of his assertion by comparing the lives of both. Upon this he altered his opinion, and begged for a book in which the whole history of Jesus Christ was written. We gave him a New Testament and a few tracts.

Entered the Luckyá river in the evening, and put to at Kaliganj. Here we sat near a shop and conversed with about eight or ten Hindus. One said after I had done, "Sahib, where can I find this Jesus Christ? where can I see him?" I replied, "You can have him here on this spot if you seek him by prayer and believe in him; but see him with your bodily eyes, you cannot. You may see him with the eyes of the understanding, and feel him near, but you must turn to him and renounce your sins."

9th. Sailed up the Luckyá river and put to at Chur-sinduk at eleven o'clock. There was to be a market, and so we waited till people had collected. From three o'clock we all preached under an immense tree to hundreds. Formerly we had some difficulty in getting on in our work here, but to-day people behaved unusually well, and paid very good attention. There was some fighting for books, but only a few were given. A Hindu remarked in Jaynarayan's boat, "We have heard you over and over; your religion is true and good, but we cannot renounce ours and follow Christ."

10th. At Attyadi, a bazaar, we preached to some thirty Mahajans and Mussulmans. They listened attentively to the end, when a Mussulman said, “God has given you one Shastra, another to the Hindus, and another to us. All will be saved if each follows his own book." Jaynarayan replied, “You know there are good and bad rupees; they look all good, but if you ring them on your fingers you easily find out the base coin, which, after discovery, you will never accept for good coin. Just so it is with the three different Shastras. Unless you try them you cannot make out which is from God and which from men. But try it, and you will find that the Hindu Shastras cannot be from God, nor your Koran." The Mussulman was shocked at this, and said with vehemence, "If the Koran is not God's word, then what is?" Jaynarayan replied, "The four books which existed before the Koran are God's word, and none else." The Mussulman said, "The Koran contains all those four books, and this is God's word." Jaynarayan, "If you had read the four books, you would not say so; these are separate, and your Koran is separate, but they do not agree together." He added, "You knew Dudu Miah, that great man among you; well, he acted according to the Koran-burnt down houses, plundered Hindus of their property, carried off their women and girls, and defiled them, and everybody feared him. Then he fell into the hands of magistrates, suffered here and there imprisonment. At last God's judgment fell on him, --he lost his eyes, his body, once so fair, became black, and he died in great sufferings." The Mussulman put in a word and said, "All men have to die, and so of course had he." Jaynarayan replied, "But he died being afflicted by God's judgment. Now, tell me, has God commanded us to plunder and to burn houses, and to violate women ?" "No." "But then Dudu Miah did it, and you all would do the same if you could." "The Koran," said he, "allows a little plundering of infidels. "But," said Jaynarayan, "has God commanded this, or Mohammed? Read, and you will see that God has threatened to punish such offenders. You say that Mohammed is the last and greatest prophet, and Jesus Christ only a common Nabi. Who was greater, Christ or Mohammed? Christ did no sin and was faultless; was Mohammed the same? Christ gave sight to the blind, and raised the dead, and healed all manner of diseases, and rebuked the storm; could Mohammed perform a single miracle?" The man was silenced, and said nothing more.

11th. At Badya bazaar, a few Hindus listened attentively to the word spoken. They all were singers, who go from place to place to earn their bread in this way. One of them seemed impressed, and said he would no more sing the songs of Krishna.

12th. At Haibatnugur put to at noon and walked a mile inland to the Dewan's residence. On the way looked into a neat, clean school bungalow, kept by the zemindar, but it had not yet begun. The residence of the Dewan is a whole square full of brick houses, built high and low, long and short, some

two-storied, some one-storied, surrounded by a high wall. I sent my salaam to the zemindar, but the durwan came back saying he had not yet risen and was still asleep. Upon this we posted ourselves at a hát close by, and were soon surrounded by a large crowd of amlas, burkandazes, and lattiwallahs, and other people, to whom we preached the Gospel. Considering the usual insolence of the servants of great natives, these made a noble exception, and treated us with kindness and civility. Their attention was throughout good, and even some moulvies heard with apparent interest. The fight for books was sharp, but we had brought only a few, and these were soon distributed.

