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TB0311S W. TOBEY, Editor. ! ETtocrtca to ttcligiott, itloralitn, fiitewtarei' atirulhirc ani f&mttal ' jnteiiig true; : (ll. A. MEREDITH, Pflblisber, J OLUMErXVII: SO. 41. RALEIGH, N. C, . FRIDAY; OCTOBER 8, 1852. WHOLE W:1122 " " i V4i 1 : .' '' ' J M"1 i - , " ' " t " Ml'' ' "' --' -' I I ..I Jl L. - J IH Willi I 1 i 1 f nnnnnmi; il !. lUi I IliK HI :k Religious and Literary Paper : v o; jhed weekly at Raleigh N. C. , at $3 00 per an- 1; 4u letters on business should be directed to 'blisher, Marcus A. Meredith. ' Letters contain Lmnnications, or in any way relating to the ed- i j janartment, shoula b addressed to ''Editor of VM;pal Recorder." Private letters to the .Editor no reterence vj wo ncuuiucijaumess mus -ffho. W. Tobey. - . 411 communications, to insure attention, must fcted to Raleigh, N. C pott-paid. jpTFor farther particulars see last page. THE LAW OF NEWSPAPERS. c.ibscribers whodo not give express notice to tfce 4ff8ry are considerea wisuiug wwuunueiaut sub nTaTi'hr! order the di3COnttnnnnr nf lppef tlipWisherniay continue to send them it tiio j " w - if jnbscribers neglect or refuse to take their pa frnin the office to which they are directed, they u responsible until they have settled their bill, j order their paper discontinued. t if subscribers remove to other places without in isiDg the publisher, and the paper is sent to the for Jtoection, they are held responsible. , j The courts have decided : that refusing to take a or periodical from the-' office, or removing and 2riBit incalled for, isprima facie" evidence of tioaal fraud. . . From the New York Recorder. Ciapbellism and its Baptist Defenders. Some months ago. in making a casual allusion ji Elder Alexander Campbell, we spoke of him teaching the doctrine of baptismal regenera la. This we regarded as disqualifying him to feisafe interpreter of the Bible 'for orthodox (jristians. Further than this, we have made Miitack upon his principles whatever. Upon impersonal character of the man we have never eaten a disparaging word. When we made the gitement, we supposed ft no more a slander than itwatd be to charge Rev. Lebbeus Armstrong r!di advocating infant sprinkling, or Orestes jjrownson with maintaining, tbe absolute supre bicj of the Pope. A lew years ago, there was, mug Baptists, but one opinion on this subject ; kt things have changed. Air. Campbell com Kacedhis work of unsettling the faitE of 0ap icbarches," by endeavoring to shake their con Uecee in the common version of the Bible, and lij inducing them to trust to the new renderings ad interpretations which he himself bad made When the founders of the Bible Union : com menced their attack upon the received version, tk movement was hailed with delight by Mr. uapbell and his followers as a triumph of their stems; and the1 entering wedge of their so call -eform', into Baptist churches. Whin the Ibis Union was formed, the whole body of the Ciapbellites were publicly pledged in this city 13 its support. In order to make sure this sup port, and render it permanent, a prominent place ta given to Campbellites in its counsels, and Mr. Campbell and Dr. Shannon were understood have been selected as translators of the Gos k! of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. This act, which was intended to be kept a i profound secret, came to light through a member of the Ctmpbellite body. The American and Foreign Bible Society had been willing to co-operate with Mr; Campbell in distributing translations, made j orthodox tnen ; but the selection of these two ffien as translators, whose unsoundness in the Situ had been affirmed by ministers of all evan jelieal denominations, and by Bona more em phatically than by Drf Cone, , the f dbtinuished President of the Uoioni caused- a sensation ol singled surprise and, sorrow to thrill through the iearts of the Baptists of the United States, not acpting a large proportion of the supporters of Hie Bible Union. - " - --By selecting Messrs. Campbell; and. Shannon translators, the Board of the Union virtually are their endorsement of Mr. Campbell trans ition of the New Testament already published, wd virtually, if not directly, gave their sanction to the straBge and unpbilological interpretations tad renderings of Scripture upon which he foun fcd his system of so-called reform. .', Admitting taeitly . tbe inconsistency and wrong comtmttinsr so momentous a trust to sucn men, itvas decided bv the leaders in this city , to af Snathe substantial orthodoxy of Mr. Campbell, Dr. Shannon, and their fellow disciples, in order aow their fitness to e translators. Accord- irfvvthe- Recorder was accused of slandering iae gentlemen when it charged upon them the ntenance of unsound theological principles. r. Campbell, with" bis accustomed tact; caught 4 mis unexpected endorsement of his orthodoxy ft the i doctrine of Baptism, and echoed the are of slander first-preferred bv the accred Moroan of the'Bible UBion. Since then, the ttor of the Recorder has been a standing sub- lect of attactin thtf columns of