DR. CAREY. The following notice of this distinguished Missionary and Minister of Christ, has just come to hand. It is from the London Bap. Mag. for May. MANY of our readers, we doubt not, perused, with grateful joy, the statement inserted in our number for March, from the pen of the excellent Dr. Carey, of the continued good health with which he had been favoured. It has pleased God, however, since that letter was written, to visit his servant with an affliction, which brought his life for a season into imminent danger, and from the effects of which it is feared he will never fully recover. The illness to which we allude, was brought on by an accident. In the month of October last, as the Doctor was stepping out of a boat at Calcutta, which our readers will recollect lies on the opposite side of the river from Serampore, he fell and received a local injury, which terminated in fever. Some further particulars are contained in the following account from the Doctor's nephew, Mr. Eustace Carey; and though the letter containing it was not intended for publication, we feel that the general esteem in which the eminent individual referred to is held throughout the Christian church, demands its insertion in our pages. It is dated, Nov. 20, 1823. "You will be much pained to hear of the severe illness of my beloved uncle. A fall, which occasioned a violent contusion in one of the principal ligaments which hold the thigh bone in the socket, was the means of bringing on the fever, from which no one expected his recovery. But God mercifully heard prayer on his behalf. Three or four medical gentlemen were daily intent about his case, amongst whom was his old scientific friend, Dr. Wallich of the Company's Gardens. My Lord and Lady Amherst also were constant in the most affectionate inquiries, and sent over their own private surgeon, Dr. Abel, a very kind man, so that no aid was wanting. He is convalescent, but very weak, goes with crutches, and, we fear, will never again be very strong. However, his spirit is unbroken. 'God,' he says, 'will continue me in this world, as long why should I wish to live longer? A as he has any thing for me to do; and few days since, I had a most pleasing interview with him, and was much delighted with his discourse. So free from all anxiety as to his spiritual state, and yet so simple and so self abased; 'I have none of that joyful experience some speak of; all I plead for is mercy. I soar no higher. When I am dead, I wish no one to say a word about me,in my praise. All my life has been sin, full of sin.I had made choice of these words :-"Be Whosoever preaches my funeral sermon, merciful unto me, O God, according to thy loving kindness, according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions: wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin," &c. Tears gushing from his eyes while repeating over and over again the above expressions. He appears to be more lovely and venerable than ever. Never, perhaps, was such general and affectionate interest excited about an individual, of comparatively private charduring his illness. acter, as was entertained by all classes The public papers daily contained a notice respecting him, forwarded, I believe, by Dr. Wallich." We are gratified to be able to add, that a letter, dated seven days later than the preceding, informs us that "Dr. Carey is still mending." It is impossible, however, to avoid the conclusion, however afflicting it may be, that this eminent servant of God is approaching the period, in which he shall have accomplished the work given him to do, and enter upon the nobler engagements of a better world. O that, in mercy to the church and the world, a double portion of his spirit may be poured out upon many; and that the cause of the pel in India, weakened as it is by the removals of some, and growing infirmities of others, who have been engaged in it, may receive a speedy accession of men, whose hearts God has touched with the right motives, and furnished with the necessary qualifications for service therein! gos BEQUEST. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MRS. Rev. and dear Sir, Haverhill, N. H. May 1, 1824. I ONCE more presume to make you the medium of my communication, by transmitting fifty dollars, which is a bequest from my dear departed husband to the foreign missions, to be appropriated in that manner which shall be thought most important and useful. Mr. Page departed this life the fifteenth of Oct. last; he had been afflicted with a cancer about eighteen months, which terminated his life in his eighty. third year. He manifested great resignation to the will of God, and I trust he has entered into the joy of his Lord. I have been made to drink of the bitter cup repeatedly, but it has been sweetened with divine mercy, so that I can say of the Lord, he doth all things well. Goodness and mercy have followed me all my days. Permit me to subscribe myself, your friend and sister in the gospel, HANNAH PAGE. 1,00 1,00 1,00 J. Barnaby, 1,00 BOSTON, June 28, 1824. "J. Grafton, 1,00 Treasurer of the Boston Baptist The twenty five dollars which I for- Perhaps our readers may inquire, why no accounts from our Missionaries who sailed from this port on the 20th of June last has been published? The reason is, we have had no communication from them. To satisfy those who inquire, with regard to this distressing disappointment, we can only say, the probability is, they have written to many of their friends, and put their letters on board the Edward Newton, which was expected to arrive in America before any other ship from India. But God in his mysterious providence, has not permitted that ship to reach our shores. Whether by some disaster she is detained on the way, or whether she is foundered in the ocean, we know not. We still hope she is safe, and may yet arrive. It will be seen by some of the previous letters, that our Missionaries arrived in Calcutta