in such of his holy breathings, as I have attained unto. How sweet and wise, like him, and the saints of old, to pass through this world as a serious and considerate stranger. I have had more of this temper to-day, than of late, and every duty has been in harmony with my spirit. The service in Hindostanee was at two o'clock. The number of women not above one hundred. I expounded chap. iii, of St. Matthew. Notwithstanding the general apathy with which they seemed to receive every thing, there were two or three, who I was sure, understood and felt something. But not a single creature beside them, European or native, was present. Yet true spirituality, with all its want of at tractions for the carnal heart, did prevail over the splendid shows of Greece and Rome and shall again here.-A man at the hospital much refreshed me, by observing, that if I made an acquisition of but one convert in my whole life it would be a rich reward; and that I was taking the only possible way to this end. This man's remark was much more sensible than ***'s yesterday, who, it seems, had received full information of my schools, &c. and said I should make no proselyte. Thy judgments are far above out of their sight.' How positively they speak, as if there were no God who could influence the heart. At night B. and S. came, and we had the usual service."

With those soldiers who attended Mr. Martyn always on the evening of the Sabbath, and often on some other evenings of the week, he enjoyed true spiritual communion. Their number was very small at first, amounting at the most to five; sometimes, indeed, only one could attend, but with him he would gladly unite in prayer and praise, and reading the Scriptures, when the promise of the Redeemer's gracious presence was verified to their abundant consolation.

Over some few of the officers stationed at Dinapore, he now began to rejoice with that joy, which faithful ministers alone can estimate, who, after much preaching and admonition, and after many prayers and tears-at length perceive a fruitful result of their anxious endeavors to win souls and glorify their Lord. One of these, who from the first, to use Mr. Martyn's own words, bad "treated him with the kindness of a father," at this time excited expectations which soon ripened into a delightful certainty, that he had turned with full purpose of heart to his Redeemer. But if his happiness was great at witnessing this effect of the divine blessing on his ministry-so also was his anxiety, lest this new convert should relapse, and walk again according to the course of this world, and he began, he said, in reference to him, for the first time, to enter into the spirit of the Apostle's words, "now we live if ye stand fast in the Lord."--pp. 242 -245.

While at Dinapore, Mr. M. commenced and completed a translation of the New Testament, into Hindoos tanee. He superintended the translation of it also into Persian. This translation was conducted by Sabat, whose conversion and apostasy are alike memorable. While residing at this station, he was afflicted by the intelligence of the death of one of his sisters, and soon after his removal to Cawnpore, he was called to mourn the loss of the sister who was peculiarly dear to him, as having been the means, under God, of his conversion.

At Cawnpore, the hand of friendship and hospitality was stretched out, to wel come Mr. Martyn, and to afford him those attentions, after a wearisome and perilous journey, which were not only most gratifying to his feelings, but almost indispensable to the preservation of his life. From the pen of the lady of that friend who then received him-a pen which has been often and happily employed in the sacred cause for which Mr. Martyn lived and labored-we have the following account of his arrival at the new station to which he was appointed. "The month of April, iu the upper provinces of Hindoostan, is one of the most dreadful months for travelling throughout the year; indeed, no Europe. an, at that time, can remove from place to place, but at the bazard af his life. But Mr. Martyn had that anxiety to be at the work which his heavenly Father had given him to do, that, notwithstanding the violent heat, he travelled from Chunar to Cawnpore, the space of about four hundred miles. At that time, I well remember, the air was as hot and dry as that which I have sometimes felt near the mouth of a large oven-no friendly cloud or verdant carpet of grass, to relieve the eye from the strong glare of the rays of the sun, pouring on the sandy plains of the Ganges. Thus Mr. Martyn travelled, journeying night and day, and arrived at Cawnpore, in such a state, that he fainted away as soon as he entered the house. When we charged him with the rashness of hazarding in this manner his life, he always pleaded his anxiety to get to the great work. He remained with us ten days, suffering at times considerably from fever and pain in his chest."

Mr. Martyn's own account of this dreadful and most distressing journey, is thus briefly detail to Mr Corrie.

