Serampore had a Christ-like tolerance, which sprang from the divine
charity of their determination to live only that the Word of God
might sound out through Asia. When in 1830 this auxiliary--which had
at first sought to keep all missionaries out of its executive in
order to conciliate men like Sydney Smith's brother, the
Advocate-General of Bengal--refused to use the translations of Carey
and Yates, and inclined to an earlier version of Ellerton, because
of the translation or transliteration of the Greek words for
"baptism," these two scholars acted thus, as described by the Bible
Society's annalist--they, "with a liberality which does them honour,
permitted the use of their respective versions of the Bengali
Scriptures, with such alterations as were deemed needful in the
disputed word for 'baptism,' they being considered in no way parties
to such alterations." From first to last the British and Foreign
Bible Society, to use its own language, "had the privilege of aiding
the Serampore brethren by grants, amounting to not less than
£13,500." Of this £1475 had been raised by Mr. William Hey, F.R.S.,
a surgeon at Leeds, who had been so moved by the translation memoir
of 1816 as to offer £500 for the publication of a thousand copies of
every approved first translation of the New Testament into any
dialect of India. It was with this assistance that most of the
Hindi and the Pushtoo and Punjabi versions were produced.

The cold season of 1811-12 was one ever to be remembered. Death
entered the home of each of the staff of seven missionaries and
carried off wife or children. An earthquake of unusual violence
alarmed the natives. Dr. Carey had buried a grandson, and was at
his weekly work in the college at Calcutta. The sun had just set on
the evening of the 11th March 1812, and the native typefounders,
compositors, pressmen, binders, and writers had gone. Ward alone