Page Exportation of Natives, Important Meeting, French Preaching, proposed, Government confirmation of its sanction to the Idolatries of India, Leechman, Rev. J., Extracts from letters of, Liberality of Sir Charles Metcalfe, of Wealthy Natives, Meeting of the united Churches, Meteorological Register, 62, 122, 182, 238, 302, 362, 422, 478, 538, 594, 654, 706 Metropolitan Religious Anniversaries, Miscellaneous items, .. 593 296 Missionary and Ecclesiastical Movements, 57, 116, 171, 230, 293, 359, 415, 469, 698 Persian, Abolition of, in Government transactions, Remonstrance of the Sudder Board in reference to Government interference with The Old Year, Translation of the Holy Scriptures into the languages of the Panjab, Vernacular language of Upper India, -s, triumphs of the, Violation of the Sabbath, Weather and Disease, MADRAS PRESIDENCY. Auxiliary Bible Society, Seventeenth Anniversary, Wesleyan Missionary Society, Nineteenth Anniversary, General Assembly's Institution, Examination of, German Tinnevelly Mission, London Missionary Society, New Mission station at Walojahpettah, BOMBAY PResidency. Arrivals, Rev. Messrs. Stackhouse and Valatine, Death of Sir Robert Grant, General Assembly's Institution, Examination of, Native Education Society, Temperance Society, petition Government for the abolition of spirit rations in 700 CEYLON. .. 293 Return of Rev. Mr. Legros, from England, accompanied by sixteen Missionaries, 587 Addresses presented to the Queen on behalf of Negro apprentices, Anti-slavery Meetings, 365 British and Foreign Bible Society, Thirty-fourth Report, Church Missionary Society, Thirty-eighth Anniversary, Coronation of the Queen, Emancipation of West Indian apprentices, Interesting Intelligence, Overland, Idolatry question, important movements in reference to the, London Missionary Society, Forty-fourth Anniversary, Missionary Designation Meeting at Exeter Hall, Opium Question, proceedings of the Bengal Government approved by Court of Parliamentary inquiry into slave produce, Proceedings on the subject of Negro slavery, Prize Essays, Subjects proposed for, Proceedings in England on the subject of Idolatry in India, Tract Society, Thirty-ninth Anniversary, AFRICA.-Martyrdom of a Christian female in Madagascar, Burmab, Arracan, Missons and the War, GREECE and TURKEY.-State of Religion in, RUSSIA.-Anti-missionary spirit and bigotry of the Greek Church, UNITED STATES.-American and Foreign Bible Society, formation of the, WEST INDIES.-Missionary Society formed at Falmouth, Jamaica, THE CALCUTTA CHRISTIAN OBSERVER. No. 68.-January, 1838. 1.-Editors' Preface. IN commencing, with the New Year, the Seventh volume of the CALCUTTA CHRISTIAN OBSERVER, our feelings are eminently of a satisfactory nature. We believe we are strictly correct in the impression that no Indian periodical, of a decidedly religi ous character, (with any thing like an equal extent of circulation) has had so long an existence-and that of the Calcutta Christian Observer has not been a mere existence, but a healthy and a vigorous one ;-even within the last year the number of our subscribers has very considerably augmented. Now this one fact, we apprehend, may justly be viewed as evidence of the increasing interest taken by the Indian Public in works which, like ours, together with a due attention to all subjects of a general nature, are avowedly devoted to the advocacy of religious truth, in especial connexion with the great Missionary cause. The change that has taken place in these distant colonies in this respect, as in every other analogous relation, is undeniable and most striking. It is a truly encouraging argument that, with a more extended knowledge of, and respect for, the doctrines of genuine Christianity among our countrymen and their indigenous descendants, there has been a not less decided extension of true religion itself, in the hearts of professing Christians. This, even viewing the consequent blessedness to themselves alone, and the promise so afforded that the amelioration is going and will go on with a greatly accelerated rapidity, is cause of exceeding joy, and of exulting thankfulness to "the God of all grace,' who is thus carrying on "the work of faith with power." But VII. B. |