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pecially their impious profanation of the Lord's day. -I conceived great difguft at fuch conduft, from what I had heard and read on the fubject, which of courfe, was confiderably augmented on witneffing it. Since my return, I have frequently revolved the matter in my mind, and am convinced, it is a fource of infinite mifchief to many who are called to vift foreign countries. An Englishman is fhocked on his firft arrival abroad, at the prevailing maxims and follies, which influence all claffes, especially at the open immoralities practifed on the Sabbath. He cannot join the crowd, whofe joys and pleasures on that day are fuperlative. He is content to bear the character of a prejudiced Englishman: but too often the early feed of inftruction is found to have fallen among thorns; it is foon choaked by the finful cuftoms and pleafures of the place. Confcience lofes her former activity, and is lulled to view with indifference "the living manners as they fly." The unwary ftranger drinks of the gilded cup, is intoxicated with the liquor, and is foon enabled to fwallow large draughts of the deadly potion.

Thus is he fhorn of his ftrength, thinks and afts like those around him, whofe fentiments once adopted, maintain their ufurped power, and annihilate the remains of decayed virtue. I will juft narrate two infiances en poffunt; a Scotch gentleman, whofe knowledge of his duty far exceeded his practice, informed me, that a young man of his acquaintance, remarkable for piety, went to Hamburgh, which place he vifited fome months afterwards, and going to the theatre one Sunday evening, found his friend a fpetfator; he was furprized at the circumftance, and declared that it fhocked his feelings. A youth with whom I lodged, told me, that he was accuitomed to attend church twice in London, on the Sabbath; but ince his refidence at Hamburgh, he feldom went to any place of worship, and even doubted the truth of revelation; attributing both circumftances of the change in his practice and fentiments to the profligacy of the place. Let me now call your attention to the condu&t of fuch as return to their native country, to fee if my ideas are not fubftantiated by their lives and principles. What levity manifeits itself in all their conduct! How much are they attached to the theatre, and gaming which amufements they would gladly follow even on the Sabbath if permitted, as on the Continent. Instead of feeling any delire to attend public worship, they now fneer at religion altogether, and confider the Sabbath as a day of nought. Doubtlefs there are many exceptions: but verily believe, that fuch fentiments, if not

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openly avowed, maintain a predominance in the hearts of too many. To this evil I attribute in a great degree that lamentable apathy and negligence, manifeited in our moral and religious duties, the prevalence of which we have to deplore; nor will this appear an uncharitable and unfounded affertion, when we confider the influence of fuch characters, and ftill more of foreigners refident amongst us, on the minds of our youth. Such being the cafe, permit me to fuggeft fome hints, to operate as an antidote to the evil complained of. The nobility and others fhould be extremely careful to whom they commit the fuperintendance of their ions, when they fend them to vifit foreign parts. I fear a great part of the mifchief originates in not choofing fuitable perfons. The travelling tutor and companion fhould be of middle age, and poffefled of found religious principles. He fhould be of a domeftic.difpofition, and fully capable of inftructing his charge in the parfuit of ufeful knowledge, and the choice of good books and company. Moreover, it is ef fential that fuch as go abroad, whether accompanied by a tutor or not, should be well grounded in Chriflian principles, and poffefs a good acquaintance with the Scriptures. They fhould be taught the advantages of retirement, the danger of being too much attached to company, and the evil of following the vain maxims and cuftoms of the world. Their minds ought to be well fortified, by a deep reverence of the Sabbath; this cannot be too much infifted on, as I am perfuaded the enemy feldom fails in his attack on this part of duty,

whence its violation fhould be a theme of conftant animadversion.

It is to be prefumed, that a due attention to thefe points would, under God's blefling, often prove a preservative to the tried, in the hour of temptation. And now I fpeak of the Continent, may I be allowed to advert to the fituation of a British chaplain abroad. I have often contemplated it, with mingled fentiments of awe and fympathy. What a ftream of iniquity has he to withstand! How fhould he warn his country men to hold fast the profeffion of their faith. "without wavering," to difregard the taunting epithets of English piety and fingularity! What language thould he not ufe, to prevent their tranfgreffing the limits of decency, and to induce them to keep holy the Sabbath-day! Above all, to walk himself as becometh the gofpel, and as a fhepherd, to feed the flock with diligence, over which God has made him overfeer; ever remembering, that he must give an account of his ftewardship at the laft day. I hope, Sir, your readers

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will improve these few hints: had I been more equal to the task I should have entered into detail on fo important a fubject, as I think this matter has not been treated by any writer with the attention due to its confequence, and if my remarks prompt any person to undertake fo neceffary a task, it will afford pleasure to,

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MAGAZINE.

