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Poetry.

THE HINDOO WIDOW: A Fragment, from an unpublished Poem.

ON Poonah's plains behold the fragrant pile,

Around whose summit orient garlands smile:

Columns of teak support the pond'rous frame,

That bears the victim of devouring flame, For whom yon sable Widow dares deny The feelings of her sex, and proudly die. Her last ablutions past, the dame ascends The river's bank, amidst surrounding friends;

Her steadfast eyes the mind's devotion tell

Scarce rais'd to bid the weeping train farewell!

The chosen Brahmin's, with applausive voice,

In her unshaken fortitude rejoice: Her blind obedience bless with fond regard,

And falsely promise a divine reward! With dauntless step she mounts the bier above,

And clasps the breathless husband of her love:

The dæmon-executioner applies

The torch of hell-the glimm'ring flames arise.

The crackling fire a wider circle forms, And rushing sparkles mount in flick'ring

storms.

Now, lest the mind its energies forego, And yielding Nature utter shrieks of woe, The trumpets pour their ceaseless clamours round,

And in rude shouts the groans of death are drown'd.

Pillars of fragrant smoke o'erwhelming rise,

And veil the mould'ring shrine from gazing eyes;

Till now they drive before the moaning wind,

And but a heap of embers leave behind : Yet shall this horrid immolation long Live in Brahmanic praise, and Eastern song!

Such awful rule has sin the tyrant gain'd, By custom foster'd, and by craft sustain'd!

Daughters of Britain! highly-favor'd

race !

Adore the God of providence and grace, Whose mercy fix'd your habitation's bound,

Beneath the glorious gospel's sov❜reign sound;

Whose laws, supremely clement, wise,

and good, Require no penance stain'd with human blood,

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THE

NEW EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE,

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Theological Review.

AUGUST, 1815.

MEMOIR OF THE LATE MR. ANDREW FULLER,
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THE distinguished honour was re-its conduct so little to gratify the served for Mr. Fuller, to become malice of its bitterest enemies." one of the first in his own denomination, who opened the door of faith to the modern idolatrous Gentiles, and prepared the way for a Mission to the East. Here a scene presented itself, of sufficient extent to afford the widest scope for his abilities, and setting before him an object commensurate with the boundless desires of his heart. This was the commencement of a new era in the life of this great man: henceforth his labours took a new direction, and his character began to unfold itself in a still more interesting and magnificent form.

The justice and propriety of this encomium may be appreciated by the results which are already before the public. Twenty missionary stations have been formed in various parts of India, in the course of as many years; some of them more than three thousand miles apart; upwards of forty missionaries, Europeans and natives, are constantly employed; more than five hundred persons of different nations have been baptized, and formed into distinct churches; the Scriptures have been, or are in a course of being, translated and printed in more than twenty of the The Baptist Mission in India oriental languages, and are circuhas been described by persons who lating, in connection with the had no immediate concern in the itinerant labours of the missionundertaking, to be❝as disinterested aries, amongst an immense popuin design, and as strenuous in ex-lation, and over an extent of ertion, as any that the christian country fully equal to that of the world ever did or ever can employ whole of Europe. for the illumination and conversion Such are the present fruits of of idolaters; and surpassing, be- this mission: its future conseyond comparison, every former quences, who can calculate! But mission, and all other undertak- the origin of this mighty work, in ings, in the grand article of trans-which the hand of God has been lating the Bible into the languages so visibly displayed, has never yet of the heathen; and also that it been distinctly traced; nor would may be doubted, whether there the unostentatious character of its ever was an undertaking of the principal agent admit of the dissame magnitude and continuance, closure. and in which so many persons The Baptist Missionary Society were concerned, that supplied by is stated to have been formed at

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Kettering in 1792, and its formation to have been occasioned by the suggestions and frequent solicitations of the present Dr. CAREY; and to whose indefatigable zeal and unparalleled exertions, the mission, and the church of God, will be under perpetual obligations. There was however a principle operating which led to this result, though its effects were not immediately discerned; and the fire which Carey kindled, was taken from a coal that had been burning upon another altar.

On a subject of such general importance, even its minutest circumstances become interesting; and viewed in connection with an efficient cause, they tend to shew by what gradual and humble means it pleases God to accomplish his great designs. "The kingdom of heaven cometh not with observation;" its coming is generally unobserved, and the lowly form which it assumes, gives but little notice of its approach. Its first appearance is as insignificant as a grain of mustard seed, which indeed is the least of all seeds; but when it is grown it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree; so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

and to this were added, A few Persuasives to a General Union in Prayer for the Revival of Religion. This address, though unaccompanied with any design beyond what it immediately specifies, contained in reality the germ of the future mission, and was the prelude to that event.

In less than two years another event followed, in close though undiscerned connection with the preceding, tending still farther to prepare the way for the ultimate designs of Providence. Early in 1786, Mr. Fuller published his Treatise, which he had written four or five years before, entitled, "The Gospel worthy of all acceptation;" in which he undertook to explain the nature of saving faith, and to prove the obligations of men to believe in Christ, wherever he was made known. This performance made a considerable impression on the churches and ministers in immediate connection with the author, and occassioned much discussion in other parts of the same denomination. In some quarters it excited great opposition and alarm, and brought on a long and animated controversy. It was the means however of awakening the attention of several of his brethren Several years previous to the to the important duties of their existence of the Baptist Mission, office; of giving a more practical and before any ideas were enter-turn to their preaching, and a new tained of a missionary undertaking, face to their religious interests; the low state of religion in general, and in connection with the monthly and of the Baptist churches in prayer-meetings, it produced the particular, had become a subject first impulse which led to missionary of deep lamentation among many undertakings. of the ministers. At an Association held at Nottingham in 1784, it was resolved to set apart an hour on the first Monday evening in every month, for extraordinary prayer for the revival of religion, and for extending the kingdom of Christ in the world. Mr. Fuller at the same time delivered his Sermon on "The nature and importance of Walking by Faith," which he afterwards published;

Mr. CAREY was born into the religious world about the time that these things were going on, and soon became an interested spectator. He was baptized in 1783, was called to the ministry two or three years afterwards, and ordained pastor of the church- at Moulton, near Northampton, in 1787. At his first setting out, he was much perplexed between the statements of the Arminians, on some

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