{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_30769/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_30769","id":"gutenberg_30769","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30769","summary":null,"tags":["Baptists -- Periodicals","Category: History - Religious","Category: Journals","Category: Religion/Spirituality","The Baptist Magazine"],"text":"Produced by Bryan Ness, Anne Storer, and the Online\nDistributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This\nbook was produced from scanned images of public domain\nmaterial from the Google Print project.)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n THE\n BAPTIST MAGAZINE\n FOR\n 1835.\n\n\n THE PROFITS ARISING FROM THE SALE OF THIS WORK ARE GIVEN\n TO THE WIDOWS OF BAPTIST MINISTERS, AT THE RECOMMENDATION\n OF THE CONTRIBUTORS.\n\n\n VOL. XXVII.\n (VOL. X. THIRD SERIES.)\n\n\n SPEAKING THE TRUTH IN LOVE.--Eph. iv. 15.\n\n\n LONDON:\n PUBLISHED BY GEORGE WIGHTMAN,\n 24, PATERNOSTER ROW.\n 1835.\n\n\n\n\n LONDON: J. HADDON, PRINTER, CASTLE STREET, FINSBURY.\n\n\n\n\nPREFACE.\n\n\nConducted by Divine Providence to the close of another annual period\nof their anxious labours, the Editors of the BAPTIST MAGAZINE would\ndevoutly embrace the favourable opportunity thus afforded, for the\npurpose of brief retrospect, and the exercise of sincere thankfulness.\n\nDuring the months of the past year, they have been earnestly desirous\nthat the pages of each succeeding number of their work should supply\nsuch a portion of religious instruction and denominational information\nas, from its design and extent, their most considerate readers would be\nled to expect; and, though fully sensible that they have not attained\nthe standard of their own wishes, yet they deem it incumbent to\nacknowledge, that they have been strengthened in their progress by\nperceiving that their efforts have been candidly appreciated, and in\nmany instances kindly commended.\n\nIn prefacing the TWENTY-SEVENTH VOLUME of this publication, it is\ngratifying to be able to announce that, notwithstanding the frequent\nintroduction of new and attractive periodicals, the Baptist Magazine\ncontinues to obtain an encouraging share of public patronage; and were\nit to derive from literary contributions, and an extended circulation,\nsuch support as the denomination to whose service it is principally\ndevoted might easily afford, the satisfaction of this announcement\nwould be greatly augmented.\n\nIf, in addition to the many excellent communications now received,\nothers were occasionally forwarded by writers to whom preparing such an\narticle might prove an agreeable relaxation from the pursuit of severer\nstudies, both the value of the work, and the interest of the writer in\nits prosperity, would be considerably increased.\n\nBefore concluding these remarks, the Editors have much pleasure in\ndistinctly and gratefully adverting to the assistance with which they\nhave been favoured in bringing this volume through the press; in\nconnexion with which the usual exercise of benevolence to the _Widows_\nof many of our departed brethren has been continued; and to perpetuate,\nand, if possible, increase which, the conductors of the Baptist Magazine\nhave been invariably, and still remain, solicitous.\n\n\n\n\n THE\n BAPTIST MAGAZINE.\n\n JANUARY, 1835.\n\n\n\n\nMEMOIR OF THE LATE MRS. PEGGY WAUGH.\n\n\nRecollections of departed excellence are always pleasant, often deeply\ninteresting, and sometimes productive of the happiest effects. The\ndelight we feel in tracing the successive stages of that pilgrimage\nby which the saints of the Most High have \"passed into the skies,\" is\nneither a faint nor fruitless emotion, but a healthful exercise of the\nmoral sympathies. It purifies, while it elicits; the affections of the\nheart. As we trace the formation of their character, we are insensibly\nforming our own; and the observation by which we mark the development of\ntheir Christian virtues, is among the most efficient means by which we\nare provoked to their imitation.\n\nHence the inspired volume is not more a book of doctrines than a\nrecord of the piety of ancient believers. That Holy Spirit, under\nwhose inspiration it was written, knew how to touch the springs of\nhuman conduct, and therefore incites us to the highest attainments of\ncharacter by the influence of example. The names of the righteous are\nenrolled in its imperishable leaves, and their memory, after the lapse\nof ages, is still fragrant as the breath of the morning.\n\nAfter the example of the sacred writers, every age of the church has\npreserved memorials of the wisdom and holiness of its own times. In\nsome instances a service has thus been performed of inestimable value.\nPatterns of faith, of patience, of zeal, have been rescued from oblivion\nto be a stimulus to Christians in all succeeding periods of time. And in\nother instances benefits, though not equally extensive, yet substantial,\nhave resulted from recording, in a brief memoir, the characters and\nactions of those who, not called to occupy prominent stations, have shed\na sweet influence of piety upon the more retired walks of ordinary life.\n\nThe following pages are intended to preserve some short account of a\nChristian lady, who from youth to old age \"walked in the truth;\" and\nhaving become at length alike venerable in years and in piety, departed\nthis present life with the glorious hope of a better.\n\nMrs. Peggy Waugh was born at Wallingford, A. D. 1747. At an early\nperiod of life her mind was brought under a divine influence; not,\nhowever, by the ordinary means of grace, nor by any solemn providence,\nbut in a manner illustrating the force of scripture, and the sovereignty\nof that gracious Spirit by whom it was originally inspired, and is still\nsavingly applied. Being present at a party where the evening was spent\nin festivity and worldly mirth, she was invited to join in the dance.\nThis she had often done, for she was of a lively disposition, and her\nparents were gratified by her mixing in the gaieties of life; but in the\npresent instance she felt herself unable to maintain the hilarity of her\nspirits. The cause of her dejection none imagined, and she was perhaps\nashamed to acknowledge. While all was merriment around her, she became\nsuddenly pensive. A passage of the word of God, pointedly in contrast\nwith the spirit of the scene, had come with irresistible power to her\nrecollection. It fastened upon her conscience:--it reached her heart.\nThe music and dancing lost their charms; she sat in solitariness, though\nsurrounded with company; the world's fascinations appeared in a light in\nwhich she had never before seen them, and the salutary impressions of\nthat evening remained unerased from her mind through all her subsequent\nlife.\n\nWhile she was yet young, her parents removed to Reading. Shortly after\nthey had fixed their residence in that town, she was taken by a friend\nto the Baptist Meeting, where she heard the Rev. Mr. Davis. She was\nmuch interested in his discourse, and sought for opportunities to\nattend frequently on his ministry. Under the able instructions of that\nexcellent man, her religious views became clearer and more definite, her\nprinciples more firm and decided, and it was evident that the spiritual\nchange which had already commenced in her soul, was rapidly advancing to\nits completion.\n\nIt was now that her trials began. The determinate and consistent form\nwhich her renewed character had assumed, was far from exciting any\ncomplacent feelings in the minds of her parents; and it became the more\nobnoxious to them from the preference she manifested for the preaching\nof Mr. Davis. They had brought up their family to the established\nchurch, and it distressed them exceedingly to see their daughter\nbecoming a dissenter. But she had counted the cost, and was prepared to\nmake any sacrifice, and to endure any hardship, rather than forego the\nprivileges she now enjoyed in the house of God. Hardships she had indeed\nto endure: such was the severity with which she was treated, that it was\nno uncommon thing, when she returned from the sanctuary, to find her\nfather's door locked against her; and often has she walked in the fields\nwithout food during the intervals of public worship, rather than incur\nthe displeasure that awaited her at home. This was a season of trial,\nand she came forth from it like refined gold. Her filial attentions were\nnot less respectful or affectionate than formerly; on the contrary,\nshe watched both her temper and her conduct with more than wonted\ncarefulness, and endeavoured to show them that she could bear with\nmeekness the wrongs she suffered in so good a cause. Nor did she wholly\nwithdraw herself from the established church. Reading was at that time\nfavoured with the ministry of the Rev. Mr. Talbot, the Hon. and Rev.\nMr. Cadogan, and the Rev. Mr. Eyre, his curate at St. Giles's. The\npreaching of these faithful servants of the Lord was distinguished\nby its truly evangelical character, and she found much benefit in\noccasionally hearing them. At their Thursday evening lecture she was\na constant attendant, both at this period and after she had joined the\nBaptist church. Her new principles had not contracted, but on the\ncontrary enlarged, her mind. Her views with regard to the ordinance of\nbaptism, and on some other subjects connected with those parts of divine\ntruth on which a difference of sentiment prevails, were conscientiously\nembraced; but they were held in the spirit of Christian charity. As much\nas she could, without a sacrifice of conscience, she endeavoured to\nconciliate the prejudices of her parents; and at length her efforts\nwere blessed beyond her most sanguine hope.\n\nIt will a little anticipate the order of the narrative, but it may\nproperly be added here, that she had the satisfaction, at a subsequent\nperiod, to know that her pious conversation and deportment had, under\nGod, been the principal means of producing a saving change in her\nfather, in her mother, and in two of her brothers. Her parents, at an\nadvanced age, departed in the faith, leaving no doubt on the minds of\nsurviving friends that they had fallen asleep in Jesus.\n\nIt was the happiness of Mrs. Waugh to be united in marriage with a\nperson of decided piety, whose sentiments on religious subjects were\nsimilar to her own. Shortly after their marriage, they were both\nbaptized, and thus commenced together that public and good profession\nwhich they ever afterwards maintained by the integrity, and adorned with\nthe graces, of the Christian life. On the morning of her baptism, a\npassage from the prophecies of Isaiah, evidently suggested by the\ndifficulties which had environed her early religious course, forcibly\nimpressed her mind, and afforded her much encouragement: \"I will go\nbefore thee, and make the crooked places straight; I will break in\npieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron.\" \"These\nwords,\" she writes, \"came sweetly to me, and my soul was on the wing for\nheaven and heavenly things.\"\n\nThe duties of domestic life began now to demand her attention. In\nthe relations of a wife, a mother, and a mistress, the excellence of\nthose principles on which her character was formed, was habitually\nexemplified. For her children, she was supremely anxious to bring them\nin early life under the influence of divine truth, and to lead them into\nthe love of God. It is in their recollection still, with what maternal\naffection she would take them into her chamber, and converse with them\non those subjects, and then present them, in the exercise of faith and\ndevotion, to the care of that tender Shepherd who \"gathers the lambs in\nhis arms, and carries them in his bosom.\" Indeed her deep interest in\nall young persons obliged her to press upon such as came within her\nreach a care for their everlasting happiness; with several, the result\nwas most satisfactory, and they retain an affectionate remembrance of\nher solicitude on their behalf. With her servants also she would seize\nopportunities to speak of the value of their souls, and the improvement\nof their religious advantages; and sometimes she used to pray in secret\nwith them. The afflictions which are inseparable from the lot of\nhumanity, and those which parents only know, she endured with a meek and\nconfiding resignation. Her cup had its bitter infusions, and some of her\ntrials were more than commonly severe; but under every mysterious and\npainful dispensation, she stayed herself upon her God, and in patience\npossessed her soul.\n\nBy those who enjoyed her friendship, her pious conversation and\ncorrespondence were highly valued. She was no stranger in the habitation\nof the widow and the fatherless, or beside the dying bed. Her sympathy\nin such scenes was a mitigation of sorrow, and her offices of Christian\nlove endeared her in the hour of distress. She gratified the benevolence\nof her heart by relieving the distresses of many; and some of her poor\nneighbours were pensioners on her bounty as long as they lived. Her\nattendance on public ordinances, it need scarcely be said, was regular\nand devout; and by her consistent and blameless life, combined with her\naffectionate and peaceful walk among her fellow-members, she was a\ncomfort to her pastor, and an honour to the church. Thus for many years\nshe moved in her orbit, as the celestial luminaries move in theirs; with\na regular, uniform, and constant progression; deriving all their\nradiance from the sun, and reflecting his beams without noise or\nostentation.\n\nBut a severe trial awaited her. The conjugal relation was at length\nbroken. By the death of Mr. Waugh she was deprived of the staff of her\nage, and left to travel alone through the last stages of her pilgrimage.\nShe had however the unspeakable satisfaction of reflecting that he had\nwalked with her in the ways of righteousness, and that although he had\noutstripped her in the course, and arrived first at the sepulchre, she\nshould follow him into the world of reunion and eternal love. His\ndecease was also eminently happy. He was favoured during his illness\nwith much spirituality and elevation of mind, and departed in the \"full\nassurance of hope.\" On being asked by one of his daughters, whether, if\nit were the will of God, he would like to return again into the world?\n\"What,\" he exclaimed, \"when Christ bids me 'come up hither!'\" It was the\nprivilege of his faithful wife (for such she deemed it) to be with him\nthrough all his illness, and to witness the final scene. She would not\ndelegate to other hands the discharge of any duty which she could\nperform herself; but the conflict being over, she retired from the\nchamber of death, and was found some time after, by her children, who\nhad missed her, in her closet, and on her knees. The throne of grace was\nher refuge. To that hiding-place she was accustomed to flee, in every\n\"cloudy and dark day;\" and sweetly was the promise fulfilled in her\nexperience, \"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed\non thee.\" She felt deeply the stroke which had made her a widow; but,\npossessing an uncommon degree of self-command, it was a comfort to her\nchildren to observe her great calmness of spirit, and to hear the\nexpressions of her confidence in God. Her natural fortitude was\nsustained by divine grace, and her whole carriage under this\nbereavement afforded an edifying instance of the manner in which a\nChristian both bends before the storm, and rises above it.\n\nAbout two years after this event, she left the neighbourhood of Reading,\nto reside in the family of one of her daughters at Tottenham. By this\ncircumstance she was necessarily brought into new scenes both of\ndomestic and social life; and they served still further to elicit the\ngraces of her matured and now venerable character. For to the visitors,\nof all ranks, she recommended the religion of the Bible; but with such\npropriety, that she never gave offence; and most tenderly and intimately\ndid she participate in the diversified feelings of her grandchildren,\nevincing her affection for them, by her earnest and ardently expressed\nlonging that Christ might be formed in their hearts, the hope of glory.\nIt was about this time, that the writer of this brief tribute to her\nmemory had the happiness to form her acquaintance; and he well remembers\nthe impression of respectful admiration which that first interview\nproduced on his mind. She was now \"well stricken in years.\" Time had\nmellowed the naturally sweet expression of her countenance, without much\nimpairing its vivacity. Her silvery locks shaded a brow imprinted with\nthe wrinkles of age, but intelligent and serene. Her eyes were yet\nbright, and glanced upon her friends with benevolent complacency. Her\nform was unbending and about the middle stature; her manners dignified,\nyet free; her conversation cheerful, affectionate, and eminently\nspiritual; her memory richly replenished with the word of God, and with\nhymns, which she recited with much emphasis and appropriate application;\nand her whole appearance and deportment that of a venerable Christian\nlady.\n\nSome time before this period she had become very deaf; but though she\nfelt it to be a great trial, it made scarcely any perceptible abatement\nof her cheerfulness; nor did she allow it to prevent her attendance upon\nthe house of God. In proportion as she was shut out from the pleasures\nof conversation, she seemed to find an increasing delight in secret\ndevotion. \"Let us call those our golden hours,\" she says in a letter\nto a friend, \"that are spent with God. May we be found much in that\nexcellent duty of self-examination.\" And at a subsequent date she writes\nin her diary, \"My hearing is in some measure restored; of which I can\ngive no account from natural causes or medicinal art. O Lord, my healer,\nthou canst do every thing. O the riches of immortal grace! If I outlive\nmy senses, I cannot outlive my graces. O how beautiful, how honourable,\nhow durable! I earnestly plead with God for his church and ministers, in\nfaith and hope, for what I am not likely to live to see. Dear Lord, let\nme depart and join the holy society above. Amen!\"\n\nIt is often observed, that as Christians draw near to heaven, their\ndesire increases to enter upon its holy joys. They present a delightful\ncontrast, in this respect, to those unhappy persons whose old age is\nchilled with the infirmities of decaying nature, and never warmed\ninto the glow of celestial aspirations by the presages of a blessed\nimmortality. The natural desire of life is felt by both, and the\nuneradicated remains of our ancient and inveterate depravity will\nsometimes, even in aged Christians, repress the risings of the soul\ntowards her native skies. But the prevailing tendency of the desires\nwill be upwards. \"To live is indeed Christ; but to die is gain.\" Hence\ntheir conversation will take its complexion and character, rather from\nthe things which are eternal, than from the transactions or interests of\nthis present world. Such was eminently the case with the subject of this\nmemoir. She seemed to live much, in the secret exercises of her mind,\nupon the invisible glories of that region of blessedness towards which\nshe was fast approaching. Never was her countenance lighted up with a\nmore cheerful beam of piety, than when, after she had been occupied\nawhile in silent musings, she would break forth in the joyful\nexclamation of the patriarch Job, \"I know that my Redeemer liveth, and\nthat he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though, after\nmy skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God; whom\nI shall see for myself, and my eyes behold, and not another; though my\nreins be consumed within me.\" This was indeed a very favourite passage\nwith her, and was selected by herself for her funeral text. But \"the\nword of Christ dwelt in her richly;\" and it was sometimes equally\nastonishing and delightful to hear with what copiousness, accuracy, and\nanimated expression, at more than 80 years of age, she would pour forth,\nlike a sparkling stream, a long series of beautiful quotations, her\nfeelings at the same time kindling into celestial rapture, and the\nwhole perhaps finished with that ecstatic verse of Dr. Watts.\n\n    \"Haste, my beloved, fetch my soul\n      Up to thy bless'd abode;\n    Fly, for my spirit longs to see\n      My Saviour and my God.\"\n\nShe had outlived nearly all her contemporaries. Most of her friends had\npreceded her to their rest, and sometimes she would chide herself for\nstill lingering in her upward flight, among the chilling clouds of these\nlower regions, when she thought her wings should have borne her more\nrapidly onward to join the company of the blessed. Thus she expresses\nherself in one of her memorandums: \"O Lord, when I look around me, and\nfeel I am bereaved of human joys, and behold the ravages which thou hast\nmade among my dear, beloved friends and kindred in the flesh, I am\nastonished at the strength of that depravity, which leads me still to\ncling to this dying world. Why, oh, why do I not rest my weary soul on\nthe unchangeable realities of heaven? There shall I meet those very dear\nones who sleep in Jesus. Animating hope! Oh, then, let me march boldly\non, nor faint in the day of rebuke; but may I be enabled to yield up all\nmy earthly comforts when Jesus calls and demands, that I may find my all\nin him.\"\n\nIt was her privilege often to climb to the summit of Pisgah; and when\nshe descended again into the plain, how delightfully would she talk,\nand as in the very dialect of the country, of that land of fair and\nbeauteous prospect which lies beyond the Jordan. There were seasons when\nno other subject seemed welcome to her thoughts. She would sit at such\ntimes watching the countenances of her friends, and at a break in the\nconversation, which she could not hear, drop a short sentence full of\nthe love and joy of heaven. She seemed to have an inward and divine\nlight which shone through her soul, and made it a region of pure and\ncelestial thoughts; no doubts were permitted to disturb the composure\nof her mind, no temptation to trouble and overcast the serenity of her\ncloudless sky. Her days moved on in tranquil succession, each renewing\nand passing forward to the next, the sunshine of its predecessor. Only,\nindeed, as her orb descended to the horizon, the light seemed more to\nconcentrate and to soften; just as the evening sun gathers back into\nhimself the radiance with which he had illuminated the world, and sets\namidst the chastened splendours of his own accumulated glory.