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9. J. ' VlTi 1Uf m7? - TIT) TT TFTj TT MTr-Wli,- I . ,, iL im Ji jjj .U. i iLj Jj. tU A JL Hi li (H T. MEREDITH. imxoR asd ntopRUTo. . ! , to ttkfiL" ' ' "' ' iu-jt-Jj l is-gg. U t -. aALpiGH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, I815T ' TERMS. The Recorder is published every Saturday and is sent tou bscribers'at Two Dullars per annum, payable in toll h eajpntnt be delayed longer than three months, tyro , ti, and fifty ccnt8 wil be charged and it' longer than dfmwAs, three dollars. j, U communications, to secure attention, must be p6st ent3 who act gratuitously, and subscriber who SiTadvance, only excepted I 1 ndtancc. 7 - , , i r-v- unnances musi ue oruereu peiore rne er.a 01 rue corMnuances must be ordered before the end of the I Wherwwethe subscriber xviti be-Jhcld reonble . ,r ' . ..f farm I ., , .. 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Ms. G.vles: Deeply penetrated with a convic tion of the unspeakable importance of Education to the Public Weal, I purpose to use, occasiona jr. a few moments, snatched from laborious etri nlavtnent, to point oui some,.oi uie misiaKes, not nf Theory but of Practice in the Art of Teaching This humble attempt, 1 respectfully ask leave to Inscribe , TO PARENTS AND TEACHERS. And that Itaraycome under a kind of Pledgd to the Public, and also create a sort ot motive tJ write, after the manner of Professed Essayists, call this ' j,.' . ' " " NUMEER OE. Premising that No 2, may be where Milton placed ill sorts of abortive and chaotic beginnings, tha is in Limbo, This pqrticular Number, designc in ca the attention ol rarents and leachera tn the importance of inducting their Children and Wards into the Ilabitiial contemplation of Eleva ting Ideas, has an origin somewhat remarkable. A few days ago, I was conversing on Lord Byron's Foetryj we agreeed in") condemning its immoral tendency, but I observed that I tho't there were detached portions freefrom this censure, which equalled the fiues't passages to be found in any oth- erPoet j in support of which view, I asked permis sion to read the noble Poet's lines on that grand est of earth's Temples, Saint Peter's, which thd Rev. gentleman, very much admired, particularlyj 1- ' t t . 1 t " ! .. t. . k ttie lines m wnicn ne speaks or me expanding and wvatmn effects upon the mind, of a continuance' in the august edifice, viz: - '"Enter: its grandefoverwhelms thee not, And yhf it is lieC le.ssin'd ; but thy minJ, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal." j '. i , : . These words my friend admired the more, because he said they might be applied to enforce a view uliicli he entertained, in regard to what should constitute the primary object in the education of the youthful mind, aod which may be enunciated j in the following terms, viz: Instructors, in apply ing their art," should not direct their efforts to in struct exclusively to the: abstract intellectual pow ers or reasoning faculties, but should also endea vor to refine; exalt, purify and ennoble the immor M principle or the soul. Here my friend took a 7 congenial chord in my bosom, for it so happened 4 tiatl had that very day, or not long before, been fanning over the same train of ideas, and had e eo thought of calling the attention of the intellec- tnal guardians of youth to the subject: but I "did M know' but that sach vievvs were as common a- mon? others as myself the views of the Rev. Mr. seemed to give mo a warrant to publish a . - " Tl I thoughts on the sub Paying the foregoing liiies to the support of his eci. ne was logical in proposition, for why did the mind of Lord Byron and others become "colossal" by being in St. Pe rsl Obviously by gazing on colossal objecti,upon ' tlle s;"ne principle that 1 J 'inequality cf Mercy is. not strained ; Jt droppeth as the gent'e rain from Heaven . Jr. lv, l",ace beneath: it is twice b!esI ,. " him that givesJ and him that lakes." ,5 f lhe encouragement of elevation of thought nd