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[ms 57]

My dear Brother in Christ
     An opportunity now presenting itself of sending to N. South Wales. I embrace it and shall communicate some short account of the state of Religion among us, sensible that it will afford pleasure to you and your Brethren who are so far removed from us.
    India has the Gospel now preached to it in a good number of places. There are twenty regular stations belonging to our Missions which extend from the most northerly point at Hindasthan near [H..dwan] to the Isles of Java and Ceylon and from the Burman Empire in the east to Surat in the west.
The number of persons who have been received into Christ communion is about five hundred; and through the abundant blessing of God this work is still going forward. I expect seventy persons to be received into the Church at Calcutta at the close of the present month, and many others are enquiring the way to Jesus with their faces thitherwards. 
The cause of truth in India has lately suffered a heavy loss in the death of Mr Martyn, a very amiable and pious Clergyman of the Church of England who in a journey from Shiranz in Persia to Constantinople died at  [indecipherable] He had finished the translation of the N. Testament
 

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