| Description | 21 Oct: Is much relieved that Phipps approves of Corrie's plans; regrets the work of Capt. Gordon in making division in the Bible Society; will supply Phipps with information for his visits to the associations; the Old Church flourishes under Dealtry's vigorous ministry, but the cathedral is ill attended and Robertson has proved disappointing; Eales has become deaf and is going home; Fisher is coming down from Meerut; a new church has been built at the Free School and it is hoped to get a schoolmaster-clergyman there; Mirzapur native congregation increases and has improved the chapel; the English School (in Calcutta [Kolkata]) is suffering from the Hindus teaching English to keep their compatriots away from it; Mirzapur has two schools in connection at Budge Budge and Dumdum, and some candidates for baptism shepherded by Sandys, with Dunsmure interpreting; Duff, the Scots missionary, is eager to form an English College in union with the Dissenters; Bancora wants a missionary, but Corrie can only send a schoolmaster who will conduct a Sunday service, a missionary from Burdwan administering the sacraments occasionally; an English school has been begun at Burdwan, the civil authorities having procured 60 native subscribers at 2 rupees per month each; additional converts are being made, some of high caste; Deerr and Weitbrecht, with Hodgkinson, the Culna schoomaster and the catechist Alexander, are instructing them; the Dissenters and SPG are winning converts to the south of Calcutta [Kolkata]; Corrie is disappointed not to have Adlington back as his language fluency was most useful; he recommends Parker, who is going home sick, for introduction to Phipps and his friends |