"Cawnpore, May 1, 1809. The entrance to this place is through plains of unmeasurable extent, covered with burning sand. The place itself I have not yet been able to see, nor shall, I suppose, till the rain:

at present it is involved in a thick cloud of dust. So much for exordium.-Let me take up my narrative from Mirzapore, where I wrote you a note. I reached Tarra about noon. Next day at noon, reached Allahabad, and was hospitably received by Mr. G.; at night dined with him at the Judge's and met twenty-six people. From Allahabad to Cawnpore how shall I describe what I suffered! Two days and two nights was I travelling with out intermission. Expecting to arrive early on Saturday morning, I took no provision for that day. Thus I lay in my palanquin faint, with a head-ache, neither awake nor asleep, between dead and alive -the wind blowing flames. The bearers were so unable to bear up, that we were six hours coming the last six kos (twelve miles.) However, with all this frightful description, I was brought in mercy through. It was too late on Saturday to think of giving notice of my arrival, that we might have service; indeed I was myself too weak. Even now the motion of the palanquin is not out of my brain, nor the heat out of my blood."-pp.

310-312.

At Cawnpore, Mr. Martyn's ministerial duties varied little from those which had occupied him at Dinapore. Prayers and a sermon with the regiment at the dawn of the morning; the same service at the house of the General of the station, at eleven o'clock; attendance at the hospital; and in the evening, that part of his work which was the most grateful and refresh ing to his spirit, though performed under the pressure of much bodily fatigue-an exposition to the more devout part of his dock, with prayer and thanksgiving, made up the ordinary portion of his labors.-pp. -313, 314.

The close of the year 1809 was distinguished by the commencement of Mr. Martyn's first public ministration among the Heathen. A crowd of mendicants, whom, to prevent perpetual interruptions, he had appointed to meet on a stated day, for the distribution of alms, frequently assembled before his house in immense numbers, presenting an affecting spectacle of extreme wretchedness. To this congregation he determined to preach the word of the Saviour of all men, who is no respecter of persons. Of his first attempt at this new species of ministration, he thus speaks:-"I told them (after requesting their attention) that I gave with pleasure the alms I could afford, but wished to give them something better, namely, eternal ricbes, or the knowledge of God, which was to be bad from God's word; and then producing a Hindoostanee translation of Genesis, read the first verse, and explained it word by word. In the beginning, when there was nothing, no heaven, no earth, but only God, he created without

help, for his own pleasure.—But who is God? One so great, so good, so wise, so mighty, that none can know him as he ought to know: but yet we must know that he knows us. When we rise up, or sit down, or go out, he is always with us. He created heaven and earth; therefore every thing in heaven, sun, moon, and stars. Therefore how should the sun be God, or moon be God? Every thing on earth, therefore Ganges also therefore how should Ganges be God? Neither are they like God.-If a shoemaker make a pair of shoes, are the shoes like him? If a man make an image, the image is not like man his maker. Infer secondly: if God made the heaven and earth for you, and made the meat also for you, will he not also feed you? Know also, that he that made heaven and earth, can destroy them

and will do it; therefore fear God who is so great, and love God who is so good." Such was the substance of his first discourse, the whole of which was preached sentence by sentence, for at the end of each clause there were applauses and explanatory remarks from the wiser among them. "I bless my God," said Mr. Martyn, "for helping me beyond my expectations. Yet still my corrupt heart looks forward to the next attempt with some dread."-318, 319.

Objections having been made to the Persian version of the New Testament, on the ground that it too much abounded with Arabic idioms, it was at length determined that Mr. M. should visit Arabia and Persia, and consult learned natives of those countries, respecting it. A letter from Mr. Brown to Mr. Martyn, shows that a residence in Asia had not been without its effect upon the style of the former gentleman, which in this instance at least, is not deficient in imagery.

Mr. Brown's reply, on this purpose, being communicated to him, is too characteristic, both of himself and Mr. Martyn, to be omitted. "But can I then (said be) bring myself to cut the string and let you go? I confess I could not, if your bodily frame was strong, and promised to last for half a century. But as you burn with the intenseness and rapid blaze of heated phos. phorus, why should we not make the most of you? Your flame may last as long, and perhaps longer, in Arabia, than in India. Where should the phoenis build her odoriferous nest, but in the land prophetically called 'the blessed;' and where shall we ever expect, but from that country. the true comforter to come to the nations of the East. I contemplate your New

Testament springing up, as it were, from dust and ashes, but beautiful as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers like yellow gold."

