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the great discrepancy in doctrine they had lately been hear- 

 ing from that pulpit. The first he took was the homily on 

 salvation. So his part is decided. (Mr. J. is, we fear, not a 

 converted man, but within two or three months he has ranged 

 himself on our side, and preaches the gospel). At the Mission 

 Church at night I felt very unwell, and unfit to preach, but I 

 was enabled to speak on 2 Cor. vi, 17, 18. 



15. Grieved at the necessity of tearing away the affections 

 from the creature. How every state of human life is embittered 

 by sin ! If affiiction be our lot, we cannot but sigh at the pain 

 of it ; if prosperity, the heart finds an idol and then comes the 

 pain of separation. Went up to Serampore and read up a 

 series of newspapers just arrived from England. The successive 

 death lists from day to day for several months, when inspected 

 at the same time, strike very forcibly. Fow swiftly we pass ! 

 What should I do without Christ as an everlasting portion ? 

 How vain is life, how mournful is death, how terrible eternity 

 without him ! 



16. Passed the day with my moonshee in the language, and 

 in the evening wrote to Lydia. 



17. The blaze of a funeral pile this morning near my 

 pagoda drew my attention. I ran out, but the unhappy woman 

 had committed herself to the flames before 1 could reach the 

 spot ; but the remains of the two bodies were visible 



At night, while I was at the mission-house, Mr. Chamberlain's 

 arrival was announced from up the country. As we were 

 rejoicing at the thought of seeing him and his wife, we found 

 that she had that day died of child-birth in the boat. I do 

 not know that I was ever so shocked. My soul was sick of 

 everything in this world, which God has so marked with misery. 

 I felt a reluctance to every worldly connection. 



18. Yesterday's events still hang upon my mind. 



19. Happy all day in the love of God. 



20. Went down to Calcutta and had the happiness of meeting 

 our newly arrived brethren, Corrie and Parson. Eode out with 

 them on the course in Mr. B's carriage, tho' it appeared as if I 

 meant to exhibit my re-inforcement. 



21. Lordh Day. Preached at the President's Church from 

 Romans iii, 19-21, on justification by faith, and for the first 



