to her, and related to them the beautiful vision she had had round her bed, and faid, "O how beautiful you are! I'm coming, I'm coming." Her grandmother faid, "My dear what do you fee that is fo beautiful?" She answered, "I fee Angels round my bed." "And, my dear, do you fee nothing else?" "Yes," faid the," and I fee Jetus, and he is fo beautiful! and he has got crowns for all his people!" Then Ifid, "I hope, my dear, the Lord will fave your precious foul." She replied, "He has faved it-all is well-Jefus has done all things well." [This we relate on the testimony of her grandfather, Mr. Adains, always withing to mention fuch extraordinary circumstances with caution, without laying improper ftress on them on the one hand, or limiting the Holy One of Ifrael on the other.]

Her grandmother, when giving her a drop of wine, faid to her, "Our bleffed Lord told his difciples that he would not drink any more of that wine till he drank it new in Heaven." She answered, "There wine and oil abound, and milk and honey flow."

With a child-like fimplicity, and in a style adapted to their capacities and tender age (the eldest being then only twelve years old), the faid to her brother and fifters, "There will be a crown for each of you, if you are good, but not elfe; for nothing bad can come where I am going.". Her grandfather fitting near her bed, the fixed her eyes on him for fome time, and faid, "There's grandfather, he will have a crown."

After the Doctor's laft vifit the afternoon before her decease, her grandmother asked her if fhe was fatisfied in her Doctor? to which she answered the was; but defired the nurse to tell him not to fend any thing more, as fhe did not defire to live, but that she had rather go. She bore all her illnefs with great patience; and, when near her end, wifhed to fee nothing that might difturb her mind.

Her grandmother being with her the last night, when he was much compofed, faid, "What a mercy it is, my dear, that Satan is not permitted to worry and distress your mind at this time!" She said, “O no, he cannot; he is kept away."

After laying compofed for about an hour and an half, early in the morning of the 4th of January fhe was feized with convulfions, and the Lord fpeedily received her spirit to himself, without a struggle. She departed Jan 4, 1798, aged 21; and her mortal part was buried in the 11th in Totenham-court chapel-ground.

REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS PUBLICATIONS.

Periodical Accounts relative to the Baptift Society for propagating the
Gofpel among the Heathen. No. IV. Price is. Button.
THIS Number contains much interefting matter. Its contents are,

1. An Indian Hymn fet to music. 2. Correfpondence of the Mifhonaries from January to June, 1796. 3. Hindoo Fabies. 4. Refolutions of a Committee Meeting at Arnsby, April, 1797. 5. Correfpon dence of the Miffionaries, from September, 1796, to January, 1797. 6. Refolutions of the Committee at Kettering, Auguft, 1797. 7. Miffion to Cornwall.

We have felt our hearts warmed in perufing thefe Letters. They breathe the true fpirit of Miffionaries: diligence, patience, faith, fortitude, and refolution to die in their work, are each confpicuous. They alfo con

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tain many incidental interefting defcriptions of the ignorance, depravity and mifery of the Hindoos; with various addreffes to them on divine fubjects. Our limits only permit us to give a brief statement of the fuccefs of their labours.

In Nov. 1795, the hands of the Miffionaries were ftrengthened by the acceffion of two ferious Englishmen, Powell and Long, to their number. From thence they formed themselves into a church.

In Feb. 1796, they speak of" fome appearance of the power and effects of the word on fome of their hearers: but that it feemed more like the moving of the Spirit on the face of the waters, than like any particular acts of creation. My pundit," adds Mr. Thomas," afks queftions, heds tears, and requires parts of [our tranflation of] the fcriptures. Brother Cary has another or two, and a hopeful letter has been fent us from Dinagepour*. I can no more doubt that the Lord will blefs our miffion than I can doubt of the rifing of the fun again."

In March, 1796, Mr. Thomas fays, "numbers of very creditable Ma homedans paid Brother Carey a vifit lately, on purpose to hear the gospel. Another meffenger came to him from a village in the neighbourhood, of which are feveral thousands defirous of hearing the gofpel."

In April, 1796, Mr. Carey speaks of the young Bramin, Caffinut Mookhurgee, (of whom favourable mention had been made in Periodical Accounts, No. III. p. 226.) as gone from him, for the fake of employment: but that he has reason to hope that his convictions will and muft remain.

