England, but not more than three of Latin. In the evening, after worship, I generally read English, or look over English proofs. I take my turn in all the services here; preach at Barrackpore, two miles over the river, once and sometimes twice a week, to about twentyfive, a small but attentive congregation. We go to Calcutta in turn: it comes to me about once a month. There are six services every Lord's day, so that it is necessary for some one to go from Serampore." Now, when it is recollected that the Greek books to which he here refers (for so I learn from letters addressed to Dr. Hoby) were Longinus, Demosthenes, Pindar, Sophocles, Aristotle's Ethics, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Herodotus, and Thucydides; and that the Latin volumes were the works of Tacitus and Cicero de Officiis, the scholar will be able to understand somewhat of the extent of Dr. Yates's attainments as a classic. In the end of 1816, or in the beginning of 1817, Dr. Yates removed from Serampore to Calcutta, where he, in company with his fellow-labourers in the work of God, besides teaching in a school for a considerable time for his own support and for that of his wife and child (his salary being at that time exceedingly small), laboured most abundantly both in English and Bengali preaching. I find from letters written during this period that he was accustomed regularly to visit certain parts of the town, and to declare on the public streets the word of life to his perishing fellowmen; and he was not without his reward, for those were times of the manifestation of the power of God in the conversion of the people of this vast city, -times the like of which have never been seen since then. When I arrived in this country, in the early part of the year 1824, I found him nearly as much reduced in health and strength as he appeared during the last two or three years of his life. At that time he was doing little in the way of outdoor work, but he was not idle within. Besides preaching once a sabbath in English, he had the care of the native church, the members of which were occasionally accustomed to meet with him in his own house for worship; and in addition to this, he was labouring, and had been labouring almost to excess, in other ways. Previous to this period (1824), he had published his well-known grammar of the Sanskrit (such had been his progress in that language); a work on the Divinity of Christ, in reply to Rammohan Ray; his Memoirs of Chamberlain; and had rendered excellent service in the preparation and supervision of works belonging to the School Book Society. He had, also, before this year, acquired, in addition to the Sanskrit and Bengali, a very extensive acquaintance with the Arabic, the Persian, the Urdu, and the Hindui languages, the acquisition of which is quite enough for the whole life of a more than ordinary man. On the death of Mr. Lawson, which took place in 1825, Dr. Yates was called to preside over the church in Circular Road; but requiring a change of climate to recruit his exhausted strength, he, in 1827, suspended his labours by proceeding, for a season, to his native land by way of America. The impression produced by him at this time on others, was thus recently described in a public meeting in London, by the Rev. Dr. Sharpe of Boston, America, at whose house he lived when in that city:-"I had the honour," says Dr. Sharpe, "of receiving Dr. Yates into my house, when he was on his way to his native land, some years ago. I know, from the simplicity of his character, and the purity of his purposes, and his true and solid learning, that the greatest reliance may be placed on any version he may send out to the world." whatever was the will of God, all might be prepared to inherit his glory. The answer was immediate in the abatement of the raging storm; and Mr. Hunt landed here the subject of the workings of God's grace." On his return to India, Dr. Yates resumed his labours, and among them the pastoral oversight of the Circular Road church; and I think that it was then too he entered upon his work of the translation of the scriptures, deter Of his history in England I know nothing excepting the following very characteristic anecdote of him, which was communicated to me by a fellowstudent of my own, the Rev. Mr. Mursell of Leicester, who happened to be then occasionally with him. Mr. Mursell, knowing in some way or another (certainly not from Dr. Yates himself) the extraordinary quantity of work he was accustomed to get through, once said to him, “Well, Mr. Yates, what plan do you adopt for the accomplishing of any-mined to make this the one great busithing you take in hand?" In reply to this, he, in his own quiet and unassuming manner, simply said, "I have no particular plan, Mr. Mursell: when I have anything to do, I go and do it,—that is all." On his return to this country, in the year 1830, he encountered a violent storm by the way. This I mention for the purpose of introducing the following extracts from a letter which was forwarded to me a few days ago: "You may have heard of the name of Mr. Hunt, a devout member of the Union Chapel, whose praise is in all the churches. He was the organist of the chapel, and died seven years ago. This good man received his first religious impressions from Dr. Yates. He was coming out to this country in a musical profession in the same ship in which Dr. Yates returned to India, somewhere in the year 1830. Mr. Hunt, as he himself told me, was then a thoughtless young man. The vessel met with severe weather; and there was a time when hope seemed to be lost. All was consternation on board, and the crew and passengers assembled for prayer, Mr. Hunt among the number, when he beheld Dr. Yates, who had just left his cabin and appeared among them, with an air so calm and serene as to shine in striking contrast with every thing around. The prayer he then offered was for an immediate answer whether of life or death; adding, that ness of