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1833 January 15 . H[ollis] Read ALS to [William] Eastman; Ahmed[nagar], [India]

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Abstract:
Sorry to hear Eastman's health prevents him from preaching. Writes of the death and departure of other missionaries, local converts, the arrival of George and Isabella Boggs, efforts to learn new languages, and his belief that missionaries over 25 should not be sent to India. He and his wife, Caroline, are happy at their mission. Comments on his wife teaching girls and helping "poor & infirm or blind women of the poor House." Discusses the need to be careful in selecting missionaries and preparing them more fully. "No one ought ever to be sent to India as a Missionary who would not be eligible (age excepted) to any Church in N. York or Boston." Notes their distrust of the local population. "Such are the usages of the country, arising partly from necessity & partly from custom that a foreigner is, in the country left almost entirely to the mercy of the Natives in his temporal concerns . . . honesty & truth are not indigenous plants of a heathen clime."
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