ly; for while we deliberate, our strength decays, and our foundations totter.

Let the attention of the public then be called up to this subject. Let ministers, and churches, and parents, and magistrates, and physicians, and all the friends of civil and religious order unite their counsels and their efforts, and make a faithful experiment; and the word and the providence of God afford the most consoling prospect of success.

Our case is indeed an evil one, but it is not hopeless. Unbelief and sloth may ruin us, but the God of heaven, if we distrust not his mercy and tempt him not by neglecting our duty, will help us, we doubt not, to retrieve our condition, and to transmit to our children the precious inheritance received from our fathers.

The spirit of missions which is pervading the State, and the effusions of the Holy Spirit in revivals of religion, are blessed indications that God has not forgotten to be gracious.

With these encouragements to exertion shall we stand idle? Shall we bear the enormous tax of our vices, more than sufficient to support the Gospel, the civil government of the State, and every school and literary institution? Shall we witness around us the fall of individuals; the misery of families; the war upon health and intellect, upon our religious institutions and civil order, and upon the souls of men, without an effort to prevent the evil? Who is himself secure of life in the midst of such contagion? And what evidence have we that the plague will not break into our own families, and that ourchildren may not be among the victims, who shall suffer the miseries of life and the pains of eternal death through our sloth and unbelief?

Had a foreign army invaded our land, to plunder our property and take away our liberty, should we tamely bow to the yoke and give up without a struggle? If a band of assassins were scattering poison and filling the land with widows and orphans, would

they be suffered, without molestation, to extend from year to year the work of death? If our streets swarmed with venomous reptiles and beasts of prey, would our children be bitten and torn in pieces before our eyes, and no efforts be made to expel these deadly intruders? But intemperance is that invading enemy preparing chains for us; intemperance is that band of assassins scattering poison and death; intemperance is that as semblage of reptiles and beasts of prey, destroying in our streets the lambs of the flock.

To conclude, if we make a united exertion and fail of the good intended, nothing will be lost by the exer. tion, we can but die, and it will be glorious to perish in such an effort. But if, as we confidently expect, it shall please the God of our fathers to give us the victory, we may se cure to millions the blessings of the life that now is, and the ceaseless blessings of the life to come.

THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AT AN

DOVER.

By request of the Professors in this Institution we insert the following notice.

AGREEABLY to a vote of the TRUS. TEES, we hereby give notice to applicants for admission into this Seminary, that, according to the regula tions of the Institution, all admissions are required to be made at the beginning of the winter term, or as near that time as possible. The reason of this requisition is, that those who enter, at a later period in the year, unavoidably lose the opportunity of pursuing their studies in a regular way.

E. PORTER,
I.. WOODS,
M. STUART,
Andover, Aug. 20, 1812.

Professors.

N. B. The winter Term commences six weeks after the fourth Wednesday in September.

NEW WORKS.

A Discourse delivered at the funeral of the Rev. Elihu Thayer, D. D. Pastor of the church in Kingston, (N. H.) who departed this life April 3, 1812, aged 65. By John Hubbard Church, Pastor of the Church in Pelham. Exeter; Charles Norris & Co. A Discourse in two parts, delivered July 23, 1812, on the public fast in the chapel of Yale College. By Timothy Dwight, D. D. L. L. D. President of that Seminary. Published at the request of the students and others. New Haven; Howe & Deforest.

A Fast Sermon delivered in the North Presbyterian Meeting House in Hartford, July 23, 1812. By Nathan Strong, Pastor of the church. Hartford; Peter B. Gleason.

Third Report of the Connecticut Bible Society. Hartford; Hudson & Goodwin. 1812.

A Missionary Sermon, delivered in the North Presbyterian Meeting House in Hartford, on the evening of May 19, 1812, at the request of the Trustees of the Missionary Society of Connecticut. By Diodate Brockway, Pastor of the church in Ellington.

An Oration delivered at Salem, on the fourth of July, 1812. By Benjamin Pierce. Salem; Thomas C. Cushing.

Laborers needed in the harvest of Christ; a Sermon delivered at Sutton, (Mass.) March 18, 1812, as preliminary to the formation of a society in the county of Worcester, for the aid of pious young men with a view to the ministry. By Benjamin Wood, Pastor of the church in Upton. Worcester; I. Sturtevant.

A Sermon preached at Northampton before the Foreign Missionary Society of Northampton and the neighboring towns, at their first meeting, March 31, 1812. By Evan Johns, A. M. Northampton, Wm. Butler.

Touchstone to the People of the United States, on the choice of a President. New York; Pelsue & Gould, 1812. pp. 56.

tors.

A Sermon preached in Boston, July 23, 1812, the day of the public fast appointed by the Executive of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in consequence of the declaration of war against Great Britain. By William Ellery Channing, minister of the church in Federal Street. Boston; Greenough and Stebbins.

The institution and proceedings of the Society of the Cincinnati, formed by the officers of the United States, at the cantonment on the banks of Hudson's river, May 10, 1783: with the proceedings of the Massachusetts State Society of the Cincinnati, from its organization, June 9, 1783 to July 4, 1811. Boston, T. B. Wait and Co.

