Christian meekness, the Christian perseverance and indomitable faith of the friends of our good Cause, and through the protection, above all, and the bless ing of the Almighty, they are gone by The angel of the Lord has, for a time, shut the mouths of these fiercer lions; and it is the False Brother now, the pretended Fellow-soldier in Christ, who has lift up his heel against the propagation of the Christian Gospel.

But thus it is that the power of AntiChrist hath worked hitherto, and doth work. Like those spectre forms which the madness of Orestes saw in Classical Mythology, the Spirit of Religious Party sweeps before us in the garb and with the attributes of pure and evangelical religion. The Cross is on her shoulders-the chalice in her hand-and she is anxiously busied, after her manner, in the service of Him by whose Holy Name she also is called: but outstrip her in the race, but press her a little too closely, and she turns round on us with all the hideous features of Envy and of Rage her hallowed taper blazes into a sulphurous torch-her hairs bristle into serpents her face is as the face of them that go down to the pit-and her words are words of blasphemy!

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What other spirit could have induced a Christian Minister, after himself, as he tells us, long labouring to convert the Heathen, to assert that one hundred millions of human beings-a great, a civilized, an understanding, and most ancient people-are, collectively and individually, under the sentence of reprobation from God, and under a moral in. capacity of receiving that Gospel which the God who gave it hath appointed to be made known to all?

What other spirit could have prompted a Member of that Church which professes to hold out the greatest comfort to sinners, to assert of a Nation with whom, whatever are their faults, I, for one, should think it impossible to live long without loving them, that they are not only enslaved to a cruel and degrading superstition, but that the principal persons among them are sold to all manner of wickedness and cruelty-without mercy to the poor-without natural affection for one another: and this, with no view to quicken the zeal of Christians to release them from their miserable condition, but that Christians may leave them in that condition still, to the end that they may perish everlastingly?

What other spirit, finally, could have led a Christian Missionary, (with a remarkable disregard of truth, the proofs of which are in my hands,) to disparage the success of the different Protestant Missions-to detract from the numbers and vilify the good name of that ancient Syrian Church, whose flame, like the more sacred fire of Horeb, sheds its lonely and awful brightness over the woods and mountains of Malabar-and to assure us, (hear, O Israel!) in the same treatise, and almost in the same page, that the Christians of India are the most despised and wretched of its inhabitants; that whoever takes up the Cross, takes up the hatred of his own people, the contempt of Europeans, loss of goods, loss of employment, destitution, and often beggary; and yet that it is INTEREST ALONE, and a love of this world, which has induced in any Hindoo even a temporary profession of the Gospel?

And this is the professed Apologist of the People of India! My Brethren, I have known the sharpness of censure, and I am not altogether without expe rience in the suffering of undeserved and injurious imputations. And, let the righ teous smite me friendly, I shall receive it (I trust in God) with gratitude. Let my enemy write a book, so he be my open enemy, I trust (through the same Divine Aid) to bear it or to answer it. But whatever reproofs I may deserve, to whatever calumnies I may be subjected, may the mercy of Heaven defend me from having a false friend for my vindicator!

My own experience in India is, I own, as yet but little; but the conclusions which I have been led to form are of an extremely different character. I have found, or seemed to myself to find, a race of men, like other men who are not partakers in the regenerating principle of the Gospel, very far gone, indeed, from God and His original righteousness; but exempt, perhaps by the fortunate circumstances of their climate and habits, from some of those more outrageous and appalling vices of which so dreadful a picture is drawn in those nations to whom the Apostles preached Christ Crucified. I have found a race of gentle and temperate habits, with a natural talent and acuteness beyond the ordinary level of mankind, and with a thirst for general knowledge which even the renowned and inquisitive Athenians

can hardly have surpassed or equalled. Prejudiced, indeed, they are, in favour of their ancient superstitions; nor should I think, to say the truth, more favourably of the character or augur more happily of the eventual conversion and perseverance of any man or set of men, whom a light consideration could stir from their paternal creed, or who received the Word of Truth without cautious and patient inquiry. But I am yet to learn, that the Idolatry which surrounds us is more enthralling in its influence on the human mind, than those beautiful phantoms and honied sorceries which lurked beneath the laurels of Delos and Daphne, and floated on the clouds of Olympus. I am not yet convinced, that the miserable bondage of castes, and the consequences of breaking that bondage, are more griev. ous to be endured by the Modern Indian, than those ghastly and countless shapes of death which beset the path of the Roman Convert. And who shall make me believe, that the same Word of the Most High, which consigned to the moles and the bats the idols of Chaldee and Babylon, and dragged down the Lying Father of Gods and Men from his own Capitol and the battlements of his "Eter. nal City," must yet arrest its victorious wheels on the banks of the Indus or the Ganges, and admit the trident of Siva to share, with the Cross, a divided empire? That the Missionary to whose work I have referred, may have been, himself, unsuccessful in his labours, I certainly am not called on to deny or question: that those labours were honest and diligent I am extremely ready to believe, both from the acknowledged blamelessness of his life, from the time which he spent in the work, and the reputation which he enjoyed in Southern India: but the unsuccessful labours of one man,

however diligent and able, are no argument against the hope that God, who alone giveth the increase, may bestow more abundant blessing on other hus

bandmen.

