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Meteorological Register, kept at the Surveyor General's Office, Calcutta, for the month of July, 1838.

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CALCUTTA CHRISTIAN OBSERVER.

No. 77.-October, 1838.

I.-The Basle Missionaries commended to the Church of Christ in India.

Most cordially do we commend the appeal of Germanus' to the Christian people of India, and we hope that not only will many hearts beat with joy on its perusal and many a prayer ascend to the Eternal for the safe conduct of our beloved brethren and for the most enlarged success to attend them on their arrival, but that many hands will be put forth filled with the silver and gold which is the Lord's for their ample support. The Church of Christ in India cannot we think do less than make an effort for their suppport; she has been calling for years for more labourers and now they offer themselves and will shortly be in the field. Let her prove the sincerity of her desire by the promptness and bountifulness of her aid. It will be perceived also that our brethren of Basle have been stimulated to send forth their brethren to northern India because we forwarded them a donation some time back. They take this as an earnest of our disposition to help them, not only with our prayers, but with our counsel and substance. Shall they hope in vain? If every station would use its energy and put forth its efforts on this subject much might be done before the arrival of our friends, their arms might be ready and their way prepared; and oh! what a source of encouragement would it be to them on their arrival to find that the Church had provided amply for their present wants, and future prospects. One station for instance, might undertake to raise sufficient to furnish the house of a missionary, another to pay for his passage and outfit, a third endeavour to raise a sum sufficient for his first year's support, a fourth might be providing for, the schools, and other things connected with the mission; and we may and can all pray for the success of the enterprize. Come then, dear brethren, young and old, rich and poor, civil and military; let us unite in an attempt to support a mission commended to us not only for the sacredness of its object, but for its economy, simplicity and faith, and may God give us his Holy Spirit that all may redound to his glory.-ED.

Appeal to the Christian Public in India on behalf of the Basle Missionary Society.

It will be gratifying to all who feel an interest in Missions to hear that the above mentioned Society has now resolved to VII.

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send its agents with the blessed Gospel to this country, after having been expelled by an imperial ukase from the Russian dominions.

The circumstance of some donations amounting to 1200 rupees having been sent from hence last year, combined with the representations of the Rev. Mr. Hæberlin on his late visit to Basle, have so encouraged the directors of that Society as to induce them to decide on the immediate establishment of one or two missionary stations in Northern or Central India.

About 3 years since, when their prospects in Russia began to darken, the Society commenced missionary operations in two stations on the other side of India, viz. at Mangalore and Dharwar; in which 7 ordained missionaries are now zealously engaged, and 5 more are expected to join them shortly. Their success, considering the short period of their labours, has been truly satisfactory. At Mangalore they have lately instituted a Seminary for the education of native assistants, and their pleasing progress on the whole, and the open doors they meet in preaching, wherever they go, is so contrary to the discouragements and difficulties constantly placed in the way of missionaries by the Russian Government, that this has been an additional inducement for the commencement of operations on this side of India.

The Rev. Messrs. Pfander and Kreiss, two of the missionaries who were lately driven away from their station at Shushi in Georgia by the Russian government, have lately arrived at Bombay from Persia, and have received instructions to proceed immediately to Calcutta, and are now on their way hither. Upon their arrival they will consult with experienced missionary friends as to the scene of their future location.

According to the most recent accounts from Switzerland Mr. Hæberlin likewise, may be expected in Calcutta towards the close of the present year. He will be accompanied by several other labourers in connection with the Basle Missionary Society, who with the former brethren will form the band intended to commence the proposed new stations.

To direct these brethren in the choice of the most desirable locations the advice of experienced missionary friends, who are acquainted with any stations up the country, which are unoccupied, and where missionaries might advantageously be settled, is earnestly solicited.

One station in Central India near the Nerbudda from which urgent invitations have been sent, and liberal assistance promised, is already in consideration. But it is especially requested, that any individuals interested in the great work of evangelizing India will notwithstanding communicate their

views and desires on the above point. Very populous towns and districts will be preferred, as the Society intend to locate four or five missionaries together, and in one place two of them at least have it in contemplation to direct their attention entirely towards Muhammadans.

