The quarterly report transmitted by Mr. Corrie to Mr. Brown, on the 4th of January, 1808, supplies us with an outline of the progress of religion at Chunar up to that date; and touches upon the great practical difficulty, inseparable from that loss of the means of subsistence, which converts from heathenism usually have to endure. “Let us begin our correspondence with erecting an Ebenezer to our gracious Lord, who continues us in the land of the living, and gives us opportunities of obtaining a great nearness to His blissful presence, and a more exalted station among those who turn many to righteousness. I might well, in the review of the past year, dread the imputation of unprofitableness, but yet I perceive it a dishonour to the grace of our Redeemer, to disparage the smallest appearance of His grace in myself, or in others; and though I am sure I must say, ‘Lord, when saw I thee a stranger, &c.,’ I consider it my duty to credit the precious declaration spoken by our great Bishop, respecting himself and his διάκονοι, ‘Though Israel be not gathered, &c.’ Is. xliii. “Pursuing the plan suggested with so much propriety by our senior brother, I have to observe that since my last, some changes have taken place in our society, which seem upon the whole to have been for the better, as we have gained a captain of artillery, of great decorum of manners, both in public and private. Of our old members, I am persuaded that the seed of the word has put forth the ‘tender blade’ in the lady and gentleman I have before alluded to; whilst considerable alteration in the outward conduct of another gentleman is noticed; but I fear, ‘one thing’ at least is lacking in him. By four out of the six families here, I am asked to say grace at dinner, which when I first arrived was unusual. I know not what I ought to think of this, knowing well that in Christ, nothing availeth but ‘faith that worketh by love;’ yet perhaps something is gained. The Lord help me to be more devoted to his glory, that I may not seem to countenance them in stopping short of the ‘new creation!’ One person is often very contemptuous towards me, but finds no one to join him at present. Among the common Europeans little but discouragement appears: only one seems entirely from under the dominion of outward sin. He is the sergeant I have mentioned, and appears a subject of divine grace. Several are approvers, and attendants on public worship, but the sad abuse of the late holy festival has damped my hopes respecting them.