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is always the same when she dares to show her face.

Mr. Henry, one of the first missionaries to the South Seas, died recently in Australia at the advanced age of eighty-four. He went out in the Duff in 1796, and Captain Wilson, the commander, was one of the survivors of the Black Hole, at Calcutta. Mr. Spurgeon preached on the second Sunday afternoon last month, under a tree in Clapham Common, where a man was killed by lightning. 10,000 persons were present. More than £27 were afterwards collected for the widow and family.

GENERAL.

The Abolition of Church Rates' Bill has obtained a majority of seventy for its second reading. Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell spoke in favour of it.-The King | of the Belgians has been on a visit to the Queen. He is an astute politician, and his visits always indicate some move on the continental chess-board.-Since this was written, the peace, that has startled every body, has been announced. Despots understand one another. France has gained in this conquest, and Popery too. The honorary presidency of the Pope over the new Italian Confederation bodes no good. With priesteraft and despotism hand and glove, Italy will be less free than ever. The four great fortresses of Mantua, Peschiera, Verona, and Legnano, forming the celebrated quadrangle, remain in the hands of the Austrians; and

with Austria as chief of the Confederation, instead of losing power she has strengthened her position. Alarmists predict fearful things With France, Russia, and Austria in league, they see imminent danger to the liberties of Europe. But "the Lord sitteth upon the flood; the Lord reigneth."

Poor Kossuth is again doomed to bitter disappointment. His manifestoes to the Hungarians will now be useless. It may be that Francis Joseph had the threat of Nationalities breathed into his ears by Louis Napoleon in their secret conference at Villafranca.

The first railway in Cape Colony has been commenced.-The Portuguese government are about to establish a military colony at Tete, on the Zambesi, where Livingstone left his faithful Makalolo on his return to England, and where he found sixty of them anxiously waiting his arrival. The government of Don Pedro has very handsomely maintained these men during the great missionary's sojourn in England.

The Handel Festival this year realized the enormous sum of £35,000.-The Royal Literary Fund has held its sixtieth anniversary meeting. More than £26,000 have been distributed during the last twenty years to necessitous authors.-The Society of Arts have deferred for the present the proposed exhibition. The total amount of gold coined in the mint last year was £1,231,023.

Marriages and Deaths.

MARRIAGES.

June 11th, at South-parade chapel, Leeds, by the Rev. J. Tunnicliffe, of Calllane chapel. Mr. N. Halliwell, to Mary, daughter of Mr. J. Whittaker, of New Wortley.

June 24th, at South-parade chapel, Leeds, by the Rev. C. Bailhache, the Rev. Philip Bailhache, Baptist minister, Salisbury, to Rachel Aspin, eldest daughter of Mr. Heaton, publisher, Leeds.

June 21st, at St. James's church, Paddington, A. Leland Noel, Esq., third son of the Hon. and Rev. Baptist W. Noel, to Ella, third daughter of the Rev. Capel Molyneaux.

July 5th, at the General Baptist chapel, Mansfield-road, Nottingham, by the Rev. J. F. Stevenson, B.A., Mr. John Truman, of Alma-terrace, to Ruth Maria, youngest daughter of the late Mr. K. Gamble, of Ilkeston.

July 3rd, at Baxter-gate chapel, Loughborough, Mr. James Crooks, to Sarah Wildbore, both of East Leake.

DEATHS.

June 13th, Rev. J. Morison, D.D., many years editor of the Evangelical Magazine, aged 68.

July 4th, at the house of her father, Mr. T. Ashby, Braunstone-gate, Leicester, Susan, the beloved wife of Rev. C. Burrows, General Baptist Minister, Walsall, Staffordshire.

July 10th, at Glasgow, Martha, last surviving daughter of Rev. J. Paterson, D.D., of Hope-street Baptist chapel, Glasgow.

July 12th, at Bath, Rev. W. H. Murch, D.D., formerly president and theological tutor of Stepney College, London, in his 76th year.

Missionary Observer.

ANNUAL MEETING.

THE ANNUAL MEETING of our Foreign Missionary Society was held at Mary's Gate Chapel, Derby, on Wednesday evening, June 23rd. The spacious chapel was crowded, and the proceedings were conducted with unflagging interest to the end of the meeting.

