opinion of others, this estimate is far below the truth. We
believe, from our own recent experience, that still it fails to give
any just idea of the destruction of parents by children in the name
of religion.

One class who had been the special objects of Christ's healing power
and divine sympathy was specially interesting to Carey in proportion
to their misery and abandonment by their own people--lepers. When
at Cutwa in 1812, where his son was stationed as missionary, he saw
the burning of a leper, which he thus described:--"A pit about ten
cubits in depth was dug and a fire placed at the bottom of it. The
poor man rolled himself into it; but instantly, on feeling the fire,
begged to be taken out, and struggled hard for that purpose. His
mother and sister, however, thrust him in again; and thus a man, who
to all appearance might have survived several years, was cruelly
burned to death. I find that the practice is not uncommon in these
parts. Taught that a violent end purifies the body and ensures
transmigration into a healthy new existence, while natural death by
disease results in four successive births, and a fifth as a leper
again, the leper, like the even more wretched widow, has always
courted suicide." Carey did not rest until he had brought about the
establishment of a leper hospital in Calcutta, near what became the
centre of the Church Missionary Society's work, and there benevolent
physicians, like the late Dr. Kenneth Stuart, and Christian people,
have made it possible to record, as in Christ's days, that the leper
is cleansed and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.

By none of the many young civilians whom he trained, or, in the
later years of his life, examined, was Carey's humane work on all
its sides more persistently carried out than by John Lawrence in the