of the house, and, I think, is as wide as the Thames at
Gravesend. We intended to have baptised at nine in the morning; but,
on account of the tide, were obliged to defer it till nearly one
o'clock, and it was administered just after the English preaching. The
Governor and a good number of Europeans were present. Brother Ward
preached a sermon in English, from John v. 39--'Search the Scriptures.'
We then went to the water-side, where I addressed the people in
Bengali; after having sung a Bengali translation of 'Jesus, and shall
it ever be?' and engaging in prayer. After the address I administered
the ordinance, first to my son, then to Krishna. At half-past four I
administered the Lord's Supper; and a time of real refreshing it was...

"Thus, you see, God is making way for us, and giving success to the
word of His grace! We have toiled long, and have met with many
discouragements; but, at last, the Lord has appeared for us. May we
have the true spirit of nurses, to train them up in the words of faith
and sound doctrine! I have no fear of any one, however, in this
respect, but myself. I feel much concerned that they may act worthy of
their vocation, and also that they may be able to teach others. I
think it becomes us to make the most of every one whom the Lord gives
us."

Jeymooni, Krishna's wife's sister, was the first Bengali woman to be
baptised, and Rasoo, his wife, soon followed; both were about
thirty-five years old. The former said she had found a treasure in
Christ greater than anything in the world. The latter, when she first
heard the good news from her husband, said "there was no such sinner as
I, and I felt my heart immediately unite to Him. I wish to keep all His
commands so far as I know them." Gokool was kept back for a time by
his wife, Komal, who fled to her father's, but Krishna and his family
brought in, first the husband, then the wife, whose simplicity and
frankness attracted the missionaries. Unna, their widowed friend of
forty, was also gathered in, the first of that sad host of victims to
Brahmanical cruelty, lust, and avarice, to whom Christianity has ever
since offered the only deliverance. Of 124,000,000 of women in India
in 1881, no fewer than 21,000,000 were returned by the census as
widows, of whom 669,000 were under nineteen years, 286,000 were under
fifteen, and 79,000 were under nine, all figures undoubtedly within the
appalling truth. Jeymooni and Unna at once became ac