The Journals for January, February, and March, 1814, are arrived; as will be seen by the subjoined very encouraging Letter from Mr. Thomason. They, will be printed the first opportunity. Some remarkable instances appear in these Journals, of that gradual preparation for the reception of the Gospel in the East, which indicates the over-ruling hand of God. The Native Satirical Poets are bringing their own religious code into contempt, and prepar ing men to seek a better system!

Letter from the Rev. T.T. Thomason to the Secretary of the Church Missionary Society.

My Dear Sir

Calcutta, May 9, 1814. Enclosed I have the pleasure of sending Abdool's Journals for the months of January, February, and March. They tell their own story so well, that they need no "letters of recommendation." The hand of God seems to be peculiarly manifested. When your Society was bursting forth with new splendour at HOME, work was preparing for them ABROAD. Corrie and Abdool seem to be the very instruments whom you want. The good work is prospering, far beyond all our expectation, and greatly beyond former experience.

You will observe with what vigilance and wisdom dear Corrie watches over the new converts, and trains them for usefulness. He has married a wife who enters into all his Missionary Views, and is indeed a help-meet for him in the good work. What may we not look for, if it should please God to spare their valuable lives a few years, and strengthen them for the arduous field of labour in which they are placed!

Your communication, dated August 12, 1813, has been received. The Reports, with Lord Gambier's Letters, and the copies of Dr. Buchanan's "Colonial

Ecclesiastical Establishment," have been received, and distributed in the most favourable manner.

We are most happy in receiving your increased bounty; and mean to draw upon you, as your Society has authorised, for 5007. annually, until we hear to the contrary. The first payment we made out of your additional bounty was to beloved Corrie, who had embarrassed himself by his Agra School and Chapel. The debt was a MISSIONARY debt; and, therefore, the discharge of it came immediately within the scope of your Society's plans. You will henceforth receive regularly an account of our receipts and disbursements, as we are now beginning to act as a little body. The Rev. Mr. Robertson, my assistant, and Mr. Sherer, a Civilian of high standing at this Presidency, will be added to our number. In a few days we hope to meet, to organize our plans; and, by the first opportunity, you may expect to hear from Mr. Robertson, who will act as Secretary, of our proceedings.

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Please to send us more of the Society's "Proceedings." We shall look out for your Missionary Registers with avidity. The African Field, though slow in its progress at first, cannot fail to be productive. We may hope for great things, when we see plans formed with wisdom, and followed by many prayers. Indeed, the times are encouraging in almost every part of the world. How thankful ought we to be for the high privilege of bearing a part in those labours which are dispersing such blessed fruits throughout the earth!

If it should please God to give success to our plans, we hope to find Readers among the Christian Converts, who may be sent forth with advantage. into all the provinces. But this will be, in its nature, a slow work. Our eye, however, is kept upon it. Abdool is doing the work of an Evangelist; and several in Mr. Corrie's Congregation are training for

labour: so that, before the end of the year, we may reasonably hope to have the number of our Readers considerably enlarged.

I hope that when our Society is formed, and more hauds engaged in the work, you will hear more fully about the interesting labours of individuals in various parts of the country. There is a growing attention to the wants of the natives; and schools are now formed, by private individuals, for the instruction of Native Children, which promise to be productive of very extensive good, Some time ago I. mentioned to you that I was preparing to submit a plan to Government for the establishment of Native Schools through the district. It is now a considerable time since the proposals were sent in. I have offered myself to labour as the Superintendant, until we can obtain one from England.

Arrival of the Missionaries Schnarrè and Rhenius at Madras.

Intelligence has been received of the safe arrival at Madras, on the 4th of June, of the fleet with which Messrs. Schnarrè and Rhenius sailed. Letters have reached the Society from them, written at sea, March 25, April 10, and May 4; at which last date the fleet was about to double the Cape of Good Hope. They had enjoyed perfect health, and had been able to prosecute their studies during the voyage. Divine Service had been held on Sunday, and the Word of God preached to the crew and pas sengers. Letters may be daily expected from them from ludia.

INDIA.

STATIONS OF (LONDON) MISSIONÁRY SOCIETY.

In addition to the Report on this subject printed

in our Number for August, we give the following more recent intelligence, taken from the Postscript to the Report, and from subsequent arrivals.

Vizagapatam.

Anunderayer continues decided and consistent in his Christian Profession. The knowledge and judgment which he displays in his discourses to his countrymen delight the Missionaries Gordon and Pritchett: "and though," they say, we cannot speak of his converts, yet many are convinced; while the hardened Brahmins, who set themselves against the truth, have been again and again confounded before the multitude, and are evidently afraid of encountering him."

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In their Gentoo School they had 40 scholars; and, in the English, 20; but expect a large increase. first," they observe, "with all our solicitude to exclude every thing heathen, we were careful not to be too rigid, lest we should defeat our own object: but we have gradually prevailed, so that it is now altogether a Christian Seminary. Instead of a prayer which the scholars were accustomed to present to a female deity, whom they suppose to preside over letters, and whom they in some way identify with their books, and even with the sand; in which they inscribe the characters (so that these are objects of their adoration), Anunderayer composed for them a suitable address to the True God: before they are dismissed school, one boy repeats this prayer, and is followed by the others sentence by sentence."

"We wish," add the Missionaries," it were in our power, as well as in that of others, to send you the agreeable tidings of a work of conversion among the Heathen: but it is our lot to labour in a stubborn soil; and we fear many years of painful toil must be endured, before this desert blossoms and produces fruit. But let none despair of success in the end, nor yet suppose that nothing has been done; for, at least, the minds of multitudes are dissatisfied. Vizagapatam and its vicinity are in a kind of commotion. Considerable anxiety has been excited. Many have freely acknowledged themselves convinced of the evil and folly of their ways; and some that they are Christians at heart, but afraid to confess it openly for fear of being at out of the Syna

gogue. Were it not for the unequalled timidity of this people, by which they are terrified at the thought of losing caste, and at its consequent inconveniences, we have no doubt that we should have many converts to enumerate and rejoice in."

"It would be a happy thing if we were able to begin and carry on a good Factory here, of some kind: it would bring more under our influence, and be a place of refuge for outcasts. We have felt the necessity of this, when some have applied to us to take them into our service; declaring themselves, at the same time, favourably disposed towards Christianity. In some places there is nothing to deter, no sacrifices to be made,-no longrevered opinions and customs to be relinquished,-no disgrace to be endured, no difficulties to be encountered; but, on the contrary, many worldly considerations to excite an attention to Christianity: whilst, here, the very reverse is the case. No converts can be gained, not even to a tolerable profession of Christianity, but such as have courage enough to forsake father and mother, and every thing dear to them in this world; and fortitude and humility enough to live disgraced and despised by all whose good opinion nature itself would lead them to value."

Ganjam.

Mr. Lee, after the service on Lord's-day evenings, reads a portion of the Scriptures to the natives who are present, and explains it to them in Gentoo. He was erecting a place of worship, fifty feet by thirty-eight, in doing which he is assisted by the Government. His monthly Missionary Prayer-meetings are attended by forty or fifty persons. He has translated Dr. Watts's First Catechism, and other useful books for children. He is also proceeding in his translation of the Book of Genesis into the Telinga.

Ganjam is described as very populous: both the Telinga and Odea Languages are spoken; and, as the situation affords great facilities for the wide diffusion of Gospel Light, he earnestly wishes for the assistance of another Missionary.

Belhary.

Mr. Hands continues in a weak state, so that he has not been able to proceed so rapidly as he wished in the