This last extract is contained in a letter from Danish missionaries at Tranquebar to the Directors of the Missionary Society in London.

It is hardly fair to contend, after these extracts, that no symptoms of jealousy upon the subject of religion had been evinced on the coast, except in the case of the insurrection at Vellore; or that no greater activity than common had prevailed among the missionaries. We are very far, however, from attributing that insurrection exclusively, or even principally, to any apprehensions from the zeal of the missionaries. The rumour of that zeal might probably have more readily disposed the minds of the troops for the corrupt influence exercised upon them; but we have no doubt that the massacre was principally owing to an adroit use made by the sons of Tippoo, and the high Mussulmans living in the fortress, of the abominable military foppery of our own people.

After this short sketch of what has been lately passing on the coast, we shall attempt to give a similar account of missionary proceedings in Bengal; and it appears to us it will be more satisfactory to do so as much as possible in the words of the missionaries themselves. In our extracts from their publications we shall endeavour to show the character and style of the men employed in these missions, the extent of their success, or rather of their failure, and the general impression made upon the people by their efforts for the dissemination of the gospel.

It will be necessary to premise that the missions in Bengal, of which the public have heard so much of late years, are the missions of Anabaptist dissenters, whose peculiar and distinguishing tenet it is to baptize the members of their church by plunging them into the water when they are grown up, instead of sprinkling them with water when they are young. Among the subscribers to this society we perceive the respectable name of the DeputyChairman of the East-India Company, who, in the common routine of office, will succeed to the Chair of that Company at the ensuing election. The Chairman and Deputy-Chairman of the East-India Company are also both of them trustees to another religious society for missions to Africa and the East.

The first Number of the Anabaptist Missions informs us that the origin of the Society will be found in the workings of Brother Carey's mind, whose heart appears to have been set upon the conversion of the IIeathen in 1786, before he came to reside at Moulton. (No. I. p. 1.) These workings produced a sermon at Northampton, and the sermon a subscription to convert 420 millions of Pagans. Of the subscription we have the following account :- Information has come from Brother Carey that a gentleman from Northumberland had promised to send him £20 for the society, and to subscribe four guineas annually."

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"At this meeting at Northampton two other friends subscribed and paid two guineas apiece, two more one guinea each, and another half a guinea, making six guineas and a half in all. And such members as were present of the first subscribers paid their subscriptions into the hands of the treasurer, who proposed to put the sum now received into the hands of a banker, who will pay interest for the same."-Baptist Miss. Soc. No. I. p. 5.

In their first proceedings they are a good deal guided by Brother Thomas, who has been in Bengal before, and who lays before the Society a history of his life and adventures, from which we make the following extract :

"" On my arrival in Calcutta I sought for religious people, but found none. At last how was I rejoiced to hear that a very religious man was coming to dine with me at a house in Calcutta; a man who would not omit his closet hours of a morning or evening, at sea or on land, for all the world. I concealed my impatience as well as I could till the joyful moment came: and a moment it was, for I soon heard him take the Lord's name in vain, and it was like a cold dagger with which I received repeated stabs in the course of half an hour's conversation, and he was ready to kick me when I spoke of some things commonly believed by other hypocrites concerning our Lord Jesus Christ; and with fury put an end to our conversation by saying I was a mad enthusiast to suppose that Jesus Christ had anything to do in

the creation of the world, who was born only seventeen hundred years ago. When I returned he went home in the same ship, and I found him a strict observer of devotional hours, but an enemy to all religion, and horribly loose, vain, and intemperate in his life and conversation.

"After this I advertised for a Christian; and that I may not be misunderstood, I shall subjoin a copy of the advertisement from the Indian Gazette of November 1, 1783, which now lies before me."-Baptist Miss. Soc. No. I. pp. 14, 15.

Brother Thomas relates THE CONVERSION OF A HINDOO ON THE MALABAR COAST TO THE SOCIETY.

"A certain man on the Malabar coast had inquired of various devotees and priests how he might make atonement for his sins, and at last he was directed to drive iron spikes sufficiently blunted through his sandals, and on these spikes he was to place his naked feet, and walk (if I mistake not) 250 cos, that is, about 480 miles. If, through loss of blood or weakness of body, he was obliged to halt, he might wait for healing and strength. He undertook the journey, and while he halted under a large shady tree where the Gospel was sometimes preached, one of the missionaries came, and preached in his hearing from these words, The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin. While he was preaching, the man rose up, threw off his torturing sandals, and cried out aloud, 'This is what I want!'"-Baptist Miss. Soc. No. I. p. 29.

