An account of several Ordinations, Installations, and Dedications was prepared for this Number; but it is necessarily deferred for want of room. The indefatigable Agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society. PERHAPS Some of our readers hazard of offending the head of may be surprised, that we should his church and all its high dignigive a Portrait and a sketch taries, that he has pursued his of the history and labours of godlike course. But the fulminaa Roman Catholick clergyman, tions of his superiors and the rein the American Baptist Magazine.proaches of his equals, have not We do assure them, it is not be- moved him from his steadfast purcause we have any sympathies or pose of giving the widest circupartialities for the superstitions of lation possible the Holy popery. But we have long been Scriptures. unable to withhold our admiration and respect from LEANDER VAN Ess. Although we could wish he were a Protestant, we are not The time, and property, and sure, were this to be the case, talents, which he has devoted to that he could do so much good in the translation and diffusion of the the Bible cause. As a Catholick Scriptures, should endear his name Priest, he has an influence over to every one who loves the word the members of his church, which of God. It is believed, that his it is not possible that a Protestant disinterested exertions in pro- could have. This influence is moting these all-important objects, constantly employed in prevailing have not been surpassed by any on those of his own communion, man living, with the exception, to receive into their houses and perhaps, of the venerable Dr.hearts the blessed truths of inCarey, of Serampore. spiration. The value of these exertions cannot fail of being enhanced in our estimation, when it is remembered that they have been made, not in the midst of good, but of evil report. It has been at the Ост. 1826. If we are correctly informed, he has by his pen made a powerful appeal to his brethren, on the duty of giving the scriptures to the laity. By quotations from the Catholick fathers, and from dis 38 |