the M illenntal Harbinger, of which Mr. Campbell is the edl" w. These attacks have pretty generally Deen femsferred to tho columns, of the .New York Chronicle, often" accompanied by 'the endorse- tt)f the editors. - - - - la accordance with-; his usual ? policyi , Mr. ""ffl&bell has challensred the Editor : of the i Ke der tox public debate. , This we respectfully Alined;. Failing ia tbis,.he wfehes to use the nU j v: v: ka the minds of out readers in the hope, doubt? vOf nnsettHns tho minds of some as, ta the th of those fandamental principles which for grainy centuries have been heldby ourdenom-; I Ve understand this policy. t We- are not ig- 1 faut of this eentleman's devices. ; It was adopw ! oj.Mr. Campbell and. mst orotner iteiormers ? the outset of their careers : Rev. s Dr Jeter, Life of Broaddus giving an, account of the Wrawal of feUowsbio from. Mr; Campbell and r SQ3a by ihe Dover. Baptist , Association r in Niay saysi: The : Refiormersv thyey styled at that; the: matter -should -be, pressed; ?tQ mm r my m rj 1 nm MVA-nr rJ St-of 'Bemiist mdvitt. and ,con ere stations. ftrisdwahfU'Hdt influence for tke-disscaina,-1 J f l&ir -frtnapUsy and fr wanlen? - violation j f that rigJUs ii&lil vat fsUkdravnfrotitiheviV i? this is the -pelioy-of Mr; CampbeU at the I Dliti-aet -lust..-as -he -criej ;out;aga'rast the and " peri- llowship, to and: se- ff.i tiawary souls from the --simplicity .-.of their mm, rws woo, iweniy-ave-ysaniraj;w fcira- the usa of their pulpits" Jsn, and the.fanctioa of their, fe ..'-It t-ia doctrine-cf their: churches, jj i decs be dcaounoe the Editor of the Re- coraer. 1 he eznennnnA rfi shown that Kerr, and Broaddus, and Brantly, and Seinple, and Cloptonand.Peck, were right tu purging our cuurches of this strange leaven We prefer to' take counsel of these venerable men, and follow their footsteps so far as they fol lowed Christ. We have bn r,Wd w5th faming Mr. Campbell by boldiM him responsi- Die tor doctrines which lie on the very face of u puuusuea worKS ana pulpit teachings. That w uave in any way misstated the views of Mr. Campbell we utterly deny. Indeed, we cannot affirm bis own teaching on the tnattar of baptis mal regeneration in Stronger tAirna than liia nmn We will giVe a few quotations on the subject, cut troiu the whose editor and nnmi c.nr. r: o ut3lcfcauu"j are aomg cattle tor old-lashioned Baptist principles with & taal and power worthy of the cause. Extract 1. u In and by the act of immersion as soon as our bodies are put under the water , l"as xtfV instant our tormer or old sins are all washed away. "Christian Baptist Vol. 5, p. 100. - Extract 2.;" We regard laphsmas securing to the believing subject all the blessings of the new covenant, and especially the remission of, :ns, on which we emphacise." ' Extract 3." When the baptized beliver rises out of the water, Is born of the water, enters the world the second time, he enters il as innocenlt as deant as unspotted as an angel." t) elate with McCafU; p. 137. ; Extract 4." Call -immersion, then, a new birth, a burial and resurrection a regeneration, and its meaning is the same; and when so de nominated, it must import that change of state bich is imported in putting on Christ, in beins pardoned, justified,, sanctified, adopted, recon ciled, saved." Extra Millennial Harbinger. Vol. I , p. 42. Extracts." Immersion and regeneration are two Bible names for the same act." Extra Millennial Harbinger , Vol. 1, p. 34. Extract 6.- We are brought down into the water ; from this we are brought up again. Af ter this burial we rise to newness of life ; or, in other words, we are born of water, and thus we come into a new state, pardoned, justified, sanc tified, and adopted into the family of God." Millennial Harbin ger. Vol. p. 361. Extract 7. u Tell the disciples that . . . so soon as they have believingly been immersed into the name of the Lord Jesus, for the remission qf their sins, they are all made sons and daughters, fkjngs and priests to God." Millennial Harbin ger, Vol. 1, p. 368, - - Extract S. into Christ, Ja a phrase; only applicable to conversion, immersion, or regener tion."J?zZr Millennial IlarbytgefS Vol! . Extract 9.- " All these testimonies concur with each, other in presenting the act of ; Chris tian immtreion, frequently called conversion, as that act is inseparably connected with the remis sion of sins.'Wiix, Milll'iiarbTy VoL ljpp. 15, lb. r - Extract 10. " In' the commission to convert the nations, the act by which this Work was to be completed was the act of immersion. " Mill. JIarb.j vol-. 16. . : J Extract 11. In speaking of conversion in the apostolic rage, Mr. Campbell says : " Immersion alone was that ad of turning to God." Mill! Harb., vol. 1, p. 35. Extract 12." Immersion is the means di vinely appointed for our actual enjoyment of this first and greatest of blessings." Mill. Harb. Extract 13.