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God, affectionately addresses the great teacher BALDWIN, a superintendent of missionary affairs in the city of Boston, of America.

Beloved elder Brother,

Though in the present state, the places of our residence are very far apart, and we have never met, yet by the means of Jetters, and of the words of Teacher Yoodthan, who has told me of you, I love you, and wish to send you this letter. When the time arrives in which we shall wholly put on Christ-him, in loving whom we cannot tire, and in praising whom we can find no end, and shall be adorned with those ornaments which the Lord will dispense to us out of the heavenly treasure house, that he has prepared, then we shall love one another more perfectly than we do now.

Formerly I was in the habit of concealing my sins, that they might not appear; but now I am convinced, that I cannot conceal my sins from the Lord who sees and knows all things; and that I cannot atone for them, nor obtain atonement from my former objects of worship. And accordingly, I count myself to have lost all, under the elements of the world, and through the grace of the faith of Christ only, to have gained the spiritual graces and rewards pertaining to eternity, which cannot be lost. Therefore, I have no ground for boasting, pride, passion and self-exaltation. And without desiring the praise of men, or seeking my own will, I wish to do the will of God the Father. The members of the body, dead in trespasses and sins, displeasing to God, I desire to make instruments of righteousness, not following the will of the flesh. Worldly desire and heavenly desire being contrary, the one to the other, and the desire of visible things counteracting the desire of invisible things, I am as a dead man. However, He quickens the dead. He awakens those that sleep. He lifts up those that fall. He opens blind eyes. He perforates deaf ears. He lights a lamp in the great house of darkness. He relieves the wretched. He feeds the hungry. The words of such a benefactor, if we reject, we must die forever, and come to everlasting destruction. Which circumstance considering, and meditating also on sickness, old age, and death, incident to the present state of mutability, I kneel and prostrate myself, and pray before God, the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, who has made atonement for our sins, that he may have mercy on me and pardon my sins, and make me holy, and

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the merit of the Lord Jesus Christ. teacher, therefore, is the tree; we are the blossoms and fruit. He has laboured to partake of the fruit, and now the tree begins to bear. The bread of life he has given, and we eat. The water from the brook which flows from the top of mount Calvary, for the cleansing of all filth, he has brought, and made us bathe and drink. The bread of which we eat will yet foment and rise. The water which we drink and bathe in, is the water of an unfailing spring, and many will yet drink and bathe therein. Then all things will be regenerated and changed. Now we are strangers and pilgrims; and it is my desire, without adhering to the things of this world, but longing for my native abode, to consider and inquire, how long I must labour here; to whom I ought to show the light which I have obtained; when I ought to put it up, and when disclose it.

The inhabitants of this country of Burmah, being in the evil practice of forbidden lust, erroneous worship, and false speech, deride the religion of Christ. However, that we may bear patiently, derision, and persecution, and death, for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ, pray for I do thus pray. For, elder brother, I have to bear the threatening of my own brother, and my brother in law, who say,

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We will beat and bruise, and pound you; we will bring you into great difficulty; you associate with false people; you keep a false religion; and you speak false words.' However, their false religion is the religion of death. The doctrine of the cross is the religion of life, of love, of faith. I am a servant of faith. Formerly I was a servant of Satan. Now I am a servant of Christ. And a good servant cannot but follow his master. Moreover the divine promises must be accomplished.

In this country of Burmah, are many strayed sheep. Teacher Yoodthan pitying them, has come to gather them together, and to feed them in love. Some will not listen, but run away. Some do listen and adhere to him; and that our numbers may increase, we meet together, and pray to the great Proprietor of the sheep.

Thus I, MOUNG SHWA-BA, a disciple of teacher Yoodthan, in Rangoon, write, and send this letter to the great teacher BALDWIN, who lives in Boston, America.

N. B. Translated from the Burman

original, Sept. 23, 1822.

A. JUDSON, Jr.

PALESTINE MISSION.

give me a repenting, believing, and loving Apprehension of Messrs. Fisk and Bird, at

mind.