On June 13, 1793, the missionaries set sail, carrying with them letters to three supposed converts of Brother Thomas, Parbotee, Ram Ram Boshoo, and Mohun Chund. Upon their arrival in India, they found, to their inexpressible mortification, that Ram Ram had relapsed into Paganism: and we shall present our readers with a picture of the present and worldly misery to which a Hindoo is subjected who becomes a convert to the Christian religion. Everybody knows that the population of Hindostan is divided into castes, or classes of persons; and that when a man loses his caste, he is shunned by his wife, children, friends, and relations; that it is considered as an abomination to lodge or eat with him; and that he is a wanderer and an outcast upon the earth. Caste can be lost by a variety of means, and the Protestant missionaries have always made the loss of it a previous requisite to admission into the Christian church.

"On our arrival at Calcutta we found poor Ram Boshoo waiting for us; but, to our great grief, he has been bowing down to idols again. When Mr. T. left India, he went from place to place; but, forsaken by the Hindoos and neglected by the Europeans, he was seized with a flux and fever. In this state, he says, 'I had nothing to support me or my family; a relation offered to save me from perishing for want of necessaries on condition of my bowing to the idol; I knew that the Roman Catholic Christians worshipped idols; I thought they might be commanded to honour images in some part of the Bible which I had not seen; I hesitated, and complied; but I love Christianity still.""-Bapt. Miss. Soc. Vol. I. pp. 64, 65.

Jan. 8, 1794. We thought to write you long before this, but our hearts have been burthened with cares and sorrows. It was very afflicting to hear of Ram Boshoo's great persecution and fall. Deserted by Englishmen, and persecuted by his own countrymen, he was nigh unto death. The natives gathered in bodies, and threw dust in the air as he passed along the streets in Calcutta. At last one of his relations offered him an asylum on condition of his bowing down to their idols."-Ibid. p. 78.

BROTHER CAREY'S PIETY AT SEA.

"Brother Carey, while very sea-sick, and leaning over the ship to relieve his stomach from that very oppressive complaint, said his mind was even then filled with consolation in contemplating the wonderful goodness of God."—Ibid, p. 76.

EXTRACTS FROM BROTHER CAREY'S AND BROTHER THOMAS'S JOURNALS, AT SEA AND BY LAND.

1793. June 16. Lord's Day. A little recovered from my sickness; met for prayer and exhortation in my cabin; had a dispute with a French deist."-Ibid. p. 158.

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―30. Lord's Day. A pleasant and profitable day; our congregation composed of ten persons."-Ibid. p. 159.

July 7. Another pleasant and profitable Lord's-day: our congregation increased with one. Had much sweet enjoyment with God."-Ibid. "1794. Jan. 26. Lord's Day. Found much pleasure in reading Edwards's Sermon on the Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners."—Ibid. p. 165.

"April 6. Had some sweetness to-day, especially in reading Edwards's Sermon.-Ibid.

P. 171.

June 8. This evening reached Bowlea, where we lay to for the Sabbath. Felt thankful

I was

that God had preserved us, and wondered at his regard for so mean a creature. unable to wrestle with God in prayer for many of my dear friends in England."-Ibid.

P. 179.

June 16. This day I preached twice at Malda, where Mr. Thomas met me. Had much enjoyment; and though our congregation did not exceed sixteen, yet the pleasure I felt in having my tongue once more set at liberty I can hardly describe. Was enabled to be faithful, and felt a sweet affection for immortal souls."-Ibid. p. 180.

" 1796. Feb. 6. I am now in my study; and oh, it is a sweet place, because of the presence of God with the vilest of men. It is at the top of the house; I have but one window in it."-Ibid. p. 295.

"The work to which God has set his hand will infallibly prosper. Christ has begun to bombard this strong and ancient fortress, and will assuredly carry it."-Ibid. p. 328.

