that beautiful hymn, "Jesus, I love thy charming name," &c., and gave out and sang himself the first two verses and the last. It was exceedingly affecting to hear his tremulous voice, (in this his last effort to sing on this side eternity,) repeat the last verse, so very appropriate to his circumstances, and congenial to his feelings

"I'll speak the honours of thy name,
With my last lab'ring breath;
And dying, clasp thee in my arms,
The antidote of death."

On Thursday, our native preacher Paunchoo came to see him, when he said to him, "Paunchoo, I am now going into the presence of that great Jesus, whose gospel I have preached, and whose gospel you preach. We believe that the everlasting righteousness of Christ can save sinners; and I beg you, when you go among your countrymen, to tell them fully, that 'it is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.'" In the afternoon, Messrs. Warden and Gogerly called to see him. When asked if he had anything particular to say to them, he replied, "No; only, that they abound more and more in the work of the Lord." After this, he rapidly declined, and on the Friday morning it was evident that his dissolution was at hand. Mr. Pearce intimating this to him, said, he hoped he could say, "The will of the Lord be done." He replied, "I would rather

say, Now let me die. O Lord! now let thy servant depart in peace." On his adding, “When you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, you need fear no evil;" he immediately caught the allusion to the 23rd Psalm, and replied, "No. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He even now maketh me to lie down in green pastures." To Mr. Penney, who asked him how he felt, he said, "I am well. I have still a good hope. I am on the foundation." To Dr. Carey, Mr. Hill, Mr. Robinson, and other friends, who at different times called to see him, he used similar expressions. At one time he said, "I have not the smallest idea of recovery, and therefore do now most solemnly commit my soul into the hands of my almighty Saviour. Blessed be God that he ever called me by his grace." One of his friends observed, "Yes, blessed be he indeed; for where he hath given grace, there he hath promised to give glory. Whom he calleth, them also he will justify and glorify." He rejoined, "Yes, he hath loved me with an everlasting love, and therefore with loving-kindness hath he drawn me."

I sat up with him two nights just before his decease, and was, I hope, much edified by his pious counsel and dying charge. His mind was perfectly happy in the prospect of death, and he seemed anxious for the hour of departure to arrive.

Soon after this, his mind, oppressed with disease, became incapable of thought, and he said little more in the exercise of his reason before his

death, which on Saturday night at eleven o'clock, admitted him to the joy of his Lord, and to the keeping of that Sabbath which remains for the people of God.

CHAPTER XVI.

Shall we, whose souls are lighted
With wisdom from on high,
Shall we to men benighted
The lamp of life deny?
Salvation! Oh Salvation!
The joyful sound proclaim,
Till each remotest nation

Has learned Messiah's name.

Waft, waft, ye winds, his story,
And you, ye waters, roll;
Till, like a sea of glory,

It spreads from pole to pole :-
Till, o'er our ransom'd nature,
The Lamb for sinners slain,
Redeemer, King, Creator,

In bliss returns to reign.-HEBER.

BENEFITS RESULTING FROM MISSIONARY OPERATIONS -EXTRACTS OF CONVERSATIONS HOLDEN WITH THE NATIVES ANECDOTE OF A RICH SIRCAR.

A FAR greater degree of good has already resulted from the operations of missionaries in India than can be made apparent to those, who limit their ideas of success to the actual records of converts gained to the Christian faith. By the translation of the sacred Scriptures, a facility of

imparting instruction to the inhabitants of the various pagan nations of India, has been afforded; which, with the establishment of schools in all the villages within reach of missionary stations, has already accomplished great things in preparing the way of the Lord in the desert. By the means of preaching, millions have heard the Gospel, and for the first time have entertained the idea that the Hindoo religion is liable to suspicion as to its divine authenticity; and by the liberal distribution of portions of the Holy Scriptures and tracts, they have been enabled to compare Hindooism with Christianity; and in numerous instances, or I may say in all cases they have been constrained to admit the superior nature of the latter, although their minds have not been so powerfully wrought upon, as to induce them at once to renounce the religion of their fathers, to embrace Christianity.Still a vast deal of prejudice has been removed, and a great change has been produced in their mode and tone of thought respecting their idols. And it is a pleasing fact, that all around a missionary station there is a less degree of brutal and licentious feeling manifested at their several poojahs, than where missionary efforts have as yet not been made. When a mighty revolution has been effected in the government of a nation, those who have at length carried their wishes into effect, have not had the pleasure of daily, weekly, or monthly enrolling the names of the citizens as converts to their views and plans. Very few have