[90] Who afterwards became so well known as a devoted and eminently useful Missionary Clergyman. CHAPTER XII. VOYAGE TO ENGLAND. It was on the 18th of August 1814, that Mr. Corrie left Agra. On his way to Calcutta he paid visits to his friends at the different stations on the river, more especially at Chunar and Benares, the scene of his earliest ministrations in India. Whilst at the latter place, he received intelligence that Mr. Bowley and Abdool Messeeh were so discouraged by some difficulties that occurred soon after his departure from Agra, that both “were ready to desist from the work of the Lord.” This occasioned great sorrow and anxiety to Mr. C., inasmuch as he not only anticipated the breaking up of the native congregation which he had been mainly instrumental in gathering around him; but, also, that it might afford matter for triumph to the enemies of missions. With reference to this subject, Mr. C. observed in a letter TO MR. SHERER. “If Abdool should give up in discouragement, my plans would be much set aside. But ‘Jehovah Jireh,’ must be my motto. This perplexity brings me often to my knees, and therefore I hope will work for my good. An expression of Mr. Brown, in our last intercourse, often occurs to me:--‘Instead of praying always and not fainting, we faint always and never pray, till we find ourselves in a strait.’” On reaching Calcutta, Mr. Corrie found that all his medical friends concurred in the opinion that a sea-voyage was absolutely necessary to eradicate his disorder; but as his wife’s expected confinement did not allow of his immediate embarkation, Mr. C. employed himself during his stay at Calcutta, in setting on foot a school for native christian schoolmasters. He had an opportunity too, of becoming acquainted with Bishop Middleton, who had then recently arrived in India, and of submitting to the consideration of that prelate, many circumstances connected with the state of religion in that country. On the 1st January 1815, Mr. and Mrs. Corrie went on board the H. C. ship Europe, with the intention of proceeding, in the first instance, to the Cape of Good Hope. But on arriving at the Cape, Mr. Corrie was recommended to proceed to England for the benefit of the colder climate; and with this advice he considered it his duty to comply. In a letter to Mr. Sherer, dated from Cape Town, March 29, 1815, Mr. C. relates:--