0 16 Revival in Mecklinburgh county, Virginia. .. countenance would brighten with joy. I said to her one day, "We have spent many a happy hour together." She replied, "Yes:" and when I added, What then will it be when those hours are turned to ages?" instantly her eyes sparkled with peculiar joy and gladness at the prospect. Now she understands the subject better. Nothing could exceed the kind attention and affection of her relatives and friends; yet all the while her longing was to be above: and on Monday, February 26, 1816, God took her to Himself. She was released on a sudden, without a struggle, and entered into rest. On the Monday following, she was interred at the side of her late worthy father, in the church-yard at SThe Rev. Mr. D― preached at the time a very impressive sermon from Isa. lxiv. 6," And we all do fade as a leaf" Youth's Mag. REVIVAL IN MecklinburgH COUNTY, VIRGINIA. The following is an extract of a letter to the Editor, from a gen tleman in Caswell county, North Carolina, dated July 22d, 1817. "It has pleased God to pour out his Holy Spirit in a very remarkable manner in Mecklinburgh county, Virginia. The convincing influences of the Holy Spirit began to be witnessed in August or September of the last year; since which time more than one hundred persons have been made the hopeful subjects of converting grace, and enrolled amongst the followers of Christ in the various denominations. The blessed work is still progressing with undiminished vigour. It is not confined to any particular rank, The high and the low, the rich and the poor, are convinced of sin, of righteousness, and a judgment to come,' and are made to fly to Christ, the ark of safety, the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. The "The amount of the above statement I received from a pious gentleman, who lives where the revival is experienced. distance from this place is about forty miles. I expected to visit them myself; but hitherto my designs have been frustrated. If I should visit them, or otherwise obtain more particular information respecting the revival, I will endeavour to communicate it to you." Weekly Recorder. ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. T. TROWT. Hadst thou no guerdon but the gale of death, Where his last accents breath'd their living lore. Bap. Mag. THE CHRISTIAN HERALD. V.J Saturday, October 1, 1817. [No 2. BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. ches at the 13th Anniversary, (continued from age 8.) ks to the Vice-Presidents were moved by W. T. MONEY, P. My Lord, ver having addressed such an assembly before, I hope I eet with indulgence. In proposing the thanks of this Sociour Vice-Presidents, I should feel that I had undertaken a which my powers were quite unequal, if it required that I expatiate on the merits of th se eminent personages, and vices, in the cause of Christianity; but the distinguished s which they have made to forward the glorious work in we are all engaged, have been too conspicuous, and too e theme of admiration in this place, to make it necessary in submitting my proposition, to do more than indulge the of my own feelings, in assuring them that their services ess appreciated by their countrymen in the East, than they heir fellow Christians at home. From that distant quarter lobe, where the Gospel is widely diffusing its blessings, I ely returned; and among the delightful enjoyments which my return to my native land, one of the most gratifying est feelings of my heart has been to be associated with this t Institution, whose great and pious exertions to circulate ptures among the natives of India, I have had the happiness ess. and, as far as depended on my humble efforts, to proHaving passed many years in India, particularly on the side of the Peninsula, I venture, at the suggestion of some in this Society, to offer a few observations which have octo me, on the state of Christianity in that interesting porthe British dominions. I consider, my Lord, that the first ep taken to propagate the Gospel on the western side of ian Peninsula, was the establishment of a Eible Society at y :—that Society was formed under the auspices of one of ice-Presidents, Sir Evan Nepean, who, I understand, sopledged himself, before he took his departure from this 7, to promote the objects of this Society. That pledge he ply redeemed. I am happy to take this opportunity of de, from my own personal knowledge, that, by his example, uence, and his purse, he has largely contributed to advance eat cause under his government, and to extend its blessings ver the British authority could favour its adoption. At the ion of the Society at Bombay, it had to encounter the est prejudices, which had been excited in the minds of the 3, who were led to fear that some measure of compulsion B 18 Speech of W. T. Money, Esq. at the was intended for the introduction of Christianity among them; but no sooner had the motives ascribed to us been expressly disclaimed, and our real objects clearly explained, than all apprehension vanished from their minds. The Second Annual Report of the Society will show how far it has succeeded in promoting the views of the Parent Society, what difficulties remain to be encountered, and what measures have been employed to overcome them. "A primary object, in the contemplation of its founders, (and as