not refuse to admit them into the Christian Church, by the Holy Sacrament of Baptism. I had already seen them before; and intend to visit them several times more, before I baptize them. After these people were gone, another Heathen came to me, who also was desirous of becoming a Christian. I examined him, as I had done the others; and dismissed him with the same hope. It would be a great joy to me to continue to instruct, and afterward to baptize these people, if I had a full persuasion that they are converted to God.

Jan. 28, 1829-Visited and examined four of our Tamul Schools, near Madras: a few of the Children read very well; but all have been neglected in committing their catechisms to memory. Christian, an old Catechist, was with me. I saw also, on my way, some people belonging to our Congregation.

Jan. 31-Went to see our Candidates for Baptism, at Cunshee Totty; and examined them again on the principal truths of Christianity, on the experimental knowledge of which the salvation of our souls depends. I tried also, assisted by Christian, Catechist, to make them feel the importance of Christian Baptism, and the great responsibility connected with it. To all this they gave very satisfactory answers, always expressing a great desire to become Christians. After this, Christian, Catechist, who has attended them ever since they have been under instruction, at my request, examined them on Sacred History, the Fall of Man, the consequences of the Fall, the coming of the Redeemer into the world, His life, His death, His resurrection, His ascension, and the spreading of the Gospel through the world; and, by the answers which they gave, I was confirmed in my opinion, both, that Christian, Catechist is an active and able Assistant, and that these Candidates were really desirous of learning the way of Salvation. At this examination, a great number of the poor people at Cunshee Totty attended.

Feb. 4- Had a conversation this morning with two Young Men from Chittore. One of them, already a Christian, has been brought to the knowledge of the Gospel by Mr. Dacre, late Judge in that place the other, still a Mahomedan, has, as he told me, a serious desire to become a Christian also. He said, that, beside him, there were, at Chittore, three of his Relations who had made up their minds to leave Mahomedanism, to become

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He is a pleasant and intelligent Young Man; and, as he reads Tamul very well, I gave him a Gospel and some Tracts in that language, in order that, by it, he and his Relations might become better acquainted with the way of Salvation his present knowledge of it is still very defective. After having examined him, and given him some further instruction on the various fundamental truths of the Christian Religion, I advised him, if he had no means of being instructed at Chittore, to bring his Relations to Madras, that I might become better acquainted with them and instruct them; to which he assented.

Feb. 7-This day was one of blessing and of much joy for me and for the whole Congregation. I had, for the first time in my life, the unspeakable comfort of receiving three Heathens, a man forty years of age, a woman, and her little girl, into the Christian Church by Baptism, besides two Roman Catholics, who were also received with them. These people had been under instruction while Mr. Sawyer was here. After the Service was over, they came to me, two of them remarkably affected, and assured me that they had taken the firm resolution, with the help of God, to live agreeably to the Religion which they now profess.

Feb. 14 I went again to see our dear Brother Kindlinger: he was much worse than yesterday, and visibly drawing near the end of his pilgrimage; but though under much pain, and in a very oppressed state, when I came into his room he reached out his hand to me as usual, saying, "I am very happy to see you: I am more and more convinced of what I told you some days ago that none but the Divine Physician can cure me. I feel much worse to-day than ever I felt before. I am not able now to give you proper directions for visiting and examining our Schools at Pulicat; but if I am better to-morrow, I will do so." After a little repose, he told me to read a Chapter to him, and to pray with and for him: I read the 23d Psalm, and recommended him in prayer to the most tender care of our sympathizing Saviour; feeling all this time very deeply the reality of what the Apostle says, If one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. I found that I could with perfect confidence commit our suffering Brother, and his deeply afflicted Partner, to the tender care of Jesus the Redeemer of his soul, assured

that the present limited suffering was the nearest road to bring him to his inheritance. The peace expressed on his countenance, after prayer was ended, shewed that his soul derived comfort from it, and, for a while after, he seemed to be on the whole much better than before; but Mr. Bannister told me that his recovery was now beyond possibility. Mr. Bannister thought, also, that it was time to declare to Mr. and Mrs. Kindlinger the reality of his case. After some very suitable words to prepare their minds to hear this important communication, he told him, that, in all probability, he was drawing near his end. Mr. Kindlinger heard these words with perfect composure of mind, without surprise, and like a man who longs to leave this body and to be with Christ. "It is true," he said, "I have no claim of my own to be admitted into heaven; but I rely on the grace of my faithful Saviour." To Mrs. Kindlinger, who was deeply affected by this declaration, he said, "God will care for you. I am comforted: I go to my Heavenly Father." About half-an-hour after, our dear Brother became so weak, that I really thought he was dying.

