wanderers, who have forsaken the true path, and they are the lights, that are to direct their faces "Zion-ward" The following passage, in this spirit, would not do discredit to any Pope, that ever filled the chair of St. Peter, in its apostolic air of importance.

"We bless God, the Father of all mercies, who is mindfull of you, who has supported you, and given you to see, that in removing us from you, he has not removed his mercy from you, but has still reserved for you tokens of his goodness and truth. I thank you for the pleasing intelligence you have conveyed to us, respecting affairs among you. It encourages me to find, that brother P. goes on so well; may his and your attempts to serve God be prospered. He will bless them, who serve him with all their hearts. Hezekiah did the work of the Lord with all his heart, and prospered; and so shall you, my dear friend, if you imitate his pattern: and I can assure you, that I constantly pray for you, that you may be thus blessed; for I repeat what I have often enforced in my ministry, amongst you, that we shall be happy in religion no further, than we are actively employed in it, and devoted to it. It is a reasonable service, and blessed also, that we should be wholly the Lord's, who came to save sinners. I can assure you, that I do most heartily desire the happiness, both present and future, of you and yours. I am pleased to hear good things of your daughter. I have been much pained on her account, for I have longed and prayed for her salvation in peculiar manner. I have hoped, that I should be able to number her among my spiritual children in Christ Jesus: and when I lost the last of my dear children, I remember looking at you, and Mr. and Mrs. W. all my dear and kind friends; and I then said in my heart, again and again, O Lord, if thou bless these friends with thy saving grace, it is enough."

Mr. Chamberlain's residence with the Begum of Soomroo, as tutor to her son, is the most interesting part of his journal; and one would have thought, that here he had the best field, for really accomplishing something in the way of conversion. He was allowed a handsome monthly sum from her Highness-he was well lodged, and had far the greater part of the day to himself, and all the influence of the Begum to encourage him yet he complains much, that he feels his mind out of its element,' in not having any "preaching campaigns," for which adds he, "I greatly long: Ifeel lost and lifeless without it." Yet he was engaged in superintending two or three European and Native Schools under his own eye; and had Mr. Chamberlain made a proper estimate of the means, by which he was to do any good in the great work, he would, we think,

have found Sirdhana, and its advantages, most enviable. But he cannot confine his evangelizing views within such narrow limits, and he looks out from his study, and his school, where it was to be hoped, he was instilling useful and precious knowledge into the minds of his scholars, and he exclaims "What a field for itinerating I have around me! The Sikhs on the West, the Doab to the South, and Oude to the East; not to say the hills on the North-Agra and Delhi-Coel and Mynpore - Furruckabad and Merut-Paniput and Kurnaul, and Hurdwar, all within reach" ! ! And this is the farmer's lad, who, a few years before, was perambulating the West of England, and preaching in the streets of Bristol! Could Mr. Chamberlain seriously consider himself, and the colleague, for whom he so ardently prayed, adequate to make known the truths of Christianity over the tract, which his enthusiasm surveyed? The question may well be asked; and it is answered by this, that Mr. Chamberlain seems sometimes to think, that when he preached in a place, the great work was begun-the seed sown-the strong-hold of Satan attacked-and possession fairly taken of the land of Brahma-in the name of Jesus!

In the suite of the Begum, Mr. Chamberlain's earnest desire to visit Delhi was at length gratified, and this part of the Memoirs is not the least interesting. Whether it was access to great men, and intercourse with the members of a royal family, we cannot say, but he speaks at this time, in rather more animating strains, than he had been indulging, while at other places.

"Many Hindoos came to-day, also two young Noblemen, the sons of Nabobs, who behaved with the greatest decorum, and heard with extraordinary candour and liberality; indeed they appear to be very near the Kingdom of God. Great has been my pleasure this day in this good work, and greatly shall I regret to leave it: upwards of thirty books have been given away.

"19th-Many have been here again to-day, as well as the two noblemen, who came yesterday. Purumanunda and Alleebukhs went out, and gave away some books, and met with opposition: the people have heard with great attention, and I hope good is doing. The noblemen heard with great candour, and seem convinced, that the Scriptures are the word of God. I have been wholly employed among the

people to-day, and have not even looked at the translation. The Nabobs say they will come again to-morrow."

After getting to Hurdwar he writes;

"I have had a grand campaign this year: six weeks I was much employed in the imperial city, where I found the Mussulmans much bet ter disposed, apparently, than I ever found them in any place in India. Five or six hundred books were sent abroad, to make known the truth in Delhi. The books went into the palace amongst the princes, and an Arabic Bible was sent to the heir apparent, and it was recorded in the Royal Gazette. Many people appeared to be near the kingdom of God; and I left the city, in one respect, with great regret, but it was become necessary for my health to remove; incessant employ, and confined quarters, had worn me down, and debilitated me to a very great degree. I hope, however, that you will remember Delhi, and, as soon as you can, send a brother to assist at Sirdhana, that operations may be carried on abroad in this immense field, which is now open on all sides. Since I have been on the road to this place, I have recovered my health and spirits, and here I have abundant call for all I have.”

