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proposed to read evening prayers regularly-a proposal which was readily acceded to-and on the ensuing Sunday he performed the sacred services to the whole ship's crew," an attentive and orderly congregation of about 140 persons;" a practice which he continued throughout the voyage without a single intermission, and which we trust was as productive of benefit as it is worthy of imitation. On the 2d of July, a vessel bound for London met them—and here we cannot forbear to quote the first passage which occurs-and there are many such throughout the volume-expressing, with all the openness of candour, and all the energy of truth, the grand actuating motive which induced the Bishop to sacrifice comfort, friends, and country. It was for the GOSPEL'S SAKE.

My wife's eyes swam with tears as the vessel past us, and there were one or two of the young men who looked wishfully after her. For my own part I am but too well convinced, that all my firmness would go if I allowed myself to look back even for a moment. Yet, as I did not leave home and its blessings without counting the cost, I do not, and I trust in God I shall not, regret the choice I have made. But, knowing how much others have given up for my sake, should make me both more studious to make the loss less to them, and also, and above all, so to discharge my duty as that they may never think that those sacrifices have been made in vain! P. xxi.

The manner in which the Bishop occupied the leisure which this long voyage afforded him, in addition to the pastoral duties of this floating parish, is incidentally and always interestingly mentioned. "I began to-day translating St. John's Gospel into Hindoostanee. I have this morning finished the following translation of one of the Poems in Gilchrist's Hindoostanee Guide." But the scene which took place on board on the 10th of August, with the Bishop's reflections upon ita scene, it is to be apprehended, too rarely witnessed in such a situation can only be given with justice in his own words. Nor can we resist the pleasure of subjoining, in a brief extract, one of those sweet touches of nature, which exhibits, in the most attractive light, the sensibility of the parent, when elevated and sanctified by the piety of the Christian.

August 10.-Last night I again slept on the floor, and passed it still more uncomfortably than on former occasions; insomuch that I almost determined rather to run the risk of blows and bruises aloft, than to encounter the discomforts of the new method. This morning, however, the wind again became moderate, and I finished and preached my sermon, and afterwards administered the sacrament to about twenty-six or twenty-seven persons, including all the ladies on board, the captain, and the greater part of the under officers and male passengers; but, alas, only three seamen. This last result disappointed me, since I had hoped, from their attention to my sermons, and the general decency of their conduct and appearance, that more would have attended. Yet, when I consider how great difficulty I have always found in bringing men of the same age and rank to the sacrament at Hodnet, perhaps I have no reason to be surprised. On talking with one of the under officers in the evening, he told me that more would have staid, if they had not felt shy, and been afraid of exciting the ridicule of their companions. The same feeling, I find, kept one, at least,

and perhaps more, of the young cadets and writers away, though of these there were only two or three absentees, the large majority joining in the ceremony with a seriousness which greatly pleased and impressed me. And the same may be said of all the midshipmen who were old enough to receive it. One of the young cadets expressed his regret to me that he had not been confirmed, but hoped that I should give him an opportunity soon after our arrival at Calcutta. On the whole, the result of the experiment (for such it was considered) has been most satisfactory; and I ought to be, and I hope am, very grateful for the attention which I receive, and the opportunities of doing good, which seem to be held out to me.-P. xxxi.

August 11.-We had a good night, and a smooth though rapid progress. I had the happiness of hearing, for the first time, my dear little Emily repeat a part of the Lord's Prayer, which her mother has been, for some days past, engaged in teaching her. May He who, "from the mouth of babes and sucklings can bring forth his praise, inspire that heart with everything pure and holy, and grant her grace betimes, both to understand and love his name!

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On the 3d of October, after a rapid and favourable, though occasionally boisterous voyage, the vessel anchored in Saugor Roads; and on the 6th, the Bishop and his family embarked in the Government yacht for Calcutta, where they arrived upon the 10th. Having met a considerable number of his clergy, the Bishop was installed the next day at the Cathedral, which he describes " as a composition full of architectural blunders, but in other respects handsome." Immediately after this ceremony, the Bishop entered on his ministerial duties.

Oct. 12. This was Sunday; I preached, and we had a good congregation. Nov. 2d was Sacrament Sunday at the Cathedral, and there were a considerable number of communicants.

Nov. 4th, the Bishop went to consecrate a church at Dum-dum, and on the 12th of the same month consecrated St. James's at Calcutta, an account of which former ceremony will doubtless be interesting to our readers. Neither can we withhold from them the description of the Free Schools in Calcutta, on which we shall only remark, that we envy not the feelings of the man who can read it and continue insensible to the advantages which have already been derived from the erection of an Ecclesiastical Establishment in India-much more to the prospect and promise of those which may hereafter arise.

