“Not having a copy of my last report, I know not whether I mentioned some native Roman Catholic Christians who daily attended me for reading the Scriptures. Only one of four continues to come, and he seems to be in earnest. He has with great reluctance been brought to confess, that at least the purgatory of the Papists, their transubstantiation, and prayer to saints, have no foundation in Scripture. He has read the Gospels through; St. John twice, and we are now going through St. Matthew a second time. He has brought his wife and family to Chunar; and has expressed a wish to instruct his native brethren, if I will find him subsistence. After many expressions of this kind, I told him, that he must consider that the Company give no authority for this; that he must expect no more favour than others, from the British; that I would only support him with necessaries, but should expect his children would be taught to earn their bread; and desired him to reflect seriously on the subject, and make it matter of prayer to God. He has not expressed so much eagerness since this, as before. He, however, has much conversation with the native baptized persons; tells them faithfully of their sin and heathen practices; and I think is himself a true Christian. He yesterday explained to me the Parable of the Sower very exactly, without reference to our Lord’s explanation. It may not be amiss to transcribe a few remarks I have noted down respecting this man’s knowledge of divine truth. I understand him better than he understands me, but I enquire of him the meaning of what I have said, till I find he has caught the idea I wish to convey. “Saturday, May 16th. The Bettiah-walla remembered very exactly what I explained to him yesterday of our Lord’s discourse with Nicodemus; he, also, remembered very correctly the explanation of the allusion to the brazen serpent, repeating what I had told him of that transaction. On asking him, in what sense must we look to Christ; he answered, Jesus Christ is not now on the cross: but, as He said to Thomas, who seeing the prints of the nails in his hands, cried out ‘My Lord and my God,’--‘Blessed is he that hath not seen, and yet hath believed,’ so it is with our hearts that we must look to Him; and believing that He hath given his blood for us, and having our hearts made clean by His Spirit, we shall not perish, but have everlasting life. He explained John iii. 17. (without being asked) very scripturally, and evidently with a sense of its value.