\n\nHer tabernacle, which had been often shaken, was at length taken down.\nNo fierce disease was commissioned to inflict the final stroke. Till the\nlast week she was permitted to continue in the society of her children.\nTwo of them reside at Camberwell; and they reflect, with grateful\npleasure, that some of her last days were spent with them. She left them\non the Monday, after having passed the whole of the preceding month in\ntheir company. It was not then apprehended that her end was so near, but\nher conversation was sweetly tinctured by a vein of ardent and elevated\ndevotion. Her mind was eminently spiritual; she seemed to be living in\nan element of prayer and love. It was the happiness of the writer to\nspend a short time with her during the last week; and in her pocket-book\nshe has noted the comfort she derived from the devotional exercises in\nwhich they then engaged. The Sabbath day was a season of great delight.\nShe did not know that on the following her translation was to take\nplace; but had she foreseen it, scarcely could she have passed the day\nin communications more fitted to her near approximation to eternal joy.\n\nThe next day she returned to Tottenham, not so well as she had been, yet\nthere seemed no cause for immediate alarm; but in her last words, as she\nwas taking leave of her daughters, there was something almost prophetic\nof the event which was soon to take place. Clasping the hand of one of\nthem, as she was about to step into the carriage, she turned to her, and\nsaid, \"I shall soon mount on eagles' wings; I shall run and not be\nweary, I shall walk and not faint.\" On Wednesday, her indisposition\nconsiderably increased, and her strength began rapidly to decline. It\nsoon became impossible to hold any conversation with her beyond a few\nshort and detached sentences at intervals. In reply to inquiries, she\nstill expressed her faith in the Lamb of God, and spoke of his\npreciousness to her soul. But the power of articulation failed, and\nthis circumstance, joined with her deafness, precluded the further\ninterchange of sentiment with the departing saint. She continued to\nlodge on the banks of the Jordan a day or two longer, till about noon\non Lord's day, June 30, 1833; when she passed through the river with\na gentle and quiet motion, and was lost to the sight of surrounding\nattendants, amidst the distant groves of Eden, on the opposite shore.\n\n    \"No pain she suffered, nor expired with noise;\n    Her soul was whispered out with God's still voice:\n    So softly death succeeded life in her,\n    She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.\"\n\n   _Camberwell._                          E. STEANE\n\n\n\n\nSLAVERY IN AMERICA.\n\nA LETTER FROM THE BAPTIST BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS IN AMERICA, IN\nANSWER TO ONE FROM THE BOARD OF BAPTIST MINISTERS IN AND NEAR LONDON,\nDATED DECEMBER 31, 1833.\n\n(_See our last Number, p. 534._)\n\n\n                                  _Baptist Missionary Rooms,_\n                                   _Boston, Sept. 1, 1834._\n\nDEAR BRETHREN,\n\nYour communication, dated London, December 31, 1833, was received some\ntime since, by one of the officers of the Baptist General Convention;\nbut as the Convention, to which it was chiefly addressed, will not\nconvene till April, 1835, the communication was, after some delay,\npresented to the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions, as the executive\norgan of the Convention. The board referred it to a Committee, and we\nnow communicate to you a copy of their Report, and of the Resolutions\nadopted by the board.[A] We commend them to your candour, with a\nconfident belief that you will do justice to the views and feelings of\nthe board, encompassed as they are by difficulties which cannot be fully\nunderstood by persons in other countries.\n\n [A] The Committee, to whom was referred a communication from\n \"the Members of the Board of Baptist Ministers in and near London,\"\n directed to \"The Rev. Spencer H. Cone, President; the Board of Managers;\n and the Delegates of the Baptist Triennial Convention, United States,\n North America;\" and addressed to \"The Pastors and Ministers of the\n Baptist denomination throughout the United States of America;\" the\n principal object of which communication is, to express the views of the\n writers \"respecting the character of negro slavery, and as to the course\n enjoined by religious principle on the household of faith;\" present the\n following report:--\n\n That they have examined the communication with much care, and have been\n gratified by the spirit of Christian affection, respect, and candour,\n which it breathes. They receive it as a pleasing omen of a more\n intimate correspondence and a more endeared fellowship with our\n Baptist brethren in Great Britain. The Committee, however, are\n unanimously of opinion that as a Board, and as members\n of the General Convention, associated for the exclusive purpose of\n sending the gospel to the heathen, and to other benighted men not\n belonging to our own country, we are precluded by our constitution\n from taking any part in the discussion of the subject proposed in the\n said communication. They, therefore, recommend the adoption of the\n following resolutions:--\n\n _Resolved._ That the Board reciprocate, with great pleasure, the\n assurances of respect and affection which our brethren, \"the members of\n the Board of Baptist Ministers, in and near London,\" have uttered in\n their communication.\n\n _Resolved._ That the Board earnestly desire a closer intimacy with their\n Baptist brethren in England, believing that the cause of truth in both\n countries, and throughout the world, would be promoted, by a more\n cordial union and co-operation of the two great branches of the Baptist\n family.\n\n _Resolved._ That the Board have viewed, with grief and anxiety, the\n calamities which have befallen the Baptist Mission in Jamaica; and they\n rejoice that the Mission has been resumed, with cheering prospects of\n success.\n\n _Resolved._ That while, as they trust, their love of freedom, and their\n desire for the happiness of all men, are not less strong and sincere\n than those of their British brethren, they cannot, as a Board, interfere\n with a subject that is not among the objects for which the Convention\n and the Board were formed.\n\n _Resolved._ That the preceding Resolutions be communicated to the \"Board\n of Baptist Ministers, in and near London,\" together with the subjoined\n letter, to be signed by the acting President, and the corresponding\n Secretary of the Board.\n\n       (_Signed_)  DANIEL SHARP,\n        _First Vice-President of the Baptist Board\n        of Foreign Missions in the United States._\n                              LUCIUS BOLLES,\n                              _Cor. Sec._\n\nIt may assist you to form a more correct opinion of the whole subject,\nif we allude to a few of the circumstances which make slavery, in this\ncountry, a matter of peculiar difficulty, and which, consequently,\nrequire those who would promote the real welfare of the coloured race,\nto act with great caution.\n\nIn the first place, the political organization of the United States is\nwidely different from that of England; and this difference makes it\nimpossible to adopt here a course similar to that which the British\nParliament have adopted in reference to slavery in the West Indies.\nThis country is not one State, with an unrestricted Legislature, but\na confederacy of States, united by a Constitution, in which certain\npowers are granted to the National Government; and all other powers are\nreserved by the States. Among these reserved powers is the regulation\nof slavery. Congress have no power to interfere with the slaves in the\nrespective States; and an Act of Congress to emancipate the _slaves_ in\nthose States would be as wholly null and void, as an Act of the British\nParliament for the same purpose. The Legislatures of the respective\nStates cannot interfere with the legislation of each other. In some of\nthe States, where laws forbidding emancipation exist, the _minority_\ncannot, if disposed, give freedom to their slaves. You perceive, then,\nthat the National Government, and the people of the Northern States,\nhave no power, nor right, to adopt any direct measures, in reference to\nthe emancipation of the slaves in the Southern States. The slave-holders\nthemselves are the only men who can act definitively on this subject;\nand the only proper and useful influence which the friends of\nemancipation in other States can use, consists in argument and entreaty.\nThe existence of our union, and its manifold blessings, depends on a\nfaithful adherence to the principles and spirit of our constitution, on\nthis and on all other points.\n\nThis view of the case exonerates the nation, as such, and the States in\nwhich no slaves are found, from the charge of upholding slavery. It is\ndue, moreover, to the republic, to remember, that slavery was introduced\ninto this country long before the colonies became independent States.\nThe slave trade was encouraged by the Government of Great Britain,\nand slaves were brought into the colonies against the wishes of the\ncolonists, and the repeated Acts of some of the Colonial Legislatures.\nThese Acts were negatived by the King of England; and in the Declaration\nof Independence, as originally drawn by Mr. Jefferson, it was stated,\namong the grievances which produced the Revolution, that the King of\nEngland had steadily resisted the efforts of the colonists to prevent\nthe introduction of slaves. Soon after the Revolution, several of the\nStates took measures to free themselves from slavery. In 1787, Congress\nadopted an Act, by which it was provided, that slavery should never be\npermitted in any of the States to be formed in the immense territory\nnorth-west of the Ohio; in which territory, the great States of Ohio,\nIndiana, and Illinois, have since been formed. There are now thirteen\nout of the twenty-four States, in which slavery may be said to be\nextinct. Maryland is taking measures to free herself from slavery.\nKentucky and Virginia will, it is believed, follow the example. We state\nthese facts to show, that the republic did not originate slavery here;\nand that she has done much to remove it altogether from her bosom. She\ntook measures earlier than any other country for the suppression of the\nslave trade, and she is now zealously labouring to accomplish the entire\nextinction of that abominable traffic.\n\nSince then, from the character of our political institutions, the\nemancipation of the slaves is impossible, except with the free\nconsent of the masters; it is necessary to approach them with calm and\naffectionate argument. They claim to be better acquainted with the real\ncondition and the true interests of the negro, than other persons can\nbe. Multitudes among them freely acknowledge and lament the evils of\nslavery, and earnestly desire their removal, in some way consistent with\nthe welfare of the slave himself, and with the safety of the whites.\nSome persons among them, it is true, are not convinced that slavery is\nwrong in principle; just as many good men in England, half a century\nsince, believed the slave-trade to be just and right. Such individuals\nmust be _convinced_, before they will act.\n\nIn the next place, the number and character of the slaves form an\nappalling difficulty. It is not believed by many of the sincere friends\nof the slaves, that their immediate emancipation would be conducive to\ntheir own real welfare, or consistent with the safety of the whites. To\nlet them loose, without any provision for the young, the feeble, and the\naged, would be inhuman cruelty. Slaves, who have regarded labour as an\nirksome task, can have little idea of liberty, except as an exemption\nfrom toil. To liberate them, without some arrangement for their\nsubsistence, would produce starvation, or impel them to acts of lawless\nviolence. Emancipation must, therefore, as those friends of the slaves\ncontend, be gradual and prospective. The British Parliament have\nnot decreed an _immediate_ emancipation, in the West Indies; thus\nrecognizing the principle, that the slaves must be _prepared_ for\nfreedom by moral and intellectual culture. But this preparation must\nbe commenced and conducted by the _masters_; and they must, of course,\nbecome the willing and zealous friends of emancipation, before it can\nbe accomplished.\n\nWe have thus shown, that the slaves in this country cannot be\nemancipated, except by the free consent of the masters; and that they\ncannot be prepared for freedom, without the voluntary and energetic\nco-operation of the masters. For both these reasons, it is necessary\nto adopt a kind and conciliating course of conduct towards the\nslave-holders. The British Parliament might assume a peremptory tone\ntowards the slave-holders in the West Indies; because the power of\nParliament is not restricted like that of the American Congress; and\nbecause the situation of the slaves in the West Indies renders the\npreliminary preparation less necessary to the safety of the white\npopulation. In the British West Indies, the slaves are dispersed among\neighteen or twenty islands, where the military and naval power of the\nmother country might be easily applied to quell insurrections. In the\nUnited States, there are above two millions of slaves, spread over a\npart only of the surface of the Union, with no large military force to\noverawe them, and no obstacle to a rapid combination of insurgents. We\npresume, that the people in England would feel somewhat differently on\nthe subject of emancipation, if the slaves were among themselves, and\nthe perils of this moral volcano were constantly impending over their\nown heads.\n\nBesides these general considerations, there is one which affects the\nduty of the Baptist General Convention. There is now a pleasing degree\nof union among the multiplying thousands of Baptists throughout the\nland. Brethren, from all parts of the country, unite in our General\nConvention, and co-operate in sending the gospel to the heathen. Our\nsouthern brethren are liberal and zealous in the promotion of every holy\nenterprise for the extension of the gospel. They are, generally, both\nminister and people, slave-holders; not because they all think slavery\nright, but because it was firmly rooted long before they were born, and\nbecause they believe that slavery cannot be instantly abolished. We are\nconfident, that a great portion of our brethren at the south would\nrejoice to see any practicable scheme devised for relieving the country\nfrom slavery.\n\nWe have the best evidence, that our slave-holding brethren are\nChristians, sincere followers of the Lord Jesus. In every other part of\ntheir conduct, they adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour. We cannot,\ntherefore, feel that it is right to use language or adopt measures which\nmight tend to break the ties that unite them to us in our General\nConvention, and in numerous other benevolent societies; and to array\nbrother against brother, church against church, and association against\nassociation, in a contest about slavery.\n\nWe have presented these considerations, dear brethren, as among the\nreasons which compel us to believe, that it is not the duty of the\nBaptist General Convention, or of the Board of Missions, to interfere\nwith the subject of slavery. It ought, indeed, to be discussed at all\nproper times, and in all suitable modes. We believe, that the progress\nof public opinion in reference to slavery, is very rapid; and we are\nquite sure, that it cannot be accelerated by any interference, which our\nsouthern brethren would regard as an invasion of their political rights,\nor as an impeachment of their Christian character.\n\nMost earnestly praying that the Father of Lights will illuminate our\npath, and guide us all to the adoption of such measures as shall advance\nHis glory, and secure the temporal and eternal happiness of all men, we\nare, dear brethren, your affectionate fellow-servants.\n\n                                         LUCIUS BOLLES,\n                                                  _Cor. Sec._\n\n\n\n\nLEGISLATIVE ENACTMENTS CONCERNING THE SABBATH.\n\n_To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._\n\n\nIt is some time since the Christian public has heard of any measure\nintended to be proposed to the Legislature in reference to the\nviolation of the Sabbath, and it is time, as it appears to me, that\nthose who have such a measure at heart should be awake, and setting\nabout their great work in earnest. Whether the measure of which Sir\nAndrew Agnew gave notice in the last session, be the same as his last\nbill or not, is at present unknown; but I trust, if it be not the same,\nit will be founded on the same principle, and equally comprehensive in\nits provisions. It is true, that upon this subject, the opinions, even\nof good men, are much divided; and there are not a few individuals, of\nundoubted piety, who think that a legislative remedy should extend to a\npart only of the acknowledged mischiefs at _first_; whilst others prefer\nmaking the different provisions of the whole measure the subject of\nseveral bills, to be simultaneously brought forward.\n\nThe advocates of the former plan insist, that there is no chance of\ncarrying the whole measure at once, while the attempt to do so is\ncalculated to produce hostility; improvements in this, as well as in\nother matters, requiring to be gradual:--that the sense of the majority\nof the population is against the measure as a _whole_, to which popular\nsense, deference must be paid:--and, that Sir Andrew's former bills were\nlost entirely from their being too sweeping and comprehensive.\n\nTo the first objection, which is nearly identical with the third, it\nmay be answered: Supposing it to be true, that there is no chance of\n_carrying_ the whole measure at once, this is no reason why the whole\nshould not be _proposed_ at once. If of the whole measure so proposed\nonly _a part_ should be carried, the carrying of that part would be a\nsubject of thankfulness and rejoicing, just as much as if that part only\nhad been proposed. Those members of the Legislature who would exhibit\n_hostility_ to the bill to the extent of rejecting it altogether, would\ndoubtless exhibit _hostility_ to any portion of its provisions if\nbrought forward as a distinct bill; because hostility to the whole of a\nmeasure acknowledged in _some part_ to be good and necessary, must arise\nfrom an evil principle. There is much difference between _hostility_ to\nthe whole of the bill, and _opposition_ to some, nay, even the majority,\nof its provisions. Those who would be hostile to the whole of the bill,\nmust necessarily be so to any detached part; whereas many might oppose\neven the _larger part_ of its provisions, who would approve the rest;\nand it is conceived such would vote for the bill going into Committee,\nwhere they might distinguish between the provisions they approved and\nthose they condemned. That this would be the case appears from the\nexperience of the last session, when members who were not prepared to\nsupport any clause of the bill, nevertheless voted for its second\nreading. It is true, that many who voted against it _alleged_ its\ncomprehensiveness as the ground of their opposition; but when actually\nlimited measures were brought forward, they were either crushed at once\nby the very same persons, or first reduced to nothing--and, indeed made\nworse than nothing, by repealing the provisions of existing statutes\nfor protection of the Sabbath, substituting nothing for them--and then\nignominiously rejected. This answer may also be given to the allegation,\nthat Sir Andrew's bills were lost from their comprehensiveness.\n\nAs to the second allegation, that the sense of the majority of the\npopulation is against the measure brought forward by Sir Andrew's Bill\nas a whole, it may be replied:\n\nIn the first place, that this is an assertion which is incapable of\nproof.\n\nIn the second place, it is not merely a _numerical_ majority of the\nwhole population of the country to which the advocates of the measure\nought to defer; but it is to a majority of that class of persons who are\nwell informed upon, and have wisely considered, the whole subject, in\nconnexion with all its consequences and results.\n\nIn the third place, it is apprehended, that if the sense of the majority\nof such class were taken upon the several provisions of the bill,\nalthough it may be within the limits of possibility that the majority\nmight be against the bill as a _whole_, yet there is scarcely a\nprovision in it which the majority of such class would be found to\nreject; for in point of fact there is not one single clause in the bill\nwhich has not been the subject of petitions numerously signed in its\nfavour.\n\nBut even attaching some degree of weight to the above objections, which\nare, I believe, the whole that have been brought forward by those whose\nopinions are worth regarding, it is to be considered, whether there may\nnot be set against these objections considerations which will operate so\nas greatly to turn the scale in favour of bringing in the whole measure\nat once, such as the following:--\n\n1. It recognizes one simple principle, on which every measure proposed\nto Government for the remedy of existing abuses, in reference to the\nobservance of the Lord's day, must be based; and therefore, judging from\nthe way in which the provisions of the bill have been already met, in\nand out of parliament, it is clear, that if _one_ part only out of the\nsystem of measures were brought forward at first, the objection would\nbe, that the propounder of the measure, to be consistent with himself,\nshould have extended it to other matters within its principle, and\ndirected it against other evils requiring to be remedied by it. For\ninstance, were a bill brought forward to restrain what is usually called\ntrade in the necessaries of life, it might be urged that it would be\ninconsistent, while that which is equally a trade, the supplying of\npost horses, should be permitted: just as it has been insisted, in a\ndetermined spirit of hostility to the bill, that it was unfair to\nrestrain labour in the field and permit it in the house; to prohibit the\nday-labourer from prosecuting his calling, and to allow the domestic\nservant to pursue hers. Now an argument, which imputes inconsistency and\nunfairness to the propounder of a prohibitory measure, is one which it\nwould be exceedingly difficult, and perhaps impossible, satisfactorily\nto answer.