must be employed to open new missions and found new stations.
For were we to go upon the plan of sending Europeans where natives
could possibly be employed, no subscriptions or profits could support
them. We intend to commence a new station at Dacca, and if you prefer
that to Cutwa you may go thither. One of the first things to be done
there will be to open a charity school, and to overlook it. Dacca
itself is a very large place, where you may often communicate religious
instructions without leaving the town. There are also a number of
Europeans there, so that Mary would not be so much alone, and at any
rate help would be near. We can obtain the permission of Government
for you to settle there.

"I ought, however, to say that I think there is much guilt in your
fears. You and Mary will be a thousand times more safe in committing
yourselves to God in the way of duty than in neglecting obvious duty to
take care of yourselves. You see what hardships and dangers a soldier
meets in the wicked trade of war. They are forced to leave home and
expose themselves to a thousand dangers, yet they never think of
objecting, and in this the officers are in the same situation as the
men. I will engage to say that no military officer would ever refuse
to go any whither on service because his family must be exposed to
danger in his absence; and yet I doubt not but many of them are men who
have great tenderness for their wives and families. However, they must
be men and their wives must be women. Your undertaking is infinitely
superior to theirs in importance. They go to kill men, you to save
them. If they leave their families to chance for the sake of war,
surely you can leave yours to the God of providence while you go about
His work. I speak thus because I am much distressed to see you thus
waste away the flower of your life in inactivity, and only plead for it
what would not excuse a child. Were you in any secular employment you
must go out quite as much as we expect you to do in the Mission. I did
so when at Mudnabati, which was as lonesome a place as could have been
thought of, and when I well knew that many of our own ryots were
dakoits (robbers)."

William finally settled at Cutwa, higher up the Hoogli than Serampore,
and did good service there.

"1st December 1813.--I have now an assistant at College,
notwithstanding which my duties are quite as heavy as they ever were,
for we are to receive a number of military s