lington,

From the Wethersfield For eign Mission Society,* by Miss Ann Marsh, the Treas urer, remitted by Rev. Calvin Chapin,

20. Contribution after the Annual Sermon before the Board, delivered by the Rev. Mr Chapin, at the Tabernacle Church, Salem,†

21. From the Female Charitable Society in Williamstown (Mass.) by Mrs. Betsey Noble, the Treasurer, remitted to Mr. S. T. Armstrong,

From the following Societies and individuals, viz, by the Rev. Dr. Payson,

From the Female Cent Society in Jaffrey, by Miss Edith Parker, $32 08

115 00

124 40

45 00

From Isaac Story, Esq. of Marblehead, by the Rev. Samuel Dana, for the translations, Contribution at Carlisle, Schoharie County, New York, by Mr. J. F. Schermerhorn, From a friend to missions in Charlestown,

From the following_persons and societies, by Mr. Timothy Dwight, Jun. agent of the Board at New Haven; viz.

From the Ladies Cent Society of Woodbridge $3 00 From a Lady in Wood

10 00

20 00

25 00

3 00

Stone, of Durham, by do. 10 00-51 40 25. From the Female

Cent Society in the north
parish of Woodstock,
(Ver.) a part of their an-
ual contribution, by the
Rev. Edward Warren, 12 00
From Miss L. W. of
Marlborough, (Mass.) by

do.

From Miss Tryphena Root, of Brutus, Cayuga County (N. Y.) by the Rev. Royal Phelps,

From the Foreign Mis

2.00-14.00

sion Society of Franklin County, by Jerome Ripley, Esq, the Treas

urer,

5.00

130 00

Carried forward $735 42

From the Congregation in Brattleborough, (Ver.) a collection, remitted by the Rev. President Davis,

$40 12 From an indigent young man, by do.

Published for the Society of Inquiry res pecting missions. Andover; printed and sold by Flagg and Gould. 1815. 12mo. pp.

216.

26. From the Female Cent Society in Wardsborough (Ver.) by Mr. Jonathan Robinson, remitted to Mr. S. T. Armstrong,

27. From Mr. Charles Chamberlain, of Locke, (N. Y.) remitted by the Rev. Joshua Dean, 10 Mr. S T. Armstrong,

28. From the Female Cent Society, of Westbrook, Maine, remitted by the Rev. Mr. Hil liard to Mr. N. Willis,

From Miss Sarah A. Stetson, of Harvard, by the Rev. Warren Fay,

From children in Miss Hilis's school, Andover,

From a number of ladies, in Salem, (N. H.) remitted by Mrs. Hannah Smith to the Rev. Dr. Woods,

A

contribution in Malone, Franklin County, (N. Y.) remitted by the Rev. Ashbel Parmlee.

5.00

24 00.

1 05

8 32

27 40

Report of a Missonary Tour through that part of the United States, which lies west of the Alleghany Mountains; performed under the direction of the Massachusetts Missionary Society. By Samnel J. Mills, and Daniel Smith. Andover: printed by Flagg and Gould, 1815. Pp. 64.

Great effects result from little causes. A Sermon, delivered Sept. 13, 1815, at the anniversary of the Moral Society in Andover. By Ebenezer Porter, D. D. Bartlet Professor of Sacred Rhetoric in the Theological Seminary, Andover. Andover: printed by Flagg and Gould. 1815. pp. 21.

NEW EDITIONS.

Letters on Missions, addressed to the Protestant Ministers of the British Churches. By Melville Hornes late

For the Panoplist. HYMN.

John, vi. 68.

To whom, my Savior, shall I go
When I abandon thee;

My guide through all this vale of woe,
And more than all to me?

The world reject thy gentle reign;
And pay thy death with scorn;
O, they could plat thy crown again,
And sharpen every thorn!

But I have felt thy dying love

Breathe sweetly through my heart,
To whisper hope of joys above;
And can we ever part?

Ah! no-with thee I walk below
My journey to the grave;
To whom, my Savior, shall I go,
When only thou canst save?
CARUS.

ERRATA.

In the list of the delegates to the Gen-, eral Assembly of Massachusetts, Aug. p. 357. for Rev: Israel Lee read Rev. Joseph Lee. In the review of Wardlaw, Sept. p. 420 1st column, 5th line from the bottom, for in read into, 4th line from the bottom, for hints read texts, and d column, 3d line from the top, for hints, read texts.

N. B. As the present volume of the Panoplist is drawing to a close, the friends and agents of the work are respectfully invited to give seasonable notice of additions to our list of subscribers.

No. 11.

BRIEF

THE following memoir is taken from the Missionary Register, for January 1814, a monthly journal of missionary intelligence, published in London, under the superintendence of the Secretary of the Church Missionary Society. ED.

THIS excellent Clergyman, though not a Missionary to India, in the usual acceptation of the word, was so important an instrument, for nearly thirty years, of maintaining and extending the influence of Christianity among the European Residents in India, and entered so zealously into every prudent plan of diffusing it among the natives, that, on these accounts, he ranks as the first of all our countrymen.

We shall be fully supported in this assertion by that distinguished man, the friend and coadjutor of Mr. Brown, the Rev. Dr. Buchanan, to whom both India and Britain are under deeper obligation than to any other man who ever lived, for the diligence with which he has investigated the moral and religious degraVOL. XI. .

fearlessness in displaying this degraded condition before his country, and the intelligence and ability with which he has pleaded for the highest interests of India before her tribunal.

