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130 Christianity, increased the obligation that lay upon them all to do their best in their private capacities for this end. He even avowed that though bound to provide seminaries where no reference was made to Christianity, yet in his private capacity he would give his money and his sympathy to Missionary Colleges, where another element in education (meaning Christianity), essential to the highest interests of mankind, was imparted. Thus he was a hearty supporter of Missions of all Protestant denominations, naturally those of his own Church first. Hereditary association attached him especially to the Church Missionary Society; and that Society had by this time established its well-appointed and effective missions at Benares and at Agra. He encouraged the American missionaries who were working at Allahábád, Fatehgarh, and a Church Mission which was beginning at Meerut. The well-known Orphanage at Sikandra (Akbar's tomb) near Agra, was in its full career of usefulness; thither had been collected the famishing orphans cast adrift without friends or relations by the famine of 1837, to be brought up under Christian auspices; to these Native Christians he gave his countenance and made them feel their fellowship with him in Christ. He occasionally attended their church services in the vernacular, and translated a part of the Psalms into elegant Hindustáni for their use.

He contributed to the support of Missions liberally though unostentatiously. He was a friend to the