ution in all things which regard Bother Marshman
and his family. You observe that the younger brethren especially look
up to me with respect and affection. It may be so; but I confess I
have frequently thought that, had it been so, they would have consulted
me, or at least have mentioned to me the grounds of their
dissatisfaction before they proceeded to the extremity of dividing the
mission. When I engaged in the mission, it was a determination that,
whatever I suffered, a breach therein should never originate with me.
To this resolution I have hitherto obstinately adhered. I think
everything should be borne, every sacrifice made, and every method of
accommodation or reconciliation tried, before a schism is suffered to
take place...

"I disapprove as much of the conduct of our Calcutta brethren as it is
possible for me to disapprove of any human actions. The evil they have
done is, I fear, irreparable; and certainly the whole might have been
prevented by a little frank conversation with either of us; and a
hundredth part of that self-denial which I found it necessary to
exercise for the first few years of the mission, would have prevented
this awful rupture. I trust you will excuse my warmth of feeling upon
this subject, when you consider that by this rupture that cause is
weakened and disgraced, in the establishment and promotion of which I
have spent the best part of my life. A church is attempted to be torn
in pieces, for which neither I nor my brethren ever thought we could do
enough. We laboured to raise it: we expended much money to accomplish
that object; and in a good measure saw the object of our desire
accomplished. But now we are traduced, and the church rent by the very
men who came to be our helpers. As to Brother Marshman, seriously,
what do they want? Would they attempt to deny his possessing the grace
of God? He was known to and esteemed by Brother Ryland as a Christian
before he left England. I have lived with him ever since his arrival
in India, and can witness to his piety and holy conduct. Would they
exclude him from the mission? Judge yourself whether it is comely that
a man, who has laboriously and disinterestedly served the mission so
many years--who has by his diligence and hard labour raised the most
respectable school in India, as well as given a tone to all the
others--who has unvaryingly consecrated the whole of that income, as
well as his other labours, to the cause of God in