gali plain dishes, consisting of curry, fried fish,
vegetables, etc., and I fancy most of us ate heartily. This is the
first instance of our eating at the house of our native brethren. At
this table we all sat with the greatest cheerfulness, and some of the
neighbours looked on with a kind of amazement. It was a new and very
singular sight in this land where clean and unclean is so much
regarded. We should have gone in the daytime, but were prevented by
the heat and want of leisure. We began this wedding supper with
singing, and concluded with prayer: between ten and eleven we returned
home with joy. This was a glorious triumph over the caste! A Brahman
married to a soodra, in the Christian way: Englishmen eating with the
married couple and their friends, at the same table, and at a native
house. Allowing the Hindoo chronology to be true, there has not been
such a sight in Bengal these millions of years!"

In the same year the approaching death of Gokool led the missionaries
to purchase the acre of ground, near the present railway station, in
which lies the dust of themselves and their converts, and of a child of
the Judsons, till the Resurrection. Often did Carey officiate at the
burial of Europeans in the Danish cemetery. Previous to his time the
only service there consisted in the Government secretary dropping a
handful of earth on the coffin. In the native God's-acre, as in the
Communion of the Lord's Table, and in the simple rites which
accompanied the burial of the dead in Christ, the heathen saw the one
lofty platform of loving self-sacrifice to which the Cross raises all
its children:--

"Oct. 7.--Our dear friend Gokool is gone: he departed at two this
morning. At twelve he called the brethren around him to sing and pray;
was perfectly sensible, resigned, and tranquil. Some of the neighbours
had been persuading him the day before to employ a native doctor; he
however refused, saying he would have no physician but Jesus Christ.
On their saying, How is it that you who have turned to Christ should be
thus afflicted? He replied, My affliction is on account of my sins; my
Lord does all things well! Observing Komal weep (who had been a most
affectionate wife), he said, Why do you weep for me? Only pray, etc.
From the beginning of his illness he had little hope of recovery; yet
he never murmured, nor appeared at all anxious for medicine. His
answer constantly was, "I am in my Lord's hands, I want no othe