At some distance from here put to at Jangalbari, which name this place significantly and most appropriately deserves. A good many Mussulmans and a few Hindus gathered near our boat, to whom we preached the Gospel till night set in. A Brahmin was brought into some difficulty by Jaynarayan's questions, but he heard patiently to the end. As he always confounded Krishna with Christ, I put some sentences in, showing him the difference between the two. The zemindar of the place had come with his moonshees and servants, and sat in his boat near mine listening to our conversation on shore. He sent word to me to come and sit in his boat. I went, but of course we could not agree in our religious sentiments. However, he and his people behaved remarkably well and calmly. He insisted that Mohammed was the last and greatest prophet, yet avowed his belief in Jesus Christ also as one of the prophets, and said that his religion was dissolved, and instead of it Mohammedanism and the Koran set up.

13th. Proceeded to a fair at Garimganj, in the Kudir jungle. Here we spent nearly the whole day. From 8,000 to 10,000 people assembled here from all directions-buying, selling, and making the place exceedingly lively and crowded. Unhappily the square in which the bazaar is built was so full of people that we could not obtain a shadowy place, and were therefore exposed to the fearful heat of a midday sun. Besides this, we were at once so hemmed in by hundreds of people that no fresh air could reach us. There must have been more than a thousand Hindus and Mussulmans close together, who heard us with surprising patience and attention in this heat. A whole sea of heads moved now and then right or left, as the pressure from outside compelled them to make room for more. Standing on an elevated spot, we could reach the furthest with our voices, but when I was just right in the matter, a giddiness in the head, and a chill throughout my whole body, obliged me to finish sooner than I wished, and to hasten to the boat. There I found my thermometer at 96° in the shade, and seeing this I could account for the trembling and giddiness. The native preachers were carried out above the ground by the pressure of the crowd, but no one gave any trouble to them.

14th. Sailed over four jhils and reached Chirang bazaar at nine o'clock. Here we stayed the whole day, there being a large hát to be held. From this part all the Decca bearers come, having their families and homesteads in this neighbourhood. From one o'clock we preached to some five to six hundred people, but having not even a tree for protection against the powerful sun, I had to abridge again on account of renewed giddiness in the head and trembling over the body. All the rest of the day one crowd after another came for books and conversation. The noise and press at our boats were alarming, but yet amusing. My boat happened to be near a cook-house of some shopkeepers, and a narrow lane between this and other huts was a short cut to our boat. Not satisfied with this lane, the hát people took liberties, and passed right through the cookhouse of the Hindus. Three of them were cooking and eating, but they were not a moment left in peace. One sat eating his rice and curry in a corner as he could now a mouthful, then a stop; and with the other hand he wielded a long bamboo among the legs of the intruders, scolding, abusing, and laughing; again he took another mouthful, retreating with his brazen plate gradually to the farthest end of the hát, where he was almost invisible. Another beat with a split bamboo about the walls and posts of the house, roaring out like a madman, and, after all, sitting down in despair, holding his sides with laughter. Boys tumbled into ankle-deep puddle, and into muddy water, bespat

tering the bystanders with dirt, and receiving cuffs right and left from the surly Mussulmans and Hindus.

When evening approached, hundreds of dinghis, small and great, passed our boat, and each one stopped, and the people begged permission to have a look inside the boat. This was readily granted. Many who could not get a Gospel in the day came now on their homeward way to carry one away to their distant villages. Look where we might, we saw these dinghis gliding over the jhils, laden to the edge, and people reading, chanting tracts and Gospels, or engaged in giving their opinion of this new religion. As I looked after them, with many a silent prayer that this seed of the Gospel may spring up and bear fruit, it was impossible not to rejoice in hope that the time must come when the large gatherings in these wastes and jungles will be the means of spreading the faithful saying of Jesus Christ having come into the world to save sinners all over the vast plains of Bengal. "A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a great nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time."

HOME PROCEEDINGS.

DURING the last month numerous missionary meetings have been held, and, notwithstanding the difficulties here and there sorely felt, arising from political events, the collections have, on the whole, maintained the average of former years. The Rev. F. Trestrail has been engaged in South Wales at Swansea and Cardiff; and Mr. Underhill at Maze Pond, and with Mr. Kalberer at Nottingham, Lincoln, Newark, Colingham, and Great Grimsby. The Rev. J. Sale has been fully occupied with services and meetings at Bloomsbury Chapel, London, in Oxfordshire, and at Wallingford. The Rev. W. K. Rycroft has visited Sevenoaks, and spent a fortnight in Glamorgan and Monmouthshire. We are also indebted to the Revs. J. Tucker and T. Gould for their services at Battle, Hastings, and Lewes; Mr. Gould has also visited Edenbridge. In our last we omitted to mention that the Rev. W. Landels preached for the Mission in the Independent Chapel, Tunbridge Wells, kindly lent for the occasion, on the 22nd of October.