We here met a large party at breakfast, and afterwards proceeded to the Church, which is a very pretty building, divided into aisles by two rows of Doric pillars, and capable of containing a numerous congregation. It was now filled by a large and very attentive audience, composed of the European regiment, the officers and their families, and some visitors from Calcutta, whom the novelty of the occasion brought thither. The consecration of the cemetery followed, wisely here, as in all British India, placed at some distance from the Church and the village.-Pp. 35, 36.

About this time I attended the first meeting of the Governors of the Free School, which had occurred since my arrival. I, on this occasion, saw the whole establishment; it is a very noble institution, consisting of a school where 247 boys and girls are lodged, boarded, and clothed, and some received as dayscholars. They are all instructed in English, reading, writing, cyphering, and their religious faith and duties, for which purpose the different catechisms and

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other compendia, furnished by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, are employed. Some few of the day-scholars are Armenian Christians, whose parents object to these formula; and there are one or two Hindoos, who are allowed to attend, and who also stand on one side when the Catechism is repeated, though they say the Lord's Prayer, and read the Scriptures without scruple. The children of Roman Catholics, of whom there are also several, apparently make no such difficulties, and even attend Church with the rest of the scholars. They are, in fact, so ignorant and neglected, that many of them have scarcely any idea of Christianity but what they acquire here. The Girls' School is a separate building, of somewhat less extent than the Boys'; both are surrounded by good compounds, and built on the highest spot on this flat district.-Pp. 38, 39.

Surely the miserable sophistry which has been so often employed in regard to the imaginary danger of propagating the Gospel in India, will be shamed into silence-if the effrontery of those who employ it is susceptible of shame--by the explicit and encouraging statement of the Bishop at page 44.

It was very pretty to see the little swarthy children come forward to repeat their lessons, and shew their work to Lady Amherst; veils thrown carelessly round their half-naked figures, their black hair plaited, their foreheads specked with white or red paint, and their heads, necks, wrists, and ankles, loaded with all the little finery they could beg or borrow for the occasion. Their parents make no objection to their learning the Catechism, or being taught to read the Bible, provided nothing is done which can make them lose caste. And many of the Brahmins themselves, either finding the current of popular opinion too strongly in favour of the measures pursued for them to struggle with, or really influenced by the beauty of the lessons taught in Scripture, and the advantage of giving useful knowledge, and something like a moral sense to the lower ranks of their countrymen and countrywomen, appear to approve of Mrs. Wilson's plan, and attend the examination of her scholars. There is not even a semblance of opposition to the efforts which we are now making to enlighten the Hindoos: this I had some days ago an excellent opportunity of observing, in going round the schools supported by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, with Mr. Hawtayne, and seeing with how much apparent cordiality he was received, not only by the children themselves and the schoolmasters, though all Hindoos and Mussulmans, but by the parents and the neighbouring householders of whatever religion.

But we must not permit ourselves to linger too long at Calcutta, or we shall be precluded from accompanying the Bishop throughout his arduous, and interesting, and, in a great degree, novel visitation. From this part of the Journal, therefore, we shall only quote two extracts; the former shewing that, notwithstanding all that has been said about the low ebb of religion in India, there is at least one particular in which Christians there might be advantageously imitated by their brethren in England; the latter, strikingly indicative of that liberal spirit and truly Christian charity, with which Bishop Heber was eminently endowed. No man knew better how to unite a just estimate of the excellence of Christians of other denominations, with a firm and uncompromising preference for his own venerable Church. January 1, 1824.-I this day preached at the Cathedral, it being an old and good custom in India always to begin the year with the solemn observation of the day of the Circumcision; there was a good congregation.-P. 53.

January 15.—Dr. Marshman, the Baptist missionary from Serampore, dined with me. Dr. Carey is too lame to go out. The talents and learning of these good men are so well known in Europe, that I need hardly say that, important as are the points on which we differ, I sincerely admire and respect them, and desire their acquaintance.-P. 57.

On the 25th of January, the Bishop, on returning from the Cathedral, "found a fresh reason for thankfulness to God in his wife's safety, and the birth of another little girl;" and on the 2d of February he held a confirmation at the Cathedral, which was attended by 236 persons, a greater number than was expected, and which we hail as an indication that the Church of England is flourishing in Calcutta. "Most of these were half-castes, but there were several officers, and twenty or thirty soldiers, with three grown-up women of the upper ranks ;" they appeared greatly interested with the ceremony, into which the Bishop entered with deep and solemn feeling.

