"Boora Pennu, say his sect, resolved that, for his own honour, his work should not be lost, but that man should be enabled to attain to a state of moderate enjoyment upon earth, and to rise after death, through the practice of virtue, to a state of beatitude and partial restoration to communion with his maker. To accomplish these purposes, Boora created a subordinate divine agency, in ad vérsal disobedience to the deity, and fierce strife with one another. Boora immediately deified the sinless few without their suffering death, saying to them-Become ye gods, living for ever, and seeing my face when ye will, and have power over man, who is no longer my immediate care.' Upon the corrupted mass of mankind, Boora Pennu inflicted high moral penalties: and let loose the myriad forms of physical evil by the with-dition to that of the first sinless men, drawal of the antidotes which had who, when deified, were made arrested them. He entirely with- guardians of man; and he appointed drew his face and his immediate all the inferior gods to carry out the guardianship from mankind. He first object, one excepted, to whom made all who had fallen, subject to was assigned the duty of administerdeath; and he further ordained, that, ing justice to the dead. It was the in future, every one who should com- office of all these gods to regulate the mit sin should suffer death as its powers of nature for the use of man, consequence. Universal discord and to intruct him in the arts necessary war prevailed, so that all social and to life, and to protect him against even family ties were broken up. All every form of evil."* nature became thoroughly tainted In these statements will be found and disordered. The seasons no indistinct traces of the belief translonger held their regular course; mitted by Noah to his descendants; the earth ceased to bear sponta- the original innocence and happiness neously fruit fit for the food of man, of man: his fall through the temptand became a wilderness of jungle, ation of an evil spirit; the penal rocks, and mud. Diseases and death consequences of his sin, and the need came upon all creatures; snakes be- of a divine interference for his recame venomous; many flowers and covery. At that point, however, the fruits grew poisonous; and many human mind, uninstructed by the animals became savage and destruc- light of revelation, goes astray, and tive. Man now went clothed, lost loses itself in a gloomy forest of the power of moving through the air superstition. Tari required human and the sea, and sank into a state of sacrifices. "See," she exclaimed, abject suffering and degradation."what hills, and waste lands, and Thus the elements of good and evil were thoroughly commingled in man, and throughout nature. Meanwhile, Boora and Tari contended for superiority in fierce conflict, their terrible strife raging throughout the earth, the sea, and the sky; their chief weapons mountains, meteors and whirlwinds. "Up to this point, the Khonds hold the same general belief; but from it they divided into two sects directly opposed upon the great question of the issue of the contest between Boora and his rebel consort, involving the whole subject of the practical relation between the two antagonist powers with reference to man, the source and subject of their strife..... jungles are here: worship me with human blood, and the whole shall become a cultivated plain, and you shall have vast increase of numbers and of wealth." Victims, called "Meriah" by the Oriyas, and Tokki or Keddi, by the Khonds, were persons of any race, or age, or either sex, either kidnapped or otherwise procured. Sometimes they were Khond children, whom the parents had sold under pressure of distress. They were not unfrequently permitted to live until they had attained years of maturity, being regarded by the people as consecrated | carried out against the customs and beings. But when the appointed wishes of the people, they were moment arrived, and the Meriah resisted. An armed intervention victim was made fast to the post, none spared him, nor were they satisfied until their fields had been sprinkled with his blood. Then Tari was with confidence invoked "O Tari Pennu! You have afflicted us greatly; have brought death to our children and our bullocks, and failure to our corn;-have afflicted us in every way. But we do not complain of this. It is your desire only to compel us to perform your due rites, and then to raise up and enrich us. We were anciently enriched by this rite: all around us are great from it: therefore, by our cattle, our flocks, our pigs, and our grain, we procured a victim and offered a sacrifice. Do you now enrich us. Let our herds be so numerous that they cannot be housed; let children so abound, that the care of them shall overcome their parents, as shall be seen by their burned hands; let our heads ever strike against brass pots innumerable hanging from our roofs; let the rats form their nests of shreds of scarlet cloth and silk; let all the kites in the country be seen in the trees of our village, from beasts being killed there every day. We are ignorant of what it is good to ask for. You know what is good for us. Give it tɔ us !''