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number, one hundred and seventeen schools received grants in preceding years. From the commencement of the institution to the present year, the grand total of books gratuitously voted to Sunday Schools, is stated at fifteen thousand two hundred and eighteen Bibles; one hundred and forty-five thousand two hundred and twenty Testaments; and eight hundred and ninety-eight thousand three hundred and thirty-one Elementary Books and Lessons. The expenditure of this society, during the past year, is nine hundred and twenty-one pounds, fifteen shillings, and three pence.

X. BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY.-In 1792, the "Baptist Missionary Society" was formed, in consequence of Mr. (now Dr.) Carey proposing to the Northamptonshire Association of Baptist ministers, "whether it were not practicable and obligatory to attempt the conversion of the heathen?" Carey submitted a plan, which was accepted. and a society was formed, making a collection for this magnificent object, amounting to thirteen pounds, two shillings, and six pence. Hindostan was judged a proper sphere for their attempt; but before any plan could be matured, they found a Baptist brother, Mr. John Thomas, a surgeon, lately returned from Calcutta to London, where he was laboring to raise a fund for the purpose of establishing a mission to India! This pious and devoted man had preached to the natives in Bengal; and John Thomas had the singular honor of being the first Englishman who made known the Gospel to the benighted Hindoos. Thomas was engaged as a missionary by the Baptists; and Carey also offered himself to go to India. They sailed in 1793, in a Danish East Indiaman; but without funds. Thomas proposed to maintain himself by his profession; and Carey, by some occupation, till he could acquire the native language. Under difficulties extraordinary, with the assistance of Mr. Fountain, another missionary, they succeeded in translating the Scriptures into Bengalee. In 1799, they were reinforced by four more missionaries; but now they were refused permission to settle in the British territory. Carey and Fountain removed across the Ganges, sixteen miles from Calcutta, to Serampore, a Danish settlement; where, to his everlasting honor, the governor protected and encouraged these men of God. Ever since, this has been the principal station of the Baptists in India. Kristno, the first Hindoo convert to Christianity, was baptized, with Felix Carey, eldest son of the Doctor, in December, 1799, in the river Ganges, in the presence of a great concourse of people, Hindoos, Mahometans, Europeans, and the Danish governor, who shed tears at the affecting sight. In seven years from the date of Kristno's

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