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    brahman , or an image ! * who (< whom ) have Voti been able to convert ? You

    have been here , how many years ; what have you done ? Behold ( says a brahman ) nobody minds what yo \ i say : the whole country regards us and are at our beck . ' " During the year 1806 , twenty-two persons were baptized , making in all of

    baptized petsons ( by immersion ) 104 , ten of whom are Europeans . In the course of the last six years the missionaries have been under the necessity of excluding thirteen church members , and six have been removed by death . The total number of native members who

    remain in the two churches of Serampore and Dinagepore ( see M . Repos . vol . ii . p . 5 61 . ) is 75 . * One of the ' missionaries ( Biss ) dkd of a liver , complaint ,-on a voyage for the benefit of his health from India to

    America . He was afflicted it seems , with sore temptations and trials in his sickness , not however without frequent intervals of hope and peace . His wife and four children who accompanied him in the ship were sent back to India to the mission family , her heart being set ! on the service of Christ and the mission .

    Memoirs of a tedious length are inserted in the « ' accounts' * of two deceased native preachets and also the journals of two others still living who are sent out to itinerate . These natives

    are , as might be supposed , ignorant and fanatical ; and if any thing could prejudice the mission in our ey , es it would be the employment of such unenlightened , semi-barbarous instructors . They seem to have no other idea of

    Christianity than as a neiv cast , or of the New Testament than as the history of another incarnation . But alas ! this is not very different from the Evangelical Christianity prevailing at home ; for the election and reprobation of the Calvinists divide men into nothing less than casts , and their Christ bears too near a resemblance to

    Kceshnoo-The missionaries call loudly for more fellow labourers , and it is creditable to them that they request such young men to be sent out as are already qualified by the knowledge of Hebrew , Greek and Latin .

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    In the present number we arc pleased with several communications from Mr .

    Carey , the want of which in the last number , we lamented . ( M . Repbsl vol . ii . p , 561 . ) His character is well described in a speech of the head-pundit at the mission-house : " I do not know -what kind of a body Carey Sahib ' s is !

    He is never sensible of fatigue or hunger , and never leaves a thing till it is finished ! " Mr . Carey loses his temper in one of his letters . " India / ' says he , " swarms with Deists ! and Deists are in my opinion the most intolerant of

    mankind . Their great desire is to exterminate true religion from the earth , I consider the alarms which have been spread through India as the fabrications bf these men . ' * Mr . Fernandez , of whom we gavd some account in the last volume , has dedicated 10 , 000 rupees to the . mission , together wit-h the profits arising from

    that sum in trade , to commence in 1 B 07 . Some interesting particulars of ' the Burman Empire , have been communicated hy the two missionaries , , wh 6 were sent thither . The Burman Empire is about 800 miles long , lying con ^ tiguous to Bengal on the east ; but is inaccessible by land on account of the

    mountains covered witfh thick forest ^ which run between the two countries . The east side of this empire borders upon China , Cochin-China and Tonquin ; the Chinese language is understood by the Burmans . The principal sea-port of Burmah is Rangoon . Many Burman traders find their way to

    Calcutta through the creeks and rivers which communicate with that country by Way of the Sunderbunds . The Burmans are Hindoos ; as well as the Bengalese , but of a . different ; sect ; , and their superstitions appear to be widely different . To change their religion ia no disgrace . The government never meddles ixith

    any thing that bears the name of religion ^ but grants privileges to all alike , Aj \ d persons sustaining the character ot teachers of religion , whether Christian , Mahommedan , or Pagan , have more privileges than other foreigners . The Catholics have three separate places of worship at Rangoon ; their congregations are not very large ; nor are the ^

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    Intelligence *— -Baptist Mission in India * 61 §

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    '» * It is very difficult to make out a connected history bf the mission from * the numberless journals ,, letters , and parts of letters which make up the " Accounts . " It would save the reader much trouble if a succinct statement of the affairs of ths mission were given by the Editor in every number . From a letter of Carey ' s , dated J une fc , 1807 , we learn that there are four churches in Bengal , one at Jcssore , aad another at Cutwa , besides those mentioned above .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1808, page 629, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2398/page/53/