We derive our materials for this short Memoir chiefly from the Appendix to the last Report of the Bible Society, and from the Notes and Appendix to the Address, by Dr. Buchanan, delivered to two English and two Lutheran Clergyman, Missionaries of the Church Missionary Society to India, at a Special General Meeting of that Society.

The Rev. David Brown was born at Driffield, in Yorkshire. He studied at Magdalen College, Cambridge; and went out to India, as a Chaplain to the Company,in 1785, soon after he had entered into Holy Orders. For twentyseven years he maintained an honorable and consistent character as a Christian and a Clergyman, in a situation of no common difficulty and temptation. He was twice married; and died at Calcutta, in 1812, in the fiftitieth year of his age, leaving a widow and a large family.

Mr. Brown had been for some

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health, which was greatly increased by his exertions in advancing the interests of the Auxili. ary Bible Society of Calcutta, to which he acted as Secretary.

"The cause of God in India (says Mr. Thomason, his successor as Secretary,) has lost one of its most zealous and useful supporters. He may be considered as the Father of our noble Aux iliary Society; the publication of whose first Report lay very near his heart, and, when accomplished, caused the tears of joy and thankfulness to flow in abundance. He was then much reduced by sickness. The effect was too great. He could not bear such an excitement, and afterward drooped rapidly. He embarked, intending (as Mr. Thomason adds) to proceed to Madras for the recovery of his health; but Providence deter'mined otherwise. The ship, after leaving the roads at Saugor, struck on a sand. The poor suffering invalid was brought back to Calcutta, rather a loser than a gainer by his little journey. He grew weaker daily; and on Sunday, June 14, 1812, 'about one o'clock, it pleased God to take him to himself. On Monday his remains were com'mitted to the earth. His grave was watered by the tears of many, who, for a course of years, enjoyed the benefit of his minis try, and feel that they have lost a father and a friend."

The Corresponding Committec, in Calcutta, of the British and Foreign Bible Society, in 'addressing the Committee of hat Institution, add their high Testimony to that of Mr. Thoma

ress of those important labors which are carrying on in India, under the patronage of the British and Foreign Bible Society, we have to communicate some tidings of an afflictive nature. You are, doubtless, prepared to receive from us an official confirmation of the loss we have sustained, by the removal of our late Secretary from the scene of his labors.

"He had been long in a declining state of health, and his friends watched the sad progress of his disorder with many anxious forebodings. They felt that his presence in the Church was greatly wanted, and that impor tant scenes of exertion were opening, which would require the combined support of all who wished well to the cause of religion: it was not, therefore, without deep regret, that they saw so faithful and so zealous a laborer drawing near the close of life, in the midst of his usefulness. On the 14th of June last, it pleased God, whose ways are unsearchable, and whose judgments are past finding out, to call home to himself the late beloved and lamented Mr. Brown. The loss is deeply felt, not only by your corresponding Committee, but by the Church of Christ at large in this part of the world.

"We are persuaded that this sad event will excite in you the liveliest concern; and doubt not that your commiseration of our bereaved state will work out increasing earnestness in prayer to the great Head of the Church, that he would look down upon us in mercy, and shew himself strong in our behalf."

Dr. Buchanan, in a Note, furnishes us with a memorable ex

ample of Mr. Brown's fidelity to the engagements of his sacred office.

"Some discussion has lately taken place concerning the CUBBEE, or sacred verses of the Hindoos, used at the festival of Juggernaut, Doorgah, &c. of which mention was made in a Letter to the Court of Directors, Jaid on the table of the Honorable the House of Commons. The question was whether these verses were really indecent, or whether they were not rather in nocent and holy, resembling our own sacred poetry. It may be satisfactory to some, to have the character of these verses from another authority. In a Sermon preached by the late Rev. David Brown, Senior Chaplain of the East India Company at Calcutta, on Sunday the 7th October 1810, admonishing the English not to Countenance idolatry by accepting invitations from the Hindoos to honor with their com pany the festival called the Doorgah Poojah; (the printed cards referred to in the sermon were issued by the Hindoos in the English Language, and requested the company of the English on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday;) at which Poojah (or worship) the idol goddess, Doorgah, whom the preacher compares to As. tarte and the Bona Dea, is exhibited in gorgeous state, and worshipped with songs and dances-he thus describes the stanzas above alluded to: "They have, lastly, at this festival, what is called KOBEE (verse.) This is properly the carnival of the Hindoos-the carcase on which they feed! But I cannot describe it from this place. The hoary Brahmin, while he glories in his

shame, blushes on these occasions in the presence of an European." THE CARCASE ON WHICH THEY FEED! What a meaning does this expression convey! And this testimony was delivered to the English Settlement at Calcutta, in the middle of the Hindoos themselves! It was first given on the Sunday above mentioned, in 1810; and afterwards repeated, with new circumstances, at the Presidency Church, on Sunday, Sept. 15th, 1811, a few months before the faithful preacher died."

Let us mark the end of this servant of Christ!

In the Appendix to Dr. Buchanan's Address, he says, "A particular account of the last illness and death of the venerable Swartz, has already been given to the public, in the Reports of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge. I proceed to do a similar act of justice to the memory of the Rev. Mr. Brown."

The following is an extract from a Sermon preached, at Calcutta, on the 21st of June, 1812, on occassion of the death of Mr.

Brown, by the Rev. Thomas Thomason, late Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge.

"His numerous friends will be anxious to hear some particulars of his last sickness and death. Such I shall now communicate, partly in his own words, and partly in those of his friends.

"About two months before his decease, at a time when his disorder seemed to have taken a favorable turn, and his strength appeared to be returning, he' wrote in pencil some recollections on recovery from sickness, which afford us a complete in sight into his mind, and conta