In a convert of the name of Purumanunda, he had a zealous and able assistant; and his prospects seem to have been brightening, according to his journal, in this part of India, when Government requested the Begum to dismiss him. His biographer confesses his ignorance of the full details of the complaint against Mr. Chamberlain, which is rather remarkable, considering his near relationship to the subject of his Memoirs; but he says in the same spirit, which we have formerly reprobated, that this complaint appeared in its nature, to have been similar to that, brought by the Orator Tertullus against the Apostle Paul. "We have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazerines," which last charge Mr. Yates has put into Italics, but whether to direct attention to Mr. Chamberlain, as labouring "more abundantly" than his brethren, or to mark the enmity,as being directed against the Baptist Missionary Body in general, we cannot pretend to say. We may however, very fairly infer, that Mr. Chamberlain's conduct at the Hurdwar-Fair was not so prudent, and guarded, as it ought to have been, as on personal application to Lord Hastings, then in that part of India, his Lordship would not permit his return

to the Begum's service. His own reflexions on this disappointment seem to shew, that his zeal in the cause was sometimes apt to transgress the limits, which it was the policy of the ruling power should be observed.

"From Mr. W. you will learn what God is permitting man to do anto us. We must go to the Presidency; what awaits me there I know not. It is discouraging to the husbandman, to work upon a field, and then leave it to the beasts of the forest to tread it down, and destroy it. It now remains to see what good will come out of this; doubtless, in the event of things, something will be made manifest, that the Supreme is conducting this for some wise purpose. It seems to me, that I am always on the forlorn hope of the mission; nevertheless, if Jehovah be on my side, I need not fear what man can do unto me Pray for me, that I may be counted worthy of the post assigned me, and stand steadfastly, and fight valiantly, and bear patiently, and devise and proceed wisely and prudently, that when the attack is over, I may not be found in dishonor. I did hope that I had reached the place, where I should be at peace, and proceed quietly in my work; but it is not so."

At this stage of the life of Mr. Chamberlain, his biographer is furnished with an opportunity of offering some remarks of his own; and in the character he gives of his friend, for love to the souls of men, zeal for the glory of God, and patience under injuries, we are satisfied, he does him no more than justice and we very readily subscribe to the disinterestedness, which actuated this Missionary in all his labours. In no one instance does he display any thing,like a wish to make a gain of godliness; and he shuns-we think too much,the opportunities, which presented themselves, of associating with the great men, in order to preach the Gospel to the poor, to whom he all along considered himself as peculiarly sent. But we cannot join in the exultations, which are demanded, when Mr. Chamberlain visits a village, preaches to a crowd of Natives, many of whom do not understand him-many of whom revile him—and many of whom molest and annoy him. We cannot be brought to believe, that there is here any evidence of good having been affected; and we must enter our protest against the conclusion, too obviously advocated by the Missionaries, that after a Ser mon by one of them, and the distribution of a few hundred tracts, over a population of some millions, the

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Gospel sound has been heard, and condemnation must follow, if it is not listened to-the seed has been sown, and if not cultivated, the Hindoo, who before was a law unto himself, has no longer any safety under his former destination in Providence, but if he comes not to the Missionary to be baptised, and received into the Church, must inevitably perish. We are very far, however, from ranking among those, whom Mr. Yates speaks of, as representing Missionary zeal, and concern for the salvation of idolators, as needlessly disinterested, because the idolators are already so happy, so peaceable, and innocent. We are firmly persuaded, that however happy, innocent, and peaceable they may be, instruction in Christianity would make them more happy, more innocent, and more peaceable; and therefore most sincerely do we desire to see them receiving this instruction: But, on the other hand, we think the Memoirs of Mr. Chamberlain's life into which we have entered at such length, clearly prove, that the mode pursued by him, in addressing the Native crowds at Bazars and Ghauts, is not that, which is to overcome their prejudices, and lead to the enlightening of their minds; and we are by no means satisfied with the answer, which he sets up to our objection to the greater part of the laborious occupations of Mr. Chamberlain, as a waste of means and of bodily vigour, and life itself, to very little purpose. Mr. Yates travels back to the period, when Christianity was yet in its infancy; and when, as allowed on all hands, miraculous means were vouchsafed, for introducing its knowledge into the world and unless Mr. Yates is prepared to say, that miracles are revived, his parallel between the labours of the Apostle Paul, and a Brother of the Missionary Baptist Society, will not avail him. It is true, that the first propagators went into the wayside' and preached the glad tidings; but they evidenced their commission, by the power of working miracles, and speaking tongues: They were specially instructed from heaven; and they were entitled to say