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FROM the pulpit, and from the pref9> we frcqacndf 
hear loud calls on Christians to respect the intexests <^ 
' their sereral Churches. One while* we of the Tustah- 
' lishment turn the attention of our brethren to the a- 
larming progress of Dissenters, and exhort each other 
to a skilful opposicion against * Sectaries. Another 
while, Dissenters rouse the languid zeal of their peo- 
ple, descanting on the excellence of their own modes of 
faith and wor;ihip, and indulging vehement invective 
against the avarice, the sloth, and the lordliness of 
Episcopaliann. We talk of the Ihterests of the Estab- 
Ushmentt the Dhrenting Cause, the Baptist and Independent 
Interests, the Methodist Cause, and the like, until we lose 
sight of the Christian Caute, the C$mt»on Interests of 
mankind, and the diligent, peaceable service of our 
MsistVr. Thus do we forsake the sublime of religion^ 



2 HORNE'S LETTERS 

sinlc into the meanness of partizans, and inspire our 
flocks with a fierce, sectarian zeal. We first baptise 
our secular interests and evil tempers into the name of 
the disinterested and lowly Jesus ; and, then, contend 
for them, with as much warmth and pertinacity, as tho' 
they involved our salvation. Is not this to fight for 
Barabbas, and to crucify Jesus ? 

While we are engaged after this goodly sort, infidel- 
ity increases, immortalities are multiplied, the spirit of 
the world domineers in the Church ; and its pomps 
and vanities insult the standard of tlie cross. While 
the Ministers of Christ sleep, and indulge their ease ; 
while they sacrifice to the graces and muses ; while 
they aspire tc the reputation of polite learning, or pro- 
found science ; while they toil in philosophical research, 
or in planting and watering the tree of civil liberty, 
our Adversary sleeps not. With unwearied vigilance, 
he makes head against the kingdom of Christ ; and, 
not content with possessing his own dominions in peace, 
he wars on the little territory of Jesus, makes bold in- 
roads into the h^art of»Christendom, and stiivcs to dis- 
possess us of what we hive won from his empire, by 
the labor of ages, and with the blood of an army cf 
martyrs. 

B^*: a few years have elapsed, since a learned Eng- 
lishman entered upon a calculation to show, that 
were the habitable world divided into thirty pares, 
nineteen would be claimed by the Heathen, six would 
fall to the Mahometan^ and five only would remain to be 
apportioned among the divided followers of the catho- 
lic Jesus. Whether this calculation be strictly accurate 
is of trivial consequence ; but we must all be deeply 
affected by the lamentable view of human nature 
which it affords us. Alas ! if every sincere Christian 
may say, with the Psalmist, My heart teachetb me the 
'wickedness of the ungodly ; and, if to this, he may 
add, as we all allow he may, My own house, my own 
favorite sect, my own privileged country, and the 



ON MISSIONS. 3 

Christian Church, give sad testimony to the extensive 
sovereignty exercised by the God of this world, To 
what conclusion are we led with respect to the religious 
state of the Heathen and Mahometan nntions ? 

The conclusion is obvious : if the nature of man be 
essentially the same, in every age and climate ; and 
if the Christian religion be true, the people, who have 
not our advantages, must greatly suffer from the want 
of them ; and bad as Christendom is, the Heathen 
world must be much worse, being sunk more deep!y 
than ourselves in positive ignorance and vice. If this 
mode of reasoning be thought exceptionable, I appeal 
to matter of fact, as far as we are acquainted with it, by 
those who have visited foreign parts, and have given us a 
candid account of the. manners of their in habitants. Should 
a more elaborate proof be required, it cannot be called for 
by any man to whom these letters are addressed. Chris- 
tian Ministers are too well acquainted with the grand, 
exclusive privilege of Christianity, to admit a doubt 
of what I assert. Whatever sentiments. Reverend 
Brethren, may be entertained by others on this subject 
you cannot be ungrateful for the blessings of revelation, 
and while you rejoice in those blessings, you must have 
a benevolent desire to communicate them to a people, 
nv^9 knoiv not the only true God and Jesus Christ 'whom he 
bath sent. 

When we consider this deep spiritual poverty of a 
major part of our fellow-men, we are admonished, that 
it becomes us to do something for their relief. Oa 
this we seem agreed ; but, I am sotry to remark, 
that we agree, more generally, to neglect our duty, 
than te acknowledge its obligation. Satisfied with the 
cold approbation of a duty, which it is impossible for 
us not to feel, we dismiss prospects of wretchedness too 
oppressive for our faith and love j and console our- 
selves with the unintelligible hope, that the Almighty 
will execute, somehow, and at some time, by worthier 
hands, a work too great, and too dangerous, for us lit- 
tle men. 

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Fathers, Brethren, Ministers of Christ, in the pres- 
ence of God, I charge you— I charge myself, wiih be- 
traying the grand interests of our master, by refusing 
to propagate his gospel. I charge you with the habit- 
ual, open violation of Christ's command, Go^ preach the 
gospel to every creature* I charge you with the unspeak- 
able guilt of burying in a napkin, those unsearchable 
riches, which the Apostle St. Paul thought it the hon- 
or of his life to preach to the Gentiles. Lastly, I 
charge you with doing this without shame, without 
remorse, and almost without an eflFort to do the con- 
trary. These, Reverend Brethren, are heavy charges ; 
but I shall not find it difficult to avoid the punishment 
of a calumniator, by substantiating them in the pro- 
gress of these letters, which have for their object the 
spread of the Gospel, and the salvation of the Hea- 
then. 

To this object, therefore, I solicit your attention. 
And, by the mercies ^f God^ I beseech you — by the 
blood of Jesus, and by our common hope, grant me a 
patient hearing. Suffer not my obscurity to operate 
as a prejudice against the cause I plead. I neither de- 
precate your censure, nor dare 1 despise it. But per- 
Jtiit me to hope, that no infelicities of style, nor defect 
of genius, nor of judgment, with which the subject 
is proposed, may be allowed to obscure its splendor, or 
detract from its worth. Would to God that some cne 
among you, whose name is venerable among the Church- 
es, had stepped forward to save me from the odium 
of this address ! But since You, who have characters 
to lose, do not care to hazard them by becoming re- 
provers in the midst of your brethren, allow me, who 
am without a name, to aspire to the honour of incur- 
ring censure for telling truths, which none of us like to 
hear, or wish to believe ; and for telling them witli that 
plainness which they require. 

Wrien I consider, on the cne hand, the promise and 
faithfulness of God; who cannot lie^ and; on the other, 



ON MISSIONS. 5 

the noble cause I espouse, I am animated with strong 
confidence and hope. I come forward, not as a sectary, 
nor as the leader of a sect. I am not encumbered with 
polemic armour, nor heated with polemic zeal. It is 
not a' question in science, politics, or morals, which I 
lay before you. The subject I assert involves the hon- 
or of our Religion, the sincerity of her Ministers, the 
glory of Christ, and the beU interests of men. The de- 
legation I pretend to is authoritative ; and I am justi- 
fied in speaking, with all boldness, the truths ct the 
God I serve, in the gospel of his Son. Dispense then, I 
beseech you, with all complimentary forms ; and allow 
me to address you, with ministerial freedom, and to 
plead the cause 1 have imden^ktn, with that un- 
disguised and generous warmth, which it is calculated 
to inspire. 

He that fears men, when he should speak boldly for 
God ; and timidly dissembles truths, vvhich,if felt aright, 
should be told with the strongest tones of abhorencc, 
indignation, and contempt, will hardly succeed in writ- 
ing upon Missions. The subject calls for enthusiasm. 
It requires vehemence. Those feelings which carried 
me across the water, I still cherish in my breast. They 
will never forsake me. 1 rejoice in them, i wish to 
impart them to every Minister of Christ, and to every • 
child of God. This I cannot hope to do, if I di':guiie 
or palliate them. It would concern me much to in- 
cur the censure of treating my Brethren in the ministry 
with indecent freedom ; but I cannot think that truth, 
however severe, will offend the servants of truth ; or 
that any of my Brethren suppose themselves entitled to 
use freedoms with the laity, which they will not bear 
from the meanest of their own bodyi Nq, Brethren. 
While you criticise my letters, you will applaud my 
design. The esteem you entcnain for integrity wijl 
give mildness to your censures ; and, whatever faults 
your better judgment may discover in this performn^ace, 
your good wishes will accojnpany it into tke world, 



6 HORNE'S LETTERS 

and your pray jr of faith drawdo>^Q the divine blessin|^ 
u^on it. 

From the mercenaries of the Christian Church, my 
soul turns with loathing. Thoupjh T could move moun- 
tains, they would remiin immoveable. Though I 
could inspire every real Christian with all the sensations 
of my own heart, the unprincipled wretch, who sees 
Bothing in the gospel ministry but an affluent and gen- 
teel profession, is vulnerable to no sentiment contained 
in these letters. Like Simon M igus, he has neither part 
nor lor in this matter — Nor h ive I any thing to do with 
7/iere moralists. The waters flow no higher than their 
springs. The spirit of these letters is, 1 flatter myself 
the spirit of Christ — a spirit which they have not re- 
ceived, and, with the things of which, they are unac- 
quainted. In their good opinion, I shall, therefore^ 
tLuik myself to stand high, if i may pass for a well- 
meaning enthusiast. Under God, Reverend Brethren, 
my hopes rest on You, who are what you are called, 
Christian Ministers — on you who were indeed moved 
to engage in the Ministry by the H^/y Ghosts and are 
animated by a sincere love of the Saviour who so great- 
ly loved you, and by a real regard for the lost sheep, 
for whom our great Shepherd died. You feel your 
chtiractcr. You have bowels and mercies. Y on arc 
the disinterested benefactors of mankind, and w^hatever 
concerHs the kingdom of your Lord y«u call your own. 
For you these letters are written, and to you they be- 
long. * But, in them your pious flock> will, also, claim 
a part, as large as that interest, which they have in the 
Son of David. 

As the elect of God, holy and beloved, let us, then, 
mind the things of Christ, to whom we are set apart 
as a peculiar people ; and revolve all possible means 
of advancing that glorious kingdom, for the coming of 
which we daily pray. Such meditations will dispose 
our hearts to peace. They will beat down maiiy con- 
troverted subjects, of apparent magnitude, to the hum- 



ON MISSIONS. 7 

ble level of their real importance. As we muse the 
fire will kindle ; and our Churches and publick Meet- 
ings, our fisimnies and closets shall attest the animated 
devotion, with which one Spirit shall teach us to cry, 
Let the people praise thee^ God^ yea^ let all the people 
praise thee ! On a subject like this> we cannot think 
long witliout feeling its attractions. It will teach us 
to make our requests to the InspircF of every great 
design ; and, then, to rest on his grace, his power, 
and his faithfulness, to accomplish the purposes of our 
hearts. As we advance, discouragements will van- 
ish. Obstacles will be overcome, when we learn to 
think them surmountable. DitHcalties will be subdued 
as we acquire courage to cope with them. And, when 
the honour, glory and immortality of our inesti- 
mable reward, are set full in our view, no forms 
of death and suiFering will affright us. Instead of 
that despondency, which has long frozen our benev- 
olent wishes, hope, like the returning sun, will bringan 
early spring and fruitful summer on our souls. The 
spirit of our religion, lulled to lethargic slumbers, will 
revive with the energies of the apostolic age ; and the 
Church will aeain become illustrious, by her victory 
over the kingcbms of this world. 

And Thou, Lord Jesus, afflicted Father of the Chris- 
tian Name, blessed Mircyr of Humanity, blameless 
Pattern, universal Priest, unerring Teacher, omnipotent 
King of truth, of Righteousness, and of peace, deign 
from thy glorious throne to smile on this weak attempt, 
aad to accept this poor offering I It is a tribute 
I present, for the life thou hast given, for the blood 
thou hast shed, and for the joyous hopes thou hast in- 
spired, to cheer, and to direct my mortal pilgrimage. 
Meek spring of heavenly Wisdom, boundless Ocean of 
universal, ardent, unprovoked, and undiscouraged Char-* 
ity, pour thy Spirit into my breast, and into the breasts 
of all thy servants whom I here address. Teach me 
and them to interest ourselves in this blessed work, as 



t HORNETS LETfERS. ' 

becomes men, who are distinguished by thy renerable 
name, and honored by the ministration of thy glorious 
gospel ! Baptize us with the fire of that love which 
is stronger than death ! Delightfully oppress our grat- 
itude with the everlaftmg mountains of tliy benefits, 
until every fcntiment of frail mortality be suppreffcd — 
until faith give us the victory over the world — over life 
and death, until love compel us to exclaim, Tea^ doubt- 
less^ and I count all things but drofs tbat I may win Chrift ; 
and I am 'willing not only to suffer bonds ^ but to die for the 
sake of my Lord Jesus Christy by <whom I am crucified »«- 
to the 'world and the iMorld to me. 

Commending you, Reverend Brethren, the Chriftiau 
Church, and the benighted nations, as well as their un- 
worthy advocate, to his protection, who takes the ten- 
dered part in all our concerns, and is able to fecure and 
to advance them to the utmost, I remain, in the honor- 
ed bonds of his Religion, 

Your bumble, but affectionate Brother, 

M. H. 



SECOND LETTER, 

rATM£&S AND B&ETHRCff, 

THE genius and spirit of our religion, the char- 
acters ascribed to our Lord of the Second Adam, of 
the High Priest after the order of Melchizedeck, and of 
a Savior to all people, with many others of similar 
significance ; the various scriptures, which speak of the 
benefits of his death and intercession, of his kingdom 
and reign ; the prophecies and promises, loudly de- 
clare the intention of God, that this last and most per- 
fect dispensation of the everlasting gospel should be 
the religion of every tribe, and kindred, and tongue. 
Nay, we are repeatedly assured, in the most explicit 
language, that it shall be so — that the truth and mer- 
cy, the peace and righteous.^ess of our Messiah's king- 




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, whatever temporary checks thej maj suiFer) shall, 
e endj overcome all opposition ; and that although 
river of God mayy for a time^ be discolored and 
utedy hj the pernicious soil over which it has roll- 
ts tide, yet it shall, at last, free itself from every 
gn mixture, and send forth its ten thousand pure 
ams, to gladden all the nations of the globe. 
How ought our minds to be affected by these pros- 
pects ? May we not infer from each article of this enu- 
meration, and, much more, from the aggregate force 
of them all, that it is our obvious, bounden duty, as 
servants t£ God, as soldiers of Christ, and as friends of 
sufPering humanity, to exert all our strength in difTcm- 
inating the gofpel ? Is it not in our power to do, or at 
leaft, to attempt fomething *worthy of the cause ? Have 
we not ihips, which vifit every part of the world ? 
Have we not money— money in abundance, if we were 
satisfied to live with Chriftian fimplicity, and could be 
prevailed upon to part with it) as men fhould do, who 
have a better treasure in heaven ? Have we not minis- 
ters who prefer this line of service, and would gladly 
embark for the most barbarous clime, if they were af-. 
furcd of fflrited fuf port, and had reafon to hope, that 
the fruits ol their labor would not die with themfclves ? 
And, if we really have it in our power thus to feive 
mankind, andtofpread our Redeemei's glory, Is it not 
€riminaly biffcy infamous to neglect it ? Is not this infatu- 
ated negligence an open violation of the precepts of 
both tables of the law ? Do we love God, revere his 
majefty, approve his precepts, and conceive ourfelvcs 
bcufid by every tie, to serve him, with all our talents, 
and with all our flrength ? How does this love, this 
reverence, this approbation, this conviction, accord with 
the asioni&hing coldness, with which we look upon a 
world, full of cruel habitations; where virtue and pie- 
ty fkuik in corners ; where sin is universal, uticontroll- 
cd and almost unchecked ; where the Eternal Majcfty 
is itfironted by the abominable idols of the heathen, and 
the beastly image of a corrupt Christianity. 



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We say, that to loye our neighbor as oursj^Wesy and f 
do unto all meii as we would they should do unto 
us, is the coDsentaneous voice of the Prophets and A- 
pcitles, of the law and gospel. We say well ; but dq 
we do as we say, and practice as we believe ? Do we 
love in word and in tongue only» or in deed and in 
truth ? Speak ye desolate shores of Africa ; declare ye 
bloody fields of Indostan ; bear your impartial testi- 
mony, ye numerous islands of the Western and Pacific 
oceans ! Alas ! my Brethren, we dare not abide the is- 
sue of the appeal. We have not done unto them, as 
we would, were circumstances changed, that they should 
have done unto us. The richest Iruit of our philanthro- 
py has been a cold, Ineffective pity. We have said. Be 
ye {tcc^ be ye civilized, be ye converted ; but we have 
eaten as heartiJy, slept as soundly, dressed as expensive- 
ly, and enjoyed every good thing within our grasp as 
freely, as tnough they had been as happy as ourselves. 
We have had no fellowship with the Saviour in his ag- 
ony and bloody sweat, in bis prayers and tears for the 
salvation of mankind- Provided we may live in 
peace and comfort, do a little good in England, accu- 
mulate fortunes, marry wives, take care of our 
children, and creep into heaven at last we appear sat- 
isfied to leave our Master to propagate his own gospel in 
the world. 

To these considerations, which must have weight on 
ingenuous minds, permit me to remind you of the sol- 
emn sanction of divine command. The following are 
some of the last emphatic wordsof Je^us, as ihcy stand 
recorded by St. M^rk ani St. Mat)jcw ; — Go into ail 
the nxiorld and prcoch the gospel to every creature ; ard 
teach all nations^ baptizing them in the name oj the Father 
and of the Sorty and of the Holy Ghost ; Uachi?ig them /# 
observe all thi?jgs, *wkich J have ccmvianded )ou ; and lo^ I 
mm ivith you always even unto the end of the nx orld. 

Shall we say, these injurxtlons were laid on tlie Apos- 
dcs only ? Impossible 1 The genius of Christianity, 



ON MISSIONS. It 

and the spirit of the precept, forbid such ?n interpre- 
tation* Let it be observed^ ist, I he Apostles did 
not preach the gospel in many countries beyond the 
limits of the Ronjiin fropire : and it was, in the nature 
of thiogSy impossible that they fhould preach it to all 
nations. 2. Had our Lord meant the command to 
oblige the Apostles only, it wou-d have been sufficient 
to promise his protection and blessing to the end of 
their lives and ministry, without adding that grand am- 
plification, Lo I I am nvith you alivajs^ even unto the-end 
of the luorld 3 The Ome reasons, why the Apostles 
fhould preach the gospel to every creature, exists in all 
tHbir force at this day ; and so far from being antiqua- 
ted and obsolete, gain new strength with the lapse of 
ages. 4« Whatever excluiiyc privileges the Apostles 
enjoyed, as the first promulgators of Christianity, yet 
the office and duty of every minister of the gospel is, in 
spirit and suostance, the fame as theirs. From all these 
considerations, it appears, that when our Lord spoke 
these authoritative words he had in contemplation all his 
ministers of every age and nation, as well as his imme- 
diate disciples \ and that we cannot refuse engaging in 
xniffions, without contempt of his authority, and 
shameful deriliction of our duty to God and men. 

I made bold to charge you, Honorable Brethren, (im- 
plicating myself in the same charge) with b:tra»mg 
the grand interests of our Master, with the habiiual, 
open violation of his commands, and with burying in a 
napkin the sacred depositum^of the gospel. I think, it 
unnecessary to enter into a formal proof of crimina- 
tions, which the whole tenor of the^e letters is intended 
to substantiate. But, after adducirg, from the Scrip- 
tures, the commiffion urder which we act, and justi- 
fy our ministry in Britain, am I not authorized to ap- 
peal to your confciences, and a»k yr u. Whether you arc 
not guilty of what 1 lay to your chaige ? Wh*it monies 
have we subscrit.'cd, what asiociaticns have we formed, 

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iz HORNE'S LETTERS 

v'^st prayer? have we offered up, what animated exhor- 
l'il^f'n5^ have we given to our flocks and to one ai. other on 
tilt jubject of missions ? Hew shall we exonerate our- 
$0* vcs from the enormous crime of which we are guilty ? 
fehrjl! we say, we were ignorant of our dutv ? i he 
^(•ild will exclaim. How dure you teach us our duty as 
CI i^lNans, vhile yrm continue 'O grtfly ignorjnt of 
you?c.wn duty as Ministers ? If w»*p^ead, that wc had 
not sufficiently considciedrurt'uty,i8not every marjusti- 
ficd in retoiting, And why did y^u not consider ir, be- 
fore you entered upon the g'^^pel ministry ? In truth, 
we hiive no excuse ; and it will best become us lo biu^ 
niid weep in secret places, to abhor ourselves aad to re- 
pent in dust and ashes. 

Were 1 ever so much disposed, it would hardly be m 
my power to exaggerate our .sin and shame. Yc^u know, 
better than J can tell y(>u that the ultimate reason of 
any, and cf all the commandmeBtfi, is the will and pre- 
cept of God ^ and har we evince the same contempt of 
his authority, by the wilful neglect of one clear, positive 
du-y, as though we neglectenbthem all According to 
the spirituality of the commandment we are chargeable 
with the pcrditioncf all the poor Hrathens whom our dil- 
igence might have saved ; and assuredly, their souls will 
tit* Lord require at c-ur hands Contrast the infamj 
01 our conduct with thr gr?ndeur of onr calling, and 
the powers of language fail to give just coloring to 
our sin ! 

Hid the Apojtlcs of our Lord, conducted themselves 
towards us, as we conduct ourselves to the Heathea 
. world, not a^'. the refinemeBts of the rightecnih century, 
would have cmjmcipaicd us from the worship of I'hor 
and Woden Put b . ssed he the God and Father of our 
Lord Jesui Christ, their religion was of a different tem- 
per Hdvini^ received the commiflion of rheir Sover- 
eign, th?y declined noi t<^ engage in this warfare. Hav- 
ing couiitcii rh.e cost, they cntcicJ into the combat, .ike 
•len dctcrrniucd to conquer or to die. Confident of 



CN MISSIONS. 13 

the superlative excellence of :hc cause, f.>r whlc'j th^^y 
had dr^wh the sword, they threv/ ^wiy the so^b Uiwi 
and disdained caplcuUtion wicli the world The l<v,-c 
of Christ, which we coldly t^lk ^^t\ they wirmlv f/:r. 
They had beheld his glory, wcie wlcnciJ.cs 'f his ii >:\* 
life and blessed death, hi* victorv over thi orive. and 
hisafcensiontohsavcn Their f^iith wis a coinm^nd- 
ing evidence of things unseen and iijiv^ a present 
subsistence to things hoped fjr, they k.:ew, emph.iti:. il- 
ly, by the witness of tint Spirit in liiiir heirc , K:'.i:!.\ 
was at once the seal of ihtir ad i;)Ut).i, and the e.ii a st 
of their irihcritan:e, the immcne ^".^cc' of oar Lod 

Jesus Christ. His poverty hid mtdw* them mv:!i 

rich in grace, rich in faith, lich in tiie pronii.'i an I ve- 
racity of God who cannot lie ; nor would th.y hive 
bartered these riches tor all tlie ki \J^dJ/■n^ of che x »rld, 
and all their g«ory. Poiffllcd (d a lively lh>pe, liicy 
purified themselves as God is pure ; aa<l, cripchoi by 
the liberality of Christ, th:y sold iht;ir po-^cssioas ^n I 
gave them to the poor, seeking for rh-*nis-.'lvjb he tor 
riches. As strangers and pil^ri;n5 thoy ex;)-C'ed 10 ^j 
hated by the woild j and determining faifci^.tuily to dis- 
charge the ministry they had received, they knew t!;ey 
must suflFer persecution ; and that men, who h ited to \yz 
reformed,would purstie to the death those boldrert)r!:icrs 
who obtruded the holy light of truth, and forcibly dispe^- 
led the darkness congenial to their crimes. To ixxt- 
fer for Chrift was their glory and their joy. 
Stripes, chains and death were considered as the highest 
honours of the kingdom of that Jesu< who expired oa 
a cross ; bestowed as the prize of valor, and the re- 
ward of extensive services and of the most approved 
integrity. Unawed by thofc terrors which Ihakc 
our breafts, as far as reason would permit, they as- 
pired after these honours ; lived in hope of the crown 
of martrydom ; and envied the felicity of their fellows, 
who received it before them. The cross of Christ had 
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the strong Hg^t which flowed from it, they beheld pover- 
ty and riches, case and torture, honour- and infamy, life 
and death, with a placid mind ; and the great world, 
and all that it contaiaed, was contracted to a point of 
vanity, bef ;re the faded luitre of that eye, which wept 
over its sins and miseries. Before that object of endless 
astonishment, adoration and love, they died to them- 
selves and revived again to live to him. They were not 
their own tut his. His blcoi had bought chem, and his 
love coi2straUi:d them to do and suAFt all things for his 
fake. They had no re:^crves, no drawbacks on their 
faith ; but, having given in their names to Chrisr, 
they would have juJged themselves worthy of the f»ite 
it Annanias and Saphira, if they defi audsd him of their 
lives and fonu:^es. Wiih the:r., all was sacred. It 
was their meat aiiJ dii ik to do the will of God and to 
finiih the v^ojk he b.ad given them. The Apobtles led the 
way and other Mi;iii.tcrt followed, from pr6vince,to prov- 
in.e and from kuigd n) to kingdom. Their King was in 
tEc midst of th.'TT, ;iid they si.w, l.y^iith, that stardard, 
wiih tliat iriScripiioU; which v;a£ iifei wards feigned to 
have be? n seen by the politick Constaniiiie. The world 
fcii before iiicli combatants ; axid its pomps and vani- 
tits. Its riches and honours, its fwiencc and learning, 
its arts and arm j, its potentates and gods, were subdued 
by tl^e doctrine cf the Cross. 

In this manner did the tiist Christians propagate their 
religion, being mighty, in deed and word ; and, living 
rather than speaking great things, thsy put to flig^ht 
all the armies of the aliens. Their conquests were mar- 
ked, not with the blood of their enemies, but with 
their own. Truth and righteousness were their arms ; 
and patient sufferifig, and the doctrine of a crucified 
Savior, above all miraciUous gifts, were the true grounds 
of the astonishing success which attended their preaching. 
But the tide ol conquest was checked too soon ; and* 
although, for a few centuries, some illustrious names 
fupported the honor of the Christian arms, yet ths mys- 
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Apostles, i^uickly spreadt withering the rose of the Church 
subverting its faiths and corrupiing its morals, until 
It begat a race of men more desperately wicked 
than Heathenism ever bred, and such alone as 
. could .be produced by the Corruptions ef Christian- 

Brethren, I will not now demand your attention tothc 
melancholy desolations of the Church : nor is it my in- 
tention to soil, with a detail of the transactions of a cor- 
rupt Christianity, this letter in which I have endeavour- 
ed to rouse you from your slumbers, by enforcing the 
command of Christ ; and, to provoke you to emulation, 
by exhibiting the labours and triumph* of the first be- 
lievers. They have done greatly ; and, thou^;h deud 
they still live and spe^k to the followers of their faith. 
It is our 'part to record their actions, and to give them 
the applause they have earned so well. But we must 
do more. We must tread in their steps, and derive en- 
couragement from their example. We must />r<?rr our- 
selves their successors, by occupying the extensive field 
they cultivated. If we refuse to do this, the praises we la- 
irish on them, will be, as w<ire the sepulchres built for 
the old prophets by the pharisaic Jews, the monuments 
of our hypocrisy and guilt. Surely, our Lord, his 
Apistles, his Martyrs aud Confclfors, lived and died not 
for the beaefit of Engl.ind nor of ChnsteaJom .done. — 
O ray God incline us to Cvill a fnst, to proclaim a s;>lemn 
assembly, to bathe our altars wjith our team's to confefs our 
iins and treachery. to sound an al.u m iaGod's holy moan - 
tain, and to animate each other to the gloiious warfare 
to which we are pledged ! 

The night is far spent, and the day is at hand. The 
latter ends of 'h: world are filieri upon us, and we have 
many coa.ideracions to exCite u-. it it were pos^io'e, to 
more than apostolic labours, i he hast, from v/hich the 
dav spri:i;j;s from on high first vibited us, nas long b^i^xi 
lest ti Christ s and the cre.ce.it of Man ^mct still u^urp 
the. places .where the crobs oace triumph ,;d. lik Ih* 

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Wei>t, the Roraan Antichrist, accurfedof God and man 
issinking under the reiterated strokes of divine vengcanc# 
The God of the Christians is barin]^ his arm, and ex- 
posing the naked ncfs of the Scarlet Whore with whom 
the nations of the earth have committed spiritual forni- 
cation. The prayers of the spirits under the altar are 
heard ; add a righteous God is avenging th^ blood of 
his faints, by giving her to drink of the blood of 
her children, i et a little while, and wc shall hear the 
cry, Babylon the great is fallen ; and see the Almighty 
burning her, as with fire from heaven, by the very hand! 
which erected and supported her hierarchy. The 
shouts of triumphant atheism, and the scoffs of a vaia 
philofopliy invade curears.Unhcard of prodigiesmeet our 
eyes, and suspend oursou^swithastonishment and horror.. 
The fame spirit and principles, which have regenerated 
one chriitian nation to atheism, are working in others, 
and viiil, probably, produce the same effect. We shall 
soon see krndUng upon Spain, Portugal and Italy, that 
conflagation, which nothing but the pure streams of the 
Reformation can extinguish. Even in this blessed land 
of civil and religious liberty, where religion has rea*V- 
ed her most august temple, we have much to fear ; 
and no human >fcisdom can determine, whether the Al- 
mighty may not purge our tin and dross, witli the same 
fire, which consumes the wood, the hay and the stubble 
of the Churches more corrupted than our own. Vain 
are all the admonitions of oar Master, if we 
do not underitand the signs of the day, and put forth 
those exertions to whi^i tlcy call us. 

It is not for the Potentates of Europe to guarantee 
the welfare of Religion. She disdains all foreign aids. 
She calls not for the succor, but coinmauds the. obedi- 
ence of earthly Kings. We, the Ministers of Christ 
are called upon to give the oni/ aids of wh ch she criU, 
admit ; and she demands our la'cnis, our labors, our tor-, 
tunes, our influence, and our live;: Le* us fly lo the suc- 
cor of our beft. mother, the a£a^ctei Ciiaica of Christ.. O- 



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fct tt« BO more fall out bfthe way. Let llberalOhurchmea 
and conicieniloui D.s'.e^icers, pi^us Calviaists and/>i<9M;^ 
Arminiansf embrace with f^iteraal armi. Let the press 
groAn uo longer with our cWitroversies ; and let the re- 
membrance of the petty iiitetests we have contend- 
ed for be buried m everlasting^ oblivion. Let us vote 
that Minister, who turns one sinner from the error of 
his Itt'e, a wiser man thnnhe, who demonstrates the be- 
ing of a God ; and stu-iy to live and prench like St. 
Paul rather than to L-pcdk and write with Cicero. Let 
us forever forsake tlie Schools ; and build our reli- 
gion on facts, and not on argument* ; on the pow- 
er of God, and not on the wisd<»m of man. Christianity 
addressesheiseif to the heart. To the heart, then, which 
is the great strong hold of satan, and the inexhaustible 
magazine of inndel sophistry, let us direct our war. 
Let us be frequent ill our piiipics, and from thence bold- 
ly denounce the menaces and promifes of Heaven. Let 
ths crucified Je^usbs the prom;aent finjure of our cjo<;pel ; 
and be held forth, for what he reaiiy is, our ftrengthour 
gl jry and our salvation. Let us not visit and converse, as. 
other men ; but always inient on the object of our com- 
misi»ioii, as gu^irdi^n angel among our people, advise, ex- 
hort, repro/e witha Jong suffiran:e ana sound doctrice. 
Let us not dare 10 bury our light fjr six days out of se- 
ven ; but on every proper occasio ■. when our flocks can 
be convened, approve our faithful dilij^ence in declaring 
God's word. Let us bcwire of v^hat the w irli calls 
Prudence ; and see ih.it we do noi shun the cr.>ss of 
Christ, aad enervate his nobli r«-Uijion, by over anxioufv^ 
cndeav ^urs to tender it |id>ectai>i:? to men of corrupt 
min Isjdestitute of the truth, and whose opposition to the 
gospel, does not originate in the delect mi 0'>scurity c»f 
its evidences, but in inveterate hatr<;dof its hoiiat=s and 
htavenly-mindedness. ^ 

B'lt lee not our zeal, pietv, ind benevolence stop here. 
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tend our views to the ends of the earth. Let n% henct- 
forth, consider it as our tndispensiblc duty to do all that 
lies in our power, to preach the gospel to ^ery creature. 
Let Missions be treaced nd%iore with cold neglect, or he 
vilified with charges of enthusiasm. But in public and 
private, from the palpit and from the press, lei us speak 
of them as becomes their dignity ; and recommend 
them with that forcible and persuasive eloqucncCj 
with which the lore of God and man should inspir< 
ms. 

If wc do this, with becoming diligence and zcalj 
we shall soon h^ve it in our power to confute a plausi- 
ble objection, with which infidels blaspheme our religion. 
The partial diffussion of Christianity will then be 
seen to have originated, not w'rth God, but men. Th< 
philanthropy of God our S:ivior will shine forth in iti 
proper amplitude, as exte dtng to all men ; and we, l^( 
Ministers of Christ, shall Ic made to confess, with hiJft 
est ioipartialiiy and ingtnu jUs shame, that the wretch- 
ed ignorance and abominable vices of the heathen art 
chargeable on our wicked disobedience to our Master^ 
commands. O iet us no longer give place to unbclicfi 
idly aflTecting commiseration to that wretchedness, whrcl 
we have it in our power to relieve ; uut arise and asserl 
our integrity and manhood. We have the key of prom- 
ise m our hinds i !er ns M%t h ^*"th ton rage, and bring 
to iight.those prisoiicrs of m :ny generations. 

I rem Jn, Reverend Brethren, 

Your seiTai-t io. the patiM^ and kingdom of Christj 

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FOURTH LETTER. 
Fathers and Brethren^ 

In writing upon Missions, I proposed only to call 
general attention to the subject, and to satisfy myself 
with a few hints on the manner of conducting them. 
But, at the request of some friends, whom I hdve con- 
sulted, and to whose judgment 1 owe much deference. 
I am now prevailed upon to say, specifically y what 
is it I expect from my brcihrcn in the ministry 
respectingMissions ; and to obtrude my own par- 
licular views of the most eligible way of carrying then 
into effect. 

Of you, Reverend Brethren, I require, that you will 
set to heart the salvation of the Heathen, meditate on 
the subject with the most solemn and affectionate feel- 
ings, and cultivate your zeal and philanthropy by ear- 
nest prayer to God, that he wouid give you towards 
them bowels and mercies. I- would have you suppofc 
it possible^ that it may be your duty to take a more ac- 
tive part in Missions than you have iraagmed ; and icon- 
sequently, I wish you to divest yourselves of every pre 
judice which might bias your judgmenc, and preclude 
the convictions of duty. I ex^iect that you will not 
treat the subject with levity, a id mucn less with con- 
tempt ; but j-peak of it with respect and approbation. 
1 think, you should tike opportuiiitieb of setting the im- 
portance of these under tiikog^ before your fljcks from 
the pulpit ; and, by your exhortations and liberalityi 
give tiiem examples of zeal and benevolence. I add, that 
if your convictions of duly lead that way, you ih-.^uld 
come forward with ail boldness, and tike your p:irt in 
the busircss, whai ever it may be in serving Missions, by 
your pen, your influence, your advice or your pcidoiidl 
labors, cither at home or abroad. 

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pect, that they mutually communicate their views as tc 
the most effectual methods of spreading the gospel, anc 
exhort each other to a generous and noble exertion ol 
ministerial zeal. I require tht;m to form Affociations 
for collecting money, ootainiu;* information, procuring 
miffionaries, and tranf^cring tlie variety of concerns 
which fall under the consideration of Miflions. In thcsi 
Affociations. I wish thole Mii.ifters to come forward whofi 
character and fervlces give ihem moft refpectability, ani 
•will enable them t© promote effectually tlie caufe the] 
undertake. Last of all, having once engaged, 1 w ")ul( 
have the Affociation to be actuated by a true spirit o 
Miffions. They ihouldbe zealous, active indefatigable 
Any Minister who is not warmly aff;;cted to Miflions 
should be excluded from the acting Committee. Wha 
tbcfc Gentlemen are, their miffions will be. Having 
IB their power the choice of miflionaie!5, and the maa 
agement of the mUfion, they will not fail to give U 
the whole undertaking die features and complexion 
of their own character. — This is the sum of my requi 
fitions ; and I flatter myfelf that there is in it, nothing ir 
rational, nothing, to the performance of which our call 
ing docs not oblige us. 

The fmall fucccfs which has attended Miffions (houl( 
incline us to fufpect, that they have not been conduct 
ed in Uie moft eligible way ; aiid dispose us to examiot 
with candor any new method, which may be proposed 
I will, therefore, (hew my opinion. But as F do no 
prefume to dictate to any man on the fubject ; fo I an 
aware that no one plan can be formed, which wil 
equally apply to Nations, who differ in their degree o 
civilization, their policy, their religion, and the face o 
their country. Wfioever, therefore, are intrusted witl 
the execution of our plans, fliould have the difcretion 
ary power, of deviating in their application as the reasoi 
of the case shall demand. 1 his observation premised 
a general view of the nature of Miffions, and of the stat< 
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ffr somf thing as to the line of conduct moft likely to 
tnsu= e jsuccefs. 

