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has been rapid; but the ultimate success of this glorious
work must depend on the liberality of our Government,
and that distinguished company which derives the most
advantageous trafic from her eastern connection.
From them may be expected no inconsiderable assist-
ance. The horrid, bloody and most indecent worship
of Infidels of the Temple of Juggernaut, in India, is
well known. To those who are not acquainted with it,
I recommend the account given of it by that excellent
man, Dr. Buchannan, now no more. The idolatrous
worship of their idol, a woodden god, is more cruel,
bloody and obscene than language can express. The
account is fully given in the thirty-sixth number of the
Church Missionary Papers, for the year 1824. I men-
tion it, because it is said, that part of the revenues of
this company alluded to, arises from a tax imposed on
this horrid idolatrous ceremony. Doubtless were it
possible, a stop would be put to it; but as hundreds of
thousands attend it, no hope could be expected to over-
come by violence, this frantic idolatrous superstition ;
but from those, who, though wishing to overcome it,
receive a profit from it, may be expected some assist-
ance, in order to promote the cause of Christianity,
and to convince those poor mistaken infidels of their
gross errors, and of the blessings of Christianity.
Since writing so far, the Author finds that his
suspicions were too well founded. As an Englishman,
he is much concerned to discover that not only the
company to which he alludes receives annually a large
sum of money from this horrid, bloody and iniquitous
Pagan worship, but has absolutely encouraged and