Tillipally. There are 100 young lads who receive their education on this charity foundation. On the same day, Rev. Dr. Morrison, Mrs. Morrison, and three children, sailed from Gravesend for China, where he has been employed many years. The American Missionary, Mr. Hough, has returned to Rangoon, and entered on his duties. The natives On Friday, the 5th of May, the have generally returned; and the vi- Rev. David Johns, appointed to succinity is in a quiet state, since the ceed the late Mr. Jeffreys, at Ambawar has been carried into the inte- toumaga, and Mrs. Johns, Mr. James rior. The natives are now permitted Cameron, and Mrs. Cameron, (carto choose any religion they please.-penter,) Mr. John Cummins, (cotton Mr. Hough has been distributing co-spinner,) and Roloun Baloun, one of pies of parts of the Holy Scriptures, the native youths of Madagascar, and religious tracts. The late lamented bishop of Calcutta, in his visitation, confirmed about 150 native converts at the different Episcopal Missionary stations in the East Indies. The far-famed car of Jugernaut, at Vizagapatam, has greatly fallen into disrepute. It did not even make its appearance last year. The Pagan priests could not muster a sufficient number of devotees to put it into motion. And it has been stated, that lately its three images have been offered for sale to the Missionaries. They could have been bought for ten pagodas! who has finished his education at Manchester, who has also learnt the art of weaving and dying cotton. On Tuesday, June 20, Rev. J. D. Pearson, of Chinsurah, who has been in England since April, 1824, for the benefit of his health; and which, through Divine goodness, is so far improved as to warrant his return to his station in India. Rev. James Robertson, appointed to Benares; and Rev. Jacob Tomlin, B. A. appointed to Malacca, sailed from Downs for Calcutta.-Rel. Chron. To give some idea of the Chinese, among whom Dr. Morrison and other Missionaries have commenThe Calcutta Missionary Herald ced operations, we quote the followstates, that at the town of Dinage-ing from the London Missionary pore, (240 miles north of Calcutta,) Chronicle: seven converts were baptized on their The Chinese are a most industriprofession of faith in Christ. And a ous, ingenious, and sagacious peowhole Hindoo family consisting of ple; but are among the grossest eight persons, four adults, and four idolaters, if not the most so, of any children, have thrown off their caste, people. We find them every where and joined themselves to the Chris-worshipping their ancestor's images, tian society there. and painted representations of their Departure of Missionaries.-Dur-gods, burning gilt paper to the souls ing the months of May and June, se- of their departed relatives, to serve as veral Missionaries left England, sent money for them in the other world! out by the London Society to differ- "At Buitenzorg, we actually found ent stations in the pagan world.- a French engraving of a bust of BoAmong them, on the 1st of May, naparte in a gilt frame, placed as an were Rev. John Smith, A. M. and object of worship, over an altar-table in Mrs. Smith, appointed to Malacca; a Chinaman's house, having wax and Rev. A. Lillie, and Mrs. Lillie, ap- incense tapers burning before it! To pointed to Belgram; and Mr. and try what value was put on this picMrs. Paine, printer, appointed to Bel-ture, we endeavoured to purchase it; lary, sailed from Portsmouth for In- but the man said it could not be partdia. ed with, because they worship it; but could not and would not tell us why they worshipped the picture. On returning rather suddenly into the room, we found the old man lifting up his hands in worship to the picture of the late Ex-Emperor ! tend the schools of other denominations.- The people called Christians in the United States, declare themselves to be AntiTrinitarians, and are willing to be called public, that they have more than 700 Unitarians. They have lately stated to the Churches in the United States. If so, these societies called Churches, must be in many places so small, that they are not yet become visible to common observers ! Tyerman, in a letter to the corresponding sccretary of the American Board of Foreign Missions, dated Canton, Chini, Nov. 19. in those seas, in which the Gospel has been 1825, says: We know of twenty-one islands South Sea Islands.-The Rev. Daniel "In a Chinese temple, we observed an apartment appropriated to the worship of a long range of Javanese idols of metal and stone, found by the Chinese in various parts of Java The sculpture of many of these idols was excellent, but they were very ugly. They were placed on an elevated altar, having an immense table placed before them, with many in-embraced, in which not an idolater remains. cense tapers. The Chinese, when questioned as to the reason of their worshipping these idols, said, 'They were some of the gods of the country, and they thought it was well to worship them.' Christian Mission to the Sandwich Islands, in the Pacific ocean.-These islands are ten the Missionaries now spell it, Hawaii. Some in number. The chief is Owyhee; or, as of these islands are very mountainous.One summit on Hawaii is 15.000 feet high. They are in many places very fertile. The Humanly speaking, there is not population of these islands is estimated at much ground to hope that the Chi-vernment, consisting of a king and a body 130.000. They are all now under one gonese will adopt the Christian religion; of chiefs. The morals of the inhabitants but God is all-sufficient. The case when visited by Capt. Cook, and before of the Malays is, if possible, still Missionaries had witnessed the influence of the gospel on them; are described as lamore hopeless. They will readily mentably debased. They were polluted by discuss religious topics; but they ap-vices of the most revolting nature. pear to be shut up in their prejudices, They have and possess a sovereign contempt for given them a written language; and have all others." printing presses in operation. These AmerWales.