mittee; and I know not how many different translations are now in progress. It certainly was scarcely to be expected that a version would have been prepared by a committee appointed as that committee was appointed, which should give such extensive dissatisfaction. It seems to have been the design to prepare a work in the highest degree classical, according to the concise, obscure style of the classics; and to this object both perspicuity and fidelity to the original have often been sacrificed. As a reward for such a sacrifice, the work is no more acceptable (if even as acceptable) to the most learned readers, than it would be if written in a much plainer style. The work will, however, have its use, and probably an important use, in the work of Chinese translations.

As to the Old Testament, you are probably aware that the missionaries of the London Missionary Society long since withdrew from the committee, and are going on with a version by themselves. The Bishop of Victoria has more recently, I am informed, directed all missionaries of the Church of England to withdraw from all connection with the committee, and also to abstain from the use of any translation which has yet been prepared. I believe, however, the direction has not yet taken effect; and whether it will go into effect, is uncertain. It is impossible yet to foresee the result of all these efforts at translation. We trust the good Lord has an eye constantly open on his Word, and will watch over it, and cause it to be faithfully made known to all people. The present divisions will probably prevent any one version from claiming to be "the" version, and thus leave the way more open for improvement and further efforts, and perhaps thus in the end lead to a better translation than could now be expected.

Please accept, in behalf of your Society, many thanks for the efficient aid you have given in carrying forward this work. Many portions of Scripture published by the assistance of your Society, are already in the hands of this people; but we trust in due time larger portions, and even the whole Word of God, will be given them through your instrumentality.

With kind regards, and hoping often to hear from you,

I remain, dear brother, yours truly,

J. GODDARD.

Our brethren of the English Baptist Mission at Calcutta seem to be zealously and perseveringly following up the great work of revising and publishing, in the various languages of India, the words of life for her perishing millions. We select from the last number of the London Missionary Herald the following items from the communication of the Rev. Mr. Lewis:

"I may mention, as the first item of intelligence, that the Persian Testament which I was engaged in editing, has been completed now about three weeks. I intended to draw up an account of this work to send you, but, on consideration, it appeared to me that the subject would not possess much interest, and a few facts, which I will here mention, are probably all which you will care to know.

“About ten years ago, an edition of Henry Martyn's Persian Testament was published by the brethren, for the Bible Translation Society. It was adapted to our convictions of truth by Dr. Yates, and he also made a few other alterations of no very great importance. This edition being exhausted, and another being resolved upon, I undertook the charge of carrying it through the press. I very soon found that it abounded with mistakes, by which the sense was very frequently destroyed. These, for the most part, had been made in the first Calcutta edition-from which Dr. Yates printed his-and they were retained in his reprint."

"In order to weed out the errors, and to make my edition as correct as possible, I

compared the greater part of it with the Greek original, and with all the Persian editions I could obtain, and I hope I have succeeded in making the work tolerably accurate. I will send copy for the library as soon as I have an opportunity.

"The edition of the Hindostani Testament, to which I have alluded in former letters, is nearly finished; next month, probably, it will be printed off. Brother Wenger, probably, will inform you of the progress of the Bengali revisions. I render him all the assistance in my power, and have derived nothing but pleasure from my connection with him in the work."

MISCELLANEOUS.

PLEA FOR CHINA-The following extracts from an address of the Rev. Dr. S. Baker, of Nashville, Tennessee, before the Kentucky and Foreign Bible Society, will be read with interest. We regret being obliged to curtail it so largely.

Resolved, That the Empire of China, from its advancement in civilization, the magnitude of its population, and the extent of its territory, presents a most inviting field for Bible distribution, and the God of providence is calling loudly upon Baptists to Occupy that field.

China, in the first place, presents a most inviting field, from its advancement in civilization. The first missionaries of the cross, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, directed their efforts to the evangelization of civilized, in preference to savage nations. The arts and sciences had so quickened intellect and roused its powers into action in Greece and Rome, that it was an easy task to convince minds, thus enlightened, of the folly of idolatry; and the cities of Greece and Rome were the great centres of influence from which they could work out upon the rest of mankind.

The Chinese are a reading, and, compared with other pagan nations, an enlight ened people. It is true that the educational acquirements of the vast majoity are very small. But few of the villagers can read intelligently the simplest tract; but in the cities, the great centres of influence, the proportion of such readers is much larger. And the fact that no person can be a candidate for any office, from that of the petty constable to the highest office under government, unless he can write an essay on the duties of that office, will have its effect in securing a reading people; and the men generally in their large cities are prepared to read the Scriptures when they are put into their hands.

