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 Illustrated ivith Sixteen Engravings, and a Portrait of a 
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CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGB 
 
 Account of the Suttee, or burning of Widows - - 1 
 
 Privileges of the Brahmins, or Hindoo Priests - - 5 
 
 Description of Juggernaut and his Car 9 
 
 Anecdotes from Serampore - - - - - 10 
 
 Swinging at the Cherook Pooja - - - - 1 3 
 
 Cruelties in New Zealand - - - - - 14 
 
 Gratitude of an African Negro - - - - - 15 
 
 Remarkable Illustration of Isaiah xliv. - - - 15 
 
 Distrust and Faith; or, the Two Negro Women - - 16 
 
 Marriage Ceremonies of the Hindoos - - - 17 
 
 Obituary of Aluka - - - - - - -19 
 
 Appeal, by the late Rev. William Ward - - - 20 
 
 Native Places of Worship - ■• - - - 21 
 
 Extracts from the Journal of a Native Preacher - - 22 
 
 Self Tortures among the Hindoos - - - - 25 
 
 Letter from Krishna Pal to a Friend in England - - 27 
 
 Account of the Jamaica Mission - - - - 29 
 
 Obituary of the Rev. William Ward - - - - 31 
 
 Account of the Mission in Sumatra - - - 34 
 
 Miserable State of the CafYres at Bencoolen - - 34 
 
 Anecdote of a Batta Raja - - - - - 35 
 
 Extract of a Letter from Mrs. Burton - - - 36 
 
 Voluntary Tortures at an Idolatrous Festival - - 37 
 
 A Heathen's Opinion of the Scriptures - - - 39 
 
 Suttee in the South of India - r - - - 42 
 
 Anecdotes of Missionary Conversations - - - 43 
 
 Houses in Sumatra ------- 45 
 
 East India Slave Trade - 46 
 
 Suttee in the Neighbourhood of Calcutta - - - 47 
 
 Obituary of Jumoona ------ 47 
 
 Short Account of the late Mr. Knibb - - -48 
 
 Examination of Female Schools - - - - 51 
 
 Obituary of Debranee - - - - - -51 
 
 Account of the Burmese White Elephant - - - 54 
 
 Tour on the Ganges ---_._ 55 
 
 Providential Deliverance of Missionaries at Rangoon - 58 
 
 Translations of the Holy Scriptures - - - - 62 
 
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 Jan. 1822. 
 
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 Christian Friends, 
 
 You have often heard that the dark 
 places of the earth are foil of the ha- 
 bitations of cruelty : and in this en- 
 graving you have one proof of it. It 
 represents what is called in India a 
 Suitee; that is, a widow burning to 
 death with the corpse of her deceased 
 husband. 
 
 The funeral pile, as you see, is 
 placed on the very edge of the river 
 Ganges. It is made of wood, and 
 rushes, and long grass; about three 
 feet high, six feet long, and about 
 wide enough to admit of two persons 
 lying upon it side by side. There lies 
 the corpse, on the side nearest the 
 river; and you perceive the poor wi- 
 dow is embracing it with her right arm 
 over the breast. The upright stakes 
 are fixed to keep the pile together; 
 and that long bamboo is stretched 
 across to prevent the widow from 
 escaping, as the poor creatures have 
 sometimes tried to do, when scorched 
 by the flames. This bamboo is held 
 down by two men, one on each side, 
 and behind them are two others, pour- 
 ing water on them to prevent their 
 being hurt by the fire. That stout 
 man on the left hand is the officiating 
 brahman, or priest. You perceive he 
 wears the poita, or sacred thread, which 
 is the badge of the order, round his 
 neck, and the paper in his hand is one 
 of their Shasters, or holy books, out of 
 which he is reading the instructions 
 for the due performance of this dread- 
 ful ceremony. Immediately before 
 him is a youth, the eldest son of the 
 family, who has just applied the flam- 
 ing Jtorch to the pile in which his living 
 mother is to be consumed to ashes. 
 Behind, sitting on the steps of the 
 ghaut, or landing place, are two per- 
 sons, relations of th,e deceased, who 
 seem to be a little affected ; but all 
 the crowd besides are as merry and 
 unconcerned as the mob at a country 
 fair. They are shouting u hnrree bol" 
 (a sort of huzza) and playing on va- 
 rious kinds of musical instruments, in 
 order to drown the cries of the poor 
 dying woman. At the top of the bank 
 stands an English Missionary, who has 
 just landed from the boat, a part of 
 which is seeu in the stream below. 
 His looks express the mingled emo- 
 tious of honor and pity with which he 
 
 views the shocking scene; and he is 
 reasoning on the subject with that re- 
 spectable native, sitting in the window 
 of the house, who seems to listen with 
 some attention, but the infuriated mob 
 around seem determined to pay no re- 
 gard to his remonstrances. 
 
 This print is partly copied from a 
 collection of drawings brought from 
 Bengal by our friend Mr. Ward, and 
 partly furnished by a recent account 
 from Calcutta, which we will give you, 
 in the words of the writer, that you 
 may see we have not stated the case 
 worse than it is, — though it may seem, 
 in some parts, a little like repetition. 
 
 "Jan. 18, 1821. About five o'clock 
 this afternoon I received intelligence 
 that a woman was about to burn with 
 the corpse of her husband. I went 
 immediately to the ghaut, accompa- 
 nied by our native brother. The dis- 
 tance was about a mile from our house. 
 Many of the brahmans knew us, and 
 our arrival was the signal for shouting 
 hurree bol— hurree bol. We went to 
 the place where the dead body was 
 lying upon the pile, which was about 
 two or three feet from the ground. 
 The pile was just wide enough for 
 another body to lay abreast, and just 
 the length of the corpse. The fat mur- 
 derous brahman who seemed to be the 
 chief director of the tragic business, 
 held in his hand a leaf that he pro- 
 fessed to be from the red shaster, di- 
 recting how the ceremony was to be 
 performed. All was horrid noise and 
 confusion. I was repeatedly forbid to 
 touch the pile. I asked the brahmans 
 how they could take part in so mur- 
 derous an affair; but all was fury and 
 vociferation. I might as well have had 
 held my peace; yet who that has one 
 spark of love to human nature could 
 be silent? Two thin green bamboos, 
 just about long enough to reach over 
 the pile, were about being fastened by 
 the lower end to the ground. We re- 
 minded them that government had for- 
 bidden force to be used, and they de- 
 sisted. Now the woman came from 
 bathiug, and as she approached the 
 pile a shout of hurree bol was repeated. 
 Upon her coming up, the brahmans all 
 surrounded her in a moment, aud be- 
 gan to hurry her round the pile. The 
 brahman who held the leaf above men- 
 tioned began to read, but the noiae 
 
was too great for the woman or any 
 one else to hear a tingle word. At 
 this time, a> six or eight of these mon- 
 Kicis hail irot hold of lier, I protested 
 tbej were using violence. To convince 
 we, however, that the was doing it 
 
 tiuin ciioice, a lii al uii.in , who km w MM 
 
 very will, caused them to stand itill, 
 
 that I BliftBt put tin- question to her. 
 1 did sn, and understood her to say, 
 'It «.i> her desin in go with her bus- 
 band. 1 Upon this, auotber ihoal ».i> 
 
 set op, end they hurried beri id the 
 
 pile the seventh tune; she throwing 
 to the bystanders parched rice, ace. 
 
 Which she held in a COl in i of the cloth 
 she hail lound her. When she hail 
 
 gone round the seventh tunc, she st • < > • i 
 stdl tor a short tune to adjnal her 
 clothes, and began to mount the pile, 
 the iendeidie.il ted brahman* rendering 
 bet so much assistance that what little 
 •trengthahe bad «a^ quite unnecessarj 
 to hi exerted on this part of the fatal 
 
 process. When >lie had mounted, auo- 
 l . i yell Was set up ; v|ie lai I hi i M ll 
 
 down, and pat liu husband's withered 
 ann around her. Ad uow was baste 
 to' ili >paii li the business. I could bear 
 do more, so went to .i distance In the 
 lop "i the bank, [u tui ning ronnd, 
 1 saw a ronl Fastened ligfatlj round 
 the two bodies, and thick pieces of 
 wood heaping on i>v which tins were 
 p i wed as cIo»el) togetlx i as possible. 
 Together with the wood there was a 
 great deal of straw, and long dry 
 
 rusheSi 1 was told the SOU set file to 
 the pile, but had nut an opportunity 
 
 ot teeing lor myself. At first the 
 fi i/.- was very great, bal the mate. 
 nals being light it wa- obUged to he 
 
 kept up by adding more, which the 
 
 brahman* ware officious in supplying 
 
 both above ami below the pile of wood, 
 while a number of persons were fetch- 
 ing jai i "i wain to pour 0V< r tin in, 
 list the fne should hint tbem. Tin 
 two bamboos wen constantly applied 
 
 to jam the w | together. The yelling 
 
 oi the multitude was horrid; ami the 
 
 brahman* busying Ihciusetsea in kee.n- 
 iii!.' up the fire, running in every direo 
 
 tinii about the pile, some calling for 
 more light Muff to be supplied, ami 
 
 poniing out abuse upon some who h id 
 put it above instead ot below, while 
 others Violently called upon the ptople 
 to continue Iniiiee bid, made tin in 
 appear like SO m my infuriated fiends. 
 Ulnnwt had hi t'li down a second time 
 among them, we returned home with 
 
 hearts full of sorroa and indignation/ 
 
 such is l In di i ad I ul ma n in r in w Inch 
 
 hundreds and thou taints of wretched 
 Hindoo females are constant!] sacri* 
 riced on the altai i of a bai barons super- 
 
 Itition . nor is il only at the lunr ot the 
 
 husband's death thai these cruel set 
 
 take place. If a widow ri fine* to burn 
 
 then, ami tl.< corpse is burnt alone, or 
 throw n in in Lbe Ganges, she we j after* 
 wards repair this omission bv burning 
 with anj article belonging to, or ased 
 by, her baabaad in Ins life rime. Mr. 
 Howe, another of our Missionaries, 
 mentions, in a letter written in April 
 but, a ease of this sort. '• I was look* 
 ing," says be, " al lome small temples 
 in ai our boase, bu.ii in coaunemoratioa 
 of women who have sacrificed ibeaa* 
 selves, ami on the very spats afhere the 
 tragical ici m ■ took place. Looking at 
 
 one of I hem I inquired of a li.-M.iiuh r, 
 for whom il had been erected; ' Sa- 
 hib, '.said he, 'the woman, in coniineino- 
 raiion ef whose SUttce* that temple was 
 
 erected, i a/used in be burned with her 
 
 hush. mil w hen be died; bill licfntij Vtur.t 
 
 o/ier she collected together every thing 
 sin- had that belonged to bias, A burnt 
 he I self with them in that pi 
 
 U < Il in. i\ tin writer add. What bit 
 the light of the gospel breaking m upon 
 
 lln mind of Hum- .nl.i I u.ilel people can 
 
 put a sio.i in these hoi rid practwi il 
 
 • P the Hindoo word <i.J, which 
 
 signifies faithful', because the sacrifice 
 i* snpposed to prove the ii lelily ul the 
 m ii/ la hi i de< i ased bo»band. 
 
 v e hope, Christian Friends, that yoawdi feel afn di determined, by 'I"" crncc 
 oi (tod, to use ev( i\ i iiori to send the gospi I ol peace and love among tin se 
 bohappj people.— You see how much Um > ue< I it, and we could ball yon, If 
 w< had room, of man j instances in which il has been received in the simplicity 
 of faith, and hi i o me, to pool idolaters, the powei of God unto salvation. < inr 
 
 friepds, atmauj stations, are writing to ns to send out more Mis aries,bet 
 
 thi> we cannot do at prt tent for want of money. Some of yon that read this 
 paper, conld casil) collect, auiona a few friends, sixpence oi a shilling a »>. k, 
 aid than you would be entitled to the Missionar) Herald, which Is published 
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 April 1822. 
 
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 Christian Friends, 
 
 In our last Quarterly Paper we 
 gave you a representation of that 
 horrid act of cruelty, so common in 
 Bengal, the burning of a living widow 
 to death; and it is affecting to think, 
 that since you looked at rhat engrav- 
 ing, and read the description given of 
 it, several hundreds of poor women 
 have, in all probability, been thus in- 
 humanly murdered. You doubtless 
 remember that one of the principal 
 actors in the dreadful scene was a 
 brahman. We intend now to give you 
 some account of these persons, who 
 are regarded as a kind of Deities by 
 the common people. Of the abject 
 reverence paid them, you have an in- 
 stance in the annexed engraving. 
 
 The Hindoo writers affirm that the 
 brahmans proceeded from the mouth 
 of Brumha, their supreme god. Agree- 
 ably with this fable, none but persons 
 of this caste are admitted to the priest- 
 hood, or have any thing to do with 
 making laws; and they have taken 
 care to turn these privileges to good 
 account. No brahman can be put 
 to death, by their law, for any crime 
 whatever ; while, op the other hand, 
 to kill a brahman is one of the great- 
 est sins that can be committed ; and 
 every offence committed against them 
 is to be punished with rigorous seve- 
 rity. If one of inferior caste give 
 frequent molestation to a brahman, (a 
 very uncertain sort of crime,) he is to 
 be put to death. If, through pride, 
 he spit upon a brahman, ins lips must 
 be cut off. If he listens to reproaches 
 against a brahman, boiling lead must 
 be poured into his ears. Aud, as if 
 all these horrible punishments were 
 not enough, the wrath of the brahmans 
 extends to the future world. Their 
 writings teach, that if a shoodru do 
 not rise to receive, a brahman with 
 due honour, he will, after death, be- 
 come a tree ; if he look angrily at a 
 brahman, his eyes will be put out! 
 
 Nor is the principle of fear, power- 
 ful as it is in the minds of the igno- 
 rant and superstitious, the only one by 
 which these crafty men have endea- 
 voured to secure their dominion over 
 
 their helpless countrymen. The shas- 
 ters, or religions books, teach, that a 
 gift to a learned brahman possesses in- 
 finite merit; feasts to brahmans are 
 considered as very meritorious ; a poor 
 man entertains two or three; a rich 
 man invites hundreds. If a man has 
 been entertaining a number of brah- 
 mans, a neighbour says to him, "Ah! 
 you are a happy man! you can honour 
 so many brahmans!" A covetous man 
 is sometimes thus reproached : " He is 
 very rich, but. he cannot bring his mind 
 to part with a mite, — no, not to enter- 
 tain brahmans : he does not even invite 
 a few brahmans to his house, and wash 
 their feet." To present gifts to brah- 
 mans at the hour of death, is extolled 
 in the shasters as a work of merit, de- 
 stroying all sin, and followed in the next 
 world with imperishable happiness. 
 
 To drink the water into which a 
 brahman's toe has been dipped, is con- 
 sidered a very great privilege. Per- 
 sons may be frequently seen carrying 
 water in a cop, and intreating the first 
 brahman they meet to put his toe into 
 it ; after which they drink the water, 
 and prostrate themselves before the 
 brahman, who bestows his blessing on 
 them. Others are found who endea- 
 vour to collect the dust from the feet 
 of a lack (100,000) of brahmans; one 
 mode of doing which is, by spreading 
 a cloth before the door of a house 
 where many are assembled at a feast ; 
 as each brahman comes out, he shakes 
 the dust from his feet upon this cloth. 
 Many miraculous cures are said to 
 have been performed on persons swal- 
 lowing this dust. 
 
 From these statements, some idea 
 may be formed of the despotic influence 
 exerted by this class of men. But this 
 is not all; the system is so artfully con- 
 trived as to meet the Hindoo at every 
 point, and constrain him, on almost 
 every possible occasion, to feel and 
 acknowledge their vast superiority. 
 
 No person may teach the vedn but 
 a brahman ; — a spiritual guide must be 
 a brahman; — every priest must be a 
 brahman ; — the offerings to the gods 
 must be given to brahmans j — uo cere- 
 
niony is meritorious without a fee to 
 tlit* officiating brahman; — aamhftiesa 
 
 ceremonies have been invested to in- 
 crease the wealth of the brahmans : 
 several feci are exacted by tin in pre- 
 vious to the birth of every child; at 
 the birth; when the child U I few d.iy- 
 oltl ; again when it ii six month' old; 
 when two years old ; again at eight 01 
 nine; ami again at marriage ,--in lick- 
 ness, the brahman is paid for repeat 
 
 iag forma for Ibe restoration at the 
 
 patient :— after death, Ins son m u - 1 
 perform the sliraddhu, or timer, d feast, 
 the offerings and fees at which are 
 
 given to the brahmana, twelve timci 
 
 during the fn-t year, and then an 
 Dually;— if a shoodru meet with a mis- 
 fnitune, he must pay a brahman to 
 read incantation- rot iU removal;— if 
 
 his com die, he must call a brahman to 
 make an atonement ;---if he lo-e a piece 
 
 of gold] be matt do the uaitj — If .1 
 vultuie have lettled on hi- bouse, be 
 
 inu-t pay a bi,ilmi.;n to ptiiilv bh 
 duelling; — if he go mtO a new house, 
 
 be mnal pa* a brahman to pnrirj i( ;-- 
 
 if a shoodru (be on an unlinks da*, bil 
 
 son must emploj a brahman to remove 
 the e\ d t ff< eti of tin- cii cuius t ant t .-- 
 
 if he cut a pool or a well, he must pay 
 a brahman to consecrate it ;--if he 
 
 dedicate to public uses a temple, or 
 trees, be most do the same;— at the 
 time of an eclipse, the brahman it em 
 
 ployed and paid; — en eel lain lunar 
 
 days, the shoodru mual present gitts 
 to brahmaoa ;—- during tlie year, about 
 forty ceremonii - are performed, called 
 rrotus, when the brahmans aie feasted, 
 and 1 1 eeivi ft ' -; — wlun a person inp- 
 
 himsfill to bt nndi i the influence 
 of an evil planet, be must call few 
 bi thmana to offer a sat i ihce :--a num- 
 ber of vows are made, 00 all which 
 occasions brahmana are employed ami 
 paid; — at the birth of a ehdd, tin 
 worsliip of 8huahtee i- performed, 
 when brahmana are feaated;— al the 
 time of the aaaauVpox, ■ ceraaaoay is 
 
 i mi d bj the brahmana ; t he) 
 aie paid i i aaai l ing the people In 
 mat; —to remove cntaneoni disorders! 
 
 the brahman- praj to one til tin- god- 
 
 tii - . , and receivi a fee :~ brahmana 
 are employed daily to offt i worship to 
 the famdj god of the ahoodra;- the 
 
 farun r ,i.m •- Ml h ip In- liai vt -t with- 
 
 out paying a brahman to parfonn son • 
 eeremonj ;— a tradeamaa cannot !>• gin 
 baiinoaa. without •> ft a to ■ brahman . 
 — a fisherman cannot build a nen boat, 
 nor In '^ui to fiah in a apol which be ii \t 
 farmed, witboat a ceramoaj and 
 ills a baadred tbtleient i 
 aie beU during the yem, al wait h 
 
 brahmans are entertained, and, in some 
 villages, feasts arc celebrated at a baa- 
 dred eoaaea at oik -e. At the house of 
 a raja, at particular festivals, some- 
 times as many as '.'<>, <>00 brahman- ait 
 feast* d. Instances, are mentioned of 
 180,000 brahmaaa having bet ■ assem- 
 bled at one feast. At a shraddliu per- 
 formed for his mother, by (iunga-Go- 
 vinda-Singini, ol Jamookandee, near 
 Mom rhndobad, who was in the emplov 
 of the late Governor Hastings, six 
 baadred thousand brahman-, it is said, 
 
 were aaaembled, feasted, and dismissed 
 witb prest i 
 
 Thus every form and ceremony of 
 religion — all the public festivala — all 
 the accidents and concerns ol life — the 
 revolutions ol Ibe heavenly bodies — 
 the snperstitioni fean of the people — 
 t>ii tii — sicknesses — mat i iaga — aala- 
 
 foriiint - — It ath — a future state, <*c. 
 have all been semd a- sources of re- 
 venue to the brahmans; in short, from 
 the time a shoodru is conceived in the 
 
 WOmb, to bat deliverance trom purga- 
 
 torv by ibe brahmaaa at Oaya, be ia 
 conaidered as the lawful. pm al the 
 brahmans, whose blessing raises him 
 to heaven, or wIiom cin-c -inks him 
 
 into totaneata ; — and thus, tin ir popu- 
 lar stones, their uiauneis, and their 
 very laws, tend it onee to establish 
 the moal complete system af absolute 
 oppreaaion thai perhaps evei < aiateaL 
 
 \\ e have given yaa thai particular 
 account oi the Krahnjunical Byslaaa, 
 ( briatiaa friends, becaase it is, in 
 
 fact, the very pillar on which the whole 
 
 fabric af Hindoo anperatitida rests, — 
 the «trou« hold in which the gad al 
 this world ha- entrenched him-eli 
 among them. Sural) it vuli lead yaa 
 to pity the millions who are thus fa- 
 t illy enslaved, an. I till voiir minds 
 with gWlifOIII indignation against inch 
 mercenary and unfeeling oppression. 
 Some, perhaps, m. tv he it.idv la iliink 
 that it is in v. in; to ixptt t that sin h 
 
 delusions c.iii be scattered: or at h ast, 
 
 that tin- will '.. . tin t, <| b] tin oitli- 
 
 nary methods of preaching the gnept I. 
 r. hi we have great pleasare ui aaying, 
 thai among several haadradaaf aatives 
 who have embraced the gospel, aomt 
 In ihmaaa have bet a iatciadi d. l be 
 
 n. mi. - ol i/irn bldi* oiii.il- of I li is, eavtt 
 OCt III iii a li-l of the native pit at hrr- 
 
 in India, famished as bj Mr. Ward 
 whea in I aglaad; and one yeeag man 
 oi gnat promise b«- Iii t ii lately hap 
 tiaed bv our junior brethren ia Csl- 
 cniia. Othanhava been reaanved bj 
 .ii ath. Hi -p< ctiag two, who were wall 
 ., to Mi freed, be giv.s the 
 following ph 
 
"Krishnoo-prisad, the first brah- 
 man who was baptized in Bengal, died a 
 few years ago. He was most exemplary 
 in his life, sought to bring his wealthy 
 relations to the faith, & died full of hope, 
 leaving behind him a name embalmed 
 in the memory of all his brethren." 
 
 " Ram-mohun, a converted brahman 
 of the highest caste, and who, when a 
 heathen, set fire to the pile in which 
 bis living mother was consumed to 
 ashes, has been the means of the con- 
 version of several persons, and he is 
 now such.a persuasive preacher of the 
 gospel, that I have seen his congrega- 
 tion drenched in tears." 
 
 Let these instances of success at- 
 tending a preached gospel animate 
 your praises, your prayers, and your 
 efforts. The Society was never so much 
 in want of aid as at present ; tind the 
 utmost exertions of its friends are re- 
 quired to support those Missionaries who 
 depend upon it for sappliesfor themselres 
 and their families. We intreat you 
 then, by the miseries endured by those 
 who know not God, by the worth of 
 immortal souls, and by the transcend- 
 ant excellence of the gospel of salva- 
 tion, Be not weary in well doing, for 
 in due season you shall reap, if you 
 faint not. 
 
 A Hindoo prostrating himself at the Feet of his Gooroo, or 
 Spiritual Teacher, (a Brahman.) 
 
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 ClinUTlAK I I If 
 
 Im th< picture on the othe r side, 
 you |«« a representation <d the deluded 
 idolaters of India, in the act of drag 
 
 ging the monstrous car of their god, 
 Juggernaut. This scene occurs several 
 tiims a year, when he is drawn from 
 the temple to his country-house, to 
 M.it, as they pretend, his broth r and 
 bist-r ! 
 
 The idol itself, which you c mnot 
 
 F«e by looking at the picture, is so 
 
 placed on the car as to he visible to 
 
 those who are dragging the car along, 
 
 i large block of wood, having a 
 
 tfol visage painted black, wilh a 
 irerj wide mouth of a bloody colour. 
 
 Hi- arms are of gold, and aa is dress- 
 ed in gorgeous apparel. A numerous 
 retinue oi priests and other servants 
 •I ways in attendance upon his 
 temple, to receive the offerings made 
 to the idol, and superintend the per. 
 formance of his worship. 
 
 Mttltitud .ruble from 
 
 all parts of India to j ■ . i > honour to this 
 
 odious deity. Of tluir numht r no 
 accurate call illation can be made. 
 The natives them-el\ I --, when talking 
 on this subject, usually say that a lack 
 of people (T 00,000) would not be miss- 
 ed. And so mad are they upon their 
 idols, that thousands of lives are an- 
 nually lost, by the fatigues and priva- 
 tions to which they are exposed in 
 the long journies undertaken for this 
 purpose. Several years ago, Dr. Carey 
 computed the number sacrificed in thi< 
 way alone, at one hundred und tu> ity 
 thousand f 
 
 But the worship of Juggernaut is, 
 In a more direct and evident manner, 
 a system of cruelty and blood. To 
 give you a clearer idea of thif, we 
 
 shall ( i'],y the words of Dr. Buchanan, 
 
 who saw the dreadful scene with 
 
 bis own eyes, which is represented 
 in the picture on this paper. " Vi- 
 ler the tower bad proceeded some 
 way, a pilgrim announced that lr 
 road) tn ullrr himself a sacrifice t" 
 the idol. He laid himself down in 
 the road, before the tower as it SMI 
 moving along, lying on his (Are, with 
 irds. The 
 mullitude passed round him, \i 
 
 the space clear, and he was crushed 
 to death bj ihe wheeli oi Ike lower. 
 \ "it of joy v I to lh< 
 
 il d to sstlLlt w boa lbs libation 
 
 ol i>i 1 is Bade. The people throw 
 
 cowries, oi -mill money, an the bodj 
 
 ■ I the i ii lini, i 
 
 di ed He was left I ■ nnsi- 
 
 derable time; and was then carried to 
 
 I place a little Way OOt o( the totwi. 
 
 called by the English, Qolgotha, 
 where the dead hodies are usually 
 cast forth, and where dogs and vul- 
 tures are ev-*r seen. 'I here 1 have 
 
 just been, viewing his remains." 
 
 He tlon tayg — "I beheld another 
 
 -mii.; scene at the Place of 
 Senile, — a poor woman lying dead, or 
 
 nearly dead; and her two children by 
 her, looking at the dogl and vultures 
 whkh were near. The people p 
 by without untieing the children. I 
 
 asked them where was their home. 
 
 J bey said ' the] had as borne, but 
 
 where their mother was.' Oh, there 
 is no pity at Juggernaut ; no mercy, 
 no tenderness ot heart, in Moloch* 
 kingdom !" 
 
 N..U will naturally suppose , that 
 people who are so dreadfully wicked 
 as tu delight in such worship u this, 
 must be dead to the feelings of ten- 
 derness and humanity. Yon would 
 imagine that little regard would be 
 
 paid to the »ii k, the old, and tin 
 helpless; and such is the fact. 'Dy- 
 ing men,' s aid a Missionary om 
 Writing on this subject, 'are no iimn 
 regarded than dying weeds.' \n <. 
 ha\e just had a letter from a friend, 
 now in Kngland, who lived sunn- tears 
 at Serampore, in which bsm 
 
 account of some things which she bad 
 witnessed, clearly proving this. She 
 
 sj\s, " One evening, as I was walking 
 
 with my husband by the river side, 
 we saw two respectable native* carry- 
 ing a woman in their arms. We asked 
 them whai they were geiag to do with 
 her. They very coldly answered. U c 
 are going to put her into the rner, that 
 her soul may go to heaven, for she is 
 our mother! I Bsked them if she 
 was ill.' They said. She is Dot very 
 ill, but she is old and has no teeth, 
 and what is the USC of her livi;. 1 
 
 felt a great <1< si on beariof 
 
 said, What, have yOS hSftion 
 
 ur mother? Will you drown hi i 
 because she is old? The woman m- 
 itaatty fixed her eyes on me. and said, 
 w bat sort of a woman are you .' I told 
 her I was an English woman, and 
 wished U) proves! her children from 
 
 drowning her ; and it they did 1 would 
 
 ai (juaiut the governor with it, 
 
 lli\ e them both 1 'hey said. 
 
 • mind: and pn ^ded towards 
 
 the river. M\ husband then ran down 
 the bank, and taking hold ol \h> 
 
 man, insisted upon their takiug h- I 
 home. Tloy did mi, but sad to tell, 
 
 rough! her again the next even 
 ■nl Mr. l*cli\ ( lH 
 
11 
 
 throw her into th« water, without per- 
 forming the usual ceremony of giving 
 her water in the name of their gods." 
 
