especially in Tinnevelly; and there are now many single minded and able Ministers of the Church in those very parts cultivating the still barren soil of that wonderful country, teeming with thousands of Idol worshippers. Let them go on in their work and labour of love, and in God's own time the whole of that favoured spot will cast their idols to the moles and to the bats! The accounts from the Missionaries located in that district, especially those from my old friend Mr. Pope, are most cheering and deeply interesting. But I must not forget that Schwartz is the subject of this address. When he found that his labours were blessed and that fields of usefulness were opening in the far South of India, he adopted the son of his fellow-labourer Kohlhoff, and prepared him for the work of a Missionary. This humble minded servant of GoD it was my privilege to know well, and never can I forget the man as he bade me farewell at Tanjore, on the 2nd of August 1842, when the dangerous illness of my wife and my own shattered health drove us from India, to settle again in old England. The good Missionary Schwartz maintained not only his protegé but 3 catechists and 1 schoolmaster at Tanjore, 1 catechist at Tripatoor, and 3 at Palamcottah. His purse was always open whenever he could benefit his fellow-creatures, and where his worldly substance was not required, he was ready to give his counsel to all classes, from the prince upon the throne to the lowest subject. In the year 1787, the Rajah Tuljajee died at Tanjore, and having no son of his own, he had adopted a near relative named Serfojee, whom he delivered with great solemnity to the hands of Schwartz, begging him to become his guardian. This illustrious man never courted such favour from those in high authority, and indeed he thought it prudent to decline the honour at first, until the Madras Government publicly recognized him as appointed to that office. In 1793 he arrived at Madras, with his young ward Serfojee, and during his stay there he had many opportunities of pointing out the usefulness of schools among the Natives to the Governor of Madras, who readily promised assistance. He also obtained from the Madras Government the sum of 40 Pagodas per month for the poor of Negapatam, which was inhabited principally by the Dutch, Portuguese, and their descendants. When I was the resi dent clergyman at Negapatam from 1837 to 1842, this allowance was still distributed among the poor, although it had passed into other hands in its distribution. While the illustrious Schwartz was engaged with the superintendence of the young native Prince, he was not neglectful of his high and holy duties as a Missionary, for he was daily travelling about making known the will of God, and building up his numerous converts in the doctrines of our most Holy Faith. And where he could not remain long himself he appointed teachers, and supported them from his own resources. In 1796, he had no less than 12 catechists at Tanjore, Ramnad, and Palamcottah. His habits were most simple and frugal. When he was taken from earth to heaven he left the whole of his property for the support of his Missions. He was highly and justly beloved by his ward, the Prince Serfojee, who, although not altogether a Christian, yet shewed many marks of his approbation of that faith so clearly and boldly taught by his faithful guardian. When Schwartz died Feb. 13th, 1728, aged 72 years, after a residence of nearly 48 years in India, the Rajah followed the remains of his friend to the grave, and when the coffin was lowered into the vault he watered it with his tears. Serfojee Rajah erected a handsome marble monument to his memory,with the representation of the dying Rajah Tuljajee delivering his adopted son to the care of the holy Schwartz,-in the church built by him in the fort of Tanjore. He also placed a granite stone over the the grave of his benefactor, on which are engraved the following simple but interesting lines, composed by the Rajah Serfojee himself: "Firm wast thou, humble and wise, To the benighted dispenser of Light, Doing and pointing to that which is right. Such is a brief, but faithful notice of a very few incidents in the life of this Apostolic Missionary. That his successors in our Indian Missions may have health, strength, and ability to follow his steps, is the fervent desire and prayer of, dear Mr. Editor, yours faithfully, JOHN THOMSON, Formerly a Missionary of the S. P. G. F. P. Broad Hinton, near Swindon, Wilts., 22nd February, 1850. MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE. TORONTO. The Church contains a Pastoral Letter from the Bishop of Toronto, to the Clergy and Laity of the Diocese, on the subject of King's College; and petitions from the Clergy and Laity of the United Church of Eng land and Ireland in Province to the Queen, and the House of Lords on the same subject. The Bishop, in his letter, says, that "on the first of January, 1850, the destruction of King's College as a Christian Institution was accomplished, for on that day the Act, establishing the University of Toronto, by which it was suppressed, came in force," "a University from which the worship of God is excluded." "Its three leading features-contempt for the people, enmity to religion, and disloyalty to their Sovereign, are each of them offensive to large and influential parties.' The measure is so wicked and inconsistent, that sooner or later, a reaction must take place." "The sentiments of the people are set at nought, to gratify the few who neither value or regard schools of learning. Religion is suppressed, and ecclesiastics proscribed, to please the enemies of property and order. And the very name of King's College' is abolished, for fear that some attachment to the Sovereign might, in the generous minds of youth, be associated with a Royal foundation." 