Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-02-03

Christianity was to be promulgated by the con-
tact of individual mind with individual mind.
He did not devise any set Of measures to ope-
rate, as it is said on the public mind, and
change the views Of the masses. He had little
confidence in schools as means Of the CONVEX
Christ and his Apostles had made it their
great work to proclaim to men everywhere the
news Of salvation, and he resolutely followed
their example.
There is something deeply interesting in
facts like these. In these volumes we see one
of the most learned and able men in India
that nursery of great men--a man Of refined
manners and cultivated tastes, surrounded by
q company Of native Christians who had yet
only begun to put off their habits Of barbarism,
penetrating the reoesses Of the forest and thread
ing every accessible rivulet for the sake Of
preaching to almost naked savages the Gospel
of our salvation. Wherever he could find list
eners, were they many or few, there he stopped
to discourse on the message Of redeeming love.
Whether from his boat or on the shore, wheth-
or by day or by night, he was always ready to
reveal to these wandering barbarians the love
Of God, in sending his Son for our redemption.
In this work he was remarkably successful.
Rarely did he 60 into the jungle, without, on
his return, bringing his sheaves with him."
And when at length, he felt constrained, by
order Of the Board of Missions, to devote him
self to the work Of translation it cost him a
pang; and the paper which recorded his reso-
tuition to forsake the Jungle and devote himself
to life Of greater sclfindulgence, was believed
with his tears.
1t may interest the readers Of this notice to
be told that the present results Of the Burman
mission, from it's commencement to 1928,
show SO mission stations, | IL substations, ga
missionaries, 205 native missionaries, 1872
churches, and 1882 members baptized on the
profession Of their faith and relations of
Christian experience" They have 80 schools,
and 2,o6s pupils
for calling into actual service oil the gifts Of
native Christians. He saw that q nation can
never be evangelical, except by means of it's
own population. Foreigners can never supply
it with ministers Of the gospel Strangers may
carry to it the truths Of the gospel may trans
fer them into its language, and, by the bless
ing Of God, may establish churches. But it is
from these churches themselves that the preach
ers must be taken, who are to carry the gospel
to their brethren.
DR.. Judson was for twenty-one months
prisoner in the death prison, SO called, and
with all appropriateness, at Ava, and for seven
teen months in irons. He was taken out to act as,
interpreter for the King at Ava, in making the
treaty with Sir Archibald Campbell His death
was twice determined on; once by the Pakan-
icttn, the leader of the armies, who himself fell
suddenly into disgrace, and was executed at an
hours notice and orders were several times
given by the brother to the Queen, who was
the real ruler Of the Empire for his taking
off, but the governor Of the prison waited for
the express order of tho King, and SO the life
of the missionary was saved.
President Wayland, in his admirable chap
ter on the character and labors Of this emil
nent man, says, He was endowed with will
of the highest order. II was capable of con-
trolling his physical nature, SO that his body
would do or suffer whatever it was command
ed. 1t subjected the natural to the spiritual
in degree very rarely attained.
He could have made himself mathematician,
a philologist diplomatist statesman, an
impassioned orator. and perhaps poet, by the
strenuous cxertion Of his will. This is, | think,
one of the rarest of human endowments, and
il is bestowed only upon men who are emil
nently gifted. 1t has seemed to me that the
highest range of human talent is distinguished,
not by the power of doing well any one par
ticular thing, but by the power Of doing well
anything we resolutely determine 10 do.n
This is a notice Of unusal length for the COL
umns of the Era, but it finds its apology in the
value Of the work, and its bearings upon the
advance Of the reign OF Christ in all the
earth.
IMPORTANT MovEMENT.-It is stated that
steps are about TO be taken to consolidate the
railroad companies comprising the lines Of
route between Baltimore and Harrisburg. The
companies constituting this line are tho Balt-
moro and Sufquchanna, York and Maryland,
and York and Cumberland-the former in
Maryland, and tho two latter in Pennsylvania.
This will require legislation in both States and
the concurrence OF the Councils Of Baltimore.
We have no doubt of the great advantages Of
this scheme to the stockholders; but we hope
the people may not by and by have cause to
regret the existence Of great and overpowcring
monopolcs.
The ERIE RAILROAD RIoTs. - Dispatches
from Erie, of yesterdays date, bring us infor-
nation that tho railroad men relaid the track
where il was torn up on Wednesday, but that
two hours afterwards, in consequence Of the
excitement among the people, DIayor King
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