Female Missionary Labours. 157 was greatly amused with the large | take refuge in the Lord, trust in Him." drove of bullocks we met: their pea- After a pause he said, Who is the cock ornaments, and tinkling bells, Lord? It is Christ- He who bas and bridles adorned with sea shells he loved us-who has bore the weight of much admired. Again we reached the our trangressions-who died to save end of our stage before our tents. At us from hell. He is the Savionrthis place by paying a rupee we might there is none but Christ. Ob! Bowrie have gone into a Government bunga- and Chankurdie don't neglect him! low, but in prospect of being heavily Don't look at the world! what is it? taxed, we are obliged to study economy, What does it matter whether you spend and contented ourselves with the shelter your life in prosperity, or adversity, in the verandah afforded us, until our joy, or sorrow? Think of something tents arrived and were pitched. Not higher. Look to Christ, this will bring being near a village, we had time for no evil to you, nothing but good; it reading and for looking about us. will be for your eternal good, then, There is a splendid grove of mangoe when you die you will be with Christ trees, and near the grove are two long in glory for ever. Now is the time to brick buildings for the pilgrims to regard this, the night of death is rest in, these I did not measure, but coming, and when the night cometh no two buildings of the same kind in man can work, I can say no more." another place, measured 60 yards each Then trying to bend in the attitude of in length, near to these "holy resting prayer, he asked Mr. Buckley to pray places," (as they are called) are tanks, for his nephews. It was an affecting and wells, also a bazaar to furnish the scene. He died on Tuesday night. pilgrims with food. On Wednesday after the funeral, I had a prayer meeting with the christian women, the sorrowing widow, and her daughters were with us. We read a part of the fourteenth chapter of John, and talked about our Father's house, its many mansions, and of a loving Saviour preparing one for us, if we were his faithful followers. Concerning one with us who had fallen into sin, I trust she has truly repented and returned to the Saviour. It was refreshing to listen to the outpouring of her humbled penitent heart in prayer. In talking with her she said I have learned that in myself I have no strength, it is only as I look to Christ, and obtain strength from Him, that I can walk in the way of holiness. I was glad to find that the wife of Paul, the native preacher, had been able regularly to conduct a weekly prayer meeting with the 22nd. This morning, after a march of seven miles, we reached Khundittur Very pleasant did the missionary's one room cottage look, standing in the midst of the native christians' cultivated fields The back verandah of the cottage is formed into a small dressing room and bath room. The sitting room is furnished with a broken table, two chairs, and a couch. We found the christian school master preparing for our reception, he had swept the house, and thrown open the doors, and soon he brought us a jug of milk and some ripe plantains. During our stay of five days at Khundittur we lived in our tent, and our friends in the bungalow, where we had our meals together. On our arrival we found Seboo Sahu, our aged native preacher very ill; we all felt the time of his departure was near. My husband every morning, on getting up, went to the village to see him. On Tuesday morning he found him much weaker, his eye sight had failed, but he knew Mr. Buckley, and gave him his band asking him to stretch it out; he then gave bis other hand to his widowed daughter, Rachel, and learning that his two heathen nephews had come to see him, he addressed them in the following words, "Ob! Bowrie, Oh! Chaukurdie, what shall I say to you, women, and they spoke of it as having been a means of grace to their soul. A few months since, a very pleasing young man renounced idolatry, and joined the christians. We hope his young wife will join him. LETTER FROM MISS BUTLER. Cuttack, January 3rd, 1861. MR. and Mrs. Buckley are out in the district; their absence, with that of Mr. and Mrs. Hill, so increases my engagements that I have scarcely a moment's leisure for writing. I am hoping, when Mrs. Buckley returns, to visit Choga, and arrange for a schoolroom being erected. I had hoped to have done so some time ago, but circumstances which I could not control prevented. The crops this year have failed there sadly; 80 a little work in bringing wood, &c., will be very acceptable to the people, and perhaps in this respect the delay has occurred for the best. The £15 sent by the Ladies' Society is towards that object. My health had not been at all as good as usual some time previous to Conference, and with the hope that I might be benefited by the journey to Berhampore, I went. I had some pleasing opportunities of speaking to the women at some of the villages where we stayed. I should like to write an account, but I see so much work before me, I am afraid to promise. I may here mention an instance that occurred on my return. I left Berhampore in company with Mrs. Lacey and her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Bond; we were going through to Ganjam at one stage. On reaching Chatterpore, not seeing anything of my companions I desired the bearers to put my palanquin down and wait until they came up. As the sun was not very high I got out of the palanquin, intending in the meantime to walk about the place, but just as I stood up I observed