owever, on
consulting together, expressed a doubt of the mother's concurrence; and,
accordingly, next day I had a very civil message, through the Resident,
that the Rannee had already lost two sons; that this survivor was a
sickly boy; that she was sure he would not come back alive, and it would
kill her to part with him; but that all the family joined in gratitude,
&c. So poor Seroojee must chew betel and sit in the zenana, and pursue
the other amusements of the common race of Hindoo princes, till he is
gathered to those heroic forms who, girded with long swords with hawks on
their wrists, and garments like those of the king of spades (whose
portrait-painter, as I guess, has been retained by this family), adorn
the principal room in the palace."

To the Bishop's great indignation, he found that whereas while the Rajah
had retained his dominions, Christians had been eligible to all the
different offices of State, there was now an order from the Company's
Government against their admission to any employment. "Surely," he says,
"we are, in matters of religion, the most lukewarm and cowardly people on
the face of the earth. I mean to make this and some other things I have
seen a matter of formal representation to all the three Governments of
India, and to the Board of Control."

It is highly probable that this systematic dread of encouraging God's
service on the part of the Company assisted in keeping Serfojee a
heathen, in spite of the many prayers offered up for him. Almost the
last in Heber's book of private devotions was for the Rajah; and he drew
up one, to be translated into Tamul, for use in all the churches in his
territory; this last not directly for his conversion, but for his
temporal and spiritual welfare.

It is pleasant to know that the last Easter of Heber's life was made
joyful by ministering to Schwartz's spiritual children. He preached in
that church which Schwartz had raised, and where his monument stood. His
text was, "I am He that liveth and was dead, and behold I am alive for
evermore." Many English-speaking natives went there, and others besides;
and at the Holy Eucharist that followed there were thirty English and
fifty-seven native communicants. The delight and admiration of the
Bishop were speedily apparent. In the evening he attended a Tamul
service, where the prayers were said by a Hindoo, the sermon preached by
a Dane, and the blessing delivered by the Bishop in Tamul, to the
surpri