BOSTON:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED

BY JAMES LORING, AND LINCOLN & EDMANDS.

1823.

THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1897.

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit:

District Clerk's Office.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-second day of January, A. D. 1817, and in the Forty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, the Trustees of the Baptist Missionary Society of Massachusetts, of the said District, have deposited in this Office the title of a Book, the Right whereof they claim as Proprietors in the words following, to wit:

"THE AMERICAN BAPTIST MAGAZINE, AND MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCER. NEW SERIES. That they all may be ONE......JESUS. One Lord, one faith, one baptism......PAUL."

In Conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned; and also to an Act entitled, "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the Benefits thereof to the Arts of Designing, Engraving and Etching Historical and other Prints."

JOHN W. DAVIS,

Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.

IN commencing this fourth Volume of the American Baptist Magazine, the Editors take the liberty to address their friends and patrons on the liberal support and general encouragement they have given to the work.

A primary object in commencing and continuing this work is to promote the cause of missions, both in this and in foreign countries: And from the increasing exertions which we are permitted to witness, we indulge the belief that our labours have not been in vain in the Lord. There are many others labouring in the same field. We have done no more than was our duty; and if our exertions have proved successful, to God be all the glory.

In the missionary cause, especially the foreign mission, it has been our lot, to announce to our readers the pleasing and the painful events which have attended the establishing a Mission in the despotic empire of Burmah. This was indeed a most daring attempt. It required the zeal of an Apostle, united with the wisdom of the serpent and the simplicity of the dove, to accomplish such an undertaking. Such a missionary God was pleased to give us; who, fearless of danger, opened the christian Zayat, and announced to listening heathen the glad news of salvation through a crucified Redeemer. The God of missions has succeeded these labours of love, for the conversion of a number of Burmans, who have turned from their dumb idols to serve the living and true God.

Notwithstanding the many discouragements which have attended this mission, we have reason to hope, that the precious seed which has there been sown, will yet spring and rise, and produce a glorious harvest. Thirteen Burmans have given evidence of real conversion to God, and have been solemnly baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus! These all, as far as we can learn, have continued steadfast in the faith. One has been called to a better world.

We have heretofore given the mournful intelligence of the death of Mr. Wheelock, one of the two young brethren who sailed from this port on the 16th of Nov. 1817, to join the Burman mission. We have now the painful task, to announce the death of Mr Colman. This promising young missionary closed his life and labours at Cox's

Bazar, 60 miles from Chittagong, on the 4th of July last.
He died of the jungle fever.
Mrs. Colman was ill of the

same fever at the date of our last accounts.

The Burman mission has been recruited the last year, by the arrival of Dr. Price and family, and by the return of Mr. Hough and his family from Serampore to Rangoon. Our long tried and faithful Missionary, Mr. Judson, remains in health and firm at his post. May God preserve him for a long time to come, and crown his ardu ous labours with abundant success. Mrs. Judson, is now on a visit in this country on account of her health. We offer our sincere prayers to Almighty God, that her visit may not only be conducive to her health, but be happily instrumental in promoting a deeper interest in the Burman mission.

It gives us pleasure to lay before you from time to time, the most interesting articles of intelligence from the missións established among the Indians of this country. It is devoutly hoped that these several missions may excite a more lively interest in the minds of christians than they have hitherto done. While the cause of religion generally, and that of missions in particular, will ever claim preeminence in our columns, it is not our design to exclude such communications as relate to the interests of literature, and the social order and happiness of society.

Well written essays on doctrinal or practical subjects of religion, on the advantages of literature to the rising generation, such in particular as may have a tendency to do away the prejudices that still oppose its progress; and generally whatever may tend to promote knowledge, and purity, and brotherly affection among christians, will be gratefully received by the Editors. It is our sincere aim to avoid giving offence; but we consider it a duty which we owe to ourselves as well as to our readers, to select from the mass of matter before us, what we deem the most useful.

To our old correspondents we tender our grateful acknowledgments, and solicit the continuance of their favours, hoping that new ones will arise to enrich our pages.

As the profits of this Magazine are sacredly appropriated to missionary purposes, we hope our readers will derive both pleasure and advantage from the work, and that they will continue to use their influence to extend its circulation. EDITORS,