asked how he could have committed so many murders, pointed to it and
said, "If I had had this book I could not have done it." A fakeer,
forty miles from Lodiana, read the book, founded the community of
worshippers of the Sachi Pitè Isa, and suffered much persecution in
a native State.

When Felix Carey returned to Serampore in 1812 to print his Burmese
version of the Gospel of Matthew and his Burmese grammar, his father
determined to send the press at which they were completed to
Rangoon. The three missionaries despatched with it a letter to the
king of Ava, commending to his care "their beloved brethren, who
from love to his majesty's subjects had voluntarily gone to place
themselves under his protection, while they translated the Bible,
the Book of Heaven, which was received and revered" by all the
countries of Europe and America as "the source whence all the
knowledge of virtue and religion was drawn." The king at once
ordered from Serampore a printing-press, like that at Rangoon, for
his own palace at Ava, with workmen to use it. In this Carey saw
the beginning of a mission in the Burman capital, but God had other
designs which the sons and daughters of America, following Judson
first of all, are still splendidly developing, from Rangoon to
Kareng-nee, Siam, and China. The ship containing the press sank in
the Rangoon river, and the first Burmese war soon followed.

Three months after the complete and magnificent plan of translating
the Bible into all the languages of the far East, which the
assistance of his two colleagues and the college of Fort William led
Carey to form, had been laid before Fuller in Northamptonshire, the
British and Foreign Bible Society was founded in London. Joseph
Hughes, the Nonconformist who was its first secretary, had been