his life. How he carried out his purpose, let the results declare. Within the course of the last fourteen years he translated the whole of the scriptures into the Bengali language, the whole of the New Testament into Urdu, the same into Hindui, the same into Sanskrit, and the half of the Old Testament into the same difficult tongue. And besides these, he published a large Urdu grammar, translations of some difficult Sanskrit books, a number of other works in different languages, and has left, partly through the press, a complete Sanskrit Dictionary, which, when fully printed off, will make a volume of at least 900 pages. How he, with his constant labours in English preaching, accomplished all this, it is impossible for me to explain; and what adds to our astonishment is the fact, that he was always very weakly in body, and not unfrequently laid aside, by severe indisposition, for weeks together. And be it remembered, too, that he never encroached upon the hours required for rest in the night, never omitted any family duty, was never absent either on the sabbath or the week days from the house of God, occasionally visited in the evenings his friends, and read very considerably for the improvement of his own mind. As an instance of the extent of his reading, I know from himself that he perused the whole of the four large volumes of the Alif Leila in the Arabic language shortly after they were | beloved Catharine, there to lie till the published,- -a task which it may be sea shall give up the dead which are in doubted whether any one has yet per- it. These painful tidings I received the formed but himself. night before last; and they are the close of a moral and invisible struggle through which my soul has passed during the last two months. The danger has been great; but the storm is now over, and all is tranquil and serene. All is right. I received letters from our dear Catharine both from Bombay and Cochin, the general tenor of which had led me to expect that she would return better in health; but I learn that she began to sink before they arrived at Penang, and continued afterwards to get worse till the 22nd of May, when she expired. The children are not yet come from the ship; but I expect them to-day, or, at farthest, to-morrow. In the midst of all these labours, not only was he often afflicted in his own person, but he was not without his heavy trials in the persons of his family. I saw him myself, in 1824, hang over the coffin of an interesting babe, and weep most bitterly. During his visit to England he lost another lovely boy,-a child to whom he was so much attached, that the whole of the night previous to his going on board he sat up with him on his knees. For a long period, too, he was severely tried in the illness of his first wife,—a most prudent and godly woman. Several times she had to leave him in quest of health, and that for months together. On one of these occasions she stayed for no less a period than six months under my own roof at Monghyr, when I had an opportunity of discovering her superlative worth. And, last of all, his was the sorrowful lot of bidding her farewell on board of ship to see her to return to him no more. The way in which he felt her death, you will best learn from himself from a letter written almost immediately on being informed that she was gone : "Calcutta, June 21, 1838, "MY DEAR MRS. LESLIE,-At the close of last year I received by the Edwards a basket of toys for the children and a note for Mrs. Yates. As they were gone to sea when these arrived, I put them aside to wait their return. There was nothing in your note which required an immediate answer. For the last three weeks I have been anxiously waiting for their return; and after a long and very tedious voyage the vessel has arrived, and has brought me back all my treasures? Ah! no. They have thrown into the great deep, in the same bay where your dear father lies, my "Amidst sorrow and perplexity I can review, with great satisfaction, the many happy years God has permitted us to enjoy each other's society: and I shall never forget that one in which I paid you a visit at Monghyr. Your dear mother was then alive; and now, I have no doubt, while we are separated by the boundaries of time, they have met together in the paradise above, where parting, painful parting, is known no more. And what more remains for us, but, seeing we are encompassed with so great a cloud of witnesses, to lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and run with patience the race that is set before us? Our treasures in heaven are rapidly increasing. May our hearts be there, and daily preparing for their enjoyment! Dr. Yates was born at Loughborough, in England, December 15th, 1792; and, after being thirty years a missionary, died on the Red Sea, July 3rd, 1845, aged fifty-two years and seven months. His body was, eight hours after he expired, committed to the deep, in latitude 19 north, and longitude 39 east. BY THE REV. MARK WILLIAM FLANDERS. THE late Rev. J. Hindes was born on the 15th of March, 1782, at Hemslope, in Buckinghamshire, at which place his father conducted an extensive business as a manufacturer of lace. It was his privilege to have a pious mother, who, in addition to other excellences, manifested a constant and prayerful anxiety for his spiritual and eternal welfare; and He who has "not said to the seed of Jacob, seek ye me in vain," heard her prayers, and granted her the exalted happiness of seeing her son meekly sitting at the feet of Jesus and devoting both time and talents to the service of the cross. The following paragraphs are extracted from a narrative which has been found amongst the papers of the deceased, and will doubtless be read with much interest. "At eight years of age I left the paternal roof, and went to school at Newport Pagnel. It was there that I had my first serious thoughts about religion and the state of my soul. My mind was much impressed, and I heard the word preached