which is done as the sheets pass through the press, and is by far
the heaviest part of the work. Of the Sanskrit only the second book
of Samuel and the first book of Kings were lost. Scarcely any of
the Orissa, and none of the Kashmeerian or of the Burman MSS. were
lost--copy for about thirty pages of my Bengali dictionary, the
whole copy of a Telinga grammar, part of the copy of the grammar of
Punjabi or Sikh language, and all the materials which I had been
long collecting for a dictionary of all the languages derived from
the Sanskrit. I hope, however, to be enabled to repair the loss,
and to complete my favourite scheme, if my life be prolonged."

Little did these simple scholars, all absorbed in their work, dream
that this fire would prove to be the means of making them and their
work famous all over Europe and America as well as India. Men of
every Christian school, and men interested only in the literary and
secular side of their enterprise, had their active sympathy called
out. The mere money loss, at the exchange of the day, was not under
ten thousand pounds. In fifty days this was raised in England and
Scotland alone, till Fuller, returning from his last campaign,
entered the room of his committee, declaring "we must stop the
contributions." In Greenock, for instance, every place of worship
on one Sunday collected money. In the United States Mr. Robert
Ralston, a Presbyterian, a merchant of Philadelphia, who as Carey's
correspondent had been the first American layman to help missions to
India, and Dr. Staughton, who had taken an interest in the formation
of the Society in 1792 before he emigrated, had long assisted the
translation work, and now that Judson was on his way out they
redoubled their exertions. In India Thomason's own congregation
sent the missionaries £800, and Brown wrote from his dying bed a
message of loving help. The newspapers of Calcutta caught the