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"4. Of what caste are they generally? And what effect has their profession of Christianity upon their standing?

5. Are they Christians from inquiry and conviction, or from other motives? "6. Of what denomination of Christians have the Missionaries been most successful; Catholic, Protestant, Episcopalian, Baptist, Trinitarian, Unitarian?

7. What is the number of Unitarian Christians? And are they chiefly natives or Europeans?

"8. How are they regarded and treated by other Christians? Is it with any peculiar hostility?

"9, What are the chief causes that have prevented, and that continue to prevent, the reception of Christianity by the natives of India? May much of the want of success be reasonably attributed to the form in which the religion is presented

to them?

10. Are any of the causes of failure of such a nature, that it may be in the power of Unitarian Christians to remove them? "11. Are there any reasons for believing that Christianity, as it is held by Unitarians, would be more readily received by intelligent Hindoos, than as it is held by Trinitarians?

"12. Can any aid be given by Unitarians to the cause of Christianity in India with a reasonable prospect of success? If any can be given, of what kind,-in what way, by what means?

13. Would it be of any use to send Unitarian Missionaries with a view to their preaching Christianity for the purpose of converting adult natives?

"14. Would it be useful to establish Unitarian Missionary schools for the instruction of the children of natives in the rudiments of a European education, in the English language, in Christian morali. ty, mingling with it very little instruction relative to the doctrines of Christianity; leaving them chiefly or wholly out of view, to be learnt afterwards from our books, and our example?

"15. Are there many intelligent natives who are willing to learn the languages of Europe, to cultivate its literature, to make

themselves acquainted with our religion as it is found in our books, and to examine the evidences of its truth and divine origin?

16. Are there many respectable natives who are willing to have their children educated in the English language, and in English learning and arts?

"17. What benefits have arisen, or are likely to arise, from the translation of the Scriptures into the languages of the East? Are they read by any who are not already Christians? And are they likely to be read generally even by those who are? This question is suggested by the representatious which have been made, that converts to Christianity are mostly, if not altogether, of the lowest and most ignorant classes of society. Is this representation true?

"18. Will any important impression favourable to Christianity ever be made, except by the conversion and through the influence of persons of education and of the higher classes of society, who can read our sacred books in the original, or at least in the English version?

been made, faithful; free from sectarian iufluence, as to the expression of Christian doctrine?

"19. Are the translations which have

India or of the East, where efforts for "20. Are there any particular parts of propagating Christianity or preparing the way for it, might be made with better hopes than in others?"-Pp. 4-6.

his Answers to these Queries, is dated The letter of Mr. Adam, containing Calcutta, December 24, 1823. It is copious in its detail, and bears the marks of a sound mind, fairly stating whatever might afford means of judgment to others, earnest in its desires for the spread of Christian truth, and not disposed to sink under difficulties, yet weighing those difficulties faithfully, and giving such results, whereever required by truth of fact, as may discourage the more sanguine, and check the expectations of some who through ignorance may have raised them too high; yet in the midst of all, giving such an insight into the real bearings of the case, and such encouragement to those who know how to work for the future, that we are persuaded it will damp ardour only where it is undisciplined, and will desire always to abound in the work point to good hopes to those who of the Lord.

Much of the information which Mr. Adam gives to our American bre

thren, is such as could have been given by no other. He betrays no confidence; but he removes much of that false glare which is thrown around the missionary services of orthodoxy, by shewing us the plain fact; and were we of that party, we should thank

him for his unvarnished tale.

It will be our object in the next number, to give some of the varied information to be derived from this Correspondence, which may enable our English Unitarians to judge what course they should pursue, and will, we think, induce them to co-operate with our American brethren in follow. ing the call of Providence, and (with out forgetting the worthy labourer at Madras, William Roberts) saying to Rammohun Roy and his able co-adjutor, What we can, we will do, with full purpose of heart.

To shew, however, how little has hitherto been done, we will extract two passages from the Correspondence at the close of the answers to the first inquiry; the first by Rammohun Roy; the second, more detailed, by Mr.