 She then mentions another instance, 
 scarcely less striking, of their indiffer- 
 ence to life. — " One of the men who 
 worked in the paper mill was bitten 
 by a snake. His companions immedi- 
 ately took him to the river to throw 
 him in, without knowing whether it 
 was a poisonous snake that had bitten 
 him or not. When my husband and 
 Mr. Felix Carey got to them, they 
 found the poor man that had been 
 bitten, between two men; one had 
 hold of his shoulders, the other of his 
 legs, and were on the point of throw- 
 ing him into the river. Mr. Carey 
 said he thought the man was not dead, 
 and made them put him down. My 
 husband then sent for some medicine, 
 and gave him one spoonful. He had no 
 sooner taken it than he spoke, and 
 said, It is very strong, I will sooner 
 die than take any more : but Mr. Carey 
 well understood the nature of the bite, 
 and said it would be necessary to re- 
 peat the medicineevery twenty minutes 
 all night. My husband asked those 
 around him, if any one would stay 
 with the poor man all night. They all 
 answered, No, we cannot lose our 
 sleep ; it would be much better for 
 him to die than for us to be deprived 
 of a night's sleep ! My husband stayed 
 himself, and the poor man continued 
 to get better. In the morning he was 
 so far recovered as to be able to walk 
 home. The next day he came to our 
 house, and fell down at my husband's 
 feet, and said, I am come to worship 
 you, Sahib, for saving my life, and I 
 will work for you as long as I live ! 
 He proved to be a faithful creature, 
 and was still working on the Mission 
 premises when I left Serampore. I 
 hope the Lord will convert him to 
 himself; he attends Bengalee preach- 
 ing very regularly. Thus many of the 
 natives owe the preservation of their 
 lives to Missionaries. 
 
 It was very natural that a person, 
 who had seen such things as this, should 
 think with much pleasure and thank- 
 fulness on the means which are em- 
 ployed to put a stop to such practices. 
 Thus she proceeds, "The Lord has 
 made Missionaries a greater blessing 
 to India than people in England can 
 be aware of. Time would fail me to 
 tell in how many instances dear bre- 
 thren Chamberlain and William Carey 
 have been made the instruments of 
 preserving life. The Mission-house 
 at Serampore has been, and still is, a 
 
 refuge to the natives. There they are 
 protected from the Brahmins at their 
 swinging feasts; there they are com- 
 forted when in trouble ; there they have 
 medicine administered to them when 
 they are sick ; there they are relieved 
 when in distress ; there they are in- 
 structed how they can be saved with- 
 out cutting themselves with knives, 
 or running a spit through their tongues, 
 and other cruelties that their gods 
 require. Not only in the Mission- 
 house have they found protection, but 
 in the houses of our native brethren. I 
 have witnessed the death of two who 
 died under the roof of a native bro- 
 ther at Serampore, where they had 
 taken shelter from jackals and birds 
 of prey when cast out by their rela- 
 tives, because they were ill, forsaken 
 by their companions in idolatry, and 
 left to perish. One of them was an 
 old woman covered with wounds : she 
 had but little clothing on her, so that 
 the birds had eaten nearly all the flesh 
 off her back as she crawled; but she 
 soon died. My husband had a coffin 
 made, and with his own hands put 
 her in ; for he could get no one to as- 
 sist him. Our dear native brother 
 and sister had indeed fed and taken 
 care of her when alive ; but they were 
 too much afraid of the disease to touch 
 her when she was dead. The other 
 was a young woman, who worked in 
 the paper-mill when in health. She 
 was left a widow when only ten years of 
 age, and at this early age she became 
 utterly depraved. When I first saw 
 her I thought how true it is, * The 
 way of transgressors is hard.' Her 
 body was so maimed as to lose almost 
 the appearance of a human being ; 
 but in this miserable condition she was 
 spared eight months. During that 
 time the Lord was pleased to call her 
 by his grace. She died praising God 
 for his goodness to her in sparing her 
 so long to enjoy the privilege of wor- 
 shipping the true God. This I hope 
 she did for the last five months of her 
 life. She always seemed pleased 
 when any of the native brethren pray- 
 ed or oonversed with her about Jesus 
 Christ. One of them told her, he 
 hoped she was going where she would 
 suffer no more from putrefied wounds ; 
 she wept, and said that she was a 
 great sinner, but Christ was a great 
 saviour!" 
 
 Thus, Christian friends, we have 
 given you a short account of what 
 takes place in the temples, and in the 
 houses of the Hindoos, — of the cruel 
 nature of their worship, and of the in- 
 
 
It 
 
 humanity and want of natural aflht-- 
 tiou who h proceeds from it. Can you 
 
 expect thai such a people will reform 
 
 themselves ; or that any thing sliort of 
 
 th<- gospel of Jesus Christ will leach 
 
 them better I In the instance of tin- 
 poor aflicted young female .iust men- 
 tioaed, we mwhtl i happy change 
 
 that uospel can make in the heart of 
 an iadh Idoal ; ami are are nock pleas- 
 ed bO he able to tell Mm, that it ap- 
 pears as if the faithfal labours of Mis- 
 sioaaries had already began to produce 
 an important effet t opoo the public 
 mind in general, and that Juggernaut 
 is likelj to fall into disrepute. A gen- 
 
 tleman, COnaeoted with India, lately 
 stated m a large company of other gen- 
 tlemen at the Mast India House, that 
 whoa tin- y were about to drag bis bea- 
 \v oar, at a late festival, the Bran- 
 mu us could not find peraoBS enough 
 to perform this laborious service, nor 
 a » i 1 1 vi ' • • devotee arbo would throw 
 himself nnder the wheels : se that 
 they bad h'miii to think of removing 
 the Idol, and all bis establishment, to 
 ■ease other part ol the country, where 
 the inhabitants felt more aeal in bis 
 
 sen k 
 
 This intelligence will doubtless 
 \.>u |oy, Christian friends, and so it 
 
 ought. It proves that your contribu- 
 tions and prayers for the success of 
 
 the Missionary came have not boon 
 vain: hut we hope it will com mo 
 you, also, of the need of perseverance, 
 
 and encourage you ta he ftdifoM, im- 
 RMVassia, »nJ ulirayt ahuitndin£ in 
 
 the work tf the Lord. It is most rea- 
 
 aoaable that this Moloch of the East, 
 
 as Dr. Rurhanan calls him, should he 
 deserted , that Ins < Iiariot should stand 
 still, till it rots, tor want of Worship- 
 pers to drag it forwards and back- 
 wards; and that the poor deluded 
 I features, who have been paying di- 
 \ine honours to this Ugly lilo 
 Wood, should retire from their service, 
 
 ashamed and confounded. But our 
 
 Rock is not as their rock, our enemies 
 themselves being judges, and shall //.■ 
 be treated thus? Boated in the chariot 
 
 ot his gospel, paved with love for the 
 
 ignorant and wretched, be has com- 
 menced his progress among these poor 
 
 idolaters — yon have assisted, many of 
 you, in helping forward his chariot — 
 and surely you will not imitate the 
 
 worshippers of Juggernaut, and for- 
 sake that work of faith and labour of 
 love in which you h iv e been eug . 
 o no, we think we hear you ss 
 Rather id am right bead forget Ut 
 
 etautittg than that 1 should cease to .-X'-rt 
 
 myself for the good of the poor deluded 
 h< athen! Rather let am tongue clews 
 
 M the root of am mmttk than that I 
 should refuse to plead in their behalf ' 
 Mat this spirit prevail more and more 
 in US all ; and may God direct his ser- 
 vants tO employ the best means to ac- 
 complish his purposes, and crown 
 them with abundant success! Amen' 
 
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It 
 
 ClIRItTUN FRItNM, 
 
 In our last Uuarterly Paper we 
 rare too some account oi the famous 
 I! idoo idol. Juggernaut, and <>i the 
 in iimrr in which Ins Mind and igue- 
 i.i:.' worshippers hare been accus* 
 tomed to destroy themselves for his 
 \\ a bow place before you an 
 
 iving, which represents another 
 method in which these poor creatures 
 tortnre themselTes, st certain seaswns 
 of the fear, in bononi of their gods, 
 i.i in qm-iitly with no other view than 
 
 tn get n name, and be ^ieat anions; 
 their neighbours. 
 
 When the time for these shocking 
 r •x.iiibitions t omes round, ■ Strang peat, 
 
 from tuentv to fortj (set high, 1 ik «- 
 that represented in the picture, is 
 
 M a ct ed in sonic open place in the 
 town or suburbs. A strong krVOB o( 
 bamboo, with cortls at both ends, is 
 to turn round BpOH the 
 tOf of this post. The man 9 ho 18 to 
 
 ■wing falls down anew his face 1 
 
 the poet; ami ■ p ers on, with his dust) 
 
 kes a mark where the honks 
 are tu bS put. Another immediately 
 gives him a smart slap on the back, 
 and pinches up the skin hard with his 
 thumb and fingers, while a third thrusts 
 an iron hook through tin- place mark- 
 ■ il, M U BO take hold of about an 
 inch <>l the leak. In the same way. 
 another hook is put through the skin 
 on the other side of the l>;u k, and the 
 man gets up on his feet. A.s lie is 
 1 i -.in ^ , SOnM water is thrown in his 
 lb- tlun mounts on a man's 
 biik, or is raised from the ground in 
 
 other way, and the striae* which 
 
 • 1 ti> the honks in his ba. k 
 d to the rope at SM end of the 
 I il bamboo. The rope at the 
 
 other end i- held by several men, a bo, 
 
 it down, raise up the and 
 
 on which the man swings, and bj 
 their running round with that 
 the D I iii motion, ar.d the 
 
 ii lna i^ sy\ MM, in thf air. 
 
 In swinging, the m 
 circle of about thirty feet bidieaaet r. 
 
 w i ni; only for a lew mil 
 
 others lor null en hour at more .• \h 
 u ud sssares as that he ha 
 
 who eon' 
 1 • I m ;> urn oinnion lor 
 
 r, and tin- o, | 
 
 i ill. \ few man fell 
 
 round I rapiditj he f< H on 
 
 Uini ii- • m 
 the rrowd ; she a as killed on U 
 lied the ni • 
 
 ■ 
 
 Iwuka, or pipe, and smoke while swine 
 in::, as though Insensible of the ' 
 pain ; ethers arill lake op fruit in tin ii 
 
 hands, and eat it, or throw it among 
 
 the people 1" low. Tie i may 
 
 see in the picture, look on with the 
 utmost indifference ; and aecene which 
 would make yoUT blood run eold to 
 
 witness, only serves them for a morn- 
 imusement. Nor must the , 
 h himself express any feeling of 
 
 pain, [fa groan or a tear esc ap e him. 
 
 In- loses all the merit ami honour of 
 
 his performance. Nor does this often 
 
 happen, bet hi e tin;, ui^e him in- 
 tting liquor to drink, beforeh uad, 
 
 to help him to bear the pain. 
 
 There an- other practices, a-t cruel 
 as this, which continue to the pn 
 
 iiioni; your fellow-subjt M ts in the 
 such as piercing the tOBgUOS. 
 
 bwiug the sides. Bccj but wa shall 
 
 not mention any more of tin 
 present. Yon ha\e surely read OBOUgfa 
 BO t San im '• \nu that Mm OUght to In- 
 thankful for being plaaed in a land, 
 \\ In re the gospel of pe M B and love is 
 
 known; and that we ought, all of us, 
 to do whatever we ran to send that 
 I among these poor unhappy 
 idolaters. 
 
 NEW ZEALAND. 
 
 Bom nrrounts have lately been sent 
 
 home bj Mr. Lei.-ii, a Miseioaarj in 
 New Zealaad, which afford a most 
 shocking proof of the lengths to u hick 
 in. n maj be carried by the spirit of re- 
 It is generally knowa that the 
 natives of this large Island bare ke e n 
 accustomed to eat theleshol their ene- 
 mies taken in battle. \l In I .Mr. .Mars 
 
 who ha- gained great ialaeaee 
 
 BSBSag them by hi.s judiciooa kilnl 
 n pri selited that tin* b ITS ■ 
 torn Was unknown to Europe, and B 
 nation, the) 
 
 sasaaed surprif 1; and Shunghee, one 
 sf their principal chiefs, assured him. 
 
 In- ami his people would lle\cr he 
 
 guilty of the Hike again. Shu 
 
 inee been in Eo| 1 mil, and it w.n 
 
 to ho|ie lh.it his > i — i t v. OUld 
 
 lend (.• cot firm su< h ition. 
 
 lint the i n plorablc facts 
 
 will shew how little able he w.i* 
 i ol teiaptalioli. 
 buaghec jrnv. il, he 
 
 that, in In 
 
 ions hoi bei ti slain by 
 
 i Man hi ) 
 the Hirer Thames, lin* i 
 was too true. Shunghee immediately 
 
 h they wen • I ■ < hirf 
 
15 
 
 who beli nged to Mercury Bay, and 
 with whom Shunghee had sailed from 
 New South Wales to New Zealand, 
 earnestly desired reconciliation ; but 
 in vain. Nothing but war could sa- 
 tisfy Shunghee. He soon collected 
 three thousand fighting men, and com- 
 menced his march. The battle was 
 dreadful, and many fell on both sides ; 
 but Shunghee proved victorious, and 
 returned to the Bay of Islands in great 
 triumph. 
 
 After my arrival in New Zealand, 
 says the person by whom this account 
 was given, I learned that Shunghee 
 and his party slew 1000 men, 300 
 of whom they roasted and eat, before 
 they left the field of battle ! Shunghee 
 killed the Chief above mentioned : 
 after which, he cut oil' his head, pour- 
 ed the blood into his hands, and drank 
 it ! This account I had from Shunghee 
 and Whykato, who related it with the 
 greatest satisfaction. 
 
 Shunghee and his party have killed 
 more than twenty slaves since their 
 return from war, most of whom they 
 have roasted and eaten. 
 
 Shunghee and his friends are at war 
 again. Since I landed here, not less 
 than one thousand fightingmen have left 
 the Bay for the River Thames ; and not 
 less than two thousand more are near 
 us, who are preparing to march in a 
 few days to the same place. Shunghee 
 is at the head of this party, and will 
 go with them to battle. 
 
 catch ma in de big water, and for 
 bringing me to dis country — tauk dem 
 people what sent you to dis country, 
 to teach we good word, for we poor 
 sinners — tank de Lord Jesus Christ 
 for teaching you to teach us, and for 
 making we hear (understand) datword 
 for making we see ourselves poor sin- 
 ners. De Lord Jesus Christ bless 
 dem people what send you, and make 
 dem feel a blessing in deir own souls 
 — make- dem feel demselves sinners, 
 and make dem believe in de Lord Je- 
 sus for salvation. Me tell dem, Tau- 
 kee, Tankee, Tankee, — me can't give 
 dem no more dan Tankee ; but de Lord 
 Jesus Christ sabby tell dem Tankee 
 very much, for sending you to we poor 
 sinful Black People. Suppose you 
 no been come, we no hear God's 
 Word — we no feel our sinfulness and 
 no believe in de Lord Jesus Christ. 
 Tell dem people Tankee : me no can 
 send dem no more but Tankee. 
 
 We have given you the broken En- 
 glish as it is, believing that you will 
 be able to understand it ; and that you 
 will understand and admire the spirit 
 by which it was dictated. 
 
 Among human beings as depraved 
 and wretched as these, however, the 
 power of true religion has been seen 
 and felt. We ate sure you will be 
 pleased at the instance we are now 
 about to give you. It is an effusion of 
 warm and artless gratitude from a 
 poor African Negro, who had been 
 carried away in a Portuguese slave ship, 
 from his native country, but was, 
 happily, taken by one of our ships of 
 war, carried into Sierra Leone, and 
 thus brought under Christian instruc- 
 tion. When the Missionary, under 
 whose care he is placed, told hint, one 
 Saturday evening, that he was going 
 to write to their friends in England, 
 and asked him if he had any thing to 
 say, this poor man thus poured forth 
 the feelings of his heart. 
 
 Tell dem (said he) I tank dem for 
 sending you here to teach we poor 
 Black People, we poor sinners. I 
 tank dem, and de King, and de Go- 
 vernor. I tank dem Portuguese dat 
 take me from my country — tank my 
 country-people for selling me — tank 
 God for sending dem King's people to 
 
 Another of these poor negroes, in 
 conversation with Mr. Johnson, who 
 has been very successful as a Mission- 
 ary among them, made the following 
 remarkable observations, which show 
 how much idolatry in our times is like 
 that which existed many hundred 
 years ago, when the Bible was first 
 written. Pray take your Bibles, and 
 read attentively Isaiah xliv. from the 
 9th verse to the 20th, and you will un- 
 derstand the account much better: 
 
 Massa, (said the young man,) them 
 words you talk last night strike me 
 very much. When you preach, you 
 read the loth and 16th verses of the 
 forty-fourth chapter of Isaiah, and ex- 
 plain them, you shew how our country- 
 people stand. Me say, " Ah ! who 
 tell Massa all this ? He never been 
 in my country." You say, " Do not 
 your country-people live in that fa- 
 shion V I say, " Yes, that true : God 
 knows all things: He put them things 
 in the Bible." Massa, I so sure that 
 the Bible is God's Word, for man can- 
 not put all them things there, because 
 he no sec it. That time I live in my 
 country, I live with a man that make 
 Greegree. He take me into the bush, 
 and teach me to make Greegree too. 
 He shew me one tree : he say, that 
 Greegree-tree : he take country axe, 
 and cut some of that tree: he make a 
 god ; and he take the leaves, and that 
 which was left, and give me to carry 
 
XI 
 
 home. W hon \tw coino homo, li« ruakc 
 a tire; uiul all the people coinu und sit 
 round the lire. Then they c « > ■ . h> and 
 
 eat. \v ben they done eat, the nan 
 
 take the leaves of the Gr. 
 and burn them in the tire, and then all 
 tin- pMple stand round the lire, ami 
 dap their hands, and cr>, M \ha' 
 Aha'" Mawi, when you read that 
 
 vane (Isaiah xliv. 16.) I can't tell 
 you what I feel. You then begin to 
 
 talk about the text (verse 20), He 
 fetdeth on nshe», and 1 was struck 
 again; lor when they done < ry '' Aha' 
 Aha '" they take the ashes, and make 
 
 medicine, they give to people when 
 they be sick. You been nee none 
 
 (•:< ■.-■■■ which look like dirt ' that is 
 the same ashes : tin > carry that round 
 them Beck, anil they eat it sono times. 
 
 Yen see. Mesne, our P°or countrymen 
 feed upon ashes, For true, the Bible 
 God's Word. 
 
 \\> here given yon, in this peper, a 
 variety of intelli fence. W e will close 
 by a abort account of two negro wo- 
 men who died tome time ago in the 
 u • it ladies. We think it very likely 
 th :t some w bo read this papt r may pro- 
 fit by it. if they read it with a teacha- 
 ble mind ! 
 
 Two negro women in Antigua, mem- 
 ben of a religious society, but dead 
 many jean since, exhibited a remark- 
 able contrast of distrust and faith. 
 
 One "i i!ic te women had accumula- 
 ted, for a person in her station, what 
 might be considered much wealth: 
 hut she was haunted with §nch an ap- 
 prebension ol dying in want, that she 
 raid ol 1 > ing out money even 
 for necessary food, and under various 
 pretexts evaded paying the usual 
 
 email Contributions towards tin 
 
 support oi R< ligion in the B 
 
 w bit h -lie belonged. < me day she 
 
 brought to a friend a number of gnl- 
 
 . and told her she no. lit keep 
 
 them for In r, andwlnu she Came to 
 
 in- dow n not to let lies " nyam" hi i 
 meaning that when she v 
 
 . in.; !■■ il, >< .111 • one must I 
 
 rber. II- i 
 
 l her how she knew th.it she 
 
 should he confined t" i bed of sick. 
 
 prei nan to death, and ad\ is. d I.' I 
 
 be a proper use "t her mom 
 
 disiiu-s all c ire ot pm\ Iding t 
 
 event which might never happ d, and 
 
 i" trust herself with Him by whom th. 
 
 ol our In .id an ill num 
 
 Hut she «ai deaf to this Christian 
 counsel, and continued anxious and 
 careful about triiles. Complaining 
 
 l bitterly one day to the MBM Irnnd, ol 
 
 : some Insignificant lose which she hoi 
 suffered, while her faithful monitor was 
 
 labouring to convince her of the impro- 
 priety of suck immnisiats, the woman 
 exclaimed, "Oh! my head!" — lull 
 
 down— and died shortly after! 
 
 1 he other woman, a poor field ■ 
 
 had a heart overflowing with thu love 
 
 ' oi Ood and man. s !n- might have been 
 
 exempted, by pleading poverty, from. 
 
 paying her contributions te hei v - 
 
 CM t\ ; but she thought it an honour to 
 
 j be allowed to contribute her mite to 
 the support of Religion. Oa one of 
 
 | the occasions when >ln- bad to pay In r 
 contribution, she had but two ** d 
 of the value of three halfpence in the 
 
 WOlld, and her children mu-l be led. 
 
 She could not heir to withhold her 
 triile, nor could she Leave her children 
 unfed. Recollecting thai she had a 
 
 little com, she set DOC "| h-r 1. 
 grind it ; and sent the other to pi - 
 w 1 1 d w bich the 
 
 having prepared their suppers foi 
 them, she left with a light heart, and 
 
 I d< d to the estate win re she 
 
 was to meet her friends. VI In n she 
 put dow n her two " dogs," lh< 
 her eyes to hcavi n, with these mnphsv- 
 
 tic words " lake it, I it is 
 
 to yoi I ;ue H I" in her wa\ home, 
 
 the next morning, she had to pass the 
 house of a Lad] who knew ha the 
 lady, seeing htr,call< d out, "ON 
 
 I j :it a quarter Oi p"rk from > 
 
 igo thai 1 had quite forgotten it : 
 how much was >t .'" Mat] conic' 
 recollect the amount ; but the lady, 
 determined not to let her I"-' b] it, 
 gave her two dollars, and seat her to 
 her bouaekeepi i foi some ri. a an 
 pork to t.<ke borne with her, to which 
 
 the hoiisek- e|i r .n!d' d some llour and 
 
 pork from herself. In relating this 
 
 ■ ii. u 
 
 • d, that il v Ood anj tiling. I [s 
 
 sol pa] u - ur fellow- 
 
 res do, bul • and 
 
 threi turn s a - mu. h in n turn. | 
 
 i'\i ellenl ( 'kriili 
 
 w hen praj . "i femali 
 
 d i av) n out in lo\ r to her Ii 
 
 ' lit w hen she i OUld parti- 
 
 .iilui't do further, she has supplica- 
 ted, iu the warmth ol her love toi man- 
 kind, ami with true sublimit] ol con- 
 ception- that then might be •• a n i l 
 
 hi w i s iMuNiviti inn '" 
 
 J. DAK HELP, Printer, 91, Wei ^ba. 
 
No. 
 
 January, 1823. 
 
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 Christian Frie.kds, 
 
 In several of our former numbers 
 we have given representations of the 
 shocking cruelties practised by the 
 Hindoos in their religious worship, &c. 
 The engraving for the present month 
 is of a different character. It repre- 
 sents a wedding procession, a cere- 
 mony to which the Hindoos attach 
 great importance, and which often in- 
 volves lliem in ruinous expenses. The 
 manner in which it is conducted will 
 forcibly remind the reader of the very 
 striking parable in Matthew xxv. 
 The following extract from Mr. Ward's 
 account, will best explain the picture. 
 " In the marriages of the rich, great 
 preparations are made of music, fire- 
 works, illuminations, &c. and vast 
 multitudes are invited to the wedding. 
 Sometimes a person spends 100,000 
 rupees, and some have spent more than 
 100,000 (..f.50,000) in the marriage of 
 a son or a daughter. At a lucky 
 hour of the night (sometimes twelve 
 o'clock), the bridegroom prepares to 
 go to the house of the bride. He is 
 drest in silk, with many gold and sil- 
 ver ornaments; a gold chain round his 
 neck, and a gold crown upon his head. 
 Being drest, he is seated in a gilt pa- 
 lanqueen.* The procession in a great 
 wedding is very Jong. Before the 
 bridegroom's palanqueen, the servants 
 of the father walk, carrying silver 
 staves; others carry artificial flowers; 
 also open carriages, containing 
 dancing women and singers, precede 
 the bridegroom. A flag i3 also car- 
 ried, and a metal bason, like a dish, 
 is placed ou an elephant, and beat at 
 intervals, to produce the sound of a 
 bell. The streets are illuminated by 
 
 •In the drawing on the other side 
 which is partly copied from an original 
 in our possession, the bride is introdu- 
 ced, as also seated in the palanqueen, 
 covered with a cloth, so as not to be 
 seen, which is the uniform practice of 
 the Bengalee women on these occasions. 
 
 the flambeaux and lights which the 
 attendants carry in their hands ; and 
 fire-works, placed on botl) sides the 
 streets, are let off as the procession 
 moves along. Horses, camels, and 
 elephants, richly caparisoned, are 
 placed in convenient situations in the 
 procession ; aud music of different 
 kinds is also distributed before and 
 behind the bridegroom. Lately, many 
 of the Bengalees have called in the as- 
 sistance of English music at their 
 weddings. At intervals, guns are 
 fired. All things for the procession 
 being prepared before hand, all wait 
 for the coming of the bridegroom. At 
 a marriage which I saw some years 
 ago, the bridegroom came from a dis- 
 tance, and the bride lived at Seram- 
 pore. The grand procession, there- 
 fore, was at the latter place. .The 
 bridegroom came by water. After 
 waiting two or three hours, at length, 
 near midnight, all at once it was an- 
 nounced, as if in the very words of 
 scripture, " Behold the bridegroom 
 cometh, go ye out to meet him." All 
 the persons employed now lighted 
 their lamps, and ran with them in their 
 bands to fill up their stations in the 
 procession ; some of them had lost their 
 lights, and were unprepared to join the 
 procession. However, it was then 
 too late to seek for them, and the ca- 
 vulcade moved forward to the house of 
 the bride. Here the company entered 
 a large area, covered'with an awning, 
 and lighted up, where a great multi- 
 tude of frieuds and relations, drest in 
 their best apparel, were seated upon 
 mats. The bridegroom was carried in 
 arms, and placed ou a superb seat in 
 the midst of the company, where he 
 sat a little while, and then went into 
 the house, when the door was shut, 
 and guarded by seapoys. I and others 
 expostulated with the door-keepers, 
 and attempted to enter, but in vain. 
 Never was I so struck with our Lord's 
 beautiful parable as at this moment : 
 'And the door was shut.' I had set 
 
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19 
 
 my mind very much on seeing the 
 marriage ceremonies, but was obliged 
 to depart in disappointment." 
 
 In the book from which we have 
 taken this account, there is a particular 
 description of all these ceremonies; 
 but it would answer no valuable end 
 to mention them here. They are just 
 such as may be supposed to prevail 
 among a people wholly given to ido- 
 latry, and where the female character 
 is so wretchedly debased, not only by 
 Hie prevalence of superstition, but by 
 the almost total want of education 
 too. 
 
 It is very gratifying, however, to be 
 able to state, that a favourable change 
 is beginning to take place among the 
 Hindoos, in respect of female educa- 
 tion. This is most visible, as might 
 be expected, in Calcutta, the metro- 
 polis of the country. Here, the Junior 
 Baptist Missionaries have succeeded, 
 after meeting many difficulties, in 
 establishing four Schools for Native 
 Girls, containing altogether near 
 one hundred pupils; and since then, 
 Miss Cooke, who was sent out, for 
 this express object, by the British and 
 Foreign School Society, has formed 
 eight others, on a smaller scale, in dif- 
 ferent parts of the city. A circum- 
 stance which indicates, still more per- 
 haps, that a pleasing revolution in the 
 general opinion on this subject is at 
 hand, is, that a Bramhun has lately 
 published a pamphlet, designed to 
 prove the lawfulness and the propriety 
 of imparting kuowledge to females. 
 
 In the ineau while, we ought to be 
 very thankful that some, ainomr these 
 long despised and oppressed females, 
 have been taught the best of all know- 
 ledge, even to know -God, and his Son 
 Jesus Christ, which is life eternal. Of 
 one person of this description, who 
 died at Serampore in the year I8S1, 
 the following account has lately reach- 
 ed us. 
 
