hunger. Every thing is extremely high, therefore many are induced to steal whatever comes in their way. There are con stant robberies and murders committed; scarcely a night but houses are broken open, and things stolen. But our trust and confidence are in our heavenly Father, who can easily preserve and protect us, though a host should encamp about us. I think God has taught us by experience, what it is to trust in him, and find comfort and peace in feeling that he is every where present. O for more ardent, supreme love to him, and greater willingness to suffer in his cause!

"Rangoon. Aug. 8, 1813.

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"I again take my pen, though I have nothing new to communicate, yet I feel a pleasure and satisfaction too great to be neglected, in writing to those dear friends whom I never expect to see again, till I meet them in the eternal world. I know every thing respecting us will be highly interesting to you, therefore I am particular to write every little incident. Mrs. Carey has the whole care of the family, being familiar with the language, and having several servants at her command, I am free from every concern of this nature and can devote all my time to study. 1 find it no easy thing to acquire a foreigu language; and though our teacher says we gain rapidly, yet we can hardly perceive that we make any advance. It is a most beautiful, easy language to write, but very difficult to read, or pronounce.

"Our teacher is a good natured, intelligent man. When he first came he paid very little attention to me, appearing to feel that it was rather beneath him to instruct a female, as the females here are held in the lowest estimation. But when be saw I was determined to persevere, and that Mr. Judson was as desirous to have him instruct me, as himself, he was more attentive.

"From our first embarking for India, we have at times had our eye on this empire, as our final residence; but we have been repeatedly discouraged by the dreadful accounts we had of the ferocity and barbarity of the natives, together with the many privations we must suffer among entire heathen. Several missionaries have made an attempt to reside here, but have been discouraged, and left without effecting any thing. And some of these missionaries, we had reason to think, possessed much more piety and devotedness to missions than ourselves. No wonder then we were discouraged. But after our heavenly Father had severcly tried us, in causing us to be driven from place to place, he shut up every other door, and at last made us feel willing to take our lives

in our hands, and come to this heathen land to spend the remainder of our days. But will you believe me when I say we are cheerful and happy? Though we find the government and people just as we expected; though we find ourselves destitute of almost all those sources of enjoyment to which we have been accustomed, and are in the midst of a people, who at present are almost desperate on account of the scarcity of provision; though we are exposed to robbers by night and invaders by day, yet we both unite in saying we were never happier, never more contented, in any situation than the present. We feel that this is the post that God hath appomted us, that we are in the path of duty, and in a situation, which, of all others, presents the most extensive field for usefulness. And though we are surrounded with danger and death, we feel that God can with infinite ease preserve and support us under the most heavy sulferings.

"But for these feelings we are indebted wholly to the free, rich and sovereign grace of our Redeemer, and still dependent on him for a continuance of them; for it is not three months since, that I looked at this situation with all that dread and horror which you can imagine. It is our daily prayer that we may be continued here, and made a blessing to the poor Burmans, who are daily perishing for lack of knowledge. But we mourn our unfitness to be engaged in the great work of communicating religious knowledge to the dark, benighted mind of a heathen. Our only hope is in God. We know that he can bless his own truth to the salvation of sinners, though it may be communicated in ever so broken a manner, and by the meanest of his creatures. We rejoice that this great, this powerful God is our Father and our Friend, and has opened a way of access for us sinners, and has commanded us to open our mouths wide, with the promise that he will filt them. He hath also said that he will give the heathen to his Son for an inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession. We cannot but hope the glorious day is drawing near, when this promise will be fulfilled; and that among other heathen nations, Burmah, cruel, avaricious, idolatrous Burmah will say to Jesus, What have I any more to do with idols? Come thon and reign over us. O my dear parents and sisters, pray for us, that we may be humble, prayerful, and entirely devoted to the cause of Christ. Pray for these poor people, who have altars and temples in high places for the worship of the prince of darkness. They are immortal like ourselves, they are bound to the same etermi

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Blanford, gave the Right Hand of Fellow. ship; and the Rev. Mr. Harrison, of Tolland, (Mass.) made the concluding prayer. The happy settlement of the Gospel mun istry, for the first time, in this waste place of our Jerusalem, with very favorable prospects-manifest the commendable exer tions of the Society-was highly gratifying to the Ecclesiastical Council, and a very oumerous audience collected on the occa sion.