In June, 1796, they speak of appearances being more against them than before, in that they had been obliged, for the credit of the gofpel, to dif charge Ram Bofhoo, the Moofhee, for his having been guilty of adultery. This event they confidered as very difcouraging, as he was a man of good abilities, and of great ufe in the tranflation of the fcriptures.

In Nov. 1796, the time of Mr. Fountain's arrival, events again brightened up. Mr. Fountain himself gives the following account:" The firit Sabbath after my arrival at Mudnabatty, (Mr. Carey's refidence) a letter was brought from Brother Thomas, faying that he hoped a good work was begun at Moypauldiggy, and requetting Brother Carey to come over to fee and fpeak to the people. On the Saturday we went with eager expectation. I was kindly received by Brother Thomas, as I had been before by Brother Carey. On the Sabbath, at fun-rife, worship began. Nearly an hundred people were aflembled. Brother Thomas preached from Ezek. xxxvi. 27. and Brother Carey preached from Acts iv. 12. Very great attention was paid by all. After breakraft, three perfons concerned about their falvation came again; Brothers Carey and Thomas spent a confiderable time. They appear hopeful characters. They daily pray together. One of them, (Yardee) is a man of good natural abilities, and feems to poflefs much thriftian implicity. They appeared much affected when I informed them (through brother Thomas) how the people of England were praying for the falvation of their fouls. "What," faid they," do they pray for us?” At 12 o'clock Brother Carey preached in English from James i. 6. At half past 3 o'clock the natives affembled more numerous than in the morning. Brother Thomas preached from Acts xvii. 30. and Brother Carey from Pf. lxxxix. 15. In the evening Brother Thomas preached in English from Ifa. v. 11. They both declared that I had feen more attention and feriousness my firft Sabbath, than they had feen all the three years they had been in India. Brother Carey returned home the fol

* See No. III. Periodical Accounts, p. 35.

lowing evening, but I ftaid near three weeks. The congregation increased the two following Sabbaths."

While things were thus going on at Moypauldiggy, the residence of Mr. Thomas, fomething of a fimilar nature took place at Mudnabatty. Mr. Carey, in his letter of Nov. 19, 1796, fays, "After the Moonshee's fall, my fchool fell alfo, as I found my income could not poffibly fupport it; and the schoolmafter going with the Moonfhee, it was broken up, nor is it yet refumed, though I much defire it. In this fituation I was for fome time much dejected; but one Lord's day, although I preached in a very low distressed frame of heart, I was very earnest with poor fouls. The text I have forgot; but I now remember that I ufed the words of the Pfalmift with much affection, Whither will you flee from his spirit? I had almoft loft the recollection of this circumstance the next morning, but walking out on the Monday, three Muffuimen came, and with apparent agitation asked me, "Sir, what must we do to be faved? Keman par boibo? How fhall we get over? We heard you yesterday, when having fhewn us the danger we were in of going to hell, you enquired, Whither will you go from his Spirit; whither will you fe from his prefence? We know that we were unacquainted with the way of life, and our Peers cannot help us; for if the mafter be angry, what can the fervant do? You have told us of JESUS CHRIST; but who is he? How fhall we get over?" I talked much with them, and hoped God was beginning a work. In a fhort time, however, two of them ceafed their enquiries; but the other, whofe name is Sookmun, is still in a hopeful state. He has been converfing with me this morning with increasing earnestness; and I have reason to believe" he prayeth.'

Mr. Carey adds, with reference to his vifit to Moypauldiggy," There are five or fix enquirers there; and I muit fay I was greatly affected with them. Three in particular gave me much pleafure; Yardee, Doorgottea, and another. Yardee addressed me to this effect :-" Sir, formerly I had not the fmalleft fenfe of either good or evil. I neither feared nor cared; but having heard the gospel, I fear much; for I have been a very great finner: I have been guilty of theft, of lust, and of lying; and I find that my mind has been fet on these things: but now I will feek after the knowledge of Chrift."

"At another time, fpeaking of the unfeelingness of the people of his country, he gave the following inftance of it. His wife had just lain in, had been exceedingly ill, and was feverish afterwards. One day being alone, and feeling cold, the requested a neighbour to bring her a bit of fire. The other refufed, faying, "I bring you fire, no not I;" and she was obliged to give a few gundas of cowries to a perfon who was going by to bring her a little fire. Yardee, after relating this in my hearing, obferved-" This country people are very bad people; but I was just the fame: my heart was as hard as a stone: but now I pity the miferies of others." He is talking to all about the way of life, and has been the means of a confiderable itir all about Moypaul, fo that many cores come to hear the word. He is a man of a sweet natural temper, good abilities, a readiness to dif courfe with others, and a zeal for Chrift: he and I hope fome others will be baptifed foon. I asked him what he would think if Christ commanded him to do any thing that would expofe him to derifion? He replied, "I will do any thing for Chrift." Thefe enquirers have also begun to taste of oppofition for the fake of Chrift; but they act firmly at prefent."

