“We have in company, Abdullah, baptized in England; Fuez Messeeh, baptized in Calcutta; Noor Messeeh, baptized at Agra; a Christian Khidmutgar,[100] baptized at the Lall-Bazaar Chapel [in Calcutta]; Khristnoo, baptized at Agra; the five Christian youths, under the patronage of the Church Missionary Society; and several Christian families. During the 19th and 20th, we had an opportunity of witnessing two distressing instances of the unfeeling conduct of the Hindoos, towards the sick and dying. On one occasion, two women were employed, at the river-side, filling the mouth of a child with mud. Miss B. asked them if the child were ill? One of them answered, ‘Yes.’ Miss B. ‘You are going to kill it outright.’ On which they began to laugh, and talk with each other; and prosecuted their work of death. Farther on, a sick man was laid, with several people sitting round. A young and handsome Brahmin was attempting to bind a weight round his neck, in order to sink him in the river, which the sick man was resisting, with marks of much remaining strength. Abdullah called out, ‘Take him into some warm place, and he will recover:’ to which the Brahmin answered, with a significant nod, ‘Aye, Aye, we will put him into a warm place:’ on which the persons around laughed aloud. On the evening of the 21st, Fuez Messeeh, whilst walking on the bank of the river, said among other things, that ‘at times he experienced such delight in contemplating the love of Christ, that no relish remained for earthly things.’ Noor Messeeh, (who appears truly a partaker of the grace of Christ) joined us; and after some time asked, with seeming interest, ‘Whether if a person sinned after believing in Christ, he might hope for forgiveness?’ One of the Christian youths enquired, ‘Whether if a person did not believe in Christ, and yet practised virtue, his virtue would be accepted of God?’ These questions seem to me, to explain the doctrine contained in the xvi. and xviii. Articles of our Church. The situation of native Christians, in respect of the Mahomedans and Heathen, point out to them the necessity of faith in Christ, in order to acceptance with God; and at the same time, teaches them the inefficacy of a mere profession of Christianity.