History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . eized the books, and imprisoned the distributors, and finally sent both backto Bombay. After the order was issued, Mr. Hall prepared a memorial,setting forth the innocent and useful nature of the mission and its opera-tions, and requesting the repeal of the order; but the Governor answered,that as the territory in question Was but newly subjected to British rule, therequest could not be granted with safety to the public peace. The orderrelated not merely to the American mission. Mr. Mitchell, sent out by
History of American missions to the heathen, from their commencement to the present time . eized the books, and imprisoned the distributors, and finally sent both backto Bombay. After the order was issued, Mr. Hall prepared a memorial,setting forth the innocent and useful nature of the mission and its opera-tions, and requesting the repeal of the order; but the Governor answered,that as the territory in question Was but newly subjected to British rule, therequest could not be granted with safety to the public peace. The orderrelated not merely to the American mission. Mr. Mitchell, sent out by theScottish Missionary .Society, was forbidden to settle at Poona, and took uphis residence at Bankote. By another act, the government showed itselffree from hostility to the American mission. Application being made for asmall piece of land as a burying ground, it was readily granted, and enclosedwith a substantial wall of masonry at the public expense. This unsolicitedaddition of a wall was the more gratifying, because it showed that the Gov-ernment regarded the mission as Mission Chapi?l at Bombay. Erected in lSi3. The JVEission Chapel was dedicated on the last Friday in May. A goodnumber of English and natives attended. Some of the school-masters andboys, who had been trained for the purpose, sang two Christian hymns inthe Mahratta language. From that time, public-worship was regularly, at- SEMINARy AT CEYLON COMMENCED. 1J5 tended at the Chapel on the Sabbath; in English in the morning, and inMahratta in the afternoon. The press, besides doing the printing of the mission, rendered importantservices to the Scottish Missionary Society, the Belgaum Eeligious Asso-ciation, and other kindred societies. The Bombay Bible Society contrib-uted largely towards an edition of Genesis and of the New Testament, con-sidering the copies printed with its funds as its own, but making the missionits agent for distributing the greater part of them. At one meeting for business, the
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