Formerly I trusted in my own merits, but now, through the preaching and in. struction of teacher Yoodthan, I trust in

Jerusalem.

A letter dated at Jaffa March 7th, 1824, from Mr. King to the Editor of the New

York Oberver, stated that Messrs. Fisk
and Bird had been taken by a band of
Turks before the Judge, who sent them to
the Governor with orders to put them in
chains. From a letter of Messrs. F. and B.
dated at Jerusalem the 28th of February,
it appears that the occasion of their being
brought before the Judge, was an accusa-
tion of the Catholics that they distributed
books which were neither Mussulman, Jew-
ish, nor Christian. They assured the
Judge that, if he would send to the con-
vent for an Arabic copy of the Scriptures,
he would find it the same as those which
they distributed. At length they were
conducted to the Governor, who made
similar inquiries to those of the Judge,
and was answered in a similar manner.
They were then placed among soldiers in
an apartment under the governors house,
where they passed the evening. About
10 o'clock, they were again sent for by the
Governor, when he inquired once more
about the books, and was answered in the
same manner as before." But why,"
said he, "do you bring so many into this
country?" "Because christians here have
no printing presses, and when they want
a copy of the Scriptures, they are obliged
to write it out with great labour. whereas
we are able very easily to supply them
with printed copies." "But why distri-
bute them among Mussulmans?'
"We

do not wish to do any thing secretly, nor
do we consider it unlawful to put our sa-
cred books into the hands of Mussulmans.
If any of them wish to learn what there is
in Christian books and what Christians
believe, we are always ready to give them
an opportunity. But we always tell them
first, Here are Christians' books." To
this he said "Very well," and begged us
to overlook what had happened.”

The Missionaries afterwards asked the governor whether they would be permitted to distribute books as before, and received a decided answer in the affirmative. After they were released, they immediately wrote a letter to Mr. Damiani, the English consul at Jaffa, and on the Monday following were gratified by the arrival of his son, with a letter to the governor respecting his treatment towards them. The governor threw all the blame on the Judge. The Missionaries then went to the Judge, aud after a short conversation, he gave orders that their books and papers should be restored, and told them they were perfectly at liberty to distribute as they pleased except among the Mussul

mans.

The next morning they commenced distributing, and in four days sold 190 Testaments among the Armenian pilgrims, for near 60 dollars.

DONATIONS TO RELIGIOUS AND CHARIT-
ABLE INSTITUTIONS.

(In the month of June.)

To the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, (from May 13th to June 12th inclusive,) $4676 36.

To the American Bible Society, $3739. Issued from the Depository, Bibles, 3384; Testaments, 2389; total 5773, value, $3545.

To the American Education Society, $345.

To the American Society for Meliorating the condition of the Jews, (in the months of May and June,) $2,211 85.

Ordinations and Installations.

June 3.-The Rev. AMZI BENEDICT, over the Church and Society in Vernon, Conn. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Porter, of Farmington.

June 4.-The Rev. BURTON HAMMOND HICKOX, minister of St. John's Church, Canandaigua, was admitted to the Order of Priests.

June 10.-The Rev. GRIFFITH Jones, as Pastor of the Eaptist Church in Trenton, N. J.

June 16.-The Rev. JESSE JONES, over the Second Baptist Church in Steuben, N. Y.

June 16.-The Rev. OLIVER HILL, over the Nauticoke Church in Union Broome Co. N. Y. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. King, of Warren, Pa.

June 23.-The Rev. JONATHAN L. HALE, (installed) over the Church in Compton, N. H. Sermon by the Rev. President Tyler, of Dartmouth College.

June 27.-The Rev. SAMUEL BRENTON SHAW, was admitted to the Holy Order of Priests, at Guilford, Vt. by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Griswold.

June 27.-The Rev. BENONI BLAKESLEY, as an Evangelist in the Freewill Baptist Connexion, at Westfield, Conn. Sermon by the Rev. Reuben Allen of Taunton, Mass.

