“On the 5th instant I went to Chunar: it was rather late in the evening when I arrived, but I found several of the converted Hindoos waiting to see me. Next morning at seven o’clock, about eighty of the native Christians attended for divine worship. They began by singing a hymn, in the native measures, on the sufferings of Christians. The regularity with which they sung, and the earnestness most of them manifested, greatly affected me. Mr. Bowley expounded the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins; and concluded the service with prayer. Among other things, he prayed for a blessing on the king, and on his nobles in England, and in India. I mention this not as a proof of Mr. Bowley’s loyalty, for that was known long before, but to shew how the labours of such men tend to attach the natives of India to the British nation, by uniting their most important interests. At ten o’clock, about one hundred Europeans attended divine service in English; after which, twelve of their children were baptized, and eleven marriages celebrated. At three p. m., the native congregation again assembled to the number of about ninety adults; when, after evening prayer, I endeavoured to explain to them and apply the second Psalm. It appears that the usual number of Europeans who attend Divine service regularly in English, is about forty, and the usual number of native Christians who attend worship in Hindoostanee, is about seventy or eighty. The number in both congregations has been gradually and regularly increasing, and testifies of itself to the diligence and exemplary conduct of Mr. Bowley, and of the blessing attending his labours. The little I was able, in my short visit, to see of the state of the people, impressed me deeply with the value of his labours. I knew the degradation of both European invalids and their native wives and families, from three years residence among them, and now to behold so many of them adorning by their lives the doctrine of God our Saviour, was to me most gratifying, and will be considered an ample recompence for all their contributions, by the supporters of our Society. There being but one place for both the free-school and the congregation to assemble in, I could not see the scholars at their tasks. Three or four children of parents, who can afford it, pay half a rupee per month; with which, together with voluntary contributions of some of the pious soldiers, Mr. Bowley has provided wall-shades for evening service, and supplies the lights. I, also, conversed at Chunar with ten Hindoos, who appear to be fully convinced of the truth of Christianity, though not yet prepared to encounter the consequences of an open profession [of it]. Some of them even join Mr. Bowley occasionally in prayers.