feel:.ng should be one of the chief ends of Ed tion, the inversion of this method of stating our Potion must be true and desirable, that is, in a urse of education, every thing which s degrades. J 131 5e averse of elevating, must be kept out of either way stated this proposition will be 8.ently prov:ed, if we can show that man is in strjcter and fuller sense than the i common one, tea?lt?tl!e animal, nay, more, that . he is educa 1 1 4 ,rnitat,on This wej think that we can prove: Analogicailylt has been 'observed that ani- tnaf llrrraUati,re in ProPrlin as they resemble a, nnd UDimitative in proportion as; they recede Un , l- norst and the dog, which have . ?j ions, the most imitative of animals, and ha , . d ' . r ....... ta3n . t n 0 rerform "iany of the actions of , " Uiese f!Yrn inn o A exceptions are the elephant and VTeysU i ascendinjz the scale that arises eli ine ape, ana sun .""atic :kinsrrlan the 'Orang Outang, imuatjve to a very high degree, and if they be 5t5, U'm3terman to the lords of creation, they eltv ft caricatures of them as to excite the ini the spleen of their sable country. . -'uS man tha r n rr-l 1 - . ; . I - M of Singly, difficult to v ? nature of the mind r ii - , . .irvilUICKiai y, or by obser vat ion . convey our conceptions nv.. i . "cul tne mmd. on account nf its subtil ; nif ,. i ...... Wr?ci,JCOrPrality i indeed, we cannot do . it in f tie w ' .rms an(i are theirefore forced to the use 2y'i teal suS2estd, or borrowed from the ahal- biht-j 0f SaPPOSed. which vmatptlnK?v.t kpnr ''.-ir:iv:'hbut.U,.8eers thatjthe mindf ha's not ne- : """V,ujf ny connexion or leuovv-thing- of earth, but that; it lies qiiies- cent or dormant in th )A. II- j t . w s . 1 be acted upon by some intelligent hinA which action it will repeat in the same manner a, it Las observed u to have been acted. In this lone, in! sulatcd and unacting situation -the mind is anala gous to the state of preciods stones within their rough earthly envelope ; that is, not shining, but ua,-UUiLc 0 Ue to, shine j on the contrary ;the 'body seems to have A sort of im. nilMnn' . - ,U .o.,& ucpcnueni, vegetab e crowtii nn;K' imrW nirltr ? ' . . 1 P0ss,D'C UDdtr. ne.drIy .any . circumstances. If the view , contained under the second devision of our arm mentf be not sustained by our rensoninff they at 1 1 j . w,yy e remarkable phenomena fi nSl 6 CilSCS of P" Haus and Peter the ild Boy, Caspar had been immured in the dungeons of Nuremburg. When he came out, his body had the usual size of men of hige but his mmd was in a state of utter imbeciUty y the am. rnai had grown but the mind had not, we think, because it had had nothing to grow by, or in imi tation of. He was a man-infant. Peter the Wild Man, was caught in the wrods of Hanover in troduced to the Court of George the III.- placed under the care of Lord Monboddo and W have known little more than his brother.drniPn of the same forest, and not so mnch as Orang-Ou-tangs and elephants have learned by association wuu man. , - 4 . " We have tired ourself and shall for which we ask. pardon promise an application thar will atone for our truisms, and bettor fare in io. WAKE FOREST. Aug. 14th, '45. , V MEMOIRS OF THBTISCOUNTESS GLENORCHY. Among the friends and ornaments of religion, Wilhelmina Maxwell, Lady Glenorchv. hnld. a conspicuous place. She was the younger of two daughters left by William Maxwell, Esq., of Pre- a gentleman ot considerable fortune in Dum fneshire. The eldest was married to the Earl of fcoutherland ; the youngest of whom we treat, to John Lord Viscount Glenorchv: Earl of Breadalbane. V ' Lady Glenorcliy was formed by Providence for a superior place in society. Her understandino was naturally strong and capacious, and her mem ory retentive. Her mtnd was polished by a Ube al education, and richly furnished with ideas bV extensive reading and observation.' ' Her person was agreeable, her manner -engaging, her fancy brilliant, and attended by a constant flow of spir its and good humour. Born to wealth, and