when I received your esteemed letter, [ subjected, and not being either willing with enclosed bill for marks 514, for or able to do so, he was committed for which accept of my hearty thanks, I eighteen days to prison, on bread and am taken off by policemen. The ways water. Notwithstanding these cruel of the Lord are strange, but always the measures, our brother appears to be of best. He gives me and my wife and good courage, and though some of the daughter patience, peace, and joy; only Lord's servants are bound, his truth to the church, this came rather unex- still prevails, and bids defiance to all pected, especially to the young mem- the power and craft of earth and hell. bers, who have been baptized during the last year of peace, and who have not, as yet, rendered any service in a campaign of this kind. These are rather disconsolate, but our faithful Lord and Savior, who has given us in times past so many proofs of his love and power, will also strengthen and comfort these, and cause this trial to promote their growth in grace and knowledge. "The cause of my arrest is principally the false opinion that I, poor sinner, am the sole cause of the considerable increase of our members, most of them having stated before the court that Monster's preaching had produced the change in their sentiments. To this may be added the numerous attendance of hearers at our public worship, which is as a thorn in the eye to the ministers of the state church; for their places of worship are partly empty; and hence they have influenced the authorities to new persecutions. A lawsuit will now be commenced against me, and, perhaps, several members of the church, which may last for years; whilst they cherish the desperate hope to silence and destroy the church during this time; forgetting, that, as long as they cannot arrest our Lord, all labor will be lost. For if these would hold their peace, the stones would cry out." We have, since the above, been favored with a letter from sister Monster, from which we learn that the measures against br. Monster are this time much severer than before. The assemblies had been dispersed by the police, and every attempt had been made to obtain information from Mrs. Monster about the church and its members. I really do not know what can be done for our brother. We can do nothing at Hamburg but sympathize and pray for him; but your Board may, probably, make another remonstrance on behalf of our oppressed brethren. On Langeland, also, the iron hand of the law continues to be stretched out against our brethren. Br. Rasmus Madsen, the present pastor, was recently sentenced to pay the cost of the prosecutions to which he has been GERMANY.-The following statements also are given by Mr. O., relative to the imprisonment and other afflictions of our brethren in Prussia, Oldenburg, and Hanover. In Prussia, where thus far our brethren had met with little or no difficulty, the sweet calm has been changed into a threatening storm, not indeed at its capital, where the church enjoys external peace and internal prosperity, but at the eastern and western boundaries of the empire. Br. Remmers, who has labored for eighteen months at Memel, was imprisoned about the middle of April, and sentenced to leave that town in a day or two. The city chamberlain, though not a second Quartus, kindly interceded on behalf of our brother, so that they gained time to apply to the general superintendent at Königsburg, to obtain, if possible, a rescinding of the above measure. They are now waiting the result of their application. Br. Oncken, whom I had sent to Memel to release br. Remmers, had fallen dangerously ill, so that he was not expected to live. In other respects the cause there gave pleasing indications that God was blessing the efforts of our brethren. At Bitterfield, where br. W. has the pastoral charge over the little flock, and where eight converts were added to the church during 1843, the severest measures are now threatened, if our brother continues to administer the sacraments. Preaching, &c., has not been prohibited. These threatenings are not mere police regulations, but decisions of the king's ministers and the highest civil court at Merseburg. Our beloved brethren in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg are also subjects of cruel persecutions. Their infants are taken by violence from them in order to be sprinkled; and their religious meetings are prohibited under the severest fines, so that they can only visit one another, and thus encourage each other to continue faithful to the end. Several of the brethren expect, every day, to be distrained, as they can C. Smith, New Hampshire. A friend to missions, per C. H. New Boston, Rev. C. L. Baker Massachusetts. not pay the fines to which they have | North Bangor, Bap. ch., per J. I am glad to say, in reference to myself, that I am permitted again to preach regularly once on the Lord's-day and on Wednesday evening, and I trust that the good Lord will yet completely restore my health, to work a little longer, and a little more than before, in his vineyard. CHEROKEES.