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act of justice to bear this testimony to her character, as being amiable and exemplary in all the duties of social life; an affectionate, faithful, and judicious friend; as eminently conscientious in her whole deportment, and as having willingly spent herself in the service of her Redeemer, and attempting to promote his cause in India. She was about thirty-eight years of age.

VII. Death of Mrs. Lee.

In the course of the month, we have received the melancholy news of the death of Mrs. Lee, wife of the Rev. Mr. Lee, Missionary at Ganjam, in her passage to England on account of her health. Mr. and Mrs. Lee had been resident for a considerable time at Ganjam, where the sickness which pervaded the town in the last and the preceding years, had so affected the health of them both, as to render a voyage necessary for its re-establishment. In August the last year they therefore came to Calcutta, with a view to a voyage to the Cape, and ultimately to England, if necessary. It was in their passage from the Cape to England that she was removed by death. The Rev. Mr. Hands who communicated to us the melancholy intelligence, adds, "Oh what a dying world is this! Six who had belonged to the Vizagapatam mission family, are now numbered with the dead! Soon we must follow. Oh! to be prepared."

VIII. New School Societies.

In the course of the last month, much has been attempted in Calcutta of a nature, highly interesting to the friends of India. In addition to the Society for Lepers mentioned in our last, new efforts have been made relative to Schools, of a highly praise-worthy nature. The Diocesan Committee under the immediate direction of the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Calcutta, has taken up this object with a degree of interest and vigour, highly promis ing in their result, and have formed a Committee for the parti

cular object, under the name of "The Diocesan School Commit. tee," which plan, from the liberal manner in which it is supported, and the character of the gentlemen engaged in conducting it, wil, we trust, be ultimately productive of much good to India.

Another Society was also formed in the beginning of the month under the name of "The Calcutta School Society," of which Lieut. F Irvine, and E. S. Montagu, Esq. are the Secretaries. This Society also will, we hope, prove a most valuable coadjutor in the work of enlightening the natives of India, and of dispelling that cloud of moral darkness which has so long overspread a country blessed with the richest bounties of Providence.

EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

IX. Some account of the Duhabertzy, contained in an extract from a letter of Mr. Paters n's.

"In a short tour from Petersburgh, we fell in with a colony of Cossacks, consisting of about ainety persons, who are in these quarters for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

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"They belong originally to the Don, and are of the sect Duhabertzy, of whom you will find some particulars in Pinkerton's History of the Greek Church. Since they came to Finland they have had no books among them, not even a single copy of the Scriptures. We had a long conversation with one of them, who could not read, and yet he answered all our questions in the language of the Scriptures. We asked if they had any priest among He answered, Yes, we have a great High Priest, who is holy, harmless, &c. Have you Baptism? We are baptized with the Holy Ghost and with fire. Have you Communion? We have Communion with the Lord Jesus daily. Have you Churches? I hope you do not think Churches are built of wood and stone. Wherever two or three are gathered together in Christ's name, there He has promised to be with them, and there is a Church of Christ. We have now conversed with you for more than an hour,

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and are of one heart and one soul. We are a church when you will. With the so called Churches, we can have nothing to do, as they admit drunkards, &c. but a Church of Christ is holy, and all its members should and must be so too. You will find no such persons among us.

