the way of salvation; this made me very sorry indeed. But I hope they will not disregard the word of God they have heard. Zoule, who is my elder brother, told me that I must go home next year. But I told him that I did not expect to go home before I had been to America. I also told him that if I wait all I can, and if the Board do not send for me, then I will go home next year. Now dear friends, please write to me on this subject, and also write to Mr. Clarke on the subject. Mr. Clarke is very willing that I should go to America. Please write to me or else send for me. I wish I could see Mr. Crocker and Mr. Mylne again. May God bless you and direct your way to his kingdom, is the earnest prayer of your unworthy friend. LEWIS K. CROCKER, or KONG KOBA. P. S. Dear Sirs-I have told you I want to go home to teach, but all I have in mind is to do good, and if you think it best for me to stay here, there is no objection to it at all, although I want to live near my aged mother; she has no other child but me, and she has no husband. These are the reasons I want to live near her, and to support her, and to tell her the dying love of the Savior, and to persuade her to escape from the wrath of the Almighty. But my best desire is to do good, to do the will of God. May God bless you, and all the true Israel of God, for his Son's sake. Amen. Please excuse my broken language, and please to correct all my incorrect syntax and orthography. UNION OF EFFORT. The following is an extract of a letter from the Rev. Amos Sutton, dated Cuttack, June 2, 1842, written to the Rev. Edward Steane, on the occasion of his receiving £150 through Mr. Steane from the Bible Translation Society, for the translation of the scriptures in Orissa. Mr. Sutton, it will be recollected, is a General Baptist, and is sustained by his brethren of that denomination in England. "It becomes my duty, as well as privilege, to acknowledge with our best thanks your munificent grant of £150 for the translation of the New Testament, or parts of it, into Oriya. Your remittance has been forwarded by Rev. Dr. Pike. We hail this grant as an indication of your growing prosperity, and as an expression of those fraternal feelings which we love to cherish and reciprocate. Our labors, hopes, and aims are so emphatically one with those of your own beloved brethren in India, that aught which serves to identify us as laborers in a common cause, from our friends at home, is peculiarly grateful to my feelings. Through an endeared intimacy of sixteen years with the beloved Pearce, how often have we, by letter and by conversation, revolved the means by which our middle wall of partition may be broken down, and we become one in fact as we are one in heart; satisfied with being Baptists, and leaving any more particular, and any less general designation to be forgotten. He had this object much at heart when he visited England; and with evident regret was obliged to communicate to me that the time was not yet come. Surely, my dear sir, we are not to go on through all time perpetuating our petty divisions, and bequeathing them when we die as a burdensome legacy to our native churches! Surely the prayer of our Lord for the unity of his church should be as precious to us as our diversified shades of opinion or doctrinal questions, which neither party can so state as to be exposed to no pressing difficulty from the other! Nor is the question one of slight importance now. The truth as it is in Jesus is attacked on every hand, not by avowed enemies only, but by professed friends; and, if I mistake not the signs of the times, the Baptists have a testimony to bear for God's truth, far surpassing in importance any service to which they have hitherto been called. I deem that they have been preserved and strengthened hitherto that they may in the coming struggle stand forth as faithful witnesses for Christ. I speak but the language of one who is fully persuaded in his own mind when I say, that the Baptists alone can take up the bible and say, Within this book is contained all I profess; this is all my salvation and all my desire. I need no reference to councils, the fathers, or church history. Here, and here alone, I rest my cause; this only would I believe; this only would I practise! There is no resting place for the sole of my foot between this and popery.' Or, in other words, the bible alone or the bible and tradition must be the alternative. "If such a crisis be at hand, surely it will be well to dispense with our unworthy divisions, and come up to the help of the Lord, presenting one unbroken front. The sound of the battle has been heard in India, and I think, during my late visit to Calcutta, we all felt that we must be at least on our watch-tower, and often inquiring of each other, Watchman! what of the night?'"' CONDITION OF A NEW SETTLER. In our last, we gave a brief obituary of the Rev. Jesse L. Holman. Mr. Holman removed to Indiana in 1811, when the country was yet a wilderness. The place of his residence was in Dearborn county, on a romantic bluff on the banks of the Ohio, which he named Verdestau. The following sketch of his reception at his new home, subsequently drawn by himself, is but a just representation of what many a new settler and many a missionary has experienced, but which few have ever attempted to describe. them on the bed and wrapped it over them-cheered and encouraged the dear woman with the assurance that she should have all the comforts it was in my power to give gave her lips and her heart all the warmth my kisses could impart-then secured my horses and sought the nearest habitation. There are very few can outrun me when I put forth my utmost speed, and never had I such a motive for speed before. I had run when I thought the Indian's tomahawk just behind me I had run from the fangs of the surly bear and the ferocious wolf-but I never before run to prevent my wife and my child from perishing with