ness. Here a church has been built, in which a congregation of more than two hundred statedly assemble. Some of the children in the school have made good proficiency in learn. ing. Two have been selected to be placed in our English school; the plan of which we shall hereafter communicate to you, when it is more fully determined upon. Tamangcoolam has a congregation of four or five hundred. The place of worship must be enlarged. It is situated in the midst of a Palmyra forest. A congregation soon assembles at the sound of a tom tom, or Indian drum. • Pittalom is a village of Shanars, the caste who extract the juice from the Palmyra. The congregation is very good and promising. The schools at this place and at Samangcoolam have greatly increased. Some of the children are intelligent. Auticanda is close to the sea, a few miles from the former church. The place of worship must be enlarged; half the people who attend Cannot be accommodated. The time of assembling is generally in the heat of the day, and the importance of a shelter from the burning rays of the sun is too obvious to require being pointed out. We have a good school in this village. Covilvilly has fluctuated much in point of numbers at different përiods, but lately a considerable increase has been observed. The place is populous and full of idols. Etambally is a central, populous, and extensive village on the seacoast. Numbers have been added to the congregation and are under a course of instruction. • Amandavilly is at present without a place of worship, but has a congregation, which, like the others, has been increasing within these few months. The church was demolished by the idolaters of that place, who have been obliged to promise to rebuild it, and have of their own accord renounced idolatry, and stated their wish to become Christians. 'Pichakuirrupu has an increasing congregation and a small school. • Odagerry is a sphere of promising usefulness: we have just entered upon it. A large place of worship was built here by a zealous Roman Catholic; but as it was abandoned by the people of that persuasion, it has been made over in perpetuity to our mission. It is situated within the fort of Odagerry, in the midst of an extensive neighbourhood. Forty or fifty persons attended a few Sundays after it was used as a place of Christian instruction by us. At each of these places, the Word of God is read every Sabbathday by a native catechist, who preaches likewise, as well as his measure of light enables him. It is the aim of the missionary to instruct the catechists in the first place, to give them one idea of the Gospel at a time, and then send them forth to communicate it to those who have not even one. By degrees we hope the rays of Divine truth will spread over this dark country. This remote corner is taken possession of in the name of that Saviour, to whom the uttermost parts of the earth have been given for his inheritance. Within the present year, 1600 people have renounced all connexion with heathenism, and seem to be saying, What have we any more to do with idols?' When beginning to feel the need of additional help in a very sensible degree, I am kept from sinking by the timely arrival of my former fellow-labourer, Mr Knill. He was obliged to leave Madras, as it did his arrival, he has rapidly gained not agree with his health. Since strength, and there is every prospect of his being enabled to carry on those labours here, which he could not continue at Madras. The cooling breezes which are prevalent in this neighbourhood, render it one of the healthiest places in India. Mr Knill says he is now as well as ever he was in India. With what grateful feelings should I relate the goodness of God to me during the past twelve months. This time last year, my affectionate wife was snatched away by death; her memory will ever be dear and fragrant to me; my dear child and myself have been wonderfully and kindly preserved; not a hair of our heads has perished, though we have been in perils by sea, in perils by land, in perils in the wilderness, in perils among the heathen. Thus have we found JEHOVAH all-sufficient.' BAPTIST MISSION. A Letter lately received from Dr Carey, dated Oct. 4. 1818, describes new and extensive fields which are opening to Christian enterprise, in consequence of recent political events. 