it in its purity, their Telinga translation will be found more accurate than any other can well be expected to be where the language is understood by few. In this good and great work they will now be much assisted by Mr. Pritchett, who made some progress in the language while at Calcutta, under the tuition of Anunde rayer. The congregations to which they preach, both at the Fort, and at the Mission-house, have been much better attended than before, and the auditors have Jistened with more serious attention to the word. They were in hope of an addition to their little church, and speak with satisfaction of a European lady whose first religious impressions were derived from the conversation and example of the late Mr. Des Granges. "With regard to the SCHOOLS," say they, "we are happy to state that the boys, both Natives and Half-casts, continue to improve.* Some addition has been made to the number of our CHARITY Boys, and the subscriptions for the support of that institution have been a little augmented." Nor are the female Missionariest at this station idle spectators; they attend daily to a FREE SCHOOL which has been commenced for the instruction of Girls, both native and country-born,+ those who have hitherto attended are of the latter description, and are perhaps greater objects of compassion than the former, being reduced to almost the lowest degree of wretchedness. (To be continued.) DONATIONS TO FOREIGN MISSIONS. Aug. 14, 1813. From the Foreign Mission Society of Portland and the Vicinity, by Mr. Levi Cutter, their Treasurer, From the Female cent Society $200 00 Carried forward $200 00 * A pamphlet is just published, entitled INDIAN CIVILIZATION; or, Report of a successful Experiment, made during two years on that subject, in fifteen Tamul, and five English Native Free Schools; with Proposals for establishing a separate liberal Native School Society, humbly submitted to the judgment and patronage of the Governments of the Hon. East India Company of the respectable Religious Societies, and the generous and charitable Public, by the Rev. C. S. John, Senior of the Danish Mission at Tranquebar, &c. &c." We recommend this sensible tract to the attention of the Society. The widow Des Grauges (with her children rejoined the mission at the close of the year 1811. That is, half-cast. 20.00 20 Brought forward $200 00 in Falmouth, (Maine,) by the Rev. Mr. Hilliard, From a friend to missions, 19. From ladies in Montpelier, remitted by the Rev. Chester Wright, 21. From the Foreign Missionary Society of Springfield and the neighboring towns, by the Hon. George Bliss, From the Female Cent Society in North Preston, (Conn.) toward the Serampore loss, by Gen. Huntington, 28 70 From Mr. Elisha Abel of Preston, 3.00 13 50 5 00 From a friend of missions. 1 00 From a female friend of Missions, by Mr. Henry Hudson, From Mrs. Mercy Tyler, Mount Ararat, Susquehannah county, (Penn.)1 25 From the female Cent Society in Somers, From Enoch Perkins, Esq. Treasurer of the Foreign Mission Sociiety of the North Association of Hartford county, 23. From the Female Cent Society in Harford (Penn.) by Mr. P. W. Gallaudet, $2 72 From Mr. P. Ely, of Simsbury, 24 00 45.00 62 50114 95 1 003 75 THE PANOPLIST, AND MISSIONARY MAGAZINE. No. 5. THE SEPTEMBER, (PART I.) 1813. VOL. IX. BIOGRAPHY. From the Vermont Adviser. LIFE OF MR. EDWARD In the history of one, whose dents of a much diversified, or a splendid character. The life of the subject of the following memoir was too short to excite the admiration of mankind, and too circumscribed in its sphere to claim their gratitude. But it was long enough to procure the love and esteem of all who knew him; to illustrate the divinely amiable character of the religion of the Gospel; and to secure an interest, as is firmly believed, in the resurrection of the just. True piety is ever lovely; for it controls the passions, enlightens the understanding, purifies and strengthens the humane affections, and brings the heart into subjection to the government of God. But in youth it possesses peculiar loveliness and furnishes the brightest evidences of its reality. In this land of darkness, emphatically styled 'a vale of tears,'experience must sooner or later convince us of the fallacy of all human prospects; the heart often sickens at the follies and vices of mankind; and a conVOL. IX. viction of the vanity and treachery of the world may direct our views beyond its vain expectations to the pursuit of unsullied and substantial bliss. Or the world-worn sinner, frustrated in his hopes and exertions, and awed by the disapprobation and neg a lect of the virtuous, may assume, from unhallowed motives, character not his own, and profess a veneration for religion, while in his heart he quarrels with its doctrines and hates its Author. In the season of youth, such considerations can have little influence. Experience has not yet the world. Ardent and unsustaught the fraudful