THE RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY, CONTAINING INFORMATION RELATIVE TO THE CHURCH OF CHRIST; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC AND POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. "Say ye to the daughter of Zion, behold, thy Salvation cometh." VOL. III. CARLISLE PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY G. FLEMING AND W. F. GEDDES, 1824. No. 1. "Say ye to the daughter of Zion, behold, thy salvation cometh." BOMBAY MISSION. From a joint letter of the Missionaries on this Island, we have the following information, dated January 6, 1823. Vol. III. pel, and by private visiting and conversation, endeavoring to gain the affections of the natives, it cannot be expected that their labors will remain altogether unblessed. The heathen, it is true, have many deep rooted prejudices, which must be eradicated from their minds, before they will The missionaries preach the Gospel to the people every time an opportunity offers; sometimes to attentive, and at others to turbulent hearers. As many as two hundred persons are often present, from every class of socie-embrace the Gospel; but it would be ty, to hear the preached word. The few Jews who inhabit that re gion excite much attention on the part of the missionaries. Many of the Jewish school teachers, and other people, with whom they are acquainted, "have manifested an encouraging at tention, and a degree of impression in favor of truth;" this is particularly the case, with regard to the Jewish superintendant of the schools, who has expressed a speculative conviction of the truth of the Christian Religion, & at times manifests a concern for the salvation of his soul. Others have had similar anxiety. we "As to our own spiritual state, (the missionaries observe) which is no trifling criterion of our hopes, we confess have much to lament; and feeling this, we have commenced a monthly fast, on the same day as that observed by our brethren in Ceylon. We cherish the hope that, through Divine grace alone, we shall still be made to rejoice according to the days wherein we have been afflicted, and the years in which we have seen evil." derogatory to the power of Omnipotence to say this shall not be done by Him, when he sees proper to bless the labors of his servants. We retaking the advice of St. Paul, under joice to see these servants of God, any discouraging circumstances: "For ye have need of patience," says he, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise." "In due time they shall reap, if they faint not." PALESTINE MISSION. LETTER FROM THE MISSIONARIES AT Malta, Oct. 13, 1823. Dear sir,-Agreeably to your exhortations we have endeavored to push forward the business of the Press as fast as possible; and all the information that has come to us from different quarters, has contributed to augment our hopes concerning the extensive and permanent utility of this printing establishment. Among Roman Catholics, our Tracts are not likely, at present, to find a very extensive circulation; but even here, Engaged, as the missionaries on the field is not so limited as it once this Island are, in preaching the Gos-was: but among the Greeks the field |