sovereign will, nay, cordially to acquiesce therein, and to examine
myself rigidly to see what in me has contributed to this evil.

"I now, however, turn to the bright side; and here I might mention
what still remains to us, and the merciful circumstances which
attend even this stroke of God's rod; but I will principally notice
what will tend to cheer the heart of every one who feels for the
cause of God. Our loss, so far as I can see, is reparable in a much
shorter time than I should at first have supposed. The Tamil fount
of types was the first that we began to recast. I expect it will be
finished by the end of this week, just a fortnight after it was
begun. The next will be the small Devanagari, for the Hindostani
Scriptures, and next the larger for the Sanskrit. I hope this will
be completed in another month. The other founts, viz., Bengali,
Orissa, Sikh, Telinga, Singhalese, Mahratta, Burman, Kashmeerian,
Arabic, Persian, and Chinese, will follow in order, and will
probably be finished in six or seven months, except the Chinese,
which will take more than a year to replace it. I trust, therefore,
that we shall not be greatly delayed. Our English works will be
delayed the longest; but in general they are of the least
importance. Of MSS. burnt I have suffered the most; that is, what
was actually prepared by me, and what owes its whole revision for
the press to me, comprise the principal part of the MSS. consumed.
The ground must be trodden over again, but no delay in printing
need arise from that. The translations are all written out first by
pundits in the different languages, except the Sanskrit which is
dictated by me to an amanuensis. The Sikh, Mahratta, Hindostani,
Orissa, Telinga, Assam, and Kurnata are re-translating in rough by
pundits who have been long accustomed to their work, and have gone
over the ground before. I follow them in revise, the chief part of