Before we can juftify santruinc hopes, aconsider-ihlc 
alteration in f^vor of religion must take place among 
ourffeivcs. We cannot give to <»therr., wHai we dn not 
p^/Tefs ; and before our zeal will acquire iiufficic;\t mo- 
m^ntuni to effect ^^rtat things for tho ^aiva:i>n of the 
Heathens, it is neccfr^ry that a more general and serious 
care should prevail about the frilvaticn of our own s >uls. 
While we look for this desirable ch mge, we cannot do 
better than renew our miifionary engagemcMS ; whj^ 
will have the most favour abie operation if) btingin^ft 
about. Great designs anti great undertakings form 
'great men. They call forth the tilents, of which we 
Bcvcr supposed ouriielvcs to be pt^fH fT-d ; and ?ive aa 
exhibition of '>plendid virtues, which do not frequent the 
common paths of life. Ccuragc prf»vokes courage, and 
2ea] enkindles zeal- Confiderabie fuccefs, in any one 
milTiony would encourage muny undertakings ; and the 
activity exerted in favour pf the Heathens, would natur- 
ally call attention to the ways and means of doing good 
among our own countrymen. 

Want of fuccefs is the most fatal objection which lies 
agamst MifTions. We have not taken proper steps to 
ft> insure success. We have hardly dared to ho/}^ ior it. 
A few hundred converts have been considered as 
a great thing ; and a few thousand have been the ne 
plus ultra of our hope. A revolution must take place 
in our ideas on the su.^ject. We must hope f -r great 
things. We mult attc»'>pt great ih>ngs. Uniii :his is 
6oTic^ Uler^ble success is not to be expected. There i? a 
proportion between the or>ject >^e embrace, and the 
[ zeal and exertion we show m accoii.piishing it. 
Such limited views as th«'se pi ecluae txertton. Where- 
as, where great advantctg'^s *4re pu)iJostd, nncn are 
forward , to incur gre-t cxpenfcs and to run great 
risks. Let u*, then, Jcrermio^ to give a fair trial 
it to MilTioiis and unienakc something which wih help 



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US to form arcascrable jndpnicnt of what is, or is not 
to he exptctcc' frcir; rhcm. Let ruroLJtct be lo evar- 
gelize tbe Isldnds of the Scn.h Sea, or to obtain 
f r Chrt canity a firni Joofirg hi d ntens've spread in 
Irdia, China, Tibet, Borneo, PcrMa, Ttrtary,. ai d 
Other great kingciomf 

The prcparation^ we make must be answerable to the 
▼lews we adopt Men and money are the nerves of 
war. A few scarrcred niij^ionaries, and paitry fundi, 
are inadequate to fuch conquests. But, as our strength 
IS fnull, and our forces new levie<j» i:npract»fcd to these 
pAilous encounters, I would reconinic.':d to no l;enom- 
inJition of Christians to engage in a second Mis»if»n, until 
experience has convinced them that th'-y are more than 
e^ual to the first. We must ^Iso be resolved to take the 
fi^ld in the. very bolde<»t line of service. A Mission, 
•specially such a Mission as I propose, is one oi ihosc cn- 
teiptizes where the meafuies v.h»:h. ar first :iight, 
appear the most hazardous and desperate, arc the 
mo-it deliberate and successful. Men who are 
not disposed to run all chance's, and to undego suffer- 
ings which,on therelation,migh? freeze the blood of tho?ie 
who hear them quietl) by tl eir fire kides, htve no bu- 
siness in Missions. And, if missionaries or this caft 
are not to be had, we may, without any great detriment, 
to the Christian C^use, wait with patience. vliaA suth 
characters appear in the world. Men of other disposi- 
tions will do, as little as has been done : and if a few 
individuals of a peculiar turn of mind are willing to re- 
linquish a large sphere of usefulness in LutC)pe for the 
hope of converting a handful of people in India, they 
will not have many followeis. Bur they will furnish, 
for us at home, a pretext for talking about greatcf." 
things, than we have godliness or courage t9 
perform. 

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SIXTH LETTER. 
Fathers and Brethren^ 

AN enquiry into what may conHItute a cal^ to mif- 
fions will merit serious difcussion. Some incline to t: cat 
this queftion with contempt, as one species of enthu .i- 
allic jargon, by which religion has been discredited 
in the world : and, I am 5 )rry to say, it has beer, at times, 
fo managed, as to give color to their cenfures. Ncverthc- 
lefi, >ou will be of opinion with me, that much I'olid 
fer»fe and sober piety are contained in it ; and v. hen we 
consider that every thing valuable to man is staked on its 
dectrm nation, ihey must be strangers to th* stnnments 
of the human he^irt, and evince a \^ant of re;iF.on and 
ingenuousneis, which they cliarge on othtrs, v/ho sup- 
pose men of sense will emhaik on the sea of tn nhle, 
without having first viewed the question on every side, 
and obtained that well grounded satisfaction in the pro- 
priety of their conduct, which may hereafter support 
and comfort them under all its pofUble confwqucn- 
ces. 

Th« general duty of Minifters and their flocks with 
refpect to Miffions, we ground on the comm md of 
our Lord, the characters of his religion, the example 
of his Apoftles, the declarations of his Propherii, the 
common principles of huOianity, and the whole aggre- 
gate of argument, which arifes from the nature of the 
undertaking. But unhapily, as in many other cafes, fo 
in this, what is acknowledged as of common obligation 
is not felt as the particular duty of individuals. In 
this refpect, our I«ord and his houfehold may be com- 
pared to the family of an opulent^ indulgent Mafter of 
many fervants, who commanding fome unplcafant 
budaefs to be preformed, but intimating his pltafur.: in 
general terms* not addreffing to any particuhr do- 
mcftic, his icx>ant8 initead of readily ob-yinghis com- 

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mancfs, are all of them difputing from his Lord(hip^s 
Ci aplain to the (kullion in his kitchen, which of them 
i^ <bli^(d to prefrins his will. The Chaplain is a 
gertkman, and is above futh menial ojffices. His Lord 
c^'itainly underftands too well the dignity of his charac- 
ter to addrcfs fuch orders to him. The Steward de- 
cl.res his engagements bind him no farther than touie 
his pen, and to oveilook his Mafter's rents and 
disLurftmtnts with fidelity. I he Butler protefts he 
Mas n« t hired to be a footman ; and the underlings 
of the houfe with many profcffions of good will, plead 
they arc not qualified for doing their Lord's will. In a 
woid, the bufinefs is either left undone, or a few poor 
horrft fellows, who Icvt thtir Mailer and are jealous 
for his hoi.our, go forth and do their heft ; but not 
receiving from their fellow fervantsthat affiftance which 
each ought to have aflFordtd them, the hufmefs is- done 
in a bungling way at laft ; and my Lord's Chaplain» 
Steward, Butler, and other fervants, inAead^ of feeling 
th;dt it has mifcarried principally through their fault-— 
inflead of being afhamedinto exertion, fay f(>met)f themy 
that their Lord **nevergave fuch a rrmmand," others, 
** that the time for obeying it is not cr me," others, 
*• that the bad fucccfs of their fellows difccura^es farther 
attempts, and while (ome are provcked that the me- 
nials of the hcufe fhtuld prefunic to engage in the hu- 
lireis, others, *' declare it is viJe dirty wcik and fit only 
for fkullions and fh( e-bcys," This has been prccifely 
our conduct in lA flions. 

But hew many an individual knew that this general 
duty detci mines on him ? Ihis enquiry will be made 
with views as different, as are the characters cf the men 
vho make it : fome to find a pbufible excuse for decli- 
ning iheir duty ; and others from a fmccre defire to 
know and to do it. To the firft fort, it will be imp' fUble 
to give fatisfadion. Their firft principle, InvUi not be a 
mifionany prccludcsall conviction. Their fecond principle 



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(*wili justify my dlfohc Hence >» detcrminca them to demand 
fuch rcafons for the absolute certainty of iheir call, as they 
knowy or might to know, cannot be given them. They de- 
mand their call to be demonstrated with intuitive evidence; 
and while there remains a poffibility of their deceivinj; 
themfiives, prudently determine to run no hazards Bs 
it fo gentleman. We difmifs yon from the service until 
you have acquired more inyjenuou? mi a is. Your swords 
nJ^y remain quietly in their scabbards, for this is not a 
war in which lath will fupply the place of fteel. You 
are your own demoaft radons that God does not call 
you tomidi^ns ; and whatever fms you may iland ac- 
countable for in the day of Chiill, I thmk you will hard- 
ly be criminated under th u 11 itute of his kin-jdom, Go 
presLch the gofpei to every cre.it :ire» 

Sincere Ifraelitcs, wtio, li'c: Nithaniel, have ingen- 
uous mini*, and worfliip O > J in truth, miy on this 
fn'>j:ct be fatisfied, as cle:irl>' as o;i any other, which is 
involved in ihj truth of the G:>^p?l. In the fcriptuies, 
in reason, in providence, in experience of our own hearts 
aud characters ; and in our relations in private and in 
public life, there are to be discovered data, from which 
wc may come by a iimple procefs of reaf )ning,to a very 
tolerable coacluiion of wliat is our duty in this inftance. 

This ciiil is certiinly not of man, nor of the will of 
man. A fenfe of the worthinefs of the undertaking* 
and a general delire to do the will of God, widi the fo- 
iicitations of friends who think hi;;j;hly cf us, and who 
ase of opinion, that there is a providential opening for 
liH to go to the Heatheui do not conilitute a fnfHcient 
warrant for engaging. Much, very much more than 
all thi^ is required. The Moravian maxim, *' Never to 
persuade much less to urge a man toengage in milliQfis," 
has been justified to them by experience ; and it will ap- 
pear perie^ly reafonable to Aippofe, that the levers 
aud puliies of human perfuafion, by which a man in- 
different to mifllons may, sometimes, be excited to act 
tn chem> give no sufficient momcintum to the foul to 



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fupport It agamft the immenfe countcrpoife of flefh and 
blood. lie, who appears poflcired of ihe mo-ik lively 
zeal for mi (lions, may deceive himfelf by falfe fire, and 
cnthufialVick feelings ; but the man who wants fire, who 
is merely prompted by his friends, and suppofes a 
million a m.itter to be managed like a parish in ling- 
land, cquary deceives himfelf, though he declaims 
againfl enthufiasm, and would liave Ub underftand, that 
he is following thij lefs fallitcious light uf reafon. But 
I exhort every one, whoie whole foul is not in the bufi- 
nefs, to ftand nrm ag-ainft tiis pcrfuafion of all men. He 
may be affured that miffionary work is to rou-vh for his 
dudiile nature. If he cannot fay no to his friends, how 
Ihall he fay no to thofe manifold temptations whicli will 
f )]icit him to return ? And I befeech all who have 
claims to reafon, to reli;5ion, or to humanity, never to 
attempt to persuade any one, directly cr indirectly, to do 
any thine; mure in miffions than he can do With pleasure 
and unftiigned good will. It is unreafonable to fuppose 
that our perfuafives can operate to change the charac* 
tcr, and ii> a moment to give a man fentiments and feel- 
ings he never had before. It is not agreeable to the e- 
conomy of religion, for God to leave the inftrumentspf 
his will, without iriclination, as well as ability for doing 
it. Last of all, it is a moft inhuman persecution to in- 
Jift on its being the w?llof God that any indiviv-luil fhoald 
engage in Miiiions, or in any degree to aifuftie the pro- 
vince of heaven in pretending to fearch the heart, and 
direct the conscience. This conduct is the more odioiifji 
as it is an infl::ument of torture, applied to none \mx 
woriliy and pious minds, where we have moil reafons to 
believe it unneceifary. 

Mor will providences which appear fuddenly^ and a 
present willingrefs to engage, prove our cttll. Pirovi- 
dence is a mybtcrious hook, not easily legible, and heft 
underftood when read backwards ; and I Thall much fuf- 
pect that man's call is Ihewn him by sudden and • unej^-. 
pected openings of Providence, who has never before 



ON MISSIONS. 27 

made a discovery of it in his Bible, or in his own heart. 
From a general analogf of grace as well as nature, we 
are led to expect, that what is born and attains matu- 
rity in a day, will fade and die in as short a term. In a 
miflioiiary we look for ftrong;, permanent, habits, fuch 
as af* f.>rmed by reiterated acts. We do not mean to limit 
the Hoiy One of Ifrael ; but to rcfpect Him as the God 
of order, means and ordinances. He has ei};4blifhed the 
connection of eflF'.'cts with their cau.es 5 and th mijh He 
may and will, when He fees good invert the cilabiifii - 
ed order of 'things we mult not affect more than what 
becomes the fragility of our nature. Wc muft require 
the horfeto be broken in for the battle. We mull ex- 
pect that the man called to MiiGons will experience, fuc- 
ceffiveiy, all the viciflitudes of hope, fear, defire, aver- 
lion, confidence and defpondency, before he dips his foot 
in the water, or will be able to contemplate with Iteady 
courage the dangers of these depths, if there be a man, 
who claims exemption from comTnoh rules, and can in a 
moment engage in a miflion without a dispofition pre- 
▼iou!»ly formed, and having £0 eng'iged, can conduct 
the matter aright, he is no precedent for our imita- 
tion. 

These observations premised, the first thing towards 
constituting a call to MtlH >ns is ability to comply with 
it. Let the candidate, therefore, examine liimself, 
whether he be pi)fl -flTed, in a reasonable decree, of the 
qualifications nectfTiry for thAt ftation. Fr<im what he 
has done in the minilby in England, he may form 
fome guefs of what he is likely to do abroad. It may 
also be proper to take the candid opinion of his minis, 
terial friends, whofe favorable sentiments will fupport 
his diffidence, or whose honed cenfure may check his 
temerity* On this fubject, if on any, we Ihall be fafe 
to under rate our qualifications ; and, if -we are humble, 
we (hall naturally be led to do fo. This, if it one way 
operates as a discouragement, will in another produce 
different effects. God giveth grace to the humble; and 

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28 HORNE'S LETTERS 

men will give them honor. An humble opin'on cf 
ourfclves will neither d<imp our zeal for Gody nor our 
benevolence to men. It will not pervert our under- 
standings, nor mnke us dishonour God by disclaiming 
i^hatever degree of humble Etncfs He may give us for 
the work. The greater the natural and acquired tal* 
ents of any man be, the better ; but all this is not the 
great thing, the one thing, the living spirit, the eye, the 
ear, the itrength and arms of the mifSonary, Cnais- 

TIAN GnALINESS, ThE MiND OS ChRIST, Th£ ImAGB 

CF GuD, — this is the qualification which a mffEonarf 
cannot do without ; which he cannot have in too great 
a degree ; and which if he pofTefs in (Iresgth and vigor, 
his ocftcr qualifications, however small, cannot be deem* 
ed defective. Upon this fubject, then, he cannot put to 
himself too many, or too close queftions. His felf de- 
nial, activity, fortitude, perfeverance, habitual dili^encei 
and confcientious adherence to order and regularity, 
throughout his wliole conduct, will each of them mer- 
it minute invefligation. If the result of this enquiry 
be satisfactory to himfelf, he may be afTured that he 
has, at leaft> a folid foundation to build upon. 

The fecond head of enqjiry is his nuillingnefs to en- 
gage in midions. Here fomething more is required 
than cold approbation, or that general difpofition to do 
the wfll of God, which influences every pious man. 
We look for a ftrong, decided predilection — a patsion 
for miilions, if I may be allowed the term ; that fpecies 
of commendable enthusiasm, which enables profession- 
al men to magnify the dignity and importance of their 
respective arts, and to purfue their object, under qvery 
difcouragement, until they have carried their art to 
a perfection, which men of colder nunds could never 
have suppo&d it capable of receiving. I would have 
him poffefied of that ftrong pafGon for mifHons which 
Columbus had for discovery, and which fupported him 
for a long courfe of years againd the ridicule of the 
whole world, againft the difcouragement of havmg hh 



ON MISSIONS. 29 

ftnrices rejected by diflFercnt princes, agaiaft the ingrat- 
itude of Ferdinand and Ifabcaa, and a^amn the re- 
peated mutiny, treachei y, and o<il'caeli> of bis compan- 
ions. I would have him to enam.;urea ot his object^ 
as to coniider the hardship diui danger bt ths puifuic 
a pleafure rather than a pain ; and co dnd m himself a 
difpotition to fucceed, or to peribh in the attempt. If 
be cannot engage without a wiih to return to iLurope^ 
and with a full determination, God being his Helper, 
to die in the h.irnefs, that man has not the foul of a 
genuine mifOonary. 

Some of my readers will think I draw a glowing pic- 
ture, and that my colorings betray the glare of enthu- 
iiafm. They would have their midionary, what they 
call, a prudent man, a man of reafon and coolness. 
They win fay that he who engages with fo much 
warmth will foon have his fire damped, and betray as 
much cowardice in the conflict, as he ftewed courage 
before the battle. 1 will entreat such Gkntlempn to 
give a candid interpretation to my terms, and to enter in- 
to the fpirit of the writer, as well as into the force of 
his expreflions. Hmnaa language is defective. They 
who use it are ftill more imperfect. 1 may not have the 
felicity of exprefling the idea I would convey, exactly 
fuch as it is in my own mind ; and though I could 
ftamp my ideas on language as clearly and forcibly, as 
new coin difplajs the impreiiion of the die, yet, except 
mj thoughts had the fame currrency as the Kings coiu, 
my leader may eafily miilake my meaning, where I 
have, made none in exprcfling it^ and in this manner 
every man who writes, luilains feme cenfures which are 
due to the precipitancy and difengenuousnefs of his 
reader. In the light of this observation, I beg leave 
to remark* that Columbus, Cortez, Csrt'ar, St. Paul, 
and all thofe who have done great things in the world, 
have poffefled a fire, atid energy very uncommon j and 
tliat this fire, this energy, was absolutely eflcntial to 
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3# HORNE'S LETTERS 

certainly this remark does not fupposc that this fire 
alone affected every thing. They were men of knowl. 
edge, of piUv.«ence9 and ot that coolnel's which temper- 
ed rheir tire andv^ave it a proper direction Had ihey 
not ^een fupported by these folid qualities, Caefar might 

tave pcriihed like C^tahne, and St. Paul would never 
ive bctn God's i \ trument for building the Church. 
If my miflionary, therefore, has more zeal than good 
fenfe, more tire than wifdom to command it^ he will 
foon find that inftead of wa k>ng in the tootitcp<i of an ' 
Apoitle, he is flying on the -A^>ixen wmgs of Icarus, or 
driving the destructive car of the juvenile and prefump- 
tuous Phaeton, F4lfe fire will not diffolve real coldi 
nor falfe courage fupport the burlt i>f cannon 

But this concv'flion made, 1 infifl upon it, the mif- 
fionary muft not only have true fire, but a lar^e pro- 
portion of it ; and 1 indft upon it to much the more, 
as 1 fee very little attention p^id to it ; as I cannot bat 
think, ihat too many good men are foicing Zeno's coat 
upon the afft^ctionate Jefus ; and appear more afraid of 
offending men by being too hot, than of difpleafing 
God by being too cold. InRead of bringing the world 
over to Christ by the goulike irrefiftible charms of 
trunh propofed without talfe ornaments, we endeavor 
to accommodate it to corrupt minds, by prrtpofing it 
under the garb of reafon, and with the affected fickJy 
air and feeble tottering fteps of morality. In this 
manner we betray our Mafter, and iofe our own labor. 
And, however digreffive this obfervation m:iy appear, I 
affirm it has much to do with my fubject ; for until we 
learn to difmifs our moral dialect,* and high founding 
talk of reafon, there will be little right reafon or good 
morals in the Church ; until we boldly take up the 
Crofs of the bUfTed Jefus, and tell mankind that, in re- 
ligion, there is no other reafon, no other morals, \han 
that godlike reafdn, tbofe divine morals which H« j 
brought down to us from his Father's bofom and treaf- 



ON MISSIONS. 31 

• uf ed up for us in his holy gofpel, we fhall never be able 
to carry 00 a war of millions^ nor have apoilolic men 
to act in it. A mifliony contemplated in its true fpi:it» 
and in all its compafs of facritice and fii£Fering, is not 
a common thing, and men whofe minds are of a com- 
mon calt arc unfit for it. If, therefore, their engage- 
ment is fo remote from the common course of things, 
why fhould miflionries be expected to feel and think in 
the beaten track ? . If they are to live in fire, where is 
the abfurdity of wilhing them to be endowed with the 
properties of the Salamander f If their work is apof- 
tolic, how is reafon violated by expecting they (hould 
claim alliance with the blood of St. Paul ?— Thanks 
be to God, his blcHcd Son does not treat the fpldiers of 
the crofs witJi that contempt they fuffer from their fel- 
low Chridians ! No ; the choice^ confoiations and the 
moft joyous hopes are their portion ;. and if, the afflic- 
tions of Jefus aoound in them, they will be comforted 
with the mod glorious anticipations of his kingdom and 
of hib joy. 

Nor if a young man, in the early prime of life, 
fhould mingle with the lambent flame he has kindled 
from God's altar, fome iparks of wild erratic fire, are 
we entitled to treat him with contempt and rejection. 
If his character be fupported by folid qualities, thofe 
fparks will, with a little time and experience, be absorb- 
ed in the purer fl;ime. Nay, fliould he at fir ft betray 
fome tokens of fear and foftnefs, we (hould rather fym- 
pathize with his weaknefs than difpair of his courage, 
if we find in him that tried courage and unrelenting 
hardihood which characteiize the Veteran, who has wa- 
ded through many a well fought field, and endured the 
various climes of the North and South, we find mu.h 
more than we are entitled to hope. St. Paul indeed 
was at once made a Chriftian and the chief ot the Apof- 
ties.. Such power belongeth unto God, and fuch uon- 
or to the man whom He will exalt. Buc, m fpitc 'f the 
ei^ample and exhortations of the ^reat Sc Paul, Mark 



.j2 HORNETS LET.FERS. 

fled from the work of the apoftollc mifGon ; ncvcrthc- 
lefs, between the wholcfomc cenfures of Paul, and the 
•onfoktory a£F<-ctionof Barnabas,his fpirit was, tlirough 
divine grace, again excited to the Hght of faith, and he 
redeemed his character, and obtained a good report a- 
mong the \poftles. Let the caniidate for mi{fi«ins he. 
poiTefTed of vhat degiee of zeal and courage he may, 
no doubt the day will come, when with fears from with-^ 
in and fightings from withou- , he will be pressed beyond 
meafuie, and feel that nothing but aboanding grace aad 
Aln)iuhty power can confole and fupport him. But, if 
we mud make fome abatement for his courage when 
tnga.:;ed in actual fervice, and jeopardying his life on 
the high places of the field, furely we (hould require 
fome tolerable degree of ardour before the fword is 
drawn and blood is fpilt. For if the man, who volun- 
teers, and is borne on the ilrong wing of hope, nust ex- 
pect fuch rude ihocks in the evil day, what are we to 
expect from him who enters into mifGons without zeal or 
energy, and who is, in fact, little better tlian a prefFed^ 
man ? 

The ttiird confideration which I (hall notice as t^ 
fential to a call to Mifllons is a freedom from fuch ties as 
exclude the engagement ; and they will be either of a 
domeftic or a mmifterial nature. I have more than 
once expreOTed my fentitients with refpegt to the pro* 
priety of married men and fathers of funiilies engaging 
in mifllons. Generally fpeaking I do not thiuk it ad- 
vifable ; but I dare not fay it is improper. 1 will not 
difapprove the man fo fituated, who (ball engage ; and, 
if he and his family conduct themfelves in a miflion as 
the Reverend Mr. Egede and his houfehold did in 
Greenland, they .(hall have my warmeft commenda- 
tion. ^(ay, (hould they through human weaknefs fail 
in fortitude and perfpverance, the piety of tlie attempt 
will, with me, cover the weaknefs of the execution* 
But the propriety of fuch an attempt will in my idea 
depend on circumftances. The healthy strength, and 



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ON MISSIONS* 33 

habits of a mother and her children are to be condd- 
ered, a^ well a& the de,^ree of accomodation which can 
be affoded them in a miiCon. Much v<ill depend on 
the wilHngnefs of a miniiler's wife to (hare his toils and 
pel il<-9 and very much will depend on his own ftrength 
o^ fuui to fee his wife and f imiiy, Unguifhing and dy- 
ing, if God fiiould appoint it fo, in confequence cf his 
cn(^agin>( them in difficulties which they cannot fup- 
port If a minister be pofTcfled of this fortitude, if 
his wife breaths the same fpirit with himfclf ; and if they 
both ihink the venture juitifiable, let them go, and give 
an ex imple to Chriilendom which we fo greatly want* 
But if he cannot infpire his wife with his own fentiments» 
I am clearly of opinion he has no call to Miflions. I 
reafon thus. If it be faid, tha^ the wife of that min- 
iftcr has not pity to engag'» of her own free will, 1 an- 
fwcr Chriftianity will not juitify a divorce by leaving 
her behmd him, and good fenfe will not juQify him 19 
take her abroad into circum fiances of didreis and danger^ 
where all ^er pnffions wilt be armed to war againti his 
peaceand to dificredit himfelf in his miniilry. If it be f.iidt 
that his wife is a woman of piety, the cafe ftands ftill 
more ftrongly againft him. and a dreadful fufpicion 
will lie againll his piety. For if a woman ot piety, his 
wife, the mother of his cMlJren cannot be made to en- 
ter into his call, I itiuii fufpcrct that he carries with him 
abroad more religion thin he exercifes at home ; 
and can entertain very little opinion of his converting 
Heathens, who cannot convert a godiy woman who 
loves him to follow him to the world's end, — Nor 
would I recommend the force d iltong perfua-fioa^ 
much lefs any thing like conjugal authority, with any 
woman The man who does this will tind, at laft, 
that he rolls the ftone of Sifij:hus, and when he thinks 
he has got it to the top of the hill, it will return with 
SL double force, acquired by the velocity of its descent, 
and c/ufh him to pie^s. If a married man wifhes to 
engage in miffions, his firft care is to infpire his wife 




34 HORNPS LETTERS 

with a portion of his own zeal : if he can do fo, well ; 
if not I advife him to ftay at home- It is a b^se un- 
manly thing ro complain of our wives ; and women 
were never generally vicious, bafc and cowardly, when 
TO'-n did not make them fo. Godlinefs is the mod 
commanding thing on earthi and women who have the 
best opportunities of knowing their husbands piety, and 
are perfonally attached to them, will not be the laft to 
revere it. Tht man who charges his wife, in nine cases 
out of ten, will reproach himie.'f ; and I affirm when 
we dare imitate the ;-ipo!lles, there is little fear of 
our wives lagginji: in the ract of virtue, 

A minister's flock fhould be as dear to him, and it 
fome fenfe, dearer than his wife and children ; and if 
we are in pofts'of uncommon horiour and usefulnefs, it 
may well vidmit an crquiry, How far we are julliHable 
in relinquilhirg them ? We are giving up a certainty 
for an uncertainty. fhe good we (hail do abroad may 
bear fma.l proportion with that we leave at home. We 
may miit.ik-* our call, or we may be called to die, while 
tl c honoui of cor:qaeft is referv ed for others. We may, 
for ou^lu we know, groan for years under ihc couse* 
qiiences of a precipitate conduct, and reproach our- 
feives for not having better underdood our Shepherd's 
voice. Wh>:t the charity of others may, and fhould, 
lead them to excufe as the error of an honeil zeal, wc 
ill ill probably charge on ourfelvcs as the proud volatile 
miftake of an unsanctified heart. We may expofe 
Durselvcs to be the butt of those cold fpirits who never 
hid religion enough to afpire to exe!lence ; to be admon- 
i(h' d with ignorant, but wounding good nature^ "I 
always told yor, youmiftook your call,and would foon be 
glad to come home ;'* and to be held up as a difcourage- 
ment to thofe who would do well — ** Look on that roan ; 
he began to build, and was not able to finifli." We 
may adlually grieve God's fpirit ; and never recover a 
poll as ufeful in the minidry as Jiat we relinquiibed. 



ON MISSIONS. 35 

Anr^ a^ t^h nfiay be n very righteous atid nece/Tiry dlf- 
cipii. e o I um^ie tKe nri n, uho having only the qualifi- 
catior. of a 'erj nnt in mliti*, Ihall alpire to the rank 
of colonel m a regiment f t foreign Icrvice. 

Fir be it fronri me t<> discour.ige any man ; hut I mud 
hold ■ ut no faibe c«4^rs. T'^ hive a real call tc» miflions 
is 4, ^r-at h'^nor <<nd a ^irta; felicity ; but to mill«^kc 
our c.iV is a fad ih»n-t» both t»^ ourJcivts cind others. Nor 
is •h•Tea^v jrre^Jt danger 'i my ilif r^uraging the man 
wh m G'Ki prompts ">y Ms f'pirit to v-m ;racethis caUing* 
Bu« fome vho a«e rr.dly ca.lcd may be too halty ; they 
may mil^ake theii line • f march, or engage bcfoie the 
(ignal ot en^'aging be given. I i<now ol no Ipecif 'c rules, 
fr>r men wh^se circuniit.^nces m.»v be ii f ir.ite'.v vaiious. 
Here every one v^ili rciff-n aiid judve for him-ell ; here 
he mu * divek himklf of all pi. p.^irr.ffion. on either fide 
and m- k dliigent ^-i quiry (.i th:.t Goc, who has prom- 
ifed to give wif«ioni t ail who fcek it. 

Suj poiir g ihe m ffi<'nary candidate has gone over all 
thi. ground to hij faIi^facti(:n, the ' nly thing remaining 
to c<»mplete his call vill be a reaionable profpect of 
i^iccefi. To h ive- this reafon;>bJe prcfpect of fuccefs, 
hi/ meafures nntt. he well confuhed, and he mull be 
providt'd \^ith cveiy ht)p, vhxh the nature of the un- 
der' akiJg can itqu?re. Let him then ask himfelf, 
Hav- 1 funds cqa<il to my undert ik ng, and are the 
p/trons ard conductors (f the ni.fli' n in England men 
of zeal and fpirir, fu h as I can m.tke pertectly free 
with who enter in to all my views, and in w^hom I can 
perff^ctly confide, for every encfuragcment and fupport ? 
L)o they leave m • pef ctiy at ^ber y to zii abroad as 
I fre occafi »n, not fettering me with cold theoretical 
councils, and prefer ibi » g uith dtcdion aline of con- 
duct to me, whivh amuf^s them by their fire fide to 
chat over wiih a fiiend? Unhfs he can anfwer these 
quellions in a fat isfz^ctory, manner his meafures are not 
well taken i ana if he i.s zealous in hL putfuit he may leave 

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36 HORNE'S LETTERS 

everv tfiinsf and fuflF'^r every tMnjj:, to go to India or 
Jiipan to tind his hands tied behind his back when he 
^ets there, and to pine away in vexation and difap- 
pointment ' ^ 

Let lim a^k farther. Have I fellow foldiers like* 
niinded with ir.yfelf, and is my miffion fo connected 
v.)v.\ cf»nc-iicted, that I can have a fupply of as many of 
ihcr?i as my work (hall r€ quire ? Have I fuch an -^c- 
q'liiintance with the country where 1 am going, of its 
clini ite, geography* police and manners, as I can rca- 
{cr.7t ]y cApfct to anfwer upon a trial with thofe views 
vh cii ha\e engaged me to go there ? If he goes alone 
he lh(^i:lJ be a man of no little itature. '1 hough he 
iboiild live and die like David Brainerd, he will, in that 
cafe only relinquifti a greater good in England to do 
a fiTj lUer one abroad. Where a tolerable r umber of 
Miiri.):i::ries are wanting a few individuals may be con- 
veite i ; liut the gofpcl will not be fpread — nothing will 
be done anfwerable to the idea of a miffion. And I 
ccnfefs I can lee no reafon for marching through fire 
and water to convert a Bramin in India, when with 
h^lf the liibor ten of our own countrymen might be 
c^ iivtrted at home ; except it be to keep up the dying 
fl.me of miffionary zeal, until Chriftendom be (hamed 
out of ihe foily of conducting Miffions in this lazy, ab- 
furd way. On the other hand, (hould our information 
of he place we are going to be defeftive, we (hall pro- 
ceed en feiife principles, and when pradlice is difcovered 
to be fo oppc fite to our theory, we (hall be liable to 
turn on the heel, and fay, this is not the place to which 
I am called. 

When a minifter has patiently examined thefe four top- 
ics, his ability, his willingnefs, his freedom from thofe 
ties w}uch prohibit the engagement, and the reafonable 
pri fpect of fucceeding, and finds them all concurring' 
to c untenance the purfui-, he will I think be in pofTeC 
(ion < f every thing which ought to bt defired, or can 
be obtained to make bis call clear* He has nothing 






ON MISSIONS. 37 

th.n to do, but to obey ths dictates of his confciencc, 
^nd, calling his care upon the Lord, to make trial of 
his apoiileihip. If he is blclFcd in his deed, he fhall fee 
of the travail of his Redeemer's foul, and of his own, 
ai\d be fatisded. His exdnip^e will provoke his breth- 
ren to jealoufy, and his fuccefs encou.a ^t our Lxerlions. 
If he falls, he will difcourage no mm who ao:s not 
wifh tj be difcouroged. He may come home and teil 
his Brethren ingenuously ; *' 1 have made the attempt 
" and find myfelf inadequate to it. Nevcrthelcfs the 
iou-^.datioQ abideth Hrm, the obligation of the duty 
is the fame, and do you who have more wifdom and 
•* piety (land forward as the Champions of Chrift and 
*• his teHgion. Let no man's heait fail on my ac- 
•* count i nor fuppofe becaufe I have done nothinj^, t' \t 
** nothing is to be done by the many vcttra!!^ who 
•' fight under the crofs. You cenfure my rafhiicf , > . u 
** chide my pulilianimity, and it is of little matit.r that 
•* my character fmk under a weight of repro.ich, which 
** in many refpects I have deferved j but do you arife 
*• and be jealous for your God. Conqueft hovers over 
*• our banners, if we dare engage with fpirit 1 am in- 
*^ deed defeated, but not difcouraged ; I defpair of my- 
** fcif, but not of tlie caufe of Chrift. Go, and redeem 
** the honor 1 have loft. Wipe away this vile dif'grace, 
•* thl^i unutterable Ihame, which refts upon the Chriftian 
** name. Let it not be faid that in the eighteenth cen- 
** tury, in Britain, among the thonfands of miniftjrs of 
** various denominations who are the glory of ths 
*• Churches, that men are not to be found who 
** feel for man, Chriftians who are not jealous for 
** Chrift's glory, minifters who cherilh the noble emu- 
*' lation of following the apoftles. If you will not act, 
•• God will raife up ftones to reprove and (hame you. 
•* If you will not a6t, you almoft juftify that temerity 
•* and cowardice which you cenftire. I have been de- 
** feated, but it was in the fields and after receiving 
** many wounds ; but you, by more (hamcful coward* 



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** ic2,gjvc up the caufe for loft without making one 
** generous effort. I have been rafh in tiiinking of my- 
-** lelf more hicjhly than I ought to thii.k ; bnt you al- 
** moil provoke tlie repetition of my rafh icfs by undcr- 
*' valuiiiv' Chrifl and his religion ; for when you are 
*• cold uhere you ought to be aninnated by the moft 
" lively zeal, it is enough to provoke babes and fuck- 
*' lin;"i to-lake up arms, a'v.i if they cannot corqu?r, at 
** hd]\, t^ach us to die for the Captain of our falvation " 
In this Urain may he addreA his Brethren, for whatev- 
cenfure nijy reft upon his .miftake whatever want cf 
fanctiticati(v.i of heart it miy infer, if ihis be the grand 
fault which lies againft his character, it is of fucha kind, 
efpecially when he comes to fee and coafefs it ingenu- 
oufly,as infers alfo fomcth'ng which will fupport hinrun- 
der its confequences ; — as will, with God*s grace, lead 
him to real Improvement, and render hira more the ob- 
ject of eilecm, thin of reproach with all who love God. 
Next to ih-i incftim ible and irreparable lofs of his own 
foul in attempting v^ save the fou^s of others, perhaps 
the moft infupportable fhock a miffionary can have to 
fupport, far v/orfe tlian death, is that of total difappoint- 
nient, together with a difcovery of having mif- 
taken his object. Yet to this total difappointment 
to this drcauful difcovery, is every m7.n liable who 
enga?es in Miflfions. This r.-flection fliould guard 
us againft precipitate determination ; and teach us to 
meet difappointments halfway. When we are foaring 
in the clouds we (hould often brin;:^ ourfelves to the 
ground, by faying to ourselves, " Perhaps I may be 
mi;h:kcn in my call — perhaps the m^ft cruel difap- 
pointments await me." Such thoughts are the more 
necriful as men of fire, andfuch mifllonaries will be, par- 
ticul.irly need them. Too of:en we deceive ourfelves 
by fuppofirg conftitu'ional vivacity is Chriftian zeal : 
and, tiiough we indulge these humbling considerations 
to confolidate our fpirits, as mnch as pbffiblc, if difap- 
pointment be at laft our portion, we fhall find it hard 
enough to fupport the dreadful concuffioA when if comes* 



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Few men of candid minds are wholly blind to conftitu- 
tional failings ; and if the miffionary be fenfible that 
his defect leans to the fide of false fire, it will be doubly 
neceflUry for him to labour after the ftronger qualities of 
gravity, firmnefs and fclf pofleflion ; and to go forth 
in utrumque paratus to win tophies, or to fap;;ort the 
difgrace inevitably confequent on anunfacLefsful :iuempt 
Should a miffionary fpirit be generall excited, many, who 
mean well, will be induced to venture, who, upon the 
trial, will find their ftrength infufficient for an apoftolic 
warfare. They muft, then, either relinquifli the war, 
or perGH; in it to their own ruin. In this dilemma, the 
man 'of feeling, honour, fpirit, may find fuch n qriantum 
of pride, felf confidence, and impatience in hiscornpoii- 
tion, as he never before fuspe(5led. His rceltn;^, his 
fenfe of honour, his fpirit, which, with a (Ivire of godli- 
nofs, were perhaps the fecrct fprings of his engagement, 
will now turn their ftrength upon himfelf, excruci;Ue him 
beyond imagination, anfl, if God's infinite compaflionsdo 
not prevent him, and enable him to ii'nk cjulctly into his 
own nothingnefs at the feet of Jcfus, he will become the 
prey of that proud forrow, which in f :riplure languapje, 
is faid to loork death ; or, in ih.c phrafcolcgy of this 
world, he ivill break his heart. The man who \s persua- 
ded to engage in miffions is free from this danger ; but 
he who with the femblaace of apoftnllc 7.:al, without 
deep humility, meeknefs and p.itience, falls into this 
circumftance, will experience a hurricane of pifTnns,' 
which heggars alldefcriptlon. Much of this 1 have knovvn 
too well ; and 1 make this confeflion, that my readers 
may learn, that I msike a real and impoitant difiintflion, 
between a well tempered zeal, and that fpecles of fire 
which betrays leylty and inconClancy of mind. 