cold. Seldom, if ever, was such a distance traversed by man in so short a time. The strides I made in descending the hill could afterwards be seen in the snow, and they were prodigious; but I could have run no further. I instantly despatched two men, inspired with something of the energy with which I was nerved. I had to pause and breathe a few minutes myself, but my wife and child were too dear to let me linger while I was able to move. I returned, however, much slower than I came. My two neighbors, with a zeal and diligence for which I shall always feel grateful, had built up a large, blazing fire, and swept the snow from the floor, and my wife with a bright counte "I sent my household furniture, a very small stock, by water, in time for it to reach Verdestau before my arrival. The weather had been remarkably fine for several days, and on Monday evening, when we crossed the river into Indiana, there seemed to be a fair prospect of its continuance; but about the time we started on Tuesday morning, it commenced snowing, and the snow continued to fall all day. My wife's health was still delicate, and her babe but two months old, yet we persevered in our journey, In fact, there was little prospect of our doing better, as there were very few families living on the road, and not much promise of accommodation in any of them. When we reached our cabin, we were cold, hungry, and fatigued; and what a prospect was present-nance was soon seated before the fire, on ed! The eye of civilized woman scarcely ever looked upon a more lonely, dreary, desolate habitation. The men who had charge of my furniture had not arrived; no mark of human feet-no, nor the feet of any animal, had disturbed the smooth surface of the snow. All was as still-as uniform-as unbroken, as if no living thing had ever been there, or had long since departed. The inside of the hut was as chilling and as cheerless as the prospect without. The snow had drifted through the crevices in the roof, and down the open chimney, and covered the floor, and in some places was as deep as it was without. There was no fire, and it was more than a mile, and down the long river hill, to the nearest dwelling, and night was setting in.joyed when surrounded with all the comAnd there we were-myself weary-my wife sinking with exhaustion, chilled, and shivering with cold—our sweet, tender infant-it was no time for thought, but for action. Not that we don't think in such emergencies; but thoughts rush in such rapid succession that scarcely a moment is employed in thinking. I had a small feather-bed and some blankets, which I had used while preparing my habitation. I scraped the snow from a part of the floor, and there laid the bed, and folded my wife and her babe in the blankets, then laid one of the few stools which were my only seats. Our neighbors having rendered us all the assistance we needed, returned home. I had a coffee-pot and some tin cups, in which we made and drank our tea, not the most palatable to refined teadrinkers; but we were thankful for itafter which I read a chapter in the bible, and we, for the first time in our lives, as a worshipping family, knelt down together and gave thanks to God for the mercies we had enjoyed, and committed ourselves to his paternal care. There is not much of this world's goods that are absolutely necessary to happiness, and we lay down that night on our very humble couch with feelings as cheerful as we had ever en forts, the luxuries, and the splendors of life. So it was with me, and so I believe it was with my wife. She was far less accustomed to privations than I was; but she always said, and I believe she said truly, that she could be happy with me in any situation. But she was now, and for a long time, put severely to the test. "Our furniture did not arrive we looked for it day after day, but it came not: we were suffering for the want of it; and our neighbors were too few, too far distant, and too destitute themselves to lend us any, and there was none to be purchased. I borrowed a single chair, and one or two trifling articles, and with these we lived for about a week. I was compelled to go out several times among the neighbors, in order to procure the means of subsistence, and we had few nearer than three or four miles. On these occasions Betsey was left alone with her infant in a solitary wild, where no other human beings were to be seen, and she knew not where any were to be found, in case she needed assistance or protection. Transported thus at once from a populous region, swarming with inhabitants, from the border of a highway, along which a stream of passengers was incessantly flowing, to an unpeopled wilderness, which the retiring savages had recently given up to the wild beasts and a few backwoods Americans, her imagination had full room for dreary pictures and dark apprehensions. Every thing tended to invite gloom and foreboding. My presence insured protection; my smile lightened the solitary scenery; but in my absence, all was startling loneliness." AUTO-BIOGRAPHY OF DANIEL, Ꭺ HINDOO CONVERT. The following auto-biography was communicated by the Rev. E. Lewis, missionary of the Loudon Society at Coimbatoor. His parentage, and early attachment to heathenism. The glorious God, who rules all things in heaven and in earth, and who guides the affairs of individuals as well as of whole nations, ordained in his mysterious providence that I should be born in a heathen land. Like the great majority of my countrymen, I attended to the rules and ceremonies of the Hindoo religion, without ever once inquiring whether my religious performances were either acceptable to God, or consonant with the common sense of mankind. I was always taught to cherish the memory of my forefathers with the greatest veneration, and the simple fact that their religion was also mine, sufficiently proved to my mind that I was doing right; as, alas! it still does to my poor mother