"More missionaries I think absolutely necessary to the support of the interest. Should any natives join us, they would become outcast immediately, and must be consequently supported by us. The missionaries on the coast are to this day obliged to provide for those who join them, as I learn from a letter sent to Brother Thomas by a son of one of the missionaries."-Ibid. p. 334.

In the last extract our readers will perceive a new difficulty attendant upon the progress of Christianity in the East. The convert must not only be subjected to degradation, but his degradation is so complete, and his means of providing for himself so entirely destroyed, that he must be fed by his instructor. The slightest success in Hindostan would eat up the revenues of the East India Company.

Three years after their arrival these zealous and most active missionaries give the following account of their success :

"I bless God, our prospect is considerably brightened up, and our hopes are more enlarged than at any period since the commencement of the mission, owing to the very pleasing appearances of the gospel having been made effectual to FOUR poor labouring Mussulmans, who have been setting their faces towards Zion ever since the month of August last. I hope their baptism will not be much longer deferred; and that might encourage Mohund Chund, Parbottee, and Casi Naut (who last year appeared to set out in the ways of God), to declare for the Lord Jesus Christ, by an open profession of their faith in him. Seven of the natives, we hope, are indeed converted."-Bapt. Miss. Vol. I. pp. 345, 346.

EFFECTS OF PREACHING TO AN HINDOO CONGREGATION.

"I then told them that if they could not tell me, I would tell them; and that God, who had permitted the Hindoos to sink into a sea of darkness, had at length commiserated them; and sent me and my colleagues to preach life to them. I then told them of Christ, his death, his person, his love, his being the surety of sinners, his power to save, &c., and exhorted them earnestly and affectionately to come to him. Effects were various; one man came before I had well done, and wanted to sell stockings to me.' "-Ibid. Vol. I. p. 357.

EXTRACTS FROM Journals.

"After worship, I received notice that the printing-press was just arrived at the Ghat from Calcutta. Retired, and thanked God for furnishing us with a press.”—Ibid. p. 469.

SUCCESS IN THE SIXTH Year.

"We lament that several who did run well are now hindered. We have faint hopes of a few, and pretty strong hopes of one or two; but if I say more, it must be either a dull recital of our journeying to one place or another to preach the gospel, or something else relating to ourselves, of which I ought to be the last to speak."-Ibid. p. 488.

Extracts from Mr. Ward's Journal, a new Anabaptist Missionary sent out

in 1799.

MR. WARD ADMIRES THE Captain.

"Several of our friends who have been sick begin to look up. This evening we had a most precious hour at prayer. Captain Wickes read from the 12th verse of the 32nd of Exodus, and then joined in prayer. Our hearts were all warmed. We shook hands with our dear Captain, and, in design, clasped him to our bosoms."—Ibid. Vol. II. p. 2.

MR. WARD IS FRIGHTENED BY A PRIVATeer.

"June 11. Held our conference this evening. A vessel is still pursuing us, which the Captain believes to be a Frenchman. I feel some alarm-considerable alarm. O Lord, be thou our defender! the vessel seems to gain upon us. (Quarter past eleven at night.) There is no doubt of the vessel being a French privateer: when we changed our tack, she

changed hers. We have, since dark, changed into our old course, so that possibly we shall lose her. Brethren G. and B. have engaged in prayer: we have read Luther's psalm, and our minds are pretty well composed. Our guns are all loaded, and the Captain seems very low. All hands are at the guns, and the matches are lighted. I go to the end of the ship. I can just see the vessel, though it is very foggy. A ball whizzes over my head, and makes me tremble. I go down, and go to prayer with our friends."—Ibid. pp. 3, 4.

Mr. Ward feels a regaRD FOR THE Sailors.

"July 12. I never felt so much for any men as for our sailors; a tenderness which could weep over them! Oh, Jesus! let thy blood cover some of them! A sweet prayer meeting. Verily God is here."-Ibid. p. 7.

MR. WARD SEES AN AMERICAN VESSEL, AND LONGS TO PREACH TO THE SAILORS. "Sept. 27. An American vessel is alongside, and the Captain is speaking to their Captain through his trumpet. How pleasant to talk to a friend! I have been looking at them through the glass; the sailors sit in a group, and are making their observations upon us. I long to go and preach to them."-Ibid. p. 11.