One more obfervation I Ihall m ike on this fubject. 
If we would not difcourage Mifli .^ns, we muft beware 
how we indulge the afperity of cenfure againll thofe who 
fail in their attempts. They have paid the penalty of 
their ralhnefs, as fully as any man of humanity could 

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vvifh. We fliould remember, it is cafier to attempt 
great things than to accomphfh them ; and if to the 
proud humiliations of a m.in's own mind, and those kind- 
lier one's of God's good fpirit, this poor dejected mor- 
tal is to be reprehended, ridiculed,or, under the pretence 
of pity, to be the object of the vile contempt of base 
minds, who will engage in great and perilous underta* 
kings ? Let Chriftians, then, imitate the dignity of a 
Roman Senate, and, in(lead of cenfuring what thou- 
fands can cenfure, and few dare imitate, treat fuch a 
one with a generous condefcenfion which may fnilain 
his mind under afHictions, and encourage others to bold 
attempts to ferve a grateful people. 

After al]| as real Christians are few and false ones 
many, he who becomes a miffionary mud expect whit 
he will certainly find — contempt and oppofuion all the 
way through ; and though it be our duty to treat him 
in the way I recommended, it is evidently his duty to 
ilrive after that lowHnefs of foul, which fetting itfelf 
under the the eye of God, is neither elated with the praife 
nor dejected by tlie cenfure of men. In learning of 
Jesus to be meek and lowly in heart, we (hall find folid 
and permin^nt fell. 

I remain, Rcvrend Brethrcn(, 
Your afi^ectionate, humble fervant, 

M. H. 



SEVENTH, LETTER. 
Fathers and Brethren^ 

IF we would fee a general fpread of the gofpel and 
multitudes of ignorant Heathen gathered into the fold 
of Chrift, we (hould endeavour to mend the miffionary 
road and to remove from it all unnecefftry turnpikes : 
we fliould confider the objections^ which are made to 



ON MISSIONS. 4« 

» mifiionsy andy hj giving them fatisfactdry aofwers, 
lake oS thofe fatal discourag«mentt>» which couDteraft 
iir exertions, I beg leave to lay before you fuch 
F them as have fallen under my notice, together with 
ich anfwers as I have made to my (everal objec« 
)rs. 

The fird trite objection thrown in the teeth of the man» 
ho fpeaks in favor of Miflions, is> IVe have Heathen 
lough in England^ luithout cfjfing thefea to find them. Con* 
r/ thofe ive have at homefirft and then leok to those abroad. 
his objection reminds me of the language of our Lord^ 
hen afliiming the cold, fevcre air of the Pharifee, he 
lade a trial of the faith of the Syro-phceaicean woman 
ho requefted a cure for her daughter. — // // not meet 

take the children's breads and give it to dogs. And I think 
maybe well anfwered by the words of the afflicted moth- 
'yTruth^ Lord ; yet the dogs eat oft he crumhs ^hicbfallfrcm 
e chtldrens table. If our Lord may decide the point, 
lere was reafon, as well as faith, in her plea. That 
lere are Heathen ia England is a melancholy truth ; 
id it v/ill be equally true, when Chrift (hall come to 
idge the word, as ic is at this day. So that, if we 
ait tlieir converfion, the Heathen abroad will never 
e the better for our love. But, it fhould be remcm- 
ered, that our European Heathen perifh by the abufi 
f that knowledge, for the lack of which other Heathen 
re undone. I add, that the minifters who go abroad 
) far from being felt as a lofs at home, will be 
le means of doing more good among us, than if they 
ad continued in England. For foreign Miflions will 
ave the fame influence on religion, as foteign com- 
Qercc has upon agriculture and manufactures. As 
)hri!lianity prevails abroad, io it will flouri(h at home. 
;'hus, what is ailed f'-ed againft miflions is a fubllantial 
rgument for enga^*^ in them. 

Others object, / km'U) not that God^s time for the con^ 
rjiyn of the Heathen b? yet come. When St. Paul nv^uld 
ve gone into Afta^ he was inhibited by the fpirit ; and if 



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St* Paul nuas miJlAm in fuch a pointy loel! may ive Be J 
alfo. — I anfwer if my obje<5lor means to pro\« an 
thing, he (hould advance a ftep farther, and fay I kn9n. 
that God's time is mt come ; and because St. Paul <wosfir 
hidden in the courfe of his journey to preach the gofpel in Aft 
before he had vifited Macedonia and Greece^ f which nvere n 
per for receiving the gofpel j ) therefore, Chrijian Miniftet 
tnuji not follow the Apoftle^s example^ lefl peradventure^ the 
(hould ah under the inhibitions of the Spirit — But is / don 
knomj^Wi the lips of any man, to be oppofed to the author 
ilative command of Chrift, Go preach the Gofpel to ever 
creature f And is it come to this, that eighteen hundrc 
years after the dath of Chrift, and notwithftanding th 
general opinion of the Church, evinced, by her engaging 
more or lefs,in Miflions,from that time to this, that we ar 
in doubt about our Mafter's will on a fubject, which 
involves the falvation of fo large a part of mankind 
If this be the cafe, how are we to know God's will 
What muft the Majefty of Htaven do to fatisfy our un 
reafonable fpirits ? An evil and adulterous generation fee. 
forfigns* Our fcruples ft amp our character — St. Paul' 
inhibition proves the very point I contend for — that wi 
fliould act under the warrant of a general commiflion 
St. Paul did fo. As a man of fenfe he made ufe oi 
his reafon. He had undoubtedly fpecious reafons foi 
thinking of going firft into Afia ; but God who faw 
farther than he did, ordered him to take another rout 
and after ha hid fulfilled that miniftry, he refuraet: 
his deiign to go into Afia and fpent a confidera 
ble time, there, his labors being accompanied with th< 
fame fuccefs which attended him in other parts. W< 
read of none of the Apoftles looking for particular in- 
timarions of the divine will to direct their labors 
Sometimes they had exti aordinary intimations, anc 
they obeyed them ; but, in their ^"erreral courfe, aftei 
prayer and ferious deliberation, they did what appcare( 
to them the moll advifablc. Laftly, I afk why arc w« 
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ON MISSIONS. 43 

fenfe, upon which we act in all other things ? Let us 
do our duty, and ceafe to move the councils of Heav- 
en tor the knowlcde of what the Almighty is deter- 
mined to conceal. Were St. Paul on earth, and an an- 
gel from heaven were to preach the doftrine contained 
in the objedtion, I am confident, the apoftle would 
ftrip him of his luminous apparel, and lay his doftrine 
under an anatliema, in all the Churches. 

An objection fimilar to the one I have juTt anfwcredv 
is urged in the foilowingform — // appears that the order 
of events *iveare'taugbt to expect from the Prophecies^ if fi^fi 
the deftru5iion tf the Raman dntichrift^ then the c9nverfion of 
the JetiiSi and laft of all, thefulnefs of the Gentiles ; in 
which noork, the couverted Jenusy it is thought, ivill be 
the principal inflruments- The conclufion is^ that the 
time is not yet come for the anverfion of the Heathen^ and 
that all our labor to effect it ivill be loji. To this reafon- 
ing, I anfwer firft, that propliecies comparatively ob- 
fcure ihould not be put in competition with the obliga- 
tion of clear and explicit precepts. Secondly, if all 
be granted which this objection affumes, it will not fol- 
low that we Ihould look for the grand events we hope 
to fee accomplinicd, in indolence and careleffnefs. If 
none but Jewifh Chridians dare fignalize their zeal for 
truth in the apoiiolic way, nor are to be honored with 
apoftolic fuccefs, JDucli, very much may yet be done by 
us, long before we Ihall fee righteoufnefa covering the 
earth, as the waters do the face of the deep. How 
does my objector know, whether the Lord may not 
make ufe of the zeal of fincere Chriilians in fpreading 
his Gofpel, as one principal means of converting the 
Jews \ And how many Millions may there not be 
brought to God, before the fulnefs of the Gentiles 
fhall come in \ We are told that our religion (hall have 
a general fpread, an unlvcrfal prevalence in the world, 
and we are commanded to preach the gofpel to every 
creature ; but inftead of occupying our talent with 
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eaufe the time may not yet be come for the grand coi- 
verfion of mankind, we take it for granted, that the 
day is not come for the converfion of any of them i 
aad becaufe we do not hope for apoftolick fuccefs, w< 
determine abfolulely to do nothing at all. But (hall 
thofe fervants be pronounced bleff^d, whom the Lore 
fhall find fo doing ? 

A third objection arifes from the difficulty of the un 
dertaking. Miffionaries at this day, it is laid, have drfficui 
tKs tojiruggleiuith^ 'whichare altogether infuperahle ; tior cm 
ffien and money be raifed equal t$fuch extenjive undertakings 
I grant if we put Omnipotence out of the que (lion 
we have little encouragement to engage in this ^ar 
But, I alfo infift, that £e infuperable diiHculties fpokei 
of exift only in our own cowardice. The Jefuits fur 
mounted them all. The Moravians have done the lame 
And other men, who will immitate their intrepidity 
will be equally facccfsful. Nor are the fums of mc 
ney neccffary for thofe undertakings fo great as may b 
imagined. 

When we have proper mifGonaries and have learned t 
condud our Miffions aright, the expence attending thex 
will be greatly diminifhed. Were as large a fum s 
fifty thpufand pounds per annum expended in Mtdion 
what a trifle would a fingle million of money be in th 
courfe of twenty years, to be raifed among the Chriltiai 
of Engl and? And while we pay' fourteen or fiftec 
millions atmually for the advantage of civil govcrnmen 
what a fmall offering is fifty thoufand pounds to oi 
Immortal Sovereign for all the bk-ffings of his divir 
religion ? Say that the fum of thirty iiyiQ thoufar 
pounds bounded our benevolence to our .Heathen bred 
ren, this would be one million in thirty years. Certai 
Ly this money would be incomparably better fpent th< 
ihe millions confumed in one year's war ! In the Id 
year a fubfcription of more than twenty thoufand pouni 
was given to the emigrant minifters of the Gallicis 
Church 't and imineofe fums are laid out on U^e fa 



ON MI!5SI0NS. 45 

[ portofonr poor, every ye r I heartiV approve of 
this way '1 ip a Jiig oui nrx/Ucy , f^ut p.. ay I ror ^^k ; ig 
the ipjeiid ^i Chrin's re ig on .^ nixttei ot rc»' mon C.h^r- 
ily, th^r we ih»oid part ^ith noriey for Miffions witii as 
i niUf h reluctance as we woula part viti; (ut t>lood . and 
f thiiik f'rty • r^ rift\ ih uiand pounds, which a /ew Gertle- 
ffieii c f f rtunecan a£Furdto throw aw,iy on ilieir pleisuies 
■ e^t y \car, too large a iixm to bf applied to hetird, the 
greateil and mott ob.igatory chariiy under hf^aven ? 
^ A; d yet hy the txpcn*. iture of tne liim 1 have men- 
tioned mifc.ht thoulknds of Heathen, every year be 
f bn ught fiom dark efs into liuht, and turned from the 
f povcr of Satai' to the fervice cf God. 

The want of men is the iaii thing to be feared. 
Thert exifts, *it rhi^, d y in hn^^land, a greater num- 
: bcr< f mt.n vho wilh f >r this cnjpLiymtnt than can well 
; be imagined '■ h y an to he f und amono; all denomina- 
tFons JLet us but enquire ;>fter »hen> and they will ap- 
pear. But fo long av M (lions are difcouraged and vil- 
ified, f w f^f them -^ill brano thtn ftJves for enthusiafts^ 
by expreding great ioiwardnelb, and becoming candidates 
for them. 

k will ft ill be objected tliat, Fat^ts do not juflify thefe 
fanguir.e h'jpes ; fof m fruit has yet been ^envfd from Mif 
Jtonst iv'-rth the niomy and toii^ and valuable lives ^ ivbicS 
have been expe-nJed on them ; and nxjhich might have been ap" 
ftied t§ better pur foie m hwope. 1 anlwei, the facts allu- 
ded to^ prove roihing but that Miflions have been 
very improperly conducted; and, that if thoy are oot 
taken up with more Jpirit they are by no means likely 
to anfwer their end- But, 1 i' M, that the fruit with 
^bich the) havr^ ben attended, proves undeniably what 
may be aoi.e when we exert ouifelaes as -we ou;^hc to 
do. I infill, farthe*-. that thofe Miffions though ufipro- 
dudive, ire every ju.tifidble, ana have ar.fwtred val- 
uable purp' i^'^* They are jullifiable ; for the men 
ndio have aded in them have done their duty» refpect- 



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cd tlieir corfci'ore-, felt frr huwanijty, proved their 
fai:h, .ifr.ucG the h ixct of iheii reli^ii- n anu j^ii'iified 
tie vtiacity fail) fu'r.cl*' an- p« wcr of Gon Ii Ikall 
not av-^il that tht woild braiKis ihtii ^ives virh iraJneTs, 
an?* f!^e.nji> their dt.atrs w tlic/Ut honor, VVilu<:ni *ill 
ji'it.^y her children. Tliey have been nvifcs in fmuch 
as ihcy hfive been fiithjul ; for theie i» i.o man, who 
hath ^eft father vr mother, or houfc or Kfds, or 
friei ds m rcu try, f. r the fake of C hM^^ who (ball not 
reci ivc an hundred fold in the kingdom ot G* d They 
h vc HtCn aj fvered valuable cr.ds They will juftiff 
the ways rf God to men, ip the day of final accounti 
>aiid ferve to iil nitrate his myitcrious providence. Ihey 
wi 1 cf-ndemn ihe Chiiltian world cf unbelief. They 
wi'J }' ve jiiven a great example to us , as having cbo* 
ftn jfllicin n, not with the people of God, but with 
poor iitathtn, in preference to ail the riches and Hon- 
or^^ of Hgypt. When Chiiltcndom lay a{lcep» 

th< y al« ne heard thf! found cf arms, and joined 
the befled Captain of their falvation ou thc; 
p< tins of Indofian, and in the froHs and fnows of 
G ccn and and Labrador. L'ke A bn* ham they went 
finh to a fir couatry ; and th- ugh the accompli fhment 
cf the promife Ifas not been ui»to them, yet, like that 
venerable Patriarch they have ken Chrift*s day and re- 
jnccd In the veracity <( thc promifes, th^y have feea 
his {eed numerous as the fands on the fea fhoxe,& refplen* 
dent as thc the liars of heaven. They have obtained a 
good report through faith, and their bones, like those of 
J.icoh -iud Ji^ieph, h.ive taken pofllffion of the land of 
our inherit iPce. They left in plorioushope ; and though 
no proi:d Maufoleum of theirs attrads the eye oi mani 
pn^ne to g.»ze with fafe wonder on earth;y pageants 
ytt Angels in amicable converse will point out each half- 
lowed fpot, and read t e- ijtneral epit ph-- 7 hffsi 
nvere wen of^whotne the 'worid'weie not nvorthy ! They pie J 
the caufe of Ctiriii with US| nor fhall they aivtajs pieai 



ON MISSIONS. .47 

ia Tain. Their voices fhall be heard, and all Europe 
fliall obey their call. They are the forerunners of the 
armies of EmanueU and their labors the welcome drops 
which promife plenteous rain. Until this is brought 
to pafsy thej have the honour to keep alive the pirit of 
Miflions ; and will claim a large ihare in the victories of 
tbose» who (hall come after thera. 

Some pious men can indulge no hope of fuccefs, in 
MidionSy fwhile the luickednefs of Europeans operates to pre^ 
judice the Heathen againji the gofpeL We lament the fatal 
operation ot prejudices which arife from that quarter, 
but think they are preiTed beyond all bounds of truth. 
No people were more prejudiced againft Chriftianity, 
aor had more dreadful caufe to be {o^ than the poor 
Indians of California and Paraguay ; but their preju- 
dices yielded to the force of reafon, and the pei fevering 
benevolence of the Jefuits. Truth is great and will 
prevail. No men are fo brutifh as not to be able to 
diitinguifli between a friend and an enemy ; and fierce 
lions have been fubdued by the blandifhmentsy of gen- 
tle» human kindnefs. Beyond all this we mail look to 
the blefling of tlie God we ferve, and the almighty 
grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift. To hope the be ft is 
pious and wife. 

Many Moralids, who, though bred up in the com- 
mon forms and principles of Chriftianity, know ndt 
how to value tlieir religion, objedt, The death of Chrtft 
mnas a common Jacrifice ; his goodfpirlt is given to all men ;. 
€md if the heathen obey the admonitions of the Spirit \ they 
n»iU be accepted through the merits of the Redeemer's death. 
Why noti thent leave them to their equitable Judge^ 'wh§ 
Saving given them but one talent^ 'will not require from 
them the improvemeut of ten, — God will certainly judge 
them equitably, and will not expedl to re;ip what he has 
not fown. We grant alfo, that a Heathen may be 
£ived without an explicit revelation of the gofpeU 
though not without fan<5lifi cation of the fpirit and the 
^rinkung of the blood of Jefus. But this does not 
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pr/'ve. th-jLt the gofpel is not an ineftimable gift ; ir 
tl-at it is not our duiy to carry it to them. t*arther» I 
»nfvvcr i]uc(lion with queftion ; and asky if a man ttt 
ringiand may be faved, though he cannot read hit bi- 
hl<r, w}r<it need is there of his being able to read it ? If 
i':n;ple reading be fufficient, what need is there of Hbe-- 
?al e>1ncHtion ? If a man may live on bread and wa> 
ter, what need of a profufion of meats and drinks ? If 
the blind may travel from one part of the kingdom to 
uiiothtr, by the humble helps of hisdog.and ftaff, what 
can there be defuaSle in viHon, and ail the accbmoui* 
dations of inns, carriages} and good roads? Not 19 
prcfs my objector with a hundred more fuch queftions, 
I afHim, that Chriflianity gives a peife6ion to man 
which fers him a^moiion a level with angels ; and, that 
the fpiritual knowledge and piety of a Confucius or a . 
Socrates, is no more to be c(>mpared with the attain- 
ments of the meaned child of God under the difpen£i- 
tion of Cbrift, than the knowledge of a Hottentot is to 
be w- ighed againft the cultivated reifon of a Newton. 
The laii objection, I fhall notice, is of a more une- 
quivocal nature than all the reft. Mifionaries «re a 
dilgrabC to any fiatico- Their attemfis are highly dangerotu ; 
for Jhould they faceted in introducing Chrijiianity into the 
Eafl and wefi Indies^ it nuould prodwe revolt in our CQlonies^ 
endfuhvert the Rritifh empire in Indonftan, This objeo 
tio'i has in fubitauce been urged in a Britifh Parlia* 
ment, in the Weil India Iflands, and in the det^ies of 
the India Directors. I confefs, I know not how to 
meet it in th^ way of argument. The men who m^ike 
it are as unfit judges of Chrihiaviity as the blind axe of 
colors; and are as much difpofed to receive cohvidticii 
from rejifoning, as rocks are difpofed to weep over hu- 
man miferics, As the fervant of the Loid however £ 
ihall be told I muft be meek. Be it fo. The objeaion 
is either true or falfc. If it be true, — if the doaiine 
of Chrift does really tend to produce revolt, and to 
fubvert empires, let us vpen our arms to French Atlics> 



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ifin. Let us renoance thi« religion of blood, whicU 
«ar(e8 the world with evcrlitllln»>; diibrders and conten- 
tions ; and rejoice that wc have lived to a day, v:heti 
the endlefs whirl of demrnis and atoms his produ.-icd 
fuch noble difcoveries. i^et us deify the fiend Mar^t ; 
and let us tell all our worthy couT^trymeii, vho pic k 
pockets, cut throat?, and delight in fuch ingenuous w-*^, 
that they, may difmifs all fears of vcngear.ce fioni the 
crucified man of Naizareth. But Chridiauity never 
did produce revolt and fubversion of empires It has 
no tendency to produce thsfe dreadful copftquences. If 
indeed it were propofed to f^nd f )rth boot..d Apoftlcs, 
to convert the nations by fire md fword, ihe objection 

' would aiTume the color of truth, an(( .only the cc'or of"' 
$ruth ; for no unprejudiced man, who ever read ihc 
gofpel would dignify fuch miflionaries with the cpi.h-t 
of Chriliian. If on the other hand the ohjeilion i e 
falfe, it can merit no anfwcr but that of indignant 11- - 
lence. 

Should it be faid thcfc apprehcndons do not origin- 
ate in any tendency which the religion of Chii't is fup- 
pofed to have to operate thefe e^Tcdts, but in the acct- 

* dental abufe to which, it is liable from the ignorant zeal 
of miflionaries, the implacable refentments of Slaves, 
and the bigotted fuperllition of the inhabitants of In- 
dia, which would render them jealous of innovations 
in their religion, a fatisfaftory anfwer may be given on 
all thefe heads. Miflionaries can promife themfelves 
no advantage from exciting revolt from the govern- 
ment which protects them^ None but good men will 
engage in mifllons, and they mu(l abhor every doiftrine 
which difturbs the peace of fociety. But a fmall fhare 
of common fenfe, and of acquaintance with their bibles^ 
will teach them the neceflity of enforcing on their con- 

' irertSy that falutary doctrine, which St. Paul taught to 
-^^tihe nnmerous flaves of the Roman empire— L^/ as ma* 
. jfx ftrvants^ as are under the yoke^ count their oivn maftert 
^morthy of all honor ^ tb^i ths name of God and his do^rltei 



50 HORNE'S LETTERS 

henot blafjfkefmd. Had the \poftle preached other dodrinef 
he would have armed one half of the world agaioft the 
otlier, and excited iafurredtions and nu^iicres through- 
out the empire, in which the (lives were nearly as nu- 
merous as the freemen. But, if any miflionarj be 
blind to this vvholefome dodrine of the Scripture, and 
if he be deaf lo the confequences of preaching othe^ 
wife, which he will not fail to bear from every quarter, 
let the laws claim the penalty of his raOmefs. We wQI 
not exclaim thatrciigion is violated by his puniihment ; 
and, we expe<5l in return, tlut the do<5trine of Gq4 be 
not hiafphemjd, and fober minded miiHonaries vilified, 
for the dangerous folly of a few hot headed men. 

I have not heard that any b:id confequences have 
arifen in our Colonies from the labours of the MoraTian 
and Meihoditl miflionaries ; and I am in hopes that 
tho fears of my Welt Indian countrymen are now 
pretty well calmed on that head. They now 
begin to feel the advantage of. thtir mlniftry, and in- 
vite them to labor among their flaves. When once 
thofe poor creatures are made real Chriftians, they almoft 
forget that they are flaves. They blefs God for that 
affliiftive providence, which tore them from their native 
land, and all ihe charities of life, fince it has placed them 
in circumdances favorable to the knowledge of Chrift, 
and the falvation of their immortal fouls. The awful 
piohibitions of Chridianity not only wreft the dagger 
from their hands, but deprive them of the inclination to 
ufe it. Inftead of execrating their enemies, the love of 
Chrid compels them to blcfs and pray for them. Such 
are the ede«fts, with many others highly beneficial, which 
flow, naturally and iiecefTarily from the introduction of 
genuine Chrifiianiiy into nur colonies. 

What has been faid of the influence of religion in the 
Weft Indies, will equally apply to the Britifh Jbjnpire in 
India. We grant jealoXisies may poilibly be excited 
among the Natives by the iotrodudiou of Chriftianity, 



ON MISSIONS. 51 

efpecially among the Makomedaas, whofe religion con- 
fiders it as meritorious to make war on all mifbelievers . 
Buty when I reflet on the general charader of the na- 
tives of Indoftan, I cannot believe any infurredlions on 
that account very probable. If the Britifh power there 
fliould fuffer fomething in the attempt, the fucccfs of the 
attempt muft give it a (lability which it has not yet felt. 
And if the ambition and avarice of the India Company 
do not one day ruin their affairs, there is no reafon to 
fear that the God, at whose command empires rise and 
fally will overturn their empire for the damnable crimes 
of countenancing truth, piety, and benevolence. If India 
Dlredors are too far gone in earthly policy to attend to 
these reafonings> v/e need not their fervjcei. In Calcutta 
ve dare afTert the liberties of Englishmen, and the ri^ht 
of Chrift's fervants to preach tne gospel to every crea- 
ture. If thofe liberties are refused, and that right Is 
laughed at, I hope the Eaft will foon be filled with mifH- 
onaries, who dare fuffer any thin^ which the Governors 
of India dare inflidl, and who, uni.r the fierceft fire of 
perfecution, Ihali fpread, on every fide, the light cf the 
Glory of God, in the face of Chriil Jefus. 

The red of this letter is omitted. 



EIGHTH LETTER. 

Fathers and Brethren^ 

In a forAer letter, I ende.ivored to excite y.'iur zeal 
jy fetcing before you tlie example of the .'ApoHles. la 
:he prefent letter, I fliall attempt to call f(»urth tlic fcn- 
iiments of ih-ime, in iignatioa, and felf contempt, by 
•cminding you of thecoudu<ft ofthechildrenof l.Ms world, 
x^hom GUI Lord pronounces wilerln their generdlicn Ji^n 
iie children of light. 

Ea 



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Tbeir fuperior wifdom U feen in the agreement of their 
principles and pradtices ; in die fitnefs of the means thcf 
employ to the ends they would accomplilh ; in the hold- 
nefs and comprehendon of their plans ; and in the pol- 
icy, energy, and perfevcrance, with which they effed 
their purpofe. Nor is this to be wondered at. They 
arc children of the *world. They live in thir own element; 
and breathe a congenial air. Familiarly con verfant with 
the objcds around them, they tread a beaten path, and 
animate each other by their numbens and their fliouti* 
Their principles originate in their naturei are (Irength* J 
ened by early habits, iharpened by education, and re« ' ' 
ceive their perfection from that grand fcience the 
knowledge of life, in which they find the major part of 
all ranks approving, avowing, vindicating, applaudingi 
and adding upon principles (imilar to their own. They 
difcover their leading intereft with inftindive sagacity, 
and hunt down tlieir prey with che fiercenefi of the lion 
or the crafty doublings of the fox. 

With the children of light, who dwell in the midft of 
darknefs, it is far otherwise. Their principles, spirit, 
and manners, have little affinity with thofe of the world ; 
and they are naturally defpifed, hated, and ridiculed by 
her children. As ftrangers, they traverfe an unknown 
country ; as pilgrims, they enj oy few accomodations ; 
and as foldiers, they tread on ho^ile ground, and fight 
their way with difficulty. Too often, difcouraged by the 
feverity of their warfare, and the tediousnefs of their exile 
they wiih for the wings of the dove, that they might flee 
away, and be at red. With implacable refentment the. 
God of this world and his armies purfue them, as the 
fugitives of his kingdom ; and, what is worft of all, thef 
carry in their own breads traitors, who would persuade 
them to return from the fatigues of the wildemefs to the 
flefh pots of Egypt. Their old man ftruggles againft the 
new one, inveterate habits recur, and the ftubbom princi- 
ples of earthly policy, at one time refift the wisdom whicb 
Cometh from above, and, at another, modify and 



ON MISSIONS. 53 

accomodate it to the intereftts of the fl^fh. Hence 
religion fits awkwardly upon us. Hence our purpofes are 
broken ofF, poilponed, or executed with a timiditf and 
fapinenefs, which deprive them of half their ef- 
fe^y and indicate that they poCefs but half our hearts. 
But, if the children of this world often feduce us to 
cyil, they also afford us many admirable lefsons how 
to do welL In the present case» we may learn much 
from them ; and from the monarch to the peafant their 
conduct in their refpective ftationsi will (bane 
the cowardice and inactivity of the minifters of 
Cbrift. 

LtCt us firft caft our eyes on the mafs of men^foldiers, fai- 

knrSjlabourerSyand lowmechanics who are called plebeians* 

the vulgar, the rabble, the herd. These poor men toil 

to extreme laflitude, allay the cravings of hunger with 

coarfe and fcanty diet, fhun neither hardOiip nor danger 

in their occupations, accelerate the approach of age and ' 

decrepitude, and have their feelings tortured with 

the infolence of command, and the varied fcenes of 

domeftick diftrefs attendant on poverty. Thoufands of 

them are continually crufbed in mines, burnt in furnaces, 

immerged in waters, poisoned, flaughtered, racked ta 

death with rheumatifm, or pine away in confumption. 

Ten thousand fatal casualties are daily hurrying them 

into eternity. Yet they do not complain, but are content 

and cheerful. With manly firmnefs, they fupport the 

load of life, and calmly tread the path which condu(5l8- 

them to their end. For fixpence a day the foldier ex- 

pofes his life, and when the ball penetrates his che{l» or 

kis vitals palpitate on the bayonet, beguiles his anguilh 

^th the thought that he falls on the bed of honor, and 

^ics in the defence of his country. For a trifling ilipend, 

^c mariner encounters all the dangers of the deep, ^nd 

braves a war of elements. Amid thick darknefs, loud 

uiunder, livid lightening, and deluging rains, he mans 

Jqc rocking yards, climbs the reeling maft, or toils at 

^ laborious pump. Faithful to his ihipmates, and' 



54 HORNE'S LETTERS 

obedient to the maftcr, he declines no fervice bat conr* 
ageoufljr keeps death at bay until he finks beneath a 
mountain of waters. All this do thefe poor men risk 
and {ufftTf ftrange to tell, without one Chriftian princi- 
ple to fupport the foul. While we, under all the fane- 
tions oF religion, boatUng patrician roinds, enlarged 
with fcience, and fuperior to vulgar fl'ghts, dare wt im« 
itate their hardihood. A morfel of bread which is all 
they feek, and all they gain, weighs heavier on the 
balance than the love of Chrift^ the glory of God, the 
falvation of men, the authority of fcripture, the fenft 
of right, the principle of honor, and all the praife and 
glory of an immortal crown ! ! Well might our L(yrd 
exhort us to labor for the bread that perifheth not, and 
to agonize to enter in at the (Iraight gate ! 

Confider next the officers of the aimy and narj. 
They arc born as wkW^ educated as delicately, and have 
as large fhare of the good things of this world as the 
minillers of the gofpel. They are refined in their ideasi 
often efFeniifiHte in their manners, and in their perfonif 
not more robuft than ourfciv^s. Bu: when their coun- 
try calls for tlicT fwords, tliey coT;e forth with a com» 
mendahli g-ili-Hii'-y ; and, without the hardy habits of 
the piivatc, go througli i-i: f^nie fatigues, and con- 
front the f.i.n)c perils. Noi content witli meeting 
dangers th^y cannoL (h^.n, the principle of honor, ana 
the hope of p^cferm-int, p ufii them on to feek occalionsof 
diuinftion by achicvcin ^nts of hcrt^ifm. Neverthelefs; 
they hjve p.iren.5, wivts, anJ children, as we havci 
who d^pond t'r w lOviintt nance on the lives of which 
th(y arc li^ prodigal. 

iuL -Kw do the cificers of the arm«cs of Chrirt; con- 
duct themfclves ? Little hetler, 1 AiW forry to fay, than 
an ur^difc.'p'incd militia, who hiive c )ve'i.mtcd to fight 
only pro :^ri» £t focib ; and who .ire ca^outagcd toput 
on a red ;o:it art J p>ir.ide in niilitaiy pi^njp, becaufe 
the/ fljiUer thtmfelves rhey ilull newr be brougit to 
pu(h a bayonet. To Ut us cxercife at home mighi gi^^ 



ON MISSIONS. 5s 

i high idea of our courage and prowefs, if it were 
lot too well underftood that we had an inTincible dif- 
ike to hard blows and long marches. Good God ! 
Bvbat flawing Eloquence, what (Irength of reafoning, 
srhat aninaated. declamacion, do we hear from our 
palpits ! What potent demon (Irations of the truths of 
Chriftianityy what confutations of infidelity, what ac- 
curate inveftigation of moral duties, what vehement 
recommendation of Chriitian graces, employ tlie prefs ! 
And ^ho would not think, that among the many 
who write and fpeak fuch things, a tolerable number 
might be found to propagate in foreign parts a reli- 
gion of which we are fo proud at home ? Alas ! while 
we have foft pulpits and well dreifed congregations* 
fnug livings and quiet cures, good food and decent 
domes, and may relieve the dry ftudy of the Apodles 
andl Prophets by wantoning in xkt circle of ancient and 
modem fcrence, we manouvre to admiration. But to 
9J>jure all fcience except that of the gofpel, to compafs 
fea and land for the love oi Chrift, to proftitute our 
eloquence by ftammering in a barbarous tongue, to ex- 
change our poli(hed friends for favage aflociates, to 
break our conClitutlon with hardQiips in a fickly clime, 
and to put oS the fine Gentleman, that we may put on 
the rough garb of Chriii's (bldiers, are things hardly 
mentioned, and never taught in our colleges and uni- 
yerfities. 

What a pity it is^ Reverend Brethren, that men like 
us fo gentle and pacific, fo averfe to the alarms of war, 
fo unambitious of martyrdom, and fo enamoured of, the 
fci^nces, ihould have enlided under the banners of a 
Prince who afFefted to be neither philofopher, gram- 
marian, nor rhetorician ; who fuffered fo much in his 
own perfon as to be willing to allow fmall intervals of 
repofe to his followers ; who, inftead of putting pens in 
our hands, lays crofles on our backs ; and who initead of 
deceiving us wiili fair fpeeches, and alluring hopes of fe- 
cular emoluments, declares unceremonioufly, that if any 
man will not deny himfelf and follow him, although it be 



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•o certain death, he ii unworthy of him ! Would to Ck)d 
this were a fubject in which there was no place for thefe 
biting ironies- But I am (ick at hearty f blufh for 
myfrlf and the honor of my corps, and mud write 
what I feel Shall the principle of honor, and the 
hope of flow, petty, precarious preferment, advance i 
the chili^ren of this world to the rank of heroes, wfaik 
the certain, glorious preferments held out to us by the 
Son of God have no power to move us, but are* trod- 
den under foot, as though they were husks, or we were 
fwine ? 

