Extract from the late edition of the Memoirs of

Henry Martyn, by the American Editor.

"The names of few will be recorded in the annals of India, who have conferred greater benefits upon it than Mr. Thomason; and the Christian Philanthropist, when surveying the widely-extended territories of this vast continent, and reflecting over those who have counted not their lives dear unto themselves, that they might plant the standard of the Cross, amid the countless myriads of fallen but immortal spirits who inhabit it, will at once associate in his mind, with Kiernander, and Swartz, and Brown, and Buchanan, and Martyn, and Heber, the name of Thomason, as a no less true friend to the cause of the Redeemer."

B.

THE LIFE

OF THE

REV. T. T. THOMASON, M. A.

LATE CHAPLAIN TO THE HON, EAST INDIA COMPANY.

BY THE

REV. J. SARGENT, M. A.

RECTOR OF LAVINGTON,

AUTHOR OF THE MEMOIR OF HENRY MARTYN.

NEW-YORK:

D. APPLETON AND CO., 200 BROADWAY.

PHILADELPHIA :

GEORGE S. APPLETON, 148 CHESNUT-STREET.

DEDICATION.

TO THE REV. CHARLES SIMEON, M.A.

SENIOR FELLOW OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

MY DEAR FRIEND,

Allow me, without your knowledge and concurrence, to inscribe this memoir with your name. Honoured and beloved as it was by Mr. Thomason, the propriety of the inscription will be readily acknowledged. Other reasons influence me on this occasion. By you it was, that, many years ago, I was induced to prepare for the public a life of Henry Martyn. You again have now pressed upon me the present work, which, though like the former, inadequately executed, may prove, I trust, not wholly unac

ceptable to the Church of Christ, nor through his aid unprofitable. To you above all, under God, it is mainly to be attributed, that I am able to appreciate the exalted principles which were the pole-star of those characters I have endeavoured to delineate. More than this, I will not say from respect to the delicacy of your feelings; less I could not have said without injustice to my own.

I remain, my dear Friend,

Your most grateful and affectionate,

Lavington, March 20, 1833.

JOHN SARGENT.