The chair was taken by John Heard, Esq., of Nottingham, who in a brief and appropriate address, introduced the business of the evening. Mr. Heard expressed the pleasure with which he had acceded to the request of the committee to preside on that occasion; he also referred to the necessity there was for such Societies, and to the duty of christians to unite their efforts for the spread of the gospel, since from every quarter of the world there might be heard the call for instruction in its truths.

The Rev. J. C. Pike, the Secretary, then read an abstract of the report. While there had not been during the year extraordinary numerical increase, there was ample evidence of steady progress, and much to encourage the supporters of the Mission at home.

Robert Pegg, Esq., the Treasurer, read the statement of the Society's accounts for the year, from which it appeared that the total income had been £3048 19s., but the total expenditure, £3306 16s. 11d., leaving a balance due to the treasurer of £257 17s. 11d. It may be here stated that the bazaar, kindly arranged by the friends at Derby, will materially aid in the reduction of this balance, but it is extremely desirable that by a general rise in the scale of contributions, even if but a small one, this interesting Mission may be able to pursue its work of love unfettered by debt; and the more so inasmuch as the serious rise, for several years past in the prices of nearly all articles of consumption throughout India, will render unavoidable a somewhat increased expenditure for the support of our valued missionaries and native preachers. They have grappled with the difficulty, as best they could, for the last four or five years, in the hope that things might take a more favourable turn; but despairing of this, have been compelled to lay the case before the Committee and friends at home. An additional farthing per week from each weekly subscriber, or an average increase of one shilling per annum from each present supporter of the mission, whether weekly, monthly, or otherwise, would immensely relieve the anxieties of the Committee, and help on the good cause. Surely the thing is practicable. Shall it be attempted? Are there not thousands of friends in our churches and congregations, and of children in our families and schools, who would gladly, if solicited, give a penny per month for this object?

The Rev. ISAAC PRESTON, of Chesham, moved the first resolution, which was as follows:-

"That the report of the Society for the past year, of which an abstract has been read, be received, and printed under the direction of the Committee. The meeting rejoices in the steady progress of the mission, as evidenced by the facts detailed in the report, and in the many tokens of

God's favour vouchsafed to the missionaries and their converts in India."

He confessed that the pleasure with which he moved that resolution was tainted in some degree with melancholy; as he could not put from himself the thought that such a resolution as that had been submitted to successive yearly meetings, by a dear and valued friend and brother, whose voice had been silenced by death. But their encouragement was, "The Lord of Hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge." There was no need that the arm of Uzzah should be put forth to support the ark of God, which, though it might seem to totter, could not fall. In Him they had the fullest confidence that this work must prosper. The resolution said they hailed with satisfaction the success of the work, which, under God's blessing, had been secured in India, and they had upon the platform missionaries who were fully conversant with its effects. Yet they were told that missions to India have proved a failure. He had read such a statement, and he felt, and they would all feel, that Lord Shaftesbury correctly described the man who made it when he said, "He speaks more like a rajah than a Christian." He remembered a similar statement made by a popular lecturer at Brighton, to such an audience as probably Brighton could alone produce, who dismissed this mighty and important question with the flippant remark, "The whole thing has proved a failure." A missionary who was present, asked to be allowed to put a question or two to the lecturer upon that matter in order to test his knowledge of the subject. The questions were put, and were such as were quite sufficient to fill him with dismay and confusion, and to convince the audience that he knew nothing at all about the matter. Their missionaries told them that their exertions had been successful, and they had the fullest confidence in them and in their statements. They tell us, and we believe them, that the gospel in India is the power of God to all who believe. They circulate the word of God, and they tell us that the knowledge of God's word giveth understanding to the simple, and in India, as in England, "out of the month of babes and sucklings God ordains praise."

