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    1 ^ Mahratra , one edition of Matthew has been printed off , and a second is in the press . I translate the Sangskiit ; hut an amanuenis writes it . The others are written by Pundits , but examined and corrected by i 4 s . " The missionaries have transmitted

    home 56 copies of the Sangskrit grammar , and 250 of the Ramayuiu , vol . i . The government of Calcutta , kindly permitted these bGoks to come free of freightage . The government -have permitted the

    missionaries to build a chapel for Bengalee worship in Calcutta . Mr . Carey ' s salary a 9 professor of the College has been doubled . And the diploma of ( we suppose , ) L ,. L D . has been conferred upon him , which however we ^ understand him not to make use of .

    Various interesting characters are described in the " accounts . " We are pleased with the reply cf a native convert , an elderly woman , who was inr structed when—applying * for admission

    Into the church , ki the importance of walking worthy of the gospel , and par- , ticulasly of avoiding quarrels : * ' I am now in the last stage of life , and shall die as it were to morrow ; with whom then have I to quarrel ?"

    The following accounts of the visit of a Jew at Serampore will interest the reader ; one is by Carey , the other by Mardon . " About three weeks since a school-boy . ^ came to me on . Lords-day morning , and said that an Israelite was in the school . I went and found a Jewreading the Hebrew bible with great fluency . His name is Isaac Ben Mordecai . He was born in Hebron , has

    since Jived in Persia , and is going to Jerusalem . He confirms Sir William Jones ' s account of the AfFgans , having himself lived among them at Cabul . " Oct . 26 . LordVday . A Jew who was born in Hebron , of the tribe of Tudah , came to Serampore . He Jeft nis own country fourteen years ago , and has

    since travelled to different places as a merchant . In passing through the Sheek ' s coiinpry , he was robbed of all his property , and involved in distress . On coming into the British dominions , a gentleman took notice of him , gave

    him a written pass , and procured him a subscription . He reads Hebrew very fluently , and seems to have a good understanding of Moses and the prophets * He speaks the Persian , Arabic , JHindgpstanee , arid Turkish language * . Our

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    brethren converse with him iri Hindoostanee . He says the ? e are about ten thousand Jews in Judea , and that they are treated well by the Turks , who employ them to collect the revenue . In Fersia they are treated with much le * s civility . Thi-: Jew manifests a strong aversion to every species of idolatry ,

    and to the ceremonies of popery which he has witnessed among the Portuguese in India . He frankly acknowledges Christ as the true Messiah , arid that it \ va > through ignorance that the Jews put him to death ; for which cause die wrath of God remains upon their natioii . ' He expects however that Christ will come again , and ' restore the kingdom to Israel . ' He attends our

    worship , and thinks it is the way in which God should be worshipped . On hearing some of our native brethren give an account of their faith , he saic , This is the triumph of the Messiah over Satan . . < Mr . Carey thus describes an Arabian Christian , who also viited Serampore . " Last week an Arabian came hither from Madras recommended from a

    respectable quarter . He has embraced the Christian religion , and I hope , may have felt its power . He was some tinie with the brethren , Cran andl > es Granges , at Viza ^ apatam , and since that

    with brother Loveless at Madras . He is of the family of Mahomed . He has a pedigree regularly written out , after the manner of the Arabians , up through Mahomed , to Ishmaei and Abraham . He was born on the banks

    of the Euphrates , near Babylon , where his father then resided ; hud his education in Arabia . ; and fled from thence , to avoid the sword and doctrine of IVahabee ^ whom he personally knows . Since then he has been in a high office , in the court of Zeman Shaw , king of Kabool . * There he saw one of his

    companions , who had embraced Christianity , Abdullah by name . This man , whose family name is Saboty was first brought to think by reading the Koran , 112 which he found something that appeared to him contradictory . He wrote to a gentleman at Madras on the subject , who

    sent him an Arabic New Testament , which he carefully read ; and the mo ^ e he read the more light sprung up , in his mind . He has resided several years in Persia , and is a very a ^ compiiNhed scholar , in Persian and Arabic . .. He ja now assisting us in the Persian translation /'

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    Intelligence . — Baptist Missio ? i in India * 63 T

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1808, page 631, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2398/page/55/