I have now my hands completely full in preparing an answer to a
Catholic priest's reply to a tract I published on saint and image
worship. I believe I mentioned the original tract, entitled, "St.
Antonio," in my last, which has excited no small stir among the
papists in this place. An abusive and crafty reply has been
circulated by them, to which the Tract Society here has deemed a
rejoinder requisite. As I was the person who began the assault, the
burden of preparing it has fallen on me. The drift of the answer
will be to disprove the authority of tradition--to destroy the
claims of the Roman Catholic church--and show the vanity of the
arguments by which they endeavour to support their soul-destroying
idolatry. It will occupy, as far as I can judge, about 250 pages,
and is now nearly ready for press. Indeed the first sheet is gone to
it; but as the Wesleyan press works very slowly, and they have two
or three other works in hand, it may be some time before it makes
its appearance. O that it may be the means of leading some of the
multitudes of the deluded people by whom we are surrounded, to
consult the Bible for themselves!
* * * * *
SEEBPORE.
We are thankful to report that our friends Mr. and Mrs. Penney, and
their companions, arrived in safety at Calcutta, about the end of
September. Two months afterwards, as our readers will perceive by the
following letter, Mr. and Mrs. George Pearce rejoined their missionary
associates, with health mercifully recruited by their voyage.
By the good providence of God my dear partner and I arrived once
more in Calcutta, in safety, about the end of November last, after a
speedy and pleasant passage to the shores of India, of three months
and twenty days. The voyage proved very beneficial to the health of
us both, but particularly so to Mrs. Pearce, who landed here much
stronger than she was when she left Bristol. We had the happiness of
finding all our immediate associates well; and that Mr. Penney, with
his companions (with the exception of Mrs. Anderson, of whose
lamented decease you have long ere this been apprised), had arrived
in safety. I mentioned in my letter to you from Madeira, that the
Captain of the St. George had requested me to conduct divine service
on the Lord's-day. This I continued to do till the close of the
voyage, and I had the happiness to witness the regular attendance of
most of the passengers, as well as the ship's company. We have to
speak in the best terms of the treatment we received from the
Captain and officers of the ship, and also from the passengers.
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