Show pom from uie alie st louis luminary i interesting letter from hindustan hindostan Hind Rind the following is is from the pen of our much esteemed friend elder high findly now on a mission in asia he writes from belgium under date of july joly 26 1854 india is indeed a barren comer in the lords vineyard it is like pl plodding oddin and ploughing sloughing hing up tip all the time after the departure of our 1111 military fita br brethren from the inland of B abay matters there put p lit on rather a forbidding aspect so that although bough alt a most assiduous asid Lious distribution of hooks books tracts ac was w as kept kepi up for several months nou ills even after meetings 1 13 had been obtainable it lemed wisdom to seek a people pe j 0 O who might return a more favorable response po e to t conr efforts forts el at this s juncture elders leonard aud and musser arrived ll fraai ron calcutta who proceeded eded on the february ferrua per par sear nar to Kir rachee and I 1 on the aay march arch on board a m til native craft to Vengo orly skirting the territory and from thence irence by bullock bandy to this place the land portion of our journey about 80 miles tracked a roi noigh h an I 1 uneven but most I 1 fertile the beds of I 1 scene crossing deep very many mountain streams some of which were still running running but most ot of them thein dry this certainly would be a most luxuriant country did it only e enjoy jov I 1 the former and latter rain the mango and rid locust both most delicious fruits hung hang in abundance by the way ways s df with an endless var bety of blossomed trees and shrubs casting on the morning bi beeze their odorous fragrance frag fragE cance ance presenting the wayfarer way farer with a pleasing contrast to the rays I 1 of the be sultry sun approaching approach i n g his meridian the I 1 notorious ram chaunt lay aso in our path which I 1 is upward of or three thousand feet high and as I 1 near gerpe as you can ima imagine c ide to be I 1 climbed climb d clad in dense jungle where the be boar the benr bearn and nd tiger prowl and moi monkeys keys screech in midnight howl bowl i once more in the of S strangers ran I 1 felt as if raffers Fers relieved of a dead weight and ail approving spirit whispered it was well I 1 had antic anticipated evading a military collision here by makin making my iny quarters in the native village but found it so thickly bic kly populated that a vacant but wa macl rare and then the prejudices of caste seemed to forbid the white race face a resting place forced back to tc camp I 1 rented in the bazar baar a small ground floor floors minus of beilin ceiling or window save the dozen sundials that struck through the apper hires tures of the tiled roof here however my trunk and trappings were scarcely fixed when a peon called to ask my J boo ha ibM 71 H 1 r arr aur th hn h n abo r first opportunity was chosen to wait upon the superintendent eident of af bazaars s the poona edict was referred to which emst imst I 1 mit by relating the favorable features of a latter date he stated spited that he would inform the brigadier general that I 1 had reported report pd my arrive in camp in a pew few days after he be informed me that the general wished me to rake ma e a house in the vil village age as the bazaars were for or those who kept shops I 1 next made application through the quarter master general for permission per to reside pr preach T h ac in the pensioners lines line and in a few ew d days ay moi more e learned through that gentleman that the step taken by the military authorities at poona was to stand as a precedent to their deci d eci ion on I 1 the matte here I 1 next waited wailed on the brigader general Gei eral himself and obtained his concession to receive receive any references I 1 might obtain from the M military ill it officers at poona these I 1 am happy to say say art a although th brugh the process prolonged a state of suspense and inactivity y for upwards of two months were so overwhelming 11 to the prejudices of the he general grinaral Gri and his colleagues that I 1 have been granted all that I 1 ask tor for R to 0 res reside ide in camp and exercise all the functions of a minister of the gospel in visiting preaching ac and this ibis to the no small chagrin of those of the black cloth in the station who now manifest a visiting zeal tor for the purpose of decrying 11 mormonism formerly unknown among them hem in preaching christ cruel crucified fied thanks to the lord for overruling ove ruling it so and to general wilson who I 1 have reason to believe stand stands alone at the present instance in british india in honorably granting to the ministers of this church their heir rights when called upon to do so for this let his hi name be had in th honorable remembrance of the righteous the grant may in itself appear st small n and nd so 0 i it ii i s so far as the of the stations are concerned but the opposite course pui pursued saied by others has proved a most stubborn sub born and in many instances an mountable barrier to the gospels progress so ing ia i military me iti in these lands a ads while wh ile the foregoing was pending I 1 found faund many to profess a sympathy but few seemed pe prepared pared to offer a helping hard hand there was wa nevertheless an eye over me for gond that eye that never sleeps to the interests of those enlisted in his service nd who can by visions of the night open the fountain of berie benevolence to minister to their necessities feces cities j but poor infatuated native india while the elders of israel have forsaken home and the society of the saints to wander under the he suspicions eye of earthly authorities and