without care. For Thou hast promised to be careful for us; and hast commanded that upon Thee we should cast all our care, which livest and reignest world without end. Amen. [From the Appendix to Mr. Walter's reprint of Edward the Sixth's Primer.] Still constant in her worship, still So shall the seventh be truly blest, From morn to eve, with hallowed rest. WORDSWORth. KNOWING WITHOUT DOING. THE most accurate knowledge without works will do, not good, but rather harm. To have had light is the very thing that condemns those who walk in darkness. The man who accurately knows his duty, but does not perform it, is in a worse state, than he who is perishing for lack of knowledge: he has made the fatal division between knowing and doing, that it is ruin to make. His head and his heart are at variance, each with the other; and that separation will go on increasing, it is to be feared, till the day of vengeance arrives: -nor probably will it end then, but rather continue, to form a very considerable part of its own punishment. ONE of whose negligence Cranmer had complained, called upon him to bear witness to his diligence in a particular service. Cranmer told him that he was the same man still; "Although he had changed the kind of negligence from a slow negligence to a rash negligence.” KNOWING WELL IS BETTER THAN KNOWING MUCH. In conversation seek not so much either to vent thy knowledge, or to increase it, as to know more spiritually and effectually what thou dost know. And in this way those despised truths, that every one thinks he is sufficiently seen in, will have a new sweetness and use in them, which thou didst not so well perceive before (for these flowers cannot be sucked dry), and in this humble sincere way thou shalt grow in grace and in knowledge too. LEIGHTON. CHURCH OF ENGLAND MISSIONARIES. No. 2. THE following extracts are from the Journal of the Rev. F. Christian, of whom Professor Mill, the Principal of Bishop's College, Calcutta, says, "he possessed, far beyond others of superior talents to himself, the art of winning and securing the regard and esteem of the natives of every class; the simple inhabitants of the hills considered him in the light of a superior being, and gave a proof of their attachment and confidence which, to all experienced in such intercourse, will appear extraordinary and almost unparalleled; that of confiding their children, at a distance from themselves, entirely and absolutely to his care. Of few can it be said, as of him, that the savage of the hills, the prejudiced and blinded Hindoo, and the polished and intelligent European, unite in admiring and regretting him; and I believe I never met with one who, with such ardent zeal for the great work of Christianity, bore with him at the same time an aversion so constant from every devious path of fanaticism or false religion;-who with such meekness and charity united such moral discernment and resolution, and who declined with so much constancy to purchase popularity by any compromise of his principles as a Churchman. His whole life and manners were a proof, if any were required, that the principles he thus uniformly maintained, were neither allied to bigotry in any shape, nor prejudicial to christian virtue, even in the highest and most selfdenying degree." Nov. 10th. Rose this morning before day, and got ready to set out for the hills before sunrise, as I purposed remain M ing on the hills the night. I went on foot, taking with me my hill servant, and a kitmutgar, who carried a few sandwiches, and a lobador that was to be my covering for the night. The sun had not risen when we left Raj-Mahul, and the air was so cold, that I could not keep myself from shivering. The sun got pretty well up after walking two miles, and made it very agreeable; but from being pleasant it became excessively hot, and, not having an umbrella, I was quite at the sun's mercy. At the distance of four miles we came to Moorley Pahar, a small eminence that makes a sort of boundary to the low land that runs along the hills. This was covered with low forest. We now got into the wood that environed the hill I was going to visit. The road was pretty good until we came to ascend the mountain; it then was steep, and the way covered with loose stones and vast fragments of rocks. When we got near the summit, I had a beautiful view of the hills, the plains in front of them, and the river at the distance of about seven miles. I could not fancy to myself any thing more striking than the hills on the west side; they formed a crescent of several miles; one hill hardly rising above another, all covered with forest, and the houses peeping through the trees at their summits. I stood some time, and feasted my eyes on the scene before me. In the front of this semi-circular range of hills rose a small one, about half the height of those near it, and I immediately thought this must be the place best suited for my object; but was obliged to abandon it, from finding there was no water near it that we could safely drink. Continuing our way, we came to the flat summit, and proceeded through a forest till we got to the village, which we reached after a four hours' walk. I observed five places of sacrifice to the goddess Ruxey at the entrance of the village. These were rude little places, consisting of one, two, or three black stones, in their natural shape, stuck in the earth, with about a foot above the surface. This was