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serious man, so I gave him some Tracts and one of the Sailor's Magazines, after writing my name and place of abode in it, and he seemed most truly thankful for it, and said, he should much enjoy reading it.' I then found a young gentleman on the front seat who spoke very highly of the Bethel President,' Admiral Lord Gambier; and he said he should like to look at one of the Magazines. I therefore gave him one directly, at which he seemed so pleased, that he said he intended to take them in when he returned home; and I have since given one to a sick tradesanan going home to his dear country, Kinsale, in Ireland; and he, poor man, said he should keep it, he hoped, as long as he lived, and give it to his children after him: so that I hope I did not make a bad use of that part of thy kind bountythe others are most of them lent out in the town and neighbourhood to get more subscribers."

SEA MISSIONARY.

HOWEVER necessary and useful writing letters and forwarding reports to individuals may have been, experience has convinced us that that society will do but little good that sits down comfortably at home, and writes and talks of the goodness of its objects, and the utility of its plan. To excite a suitable spirit and produce lively efforts, places must be visited, and persons be brought to feel a real interest in these things, that they may step forward and persevere in attaining that good a national institution proposes to accomplish. All the Evangelical Missionary Societies are so well convinced of this, that they now dispatch their ministers annually to every part of the kingdom, that the subject may thus be brought prominently forward, and none grow weary in well doing. The British and Foreign Seaman's Friend Society has long since had its agents actively visiting various sea ports, forming and promoting institutions for sailors; and the readers of this Magazine cannot fail to have noticed the exertions and success of the Rev. Messrs. G. C. Smith and A. Brown in this signally important work. Our recent numbers have introduced an accredited agent also of the Society in the person of Captain William Henry Angas, as a Sea Missionary. His public appointment to this sacred office has already been stated to have taken place on board the seaman's chapel at Bristol, and the commencement of his maritime career has been detailed in our work. We have followed him from London through Colchester, Wivenhoe, Harwich, Ipswich, and Boston, to Lynn Regis. We shall, in future extracts, exhibit his further progress; and invite all the friends of seamen to offer up fervent prayers for a divine blessing on his active efforts to do good among seamen.

Notices and Acknowledgments.

As account of the Great Osage Mission, the Cataraugus Mission, and several other articles prepared for this number, are omitted for want of room. We are also obliged to defer our "CIVIL RETROSPECT."

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MEMOIR OF MRS. CHARLOTTE EMILIA CAREY.

On Wednesday morning, the 30th of May, 1821, died at Serampore, CHARLOTTE EMILIA, the wife of Dr. Carey, in her sixty-first year, after an illness of about five days, in which her mind was so graciously supported, that death seemed to be disarmed of all its terrors.

Mrs. Carey was born at Rundhof, in the Dutchy of Sleswick, March 11th, 1661. Her father was the Chevalier de Rumohr, who married the Countess of Alfeldt, the descendant of an ancient family of that name, for several centuries resident in that. Dutchy, and which had now no heir male to inherit the title.

Miss Rumohr was from her childhood the subject of much bodily affliction, which was increased by the mistaken tenderness of her parents in debarring her, through her weakness of body, that exercise which might possibly have proved its cure. About the age of fifteen, the accidental burning of their family house, in which the lives of the whole family were saved by her waking almost suffocated with the smoke, and awaking her mother and the other branches of the family, so affected her health, as to render her incapable of walking up and down a staircase to the end of her life

As she advanced in years, Miss Rumohr found her constitution so greatly impaired, that at the earnest persuasion of her parents, she left her native country, and sought that health in the South of France, and various parts of Italy, which she found it impossible to enjoy at bome. In the South of Europe, therefore, she resided some years, till at length her health appeared so much improved, that she thought she might venture again to return to her native land. She had no sooner reached her native shores, however, than she relapsed into her former state of weakness; and a residence there of a few months convinced her friends that it was vain for her to hope for the enjoyment of health in the North of Europe. Thus debarred the comfort arising from the enjoyment of her family connexions, she felt constrained to look out for some climate better suited to her debilitated constitution. Among other countries pointed out to her one of her friends suggested India, as likely from the mildness of its climate, to agree with her best. She immediately made up her mind VOL. IX.

