city which was most disastrous in the damage it did to the surrounding districts. Damage was also done to the Chapel by this fearful storm, the roof which was of zinc having been blown away.

On the 6th February 1865, Mr. R. W. Chill a Deacon of the Church, died in Calcutta. He was a missionary of the Calcutta Seamen's Friend Society for over 20 years and used to visit the shipping every evening and hold services on Sundays, both morning and evening and also on Tuesday evenings with all the sailors who could be induced to attend the Bethel. He had been a Deacon of the Church since 31st January 1854.

Mr. Sale encountered troublers in Israel as others before him had done, but by earnest pleadings at the Throne of Grace, by his pulpit exhortation and especially his own Christian deportment, he won over the members of the Church. There used to be gatherings of members at the Pastor's house and it was here that the personality of Mrs. Sale came in as a Mother in Israel.

On the 27th June 1866, a man and his wife wished to withdraw for a time from the Communion of the Church when it was unanimously resolved that "the temporary withdrawal of members. from Communion is not desirable and unlikely to be beneficial either to the members concerned or to the Church," and in November of that year the Pastor mentioned that the names of several persons were on the Church Register who did not attend the Lord's Supper or even the services whilst some others who lived at a dis tance appeared to take no interest in the Church, when it was resolved to take certain action to remedy this state of things.

On the 30th October 1867, the Pastor expressed a wish for a Christian Instruction Society to be formed in connection with the Church similar to those existing in England but the matter was deferred for consultation with the Deacons and the following month the matter was referred to a Committee to consider in what manner such a Society might be most usefully conducted. Here the matter appears to have dropped.

In the interval another great cyclone had visited Calcutta on the night of 1st November which raged the whole night.

On the 16th March 1868, a special Church Meeting was held, the principal business being the resignation by Mr. Sale of the Pastorate under the circumstances detailed below:

"The Pastor then read a letter to the Church in which he informed them that in consequence of the Rev. J. C. Page of Barisal having felt himself compelled to resign his charge of the Churches in that district it had appeared to his brethren in the Mission and to himself to be his duty to yield to the earnest entreaty of Mr. Page that he should take up the work relinquished by him and therefore it became necessary that he (Mr. Sale) should resign his office as Pastor of the Church in Lall Bazar. Mr. Sale stated that he did so with great regret and with lively and grateful remembrances of the great kindness he had received from the Church whilst he had been its Pastor. He felt comfort, however, in the hope that if they applied to the Rev. John Robinson he would be willing to take the oversight of them. Having read the letter the Pastor retired from the meeting."

From the foregoing it will be seen that the Pastor took the initiative in every matter of Church discipline or Church reform and the Church was just beginning to look up and the old times were returning when he had to leave for Barisal. The admissions during the years of his Pastorate were as follows:-1859, 14; 1860, 5; 1864, 8; 1865, 11; 1866, 7; 1867, 11.

The following is an extract from his report for the year 1867, which appears in the Society's Annual report of 1868:

also

The schools have continued to aid our interesting Mission at Barisal. The Church and congregation besides making an annual collection for the Calcutta Auxiliary to the Baptist Mission has continued to support two Native Preachers. Help has been rendered to our suffering native brethren in the South Villages. The cyclone of 1st November 1867, which rendered this help necessary also injured our place of worship very considerably. We have, however, completed the repairs rendered necessary and we hope soon to clear off a balance of about £20 still due on that account."

Number of members given as
Children in Sunday School given as

...

...

133 150

CHAPTER XXXVI.

THE ACTING PASTORATE OF THE REV. GEORGE KERRY.
(From 24th January 1861 to 1st December 1863.)

PORTRAITS OF THE REV. G. AND MRS. KERRY AS THEY WERE WHEN THE FORMER ACTED AS PASTOR OF THE CHURCH.

BEFORE detailing the events of the pastorate it will be necessary to give as much of a biographical sketch of each as is possible, as they were both jointly and separately so useful in the Church, but the materials for this are very meagre.

He was born in the year 1826. He was already an experienced Pastor at Home before he offered himself as a Missionary. He was

ordained on the 20th August 1856, at Hastings as a Missionary at the same time as Mr. Gamble who went to Trinidad. Mr. Denham gave a description of Mr. Kerry's field of labor. The missionaries elect gave interesting statements of their experiences after which Dr. Angus offered the designation prayer and Dr. Hoby gave them paternal counsel. An Independent Minister closed the meeting with prayer. He arrived in India in January 1857 and

was posted on arrival to Howrah to replace Mr. Morgan who went to England for the first time after seventeen years of labor at Howrah. After that he had charge of the Entally Institution for several years and also the supervision of the City Mission.

In 1880, he was appointed the Indian Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society, which office he held till his retirement from the Mission in 1897. Through the Press and by appeals to the Government he rendered great service to the Native Christians and the rural population of Bengal in times of distress and oppression.

On the 11th January 1894, his partner in life died at Calcutta and is buried in the Lower Circular Road Cemetery. Mr. Kerry married again in course of time and, in 1897 on his retiring from the Mission, he proceeded to England in his 70th year, where he settled down, and where he served the Society till his death on the 12th December 1906 at the age of 80.

MRS. ANN KERRY.

She accompanied her husband to India in 1856 and shared his labors wherever he was stationed. For several years previous to her death she devoted herself to the work of looking after the Native Christian girls and women at Entally. She was also a

Mother in Israel.

The events of the Pastorate will now be detailed.

When Mr. Sale was about to proceed to England the Church addressed the following letter to Mr. Kerry on the 8th January

1861, asking him to take the oversight of it during Mr. Sale's absence:

DEAR SIR,

You are aware that the Lall Bazar Baptist Church will shortly be without a Pastor owing to our Pastor, the Rev. Mr. Sale, leaving us for a temporary sojourn in England.

The Church being desirous to have one to take the oversight of them during Mr. Sale's absence, we the undermentioned Deacons of the Church in the name and on the behalf of the Church take the liberty to ask you if you will have the kindness to become our Pastor till Mr. Sale is again in the Providence of God, brought back to this country and to us the Church.

We need hardly assure you that we shall be but too happy should this application to you meet with your cordial consent.

Having received your invitation given in the name of the Church, to assume the Pastorate of the Lall Bazar Baptist Church and prayerfully considered the same, it has appeared to me that under present circumstances I ought to accept it, subject of course to the approval of the London Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society.

In order to an efficient discharge of the duties of a Pastor it will be necessary that you should furnish me with some means of moving about the City, otherwise I shall not be able to pay that attention to the sick and the members of the Church and congregation which I shall wish to do, and which, I trust, you also will desire. You will kindly take this matter into consideration and make what arrangements shall seem most suitable.

You will, I trust, remember me daily in your prayers to God that He may aid and assist me in the faithful and efficient discharge of the duties to which you call me, that you yourselves may