Had  we  not  at  Serampore  insisted  011  our  rights  as  men  and
as  Christians,  we  must  at  this  time  have  been  turned  out  of
the  premises  purchased  with  the  labour  of  our  hands,  or  have
had  insupportable  misery  with  colleagues  forced  on  us.  You
may  possibly  hear  reflections  on  me ;  if  you  think  it  worth
while  to  notice  them,  you  may  say,  that,  through  the  blessing
of  God,  my  family  is  enabled  to  devote  two  or  three  thousand
pounds  annually  to  the  cause  of  missions ;  this,  therefore,  is
sufficient  to  prove  our  sincerity.  How  little  do  even  our
own  friends  in  England  know  me !  Why  do  I  not  take  the
next  three  or  four  years  of  the  labour  of  my  family,  which  I
can  honourably  do,  and  which  would  produce  £10,000?  and
the  interest  of  this  in  India  would  keep  me  and  my  family
for  ever.  .  .  .  You  have  indeed  nothing  to  fear  relative
to  the  cause  of  missions  from  my  feelings,  wounded  as  they
have  been  by  the  conduct  of  Dr.  Ryland  and  Mr.  Dyer.  I
think  a  man  ought  as  much  to  sacrifice  his  feelings  to  the
cause  of  God,  as  his  pecuniary  interests.  Are  we  to  desert,
or  even  slacken  in  the  cause  of  our  Redeemer,  because  some
of  His  servants  are  imperfect  1 "

The  "late  examination  of  their  affairs,"  to  which  Dr.
