sins, and to put on Christ. After prayer, he went down into the water, taking his son Felix in his right hand, and baptizing him, using English words. After this, Kristno went down, and was baptized; the words in Bengallee. All was silence and attention. The governor could not restrain his tears; and every one seemed to be struck with the solemnity of this (to then:) sacred ordinance. I never saw, (says Mr. Ward) even in the most orderly congregation in England, any thing more solemn and impressive. Ye gods of stone and clay,' did ye not tremble, when in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, one of your votaries shook you as the dust from his feet? In the afternoon, the Lord's supper was celebrated in Bengallee, for the first time. Kristno, at the close, said he was full of joy." A few days after, Jan. 8, Kristno was met by a European in the street, who inquired of him respecting his profession of Christianity; and asked him, "What he got by it?" &c. He replied, "He had got nothing, but much joy and comfort: it was the work of love." It had been reported that the missionaries had given him several hundred rupees, for losing cast! Kristno was, at this time of his baptism, about 35 years old, end had a wife and four children. "We a house for the public worship of God, In May, 1803, Kristno was taken from his worldly employment, in order to be engaged in making known the gospel to his countrymen; and, from that time to the present, he has been indefatigably and usefully employed round about Serampore and Calcutta, and as far as to Silhet, on the borders of China," in fully preaching the gospel of Christ." He is now an old man, (for a Hindoo) very zealous in the cause of the Redeemer, and greatly respected by all the brethren of the mission. Extract of a Letter from Mr. Chamberlain, dated Diggah, January, 1816. "I CAME to Diggah, hoping that I might perform a service which is lacking from the brethren here. They are not perfectly acquainted with the language, and hence cannot be expected to do much among the natives: I thought, from my knowledge of the Hindoo stannee, that I might do something; On the 13th of January, 1801, they whether I shall or not I cannot say. speak of Kristno saying at an experience Two native brethren from Bengal are meeting, "When I am at work, my mind supported here, who are useful in their goes away from God, and I am sorry, way. One of these is my friend, and and charge it not to do so. I say, O brother Brindabun, whom I baptized at mind, why dost thou thus depart from Rehoboth ten years ago. On my ar Christ? Thou canst not be happy any rival, I found that they had picked up where without him: I charge thee to some of the wanderers, whom they were keep close to him."-" Kristno has a directing to the Lamb of God; and sweet natural disposition, and is, indeed, about a week ago, I had the pleasure to a very hopfeul character. He is a car- baptize four of these persons, who had penter, and will, I dare say, have em- some time been waiting to be baptized : ployment sufficient to maintain his fa- they made a very satisfactory profession mily. A gentleman in Serampore said, of their faith in the crucified Jesus. I he thought every European ought to send you an extract from my journal: employ this man, and he would set the example. He has accordingly given him a good large job of work. He has a Brahmun, however, for his landlord, who has not been so kind to him, but has ordered him to quit his house." In the June following, Kristno said to one of the missionaries, "As I lay musing one night, I thought thus: one or two of the missionaries are dead; Mr. Carey is much engaged at Calcutta, Mr. Marshman in the school, and Mr. Ward in the printing office: Bengal is a large country; how shall the people know about Christ? I would go to the end of the world to make his love known." In August Kristno, of his own accord,built VOL. VIIL. "Jan. 3. We assembled this evening to hear four natives declare what God had done for their souls. Their decla ration was very interesting and encou raging. One of these persons is a native of Bharatpos (a town beyond Agra.) He was on his way so far for Juggunath, but here divine mercy shone upon him: he was picked up by the native brethren as from the way-side. Another is a native of Joypore, which is still further beyond Agra. He was arrested by dis vine grace on his return from Juggunath, by meeting with the brethren Brindabun and Kurreem. Two others were Byraggees from those parts of the country; one of whom was a Gooroo, who had S C made many disciples. He had been | all. Upwards of 10,000 books and tracts of all descriptions were dispersed abroad, to bear witness to the truth, that salvation is by the death of Christ. Great was the attention of the people in general; and, in many places, multitudes thronged to hear, and, with the greatest eagerness, took the tracts and gospels. When we came to a place on a market day, which was sometimes the case, the word of God was preached to people of twenty different places at once, and tracts and gospels sent abroad to enlighten the country. Indeed, so far as preaching was concerned, I had a gratifying campaign in Bengal. Something cousiderable was done towards calling