And when we recollect, that, by the rules of his Sect, the author of whom I speak was precluded from the free dispersion, among his hearers and his flock, of those Sacred Writings to which the first preachers of Christianity appeal on all occasions, or which those preachers themselves left behind for the conversion and confirmation of after-ages; when we recollect, that no translation of, I will not say the Bible, but of any single May, 1827.

Gospel or Epistle, was entrusted, for all that appears, by this Missionary to his Indian Converts; it may occasion the less wonder that they were but lightly affected with a faith whose authentic documents were withheld from them. And since, on his own shewing, it was his object, and that of his brethren, to allure the Hindoo from his ancient creed, by a display of those gaudy vanities in which the Romish Sect most nearly approaches to the Religion of Brahma, what marvel will remain, that the populace preferred those images to which they were accustomed, or that the more philosophic inquirer found little apparent advantage in transferring his veneration from the legends of the Ramayana to the almost equally doubtful names of St. Veronica, St. Ursula, and St. George the Cappadocian!

But we, my Brethren, have not so learned Christ. Whether our success be great or small, it is to something very different from Hindooism that we Protestants lead our converts: and though I am far, Heaven knows! from placing on the same level the Brahminical and the Romish Faith; and though, as a form, though a corrupt form, of the knowledge whereby men are brought to God, I rejoice in every conquest which this latter has made among the Heathen

I would rather, should God so far honour me, be the instrument of bringing one idolater to the worship of the One True God, and the One Mediator between God and Man, than to have persuaded, like Xavier, my tens of thousands to palter their Rosary in Latin instead of Sanscrit, and transfer to the Saints the honour which they had paid to the Devetas.

Having appealed to the state of of encouraging success, as quoted in Protestant Missions in India in proof our former Volume above referred to, the Bishop adds

To perpetuate and extend these triumphs must be the endeavour of those around me; who, however small their success, are aware, that, in thus endeavouring, they are fulfilling a solemn commandment of God; and who, though their visible success should be none at all, will at least, if they are faithful in their Ministry, have saved their own souls, and laid up for themselves a good reward on that day when the Lord shall make up His jewels-a day for which

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no better preparation can be found, than a patient and unwearied continuance in well doing; and in stretching out, like Him whom we serve, our consecrated hands to exhort, to heal, and to save; though it may be, that, like His, our hands are stretched out to a gainsaying and unbelieving people!

Right Temper of Missionaries.

I would recommend to you, in your intercourse with the Heathen, a careful abstinence from every thing which may enlist their angry passions on the side of error, all expressions hurtful to their national pride, and even all bitter and contemptuous words against the objects of their idolatry.

In these respects, no better model can be found than the great Apostle of the Gentiles; whose harshest words, in his addresses to the Athenians and men of Lystra, are of a kind to stimulate the curiosity, far more than to wound the zeal of the fiercest and least-tolerant Pagan; and of whom, at Ephesus, however boldly and successfully he had contended for the truth, no man was able to say that he was actually a blasphemer of their Goddess. In no cause, indeed, however righteous, can abuse and insult hold the place of argument; and far nobler conquests may be gained in a friendly discussion with our adversary, than by adopting a tone, which, in itself, gives him an additional motive to shut his ears against all which we urge to him. Advantages of Confidence between a Bishop

and his Clergy.

It is the misfortune of the Modern English-Church, that the Bishop is too often regarded by his Clergy, not as the master-spring, but as merely a controuling power; a remora to check too ardent zeal, rather than an agent to further improvement; a censor of measures already adopted, rather than a guide in measures proposed. I rejoice to say that, with such of my Clergy as I have as yet personally known, I feel myself on a very different footing; and it is in order that this mutual confidence may become general throughout the Diocese, that I am anxious that all should be convinced, that, in their Ordinary, they have a Fellow-servant and a Friend-actuated by the same general principles, confessing the same faith, and having the same great objects continually in view; who is only desirous to forward their labours of love by the

aid of such experience as he possesses, and to prove to them, experimentally, that, for the most ardent zeal and for activity the most incessant, enough and more than enough of room is afforded by the closest principles of Church Union, and the most cautious adherence to the Canons and Constitutions of that Church to which we profess allegiance.

