time past these two young Hindoos, Who are brothers,
have been under the care of Chistian Missionaries who
went out from Scotland, and are stationed at Bombay,
and along with many others of their countrymen have
been taught Christianity at the institution, under the
care of those Missionaries. The elder of the two
brothers, whose name is Narayan Seshadee, being
upwards of sixteen years of age, and consequently at¬
tained to his majority by the law of India, and at liberty
to act as he pleases—and moreover being by God’s
grace converted to the truth as it is in Jesus, was bap¬
tized and received into the Christian Church on the
13th of September, 184;3. He had been five years at
the institution, and was the most distinguished student
there,—four years ago he hated Christianity, now he
loves'it. He is between eighteen and nineteen years of
age, and much beloved by all. Before being baptized,
he renounced all his heathen Gods, especially that, the
mark of which he bore in his forehead—and took otf
and threw away the sacred cord, the mark of his caste,
thus giving up all worldly advantages for Christ. He
was of the highest rank or caste, viz.: a Brahmin.
When his heathen friends understood that he was about
to turn Christian they laid hold of his younger brother,
whose name is Shreeput Sheshadree, and who was also
a pupil with the Missionaries, and put him in confine¬
ment. The consequence was, that at the request of
Narayan, Shreeput took refuge from his heathen
relatives in the Mission house. The Missionaries hoped
that his friends would not wish to take away Shreeput
again, but they were mistaken. The father of Shreeput
came to Bombay, but he seemed resigned to what he
called his “ written destiny,” and did not clafm the
little boy, nor ask him to go with him. The father
went away, but a few days after he returned, with some
other Brahmins, who incited him to demand his son.
Poor Shreeput did not wish to go to be a heathen
again, but his father began to drag him from the house
by force, when Mr. Nesbit, one of the Missionaries, told