and the rest of my relatives. I never thought any thing about the evil nature of heathenism and idolatry before I heard of the religion of Jesus Christ. But when I was informed that a teacher of religion had come from England, teaching the people that the idols which I and my countrymen worshipped were nothing more than things made of stone, copper, brass, and the like materials; that the worshipping of them was a sin which would prevent our entrance into heaven, I exclaimed, "Oh, what is that? does he speak so of our gods? is it true what he says?" Whilst I thought thus, I became desirous of being made acquainted with christianity. First comparison of Hindooism and Christianity. As soon as I acquired a little insight into the nature of the Christian religion, I thought within myself, " Well, if this be true, mine is a false religion-a mixture of truth and error; a religion which has been fabricated by the perverse understanding of men: the things contained in it do not comport with the character of a holy God; the histories of our gods, as recorded in it, are disgusting even to be heard. Such a religion, therefore, must certainly lead to destruction." Moreover, I was afraid that if I continued in it, and walked after the example of these false gods, I should, in the first place, be punished in the present world, even as Bramah was, who, for his lustful desires, was cursed with the loss of one of his heads; as Vishnu, who, for his great sin, was doomed to be deprived of his reason; and as Siva, who, for his sin of murder, was subjected to the curse of becoming a fool and a vagabond on earth; and worse than all this, that I should hereafter be exposed to the wrath of a holy and just God, and cast into hell, there to remain for ever. Convictions resisted and overcome. I thought with pity on myself and others, that it was doubtless through ignorance that our forefathers continued in heathenism, and brought up their children in it with the impression that it was the true religion. I thought, moreover, that Christianity must be the true religion, and that the salvation of the soul must be through Jesus Christ, who knew no sin. But then the thought struck me, that if I desired to follow such a religion, and really did so, my mother, brothers, relatives, companions, and countrymen, would view me with a burning jealousy and utter detestation; yet I was partly convinced, that if I did not yield myself to God, through Christ the Savior, I should be cast into the lake burning with fire, there to endure endless torments. I continued in abominable heathenism, and was confirmed in it in the following manner. Some of my townsmen put to me very perplexing questions; the sophistry of which I was, at that time, unable to detect and refute. Thus, after my former convictions of the evil of idolatry, and my partial relinquishment of it, I again returned to its foul delusions. Still Confirmed hostility to the truth. still a heathen, I put Vishnu's mark upon My friends, still fearing that I might become a Christian, if I continued at Coimbatoor, sent me to Madras, where I was placed under the tuition of the college moonshee, who instructed me in various Hindoo books relating to idolatry, by means of which I furnished my mind with many arguments against the Christian re-ger, and determined, whatever might be the consequence, to make a profession of Chrisligion, and returned to Coimbatoor with a high testimonial to my character from the tianity. celebrated moonshee. After my return to Coimbatoor, I firmly believed that Christianity was altogether false, that I could not enter heaven if I embraced it; and I prided myself on possessing sufficient skill to prove that my religion was true, and to confute the arguments of any one who adhered to any religion opposed to the one I held. In March, 1841, I was enabled to reI nounce idolatry, and felt a strong desire to deliver up my heart to Jesus Christ. then began to see and feel my really awful state before God. All the sins I had committed, and which I before regarded as light and trivial, I felt to be a heavy load too great to be supported by myself. In my distress I went to Mr. Lewis, confessed to him my sins, told him the state of my Conviction revived, but indecision con- mind, and inquired what I should read, or tinued. what I should do, to obtain comfort. He took me immediately into a private room, interceded with God through Jesus Christ In Divine Providence, the Rev. E. Lewis came to this place, and employed me as a on my behalf, and advised me to read the Whilst engaged in inTamil moonshee. gospel frequently. He also told me that structing him, I was in the habit of bring- all men were sinners like myself, and that ing forward many objections to the religion no man could at any time be justified by of Christ; but I was quickly put to shame his own righteousness: by following his and silence by the answers which he regood counsels I obtained peace of mind. turned to each of my objections; and I be- Now I firmly believe that if ever I am juscame convinced that all my disputes were tified, it must be entirely through the vain. After this I gave myself up to righteousness of Jesus Christ. My mind thought and meditation, and during the few is daily enlightened in the knowledge of months I was considering the superiority divine things, and rejoices more and more of Christianity, and the inferiority of hea-in prayer to God through Jesus Christ. I thenism, my mind was in a state of extreme perplexity, sadness and disquietude. At this period a gentleman put into my hand a book called the Pilgrim's Progress, which I read. Partly by reading this book, and partly by the remembrance of all the labor which had been expended on me at Coimbatoor, I began to feel that the Christian religion was the only true religion, and that Christ was the only sinless Savior. My mind was in a most distressing and miserable state. My confidence