We record with pleasure the safe arrival at their destinations of the Rev. J. Peacock at Cameroons, and the Rev. W. A. Monod at Morlaix, to enter on their work in those contrasted but important spheres of missionary labour.

DONATION OF TWO THOUSAND POUNDS.

He in whose power is the silver and gold has put it into the heart of an unknown friend to give to the general funds of the Society the munificent donation of Two Thousand Pounds as a 66 Thank-offering." This addition to the Society's funds will enable the Committee at once to send out missionaries to China, India, and Ceylon, should suitable persons present themselves. At present there is great want of such men. Will not some be encouraged to offer their services to the Lord by this example of devotedness and love to his cause?

WIDOWS AND ORPHANS' FUND.

We hope the pastors and deacons will continue to make arrangements for the Sacramental Collection on the first Lord's-day in the new year. The claims on this fund are increasing, and so likewise, we rejoice to say, are the contributions. They have been steadily augmenting since the first appeal was made. This notice is not intended to supersede the usual circular, which will be sent in due course but simply to call attention to the subject in good time.

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S CARDS FOR NATIVE
PREACHERS' FUND.

These cards will be issued at the beginning of the month, and we affectionately invite our young friends to exert themselves strenuously to obtain as large an amount as possible. The Society now sustains One Hundred and Eighty-two of these most useful labourers. We are glad to say that while the yearly donations to this fund do not equal the expenditure, yet that it is annually increasing; thus, in 1857, £354 were contributed; in 1859, £455; and last year the amount was £517. We need at least £,1000.

The Secretary of the General Baptist Missionary Society, our esteemed friend, the Rev. J. C. Pike, wishes us to say that he has removed from Quorndon to De Montford Square, Leicester.

FOREIGN LETTERS RECEIVED.

AFRICA-CAMEROONS, Diboll, J., Sept. 24,
27, 30; Fuller, J. J., Sept. 30;
Milbourne, T. K., Oct. 1; Peacock,
E. J., Sept. 30; Saker, A., Sept. —,
and Oct. 1; Smith, R., Sept. 27.
VICTORIA, Pinnock, F., Sept. 20, 21.
ASIA-AGRA, Gregson, J., Sept. 17.
BHOWANIPORE, Cowen, M. E., July 8.
CALCUTTA, Lewis, C. B., Sept. 23, Oct. 8.
CHEWFOO, Kloekers, H. Z., Aug. 5.
DACCA, Bion, R., no date.

DELHI, Broadway, D. P., Sept. 5;

Broadway, D. P., and Evans, T.,
Sept. 3, Oct. 5; Evans, T., Sept. 2.
DINAGEPORE, McKenna, A., Sept. 19.
HOWRAH, Morgan, T., Oct. 7.
INTALLY, Pearce, G., Sept. 9.
KANDY, Carter, C., Sept. 28.

MONGHYR, Gregson, J. G., Sept. 12.

MYMENSING, Bion, R., Aug. 26. SEWRY, Williamson, J., Oct. 4. BAHAMAS-INAGUA, Littlewood, W., Aug.

13.

FRANCE-MORLAIX, Jenkins, J., Nov. 1;
Monod, A. W., Nov. 7.
HAYTI-JACMEL, Webley, W. H., Oct. 10.
JAMAICA-ANNOTTO BAY, Jones, S., Oct.

22.

BROWN'S TOWN, Clark, J., Oct. 8.
CALABAR, East, D. J., Oct. 8.
FULLER'S FIELD, Maxwell, J., Oct. 10.
LILLYPUT, Milliner, G., Oct. 21.
NEW ZEALAND-NELSON, Dolamore, D.,
Aug. 8.
SWITZERLAND-BERNE, Wenger, J., Oct.

18.

TRINIDAD-Law, J., Oct. 8.

SAN FERNANDO, Gamble, W. H., Oct. 2.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

The thanks of the Committee are presented to the following:

Baptist Tract Society, for a Parcel of Tracts, for Rev. W. H. Gamble, San Fernando, Trinidad.

Mr. Sherring, for a Book, for Rev. G. H. Rouse.

Ladies' Working Society, Brixton Hill, for a Case of Clothing, &c., value £14, for Mrs. Rouse.

"Zion" Baptist Missionary Working Party, Chatham, by Mrs. Love, for a Parcel of Clothing, for Rev. A. Saker, Cameroons, West Africa.

CONTRIBUTIONS,

Received on account of the Baptist Missionary Society, from October 21 to November 20, 1861.

W. & O. denotes that the Contribution is for Widows and Orphans; and N. P. for Native Preachers.