. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. ary book inhis native language. In subsequent life he has paid great attention to theimprovement of his mind. According to his own account, he was nevermuch given to idolatry, seldom visited the temples; sometimes prayingtoward heaven, but lived in careless indifference. He was addicted to in-temperance and other sins, though exempt from the more odious vices whichdegrade so many of his countrymen. In April, 181-5, he accompanied Dr. Milne from Canton to Malacca, asa printer. In November,
. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. ary book inhis native language. In subsequent life he has paid great attention to theimprovement of his mind. According to his own account, he was nevermuch given to idolatry, seldom visited the temples; sometimes prayingtoward heaven, but lived in careless indifference. He was addicted to in-temperance and other sins, though exempt from the more odious vices whichdegrade so many of his countrymen. In April, 181-5, he accompanied Dr. Milne from Canton to Malacca, asa printer. In November, 181G, he made public profession of Christianity,and was baptized by Dr. Milne. As might be expected, Dr. Milne regardedhis first convert with peculiar affection ; and having been informed by Afathat he wished to be well acquainted with the Scriptures, with a view ofbecoming a preacher among his countrymen, his kind tutor and pastordirected his studies with great judgment and assiduity, and was repaid bythe pleasure of beholding his satisfactory progress. He wrote papers on the CHRISTIAN MISSIONS, 275. Leaiig Af;i, the Chinese Evangelist. love of God — on repentance — which Dr. Milne did not think unworthy ofa place in the miscellany which he so ably conducted. Early in 1819 he made a voyage to China, for the purpose of endeavor-ing to persuade his aged father and other relations to embrace the Christianfaith. Having made a short stay in China, Afa returned to Malacca, butthe death of Dr. Milne, deprived him of further benefit from his guardian-ship and instruction. He persevered in his study of the Scriptures, andendeavored to promote first, but not exclusively, the spiritual benefit of hisown family and relations. Nor were his efforts made in vain ; his wife, inthe autumn of 1S2:3, professed herself a believer in the doctrines of thegospel, which proved the commencement of a new era in his social wife and infant son were shortly afterward baptized at Canton, b
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