According to the evangelical theological discourse of the Baptists, true salvation was accompanied by the process of sanctification. Under the influence of the Holy Spirit, a person underwent a continuous process of moral improvement throughout their life. This process of sanctification changed depending on the social class, gender, or community of the person. These particularities were the most extreme for Hindu converts who needed to “improve” their bodies by extricating them from all aspects of Hindu society before sanctification could even begin. Thus, the missionaries looked for many more moral signposts to prove the conversion of Bengali Hindus beyond just belief. The missionary sources are filled with accounts of unruly Bengali Christians or enquirers misbehaving, disagreeing with the missionaries, coming and going as they pleased, and being expelled from communion. They made very few converts who they were confident were true Christians. This lack of clarity helped to build the Baptists’ sense that they were living on a moral frontier. They needed to find new ways to differentiate between the morally improved and unimproved rather than religious belief, and new ways to “improve” the bodies of Hindus so as to increase their chances of true conversion.