Advance next ye fons of learning, arts, experiments^ 
and try upon us lagging racers, the powers of your 
manly eloquence, and the evidence of your demonltra- 
tions In the prefent century. Geography and Aftron- 
omy have received great improvements, at confiderabk 
cxpence, by long, hazardous voyages, travels full of 
fatigue and periU and painful obfervations taken in the 
Ardtic Circle, on the fummits of the Andes, and in the 
Iflands of the South Seas. By-- thefe undertakings the 
names of Cooke, Wallis, Banks, Ledyard, Haughton, 
M^iupertius, and others, have been refcued from obliv- 
ion, and will be handed down to pofterity, together 
with the names of the great Kings, whofe commands 
they executed, as long as the records of fcience (hall 
fiibfift. But are obfervations of the tranfit of VendSf 
the menfuration of a degree of longitude, the folving 
the problem of # Southern Continent, objects of facE 
magnitude ? Will they exonerate t he Princes who 
commanded,or the men who performed their commandit 
from the imputation of idle curio fity, unjuftifiable te- 
merity, aad a wafte of treafure and of Blood ? If they 
^Oy and if He who made man in his own image, and 
redeemed him by the death 6f his own Son, be able to 
appreciate the value of an immortal foul, are there not 
inducements to draw the Minifters of Chrift to Africsi 
Aiia, and the South Seas, infi nitely more worthy of a 
noble mind, than the acquiiition of wealth or the in- 



en MISSIONS. JUi 

» 

^froftrntnt of (eience ? Shall religion reflife to follow, 
wh<re the loTe of fcience leads ? Or, have the ainbaff4- 
dors of God lefs affiance on his protedion, than the 
natoraliii who explores the dangerous chafms and tre- 
mendous crater of a volcano ? O God of the ChriAians^ 
fiiffer it no longer 1 if the great and ftrong Jeclme the 
conflict let the hafe and weak again ihow the worldt 
that xhj Majefty condefcends to ennpioy the meaneft 
inf^mentSy and that thy religion pi evails not by the 
wtfdom of many but by the powers of thy fpirit, O 
Lord! 

The mi>!:hty a&s of Commerce (hould not be forgot- 
ten. What hafc (he not trflfedled ? She niivigates every 
ieay leve^is mountains* travt'rlcs the deferts, and through- 
out ti e world chanties the whole face of Nature. She 
m'es the fenate^ controls the leldi and diipeitfes peace 
or war as (he pleafes. She aflerts univerfal empire, ami 
caUing the natious, peop)eA^ and languages to the plains 
of Dura, commands them to fall down andwor(bip the 
goU^e^< image (he has fet up 

From the time th*t C'^-lumbus led the way to a new 
world, and De Gania, &kirung the coaft of Africa, pen* 
etrateii to the Indian Ocean, and the trcafures of the £a(k 
how amiable, how uncorrupt, how fweetcned with hur 
inan kindnefs, how marked with every ch;)racter of our 
feltgion, how beneath all praife and recompence, ex- 
cept fuch as God can give, has been the conduct of the 
merchants, of Portugal, Spain, Holland, France, and 
Eugland ! From that bicflcd sera, with what a mighty 
(ide has their benevolence rolled to the American, the 
African, and the 'Afian (hores ! What idands has it 
not peopled ? What barbarous country has it not civil- 
ized ! What arts and laws ackno«vledge not its creating 
power and foiiering^care 1 What emancipated Have 
does not extend to heaven his unf(^ttered arm, and jear 
teflimony t(» it ! 1 ! 

All hail, Chn ili;».n Eur'-ipej! All hail, ye her fceptered 
Jlftlers, Defenders of the faith, Moft Faithful, Moft Cai^b- 



HORNPS LETTERS 

olicy Moft Chriftiaa Kings 1 Ye Nobles, andjre mitnt 
Biihops of her reatms ! Ye princely i^radert, and ye le- 
gal Seers ! Ye Leaders of her hafts by land and (eti 
who rule the ftorm of war. and bid her battles bleed I 

• ' _ 

Others have done well ; but Thou Christian £u« 
&0PE9 excelleft them all ! The Greek, Roman, Saraceot 
Turkman, Tartar fword, has thinned the nations ; but 
Thou, great in arts and arms, Queen of the Earth, ami 
facred mother of Chriftians, had every where planted 
the oliye, and embraced thy fpecies with material 
arms ! The fpirits of the Incas, Montezuma, AfisD 
Rajahs, Indian Chiefs, African Princes, Kings of A- 
chin and of Crmus, and the myriads of their murder^ 
tft/fubjects, watch over thy peace, and make interceffioo 
for thy profperity before God ! Thy laurelled foldierf, 
thy triumphant fleets, and the numerous carriers of thy 
trade, return to thy bleffed kingdoms lefs richly fraught 
with gold and coftly merchandize, than laden deep 
with benedidlion, and the grateful acclamations ct 
the tribes of man ? Exult ye Martyrs, in fons who 
thus perpetuate your fame ! Rejoice ApofQes, in 
thefe peaceful, righteous trophies of the crofil 
And Thou, Father of all, contemplate thefe fair— — 
Forgive, G^d of all mercy, forgive the prefumptioa of 
this addrefs ! For ever, if it be poflible, for ever 
let thefe abhorred afts be blotted from the memorial of 
thy holinefs. But if the earth, bathad with gore, and 
fattened with human carcafTesycries loudly for vengeance^ 
and if the facrifice of thine immaculate Son may not t>e 
proltituted to varnilh crimes, and to fhield the murderer 
and fpoiier from thy thunder, grant, that in that d^Jf 
when thou mikcli inquisition for blood, I may not be 
found guilty of filence where I ought to have fpoken, 
or be criminated for burying the talent which ought to 
have been employed in confoling ihe mourner, wiping 
away the tear from his eye, and alleviating the galling 
weight of his chain, by declaring to the captive tbc 
glorious liberty of the children ci God, and opening 



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CO his ravifiied foul, fome profpe^s of a better country, 
whcTcno Chrifiians thirftfor gola, whei^ the wicked ceafe 
from tioabling, and the weary are at rtit ! 

Do you also, Reverend Brethren, forgive the tranf- 
|K>tts of my feeble mind. But t^e transactions I allude 
to, exceed (o far any exertions I hav been able to di?cov* 
exsin the frozen regions of the church that I was feiztd 
t^ith the madnefs of tlie multitude, and could not refift 
the temptation of bowing my knee aiid woi (hipping at 
the united altars of Commerce and of Rapine. Your fo- 
ber minds will reason where I have only felt ; but 
peritiit me to hope, that to your reasonings you will afTo 
ciate a portion <.f my feelings, and you will then have 
fech an applicatioB of the fubjed as I could 
wifh. • 

A few otter skins atNootka Sound, fnon excited the 
^irit of adventure in Europe, and not long after the 
Jtngli(h and Spaniaxds were going to cut each other's 
throats about them This, it ieems, was perfeAly con- 
fonant to right reafon. Nobody fufptfled the nations 
were mad^ And is there a man among all the Minifters 
of Chrift who will treat me as mad for exhorting my 
Brethren in the Gofpel Miniftry, to propagate religion 
with as much zeal as the men of the world trade and 
fight for otter Ikins ? God forbid ! 

Thus reviewing all ranks and orders of men, we fee 
duit the children ot this world are wif;.r, bolder, and 
and more fuccefsful in their generation than the chil- 
dren of light. Eameftly beieeching tlie Lord to give 
jkjU all to feel how (Irongly they leproach us. 

I remain Reyerend Bretheren, 

"Jiou. affcA.oDiite, Biother, 

M. H. 
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NINTH LETTER. 

Futhsrs and Brethren^ 

HAVING traccct the general outline of what I 
have f' I fTcr rn Mifliions, 1 leave it to be fiHcd up bjr 
}<:ur piivate medititions, or by forae abler artift, vho 
may be excited tc prfftnt you with a linifhed piece on 
ill s inireiting fu! jcft But I carnot peHu.ide myfctf 
to :<y .:fi'.:e my prn, without again addr effing to you 
the \vr>rd of exhortation^ ard Txhen fo many are for* 
w ifd in calling you into the field of political, or po- 
leric diftuffionf cettairly I may be bold in provoking 
you to k've of the molt difinteretted kind) and to thole 
gooo. works ^vhich are moil acceptable to God, as they 
or;jfK ate ni tlie pureft principle*. 

In the Reverend Mr Carey's Publication on this 
fuHed, I was Uruck with the following pafTage^ which 
I ihall rv quell permiffion to lay before ym. •* A 
*• Chiiftinn miniller is a pcrlcn who in a peculiar fepfc 
•* is not his o'wn : he is the lervant of Givd, and thcre-- 
** fort • Ui:ht to be whoUy dcv'ted to him. By enter-" 
<* ing or ihat facred office he folrmnly undertakes tt 
^* be always engaged, as much as pofijble* in the Lord's 
** work and not to chufe his own ple^fure i>r employ-, 
** rxxuif or puifue the miniiiry as a thing which is to 
•' feTve his own endir. or micrtfts. or as a kind of i^ 
** nv'.rk. He engages to go where Go.J pleafes, and to 
<< . o. or endure what He fee- fit to command, in the 
♦' exercifeot bis iunftion He Virtually bid> farewell to 
<* friends* pieaiures, and comfortv. and (lands in read- 
•• iri.efs t(i C: dure the greatett fufiBrtings m the work 
<* of his Lord and MHUcr.— It is inconfiUent with min- 
<« ifteis to plcaft tLtrnfelves with the thouj^hts of a nii- 
« nerous auditory, cordial friends, a civiiized countrji 




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** legal prote(Sion, affluence, fplendor or even a compe- 
•* tency. ITic fliv^hts and hatred of men, falfe friends, 
•• gloomy priibns and tortures, the fociety of barhari- 
•* ans, of ui3C">iuh fpecch. raiferable accomm jd.itnns, 
** in wretched wildcfntfr-s, hunp;er and thint, n^k':^d- 
*'|||C^s, weannr.rs and piiofal"ers. ha^^d work, and liflc 
" wotlJIy cncourap;emjr.t, (houid rather be rhe ohj.(5ls 
** of their expedition, Thu? iht Apoftle- vifted in *he 
•• primitive times, and endured hardnefs as good fol- 
" diers of J*jfu» Chriti ; and though we, wh > liv. in a 
** civihzed couatry, where Chrillianity h prot. dr.d ay 
•Mav, are not caiied to fuff:r thefi rhinos while we 
«' coiitinue here, yet, I que iron, whether all arc juf- 
••rified in'iiaying here, while fo many are perifhi inf 
•* without the means of grace in orher land:>- Sur I 
•* am that it is entirely contrary to the fpirit of th. g f- 
" pel, for it^miniilers to be actuated i>y interetle i i»io- 
•* tives. On the contrary their commiffi n is a lufficient 
•* cadi for them to venture all, and likt .he firii Chrif- 
•* tians go every where preaching the gofpci.*' 

Thefe, Reverend Brethren, are feniimtnts worthy 
of our Charaifter as the Servants of G«>d Reje»5led by 
mercenary eflayifls and faihionable declameri ih. y tind 

. acceptance with you, and are cheriQie J in your breai'h ; 
but, alas ! how negligent are we in giving? thef- princi- 
ples their proper culture ! Principics did I call thtm ^ — 
To what a dilemma am I reduced ? ShaU I wou .d 
you, or wrong the truth ? Better far if it be f ) to of- 
fend men than God* No, Brethren, I dare not call them 
principles f otherwife than as they are principles of a 
fpeculative fublime theory, which few of us care to 
praiftife • In the clofet we fometimes medicate upon 

'Wem with deli^;ht ; in tlie pulpit we enforce them wi.h 
ener^^ hut how foon, how very foon, do we go aV^y, 
and forget what manner of men we are ? 

" Who is he," faid the )eloved difciple, ** that over^ 

, ^ cometh tb« worlds out he th<u bclUvctb that Jelas ^ 



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" the Son of God :'' Aliis ! of the thoafands of our 
Ifracl, whether minitlers or tlieir flocks, how few are 
th^y whofc religion will beir this reft ? Where artf the 
hoiy, happy fplrits who havre overcome the world, and^ 
a iru^y glorious victory call contempt on M^cedon and 
Rt)'tie? Where are the men whofe convcrfation iiHin 
heaven, who fo behoM the glory of G<>d, as to be raifeA 
above the interells, the hopcs» the fears, the p«inp& ani; 
vanities of our peity fyftem ? O how very few there are 
to whom we can point with our Kn^er and fay, that 
man is truly apo/tolic I The grefit Majority of fuch a$, 
in the judgment of Ch iri.ty, may be deemed Jincm 
Chridlansi^ are neTerthe^efs, in a feeble inuntile, 
unfeitled (late, halting often, fometimes ftamblingi 
grieving their friends and aff'^rding triumph to their 
enemies. Notwithftanding the revival of religion 
which has taken place in England, in the lafl fifiy years, 
what liitlenefs of faith, what coldnefa. of love' is there 
among us? While we compare ouifelves among our-" 
felves we are all difpofed to affume praife ; but whea 
we place ourfelves in the light of God's countenance, 
with what difficulty do we endure the divine fplendorl 
What doubts, what fears, too often repel our confidence, 
confound our fpirits, {lop our mouths and prevent the 
delightful accents of Abba Father, which can alone 
gladden our hearts ? 

When I ccnfider the (late cf things among, us I won't, 
der that infidels have not thought it worth their while 
to follow, more generally, in the tr ick of Mandeviile, 
and relinqui(King the attacks upon the dodlriuc and cvi- 
dencies of Chtifiianity, diredled their malice to a more 
vulnerable part, and ilabbed our Saviour through the 
per.bns of his followers. Where truth and brotherly 
kindnefs find fo much to cenfure and lament, -^what 
havoc mi^ht we not exped from ignorance, fallhoodf 
and malignity \ This indeed appears to have been the 
mo <e o\ attack adopted by Voltaire and other peilife- 
teub fpirits oa the CoQtinen^. They have prevaik<t! 



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^The religion of Jefus is profcribed, liis fibbarhs are 
ch 'Q^;cdy his crofs tramp'ed upon, and his rneJiiti'ia 
deipifed. Bat could V.)ttaire and his nefariou^co^•ca^UwS 
vork fuch wonders ? God forbid I The Prieils. the PriciU 
betrayed their God and thei^ religi^^n. i heir bi>><)iry fu. 
pcT'iitton, f«cuiar and fpirirual wickedneiTes, have m ide 
their flocks infidels, atheitts, and a holy, nrhteous G >d 
has delivered them over to oe d^flr >ycd and plundered 
by the miferable men whom they have provoice-. ci 
madnefst and caafed to blafpheme that vcner4bie name 
by which they were called. M,iy we fee the rod, and 
learn inftru<5lion trom their fait I May wt be j.<d<>U'- nf 
our mmiftry, and compel TOiti to relpect it. hy f > mak- 
ing the light of our holy coil verfitioi' to Ih i>e bef«?re 
them, that they m.-y lee our good works and glonty^ 
our Father who is in heaven The raimitry his 1 m«T 
fallen under great contempt among us, an.i the luiry 
too generally confider uk as mere fccnlar men, wh > de- 
claim for pay and with vile grim.ice, m; day out of 
fcveni hold forth a language, which if true, c<juaern s 
ourfelves as much as tnofe w!\o heu \x^ Inttcad of 
blaming them,, let us refirm^ ourfelves. Inile.td of 
talking of the dignity of our ch^tn^der, let u:» Icirn to 
fcei and iupport it. Let us ihow rbum <hat we dr'tpife 
money, are iuperior to populariry, and h ive renou/iccd 
ail meddling with what is torei^u ro our ca'lin^^ L -t 
Hi mark . the cx;tmple of St- Paul, ** G:vin;(/* a<- he 
fays, '* no offence in any thing that the mitiiftry be a )t 
" blamed ; out in all things app.- jyingr ourfclves .u the 
•♦•minillers of God, in much paiience, in afHiClions, in 
•• ncceffines, in diltrclTes. in llripes, ia imptfibuincnvs, 
*• in tumults, .in i»bort>, in waccUingb, in fiilf'«;;s, :iy ' 
'••pureaef,, by knowedjre, by Inr^ fuff;;.ing, Sy kind- 
•* nels,- hy the HLoly Ghoil, by 1' vo unfui^iicJ, -^y the 
**" word ol truth, by the p :wcr uf God, I y tV .un.cur * 
•« of righteouihefs on the right h v.i l a-id on tiie L fr. »)/ ' 
**'in>n.)r and dilh.:nor by evii rep t ^nd g>o^ r.-.i lu ; ; 
^'nft deceivers aud yet irur $ as uakaov¥ny JUid yet iveU 1 

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••" known ; as dying and behold wc live ; as cha( 

" aud not killed i as f »rrowful, yet always rcjo 
*' as poor, yet making m.iny rich ; as having no 
** and yet polT fling ail things.*' 

Let us do this, and the roiniftry will hold up its 

And (hould it be thought, that the circumllan 

our living in a Chriftian cou^^try and enj«)ying th 

tedtion of equal laws, difperfe with our exhibiting 

of tliofe atteftdtions of our minilb y, which the A 

enumerates, I beg leave to obferve that as a mere 

inal Chiidianity in our countrymen will never (hi 

from contempt, hatred) reproach, and perfccution, 

as the laws, of the Und will permit, in the fa 

difchargc of our miniftry, fo the puffcfli >n and cxc 

cf fervent and expanfivc charity, both to the ev 

the good, would neceifarily make us fymbolize wii 

Apoftles in labors, watch'ngs, faiUngs, affliilion, 

ilties and diflrefFes (f various kinds. An at 

to do much good is the fuie way to fuff.^r much 

Provided we will let the world go on as itpleafes, a 

€ur fellow creature-J pofting to perdition without 

or with only feeble attempts to fave them, they 

leave us alone, and perhaps fpeak well of us ; b 

us throw omfelves in their way, let us attempt to 

the torrent^ and we fkiU find religion will i-cceive 

better treatment at this duy* than it did eighteen 

dred years ago# Our meeting with fo little perftc 

for righteoufnefs fake, is or.c dcmonttration, tha 

religion does not over much g^ll the Devil an 

children. For he and they will certainly fiuht for 

kingdom. But it is worfe ftill that we i<:tmJlndio 

Jlyiin the crofs of Chiift. How many of us are qu 

iK'iiXiQ fituations, and reje<ftinjj others, which pn 

much ufefulnefs, merely becaufe we think our lea 

ant t-^lents thro wn away on the poor, or our Iti) 

fo fm dl that we cannot live upon them like Gen tit 

or )^C4ufe our fpints are too high to (loop to ow 

m". »*^*n mce to pious fihnds; or bfc'-«u*e w» c 

livt; b;^ i<itch qu die Iibc;a,lKy and faUhfu neu of C 




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4lfid ^ndare the profpeA of leaving our widows and or- 
phaiift to his i'upport ? How tcw of us picter a poor 
p;aqe co a nch one, and think it a futficient rcafon for 
doing. foy that we can be more uieiui, and noiore pious^ 
id an humble (tacion. 

I datter myi'vif none of you, Bre.hren, will ask, W>.at 
has all this to uo wicn MiiHanb ? Bui if you do, I an« 
fwer,, evidently very much. While we betray thii f.c- 
ular fpiiu, are- fo very polite, and.fomujh lik^ tine 
Gei'itlemen, what have we, or what ^ugkt we to ^ave, to 
do,with Milli'O.is? io what can it be afcriied, but to 
the (]a:evaie:%ce of this ipirit, and of thefe manners, that 
.VIC hardy ever chink of them ? Are not Heathen men f * 
Ijave they noc fouls to be faved ? Dare we avow other 
end in our minirtry than the f^lvation of men's fouls ? 
Are we not comm^inJcd to ^o and preach the gpfpel to 
them ? Are there any dilcourag^nients which ftop the 
<;htldrenof the world in the purfuit ui' money; and if wc 
loved fouls as well as ihcy love nkvney would dilcour- 
agemencs Hop us ? Ale il>e miniilers of the golpel the 
oiily men born with the fouU ot women ? Have we 
a right to trilk of dangers and UiScrings, who believe 
the Son of G<>d was incarnate for our fake, born in a 
ftabie» cradied in a mani^er, lived on alms, had na. 
pLice wlure t > lay his head, ^nd expired like a male- 
fadlor on a crofs ? L. t moralilU decline dinger and 
ihrink at death ; but let not us, wh > c.ili ourfelves em- 
phatically go/pc^ vtiniftets^ w^io rejoice in Chritl crucified, 
who preach lemiffion of liu in nis name, ajid fpeak of 
a life iiiddf-n wuh him in God, let us not follow their ex- 
ample ; ci,if we d *. let us canjidiy contefa, that our wa- 
vering fiitk has no rirm hold of liim, vf\\Q is the re{^ 
urredton and the Ufe. And if He then are mtn> have 
foula, and the only end of ou- ni'iiiitry is tiic f,dvati.>ii 
of men's fouls ; if we are coajrn*nded to preichrhe 
gofpel to them, if we Inve iouis a* well as '^hv* chilviren 
of this world 1 ve rnoutj' if wc tre n l wom-n v\ the 
form of men, and if ihe iuif;.nn^s of JcaUa prohibit 




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all pufillaf^imus clamon about fuffertngf and dan«H 
is i:Ot our God jealouky doei he not require chetinaC 
uniform obedience, and will He hold us guiitleUf if we 
rcfufe to obey his p'.eafure ? Sjlj we (hall not forfeit Heii 
▼en, though we all lurk at home like duggardi, yet ii 
there nothing in our fouls, which afpires to heaTcnlf . 
pruife and glory ? With this litdenefs of foul (hall ws 
not blufh to meet the Apoftles in their Matter's joy I 
Sh.ill we be content to be fdved as by fire^ when we are 
called each of us to enter into glory like Elijah in CA 
en)n triumph ? O where is the Lord God of Elijah 1 Or 
where the fpiritof him. who faid*^ it becometh nie to (A 
** Bll ali rii^hceousnefs—- it is my meat and drink to do 
^ the will of Him who fent me,and to finifli the work- 
^ irhich He has given me to do ?** 

How long. Brethren, fiiall we rebel againft our Lord! 

How longt !ike Jonah, (hail we attempt to flee from hii 

fpirit, and rtfufe to carry glad tidings c'f great oy onto 

all people ? Should fome fneering inndel take up 

this publicacion. What would he fay on reading ic? 

What can we ezpedl him to fay ? I fancy I hear him 

exprcfb^ng himself in the following langutge, ** What 

dof s this mad fellow mean ? Why does he not go to 

** the Heathen himfelf ? Or if he did, can he imagine 

^ his enthufiafcical publications will make others as mad 

■•• as himfeif ? Let him writeforeves our Biihops, Aicll- 

<< de <.con$, and other church dignitaries will not budge ail 

^ Inch. Rectors, Vicarb, and Curated,'are well diCpoitd 

•' to foil J w their goo.i example, and will never be p*c» 

^ vailed on to turn fpiritual knight- errants. The Dif* 

*' fenterswho charge tne bftabliihmcntas the eider dauj^h- 

** ter of Rome and fty her minifters preach only for tat 

*^ livings, have no more zeaJ tha:i the men they rep<ove 

** to eiici'Unier their miOionary windmills. Even the 

** Methodilts, who confider th.mfclves as the g:and 

♦' Reformers of theday, aid v.iprar about the hardihtpt- 

** xif their itinerancy, iovc to keep in fnug qu^irters in 

'•-Old I'.ngiirni. u hiv<s no tlom.ichto ve.iturc f-trther 

2^thaapui- Wcit India iilaJicUi wli^rc ihey >vc in coiBnr 



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•*f6rt, and can aflums the important name of mifCon- 
•• ariesy without experiencing the hardthips of the undcr- 
•• taking. The m.jdcit> qaict Moravians, are the only 
** people, who feem to beileve th^ .\>^oiUes and Prophets 
^ and who whether they do mucn or little, look the 
*' hardihtps of a miGjon in the fice like men. This 
«< fellow had helter think ot hu .>wn prefement, and 
** dream of miffi )ns on a fofc bed, th^ta thus proclaim him 
*' felf a fool by fuppofing his letters can do good m the 
.« world." 

Churchmen, D;frenters,Methodifts, what will you reply 
^ this reproach ? Shall we make a book to confute him? 
It will be found, i fear on tlie trial, tUat it is easier to 
jmake a hundred oooks, than to eagage one m.in to prove 
the finccrity of his lore to perifhing duners,by fdcriiicing 
himfelf and his familv to their welfare. Here we are 
differing from each other in variou:» points, and contend- 
ing hard to fhew tiiat oar owa Scd. wh^ttever it is, is 
lodgfld ia th£ penitroUa of tke Xempl.e of' Trutht. 
and is the foremoli in the race for heaven ; 
but when the qacilion is put, Which of you 
will forfake all, deny himfelf, take up his crofi>, and^ 
if God pleafes, die, for his religion? It presently 
appears thatChurchmeiisOjifenters, and Mcthodiits, are 
more closely united ia principle and practice than thsy 
are aware of. We all itraightway, with one conlcnt, 
bfegtn to make apologies ani to fay, I pray have me ex- 
cufed, while fome openly call contempt on the underta- 
kmg, and thrt)w out cvangehcal jvikis upjn the few who 
condder miQIons in a feri<ms light. Snail Churc.'im^n,. 
I^iifenters, Methodiils, deny these fa^, because there 
^rc among each of them a few men whofe condudt may 
be urged a<» an exception againft them ? Surely this if 
disingenuous. 

Many of us complain of an antichridian union between 
C^iurch and Aate, and that religion is fettered, and made, 
like a child, to wa)k in leading thiagj. We fay chat re-^ 
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the State, and had no other fupport than what (he de- 
T\ ved from her own naitivc (Irength. Let this be f^ranted. 
It was fo once» but it is a little problematical, whether 
it would be fo now. *' Tempora mutantur et nos rautt 
xnur in illis," ^re we apTftolic QhriJHant ? Can m 
contend with hunger, thir^.. cold, nake Jnefs, perils, aid 
the fword ? Cm nv^ walk without thofe leading ftringtf 
If we can, and if we feel them fo galiing. Co degradiDffi 
why do we not do fo ? Are there not two thirds of &. 
world, where v/e fhall not be infulted by legal proteAioQi 
or be paid, like fecular men, for our labor ? Hife 
we not full oportunity of (hewing the politicians and 
great men of Europe, that Ohrift, his minillen» 
and people, are able to uphold their religion p 
the world, without their support and toat tve 
can multiply now, as in the primitive tima 
like the poh'pus, when he is cut in pieces ? And yet 
the precife reafon why we do not engage in MiiHons if 
because we cannot enjoy xhsx/ecular prote<5tion, and thofe 
fecular comforts^ which we have in England. To follow 
the Son of God where he has no place to lay his headi 
and no other recompence to offer us, than the cup he 
drank of and the bapttfm with which he was baptifed, if 
more I fear than we are able to do ; and until we can dt- 
fo, 't will remain very queftionable, whether we can walk 
without out our leadings firings. 

l^is appears to be the cafe fo evidently, that theft 
who patronize Miflionsfeel it neceflUry to fecularize thei% 
and to put them, as much as pnfllbie, on the fame footing 
as aparochiaJCure inEurope. They are afraid of alarmioS 
01 by (hewing the daiic {xd^z of things, and hardly conceit* 
that there exiil among us men, whofe fpirit,dare afpireto 
an a,'^oftolic warfare^ Hence it is, that neither they nor 
we have f^iith to think of fubduing kingdoms ; nor are 
ihty to be fubdued by a few fair weather foldiers, accoffl' 
panied by delicate women and children, educated in falh- 
ionaMe accompliniments,and accullomed to all rhedeiica* 
ciesofiife j. who are absolutely incapable (xTezpoliDg thcA^ 



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fthres to fun, wind, or raioy or of exercifinc; those charities 

'which weie once the ornament and praife of Christian 

Inatrons. I fear, I fear greatly, that 1 write to the winds 

mad that neither Chriftian Minifters nor their wives, have 

. piety enough for thi» engagement ; and that the Mif- 

- fioMaries we are able to fend out with the equipage, 

thef require for their camp, will do no more towards 

fobdning India to the faith of Chrift, than a few e£F<:m- 

. iiuKe Afiatics, with their Harams, and dancing girts^ 

would do in an attempt to bring Great Britain under the 

yoke of the MoguL 

If there were absolutely none to encourage the at- 
tempt, and nothing exifting at this day in the form of a 
piiffion, the condud of the miniftert of Chrift would be 
more excusable ; but it feems, as if the providence of God 
had kept alive fome fenfe of duty, and fome examples of 
seal, both among laity and clergy, to be a teftimony a- 
gainft us, and to hold us up to infamy to future genera' ■ 
tions. What is done, indicates, that we know our dvty 
and what is left undone evinces, that wc have no inclina- 
tion to do it< We miniifcers have no reason to complain 
of the laity. They are willing to give us aU encour«;ge- 
ment ; nay, they invite and foiicit us to engage ; and 
freely offer to do all in their power to make us con^:fiT- 
table ; and yet we refufe to Oir. I am foriy to fay, Uiat 
this reproach falls more immediately on myfeif and 
other ^0/^/minifters, in the eiiablifhmcnt. The Sierra 
Leone Chaplainfhip went a begging pretty f^r bef tp it 
fell into the hands of my Colleague and myfelf ; and 
now that we have declined it, it lies negJcdtf d, a^ no 
man thinks it worth his while to pick it up For foine 
years great enquiries were made to pr<>cuie an AiEaant 
*niintfter for the Reverend Mr Johnfon, at Port Juckl )n, 
and with in6nite difficulty, that poii is, at latt, blied $ 
but all the enquiries made amon>t goj/xrl miiiiiters, for 
three years paft. and, which art dill mkinj , ^iher an 
ai&iiaQt for the Reverend Mr. Browu^ at Caicutia> have 



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hitherto been without cffc&. Whether this does nthoft* 
or» 1 leave the world to judge. I ihall however contraft 
thefe ftt^h wi'hDnefrom Mr. Spangenberg, a Moravian 
Bilhop, who informs us, thai when, at Bethlehem it 
North Am-rica, letters were read in the Brcthrcii'i 
crt;(;regation9 ftatii g, that feveHal of thrir miffionarid 
had beencairied off ty ficknefs in the Ifland of St 
3 h'.mas, ii the Weft Indies, that very day ieven Bredv* 
Ten cffcred to go and replace them.— This is juft what 
things cu^ht to be, and any Cl.urch which canprodnce 
fuch mcumay ergage in Millions. 

Ihat our JBrethrcn of the various denominations of 
Englifh l^ifTei iters have any caufe to rejoice over us in 
this refpcA is more than I know. Except the Rev. Mrr 
C^irey and a friend who accompanies him» I ahi not in- 
foi mcd of any of their minifters who are engaged in mifr 
fiors. Would to God they would U'ldertakefomething 
in this way tor Chrift, which might provoke us to jeal- 
ousy ! The Reverend Dr. Coke has of late years 

doiiC fomethifig in this way tn our Weft India Iflands; 
and might have done much more, had the Methodift 
Preachers, as a Udy^ given him that unequivocal fupportf 
to which his zeal in iuch a cauie (houid entitle him*** 
Hilhtrto thofeMifGons may be conlidered as i^/xmiflionSi 
rather than thofe of the Methodifts. I am, howover, 
liappy to he informed that his Brethren, begin to enter 
more heartily into tlie-lpirit of Miflions, ^d 1 flatter my* 
fclf they will now embatk in thsm, with all their 
foul, and all their ftrcngth. But, whether they doit or 
net, it is infinitely to be dedred that \\ (hou'd be done by 
fome of us ; for h'^wevcr we may fuppoie ourfelvei cn^ 
tit ed to reprove each other about modes ot fai:h and 
forms of worihip, upon this '.uf^nefc, I know not who may 
t. iow thi firft itone. And If I take the Itherty ot fpeak» 
ing 1 freely, 1 jppcal to God, it is n«H becau e Ifiipp-'fe 
m leli entitled x.v repxov- i\\v\>. t' m .^^y merit of Kjy 
•wu ; tHit oecause 1 ingenuoully contcfs my iiat auid aid 



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ivilling to come in for a full ihiu-e of our commoa 
Diame. 

Our conduft in refpedt of Miflians. evinces beyond 
trery thing the low degratied tt^.te of the Chrirtian 
miniftry, and the ideas >vhich too generally prevail about 
it threaten to degrade it iiill lower. An improper atcach- 
aaent to fecular interetts and honors,excrtstoo muchof Irs 
baleful influence over thofe whr-fe principles teach them 
better things ; but what confequences may not be ex- 
pe^ed to flow from the love of money, and the 
love of praif<», when men of the firft character and 
influence in the church avow them, as alhivable 
motives of minififfriai conduct. Neverthelcfs, we 
have lived to hear them fo avowed* and to the Ihame of 
human nature, but to the f xemplitication of the fcrip- 
^ure declaration, th At by wifdom men knew not God, 
to hear thtm avowed from the admirable pen of Arch- 
deacon Paley After adducing other reafons to thew 
that a diftinction of orders in the mini dry, is moi^ con- 
ducive to the general ends of its inftitution he concludes 
as follows — ** And laftly, thnt the fame fund produces 
•* more cfFedl:, both as an allurement to men of talents to 
enter into the Church, and as a Uimulus totlie induilry 
of those who arc already in it; when dinributed into prizes 
of diflferent value, than when divided iuto equal thnres*'* 
— Paley 's Moral Philofophy, vol. 2, p 323^. 

God of heaven and earth, whcit a (lab is this to the 
vitals of thy relij^ion ! 1 appeal to every godly m.in ia 
England, Whether all the talents, all (he learnin;^, and 
al\ the virtues of a P^ley, can ftiield the man who avows 
ihtfe fentiments from his contempt ? And yet this is the 
man who teaches us morals — who initrudts our young 
minders — whofe book is honoured and applauded in 
our Univerfities ! But who ihit adopts thtfe fentimrnts 
will engage in mi (Tions ? Alas, the allurement^ the Jiim" 
ulusi the prizes y^\r, Paley ta'ks oF, may induce men to 
cultivate tluir talents with as much care as he has dene, 
and to write as well as he has written ; t.n J ihey m:iv, 

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peihaps, draw from our ecclefiaftical lottery, as rich a 
prize as he has dr. wn; but }is foon 111.17 ^^^ CHriion crow 
hf ^et a d-ve, ^s they will induce him to condu6l him- 
felf in a miniflry .is becometh the ^ofpel of Chrifl. 

ri us it i' that we are not afhamcd to drive mfolent 
h;r<wins with the Son of God, and t^U him we will 
ft. '>p to r iTume the contemptible chara^Ver of his ambafT- 
a '.'vs, if he wiil hold out to us rich and honorable prizes 
to .. !]u*"e men of our talents into the Church, and to iiiin« 
ulate our induftry when ^e atc in it. rruth, rirtue, re- 
11. icn, God and heavenly glory, are no allurements, no 
ftinmlus, to our afpirin^ nnijids, until they receive the 
currency of this world, by being attached to the ftolscap 
of '.um in honor, or to that pernicious metal, whi<h can 
trai^sform rhe Apoiiles of Satan into the ministers of 
Chriil Others of us appear afhamed of thefe (imonical 
pradices, and fay," Lord I will follow thee whitherfocvcr 
•* th.^u goeft ;only (hew me a little more incjulgence than 
" thou hai^ (hew''d to thyfelf. Lxcuse me from watch- 
** ing and agonizing wiih thee in Gethfemane 1 will 
«*tJ*ke up my^crofs ; I only deprecate the being crucified 
**upon it. I am willing toforf^ke much ; but compai^ 
•* (ionate my w^akr efs, nnd d<^ not command iae to fell 
♦• all. 1 will frlhtw thee any where on land ; but O fparc 
** me the horroi s of a voyage by fea. I will preavh 
" for thee amonglt the pooreit of my own na* 
** tion ; but do not lend me to a ft range country. 
*' I acknowledge 1 am a miferable finner, unworthy to 
"be a door keeper in thyhoufe, neverthelefs,my elocution 
•* is popuiar, 1 .m much toliowed and appUu.ied ; Will 
*« it noi be moie tor thv glory for me to ftay \t homCf 
** while any m^n of iiifeiior talents may go and prench 
" to the heathen ? I have heard th it the\ oflFer human 
" facriiices in Otah -ite. eat mea in New Zealand, arc 
** aololiitely brucifh Jt Port JackiVm and that the fcorch* 
** iug liin and hf4vy T.iins in -vfica are. inevitably fatal- 
" O let the life o( thy frvant be prcci ■•us in rhy fi^^ht! 
*' Send me not to untameable barbarians, or to a clime 



ON MISSIONS. 73 

** where I cannot be certain of my life for a day. Be- 
•• lides the difficulties of thefe undertakings areinfuper- 
** able. It is probable I mud cultivate the ground 
*• for my maintenance, and I have been brought up dcl- 
" icately from a child. Thy Apollles who were poor 
•* fifhermen, and never pofTcifed my extenfive learning;, 
** elegant manners, and genteel notions, were well fuited 
" to this rough work ; yet even they preached to a civ- 
" ill zed people and being furnilhed with miracuhms 
*• powers, their labours were the more pmdudlive ; but 
" what (hall I do who have not their advantai<es, and 
"havejny mind fo viti.ited by falfe learning:, that I can- 
** not lioop to the (implicity of the gofpel ? CertaiT^iy 
" to engage in mifllons is to plough on a rock, or to 
" build on the wave. O let me be any thing but a mif- 
*• fionary, for my foul finks within me at the mention 
" of it, nor can 1 derive aTiyconfiderations from e.irth, 
'* heaven, or hell to m ike me willing to die ^or thy 
'•* fake. I am not'fmgular in my opinion of milTions, 
*« for 've are all agreed clergy and Liicy, chuichrnen aivt 
** diiTenters, Indian directors and parliament men> with 
*f few ej?cepti'm<:, thattliey are impratfiicab^e ; and t 
^* if they were not, yet '* m /Tionaries vrotiUi ti^ a dif^r 
" to any nation ;" that we h'lve no ri^h: to In'^eTreie i:i 
** the changing the religion of a fii;re?gn coiriiry. r/?cy 
** would certainly deltroy th? Slave 'iVaie in Africi ; 
** and fome well informed, refpeiflable Direcftors of the 
** India Company, ire of opinion that they wou'd *M'ub- 
** vert the Britifh Empire in Indoilan," which, theythi-.jk 
" of far greater confequence than the ertablifh^nent of 
" thy defpifed kingdom. A few wretched Pariars might 
*• indeed be converted, or rather made hypocrites by 
-" Chriftian charity i but there is nothing in Thee, or 
" thy gofpel, to influence Chiefs of the noble Cafts ( whofe 
" fouls are certainly more valuable than thofe of the vile 
»* Pariars as is a thoufand to one) to forfake the religion 
♦* of their anceftors. Good Lord, what is to be done 
'• where every thing thus makes againll us ? O defif}; 



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74 HORNE'S LETTERS 

*' from thy purpofcl Thou art the Saviour of allmeni 
*' and God is a merciful Father to them all ; if it pleafe 
** thee, thou cand fave the Heathen without the gofpdf 
* ' an J, i f net, thy rrill he done. Neverthelefs Lord, if thoa 
'* wilt r)rce us to cultivate this unpromifmg fieldy do 
•* not think offending mi/Tionaries out ixnmediately, but 
"let I.iy fchool-mafters go to receive the firft fire, and 
" teach the little children reading and writing ; and 
*• then will we go, and enter into their labors : for the 
** cxp:ricnce of ages has taught lis, that wl^erethepreach- 
^' iiig of the gofpel makrs one Chriftian, education makei 
" ten. Henc^ in Head of preaching firft to the parents, 
*« ?nd then eftablilliing fchools, for the education of the 
«* children, as the Apoftles did (who knew that the 
** fv/ord cf the fpirit was of heavenly temper—an inftru« 
** ment into which the God of Glory had wrought all his 
** attributes, we, having loft the art of ufingit, and that 
" vigorcTis arm v,hich give.^ it the demon^ration of the 
*' fi:lrit and of power) we go to work another way, by 
** educatini^ children firH; and many are of opinion, that 
** the bell way of enlightening the Heathen is by putting 
«* the moon in the fun's fphere, and having children to in- 
" flruft their patents, rather than parents to teach tlicir 
«* children. — If Lord thou wilt ferioufly weigh all thefc 
" things, we flatter ourfelves thou wilt be of our way of 
*' tliinkin[>-" 

Wild, ludicrous, and even blafphemous, as thii folil- 
oquy may be, I am perfuaded, it does net contain a 
f :ijtin:cnt, which i^^ not the genuine effufiou of the hu- 
man heart. 1 have traced fome cf them in my own 
heart, and L have detected others, in the languigc which 
has been frequently held to me on mifHons I have 
only thrown them together, given them a tongue and ut- 
terance, and exp'^fcd them without Uif^uife as they walk 
before Gud, who fearches the heart. If minifters and 
Christians will not recognize what exids in their hearts, 
and rives in their lives, I have at leaft done my d^ity in 
fcttin^ it before them. li they fee themfelvcs in the 



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glafs I hold up. I truft, wiih God's bleffing, it 
may produce falutary effedls, call them into acS^ion, 
and enable them to ftop the mouth of malevolent, re- 
proach ; that it may no longer be faid the minifters of 
ChHft are, as they have been, for centuries, with com- 
paratively few exceptions the moft degenerate^ the moft 
inconjiftenu and moft daflardly race of men who ever exift- 
ed on earth. 