with a degree of pleasure. I remember stealing away from school to attend a prayer-meeting. My attention to the means of grace, and the pleasure I seemed to enjoy in the ordinances of religion, attracted the notice of the minister of the place, and led him to say that I was one of his most attentive hearers. But, notwithstanding all this, I have since doubted whether I had any real acquaintance with my own heart, or any decided attachment to Christ. I was like unto the stony-ground hearers, who endured but for a while. My impressions wore away, and I lost the savour of religion. However, after the lapse of some considerable time, I was again seriously alarmed by a dream. In my sleep, I thought it was proclaimed, in the hearing of all, that those who were willing to forego the pleasures of the world would be received by God and conveyed to heaven, if they presented themselves at the appointed place. I presented myself according to the directions given in the proclamation, but there was always some obstacle in the way of my admission; and, as in the case of the man who waited at the pool of Bethesda, whilst I was coming another stepped in before me. I saw, as I supposed, many of my neighbours and acquaintance admitted, whilst I was repeatedly cast out. This filled me with many distressing fears, and I began to think that my case was hopeless. "My distress of mind continued for some time, and was much increased by the death of a young woman who fell a victim to a malignant fever near to our dwelling. The fever seemed likely to spread, and as it had in several instances proved fatal, I expected nothing less than that I should be the next victim; and as I felt persuaded that eternal misery would be my future portion, my distress was exceedingly great. I felt all the terrors of a guilty conscience seizing hold of me, and that the wrath of an offended Deity was ready to overwhelm and consume me. I sometimes poured out a cry to heaven for mercy, but thought it was all in vain. At this time I think I understood something of the apostle's meaning when he says, 'The law worketh wrath.' A discovery of my sin, accompanied with a deep sense of divine displeasure, stirred up the rebellion of my heart and made me feel angry with God for creating creatures liable to fall into evil and to be exposed to everlasting punishment. I thought it would have been more kind | strength to strength," enjoying the exalted privilege of "worshipping God in the spirit, rejoicing in Christ Jesus, and having no confidence in the flesh." not to have created them at all, or to have allowed them to live and die like the brute creation. I longed for annihilation, and envied even the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the meanest reptiles that crawled the earth, since although their measure of enjoyment was very small, it was mingled with no dread of future sufferings. Thus, rebel like, I was up in arms against the authority of God and unwilling to submit to his government. Yet at times I felt conscious that I was wrong, and an earnest desire to be set right. I thought I could cheerfully submit to the greatest privations, endure the hardest toils, or do anything to be brought into the way that leads to heaven and happiness; but although a glimmering of hope sometimes shot its kindly rays into my soul, I found no solid peace." How long the subject of this memoir continued in this distressing state, cannot now be correctly ascertained. It is probable, however, that he went on in this way, rebelling against God and wronging his own soul, for some considerable time. But the Lord did not leave him here. He was 66 a vessel of mercy;" and he who had appointed him, "not to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ," extended the arm of his mercy and "delivered him from going down into the pit." The writer has no knowledge of the process of mental and moral discipline by which the event was preceded, excepting what has been given above; but a sermon which he heard from "the redemption of the soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever," and another on "the nature and trial of faith," were so blessed as to lead him to entertain some cheering hopes of interest in pardoning love. From this important moment he went on, "from 66 After Mr. Hindes found pardon and peace, he felt and acted as a new creature in Christ Jesus." His whole conduct bore testimony to the reality of the change of which he was the happy subject, and many "glorified God in him." When it is stated that, from his eighteenth year till his marriage, he generally went from Hanslope to Northampton on the sabbath, a distance of ten miles, to hear the gospel, and that he often performed this journey on foot simply because his natural timidity would not permit him to ask his father to allow him to have the horse, it will be seen at once that his love to the Lord's house, and to the appointed means of his grace, was of no common order. And when a gracious Providence afforded him opportunity to hear the gospel in his native village, he showed his gratitude, not only by a regular attendance, but by the liberality with which he contributed to the support of the ministry. Much had been forgiven him, and he loved much. In 1803, Mr. Hindes was married to Miss Eleanor Hurst of Newton, and his father gave up business to him and an elder brother. The Lord, however, did not permit his servant to live without tribulation. It is well known that business generally brings its trials as well as its comforts, and that circumstances are sometimes permitted to occur, even in the family circle, which have a direct tendency to fill the heart with sorrow. Mr. Hindes found it so. A dear boy, to whom he was devotedly attached, was suddenly killed by a kick from a horse when not more than three years of age. In addition to this and other circumstances, he had a constant and painful trial in the extremely delicate state of his own health, to counteract |