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the neighbourhood of Calcutta . The ^ lissionaries appear , from their letters , to be men of solid understanding , and great fortitude and perseverance . The knowledge of the native languages which they have acquired is astonishing-. The chief of them is Mr . Carey , -who was appointed Professor m the CdJJege
which JVJarquis Wellesley set up in Fort William . Under his superintendencethey have translated the New Testament into Bengalee , and have distributed many hundred copies : a second edition is nearly completed . They have also printed three volumes of the Bible in the same language , and have begun to
print an edition of 10 , 000 copies of a Bengalee translation , of Luke , Acts , and 3 R . on . ians , besides printing innumerable tracts . They propose translating the Scriptures into some of the other lan-Ipiages of India ; as , the Hindoos tanee , the Persian , the Moharastra ( Mahratta ) ,
s * nd the Potkul ( Oorea ) . They have kegun the Mahratta New Testament , as also to cut a fount of Orissa types . A Shanscrit dictionary is begun for the College . They have established a number of free schools for the natives , and carry on likewise a large boarding school for the children of Europeans , by tjie profits
fcf which the Mission is partly supported . The Hindoos are alarmed at their progress , and persecute them as openly as they dare . The cruelties of this people , so much ex tailed by infidel writers , are Incredible . Till the British Government interfered in 1803 , they
were in the habit of throwing their children to the crocodiles and alligators in the Ganges , as an act of religion . During that same year , it appears , from actual inquiry at all the villages and towns for thirty miles round Calcutta , that no less than 438 widows were burnt with their husbands within that
circuit . Yet the Hindoos are shocked at the xruelty of Christians in killing animals , and especially the cow . One tof the Missionaries states , that Chey know nothing of the Christians of St . Thomas , but that a gentleman is gone to visit the Jews at Cochin , in order to examine their Scriptures , who , if he obtain any ancient manuscript , will allow them to see it .
POLIXICO-R KLIG TOU 5 . NEW TRENCH CATECHISM . Jfiandamus of Cardinal JEJelloy , Archfeiftbop of Taxis , authorising the pnt >~
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lication of the Catechism for- the tJ&Sf of all the Churches of the French Empire ; - — " Jean Baptiste Bclloy , Cardinal * Priest of the Holy Roman Church , &c % &c . to the Clergy of our Diocese * health and benediction .
u constant prayer of { he Church is , that the Christian doctrine , essentially one , should be every tohere taught in an uniform manner ( 1 ); that Christians should speak the same language , even as they ought to have the same sentw
ments and the same faith ( a ) . To 6 btain this end , and in execution of an , anterior law , conformable to the wishe * of the Church * a Catechism has heen composed , to be the only one in use in all the churches of the French empire .
" It is not ,, my beloved brethren , for want of the acknowledgement of an in- * herent right in the Episcopacy to teach the sacred truths of religion . It is knowa that it is to the apostles only that Jesus Christ has said—>* Go and teach all nations : behold * I am with you always unto the consummation of the ages' ( j ) .
c < The Prince who governs / us , though raised by Providence to the sumrrjit of human power , glories in . acknowledging * that the right of preaching tb $ dogmas of the Holy Church of God * does not belong to Emperors but to Pontiffs ( 4 )* H $ confesses , with one pf his illustrious predecessors upon the throne of France , * that if the duty of the bishops is to declare with freedom the truth which they have
( 1 ) Quemadmodum " unus est Dominus , una fides , ** ita etiam una sit tradendss fidei , ad omniaque pietatis oflicia populum Christianum erudiendi , communis regulaatque prescription——Catcch *
Trid . pnef . x . ( 2 ) Obsecro autem vos , fratres , per nomen Domini nostri Jesus Christi , ut idipsum dicatis omnes . „ . . Sitis autem pcrfecti in eodem sensu et in e&dcm sententfa . 1 Cor . i . 10 .
( 3 ) Euntes ergo docete omnes gentes . . - . . Ecce vobiscum sum omnibus die- * bus usque ad con summation em sseculi . —• Matth . xxviii . ( 4 ) Scis , Iniperator , sanctac Ecclesian T > el dogma non Imperatorum csse sed Pontificum , quas rectd debent praed * - cari . —Greg . II , tfisu ad X . con . antC ^ fynodi acta * ,
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494 Religions and Politfco-Rcligi < ms Intelligence .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 494, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/46/
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