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No. 3 Vol. 111. I EDITED AND PUBLISHED ’ NATHAN S. S. BEMAN <$- CO. e Terms of “ The Mission ary” are Three 's a year if paid in advance, or within sixty irow the time of subscribing; or Three Dol ld Fifty Cents at the end of the year. Subscription will be received for a short e than one year, and no paper discontinued ill arrearages are paid. rERTU*METB will be inserted, by the 62 1-2 cents for the first insertion ; nnd rery subsequent insertion 43 3-4 cents. who furnish standing advertisements for iar, shall be entitled to a deduction of one r of the amount from the above rates. Communications and Letters relating Office, will be directed to N. S. S. Beman and whether enclosing money or not, must POST PAID: Should any neglect to do ley will be charged With the postage. nti.ng for Publick Officers and others will ae on the most liberal terms. wmm AGENTS FOR THIS PAPER. II MZUSTjt, J. & H. Ely. l®w E-MEIA, J.Bynom,Esq.PM.ColumbiaC.H. mSAfJNUEItIjVILLE, Robeit S. 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They have purchased the Printing Est iliWi ment, and will conduct the paper as liet ofore. Desirous of supporting the existence nnc eputalion of “ The Missionary,” they look to i iberal publick for patronage. | : , y * hertising and Job Work will be executed on as r asonable terms as at any press in the State. NATH AN.S. S. BEMAN, JACOB P. NORTON, EBENEZER COOPER. b IJ 29, 1821. mm. LETTERS FROM AFRICA, 1 tpyaoNon thavideani titi: traveller, to ca- I NOVA THE SCULrTOR. I (Concluded from page 5.) | Palmyra, Dec. 17, 1818. Hle/Yvssg Tyre wilh tho benedictions and B fwiere embraces of my host, 1 passetf the I V*l of Living Waters, the Pseudo Eleu -1 thS'ius, and Sarepta, when the smiling ft*pjln of that Sidon opened itself before me 1 ‘*vllcli struggled hard with its approaching I jfnl. Monsieur Ruffin, French Consul, po- ISilly offered me reception, and I deplore | k thl loss he has since sustained in a compan iiol who was the model of the tender sex. Ahe Lady Esther Stanhope, who, for so ui >y years has attracted the attention of A 1 a and of Europe by the singular manner -of lie she has adopted, is encamped one he ir’s distance from Sidon, in a small babi -4a on called Ceruba; and, in order to ren t herself still more remarkable, insists n her will being obeyed, that no Euro , |>sm shall approach her, even for a mo s it. To blame her for it, would it not in act of intolerance ? Traversing that mountain which includes *0 many mountains, and tnay properly be vggjned a kingdom, and which 1 shall call pHrannia, I hastened forward to Cilicia, and thence to Damascus, the name of which .jHiftoses more than is due to it. 1 twain all the circuit of Libanus, tvs well as in j&gfmel 1 collected a thousand fruits and testaceous substances, the proof tremendous delugo. THE MISSIONARY. My intention for going from Damascus to Palmyra not succeeding at that time, 1 came to Balbeck where it appeared to tae as if Thebes were revived in the midst of Syria. An entire volume would be insufficient for the description of the Temple of the Sun. Six columns arise amidst the marshes, each in height seventy-one feet, and twen ty-one feet eight inches circumference. Three stones of granite occupy the space of one hundred and seventy-five feet and a half, and another has sixty-nine feet of length, twelve of breadth, ami thirteen of thickness. You alone, Sublime Genius ! can solve the problem whether it is the work of common men, or of a race of be ings superiour to our own. Re-a-cending mount Libanus l wished to smell its boasted cedars, see Eden, the grot tos of Canobin, and the horrible cave of the great Egyptian hermit. Oh, how the pure and sweet life of the patriarchs flour ishes here! Here is that simplicity and peace that man in. vain seeks amongst man kind. Again returning to Phoenicia I went Cos Tripoli, to Tortosa, witness of the great congress in the first crusade; to Eleutheri ,us, Sober ; to the city of Gahale, which preserves one of its amphitheatres; to La odicea, where the Signor Agostino Lazzari entertained me with more than social treat ment ; and penetrating amongst the moun tains of the Arsarites, worshippers of dogs and of the base senses, I arrived at the Milky Waters of Orontes and at Antioch, an object worthy of contest. From Theopolis, hv a road covered with abusive inhabitants, I came to the more flourishing Aleppo, thence to the Euphra tes, and hardly touching Mesopotamia, the sound of Nineveh and Babylon already struck my fancy, and drew it away more rapidly than the steed