renounce idolatry, they do not become christians, but infidels or atheists, believing nothing.

He tells us that Mussoodoondhutt “was the son of a brahmin— he was heir to a large inheritance-he was a youth of remarkable talents and attainments-he stood high in character, in learning, in acquirements, and in good prospects among his fellow-students. All admired his industry and mental endowments. During his term of study he obtained such a knowledge of our language, that he could read the Bible in English; he was able to peruse the tracts written in English, and he had studied several treatises on the evidences of christianity in English. Before he left the college, and before he saw a missionary to converse with him, he was thoroughly convinced of the truth of our holy religion. By the grace of God he was what he was, and he was ready to ascribe his new birth, his new feelings, his new principles, his new resolutions, and his new hopes, to the Giver of every good and perfect gift."

This young Brahmin applied to a Missionary for baptism, who told him that he would inquire further about him. In the mean time the father of the youth, hearing what he had done, wrote a very angry letter to him, telling him he was "a madman or a fool" -that he and his relatives would disown him, and on the day of his baptism would celebrate his funeral, and that by so doing he would "be overwhelmed in disgrace and ruin, and sink into eternal infamy." In reply, he wrote-"Father! I cannot help it. I must carry out the convictions of my own mind. What has Hindooism ever done for me? or what can it do for any one? It is christianity alone that is suited, as a religion, to meet the wants and miseries of men. I feel that I must become a disciple of Jesus, whatever may be the consequences. Come weal or come woe, come adversity or prosperity, come all the evils that you fear, or all the joys that I anticipate, I feel that I must take up my cross and follow Jesus, through evil and through good report. I hope soon to be numbered amongst the followers of the Lamb."

The father, in reply, sent him one hundred pounds, saying"Take your passage to England. Go to that christian land, and there avow your attachment to that strange religion. But, in Calcutta, in the city where you have been born and brought up, among a people where you are so well known and so highly respected, do not, I beseech you, bring dishonour upon our name and disgrace upon our family."

What was the answer which the devoted youth gave to this letter?

"No," wrote he, "father! I cannot act the part of a hypocrite. I return the bribe of a hundred pounds. I will not go to England that, in a strange country, and among a strange people, I may avow my attachment to the Redeemer. I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth. No! But in my native land, in the city where I was born and brought up, and where, you say, I am so highly respected, I wish to bear a public testimony to the truth, and give an example to my fellow-students, and to all men, of that decision which I think it becomes them to manifest at the present time. Nothing will, I hope, prevent me from soon carrying my determination into effect."

And he did, in the presence of many spectators, make a public profession of his faith in Christ. Our author says—“I will give you the beautiful lines which he composed in the joy and in the fulness of his heart on that occasion, which were published in the Gazette of Calcutta, and which will show you what sacrifices he made, and what self-denial he passed through, for his blessed Master. Long sunk in superstition's night,

By sin and satan driven,

I saw not, cared not for the light
Which leads the blind to heaven.

I sat in darkness; reason's eye
Was sunk, was closed in me;

I hasten'd to eternity

O'er error's dreadful sea.

But now, at length, thy grace, O Lord!
Bids all around me shine;

I love thy sweet, thy precious word,
1 bow before thy shrine.

I've broke affection's tenderest ties
For my dear Saviour's sake;
All-all I have beneath the skies,
Lord! I for thee forsake.

What a blessed testimony to the power of the Gospel! What sacrifices for the truth were made by this young Hindoo! Have you read in the Gospel those delightful assurances which Jesus gave to his disciples? Let us hear them again. 'Verily, verily, I say unto you, There is no man who will forsake father and mother, wife or children, houses or lands, for my sake, and the Gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold in this life, and in the world to

come, life everlasting.' Let us hope, and let us rejoice in the hope, that all these blessed promises will be realized in the experience of this devoted youth, and that, though he has suffered with Christ, he will also reign with Him.

But who amongst us has made such sacrifices for Christ, and for his name, as Mussoodoondhutt, and has parted with so much to prove the truth of his religion? Coming from a heathen land, it is a fine, a noble example to professors at home, and should lead us all to consider what offerings we have given, and what sacrifices we have really made for the glory of Christ."

We cordially concur with the writer of these pious remarks, and regret that we have to object to one thing-only one thing-and that is the picture of what is called the "baptism" of this noble young convert, who is represented as having taken off his turban and laid it on the floor of the church. He is kneeling beside it, and the minister in a black gown is holding his open hand over his head. There are several natives and a little girl looking on, but no signs of water at all, neither for sprinkling, pouring, nor dipping-not even a basin, a bowl, or a cup! In what way then was this devoted young Hindoo " baptized unto the christian

faith?"

But, after all, this beloved youth had found the Saviour that was the main point-and having found him, the exact mode of his profession was a matter of comparatively small importance. We only honour the Word of God, however, when we say, that we wish his religious instructors had set before him the example of another rich man, whose skin was coloured like his own, and who gladly, by the direction of the Evangelist, "went down into the water" and was buried with his Lord in baptism, and "then coming up out of it, went on his way rejoicing."

