giving; and human feeling is made steward over human conscience. "We do not like to refuse; it is painful, and contrary to our feelings. These men profess a good end: and as it would be disagreeable to them to be denied, so would it be painful to us to decline. It is better to give a little and please all, than to subscribe nothing and offend every one." They see not the moral fallacy involved in making mere disposition the rule of action, whilst there exists a Supreme God, and whilst they possess the revelation of His will. They forget that the benevolence of God is manifested in the condemnation of sin, and in the punishment of error: and that the love of Christ has been shewn in the endurance of that condemnation, and in the exhaustion of that righteous punishment, in order that any sinner might enjoy the bliss of Heaven. He saves from sin, not in sin. Shall his followers then be found subscribing for a system that maintains the idolatry of worshipping a wafer, and constrains men's wives and sisters and daughters to pass through the ordeal of a filthy confessionary inquisition? Men may call a Nunnery a school, or a school a Nunnery:-we care not for the name, but for the thing; if the object in view be the establishment of an Educational Institution for Popery, then he who subscribes to it, does virtually subscribe to Popery; and in doing so he identifies his property, and through his property, he identifies himself with all that has ever been said or done by Papal Rome as Papal Rome. Infallibility, immutability, and unity are the assumed characteristics of her system; remove, deny, qualify these assumptions, so much as in one hair-breadth, and her whole individuality is gone. Whatever she has said, done, or required in the past, officially, or in a corporate capacity, with that she is at this moment perfectly identified or else her assumed basis is a lie. Whatever also she is in her corporate capacity in any one part of the world, that must she be declared to be in every other part of the world, in the same capacity; this because she is one. Is it benevolence to subscribe to all that popery has been and now is? Men had better take heed, that benevolence of heart be connected with the exercise of a sound judgment and of a pure conscience, and above all with a careful adherence to the word of God. All other charity is but selfishness. If by our benevolence, we encourage Romanists in their deadly errorstempt Protestants into a lukewarm compromise of truth-identify ourselves with a condemned apostacy-furnish means for educating young females in that which we ourselves reject as false-throw a slight on the memories of the blessed Reformers and of a host of holy martyrs,—but above all, deny our faith

openly as to the truths of God's Word which we profess to believe-if all or any of these things be involved in a Protestant's subscription to a Popish Nunnery, (as we maintain that virtually though not intentionally, they are,) then say, whether such benevolence be not indeed mistaken, and whether such kindness be not directed by error! Oh, Protestant friends and brethren, have ye No channels of benevolence more consistent than this? Is there no less doubtful, no surer way of doing good to the neglected daughters of Calcutta than this? Why do ye not arise and lead forward all who will follow to the work of providing for them the means of education in a form that ye know and believe and feel to be true, and pure, and good? Go call together your friends and your benevolent acquaintances, and bind yourselves in bonds of love to subscribe and act for the instruction of the daughters of Portugal and Popery that live around you. We need no Ursuline Nuns ; we have Christian sisters of our own that will do the work. It is now doing, and it shall yet more be done; and we have no doubt that this mean attempt on the part of Rome to draw upon the benevolence of those men whose religion it has in its corporate capacity, consigned openly by its decrees for the last three centuries to perdition, will recoil upon itself, and stir up to exertions on behalf of the victims of error and superstition such as shall aid in reclaiming many from the dominion of the "Man of Sin." Christians only need to be roused. Let them not fear a storm of words. The God of the Bible and the God of Reason is with them. Vile names will be heaped upon them, and vile motives thrust on their acceptance; but all this matters nothing. Oh that the spirit of our reviled forefathers were upon us! Where would then be the Government support of Roman Apostacy, clerical union in the Martiniere compromise (a "fearful experiment," as it has been expressively termed), and Protestant subscriptions for the extension of Popish Nunneries? Benevolence would then flow through the channel which God hath revealed; ignorance, indifference, vanity, weakness, and party spirit would flee away as ashamed, and love and holiness and truth, would in blessed tri-unity, regulate and convey the bounties of the children of God. Oh what a field is there here for the destruction of error, without paying for its further diffusion!