surrounded with a few stones placed carelessly on one another, about half a foot high, enclosing a space of about two yards in diameter. At the side of the village we entered, there was a stone fence, and at the left hand of the gate another place of sacrifice, more distinguished than the rest, being enclosed: I took it at first for a hog-stye; but on looking through the low door, I saw the object of their terrour, a black stone, of a larger size than the other, probably about a hundred-weight, and marked sparingly with red paint. I asked my hill man if that was their temple where sacrifice was offered; he seemed ashamed, but on being asked twice, he said, Yes-it was the place where sacrifice was offered to Satan. The village was clean, and apparently comfortable : my hill man shewed me into his habitation, which was cleanly swept, with no other furniture than a cot, his bow standing in one corner, over which hung the horns of a deer, and four or five jaws of that animal. Here I sat down on his cot, and, from being overcome with the distance of the way and heat of the sun, I soon fell asleep. I awoke in about an hour, a good deal refreshed, and tried to pass the time till the sun went down a little; but, from not having taken a book with me, I could not have patience to wait so many hours doing nothing, and I called my hill man, and went to look at a place he had recommended to me for my school. We descended on the south side, which bore marks of industry, being entirely cultivated with Indian corn. This he told me was not the sole property of the chief, but that each villager had a portion, according as he had cultivated. I could not learn whether they assist each other in the cultivating of their respective allotments, or till for themselves. We went along the foot of the hill, with room enough between the trees to give us a passage. As we went, I was mortified to find I understood so little of what they said, and felt assured that before I could be completely furnished to meet their prejudices, and raise their minds to higher views, I must engage them in their own tongue. I here passed the field of a man who had been a jemidar in the Rangers at Bhagulpoor; he was gathering his harvest of Indian corn. He asked me to rest at his cottage, and placed a cot under the shade of a tree for me to sit on. In a little time we proceeded again, through a complete jungle, to Bindrabind, the place recommended as a central spot for the school,-but when I considered the deep, thick, impenetrable forest on all sides, filled with long rank grass; its low, damp, and uncomfortable situation; the nature of the water, which must be unwholesome, from its stagnant state, and the quantity of dying vegetation fallen in it; its common resort for wild beasts to drink, in the night-time; and the impossibility of removing all these objections without long and great labour, determined me to give up the notion of making this my place of residence. I went on with the intention of visiting some other hills, which might promise something better than this; but the people told me there was yet another place, with less jungle and better water, a quarter of a mile to the west. I went with them, and found a space at the foot of the hill of about an acre, with very few trees, and in view of seven villages, the most distant not two miles: this was a little raised, and on one side was bounded by a mountain stream of delicious water, of which I took a drink out of my hand, not having a vessel of any sort with me, and learnt how comfortably a poor native can quench his thirst in that simple way. Having satisfied myself with the goodness of the situation, one thing remained to ascertain, how many children each village would send to be instructed. To find out this, I desired my servant to stay behind, and go to the several hills to inquire, and return to me to-morrow. This decided on, I again climbed the steep, in doing which I was almost out of breath, and got again to the village, with an uncomfortable head-ache. As I found nothing more could then be done, I thought myself strong enough to return to Raj-Mahul, and I reached my tent quite lame from the distance, having walked not less than twenty-two miles: the last mile I was obliged to sit down several times, and then get up and run a little, for the pain in the sinews of my left leg would not suffer me to walk without great difficulty. I got home at seven o'clock, not dissatisfied with my journey, as a prospect now seemed to open for commencing my object. 13th. Gave directions early this morning for moving into the hills, but from the delay in getting coolies to carry such of the baggage as could not be taken on bullocks, it was past two in the afternoon when we proceeded. We had some difficulty in getting to the end of our journey, from the badness of two of the oxen; and it had been necessary to have left some of the things on the road, had not my pony been able to carry them. We got to the ground about eight o'clock, cleared away the jungle, and pitched the tent. When this was going on, I stood and admired the wildness and interest of the scene before me. The night was a beautiful moonlight, and shewed the mountains on all sides, and from its faint light added to their height. There were low forests on all sides of us. My people busily occupied in setting up the tent; a group of Paharias standing observing them at a short distance; and |