The Litchfield County post., 1828-02-28
EoOm shs 4issismsgy Hsrnii, RETROSPECTIVE VIEW

The fires of Christianity, which have been kindled by the missionaries tn parts oG, INDIA, have been seen, the past year, ,0I flame in many places, with increasing lus- ire. From CutnG,--a pOpulOus city, a, days journey north of CalcuIta, ahd in the midst of populouS country where al thousand children have been taught in] Christian schOOls,---we have heard of al written petition from the principal lnhabn- ants, for a Christian to reside among them. Ten miles farther north is the town ot Burdpan, where the Church Missionary Society has established seminary tof boys, around which, in contiguous villages, are fifteen mission schools, containing e-I leven hundred youths. We have heard, that village in his vicinity has requested Christian instruction. At DinGgcpore, NOngkw and BenGres-the last of these the ancient seat of Brahminical learning, and the holy city'' of their religion, and all of them in the interior of lnda,--wc have Seen animating evidence of plogres- Sive Christian influence: and we have learned that tho latebishop Eieber,l in sim gle tour through the upper provinces, had
 
 hundred converts, the result of missionary exertion, and yet saw less than half of such as are connected with only the Episcopal missions in thcse provinces.
 Travelling south from Calcutta, we pass through village, few miles distant from tha: city, of which interesting accounts were received year ago. These have been confirmed the past year. 1t IS Eow rendered certain, that the inhabitants of Rammakaichoke have destroyed the lm- age of their idol god, demolished his tenn Die, and of the materials of his temple e. rected substantial Christian church.-- Proceeding down the eastern side of the peninsula India we enter the counry where the apostolic Swaraz labored fifty years as missionary. Here, under his ministrations, more than 6,OOO natives were induced to forsake idolatry: and the past year we have seen it in the corres- pondence of bishop Heber, who visited TanjOr, and is an nunexceptionabie witness, that th,s number h IS since been incre >ed, and that the Brahmins find 1t d fficult to find votaries enough to speed the pondrouS wheels of their idolatrous cars, through the deep lanes of that fertile country.
 Advancing still farther south more in- teresting, scene opens. Wha we heard & stated four years ago, has since been am- ply illustrated and confirmed. More than one thousand families in the district of South India, called Pdi0mc0ttdh, have late ly renounced idolatry, and assemble every Sabbath day, in more than hundred vil-' lages, to learn the way of salvation throus h the Gospel. At one village, the mission ary was conducted to former temple of idolatry converted into Christian sanctu- ary, and saw the idol of stone, W iah sev- eral generations had worshipped, lying out- side rejected, despised, and to be no more revered. Nor was this by any means a solitary instance. Numerous idols have been destroyed, and several idol temples either demolished, or consecrated to the worship of the true God.-And this was in INDIA, where some affirm that missions have failed.
 After remarking that fatal blow has prob bly, been given, the past year, to the horrid practice of burning widows on the funeral piles of their husbands, we cross the straits of Manaar to the Island of Teylon.
 On this island containing million and half of souls, about thirty missionaries are employed, and so great an impression is making on idolatry, by their joint labors, that, as the methodist missionaries believe, the time cannot be remote when the whole population shall be rescued from the su- perstitions of Buddhism, and its dark and and poluting system of demon worship.
 We next direct our attention far to the north, to line ot German Co!onies skirt- ing the northern shores of the Black Sea and the northern frotiers of Turkey, even to the borders of Persia. These colonies have been brought out to our views the past year. They have been planted dur- ing the last twenty-five years, and have carried with them the seeds of Christiani- ty. We have heard, that a missionary so- ciety in Germany has sent evangelical min isters among them, to fan the flames of pi- ety, and prepare a Christian influence t" be exerted on the neighborng millions of Russia, and Persia, and Turkey. These colonies have been compared to covered ways, or trenches, conducting to fortresses not yet subdued to the kingdom of God. We may regard them, also as an invasion of the enemy's territory and it is delight $apV kN Ak, T Al. n