pecţie, whom you are doing your utmost to bring into the one folder the coe Shepherd; and I gladly avall myself of this opportunity to assure you of my fervent prayer for the prosperity of your mission, and of my most sincere respect for yourselves. May you long be enatied thus to prosecute your truly evangelical labours for the everlasting welfare of the benigined heathen of this district; and when you rest from them, may you rest in the Lord!

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** Your affectionate Brother in Him, -G. T. MAPRAS.

-P.S. I beg to inclose a trife for the mission. Would that I could offer more; but the many demands upon my limited means will not allow me to do so.”

-The Rev, the German Missionaries.

&c. &c. &c. Mampacore.

November 14th.—I have just received a reply to my letter to the German missionaries, so full of Christian love that I cannot deny myself the pleasure of inserting it in my journal.

"TO THE RIGHT REVEREND THE LORD BISHOP OF MADRAS.

"MY LORD,

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"By your most kind and obliging letter, which we have this moment received, you have conferred upon us a favour as gratifying and encouraging, as it is unexpected and undeserved; and that your lordship's liberality, upon which so many calls are made by the different missionary institutions and benevolent associations connected with the far-spread Church under your own immediate charge and care, should have found so considerable a sum to bestow on a missionary establishment by a foreign protestant Church on the skirts of your diocese, has thrown us into most delightful surprise.

"Be pleased to accept our united heartfelt thanks for the sympathy and generosity, which a heart full of truly catholic love has prompted your lordship to extend towards us.

"For Indian missionaries, whose lot it is patiently to toil on a barren field, and silently to

pluck out, one by one, the unwholesome and poisonous roots and rushes which have overspread and thickly covered this ground since ages, the voice of friendly sympathy and of cheering approval is a most refreshing and reviving sound; the more so, if it proceeds from the lips of the reverend overseer of a Church so peculiarly favoured and so richly gifted as yours is in these days, by the great Head of the Church Universal.

"We take the liberty of presenting to your lordship a copy of the last report of our mission; and a collection of the books printed at our lithographic press, which you were pleased to inspect yesterday evening.

"That the fulness of the blessings of the Gospel may ever rest upon your lordship and the Church committed to your charge by the good providence of God, is the sincere prayer of the brethren of our mission, in whose name I have the honour to subscribe myself

"Your lordship's

"Most obliged and obedient servant,

"H. M."

Yesterday afternoon, or rather evening, I consecrated the burial-ground. By a happy mistake the tent had not been pitched within the walls; so I ordered chairs to be placed under the open sky, and it was a very pretty sight, and one that went direct to the heart, to see the little body of Christian strangers thus praying among the tombs of our countrymen and fellow pilgrims :

"Beneath us were the countless dead,

Above us was the Heaven."

I spoke to them after the service for about half an hour, as I always do on these occasions, most thankful for such an opportunity of preaching the Resurrection and the Life; and as I concluded, "darkness came down upon the earth," and we parted with a renewed determination, God helping us, to be "sober and vigilant," to watch and pray, because we "know not the hour." May He give us His grace thus to endure unto the end! A consecration is an event in the monotonous course of life of an Indian station, and may even prove, by God's mercy, the turning point to some from darkness to light.

It is impossible to travel through this vast country without feeling a deep interest in its native inhabitants, and as they will not permit us to see them in their houses, I make a point of seeing them where they cannot exclude me, in the station jails. The jail of Mangalore, which I visited this morning under the guidance of my kind and enlightened host, appears to me well arranged, and under very good management. The building is large, and very clean; and to each ward there is appropriated a sufficiently extensive court, where the prisoners may take exercise; without the power, in consequence of the high walls of separation, of communicating with their fellow prisoners for the purpose of insurrection; and all of them are commanded by a building in the centre of the enclosure. There is a spacious kitchen, where the poor lows are allowed to prepare their messes in gangs, according to their respective castes; a merciful indulgence, which, however it may tend to relax the stern law of prison discipline, I am very glad to find granted by government. Imprisonment must be a sufficiently terrible punishment under any circumstances. I have heard

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