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believe there are one or two others amongst them, earnestly desiring to be taught the truth as it is in Jesus.

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“Thus, we think, we have found by happy experience, that the 'liberal soul shall be made fat.' While endeavouring to water others, our own souls have been plentifully refreshed. Truly, the Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad ;' and while these drops of mercy and Divine love are shed down amongst us, we desire with fresh delight, to continue steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.'

"We would only add, that we hope the time is not far distant, when every "Sabbath school" in this city, shall have its "local association" for visiting the destitute poor in the neighbourhood of their schools; "when every abode of wretchedness, in every street and lane of our city, shall be visited by the Christian philanthropist,' until those clouds of worse than Egyptian darkness, which now hover over many parts of it shall be dispelled, as at the rising of the Sun of righteousness.'

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"We would, with a view to this, recommend to the attentive perusal of every Sunday school teacher, as well as to Christians in general, the LOCAL SYSTEM' of Dr. Chalmers, as recommended by the Editor of the 'CHRISTIAN HERALD,' in several numbers of that interesting publication.”*

(To be continued.)

MORAVIAN MISSIONS.

ON Sunday evening, the 21st October, a sermon was delivered in behalf of the missions of the United Brethren, commonly called Moravians, at their church in Fulton-street, in this city. The text was Dan. ii. 44-" And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever." The last annual report was read, by which it appears that the synodal committee, who have the charge of these extensive and increasing missions, were, notwithstanding all the exertions which have heretofore been made for their support, and the frugality and care with which they are conducted, totally without funds, and had debts to the amount of 5,960 dollars. The collection taken up was 56 dollars and 19 cents.

The United Brethren are peculiarly circumstanced as respects their missions. They have above one hundred and fifty missionaries actively employed among many different nations of heathen in the four quarters of the world; and at least 25,000 baptized converts to serve regularly with the gospel. The requisite fund for the support of this great work, cannot be provided by themselves only, from their being few in number, and mostly poor persons, and on account of the continued increase of their sphere of labour. They, therefore, most respectfully, and at the same time with all frankness, solicit the assistance of other Christians to aid them herein; feeling very thankful for the assurance of their best wishes and prayers, and for the donations which their friends have already generously afforded them. [Communicated by desire.]

[It will be unnecessary for us to add a word to urge on the attention of the christian public, the claims of these most interesting and well

*See vol. VII. pp. 365, 370, 454, 457, 526, 528, 616, 622, 654, 657, 682, 685; also, Review of Dr. Miller's Sermon, p. 556*, and "Report of the Society for the Prevention of Pauperism," p. 665, et. seq.; and vol. VIII. Nos. II. III. IV. and VIII., and Review of Ward's Letters, No. IX. and No. X.

conducted missions. The facts above stated, we trust, will be sufficient to call forth some of that treasure which many Christians are enjoying in rich profusion; and the "widow's two mites" will be an acceptable offering.

Further contributions to this object will be thankfully received at No. 104 Fulton-street.]

CITY MISSION.-BANCKER-STREET CHURCH.

ON Sabbath evening, the 21st of October, a sermon was preached in the Presbyterian Church, in Vandewater-street, and a collection taken up in aid of the "Female Missionary Society for the Poor of NewYork." The Rev. Asa Hillyer, D. D. of Orange, N. J. made the introductory prayer, and the Rev. John M'Dowell, D. D. of Elizabethtown, N. J. preached from John vi. 12-" Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost."

The collection amounted to 168 dollars, including a bank bill of 50 dollars, with the following note:-" From a friend to the poor of our city, and one who ardently desires to have a Saviour offered to the perishing multitudes around us. Go on, ye devoted ladies, and God

will bless you here and hereafter."

We are requested to say, that the person who has thus proved himself "a friend to the poor of our city," is desired to accept the very grateful acknowledgments of the ladies concerned, and to be assured, that they feel encouraged by such an unusual instance of pious liberality to " go on," regarding this as a pledge that the Saviour, whom they desire to honour, approves of their humble endeavours to build up his kingdom in the wastes of our city.

Lest it should be supposed that the amount received by the Society on this occasion, is sufficient for the present demands on their treasury, we would state, that it falls short of discharging the arrears, and another quarter's salary will soon be due to the minister of the Bancker-street church. We hope our readers will manifest their love to the Saviour by imitating the example here set them, and go and do likewise. The Society have a box in the office of the CHRISTIAN HERALD, where donations will be thankfully received.

