They  attended  the  services  there,  and  assisted  in  pay-
ing the  pastor.  Not  long  after  this  arrangement  was
entered  upon,  Mr.  Wilson  from  Allahabad  and  Mr.
Rankin  from  Futtehgurh,  were  sent  to  Agra  to  form
a  new  station  of  our  missions  there.  They  had  every
thing  to  begin  anew.  For  this  reason  they  were  in-
duced to  join  the  alliance  with  the  Baptists;  at  first  it
was  certainly  understood  that  the  Presbyterians  were
to  enjoy  equal  privileges  with  the  original  congrega-
tion ;  at  least,  the  Presbyterians  thought  it  was  st)
understood.  But  soon  our  people  learned  that  they
were  not  to  be  allowed  to  baptize  a  child  in  the  cha-
pel, though  it  was  ostentatiously  called  "  The  Union
Chapel,"  and  the  imrnersionists  had  a  cistern  in  it,
and  administered  baptism  in  their  own  way  there.
The  Presbyterians  did  not  complain  of  this,  for  they
were  willing  to  accord  some  kind  of  precedence  to
those  who  had  first  occupied  the  place.  The  other
party,  however,  seemed  to  be  hurt  by  our  friends'
baptizing  the  child  at  all  while  in  connection  with
them,  though  it  was  done  in  a  private  house;  and
they  seemed  determined,  therefore,  to  crush  out  the
last  appearances  of  Presbyterianism  at  once.  Accord-
ingly when  the  Presbyterian  part  of  this  curiously
constructed  church  had  received  a  new  member,  and


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•wished  to  ordain  him  as  a  Ruling  Elder,  and  one  of
the  original  Allahabad  members  had  consented  to  be
ordained  as  Deacon,  they  refused  to  allow  a  special
service  to  be  held  in  the  chapel  for  this  purpose.
