death? Answer, ‘I shall go to God; what else, Sahib? Now He has given me grace, I am all light within: will He put light with darkness again? No, I shall go to God after death.’ Will you forsake your family and friends? Answer, ‘My father, Sahib, very old: he wash in Ganges, and make poojah: I cannot help him, but I will love him, I will honour him, as Jesus Christ’s word is: O! I cannot help him, but I will make prayer for him: I must follow my Lord Christ; there is no Saviour but He: Hindoos, Musselmans, all worship devils,’ with more to that effect--adding ‘Ever since I was with you, Sahib, my heart was full, and now, if you please, I will be baptized.’ After prayer, we separated: next day when he came to me, I asked him, ‘Have you thought much of the matter, and are you willing to forsake all for Christ?’ He answered, ‘I have made much prayer to God for His grace; and now I will forsake all for my Lord Christ: you will pray, Sahib, that He will wash me, and make me clean: you will mention before Him for the old sinner, a very great sinner, an old rogue, very bad, very bad sinner; that He will save me, and give me grace, that I may love Him with all my heart. I cannot keep His commandments without his grace; but I will pray always, and love Him, and cleave to Him (laying hold of his own garment with eagerness;) and, I will always speak truth, and take care of my words.’ All this with the expressive action of the natives, who have more action than even the French in conversation. At the time of administering the sacrament of baptism, he made the responses from the Book of Common Prayer, with much feeling: when addressed in the service, he shewed the most lively attention, and was very earnest in the prayers: after the service, he shook hands with all present, expressed with tears his thankfulness to God for his mercy to so great a sinner; and said he would serve Him for ever, and devote all his time to learning His word more perfectly that he might instruct others.” Although there was much to comfort and encourage Mr. Corrie in this manifest example of the power of divine grace, in the conversion of this Brahmin; yet by an entry in his journal, dated March 31st, we find him complaining:--