of them might never again hear the joyful sound, and that the influence of their idolatrous companions, and the noise and external show of their idol worship, would soon efface all the impressions which had been made upon their minds and hearts, and leave them darker and more hardened than ever, unless the Divine Spirit, who alone has the power, should follow them and make their impressions abiding. How painful is the thought of losing, perhaps for ever, those whom we seemed almost to have gained! but our consolation in such cases is, that God is able to carry on any work which he may have begun in the hearts of sinners, and hence, if the work is of God, nothing shall be able to overthrow it. tent and around two sides on which the books they had received, and if they decurtains were raised, two Choukedars sired further instruction on these imporwere placed, one on each open side of tant subjects, it would be freely given to the tent, to prevent any more from press-all who would come to Lodiana, to Sabing forward. This measure, hard as it bathu, to Saharanpur, to Meret, or to Delmay appear, was indispensable, as it was hi. During the concluding prayer the impossible for any more to come within whole multitude stood up, and then sat reach of the speaker's voice, without dis-down again for the singing. placing those who had already taken their When we arose to take our leave of stand. In such circumstances, order those who had followed us from day to could not be preserved without considera- day, with so much eagerness to hear the ble difficulty, and yet I never saw a more word of life, and on whom a very favourattentive congregation. I should here able impression had evidently been made, mention, that although there were yet by what they had heard and seen; a feelthree days before the great day of bath- ing of sadness involuntarily crept over ing, after which the people begin to dis-our minds, from the reflection that many perse, yet, as our supply of books, large as it was, had already given out, and as it was doubtful whether we could any longer preserve order at our meetings, owing to the immense multitudes who were arriving daily, in addition to all that were there before, we had concluded that Monday, the 8th, should be occupied in taking down our tents, and preparing for our departure on the morning of the 9th, and consequently, that this would be our last public meeting. Mr. Thompson addressed the assembled multitudes from the words, "Verily, I say unto you, the hour cometh, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the son of God, and they that hear shall live." After referring to the vision of the dry bones, which, under the prophecy of Ezekiel, came together bone to his bone, and eventually stood up an exceeding great army; he showed that the power of God is sufficient to raise the dead, and by an appeal to their desires and practices, proved, that while they were alive to the world and to sin, they were dead to God and to every thing good which he required of them, and then showed them that by the power of God only, and not by any works of theirs, they can again be made alive to God. In conclusion, he alluded to the instructions which many of them had been receiving for a number of days, which were now come to a close, and exhorted them to consider well what they had heard, and to reflect much upon it, both now and after they went to their several homes, also to read carefully the Such were our feelings and reflections on taking our leave of those who with so much apparent interest waited daily on the preaching of the gospel at Hardwar. The whole scene was a deeply interesting one. None who witnessed it, ever saw any thing so encouraging before in India. Even Mr. Thompson, who had attended the Hardwar fair for more than thirty years, and had been all that time labouring in the country as a missionary, said he never saw any thing like it before. All that seemed wanting to secure the attendance of almost every individual among the countless multitudes at the fair, was suitable places to accommodate them all, and a sufficient number of preachers, capable of speaking the Hindi language with clearness and fluency. Every attempt that has hitherto been made in this part of India to preach the gospel in places of public concourse, where there were no walls of any kind to inclose the hearers, has failed to secure a permanent audience; some have been constantly coming and others going off. At one time the speaker would have a crowd around him, and again be left with scarcely any to hear him. In this way that portion of the discourse heard by each individual, would often be unintelligible, having in it neither beginning nor end of the subject of which it treated By comparing this, which is by no means an overdrawn picture, with our own experience as related above, it will be abundantly evident, that at all our stations we should have places in the bazars, houses of some kind, in which to preach to the people; and that instead of attempting to talk to them on the public streets, the gospel should be regularly preached in places suitable for the purpose, to all who are willing to attend. Also, that mission aries, in all their itinerations, should be furnished with a tent similar to that used at Hardwar, that this should be pitched near the entrance of every city and large village which they may visit, and that they should remain at least a week at every place of importance, during which time the gospel should be preached regularly once or twice a day. In this way there is every reason to hope, that not only would our books be distributed to greater advantage than they have been heretofore, but a favourable, if not a serious and attentive hearing, would be obtained for the gospel in every city and village in India. To carry out this plan, which we are pursuaded is the best that has ever yet been adopted, would require our preachers, both missionary and native, to be increased a hundred fold. Let churches and individual Christians reflect upon these things, and let all who desire the prosperity and enlargement of Zion, lift up their hearts in prayer to God, that he may enable and incline those whose duty it is, to send forth more labourers, and that he may direct his mis sionaries to the adoption of such measures as, under the divine blessing, shall be most successful for gathering in the whole heathen world into the great fold of the one Great Shepherd. FURRUKHABAD MISSION. WRITTEN BY ADAM, ONE OF THE ORPHANS IN THE FUTTEHGURH ASYLUM, 3D JAN. 1844. H. R. W. Salvation by Christ. How many millions of people there are in this world, and yet what a small part of them care for the