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is a very humble valuable young man, but the celebrated three — 

 Carey, Marshman, and Ward — seem to be out of their right 

 mind. On hearing of the differences existing between them and 

 Mr. Brown, the first impression on your mind or mine would be 

 that Mr. "Brown or Dr. Buchanan was in the wrong, and so I 

 persisted in believing until I was convinced of the contrary. 

 They are displeased at Mr. Brown's assigning part of the sum 

 voted by the Bible Society in aid of the translations now going 

 on (in) India, to other translators than those employed by them; 

 whereas every man of common discernment must perceive that 

 it would be for the advantage of the common cause to divide 

 the labour. 



They proposed to translate the Bible into ten languages. One 

 of those dialects was the Telinga, which none of the missionaries 

 can speak, nor ever heard spoken but by a Brahmin whom they 

 procured. Now Des Granges lives on the spot, among the people, 

 where he hears nothing else spoken, devoting himself to the 

 acquisition of this alone. He was therefore the proper person 

 to be employed in it. Another of their languages was Persian, 

 which only one of them knows anything about, and this is Mr. 

 Ward, the printer. 8abat began his work with them, but they 

 had not half time enough to give to him — he was therefore sent 

 to me, and I give my whole time to him. The missionaries, if 

 their eye were single, would rejoice in these things. I am loth 

 so much as to imagine anything evil of these pious men, but I 

 cannot help often thinking, that we want more of the spirit 

 which was in Moses. Would Grodthat all the Lord's people were 

 prophets ! 



How melancholy (and) humiliating that men, who are 

 expected to be eminently heavenly minded, and elevated 

 above the desire of human applause, should betray any anxiety 

 for a name among men— men, so ignorant, so fleeting, so 

 transitory. may God the Saviour look down with peculiar 

 compassion on his infant Church in India, especially on the 

 ministers of it, and remove all our perverseness and ignorance : 

 on the latter head, I have much to lament. The Hindostanee 

 New Testament, which I have had by me sometime, does not seem 

 to be sufficiently approved of to be printed yet ; and God has 

 provided me no suitable help. Again, the four gospels in Persian, 

 which were sent to the press, are not likely to go through. 