\n\n2. The whole of the grievances, pertaining to every part of the subject,\nwere fully entered into, in that comprehensive inquiry which took place\nin the Select Committee of the House of Commons, previously to the\nintroduction of Sir Andrew Agnew's first bill, which elicited so much\nand such important and valuable information; and it follows as a\nconsequence, that every mischief which was within the scope of the\ninquiry, should be within the scope of the enactment to be grounded\nupon the result of such inquiry.\n\n3. It is difficult to guard against the inference to be drawn from the\nprohibition of one evil, and the leaving another unprohibited, that such\nlatter evil is intended to be tolerated and sanctioned.\n\n4. It is extremely probable, that if, under existing circumstances, the\nadvocates of the proposed measure were to bring forward one of limited\nextent, it would be considered that they had no ulterior object, and\nthat the limited measure, if conceded, should be taken in full of every\nthing to be expected from the Legislature. This would be disingenuous.\nIt is the most fair and honest mode of dealing, on the part of those who\nare of opinion that the exigency of the case calls for a comprehensive\nmeasure, to declare _at once_ what is the utmost extent of the objects\nthey have in view, and what is the exact amount of the measure with\nwhich they would be satisfied; and it is considered that such a course\nis the most likely to attract the approbation and good opinion of\nright-thinking individuals, and, which is an infinitely higher\nconsideration, to draw down the blessing of Almighty God.\n\n5. The different provisions of the measure are so connected, that it is\nvery difficult to separate them. For instance, how could the provisions\nagainst trade be separated from the provisions against travelling, when\ntravelling necessarily supposes the exercise of a species of trade?\n\n6. With respect to the suggestion, that the whole measure should be the\nsubject of several and distinct bills, the simple answer is, that every\nsuch bill must, in passing through the necessary stages, be exposed to a\ndistinct ordeal, and that the difficulty of working the bill (to use a\ntechnical expression) would be at least multiplied to the extent of the\nnumber of bills proposed to be substituted for one simple and\ncomprehensive enactment.\n\n                    THEOSIBES.\n _London, Dec. 10th, 1834._\n\n\n\n\nLIQUIDATION OF DEBTS ON CHAPELS.\n\n_To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._\n\n\nHaving seen an article some months since in your Magazine on the above\nsubject, signed Murus, and thinking the following plan an improvement\nupon Murus's, I shall feel much obliged by your giving it insertion in\nyour valuable and extensively circulated periodical. And I hope I shall\nnot be too presuming in stating that, if it is put into operation in\nevery county, in a very few years it will entirely liquidate all the\ndebts now existing on chapels, without any increased exertions on the\npart of the friends. The plan, if entered into, which I humbly trust it\nwill be, will do away entirely with _begging cases_, will not require\nthe minister to leave his church, will lessen the calls on his people,\nwill enable them to raise their ministers' incomes, and eventually\nconfer much happiness on the churches, and relieve them from pressing\ndifficulties; whereas the systems now adopted are very inefficient, and\nwill take three times as long to get rid of the existing burdens. I\nwould also suggest, for the prevention of debts being again accumulated,\nthat no chapel be allowed to be erected without advancing half the money\nrequired for building it, nor be allowed to partake of the privileges\narising from this plan until the whole of the present churches are out\nof debt. I would also recommend the churches who adopt this plan, to\ngive no countenance to any church begging, as the same system can be\nadopted in every county with certain success. There is a difficulty in\nMurus's plan in that of increased exertions, whereas in this, none are\nrequired.\n\nProp. 1. That all the churches make an annual collection, which shall be\nbrought to the Association, and that the total amount shall be applied\nto the liquidation of the debt _on one chapel_, as shall be then and\nthere agreed.\n\nProp. 2. That the chapel whose debt is so paid off shall contribute the\ninterest of its debt every year, till it amounts to half the sum paid\noff, when it shall not be required to pay its interest money, for so I\nwill call it.\n\nProp. 3. That, in addition to the interest money of the chapel so paid\noff, it shall not contribute less than ten shillings for every L100.\nof debt, till the whole of the debts are paid off the chapels in the\ncounty; by which means the deficiency of ten shillings in the pound\nwill be made up without distressing the churches.\n\nProp. 4. That any church whose lot it may fall to, at the Association,\nto have its debt paid, who shall the next year pay the half of its debt,\nshall be considered to have fulfilled its agreement, and shall be liable\nonly to its small contribution at the rate of ten shillings for every\nL100 debt so redeemed.\n\nProp. 5. That every church whose debt shall be paid off, shall bring\nforward sufficient and satisfactory security for the fulfilment of its\ncontract, which may be done by four or five persons joining together\nfor that purpose.\n\n\nEXPLANATION.\n\nSuppose the debt of a chapel which is paid off to be L600; the\nresponsible agents above referred to shall contribute annually, till it\narrives to L300, half the debt, when they will have fulfilled their\nagreement. But they must, from the first payment of interest till all\nthe chapels are out of debt, contribute ten shillings for every L100\nof debt, which sum, with the united exertions of the churches, will\nliquidate the other ten shillings in the pound. For instance: Suppose\nthe churches in one county to be thirty, an annual contribution of three\npounds from each will produce L90; this, added to the interest of the\nchapel so cleared, will make L120, to pay off the debt of another\nchapel, which shall also contribute to its interests, and small annual\ncontribution; and so on, till all the churches are out of debt. This\nplan is similar to lending money without interest, as the interest paid\nclears the principal, and the principal they will only have to pay at\nten shillings in the pound, the small annual contributions making up the\ndeficiency. A list of the churches and their debts should be placed\nevery year in the Magazines, with an account of the debts so reduced.\n\n                            A BAPTIST.\n _Nov. 12, 1834._\n\nP.S. Since writing the above, I have seen an article in the Magazine for\nthis month, which only confirms my opinion that something must be done,\nand that speedily, to effect this _great_ and desirable object.\n\n\n\n\n REMARKS ON A PAPER, ENTITLED\n \"ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF THE TERM MORAL.\"\n\n_To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._\n\n\nThe paper of W. N. in your November number, whilst it contains some\nvery valuable remarks on the abuse of the term _moral_, appears to\naim at overthrowing one particular instance of a very general abuse,\nand to strike at the branch, whilst it leaves the root to flourish\nwith the same vigour as before. The expression \"moral approbation and\ndisapprobation\" cannot be deemed an unnecessary application of the term\n_moral_, because approbation and disapprobation are frequently excited\nin the mind by _physical_ agents; and although Dr. Wardlaw, in the\npassage quoted above by W. N., refers the approbation and disapprobation\nto \"_moral_ agents,\" yet the phrase in question precedes that\napplication, and therefore the term \"moral\" renders the sentence more\nclear than it would be, were it needful for the reader to employ the\nconclusion of the sentence to explain the commencement. The instance\nquoted from the Quarterly Review is so gross an abuse of language, that\nlittle apprehension need be entertained of its repetition. The passage\nstands like the topmast of a ship-wrecked vessel, to warn others of\nthe shoal on which she was stranded. All the other instances used as\nillustrations in W. N.'s paper are examples of the evil attendant upon\na departure from one principle, viz.: That a simile should never be\nexplained. Of course, this principle presupposes another: That a\nsimile should never require explanation. In the two first instances\nadduced--\"The Lord God is a sun and shield,\" and \"Jesus said, I am the\ndoor\"--the beauty of the similes would be entirely destroyed by the use\nof the adjective _moral_, and the only reason why the fourth instance,\n\"A _moral_ blight,\" is not so glaring an abuse of language as the two\nformer is, that the term blight is so frequently used in a figurative\nsense, that, when it is so used, we are liable to forget that the\nexpression is figurative. But for this circumstance, the ridiculous\ncharacter of the phrase would be quite as obvious as the absurdity of\nspeaking of a moral apple, or moral plum. Another instance of the\ninelegance of explaining a simile is met with in the prayers of those\nwho quote from the Liturgy the passage \"We have done that which we ought\nnot to have done, and have left undone that which we ought to have done,\nand there is no health in us;\" but distort the original to \"there is no\n_spiritual_ health in us;\" thus destroying at once the strength and\nharmony of one of the finest specimens of forcible and beautiful\ncomposition which decorates English literature. In this case also, as in\nthat of \"moral blight,\" health is so often used in a figurative sense,\nthat we are apt to forget that the expression is a simile; or the phrase\n\"_spiritual_ health\" would sound as disagreeably as the commencement of\nthe same portion of the Liturgy, were it altered to \"We have erred and\nstrayed from thy _spiritual_ ways, like lost _spiritual_ sheep.\" All\nthese inaccuracies in composition proceed from attempts to explain\nsimiles, an attempt which ought to be cautiously avoided; because a\nsimile is an endeavour to explain or illustrate a subject by means of\nsome analogy subsisting between it and another subject; and it is\nevident, that an explanation or illustration which requires a further\nexplanation to make it intelligible, is much better omitted; and that an\nexplanation of that which is already clear, is a glaring instance of\ntautology, and, therefore, a gross defect in style.\n\n                                                    A.\n _November 20th, 1834_\n\n\n\n\nTHE DEPARTURE OF ANOTHER YEAR.\n\n_To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine._\n\n\nAnother year is gone! How solemn the reflection! How replete with\ninstruction! Times and seasons are passing away in rapid succession; and\namid the cares and avocations of the present, we seem in a great measure\ninsensible of our near approach to an eternal world. But we are assured\nthat \"_The day of the Lord will come_.\" The purpose for which the world\nwas created, and made the theatre of such mysterious and benevolent\ntransactions, will be accomplished; the reign of grace, in the salvation\nof men, will terminate; the influences of the Holy Spirit in their\nregeneration will be no longer necessary; the preaching of the gospel,\nas the ordained means of conversion, shall for ever cease. Then all\nmankind, that have lived from the beginning of the world, will enter on\na state of endless and unchangeable existence: some, in the presence of\nGod, will enjoy the most exquisite pleasures, and obtain \"an eternal\nweight of glory;\" while others will have their abode among unbelievers,\nand \"suffer the vengeance of eternal fire.\" \"Seeing, then, that all\nthese things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought we to be\nin all holy conversation and godliness!\"\n\nReader! the close of another year has brought you so much nearer the end\nof your probation on earth. In the space of a few months how many have\nperished under the stroke of death! Young and old, rich and poor, small\nand great, have gone down to the grave, where \"they rest together, and\nthe servant is free from his master.\" Before the close of 1835, what\nmultitudes, now in the prime of life, in the pursuit of pleasure, in the\npossession of riches, in the road to preferment, or having secured the\nobject of worldly ambition, will have passed into the unseen state, and\nrendered their account to God. The flight of _time_ calls upon the\ncareless and undecided to consider their ways, and turn unto the Lord.\n\nThe Christian, too, should testify his gratitude to God for his\ncontinued goodness, and \"lift up his head, for his redemption draweth\nnigh.\" With what seriousness and devotion should we attend to the duties\nof religion, so that \"whether we live, we may live to the Lord; or\nwhether we die, we may die to the Lord; that whether we live, or die,\nwe may be the Lord's!\" Let not this day come upon us unawares, and\nfind us in a state of carnal security; but may our loins be girded,\nour lamps burning, and ourselves like servants waiting for their Lord's\nreturn,--\"looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of\nthe great God and our Saviour, Jesus Christ.\" \"Wherefore, beloved, be\ndiligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and\nblameless.\"\n\n                                                 T. P.\n\n\n\n\nPOETRY.\n\n\nNEW YEAR'S DAY.\n\n    Time, the mundane sphere revolving,\n      Brings another New Year's Day;\n    Orb of light, 'mid lengthened shadows,\n      Glance one soft and lingering ray,\n        As we muse on\n    Days receding fast away.\n\n    Pledge of joys that may await us\n      In our future pilgrimage,\n    Or of heavenly consolation\n      That may coming griefs assuage,\n        To believers\n    Promised in the sacred page.\n\n    Many trials now are ended;\n      Many painful conflicts o'er;\n    Chequered scenes withdrawn for ever\n      That can please nor vex us more;\n        Memory only\n    Can the faded past restore.\n\n    Many dearest forms are sleeping\n      In the lone forsaken grave;\n    How we wept when them consigning\n      To the hand outstretched to save,\n        As they struggled\n    Through death's dark and gelid wave!\n\n    Many days of grace are ended,\n      How improved has been the past?\n    Time's rich grains are softly falling,\n      Soon may drop for us the last.\n        Changing seasons\n    Warn us that we change as fast.\n\n    O for happy preparation\n      For the joys that never fade!\n    For the everlasting mansion\n      Death and sin can ne'er invade!\n        In the likeness\n    Of our Lord we would be made.\n\n    As each new successive period\n      Hastes that last mysterious one,\n    Do we shudder, so much dreading\n      Things invisible, unknown?\n        Faith reposes\n    On the Saviour's cross alone.\n\n    Sweet to meet our friends in glory,\n      Tears for ever wiped away\n    By the guardian hand that leads us\n      Up the steep and narrow way,\n        Time's short circles\n    Lost in one eternal day!\n\n                            SARISSA.\n\n\nTHE SUMMONS.\n\n\"And I heard a voice from heaven.\"--REV. xiv. 13.\n\n    A voice was heard; a voice was heard;\n      It sounded from heaven's high throne;\n    And the murmuring air breathed along the swift word\n      Till on earth its dark import was known.\n    Though it thrill'd not the ears that were list'ning around,\n      Nor was heard by the spirits bereaved,\n    It conducted the soul from the region of death,\n    To receive, through the Saviour, the conqueror's wreath,\n      From its sin-woven fetters relieved.\n\n    A voice was heard; a voice was heard;\n      The spirit its summons obeyed;\n    And to sorrowing Friendship still echoes the word\n      While she weeps o'er the mouldering dead.\n    Not a tear can e'er start from those eyelids again;\n      Not a sigh can e'er heave from that breast:--\n    But reposing awhile on a pillow of clay,\n    It will waken renew'd, and then, bounding away,\n      Will ascend to the realms of the blest.\n\n    A voice was heard; a voice was heard;\n      A whisper,--a whisper from God;\n    And the soul caught with rapture the welcoming word\n      As it enter'd its blissful abode.\n    That voice that awoke from the death-sleep of sin,\n      And whisper'd, \"Thou too art forgiven,\"\n    Stole again on the ear in the accents of love,\n    Reassur'd of a home with its Father above,\n      And then wafted the spirit to heaven.\n\n                            [Greek: Thomas]\n\n\n\nREVIEWS.\n\n\n_Russia: or Miscellaneous Observations on the Past and Present State of\nthat Country and its Inhabitants. Compiled from Notes made on the Spot,\nduring Travels at different times in the Service of the Bible Society,\nand a Residence of many Years in that Country._ By ROBERT PINKERTON,\nD.D., Author of \"The Present State of the Greek Church in Russia,\" and\nForeign Agent to the British and Foreign Bible Society.--Seeley and\nSons; Hatchard and Son.\n\nA traveller, like a witness in court, should be competent and\nunexceptionable. Both these qualifications are indispensable to\nsecure the confidence of his reader, and the success of his work.\n\nDr. Pinkerton has very strong claims on the attention of the British\npublic. He resided in Russia many years. He lived in Moscow \"the greater\npart of the years 1810 and 1811, and left that city only forty-eight\nhours before the French entered it in 1812.\" He is the author of\n\"The Present State of the Greek Church in Russia.\" His travels in the\nservice of the British and Foreign Bible Society have been extensive at\ndifferent times. His being Foreign Agent to that Society, has given him\nfacilities of intercourse with the higher as well as the lower orders of\nthe inhabitants. He is personally well known to many of the clergy and\nof the nobility, and his intimate acquaintance with the language has\nenabled him to converse with people of all ranks. The work before us has\nbeen compiled from notes made on the spot. Of his competency, therefore,\nno one can entertain a doubt; and his high Christian character renders\nhim an unexceptionable witness. We anticipate for this volume a cordial\nwelcome, especially among the friends of the Bible Society. The\ninformation Dr. P. has given is clear, copious, and important. We shall\ntranscribe a few extracts which cannot fail to gratify our readers.\n\nThe territory of this vast empire has increased within the last 364\nyears nearly twenty-fold. According to the last statistical accounts,\nthe _population_ is upwards of fifty-four millions, of whom about\nthirty-six millions are native Russians, speaking the same language, and\nbelonging to the national or oriental church. The _military forces_ have\nalso increased nearly ten-fold within the last hundred years; and at the\npresent time are estimated at about 900,000.\n\nThe _spiritual academies_ and seminaries contain upwards of 30,000 young\nmen preparing for the sacred profession. Dr. P. says:--\n\n     \"It is much to be regretted that those young men have so\n     little time and opportunity, after finishing their academical\n     course, for making further progress in studies suited to\n     their profession. The cares of a family (for marriage must\n     indispensably precede ordination in the Russian church), their\n     labours among their flocks, the scanty support which most of\n     them receive, together with their isolated situation in country\n     villages, where few traces of education and civilized life have\n     yet entered, render this almost impracticable.\"\n\nThe _Jesuits_ were finally expelled from the empire in 1820. At that\ntime their number amounted to 674.\n\n     \"On their reaching the frontiers of the empire, the emperor\n     Alexander ordered them to be supplied with from thirty to forty\n     ducats each, to bear their expenses to some other place of\n     residence. But though this mighty force of papal agency was\n     removed from the Russian territories by one stroke of the\n     autocratic pen, yet the influence which they had acquired was\n     not so easily to be annihilated; and there is no doubt, that in\n     the succeeding intrigues which were played off so successfully\n     against the Russian Bible Society, their powerful friends in\n     the capital took a part.\" p. 62.\n\n_Drunkenness._ On this painful topic, the author has given most\nmelancholy information:--\n\n     \"Instead of restraining the use of brandy, the government, even\n     of the present day, affords every facility to the people to\n     obtain it, in order to enhance the gain derived from this\n     iniquitous source; which _amounts to nearly one-fourth of the\n     whole revenue of the empire_.\"\n\nFrom his calculation, it appears that there is \"the enormous quantity of\neighty-one millions of gallons of brandy alone drunk every year by the\npeasantry of this empire.\" pp. 75-77.\n\n_Baptism._ Dr. P. says:--\n\n     \"The cathedral church at Odessa is a noble building, in the\n     Grecian style, with domes and crosses. One day I entered it,\n     when the protopope, or dean, was baptizing an infant. The day\n     was excessively cold, there being upwards of ten degrees of\n     frost, and the water in the font almost freezing. After the\n     ceremony was over, I expressed to the priest my surprise that\n     they did not use tepid water, seeing the infant had to be three\n     times immersed over head and ears in the icy bath. He smiled at\n     my compassion, and exclaimed--'Ah, there is no danger: the\n     child is a Russian.' Indeed, such are the superstitious\n     opinions of the people, that were the chill taken off the\n     water, they would probably doubt the validity of the\n     ordinance.