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at Cawnpore; and yet, notwithstanding this, with one exception only, he preached every Sabbath at Calcutta, until he finally left it. Animated with the zeal of that Apostle who at Troas continued his discourse till midnight, he could not refrain from lifting up his voice, weak as it was, in divine warnings and invitations, in a place where something seemed to intimate that he never again should declare God's judgment on the impenitent, nor invite the weary and heavy laden to Jesus Christ for rest.

"I now pass," said Mr. Martyn on the first day of the year 1811,"from India to Arabia, not knowing the things which shall befall me there, but assured that an ever faithful God and Saviour will be with me in all places whithersoever I go. May he guide me and protect me, and after prospering me in the thing whereunto I go, bring me back again to my delightful work in India. I am perhaps leaving it to see it no more-but the will of God be done; my times are in his hand, and he will cut them short as shall be most for my good with this assurance, I feel that nothing need interrupt my work or my peace."

On the 7th day of January, after having preached a sermon on the Anniversary of the Calcutta Bible Society, which was afterward printed, and entitled, "Christian India; or, an Appeal on behalf of nine hundred thousand Christians in India who want the Bible;" and after having, for the last time, addressed the inhabitants of Calcutta, from that text of Scripture" But one thing is needful," Mr. Martyn departed for ever from those shores, where he had fondly and fully purposed to spend all his days.

MEMOIR.

PART III.

IN the two former periods of Mr. Martyn's life, we have seen in him-the successful candidate for academical distinctions-the faithful and laborious Pastor -the self-denying and devoted Missionary-the indefatigable Translator of the Scriptures-the Preacher of the Gospel to the Heathen. In this, the last and shortest portion of the contracted term of his earthly existence, we are called to contemplate his character in a new and yet more striking light, and shall have occasion to admire in him the erect and courageous spirit of the Christian confessor.

The occurrences which transpired between his departure from the mouth of the Hoogley and his arrival at Shiraz, occupy an interval of five months. They are partly recorded in the following extracts from his private Journal, and partly related in a letter to Mr. Corrie, from Shiraz.

"Bay of Bengal, January, 1811. "I took a passage in the ship Ahmoody, Capt. Kinsay, bound to Bombay. One of my fellow-passengers was the Honourable Mr. Elphinstone, who was proceeding to take the Residency of Poonah. His agreeable manners and classical acquirements made me think myself fortunate indeed in having such a companion, and I found his company the most agreeable part of my voyage.

"Our Captain was a pupil of Swartz's, of whom he communicated many interesting particulars. Swartz, with Kolhoff and Joenicke, kept a school for halfcast children, about a mile and a half from Tanjore, but went every night to the Tanjore Church, to meet about sixty or seventy of the King's regiment, who assembled for devotional purposes: afterward he officiated to their wives and children in Portuguese. At the school Swartz used to read in the morning, out of the German Meditation for every Day in the Year;' at night he had family prayer. Joenicke taught geography: Kolhoff, writing and arithmetic. They had also masters in Persian and Malabar.

"At the time when the present Rajah was in danger of his life from the usurper of his uncle's throne, Swartz used to sleep in the same room with him. This was sufficient protection, for (said the Captain) Swartz was considered by the natives as something more than mortal.' The old Rajah, at his death, committed his nephew to Swartz.

"All down the Bay of Bengal I could do nothing but sit listless on the poop, viewing the wide waste of waters a sight that would have been beautiful, had I been well.

"On the 18th we came in sight of the Island of Ceylon.

"In my Hebrew researches I scarcely ever felt so discouraged. All the knowledge I thought I had acquired became uncertain, and consequently I was unhappy. It was in vain that I reflected that thousands live and die happy, without such knowledge as I am in search of.

"20th-Sunday.-Had Divine Service in the cabin in the morning, but waited in vain for what i call a proper opportunity of introducing family prayer. When shall I have done with this pernicious delicacy, that would rather yield up souls than suffer a wound itself?

"22d.-Came to an anchor off Columbo. In the afternoon, went on shore with Mr. Elphinstone, and

walked to a cinnamon garden. The road all along was beautiful: tall groves of cocoa-nut trees on each side, with the Natives' tents among them, opened here and there, and gave a view of the sea. The Cingalese, who accompanied us, told the Natives who saw us, we were Protestant Christians. On our way back, we saw a party of Cingalese Christians returning home from a church-yard, where they had been burying a corpse. I crossed over to them, and found their Catechist, who, however, spoke too little English to give me any information.

"23d. Sailed from Ceylon, across the Gulf of Manaar, where there is generally a swell, but which we found smooth. Having passed Cape Comorin, and come into smooth water, I proposed family prayer every night in the cabin-when no objection was made. Spoke a ship to-day, conveying pilgrims from Manilla to Jidda. The first object discernible under the high mountains at Cape Comorin was a church. As we passed along the shore, churches appeared every two or three miles, with a row of huts on each side. The churches are like the meetinghouses in England, with a porch at the West end. Perhaps many of these poor people, with all the incumbrances of Popery, are moving towards the kingdom of heaven.

"26th.-Anchored off Alapee. Learned that there were here about three hundred Christians, Portuguese, besides the fishermen cast. The church was a temporary erection, but a stone edifice is to be raised on the spot. The Portuguese Padre resides at another church about three miles off.

"24th to 31st.-Generally unwell. In prayer my views of my Saviour have been inexpressibly consolatory. How glorious the privilege that we exist but in him; without him I lose the principle of life, and am left to the power of native corruption, a rotten branch, a dead thing, that none can make use of. This mass of corruption, when it meets the Lord, changes its nature, and lives throughout, and is re

garded by God as a member of Christ's body. This is my bliss, that Christ is all. Upheld by him, I smile at death. It is no longer a question about my own worthiness: I glory in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ.

"February 7.-Arrived at Goa. Spent the evening at Mr. * * *'s, to whom I had letters of recommendation. The next day I went up, with Mr. Elphinstone and others, to Old Goa, where we were shown the convents and churches. At the convent of the Nuns, observing one reading, I asked to see the book. It was handed through the grate, and as it was a Latin prayer-book, I wrote in it something about having the world in the heart, though flying from it to a convent. With two or three half-native monks I tried to converse, but they knew so little Latin, that I could not gain much from them: the Portuguese Padres seemed to know still less. After visiting the tomb of Francis Xavier, we went to the Inquisition : we were not admitted beyond the anti-chamber. The priest we found there (a secular) conversed a little on the subject, and said, it was the ancient practice, that if any spoke against religion, they were conducted thither and chastised; that there were some prisoners there under examination at that time. No one dares resist the officers of the Inquisition; the moment they touch him, he sorrenders himself. Colonel *** who is writing an account of the Portuguese in this Settlement, told me that the population of the Portuguese territory was two hundred and sixty thousand, of whom two hundred thousand, he did not doubt, were Christians.-At midnight we sailed.

"17th-(Sunday.)-A tempestuous sea throwing us all into disorder, we had no service.

"18th-Anchored at Bombay.-This day I finish the thirtieth year of my unprofitable life; an age at which David Brainerd finished his course. I am now at the age when the Saviour of men began his ministry-when John the Baptist called a nation to repentance. Let me think now for myself, and act with

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