Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-10-19

little more than year past. death.
sickness, and other causes have. 50 far
as [ can learn, laid aside 70 mis.iona.
ries in India, while but sir or e;oht
have, in the same time came 10 India
and so far as know, from missiona.
ry appearances, mot from Gods nro.
mises) there Is q prospect Of further
diminution rather than Experimentation.
In view Of these things what will the
English and American Churches dop
Is it moi time, for every missionary in
India, to cry aloud and spare note
Would you have your missionaries
leave their work, and come home. 10
plead, in person before you. the
cause of the heathenf DO not fembi
US to DO so Some have, in Proyi. /,
dence been called home, especially to
England, and their pleas, in person,
have been successful so far beyopd
VIVA! has been otherwise attempted. az
seemingly to call for the measure,
though so expensive, and, for the time
so prIvatlve to the heather. WHY is
it sOF Why cannotfarts be weighed
Why cannot The well known necessi.
ties and miseries OF The heather speak
and plead, and prevaa, without the
aid ofany such disastrous expedientsa
Does this tell to the credit of those
whom The gospel makes auise to do
good9 o think of these things ereyg
one who has a mind that caS think,
oteeL every one that has heart that
can feel Dye redeemed ofthe Lord.
whom he has made kings and priests
unto God, 81 beseech you, therefore
brethren, by the mercies of God, that
ye present your bodies living sacri.
fee, holy acceptable unto God which
is your reasonable service" and in the
spirit Of such an unreserved co,lsecra,
ton OF yourselves to your Redeemer,
ask him, LORD WHAT WILT
THOU HAVE ME TO DO?o
And let his Spirit, and bis truth, and
your own conscience give you the an.
swer which shall guide you in a mat.
ter OF such unparalleled moment. Your
adectlonate fellow servant in the Lord,
GORDON HALL
Bombay, LIST February, 1926.
n B--I hope it will be deemed
excusable to add most respectful, but
fervent request, that this plea in be.
half Of population equal 10 that of the
North American States, though 50
brief and feeble, may be presented te
the Christian public, through the va.
rious religious Newspapers and Ma.
ga2ines in The United States.
Since the above was written, this
faithful servant OF God, has fallen on
Dis distant post. 1t would almost seem
rom this affecting plea with Ameri.
can Christians that he had some pre-.
monitor of the nearness of his depar.
ure. Only month after the date of
the above, he wrote that he finished
revising for the press the last sheets of
the New Testament--and having thus
obtained little leisure from his labonr
was about starting on a tour into the
country for preaching. On the Cd Of
March he commenced his 'iourney.
was seized with cholera morbus on the
of the Goth, and died at a
quarter past IL on the same day. Mr..
Graves is the only missionary now
remaining at Bombay. The heather
loondeT that the number is not az
east kept good
'NorE.-rhe following facts, from the lass
'eport of our schools, show how extensivelv
Christian knowledge might be diffused among
| rising generation of dolstors, were there only
/ supply Of missionaries and funds, and if bus
he Spirit OF God were given, in answer to
prayer, TO seal upon the youthful mind such
Christian instructions, what would not soo, he
accomplished.
Sour number of schools at present is 90
The number of children on the teachers lists in
1850. OF these rs are girls, and 1873 jewish
'During the past year, as nearly as We ean
calculate, 1000 have left our school most -
hem having obtained VIVA; the natives esteem
a sufficient good school education. Amono
these, together with those who have left %
former years, are many boys and young men,
who can read with f1uency and prourie,v thar
would put TO shame great majority Of the
common bganhuns, And the fact is pecul;arlv
gratifying, that instead OF having imbibed any
prejudice against us, or our books. from the
Christian instruction gwen in our schools, these
very youth, & their relatives, wherever We meet
with them in the country, are of all others tsn
most forward to receive and read, and beg, the
Christian scriptures and tracts. In not few in.
.;ances, fathers earnestly solicit them for their
little sans,
al.