Missionary register Volume 11 - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 Excerpt: ...in the employ of a Christian Gentleman, stood alone as an advocate of the truth as it is in Jesus; and, though persecuted by his family for his religion, was enabled to preach to them Christ, and was made the instrument of bringing to conversion a relative of his own. Being commissioned by him to undertake a journey for the expense of which eight shillings were allowed him, he contented himself with spending a small sum of his own, that he might with his eight shillings purchase a Tamul Bible: in this he read, day and night, with the true zeal of a Missionary. While reading to himself one day, he was visited by a poor man: this man, after listening to three Chapters, said he would give any thing that he possessed on earth to have a Bible: the Youth asked him if be could read: he said No, but he had a son who could; when the Boy generously gave him his dearly-bought and beloved treasure! Another Youth, from the same School, obtained a place under the Government of Madras, with a salary of 3/. 4s. per month; but soon declined that situation, that be might take another place where he could preach the Gospel to his family, though he hod there but a monthly salary of eight shillings; but he felt the care of bis kindred to be bis first duty. In the progress of my journey, I visited the long-neglected Syrian Church, being led thither by the report of a man whose name has been unjustly calumniated--Dr. Buchanan. I spent several weeks there, and was accompanied by one or other of the Society's Missionaries who are settled among the Syrians. I visited the whole of the Christian Churches; and can truly declare from my own observation, that Dr. Buchanan has said but half die truth, when he spoke so highly of the Syrians of Malabar. I was present at the first Sermon pre...