The Abbé Dubois's First Position, that India will ne- CHAP. III. The Abbé Dubois's Second Position," Are the Trans- lations of the Holy Scriptures into the idioms of The Abbé Dubois's First Letter particularly examin- ed. His predecessors' dissimulation. count of Hindoos' losing Caste. His stabbing the character of the Serampore missionaries. His strictures on the Hindoos' reading the Scrip- REPLY, &c. ERRATA. Page. Line. 51 dele the 23d line. 55 after the 22d line add "heralds of it in a thousand 75 180 different villages, each able" 5 for structures read strictures. me suaptress log with the bones of the hapless victims to hunger and disease, must be prolonged to the sound of the last trumpet. Although "the knowledge of the Lord shall fill the earth as the waters cover the sea," yet the thick darkness which fosters this vast mass of impurity, falsehood, and murder, is never to be dispelled by the light of truth; and notwithstanding "Jesus Christ was manifested to destroy the works of the devil," he is never to effect this among the five hundred millions under the dominion of Boudhism and A REPLY, &c. CHAPTER I. Introductory Observations. IN this work a phenomenon is presented to the public which they have seldom seen; a Missionary after thirty years' labor, uniting, we would hope without design, with the enemies of religion to prevent any attempt being made to enlighten India, and endeavoring to discourage every one in future from disturbing the prince of darkness in exercising his dreadful dominion over the fairest portion of the earth. According to him the murderous pile which consumes the living mother with the dead father, must never be quenched,-the "secret and abominable," midnight orgies, must never cease, -the horrid pilgrimages which annually whiten the fields ound the temple of the shapeless log with the bones of the hapless victims to hunger and disease, must be prolonged to the sound of the last trumpet. Although "the knowledge of the Lord shall fill the earth as the waters cover the sea," yet the thick darkness which fosters this vast mass of impurity, falsehood, and murder, is never to be dispelled by the light of truth; and notwithstanding "Jesus Christ was manifested to destroy the works of the devil," he is never to effect this among the five hundred millions under the dominion of Boudhism and A |