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in Calcutta , to translate the scriptures from the Armenian bible into Chinese , and has made considerable progress . " Mr . Marshtaan informs one of his correspondents , that he has committed to metftory 400 Chinese sentences , and finds the language perfectly attainable . This gentleman has also drawn up a
memorial on the practicability and propriety of translating and printing the scriptures , particularly the New Testament , into ail the languages of India , and distributing them among the natives . It is calculated , that for the sum of ^ oool . two thousand copies 5 n each language may be printed , bound , and circulated . The brethren have agreed to add all the Hindoo and Mussulman
wiasters to the mission ' library ; also to have a lecture in the family , once a fortnight , on the languages and religions of the East . * Within a year and a quarter , forty-t ? vo persons , chiefly natives , have made a profession of the Christian faith by baptism ^ The church at Serairjpore now
consists of etghty-ttv members . A church , consisting of tight members , has beeit also constituted at Dinagepore * , under the pastoral care of Mr , Fernandez , " whose history is singular He was born in the island of Macao , on the jeast of China , of Portuguese of Italian extraction , and was educated for a Roman Catholic priest . His own good tense ,
however , made him , without any other help , a protestant . Two orthrec more churches are soon to be organized . Jn planting separate churches , native pastors are always to be appointed , and native deacons , that the missionaries may preserve their original character . Several of the native converts , as might have been expected , have relapsed into vice , if not idolatry .
In these " accounts * ' we are sorry to find nothing scarcely of Mr . Carey * s . It cannot be supposed that his professorship in the college prevents his correspondence with his friends in England ; and if the editors of this work have
letters or journals of his , arid refuse frorn any cause to publish them , they are surely chargeable with ill-policy . May * e hazard the suspicion that Carey ' s tomniunications being more sober , or rather less enthusiastic than those of others , . are on that account postponed to
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them ! At tlie saine time , it is but justice to say , that , with a few excep ^ ion ^ the articles drawn up by the missionaries offer no violence to common sense Some of the earlier missionaries had the good fortune to go oot in a ship belonging tp a religious American captain ,
WickeS ) who has ever since hefiiended the mission . H aving . lately received a . thousand guineas from the society tp remit to Fndia , he excited his countrymen to add something to it , and accordingly the religious public of the United States raised the large sum of 1315 I . « u
The finances of the society are in a flourishing * state . The subscriptions in 180 $ -were , for the general purposes , p . E the mission , 24 Z 9 L 3 s . 8 d . and Tor the translation of the Scriptures , ( inclusive of the American contributions ) 1573 I . 14 s . 9 d . The balance now in hajad i * 1623 T . is . o . d . "
The design of giving the Scripture ? to the natives of India , in . their several languages , is so excellent , that we think it ought to be encouraged by all classes of Christians . And as a separate fund is raised "by the society for this purpose , Christians o £ any denomination may contribute to this great work-without
being considered as supporters of the creed of Calvin . We should rejoice to see Unitarians throwing in their mite towards the important object , and thus proving that , piovided the gospel be published , they rejoice with Christian sincerity * regardless . of what are the peculiarities of the denomination which
fias set the scheme on foot , We consider Unitarianism as Christianity * -anil we believe that Christianity will in the end universally prevail : we ought there * fore to regard the missionaries in India as pioneers , who are opening the way for future t . eacliers , who will ' * proclaim the truth as it is in Jesus .
CHRISTIANS IN JAMAICA . — The Christian slave-holders in Jamaica * are equally zealous as our prelates at home , in maintaining good order and regular spiritual government . They have stepped forward at various times for the support of the church as by L * avr Established , and in their wisdom lunrie £
lately passed ' a law for stopping the progress of schism among the -slaves , JrjT which , these unhappy creatures will W « den i iYid in a great measure of the only
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Christians in Jarfcdtcu * 361
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 561, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/53/
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