allied to a rich and noble house, she was fitted to make a distinguished figure among the great, and to shine in courts. But as Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called Uw? son of Pha ' raoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction witn tne people of God, : than to enjoy the pleas ures of sin for a season, esteeming the reproach of Christ creater riches than ih in like manner, she, in all the bloom of vuth'j fuas5onat wilh hr U ivas near j and uniform with all the worldlv nleasnrrc ni hM ,JL.Si V "Passed her.satisfactba and Joy at the pros- laid herself, her fortune, her honours and her tal ents, at the foot of the cross of Jesus. y About the 23d year of her age she was visited with sickness: in recovering from .which, her thoughts were so involuntarily turned to the first question and answer of that form of sound words," which is given in the Assembly's Catechism i "What is the chief end of man 1 It is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever." Musing on these; words, they arrested her attention, and natu j Reviewing her life of thoughtless gaiety, she tound there tvas no connection, between such con duct and glorifying and enjovins God : and that consequently hitherto, she had nol?answeW:'th tehief end of her existence. Her conscience una bwakened : and for a considerable time, she lahnnr. fed under that anxiety and fear, which usually at- cuu outu a siaie 01 mind. But, on reading the 5th cliapter of the Epistle o the Romans, she discovered the wav whprphv the great God could be just, and vet the instifi. Of the believer in Jesus. She believed; her un derstanding was enlightened, her conscience re lieved, and her mind restored to peace. The fruits Of her faith soon gave the most unequivocal evi dence of the truth of that happy change which had taken place in her. mind.- For some time she en deavoured to avoid the ridicule which attends true religion, by concealing it, and mingling in the so ciety and amusements to which she had been ac customed ; buf she found it impossible to support the spirit and practice of religion, and at he same time be conformed to the manners of the world. She therefore openly' avowed her religion, and re nounced the sinful enjoyment of the world.-From liis lime ber whole life was one contmeud course of devotion : her closet-was a little sanctuary for Ood, to which she habitually retired with avidity and .pleasure.' In her family there was always an altar for God, and from which, with the morning ftd evening, regularly ascended social prayer and praise. v She loved the house of God ; and the rrjost painfulcircumstance of her frequent ill health, in; the last years of her life, was her being detain ed by it from public worship. Well acquainted with men and ihings, her conversation was full of 8d s?e and information : it was often much enlivened by good humoured pleasantry ; but it al ways was pious and spiritual, always expressive of the hi gh sense she had - of the excellence and importance of religion," and of her anxiety, for its promotion. With peculiar pleasure - she. always spoke of the person or place in which it appeared to j flourish ; and with ; evident pain, of those in which it was otherwise The sincerity of her re ligious principles was established by her actionsj She was not pf those '-who say, but do not." She rally iea ner to put ta herself the. important que ries : Have I answered the desiarn of my being 1 Have I glorified God 1 Shall f enjoy him for ev- er-1 built (trtmi rJtm f ..i.i: ...1.: . faerable expense, - In Edinburgh, she erected a , UUIV w,su T large nandsorae chapel, which will holJ sand people, and which has. for manv v., attended by a numerous congregation, and which has two clergymen, ministers in commuion witli the Church of Scotland, as its pastors. To this chapel is added n free school, which he endowed to teach reading, writing, ' end arithmetic. ! Thb chapel and school; together, . hava Vcost not less than.five pr . six thousand pounds