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Our Author while constrained to allow that Ziegenbalg, and Grundler, and Swartz, and Gericke, were men of "talents and virtues," still adds, they had only “trifling successes in the work of proselytism!" If the word of God produced in their hands, only TEN" sincere, undisguised christians," however, this decides the question against him; for he never saw ONE such convert! But unable to trust even his own account of their “ trifling successes," he adds, "It could not be otherwise. The protestant religion had no show, no pomp, no outward ceremonies capable of making a strong impression on the senses it was of course disliked by a quite sensual people!" We here ask, Is our author incapable of drawing a plain inference? He has told us, that "his poojas, and processions, and images, and holy water, and prayers for the dead, and invocation of saints, never produced one sincere convert; and yet he says, Ziegenbalg and Swartz could have had only "trifling successes," because they had no pomp, no show, no outward ceremonies, suited to make an impression on a quite sensual people! This is like a medical man, who, having lost by death every patient he ever had, describes the course of a rival phycisian by saying; "His success was but trifling: it could not be otherwise; his course was diametrically opposite to mine, who lost my every patient by death!" Would not any one who heard him reason thus, suspect that he had since lost his senses?

Let us however call in the Apostle to decide on the success of that course of propagating the gospel which is "disliked by a quite sensual people." Says he ; "For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal;”then they were of course disliked by a quite carnal or sensual people. This is exactly in point. Now for the success of these weapons; "but mighty through God to

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the pulling down of strong holds." used by Ziegenbalg and Swartz, and disliked by a sensual people, were the very weapons which were mighty through God in subduing the heathen world in the Apostles' days,—and He now rendered them mighty among the Hindoos, precisely in the degree which pleased Himself. The weapons of the Abbé and his predecessors were carnal, however, their poojas or masses, their processions, their images, their holy water, their feasts, their prayers for the dead, their invocation of saints, their show, their pomp, their ceremonies; and they were not" disliked by a quite sensual people." But they WERE NOT mighty through God, to the pulling down of Satan's strong holds. He made proselytes to the see of Rome; but he himself witnesses, that he never saw any one brought sincerely to the obedience of Christ. If then in only ten instances, sincere, undisguised christians were the fruit of their labors, our Author's cause is overthrown. But instead of ten we have reason to believe there were Thousands. It is not in the Abbé's account of that Mission that we are to look for its real state; but in the accounts published in Europe for nearly a hundred years, and confirmed by the sanction of the wise and good of all ranks and nations. If we may judge of our Author's account of them indeed, by that he has given of Serampore, the east is not more distant from the west, than his is from truth.

If what our author says relative to the fifty thousand Popish Nestorians, "by the jesuits on their first arrival in India in one way or another converted to the Catholic faith," be really true, it is no wonder that they now are what he declares them to be. If these jesuit teachers did not give them the word of God in their own dialect, as we know they did not, whence were they to be nou

rished with " the sincere milk of the word?" How were they to be "built up," and "thoroughly furnished unto every good work?" Among these Catholic Nestorian clergy there is at present "no one capable of properly under⚫ standing two phrases of their Syriac books," and if in their own idiom they have nothing of the Divine word, is it any wonder that they are dying as to true religion? Just as great a wonder as it would be if fifty thousand new-born infants, left without food, should all perish. The miracle would be for them to grow up healthful children, fed by nothing but the wind of heaven. Is it any wonder, that converts like these should so trifle with every thing sacred in religion, as for the sake of food to embrace for six months in the year what they deem heresy ? Why should they not, for the same inducement, embrace Mahometanism regularly for the same period?

We have just shewn that our Author's assertion, (p.23,) "if any form of Christianity were to gain ground in the country, it is undoubtedly the Catholic, whose external pomp and show appear so well suited to the genius and dispositions of the natives," is founded on his complete ignorance of St. Paul. We have shewn that the weapons of the Apostle's warfare "were NOT carnal," and that hence they were "mighty through God in pulling down strong holds and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." But all our Author mentions here is carnal; nay it is recommended by him because it is carnal, and not disliked by "a quite sensual people." Moreover, he himself testifies, that to the best of his knowledge it has not brought one individual sincerely to the obedience of Christ. Did it not become him as a missionary, to make himself acquainted with the Epistles of the most successful of Christian Mis

sionaries?

Nothing but the most wretched ignorance of these, however, could have made him venture on this assertion. Yet he trusts" that every unprejudiced and unbiassed mind, will agree with him in this point," that is, that, in a protestant country "every unprejudiced and unbiassed mind,” is as ignorant of St. Paul's Epistles as himself!

Our Author however suspects, that "a great many protestants"-may maintain, "that the catholic religion being nothing but a corruption of the religion of Christ, and its worship a human invention, the divine assistance can never attend the propagation of it, and that its failure in the business of proselytism cannot be a matter of surprize." He characterizes all these however, as being" over-zealous protestants," a charac ter which those unfriendly to missions, dread as much as they would that of "saint," to which indeed they fancy it near akin; and many would rather swallow the Abbé's assertions by wholesale, than incur the most distant risk of a characteristic so obnoxious, so opposite to every thing liberal. But while the whole of his cause turns upon this very point, our author is quite unwilling to enter into a discussion "so foreign to his subject!" This however is precisely the place in which it behoved him to shew, that his religion IS NOT a corruption of the religion of Christ, and that its poojas, processions, images, holy water, prayers for the dead, invocation of saints, ARE NOT human inventions; for if they be, his failure in the work of converting sinners to God; can be no matter of surprize. On the contrary, his succeeding would have involved miracles never known even in apostolic days.

But how does our author attempt to escape from proving this, which is essential to the life of his cause? By means which condemn his cause for ever.

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professes, (p. 25,) to "examine whether the other sup posed more pure and unpolluted modes of christian worship have been more fortunate and successful in the work of proselytism in India ;" and in doing this he brings forward the Lutherans, the Moravians; the Nestorians, and the Baptist missionaries at Serampore. But it is only the first and the last of these who give him distress. His attack on the labors of Zeigenbalg and Swartz we have already noticed: and have shewn that their weapons were precisely those of the Apostle; that they were not "carnal, but mighty through God;" while by his own confession, his WERE carnal. And for the victories over idolatry and sin with which it pleased God to crown them in the use of these weapons, we have referred him to the memorials published throughbut Europe for the greater part of a century, which he will find attested by the highest authorities in the British kingdom. Of these, Brown's History of Missions will furnish him with a sufficient account.

For the present state of these missions, we might also refer him to the accounts of those men of learning, piety, and probity who now labor among them; but a little reflection may suffice to convince him, that their present state, be it what it may, cannot invalidate the labors of Zeigenbalg, Grundler, and Swartz. Who beside him ever expected, that the most apostolic missionaries should wield the weapons of their warfare after they were dead! When they and the genuine fruits of their ministry, have joined the general assembly of the church of the first-born above, does he expect them to be still glorifying God below? On the same principle might he invalidate the Apostle Paul's ever having had any success in converting men to God. He might point to Corinth, and Philippi, and Colosse, and Ephesus,-and even to

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