_scarcely moving_.--Bu-u-uh.

"_Second beggar_, _counting his beads_, _rolling his eyes_, _and moving
his body backwards and forwards_.--Ram, ram; ram, ram!"

Benares, said to be founded on the point of Siva's trident, as the most
sacred city of all Hindostan, swarmed with beggars, fakirs, sacred
animals, and idols of every description; but close beside it was a church
for consecration and thirty candidates for confirmation, of whom fourteen
were natives. The next day the Bishop was taken to see a school founded
by a rich Bengalee baboo, whom Mr. Corrie had almost persuaded to be a
Christian, but who had settled down into a sort of general admiration for
the beauty of the Gospel, and a wish to improve his countrymen. He had
made over the house where the school was kept to the Church Missionary
Society, and the staff consisted of an English schoolmaster, a Persian
moonshee, and two Hindostanee writing masters, the whole presided over by
an English catechist, a candidate for Holy Orders. There were several
class rooms, and a large, lofty hall, supported by pillars, where the
Bishop examined the 140, who read Persian and English, answered questions
in Hindostanee and English, and showed great proficiency in writing,
arithmetic, and geography. No objection was made to their reading the
New Testament.

Afterwards, when the Bishop looked into a little pagoda, richly carved,
and containing an image of Siva, crowned with scarlet flowers, with lamps
burning before him, and a painted bull in front, a little boy, one of the
brightest scholars in the school, came forward, and showing his
Brahminical string, told, in tolerable English, the histories of the
deities with which the walls were painted. "This," says the Bishop,
"opened my eyes more fully to a danger which had before struck me as
possible, that some of the boys brought up in our schools might grow up
accomplished hypocrites, playing the part of Christian with us, and with
their own people of zealous followers of Brahma, or else that they would
settle down in a sort of compromise between the two creeds, allowing that
Christianity was the best for us, but that idolatry was necessary and
commendable in persons of their own nation." This in fact seems to have
been ever since the state of a large proportion of the educated Hindoos.
May it be only a transition state!

The street preaching employed by the Serampore community had not been
resorted to by the Church Missio