salvation of their precious souls! Their hearts are wholly set upon the pleasures, honours, and riches of this perishing world, and how awfully do they abuse those superior privileges which God has given them above the brute creation. As God has given us rational souls, and as they will not be destroyed with the body, but will last forever, we ought not to set our hearts upon the things of this world, which perish with the using, but we should think about our souls also, which is a very important thing; for if we die in our sins there is no salvation after death, the state of our souls will then be forever fixed. Therefore we should attend to our salvation while God spares us, lest that awful change should overtake us suddenly. When God made man he was holy, and delighted in the worship of his Maker, and loved his presence, and lived a very happy life; but by disobeying his commands he lost that happiness, and those holy and spiritual blessings which he before enjoyed; since that time there is nothing in him but sin, every thought of his heart, every word of his mouth, and every action of his hands is full of sins. He has forgotten God his Maker, and instead of him, has made many things, which are mere creatures, the objects of his worship, and thus goes on increasing the load of his sins and making himself more and more miserable. Now for the sins which man has committed, he lies under the heavy wrath and curse of God, and he has prepared a place of unutterllable punishment for him, where there is "weeping and gnashing of teeth," and can suffer in man's stead, let us see where "the worm dieth not and the fire higher if the Creator himself can suffer is not quenched," where he must suffer in his Divine nature. The law of God with Satan and his legions forever. All says, that for the remission of sins blood these sufferings are the consequences of must be shed, and no person that has not those sins which have been committed in a body can bleed, and God has no body. this world, and from which he cannot es- He is a Spirit, and therefore he cannot cape, unless the justice of God is fully bleed. So God also in his mere Divine satisfied. Now man needs salvation nature cannot be man's saviour. Thus from this eternal suffering, and how is far have we come investigating this imthis salvation to be obtained? He has portant subject, and yet have we not found fancifully made out several ways by which a saviour for wretched man. Alas! in he dreams to obtain salvation. He makes what a miserable and deplorable state must long and perilous prilgrimages to different we have been if this would have been all. sacred places, (as he calls them,) prays || Even this life, although it were prolongand offers sacrifices to gods and god-ed to millions and millions of years, with desses and saints, fasts, tortures his body, all its comforts, riches, and honours, bathes in the river, and does many other would have been a first hell, if there was things which need not be numbered. no hope of deliverance from the wrath Absurd as these may be, he by the blind- and curse of God which impends over ness of his understanding does them with our heads. But boundless mercy is one the hope of obtaining salvation; but it is of God's natural attributes, for which he certain that he cannot obtain the object will be praised and glorified by all those for which he seeks by the observance of holy beings who surround him, and by these rites and ceremonies; for all that saints who have been, and will be its eshe does of himself is full of sin; and it is pecial objects. Although man has beimpossible that he should obtain salvation come God's enemy by disobeying his by those actions which are sinful. There- commands and selling himself to Satan, fore man cannot save himself, nor can yet God has not forgotten his ungrateful any of his imaginary gods and goddesses creature, but has displayed his great love save him, for there are no such beings, and mercy in something more, which is and yet man must be saved. beyond the conception of man and angels, and which forms and will form the theme of their profoundest contemplations through all the endless ages of eternity. The great love which God has displayed towards man is in sending his beloved Son into this world to suffer in his stead. When God saw that by no other means salvation was procurable for man, and yet his justice fully satisfied, he by his infinite wisdom formed this plan for saving sinners and satisfying his justice. The Father did not send the Son by force, but the Son took the execution of this work upon himself of his own will. He laid aside all his honours and glory, and became incarnate, that he might save poor wretched sinful man. Christ was well qualified for this undertaking, for he was not a mere man as many believe, for we have many proofs of his being God. All the prophets prophesied of him, and all Now let us rise a step higher and see if any one of those holy and superior intelligences which surround the throne of God can save him. If one of the angels or the archangel should have a wish to deliver man from his deserved punishments, even he could not save him; for angels are not uncreated beings, but they form a part of God's creation. So even they are mere creatures, and no mere creature can be of infinite power and qualifications; and besides all these, it is possible for an angel to sin, as we see from the apostate spirits which now occupy the regions of despair. Therefore an angel who is a mere creature, and finite, is not qualified to bear the sufferings of man which are eternal. So, nor man can save himself, nor can an angel save him. And yet he must be saved. Now as we have said that no mere creature these prophecies were exactly fulfilled in him; and in these prophecies he is called by such great and God-like names by which no mere man could ever be called; and many things are said of him that can never be said of any one but God. The prophet Isaiah thus prophecies of him: "Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel," Is. vii. 14. " 'Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulders; and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end," Is. ix. 6,7. The whole of the prophets prophesied of him. The whole Bible is full of such passages. He wrought miracles, which further proves his god-head. The blind received their sight, the lame walked, the lepers were cleansed, the deaf heard, the dead were raised, and the gospel was preached to the poor; and he also prophesied, which were all exactly fulfilled at their respective times. All these prove that he was not mere man, but God also. He led a perfectly holy and blameless life, which no mere man ever did, or can do. "Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth who when he was reviled, reviled not again; who when he suffered he threatened not," 1 Pet. ii. 22, 23. Now as Christ came into this world to save man, he must bear his punishments upon himself, and of which we will now speak. The first part of his sufferings was his humiliation. He being holy and the King of Glory, came here to dwell among sinful, poor, and wretched man. "When the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law," Gal. iv. 4. And when he came here, those for whose salvation he came did not receive him, but hated and contemned him. "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief," Is. liii. 3. The Jews falsely accused and persecuted him, and spat upon him; caused him to be scourged, a crown of thorns was put upon his holy head, and VOL. XII.