But as you burn with the intenseness and rapid blaze of phosphorus, why should we not make the most of you?
Your flame may last as long, and perhaps longer, in Arabia than in India.

Where should the phoenix build her odoriferous nest but in the land prophetically called the 'blessed'?
And where shall we ever expect but from that country the true Comforter to come to the nations of the East ?" In September, therefore, Henry Martyn made ready to set forth, and to take leave of his congregation of beggars.

He had baptized one poor old Hindoo woman, and she seemed to him to be the only fruit of his toils; but though the exhortation, at the end of all his labours of the Sunday, cost him severe pain and exhaustion, he had constantly persisted, often beginning in a low feeble tone, but gradually rising in fervour to the full power of his musical voice; then himself going among the disgusting throng to distribute their petty bribe for attendance, and often falling afterwards, faint and speechless, on a sofa.
He knew not that one seed, cast on these turbid waters, had found good soil, and was springing up.

Sheik Salah was the son of a pundit at Delhi, and was well-learned in Persian and Arabic.

When a youth he had become moonshee to two English gentlemen then living at Lucknow, and while in their service converted a Hindoo fellow-servant from his idolatry to Islam.