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The Baptist mission in India : containing a narrative of its rise, progress, and present condition : a statement of the physical and moral character of the Hindoos, their cruelties, tortures and burnings, with a very interesting description of Bengal, intended to animate to Missionary co-operation
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- Philadelphia : Hellings and Aitken, 1811
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- ix, 312 pages ; 18 cm
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- Preface signed "W. Staughton".
- The formation of the Society, and the sending out of its two first Missionaries -- The arrival of the Missionaries in India, and their settlement in the neighbourhood of Malda -- Progress of the Mission, from 1795 to 1799 -- Four other missionaries set out, and the seat of the Mission removed to Serampore -- Progress of the Mission at Serampore, from 1800 to 1807, containing the principal events under each year successively -- Progress of the Mission continued to the end of 1808, including a list of the persons baptised from the commencement, &c.; List of persons baptised by the Missionaries in Bengal; List of the Missionaries; The translation about which the Missionaries at Serampore are engaged, are twelve in number -- Religious and moral essays: The sentiments of the Hindoos relative to the creation; the casts and shastras of the Hindoos, including their ideas of a future state -- Natural history: Animals; Plants -- Hindoos: The moral character of the Hindoos; Tortures, Cruelties, &c.; Burning of women; Character of the Bramins; Physical character of the Hindoos: their origin, dress, marriage, implements of husbandry, &c., &c. -- Bengal: History of -- Death of several of the Missionaries: Account of the death of Mr. Grant; Account of the death of Mr. Fountain; Brief account of Mr. Fountain's christian experience; Memoir of Mr. John Thomas; Account of the affliction and death of Mr. Brunsdon; Memoirs of Mr. John Biss, late one of the Missionaries of Searmpore, who died on his way from India to America; Account of Mrs. Chamberlain's death -- Poetry: An Evangelical hymn; Mr. Thomas to a relation; The affectionate advice; Prayers for Missionaries, on the sea, by Mr. Ward; The Indian renouncing heathenism, and embracing Christianity, by Mr. Carey; On the first Hindoo losing all for Christ's sake, by Mr. Marshman; On finishing the translation of the New Testament in Bengal, by Mr. Marshman