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Rh With a full right do they appeal to the Church at home not only for the further financial help so much needed, but also for grace from heaven to increase the effectiveness of this fast growing work, when they say: “Pray for us that we may train mighty preachers of the word. Give to the institution all you can till we are fully on our feet for the greatest mission work of modern times. Inform friends of the institution who may be able to help us.” The seminary stands on the highway of the city, and many of the thousands that pass it daily stop to gaze and think. They have good taste to admire its beauty, but they certainly feel that the people who erected it and the men being trained there are in earnest in the work which they are doing to spread their religion. Strangers and foreigners declare it to be a “credit to our denomination,” and no doubt this representation of what it is will be a joy to the liberal hearts which furnished the means for its erection. It was wisely planned for the purposes which it was to serve, and was solidly yet economically builded. India has many evidences that good taste and economy may be united, and that beauty is about as cheap as deformity when one has prepared a good plan and works to it, as was done here.

I know I voice the thought of each member of the India Mission when I say that we may well pray that God may long spare to guide this precious institution its devoted principal. Dr. J. T. Scott, to whose eminent abilities and hard toil for twenty-two years are so largely due the extensive results which have been accomplished by it. I now resign the pen to the dear Bishop.

II. Thirty-five Years of Progress.—In the good providence of God I enjoyed the privilege of being one of the second party of missionaries sent out to join Dr. Butler in the work of founding a new Mission in North India. We landed at Calcutta, August 21, 1859, and after a few days spent in preparing for the journey set out for the special field which had been selected for occupancy by our Missionary Society. On Saturday afternoon we crossed the Ganges at Cawnpore, and set foot upon our own