 Aluka, the daughter of Jugudumba, 
 became a widow at the early age of 
 four, aud never saw her husband after 
 the day of her nuptials. She was 
 about thirty-two at the period of her 
 death, which happened within six 
 weeks of her mother's decease. She 
 was naturally of a meek disposition, 
 anxious for the welfare of her family, 
 and seemed but little concerned that 
 she had been left a widow at so tender 
 an age. After her baptism her con- 
 duct was uniformly correct. She often 
 mourned that the cares of her mother's 
 
 family occupied so much of her time 
 aud attention. The sermons she heard 
 she treasured up in mind, and fre- 
 quently quoted them against those who 
 transgressed the precepts of Christ, es- 
 pecially in her own family. 
 
 When first afflicted with the disease 
 which terminated her existence, and 
 reminded of the uncertainty of life, 
 she said, " Do you think of alarming 
 me? I am anxious to join my deceased 
 mother." When any lamented the 
 afflictions in her family, she reproved 
 them, and pointed to the sufferings of 
 Christ. Her faith in our Redeemer 
 appeared to be lively and vigorous. 
 She said she had cast the burden of 
 her sins at the feet of Jesus, and that 
 though a sinner, she knew he would 
 save her. She urged her brothers to 
 employ the evenings in reading through 
 the New Testament in regular por- 
 tions, hintiug that it would be well 
 to note down those passages which 
 appeared peculiarly remarkable ; and 
 her request was for some time obeyed, 
 but she died before the New Testa- 
 ment was completed. When her 
 brothers urged that they were fatigued 
 and could not proceed, she would re- 
 quest them to repose, and repeat por- 
 tions of scripture to her. Thus they 
 repeated the history of Joseph, Peter's 
 denial and repentance, the Miracles 
 of Christ, with many other passages. 
 She delighted to join her brothers in 
 singing, and was much attached to 
 the Bengalee version of these hymns — 
 " Jesus thy blood and righteousness!" 
 "Jesus! and shall it ever be?" and to 
 the Bengalee hymn, of which the 
 chorus is, " O mj soul! what can hin- 
 der thy becoming the disciple of him 
 who brings salvation?" 
 
 At length her disease began to por- 
 tend a speedy dissolution, and on her 
 beinj: asked, what she should shew to 
 procure admission into heaven, she 
 said, " I am not the servant of the 
 gods^ I will say, I am the servant of 
 Christ, and he gave his life for me." 
 
 When her brothers returned from 
 work, she would not unfrequently ask 
 them to read to her portions of the 
 book of Job, or of the Psalms. She 
 seldom acknowledged that she was ill, 
 but when her sufferings were very se- 
 vere, would continue singing while the 
 tears rolled dowu her cheeks. When 
 the family mourned the recent loss of 
 their mother and two brothers, she 
 made use of these bereavements as 
 arguments to direct their affections 
 heavenwards. 
 
20 
 
 In the hour of death, aha forbade 
 Iter brothers and bisters to indulge 
 grief; and assured tliem that, if they 
 continued in the right way, tbey 
 would never be forsaken. She uigt.i 
 thrm to consider the doctrine of the 
 lesurreciion, and lo note the words of 
 the apostle, "That which Ihon lowest 
 i.s not quickened unless it die;'' ttiua 
 richly did the won! ol God dwell in 
 her. She suppressed t anguish which 
 her disease occasionc »l she should 
 make her friends torrowfnl; and lo 
 tier were her family chiefly indebted 
 for their religious comforts. To the 
 last moment of speech, she declared 
 that she had indeed laid hold on 
 Christ as her Saviour; and felt as- 
 sured that she should not be disap- 
 pointed. Her last nisht on earth 
 was spent by her relations in prayer 
 and in tinging hymns for her comfort. 
 When her speech failed, being asked 
 of her hope and joy, she laid her hand 
 first on her breast, and then lifted it 
 up as in adoration. She took leave 
 of all present very deliberately, and 
 about six in the morning was dismissed 
 to her final rest, almost at the same 
 hour and on the same day of the week 
 with her mother. 
 
 We close this paper by the following 
 serious and energetic appi al, on behalf 
 
 of our fellow-subjects m the East, ex- 
 tracted from Mr. Ward's "Farewell 
 Letters,'' and hope it will be felt and 
 acted upon by very many who read it. 
 " When a Hindoo comes to die, his 
 friends will cndea\our to console him 
 by repeatiug his good deeds: that he 
 has always been a good man — lias 
 worshipped the gods — regularly per- 
 formed his ablntions— 'been liberal to 
 the priests — done nobody any harm; 
 an I that, therefore, be can have do- 
 thing to fear. The dying man breaks 
 OBt in some such language as this — 
 "l r What good have I been doing? 
 I have done nothing but evil. And 
 
 now, where am I going: — Into what 
 new body am I about to transmigrate f 
 —Or, into what dreadful lit II am I 
 about to be pranged?" There is 
 
 among them an earnest dinning to ce- 
 remonies, but no bODC in death. 
 
 And are these the living ami dying 
 circumstances of line Hundred Mil- 
 lions oi beings who an to live for ever i 
 How can we, with tlu » ews which we 
 have of the certain consequences fol- 
 lowing a state of transgression, and 
 of the worth of the human soul-— how 
 can we enjoy a moment's tranquillity, 
 while such a havoc made hv sin and 
 death is going forward, boar by hour, 
 in the same world as tint in which we 
 live? How can we be unrh infidels, in 
 reference to the threatening! against 
 sin, or such tigers in reference to the 
 millions who are perishing? Or l£ts 
 Jesus Christ given us such a class of 
 feelings, that we have ceased to be BM ■ I 
 
 We cultivate the cold earth, and be- 
 stow upon it unceasing labour, and al- 
 ways expect a crop ; but have no heart 
 to cultivate immoi tal minds, capable of 
 bearing fruit unto life eternal ! We de- 
 vote our son« to profession, to be qua- 
 lified lor which years of init.atory ap- 
 plication are ncees-ary : and yet ail 
 this preparation has nothing greater in 
 view than the icmoval of some disea , 
 or the adjustment of some difference, 
 or the preparation of some aititicial ac- 
 commodation ; while deathless minds, 
 capable of a divine assimilation; are 
 suffered to become a prey to siu now, 
 and to plunge, without any one's lis- 
 tening to the noise of the fall, into 
 endless night. We embaik iu specu- 
 lations, which deprive us of re*t, and 
 expose us to disappointment, if not 
 disgrace; while the certainties at the 
 
 kingdom of Christ have no allurements 
 
 lor ns ! Is the world to be converted by 
 miracle, or by means? If by means-— 
 by prsasaiag the (iospel io tvery ir< .- 
 ture, and by teaching all until, in, then 
 how heavy the responsibility lying up- 
 on the Christian Church! 
 
 Printed bj If, C. Morns, H'ch Wycombe, 
 
No. G. 
 
 ^uarterlg tiaqpers, 
 
 April, 1823. 
 
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 In our former numbers we have 
 given you various representations of 
 the manners arid customs of the Hin- 
 doos — of that vain conversation which 
 they have received by tradition from 
 tfieir fathers. We are enabled this 
 month to present you with a different 
 object — an engraving of one of those 
 native places of worship, which have 
 lately been built, in Calcutta, and 
 other places, tor the purpose of pro- 
 claiming the gospel to all who are 
 willing to come and hear it. . 
 
 The above print represents the place 
 of worship at the Doorgapore station, 
 a very populous suburb of the city of 
 Calcutta. It is called Ziou Chapel, 
 and was built by the Auxiliary Baptist 
 Missionary Society there between three 
 and four years a<ro. It measures about 
 thirty feet in length, and twelve in 
 breadth. The suits are constructed of 
 mats, manufactured of a kind of reed* 
 flattened and platted j and the roof is 
 
 * Arundo tibialis. 
 
 covered with the strawt generally used 
 for thatching in Bengal. The thatch 
 is supported, and "the mat walls 
 strengthened, by several trunks of a 
 trecj very common in the Sunderbunds, 
 driven into ilie ground. The lattice 
 work, made of split bamboos, extends 
 nearly two feet in depth all round the 
 four sides of the building, and serves 
 the purpose of windows to admit light. 
 Three doors in the centre are lifted 
 up, as in the engraving, when worship 
 is about to be conducted; and when it 
 is desired, the remainder of the front, 
 forming a large door pn each side, is 
 turned back on the side walls, thus 
 admitting a larger number to stand 
 and hear without coming in. 
 
 The expense of budding such a place 
 of worship as the above is about Ten 
 Pounds; but in the city, where native 
 houses are generally covered with tiles 
 as a precaution against fire, and where 
 the most public situations are chosen 
 to obtain good congregations, the ex- 
 
 t Saccharmn cylindricum. 
 X Khizophora decandra. 
 
petuc of erection is about „£I.S; besides I men assembled; some of them were 
 which, about the same sum is required attentive and others were careless. 
 
 every year tor ground rent, repairs 
 •wages of the durwan, or door keeper, 
 A;c. 
 
 The Baptist Missionaries and their 
 friends in Calcutta have built chapels 
 of this description at the following 
 placet: Intally — MohtBga, the cost of 
 which was generously defrayed by a 
 female servant*— Col in ua— Moonshee 
 l.i/ -.i — Row Bazar — and Wellington- 
 street, in Calcutta; boides that at 
 Poorgapore called Ziott, and another 
 at Burabanugur called Jordan Cbapel. 
 The first, as well as a house for en- 
 quiiers, was accidentally burnt; and 
 the second it was found necessary to 
 relinquish, through the exorbitant de- 
 maud of. the owner of the irioundon 
 which it stood. The remaining six 
 continue to be occupied for native wor- 
 ship in Bengalee and Hiniloostanec. 
 
 Tlic congregations at these Native 
 Chapels aie not regular and orderly 
 as those in England are. Sometime* 
 it requires considerable effort to induce 
 the persons passing by to enter at all; 
 often they will 110 out again as soon as 
 ever any thing is said about Je*u> 
 Christ; and very frequently, the speak- 
 er m ill be interrupted by some captions 
 question, or foolish remark, intended 
 to bring both him and his doctrine into 
 contempt. And yet, notwithstanding 
 these discouragements, which are juvt 
 vvli.it the apostles experienced when 
 
 they went forth to preach the gospel 
 at first, there is good reason to hope 
 that sonls have heen converted iii God, 
 in attending at these humble places, 
 
 and by means of these self-denying 
 labours. And some of these indivi- 
 duals have themselves been engaged 
 in explaining to their idolatrous neigh- 
 bours the doctrines which they have 
 found to be the power of God unto sul- 
 rutimi. 
 
 We have lately received several jour- 
 nals of one of these native itinerant*, 
 called Panchoo, and we shall print 
 one of them as a specimen of the re>t. 
 It is written by himself; and the Eng- 
 lish is very Imperfect, but we have 
 thought it best that it should appeal 
 iii its native simplicity. It is an tc- 
 
 count of operations daring the month 
 
 of July lasl. 
 
 and a native bramhun abused me iu 
 a foolish manner. 
 
 2nd, I preached at the Bow Bazar 
 Meeting-house, there were about one 
 hundred men present; they paid great 
 attention, but two Portuguese women 
 hindered the Hindeos, and said to 
 them, they have keeped beef for the 
 Hindoo, and pork foi the Mushnlman, 
 therefore they were afraid for their 
 words, and (lies from there. 
 
 7th, Lords-day. I preached at the 
 Baranagnr Meeting-hoase, there were 
 about fifty men assembled; but a 
 native bramhun among them, he 
 abused to me and said, "Cliundall" 
 (despicable fellow) before Mr. Carey. 
 Therefore Mr Carey answered to him, 
 " I pray to God for yon, if you will 
 be a Chundall like him " At five 
 oclock in the evening I preached to 
 the Iron Factory, there were about 
 two hundred men assembled ; some of 
 them were attentive, and others were 
 not, but a poor Hindoo informed be- 
 fore me, " I can save my life from sin 
 if I believe my sastra in my atten- 
 tive mind." Then I answered to him, 
 "Only you can save vour life by the 
 death of our Lord Jesus Christ." Then 
 he was content, l Oth, I preached at 
 the Buranamir Meetms-linuse, there 
 were about fort] men assembled; they 
 paid great attention, but an old man 
 among them, he said, " I shall not 
 wi-h t.i search of my salvation be- 
 cause I am without sin,*' therefore I 
 asked to him, "Hon old are your" 
 he said, " More or less hundred. - ' 
 Then answered to him, " Between 
 bandied yean yon have »poken any lie 
 or not." Then he said, " I am not liar, 
 no false IW< ■ irer and not covetous; I 
 dont know the sin in my life." 14th, I 
 preached at the Dooreaporc Meeting- 
 house j there were about forty men 
 assembled, and a company of Boyrag- 
 gees; but the Boyraggees said, "I 
 .mi no sinner, and who is Cod r lam 
 (lod myself, and a man shall not go 
 to heaven and lull altei diath, because 
 I; r.i\eii and hell all is in this world, 
 but it a man be a sinner theu he can 
 sat/C b) the name of Horee.'* Then I 
 answered to bias, 41 The name of Horee 
 anno) change the mind of sinner, and 
 
 impossible to five good nature to the 
 l-.xtruct* Jn,m P-OU*»« Journal J or , „ lrk( ., l M|||u , , , )nl> l„„ t | >,„, Christ 
 
 Ju ■)• lean sa\e the»c sinners, and give the 
 
 1. I preached at the Dooigapm, „ | .niure to them, and he ^ hope of 
 
 Meciiiig-liou-c, there were iboat Bftj Mlm ,. r , and believer's friend, but <t\- 
 
 ept the Lord Jesus Christ all is 
 
 • Kcporl of B. M.S. for IbfO, p. 14. 
 
 vaults." Tlicu those Boyraggces de- 
 
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 parted from there, and two brambuns 
 said, "The Lord Jesus Christ, He is 
 Saviour of this world and He is true 
 God, and which has been proclaimed 
 all is true.'' At four o'clock in the 
 afternoon, I preached to the Iron Fac- 
 tory, there were about three hundred 
 men assembled ; some of them were 
 very attentive, and others were not. 
 
 16th, I preached at the How Bazar 
 Meeting-house, there were about one 
 hundred men assembled ; they paid 
 great attention, but a Hindoo said, 
 "Cassun* is saviour of the sinner." 
 When I answered him, then he depart- 
 ed from there. 
 
 17th, I preached at the Buranagur 
 Meeting-house, there were about forty 
 men assembled, they were very atten- 
 tive at the time of worship, but a na- 
 tive bramhuu abused me and all my 
 generations. 18th, I preached at the 
 Moonshe Bazar Meeting house, there 
 were about fifty men assembled ; they 
 paid great attention, but a native 
 bramhun said, " Our fathers and 
 grandfathers were righteous by the 
 worship of images, but now we can- 
 not believe Lord Jesus Christ," then 
 all the Hindoos and Mushulmans said 
 to him, "Every person shall believe 
 the Lord Jesns Christ, and shall pray 
 in his Dame, he is true redeemer of 
 this world." 23rd, I preached at the 
 Bow Bazar Meeting-house, there were 
 about one hundred men assembled; 
 they were very attentnc, but a native 
 man amongst them, he said, " God is 
 a creation of sin, and he (Panchoo 
 means the man) is so talker as mad." 
 
 48th, Lord's-day, seven o'clock in 
 the morning, I pt aached at the Doorga- 
 pore Meeting-house, there were about 
 forty men assembled; some of them 
 were attentive and others were not. 
 At ten o'clock in the morning I preach- 
 ed at the Buranagur Meeting-house, 
 there were about fifty men assembled ; 
 they paid great attention, but two 
 bramhuns said, " They are without 
 sin, and they shall go in the heaven 
 by the power of his arm," and also 
 said, " Cassun will save us."' Then 
 Mr. Pearce and I answered them, 
 " Cassun is a great sinner, he cannot 
 save the sinner from their sin, except 
 the Lord Jesus Christ," 
 
 Panchoo. 
 The first Hindoo who engaged in 
 these labours was Krishno-pal, who 
 was baptized in December, 1800, and 
 has been employed almost ever since 
 in recommending the gospel to his 
 
 Alias Krishnoo. 
 
 Ed. 
 
 countrymen. We find, by a letter 
 lately received, that his services on 
 earth are for ever closed. He died at 
 Serampore in August or September 
 last, aged about sixty. We hope soon 
 to receive a more particular account 
 of the experience and death of this in- 
 teresting man. 
 
 At Calcutta also, wc have to mourn 
 a similar bereavement. Anunda, au 
 amiable young Brahmin, under the 
 immediate direction of the younger 
 Missionaries, died there of the cholera 
 morbus on September 7. He was bap- 
 tized just a year before, at the new 
 chapel in the Circular Road. As a 
 Christian his conduct was most exem- 
 plary; and amongst his countrymen 
 his zeal and ability in preaching the 
 glad tidings of redemption were such 
 as to raise the highest hopes of his fu- 
 ture usefulness. In his death he was 
 calm and resigned to the Divine Will. 
 He breathed his last while in the act 
 of prayer, in the arms of a native bro- 
 ther. We are led to expect a further 
 account of this excellent man also in 
 a short time- In the mean while, we 
 will copy for your perusal an account 
 of a discourse he preached at Cutwa, 
 some months before his death, and 
 which was written by a fellow-travel- 
 ler of his. who has also himself been 
 since removed to a better world. 
 
 At Cutwa we collected nearly 100 
 people in the centre of the town. Bro- 
 ther Anunda read part of Matt. x. In 
 his discourse after reading, he ob- 
 served, " The diseases of the body are 
 emblematical of the diseases of the 
 soul. Man by nature is spiritually 
 blind, lame, deaf, dumb, and even 
 dead in sin. Being blind, he cannot 
 distinguish between evil and good ; he 
 calls holiness sin, and sin he denomi- 
 nates holiness, &c. Being lame, lie 
 cannot walk iu the paths of duty and 
 holiness, although he can run in the 
 ways of sin, &c. He is deaf: ears in- 
 deed he has when obscene songs invite 
 his attention • but tell him of God, his 
 holiness, and the purity of his com- 
 mands, &c. and he turns a deaf ear. 
 Tell him to speak the praises of God, 
 to thank him for his goodness, and to 
 speak the truth with his neighbour, and 
 he is dumb ; while unprofitable conver- 
 sation, evil speaking, and the like, are 
 perpetually in his mouth. You know 
 all this, my dear countrymen ; your 
 consciences, I am persuaded, bear tes- 
 timony to its truth. Will you know 
 more? Is he not dead to spiritual 
 things ? He is like a stone, insensible, 
 inanimate. God commands, he can- 
 
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 not obey — God calk, bnt lie cannot 
 hear.— God thunders in his ears. be 
 neither trembles, nor regard*. — God 
 
 invites Mn, to partake of heaven and 
 
 happiness; he values it nut. sin, like 
 a mountain, pressei bioi i" earth, and 
 will shortly, if In do nut repent and 
 believe (he gospel, impel him over the 
 precipice of earth to the unfathomable 
 abyss of hell; while yet be dues not 
 groan under its burden, nay he does 
 not feel it. When a man dies, yoo 
 take him to the side of the river, and 
 burn bis body in fire. — Do yon fo eel 
 that the unquenchable fire of hell i^ 
 prepared foi sinners, that die without 
 pardon? ()! my brethren, remember 
 these things, and fear; flee from tin 
 wrath to come, last condemnation over- 
 take yon while unprepared. As the 
 Lord Jesus Christ, in the text I have 
 read to you, sent forth bis diseiples to 
 heal the diseases of the body, so he 
 now sends bis word, which contains a 
 precious medicine for the soul which 
 is diseased, as I have described, &c. 
 Come, dear fellow men; delay not, 
 that your souls mnj live. Do yon ask 
 bow Joans Christ can heal the sin-sick 
 soulr — I will tell you." — He then i \- 
 plained the doctrine of the atonement, 
 iVc. and affectionately invited their 
 cordial and speedy reception of that 
 Saviour who died that they might live. 
 He spoke many excellent things with 
 much feeling in the language of love, 
 which gained the approbation, and 
 secured the attention of the crowd; 
 and appeared sensibly to feel much 
 concern for his perishing countryman. 
 May the Lord Jesus Christ vouchsafe 
 his blessing upon ins own word; thai 
 
 those who heard and bewhospake HUM 
 
 "er rejoice together. 
 This promising young man cheers 
 ray heart, and excites many an anxious 
 wish, that the Lord m ry make him a 
 burning nud shining light in this laud 
 of darkness, sin and death. His hither- 
 to exemplar] walk, mid unaffected 
 meekness and simplicity, cannot hi] 
 to excite high expectations, endear 
 him to all \»ln> know him, and engage 
 the earnest prayers of bis brethren that 
 tin Lord may keep him from all evil, 
 and inak': him the bappy instrument, 
 null r tin agency of the Holy Spirit, of 
 toe conversion of many to God. Bro. 
 
 T. i> surprised ;ii his proficiency in SO 
 
 short a tune: and when it hi couaider. 
 
 ed that be was a Brahmun, and •' pro- 
 
 i ipii itualGooroo or t> ael.i r, who 
 
 had hem educated in and bad '"" 111 - 
 
 cessfully practised the arfsof his craft ; 
 Ihe power of God is eminently display- 
 ed in his- conversion, which affords un- 
 deniable proof of the divine inspiration 
 of the Bible. What induced this young 
 brahmun to forsake his unlawful prac- 
 tices, and despise his unhallowed gains ? 
 The gospel. What induces bun to sub- 
 mit to, and cheerfully endure the hard- 
 *liipi of privationsj persecutions, &c..' 
 The gospel. What produces a hatred 
 of those sins he once could not live 
 without? The power of the Cross. 
 Asiatics indeed submit to many and 
 let ■ re privations ; hut from what prin- 
 ciple? Self-interest, and not another's 
 good. Is the stoical apathy that the 
 Veds inculcate, which characterize a 
 perfect man as one who, pretending to 
 bare Mibdued the last spark of natural 
 affection, can view a parent or a child, 
 and the most poisonous reptile, with 
 equal indifference — is this religion to 
 he compared with that which incul- 
 cates the golden rulp, " Love thy 
 neighbour as thy-cllr" O blesseil 
 Jesus I K-t thy glorious gospel speedily 
 triumph over every foe to God and 
 man, till all the earth he filled with 
 the knowledge of the Lord, as the 
 waters cover the channels of the sea. 
 Hide prosperously, and make thy con- 
 quests from pole to pole, till every 
 knee shall how, and every tongue shout 
 aloud, "Glory to God in the highest, 
 peace and good-will to man." Amen. 
 
 • •»• The Committee of Ihe Baptist 
 Missionary Society rejoice to observe 
 the continually increasing demand for 
 these small publications, and trust 
 th.it tin \ will he found useful in pro- 
 moting and extending the exertions of 
 thru Christian friends in the i acted 
 canse of missions. As the publication 
 involves, <>t necessity, a considerable 
 expense, thej eniK.it the Seeretarw • 
 
 of Auxiliary Societies, and other ac- 
 tive friends te whom they an i<h- 
 
 warded, to take care that they be ef- 
 
 fectnally circulated, and if any Sub- 
 scribers should h IVe been l.illn rto till- 
 supplied, they may, for the prest ut, 
 tecura copies of the back numbers on 
 application ti» "Mr. Dyer, at the Bap- 
 tist Mission House, No, 6, Fen-court, 
 Penchurcb-street; where ai-o may i« 
 bad a variety of other papers, adapted 
 tor the use of those friends who wish 
 to aid the Society in their endeavoorj 
 to propagate the gospel ansong tin 
 
 heathen. 
 
 Printed bj M. C. Morris, High Vrycorabe. 
 
No, ?. guarterlp papers, ■>"'*• 182t 
 
 FOR THE USE OF THE 
 
 WEEKLY and MONTHLY CONTRIBUTORS 
 
 Co tit Baptist iMtsstonaq) iMKfeip. 
 
20 
 
 CHSMTI IN i :.;i jids, 
 
 It was observed, long ago, by the 
 prophet David, that their sorrows 
 would be multiplier! that hastened 
 alter oilier gods. Of the troth of thi* 
 Haying, you hare had r epea ted evi- 
 dence in the pictures of Hindoo man- 
 ners and worship which we have ofTer- 
 'I to your attention in this series of 
 Quarterly Papers; and we now pre- 
 sent another, taken from a collection 
 of drawings by a native, which will 
 yet lurther to confirm it. 
 
 The persons in this picture are prac- 
 tising various modes of self torture, 
 such as are common at the great reli- 
 gious festivals of the Hindoos. The 
 man to the left has a ramrod run 
 through his tongue ; that in the centre 
 is dancing with an enormous snake 
 round his neck, which, however, baa 
 been deprived of its fangs ; and the 
 third is holding burning coals in a pan, 
 the wire handles of which are stuck 
 into his sides. These are the methods 
 they take to honour their gods ! 
 
 Should any reader of this paper be 
 disposed to ask, Why do you give us 
 such prints as these? Sr.rely we have 
 had descriptions enough of these hor- 
 rid and frightful things. —We would 
 just rn ntion a reason or two why, 
 on such Babjei • •. we 
 
 think it our duty to givh Hue upon 
 line ..'id pnei pt upon precept. 
 
 Pint, It is- important Hint you should 
 know the rent state of society in the 
 c mntries to wkich our Missionaries go, 
 people iii this country have ne- 
 vt r read or heard mm h about these 
 things, and the word Hi \rniN, pro- 
 duces no emotions of sorrow or of pity- 
 in their minds, because they are igno- 
 rant of the v eetchedneas denoted by 
 it. Aad there are people, too, wi 
 
 to say it, who will not W rople 
 
 lo affirm that the Hiad rywell 
 
 off, and that their religion is nearly, 
 
 if not quite, as good as ours! Now 
 v\ '• really think that I 
 
 * child any where who looks at this 
 t leture, or reads No. 1 , 3, or 
 oar Qu i.tei iv Papers, bat ma 
 pained t.> thins tint thej describe the 
 ■ t many millloni ol people. We 
 
 are persuaded too, that even a child 
 would I. el shocked at the man who 
 would dare to talk of such a reli| i on 
 as being aboal as good as the religion 
 i - ' Ihriai ' 
 
 v Ondly, Sueli information m thft 
 
 ■ ( i > ire tito.uk- 
 
 fulmess in tin heart for tht pritUeges wt 
 
 .. When we contemplate human 
 
 • 11 its lowest and must degraded 
 
 state, we have no eauet lor pride; be- 
 
 the 'iii' stion may at once, be 
 asked, Who hnth made thee to diffi r > 
 or what hast thi'U that thou hast not re- 
 cei t ed l Only a few centuries ago, 
 and our country was the scene of bar- 
 barities as shocking as any that we 
 read of in foreign countries now. And 
 to what is the difference owing I To 
 nothing but the introduction and spread 
 of the blessed gospel, which not only 
 makes those persons new creatures 
 who receive it in its power, hut scat- 
 ters innumerable interior blessings 
 throughout the land where its influ- 
 ence is felt. Whenever you hear of 
 the cruelties and otheren trinities which 
 are practised in pagan countries, think 
 of what you owe to God for placing 
 you in a land of Bibles ! 
 
 Thirdly, There are very great endea- 
 vours used to support and continue tkil 
 system of worship among our fell'tie- 
 
 iuhjects in the East. When Paul was 
 hiag at Ephesua, and there seem- 
 ed some danger that the goddess Diana 
 would be forsaken, great efforts were 
 made by those who got their living by 
 means of th .t idol to preserve things 
 in their old . t ate, and to induce the 
 people still to *ry, (irmt is Diana of 
 the Ephesians. Su it is at this moment 
 among the Hindoos. Last year, it 
 dd, that the resort of pilgrims to 
 
 the greal temp] ■ Of Juggernaut war 
 much less than im a!, and that it was 
 
 found difficult to get people enough to 
 
 drag forwards hi.^ huge unwieldy < II '. 
 Hut this year, as if to prevent such B 
 
 circumstance from occurring again, ■ 
 rich Hindoo has come forward to pay, 
 out of bis own pocket, the ta\ which 
 
 u levied on 'each pilgrim visiting the 
 
 idol: the consequence of, which has 
 
 been, that greater numbers than evei 
 
 have Crowded from all parts. He did 
 this as an ait of merit, expecting to 
 pli i e the god - • 'iid this is 
 
 bul a specimen of ti ■• . il of ■ people, 
 
 who an-, i the Bible expi I 
 
 ' mad apon their idols.' 
 
