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as we found them?" A question of a similar tendency was last 

 year addressed to a member of the Society for promoting Chris- 

 tianity among the Jews, by Manasseh, a learned, and respectable 

 character under the Mosaical dispensation. " What advantages, 

 relative to their present and future happiness, will the Jews derive 

 from their conversion to Christianity?" I avail myself of the 

 answer to this interesting question, to strengthen what is said 

 throughout this chapter on the conversion of the Hindoos. 



" Previous to auy remark on the subjects alluded to in your 

 letter, I must, for myself and those with whom I am connected, 

 sincerely and affectionately declare, that in whatsoever point of 

 view our endeavour may appear to yourself, or others of your 

 brethren, we are solely actuated by the pure motive of regard and 

 tender anxiety for what we believe to be the true interest and 

 happiness of all those who have not embraced Christianity. That 

 very religion, by which we ourselves hope to be saved, enjoins it 

 as a fundamental duty on Christians, to endeavour, by every law- 

 ful and charitable method, to bring all men to the knowledge of 

 the gospel of Jesus Christ. We certainly do aim at your conver- 

 sion from an undue and misplaced reliance on mere forms and 

 ceremonies, to that salvation through the Messiah, whom the pro- 

 phet Isaiah describes as " a man of sorrows, and acquainted with 

 o-rief; who was stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted; wounded 

 for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities." 



" In answer to the advantages that will be derived from this 

 conversion, allow me, with the greatest solemnity, and sincerity 

 of heart, to reply, ' much every way/ We believe, that by your 

 conversion to Christianity, you would be freed from the slavery 



