it be manifest, that the Gospel regards as "of one blood all the nations of the earth-let us cultivate a friendly and instructive intercourse with those who acknowledge our superior advant ages: let useful arts be introduced and encouraged :-and let the evidences of our religion, the only religion which has evidences to produce, be exhibited in their simplest form :individual duty does not extend beyond these limits; but having discharged it thus far, we may, without presumption, commit the issue unto God. INDIA. THE VIDYALAYA, OR HINDOO COLLEGE OF CALCUTTA. THIS Institution is remarkable, as being the first which has been formed for English Instruction, projected, superintended, and supported, by the Natives themselves. MANAGING COMMITTEE. Heritable Governors: Directors for the current year, 1816-17. European Secretary : Baboo Buddeenath Mookerjee. RULES OF THE COLLEGE. These Rules were approved by the Subscribers, at a Meeting held August 27, 1816. Tuition. 1. The primary object of this Institution is, the tuition of the sons of respectable Hindoos, in the English and Indian Languages, and in the Literature and Science of Europe and Asia. 2. The admission of Pupils shall be left to the discretion of the Managers of the Institution. 3. The College shall include a School (Pathal) and an Academy (Maha Pathsala. The former to be established immediately; the latter as soon as may be practicable. 4. In the School shall be taught English and Bengalee, Reading, Writing Grammar, and Arithmetic, by the improved method of instruction. The Persian Lan guage may also be taught in the School, until the Academy be established, as far as shall be found convenient. of such languages as cannot be so con5. In the Academy, besides the study veniently taught in the School, instruction shall be given in History, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Mathematics, Chemistry, and other Sciences. 6. The Managers will determine at the School and Academy. The English what age Students shall be admitted to Languages shall not be taught to Boys under eight years of age, without the permission of the Managers in each particular instance. 7. Public Examination shall be held at stated times, to be fixed by the Mana gers; and Students who particularly distinguish themselves, shall receive honorary rewards. 8. Boys who are distinguished in the School for proficiency and good conduct, shall, at the discretion of the Managers, receive further instruction in the Academy, free of charge. If the Funds of the Institution should not be sufficient to defray the expense, benevolent individuals shall be invited to contribute the amount. 9. When a Student is about to leave either the School or the Academy, a cer tificate shall be given him, under the sig nature of the Superintendents; stating the period during which he has studied, the subjects of his studies, aud the profi-, ciency made by him; with such particulars of his name, age, parentage, and place of residence, as may be requisite to identify him. Funds and Privileges. 10. There shall be two distinct Funds; to be denominated the "College Fund," and the "Education Fund;" for which separate subscription-books shall be opened: and all persons who have already subscribed to this Institution, shall be at liberty to direct an appropriation of their contributions to either fund, or partly to both. 11. The object of the College Fund is, to form a charitable foundation for the advancement of learning, and in aid of the Education Fund. Its ultimate purpose will be, the purchase of ground, and construction of suitable buildings thereupon, for the permanent use of the Col lege; as well as to provide all necessary articles of furniture, books, a philosophical apparatus, and whatever else may be requisite for the full accomplishment of the objects of the Institution. In the mean time, until a sufficient sum be raised for erecting a College, the contributions to this fund may be applied, as far as requisite, to the payment of house-rent, and any other current expenditures on account of the College. 12. The amount subscribed to the Education Fund shall be appropriated to the education of pupils, and the expense of tuition. 13. All subscribers will be expected to pay the amount of their contributions to the Treasurer, either at the time of subscription, or, at the latest, within a month from that time; the payment to be made in cash; or what the Treasurer may consider equivalent to cash. 14. All subscribers to the College Fund, before the 21st day of May, 1817, being the Anniversary of the day on which it was agreed to establish this Institution, shall be considered Founders of the College; and their names shall be recorded as such, with the amount of their respective contributions. The highest single contributor at the close of the period above mentioned, viz. on the 20th day of May, 1817, shall be recorded Chief Founder of the College and all persons contributing separately the sum of 5000 rupees, and upward, shall be classed next, and distinguished as Principal Founders. Under their subscriptions shall be registered those of the other Subscribers to the College Fund; arranged according to the amount contributed by each individual, and the dates of subscription. 