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for a home on earth, nor expect ed to continue long. In July he was in the neighborhood of Nuddeea, in August at Chandernagore a few miles above Calcutta, in September at Calcutta, preaching very frequently. Mr. Carey lamented his removal as a great loss to that part of the country, particularly to the sick for whom he had done more, in the opinion of his colleague, than any other person that had ever been in India. Mr. Carey concluded his lamention with this testimony: "He has many qualifications which render him the fittest person for a Missionary that could any where be found."*

About that time Mr. Carey had the satisfaction to obtain a printing press,a blessing which for several years he had scarcely dared to hope for. One had lately been brought from England and advertised for sale at Calcutta. He eagerly secured it, and on the 23d of September it arrived safe at Mudnabatty. He had just received from the new Foundery proposals for casting a fount of types. About the same time he was informed that a Captain in the army at Calcutta, (probably the same that Dr. Buchanan in 1810 calls Lieut. Colonel Colebrooke,) was engaged in translating the Scriptures into Persian.

The manner in which Mr. Carey at that time was employed may be seen in the following extract from one of his letters written in September. "I constantly employ the forenoon in temporal affairs; the afternoon in reading, writing, learning the Shanscrit, &c; and the evening,

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by candle-light, in translating the Scriptures, and correcting the translation: and except I go out to preach, (which is often the case,) I never deviate from this rule." He had said in January that he frequently devoted the afternoon, as well as the evening, to the transiation. In September he was translating Jeremiah and correcting Isaiah. By the end of October the Pentateuch, Psalms, Isaiah, Jeremiah, part of Ezekiel, and the whole of the New Testament, were finished. By the end of November he had translated Lamentations and more than half of Ezekiel, and hoped to complete the whole Bible in another year. The Historical Books, (viz. from Joshua to Esther inclusive) were left to the last, and Mr. Fountain had just commenced a rough version of that part. Job, the Writings of Solomon, and the Minor Prophets still remained untouched. All these proved too much labor for a single year, but the whole was nearly finished in the spring of 1800.*

The Missionaries had all along been urging on the Society the importance of increasing their number.† That wish was at length gratified by the arrival of four new ministers. Messrs. Marshman, Brunsdon, and Grant, with their wives, Mr. Ward, and Miss Tidd, (who was engaged to Mr. Fountain,) sailed from London, with Captain Wickes, May 25th, 1799, (at the time when Mr. Pearce was languishing with his last sickness,) and

* M.B.M.M. vol. ii, p. 130 BP.A. vol. i, p. 372,403,439,468,469,471,472, 486 487,429. Ch. Res.p 90. Nar. p. 18.

B. P. A. vol. i, p. 304,319,320,324, 328, 329, 334, 347, 370, 372, 289, 428, 437,583.

on the 13th of October arrived at Serampore, a Danish Settlement fifteen miles above Calcutta. After an illness of four days Mr. Grant was removed on the last of October. The factory at Mudnabatty was then about to be relinquished on account of the failure of crops, and Mr. Carey's engagement was within a few weeks of expiring. He had taken a small place at Kidderpore, twelve miles distant, where he intended to carry on a little business, and erect houses for his newly arrived friends. But the English Government refused to let the Missionaries go up the country, and Mr. Carey was obliged to abandon his place at Kidderpore, with the loss of property to the amount of 500/.* and remove with Mr. Fountain to Serampore, where he arrived with his family on the 10th of January, 1800. The rent of lodgings being high, the Missionaries purchased a house with a considerable quantity of land on the bank of the river, the rent of which in four years would have amounted to the price.

This change proved very favorable to the Mission. They could scarcely have worked their press to advantage, or obtained an English school, at Kidderpore. They were then hardly known at Calcutta; but their vicinity to the capital of British India soon introduced them to public attention, and obtained for Mr. Carey an important office. What they regarded as a trying necessity proved a merciful dispensation. The same may be said of that long course of embarrassments and disappointments which had

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delayed the printing till the ar rival of Mr. Ward, who having been regularly trained to the business, was able to execute it with accuracy and neatness.