UCH has been faid on the neceffity of the co-operation of Chriftians of all denominations in fpreading the knowledge of their common religion. Of the duty itfelf which lies upon us to extend the truth as far as lies in our power, no one who believes the gofpel can well doubt; but we may be permitted to question whether genuine Chriftianity is likely to be propagated by an union of men whose religious principles and practices are difcordant. For example, when we give our affiftance to miffionaries of the Baptift perfuafion, and at the fame time fend among the heathen teachers of our own, very foon a ftriking difference, muft arife, which will naturally lead to controverfies and divifions among the converts, and produce ridicule and ftronger oppofition in those who reject Chriftianity. One miffionary feels it his duty to exhort all parents to bring their children for admiffion into the church of Chrift, and the privileges of the new covenant, by the facrament of baptifm;-the other miffionary tells the converts that this is not only unneceffary, but contrary to the doctrine and example of Chrift. So glaring a difference upon a folemn ceremonial, the neceffity of which is admitted by both parties, cannot, in the nature of things, be viewed without concern by ftrangers who are defirous of knowing the true principles of the Chriftian religion.

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The regard fhewn to infants by thofe miffionaries who are for early baptifm is certainly calculated to make an impreffion upon tender and benevolent minds;-but the grateful fentiment is not likely to laft long when oppofed by fophiftry of argument, and the adduction of particular examples, which though men of understanding know have nothing to do with the doctrine, yet upon minds little informed they never fail to produce a powerful effect.

I was led to these remarks by reading the melancholy account of the Proteftant miffions in the Eaft Indies for the year 1806, appended to the fermon preached at St. Paul's on Thursday, May 28, 1807, being the time of the yearly meeting of the children educated in the charity fchools, in and about the cities of London and Westminster. By G. O. Cambridge, M. A.

As the account is short, and as the fermon may not fall in the way of all your readers, I have here transcribed it for your Magazine, and hope that by its infertion you may be enabled to obtain more information on the subject.

"Since the publication of the laft account, very little information has been received from the miffionaries; and of that little, fome is of a nature by no means fatisfactory to the fociety. A fpirit of infubordination appears to have arisen in the Malabar congregations, both at Vepery, and at Tranquebar; which, at the former place, feems to have given much trouble and uneafinefs to Mr. Pæzold; and at Tranquebar, to have occafioned the departure of the Danish misfionaries from their ftation, and from that territory. The documents before the miffion committee of the fociety are quite infufficient to enable them to form a judgment of the true ground of these difaftrous circumstances. It appears, however, that certain miffionaries, fent out by an Anabaptist fociety, and by that called the London Miffionary Society, had received a degree of countenance, from the Danish miffionaries at least, if not alfo from fome of thofe more immediately connected with the fociety, which tended to produce diforder in the established miffions, and could not but be very diffatisfactory to the Church of England Society for promoting Chriftian knowledge. How far these circumftances may have contributed to occafion the evils before mentioned, it may be difficult to fay, without additional evidence upon the matter, which may foon be expected to arrive from India. It is certain, indeed, that an unhappy dif cord fubfifts at Vepery, between the miffionaries Pazold and Rottler; and it seems more than probable that these circumstances

cumstances may at least in part have occafioned that difcord. Mr. Rottler, however, who was appointed by the fociety, from his ftation at Tranquebar, to the Vepery miffion, under a provifo that the fame fhould meet with the concurrence of his fuperiors at Copenhagen, will, probably, foon remove again from the Vepery miflion, as the Danish miflion college appear to be very unwilling that he fhould altogether quit Tranquebar."

I am, vours,
EUSEBIUS.

VINDICATION OF THE CLERGY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCHMAN'S

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SIR,

MAGAZINE.

TN the Funeral Sermon on the death of the Rey. John Newton, I met with the following paffage..

"It is nothing to him that other fervants in the fame house may be off their watch. Some may be abfent, fome gaming, fome wafting their master's fubftance, fome stealing his property, fome abufing his character, and fome quarrelling and fighting; but what is all this to him? His thoughts are on the Lord." p. 10.

Now if the above has any meaning, I conceive it must be this, the house of which Mr. Newton was one of the fervants is the Eftablished Church, then the other fervants are the regular clergy of the Eftablished Church; and now let us obferve what a picture the preacher has drawn of them: for it will be in vain to lay that he only meant to compliment Mr. Newton, but he must compliment him at the expense of his brethren in the Eftablishment.-Now was this candid? was juft? was it doing to others as he would be done unto? Are all the other clergy, except a few Calviniftic favourites, that worthless fet of men here described? Could not Mr.' Newton be commended unless all the rest were thus feverely and unjustly condemned? Charity thinketh no evil, charity does not imbibe the fpirit of the accufer of his brethren and

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