She erected and endowed also a church at StrathGllan, in the parish ofKillin, On the estate of Lord RrpLn . I and sbe had purchased ground,in"corinctionwith ?u.aiq nMwy nearieita nope, ror building a place of,worsh.p at the! Hoyclls, Bristol j and vliich by ner directions, bat been executed by her ex cutrut since her death; by a very neat'and to, modious house being built there, called H0?e Chap! el. In order to introduco and support tha gospel, she purchased a very neat chapel at Matlock, in Uetbyshire i one meetinghouse at Carlisle, another Bt Newton Burhill,- ia'Pcyonshirc V aU these she left r in me nands of trustees, pr to; herxecutrix, fo? their ongioaj purpose. . She united with others al so? jn purshasing raecetinghousee in E-gland. To tome able and faithful .ministers, Whose congrega. lions werer in ooor circarastances, she paid the whole of their salaries ; to others, a stated annual sum in part ; to many, . occasional donations as she' saw them necdfuL She educated many youni ment piety, for the holy ministry. Sensible that ignorance and trreligibn, jdlet ess and vice, go to -gether, she founded and endowed schools, and set on foot manufactories for the poor. In private, the widow and the fatherless, the stranger and the distressed, experienced her beneficience. To en able her to prosecute these schemes of benevolence, she herself carefullv Jooketl into -.'all hff Pnr and studied the strictest economy ; and thoughherJ uress, ner table, her attendants, her equpage, al ways corresponded to her station, yet .she denied herself the splendour which her fortune and rank couldcell have aflbrded and excused. She knew the world too well, not to expect its hr.tred and reproach for a zealous and consistent profession of the gospel; but her natural fortitude and greatness of soul, and the force of religion . upon her heart, rendered this of small consequence in her estima tion : more than most . Christians, she gloried in the cross of Christ. The falsehood and ill-nature; which some time was propagated against her, he made the subject of the most reGncd and innocent pleasantry. Full of plans for the glory of God, and good of men, and bjsy tti the prosecution of them, this excellent lady arrived in Edinburgh from Bath, where she bad spent the winter, in the beginning of: theummer 1786V Her friends ob served, with concern, her declining state of health. She snoke much td tnem pect, Her conversation was nevertheless as easy, pieasani ana tneerful, as ever. Religion, in her, was not the production of gloom, either during the progress, or in the near views of; the termination of life. Almost her last words were, "if this is dying; it is the easiest thing imaginable." Disease prevailed, and, not many hours afterwards she ex pired,.on Monday,' the 17th July, 1786. Of her it j may be laid with truth, "Her path was as the shin-! inflight, tvhich shinea more and more to the per fect day." " Lady Glenorchy Was interred agreeably to her own request, in a vault in-the centre of her chapel in Edinburgh. She Jeft 5000. to the society in Scotland, for propagating Christian knowledge ; 5000. for the education of young men . for the ministry of England, and other religious purposes; and the greater part of the rest of her fortune, Which was considerable; for pious and charitable purposes. 1 ' ; From the Christian Reflector. ' ANOTHER'S GRAVE. In the pauper grave-yard of New York is a simple f-labof wood, bearing the single word Matter (mother), placed there by the only son of a German emigrant, w hen she did .-. 3 Mother, in a stranger land ' I lay thee down to sleep ; 4 Far from the dear household bar.J. Alone, alone. I weep: , Far from the silvery Rhine, our horn. No kindred faces near, .j,.. JSo loving hearts around to come, L Moiher. O mother dear. " Mother, I kneel upon thy grave . As oft I knelt to thee j Again tby tenderness I crave, ' Once more thy face would see: 0 ce more, thy band upon my bead, , Tby loving tones would hear j ' Ala?, art thou in tlii low bed, . Alother, O mother dear I. Mother, thy blessed name shall fee, Through all my moital life, ' . A conquering talisman to me," ; , 5 , Mid sin and sorrow's strife; A ministering angel ever thou, ! To wipe away each tear, - , I Aid, aid me in this world of wo, -, Mother, O mother dear. ' v ; ; F rona the Montreal .Register. - . 