“I am confined to Colonel Bowie’s quarters, and was only just able last night to marry the young people. I am sorry to find the Bible Society has been so little encouraged here; but I cannot go out to see people on the subject. The surgeon here tells me, I must go to sea.” Yet after a few days repose, added to God’s blessing on the kind attentions of his host at Agra, Mr. Corrie was sufficiently recovered to allow of his proceeding on his journey, and before his arrival at Cawnpore he found himself much recruited in strength. As, however, he seems now to have been convinced, that his illness was chiefly to be attributed to the frequency of his preaching; Mr. C. considered it to be his duty to resolve to be more careful in that respect for the future. Still, with reference to that matter he remarks in his Journal:-- “I trust it is with a single eye to future usefulness that I purpose to be more careful of my health, and to be less engaged in preaching.” But when he was again settled among his flock at Cawnpore, Mr. C’s purpose to be “less engaged in preaching,” was but partially carried into effect. He writes, for example, under date of “18th. Sept. [1811.] I have been thinking of three separate courses of sermons. First, for Sunday mornings: to begin with man’s ruin; justification; illumination; separation from the world; progress in the ‘fruits of the Spirit.’ Secondly, for the Wednesday evenings: a view of the church of Christ; its establishment; progress; and final triumph in the world, notwithstanding the opposition of Satan: a course from Matt. xvi. 18., on the plan of Edward’s History of Redemption. Thirdly: to translate into Hindoostanee, to be read by James to the Hindoostanees, a Commentary on Genesis i: on the original state of man; the fall; the promise in succession, on to the history of our Lord in the gospels.” And, again, in a letter: TO THE REV. D. BROWN. “Cawnpore, Oct. 10, 1811. “I could put twenty copies of the New Testament into immediate use, and we go on very lamely without them. Writing is slow, incorrect, and expensive. Nothing will be done to purpose, till we get printed copies in abundance. Three of the pious soldiers are learning Hindoostanee, that they may, as they say, be able to exhort the heathen. One of them is a superior young man, and very humble and unobtrusive. He has long wished to be able to talk with the Brahmins at a certain pagoda, near the river, where he goes often; and purposes reading the New Testament to them, when he can get one.[77]