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to the voyage, intending to settle at Tranquebar, his Danish Majesty's chief settlement in India: and Mr. Anker, one of the Directors of the Danish East India Company, who had been long acquainted with the family, recommended her in a particular manner to the care and kind'ness of his brother, General Anker, then Governor of Tranquebar. That gentleman also, during her stay at Copenhagen, put Pascal's Thoughts into her hand, from reading which she received her first genuine religious convictions.

While Tranquebar was her object, however, Divine Providence, who had in reserve for her a blessing infinitely superior to bodily health, was pleased so to order things, that she came in a ship bound to the Danish settlement of Serampore, where she arrived early in the year 1800. Here she was received with great respect by Colonel Bie, the Governor, and the other Danish gentlemen residing there, and no opportunity offering of her immediataly going to Tranquebar, she made up her mind to settle there. It happened that about three months before this, Messrs. Marshman, Ward, Brunsdon, and Grant (of whom the last was then dead) had arrived at Serampore from England, and had been persuaded by the good old Governor, to settle at Serampore themselves, and invite their brethren Carey and Fountain to join them, which they did early in January, 1800. In these circumstances, Col. Bie introduced Miss Rumohr to the Mission family, as a lady from her retired habits desirous of having intercourse with them, and who, from her ill state of health, would feel happy in that sympathy and assistance to be expected from a family like theirs. This incident naturally led to an intercourse between Miss Rumohr and them, and to her attendance on Divine worship with them as oft as her ill state of health would permit. To enable her to do this, she applied with such diligence to the study of English, that in a few months she was able both to converse with them and to understand Divine worship in that language.

Brought thus within a religious circle, Miss Rumohr began closely to reflect on the meaning and import of those doctrines which constantly came before her. She had been accustomed from her childhood to read the Scriptures; but while she held them in general estimation, she had admitted into her mind strong doubts respecting their leading doctrines, particularly those which relate to forgiveness through the death of the Redeemer. This led to much conversation on these subjects with various members of the Mission family, and to her searching the Scriptures with increased diligence. In doing this, she found to her astonishment, that those parts of the Scriptures which she had hitherto almost neglected, particularly Paul's Epistles, were those which most fully developed these doctrines. Although brought up in the Lutheran persuasion, she had never realized the importance of those doctrines which shine so prominently in the works of that illustrious reformer; but she now plainly saw, that the way of salvation laid down in the Sacred Writings, was evidently through faith in that atonement which Christ had made for sinners; and that genuine faith and repentance were the only means through which sinners could become interested in this

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salvation. Her convictions on this subject were far from being superficial; they led her to examine her own state before God, and made her sensible that she needed such a salvation, and that the faith which bringeth it, is that alone which works by love and changes the whole heart. In a word, they led her to the Friend of sinners, in whom she found One able to save to the uttermost.

Her searching the Scriptures also led her to different views of the ordinance of Baptism. She always thought it wrong to baptize infants who could have no knowledge of the ordinance; but she now clearly saw that this ordinance was enjoined by the Saviour on all those who should believe on him to the end of time, and on those alone. Convinced therefore that she had never obeyed this command, she* was baptized June 13th, 1802.-The following is the account she then gave of her experience.

