‘Our saintly Bishop, Dr. French, is now our guest.... We are having such an interesting time, a heart-warming time! There is to be a Confirmation to-morrow; and oh, through what fiery trials some of the dear candidates have come! There is B--n, ... the first man who dared to be baptized in bigoted Batala. His Baptism cost him wife and child. There is the thin, worn B. D., with his hair turning grey; the only Christian in his village, he whom his own mother has reviled.... There is the aged Faqir and his stalwart sons,--but I need not enumerate all. I have told you enough to show what peculiar features of interest may attend a Confirmation in India,--especially perhaps in so thoroughly Oriental a place as this, where there are no Europeans at all but my nephew and myself.