seat was, and if ever that awful being were allowed an incarnation, it was here. The details of this wickedness, given us by the Missionaries since we have been here, are enough to fill us with horror. How many human victims almost daily bled upon their cruel altars! Two-thirds of the infants born were instantly murdered by the hands of their own mothers. I saw one woman the other day, who had destroyed eight of her own offspring; I have heard of another who killed nine, another seventeen, another twenty!!! The god of thieves, for there was such a god here, was faithfully served, while crimes of other kinds, too horrible to be named, every where defiled this beautiful land. All the worst passions of human nature were indulged in the utmost possible extent. But, where sin abounded, Grace much more abounds! God has done great things for this people. The faithful and holy exertions of his servants are most amply rewarded. The prayers of the British churches are indeed heard; and all the expenses which have been incurred are now fully repaid O that you and all whose hearts are engaged in doing good to the heathen, could but witness what I have already seen; it would fill your soul with amazement and gratitude. Where I have been, the Sabbath is universally regarded; not an individual is known, whether among the chiefs or the common people, who does not attend divine worship on the Lord's Day. The engagements of that holy day commence with a prayer-meeting, conducted entirely by the natives themselves, at sun-rise. Knowing the backwardness of Christians in England to attend early prayer-meetings, what do you think my surprise has been on going to these services, to find their large places of worship literally filled. This is the fact at all the situations which I have visited; the whole congregations indeed attend. At nine o'clock in the morning, and at three in the afternoon, there is public worship and preaching, when their places are crowded. The congregations make a very decent appearance; all is solemn and becoming. They have congregational singing, and it is conducted with great propriety. In the intervals of worship, there is catechising of both young and old. The natives dress all their food on Saturdays; not a fire is lighted, not a canoe is seen on the water, not a journey performed, not the least kind of worldly business done on the Sabbath. So far as outward appearances go, this day is here kept indeed holy: by multitudes, I doubt not, it is kept really so. JEWS SOCIETY.-The agent of the A. S. M. C. J. the Rev. Mr. Frey, is pursuing the object of his mission with success. In New-Jersey, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, &c. much Christian liberality has been manifested, as will be seen by the list of collections and donations, which we publish every month. R. MILFORD BLATCHFORD, Esq. of this city, has been elected Treasurer of the Society; and to him all communications relating to the pecuniary concern of the society must be addressed It is stated in many papers that the society "is now negociating for 20,000 acres of land on the canal in" this state "to give employment to emigrant Jews from Europe," &c. The late revered president of the society devised 4,000 acres of land in Pennsylvania, for supplying Jewish settlers with farms of 50 acres each, and left it optional with the society to receive that, or $1000 within two years. A committee of the Directors have this subject under consideration, but as yet they have been unable to make any very definite report to the board. Donations.-Received by the American Bible Society, during the month of January, 1823: To constitute ministers members for life, To constitute laymen members for life, Donation, $3-annual subscriber, $3 Payments for Bibles, Bibles issued 1805, and 2443 Testaments-value, $2,079 93. Eight new auxiliaries were recognized in January. $90 00 30 00 6.00 575 13. € 3331 77 Received by the United Foreign Missionary Society, during the month of December, 1822, $616 67. Received by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, from 13th December to 12th January, $4,085 67, also, part of a legacy, $750, and donations in clothing, &c. amounting to about $1000. Received by the American Education Society, during the month of January last, $1,765 25. India-Late intelligence received from Mr. Fyvie, at Surat, state that 10,000 Guijuratee tracts have been given away since the press began to work there. The New-Testament, in the same language, has been printed in eight parts, and 1000 have been distributed. A second native school, of about 50 children of the Dhera Hindoos, who eat carrion! has recently been established. In printing the Old-Testament they had proceeded to the end of Leviticus, and expected to have the whole of the pentateuch printed off by the close of March last.