 8,tanjore1 ,january #ag4 ,intending to proceed at bedtime to ,trichinopoly1 ,i leave this for to-night's post2 as otherwise several days would intervene before you hear of me again--the distance to ,trichinopoly is thirty-six miles4 ,on ,friday ,i had a busy day with the ,missionaries1 ascertaining the number and state of their congregations1 accounts of their proceedings c4 ,yesterday ,i was occupied almost the whole day with the ,nonconformists3 at one time1 and for about two hours1 the room was quite full of them4 ,it was a time of great anxiety to me1 hearing their objections1 and answering them4 ,the task was not difficult1 but the point ,i stood upon was the duty of attending the ,lord's ,supper1 without regard to who else might be present4 ,i stated that the bread represents our ,lord's body1 and the wine his blood1 which he offered on the cross for our redemption4 ,in communicating1 we are to think only of the ,saviour1 whose memorial is before us2 and in receiving the bread and wine1 we receive ,christ as the author of our salvation4 ,but if ,i refuse to receive the emblems of the ,saviour because another has partaken before me1 ,i lose sight of the ,saviour1 and treat the bread and wine as common food4 ,this they could not get over1 and ,i am led to hope1 most of them will yield this point1 and if so1 ,i shall have to thank ,god for having come4 ,if not ,i have done what ,i could in this matter4 ,through ,god's goodness ,i am quite well to-day and preparing to preach in ,english at half-past ten2 and to attend family service at four ,p4 ,m4--,evening4 ,the congregation in the morning was about fifty1 besides many natives1 who understand ,english4 ,i have been addressing the native congregation through ,mr4 ,coombes3 may a blessing follow from above6 8,january #aith4 ,i received yours of the #aeth1 yesterday1 at ,trichinopoly1 and sat down to answer it1 but was interrupted4 ,i wrote you from ,tanjore most of the particulars of my visit there4 ,there is nothing to see but the fruits of ,swartz's labours in two ,churches1 and the many called by the name of ,christ among the natives4 ,mr4 ,coombes is invaluable there from his knowledge of ,tamil1 and the right spirit he manifests4 ,i arrived there yesterday morning soon after six3 every thing was done for my comfort4 ,i went before breakfast to the ,church1 which was near1 and saw ,heber's grave1 which will long render ,trichinopoly a place of interest4 8,trichinopoly is a large station1 with good roads about it4 ,both at ,tanjore1 and there1 the chief city is within the ,fort1 which at ,trichinopoly encompasses a pyramidical hill1 on the top of which is a house of imposing appearance1 a kind of monastery of ,brahmins4 ,i write this at a staging bungalow1 half way to ,madura4 ,i have here an invitation from ,mr4 ,blackburn the ,judge of ,madura2 and the ,cutwal has been ordered to shew me all attention4 ,on arriving ,i was saluted with the rattling of tom-toms1 and four or five native hautboys and the ,tahsildar#agc came after breakfast to wait upon me with like state4 ,the bungalow stands in a valley surrounded by irregular hills1 something like those at ,chunar4 ,the climate is cool1 and at night cold4 ,the cause of so much coolness in this latitude1 must rise from the sea on the east1 and the ghauts on the west4 ,i am now forty miles from the sea1 having been verging inland ever since leaving ,cuddalore4 8,madura1 ,wednesday morning4 ,i arrived here at two this morning1 and have had some hours quiet sleep in a fine upper room4 ,i have not yet seen ,mr4 ,blackburn1 but every thing around is in the most comfortable style of an ,indian ,judge4 ,the country all around is flat1 with a continuation of irregular detached hills as yesterday4 ,the night travelling quite unhinges my frame1 as the hand-writing shews4 ,i shall become more steady after a meal4 ,this place is worth describing1 but the post goes to ,madras at eight1 so ,i have not time4 8,jan4 #ba4 ,i am now through ,god's goodness within sixty miles of ,palamcottah2 another night's run will1 proceeding as ,i have done1 bring me to my journey's end1 outward bound4 ,i yesterday sent off a letter for you from ,madura4 ,the collector1 ,mr4 ,blackburn1 was as kind as possible4 ,he invited the other three civilians to tiffin4 ,there were two officers with a detachment1 at some distance1 and four ,american missionaries whom ,i did not see4 ,the ,judge has an infant1 whom ,i am to baptize on my way back1 and there are children of writers1 c41 desirous of the same4 ,none of our ,bishops came so far south2 so that ,i am the first who has visited these parts4 ,alas1 how inadequate to meet public expectation6 8,mr4 ,blackburn's house is one of the best in the country4 ,to the south of it is a large sheet of water1 and a small island in the midst1 with a truly picturesque temple upon it4 ,madura is famous in ,hindoo ,mythology4 ,a grand festival is to be held on #ast ,february1 when the idol will be brought from the temple at some distance1 and take a sail on the lake and visit the summer-house on the island4 ,about a lac of people generally collect on the occasion4 ,i have seen several temples1 all in the style of ,juggernauth for size4 8,at ,madura1 as at ,trichinopoly1 the temple is within the fort1 and the town is there4 ,the country all along very interesting1 and the population very scanty4 ,in the rains1 the face of the country must be covered with water1 it is so flat2 and now there are little streams and rills constantly occurring4 ,these are fed by the water from the hills to the westward1 and for six years the supply has been very scanty4 ,this year the rain has fallen plentifully1 and crops of all kind1 but principally rice1 are abundant4 ,the people are beginning to gather in the rice4 ,they are at work in a threshing-place close to the staging bungalow4 ,i feel very lonely to-day1 though in much peace--my mind has been much with you all during the night4 8,palamcottah1 ,friday4--,at the end of my journey4 ,i now begin to look back1 and the way seems not so long as did the distance ,i have come4 ,i was going on as usual1 and had fallen asleep when the ,palkee was set down at two1 and ,i was told ,mr4 ,tucker was come4 ,he had kindly come out about ten miles2 we returned about two miles1 when the whole body of catechists were standing on each side the way1 and received us with a song of praise4 ,i got out and thanked them for their congratulations1 expressing my wishes for their prosperity4 ,we then came on a tumultuous cavalcade1 and reached the mission-house at twenty minutes past four4 ,mr4 ,tucker prayed1 and ,i went to rest for two hours4 ,we breakfasted at eight1 after family worship4 ,after that1 ten divisions of catechists and schoolmasters1 came in rotation to make salaam4 ,they marched in1 singing a verse of praise4 ,flowers were scattered on my head1 and gold and silver stars2 some of which ,i made ,joseph gather1 when all were gone1 to bring to ,anna4 ,the ,english residents have been to see me also2 you know that bustle rather upsets than gratifies me4 ,my feelings have rather been blunted than pleased by all this2 and a feeling of my own utter worthlessness before ,god keeps me low1 as also of unprofitableness towards men4 8,january #beth4 ,my purpose is to stay here over ,sunday next1 to be at ,madura on ,tuesday2 ,trichinopoly on ,thursday2 and at ,tanjore1 till the ,sunday evening following4 ,on the ,monday1 ,mayaveram2 ,tuesday1 at ,porto ,nova2 ,wednesday at ,cuddalore4 ,perhaps stay there till ,monday evening4 ,friday1 at ,sadras2 and on ,saturday1 ,february #abth1 at ,dulce ,domum4 ,such is my purpose3 may ,god of his goodness dispose accordingly6 8,yesterday we had morning service in ,english1 and in the afternoon1 in ,tamil4 ,i preached both times1 the latter you will judge1 by an interpreter--the native congregation about #ejj4 ,mr4 ,rhenius's proceedings are of the most injurious kind4 ,he is either blinded by self-love1 or most miserably misinformed1 which must be his own fault2 but ,i have not time to-day for particulars4 ,we are all going to dine with ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,prendergast2 ,mr4 ,p4 is also here4 ,till this moment ,i have been occupied with about #bjj catechists and school-masters40 ,the following remarks on the state of the ,tinnevelly ,mission1 occur among the ,bishop's private memoranda3-- 8,palamcottah1 ,jan4 #bh1 #ahcf4 8,i have been here now seven days1 and have been endeavouring to form a distinct idea of the circumstances of this ,mission4 ,it appears1 that from the first1 expectations of redress of wrongs have been held out to such natives as sought aid from the ,missionaries4 ,hence a ,vakeel#agd has been employed at the charge of the mission1 to ascertain particulars of complaint1 and to make representations accordingly to the ,tahsildars and in the cutchery#age of the collector4 ,and this practice has so increased1 that ,mr4 ,pettitt is chiefly occupied in hearing and arranging the temporal affairs of native applicants4 ,the consequence has been that whole villages1 or the greater part of the inhabitants of some villages1 have 8come over10 as the expression is1 at once1 to put themselves under ,christian instruction ostensibly1 but at the same time1 to enjoy the protection referred to4 ,of the many thus reported1 comparatively few have received baptism4 ,in one village of #fjj1 only forty are baptized4 8,on enquiring of the assembled inspecting ,catechists to-day1 #8,how it came to pass1 that of so many reported under ,christian instruction1 for several years1 so few were really baptized8'--the answer given was1 #8,partly from the inattention or bad example of the ,catechists2 partly1 that many being disappointed in their expectations of worldly benefit1 drew back to heathenism2 or1 having obtained their object1 became satisfied1 and were not desirous of baptism4' 8,it appears that little or no distinction is observed in the treatment of the baptized1 and unbaptized4 ,the ,catechist marries the unbaptized when called upon1 and also the baptized4 ,in both cases a charm is put on the neck of the female1 instead of a ring on the finger4 ,the same services are observed at the burial of the baptized and unbaptized2 except that in the former case1 going to the house of the deceased1 and more ceremony is observed4 ,some do not use the ,church service over the unbaptized1 but pray extempore4 ,mr4 ,rhenius in the early part of his ,mission1 used the service of the ,church of ,england in baptism2 and confirmed some young persons by the imposition of hands1 as directed in our ,confirmation-service2 but afterwards omitted our forms altogether4 8,the children of converts seem not to have been attended to1 after the ,scripture rule4 ,some persons having families1 were reported1 by a ,catechist1 as baptized seven years ago4 ,their children1 neither then1 nor since baptized4 ,it seems that ,mr4 ,rhenius has sent to all his ,catechists and ,school-masters to come and pay their respects to the ,bishop2 and accordingly a considerable number came after breakfast4 ,on ,mr4 ,dent having called1 ,i explained that ,i was the ,inspector of the ,church of ,england's ,missions2 and that they having left it1 