CHAPTER IV.
Though Mr. Groves’s connection with the Church Missionary Society terminated in the way he has described, he did not give up, as has been seen, the idea either of missions, or of going to Bagdad, for which place his sympathies had been enlisted by Mr. Bickersteth’s telling him, they had for years endeavoured, but without success, to obtain a missionary. Mrs. Caldecott has kindly furnished a letter addressed to her husband by Mrs. Groves, just before their departure, which, while it confirms all Mr. Groves had said, both of her, and of the way God had led them, forms an interesting link between the period at which his autobiography terminates, and his journal as a missionary begins.
“My dear friend,
“As you have kindly expressed a wish to hear from us, and my dear husband is very busy, I have much pleasure in sending you some information of our proceedings. Since we had the happiness of seeing you, we seem to have been led various ways; but I feel quite persuaded, that the Lord has led us in a straight path. He has made our hearts willing to be guided by Him, and will, therefore, accomplish His own designs in us. Many have offered to accompany us, and we have sometimes felt we should have a large party: a few days afterwards, we have found ourselves standing alone; but our God has been