FEELINGS OF THE NATIVES UPON HEARING THEIR RELIGION ATTACKED.

"1800. Feb. 25. Brother C. had some conversation with one of the Mussulmans, who asked, upon his denying the divine mission of Mahomet, what was to become of Mussulmans and Hindoos? Brother C. expressed his fears that they would all be lost. The man seemed as if he would have torn him to pieces."—Ibid. Vol. II. p. 51.

"March 30. The people seem quite anxious to get the hymns which we give away. The Brahmans are rather uneasy. The Governor advised his Brahmans to send their children to learn English. They replied that we seemed to take pains to make the natives Christians; and they were afraid that, their children being of tender age, would make them a more easy conquest."-Ibid. p. 58.

"April 27. Lord's Day. One Brahman said he had no occasion for a hymn, for they were all over the country. He could go into any house and read one."-Ibid. p. 61.

"May 9. Brother Fountain was this evening at Buddabarry. At the close, the Brahmans having collected a number of boys, they set up a great shout, and followed the brethren out of the village with noise and shouting."-Ibid.

"May 16. Brother Carey and I were at Buddabarry this evening. No sooner had we begun than a Brahman went round to all the rest that were present, and endeavoured to pull them away."-Ibid. p. 62.

May 30. This evening, at Buddabarry, the man mentioned in my journal of March 14th insulted Brother Carey. He asked why we came; and said, if we could employ the natives as carpenters, blacksmiths, &c., it would be very well: but that they did not want our holiness. In exact conformity with this sentiment, our Brahman told Brother Thomas, when here, that he did not want the favour of God.""-Ibid. p. 63.

June 22. Lord's Day. A Brahman has been several times to disturb the children, and to curse Jesus Christ! Another Brahman complained to Brother Carey that, by our school and printing, we were now teaching the gospel to their children from their infancy.”—Ibid. p. 65.

"June 29. Lord's Day. This evening a Brahman went round amongst the people who were collected to hear Brother Carey, to persuade them not to accept of our papers. Thus 'darkness struggles with the light.""-Ibid. p. 66.

"It was deemed advisable to print 2,000 copies of the New Testament, and also 500 additional copies of Matthew, for immediate distribution; to which are annexed some of the most remarkable prophecies in the Old Testament respecting Christ. These are now distributing, together with copies of several evangelical hymns, and a very earnest and pertinent address to the natives, respecting the gospel. It was written by Ram Boshoo, and contains a hundred lines in Bengalee verse. We hear that these papers are read with much attention, and that apprehensions are rising in the minds of some of the Brahmans whereunto these things may grow."-Ibid. p. 69.

"We have printed several small pieces in Bengalee, which have had a large circulation."Ibid. p. 77.

MR. FOUNTAIN'S GRATITUDE TO HERVEY.

"When I was about eighteen or nineteen years of age Hervey's Meditations fell into my hands. Till then I had read nothing but my Bible and the Prayer-Book. This ushered me, as it were, into a new world. It expanded my mind, and excited a thirst after knowledge: this was not all; I derived spiritual as well as intellectual advantages from it. I shall bless God for this book while I live upon earth, and when I get to heaven I will thank dear Her vey himself."-Ibid. p. 90.

HATRED OF THE NATIVES TO THE GOSPEL.

"Jan. 27. The inveterate hatred that the Brahmans everywhere show to the gospel and the very name of Jesus, in which they are joined by many lewd fellows of the baser sort, requires no common degree of self-possession, caution, and prudence. The seeming failure of some we hoped well of is a source of considerable anxiety and grief."-Ibid. p. 110.

"Aug. 31. Lord's Day. We have the honour of printing the first book that was ever printed in Bengalee; and this is the first piece in which Brahmans have been opposed, perhaps for thousands of years. All their books are filled with accounts to establish Brahmanism and raise Brahmans to the seat of God. Hence they are believed to be inferior gods. All the waters of salvation in the country are supposed to meet in the foot of a Brahman. It is reckoned they have the keys of heaven and hell, and have power over sickness and health, life and death. O, pray that Brahmanism may come down!"-Ibid. p. III.

"Oct. 3.