of Elimaides, the chariot of Cyrus. Passing again through Aleppo, I kept the other road of Damascus by Apamea, Cima, and Emesa, where the delicately fair-haired, white-complexioned nymphs, display themselves, with their Mack eyes, more beautiful than wore ever produced by the native of Urbino or by Titian. Whilst I was enjoying the presence of Emeea, the catastrophe of the Palmyrenes came to my memory and the blood of the acute Longinus almost drew from me a tear. Warmly recommended to the governour of Damascus by the excellent Piciotto, consul-general of Austria in Aleppo, a son worthy of his father, I advanced towards Palmyra, in company with a single guide, and, after five days of a most troublesome journey, reposed iD the court of Odeuatus and Zenobia. But what can I tell you of this memora ble spot which so much electrifies the in tellects, unless that about thirty towers, the Temple of the Sun, and three hundred col umns scattered here and there, over a soil, covered with sand, are still standing to eternize to the world the great Palmyra ? What 1 pass over in silence shall ’blossom in my future little work. In fifteen months, and about 7,000 miles, I have passed through the Mediterranean, Misraim, Nubia, Kedaf, Idumea, Philistia, Judea, Samaria, Galilee, Phoenicia, Ccele Syria, nnd Mesopotamia, having seen the sea of Pentapolis, have drunk of that of Tiberias, and the Nile, the Jordan, Orontes, and Euphrates ; have ascended the Pyra mids, Sion, Gerizim, Tabor, Libanus, and Carmel, and have reposed in ihe tombs of Thebes, amongst the cataracts of Nubia, nnd upon the dust of Memphis, Heliopolis, Ashkalon, Tyre, Sidon, Balbeck, Palmyra, Samaria, and Jerusalem. LETTER 11. Mount Sinai , May 0, 1819- I write to you from the most memorable heights in the world ; but hear how I came hither. Having closed the letter, I directed to you from the ruins of Palmyra, I followed the silent contemplation of those remarka ble remnins, and, under the protection of the hospitality of the modern Palmyrenes, who are the best Arabs I know of, I passed hours joyful and tranquil. Their questions turned upon Boneborle (Buonaparte) and my Lady Stanhope ; the former they re membered from his expedition into Soria, for the fame of him resounded greatly amongst them, and the latter for the liber ality displayed in the journey she under took in the. desert. Their curiosity, and my own being satis fied, 1 continued my journey with my guide, and arrived at Damascus. Thence, through Coele-Syria, 1 ascended Libanus once more, which I was delighted to contemplate amidst the horfours of the winter, and de scending to Berytus by Phoenicia, the pleas ant Philistia, and the wearisome Elam, 1 returned to the Nile. After one day’s repose, I went to offer my personal tribute to the pyramids, and u-propos of these heaps, while I was writing my name upon the third called Phryne, I perceived that Frcdiani was the anagram of Dia Frinc. I then returned to Cairo, and as the pes- Jilentja.l scourge was beginning to mow down GO TE INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE.-Jx avs Christ. MOUNT ZION, (HANCOCK CO. GA.) WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1821. human victims, instead of remaining there I thought better to continue my journey, and 3 days of sand made me ejaculate Duke videre Suez. Having admired the progress & decrease of the waters, I put myself on board an In dia ship, commanded by the excellent Cap tain Landale ; and embarking afterwards in a small boat, I sailed as far as Dtr Essafran, where it is believed that Israel passed over, and traversing almost in a right line the famous gea, I approached Del el Hamman. Departing by the waters of Suez, I had ordered my Arabs to wait for me at a place indicated, and judge of my surprise upon my arrival to find bo one there! The solitude of the place, the inefficacy of the bark to continue as far as Tor, the wind contrary for my return to Soez, the want of provisions and water particularly, were the mournful thoughts that eat heavy on my heart. But that immutable eternal Providence, ever present where he least appears so, but where most necessary, cuased in an in stant my guides to approach; whence by the path of the Chosen People, 1 trod upon Para ll (Hill Gin, and eigliing tniivrd at UICBU mountains, which are Sinai and Horeb. The first idea I conceived when for the first time I heard of Mount Libanus, was that of an insulated mountain, and, in such fespect all the ideas of men are alike, whence I shall call it the Country of Libany instead of Mount Libanus; that country as large almost