At the request of our suffering Brother, I read a Chapter to him and prayed with him, feeling, as before, that the Lord was present with us: soon after, he became very restless; and difficulty of breathing, which had already troubled him before, increased, nearly to suffocation. In this alarming state, he often wished to sit up, and soon to lie down again. Mrs. Kindlinger desired me to call Mr. Bannister. In this distressing state, our Brother shewed great resignation: he often lifted up his hands, and said, "O God! Thy will be done: do not permit me to murmur. Lord Jesus! come!-come soon!"

Mr. Bannister gave him some medicine, which eased him for some minutes: he repeated to him some of the most consoling passages of Scripture, and some Hymns calculated to compose and cheer his mind our suffering Brother evidently enjoyed in his soul the great and precious promises which were presented to him. The Physicians who know how to minister to the wants of the soul, as well as those of the body, are a great blessing to mankind. I prayed again with our Brother; and before five o'clock in the morning some of his friends came to see him, but he was too weak to speak much to them, though he was apparently in the full possession of his

senses. All the following day he was much in the same state, breathing weak, and with the greatest difficulty; and at nine o'clock in the evening he expired. He was a humble, patient, and active servant of God, deeply interested in the salvation of the Heathen. His desire was to leave this body and to be with Christ; but, at the same time, he was anxious to be made a useful instrument, in the hand of God, for the salvation of many souls.

April 9, 1829-In the evening attended with our Seminarists, for the last time, the Lecture of the Venerable the Archdeacon at Vepery Church. He has kindly undertaken to deliver, twice-a-week, a Course of Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity, and on the right method of studying the Scriptures, intended chiefly for the improvement of the Catechists and Seminarists belonging to Vepery and Perambore Missions. He explained the subject to them, in a simple style, and in a manner most adapted to their capacity; and then asked them questions, and catechized them. I used the next day to go over the Lecture again with our Seminarists; and, in this way, I am happy to say they derived a great deal of information, calculated to establish them in their faith, and to make them more fit for the work which they are intended for.

April 25-Last evening I left Perambore, accompanied by three of our Seminarists, to visit and examine our Schools in and near Pulicat, which had been established and superintended till now by the Rev. J. Kindlinger.

This morning I preached, in Tamul, to a Congregation of about 200 Native Christians, and baptized 7 children: these poor people shew, by their attendance on Divine Worship, that they are sensible of the loss which they have sustained by the death of Mr. Kindlinger, their former Minister.

In the afternoon, I attended Divine Service performed in the Portuguese Language by our Catechist.

April 26-This morning, at half-past four, I set off, accompanied by our Seminarists, from Pulicat, to visit some of our Schools. Before six o'clock we arrived at Thatta Moonshee School: we found our Children together in the School House, 33 in number: I examined them on all the subjects which they had learned while under Mr. Kindlinger: it appeared that much pains had been taken with this School. Many of the Children were reading the New Testament very

well, and a still greater number repeated their Catechism fluently. I catechized them; and then addressed some Heathen who had come into the School to see the Examination. Before ten o'clock I arrived at Peramboodoo School, and examined it; but did not find it in so good a state as the one above mentioned: its being further from Pulicat may account for this. After this, I examined Peranjampoorum School, which I found in no better state than the former: the Schoolmaster is a Brahmin; and 24 Children were present. I returned home about three o'clock, rather fatigued, for the heat was excessive.

April 27, 1829-Early this morning, I went, with our Catechist and two of our Seminarists, to visit Coromandel School: 33 Boys were present; 10 of whom, at least, are Mahomedans, and the others Heathen, with a few Roman Catholics. The Children read the New Testament, and repeated their Catechisms very fluently, but with the very worst pronunciation. I catechized the Children on the Attributes of God, and on the subject of our Salvation by Christ. As long as I spoke of God and His Attributes, the Mahomedans, who came to hear the Exami nation, shewed a good deal of attention; but as soon as I began to speak of Christ, and our Redemption by Him, their countenances changed, some scorned, and others went away. We preach Christ crucified; to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness. After the Examination, returned to Pulicat, and examined our two English Schools there: some of the Girls read and write well; and some of the Boys have been instructed in Grammar and Geography by Mr. Kindlinger, and have laid a good foundation. After this, I visited Mr. Kindlinger's Compound School: 30 Children were present, of whom 10 were Girls. It is a great pleasure to examine this, as it is by far the best Native School of Mr. Kindlinger's, and probably one of the best in India: a great many Young Children read as fluently in Tamul as Catechists; they write any sentence in sand and on ollas, without fault; and they repeat their Catechisms as fluently as I ever heard. This School is much superior to the others, from its being in the Compound of Brother Kindlinger, who used to employ his leisure hours among the Children.-I was tired when I came to this School, but was quite revived in going through the Examination.