what had ,i to do with them8 ,one very plausibly answered1 #8,that they worshipped the same ,lord1 and held the same faith1 and preached the same ,gospel as before4' ,i asked if nothing was said in ,scripture of the sin of schism8 ,they answered1 #8,yes4' ,i then said1 #8,was there no sin1 that when one man in a village beat the drum to call the people to prayers1 another should beat the same drum8 ,when one began to pray1 another should begin to pray8' ,they owned this was wrong2 but attempted to lay the blame on the ,church ,missionary ,society's catechists3 but ,i observed from the case of the young man who came before me the other day1 7a catechist of ,mr4 ,rhenius'7 that he had owned that he held public worship1 at the same time with the ,church ,missionary catechist4 ,a long examination of persons followed1 which1 with information before received1 led me to address the party as follows3--#8,that for fifteen years past1 the word of ,god had been made known1 and spread abroad in these parts by means of the ,church ,missionary ,society4 ,that many had become enlightened with the light of life4 ,that ,mr4 ,rhenius had been supplied during that time1 with funds as a ,missionary of the ,church ,missionary ,society4 ,that having separated from the ,society1 he left the place2 and that during his absence all was peace in the mission4 ,that the young man present1 who wrote the letter1 stating that the congregations were wishing for his return1 admitted that he did not of his own knowledge write thus1 but that the catechists1 who signed the letter1 told him so4 ,that some of the ,head-men whose names were affixed to the letter1 told me1 #8that they knew not that it was a letter of recal1 but thought it only a friendly letter of congratulation on his arrival at ,arcot4 ,that one of the inspecting catechists 7then present1 and now in ,mr4 ,rhenius' employment7 had confessed having expressed to ,mr4 ,tucker his sorrow for having signed the letter to ,mr4 ,rhenius2 and that he did not know that it was an invitation to come back1 having read only a part of it2 and was not aware how bad a man ,david ,pillay is3--,that a head-man present1 had confessed just now1 that if ,mr4 ,pettit would have let him the land1 and the palmyra-trees at ,dobnavoor1 for the money he wished 7viz4 four ,rs4 instead of ten ,rs47 he would not have joined ,mr4 ,rhenius3--,that several other of ,mr4 ,rhenius' people present1 had owned to having been1 at different times1 convicted of delinquencies3--,that ,mr4 ,rhenius had been told of the deceits practised upon him1 but he would not believe it of those who invited him back4 ,these things1 in my presence1 had been confessed by them3 but he had come back1 and all this division had followed4 ,the ,society would therefore never receive ,mr4 ,rhenius again4 ,that1 for myself1 ,i could not but grieve to think1 how1 in this way1 ,satan had prevailed to hinder the success of the gospel4 ,that now the heathen laughed1 and said1 #8,the preachers of the ,gospel of ,peace1 are quarrelling amongst themselves4' ,that for those present1 who by deceiving ,mr4 ,rhenius1 and bringing him back1 had been the occasion of this evil1 ,i should pray that ,god would give them repentance1 that they might seek the pardon of this their great sin1 and not finally perish among the unbelievers40 ,the ,bishop adds3-- 8,in one case of ninety-nine families1 in two adjoining villages1 only three families are baptized2 and in some congregations not an individual is baptized40 ,two days after the date of this memorandum1 the ,bishop prepared to leave ,palamcottah4 ,he writes ,,to ,,his ,,wife4 8,jan4 #cj1 #ahcf4 8,my dawk is ordered for to-morrow evening1 so that ,i begin to think of myself as on my way home again4 ,i know not well whether any good has been accomplished by my visit1 except convincing the people that the ,church ,missionary ,society will not abandon the mission4 ,the agents of ,mr4 ,r4 had circulated far and wide that such would be the case4 ,there is no end to the falsehoods propagated by his agents1 and to which he gave indirect occasion4 8,i have seen nothing of the country around1 but from just a little evening's drive2 yet towards the west it is said to be interesting as to scenery1 being towards the ,ghauts4 ,i am no hand at drawing1 as you know1 but this sketch will give you some idea of this station40 8,feb4 #a1 ,stageing ,bungalow4 8,fifty-two miles on the way to ,madras1 and in good health4 ,thanks be to ,god6 ,the dreariness of this place answers very well to my state of mind1 and gives opportunity for looking back4444 ,mr4 ,peet and ,mr4 ,bailey came over from ,travancore4 8,after the ,bishop of ,calcutta had been there and had plainly spoken out what reforms were considered necessary for the clergy1 the two ,metrans collected a hasty synod of their ,church1 and voted in a violent manner that they would have no reform1 nor anything further to do with the missionaries4 ,in consequence the labors of twenty years seem come to nothing4 ,it is now1 ,i believe1 intended that the missionaries shall teach and preach as opportunity offers4 ,if any of the clergy reform1 of which they have now some hope1 their way will be plain2 but it remains to be seen4 ,it had become necessary for ,mr4 ,tucker to go over to see the ,resident1 and consult with him as to the protection it may be in his power1 or be right for him to afford1 to those who may turn from their errors to the truth4 ,mr4 ,t4 will not be above a week or ten days after me at ,madras4 8,yesterday1 ,i ordained ,john ,devasagayam1 priest4 ,mr4 ,tucker preached1 and ,messrs4 ,blackman1 ,pettitt1 ,peet1 and ,bailey1 with ,mr4 ,tucker1 joined in the imposition of hands4 ,the service was all new to me2 ,i had to look out my places1 which took my attention too much off from the sentiments expressed in the service4 ,it was1 however1 on the whole a day of seriousness1 and ,i hope of blessing4 ,john preached in the evening in ,tamil2 his text was appropriate1 ,ephesians vi1 #ah1 #ai4 ,i was told he gave a sketch of his training under ,dr4 ,john1 the colleague of good ,dr4 ,rottler at ,tranquebar2 and related the circumstances of his conversion1 desired the congregation to pray for him1 c4 8,after social prayer with the mission family and the catechists1 ,i came away at half-past-eight4 ,i arrived here1 fifty-two miles1 by nine this morning4 ,by this you will judge how well these bearers carry2 they go three before and three behind1 and their stages are generally about twenty miles and sometimes thirty2 which they accomplish without seeming at all distressed4 ,to-morrow1 d4 v4 ,i have some children to baptize at ,madura1 and then onward in the evening towards ,trichinopoly1 from whence ,i purpose writing again40 8,verully ,malay1 ,feb4 #c1 #ahcf4agf 8,i am to-day at a stageing ,bungalow in the ,tondeman's country1--the title of an independent prince who retains his paternal inheritance independent of the ,company1 in name1 and he is wise enough to be quiet1 collect his own revenue1 and live at peace with the lion4 ,yesterday1 ,i sent off a letter to your beloved mother from ,madura1 and which ,i hope is before me2 but am not certain1 as ,i have come on pretty quick4 ,i mentioned1 in going from hence1 a beautiful lake with a very tasty summer-house1 on an ,island in the middle of it1--in front of the ,collector's house at ,madura4 ,yesterday was the annual ,festival of the ,idol at ,madura2 a float1 with a very splendid temple erected upon it1 was prepared on the lake4 ,a gentleman present said it was like the ,chinese ,temples erected in ,st4 ,james's ,park1 when the allied ,sovereigns were in ,england4 ,the ,idol was brought with great noise1 and amidst a large concourse of people1 from the ,temple in the fort1 above a mile distant1 and placed on the float1 which was then drawn by ropes1 from the shore1 twice round the lake4 ,after a rest1 the float was drawn towards the ,island1 where the ,idol was to pass the evening1 and the ,temple and the entire bank of the lake to be illuminated at night4 ,vast crowds were going towards ,madura1 as ,i came away1 to see the illumination2 and all the ,europeans were to be at ,mr4 ,blackburne's to view the sight4 ,i felt no inducement to stay4 ,colonel ,maclean was there with the ,tondeman1 as resident4 ,two ,american missionaries who were settled at ,madura1 came to breakfast1 and staid till #aa o'clock conversing on missionary subjects4 ,they are very self-denying and persevering in their labours3 ,i was much taken with them4 ,two others of their party were gone to ,ceylon for change1 having lost their wives at ,madura1 within three months of their landing4 ,i baptized a child of ,mr4 ,hooper1 the ,judge1 and saw the catechist of the ,propagation ,society4 ,there is a branch of the ,tanjore mission here1 which has been much neglected of late years1--the ,lord's ,supper has not been administered during two years past4 ,i saw ,mr4 ,rosen1 the missionary of that ,society in ,tinnevelly4 ,his sphere of labour is about #bj miles distant from ,palamcottah4 ,he came hither to see me1 and brought me a statement of his mission4 ,he is a ,dane by nation1 and a good man1 but is deaf and quite inadequate to be alone4444 ,the people of ,tanjore are in a deplorable state of apathy1 and want of spiritual life4 ,i came away from ,madura before #e ,p4 ,m41 and reached my halting-stage by five this morning1 when the bearers being ready1 ,i came on hither1 and am only #bj miles from ,trichinopoly4 ,i expect to be there by nine this evening1 and to enjoy a comfortable bed at ,mr4 ,blair's1 which ,i rather anticipate2 for three disturbed nights add considerably to the natural tremulousness of my frame40 8,trichinopoly1 ,thursday morning4 8,i arrived here last night just at gun-fire4 ,mrs4 ,blair is1 it seems1 so much better as to have gone to the neighbourhood for change of air1 and ,mr4 ,b4 is with her2 but everything was ready for me here1 and ,i was glad to go at once to bed4 ,this morning early1 ,i was roused by the sweet sound of #8fairy-like music3' though1 to be sure1 the great drum rather dissipated the idea of fairies4 ,the ,european barrack is1 ,i find1 near2 but the most joyous event1 is a letter this morning from ,mr4 ,bainbridge1 saying you are all well40 ,,to ,,his ,,wife4 8,tanjore1 ,feb4 #f1 #ahcf4 8,you will know1 ,i passed the whole of ,thursday and yesterday1 at ,mr4 ,blair's at ,trichinopoly2 he seems a very valuable man4 ,there are fifteen families or so1 who meet together on ,tuesday evenings for religious improvement2 and among the soldiers there is a ,wesleyan1 and a ,church of ,england ,society4 ,in the latter1 there are several of the officers of ,h4 ,m4 ,regiment1 who meet the men1 and read prayers and a sermon4 ,finding there were so many pious people at the ,station1 ,i told the ,chaplain we would have service last night4 ,accordingly1 at a quarter past #f1 we assembled in the church3 there were not so few as #ajj soldiers1 and the church appeared filled1 though not crowded1 with officers and their families4 ,my text was ,psalm cxxx4 #d4 ,a chair was placed for me by the ,communion-table1 upon ,heber's grave4 ,i was tired in body1 and could feel nothing on any subject2 but it was a very