pounds, or the interest of only £200, would send one native missionary into the harvest every year; and £15 a-year would maintain him perpetually; and to what nobler object could a donation or a legacy to this amount be applied? In what way could a person appropriate such a sum, and receive from its application such a high gratification? Did a native missionary possess the same knowledge and the same grace as a European one, he would be worth ten of the latter. In the knowledge of the language, in access to the natives, in a capacity of enduring the heat of the climate during itinerancies, in the expense of his education and support, and in the probability of the continuance of his life-there is no comparison. Still, however, the English missionary, at present, is as absolutely necessary as the native; for, without the instructions and superintendence of the English teacher, the natives in their present infant state would be able to accomplish nothing. By all these

considerations, therefore; by the value of all the exertions hitherto made; by the importance of all the translations; by the sufferings of all those victims of superstition, destroyed annually on the funeral piles, in the graves for the living, in the rivers, under the wheels of the car of Juggernaut, and on the roads to the sacred places all over India, and of all those children smothered, strangled, or thrown into the mouths of alligators by their own mothers; yea, by the cries of all these millions perishing without Christ, and without hope, are British Christians called upon to assist in this, it is conceived, immensely important undertaking."

In 1821, about two years and a-half after the prospectus had been issued, the King of Denmark directed his representative at Serampore to present a

certain large house in the settlement to the missionaries, the annual rent of which at the time was nearly £100. Thus nobly did His Majesty add to his many royal favours, and five years subsequently he granted a charter of incorporation, by which instrument the permanency of the College was secured; being placed upon the same basis as other Colleges and Universities in Europe; and, amongst other privileges, being empowered with the right to confer degrees.

Before its completion, the cost of erecting this noble edifice reached some £20,000, of which amount the Serampore brethren contributed no less a proportion than £15,500, thus giving most convincing proof of their disinterested devotion.

It is not expected that we should narrate in these pages the history of the College, or attempt to estimate its great and far reaching usefulness. Year after year, under the presidency of Dr. Carey, as Professor of Divinity, and Lecturer on Botany, Zoology, and other sciences, together with the co-operation of his brethren, the College was able to issue its Report, bearing testimony to invaluable service in the evangelisation of India.

In 1832, Carey published his last document, setting forth the utility of the institution, and commending it to Christian sympathy. The College, which Carey thus so largely helped to originate, exists still. And, it is believed, that as an institution existing mainly and supremely for the training of a native ministry, it will prove, in the altered educational and social circumstances of India, increasingly useful in years to

come.

spared to labour for the good of India. He

out-lived nearly all who were associated with

him in the establishment of the Mission: Fuller, Sutcliff, Pearce, Fawcett, Ryland, amongst those at home; and Thomas, Ward, Chamberlain, and others who had been his fellow-labourers in the work abroad. During this prolonged residence in India, unbroken by any return to England, he had, however, experienced at several periods serious attacks of illness; especially was this the case in 1823, when through an accident, followed by severe fever, he was brought to the brink of the grave. From that illness he never appears to have fully recovered. But though he was under the necessity of somewhat restricting his manifold duties, he concentrated his efforts upon certain pursuits with that diligent persistency by which he had ever been characterised. His chief desire was to complete the last revision of the Bengalee version. And that great work he had strength sufficient to accomplish.

Repeated attacks of fever, with other complications, gradually enfeebled his constitution. In 1831 he expected that his race was run, but the end was not yet, for, in the spring of 1833, his health had so much improved, that Mr. Leechman, who then arrived from England to assist him, was able to describe his condition and circumstances in the following terms :-" Our venerable Dr. Carey is in excellent health, and takes his turn in all our public exercises. Just forty years ago, the first of this month, he administered the Lord's Supper to the church at Leicester, and started on the morrow to embark for India. Through this long period of honourable toil, the Lord has mercifully preserved him; and at our missionary prayer-meeting, held on the first of this month, he delivered an interesting address to encourage us to persevere in the work of the Lord. . . . We have also a private monthly prayermeeting held in Dr. Carey's study, which is to me a meeting of uncommon interest. On these occasions we particularly spread before the Lord our public and private trials, both those which come upon us from the cause of Christ, with which it is our honour and privilege to be connected, and those also which we as individuals are called to bear. At our last meeting, Dr. Carey read part of the history of Gideon, and commented with deep feeling on the encouragement which that history affords, that the cause of God can be carried on to victory and triumph by feeble and apparently inefficient means. On these occasions, as we are quite alone, we give full expression to the joys and sorrows, the hopes and fears, that agitate our spirits. Our friends at home are not forgotten on these occasions. Oh that our united prayers may be heard that Christ's kingdom may come."

With a view to lengthen his invaluable life, his friends strongly urged him to relax his labours, but with his inveterate repugnance to inactivity he would sit and work at his desk when his physical strength was altogether unequal to his mental energy. But that necessity which is inexorable compelled him at last to take almost entirely to his couch; yet even when thus prostrated he would have proof sheets brought to him for revision.

In the autumn he was able to write to his sisters the following letter, indicating, as it does most beautifully, the tranquil state of his mind :

"My being able to write to you now is quite unexpected by me, and, I believe, by everyone else; but it appears to be the will of God that I should continue a little time longer. How long that may be I leave entirely with Him, and can only say, 'All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come.' I was, two months or more ago, reduced to such a state of weakness that it appeared as if my mind was extinguished; and my weakness of body and sense of extreme fatigue and exhaustion were such that I could scarcely speak, and it appeared that death would be no more felt than the removing from one chair to another. I am now able to sit and to lie on my couch, and now and then to read a proof sheet of the Scriptures. I am too weak to walk more than just across the house, nor can I stand even a few minutes without support. I have every comfort that kind friends can yield, and feel, generally, a tranquil mind. I trust the great point is settled, and I am ready to depart; but the time when, I leave with God."

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His interest in his garden remained to the last. long as his strength permitted he would be drawn in