Brother Marsham having directed the children in the Bengalee school to write out a piece written by Brother Fountain (a kind of catechism), the schoolmaster reported yesterday that all the boys would leave the school rather than write it; that it was designed to make them lose caste, and make them Feringas; that is, persons who have descended from those who were formerly converted by the papists, and who are to this day held in the greatest contempt by the Hindoos. From this you may gather how much comtempt a converted native would meet with."-Ibid. pp. 113, 114.

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Oct. 26. Lord's Day. Bharratt told Brother Carey to-day what the people talked among themselves- Formerly (say they) here were no white people amongst us. Now the English have taken the country, and it is getting full of whites. Now also the white man's shaster is publishing. Is it not going to be fulfilled which is written in our shasters, that all shall be of one caste; and will not this caste be the gospel?'"-Ibid. p. 115.

"Nov. 7. He also attempted repeatedly to introduce Christ and Him crucified; but they would immediately manifest the utmost dislike of the very name of him. Nay, in their turn, they commended Creeshnoo, and invited Brother C. to believe in him."-Ibid. p. 118.

"Dec. 23. This forenoon Gokool came to tell us that Kristno and his whole family were in confinement! Astonishing news! It seems the whole neighbourhood, as soon as it was noised abroad that these people had lost caste, was in an uproar. It is said that two thousand people were assembled pouring their anathemas on these new converts."-Ibid. p. 125.

Jan. 12. The Brahmans and the young people show every degree of contempt; and the name of Christ is become a byword, like the name methodist in England formerly."Ibid. p. 130.

Sept. 15. I then took occasion to tell them that the Brahmans only wanted their money, and cared nothing about their salvation. To this they readily assented."—Ibid. p. 134. "Nov. 23. Lord's Day. Went with Brother Carey to the new pagoda at the upper end of the town. About ten Brahmans attended. They behaved in the most scoffing and blasphemous manner, treating the name of Christ with the greatest scorn: nor did they discontinue their ridicule while Brother Carey prayed with them. No name amongst men seems so offensive to them as that of our adorable REDEEMER!"-Ibid. p. 138.

"Dec. 24. The Governor had the goodness to call on us in the course of the day, and desired us to secure the girl, at least, within our walls for a few days, as he was persuaded the people round the country were so exasperated at Kristno's embracing the gospel that he could not answer for their safety. A number of the mob might come from twenty miles distant in the night, and murder them all, without the perpetrators being discovered. He believed that had they obtained the girl, they would have murdered her before the morning, and thought they had been doing God service!"-Ibid. pp. 143, 144.

Jan. 30. After speaking about ten minutes, a rude fellow began to be very abusive, and, with the help of a few boys, raised such a clamour that nothing could be heard. At length, seeing no hope of their becoming quiet, I retired to the other part of the town. They followed, hallooing, and crying 'Hurree boll!' (an exclamation in honour of Veeshno). They at last began to pelt me with stones and dirt. One of the men, who knew the house to which Brother Carey was gone, advised me to accompany him thither, saying that these people would not hear our words. Going with him, I met Brother C. We were not a little pleased that the devil had begun to bestir himself, inferring from hence that he suspected danger."Ibid. pp. 148, 149.

FEELINGS OF A HINDOO BOY UPON THE EVE OF CONVERSION. "Nov. 18. One of the boys of the school, called Benjamin, is under considerable concern; indeed, there is a general stir amongst our children, which affords us great encouragement. The following are some of the expressions used in prayer by poor Benjamin :—

"Oh Lord, the day of judgment is coming: the sun, and moon, and stars will all fall down. Oh, what shall I do in the day of judgment! Thou wilt break me to pieces [literal]. The Lord Jesus Christ was so good as to die for us poor souls: Lord keep us all this day! Oh hell! gnashing, and beating, and beating! One hour weeping, another gnashing! We shall stay there for ever! I am going to hell! I am going to hell! Oh Lord, give me a new heart; give me a new heart, and wash away all my sins! Give me a new heart that I may praise Him, that I may obey Him, that I may speak the truth, that I may never do evil things! Oh, I have many times sinned against thee, many times broken thy commandments, oh many times; and what shall I do in the day of judgment !'"-Ibid. pp. 162, 163.

ALARM OF THE NATIVES AT THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL.

"From several parts of Calcutta he hears of people's attention being excited by reading the