solemn occasion to me1 that he1 one of the flowers of human nature1 should have been cut down so seemingly prematurely1 and ,i1 a withered stalk1 left and put into his place4 ,surely ,god's ways are not as man's ways6 ,from ,heber all good of which man is capable1 might have been expected1 whilst ,i can only say1 #8my desire is to the remembrance of ,thy name4'--,he perfects strength in human weakness1 and by things foolish in the eye of carnal reason1 humbles man's pride1 and causes it to be acknowledged that the #8excellency of the power is of ,himself4' ,this is my only1 but--blessed be ,god6--my sufficient consolation in my office4 ,may ,god make manifest his strength in my weakness6 8,did ,i tell you ,i went one evening to the ,fort at ,palamcottah1 and had service with the few artillerymen8 ,they seemed most attentive1 and some of them much moved2 and last ,sunday some of them came to ,church1 though not ordered1 and knelt in prayer1 and appeared very attentive4 ,who knows but the arrow1 shot at a venture1 may fix a saving conviction in them8 ,may it prove so60 8,tanjore1 ,feby4 #gth1 #ahcf4 8,i have had a very fatiguing morning4 ,at half-past seven we went to ,tamil service2 after morning prayer ,i preached on the latter part of #a ,cor4 xi4 ,mr4 ,coombes interpreting for me4 ,after service the ,lord's ,supper was administered to upwards of #bjj ,native christians4 ,among them were three of the hitherto nonconformists1 the most intelligent of the whole christian community2 ,pakianaden the native judge1 ,warswasyanaden1 the native priest2 and ,thomas1 head catechist4 ,what effect their conformity will have on the rest1 remains to be seen2 but my object in coming hither at this time seems gained4 ,thanks to ,god6 ,there is a disposition1 ,i fear1 to require personal apologies from them3 if this is done1 more inconvenience will arise2 and surely we should be content1 if the principle of caste be yielded by them4 ,the service was not over till after eleven4 ,i feel that if ,i were to attend the afternoon-service1 and preach as intended1 ,i should probably have fever2 and1 with the journey before me1 ,i remain at home all the afternoon4 8,monday4 ,the country generally is uninteresting and thinly peopled1 but all last night we seemed passing through a town3 the fertility of the ,tanjore country is proverbial4 ,soon after day1 we arrived at a village where all was bustle and activity3 it is their ,idol festival4 ,a car very much decorated1 and much more in the style of a triumphal car than any they have in the north1 was being dragged through the street1 with frequent discharges of heavy pieces1 or fireworks4 ,the bearers took me down a lane to avoid the crowd1 or perhaps that my feringee#agg presence might not offend the god4 ,i am staying over the day on the border of the ,tanjore country4 ,in the evening cross the ,coleroon1 and shall reach ,porto ,novo by nine or ten4 ,last night ,i slept very little--my thoughts were much with you4 ,sir ,h4 ,montgomery has sent a peon#agh to attend me through each of the three stages under him3 this civility saves me trouble1 and secures what ,i may want4 8,tuesday4 ,porto ,novo4 ,this is a very interesting place1 close on the sea4 ,i proceed to ,cuddalore this evening and from thence1 to-morrow1 go to ,sadras4 ,i shall not probably write again1 as ,i shall be as soon at ,madras as the post40 ,the ,bishop reached ,madras on the #abth of ,february1 but not without having suffered from the fatigue inseparable from so long a journey4 ,he considered himself1 however1 to have been amply compensated for all the expence and exhaustion which he had encountered1 since1 if no other good should result1 his visit to ,palamcottah and ,tanjore had brought to light the real state of the missions there4 ,with reference therefore to that subject1 he writes ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,madras1 ,feb4 #ag1 #ahcf4 8,we have many hundred ,native christians here1 and in the provinces to the southward1 many thousands2 but they are in a most deplorably low state as to true religion4444 ,in ,tanjore1 of nearly #e1jjj professed christians1 scarcely one is known to be spiritually-minded2 and in ,tinnevelly1 of the #aj1jjj reported christians1 very few indeed are really converted to ,god4 ,of them all1 not above #b1jjj men1 women and children included1 are baptized1 though all are treated as christians4 ,the old missions in that quarter are also in a low state2 and in the most southern point #c1jjj descendants of the first converts have returned to heathenism1 and are more opposed to attempts at their conversion than those who never heard of ,christ4444 ,afflicting as is the state of these people1 there is no room for discouragement4 ,we must endeavour to do them good with more simplicity and diligence4 ,i have heard here of a very characteristic remark of ,bishop ,turner4 ,when asked what he thought of the ,tanjore christians8 ,he answered1 ,that he thought the best way of dealing with them would be1 to excommunicate them all1 and begin the work of conversion anew40 ,the causes which mainly contributed to this state of things seem to have been1 the worldly advantages and protection connected with the profession of christianity in ,southern ,india1 and the want of a sufficient number of competent missionaries4 ,worldly advantages have always been found to call forth the duplicity of the native character1 and to lead them for unworthy ends to place themselves under christian instruction4#agi ,in this case the number of self-seekers seems to have been so great1 that1 with every desire to do so1 it became utterly impracticable for a few missionaries to give adequate attention to every individual native who might offer himself for instruction4 ,the employment of1 and trusting to1 native catechists became thus unavoidable1 to a much greater extent than under different circumstances could have happened4 ,then1 as these in their turn betrayed the confidence placed in them1 by practising as much deception as the pretended catechumens could do2 and as those who visited these localities on behalf of the missionary societies1 could in most cases hold intercourse with the natives themselves1 only through an interpreter1 the inspectors of the mission were the more easily misled by outward appearances1 and interested representations4 ,it were doubtless no difficult matter to suggest1 that if a greater degree of caution had been used in the first instance1 on the part of the missionaries1 some of the evils which the ,bishop found in operation might have been prevented2 but it is to be feared that the blame must ultimately rest on that lukewarmness in christians1 which has never yet supplied missionaries in numbers at all commensurate with the magnitude of the work to be done2 nor funds adequate to the efficient support of the few missionaries who have gone forth4 #afh ,a row-boat covered at one end4 #afi ,the rush of the spring-tide up the river4 ,the elevation of the wave thus occasioned1 is very considerable2 and the noise and rapidity of the rush is appalling4 #agj ,it was erroneously asserted at the time that the usual appellation of courtesy was not to be assigned to the suffragan ,bishops of ,india4 #aga ,mr4 ,pratt preached from #a ,tim4 ii4 #a-d2 and the ,sermon was afterwards printed by the ,archbishop's command4 #agb ,native nurse4 #agc ,chief ,native ,revenue and ,police ,officer4 #agd ,a kind of ,law ,agent4 #age ,office4 #agf ,addressed to his daughter4 #agg ,european4 #agh ,messenger--servant4 #agi ,see above pp4 #djd1 #dje4 ,,chapter ,,xxi4 ,,church-,,building ,,fund--,,subscriptions ,,for ,,the ,,irish ,,clergy--,,the ,,madras ,,grammar ,,school--,,memorial ,,to ,,government--,,primary ,,visitation--,,death ,,of ,,mrs4 ,,corrie--,,ordination--,,death ,,of ,,bishop ,,corrie4 ,on the return of the ,bishop from ,tanjore and ,tinnevelly1 he took measures for securing that certain subscriptions collected in ,madras1 toward the building of churches1 and which had hitherto been transmitted to ,calcutta1 to the 8fund for all ,india10 should henceforth be vested in ,trustees1 and be applied1 under the direction of diocesan and local committees1 exclusively to the wants of the presidency of ,madras4 ,the ,bishop1 also1 in addition to his other occupations1 preached every ,wednesday afternoon during ,lent at the church in the ,fort1 and on ,friday evenings at the ,cathedral4 ,in a letter which relates these circumstances1 the ,bishop also observes ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,april #e1 #ahcf4 8,a movement has lately taken place among the ,east ,indian community which indicates improvement4 ,arrangements are being attempted for establishing an ,indian ,missionary ,society4 ,one rule is to be1 that no missionary engaged by them shall receive above eighty ,rs4 a month1 and as much less as may be4 ,this1 originating with themselves1 looks well1 but nothing is yet settled1 nor any formal announcement of the ,society40 ,the provisional ,committee1 however1 of this projected ,indian ,missionary ,society1 soon afterwards issued an outline of their plan of operations1 which was of the so-called liberal dissenting caste4 ,as the story of the persecutions and sufferings of the ,irish clergy1 had by this time reached ,india1 it is scarcely necessary to say that ,bishop ,corrie sympathised deeply with those his brethren1 in their afflictions4 ,thus he writes ,,to ,,mr4 ,,sherer4 8,madras1 ,july #d1 #ahcf4 8,i was requested by some friends to call a meeting#ahj to consider on means for relieving the ,irish ,clergy4 ,a failure was predicted1 but #cjj were subscribed in the room1 and sent to the ,archbishop of ,armagh1 by the last ship3 #djj more have been since received by our treasurer2 and by the end of the month we expect to receive in all #aj1jjj ,rs40 ,the ,bishop then goes on to state1 that 8,what seems of most importance to this place1 is the establishment of a ,grammar school4 ,about four years ago ,i wrote1 or authorised ,mr4 ,m4 to write1 for a master for the ,calcutta ,high ,school4 ,mr4 ,m4 and ,i1 when ,i was at home1 talked over the subject of a master1 and he renewed his enquiries1 and found one4 ,amidst my many new avocations1 the subject had quite escaped me1 till ,i received an official notice from the ,high ,school ,committee1 that they did not require a master1 and should not receive the one engaged1 nor honour ,mr4 ,m's draft for his passage4 ,at first ,i was in trouble1 but friends here viewed this refusal as providential for ,madras4 ,the ,bishop of ,calcutta sent me #ajjj ,rs4 to pay the passage-money1 on the young man's arrival in the ,juliana4 ,he agreed to remain here1 and we fulfilled all his expectations from ,calcutta4 ,on the #ast inst4 the school commenced1 near ,mr4 ,tucker's ,chapel1 with thirty-three pupils1 and the prospect of not fewer than #ajj4 ,but salaries of all grades are lower here than in ,calcutta2 and instead of eight ,rs4 for each boy1 as there1 we can only charge four ,rs4 ,so that we shall have more to struggle with here4 ,but the work is1 ,i trust1 indeed of ,god1 and will prosper4 ,the new ,roman ,catholic ,bishop and his ,chaplain1 had opened a school near where ours is1 and had about forty