complete recovery in the south of Europe, and her father's friend, Mr.
Anker, a director of the Danish East India Company, gave her letters to
his brother, then Governor of Tranquebar, in the hope that the climate
of India might cause her relief. The Danish ship brought her first to
Serampore, where Colonel Bie introduced her to the brotherhood, and
there she resolved to remain. She knew the principal languages of
Europe; a copy of the Pensees of Pascal, given to her by Mr. Anker
before she sailed, for the first time quickened her conscience. She
speedily learned English, that she might join the missionaries in
public worship. The barren orthodoxy of the Lutheranism in which she
had been brought up had made her a sceptic. This soon gave way to the
evangelical teaching of the same apostle who had brought Luther himself
to Christ. She became a keen student of the Scriptures, then an ardent
follower of Jesus Christ.

On her marriage to Dr. Carey, in May 1808, she made over her house to
the mission, and when, long after, it became famous as the office of
the weekly Friend of India, the rent was sacredly devoted to the
assistance of native preachers. She learned Bengali that she might be
as a mother to the native Christian families. She was her husband's
counsellor in all that related to the extension of the varied
enterprise of the brethren. Especially did she make the education of
Hindoo girls her own charge, both at Serampore and Cutwa. Her leisure
she gave to the reading of French Protestant writers, such as Saurin
and Du Moulin. She admired, wrote Carey, "Massillon's language, his
deep knowledge of the human heart, and his intrepidity in reproving
sin; but felt the greatest dissatisfaction with his total neglect of
his Saviour, except when He is introduced to give efficacy to works of
human merit. These authors she read in their native language, that
being more familiar to her than English. She in general enjoyed much
of the consolations of religion. Though so much afflicted, a pleasing
cheerfulness generally pervaded her conversation. She indeed possessed
great activity of mind. She was constantly out with the dawn of the
morning when the weather permitted, in her little carriage drawn by one
bearer; and again in the evening, as soon as the sun was sufficiently
low. She thus spent daily nearly three hours in the open air. It was
probably this vigorous and regular course which, as the means, carried
h