Towards the end of September, therefore, Mr. Martyn put himself in readiness to leave Cawnpore; and on his preaching, for the last time, to the natives, and giving them an account of the life, the miracles, the death, and the resurrection of Jesus, as well as a summary of his heavenly doctrine-exhorting them to believe in him, and taking them to record that he had declared to them the glad tidings of the Gospel-it was but too apparent that they would never again hear those sounds of wisdom and mercy from his lips. On the opening of the new chuch, also, where he preached to his own countrymen, amidst the happiness and thankfulness which aabounded at seeing "a temple of God erected, and a door opened for the service of the Almighty, in a place where, from the foundation of the world, the tabernacle of the true God had never stood," a mournful foreboding could not be suppressed, that he, who had been the cause of its erection, and who now ministered in it for the first time, in the beauty of holiness, would minister there no more.— They beheld him standing on the verge of the eternal world, and ready to take a splendid flight. "My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof," were the sentiments with which many gazed on him. One of his auditors on this solemn occasion, describes, in the following words, the feelings of many others, in depicting her own:-"He began in a weak and faint voice, being at that time in a very bad state of health: but gathering strength as he proceeded, he seemed as one inspired from on high. Never was an audience more affected. The next day, this holy and heavenly man left Cawnpore, and the society of many who sincerely loved and admired him.He left us with little hope of seeing him again, until, by the mercy of our Saviour, we meet with him in our Father's house." -pp. 327-329.

On the 7th of January, 1811, Mr. M. sailed from Calcutta, and after visiting Ceylon, Goa, Bombay, and the Elephanta Island, he landed at Bushire on the 22nd of May; on the 30th his Persian dress was ready, and he started for Shiraz. Our limits prevent us from giving the very interesting account of this journey.

Arrived at the celebrated seat of Persian literature, Mr. Martyn, having ascertained the general correctness of the opinion delivered at Calcutta, respecting the trans

lation of the New Testament, by Sabat, commenced immediately another version in the Persian language. An able and willing assistant, in this arduous and important work, presented himself in the person of Mirza Seid Ali Khan, the brother-in-law of his host, Jaßer Ali Khan. His coadjutor, he soon discovered, was one of a numerous and increasing religious community, whose tenets, (if that term be not inapplicable to any thing of so fluctuating and indefinite a nature as their sentiments,) appear to consist of refined mysticism of the most Latitudinarian complexion; a quality, be it remembered, entirely opposite to the exclusive character and inflexible spirit of Christianity, and which pervading, as it does so completely, the system of Soofeism, sufficiently accounts for its toleration under a Mahometan despotism, of a purer and more absolute kind than exists even in the Turkish dominions.

In Jaffier Ali Khan, a Mahometan of rank and consequence, to whom Mr. Martyn had letters of recommendation, he found a singular urbanity of manners, united to a temper of a more solid and substantial excellence-a kindness of disposition, ever fertile in expedients conducive to the comfort and convenience of his guest. There was in him also, as well as in his brother-in-law, what was still more gratifying, an entire absence of bigotry and prejudice; and on all occasions he was ready to invite, rather than decline, the freest interchange of opinion on religious topics.

The work, for which Mr. Martyn had come to Shiraz, was commenced on the 17th of June, little more than a week after his reaching that city. It was preceded by a very pleasing interview with two priests of the Mahometan faith, of which we have this account." In the evening, Seid Ali came, with two Moollabs, disciples of his uncle Mirza Ibraheem, and with them I had a very long and temperate discussion. One of them read the beginning of St. John, in the Arabic, and inquired very particularly into our opinions respecting the person of Christ; and when he was informed that he did not consider his human nature eternal, nor his mother divine, seemed quite satisfied, and remarked to the others, how much misapprehension is removed when people come to an explanation.'

As Mr. Martyn was himself an object of attention and curiosity in Shiraz, and the Testament was wholly new to his coadjutor, he was not suffered to proceed in his work without many interruptions.