as tomeil i lie ie to be carefully approached by the pop dace she k knori novo not nor will she learn the day of lier her jn merc ercul ful visitation I 1 bad thought that an arp ieli tc towards the centre of the country cau rim am ht dit nal we may be permitted to call native simplic alry a more favorable native field of labor inight I 1 Lefo e fo ind but it is not so their superstitions are nore and as a consequence a greater amount of ignorance prevails As an ill illustration ti of abis fact a brahmin the other day asked aked a ked ms ma if tour our god could grow and related that they had a stone eod qin u in their village who had formerly been very fea beah h but had grown very stout in all his parts arts hij and would persuade me to come and afe see or myself M forgetting that I 1 had not seen him in in his bis days of leanness on into this found that this person was try by no an mcana in his bis belief the priestly institution of a continual oil offering which is poured on those sculptured deified delfied stones under the intense heat of a tropic sun nun causes relaxation of their pores and as a natural consequence swells them till til in some instances they burst asunder like the babylonian dragon by daniels dose though such an incident is taken more cool cooly y by its votaries vot aries coupled with a strong trad Tonal t onal superstition there is a preponderating avaricious principle wound up ia all the e calculations and movements of this people that ill suits a gospel requiring the sacrifice of all things which is lite literally ally requisite in in their case upon of christianity the parental roof no longer shelters the delinquent the affectionate father or mother knows him no DO more mores and if marii married ed the wife of his bosom may be by consent ol of law torn from him and again adopted into her fathers family even public opinion denies him former cormir associations common to all in i n truth his madrid kindred caste cast i and ine hindmo law declare him virtually I 1 dead I 1 hence the institutions and provisions adopted by hireling missionaries to provide their converts ith a homie home food et IV ae which how howe however 4 m vr when applied to a void 4 rf every ri principle ciple of rectitude 6 fenly a aw a i to hypocrisy jtb uve not boon ben wale able to g terrt k out am in their few I 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 P 1 1 9 6 I 1 a converts in western hindostan hindustan Hind a truth proverb I 1 j ial amongst the natives themselves I 1 weed indeed I 1 I 1 am d te pr prepared einred to subscribe to the sentiments I 1 of 19 eider di jones in star dec 10 1853 regard ing the Beng alees as being fully applicable to the natives of western india with this addition that the Mui selmen who are plentiful on this side of the country are more spirited but at the same at e time treacherous daring and bloodthirsty blood thirsty against those who attempt to hint bint anything derogatory to supremacy they boast of a day not far distant when not by in missionary alonar enterprise for of this they have none but sword and conquest their faith will triumph throughout asia and under this spirit it is the most distant object bj act of their conception to give heed to t any aby atger bluer religion there i is in theta them very perceptibly b y the spirit of natal romanism yet vet tinged with a ae deeper aper shade qt of barbarism like the shouldering ing embers of a faded glory only laek lack ng an opportunity to hirst burst forth more destruct destructively ivey than I 1 before I 1 I 1 have exercised faith tor for this people when all seemed clouded in sable darkness and made myself as far as their prejudices would admit as one of themselves es even a ab acting iny infelt elf in 1 many instincts to their perfidy through an intense 1 desire t to 0 gain some soine 1 I have also baptized those of the highest shade of their subdivided sub divided B caste but their faith seemed inadequate to sustain them under the sacrifice and now it would be the proudest day of our existence I 1 e cc eo could u I 1 4 we only hope for better thin tilling s of I 1 them nothing ihno biame na ble could stand b tween between us I 1 ad the accomplish accomplishment C jaent nor or do we feel to I 1 slacken our efforts until the lore lord either by 11 his 1 blessing give us our desire or through his sarvari servant ta say it is elough 1 I 1 have rented rented a comino dlois bungalow and furnished it for meetings and have atao forms formed d a native daily class for the twofold two fold purple of forcing myself into their society and ai assisting sting t t pay rent and other necessary expense expenses 0 having established four meetings in the week fot for preaching in and two for natives exclusive exclusively lv anere continues to be a good attendance of Europ europeans eam for the size of the station comprising only one european regiment and one company of arl aril lery with about two hundred including pensioners staff and civil servants A few have beer been i baptized and prospects are rather flattering for an early increase increase at the last accoti t frota from poona matters were rather stiff there and from Kur rachee the brethren bad been prevented from residing or ministering in cantonments canton ments I 1 have sent a memorandum of the favorable decision of Govern government me it and that of the authorities of this place which I 1 dolit na mt the brethren will use to 10 advantage the bombay papers intimated intimate our success uc cess it 1 is to be hoped the ta litcy authorities of kirra I 1 chee will follow the laudable example that the brethren may be permitted to pursue their course undisturbed |