\" p. 153.\n\n     \"In Great Russia, the child is baptized usually in the\n     church, or in a private house; and the prayers, exorcisms, and\n     ceremonies attending this ordinance, are long and complicated.\n     The Greeks and Russians always use the trine immersion; the\n     first, in the name of the Father--the second, in that of the\n     Son--and the third in that of the Holy Ghost. When a priest\n     cannot be obtained, they permit lay-baptism; and they never\n     rebaptize on any account whatever.\"\n\nThe Duchobortzi sect has excited great attention:--\n\n     \"They make the sacraments consist only in a spiritual reception\n     of them, and therefore reject infant-baptism. Their origin is\n     to be sought for among the Anabaptists, or Quakers.\"\n\nIt appears, however, that\n\n     \"In the Ukraine, or Little Russia, it is customary also to\n     baptize by sprinkling or pouring water upon the body. This\n     change the Little Russians, many of whom are Uniats, adopted\n     from the Roman Catholics, when they were under the power of the\n     Polish government. However, in cases of necessity, even in\n     Great Russia, baptism by sprinkling or pouring water on the\n     body is practised, and held to be valid.\"\n\nIn a note, Dr. P. tells us he witnessed the baptism of an adult, in the\ncase of the Mongolian chief, Badma, who died in 1822. He was lying in\nbed, in a very weak state. Prince Galitzin was godfather. Instead of\nimmersion, water was poured on his head three times. Immediately after\nbaptism, he received the other sacrament: bread and wine, soaked\ntogether in a cup, and given with a spoon. The pious prince evidently\nfelt much; and when the dying man partook of the holy communion, he\nshed many tears. He died on the third day after his baptism.--p. 157.\n\n_Proverbs._ We can select only a few for the entertainment and\ninstruction of the reader.\n\n     Sin requires no teaching.\n\n     Thieves are not abroad every night; yet every night make fast.\n\n     Praise not thyself, nor dispraise.\n\n     Thou wilt not see all the world by looking out at thy own\n     window.\n\n     A fool can cast a stone where seven wise men cannot find it.\n\n     Two hares at once, and you catch neither.\n\n     His wealth is not on the barn-floor; it is in his brains.\n\n     At home, as I like it; in company, as others will have it.\n\n     They gave a naked man a shirt, and he says, 'How coarse it is!'\n\n     Hast thou a pie? Thou wilt soon have a friend at table.\n\n     The largest ass will not make an elephant.\n\n     'Freedom,' says the bird, 'though the cage be a golden one.'\n\n     Every soldier would be general--every sailor, admiral.\n\n     In travelling, and at their sports, men show what they are.\n\n     A _Greek_ speaks truth once in the year.\n\n     The cow has a long tongue, but she is not allowed to speak.\n\n     A golden bed will not relieve the sick.\n\n_Russian Bible Society._ Dr. P. speaks in the highest terms of the\nPrincess Sophia Mestchersky, who was among the first to encourage him to\nattempt, in 1811, the formation of a Bible Society in Moscow; which in\ntwo years was realized.\n\n     \"From this commencement in 1813 till my leaving Russia, the\n     princess had published ninety-three different pieces, amounting\n     to upwards of 400,000 copies, on religious and moral subjects,\n     which together form eight volumes, 8vo., and which were\n     gratuitously distributed, or sold at low prices.\"\n\nAmong these are the principal publications of the London Religious Tract\nSociety.\n\nA very favourable account of the religious character of the late emperor\nAlexander is given, chiefly from the communications of the illustrious\nprincess above mentioned, and written by her at the time of his death.\n\nThe Russian Bible Society was founded in St. Petersburg, on the 23rd of\nJanuary, 1813, and continued in full activity about twelve years under\nthe patronage of Alexander. During the last three years of his reign, he\nwas powerfully counteracted by a strong party formed among the principal\nnobility and clergy. There were, too, conspirators forming diabolical\nplans against the peace of the empire, who misrepresented to the\ngovernment the character and labours of the friends of religion and of\nBible Institutions, to turn away attention from themselves, and their\nown wicked revolutionary designs. But the mind of Alexander was not\nchanged.\n\nWhen Nicholas his brother came to the throne, the plots of the party\nabove referred to were happily overthrown. But unhappily Seraphim, the\nmetropolitan, with several other prelates, and one or two fanatical\nmonks, had for some years entertained unfriendly feelings towards the\nInstitution. The new emperor's Ukaz was published in 1826.\n\nIt is gratifying, however, to find that on the 14th of March, 1831, a\nnew Bible Society, exclusively for the Protestants in the Russian\nempire, was formed at St. Petersburg, with the sanction of the present\nemperor; and that the president is Prince Lieven, the minister for\npublic instruction,\n\n     \"A protestant nobleman of true piety, who laboured in the cause\n     with indefatigable zeal, during the whole period of the\n     existence of the national institution.\"\n\nWe have been surprised and delighted to observe Dr. P. speaking of the\npresent emperor as\n\n     \"Wise, energetic, and humane,\" \"who has begun a reform in\n     the courts of justice;\" \"a man of penetration, energy, and\n     benevolence; who has already given many pleasing proofs of\n     his sincere desire to advance the spiritual interests of the\n     Russian people;\" \"the determined courage and wise management\n     of the young emperor,\" &c.--pp. 348, 389, 392.\n\nSurely, then, we may hope the national Bible Society will yet be\nrestored.\n\nThe appendix contains seven sermons, as specimens of the style of\npreaching among the Russian clergy; and the plates, illustrative of\nthe dress and amusements of the people, are from a collection of\nlithographic costumes which the author brought with him from Russia.\n\n\n1. _An Examination of the Practice of Infant Baptism, designed to prove\nthat it is inconsistent with the Principles of the New Testament:\nrespectfully proposed for the consideration of all those who are\ndesirous of a Scriptural Reformation of the Church; and who are prepared\nto follow Truth wherever it may lead._ By a MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF\nENGLAND. pp. 123.--Hatchard.\n\n2. _A Sermon on the Nature and Subjects of Christian Baptism._ By\nADONIRAM JUDSON, D.D., Burmah, p. 84.--Wightman.\n\nBefore assent is yielded to the result of any \"examination,\" it is\nimportant, besides cautiously considering the nature and amount of\nevidence which has been adduced in its favour, to reflect on the\nrelative position which, as it respects the particular subject of\ninvestigation, the examiner has occupied in pursuing the object of his\ninquiry, and in relation to which he has now arrived to a conclusion he\nis anxious--on account (as he believes) of its accordance with divine\ntruth--should influence the conduct of others. If it be undoubted that\nhis education, his tastes, his connexions, and even his prejudices, were\nall on the side of that conviction which he professes to have derived\nfrom patient and persevering research, it seems not unreasonable to\nrequire a copiousness and strength of argument, in its support, which,\nwere all the circumstances affecting his relation to it decidedly\nunfavourable, would, perhaps, scarcely be deemed necessary.\n\nWhen, however, we witness the comparatively rare occurrence of an\nindividual, surrounded with almost every description of temptation\nto stifle conviction, and, by his silence at least, to perpetuate a\ncorruption in the Christian church, which for ages has been protected\nby legislative authority, popular favour, and implicit faith, not only\nnobly triumphing over every inducement to compromise the interests of\ntruth by refusing to surrender himself to its acknowledged claims, but\nventuring forth, and assailing error in its most splendid fastness, and\npursuing it to its final retreat; and that to, by the employment of\narguments whose overwhelming force is partly derived from the peculiar\nsuavity with which they are urged, we are unable to resist such an\noccasion for exclaiming, \"This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous\nin our eyes.\"\n\nThe publications which have occasioned these reflections, whose titles\nare placed at the head of this article, appear to us to present more\nthan ordinary claims to public consideration. The perspicuity of their\nstyle, the force of their arguments, and especially the thoroughly\nChristian temper which pervades them throughout, cannot fail, if they be\nread, to secure commendation, even where they fail to convince. We can\neasily suppose it possible to find persons who may affect to despise\nwhat is thus, with every circumstance adapted to excite respect, urged\nupon their attention; but that any well-constituted mind, whatever be\nits ultimate conclusion on the subject, can treat these pamphlets with\nindifference, as though that to which they relate were unimportant, or\nthat they were defective in truth and candour, is what we are extremely\nunwilling to believe. At the same time, we most frankly acknowledge\nthat, owing to certain inconveniences, and, perhaps, even consequences,\nwhich we conceive might arise, in some instances at least, from a\nthorough and an impartial investigation of the evidence adduced by these\nrespective and respectable writers in support of their principles, we\nare not altogether without apprehension, that by something approaching\nto a profound silence in certain quarters, or it may be by something\neven more beneath the dignity of Christian criticism, the powerful,\nthough eminently temperate, appeals of these luminous pages may obtain a\nperusal far less extensive than is consistent either with the interests\nof truth, or the merits of its advocates.\n\nDeprecating such a result of these distinguished efforts, we enter upon\na more particular notice of the first of these publications. The author\ndesignates himself \"a member of the Church of England;\" and his design\nis \"to prove that it is inconsistent with the principles of the New\nTestament\" to baptize unconscious infants. The work is divided into ten\nsections, prefaced by a most respectful but spirit-stirring letter \"to\nthe Editor of the Christian Observer.\" From this admirable appeal we\nextract as follows:--\n\n     \"This work is the result of many reflections, excited at\n     different times, through a long series of years, by the reading\n     of many articles and discussions in the Christian Observer. The\n     practice of admitting infants to the sacrament of baptism, I\n     apprehend, must appear to almost all reflecting persons, at\n     some times, to be of a very dubious character; and if it shall\n     appear that the fair tendency of those parts of your work which\n     I refer to, is to render it still more so, then I am persuaded\n     that you will allow that the publication is, without\n     impropriety, thus offered to your notice.\"\n\nHe adds:--\n\n     \"The question respecting the propriety of admitting infants to\n     the sacrament of baptism must, I conceive, before long, become\n     a subject of grave discussion _within_ the church. Then the\n     real importance of the question will become manifest, and it\n     will be found necessary that it should be more comprehensively\n     considered in all its bearings, than it has hitherto been. With\n     regard to the question, as it stands between the church and the\n     Antipaedobaptist party, excepting the question--whether it is\n     the duty of Christian governors to promote Christianity--this,\n     respecting infant baptism, is of more real importance than _all\n     others_ in dispute between the church and _orthodox_\n     dissenters.\n\n     \"The reading of the papers in an early volume of your work, on\n     Dr. Taylor's Key to the Apostolical Writings, first excited\n     the reflections which led to my determination to offer, for the\n     consideration of the Christian public, some thoughts on the\n     subject of infant baptism.\"\n\nAgain, in this introductory letter, we read:--\n\n     \"Never before, in any way, were so large a number of\n     persons, so competent to the task, brought together for its\n     consideration. In your volumes, men of the deepest piety, of\n     fine talents, and with minds every way prepared for the\n     consideration of the subject, have laboured to produce the\n     scriptural elucidation of the baptismal grace. I am persuaded\n     that I should not exaggerate, if I were to say that if all the\n     divines in Christendom had been assembled at the commencement\n     of the present century, and had held as many sessions as the\n     council of Trent, for the purpose of settling this question,\n     the controversy would not have been so happily conducted as it\n     has been in your pages, nor pursued to a more satisfactory\n     result. But what is the result? Notwithstanding that nothing\n     is so manifest as the effects of the operation of divine grace,\n     for wheresoever it does operate the effects are 'known and read\n     of all men,' yet in answer to the inquiry, 'What are the nature\n     and consequences of the grace communicated by the Holy Spirit\n     in baptism?' the Christian Observer, with all its voices\n     united, declares, 'We cannot tell.' This issue of the matter is\n     virtually avowed by yourself incidentally in a short sentence\n     in the number for October, 1833, where you say, 'The Church of\n     England certainly assumes far more than the _nudum signum_,\n     though it does not go to the length of the _opus operatum_.'\n     Within these boundaries, then, it is admitted that the proper\n     place of rest is not yet discovered.\"\n\nAnd yet once more:\n\n     \"I now, Sir, with great humility, beg to submit that the church\n     has made its utmost efforts in this inquiry--that every thing\n     respecting it has been concentrated in your volumes; that the\n     best Christian talents have been bestowed upon it in vain, up\n     to the conclusion of the first third part of the nineteenth\n     century, and to the commencement of the fourth century of the\n     Reformation, and that, therefore, it is a fair conclusion that\n     further inquiry is quite hopeless, the imagined baptismal grace\n     for unconscious infants being manifestly an undiscoverable,\n     non-existent thing. I wish here to add, that a reference to\n     obvious facts leads inevitably to the same conclusion. In the\n     all-wise providence of the great Head of the church, the matter\n     has been brought to the test of experiment, which has been\n     going on upon a sufficiently large scale for more than two\n     centuries in this country. Two Christian parties have\n     conscientiously refrained from having their children baptized;\n     so that, if the baptizing of infants were accompanied with any\n     measure of the Holy Spirit's influence, the effects would have\n     been rendered quite evident by the contrast. But what do facts\n     declare! What spiritual advantages do baptized children\n     discover themselves to be possessed of which unbaptized\n     children do not possess, in cases where all other things are\n     equal! Surely all fair Christian observers of the dispensations\n     of the King of grace in his church, must be constrained to\n     allow that the advantages are undiscernible, and therefore can\n     have no existence.\"\n\nThere is still another passage in this sensible and truly Christian\nletter, which we must be allowed to present to our readers.\n\n     \"It may be assumed that I have come to a wrong conclusion;\n     but, I presume, it will be admitted to be desirable that the\n     question I have considered should be more satisfactorily\n     settled than it is at present, and if, as I trust it will\n     appear, that I have examined it under no influence but the\n     love of truth, it may be allowed that the work may be useful in\n     assisting others to come to a _right_ conclusion. Every man who\n     treats a subject honestly, does something to put it in a right\n     point of view. I confess, I cannot now hope that, if I am\n     wrong, I shall live to be convinced of it; but truly I feel no\n     interest in error, and I take no pleasure in differing from\n     ministers and brethren in Christ; so that, if I were convinced\n     of being wrong, I could renounce my present opinions with more\n     ease than I can now divest myself of a garment.\"\n\nWhether the able writer to whom these respectful and impressive appeals\nare made, will so far resist their influence as to make no reply, and\nattempt no vindication from the charge of a destructive error, so\ndistinctly brought against the church of which he is a member, remains\nto be seen; yet, after reading the powerful pages to which the preceding\nextracts are prefixed, if it be expected that the Scriptures\n_exclusively_ are to be admitted as evidence in repelling the\naccusation, we must confess ourselves utterly at a loss to conceive how\nit is possible that any satisfactory _answer_ should be given. But if\nour author cannot be answered, let him at least be heard. He says:--\n\n     \"In the present day, no intelligent evangelical writer would\n     think of advancing such things as Hooker and some other eminent\n     and good men have said on the subject of baptism. Men of\n     reflection and genuine Christian character now perceive\n     themselves here to be but in cloudy regions, where mighty\n     minds have strangely bewildered themselves, and refrain from\n     venturing distinct speculations and positive assertions. They\n     do not come forward with anything like the confidence of their\n     predecessors. They speak strongly against the _opus operatum_\n     of Papists, and papistical Protestants; and though they would\n     not be thought to deny that grace is, in some way, connected\n     with baptism in the case of infants, yet they frequently make\n     it evident that they would rather escape from close discussion.\n     There is a remarkable instance of this in the Bampton Lectures\n     of the late Dr. Heber, Bishop of Calcutta. He says: 'Both grace\n     and comfort, if they are not necessarily inherent in the\n     washing of regeneration, and the eucharistic bread and wine,\n     may at least be attained by a proper use of those means.'\n     Surely this obscure and doubtful passage, on a subject simple\n     and apprehensible enough in Holy Scripture, is something\n     different to what ought to be expected from a profoundly\n     learned ruler of the church. What Christian ever thought of\n     denying that grace and comfort might be attained by a proper\n     use of these ordinances? On the other hand, are we to be driven\n     to the mortification of supposing that, in the present day,\n     others beside Papists can be induced to suppose that grace and\n     comfort can be _necessarily inherent_ in any thing material?\n     Upon the whole, I think it is evident to an observer, that\n     there is some hesitation and want of confidence among thinking\n     members of the church with regard to this view of baptism: yet\n     the idea of a mysterious connexion between the _materiel_ (if I\n     may use the word) of the ordinances and divine grace, has by no\n     means lost its hold of the mind; which is in a great measure\n     owing to the magic influence of imaginary sacred words. Such\n     terms as 'elements,' 'holy mysteries,' have a strange effect in\n     causing men to feel as though it would be sacrilegious and\n     presumptuous to open their eyes, and view those divine\n     institutions in the light of Scripture.\n\n     \"But the imagination, that the application of the ordinance of\n     baptism to unconscious infants is a divinely appointed medium\n     of grace to them, is so incompatible with real facts, that a\n     philanthropic Christian, who looks around, and has his heart\n     affected by the real state of society, even in this country, if\n     he could at that moment be brought closely to reconsider this\n     opinion, which, at other moments, when facts are forgotten,\n     raise delightful feelings in his mind, could not but have his\n     eyes open to the fallacy:--the illusion would vanish at once.\n     If baptism were a divinely appointed medium of spiritual good\n     to the minds of infants, then its beneficial tendency must\n     appear in the development of children in Christian countries.\n     If this manifestly appeared to be the case, all controversy\n     would be at an end. But do the instructors of youth discover\n     it? Has the warmest advocate for the practice of baptizing\n     children ever ventured such an assertion? And if infants grow\n     up, believe, and are baptized, is it conceivable that their\n     heavenly lot will be at all worse than that of those who were\n     baptized in their infancy; or that, if they die unbaptized,\n     without any fault of their own, they will in any wise suffer\n     for the omission? Now if all these questions be answered in\n     the negative, as undoubtedly they must, what becomes of the\n     imaginary paradise of blessings and privileges to which baptism\n     is to introduce the millions of our infants? Why should the\n     holy Lord God, our Saviour, be represented as mocking his\n     church by promises of mysterious, pompous nothings?\" pp. 65-69.\n\nThus it is that this author remonstrates with the members of his own\ncommunion. But does he neglect to extend the application of the argument\nto other Paedobaptists? The reader shall be put in possession of the\nmeans of judging.