Gokool and the women, but Kristno, together with Felix Carey, Mr. Carey's eldest son, was baptised the next Sabbath, Dec, 28th. "One of the brethren, then laboring under a mortal disease, was brought in a palanquin to witness, the first triumph of the faith." The ceremony was affecting; the Danish governor was unable to restrain his tears. "Ye God's of stone and clay," says one of the Missionaries, "did ye not tremble, when in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, one of your votaries shook you as the dust from his feet!"

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On the 18th of January, 1801, Mr. Fernandez, a merchant of Dinagepore, and Joymonee, Kristno's wife's sister, were baptised. This was followed on the 22d of February by the baptism of Rasoo, (Kristno's wife,) and Unna, a widow living in the family; by the baptism of Gokool on the 7th of June, and of his wife on the 4th of October. It is worthy to be recorded that this success commenced immediately after the Gospel by Matthew and some religious tracts began to be distributed.*

Just as the printing of the New Testament was finished, in the spring of 1801, Mr. Carey was appointed by Marquis Wellesley Teacher of the Bengalee and Shanscrit Languages in the College of Fort William, with a salary of $3330. That salary, according to a compact subsisting between the Missionaries, went into common stock. The title of his office seems not at

first to have been so clearly settled as to exclude all misapprehension; for Mr. Carey informed his friends that he was appointed Professor of those Languages. It is certain, however, that another person was Professor of Shanscrit in 1805, (who seems to have been Mr. Colebrooke, author of a Shanscrit Grammar, and styled by Dr. Buchanan "the father of Shanscrit literature,") and that Mr. Carey was only Teacher of Shanscrit, Bengalee, and Mahratta, (as he himself afterwards informs us,) till the commencement of 1807, when he was advanced to the office of Professor of Shanscrit and Bengalee, with a double salary.t

Soon after Mr. Carey's appointment to that office, the Mission sustained another loss by the death of Mr. Brunsdon, who after a long illness departed this life on the 3d of July. In expectation of additions to their number, by fresh supplies from England, for which they continued to apply, the Missionaries, early in October, extended their establishment at Serampore by the purchase of more than four acres of land contiguous to their own, with the buildings upon it. That year they collected for the Translation, by the sale of the New Testament and in donations, 85143,42.

This was the state of the Mission when Mr. Thomas was called away from his labors and sufferings to join the spirits of Fountain, Grant, Brunsdon, and Pearce. He lived to see the whole Bible translated and the New Testament published: he

† Μ.Β.Μ.Μ. vol. 1. p. 322, 223. Q.R. No. 1. p. 46, 176. Mem. p. 10, 44. 67. Ch. Res. p. 44, 113, 239 Note. N.Y.M.M. vol. iii. p. 275.

lived to see six natives baptised, and a work of grace begun that was never to end: he lived to see the Mission firmly establish ed at Serampore, under the favor of the Danish and English governments, with every prospect of enlargement, and his colleague devoted to an office in the College that was to extend its protecting shade over the Mission-house: and having seen all this, he fell asleep on the 13th day of October, 1801. By these repeated deaths the number of Missionaries was again reduced to three, with the addition of Felix Carey, who soon after his baptism began to preach.*

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remarks will apply with equal force, to every mechanical trade. The carpenter, the shipwright, and the goldsinith, must have a variety of tools at hand, or they will labor to very little purpose, however diligently they may apply themselves to the business before them.

Now, Sir, I think every reflecting mind must perceive, that what agricultural implements,and mechanical tools, are in the field and the shop, books are in the study of a professional man. They are the instruments with which the mind works; and are as necessary to the student, as the plough or the hoe to the farmer. He can do nothing to purpose without them.

The Physician must have free access to a library of well chosen

RIES FOR THE CLERGY.

