Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-12-05

lploying native converts 10 iDstructing
their Acknowledged; they have now
more than fifty native preachers. Indeed,
this is the only way 10 which the religious
wants of the population of Hipdoost'h han,
i $780, 100000, can ever be met. Where
would $4,000 foreign missionaries be OBJ
ltained, and fem what funds could they
be supported Aud this number OF teach
ers will be required after We have de-
Quoted half the population as under age,
even if We give 1000 individuals as The
/ flock Of each teacher.
The following arguments are surely
conclusive 10 support of the absolute me-
cessilyy Of saee!hs college as She aue before
us -
| H. The vast expense OF foreign mis-
sionaries: the education of Missionary
IN Englan with the outfit and passage
money OF himself and his wife, does not
cost less than $1,000, and their support
annually S666. The naive. who is on
the spot, may be educated for as dollars a
year-S67 year will support him in the
Geld as long as he lives.
2. Perhaps the foreign missionary dies
I'd II months after his arrival: that is,
before he has spoken word to the natives.
Seven hundred and fifty pounds sterling
will thus have been sunk for ever, aud hi
wife and family will remain to be sup
ported by the society. Eonr mission
families passed through the United States
a few years ago, to Serampore: OF these
persons, Mr.. and Mrs. Bliss Mr.. aud Mrs
Mardon, Mrs. Moore, and Mrs. Rove,
are already dead; two only survive. t.
the Datiye missionary The climate is quite
as healthy as America or Europe to their
natives. If the Hindoo die, S22 SO cts
a year will support bis vile.
3. AS it respects the language, the eli
mate, the subsistence, tse manners, anu
The modes oi tiiiusiug aud ieeing oi the
inhabitants, all So strange 10 a foreigner,
the native missionary is quite at hodue.
a. At present, The oniy practicable
node OF lnsiructing the natives is Dy col.
iecling them in the streets and on lne
highways: but this exposure, to the heal
Of the climate, though nothing TO the IA
lives, is almost indispensable TO the for
eiga missionary.
5. Neither the foreign missionary noT
ais wife Gao enter the dwellings Of tie Hin
docs, nor can they obtain access TO converse
at all with the females. But the native
missionary and his wlIe have many op-
portunities Of carrying into families aud IL
~. 1aA IL ho nj.
don and eternal lille.
o. The dialects of Hindoost'lian a.
mount TO not less than fifty, auother for.
mldable obstacle 10 the conversion OF the
natives by the medium OF foreigners.
Z. The foreign missionary, standing
amongst crowd of A,ndoos, is supposed
to advocate a religion designed DULY for
the whites, the religion OF his education
but the Chrishaa Hiudoo appears before
his countrym men as convert, as man
who has renounced the gods aud the Gar
ges upon whom his hearers perceive
great change to have been wrought, aud
who has given up rank, aud ali that was
dear 10 him, for Christianity.
8. Experience confirms the iorce of all
these arguments while the foreign mis-
sonaries in India have been the means oil
some solitary conversions only, large so
ciet,es OF converted natives haze been rais-
ed By the taboars Of natiDe missionaries
alone, 10 various parts oil India.
But there is another department Of this
college which is peculiarly important.
Heather youths, supported by their
friends, are beginning to assemble at Ser
ampore, from all parts Of India ;-they
are 10 have the benefits Of this college,
aud access to lis lectures, without fee or
reward. The general light which will be
thus widely diffused amongst the heather,
added to the instruction which will be az
forded by an extensive library now form
Iing, by large scientific and Philosophi-
cal apparatus, aud by The books which
will issue from the college, must, at no
distant period, produce great mental and
moral change in country which has re-
manned 10 the grossest darkness from the
earliest ages.
| Societies or individuals, by contribut-
ling 2ool sterling, (Sss9) viii provide a
4 fund for ever for sending out these native
preachers or the small sum Of $50 annu-
ally, (say by ten Individually will NEE,
the education of successive supply of
these interesting heralds, each Que Of
whom may be comforting, through long
life the uuspeakable benefits of Chris
tianiy.
i ~ DIVE Bethune, Esq. the Treas
lurer for New York, will receive dona-
tons.
4 Men. York, Nou. 1920.
i A man Of letters never knows the plague
of idleness. When the company Of his
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