 Fourthly, U ■ ought not to ■ 
 dangers t> whit It !/* • • <"■'' 
 
 posed, '»!/ living i» tht midst tj sad 
 s, . ". ■> oj i. /, ;., ,/;:. >. ttqme ol j on, 
 perhaps, have never thought much of 
 ties; I'ut it you consider that the heal 
 oi men are vet liable to ti" - asaaults of 
 
 temptation, and that i.lulalrv ha' - n- 
 
 listed on its side all the sinful pro- 
 pensities of our nature, \ou mi- 
 
 itroeg( i r. aaon than you h i 
 
 i el done t" eatreal Qod to pn 
 
 his sen Rata I ■_! Ms pesw r threaga faith 
 
 unto filiation. \ \ • ■ I exeeUent 
 
27 
 
 clergyman, some lime ago, when wri- 
 ting home to a friend, said, in refer- 
 ence to tlit'se very scenes of vice and 
 folly, " We are in danger of growing 
 horribly familiar with them." He 
 meant, that by sci-ing and hearing 
 them from day to day, they were in 
 danger of losing those strong impres- 
 sions of their abominable guilt which 
 they felt at first. Now this is a great 
 danger of itself; and one which may 
 lead to still greater. Pray to God, 
 then, that he would preserve all Mis- 
 sionaries from spiritual injury, and 
 enable them to bear their earnest aud 
 decided testimony for him, and against 
 all iniquity. 
 
 Lastly, We icish to remind you, that 
 it is your duty a7id privilege to do all 
 you can to assist in this good cause. 
 And, certainly, you cannot want ma- 
 ny arguments to convince you of this. 
 If you do not value the Bible, and 
 regard salvation for yourselves, you 
 are not the persons we are now speak- 
 ing to ; but if you do, it seems almost 
 impertinent to ask whether you should 
 not help to send that Bible, and pub- 
 lish that salvation to those who are 
 ignorant of both ? A regard to the ho- 
 nour of God requires it — for his name 
 is blasphemed by the worship paid to 
 idols. A sense of the love of Christ 
 requires it — for the reward of his obe- 
 dience unto death consists in the souls 
 who shall receive and embrace his 
 gospel. Compassion to your fellow- 
 creatures requires it — for the icay of 
 peace have they not known ; destruction 
 and misery are in their paths. And 
 finally, regard to your comfort and 
 happiness would lead you to be active 
 in this cause — for experience proves 
 that none enjoy so much of the plea- 
 sures of religion, as those who, with 
 a single eye to the divine glory, strive 
 to promote it among their fellow men. 
 
 Letter from a Hindoo Preacher to a 
 Friend in England. 
 Krishnoo-pall, who died' lately at 
 Serampore, was, for twenty years, a 
 faithful and consistent preacher of the 
 gospel. Some time before his death, 
 he wrote a letter to a friend in this 
 country, from which we extract the 
 following particulars, respecting his 
 conversion and subsequent history. 
 
 Before I embraced Christianity, I 
 worshipped my Brahmin and Gooroo. 
 When he visited me, I washed his 
 feet ; and with the hope of obtaining 
 the divine favour, sprinkled my head 
 
 and breas with the water. This re n 
 lieved me from the devotions of the 
 day, because there is no occasion for 
 worship the day the presence of the 
 Gooroo can be enjoyed. Thus I spent 
 sixteen years of my life, alter which 
 God in his great mercy sent his gospel 
 to India. One day, on my way to the 
 market, I met Dr. Thomas, Mr: 
 Ward, and Mr. Brunsdon, who had 
 gone out to the bazar to preach. 
 Dr. Thomas declared to me the tidings 
 of salvation through the death of 
 Christ; and said, that those who be- 
 lieved in his death, would be saved 
 from sin, as he offered his life a sacrifice 
 for sinners, because the great sins of 
 mankind required so amazinga sacrifice. 
 A circumstance soon after happened, 
 in which I have to acknowledge the 
 rich mercies of the Lord. As I was 
 walking toward my tank, my foot 
 slipped, and I dislocated my right 
 shoulder-bone. While I was suffering 
 under this affliction, a relative told me 
 there was a surgeon at the Mission- 
 house, and requested me to call on 
 him, or entreat him to visit me. I 
 immediately sent my daughter and the 
 child of a friend to beg his assist- 
 ance. On which Dr. Thomas came 
 to my house, and set the bone, tell- 
 ing me that a father chastises the 
 son he loves ; using likewise another 
 simile, that a father by making an 
 incision iu the arm of his child, 
 saves it from the small-pox. On 
 my recovery, I continued to visit 
 the Mission family, where Mr. Ward 
 and Mr. F. Carey used to read and 
 expound the scriptures to me. Dr. 
 Thomas one day asked me whether I 
 understood Mr. Ward's instruction. I 
 said I understood that the Lord Jesus 
 Christ gave his life up for the salvation 
 of sinners; and that I believed it, and 
 so did Gokool my friend. He then 
 said, " Now I can call you my bro- 
 ther ; let us eat together." The table 
 was then laid out for tiffin, and Gokool 
 and I sat down to eat for the first time 
 with the Missionaries. This circum- 
 stance was quickly noised abroad 
 through the town by means of the ser- 
 vants; in consequence of which, we 
 were, ill-treated by the populace on 
 our return home, and abused as Fe- 
 ringees. 
 
 Soon after, Gokool, my wife, her 
 sister, Mr. F. Carey, and I, were 
 received into the church ; but on the 
 Sabbath morning, as the Missionaries 
 came to my house to converse with us 
 on the subject of baptism, Gokool and 
 the two women through ba-shfulness 
 
28 
 
 declined the ordinance, 50 that only 
 Mr. F. ( in y ami I IKN I' apli/.ed. 
 The rumour of my baptism h av m 
 previously circulated abroad, many 
 from < handernagorc, Calcutta, and 
 nth'-r places, together with my rela- 
 tives, attended to witness it. 
 
 After this, the, pastors si at Gokool 
 and me into Jessore, witl a number 
 of" Tracts and Testament*, to publish 
 the glad tidings Df salvation through 
 the death of Christ. Dr. Carey had 
 
 given me a letter for the Judge, and 
 
 on my presenting it to him, he said. 
 Are you Christiana I We answered in 
 the affirmative, and requested permis- 
 sion to distribute the tracts and books 
 v.i- had brought. Having; obtained his 
 permission, we went into the town, 
 and read and expounded the fifth chap- 
 ter of Matthew. Many beard us, and 
 received the tracts. In the evening 
 several brahmuns visited us. and said, 
 "O Sircars! will the lands of the 
 brahmuns be continued to tliein .'" I 
 replied, that ot' this we u are ignorant ; 
 
 that we li id COSM to seek the 
 lion of their souls. They enquired 
 what that VMS. 1 put into their hands 
 the history of the birth, lit.-, death, 
 rection, and ascensiou int" baa 
 nn of Jesus Christ. They next en- 
 quired if there was no salvation in 
 their own religion. I said, •' (> sirs, 
 SXamiae an 1 see, and adhere to th.it 
 which is ri !.!. ii -in l- Dot 
 
 forbidden. In your I'oor.uia*, l<a- 
 mayune, and Mahahanrat, there are 
 
 no directions for tin; for] i 
 
 sin ; no t \ to hohaesa ; they 
 
 are a mere history of the incarnation 
 
 a - id i .. ■ .i Lfl men 
 
 Lc eaved b> them?" They said, " If 
 
 . i, in the hour ..! dl alb, 1 1 
 
 the name of Ram or Kris! 
 will be forgiven, and be will obtain 
 inaven." We said, that il this Were 
 Sufficient lui salvation, j 
 
 ^.itts to brah n i, elms to the 
 
 and the <1 
 
 Bam and I. 
 
 d'.sti I King Rai inu ; 
 
 thu oiler Lis maternal uncle, 
 
 woman. They thencriednloml. ' ] •' 
 men are come here to destroy CSJ 
 and so left us. After journey'. 
 bout a year in Jessore, we returned to 
 Beramnere. 
 
 The next year I accompanied Dr. 
 Marshman into Jessore, with SI 
 ram and Koobeer. On the market- 
 day, in the chief town, I>r. Marsh-nan 
 stood on bis palanqueen and pr- 
 
 to the people, so that they crowded to 
 hear him, and deserti d the market ; 
 on which the overseer went to th« 
 and complained that a Sahib 
 and two Bengalees had c rea te d a dis- 
 
 tvrbance in the market, so that no- 
 thing was bought or sold. The Judge 
 ■efit and summoned us before him 
 Dr. Marshman and Sheetaram cut' i i 
 the house, while Koobeer and 1 re- 
 mained without. While Dr. Msrsh- 
 man WSJ at tillin with the judge, Shee- 
 tatam was asked by the native writers, 
 whether he was a Christian 1 w*hen 
 
 he told them that he was, they f"ll on 
 him, and tore off Ids necklace, and 
 turned him out of the house. - s 
 
 iram's distress, 1 went to 
 him, but Was treated in the same man- 
 ner. Soon alter we left the place, and 
 returned to Seramporc. 
 
 [ Vfter giving an account of sereral 
 otm-r joumiea, whu !i we have not 
 room to insert, he concludes by say- 
 ing.) 
 
 Thus from the year ISO!, -when, 
 believing in the Lord Jesus, I was 
 
 baptised. I hive been employed in 
 making kn »wn the gospel to my own 
 countrymen. Pray for roe, 
 friend, that the rest of my life m 
 devoted v Ith aeal to the s une 1! 
 emploj meal : and 'hit I may constant - 
 joj the eomnrttnion of the Holy 
 spun. (, who was formerly. <i. 
 
 the Worship ot' Idols, have h lieved in 
 
 the Lord - Jesus the Son of tin- living 
 God, and have now bi en employed in 
 making known th those who 
 
 are dead in trespasses and sins. '» 
 that the Lord u > 
 
 with success, nod at the I 
 ■M into elernul 1. I 
 
 >. '. b \I(HKI.'J, fj, W«rdum-g 
 
No. 8. 
 
 ^uarterlg Papers, 
 
 Oct. 1823. 
 
 FOR THE USE OF THE 
 
 WEEKLY &■ MONTHLY CONTRIBUTORS 
 
 TO THE 
 
 Christian Friends, 
 
 We have hitherto presented yon, in 
 these Quarterly Papers, with various 
 pictures connected with the manners 
 and customs of our fellow-subjects iu 
 the Eastern World ; and we cannot 
 doubt that, while you have been look- 
 ing at them, you have experienced 
 emotions of pity for those who are so 
 evidently led captive by the prince of 
 darkness, and that you have been 
 ready to say, in comparing your own 
 lot with theirs, The lines are fallen to 
 us in pleasant places; toe have a goodly 
 heritage. A different object is now set 
 before you, taken from the opposite 
 part of the globe; and one which may 
 serve to remind us of the cheering pre- 
 diction, that /row the rising of the sun 
 to the going down of the same, his name 
 shall be great among the Gentiles. 
 
 The engraving in ttiis paper repre- 
 sents the large and commodious chapel, 
 latelv erected iu the citv of Kingston, 
 
 Jamaica, for the accommodation of the 
 church and congregation under the 
 care of Mr. Coultart, who are, with 
 few exceptions, persons of colour. 
 It is calculated to hold about 2000 
 persons. The expense, which was 
 very considerable, (as building is very 
 dear in those countries,) was defrayed, 
 in great part, hy the poor people who 
 occupy it, not more than a quarter 
 of the amount having been supplied 
 by the contributions of sjood people 
 in Britain. This, you will admit, is a 
 striking proof of their attachment to 
 the gospel; and as this part of our 
 Mission is of later date, and conse- 
 quently not so much known as that 
 in the Cast Indies, we shall occupy a 
 part of tins paper in giving you a little 
 account of it. 
 
 It may be proper to state first, that 
 Jamaica is a large and beautiful island 
 in the West Indies, which has be- 
 longed to the British dominions about 
 
30 
 
 170 yenr«. Its pnnripal productions 
 arc sugUI aud coffee, anil iu the culti- 
 vation of these at tides, and in various 
 other modes of servitude, about 360,000 
 
 negroes are employed. Time, it i- 
 well known, were formerly obtained 
 
 from Africa, by means of that erne] 
 and 1 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 i t > i u > traffic, the Slave Trade, 
 which, thanks be t<> God, oar coootry, 
 several years ago, formally rcnounci d. 
 Hut though no fresh importations ol 
 bomao being! can now take place in 
 Jamaica, the moral and spiritual con- 
 dition of these fellow immortals hr 
 not been mended. Blinded by ■ gross 
 
 and stupid superstition in their own 
 country, they were uot likely, alas! 
 to conceive any favourable idea of 
 
 Christians from the manner in which 
 
 they were brought among them, and 
 one generation passed away alter ano- 
 ther ere they were visited by a .single 
 ray of divine light. Yes, many hun- 
 dreds of thousands of these hapless 
 beings spent their days in toiling, be- 
 neath the burning sun, to provide 
 British Christians with tin luxuries "i 
 life; and went down unheeded to the 
 grave, no man caring tor their souls! 
 
 Blessed be God, the .scene i> soniewh.it 
 
 different now . 
 
 About forty years ago, these islands 
 wire visited by tin' late venerable Dr. 
 
 Coke, who went about from One to 
 another with the zeal of an apostle, 
 
 and amidst much opposition, laid the 
 foundation of the VVeeleyan Missions, 
 
 wbicfa continue and flourish to this 
 day Nearly about the same time, 
 
 the providence of God brought to Ja- 
 maica a negro baptist from America, 
 calk d Moses Baker, who soon began 
 
 to >peak to bis poof c iti villi n ab nit 
 
 tin Saviour, and found many of them 
 disposed to hear. Amidst the creates! 
 disadvantages, tin- word of the Lord 
 gran and multiplied; nil, in the course 
 ot a bull more thin twenty years, it 
 
 was computed th.it seven or eight 
 
 thons mil negroes had renounced their 
 i ben principles and practices, em- 
 braced til.- goapel, and been baptised. 
 The want of persons fitted t<> teach 
 these pour n eg r o es was, however, v< rj 
 evareJ] ti it , . -p. . felly as educati »n 
 was scarcely known among Ihem, v. rj 
 fen nidi i d being .'• > ton ad oi v\ rite 
 Mr. Baker, also, grow lug old, 
 
 Mi' I., fulfil his ministry, applied 
 to the I'. iptisi ii - ai j 
 
 help; and when the facts of llit- Ca I 
 
 win i tii] before iIm m, il wai feeolvi d 
 
 that some a | .;j b. 1. 1. 
 
 lit; attempt should be 
 
 I in prop ._ iu tin- gotpf I among 
 
 ir African heathen in Jamaica. 
 Mr. John Rowe, a mombor of the 
 charch at Yeovil, m Somersetshire, 
 being at that tune ( I813J a itndent at 
 the Bristol Academy, offered hiaswhf 
 
 to this new and aiduous service, and 
 was m t apart thereto on December 
 ;;th of that year. He \v as s, qI to Fal- 
 mouth, a large town on the north of 
 the island, in the vicinity of the estate 
 on which Mr. I'.aker hail exercised Ins 
 
 mini, try. It pleased God to remove 
 
 Mr. Rowe li inn bis labour-, about two 
 v i an and a half after he arnv ed on the 
 island, and before he could rejoice in 
 much success ; but bis missions i y lite, 
 short as it was, was not in vain. His 
 exemplary prudence, self-denial, and 
 diligence, procured bun the confidence 
 an I respect of all who knew him, and 
 
 contributed, probably, in a greater de- 
 vice than we arc aware of, to diminish 
 the prejudices wbicfa many had previ> 
 onsly entertained, and to prepare the 
 
 way for those who hoilld succeed him 
 
 Tn this important field. 
 
 \;i mt a twelvemonth b» Foi M i . 
 Ijuvvt's decease, Mr. Compere, also 
 educated at Bristol, was sent ont to 
 
 occupy a ^iniinl station at Old Har- 
 bour. From this place, h0W( VOT, he 
 soon removed, in consequence of a 
 
 pi esssing request from tome uegri 
 
 Kingston, tin capital city of the island. 
 
 " lien-," said be, "are manysoolscon- 
 
 tinuallv heaving a si : h to England, and 
 
 in tin ir broken language crying out, 
 ■() Buckral [white man] Buckra 
 care for poor black man's soul. Buckra 
 know (iod in England, o Buckra, 
 
 come ov ei that grei t big wan r, and 
 
 instruct we poor black negro.'" 
 
 Mr. Compere's exertions were great, 
 
 and followed with a pleariug degree 
 
 of success, bat his health declined SO 
 
 much that, iii 1817, !i« resigned his 
 
 ■ ' irge in J am aira, and icumv t d to the 
 
 United Stati », win re be continm 
 e\. rcise the ( hristian ministry, though 
 not in connexion vvith the Society. 
 
 The stum- representations which 
 1 1 id been made b] M i . I ompere, of the 
 want ol mine Missionaries in Jamaica, 
 had induced the Committee to look out 
 
 for at 'lie i pi rSOn I" send thither; ill 
 
 ii i re . t' winch, Mr. Cooltai t 
 Mill d fin thai island in the i srij pai t 
 
 ol the vear mi?, ^41 1 iv i n ix a little bc- 
 
 fon Mr. Compere quitted it. lie was 
 
 i ... iv . d v i i v lav inn .i''lv liv the ma- 
 
 tistratea, end commenced his public 
 I iboiu - with v i iv ph asing pi osp 
 I In- congregation was I n;^ and atten- 
 tive, and mil a lew, wlie .j pi and to 
 l« i I the uui Wil pOWt r ol the word. 
 
31 
 
 were added to the church. But severe 
 trials were in reserve. In five months 
 after their arrival, Mrs. Conltart, a 
 most pious and valuable woman, was 
 removed by death, and Mr. Coultart's 
 own health was so much affected, that 
 it became necessary for him to return 
 to England for a season to recruit it. 
 Gradually recovering, while iu this 
 country, he visited many Christian 
 friends in different parts of the king- 
 dom, and received contributions to- 
 wards the erection of the place of wor- 
 ship, of which a representation is now 
 given, amounting to about seven hun- 
 dred pounds. In the mean time two 
 other Missionaries, Mr. Christopher 
 Hitching, and Mr. Thomas Goddeu, 
 embarked for Jamaica, the former of 
 whom occupied the vacant post at 
 Kingston, and the latter formed a new 
 station at Spanish Town, distant from 
 Kingston about fourteen miles, and 
 said to contain ten thousand inhabi- 
 tants. Again, however, the Society 
 were called to bow to the bereaving 
 hand of divine Providence. After a 
 short, but very useful career, Mr. 
 Kitching fell a victim to the fever,* 
 which he appears to have taken while 
 kindly attending a young man, belong- 
 ing to the Church Missionary Society, 
 who was ill in the same complaint. 
 The pathetic lamentations of the poor 
 negroes who crowded to his funeral, 
 served to prove how much he had en- 
 deared himself to their hearts. 
 
 Early in the following year, Mr. 
 Conltart returned to the people of his 
 charge, and has been permitted to 
 rejoice in many Tlelightfal proofs, that 
 he has not laboured iu vain. The 
 church under his pastoral care, con- 
 tains not less than two thousand seven 
 hundred members, all of whom, before 
 they were admitted, had given a 
 satisfactory account of their faith iu 
 the Redeemer. Man)' of these reside 
 at a distance from Kingston, and con- 
 sequently, can only visit their friends 
 there occasionally. In the comse of 
 the last year, a second church has 
 been formed in Kingston, under the 
 care of Mr. Joshua Tinson, and a free 
 school has been founded there, sup- 
 ported by the negroes themselves, 
 which is conducted by Mr. Thomas 
 Knibb. The other stations which have 
 been occupied by the Society are at 
 Flamstead, and Spanish Town: but 
 such is the urgent demand for more 
 help, that the Committee have lately 
 resolved to send three other Mission- 
 
 * December 13, 1819. 
 
 aries there, who will probably sail in 
 a few weeks. 
 
 We hope, Christian friends, that 
 this brief sketch of the history of our 
 proceedings in this important island 
 will not be uninteiesting to you, and 
 that when you are praying that the 
 kingdom of God may come, you will 
 think of these poor negroes, and lift 
 up your. hearts to God for them! The 
 climate, you observe, is very dangerous 
 for European constitutions. J,et this 
 lead you to remember the Missionaries 
 too, and to ask that they may be kept 
 from the pestilence that walketh in 
 darkness, and the destruction that icast- 
 eth at noon-day. And, lastly, when 
 we hear of so many poor Africans, re- 
 ceiving the truth in the love of it, and 
 bringing forth the fruits of righteous- 
 ness to the glory of God, surely our 
 thanksgivings ought to abound on their 
 behalf to Him, who has made of one 
 blood all nations to dwelt upon the face 
 of the earth, and has determined to 
 bring to himself in glory, a number 
 that no man can number, out of every 
 kindred, and tribe, and nation, und 
 people. 
 
 Since the publication of our last 
 Quarterly paper, the Society has 
 received intelligence of a great 
 loss, in the death of the Rev. 
 William Ward, which took place 
 at the Mission-house, Serampore, 
 on Friday, the 7th of March last. . 
 With the character and labours 
 of this excellent man, all who 
 read this paper must have some 
 acquaintance ; and we suppose 
 will be expecting an account of 
 him in this number. That ex- 
 pectation we shall now attempt 
 to gratify, as far as our narrow 
 limits will enable us. 
 
 Mr. William Ward was born at 
 Derby, where some of his relations 
 still reside, October 20, 1769. His 
 mother was a pious woman ; and he 
 himself appears to have been brought, 
 in early life, under the influence of 
 vital religion. 
 
 While resident at Hull, where he 
 was occupied as a printer, he was bap- 
 tized, and united himself to the church 
 in George-street, now under the care 
 of Rev. Thomas Thonger. Here he was 
 found to possess qualifications for the 
 

 ministry, and placed, at the i upense 
 «>f .1 miliums individual, (Mr. I'i-h- 
 wick, then of Newcastle,) under the 
 tuition <>t' the late amiable and pious 
 Dr. Faweett, at Ewood Hall, uear 
 Halifax. 
 
 While in tins favourable situation, 
 tin- inclination for Missionary labour, 
 which hid 1. >n lt been concealed in his 
 bosom, In came too powei ml to be n - 
 .-i-tcd,' and he made application to 
 the Baptist Missionary Society to l>e 
 employ) d under theii direction. 
 
 After making the i rceasary in- 
 quiries, the Committee received li'un 
 in Octolx r i7>.':;. On Maj ? of the ! 
 following yekr, he, and Mr. Brunsdon, 
 another Missionary, wer< set apart r .> 
 the work at Olney, and having been 
 joined in London by Messrs. Marsh- 
 man and Grant, Ihej all embarked on 
 the Ji'li of that month on board the 
 American sliip Criterion, Captaiu 
 Wickes. Their voyage was favour- 
 able: but on their arrival in Bengal, 
 it was discovered that no leavi could 
 b obtained for theii residence in the 
 British territories. This circumstance, 
 winch was considered then ■ very 
 painful one, compelled them to settle 
 at Serampore; an arrangement by 
 which it has since appeared the great 
 ends of the Mission could he more 
 effectually answered than by any 
 other. 
 
 Scarcely bad Mr. Ward been fixed 
 at Herampore, ere be was called to en- 
 gage in the honourable and pleasing 
 ta-k assigned him, as with something 
 of a prophetic spirit, bj his friend Mr. 
 Carey. The translation of the New 
 
 Testament into Bengalee having been 
 
 completed, the first sheet was put to 
 
 press in March 1800; and about the 
 ■-.mil- time the hearts of the Mission- 
 aries were exceedingl] rejoiced by the 
 conversion of Krishnoo, thefiral Hin- 
 doo who In- 1 cast for the sake of the 
 
 gospel. 
 
 In May, 180$, Mi. Ward was mar- 
 • It is win thy of notice that this 
 
 desire appeari '•> havi been kindled 
 h\ mi < m n lion, dropped in convi i ji 
 by Mr. < srey •• v< ral years before. 
 
 [I i in Lord Ult 1 - us," said that d«- 
 
 \m -hall iranl .i 
 
 pi i .hie u- 
 
 . i in I i in cripturcs; 1 in p< yoo w ill 
 
 i omt :tM' r ns.'* 
 
 ried to .Mis. Fountain, the widow of 
 
 Mr. John Fountain, a Missionary, who 
 survives to mourn his ln--s. Two 
 daughters were the fruit of this union, 
 who are both living, and the elder oi 
 whom has latelj l>< en united to tLn 
 church at Seramp 
 
 D ■ lining health rendering it neces- 
 sary for Mi . H ard to revisit his im- 
 live land, be arrived in June, 1819. 
 ; _'i very ill at bis landing, he 
 speedily regained bis strength, and 
 for the space of nearly two years oc- 
 cupied himself in this country, Hol- 
 land, and America, in preaching and 
 collecting money for th< education of 
 limn- natives for the ministry in the 
 new College at Serampore. Towards 
 tin- object he obtained in all about 
 
 Mi. Waul re-embarked for India, 
 mi board the Abberton, Captain Gil- 
 pin, May •.;;, I8zl, and arrived in 
 Bengal early in October following. 
 Thi state of bis health when be h ft 
 England, and till nearly the period oi 
 Eiis dissolution, was such as to aw .. ke n 
 no anxiety— but truly '* In the midst 
 
 oi life we are in de it n ." On Moudav 
 evening, March ;"., be attended the 
 United Missionar) Prayer Meeting at 
 Calcutta, and on Wednesday evenmg, 
 at Serampore, preached a very im- 
 pressive discourse from .Mark XVI. 16. 
 The next day he was engaged in tin 
 printing effic' as usual, but on joining 
 the family at dinner, complained of 
 
 In in:; verj drowsy. Soon after, -\ inp- 
 i toms of the cholera nimbus began to 
 I appear, and though medical aid w..- 
 
 instautly resorted to, and it was 
 1 thought, at first, the issue might be 
 
 fat iiuiabie, these hope-, alas ' 
 I soon extinguished, and on Fridaj 
 j evening, about five, be fell asleep iu 
 
 Ji -ii- ' 
 Thus terminated the useful and 
 
 honourable lite of this excellent ih.ii. 
 
 Foi bin to live was Christ, and, doubt* 
 li is, death lias pi oved bi i 
 gun ' Ri sdei , w i. ni. I it I e io to \ >'l 
 It i- well tO i-'n i in pious and ttolj 
 
 men— -it is well to contribute of oui 
 property to assist the plans they form, 
 and the labours the) engage In— but 
 
 Kf In \ nnd tin- is m I 
 
 . •, lv. - should p i t.ike i I 
 
 the mind thai was m Christ Ji iui 
 | Oh to w mi. while il Is called to da) 
 .' it thai >i ' rwaf, whom kit I 
 
 I wfun In i aunt It tfttiii /;*.. 
 
