Poetry. For the American Baptist Magazine. THE MISSIONARY. BEHOLD the Missionary of the Lord! The undaunted champion of Jehovah's word! The love of Christ his hope, and sweet resource, course. With deathless ardour he pursues his [reigns, 0, see him, where relentless winter Where wretched Greenland dwells in icy chains; See him-where Burmah's towering temples rise, And lose their lofty summits in the skies. In jewell❜d Ceylon,-rich in pearls and gold, The miracles of bleeding love are told; In fair Amboyna's sweet and blooming isle, He bids the everlasting gospel smile. -A star of grace,-his rays dispel the night, And pour celestial glories on the sight. He makes the wilderness and deserts shine, [divine. With beams of peace and righteousness With living rills he feeds the parched ground, And scatters mercy's healing balm around. [unfurl'd, See the red banner of the Cross The joy and glory of a dying world. From torrid suns, e'en to the frozen poles, The mighty ocean of redemption rolls. Truth smiling, lifts her bright, unsullied wings, And o'er the globe, her matchless radiance flings; The Eastern hemisphere with grace she gilds, [rills. And pours salvation from a thousand O'er Asia's climes, the flame of love she spreads; thee. On bleeding Africa her balin she sheds. - Missionary, friend of God, I see A pledge of truth's immortal reign in [stand, The period! will arrive, when thou shalt The advocate of Christ in every land. The heathen world shall bow, the wretched live, The soften'd savage, healing grace receive, Fell superstition quit her iron car, hood's shades dispel, And break idolatry's malignant spell; And Pagan temples, now defiled with blood, Shall be devoted to the living God. I still possess thee. Peace, my bursting heart. OI submit. Again I lay thee down, Dear relick of a mother's hope. Thy spirit, Now mingled with cherubic hosts, adores That grace that ransom'd it, and lodg'd it safe Above the stormy scene, 1816. Oct. 26. Donations received by the Treasurer of the U. S. Baptist Board of Foreign Missions. By Mr. E. Harrington, Saratoga, Washington, Montgomery 110,00 Nov. 5. Dec. 4. 31. By Thomas Shields, Esq. Redstone Association, 264,00 86,75 39,75 3. Feb. 7. Jan. 2, 1817. By Mr. C. Shaw, Bristol and Newport, do. do. 45,20 148,48 17,70 By Rev. E. Cushman, Baptist Association, Hartford, Cash 45,65 March 31. By Rev. Mr. Goodloe, from the Churches in Madison 15,62 By Rev. Jehiel Fox, By Rev. John Bostwick, Hartwick, By Levi Pierce, Esq. Plymouth and Bristol F. M. Society, By Dr. Staughton, from the Franklin Missionary Society, By Mr. W. W. Todd, New-York, Gold Street, Green River. Kentucky, 19. 24. By William Snodgrass, Esq. Mississippi Association, THE interesting intelligence from our friends in India, and Burmah, has precluded several articles prepared for this number. Communications have just been received from Mr. Judson, and others, from which it appears, that Mr. Hough, and family, had arrived sate at Rangoon. The aspect of the Mission is increasingly flattering. The good news of salvation is already proclaimed to the Burmans in their own language, and some portions of the scriptures are probably already printed. We very much regret that our limits will not allow us to present our readers with accounts of the missionary labours of our brethren, of other denominations. It is our design, by the leave of Providence, to enrich our work with the most interesting "Missionary Intelligence," which the multiplied labours of Christians shall afford. Their object is one, by whatever names they may be distinguished. We shall be glad to receive accounts of the formation and anniversaries of Missionary and Bible Societies, but we cannot engage to insert them entire. Our limits may sometimes require that they should be abridged. The same we must also say with respect to obituary notices. When our New Series was commenced, 6000 copies were printed; 2000 more than were printed of the Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Magazine. We now have the pleasure to state, that the number of subscribers has increas ed, so that nearly the whole of the additional 2000 has been distributed, and 8000 of No. 3 have been struck off, to supply the increasing demand. A second edition of the two first numbers will be printed, to make complete sets of the New Series, whenever it is called for by a sufficient number of subscribers. Want of room compels us to omit several accounts of revivals, till our next. Serampore, October 17, 1816.' My dear Brother, The following is at your service, as an article for your Magazine, if you think it may make American Christians love the Gospel and the Mission more. I do not wish my name to appear appended to it ;-but without this appendage, you are welcome to make whatever use of it you please. To one of the Editors, A BENGALEE SERMON, Delivered in the year 1816, to a congregation of indoo Christians, at the Mission House, Serampore. At the time when this commission was given, the state of the Gentiles bore a very striking resemblance to that of the present race of Hindoos. They were ignorant of the true God, and worshipped numberless abominable and profitless idols; they were unacquainted with the way of access to God, and with his true worship, and practised rites the most absurd and detestable ; they knew nothing of the commands of God "enlightening the eyes," nor of the fear of the Lord which maketh wise the simple;" and therefore, beside all the sins of nominal Christians, they practised unheard of crimes. Yea, their very superstition not only seared the conscience, and prepared them to commit every iniquity, but it hurried them into crimes which they would never have committed had not the passions, by obscene rites, been inflamed to a degree of madness. |