editions, it is now considered by the Brah mins themselves, (like Luther's Bible in the German) as the classical standard of the Tamul tongue.

In the

A Jubilee has lately been celebrated in India, in honour of the Gospel. month of July, 1806, a Jubilee was observed by these Hindoo churches, in commemoration of the arrival of the two first Protestant Missionaries on the 9th of July, 1706. The year 1806, being the hundredth year (or the second fiftieth) since the Gospel first visited their land, was to them "the year of Jubilee." The happy occasion had been long anticipated, and was marked with demonstrations of joy and gladness. The people, as we were informed, walking in procession to their churches, carrying palms in their hands, and singing the 98th Psalm; and, after offering up praises and thanksgiving to the Most High, they heard a sermon suitable to the day.

The Sermon at the Jubilee of Tritchinopoly was preached by their aged Minister, the Rev. Mr. Pohle, from these words: "Go ye, "therefore, and teach all nations; bap

tizing them in the name of the Father, "and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.”*

These were the effects of sending the

Bible to the East. Men were 66

brought to the knowledge of the truth;" and at the end of a hundred years, the natives kept the Jubilee of the Bible.

Such, my brethren, was the Light in the South of India. And now a Light hath sprung up in the North, of which you have heard. Our own country hath begun, though late, to dispense "the word of Life." And although the time has been short, the success has been great. In the North, in the West,

* See Accounts of the "Society for promoting "Christian Knowledge," for the year 1809.

and in Ceylon, translations of the Scriptures are going on in almost all the languages of In the fulness of time,'

Oriental India. we trust the different Christian societies of Britain have come forth, as with one consent, to commence the work of evangelizing the East. "In the fulness of time," hath this country begun, by these instruments, to employ her great power, and her enlightened zeal, in extending the knowledge of the true God throughout the world.

We ought not to regret that the work is carried on by Christians of different denominations ;* for, if they teach the religion of the Bible, their labour will be blessed.

The Protestant Missionaries in Bengal, who have been mentioned in terms of disrespect by some writers in England, are a respectable body of men, entitled to the support of their country, and are an honour to our Christian nation. The names of some of the humble Teachers of Christianity, will be remembered in India, when the warriors and statesmen of their age shall have been long forgotten.

We have no contentions in India, like those in Britain, between Protestants of different names. There they are all friends. The strife there is between Light and darkness; between the true God and an idol. So liberal is the Christian in Asia, (while he looks over the map of the World, and can scarcely find where the isle of Britain lies) that he considers even the term "Protestant" as being, in a certain degree, exclusive or sectarian. "The religion of the Bible," or, "the religion of Christ," is the name by which he would describe his creed. For, when the idolater once abjures his own cast for the Gospel, he considers the differences of Protestants (if he ever hear of them) as being very insignificant. Indeed he cannot well understand them. In the great revolution that takes place in his mind (if his conversion be real) he cannot contemplate these minute objects. We ought not then to regret that different classes of Christians

are employed in the work. For the case is

an exact parallel of that

Gospel: (Mark ix. 38.)

recorded in the

And John answer

"ing said, Master, we saw one casting out "Devils in thy name, and he followeth not and we forbad him, because he fol"loweth not us. But Jesus said, FORBID "HIM NOT."

66 us;

On my arrival from India, a few months ago, I learned, that a controversy had engaged the attention of the public, for some time, on the subject of sending Missions to the East. In the future history of our country it will scarcely be believed, that, in the present age, an attempt should have been made to prevent the diffusion of the blessed principles of the Christian religion. It will not be believed, that books should have been written to prove, that it was wrong to make known the Revelation of the true God to our fellow-men; or that if, in