hath assumed its true character, as the light of the world.' The holy Scriptures are multiplying without number. Translations are preparing in almost all languages; and preachers are going forth into almost every region, to make the ways of God known upon earth, his saving health among all nations.' ; : The subject of the third sermon bears a proper analogy to the two former. In this Christians are considered as the light of the world,' -Christ, the fountain of light,'his ministers and disciples lumina, ries in his hand; but this discourse has been already noticed in our last volume, p. 403. Eloquent and use, ful as these discourses are, the most important parts of the volume are the Christian Researches ;' from which we shall be happy to give Extracts in our Intelligence, when room will permit; at present, we can only give a sketch of the contents, which will gratify all who are interested in the success of the Redeemer's kingdom: Introduction, The Chinese, The Hindoos, Juggernaut, Immolation of Females, Letters of King George 1. and Abp. Wake, - Tranquebar, Tanjore, Tritchinopoly, Versions of the Scriptures for the Hindoos, The Ceylonese, -The Malays, Syrian Christians in India, The Malabar Bible, Syriac Bible, Romish Christians in India, Inquisition at Goa, Translation of the Scriptures for the Remish Christians,- The Persians, Arabic School, for the Translation of the Scriptures, Jews in Asia,- Their MS. Scriptures, Ten Tribes, Restoration of the Jews, Versions in Eastern Languages, Bibliotheca Biblica, The Armenians, Ecclesiastical Establishment for India, The Arabians, Letter from Bishop Watson, Conclusion. Missionary Anecdotes: exhibiting, in numerous instances, the Efficacy of the Gospel in the Conver sion of the Heathen; to which is prefixed, An Account of the Idolatry, Superstition, and Cruelty, of the Pagan Nations, du t cient and Modern. By G. Burder, 12mo, price 58. THE object which the Editor proposes by this little volume, is to induce religious persons to exert their pious zeal in the support of Missions to the Heathen. His plan is simple and perspicuous. The book consists of two parts. Part 1, exhibits the miserable condition of the Pagan nations; - Part 2, the happy effects produced by the gos pel. Mr. Burder opens the first part of his book with the absurd notions which even the wisest Heathen entertained of God, religion, and morality; fully justifying the observation of Sir Charles Wolseley that the ancient philosophers who were such giants in all kinds of literature, were such dwarfs in divinity, that they might be instructed by Christians of the lowest form in the school of Jesus. From the ignorance, the Editor naturally proceeds to the abominable superstitions and horrid cruelties of Paganism, in all its varieties of infanticide,-the burning of wives on the funeral piles of their husbands, the abandonment to death of aged and infirm relatives,—and the sacrifice of human victims to their gods. On this subject we select, the following quotation : The horrid practice of offering human sacrifices prevailed throughout every region of the Heathen world, to a degree which is almost incredible, and still prevails in many savage countries which Christianity has not reached. There are incontestible proofs of its having subsisted among the Egyptians, the Syrians, the Persians, the Phenicians, and all the various nations of the east. It was, we all know, one of the crying sins of the Canaanites, one of the causes of their extermination by the hands of the Israelites; and one of the principal reasons of the many peremptory and tremendous prohibitions to the latter, not to have the slightest commerce or communication with those monsters of cruelty. The baneful contagion spread like a pestilence over every part of Asia, Africa, and Europe. No climate, no go REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS PUBLICATIONS. vernment, no state of civilization, no mode of Pagan superstition, was free from it. Even the Greeks and Romans, though less involved in this guilt than many other nations, were not altogether untainted with it. On great and extraordinary Dccasions, they had recourse to that which was esteemed the most valuable, the most efficacious, and most meritorious sacrifice that could be offered to the gods,-the effusion of human blood; but among more barbarous nations it took a firmer and wider root. The Scythians and Thracians, the Gauls and Germans, were strongly addicted to it; and even this island, where benevolence and humanity have now (thanks to the gospel!) fixed their seat, --this island was at one time (under the gloomy and ferocious despotism of the Druids) polluted with the religious murder of its wretched inhabitants. The evil reached from one end of the globe to the other; and on the first discovery of America it was found that the new world was even more with this deeply contaminated In dreadful crime than the old. the midst of wealth, luxury, magnificence, and many of the polished arts of life, Montezuma offered 20,000 human victims every year In one of the most to the sun. powerful kingdoms of Africa, the same savage superstition still exists; and our navigators found it established in every new-discovered island, throughout the whole extent of the vast Pacific Ocean.' Rites cruel like these made a Heathen (Plutarch) once exclaim, Tell me now, said he, if the Monsters of old (the Typhons and the Giants) were to expel the gods and to rule the world in their stead, could they require a service more korrid than these infernal sacrifices!