boys1 most of them sons of ,protestants1 who will now come to us again40 ,the school here referred to1 is that now called by the ,bishop's name1 and was in fact1 the resuscitation of a school known as the 8,parental ,academy10 but which had been closed for nearly two years1 in consequence of the inability of the managing ,committee to meet with a suitable master4 ,on its being merged in the ,madras ,grammar ,school1 the former laws of the ,academy were remodelled1 and a general outline of a course of instruction prescribed2 the whole being accomplished mainly at the suggestion or by the assistance of the ,bishop4 ,it was also about this time that the attention of ,bishop ,corrie1 was more particularly occupied by a desire to aid in abating the hardship which ,government imposed on the christian servants of the ,company1 both civil and military1 by obliging them to attend at the religious festivals of heathen and ,mahommedans2 and1 in some instances1 by calling upon them to present offerings1 and to do homage to senseless and impure idols4 ,many had been the representations1 to the authorities in ,england1 of the sinfulness connected with this direct encouragement of idolatry1 and the violence which was thus done to the consciences and feelings of the public servants of the ,government2 not to mention the inconsistency of a compulsory attendance on an unchristian ceremonial1 with that toleration which ,government professed to afford to all their subjects in the ,east4 ,wearied out1 as it would appear1 by the importunity of the aggrieved parties1 the ,court of ,directors1 in a dispatch to the ,indian ,governments early in #ahcc1 ordered1 among other things 8,that the interference of ,british functionaries in the interior management of native temples2 in the customs1 habits1 and religious proceedings of their priests and attendants2 in the arrangement of their ceremonies1 rites1 and festivals2 and generally1 in the conduct of their interior economy1 shall cease4 8,that in all matters relating to their temples1 their worship1 their festivals1 their religious practices1 and their ceremonial observances1 our native subjects be entirely left to themselves40 ,it might have been thought that a dispatch so plain1 and direct in prohibiting any further outrages on the consciences of christians1 would have met with the ready attention of the local ,governments in ,india2 but as regarded ,madras1 it does not appear that a single step was taken to carry this positive order into effect4 ,after submitting1 therefore1 for three years more to this unaccountable clinging of ,government to ,mahommedanism and idolatry1 it was resolved by a numerous body of the clergy1 civilians1 and military1 under the presidency of ,madras1 to address the local ,government4 ,accordingly1 a ,memorial was drawn up1 in which the evils complained of were enumerated1 and the recital of them corroborated by documentary evidence2 and which concluded by respectfully but earnestly praying1 that the instructions of the ,court of ,directors might be practically and universally enforced4 ,this document ,bishop ,corrie was requested to forward to ,government1 but in the first instance1 he had thought it better1 as a matter of courtesy and good judgment1 to submit a copy of it to the ,governor1 in his private capacity2 and in doing so1 the ,bishop pointed out to ,sir ,f4 ,adam1 in what respects the relief prayed for might1 as he thought1 be readily conceded4 ,the ,governor was at the time residing on the ,nilgherries1 but the ,bishop's courtesy was entirely thrown away1 for no notice of any kind was taken of his communication4 ,in the month of ,july1 therefore1 the ,memorial was made public1 and signed by about #bjj of our countrymen of all ranks2 and on the #fth of ,august1 the ,bishop forwarded the document to the ,governor of ,madras in ,council1 accompanied by the following letter3-- 8,i have the honour to transmit to your ,excellency in ,council1 at the request of those who have signed it1 a ,memorial1 together with the original signatures to it1 enumerating instances wherein those whose duty it is to engage in them1 feel themselves aggrieved by practices and orders which seem to them contrary to the command of ,god2 thereby subjecting them to the painful alternative of violating the dictates of their consciences1 or incurring the displeasure of the ,government2 and praying1 that the same toleration and exemptions1 which have been long granted to their ,mahommedan and heathen fellow subjects1 may be extended to the ,christian members of this ,presidency4 8,it is my duty to state1 that ,i fully concur in every part of the ,memorial1 and its prayer3 and ,i earnestly hope1 that it may be thought fitting to concede the full measure of relief prayed for2 and in respect to such part as rests alone with the ,government of ,india to grant1 that your ,excellency in ,council will be pleased to transmit the ,memorial to the ,right ,honorable the ,governor ,general in ,council1 with your powerful recommendation in its favour40 ,for a length of time this ,memorial1 like the ,bishop's former communication1 was not honoured by any reply4 ,certain rumours1 however1 were afloat1 to the effect1 that angry feelings had been stirred up in the mind of the ,governor in ,council4 ,and this proved to be the case3 for 7that the whole history of this transaction may be brought together7 it may be stated1 that early in ,october1 the ,bishop received a letter from the ,chief ,secretary to the ,government1 reproaching him in very unbecoming terms1 for not 8using his influence to allay the zeal of overheated minds20 and informing him that both the ,memorial and a copy of that letter had been forwarded to the ,governor-general4 ,a communication like this could have no other effect throughout ,india1 than to produce in all who knew the parties concerned1 and retained the feelings of gentlemen1 a blush of shame for the ,governor in ,council1 and the government ,secretary4 ,as regarded the insulted prelate1 it had long been a settled conviction in his mind1 that to be truly civilized a man must be truly a christian2 his natural disposition1 therefore1 disposed him to pass over this uncalled-for rudeness1 as being but a common-place manifestation of that want of delicacy and refinement which characterises every modification of heathenism4 ,but1 holding as he did an official station in the country1 it seemed to him that silence under such circumstances might be a compromise of the respect due to his office2 and therefore1 as soon as the ,bishop learnt that a copy of this letter to him had been sent to ,calcutta1 he addressed the following ,,to ,,the ,,right ,,hon4 ,,the ,,lord ,,auckland4 8,on my return to this ,presidency a few days since1 ,i first learnt that the ,right ,hon4 the ,governor of ,madras in ,council1 had1 together with a ,memorial on the subject of religious toleration1 thought good to send to your ,lordship in ,council1 a copy of a letter dated ,october #aa1 addressed to me1 and which ,i had concluded was intended only for the information of the ,memorialists4 ,in that letter the ,governor has been pleased to admonish me as to the duty my office imposed upon me1 with reference to the said ,memorial4 ,the authority of ,government to dictate to me as to the performance of my duties1 ,i entirely deny4 ,i hold myself free to act on my own judgment1 as to what is my duty2 and differing entirely as ,i do from the ,right ,hon4 the ,governor of ,madras in ,council1 both as to the propriety of granting the toleration prayed for by the ,memorialists1 and as to the consequence of deferring to grant the relief sought1 ,i consider myself to have strictly been within the line of my duty in forwarding the ,memorial to ,government4 8,on this point1 however1 ,i need not have troubled your ,lordship4 8,my object is to call attention to the fact1 that the ,memorial1 which ,i am told ,i should have used my influence to suppress1 was prepared and in circulation for approval or correction1 at several of the principal stations of this ,presidency1 when ,i arrived at ,madras1 in the latter end of ,october1 #ahce4 ,copies had been printed for more ready circulation1 as ,i afterwards learnt2 and in ,march last1 one of those copies was put into my hands4 ,observing that officers were employed on services in which ,i have never known ,europeans to be employed in the ,bengal ,presidency1 ,i took the liberty to forward privately1 early in ,april last1 the copy of the ,memorial sent me1 to the ,right ,hon4 the ,governor of ,madras1 then at the ,neilgherries1 concluding that he had the power to grant relief to the military2 and would1 when he knew the pain the performance of those duties inflicted1 be disposed to take measures to remove the occasion of complaint4 ,of this communication no notice was taken4#aha 8,i observe that some of the ,calcutta newspapers accuse the ,memorialists of asking for more toleration than they are willing to grant to others2 and similar opinions may be held in other quarters4 ,i therefore take the liberty1 in the name of all the clerical subscribers to the ,memorial1 expressly to deny this2 and ,i am persuaded that ,i speak the sentiments of the lay subscribers also on this point4 ,if the firing a salute on ,christmas day be considered a claiming from the natives a concession in favour of our religion1 let the salute be discontinued2 and if there be any other ceremony of our religion1 on which natives are required to attend 7though ,i know not of any7 let compulsory attendance be forbidden4 8,if the ,memorialists have expressed themselves strongly respecting the object of some of the ceremonies in which they are liable to be called upon to take part1 they express only their own repugnance to be associated in such ceremonies1 without the slightest wish to impose restraint upon the natives1 or to interrupt them in the smallest degree in their own observances4 ,that ,protestants may be exempted from taking part in proceedings1 which imply the violation of their own peculiar principles1 is the only desire of the ,memorialists4 8,in the hope that the information now conveyed may reach your ,lordship before the subject of the ,memorial is decided upon in ,council1 ,i have the honour c40 ,this letter was dispatched to ,calcutta toward the end of ,november1 and was courteously acknowledged by ,lord ,auckland2 but before the official reply to the ,memorial was made public in ,madras1 and in which the conduct of that ,government to the ,bishop was faintly reprehended1 the ,bishop was beyond the reach of further insult4 ,on ,friday1 ,aug4 #bf1 #ahcf1 ,bishop ,corrie held his primary ,visitation in the ,cathedral at ,madras4 ,the sermon on the occasion was preached by the ,bishop's examining ,chaplain1 the ,rev4 ,j4 ,tucker1 ,fellow of ,corpus ,christi ,college1 ,oxford4 ,the ,charge1 after some preliminary notices of what had been effected by those prelates who had previously held ,visitations in ,madras1 proceeded to touch upon the subject of caste among the professedly ,christian natives4 ,on this point the ,bishop stated it to be his decided opinion1 that those who were engaged in missionary labours should require from all natives desirous of baptism1 an