Brethren, remember what is written concerning her that sitteth on the seven hills-" And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues !"" Now then, if ye have supported her institutions, take heed lest the Judge find you partakers of her sins. Know ye not what

next must follow? Oh despise not the warnings of the Bible ! and call not such truths antiquated bigotry. The bigotry of the Bible is eternal bigotry-and the doctrine which it condemns, is eternally condemned. Seek then rather to save men by protesting against their sins and errors, than to encourage and confirm them by paying to educate the souls of the young in that which God hath condemned.

Should the present testimony against evil be noticed by certain parties in our little world of reading, we can already almost write the observations that will be made. "Protestant popery"-" inquisitorial personality"-" malicious declamation"" wretched bigotry"-" fire and faggot zeal"-" stirring up of strife"-" calumniation of brethren"-" conceited presumption;"--are a few of the many seals of judgment which will be set on such a production. Be it so-let us only understand each other-these are but names-God is judge of things. He will righteously judge, and the Bible is the standard of His judgment. To it, and not to the traditions of ecclesiastics or politicians, do we appeal. "HAPPY IS HE

THAT CONDEMNETH NOT HIMSELF IN THAT THING WHICH

HE ALLOWETH!" Yea, truly happy is he !

J. M. D.

VI.-American Baptist new Missionary Station at Jellasore, Orissa,

DEAR SIRS,

To the Editors of the Calcutta Christian Observer.

It will probably be interesting to such of your readers as watch for the prosperity of Zion in this heathen land, to learn that a new Missionary station has been commenced at this place the present year. Jellasore is a large village, or rather a collection of villages situated on the east bank of the Súbanríká, forty miles from Midnapore, and thirty-three from Balasore the nearest European Station to it. The surrounding country is populous and fertile. Our situation is directly on the great Jagannath road, where numerous pilgrims who visit that shrine daily pass and repass.

Until the last year, this part of the province of Orissa has been almost unknown to Missionary efforts. During the past cold season, the writer, accompanied by a native preacher, travelled extensively, and visited numerous villages and markets where the word of life was preached, and a large number of tracts and portions of scripture put into circulation. In March last we removed from Balasore and took up our residence here. We also brought with us a small school of native boarding children. Since we have been here, our number of scholars has been almost doubled. We have now twenty-six in all, fourteen boys and twelve girls; all except three are able to read and those which have been with us any length of

Four of these

time are making very encouraging progress in learning. children have been with us about three years; all the rest have been collected since the commencement of this year. One of those the longest with us made a profession of religion and was baptized little less than a year ago. His Christian character is such as to give us much encouragement. The great distress among the poorer classes of people occasioned by the scarcity of provision, this year, induced them to give us their children. At another time it were next to impossible to get even the child of a beggar to educate, on Christian principles, so great is the attachment to

caste.

The children we have taken are of different castes, from the brahman down to the metar, one a follower of the false prophet. But they are taught to forget those unhappy distinctions and associate together as the members of one family.

Most of these poor children have been brought to us by their parents, who with their children, were in a state of abject wretchedness. I will relate an incident respecting one of them, a girl about ten years old. She was brought to us by her father for sale!! As we chose not to sanction the traffic in human flesh, and pay four rupees the price demanded for her, the father very quietly walked away, saying, he would sell her in the bazar. This was too much to be endured, and induced a reconsideration of the resolution not to buy. Purchasing under such circumstances would not be to enslave, but, to emancipate. Application was made to a Christian lady to pay the sum required and receive this worse than orphan girl from the vortex of ruin. But when her consent had been obtained the girl was not to be found, and we feared all was over with her. However, the father returned with her the next day, and said the people in the bazar would not allow him to sell his daughter for a prostitute, that if he did, she would fall into hell! But it is to be feared that the want of a purchaser who would give his price weighed more in the mind of this unnatural father, than the fear that his child would fall into hell. Surely such men are "without natural affection." The girl is now doing well in school, and is proving one of our best scholars. May she have a heart given her to thank God for her narrow escape from a life of infamy and a death of despair.