Ought not wc to hive companion on our brethren, 
even as God hath compafTion on us P Have we looked 
into the heaxt of Jesus Chrift, and is it thus we read 
it ? Do we dwell in Gad, and God in us, and can we 
continue thus cold and obdurate, amidft th? everlading 
burnings of his love ? O let us prove our faith by our 
works, and (hew men who miftake our doctrine, that 
in preaching juftification by faith, we do not itx afide, 
but eftablifli the moral law ! By the fongs of angels, 
who proclaimed peace and love at our Redeemei's birth ; 
b> the folemn injunftion of Him who faid, " Ye arc my 
friends, if ye keep my commandments;" by the glorious 
Fentecoft, when every language praifed God ; by the 
multitudes who have wafhed their robes in the blood of 
the Lamb ; by the acfts of the Apofths and the fuff\^r- 
ingsof the martyrs; by the expirinp: pan^s of Jifu*, 
and by those fins of purs which bruifed him, and put 
him to grief; by iheir remiflioR, if we have indeed tail- 
ed that the Lord is gracious ; by the fearful end of that 
fervant who burled his Lord's talent ; by the curfes 
and execrations which reft upon the Chriilian naaie ; 
by the rivers of Heathen blood which Chr'iftians ba.ve 
ftied, and which call for expiation at oar hands ; *• if 
there be any confolation in Chrift, if any comfort ( f 
love, if any fellow (Lip of the fpirit, if any bowels and 
mercies,*' 1 bcfeech you honored and beloved Brclhrciv 
have mercy on tlic Heathen, and fo fulHl the joy of 
your Lord. 

And now, Brethren, I throw myfelf at your f et ; 
and ask pardon for every ralh and wounding cxprcfli a 

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76 HORNE'S LETTERS ON MISSIONS. 

which may have fallen frominy pen. Confcious inferiority 
bows me down, and nothing but a fenfe of duty and the 
love of truth could have ere^ed my mind to write with 
the freedom I have done» and to admonifh thus loudly 
the minifters of Chrift, the leaft of whom I contider a« 
my fuperior. If I have offended, I befeech you to forgive 
me, even as God for Chrift's fake forgiveth you. If I 
have, in any rcfpcft, ovcrftepped the fobcrncfs of truth* 
or violated the meekncfs of wifdomj I truft I (hall find 
mercy of the Lord, as having done it ignorantly, from, 
a fmcere delire to promote his glory, the interefts of his 
religion, the h;ippinefs of his people, the falvation of the 
Heathen, and the honor and dignity of his miniftering 
fcrvants. I once more fubmit to your candid attention, 
as well as to your judicious c >rre6lion, the contents of 
thcfe pages. I promife ferioufly to review my own 
obligations to a^ in the way 1 recommend to you-^ 
and I flatter myfclf, that fome one will t.ke up the 
fubjedt where I have laid it down, and do itthat juflicci 
which it cannot receive from my hands. 

I have the honour to fubfcribe myfelfy with cordial 
efteem, 

Fathers and Brethren* 

Your fellow fcrvant in the patience and tribulation 

of Jcflis, 

M. H. 



PROTESTANT MISSIONS. 7^ 

i)n the Efforts of Proiejlant Mi/ftonaries in the 

laji Century. 

FROM the time of the reformation, to the eighteenth 
century, the efforts of Midionary zeal were few and fee- 
Ue. More attentive to preserve themselves and their 
pools from the afsaults and seductions of Popery, than to 
[cnend their labours to the unknown heath<fn, with all 
Ae difficulties of accefs and expenfe neceffirily attendant 
on fuch an undertakings the service languiflied, and at 
Ae various establifhments which the Proteftants formed 
b the Eaft and Africa, their chaplains attended only on 
the garrifons, or fcrved the few, very few churches eredk- 
;d by the government. 

The Danes feem to have ihewn the moft attention to 
idffionary attempts, and in Greenland and at Tran- 
luebar, in the £a(l Indies, a few labourers ftruggled 
difpel the thick darknefs of heathenism ; as the 
Snglifh, growing in profperity and Eaftem ac- 
pifitions, enlarged their borders on the coaft of 
^ooaandel, a fociety, which had been long formed for 
he propagation of the Gofpel, adopted the Danifh 
j^idionaries at Tranquebar, and with the addition of a 
ew excellent Germans, a succefsful Miffion was carried 
m in the lower part of the Carnatic 5 chiefly under the 
are of the Danifh MifHonaries, and latterly by the zeal* 
ms e£Forts of Mr Swartz (now gone to his reward) Mr. 
[aenicke and Mr. Gerricke ; who seem truly devoted to 
heir work, and blefTed in their labours, but lament much 
he afflictive reduction of their number by death and the 
i^ant of labourers where the harveil might yet be plen* 
eou.s. 

The next confiderable eflFort may be juftly afcrt- 
>ed to a man, of whom the world has heard the bittered 
tbnse. Count ZinzendorflP, after kindly harbouring at 
kthelfdorff, the poor exiles from Moravia, became 
heir '^iih »p and ordinary ; and directing their attention 
o thofe whom no maabad cared fori the heathen in gen* 



^t PROTESTANT MISSIONS. 

eral, and the Haves in the Caribbee iilands ; he fent fortb» 
in a great variety of directions, feme fimple- hearted and . 
plain followers of the Lamb of God» to tedify of the ; 
efficacy of his blood* determining to know nothing but 
Jeliis Cbrift, and him crucified. We cannot enter into' 
the detail of their zealous labours, fuccefsful or unfucceff« ' 
ful for many of tliem have failed where they dc- 
ierved the greateft praise for their zeal and fidelity > 
but the accounts which they have puMiihed of the itate J 
of their Miilions^ manifeft the moit pat'itnt peifeverance, | 
and afford the pleafing profpedl that they will have 
many of the heathen as liars in their crown of rejoicing in 
the day of the Lord. 

Soon after the Moravians revived in Germany, the 
Methodifts rofe up in England, and, among other inflim- 
ccs of their zeal for Ciirift and his caufe, MefTrs. John 
and Ch irles Wesley embarked for Georgia, in North 
America, and commenced those labr^urs which their 
iuccefsors have purfued, with unremitting zeal, to this 
day ; in the converfion, we hope, of many thousands 
among the Negroes in the plantations, and other heathen 
on the Continent- 
Some efforts were made among the Laplanders by the 
Swedes. The North Americans have made some at- 
tempts to evangelize the Indian nations in their vicinity! 
where the labours of a Br li nerd and an Elliot deferve to 
be had in everlafting rememberance. The Dutch, amid 
all their commercial enterprlzes. have not forgotten the 
Gofpel, arid in all places of their dominion, at the Cape, 
Ceylon, and the Moluccas, have broup:ht many of the 
Inhabitants to the profeffion, at leaft, of Chriitianity. 
Among later efforts, we would notice,with cordial appro- 
bation, thofe of the Englifh Bap lifts ; who ftirred up by 
one of their zealous brethren, (now a M^ffionary) com- 
menced their career in India, and have exhibited degrees 
of zeal and perfeverance highly deferving of approbation. 
Some fmali beginnings, after years of patient waiting, 
give promifing hope tnat their labour wUl not be in vain 



BAPTIST MISSION. 7^ 

mthe Lord, especially as their coiiTerts hare relinqaifii. 
cid the caft, which was confidered hj many as an infii- 
' perable obftacle to the introduction of Chriftianity. Their 
tranflation of the Scriptures into the Bengalee language, 
now happily accomplifhed and publilhed, claims die ad- 
miration and praife of every true Chriftian. May 
that word have free course and be glorified abundant- 
ly! 

[Miss. Trans. Introduc, vol. i. p. 7.] 



Particular Bapii/l Society in England for propa-- 
gating the Go/pel among the Heathen^ 

Mcflrs. Carey & Thomas, are at prefent[i795]in the 
£a(l- Indies, as miiHonaries from7ii^# Particular Baptt^ S^^ 
cktf in England 9 far propagating thGofpel among the Heathen, 
This Society was formed by the Particular^or Calviniftic 
3aptifts, in the year 1 791. Soon afterward, they became 
acquainted with Mr. Thomas, a member of their own 
connection, who, having been in Bengal, a furgeon of the 
Oxford Indiaman, in two voyages, fn 1783 and 1786, 
had, at both times, endeavoured to fpread the knowledge 
of the gofpel amosg the natives. His endeavours were; 
attended with feme fuccefs ; and he was encouraged to 
remain among them five years and a half. He then re-, 
turned to England, with the view of promoting a mifiioa 
more extenfively ufeful than he could himfelf carry on. 
Mr. Carey, a Baptift Minider, then at Leicefler, who 
had writteFi an " Inquiry into the Obligations of Chrift- 
•* ians to ufe means for the Couverfion of the Heathen," 
ejcprefled' an inclination to accompany Mr. Thomas on 
a miffion to BengaL , After being folemnly fet apart to 
tbii fervice, they fet fail from Dover, June 13, 1 793, and . 
arrived at Calcutta on the iiih of November that fame 
year. They entered d'Te^ly on their labours, vifitcd those 



«o EXTRACT FROM 

Vfho bad been converted by tbc miniftry of Mr Thomas, 
ana oegan to trauilate the fcriprure into the language of 
the country. 

[Theo. Mag. vol. ii. p. 2x5.] 



Extras from Mr. Thomas^ Diary, 
• Auguji 19, 1790. 

'Endeavour to recoiled a little of Parhotee*s unequalled 
• prayer.* 

Expressions in Parbotee's Prayer. 

** T performed the rights of the Ganges ; I called this 
** good — I woifliipped wood, & ftone ; 1 called M/sgood: 
** I heard, the Ihaiters of n^en, ihat are all falfe and vain ; 
'* 1 c.illed this good — Lord, I am a moft wretched crea- 
*' ture to this day ; I know nothing — nothing ! I have 
" fpent all my days in wickednefs, and have not obtain- 
^' ed<he leafll knowledge of God. O put far f? om me thefe 
" evil things ! O make them depart far from me. I 
'•have hearkened now to thy word. I will hear //-^w 
" no more — I wiJl not the lead regard the idols of wood 
*' and (lone any more ! — V.*nity : lies. Lord, I will 
'* hear no more at all these flialiers of he Hindoos ; 
** they are all falfe and vain. Wretched (inner ! Save 
** me ! O fave — fave, fave me. Give — give — O give 
** — Give, O Lord ! Give me to know — Hell ! what ? 
•* — Heaven ! what ? — ^^Without the blood of Chrid I 
^rfhall. never be faved. Without the fle(h of Chrid I 
*• (hall never live, — Lord, what is the meaning of this ? 
«« 1 know not what it is — how can I get the blood of 
«* Chrift ?— O teach me, I will do tny thing thou fay'ft 
** — Caft ! what ? — Home ! what ? — Friends ! what ? 
« —Life ! what ? — What is anjr thing ? all is notb- 



MR. THOMAS DIARY. fti 

> 
<* ing but thee. I wpnt no money, T want nothmg but 
«• thee. O vhat a wretched lirner urn I ! O tell me 
•* thy way ! O tell me by Mmjbee ; tell mc by ih^SaSaib. 
•* Wc are goii g to Cmlcutta — Manyf wicked things are 
^ there. O keep us all while we ftay there» 

" () that i had but love ! O that I had but faith ! 
« — O that I had forgivenefs ! O that I had but thofc 
" things which thy people have. Like them- O give 
•• mc like them. 6 Lord, how many evil thins[8 are in 
'* my mind every day ! I am a wicked bLfphemous 
<* wretch ! I hiiive (hame in mt — Wicked (hame before 
** the people, an^l wicked fear of men ; -—Far, O far 
•• away Irom mc, put far away my fins Fi>rgive me ; 
** and teach me what 1 (hall de. I will do any thing. 
** O that I did but know vhat to do : O give— give— 
«give — Lord, what Ih^ll what can I do ?'* 

* Here he bur ft into a flood of tears, with now and then 

* fuch fervent cries, as 1 never before heard : he contin- 

* ued in pray r about hilf . n h^ ur. I read and explain-* 

* cd the faithful promifesof God to fupply the p«»or and 

* necdy,and to fatify ih thitfty foul with living waters ; 
'*fpokc of the mind, ana the inner man, dcr^hting 

* in God manfeftfd ir th:^ fleih, and crucified f>r iin ; 

* that this wai^ eating the flr-ih and drinking the blood of 

* Chrift. After conclu- iii^,hf returned to his b<)at,;indf 
« as the Munfhee tells me, wept there cv^r hi:, owu Gttx^ 

* fuinefs^ a long time.' 

[Bap. Per. Ace. vol. i. p. 24] 



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J, MR. CAREY TO THE CIJURCH 

ft 

Mr. Carey to the Church at Leice/ier^ lately under 

bis Pajloral Care. 

Bamdell, Dbc 25. 179], 
My tbry dear F&iemd9» 

LONG before this time I expeded to have fent jos 
an account of my welfare and of the dealings of God 
with mc; hut having beeii prevented till now^ I embrace 
the prefent opiiortunity with ple^fure, and referring yrm 
to Mr. Y— for an accou-t of my yoyage and sdl the 
incidents relating to it, 1 (hall principally addrefs ny« 
felf 10 you (as t'> thofe ^hr>feeternal welfare I have mach 
at h'^art) refpedbing. the things of God. X)ften do I^^ 
colled with a mlirure of pleafure and pain, the fweet 
communion which 1 have enjoyed with you.^-To/i'tf 
I delighted not only to communicate the gofpel of 
Chrift, but my own foul alfo, becaufe you were dear 
unto me ; and particularly (hall I always remember the 
memorable time of my parting fr-.m you — that was 
indeed the trial of love ; but the great undertaking 
in which I am engaged preponderated, and ftiil weiglis» 
down in my mind every other coniideration. 

1 have certainly It (I much foetal pleaiure fince I came 
hiihcr, as I carnot preach yet, except to my own fam- 
ily, not being fuffijiently a quainted wiih the language; 
nor have I at prelcnt more than one cbriftian friend to 
whom I can open my mind, befiJes my colleague Mr. 
Tkomas.-- I am lurrounded by heathen — all places in 
the country are full of monuments of idolatry, and every 
m>^rning great numocrsof ptopie may be feen at the riv- 
ei*s fide paying their devotion to :hc nuater^ which they 
take up in handfuls and pi ay to iii the moit fervent man- 
ner. Temples to Seeh^t BiJhnOy and Brimha are every 
where to be fen ; and flowtrs conftcrated to facred por- 
pofes, are preferved growing in the ilreets of the rooft 
populous places. Burning *wo7itcn with their huibantfSy 



AT LEICESTER. ^3 

iradice too frequent : Wc were at Nuddea (an em- 
place for learning) laft Lord's day, and were infor- 
that about a month ago two women demoted them . 
► in this manner. The practice of fwinging by the 
i& verry common^ I have feen- the fears arifmg 
it in the backs of many perfons, and a perfonnow 
in the fame houfe with me who carries them in his 
-^Notwtthftanding all this they are a very atten- 
and inquifitive people, and very kind and 
dly ; nor do I perceive any thing unfriendly in 
ondu^ of the Mahometans. 
*eel happy in being here and begin to know a little 
; language. We have been here almoft a month, 
lave hitherto lived with^ Europeans at a Portuguefe 
ment, and the people are papifls ; but next week 
o entirely to live among the natives. At Nuddea^ 
Bramins and Pundits are very defirous that we 
id come and preach the gofpel. Nuddea is a very 
s town, containing about 3000 families, 800 of 
ta are Bramins. Could we fucceed here, the prej- 
is of almoft all the people in India would ceafe, as 
the place which greatly rules religion all over the 
try — The work is God's,— his promife is on qur 
and in bis ftrength we go foith. 

Bap. Per. Ace. vol. i. p. 54^ 



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84 MR. CAREY TO THE SOCIETV. 

Dehartaf Feb. \$^ '79^ 

1 HAVE taken a few acres of land at Ha/bnahad Vitwt 

tliis place* which ig about 4c miles Eaft of Calcutta^ 

upon the river Jvbfna, An Englifh gentleman, to whom 

we Were all entirely unknown, has generously invited ui 

ail to day in his house till we have erected one of onr 

own. This I am now engas^ed in ; the walls will be 

made of mats fattened to wooden pofts, and the tod 

formed of bamboos, and thatched, 'i^he neighbouring 

inhabitants yield me a little ailiftance in the work, and 4 

or ^co families intend to come and refide in our neigh- 

fcon 1 liood. This Is occa fioned by Afaw^^/reprefentmg 

n:e to them in favourable light. Although the country 

is an excellent foil, it has been lately almoft deferted on 

account of the tygers, and other beafts of prey which 

iiifrtl the place ; but these are all afraid of a goni 

and will torn be expelled ; the people therefore are dgC 

afraid when an European is nigh. We ihall have all 

the neceifaries of life except bread, for which rice muftbe 

a fubflitute. Wild hogs, deer, and fowls are to be pro' 

cured by the gun, and muft fupply us with a confidera- 

ble part of our food. I find an inconvenience in hav< 

ing fo much of my time neceflarily taken up in pftKOf^ 

ing provifions, and cultivating my little farm : But when 

my houfe is built, 1 ihall have more leisure than at pre- 

fent, and have daily opportunities of converfing with the 

natives, and purfuing the work of the miflion. Here is 

certainly a large field for ufefulnefs ; much larger than 

you can conceive, both among the Hindoos and MufFul- 

men : They are very nufl^ous, very inquifitive, and 

very attentive to the gofpel. When I can fo far know 

the langt&ge as to preach in it, I have ao doubt 

or having a Rated congregation, and 1 mudi 

hope to fend you pleating accounts. I can to 

Tar converse in the language, as to be underftood in 

most things belonging to eating and drinking, buying 

and iellingi &c. and my ear is fomewhat famiuariz^ to 



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MR. CAREY TO THE SOCIETY. 85 

the Bengalee founds. It is a language of a Ytrj (ing- 
uLir conUrudion, having no plural except to pronouns^ 
and not a iingle prepotltion In it ; but the cafes 
of nouns and pronouns ar.e almoil- endlefs, all the words 
aufwering to .our prepofitions being put after the word, 
and forming a new cafe. Except thefe iingularities, I 
find it an tzCj language. 

I feel myfclf happy in my prcfent undertaking ; for 
though I never felt the loss of focial religion fo n^uch as 
noWf yet a confcioufnefs of having given up all for God 
is a fupporty and the work, with all its attendant incon- 
venienceS) is to me a rich reward, 

I think the fociety would do well to keep their eye to^ 
iiards Africa^ or AJia : thefe countries are not like the 
wiiiij of America f where long labor will fcarcely collect 
ficCy ' people to hear the word ; for here it' is almoll tm- 
pspiUble to get out of the way of hundreds ; and preach- 
^ are wanted a thoufand times more than people to 
pifieach to. Within India are the Mahratta country and 
the northern parts to Cajhmire, without (as far as I can 
learn) one foul that thinks of God aright.^ 

I hope you will fend me an account of every thing 
important in thechurchesi efpecially at LeUefter. You 
muA not expect mj journal til) next year ; I regularly 
keep one, which 1 intend then to tranfmit. 
. Though I am furrounded by mercies, yet for this 
fortnight paft my life has been rendered ufelefs as to 
(piritual things ; being for tke present wholly occupied 
in temporal concerns ; and the fabbaths now are quite 
difconfolate: On one of thefe fabbath's I am feeking 
communion with you ; I feel, that a di (lance of 10 or 
i5,ooomileSf cannot prevent the communion of (aints. 
lliough deprived of a personal intercourfe with my 
European friends, I have at leait one religious friend, and 
that 18 Ram Ram 3o/bo9 : he has indeed much timidity. 

^ Sfe the extraii at the mi of this ktter. 



Sc6 MK. CAREY TO THE SOCIETY. 

but is a man of very good underftandlngy and well in-t 
formed ; he is alfo a perfon of ftri^ probity. 

The part where I am building my houfes/ is within a 
quarter of a mile of the impenetrable forell, called Suft" 
der bunds ; and though quite defer ted before, throu^ 
fear of tlie tygers, the people are now returning, encour- 
aged by my example, and we (hall foon have 3 or 4, coo in 
our vicinity. Thefe people, and all others in the neigh- 
bourhood, are much pleafed with my coming, and two 
or three days ago, a deputation of ^^t. or fix Bramins, ■ 
with a prefent in their hands,- came to thank me, op 
rather to fay that they were glad I was coming ta- 
live among them ; fnr they have no fuch word as " thank 
you", nor any expreffion of thankfulncfs in all their- 
language ! 

With refpe(5b to personal fafety I am juft the fame here 
as in England ; my health was never better ; the climate 
though hot, is tolerable ^ but attended a I am with ^ 
di6ficulties, I would not renounce mj undertaking for all^ 
the world. I long to know how all the minifters do ; 
how the midion fociety goes on ; whether the churches- 
flourifh or not and in ihort every thing that occurs. 
Salute all the brethren in my name, and let every miaift- 
er and every chriftian with whom you have the fmalleft 
connection, know that this conveys my chriftian affe^ion 
to them. W. CAREY. 

[Bap. Per. Ace. i. 73.] 

EXTRACT. 

IN attempting to propagate Chriftianky, it is of* 
great importance to ieleA the moft proper field. That 
perfons engaged in the work may know where it is, two 
inquiries naturally prefent themfelves : Firft, in what 
country will Miflionaries find thegreateft number of pre- 
cious fouls to preach to ? And, iecondly, Will the plant- 
ing of the go^el among t.hem be likely, from their relk- 
\ive fituatlpn and connexions, to have a powerful icSp^ 



EXTRACT. 87 

ence on other nations aronnd thf m, Co as mpft fy tdSy 
and effe^uallf to fprcad Chriftianity over ihe vorJd. 
While piety fends niiflions to tribes and regions det< ched 
from the reft of mankind, and utterly unconne^ed wiih 
them by focial intercourfe, it is but juftice to fay," your 
defign is laudible, and you may do much : one foul is of 
infinite value. *' But we aflign the prize for the high- 
eft portion of wifdom to them who feledl a country which 
forms a noble and promifin&f field of itfelf, and which^ 
be(ide8> prefcnts the profpcdl: of diffufing the gofpel a- 
mong populous, extenfive, and civilized nations which 
frrround it. 

Thf 4anguage of Bengal is fpoken over a v; ft cxtei t 
• of country. The preacher on the coaft of Af.ica, in 
America, in Greeiiland, who has learned the langua^.e 
of the He^'lhen, finds hinifelf confined to a few hundreds 
or thoufands of miferable Pagan;5 ; and when he goes be- 
•♦ yond the narrow limits of his- tribe, or horde, is a bar- 
barian to the neighbouring nations : but the Mi/Iiqnary 
who h iS learned the langu ige ot Bengal, will have fhoi e 
millions to' ad Jrefs than the others can find hundreds or 
thoufands. Of what advantage this is need not be faid* 
Without any additional trouble of learning tongues: to 
hV)w wide AVi extent may he carry the glad tidings offal- 
vation ! And a tranflition ot the facred fcriptureS into 
this tongue, ^^ ill give millions an opportunity of peruf- 
ing a book, which is able to make them wife unlo falva- 
t ion, through faith, which is in Chriil Jelus. 

If the gofpel were once planted, and took deep root 
in that province, there would be a pls^^Jtng prcfi^ecl cf.ts 
being propagated through every part of Hind oft jn. That 
immenfe region, it has been computed, contains a hun- 
dred and twenty millions of inhabitants. And what dif- 
ciple of J^fus does not feel his heart glow with all the 
ardour oif holy zeal at the glorious prorpe(5l, and anxiouf- , 
ly defire to fee the do. r opened to every apartment of 
that vail habitation of fouls, and 10 have every inclofure^ 
iki that ample haivsil fupplied with Ubourert; ! Should . 



•8 EXTRACT. 

Bengal ever be cdnverted to the faith of Chrift, the w^ 
in plain and eafy to eyery other province of the empire | 
and if European Miffionaries fhoold znj where find dif- 
ficulty of accefsy Mahomeun and Hindoo converu will 
be able to carry the gofpel into every part of it without 
any ob(lacle, and with every profpe^ of fuccefs. 

Benefits ftill more extenfive may be expeAed from 
planting the gofpel in Bengal. Thejituation of that prov- 
ince» in refped^ to t6e mofi famous^ civilized^ and popuhus. 
countries of the eajiy merits particular attention. By caft- 
ing the eye of Chriftian benevolence on the map of thcf 
world, with pleafing furprife, Bengal will be feen (^aced 
in the center of the fouthern part of Afia, and prefenting 
on every fide the nobloft fields for mifiions which are to 
be found on the face of the earth. China, th|t world of 
fouls in itfelfy is at no great diftance to the eau* and an 
entrance into it may be more eafily obtained by Miflion* 
aries from that quarter, than by tiie ufual channels of 
V:ommerce. Thibet and Tartary, on the north, contain 
their millions. Beyond the ocean, Perfia to the weft, 
calls for the confolation of the gofpel, to cheer them ar 
midft the darknefs of Mahometan delnfion ; while the 
fwarthy fons of Pegu and Siam, inhabiting^ large and 
fertile countries on the foath, invite the meflengers of*^ 
peace to come and proclaim the glad tidings of life and 
immortality. A better center of operations than Ben- 
galy it is impofiible for the fpiritual warrior tafix on for 
extending the kingdoni of Jefus Chrift, and fir crufhing 
the ufurpations of Satan and of fin. 

RefleiV, O difciple of Jefus ! on what has been prefenti 
ed to thy view. Thekaufe of Chrift is thy own caufe. 
Without deep criminality, thou canft not be indifferent 
of its fuccefs. Rejoice that fo delightful a field of roif- 
fions has been difcovered and exhibited. Roufe thyfelf 
fr^m the flumbersof fpiritual langour. Exert thyfelf to 
the utmoft of thy power ; and let coiifcience oe able to 
teftifyj without a doubt, even at the tribunal of ]d\s^ 



MR. CAREY TO THE SOCIETY. 

'Staikfif MiftOHariet arc not fpeedUy fint U preach the gh^ 
rjmu gfjffei iu Bengal^ itJhaU not he cming to me. 

Tbeo. Mag« vokiL p« 451* 



Mr. Carey to the Society. 

Hoogley River Dee. 28. 1796U 
Honorable and dear brethren, 

I BLESS God, ourprofpea is confiderably brij?;hten- 
ed ap9 and our hopes are more enlarged than at any pe- 
riod fince iKe coramcnccment of the miflion : owing to 
yery plea Aug appearances of the gofpel having been 
Hade efFcdtual to four poor labouring muiTalmans, who 
have been fetting their faces towards Zion ever fince the 
month of Auguit lali ' I hope their baptifm will not be 
much longer deferred ; and that might encourage Mo- 
hunChund» Parbotee, and Caffi Naut, (who laftycarap-t 
peared to fet out in the ways of God) to declare for the 
Lord Jefus ChriA^ by and open profeffion of their faith 
in him. 

If any thing like encouragement did not come with 
an ill grace from us, I would now attempt to encourage 
pur beloved friends ; not by relating our zeal, adVivity^ 
or fuccefs. We can only fay that upon the whole we 
have not forgot our errand ; and though we have great 
reafon to bemoan our unfitnef^ for fo great a work, yet 
we have been doing fomething : but I wi(h to encour.ige 
you by the recolleftionr of what G^d has wrought. 
When the fociety was firft eftablifhed, many were the 
doubts wether it would not be crufhed in its infancy ; 
but it has now (lood for a confiJerahle time, and \ii fuc« 
^efs^ though not equal to its wiflieS} is not however fo 



fo M*. CAREY TO THE SOCIETY; 

fmall M to be i^perceptiMe> Mriny thoufaads hare 
beard ih* word of thegr;fpel from our mouriis, and the 
nam.'* of Chrift begins to be kuovm in fcveral parts of the 
country Seven rf the nitives, we hopCi arc indeed con- ^ 
verted, and another tniflionary is now fafely arrived* 
Periiaps a more proper fppt to make a large (land for the 
fprcad of the gofpel could have fcarccly been chofen. 
This is a Gluation fo central, that had we fufficient men 
and proper means, the gofpel Ynight with eafe and fmall 
expence be fent from hence through all Hindoftan, Perfia 
Br^utan, Affam, and what are generally called Rajemahl 
Hills, on the wef} of the Ganges ; and were a proper 
plan adopted, all the education neceffary for this ezten- 
five detign, might be obtained in one tituattgn in this 
country, and a connection with the miflioB here be regu- 
Ur\j and invariably maintained. The importance of a 
proper and pradlicable plan of education, not fop the 
children of the natives only, but for the children of the 
ro^dionaries also (fome <^ whom, it is to be hoped) niught 
in time be converted by the grace of God and become 
roifllonaries themfdves, or be otherwif? ferviceable in tHb 
ni'flion) is obvious, not to mention the almott neceflity 
offema/eiy well qualified, to communicate the gofpel of 
Chrift in a fituation where fuperttition fecludes all the 
women of refpccfbabiiiry from hearing the word, unlefs 
from their own icx j and the advantage which would - 
arise froni many being embarked together in fuoh 
a cause, to cur own fouls, when the nunbers enga- 
ged would ail add to the impetus of each particular 
foul. 

Independent of thefe confiderations, the neceflity of-^ 
haun;;^ proper personsto carry on the work in cafe of our 
dea ih, or any other occurrence in providence which 
might remove us from the work ; and rhj importance of 
the nambt:r of immorMi fouls to whom we have accefs, 
require a ilrengthcaing of our caufe. 

Bip. Per. Ace vol. i p. 345*: 



MR. FOUNTAIN TO MR. F , »» 

Mr, Fountain to Mr. F , Kettering' 

Mudnahatty^ Oct. I2. 1798. 

JUST two years have elapfed fince I arrived at this 
place. I feel myfclf at home for the Mijjioti s fakc^ though 
I as well remember, and as (incerely love mj friends is 
England^ as on the day when my eyes took their laft re- 
tro^>e£b of Britain's receding fhore. Should you think; 
ine dilatory in writing, I muft apologize for myfelf as 
you do, by reminding you of the complaint in my head, 
perhaps not very unlike your own, and from which bro*. 
ther Thomas gives me no hope of obtaining relief. It 
prevents me from fitting losg together either to read} 
write, or think* 

On the tenth of laft June I began to preach in the 
language of the country. I had then been here juft one 
year and eight months. Since then I have in general 
preached three or four times in a week. Brother Carey 
and I are now engaged alternately, both on week day 
mornings, and fabbath daysv I always feel a greater dif* 
ficulty to find words in prayer than in preaching. Brother 
Carey tells me it was the fame with him ; and indeed I 
perceive it in him to the prefent day. My firfl difcourfe 
to thefe idolatrous tribes was founded on Rev. xiv. 6, 7* 

Oh ! that I could fee more of the aagels of Chrifl fly- 
ing towards Bengal, to call men from the fervice of dumb 
idols, to that of the living God. While I am writingt 
the drums are:beatingin the villages, preparatory to one 
of their, greateft adts of idolatry . Prefs the Society to 
follow up what it has here begun. 

For the encouragement of every fucceeding MifConary 
I may fay, his advantages will be greater than thofe who, 
verehere before him. Mine are greater than brother 
Carey's were, as Ihave the benefit of hearing him preacha. 
^d asking him quefiions. Thofe who may come after 



92 MR. FOUNTAIN TO MR. F- 

us will fare better ftill ; and one great advantage to fu<p 
lure MiiU'jnaries will arife from having the Bible in thcii: 
hands as foon as they arrive. In another year I hope 
it will tf//be ready for the prefs, ancL perhaps tlie print- 
ing begun, if we Ihould be able to procure types in 
this country. 

You will be pleafed to hear that our fchool increafes 
Tcry faft. We have now in it thitty (ix luds. They are^ 
of all cads, from the higheli to the lowed ; and of vari- 
ous ages from five to twenty. Surely it will be a bleiT- 
sng in the end. It is pleafant to hear feveral of the dear 
children join every morning in a gofpel hymn. Oh 
that they may become the children of God ! 

This is a (Ickly time. The people are falling all a- 
iDUnd us* I hear fome medicines have art ivt«l for ui. 
I am glad of it. We might (humanly fpeaktng) fave' 
many lives> if we had emetics and a dofe or two of bark 
to adminiiler when the fever fir ft attacks them. Brodi«> 
^r Thomas' removal is a great lofs to this part of the 
country. I underftand he has been thronged with pai«' 
tients/rom place to place wherever he has been. Per# 
haps there never was a perfon in this country who has 
done fo much in this way for the poor and needy as he 
)ias. The bleffings of hundreds ready tp perifh have faU 
ten upon him. Mis regard to them is fo great, that I 
have known him to get no deep for a whole night when 
he has had a furgicaJ operation to perform the next day* 
He has many qualifications which render him the fitteft 
pfiribn for a miifionary that could any where be found. 
.'^^. ^ ' Your's &c, 

J.F. 
[Bap. Per. Ace vol. i, p. 47 7 J 




MR. CARY TO MR. B , ^^ 

Mr* Cafey io Mr. B , Arnsby. 

Mudnahatty^ Dec. 6, 1798. 

OH my friend> were you with us you would, find 
work enough for ten thoufand hands to execute ; and 
for ten thoufand hearts to contrive. You would lee eve- 
ry comer tutl o^ idols : By the way fides the Bamothi or 
high places, would appear at the end of every mile ; audi 
facri6ce8 to devils would continually excite your compa^ 
fion, and your abhorrence. You would perhaps feel an 
increaf^ of tender afFedions, excited from day to day by 
thefe fpe^acles, and labour ^ ith an ardency before un- 
known, to fet up the kingdom of Chrii!, and to deliver 
die perifliing idolaters from thc^pit. I wi(h we had you 
her e, for I am almoit grown callous by thefe continual 
fights, and all that which ought to a£Fed a mifiionary's 
heart with tendemefs- I fee their abominations, and 
their ignoranct, and I fometimes think them to be paft 
recovery. \ charge them with (lupidity in my mindi 
and then fit down in guilty difcouragement as if the 
hardeil heart in India were invulnerable to the agency 
of the fpirit of God. 