in Vishnu was shaken, whilst my faith in Jesus Christ was very weak. Vishnu pulled me by the one hand, and Christ by the other; and not knowing whom to worship, Vishnu or Christ, I went out to the river side, sat down, and wept. To rid myself of so much misery, I was nearly on the point of putting an end to my life; but then I thought that to do so would be a sin. Conversion to Christ. I then went to the house of the Rev. *Hindoo instructor. read the scriptures with great thirst, which, to my exceeding joy, I find is daily increased in proportion as it is supplied with the good things of the gospel. Endurance of obloquy for the gospel's sake. Some of them Since I have embraced this true religion, it is sad to hear the remarks that are made on me by my townsmen. that I have been bewitched by medicine; say that I am a downright fool; others, and others predict that in a few months I shall be seized and destroyed by the leprorationally. They give me credit for sincerSy; some, however, speak a little more ity at least, for they say that I could not act thus without sufficient reason, and if the Christian religion were not true, I should They console not have embraced it. themselves for the loss sustained by the cause of idolatry in my departure from its ranks, by saying, that the time is coming when all the inhabitants of the earth shall be like me; but they advise me, if I am determined to continue a Christian, to be so inwardly, but outwardly to be a heathen. I am determined, however, by the grace | her, and upon the people of her caste; and of God, to continue faithful to the Lord. I in return weep and pray for her. As soon as I found by experience the power of divine grace within me, I became very desirous of bringing many to the Lord Jesus Christ; and from that time to the present, I cease not, through the grace of God assisting me, to warn my relatives, companions, and hundreds more, of the evil of idolatry, admonishing them to forsake it, and inviting them to believe in Jesus Christ. In this I have met with little encouragement; on the contrary, I am called to endure much persecution. My mother and brother have turned me out of their house, and the people generally have united to drive me out of the town. Whenever my mother sees me she weeps, beats her breast, pulls her hair, and upbraids me for, the disgrace which she considers I have brought upon Public profession of Christ. On the 21st of November, 1841, I was baptized by Mr. Lewis, who had labored most to effect my conversion to God. And I humbly trust, that the hope I now entertain of persevering to the end as a genuine believer, will, by the grace of God, be realized. With much affection I beseech you who are Christians in England, to pray earnestly for Christians in India, and to increase the number of your missionaries in this country. You are rich and can well afford it; and it is better that your money should be employed in sending missionaries to India, than that idolatry should send the souls of the Hindoos to hell. American Baptist Board of Foreign Missions. MEETING AT WORCESTER. In consideration of the low state of the missionary feeling in our churches, the Acting Board called a public meeting of the friends of missions, to be held at Worcester on the 2d and 3d ult., which was numerously attended, both by ministers and laymen, from each of the New England States, to which the call was confined. The meeting was delightfully harmonious, and gave decided evidence of a return to a better state of feeling. There were few present, we presume, whose minds were not deeply impressed with a conviction that they had felt far too little upon the great subject of evaugelizing the world. The meeting was deeply religious, and a considerable portion of the time was spent in prayer. The Treasurer gave an account of the present state of the finances of the Board, from which it appeared, that from $35,000 to $40,000 would be needed by the first of April next, to enable the Board to meet its engagements for the current year. Valuable papers were read by each of the Secretaries, touching their respective departments. Reports were also presented and read by the several Committees appointed on the occasion, which elicited many cordial and fervid remarks from members of the conference. A missionary sermon was preached on the evening of the first day by the Rev. Baron Stow. A pretty full abstract of the paper presented by the Foreign Secretary will be found below. A number of letters were also read from absent brethren, who felt a cordial interest in the object of the meeting, but who could not attend. These added not a little to the interest of the occasion. The following from a private brother, who has a numerous family depending upon his daily industry for their support, will furnish a lesson of instruction, we think, to most who may read it. "When I read your Circular, my heart was filled with joy, for although I had not heard a word of the intended meeting, I had been hoping and praying for some time past, that something might be done to arouse the people of God to a deep and heartfelt sense of the obligation that rests upon them to send the Bread of Life to a perishing world; and when I had twice read it over carefully, my heart exclaimed, Lord Jesus, be in their midst!' I considered myself cordially invited to attend the meeting, and said, I will devote the 2d and 3d days of November to the cause of missions, and go to Worcester. But, upon reflection, I thought it would do no good to the missionary cause for me to attend ; whereas if I staid at home, and labored vice. I, therefore, intend, if the Lord perand prayed, it might be of some little sermit, to spend the first day of the meeting in prayer for the blessing of God to descend and rest upon those who shall assemble, and the second day to labor with my hands. I, therefore, enclose to you five dollars; three dollars and fifty cents, I |