* It is with thankfulness and gratification we refer to the energetic efforts put forth by the British authorities for the suppression of this rite, and the great degree of success with which they have been crowned. A mode of procedure was adopted at once decided and conciliatory. The despotic plan of crushing the system by bullets was rejected as impracticable and cruel. Simultaneously with the efforts to put down the Meriah sacrifices, measures were adopted for the suppression of female infanticide. These were necessary measures; yet enforced by authority, and, *Macpherson, p. 47. became requisite, and blood was shed. In this the gospel procedure stands pre-eminent. It accomplishes wondrous changes in the customs of races, without the necessity of resorting to carnal weapons. It is by a gentle persuasive influence on the man, enlightening his understanding, and so correcting his views and feelings, that such changes are effected. The man becomes convinced of the enormity of his old practices, and of himself abandons them. On the restoration of tranquillity the British authorities resumed their efforts for the suppression of the barbarous practices which had so long prevailed amongst this people, and with increasing success. Tribe after tribe yielded obedience. Since the first war in Goomsur upwards of 2000 Meriah victims have been saved, and female infanticide has greatly diminished. In the infanticide district of Suradah, containing 2150 families, there were, in 1848, less than 50 female children. In the beginning of 1853, in the same district, there were 900 girls under four years of age.-The Church Missionary Intelligencer. REMARKABLE CASE OF A POOR CRIPPLE. VERY seldom do the records of the world present a case exhibiting more strikingly the power of Christian faith, than does the following narrative, furnished by Dr. Dwight, of Constantinople. Visiting different missionary stations in Western Asia, Dr. Dwight came to Killis, an outstation of Aleppo, and he writes: "I witnessed in Killis a most remarkable spectacle. We heard that a poor cripple had been brought there lately, from a place in the Taurus mountains, called Eyber, about two Remarkable Case of a Poor Cripple. 359 days' ride distant, and that he was re- | Testament by his side, and from time joicing in the hope of the gospel. to time comforts his desolate heart We (Mr. Goss and myself) called by reading from its sacred pages. upon him. The hovel that he was in He appears to be somewhat over fifty would not have been considered fit years of age. Truly, here is a miracle for animals in America. It was con- of grace! I asked him if he felt that structed of mud, had only the ground his sins were forgiven? 'Yes,' said for a floor, and was composed of a he, 'by the grace of God our Saviour, single low room. He was lying on Jesus Christ, I have found peace. I his back, with nothing under him but have no hope in anything else but a piece of coarse hair bagging; and Christ, but through Him I have peace his head was supported by a very and joy.' He said he had no fear of small and thin straw pillow, resting death left, but was ready to depart upon a pile of stones. He was covered whenever it should be God's will. I with rags and filth, and his bodily inquired particularly about the terms infirmities were calculated to excite on which the sinner can be admitted our deepest commiseration. His to heaven. Said he, 'It is all by the bony hands were drawn firmly to- free grace of God. Nothing that the gether, so that he could by no means sinner can do can ever avail to puropen them, and his elbows were quite chase pardon and eternal life. Even stiff. The flesh was gone from both if he were to collect a heap of silver hands and arms, and I presume, in a as high as from earth to heaven, it great measure, from his whole body. would all avail nothing.' If ever there was in this world an object of pity, that man was such an object. And yet, from the time we entered the room until we left it, he never uttered one word of complaint, never even spoke of his pains and sufferings, or of his poverty; but his whole conversation and his whole appearance were those of a most perfectly contented, cheerful, and happy man! For twenty years he had been in this crippled condition, unable to move his limbs; and previously he was a robber, and lived by his own wickedness. "Four years ago, while in his mountain village, he first heard of the Protestants, Subsequently, some copies of the New Testament found their