person alluded to, and others,
a serious inquiry into the nature
and tendency of the erroneous
opinions he has so unhappily im-
bibed.
I am, Sir, &c.

Query 1. Can it be inconsistent with the notion we entertain of Divine Being, that he should make a revelation of himself to his creatures?

Is the study of nature suffieient, of itself, to guide us in our moral conduct, and to influence us in our pursuit after happiness?

3. If there be a God, and we be his dependents, is it not a fair and reasonable deduction, that be has made his will known, and that he has established laws for our regulation?

4. What could have influenced the prophets to declare," Thus saith the Lord,” if they had not been thus commissioned to speak; and when, by that declaration, they put their own lives to stake; as was the case with Jeremiah, Daniel, and others?

of civil society, and to sap the foundation of any well-regulated government?

10. Are the Jews rejected and derided for their incredulity?—On how much worse ground stands the deist?

11. In sickness, and in the solemn hour of death, whence will you derive support and consolation?

And, finally, may not the Christian, when placed under those circumstances, experience much more than you?

SUMMARY VIEW

OF THE

EXTENT AND POPULATION
OF THE EARTH.
Extracted from the new Edition of that
useful and valuable Work,`

LAVOISNE'S

HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL
ATLAS.

Ireland

EUROPE.

77,244

27,457

5. Are the historical facts, re- Great Britain lated in the Old, with the mira-France (with its accessions) 96,000 cles recorded in the New Testa-Italy (including Sicily and

ment, void of foundation? If so, how is it that heathen writers, in the earliest ages, vouched for their authenticity?

6. By what influence has divine

Portugal

Sardinia)
Spain
Germany
Hungary and Gallicia

Holland

revelation obtained such extended Pomerania and Rugen

Russia

2 977,345

110,000 33,000,000 8,000,000

Square Miles. Population.

⚫12,598,997

3,433,420

38,000,000

Sweden and Finland.

210,000

1.440

630,000

182,560

1,630,781

109,483,040

acceptation? and, can it be at- Turkey tributed either to priestcraft or ignorance?

7. If, according to your opinion, there can be no divine revelation, what was it, but the most powerful conviction of its reality, that enabled the wisest and best of men to die in its defence?

8. Did there ever exist a deist, who voluntarily surrendered his life, rather than relinquish his religion?

9. Does not deism, in its moral effects, tend to relax the bonds

Persia

Hindoostan

India, beyond the Ganges 741.500

China

Thibet, &c.

Ditto, Russian

Siberia

AFRICA

10,380,159 534,800,000

8,576,208 94,000,000

AMERICA

9,153,762

$55,200,000

Islands in various parts
of the globe

Obituary.

Extract from the Appendix to the
Third Report of the East London
Auxiliary Bible Society.

vargi (another Lascar) hesitated to unite with him in public readings, for fear of offending MahoGOLAM ALLI, à Lascar, (born met, he said, "I know nothing at Chawker, in Bengal), was of prophet, nor what Koran say→ taught to profess the Mahometan What good prophet do for any religion; but, like the greater body?-What good prophet do part of the Lascars, who navigate for me?"-But, alas! Golam Alli the East-India ships to this coun- still embraced opportunities for try, he was ignorant of the con- gratifying the lusts of depraved tents of the Koran; yet he pro- nature, and would associate with fessed to believe, that his obe- his countrymen in their abomidience to the precepts of the nable deeds. To draw off his Koran, entitled him to Paradise. mind from this course, he was He came to this country in 1813, prevailed on to learn to read and on board the East India country write English; and, at length, the ship, Java, Capt. Dennison, in English New Testament was put the capacity of clerk to Serung into his hands. The miracles of Ramsammee, who died on the the Saviour, recorded by St. John, voyage to England. The Lascar first arrested his attention. He and Chinese committee of the was, for some time, confounded London Missionary Society en- by the history of them; but aftergaged him to teach the Bengalee wards confessed, that Jesus was Language, and, in this under- none other than the Son of God. taking, he was indefatigable.- The account of our Lord's conNot long after forming this en- versation with Nicodemus, made gagement, he left the place where a lasting impression upon him; his countrymen dwell, in the but, when he came to the 6th neighbourhood of the metropolis, chapter of St.John, all his thoughts and accepted free lodging with were occupied with it fully; and, persons whom he was teaching for some weeks, he scarcely read Bengalee, and with them he any other portion of Scripture, united in family worship. Here or talked on any other subject. he copied out the whole of St. He now began to speak to his John's Gospel in Bengalee, which, countrymen of the Saviour.with other books, had been pro- Mahomet," said he, "fight and cured from the missionaries at Se-kill,-Jesus Christ no fight-no rampore. The Lascars were as- kill.-Jesus Christ love, pity, and sembled, at different times, in do good to all men." various places of worship, where About this time, he chose to Golam Alli and his pupils read sit under the ministry of the Rev. the word of God in a language Thomas Williams, an independent they all understood. There were minister, in Ratcliffe; and, during 300 Lascars at one time; and the the ten or eleven months which whole, in the course of that year, he lived after this, he satisfied all who heard him read, amounted who knew him, that he was not a to upwards of 800. When Ne-forgetful hearer. He now no

longer sought, but shunned, the
company of his old companions
in sin; and, when any of them
came to see him, he always had
the scriptures, and his Bengalee
hymn-book, at hand, which he
read to them. At one period,
scarcely a day passed without se-
veral of his countrymen visiting
him, to hear of the Christian
books, and what Golam Alli had
to say.
During the last winter,
from fifteen to twenty Portuguese
Lascars regularly met, three times
a-week, for divine worship, in
the house where he lodged; and
he generally had something to say
of the mercy and love of our Lord
Jesus Christ, in living and dying
for poor sinners. The Portu-
guese said, it was quite a new
thing to them to hear a mussul-
man speak of Christianity.

