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in the neighbourhood, many walking a number of miles in order to see once more their beloved minister. In the evening Mr. K., preparing, with his family and other friends, to enter Falmouth, sixteen or eighteen mounted their horses to ride on first, and give notice of his approach to those in town. On the road, in numerous places, crowds were standing, singing with joy, dancing, and often stepping forward to stop the horses, that they might inquire for "Massa minister," and know he was well. At Mr. Knibb's house, when he arrived, a vast concourse had collected, which soon filled the court, passage, and all the lower part of the house. All these seemed quite unable to express their joy at seeing him once more: they wept, clasp ed him by the hands and arms in the most eager manner, often exclaiming, "Massa come-it quite true-massa come at last for true. Many say dey wish he dead or drowned before he come back; but he come-he come-quite sure-quite safe!"

Scenes somewhat similar occurred all the

next day, Mrs. K being continually obliged to send out one company that others might gain admittance.

But the most interesting sight was re served for the Sabbath, when thousands testified their gratitude to God, and love to his house, by crowding within its walls. Three thousand were assembled within, while one thousand more filled the vestries, and surrounded the outside, though in the scorching heat of a mid-day sun. The pastor's feelings were almost as much over. come as those of his people, and welcome was given to him and to his companions by singing the hymn

"Kindred of Christ, for his dear sake,
A hearty welcome here receive;
May we together now partake

The joys which only he can give." After a sermon, in which Mr. K. exhorted them earnestly to seek the welfare of the Saviour's kingdom at home, in every land -but especially in their father-land, un. happy Africa-the hymn was sung

"Yes, we hope the day is nigh,

When many nations, long enslaved, Shall break forth, and sing with joy, ⚫Hosanna to the Son of David.'"' In the afternoon, between 1500 and 1600 communicants surrounded the table of their Lord to celebrate his redeeming love. This was an occasion which will never cease to

be remembered, especially by those who for the first time welcomed their African breth. ren and sisters, and rejoiced in what redeeming grace had done for them.

We can only conclude by expressing our confident persuasion, that friends of the

Redeemer in England, and wherever they are found, will unite in the prayer of the universal Church, that so, ere long, the kingdom of our Messiah may extend through out all the earth, and all enemies be placed beneath his feet. Then will the declaration of our Saviour be accomplished: "Many shall come from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of their Father."-Bup. Mag.

INDIA."It is my opinion that the amount of success in India has not been small, and I shall endeavour to substantiate this assertion. When the Missionthe benighted souls of the heathen, the aries attempted to deliver their message to heathen laughed them to scorn. They said, 'Look around on your christians. Your judges take bribes ; your magistrates vacate their chairs to seek amusement; your soldiers are full of rapine; and your government itself fattens on the very blood of our country.' Now they dare not say this.

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common soldier, and say, 'These men exemplify all that we have declared to you as constituting the principles and character of a Christian.' They admit the appeal and say, We now see that you have a religion, effective.' When we first went we were and we acknowledge that that religion is not acquainted with the languages of India; they had all to be learned, but the Missionaries have been successful not only in putting the languages into a written form, but in translating the words of Divine in compiling dictionaries and grammars, mercy. This is success. The Missionaries hare written an immense number of tracts and Christian books of instruction. Formerly when a tract was offered to a native he put his hands behind his back and refused to receive it. Now, to save our coats from being torn off our backs, we are obliged to let the tracts go. They rush in

thousands to seize them at our hands. Such is their thirst for information that they will and must have it. There are facts in great numbers of a character similar to these, all of which would bear out the assertion that the Missionary cause has been successful in British India. must proceed to another point. What is

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the inference to be drawn from this? That

God, in answer to our prayers, has sent down the Holy Spirit to bless the preparatory exertions which have been made; and, in a voice audible from heaven, says, 'Go forward.'"-Rev. W. Morton.

