tency with the purity and righteousness of harmony. We feel reverently thankful in the Christian religion, has led this meeting, looking back on the unity which has prewith great unanimity, to direct that a peti- vailed. May this renewed evidence of the tion be presented to the Legislature, to condescending goodness of our Heavenly convey our feelings on the subject. And Father to our religious Society, encourage we desire that Friends every where may each of us on his return home, and all our embrace such opportunities as occur, in dear absent friends, faithfully and diligently their intercourse with others, to promote a to labour, in our own hearts, and in our just and correct view of the rights of the respective allotments, for the advancement of pure and spiritual religion,-for the peace and prosperity of Zion. enslaved. And now, beloved brethren, at the conclusion of this meeting, we may inform you, that various subjects of importance have come before us, intimately connected with our views of sound doctrine and Christian practice, and with the promotion of the cause of truth and righteousness. We have been favoured to conduct and to terminate our deliberations thereon in much love and "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen."* Signed in ing, by and on behalf of the meet JOSIAH FORSTER, Clerk to the Meeting this Year. * Phil. iv. 27. INTELLIGENCE. FOREIGN. AMERICA. REVIVAL OF RELIGION, Extract of a Letter to the Rev. Dr. Rippon. Philadelphia, Sept. 19, 1828. Venerable and dear Sir, (into our treasury_317,531 and published Mr. C. wishes to obtain a likeness of yourself for publication in the Hymn Book. Should you be able to favour as with a line, you will much oblige us. Yours in the Lord Jesus, DOMESTIC. Recent Deaths. N. D. Died on Saturday morning, August 30, the Rev. David Evans, who had been for thirty years the laborious and successful minister of the Baptist Church meeting at Dolan and Rock, in the county of Radnor. He has left a mourning widow and nine fatherless children, a numerous and scattered church, and a great number of respectable acquaintances to lament his loss. It will, perhaps, afford you satisfaction to hear something of religion generally in our country. There are great revivals in various parts among almost all evangelical denominations of Christians, but especially among the Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists. Very large additions have been made to the latter during the present year. One Association in Kentucky in the year ending in August has received an accession of upwards of 2600. One minister in Georgia has baptized above 300 this year. The number of regular Calvinistic Baptists in the United States is about 275,000, the number of Churches 3900, and of Ministers 2800. We have under our direction three Colleges, one at Waterville, State of Maine, another at Providence, Rhode Island, and a third at Washington City, the seat of the general government, and two Theological At the house of his son, Capt. John PudSeminaries, one at Hamilton, N. Y. and ner, New Road, Rochester, on the 6th of the other at Newton, near Boston, M. S. October, 1828, died, Mr. Gilbert Padner, These are nearly all new institutions and in the 92d year of his age.-We hope to of course small, but their importance and furnish a memoir of him in an early numstrength are increasing. Our Missionary ber. Board receives about 14,000 dollars per Died on Saturday morning, Nov. 15. at annum, and will much increase. We have the house of a friend at Wotton Underedge, also a general Tract Society, of which I am Mr. Samuel Brunsden, son of our late Misthe agent. In the year 1827 we received sionary in India, from which place the de eeased with his partner in life (the granddaughter of the venerable Dr. Carey) had but recently returned. The Rev. Mr. Simpson of Eye, died on the 26th of September, and was buried on Friday the 3d of October in a vault in the chapel at Eye. He died at Diss. His funeral was attended by ministers of various denominations, including two clergymen of the establishment. The address was delivered by Mr. Keen, (Mr. Simpson's successor,) who also with Mr. Saffery of Salisbury and Mr. Elvin of Bury, improved his death on the following Lord's day. GLOUCESTERSHIRE BUILDING FUND. At a meeting of persons belonging to congregations in Gloucestershire, held at Rodborough Tabernacle House, on Friday evening, October 3, 1828, Mr. John Partridge in the chair, it was unanimously resolved, That it is desirable that a plan be formed for regulating the nature and the number of applications to be made to the religious public in this district, on behalf of debts incurred by the building or enlargement of places of worship, and that the following rules be adopted for that purpose : 1. That the cases to be sanctioned by this Association shall be of the following description; the chapel must be duly vested in trustees, and the deed of trust enrolled; the building or enlargement must be shown to have been necessary, no superfluous expenditure must have been incurred, the congregation must themselves have contributed a suitable proportion of the sum laid out, and the place must be within fifty miles of the city of Gloucester. But from this last clause the following places shall be excepted; South Wales, watering places within 100 miles, and missionary stations. 2. The number of cases admissible shall be from four to eight annually, varying according to the number of deserving applications which shall be made, the degree of help which they may require, and the average of the local circumstances of the congregations constituting the Association. 