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the minutest parts of their domestic economy, that the difficulty 

 of converting a man of high caste to Christianity is very great. 

 Such an one must, in every sense, literally fulfil our Saviour's 

 words ; he must leave father and mother, brethren and sisters, wife 

 and children, houses and lands, when he becomes his disciple ; 

 this is the cross he must take up, the trial he must endure ; he 

 must be despised and rejected by his former associates, an outcast 

 from his family and friends. The sacrifice, though great, is tran- 

 sient; the recompence glorious and everlasting. Such sacrifices 

 have been made, and are now greatly increasing. Many brah- 

 mins of distinction, who had not previously lost their caste, but on 

 the contrary were looked up to with veneration and love, have em- 

 braced Christianity. The annals of the pious Swartz, the anecdotes 

 of Dr. Claudius Buchanan, and the labours of many zealous and 

 prudent ministers in the Danish mission, prove this assertion. See 

 Ananda, a learned and respectable brahmin, now become an 

 eminent Christian convert, translating the New Testament into the 

 Telinga dialect! Behold Sattienaden, a Hindoo disciple of 

 Swartz, preaching the gospel in the language of Tamul! Sab at, 

 the Arabian, transporting the evangelical books to the gates of 

 Mecca, and planting Christianity among the tribes of Yemen: 

 while Mirza promulgates celestial truth throughout the extensive 

 regions of Persia ! When we contemplate so many Syriac churches 

 in Travencore, which have existed more than a thousand years, 

 under a regular establishment, unaided by European hierarchies, 

 and encompassed by idolatrous nations; when we advert to the 

 patronage given to consistent missionaries by the rajah of Mysore, 



