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    sure that the affinity which Calvinism iri many of its parts bears to Paganism , iriay not facilitate the conversion of Hindoos and other Heathens . The Roman Catholics have always proved more successful in their missions to the Heatheris than Protestants , owing to the circumstance of their barbarous

    doctrines , and gross ceremonies , befitting the degraded , minds of their auditors . Tne accounts which the Baptist Missionaries transmit home , from time to time , familiarize throughout a wide circle , Indian manners , customs , mythology and Tiistory to British minds , and thus connect the colony moreclosely

    With the parent state . If their design should fail , they will have had the merit of having laid a mass of information concerning Hiiidostan before the public , and of having made the study of the character and religion of the Hindoos popular . The labours of the Asiatic Society interest only the learned .

    In our first Volume , p . 493 , 494 , gave an abstract of the 15 th number of the < c Periodical accounts relative to the Mission . * We refer our readers to it fer the sake of entering more fully into the epitome with whicrh we now present diem of the 16 th number .

    The head quarters of the . Mission is at •* Seramporey a Danish settlement , a little above Calcutta , on the river Hoogly . '• Here the Missionaries have always received the encouragement from a foreign people , which they were denied by their own countrymen . Colonel Bit , the Governor , who was very obliging to them , died May 18 , 1805 , aged

    seveiitvfive . One of them , noting his death in his J ournal , remarks that " a ray of hope beamed forth at the last hour . His relations' * he adds , " say that they heard him almost the wfiolc night preceding his decease , praying most fervently to his Saviour . As a governor he was a worth y character . His mind had been cultivated by a liberal education , and his sentiments were noble and

    enlarged . He revered a good man , and despised modern infidelity / ' He was burieel by Mr . Carey , who preached his funeral sermon . " All the poor natives lamented hi * death , exclaiming , * Never shall we « ce another such a master . He b succeeded in the government by

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    Mr . Krcftingi who has been congratulated by the missionaries . . Two new missionaries have arrived in Bengal -which makes the number , now there , ten . One who was on prq « baiion in England , has declined ; t wi * other probationers have been received . A new place of worship is erectin g ^ partly , we suppose , for the use of the missionaries at Calcutta . The mission .

    house has been much enlarged by the purchase of some adjoining premises . An interesting account is given of a . missionary journey , undertaken by two of the missionaries , in company with two of the native brethren , to Dha ? ca \ large city , two or tjiree hundred mile ^ N . E ; of Serampore . On their way , the people of one place desired to know 4 < what difference there was between

    Creechno ( their God ) . and Christ ; and whether they were not ih £ same ?' ' After arriving at Dhacca ,, they distributed in an hour and a half , no less than 4000 pamphlets . But they were stopped by a magistrate who dcr manded their passports , which they fea 4

    not , and forbidden to circulate any more tracts , as they had created gr ^ U uneasiness among the people . * ' They therefore left the city for the country * In one village they found a congregation of Hindoo Roman Cathoiifj , consisting of 500 families 1 Nothing is said of their history , but they are described as enter *

    taining the same blind devotion to the priest as Roman Catholics of othei countries . They did not appear how * r ever to hold their idols in high venera ^ tion . The missionaries could not help admiring the visible change which even so corrupted a system of Christianity had

    produced in their manners . It would be worth while for the society to make inquiry into the means by which so many Hindoos were converted ; so many more than have been converted by their missionaries , confessedly able and zealous men , after m *^ ny years of

    painful labour . The missionaries pursue their studies with ardour ; some of them arc labouring hard at the Clxinese language . " A young Armenian , Mr . y . Losscr , bora at Macao , and educated u « d « er native Chinese masters , is instructing the »*« He has Uecn employed by a geotleawi *

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    560 Baptist Mission in India

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 560, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/52/