about the middle of October last, and on the 5th of December in Rangeon. ED'RS. MEMOIRS of great and good men, especially such as have laboured for God in the gospel of his Son, are in a peculiar sense the property of the church, and have a stronger tendency to encourage and animate the Christian than almost any other uninspired writings. The affectionate associations, the tender recollections, the solemnity and the tears which embalm the memory of the faithful servant of Christ, are honours in comparison with which the laurels which a Casar reaps are weeds. The subject of this article being designed, as was evident, by the qualifications of nature, and the gifts of grace, for great usefulness in the church and in the world, filled for many years a conspicuous place in both, and acquired the notice, the respect and attachment of many friends. The circumstances and events with which in the providence of God he was connected in early life, tended to make him extensively known, and to bring him to associate with many eminent men, both statesmen and divines, between whom and the deceased, mutual esteem existed till the close of their lives, and many of whom have, without doubt, met in the better world where higher intellectual and moral enjoyments are the portion of the friends of God, and the grace which brought them there, constitutes the high and glorious theme on which they will forever delight to dwell. WILLIAM ROGERS, the second son of William and Sarah Rogers, was born in Newport, Rhode-Island, July 22, O.S. 1751. His parents were respectable and pious members of a Baptist church in that town, and endeavoured to bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. The subject of this article was early impressed with the importance of experimental religion, and the frequent conversations of godly ministers and others at his father's house, tended to fix on his mind a reverence for religion, long before he became a happy subject of the influence and hopes of the gospel of Christ. In conversation with a friend a few months before his decease, he observed, "Although my inclinations in youth led me to associate with the gay and thoughtless, yet I did not enjoy myself; an almost constant sense of viola ted obligations, and of sin against an holy God, attended me; and the assurance that the day of account would arrive, frequently made me tremble even when in the pursuit of pleasure." At the age of twelve years, he commenced his preparatory studies, and fitted for college under the instruction of the Rev. Mr. Hutchinson, a congregational minister in Grafton, (Mass.) and became a freshman in Rhode Island College, then located at Warren, September, 1765, being only fourteen years of age. Having finished his collegiate course, September, 1769, he was admitted to the degree of A.B. The following year his attention was more particularly called up to his spiritual concerns; he read much on evangelical subjects, felt sensible of his lost condition as a sinner, and having clear views of the holy nature and requisitions of the divine law, with a full conviction that he had departed from its spirit in heart and in life, he was enabled to submit to Jesus Christ, and receive him by faith as the end of the law for righteousness to his soul. He spake very feelingly through life of the commencement of his hope, the day of his espousals to the Lord, and in his public discourses expatiated on that period with respect to other Christians, in a very interesting and solemn manner. In September of this year, he made a public profession of his faith in Christ, and was baptized by the late Rev. Gardner Thurston, Pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Newport, and received as a member of that church by prayer and the imposition of hands. He still cultivated a taste for scientific studies, though his reading was chiefly confined to theological and religious subjects. It is not certainly ascertained that the mind of Mr. Rogers was at this time impressed with the duty of entering upon the holy ministry; but we find that as early as August, 1771, he was called and licensed by the church to proclaim the glad tidings of peace and salvation. In December following, in consequence of earnest solicitations, he removed from Newport, where he was Principal of an Academy, to Philadelphia, and continued preaching on probation, until March, 1772, when he received an unanimous call to take the pastoral charge of the First Baptist Church in that city, and was ordained the thirty-first of May following. Mr. Rogers continued as pastor of this church until June, 1775, the most memorable year of the revolutionary war, when the Pennsylvania legislature having voted three battalions of foot for the defence of that province, appointed him sole chaplain of said forces. He was afterwards promoted to a brigade chaplaincy on the continental establishment, and continued to perform the duties and sustain the privations of this station, until June, 1781, when he retired from military service, to pursue his favourite work of the ministry in the church of Christ. About this period, he received a number of invitations to settle in the ministry, particularly from three important seaport towns, in either of which it was thought he might have been extensively useful; but he declining accepting any of them, choosing rather to supply destitute churches with occasional ministrations in the neighbourhood of Philadelphia. In 1789, he was elected Professor of English and Oratory in the College of Philadelphia, and afterwards received an appointment to the same office in the University of Pennsylvania, by which institution in July, 1790, he was honoured with the degree of D.D. after having received that of A. M. in three different institutions of literature. Besides performing the duties of the professorship, Dr. Rogers filled a number of responsible offices in various benevolent, moral, and re |