The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-08-15
Bapt,st M,ssisnnrv Meeting.

The Rev Amos Sutton, a member Of the English
Missicn 70 India attended at the church in Sullivan
street. to deliver address upon the subject connect
ed with his mission; but the meeting was.very small,
and aid not number over twenty persons
Rev. gentleman opened the meeting with prayer,
and said that Mr. Sutton had consented to favor them
with few remarks, though the meeting small.
They did expect from the importance and interesting
nature of the subject, that there would have been
considerable number present
Mr.. SUTTON commenced by saying If they were as
sembsd in small room he would not feel so dihdent
in addressing them he does in seeing few be-
fore him-pot more than twenty or five and twenty
persopswben he recollected that the last assembage
he addressed consisted Of fifteen hundred persons,
closely packed He would, however, not detan them
long He urged the necessity OF sending the gospel
not only to the indies but to the whole of the I'M
christian world. 1t is the work OF philanthropy to
clothe the naked and feed the hungry but the cause
the missions extends to wider field of philant hrepy
Ito make known the gospel In every land He spoke TO
them more particularly about the field in India, with
which be was more particularly connected They
would not forget that 1t when in search OF INDIA,
Columbus discovered America, and to which circum-
stance they indebted for it's present vast extern
sion. India the first chosen field fer foreign mis-
sions In India there thirty different nations,
speaking different languages and they must not look
upon 1t ss nation but family of nations It, OF
of these nations ssa of which he particularly
spoke The whole field OF the Christian church has
been coded to mission when went there first,
we were surrounded with many difficulties We were
under very heavy bonds, and we're obliged to ex-
hibit them at the custom house in Calcutta; but
that form is now done away with. We were met
at the temple and sauted with the cry OF
Brave Juggernaut, wont worship Jesus Christ "
Indeed, we told by coGnrymen that 1t
was impossible TO convert the heather but we de-
pended upon the gospel and have after time, sue
cteded. We confident in our mission, however
difficult the work hoping as IL were, against
hope. for Fix long years and 10 not until the Sc
yenth that the indoo laid aside the Worship OF
the JuPsernaut, and now worships Jesus Christ.
When came away from India, we had seven
or eight Christian villages, with fourteen places
OF worship, all frequented by converted lindoos
The whole OF the sacred volume has been translated
into their native language and we have also trans
lated Bunyans Pilgrims Progress and other dn-
teresting works. Then we have our day schools our
boarding houses, printing Offices and difusing
Christianity throughout the length and breadth Of the
land. The Hindoos have prophesied that their re-
Hgon is to fall and another to flourish in it's stead,
and they now say to All, temple will fall and
the temple Of Christianity will remain" The reverend
gentleman then told anecdote Of feast that was
he left India, at which there upwards of
three hundred, and that at place where, fifteen
years before, there not Christian Their
tracts reach where they cannot 60, and where 1t
will be some years before the mission reach and
those tracts have converted many. The village meet
ing house Of Orissa Is built the ground where
idol was worship for years The local pastor
once @ bgotted Hindoo and he had told him Mr. Sut
TOM with tears in his eyes that at the age of 16 he
the eldest obliged to set fire to the funeral
pyre which burned the dead body Of his father and his
living mother but the gospel of Christianity has
tinguisbed those fires, and they hope for ever.
The reverend gentleman concluded by Offering up
prayer that Orissa where there were seven mission
aries, besides himself from England and three from
America who besought him TO lay their claims before
them, might become province in Emmanuels empire.