To the Editor of the Panoplist.
SIR,

IT is, I believe, universally admitted, that those who devote themselves to agriculture and the mechanical arts, must be furnished with the appropriate sets of tools, before they can work to advantage. A young man, setting up for himself on a farm, might, indeed, use his hands instead of a hoe, or a sharpened piece of wood in the room of a spade; he might cut his grass with shears for want of a scythe, or carry his produce to market in a basket instead of a cart; but surely nobody would be so unreasonable as to expect much from him, while laboring under such disadvantages. None but an Egyptian task-master would demand the tale of bricks without giving straw. The same • Nar. p. 25,26. B.P.A. vol. i, 485,

490,491. Pan. vol. vi, p. 39. Ν.Υ.Μ. M. vol. ii, p. 479. Vol. iii, p. 475.

well acquainted with their contents. A quack he may be without books, or study; but can never thus become an able counsellor, or useful practitioner.

The Lawyer, also, must have his library, not only while engaged in preparatory studies, but during the whole course of his practice. He must have on his shelves, an extensive collec-. tion of the best authors; not indeed to read daily, or in course; but to consult at his leisure, as often as he finds occasion. A person of quick apprehension, may doubtless pass for an ingenious man, without many books, or much reading; but he can never rise to eminence, in the profession of the law.

Need I add, that the Divine too must have a good professional library? Surely it must be obvious, that without books his study lacks its most essential furniture. The Bible indeed, is worth more than all other books.

It is a library of itself, which ought to be estimated above all price. The "man of God," in order to be "thoroughly furnished," must make it his principal study. It should always lie at his right hand, when not in use. But it does not follow, that he must read nothing else, or that other books are of little value; any more than it follows, that because the gift of a Savior outweighs all other gifts of God to men, therefore, other gifts are not worth enjoying, or being thankful for.

The science of Theology, opens to the young and inexperienced minister, a vast and interesting field. The branches of this divine science are numerous and of the highest possible moment. Doctrines which lie at the foundation of the Christian system, are to be defended against a host of assailants, and to be taught with plainness and perseverance. Duties growing out of the most unpalatable of these doctrines, are to be stated and enforced, in direct opposition to many sneers, much false reasoning, and all the bad propensities of the human heart.

Now when any difficult or controverted subject presents itself to a minister for investigation; when it becomes important to bring into a narrow compass the best things that can be sai, for the instruction and benefit of his people, books are of great use. After faithfully and prayerfully consulting his Bible, and arranging his own thoughts in the best manner he is able, it is certainly desirable, that he should have all the assistance, which can be derived from the most able and pious of his predecessors. But

how is he to obtain that assistance? How but by having ready access to their writings? by having them in his library?

Let a minister adopt and pursue this method of study; let him acquaint himself thoroughly with the Scriptures; let him always resort to them in the first instance; let him then read extensively, what the best authors have written upon the point under consideration, bringing every opinion to the unerring standard before him; let him proceed in this manner, giving every subject in its turn a thorough investigation, and his "profiting" will not fail to appear to all. His views will be enlarged, his mistakes corrected, his graces enlivened, and his public discourses enriched.

But a minister cannot adopt and pursue this course without the aid of a good library, containing at least a few expensive standard works, together with a pretty long catalogue of miscellaneous volumes. Such a library, cannot, upon a moderate calculation, cost less than eight hundred or a thousand dollars. And how is it to be obtained? This is the point at which I have been aiming, in most of the preceding observations

Young men who devote themselves to the ministry, are, in general, far from being wealthy. Most of them nearly or quite expend their patrimony in preparatory studies; and not a few are involved in debt, when they commence preaching. When they are settled, they and their families must have somewhere to live. Houses and lands cannot be purchased without money, or credit. As the persons described have not the former, they must resort to the latter. Of course at their first setting out, at the very time. when they want a library most, they have not a dollar to spare for books; and what shall they do? Their salaries are generally so low, that they find it difficult to meet the current expenses of their families. To run in debt for books, without the prospect of paying, would clearly be wrong. To purchase them with ready money, without doing injustice to creditors is impossible. This representation is no fiction. A host of witnesses might be summoned to establish every word of it. Hundreds of ministers in our land, know from experience that it is true. For want of books, many a young man, in the ministry, passes the "prime of his prime" for study, with comparatively little improvement to himself; and with much less advantage to his people, than they might and would derive from his labors had he a good library.