After dinner, I went, with our Cate

chists and Seminarists, to Pulicat First School; where we found 30 Children, all Heathen, except one, who is a Mahomedan. This School is much inferior to the former: it being about a mile from Mr. Kindlinger's house, he had not so much opportunity of visiting it as the one in the Compound.

We examined, the same evening, Edimony School, where 32 Boys were present: many of them read the Gospel and repeated their Catechism fluently, and five write a good hand.

The thought that I had this day seen more than a hundred poor Heathen Children receiving Christian Instruction, filled my mind with comfort and joy. It is impossible that all this instruction be lost; for our Brother Kindlinger imparted it in faith in the promises of God, and with prayer for His blessing.

April 28- Visited the remainder of our Schools attached to the Pulicat Mission; and in the evening set off for Madras.

June 14-Service, for the first time, in the little Chapel at Poonamallee, since it has been rebuilt by our Native Association, assisted by the kind help of some Gentlemen. This little Chapel was first erected by the Rev. W. Sawyer; but, as the walls were then only of clay, they were soon injured by the weather and the white-ants, so that we found it necessary to rebuild it, and to make it larger and more substantial.

It was a great disappointment to me and to our Congregation, that, on account of illness, the Archdeacon was prevented from preaching this morning in our new little Church: his place was kindly supplied by the Rev. F. Spring, Chaplain at Poonamallee, who preached by an Interpreter to our Native Congregation. In the afternoon, I preached in Tamul; and after I had ended, three of our Catechists spoke

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some texts of Scripture, and were heard with pleasure by the people present: the Church was crowded with people. After the Service, I baptized 4 aged persons, widows of 'Pensioners, who had been under instruction for a long time, under Mr. Sawyer.

June 17 In the evening, held a meeting in one of our Schools, at which some Native Christians and a great number of Heathen were present. I endeavoured to shew them, that only true faith in Jesus the God and Saviour of Men could make us happy for time and eternity. After the meeting, some Heathen expressed

their desire to hear more of these things, and were consequently invited to come to Church at Perambore and Black Town. June 19,1829-Two very interesting Native Youths, who, when children, attended Mr. Sawyer's School at Chingleput, came on purpose from that place to see me, and requested a New Testament and some Tracts. They told me that they had a great desire to become Christians, as they had the firm conviction that the Christian Religion is the right one. I gave them a Gospel in Tamul, and some Tracts, which I accompanied with instruction. If these young men are sincere, which I have no reason to doubt, they afford fresh evidence that the Christian Instruction given in our Schools to the Heathen is not lost. June 21-Preached, and administered the Sacrament at Perambore Chapel.

June 23—Had a long dispute on Religion with a learned Shastry employed in the College as a Sanscrit Moonshee. He believes the existence of a God, but does not seem to credit that He has given any written Revelation, respecting His Nature and His Will, to men. Man," he says, is left entirely to the direction of nature and his own reason, to find out Divine Truth; and these two guides are sufficient to lead men in the knowledge of it, as far as God wants them to know it." I replied, "Experience proves daily the contrary of what you say; as we see, every day, men, guided by nature and reason, widely differing with each other in their ideas of God, and sometimes, on this point, quite opposite to each other," of which I gave instances. "If a written Revelation be necessary to know God," he said, how can we make out which is the true one? You Christians have one; we have another; and the Moormen have a different one still." You can easily ascertain," I said, "by external and internal evidences, whether the Book which makes a claim to Divine Revelation be true if there be any lie or error in it, it cannot be true; and if it be not true, we cannot suppose it to be the Word of God. Judge of your Vedam by this rule :--Your Vedam supposes the blue sky to be a sea of milk; but it is well ascertained, by sound astronomy, and it may even be seen by the help of telescopes, that this blue is nothing but the vacuum of space. Your Vedam also speaks of some countries and islands which never existed. It also encourages vices and crimes, by the precepts which it recommends, and by the example of your gods which it relates,

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calculated to make men unhappy. Can this Vedam have been given by Godby a God who, by His natural and moral laws, we see continually endeavouring to promote the welfare and happiness of His creatures? If you study what we call our Vedam, I am bound to say, that you will never find such errors and contradictions in it: moreover, you will read in it of Prophecies accomplished, and of Miracles wrought, all well attested by historical evidences; which prove that what we call our Vedam is the True Word of God, and has been written under the influence of His Spirit." I conversed and disputed for more than an hour with this Brahmin. He confessed that our Religion rested on a more sure basis than any Religion he had known before. I fear this is the only fruit of my long disputation: if the Holy Spirit does not convince the mind and convert the heart, all human reason is in vain. In this kind of disputation I feel my great deficiency in the Tamul Language.

