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* ears residence on the island , a civil war hasxonstrained the Missionaries to retire to Huaheine , an island about 26 leagues tH stanceirom it ; with the exception indeed of ** fonrofthe single brethren " who maintained their ground at
Otahcite when the last advice * were received , but were expected shortly- to follow their companions . The emigrants were Ipodly received by the Chiefs of Huaheine * and the Directors begin to indulge hopes from their dispersion , which the course of events' scarcely allowed them to entertain from their
quiet settlement . Darin ? the lastyear , one of the Qtaheitan Missionaries returned to England , in < juest of a wife , having first failed in the same pursuit , at Botany Bay . At home he not only succeeded in " , obtaining a suitable partner , " but is accompanied , on his return by u four other pious women , ** whom " the single brethren at Otaheite will
have an opportunity of visiting , " in © rd * r to " unite themselves with pious partners /* They are accompanied by Tapioe , a native of Otaheite , whom curiosity had brought to England , and who during two years was receiving instructioa here ; though less under the patronage of the Missionary Society , we
believe , than of some private gentlemen , who have not been well thought or by 4 fce Society , fc ^ r insinu ating by -their benevolent cS ^ ts ^ that there was any branch of benevolence which the directors had it ^ t tmdone . * Through the interposition of Sir Joseph Banks , [ backed probably by Mr . Wilbcrfbrce 5 SKr Joseph js not an M . P . ] Government granted a free passage to the seven persons just mentioned , and contributed to the
equipment of the Taheitan stranger for his voyage , furnishing him also with presents for his countrymen . Some hundred copies of a spelling-book in the Taheitan language , which was sent over by the Missionaries to be printed in London , Have been taken to the South Sea , by the missionary voyagers . The Report concludes under this head , rather gloomily— " Positive instances of
Con-• * Mr , Fox * s pamphlet on this subject wiews that the Oligarchy of the Tabernacle will not sufler any one to re-* i 3 r a a » ong them , who is not tptsnd in frtwice as welt as faith , and prepared to obey e ^ rery dictate 0 / the Junta , to ju bmit to contempt and to applaud , in-« iBcrimui * teI y , every measure .
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version cannot he produced ; " " The So * cietymttstpaticntty wait the Lord's time !* ASIA is the great theatre where all our missionary sects are contending for the prize of " immortal souls j" all being persuaded that for no other ultimate purpose than their conversion has the Disposer of nations subjected this immense region to the Government of Britain .
At Madras nothing had occurred , the past year , worthy of notice , except that the boys" charity school , [ Monthly Repository , iv . 461 ] erected by Brother iLoveless , " had succeeded so well , that a proposal had been made to commence a female scb 9 $ l > on the same plan z the subscription was begun , and application had been made to
Government , to render these establishments permanent The following account of the cwvertlon of a Bramm ' has been sent from the Missionaries at Viiagapatam . "We give it in the words of the Directors in an Appendix to the Report . " A Mahrattean , or Bandida
Branrin , about thirty years of age , was an accountaat in a regiment of Tippoo ' s troops ; and , after his death , in a si * milar employment under an English officer . Having an earnest desire to obtain eternal happiness , he was advised By an elder Bramin to repeat 9 . certaia
prayer four hundred thousand times / This severe task he undertook , and * performed it in a pagoda , together with many fatiguing- ceremonies , taking care to exceed the number prescribed . After six months , deriving no comfort at all from these laborious exercises ' , he
resolved to return % o his family at No-« om , and live as "before . On his way home , he met with a Roman Catholic Christian , who conversed with him on religious subjects ; and gave hiin two books on the Chrisian religion , irit the Telingajbuaguage , to read . These ^ he perusec } with much attention , admired their ' eontents > and resolved to make
further inquiries into the religion of Christ ; and , if satisfied , to Accept of it . He was then recommended to a Roman priest , who , not choosmjg to trust him too milch , ^ rt «| uired him to go home to his relations , and return again with his wife . He obeyed this direction ; but found all his friends exceedingly surprised aad alarmed hy hit intention of becoming a Christian , and thus bringing reproach upon his caste To prevent this , they offered
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Intelligence . —Missionary Society . 12 S
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1811, page 123, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2413/page/59/
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