garden; brother Marshman to
his school at seven; brother Brunsdon, Felix, and I, to the
printing-office. At eight the bell rings for family worship: we
assemble in the hall; sing, read, and pray. Breakfast. Afterwards,
brother Carey goes to the translation, or reading proofs: brother
Marshman to school, and the rest to the printing-office. Our
compositor having left us, we do without: we print three half-sheets of
2000 each in a week; have five pressmen, one folder, and one binder.
At twelve o'clock we take a luncheon; then most of us shave and bathe,
read and sleep before dinner, which we have at three. After dinner we
deliver our thoughts on a text or question: this we find to be very
profitable. Brother and sister Marshman keep their schools till after
two. In the afternoon, if business be done in the office, I read and
try to talk Bengali with the brammhan. We drink tea about seven, and
have little or no supper. We have Bengali preaching once or twice in
the week, and on Thursday evening we have an experience meeting. On
Saturday evening we meet to compose differences and transact business,
after prayer, which is always immediately after tea. Felix is very
useful in the office; William goes to school, and part of the day
learns to bind. We meet two hours before breakfast on the first Monday
in the month, and each one prays for the salvation of the Bengal
heathen. At night we unite our prayers for the universal spread of the
Gospel."

The "Form of Agreement" which regulated the social economy and
spiritual enterprise of the brotherhood, and also its legal relations
to the Baptist Society in England, deserves study, in its divine
disinterestedness, its lofty aims, and its kindly common sense. Fuller
had pledged the Society in 1798 to send out L360 a year for the joint
family of six missionaries, their wives, and children. The house and
land at Serampore cost the Society Rs.6000. On Grant's death, leaving a
widow and two children, the five missionaries made the first voluntary
agreement, which "provided that no one should trade on his own private
account, and that the product of their labour should form a common fund
to be applied at the will of the majority, to the support of their
respective families, of the cause of God around them, and of the widow
and family of such as might be removed by death." The first year the
schools and the press enabled the brotherhood to be more than
self-supporting. In