Every preparation was now made for printing. The translation was nearly finished,a press was obtained, types were agreed for, and a printer was on the ground. A sufficient fund to be gin with was also furnished. They had received from the Edinburgh MissionarySociety $1111; from friends in India $5968, and in the course of that year collected $91 more. They accordingly set up the press at Serampore, and issued propo sals for the Bengalee Bible, advertising at the same time for employment in the general line of printing, and for an English school. About fifty copies were subscribed for by the middle of August. The school was established under the care of Mr. and Mrs. Marshman, and has proved the principal means of support to the whole missionary family.t

The College of Fort William, destined to exert a prodigious influence on the civil and relig. ious interests of Asia, and on the Baptist Mission in particular, was founded at Calcutta, by the Marquis Wellesley, on the 4th of May, 1800. Mr. Carey took an impression of the first page of Matthew on the 18th of the same month. About the middle of June they began to print the New Testament. Besides 2,000 copies of the whole,theystruck off five hundred copies of Matthew

B. P. A. vol. i, p. 517, 522, 526, 527. Vol. iii, Pref p. 3-6, p. 26. Nar. p. 16-18- N. Y. M. M. vol. ii, p 235,479. Pan, vol. vi, p. 39.

for immediate distribution, ly converted." That summer the Missionaries had uncommon desome hundreds of which were dispersed by the middle of Oc- sires and a special spirit of prayer for the conversion of the tober. Matthew, Mark, and the Mr Thomas, who greater part of Luke were print- heathen. was preaching at Bheerboom, ed by the middle of August, and early the next spring, the whole largely partook of the same spirit. Testament was completed.*

While the New Testament was in the press, a cluster of events took place, which must not be omitted. Early in June a Bengalee school for the gratuitous instruction of native children was opened by Mr. and Mrs. Marshman, which by the 20th of July contained forty scholars.

On the 20th of August Mr. Fountain was removed by death. In October Messrs. Marshman and Ward began to preach to the natives. But the most interesting events are yet to be recited. Mr. Thomas and Mr. Carey had now been in the country seven years, and not a Hindoo had renounced cast for the Gospel, or been baptised. Much rubbish had indeed been cleared away, and many materials collected, but no part of the building was reared. In the recollection of what they had left behind, cut off from Christian society, and crushed by frequent disappointments, their trials, their discouragements, and often their depressions, had been great. The year 1800 was the season of their greatest depression. "It is now,' said Mr. Carey in October, "seven years since we entered upon the work of the Mission,and it is uncertain to this hour whether any of the heathen are tru

• Ch. Res. p. 90, 91 Note. Mem. p. 69-72, Nar p. 18,20,24. N. Y. M M. vol. ii, p. 478-480. Con. E. M. vol. ii, p.157.

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sive to them.

The latter end of October he visited the other Missionaries, and perceived, as he says, the holy unction on them all. His conversation and prayers unusually impresappeared At his suggestion they established a weekly meeting for prayer for the suc cess of the Mission. Early in November many of the natives came to the Mission-house for On the copies of Matthew. 25th of that month Mr. Thomas was called to visit Kristno Pawl who had dislocated his arm. Gokool, who for a little time had been somewhat affected, happened to be present. After the operation Mr. Thomas solemnly addressed the patient and those that were with him. The time had come; Kristno with his family and Gokool submitted to the Gospel, and the first Missionary had the happiness of bringing the first Hindoo convert to Christ. On Monday the 23d of December Kristno and Gokool, eat with the Missionaries, and thus publicly threw away their cast. The same evening they with Kristno's family made a solemn profession before the church, intending to be baptised the next Sabbath. "Mr. Thomas was almost overcome with joy." His irritable system was excited too far, and (let it be written with a tear) "he was for some weeks in a state of complete mental derangement." An uproar raised by the natives, intimidated

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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!"

On the 18th of January, 18(1, 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

Nar. p. 18-23, 25-27, 39, 62. B. P. A. vol. iii, Pref. Pan. vol. ii, p. 138. M.B.M.M. vol. i, p 253. Vol. lii. p. 97, 98, 106. Con. E. M. vol. ii, p.157. Q. R. No. 1, p. 172, 173.

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.†

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 dona tions, $5143,42.

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

M.B.M.M. 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 established 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 ap ply themselves to the business before them.

Now, Sir, I think every reflect. ing mind must perceive,that what agricultural implements,and me chanical 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

ON THE NECESSITY OF LIBRA- professional books; and must be

.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. N.Y.M. M. vol. ii, p. 479. Vol. iii, p. 475.

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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 ingen ious 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 indced, is worth more than all other books.

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