But why ihould I defpond. Though former attempts 
have been unfuccef&ful, fucceedmg ones may be attend- 
ed with a bleifing. But fhould even that be withholden 
till the laft, yet I cannot think that our entrance in a- 
inongil this people will be in vain. We may perhaps be 
only forerunners to prepare the way for others. At any 
rate the promife of God will not, cannot fail. I will go 
in his fh'ength, and make mention of his righteoufnefs, 
even of his only. 

I will not retail to you our fuccefs and difappoint- 
ments* I only mention to you the great necefHcy there 
U offending out more to labour with us : I am getting 
into years,, and my days may be ihorter than any one ex- 
perts, it would be a pity not to have fome more miflion- 



^ MR. CAREY TO MR. YAf ES. 

aries acquainted with the langUH^es of this countr]r» 
that the work may not meet witn a check by anj fach 
incident. 

I am going to preach at M<dda. To-morrow I fend 
a man hSf way with cioihes, and provifions, that I may 
not be detained on the road ; and my groom with him. ' 
The next day I go on hoifeback the whole diftance, thir- 
ty fix miles ; in all which way .there is no inn, or mode 
of 1 efrcihment for man or beaft, but by means of the { 
perfons fent forward 1 mention this that you may form ' 
(bine idea of the diffi :ulty and cxpenfivenefs of long jour- ^ 
neys, in a country like this. But I blefs God we haT« 
feveral open doors, more indeed than we can fupply : 
and I thercforeVepeat my entreaties for more labourers. 

I feel myfelf perfedly at home in my work as a miff- 
ionary, and rejoice that God has given me this great fa* 
your, to '* preach among the Gentiles the unfearchable 
riches of Chrift. " I would not change my llation for 
all the fociety in England, much as I prize it ; nor in- 
deed for all the wealth in the world. May I but be nk^ 
ful in laying the foundation of the Church of Chrift in 
India, I defire no greater reward, and can receive n« 

higher honour. 

Your's &c, 

W.C 
Bap. Per. Ace. vol. i. p 490. 



Mr. Carey to Mr. Tates. 

Gobra, Jan* 6. i8oQ* 

I AM now removing from ^f udnabatty to '^eramporei 
with my whole family an<~' effe(fls in company with 
brother Ward. The pleafure we felt on receiving the 



MR. CAREY TO MR. YATEa 95 

^count of fuch a goodly number of miffimarics* hav- 
ing arrived lafe in this country, was great indeed ; but 
it was foon checked by their not being permitted to join 
us. All our friends, therefore, thought it bcft for us to 
fettle'at Serampore. Several circumft inces united to prefs 
this measure upon us ; particularly the failure of the 
indigo crops lad year at Mudnabatty, which ifTued in 
the relinquifhment of tliat factory, together with the re- 
moval of the worthy owner, who had been our Aeady 
friend and patron, to Calcutta. 

You will inquire. What is become of tliofe natives 
concerning whom fome hopes have been entertained ? 
What is become of the rifing intereft at- Dinagepour ? 
And is all preaching given up at M, dda ? Is the fchool 
diflblvedy and all the fruits of five years labour relinquifh- 
ed at once ? I anfwer : None but myfelf can tell the 
conflldl, and the exercises of my mind on this trying 
event : but necedity has no law. Our refources are too 
fmall to permit us to live fcparately ; and the work of 
printing the bible requires my infpedtion. I hope well 
of Sookmun, and Hurry Charron* Tne very lad con- 
verfatioM I had with them,ga ve me much encouragement. 
Our labours at Dinagepour have not been in vain. 
TheChntiians also in me neighbourhood of Malda pleafe 
me much- We hope to vifit thofe places once or twice 
in the yedcbefides correfponding with our friends by let-. 
ter. The fchool at Mudnabatty is neceflarily relinquiQi* 
cd ; though not till we have the pleafure of knowing 
that about filty lads have been tauglit to read and write, 
who would other wife have known nothing. Th^ 
name and dodrines of Chriit are known ^^ 
{o thatafouuiation is laid for our to*"" ^ J many 
come effcftual. " -^'^ efforts 10 be- 

l-**^**' - cr. Ace. vol. ii. p. 45. 
♦ Mefrj. Marfhm.m, Brnn'sdon and Grant, ^Uh their 



drib 



ffi MRS. MARSHMAN TO MRS. SMITH. 

Extract of a letter from Mrs. Marshman 

to Mrs. Smith. 

Serampore^ Feb, 13, i8oi. 

OUR gracious God hath arifen from his feat and 
be^an to 9Jork. The cad of the country is broken ; and 
fatan is driven from fome of his (bong holds i believe 
that fince his refidence at Serampore, he has never trem- 
ble 1 as ne does now. I pray that he and ali hii> colleagues, 
brammhans, may never reign here any more. Wc 
have had four baptifed, and more are waiting for bap- 
tifm. Thefe things cheer our hearts in the niidft of sdl 
our difficulties. At prefeht my hopes concerning the 
fuccefs of the gofpel in this place aie great 1 truft that 
God will fbon call in a goodly number of his eled, and 
that Chiift will foon have many of thefe heathen for bis 
inheritance. We hive people coming almoil every day 
to enquire about the gofpel. 

1 f:!arched my mind very minutely before I engaged 
fn the fchool, lell it fliould beirkfome to me afterwards. 
However, I was enabled to leave all, and cheerfully to 
givemyfelfup to the work ; and thnmgh mercy Ihave 
not lepented, and I hope I never may. I am not vor- 
tliy of being employed in any thing belonging to Chrifl ; 
and often wonder at the difpenfations of God in fend- 
ing me to this land, where fo much grace is needed, and 
•nv daily experience is fuch that I often fear left I have 
•'•^^ . This however, 1 know : I 1 mg for the increa(e 
*^^'^^;,"7jrv--.l/^dom upon earth, efpccially in xhU be» 

JUi^hted pait of it. ^r^r^-^^^we ^. 



Bap. Per. Ace. vtl. a. ?• 




KRISTNO TO THE SOCIETY. 97 

Kri/lno to the Society. 

Se^-amporey Oct, 12, 1802. 
TO the brethren, of the church of our Saviour Jesug 
ChrUl, onr fouls beloved^ my affcdlionatcly embracing 
reprefcntation. 

The love of God the s;ofpel of Jefus Chrift was m^dc 
known by holy brother Thomas. In that day oar 
minds were filled with joy. Then ju.ie^tng, we uiiUci^ 
ftood that we were dwelling in darkncfs. rhrou^h, 
the door of manifeiUtion we came to know, that lin coa* 
feffing, fin forfaking, Chrift's rightconsaefs embraciav., 
faivation would be obtained. By light fpringing up ia 
the heart, we knew that finners becoming repentant, 
through the fiifFerings of Chriil, obtainel faivation. In 
this rejoicing, and in Chrili*s love believing, I obtained 
mercy. No v it is in my mind continuiUy to dwell in 
the love of Chrirt : this is the defire of my foul. Do 
you, holy people, p )ur do^n love upon us, that as the 
chatookec,* we may be fatisfied. 1 was tJie vilell of 
(inners : He hath faved me. Now this word I will tell 
to the world. Go-ng forth, I will proclaim the love of 
Chrift with rejoicing. To finners I will fiy this w<:rd: 
Hear finncr^ brother ! Without Chrid there is no help. 
Chrift the world to fave, gave his own foul ! Such love 
wa« never heard : for enemies, Chrift gave his own foul ! 
Such compaftion, where (hall we get ? For the fake of 
faving finners, he forfook the happinefs of heaven. 1 will 
conftantly ftay near him. Being awakened by tliis news, 
1 will conftantly dwell in the town of joy. In the holy 
Spirit I will live .• yet in Chrift's forrow I will be f ir- 
rov^ul. I will dwell along with happinefs, continually 
meditating on this \^^Chr{ft m)ill save the luorld ! In 

Chrift, not taking refuge, there is no other way of life. 

I was indeed a finner, prai.se not knowing. This is the 
representation of Chrift's fervant, KKIS TNO. 

Bap. Per* Ace. vol. ii. p. 308. 
* A bird which drinks not at tkefireams belotUi hut when 
it rains caUhis thedfofs as theyfalL 



.98 H. SMITH TO MR. SUTCLIFF. 

H* Smith (afterwards Mrs. Chamberlain) t$ 

Mr. Suicliff. 

Dear Sir, Olney^ Feb* 1 802. 

HAVING enjoyed the pleasure arid honour of yciir 
acquaintance, and the privilege of attending on your 
niinidry for nearly six years ; and now, having in profped 
the afifedling seafoo of bidding you farewell, without ex- 
peeing to fee you any more in this world, I think it 
my duty before I leave you, to exprefs my gratitude and 
love for the many ads of kindnefs I have received from 
you. . 

•You know, dear fir, the profpeds I have before file 
are fuch as are not very common : being called to facri- 
fice .tender parents, feven afiPeflionate brothers and Af- 
ter s, a beloved pallor, the church with which I am ia 
connexion, and alfo my native land, and to cxpofe my- 
felf to the dangers of the deep ; and if fafely procefted 
acrofs the fea, hiving then to land in a heathen country. 
Thefe thingf, dear fir, you know, have much aflEtded 
my mind. But, noiwithilanding many painful fenfa- 
tiojis, I can truly fay, I have often found much pleafur^ 
in contemplating the object of the miOlon ; and having 
been engaged for three years in a correspondence with 
Mr. Chamberlain, it has led me to think much about it, 
as I always believed that he would sometime or other 
be engaged in this important work. At tirll indeed, I 
C('uld not say 1 W3s willing to go, if he (hould be called 
to it, yet I never perfuaded him to decline it : and now, 
as the Society are deHrousof fending Mr. Chamberlain, 
and he is willing to go, 1 alfo am willing to be his com- 
panion ; and if God permit, we will join the happy few 
at Serampore Thofe of them that I have feen and 
heard, are dear to me ; and others I love greatly for 
their work's fake, though I have fiot feen them. I look 
forward to the happy day, when we (hall join them in 
their employment, and (hare their trials, and help to 
bear their burdens. We will readily fobmtt tQ their 



H- SMITH TO MR. SUTCLIFP. 99 

rales and orders, and hope to live with them above for 
ever 

Within the laft few years, I have been much deli^^ht- 
ed to hear of the i^xreafe of the Redeemer's kingdom, 
and the efforts made to fpread abroad the knowledge 
of the f2:ofpcl of Chrift, in any part of the world. I 
have found pleafure in reading Brainerd's Life* Haw- 
eis's Church Hiftory, the Voyage of the DuflF, and all the 
Periodical Accounts. When 1 heard of iuccefs atten« 
ding the Baptill Miflion, it gave me much pleafure ; 
and have thought that I could facrifice what 1 enjoyed, 
to be a partaker with them of whatever they met with. 
But, dear fir, none can tell what they are, till they are 
tried. When trials come near, they wear a different 
asped to what they do at a diftance. It has given me 
much anxiety of mind, when I have thought of the fa- 
crrfic'^s that mud be made» and the trials, trouble and 
difficulties, which may probably be connected with the 
iBidion. But thofe things which have at one time ap- 
peared a trial, have at another appeared a pleasure. 
And now I can fay, 

" Whatever my duty bids me give, 
I willingly refign." 

Concerning the profpefts before me, I can truly fay, I 
do not feel my mind elated, or carried away with the 
▼ain expcdlation that I am now going to enjoy perfeft 
bappinefs, or that I ihall now have done with the cares 
and anxTeties of life. Not a thought of this kind has 
entered my mind. I am now willing to go, and be, and 
do whatever the Lord appomts. I nowexpedl new tri- 
als, diffi< u'tties, and anxious cares. But the Lord r&ign* 
cth» and this has been to me a reviving thought. If he 
blefs me, 1 ftiall be blefled indeed. Whether I live in 
England, or India, his eye will behold me ; and I hope 
he will guide, defend, lupport, and comfort me, while 
paffing through this life ; and when I have finiftied my 
journey, I hope to live with my exalted Saviour and 
Redeemer, to all eternity. Why then ihould I fesr 

la 



loo H. SMITH TO MR. SUTCLIFF. 

what is in th^ path that is marked out for ine ^ JefUs 
has faid, <<If ye love mcp follow m^ ;" and how can I 
follow him» if I forsake the path in wliich he trod ? He 
left his relations and friends, and (bmetimes cro^d the 
fea, to glorify his heavenly Father $ and why (houtd not 
If if caBed to it ? He lived in poverty , endured perfe- 
cation, and at laft was put to death i and if I am cat- 
led to endure the fame, why fliould I repine ? 

But now, dear fir, I have the pleafure to inform 
you, that you have been the means, in the hand of God» 
of my enjoying many pleafant feafons, concerning my 
prefent profpeds. Under many of your fermons I have 
been much imprefTed with the importance of religion^ 
and have been fo delighted with its beauty and excel* 
lence, that I have e deemed it the g,reateft happixiefs I 
could enjoy, to live to God, and be devoted to hit fcr- 
vice. I felt as though parting with my relations, for 
this purpofe, would be no trial ; but to be engaged in 
the caufe of the miffion, would be a pleafure to me» 
and I (hould think it the highefl honour that could be 
conferred upon me. Two fermons, in particular, exci- 
ted thofe delightful fenfations of mind. One from 
Exod. XXXV. 20 — 29 : the other from » Chron* xxix. 5. 
Then, dear fir, I could willingly have oflFered all that I 
poffefsed unto the Lord, and h^ve confecrated myfeif to 
bis fervice, that I might be his devoted fubjed. I. do 
not wifli you to think, dear fir, that I take upon myfeif 
the character of a miflionary, this I do not prefume to 
do. But thougl*^ the high honour of prc/iching the gof^ 
pel to the poor heathen will not be mine, yet I 
am willing to go, and do whatever the Lord mij ap- 
point, and (hall think myfeif happy in ferving thole who 
ferve him. 

At the fame time, having been a member of your fo- 
ciety for tbret years, and feeling myieif much united 
both to you and the church yuur happi nefs and proijpe- 
rlty will be ever de^r to me. 



MR. WARD'S* JOURNAL, 

^ When we afunder portt 

It gms us inward pain 
Yet we fh ill iliU be joined hi hearty 

And hope to meet a^in* 
TUs giori6ushope reriTed 

Mf courage by theway^ 
Whilel in ezpeaatioif live> 

And long to fee the 4^7/' 

That glorious day^ dear (^r, when I hope to meet 
you, with a numerous train in the heivenly worl^ where 
we {hall never again be parted by a wide Tea; but fiiall 
dwell together on that peaceful (hore, where there is 
fulnefs ofjoy* and pie afur es ^ evermore. Wi(hi ng y on 
and yours every bleding, both for time and eternity* I 

remain^ 

Yours affedionMely, 

H. S.. 
Bap, Per. Ace. vol. iil p. 78/ 



* Afr. 5sf Mrs. ChawbtrlairCs arrival in India is 
thus JtaUd in Mr. Ward's journal. 

Jan- i6, 1805. 
I WENT down again thi^ morning, and 
, about noon met the fhip : wis much rej )iced at 
meeting with brother and filler Chamberlain. vVe came 
to C ictuta, found brother Carey, and proceeded 
to Mr. Koit's : the tide not fcrving, we staid au ni^ht 
at Calcutta. Wtw alfo rcfreihcd by letters from \mer- 
ica. 

Jan 27 We arrived at Sera^uporr thi^ naomipja: Se- 
fore the family were u r : »t was an h ur >f a^re :r j )y. 
In the evening we '^-r)^ t«> Kri*in »'s : 1 c*te:h f. • he 
Chiidreuy and we lun^ ihice ay mas in Bcugaiee : oruiher 



T 



iQt MISSIONARIES TO THE SOCIETY. 

Chamberlain joined us in <* Doya koro/' Oar natift 
friends mad? inquiries whether ournew brother and fifter 
had left fi^ther, molher» brotbers or fifteis f I never 
law our native friends manifeft (uch attachment at on thii 
occafion. Joymooni faid, <' They cannot talk our hm- 
guage ; but we fee that all our hearts are one : w«5 are 
united in the death of Chri(^:" Brother and filler Cham- 
berlain were deeply affeded during the whole of the ii|( 
qpnriew. 

Bap. Per. Ace. toL ii* p. S5 9* 



The Miffionaries to the Society. 

m 

Seramp§re^ jiitg, 1805* 

TfiaV DEA£ BJCBTHftSlI III OUft LOKD JBSUS CHKIST. 

W£ again addrefr our quarterly epiltle to you, not 
merely as a matter of duty: but as a matter of 
enjoyment to ourfelves, and of conveying enjoyment to 
you. 

When this miffion was fit ft begun, you engaged in 
it with fear and trembling, mingled with hope ; you 
forefaw that there would be many obilades to overcomct 
and many triak to endu- e. The Lord in infinite wif- 
dom iaw proper alfo for feveml years to try your pa- 
tience and ours $ to deny the fuccefs which you ear- 
neitly hoped for* andhad probably anticipated : yet even 
in that long and gloomy period, the favourable appear- 
ances in feveraly though in the end aborti' e, ferved to 
ket>p up our fpirit8,and to encourage you. By .apparently 
very dark and diftreilin^ providences, the feat of the 
miflion was removed from the place where thofc hopes 
were raifed j death afterwards* was fu£Fered to make 



♦ DkdMfffrs* Ttetnas^ Founiam^ Grants and Bruttt'- 



MISSIONARIES TO THE SOCIETY. lo^ 

Tery alarming inroads upon usy and we had 
much to ftrug^e with ; being then without a fettled 
faabitation» and often put to (hilts for our temporal fap- 
port* 

Yet the miflion was never deserted of God.* The 
remoying it to M udnabatty at Hrft was the mean of 
preferving it in its very feeble and infant ftate» and of 
expediting the translation of the icriptures. Its after 
removal to Serampore was the neceiHiry (lep to the u(e 
of our printing prefs ; to the free ufe of which, as a 
mean, more is to be attributed than to all other means 
put together. Ju(i at that time God opened the heart 
of the Danilh Governor to receive us $ and this has 
paved the way gradually to our being well known, and 
our defigns well underftood by the EngliQi government 
The Lord has given two good houfes with extenfive pre*- 
mifes to the million ; has fo profpered our fchool that it. 
greatly aflijls us in our temporal fnpport, and at the 
iame time opens a way for the religious education of a 
confiderable naraber of thofe who are likely hereafter 
to fpend their lives in India, and fome of whom it may 
be reafonably expelled will receive imprefllons at fchool 
which may be the beginning of falvation to them and to 
many others. Our prefs is condantly at work, and is 
'likely to be fo ; the demand for new teftaracnts, tra^s, 
&c. being rather increafmg than otherwife. 

The Church conQfts of thirty-six members ; fourteen 
are Europeans, Sec. and twenty-two natives. Thefe 
have been all'baptifed on a credible profeflion of faith ; 
and have loft caft, friends, and all for the. gofpel. Two 
of them were brahmuns ; viz. Krlflno Prifaud^Si^ Bhyrub: 
Three were of the writer caft ; viz. Petumber Singho^ Pe* 
tumber Mlttre^ and Ram Roteen. Two were Mufllilmans ; 
two had adopted the Portuguefe drefs and habits, though 
formerly MuiTulmans ; and the others were of the inferi- 
or cafts of the Hindoos. We cannot fay that our native 
brethren are fuperior to other chriftians in love, zeal» 
kiiowledgey or prudence : they are fometimes cool^ and 






104 MISSIONARIES TO THE SOCIETY. 

fometimss precipitate v fometimes ibtnc of them give tu 
paiDy and often plesfurc. We know fomewhat of what 
the apoftle exprcfT'-d : lamjeaUus W€r you tvith m hclf 
jcaloufy — / fear left your hearts be corrupted. We hare to 
bear, to forbear, to hope, to fear, to exhort^ to entFeat, 
to reprove ; and after all, to carry our burden to the 
throne of grace, and commit the matter to Him who 
cares infinitely more for his church than we do. We 
have however mmch cau>e for Tej'>icinsf in our brethren: 
all ottr menfihers are in foil communion except one» 
Pet umber Mittre* who is un^er fufpenfion ; and widi 
all their infirmities they are the excellent of Bengal. 
We love them a£fe^iosately, and have reafon to coO' 
dude that we are beloved by them. Several of them 
are active in talking about Chrift to others, and some 
have hopeful gifts. Some of" them live at the didance 
of feveral day's journey from us, and are like 
a few grains of fait fcattered in the places where they 
live. 

The new teftament and the pentateuch have been 
publilhed a long time ago, and nearly the whole of Uie 
firft edition of the new tellament is difpnfed of. The 
copy is now p-iffing under a clofe revifion preparatory to 
a fecond edition > which will be vei y foon put to the preft* 
The book cf Pfalms and the prophecies of Ifaiah ire alfo 
printed. 

Dear brethren, pray for us perfonally, that we m^ 
all endure to the end ; and pray for us as a body, that 
the word of God may abound and be glorified in this 
dai k ' country by our means ! We feel our hearts united 
to you, and truft that you nre warmely remembered by 
Hs in our prayers. We are nffedionately yoursy 

W CAREY. 

T MARSHMAN. 

W. WARD. 

J. CHi^MBERLAlN, 

FKLIX CAREY. 
[Bap. Pctf iicc. vol. ii. p. ^i«3 






KR. WARD TO MR. MORRI& fd$ 

■ 

Mr. Ward to Mr. Morris. 

/Ipril 27, 1S03. 

THE followmp piece is intcnHec^ f»i the Periodical 
Accc untbi if it ih'mld not be th»>u*j;ht of too fingular a 
tonip;txion fir th';:t wo- k ; if it (houlir it is at your fer- 
▼ice. It muA be iir.deTftood that it is not a literal and 
exact convt nation ; it was not taken word for word 
from the mouths of the fpcakers : lufHce it to fdy, that 
the princip I cirtumU; nces are t'^ue. You will be glad 
to hear, that hitherto God halh helped as ; and that at 
present, allis wii. 



w. w. 



A DIALOGUE. 

FOUNOt-D ON FACTS* 



Boodheesds the principal perfon in this feene, was YH>rn 
%, Mu(fu ai<in$ aud brought up to farmingy but afterward$ 
became a byraggee : 'h t is to say, he renounced his 
friends and woriidl^ occupation, and took the holinefs 
of a byra^gee Being inQru^^cd by his new goroo, or 
teacher* be began a life of wandering, begging, and 
repeating the f ims of his new ca(l. In this way he 
did oiany adts incredi ly d?fi] ut and painful. Hear- 
ing a little of the g^iptrl, he cujne three days' jour- 
ne? to beramp<Te ; heard more; became inclined to wait 
for dill furtha inlUudion. and was at length baptised ; 
flK^counting aU his haro acqu.red holinefs *' but dung* 
that he might win Chiift, and be fc>und in him." On leav- 
iiag ^erampore he relolved to re j urn to his houser which 
lie had torfaken on becoming a byrag^ee. When he ar* 
riTed, he ftooi at the door ; and as loon as they saw him» 
they all with weeping invited him in. H^ told them he 
«ould not go in^ as h^ baa lou ca't ; and he did not wi£h 
jto give them foirow without their confent. 

T" he mother (A very </lcl woman, ciying) Cotne i|i 
Qiy foa : whf 4q ypa jftan4 ^t the door i^ 



0t6 Hit WARD TO MR. MORRIS. 

Brodheesa. No mother: I cannot come into thehmi(e. 
You wiii lofc your caft ; for T h j.tc c.ten with Engliik 
people ! 

The mother^ and brother y avd Boodhecsd's nutfi. Well; 
but cinn- 1 you con»e in ? 

Bo-?d^eesa. N.»: I will not come in. But if you wIH 
conie aiu! lie out, I wiU tell ycu what I nave done, aod 
^hy i hive done it. 

"The Jam iy Come then, let us go and fit in the cow*, 
fcouie 

Boodheta (Siitini^ with his friends round him in the 
cow hou'.e ) You all know thai 1 have never done any 
thin<^ but tor the belt It whs to leek my good that 
I bftc.ime a byrap;gce ; ar.d therefore you mny be (urc 
that what 1 have now done, has been to fecure my falfa- 
tion . 

Mother, Well my fon, let us hear. 

Bcodheesa Yon know that J have wandered lip and 
down in fsirch of the true way. I forfook the worldy 
I becane a byrag^ee, I obtaitied my food by beggingf 
I have repeated the name of God continu dly, I have 
vifited different holy pla<:es, 1 have performed the 
bromha fadon,*! have performed thcfoorga-f-fad^n ; aikd 
for twelve monthly twelve hours every day, tixcd my 
eyes on the blazing orby till I became blind ; and my 
face as black as ink, was dried up You ktiow that 1 thea 
performed the chundro fadon to recover my fight, and 
to obtain fome fruit for my foul. Befides this, I have 
done other very fevere and terrific artSi called holinefs ; 
but all was in vain : I continued a Have to fin, and my 
mind was deiiicute of happinefs. At length I heard oiF 
there being a new way preached at Seiampore. I have 
been there, and have heard glad tidmgs ; that Jcfut 
Chri(l came into the world, and bore the puniihment 
due to finners. This is a great word, and it has filled 
^y foul with hope and joy. Hence 1 hare laid afidt 

^ Worjhlp paid Bromha. \ Wwrfhip if the Mw9^ 



i« ». 



MR WARD TOWR. MORRIS. 107 

the proud thought of making amends for my own tranf- 
grewons. I make my refuge in his death, and cocfider 
all my own holinefs as a heap of fm. I have been 
baptized in his name. If I can beKeve in him, and 
obey his commands, I (hall get oyer my everlafting ruin. 
If you can unit^ with me in becoming the diciples pf 
Cbrifts then I fiiall find my homey my mother^ my 
brother, my wife ^ and a Saviort all at once : but if you 
cannot, then T will abide by my Savior, and go every 

Srhere proclaiming his name. If I die in this work un* 
er a tree, or any where else, verily it ihaU then be well 
.With me ! 
' M§ther,^ My fon, I am now become old : in looking 
round me 1 fee only you and your brothers and fifters ; 
I fee no world below, but you. If you have found this 
good news, well: kt your brother go with you, and 
Tee and hear ; and if he find things fo, aild a Savior have 
died for us ; why may not we be baptizedi and ifaare in 
the benefit ? 

Sadutsa. (the brother) I will go to Serampore with 
you. I had thought of ftaying at home and of remain- 
ing unmarried, to nourifh'my mother till her death; 
and then. of becoming a byraggee, that having left 
the world, at death I might obtain falvation. But now 
I will go with you> and hear about Tesu Kre^Jt. 

Mother, Well, fon, let us go in. You muft eat vnth us. 
Why fiiould you then ftay out ? Are you then of a 
different cad from your own mother \ 

[They leave the cov-houfe ; and at the voice of 
maternal love, at the call of the gpfpel, and in fpite of 
the interdictions of the infernal cad, they eat and drink 
togetlier ; faying one to another, Let us new go even unto 
JSethleljern, andjee this . thing nuhich is come to pafs^ njuhich 
ihe Lord hath imde Xnvwn to «/.] 

[^Bap. Per. Ace. voL ii. p. 434.] 
1^ 



ic« MP. CHAMBERLAIf^ 

Mr. Chamber Iain 1o Dr Ryland 

Cutv:a on the Ganges^ Sep. 3, 1804. 

TH I S place is about fcventy miles from Serampore, 
by the Hoogley river. Here I have procured a fpot of 
ground, perhaps about two acies, pleasently fituated by 
tv tai.ks; and a fine grove of mungo trees> at a fmall 
Ciirtance from the town. It was with difficulty I pro- 
cured a rpot. I was forced to leave one, after I had 
made a bcglrning, through the violent oppofition of tlie 
people. Coming to this, oppofition ceafed ; and there^ 
fore I called it rehoboth ; for J^ovah hath made room 
for us. Here 1 have raifed a fpacious bungalow, forty- * 
two fett l)y thirty dvt. Comfortable accomodations 
for ft)ur families may be made, if ncceffary. 

Left Serampore, May 3, and arrived on the 6th. 
Here I was alone two months ; after which I went to 
SAampore and returned in eighteen days with myfwife, 
houihoid things and, 5cc., and we are now happily fettled. 
I have made (bme proficiency in the language, being al- 
moft continually employed in fpeaking it. Almoft every 
day I have converfation with (he natives, who come to 
enquire and hear. Some days I have fcarcely leifure to 
rcfreih rtiyfelf. We have worlhip every morning in 
Btngile?, which confids in fmging, reading the fcrip- 
ivics, and prayer. On Lord's days we have worfhip in 
Be: g! lee, at eight in the morning, and between four and 
live in the evening, when ntimbers attend. I also gene- 
rally go into the bazar, and fometimes have long difpu- 
tations ; but here there is too much confufion and oppo* 
fition to be comfortable. People are continually com- - 
ing to our he ufe, which prevents my going out. Some 
feem determined to oppofc ; others appear better in- 
clined. It gives me great pleasure to endeavour to 
make known to them the word of life ; nor would I 
change n.y fituatlon for any worldly advantage, i rue, 
we ate furioundcd with them who know not Qod : we 



TO DR. RYL^ND. 109 

hive no joyful aflcmblics •f the faints to which we caa 
refort, to unite in the reviving exercises of focia! wor- 
/hip : no private families where we can meet and con* 
vera; to our routaa] comfort and encouragement. No; 
we are (Irangen, and are accounted a ftrange people : 
we alio dwell among a people of a hitherto ftrange lao- 
giLige, bat which is now becoming famiUar- a people 
frif intereftcd to a proverb —avaripous, proud, cruel, 
pUmged into the deptlis of iniquity — delighting anl 
wallowing in the vileft (ins ; a pec^le th^in, whom, none 
c.in.bc more anperfuadable, foftering feif-conccit, anl 
the moft delufive opinions ; accounting wood* (lone, 
mud, draw, trees, flowers, rivers, water, &c. &c. ^od t 
and fo woi (hipping thefe things, together with (bme cJ 
the vilcft of men and women, as god! This is our fitui- 
tion ; yet, God be praifei, we are not hopelefs nor 
comfortlefs. We know it is bat f^r Jth ov.ih to difplay 
his glorious arm, and then will our eyes be ble/T-i 
with a wonderons fight. I anticipate the time whea 
people (hall come from the circurQJicent villages and 
towns, flocking o'er the extended pLiins, to hear ihs 
word of life at Cutwa ; having forfaken their idols, their 
debtahs, &c., and taken refhge in the Lord Jc^fus ChrilL 
I anticipate the day when the horrid din of idol mufic 
(haEil give way to the fongs of Zion ; when in the place 
of theur filthy tdoUtrous fongs, fhdl ildnd the fweet 
finger of Ifrael, in Bengalee array ; when children (hall 
delight to lifp the name of Jefus, and old men join the 
chorus, Glory to God in the higheft ! When their 
(hafters and hades, which have been fo long the fupport 
of this part of Satan's kingdom, (hall melt away like 
wax before the fun ; and the precious fountain of truth, 
the Bible, (hall be tKe glory of this land, and the confi- 
dence, comfort, and fupport of all the people ! Thefe 
things I anticipate, and am encouraged. Not that I am 
fo fanguine as to fuppofe that my mortal eyes will be 
hold it : but my confidence is, that omnipotent truth 
will fulfil the promises of unerring wifdom and boundlsfs 



1 lo FROM FOUR HINDOOS. 

« 

mercy. The knowledge of the glory of Jehovah (hall 
cover the earth as the waters cover the feas. The vifion 
h for an appointed time ; at the end it will fpeak» it 
will not lie ; though it tarry, yet will we wait becaufe it 
willfurely come« it will not tarry. For this bright day 
will we pray and hopCi and labour to prepare the way 
that (hall uHier it in with all its refplendence, and difpel 
tkegrofs darknefs'that now covers this unhappy people. 
Bap. Per. Aec. vol. iii. p. 50- 



From four Hindods^ 
Written in Bengalee and translated by y. JL. 

Fernandez. 

yi alithe^ hr^hhm nvho Believe in tie Lord Jesus Gbrht^ 9Uf 

IbHiiJhallbe fnanifcfled 
WE are very miferable and wretched finners ; but 
hearing these glad tidings^ that the Lord Jefus Chrift» 
for the fake of finners fu^ered in his own body, and 
l^av,^ u^ his life, being by wicked hands cnicified on the^ 
tree* wq^ h^ve beheved^ in His name. This news we 
received through the medium of brother Carey, Mar(h« 
Qi^n, and Wardv Having received the new teftamenc 
from them, we compared it with our former (hafters, 
aind were brought to judge that all our own works, and 
it 11 our cercmontes, pTa7ers, and worfhip were nothing ; 
&rafmuch as we did Cot by pttforming thefe things re- 
ceive a new heart, npr the dread oi fia. We are now 
confctous that thefe things are vanity, becaufe they are 
the works of men : and before God they are aa abrmii« 
nation, for God hatli commanded, Let there be &o other 
God but me. The holy fcriptures having teflified thefe 
things unto us, we have thrown away all our former 
poojafa^ and bc^lieye ia the death of Chriil^ knowing^ 



GENERAL LETTER in 

that befides the Lord's death there is fk) way of efcape 
for finners. He who wa^ the Creator of the world ha^, 
for the falvation of finner&y oiFered up his own bodj^ 
an acceptable facriiice before God $ and now there tt 
an atonement madefo* fin, fo thitany finner belieYing 

^ trulf in his death will receive the salvation of his soul. 

. Knowing thele things we have left all, and taken refuge 
in him. 

Moreover we truft ^hat the kingdom of our Lord 
Jesus Chrift will fpread in BengaL He is increafiiig 
his church gradually, and the gofpel is preached in 
many remote diftridls. We trufl therefore . that as be 
is the fruit-giver, he will give fruit. At present he has 
given us a great many brethren and fifters ; and we hope 
in time he will give many more. 

Dear brethren, we have never had an interview 
With you ; but in the love of Chrift we arepne in miQ|i>. 
aui we havea great defire of feeing you. 

RAM MOHUN. 

RAM rotton: 

BYDENAUT. 
KRISHNO PRESAUD- 
[B^p. Per. Ace. vol. iii. p. 1 96.] 



General letter to the Society, 

Mar. 21, 1806:' 
THOUGH our succefs has not been equal to our 
wi{hes> yet our hearts arc often gladdened by fating a 
goodly company of poor perifhing tifath^> fit down ot 
commemorate cur Savior's death, who are, we iruft, 
the tophies of his grace The church received iaft year 
an addition of thirty four members, thirty ore of whom 
are natives. Three of them at- )^is time fofprnded 
form communion ; hut weliavs hopes of two of than 

Ka 



fix TO THE SOCIETT 

at lead being fpeedily reftored* Sines the bcginnfkfjg of 
the year we h^e baptized eight perfons. Viz. in: 
J^flttarj, a mati of the name of Girrt'dhur, who calne 
dnwQ, and returned with brother Chamber laia.. 1% 
February^. ChiturPs wife, ani Unna*s dao^^htorv With* 
Nundakefhur aod Hf duram» from the neighboarhockl of 
Dinag'pore' In March, two young metiyatid a woraaiit. 
from BIriftDopore.. 

At prefent we have feveral enqoirer&, one of whoni^ 
comes from near Benares. The church at Serampore-. 
BOW confifts of etghty-tntHk members, whofe walk and" 
cpnverfatoo with a. few exceptions, afford ns much 
fdeafure. We ar^ forry to inform, you that Krijhm 
Brcfand has been ill for feveral months y and if he docf 
not foon recover, we are doubtful, from the nature of 
hfs difordett whether we fha*l not be called to mourn 
4he lofi of that valuable brother.. He isayoong nia9^ 
in whom is united, promifing talents, with prudence 
and a£Pe£lion* 

la. the beginning of January, brethren Ward, Fer*-- 
nannez and Moore, accompanied our dear brethren 
Maylin and Fernandez jun. to the fliip lying in Saugur 
Roids, near the mouth of the river. From thence 
they went to- Saugor Ifiancf, a ceLbrate bathing-place 
of the Hindoos ;. and the day after their arrival they 
were joined by three native brethren who left Serampore 
foon after their departure. An immense multitude of 
people were aflembled at the Ifland, among whom:, 
they preached, and diftributcd pamphlets. 

A new church has been formed for Dtnagepore, of 
which you have received the particulars. On Feb. 26* 
ht other FernandsH, fifter Bifs, with two of her children,, 
and three native members of the Dtnagepore chiirclv. 
left Serampore. Brother Bifs accompanied them as far 
as the great river, bince his return we have heard- 
of their fafe arrival at Dinagepore. Brother Bifs will 
xoia them as^foon a^permilHon can be obtained*. - They 



GENEHAL LETTER nj. 

ymched aud dtftrubtted traces in their wajr, and the 
people were eaG;cr to hear and read. Thef fpcat adaf 
er two at Cutwa in their way up the country. 

