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32 when the Hindus with their many-coloured costumes crowd the various flights of steps down to the water's edge — he would have beheld one of the most enlivening and characteristic spectacles to be seen on earth. When wandering through the ruins of old Delhi, he saw nothing save melancholy confusion; but to historians and poets the place speaks volumes. He would have been roused from his depression could he have known that under his son James, in the next generation, these very Provinces would be smiling in prosperity, with the first beams of enlightenment breaking through the darkness of centuries.

Returning to Calcutta he resumes charge of the pastoral duties, to the joy of his European parishioners there and of his native flock. But besides the immediate cure of souls, he occupies himself intensely and effectively with several institutions for the good of India, the orphan asylum for European girls, the Hindu College for the higher education of the natives, the School Book Society, the Church Missionary Society. He prosecutes also his Oriental labours for the translation of the Scriptures into Arabic, Persian, and Hindustáni or Urdu: and begins in addition to learn Bengali. By all this he followed the footsteps of Henry Martyn, into whose holy labours he entered. In all his parochial ministrations, and in respect to several of the institutions of a more general character, he was much aided by his wife, who indeed displayed a model of Christian womanhood before the