\n\n     \"But if the Church of England rests this practice on such\n     insufficient grounds, how do the Paedobaptist Congregationalists\n     support the practice? They appear to me to have scarcely any\n     ground at all which they can acknowledge, consistently with\n     their fundamental principles as Congregationalists. They are\n     supported in the practice wholly by clinging to custom, and by\n     borrowing the arguments of the advocates of national churches\n     just for an occasion. It is quite inconsistent with their\n     principles to acknowledge such a visible church as infants are\n     professedly introduced to by baptism. They recognise no such\n     church, except on the occasion of baptizing their children.\n     They admit of no officers, and allow no government, for such a\n     church. They consider all apparently unconnected persons as\n     belonging only to the world, and admit their own children to\n     become members of their churches exactly in the same way as\n     they would a stranger coming from a country not professing\n     Christianity; except that, in their case, they are saved the\n     ceremony of baptizing, which is the divinely appointed way of\n     admission into a visible church. National ecclesiastical\n     establishments, which yet unavoidably resulted from the\n     practice of infant baptism, they hold to be altogether\n     anti-scriptural, and founded upon an anti-christian union\n     of church and state. They have, therefore, no reasonable\n     pretence for arguing for the practice from the appointment of\n     circumcision, which can with consistency be used only by those\n     who think that Christianity was designed to have a secular,\n     external character. Some of them, indeed, seem ashamed of this\n     obvious inconsistency, and have recourse to an imaginary\n     distinction between the covenant of redemption and the covenant\n     of grace; and instead of professing that by baptism they make\n     their children members of the visible church, they assert that\n     by doing so they place them visibly within the one covenant,\n     though not within the other. But a serious refutation of such a\n     notion can hardly be necessary; it may be classed with other\n     unintelligible and unauthorized imaginations.\n\n     \"The members of the church, retaining their veneration for the\n     notions respecting the sacraments established as catholic in\n     the primitive ages, have some specious ground of hope that\n     the administration of the ordinance to their infants will be\n     accompanied with a communication of grace, in consequence of\n     the imagined occult connexion between the 'elements' and the\n     grace of the ordinance, they have, with something like a\n     pretence of reason, expected that their children might thereby\n     be made members of Christ, children of God, and heirs of the\n     kingdom of heaven. They are persuaded that it is consistent\n     with truth to speak of baptism for infants as 'the washing of\n     regeneration,' the laver of regeneration--the well-spring of\n     divine life, &c., &c., and that in this matter they rightly\n     exercise Christian submission in following 'the sacramental\n     host of God's elect.' But the Independents have no pretence of\n     the kind for this application of a holy ordinance to infants.\n     They expect their children to derive no benefit from it, other\n     than what they would derive through their prayers, and from\n     the blessing of God in bringing them up in the nurture and\n     admonition of the Lord. They renounce all deference to catholic\n     authority in matters of religion and conscience, and profess to\n     believe that all the light which the case requires is to be\n     found in the Scriptures, and that it is dangerous to follow any\n     other. They have also no more right to use the argument drawn\n     from the baptism of households, than they have that drawn from\n     circumcision: they are both founded on the same principle--an\n     assumption that the doors of the Christian visible church\n     have been opened by our Lord himself to the unconscious and\n     unconverted, in diametrical opposition to the principles on\n     which they found their opposition to the established church.\n     Surely it cannot be, that wise master-builders should much\n     longer employ themselves in daubing this papal wall with\n     untempered mortar.\" p. 39-92.\n\nWe are decidedly of opinion that whoever may take upon himself to reply\nseriously to these statements, will find the undertaking to be neither\nquite easy nor very agreeable. It may not be improper to state that this\nis a new and somewhat enlarged edition of a work, published several\nyears ago, by the same author.\n\nDr. Judson's sermon, which is also a reprint, is perspicuous, elaborate,\nand irrefragable.\n\n\n1. _The Management of Bees, with a Description of the Ladies' Safety\nHive: with Forty Illustrative Engravings._ By SAMUEL BAGSTER, JUN.,\npp. 244. Bagster.\n\n2. _Spiritual Honey from Natural Hives; or Meditations and Observations\non the Natural History and Habits of Bees: first introduced to public\nnotice in 1657._ By SAMUEL PURCHASE, M.A. pp. 176.--Bagster.\n\nThe worthy editor of these volumes has, we think, exercised a sound\ndiscretion in publishing them separately. To the initiated in apiarian\nresearch, \"The Management of Bees\" cannot fail to be highly interesting.\nFor our own part, we must confess that, if certain minute descriptions\nwhich may possibly offend a refined moral sensibility, could have been\nomitted, we should have considered the work more valuable on that\naccount. Perhaps our hint may prove available for a future edition.\nWith this exception, we would most cordially recommend this production\nto the perusal of our readers generally; and to those who are engaged\nin the study of that part of natural history to which it refers,\nespecially. The engravings are exceedingly creditable to the talent\nof the artist.\n\nAs to the \"Meditations\" contained in the other volume, they are\naltogether above our praise. They are eminently instructive and pious,\nadmirably calculated to secure the attention even of the thoughtless,\nand to promote, in a very high degree, the pleasure and the profit of\nthe considerate. In confirmation, we present our readers with the\nfollowing specimen:\n\n     \"If the bee lights upon a flower where there is no honey\n     (being wasted or gathered before), she quickly gets off, and\n     flies away to another that will furnish her. Let us not lose\n     ourselves and forget our errand: our father, Adam, lost our\n     happiness, and we are sent to seek it; seek it where it is, and\n     go handsomely to work; say, I am not for riches, they are made\n     for me; I am not for creatures, they are made for me, and I am\n     their master; therefore these cannot make me happy: I am made\n     for eternity, for everlasting life and happiness; therefore,\n     let me study that; mind that end beyond inferior ends. Why do\n     men seek wealth, but to be happy? Why pleasures, why honours,\n     but because they would be happy? If these things cannot bless\n     and enhappy me, why should I burn daylight? why should I not\n     off them, as the bee gets off the plants that yield her no\n     honey, and once, at last, see where my happiness lies, in\n     pursuing happiness, and where my happiness lies, in God's ways;\n     the first step whereof is poverty of spirit?\" p. 22.\n\nWe hope these valuable reflections will be often reprinted.\n\n\n_Poems on Sacred Subjects._ By MARIA GRACE SAFFERY. Hamilton and Co.;\nDarton and Harvey.\n\nThese poems are from the pen of the widow of the late Rev. John Saffery,\nof Salisbury, whose name is still fragrant there, and in many other\nplaces; whose zealous labours of love in our Bengal Mission, and in the\npropagation of the gospel in Ireland, will long be remembered.\n\nRich in Scripture knowledge and in Christian experience, with a lively\nimagination and a great command of language, the writer has poured out\nher melodious strains from the fulness of her heart.\n\nMost of the subjects are taken from the Old Testament or the New, and\nthe versification embraces a great variety of metres, with the ease and\nsweetness almost peculiar to female writers. The whole book of Jonah is\nfinely illustrated in a series of poems which cannot fail to please.\n\nThis little volume is introduced by a modest preface, and a \"Sonnet\ninscribed to the memory of the Rev. J. Saffery,\" which is worth\ntranscribing:--\n\n    \"Thou hadst a soul for melody to greet,\n    When thou wert here, among the weary-hearted;\n    And thoughts of thee are like sweet sounds departed,\n    That visit time with echoes,--and repeat\n    Strains that were breath'd beside my pilgrim feet;\n    As if I heard the voice of my past years,\n    And thou wert singing in this vale of tears.\n    But 'tis not in the desert we shall meet--\n    And who would wish thee where the world is weeping?\n    Thou hast a blessed minstrelsy on high.\n    The lyre of praise, o'er which thy song is sweeping,\n    Hath not a pause like mine--a pause to sigh.\n    Harps strung for holiest themes to both are given;\n    But mine is tun'd on earth--and thine, in heaven.\"\n\nMany others are exquisitely sweet. We have been particularly pleased\nwith one on Jonathan's friendship, which concludes thus:--\n\n    \"O chieftain! in thy life was seen\n    That friendship in immortal mould,\n    To which ambition's hope is mean,\n    And woman's kindest thought is cold.\n\n    \"Gilboa! let thy mountain-heath\n    Like Jesse's gentle harp complain;\n    There Israel's beauty bow'd in death,\n    There Jonathan, the friend, was slain!\"\n\nThe work is very neatly got up, and we are glad to observe that the\nsubscribers' names are numerous, and highly respectable.\n\n\n\n\nRELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.\n\n\nAN APPEAL TO CHRISTIAN LADIES, IN BEHALF OF FEMALE EDUCATION IN CHINA,\nINDIA, AND THE EAST.\n\nFrom the last census taken by the Chinese government in 1813, it appears\nthat the population of that empire was then 362,447,183; a population\nmore than twenty times as great as that of Greenland, Labrador, the\nCanadas, the West Indies, the South Sea Islands, the Cape, Madagascar,\nGreece, Egypt, Abyssinia, and Ceylon,--_i.e._, more than twenty times as\nlarge as nearly the whole field of Christian missions, India and the\nEast being excepted.\n\nIn 1821, the missionary, Dr. Milne, calculated the population of Cochin\nChina, Corea, Loo-choo, Japan, and other districts tributary to China,\nto be about 60,000,000. If there should be in those countries, with\nBurmah and Siam, only 20,000,000 instead of 60,000,000, they form\nan important field of missionary labour. The British subjects of\ncontinental and ultra-Gangetic India, are 77,743,178; the population\nmore or less under British influence in India, is 33,994,000; making\na total under British influence in India, of 111,736,178. Of the 362\nmillions of the Chinese empire, probably 150 millions are females; and\namong the 111 millions of India there are about 50 millions more; so\nthat, in these two countries, there are 200 millions of heathen females\ndemanding our commiseration and Christian care.\n\nThe condition of the Chinese women is thus described by the missionary\nGutzlaff:--\"Such a general degradation in religion makes it almost\nimpossible that females should have their proper rank in society.\nThey are the slaves and concubines of their masters, live and die in\nignorance, and every effort to raise themselves above the rank assigned\nthem, is regarded as impious arrogance. As long as mothers are not the\ninstructors of their children, and wives are not the companions of\ntheir husbands, the regeneration of this great empire will proceed very\nslowly.\" As might be expected, suicide is a refuge to which thousands of\nthese ignorant idolaters fly. \"The unnatural crime of infanticide is so\ncommon among them, that it is perpetrated without any feeling, and even\nin a laughing mood. There is also carried on a regular traffic in\nfemales.\"\n\nThe condition of the Hindoo women is, if possible, worse. They are\ntreated as slaves, may not eat with their husbands, and are expressly\npermitted by law to be beaten. Degraded and despised, they naturally\nsink towards the level assigned them by public opinion. They have no\nmental employment whatever; and being very much excluded by the extreme\njealousy of which they are the objects, from missionary instruction, it\nappears that their miserable condition must be perpetuated, till Hindoo\nsociety undergoes a radical change, unless they be improved by Christian\nschools.\n\nTo meet these necessities, a society has been formed of ladies of\nvarious denominations, united together by Christian piety, for the\nwretched female population whom they wish to elevate and bless. Some of\nthe objects to which the Committee will direct their attention, are the\nfollowing:\n\n1. To collect and to diffuse information on the subject.\n\n2. To prepare and send out pious and intelligent women, as trainers and\nsuperintendents of the native female teachers.\n\n3. To assist those who may be anxious to form female schools in\naccordance with the rules of this society, by grants of money, books,\nand superintendence.\n\nWhat Christian lady, to whom this appeal may come, will refuse her\nco-operation in so good a work! To aid the beneficent legislation of\na paternal government in the improvement of so large a population\ncommitted to our care; to rescue the weak from oppression, and to\ncomfort the miserable in their sorrow; to give to the infant population\nof India, and of China, the blessings of maternal wisdom and piety; to\nteach the men of those nations, that those who are now their degraded\nslaves, may be their companions, counsellors, and friends; to disgrace,\nby a knowledge of the rudiments of European science, those fabulous and\npolluted legends of their sacred books, which are at variance with\ngeographical and astronomical facts; to make them acquainted with the\nBible, which now they cannot read; to place them under the instruction\nof the missionary, from whom they are at present excluded; to bring them\nto the knowledge of Christ, and to prove that his grace can do more in\na few years to bless them, than centuries of heathenism could do to\ndegrade them;--these are the great objects which carried Mrs. Wilson\nto the children of Hindostan, and Miss Wallace to those of China: but,\nwhile \"the harvest truly is plenteous, the labourers are few.\" Other\nwomen of equal capacity, and who can show the same perseverance\nspringing from compassion and faith, must follow the good example.\nAnd if they offer themselves to this work of the Lord, will not the\nChristian women of this country, by sending them forth, and supporting\nthem in their work, show to the continent and the world, that gratitude\nto God and to Christ for the blessings of providence and grace, can\nkindle in their hearts an earnest and self-denying pity for those who,\nthough they speak in other tongues, and are separated from us by half\nthe earth's circumference, are yet as capable of joy and sorrow as\nourselves, and are among those to whom our Redeemer has commanded that\nthe gospel should be preached?\n\nWives, who are happy in the affection and esteem of your husbands;\nmothers, who enjoy your children's reverence and gratitude; children,\nwho have been blessed by a mother's example, and a mother's care;\nsisters, who have found in brothers your warmest friends; Christian\nwomen, who feel that you can lend to society its charm, and receive from\nit a loyal courtesy in return; protected, honoured, and loved--impart\nyour blessings to those who are miserable because they are without them.\nIf your minds are intelligent and cultivated--if your lives are useful\nand happy--and if you can look for a blessed immortality beyond the\ngrave, do not, for the love of Christ, whose sufferings have been the\nsource of all your blessings, and of all your hopes, do not refuse to\nmake Him known, that the degraded millions of the East may, like you, be\n\"blessed in Him,\" and, like you, may \"call him blessed.\"\n\nThose readers who desire further information may obtain it from Mr.\nSuter, 19, Cheapside; by whom contributions will be thankfully received.\n\n\nEXTRACT FROM THE FORTY-FIFTH QUARTERLY REGISTER OF THE BAPTIST HOME\nMISSION.\n\nThe Committee of this Society desire, humbly and thankfully, to\nacknowledge the goodness of God for the many favourable openings which\nappear for the \"_spread of the gospel at home_.\"\n\nWhilst they deeply regret that, for want of means, they cannot employ\nmore labourers, they gratefully record some unexpected supplies to their\nexhausted funds; they indulge the hope that many of their fellow\nChristians will follow the example of their friend, Mr. Nice, and\nothers, who have nobly come to the help of the Lord in time of need.\n\nThe following extract from the Report of the Auxiliary Society for\n_Exeter and North Devon_ will, it is hoped, be acceptable as a specimen\nof that work which all true Christians pray may prosper.\n\n\"At _Torrington_, our brother PULSFORD still continues to carry on the\nwork of the Lord with the true spirit of a laborious minister of the\nword, ever zealous in the work, and watching for the salvation of souls;\nand the great Head of the church has again honoured him with the reward\nof his labours. Possessed with heartfelt love for souls, he appears to\nhave continually before him, as his motto, 'Work while it is day; for\nthe night cometh in which no man can work;' he is instant in season and\nout of season. From his letter of the 15th inst., we make the following\nextract:--'I have great pleasure in stating that the Lord in his great\nmercy continues to bless our feeble instrumentality, thirty-two have\nbeen brought to the knowledge of the truth, and added to the church by\nbaptism since October last; and we continue to carry the word of life\ninto thirteen villages, in many of which the power and glory of God are\nseen and felt. Glory be to his name. At _Langtree_, we have long mourned\nthe lack of room, but I am happy to state that a chapel which will\ncontain about 150 is nearly finished. At _Langtree Wick_ we want to do\nthe same, and trust that the great Head of the church will prepare the\nway for our doing so before long. At _St. Giles_, we have added another\nroom to the one we occupied; and at _Hatherleigh_ we have baptized ten,\nand as many more appear to be converted to God, and will follow the\nLord in that delightful ordinance soon. Our new place of worship at\nHatherleigh is covered in, and things wear a very pleasing aspect. O for\nthe downpouring of the Holy Spirit, that the sacred fire may spread from\nvillage to village, and from town to town, till the whole world shall be\nfull of the glory of God! Nothing is wanting to obtain this, but the\nhearty co-operation of all our churches in the great work--the entering\ninto religion with _all_ the heart, and _all_ the soul, each one laying\nhimself or herself out for God, and the eternal welfare of their\nfellow-creatures. We have four Sunday-schools, in which 280 children are\ntaught the word and way of God, and we trust will yield a future harvest\nto the church.'\"\n\n\nTHE BISHOP OF LONDON AND THE DISSENTERS.\n\n(_From the Times._)\n\nA second edition of a \"Remonstrance addressed to the Lord Bishop of\nLondon, on the Sanction given, in his late Charge to the Clergy of that\nDiocese, to the Calumnies against the Dissenters contained in certain\nLetters signed L. S. E.,\" has recently appeared, with the respectable\nname of Mr. Charles Lushington. The letters referred to, which are\naddressed to a Dissenting minister of the Congregational denomination,\nand written, it appears, by a clergyman of the church of England, might\nwell be mistaken for a subtle and refined ruse of a bitter enemy of that\nchurch. At a moment when the feelings of the Dissenters are wrought up\nto intense excitement by a sense of wrong from grievances unredressed,\nan individual of that class who teach from the pulpit that a man who\nlacketh charity lacketh every thing, has had the daring effrontery to\nvomit forth a mass of rancorous scurrility against the whole Dissenting\nbody, especially its teachers, applying to them epithets proscribed in\nalmost every species of polemical warfare, except that carried on by\nCarlile and his party, detailing disgusting anecdotes thinly veiled in\nthe decency of a Latin translation, excluding them from the pale of\nChristianity, and proclaiming that \"the curse of God rests heavily upon\nthem!\" It is to be regretted that there are a few individuals of the\nletter-writer's class, men who have exchanged the sword for the gown, or\nwho desire to transform the pen into the sword; but these intolerant\nzealots, so long as their acts are not countenanced by their superiors,\ndo but little mischief. The letters in question, however, have been\nspecifically recommended in a note appended to the late charge of the\nBishop of London, as \"containing a great deal of useful information and\nsound reasoning, set forth with a little too much warmth of invective\nagainst the Dissenters.\" Mr. Lushington, who avows himself a member of\nthe church of England, has had the candour and manliness to step forward\nand publicly vindicate the Dissenters from the effects of such a\nrecommendation of such a work, suggesting, at the same time, \"some\npolitical and Christian considerations, which should operate to secure\nfor those calumniated persons a little more conciliatoriness from their\nopponents, and a far greater measure of justice from their judges.\" He\nshows what the Dissenters have done, and are doing, to supply the\ndeficiencies of the established church; he disproves the accusation\nthat the Dissenters, as a body, seek to destroy that church, which\nwould be repugnant to the system to which they owe their distinction\nas a religious body; and he suggests that, if the religious wants of\nthe community are to be adequately supplied, it must be by one of three\nplans--either by the establishment and other sects, as at present; or by\nthe establishment alone, all other sects being merged, comprehended, or\nput down; or by the episcopal church and other denominations, without an\nestablishment. He assumes that the second is impracticable, inasmuch as\nthe establishment could not be extended, on the basis of taxation, so as\nto meet the wants of the population, and the sects could not be merged\nor put down. The choice is, therefore, between the first, which\nrenders the Dissenters necessary as auxiliaries, and therefore to be\nconciliated; and the third, which would reduce the church of England\nto the dimensions of an episcopal, but non-established, church. Such\nfrenzied partisans as \"L. S. E.