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Rh are their views, and how ineffectual their expedients, until the light of the gospel comes in to tell of the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world! While we long, and, it may be, labour that the heathen may receive the truth, and so learn the way to a glorious heaven, let us take heed to, that we neglect not to provide for our own immortal souls and their eternal interests. Vain and meaningless though the sacrifices and ceremonies of the heathen may be, we, who enjoy a brighter light, should from them learn, at least, not to live without a preparation to meet our God in judgment. Should we do so, even the Todars and Badagas of the mountains of Hindustan will rise up to testify against us in that day. ''Reader! how is it with thee?''

Pleasing as it would be to the writer to recall and to attempt to describe the varied scenery of the, he well knows that to the reader it would be far less interesting than to himself. Were it not so, he would be tempted to revive the memory of views from the summit of Doda-betta, (the great mountain,) when nothing but a sea of milky vapour rolled in fleecy waves over the whole lower world, and