Besides attending to their studies twice a day, the children are taught to labour with their own hands. The boys cultivate the soil, and the girls, besides doing their own, and the boys cooking, are taught to use the wheel and needle.

The importance of a system of manual labour, connected with a boarding school for native children, especially such as have always lived in the greatest poverty, must be abundantly evident to every one acquainted with the subject. Daily exercise is absolutely requisite for the preservation of health, and labour may be rendered almost as inviting to children as play; and at the same time they may earn something towards defraying their own expences. This would have a tendency to render manual labour respectable both among Christians and heathen, and obviate an almost universal objection against charity-schools in this country, that the children taught in them too soon become high-minded and forget "the hole of the pit whence they have been digged."

We have procured a small piece of land for our boys to work on, though the season had so far advanced when we commenced, that little will be realized this year.

We have at present two interesting inquirers, one a bráhman, the other a Teli, (oil-man.) Both have broken caste, and appear encouraging. The brahman is now employed as a teacher in the school, and the Teli, labours as a cooly.

We have a native preacher with us whose labours are principally devoted to the heathen. Also a native Christian and wife who assist us in taking care of the children. For the entire support of both these Christian labourers, and the twenty-six boarding children, we have at present scarcely forty rupees in hand. Owing to this sudden increase our funds have been expended, and several months must yet elapse before the usual time to receive our remittances, and a still longer time before arrangements can be made to furnish the means for sustaining the school as it is now so much increased. Owing also to the want of funds, we have not been able to build more than two mud houses for the school children to live in. Hence we are obliged to keep school, and have our meetings for worship, all in our own bungalow. To avoid this inconve nience, we wish as soon as practicable after the close of the rains, to erect a building which may answer the double purpose of school-room, and chapel, until such time as the state of our funds will admit of our building again. A building of this kind made of cheap materials might be erected for a hundred and fifty rupees.

Under these circumstances we have thought an appeal to the liberality of the benevolent in this country for aid in behalf of our school to be justifiable, and called for. The present is not an ordinary case, and the like may not soon occur again. Certainly no Christian or philanthropist could condemn the effort made to provide for the support and education of these destitute children. All would rather rejoice, that they have been rescued from temporal death, and unite in prayer to God for their deliverance from the power of the second death.

To such, therefore, of our friends as take an interest in the present and future welfare of the needy and destitute, we present this simple statement of our case, and shall feel truly grateful to any who may be disposed to aid us in this object. As we are not at a European station we are of course unable to collect any thing for the school ourselves. Any donation which may be made for this object, can be forwarded per dák, to the writer at Jellasore, or, if more convenient, to the Editors of the Calcutta Christian Observer.

Jellasore, Orissa, July 15th, 1840.

J. PHILLIPS.

VII.-Strictures on the Hindustání Versions of the Calcutta Auxiliary Bible Society.

To the Editors of the Calcutta Christian Observer.

DEAR SIRS,

It is not my intention to write a critical review of the Hindustání Versions published by the Calcutta Auxiliary Bible Society, and to be had, on application, at their Depository, but to confine my strictures to the indefensible mode of rendering the terms referring to Church Go

vernment.

I. Mr. Martyn's Version.

1. EKKλnoia, Church or Congregation is left untranslated in most places, but in Acts xix. 39, 40, it is rendered by Mahfil.

2.

ETLOKOTOS, Overseer, he has translated in the important passage in Acts xx. 28, by Nigahbán; Phil. i. 1, 1 Tim. iii. 1, 2, Tit. i. 7,