“I have been thinking who I could send you as a reader; but really fear that none of those at present with me, are fit for the appointment. It requires some time to make them acquainted with the Scriptures; and some time for them to lay aside the old ways of thinking, in which they have been brought up: so that only one, like yourself, who would bear with them, rather than expect them to bend in all things to you, could be intrusted with the care of a very recent convert. Abdool Messeeh’s nephew is, next to his uncle, the most deeply humbled of the new converts; and him his uncle does not wish to part with, at present. I will, however, when we reach home, write to you further on the subject; for you must know we left Agra on the 10th of January, and have been at Delhi and Meerut.” Yet the quick succession in which first one native and then another had been added to the church at Agra and elsewhere, was so unusual a phenomenon in India, that some of the friends of missions seem to have been apprehensive, lest converts should have been admitted to baptism, before the sincerity of their faith and repentance had been sufficiently tested. On that point, therefore, Mr. Corrie writes in answer TO THE REV. MR. THOMASON. “Many kind and cordial thanks for your cautions respecting baptism. I have in no instance administered [that sacrament] but where there seemed experience, as well as knowledge, of the grace of God. Even the youths seem convinced of sin, and aware of the necessity of avoiding it. But the further we advance, the more arduous does my post become. Nothing has occurred to make me doubt the sincerity of any of the baptized,--but others have tried to deceive. I wish all the converts could remain with me; but it is no sin in them that they cannot live without food; and I cannot maintain them all.” Mr. Corrie then adds, on the subject of scripture readers:-- “The Hukeem discovers great reluctance to leave, but at the request of S. for a native Christian, he goes on Thursday next, and Abdool Messeeh goes with him on a visit. He will be in as good hands as here: his son is likely to prove a treasure. He is quite familiar with the Arabic of the Koran, is very quick of comprehension, needs seldom to have a lesson repeated, and is devoted to study. His frame of body is but weakly; and thus devotedness to learning is accompanied (as is generally the case) with less appearance of zeal for others. How few, like Martyn, live only that they may impart knowledge! This youth appears a sincere convert. He and two others are, henceforth, to have a lesson daily in Hebrew. In two months he has learned to construe the English New Testament; and purposes acquiring also the rudiments of Greek.”