“We have had several instances of very awful awakenings of conscience in the prospect of death. One person, a week or two since, could not contain his feelings in the midst of the many sick around him, in the hospital, but openly accused himself, and loudly called for mercy. However, the generality, alas! are careless, notwithstanding these and other solemn warnings. A gay, smart young Captain, a short time since was seized with a fit in a large company, at dinner, and died during the night. A great crowd attended his funeral, and all the solemnity and pomp of military parade attended, but alas! the impression passed away.... There are indeed a few (and the number is increasing) of godly people, scattered up and down, who are each a light in his place.” The references which are found in the foregoing letter and in the letters which follow, to the “incorrectness of Sabat’s Arabic,” and to the “rage” of that unhappy man, “against the moonshees of Calcutta,” are explained by the circumstance, that just before Mr. Martyn left Cawnpore, he had received intelligence from Mr. Brown that the translations of the Gospels into Persian were considered to be too imperfect for publication; whilst it was insinuated that Sabat’s translations into Arabic were but copies from some old version.[66] This apparent failure in an object so near his heart, as the translating of the Scriptures, occasioned great distress of mind to Mr. Martyn; and all the evil passions of Sabat were exasperated by the imputation cast on his learning. In these letters, may be but too plainly traced the unrestrained workings of that pride, selfishness and violence in Sabat which afterwards ended so mournfully, though not unnaturally, in his apostasy from the “faith which” always “worketh by love.” TO THE REV. D. BROWN. “Cawnpore, Oct. 4, 1810.