Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1827-03-03

trict of Jatianapantam alone, in 1868, up
wards of 81 900 had proiessed the Christ
ian faith, in 1888, the number Of converts
amounted to 49,, 900, OF whom 10000 had
been made vi thin the last four years. And
as late as 1901, the number of native Pro-
testant christians iii the island of Ceylon,
was upwards of $4,000. browns history
of Missions
The wonderful results orthe labors Of Ji-
negenbalg, and other Danish missionaries,
/ al fianquebar, aud other parts OF India, in
The 9th century, will forbear to detail ,
as also those of Elliot, Mayhem, Bralnard,
and other Anglo American Missionaries,
among The benighted Aborgincs ofour own
country
Truly you have taken q sweep of sixty
| to convict me of the most gross and unpar-
| donable ignorance of;he history Of missions.
You have al
"Thrown my head conviction in the lump,
And eain'd remote conclusions al jump"
l hold myself most deeply indebted to
your kudness for letting me into the i'm
portant secret that there we're other origi-
nators of foreign missions besides the good
and ylr,uous gentcm, n to whom you have
| SO often alluded; but as no others had been
named by you, and none were excepted,
considered the logical dilemma which has
! excited within you so much merrimcnt and
taltness was very opportunely furnished 10
my hands, and did hope you would receive
not merely as all drgunaentum ad hO,n,ne ~ +,
but also ad reiicuuldia.n, and be more eau
tlous of your attacks on men whose char
acters are by 10 means so vulnerable as
! you pretend.
Your quotation from Elder John Tay-
lor's thoughts on Missions" in the Ian
guage of commercial people appears rath-
er Jgdi; and as such you evidently view it
by the manner in which you hasten from it,
as an episode, u term, l should think rather
too poetic for this sort of prose. am
well acquainted with the good old gentle
man, and sincerely regret the unhappy pre-
JUDGES he has imbbed. You have really
taken long journey, to hunt up one soli-
tary witness, so little to your purpose; for
what does all the elders surmises amount
to3 Do they prove any mal-p actces in
money matters, or any unworthiness OF
character in the young men who were his
friendly guests1 And if they did, we have
other testimony which would clear them.
One Of the gentlemen was afterwards en-
trusted with an important mission to Afri-
ca, which he executed with the utmost
fidelity. But suppose the characters of
these men could be destroyed, then the
reasoning ofyour witness, when thrown in
to logical form would read thus:
Mills and Schemerhorn were bad men,
or men Of doubtful character
Judson and Rice were educated in the
same school, viz. Andover, and sent on
mission by the same Board, the A. B. c.
| + Missions.
Therefore they also are bad men; or
men whom we have good reason to suspect
Now l ask in the name of common sense,
and common justice, who would risk his
reputation and destiny on such mode of
ratiocination ? Such is the postulatum,
upon which this aged aud iliteratc Ken
tuckian builds his opposition to Foreign
| Missions, and truly It is as good as some
other | could name But few days
since, correspondent from the south in
| formed Inc that small association had
been formed in his eighbourhCod, Of men
as good and intelligent as your witness, for
the express purpose of opposing Missions,
F!ecmasoary, and a certain Theological In
siituiion. o tcplpora! o Mores
When you have furnished your proof
against the agents ard actors in the cause
of +. Missions according to my request
in my last communication, shall furnish
number OF important facts which keep in
reserve for the close of my defence.
do not hold myself bound to exculpate
every individual connected with the mis-
sionary enterprise from all blame, as
know not what evidence you may adduce /,
but do promise to show that the great
est part of your injurious allegations are as
unlounded as they are unknd and that
nothing can be substantiated against the
modus operandi of the missionary under
taking, which in the opinion Of fair and
candid judges, can furnish us with sufiic-
lent grounds to either deiamc or oppose it
If you say it is visionary and futile, let
your argument stand at that, and will
trouble you no more. So one may say of
Capt. Symmes' internal theory, and Capt.
Parry's Arctic voyages, and hundred other
projects afoat in tho world, Of which we
give a hasty opinion and let thcm pass
Why not treat this wild scheme in the same
way, and not rove the world around, to
coniure up shawls and leghorns, rummage
| k;trhcns and parlours with q view to caIum-