deed, according to our author, deceived the most consummate deceivers that ever the sun beheld. Hence every cry of " Huree-bol," uttered in so many years by "these "western brahmuns," these jesuit "twice-born" in the hearing of the real brahmuns,-every act of pouring forth the clarified butter to Shiva, to Krishna, to Doorga, to the fire itself,-every prostration before the sacred log, or the linga,-every invocation of the Thirty-three Millions of Devtas, which had been witnessed in these pseudo-brahmuns, would now rise in the minds of both the "dupes" and the "impostors," as acts of the most consummate deception; and render it impossible that any credit should hereafter be given to their most solemn declarations on the subject of religion. It was not that these were hated for belonging to the" Fringy" nation; the whole Fringy nation was now execrated on their account. The most debauched and oppressive Fringy the natives had ever seen or heard of, was in their eyes a saint, compared with these pseudo-brahmuns, from the west. A "Fringy's" wallowing in the streets, or his oppressing and pillaging whole villages, would appear nothing compared with Mleechhas' assuming the brahmanic thread, their defiling the sacred muntras, their profaning the gayatri, when they knew that they were not brahmuns. No language can describe the horror with which this course of fraud, deception, and dissimulation, continued for so many years, would be recollected even to the latest generation.

We may however enquire what were these "conversions" of which there were now "no more?" Had they been made by the word of God? The apostle tells us that genuine, purifying "faith, cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." Did these jesuit "twiceborn," after burning men alive in Europe for reading it,

give it to the heathen to read? How could these pseu do-brahmuns have given to the natives that word which declares, that "ALL LIARS shall have their portion in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone ?" But if these conversions were not effected by the word of God, what were they? If they were conversions to righteousness and true holiness, miracles were wrought by these jesuit brahmuns, surpassing any wrought in apostolic times. Through the operation of falsehood and deception they had obtained converts possessing true holiness, whom the Apostles obtained only through the pure, incorruptible word of God. And He to whom those they had burnt in Europe for their love to Christ's word, were crying, "How long O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood?" and who had said of mystical Babylon, "drunken with the blood of the saints and the martyrs of Jesus;" "Come out of her, my people, that ye receive not of her plagues," had set his seal to this her idolatrous imposture by causing falsehood to produce "the holiness of truth,” and dissimulation of the basest kind to create men anew" in righteousness and true holiness!"

It is no wonder that "the Christian religion" or rather the religion of the "Fringy" nation "which was formerly a mere object of indifference or at most of contempt," should now be "almost an object of horror." The moral character of the " Fringy" nation was by no means worse: it was really improving; but their religion was that of these pseudo-brahmuns from the west; and few miscreants even of their own nation, ever had the baseness to pass for years and years as brahmuns when they were This unparalleled series of imposture, must have represented the religion connected with the impostors, as far exceeding in falsehood and deception that of the Mus

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sulmans, in whom such a systematic act of fraud, continued for such a series of years, had never appeared.

We find on more closely reviewing our Author, that we have really done him injustice. He tells us that on the suppression of the Jesuits in Europe, a "national black clergy was formed and the attendance on the remaining congregations intrusted to their care." Now since he had denied this "national black clergy,” the Scriptures in their own language, we had given him credit for enabling them to read the Vulgate. But we now learn that these "have not the advantage of a proper education." Then they cannot read even the Vulgate! Without the Scriptures then in any language whatever, how were they to feed the flock of God? If apostolic converts could not grow without " the sincere milk of the word,"-if the word of God was needed to "build them up,"-if their receiving the engrafted word of truth was the only means of "saving their souls ;" how could the thousands of proselytes now intrusted to the care of this national black clergy, spiritually live, without the word of God in any language? Is it any wonder that their number should diminish every day by apostacy? Would it be any if, among such converts, there should soon remain no vestige of Christianity whatever?

Perhaps our Author may think that we are too severe in insisting that the same regimen is necessary for these converts, which was necessary for those in apostolic days. Possibly he may urge that his were not proselyted like the apostolic converts; that they were not "born again by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever," nor individually "created anew in Christ Jesus," that they should need" the sincere milk of the word to grow thereby."

We admit that this

may be fact; but then we cannot shut our eyes to the

unavoidable inference.

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If they were not individually created anew in Christ Jesus, they are not in Christ; for "if any man be in Christ he is a new creature." And if they are not in Christ, they cannot abide in him; they are cast forth as a withered branch; and these withered branches, either Hindoos or Mussulmans may gather. Further, if these converts are not created anew in Christ Jesus, they cannot enter the kingdom of heaven; for 'except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." Nor can they ever see the Lord Jesus hereafter; for "without holiness no man shall see the Lord:"-nor can they now bring forth fruit to his glory; for without Him no man can bear fruit, any more than the branch can bear fruit of itself, separated from the vine. Their dying nominally then, is little to be lamented, as they only live to dishonor the name of Christ among the heathen, and "increase the contempt and aversion entertained by the Hindoos against Christianity."

We can scarcely forbear smiling at the simplicity of our Abbé when he exclaims, (p. 13,)" In fact how can our holy religion prosper amidst so many insurmountable obstacles? A person who embraces it, becomes at once a proscribed and outlawed man." Is it a Christian missionary, a minister of Jesus Christ, who asks this question? What an admirable disciple of Christ

he would have made had he been one of the Twelve! When his Divine master told them, "Now the brother shall betray the brother to death; and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents and shall cause them to be put to death: and ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake;" he would have asked, "How can thy holy religion prosper amidst so many insurmountable obstacles? A man who embraces it

becomes a proscribed and outlawed man; he loses at once all that can attach him to life." To this our Lord, if he had not said, "Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence to me; for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those things that be of men;" would perhaps have replied with ineffable wisdom, "With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible." "Lo I am with you always even to the end of the world."

On the subject of Hindoos losing Caste for Christianity our author must be understood as speaking merely from speculation: as he has never SEEN any thing of the kind. At p. 13 he says, "It is certain that during the last sixty years no proselytes or very few have been made;" and at p. 134, he informs us, that of his own "number of proselytes, two-thirds were pariahs or beggars, and the rest composed of vagrants and outcasts of several tribes." Of those then who "by embracing the Christian religion, lose their all"-and whose "goods, possessions, inheritance, all disappear," he KNOWS nothing, he has never seen a single instance of the kind. He speaks wholly from speculation. Now it happens that the Serampore missionaries, who have known at least a thousand natives baptized in these twenty-five years, either by themselves or by those in connection with them, have REALLY seen this in all its imagined horrors; for in the whole of this number they have not received ten outcasts from their tribes; they are not certain that they have baptized even five. Indeed they do not find those of that description more willing to renounce iniquity than those of regular cast;-and without his forsaking iniquity, they should not baptize any brahmun even of the highest family; nor retain him in Christian communion afterwards, should he have contrived to retain the love ofini