-and yet this is a part of the elegant mythology of the antients which our infidel writers affect to admire! If the light that is in them be darkness, how great is that darkness !' The Second Part of the Book, viz. the happy effects produced by the gospel, is illustrated by a variety of instances, in successive ages, 271 and in different countries. Our pious readers will see, alas! In a Greenland house, where all the rest of the family were opposers, there was one young woman, called Pussunck, who was very much affected. One time, when we (the Missionaries) were speaking at a meeting, she held her hands before her face, to hide her tears; and secretly sighed, O Lord, let thy light break through the very thick darkness!' Another time, we saw her kneeling behind a rock; and only heard the following words: God, thou knowest that I am very much corrupted from our first parents, have mercy on me!' When she was afterwards asked what she was about there, she .uswered,' Because I now begin to believe: I pray every day in secret to God to be gracious to me.' Upon this she was taken under more express instruction; aud once, when she was directed to stedfastness and conti nuance in prayer, she herself began to weep, and to pour forth the fol lowing ejaculations:-O Jesus, my heart is very much corrupted! O make me truly humbled and grieved about it, because thou wilt have it so! Take away the bad thoughts from me, and from my heart, so that it may be pleasing to thee; and as I know but little of thy word as yet, give me thy Spirit to instruct me!'-The rest of the people of the house where she lived were put to shame, and touched with the example of this damsel, and yet had no inclination to follow it; therefore, they hated her; and, contrary to the custom of the Greenlanders, treated her very sharply, and would scarcely allow her to go any more to the meetings; and when they removed their habitation, she was obliged to follow them, though she would have been very glad to have staid; but in a few days she came again, and entreated us to take her into our service; and afterwards could never be prevailed on, by good nor bad words, to leave her teachers. One could perceive a particular desire in this person to experience the power of Jesus's blood. She was never weary of hearing it; and soon began to confess and speak of it before others. When any Heathens came on a visit, she went among them directly; and whether asked or not, told them why she lived here, what she had already experienced by the testimony of Jesus's sufferings, and how she wanted to be a partaker of all the. blessings treasured up in it. By this always some, and now and then perfect strangers, were very much affected. Therefore, she was taken into a more immediate preparation for baptism; and we endeavoured to give her a right conception of the institution, design, and operation of this holy sacrament; and now her steady declaration was, that she no more believed that Jesus was the Friend of sinners because we had told her so,- but because she experienced it in her own heart. Now, as we had discovered in her a most ardent longing after the blood of sprinkling, and the energy of Jesus's death; and as she had repeatedly uttered her great desire for baptism, therefore, on the 30th of October, she was baptized in the name of the Holy Tri nity; and the name Sarah was given her. Many Greenlanders were present; most of whom were moved by the power of the Lord; and some beheld and heard with tears." We rejoice to learn that a more copious History of Missions is, in part, prepared for publication by the Rev. Mr. Greatheed, in conjuuction with the editor of this interesting volume : - such a work is a desideratum in the Christian church C. G. - Maria Ballard, &c. By the Rev. J. THE happy death of this young woman is recorded as an encouragement to the teachers and conductors of Sunday-Schools. It is judiciously drawn up, and deserves an extensive circulation. LITERARY NOTICES. The Rev. Mr. Pratt has issued SELECT LIST OF RELIGIOUS PUBLICATIONS. Persecution a Poem, founded on Recent Events and Circumstances. By the Author of the Age of Frivolity. 12mo. Qualifications for Teaching: a Sermon, by R. Wardlow. 1s. 6d. Maps and Tables, adapted to the New Edition of Mr. Scott's, and some other Quarto Bibles. 10s. 6d. Scott's Force of Truth, eighth edition, crown 8vo, 4s. The Voice of God to the Churches: a Sermon, on the Death of Messrs. Cran, Desgranges, and Brain, Missionaries, 8vo, Is. 12mo, 4s 6d. By Mr. Howe. 12mo, 4s. 6d. may be expected in a few days. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. MISSIONARY SOCIETY. SOUTH AFRICA. THE Directors have lately received a Letter from Dr. Vanderkemp, dated January 8, 1811. He had not then been able to procure the means of removal to Madagascar: — a Mission to which island he appears still to keep in view. Mr. Pacalt is also intent upon that undertaking. TOBAGO. MR. ELLIOT, the Missionary, states (March 28) That sickness has much prevailed in the island; and that he has been frequently called of late to visit the sick and dying of all classes. On Sunday evenings a good number of people attend his preaching at Scarborough. Two new stations are offered for preaching to the negroes; one has 250, and the other nearly 500 slaves. At an estate where he has long preached, three women are frequently engaged in catechising the children; of whom they have about 30 under their care. TRINIDAD. MR. ADAM writes, That he expected the foundation of the intended chapel would be laid in about a week after the date of his letter, March 23, 1811. He has established a Sunday-School, in which 50 or 60 children attend; and which promises much good, especially as it affords him an opportunity of instructing the negroes. He observes, That although evidences of his usefulness do not appear so frequently as he desires, yet he is not without encouragement; and entertains a confident hope, that the desert around him shall yet blossom as the rose.'