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520 the canes, the spits and the tubes, the cords and the writhing serpents, till their bodies seem streaming with their own blood! All this is carried on simultaneously; and that, too, within a briefer period of time than has been occupied in this feeble and inadequate attempt to describe it. Again and again would the loud shouts ascend from the thousands of applauding spectators—shouts of Victory to Kali! Victory to the great Kali!'”

If the heart of the apostle Paul was stirred within him when he saw the city of Athens wholly given to idolatry, why may not we have our hearts stirred within us at the contemplation of such scenes, even now enacted in a city at whose side our ships continually lie moored, and to which access is as open and as free as to any spot in our own or any Christian State?

as is the darkness which broods over Bengal and its metropolis, it is not an unbroken darkness. The different English and Scotch societies have missionaries stationed in or near Calcutta, who are labouring for the spread of the gospel among the people. Although the