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 WEEKLY & MONTHLY CONTRIBUTORS 
 
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34 
 
 CHRIST! Ms KlilF.M)', 
 
 The picture, at which you have pro- 
 bably been looking! on the other aide 
 «if the leaf, i* intended to re p reeenl ■ 
 \lc« in the island of Somntra. The 
 teenc taken u tbe e ntran ce of Pndeng 
 rUcr, where an European settlement 
 has been formed foi <•■ >n n- vr.ir-, and 
 where Mr.Evans,a Missionary from <>nr 
 Society, was itationed in the year 1 
 
 The attention of tbe Society wai firsj 
 attract! <i towards this important island 
 in tbe year 1310, when Mr. Nathaniel 
 u aid, nephew to oni late much esteem- 
 ed friend Mr. Ward of Berampore, ".i- 
 sent to Beoeoolen with a printing pit it, 
 from Bengal. Noi long al ter this, the 
 governor of this settlement, a gentle- 
 man of well known intelligence and 
 philanthropy, being obliged to revisit 
 Ins native country for tbe sake of his 
 health, strongly advised thai othei Mis- 
 sionaries should he sent out to join Mr. 
 Ward. Accordingly in i J t « - month of 
 December, 1819, Mr. Richard Bm ton 
 nnd Mr. ( h arii . Evans sailed for Ural 
 pnrpoi i ; and had not arrived it B( n- 
 coolen long before tbey were joined 
 by Mr. Robinson, who bad ri sidt d for 
 upwards of icven years al Batai 
 the neighbouring ishmd ot" Java ; but 
 ed, by varioas circumstances, to 
 think that a removal wool 1 1> nd to pro- 
 mote the great objects of the Mission. 
 \' pn -i ii ihest ■ ■ < ■ 1 1 Missionaries 
 an stationed a* onder : 
 
 At /!, no , in:, or as i* is sometimes 
 railed. I'.nt Uarlhtnvugh, reside bV. 
 H'ardSt Mr. Uobuuon. Tbe former ma- 
 
 ' ■ which has been already 
 
 found highly useful, ■ large quantity 
 <■! tract • ii a mul: been brought into cir- 
 culation by its means. In conjunction 
 with Mr. Koliin-Hii, be is engaged in 
 superintending several schools, winch 
 aw rendered peculiarly necessary In- 
 itio cross ignorance in which the na- 
 il • "i tin- country are involi ed. Ii . 
 ion i> remarkably fluent ia the 
 Malaj I iiijn . i , and has composed a va- 
 i It t> of little pit (■•• , wiiicii are very at 
 i ' 1 1 1. 1 h it-, both in prose and rerat — and 
 preaches constantly, in English to his 
 <•oiiiiiiMii.il, a. iii Malay to tbenativi ■■ 
 Proceeding abonl half way np, on 
 the western side ol the island, yon ir« 
 i it Psnieng, the -• i ond station, to 
 which the annexed engraving refers 
 i is nnih i tin I hitch government , 
 • • •. i\ [ng here a ah I 
 
 H' bad a vai it tj ot difficult es to 
 
 lib, inii. when he bait wrott . 
 Ins on '•■ f i - .m | i bright) n 
 
 in.-, land w very 
 
 popi ind Pad 
 
 to bt inland km- 
 
 doin, called Menangkabovr, said to 
 contain a million inhabitants. At pre- 
 sent, however, the distiict is ravaged 
 by war, said to he carried on l>y an 
 enterprising native, with ■ view to re- 
 form the maim firs of ins countrymen, 
 and restore t lie religion of Mahomet in 
 
 Us jiurity! We may hope that his plan* 
 will be over-mled to prepare the way 
 for a religion which ha- a much strong* 
 ■ i i 1 aim to purify than that of the 
 Arabian impostor! 
 
 .1/;. Burton, the Last of our Mi*. 
 lionaries on the island, lias chosen a 
 station further north, about as distant 
 from Padang as that port is from I5en- 
 coalen. He residei at Steefans, a vil- 
 lain (iii the boi dt rs ot one ot' the many 
 
 ii\M~ that empty themselves into the 
 Spacious bay of Tappanuli. The in- 
 habitants of this part of the country 
 are of the IJatta, or I'attak tribe, a- 
 mong whom the dreadful practice of 
 eating human Beth prevails; and that 
 with such circumstances of horror as 
 could not be believed, were not the 
 testimony anqoestiohable. Fiona a. 
 ft i m ut desire t> communicate to these 
 poor degraded beings the clad tidings 
 
 Of salvation, Mr. and "Nil-. Burton base 
 
 gone to take np their abode BBtOUg 
 
 them, though they are secluded from 
 
 all European such ly, and have not 
 even a medical man to apply to m case 
 of illio ■• Tht y liave been received 
 in a Ii it mils manner by the natives, 
 
 and the Rajah, or chief, has given 
 them a piece of ground, on which Mr. 
 Burton has built a wooden bouse, ac- 
 cording t" tbt fashion of the country. 
 
 From a letter, addressed to the So- 
 ciety, by Messrs. Robinson and Ward 
 in April hurt, we copy the following 
 
 account of one particular class of the 
 
 population, from which >ou may per- 
 ceive boa Iful Cbristhm instiuc- 
 
 t nil is for the in. 
 
 •• Passing through the Cafree Kam- 
 pong, my attention "as arrested by ■ 
 
 ■ I degl .elation and \\ uki dt 
 Calculated lO bumble the pildcot hu- 
 man nature, an I excite the tear of 
 < ompassion. \n asst inbly < \ t sfi 
 
 i hit fly old people, had colli i ted I i 
 
 tin- pin pose of prow otlng offerii 
 
 the spirits of their deceased relativi t, 
 
 i onntenant t axpi aaaad ;i - - 
 
 i"\ at tbe ueai approach of drunken* 
 
 • ml gluttony . While one c |i,|| i > 
 
 conducted the barbarona aabrth ni the 
 
 Hottentot to the sound of the tomtom. 
 
 ■ i i kbibited the noisy quarrel ana 
 
 ibusc ol the sili Beof 
 
 In one plat i di i I drunk, as 
 
 I ■ 
 
35 
 
 misfortunes of life ; in another sat the 
 very picture of melancholy aud misery, 
 a woman bereft of her senses by the 
 loss of a numerous family. A tempo- 
 rary stage of split bamboo was ele- 
 vated in the open air, about two feet 
 above the ground, aud covered with 
 large green plantain leaves. A decre- 
 pit old man officiated as priest, whose 
 naked shrivelled body, besmeared with 
 filth and corruption, presented an ob- 
 ject of inexpressible disgust. He served 
 up about fifteen different messes of 
 boiled rice, fat pork, &c. accompany- 
 ing each with a portion of rum and ar- 
 rack, supposed to be peculiarly grate- 
 ful to the hovering demons. The altar 
 being thus covered with the offerings, 
 and surrounded by the sable multitude 
 seated promiscuously on the ground, 
 and destitute of every mark of vene- 
 ration or respect, he invoked the 
 spirits of their departed relatives to 
 descend from their respective abodes 
 in the atmosphere, the vegetables, ani- 
 mals, buildings, &c. and satisfy them- 
 selves with the food presented. He 
 entreated them, in consideration of 
 the offerings, to have respect to their 
 descendants, and do them no injury; 
 and having recited some mystical in- 
 cantations, he left the food for some 
 minutes on the stage that the spirits 
 might partake of it : he then served up 
 the whole to the expecting multitude. 
 AH ate and drank abundantly, and in 
 the course of a short time the scene 
 became so confused and offensive, by 
 the general intoxication of men, wo- 
 men, and children, that I was obliged 
 to quit it. 
 
 " The Mission-house is situated just 
 on the border of their Kampong. 
 Scarce an hour passes without wit- 
 nessing the clamour of their abuse — 
 scarce an evening without discovering 
 their women intoxicated — scarce a 
 night undisturbed by the riotous noise 
 of their tomtoms. The scene of their 
 daily labours is impure in the extreme. 
 Their expressions of abuse — their sub- 
 jects of jest and diversion, and their 
 common conversation, are all drawn 
 from ideas of lewdness. While desti- 
 tute of almost every species of religion 
 themselves, they engage with eager- 
 ness in the debaucheries of all parties. 
 The. commencement and termination 
 of the annual fast, together with the 
 Muharrum of the Mnhammedans, the 
 Durga festival of the Hindoos, the 
 new year of the Chinese, and our own 
 Christmas, are all distinguished by the 
 intemperance of the Cafrees. Such are 
 the people with whom we have to do. 
 Under no restraint of Moral or re- 
 
 ligious obligations, tlwy walk, % tha 
 apostle says, in the vanity of their mind, 
 having the understanding darkened, 
 being alienated from the life of God, 
 through the ignorance that is in them, 
 because of the blindness of their heart ; 
 and beina past feeling, they have given 
 themselves over to lasciviousness, to 
 irork all uncleanness with greediness : 
 without hope, and without God in the 
 world. 1 ' 
 
 As a proof of the interest excited by 
 the great facts of divine revelation, 
 when first presented to the mind of an 
 inquiring heathen, we add the following 
 extract from a letter of Mr. Burton's. 
 
 " I have begun translating portions 
 of scripture, which I hope another day 
 to get printed, and to circulate them 
 in the form of small tracts. 'The His- 
 tory of the Creation,' including the first 
 chapter of Genesis, and the first six 
 verses of the second chapter is finished. 
 But though I have bestowed consider- 
 able attention and care upon it, having 
 corrected it many times, and written 
 it all out thrice, yet I shall, no doubt, 
 be able to improve it much twelve 
 months henctf. It is pleasing to know, 
 however, that the natives understand 
 it in its present imperfect state; an 
 evidence of which we have in the in- 
 terest it has excited in the mind of our 
 Rajah. He came to visit us when it 
 was about half finished, and read this 
 part over twice with much attention, 
 asking many questions upon it, and 
 about the book, of which it was a part. 
 The next time he visited us he said, 
 ' The people at home say, I am de- 
 ranged.' Why? ' What I read here the 
 other day, so got into my head that I 
 could not help repeating it aloud all 
 the day long, and also at night in my 
 sleep, so that the women say I am 
 mad.' When finished, proceeds Mr. B. 
 I took it to the onun, or market, which 
 is held heie every fourth day, and en- 
 deavoured to read it to the people as- 
 sembled ; but I soon found this was 
 impossible. It was such a novel thing 
 to hear an European read Battak, that 
 my voice was quickly drowned in the 
 din of shouts and laughter; and I 
 thought it best to retire, not doubting 
 that they would be more composed 
 another day. The Rajah requested 
 that when any of the Toba people 
 came down from the mountains, I 
 would lend it to him, to shew them. 
 Two days since he came to request me 
 to make him a copy, that he might 
 read it to hi9 people in the dusum (or 
 market house) in the evening." 
 
 Sorely such a disposition as this 
 
3G 
 
 Oaght to encoiir.iL:' n« ■ " leading Mis> 
 
 aionnnes among them! 
 
 Of the trial* to which )onr Mission- 
 ary brethren ami III ten are expoaed 
 
 in tbese remote and solitary >.tati<.ti<, 
 !. .1 miy be forrai (1 from the fol- 
 lowing account* which we arc permit- 
 led to eopj from i letter n ■■ ived from 
 Mr-. Barton about three n 
 \\ n female friend in tln>> country. 
 
 •• I have lately bad a >< rare trial. 
 Our little b ibj w ■ sixteen day i so ill, 
 that we had seldom a hope of her re- 
 covery ; and having no trnsty nurse, 
 Mr. B. or myself constant!) watched 
 her. One night, much overcome, I 
 laid down to rest; my bosband, ever 
 too reals to rve nit , intending to 
 watCfa the whole night ; hut he waa 
 scon obliged to call a him. 
 
 He was seized with a complaint of the 
 bowels, which I well knew to he of an 
 alarming nature, and that entire rest 
 ot' body and mind, as well as p 
 ful medicines, were absolute!] 
 
 Alter i epeating laudanum and 
 ginger ami camomik till a large quan- 
 tity had been taken, he hi 
 lief; and in hope that he would ilee] . 
 I retired to soothe my baby, but when 
 
 no longer aroused by bis presence lo 
 ■trame cheerfulness, my strength tail- 
 id. I lay for an hour ami a halt faint- 
 ing on my apparently dying child's 
 bed, feeling some of the peculiai 
 loms of cholera moron*, of which I have 
 bad one severe attack. My mind was 
 indeed in agon) ; to be obliged to dis- 
 i my feelings to Mr. B might be 
 almost death to him. I hope never 
 
 to forget this period. I think I then 
 
 I tint not to make it a complaint, 
 
 that we have only Gon to look to. I 
 found uU-syfficienl aid; my mind, I 
 trust, divinely supported, pain and 
 faintness subsided, I returned to mj 
 husband with hope, calmness, and re- 
 
 I don, and in ■ I'. H day I be wai 
 
 w< II again, i>\ ■ bl< > . - n the 
 
 the nun dn s above named Should 
 
 on i Heavenlj tathei set good to 
 
 En i ope. in mi aciati it would be ■ 
 
 .: bll -■-in:;. \\ < h i.e all with him.' 
 
 Thus, dear t InisUan Friends, wc 
 bftVS -et before you arguments, taken 
 
 from the correspondence of Mission- 
 aries thi maeli < s, to encourage you to 
 strenuous ami persevering exertions in 
 aid ot' the Society. \nd we earnestly 
 hope they will be effectual. Is it pre- 
 snming too lar to request that each 
 p. rsoo, into whose bands one of tin so 
 papers may fall, would a«k himself, or 
 herself, Am I doing any ih'n.. for this 
 1 all / can? 
 
 interest others in it? 
 Inquii ii i like thi h . addressed to a 
 heart not wholly destitute ot* gratitude 
 and compassion, _idy useful, 
 
 if followed up by 'hat line of conduct 
 which conscience would suggest. 
 
 the mole anxious to fix the 
 attention of our numerous and friendly 
 readers on this subject, because we 
 have discovered, in some few instances, 
 a disposition to relax in efforts to pro- 
 cure p caniary support for the Society, 
 
 from a mistaken apprehi QSWU that OOI 
 debt having been paid off, these ef- 
 foits. necessary. Amomenfi 
 
 reflection will be sufficient to shew 
 how . ; inch an idea is. How- 
 
 ever undesirable it is that any public 
 
 institution should be loaded with a 
 debt, the tinnunl income is affected only 
 to the amount of the intereei accruing 
 thereon. This, in our cast . was . 
 
 per annum — a sum wry (idling COBS* 
 
 pared with the annual receipts of the 
 
 ! Illes-. (hell ion', by the 
 
 zealous liberality of our friends, we 
 are supplied with the tamo aunual 
 amount as before, the expt editors will 
 exceed our resourcei — not to 
 ad I, that ii will become impossible to 
 realise the hopt i and expectations that 
 have been formed ol extending our 
 labours yet farther, both in the East 
 and the West. We trust, therefore, that 
 in mi iv district our active friends will 
 tike cue, at least, that the amount of 
 
 their contributions dees net decline , 
 
 and think we DM] , With JOJ ful 
 
 tude io the Inthoi "t all oni mercies, 
 appeal t" the history ol anoint r yam , 
 Don gone by, for evidence that their 
 labours r»l love for Ibe poor heathen 
 are not hk( ly to he in vain I 
 
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 who contribute n penny a Week ot mon t"i the Baptist hT issisatarn Sstsifs 
 
 Persons collecting to the amount "i Sixp m < i week are entitled to a Copy 
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 mid who know not win re to appK in tin ir own neighboorbood, may write bj 
 
 post to tm Bev. John Dyi I I . Peochnrch Street, London, who 
 
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 Christian Friends, 
 
 In our number for July last, we 
 gave you a description of some of those 
 horrid tortures which are practised, 
 year after year, anions;; your fellow- 
 subjects in the East, in the worship 
 of Shivu, one. of their principal deities. 
 It was not then intended to recur, at 
 least so soon, to this painful subject ; 
 but as our last arrivals from India, 
 brought us a particular account of this 
 abominable Cherook Poojah, (as they 
 call it,) performed in the city of Cal- 
 cutta itself, just a twelvemonth ago, 
 
 we shall insert it, and prefix an en- 
 graving, which represents one of the 
 modes of self-torture not included in 
 the plate we have before given. 
 
 This kind of voluntary infliction, as 
 you perceive, is that in which certain 
 persons called Sunyasses (or perfect 
 ones!) throw themselves from a con- 
 siderable height upon iron spikes fixed 
 in the ground beneath. Mr. Ward in- 
 forms us, in his large work on the 
 subject, that, on these occasions, they 
 erect a stage of bamboos, having three 
 
38 
 
 resting pi in s, the highest about twi n- 
 ty Feet from the ground. "From 
 these bl i::liti,'" lie adi,-, " Ibl -' people 
 
 . ii iron spikes. 
 in ba-s hi -;i -.:\ i bene spik< - 
 
 I ne rlj i] it, m thai wl • n h. 
 sou fall* iiiev ilmoet constant! 
 down, instead of end ring the 
 There are instances of personi 
 killed, and others wounded, h< 
 era rerj rare. \ few \< ars 
 pi i-uii at Kid erpoor, Dear Calcutta, 
 cast himself upon a knit'.- used in 
 cleaning ri»b, which entered ins side, 
 and was t.ie cause tit' his death. lie 
 cast hmisi it' down from t,i 
 twice i n rhis daj ; :■ i tune 
 
 (whit h was fatal t 
 tut.- \i i tli whom he lived. ' In » me 
 
 villa. 
 
 en ct< d, and as in my as two or three 
 
 I' 1 "''' Ives down 
 
 On tliive sjuki s in one day, ill t!ie pre- 
 
 sence ofgreal crowds of people.' 1 
 
 I ''• ai ci nit ui v .11 in tin- following 
 extract varh i in two < i three slight 
 particular* from .Mr. Ward's, hut as 
 
 'I: most el, ai and distinct, the 
 
 <\ ing his bi i n desigui d from it 
 
 You ohseivt the bamboo stage, which 
 
 is ascended b) a I dder behind ■ and 
 
 at the tbot ate the bat:* of straw, 
 
 planted with s ( .iki -. One p« rson b i- 
 just been removed, m a wonnded 
 state, from them— another is in the act 
 of dc-ci nding— and a third, at the t«i|> 
 oi the stage, preparing to follow. — 
 Bow affecting is the thought, that, 
 probably, .it the very tune of our 
 writing, these shocking barbarites are 
 
 iu actual progri 
 
 Thus write our Calcutta I'm nils in 
 the month of .March last y. U 
 
 "Abu I what a week his this been 
 
 for every abomination I The quantity 
 of human blood shed in various ways 
 
 ill this c mull \ from the i n In ^ i 
 
 to tin- preet nt period, has perhaps al- 
 ways !'■■!: .ii Her than in any nation 
 OpOII the face Of the earth, in ancient 
 
 or modern, timt s. 
 
 '" J':i • Cruelties of the Cherook Poo- 
 
 jah continue three days in moot season. 
 
 In tii'- alt, niOOD of the first day, the 
 
 oativi s throw thi mselves from a height 
 oi from eight to twelve feet, upon thin 
 blades of iron hoi isontallj , sod I 
 
 nfficient length, sod thus placetl, 
 
 'eld '.) the |,P unrC Of the l",d\ 
 
 win ii falling upon them. Wi ys< Idom, 
 I mi able i" h .ii n, bdj n ischii fen* 
 
 (he individaal, >> t that a should not 
 
 infill, is hardly to be be- 
 :. it i- next to impossibh to fall 
 from inch a height nil-. n tb« br< ant or 
 ih without sensibly feeling it- 
 • ! it is hardly to he sup| 
 Imt th:,t even dangerous eon 
 sliould accrue from it. Indeed, we 
 Bnropeans are not bkeli to liar of a 
 tenth, or even a hundredth pai t of the 
 evil that i The na- 
 
 tives are not efficiently attached to 
 < rh otii. r, to think the maiming or 
 death of one of their conntrymen of 
 rtance snfficient to induce them 
 
 SO mncfa as lo I; late tile l.nt, I | 
 
 it is i liciu (I bj some sn< cial circam- 
 itance, or inquiry should lend to the 
 snbji <•(. 
 
 Bond day appears to involve 
 bj fat _ est portion of torment, 
 
 win th<- 1 we consider the nature of the 
 
 sufferings, or the number of persons 
 
 who submit to them. The creat va- 
 rietj of sufferings on this day, gives 
 >ortuoit) for displaying an al- 
 uiosi incredible degree of bravado. 
 l*he pi if s of the body which are 
 pierced on the- - ire the 
 
 sums generally above the elbow — the 
 sides, and the tongue. Bnt the piercing 
 is the Ii bsI p .; I oi what is endured 
 
 by tin- sufferers. The tongue being 
 pierced, an iron rod is thrust through 
 it, carried by the individual himself 
 sometimes, and sometimes by one in 
 tlie group of Ins attendants, l'anchoo, 
 in returning from preaching in Cal« 
 
 eutta, saw one of thee siihYu rs, with 
 
 the point of a bayonet fixed upon a 
 musket, through his tongue, ami car- 
 ried before him by the Bepoj lowborn 
 the muski t belonged, ami thus be 
 
 paiadtd about tin Minis. Another 
 had a live snake of live or six feet and 
 
 apwards in length, the tad of which 
 was thrust through the uaara tongue, 
 
 and the head and p.n t of the body 
 
 rensaining, twirling in frighfal shapes 
 
 above his loud. \ singular instance 
 
 ni ai. I. ii n \ was seen this yesu i amoui* 
 the aumerons gsoops ated 
 
 thenuN Ives, then- was i nsj with the 
 iion through In- tongue, as above do 
 scribed, with tie- upper pan natch 
 i ;'n leg nt a woman of ill feme, 
 
 who was i.uricd upon tin- ihanldfTi 
 of bean . - in i chair pn cist |j 
 with tin- mans luad, mid be dancing 
 and frolicking below, The] .ne - 
 
 i mil |0 del med to i aoi I In this 
 
 d.iv 'a pi i forsnauce, th.it ia m dor to 
 [net 1 1 ■ thieker rod, the tongue has 
 ■ d as to h ive men ry 
 ■ -In (j<J on each side, aud il has I 
 
39 
 
 pened that one side lias given way, 
 leaving the part of the tongue hang- 
 ing merely hy a piece on one side. A 
 man at Baranagore, a town about a 
 mile distant from this station, allowed 
 a musket to be discharged with the 
 end of it through his tongue. This 
 same individual has been since trans- 
 ported to Bencoolen, not for his piety 
 aud good behaviour, of course. There 
 is hardly any end of the awful variety 
 and extent of their exploits in (his 
 way. My heart thoroughly sickens 
 when I hear and recite them, and these 
 remarks we made fur no other purpose 
 than to read the attention of Christian 
 friends in England to the real condition 
 of the people of Bengal, lest they should 
 be ready to suppose that because, the Gos- 
 pel has been sent here, and some few Mis- 
 sionaries are actually gone forth, thut 
 little more need be thought of for the 
 evangelizing this part of the heathen 
 world. Let it be remembered that such is 
 the actual state of India, and of Bengal 
 in particular, that the five barley loaves 
 and few fislns, were literally as compe- 
 tent a provision for the thousands who 
 were to eat nf them, as the few labourers 
 in Bengal are to cope with the numbers, 
 and the absolute moral wretchedness of 
 the inhabitants. 
 
 " Through the arms and sides they 
 generally insert either thin cords, or 
 long slips of bamboos, held by a man 
 at each extremity, while the votary, in 
 a sort of innck dance, goes from one 
 end to the other; the cord or bamboo, 
 of course, passing through toe fl -li. 
 The noise of the drum, sounding brass, 
 and I inkling cytpbal, compo-e the mu- 
 sic of each little mob. And thus they 
 proceed from Kaleeghaut through 
 every street and lane in Calcutta, con- 
 tinuing from morning early, until near- 
 ly sunset ; not failing to beg almost at 
 every house as they go. Some gain to 
 a considerable amount, especially from 
 the natives of property, through whose 
 influence, in a great measure, the Che- 
 rook Poojah is kept up. It is much 
 to be lamented that on these occa- 
 sions many persons called Christians 
 admit the natives into their com- 
 pounds, where they make a show of 
 their disgusting self-tornicnts, and af- 
 ter a remuneration for the exhibition, 
 they go to the next family that wish 
 to be amused with such a spectacle. 
 The quantity of pain that must be 
 felt, and the loss of blood, makes it 
 surprising how they can endure it for 
 so many hours. From Kaleeghaut to 
 this place it cannot be less than eight 
 
 miles, and yet some make their way 
 as far as this, and much farther too. 
 The number of persons who thus tor- 
 ment themselves, cannot, it is sup- 
 posed, be less than one thousand every 
 year, though there is no way of cal- 
 culating their numbers; but in all 
 probability they are much greater 
 than what I have mentioned. Sup- 
 pose one human being, in every prin- 
 cipal town in Great Britain, was thus 
 to torture himself annually, what a 
 sensation would it produce! But let 
 them fancy some of the principal 
 streets in the metropolis, literally 
 thronged with almost naked human 
 beings, attended with horrid din of 
 drums, if drums they may be called, 
 and shouts of voices of scarcely hu- 
 man sound — men with their tongues 
 stretched out of their mouths, — others 
 having their arms or sides lacerated, 
 — withthe blood besmeared ever their 
 bodies, or falling slowly in drops to 
 the ground, and oozing out more than 
 half congealed from their wounds, — 
 and much more in this way — and then 
 Christians at home may form to them- 
 selves an idea of what Calcutta was on 
 the nth of March, 1823." 
 
 Tn our last number, we inserted an 
 extract from the journal of Mr. Bur- 
 ton, who is labouring among the poor 
 cannibal Battas, shewing in what 
 manner the great facts oi Bible history 
 struck the mind of a sensible heathen, 
 when brought before him for the first 
 tune. From a letter very lately re- 
 ceived, we copy another incident of 
 the same kind. 
 
 "August 10, 1323. Took with meto 
 the Dusun (or market) this afternoon, 
 the commandments, which I have lately 
 translated, intending to read them, and 
 converse with the people about them. 
 Meeting with the Rajah near the vil- 
 lage, I desired him to accompany me 
 to a shed close by, where were seated 
 about twenty persons. He complied, 
 and they all listened attentively whilst 
 I read the commandments through. I 
 then gave them to a Battak nran to 
 read aloud, since I knew he would be 
 better understood, reading with the 
 native tone, which is pecirhar, and 
 difficult to be acquired. They were 
 much interested with them, and readi- 
 ly entered into conversation about 
 them. One was much struck with 
 their purity, and said, that no Rajah, 
 or even priest, ever issued such holy 
 and good commandnieuts. From this 
 
40 
 
 I toM him, see infer their Dtesne 
 origin; noue bnl God bai <i A or! to 
 give inch. 'I t'ii they Mid was quite 
 certain. Another remarked, that oo 
 one kepi all these rommandments— 
 whether English, 01 Malay, 01 Battak, 
 young or old, priests or common peo- 
 ple. 1 rom tins I sun!, we learnt Uie 
 
 ' /ii mall nature. 
 
 i . ome ~ I . ■ ■ » i hi 
 the glorj of God,' td which thej 
 
 I, Anothei obj cted, that these 
 commandments, particularly the fourth, 
 were -u> Ii as no poor man could keep. 
 1 told them that tbeybad slreadj re- 
 marked that their holy nature proved 
 tliat G< il bad given them, and * i 
 must be sure the commandments be 
 
 in all nun were snt ii as v ould 
 be for tlie real happiness of all men, 
 of every condition, to comply with; 
 and I farther endeavoured to show 
 
 them, that the fourth romniantinient 
 
 va- peculiarly replete with mercy to 
 the poor; which teemed fully to sa- 
 tisfy tin in. One of ih' ii i l set »i d, 
 th.it this was evidently m bich 
 
 (iod bad marked out tor all men to 
 walk in, hut great ami wicked men 
 had made others to suit themselves, 
 and then enticed all others utter them ; 
 like a- be bad original!] given ■ 
 straight course to yondek rivulet, hut 
 men turned it iii what direction they 
 I Ii ised (meaning into the rice fields). 
 The Rajah, after enumerating the 
 commandments, exclaimed. Well, but 
 it' the White people, and Chinese, and 
 
 Hindoos, and \ Chinese, and Neas, and 
 B in ik people ibonld, with one b< art, 
 adopi all these commandments, sp at -, 
 swords, guns, would be of no farther 
 use; we might throw them away, -i 
 
 make hm.s «J tlum!" 
 
 Tin . ' nation friends, 
 
 that ti.< -<• poor ignorant Geutilet, 
 which luue not I hi /'"/', sjkfss th work 
 
 "J thr hue initti n in Hit it Imirts, their 
 •a mg tr'itnvsn to the 
 all-important fact, that the c<>mmuuil- 
 iiii vi it holy, and just, •■ml good.* Thus, 
 in everj country, and m every clime, 
 9 e maj colk cttet lotht u l • ■ i v 
 
 of our God. Oaf /'.'." U >inl a.-,th..r 
 
 rock, tmr enemies tkiwueluet 
 
 Ii we had Dot known the contrary, 
 we might have tbooghl that ibk 1 
 when he ottered ln> intelligent anti- 
 cipations of the consequent a which 
 
 must follow iini vi i -al ot>< il ti« i [o I 'u: 
 
 I ).\ .ik w ill, had read the sublime pra- 
 ms of Isaiab. t Blessed be ( iod, 
 he is right! The time sa«ii cone, in 
 which ii" a \hnll titmi wot n» morr, and 
 He thali Mit'n, whole ri# ki it is, 
 
 ■ ml front tin finer unto the 
 emls hi' tin until. May the heart of 
 the writer, ami readers, devootlj »\- 
 claim, Astnn, i\i\ -ii. coMi Lord 
 
 JBSUS I 
 
 • Ri in. ii. 1 !, 15. t i 
 
 t Isai. ii. ,. 
 
