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    try , in the place , are numberless praas * dr temples and images of Gaud ma , which meet the eye in every direction . — The laws of the country are described as very

    sanguinary . A man had been executed in a terrible- -manner only for using a gilt chattra ( a kind of P&f asol , ) which is considered as a treasonable action in the common

    people . Two other men were Executed with him for having accepted a bribe to screen him from punishment / ' One missionary , hforrisoUj is in China . — " By his Journal it appears that he contu Hues to apply himself with the most

    Commendable assiduity , and with considerable success , at Canton , £ fid " acc&simmlly at Macao , to the study of the extremely difficult language of China . From the grammar and dictionary which he &as with i mmense labo u r co m posed , the most valuable assistance will

    ht derived by any missionaries who may hereafter be sent to that CiApirey as well as by others of our countrymen , who , from their pe « Ctiliar pursuits , may be induced to study the language . By Mr ,

    Morrison ' s superior facility in writiag the character , and conversing ^ "ith the Natives , he has already be * n enabled to render important services to the public , of which * suitable sense appears to be enter * tained and which are likely to be

    Advantageous towards the support 6 f this expensive mission . " The missions in the West Indies , at Bemar&ra , Trinidad and Tobago , ssfem to be useful amongst the whites , aswellas the negroes . - * - ^ A missionary student has been appoitit ^ sd to a station , near Lake O * tarm , North America , on the Wication of the settlers , chiefly B ^* hv thereabout *— With Ihe ¦

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    Jews , little appears to have beoit done ; though ^ the gospel Juts been affectionately proposed to the consideration of their adult ^ bot fai from the pulpit arid the fires *; the benefits of education have beeii

    offered gratuitously to the young ; and Christian benevolence . has been extended to the aftlic ; ted « twl necessitous . Other m ^ ans tbaii these the Directoi * s concluded it

    was not their duty to employ , arad from these they did not desist ^ while , by the attendance " of--ttti Jews upon-them , * a prospect o £ their beinsj efficacioos reitiained ^ There are no w i n the Mis $ ionaru Se&

    mznary , at Gospprt 7 * six young men of promising abilities / ' Four left it for foreign service during the last year . — Besides tbese ^ five German brethren , who werS

    educated at the Missionary . Semi * nary at Berlin * under tbe Rev * Mr * Jasnicke , hav& be ^ ii taken undef the patronage of this < Society ^ ordained in finslanrf , and are

    about to sail far the Cape , as sport a ^ a suitable conveyance can be obtained . * ' The Society appear ^ to have about 60 missionaries at different stations * tHe fitrectorsr acknowledge that they haVe not

    been uniformly successful ; but they think they have received marry tokens of the divrne approbation * 46 It cannot be recoH < ected /* tbey say , without gratitude ; that th «* first energetic movements of this

    Society , gave animpulse , unknown before , to the Church of God n . % large ; numerous in » titadons of 4 simitar nature , an 4 haviiig-. fWK same object in view have siii ^ i arisen , beneficial in a higb « iegr ^ d to the best interesU of mattfcind /^

    The Seventeenth Am&& < S §* ing was held in Londt > n ^ of * 4 * uk 8 th yth , and lOtk daya oiAitm

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1811, page 737, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2423/page/33/