\" would be more likely to bring about\nthe third alternative than the second.\n\n\nEXTRACT FROM A CORRESPONDENT'S LETTER, ADDRESSED TO THE RIGHT REV. THE\nLORD BISHOP OF LONDON.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nIn the notes appended to your Lordship's Charge, delivered at the\nlast visitation, reference is made to a work, entitled, \"Letters to a\nDissenting Minister, &c., by L. S. E.\" It is most prudently admitted,\nthat the work contains \"too much sharpness of invective against the\ndissenters;\" your Lordship has, however, added, \"I recommend the\npublication as containing a great deal of useful information and\nsound reasoning.\"\n\nIt was prudent in L. S. E. not to attach his name to a work that would\ngive him a notoriety for impudence and slander which no future penitence\ncould by any possibility remove. How far it was wise to sanction with\nthe authority of your Lordship's name, the work of an author who had not\nthe rashness to reveal his own, remains for the effects it will produce\nupon society to determine.\n\nL. S. E. has stated in page 360, that \"the late Mr. Abraham Booth,[B] an\neminent dissenting teacher in London, would never pray for the King\n(George the Third) at all.\" Allow me, therefore, to inform your Lordship\nand the nameless individual who enjoys your patronage, that the\nassertion is entirely false. During the thirty-seven years in which he\nadministered the ordinances and truth of Jesus Christ in Prescot-street,\nhe not only never refused, but made it his uniform practice, to pray for\n\"our rightful Sovereign the King, his Royal Consort the Queen, and every\nbranch of the Royal Family;\" of this many living witnesses may be\nbrought, who still remain the fruits of his exertions. Much sympathy is\ndue to your Lordship on account of the present intensity of professional\nexcitement; but the injunction laid by inspiration upon a Bishop must\nnot be forgotten, \"Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be thou\npartaker in other men's sins: keep thyself pure.\"\n\nWith sincere respect, I am, my Lord, your Lordship's humble servant,\n\n _Hackney, Dec. 4, 1834._                ISAAC BOOTH.\n\n [B] My revered parent entered into his rest in 1806.\n\n\nDUTIES ARISING OUT OF THE PRESENT ASPECT OF POLITICAL AFFAIRS.\n\nAt a Meeting of the \"Deputies from the several Congregations of\nProtestant Dissenters of the Three Denominations in and within twelve\nmiles of London, appointed to protect their Civil Rights,\" held at the\nKing's Head Tavern in the Poultry, on Friday, the 19th day of December,\n1834.\n\nHENRY WAYMOUTH, Esq., in the Chair.\n\nResolved,\n\nThat this Deputation cordially approves of the following Resolutions of\nthe United Committee of Protestant Dissenters in London, passed on the\n18th ult.; viz.--\n\n\"That, while this Committee bows to the exercise of the Royal\nPrerogative, they have learned, with feelings of unfeigned and profound\nregret, the sudden dismissal from His Majesty's Councils of his late\nconfidential advisers; entertaining, as they do, a cordial approbation\nof the general measures of their Administration, and confiding in their\nprinciples as the sincere friends of civil and religious freedom.\n\n\"That, while the Committee cannot but express their disappointment and\nsorrow that the just claims of Protestant Dissenters have hitherto\nbeen postponed, they are convinced that such delay on the part of His\nMajesty's late Government arose chiefly from the obstructions to which\nthey were subject, both from ecclesiastical and political opponents.\nThe regret which this Committee feels at the dismissal of the late\nAdministration is also greatly aggravated by the assurance that it has\noccurred at a moment when its members were preparing means of redress\nfor the chief practical grievances of which Dissenters complain.\n\n\"That, in the probable event of a General Election, this Committee\nconfidently anticipates, from the Protestant Dissenters throughout the\nempire, the most decided and uncompromising opposition to that political\nparty who have avowed themselves the unflinching opponents of their\ninterests, and whose speeches and votes on the Bill for the admission of\nDissenters to the Universities, ought never to be forgotten; and, in the\nevent of such election, this Committee relies also on all classes of\nDissenters for the immediate adoption of measures best calculated to\nensure the return, as Representatives to Parliament, of men liberal and\nenlightened in their views, the tried friends of Religious Liberty,\nNational Improvement, and Universal Freedom.\n\n\"That this Committee pledges itself to persevere in seeking the full and\nimmediate relief of the practical Grievances of Protestant Dissenters\nupon the principles it has repeatedly avowed.\"\n\nThat this Deputation strongly urges upon its Constituents the importance\nof promptly and vigorously acting upon the recommendations contained in\nthe foregoing resolutions as to the choice of Representatives in the\nensuing Parliament.\n\nThat the declaration of the line of policy intended to be pursued by the\nAdministration of Sir Robert Peel, as contained in his address to the\nElectors of Tamworth, is most unsatisfactory to Dissenters, and affords\nno prospect of the adoption of liberal measures on the part of the\nCabinet of which he is the head.\n\nThat this deputation cannot but record its total want of reliance on the\ngranting of any effectual relief to Dissenters by a political party\nwhich have ever been opposed to the affording to that numerous and\nimportant body their just and equal rights as subjects of the Realm.\n\nThat the foregoing Resolutions be inserted in the \"Morning Chronicle,\"\n\"Morning Post,\" \"Morning Advertiser,\" \"Globe,\" \"Standard,\" and \"Patriot\"\nnewspapers.\n\n\nRESOLUTIONS OCCASIONED BY THE LETTER FROM THE AMERICAN BOARD OF FOREIGN\nMISSIONS[C] TO THE BOARD OF BAPTIST MINISTERS IN AND NEAR LONDON.\n\n [C] See page 8 of the present Number.\n\nAt a meeting of the Board of Baptist Ministers, specially convened at\nFen Court, Nov. 25th, 1834, the Rev. F. A. Cox, LL.D. in the Chair, the\nabove communication having been read, the following resolution was\nadopted:--\n\nResolved unanimously,\n\n\"That we receive with much pleasure the expressions of esteem and\nattachment, and fully participate in the affectionate sentiments,\ncontained in the letter of the American Board of Foreign Missions, dated\nBoston, Sept. 1, 1834; and while we deeply regret that, in the judgment\nof the said Board, it would violate the Constitution of the Triennial\nConvention to entertain our communication of the 31st Dec. 1833, we hope\nthat such of our American brethren as concur in the opinions of that\ncommunication, will adopt every means consistent with Christian\nprinciples, to diffuse their sentiments, and thus secure the immediate\nand entire extinction of their slave system.\n\n\"That the Secretary be requested to transmit the above Resolution to the\nVice President of the Baptist Board for Foreign Missions in the United\nStates.\n\n\"It having been reported to the Board, that our brethren who have been\nrequested by the Baptist Union to go as a deputation to our Baptist\nbrethren in America, having consulted their respective churches, have\nacceded to the wishes of the Union;\"\n\nResolved unanimously,\n\n\"That this Board, feeling the importance of the deputation to America\nappointed by the Baptist Union, earnestly recommends, that the churches\nin London and its vicinity collect, in what way they may severally think\nproper, towards the expenses of such an object.\"\n\n                      J. B. SHENSTON, _Secretary_.\n\n\nBRITISH VOLUNTARY CHURCH SOCIETY.\n\nResolution passed by the Board of Baptist Ministers at a meeting\nspecially convened at Fen Court, Dec. 16, 1834, the Rev. W. Newman, D.D.\nin the Chair.\n\n\"That, approving the principles and objects of the British Voluntary\nChurch Society, this Board strongly recommends the churches of our\ndenomination to promote its operations by every means in their power;\neither by obtaining subscriptions, by lending their places of worship\nfor the delivering of lectures, or by any other means which their\njudgment may suggest.\n\n\"That the Secretary be requested to transmit the above Resolution to the\nSecretaries of the British Voluntary Church Society, and to send a copy\nfor insertion in the Baptist Magazine.\"\n\n                      J. B. SHENSTON, _Secretary_.\n\nN.B. Persons subscribing not less than _2s. 6d._ per annum, are members\nof this Society.--ED.\n\n\nUNICORN-YARD CHAPEL, TOOLEY-STREET, SOUTHWARK, ERECTED, 1720.\n\nFrom the decayed state of this place of worship, and for the safety of\nthose persons who assemble therein, at the recommendation of several\narchitects, a new wall has been erected, and the building generally\nhaving undergone a thorough repair, with 200 additional sittings, and\nbaptistry, &c. was re-opened for the worship of God, on Thursday,\nNovember 27, 1834, when three sermons were preached; that in the morning\nby the Rev. Dr. Andrews, of Walworth, from Heb. ix. 12; that in the\nafternoon, by the Rev. Thomas Shirley, of Seven Oaks; and that in the\nevening, by the Rev. J. H. Evans, A.M., of John-street chapel,\nBedford-row, when upwards of thirty pounds were collected.\n\nThe church now encouraged by considerable additions, and the regular\nattendance of an increasing congregation, take this opportunity of\ngratefully acknowledging the services of those good men who helped them\nin their low estate, and also to record the loving-kindness of the Lord\nwho has so graciously appeared in reviving us under the ministry of our\npresent pastor, the Rev. D. Denham (late of Margate), who was publicly\nrecognized as our pastor, with three of our brethren as deacons, on\nMonday, Dec. 15, 1834. The Rev. G. Comb, of Oxford-st., delivered the\nintroductory discourse, and asked the church and minister the usual\nquestions. The Rev. M. Dovey, of Rotherhithe, offered up the ordination\nprayer; and the Rev. Thomas Shirley, of Seven Oaks, gave an affectionate\ncharge to the pastor from 1 Cor. iv. 1, 2. The Rev. J. Smith, of\nShoreditch, explained the deacon's office, showing the qualification\nand grace required to fill it, and then in a most scriptural manner\naddressed the church from Heb. xiii. 22. Messrs. Benson, Bridgeman,\nMoial, Boddington, and Hewlett, engaged in the other parts of the\nservices.\n\nN.B. The expenses of general repairs and enlargement of the chapel\n(which will now seat about 700 persons, including a number of free\nsittings) will rather exceed 400 pounds; and as nearly _half that sum_\nhas been realized by the exertions of a few individuals, we trust our\nappeal will not be in vain to those Christian friends to whom God has\ngiven the means of assisting us, and whose delight is to promote the\ncause of Christ upon earth. Donations, however small, will be thankfully\nreceived if forwarded to our Treasurer, Mr. Richard Edwards, 6,\nChester-place, Old Kent-road.\n\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe next Quarterly Meeting of the London Baptist Association, will be\nheld at Devonshire-sq. chapel, on Wednesday evening, January 21, 1835,\nwhen a sermon will be preached by the Rev. J. E. Giles, on the Duties of\nChurch Members towards the Unconverted. Service to commence at seven\no'clock.\n\n\nRECENT DEATHS.\n\nREV. DR. CAREY.\n\nIn the Philanthropist the event is thus noticed: \"The Rev. Dr. Carey\ndied at Serampore, after a protracted illness of nine months, on Monday\nmorning last, the 9th instant (June) in the 73rd year of his age.\" The\nsame paper contains the following account, copied from another paper,\n[_The Sumachar Derpun_] published at Serampore. \"We have to communicate\nintelligence to-day, which will be received with general lamentation,\nnot only throughout India, but throughout the world. Dr. Carey has\nfinished his pilgrimage on earth, having gently expired early last\nMonday morning, the 9th of June. For several years past his health has\nbeen very infirm, and his strength has gradually sunk, until the weary\nwheels of nature stood still, from mere debility, and not from disease.\nThe peculiarly hot weather and rainy season of 1833 reduced him to such\nextreme weakness, that in September last he experienced a stroke of\napoplexy, and for some time after his death was expected daily. It\npleased God, however, to revive him a little. During the cold season he\ncould again take a morning and evening ride in his palanquin carriage,\nand spend much of the day reclining in an easy chair with a book in his\nhand, or conversing cheerfully with any friend that called. As, however,\nthe hot weather advanced, he sunk daily into still greater debility than\nbefore, and could take no nourishment. He lay helpless and speechless on\nhis bed until his skin was worn off his body, and death was a merciful\nrelief. His dearest friends could not but rejoice, that his sufferings\nwere ended, although they mourn his loss to themselves and to mankind.\"\n\nFor further particulars of this distinguished man, we refer our readers\nto the Missionary Herald.\n\n\nJ. F. BEARD.\n\nAt Scarborough, Yorkshire, November the 9th, after a short illness,\nJames Freeman Beard, in the 74th year of his age. He was formerly, for\nmany years, the respected pastor of the church of Christ at Worstead,\nNorfolk, where his ardent labours in the surrounding villages will long\nbe remembered.\n\n\nDISTRIBUTION OF PROFITS.\n\nThe following sums, from the profits of this work, were voted to the\nwidows whose initials follow, at the meeting of proprietors, on Friday,\nthe 19th ult.\n\n NAME       RECOMMENDED BY\n E    L3    S. Price.\n B     4    J. Edwards.\n F     3    E. Evans.\n I     4    J. Williamson.\n H     4    T. Howard.\n C     4    J. Puntis.\n P     4    W. Yates.\n I     3    B. Price.\n A     4    S. Green.\n W     4    F. A. Cox.\n D     3    T. Thomas.\n B     4    J. Carver.\n W     4    H. W. Holmes.\n T     3    B. Thomas.\n C     4    W. Copley.\n P     3    M. Thomas.\n D     3    J. James.\n B     4    W. L. Smith.\n\n*** The Widows will please to observe they cannot receive twice in the\nsame year.\n\n\n\n\nIRISH CHRONICLE.\n\nJANUARY, 1835.\n\n\nThe Rev. S. Davis, of Clonmel, will come from Ireland this month, for\nthe purpose of collecting on behalf of the Society in the West of\nEngland. Our friends, that he may visit, especially our ministering\nbrethren, are respectfully and earnestly requested to encourage his\napplication to the utmost of their power; as, on the success of such\nefforts the continued operations of the Society greatly depends.\n\nIn the Rev. Wm. Thomas's letter will be found a grateful reference\nto the Committee of the Tract Society, and to a parcel which he has\nreceived from England, containing many useful articles for the children\nof the schools. And the Secretary begs to acknowledge the receipt of a\nnumber of \"Magazines for Ireland,\" from a female friend at Hammersmith.\n\n _Extract of a letter from_ Rev. S. DAVIS\n          _to the_ SECRETARY.\n\n                  _Clonmel, Nov. 21, 1834._\n\nWe are in the Lord's hands, and he will finally accomplish the purposes\nof his own glory, and I am persuaded we cannot do better than steadily\nto pursue the purpose in which we are engaged, to make the people\nacquainted, as far as it is in our power, with the Holy Scriptures,\nwhich will undermine the power of Antichrist, and promote happiness in\nproportion as they obtain an access to the heart.\n\nMy son, at Ardee, recently assisted in the public examination of 400\nadults in their knowledge of the Irish Scriptures, and he has given a\nvery interesting account of the meeting in the last Quarterly Papers of\nthe Irish Society. He was astonished and delighted to think, as I do\nalso, that the teaching of the people in the Irish Scriptures, is one of\nthe most important benefits that can be conferred upon the country.\n\nOur Society has had the honour to take the lead in this respect; and,\nhowever we may be looked down upon, and whatever may become of the\ninstitution, I have no doubt it has been a greater benefit to the\ncountry than words can express; it is a pity, therefore, that it should\nnot be in more prosperous circumstances, and that your hands should\nnot be held up more by those who have it in their power to afford us\nassistance; but when we have done what we could do we cannot reproach\nourselves, and we must leave the event with Him who will appreciate our\ngood intentions, and forgive all our infirmities.\n\n                                        S. DAVIS.\n\n\n Rev. W. THOMAS _to the_ SECRETARY.\n    _Limerick, Nov. 21, 1834._\n\nMy dear Sir,\n\nYou will have the kindness to excuse the brevity of these few lines,\nas I have only this moment arrived after a journey of preaching and\ninspecting some of the schools, and it is necessary that the readers'\njournals should go off by this day's mail, which will proceed\nimmediately. I have, I trust, some interesting things to communicate,\nwhich, please providence, I shall shortly do; and also, offer my\ngrateful thanks to the Committee of the Tract Society, for a precious\nparcel of tracts, forwarded with a kind letter from their worthy\nSecretary; and also my very grateful acknowledgments to an excellent\nlady, for a very acceptable parcel for the female children in the\nschools; this good lady says, they are \"from one who wishes well to the\ncause of instructing the rising generation.\" The thimbles, bodkins,\nthread-cases, needle-books, work-bags, scissors, and five shillings,\ninclosed in the \"old purse,\" shall be judiciously distributed: the five\nshillings we will apply to clothing some naked creatures. May the Lord\nof glory clothe the dear lady's soul with the beautiful and glorious,\nthe spotless and eternal, robes of the Redeemer's righteousness, which\nwill never wax old!\n\nWith the kindest wishes for you, my dear Sir, and all the dear friends\nof the Society, ever most affectionately yours,\n\n                                              WM. THOMAS.\n\n\n Rev. J. BATES _to the_ SECRETARY.\n                     _Sligo, Nov. 31, 1834._\n\nDear Sir,\n\nThrough mercy I am spared to give you an outline of my imperfect labours\nduring the month that is now past, and gone into eternity. When I think\nof the rapid flight of time, and view the condition of my fellow-sinners\naround me with regard to their religious circumstances and eternal\nprospects, I feel that my situation is such as should lead me to Jesus,\nto seek more of his mind and more of his spirit, that \"whatever my hand\nfindeth to do, I may do it with my might.\"\n\nSince my last letter, I have visited several villages in the country\nwhere I never went before. Castledargin, Corringuncor, Drimnagooli,\nand Ballindrist. There are a few brethren in the neighbourhood of\nCorringuncor, and they feel rejoiced when any one pays them a visit. The\ncongregation at that place was large and very encouraging. Mr. Berry is\ngoing on a missionary tour amongst them this next week. May the Lord\nbless his own word to their everlasting welfare, and his own glory!\n\nBallindrist is an interesting little station, and, by the blessing of\nGod, I trust good will result from the proclamation of his word; but at\nDrimnagooli, there exists the greatest spirit of inquiry. I have only\nbeen in that neighbourhood three times, and I am happy to say that, each\ntime, the congregation increased. They are continually saying, \"Visit us\nas often as you can.\" The clergyman in that neighbourhood has preached\nagainst baptism; but I have lately observed, where there is the most\nopposition, there is the greatest spirit of inquiry, and the largest\ncongregations.\n\nSince I have been in this superstitious island (and surely this is the\nplace \"where Satan's seat is\"), I have sometimes thought of what my\naffectionate pastor told me when he was living, just before I left\nEngland. Calling me by my name, he said, \"Whatever others do, let it be\nyour determination to preach Jesus; wherever you take your stand, there\nlet the cross be erected. Dagon fell when the ark of God was set up in\nhis presence; they set him up the second time, but behold, Dagon was\nfallen upon his face to the ground and broken to pieces; so if you set\nup Christ, with a single eye to his glory, Antichrist must fall; 'my\nword shall not return unto me void.'\"\n\nDuring the next month, if all is well, as I shall have a long journey\ninspecting the schools, I hope to have many opportunities of proclaiming\nthe gospel to those that are now sitting in darkness. I pray that the\nLord may command a blessing, even life for evermore.\n\n                                           J. BATES.\n\n\n _To_ MR. THOMAS.\n    _Ballycar, Nov. 13, 1834._\n\nOctober 29. Being asked by a Roman Catholic why I would not pray to the\nSaints, and implore their intercession; I replied, Because I have no\nauthority in Scripture for it. But on the contrary, St. Paul says,\n\"There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the Man Christ\nJesus;\" and the Saviour himself says, in John xiv. 6, \"I am the way, the\ntruth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father but by me;\" and he\nalso says, \"Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, I will do\nit.\" Now since all we ask the Father, in the name of the Son, is granted\nunto us, why should we address ourselves to other mediators? We also\nread in 1 John ii. 1: \"If any man sin, we have an advocate with the\nFather, Jesus Christ the righteous.