Life of William Carey by George Smith - The Jesus Army

especially the spending much time in the pursuit of them, is wrong, and your life is too valuable
to be thrown away by exposing it to such furious animals as buffaloes and tigers. If you can kill
them without running any risk ‘tis very well, but it is wrong to expose yourself to danger for an
end so much below that to which you are devoted...
“I believe the cause of our Redeemer increases in the earth, and look forward to more decided
appearances of divine power. The destruction of the temporal power of the Pope is a glorious
circumstance, and an answer to the prayers of the Church for centuries past...
“I send you a small cask of rum to preserve curiosities in, and a few bottles; but your best way
will be to draw off a couple of gallons of the rum, which you may keep for your own use, and
then put the snakes, frogs, toads, lizards, etc., into the cask, and send them down. I can easily
put them into proper bottles, etc., afterwards. You may, however, send one or two of the bottles
filled with beetles, grasshoppers, and other insects.”
In the absence of Mr. Fernandez, the pastor, William had excluded two members of the Church.
“4th April 1810.--A very little knowledge of human nature will convince you that this would
have been thought an affront in five instances out of six. You would have done better to have advised
them, or even to have required them to have kept from the Lord’s table till Mr. Fernandez'-
s return, and to have left it to him to preside over the discipline of the church. You, no doubt,
did it without thinking of the consequences, and in the simplicity of your heart, and I think Mr.
Fernandez is wrong in treating you with coolness, when a little conversation might have put
everything to rights. Of that, however, I shall say no more to you, but one of us shall write to
him upon the subject as soon as we can.
“The great thing to be done now is the effecting of a reconciliation between you, and whether
you leave Sadamahal, or stay there, this is absolutely necessary. In order to this you both must
be willing to make some sacrifice of your feelings; and as those feelings, which prevent either of
you from making concessions where you have acted amiss, are wrong, the sooner they are sacrificed
the better. I advise you to write to Mr. Fernandez immediately, and acknowledge that you
did wrong in proceeding to the exclusion of the members without having first consulted with
him, and state that you had no intention of hurting his feelings, but acted from what you
thought the urgency of the case, and request of him a cordial reconciliation. I should like much
to see a copy of the letter you send to him. I have no object in view but the good of the Church,
and would therefore rather see you stoop as low as you can to effect a reconciliation, than avoid
it through any little punctilio of honour or feeling of pride. You will never repent of having
humbled yourself to the dust that peace may be restored, nothing will be a more instructive example
to the heathen around you, nothing will so completely subdue Brother Fernandez’s dissatisfaction,
and nothing will make you more respected in the Church of God.
“It is highly probable that you will some time or other be removed to another situation, but it
cannot be done till you are perfectly reconciled to each other, nor can it possibly be done till
some time after your reconciliation, as such a step would be considered by all as an effect of resentment
or dissatisfaction, and would be condemned by every thinking person. We shall keep
our minds steadily on the object, and look out for a proper station; but both we and you must
act with great caution and tenderness in this affair. For this reason also I entreat you not to
withdraw yourself from the church, or from any part of your labours, but go on steadily in the
path of duty, suppress and pray against every feeling of resentment, and bear anything rather
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