The Committee of the Basle Missionary Society, in the pleasing prospect of the establishment of missions in India make in their last annual report the following remarks. "After our apparently painful losses in the Russian missions, we follow with joy the directions of a gracious Providence, which has laid open to us a wide field for the dissemination of evangelical knowledge in India, where hundreds of messengers of peace may find ample room for preaching the word of reconciliation · without opposition, and where our agents are in addition favoured with the liberal aid of British Christians. Our brethren having been expelled from the Russian territory we are now resolved, in humble reliance upon the promised divine assistance, to concentrate our little strength and confined resources upon Indian ground. In coming to this resolution we have been particularly encouraged by a most satisfactory result as to the expenses of our mission establishment at Mangalore. We were long deterred from entering upon this interesting field, by hearing from several quarters of Indian missions being uncommonly expensive. Our brethren have now dissipated our apprehensions by returning 2,000 rupees into our treasury, after settling their second annual accounts, from a monthly salary of 100 rupees each individual. This pleasing fact has enabled us at once to decide upon a considerable extension of our operations so auspiciously begun."

Christian friends, ye who love the Lord Jesus, and who cry and sigh over the abominations of heathenism, here is an opportunity of aiding in the fulfilment of your own prayers. Come then to the help of the Lord against the mighty. It is in your power to bring a number of evangelists into this benighted field by affording your liberal aid to these missionaries. On this must depend in a great measure their continuance and increase. The parent Society is by no means straightened in agents, but it is straightened in funds. Many devoted young men are only waiting for the call to go forth.

Local support therefore alone is required. The habits of the missionaries are of the most simple and economical order. The fact of the three brethren stationed at Mangalore having returned 2,000 rupees from their small monthly salary of 100 rupees, within two years, speaks for itself. The little sum of 1200 rupees has encouraged the Society to send 6 or 8 missionaries to northern India for a beginning. Let the sum now be

doubled and trebled, and there is little doubt that the result will be in proportion. Let not the hearts of these devoted servants of the Lord be discouraged from want of aid. Let us make a vigorous effort, for we feel confident if the expected missionaries meet with the realization of their hopes in the support and countenance they anticipate receiving, they will immediately be followed by a double number of zealous labourers.

August 17th, 1838.

SIR,

II.-The Millenarian Question.

GERMANUS.

To the Reviewer of Mr. Mundy's "Millenarianism examined."

In perusing your critique upon the above subject, and the extracts you have appended thereto it occurs to me that you have not treated your readers (nor Millenarians in general) quite fairly. Permit me to point out in what respect. Throughout your review you have leant entirely to Mr. Mundy's reasonings; this however, as your sentiments seem mutually to coincide, is not objectionable. But it appears to me that when you approve equally of the tone of those reasonings, much of which not only in my opinion, but in that of many whom I highly respect, is decidedly objectionable, you do not adhere strictly to the line of conduct required of an impartial critic.

There are palpable defects in Mr. Mundy's tract which ought to have been pointed out; some of his remarks are objectionable and the tone of his reasonings is, I think, generally very far from proper. I object first to the use of the term Millenarianism. The term is too vague inasmuch as there are so many shades of difference in the opinions held by one class from those held by a second or third party, all of whom however believe in the "latter day glory," that when Mr. M. undertook to expose the fallacies embraced in the tenets of one sect differing from himself in opinion on this head, I think he undertook a very invidious task. For while some hold the opinion of Christ reigning personally on earth, they still agree in many other points with the views entertained by those of Mr. Mundy's sentiments neither do these object to the labors of Missionaries for the spreading of the precious truths of the Gospel: far from it, they rather consider that such labor will conduce to the preparation of the earth for his holy reception, and men for the welcome and glory of their blessed Redeemer. If by Millenarians Mr. M. means the Irvingites alone, he confuses the opinions of one sect with many others. Besides, the Irvingites are comparatively a small class, and therefore ought not to have been introduced, and their peculiarities dwelt upon, as representing the great class who differ in opinion from Mr. M. touching the spirituality or otherwise of Christ's reign upon earth in the latter day. But I conclude Mr. M. means by that term

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