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brother Marshman met her and talked with her . However she was far from being appeased , and said that he was her only son , &c . Before she left us , she threatened to drown herself in Gonga . After leaving our house she went to the Danish magistrate , and to some of the principal Bengalese . "
[ Marshman ' s Journal , j " The magistrate sent for the lad , and questioned him whether it was of choice that he became a Christian . On the lad ' s assuring him that it "was , he told his mother that he should be left wholly to his
own will . In the ceurse of the exami - nation the magistrate asked them what they intended to do with the lad in case they should carry him home ? They answered , " they should put him in irons , and confine him in the house . " This
determined the magistrate to rescue him from their hands . ' " August ii . [ Ward ' s Jo urnal ] About eleven o ' clock this forenoon , while sitting in the printing-office , the Hincarrah comes to tell me that some people
zx € carrying off Ghorachund by force . I went out , and saw the boat passing by opr house with this lad upon it , held down by several persons , who seemed to be pinching him by the neck . The boy was crying out bitterly . I awakened brother Marshman from his Chinese
reverie , and in a minute the whole House , school and servants , were on the banks of the river . William Carey jumped on our boat , which was floating by the side opposite our house :,: the Boatman and other servants put it off , and began to pursue the other in which they were carrying off Gprachund ; we ail following by the side , watching the chase . William and the rest rowed as
though life and death were depending , and the man-stealers were not less active . Our boat being much heavier than the other , the chase seemed very doubtful . Brother Marsh am ran and brought Mr . B . ' s boat , and Mr . B . and his family all took a lively interest in the rescue of this poor creature from the hands of the idolaters . We
followed the boats as far as the eye could reach ; but our friends gained very little djstauce on them , f obtained a glass , and after looking some time , perceived William come up with the enemy , and rescue the young man . A scuffle ensued ; but the idolaters were very much frightened , and especially the poor brahman . Gorachund was full of joy at his deliverance , and he was brought back
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on otzr boat in triumjph . His mother was in the boat : and when she saw her son carrying back , she struck her head against the floor and was almost dis *
tracted . But we * must now Teturn to Serampore , where two of the native brethren had been put in prison and beaten , for a charge of beating a brahman in the strtfggle , when Gorachund was carried off . It seems that this
youth was going to the Bengalee school from our house , in company with a baptized native , named Kassenaut , the apostate Bhyrub , and an enquirer named Bhyrub . As they were passing a flight of steps adjoining the guard-house , some persons from a boat came up ; and seizing Gorachund , a struggle ensued , and
, a large mob collected . The soldiers on guard and the mob assisted the idolaters , and at last the youth was carried on board the boat . A man brought a charge then against our peoplefor beating a brahman . The magistrate committed them to prison , and the people beat them on their way thither . Returning home from the chase , I wrote to IVfr . Otta Bie , the
late Colonel Bie ' s nephew , and entreated him to liberate our people , and that we would be answerable for their appearance whenever he' should call for them * In the evening they were liberated The " brahmans evince the greatest hostility to the missionaries , whom they
sometimes overpower with noise , sometime astound with their metaphysics , " Jan . 8 , 1807 . [ Chamberlain's Journal . ] Went to the city of Jemma-Kondee , and preached in the bazar . A brahman came and made a great noise . He said that God is in every thing , and
does every thing ; that man is nothing ; that every thing is as man thinks , and not as he does ; that imagination is every thing , and that there is reality in nothing ! If any one consider thieving to be righteousness , it is rig hteousness ; and if he account the riches of another
to be his , they are so , and vice versa . In this impious manner he held forth with great volubility , but met with little applause . " Of the work of conversion , one of the missionaries frankly owns that he
can communicate but little , and that his hopes are small , ( p . 250 . ) " The idolatrous heathen , ** says he , " often accost me , saying , * Where is now your God ? Let Jesus Christ come among us and we will believe . Behold , our debtah is before our eyes , ' pointing- to the river , »
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0 $ S Intelligence *—Baptist . Mission in India .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1808, page 628, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2398/page/52/
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