of their offspring the object of their first solicitude, being assured that in due time they shall reap, if they faint not. Scarcely anything in earth or hell can ultimately counteract a mother's love and a mother's prayers. Let the child grow up under whatever influences he may, move in whatever society or traverse whatever country he please, the impressions produced by yon devoted mother will follow him, and insist upon admission into his scenes of revelry and midnight solitude, and will disturb the whole equilibrium of the soul, until it bring the erring one to God.

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When about fifteen years of age, our friend removed to a situation in London. Here he soon became the subject of much inward struggling and much outward temptation. His heart, though often impressed and affected, was not changed. Though he was in the habit of "saying his prayers" with great regularity, and, indeed, dared not to lie down" without first doing so, yet he was a stranger to that inwrought prayer, which is the alone acceptable voice of the soul to God. Naturally aspiring, he pleased himself with various bright visions in relation to the future, and was sedulous both to please and excel in his new sphere. The atmosphere, however, which he now breathed was eminently irreligious. His superiors were only anxious about the interests of the present world; and those with whom he necessarily associated, were the victims of pride, extravagance and folly, and treated everything like religion with ridicule and contempt. Here, then, was the trial of his principles, which we have seen were at this time merely the offspring of human tuition and culture, not of divine grace. The trial was too severe. His form of prayer and generally religious exterior was as far as possible abandoned, and he was thus

his ways.

But as it is not within our present purpose to follow him through his course of alienation from happiness and God, suffice it to say that "where sin abounded, grace did much more abound."

When about twenty years of age, he returned to his beloved and more quiet home at Sevenoaks, where he was led to attend the Baptist chapel. Here the solemn and evangelical services of the Rev. J. Henham, then minister of the place, deeply affected his heart, and led him to feel what was his real condition as a sinner, in the sight of God. Like many more under similar circumstances, he erroneously thought the minister was especially pointing at him, and this excited a momentary feeling of annoyance; but as the heart melted yet more and more, he was led to regard the faithful man of God as his greatest and best earthly friend. He was ultimately baptized and admitted into the church, and from that time became one of its most active and useful members. Having a good deal of leisure time, he took great delight in visiting the poor and sick in the neighbourhood; and the Benevolent Society, in connexion with the church, appointed him one of the almoners of their bounty. He shortly became a teacher in the Sundayschool, and occasionally gave an address to the children at the close of the service. He used also to conduct prayer-meetings, preach in the country villages, and was finally requested to assist his pastor in the chapel.

After pursuing this active course for some time, the subject of foreign missions was brought prominently before him; nor could he rest, until he had signified his desire of being employed as a missionary to India. His pastor would fain have dissuaded him from his enterprize, urging that he might be more useful at home; but he felt that he was called of the

"The committee have been enabled to add two more to the number of their missionaries, Mr. Sutton, a young minister most esteemed by those who know him best, and his young and amiable partner,* who is eminently qualified to become in India the instructress and benefactress of her injured and degraded sex. The solemn services, connected with the ordination of Mr. Sutton, took place at Derby on Wednesday the 23rd of the present month (June). At an early hour the chapel was crowded to excess. The ordination service was deeply impressive. Many were powerfully affected, while the young missionary detailed the progress of his own conversion, and narrated the important change that took place in his state and feelings, when he was brought from scenes of impiety, vice and misery, to embrace the Gospel and to consecrate himself and his all to the service of God among the heathen."

He sailed for India on the 12th August, 1824, and after a tedious passage of more than six months arrived

He had recently married an interesting and

accomplished young lady, Miss Charlotte Collins,

of Wolvey in Warwickshire. She came out with him, full of zeal and love, but on the 15th of May,

1825, within four months after her arrival she, like a shock of corn fully ripe, was gathered into the garner of the Lord. All that was mortal of her moulders in the burial ground at Puri.