15. Every single contributor of 5000 rupees, and upwards, to the College Fund, before the aggregate sum of a lack and a half of sicca-rupees may have been subscribed to that Fund, shall be an Heritable Governor of the College. He shall be entitled, on payment of his subscription, to act in person, or by an appointed Deputy, as a Member of the Committee of Managers. He may leave his office of Heritable Governor, with all its privileges, by a written will or other document, to any of his sons or other individual of his family, whom he may wish to succeed thereto on his demise. Should he fail thus to appoint a successor, his legal heirs shall be at liberty to nominate any one of his family to succeed him. Should a question arise among them concerning the right of succession, it shall be deter mined by the Managers. 16. Subscribers to the College Fund, who are not Governors, and whose joint or separate subscriptions to it, (made before a lack and a half of sicca-rupees shall have been contributed to it,) shall collectively amount to 5000 rupees, shall be entitled to elect any one of their number to be a Director of the College. After paying their subscriptions, amounting to 5000 rupees, they shall transmit a written notification to the Secretary of the Committee of Managers, bearing their respective seals or signatures, and specifying the name and designation of the person elected by them to be a Director for the current year. A statement of their veral contributions to the College Fund il also accompany the notification, or be included in it, for the purpose of showing their title to make the election. 17. The persons so elected, after the regularity of their election has been verified by the Committee of Managers, shall be considered Directors till the 21st day of May next; on or before which date a similar election and notification to the Secretary shall be made for the ensuing year, and so on successively from year to year. Provided, however, that, on the death of any joint or separate Subscriber, the privilege of election shall be considered extinct with respect to his proportion of a joint subscription, or the amount of any separate subscription made by him, and included in the aggregate sum of 5000 rupees, which must consequently be supplied by an additional contribution, or the union of an additional Subscriber, in order to maintain the privilege of electing a Director for the ensuing year. 18. An individual contribution of 5000 rupees, and upwards, to the College Fund, made subsequent to the aggregate subscription of a lack and a half of siccarupees to that fund, shall not entitle the contributor to become an Heritable Governor; but he shall be a Governor for life; and be entitled, on payment of his subscription, to act in person, or by an appointed deputy, as a Member of the Committee of Managers, during his life. 19. The Managers will determine what shall be the privileges, with regard to the election of Annual Directors, to be enjoyed by the contributors to the College Fund, of further sums of money subscribed after the completion of a lack and a half of sicca-rupees. 20. The subscription to the Education Fund shall be restricted, for the present, to the admission of One Hundred Scholars into the School of the Institution; that being calculated to be the greatest number which can be admitted during the first year, without detriment to the good order of the School and the progress of the Scholars. The subscription will, however, be extended, as soon as a greater number can be admitted. 21. A Subscriber of 400 sicca-rupees to the Education Fund shall be entitled to send a Pupil to receive instruction in the School, free of any expense, for the term of four years. The subscription, with a corresponding privilege, may also be made for any shorter period, not being less than one year, at the rate of 120 rupees per annum. 22. If the Pupil, for whose tuition a subscription shall have been made, be found, on examination, qualified to leave the School before the expiration of the period subscribed for, he shall be entitled to receive a proportion of the sum paid by his patron, corresponding with the term unexpired. 23. If a Pupil die before the expiration of the period subscribed for, his patron may, at his option, send another for the unexpired term, or receive back a proportion of his subscription, or have a proportionate credit in making a new subscription. 24. In all calculations of time relative to the Education Fund, the English Calendar shall he observed; and fractional parts of a month shall not be reckoned against the Institution. 25. Any number of contributors to the Education Fund, (not being Governors,) before the completion of One Hundred Scholarships mentioned in the 20th Article, and the aggregate of whose subscriptions may amount to 5000 rupees, shall have the same privilege of electing an Annual Director as is given by the 16th and 17th Articles to Subscribers of the same amount to the College Fund; except that their privilege, instead of extending to the life of the Subscriber, shall be restricted to the period for which the subscription is made. With this limitation of privilege, they may also unite with Subscribers to the College Fund, in electing Directors. Government. 26 The Government of the College shall be vested in a Committee of Managers, to consist of Heritable Governors, Governors for life, and Annual Directors, or their respective Duputies. 