the attention of the people to the kingdom of Christ. I know not what success may result from my labours, but I do rejoice in the work I was enabled to perform. From my operations around Calcutta, I was engaged frequently with the residents of that under a conviction of his sins for some time before he heard of Jesus and his salvation. He told us, that he had, from the pressure of his sins upon his conscience, been accustomed to go out into the fields, and 'call upon God to show him the way of salvation. Upon which, he declared, that, at a certain time,he saw, in a vision, a form much like a European, which told him to go to the Europeans, from whom he would learn the true way to obtain safety. This wrought so much upon his mind, that he told his disciples what he had seen and heard, and that he had determined to act accordingly. Many of them endeavoured to dissuade him from his purpose, but he invited his disciples to a farewell feast before he left them. A few attended to his invitation, aud these were very urgent, persuading him not to act so rashly. The result was, that he, and one who cleaved to him, left all, and came to Dinapore in quest of sal-populous city, and became pretty well vation, to be gained from the Europeans. Here they at different times and places met with the native brethren, who proved the way-marks to conduct them to the fulfilment of their wishes. "6th. By the appointment of the brethren, I baptized these four natives, and two English women, who are the wives of soldiers in his Majesty's 24th regiment. Oh! that they all may continue to abide under the shadow of the Almighty, "looking for the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life." Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us a handful of the first fruits in Hindoostan : may it be an acceptable wave-offering to the Lord! Now may his glory appear, and his work be prosperous ! "On the following Lord's day, they were received into the church, and all partook of the bread and the wine, in commemoration of the Lord's death. Our number, in all, amounted to twentythree persons, who had been previously brought together, thus to unite in celebrating the Saviour's love." Mr. Chamberlain is a most laborious preacher of the gospel, in both the Bengallee and Hindoostannee languages. In his journey from Serampore to Diggah, through Bengal, he preached, in the space of six weeks, in upwards of seventy towns and villages; in some of which he was engaged for a whole day together, preaching three, four, five, six, and seven times a day in the larger towns. "In the city of Moorshedabad," he says, "I was employed five or six days, and left it in a manner untouched after known amongst them: and, from Calcutta to the great river, in all the prin cipal places, and, I may say, in all the inferior ones too, I was enabled either to preach the gospel of salvation, or to send abroad among them the words of life. Oh! to grace how great a debtor I am! What shall I render to him for all his benefits towards me? Ah !what indeed! "The brethren here have abundant employ in the school, and in preaching to the European soldiers in the cantonments; and, I trust, that they do not labour in vain. I hope to set out in a few days into actual service. My Pundit is coming. If health be spared, I shall have plenty of work. Pray for me. Extract of a Letter from Carapeit Chater "DEAR BROTHER IVIMEY, "I have received your favour of April 11, with the pamphlets, on the 17th September. I am much obliged to you. for your kindness. I sent a copy of the Brief View of the Serampore Mission to Sir E. Nepean, one to Mr. Romer, judge and magistrate of Surat, and one to Messrs. Newell and Hall. I might have been more glad if you had sent me a copy of your work: I mean Baptist History. I have seen and read the work of our Brownist friends B. and Bs. I am sorry to see Christians in England loosing their excellent time and . money for nothing but partiality. Oh may that blessed day soon come, when every one will forget and deny all what is their own, and will follow of Christ's and seek of Christ's. I repent a great deal that I did not study the English well enough while we were at Seram pore. "Surat is to the north of Bombay, and situate on the bank of the river called Tapty, and the town is surrounded with a first and second wall, at a distance one from another; but by river-side is only one, and some parts the walls are fallen down. Surat is much larger than Bombay; the inhabitants different among all. The Hindoos are numerous, and Parsees very active and rapacious, and busy after money: the Mussulmans, and the most of the Brahmuns, are wicked and lazy; there are very few among them a little better: the Armenians, and the Jews, are in very low state. I "Let us speak about this station. distributed several hundred books and tracts, and have preached the word of God, and the hope of righteousness by faith, to thousands, since we have been here never neglected; nor I kept my. self back from preaching, except by sickness, which kept me back from preaching for some time; and now, thank God, we are at present enjoying a good state of health. After I had many, or a mind, though I have got my hopes in the Lord Jesus, that, by his loving