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THE

RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY,

CONTAINING INFORMATION RELATIVE TO THE

CHURCH OF CHRIST,

TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING

LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC AND POLITICAL

INTELLIGENCE.

“Say ye to the daughter of Zion, behold, thy Salvation cometh."

VOL. III.

CARLISLE

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED

BY G. FLEMING AND W. F. GEDDES,

1824.

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Sappan Pushy. Asson

Religious miscellany.

“Say ye to the daughter of Zion, behold, thy salvation cometh."

CARLISLE, JANUARY 23, 1824. Vol. III.

No. 1.

BOMBAY MISSION.

pel, and by private visiting and conFrom a joint letter of the Missionaries onversation, endeavoring to gain the afthis Island, we have the following information, | fections of the natives, it cannot be exdated January 6, 1823.

The missionaries preach the Gospel pected that their labors will remain to the people every time an opportu- | altogether unblessed. The heathen, nity offers; sometimes to attentive, it is true, have many deep rooted preand at others to turbulent hearers. As judices, which must be eradicated many as two hundred persons are of

from their minds, before they will ten present, from every class of socie- embrace the Gospel; but it would be ty, to hear the preached word.

derogatory to the power of Omnipo

tence to say this shall not be done by The few Jews who inhabit that re

Him, when he sees proper to bless gion excite much attention on the part || the labors of his servants. We reof the missionaries. Many of the Jewish school teachers, and other peo- taking the advice of St. Paul, under

joice to see these servants of God, ple, with whom they are acquainted, "have manifested an encouraging at- any discouraging circumstances: "For

ve have need of patience," says he, tention, and a degree of impression that after ye have done the will of in favor of truth;” this is particularly God, ye might receive the promise.” the case, with regard to the Jewish

“In due time they shall reap, if they superintendant of the schools, who has

faint not." expressed a speculative conviction of the truth of the Christian Religion, & at times manifests a concern for the

LETTER FROM THE MISSIONARIES AT salvation of his soul. Others have had similar anxiety. “As to our own spiritual state, (the

Malta, Oct. 13, 1823. missionaries observe) which is no tri- Dear sir,--Agreeably to your exAling criterion of our hopes, we confess hortations we have endeavored to we have much to lament; and feeling push forward the business of the this, we have commenced a monthly Press as fast as possible; and all the fast, on the same day as that observed information that has come to us from by our brethren in Ceylon. We cher- | different quarters, has contributed to ish the hope that, through Divine grace augment our hopes concerning the alone, we shall still be made to rejoice extensive and perinanent utility of according to the days wherein we this printing establishment. Among have been afflicted, and the years in Roman Catholics, our Tracts are not which we have seen evil."

likely, at present, to find a very ex

tensive circulation; but even here, Engaged, as the missionáries on the field is not so limited as it once this Island are, in preaching the-Gos-was: but among the Greeks the field

PALESTINE MISSION.

MALTA.