explicit avowal1 that they regarded all for whom ,christ died as spiritually equal in ,christ4 ,the ,bishop adverted also to the subject of education1 and spoke of the necessity of uniting religious instruction with intellectual improvement4 ,he strongly recommended catechetical instruction1 as a means of great usefulness4 ,as important auxiliaries to ministerial labours1 he mentioned several ,societies with approbation2 and suggested with regard to ,visiting ,societies1 whether paid agency might not be beneficially employed4 ,the ,bishop then alluded to the prospects of ,christianity in ,india2 and whilst recognizing the good feeling which prompted some persons to desire that christians of every denomination should unite to spread the gospel among the heathen1 he yet regarded such an union as impracticable4 ,he noticed1 moreover1 the subject of admitting persons into ,holy ,orders1 and expressed it to be his opinion that a competent degree of learning should be found among the general body of the clergy4 ,although there might be circumstances under which a ,bishop in ,india would have to be content with a lower standard of acquirements in candidates for the ministry1 yet1 it was his opinion1 that at the very least a ,bishop ought to demand a fair ,english education1 a thorough knowledge of history1 chronology1 the prophetical parts of scripture1 and of the evidences by which the ,bible is proved to be the word of ,god2 besides a full acquaintance with the doctrines of our ,church1 and a general knowledge of the arguments by which its polity may be vindicated4 ,after referring to the age at which the ,bishop wished young persons to be presented for ,confirmation1 and mentioning some arrangements and regulations he hoped to establish respecting the celebration of marriages1 the ,bishop concluded his ,charge by putting his ,clergy in mind of the great importance of self-devotion to the work of their ministry4 ,with reference to this meeting of his clergy1 the ,bishop observes in a memorandum1 dated 8,aug4 #cj1 #ahcf4 ,on ,friday last ,i held my first ,visitation4 ,preparing a ,charge was a matter of much anxiety2 especially as the ,bishop of ,calcutta had entered so minutely1 in his ,charge of ,dec4 #ahcd1 into all particulars connected with ministerial duty1 and with the circumstances of this country4 ,by ,god's goodness ,i accomplished my purpose1 and must leave the result to ,god4 ,in the evening1 the ,clergy dined with me1 in number1 including some catechists1 twenty4 ,i now desire to consider what may be the proper objects of my journey to the out-stations4 #ast4 ,the encouragement of the pious1 by preaching1 conversation1 and joining in religious exercises4 #bnd4 ,the examination of schools1 and confirming the young1 and exhorting them1 both before and after ,confirmation4 #crd4 ,by endeavouring to set right many points of litigation2 and to establish1 if possible1 a good understanding between ,chaplains and military ,commanders4 ,there is at present much irritation on that point2 and the ,government is disposed to act very arbitrarily towards ,chaplains4 ,in all these attempts1 may my sufficiency be of ,god1 and ,his strength perfected in my great weakness60 ,the day following the date of this memorandum1 the ,bishop prepared to leave ,madras for the purpose of visiting some of the out-stations4 ,the places he purposed to visit were ,wallajabad1 ,arnee1 ,arcott1 ,vellore1 to ,bangalore2 thence to ,bellary1 ,hyderabad1 ,masulipatam1 returning down the coast to the presidency4 ,the following notices of his visitation were drawn up1 after his return to ,madras3-- 8,i left ,madras1 accompanied by the venerable ,archdeacon ,harper1 on the evening of ,august #cast4 ,our first visit was to ,wallajabad4 ,every thing appeared well conducted in this important ,institution4#ahb ,the youths1 eighty-seven in number1 with the other members of the establishment1 were assembled for ,divine service1 and the orderly behaviour1 and cheerful appearance of the boys1 manifested that ,mr4 ,hall1 the sub-conductor in charge1 deserves the good opinion which has been entertained of him4 ,he deserves also much credit on account of his attention to the religious instruction of the boys4 8,all that seems wanting is a good school-master1 with leisure to the boys from their respective drills for two hours each day1 7which at present is not allowed7 for receiving instruction in reading1 writing1 c4 with a small suitable library1 which might be supplied at very little expense4 ,the good to be effected by this institution has already begun to appear in the young men already appointed to ,corps4 ,at ,vellore we found a set of the ,wallajabad youths attached to the #beth ,n4 ,i4 of whose general good conduct the adjutant spoke in high terms4 ,another set was at ,bangalore1 who were also well spoken of1 and from the #bfth ,n4 ,i4 the adjutant writes1 since my return to ,madras1 #8the sixteen drummers and fifers1 all protestants1 from the dept at ,wallajabad1 are the most promising youths of the kind ,i have ever yet seen4 8,at ,arnee there is no place of worship for the soldiers to assemble in--a temporary place erected by subscription of the officers and privates1 had lately been blown down4 ,a small building erected at the expense of the pious soldiers1 and capable of holding only #aej or #bjj persons1 was used for the services connected with the ,confirmation4 ,the ,chaplain of ,arcot attends alternate ,sundays1 there being no house at ,arnee in which he can reside4 ,he had been indefatigable and successful in preparing candidates for ,confirmation1 of whom seventy-one were confirmed2 several being rejected as too young1 and some because of unestablished moral habits4 ,should a regiment be again stationed here1 a suitable though temporary building should be erected for public worship4 8,a ,temperance ,society of about sixty members exists in ,h4 ,m4 #dast ,regiment4 8,at ,arcot1 the church is small1 but in good order4 ,the interior arrangements are not well done1 so that much room is lost4 ,thirty-two persons were confirmed1 all ,east ,indians1 including a few from ,vellore4 ,here the care of the ,chaplain1 as at ,arnee1 appeared in the intelligence manifested by the young people of ,arcot1 beyond those of ,vellore4 ,at ,vellore1 the whole christian community attended ,divine ,service on ,tuesday1 #fth ,september4 ,the place used for ,divine service is part of an old palace1 which requires being better fitted up4 ,a school1 containing seventy-two children1 including a few natives1 is supported by subscription1 raised at the station4 ,at ,vellore1 is also a congregation of about #abe natives1 including a few families of ,european pensioners1 who are attended to by a native ,catechist of the ,society for the ,propagation of the ,gospel1 and assemble in a small1 but neat chapel1 belonging to that ,society4 8,a peon should be allowed here1 to take care of the burying-ground1 which was in a neglected state4 8,at ,bangalore1 ,i remained from the #ith to the #bjth ,september4 ,during that time1 ,i found that the schools and hospitals of the different ,corps1 had been regularly visited by the ,chaplains4 ,a ,temperance ,society is in existence1 containing nearly #bjj members4 ,a charity-school for boys1 and another for girls1 unconnected with the army1 each containing about twelve scholars1 7who are boarded and clothed also17 are supported by voluntary contributions4 ,a ,friend-in-,need ,society is also in operation1 in which relief is provided for sick natives1 and money weekly disbursed in small sums to the needy of that class4 ,the ,chaplains have the superintendance of these institutions1 assisted by a ,committee of the resident gentlemen4 8,the regular ,sunday services are1 one at seven1 for one of ,h4 ,m4 regiments1 and the ,artillery horse and foot with the ,christians connected with the native troops4 ,at eleven1 a service in the barrack of the regiment1 for those who may not have attended in the morning at church--and one service at eleven in church1 and at quarter past six in the evening for the station generally4 ,the attendance at these voluntary services is better than at any station in ,india4 ,ninety-eight persons were confirmed1 and there were no less than #ajd communicants4 8,from the inconvenient structure of a barrack-room1 as well as from the associations connected with it1 much of the benefit of ,divine service is lost to the troops in the barracks4 ,i1 therefore1 at the desire of several of the residents1 advocated the erection of another#ahc place of worship1 in a situation more convenient also for the ,artillery and ,dragoons2 and received considerable support towards the attainment of that end4 ,a place should also be fitted up in the ,fort1 where many ,christians connected with the arsenal and public offices reside1 and where one of the ,chaplains should officiate one evening in the week4 8,a congregation of about forty native ,christians assemble in the church at nine on ,sunday mornings1 and are ministered to by a catechist of the ,society for the ,propagation of the ,gospel4 8,i remained from #bcrd ,sep4 to ,oct4 #crd at ,bellary4 ,this is a large and important field of labour for a clergyman1 but there has been no ,chaplain here for about three years past2 and one consequence appeared in the smaller number of candidates1 compared with the population1 for ,confirmation4 ,of the fifty who were confirmed1 about one half were unconnected with the army4 ,beside the regimental school1 which is well conducted1 a charity school of about forty children is supported by voluntary contributions at the station1 and a ,society is in operation for the relief of poor and sick natives4 ,about #aej rupees a month are expended in this way4 ,of the soldiers of ,h4 ,m4 #eeth1 ,i found a few in communion with the missionaries of the ,london ,missionary ,society at ,bellary1 and about fifteen or twenty in connection with the ,wesleyan ,methodists4 ,sixty-four persons attended the communion on ,sunday1 ,october #bnd1 of whom a considerable number were from the private soldiers4 8,since my visit to ,bellary1 ,i learn that an officer of the ,brigadier ,general's ,staff1 reads prayers and a sermon in church on ,sunday mornings1 and that the attendance is considerable4 ,the church at this station needs enlarging2 and contributions in aid of the ,church-building ,fund were set on foot to assist in meeting the necessary outlay4 ,the presence of a ,chaplain is greatly desired by the residents1 and ,ghooty and ,cuddapah in this district1 should be visited by him4 8,i remained at ,hyderabad and stations dependent on it1 from ,oct4 #h to the #beth4 ,beside the regimental school at ,secunderabad1 a station school is maintained by subscription1 in which about forty boys1 of whom seven are entirely maintained by the charity1 are educated in ,english1 ,teloogoo1 and ,hindoostanee--also a large class of ,teloogoo boys1 and a few ,tamil boys4 8,at ,bolaram1 in a school1 about fifty boys1 ,christians1 ,mahommedans1 and ,hindoos1 are instructed in ,english1 and nearly an equal number in ,teloogoo2 the expences of which are supplied partly by subscription1 but chiefly by the ,nizam's ,government4 ,an ,english school of about