66 By the successful termination of the late war, a tract of country larger than Great Britain is put in to our hands, in which several of those languages are spoken in which we are preparing translations of the Scriptures. Had we funds and men, five or six hundred schools might be immediately organized, and men of God, if we had them, might be instrumental in doing more good than can be calculated." After narrating the circumstances which led his son, Mr Jabez Carey, to retire from his station at Amboy na, the Doctor proceeds: "When the proposal was made us to set up schools in the upper provinces, (now called Rajpoothana,) we thought none so fit as Jabez to go, who had already superintended schools in the Moluccas with so much success. We also thought it a more important station than Amboyna, and as the Rotterdam Society has expressed its intention to send missionaries to the Moluccas, we thought it best to abandon that station: Jabez, therefore, has now agreed to go into Rajpoothana. As to the places where he will settle and set up schools, he will be under the direction of a gentleman whom we know to be friendly to our undertakings. You now see our pressing want of men, and the absolute necessity of missionaries going to their stations when they arrive. A hun dred missionaries are wanting at this moment, to fill up the field before us. "My children are now all about me. We have employed Felix to assist in the operations of the printing-office, particularly reading and correcting proofs. William is at Cutwa, Jabez going to Rajpoothana, and Jonathan in Calcutta, in the law. "Brother Ward's health is so bad, and his whole frame so relaxed, that the medical men all agree in the necessity of a voyage to England, and he will therefore, in all probability, embark in two months' time. This is much to be regretted, but cannot be prevented. * "Through mercy, I am well. My work is rather heavier than ever, but I rejoice in it. My wife has been unable to walk for several months. I went with her on the river last week, to try whether that would be beneficial to her; but we were very near meeting with a serious accident. Our vessel, a pin. nace, ran foul of a sloop lying at anchor, which carried away three or four of the stanchions of the windows; had we been a foot or two from the place we were in, we should have just run on the bow of the sloop, which would have infallibly sunk us, as the stream ran with amazing rapidity. God, however, mer. cifully preserved us. Our danger was the greater, as another sloop lay at anchor about half a mile from us, in a direct line; we, however, got a tow line fastened to the one on which we ran, which they gradually let out, till we were alongside the one I feared, so that we were preserved from every harm. "P. S.-Nov. 9. Jabez sets off this evening. Brother Chamberlain arrived here a few days ago: I fear his continuance in the flesh will not be long. He is ordered to go to the head of the bay, at least, for his recovery-the doctors here advise his going further. He appears to be in a consumption; his mind is very happy." * Mr W. has since arrived in England. ED. THE CHRISTIAN HERALD. AUGUST 16. 1819. ་་་་་་ N MEMOIR OF THE REV. HENRY MARTYN. On the 10th of August, Mr Martyn embarked on his voyage to India, and slowly coasting the shores of Cornwall-a coast, where "every object," says his biographer, "which caught his eye, every headland, every building, every wood, served to remind him of endearments that were past, and of pleasures never to be renewed." On the 14th of September the fleet came to an anchor in the Cove of Cork. On the 31st, it again put to sea, and Mr Martyn speaks of his anguish when he found a "long sea rolling between himself and all he held dear in life." Shortly after the fleet had sailed from Ireland, a tremendous storm arose. Such passages as the following, from his journal, just before his reaching Porto Santo, intersperse and enliven the narrative of his voyage. "My chief concern was, that this season of peace might be improved. When the Lord gave David rest from all his enemies round about, then he began to think of building a temple to the Lord. Passed the evening, many sweet hours, in reading. -Found a rich feast in reading Hooker's Sermons; the doctrines of grace are a cordial to me. We are now in lat. 46. long. 12. The sea, which I am looking on from the port-hole, is comparatively smooth, yet it exhibits the moon-beams only in broken reflections. It is thus an emblem of my heart-no longer tossed with tempestuous passions, it has subsided a little; but still the mild beams of the Spirit fall on an undulating surface but the time of perfect rest approaches." "Sept. 19. Was assisted this morning to pray for two hours, principally in regard to God's promises, respecting the spread VOL. VI. N n of the Gospel. Read Hindoostanee, and Milner. Found the men forbidden to go below, so I know not how they are to be instructed may the Lord open a way. The weather is calm and sultry-my frame relaxed to a painful degree-I am led to seek a quiet meek submission to every thing that shall befall me. O, this right blessed frame, would that it may continue ! I feel it to be the disposition of a creature approving of every thing, because it is God's doing." Soon after crossing the Line, on the 30th of October, the Union, in which he sailed, passed in the night within a very short distance of a dangerous reef of rocks, which proved destructive to two other vessels. The dispatches of the fleet being opened at sea, it was found that the military on board were to be employed for the capture of the Cape of Good Hope. In the mean time, Mr Martyn, and many of the ship's crew, were attacked by an epidemic illness. We find the following passage about this time in his journal. 