Adam:

"The Baptist Missionaries of Serampore have repeatedly given the public to understand, that their converts were not only numerous, but also respec table in their conduct; while the young Baptist Missionaries in Calcutta, though not inferior to any Missionaries in India

in abilities and acquirements, both European and Asiatic, nor in Christian zeal and exertions, are sincere enough to confess openly, that the number of their converts, after the hard labour of six years, does not exceed four; and in like manner, whose resources are much greater than the Independent Missionaries of this city, those of Baptists, candidly acknowledge, that their missionary exertions for seven years have been productive only of one convert."-Corresp. p. 126.

"The result (says Mr. Adam) of my own observations, of my examination of the different missionary accounts to which I have had access, and of my inquiries from those who, in some cases, have had better means of knowing or of being informed than myself, is, that the number of native converts, properly so called, now living, and in fall communion with one or other of the Protestant Missionary Churches, does not exceed three hundred. It will give me pleasure to see it proved that there are nearly a thousand baptized natives; but it will not surprise me if an accurate investigation should shew that the number of such persons is even less than that which I have stated. What ever be the number of real converts, however, many of them have relations, children, friends and acquaintances, who, although not converts, may be considered as belonging to the native Christian popu lation, on account of their being brought, in a greater or less degree, within the sphere of Christian instruction. The number of these it would be still.more unsatisfactory to compute.”—P. 42.

POETRY.

HAPPY HOURS.

Happy hour in which I rise

From the mists of selfish cares,

From this vale of vanities,

From this scene of woes and tears,

Seeking a sublimer goal,

For a heaven-aspiring soul.

Happy hour in which I hold,

Sweet communion with my God;

When the book of life unroll'd,

Shews the upward, onward road,

Which conducts to heav'n, where rest, Peace and joy, await the blest.

Happy hour in which I taste

Some sweet promise of the day,
Which the present and the past
Light with hope's serenest ray;
Throwing o'er a future bliss,
All the brightest beams of this.

HUMILITY.

Lord! from its deepest, most retired recesses,
Thee my check'd spirit tremblingly addresses;
And all its weakness, all its fears confessing,
Implores Thy blessing!

My life is full of error. Hadst Thou set Thee
To mark my faults, as I, Lord! to forget Thee,-
Hadst Thou been swift to punish, I had found me
With terror round me.

But Thou art merciful, though pure, and writest
No strict account against me, but delightest,
Not in our bane, but bliss. We are surrounded
By love unbounded.

If I should wander, call me back t'obey Thee;
Lead me, and sanctify, and save, I pray Thee;
Pour out Thy light, Thy love, Thy bounty o'er me-
To peace restore me.

Thy peace, which makes my heav'n-Thy love, unclouded,
Which shall shine out at length, however shrouded,
O let them bless me, and desert me never,

Now and for ever!

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Chorus.

Lo! he comes, the Lord of glory,
Sin and sorrow scatt'ring far;
Lo! he comes, and at his presence
Woe retires and wasting war.
Bow before him;

Bow before yon orient star!

Lo! he comes, the Lord of glory,
Shouts of joy his path attend;
Lo! he comes. Let tribes and nations,
Grateful and rejoicing, bend.
He has triumph'd,
Saviour-Conqueror-Master-Friend.

THE INFANT'S GRAVE.

Dim is the eye-the eye of blue-
No more shall its brightness glow;
And the locks that play'd so gracefully,
Repose on a forehead of snow-
Not a tear bedews that innocent face,
Nor the smile of joy finds a resting-place.

Mute is the tongue-the prattling tongue,
That whiled the dull hour away;
The artless wish ne'er shall move it again,
The impulse of love give it play-

Its accents were sweet-more sweet than the tale
The nightingale tells to the evening gale.

Pale is the form-the beauteous form

It is laid in a lowly bed;

The blossom of promise is perished, alas!
The gay dreams of hope are all fled:

From the spoiler's hand could not innocence save ?
See! the cypress waves o'er the infant's grave.

Pure is the spirit-it lives! it lives!

Nor to death's dread influence yields;
The flight of a seraph it wings sublime,
It alights on Elysian fields;

It tastes the pure joys of the blest above,
And dwells in the rays of eternal love.

