“One Sergeant has embraced the truth in love, I trust; and some others are hopeful. A native, descended from Roman Catholic parents, has been daily with me; and we read the gospel in Hindoostanee together: he is a man of good understanding. When I found him here (February) he had not seen the Scriptures: he now understands much of the general sense of the gospels; and evidences a pleasing spirit of enquiry. I am not at present, however, without fears respecting his real conversion. Should it please God to work effectually in him, the blessing to his poor countrymen might prove incalculable. You will wonder, perhaps, that I do not speak with rapture on the subject of the conversion of the natives; be assured, dearest B., no subject is nearer my heart; and this I feel assured of, that whilst health and strength remain, my life shall be devoted to the furtherance of this work, as well as the more immediate objects of my present appointment. The works of the devil are here manifest, and excite an abhorrence in my soul, which, by the grace of God, will to the last make me labour to destroy them: but the effects of my labours are not, according to human appearance, likely to be immediate. The rising generation seem to be the most likely subjects; and some favoured servant of Christ may, probably, lay my head in the dust, and enter on his labour here among ‘a people prepared for the Lord.’ But ‘they who sow and they who reap shall rejoice together’ in the day of our Lord’s appearing.