--" It 13 not our faith in God s promise of remission but our going down into the water, that; obtains the remission of sins." Vide Christianity Restored p. il3S,, t Extract 14." If blood can whiten or cleanse garments, certainly water can wash away sins l'bere is then a . transferring of the efficacy of blood to water., i. es, as God first gave the em- cacy of water to blood, he has now given the ef ficacy of -blood to water And, to Him that made the washing of clay from the eyes the wash- mcr away of blindness, it is competent to make the immersion of the body in water efficacious to the washiuaaway of sms from the conscience The application of water, the cletnsmg element, to the body, is made in this gracious institution to reach the conscience.' . Yes, immersion saves us by burying us with ChvtetJ? JlblilL Harb., -rct.;l, pp.-40f.41. ; , : Isow, we say, let any man accustomed to weigh the meaning of language examine these extracts. and he cannot avoid the conclusion that' all. that we have said in ; reference to Mr. Campbell's opinions is literally true. r. No amount of sophistry or explanation can eyaae or essentiairw modify the plain torce or tnese extracts, vve care not what be says ia addition until these writings are recanted as publicly as they are set forth, we hold Mr. C, responsible for teaching that ground and pillar of Popery, s " baptismal regeneration . We go farther : , we say that whoever denies that these doctrines are and have been taught by himf and 'seeks to throw our churches olf their guard against such principles, is a partaker of his culpability Because we have sought to guard the churches against this error. we are charged, in a report of the Committee of the Bible Union, , with r haying personally defJmed"' Mr. Campbell, and Ur. shannon. To defend and make plausible these . doctrines. Mr - Camnbell demands and .the. Committee of the Bible. Union demandvfor him, the columns of thii Recorder. Because we demur to lend the Re corder tb this purp6sbr its' editor is denounced by Mr. Campbell zs neither a UArisiiannor a gen thmnn. Here is his lancuace : j I, Lave long said that every real Christian is a gentleman, in its. true, import:. but amzsprry to- say. that some wha call, themselves Christians are not: gentlemen,, and, ,thereiore, . no V11 tians. ? . ' ' .'-.. . . r " ' - V Mr,. Anderson may be both in bis own way, duc ne nas noi given, us any sausiactory eviueuce of either.?' j ' ' . ' , ; ,ue, gray n airs ol mr. vampoeii iorma ,us to ebaractee these words': i It is enough for us to know- that we have never written a line reflect- in o on bis, personal character, and that whatever we nave saidi concerning jiuuwtrjues more than justified' by extracts ;froia Mr , Campbell's own workSi ana tne unanimoua wiuuu v onao- dox theologians in America, u iur. ampnei wiahpR to recant the doctrine, of these extracts and sitrmfv his retarn to the & opk fromrwbioh he has wandered, weshall be rejoiced, to give him a tilaca m the Recorder. ' " " 'Moreoveri if he.will- state .his creed, oh the RTihioct of Bantism and Regeneration, and tie -v iuiu uia wruiugs, WU1CD wa vyestern Watchman, of St. Louis, Voae ot tbo ablest in the Union relation of the two to each other in 4 series "of Clear and lntellirrihln nrrtnnit!on.i wa oya ran Ax, to admit them to' our columns. It he wishes to repudiate the doctrines con tained in his former writings, on the ground that he has changed his opinions since they wore writ ten, we will admit most freely his own account of the change which his opinions have undergono He has made no such statement. The article to which he alludes is nothing but a series of asser tions of his own orthodoxy in general terms, con nected with declarations that ifdifikrs from that of all evangelical Christendom. Theodore Par ker. makes the same claim, but we are not dis posed to admit him to testi'y in his own case The hue and cry that the Recorder has failed to give to its readers, the facts and arguments on both sides of the so-called Bible question is un true. We have. before shown that the whole matter has been more fully discussed in the Recorder than in any other, periodical in America. We have rejected more communications in favor of the American and Foreign Bible Society and its friends, than we have from the favorers of the other side of the question. We have published all the facts regarding the Bible Union which its policy of secrecy has permitted to transpire ; and often, as in the case of Professor Bliss, at the risk of being charged with falsehood. We may say, in passing as we have mentioned this subject, that in order to protect his own veraci ty and ours, Professor Bliss has put the corres pondence with the President . and Secretary of the Bible Union into the bands of a friend of his in this city. This correspondence, confirms all and more than we ever announced. The charge of want of editorial courtesy mad? against us is as talse as it is unjust. It has been so oftan reiterated by interested parties, that possibly some may be found who have really come to believe ik I here are men so constitu ted as to believe whatever they wish to. Even the Book of Mormon has its devotees. Though ready to make these concessions to Mr. C, we canubt, we dare not permit him