 N*. B. Tht i ipei I 'I foi distribution (gratit friends 
 
 iitu! uir a pinny a Week or more foi the Baptist Missionary Bot 
 
 Peri n- collectii g to the amount of Sixpence ■ week are enl Ik 
 of the Missionary Herald, which is published monthly, containing i \ 
 of interesting iuti Bach friends as are disposed to become CoD 
 
 and who know nol where lo apply in theii own Deighbourhood, maj write by 
 pott to the Rev. John Dyei Si London, who 
 
 will send them (. ards and 1' • money. 
 
 I by M. C, b Wy« orul <•. 
 
No. 11. July, 1824. 
 
 <&uarterlp papers, 
 
 FOR THE USE OF THE 
 
 WEEKLY and MONTHLY CONTRIBUTORS 
 
 €0 tfte baptist jfttsstemarj) gwtetp. 
 
42 
 
 Christian PftlBRM, 
 
 Tin* figure engraren on the other 
 Mil. is one of the representations of the 
 Hindoo deity Shivu, or Seera, the 
 Destroyer. His character and history, 
 as detailed in the Pooranas, is of the 
 mod In entious description, and yet he 
 is by far the most popular idol in 
 Bengal. To his honour the infamous 
 swinging-posts are erected, and vast 
 numbers of the Hindoos, both men and 
 women, make rude images, like the 
 I u tore, with the day of the Ganges, 
 lor their daily worship. 
 
 Do not cease to think, with devout 
 compassion, dear reader, on the condi- 
 tion of millionsenslaTed to these infer- 
 nal superstitions; nor let your efforts 
 bfl rewXCd in the glorious cause of 
 their spiritual emaneipation. It will 
 finally be accomplished ; and blessed 
 will those be, who have, from love to 
 < liri.it and obedience to his command, 
 In en cordially engaged in promoting 
 it. 
 
 Some of the advocates for the Brah- 
 minical religion, as they call it, have 
 attempted to soften the horrors of the 
 dreadful practice of Suttee, or burning 
 of widows, by asserting that the ■»« >< t 
 victim* are quite willing, aud BVffJ 
 anxious, in this way to shew their re- 
 gard for their deceased husbands. To 
 ■hew how groundless such an asser- 
 tion is, we copy the following account 
 from a late Indian newspaper. You 
 will perceive that it was not written 
 by a Missionary, — that would be an 
 objection with some people — but by a 
 humane gentleman, an cy e-wiine~x, 
 
 whose leeling.', Were shocked, M) well 
 the) might be, oy what liejii-tly terms 
 1 tin- i reel and untfodly exhibition. ' 
 
 " The victim chosen for this cruel 
 and ungodly exhibition WU the widow 
 of a Brahmin, who died in the south 
 l m some days prior to this cere- 
 mony. On approaching the fatal spot, 
 she was preceded by two led I 
 handsomely I ap.in-.oin 'I. and attended 
 by ten or twelve Brahmins, and about 
 the same nuinl>er of women, with mil- 
 , drain.--, he. 
 
 •• few sjm'i tator* ai companied the 
 »siou, consideriag the seen ef 
 actinu w a.x in the immediate neigh- 
 bourhood <>l the iity, near the old 
 paf<' 
 
 \t nr.it sight ol thj woman 1 was 
 
 immediately convinced, in common 
 
 with others, Hint she was more or less 
 
 intuxicaled ; but before the various 
 
 i •. were gone through, whn.h 
 
 on such occasions precede the 14 1 • t 
 burning. thOM doubts had gtTOT piece 
 to a perfect conviction that she wei in 
 her sober senses, and fully aw,-, 
 the dreadful act she was about to pi-r- 
 lorm. Ol this 1 am the iimr. latlni 'I 
 from the question having been lre- 
 quently put to her by the Ben 
 gentlemen present, 'whether it was 
 her Win to bo burnt,' to whiih she 
 elweyi returned the same answ» r, 
 
 'that ihe he ew v. hat she wndoieg, 
 
 and that it was her own pleasure tu 
 burn.' Having offered the more l.iri;- 
 less sacriiii 1 ol incense on a small tire, 
 from which the pile that was to con- 
 sume her body was afterwards I 
 lighted, and Wring pelted with all 
 Inr golden ornaments to those in at- 
 tendance, she deliberately, and without 
 shedding asingle tear, took ■ last leeWB 
 of all she held dear on earth, im i.did 
 the pile, and there laid lnr--l t il. w ■ 
 with the ashes of her deceased hu- 
 tied round her in-ik. '1 he enframe 
 was then closed with dry strew, and 
 the whole pile surrounded with the 
 same light materiel, and immediately 
 ,-et tin- to b| the otli« lating prfc He. 
 
 " 1 had placed myself directly op] 0- 
 site the entrance to the pile, and could 
 distinctly see the unfortunate \ u tin 
 Straggling to escape. This did net 
 
 pass unobserved by the attending Brah< 
 
 mins, who instantly began to knwk 
 down the canopy, which, cont.ti 
 nearly as nun h wood as the pile it 
 Would have 1 lb ■( tu.illv secured their 
 victim in the lire had it fallen on hi r. 
 All this while DO '-ne except lb' 
 ciating Itralunius interfered ; but win n 
 the MM did make lur • | 
 tin ilames, and, running towap: 
 river, either tell or threw hcisell at tl.e 
 feet o| Mr. T., mat gentleman, assist- 
 ed I. y Mr. S., immediately <arri.d. ir 
 rather dragged her into the water, in 
 which the latter gentleman suffered t \ 
 in. mil oiislv lay ing hold of her l.urniL, 
 • nts. 
 " \n attempt was now ni ide l-y ' • 
 
 niiii 1 itmg priests to carryback their 
 
 vi. tun to the bla/lllg pile, which was 
 
 nth men pr es ent, eed 
 
 one of their number was • i 1 — 1 >. 1 V« In il t.> 
 acquaint the magistrate of her e- 
 and learn his pleasure regarding hi r , 
 but before the messenger 1 mild rrluru 
 with in answer from the civil authori- 
 ty , iheltrahminv had persuaded tie 
 fortunate woman once more to ap- 
 )iro.n I. the pile. Ami, as she declared, 
 on ln-ing questioned by then present, 
 that it wits her own Irish to rm- 
 th'- pile, the) stood aloof, fearful n 
 
43 
 
 giving offence to the prejudices of the 
 native population on the one hand, or 
 to the civil authorities on the other. 
 She declined, however, for some time, 
 to ascend the pile, when three of the 
 attending priests lifted her up on their 
 arms, and threw her on the fire, which 
 at this time was burning with great 
 fury. 
 
 . " From this dreadful situation the 
 miserable wretch instantly attempted 
 for the second time to make her escape ; 
 but the merciless priests were at hand 
 to prevent this, if possible, by throw- 
 ing large pieces of wood at their vic- 
 tim, to put a speedy termination to 
 her sufferings. But it was impossible 
 for any man ofthe smallest pretension 
 to feeling, to stand by and witness 
 such cruelty, and therefore the gentle- 
 men present again interfered, when 
 the victim speedily made her escape a 
 second time from the fire, and ran di- 
 rectly into the river, without any as- 
 sistance whatever. 
 
 " The unfortunate woman had no 
 sooner entered the river, than she was 
 followed by three of the officiating 
 Brahmins, who were told to desist from 
 all further persuasion, as nothing fur- 
 ther would be permitted until the ar- 
 rival of the magistrates. 
 
 " Not doubting their compliance 
 with this so very reasonable request, 
 they were allowed to remain with the 
 woman in the water ; but no sooner 
 had the Europeans turned their backs, 
 anxiously looking out for the arrival 
 of authority, to put a stop to such 
 cruel and diabolical proceedings, than 
 the same three men who had thrown 
 her on the pile, attempted to drown 
 the suffering wretch, by forcibly throw- 
 ing her down and holding her under 
 water. From this attempt she was 
 speedily rescued by Mr. A. and Mr. 
 M., who supported her in the water 
 till the arrival of the long looked-for 
 deliverance. 
 
 " The Collector himself soon follow- 
 ed, and to the great joy of a few of the 
 by-etanders, he immediately ordered 
 the principal performers in this tragical 
 scene into confinement, and the chief 
 actor, or rather sufferer, to be carried 
 to the hospital. 
 
 " I regret to add, that the woman 
 died about noon the following day, 
 forsaken by all her own relations as 
 an outcast unworthy creature. 
 
 " P.S. As soon as the horrid cir- 
 cumstances attending this suttee 
 reached the ears of the magistrate, all 
 the persons concerned in it were taken 
 
 into custody, thattkeir conduct might 
 be judicially inquired into." 
 
 We shall occupy the remaining part 
 of this paper, by a few anecdotes , 
 tending to illustrate the manner in 
 which our Missionaries in Bengal con- 
 verse with the natives, and the kind 
 of objections they have to meet with. 
 These accounts are taken from a small 
 work just published by the Rev. Henry 
 Townley, who was several years en- 
 gaged in Missionary service there, and 
 who designs, if Providence permit, to 
 renew his pious labours among the 
 poor Hindoos. 
 
 " Whilst a Missionary was address- 
 ing a congregation of Hindoos by the 
 side of a public road, in the environs 
 of Calcutta, one of his hearers sud- 
 denly stopped him by a question which 
 he insisted on having answered, and 
 the following conversation ensued : 
 
 " Hindoo. — Sir, Is it a sin for a man 
 to kill his mother? 
 
 " Missionary. — Of course, a dreadful 
 sin. 
 
 " Hindoo. — Then you are the man 
 guilty of committing it. 
 
 " Missionary. — How do you prove 
 the truth of your accusation ? 
 
 " Hindoo. — Why, Sir, you drink the 
 milk of the cow, and she is thus a mo- 
 ther to you ; afterwards you kill the 
 cow, and eat her flesh. 
 
 " Missionary. — Your premises are 
 incorrect. I do not admit the cow to 
 be my mother ; for if she were, I should 
 have four legs and a tail, and I appeal 
 to the whole congregation for the truth 
 of what I affirm. But may I not re- 
 criminate, and ask, Are not many of 
 you Hindoos literally guilty of the 
 dreadful crime you thus unjustly as- 
 cribe to me ? for you know it is a prac- 
 tice in this country for children to burn 
 their own mothers alive. 
 
 " The objector slunk away, the 
 hearers were pleased at the argument 
 which silenced him, and the congre- 
 gation at large took the closing re- 
 proof in perfect good temper." 
 
 A Baboo, (that is, a wealthy Hin- 
 doo,) at Chinsurah, sent a message to 
 the Missionaries residing there, inti- 
 mating that a very learned Brahmin 
 was in his house, and that he and his 
 friends very much wished to hear this 
 Brahmin and the Missionaries engage 
 in an amicable dispute respecting the 
 
44 
 
 relative merits of Hindooism and 
 Christianity. Two of the Missionaries 
 went. The Brahmin opened the de- 
 bate, charged the Missionaries with 
 bad motives, and misrepresented their 
 doctrines in an ill-tempered manner. 
 
 The Missionaries stated in reply, 
 that Christianity was a religion of love ; 
 that God so loved the world as to send 
 his only-begotten Son, the Lord Jesus 
 Christ, into it; that the Son of God so 
 loved the fallen race of man, as to give 
 his life a sacrifice for their sins; and 
 that Missionaries were impelled to 
 leave their beloved relatives and 
 friends, and the comforts of their na- 
 tive home, from the same principle. 
 They then explained the leading truths 
 of Christianity, tho substance of which 
 was, that all men every where ought 
 to worship that God who made them, 
 and to worship him alone. 
 
 " The Brahmin's countenance un- 
 derwent a change as the Missionaries 
 were speaking, and in his rejoinder he 
 said, ' I am a Brahmin, and cannot 
 therefore be expected to say, that 1 
 deem Christianity to be superior to 
 Hindooism; but, in candour I must 
 say, that the temper of these Chris- 
 tians is superior to that of us Hindoos. 
 — Gentlemen,' (the Brahmin said. 
 turning to the Missionaries) ' your 
 temper is buro prarthoncro ;' that is, 
 greatly to be prayed for. — We took 
 <eir leave, convinced that the cause 
 of Christianity had that clay risen in 
 the opinion of some influential inhabi- 
 tants of Chinsurah." 
 
 " A Missionary went one day to a 
 village in Bengal ; some of the inha- 
 bitants assembled t<> hear him dis- 
 course about the truths of Christianity. 
 An angry Brahmin or two interrupted 
 him in nide and provoking langv 
 
 the Missionary told them, h>- casae doI 
 for the purpose of saying any thing 
 that could ^i>e offence ; that his mo- 
 tive was love — that he was acquainted 
 with some truths which w< re able to 
 make the possessor of them happy 
 through time ami through eternity ; 
 nil that he wished w is, to submit 
 those truths to their consideration, nnd 
 that then they would jud^e of their 
 value for themselves. Thai Instead 
 
 oil wishing to res them, he would ra- 
 ther submit to wash their font, and 
 would e\en be willing to be beaten bj 
 them, if thereby their salvation would 
 be promoted. 
 
 u The Brahmins were surprised and 
 Softened by this mode of address, and 
 listened quietly to some of the leading 
 truths of the gospel. When the con- 
 versation and discourse were closed, 
 one of the villagers, a man advanced 
 in years, came forward, saying, ■ I 
 wish to make a remark.' The Brah- 
 nins replied, ' You are a Soodra, (one 
 of inferior caste) what can y>u have to 
 say worth hearing?' He rejoined, 
 ' My remark is, that this gentleman 
 will go to heaven, but none of us will 
 ever get there.' — ' What!' said they, 
 ' Not we Brahmins go to heaven, but 
 only this foreigner, who does not prac- 
 tise our religious rites ? — You Soodras 
 may indeed with propriety emu . 
 to hell, but you do not mean to atlirni 
 that we Brahmins shall not go to hea- 
 ven ?' — 'I mean,' said the aged vil- 
 lager, ' to atfirm, that neither we Soo- 
 dras, nor you Brahmins, nor any of 
 us, will get to heaven, but only this 
 stranger.' — ' Far what reason d> 
 MJ BOt* asked the Brahmins. ' For 
 this reason,' said the old man, ' that 
 he has done what we cannot do, — he 
 has been insulted and provoked, but 
 nevertheless has kept his temper.' " 
 
 We close with the following ado 
 delivered, in Mr. Tow nicy's hearing, 
 by a native convert, who had originally 
 belonged to one of the lowest castes. 
 to a number of his countrymen, among 
 whom were some of the superior castes. 
 It is a delightful comment on 1 Co. i. 
 '26— 21). 
 
 " I am, by birth, of an insignificant 
 and contemptible caste ; so low, that 
 it a Brahmin shouldchance to touch m< . 
 he must go and bathe in ti. 
 (bf tire purpose of purification; and 
 yet God lias been pleased to call me, 
 not merely to the knowledge of the 
 gospel, but to the high "Hi, ( .t t, 
 ing it to others. My friends, do you 
 
 know the reason of God's conduct I It 
 
 is this;— it Qod had Mlected .'lie ot 
 you learned Brahmins, and mad- 
 the preacher, when you were sat 
 ful in Slaking O OS TTSf tS, bystanders 
 
 would have said, it was the ssnai 
 learning of the Brahmin and his 
 Weight Of character that wire the 
 cause; but now, when any one i» run- 
 rerted bl my instrumentality . M 
 
 thinks of escribing say of the pnaise 
 
 to uie : and God. as is his due. has 
 all the gl'ry ." 
 
No. 12. 
 
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 Oct. 1824. 
 
 FOR THE USE OF THE 
 
 WEEKLY AND MONTHLY CONTRIBUTORS 
 
 TO THE 
 
 IBaptiat a$i00ionatp ^ocietp* 
 
 Christian Friends, 
 
 The above Cat represents a na- 
 tive house in the island of Sumatra. 
 Their habitations are all built, as you 
 see tills is, on posts driven into the 
 ground. For this there arc two rea- 
 sons — earthquakes are veiy frequent, 
 and elephants and other wild beasts 
 so numerous, that the people would 
 hardly be serine in their slight wooden 
 house*, if they were built like ours. 
 
 One cf out- Missionaries who travelled 
 through a part of the country, relates 
 that, at night, they were obliged to 
 keep a strict watch, and discharge 
 their muskets to frighten away the 
 elephants, lest they should overturn 
 the house altogether. It is said, that 
 on one occasion, an elephant of un- 
 common size, when passing under one 
 of these houses, not having room suf- 
 ficient for his huge body, actually lift- 
 
46 
 
 od tlie whole building, and bore it 
 away by main force ! 
 
 Perhaps vie should not have men- 
 tioned this circumstance, but tor the 
 sake of adding one rem. irk, designed 
 more particularly for our Manger lead- 
 er*, li i* tin-, that the customs and 
 
 manneri ol foreign countries are so 
 
 very different fiom our own, that 
 thing! which appear to us perfectly 
 abanrd and impossible, may yet be 
 
 true. If, without Mich an explanation 
 a.s we have now given, you were told 
 that an elephant would thrown down a 
 boose, Off carry it away on his back, 
 VOU would think it was an utter t.il-.-- 
 hood ; and yet, you now perceive ln>\r 
 it in i\ be ■ lober reality. Now the 
 
 Holy Bible was written in a country 
 
 tar distant from oor own, and it con- 
 tains many allnaion* t<> customs ami 
 
 practices unknown here. You may, 
 
 perhaps, meet with people ignorant or 
 
 wi< keij enough to call m question tome 
 
 of the facts or allusions to lie found in 
 
 the hook of God, merely because inch 
 things aie not known or practised ill 
 England. In such east i, a-k yoni pa- 
 tents, or your minister, for an expla- 
 nation of the difficulty, and you will 
 
 ■oon find thai what to an Englishman 
 
 sound* very StmngC and unaecoiiut- 
 
 ahle, is obvious and easy enough to a 
 person acquainted sritu the manners 
 and customs of the Eastern woild. 
 
 Mwy of our readers an probably 
 not awaie I bat, in the rerj numerous 
 islands of the Malayan Archipelago, 
 
 the slave Trade has been carried en, 
 
 though not tO 80 large an extent, ye I 
 
 Irom the same Bvsriciotut principles, 
 ami with circumstances of equal cruelty 
 
 and honor, as on the shon s of long- 
 
 oppressed Africa. As a specimen of 
 
 1 | I nt of tin- d< fcsl- 
 
 able traffic, wi transcribe the f dlow- 
 lug nai rative from s rerj n ipet (able 
 pi i iodii al work, called the Asiatic 
 Journal. Several other sccountsol a 
 
 similar nature m 13 be found tin re. 
 
 "In 1791, a naval offii er, Lientenanl 
 
 in th. i I)./, ti I. i-t India J L'omp u \ • 
 Service, nami d 1). Roy, being nation 
 ed ■>' an t in tie command 
 
 ol a «iiia , cruising »i mm i, was ordered 
 
 1 ie Batai is with d< ipatc i 
 the Supn me < . tvei nmeuL This nm 
 
 ("I til al. In. in, hat JOS. mil hum I" I" 1 ' 
 in in it d a yoon ^ I idy with some Ultll 
 I' I ii ^ ti I Ins pi. si nt VO] 
 
 lit opporlupitj to mi i. ase ti.' sum by 
 purchasing slaves, whom he would sell 
 loi a good |>ikl at Balat ia< H. I 
 
 accordingly nine or ten very fine slont 
 young men, hut intending to make the 
 beat of his money, every one of the 
 skiVI I he picked up was what thev call 
 
 \r<u in, meaning stolen, and he gal them 
 in conseq uence as cheap as he wish- 
 ed. Being ready to sail, he put these 
 slaves on board his vessel, ihgbtlj se- 
 cured, thinking that his small crew, 
 consisting of a few European*, and 
 
 some Javanese sailors, would he siit- 
 fielent to miaul them, and I. ft the har- 
 bour. When he came off the 'islands 
 railed the Brother*, the slaves thug 
 slight!] secured, observing the small* 
 MSI oi the en ,\ , halt ol' whom only 
 kept watch, thought this a fair oppor- 
 tunity to ml ihemm Ives of then- fetters, 
 and their master. Accordingly, in the 
 middle of the night, all being p< iltctly 
 quiet on board, Ibej ro«e all at once, 
 each of Ihrni provided with a strong 
 piece of fire-wood, and rushed upon 
 deck with their usual yells upon inch 
 occasions. The unhappy office! being 
 in this m. nun i loused from US sleep, 
 
 became panic-struok, leaped over- 
 board, ami drowned himself. Some 
 of the few Europeans followed ttn t s> 
 
 ample ol then unfortunate commander, 
 and also lost their li.es in the watery 
 deep. The lest, in then COUStel n.ition, 
 were all to a man cut off. The mu- 
 neers navigated the vessel northwards, 
 behind the Brothers, to the shore of 
 M uidhar, and having plundered the 
 
 Vessel, set it adult, landed Slid dis- 
 pel -id. As soon as this horrible deed 
 I" eune known, and n was ascertain- 
 ed that the perpetrators were mi the 
 island, the Ooverooi of Mai 
 applied to the Kin,' of Hone, and 
 pulling a high piice on t Ik ir beads, 
 
 requested that prince to send ba search 
 
 of them, and it found, to deliver them 
 
 ovei io the ( ompanj . in order th it 
 they might receive a condign punish- 
 ment fn i the atiocioiis crime they bad 
 committed. The King of Hone. 
 a k>ng si an h, ai length ■- 
 them ind s< ut tin ■ to \i i > 
 where, aftei hem- dt in. red into the 
 custody ei the eourl of justice, their 
 condemnation wis, that they .should 
 iii-t be brought to the ordinary place 
 oi execution, there to be U>.| upon the 
 rack, pinched with red- ho I i 
 
 haw- th.ii limbs brokl D, and to n in. on 
 SO llll dead, and then, that thev should 
 he dl Bggl d h\ tin ll legS t" tie 
 
 shore, end tbenct carried ovei t" the 
 
 (iallov/l Island, tin le In be hung up for 
 
 tin food of the birds ol hi tveo. I 
 
 •. otene. WM m the mnimng at s|\ 
 
 o'clock, executed m all its hoiioi*. 
 
47 
 
 The first who underwent the terrible 
 punishment was a lad of about fifteen 
 or sixteeu years of age ; he died im- 
 mediately under the hand of the ex- 
 ecutioner. Two of the remaining three 
 died some while after : but the fourth, 
 who had been the ringleader, was at 
 twelve o'clock still alive; and the ex- 
 ecutioner, to make an end of this hor- 
 rid spectacle, took the cord by which 
 the sufferer's neck was tied to the rack, 
 and strangled Mm. Then the remain- 
 ing part of the sentence was executed 
 on the whole of them." 
 
 The following account of a Suttee, 
 (or burning of Widows,) which took 
 place but a few months ago, in the 
 viciuity of Calcutta, is extracted from 
 one of the newspapers published in 
 that city, on the 10th of November 
 last. 
 
 "A Suttee took place about eight 
 o'clock on Fiiiiay morning, at Koona- 
 gliur Ghaut, where Foyn women, from 
 the age of thirty to fifty, sacrificed 
 themselves on the same pile with the 
 corpse of their dead husband, Kummal 
 Chattiyer, a Cooliu Bramin of Koona- 
 ghur, who was not only permitted, but 
 paid for marrying thirty-two wires, 
 whilst living in this world, and who 
 departed this life on the evening of the 
 5th instant. Directly information was 
 sent to his different wives, who were 
 in general living at their father's houses 
 (only two of his wives lived with him), 
 four of these determined on eqting fire, 
 as the natives call it-, two were living 
 near, one at Calcutta, and the fourth 
 at Bosborrah, above Hoogly ; however 
 they were soon brought together, and 
 the necessary permission having been 
 obtained from the Magistrate of the 
 district (at least so the police people 
 said who attended the suttee), they 
 surrounded the funeral pile, which they 
 enclosed all around with a paling of 
 bamboos, so as to prevent the escape 
 of any who might be so inclined after 
 having once entered it; in less than 
 one minute after the fire was lighted 
 the whole of them must have been suf- 
 focated, and in less than ten minutes 
 their bodies were burnt to a coal, so 
 excessively hot was the fire. So com- 
 mon is the sight in this neighbourhood, 
 that only a tew hundred people col- 
 lected together to see it, and nearly 
 all of them women. It is said that 
 twenty-two of his wives were living at 
 his death, and it was expected more of 
 (Item would have joined the four." 
 
 As a refreshing contrast to the above 
 account, we subjoin an obituary of a 
 native Christian female, who died at 
 Serampore, about a month after that 
 dreadful immolation. 
 
 On December 8th, 1823, Jumoona, 
 the wife of our brother Gorachund, 
 was carried off by the fatal cholera. 
 She was young, but a christian who 
 adorned the gospel of God her Saviour, 
 and her loss is felt exceedingly in the 
 pious little circle in which she moved. 
 Those who were well acquainted with 
 her, whether Heathens or Christians, 
 say that she possessed a most amiable 
 disposition, and was seldom or never 
 heard to use a harsh or unkind ex- 
 pression. She had commenced reading 
 several months, and of late had made 
 considerable progress. Being naturally 
 shy, it was difficult tiKget her to con- 
 verse on religious subjects ; and this, 
 her natural disposition, with her ex- 
 treme weakness, prevented our ob- 
 taining more information respecting 
 her religious feelings when laid on the 
 bed of death ; but the little we were 
 able to gather from her, was such as 
 denoted inward peace, and assured us 
 that she died in the faith of Christ. 
 The evening she was taken ill, her 
 friends brought her youngest child to 
 her; on which she requested them to 
 take it away, saying, the child was no 
 longer hers. "No," said she, "'tis 
 no longer mine. Why do you wish to 
 engage my affections with earthly 
 tilings? 1 am going to my heavenly 
 father, to my home, to the mansion 
 which he has prepared forme." The 
 following morning when a friend called 
 to see her, the first word she said was 
 " I'ray for me, I am a great sinner, and 
 am now justly suffering the desert of 
 my sins." Her friend said, " We are 
 all sinners; but Christ died for us, and 
 will not forsake us." " Yes," she an- 
 swered, "He is all my hope — I cleave 
 to him at this trying hour, and would 
 not be without him for worlds." Some- 
 time after this, she was asked, in what 
 state she felt her mind. " Quite com- 
 fortable," was her reply. " Jesus is 
 precious, very precious to my soul." 
 A little boy, her eldest brother's son, 
 (whom she had reared and been a 
 mother to after its own had died) stood 
 at the head of her bed crying. On 
 hearing him she called him to her, and 
 being too weak to sit up, she threw 
 her arms round his neck, and address- 
 ing him by the most endearing names, 
 begged him not to weep, assuring him 
 that God would take care of him. The. 
 
48 
 
 scene was so affecting as to melt all 
 near her into tears, which when she 
 
 i i. " Why do yoo slic-tJ 
 tears evei mi— i'ii"' .ire no lean in 
 
 liiv cvi s ; see how tli v the] .11 
 
 r;iu-c have I f"i lorrow? tm I nut 
 going to glory — to l;<- ivf-n ? ' Snortlj 
 
 this ;i christian neighbour r,iin< 
 in to see her, and, finding her bo ill 
 burst into tears. But the dying woman 
 addressed her in the most affectionate 
 manner. M Oh my friend," she >aid, 
 "we have walked hand in hand manj 
 ■ , we bat e gone to tlie hi 
 
 together, but my walking with 
 
 on c 'i i;i N 8t an end ; I am 
 
 to a world of Mis", there to walk in 
 
 the pi 1113 heat inly Patlu r." 
 
 Then turning to hei Christian friends 
 
 who were i it, "lit 1 said, " Pray for 
 
 me; for the sail I'lon of my soul and 
 
 the pardon <>t my si 1 .s. (iod grant 
 that I may not 1m deceiving myself, I 
 
 feci must for my children : when mv 
 mother died ihfl I ft her family to the 
 rare <>f Mr. Ward, hut now 1 am ;jo- 
 ing, I have not bim to recommend 
 them to, for he is gone befon me/ 
 It was observed that God wonld take 
 rare of them "Yes,' >in' answered, 
 "he will, I do wrong therefore to dia 
 trust him." she w.i< now exhausted, 
 and said little after this: and at one 
 o'clock breathed her soul into the 
 hands of her adored and faithful Re- 
 deeraer. she was about twenty years 
 of aue, and bad i>. en a member of the 
 Church nearly llnee years. 
 