AFRICA." I will state one fact to illus

trate the efficacy of Missionary enterprise, even among those who take no part in it, but who have been influenced by the example of those whom you have sent forth. On one occasion, I visited a great chief in the interior of Africa. He was a tyrant, if ever there was one. Not a day ever passed by without his ordering some one to be speared, dashed in pieces, or thrown over the rock to be devoured by the crocodiles. When sitting beside him, about 2,000 warriors passed by in review. Each one, by signs and gestures, all of which were hor. rible, being imitations of the groanings of the dying or the shoutings of the conqueror, made known how many he had killed. What was the sum total of those who had been butchered by these warriors? I calculated as nearly as I could, and it came to about 18,000 men independently of women and children. Were these taken into ac. count, it would be three times that number. When sitting beside him, he inquired if I knew the Buchoutoos. I replied, I might know them, but I had never visited them. He pointed to a chief, and said, "They have done me this time, but I will take care of them again.' I asked him to what he referred. He said, ' About three months ago, seven fine looking men were brought here by my warriors, who had caught them in the neighbourhood of my out posts, ho. vering round, apparently with the intention of seizing my cattle. I ordered them to be speared in a moment, and they were being led away, when I heard the voice of one of them uttering your name. I inquir. ed why they used the Missionary's name, and ordered them to be brought back. They told me that they were going to the Missionary station, that they were on their way to see you, and had come in contact with my soldiers. I ordered my men to give them plenty to eat and drink, and to send them away with enough to make them fat on the road.'"-Rev. R. Moffatt.

SALTER'S. HILL, JAMAICA. Prayers of the Negroes. Our dear brother Knibb bas requested the brethren to hold special prayer-meetings at their various stations, on behalf of our brother Clark, and for the success of his mission to Africa.

Our first meeting was held at Salter's hill, on Monday evening, the 9th of November. Not less than 1500 were gathered together in this one place for prayer, and continued in earnest wrestling with God for upwards of two hours. The deepest sympathy was manifest in the afflictions, suffer. ings, and wrongs of their father-land; and the liveliest interest for the future peace, prosperity, and salvation of their kindred

according to the flesh. I commenced the meeting by briefly stating the circumstan. ces under which our dear brother Clarke is about to visit the land of their fathers, and the purposes for which he is going; and after singing a hymn, and reading a brief portion of Scripture, called upon one of our sable brethren to pray. Among other petitions were these: "O Lord, we pray that when we missionary go to that dark land, all the lions' mouths may be shut up;" "that when he get there, all the people may take him hand, and say they quite glad for see him;" "that when the Gospel is preached there, all the people may run to hear it, like a thirsty hart runs to a hole of water." Another, after taking a touching retrospect of the once dark and and wretched state of himself and brethren, and most ardently praising the Lord for having pitied them in their low estate, and raised them from it, prayed, "That the people here might walk as becometh the Gospel of Christ, so that the Gospel might have a good character in Africa, and every where else, through them." He then said, "O Lord, we know that in we country, Africa, where thy missionary is going, there is nothing but gun, and pistol, and sword; nothing but murder, and fire, and blood; we pray that thy servant may be protected amidst all these, and that the shed blood of Jesus, which alone cleanses from all sin, may stop the spilling of blood in Africa." He then went on to praise Jesus for his great and wondrous love to us, manifest in his freely giving himself to suffering and to death to save us, touching on the principal seasons and scenes of his sorrows, and dwelling on the circumstances of his death; and then prayed that our brother Clarke might pursue his work of faith and labour of love in a like spirit of love, zeal, and perseverance.

The next who prayed was one of our deacons, a native of Africa, and yet in the prime of life. I am very sorry that, owing to his defective English, I could not catch any of his sentences with sufficient correctness to note them; for his prayer for the land of his nativity had a most striking effect on the assembled multitude, who understood it perfectly, and I have no doubt it was heard in heaven.

