Apostle, to esteem it the highest distinction that God could confer on you, that, this grace should be given unto you to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ." p. 35. i "There is no principle that can animate you in the habitual discharge of the duties of your important work, but the love, the constraining love' of a dying Saviour. May the Spirit of God fill your hearts with this holy affection! That month, that week, that day which passes over you without af fecting views of the Cross of Christ, is not only a period of time lost to your high ef forts, but positively injurious to all your capacities for real service. The incarnation and death of Immanuel, God with us,' is the most stupendous theme that men or angels can contemplate. His infinite con, descension, his inconceivable sufferings, his unutterable agony, his ignominious death; the love he has borne to man, the work he has undertaken, the atonement he has made, the everlasting righteousness which he has brought in,' the reconciliation found ed on his mediation and death; the mysteries of his redemption, the depths of his mercy, the glories of his power; these, these are the topics which transform and support the soul. These bring the captive in delightful bonds to his Saviour's feet. These lead man beyond himself. These make him count all things but loss for the excellency of such a knowledge; these inspire him with a restless anxiety that Christ may be magnified in his body, whether by life or by death,' All that ever has been done, or ever will be done with effect in the cause of Missions, has flowed from this pure and exalted source." pp. 37, 38... Again: "The Love of Christ, which we have just noticed, must be brought into the detail of our duties, and be employed as the inspiring motives of our most ordinary actions. The principle of Faith should be exercised in the constantly recurring occasions where a distrust of God's word, or providence, or grace, may enfeeble or retard our efforts. The doctrine of Obedience to God's commands is not to be viewed in the mass only, or applied to the more ostensible branches of sanctification, but to be accurately understood in all its parts, and perpetually admitted as the rule of our conduct pp. 38, 39. - "Powerful principles of religion must not be allowed to roll by in a grand but comps CHRIST. OBSERV. No. 156. ratively useless torrent, but, like the exube rant inundations of the Nile, must be made to visit and enrich every part of the ja cent lands, must be employed to replenish the canals and reservoirs prepared for their reception; must be permitted to rest till they penetrate deep below the surface, and thus diffuse a new beauty and life and fertility, wherever they flow." pp. 39, 40. "Watch you, then, in all things; do the work of evangelists; make full proof of your ministry. Study deeply the Holy Scrip tures. Let your doctrine shew uncorrupt ness, gravity, sincerity. When you have the opportunity of instructing the Heathen, stand on the plain broad footing of undoubted truth. Forget the unhappy con troversies which have divided the church at home. Let your minds be daily nourished with the pure and wholesome doctrine of Scripture, as it flows native and transparent from the comb, and not as it is sullied and adulterated by human systems, on whatever side they may incline. Let the Cross of Christ, in all the amplitude of that astonishing subject, be your theme. Descend not to uncertain topies. Do not administer to your inexperienced flock doubtful dispu tations, which amaze the pind without af fecting the heart, which disturb and bewil der, but seldom convince, which may raise up a partizan, but cannot form the truly contrite and holy disciple of Christ. May the Spirit of God direct and sanctify your laboure! May converts 'spring, up to you as the grass, as willows by Courses!" pp. 43, 44. water It is stated in this sermon, that in the face of many and formidable obstacles which the Slave Trade had accumulated on the western coast of Africa;nowithstanding the dis asters of shipwreck which had more than once suspended their efforts; though having to contend on the one hand with the insalubrity of the cli mate, to which several Missionaries have fallen victims; and on the other, with the ignorance and vice of the natives, corrupted by our crimes, and with the enmity of the slave dealers, alarmed and enraged at our attempts to remedy the evils they were creat ing this Society have persevered for thirteen years, in their course of honourable exertion, sparing neither expense nor labour, and sending out missionary after missionary to this scene of danger and suffering. Nor has their labour been in vain in the Lord. Notwithstanding every obstacle, the confidence of some of the native chiefs has been entirely gain ed; four settlements have been formed in different parts of the coast; nearly 200 children are training in their schools; churches are erect ing; elementary books have already been published, in two widely-prevalent languages, the Susoo and the Bullom: portions of Scripture have been translated into these languages; and some of the African youths manifest pleasing evidences of piety. Besides this, the Society is now entering, with the concurrence of Government, and by the sugges tion and advice of that distinguished friend of African civilization, Governor Maxwell, on an enlarged and most extensive plan, for the religious education and instruction of the thousands of Africans, who, having been rescued from slavery by the activity of his Majesty's ships of war, have been condemned into freedom by the Vice-admiralty Court of Sierra Leone, and are now living under the protection of a British Government. Surely, these are objects to call forth, not only "the prayers and exhortations," but the strenuous efforts and liberal contributions of this Christian community. 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It is in vain,' said he to pre tend that what you teach is Christianity: we sce nothing of it in the Christians. The Sahibs take all manner of women into their houses: their care is only about wine, and banqueting, and hunting, and gaming: never say that your doctrine is theirs; you have made up a religion for yourself.' Ab. dool, of course, contended, that the Law and the Gospel were prior to the Koran; and that wherein they agreed, they had taken from the Christians, not the Christians from them;—that in respect of the Sahibs, 'What you say of them is that judging forbidden in Matthew vii., and if I chose I could prove to your face that you are just as bad as they; but leave off judging others, and judge from the Book, whether or not the Sahibs live according to it: the Book is our guide, and those who live according to it are the servants of Christ, and those who do not are the servants of Satan. The Kazee took Abdool aside at going away; and asked him privately, if there was any way of forgiveness pointed out for murder in the Gospel. Abdool spoke briefly of repentance, and the efficacy of Christ's blood to cleanse from all sin. The Kazee took away the Pentateuch; and, after the appointed time, sent it back, begging he might have it every day to read. “June 27.—This afternoon the whole premises in the city were filled with people, to hear Abdool read and explain the Scrip tures. " July 1.—This morning the Bramin boy, referred to on June 25th, had occasion to go out of our premises, and is not returned. Abdool was told in the evening, that he had been seen in company with a Bramin going toward the city. The Bramin, who appeared fat and well clothed, bad hold of the boy's hand. The boy was heard to say, Let me go; they will think I stay too long, and be The man answered, angry with me.' Never mind; 1 will myself go back with you, and make your peace; and seemed to be soothing him, with a view to get him away with him. As the boy had lost caste, this could only be to get him away in order to be revenged for the disgrace, they think it for a Bramin to change his religion, July 6.-To-day the Rajah Ram Narian He is son passed most of the day here. of the brother of the well-known Cheyt Sing, Rajah of Benares, who was finally set aside from the rajahship by the Ho nourable Company on the murder of Mr. Cherry, and the present family placed on the Musnud, who are of the female line. On June 9th, this Rajah Rani Narian called upon me (Rev. Mr. Corrie) He had passed the greatest part of a day at Cawnpore with the late Mr. Martyn, with whom I was then an inmate. Since then, he has been visiting about among the Mabratta princes; and on arriving here, and hearing of my being here, he came to call upon me. After some time, he entered into a detail of the misfortunes of his family. I heard him out; and then endeavoured to shew him, that all worldly expectations were thus deJuding; and that, though we should guin our end in the world, we must leave it, and go to give account to God: whilst those, who know and love, the true God, have a never-failing portion. Abdool, who was present, took up the subject. The young man was roused to attention, came to see us day after day, and expressed very freely in public his approbation of the Gospel, be coming daily more serious and earnest in his religious inquiries. At length he became suspected of an inclination to Christianity, Crowds, both of Hindous and Musselmans, visited him daily, to dissuade him from esse |