Four schools were organized, in which twenty teachers were employed, and six languages were used in the various studies.  When the schools were first started not two natives in the District could speak English, but after six years nearly six hundred had been taught in the schools to both read and speak it.  Regular services in the Chapel, such as preaching, Sunday School, class and prayer meetings, were held in the Urdu language for the native Christian Church.  Brother Hauser also conducted the Church of England service each Sabbath morning for five years, for the few English residents stationed there, as they had no Chaplain.

Besides studying the several languages of the country, preaching in the bazaars and other public places to tens of thousands of people, instructing the native preachers and teachers, looking after and giving employment to the native Christians, he was appointed by the Publishing Committee of the Mission to translate the Discipline into the Urdu language, having the honor of making the first translation of that book into any Eastern tongue.  But in the midst of his labors, sickness fell upon himself and family.  Diptheria attacked himself, his wife, and two of his children.  One little girl died of that disease, and shortly after another from fever.  Brother Hauser’s throat became seriously affected, and he was compelled to retire from the work.  With his family, he made a tour of several months through the Himalaya Mountains, to within eight miles of the borders of Thibet.  In this tour he was not unfrequently twenty thousand feet above the sea, but failing to recover his health, he, in 1868, returned to the United States, after an absence of eight years.

Since his return, he has devoted his labor to the publication of the Christian Statesman, the only Protestant religious paper published in Wisconsin.  Being undenominational, the paper, patronized by all the Protestant Churches, has attained a wide circulation.  Brother Hauser is a man of great energy, and is doing a grand work for the Churches of Wisconsin.

Mrs. Hauser is a lady of very superior talent.  In their Mission field she took her full share of the work, and since her return, she has not only been one of the best contributors to the Statesman, but has largely identified herself with the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society work in the State.  Both on the platform, and in the general work of the Society, she holds a high rank.  And in addition to this work, she is now preparing a volume of sketches of Women in Heathen Lands.

At the close of the preceding year, the Summerfield Quarterly Conference requested my appointment to the Pastorate of that station.  The Bishop at first was inclined to grant the request, but finally came to the conclusion that I ought to remain on the District.  This left the charge to be supplied, and I secured the services of Rev. J.E.  Wilson, then of Ohio, but who had formerly served Milwaukee, as stated in a preceding chapter.