talents, strength and time. Lord, help me to devote all these fully to thee alone!

1789, Jan. 1st.-Much discouraged at the poor prospect of success in my labours in the ministry. Mr. Lacam said, "Remember Lot; he had not five companions in the way of righteousness." O Lord, add to our number, and increase our faith, and leave not thyself without witness in this land. If I live to yet the beginning of another year, may I behold a more promising harvest. I never had more need of observation, calmness, resolution, and grace, to direct my steps. The Lord is my helper, and I have no other. I have often experienced his sufficiency. Lord, enable me yet to trust thee, and I will not be afraid.

4th.-O for the spirit of a Brainard, or a Howard, on whom I have been thinking and conversing this day. Preached at Fort William, and the mission church. As a servant, it is my business to wait, and not to murmur. I attend the will and pleasure of another, not my own. Why should I repine? Lord Jesus, be thou exalted in thine own strength: may I be thy witness for the truth, and thy instrument in calling whom thou wilt call.

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THE following letter from the Reverend Mr. Cecil has been promised to the reader, and will be interesting to his admirers. It was written to introduce Mr. Brown to friends in India, and seems not unsuitably to introduce his correspondence likewise to favorable

attention.

From the Reverend Mr. Cecil to the Reverend Mr. Owen, Calcutta.

"My very dear Friend,

"London, 1785.

"I know not how to address an EastIndian. I do not know what notions and habits you may have acquired by this time: I feel myself writing to a man in another world, and therefore were it not that I have not above ten minutes to write in, I should probably for the first reason make my words few. Truth

Truth however will bear examination every where. My esteem and love for you being real, I will profess them in India. I pray the God of the whole earth to bless and keep you there, and after filling your own soul with the love of Christ, to give you a mouth of utterance which shall silence foolish men, and make them wise unto salvation. I say, as this is God's work, I shall pray for it, and I earnestly intreat you to join with me.

My dear friend Brown wishes me to give him a line to you. I am happy to shew him any sign of my cordial respect, but a line on his account to you was needless. Look in his face he carries a better letter of recommen; dation there, than any man can write for him; I mean, when he stands before a person of your feelings and discernment. To speak explicitly, Mr. Brown is a transparent man; rather too pleasing to be secure, were it not that he really fears God, and thereby is delivered from the fear, and, in a sense, from the friendship of the world. But, after all that can be said in my friend's favor, he is a young man; the only fault indeed I ever discovered, but such a one as he may suffer more from than from a thousand of another kind. Now, my dear Owen, while I request no general civilities

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civilities or services to be paid him on my account, because I know they will be every where offered upon his own; yet I have a request of a particular nature to make on his account; I mean, that if you should on any occasion observe my friend off his guarddrinking in flattery, or on the borders of offering it, if any allurements should for a moment draw him down from walking with God to dwell among men, I charge you, I conjure you, to remind him that the fine gold is waxing dim, and "the faithful city near becoming an harlot." I am afraid my letter will hardly be conveyed to him before he sets off; I must therefore conclude abruptly, but very sincerely when I assure you that I am "Your truly affectionate and

Much obliged Friend and Servant,

"R. CECIL.

"I should be extremely happy to hear from you by any means, for I long to know what you are doing, and whether you are happy."

Extracts

Extracts from Mr. Brown's early Correspondence from India.

To a beloved Friend.

"Mouth of the Ganges, 5th June 1786.

"Dear L.

"Before another month brings you together to call upon the name of our gracious Lord, I hope to be settled in the midst of my dear young flock, busied in declaring to them the unsearchable riches of Christ, whose name is cordial to my heart, and whose promises are my richest inheritance.

"The bustle of shipboard seems almost over, and I must then collect myself, and pay you a longer visit; for the present, I can give you much less attention than my inclination invites me to. Oh, my Oh, my dear man, if you yet live to call me your friend, whatever you do, forget not to secure the next world, and then, as Dr. Young somewhere expresses it, you will have a sure possession of joy within yourself. I wish you all the dispositions that can fit you for, and make heaven desirable to you; may you be preserved pure from the defile

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