The Rev. ISAAC STUBBINS, from Cuttack, on rising, was heartily cheered. He said, -It would have been exceedingly gratifying to my feelings if I could have been excused addressing you this evening, as I am not strong, and my nervous system is not strong. But, friends, I am affected by the remembrance of your kindness to me and mine, when we were in England before, and my thoughts are carried back to fourteen years ago, when I bade you all adieu at Leicester. God has permitted me since that time to labour in the field of your adoption for nearly fourteen years. I have suffered much; but I do not regret it, and I am ready to suffer again. To me it was not a matter of choice to return, but a matter of necessity, as all efforts to restore my health in India had failed. I seem to have been poisoned there with allopathy, dosed with homoeopathy, and drowned with hydropathy. Still we determined not to return till God opened the way, although we had been kindly invited to do so by your Committee sometime before. Especially were we unwilling to return to England, as two other missionaries were absent from the field of labour at that time. However, I am here now; I am glad to see you all, and I know that you are all glad to see me. There is another subject to which I must refer; I did expect to see here men whom I see not, and shall never see again till we meet in heaven.Reference has been made to the progress of the missionary cause in India, and though there has been great success we take no credit to ourselves, we would give God all the glory; but if this congregation could have witnessed the audience at our last service at Cuttack, there is not one among you that would not have been moved, as I was moved, to tears at the scene. The chapel was crowded by our native friends, and the verandahs were filled by crowds of Hindoos who were anxiously listening to the Word of God.-Mr. Stubbins then referred to the liberal aid afforded to the Society in India, from christian gentlemen, both in the civil and military service; these were many of them members of the Established Church, and even the chaplain at the station was a regular subscriber of one pound per month; and procecded-I tell you these things in order that you may know how our labours are appreciated by those who are observers of them. From these, and from similar sources, we receive great aid; we are thankful for the amount, and we are also thankful for the evidence it affords, that our work is not failing in the Lord. We

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story as an illustration of the love the people bear to us. One of our native preachers was out on a preaching excursions and among one of his congregations was an old female devotee; while in eloquent words, he told them of the dying love of Christ, the poor old woman became enraptured, and rushing from her seat, she

implanted upon his cheek, perhaps, the warmest kiss he ever received and cried out, "From this day I will worship Jesus Christ." We hear many of these things. The Word of God is travelling far and wide; millions of tracts have been put into circulation during the last twenty years, and more than 100,000 copies of God's word have been sent among the people, and during the last twenty years I know that a marked change has been produced. Some of the Pundits can't bear us; I know, however, that the millions, not only respect us, but they love us, and in their hearts they love God's Holy Word. We have been delighted to receive their thanks and their love, and we have been thankful to know that they will receive the gospel. Let us, my brethren, with one heart, one mind, and one soul, unite altogether in this great and glorious object. I cordially second the resolution.

have been told that the Brahmins have petitioned for the deportation of the missionaries. I am glad the devil begins to wince at last-he feels much now, and will feel more yet, for we have sworn before God that we will not quit the spot till the foul system of idolatry is overthrown. For God's work we have received from home money and prayers; we are thank-flung her arms round his neck, and ful for the money, and we are thankful more than all for the prayers. Those prayers preserved us during the awful mutiny; and when we cast our eyes over the sea to dear old England, we thought we saw you all bowing down before God in our behalf, and we rejoiced in the assurance that the care of the Almighty would be imparted to us in Orissa. Let the Brahmins petition, we do not care for that; we know the source from whence their petitions spring, and we know that thousands of them live by the infernal system of idolatry. Shall we abstain from preaching the gospel to the people who love us, simply because the Brahmins and the Pundits ask for our deportation? No! we have been there, and we shall go again; and though we may be smeared with cow dung as we have been, we will go again and again and tell the people that there is no hope for them in their idolatry, but that there is hope for them in Christ, who died for the whole world. The report refers in one part to the recent ordination of native preachers, and one of those, the son of a native christian, I saw and heard declare in open court-" This man," referring to his father, "is not my father; he is dead; and, if you compel me to acknowledge him, I will dash out my brains on the floor;" and, in order to show that he was in earnest, he flung himself down, and would have done himself some injury if he had not been seized. He was given up to his father, he has been thoroughly trained in our academy, is now an ordained minister of the gospel, and I never heard anything more elegant and eloquent than the sermons that proceed from his lips. That is one of our converts; but there is another named Paul, who was rescued from a sect that would have sacrificed him, and long ago he would have been cut into pieces, had he not been rescued and brought to Christ. He, too, received his training under us, and he, also, has been ordained a minister of the gospel. Then there is Jaganath, who was one of the converts of my brother Wilkinsonhe is also a trained minister. We could refer to many such who have thus been brought under the blessed light of Christianity, but I will just tell you a little