-Great exertions are made to dif-ican Missionaries had been very successful. fuse knowledge and Christian principles In the year 1822, they received a valuable among the Welch. The following is ex- accession to their strength in Mr. Ellis, an tracted from Zion's Herald. It is written by English Missionary, who came from the So a Whitfieldian Methodist Minister in Wales. ciety Islands, and could speak fluently the Religion in Wales.-The following is an Otaheitan, or, as they now speak the Tahitan extract of a letter from a Whitfieldian Me-language. He found such a striking resemthodist Minister in Wales, to his friend in Cambria county, Penn. The Missionaries found no written lan guage among the inhabitants. blance between the Tahitan and Hawaiian dialects, that in a few weeks he was able to "As to religious intelligence in our coun- preach fluently to the natives. Since that, try, there is much to be said, so that I know other American Missionaries have been adnot where to begin. The gospel is preach-ded. They have now six Missionary sta ed, and is crowned with success. Sunday tions, at each of which a church has been schools are established, and do prosper.-built by the chiefs. And schools have been. Cards are committed to the flames. Church opened, in which more than a thousand yards, which used to be full of dust made by scholars are taught. Every sabbath the the feet of ball-players, are now covered churches are crowded by decent and attenwith grass. Cock-pits are decaying. Balls tive audiences. The natives begin to assume are becoming unfashionable. Meeting- the dress, and copy the manners of the Amehouses are erected. More than twenty rican nation. have been built in Montgomeryshire within The most pleasing intelligence is received the last three years. More than ten thou- from Mr. Richards, Missionary at Lahina, sand scholars attend the Methodist Sunday in the isle of Maui. So signally has God schools in the same county; and more than crowned the labours of this pious Missionafifty thousand attend them in the six coun-ry and his wife, that in less than two years, ties of North Wales, besides those who at- a nation has been rescued from the most de basing idolatry, and multitudes have been led to the blessed Saviour. paired constitution than at any former period since she left America. In the case of Mrs, Stewart, it was the general opinion that a removal to a colder climate, afforded the only chance of saving her life. In pursu ance of this, Mr. S. and wife, with his family, embarked on the 17th of October last, for London, on board the British ship Fame; the master of which, Captain Dale, gener It appears by the last accounts, that most of the wives of the Missionaries at these islands are in a bad state of health. The cause, the editor of the Missionary Herald supposes, is to be found far less in the climate than in other circumstances; which are supposed to be, 1st, the severity of their domestic labours and cares; and 2ndly, Ex-ously gave them a gratuitous passage.posures and privations, owing to the want of suitable dwellings. Mrs. Whitney was suffering from dropsical symptoms, and most of the others materially from debility. Mrs. Bingham and Mrs. Stewart, were both confined to their couches, as Mrs. Richards had been the greater part of the last eight months. Mrs. Bingham had for some months exhibited more symptoms of an im They arrived at Gravesend on the 19th of April, and the health of Mrs. S. had somewhat improved. They hoped to leave Eng. land for the United States, early in June last. Mr. Stewart and his wife, with their two children, and Betsy Stockton, their as sistant, arrived lately at New-York. Mrs. S.'s health, we rejoice to say, is greatly im proved since their arrival in their native land. OBITUARY. DIED, at the village of Claverack, State, dreamy slumber; interrupted with sighings of New-York, on the 16th of August, in the and ejaculatory exclamations. In the mor77th year of his age, the Rev. John G. Geb-ning she awoke; and remarked, "What a hard, Senior pastor of the Reformed Dutch charming night I have passed! my soul is Church at that place. He was born on the at entire peace! my doubts and difficulties 2d of February, A. D. 1750, at Waldorf, in are all gone! I can now very cheerfully give Germany. He received his classical educa-up all my children and all I have in the world! tion at Heidelbergh; and he completed his Now I have a desire to depart and be with theological studies, and was licensed to Christ, which is far better! I am no longer preach, at Utrecht, in Holland. In A. D. in a strait between two! To me to die is 1771, he emigrated to the United States; gain," &c. She continued in the enjoyment and officiated in the ministry in Pennsylva- of this interesting state of mind, and holy nia for about three years. In the month of communion with God, until she fell asleep in November, 1764, he was called to the town Jesus. How much more happy and glorious of Claverack, State of New-York, where is the death of this humble disciple of Christ, he continued until the day of his decease. who left the world without earthly fame, He officiated in the holy ministry 54 years. than the death of the greatest statesman, or "Blessed are the dead which die in the warrior, or philosopher, who expires covered with the glory which men can bestow, but descends with infamy into everlasting ruin! Oh! let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like this! Lord." Died, lately at Basking Ridge, Mrs. Henry, a plain, diffident, and unassuming Christian; and a member of the church at that place. Her little flock, under her husband's and her own guidance, were always remarkable for superiority and accuracy in reciting their catechism and hymns. This humble woman displayed the triumphs of divine grace in her last moments. She felt no doubt nor difficulty about her soul, and its happiness with the Lord Jesus beyond the grave. But she felt acute agony of mind at the idea of a separation from her infant! her children! and her husband! She did not see-she did not feel how she could ever give them up! Her prayers and supplications were incessant and earnest that divine grace might calm her mind, and bring it into an entire submission. On the night before her decease, she fell into a kind of! Died, at his residence in Chatham-street, New-York, G. Janeway, Esq. a venerable member of the Middle Dutch Church, aged 84 years. Died, at his residence in Chamber-street, James Kip, Esq. Died on the 10th of Sept. Miss Cornelia By death's resistless hand; Oh! may this truth, impress'd Religious Communications. THE HAPPY CHANGE LONGED FOR. A Funeral Sermon, preached on the 12th of March, 1826, on occasion of the death of the lamented Professor Woodhull, of Rutgers College; by W. C. BROWNLEE, at that time Professor of Languages in the College. PRACTICAL SERMONS. No VIII. "I have a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better."