to defend and promulgate such principles as we have to-day quoted, through our instrumentality. When maxe unjust reflections on Mr. C. s personal character, we will retract, or admit his defense; but hw opinions when stated m bis own words are pubHc property. We publish the Recorder ! to advocate orthodox Baptist princioles. nots opery, or Campbcllism. or UnitariaLisra, or spiritual knockings, or Transcendentalism, or oushnelJism, or any one-of the thousand systems of which the world is full, and which we believe to be destructive of the best interests of the human soul We coincide in judgment with the following rules of conduct laid down by the editors ofth? New-York Observer, a paper which, for talent, character, and influenco,' is not iaferior to any religious weekly in the world. ",We do not admit the- right of any man to come into our columns todel'end the wrong. We make a paper to propagate what we believe to be i lght ; and when we oppose error, we do not consent that its friends shall have thf use of our press to spread their doctrines, though they have been assailed. Iruth is under no obligation to urnish error with wins;s." The same responsibility substantially lies upon the editor of a religious newspaper as upon the pastor of a church. What Bantbt pastor with any sense of the awful charge of one who watch es for souls, would dare to admit a man into his pulpit Sunday alter Sunday, to defend and' in eulcate such propositions as we hav-3 extracted troui the writings ot Air. Campbell ? Would it tend to lead souls to Christ, to build up the lambs of the flock in sound doctrine ? We havj been severely censured for not doing this by the editors of the New-York Chronicle. But we would ask eithei of the brethren who by their names endorse the principles ' and seutimunts oi that journal, if tuey would be wining to pmsue a course analogous to the oue they recommend to us ? Would the respected Protessor ot i heolo gy in Madison University, whdsa name appears as one of the editors of that journal, be willing to -divide the labors ot bis chair with" Alexander Campbell, or John Hughes, 6v Theodore Parker, simply on the ground that in teaching polemic theology it is made his bounden duty to meet and refute the 'opinions held by -each of tbes men ? We know him and his relations to tlij public too well to harbor such a supposition for a moment. It our excellent brother Adlam, an other of these numerous editors, were to preach a sermon to counteract' Unitarian tendencies in bis church, would he feel called upon to admit the Unitarian clergyman of the neighboring par ish to come into bis pulpit the next Sunday; to efface the impression which he had made? It he had preached a sermon on future retribution, in the hope of arousing some careless soul from the, sleep of sm, would he yield to the demand of his Universalist neighbor to come in to coun teract the effect which ho had produced, on the ground that the views of Universalists bad not been fairly stated ? No ! 1 We know too well the rseverity of his views of duty to lost souls, and to Christ, who has counted bim worthy, putting him into the ministry, to harbor such an idea. . The Recorder is our pulpit. -1 hough we have taken upon us no ordination, vows, we trust that, by the grace of God. we have , a , solemn sense of the obligations which rest upon us to give the gospel trumpet "a certain sound.'?.We dare not maxe the columns ot the Recorder the medium 'Of disseminating doctrines that make the cross of Christ of ho effect." We have a larger congregation than: any minister in the land: We dare not preach tor our forty or fifty, thousand readers learnedand unlearned,-old' and-youngi another tsospel." We hear sounding in our ears the awful warning of Paul; to . the Galatians, " 1 hough we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that .which we have preached unto-you, let him be occur scd.V ; We have, positive convictions on the subject of religion. We thank- God that we are not a modern liberaU " We are not of those who" care hot ' whether . a man worship twenty" godsr or ATIO 'r - one." Thtf responsibility: for the ' eharactei of ' the Recorder rests;-by the providence- of God, upon US. -'U in xneeuuz - o u o u guiuo uv our own convictions and the Word of God.- On all the ?reat r cuestions that t divide the : Christian world. we have taxenour positions.,.; unr. conrse we cannot change . except-witi: our convictions. We- shrinks from no risk, perspnal or pecuniary, which our., positions involve. We believe from . - . ...... our inmost soul , that the Bible Union, by ? em ploying men known as heretical - upon., vital r points, holding sentiments such as those wehuve xtracted, to interpret the' Bible for plain' Chris- tiaas, has parilled; the purity of gospjl truth. We beliove from our inmost soul that in de fending such doctrines and representing those who hold them' as sound in the faith and worthy interpreters " of the sacred , Record, thev put in jeopardy; the dearest int3rests of our Baptist iuu aim. vi iiuiuuriai bouis. r or tnese state