remembered? This is the only system which has given to woman her rights, and placed her in her due rank in the scale of the creation. It is not the American savage alone who treats his wife as a slave. The worshipper of Mohammed does it. The philosopher of the East offends against God and nature in reducing his wife to a state of painful subserviency. The polished empires of Greece and Rome degraded themselves by similar barbarity. It was the Bible which taught that woman is the co-partner of man, and that it was "not good for him to be alone;" it was Christianity which claimed their equal liberty with their husbands, and which abolished alike the system of Eastern despotism and of Western slavery. Females, consider that ye owe your rights and liberties to Christianity; and not to exert all your energies to extend this inestimable grant, is in effect to despise the blessing.

But we confidently appeal to those active services which your sex has already rendered to this great cause; to glorious examples, which have shown that if the woman was first in the transgression, she has also been the first to counteract the ills into which she was betrayed, by her attachment to the Lord of Life, and her early promulgation of the Gospel of the grace of God. Women received into their habitations HIM who had not where to lay his head, and ministered to his pressing but uncomplaining wants. A woman's tears bathed his weary feet, and she washed them with the hairs of her heads The constancy of women followed him to Calvary, when his disciples all forsook him and fled; and their sighs were incense poured round his cross, amidst the execrations of an infuriated multitude, when he "made his soul an offering for sin." Lingering there until the body could be removed, their love was not extinguished with life-they prepared the corpse for sepulture, and were found early in the morning hastening to his tomb, while the guilty world was slumbering, and the terrified disciples were hiding themselves in an upper chamber. They first proclaimed his resurrection, and to them were the celestial messengers sent with the glad tidings of this infinitely important event. Afterwards, how constantly do we find them associated with the labours and triumphs of the Gospel-inspired by apostolić zeal impelled by more than mortal energy-and combining with Christian ardour the graces of female gentleness. The extensive charity of a Dorcas, and, the mild spirituality of a Lydia; the enlightened conceptions of a Priscilla; the unfeigned faith which dwelt in a Lois and an Eunice; the boundless hospitality of that "elect lady" celebrated by the beloved disciple, whose works of mercy are in everlasting remembrance, while her name has perished, and are associated in Christian bosoms, in all ages, with the tender affection towards our Lord, of her who anointed him to his burial, and whose generous act was to be told wherever the Gospel was preached these are but some of the stars shining in a constellation of female excellence in the hemisphere of religion. Such characters are produced by the Holy Spirit in the imperishable pages of truth, not for admiration alone, but for imitation also. Surely our countrywomen will strive to emulate them. You may be stars also. "Arise, shine, for your light is come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.' We'receive these primitive evidences of female attachment to Christ, and exertion in diffusing the knowledge of the truth, as a pledge of what will be done by women in this generation for the furtherance of Missionary labours.

Will it be asked what females are expected to do? We leave the decision of their conduct to the impulses of their hearts, and the dictates of their judgments. Let but their affections be consecrated to the cause, and their understanding will be sufficiently fruitful in expedients to promote it. Their husbands will be gently prevailed upon to lay apart some

of their substance to serve religion. Their children will be nurtured in a Missionary spirit, and learn to associate with all their pleasures the records of Missionary privations and triumphs. They will solicit the repetition of the often told tale, and glow with a martyr's zeal for the salvation of the souls of men. Listen to the eloquent appeal of a masterly preacher on this subject." Christian Matrons! from whose endeared and endearing lips we first heard of the wondrous Babe of Bethlehem, and were taught to bend our knees to Jesus-ye who first taught these eagles how to soar, will ye now check their flight in the midst of heaven? I am weary," said the ambitious Cornelia, of being called Scipio's daughter; do something, my sons, to style me the mother of the Gracchi.' And what more laudable ambition can inspire you, than a desire to be the Mothers of the Missionaries, Confessors and Martyrs of Jesus? Generations unborn

