“I do not know that our plan of schooling is by any means the most advantageous. It is simply this:--Before nine o’clock, the children learn by heart, catechism or grammar, in the way of question and answer. After that Persian; and after mid-day, English. This school consists of Christian children.... The natives are so irregular in their habits, and so entirely negligent of time, at the same time so ignorant of the advantages of regularity, and improvement of time, that they fly off if too much troubled on the subject. In this work I am often reminded of that passage, ‘Ye have need of patience, that having done the will of God, ye may receive the promises.’ May we be followers of them, who, through faith and _patience_, inherit the promises! Faith we acknowledge [to be] a heavenly principle, but often look for patience in ourselves; which, alas, is no more of ourselves than faith.” Within a short time of the date of this letter to Captain Peevor, the fall of two of the baptized from “their stedfastness,” occasioned Mr. Corrie some distress, although his knowledge of the native character had prepared him, as has been seen, to expect that offences would sooner or later come. As regarded his own experience, however, all outward trials and perplexities only seem to have led him to depend more simply on the divine aid. Thus on the 10th of April 1814, (Easter-day) Mr. C. writes:-- “To-day I have completed my 37th year. An eventful year the last has been, from the spiritual enlargement of the Church, both among white and black. Many trials, too, have sprung up from the same cause; and often I am at my wits’ end. I find all creatures, in themselves, but miserable comforters; and I have, at times, a deep, deep feeling of the disorder and misery introduced by sin; of the strange perverseness and blindness of my own nature in particular, and of human nature in general. My own folly and perverseness appears, in the preference of outward labour and bodily exercise to spiritual obedience, and mental discipline. Yet, at times, I have stronger views than I ever had before, of the excellence of the Divine nature, and the blessedness of knowing, and being with God. I trust my heart is not weary of this work, though often groaning in it. God has raised pecuniary help, but the responsibility attached to it makes me sometimes wish to decline it. Mr. B. is coming to help in this work, which I should rejoice in: and the Molwee, from Rampoor, promises to be a ‘burning and a shining light.’ My dear wife grows in union of heart and labour with me; and, on the whole, I have nothing to regret but my own hardness of heart, whilst I would set up an ‘Ebenezer’ to my covenant God! Amen.”