ly welcomed by the few brethren then in the field. Here his great work and trials began. Perhaps none can feel as a missionary does, when he sees thousands around him, all perishing, and knows that he possesses the grand and only specific, but yet cannot communicate it. He is among a people of a strange lip, and his first effort must be to acquire a knowledge of their language; and not a knowledge merely, but so to make it his own, that he may be able freely to proclaim the most exalted and glorious truths that man can hear or utter

and so to proclaim them, that the dullest intellect and most alien heart may comprehend and feel them. Our brother laboured diligently in the study of the language, but did not confine himself to this; for in connection with the other brethren he used to visit the bazars, markets, and festivals, as they occurred in the neighbourhood, taking also with them excursions in the surrounding coun try. By these means he early familiarised himself with the customs of the people, their mode of thought and argument, the peculiarities of their creed and worship, and inured himself to various privations, which he might reasonably expect to experience.

The stations he principally occupied, during his first sojourn in India, were Balasore and Puri; though he also spent some time in Cuttack and Berhampore. In each place he left some memorials of usefulness. His itinerant labours were also extensive, though it must be confessed this was not his forte, as he frequently felt himself embarrassed, through not being able to articulate certain sounds in the language, which are of frequent occurrence; besides which the speak

ing affected his throat. Hence at one time he proposed to the brethren to remove towards Bengal, where he apprehended those disadvantages would not be so materially felt. He was evidently most adapted for literary pursuits, and during the period under review, he translated a number of Bengali Tracts, and also prepared a small Oriya Hymn Book. In 1832 his health so far failed that he was compelled ultimately to seek its restoration by revisiting his father-land, viâ America.*

During his voyage to America his health continued very feeble, but he was able to complete his "Narrative of the mission to Orissa." While in America, which was only for a few months, he travelled a great deal and excited much interest in behalf of the mission, and was the means of exciting a missionary spirit, where none previously existed, and of originating a missionary society among the Free Will Baptists.

In the following November, he reached England, where he was cordially welcomed by the Committee and the friends of missions generally. While at home, he visited most of the churches in the denomination with which he was connected, and his earnest appeals roused multitudes to more deep and active sympathy for the heathen in Orissa. His stay in England was short, not quite nine months, after which he returned to America, taking with him the Rev. J. Brooks, who with his wife was destined for Orissa. His visit this time,

The chronological order of the above period is the following. Arrived in Calcutta 19th of February, 1825; reached Cuttack in March, and Puri in the end of April of the same year. Returned to Cuttack July, 1826; united in marriage to Mrs. Colman in June; removed to Balasore early in 1827, again to Puri in January 1831; left in June, 1832; and sailed for

America in the ship Fenelon on the 8th of January, 1833, making a total of 7 years, 10 months, and 21 days.

like his former one to that country, was eminently subservient to the interests of Orissa; and before he left he had the pleasure of attending and taking part in the ordinations of the Rev. Messrs. Noyes and Phillips; who accompanied him to this province. They sailed in the Louvre from Boston, on the 22nd of September, 1835, and reached Calcutta, 5th of February, and Cuttack, 12th March, 1836.

On his arrival at Cuttack, in consequence of the absence of the Rev. C. Lacey in England, he at once assumed the pastoral charge of the church, and continued in connection with that station, till sickness drove him from it in October, 1847. During this period of his Indian life, he was much engaged in the translation and preparation of tracts and books, both for general distribution and for the schools. He early commenced the translation of a selection of the Scriptures, the Pilgrim's Progress, an Abridgment of Doddridge's Rise and Progress, and Baxter's Call to the Unconverted, &c. His greatest works, however, in this department, and which extended over several years, were the preparation of a Dictionary, in three parts, viz., English and Oriya, Oriya Synonymes, and Oriya and English, forming an 8vo. volume of near 900 pages, and a new translation of the entire Word of God. With reference to the latter work it is but justice to himself and the Baptist Missionaries in Calcutta, especially the late Rev. Dr. Yates, to remark that the Oriya is mainly, though by no means exclusively, a transfer of their version in Bengali, with such alterations in the verbs, terminations of nouns, &c. as the language required. The sheets in Bengali were kindly forwarded to him as they were printed off in Calcutta, and Dr. Yates was ever ready to furnish every information in his power, largely entering into his reasons wherever his renderings might