“April 2nd. Yesterday morning I went to the barracks. I asked the native woman whom I lately baptized, whether she prayed? She answered, ‘Yes.’ ‘What do you pray to God for?’ ‘To make me well in this world if He pleases; and if not, to take me to Himself.’ I endeavoured to impress on her the necessity of asking all in Christ’s name; which she seemed to attend to very diligently. The man was impressed. In the evening I went to bury a child; and spoke to three invalids, plainly and at length, on the necessity of winning Christ. “April 6th. I learned from the Moonshee that the old schoolmaster, in order to keep his scholars from the free school, circulated a report that I should send the children to Calcutta; which, it seems, keeps many back; but this notion, however, is now done away with. “April 8th. Yesterday the Bettiah-walla came again after an absence of a fortnight. He said he had been unwell; and his appearance bespoke it. He told me that he was poor and helpless without Jesus Christ. To-day he came again, and read, with evident interest, the fourteenth and fifteenth chapters of St. John; especially the promise of being one with God and Christ. The account of the fruitless branches also impressed him; and he confessed that his heart was backward towards God. This morning the children of the school came to me: I was much struck with their appearance, and artless manners. The Bettiah-walla received the ten commandments with reluctance: the second is not in his number. I took several occasions of pointing out to him the name of Jesus, as the only medium of access to God; and observed that we must not pray to saints. At hearing this, his countenance fell. O that the Lord may lead him into all truth!