June 30.- The Rev. CHARLES SOULE, as Pastor of the Church in Belfast, Me. Sermon by the Rev. E. Merrill, of Free. port.

June 30 The Rev. WILLARD KIMBALL, in Abington, Mass. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Sharp.

June 30.-The Rev. CALVIN LINCOLN, Jr. over the First Congregational Church and Society in Fitchburg, Mass.

July 7.-Mr. NELSON GRAY, was admitted to the Holy Order of Deacons, in

St. Peter's Church, Baltimore, by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Kemp. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Henshaw.

July 13.--The Rev. SAMUEL VAN VECHTEN, was ordained and installed Pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church of Bloomingburgh, N. Y. Sermon by the Rev. James B. Ten Eyck, of Berea,

View of Public Hffairs.

FOREIGN.

SPAIN.-Accounts from Madrid dated the 24th May, mention the existence of serious disturbances in that capital, occasioned by a scarcity of bread. It was found necessary to place military guards before the doors of the bakers' shops to protect them from pillage, and their owners from rough treatment or massacre, by the crowds of people which surrounded them. A proclamation was issued in which every argument was used to induce the people to refrain from excesses; informing them, that the Magistrates were taking all necessary measures to put an end to the scarcity which was only ficti. tious, produced by circumstances which every body knew.

Ferdinand, says a London paper, has issued what is called an Amnesty-decree; but in reality it is no other than a proscription list of the most atrocious and sweeping kind. There is scarcely a man in Spain who can read or write, who can be considered exempt from persecution, if the amnesty-decree is carried into execu. tion, so comprehensive are its exceptions. In them, a designing friar, or a hungry lawyer can find a charge against every man who has held any rank in society during the constitutional regime, of whom they may wish to rid themselves. The king of Spain's amnesty-decree, therefore, instead of reconciling him with his people, or drawing back a single exile now in a foreign land, widens the breach still more, and most assuredly will drive the most valuable portion of the population out of the country. Not less than 7000 passports are said to have been delivered in Madrid, from the 1st of January to the 1st of May. PORTUGAL.-The late insurrection in Lisbon speedily subsided without producing any important results. The Infant Don Miguel, after writing a letter professing his fidelity to the king, sailed for England in a British frigate.

EGYPT.-Letters from Cairo give the following particulars of the late explosion. -The fire broke out at two o'clock, P.

M. of the 21st March, in the old citadel in the barrack adjoining the arsenal, where cartriges are made. The flames spread rapidly in various directions, especially towards the powder magazine. At halfpast three some chests of powder blew up, at five there was a terrible explosion, which laid all the surrounding buildings in ruins; and just as it struck ten at night, a third explosion spread the desolation further. On the following morning the fire seemed to abate, when consternation was spread on its being known that the great magazine, containing 25,000 cantars of powder, was in danger, and the entire destruction of Cairo was apprehended. The undaunted efforts of the troops, however, succeeded in checking, and at length in subduing the flames. At the very beginning of the conflagration, the people fled in countless multitudes out of the city, one bad consequence of which was, that it baffled all the measures of precaution that had been adopted. From the Romely Gates eastward to the old citadel, nothing is to be seen but remains of walls, shattered beams, waggons, and gun-carriages, Out of the new gate the ruins begin at the distance of 50 paces and over a vast space there are seen among the ruins 4000 burnt or lacerated horses, mules and camels.A fine park of artillery, which stood in Joseph's Hall, and in the Amphitheatre at the west end of the city, is destroyed, except twenty-six pieces. The whole arse. nal, too, is annihilated, except a magazine of tools, some chests of muskets, and the machine for boring cannon. Of the little park of field artillery which stood in the Romely square, only fifteen six pounders are saved. The new citadel, in which are the mint, the Hall for the Divan, and several government offices suffered but little. The two powder magazines, in two towers surrounded with ditches, were untouched. it is calculated that fifty millions of Turkish piastres will not suffice to replace the citadel and the arsenal in their former state. The letters do not contain even a conjecture respecting the origin of the fire.

