in a public building fitting up, but not yet ready to open as a church: besides these [services] once a fortnight there is public worship in the General’s house. Except the soldiers, all our other English rank as gentlemen. We have here only these two classes, except a very few persons in trade. “I do not consider myself at home here; and am longing for Agra, that I may commence more extensive plans among the heathen. My Christian boys are becoming very dear to me; one especially is very intelligent and hopeful: they will be well grounded in principles; and I pray God to give them spiritual understanding. They come to me with their little complaints, and their Arab black faces often make me very merry; nor would I leave the often painful, because tedious task, of attempting to make them wise unto salvation, even to be the helper of my beloved Buckworth. “I know not if I wrote to you on our leaving Chunar in May. The native teacher has returned thither; and I reckon some of the native christians there to be truly spiritual. I hope to have a large native flock at Agra: there are few Europeans there, which will leave me more leisure than I have here. Respecting our brother Martyn, his health is far from good, his constitution far from strong: he is going to sea before long, (D. V.) to try sea-air. May God render it effectual to his restoration! His life is beyond all price to us. You know what a profound scholar he is, and all his acquirements are dedicated to the service of Christ. If ever man, since St. Paul, could use these words, he may, ‘One thing I do, &c., (Philip. iii. 13, 14.) He has, with a learned native, finished the translation into Hindoostanee of the whole New Testament; which is ready to be sent to the press, when money is supplied. He is going on with the books of Moses. Sabat has finished the four Gospels, the Acts, and to 2nd. Corinthians, in Persian and Arabic, which Martyn compares with the Greek. The Bible Society helps nobly, and will continue to foster ‘the day of small things’ among us.