66 6 Separated from my friends and country for ever, there is nothing to distract me from hearing the voice of my Beloved,' and coming away from this world, and walking with him in love, amidst the flowers that perfume the air of paradise, and the harmony of the happy, happy saints who are singing his praise. Thus hath the Lord brought me to the conclusion of the year; and though I have broken his statutes, and not kept his commandments, yet he hath not utterly taken away his loving-kindness, nor suffered his truth to fail. I thought, at the beginning of the year, I should have been in India at this time, if I should have escaped all the dangers of the climate. These dangers are yet to come; but I can leave all cheerfully to God. If I am weary of any thing, it is of my life of sinfulI want a life of more devotion and holiness; and yet am so vain, as to be expecting the end without the means. I am far from regretting, that I ever came on this delightful work; were I to choose for myself, I could scarcely find a situation more agreeable to my taste. On, therefore, let me go, and persevere steadily in this blessed undertaking; through the grace of God dying daily to the opinions of men, and aiming, with a more single eye, at the glory of the everlasting God." ness. On the 3d of January, 1806, they reached the Cape, and the signal was given for the soldiers to land. The result of that expedition is known to our readers; but we recommend to their attention the account of the battle, &c. given by Mr Martyn. It is delightful to watch the tenderness of mind with which the true Christian views scenes which in others awaken only the haughtiest and sternest passions of the soul. The following observations are in so unusual a strain, that we cane not help extracting them. ts January 10th.-About five, the Commodore fired a gun, which was instantly answered by all the men of war. On looking out for the cause, we saw the British flag flying on the Dutch fort. Pleasing as the cessation of warfare was, I felt considerable pain at the enemy's being obliged to give up their fort and town, and every thing else, as a conquered people, to the will of their victors. I hate the cruel pride and arrogance that make men boast over a conquered foe. And every observation of this sort which I hear cuts me to the very heart: whether from nature or from grace, I do not know; but I had rather be trampled upon than be the trampler. I could find it more agreeable to my own feelings to go and weep with the relatives of the men whom the English have killed, than to rejoice at the laurels they have won." The following is an extract from a letter, written on his arrival at Calcutta. "My long and wearisome voyage is concluded, and I am at last arrived in the country where I am to spend my days in the work of the Lord. Scarcely can I believe myself to be so happy as to be actually in India; yet this hath God wrought. Through changing climates, and tempestuous seas, he hath brought on his feeble worm to the field of action; and will, I trust, speedily equip me for my work. I am now very far from you all; and as often as I look round and view the Indian scenery, I sigh to think of the distance that separates us. Time indeed and reflection have, under God, contributed to make the separation less painful; yet, still my thoughts recur with unceasing fondness to former friendship, and make the duty of intercession for you a happy privilege. Day and night, Í do not cease to pray for you, and I am willing to hope that you too remember me daily at the Throne of Grace. Let us not, by any means, forget one another; nor lose sight of the day of our next meeting. We have little to do with the business of this world. Place and time have not that importance in our views that they have in those of others; and, therefore, neither change of situation nor lapse of years should weaken our Christian attachments. I see it to be my business to fulfil, as a hireling, my day; and, then, to leave the world. Amen. We shall meet in happier regions. I believe that those connexions, and comforts, and friendships, I have heretofore so desired, though they are the sweetest earthly blessings, are earthly still." No sooner had Mr Martyn become an inmate for a short time at Aldeen, the residence of the Rev. D. Brown, than his friends found reason to apprehend the influence of the climate upon his constitution. He had an illness there of some length and severity. Released from a sick bed, he preached a sermon |