CENTRAL AMERICA.---Don Antonio Jose Canas, Envoy Extraordinary from this new republic has lately arrived in this country. The United Provinces of the Centre of America, (which by the basis of the Constitution as agreed upon, will be called the Federate States of the centre of America,) are at present composed of the Provinces of Nicaragua, Honduras, San Salvador, Costarica, Guatimala, and Queseltenango. At present three citizens are at the head of the govenment, without any particular title, although in turn they preside monthly, and the presiding one is called, for the time being, President. There is a representation of deputies from each Province, which forms a Provisional Congress. The

Obituary.

For the Christian Spectator. MEMOIR OF JULIA CHURCHILL. The biography of the humble and devoted disciple of Christ has a strong and happy influence on the human heart. It is a light shining before men by which they also are led to glorify their father in heaven. This consideration may justify the following exhibition of character in one whose piety and suffering placed her in a condition well adapted to impress the heart with the value of Christian submission and consolation.

Julia Churchill, daughter of Solomon and Lucretia Churchill, was born in Newington, Wethersfield, May 25, 1792. The first permanent religious impression on her mind, was occasionad by a sermon on these words, "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved."

God was pleased that this sermon should sink deep into my heart. For about four months after this I felt the weight of my sius, saw that I had been treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath, by transgressing all God's commandments, that I had turned a deaf ear to his calls, and was fit only for destruction. I was tempted to keep my feelings secret, but could not. My heart was ready to break, and I thought it would have been good for me if I had never been born. I was astonishingly ignorant of the way to Christ; I had such heart-risings against God as made me tremble; I could not bear to be in the hands of God. These words came into my mind, "If I make my bed in hell thou art there."

"Thus I continued in my distres, from day to day, growing more and more sinful, and looking to every thing but Christ to save me from eternal misery. One night in my retirement, this inquiry struck my

basis of the Constitution is very similar to that of the United States, with the exception of an established religion, which is the Roman Catholic, any other public mode of worship being prohibited. They will have a President, Senate and House of Representatives, elected in the same manner as ours, and for the same length of time; and the principles of the Constitution are as purely Republican, in every thing, excepting religion, as those of the United States. Slavery is not to be permitted, and every one arriving in the Territory of the Republic becomes free. The standing army is reduced to 1500, and those stationed at the different ports and garrisons. The armed militia amounts to over 80,000 effective men.

mind. Am I not striving against God? Can I merit salvation by thus doing? I cannot. I will therefore submit to God. I will throw myself upon his mercy in Jesus Christ? This gave me consolation. [ saw unutterably the love, the holiness, the preciousness of the Saviour. I rejoiced in the mercy of a holy and righteous God. I could prostrate myself at the feet of Jesus and say, Here, Lord, I am-take me just as I am. I give myself to thee, to be thine forever-do with me as seemeth good to thee. Now I saw the depravity of my heart in such a light as I never did before. All things were new. The works of God praised him. The Bible was my precious book; prayer was delightful. I loved the people of God; I lov ed my enemies, and I earnestly desired to have my brother and sisters and all around me embrace Christ.

"It now appeared a duty to profess my faith in Christ: still I felt myself unworthy to be placed among the people of God. I deferred it for sometime, but at last under a sense of the greatness of the duty and the privilege, I devoted myself to the Lord in a public profession of religion. Search me O God, and know my heart, try me and know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

The Sabbath was to her a precious day, and public worship a high entertainment. When prevented by sickness she said, “1 am distressed to be deprived of the public ordinances. How I long to enjoy the blessed privilege of communing with the people of God. If it is so distressing to be detained from the house and ordinances of God once, what would it be, to be forever banished from the presence of God,never to have communion with him, and with his Son Jesus Christ."