Nov. 24, 1796, Mr. Carey adds, "Yesterday I was much encouraged by conversation with Sookmun. He waited till he perceived that I was alone, and then came into my room, and made a number of pertinent en

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quiries with unufual spirit and earneftnefs. He expreffed a deep fenfe of his being a loft finner before God. I asked if he had any of these thoughts formerly? He answered, "No; formerly I knew nothing, neither feared any of thee; but now all my concern is, how I fhall be delivered from wrath. Since I have heard the gospel I have become very thoughtful about this matter, and many others." He then enquired, "Who is Jesus Chrift? Is he God's friend, (alluding to their opinion of Mahomet's being the end of God) or what is he?" I replied, "He is God himself; yet God in human form, in human nature; and he fo loved finners as to die for their falvation of his own free will."

"It is now very pleasant to me to hear the natives about the country fing Kee a roo, O who can deliver, except the Lord Jefus Chrift? which is now become very common."

The tune to which this gofpel hymn is fung, and which was compofed by a native, has been taken down by Mr. Fountain, and fent over to the Society. It is given at the beginning of this number, with a version of the hymn, by whic it may be fung in an English congregation."

Mr. Fuller informs us that other letters, too late for infertion in this number, have arrived. They bear date March 23, 1797. By them it appears that the Miffionaries are in good health and fpirits-that Yardee, Doorgottea and Sookmun are stili confidered as truly converted to Chrift that they speak in a very favory manner about the things of God, and grow in knowledge and in grace:-but that to great an oppofition had been made to their baptism, that that event was at present retarded—that Mr. Fountain made progress in the language, and helped them much in their work-that the New Telamenc was now finished, and with another revifion or two would be ready for the prefs-that Mr. Carey propofes print10,000 copies, the expence of which will be upwards of 3000l. fterlingthat he has already confulted a printer at Calcutta on the subject, and waits for the concurrence of the Society-and that himself and Mr. Thomas have taken a ten days tour into the adjacent nation of Boutan, where they were kindly received by the Soobah, or Governor of that part of the country, and preached several fermons to the people, who attended to what they said with great ardour.

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IN an advertisement prefixed to thefe fheets, by the Rev. Mr. Gauntlett, a Clergyman, in Wiltshire, we are informed that they were put into his hands by the Author, an aged, poor, and pious man, with expreffions of earnest defire for their publication. That, on examining the contents, they appeared to him justly to merit it, as being the production of an illiterate perfon, and as exhibiting the doctrine of the Millenium in a new view, confiderably different, he believes, from that of any other writer on the fubject.

We are forry that we cannot exprefs ourselves fo warmly in favour of this performance as Mr. Gauntlett does. Forty-eight pages of close printing are employed in endeavouring to prove that the 1000 years mentioned in Rev. xx. is the period between the refurrection of the righteous, and the refurrection of the wicked, which he is confident is a literal and general refurrection, and that there is no other Millenium to be expected than this intervening period.

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THIS very interefting pamphlet is defigned to refute the opinions of that champion of infidelity, who hath lately had_the affrontery to affert, that "Revelation is unneceffary," and that the Deift lives more morally and confiftently than the Chriftian." On the contrary the author has fhewn that none of the most refined philofophers, much lefs the barbarians, ever formed a fyftem of morals and religion, either in refpect of purity or confiftency, even comparable to the Scriptures: and that fearce any of them lived uniformly with their own principles. The author has trod much of the fame ground with Dr. Leland, and fome others, and may naturally be fuppofed to have availed himself of their labours; but his materials are judiciously fele&ted and arranged, and his leading argument appears invincible. The only defect we have obferved is the omiffion of proper references to his authorities, which, though they might lengthen the tract a page or two, and give fome trouble to the author, we hope will not be dispensed with in another edition.

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IT teems hardly neceffary to write a book to account for a natural man bating the gospel of Chrift: nor can we admire Mr. E's method of accounting for the fact. The prejudices of Mr. G's education, connections, and habits of life, might have great influence, but the root of the evil lays in the natural depravity of human nature. The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, neither indeed can be.

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