shall call you blessed. The churches of Asia and Africa, when they make grateful mention of their founders, will say, ' Blessed be the wombs which bare them, and the breasts which they have sucked!' Ye wives also of the Clergy, let it not be said, that while ye love the mild virtues of the Man, ye are incapable of alliance with the grandeur of the Minister. The wives of Christian soldiers should learn to rejoice at the sound of the battle. Rouse, then, the slumbering courage of your soldiers to the field; and think no place so safe, so honoured as the camp of Jesus. Tell the Missionary story to your little ones, until their young hearts burn, and, in the spirit of those innocents who shouted Hosanna to their lowly King, they cry, "Shall not we also be the Missionaries of Jesus Christ*?" Such an appeal to Christian females cannot be made in vain. They are not the triflers who balance a feather against a soul. They will learn to retrench superfluities, in order to exercise the grace of Christian charity. They will emulate those Jewish women, who "worked with their hands" for the hangings of the tabernacle, and brought "bracelets and ear-rings, and jewels of gold," for the service of the sanctuary. They will consecrate their ornaments to the perishing heathen; and render personal and domestic economy, a fountain of spiritual blessings to unenlightened nations and to distant ages. They will resign the gems of the East to save a soul from death, and bind round their brow a coronet of stars which shall shine for ever and ever!

AMICUS.

In South Africa, many thousands of Hottentots, Caffres, Bushmen, Griquas, Corannas, and people of other tribes, are emerging from a state of the grossest barbarism, to the rank of men and of Christians. In about twelve different parts of that country, twenty Missionaries or more, some of whom are converted natives, are daily engaged in their instruction, and with a degree of success scarcely paralleled in the history of the Church.

The London Missionary Society now employs about Seventy Missionaries, in forty or more different places, in most of which their wives are eminently useful, not only in the instruction of the native females and children, but in the exhibition of the Christian character-teaching, by their example before the heathen, the excellence of the conjugal and maternal relations, as regulated by the holy Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The Missionary Society owes much to the liberality of Christian females in London and in many parts of the country, who, by associating in Auxiliary Societies, have afforded material aid to the funds of the Institution.

* Horne's Sermon before the Church Missionary Society.

Extracts from the Report of the 22d General Meeting of the (London) Missionary Society.

(Continued from page 7.)

GREAT NAMAQUA COUNTRY.
KLIP FOUNTAIN,

(About two days journey north of the Great River, and not
far from the former station called Warm Bath.)
Mr. Schmelen, on his return from the Damara country,
which he went to explore, fell in with a krall of Namaquas,
some of whom had formerly resided at the Warm Bath. At first
they were greatly alarmed at the appearance of himself and his
people, and hid themselves behind the rocks and bushes, be-
ing apprehensive of the approach of Africaner, whose name
was terrific throughout all that country. But finding that it
was a peaceful Missionary who had arrived, they expressed
the highest degree of joy; and having heard him preach, they,
with Flemerius their chief, at their head, earnestly entreated
him to continue among them. Mr. Schmelen would have de-
clined this, as he wished to begin a mission elsewhere; but
the people would take no denial; they would not suffer him
to leave them; they detained him almost by force; he was
therefore constrained to abide with them, and his compliance
filled their hearts with joy.

It was not long before he also had reason to rejoice in this determination. Many persons received the word, accompanied by the power of the Holy Spirit. A concern about religion became general; and when the last account came away, ne had baptized twenty persons on a credible profession of their faith in Jesus.

The business of civilization, the constant concomitant of evangelical religion, immediately commenced. The Missionary began a school, in which he had soon 140 children, who learned to read and write; but having no paper, a sheepskin was substituted, on which fine sand was spread, and a reed served the purpose of a pen. The particulars of the awakenings here, are some of the most remarkable that have occurred in our knowledge.

It is absolutely necessary that another Missionary should .be sent to the help of Mr. Schmelen as soon as possible. AFRICANER'S KRALL.

Seldom have the Directors had occasion to record circumstances so remarkable as those which have occurred at this place. Every member of the Society will recollect the dispersion of the people who resided at Warm Bath, which was

at that time one of our most flourishing stations. The terror of Africaner's name put a period, for a season, to our pleasing expectations concerning that congregation.

