text for my funeral sermon. A life of faith in Christ as the Lamb
of God who taketh away the sin of the world, appeared more than
ordinarily important to my mind, and I expressed these feelings to
those about me with freedom and pleasure.

"Now, through the gracious providence of God, I am again restored to
my work, and daily do a little as my strength will admit. The
printing of the translations is now going forward almost as usual,
but I have not yet been able to attend to my duties in College. The
affairs of the Mission are more extended, and I trust in as
prosperous a state as at any former time. There are now many of
other denominations employed in Missions, and I rejoice to say that
we are all workers together in the work. The native churches were
never in a better state, and the face of the Mission is in every
respect encouraging. Give my love to all who know me.--I am very
affectionately yours, W. CAREY."

Still more severe and disastrous in its effects was the cyclone of
1831. The former had desolated the open garden, but this laid low
some of the noblest trees which, in their fall, crushed his splendid
conservatory. One of his brethren represents the old man as weeping
over the ruin of the collections of twenty years. Again the Hoogli,
lashed into fury and swollen by the tidal wave, swept away the
lately-formed road, and, cutting off another fourth of the original
settlement of the Mission, imperilled the old house of Mr. Ward. Its
ruins were levelled to form another road, and ever since the whole
face of the right bank of the river has been a source of
apprehension and expense. Just before this, Dr. Staughton had
written from America that the interest on the funds raised there by
Ward for the College would not be sent until the trustees were