In the most impressive and affecting Charge, which was shortly afterwards delivered to his Clergy, Bishop Heber emphatically said, "An Indian chaplain must come prepared for hard labour, in a climate where labour is often death." Of this, alas! both in the cause and in the consequence, he was himself too appropriate an illustration. He never spared himself: to the peculiar functions of a Bishop he unitedlike the venerable Porteus, and a living ornament of the Episcopal Bench whom it would be superfluous to name—a zealous discharge of the office of a parish priest. He preached a course of Lent Lectures on the Sermon on the Mount,--a "work and labour of love" which was indeed recompensed in the manner which he first and most ardently desired-by an attendance far exceeding his expectations. Surely this, with not a few instances of a similar description, proves beyond a doubt that India is NOT an ungrateful soil; and that all who quit in early youth their native shores, whether for civil or military employments in that vast empire, do not relinquish with their country those moral and religious principles which are her proudest and most distinguished boast.-We have not space even for a brief account of the Bishop's final proceedings at Calcutta, which he quitted on the 29th of May, 1824. Of the eloquent Charge delivered on that occasion, a Review will be found in our number for June, 1827. We shall only add, that it ought to occupy a foremost place, not only among the books, but in the memory, the conscience, and the heart of every individual who proceeds to India in the capacity of chaplain or of missionary.

On the 25th of June, 1824, the Bishop quitted Calcutta for his visitation through the Upper Provinces, accompanied only by his domestic chaplain, the Rev. Martin Stowe; the state of Mrs. Heber's health, and the circumstance of her having an infant, being considered as insuperable obstacles to such a journey. They embarked in a

sixteen-oared pinnace for Dacca, a large city about 170 miles northeast of Calcutta, attended by Archdeacon Corrie, of which excellent man a brief character is given, vol. ii. p. 400, which speaks volumes within a very narrow compass.

Such an one is my excellent friend Corrie, whose character, though I loved and valued him before, I only learned to understand and appreciate fully during my journey through Hindostan, from tracing, in almost every part of it, the effect of his labours, and the honour in which his name is held both by Christians, Hindoos, and Mussulmans.

The novel and interesting scenes which presented themselves to the view of the Bishop during his journey, were beheld with the eye of the poet, and are delineated by the hand of the painter-literally so, indeed, since the volumes are adorned with tasteful drawings of the most exquisite scenery, from the Bishop's own sketches upon the spot; and there are two gems of poetry which we do not transfer to glitter in our pages, only because it is utterly impossible to do justice to the Bishop, both as a most elegant and accomplished scholar, and as a judicious, indefatigable, and, in the strictest sense of the word, a MISSIONARY BISHOP. Yet we cannot forbear to gratify our readers with the genuine overflowing of affectionate regret for the beloved objects which he had been compelled to leave, and the fond recurrence to every memorial of his own distant and beloved country.

A number of little boys came to the side of the river, and ran along by our vessel, which the crew were towing slowly along, singing an air extremely like that of "My love to war is going." A few pice were thrown to these young singers by some of my servants. Their mode of begging strongly recalled to my mind something of the same sort which I have seen in England. Dear, dear England! there is now less danger than ever of my forgetting her, since I now in fact first feel the bitterness of banishment. In my wife and children I still carried with me an atmosphere of home; but here every thing reminds me that I am a wanderer.-P. 104.

On Sunday the 4th of July the Bishop arrived at Dacca, having, in his anxiety to reach the city in sufficient time for the performance of divine service on that day, exposed himself to considerable danger from the intensity of the solar rays; and having been compelled to leave his friend and chaplain, on account of severe indisposition, in the pinnace. Here he preached to a small congregation, in a very small but pretty church; and on the day following he met a striking and sad instance of the urgency of the spiritual wants of British residents in India.

I met a lady to-day who had been several years at Nusseerabad, in Rajpotana; and during seven years of her stay in India, had never seen a clergyman, or had an opportunity of going to church. This was a less tedious excommunication, however, than has been the lot of a very good and religious man, resident at Tiperah, or somewhere in that neighbourhood, who was for nineteen years together, the only Christian within seventy miles, and at least three hundred from any place of worship. Occasionally he has gone to receive the sacrament at Chittagong, about as far from his residence as York from London.

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