way to his village, and one of them was read from in his hearing. A native Protestant first explained to him the gospel way of salvation; and, two years ago, he thinks he received, by faith, the Lord Jesus Christ; and ever since he has been filled with peace and joy. "Many a king and emperor might well envy him his lot. Within the last year, notwithstanding all the disabilities and discouragements of his condition, he has actually learned to read, and now he keeps the New "O what power there is in the gospel of Christ, to enlighten and transform so dark a mind, and to put hope, and life, and peace into such a soul! A few years ago he was an ignorant, degraded, hardened and abandoned wretch. And now, if anybody were to look into his hovel, and see him drawn up and withered by disease, and often racked with pain, lying neglected upon the hard ground, he would feel that he was the most miserable of all human beings. And yet there are few happier men in this wide world! I went there hoping to impart some good, but I received far more than I gave, I went hoping that I might afford some little consolation, but he became God's instrument in greatly comforting my own soul. "We do not yet know what great results follow the conversion of this one man. The leaven is spreading in the mountain village from which he came. It has now become an out-station of Aintab, and ten Armenian families have already declared themselves Protestants. It the Holy Spirit, and we have reason seems plain that this is the work of to expect that it will extend through all that part of the mountains." News of the Churches. may BIBLE TRANSLATION | by Mr. Buckley, of the General SOCIETY. THE Committee of the Bible Translation Society have recently made the following grants in aid of the translation of the Scriptures by Baptist Baptist Missionary Society, the sum of £200. Towards the new version in Cingalese, by Mr. Carter, of Ceylon, £150; and towards the translations by Mr. Saker into the Camaroon language the sum of £100, making a total of £850. W. W. EVANS, missionaries. Towards the transla- Secretary. Subscriptions and Donations in aid of the General Baptist Missionary Society will be thankfully received by Robert Pegg, Esq., Treasurer, Derby; and by the Rev. J. C. Pike, Secretary, Quorndon, near Loughborough, from whom also Missionary Boxes, Collecting Boxes, and Cards may be obtained. THE GENERAL BAPTIST MAGAZINE. OCTOBER, 18 6 1. THE CAREY CENTENARY. EVERY Country cousin when he visits the great metropolis goes, as a matter of course, through a most laborious and exhaustive round of sight-seeing. He must see all the 'lions,' hear all the 'great guns,' and 'do' all the places of note, if possible, at whatever tax on his power of physical endurance, or whatever expenditure of locomotive energy. Should he be a considerate and thoughtful man he will, therefore, lay out his plans with a due regard to economy of time and strength, and will endeavour to kill two or three birds with one stone, and accomplish many wonders in one excursion. It happened to us in our visit to London, in August last, to read an announcement on a large placard to the effect that the Baptist Young Men's Missionary Society would hold a soiree and public meeting, in the Metropolitan Tabernacle, in honour of the hundredth anniversary of Dr. Carey's birth, and that the Revs. J. H. Hinton, J. P. Chown, F. Tucker, B.A., and C. H. Spurgeon himself would address the meeting. Here, we thought, was an opportunity to metropolitan visitors, and to Baptists too, who believe in the great commission which sent Dr. Carey to India,-an opportunity too good to VOL. II.-NEW SERIES, No. 10. 6 be lost. By attending this meeting so argued my friend somewhat profanely we should contribute our small share towards honouring the memory of one of the noblest and best of men, and, at the same time, run down a large number of really fine lions,' and probably bag a few small birds into the bargain. There was the splendid new Tabernacle, we should see that; there was what the metropolitan Baptist appeared to designate a 'soiree,' we should be able to note wherein that differed from a plain country tea meeting;" there were the Revs. Mr. Hinton, and Chown, and Tucker, and the great Son of Thunder, Mr. Spurgeon himself; we should see and hear them all. So the afternoon of Monday, August 19th, found us threading our way on foot through a crowded labyrinth of streets from one well-known point to another, from the Angel, in Islington, to the Elephant and Castle, on the Surrey side. Though unmistakeably from the country' we had been in London some time, and had accustomed ourselves to its thoroughfares and its busy roar of life; we were also getting inured to our work of lionizing. On the Monday previous, we had paid our respects to Du Chaillu's well- stuffed and shaggy - coated |