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Letter by Dr . Watson , Bishop of' Llandaffi on an Ecclesiastic cal Establishment for British India . From " Christian Researches in Asia ; 1 by the Rev . Claudius Buchanan , D . D . JLate Vice-Provost of the College of Fort-William , in Bengal . 8 vo . i 8 n .
pp . z $ o— % S 5-Calgarth-Park , K end ale ^ 14 th May , 1806 : Rev . Sir , Some weeks ago I received your Memoir of the expediency of an ecclesiastical Establishment for
British India ; for which obliging attention I now return you my best thanks . I hesitated for some time whether I ought to interrupt your speculations with my acknowledgments for so valuable a present ;
but on being informed of the noble premium , by which you purpose to exercise the talents of graduates in the University of Cambridge , I determined to express to you nay admiration of your disinterestedness and zeal in the cause of
Christianity . Twenty years and more have now elapsed since , in a sermon , before the "House of Lords ^ I hinted to the then government , the
propriety of paying regard to the propagation of Christianity in India ; and I have since then , as fit occasions offered , privately , but unsuccessfully , pressed the matter on the consideration of
those in power . If my voice or opinion can , in future , " be of any weight with the king ' s ministers , I shall be most ready to exert myself , in forwarding any prudent measure for promoting a liberal
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ecclesiastical establishmcntin'Bri tish India ; it is not without ? con . sideration that I say a liberal cs . tablishment , because I heartily wish that every Christian should be at liberty to worship God according to his conscience , and he
assisted therein by a teacher , at the public expense , of his o \ rn persuasion . The subjects you have proposed for-the work which shall obtain your prize , are all of them
judiciously chosen , and if properl y treated ( as my love for my Alma Mater persuades me they will fee ) may probably turn the thoughts of the legislature towards the measure you reccommend .
The Salutaris Lux Evatigclii , by Fabricius , published at Hamburgh in 1731 , will be of great use to the candidates for your prize ; and his Index Geogfaphicits
Episcopatuum Or bis Christiani , subjoined to that work , might , if accompanied with proper Not < s , afford a very satisfactory elucidation of your third head *
God in his providence , hath so ordered things , that America , which three hundred years aiio was peopled by none but Pagans , has now many millions of
Christians in it ; and Avill not , probably , three hundred years hence , have a single Pagan in it , but be occupied by more Christians , and more enlightened Christians than now exist in Europe .
Africa is not now worse fitted for the reception of Christianity than America was , when it was first visited by Europeans ; and Asia is much better fitted for it , inasmuch as Asia enjoys a com >
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 262, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/6/
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