ments and those of a similar character which we have made, we have received in the past and ex pact to receive in the future the bitterest vitu peration and, misrepresentation from Mr.'Carap bell and his sympathizers amon? the Baptists t or all this we are prepared. We consider the fact that the Recorder and its editor have been singled out as the especial point of attack, to oe a tacit though unmistakable evidence that our labors have not been in vain. In thecourse of his life, i Mr. Campbell: has attacked in: the same nianuor the purest hearts and best minds m our denomination. : We rejoice to be found worthy to enter into their labors, and to share with them tb hatred of the enemies of truth. Neither fear, nor favor, nor detraction shall cause us to swerve from the course we hare marked out. In this course we kuow that we have the sympathies of the beating heart of the Baptist churches. They love the name and the doctrines with their fathers ''maintained. in prison, in exua, and at toe state, and by them and with them they will stand or fau both here and here after. Good for the Soul. Rev. E. Hartvig, a Moravian missionary on the island of St.' Thomas, relates the following: Maria Theresa, an aged communicant widow ot our congregation, always attracted our notic by her Light and peaceful countenance ; for whilst the generality of the negroes, when asked abouftheir health,, constantly complain of one thing or the other, this good old widow always looked cheerful and contented, replying to our " How do you do ?" with " Thank God, quite well ;" while every feature of her countenance testihed of the peace which failed her soul. was always a mystery to U3 how she made her living at her very advanced age ; for she never s iemed to suffer any want, much less to ask for assistance, as many of our people from necessity are in the habit of doing. Some days asjo she too came to pay her annual subscription. My wife who was painfully struck with the thought that the poor woman . labored under the wrong impression that every one was compelled to pay, refused to take the, money, and said it was not expected of her.j Inxetum she stretched forth her hand with the amount, and said with friend ly and cheerful look, " It is good for my soul." My wife, still hesitating, called me to her, and 1 remonstrated in the sani3 way, but to no pur pose, for she kept presenting her offering with the same saying-" It is good for my soul." We were soon conviuced that if we refused ta king what she offered, we should have well nigh broken the poor woman's heart, and destroyed the greatest delight and satisfaction she ever felt. My curiosity as to the way in which she had ralsad the amount was, however, not yst sat isfied. 1 therefore began to question her more particularly about it ; wh-n sha gave a detailed account of her profitable traffic ; but th"i3 1 do better to give in her own words : " Me boil coffee in . the morning, and sit in street ; when people go work, oq3 come and take a cup, and give me a stiver (two thirds of a pen ny) ;. another coins take cup and give me a sti ver : but when roe sweeten it, me get two stiver. Me get sometimes three and sometimes four bits a morning, but this week plenty people com ma sell for five or six bits, and the Lord help me that I can pay the church ; thank God, me can pay the church!" O, how much I wish that you could have been present, to see the dark eyes of the aged woman, how they b?amd with love, joy and delight, when she uttered this last sentence evidently with increased emotion, it would certainly have -done your heart good, as it did ours.. The Karen Translation of tbc Bible. LETTER JTROM REV. FRAN CIS MASON. My Dear Brother: Tjie report of the Amer" ican and Foreign Bible Society tor 1851, m al luding to the completion of the translation of the Old Testament into Karen, indicates that the Secretary desires to be furnished with details; ad since ni one has been employed in the work but myself, it devolves upon me to furnish them. As, in the providence of God, it fell to my lot to be the first to preach to the Karens in their own language, I was early iuduced, in con nection with my previous tastes and studies, to contemplato the work of giving them the Bible in their own tongue. - The task, however, has been a much more difficult one than can well be conceived j No comple'te version, it is believ ed, has . heretofore been made in any language from the Indus to the Hoangho, in which thtre was not a settled - literature, to which to appeal for the usage of . language. The' Burmese and the Siamese have had the Pali, on which to draw or words not nt the vernacular : and to the lan guages of Western Indian, the Sanscrit and the Arabic xurnisn terms as . reauuy as L,aun ana Greek to the European tongues; But in Karen we have had to create our own terms,' seek out or ourselves the grammatical principles of the anguags from'oar own literature, and write -for people in isolated chins, hundreds of -miles from one another, ana each ... with sotne cherished pe culiarity of dialect as