Excerpt from News From Afar or Missionary Varieties: Chiefly Relating to the Missionary Society; Being a Re-Publication of the Quarterly Papers of the Said Society, for the Years 1822, 1823, 1824,& 1825 Ram-mohun, a converted brahman of the highest caste, and who, when a heathen, set fire to the pile in which his living mother was consumed to ashes, has been the means of the con version of several persons, and he is now sucha persuasive preacher of the gospel, that I have seen his congrega tion drenched in tears. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.