3. An annual meeting of the ministers, and of two laymen deputed by each congregation shall be held in the school-room adjoining the old Meeting, Stroud, on the first Friday in October, at six o'clock in the evening, at which a secretary and committee shall be chosen, the merits of the cases presented shall be discussed, and a time fixed for such as are approved. Whatever regulations for the ensuing year this general meeting may be unable to finish, shall devolve on the committee, whom the secretary shall call together whenever he judges it to be expedient. 4. Every admitted case shall be signed by the secretary on behalf of the Association, who shall also specify the year and month during which it shall be allowable to present the case to individuals of the congregations belonging to the Association. 5. That any congregations in the county of Gloucester maintaining what are deemed by this Association the essential doctrines of Christianity, be at liberty to join the Association, and to send a deputation to assist in the business of the annual meeting. 6. That, for the ensuing year, the Rey. John Davies of Rodborough be the secretary; that Messrs. Partridge, Paine, Gardner, and Hawkins, together with all the ministers of the congregations constituting the Association, be the committee; and that three persons be competent to act. BAPTIST HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY FOR SCOTLAND, &c. Extract of a letter from the Rev. Dugald Sinclair, of Lochgilphead, dated Island of Collonsay, 26th August, 1828 : From the 17th of July, I have been on a tour through the Hebrides, preaching to their poor benighted inhabitants the riches of Christ. During the present tour, on which I have been accompanied by Mr. Alexander Grant, another of the Society's missionaries, our opportunities of preaching and conversing with dying sinful men have been frequent, with the exception of days occasionally on sea from island to island, a few days of severe illuess, and a very few when it was inconvenient to procure an audience. We have each preached daily; sometimes two, and sometimes three sermons a day, besides walking several miles. The places visited are Skye, Mull, Tiree, Coll, Mull a second time, and now we are in Collonsay; I forgot to mention that we were in Iona-Islay is still before us, perhaps Jura also. After the throng of harvest, which is begun, shall have been over, Lochaber, &c. on the mainland I intend to visit. We ordained Mr. William Frazer over the Baptist church in Nig, island of Skye, and hope God will make him an eminent blessing to that pious church. Though the novelty that induced many to flock out to the face of a hill on my first tours, 18 years ago, has long since subsided, still the attention is in many places gratifying, particularly on Lord's-days. Our audiences have been very variable, according to place and circumstances, from six individuals to six hundred. We have nevertheless observed much languor amongst the small groups of believers everywhere; it has been the same in the church in Lochgilphead for a long time. In the latter place we have had only one member added by baptism since I returned from London last November. Our audience in general at Lochgilphead was pleasing till I left home. Thus I have encroached too long on your valuable time in relating what I conceived might afford a little gratification to you; and close by entreating you would at the throne of grace, remember the few Caledonian sheep of whom you have thus heard, and I remain Your affectionate brother, BAPTIST HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Extract from the Annual Report. -Your Committee state with great pleasure that during the past year your agent has been the instrument of introducing the gospel into several places where it was before unknown. In no less than seven towns and villages is he now occupied in preaching the word of life; viz. New Romney, Dymchurch, Newchurch, Ivychurch, Brookland, Appledore, and Court-up-street. Here, in a population of nearly 3900 persons, he has about 380 attentive hearers. In these places, and ten other villages and hamlets, he dis tributes tracts once a fortnight on the loan The Twenty-first Number of the Quarterly Register of the Baptist Home Missionary Society contains the follow-system, collects for and distributes 180 ing intelligence :- Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the East Kent Auxiliary Society, held September 3, 1828, at the Baptist Chapel, Eythorne. In the afternoon, after reading the Scriptures and prayer by the Rev. T. Cramp, of St.Peter's, the Rev. I. Mann, A.M. of London, delivered a very excellent and appropriate sermon from 2 Cor. v. 14, The love of Christ constraineth us ;" and the Rev. R. Edminson, late of Bratton, closed the service with prayer. " In the evening, after prayer by the Rev. R. Clark, of Long Buckby in Northamptonsbire, Mr. W. Stace, of Folkstone, was called to the chair. The annexed report was presented and adopted; Mr. John Rabbeth, of Folkestone, was elected treasurer, in the room of Mr. Flint, who had resigned through the press of other engagements; and the Rev. J. Belcher was re-elected seoretary. The different motions were presented and seconded by the Rev. Messrs. Mann, of London; J. M. Cramp, of St. Peter's; Edminson, the supply at Canterbury; Martell, of Deal; Payne, of Ashford; Paine, of Eythorne ; T. Cramp of St. Peter's; and the Secretary; and the interesting engagements of the day were closed with prayer by the Rev. J. Payne, of Ashford. Among other gratifying events which characterised the most animated meeting with which the Society has yet been favoured, it would be wrong to omit the mention of the spontaneous manifestation of a spirit of benevolence which distinguished the evening meeting. A debt, as will be seen by a reference to the treasurer's account, was owing by the Society of nearly 321.; a kind friend having offered, through the medium of the secretary, 51. towards it, provided the whole sum should be instantly paid without interfering with the regular income of the