"Seid Ali," he writes, June 17, "began translating the Gospel of John with me. We were interrupted by the entrance of two very majestic personages, one of whom was the great-grandson of Nadir Sbah. The Uncle of the present King used to wait behind his father's table. He

and respect to me, seemed to increase as the time of my departure approached.

"Aga Baba, who had been reading St. Matthew, related, very circumstantially, to the company, the particulars of the death of Christ. The bed of roses, on which we sat, and the notes of the nightingales warbling around us, were not so sweet to me as this discourse from the Persian.

"One day telling Mirza Seid Ali, that I wished to return to the city in the evening, to be alone, and at leisure for prayer, he said with impression, though a man had no other religious society, with the aid of the Bible he may, I suppose, live alone with God? It will be his own state soon -may he find it the medium of God's gracious communication to his soul! He ask

ed in what way God ought to be addressed, I told him as a father, with respectful love, and added some other exhortations on the subject of prayer.

"11-Aga Baba came to bid me fare

well, and he did it in the best and most solemn way, by asking, as a final question, whether, independantly of external evidences, I had any internal proofs of the doctrine of Christ?'-I answered, yes, undoubtedly: the change from what I once was, is a sufficient evidence to me.' At last he took his leave in great sorrow, and what is better, apparently in great solicitude about his soul.

"The rest, of the day I continued with Mirza Seid Ali, giving him in charge what to do with the New Testament, in case of my decease, and exhorting him, as far as his confessions allowed me, to stand fast. He has made many a good resolution respecting his besetting sins. I hope, as well as pray, that some lasting effects will be seen at Shiraz, from the word of God left among them."

On the evening of the 24th of May, one year after entering Persia, Mr. Martyn left Shiraz, in company with an English clergyman, having it in intention to lay before the King his translation of the New Testament; but finding, that without a Jetter of introduction from the British Ambassador, he could not, consistently with established usage, be admitted into the Royal presence, he determined to proceed to Tebriz, where, at that time, Sir Gore Ouseley, bis Britannic Majesty's Minister resided.-pp. 423-425.

Mr. M. arrived at the King's camp where he was treated with much rudeness, and finding that without a letter from the Ambassador he could not see the King, he continued on his route to Tebriz, though his health was so much impaired that he did not reach the place until the 5th of July. Here he was confined by a fever, of

two months continuance, so that he was obliged to relinquish his intention of presenting his translation of the New Testament to the King of Persia.

His disappointment, however, on this occasion, was greatly diminished by the kindness of Sir Gore Ouseley, who together with his lady, was tenderly and assiduously attentive to Mr. Martyn, throughout the whole of his illness, and who, in order that nothing might be wanting conducive to the favorable acceptance of the New-Testament with the King, promised himself to present it at Court.-pp. 447,

448.

It was thought advisable for Mr. Martyn to make a visit to England, and he accordingly left Tebriz for Constantinople, on the 2nd of September. His health which was feeble, soon grew worse, and he expired at Tocat on the 16th of October 1812. The following are the last sentences of his Journal. They were written ten days before his decease.

"No horses being to be had, I had an unexpected repose. I sat in the orchard, and thought, with sweet comfort and peace, of my God; in solitude-my company, my friend and comforter. O! when shall time give place to Eternity! When shall appear that new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness! There-there shall in no wise enter in any thing that defileth, none of that wickedness that has made men worse than wild beasts -none of those corruptions that add still more to the miseries of mortality, shall be seen or heard of any more."-pp. 478,479.

The Biographer of Mr. Martyn, remarks:

The peculiar circumstances, as well as the particular period, of his death, could not fail of greatly aggravating the afflic tion of those friends who, amidst anxious hopes and fears, were expecting his arri val, either in India or England. He bad not completed the thirty second year of a life of eminent activity and usefulness, and he died whilst hastening towards his native country, that having there repaired his shattered health, he might again devote it to the glory of Christ, amongst the nations of the East. There was something, also, deeply affecting in the consid

* Sir Gore Ouseley, according to his promise, laid the New-Testament before the King, who publicly expressed his approbation of the work. He also carried his superintendance, it was printed and put the MS. to St. Petersburgh, where, under into circulation.