Patience was the grace which shone pre-eminent. Two years and a half she was a continual sufferer. Her disease, as distressing as it was uncommon, was borne with sweet submission. Her physician judged that it was occasioned by a callous or ossified stomach. The lower orifice was so nearly closed, as almost entirely to refuse a passage to her food; in consequence of which her stomach violently rejected within a few minutes, whatever it had received; and this was repeated, fifteen, or twenty, and sometimes even more than thirty times in a day, during two years and a half. Several times her friends were called for the purpose of seeing her die, one of which occasions, the most alarming, was about six months before her departue, when she lost all power of noticing her friends or her minister. Having revived, she passed this last period of her life in an uncommon religious enjoyment. She informed her pastor, that her mind had never before been so elevated above the world, that her sense of the preciousness of Christ was inexpressible, that her view of her own unworthiness before God was greatly increased, that her faith in the glories of heaven was stronger, that heaven was especially desirable to her as a place of entire freedom from sin, and of beholding the glory of Christ, and that she enjoyed unutterable comfort in yielding herself into the divine hands. A few days before her death her whole system became so irritable, that the dropping of a small weight on the floor, or the crowing of the cock without, or the passing of a carriage in the street, would throw her instantly into a universal tremor and spasm-of which any one of a hundred instances seemed sufficient to take her life. At the last, though her sickness had been so long, and her feebleness had become extreme, yet her soul did not quit its tenement without agonizing struggles. We trust that the stroke of death was to her the last pang. She died Sept. 16, 1822.

Her writings are extensive, many parts of which I should be pleased to transcribe, but my limits forbid. The following extracts will give a specimen of her affectionate and patient simplicity.

"October 20, 1821. My sickness has been a great mercy, in leading me to see more of the depravity of my heart. Though it is not sickness of itself that hath done it; yet I think it has been the means in the hand of God, of causing me to see more clearly that I am full of wounds and bruises, and putrifying sores, from the sole of the foot even unto the head-to see that my heart is totally averse to God and holiness; and yet how faint is my concep tion of the evil of my heart, in comparison with what it really is. I think likewise that my sicknes has proved a great

mercy, in leading me to view the precious. ness of Christ. What can I do? I can make no atonement for the least of my sins-in myself I am lost and undone-but 1 am led to this precious declaration. Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.

"Wednesday, November 28, 1821. I will sing of the mercies of the Lord. But how shall I sing. My voice has failed, through weakness of lungs. Eleven years I engaged in this delightful part of the worship of God; but now I am denied the privilege of going to his house, and of tuning my voice. How then shall I sing of the mercies of the Lord? By lifting up my heart to God in grateful adorations-by praising him in my heart-by loving him with my heart-by placing my affections on him-by repenting of my sins-by glorifying him in every circumstance in life.

Sabbath, January 13, 1822. O Lord, look with pity upon me, and grant me thy presence this day. I cannot worship thee in the assembly of thy people. May I worship thee in spirit and in truth, on my bed of sickness. O Lord, be thou my strong habitation whereunto I may continually resort. I long for more conformity to thee. When shall I be beyond the reach of sin. O heaven, sweet heaven, where there is no sin-where perfect love and friendship reign-shall I ever reach thy blissful shores, and never, never sin again. O happy thought,-of being de livered from sin, my worst enemy-my worst disease-my greatest burden.

"Wednesday, Feb. 6. Devoted a little box for the Lord's treasury-may all my visitors be disposed to cast in a mite. Three persons contributed this day. O bless it, dear Lord, in due time, to the spread of thy gospel." This box she kept by her bed side to the day of her death; and was cheered by the sums it gathered for the promotion of the cause she so devoutly loved.

The following address to her Father, Brother, and Sisters, was found after her decease.

"First, to my Father.-My dear parent, I am low, and, probably shall leave you soon, and your gray hairs denote that you are fast ripening for the grave. I wish to leave a few words for you to read, when my body is mouldering in dust, and my soul is in eternity. Death is the effect of sin-let your greatest mourning therefore be for sin-not merely because it brings death, but because it dishonours God, and wounds the dear Saviour. May you have an interest in the precious blood of Christ which was shed for poor sinners. May you be reconciled to God, in a humble, holy, and cheerful submission to his will. May Jesus be your Saviour, your righteous

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