66 The Bishop proposes to address the Queen and the Imperial Parliament, and his Lordship gives the forms of the petitions to be used by the members of the Church for that purpose. In another part of this letter, the Bishop says, No statute passed since the Union of the Provinces has lowered the character of the Canadian Legislature so much as that which destroyed King's College. Churchmen consider it disgraceful to the country, and the indifferent pronounce it a political blunder." The Bishop appeals to the members of the Church for gifts, as God has prospered them, to endow a Universi ty for the education of the children of Churchmen, in Christian principles, and his Lordship expects donations also in England. The Bishop makes his appeal with characteristic earnestness, and with full hope and confidence of success, having already contributions of £8000 secured here, and an equal amount in England; besides £1200 a year from the Society, in London, for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts. It is his Lordship's intention to proceed to England, (that nothing may be wanting on his part, should the encouragement he receives be such as he expects,) and urge the prayer of their petitions to the Queen and both Houses of Paliament. The Bishop is in his seventy-second year, of which more than fifty have been spent in Upper Canada. He says" one of my chief objects during all that time was to bring King's College into active operation; and now, after more than six years of increasing prosperity, to see it destroyed by stolid ignorance and presumption, and the voice of prayer and praise banished from its halls, is a calamity not easy to bear." CANADA. At a meeting of the Municipal Council of the Towship of Ops, held in Lindsay, on Monday the 21st January, 1850), the following resolution was unanimously passed: Resolved, That the exclusive appropriations for sectarian purposes, so long existing in this Province, are grossly unjust, and ought to be speedily abolished. This refers, we suppose, to the scanty provision which has been grudgingly made in Canada, for the support of the Church. It sufficiently indicates the spirit of those who are seeking to annex this Province to the United States. FALKLAND CHURCH, NOVA SCOTIA. This Church was built in the year 1846 by the exertions of the Viscountess Falkland, and several ladies resident in Halifax. It stands upon a promontory, at the entrance of the harbour of Halifax, near York Redoubt. It is capable of containing the whole Protestant population, which consists of two or three hundred poor fishermen, whose destitute condition awakened the sympathy and called forth the zeal of the noble lady, whose name the village bears, and those associated with her in the work; among these were the daughters of the Lord Bishop and the Archdeacon. Great interest continues to be taken in the spiritual welfare of these poor people, and arrangements have been made by which frequent and regular ministrations will be given in this little church by an experienced Missionary. All the sittings are free. The Diocese of Nova Scotia is in a state of much anxiety at the present moment, from the failing health of the Venerable Bishop; who is the Father of the Colonial Bench, having been consecrated in 1825. There are only three English Bishops who have been longer in the chief Ministry of the Church. Nova Scotia, though the oldest of our Colonial Dioceses, has no other endowment for the Bishop than an allowance from the treasury of Great Britain, which will expire with the present Bishop. MISSIONARY RECOLLECTIONS, No. 9. By the Editor. At the Bungalows which I have described, our night was passed, and the march resumed again before day-break next morning. This arrangement left a long afternoon, when (as soon as the sun was low enough), it was my habit to wander into the village and see what I could. It was upon such occasions that I had the best opportunities for observing the manners and customs of the natives. Part of my design in building the Mission Church of St. Paul at Bangalore was to establish, in connection with it, a school in each of the villages along the roads which the chaplains travelled in visiting their district. I should thus, at a comparatively small expense, have established an opening, at least, for the gospel in 14 or 15 places. These schools would have been inspected by the chaplains on their journey, and conducted in union with a better, or high school, at Bangalore close to the church. Unhappily |