character of pecting, full of hope and buoyed by expectation, we engage in our pursuits with an avidity which calculates with certainty upon a fears no abatement, and which successful issue. Every prospect is gilded with charms never to be realized; and our own sad disappointment, or the Almighty Spirit of God, has yet to learn us, that life is little else than a scene of suffering, and that religion only yields enduring enjoyment. When, therefore, we see a youth abstracting himself from the world, rejecting its pleasures, the vanities and expectations of and disregarding its flatteries and frowns, we are presented with an 25 exhibition of piety in its most amiable and lovely form, and with the most indubitable proof of its reality and influence. In the character of such an one, the Scriptures warrant us in believing that God himself takes peculiar pleasure. To the sincere believer, who delights in the contemplation of such a subject, the following memoir will afford some entertainment; and it is presumed that the reader, who is yet a stranger to the vital influence of religion, will be constrained to assent to the truth of it, and to acknowledge its impor tance. Edward Herrick was born of pious and respectable parents in South Hampton, on Long Island. By them he was dedicated to God in infancy. As soon as he was capable of instruction, no pains were spared to impress his mind with the great truths of Christianity; and evidence was soon furnished them that their exertions were not in vain. He was early thoughtful upon the concerns of religion, far beyond his years: And indeed it may almost be said of him, as of Jeremiah and John the Baptist, that he sanctified from the womb. was He had scarcely learnt to read, when his Bible and other religious books, instead of the amusements common to childhood, became his chief sources of entertainment. For the institutions of the Gospel he early manifested a profound reverence. Such were his views and opinions of the Sabbath, that, before his mind was capable of discrimination, he was with difficulty persuaded to attend, on this day, to the works of necessity: And in deed he seldom engaged in them but with manifest reluctance. To the brethren of the presbyterian church in his native town he highly endeared himself. He adorned his profession, even in childhood, with a sobriety and uniformity of deportment, that are rarely surpassed by Christians of maturity in years. In all his undertakings he was faithful and indefatigable almost to a proverb. He seemed, as if constantly impressed with the solemn injunction, 'Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. Even while engaged in the elementary branches of education, he discovered marks of a mind of no ordinary character. His uncommon industry and proficiency in his studies, his amiable disposition and unquestionable piety, appeared soon to indicate that he was destined by God for extensive usefulness in the church. On this sphere of action his own feelings and reflections soon fixed his attention. He felt an ardent desire to spend his days in the manner that would be most serviceable to his generation; and he resolved, with the approbation of his friends, to seek an education, and should his life be spared, to consecrate his talents to his Maker in the ministry of the Gospel. Being the oldest child of the family, the death of his father, at this period, greatly retarded him in his object. But at length, however, in the fall of 1793, and in the twenty-first year of his age, he was admitted to the standing of a sophomore in Yale College. From this time till his death, the writer, who was both his class-mate and roommate, is minutely acquainted With with his character. For no man ever had more ingenuousness in expressing his opinions and exercises; and no one was ever less disposed, or less qualified, if disposed, to practise deception. His companions were soon convinced that his years which had passed, previously to their acquaintance with him, had not been spent in indolence. His knowledge of the classics entitled him at once to a pre-eminent standing in his class. With such attention had he read the Bible, that few passages could be mentioned to which he could not open with facility. Davies' Sermons, Doddridge's Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul, with Young's Night Thoughts, were, next to the Bible, the companions of his devotions. both the sentiments and language of these writers he was intimately acquainted; and of the latter, there is scarce a page, which he could not repeat verbatim. The writings of president Edwards he had read with great attention; and his knowledge of profane history at this early period is not often surpassed by men of any age or profession. But an acquaintance with his habits and talents leaves no room to wonder at his attainments. He was endowed with a pertinacity of memory and a strength of understanding that are rarely united. And