"June 11th. This evening Miss Rumohr came before the church, and gave an account of her experience. Her account was as follows:I have been the greatest part of my life a skeptic, but often wished to be convinced of the truths of revelation. For some time past it has pleased God, in his great mercy, to bless to my soul the reading of the Scriptures, too often neglected by me in many parts of my life, ---and at other times I found them as a sealed book. I highly prized the morals of Scripture; but its evangelical doctrines did not reach my heart. I felt, however, a gradual conviction continually deepening in my mind; the holiness and mercy of God, displayed in the work of redemption, filled my heart with love and admiration, and made sin appear truly henious, and more to be feared than any thing besides. God also appeared so lovely and glorious, as to fill my whole soul. The first sin of which I was convinced was, the alienation of my heart from God: I felt, with grief and shame, that I had lived without God. My whole life now appeared in the most humbling light; yet I felt no terror. While seeing the infinite evil of sin, and all the aggravations of my crimes, I felt also the infinite value of that sacrifice, which is sufficient to atone for the sins of the whole world; and was led to hope that God would not have awakened my heart, if he had not graciously intended to have mercy upon me and perform his own work in me. I humbly hope for pardon and acceptance through the atonement of our dear Saviour, having no other

It is well known that the female branches of the families of the German nobility are placed in Chapters endowed for that purpose. Miss R. was in one of these Chapters, which admitted of her enjoying its emoluments without being obliged to reside in it. When the account of her baptism reached Germany, she received a letter from the officers of the Chapter, threatening her with the loss of its emoluments unless she chose to subscribe to the Confession of Augsburgh. She replied by informing them of her real sentiments, and at the same time denying that they had any right to inquire about her religious sentiments, the Chapters not being religious houses, but mere establishments for the temporal advantage of those who belonged to them. She informed them that if they pressed the religious test upon her, she would relinquish her right in the Chapter, but that she considered the demand as unjust. It is probable the matter was dropped: for she enjoyed the emolument till her marriage, by which it was forfeited.

↑ See Periodical Accounts, vol. ii. p. 280.

hope. Every day and every moment afford me new proofs of the evil of my heart, and render him more necessary and precious to me. I experience daily that without him I can do nothing. My most ardent wish is to cleave to him and to walk in his ways; and my continual wandering from him and his commands, fills me with grief and shame, and shows me how much I need continually to pray, Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within

me!"

In May, 1808, Miss Rumohr was married to Dr. Carey, which brought her into closer connexion with the Mission family at Serampore, and gave them an opportunity of more fully witnessing her Christian walk and conversation. This connexion God was graciously pleased to continue thirteen years, although the precarious state of her health at its commencement, seemed almost to forbid the hope of its continuing a single year. And although she was at no time able to take an active part in domestic concerns, her love to the cause of God, and her esteem for the various members of the family, were sufficiently manifested. Immediately after her marriage, the house she had previously built for her own residence, she gave to the Brethren of the Mission, that they might constantly apply the rent of it to the support of native preachers. Towards the native converts she manifested a spirit of Christian affection, rejoicing in their godly walk, and encouraging them by conversing with them in their own language as she had opportunity, which language she had acquired chiefly with this view. In whatever related to the extension of the Gospel, she constantly manifested a deep and lively interest. Whatever seemed encouraging relative to it, filled her with pleasure; and she mourned the occurrence of any thing which threatened to retard its progress. In schools she felt a peculiar interest; and though little can as yet be done in female education, that little she endeavoured to encourage to the utmost. Hence, when her daughter-in-law, Mrs. William Carey, had an opportunity at Cutwa of raising and superintending a school for native girls, she immediately took the expense of that school on herself.

As her weak habit of body confined her much to the house, she devoted a large portion of her leisure to the reading of the Scriptures and of works on practical religion. Among these she much delighted in Saurin, Du Moulin, and other French Protestant writers. She admired Massillon's language, his deep knowledge of the human heart, and his intrepidity in reproving sin; but felt the greatest dissisfaction with his total neglect of the Saviour, except when he is introduced to give efficacy to human works of merit. These authors sroad in their native language, that being more familiar to her than English.

She in general enjoyed much of the consolations of religion. Though so much afflicted, a pleasing cheerfulness generally pervaded her conversation. She indeed possessed great activity of mind. She was const intly out with the dawn of the morning when the weather permitted, in her little carriage, drawn by one bearer; and again in the evening, as soon as the sun was sufficiently low. She thus spent

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