-Miss Kelly (now Mrs. Adam) arrived at Port of Spain, January 30, in safety and health. Usefulness of the Missionaries at the Colony of the Cape, in Africa. A GENTLEMAN, high in office abroad, whose name we cannot take the liberty of mentioning, writing to a friend in England, says, I trust this colony is improving in every respect; in none more than in the improved state of the Hottentots, both in mind and body; which is to be attributed entirely to the zeal and exertions of the Missionaries.' This noble testimony to the utility of Missionary efforts is highly gratifying to all who are engaged in promoting them, and who ardently pray for their success. Noble Instance of American Liberality. Oun readers will recollect, that a desire to promote Foreign Missions has lately manifested itself among some pious and zealous individuals in Massachusetts; and that four young ministers, educated in the New College at Andover, had offered their services to the Missionary Society which offer the Directors have most readily accepted. It was feared, however, that their first institution would, for the present, be destitute of funds to support the intended exertions; but the providence of God has remarkably appeared in its favour: A Mrs. Norris, one of the patronesses of Andover College, and of the New Society for Foreign Missions, lately died; and has bequeathed SEVEN THOUSAND POUNDS to each of those Institutions. This noble example will, we trust, excite some wealthy English Ladies and Gentlemen to acts of equal, or of greater munificence. Bonaparte's Conference with the Catholic and Protestant® Clergy at Breda. AN Account has been published in the Gazette of Dorpt, a town of Livonia, of an audience granted by Bonaparte to the Catholic and Protestant clergy at Breda, on the 1st of May, 1810. It professes to be an accurate report of what passed on that occasion; and we conclude, that in the present state of the continental press, no gazette would dare to attribute to Bonaparte sentiments materially different from those which he might deem it politic to avow. The account follows: After Bonaparte had made the customary tour, he said a few words to the President of the Court of Appeal, took a view of the different collegiates, and at length stopped opposite to the Catholic Apostolic Vicar, who, with his manuscript in his hand, complimented the monarch in the name of the Catholic clergy. His Majesty did not deigu to give any answer; but asked, Where are the reformed clergymen? Whereupon the Prince of Neufchatel presented them to the Emperor; and Mr. Ten Oever, of the Valloon congregation, received permission to address his Majesty. The discourse was short; and contained, among the rest, the follow ing words: "It is the immutable principle of Protestants, in every thing that happens, to address Providence, and to render unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's." The Emperor listened attentively to this speech; and answered, 'You are right: I protect all religions. Protestants and Catholics enjoy qual privileges in France: it is but just that the Protestants in this department should have equal prerogatives with the Catholics. His Majesty asked Mr. Ten Oever, Why, Sir, are you in your full dress?' "Sire," answered Ten Oever," that is the rule." Why, yes,' said the Emperor, it is the custom in every country; but,' continued he, turning to the Roman Catholic clergy, who were not in their full dress, Why have not you your cassocks on? You say you are priests. What are you? Attornies, notaries, peasants? I come into a province where the majority are Catholics, who, in for mer times, were oppressed, who, after the Revolution, acquired more liberty, and upon whom the king, my brother, bestowed many favours. I come, in order to make you all equal to the rest; and you begin by forgetting the respect due to me, and complain of the oppres sions that you suffered under the former governments. Your conduct, however, shews how well you deserved them. The first act of sovereignty which I was obliged to exercise, consisted in the necessity of arresting two of your contumacious priests, even the Apostolic Vicar: they are imprisoned; and shall continue under arrest. On the other hand, the first words I hear from a reformed priest, are to reder unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's. This is the doctrine you ought to preach. From that gentleman,' pointing to Mr. Ten Oever, you ought to learn it. I have always met with faithful subjects amongst Protestants, - never have I had occasion to complain of any of them. You have calumniated the Protestants; by representing them as preaching doctrines dangerous to the state; but the best subjects I have are Protestants. In Paris I am partly attended by them: they have free access to me; and here a handful of Brabant fanatics attempt to resist my designs. Had I not met, in Bossuet's Doctrines and in the Maxims of the Gallican Church, with principles that agree with mine, and had not the Concordat been received, I myself should have become a Protestant; and thirty millions of people would have followed my example. But what religion do you teach? Do you not know that Christ said, 'My kingdom is not of this world?and would you interfere in my concerns? You will not pray for a sovereign.' [Probably, the Catholic clergy in these new provinces had partly declared that they would not receive any orders on spiritual subjects from a temporal power: the |