\"\n\nNov. 2. In Quin, entering into a conversation with two persons, on the\nnecessity of reading the Scriptures, one of them replied, that their\nclergy would not permit them to read them. I asked him, which should he\nobey, his priest or God? He replied, God. \"Therefore you should read,\nand not only read but search, the Scriptures; for Christ himself says,\n'Search the Scriptures;' and again he says, 'Blessed are they that hear\nthe word of God, and keep it:' and the apostle Paul strongly commends\nthe people of Berea for reading the Scriptures; he expressly says in\nActs xvii. 11: 'These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in\nthat they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the\nScriptures daily, whether these things were so.' Now if these people\ndoubted the words of that eminent apostle, how much more should we\nsearch the Scriptures in the present day, and see if the doctrine taught\nus be consistent with the Scriptures or not!\" After reading different\npassages of Scripture, and reasoning for some time on this subject with\nthese people, they replied that it appeared consistent with truth, that\nmen should read the Scriptures.\n\nNov. 7. Entering into conversation with one person, on the immediate\nstate of happiness of those who die in the Lord; he replied, that no\nperson can enter heaven, without being purged from their sins in\npurgatory. I asked him, Did he not think that the blood of the Lord\nJesus Christ was sufficient to cleanse him? He replied, He was confident\nit was, but we must also suffer for some time in this place. I read to\nhim different passages of Scripture, to prove to him that the blood of\nthe Lord Jesus cleanseth us from all sin, such as Isaiah i. 18, 1 John\ni. 7, Prov. vii. 13, 14, 15, Heb. i. 3, &c.. After reading this passage,\nthe man took the book out of my hand, to see if the words were expressly\nthe same as I read them; after seeing they were, from his conversation\nafter, he seemed very much to doubt this doctrine. I read at intervals\nto the Major's workmen, himself being in a delicate state of health,\nwhich renders him at different times unable to do it. He had been very\nill this day or two past, but is now getting better. Sir, I remain\nyours,\n\n       SAMUEL CROSS.\n\n\n      _To_ Rev. J. BATES.\n _Temple House, Nov. 14, 1834._\n\nRev. Sir.--I feel happy to state to you that since my last I have been\npermitted to read the word of life for vast numbers of Roman Catholics\nand others who were ignorant of those precious truths which are revealed\nin it; and indeed many of them have heard the word with remarkable\nattention, and seemed to receive instruction.\n\nOct. 20. In the house of widow Sweeny, where there were assembled about\nfifty Roman Catholics, the man of the house having got a sudden death;\nwhilst I sat amongst them one of them said, \"Let us pray for the soul of\nthe departed.\" Then they all took off their hats and prayed; this they\ndid every half hour, and in the interval talked of consecrated ground,\n&c., and of the benefits of being interred in consecrated ground.\nI was indeed much grieved on seeing and hearing such ignorance and\nsuperstition; and, addressing myself to one of the most respectable and\nwell informed among them, I asked, \"What reason have we to believe that\neither consecrated burial-ground or prayers for the dead, or any other\noffice, can help the state of the departed soul?\" Two of them answered\nand spoke alternately. One said that no devil or evil spirit could\ncome near consecrated ground; the other told me that they believed\nin the doctrine of purgatory, and that the prayers of the faithful are\nnecessary for the relief of the souls in purgatory. I told them that it\nis written in the word of God, that \"blessed are the dead which die in\nthe Lord,\" for they rest from their labours; that those who believe\nin Jesus Christ, \"his blood cleanseth them from all sin,\" and that\nconsequently they need no other purgatory. I referred to the words of\nthe Saviour in the 3rd of John, \"He that believeth on the Son bath\neverlasting life, but he that believeth not the Son shall not see life,\nbut the wrath of God abideth on him.\" One of the men above mentioned\nsaid, that he read in the Scriptures that we are purged by fire. I\nshowed, from 1 Peter iv., the fiery trial spoken of means persecutions\nand sufferings for Christ's sake to be endured in this life. I also\nshowed, from Acts viii. that on the death of Stephen there was not a\nword about consecrated burial-ground or prayer for the dead. All this\ntime the people heard with most eager attention. I showed them from many\nparts of Scripture that Jesus is an all-sufficient Saviour, and that all\nwho believe in him are justified from all things, &c.\n\nOn the 26th, went to the house of J. Foley, where many were assembled\nvisiting a sick person. While they talked of the uncertainty of life,\nand the necessity of being prepared for eternity, I endeavoured to show\nthe need we have of a Saviour, and the blessings of being interested in\nhim. I proposed to read for the sick person, and was permitted; I read\nvery many of the most suitable parts of Scripture, showing that the\nSaviour is a sure foundation to build our hopes on for salvation, and\nthat there is no other. The people present were nearly all Roman\nCatholics; and seeing them so attentive, I continued nearly an hour\nreading. The sick person seemed to receive comfort from the Word, and\nthe people of the family were extremely thankful. On the following\nSabbath I again visited the same house. They told me they were rejoiced\nto see me enter their door. I read Acts iii. 4, showing that Peter,\nto whom they are in the habit of praying, directed the people to the\nSaviour, telling them that there is not salvation in any other, and that\nthere is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be\nsaved.\n\n      ROBERT BEATY.\n\n\n _To_ Rev. J. ALLEN.\n    _Ardnaree, Nov. 11, 1834._\n\nRev. Sir,\n\nI am happy to inform you that many instances present themselves in this\npart of the country, of persons forsaking their former wicked course of\nliving, and giving themselves to the study of the Scriptures, and that\nthrough the instrumentality of the Baptist Institution; persons who, if\nleft to themselves, in all probability, would have lived and died\nignorant of a saving knowledge of Christ Jesus.\n\nOn the 23rd, ult., I went to the neighbourhood of Castlebar, among our\nschools. In that part I read and talked to many of the inhabitants\nregarding the \"one thing needful;\" left the persons with whom I thus\nread and conversed, religious tracts as usual. M. M'Kelvey, with whom I\nhad several conversations regarding the ordinance of baptism, intends\nto offer himself as a candidate to the Ballina Baptist church soon.\n\nWe have great cause for thankfulness that the Lord is pleased to grant\nus so many favourable opportunities of reading and explaining his holy\nword to our countrymen and fellow-sinners, being aware that if they knew\nthe truth the truth would make them free.\n\nIn the neighbourhood of Foxford, I have strove to be useful,\nparticularly in Shrakum, had a seasonable opportunity of reading\napplicable portions of the Scriptures in the hearing of many persons,\nyoung and old, who answered their various questions respecting religion;\nwe also joined in prayer. The people then present seemed to be satisfied\nwith my answers to the questions which they asked on several occasions.\n\nThere are three new places in which I frequently read the Scriptures\nin this neighbourhood, namely, Rakep, Caltrough, and Bunzee; in all\nthose places I read portions both of the English and Irish Testament,\ndiligently endeavouring to draw the serious attention of my various\nhearers, as usual, to the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.\n\nThere is a man of the name O'Donell in Hill-street, Ballina, to whom I\nhave given a Testament some time ago; he comes to your preaching, and\ndoes not care for either priest or pope, for so doing. On the 7th\ninstant, went among our schools in the Tyrarough district; remained in\nEaskey two days; met and had conversation with many of our Christian\nfriends there. May they daily receive all needful grace and strength\nout of the fulness that is in Christ Jesus!\n\nThere is a man and his wife that lately came to live in this town; she\nis a nominal protestant, but he is a papist, they frequently come to my\nhouse for the purpose of getting religious instruction. They were with\nme on Saturday last, at which time I read several applicable portions of\nthe Scriptures to them, and also answered their questions respecting\nreligion, from the criterion of truth. They both can read. I have given\nthem several useful tracts, and a book entitled, \"The Errors of Popery.\"\nI intend to visit them often, and they promised to attend your\npreaching. I hope these visits to my home, with the blessing of God,\nwill be the means of directing them to the Saviour, who alone is able\nand willing to save to the uttermost all that put their trust in him.\n\n                                                      ROGER MULLARKY.\n\n\n\n\nCONTRIBUTIONS.\n\n\n Received by the Treasurer:--\n\n Mr. Baker's Legacy, per\n   J. Ivimey, Esq.                 100  0  0\n\n A Friend at C., by Mr. Goddard     10  0  0\n\n Collection at the Rev. E.\n   Steane's, Camberwell,\n   per W. B. Gurney, Esq.           27 10  0\n\n Collected in Surry, Essex,\n   and Suffolk, by the Rev.\n   John Franks                     132 15  5\n\n A small New Year's Gift, intended as\n   a thank-offering to the Lord, to promote\n   the furtherance of his gospel, from S.\n   Webb, Langley                    L1  0  0\n\n Omitted last month:--A Friend       1  0  0\n\n _Erratum_:--In the List of Contributions last month\n _for_ \"Dover,\" _read_ Down.\n\n\nSubscriptions received by S. Marshall, Esq., 181, High Holborn;\nMr. P. Millard, Bishopsgate Street; Messrs. Burls, 56, Lothbury;\nRev. G. Pritchard, 4, York Place, Pentonville, gratuitous Secretary;\nby Messrs. Ladbrokes and Co., Bankers, Bank Buildings; by Mr. H. D.\nDickie, 13, Bank Street, and Rev. Mr. Innes, Frederick Street, Edinburgh;\nand P. Brown, Esq., Cardigan.\n\n\nLONDON: J. HADDON, PRINTER, CASTLE-STREET, FINSBURY.\n\n\n\n\n MISSIONARY HERALD,\n CONTAINING INTELLIGENCE AT LARGE OF THE\n\n _Proceedings and Operations_\n OF THE\n BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY.\n\n ====================================================\n CXCIII.            JANUARY, 1835.\n ====================================================\n\nSubscriptions and Donations in aid of this Society will be thankfully\nreceived at the Baptist Mission House, No. 6, Fen Court, Fenchurch\nStreet, London: or by any of the Ministers and Friends whose names are\ninserted in the Cover of the Annual Report.\n\n\n#Death of Dr. Carey.#\n\nSince the publication of the last number, the Secretary has received\na communication from Mr. Jonathan Carey, announcing the fact of his\nvenerable father's decease, in the following terms:--\n\n                            _Calcutta, June 14th, 1834._\n\n     The Lord has been pleased to afflict us very severely, in\n     removing from us, by death, my much esteemed and venerable\n     father. This lamented event took place on the 9th instant, at\n     five in the morning, and his remains were interred in the cold\n     grave early on the following morning, in the presence of a\n     crowded assembly of mourning friends. Much as I feel this heavy\n     stroke, I trust I do not sorrow as those who have no hope. His\n     was a life spent in the service of his Redeemer, and the Lord\n     was pleased to make him an instrument of much usefulness; but\n     notwithstanding all that he was enabled to do, he never ceased\n     to exclaim that he was an unprofitable servant. In much\n     humility and meekness of spirit he was zealous in the work of\n     the Lord of Hosts, and the constant objects of his pursuits\n     were the glory of God and the salvation of the heathen. His\n     devotedness to the work to which he was called was evident in\n     all his conduct. Nothing would give him more pleasure than to\n     hear of the prosperity of Zion, and the downfall of idolatry.\n     His heart was always much affected when speaking of the love of\n     his dying Redeemer. Of the evil of idolatry he spoke with great\n     warmth. He was active and faithful in the discharge of his\n     duties as a minister and a translator; and was in his element\n     in the study of botany and other scientific pursuits, but\n     always humble in his views regarding his own abilities and\n     acquirements. Although constantly employed for the last\n     forty-one years, he possessed a vigorous constitution,\n     excellent health, and a good flow of spirits; but the last two\n     or three years he suffered from debility, and latterly wasted\n     away, and at length sunk from exhaustion of strength, and his\n     spirit took its flight to the regions of eternal bliss to\n     enjoy the rest provided for the people of God, and the reward\n     promised to those who endure to the end. Thus has my father\n     finished his course, and has been removed from this scene of\n     toil and labour. Many will have reason to bless God for what he\n     was enabled, by his grace, to perform for the welfare of the\n     poor heathen.\n\nThe following has appeared in several of the public papers as a\ntranscript of the Doctor's will. Although no copy of this document has\nreached us direct from India, yet, as it carries internal evidence of\nits authenticity, and has been very widely circulated already, we do not\nhesitate to insert it in our pages. Our readers will especially mark, in\nthe direction given as to his epitaph, that deep humility which was so\nprominent a feature in the character of this great and good man.\n\n     I, William Carey, Doctor of Divinity, residing at Serampore,\n     in the province of Bengal, being in good health, and of sound\n     mind, do make this my last will and testament in manner and\n     form following:--\n\n     First--I utterly disclaim all or any right or title to the\n     premises at Serampore, called the Mission Premises, and every\n     part and parcel thereof, and do hereby declare that I never\n     had, or supposed myself to have, any such right or title.\n\n     Secondly--I disclaim all right and title to the property\n     belonging to my present wife, Grace Carey, amounting to\n     25,000 rupees, more or less, which was settled upon her by a\n     particular deed, executed previously to my marriage with her.\n\n     Thirdly--I give and bequeath to the College of Serampore, the\n     whole of my museum, consisting of minerals, shells, corals,\n     insects, and other natural curiosities, and a Hortus Siccus.\n     Also the folio edition of Hortus Woburnensis, which was\n     presented to me by Lord Hastings; Taylor's Hebrew Concordance,\n     my collection of Bibles in foreign languages, and all my books\n     in the Italian and German languages.\n\n     Fourthly--I desire that my wife, Grace Carey, will collect from\n     my library whatever books in the English language she wishes\n     for, and keep them for her own use.\n\n     Fifthly--From the failure of funds to carry my former\n     intentions into effect, I direct that my library, with the\n     exceptions above made, be sold by public auction, unless it, or\n     any part of it, can be advantageously disposed of by private\n     sale, and that from the proceeds 1,500 rupees be paid as a\n     legacy to my son Jabez Carey, a like sum having heretofore been\n     paid to my sons Felix and William.\n\n     Sixthly--It was my intention to have bequeathed a similar sum\n     to my son Jonathan Carey, but GOD has so prospered him that he\n     is in no immediate want of it. I direct that, if any thing\n     remains, it be given to my wife, Grace Carey, to whom I also\n     bequeath all my household furniture, wearing apparel, and\n     whatever other effects I may possess, for her proper use and\n     behoof.\n\n     Seventhly--I direct that, before every other thing, all my\n     lawful debts may be paid; that my funeral be as plain as\n     possible; that I may be buried by the side of my second wife,\n     Charlotte Emilia Carey; and that the following inscription, and\n     nothing more, may be cut on the stone which commemorates her,\n     either above or below, as there may be room; viz.\n\n        \"William Carey, born August 17th, 1761, died----\n\n        \"A wretched, poor, and helpless worm,\n         On thy kind arms I fall.\"\n\n     Eighthly--I hereby constitute and appoint my dear friends, the\n     Rev. William Robinson, of Calcutta, and the Rev. John Mack, of\n     Serampore, executors to this my last will and testament, and\n     request them to perform all therein desired and ordered by me,\n     to the utmost of their power.\n\n     Ninthly--I hereby declare this to be my last will and\n     testament, and revoke all other wills and testaments of a date\n     prior to this.\n\n     (Signed) WILLIAM CAREY.\n     (Signed) W. H. JONES, S. M'INTOSH.\n\nThe following minute, in reference to this removal of Dr. Carey, has\nbeen entered on the records of the Baptist Missionary Society.\n\n\"The Secretary having reported that intelligence had arrived of the\ndeath of Dr. Carey, at Serampore, on Monday, the 9th of June last, it\nwas\n\n     \"_Resolved_,\n\n     \"That this Committee cordially sympathize, on this mournful\n     occasion, with the immediate connexions of Dr. Carey, by whose\n     death, not merely the Missionary circle with which he was most\n     intimately associated, but the Christian world at large, has\n     sustained no common loss. The Committee gratefully record,\n     that this venerable and highly-esteemed servant of God had a\n     principal share in the formation of the Baptist Missionary\n     Society; and devoted himself, at its very commencement, to the\n     service of the heathen, amidst complicated difficulties and\n     discouragements, with an ardour and perseverance which nothing\n     but Christian benevolence could inspire, and which only a\n     strong and lively faith in God could sustain. Endowed with\n     extraordinary talents for the acquisition of foreign languages,\n     he delighted to consecrate them to the noble purpose of\n     unfolding to the nations of the East the Holy Scriptures in\n     their own tongue: a department of sacred labour in which it\n     pleased God to honour him far beyond any predecessor or\n     contemporary in the Missionary field. Nor was Dr. Carey\n     less eminent for the holiness of his personal character.\n     Throughout life he adorned the gospel of God his Saviour by the\n     spirituality of his mind and the uprightness of his conduct;\n     and especially, by the deep and unaffected humility which\n     proved how largely he had imbibed the spirit of his blessed\n     master.\n\n     \"In paying this brief and imperfect tribute to the memory of\n     this great and good man, who was long their associate in\n     Missionary exertion, and whom they have never ceased to regard\n     with feelings of the utmost veneration and respect, it is the\n     anxious desire of the Committee to glorify God in him. May\n     a review of what divine grace accomplished in and by this\n     faithful servant of the Redeemer, awaken lively gratitude, and\n     strengthen the devout expectation that He, with whom is the\n     residue of the Spirit, will favour his church with renewed\n     proofs of his love and care by thrusting forth many such\n     labourers into the harvest!\"\n\nIt is expected that Mr. Eustace Carey will compile, from the materials\nin possession of the Missionary Committee, and from the correspondence\nmaintained by the Doctor with his relations in this country during the\nwhole course of his residence in India, a Memoir of his venerable\nrelative.\n\n\nBURMAH.\n\nBy a letter from Mr. Judson to Dr. Bolles, dated Maulmein, December\n31st, 1833, we learn that a Christian church has been formed at Ava; the\ncapital of the empire, where two converts, one the wife of Kv H'lay, an\nold Rangoon disciple, and the other a respectable inhabitant of the\ncity, were baptized in the preceding month.\n\nThis prosperous Mission now comprises five churches, at Maulmein, Tavoy,\nMergui, Rangoon, and Ava; and the whole number who have received baptism\nat these several stations, is five hundred and ninety-seven.\n\nA month afterwards, Mr. Judson was favoured to complete his translation\nof the whole Scriptures into the Burman language. Our readers will\nsympathize with the feelings which dictated the following entry made on\nthis occasion in the journal of this devoted Missionary. We are happy to\nadd that, although Mr. Judson has felt it his duty to construct his\nversion on the principle adopted by our Calcutta brethren, this\ncircumstance will not impede its circulation, the American Bible Society\nhaving rendered prompt and liberal assistance towards the printing.\n\n     January 31st, 1834. Thanks be to God! I can now say, \"I have\n     attained.\" I have knelt down before him, with the last leaf in\n     my hand, and, imploring his forgiveness for all the sins which\n     have polluted my labours in this department, and his aid in\n     future efforts, to remove the errors and imperfections which\n     necessarily cleave to the work, I have commended it to his\n     mercy and grace: I have dedicated it to his glory. May he make\n     his own inspired word, now complete in the Burman tongue, the\n     grand instrument of filling all Burmah with songs of praises to\n     our Great God and Saviour Jesus Christ! Amen.\n\n\nSOUTH AFRICA.\n\nThe following account of the second Annual Meeting of the Auxiliary\nBaptist Missionary Society, conducted by the Rev. W. Davies and his\nfriends at Graham's Town, is extracted from the local Newspaper, of the\n28th of August last:\n\n     On Monday last the second Annual Meeting of the above Society\n     was held in the Wesleyan chapel, and we are glad to say that\n     it passed off in the most lively and satisfactory manner. It\n     is ever a pleasing task to trace the progress of such\n     associations--to view their first feeble efforts--to see them\n     gradually acquiring strength and importance, until at length\n     we behold them spreading themselves out to the farthest\n     extremities of the habitable globe--like a perennial stream\n     refreshing the parched desert, and dispensing the purest\n     blessings on every hand.