I doubt not but his deep and habitual sense of accountability to God, and that uniform serenity of mind with which it was accompanied, greatly strengthened the powers of his intellect, and added much to the facility of his progress in knowledge. He estimated all human attainments directly as they pro mote our usefulness among men and our acceptance with God. He possessed an ardent thirst for knowledge, because he longed to be a successful instrument, in the service of his Maker, in enlightening the minds and saving the souls of his fellow sinners. He was not, however, wholly insensible to the good opinion of others; and he feared most of all, that he loved the praise of men too well. On hearing a remark repeated which was highly complimentary to his scholarship, and with which he perceived himself gratified, he smote his breast, and exclaimed with with a most solemn emphasis, 'O this cursed ambition! Of the corruption of his own heart he entertained a deep and affecting sense. He viewed himself as 'the least of all saints;' and he often expressed his astonishment, that God should deign to look with mercy upon so miserable a sinner. His knowledge of theology, as might naturally be expected from his talents and application, was uncommonly extensive and correct for his years and standing. His opinions on this subject were formed principally by his own reading and reflection; and they were such as were highly honorable to his judgment and to his heart. He often expressed his wonder that any man of candor and discernment, who attended to the exercises of his own heart, and read his Bible with attention, should embrace any sentiments but what are purely evangelical. It is rare to find a youth of his years so able and strenuous an advocate for the peculiar doctrines of grace. The total alien and ation of the human heart from God; its natural and deep-rooted opposition to his laws; the absolute necessity of a radical change of its temper and exercises by his regenerating and life-giving Spirit; unconditional reliance on his mercy; and a cordial acceptance of Jesus Christ the Great Mediator, as the only ground of hope and salvation, are doctrines which he embraIced with the utmost assurance. These doctrines he ever defended on all proper occasions, with great modesty; especially in controversy with those much older than himself; but with unshaken firmness. But his firm belief in the absolute and universal government of God appeared to afford him profound consolation. 'Wretched hopeless,' said he, 'must have been the condition of this guilty world, had mankind been left to the control of their own passions or to the sport of chance. I rejoice that God has ordered all things respecting me from eternity.' When conversing on this profound, this mysterious subject, I have often heard him express himself in the language of his favorite Young; 'Here is firm footing; here is solid rock; all is sea besides.' But with all his decision of opinion and ardor of piety, he was highly catholic. He was far from being a bigot, or an enthusiast. Although he believed he was in the right, yet he durst not pronounce others in the wrong, because they did not think exactly as he thought. He loved all those, by whatever name they were called, who, he had reason to believe, 'loved our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.' In the exercise of the duties of devotion, he was as uniform and as indefatigable, as in the pursuits of science. Indeed he regarded these as his first, his indispensable concern. The business of the day he never considered as finished, until he had spent about an hour in reading the Bible, or some other devotional book, and in prayer. He was never known, during his collegiate life, to omit this exercise. And in one instance only did be fail of rising early in the morning, and spending a portion of time in the same manner, before he entered upon the duties of the institution. These, however, were not the only parts of the day, to which, in his opinion, religion had a claim. It was his great, his invariable object, to maintain a close and humble walk with God. Like his Divine Master, he frequently retired for the purpose of secret prayer: and during the portion of the day, devoted to classical studies, his mind would often appear, for a few moments, to be wholly withdrawn from the world, and deeply engaged in converse with God. The Sabbath was to him literally a day of rest. He appeared ever to hail its return with heart-felt pleasure. On this occasion his mind was inexpressibly solemn; and he seemed to spend every hour, as if he expected, at the next, to stand at the bar of God. Never on this day, did I know him to forget, but in a single instance, that it was forbidden him to 'speak his own words and to think his own thoughts.' At a certain time he remarked, after reading a sermon, 'I don't like the style of this writer.' He was asked if he suffered such sub |