And among the Chinese there is a great readiness to admire every thing of a literary kind, and to honor those who are in possession of such attainments, whether they happen to be natives or foreigners. And the literary merits of the Bible will do much to commend it to such a people. It is a book of thought, full of hints, sketches, outlines, facts, interesting history, admirable biography and it affords an exhaustless store-house of instruction. How sublime the topics on which the Bible treats! What a dignified simplicity in its manner of handling them! How noble the mysteries it developes! What illumination it throws on points the most interesting to creatures conscious of immortality! How curious and riveting is the history which the Bible gives us of the infancy of man, the cradling, so to speak, of the earth's population! What a noble system of jurisprudence we have exhibited in the statute-book of Moses! What a fine specimen of powerful eloquence Paul gives us as he stands pleading in bonds at Agrippa's tribunal! What sublimer poetry can we find than in the rapturous strains of Isaiah, sweeping the chords to Zion's glory? If you want the pathetic, read the lamentations of Jeremiah. If you want the soft and tender in poetry, listen to the strains of the sweet singer of Israel; and if you want the glow of fancy, and strength of description, read the book of Job. The Bible excels all human composition in the beauty and sublimity of its style. And where will you find such a pure and elevated morality as that which breathes through the sermon of Christ on the mount? Nothing like it can be found elsewhere; and the literary merits of the Bible will commend it to such a reading and enlightened people as the Chinese.

And it is an important consideration that the Chinese mode of writing is current and legible, far beyond the limits of China, throughout Cochin China, Corea, and Japan, although they have different spoken dialects. A book written by a master

mind in the English language exerts an influence on many millions; and the Bible, faithfully translated and widely circulated throughout China and contiguous countries, must exert a tremendous influence.

The resolution I have offered speaks of China as presenting an inviting field for Bible distribution, from the magnitude of it population and the extent of its territory, as well as from its advancement in civilization. From an actual census taken a few years ago, the population of China was set down at three hundred and sixtyfour millions, and Morrison and Gutzlaff were both of the opinion that this is not an over-estimate. To satisfy himself of the accuracy of the estimate taken by the order of the Emperor, Gutzlaff took the pains of taking the census over again himself, in particular districts, and in no instance did he find the population of such districts over-estimated. The missionaries and colporteurs who are engaged in Bible distribution in China, are closely surrounded by these teeming millions. They are crowded into such narrow limits that no long journeys are required to be taken to secure access to millions. They swarm around them on every hand, affording every facility that we could ask to distribute among them multiplied copies of the Sacred Scriptures.

And in such enterprises it has pleased God in his providence to call upon Baptists to act as pioneers. He selected a Baptist to lead the way in preaching the gospel on the day of Pentecost. Peter was a Baptist. He taught not that baptism was an act of parental dedication--but the answer of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Christ. The salvation of Noah and his family in the ark, Peter taught, was a figure of the way in which we are saved by the burial and resurrection of Christ. The ark was for a time surrounded with water from above and beneath, but it outrode the storm, and those who were in it were brought safe to land. But there was no other mode of deliverance. Swimming was useless. A boat was a vain thing for safety, and in vain was salvation hoped for from the tops of the highest trees or the highest mountains. Those only were saved who were covered over by the ark.

And this was a figure of the way in which we are saved by the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. Christ received not a mere sprinkling, but a baptism of sufferings. He was overwhelmed with anguish. He came into deep waters of affliction, where the waters overflowed him, but he outrode that storm of Almighty wrath, and emerged from that sea of sufferings by his glorious resurrection. And of this baptism is a like figure. It is another sign of the same thing. It shows forth in emblem that burial and resurrection which is so closely connected with our salvation. And by faith in this, the believer professes in baptism to have a good conscience, a conscience from which the burden of guilt has been removed. Peter taught that baptism was a profession of a conscience made tranquil towards God by the resurrection of Christ, and such a profession infants cannot make. Peter therefore taught Baptist doctrine.

And Paul, the great missionary to the Gentiles, was a Baptist. He taught that we are buried with Christ by baptism unto death, that, like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, " even so we also should walk in newness of life."

And William Tyndale, the first one who translated the Scriptures from the Greek into the English language, was a Baptist. In a work which he wrote, entitled, “The obedience of a Christian man," it is clearly taught that believers are the only subjects, and immersion the action of baptism.

And William Cary, the leader in the great modern missionary enterprise, was a Baptist.

And who was the father of the British and Foreign Bible Society? Joseph Hughes, a Baptist. Who was the father of the Sunday-school Society in England? William Fox, a Baptist.

And Baptists cannot be considered as intruders in the work of Bible translation and distribution in China, for although Morrison was the first Protestant missionary to enter China, yet our own Dr. Marshman preceded him a long time in the same kind of labor. On the plains of India, under great disadvantages, he effected a translation of the Word of God into the Chinese language-a translation of the Scriptures which is still esteemed of high value. And we wish now to follow up the work which this learned and pious servant of the Lord so ably commenced.

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