me." Being informed, that his own recovery was very improbable, he expressed his pleasure in the prospect of dying, and going to Jesus. To his medical friend he said, " Your physic, Sir, do me no good-You do me no goodJesus Christ do me good" but he consented to take whatever medicines might be sent him. The Book of Psalms, in English and Bengalee, he seemed very much to enjoy; and, when he was evidently sinking, the last act he performed was, his placing the English Bible on his breast, as he lay in bed, and his Bengalee hymn-book on his pillow; and soon after, on the 17th of June, 1815, he died. The last word he uttered, was "Father!" with his eyes fixed, looking upward, as if engaged in prayer. His remains were interred, on the 21st of June, in the burying-ground belonging to Rose-lane Meeting; and the Rev. Mr. Williams preached his funeral sermon, on the follow

Rev. vii. 9, 10. A plate of cast lead was placed on his coffin, with the following inscription:

The Lascar and Chinese committee now anticipated the pleasure of seeing this man stand up, in the midst of the multitude of his countrymen to preach Christ, but in this they were to be dis-ing Lord's day evening, from appointed. Consumptive symptoms appeared; but nothing could deter him from his work while his strength permitted. In the early" Golam Alli came to this counpart of the present year, Golam try a Mahometan, in 1813; was Alli requested to be baptized, and baptized May 3, 1815, by the to partake of the Lord's supper. name of Felix James, in the adIn April, he renewed his applica-joining meeting-house, by the tion; and, on the 3d of May, he Rev. T. Williams; and died a bewas baptized, at Rose-lane Meet- liever in our Lord Jesus Christ, ing-house, in Ratcliffe. In this on the 17th of June, the same service, thirty-four short questions year, aged 26 years." were presented to him, to which he gave short answers, which he had himself written. Soon after this, when visiting a pious man iu the near prospect of death, he said, pointing to an orange, love orange-it is sweet-but Jesus Christ more sweet.-I love Jesus Christ." The dying man inquired why he loved Jesus Christ? and he replied, "Jesus Christ die for

I

The name James," Golam Alli selected from the list of the Saviour's apostles. "Felix" was given him on account of the happy frame of his mind.

MRS. E. HOOTON.

THE subject of the present paper was descended from a re

of bringing her to find rest and
peace in Jesus Christ.
In 1801,
she united herself to the Baptist
Church at T, where she
remained a member till her de-
cease.

spectable family. In the early part of life, while at school, and at a distance from home, she was excessively fond of novels, plays, and vain amusements. At this period, she was sometimes the subject of strong convictions. An instance may be adduced as proof of this: One morning, when she came down stairs, the play-book and the Bible lay together. She felt a strong inclina-struction, were removed by death. tion to take up her favourite book, but dared not do this till she had read a chapter in the Bible, to satisfy conscience.

Soon after she joined the church, her uncle and aunt, from whom she had received the greatest marks of tenderness and affection, as well as spiritual in

But that Providence which removed them, kept her in the same situation; where, after about two years she entered into a new connection in life. Mr. Hooton at that time had no proper sense of reli

her attachment to the cause of Christ, he immediately became a regular hearer, and soon disco

which in a few years issued in his conversion, and he became a member of the same Church. The effect of this, was the revival of religion in her own soul. Of late years, her piety and beneficence, endeared her to those that were acquainted with her. She seemed to occupy an important post in society.

When between sixteen and seventeen years of age, she was on a visit to her relations, who at-gion upon his mind, yet through tended at the baptist meeting at Towcester. While there, she heard a sermon by Mr. S. Barker, of Henley-in-Arden, from 2 Tim.vered a regard to the same cause, iii. 4. "Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God." This made a deep impression upon her mind, and her distress bordered upon despair. In a few weeks, she returned home, but could find no rest. Soon after this, she went to visit an acquaintance in Bedfordshire. There she had the opportunity of hearing several ministers, but still remained in doubt and in distress. After her return to B, the place of her residence, she heard a sermon from Hosea, xiv. 5. "I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon ;" which led her to hope, the Lord had begun a good work in her soul. From this time, she returned to live with her relatives before mentioned, that she might enjoy the advantage of hearing the gospel at Towcester. Various were the exercises of her mind for about twelve months; when discourse from those words, "Is it well with thee?" was made the means

How mysterious are the ways of Providence! Near the latter end of October, 1814, three fine children were attacked with the malignant scarlet fever: two of them died within a very short space of each other, and they were both interred at the same time in the same grave. On this very day, dear Mrs. Hooton was again confined, and delivered of her sixth child. For a few days, she was in circumstances favourable to hope; but an inflammation succeeding, in about a fortnight after, she was a corpse. Her death-bed scene, however, verified the truth of Dr. Young's remark:

"The chamber where the good man meets his fate, by her pastor, from 1 Tim. i. 15.