there is a rich mine of gold in India." 'And I will go down," returned Carey, "if you will hold the ropes."

The following entries occur in the newly discovered diary of Samuel Teedon, the Olney schoolmaster. The year is 1793:

"March 24 Sunday 'I went and heard Mr. Storton at Mr. Sutcliff's meeting give a very affecting acct. of the progress of the Gospel among the hindows (= Hindoos) under the ministry of Mr. Thomas and that he and Mr. Cary were to be here and soon embark for their mission after a collection.'

"March 26 Tuesday I went to Mr. Sutcliff's meetg. and heard Mr. Cary preach the Missionary to go to the Hindos (Hindoos) with his Son about 10 years of age, a collection was made I gave 6d. it amounted almost to £10. The Lord prosper the work."

It is deeply interesting to recall this scene in the quaint old meeting-house. The enthusiastic preacher in the tall narrow pulpit against the long back wall; the cumbrous galleries and the old-fashioned square pews before him crowded with eager listeners-the deep and perpendicular-backed pews with their doors fastened by wooden buttons and their backs of green baize and rows of brass-headed nails; the large-faced clock whose solemn tickings filled up the pauses in the sermon; the candles in their wooden blocks dotted about on the tops of the pews; and the noiseless-footed

brother, whose duty it was, moving hither and thither with the snuffers. The old chapel is still standing, and has been but little altered.

The sermon which Carey preached, and which poor Samuel Teedon listened to, was from Rom. xii., I: "I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice," etc.; and after the sermon he gave out the hymn commencing— "And must I part with all I have,

Jesus, my Lord, for Thee?

This is my joy, since Thou hast done
Much more than this for me".

pronouncing with great emphasis the first four words of the second verse—

"Yes, let it go :-one look from Thee

Will more than make amends

For all the losses I sustain,

Of credit, riches, friends."

All difficulties having been surmounted, Mr. Carey and his family and Mr. Thomas embarked in the Kron Princessa Maria, a Danish Indiaman, on the 13th of June, 1793.

The commander of the ship, Captain Christmas, one of the most polite, accomplished gentlemen, who ever sustained the name of a sea captain," treated them with every kindness. With one of the passengers, a Frenchman, and "the most presumptuous and hardened Deist" he had ever seen or heard of, Carey

engaged in disputes almost daily. His arguments with the Frenchman, whose dernier ressort was "to turn all into badinage," availed nothing; but with the crew, Danes and Norwegians, amongst whom was "much less irreligion and profanity" than among English sailors, he had more success. Near the Cape the ship got into such a violent sea that it was thought every moment she would go to the bottom. When he thought of his own 'barrenness "" and the mighty work that lay before him, Carey's courage almost failed him, consequently he always felt peculiarly happy during the times when he knew public worship was going on in England, and in the reflection that "hundreds if not thousands were praying for him. It is very characteristic of him that in this his first letter from Bengal he should ask Fuller "to send me all that are published of Curtis's Botanical Magazine and Sowerby's English Botany, and to continue sending them regularly, & deduct what they cost from my allowance."

At Calcutta Carey met with fresh difficulties and troubles in the first place, Mr. Thomas, by his imprudence, dissipated their money as soon as it came in ; again, the government were hostile, and he was in constant fear lest he should be sent back to England; his wife, too, gave him additional trouble, and was constantly upbraiding him with their wretchedness; and, to crown all, his family were attacked by sickness. Driven almost to distraction by these accumulated