with establishments for the cultivation and manufacture of indigo. At the same time they studied the language of the natives, held religious meetings with the people, and labored in every way to bring them to a saving knowl- edge of the truth. Mr. Carey, moreover, from the begin- ning gave great attention to the translation of the Script- ures into toe Bengalee and other languages of the East, and the extent to which he succeeded was perfectly mar- vellous. As the prospects of success improved, additional missionaries were sent out from England : the head-quar- ters of the mission were removed to the Danish settlement of Serampore ; printing-presses were set up, and the work of translating and preaching the Gospel was carried on in a manner which has scarcely ever been equalled in any other part of the mission field. Mr. Carey became one of the most learned men in India, and for several years held the high ofHce of professor of languages in the Calcutta College, in addition to his missionary duties. After a long and honorable career, during which he saw the Bap- tist mission in India greatly extended, and the whole or parts of the sacred Scriptures translated into about forty ditferent languages of the East, Dr. Can \ I'ii ,1 in peace at Serampore, at the advanced age of se\ . > n :\Ion-
day, June '.», 1S34, leavinganoble exaiii , > r i rested
ze"d and entire devoteduess to the ser\ i^ e ,,ri i,; i-i among the heathen.
"The attention of the Baptist Missionary Society was directed at tin early period to the West Indies, and in 1S14 the tirst station was commenced at Falmouth, in Jamaica. The first regular missionary appointed to this interesting sphere of labor was tiie Kev. John Rowe, but the ground had been partially piepared by Mr. Moses Baker, a man of color from America. The favorable reports sent home by the first missionary to Jamaica induced the society to send out two more laborers in the course of the following year. The number of agents was increased still further afterwards, till, in the course of fifteen years, fourteen pastors were employed, and the Church members num- bered upwards of 10,000. Prosperous stations were estab- lished not only at Falmouth, biit also in Kingston, Mon- tetxo Bay, and in most of the other chief towns on the island. All went on well till the year 1831, when there (iceurred one of those insurrections of the Negro slaves which have repeatedly been so disastrous in their results to the missionary enterprise. As usual, the planters strove to involve the missionaries in the consequences of their own folly. In their fury the colonists destroyed nearly all the chapels of the Baptist Missionary Society th- u^'hout the island, with a view to sc-ure ihe eximlsiou of ti.eir agents; but in this they were disappuiiite!!. The value of the property thus wantonly destroyeil was esti- mated at £20,000. Tlie local government gave no redress ; but the Imperial Parliament made handsome grants to compensate for the loss, and the British public came for- ward most liberally to help to restore the waste places of Zion. When the storm had passed over, the work again revived and prospered, not only in Jamaica, but also iu the Bahama Islands, Trinidad, Honduras, St. Domingo, and other parts of the West Indies.
"In the year 1S4S the Ba])tist Missionary Society ex- tended its labors to Western Africa, and stations were es- tablished in the island ofFeruando Po, and also on the banks of the Cainaroons, in the Bight of Benin. The Kev. A. Saker was the tirst missionary to this part of the coast, and he was spared to labor for many years, and to see the fruit of his labor, while many others fell a sacrifice to the climate soon after their arrival. At length the Baptist missionaries were expelled fr(mi Fernando Po by the Spanish government on their taking possession of the isl- and on the termination of their agreement with the Eng- lish. On the mainland, however, where unrestricted re- ligious liberty was allowed by the native chiefs, the good work took deep root, and a goodly number of hopeful converts were gathered into the fold of Christ. When China was thrown open to European missionaries, the Baptist Missionary Society responded to the call for Gos- pel preachers, and sent out two or three agents, who suc- ceeded in making a good beginning, notwithstanding nu- merous difficulties which had to be encounrered. Nor has this institution been unmindful of the claims of Eu- rope. It has recently appointed missionaries to Norway and Italy; and iu Rome itself its agents are taking their share in the glorious work of shedding the light of divine truth on the darkness of popish error and superstition. .
"According to the last annual report, the number of European missionaries employed in various parts of the world by the Baptist Missionary Society (not including the Jamaica Baptist Union) is 58, in addition to 221 native pastors and preachers, who have been raised up in distant lands as the fruit of missionary labor. These occupy '206 stations, and minister in 104 chapels of various kinds, and they have under their pastoral care 536 European and 6491 native Church members. The number of scholars attend- ing the missi(m schools is 3777. In connection with the Jamaica Baptist Union there are o7 pastors, 94 churches, 20,599 Church members, and 2'24i inquirers.