"What is your opinion of the new birth? (reading to him the passage in the 3d chapter of John). We are born the first time when we are born of our mother, but the second time, when our hearts are changed by the word and Spirit of God, when we are led to hate what we once loved, and love what we formerly hated; when we give over living in sin; not that we are perfect in this world, but we have no pleasure in sin. What is meant by being born of water and of the Spirit? By water is not meant baptism, but the word of God, for we are born of the incorruptible seed of the word which liveth and abideth for ever; and as it is the Spirit, by whose operations this is effected, so we are said to be born of the Spirit. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; so you see, we are not Christians or born again as we came into the world; we do not inherit it of our parents.-But seeing you cannot read, how came you to know all this? I wonder that you can ask such a question has not Jesus promised to be with his people always, even to the end of the world; and has he not promised to give them his Spirit, to teach them all things? He says, when you are brought before governors and kings for my sake, take no thought how or what you shall speak, for it shall be giv en you in the same hour what you shall speak. Now I believe the promise; I have often been called to answer for my religion; and I have always found Jesus true to his word; and now when called to come before you, I prayed God to fulfil his promise to me, and He has done it: you see I speak freely to you, and you seem satisfied with me. You are the first we ever met in this place who understood us. You must be taught by the same Spirit. Can any among you read? There are some among us who can read, but you seem to lay so much stress upon reading, and heing learned. Jesus Christ had no other kearning, than what his pa

rents taught him; and the Apostles were all unlearned men. It is enough if we are taught of the Spirit. Do you cross yourselves before the pictures? That we cannot do you know the commandments (repeating the 1st and 2d). Are you obedient to the laws? As far as they do not interfere with our religion and faith. We have sworn allegiance, and we serve in the army. Are you not Duhabertzy? Our gracious Emperor has been pleased to call us so, and we submit. We call ourselves true Christians. We

are the same as from the beginning. Are there many on the Don of your way of thinking? O! yes, many thousands; but they are afraid to shew themselves, or to avow their opinions. Have you been persecuted? If any man will live godly in Christ Jesus, he must suffer persecution

We then related to him what was going on in the religious world, and made him acquainted with the Bible Society. I wish you had been present while we related all these things to him ; he seemed to awaken as from a dream, a heavenly joy beamed from his countenance, which melted our hearts. At last he exclaimed, "Now he is near. We have long been expecting him to come, and have long been convinced it could not be far distant; but never believed such preparations were making for his coming. No person has ever told us of these things before. I will go home to my church, and relate to them all these glorious things. How will my brethren rejoice when they hear them." We gave him a Russian Testament, and some of our Society's publications, to carry home with him to his brethren, as he always called them. It seems they have all things common, or nearly so. Their conduct is most exemplary. They have a good report of all men, even of their enemies."

X. Mr. Paterson's Journal continued.

The following extracts from Mr. Paterson's journal will not be read without feelings of peculiar interest :

At a village between Mariupol and Peresop, a number of

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people, among whom was the headman of the village, came with a young. Molla, and begged a New Testament. I gave him Tracts, but he earnestly begged a Testament. He said he would read it in the Musjid, and pray for the welfare of my soul. I told him that the Effendis would not allow it to be put in the Musjid, nor to be read there but the people insisted to the contrary, and said that the house belonged to them, and not to the Effendis. After some conversation, I solemnly addressed the young Molla, and delivered the New Testament into his hands. He went away very happy. The headman of the village begged a Tract and a Testament for his son. The greater part of the inhabitants were assembled, and a number of them urged me to stay with them some days.

"At this place, my young friend Shattuse,' whom he had met three days before, and who had received a copy of the New Testament with many expressions of gratitude, came up to me on horseback, saluted me after the Eastern manner, and kissed my hand. He had brought his New Testament bound in his BASHLUK or covering for the head, and I suspected that he had been ordered to give it me back. • But how agreeably was I disappointed to hear him tell me, that he loved the New Testament; that he had left his mother's house; and was determined to follow me wherever I went, and become my son! He said that his friends and the Mollas had advised him to do so. He proceeded with me on my journey through the other villages.'

"At Koslov, sitting and musing in my lodgings on the obstinacy of the Mahomedans, and revolving in my mind the best. means to employ in order to induce them to receive the truth, in came a company of Jews, and sat down at my side, and entered into conversation with me on religion. I spoke to them, and read portions of the New Testament to them. One of them opened a copy, and read to his countrymen two or three chapters. He read it with ease, and earnestly requested that I should give it to him. I told him that it was the New Testament; that I had brought copies of it to give away to Mahomedans; and that

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