—Seaman's Magazine. NEW-YORK METHODIST TRACT SOCIETY-THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM THE REV. DANIEL DR VINNE:-Through you I would inform the society, that I have disposed of all the tracts sent me, except the French ones. These I think have been very profitably scattered from the Walnut Hills to Lake Ponchaitrain, and from the Mississippi to Pearl-River. After distributing nearly 10,000, I have no hesitation in saying, that this means of disseminating religious truth, is highly owned by the Lord. I might adduce instances of this, but time does not permit. Suffice it to say, that many have been reproved, quickened, consoled and instructed; and some within my knowledge, have been awakened to a sense of their lost situation by reading them. Upon the whole, I think, the society has great cause for thankfulness and encouragement. There seems to be but one course before them, and that is, "onward," and not be weary in well-doing. I have fifty dollars for them, and a good prospect of forming some auxiliaries in this country. CAHAWBA DISTRICT.-A letter from the REV. William Pattan, mentions a revival of religion on Franklin circuit, in the bounds of this district. He ob serves, that at a "Camp-Meeting held in April iast, there were about one hundred who professed to be converted; and at another meeting held on the same circuit there were between thirty and forty professing to find the same blessing. In another neighbourhood, where religion had been for some time in a low state, there has been a very considerable revival of religion. A society of upwards of fifty, nearly all new converts, has been established in that place." LOCAL PREACHERS CONFERENCE FOR THE NEW-HAVEN DISTRICT:-The New-Haven District Conference of Local Preachers, met at Middlebury, Feb. 4, 1823. There were present twenty-two preachers, members of Conference, besides a number of others. Four were licensed to preach, two recommended to travel. It was a time of peace and love; every thing appeared to be done in the spirit of prayer. Much of the Divine presence was manifested to the Brethren They felt a renewal of spiritual strength, and an increased attachment to the cause of God. A oneness of soul pervaded the whole, and we were often overwhelmed with a sense of the truth, love and goodness of God. They were not only in union among themselves, but they declared themselves to be equally so, with their Brethren, the travelling preachers. It was truly delightful to hear them speak of their growth in grace, of the deep interest which they felt in the prosperity of Zion, of their belief in the doctrine, discipline and government of the church. It was a time of refreshing from the presence of the Lord. They parted with their souls alive to God, their hearts warmly united, fully resolved to live and labour more for the Lord Jesus Christ They were thankful that the General Conference instituted the District Conference, for they found it a signal blessing to their souls, the means of uniting them more and more to each other, to their Brethren the travelling preachers, and to the cause in general. It was in short a very religious season, and I should say that there was not a feeling contrary to love, not a sour look, nor a hard word, witnessed through the whole Conference. SAMUEL MERWIN. New-Haven, Feb. 28, 1823. Poetry. From the Wesleyan Methodist Magazine. Mine is a tale of former time, But hitherto untold in rhyme. THE DISAPPOINTMENT: A Tale founded on Fact. In England. tow'rd the eastern shore, (The muse omits to mention more,) There liv'd a man who till'd the earth; Fix'd to the spot that gave him birth, Patient of toil,-with ceaseless care, He broke the clod, and drove the share. This life he liv'd through many a year; His gains, though nothing large, were clear, And, carefully laid up and counted, Had now to something great amounted. 'Tis said that in our life's decay, When youthful follies pass away, Some passions riot uncontroll'd; Strongest of all,-the love of gold. 'Tis said, the hand, though firm no more, Grasps eagerly the glittering store. The man, to whom these lines refer, Was thought in this respect to err. 'Twas then, when God's uplifted hand In mercy shook this slumbering land, That Britain heard the Gospel call, From one who labour'd more than all; Of stature low;-but in his soul Dwelt greatness that might grasp the pole,Benevolence, whose wide embrace Encircled all the human race, And zeal, whose pure and lambent flame Who shall attempt to paint the throng Of cares terrestrial he found Where is our hero? every trace "His first was good," said he,-" his second Agreed with what I've always reckon❜d; But that which he now has let fall, Truly, I do not like at all." MORAL. Run not too hastily away EPITAPH, By the late REV. R. BOBINSON, of Cambridge. Bold Infidelity, turn pale and die! Beneath this stone four infants' ashes lie: Say, are they lost or sav'd? If death's by sin, they sinn'd; for they are here: If heaven's by works, in heaven they can't appear. Reason, ah, how deprav'd! Revere the Bible's sacred page; the knot's untied: They died, for Adam sino'd; they live, for Jesus died.