Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-02-26
From tie Philad. Christian Chronicle
Letter from Rev. q. Hincaid.
NORTH MAIDINE ISLANDS,
Indinn Ocean. Nny. 20. 1877

IL IS just NOUN To-Day since lei
ENGLAND in ship crowded with passcn
gors. Over 100 souls on board, aud th'
ship has only accommodations fer 800
There are so soldiers for India. Col
Mabcrly, in charge Of the soldiers, is
lovely Christian gentleman. There ar'
many other Christian officers on board
and among them, Brig. Gen. Makenzy-
his wife, too, is noble hearted Christian
lady. There arc two Scotch minister.
and one Episcopal minister. The frs
three Sabaths the Episcopal minister read
the Episcopal service, and read little
uuiatc!lig5Ic sermon. Many of the pas
sengcrs began to complain that the Other
ministers were not invited to preach, and
he was spoken to on the subject. He re-
Piled that they had nc authority to preach
Then the captain was appealed to, and be
invited the others to preach. We have
two services at the same time one for
ward with the $50 soldiers, and one on
the quarter deck with $50 cabin passen,
gers One Scotch minister has preached
three times, and the other twice. have
preached three times. Our assemblies are
attentive, and, with he Divine blessing,
good will be done. One thing is to be
deplored at dinner, the table is covered
with bottles Of wine and furnished to all
cabin passengers. 1t is pernicicus sys-
TEN, and tends 10 create the habit Of drink
ing Rnt am harry to see sn few who
indulge in drinking.
Should l begin to describe the places l
have passed through, and the events Of
the voyage thus far, it would take many
large sheets--so | must let it all pass
No language Of mine could give vivid,
faithful picture of Mount Sinai, as seen
about eight miles below Suez, as you
pass down tie Red Sea There it stands,
in awful solitude and grandeur its naked
SUBMITS rising seven or eight thousand
feet above the sea. Nothing can be more
drcary than the desert from the Red Sea
for 1900 miles, having Nubia and Abysin-
ia Oh one side and Arabia on the other
Not tree, or bush, or even blade of
grass to be seen, unless it is at two ports,
Jedla and Muscat Jedda is the sea port
for Mecca. We passed near it, but i: is
rarely visited, except by. Arab vessels
. '-;-e r;'1-;-rs to Nnroa The .avtn-rol
appearance Of these vast regions ls an I'M
pressive emblem Of nations without the
knowledge of God Israel was led forty
years in this vast wilderness to teach them
to trust in God alone. " hat an emblem
of the pilgrimage of Gods people on earth!
We wonder at the unbelief and murmur-
iurs Of Israel. We arc amazed at their
apos.acy and hardness of heart. But then
how much do We resemble, in our unbe.
lief, the ancient Isreael
Soon, if the Lord will, l shall be in
Burmah. l long to see the churches
there, and to encourage them in the work
of winning souls to Christ. by the pa
pcrs you have learned something OF the
awful massacre of men, women and
children, in India About 1000 at Gavin
pore, and in various places in Upper India
about 5000 have been put to death, and
under circumstances too terrible to be des-
cTibcd-the ladies and children especially
we're made to endure suffering, torments,
and barbaritics too shocking to be writ
ton Tho monsters seem to have been
afraid to torture the men, and SO made
up for that by the most unheafd of bar
baritios and sickening brutalities on the
poor ladies' and their children. The Ben
gal army, about eighty thousand, mutini-
ed :; they have opened the prisons, and
turned loose about twenty thousand muir
dcrers, robbers and thieves, who, with
such weapons as they can get, are now
burning, robbing and numbering. All is
anarchy over country containing pop
ulation of seventy millions, and there is
danger of its spreading over other large
provinces. In Urittaqango, the most
Eastern province of Bengal, and adjoining
Aracan, the mutiny has just broken out,
and the English and other Christian fam
lies, escaped almost by miracle. The
first push of the mutineers was on the
Government Treasury, some two hundred
thousand rupees-they let all the priso-
ners loose, and made them carry the silver
this cost so much time that the Chris
tan families fed and hid themselves, and
ouly one was killed. The mutineers,
with the prisoners loaded down with silver
made off as fast as possible into the interi-
or. The Docca, also the Sephois, have
risen, and some seventy been killed.
The Passus state that news from Ava is
unfayorable. The excitement is SO great
that the King can scarcely restrain his
mobiles from rising and pushing into the
English Provinces. Satan has come down
with great power. The civil authorities