as our Ahruzzo, and larger than our Tyrol, which comprises luxuriant valleys, fertile meadows, flowing rivers, beautiful hills, very higb-mountains, popu lous towns, ten bishoprics, seventy princi palities, and which can produce 50,000 champions for the protection ofits precious liberty-. letter in. Cairo, December 1, 1820. Leaving Horeb and Sinai, from the sum mits of which I gazed at laods which form lucid points in the blaze of human intellect, I descended into the country of Elim, where still are to he seen the palms and the wells that quenched the thirst of the Jews. Having cooled myself in Tor, where I tried its waters, 1 returned by the road of Suez to Cairo, and going down to Alexan dria, I turned towards the Lake Mareotis, thence to that of Afaadie and Etko, and making an excursion io merry company to the beautiful Rosetta, I traversed the branch Bolbitina, the Delta, and arrived at the ruins ofßatis, and the mouth of the Sebene, upon the Famineticus branch, in modern Damietta. Embarking (hence upon the Lake of Metr.ale, and arrived at the islands of Mata ria, 1 advanced into the caDal of Mopz, whence I might view the scattered remains of Tanis, and returning to the lake, recog nized the Tanities and Pelusiack mouths, with the Bogas of Raid. Disembarked upon the shore, I arrived through the desert at the sides of mount Casius and the day following ascended that celebrated eminence whence 1 came to Pelusium, that famous key of Egypt, and trusting myself once more’ to the waves, 1 visited the islands of Tennis and Thuna, and passing over the Mendcsina mouth I returned to Damietta. Reposing a little I took diversion upon the lake, and penetrated by the canal of Moez into that of Salahie and descending into the desert, I found endless fields of soda, both vegetable and mineral. Whence approaching the Nile, I arrived by (tie canal of Jlsmun, at the city of Ben in, the ancient Mendes; thence upon the branch Fammeticusto the bed fatal to Lou is IX.; and finally returned to Grand Cairo. Now that, thanks to the magnanimous Viceroy of Egypt, the brave Mahomet Ali, and his faithful minister Burgoss Jusuff, 1 am furnished with ample and generous means of penetrating into spaces shut up by the seal of ages, 1 am preparing to ap proach the torrid zone, where 1 hope to shew to Italy that I am not entirely unwor thy of belonging to her. MARTYRDOM OF DR. TAYLOR. Selected from a late English work entitled “ Win ter Nights, or Fireside Lucubrations .” By Nathan Drake , M. D. Rowland Taylor, D. D. and rector of Hadleigh, in Suffolk, from 1544 to 1554, suffered martyrdom on Aldham Common adjacent to Hadleigh, on February 9th, 1655, for his opposition to the errours of popery, and his steady adherence to the doctrines of the Reformation. Os thi9 great and pious character it is scarcely possible to speak in terms too lau datory. He was, in fact, the perfect mod el of a parish priest, and literally went about doing good. It was not to be expected, therefore, that when the bigoted Mary ascended the throne of these realms, a man so gifted, and at the same time so popular as was Dr. Taylor, should long escape the arm of persecution. Scarcely, indeed, had this sanguinary wo man commenced her reign, when an at tempt was made Jo celebrate Mass by force in the parish church of Hadleigh ; and in endeavouring to resist this profanation, wfiicb was plagued and conducted by two! of his parishioners, named Foster and Clerke, assisted by one Avertb, rector of Aldham, whom they had hired for the pur pose, Dr. Taylor became, of course, obnox ious to the ruling powers, an event no doubt foreseen and calculated upon by the insti gators of the mischief. A citation to appear before Stephen Gar diner, Bjshop of Winchester, and then Lord Chancellor of England, was on the informa tion of these wretches, the immediate result of the transaction; and, though the friends and relatives of the Doctor, earnestly advis ed his noncompliance, and recommended him instantly to fly, he resisted their solici tations, observing, that though he fully ex pected imprisonment, and a cruel death, he was determined,in a cause so good and right eous, to shrink not from his duty. “ Oh, what will ye have me to do?” he exclaim ed ; “ I am old, and have already lived too long to see these terrible and most wicked days. Fly you, and do as your conscience leadeth you ; I am fully determined, with God’s grace, to go to the Bishop, and to his beard, to tell him that he doth naught.” Accordingly, tearing himself from bis weeping Airu,i a mid Hock, and accompanied by one faithful servant, he hastened