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the middle one loves most truly. If this conjecture of mine is 

 well founded, she will be most interested in what befalls me, 

 and I shall write in less fear of tiring. My bodily health, 

 which you require me always to mention, is prodigious, my 

 strength and spirits are in general greater than ever they were, 

 and this under Grod I ascribe to the susceptibility of my frame, 

 giving me instant warning of anything that may disorder it, 

 Half-an-hour's exposure to the sun jDroduces an immediate over- 

 flow of bile ; therefore I take care never to let the sun's rays 

 fall upon my body. Vexation or anxiety has the same effect. 

 For this, faith and prayer for the peace of Q-od are the best 

 remedy. 



Since my last letter, written a few months ago in reply to 

 cousin T., I do not recollect that anything has happened. Dr. 

 Buchanan's last publication on the Christian institution will 

 give you the most full and interesting accounts of the affairs of 

 our Lord's kingdom in India. The press seems to us all to be 

 the great instrument at present. Preaching by the European 

 Mission here has in no instance that I know of been successful. 

 Everything in our manner, pronunciation, and doctrine is so 

 new and strange, that to instruct them properly viva voce seems 

 to be giving more time to a small body of them than can be 

 conveniently spared from the great mass. Yet on the other 

 hand I feel reason to be guarded against the love of carnal ease, 

 which would make me prefer the literary work of translating 

 to that of an itinerant : upon the whole, however, I acquiesce in 

 the work that Dr. B. has assigned me — from conviction. Thro' 

 the blessing of God, I have finished the New Testament in the 

 Perso-Arabic-Hindoostanee, — but it must undergo strict revisal 

 before it can be sent to the press. My assistants in this work 

 were Mirza Mahommed AH, and Moorad Ali, two Mahometans, 

 and I sometimes hope there are convictions in their minds 

 which they will not be able to shake off. They have not much 

 doubt of the falsehood of Mahometanism, and the truth of the 

 gospel, but they cannot take up the cross. 



The arrival of Jawad Sabat, our Arabian brother, at Dinapore, 

 had a great effect upon them ; they immediately perceived that 

 his rank and learning set him beyond their contempt. This 

 dear brother is now living with me, and, tho' he sometimes 



