the devil?"

"Yes."

"Will you suffer for Christ's sake?"

"Yes."

"Will you forgive injuries?"

"Yes."

These converts had been under preparation for more than a year, and
seemed thoroughly convinced and fairly instructed. Therefore the
baptismal service was read by Mr. Deerr; and when the vows were reached,
the Bishop turned to the Christians around and asked if they would be
witnesses and godparents to these candidates; and, with one voice, they
shouted that they would. Each candidate was singly baptized, and then
came up to the Bishop, by whom the words receiving him into the Ark of
Christ's Church were spoken. At Ranobunda there was another baptism of
250, and, in the whole district, full a thousand were admitted. It was
not in over-confident joy. "Time will show," said the Bishop, "who are
wheat and who are tares." It was impossible among so many that all
should be perfect Christians, but it was a real foundation; the flame
then lighted burns on steadily, and the Christian faith has a firm and
strong hold in the district of Krishnaghur.

Anxieties of course crossed his work. The Church Missionary Society,
after being used to control its clergy, was not properly ready to allow
their canonical obedience to a Bishop; and the troubles that thus arose
made him once speak of Heber as happy in being shielded by his early
death from the class of vexations connected with societies. To his great
grief, too, a lady who had worked for years at the education of girls and
orphans at Calcutta seceded to the Plymouth Brethren, and was necessarily
obliged to give up the charge. It was to him "as if a standard-bearer
fainteth." The Oxford controversy also vexed him a good deal. The
school of Newton and Cecil, in which he had been brought up, was at the
most distant point that the Church permitted from the doctrines of the
Tracts for the Times; and few men are able or willing candidly to judge
or appreciate opinions that have grown up since their own budget was
completed, especially after they have been for some time in the exercise
of authority. Thus he set his mind very strongly against all the clergy
holding those views who came to work in the diocese; and thereby impeded
a good deal that might have worked heartily with him if he had only been
able to believe it, and to understand that the maintenance of the voice
of the Church is truly the maintenance of the voice of Christ.

In November 1844, when on a vis