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526 angels, will remember it all, and, acknowledging that each of them “hath done what she could”—to the body as to the soul, after his own blessed example—will tell it then “as a memorial of her.”

The organization of the Missions into an Annual Conference, at the close of 1864, terminated my superintendency, while the toil and care to which body and mind were subject during these scenes, and in such a climate, were so exhausting, that release from further service there became indispensable. This release was kindly granted by the Bishop and the Missionary Board.

The progress of the Indian Church to-day is an encouraging contrast to the weakness and obstructions of sixteen years ago. Already some of our native Christian brethren are rising to positions of great trust and responsibility in the Church, the State, and the learned professions. We name but a few:—

Krishna Mohun Banerjea, Pundit Nilakantha Gore, John Devasagyam, and Goloknath Chattergi, not to mention others, are among the ornaments of its native ministry. Gunga Ram and Professor Ramchunder, show what Hindoos can become as cultured Christian teachers, as does Kalee Mohun Banerjea, among University graduates, and others equally worthy; while Government officers, like Behari Lal Singh, and Deputy Magistrates, like Tarini Churn Mitter, prove how worthily public positions can be filled by the followers of that faith: and their descendants shall yet occupy every office of their Government in the glad day when their Ganges shall flow only through Christian realms, and their fertile lands shall be cultured by a happy Christian population, whose redeemed country, no longer the , “shall be called by a which the mouth of the Lord shall name.”