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solicitude. The application, especially to the younger part of his 

 audience, was conciliating, pathetic, and impressive: this excellent 

 minister preached no more; he was the next day seized with an ill- 

 ness which soon terminated his earthly career! Such a pastor 

 was suddenly taken away, while shepherds of a different descrip- 

 tion were left to feed the flock in the wilderness : for India might 

 then be termed a spiritual wilderness, compared with the religious 

 societies in Europe. 



I never saw the apostolical Swartz, for fifty years the zealous 

 missionary on the coast of Coromandel, whose fame must ever 

 live in the eastern churches. Nor, during my abode in India, 

 had I the happiness of meeting with any similar character. I 

 was acquainted with some missionaries of the Romish communion 

 on the Malabar coast ; and several of the regular clergy stationed 

 in the Catholic churches at Bombay, Anjengo, and other places; 

 but with none belonging to the Danish mission, or other protestant 

 church. Were such ministers as Swartz more common in Hin- 

 dostan, much good might be done among our own countrymen, 

 and the Indians; but while the higher classes of European society 

 continue in thoughtless indolence, lukewarmness, or infidelity, and 

 the garrisons and cantonments are left without religious instructors, 

 we have little reason to expect the Hindoos will become converts 

 to Christianity. " Let your light so shine before men, that they 

 may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in hea- 

 ven," is one of the most solemn injunctions given by its great 

 Founder. 



"What good may be done in India by prudent and zealous 

 missionaries, Swartz and others have clearly evinced. What mav 