characteristic of the Eph- raimite's Shibboleth, or tho Somerset mans 6ummerzett toe i.onaon v, tne xoiKsnire ; ana the Northumberland z. , To dispose of "these "difficulties ia' a skillful manner, assuredly affords scope for; the exercise of the keenest intellect, and: opportunities fot the use of the most varied knowledge ; and yet it is said that many of our educated young men in America reject the claims of the heathen. because they will be able no more to' cultivate their minds. " Yod will no " longer ' Improve. ' saia a eorruwiug urqtuer wimscer mi uis .cuu a '. i it ... i i t: ril. student who was about to embark on a foreign mission. x ou will have no more leisure to cul m m A W if " " - mm . tivate the intellect ; and should you live twenty years, you will be no better preaeber" than too - .;. . ... .t ...... . 1 . now are." j is True war. a missionary nas lit tle opportunity for the- culture of English litera ture andorktory.- He has no "English sermons to write during the week,' ncr reined intellectual audiences to address' on' the Sabbath; .Here' it is admitted' there is something, to ' sacrrSoo ., fox the heathen. ' But while there is a loss here, there are gains ia another direction, though, like " rivers unknown ; to song," they may not y it have attained that place in the literary : woili which some young men desire. Wbib tha man of letters in America and Europe is studying ancient classics in the streams of Greece and Rome, the missionary in India is seated at thu fount, ia head, and amid the Budhist and 'Br ah miniean authors, gazjs at the very sources fro ii which Pythagoras derived ' his philosophy, an l Plato his ethics. The doctrine of equivalents is becoming understood. German and French or mathematics and nataral pbilosoply ard nw a legal tender of equal valud in the republic of letters with Greek And Latin; and when a mis bionary, as many have done, conquers two or three toreign tongues, so as to read, preach, or write dooks in tnetn, ne has acquired something which, cm the principle of s'ubhtitutiog one kind ot knowledge as an equivalent for another, may at least mitigate-the regret of the literary asm rant for the loss ha fustain&ih not bih able to preach eloquent. English discourses, or write el egant classical essays. " ' My first study in coming to the east was the Burruan ; and as it was my intention to acquire the language thoroughly, i commenced at once reading the Budhist books, as the1 tracts and translations, being written by foreigners, were less adapted to, give an idiomatic knowledge of the lanaruage. The Budhist books were found to be full of Pali words and sentences, which in duced me to take up the study of Pali as neces sary to an extensive knowledge cf Burraan. In deed every term in mathematics, and - mental moral aad natural philosophy ii, it b believed without exception a pure Pali word. The Pali 1 found to be a dialect of Sanscrit, which led me to give some attention to that laaguage, the more especially as there were neither dictionary nor grammar in Pali and it was found on trial, that, Wilson's dictionary .dsfinadj the conesponding word, in most instances, precisely as it was used in the rah. While Burman was the first study, Karen con stantly engaged a portion of my attention; but as there were no books in the language, 1 had to study it altogether by the ear when among the people, in ail my excursions, I carried a slip o paper and a pencil in one pocket, aud a piece the Hebrew Bible in another ; and whenever heard a Karen, as we walked together, or as wa sat in the houses where we went up to preach the: Gospel, utter an expression or word that was new to me, 1 immediately put it down in writing, the more especially if it was one that I could use in the translation. Sometimes the people have been aroused at midnight to get me a light, that some tragment of poetry or unusual phrase that 1 heard used by a casual visitor lying near me might be entered on my note-book. In this way was obtained all the language in common use; but this only forms a small portion of a language, so I induced those ;who were able to write then own language- most correctly to set down all the Karen traditions, myths and romances, both in prose and poetry, with , which they wen? ac quainted. Thus a large mass of native writings was collected, that became a useful body of lit erature to which to refer for the use of language; and it is the more reliable as it is the produc tion oT many different authors, and written as related by many different individuals, i Nearly the whole has since been published in the Karn Thesaurus, which, with Mr. Wade's dictioury and my grammar in Sgau and Pwo, sets naw missionaries ou the shoulders of their predeces sors, and enables th?iu to take in at a glance a much more extended horizon. As familiarity was attained in the Karen, it was easily seen that the language had no res-euV blance to tho Burman or Pali ; but as languages arc usually in families, and ran ly isolated, it oc curred to me that the Karen language mbht-h" a branch of some oneof the others spoken arcu.id me, and I therefore determined to examine them all sufficiently to asccrrtaia tha truth on this poiut. 