A Protest against the War; a Discourse delivered at Byfield, Fast Day, July 23, 1812. By E. Parish, D. D. Two editions. Newburyport; E. W. Allen.

The salvation of all men the great object of a faithful preacher; a Sermon delivered at the ordination of Mr. James Johnson to the work of the Gospel ministry in Potsdam, (N. Y.) March 11, 1812. By Amos PlattsPettengill of Champlain. burgh, (N. Y.) A. C. Flagg.

EVANGELICAL EXERTIONS IN

ASIA.

(No.IV. continued from p. 175.)

WHILE these things were going on in other parts, a second Telinga Translation was commenced at Vizagapatam in the Northern Sircars, the province in which that language is spoken. Messrs. Cran and Desgranges, from the London Missionary Society, arrived at Tranquebar the latter part of 1804, and the next year stationed themselves at Vizagapatam. Whether they commenced the version before they were joined by Ananda Rayer, in 1808, does not appear. This Telinga Brahmin, by birth a Mahratta, had been convinced of the truth of the Christian Religion by reading some books in the Telinga language, put into his hands by a Romish priest. Not satisfied with the forms of that Church, he visited the Missionaries at Tranquebar, and continued with them four months. As the Tamul language has affinity with the Telinga, he presently became able to read the Tamul Bible, and was soon admitted to the Protestant church at Tranquebar. VOL. V. New Series.

Both he and his wife have since given striking evidence of the power of religion. At that time the Missionaries at Vizagapatam were in want of a Telinga scholar to assist them in translating the Scriptures; and as Ananda Rayer was averse to every worldly employment,and had a great desire to be'useful to his brethren of the Telinga nation, he was recommended for that purpose by Dr. Johns, one of the Missionaries at Tranquebar, in a letter to Mr. Desgranges, dated Jan. 29, 1808. He probably commenced his labors early in that year. After the death of Mr Cran, in 1809, he continued the work of translation under the superintendance of Mr. Desgranges. The revisal of the first three Gospels was just finished when Mr. Desgranges was removed by death,on the 12th of July, 1810, in the 30th year of his age. On his death-bed he recommended Ananda Rayer to his brethren Gordon and Lee, and desired that the Translation might not be relinquished. Ananda Rayer was deeply affected, and promised to persevere in the work as long as God should enable him. The three Gospels which Mr. Desgranges had fin

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ished, Dr. Carey said in the following December would be printed immediately, as a memorial of the labors of a departed broth er. This version was not brought to the press in March 1811, but in October, and in January 1812, it was printing at the missionpress at Serampore, under the superintendance of Ananda Rayer, and at the expense of the Bible Society. The reason of its being printed at Serampore, may be found in the following extract from the last report of the British and Foreign Bible Society: "It appears that the printing of Oriental manuscripts, chiefly owing to the skill and disinterestedness of the Baptist Missionaries,) can be executed at Serampore at an expense much less than at any other press in India, or even in Europe'

At the time of Mr. Desgranges' death Ananda Rayer had carried forward the translation further than the revision had proceeded. On information received from Vizagapatam before that event, Dr. Buchanan asserted that this translator had gone through the four Gospels and the Acts. By about the end of the year 1810, he had proceeded through the first Epistle to the Corinthians. As soon as Messrs. Gordon and Lee, who arrived in the latter part of 1809, had acquired a sufficient knowledge of the language, they began to carry forward the work of revision and translation. In October 1811, Mr. Gordon was employed in John, as far as his feeble health would allow, earnestly desiring to live long enough to see that Gospel printed with the other three. Mr. Lee was engaged at the same time in Genesis. An

anda Rayer was at Serampore superintending the press.*

Sometime about the beginning of 1808 Mr. Morrison, from the London Society, appears to have begun his labors at Canton. Before he left England he had transcribed most of the books of the New Testament from a Chinese copy preserved in the British Museum, which he has since, by the aid of native scholars, been correcting and preparing for the press. At the close of 1808 he thought a part of the manuscript fit to be printed, and had already constructed a Grammar, and begun a Dictionary of the language. Having no pres ent prospect of being permitted to penetrate into the empire, he confines his attention to the preparation of this version, and to the means of rendering the acquisition of the language more easy to future Missionaries. Though stationed at Canton, he has been repeatedly obliged by political dissentions between the Chinese and English to remove to Macao. He was there in April, September. and October, 1809, and by a letter not yet published it appears that he was there in April, 1811, and had printed a thousand copies of the Acts. Having heard that the New Testament was translating in Bengal, he has begun a version of Genesis and Psalms.†

The Missionaries at Serampore received in aid of the trans

Ch. Res p. 134, 135. Ch. Ob. vol. x, p. 262 265,841; voi xi, p $21. Pan. vol. vi, p. 335 572; vol. vii, p. 351; vol. vii, p. 97, 98. Nar. p. 72;

and References in No. III

† Pan, vol. vi, p. 186-188,227,372, 373; vol. vni, p. 17, 148. Ch. Ob. vol. x. Append. p. 842. Ch. Res. p.99.