a native sitting on a bridge, a few yards distant, reading an Oriya book. Knowing there was no press excepting our own in Orissa, I was sure it was one of our books; I felt curious to know what the book was, and where he procured it. I walked past, and returning, gave him salaam and advancing, begged to know what he was reading. To my great surprise, he replied to my inquiry in English, and said it was a book published by the Government School, and that he had given two annas for it at Berhampore. We now entered into conversation, and I ascertained that he had been educated in the Mission School, at Vizagapatam, but had never broken caste, and was now employed in the Collector's Office, at Chatterpore. I expressed my surprise at his being educated in a Mission School, and yet continuing in idolatry, when he assured me that he believed Christianity to be true-the only true religion. That he had no confidence in the religion of his country; he seemed insulted at the idea that be worshipped the Gods, but he added, If I were to leave my people and profess Christianity I should have to suffer great trouble and inconvenience. I inquired what our state would have been had our Saviour refused to have suffered, and spoke of His precious love to us that led Him to endure the cross, &c., on our account. I repeated several encouraging texts of Scripture, and ended by repeating that Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and my words, &c., Mark viii. 38; and endeavoured to impress upon his mind the importance of confessing Christ. He assured me that numbers of bis countrymen believed the Gospel, but fear of breaking caste, and what they should suffer in consequence, deterred them. Well, I replied, you see how important it is that you should show them an example: and you will find the grace of God sufficient to help you. He will be with you and strengthen you, &c; and if you will come to my palanquin I will give you a tract, which I request you to read attentively and prayerfully. He came, and I gave him a copy of Come to Jesus.' He seemed well acquainted with Scripture, and wished me to inform him where he could procure an English reference bible-I did not know, excepting that he might in Calcutta. He left, assuring me, that he should read the tract, and think over what I had said. I intend to ask Mr. Brooks if it would not be well to bring out with him, when he returns, a number of Bibles for sale; I think they would be disposed of readily. I have been again and again asked for them. UNITED MISSIONARY SERVICES AT LOUTH.-These services were held on the 10th, 11th, and 12th of March. The deputation consisted of the Revs. Isaac Stubbins, W. R. Stevenson, M.A., and Mr. W. Brooks. The two churches in the town for the first time held their anniversary together. In all the arrange RECEIVED ON ACCOUNT OF THE GENERAL BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY, From February 20th, to March 20th, 1861. SACRAMENTAL COLLECTIONS FOR WIDOWS & ORPHANS FUND. Billesdon Hucknall Torkard 0 5 0 Queniborough ... 050 030 180 070 Subscriptions and Donations in aid of the General Baptist Missionary Society will be THE GENERAL BAPTIST MAGAZINE. MAY, 1861. DAVID'S CENSUS. survey of England, made by command of the first of our Norman sovereigns, two original records of which are still preserved in the Chapter House, Westminster, was undertaken for a similar purpose. So far as we know, the details of no one of the Greek or Roman numberings' have come down to our day; and the Domesday Book survey gives no reliable account of the actual number of inhabitants in England when it was taken. BEFORE the eyes of our readers scan | gulate the burden of taxation; and the these pages the seventh census of Great Britain will have been taken. The advantages of numbering the people at stated intervals are too obvious to need more than a single word of illustration. To the statesman, the statistician, the philosopher, and the moralist census returns are invaluable. The worth of their generalizations manifestly depends on a careful induction of such facts as a periodical census supplies. Nor can these returns be a matter of indifference to the humblest citizen. Without any pretence to be a philosopher or a sage, he cherishes, or ought to cherish, a fervent love for the country of his birth, an honest pride in her gradually expanding population, and may perchance occasionally indulge in fascinating dreams of her future destiny. The census will help to justify his preference and his exultation. The idea of taking a census is by no means new; but the avowed purpose for which the people were numbered among at least two of the oldest western nations differed widely from the purpose for which returns have been made in this country during the past sixty years. The census of Greece and Rome was mainly obtained, if not entirely, to reVOL. II., NEW SERIES, No. 5. But census returns are much older than the establishment of Censors in Rome (B. c. 437) or than the enumerations obtained by Solon two centuries before. Homer had yet to sing 'the tale of Troy divine,' and Rome had not become even a village of wretched huts when David's census was made by Joab and his captains. Two separate accounts of this census are given one in the second book of Samuel and twenty-fourth chapter, and another in the first book of Chronicles and the twenty-first chapter. An examination of this numbering of the people,' taken more than twenty-eight centuries ago, is just now specially appropriate. And for two reasons: when the last census was taken in England, |