27. The Managers shall possess full powers to carry into effect the whole. of the Rules now established. They may also pass additional Rules. 28. The Managers shall be Trustees of the Funds, and shall be empowered to issue any requisite instructions to the Treasurer; as well as to pass all accounts of receipts and disbursements, after causing the same to be audited in such manner as may be found most efficient. 29. The Committee of Managers will appoint an European Secretary and Native Assistant Secretary, who shall also be Superintendents of the College, under the direction and control of the Committee. The appointment and removal of Teachers, and all other Officers, whom it may be necessary to employ in any department of the College, shall be vested in the Managers. 30. The ordinary Meetings of the Managers shall be held on stated days, and as often as may be found necessary. When extraordinary Meetings may be requisite, they shall be convened by the Secretaries. The attendance of at least, three Members shall be required to constitute a Meeting on common occasions; and when a new Rule, or the abolition of an existing Rule, is to be considered, notree shall be given to all the Members; or their Deputies, in or near Calcutta, that a full attendance of the Committee may be obtained. 31. All questions shall be determined by a majority of voices of those present. 32. Any Member of the Committee, who, from not residing in Calcutta or its vicinity, or from any other cause, may be unable to attend its Meetings in person, may, by a Letter addressed to the Secretary, appoint a fit person, residing in Calcutta or its suburbs, to act as his deputy; and such person, if approved by the Committee, shall be entitled to attend a Meeting, and vote on all questions before it, in like manner as the Member represented by him. 33. The Managers may delegate to one, two, or more of their number, any particular duty which can be more conveniently performed by such delegation; and are empowered to direct and execute all matters of details, not specially provided for by the Rules now established, in such manner as they may judge best for the Institution entrusted to them. 34. There shall be an Annual General Meeting of the Subscribers, at which a Report shall be made to them of the state of the funds and progress of the Institutein. The following Account of a recent Visitation and Charge of Dr. Law, (Brother of Lord Ellenborough) Bishop of Chester, appears in an English Paper. YESTERDAY se❜ennight the Right Rev. Dr. GEO. HENRY LAW, Lord Bishop of this Diocess, held his Visitation in Nantwich, when he confirmed nearly 900 males, and upwards of 1000 females, in the Parish Church. On this occasion, the Right Rev. the Diocesan delivered his charge to the Clergy, of which (as we understand it is similar to what he has delivered throughout the Diocess,) the follow ing is an outline : His Lordship, after stating that many advantages accrued from a frequent Visitation of the Diocess, expressed his warmest approbation of the meritorious exertions of the Clergy, in support of "the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge," and "the National System of Religious Education;" and observed, that his sentiments declared at his first Visitation, respecting these and other institutions, remained unaltered.* He then explained the fundamental doctrines of the Christian Religion, and the distinguishing tenets of the Church of England, observing, emphatically, that we are justified solely through the merits of Jesus Christ, and by faith in him, and not by our own works; but that the latter always accompany the former, and are evidences of its existence. He particularly insisted upon the inefficacy of faith, unless accompanid by that holiness without which "no man shall see the Lord." He proceeded to refute a charge frequently made against the Ministers of the Church, of substituting Ethical discussions for Evangelical discourses, by showing, that the pure morality of the Gospel is explained and enforced in the pulpits of the establishment, and that our Saviour's sermon upon the Mount is a most excellent model for ours. His Lordship next took a luminous and comprehensive view of the Calvinistic doctrines of Predestination, and its consequent Final Persever ance; and while he showed, in the most interesting and eloquent manner, its inconsistency with the principles of revealed truth, and its tendency to sap the foundations of moral obligation, and of man's responsibility, his charity led him to avow his belief in the piety and sincerity of many who believed and preached those doctrines. "To those," said his Lordship," who are not of us, to those, all forbearance, and toleration, and respect, ought to be shown; for, if adversaries, they are fair and open ones." He then made some pertinent and striking remarks on the conduct of such as, professing themselves Ministers of the Establishment, and exclusively assuming the character of Evangelical, are secretly undermining the fabric they profess to support. * In his former charge, the Bishop advocated the National Society, founded on Dr. Bell's System, in which there is religious instruction, in preference to the Lancastrian System;" and the Society for PromotChristian Knowledge, in preference to the British and Foreign Bible Society. His Lordship most ably vindicated the Church of England from the charge of