essential to the attainment of its end,) was, the instruction of the lower orders of British Protestants in India, and the establishment of schools for the education of Indian children; an object which, I have reason to believe, is in a course of successful prosecution. The late Dr. Buchanan, in his Christian Researches, has observed, that European example, in the great towns of India, was the bane of Christian instruction. However just that observation may have been, I can now bear testimony, from some experience, that, since his time, the morals of every description of British residents in India are greatly improved; a zeal for religion very generally prevails, and our conduct is more in unison with our doctrine, and better calculated to diffuse it. This change is to be attributed to the circulation of the Bible, to the Ecclesiastical Establishments which Dr. Buchanan recommended, to the labour of many able and pious Missionaries, and to the example of some of the highest in authority, an example always of powerful effect, and which, for the happiness of the governed, should ever be an indispensable requisite in the selection of a Governor. "I have been the more induced, my Lord, to notice the im provement in the moral and religious conduct of my countrymen in India, because a Roman Catholic Missionary, in a letter addressed to one of the Vice-Presidents of the Bombay Auxiliary Society, while he states our public and national virtues to be the subject of praise and admiration with all castes of Indians, represents them as treating our domestic manners and vices with the highest contempt; a greater libel than this, on the British character, was never published. "The great diversity of dialects which prevails within the limits to which the Bombay Society directs its attention, extending from Cape Comorin to the Isthmus of Suez, forms a considerable impediment to the speedy circulation of the Scriptures. The Society has endeavoured to overcome the difficulty, by increasing the number of translations; but, as the work of translation is ne cessarily slow, we should not overlook the practice of the Portuguese, who taught their language to the natives of India, and made it a vehicle of their religious instruction. Their language has sur vived their empire in the East, and continues to be the medium of propagating their mode of worship, with a degree of success with which our Church, in the present zenith of our temporal power, cannot keep pace. "The Portuguese language would soon lapse into disuse, and its accompanying superstitions be supplanted by the pure faith of Anniversary of the Br. & For. Bible Society. 19 el, if the English tongue were generally spoken by the hose attachment would be increased by their identifying es with those whose language and religion they had made n. It is by cultivating the language of Protestant Chrisd by the increased intercourse with them, which its atwill produce, that the faculties of the natives are to be , and their affections conciliated. As their judgment will be prepared to let in that heavenly light, by which Pagan can be led to cast his idols of silver, and his old, which they have made each one for himself to worhe moles and the bats.' t sort of abominations the Christian religion has to overnd which, by the divine blessing on this Society, it will overcome,) will sufficiently appear from the following ut ten or twelve miles from Poonah, there is a being, imtyled the living God; I went to see it; and I found it to orant and pampered youth of fourteen or fifteen, appaa state of idiocy, and surrounded by votaries, paying him 1. His history is briefly this:-About a hundred and years ago, a Brahmin, of some consequence, said, that he I informed, in a vision, that there should be seven incarof the Deity in his family: the promised number having d their mortal state of existence, the people interested in set up a supernumerary, which was the boy I saw ; and ked if this did not exceed the number originally promised, lushingly said, it was very true, but added, it was a proof t God could do more than he promised. y , my Lord, to return to that important object, the educahe Indian youth. The natives themselves are not adverse, urably disposed, to European instruction. Of this a memoroof has been given, in the foundation of a College at Calthe Hindoos themselves, for the education of their chilEuropean branches of learning. On the other side of Indisposition is equally favourable; some of the principal having solicited that a schoolmaster might be sent for from antry, to instruct their children, and they would liberally rate him with any salary the Government should think adeo his services. It is, my Lord, to the great attention which en paid to the early instruction of the children of natives, nder the divine influence, Ceylon owes its pre-eminence in us knowledge. That beautiful island, where I had the hapto pass some time, surpasses the continent of India, as endantly in the fruits of Christianity, as in the luxuriant of its natural productions." r referring to certain interesting facts, in support of this assertion, and a suitable tribute of respect to the government of General Brownrigg, onizing all measures for the propagation of the Gospel, Mr. Money ed:] There is no part of the globe, my Lord, in which this Society |