-. W. THE Methodist Magazine, FOR MAY, 1893. Divinity. From the Wesleyan Methodist Magazine. THE SPIRIT'S PROPHETIC TESTIMONY CONCERNING THE SUF FERINGS AND THE GLORY OF CHRIST: A SERMON, BY THE REV. JOHN BURDSALL. 1 PETER I. 11. (Concluded from page 127.) II. WHEN the Spirit of Christ foretold that "Glory" would follow his sufferings, his intention was to teach us that it would follow them as an effect follows its cause, designedly and necessarily, and not casually, or by accident. Such sufferings as the Son of God endured, could not but lead to the most glorious results. Whether we advert to the manner in which they developed the character and perfections of the Deity, and the great moral influence which they consequently exert over the fears and feelings of men; or whether we refer to the powerful appeal which they make to the sinner's understanding respecting the hopelessness and peril of his state, had they not been appointed;—we must conclude, that either of these particulars separately, and still more the two conjointly, must needs put forth an influence highly persuasive and commanding, and necessarily drawing after it the most triumphant consequences. "Touch'd by the Cross, we live, or more than die ; And darkness into glory; That touch, with charm celestial, heals the soul Diseas'd, drives pain from guilt, lights life in death, Turns earth to heaven, to heavenly thrones transforms But, (to reason independently of these happy consequences natu rally flowing from the sufferings of Jesus Christ,)-did not the great Sire covenant or decree glory to his suffering Son? What VOL. VI. 21 mean those words, "When thou shalt make," or rather, shalt have made, "his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand? He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied." (Isaiah liii. 10, 11.) Unquestionably, they imply that the Father would give great glory to the Son as the reward of his sufferings. We have no authority to infer from this decree, that Christ had no glory until after his sufferings. For he had glory with the Father, not only before his own existence in the flesh, but even before the being of the world itself. "And now, O Father," (said Jesus Christ, when claiming the glory covenanted to him by the Father,) "glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory I had with thee before the world was." (John xvii. 5.) Nor was he destitute of glory even at the time when he disrobed himself, and "laid his glory by." For then, men "beheld his glory, the glory as of the only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." (John i. 14.) But if he possessed such glory during all the time in which he tabernacled with men, he enjoyed an unusual degree of it in the Holy Mount, where he was transfigured. For then "his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light." And then it was that "he received honour and glory from God the Father, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.'" (2 Pet. ii. 17.) But all the glory which he ever had on earth, before his sufferings, was greatly to be surpassed by that which was to "follow" them. But if asked, how any glory could exceed that which he received when he was sent forth from the bosom of the Father, as perfectly qualified and authorized to reveal his character, and his purposes of mercy to mankind, or that which he had, when, by the finger of God, he wrought the most stupendous miracles, in confirmation of his mission, and furnished other such tokens of his Father's favour as were perfectly unprecedented,-to these questions we reply, that after he had actually offered up his life for the world, he had more striking marks of the approbation and delight of his Father afforded to him than ever he had before, and was placed in a condition to furnish the most astonishing and triumphant displays of wisdom, mercy, love, and power. The glory which was to recompense his cross and passion, was not the glory of worldly heroes, such as that of acquiring the dominion of this world by artifice, aggression, and every other species of political injustice;nor yet that of enslaving the world by cruelty and bloodshed. Such glory he leaves to your Nimrods, your Nebuchadnezzars, your Alexanders, your Cæsars, your Mahommeds, or your Napoleons! Such glory may be, and certainly is, well calculated to suit their grovelling and infernal taste. But by an understanding, a benevolence, and a moral excellence so perfect as his, no glory save that which "God the Father almighty," all gracious and all |