1 first took up - Tabling .---with the aid of a lalamgr man obtained from one of the lavoy villages, and proceeded far enough to see that while the Karons had borrowed numerous I a- laing words from their living among the nation. yet the two languages had no affinity beyond their common sylabic character. A Snmese grammar and Vocabulary were next read with similar results. Th question then arose, wis it a dialect of the Chinese ? I found the China men at Tavoy said stiyeu for hand,' and the Ka rens sn ; for eye, they said mohy aud the Karens max ; with a tow other simiar resemblances, s To satisfy myself, I wrote to a missionary in China, before we had any missionaries here, for books, aud in due time obtained Marshmans Gram mar, Prenare'sfNotes, and a vocabulary, by Dr. Morrison ; but it required little research to find that Karen was not Chinese, although there are many roots of common origin, and the inflections of the language are nearly the ' same. Subse quently Toungthoos were met with at different times, and from them T obtained a vocabulary of words, which showed considerable affinity to Pwo Karen. To? onytou'us tint remained to be examined was the Malay; and after procarinz Marshdeu's Dictionary and Grammar, I found that, still more than the oher .languages,' differing widely from tho Karen ; but though the Maliy s;ave no. light on the Karen, yet when the Se lungs were brought forward, it was apparent at first sight that half or three-fourths of the Vo cabularies gathered from among them, were com posed of Malay roots. -J i But the translator can not or ought not to stop at philological ; studies. The .Bible is studded with : terms in mineralogy; botany and zoology, "There is. In most Kyoung libraries, a. vocabnlarv of nouas, adjectives, and participles, arranged ia suojecis, me terms m eacu treience or subject being all brought together. '. A copy of. this vat arranged alphabetically , by Dr.Jadeon, or under bis supervis ion, by 'natives, with the original ISnrrnan definition,: and this lias sometimes been called' a dictionary." I j have also a vocabulary taken from a original copy , ' found in Kyoung library at Tavoy, which contains half as many more words than the copy used by Dr. Judson. 4 This I retain m the-Cyclopedia form, and have added an alphabetical index, by which arrange ment I have all the synonims together; . and a'cseful classification of them, with "all the advantages of dictionary - Still these-are mere native vocabularies, with,, loose Burman definitions-, containing a mere fragment of the language, the words ajl in an inflec ted state, and not single verb in the. whole. The tartreat does not contain .eight taousam words; while w . !-a. il.-.Ttf-. .. - the-Sanscrit, oi wnicn-iue ru is a.Riaiectbas exty thousand in Wilson's Dictionary alone. ; Thereii also .tondet6usnawve grammar in PaltWr'itten it is said by one of Gaudanna's-own disciples', . Imt' one "mast have maae consiaeniDtQ progress in- tae tanzuirre be- tore do can coiureuenu 11. r rom mis i nave writ' tea a brief grammar in Pall 'and Knelish.' that fncili tates the war to the study of the lain jju ago fbt those tnai ccmse aiier me. and with a few difficult on;s in astronoaiy, tM . vornacui.tr nam-s ot wmcu cau oaiy oe acqu raa by seeking for the things taemstives, atiJ deter mining them by ipati eut anilysis and coiiipii i- , son with thair sci niihc.dscnptioas. . The BU ble Society requires their translators to make ev? i- ry word possible ; but in the ease, of these terms c is not always an'easy task. Tak for intanoj mazzarothy or m zza'oth ; in the singular viz zul. lu Job xxxvui. 32. the English ti-ausla- . U.rs have transferred the ... word, which Barnes - ajs is the only safe way :" but in 2 Kiugi xxiii; 5, they have rendered it " plauts" ia ths text, and put" signs of the z idiac" in the mar- ' gin. Lutber has margemtenttd thi mornmi' star," in Job, aud. 4. plauetsV.in Kins, whlld L)e VVette renders it in both places by lkzirkrtist- the zodiac. Gesentus agrees with Do Wttte. . and Kitto says it is a word which sigaiSjs dwel-. " in i stntinno in roliu.h th i ij In : parent course through the heaveni.: Now i: ths": " translator is bound to express, in Lis' v&nsion. '' the exact sense of Ins origmal as ins aiaisoU uu6 deretands it, then I must render taw word tf signification which 1 have never seen given to. it.1 : ." . " v . ........ . oy eituer translator or commentator, i here i aof, reason to believe .that the zoadical diviajai of the heavens was known to the Shematic nadon in the time of Job. The names of tha sijr.M ai-a , m Arabic the same as in Greek and Sanscrit while the zodiac is called bornj, wbleh bjars no resemblance to the Hebrew word, as it inlbt ha' anticipated to do if they were synonymous. But it is well known to all who have studied the as tronomy of the Arabs, that- they anciently divUy. ded the heavens, into twenty-eight lunar man- ; sions. I have before me some extracts of tae . original Arabic from a work written by Ibn Qo taybah, nearly a thousand years ago, and thase mansions 40 there called, in the sin gular wan- zila ; but other authors write manzil. This is luanifestlv the same word as ? the Hebrew, with the slight change of the dialect. " The lunar : mansions were almanac and dial of the illiterate children of the desert." For these and other reasons that cannot be here mentioned, it ap pears plain to me that the word denotes lunar mansions ; and the next question is, for the Ka ren term to use in the translation. The Karens have no such divisions of the heavens of their own, but they are acquainted with a, name for it through the Burmese, who have adopted it from tho Hindoos through the Pali ; and this is the word I use in the Karen version This singl v iilastration may serva to show the research ne-" oessary for any on3 who would transl its th Scriptures discriminately into the' Karen tongue. Fin illy, to brio tuis ba letter to a olosj, I ' have been stulyin Karen for twe ity oa j suoees'-' " sivo years, and have been in the constant habit ' of readiag the Greek' and Hebrew Scriptures for a quarter of a century. 1 have also availed my self of the aid of biblical criticism from America, r England and Germany, and have left no science or language wholly uustudi-ed, that could aid in furnishing the Karen nition with a correct trans--' iation of the entire Bibls ; and now that the work is done, I am so convinced of iu defects, that : I should shriuk from the publication, did 1 not know . that Christ md his aposiles quoted from a ver- ; sion of the Old Testament, at least as imperfect ' as the Karen, and that truth shining only thro imperfect versions, has been successful in bring ing the world down to the borders of the Millen nium. Yours affectionately, Jr?. A1AS0N. Rev. Dr. Babcock ? Choctaws ahead or JIainc. Col. David r olsom, the Choctaws Reformerf t was born in 17i)l At thj aga of sixteen ha r raised by petsonal labor a crop of corn which hi sold in the fall of the year, and 'purchased a po-1 ny and some clothes and started off into the State of Tonn-see, 22 J miles, to go to school. At tha pnd nf kit mnnth h itnm.A in ni ' In th Ghick-isaw nation ha was taught by a' Mr. ' Maclay one month or more. , Jn 4 1B12, wbea be was married, be took Lis -lady out of the nation to a magistrate of the neighboring State or Territory, who solemuized -tho marriagtj according to our laws.; This was the first instance of the kind ia the nation.! - ? In 1821, be commenced bis efforts to effect a Temperance reformation throughout his nation, ile was a private warrior at that time; the chiefs were all then uneducated and unable to under-' stand English, aud the warriors, as well as cip tains and chiefs of the nation, were addicted to drunke'nness- Nor did all the white m'n and the officers of our gov . rnment residing in the na tion at that time do much better than some of fibeir red brethren in this matter of temperance. oi i i ... . i. . v. ui . A'uia jaj uau ouiua uicuut ui : icmperanOS among his own country. He was. aided very much by the first missionaries who went am;n his people. r But at that time there were no pious Choc tas,'aud they did not even reduce their laws to writing. And what is worse Col.' Folsom hfid no' example set before bim iu ' the United Statos!of America to follow in what he undertook to do for bis people. He bad much opposition. ; flis life was in danger. But he went forward cccor ding to the proverb iDo well and wait A lln June, 1823, a great national council was held at his house. 1 recollect bein? present The three old chiefs, the Agent and the United States in terpreter and others were tbtro. , It was a time of great interest. Nor diJ alcohol then wish'to die without a spasm unheard "and unlimc-ctrd. The temperance men triumphed through tha land, 20,000 Choctaws came' under "the"' law of total abstinence " themselves and made a proVlsi ion to destroy all; the whiskey that should ba brought into their nation.- 'Men were appointed to carry this law into effect."1 Thpy i were bota armed and paid for their work. This is till . this day, now.thirty years, for jscbstance the law of the Choctaw Nation. . But Col. David Folsom died in 1847, and did not live to see any ons of the United States' adopt the Maine Choctaw law'. Now they have begun to do t?o in Maine. inere wasa utue city ana a iew men wit n in it (the Choctaws;) and 'there' came a great Jtmz against it (Whiskey,) and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against Ui- ? Now was fonhd in it a poor wise man (D. F.f) and be by his-wisdom delivered the; city j yet ho man remembered that same poor man." New York Observer. S . -ifirf--;,;x-'--ffi-i--"' 1 "!"." V II " '"! """" An exchange "says there are hundreds cfneoob -; who become very religious when they think dan ' ' I nfivtl in4 aAHkt "Ja ttino ' fell off from a bridge across a certain riverand -just as he found he must go, and no help for it, bawled out at the top of his roUs Lord kiT mercy on mrand auek tdoV ;