Brother Chamberlain's active exertions afF^rd us 
nmch pleafttre. He has frequently an opportunity iit 
piedchinji; to iarge aflemblies, and is often employed in 
preaching and diflributto^ tr^dh for hours together. ■. 
We hope our brother will loon fee with joy the fruiu of 
his labours at Cutwa. He has baptised the wife of ours 
hrotber Kangaiee. The following is an exttad of hiM^ 
ktcer to us in February* • 

M The laft has been a week of great exertion and 
of great affliction. Some thouimds of people hare 
pafiisd through Cutwa, in their way to (:Iie idol) Jag- 
gcmaat ; amongd whom Kan^lee and I have been 
▼ery much employed in preaching and ditbibuting 
tia^s. Many will acknowledge that they are s;oing 
this long journey for nothing, and yet cannot be diflua- 
ded from it. Lill week fome great people pafled 
through Cutwa, with an elephant and two ho^ fes, a pre-*^ 
fcnt for the ido^. My. W — (a y:>un>^ man of our ac- 
faatntance, whofe heart we hope the Lord hath :ouched):v 
lad myfelf, went to fee them. They oeha/ed with great 
poiitenefs, and converfed with freedon. One was aa 
elderly man, who had feen the fcripcur es^ and profeifed 
to approre of them. 

*' I have not been able to go to the villages around 
Is during the pad week, but have been engai^ed twice a 
day, for feverad h jurt together at the Gunge^ which has . 
much exhaufted my fpirits. La(l evening a number of 
hrahmans, and others, loaded Kangalee and me with 
abufe, and manifefted the greated enmity aflrainft the 
gofpel that I have even feen in the country, ." 

Extrad of a letter from him ia M^|jph.-— '' I io^ 

formed you in my laft that I was going to Keble-eihor. 

Brother Kangalee and I went, and were abfent from . 

.home four days. There was a vad concou: fe of pe* )ple r 

dief heard the word with greatattcation. We were two. 



114, TO THE SOCIETT*. 

days amongft them? and diftributed, I cannot fay hen 
many, pernaps Bve thoufand tradls. Laft Lord's day 
week was a great day among the Hindoos. Few Icfsi 
perhaps more, than twenty thoufand people were at Cut- 
wa, to bathe in Gonga, among whom we were cneaged 
four days without intermiffion. The Gunge peopk who 
h.iTe lately manifcfted much oppofition, tttrtdd np the 
country people againft us, fo that few could l^e per- 
suaded to take papers ; and they that had taken thflDit 
mod returned them. Kangalee was much disconragedf. 
and fo jf^as I : but I endeavoured to encourage him, tel- 
ling him that though they triumphed, yet we ^were not 
conquered. The next day we went out, and gave away 
four bundles of papers, and not a dog moved his tosgpe 
againil us. The people among whom we were to-day* 
were generally intelligent, and could read and write. 
Two or three difputed One in the face of hundreds of^ 
per pie ingcnuoufly confeffed that he was loft ; and that 
he did not know whether he was going, nor the reafons 
•for what he did. This evening, reviewing the work of 
the day, I gave thankb to God with a heart full of joy* 
What a pleafure to be able to preach to a hundred -vil- 
Inecs at oiice, and to proclaim the glad tidings of (ahMr 
tion to thoufands in a day ! The admioili ration of tl^e 
ordinance of baptifm has c^iufed a great fermentation^ 
Numbers are wilhing there may be another foon ; ani 
you will give me credit that in this wi(h I heartily 



concur.*' 



[^Bap. Per. Ace. vol, iii. p. 225*] 



THE MISSIONARIES TO iif 

the Mjffitinaries to Captain Benfamin Wickesfen. 

tIKT DEAR B&OTHBR9 

WE cannot bid you farewell again (perhaps for tbcl' 
Itft time as it respeds fome one^ or more^ or all of us) 
without feeling anew all thofe fen&tions which have 
ix>and 70U to our hearts by no common ties. We know 
what a large intereft we have in your heart, in your pray- 
ers, and in your efforts ; and oh ! dear brother, we are 
Ibre you are in our hearts to* live and to die with you. 
Whatever changes the difpenfations of an all- wise Prov- 
idence may make among us, and to whatever parts of 
die world you may be carried in future voyages, we can*^ 
liiet forget you at a throne of gr^e^ and. wc will cherilb 
die hope of feeing you again and again with frelh car- 
goes 61 miflionaries. 

Think, dear brother, what the king of JTion has dot^ 
(b? tiidia, iince yoa fir ft, in 17991 brought out miffion- 
aries ; not merely by oar means, but m a variety of 
ways : what a progrcfs in the tranflation and diftnbu* 
ifon of the word of God into fo many laqgu^gies fpok^^ 
by fb mftny millions ofmen ; how many thoufands of 
miffionary trads have gone all over Hindooftan, how 
many natives have been baptized, and fome landed fafe 
In glory ; what a broad foundation laid for the future 
extenfion of the gofpel ; ^hat an increafe of miffionary 
ftrength, Epifcopal, Independent, and Baptift, befide 
the number of native itinerants. How emphatically 
true refpecting India, «^ Behold, the nelds are already 
white for the harveft." Let this be acknowledged as a 
conftant and infallible proof that you have not run ia 
vain, neither laboured in vain. 

We are nor infenfible of the many painful ezercifea 
through which your unerring Saviour permits you ta 
pafs. We fympathizs with you very fenfibly : yet we 
know how much ihefe ezcrcifes have flrengthened you* 



si6 CAFT. BENJAMIN WIC^IES, six. 

ud produced in you a rich experience of the deep th 
of God <We pray that your ftrength may be alv 
equal to the day of trial. May the God of all coni 
tion be with you continually ; fupport you under e 
trial ; guide you with his unerring couoleU and fin 
bring you and us, and many Hindoos to his ete 
* kingdom. What a meeting ! what a fight will thai 
r inallyy deared brother, we engage agaia with 
to be the Lor d's» and to give ourfelves, our all to 
fcrvice. We give you this as a token of -our feni< 
the many, very many obligations we Owe you ; of 
entire onenefs of heart which fubfills, and^hich will 
ever fubfift, betwixt us, and of the tender concern wl 
we feel at parting from you. 

We are, dear brother Wickes, 
Your very a£%£lionate brethren and fitters^ 

W. CAREY, M. CAR.KY, 

J. MARSHMAN, H..MARSHMAN, 

W. WARD, . M. WARD. 

R. MARDON, RHODA NlARDOl 

J. BiSS, H. BISS, 

W. MOORE, 

J.CHATER, • ANN CHATER,. 

JOSHUA ROWE, 

WM. ROBINSON. E. ROBINSON, 

FELIX CAREY, 

[Eraii. lat. vol. iii. p. 1 18.3 



Mr. marshman to dr. gre£n nj 

Mr. Marjhman fo the Rev. Dr. Green^ 

Philadelphia. 

RfiTF&FND AND DEAR SIR9 

YOU will be pleafed to hear that the Lord has not 
(brfaken us ; but ftill continues to own sur humble and 
iresik efforts to promote his caufe io this land Wirhia 
ibout twenty months pail we- have baptized nearly fif-- 
ly of thofe who once bowed to dumb idols, the greater 
part of whom, by their walk ai)a converration, afforti us 
a degree of pleafure peculiar, perhaps, to perfons in our 
circumftances. 

We havei alfo, the happinefs of feeing not a few of 
them our helpers in the work of the Lord. Had you 
been prefent this evening you would have felt pleafare 
tf no coro;non kindy while joining with us in giving the 
parting benedi^ion to^x native brethren^ Flying out to 
-carry the n^s of life to their perilhing fellow country- 
men. 

It will be acceptable to the friends of Gcd and man» 
with you, to hear that their generous exertions to for- 
ward the tranflations of the facred fcriptures into the 
Indian languages, are not in vain. The Lord is great- 
ly enlarging us in tliis work| and that in fuch a manner 
as leaves no doubt whether it be his hand or not. The 
New Teftament, xxifive languitges, is now in the prcfs ; 
the Bengalee, Hindoofthanee, the Mahralta, the Orifla, 
and the Sang&kirt languages ; and tranflations in five 
others are going forward fuccessfully. Among thtfc the 
Roodncfs of God refpedking the Chincfe, demands par- 
ticular acknouied^ements (when we consider the num- 
ber of fouls intereltcd) in giving us so able and judi- 
cious a tr-infiator in the perfon of Mr. Lo/Lr, and in 
enabling fome of the younger branches of the family to 
make !o rapid a progrefs in the Chinefe language and 
chara<5lers, as well a^ in the originals of the fcriptures, 
that the n^oft plcafing profpeft i^ RfForded of tlip fic- 



,aift REV. DR. CAREY TO THL 

wti oracle's being one dsjf not only tranfl^ced into that 
cxtraordinarj language, but of thU tranflacion being fo 
fully reTifed, and compared with other writtngt, in the 
langnage^ as Aall remove every doubt of its fidelity 
and accmacy. With the moil cordial regards to oar 
honourable chriflian brethren with you I remaiiii rever^ 
end and dear fir^ ?ery Gncerely your's, 

J. MARSHMAN. 
Seramporty Not. 4, 1806. 

Jkvan. Int« Toliii. p. ij$* 



•••••••••••••.• 



.Revrend Dr. Carey to the Editor of the Mqjf. 
Baptift Miffionary Magazine*^ 

Calcutta. Nov, t. l8c^. 

JfY DEAa BaOTHEEy 

ALLOW me likewKe to obferve, that the cauTe of 
our Redeemer has confiderably gained ground in India* 
yet it would be a very difficult thing to point direffly to 
any one person as the inftrument by which this wr>rk has 
been accomplished ; and as difficult to fay that any 
individual has not been made ufeful, and contributed, 
as an indrument, to the progrefs of the caufe of our 
Redeemer in this part of the world. A goodly number 
of perfons of deiFerent difcriptions have been converted; 
in feveral of them the convictions have been begun 
when they were in folitary (ituations, unacquainted with 
any who made a profeffien of love to God. and in fome 
inOancts, without any apparent means. In others the 
conver£ation of perfons brought to the knowledge of 
the truth, with their relations, neighbours, or acquain- 
tances, has been blefled. In feveral inftances the la* 
hours of our brethren, who have been converted frohi 
heathcnffm, have been blcfled ; and probably, in fome 



EDITOR OF THE MASS. BAP. 1 19 



I9 public preaching has been gracioaflf owned* 
. In whatever way die woik hat been e£Fe^cd» it is evi- 
dent that a very Tifible work has been carried on ; bnc 
it has been graduali its progrdfs is bed c^ reived by com* 
paring the prefent (late of religion with what it was 
fi>me yckrsago. 

When I firft arrived in this country, Nor. ii. *793» 
there was one evangelical miniiier of the church of Eng- 
land in this town» "wio had been here feveral yearf , and 
befideshim, 1 knew of no one who profefled to love 
God, except myfelf and my colleague, Mr. Thomas. X 
have« however, reafon to believe that there might then 
be about half a dozen more in different parts, of die coun- 
try. I and my colleague removed to a great dlft.ince 
up the cciuntry, where 1 had to (hidy the language, and 
where we publifhcd the gofpel to the inhabit anri iround . 
Iknnetimes we had hopes concerning feveral perfons, but 
whether any were really converted i$ to this day a very 
doubtful thing. 

At the- perfentdme, hdwever, through the fmiles of 
our gracious God, things wear a different afpedl.- Be- 
fides fix evangelical clergymen of the church of England^ 
and two Presbyterians, or Independent miniflers ; there 
are nine itations occupied (or about to be occupied) by 
Baptift minifters in this Presidency, and five churches 
conftituted, in connexion with our miillpR, befides die 
church and miffion ftation at Rangoon in the fiurman 
empire. 

When I firft arrived, there was no tranflation of the 
J^ible in any of the Indian languages, except the Tamul, 
fpoken from Madras to the fouthern extremity ot the 
peninfula. The whole of the Holy Scriptures is now 
jiubliflied in the Bengalee language; the whole New 
'feftament, and third volume of the Old Tedanicnt 
:( Job— Canticles) in the Oriffa language ; and the whole 
^ew Teftament in Sungskrit. Btfftdes dast the prindng 



>^o MISSIONARY MAOAZINE. 

o^the prophetical books in Ooriffi kbe^n ; the %nntii* 
^in is printed tp the 25th. of Lxoaus; the New Tctui- 
iiicrnt, to the 8th. chapter of Konans in Himiooftbaiineet 
ixi-ii (o ihe end .** John's gofpel in Mahratta 1 and a be* 
gmriifig of printing the Gujeratteet the language of the 
^et•ks »nd the Chine fe has been made. The wkble New 
'i'*'^ n:ent, and part of the Old is tranflated into the 
Telinga and Kurnata languages ( but the printing ouft 
be uv:.<iycJ, till we can get types cad for them, .ri tranf- 
I'jtlon oi the New I'elUmenc is alfo begun in the Burman 
Imgna^e, to which we hope foon to add that of Thi- 
bet. 

In CaUutta, the Lord has enabled us to ert€t a decent 
place ot worlhip 70 ieet fquarey including a portico in 
Iront. vhich, however, occupies nearly half of it. The 
congregation is ab<>ut 1 $0 perfons. Thofe who are in 
church fcllowibip and partake of the Lord's fupper* are 
about 50 ; and i ttuft the Hie of religion is felt among 
them. Our brother Kriihio» a Hindoo mini fter^ preach* 
es nearly every day in the week at one part or other of 
the town. He is much refpedted by his brethren, and 
owned of God. The church at Serampore is one with 
that at CalLUjLta ; but I am not able to recolledl the num- 
ber. Brother Chamberlain is with the church at Cut- 
wa. He lately baptized. 24 foldiers, belonging to one 
European regiment, Rationed in the neighbourhood of 
that place. Brother C. Carapeit Aratoon, an Armeni* 
an, called to the niiniftry by the church at Calcutta, is 
fettled with the church in Jelfore. He lately baptized 
four perfons. llie church confiiis of ij or 16 perfons. 
Brother Mardon is with a fmall church at Goamalte, 
wheie he has baptized four or five perfons. Brother 
Fernandez is with the church at Dinagtpore. He lato> 
-ly baptized icur perfons. The chutch cpnfifts of iq or 
iz members. My fecondfon Wiilian^ Carey, is fettled 




THE LONDON MlSStON#\RY SOCIETY, wi 

Itt Stdemehly a few miles north of Dinai^epore. • Broth- 
er RobinfoQ h»s left Serampore to begin a mifllon to 
B6at!Hi and Thibet ; Brother Moore to fet up a llation 
ne^r P^itna; andia a few days. Brother j 'ha Peter, art 
Armenian) called to the mini'lry by the diurch at Giil- 
^tftta, will have this for Ooriir*, where he will labour to 
be^'n anew mflion. Brother Ch iter and my cldcll Tor^, 
Felix Carey, are fettled in the midlon to Rangoon in 
the Barman empire, where there 19 a pleafing opeain;^ 
for rhem. 

TJiey are flodying the language, and have begun to 
preach to the Burmms. 

ThU is a ft.jrl fketch of th; pref^^nt flAte of the work 
of God amcin> m. Onrtr^f^xriTr: ic, I am cmli 1 aincd 
to rejoice in whit the Lord hAi wroughtt u vi to iru t 
him to cirry o.i his wjrk to a gr,?Hter extent . 

I truH you will aUb join in our r'ij dicing i, . ani all 
to it your prayers, that ths infmt ciufe in In Jia m ly b>; 
foilered by the j^raoious care of God, till a little oiid be- 
come a ihoufand, and a fmill one a great nattoai 
Accept my affarancesy that £ ant, 
, aficAionatdy yours, 

W. Carey. 



TJje London Mifftonary Society. 

THIS society wasinftituted in the year 179 J ; which 
may be conlidered an important era in the hiftory t)f 
modern miHIonf. At the firft meeting of the society 
two hundred minifters, of dtffierent denominations, met 
together, and wlt& unanimi' 7 'esplvedv «* to lend mifli- 
onaries to Otaheite, or some other of the Sduth-Sca 



i.^ NEW MI^6tONS. 

Iflandt ; lind thmt, tts soon aspoflil]fe»a.iniffifni^ftofld 
br attempted to the coaft of Africa, or to Tautarf, by 
Aflracan ; or to Surat on the Malabar coaft^ or CO'tbe 
Idand ofSuaiatra\ orto tbt Pelew Iflands, as proTidence. 
might dirca." 

These exertions of the societ)r hare been made inftm* 
mental to rouse many to a spirit of competition for the 
extension of the bleffiugs of the Gofpel. ,Sinc<i the 
society was organized it has received great ai&ftasce 
from the public : in 1 796 its fuads amoantod to near 
twelve thousand pounds. This 7«ar. the society pur- 
chased the (hip Duff^ on board of which, in Anguftt ^9. 
miffionaries embarked for the Iflands in the soAh seas. 
Nineteen of them were left at Otahoitey nine at'Ttega-^ 
taboo, and one at Marquesak In the following Augnffi 
L797, fix other miffionaries were sent to the Fomifli 
country in Africa. In December following^ tyg?*. 
feveral others were sent out, who were taken by' a 
Ffench privateer and never reached the place of tlieir 
detlination. This year eleven of the miffionaries left 
Otaheite and went to New Holland ; the society also sent 
Mr Ktchercr, DoctOi' Venderkemp^ Mr. Sdmund, «id 
Mr. Kd^rardSi to the Cape of Good Hope. 

£van. Int. vol. i. p^ tji 



New MtJJions. 
INDIA. 

TH£ Directors had repeatedly announced ihieir eg^ ( 
aeft dejires. to <cnd to die deluded Millions of AAa itie^ I 
giad tidings of the glorions Grofpe)| whtnever the Piov- 
Uencc of God fliouid open a way, and furnift fuitable 



L . 



MEW Mi8SI0>rs. uj 

•MiiSottariet for fack impormt ftationt in ;^und ia 
that hiji^y ciTiUzcd part of tfaglobe i the period fee en- 
. Mimupoo this iatefefta)g,fer?ice at length ^arrived. 
. Hears. RbgcUanbCy CraOt and Des Granges were ap- 
poiated to a miflion on the Cproznandel coaft. Mr. K* 
18 a natitre of Pruffia, who had ialready paiTed ^ (hort 
time in India^ and has fince held hU principal intercoarfe 
with the United Brethren io Europe. Meflrs. C .and D. 
vere about two. years in the Society's feminary at Gof- 
.port* .Thefe Brethren axrived at -Tranquebar, in, the 
month. ol Dec, 1804* in company with t^ie Rev. Mr. 
. Vos, and Mr. Ehrhardtt deftined for Ceylon.- In the 
inftnidions given to them by the Diredors, they were 
reccrmmended to form one Mtffionary ftation only, and 
;tO ad together. They werenot* however, (0. entirely 
limited to this point, as to be deprived of" the privilege 
of judging and determining other wife, if it flioud ap- 
pear to them necefl&ry, in order to promotemnre exten- 
fively the interefl^s of the great caoi^ committed to the)[r 
hands. . After much deliberatton'and prayer, the Breth- 
ren Cran and Des Granges wgre inclined, foy various 
reafons, to remove from rranquebar to Mac^as* wich 
which Mr. Ringeltaube acquiefced, and, in M^rch i .805 
they failed for Madras. On tlieir arrival they were re* 
eived in a meft affedionate manner by perfons filling 
fefped:able ftations in life. By the advice of their friends 
they were induced to fix upon a ftation in the Northern 
Cijrcars, at Vizagapatam." 

Mr. Ringeltaube has entered on a MiiSoii inth^- Tnfl' 
cycUy Country, fixing his rcSdcnce at Falamcotta. The 
DireAors have authorized him to engage Mr. Wheatly, 
a perfon recommended by Mr, R. as an affiftant in the 
Alifiion, and have alfo placed at his difpofal a fum of 
snooey tor the purpofe of engaging fuitable Catechifts^ 
or to adopt fochotker meafiires as may appear beft cal- 



tzf VOLW MlSSiOKS. 

• • • • 

cnlated to advioce the Redecmsr't intercft in- tfiat d»- 
trid. 

In Jan. liloy, Mr. ,^lm Gordon, nd Mr. WiDiam^ 
Leci late ftndenti aftidie ftinniary» with thehr wiTei, fiuU 
6d In an American ikip, with a yicw of joining the Sredi- 
ictt at ViiagapatMU. 

Ceylon. 

The attention of the Society was long fixed on thts 
ftation. It was ftrongly recommended to their notice^ 
hr the late hi^y efteemed Mifiionary, the Rev. Mr. 
GeriGke,asanob|ed(^the firft magaltnde: he repre- 
lentedy that the natives bearing, the Chriftian name a* 
aaonnted to 100,000, and had been for fereral years d^. 
tilttte of religioas inftm^on, and were £sift relapfing in- 
to aftjite of heathenifm. The Direfion having oeter* 
mined en a Miffion to this i(Euid, inrited the Rev. C 
Tds to fnperintend it (. his eminent piety and tried qoalt- 
fications, pointed him ont as a fit perfim for this wprk». 
Mr Erhardt and Mr. Palm« two German Brethren, ^o 
(En died at the Bliffionary Seminary at Berlin, were ap» 
poined to affift in this Miffion. Mr and Mrs. Vos, and . 
Mr.Ehthardt, with William Read, who accompained 
diem from the Cape of Good Hope by the defire of Mr. 
Vos arrived at Ceylon in Jan. 1805. Mr. and Mrs. 
Palm having been detained at Copenhagen, arrived in 
jtt ly f oUow mg. The liberality of government provider 
mpart forttgi \ypo i >of c as h ^ Tiiefe- M i Pi"^ , ?ri est 

Surat.' 



i» — 



A memoir having been preiented by one oTthe Dire£l- 

crs, who had been fepeate<Uy in India, recommending to 

the atccQCion of the Society the popnloas city of Snrat^ 

Oil the northern part of the eaiiern coaft of India, above 



*.. 



NEW MISSIO^fB. rz; 



Bcmibay ; the Dirdftbrt were fo' fully eoiiTinced of (he 

eligibility of this ttatioD» that they, iin mediately took the 

. fubjeft into confideratioxii and determined on a Miffign. 

Mr. Taylofy a ftudent, who had been for federal years 

• under the care tiS the Society: firft at Edinburg, and af- 
terwards at Gofport, appeared to the Diredtors a fuital^ 

. perfcm to be employed iti this important fervice> having 
- acquired a confiderable (hare of medical knowledgCy and 
: obuined the degree of dodor of medicine. Mr. Taylor^. 
' and Mr. Lovelefs, another ftudent, whofe piety and tern- 

• per pointed him out as well adapted ta.th^ Cime <>.ation» 
werefolemnly fet apart to Miffionary work in 1804, and 
fboQ after embarked in an American veflel for Ijeii;;al. 
They arrived at Madras in Jane, 1805. Dr. Taylor vif. 
ited the Bapiift Midionaries at Serampore, in order to 
profit by their knowledge and experience in the Miffion- 

- ary work, from whom he received the nioft cordial and 
affie^ionate attention ; and after vifitin^ other places in 
India to obuin fuch information as might be ufeftd to 
the Society, proceeded to the place of his deftination is 

• Auguft, 1806, leaving Mr. Lovelefs to preach in the 
Black-Town at Madras, at the exprefsdefire oJFthefriends' 
in that city, fo long as he can be fpared from the f^ffion^. 
er until he is replaced by a fuitable MifEoaary from £a-. 
topc^ 

China. 

The immenfe pc»pnlation of China, and the deplora* 
ble darknefs by which it is enveloped, render a Miflionary 
undertaking to that vaft empire an objedl of unequaJled; 
magnitude and importance. This confideration indu- 
ced the t}iredors to refolve on attempting the tranda- 
tionof the Holy ScrtptureS'into the Chinefe laBgnage, 



126 W. T. RINGELTAVBE'S 

at a meafure preparatcny to the introdaftioii of a 
fion to that empire. 

Mr. Robert Morrisony an accepted M iffionai7» havinff 
been deemed a fuitable peribn for this fta^ion* his ftao- 
iest under the Rev. Mr. Bogue, were direfted t# apre- 
.paratt(^n for fo important an undertaking. He waial- 
Co for r. confiderable time aflifted in X^nidoD by YoDg 
S^m lak) a native ofChina, whom the Society engi^- 
ed for this purpofe, in learning the Cbincfe language ; 
and in tranfcribing a Harmony of the go<f>eli» and ouer 

§art<iof the New TeRim^ent, from a manttfcript copy in 
le Britifn Mufcum. Mr Mbrrifon't ftudiet were like* 
wife direded to the mHthematics, and aftronomy^ under 
afufuble tutor ; and he alfo attended on the leduret at 
tlie Royal Inftitutton This courfe of ftudies was deter- 
mined upon> in corfequence of fome valuable informa- 
tion the Diredors received from a very inteligent and re* 
fpedtable perfon who had refided fome time at MacaOi 
and who appears to be well acquainted with the difpofi- 
tipns and manners of the Chinefe. Mr. Monifon embar- 
ked in January > 1 9ojf with the intention of proceeding to 
Canton. 

Mifs* Trans, vol iii p. 4^. 



ExiraS of a Letter from ike Mijjionary^ Brother 
W. T. Ringeltaubey to the Treasurer of tie 
Miffionary Society 



Tranquebar, Jan. 29 » xSbj.. 

Dear Sir^ 

ON the 1 2th of December, 1804 ; I had the pleafare 
of fending you a few lines, via Bengal, in which I men- 
tioned our fafe arrival at this place, Dec. 6. Since this 



?j -r .'. . « 



Imf V6(i hitf \tixii ittn^red to anoUm wbrldi mi tBe 
Brethren d^ftined for Cejlon had fet fail. 

Xamnow diabled to give you a pretty exad accoant 
cif the ftate of matters here« and I am happy to thinlk« 
ll»l^ it wm a£fbrd you fome fatisfadion. You will nat- 
txMj, a&, what have the Old Mtffionaries e£Feded ^ 
'Banfirertiniich every way. 

''- Twaire what they' have done with regard to Europe- 
ant and Pbrtuguese in the country ; and confine myfelf 
' to their labours among the M alabars. They have print*^ 
ed two editions of the Scriptures , of which the Madras 
tranilation by lit Fabricins, has the preference^ for b^- 
ixlg the more inteligible. Excelleift coiledHons of Hymhs> 
Catechifmsy EztraAs &om rhe word of God ; Religious 
Trads the growth of Indian foil ; Tranflations of Amdt» 
Kempis, BunyaU) lefs calculated to meet the ideas of an. 
£afi Indian^ and therefore lefs known ; Grammars, Dic- 
tionaries, and fpelling- Books, have fucceeded the Bible* 
Many good Schools have been eftablifliedy and if the 
country^ of Tanjpre is not entirely covered witlv them ac» 
cording to a plan laid down by Dr. John, nothing has. 
prevented, humanly fpeaking, the completion of fosobd 
a work, but the unieafonable removal of the late CoUed* 
or. The plan, however, feems not to be entireljp^^fruf 
trated, and it may be, that your Miffionaries will be cal- 
led upon to take an a^ive (hare in it, if willing to be 
thus engaged. Finally, Congregations of Chriftians 
both fmall and great have been gathered in different 
parts ; being under the care of European Miffiiemaries, 
or Country Prtefts, and in ail thefe congregations Divine 
Truth is taught ; its power frequently felt, and its pre- 
cepts followed. The very Heathen have acquired aa 
historical knowledge of the outlines of the Gofpel ; allow 
the fuperiority of our religion, and iecretly defpife, and 
negle^ their own way of worfliij>. Were it not for the 



I 

42% W. ^T/ RINO ALTAUBE^S 

. rich endowments-of the temples of Satan, they wtald, | 
by this timcy have crumbled into the duft» as fome fmftl* \ 
ler ones have done already. It is a faft, that their facri- -. 
fices are at prefent much more fcaaty than formerly*. 

If -the mtflinnaries have not done more, itisbecaufe i 
they are too few in number, and alfd becaufe they wre too : 
flenderly fupported by faitable men and pecaniary fup- ' 
plies from home. Ocherwife,no doubt, a greater nam- ^ 

; ber of Country Priefts might be employed ; every one i 
of whom receives a monthly falary of 5, or 6 flar pa^- ^ 
das, and cannot do with lefs- if he has a family. It, is « 
true their refources are confiderable in valuable grounds [ 
and buildings raifed with European money. Bcfides : 
their falaries and emoluments, the Miffionaries pofTefs -i 
confiderable legacies* left by two of their Brothren, 
whom the Lord had blefled with temporal wealth. But , 
notwithftanding thefe helps, tlieir plan, as long aj it is j 
confined to the prefent means, admits of no farther ex- . 
tenfion.— Whether your Miffionaries will be capable of 
managing the concerns of the Kingdom of Chrift on a 
auure frugal plan^ is a problem which nothing but ezpe- 
rienct can foive. 

But I muft (horten my remarks oh this fubjeAf and '. 
Uiei^fore beg leave to wav» fome obfervations on the 3^* 
parent plans of the miflion. The moft prominent feem < 
to be, the want of a good Church difciplinet and Chrift- 
ian fcllowfliip amiiig ths believers ^ too great apropor- 
tion of Preachers that are ftrangert to die energy 01 the 
Gofpel ; and laiUy, too ftriS an adherence to the modes 

. of an eftabiiihment. Notwithftanding t^is, the Old 
Miffion is a noble fabric, whether confident in itfelf,or 
as a* ground- work^for k future fuperftrudure. Dr. John 
iays, very properly, in my opinion, that the Gofpel v^ 
not more fecurely eftabliflied at Rome after an hundred 
years preaching, than it it now in India. But this ftc* 
hit building is at prefent nearly at a fland for vraat of 



^ 



LEfTER. i^ 

tondfl. In ten years hence not one of the prefent Mif- 
jQonaries may be alive, in all human probability. The 
Old Society 9 in London, I underfiand, have given direc- 
tions to that great Chriftian Philosopher, De Liic, at 
Gottingen to look out for Miifionanes, and you^ ai well 
as we, (ball rejoice if he finds any ; let us pray that he 
may. The numerous congregations in the i>outh, raif** 
ed by Father Gericke, previous to his death, congrega- 
tions, which perfecution could not (hake* begin already 
to d ifperfe for want of a Shepherd. Thcfe cheifly call 
for your and our attention, and all the Miflionaries here, 
even our adverfaries in the Gofpel, urge them upon our 
iDofrimraediate notice. 

Here 1 ihouid 'bring in a defcription of our fituation 
hi this country ; but it would be wafting time^ as you 
know all that is favourable ; from our letter to the Di- 
reftors, as well as from thatof thetwo Brethren, C. andD. 
G.tomey which 1 take the libertytoenclofe, you will 
learn that fome favourable appearances at Madras buoy 
up their minds with a lively hope, that much may be 
done there which coidd not be done here, and that ac* 
cording to our written inftru^ions, they would not have 
coniidered themfelvcs as doing their duty if they had 
not gone hither. As foon as I- am fufficiently advan- 
ced in the language, I mean to proceed to the Southward, 
if tbe Lord please, kqowing of what importance for 
our Society it is, that we (hould meet with a fpeedy 
fuccess ; and there, behold the fields are white for the 
harveft. 1 could add many reasons for inducing me to 
ftay (during my preparatory season) at this place, and 
all I requeli is, thati if the Madras Mifiion turns out 
well, the two younger Brethren ihguld have all the 
praise. 

I submit to your wisdom, whether Tranquebar 
would not be an advantageous maritime Ration (such 
a one wemuft have for n>rwarding letters, remittan- 
ces, &c.) amd for preparing young nvSosariee. 



Xio LETTER. 

I 

It is a healthy, cheap, qniet place, where ^ 
Hotli'.ncc; will diflraA their SLXtt.nxion from their 
lluJics ; wheic they will meet with real friends 
3n nil the persons attached to tlie Miflion ; where Ger- 
man Br«;thren {md tome German Brethren at leaft yoti 
ihouid from time to time send out) wiU find teacl^erf 
willing and able to inltru^ theni to their advantage 
from the purefc motives ; and ^otn whence finally they 
will have an easy accefs to any part of the Country 
where the Tamul is fpoken. In case you approve of 
my views, pleafe to write two letters. No. i, to Count 
de Schimelman, Minifter to the King of Denmai k, and 
Frefident to the Board of Coloniel Trade. No. 2^ 
a letter to BifliepBalle, a Bi(hop worthy of his name 
and rank in the Church of Chrift, and head of the 
MiiConary Board at Copenhagen, fignifying your in- 
tentions and intreating their fanction. . 

Thirdly, I also suggeft, that without delay you (honld 
think of fending out more Mifli^naries hither ; and I 
would entreat you would be pleased to send me the 
two Brethren Wiefinger, and Zwar, from Berlin ; but 
never send a Miflionary here that is paft thirty ytars 
of age » except he (hcnld be a scholar. Tota^ and able men 
are requifite in this country. Yon might pat the two 
above mentioned Brethren for a year or two in Mr. 
Bogue's excellent Seminary. What he has effe^ed in 
teaching others, fills me with high efteem for him* Ber- 
lin mayfurniih fuitable Miffionanes for Hottentots and 
CafFrees* but the civilized natives of India, require men 
of liberal education, and general knowledge. An ac- 
quaintance with Botany, Mineralogy, &c- will recom- 
m<:^nd them highly in this country # 

Please to remember us all in yonr prayersy and presect 
my belt relpcvts to ail the i>iicao.'», c^ptciaiiy jJr. 
Baweis ; Mr. Cowie ; Rev. Messrs. Burder, Townsend • 
aoA. family ; McHrs. Waugh, Rowland HiU| Mr. Buck 




A LETTJER, i4i 

and all others who were pleased to take notice of me. 
A flu rc them of my dcvotednefs to our common caasci 

I Remain 5cc, 

W. T. RINGEi?rAOIiE. 
Mtss. Trans, vol. it. p. 4<»5' 



cc 



The Miffionaries at Serampore to Mejfrs. Crah 

and Desgranges. 

" VERY DEAR BRETHREN^ 

*< FEW letters have given us more pleafure than 
- that with which we have been favoured by you. We 
congratulate you on your fafe arrival in this country \ 
and defire to thank our gracious Lord, that he has in- 
clined you thus to devote your lives to his fervice, and 
. fafely brought you hither. We. truft that he will now 
: go before you, and dired^ your way in fuch a manner as 
fliall advance his glory and fecure the convex fion of mul- 
titudes amofig thefe poor benighted heathen. 

**We accept with the mod fincere pleafure your friend- 
ly oflPer of correfpondence, and pray God that it m^y 
• be a means of ftrengthcning each other's hands in lbs 
Lord, Your chriflian franknefs in thus feeking a cor- 
refpondence with us, ezcives in our minds the pleafing 
hope, that no difference of opinion refpedling any of the 
ordinances of the Gofpel will be permitted to interrupt 
our chriftian union and fellowlhip. We humbly hope 
that notliing of this kind will ever arifc on our part, and 
beg you to be aflurcd, that your affedion is returned by 
«8 in an equal degree. We intreat then, very dear Brtth. 
r^ that yon will write in the moft frank and unrcfiwv; 

M 



132 IXT. ERCM 7 HE JOUR. OF I^IeSSRS. 

cd n anner, and permit us to partfcipate in your joys and 
>' ur iciiows, that by nnutual fyznpathy and mutual 
u r.nf;'., vc may animate each other in the work of the 
1 Old, We carneftly rcqueft an intereft in your prayers. 
'.' he houikfrom fcven to eighty every Tuefday-moming 
ve dedicate to ibcial fupplicati'on on behalf of thehea- 
ihrri it. India. Shculd it be fuitable and agreeable to 
c tdicate tbi^ portion of time to the fame purpofe» the rc- 
col.edion tl)at we are joined by dear Brethren in the 
fame c: ercife and at the fame inCiant (though Providence 
denies us the enjoyment of their bodily prefence) may 
ofitn ferve (o revive our fpirits and animate our hope. 
The cpiUle ^ith which we have been favoured by your 
Society, we coniider at a irefli proof of their cnriRian. 
candor towards us. We cannot but hope that the Lotd 
is on his way to fubdue to himfelf not only the heathen 
in India, but all the nations now groaning under the ty-^ 
ranny of Satan- May it be granted to you. and to us 
fpeedily to behold his victories in the land. Amidft 
(he difcouragen)ents, with which we muft unavoidably 
meet, let us recolledl, that He who is aU-fufficient \% m^ 
finitely more iiiterefted in the work than we are. That 
his prefence may be conftantly with you is the carneft' 
prayer of, dear Brethren, yours in our common Lord* 
Marjch icthy 1 805. 

(Signed by all the Mifiionarles. **) 

Mifs. Trans, vol. ii. p. 3^ 



'' Extract from the Journal of Meffrs. Cran and 

Defgranges. 

