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    how many your congregation consists ? How many Unitarian Christians do you think there are in Madras ? What are their characters ? How are they estimated by those around them ? Are they educating their children as Christians ? Have

    they any earnestness m religion ? What-isthe-state-of-Chiniali ' s-eon g-regation ? How many children are there in your schools , and what are they taught ? How many tracts have you published ? How far have you reason to believe that they have been useful ? * To the first six queries I beg to refer you to the inclosed list * : — - * Those families over which I have

    marked an asterisk in the list , though humbly circumstanced in life , yet are of respectable character ; though the employments of men are low , and their earnings do not exceed from ten to fourteen rupees a month , yet

    they are sensible men , their lives are exemplary . The men are all readers , and possess the Old * und New Testaments ^ and most of my printed Tamil tracts . Some young women of our own growth can also read . They sometimes contribute their mites to

    the common purposes of the society , and bear their humble testimony to the truth among their neighbours . Most of the other men also can read their Bibles , and they all make a point of sending their children ( especially the male ones ) to the nearest school whe " re they live : they value education and their-religion ; but they are poor - —their earnings are scanty . "

    * We have no European or country born in our society hitherto , though many of them do read our books , yet none of them have as yet openly declared for Unitarian faith ; others think meanly , and slight us .

    * In our school at Pursewaukuni , at present there are four Unitarian , six Roman Catholic , and seventeen heathen boys : the average attendance is from eighteen to twenty-two , and sometimes less . We teach them to

    * -Thls MU-appear in a future number .

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    read , write , arithmetic , catechism , hymns , and other tracts calculated to instil pure Christian principles . The elder boys read the Bible all in Tamil . Most of the heathen boys , as soon asthey can read and write a little , are taken away by their parents : they are also often moved to other schools

    oc-Gasioned by-tlieir—pai-ents ^—removal- ; but I think the unity , the fear and love of God and their neighbours , with other moral sentiments instilled into their minds , will not altogether be lost . 4 Chiniah ' s congregation at Secundrabad , according to the latest account received from them , consists of eight families , five individuals , fourteen children . Ten of the men can

    read : the children are put m Chiniah's school . The education is much the same as it is at our school at Pursewaukum . Seven of the men are Sepoys , one is a Tendal , the rest are gentlemen's servants . To these , three families , and my eldest son , Theophilus Roberts , who also is now married , have joined them . The object of my sending my son there , was to assist Chiniah in the ministry .

    Catalogue of Tracts , in Tamil . 1 . Sermon on Isaiah , chapter 45 , verse 22 . Printed in 1819 . 2 , A Di ^ coure , occasioned by the Cholera Morbus , with twenty-two Questions to the Worshippers of Three Moorthies . 1820 .

    3 . Questions to the Trinitarians , with two Dialogues , translated from the Christian Reformer , 1822 . 4 . Liturgy , with the Reformed Catechism , and sowie Pymns . 1822 . 5 . "Collections of the Texts containing ! ' the principal doctrines and duties of ReUgipn

    1822 . 6 . The Faith and Worshi p of the Scripture contrasted with thp Faith and Worship of the Church of England . 1823 . 7 . Dialogue between an Idolist and a Worshipper of God ; to which are added a Brief History of the Corruptions of Christianity , with its Reformation ; JRaniEio *

    \\ un Roy ' s p nitarianism j and a hist of mistranslations and false Teadings of the Scripture , 1824 , 8 , One hundred and nineteen Questions to the Catholics . 1824 . 9 , Aw Exposition of Indian Mythology ,-the ton Avathars ( or Incarnations of Vishnoo ) are discussed , and showjft tfiafc they aye corruptions of the Sacred History 5

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    . UNiTABiAN Chronicle . S 3

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1832, page 23, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1807/page/7/