July 1-We visited all the people of our Pulicat Congregation, at their houses. The greater part of them are fishermen and palanquin-bearers, and are very poor and wretched: more so now than when Br. Kindlinger was with them. I gave some relief, according to my means, to the most distressed. The moral state of the adults is most lamentable: many of them live in adultery and every kind of vice indeed, in unconverted people, poverty is often the source of every description of moral misery and degradation. In the afternoon I paid the Schoolmasters, rewarding some, and reducing the pay of others: being present with them. only once a month, this is the only means I have of making them attentive to their duty. This evening, all our Schoolmasters, and some of our Pulicat Christians, were incorporated in our Native Association; to which some subscribed three or four annas monthly, and some less, according to their circumstances and inclinations. My aim, in proposing to this people to unite themselves to our Native Association, is chiefly to accustom them to contribute for charitable purposes, to which they all readily assented. I explained to them the Rules and Object of this Association, and endeavoured to make them feel how happy it is to do something for the benefit of our fellow-creatures. Spoke with a little Girl who is very desirous to be baptized; and in the evening set off for Madras.

TINNEVELLY.

The Missionaries give the following Summary View of the Mission. Near the close of our last statement, we mentioned our apprehensions of an increase of persecution. This was the case, in several parts; and, in the course of the following year, the number of those who had enlisted as Candidates for Baptism decreased. The persecution was, in one instance, attended with murder. Hypocritical Professors had also begun to multiply so much, that a check was highly requisite. The decrease of the Congregations was, however, only temporary: those who stood firm were more and more edified; and the Word of God and the nature of Christianity became better understood among Christians and Heathens. Various Providential Circumstances aided the spread of knowledge, or rather the increase of desire to know the Truth; such as, the Choleradeaths by it, notwithstanding the people's sacrifices to their Idols-the flood in 1827-difficulties attending the Processions of the Idol Cars at their Feaststemples being robbed of their Idols by the Heathen themselves—Tracts published on those occasions-success attending our labours in the town of Tinnevelly itself, by the rise of a Congregation, and the building of a Church in the midst of it— the steadfastness of those Congregations which had been most persecuted-the daily more-apparent impotency of the Idol gods to do any thing in their defence: these and similar circumstances operated most favourably on all classes, and the Congregations began again to increase. Thus there were, at the end of

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June 1827, in 106 villages, 756 or 2557 Dec. 1827, in 109 villages, 954...3505 July 1828, in 146 villages, 1250...4305 Dec. 1828, in 167 villages, 1408...5225 June 1829, in 205 villages, 1855...6243 The Schools also increased, nearly in the same way: there were at the end of 1827, 15 Schools, with 380 Scholars; at the end of September 1828, 30 Schools, with 631 Scholars; December 1828, 43 Schools, with 859 Scholars; June 1829, 46 Schools, with 970 Scholars and several more Schools, applied for by Heathen Inhabitants, remain still to be established.

We may, therefore, fairly conclude that the views and feelings of the people in general, with regard to Missionary Operations, are decidedly in favour of them. And this is the ease, not only with

the common people, but also with many of greater respectability, and with Brahmins too; for, in the course of last year, even Brahmin Proprietors have solicited Christian Schools for their Villages; and Brahmins themselves have, without hesitation, become Schoolmasters, teaching our Christian Books; whereas, some years ago, they scorned the very idea. The Christian Village, Asirvadapuram, consists of a piece of land presented to the Mission by a party of Brahmins of Peykullam; and, a few months ago, the other party of Brahmins of the same village, who were formerly hostile to our people and burnt down the Chapel, have enlarged the ground for the settlement of Native Christians at Asirvadapuram, by the free grant of an additional piece of ground. Just now, an aged, childless Proprietor, a Heathen Soodra, has made us a present of a part of his village; desiring particularly to have a School established there, and his Slaves taught the Christian Religion, some of whom have requested instruction. Another rich Native, near the coast, was not only instrumental in getting a School established in one place, but interceded with us, in writing, for some cultivators of his own or his neighbour's village to be received into the Congregation, as they wished to become Christians. We will not say that these things are done from the purest motives, but such are the facts; and we cannot but ascribe the present cheering aspect of the Christian Cause here to the special favour of God, more especially when we consider the opposition of many Natives to the growth of the Divine Kingdom nearly in every part of the District: for there are Native Enemies, particularly some of the rich people, who would gladly send us all to the bottom of the sea, if they could, and who strive much to excite the enmity of other people against us. But the Lord restrains them, and all their exertions to oppose and overthrow us have hitherto proved fruitless: God is evidently for us; and this the Heathen themselves, even Brahmins, have openly declared. At the beginning of this year, a sharp persecution against the Native Christians in the neighbouring Mission of South Travancore arose, aided by the Heathen Government there, with some success. We feared that our District would partake of the storm; but, with the exception of a few instances, it seems to die away. Thus we, and our Christians,