Mobile register and journal., 1845-04-19

BoRRow's BIBLE IN.SPAIN.-A the end of 2 chnper the church m Spain, we find notice of Mir. Borrows prnceedings for the propagation of the scriptures in the Peninsula-proceeding which seem to have resulted perfect failure. "As to the ob ject of the undertaking, it not only most pete and entire failure, but of such Il nature en- 'irely 10 ,e eat any future attempt of the sane kind" The meaning of thIs is clear, although the sentence is of a curious urn. Further on the captain says-"H is impossible not to regret that the very 'arge sums annually sent out of ihe country, from the most pure and really relgiors and consc- motives, this and other underlak ngs, pro ducing equally hule result, were not devoted to the building endowing of chu ches and chapes in our own manufacturing districts, where Iley are very much needed" How Captain Widdrngton uake such an observation as this latter one2 Surely he must be how much more interesting it is provide for the spiritual wants of people at at dis tance than those Of people in our country. What missionary society, worthy of the name, would un- derake a church-buIlding crusade into Lancashire or Yorkshire? lt is too near home, too common place. But let them discover region a. the an tipodes, inhabited by copper cooured gentry with feathers upon their heads and curtain rings through their noses, and thsre is worthy field for the lnbours of the pous In like manner poor Spain, which real lv might be allowed to put it's temporal house in or- der, before being expected to depart from the faith that has been universal in it since the expulsion oi the Saracen, was deemed sufficiently distant and dangerous 10 be interesting, and "he great London
 
 the pers he encountered, the acquaintances he made, or how he gallnped through the country on silver grey bpras-Angice, female donke ys-and dropped tracts in public walks and concealed Testa- ments in ruins and other queer places, where robbers might go, migh find them, and migM be improved by their perusal, has he not written most marvellous and amusing account for the benefit of generations present and to come? Notwithstanding, however, his missionary avOcations and Munchause senish ten- dencies, have sneaking kindness for friend Borrow, having collected from his writings that he is fellow of considerable pluck and energy. of ad- venturous spirit, with sharp eye for a good horse, and who would, no doubt, have made an excellent d,agoon had it pleased God to call him 10 that way of life. But say that his manner of spread ing ihe scriptures in Spain puts considerably in mind of those peripatetic advertisers, whose hand- bills, thrust noienS iens into the fist of the passers by, for the most pa, unread into the gutter It would be cur ions calculate the proportion borne by those Testamenis that Mir. Borrow succeeded in getting really circulated and read in Spain, the " large number which he acknowledges to have been confscaed, burnt, stolen ,Ie road, or otherwise lost The expense of the mission must have been very considerable, and the same funds might have been employed Tn this country with tenfold advan- tage both 10 humanity and the Christian relgion.- [Back woods Magazine -i.~ ~I ta