vers lusts and pleasures; we have regarded the brahmuns who deceive them, as highly criminal. But we never before thought that the latter infused a love to iniquity into the minds of those whom they thus deceive, so far above that arising from the immediate agency of Satan, as to render it impossible there should be hope for them, even when those may be saved who are led captive by Satan at his will. As the only thing which prevents men's receiving the gospel however, is, their love of iniquity, we hope our Abbé will allow, that none of "the new reformers," not even "the Rev. Mr. *****” in his "kind of Don-Quixote appeal to the Liverpool ladies," has ever said any thing respecting the Hindoo character either male or female, which can compete with this; as he certainly never said, that the Almighty Savi.' our himself, who was manifested to destroy the works of the devil, cannot destroy that love of iniquity infused into their minds by their brahmun deceivers.

In this species of fanaticism however, we are constrained to believe our author perfectly sincere. To believe him insincere in thus declaring to the Christian public his firm conviction that the time of conversion for the Hindoos is passed away for ever, and that "bibles in every shape and style will avail nothing though spread into every village, every cottage, and every family,-yea though the Christian religion be presented to them under every possible light," is a thought more dreadful than we can suffer to enter our minds. That a hoary-headed missionary, after thirty years' labor among the heathen, should thus unconsciously perform the part of the most determined enemy to revelation, and urge the Christian public to doom India for ever to delusion, misery, and death by withholding every ray of that gospel through which "all the nations of the

earth shall be blessed," from any persuasion less sincere and firm than that which induced Joanna to accept the costly cradle as the mother of the promised Messiah, is a thought enough to make the blood run cold in the heart of every man of feeling. We cannot admit it for a moment. Our author must be as sincere in his belief that God has doomed the future myriads of In dia even to the end of time, to delusion and death, as ever Joanna was in the belief, that she was destined of God to become the mother of the promised Messiah, or we have no term to express his guilt in thus laboring to persuade the Christian public to withhold wholly from them the light of Divine Revelation.

Of course this belief, sincere as it must be, implicates him in the guilt of every murder committed on the funeral pile now left to smoke for ever, the blood of every infant now left to perish through the superstition of its parents, of every parent left to be choaked or smothered to death on the banks of the sacred river, and of every victim to superstition whose bones may from year to year in future whiten the plains around the temple of Jugunnat'ha and other places of sacred resort; for if after this, there be the least attempt made to put a stop to these dreadful scenes by diffusing in India the light of Divine revelation, it must be because the Christian public deem his arguments and persuasions totally unworthy of notice.

In allowing him to be as sincere in this species of fanaticism, as was Joanna Southcote in hers however, we cannot exonerate him from guilt. He may be as firmly persuaded that India is doomed for ever to idolatry and delusion, as she was, that she was destined to be the mother of Shiloh; he may believe that God has as really authorized him to urge the Christian

public to desist from all further attempts to spread the light of Divine revelation in India, as he commanded Jeremiah to pray no more for that generation of the Jews; but this will not lessen the sum of evil and misery he may occasion, Probably Timur firmly believed himself to be fulfilling the decrees of heaven, in devoting to slaughter and death such multitudes of his fellow-creatures; but this did not restore to its owner one of the seventy thousand human heads, with which he constructed a pyramid in the plains of Asia, nor did it mitigate a single pang felt by those thousands formed into a wall by his order as they lay writhing 'till smothered in mortar. No doubt many of those brethren of the Abbé's missionary predecessors, who murdered with the sword or roasted alive such multitudes of obstinate heretics in various parts of Europe, bent on reading their bibles with their - own eyes although warned that this course would destroy them soul and body, did it under the sincerest conviction that they were doing God service in ridding the - world of such monsters. Still this did not lessen the pain of any one of them while stretched on the rack, or burning at the stake. Thus the Abbé may most sincerely believe that in urging, not his own, but the British nation, never again to afford the least ray of light to the millions in India now perishing for lack of knowledge, he is fulfilling the secret decrees of God; but this belief will not remove a single pang from the multitude of unhappy widows thus coolly consigned without hope to the flames of the funeral pile; nor lessen the anguish of those who, "having sinned without law," may perish eternally because the 'means of salvation are withheld from their view.

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lief, however, we cannot overlook the fact that it be comes him to enquire how he came by this belief. are of course constrained to suppose that he has examinod with the utmost care all the opportunities which have yet been afforded to the poor Hindoos of hearing the word of life, and that he has overlooked no fact which relates to the success it may have had among them; otherwise he may have been accessary to his own delusion, and in urging the British public to verify his opinion by suffering them to perish without making a single effort more to give them the light of Divine revelation, his guilt may one day appear greater than he may at present imagine. But it is not less necessary that he should have searched the scriptures in the most diligent manner. Should he have overlooked only one prediction which might have shed light on the rest, he may thereby have blinded his own eyes, and by his negligence have become the creator of his own fanaticism. Whether he has thus thoroughly and carefully weighed all that the scriptures say respecting the future reign of righteousness on the earth, we must beg leave to examine, even for our own sakes; for willing as we are to labor for India, we have no particular gust for laboring in vain, as we are certain we must, if God has given over India to perpetual reprobation. Before we enter on this examination, however, we must beg leave to make a remark or two on our Author's introduction to the subject.

In his Preface the Abbé gives himself his due meed of praise for candor and impartiality, by telling his readers how much his friends to whom these letters were originally addressed, "were satisfied at the independent, candid and impartial manner in which the subject was treated." This is certainly kind, as it informs

his readers at once of his possessing these virtues, and saves them the trouble of learning it from his work, which might not indeed furnish them with proof of his possessing them equally clear and decisive. It further saves them the trouble of using their own judgment in going through his publication. If he be thus candid and impartial, his readers may receive all he says with the most implicit confidence; and there can be no more necessity for their exercising their own judgment, than the members of the Abbé's church have to exercise theirs in reading the scriptures; which is so little that the Abbé himself informs us, she has "forbidden their understanding them in any other sense than according to the judgment of the church."

No less kind is the information he gives his readers relative to the "erroneous statements" published at home by "many well intentioned authors, who have mistaken their own religious creed as the standard which should rule all the human race;" as this information is equally calculated to save the reader the trouble of examination, since "erroneous statements" respecting India, who need take the trouble to read, much less to examine ? "Erroneous" indeed they must be ; for all we have seen published at home, (and we have seen nearly all,) making the scriptures their creed, express the expectation that they will be the common standard which will ultimately "rule all the human race," an error which our author's whole book is intended to explode. Who the authors of these "erroneous statements" are, we cannot say. Sure we are that he cannot be speaking of us, for he describes them as "knowing nothing or very little of the invincible attachment of the people of India to their own religion and customs." Now as we have also been twenty-five or