to Lon don, where, after enduring with the utmost patience and magnanimity, the virulence and abuse of Gardiner, and replying to all his accusations with a firmness and self-pos session, and with a truth of reasoning which, unfortunately served but to increase the malice of his enemies, he was committed a prisoner to the King’s Bench, and endured a confinement there of nearly two years. During this long period, however, which was chiefly occupied by Dr. Taylor iu the study of the Holy Scriptures, and in preach ing to, and exhorting his fellow-prisoners, he had three further conferences with his persexutors. The second, which was held in the arches at Bow-cburch a few weeks after his commitment, terminated in his be ing deprived of his benefice as a married man. The third, which did not take place until January the 22d, 1555, and was car ried on, not only with the Bishop of Win chester, but with other episcopal commis sioners, ended, after a long debate, in which the piety, erudition, sound sense, and Chris tian forbearance of the sufferer was pre eminently conspicuous, in his recommitment to prison, under a threat of having judgment passed upon him within a week. Thi3 judgment wa9 accordingly pronoun ced at a fourth conference on the 28th of the same month, the Bishops of Winchester, Norwich, London, Salisbury, and Durham, being present, when, on the Doctor again declining to submit himself to the Roman pontiff, he was condemned to death, and the day following removed to the Poultry Coun ter. Here, on the 4th of February he was visited by Bonner, Bishop of London, who, attended by his chaplain, and the necessa ry officers, came to degrade him. Refu sing, however, to comply with this cere mony, which consisted in his putting on the vestures or mass-garments, he was compell ed to submit by force, and when the Rish op, as usual, closed this disgusting mumme ry with his curse,*Taylor nobly replied; “ though you do curse me, yet God doth bless me. I have the witness of my con science, that ye have done me wrong and violence ; and yet I pray God, if it be his will, forgive you.” It was on the morning of the sth of Feb ruary.! 555,at the early hour of two o’clock, that the sheriff of London, arriving at the Counter, demanded the person of Dr Tay lor, in order that he might commence his pilgrimage towards Hadleigh, the destined place of tits martyrdom. It was very dark, and they led him without lights, though not unobserved, to an inn nearAldgate. His wife, —and I shall here adopt the language of John Fox. which in this place, as in ma ny others, is remarkable for its pathos and simplicity,—“ his wife suspecting that her husband should that night be carried away, watchpd all night in St. Botolph’s church porch besidp Aldgate, having with her two children, the one named Elizabeth, of thir teen years of agp (whom, being left with out father or mother, Dr. Taylor had brought up of alms from three years old,) the other named Mary, Dr. Tiylor’s own daughter. “ Now, when the sheriff and his compa ny came against St. Botolph’s church, Eliz abeth cried, saying, ‘ O my dear father; mother, mother, here is my father led away.’ Then cried his wife, Rowland , Row landl, where art thou ? for it was a very dark morning, that the one could not see the oth er. Dr. Taylor answered, * dear wife I am here,’ and stayed. The sheriff’s men would have led him forth ; but the sheriff said, ‘ stay a little, masters, 1 pray you, and let him speak to hia wife,and so they stay ed. “ Then came she to him, and he took his daughter Mary in his arms; and he, his wife, aud Elizabeth kneeled down and said the Lord’s prayer. At which sight the sheriff wept apace, and so did divers others of the company. After they had prayed, he rose up and kissed his wife, and shook her by the hand,and said, ‘ Farewell,my dear wife, be of gbod comfort, for I am quiet in my conscience. God shall stir up a father for my children.’ And then he kissed his daugh ter Mary, and slid, ‘God Mess thee, and Price, 5 s 3 i so P r - ann - V, l ( $3,00 in advance. ) make thee his servant: and kissing Eliza beth, he said, ‘ God bless thee. I pray you all stand strong and steadfast unto Christ and bis word, and keep you from idolatry.’ Then said his wife, ‘ God be with thee, deag Rowland, I will with God’s grace meet thee at Hadleigh.’ ” At eleven o’clock the same morning, Dr. Taylor left Aldgate, accompanied by the sheriff of Essex, and four yeomen of the guard, and after once more taking an af fectionate leave of his son and servant,who met him at the gates of the inn, be pro ceeded to Brentwood, where, in order to prevent his being recognized, they com pelled him to wear a mask or close hood, having apertures for the eyes and mouth. Nothing, however, could depress the spir its or abate the fortitude Y>f this intrepid sufferer in the cause of troth; for not only was he patient and resigned, hut at the same time, happy and cheerful, as if a banquet or bridal, and not a stake, were to be the termination of his journey. When within two miles of Hadleigh, ap pearing more than commonly cheerful, the sheriff wa9 induced to inquire the cause. “ 1 a “ now,” replied the Doctor, “ almost at home. I lack not past two stiles to go over, and I am even at my Father’s house.” He then demanded if they should go thro’ Hadleigh; and being answered in the af firmative, he returned thanks to God ex claiming, “thenshall I once more, ere I die, 9ee my flock, whom, thou Lord know est I have most dearly loved end trulv taught.” At the foot of the bridge lending into the town, there waited for him a poor man with five small children, who, when they saw the Doctor, fell down upon their knees, the man crying with a loud voice, “O dear father and good shepherd, Dr. Taylor, God help and succour thee, as thou hast many a time succoured me nnd my poor children.” The whole town,indeed, seem ed to feel and deplore its loss in a similar manner, the streets being lined with men, women and children, who, when they be held their beloved pastor led to death, burst into a flood of tears, calling to each other and saying, w there goetb our good shep herd from ns, that so faithfully hath taught us, so fatherly hath cared for us, and so godly hath governed us! O, merciful God! strengthen him and comfort him whilst ever in reply, the blessed sufferer, deeply touched by the sorrow* of his flock, kept exclaiming: “ I have preached toyou God’s word and truth, and am come this day to seal it with my blood.” Such in fact was the sympathy, such the lamentation expres sed by all ranks for his approaching fate, that the sheriff and his attendant* were, as Fox declares, “ wonderfully astonished,” and though active in threatening and rebu king, found it utterly impossible to suppress the emotions of the people. The Doctor was now about to address the agitated spectators, when one of the yeomen of the guard thrust his staff into his mouth ; and, the sheriff, on being appealed to, bade him remember his promise, shad ing, as is conjectured, to a pledge extorted from him by the council, under the penalty of having his tongue cut out, that he won hi not address the people at his death. “ Well,” said the Doctor, with his wonted patience and resignation, “ the promise must be keptand then, sitting down, he called to one Scryce, whom he had seen in the crowd, npd requested him to pull off his boots; adding, with an air of pleasantry, “ thou hast long looked for them, and shalt now take them for thy labour.” He then rose up, stripped off his clothes unto bis shirt, and gave them to the poor; when, trusting that a few farewell words to his flock might he tolerated, he said with a loud voice, “Good people, I have taught you nothing but God’s holy word, and those lessons that 1 have taken out of God’* bles sed book, ihe holy- Eitle; and I am come hither this day to seal it with my blood.” When he had finished his devotions, he went to the stake, kissed it, and placing himself in the pitch-barrel which had been prepared for him, he stood upright therein, with his back against the stake, his hands folded together, his eyes lifted to heaven, and his mind absorbed in continual prayer. They now bound him with chains and the sheriff calling to one Richard Doninghdtn; a butcher, ordered him to set up the faggots; but he declined it, alleging that he was lame and unable to lift a faggot; and though threatened with imprisonment if he contin ited to hesitate, he steadily and fearlessly refused to comply. The sheriff was, therefore, obliged to look elsewhere, and at length pitched upon four men, perhaps better calculated than any other for the office they were destined to perform; namely, one Mullein, of Ker sey, a man, says Fox, fit to be a hangman; Soycf, whom we have formerly mentioned, and who was notorious as a drunkard; War wick, who had been deprived of one of his ears for sedition, and Robert King , a man of loose character, and who had come hither with a quantity ofgunpowder,which wheth er it were intended to shorten or increase the torments of the sufferer, can alone be known to Him from whom no secrets are concealed. While these men were diligently, and it $ to be apprehended, cheerfully employed