So fades the gem—the fragrant gem,
That peeps from beneath the shade;
Drooping it falls from its lowly stem,
In the dust its beauties are laid;
Its colours are lost-neglected it lies—
But still it is sweet-the perfume ne'er dies.

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OBITUARY.

three battalions of foot for the defence
of the province, of which he was ap-
pointed Chaplain. Not long after, he
was promoted to a Brigade Chaplaincy
on the Continental Establishment, where
he continued during the war, witnessing
the incessant alternations of defeat and
victory which marked that eventful con-
test from its rise to its termination. In
these conflicts, he mingled with corres-
pondent emotions of sorrow or of joy.
After an immense expenditure of money
and of blood on the part of Britain, suc-
cess crowned the cause of his native coun-
try, which he had warmly and generously
espoused. In 1781, he exchanged the
theatre of war for the scenes of a be-
loved privacy, and which he has been
heard to declare he never would have
quitted, but for the amor patria which
glowed so vividly in his breast. In his
letters to the writer of this article, he
often touched on the favourite topic with
delight, never mentioning the celebra-
tion of the return of the 4th of July, the
day on which American Independence
was proclaimed, but in terms of raptu-
rous exultation. Having once cougra-
tulated him upon the tranquillity of their
rising empire, he, in his reply, spiritedly
retorted, "Talk not, my dear friend,
after this manner. You forget, we are
a vast Republic, having on this side of the
water neither empires nor kingdoms
amongst us, and of course neither kings
nor emperors to disturb our tranquillity."
The watchful patriot is never found
slumbering over the hallowed liberties of
his country.

1824. April 7, at Philadelphia, WILLIAM ROGERS, D. D., in the 73rd year of his age. He was born, 1751, in Newport, Rhode Island; his parents being respectable and pious members of the Particular Baptist denomination. Early impressed with the importance of religion, he made a profession of his faith by Baptism, and became a member of the church, of which he was an ornament to the latest period of life. At the age of twelve years, he commenced his preparatory studies for the ministry, and in two years entered the College at Warren-which was afterwards removed to Providence. In 1769, he finished his studies and took his degree of A. B. He was one of the first pupils of this Institution, for which he retained a predilection to the day of his decease. His gratitude to his Alma Mater could not be obliterated. Under the superintendence of Dr. Asa Messer, it is become one of the most flourishing Universities in America. It was indeed to the suggestign of Dr. Rogers, that Brown University stands indebted for that valuable accession to its library, the books of the late William Richards, of Lynn, who admired the broad basis on which it was raised at once favourable to the right of private judgment, and to the claims of Scriptural Christianity. 1771, Dr. Rogers was called to the Christian Ministry. Soon after, he left Newport, where he had taught an Academy, and settled at Philadelphia. In March 1772, he took the pastoral charge, by ordination, of the first Baptist Church in that city. Here commenced his ministerial career amidst a people who recognized his merits; whilst he, in return, did every thing in his power to promote their improvement. In this station he would have remained, pursuing the even tenor of his way, had not an event occurred which had been for some time anticipated, and by which the Continent was convulsed to its foundation. This was no other than the revolt of the Colonies, which brought on a war of seven long years with the Mother Country, but the successful issue of which ranked the United States among the nations of the earth! At this momentous crisis, the energies, intellectual and moral, of Dr. Rogers were of too high an order to be suffered to remain dormant. In these spirit-stirring times, he was selected to take an assigned station, where he discharged his duties with singular fidelity. In Juue 1775, the Pennsylvanian Legislature voted

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The public situation held by Dr. Rogers during the war, brought him frequently in contact with General Washington, who seems to have entertained a more than ordinary regard for him. Indeed, he was of great service in introducing certain British emigrants to the illustrious President of the American Republic; one of which interviews was thus communicated by a young man to a friend in this country:-" We waited (June 1793) on Dr. Rogers, a most entertaining and agreeable man. We were with him great part of the time we remained in the city, and were introduced by him to General Washington. The General was not at home when we called, but while we were talking with his private secretary in the hall, he came in, and spoke to Dr. Rogers with the greatest ease and familiarity, immediately asking us up to the drawing room, where was Lady Wash

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