1IEH0IR OF THE REY. W. YATE3,.D. D., LATE OF -J , ' CALCUTTA - ' . . Mr. Yates was born in the year 179 L- We are not sufSciently acquainted with his early history' to be able to state the particulars of his conversion ; but it is evident that he served God in bis youth. 1 -! ' .... learnt : ! 1 cl8"iChl u:u J1L " I r V. "cu :",rcc yrs ct age. Hi2h exDeetation. nf r.,t..r J''Zl ' "1 u . V : . eminence xvereindulg- 1 hv irtr. 1 .1 r , wc:,RU,"g HJin "IV: . 1 ,mseU l.om,",nary labour, he ....gucvoicu nimseu tomisaionary labour, he was solemnly set apart to the work, August 3lt 1811 in "the Rev. B- Hall', u-ecting-houkc, Lei- ceter. Vn the occasion, after fin introductory prJr by the venerable Andrew Fuller, Mr. ZZ briefly si,ed hi. motive, fur ending a, w," of the miusion, Air. Hall "commended him to that G6i.in bo rvce he -o,.bout'.o euk , J'Tu- . c " 3 proe' r? ur' u,,a,J 6c 111.11 a suiuoio etiarge, tounded on 1 ltiess. ii. 1G. At-that time the Direetnra rf PAt Tn,?U Company were hostile to Missrons. They would ave prevented Mr. Yates from proceeding tu the East lndioji, hail they not been controlled by a higher power. " "A respectful application' was made" (we? quote the Periodical Account") to the Court of Directors of the Honorable tho Eist India Company, for permission, to send out Mr. Yates, but, notwithstanding the facilities .prpvided by a lato Act of Parliament, they positively refus ed l it ; and when the application was repeated, the refusal was also repeated. ' On application Uin" made, however, to His Majesty's Government, pert mission was immediately granted." Mr. Yates left England in October, lSll., iri the ship Earl Moirat Captain Kemp, the well-known and tried friend of Missionaries, who. generously gave hiiri a free passage! Helanded at Calcutta. prn io, 10 ia. Soon nftcr his arrival; bis' U'cnt for acquiring language? being specdy recognized, . Dr. Carey, requested bun to take up,his residence at Seram pore, and go through a course of study especially ndapted to qualify him for the work of translation. He complied with the request, and enrraoed in j undertaking with' characteristic assiduity end zJ. ""'i, nwiaeu ui me same time ot opportunities for preaching the Gospel. His mode of life was thus described in a letter written in March, 1S1G: toTrre way I spend my time is this: In a morn ing before breakfast I study Hebrew about an hour and'a half. After worship I aftend toTfcngali nnd Sanscrit. Lhave read about five volumes of Ikn gali, and read all t hq Bengali "proofs viih Dri Ca reyj having before cooipared them wuhnhe Greek. I have got througb.the Sanscrit roots once; have hot yet got through the Grammar, but am reading the Ramayooa with my pundit. My afternoons are chiefly taken up wilh reading or hearini; Latin nnd Greek. . I have read ten volumna ofGreek : t r t- - . ince 1 icu togiano, out pot more-than three of latiru In the evening, after worship, I generally read English or look oVer English proofs. I. take my turn in all -the. serf ices here;.prench at Bar. rackpore, two miles over the r-vcr, once and some times twice a week, to about 25, a small but u tentive congTegatiun- We go to Cilcutta in turn! it comes to me about once ' a ' month. There are six services every Lord' day, so that it is neces sary for some one to go to Serampore." It does not appear that Mr. Yates remained long nt Sernmpore. He joined tho junior brethren at Calcutta, where he laboured with unremitting dil igence, preaching both . in Enplish and Bensali, translating, compiling useful bookstand otherwise devoting himself to the works of the Lord. If his health fniled, as it not unfrequenlly tlid, he sooht renewed