“Your welcome letter of February last reached me November 1st: and I sat down instantly to read and answer it; and have filled three sheets of paper which would have been sent had opportunity offered; and, from your affection for myself, would have amused you. I find on review, however, they are very unsatisfactory; and must select from them a moderate-sized epistle. You rightly suspected that the climate might affect my body, and by consequence my spirits also; as some of my letters to you will shew; but, thanks to the Lord our healer, I am as well, and have been for some time, as at any period in my life. Mary had told me of your presentation to D; had it taken place before I left England, the pleasure of being a fellow-helper with you would probably have kept me there for life; but He who knows what is best for us has ordered it otherwise; and I am unspeakably content. At the same time, I little knew my own unsuitableness for the work I am engaged in; yet ‘hitherto hath the Lord helped me:’ and, though I groan under a sense of my shortcomings, He has not suffered me to go back from His sacred ways: and has, moreover, given of His Divine presence. These opportunities of writing call forth all my former feelings towards you; and I am conscious, that though so widely separated, we are one in the Lord Christ. But I must refrain, and give you some account of matters here.” After having adverted to the fears of the Indian Government lest the animosity of the natives should be excited by any attempts to convert them to Christianity, Mr. Corrie writes: “I suppose we should be taken to task, were we to preach in the streets and highways: but other methods not less effectual are to be used, and less likely to produce popular clamour. Natives themselves may and can be employed, with the greatest advantage, in Evangelizing their brethren, whilst the Minister superintends, and directs and encourages. I have great reason to be thankful, that the Lord has raised up a native christian, born of Roman Catholic parents, who, from March last, has been daily with me; and now, having acquired a sufficient knowledge of the way of salvation, is daily employed in instructing others! A despised race, whom the Europeans have attached to themselves, hear him with great attention; and some with evident profit. He is at present very ill; but I trust the Lord will spare him to us, when more extensive plans will be engaged in.