The last person who prayed, also a deacon, after praying that Mr. Clarke might have a safe passage through the blue sea; be preserved while in Africa; have a door opened for him there; that he might be brought back again to Jamaca, that we

where the water stands after rain, to which the *In Jamaica there are many holes in the rocks, cattle run to drink.

might meet face to face; and that we at Salter's. hill might hear from his own lips what God shall do by him in Africa; turned to America, and from thence to the Spanish colonies, praying that the chain might be broken from the slaves there; that the Gospel might be sent there; and that it might prevail there as it does here. He then addressed God in the most solemn and impas. sioned manner, in these words :-" O Lord, we are not content with having liberty and the Gospel ourselves, while our brothers and sisters, in other country, are still in slavery and know not Thee. We will never leave off to pray to Thee until every slave is free; till all the world have the Gospel; till all people every where can meet upon the Sabbath to hear Thy word, as we meet up here yesterday; till all people can meet upon a week night to pray, as we do now, none daring to make them afraid, any more than any one dare to dis.

turb us now."

Our brother Dendy was at Falmouth on the occasion. I mention this because you might otherwise be surprised at his name not occurring in the account. He is considerably better than he has been.

Our Salter's-hill church and congregation steadily improves; we have not an inch of room to spare now that our large galleries are complete, many being obliged to remain outside.

I doubt not that our people will come forward with their charasteristic liberality, toward the expenses of the African mission. -Mr. Pickton.

INVOCATION of the KhunD GODDESS. -(Extract of a letter from Mrs. Lacey to Mrs. Peggs, August, 1840).-" The above extract was repeated from memory by Abraham, a Khund boy, in the school at Cuttack, to Mr. Lacey, who, of course translat. ed it; he was then a great fat boy, and

would soon have been sacrificed, had he not
been rescued by the English officers. He
well remembers, and relates, how he was
stolen from his mother. She was then a
widow. They had lain down to sleep for
the night, when the men entered the hut,
and, beating the mother and children, took
poor Abraham over their shoulders, after
blindfolding him, and carried him off. He
is now sixteen years old, and was baptized
a year ago. The following is the form of
invocation, before the sacrifice :-
Hail, mother, hail! hail goddess Bhobanee!

Partake therof, and let it pleasure give,

Lo! we present a sacrifice to thee,

And, in return, let us thy grace receive.
With music's various sound, on festive day,

Lo! thee we worship, and thy rites obey.

Hail all ye gods who in the mountain dwell,
In the wild jungle, or the lonely dell;
Come all, together come, with one accord,
And take the sacrifice we have prepared:
In all the fields, and all the plots we sow,
O let a rich and plenteous harvest grow:
O all ye gods and goddesses give ear,
And be propitious to our earnest prayer.
Behold a youth, for sacrifice decreed,
Blooming with tender flesh, and flushed with
blood;

No sire, no matron, views him as their own,
His flesh, his blood, his life, his all, are thine;
Without the pale of sacred wedlock born,
We took and fed him for thy rite alone,
Now lo! with rites from all pollution free,
We offer him, O Bhobanee, to thee:
Taste now this offering, satisfy thy heart,
And bid us joyful to our homes depart-
Taste now this offering, and propitious be,
And let us each, marks of thy favour see."

Extracted from Mr. Lacey's work on Hin-
doo Mythology. Copied by Gono Shama,
Christian Son of Doytaree, who begs to send
Christian salutations to Mr. and Mrs. Peggs.

THE MISSIONARY CALLED OF GOD.

I cannot rest-there comes a sweet

And secret whisper to my spirit, like

A dream of night, that tells me I am on

Enchanted ground. Why live I here? The vows

Of God are on me; and I may not stop

To play with shadows or pluck earthly flowers,

Till I my weary pilgrimage have done, and rendered up
Account. The voice of my departed Lord,

"GO TEACH ALL NATIONS," from the eastern world
Comes on the night air, and awakes my ear.

And I will go-I may no longer doubt
To give up friends and idol hopes,
And every tie that binds my heart

To thee, my country! Why should I regard
Earth's little store of borrowed sweets? I sure

Have had enough of bitter in my cup

To show that never was it his design,

Who placed me here, that I should live in ease,
Or drink at pleasure's fountain. Henceforth, then,
It matters not if storm or sunshine be

My earthly lot, bitter or sweet my cup;

I only pray, "God make me holy and my spirit nurse
For the stern hour of strife." Let me but know
Where is that arm unseen that holds me up-

An eye that kindly watches all my path,
Till I my weary pilgrimage have done,―
Let me but know I have a Friend that waits

To welcome me to glory-and I joy

To tread the dark and death-fraught wilderness.