-Mr. Jones writes, June 11, that he had baptized on the preceding Sabbath, at Taquohee, "ten hopeful converts, seven females and two males," approved by the Taquohee church under the pastoral care of Tanenole, and one young man received by the Dseyohee church. Three of these females are quite young, "and their conversion is mainly to be attributed to the blessing of God on family religion." The first number of a small monthly religious paper, in Cherokee, was to be printed in July. Donations, FROM JUNE 1 TO JULY 1, 1844. Haverhill, 1st Bap. ch. and cong., Chesterfield, Bap. ch., mon. con., Boston, 1st Bap. Young Men's do., Harvard St. Bap. ch., mon. con. for June, per John Put nam, do., Bowdoin Square do. do., do., do. do. Bap. Board of 9,00 5,00 44,50 2,00 5,00 50,00 4,00 9,00 8,00 50,00 5,00 400,00 18,00 59,00 7,81 75,60 20,00 ,51 711,92 1,00 5,00 45,23 agent of the Board, Ohio. Stonelick, Bap. ch., per Mr. gett tr., 10,00 Frankfort, a friend ,25 Dry Creek, W. C. Scott ,50 per Rev. J. Stevens, 10,75 per R. L. Buttrick tr., for Rev. F. Barker, a box of clothing,* 40,75 Sawyer, 1,87 Georgetown, W. F. Blain ,75 Newton, Bap. ch. 2,31 Lockland, do. do. 5,19 Cincinnati, 9th st. ch., in part of sub., 10,00 Cheviot, Bap. ch., D. E. Statham tr., 7,50 Dutch Creek, Rev. I. Fer ris 5,00 Ohio Bap. For. Miss. and Bible Soc., J. B. Whea ton tr., 500,00 per Rev. J. Stevens, agent of the Board, 532,62 Elyria, Bap. ch., J. P. Jacobs tr., per G. M. Chapman, R. I., Providence, a lady, for Rev. L. Ingalls, Mergui, six copies of Mrs. Judson's Memoir. Con., Norwich, Fem. Benev. Soc. of Bap. ch., per Rev. M. G. Clarke, for Mr. and Mrs. Goddard, Bangkok, a box of clothing, do., Mansfield, Ladies Charitable Soc. of Bap. ch., per D. B. Cheney, for Burman Mission, a box of clothing, do., Norwalk, Fem. Benev. Soc. of Bap. ch., (received Jan. 20,) per Susan P. Woolsey, for Rev. Wm. Dean, China, a box of clothing, Penn., Philadelphia, Bap. Pub. Soc., per B. R. Loxley, for Maulmain Mission, a package of tracts, 52,14 53,00 54,34 5,00 H. LINCOLN, Treasurer. *The box of clothing, per Rev. S. F. Smith, credited in June Mag., was contributed by the Missionary Sewing Circle of the 1st Bap. ch., Newton, Mass. Value, $45,00. Feb. 18, 1843. Arose early and visited the doulo, the small shrine spoken of on the 15th (p. 244.) It is on a small eminence, beautified with trees and walks, on the summit of which stand two small námghors, belonging to the two parties above described. There are also two large hátis, or houses where the bhokots reside. In the houses we saw large images of Krishnu. We presently found several persons, attendants on the idols, when the following conversation took place. Who are you? "We are Noruá bhokots, who attend on the doulo. We are of the superior order of bhokots called Kewolia." What does Kewolia mean? "It means that we only attend on the service of the temple, read the shásters, take no animal life, and abstain from sexual intercourse and from labor. We are Bairagis, we have bathed in the Ganges, visited Juggernaut, and returned to this place." And do you think that these works will procure salvation? If it is necessary that you do not marry, to obtain salvation, then it is necessary for me, and for all. If it is right for you not to marry, it would be right for me, and for all. If God designed that we should pursue this course, why did he make man male and female, and why did he establish matrimony? Dear old men, you greatly err; for as there is no sin in lawful marriage, so there is no merit in abstaining from it. 34 VOL. XXIV. "True, true; but will not bathing in the Ganges and visiting Juggernaut, be meritorious?" No, the waters of the Ganges cannot reach the stains of sin in your heart, it can only give you a clean body. And when you visited Juggernaut, why did you not throw yourselves under the wheels of the moving car, and secure immediate bliss, instead of coming back all this journey to endure such abstinences, and finally obtain only what you would then have so readily gained? "O, how could we kill ourselves!" But why do you believe that Krishnu was here incarnated, since it is not mentioned in any of the chief shásters? If Krishnu really predicted that he would be incarnated in the Kóli Jùg,* in the form of a man called Sonko, why do not the many learned brahmins at Benáres and Calcutta know it? The Komaikhyo, at Gowahatti, is acknowledged by the pundits as a holy place, but Bor Duár Thán never. That stone which you worship, under the idea of its having the impression of Sonko's foot, is not different from any other stone. There is no evidence whatever that it is not all a deception, the work of cunning brahmins. I have talked with your gúrús, and they can give no evidence, and until you can show me to the contrary, I shall continue to think that it is only a device got up by the brahmins to enrich themselves. The bhokots appeared to feel the force of what I said, and inquired how they could become acquainted with the religion of Christ, about which I had spoken as furnishing the only way of salvation. I gave them several tracts and portions of scripture, and begged Kóli Jug is equivalent to the iron age, which the Hindoos believe the present to be. |