twenty boys is maintained at the ,residency4 ,the ,scriptures1 in their respective languages1 are read in all the classes4 8,there are two services in church at ,secunderabad on ,sundays4 ,the church here1 as at ,bellary1 is far too small for the ,european congregation4 ,a subscription in aid of the ,church-building ,fund was commenced here4 ,a congregation of native ,christians also assemble in the church on ,sundays at #i ,a4 ,m43 a native ,catechist reads prayers1 and a prepared sermon1 in ,tamil4 ,this congregation consists of about ninety members4 8,a ,society for the relief of poor natives is also in operation here4 ,about forty sick are usually entertained at a time till they get well2 and1 in all1 about #aej rupees a month1 expended on the indigent natives4 ,on ,wednesday1 the #afth ,october1 #ada natives1 including #af native ,christians1 were confirmed2 and1 on the following ,sunday1 #aaj communicants attended at the ,lord's ,table4 8,at this station1 the services of a second ,chaplain are greatly required4 ,besides one of ,h4 ,m4 regiments1 two companies of ,artillery1 and the ,european details of a regiment of ,cavalry1 and of four regiments of ,native ,infantry1 with their schools and hospitals1 are to be attended to4 ,in addition to which1 the ,christians connected with the ,residency1 and some engaged in mercantile pursuits on the one hand1 and ,bolaram with its #ahj ,christians1 all ,protestants1 except one family1 on the other hand1 should be visited on alternate ,sundays4 8,jaulna1 also within this district1 is a large station1 and should have a ,chaplain appointed to it as soon as possible4 8,at ,masulipatam ,i remained from ,oct4 #bf till ,nov4 #hth4 ,here1 as at ,bellary1 there has been no resident ,chaplain for several years4 ,the school in the ,pettah1 founded by ,dr4 ,roy1 is at a stand2 and no means of education are supplied in the ,fort1 but by a very aged and nearly superannuated pensioned sergeant4 ,prayers are read1 and a sermon once on ,sundays1 in the ,fort ,church by the ,fort adjutant1 and in the ,pettah chapel by a ,civil servant4 8,the most urgent desire was expressed here1 as at ,bellary1 by the principal residents1 for a resident ,chaplain4 8,on ,friday1 #dth of ,november1 forty young persons were confirmed1 and on the #fth1 upwards of forty attended the ,sacrament4 ,a ,chaplain is much needed here1 not only on account of the number of ,protestants at the ,station1 but also on account of the several out-stations in this1 and neighbouring districts4 8,passed ,sunday1 the #acth of ,november1 at ,nellore4 ,about sixty persons attended ,divine ,service in the ,court ,house1 of whom fourteen remained to receive the ,sacrament4 ,returned to ,madras on ,november #aeth4 8,the number of persons confirmed by me at the different stations1 amounts to #dcj2 and since my return to ,madras1 ,i have confirmed in the ,cathedral #aci1ahd and at the ,poonamalee #dh1 almost all of the newly-arrived recruits1 making a total of #fag2 of whom not above twenty were native ,christians4 ,the remainder ,europeans1 or descendants of ,europeans4 8,archdeacon ,harper rendered me the most efficient assistance during my visitation1 in inspecting the ,registers1 and enquiring into the state of the ,churches and burial-grounds at the different ,stations1 as well as inspecting schools1 and visiting the sick in hospital4 ,at ,bellary and ,masulipatam1 the labours of the ,archdeacon were very heavy in examining the candidates for ,confirmation1 and baptizing many children1 and attending several marriages4 ,without his aid1 my ,visitation1 imperfect as this my first essay may have been1 would have been far more defective4 8,i have to acknowledge the most ready and obliging attentions of all the ,authorities1 both civil and military1 with whom my duties brought me into connection4 8,in general1 ,i found at each station a considerable prevalence of true religious feeling and practice1 especially among the soldiers of ,his ,majesty's regiments1 and the ,artillery4 ,temperance ,societies are found to be greatly aiding towards the moral improvement of the army2 and though from human infirmity the pledge is too often broken1 yet many examples of improvement of character1 and benefit to health1 appear connected with these ,societies1 and the general good of society is forwarded by them4 8,a farther proof of the prevalence of ,christian principles1 is the existence of associations for the relief of the native poor1 connected with the several stations4 ,i should have noticed in its proper place an association of this kind at ,masulipatam also4 ,i have known considerable sums contributed at different stations1 for the relief of native poor on particular emergencies2 but this permanent care for the native poor1 is a manifest improvement in ,european society4 8,these associations have in every case ,i am acquainted with1 arisen under the care of a ,clergyman1 and supply evidence of the benefit that might arise to the country generally1 were the ,ecclesiastical ,establishment properly kept up4 8,the deficiency in the number of ,chaplains is greatly felt1 and deeply to be lamented4 ,not only are several large stations without the means of grace1 but smaller stations are left without occasional visits of ,chaplains1 and whole provinces without any appearance of regard by the ,government for their spiritual and eternal good4 ,i would earnestly request#ahe the attention of the ,honourable ,court of ,directors to this most important subject4 8,sixteen ,chaplains only are at their posts1 and two are sick 7the ,reverend ,messrs4 ,cubitt and ,grme47 ,besides the stations now supplied1 and those ,i have enumerated as calling for ,chaplains1 formerly there was a ,chaplain at each of the following stations1 ,poonamatee1 ,chittoor1 ,vellore1 ,tellicherry1 and ,palamcottah4 ,the circumstances of most of these stations are somewhat altered2 but connected with each of them are other stations1 which were visited occasionally by the ,chaplains1 nearly all of which are now without the ordinances of religion40 ,besides the information which these notices convey respecting the ,bishop's proceedings on his ,visitation1 many additional particulars of a more private nature are contained in his correspondence with his wife and relatives4 ,in several of his letters1 he complains of having had to undergo excessive fatigue1 and from ,secunderabad writes to ,mrs4 ,corrie3-- 8,i am desired by ,dr4 ,meikle to #8keep quiet' for a day or two4 ,he says1 ,i have been over-exerting myself1 whilst my feeling is that ,i do nothing to purpose4 ,may ,god glorify ,himself in ,his very poor servant60 ,the fact was1 that in travelling by dawk from the banks of the ,kistoor to ,hyderabad1 the journey was performed chiefly in the night1 and the ,bishop's rest was consequently disturbed at almost every stage1 by natives of rank1 who came to pay their respects to him4 ,when entreated by the ,archdeacon to spare himself1 by declining these civilities1 the ,bishop's usual reply was1 8,when these good people put themselves to so much inconvenience on my account1 how can ,i do less than get out of my palankeen1 and exchange a kind word with them80 ,in a letter1 however1 which the ,bishop on his return to ,madras wrote to ,mr4 ,sherer1 he observes1 8,i must not1 if spared1 make again so hurried a journey4 ,time is doing its work with me40 ,yet very soon after this1 all thought of his own health was absorbed in his anxiety respecting that of his wife1 who had become so enfeebled as to render it necessary that a sea-voyage should be attempted1 as the only human means likely to save her life4 ,but before arrangements could be made for carrying this object into effect1 she became suddenly worse2 and after two or three days of suffering1 died on the #bast of ,december #ahcf1 in the hope of eternal life through our ,lord ,jesus ,christ4 ,the ,bishop drew up1 and printed for private circulation1 a short account of his wife's last illness4 ,there are contained in that account1 passages of much interest1 but which cannot here be transcribed3 the substance of all is contained in a single sentence of a memorandum1 penned by the surviving mourner himself1 dated 8,dec4 #bd1 #ahcf4 ,when the likelihood of her departure began to be manifest1 the ,saviour alone was her only ground of hope towards ,god1 and that hope sustained her in peace1 though there was nothing of triumph40 ,as regarded his own feelings in connection with this heavy domestic trial1 the ,bishop adds3-- 8,my feelings of loneliness are indescribable4 ,all before me appears blank2 ,i seem cut off from all earthly good4 ,all this ,i feel ,i deserve at the hand of ,god4 ,he might justly have cast me into the blackness of darkness for ever4 ,just1 therefore1 art thou1 ,o ,lord1 in this dispensation which has laid me so low4 ,teach me1 ,o ,lord1 to seek spiritual improvement in it1 and let it prove to me #8loving correction6'0 ,with reference to this mournful event1 the ,bishop also observes in the last letter which he lived to address ,,to ,,his ,,brother4 8,you cannot understand the change it his wife's death has wrought in every circumstance of my life2 and how at every turn a sense of loss is forced upon me4 ,yet you have felt an aching void on the death of our own parents and near connections1 and can judge of the intensity of pain ,i at times experience4 ,i will not dwell longer on the subject4 ,i have everything which ,christian faith and hope can supply1 as to the gain my wife has entered upon1 but my own sense of loss prevents1 as yet1 the consolation ,i might otherwise possess40 ,the necessary occupations1 however1 connected with his official duties1 tended1 in some measure1 to lessen the ,bishop's keen sense of his bereavement4 ,among those duties1 not the least engrossing1 was an ,ordination of which he had given notice1 previously to ,mrs4 ,corrie's decease4 ,the ,ordination took place on ,sunday the #hth of ,january #ahcg4 ,the candidates who presented themselves for ,holy ,orders were missionaries about to be employed by the ,society for the ,propagation of the ,gospel--three for ,deacon's ,orders and three for ,priest's4 ,respecting these candidates the ,bishop remarks1 in the letter just quoted1 8both ,mr4 ,tucker and the ,archdeacon were well satisfied with their attainments1 as they have just cause to be with their piety40 ,the ,bishop himself preached the ,ordination ,sermon1 from ,ephes4 iv4 #aa1 #ab2 and took occasion thence to point out the existence of the ministry1 as a distinctly-instituted ,office in the ,church of ,god throughout all time2 explaining1 also1 the object and end of that ,office1 and the solemn responsibility attached to it4 ,it is stated by one who was present on the occasion1 that the ,sermon was 8marked by lucid simplicity1 pathos1 fervour1 and power2 mingled with kindly feelings toward other bodies of professing ,christians40 ,and as the opportunity for witnessing the admission1 at one time1 of so many persons into the ,christian ministry1 had never before occurred in southern ,india1 the ,cathedral was crowded throughout all its usual accommodations4 ,during this month1 also1 the attention of the ,bishop was a good deal occupied with the subject of a