d such an increase
of illness, that his life closed on the 12th of April, 1850, only a
fortnight after parting from his wife, though it was not for four months
that she could be informed of his loss. During this time she had given
birth to a dead babe, and had suffered fearfully from sorrow and
suspense.

She had become valuable enough to the mission for there to be much
anxiety to retain her, and at first she thought of remaining; but her
health was too much broken, and in a few months she carried home her
little girl and her two step-sons. She collected the family together,
and spent her time in the care of them, and in contributing materials for
the Life of her husband; but the hereditary disease of her family had
already laid its grasp on her, and she died on the 1st of June, 1854, the
last of a truly devoted group of workers, as remarkable for their
cheerfulness as for their heroism.

CHAPTER VII. THE BISHOPRIC OF CALCUTTA: THOMAS MIDDLETON, REGINALD
HEBER, DANIEL WILSON.

Perhaps dying in a cause is the surest way of leading to its success.
Henry Martyn was sinking on his homeward journey, while in England the
renewal of the Charter of the East India Company was leading to the
renewal of those discussions on the promotion of religion in Hindostan
which had been so entirely quashed twenty years before, in 1793. Claudius
Buchanan had published his "Christian Researches," the Life of Schwartz
had become known, the labours of Marshman and Carey were reported, and
the Legislature at length attended to the representations, made through
Archbishop Manners Sutton, by the Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge, and consented to sanction the establishment of a branch of the
Church, with a Bishop to govern it at Calcutta, and an Archdeacon there
and also at Madras and Bombay; the Bishop to have 5,000_l._ a year but no
house, and each Archdeacon 2,000_l._ Such was all that the efforts of
Wilberforce could wring from the East India Company for a diocese, in
length twenty degrees, in breadth ten, and where the inconvenience of
distances was infinitely increased by the difficulties and dangers of
travelling.

One excuse for the insufficiency of this provision had more weight with
the supporters of the Church than we can understand. England had for
more than a thousand years been accustomed to connect temporal grandeur
with the Episcopacy; a Bishop not in the House of Lords seemed an
anomaly, and it was imag