This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ...hear me, he, with the rest, sat, while I knelt and attended prayer. He then inquired whether I had the form of that prayer, or whether it was extemporaneous. Having told him that I made use of no form of prayer, he made some other remarks against the loudness with which I prayed; for I had previously told him that neither I nor his people could hear his exercises, and he had said it was not necessary they should. Without making any apology, for I had only spoken so as to be audible to the people, I proceeded to read the third chapter of John, and to address them. He afterwards said that he did not object to any thing I had said as to the nature and fruits of regeneration, and being born of the Spirit of God, only that without water haptism none could be saved;--and that if I persisted in directing the people not to attend mass, he should give orders that his people should not hear me. I told him I could not but say what the Bible said respecting images, and when his people inquired respecting their worship, 1 generally told them what I thought of it; but that it was not my-practice to introduce the subject of their worship directly, and if ever I had done so, it was not, as he said out of hatred to the church, but out of friendship to the Scriptures, and regard for the well being of the people.. y Ignorance of letters among the Fisher Cast. 10. Spoke the word to many in, the Mahratta village as well as in that of the Catholics. There is one Mahratta school here, which I visited, and in which I published the Gospel to the teachers and those who came in, and left tracts. There were about a dozen scholars;--not one fisherman's child. Such is the case at Versava; there is a Mahratta school there for a few of the higher casts, but not a soul...