 MlStlONABtM niMst die, at well as 
 
 their converts. Binee oar last Qnar. 
 teiiy Paper w.-^ published, we have 
 beard of the decease ol one, who oc- 
 enpied a sphere of considerable im- 
 portance in Jamaica — Mr. THOMAS 
 Knibb, who superintended the Reboot, 
 connected with Mr. Cooltarfi cangre* 
 n at Kingston. Mr. Knibh w.is 
 b in at keit. i ing, October, 1799 
 
 was liom his childhood the suliji , I ot 
 
 religions impressions, resulting, tinder 
 the Divine blessing, from the early iu- 
 strnctiona of a pioaa mother. In his 
 early youth, he mm admitted into a 
 
 >unda\ srho I. and OH the first Sjh- 
 
 bath of his attendance, one of the 
 mm obtained the reward of a Bi- 
 ble, which was the fust that had beea 
 j n in (he school. When Thomas 
 returned hi me, he told hi" mothl r what 
 ken place, ami added, " Mother, 
 yon shall soon heal that 1 have gained 
 id." Bo intense was his desire 
 to fulfil tins promise, that he tunc 
 a candle unknown to the family, and 
 it lour hi tbe morning to pursue 
 in- t i"k He a ma gait c l hi- point ; 
 
 and having acquired tue necessary 
 number of ticket- before any of his 
 compani us, bore an ij 'he prize with 
 gieat delight to 'lis mother. 
 
 At the usual use. Mr. Knibb was 
 bound apprentice to Mr J. G Fuller, 
 Printer, in Bristol, and was baptized 
 and admitted into the cbni eh at liroad- 
 mead, in that cm, under the pastoral 
 eaie of l)i. I in the month of 
 
 Febrn ! I re he soon made 
 
 himself very useful in I be Sunday 
 school; and having long been strongly 
 inclined to Missionary work, when a 
 master was needed lor the school at 
 
 Kingston, exp re ssed bis willingness to 
 go, and was accordingly sent thither 
 
 in October, i:i.'j. 
 
 DiniiiL' his short residence in Ja- 
 maica, Mr. Rml.b was highly respect- 
 ' I l>\ all with whom lie hail any intei- 
 COtfrse, and the school, which contain- 
 ed ISO children, was brought into great 
 order and efficiency. Hhi it pleased 
 
 Hon who si elh no! as n in U eth, sud- 
 denly to cut short his days, and re- 
 move him after a mi \ short illness, on 
 
 the litb of «pril last. Onr limits wiU 
 
 not allow ot addinv am tnilher pai- 
 
 licnlars; bat oai readers may see a 
 rerj affecting at coont <-t' ins death, iu 
 i letter from his friend Mr. Coal tart, 
 in tbe Missionary Herald of August 
 J.i s t , page O.J. 
 
 P rsons collecting to the amount of ftiipence a week are entitled to a Copy 
 of the i Herald, which is published monthly, containing a vai 
 
 interesting intelligence. Bnefa frl . s> become t'oi e 
 
 and who know not where toapplv m their own n ighboorhood, may wilt- by 
 post to the Rev. John Dyer, 5, Feu ( nrb Fencbnrch Street, Loadem, »ho 
 will send them Cards and Papci , a d direct loam how to remit tba moaty. 
 
 Wycombe: Printed bj M. ( . Moms, High Street 
 
no. i3. (Quarterly Papers, Ja "- 1825 - 
 
 FOR THE USE OF THE 
 
 WEEKLY AND MONTHLY CONTRIBUTORS 
 
 TO THE 
 
 Christian Friends, 
 
 The figure engraven on the other side is a representation of 
 Bramah, the creating deity of the Hindoos, styled the grandfather 
 of gods and men. The following account of the manner in which 
 it was obtained, was given some years ago, in a letter from Mr. 
 Lawson, of Calcutta. 
 
 During my illness, last cold season, 
 being laid aside from preaching tour 
 or five months, I went a little way up 
 the country for my health, and resided 
 a fortnight at the house of one of our 
 members, Mr. Johnson. One day, 
 passing through a very inconsiderable 
 and obscure village, we saw, in a nar- 
 row lane, three enormous idols, cut in 
 a coarse black blue kind of marble. 
 Two of them were placed in a leaning 
 posture under some trees; the other 
 was stuck into the earth ; and, on ex- 
 amination, we found it (at least in our 
 judgment) to be nothing more than the 
 huge end of a gutter, that had been on 
 the top of some heathen edifice, with 
 a kind of lion's head and mouth wide 
 open, evidently intended merely as an 
 ornament to the corner of some build- 
 ing, as you have often seen in archi- 
 tecture, an ugly beast disgorging water. 
 This is now put .up as an object of ado- 
 ration. The month of the figure is grin- 
 ning against the heavens; and the poor 
 ignorant old women feed the god every 
 day with water, rice, plantains, &c. 
 We asked the villagers to sell us one of 
 the idols under the tree; they would 
 by no means be so wicked as to comply 
 with our request. The next day, how- 
 ever, these villagers being in the em- 
 ploy of Mr. J. came to his house to 
 make a contract for some work on his 
 indigo factory. Some demur took 
 place in settling the contract, till Mr. J. 
 observed, " Well, if you will bring that 
 large idol we saw yesterday, and lend 
 it'me for a little while, then the con- 
 tract shall be as you wish it." The 
 villagers immediately consented: two 
 bullocks and a cart were sent to the 
 village, and in a short time the idol 
 made his appearance, much to my 
 satisfaction, as I determined to take 
 his likeness, and send it at some future 
 
 period to England. I now with much 
 pleasure enclose my drawing, and wish 
 it may be published. 
 
 The colour of the stone is a bluish 
 black. It is exceedingly ponderous, 
 although only four feet and a half high, 
 and of a proportionate breadth and 
 thickness; yet sixteen or twenty men 
 could hardly move it about. It is an 
 image of Bramah, one of ihe trio. Yon 
 will find a sufficient account of it in 
 brother Ward's book.* Another head 
 was cut on the back part of the stone, 
 as only three could be cut in the front. 
 The nose is knocked on", and also au 
 arm. This was done formerly by the 
 Musulmans. 
 
 In the extract we have given above 
 from Mr. Lawson's letter, you observe 
 that mention is made of 'ignorant old 
 women,' who were foolish enough to 
 visit the ugly stone idol every day, and 
 carry rice, plantains, &c. to feed it. 
 But you must bear in mind that this 
 folly is not confined to a particular 
 class of the females in India, but that, 
 for ages, the female part of the popu- 
 lation of that vast country, with very 
 rare exceptions, have been in such a 
 state of ignorance as not to know a 
 letter, or how to use a needle. If you 
 were to go there, yon would be sur- 
 prised and concerned to see how little 
 they are esteemed — they are treated 
 as mere drudges, building houses, and 
 doing other hard and menial work, 
 while their indolent husbands are sit- 
 ting at their ease! 
 
 We mentioned in our Quarterly Pa- 
 per, two years ago, (No. 5,) that, af- 
 ter many difficulties, a beginning had 
 been made in the establishment of 
 
 * See Ward's Hindoo Mythology, 
 Vol. I. p. 33. 
 
,1 
 
 Schools for the benefit of these poor 
 females, and we are happy to inform 
 yon that this good and necessary work 
 has extended greatly since then. As 
 one proof of this, we shall copy an ac- 
 count of an examination of the schools 
 which have been formed in and around 
 Serampore, and which are chit fly su- 
 perintended by the young ladies in the 
 Missionary family there. 
 
 " On Monday, the 5th of April, the 
 first annual examination of the Seram- 
 pore Native Female Schools was held. 
 Mr. Hohlenberg, the Judge and Ma- 
 gistrate of the settlement, and all the 
 members of the Mission family were 
 present, with several other friends to 
 the cause. The number of little girls 
 assembled on the occasion, was up- 
 wards of two hundred and thirty. Of 
 these, about thirty-five were able to 
 read in books: about the same num- 
 ber read words of from two to five 
 syllables, in tables; and twenty read 
 words of one syllable. These were 
 brought before the company in classes, 
 commencing with those who had made 
 the least proficiency. Small as that 
 may appear, it is not gained without 
 much attention and labour; nor is it a 
 degree of progress of little consequence 
 in their education. It is preceded by 
 an accurate acquaintance with all the 
 letters, single and compound, of every 
 kind, the utmost care being taken that 
 nothing shall be considered as done at 
 all, which is done by rote. Each of 
 these little children, therefore, could 
 readily name every letter and mark, 
 that occurred in any syllable present- 
 ed to her, and give each its proper 
 sound : and afte*- this, the doing the 
 same with words of two, three, or 
 any number of syllables, becomes an 
 easy ta-k. The highest class read 
 from the books which they had been 
 using in school, such passages as were 
 selected by Dr. Carey at the moment, 
 and acquitted themselves much to the 
 satisfaction, and sometimes, by their 
 arch look and modulation of voice, to 
 the amusement, of all present. There 
 were a few who -could read any com- 
 mon hook that was put into their 
 hands : and some of the daughters of 
 our native Christian brethren who at- 
 tend one of the schools, repeated parts 
 of different religious Catechisms, and 
 several hymns. Specimens of their 
 needlework and knitting were like- 
 wise produced, one of them having 
 knit four pairs of children's socks, al- 
 though these pursuits have been but 
 recently introduced. 
 
 " The children having been rewarded 
 
 as their several classes retired from 
 the room, and the examination being 
 concluded, a report was read to the 
 Company of the present state of the 
 schools. This will be published here- 
 after in a mote extended fin:,:. In the 
 meantime we shall only observe, that 
 the number of schools is thirteen; the 
 total number of names upon the school- 
 lists is about two hundred niul Jjjty ; 
 and the average daily attendance is 
 somewhat above two hundred. By this 
 statement it will be seen that the num- 
 ber of schools is decreased. This has 
 arisen from the necessity of breaking 
 up of several of those first established, 
 because of the insuperable difficulties 
 attending their superintendence. The 
 schools, however, which remain, are, 
 almost without exception, in the high- 
 est state of prosperity which they have 
 ever enjoyed, whether it regards num- 
 bers, discipline, or progress in learn- 
 ing. And it will not be difficult to 
 multiply our schools to any extent, 
 and perfectly within our reach, as soon 
 as we feel that there is no doubt of 
 our being supported in our exertions. 
 Besides, female schools are rising with 
 such pleasing rapidity at several of 
 our Missionary stations, that we find 
 it necessary to avoid lavishing all our 
 means upon Serampore." 
 
 While these means are employed for 
 the benefit of Hindoo females in ge- 
 neral, it is very pleasing to receive, 
 from time to time, accounts of those 
 who appear to have been effectually 
 taught by the Spirit of God those 
 things which accompany salvation. 
 An instance of this kind in a person 
 named Debranee, is related in the let- 
 ter from which we extracted the pre- 
 ceding article. It is as follows: 
 
 "On the l?th of March, 1824, died 
 Debranee, a female native Christian. 
 She was the widow of Bykant«, one 
 of the earliest converts, whose first 
 visit to the Missionaries at Serampore 
 from the district of Jessore, is men- 
 tioned in the Periodical Accounts, 
 vol. iii. page 162: it was on the 15th 
 of June, 1805. At page 532 of the 
 same volume, under date 9th Febru- 
 ary, 1806, we have the following no- 
 tice: ' Our brother Bykanttt is return- 
 ed from Jessore full of joy. His wife 
 has forsaken her father's house to 
 cleave to him. She declared her re- 
 solution to do so in the presence of an 
 officer, sent by the British Magistrate 
 to her father's. The particulars of this 
 affair are quite interesting. She is 
 about nineteen, and has an infant soo.' 
 
52 
 
 " Whilst her hiiiluiiil lived, she act- 
 ed with a constancy ■• t h I assiduity oi" 
 affection worthy of this 'tension. For 
 sixteen years sbejtad beenamembei 
 of toe chorea, and adorned the doc- 
 trine of her Lord and Saviour. She 
 had been ■ Hilmv for seven years, 
 during the irhole nt which tune she 
 possessed inch strong <• lofidence in 
 God as never to despond in anj afflic- 
 tion. When any of her n I itivei were 
 ill, and siic was asked if she was not 
 concerned ;j l>- m t them, ihe would say, 
 'What will Tiiv concern avail! 
 cares for them, and therefore then' is 
 
 Hi) need I 'or inr to dlSt I BCt III*. -' If. 1 
 If ihe found any one in deep SOITOW 
 
 for some loss, ihe wonld reprove them 
 bj taj Inr, ' 1 on ael rery nnn 
 it is oorduty in all oar trials to look 
 to (inil and bless bim. He ii Almighty 
 and Omnipresent, and then lore knows 
 all our sorrows.' By inch conduct s||i- 
 eminently fulfilled the scriptural ex- 
 hortation, ' be anxious for nothing, 1 
 without being at all chargeable with 
 apathy or selfishness. 
 
 ■• Bhortlj afiei the death of her hus- 
 band, she went to reside with two other 
 widows, who were members of the 
 
 church. From that time to her death, 
 
 she lived in the ;n itest low and peace 
 
 with them. She was a constant at* 
 
 tender on the means o r grace when in 
 
 health, and took mnefa pleasure in at- 
 tending the Babbatfa school, where she 
 
 would take her turn wiih the real ol 
 
 the sisters in offering Dp a short pre] ei . 
 She appeared anxious to read; ami at 
 night, with the assistance of her son, ■ 
 boy of eight yean of age, would n id 
 over her l e s sons. She rerj earnestly 
 d< -ind also, tiiat her daughters might 
 be able to read the ici iptnn i. 
 
 • She was ill a whole year, and at 
 the commencement was reqaested bj 
 her friendi to have medical advice, 
 but she always said, 'tins ilcknt - is 
 
 not unto death : I shall reCOl BT, I 
 hive comfort in that I have a Ood to 
 
 look to.' when medicine was edmi- 
 
 rt d, slir always took it, sa\ iog, 
 
 ' i Lord will do with me ai b< 
 
 thinks best My bod* ii ill Indeed, 
 
 but my loul hi in health.' About this 
 time hi r son-inlau c 'II' I I I -■ • her, 
 
 and finding bei rerj ill, asked her what 
 she thought i I her* If. she replied, 
 ' All ■] Dope i- phv ■ d on my v i 
 
 •li ■« ii > ( hi i-t. I know th.il tbj 
 dre. itflll World. It i- last p 
 
 away, and w an all dying, but 
 
 ed U the soul whose -ins JUSUS hi 
 
 Mill, d on'.' ^ In ii In r s n in-law 
 
 pras <.ii with bar, she appeared to be 
 
 melted in sorrow. When he had finiib- 
 ed, he tried to comfort her. She beg- 
 ged him not to grieve about her, •for,' 
 ■ , 'if it be the will ol God t< 
 take me out of mis thorny world, all 
 I praj fot is. thai He maj pn . t 
 me for my departure. M >\ the Lord 
 bless you tor ever with the light of his 
 conntenance. — Oh rely on Hon.' 
 
 " Her illm >» being Ol long continn- 
 
 ain-e, tier Christian brethren i I vo- 
 ters had many opportunities of cou- 
 versing with tier, and at all • tini's her 
 i wtioni w< re so satisfactory, that 
 
 many were lid to say, that God WSJ 
 
 very rracionsto her, and had blessed 
 her with the consolations of I is I lolj 
 Spirit. Her disorder rapidly in< 
 ed, and medicinei were of little use. 
 (im oigbt Ini yonngest son-in-iavi 
 calling to nee her, inquired if ihe w< ti 
 comfortable in mind. ' Yea, 1 she au- 
 swered; 'I have nothing to fear, for I 
 have obtained salvation through Christ 
 
 He died on the CRWS for my Mil* ; and 
 
 < rod through his Son h is w iped off the 
 debt thai was accumulated throach 
 my iniquities. I have peace. The 
 •offerings thai I eadure from my de- 
 caying bo K are not worth] to be call- 
 ed infferings, when compared with 
 what Christ endured for a gailtyworhL 
 Her youngest daughter had lived with 
 in i -nine time, ami whenever ahe was 
 free from pain, she would converse 
 w nli her children on the rabjt ct of re- 
 ligion, and beg them to feat (lod and 
 walk in his wa\ >. 
 
 "iiii disease was rerj distressiag, 
 yet, do I withstanding all her sufferings, 
 no impatient word was hear 1 1 i escape 
 hei lips. (Mti ii when in i friends cx- 
 tooishmenl at this, »be 
 would iay, 'No one can participate 
 in my pains, and therefore it is best 
 tor me to suffer them patiently. Mj 
 body alone suffi i s, not mv mind.' 
 
 "Si vera! of the mentbt nut' the Mis- 
 sion family called to ice her ..t differ- 
 ent times, and invariably found her 
 ,. ippv a. i l it< adfasl in In ■ i hope. Two 
 or three days previous!) to her death 
 she bad her children collected round 
 in i bed, ami desiring tin m to love ami 
 
 lerVC ( ""I, and to dwell in peace w ilh 
 
 "tin i , the commended tht ■ ta 
 God in a - "it pray* t • Thus 1 1 v < .1 nnj 
 
 died Delnauee. *-l,,. ■ .1- bOTU all 1- 
 
 tiun, but tlirongh tin grace ol God, 
 she died leaving ■ good testimonj (hat 
 
 she had D 1--' d from death unto hlr, — 
 and th I w in possession of r 
 
 never-fading crown of glory " 
 
 • i«, Printer, FTfossaasv 1 
 
no. i4. <&uarterli> tynptv <s, April - 1825 - 
 
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 WEEKLY AND MONTHLY CONTRIBUTORS 
 
 Co tfje OBaptist ^issionatp ^ocietp* 
 
 
 ^B 
 
54 
 
 < ll'MsTIAN Flllt.MIs, 
 
 The annexed Engraving represents 
 a Bazar, or Indian Market. It i^ 
 taken from a collection ot drawing! 
 published tone years lince in Calcutta, 
 ami i> said to convey ■ verj correct 
 idea ot the icene. The Miafionai k -. 
 and the native converts who Itinerate 
 uader their dm ction, are in me fre- 
 qaent habit, ot visiting these Bazars, 
 ami talking with the persona who are 
 found there, about the great truthi of 
 reUgioo. In our country, this would 
 seem hardly proper, because people 
 are general!) too busy to attend, in 
 market tinu , to the voice fit religion! 
 instruction; but in eastern countries, 
 a great portion of the time is spent 
 in stillness and inaction; and as quan- 
 tuns of idols, of wood, clay, itone, 
 brass, dee. are alwayi among the com- 
 modifies exposed to sale, ^uijicta »/' 
 • ■■j.sr are not wanting. We would 
 hope that, ere many yean have | 
 aw ry, tin- effects ot a preach) «l gospel 
 will be seen in banishing tin> article 
 of traffic from the market, l>> convinc- 
 ing both buyers and sellen that they 
 are uo gods which are made bj men's 
 bands. 
 
 In the kingdom or empire of Bur- 
 mab, which lies to the eastward of the 
 British dominions in tsia, and with 
 which the Bast Indian Government is 
 now at war, it i> the practice to pay 
 very extraordinary honours to a rVhitt 
 Elephant, \> li : » ! i is considered pecu- 
 liarly sacred, lo Iged m ar the i 
 
 attended with great devotion, 
 < , en by the monarch bitnsi It'. The 
 folio - ml ol thii singular cus- 
 
 tom is extract! d from the journal ot' a 
 travi lit i who lately visit! id Ave; and 
 i to inspift deep i mmist ration 
 foi ■ whole empire sunk in Mich astoo- 
 
 iabing Itupidity as [iiiis to honour and 
 
 reverence a mere unconscious hi ute I 
 
 idenceol the w bite Elephant 
 i comtiguom n> the royal palace, with 
 which it is connected by ■ long open 
 \ , supported by oumi I ■ ■ row • 
 i, i pillars At the tin titer end of tin- 
 galiery ■ lotty cm tain of bl ick velvet, 
 richly embossed with ^:« >i « t . conceali 
 tin- animal from the ryes "i the rnlgai , 
 B< fore iin> curtain the pn senti In 
 tend) <l to i" ' Hi red tu him 
 of |old mid illvei muslins, broad- 
 cloths, pit ■ of t r, !'•• 
 Ice. dec. sn n 
 
 I been 
 
 ln.nl I hOI t nun , 
 
 at thu ■ t B 
 
 princes, the curtain was drawn an, 
 and discovered the august beast, of a 
 smaD >i/e, the colour of sand, and 
 very innocently playing with his trunk, 
 unconscious of the glory by which he 
 
 was surrounded, the Bi shs .it the 
 
 same time bowing their beads to the 
 gronnd. The dwelling of the. White 
 Elephant is a lofty hall, richly gilt 
 from top to bottom, both in and out- 
 
 side, and supported by sixty-tour pil- 
 lars, ihirty-au of which are also richly 
 Kilt. His two fore-feel were fastened 
 
 b\ a thick silver chain to one of these 
 
 pillars, his bind legs being se< nred by 
 ropes. His bedding consisted of a 
 thick straw mattress covered with the 
 finest blue cloth, over which was spread 
 another of softer materials, covered 
 with crimson silk. The animal has ■ 
 regular household, consisting ol a 
 woongbee, or chief-minister; moond- 
 duk, or lecretary ol ttati ; sereghee, 
 or inferior secretary; nakann, or oh- 
 tainer of intelligence; and other in- 
 ferior minbters, who were all present 
 to receive u*. Besidi ■ tin - , be has 
 other officers who transact the busi- 
 uess ot several estates thai be pos- 
 
 II --i •. in various parts of tin. country, 
 
 and al establishment of ■ rhousano 
 nun, including guards, servants, and 
 other attendants. Ili^ trappings are 
 of < atreme magnificence, being all of 
 
 Cohl, and the i icl.i -t ^'old cloth, thick- 
 ly studded with 1 urge diamonds, p. u Is, 
 sapphires, rubies, and othei precious 
 ■tones. Hi^ betil bos, spitting pot, 
 h itel bangles, ami the vessels oat of 
 
 which be eats and di inks, are likl 
 
 ot' gold, and inlaid with numerous pre- 
 cious Stones. On the curtain In n SJ 
 
 drawn up, we were desired lo imitate 
 the Burmese In tin ir pi ost i tl 
 compliance, however, was not insisted 
 on. The White Elephant appeared to 
 me to be ■ diseased auisnal, whose 
 
 coloui had I ehangi d by asp< 
 
 of li prosy • 
 'I bete honours are said to be 
 
 to the \\ bite I H ph. nit i, ci. unt of 
 
 .hi animal of this description being the 
 last stage of many millions of transmi- 
 
 gratiot s ;i.i OUgtl w huh a xoul | 
 
 previous lo entering Neibaua, n r Pa> 
 i .uii . rding to the Bursa* se 
 
 ' dm trim , previous to hei In mi: absorb- 
 ed into tin- divine asw ace, at rath* i 
 • iiier snaihilated. One ol the 
 i i l • i the » bite, 
 i I .ii 
 
 .mi informt ii the same distinctioa il 
 n to those of the Brat m< olios* H 
 lin si.iim -c An ■ lephaot 
 term* I icd was kept iu a verandah of 
 
55 
 
 the White Elephant's residence, but I 
 could perceive in his colour little dif- 
 fering from that of any other. The 
 King was in the habit of paying his 
 respects to the White Elephant every 
 morning, and of attending when he 
 was taken to the river to be washed, 
 and paid him the same honours as he 
 received from his household." 
 
 At a period of the year, when the 
 scenery ot our own country begins to 
 wear its. most lovely appearance, many 
 of our readers will probably be grati- 
 fied in perusing the following highly 
 animated and descriptive sketch of a 
 voyage up the Ganges, written by our 
 late friend Mr. Ward. 
 
 " As the boat glides along, drawn 
 by our boat-men, we perceive the corn 
 in full growth on both sides of the 
 river — proofs of the care of Him on 
 whom all the creatures wait; and, if 
 imagination could supply a pleasing 
 variety of hill and dale, and some 
 green hawthorn hedges, we might fan- 
 cy ourselves passing through the open 
 fields in our own country; and the 
 ascending larks, the reapers cutting 
 the corn, and the boy driving the herd 
 to graze in some corner of the field, 
 might keep up, for a moment, the 
 pleasing illusion. But a herd of buf- 
 falos at a distance, staring stupidly 
 and wildly, and the lofty stage in the 
 middle of the field, erected for the 
 protection of the keeper, soon remind 
 us of our mistake, and warn us of a 
 danger to which the English husband- 
 man is not exposed. Even the silent, 
 smooth, and unvarying element on 
 which we now move, is not destitute 
 of its variety of objects: here, men, 
 women, and children, are bathing to- 
 gether, the men uniting idolatrous 
 rites with their ablutions, the women 
 washing their long hair with mud, and 
 the children gamboling in the water, 
 with all the gaiety of the finny tribes 
 which surround them : we next pass 
 by some men sitting on the bank, with 
 their rods and lines, and others in 
 their boats with their nets, fishing; 
 and we no sooner - pass these, but we 
 are amused by the sight of an open 
 ferry-boat, crowded with passengers 
 till they almost sit one upon another ; 
 the slightest loss of the balance would 
 immediately compel them to seek the 
 shore as they might be able; and, 
 gliding along the water's edge, comes 
 a man in the trunk of a tree hollowed 
 out into the form of a canoe : he sits 
 at his ease, his oar is at the same time 
 
 his rudder, and this he moves with his 
 leg, for both his hands are engaged in 
 holding the hooka to his head while 
 he smokes. Here an adjutant* stalks 
 along the side of the river, thrusts his 
 long bill among the weeds in search of 
 fish, while the paddy-birds, t in the 
 shallower parts, are silently watching 
 them, and the fine-plumed king-fisher 
 is darting on his prey. At a small 
 distance, several large alligators pre- 
 sent the ridges of their backs ou the 
 surface, and ere we have proceeded a 
 hundred yards, we hear the shrieks 
 of a boat's-crew, and the cries of a 
 man, ' An alligator has seized, and 
 carried off, my son!' As we approach 
 another village, we see a man washing 
 clothes, by dipping them in the river, 
 and beating them on a slanting board ; 
 a bramluin sits on the brink, now wash- 
 ing his poita, now making a clay image 
 of the liugu for worship, and now pour- 
 ing out libations to his deceased an- 
 cestors. Near to the spot where this 
 man sits on his hams to worship, lies 
 a greasy pillow, a water-pot, the ashes 
 of a funeral pile, and the bedstead of 
 the man whose body has just beeo 
 burnt : how suitable a place for wor- 
 ship, with such monuments of mortality 
 before him would this be, if the bram- 
 hun knew the immediate consequences 
 of death, and if there was any thing in 
 the Hindoo forms of worship at all 
 calculated to prepare the mind for the 
 dissolution of the body! In one place 
 we see dogs, crows, and vultures de- 
 vouring a human body, which had 
 floated to the shore, and in another, 
 several relations are in the act of burn- 
 ing a corpse, the smell of which, en- 
 tering the boat, is peculiarly offensive ; 
 yet this does not prevent the people of 
 our boat from eating a very hearty meal 
 on the grass, in the immediate vicinity 
 of the funeral pile. In another place, 
 the swallows are seeking their nests 
 in the holes of the banks, while a bird 
 of the heron kind stands on a dead 
 tree, fallen by the side of the river, 
 and, spreading his wings, dries them 
 in the rays of the sun. From the as- 
 cent of a landing-place, the women of 
 a neighbouring village are carrying 
 home water for their families, the pans 
 resting on their sides. Floats of bain- 
 
 * Ardea Argala. These birds are 
 very numerous in Calcutta: the inha- 
 bitants, I am told, are forbidden to 
 destroy them, on account of the use 
 they are of, in contributing to remove 
 offensive carcases, bones, &c. 
 
 t Two species of Ardea. 
 
boot are pawing by, carried down by 
 the cm rent, while the men, in a small 
 boat, guide tliem, and prevent their 
 touching the side, or the boats, as 
 they pass. Long grass, swamps, and 
 sheets of water, with wild ducks and 
 other game, remind ns of the periodi- 
 cal rains, whicli inundate the country. 
 These clusters of trees indicate that 
 we approach a village : the tall and 
 naked palms rear their heads above 
 the branches of the wide-spreading 
 liens Iudica, under which hundreds Of 
 people find a shelter, unil in the 
 branches of "Inch are seen the mon- 
 keys, some carrying the young under 
 their bellies, and others grinning at 
 us, while they leap from branch to 
 branch; and, while nature is drawing 
 the curtains of the evening, in a neigh- 
 bouring clump of bamboos, the mines" 
 make a din like the voices of a group 
 of women engaged in a tierce quarrel ; 
 and the bats, as large as crows, are 
 flying to anothor clump of bamboos. 
 Entering the village the next morning, 
 we overtake a female, who avoids our 
 gaze by drawing her garment over her 
 face: on one hip sits her child, and 
 on another she carries a large pan of 
 water; — the dogs, half-wild, put on 
 the most threatening aspect, and bark 
 most savagely ; the men come to the 
 doors, and the women peep at the 
 strangers through the crevices of the 
 mat walls, manifesting a degree of 
 fear and eager curiosity ; the naked 
 children, almost covered with dust, 
 leave their play, and flee at the ap- 
 proach of Gourn ("a white man.) Be- 
 fore a door, near the fiens Indica, 
 where the village gossips assemble, 
 and under which is placed the village 
 god, or, in other words, a round black 
 
 • There are three or four species of 
 these birds, which arc improperly 
 though commonly called mioas. 
 
 stone, as large as a man's head, smear- 
 ed with oil and red lead, sits a mail 
 cleaning his teeth with the bruised 
 end of a stick ;t and we meet another, 
 returning from a neighbouring field, 
 with a brass water-pot in his hand ; 
 while the thud person thai meets our 
 eye, is the rill ige barber, sitting on 
 his hams in the street, and shaving 
 one of his neighbours. One or two 
 women are sticking cakes of cow-dung 
 on the wall, to dry for fuel ;♦ another 
 is washing the door-place with water, 
 mud and cow-dung, and two others 
 are cleaning the rice from the hnsk, 
 by pounding it with a pedal. Not far 
 from the ficus Iudica, we see I tem- 
 ple of the lingo, and the people, as 
 they pass, raise their hands to their 
 heads in honour of this abominable 
 image ; from thence we go to a mosque, 
 mouldering to ruins, and sec near it a 
 mound of earth, under a tree, raised 
 like a grave, and dedicated to some 
 Mnsnbnan saint; close to which is 
 sitting a hfnsulman pbnkeer, receiving 
 kotirees from the passengers, some ol 
 whom he has supplied with fire for 
 their hookas : this appears to be a com- 
 mon resting-place for travellers, and 
 several are now assembled, conversing 
 like passengers at an inn." 
 
 t The Hindoo young men profess to 
 admire the teeth when daubed with 
 the black powder with which they 
 clean them. 
 
 t This article is used for fuel in 
 India to a great extent indeed ; it is 
 gathered in the fields by a particular 
 cast of females, and carried about for 
 sale: 1280 cakes are sold tor a roupec ; 
 the smell in burning is not offensive 
 to the natives, but is far from being 
 pleasant to Europeans. When well 
 prepared and dried, they blaze like 
 wood. 
 