kindness, all that I laboured in this parts will not be wholly in vain; but, at another hand, when I consider of living so long a time in this country, and having no full progress of my preaching more; I mean, turning one from idolatry, or from Mahomadanism. Oh! this is a great pain in the heart and spirit of a preacher, who has been among so many [at Serampore] and afterwards sitting alone. Oh! my dear brother, I intreat you to pray for us, particularly for the success of the gospel; that my hands may work again as cnce was employed in his holy work. Oh! I may see some of the idolators in this country, sitting close to the feet of Jesus our Lord: then I may die. "I am going to leave Surat for a time, to go and preach the unsearchable riches of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in Goojeratt and Joypoore. I beg you to remember me to all of your church members, and tell them I am begging them to pray for me, and the success of the gospel. I am, My dear brother, large crowd, to hear me quietly, the CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. saving and unsearchable graces of our dear Lord Jesus. But, I am sorry to say, none yet forsook their idolatry for We acknowledge, with gratitude, the Jesus's standard. I had once five per-kindness of the conductors of the above sons, who at beginning showed themselves very well, as far as they did propose me for baptism; but they all have gone away, and made no appearance again. Two of them were seen lately, but they were changed by the thorns of this wretched world from their former "The writing of C. C. Aratoon is very good, but the English is imperfect, He is by birth an Armenian, being born at Busorah. His father's father was an Armenian clergyman, and was born near Mount Arrarat. After many difficulties, which his grandfather and father met with in the Persian empire, they settled at Busorah. No person is admitted to be a clergyman in Armenia, unless he can trace his ancestors back to the tenth or twelfth generation: this, Carapeit could have done. He speaks Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Hindoostannee, Goojurattee, Bengallee, Portuguese, English, and Armenian; but Hindoostannee, Armenian, and Bengallee, better than the rest. Society, for lending us their engraving of the Kolloh-man, or African devil; from whom the poor women and chil-, dren of Bullom are seen running away, | terribly frightened, at his approach. The Rev. Mr. Nyländer, placed among this degraded people as a missionary, gives the Society the following account of this practice: "KOLLOH, is the name of a great spirit.. who is supposed to reside in the neighbourhood of Yongroo. He never comes out of the woods, except on such mournful occasions as the death of a chief; or, if a person has been buried without his relations making a cry for him, then the xоLLOH, who has intercourse with the departed spirits, feels himself so, much hurt, that he is obliged to leave his abode at nights, and to go to the houses of those relations to rouse them, and to trouble them every night, till they procure rum and palm-wine, &c,. and have a good drink, and dance publickly, in remembrance of their de-, parted friend. See the Engraving. "The KOLLOH is made of bamboosticks, in the form of an oval basket, about three feet long, and so deep, that it goes over the man's shoulders. It is covered with a piece of net, and stuck all round with porcupine-quills on the nose. The mouth and nostrils stand wide open. It is frightful to look at. Children, women, and old people, run and scream at its appearance. A certain man pretends to have some very intimate intercourse with this Beelzebub; and therefore he is called by the spirit to take the KOLLOH on his head, and to go about with it, to see that the dances, drinkings, and howlings, are carried on regularly through the whole night; and that all the young people, who are at work through the day, are at the dance at night. If any are missed, he is permitted to enter the houses, and to drive them out by force; and he is a faithful servant of the devil. Some people stay out in the fields, through the night, to enjoy a little rest after their daily fatigue. "The Kolloh-man is naked, has washed himself over with white clay, and has fringes of packing-mats, or plaintainleaves, round his waist, knees, and ankles. To give notice of his coming, he rings a bell, which is fixed inside of the cap or basket. He has a switch in his hand, to show his authority. If any person pass by his abode, which is near the public road, he sings out, "Ee!" with one tone. If people meet him in the road, they must either hide themselves, or else go back; otherwise he catches them, and carries them to his place, and keeps them there for a few days, teaching them something of his arts, which the people keep very secret. He makes them swear, and tells them, if they discover the secrets, the KOLLON knows it, and makes their bellies swell, and they are dead the moment they di vulge any thing of the secresy. "After any of the people (chiefly children of ten or twelve years, sometimes young men) have been taught in the mysteries of KOLLOR, they engage in his service, and go about with their teacher, beating on a small turtle-shell, and