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LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

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PAUL on Mars Hill: or, a Christian survey of the Pagan world. A Sermon, preached at Newburyport, June 21, 1815, at the Ordination of the Rev. Messrs. Samuel J. Mills, James Richards, Edward Warren, Horatio Bardwell, Benjamin C. Meigs, and Daniel Poor, to the office of Christian Missionaries. By Samuel Worcester, D. D. Pastor of the Tabernaele Church in Salem. Published by order of the Prudential Committee of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Andover: Flagg & Gould. 1815. pp. 44.

The magnitude of the preacher's work. A Sermon, delivered March 15, 1815, at the Ordination of the Rev. Israel W. Putnam, as Pastor of the North Church in Portsmouth. By Ebenezer Porter, D. D. Bartlett Professor of Sacred Rhetoric in the Theological Seminary, Andover. Published at the request of the people. Andover: Flagg & Gould. 1815. pp 32.

Remarks on the Rev. Dr. Worcester's Letter to Mr. Channing, on the "Review of American Unitarianism" in a late Panoplist. By William E. Channing, Minister of the Church of Christ in Federal Street. Second Edition. Boston: Wells & Lilly. 1815. pp. 39.

A Second Letter to the Rev. William E. Channing on the subject of Unitarianism. By Samuel Worcester, D. D. Pastor of the Tabernacle Church, Salem Second Edition. Boston: S. T. Arinstrong: 1815. pp. 44.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE LATE REV. ISAAC STOCKTON KEITH, D. D. OF CHARLESTON, (s. c.)

THE writer of this article intends here to give a sketch only of the life and character of this good man; and this will con. sist of selections from a M. S. history of the church of which he was one of the Pastors, written by the late Dr. RAMSAY, now in the press; and from the printed Discourse of the Rev. Dr. FLINN, delivered on occasion of his death, before the Charleston Bible Society, on the 4th of Jan. 1814. Proposals are issued for publishing a volume of the writings of Dr. KEITH, to which, should appear,

will be prefixed a more full and detailed account of his life; to which volume, those who wish to know more of his worth, are referred. Dr. RAMSAY, in his history mentioned above writes as follows:

THE Rev. Dr. Isaac Stockton Keith was born in Bucks County, (Penn.) January 20th A. D. 1755, and was educated in the grammar school and college of Princeton, New Jersey, when the Rev. Dr. Witherspoon was president. His diligence and progress in his studies were so great, that at every examination of the school he was honored with a premium. In 1775 he was graduated A. B. His pious parents from early youth dedicated him to the ministry, and his own inclination concurred VOL. XI.

with their fond anticipations. Soon after he left the college, he commenced the study of divinity under the direction of the Rev. Dr. Robert Smith of Pequea, in Pennsylvania, and in 1778

licensed by the Presbytery Philadelphia to preach the spel. After itinerating for a siort time he settled in Alexandria in Virginia, and continued there in the exercise of his ministerial functions till the year 1788, when he accepted an invitation from the congregational Church in Charleston to be co-pastor thereof in connexion with the Rev. Dr. Hollingshead. He there served the Church with ability and fidelity for twenty-five years, a period exceeding that of any one of his eleven deceased. predecessors. In 1791,he was constituted D. D. by the University of Pennsylvania. He was thrice married; first to Miss Hannah Sproat, daughter of the Rev Dr. Sproat of Philadelphia, next to Miss Catharine Legare, daughter of Thomas Legare Esq. of Charleston, and afterwards to Miss Jane Huxham, a native of Devonshire in England and daughter of Mr. William Huxham, who had resided many years in South Carolina. As a man, as a Christian, and as a preacher of the

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