WE cannot dcfe this journal, dear fathers and brtth- 

en, without laying before you the importance of th^&t- 

nation in which we are f laced, and earneftly intreating 



CilAN AND DESGHlMGEiS. 13^ 

you to fen J put more Miffionaries to afli'l us. Tn the 
town whsre we refide, there are above twenty thourmi 
inhabitants perifliing for lick of knowhd^^e. Within a 
few miles of us on all (idi^s, there are nuinbers of large 
vUlagtes where thoufands of I.cah2n8li/e in the groJT-il 
idolatr^i and who claim our pity and c >nip<i(Ii«)n. This " 
place is nearly central, which makes i- moft fivouribis 
fc>r branching out into any part of the Circars. We 
have hundreds of miles ri.^ht and left of is, where we miy 
laboor with freedom. Being on the cr.i(}, and coatin- 
ually cooled by the f^a breeze, mikes this city a (.il'i- 
fafiious ftation for Miffionaries on theil* firll entrance in- 
to the country. A European goia^ i 1:0 taj i;itcri'»r 
of India, immediately after his arrival is liicily to have 
his conftitution impaired ; but by having the m^lTi-iniry 
elation on the coall:, they will neceflanly be detained 
there a year or more in learning the language, wh ch 
wiU tend to inure them to the climate, without endm-. 
gering their health. While they are attaining the lan- 
guage, they may alfo be very ufeful by preachinnj in 
Engiilh, teaching fchools, and other mifTionary empl )y- 
mentSy which will relieve thofc Miflionaries, who h ive 
attained the language, and enable them to itinerate 
through the whole or the Circars ; a^fo at Hydrabad, 
Golconda, and Bengalore, where the Telinga language 
is fpoken. This fpot is not lefs favourable for entering 
the Cattack. and M ahratta countries. We underltand 
that there is but little difference in the languages. The 
Mahratta country appears to its a mod important Held 
for miflionary exertions. On this account we rejofcc 
ti\at a miifion is about to be eftablilhed at Surat. Our 
oppoiite fituations will afford an opportunity for M'flion- 
aries 'being fent from both (lations into the Mahratta 
country. Thefe may meet each other in the center and 
bid God fpeed : it is not many days journey from hence. 
" Glorious things arc fpoken of the city of God.. 
Zion ihall break forth on the right hand and on the 



,34 £Xr. FROMTHE JOUR. Sec 

left." When we read the animating profpeiSs prcfent- 
td to us in the facred Scriptures, of the whole world be> 
coming fLbje^ts of Chrifl's king;dom, we are fure that 
we are not (Iraitened in God ; and therefore, it would 
be fmful to be ftraitened m our ownfouls. We are aware 
^atthe conyerfion of the people, in the extend ve coun- 
tries we hope to traverfe, will not be the work of a day, 
but of years: to accofieplifh a work of years the Mis- 
fionary fociety was founded ; and we doubt not, if pref- 
cnt advantages be embraced with fufficient energy, that 
many of its members will live to fee the bleffed day when 
the Sun of Righteoufncfs (hall (hine with fuch refulgent 
glory on the millions of inhabitants of India, as wholly 
to difpel the dark clouds of idolatry, which at prefent 
over (h ado w them, to diflfufe amon^ them an unfpeaka- 
ble meafure of the light of the glorious gcfpel. But 
more MiUionciries are wanted : our number is fmall* 
While we are *aying the foundation, we truft our friends 
in England will not delay to fend out numbers to raife 
ifhe fuperftructure of a work, in the accomplininitnt of 
whith God the Father, our Saviour, the Ho'y Spirit, 
and all who bear the image of God, are fo deeply inter- 
eded. Would to God that all the minifters in our na« 
tive country, the (ludents at the different I'eminaries, 
and the reh'giuus public, could fee what we fee, ar.d hear 
what w« hear. £very man they beheld bowing to a 
ftock of wood or (lone, would be an argument to come 
over to India and help us. The horrid notfe of thou* 
fanJs of idolaters at the celebration of their feftivals, 
would f:)und like thunder in their eirs. ** H;^fte,hafte 
to the help of the Lord againd the mighty." And 
t'iofe who cou]'5 not themfelves come, vould have the 
liuml er and aidcair of thtir addicflcs to the thrcne of_ 
grace mcreafcd an hundred fold. 

" Not doubting lut your zeal for the glory f f God 
will actuate you to take our fitaation io£o your mpft fe- 
rious confid^ratton, and to fend out more labourers into 



MR. PALM TO TO THE SOCIETY^, ijy 

this proroifing harvcft ; We, with the greateft pleafure, 
dear Fathers and Brethren, fubfcribe ourfelves your very 
fincere» very a£Fecttonate Brethren, and fellow -labour- 
ers in Chiift, 

" GEORGE CR AN, 
« AUGUSTUS DESGRANGES. 
* Mifs. Trans, vol. ii. p. 402 



Mr. Palm to the Society. 

Jaffnapatnam^ Feb 26, ]8o6. 

WORTHY BRETHREN IN OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, 

THE former letters v/ritten to you from the Cape of 
Good Hoge, as alfo from Tranquebar, I hope you have 
received ; I have now the happiiufs to inform you oF 
my arrival at Jaffna, the place of my deftlnation. On 
the 2 id of July we arrived, where his Excellency Gover- 
nor Nortli had appointed us t& relide, and began our 
Miilionary work. 

Without lofs of time we had began the (ludy of the. 
Malabar language at Tranquebar, andrefumed ic agaiur 
fince our gracious Lord has brought us to the long 
wifhed for place of our deftination. . By ths blcflfing ot\ 
Gbdy I am advaficed fo far in the Malabar, as to begin, 
to fpeak it a little ; and I am able to exercife myfelf in 
converfing with fome chiJldren, by way of catechi-iingi 
This method I find very advantageous. 

Asfoon as we are more p^rfedl in this language, it- 
is our intention to proceed further, into the inieribr of 
the ifland j either in the diftri^il: of Jaffna or in the VV^an- 
ny, which is bin the borders of the C ingakze country, 
in order to be is&tlrely amongft the, HetUuns. We are, 
indeed, already'fuirrounded, with native, a well ns hi:p-. 
tjzed Heathens ; hue they have become mor^ Ar\}l more 
depraved, fmce a new Heathen temple (hall a viile froiij^ 
Jaffaapatnam) has been built by a rich M.tlabar named; 

Ml "^ 



i3(J MR FALM TO THE SOCIETY. 

WiteHng, ^'ho hasfpent many thoufands of Rix doUatt 
on it, and has there every day mufic, daacing, and Ring- 
ing ; and alfo maintains a great many people and priei^Sf 
both mile and fe:males who belong to this temple.-i- 
This is a great allurement for thefe people, who arc (b 
wrapt up in this difgraceful folly, that .they will not hear 
of another religion, particularly as the Chridian religion 
was formerly promoted amongd them in fuch a manner, 
that they were obliged to adopt baptifm, and were forced 
to piy for th:it as well as marriage, &c. to the Dutch 
minifters ; this they did not like, and as they never learn- 
ed- (he value of the Gofpel, it is very natural that in 
their hearts they ibould Ilill remain Heathen?, I have 
twice travelled in this diilndl of Jaffna, about fix or fev- 
en Dutch miles, to look for a place for fixing a MifEon- 
ary St.ition ; by this opportunity I fpokc with the na- 
tives about our holy religion, particularly of tlic differ- 
ence between true and nominal Chridians. The Mani' 
kar, or captain of a village, feemed to be a fenfible man 
andfaid iftfiey were inflru^ed in the Chriftian religion, 
they Ihould think thcmfelves happy ; but they hid al« 
ways had to pay money to the Dutch priefts, and not 
only to them, hut alfo to others, who they brought with 
thc3a ; and added, that their fchoolmafter taught them 
only fome quelUons and anfwers, without explaining 
them, and then inftrudled the children to read a little 
Malabar, for which they pay fo much money » and for 
everything elfe they wanted ; and that all this was a' 
hard burden to them. I told them by an interpreter, 
that I would not do fo ; but that my intention was to 
teach them the way of falvation, out of love to my Re- 
deemer Jefus Chrift ; and but of love to their fouls which 
are dear to him, for that he fhed his blood£pr the fins 
of the world ; and it is his divine will too^lare thi«, 
thit they auy become partakers of his great falvation. 
I feel mii:h love for this people, and I perceive that they 
4re well inclined to m: ; they brought fo.^ls, eggs^ milk^ 
bnttcr, aai fruiis. o£ whick [ took as much as v ^4nteiL 



k 



MR. PALM TO THE SOCIETY, ijj 

and paid for them ; the reft [ returned, and thaoked 
them for their kinduef^, aiTurmg them that I wos-fullf 
fati&fied and contented. I then left them with my hesrf; 
affe<5led, and praying that the Lord might blefs the 
mean&y and turn them from darknefs to light, and from 
the power of Satan unto God's dear Son. 

Since we have been at Jaffhapatnam learning the Mal- 
abar language, we have^ endeavoured to be ufefbl, by 
the affiflaace of God, to the Chriftians, as much ai our 
tim.e and abilities u'ould afford. On Sabbath-days £ 
preach in the. Dutch church, once for the Dutch, and 
another Sabbath day for the German Chrillians. Every 
Tuefday-cvening, I keep a meeting in Dutch^ when the 
Chriilians in great number attend ; and every Wednes^ 
day I have catechizing with children ; and this is a great 
bleding to my own heart, as I experience the divine -aC- 
iii^ance ; and the defire of the people is that they may 
hear the word of God, and be faved. Every firil Mon-» 
day in the mtmth, we keep the MiflSonary Prayer-meet- 
ing ; the people aif'> attend in great numbers, audit is 
accompained with a particular bUffirtg — They ackaowl- 
edge their great negle«5t, in ihat as ChrilVtans they hith- 
erto have not fo done their duty, as to edify the Heathen, 
who furround them. 

Mrs. Palm keeps a meeting every Thurfday, in com- 
pany with fome ladies and feveral female friends ; they 
read and confer together, and oa Sundays fhe has a cate* 
chizing for children of her own fex, relative to the His- 
tory of the Bible. This is, befides the (ludy of tlie Mal- 
abar lano;Ciage, our delightful occupation— may God 
fo blefs hiis word, that many may with us, become par- 
takers of that eternal falration, merited by our dear 
Lord Jefus Chrift. ' 

Mifs. Trans. toI. ii. p. 455 



ijS EXT. tmoMTHB REPORT of the DIRECT. 

Extrad f rom the Report (f the Direihrsi 

IN our laft report, it was mentioned that Mr. R^"- 
gletaube, who had re£ded chiefiy at Tranquehar, in or- 
der to attain a competent knowledge of the Tamoul 
language^ had, after much deliberation^ and iarneft 
prayer for divine guidance, concluded to go to the king-^ 
dom of Trivancore, and the Tine velly: country, forming; 
the f«uth wellern extremity of the peninfula ; with a 
Tiew to help the deftitute congregations t>{ nominal 
Chridians in that territory, as well as to attempt ta. 
diffuse the knowledge of falyation among their heathen 
neighbours. 

For the laft fix months, he had been preaching Chxiit 
to multitudes in an Indian tongue ; had traTeUed up« 
wards of a thoufand miles> from congregation to congre- 
gation ; and baptized many adults, befides the children 
of proftffing parents ; made a journey through Travan- 
core and Cochin ; ar.d with much difficulty obtained, 
through the help of am Englifbi officer of rank, permif- 
fion from the king of Travancore, to introduce chrifttan- 
ity into his capital and dominions. He had two young 
men under him> whom he was training for preaching 
the gofpel, with the mod pleafing profpeds of their future 
ufcralnefs ; and, upon the whole, he writes that «* he had^ 
•* reafon to blefs the Lord of the harveft that he had gra- 
" cioully owned his feeble labours/* He propofes to 
the fociety to build a church, with a dwelling house at. 
Trayancore, the ezpenfe of which he eftimates at only 
looA fo plentiful are materials, and fo cheap is labour* 
ill that country ; and to inditute a feminary for twelve 
youths to be inftruded and employed when fitted for 
the work : the annual expense of each he ftates at i^ (lar 
pagodas, in all, ai6, equal to 82/. per annum ; and he 
(eems to think this a preferable plan to having miflion- 
aries from Germany, on account of the time and expenfe: 
incurred by the latter, before they can CDgagc in miffion* 
ar^ labours in the native languages. 



FROM THE CHRIST. MAGAZINE. ^jj^ 

He conceiTci the wild places and diRrias be has tra v- 
crscd, afford more promifing fidd% of miffionary la- 
bour, than the large towns in which many Europeans 
rcfide, as their example is baneful, while tlie idolatrous 
luperflitions of the natives are more powerfully eftab- 
li«bed and ftrengthened alfo, by the vicious lives of thofe 
who are chriftians only in name. 

Our authority, fent him laft year, will enable him, wc 
hope, to commence hit plan of eaablifliing a fcminary ; 
and wc truft our next accounts wiU confirm our confi. 
deuce m his talents, and exhibit the power and grace of 
God operating by him in the diffufwm of the pure gof- 
pd of Chriil iii thofe countries, which he has chofea as 
the fccne of his miffionary labours. 

Evan. Int. vol. iii. p» a8i 



Frcm tie ChriliiarCs Magazine., 

Ne*v)^T0rkp April 28, 1 807.. 

On Nfonday, the twentieth inft. arrived at this place 
in the Ship Remittance f ' om London, after a pafl*age 
01 feventy-nine days, the Rev. Me^rs. Morrifon, Lee and 
Gordon, milTonaries from the London Miffionary Soci- 
ety to the Eirt Indies. The deftination of the fiirft of 
these Gentlemen is Canton ; of the other two, who are 
acconrpanied by their Ladies, Madras. Through the 
goodness of divine Providence, they have been preserved 
anndd the difficuhies of a mod wearisome and tempes- 
tuous voyage ; and landed in health and fpirits* 

It ib a fource of pure and sacred pleasure, to fee the 
faces of those who poilefs enough of the spirit of mar>» 
tyrdom, to forego all the comforts, which they might 
enjoy in the bofom of their friends and the lap of 
earthly profperity, for the purpofe cf diffufizvg among 



i4« A LETTER. TO MR. RALSTON, 

tlic pcrifhing Pagans the Knowledge of Jesus and of 
the Resurredion. We, who enjoyi without imenuptiony 
in the midft of repofe and of peace ; the gofpel of life 
and inmortalityy ought to feel our languor rebuke, and 
our zeal: provokedy by fuch prai^e-wonhy eianif^es. 



A Letter from the Revrend Mr. Morrison^ late 
MifionaryinChinajtoMr. Raljion. 

^lang Tungt Dec. 30, 1*807. 
DEAR sue, 

1 FORWARD to you, by favour of Mr. Latimer, a 
few lines, mentioning my safe arrival at Canton, and the 
reception I met with. The Lord appeared for me and. 
opened a door with less difficulty than I, or my dear 
friends, anticipated. As I there meritloned, I have had 
some afliftance from a native who is attached to the 
Romifh Church, and who h, if I am rightly informed, 
theii agent (i.e.oi the mi^Tionaries) at this place. His 
name is Abel Yen Pwoin Ming. I have nothing to ap- 
prehend from Abel. But the Portuguese clergy at 
Macao. hav^e become alarmed, and have, in the opinion'. 
o£ feveral gentlemen here, written up to Pejcin ere this^ 
t4me, refpedling me ; so that if the mif&oiiaries there, 
have influence enough, the probability is, that they will 
obtain an order for my removal from the empire. -I am 
not however diftrefled about the future, " the Lord will 
provide." If obliged to leave [this place,^ I purpose to 
^k a refidence on the Island of Penang, among the^ 
thousands of Chinese who are there. 

My opportunities of learning the language are 
Inll as many, or more than I expected to CDJoy. 

I continue with Mr Milner, to whom you favourti^ 



MISSIONARY SOCIETST. ,141 

file with a letter of introdadlion. I fiiall, however, ta 
the course of two or three days' time, b^in to boau'd 
myldf in a plainer way than in the family on ac- 
count of the very heavy expense of a reddence in this 
country. 

The objed before us, dear (h*, in this attempt, is veiy 

great and important. Three hundred millions of meUf 

at the lapse of eighteen centuries, are without the book 

of God in their native tongue ; and these three hundred 

4apiiUions speaking the same language. 

I saw, a few mornings ago, a French miffionary. 
Mom. de Ic BiiTachre, wh* is lately from Tonquin. 
He has refided in that country eighteen years during 
which time he says there have been three persecutions of 
the chriftians, the number of whokn he eftimates to be 
a6o,ooo. 

Mons. Richiney, who, tvo years ago, was ordered to 
leave the empire of China, has now obtained permiflion 
to remain in Canton as " procureur" to the miiTion at 
Pekin. It is said, I don't know with what truth, that 
. some persons in the chara<fttr of miflionaries are exped- 
cd out from France. 

Sometimes pray for me, my dear (ir, and permit me 
to say that I am, with chriflian regard, your's in the 
faith of our Lord Jesus. 

ROBERT MORRISON. 
Evan. Int. vol. iv. p., 23^. 



Miffionary Society. 
Vizigapaiam^ Ea/i Indies. 

IN our laft we mentioned the much lamented death 
•f Mr George Cran, who together with Mr. Des Graa« 



14* MISSIONARY SOCIETY/ 

p;es, was fettled at Vizigapataro. His lofs is ixiofl setU 
oufly fck by his f urviving bnvtlier, who had himfelf been 
Severely ttffli^^ed with a Jiver complaint He was bet- 
ter when he wrote laft $ but manr unpleasant fjivp- 
toms proved that the disorder was not eradicated* 

We rejoice that he has denved much afliitance from 
Ananderayer, the converted Brahmin. He joined the 
miflion on the iSth of May, 1898. * This evening/ sa}s 
the Journa], ' Ananderayer, his wife, and another native 
chriliian, fat down to fupper with the miffion family* 
Before fupper he offered up a thankfgiving to God, and 
prayed very fervently that the diftinctton of cafi might 
be univerfally abolifhed, and that all the heathen might 
be brought with one heart to glorify God.' 

By a letter, dated Jannary 20, 1809; the following 
appears to have been the ftate of the tranfl^tion of the 
fcriptures into the Telinga langu;«ge: 

• The gofpels of Matthew and Luke are complete in 
maoufcript, and have gone through the 6r(l corredioft 
The gofpels of Mark and John are begun. I have noiF 
four Brahmins engaged in this service. Ananderayei 
takes the lead among them in afiifting me ; the other 
•are all tranfcribers. 

This work has been impeded lately by the absence 
of Ananderayer, who has been bn a miffionary tour for 
three months to the fouthward ; during which time be 
preached the gofpel to great numbers, who heard the 
word gladly^ His wife was bapiifed three nronths ago. 
I am happy to fay that (be increafes in divine knowl 
edge, and that her conversation is as,becometh the gofpel, 
Iq (hort, (he is an ornament to her prof^flion. She t! 
under the daily tuition of Mrs. Des Granges. 

* There are feveral* other natives inquiring after th< 
good way, who are all under a course of religious in- 
ftruftion. The ycung people in the fcfaools have advanc 
ed much in religious knowledge. 
^Finally, brethren, pray for me, that I may be kef^t 




"MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 143 

faithful, to my work, and thatl'may seethe arm of the 
Lord revealed in tlie convex flon of the thoufands of 
idolaters around me. hend more miffionaries to this 
•paft of the vcorld. I lament that Ganjum, Chicacole, 
Rajimundry, and Mafulapatam, which are fuch eligtbld, 
'fields for mifHonary exertions, are entirely deftitute Of 
"the light of the go4>e!« In all thefe the Telinga Ian* 
guage prevails ; and, by the preaching of the gofpel 
and the diilributibn of the fcriptures^ ^hojpe they will 

-foon become as fideny^-^as the garden of the Lord. An* 
anderayer and hi$ wife fend then: refpedts^ and beg you to 

..pray for them. 

AUGUSTUS DES GRANGES/ 

Mr. Des Granges has commanicated extracts of let- 
ters from his dear brother Cran, written during his joUr* 
ney. They will be perused with a mournful pleaiui^, 
as they prove how much the work of the Lord centinu- 
. ed on his heart to the very laft. The lo^s of such a 
man is greatly to be lamented ; but fubmifCon to the 
^eat Difpofer of all events becomes us* 

* ChicacolCf December 59 »8o8« 

* I am forry to fay tliat this leaves me in a weak ftate* 
"When I arrived at Colapollam ,1 felt myfelf confidera- 
bly better, but my bowels in a bad date. However, I 
wa& able to go into the village tn the evening, and ad« 
drefs tlie poor heathen. They bad killed a cow to offer 
in facrtfice, which led me tofpeak of a more valuable fa<^ 
orifice. They rejoiced to hear ; and 1 was conftraincd 
to pray that God^ould fpare my life a little longer, 
that I may enjoy the pleafure of proclaiming the good 
news. I find this does me good ; but fiill I feel what 
I am unwilling to communicate. I leave ail ^ 
God.' 

N 



144 MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 

• Chaltcrpore, December 1 7, 1808, 

«.l 1-ope yen vill afllft ire to adore the God of all 
jTrc^ foi rfCf^vcringmc fo far, when I alFure you that 
ir ]c;!virg Chicncole I did not expedl to reach this place : 
I evtn exf.c<5ted to die before I got to the place of en- 
campmeiit, God orders all things ; and to Him be all 
];raift ! 1 have had much converfation with the natives, 
at Icall once or twice every day ; and Ibmetimes with 
confiderable numbers of both fcxcs. In (hori, I have 
fpent wary plea fant. hours with them, and found many 
defirous to hear more cf the gofpel. Travelling among 
the natives, and proclaiming the good news of falvation, 
is ceitainly delightful work.' 

* Chatterpore, December 20. 

* I am much better, though my cough gives me a 
little trouble occafionally. On fabbath I read prayers 
and preached to a large congregation in the.court- 
houfe. It is very defirable that a mifHonary might be 
(btioned here.' 

* Chatterpore, December 21. 

* You will be happy to hear that m) health is much 
improved. We are not deftitute of friends, even in this 
remote corner ; and I am henrtily glad I undertook the 
trip on many accounts ; but you mud viiit this place and 
the furrounding country. I wilh the brethren (meaning 
Gordon and Lee) were arrived, that we might have an 
opportunity of travelling among the natives ' 

This was the la ft letter he wrote to Mr. Dcs Granges. 
In fixtecB days alter this, he departed to his heavenly 
reft ; and his works of love will follow him. His re- 
mains were interred in the burying place at Chicacole, 
January 6, 1809, 

Evan. Int. vol. iii. p. 585. 



EXr. FROM. THE DlftECr. REP. 145. 

EsifraSl from the Report of the Directors of tf$e. 
Mtffionary Society^ to their eleventh tneetin^^ held 
i.i London on the 8th y gth^ ^ lo/A, of Mjy. 

THE Diredbors earneflly pray thit th^ grc.it Heid 
of the church WQuld inclin^i th; he trts of others to co 11 j 
forvs'iird ; they alfolook to chritU m ibcieties, a li on this 
occailoa, efpecially, to sv.in^e'ic.il f^miiiaries, for p,r- 
fons, who to the radical qii tlificarioiH of am*''l)air/, 
unite a ficility in the acq^ikicini of i in<iia.^e-» 1 1 { \\li.j 
may thus be peculiarly fi ted for a iervlce io Jilm ^uiih- 
ed and ufeful in the chritii.m Cii:ircii 

The fociety, dslirous of furniihia^i^ f iture miill >as with 
tried- and able inftrumrnts, -have, for fomc years paft, 
Aipported a number of young meq at th^ fcmiaary at 
Gofport, under the tuition of ©ur highly value i broiher, 
Mr. Boguc. To this cftabllfli nent w^ owe fome of th^r^ 
mffllonarie? which are already j^one forth to thi Ji<?a.h- 
en,andofwhofe talents and piety we form Lh^moit fjvojr- 
able judgment. The Directors regret mucluh.it fo f'-v 
perfons have hitherto offered thsmfcivcs as candid ires 
for midi'^narv fcrvices, efpecii^ly wh-n the ixreat advan- 
tages which this fcminary offers, as prep iratory (o the 
work, are fo eafy of accefs. From the fmali number of 
young men, in this fchool of the prophets, it pleafed 
the Lord to deprive us of one, a few months iince. Mr. 
Owen, a promifing and devoted mi(Ii-.)nary, was fuddcn- 
ly removed by death, at the clofe of a^ day, which, as 
ufual had been employed in ufeful (Indies and exertions. 
The Directors lam3Qt tkeir lofs, and entreat the Lord 
to repair it by the introdudlion of others equally pious 
and devoted. There are now at Gofport | only Rx ftu- 
dents : tbefe, however, are diligently engaged in appro- 
priate (Indies and fome of them will foon be at liberty 
:o enter upon the great work. 



i 



145 EXT. FROM THE DIRECT. RBP, 

it would afford the mod cQrdial fatisfadton ta 4h&. 
Directors, to fee a larger number of godly men offering. 
themfeWes to the fervice of our adorable Saviour, in the 
ejtenfion of his kingdom among the heathen. From 
the number, the piety, and the zeal of our congrega- 
tions, it might have been expefted that many, very ma* 
ny, would have become candidates for this honourable 
work, yea many more th^n the fociety could poffibly em- 
ploy ; but they (iill find the labourers few, though thd 
harvcft be plenteous :. they not only j.^in with all their 
fellow chriftians, in imploring the Lord of the hanref^, 
more copiously to pour out his Holy Spiriion the church* 
es, powerfully conQraining a hoft of willing labourersrto 
f^y, «• Here are we, fend us;'* but they alfocarneftly re- 
commend it to their reverend brethren to encourage and 
ftimul-ate, by their animated exhortations and mifHonary 
fervor, perfons in their connexions, of piety and talents^ 
to come forward to the help of the Lord againft the 
mighty, for they are affiired that it is not fo much A 
want of zeal as a want of information on this head that 
keeps them back ; and that a proper reprefentation of 
the great variety of countries in which thegofpd is need» 
ed, to which cafy accefs may be obtained, where protec- 
tion may be ezpe(5led, and where the profped of fuccefs . 
is flattering, would incline many to prefs to the worki 
efpecially when they are informed t^t in the miffionary 
feminary, they may probably acqvure that degree of fit- 
' nefs for the work, an apprehenfion of the want of which, 
at prefent, operates as a difcouragement, and keeps them 

Evan. Int. vol. ii* p- 242. 



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COMMISSIONERS' ADDRESS. 147 • 

Addrejs of the American hoard of CornmKJioners : . 

for Foreign Mijfiom. . 

The American Board of Coinmlflioners for Foreign ' 
Millions, foHcit the ferious and liberal attention of the 
chriftian public./ 

The Reijeemer of men, who, although ** he was rich, 
for nur fakes became poor," juil before he afcended up ' 
on high to give gifts unto men, gave it in fpecial ch.irge 
to his difciples to ** go into all the world, and preach 
thegofpel to evsry creature." Alraoft eighteen centuries 
have pafTed away fmce this charge was deliver Cvl, and ye^ 
a great proportion of our fclLv.v men, ignjrant of the 
gofpel, are" fitting in the region and fhadow of death." 
The promise, however, is fure, tlf it the Son '* Ihali have 
the heathen for his inheritance, and the uLtermoil parts 
of the earth for his pofTellion," and that the world **lhall 
be filled with the knowledge of tl)e glory of the Lord.'* 
The long expelled day isappro.ichmg. i'hc Lord i» 
fhaking the nations ; his fricnis in different pares of 
Chridendom are roused from tae'r (lumbers; and unpre* 
cedented exeuions are making for the fpread cf divine 
knowledge, and the converfion of tli;:: iKllop.s. In our 
country, the millionary fj^irit is c\-mccJ, a^^A miicli Ims 
already been done for imparting tjic gofp:! to tlje dcni- 
tute in our hew and frontier fctcivMioiits. JmU {o\ tlic 
millions on our own continent, and in /^lii'-r ;;.irts cf Uic 
world, to whom Uie pofpei lii^n.vcr been preached wc 
have yet thofe exertions t) n\ ik-.', which coniport 
with the Saviour's emphitir.u dir.tftions, ar;d 
our diliir.ga'iihed advantages f;r pj:''n»<tl:?.ij \\\\t 
great objjdl, for whiJi he cime d »;/m fi\ fn 
■ tieaven and laSr.uie J ar.U fii^Tere !. V new s-.ent*, \v\\\i 
u-', isno'.v dpenin»>, I: is afc:: t-ia.-;.] -iiu f.v rt'> v. wwx 
rjcn, of g 2od rcpur.i'ioa f )r pity :n 1 .alei.t-, '.^Jcr i.i- 
creJ and doep ii'njir^Ma :)as, hold c^vjiiisjlvts U-v..lcJ i--: 



Ul 



INHABITANTS. 

Kfe to the fenrice of God, in the gofpel of his Son 9 
mong the deftitute, and are ready to go into any part of ^ 
the unevangelized world, where proiridence (hall open ^ 
the door for theii miffionary labors. Is not this a divine 
intimation of fomething great and good. ? And does it ^ 
not call» with impreiSve emphafis, for general attention 
and exertion ? In the prefent ftate of the world> chriftian 
miffions cannot be executed lirithoui pecuniar^ iiipport.' 
Shall this support be wanting? When miliijins are per- 
iling for lack of knowle>^ge, and young difciples of the 
Lord are waiting, with ardent defire to carry the gofpd, 
of falvation to uicm ; (hall those millions be left to per- 
im, and that ardent defire be difappointed? Is there« then, 
in thofe^ who are fayoured with the gofpel» the famemind, 
that was in Chrift, when he freely gave his own Mood 
for the redemption of men ? Should not this refledion 
come home to the hearts ^f the richy and of all who». 
by the bounty of the Saviour, have it in their power to 
contribute even their mites, for the falvation of thofe^ 
for whom he died ! 



Field for Miffionary Exertions^ 

THE haweft truly is plenteous, but the labourers are 
few : pray ye therefore the Lord of the haireft that he 
will fend forth labourers into hisharveft. Matix, 37, 38. 

Such as are but little acquainted with geography, or 
who have not attended particularly to the population of 
omr g\obe, can form but an incompetent idea of the evih 




INHAWTAT^. 



'48: 



fm has producedy and of the loud call for farveqt-liip- 
pUcations and vigorous exertion, lie ftibfequent S^Ue- 
nient« it is believed, is fo far from being extravkgtot> 
that if error ^xifts it will be ifound in its deficiency and 
not in its exeefs. 

HEATHEM OR P/^GANS 
lor the moft. part worfiilppers of idolsj of prieft^,of t^e 
heavenly bodiesi &c. 

IN ASIA. 



Places.^ 

Samo€ida» 

Kamtscatkat 

JapAy 

Adjacent Ifles, 
New Holland} 
NewZealard 
New-Ireland» 
The Friendly, 
Sandwich) 
Pelew, 
Society, 
Kuril e. 



1 

The Phillippine iflands, 

Tae Calaminesi in which arc feme 



cachoiics, 
Hither India, 
Tibet, 
Hindoftan, 
lile of Ceylon^ 
New Britain^ 
New' Guinea^ 
New Caledonia^ 



Inhaltfantu 

v»9oo,ooo 

9o6yOo» 

10,000,000 

4>f55iOoo 

139.000,000 

i»'40,ooo 

^700O,OO* 



19300,000 



150,000 

250,000 
50,000,000 
10,500,009 

1I0,000,C0»' 

2>Q0O,OO9 

700,000 

950,000 

200>0Gl0 



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I|Q- 



INHABITANTS. 



ilfaldiTesy ^ 






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J^^a>. . . ^ 






• . 


'Borneo, 






c 


Timor, 




Tflandsinfome of which there sffe 


Sumatra, V many MahomeUins. 


1 


Celebesi j 


- 




Botttam, 


1 , 


17,000,000* 


PuUo Louty 1 
Molucca^ J 




_ 








Total in A/ia, 


2a6,9Ci,ooo 




IN AFRICA. 


^^ ^^ 


' Negr«1and, 




i8,cyo,ooo 


Congo, 




2/COO,O0O 


L«angO, 




2,000,000 


BengueU, 




1,806,000 


Angola, 




1 ,500,000 


Matanian, 




2y000,000 


Ajan, 




2,500,000 


Zanguebar, 


• 


3:500,000 


Monoemugi, 




2,006,000 


Sofala, 




i,oo»,ooo 


Terra de Natal^ 




2,000,000 


Caffraria, 




2,500,000 


Ifle of St. Thomas, 


10.000 


Madagascar, 


* A /* • 


1,500,000 


Total. 


in Africa, 


42,316,000 




IN AMERICA. 




Brazil, 




15,00c ,OCO 


Chili, 




2,00O,00Q 


Par^eway, 




1 0,000,000 


Amazonia, 




8,500,000 


Peru 




10,000,000 


Terra Firm a 




1 0,000,000 


Of negroes 


in a ftate of heathenism. 


The Little Antmcs, contain 


150,000 


The Baham 


ans. 




22,000 



INHABLTAMT8. 



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The Great AnttUet, 
The Carribees aod other iflandsi 
Guiansy. 

Terra MageUanca« 
Old Mexicoy 
New MexicOy 
^ Pagans north of tbeUAiced States 
Wea of the Miffifippi, 
Cumberland's ifle&». 
Madre di DioS) . 
Terra del Fuego> 

Total in America, 
Of thofe w^ho revere the falfe prophet MahonoetT and 

who are captivated with t he errors of the KLoran^ 

there are : 

IN EUROPE. 
Turkey, io^ooo»ooo 

The Tartaries, . 3|OOQtOOo 

liles Tenedos, Negropont and Lemnos 40,000 

Other iflaads in die Archipelagc & Mediter. Boo,ooo 



3^,000 

400,«oo 

3^00,000 

9,ooo,oooN 

141000^000 

i5,ooo>ooo 

}^ooo,ooo 

4,000,000 

10,000 

8^000 

5^000* 

«>S'$95tOOO' 



Total in Europe, 
IN ASIA. 
Turkey in Afia» • 

Perfia, (fc6l of AU) 
Arabia, 
Great Tartary, 
lile of Maldives, 
Ifle of Boutam, 
Scattered through the Indies^ 
Scattered through the Afiattc ifles. 

Total in Ada, 
IN AFRICA. 
Egypt, 

Nudia, 

States of Barbary^ 

Kledulgeted, 



iaf84o,oo09 
ao^oee^ooo 

2»f000|00O 

17,000,000 

^,000,000 

Kx^oeo 

80^000 

lOiOOOiiOOO 

a,ooo,ooo 
101,180^000 

3,000|000 

3»5«o,ooo 
3,000,000 









(jt HYMN>. 

Zaare* 800,000 

Total in Africa* . 109300,000 

Vaft numbers of Jews are.fcattered through Europe 
Afiay and Africa, and a few through North and South 
America, on whom, when Moses is read the vail refteth 
even to this day. 

The above (latement is drawn chiefly from a work 
publifhed by Dr. Carey, in the year 1792, entitled '* An 
Inquiry into the obligations of chriftians to uie means 
for the converfion of the heathen." It has been corrcdl- 
ed as far as practicable by the works of geographers, 
travellers and navigators who have written fmce that 
dme. Pan. vol. i. p. 556. 



The Mi/Jionaries* Farewell. 

KINDRED, and friends, and native land. 
How (hall we fay farewell ? 
• How, when our IfcUing fails expand, 
How will our bofoms fwcU i 

Yes, nature, all thy foft delights, 
And tender tics we know. 
But love more ftrong than death unitet 
To him that bids us go. 

■ Thus, when our every paffion mov«d« 

The gufhing tear-drop ftarU * 
' The cause of JESUS, more beloved, 

Shall glow within our hearts. 




HYMN. jff 



The fighs Ve breathe for precious s(ml% 
Where he is yet unknown, 
M ghi waft us to the difiant poles. 
Or to the burning zone. 

Wiih the warm W)fh our bosoms fwelt. 
Oar jriowiiig powers expand $ 
Faieweii, tJer» we can lay farewell 1 
Our trieiids, our native land -I 



Farewell to the MiJ/ionaries. 

SOVEREIGN, of worlds ! difplay thy powV, 
Be this thy Zif>n's favpt'd hour ; 
Bid the bright morning (tar arife. 
And point the nations to the skies. 

Set up thy throne where fatan reigns, 
On Afric's fhore on India's plains ; 
On wilds and continents unknown— 
And be the universe thine own ! 

Speak — and the world (ball hear thy voice «; 
Speak — and the deferts IhaU rejoice ! 
Scatter the (hades of moral night ; 
Let worthiefs Idols Hee the light ! 

Trufting in him, dear brethren, rear 
The gofpel ftandard void of fear : 
Go feek with joy youl dedin'd (hox^ 
To view your native land no more* 




«5« tn^KU. 

• Yet-^OiriAian Heroes l-r*go-*-proclaim 
Salvadcm through lMMANU£L*S name ; 
To India's clime the tidings bear. 
And plant the Rofe of Sharon there. 

%e*U iiiield you with a wall of fire, 
'With flaming zeal your breads infpire ; 
Bid raging w^nds their fury ceafei 
And huih the temp^ into peace. 

And when onr labours all are o'er. 
Then we (hal] meet to part no more ; 
Iffeet with xht blood-bought Jirong to fall^ 
Aad crown our Jesus, Lord of all T 



THE END. 



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