understanding; and that you may have utterance given ‘to declare the whole counsel of God.’” “January 13th, 1806. “I have not heard further respecting the time of sailing for India, but am getting ready for a removal on the shortest notice. With much thankfulness I inform you, that my mind is quite tranquil in the prospect of leaving everything dear to human nature. I have, indeed, sometimes, painful convictions of my insufficiency for the great work before me; but am in general enabled to believe, that ‘as my day is, so shall my strength be.’ The affection my people express for me fills me with shame, that I do not more deserve it, and with fear lest I should be tempted to think of myself more highly than I ought to think. It has pleased my gracious Lord, however, to give me of late a deep experience of my own depravity, and of my unworthiness of the least of his mercies. My dear friends seem entirely reconciled to a separation. I trust that we shall be able to part without the sorrow of those ‘who have no hope.’ O how great the condescension of our Redeemer God, who stoops to so close an union with sinful worms: who allows the sons and daughters of corruption to address Him as their Husband and their head; and salutes them as His spouse and His beloved! Methinks such honour, so undeserved, might well engage our every thought, and make our every inquiry only, ‘What shall I render, &c.?’” [1] A friend who had expressed an intention of providing in life for Mr. C. [2] The church of which the late Rev. Charles Simeon was then Incumbent. [3] The late Rev. John Buckworth, Vicar of Dewsbury, whose father was an inhabitant of Colsterworth. [4] Montague Cholmeley, Esq. of Easton Hall, near Grantham, one of Mr. Corrie’s parishioners, and grandfather of the present Sir Montague J. Cholmeley, Bart. [5] It was now that Mr. Corrie became more intimately acquainted with Henry Martyn than he had before been. CHAPTER II. DEPARTURE FOR INDIA--VOYAGE--ARRIVAL AT CALCUTTA. Early in the year 1806, Mr. Corrie took leave of his relatives and parishioners to embark for India. At that time, a voyage to India was looked upon as a much greater undertaking than it is considered at the present day. Accordingly on Mr. Corrie’s departure from his father’s house, the parishioners pressed round to take their leave of him; many of them deeply affected, believing “that they should see his face no more.”