singing. "He came also to visit me, standing before the door, and sang out his long "Ee!" the children all running to hide themselves. I asked what it meant, and was told that this was the devil; and, as the great headmeu of the country were dead, he was much troubled about it, and came out of the woods to make cry for them; and now he came to give me service. I said, "I accept of no devil's services: I am come to drive him out of this country." "These Kolloh people are a set of plunderers, who used to disturb the natives very much. When the Sierra-Leone Company had people here, they have plundered them of every thing. "It shall be my labour to banish, not only this representative of the devil, but the devil himself, from the Bullom shore. He has great power in this benighted spot; and resists our labours, both in private and in public. May we be enabled to conquer, through Him who has all power in heaven and in earth! LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY. | after group flocking to the missionaries, THE following account of remarkable events, which have lately transpired in one of the South Sea Islands, will, we hope, be fully corroborated and confirmed by future communications: Missionary Rooms, Old Jewry, London, June 26, 1816, . A letter was received this day from Mr. W. P. Crook, dated Sydney, New South Wales, November 2, 1815, from which the following important information is extracted →→ "I have just received a packet from Otaheite, the contents of which are of the most satisfactory and delightful nature. If the question now be asked, Hath a nation changed their gods? I think, before you receive this, it may be answered, Yes, The Tabeitan nation hath changed their false gods for JEHOVAH the true God. The majority of the people of Eimeo, near a thousand, have renounced idols, and professed themselves the worshippers of the true God; and they are daily increasing. Brother Davies has six hundred and sixty in his school, whom he catechises and instructs. Dear man, he is ready to sink under his labours. I long to be with him; as he and all his brethren say, I may be immediately useful.+ Brother Scott was taken to his eternal rest in February last, leaving a young wife and two children. The brethren Davies and Nott, amidst their active labours, are frequently very ill; yet, blessed be God, the gospel flourishes and gains ground rapidly. and giving themselves to the Lord. These triumphs of the gospel will be proclaimed through the world, and our Immanuel will be praised by thousands and tens of thousands for what he has done in Fimeo." CHRISTIAN TREATY, OR SACRED ALLIANCE. Ir is truly gratifying to learn, that the "Christian Treaty," some time since agreed upon between the powerful mohas been also acceded to by Sweden narchs of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, and Holland. The following is the message of the King of the Netherlands to the States-General, by which his Majesty 1 informed them of his accession to the act denominated The Sacred Alliance. ties the Emperors of Austria and Russia, "The treaty, by which their Majesand the King of Prussia, on the 26th precepts of religion and morality the rule of September last, made the noblest and measure of their political transactions, has justly excited universal attention; and no one has doubted that a if it were universal, and carried into system, worthy of these virtuous princes, full and permanent effect, would have a beneficial influence on the state of society, and the reciprocal relations of nations. to this exalted object, we could not Desirous, on our side, of contributing hesitate to comply with the invitation made to us by our powerful ally the Emperor Alexander, and herewith your Excellencies will receive copies, both of the said alliance, and of our act of (Signed) "I am called upon for this letter, therefore must conclude, and have only time to add, that the triumphs of the gospel in Eimeo will be considered as the most glorious and marvellous that have been witnessed for many ages.Priests publicly burning their gods-accession to it. chiefs destroying their morais-pulling down their sacred altars, and cooking their victuals with the materials--men and women eating together; and group This refers to letters from the missionaries, not yet received. + Orders were sent, ont sume months ago, to Mr. Crook, to proceed to the Society Islands to assist the missionaries. Four additional labourers,and their wives, are also on their passage to Eimeo for the same purpose. "The women are not permitted to eat with the men, nor may they drink out of the same cup." Missionary Voyage, p. 361. - "The Hague, July 1." "WILLIAM." There is good reason to believe, that His Majesty, the King of the Netherlands, will be favourable to the missions from this country, established in the British Government. Islands lately ceded by treaty by the His Excellency the Ambassador, Mynheer Fagel, has lately received an application from the Baptist Missionary Society, to permit a missionary to proceed to Java, in the most friendly manner, and kindly engaged to interest himself with the new governor, to procure for the missionaries the same favour and protection they received from the British Government. |