new ,church for ,st4 ,thom4 ,in the preceding ,june he had addressed a letter to the ,society for promoting ,christian ,knowledge1 stating that 8,at ,st4 ,thom1 the original ,european settlement in this place1 is an immense population of all classes2 ,hindoos1 ,mahommedans1 ,portuguese ,christians1 and very many ,east ,indians baptised in the ,established ,church1 and many connected with the ,vepery congregation1 distant four or five miles4 ,bishop ,turner1 when here1 supplied money to purchase a piece of ground on which to erect a place of worship3 the purchase was made and the ground lies waste4 ,no further attempt has been made towards providing ,christian instruction for those hundreds who are professedly of our communion40 ,he undertook1 therefore1 to ask the aid of the ,society above-mentioned1 toward building a ,church for this spiritually-destitute population2 and was so sanguine of the success of his application1 that toward the end of ,january1 he visited ,st4 ,thom1 attended by the ,archdeacon and the ,rev4 ,w4 ,taylor1 for the purpose of surveying the ground and examining localities4 ,he afterwards requested ,mr4 ,taylor to prepare the heading of a subscription-paper1 the first name appended to which the ,bishop purposed to be that of 8,a ,friend10 with a subscription of #ajjj rupees2 that 8,friend0 having placed a considerable sum at the ,bishop's disposal4 ,meanwhile1 the ,society in ,england entered most readily into his views1 contributing from their funds all the sum he stated to be required3 but intelligence of that liberality was not destined to gladden his spirit1 for his earthly career was now fast drawing to a close4 ,the ,bishop1 as has been observed1 had complained of great fatigue and exhaustion1 when on his ,visitation2 but it appears that when at ,hyderabad1 in ,october #ahcf1 he had suffered also from a pain in the head1 which came on suddenly1 and was so acute as to oblige him to have recourse to medical advice4 ,from that time this pain never left him2 and the constant and peculiar manner in which it affected him1 was only not much noticed because he attributed it all to the anxiety of mind he had gone through1 on account of his wife4 ,during several weeks1 however1 the ,bishop had been frequently observed to make it a matter of supplication at family-prayer1 that himself and household 8might be prepared for any sudden or unexpected events which might await them2 and might be1 moreover1 enabled to bear all in a holy temper of mind40 ,nor did his petitions prove to be unseasonable3 for on ,tuesday1 ,january #cast1 when on his way to the ,fort1 in company with the ,archdeacon1 for the purpose of attending there a meeting of the ,committee of the ,society for propagating the ,gospel1 he was seized with an unusual giddiness1 which prevented him from reading a paper he had in hand4 ,on reaching the vestry of the ,fort church1 he suffered very much from pain in the head1 and sickness1 and was altogether so ill that the ,archdeacon 7who scarcely ever afterwards left him7 had him conveyed home1 and medical aid sent for4 ,after leeches had been applied to the head1 the ,bishop seemed to recover a little from the state of stupor in which he was found to be on first reaching his house2 but1 except at intervals1 he was only partially conscious throughout the four remaining days of his life4 ,when1 however1 he seemed to revive somewhat1 he manifested great pleasure at having passages of scripture read to him4 ,and even on ,saturday ,feb4 #dth1 7the day before he died7 when sight and consciousness were well nigh gone1 he yet indicated his cordial assent to different texts of ,scripture which his daughter repeated to him4 ,more particularly when she read ,isaiah xii4 8,i will say1 ,o ,lord1 ,i will praise thee10 c4 he asked her to recite ,cowper's paraphrase3 ,i will praise ,thee every day ,now thine anger's turned away2 ,comfortable thoughts arise ,from the bleeding sacrifice4 ,here1 in the fair gospel-field1 ,wells of free salvation yield1 ,streams of life1 a plenteous store1 ,and my soul shall thirst no more4 ,jesus is become at length ,my salvation and my strength2 ,and his praises shall prolong1 ,while ,i live1 my pleasant song4 ,praise ye1 then1 his glorious name ,publish his exalted fame6 ,still is work your praise exceeds ,excellent are all his deeds4 ,raise again the joyful sound ,let the nations roll it round6 ,zion shout1 for this is ,he1 ,god the ,saviour dwells in thee3 and himself repeated 8,from the bleeding sacrifice40 ,to the text 8,behold the ,lamb of ,god20 c4 he answered 8,yes20 and on her adding 8,him hath ,god exalted to be a ,prince and a ,saviour20 the ,bishop remarked1 8,a ,prince and a ,saviour on all occasions40 ,at another time when his daughter read1 8,i am the resurrection and the life20 c4 he asked1 8,believest thou this80 ,then when #a ,john iii4 #b1 had been suggested to him1 the dying prelate repeated several times 8,we shall see ,him as ,he is40 ,the last ,scripture of which he seemed to be conscious1 was ,rev4 v4 #ac4 8,blessing1 and honour1 and glory1 c41 be unto the ,lamb for ever and ever20 and in this spirit of praise and thanksgiving he appears to have passed into eternity1 for his last words were1 8,for ever10--8,for ever40 ,and so this servant of ,christ entered into rest on the morning of ,sunday1 ,feb4 #e1 #ahcg1 in the #eith year of his age4 ,the post-mortem examination of the body exhibited a solid coagulum of blood1 of the size of a turkey's egg1 situate on the right side of the brain1 in its substance4 ,the situation and appearance of the coagulum1 when taken in connexion with the circumstance that the ,bishop always felt the pain in the same spot1 led the medical men to conclude that the disease was of some standing3 that it originated1 in fact1 in the fatigue and anxiety connected with his ,visitation4 ,the remains of ,bishop ,corrie were interred in the ,cathedral burial-ground1 on the evening of the day of his death4 ,the funeral procession was led by the scholars of the ,madras ,grammar ,school1 of which the ,bishop was ,patron1 and which had been so much indebted to his fostering care4 ,then followed ,gericke's scholars1 and the pupils of the ,vepery ,school2 and these were succeeded by a train of ,native ,catechists4 ,after them1 and immediately preceding the coffin1 came the ,archdeacon and ,clergy4 ,the pall was borne by six gentlemen of rank2 and the ,governor of the ,presidency followed as ,chief ,mourner1 supported by the ,chief ,justice1 and the ,commander-in-,chief4 ,the ,bishop was deposited by the side of ,mrs4 ,corrie1 and within a few feet of the spot where1 six weeks before1 he had stood a widowed mourner over his wife's remains4 ,on ,monday1 #fth ,february1 the ,governor in ,council issued an ,order expressive of his sense of 8the respect which the unaffected piety1 benevolence and exemplary life0 of the deceased ,prelate 8had universally inspired40 ,this order appeared in the ,government ,gazette on the #gth ,february2#ahf and1 on the following day1 a public meeting1 at which the ,governor presided1 was held in the ,college ,hall1 for the purpose of considering the most appropriate mode of expressing the feelings with which the late ,bishop was regarded by the inhabitants of the ,presidency4 ,this meeting resolved to set on foot a subscription1 in order to raise funds for erecting a monument in the ,cathedral to the ,bishop's memory3 and it was further agreed that any surplus of the funds raised for the monument should be devoted to the founding of scholarships at the ,grammar ,school1 to be called 8,corrie ,scholarships40#ahg ,the ,committee of the ,madras ,grammar ,school now resolved also1 that their ,institution should in future be designated 8,bishop ,corrie's ,grammar ,school40--,funds having accordingly been raised sufficient for the purposes specified1 a monument was executed by the skill and good taste of ,mr4 ,henry ,weekes1 which is now in the ,cathedral of ,madras4 ,nor were the ,calcutta friends of the deceased ,bishop backward to testify their regard for his worth4 ,for at a public meeting1 which was held on the #afth ,march1 in the ,town ,hall1 ,bishop ,wilson being in the chair1 it was resolved to solicit subscriptions for the purpose of erecting marble slabs1 both in the old ,church and in the ,cathedral1 to the memory of the deceased ,prelate2 and for the purchase of a ,portrait of him4 ,it was1 moreover1 resolved to appropriate any surplus funds derived from such subscriptions1 to the founding of scholarships in the ,calcutta ,high ,school1 to be called 8,bishop ,corrie's ,scholarships40#ahh ,and all these tokens of respect were in due time effected4 ,in ,ceylon1 also1 a general meeting was called at the ,king's house1 ,colombo1 by ,his ,excellency the ,governor1 at which1 subscriptions were entered into for the purpose of erecting a monument to the ,bishop's memory in ,st4 ,peter's ,church1 ,colombo1 and for founding scholarships1 which should bear his name1 in the ,grammar ,school at ,madras4 ,both which objects were accomplished4#ahi ,thus terminated the earthly labours of the first ,bishop of ,madras1 after a brief but not unimportant episcopate1 if a judgment may be formed from the amount of good effected1 from the general gloom which the ,bishop's decease cast over the whole ,presidency1 and the respect with which his memory was cherished4 ,to those who were intimately acquainted with ,bishop ,corrie1 it will not excite surprise that his death should have called forth all the public manifestations of sorrow and respect1 which have here been recited4 ,for after making every abatement for that human sinfulness and infirmity from which he was not exempt1 there still remained to him more than an ordinary share of natural kindness of heart1 benevolence of disposition1 and warmth of affection2 so that he could not but be generally beloved4 ,nor will the reader of these pages be disposed to question that ,bishop ,corrie will long be remembered in ,india1 as the man of ,god1 through whose instrumentality originated much of the moral good which1 since his time1 has been slowly spreading itself over that land of darkness and superstition4#aij ,but chiefly1 it is believed1 will his name he held in honour throughout our ,eastern ,empire1 as one of that small band of heroic spirits who1 in self-devotion to ,christ and zeal for the extension of the ,redeemer's kingdom1 manfully struggled against difficulties and discouragements of which we can form but an inadequate estimate3--who never suffered themselves to doubt but that the cause they had by grace espoused would still go on and prosper1 until 8at the name of ,jesus every knee should bow1 and every tongue confess that ,he is ,lord1 unto the glory of ,god the ,father40 #ahj ,the meeting was held in the ,college ,hall1 at ,madras1 on the #fth of ,june4 #aha ,the following was the communication here mentioned3 8,the accompanying ,memorial was brought to me a few days since with a request that ,i would join in a representation to ,government on the subject of its contents4 ,i have always abstained from taking part in such representations1 being aware that ,government may have good reasons for measures1 which the public cannot be