Picture of a Devoted Minister.

My Brethren, whereuntosoever ye are called and whatever may be the peculiar sphere of ministerial action marked out for you, let it be always in your minds, as the prevailing principle of your lives, that you are Ministers of Christ, and devoted to His high and holy calling. "HOC AGITE!" Let every man who hears you preach, every man who witnesses your performance of your sacred functions, every man who is admitted to your society and familiar conversation, be made aware that there is thus much distinction in your character, and that your main object is that of your profession.

Even if worldly estimation, if worldly popularity were our objects, it is conduct like this, which (undisgraced by affectation and formality, and proceeding unfeignedly from the good treasure of the heart) would eventually most secure them. Consistency is, after all, that quality for which, even among worldly and carnal men, the most unfeigned respect is entertained; and the man him mistaken or no, is always esteemed who is in earnest, whether they account the most and listened to most willingly. But the world is not the master whom I am desirous that you should seek to please; and the applause of the world is of very little moment to those, whose industry is commanded in the words, Occupy till I come! and whose labours will be rewarded with, Well done, good and faithful servant!

Character of Bishop Middleton.

It was by a more than usual attention to the consistency of his appropriate character, and to the paramount and indispensable necessity of his appropriate pursuits and duties, that the character of Bishop Middleton became that which you beheld, and that which he, for the example of us all, has left behind him. That great and good man, had his mind been attracted to secular objects, possessed much of every quality on which the world bestows its favour; but,

though his memory was stored with all profane and civil literature, the application of his learning and talents was to ecclesiastical purposes only. He ranked among the very foremost critics of his age; yet it was to Scriptural Criticism only that his acumen was directed. He had, I am assured, an inexhaustible supply of lighter and more elegant literature; yet he sought to be remembered as a preacher and a theologian only. Nay more, when his life long labours were at length drawing near their term, as if fearing the applause of men, even in those branches of study which were strictly appropriate and ministerial, he consigned, as a last sacrifice, his laboured manuscripts to the flames; content to live in the memory of those who personally knew and loved and honoured him, and desiring no other reward than the mercy of Him to whom his thoughts, his studies, and his prayers had been long and steadily dedicated.

West Indies.

Jamaica.

BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY. State and Prospects of the Mission. THE Society has four chief Stations in Jamaica, and eight Missionaries connected with them. A brief notice of the Mission occurs at p. 141 of the Survey: Mr. James Mann should be added to the Missionaries there mentioned: he arrived with Messrs. Baylis and Flood. Mr. Coultart is at present in England. Mr. Burchell, said in the Survey to be about to visit England, had, in fact visited it, with his wife, in the summer: they left London, on their return, in the latter part of November; and arrived in Jamaica, after a passage of 44 days, in the Garland Cove, Capt. Pengelly, in which vessel they had come home.

employed knew nothing of the system, and cared nothing for the children. It was then in an uncomfortable situation, altogether unfit for a place of tuition. I did not wonder at my brother's death, when I saw the confined and unwhole. some place where he daily laboured. Imagine to yourself a small place filled with children, only covered with wooden shingles, no ceiling, a vertical sun, and no breeze, and you will have some idea of it. It is peculiarly necessary that a room in which African Children assemble should be well ventilated.

These and other considerations induced us to think of erecting a New SchoolRoom, which, through the mercy of God, I have lived to see completed, and nearly filled with children. It is erected on the Mission Premises, close to the Chapel, in the most healthful part of the city. The sea-breeze blows directly through it, which is here almost essential to health. It is built much like the Borough Road, inside, and will seat 250 children. As I wish it to be a kind of Central School, it is made as complete as possible.

Since the School was first established by my brother, about 130 children have left it, most of whom were able to read and write, and some to cipher: most of them knew no more than the alphabet, if that, when they entered. I have now in the School 134 boys, 41 of whom are slaves, and 21 who were so, but whose parents have purchased their freedom: the remainder are generally poor free children, who would never have had any education, were it not for this institution: I have 90 girls, 25 of whom are parents, the remainder are of the same slaves: about 15 have been freed by their class as the boys: so that now there are 224 children in the School; and, before this reaches you, I expect that we shall be quite full. Out of this number, 198 knew little more than the alphabet when they entered. I have now between 60 and 70 in the highest classes who are able to read well: many of them write on This is a depaper, and some cipher. lightful system for facilitating instruction, and is destined to be a lasting blessing to the world. I have commenced a Sabbath School for children and adults, which contains 95 men and women, and about 150 children. I might have many more adults, but I have used all my books.

Of the First Public Examination on the 21st of December, Mr.Knibb says