strength by a missionary excursion into the country, thus combmiug relaxation and pleasure with usefulness. . , . . . " In 182!, Mr. Yates published a Harmony of the pospeUv in Bengali, and a Sanscrit G ram mar. Vocabulary and Reader. A volume of Essays On the peculiar doctrines of-the Gospel, written in answer to Ram Mohun Roy, a deistfeal Hindoo, left the press in 1S22. Tle Mim0ir of I he Rer. J. Chamberlain " Air. Yates's largest work, though not lhe most popuHir, ivas published in the follow ing year. It was reprinted in -England, and has been regarded by competent judges as a very val uable addition to missionary biography. A judi cious abridgement would render it y.ore acceptable to modern readers. We hope to sec such an a bridgement ere long in the catalogue of the Reli gious Tract Society's publications. Other works of great value and usefulness, werr prepared by Sir. Yates before Lu visit to England in ,1827. Among them may be mentioned the fol lowing: In Sanscrit Elements of Natural Hi ton', and Harmony of the Gospels: in Bengali Epitome of Natural Philosophy and Natural Histo- : lne nrnVal of that vessel nt the port of Suez, Red ry, and Elements of Ancient History ; in Arabic a W oave no account of his dying experience; The Arahic Render ; hi Hindustani Introduction out lbi we know, that the testimony of a holy etui to the Hindustani Language, and Harmony of the ' u,efol lifo bad been long before the cburcb; nor Gospels ; in English Funeral Sermon for the ' can we doubt that the sentiments exprest by him Rev.S. LawBon, with a Memoir, and three Essays oa removal of Mr. W. H. Pearce, cordiriued to on the Bttrnin; of Widows. be cherished till the last moment of Lis eaith'y ex- Incessant labor, producing repeated attacks of istence. x ' -illnes?, effected such ravages cn Mr. Yates con- "Poor, weak, sickly creature, asj hava kTlI L stitution, that some change beca-ne absolutely re - cessary. In January, 1827, he embarked for England, where he va cordially welcomed by the ir lends Ol the L.10tlt Alissionnrv SnritMu. H r. airiff nnr thn Kattln f,. . I xri r maioed in England till August, 1S2S. At the An- left behind X Is it because unfit logo! orts it be nivertay of the Society, held in London in the cause God has omethinr mnre fnr iri t r r T month of Juno preceding, he preached one of the either esse I oujjht to be contentto stay a liizle lea Annual Sermon. We had the pleasure of hear- geir. But oh I Ida look forward with inttme in ing him on that occasion. -Hi discourse vas terest to that period when I hopo to seeth'eSar foiuided on .Rom. 1. 23. It was a luminous and bur, and join. the -awsmbly pf the spmla pf tbj powerful exposure of Hindoo idolatry, calculated to just male perfect. Fray for me, dear brother.lhot produce salutary impression; and to stimulate de- I may be preserved by-the'mightv power c( God chmng zeal. . - V . J through faith unto salvation, and that 1 may btfn!' v On his voyoSe;hack to. Calcutta, Mr. Yates en- ailed to wotk while it is callejl to-day seeing the counteied a fearful U?rin. The scene cannot be night votneth when no man -can work." : better demibed thnn-hown rds:- j. Pray er .has been answered. - Hope is exchanged JUa the 13;h ot Deremht-r wc pnsscd through forenjoyment. He aces the Saviour, and his join such a itorm cs I neve?, witnessed 'U-fore. It oc- ed the spirits of the jua made perfect. Jet ta curred in long. 91 East, and lit,' IS South, dt' follow him, and oil those who nhryu-h fcr'.h zr.i commenced by blowing fresh cue evening, nd in-'paticcce iuhei it the promises." . . Nw 5 , etf it . i y . rong u.e r.rxt rr.,n pr.,cr,t, . ycry stron- CM-. Tl. u with appearance- truly ul-miine. ar.J lUt i... crensed in terror till oVUk, lr it tW perfect hurrkan. The Ul !0 oerf ' 0ua , f.H ,i in one cmeral m, nud ue alil c4rcc!y i. i - ------- n,i .,,1. . .1 1 1 1 . . ' ! ""I'Z '. . V11.'