On his return, he found that his only son, an officer in the Company's service, was dying, and, under the weight of this and other troubles, his health gave way, and he died in the thirty-eighth year of his mission.

Others of the original Danish and German missionaries likewise died, and scarcely any came out in their stead.

Their places were, therefore, supplied by ordinations, by the assembly of ministers, of four native catechists, of whom was Nyanapracasem, a favourite pupil of Swartz.

No Church can take root without a native ministry.

But the absence of any central Church government was grievously felt, both as concerned the English and the Hindoos.