understood in the full extent of their signification, but are sometimes merely declarative of that which the verb usually expresses; as in Acts x, 15, ά ó 60s εxabagoε, i. e. what God has declared to be pure. But he adds, the passage, John xii, 40, does not belong here, tɛz vyhwnɛ KAI TEAWGWREV αυτών την καρδίαν sc. ὁ θεος, (he hath blinded, and hardened their heart,) where the verbs are to be understood with peculiar reference to the early religious opinions of the Hebrews; see Romans ix, 16, &c.'

We felt some regret at finding notes of a controversial character at pp. 65 and 143, because we think that every thing of the kind should be avoided as much as possible in a work like this. The translators have indeed the apology of provocation, and perhaps that ought to be considered as apology enough. But the precedent does not recommend itself as a very good one, and might be carried so far as to turn our elementary books of instruction into first fields, as it were, of polemical discussion. If an author is worthy of being translated, he should be made welcome to his opinions, at least where they cannot be proved to be unfounded, and we ought not to fall out with him for a trifle. A modest note at the bottom of the page, or a pithy reference in the margin, seems all that is required, and all that it is worth. while to give.

We recommend this grammar to students of the Greek Testament. It is worthy of their attention, and will be of service to them. It is valuable, as the only essay of the kind in our language; and becomes still more so as an introduction to the excellent lexicon of Wahl, two thirds of which, in the translation of Mr. Robinson, have been already printed at Andover, with uncommon accuracy and beauty.

Entelligence.

Christianity in India. Recent arrivals from Calcutta have brought letters from Mr. Adam, written in November and December last, which contain a more fill exposition than we have hitherto had of his situation and needs. He has heretofore pursued his missionary labours in great part at his own charge, though the

small number of his religious friends in Calcutta have been very liberal, and some remittances have been made to him from this country. His own resources being nearly exhausted, he finds it unavoidable to devote himself to some other employment for a subsistence, unless measures can be taken for his permanent support. If two thirds of the amount necessary for this purpose could be furnished by Unitarians in England and America, he feels confident that the remainder would be provided in Calcutta. The lowest sum, we are informed, by which, with the most rigid economy, a European family can be maintained in Calcutta, with a moderate degree of decency and comfort, is $1800 a year. It is hoped that one third, at least, of this sum will be remitted by a vessel which is to sail from Boston about the middle of May.

'All that I ask,' says Mr. Adam, is the means of subsistence for myself and family, and I ask for this, in order that the labours and privations of the last three years may not be entirely lost to the Unitarian cause, and that advantage may be taken of those favourable circumstances, for its promotion, which now present themselves, and which may never again be enjoyed. When, some years hence, Unitarian Christians shall be more alive to the duty, which they owe to the unenlightened heathen, it is not probable that they will find them any where so ready to listen to their Missionaries, and to co-operate with them, as the Hindoos in Calcutta now are. -It is my sincere and well weighed opinion, that a single Unitarian Missionary, adequately supported during his life, and provided with a suitable person to succeed him, in the event of his illness, retirement, or death, may, with perhaps little display, be of essential service in preparing the way for the more publick and complete triumphs of pure Christianity in Bengal. Whatever may be the result, I should wish to leave this upon record as my opinion.'

The same sentiment is expressed, with even greater confidence, in letters from two intelligent European gentlemen in Calcutta to Mr. Adam, copies of which have been forwarded by him.

An eligible piece of ground has been purchased for the erection of a chapel, the price of which absorbs the whole of the amount subscribed for that object in Bengal. It is certain, therefore, that from want of funds the building cannot be commenced for some considerable time, and probably not before an answer is received to the present communication. If the answer is unfavourable, the ground must of course be sold again, and the proceeds placed at the disposal of the original subscribers.'

A friend has obliged us with the loan of a Sermon preached on Sunday, January 23, 1825, to a Congregation of Protestant Dissenters, in St. Saviourgate, York, in Aid of a Subscription for the Erection of a Unitarian Chapel in Calcutta, by C. Wellbeloved, from which it appears that the subject excites no little atten

tion in England. The preacher exhibits some of the reasons by which Unitarians have hitherto been withheld from exertions in the cause of foreign missions, and from a review of the late most interesting occurrences in India, very justly infers, that that opportunity, for want of which (among other causes) missionary attempts have hitherto failed there, is now offered to Unitarians.

The Calcutta Unitarian Repository for July contains a letter addressed to Dr. Carey, in which the obligation of dissent from Trinitarian worship is well argued from Scripture. The writer was for some time under the instructions of the Missionaries at Serampore with a view to the ministry, and was subsequently employed by them in the superintendence of one of their out-stations. Even then he had strong doubts respecting the truth of those doctrines which he had been taught, and employed to teach; and having since engaged in some secular business, he has publickly professed his belief in the doctrines of Unitarian Christianity.' He had been several years a member of the Baptist church meeting in the Loll Bazar.

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In the same number is an extract from the India Gazette, in which the editor of that journal bears the following generous testimony to one of the most extraordinary men of this or of any age. Though hitherto we have not, in our paper, in any detailed manner, adverted to the labours of that distinguished Native, RAMMOHUN ROY,-still, we have been no disinterested spectator of them. We say distinguished, because he is so among his own people, by caste, rank, and respectability; and among all men he must ever be distinguished for his philanthropy, his great learning, and his intellectual ascendency in general. As a man who has cut no mean figure in the republick of letters, and in the walks of philosophical inquiry, we have a right thus publickly to mention RAMMOHUN ROY; and it is necessary that we should claim this right, lest it might be deemed indelicate in us to refer too pointedly to a person, whose great modesty of itself is an evidence of high genius, and certainly enhances its gift.