Society, the proposition was hailed with delight, and in a few minutes the debt was removed. This fact added interest to the succeeding speeches, and was the cause of devout gratitude to God. religious penny magazines monthly, and about 80 copies of the Holy Scriptures. At Newchurch, where your agent ascertained that not one cottage possessed a Bible, there is now an interesting Sabbath-school of about fifty children, who are collected from that and the neighbouring villages, and the number of which might be greatly increased, could an adequate supply of teachers be found. The success at these different places has of course been various, but, on the whole, appearances are highly encouraging. A spirit of prayer, it is hoped, is increasing; four persons since the last annual meeting have been baptized; and of several others the most pleasing hopes are confidently indulged as to their sincere piety. "The circumstances attendant on the introduction of the gospel into Newchurch, and the results which have followed, are too interesting to be entirely omitted. Little more than twelve months ago the feet of your indefatigable missionary were directed to that neighbourhood to distribute tracts. The shades of evening were drawing on, when, weary in his work, he bent his steps towards home. Turning his eye, however, to a house several fields distant from him, the thought occurred that at that house he had never left a tract. Oppressed as he was with the fatigues of his journey, and far as the evening had advanced, he directed bis way towards it. He was met at the door by an individual, who, after showing considerable reluctance, was prevailed upon to read one of these heralds of peace, a promise having been first given that if he did not approve of it, a second should not be pressed upon him. Pleased by the idea that the tract was lent him to read free of expense, and assured by the missionary that it gave instruction on the most important of all subjects, he sat down to read it with interest. When the missionary again called, he found him unwell, and impressed in some degree with the truths which he knew from what he had thus read, he was quite disposed to listen to the instructious and join in the prayers of his living teacher. Every succeeding visit paid him by your agent found him weaker in body and approaching with accelerated steps the boundaries of another world, but increasing in the knowledge and grace of Christ. He soon threw open his house for the preaching of the gospel; thus an object was gained which your Committee had ardently desired, and in a very few weeks after this he died taiumphant in the Lord Jesus. In that house the preaching of the word is continued, and under its roof you have a Sabbath-school! In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand, for thou knowest not which shall prosper." Contributions to the EAST KENT AUXILIARY SOCIETY, 1827. 1828. Ashford Anonymous Gamby, Mr.. Friend 996 Hitchin : Brabourne Canterbury Dover Dymchurch Egerton Eythorne. Farningham. Folkestone Margate Ramsgate Romney 8 14 0 St. Peter's Extra Contributions to remove the debt Monies received by the Treasurer and Secretary since the account published in September last; Collected by Rev. J. EDWARDS, in the months of August and October, 1828. Dunstable : Gutteridge, R. Esq. sub. four years Gutteridge, R. Esq.....don. Gutteridge, Mr. R. Osborn, Mr. Collection at the Rev. Mr. Tomlin's £. s. d. .don. 0 10 5 Towcester : Collection at Rev. Mr. Bar sub. Missionary Box, per Miss S. Risden, B. Esq. Several Friends Four Friends at Upton Tewksbury: .sub. 1 0 .... Winterbotham, L. Esq..sub. Hartland, Mr. (Schools) don. Wheeden, Mr. Coltman, Mr. Broadribb, Mr.. .sub. 0 10 Several Friends Thomas, Rev. J. Cheltenham Williams, Rev. J. B. Ditto.. Langdon, Mr. Do. 1 12 0 10 .sub. Maitland, A. Gloucester.... Collected at Madley Chapel Missionary Box Lewis, Mrs. Warrdley, 2 yrs. Small Sums, &c........... 5 000 0 9400 0 10 .2 yrs. 0 10 0 .... 0 5 0 1 0 010 Broad, Miss, Kenchester 0 0 Sing, Mr. W. Sing, Mr. J. 0 0 0 1 10 0 A DAY OF FASTING AND PRAYER. At a numerous meeting of the Baptist Ministers usually assembling at Fen Court, Nov. 25, (Dr. Newman in the Chair) it was unanimously resolved First, That it be recommended to our Churches and congregations to set apart Wednesday the 10th of December for the purposes of fasting, humiliation and prayer, and, more especially with a view to implore the general effusion of the Holy Spirit. Secondly, That it be recommended to private individuals to commence the solemnities of the day in their closets at 7 o'clock in the morning. That each cengregation hold a public service in its own place of worship from ten to one. And that from 5 to 8 in the evening, neigh A Friend, by Mrs. Crowther 0 10 6 bouring congregations, as far as may be found practicable, unite in district meetings. Thirdly, That it be recommended to make a collection at each place of worship for the poor. SALTERS' HALL CHAPEL. The First Annual Commemoration of the re-opening of the above Chapel, and of its re-appropriation to Divine Worship, will be on Thursday, Dec. 4, 1828. The Rev. Rowland Hill, A. M. will preach in the morning; the Rev. John Clayton, jun. A.M. in the afternoon; and the Rev. Eustace Carey in the evening. Worship to commence at eleven, three, and a quarter before seven o'clock. The Rev. T. Swan from 0 Serampore, T. Price, J. Arundel and E. Carey will conduct the devotional services of the day. 0 9 10 10 Errata for the November Number. Page 492. col. 1. line 7. for "the buoyancy of which" read" the buoyancy of his spirits.' 2. 33. after the words "A continual sinner" the following line requires to be supplied, "I could have no hope but for that one offering, that blood" 20. for "Abingdon Bucks" read "Abingdon Berks." 26. for "who are small to defray," read "who are unable to defray." |