- . ,l " J'!","' !" ! !i!",,",.?,U,, 'J tr, ! , 1 !i and fro and sfagertd like a dmnkm msn. w. ..v,v a ' mw m d. Our n.izm tnatt nd boa,, were carried way ; our njain-lnpniTM was split into three pWc. lKI iU noimnatl it self sprung in two; o-.r furemi, jili-Uw were a..o broken, and the k 11 laUca in ud huer. cu an 10 pieces. . lit ttie stccrna an. 'tUr.s be- Jaw we were nnuTe den 1 v.nrcr. aniJ tl, JL- ncss and distress of our ntnation were rcr.Jrmi visible by the dim shining cf a limp. iAfttr g oa.r above and witnessing this terrific seme, I cVf.1 ded with a deep impression of our danger; nn. , wah two others who ere in my caUn.cr.ed oniuT the Lord,, on J he trough u out cf cx;r ditrc. After prnycr, I was ccab'cd to khig with cotrpws ure these lines: V Pene, cnUhVf, my 5a? 'air is r,ert And for my rtlWt u-iit ar ly ar; - 3 By prayer let mc.ttfest.e.nui I wilfpe''tn. With Chr;st tn the vcl, I saiile.nt tLe oiu. . Il:s love in time past fArU rr.e to think. He'll lxv me ul a?t in trouble lo ink ; Eh swret D.enrzt'r 1 Ut e 10 retkw, unrm his good p!tsure to telptiequ.titroBgl.' . ' Almost. immediately cfTer we luid closed thes exerciser, we heard that the glass had rum coo siderably, which indicated that the s'orra would soon, subside. .'fhi$ was considered by s as ao iinmcdjate 'answer to prajer.'ond con 5. r ma tion of ihe.scripture--This poor man cried, end the Lord heard him, and delivered him put cf Lis trocbles Just as the storm was beginning to subside, oaf tiller broke, through which the helm became user, less, and the klip un?'ernab!e. (lad tliis Ip pened at an earlkr period, it was thq opiniocof the Captain that wei-oulJ nU bare Urn saved." After his retprnVGiloutta, Mr, Yates, yielded to the yishcs of lhc.dmrch roeeilng.iaihc Grcu iarJAJ.Cliapcl,andbecac ils'paito. He rc- ticru In contunctioo with Mr. W.H P.r he was. engaged for several yars in the prepara- iion ct a new version of jhe Script nrein BengViu It was fioiJied, andia acknowledged by the leu judges lo be superior to any work of the kind pre viously published in Indit. '.The Comnihtce of tit British and Foreign Bible Society refused to Assist the New Testament portioncf the versicp, becauta Mr. Yates liad trardaid the words relating to bop "jhsm, iustcad of transferring iheiu.. . This kxl to the formation of the Bible Transbtioo Soctety us England ; a similar course being at! oped in l9 - vj . vuiiiisuui rat pf the American and Foreizn Bible Society. Th principles on which these Societiea are founded roust ultimately prevail. "t i :. Besides the Bengnli version, Dr. Yates exret ted improved versions cf.he New Tetameot ia dui and Hindustani, His last days were devoted to the Sanscrit, the Lai in of tbt East, in which language he was profoundly versed. He lived to see the publication of the New Testamttit, Gene sis, Exodus, the Psaun and the proverb., and to make good progress in the prep ration qf the hi, torical and-prophetical parts oTtho Old Tttia ment. To the completion of this venfos he just ly attached great importance, and it was.ltoped that his life would be spared for the acroniphsli. ment of that object ; but God had otherwise deter mined. ' In lSl,Dr..Yate married Mrs.. Pearce, th widow of fis beloved friend and fellow-laborer, MK.W. H. Pearce, who died in March 1P-N), and a Memoir of whom was published by hirn in a duo decimo volume'. He had been at "that time a widower nearly three years. The first Mra Yatea died at sea, iu 1S33. . Two daughters, the issue of that marriage survive, with his iafiUcted widow. ;j The manner of bis death has been already re corded. He expired oa board the Lord iloitinrlc I Steamer, on the 3J of July last, three davs hrfora ' life been; I aai now the only ona joft a die spot ; of all those w ho commenced wfidvfod the mis&ion here. What a proof that the ace it not to the rtnuea Ibat ctce tUI the year 18j), it he re signed it to Mr. Tucker. The principal part of his time, however, was occupied Sa biblical trans- lai
The Biblical Recorder (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Oct. 4, 1845, edition 1
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