Mr. THOMAS COOPER, who was received with cheers, then addressed the meeting in an animated speech. After a few introductory remarks, Mr. Cooper, said he had listened to one of the sublimest things he had ever heard, and that from the last speaker, when he said, "I have suffered, but do not regret it, and I am ready to suffer again." Ready to suffer for what? Ready to suffer to add another province to the many England already possesses? No (perhaps she had too many of them), but to make one province what it ought to have been long ago. Christianity has not done all which it might have been expected to do. Why? Because the Government would not allow its free exercise. Did not the Government almost break the heart of Middleton? Did they not throw cold water upon the mission of the great Carey? Was there any truth in the reports that had reached old England's shores of the discouragement everywhere shown to the pioneers of Chris.. tianity? Was it true that the first soldier that embraced the religion of Christ in the city of the mutiny, Meerut, was drummed out of the regiment? Truly had their brother Stubbins said that the missionaries live in the hearts of the million. There was no doubt of it. The

hatred was in the hearts of the Brahmins | yet, and with it they would destroy all

the pomp, the pageantry, and the power of paganism. Mr. Cooper concluded by cordially supporting the resolution, which was then put and carried.

The Rev. W. JONES, of Derby, moved the following resolution :

"That this meeting hails the change that has taken place, during the year, in the Government of India. It regards the transference of the supreme authority from the East India Company to the Queen and her Parliament as likely to be fraught with immense good to the people of that country, and recognizes the new and sacred obligation, thereby imposed on all British Christians to labour for the evangelization of the two hundred millions of idolators in India, who have now become their fellow-subjects."

and Pundits; but why were they petted and spoilt? Thank God that system has broken down. And we are not to be surprised that Queen Victoria glories in the Christian religion, for he hoped that she was a good Christian woman. He had heard some of his sceptical brethren, when he was a sceptic, say, "You have no right to go to India and interfere with the native religion," but though he was a sceptic, he always contended that they had a right. Tell him that he had no right there? Had we no right to interfere with the religion that condemns the widow to be burnt after the death of her husband? Had we no right to Mr. JONES said, that he did hail with interfere with men holding a religion very great satisfaction the change like that? Was it true that infanticide on that had taken place in the Government the banks of the Ganges immolated thou- of India. All Englishmen, and especially sands of children? If it was, had we no right the friends of the missionary societies, to prevent men holding a religion like that? wanted to know what was going on in He thought it right to put down bull-baiting India, and they all objected to middle bear-fighting, and cock-fighting in Eng-men; they objected to them in churches, land, and surely he had a right to demand that men should be taught better than to throw themselves by thousands under the wheels of the car of idolatry? But when men are opposed to Christ, they take hold of any kind of argument. The greatest encouragement to the former state of things had been given by persons in high office, and he hoped that state of things was at an end, and that it would not be allowed under the mild sway of Queen Victoria. Whilst he was there surrounded by their blessed missionaries he could not help calling to mind that in his boyhood he had read the history of Henry Martyn, and he had then a great thirst to go out as a missionary to India. But he quenched that thirst. To all who thought of going out he would say, think of India, a country undoubtedly given to them by God in order that they might introduce Christianity therein. There was something ennobling in the country itself. It was not a vulgar field of labour, but a field full of enterprise, great associations, and full of hard, self-denying work. He wished he could do anything to urge them on in their great work. Let them all pray that God would put it into the hearts of young men to go to India. One of the passages in the report expressed the opinion of an intelligent Hindoo, that eventually idolatry would give way to infidelity. He had no fear of that, and the only difficulty was to convince the heathen that Christianity was true. St. Paul, in preaching to the Jews, was successful because he had God's Spirit with him; and that existed

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in the State, and, above all, they did not approve them in the Government of a country like India. Therefore, he was glad that the East India Company had been swept away, standing as they did between Christianity and the people. Wherever the noble heart of the British people had forced an expression, the people were elevated and benefitted, but the East India Company had checked all that. True, the Christian missionaries had found a footing in India, but how did they get there? They got there by stealth. The obstacles had to be overcome by dodges of all kinds, and Marshman, in his history, said they had to submit themselves to all sorts of shifts, and that their situation there was a constant source of disappointment to them, obliged as they were to send their missionaries to America and smuggle them into India in American ships, and yet they often got into great difficulties. He was glad that all that had passed away; he was glad that there was now a chance of bringing to bear upon the House of Commons the interests and requirements of the people of India, and he thought that such things as had occurred under the late Company were never likely to occur again. When it was proposed by Carey that a body of missionaries should proceed on their labours, he was told," Sit down, young man, when God means to convert the world he will do so without your aid or mine." Something similar had been since experienced, but all that has passed way, and they now saw that they had only to press themselves into the work to realize the greatest successes in mis

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