-21 above all the wrath of God was upon him and he deserted him, which made him cry out, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" The prophet Isaiah thus prophesies of his sufferings: "I gave my back to the smiters and my cheek to them that plucked off the hair I hid not my face from shame and spitting," Is. 1. 6. "Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed," Is. liii. 45. And yet he bore all these sufferings without a single murmur, for thus says the same prophet: "He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth," Is. liii. 7. And at last he died the death of the cross, which was one of the most ignominious deaths; and at his death some very striking events happened, which are thus recorded by one of the evangelists: "And behold the vail of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened, and many bodies of saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many," which further prove his godhead, and which made his enemy confess at the very spot and time, "Truly this was the son of God." Christ did not remain in the sepulchre, but reunited his human soul to his body by his own Divine power, and left the sepulchre as a mighty conqueror over death and the grave on the morning of the third day. He rose for our justification, and his resurrection was attended by very striking events, for the evangelist writes: "And behold there was a great earthquake, for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow," Matt. xxviii. 23. And his resurrection was no mere delusion, for he conversed with his disciples, and also ate with them, and was felt by them. "To whom also he showed himself alive after ly provided for us! We are not to live for ever in this world; we are perishing creatures, and must die. All the honours and riches of this world cannot keep us a moment here when the hour of death comes; and if they cannot deliver us from the jaws of death, then of what avail are they if we set our hearts upon them? his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God," Acts i. 3. After Christ had staid in this world some days, he ascended into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God in all his former glory and honour. "And he led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands and blessed" Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt them, and it came to pass while he blessed return," Gen. iii. 9; and again, “Onethem, he was parted from them and car- dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ried up into heaven," Luke xxiv. 50, 51. ease, and quiet. Another dieth in the And again: "Who being the brightness of bitterness of his soul. They shall lie his glory and the express image of his down alike in the dust, and the worms person, and upholding all things by the shall cover them," Job xxi. 23. 25, 26. word of his power, when he had by him- But we know not when this hour will self purged our sins, sat down on the right come: God has not revealed it unto us, hand of the Majesty on high," Heb. i. 3. and therefore we ought to live the more And now having ascended into heaven, circumspectly, lest that hour should come there Christ intercedes before God for upon us suddenly. Many are suddenly all his faithful followers, and he cannot cut down in their childhood, others in manfail in his intercessions, because he hath hood, while very few live to old age. "The fulfilled the law of God in all points, and day of the Lord cometh as a thief in the therefore God accepts all his interces- night: for when they shall say peace sions: "If any man sin, we have an advo- and safety, then sudden destruction cate with the Father, Jesus Christ the cometh upon them," 1 Thes. v. 23. And righteous; and he is the propitiation for again: "Walk circumspectly, not as fools, our sins; and not for ours only, but also but as wise; redeeming the time becausefor the sins of the whole world," 1John the days are evil," Eph. v. 15, 16. There ii. 12. "He is able to save them to the are only two places, to one of which the uttermost that come unto God by him; soul must go after death, Heaven or Hell. seeing he ever liveth to make interces- Those who have accepted the salvation, sion for them," Heb. vii. 25. Now at last and become interested in the atonement we have found a Saviour who hath fully and intercession of Christ, shall reach satisfied the justice of God, and borne all the former happy place; and those who our deserved punishments upon himself; have rejected salvation and have disobeynor could any other ever do this; and there-ed the commands of God, shall be driven fore there can be no other Saviour besides him: "Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved," Acts iv. 12. What great love then has God manifested towards us in giving to us his only begotten Son to die for us that we might be saved! "Who his own self bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we being dead to sins, should live unto righteous-not seen, nor ear heard, neither have enness; by whose stripes ye are healed," 1 tered into the heart of man the things Pet. ii. 24. How very thankful we ought which God hath prepared for them that to feel to him! And what a great pun-love him,” 1 Cor. ii. 2. And as the hapishment shall we receive if we neglect the salvation which God has so merciful to the latter place. The former place is full of spiritual happiness, where God es-pecially manifests his presence; and those who will have access to this holy and blessed place, will not be turned out from it after a shorter or longer stay, as the Hindus maintain, but will enjoy its happiness through all the endless ages of eternity; and that happiness is so great that no one can conceive it. "Eye hath piness of the righteous is inconceivably great, so in proportion the misery of the |