maintaining unconditional Salvation, most satisfactory proving it to be as contrary to her doctrines as to reason and Scripture. His Lordship then proceeded to call the attention of the Clergy to the importance of an effective manner of reading the Liturgy, and while he was impressed with an opinion of its superiority to all extemporaneous effusions, he observed, that from the continued and frequent recurrence of the same sentiments, expressed in the same words, if read in a hasty, careless, negligent manner, it must fail of effecting the results it is so admirably calculated to produce. He enlarged upon the necessity of a warm, serious, and affectionately impressive delivery; justly inferring, that when the Minister appears cold, lifeless, and unconcerned, the hearers will remain so too. To the apparent warmth, sincerity, and concern, of extemporary preachers, his Lordship imputed their success in drawing large congregations. Enthusiasm will ever be active, and the reveries of mysticism will not cease to attract the ignorant. Nor is this to be wondered at, when it is considered that folly will always admire what it does not understand.. His Lordship considered preaching, however as only a part, though an important part, of the duty of the Mi nister of Christ; and expatiated in a beautiful manner on the advantages arising from an unrestrained intercourse and communication with his parishioners. From an affectionate concern for their temporal as well as spiritual welfare, he would be endeared to them as a friend, to whom they might look up for consolation, advice, and assistance. On this subject his Lordship was particularly eloquent and impressive, and, we have no doubt, powerfully aroused the feelings of his audience. Printed and published by J. Swords, No. 160 Pearl-street, New-York; where Subscriptions for this Work will be received at one dollar per annum, or 24 numbers.---All Letters relative to this Journal miest come free of Postage. No. 24.] CHRISTIAN JOURNAL, AND LITERARY REGISTER. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1817. The Life and Martyrdom of JOHN HOOPER, Bishop of Glocester and Worcester. (From a late British Publication.) MR. JOHN HOOPER received his edueation at Oxford, where he applied himself with great diligence to the study of the learned languages and the sciences. But after having made a considerable progress in these pursuits, he discovered that they were unable to satisfy the desires of his soul; and that wisdom of a superior kind was necessary to prepare him for eternity. He, therefore, began to search the Scriptures diligently, and to improve his reading by prayer and meditation. In proportion as his knowledge of divine things increased, he became dissatisfied with the prevailing system of Popery, and showed a partiality in favour of the reformed religion; that religion which is now become, through God's goodness, the established religion of England. This change of sentiments could not remain long unknown, but exposed him to the malice of the Papists, which drove him from Oxford. For some time after he was sheltered in the house of a noble patron; but persecution following him thither also, he was compelled to seek a refuge abroad among the German Reformers. When Edward VI. succeeded his father Henry VIII. the clouds of superstition began to disperse, and the light of the true gospel dawned upon England. At this period the Protestants expérienced the protection and favour of the government, and many who had left their homes on religious motives, hastened to return; and Mr. Hooper, who, like a true Christian, had always cherished the love of his country, was among the number. He appears, however, to VOL. I. [VOL. I. have left his brethren on the Continent with great regret; for his heart was united to them by the strictest bands of fellowship; and he felt, with out doubt, that Christian believers are connected by closer ties than those of country or kindred. A remarkable circumstance which occurred at his last interview with his friend Mr. Bullinger, shows the chief object which he had in view. For, after an exchange of affectionate sentiments, and mutual promises of remembrance, Mr. Hooper added, "The last news of me you shall hear; but I shall not be able to write: for where I shall take most pains, there shall you hear of me to be burnt to ashes." On returning to England, Mr. Hooper became a zealous and successful preacher of the Gospel; and although he freely exposed sin wherever he found it, yet his hearers were extremely numerous they perceived his af fection to them in his desire for their conversion, and welcomed his rebukes, as being the effects of love to their souls. In 1550, this exemplary man was made Bishop of Glocester and Wor cester; and truly he resembled the primitive bishops, the first in the line of succession, who, by the direction of the Great Bishop of souls, were chosen and ordained by the hands of his Apostles. His deportment in this new situation was worthy of a servant of Christ. My author observes that, although he was bishop of two diocesses, yet he so guided them, as if he had in charge but one family; "No father in his own household, no gardener in his garden, no husbandman in his vineyard, was more or better occupied than he amongst his flock; going about his towns and villages, in teaching and preaching to the peo47 |