And when I come to stretch me for the last,
In unattended agony, beneath

The cocoa's shade, or lift my dying eyes
From Afric's burning sand, it will be sweet
That I have toiled for other worlds than this.
I know I shall feel happier than to die
On softer bed, and if I should reach heaven-
If one who hath so deeply, darkly sinned-
If one whom ruin and revolt have held
With such a fearful grasp-if one for whom
Satan hath struggled as he hath for me-
Should ever reach that blessed shore: O how
This heart will flame with gratitude and love!
And through the ages of eternal years,
Thus saved, my spirit never shall repent
What toil and suffering once were mine below.

DESIGNATION OF MISSIONARIES.

AT a committee meeting of the General Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, held March 25th, 1841, it was resolved:-That Mr. Grant, who has been for some time under the instruction of the Secretary, should be solemnly set apart to missionary labour in Orissa, some time about the end of May. The services are to take place at Stoney-street chapel, Nottingham. Brethren Pike, Stevenson, Pickering, Goadby, and others, were appointed to take parts of the service. Mr. W. Brooks was also appointed to go out as a missionary printer; and, with Mrs. Brooks, will accompany Mr. and Mrs. Grant on their voyage. It is also expected that Miss Derry, daughter of brother Derry, of Barton, will be an addition to this important missionary band. Her chief employment will be to assist Mrs. Stubbins in superintending the schools of native children. Miss D. is now in London, under the patronage of a ladies' society, formed for the purpose of preparing and fitting out young christian ladies for this very interesting branch of missionary labour

The time when the solemn designating services will take place, had not been fixed when we went to press, being contingent on the period of embarkation. Of course due notice will be given of this to the Churches generally, and especially to those in the surrounding neighbourhood, and the midland district.

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To the Church, at the Ordination of Mr. Shore over the Baptist Church at Hinckley, October 13th, 1840. Inserted by request.

CHRISTIAN FRIENDS,-The purpose for whieh we have been assembled here to-day, must be regarded as one possessing high importance and solemnity: a purpose associated with much that is tender and endearing, and which, we doubt not, has been deeply interesting to your feelings. You have heard, no doubt with delight, the truly scriptural and interesting address at the commencement of this day's solemnity: you have received from our esteemed brother a statement of his christian experience, the reasons which have led him to desire the sacred and responsible office of the christian ministry: he has given you a lucid confession of his sentiments, with regard to the great doctrines and principles of the Gospel: you have also heard the considerations which have brought our brother to the conclusion, that it is the divine will that he should exercise his ministry among you: he has also told you the objects he aspires to accomplish-that his aim shall be to save himself and them that hear him, and that in this elevated employment "he will go forth in the strength of the Lord, making mention of his righteousness, and his only." You, dear friends, have chosen our esteemed brother as your pastor; and by your own solicitation he has been solemnly set apart to this sacred office by the imposition of hands, and prayer. He has received a charge, the most faithful, instructive, and impressive-a charge, we hope, which not only he, but all, and especially his younger brethren in the ministry, will not soon forget. And now, brethren, it devolves upon me to address the members of this christian Church. And here permit me to confess, the great reluctance I felt in complying with your solicitation to discharge a duty so important. That reluctance did not arise from any unfriendly feelings towards you; and, I am sure, it did not spring from any want of esteem towards your minister; but it arose, chiefly, from my comparative youth, and a deep consciousness of my inadequacy to the task. But as I have yielded to your wishes, trusting to your candour, I will fulfill my engagement as by divine assistance I may be enabled. The passage of Scripture on which we shall found our address, you will find in 1 Thess. v. 12, 13, "And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love, for their work's sake."

VOL. 3.-N. S.

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