-PHIL. i. 23. scenes of his disappointments and wretchedness! The warrior, who has carried his triumphant standards over many a field of carnage; but whose time at last has come by the just retribution of God; and who is thrown The mere fact of giving utterance from the dizzy height of his elevation; to vows and desires on religious mata man of blood, detested and pursued ters, even in language the most impassioned; or in pathos inimitable, by the maledictions of the widow and can afford us no satisfactory evidence orphan, earnestly seeks for relief in of the true character and condition of death, from the scenes of his mortification and disgrace. a person. Such vows and desires may proceed from the devout man. They The unbeliever, who has braved may proceed, as they often have pro-public opinion, and has scoffed at ceeded, from the lips of the unsanc-every thing holy; when he finds his earthly treasures exhausted, his cre The lips of Balaam, who profess-dit ruined, his constitution destroyed, ed great humility in the presence of and his soul agitated by a thousand Jehovah, but whose rebellion was distressing anticipations-does pray, consummated on the field of battle as he never prayed before, that death where he fell fighting against God and would come and ease him of his his Christ, did utter the words, "Let woes! me die the death of the righteous, This is not the result of any sound and let my last end be like his." principles. It is produced solely by The unprincipled statesman, whose the pressure of misery and despair; mighty mind was wholly devoted to and the pressure of these the ignothe passing scenes of this world, when rant and vicious mind feels more than involved in irretrievable ruin, utters ten thousand other acuter pains, his vows and desires of leaving the which are, indeed, set before then VOL. I.-30. tified. in fearful array; but which are far distant, and not yet felt. But when a good man-when a devout Christian, such as the Apostle Paul, whose mind is prepared for every issue, takes a calm view of the condition of humanity; diversified with many transient joys, and with many dark sorrows; whose mind did enjoy the pure and elevated pleasures of the Christian life; who has often looked death in the face; whose eyes have pierced the darkness which hovers over the valley of the shadow of death; and who has looked on the holy vision of the mountains of glory; who has looked up to his Judge ; to the tribunal; to inflexible justice; to the irrevocable sentence; to the transporting joys of Paradise-when we hear such a man, with all these before his eyes, breathing out his vows and desires to depart, "I have a desire to depart, and to be with Christ”-it instantly occurs to us, that it must be the result of principles and motives entirely different from those of the former characters; when his soul aspires after that change, the very approach of which fills the mind of the intelligent and reflecting sinner with horror! This suggests to us our plan of discussion. I. We shall explain the views and principles involved in this exercise of the Christian, who gives utterance to the wish in our text. II. We shall consider the motives by which he is guided in this choice. "I have a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better." Christian. He looks on the world and its busy inhabitants: He sees around him God's kingdom of nature, and the subjects of his moral government; and over the whole he sees innumerable proofs of the active hand of the Almighty. He looks to the heavens, and sees every where the proofs of infinite wisdom and uncontrollable sovereignty. He looks up to the throne of God, and worships "the King eternal, immortal, the only wise God:" who uttered his command and all things rose into being; and who in his kingdom of Providence established over them, "worketh all things after the counsel of his own will." Hence he feels a perfect conviction that his being is wholly in God's hand: that "none of us live unto ourselves; that none of us die unto ourselves; that whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord; that living and dying we are the Lords." Hence he is assured that he has no more control over his existence at the present moment, than he had over that moment in which his immortal soul was, like a spark of immortal fire, struck into being by the immor tal hand. Hence he can establish no kind of connexion between this moment and the next moment; so that his existence this moment should be the cause of his existing the next; hence he cannot add to the days of his years. He feels the same solemn conviction relative to all the events of life, His health and sickness; his prosI. We shall explain the views and perous days and sorrowful hours; the principles involved in the exercise of joys and the relationships of life; the he Christian, who utters this vow. ties of the tenderest nature, and every viction of the Christian, that his life and given, and continued, and taken First. It indicates the deep con- thing touching them were formed, and all things in the events of life, away by acts of divine sovereignty; are under the control of divine wis- while a solemn voice of warning at dom and sovereignty. val, "Be still and know that I am tends every charge and every remo God." And the devout Christian is the language of the intelligent would as readily think of controlling "I have a desire to depart." It is not the language of the suicide-it |