\n\n     A very pleasing circumstance attending these meetings is, the\n     concord and brotherly feeling which are produced amongst the\n     different denominations of professing Christians. Here all\n     minor differences are merged in one united effort to promote a\n     common cause--and that the holiest and most beneficial that can\n     employ intelligent beings.\n\n     We regret that our limited space will not permit us to give\n     the several addresses which were made on this occasion, more\n     especially as some of them were of a high order, and would have\n     been perused with much interest by many of our readers. The\n     principal speakers were, the Rev. Mr. Heaviside, clergyman\n     of the Episcopal church; Rev. Messrs. Monro and Robson\n     (Independents); Rev. Messrs. Shrewsbury, Young, and Haddy\n     (Wesleyans); Dr. Minto, on the military staff, who has recently\n     returned from India, and the Rev. W. Davies and Mr. T. Nelson\n     (Baptists).\n\n     The report gives a general view of the state of the missions\n     connected with this particular section of the Christian church;\n     and we are glad to find that the prospect, by the emancipation\n     of the negroes, and other causes, is particularly cheering. It\n     was also satisfactory to find that the amount collected by this\n     infant society--only established rather more than a year ago at\n     Graham's Town--has received in contributions during the past\n     year no less a sum than nearly L146. Nothing can be more\n     creditable than this fact to the inhabitants of this frontier,\n     and nothing can show more distinctly that they are not entirely\n     undeserving of that prosperity with which Providence has of\n     late years favoured their efforts.\n\nWe may add, as one symptom of the temporal prosperity thus adverted to,\nof this rising colony, that a great demand exists for industrious\nmechanics, especially of those classes employed in building. Pious\nindividuals, especially, we are assured, would be welcomed in the\ndistrict, and labour, adequately recompensed, immediately provided for\nthem.\n\n\nJAMAICA.\n\nWe had fully expected, by this time, to hear of the arrival of our\nfriend Mr. Knibb, at Falmouth; but the mail, which has been due several\ndays, is yet detained. We must therefore give a general summary of the\nrecent intelligence from our various stations, and hope that, before\nthis Herald leaves the press, we may be able to add a postscript,\nannouncing intelligence which many, we know, are anxious to hear.\n\nFrom _Kingston_, under the date of September 22nd, Mr. Tinson writes:\n\"Our congregation in town is better by far than it has been, though not\noverflowing; for being composed chiefly of domestics and mechanics who\nreside in town, it is of course less affected by country people than\nsome others. I spent yesterday at _Yallahs_, received five candidates,\non examination, for baptism, preached in the morning, and administered\nthe Lord's supper to about a hundred members in the afternoon. The\ncongregation was such as to make the heat almost insupportable. There\nwere nearly as many outside the house as within, and many more would\ncome, but they cannot hear without exposure to the sun all the time.\nThis however will, I hope, be remedied in a few months, as we have now\ncommenced the chapel, and paid the builder L100 towards it. I am begging\nfrom our people in Hanover-street, and the city generally; but they\nplead poverty, and I know many of them are poor indeed.\"\n\nMr. Gardner thankfully acknowledges that he has been repaid for all\nhis exertions in visiting Port Royal, by the success with which it has\npleased God to crown his labours there. \"Last Sabbath week,\" says he, on\nthe 23rd of September, \"at daybreak, at that place, I baptized fifteen\nin the sea, on a profession of their faith in Christ, and repentance\ntowards God. Many hundreds were present, who collected soon after four\nin the morning. After the administration of that ordinance we repaired\nto the chapel, which was well attended, and had a regular service.\nThen I left for Kingston, as there was no brother unemployed that\ncould assist me. Last Lord's day I visited those friends again, and\nadministered the ordinance of the Lord's Supper, when those who had been\nbaptized were received into the church. It was an unusually solemn and\ngratifying season; many were greatly affected, and wept nearly all the\ntime. This was to us a time of refreshing from the presence of the Lord.\nMay he often grant us such seasons!\"\n\nMr. Phillippo is busily engaged in building the new school-rooms at\n_Spanish Town_, towards which he obtained some pecuniary aid while in\nthis country. \"There are to be two schools; one for boys, the other for\ngirls. They are to hold three hundred scholars. The situation is on a\nrange with our premises, and is in every respect eligible; between\nthe rooms there is to be a Committee-room, so that the building will\npresent a front of seventy-two feet in length. Several gentlemen in the\ntown and neighbourhood have declared themselves friendly towards the\nobject, and have promised to assist in its support. As an instance, His\nHonour the Custos, Member of Assembly and Island Secretary, and Price\nWatkis, Esq., the uncompromising advocate of negro emancipation in our\nColonial Parliament, are to lay the foundation-stones on Thursday next.\nThe Custos has moreover sent fourteen young women to the school to be\neducated as schoolmistresses, and to be completely under the charge of\nthe resident schoolmistress, his intention being to employ them in the\ndifferent estates for which he is attorney. This example I have reason\nto hope will be extensively followed.\n\n\"We have still between three and four hundred children in attendance\nat our Sabbath-school, and the library I brought out with me is in\nextensive circulation. Every thing in connexion with our work appears\nprospering to an unexampled degree. God is indeed doing great things for\nus, whereof we are glad. What a change has been effected, also, on the\nmoral aspect of society! Sunday markets abolished, and all the etceteras\nof evil that followed in their train!\"\n\nTop Hill, near the junction of the two parishes of St. Ann's and St.\nThomas-in-the-Vale, has been the scene of one of those cruel outrages on\nthe helpless and unoffending, which have too often stained the page of\nColonial history. We give the account in the words of our Missionary\nbrother, Mr. Clarke.\n\n     \"On the evening of Lord's-day, September 14th, as nine of my\n     people were returning to their homes from worshipping God, they\n     were stopped and turned back by a young coloured man, who has\n     by the death of his father come to an estate before he knows\n     how to act for his own interest, and is fast spending it in\n     riotous living. These friends had no sooner quietly taken their\n     way back to go home by a more distant road, than this man set\n     his dog upon them, and with Dr. B., a companion of his, pursued\n     them about a half a mile.\n\n     \"Dr. B. threw off his coat to enable him to run with the\n     greater speed; an aged female who is highly respected by all\n     around, fell: and Dr. B. immediately fixed the dog upon her,\n     which tore her leg severely in many places. Her husband ran to\n     lift her up, and to drive off the dog, when Dr. B., seized him\n     and attempted to throw him over a fearful precipice into a\n     deep chasm, where he must have been dashed to pieces; but God\n     enabled his servant to escape from the grasp of the persecutor,\n     and all the party came back to the house where we had so\n     recently joined together in the worship of God. I had travelled\n     a considerable distance during the day, had got wet, preached\n     twice, and performed various other duties; being fatigued, and\n     having to journey home on the morrow, I had retired to rest. As\n     soon as I heard what had taken place I arose, had the wounds of\n     the poor female attended to, and bound up. I then conversed\n     with the people, read to them the first twelve verses of the\n     fifth of Matthew, and again from the forty-third verse to the\n     end; spoke to them on the duty of forgiveness, love to enemies,\n     and patient suffering for Christ's sake; prayed with them,\n     first for the persecutors, next for themselves and for the\n     church of God. They left me between nine and ten o'clock,\n     rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer for\n     righteousness' sake; before they left, they besought me not to\n     carry the matter to a magistrate, but to leave it with God;\n     promising that they would always afterward go and return by a\n     road that did not lead them near the house of this man. I\n     really admired their forgiving spirit, and their patient\n     endurance of evil, especially that of the chief sufferer, and\n     of her husband, who had suffered with her, and had narrowly\n     escaped death in rescuing her. Two of the nine have long been\n     free, the others were apprentices. Had the native feelings of\n     the human heart been indulged, how easily could these people\n     have resisted the assaults of their persecutors, and, as they\n     were pursued about half a mile on the road that has been a\n     common by-path for years, they might have turned upon their\n     adversaries, and afterwards have argued that they had a right\n     to pass without molestation, and when molested to act on the\n     defensive, in forcing their way to their homes; but, except a\n     few words at first, of calm entreaty, these quiet people did\n     nothing, and gave no impertinent language, but turned to go\n     back in peace, and were in the act of returning when they were\n     thus assaulted.\"\n\nWe mentioned, in our last number, that Mr. Coultart had encountered much\nannoyance in the neighbouring parish of St. Ann's, the birth-place of\nthe Colonial Church Union, and disgracefully conspicuous for the blind\nand furious determination shown by several of its leading men, to\nprevent the spread of religious instruction among the negroes. Humanly\nspeaking, nothing but the wise, humane, and dignified conduct of the\nCustos, the Hon. S. M. Barrett, saved this parish from the horrors of\nmartial law. He applied to Mr. Coultart, requesting him to use all his\ninfluence with the negroes to quell the spirit of insubordination which\nhad begun to show itself among them; and in addition to this, met them\nin person at Ocho Rios, gave them an excellent and animated address,\nexplaining to them the nature of the new law, and expostulating with\nthem, in the warmest and kindest manner. All present were much pleased\nwith his kindness, and promised to do all they could to allay the\nexisting evil.\n\nMrs. Coultart, in a subsequent letter, adverting to the same subject,\nremarks, \"The poor things were puzzled. They were told they were free on\nthe first of August, had a general holiday, and rejoiced at the event;\nand then they were called to work again as before. 'Free, no free at\nall; work like before-time.' Many said, they would not work without a\nproper understanding, or some pay. I was present when a poor woman in\nthe Methodist Society made a speech to the following effect: 'From the\ncreation down to now we work, work, work. Now, Lord Mulgrave and the\nKing give we free, we take free, we happy; then master come, tell we\nwork like before-time. No, me say, better take shot at one than make we\nfool so.' The minister's wife talked to her, and explained that this\nwork for six years was to help pay the owner what the King could not\nafford to do, of the money that purchased her; and she seemed quite\ncontent, and said she would go to her work. If it were possible to speak\nto each thus, in the tone of a friend, they would believe; but their\nconfidence in their owners is shaken--and who can wonder?\"\n\nAdverting to the necessity of additional aid to give instruction to the\nnegroes and their children, Mrs. C. remarks to her female correspondent,\n\"I wish you could just come some Saturday evening before the preaching\nSabbath at this bay, and see the numbers who come to our house, two\nmiles farther, after having walked twenty and twenty-five miles already,\njust to read their letters, or to hear a few verses out of the Bible, or\nWatts's First Catechism, or something that will shed a ray of light over\ntheir benighted minds. I have about thirty-five little ragged black\nchildren who meet me in the place hired for worship on the bay at four\no'clock every evening. These I try to teach for two hours, and the only\nmember of the church who can read sometimes meets me to assist. We are\ngoing soon, I believe, to remove from this house; it is considered\nunhealthy, there being marshes near, and then I shall be too far off to\nattend to the children daily. On the sabbath, only every third, is too\nunfrequent for progress to be made. Could I see the means of support,\nI would, without loss of time, place a person at the bay to teach\nregularly, and then I trust some good would be done. The eagerness\nmanifested for First Spelling Books with large alphabets is amusing and\npleasing. I have purchased all I could get in Kingston, and sold them\nagain at the same price, which is three times as dear as if I had them\nfrom England. Mr. C. has written to several English friends, to beg them\nto send us some, either to give away or sell. I hope they will, without\nloss of time, for it is distressing to be obliged to refuse such earnest\nrequests. 'Me want to learn, me good massa, that me may read out of the\nBible for meself.' This is just what we want for them, that they may not\nbe led astray by every designing person, who may set himself up to\ninstruct them.\"\n\nAt _Port Maria_ Mr. Baylis had the pleasure of receiving _fifty-nine_\npersons by baptism on the 20th of July last. He labours with great\ndiligence, and is cheered, at each of his stations, by proofs of a\ndivine blessing resting on his exertions.\n\nMr. Whitehorne reports, from _Mount Charles_, that the same increase of\ncongregation, and earnest desire to learn to read, exists in the several\nplaces where he maintains public worship, as at other stations; while\nfrom _Montego Bay_, and _Falmouth_, our brethren Abbott, Dexter, and\nDendy, renew their earnest solicitations for further aid. We rejoice to\nlearn that Mr. Burchell arrived in safety at Kingston from New York, on\nthe 27th of October; and we trust not only to be permitted to make the\nsame announcement, in a few days, respecting Mr. Knibb, but to witness\nfurther accession, shortly, to the number of faithful and devoted\nlabourers in this interesting portion of the missionary field.\n\nMr. Harjette and his family have embarked for Calcutta in the David\nClarke, Capt. Rayne, and sailed from Portsmouth.\n\nA letter has been received from Mr. George Pearce, dated at sea, Sept.\n6th, in N. lat. 4 deg., W. long. 23 deg. Mr. and Mrs. P. were quite\nwell, and had received much kind attention from the Captain and their\nfellow-passengers.\n\n\nLIST OF FOREIGN LETTERS LATELY RECEIVED.\n\n EAST INDIES    Rev. Henry Beddy     Patna           April 7.\n                -- W. H. Pearce      Calcutta             14.\n                -- John Lawrence     Digah           June 13.\n                Jonathan Carey, Esq. Calcutta             14.\n                Rev. Wm. Yates       ditto           July 26.\n                -- George Pearce     Madeira         Aug. 19.\n\n WEST INDIES    -- T. F. Abbott      Montego Bay     Aug. 12.\n                   Ditto             ditto          Sept. 19.\n                -- J. Coultart       St. Ann's Bay   Aug. 12.\n                   Ditto             ditto     Sept. 3, & 17.\n                -- W. Dendy          Falmouth        Aug. 12.\n                   Ditto             ditto          Sept. 15.\n                -- J. M. Phillippo   Spanish Town    Aug. 18.\n                   Ditto             ditto          Sept. 23.\n                -- Joshua Tinson     Kingston        Aug. 18.\n                   Ditto             ditto          Sept. 22.\n                -- H. C. Taylor      Spanish Town    Aug. 18.\n                   Ditto             ditto           Sept. 3.\n                -- F. Gardner        Kingston        Aug. 18.\n                   Ditto             ditto          Sept. 23.\n                -- J. Clarke         Kenmuir         Aug. 19.\n                   Ditto             ditto          Sept. 17.\n                -- Kilner Pearson    Nassau               14.\n                -- Edward Baylis     Port Maria           16.\n                Messrs. A. & J. Deleon, Savanna-la-Mar    19.\n                Rev. W. Whitehorne   Mount Charles        22.\n                -- J. Kingdon        Manchioneal     Oct. 13.\n                -- Josiah Barlow     Anotta Bay           16.\n                -- Walter Dendy      Falmouth             21.\n                -- Joshua Taylor     Kingston             28.\n\n SOUTH AMERICA. -- Joseph Bourn      Belize          July 12.\n\n SOUTH AFRICA.  -- W. Davies         Graham's Town        21.\n\n\n_Contributions received on account of the Baptist Missionary Society,\nfrom Nov. 20, to Dec. 20, 1834, not including individual subscriptions._\n\n Naunton, by Rev. J. Acock                10  3  4\n\n Newbury, Collections and Subscriptions,\n   by Rev. T. Welsh                       42  2  9\n\n Norwich and Norfolk Auxiliary, by Mr.\n   J. Culley, Treasurer                   96  3  6\n\n South Devon Auxiliary, on account, by\n   Mr. Nicholson                          45  0  0\n\n Lincolnshire and Suffolk, by Rev.\n   Eustace Carey:--\n     Louth, Rev. Mr. Cameron's            12  5  0\n     Horncastle                            1 13  6\n     Eye                                   7 16  1\n     Bury                                 11  8  2\n     Diss                                  6  9  0\n     Stowmarket                           11 12  1\n     Ipswich                              73  1  0\n                                          -------- 124 4 10\n\n Chelsea, Collections and Sunday School,\n   by Mr. Skerritt                        13  1  0\n\n Sutton on Trent, by Mr. Mozley            7  2  6\n\n Newark, by Mr. Lomax                      5  4  0\n\n Broseley, Auxiliary Society, by Mr.\n   Weare, Jun.                            24  0  0\n\n Huntingdonshire, Society in aid of Missions,\n   on account, by Mr. Paul                50  0  0\n\n Derbyshire, by Rev. W. Hawkins:--\n   Derby                                  38  9  3\n   Burton on Trent                        13  1 11\n   Loscoe                                  1  8  0\n                                          -------- 52 19 2\n\n Reading, Negro's Friend Society, by Mrs.\n   Letchworth, (_For Spanish Town_)        5  0  0\n\n Northamptonshire, Independent Association,\n   by Rev. Mr. Robertson:--\n     Kettering, Rev. T. Toller             2  0  0\n     Harborough, Rev. W. Wild              5  0  0\n                                          --------  7  0 0\n\n Downton, Collection, &c. by Rev. John\n   Clare                                  12  2  6\n\n Haddenham (Cambridgeshire), by Mr.\n   Rose                                   13  7  0\n\n Bath, Collected by Miss Oliver            0  6  6\n\n\nLEGACY.\n\nMr. William Baker, late of George Street, Hampstead Road, (Executors,\nMessrs. Henry Welton and Joseph Ivimey)  200  0  0\n\n\n_The following Contributions have been received, on account of the\nJamaica Chapels and School Rooms, since the List was printed off._\n\n Sidney Gurney, Esq.                       2  2  0\n Banff, Mrs. Nichols and Friends           1  0  0\n\n_Members of the Society of Friends._\n\n William Allen   (S)                       3  0  0\n John Sanderson                            3  0  0\n John Kitching                             2  2  0\n James Foster                              2  2  0\n Cornelius Hanbury                         2  2  0\n Thomas Norton                             1  0  0\n Jacob Hagen, Jun.                         1  0  0\n Margaret Wilson.                          1  0  0\n\n Scarborough, (_additional_):--\n   Collection, Aug. 1                      4 10  0\n   Surplus of Tea Party                    6  1  9\n   Christopher Hill, Esq.                  5  0  0\n   W. D. Thornton, Esq.                    1  0  0\n   W. Dyson, Esq.                          1  0  0\n   Friend                                  1  0  0\n   W. Smith, Esq.                          0 10  0\n   Mrs. Fox                                0 10  0\n\n\nTO CORRESPONDENTS.\n\nThe thanks of the Committee are returned to the Rev. John Cox, of\nWoolwich, for a parcel of books and tracts for Jamaica; and also to Mrs.\nLetchworth, and the Committee of the Reading Ladies' Negroes' Friend\nSociety, for a box containing books and other useful articles for\nJamaica.\n\nOur valuable Correspondent at Newbury is informed, that the friend\nabout whom he inquires had made previous arrangements for his journey\nwestward, which prevented his complying with the request sent him\nfrom N.\n\nIn the List of Contributions for rebuilding the Jamaica Chapels, there\noccurs a line, under the head of \"Prescot-street, Rev. Charles Stovel,\"\n\n     Friends                                10  2  6\n _For which, read_,\n   Cards, by Miss Amelia Bradshaw:--\n     T. Teape, Esq.                 1  1  0\n     W. Cooke, Esq.                 1  0  0\n     A. Jackson, Esq.               1  0  0\n     Small sums                     2  6  6\n                                    -------  5  7  6\n   By Miss Martha Bradshaw                   4 15  0\n\nUnder the head of \"Lyme, Dorset,\" there should have been entered, a\ndonation of Five Pounds, from James Edwards, Esq.;--and at \"Caine,\nWilts,\" the account should stand thus:--\n\n Collection, by Rev. W. Lush      2  7  0\n Mr. W. Gundry, for Schools       1  0  0\n J. F. Gundry, Do                 1  0  0\n                                  ------- 4  7  0\n\n\nJ. HADDON, PRINTER, CASTLE STREET, FINSBURY.","title":"The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, January, 1835","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":28678}