'RAMMOHUN Roy is pretty well known to the publick in general, by his benevolent efforts to abolish the abominable practice of widow burning. What effect his writings to that end may have produced, we have no certain criterion of judging. If concremation of the living has not very apparently decreased since his works exposing the absurdity and wickedness of the practice appeared, let us not hastily infer from this that they have not produced effect somewhere. Let us rather consider the immense field of mind over which the seed was to be strown by one single, unassisted hand. In a population of one hundred millions, a single individual arises to stay, if possible, a destroying angel of darkness, that scat

ters misery over the land. In such a population a hundred lives saved in the course of a few years would hardly be noticed; yet what an object the saving of one life must be to the philanthropist? That RAMMOHUN ROr's writings have been the means of saving some lives we doubt not; for we understand that there are now many respectable natives convinced by his arguments; and it is not to be questioned, but this conviction must be beneficial, is on the increase, and must in its increase weaken the bonds of superstition and murderous custom, and set their captives free. For our own parts we regret extremely that these writings were not spread forth among the people as much as possible. It is, however, impracticable for one man to give sufficient currency to them. Were a committee of wealthy Natives to take the subject into consideration, much good might be effected; and we cannot help thinking that Christian Missionaries might do as much good by republishing and distributing the appeals against these human sacrifices, as by doling out tracts upon doctrinal and practical* Christianity, which the Natives wont read, or, which reading, fail to move them a jot from the religion of their fathers.

"In addition to his efforts to put a stop to a most horrid practice, RAMMORUN Roy endeavoured to improve the moral condition of his countrymen, by making them acquainted with the sublime ethicks of the Christian system. Whatever might have been his ideas respecting the mysteries of Christianity with reference to its founder, and his miracles; he appears to have held only one opinion respecting his precepts. He, and so must every one who studies them, considered them as incorporating the best system of moral law ever delivered to mankind. Accordingly he selected out of the sacred books, which contain his history, as it has come down to our times, the Precepts of Jesus, and under that title he presented them to his countrymen without gloss or comment; leaving them to produce that effect, which in the end they must produce on every mind not entirely and obstinately blind to the truth. The circumstance of his having thus published for his countrymen the precepts alone of Jesus Christ, drew our compiler into the vortex of a controversy, which, whatever other effects it may have caused, still further exhibited the acuteness of his mind, the logical power of his intellect, and the unruffled good temper with which he could argue.

As to Unitarian or Trinitarian questions, or other speculative points of doctrine, we have here nothing whatever to do with them. We studiously avoid giving any opinion at all on these heads; but

* We presume the Editor of the Gazette here refers to the ceremonial practices upon which some are disposed to lay so much stress.-Ed. U. R.

we owe it to common sense and the cause of truth, to declare, that the attack on RAMMOHUN really appears to us to have been about as injudicious and weak an effort of officious zeal as we ever heard of. The effect of that was to rouse up a most gigantick combatant in the theological field,—a combatant, who, we are constrained o say, has not yet met with his match here.'

Divinity School at Cambridge.-Mr. Samuel A. Eliot has been elected Treasurer of this Institution, in place of Hon. Mr. Brooks, resigned. An erroneous impression has gone abroad respecting the success of the applications lately made in its behalf, which we fear has an unfavourable effect. The whole amount hitherto subscribed does not exceed $15,000, and probably falls considerably short of that sum. The cost of the proposed building is estimated at $25,000.

Annual Election.-Tuesday, May 24, at 3 P. M. the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, Piety, and Charity, meets in the Vestry of the First Church, in Chauncey Place. At 4 P. M. the Anniversary Sermon is to be preached in that Church by Rev. Mr. Walker, of Charlestown, after which a collection will be taken in aid of the Society's funds.

Wednesday, May 25, at 8 1-2 A. M. the annual Address before the Ministerial Conference in Berry Street, is expected from Rev. Mr. Bailey of Pelham.

At 12 M. the Sermon before the Government of the Commonwealth is to be preached in the Old South Church, by Rev. Mr. Sprague, of West Springfield.

At 5 P. M. the Massachusetts Convention of Congregational Ministers meet in the New Court House.

At 7 1-2 P. M. the annual Discourse before the Evangelical Missionary Society is to be delivered in the Church in Federal Street, by Rev. Mr. Flint, of Salem, after which a collection will be taken in aid of the objects of the Society.

Thursday, May 26, at 11 A. M. the Massachusetts Convention of Congregational Ministers attend divine service in the Church in Brattle Square. After the annual Sermon by Rev. Dr. Pierce, of Brookline, a contribution will be taken for the benefit of widows and orphans of Congregational Ministers.

Friday, May 27, at 4 P. M. the annual Discourse before the Society for the Suppression of Intemperance is to be delivered in the First Church by Dr. John Ware.

Thursday, June 2, at 11 A. M. the Anniversary Sermon before the Massachusetts Bible Society is to be preached in the First Church by Rev. Mr. Fiske, of Wrentham.