We cannot conclude without noticing the pleasing contrast which the conduct of this young Brahmin afforded to that of the rich young ruler in the Gospel, who when assured by the Saviour's own lips, that if he would go and sell whatsoever he had and give to the poor, and come, and take up his cross, and follow him, he should have treasure in heaven, went away sad and sorrowful, for he was 66 very rich" and had "great possessions." Unhappy young

man! He

Let Christ, and grace, and glory go,
To make his lands and money sure!

He wanted to make a good bargain for both worlds. But he had no faith in Christ's promise of heaven's treasures. That was the

one thing he lacked. Young reader, have you? Which of those are you like? The young Hindoo or the young Jew? You may not, like either of them, have riches and honours to give up for Christ. But are you ready to give up all, even whatsoever you have, for Him? Count the cost. Would not Christ, and all heaven's untold treasures, with eternal life, be cheaply purchased, if for them you gave up all that you have, yea, and your own life also? On the other hand, what will it profit you if you gain the world and lose your soul? So sit down and count the cost at once and for ever!

THE HERETIC'S WILL.

(FROM HALL'S CHRONICLE.)

"A LITLE before this tyme (i. e. the marriage of Henry the 8th with Anne Boleyn, and 25th of his reign) was there a worshipfull esquire, in Glocestershyre, called Wyllyam Tracy, of Todyngton, whiche made in his wyll, that he would no funeral pompe at his buriyng, neither, passed he upon masse, and farther sayd that he trusted in God onely and hopyng by him' to be saued and not by no saint. This gentleman dyed and his sonne as executor brought ye wyll to ye bishop of Cauntorbury to proue, whiche he shewed to the couocation, and there unaduisedly they adjudged him to be taken out of the ground and to be brent as an heretike, and sent a commission to Docter Parker chauncelor of the dyoces of Worcester to execute their sentence, whiche accomplished the same.

"But yet for a farther trueth to be knowen of this gentlemans death, and the cruel ignorancye of the bishoppes, I haue here expressed his wille worde by worde as followeth.

'In the name of God, Amen, I Wyllyam Tracy of Todyngton, in ye countie of Glocester, esquire, make my Testament and last wille as hereafter followeth. Fyrst and before al other thinges I commit me unto God and to his mercy, beleuyng without mistrust that by his grace and the merites of Jesus Christ, I by the vertue of his passion and of his resurrection, I haue and shal haue remission of my sinnes, and resurrection of body and soule according as it is written (Job 19), I beleue that my redemer lyueth, and that in the last day I shall ryse out of the yearth, and in my flesh shall see my sauior; this my hope is layde up in my bosome.

'And touchyng the wealth of my soule, the fayth that I haue taken and rehersed is sufficient (as I suppose) without any other mannes worke or workes. My ground and belefe is, that there is but one God and one mediator betwene God and man, whiche is

Jesus Christ so that I accept none in heauen nor in yearth, to be mediator betwene me and God, but onely Jesus Christ, all other to be but peticioners in receiuyng of grace, but none hable to geue influence of grace. And therefore will I bestow no part of my

goodes for that entent that any man should say or do to help my soule, for therein I trust onely to the promises of God: he that beleueth and is baptized shal be saued, and he that beleueth not shal be damned. (Mark 16.)

'As touchyng the buriyng of my body, it auaileth me not whatsoeuer be done therto, for saint Augustine sayeth, de cura agenda pro mortuis, that the funeral pompes are rather the solace of them that liue, then for the welth, and comforte of them that are dede, and therfore I remitte it onely to the discrecion of myne executors.

'And touchyng the distribucion of my temporal goodes, my purpose is by the grace of God to bestowe them, to be accepted as fruites of fayth so that I do not suppose that my merite is by good bestowing them, but my merite is the fayth of Jesus Christ, onely, by whom suche workes are good accordyng to the wordes our Lorde: (Matt. 25.) I was hungry and thou gauest me to eat, &c. and it foloweth, that ye haue done to the least of my brethren ye haue done it to me, &c. And ever we should consider the true sentence, that a good worke maketh not a good man, but a good man maketh a good worke: for fayth maketh the man both good and righteous, for a righteous man lieuth by fayth: (Rom. 14.) and whatsoeuer spryngeth not of faith is sin.

'And all my temporel goodes that I haue not giuen or deliuered or not giuen by writyng, I do leaue and giue to Margaret my wyfe and to Richard my sonne whom I make mine executors. Wytness this myne owne hand, the X day of October in the XXII yere of the reigne of Kyng Henry the VIII.'

"This is the true copy of his wille, for the whiche as you haue heard before after he was almoste three yeres dead, they toke him up and burned him."

MEMORIALS OF THE YOUNG.

"A LIFE BRIEF BUT BEAUTIFUL."*

MR. STALKER proceeds to notice the marriage of Miss Illingworth to Mr. William Allison, a member of the same church, and Secretary of the Leeds Sabbath School Union, at South Parade baptist

* Continued from page 31.