Similar notices of his application to the study of the Oriental languages occur, also, in Mr. Corrie’s letters, about this time, to Mr. Martyn. Yet the external circumstances with which himself and fellow-labourers in the work of the Lord, were all this while conversant, were far from encouraging. In the letter to Mr. Brown quoted above, Mr. Corrie complained:-- “My harp has long been ‘hung upon the willows.’ Every thing around us bears the image of spiritual death. What little profession there was among us, has issued in nothing that appears decisive.” And a few weeks later, after recording in his journal that he “had often experienced the Divine Presence and grace,” whilst lecturing in public “on the Epistle to the Galatians,” Mr. C. adds:-- “I am, nevertheless, cast down greatly with the little appearance of good working among us: the soldiers seem hardened to all addresses I make: the old native Christian has not been lively of late. When not living near to God, I seem afraid of the doctrine of grace, as it is called; when my soul is deeply affected with divine truth, I can trust God with the consequences of His own declarations.” Whilst having thus to lament the spiritual apathy around him, Mr. Corrie did not on that account slacken his exertions toward hastening on the day, when “the stream of Ganges shall roll through tracts adorned with Christian churches, and the holy hymn be heard beneath the shade of the tamarind.” Accordingly he writes to the Rev. Charles Simeon:-- “Aug. 2, 1809.