acquainted with2 and1 in respect of interference with ,pagodas1 c41 ,i have the fullest confidence that ,government will pursue the course which appears wise and proper4 ,but with reference to the ,christian military servants of the ,state1 who are occasionally compelled to do honour to the superstitions of the country1 ,i am persuaded you will not take amiss my bringing the case to your notice4 ,i have marked the statements in the printed paper which seem to require relief1 with the instances cited in the ,appendix1 assured that your own benevolent regard for the feelings of the ,christian soldiery will bring them all the relief that is desirable40 #ahb ,a school for country-born children1 who received a ,christian education1 and became fifers1 c4 to the ,company's ,native troops4 ,the school was afterwards removed to ,arcot4 #ahc ,about #ajjj rupees were1 in consequence1 collected toward another building2 but it does not appear that since the ,bishop's time any ,church has been erected there4 #ahd ,the ,confirmation in the ,cathedral was held on ,wednesday1 ,nov4 #cj1 #ahcf4 #ahe ,it is satisfactory to know that this request has been attended to4 #ahf ,see ,appendix ,i4 #ahg ,see ,appendix ,,ii4 #ahh ,see ,appendix ,,iii4 #ahi ,see ,appendix ,,iv4 #aij ,see ,appendix ,v4 ,,corrigenda4 ,page #ci line #ba1 for enable1 read unable4 -- #dh -- #e1 at ,chunar--at ,berhampore1 read to ,chunar-- to ,berhampore4 -- #ei -- #cc1 for ,scirptures1 read ,scriptures4 -- #adi note1 -- ,jounarain1 -- ,joy ,narain4 -- #agf -- -- ,tumna1 -- ,jumna4 -- #bih line #ae1 -- point1 -- points4 -- #cjd -- #ba1 -- exeeeding1 -- exceeding4 -- #caa -- #cb1 -- ,narian1 -- ,narain4 -- #eai -- #b1 -- ,culcutta1 -- ,calcutta4 ,,appendix4 ,i4 ,the following notice appeared in the ,government ,gazette of ,feb4 #gth1 #ahcg3-- 8,with feelings of unfeigned sorrow1 the ,right ,honorable the ,governor in ,council1 records the demise of the ,right ,rev4 the ,lord ,bishop of ,madras4 ,the ,venerable ,prelate expired at half past three o'clock1 on the morning of ,sunday last4 ,as a tribute of respect to his memory1 the flag of the garrison was hoisted half-staff-high during the day1 and on the funeral procession leaving his ,lordship's late residence1 fifty-nine minute guns1 corresponding with the age of the deceased1 were fired from the ,fort battery4 8,his ,lordship's remains were attended to the grave by the ,right ,honorable the ,governor1 the ,judges of the ,supreme ,court1 ,his ,excellency the ,commander-in-chief1 the members of ,council1 all the principal civil and military functionaries at the ,presidency1 and an immense concourse of all classes of the community2 desirous of manifesting the feeling of respect which the unaffected piety1 benevolence and exemplary conduct of the ,bishop1 had universally inspired4 8,published by order of the ,right ,honourable the ,governor in ,council4 87,signed7 ,h4 ,chamier1 ,chief ,secretary40 ,,ii4 ,on ,wednesday evening1 ,feb4 #hth1 #ahcg1 a public meeting was held at the ,college1 for the purpose of considering the fittest mode of testifying the regard and respect entertained for the character of the late ,bishop ,corrie4 ,the ,right ,honourable the ,governor in the chair4 ,the following resolutions were proposed and carried unanimously3-- #ast4 ,that a subscription be entered into for the purpose of erecting a monument in the ,cathedral at ,madras to the memory of the ,right ,rev4 the late ,lord ,bishop of the ,diocese4 ,proposed by ,sir ,f4 ,adam4 ,seconded by ,sir4 ,r4 ,comyn4 #bnd4 ,that after setting aside a sum sufficient to defray the expences of the monument1 the residue form a fund for the endowment of scholarships1 to be called1 8,bishop ,corrie's scholarships10 in ,bishop ,corrie's ,grammar school4 ,proposed by ,sir ,p4 ,maitland4 ,seconded by ,mr4 ,sullivan4 #crd4 ,that a ,committee be formed for the purpose of carrying the above resolutions into effect1 and that it be composed of the following gentlemen3 ,sir ,p4 ,maitland1 ,mr4 ,sullivan1 the ,archdeacon1 and ,col4 ,cadell4 ,proposed by ,sir ,e4 ,gambier4 ,seconded by #dth4 ,that ,messrs4 ,arbuthnot and ,co4 be requested to undertake the office of ,treasurers4 ,proposed by the ,archdeacon4 ,seconded by ,captain ,dalrymple4 #eth4 ,thanks to the ,chairman 7for his kindness in taking the chair and for his able conduct in it7 having been proposed by ,brigadier ,general ,doveton1 and seconded by ,colonel ,waugh1 the meeting was dissolved4 ,,iii4 ,at a public ,meeting of the friends of the late ,bishop of ,madras1 held at the ,town ,hall1 ,calcutta on ,march #af1 #ahcg4 ,it was resolved1 #ast4 ,that this ,meeting has heard with the deepest regret of the demise of the ,bishop of ,madras1 and consider it a duty which they owe to the ,church of which he was so distinguished a member1 to raise some token of regard to his character at this ,presidency1 which was the scene of his arduous labours1 and his preeminent example for almost thirty years4 #bnd4 ,that ,subscriptions be solicited for the purpose of erecting a ,marble ,slab in the ,old ,church1 near those of his revered friends ,brown1 ,martyn and ,thomason1 and a similar one in the ,cathedral2 and for painting a likeness of the late ,bishop1 to be hung up in the ,old ,church ,rooms4 #crd4 ,that the surplus which may remain after defraying the expenses of the ,monuments and the ,portrait1 be appropriated for the purpose of endowing ,scholarships in the ,calcutta ,high ,school1 to be called 8,bishop ,corrie's ,scholarships10 and that especial regard be had in the nomination1 to eventual preparation for ,missionary labour4 #dth4 ,that a ,committee be formed of the following ,gentlemen1 to see these objects carried into effect1 viz4 to nominate the ,trustees for the above purposes4 ,the ,venerable ,archdeacon ,dealtry1 ,rev4 ,h4 ,fisher1 ,h4 ,m4 ,pigou1 ,esq4 ,major ,g4 ,hutchinson1 ,john ,dougal1 ,esq4 ,a4 ,beattie1 ,esq4 ,c4 ,w4 ,brietzcke1 ,esq4 ,rev4 ,r4 ,b4 ,boswell1 ,secretary4 #eth4 ,that ,messrs4 ,gisborne and ,co4 be appointed ,treasurers1 and those who are friendly to the above design1 be requested to forward their ,subscriptions to those ,gentlemen as early as possible4 ,resolution of ,committee on #fth ,april1 #ahcg4 ,the ,committee1 understanding that an excellent likeness of the late ,bishop is in the possession of his friends in ,england1 ,resolved that the ,secretary be authorised to write to the ,rev4 ,george ,corrie1 of ,catharine ,hall1 ,cambridge1 and request him to obtain a copy of this likeness1 executed in the best possible way1 and to have the same suitably framed and transmitted to ,india with as little delay as possible4 ,,iv4 ,at a ,general ,meeting held at the ,king's house1 ,colombo1 on ,march the #crd1 and again by adjournment on ,march the #gth1 called by ,his ,excellency the ,right ,honourable ,sir ,r4 ,w4 ,horton1 ,governor of ,ceylon1 who presided2 it was resolved1 #ast4 ,on the motion of the ,rev4 ,b4 ,bailey1 seconded by ,c4 ,e4 ,layard1 ,esq4 ,that this ,meeting cordially approves the objects contemplated by the ,madras ,meeting as recorded in their first two ,resolutions4 7,see above p4 #fcb47 #bnd4 ,on the motion of ,j4 ,steuart1 ,esq41 seconded by the ,rev4 ,joseph ,marsh4 ,that the following gentlemen form a ,committee1 to correspond with the ,madras ,committee1 viz4 ,the ,honourable ,mr4 ,serjeant ,,rough1 ,chief ,justice4 ,the ,rev4 ,b4 ,,bailey1 ,,senior ,colonial ,chaplain4 ,the ,rev4 ,j4 ,h4 ,,de ,,saram4 ,c4 ,e4 ,,layard1 ,esq4 and that the ,rev4 ,,joseph ,,bailey1 be ,treasurer and ,secretary4 #crd4 ,on the motion of ,c4 ,e4 ,layard1 ,esq41 seconded by the ,rev4 ,j4 ,bailey4 ,that a plain marble ,tablet to the ,memory of the ,right ,rev4 ,,daniel ,,corrie1 ,,ll4,d4 ,late ,bishop of ,madras and ,ceylon1 be placed in ,st4 ,peter's ,church1 ,colombo1 at an expense not exceeding thirty pounds2 and that the balance of the subscriptions raised in ,ceylon1 in excess of such sum1 be transmitted to the ,madras ,committee4 #dth4 ,on the motion of the ,rev4 ,j4 ,h4 ,de ,saram1 seconded by the ,rev4 ,j4 ,marsh4 ,that the ,secretary be requested to correspond with the ,reverend the ,clergy at the out-stations of ,galle1 ,kandy1 ,trincomalee1 and ,jaffna1 on the objects of this ,meeting4 #eth4 ,on the motion of the ,rev4 ,b4 ,bailey1 seconded by ,c4 ,e4 ,layard1 ,esq4 ,that the thanks of the ,meeting be given to ,his ,excellency the ,governor1 for the information he has just given1 respecting the proceedings in #ahbe1 connected with the founding of a ,singhalese ,scholarship in ,bishop's ,college1 ,calcutta and that he be requested to transmit any further information he may obtain on the subject1 to the members of the ,committee1 for the regulation of their proceedings with respect to ,,corrie',s ,scholarships4 #fth4 ,on the motion of ,j4 ,steuart1 ,esq41 seconded by ,c4 ,e4 ,layard1 ,esq4 ,that the thanks of this ,meeting be given to ,his ,excellency the ,governor1 for the interest he has taken in the general objects of this ,meeting1 and for his able conduct in the chair4 ,v4 ,the preceding pages bear sufficient testimony to the zeal and activity of ,bishop ,corrie1 in forwarding every plan for securing a ,christian education to the youth of ,india4 ,but it is well known among the deceased ,prelate's friends1 that he was in the habit of translating and compiling school-books for the use of such ,hindoostanee schools as more immediately came under his own superintendance4 ,it is a matter of regret that the many enquiries which the ,editors of these ,memoirs have made1 with a view to obtaining a definite list of the books in question1 have been but partially successful4 ,it may1 however1 be mentioned that besides translating into ,hindoostanee1 ,sellon's ,abridgment of ,scripture1 ,watts' ,catechism1 ,the ,assembly's ,shorter ,catechism1 portions of ,milner's ,church ,history1 c41 the ,bishop drew up in ,english1 8,a general ,outline of ,ancient ,history10 for the use of the ,hindoostanee youth4 ,a third ,edition of this 8,outline0 was going through the press at the time of the ,bishop's death2 and other ,editions have since then been printed4 ,among his papers was found1 also1 a manuscript translation into ,hindoostanee of a brief ,church ,history1 by the ,rev4 ,e4 ,sims1 entitled 8,christian ,records40 ,,the ,,end4 ,,leonard ,,seeley1 ,,thames ,,ditton1 ,,surrey4 ,transcriber's ,note3 ,words may have inconsistent hyphenation in the text4 ,obsolete and alternative spellings were left unchanged4 ,typographical errors noted in the ,corrigenda were not corrected in the referenced text4 ,other misspelled words were corrected4 ,words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores1 like this4 ,footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to the end of the chapter4 ,obvious printing errors1 such as partially printed or missing letters and punctuation1 were corrected4 ,extraneous punctuation was deleted4 ,duplicate letters at line endings were removed4 ,the following were changed3 changed 8#ef0 to 8#fe0 in the ,table of ,contents4 added 8to0 444 be so good as to order it 444 added 8of0 444 on this side of ,india4 changed 8not0 to 8than0 444 not less than 444 added 8to0 444 reduce the present number of ,chaplains to seven 444