When Mr. Campbell was in Africa, he conceived that the heart of Africaner might possibly be won by that kindness which the gospel recommends even towards an enemy. He therefore wrote a conciliatory letter to him, accompanied with a present. But, for a long time, no man could be found hardy enough to venture to Africaner's krall to present it. At length the letter reached his hands, and its contents were soon after seconded by a visit from our late most excellent Missionary, Mr. Christian Albrecht. Peace was happily established; and Africaner not only consented that a Missionary should come, but was very desirous of it, and pleaded Mr. Campbell's promise of sending one.

Mr. Ebner, our Missionary at Pella, (so called, because it proved a refuge to the dispersed from Warm Bath; like the ancient Pella to the fugitive Christians from Jerusalem,) judging that it was a very important duty to endeavour to maintain peace with Africaner, by residing with him; and that it might lead eventually to the re-establishment of the mission at the Warm Bath, and the formation of other settlements in the country, felt inclined to remove to Africaner's place, though not without great inconvenience, and perhaps risk. He proposed it therefore to his congregation, who, though strongly attached to their minister, generously gave him up on this urgent occasion. Mr. Ebner accordingly removed; and he had soon cause to be thankful. The people of the krall received him joyfully; they have attended his ministry with affection; many seem to be seriously impressed; and among fourteen persons whom he has baptized, are two sons of AfricaThat chief himself expresses contrition on account of the enormities of his past life, and a hope in the mercy of God through Jesus Christ.

ner.

PELLA,

IN THE SOUTH (OR LITTLE) NAMAQUA COUNTRY. At this place, it may be truly said, the word of the Lord has had free course, and has been glorified. Here Mr. Albrecht and Mr. Ebner laboured with great success. In a letter, dated May 24, 1815, Mr. Ebner says, "You will rejoice with me when you hear of the conversion of so many sinners, who fly in great numbers to our beloved Jesus, like doves to their windows. O could you witness the earnest desires of these poor people to be saved from their sins by Christ; could you hear our people, old and young, how earnestly they pray be

hind the bushes, your hearts would not only rejoice, but you would be ready to take out all your Bank notes uncounted, and throw them into the Missionary treasury." More than fifty persons have been added to the church, and there appears to be a general concern among the people both old and young. Several native teachers have been recommended and sent out in different directions to Warm Bath, Steinkopff, and other places.

But here, again, our joy is checked by the recollection of another heavy loss, sustained by the death of our most beloved and excellent Missionary, Mr. Christian Albrecht. His health had, for a long time, been in a declining state, and it was thought expedient that he should repair to Cape Town for medical advice. He accordingly came; and in a few days after his arrival, while engaged in forwarding the brethren for Latakkoo, and when in the act of writing a letter on the Society's business, he fell down in his chamber and expired. His remains were deposited by the side of our venerated Van Der Kemp. Mr. Read, in a letter on this subject, says, "Late events in Africa have been both glorious and grievous. The Lord has graciously succeeded the labours of the Society, by their Missionaries, in a signal manner. New trophies have been given to Immanuel, which will be treasured up in heay-en, and be unto him for an everlasting name. But death, as if envious at the progress of the Missionaries, is cutting off our dear brethren, one after another. O that the Lord would sheath his sword, and spare the residue !"

"The loss of brother Albrecht is great indeed; for I scarcely knew his equal. His chief excellencies were, a burning zeal for the conversion of the heathen, ardent love to their souls, and self-denial, in a very high degree; and these are the chief qualifications requisite for Missionaries in Africa."

The station at Pella, thus deprived of both its Missionaries, will now be supplied by Mr. Bartlett, a Missionary accepted in Africa, and Mr. Marquard of Holland, who lately arrived at the Cape.

It is here proper to mention that the brethren Evans, Barker, Williams and Hamilton, intended for the mission at Latakkoo, after staying a while at the Cape, proceeded by High Krall to Bethelsdorp, where they were most kindly received; two of these Missionaries, with their wives, have since gone forward to Griqua Town, and will be followed by Mr. Barker, accompanied, we trust, by Mr. Read, who intends, on his way, to introduce Williams and Tzaatzoo to the Caffres. Our hearts go with them all crying-" Save now, we beseech thee, O Lord: O Lord, we beseech thee, send now prosperity."