phetical Office;-on the Priestly Office ;-on the Nature of Atonement; -on the Severity of Christ's Sufferings;-on the Necessity of the Atonement;-on the Testimony of Scripture to the Atonement;-on the Sufficiency of Atonement;-on the Example of Christ.

Some of these subjects, it will be seen are adapted particularly to the heathen, while others are more suited to those who have embraced the truth, as it is in Christ. But as they are all addressed to idolaters, and are specimens to our teachers of the manner in which they should speak to their countrymen, they will all, I trust, be useful in advancing the great object-the glory of God. In treating each subject, the principal objections which the heathen make to Christianity are answered; the strong-holds of idolatry are attacked; principles acknowledged by the Hindoo system, and passages, selected from their own Shasters, in which idolatry is condemned, have been turned against their paganism; the truths are established from reason and Scripture; and a short address, calling upon them to renounce this system of error, to believe in the true God, and to love the Saviour whom he has appointed, closes the whole. Much patience and perseverance, and much strength from above did the author, amidst so many other duties, feel to be necessary, while engaged in thus writing a work in a strange language; but he was greatly encouraged. Year after year, the Religious Tract Society kindly supplied him with paper, and the co-operation of

Tract Societies and many benevolent friends in India, granted him the means of publishing many thousands of these monitors to the heathen.

As the divinity of our Lord, the Deity of the Holy Spirit, and the great doctrine of the atonement are dwelt upon at considerable length, it might appear to some, at first view, to be rather unnecessary and almost unwise. But apart from the great importance which these doctrines possess in themselves, constituting, as they do, the very fundamentals of Christianity, they have already been assailed in India, and the dreadful heresies of Socinianism are trying to find a settlement among the people. While these subjects, must, in every system of truth, hold of necessity a very conspicuous place, it is of essential importance, in a land where the gospel is yet to be established, that the minds of the first converts should be well grounded in the faith, and that the bulwarks of their religion may become impregnable to the assaults of error in such terrible forms.

Many have lamented that the instances have been so few in which the dissemination of the Scriptures and of tracts, have proved successful in the conversion of the heathen. But have not the expectations of such individuals been rather extravagant? It is scarcely to be expected that truth distributed, however rousing and alarming, should produce such immediate and striking effects in India, as we know it often does in our native land. The degraded

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state of the heathen; the total blindness of their understandings, and the awful depravity of their hearts; the want of those principles in their minds, which enable us to work upon the consciences of our own countrymen, may account, I think, in some measure, for the deficiency of success. The Spirit of God can enlighten the darkest understanding, and impress the most obdurate heart; but his ordinary method now of working upon man is through the medium of his word; and it will not be until there is a degree of religious information-till the seed has been extensively sown, and has, in some degree, taken root in the understanding, that we can hope to witness the same striking effects produced, through the means of alarming representations. It is now with us in India, the season of spring, during which we must sow the seed, and use our best endeavours to cultivate the ground aright, and we must wait, with prayer, and with patience, for the refreshing shower from above to produce the harvest.

CHAPTER XIII.

DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS.

ALL SECTIONS ENGAGED IN THE STRUGGLE-UNITY AT HOME AND ABROAD-A BLESSING GRANTED TO ALL-ENGLISH ESTABLISHMENT-LETTER FROM BISHOP WILSON-BAPTIST BRETHRENDIFFICULTIES OF THE INFANT MISSIONS-TRIALS-SUCCESSCHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY-LIBERALITY-TINEVELLY-LI

BERTY-WESLEYAN MISSIONS-DISCOURAGEMENTS-MELNUTTAM

-A BRAMIN-GREATER EXERTIONS-THE INHERITANCE THE SAME.

ON a review of the last fifty years, during which the church has been engaged in this contest with the systems of paganism, it is delightful to see how the missionary spirit has increased, and has spread, from one party to another, like a flame of love, sympathy and zeal. Instead of sect being ranged against sect as in the days of old; instead of Calvinists thundering against Arminians, Baptists against Pædo-Baptists, Presbyterians against Independents, and Episcopalians against them all, and challenging them to defend their respective opinions and maintain the high ground which they had taken, they are now engaged against the common enemy, and are

assembling their hosts for the spiritual warfare. Some sections have been slow and reluctant to give up their prejudices and their antiquated notions, and to join with the confederated armies; but I know scarcely one whose opinions may be termed evangelical and whom it is our duty to respect, that continues to stand aloof from the consideration of this great question. Were it left to one tribe of our spiritual Israel to encounter the foe, and to take possession of the land, it must be a hopeless undertaking. But as all the tribes have consecrated themselves to the service, they present a united and a powerful phalanx to fight in the name of the Lord, and to subdue the enemy.

Much do I lament to find, that, at home, the feelings of love, harmony and goodwill are not so triumphant and so prevalent among different parties, as they once were. This is deeply to be deplored. Whatever may be the struggles of party, and whatever may be the efforts of the great adversary to divide and to destroy, it behoves every true Christian to fan the flame of love, to abstain from expressions and from deportment that would injure the heavenly spirit, and to cultivate and promote everywhere the sacred affections which may have been injured.

But if different sects can afford at home to divide upon points of minor importance, it is impossible to do so in India. In the field of battle; among millions of heathen who are prepared to convert every