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No. 15. Jvty. 1825. 
 
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 WEEKLY AND MONTHLY CONTRIBUTORS 
 
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H 
 
 Christian Friends, 
 
 The picture on the other side of the 
 leaf represents one of those s'upen- 
 dous buildings, eahed Pagoda*, or 
 Temples, crecte 1 in 'he Rnrman em- 
 pire, to the honour oi Gaud una, who 
 is said to have been, in ancient times, 
 a celebrated teacher among tl em, and 
 i> now universally worshipped with 
 divine honours. T h\< empire of 1 » : t r - 
 inah lies on the «■ Mern side of the 
 Ha/ of Ben??!, and !•- supposed to con- 
 taui eighteen millions of inhabitants, 
 all in a 'tat" of th»- nost doploi able 
 ignorance, and sutTering Uie variou* 
 mi, em-* attendanl >n subjection to 
 one of the mo ' lespotic governments 
 on earth. Into *M : coontrj some 
 Missionaries have lately l><>'i. sent by 
 the American Baptist Missionary So- 
 ciety; and as a war has broken out 
 between ihe Bnrman Government and 
 the British East India Company, these 
 
 Missionaries, who arc looked upon 
 as English by the Burmans, are placed 
 in eery dangerous circumstances. We 
 have lately received the journal of 
 Mr. Wade, one af the Missionaries, re- 
 sidinir at the seaport town of Rangoon, 
 when it was attacked and taken by 
 tlir British, and slia II give you some 
 extracts from it. They will shew 
 vhat dangers those may suddenly be 
 exposed to, who venture into bar- 
 barous countries to preach the gospel; 
 
 and we hope will lead you to be more 
 i .i:.i ^t iu prayer on their behalf. 
 
 On the approach of the British 
 fleet, orders were immediate!} given 
 by the Yawhoon, or Governor, to 
 and imprison every person who 
 wore a hat ihe distinct badge of 
 Europeans. In eona canence of this 
 order, the Missionaries as well as 
 
 others, were seized, and soon fband 
 
 that their character, as ministers <>t 
 religion, sffbrdod them no protection. 
 14 Our legs were bound together 
 with ropes, and eight or ten Burmans, 
 armed with spears, battle-aaea, Sec. 
 
 weie placed over us U a guard. An 
 
 hom or two afterwards, the black- 
 siuilh rani" in, bringing a rough, 
 
 heavy chain. It consisted of three 
 
 links •' aeh abOUt four inches i" length, 
 ami pounded together *0 close as lo 
 
 completely prevent it from bending 
 
 assy mere than • straight baroi i 
 
 The pans designed lo go rend the 
 ancles were bar« of Iron tbont tn o 
 
 thirds elan i thii '.. " it ttallj round* 
 
 •■d, and bent top ih i so a» jo«t to 
 admit the 
 
 for Mr. Hough & myself. He was first 
 seated, his leg laid upon a block, the 
 r.ng placed U| on the ancle, and then 
 pounded down close with heavy blows. 
 The other ring was put upon my ancle 
 in the same manner. Our situation 
 afforded no convenie nce for lying 
 down; and of course allowed us no 
 sleep. .,r evt n rest. 
 
 "The ight was long and tiresome, 
 bul at length morning arrived. The 
 fleet had ROt under weigh, and was 
 rapidly advancing upon the town. Our 
 i;iiard was considerably strengthened, 
 and enjoined strictly to keep us close. 
 Shortly after, orders from the Yaw- 
 hoon wei < communicated to our guard, 
 through the grates of the prison, that 
 the instant the shipping should open 
 a fire upon the town, they were to 
 massacre all the prisoners without hesi- 
 tation. This blasted all our hopes. 
 The guards immediately began sharj • 
 ening their instruments of death with 
 bricks, and brandishing them about 
 our heads, to show with how much 
 dexterity and pleasure they would 
 
 ixi cute tin n flttal orders, L'pon the 
 place which they intended for the 
 scene of butchery, a larne quantity of 
 sand was spread to receive the blood. 
 Among the prisoners reigned the 
 gloom and silence of dea'h — the vast 
 ocean of eternity seemed but a step 
 before us. Mr. H. and myself threw 
 ourselves down upon a mattress, ex- 
 pecting never to rise a:_*ain, and calmly 
 waited to hear the first gun that should 
 he tired upon the town, as the si^na! 
 for our certain death.- \t length the 
 fleet arrived, and the attack com- 
 menced. The first hall throw n into the 
 town came with a tremendous noise, 
 directly over our heads.- —Our guards, 
 filled with consternation and am ana 
 
 meat, seemingly unable to execute 
 their murderous orders, Monk 
 
 into one corner of the piison, where 
 
 they remained perfectly cpnet, until 
 
 1 a broadside from the LitlVy, which 
 
 in il- the prison shake and tremble 
 
 in its v. i\ foundations, so rffectnally 
 frightened Ihem, that, like children, 
 I they rried out through fear, and open- 
 h declared their intention of breaking 
 open the door, saying, 'The building 
 will certainly he down up.ui as; w< 
 
 BMMl go.' Thev soon found UMaM to 
 
 break open tin- door; which being 
 
 done, thev all winl mil, hut look the 
 
 precaution lo secure the door again, 
 b\ fastening it with rattans upon the 
 
 Miiiside. We were now left alone. 
 
 All remained quiet ■bent tin s p ace of 
 
 I half an hour; but iu a moment the 
 
59 
 
 whole scene changed. About fifty 
 armed Burmaiis came rushing into the 
 prison like madmen. We were instant- 
 ly seized, dragged out of the prison, 
 our clothes torn from onr bodies, and 
 our arms drawn behind us with cords, 
 so tight that it was impossible to move 
 them. I Thought mine would have been 
 cut entirely to the bone; indeed, we 
 were treated just as they would Heat 
 criminals, whom they were about to 
 lead to the place of execution. We 
 were now put in front of several 
 armed men, whose duty it was to goad 
 us aiong with the points of their 
 spears; others had hold of the end of 
 the cord which bound our arms; they 
 would pull us first this way, then that, 
 so that it was impossible for us to de- 
 termine in what direction they would 
 have us go. After making an exhibi- 
 tion of us through almost every street 
 in the town, we were at length 
 brought to the Youngdau, or place 
 where all causes are tried, and sen- 
 tences past; it was the seat of judg- 
 ment, but not of justice. Here sat the 
 dispenser of life and death, surround- 
 ed by other officers of the town. He 
 ordered us to be placed before him 
 in a kneeling posture, with our faces 
 to the ground, to which we submitted 
 in the most respectful manner. On 
 one side of us was a noisy rabble, 
 crying out altogether, ' That dau, 
 that dan,' that is, Let them he put to 
 death, let them be put to death. Be- 
 tween us and the Yawhoou were two 
 linguists, kneeling, and with tears 
 begging mercy for us. The cries of 
 the multitude prevailed. The execu- 
 tioner, who stood on one side with a 
 large knife in his hand, waiting the 
 decision, was ordered to proceed; but 
 just as he was lifting the knife to strike 
 off the head of the prisoner nearest 
 him, Mr. H. begged permission to 
 make a proposal to the Yawhoon, who 
 having beckoned to the executioner to 
 desist a little, demanded what he had 
 to say. The proposal was, that one 
 or two of the prisoners shonld.be sent 
 on board the shipping, in which case 
 he would at least promise that the 
 firing upon the town should cease 
 directly. But, said the. Yawhoon, 
 'Are you sure, of this; will yon po- 
 sitively engage to make peace?' At 
 this moment a broadside from the 
 Liffey occasioned great alarm. The 
 Yawhoon and other officers instantly 
 dispersing, sought refuge under the 
 banks of a neighbouring tank. The 
 multitude began to flee with great 
 precipitance, and though our ancles 
 
 were already miserably galled with 
 our chains, the cords on our arms 
 intolerably painful, and destitute of 
 any clothes except pantaloons, urged 
 along with spears, we were obliged to 
 keep pace with those whom fear 
 impelled with hasty step. They pro- 
 ceeded in the direction of the Great 
 Pagoda. Looking behind, we saw the 
 Yawhoon and his officers following ns 
 upon horseback. When they had 
 overtaken us, the proposal made by 
 Mr. H. was assented to, and his chains 
 were taken off: he asked to have me 
 sent witli him, but this was refused. — 
 Mr. H. being gone, the remaining pri- 
 soners were committed to the charge 
 of an inferior officer, with strict orders, 
 that Lf Mr. H. did not succeed, to put 
 us to death ; which also was the sub- 
 stance of the message sent by the 
 Yawhoon to the General by Mr^ H. 
 on whose success now hung all* our 
 hopes of life. The officer directed, 
 that we should be deposited in a 
 building standing upon the base of the 
 Great Pagoda, and be treated hos- 
 pitably Until Mr. H.'s return. 
 
 " Mr. H. delivered his message from 
 the Yawhoon to Sir Archibald Camp- 
 bell, who said in answer, ' If the 
 Hurmans shed a drop of white blood, 
 we will lay the whole country in ruins, 
 and give no quarter.' He returned 
 without delay to the place where he 
 had left the Yawhoon, for the purpose 
 of delivering the General's answer; 
 but not finding him, he proceeded as 
 far as the Great Pagoda, where he 
 found many Bunnans, of whom he 
 enquired after the Yawhoon, and also 
 for the prisoners; but being unable to 
 gain any information of either, he re- 
 turned back to town. It was now 
 near eight o'clock, and the firing from 
 the shipping still continuing, gave us 
 reason to apprehend that Mr. H. had 
 done little good by his message to the 
 General. We, however, remained as 
 quiet as possible, which was now our 
 only hope of safety. Exhausted by 
 hunger, and the fatigues of the day, 
 we laid our naked bodies upon the 
 ground, in hopes of gaining a little 
 rest; but our situation was too uncom- 
 fortable to admit of sleep. — Several 
 times during the night our fears were 
 greatly excited by the Burmans; for 
 there were several hundreds around 
 us; and it was almost impossible to 
 stir without making a noise with our 
 chains loud enough to be heard at a 
 considerable distance. 
 
 " Very early in the momin-j, a party 
 of Burmans came, evidently with the 
 
60 
 
 design of putting m to breath, or 
 carrying m with them into the jungle, 
 which to me seemed moic terrible 
 than death, when mom person from 
 the outside tried out that the English 
 were coming, by which they were 
 alarmed, and tied with great preci- 
 pitancy. But a moment before, we 
 said to ourselves, It is all over with 
 ns ; death, or something worse, seemed 
 inevitable : but now the most tan 
 hopes had succeeded to fear. All the 
 Bnnnant had Bed, and the English 
 troops were near: we even heard some 
 of their voices distinctly; but were 
 very soon again plunged from the pin- 
 nacle of hope into the depth* of de- 
 spair. The English troops pissed by, 
 and the Ruruians again took possession 
 of the Pagoda; and we frequently 
 beard them in the adjoining room : 
 thus ' hope and fear alternate swayed 
 our breast.' At length the moment of 
 deliverance came. Another party of 
 troops, beaded by Sir Archibald him- 
 self, advanced: the 15m nans, seeing 
 them at some distance, fired two uiiiis, 
 which they bad planted upon the 
 Pagoda, and then took to their heels 
 as fast as possible; and about ten 
 minuteS after, we had the opportunity 
 and unspeakable pleasure of discover- 
 in;; to the troops the place of our 
 confinement. — It was General Camp- 
 bell himself, I believe, who burst open 
 our door. AVe crawled out of our 
 dungeon naked, dirty, and almost suf- 
 focated. — The General welcomed ik 
 to his protection, and ordered our 
 chains immediately to be taken off; 
 but they were so large and stiff, that 
 all attempts were quite ineffectual : so 
 that we were obliged to walk two 
 
 miles into the town still in irons. 
 Clothe?, victuals, &c. were imme- 
 diately given in. I need not attempt 
 to describe the feelings produced by 
 meeting again, after we had passed 
 through so many and so great dangers; 
 but at length we found ourselves Bgatn 
 all together, well, and beyond the 
 power of barbarous and unmerciful 
 Surinam. For my own part, I was 
 red almost delirious L^ so sodden 
 a transition from the deepest distress 
 'o the highest pitch of joy. — In re- 
 flecting upon those scenes of danger 
 through winch we all passed, and the 
 narrow escapes which were afforded, 
 when hope seemed entirely gone, I 
 cannot help thinking, that our deliver- 
 ance was almost miraculous. More 
 than once, the dauger which threat- 
 ened us was so near, that I could only 
 lay, ' Lord, save now, or we peiisb.' 
 God was my only hope, and this hope 
 did not fail me, even iu the greatest 
 extremity. There was a secret con- 
 fidence that God would after all, in 
 some way 01 other, effect our deliver- 
 ance, though e\ ery thing passing before 
 us militated against such a hope. Oh 
 how invaluable is the hope of the 
 gospel, which, like an anchor to the 
 soul, sure an. I stedfast, enters into 
 that which is within the veil! And, 
 standing upon the very border of eter- 
 nity, as we viewed ourselves, how in- 
 significant appeared all the objects 
 which so much attract us in this 
 woi Id; how vast the concerns of a 
 never ending eternity ; ami how in- 
 valuable a well-grounded hope in the 
 merits of I Inn, whose name is the only 
 one given under heaven and among 
 men whereby wc must be saved!" 
 
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 EASTERN LANGUAGES. 
 
 Text. "The people which sat in darkness saw great light," &c. 
 
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 No. 1. The Bengalee. No. 7. The Anglian. 
 
 — 2. The Orissa. — 8. The Buiman. 
 
 — 3. The Hindoosthanee. — 9. The Tamul. 
 
 — 4. The Siwgskrit. — 10. The Cingalese. 
 
 — 5. The Telinga. — 11. The Malay. 
 
 — 6. The Kuwiata. — 12. The Chinese. 
 
 No. I3i The Multanee. 
 
62 
 
 Chhisti \\ FRIENDS, 
 
 In our former Papers, we have ge- 
 nerally given you representations of 
 those objects which are connected, in 
 some way or otln r, with the idolatry 
 of t lie heathen; and it is likely thai 
 when yon have been looking at the 
 pictures of ilu-ir Dglj deities, or the 
 crtul rif- s which are performed in 
 then I 'i have been ready to 
 
 wondt i that rational being! should he 
 degraded BO low as to worship such 
 foolish l'o.Is and practise Mich ah-urd 
 ■nd revolting ceremonies. We hope, 
 too, (hat you have lilt Strongly in- 
 clined, at inch times, to adopt the 
 prayer of the holy Psalmist, Oeetutoul 
 
 thij li^ltt and tin/ truth. If this lit- in- 
 
 deed tin- language of vonr hearts, yon 
 
 will he rejoiced to hear a little of tin 
 w.iy in which this prayer is beginning 
 to he answer* ', by the translation of 
 the Hoi j Scriptures into the languages 
 of the heathen, of which a little spe- 
 cimen is given in the plate ahove. 
 
 it is bardly necessary to remind anj 
 one or our read< is th.it the liihle was 
 not written, at fust, in Euglish, or in 
 French, or in any of the languages 
 generally spoken now, hut in those 
 "Inch were used by the holy men ol 
 God, who spake as they were moved 
 
 hy tin- Holy Ghost. These were, the 
 Hebrew, in the limes of the oil Tes- 
 tament, and the Ciie< k, iii t lie times of 
 the New ; and in these languages, tin 
 ■acred l> inks hive he, ii preserved, by 
 tin' care of divine 1'rovulcnce, anil 
 handed down to the present day. As 
 the Apostic, were intended to testify 
 the facts, ;md proclaim the doctrines 
 
 (-1 tin- KO»p< I anion,- many nations, God 
 
 v. as pleased to qualify them at once 
 to apeak in their different languages. 
 
 This was i easary, to giv< them ready 
 
 and convenient access to ihi inhabi- 
 tants of different countries, and u.is, 
 in 1 1 «•• If, to wonderful, .is t<> form a 
 convincing evidence thai they were 
 
 sent fh>m God. Bot this r,ilt was 
 
 withdrawn from the chinch, as soon as 
 it had answered the end for which it 
 
 was l: ■ s . ii ; and DOW, for in ins hllii- 
 ilicds of \.ai-,, in order that the hulk 
 
 of the inhabitants of ■ country ihoald 
 be able to read the Sfcriptan i foi Um so- 
 
 lelvta, translations into their rCspCC- 
 
 tlve languages have been necessary, 
 
 Person i in Britain, who feel what a 
 bl< ssiog 1 1 is to peruse the word of God, 
 
 Ottghl t" I" H i\ ili. u k tii I to him that 
 
 he has inclined and enabled learned 
 mi ii to study these such nt tougui i, 
 and furnish for gi di i sJ d s ■ sea aa 
 
 excellent translation as ours; and one 
 of the most hopeful and encouraging 
 signs of the times now is, that there is 
 such a general desire to promote this 
 nod ami blessed woik, till every na- 
 tion under heavi u shall be able to 
 read, in their own tongue, the won- 
 derful works of God. 
 
 In this important work, the Mis- 
 sionaries sent out by the liaplist So- 
 ciety have been honoured to take a 
 distinguished share. On each of the 
 islands of Ceylon, Java, and Kntaatra, 
 gratifying ptogress ha' been made in 
 the labour of translating the Holy 
 Scriptures into the languages of the 
 respective inhabitants; but it is at 
 Sermmpore, near Calcutta, that the 
 earliest, most extensive, and success- 
 ful eft in ts ot' this kind have hi on made ; 
 
 ihe effects of which already have I" en 
 
 considerable, and will, we trust, never 
 terminate, till the whole ot that im- 
 mense country shall he covered with 
 tbe glory of the know ledge of the Lord, 
 as the waters cover the sea. 
 
 The engraving on the first page of 
 this Paper contains one line, a- a spe- 
 cimen, of ]."> translations ot tin- New- 
 Testament out of '.1, winch have al- 
 
 readj been executed and printed there. 
 The line is the commencement of that 
 very appropriate verse, Mart. iv. |<',. 
 " The people which s«i/ in durances *mc 
 treat light \ and i» them vkick tut in 
 the region utui sArtdoSI a/ death light is 
 
 epntug ui>." 
 
 The first of the versions engraved in 
 the plate is the Beaeuiee, which is the 
 langoage ordinarily spoken in the ex- 
 tensive pi n\ mces of Bengal and Bebar, 
 
 containing on a moderate computation 
 as many inhabitants as all England. 
 The large and populous city or t'.il- 
 cntta is in this province. Tins trans- 
 lation was the first undertaken bj l'i. 
 • trey, and the New Testament was 
 
 puhltsln (I in it so long ago as the mm 
 1800. Since that tune fin othei edi- 
 tions nf the Nen l • itasnetil h ive bei n 
 printed, each of wlnoi h IS beM io- 
 
 v wed with great t in and al tention by 
 thr translator. Tbe demand is so 
 great, 1 1 , «. t the last edition consisted 
 nf mi faaaeead capias. The 
 
 I i.i i has also been published la 
 
 Bengalee, and the second edition of 
 
 j thai par| of tin- sac i id volume ha- been 
 
 1 some lime in Ihe press. Of Ihe cans* 
 petencj afDi Carey foi ibis arduous 
 work some jadgmenl may be rata I 
 
 . from Ihe fact, that, tweutj yean 
 in- was appointed Professes of the Ben* 
 
 , and two otln r ( hunt.. I Ian- 
 
63 
 
 guages, in the Government College at 
 Fort William, which statiou he still 
 continues actively to fill. 
 
 The Orissa (No.. 2.) is the language 
 used in the province which contains 
 the hlack pagoda, or great temple of 
 Juggernaut. A second edition of the 
 New Testament in this language is 
 now preparing, which will consist of 
 four thousand copies. The Sungsktit 
 (No. 4.) is the language in which the 
 greater part of the books in India are 
 written, and is highly valued by the 
 learned. This is considered the parent 
 of a great number of the other Indian 
 dialects, jnst as the Latin is of several 
 of the modern languages of Europe. 
 Resides completing the translation of 
 the whole I.ible into this language, of 
 which the New Testament was finished 
 at press 15 years ago, Dr. Carey has 
 compiled a voluminous Sungskrit gram- 
 mar, for the assistance of other students, 
 containing more than a thousand pages 
 in quarto. The Jffghan (No. 7.) is the 
 most northerly of all the languages 
 into which the Bible lias been trans- 
 lated at Serampore; and is the more 
 interesting, as, from a variety of cir- 
 cumstances, it lias been thought that 
 the people so called are the descend- 
 ants of that part of the Jewish nation 
 which was first carried away into cap- 
 tivity. (See 2Kings xvii. 6.) 
 
 No. !>. of the list is the llutman, 
 spoken by that numerous, but very 
 uncivilized people, who occupy an ex- 
 tensive tract of country to the east of 
 the Bay of Bengal, and with whom 
 our Indian Government is now at war. 
 The eldest son of Dr. Carey resided 
 there for some time, and made a com- 
 mencement in translating the New 
 Testament; this has been completed 
 since by Mr. Jpdson, sent more re- 
 cently from the Baptist Missionary 
 Society in America. 
 
 The singular characters near the 
 bottom of the plate f No. 12.) are those 
 of the Chinese language, v\ inch is 
 spoken, unquestionably, by a far great- 
 er number of human beings than any 
 other now exiting, or that ever lias 
 existed upon earth. With China, dis- 
 tant as it is from us, we seem to have 
 an intimate connexion, as it furnishes, 
 besides other commodities, the tea, 
 which is now become an ai tide of daily 
 consumption in almost every family in 
 the kingdom. But though an exten- 
 sive traffic has been maintained with 
 this great empire for more than a cen- 
 tury, it has not been till very lately 
 that the pearl of great price has been 
 
 conveyed to them in return. Roman 
 Catholic Missionaries have indeed been 
 stationed among them for many years, 
 but it is no part of their plan to com- 
 municate the Holy Scriptures to the 
 nations they may visit. The Seram- 
 pore version, which is the work of Dr. 
 Marshman, was commenced in the 
 year 1S06; the New Testament was 
 finished at press in 1817, and the last 
 portion of the Old in April, 1822 — the 
 whole BiNe having thus occupied a 
 period of about sixteen years. Since 
 this great work was accomplished, 
 another Chinese translation has been 
 completed by Drs. Morrison 6z Milne, 
 in connexion with the London Mission- 
 ary Society ; so that now the Scriptures 
 arc provided for the great numbers of 
 Chinese who are found visiting or 
 residing in other parts of the Eastern 
 world for the purposes of trade, and 
 also for Christian Missionaries who 
 may enter China itself whenever God, 
 in his providence, shall see fit to set 
 before them - an open door.' 
 
 These particulars respecting a few 
 of the principal translations which 
 have been executed at Serampore will, 
 we doubt not, be very gratifying to 
 yon; and the extent to which the work 
 has been carried is far beyond the 
 most sanguine expectations that could 
 have been formed at its commence- 
 ment. In twenty-one languages the 
 New Testament is printed and sent 
 into circulation; and in six of those 
 languages the Old Testament has been 
 completed also. Ten other versions of 
 the New Testament were in a state of 
 considerable forwardness nearly three 
 years ago, when the last particular ac- 
 count was published ; and it may be 
 reasonably supposed that these are by 
 this time advancing to a close. Seve- 
 ral other versions, in which Dr. Carey 
 had been engaged, have been resigned 
 to other Translators, lately entered ou 
 the Geld, who, from the circumstances 
 of local residence, &c. were supposed 
 to have superior advantages for carry- 
 ing them on. It is not very easy to 
 calculate the number of human beings 
 who will have an opportunity, when 
 these different versions are completed, 
 of reading in their own tongues the 
 wonderful works of God ; but it will 
 probably be found a very moderate 
 estimate which reckons them at full 
 oni half of lite population of the globe. 
 To persons who delight themselves 
 to search the Scriptures, because they 
 contain the words of eternal life, and 
 testify of Him, whom, having not seen, 
 
they love — who regard them as a re- 
 velation from the ever ble-sed God, 
 
 •lamped with sapreaie aatbarity, and 
 
 |>ro< I. timing, in the most eaalted MBK, 
 "Good-will towards man;" — who 
 ki.ow, (oo, ill it this divine word is 
 "quick i'.nd powerful," — imparting 
 the salvation it reveal-, and producnm 
 
 tin- holiness it enjoin* — to each per 
 
 MM it will be very welcome Intel* 
 ligence, that the light of scriptural 
 troth is thn- In ^ i in 11 ii i; to dawn upon 
 so large a poition of our benighted 
 world. That persons of a different 
 stamp should ridicule all such tlTnits, 
 vihty 'he* labours in which our brethren 
 
 ■re engaged, and repreaent the intro- 
 d action of the Bible among the heathen 
 at all, ;«> IID I I -• n\ and pel nicions, 
 is perfectly natural. It wa* to be c\- 
 
 peeted, that aperatioaa so vigorous 
 
 and extensive, and which are so di- 
 iii tl\ calculated to abridge the domi- 
 liion of ignorance, vice, and super- 
 stition, in ever] form, would excite 
 some alar.in, and rouse into opposition 
 thote, who, i n any grounds, ore inter- 
 ested in the perpetuation of darkness 
 
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 and error. Put we are convinced, this 
 very tact, so far from being viewed 
 with dismay, will be deemed, by those 
 who love their Bibles and the souls ,,i 
 
 men, a cheering presage ef exteasivi 
 
 success, and a powerful inducement to 
 strenuous and persevering activity in 
 the Missionary cause . How tar we may 
 be permitted to behold with our own 
 cm -the ill tun ate result ol our labouis — 
 personally to reap the harvest spring- 
 ing from the seed of the kingdom now 
 so liberally sown — mast be left, and 
 cheerfully left, to the Master we serve; 
 
 but that glorious and delightful con- 
 sequences must fallow troin all the va- 
 rious and still extending means now in 
 operation for the diffusion of divine 
 truih, thrOOgfa every region of the 
 globe, would seem to be nothing inoic 
 than a rational deduction from the 
 analogy of divine dispensations, and 
 the whole tenor of evangelical promise* 
 
 I and predictions. May this preoPCCl 
 
 I animate and refresh our minds troin 
 day to day, and lender us " sttilhul , 
 
 I unmiiveahli, always abounding in the 
 
 I work of the Lord." 
 
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