Surely, if any method can be devised, to remedy this evil, every man must rejoice at it, who wishes for the respectability and usefulness of the clergy. I have one method to propose, but it must be reserved for a future communication. MIKROS.

ON MISSIONS TO THE INDIANS.

Extracts from two Letters of -Eleazer Williams, of the Iroquois nation, who is now in a course of Education under the direction of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

"MUCH has been done by the good people in New England,

towards christianizing the American Aborigines. Eliot, the Mayhews, Brainerd, and Sergeant, whose memory will be dear to the latest posterity, spent large portions of their time and talents, in this great and all important work. But of late, the Missionaries have had so little success, that many people are discouraged with regard to the Indians, and think they can neither be civilized, nor christianized. The attempts, however, have not been altogether without success. The result of the labors of some Missionaries has been such as to authorize the belief, that it is at least practicable to meliorate the condition, and convey some light of the Gospel into the minds of the Savages.

"I have no doubt, that there is room for improvement in the system of Missionary instruction among the Indians; especially in the choice of teachers, their temper, manners, and address. The Missionary should endeavor, in the first place, to acquaint himself with their customs, manners, habits, and dispositions; and conform to them to such degree as to give them no occasion to say, "The Englishman despises the ways of the Indians." In this way only, can he gain their attention, secure their corfidence, and win their hearts.

"The success of the Jesuits in Canada was undoubtedly owing, in a great degree, to their acquaintance with human nature. They not only studied the Indian temper and character; but they conformed themselves to the ways and manners of the different tribes, whom they converted to the Romish faith. Their su

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perior knowledge and address gave direction to the counsels and measures of the Savages; their acquaintance with medical and chirurgical subjects qualified them to discharge the duties of Physicians and Surgeons. By their knowledge in the arts of life, the Indians were daily instructed in their rude attainments of fishing, agriculture, and making their cabins and weapons. The Fathers gained their affections by an attention to all the offices of humanity. In this kind of management the Jesuits were most of all distinguished. And it does not appear that any other order of clergy have united such extensive science, such knowledge of business, of men, of human life and conduct. Wherever they went, they met with great success; and when their manners and conduct were compared with the awkward and disgusting manners of the English Missionaries, the natives concluded that the Jesuits were the men who were the favorites of the Great Spirit above; and that he neither did, nor would work much by the other Missionaries, especially by the formal unaccommodating metaphysical English priests. "No one was more successful then father Fremin. He went incessantly from one canton to another. He spoke the language of the natives as readily as they did themselves.

He

charmed them with his affability; he gained them by his liberality; while also he commanded respect by his daring conduct; and he well knew what part to act, without hesitation, on occasions where promptitude of decision was required; qualities of

essential moment in the situation where he was placed. A most excellent pattern to be imitated by every Missionary.

"Thus you see, my friend, to be successful in christianizing the American ancients, it is a matter of vast importance, that the Missionary should be well acquainted with the Indian temper and character. I would recommend to your attention the following books, wherein you may gain much knowledge and information of the customs and manners of our red brethren: Carver's travels; Colden's History of the Five Nations; Adair's History of American Indians; and memoirs of the Indians in New France, by the fathers Marquette and Hennipen."

LETTER II.

"How gloomy, and how melancholy is the thought, that millions of our fellow creatures, whose souls with ours are destined either to happiness or misery beyond the grave, are now involved in gross darkness, ignorance and guilt. Their unhappy state should prompt us to exertion in propagating the Gospel and diffusing more extensively the light of life. If there ever has been a period in which Christians ought to exert themselves, to do something for the heathen, and pray that the kingdoms of this world may become the kingdom of our blessed Immanuel, it is certainly now. Some say, "The time is not yet arrived to promote the conversion of the Heathen." But, I would ask, when will the time