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My dear Brother in Christ

An opportunity now presenting itself of sending
to N. South Wales. I embrace it and shall communi
cate some short account of the state of Religion among
us, sensible that it will afford pleasure to you and your
Brethren who are so far removed from us.

India has the Gospel now preached to it in a good num
ber of places. There are twenty regular stations belonging to
our Missions which extend from the most northerly part of
Hindasthan near Handwara to the Isles of Java and Ceylon and
from the Burman Empire in the east to Surat in the west.

The number of persons who have been received into Church
communion is about five hundred; and through the
abundant blessing of God this work is still going for-
ward. I expect seventy persons to be received into the
Church at Calcutta at the close of the present month,
and many others are enquiring the way to Jesus with
their faces thitherwards. 

The cause of truth in India has lately suffered a heavy
loss in the death of Mr Martyn, a very amiable and pious
Clergyman of the Church of England who in a journey
from Shiranz in Persia to Constantinople died at  [indecipherable]
He had finished the translation of the N. Testament