RECENT DEATHS.

ELIAS BOUDINOT, late President of the American Bible Society, died at his seat in Burlington, N. J. on the 24th of last month, in the 82d year of his age.

REV. JOHN S. VREDENBURGH, died on the 3d October, at his house in Somerville, N. J. in the 46th year of his age. He was a pious and useful minister of the gospel, and his death is greatly lamented by his bereaved family, and affectionate church, whom he had faithfully served, with much mutual love and increasing confidence, above twenty years.

The Seaman's Magazine.

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. They cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.-Psalms.

THE MERCHANT BRIG AT SEA.

THE Hope, of London, captain James Adams, of 180 tons, left England about the latter end of April, 1818, with a cargo for the Mediterranean. She chartered again in Sicily, after an intermediate voyage, and loaded fruit in the spring of the year 1819 for Petersburgh. After another trip to a port in the Mediterranean, she arrived in London, towards the spring of the year

1820.

Captain Adams had for his mate Samuel Newman, a tolerably steady young man, of about twenty-six years of age. Newman had taken early to a sea life, but not before he had acquired the arts of reading and writing, and had received many good admonitions from his pious mother, who had been left a widow when Samuel was about seven years old. The advice and example which he had also had from the teachers of a Sunday School, at which he attended for two years; the very important portions of scripture, the instructive hymns, which, as lessons, he bad committed to memory, and his constant attendance upon public worship, when a youth, were advantages which he did not at first value so highly, as he was enabled to do afterwards.

When he first went to sea he was on board a ship bound up the Baltic, whose master was a sober man, and a good sailor. The crew were also rather above the ordinary run of seamen. When he next changed his ship, he changed for the worse; and bad company, worse books, and immoral songs, were productive of associations, which led him into the paths of sin and folly. His conscience had often disquieted him, because he knew that he sinned against the light and knowledge which he had acquired before he went to sea. Sometimes he endeavoured to pacify conscience, by making himself merry with an extra quantity of liquor; but the misery to which such indulgence would inevitably bring him, was happily too evident for him not to see his danger, and he had grace given to withstand the temptations. Although he had found means frequently to quiet, or rather to stupify conscience for a time, its upbraidings returned more often than he liked, and he felt that every way of transgression is hard. The Hope, in which he now sailed, might be called a comfortable ship.

Newman was an excellent sailor, fearless in the ship's duty, diligent and trustworthy; qualities which had brought him from before the mast, and had advanced him to the station of mate. In this station his conduct was meritorious; but as to his duty towards his Maker, his mind was thoroughly unconcerned.

When he left the Sunday School, he received a Bible, which he had always taken to sea with him, but it was generally left at the bottom of his chest. The very sight of it was, to speak the truth, unpleasant, and its aspect appeared reproachful. He would have liked to have had it for his friend and companion, because he knew that, were its society acceptable, it could not but make its willing associate happy yet, for want of resolution, for want of a suitable friend to encourage him, in short, for want of sufficient inclination to consult, he neglected his Bible, and it was, almost the whole of the voyage, his sleeping fellow traveller.

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Something like this was the state of Newman's mind, when on the forecastle looking out a-head as the Hope came up the Pool, he saw a large lofty vessel riding by herself, with only one jury mast, and totally unlike a merchant ship. He knew that she could not be a king's tender, as she was without a pendant; and while amusing himself with conjecture what she could be, and still more amazed as he drew near by perceiving a large entranceport in her bow, and a landing stage near the water's edge, he looked eagerly, as he passed the stern, for information.

He read as he passed, "CHAPEL for SEAMEN;" and immediately concluded that this was the "Ark," of which he had heard some rumours from sailors whom he had seen in the Mediterranean.

The "CHAPEL for Seamen" gave instant birth to a thousand confused ideas relative to his earliest youth. He remembered the prayers of his mother, and was greatly affected by the recollection of the tears which she shed when he first left her to go to sea, and the advice which his mother and his teachers pressed upon him as to his future conduct; nor did the dormant state in which his Bible had been suffered to lie so long, escape the whispering accusations of conscience. He sighed, and wished, but what his wishes were, were indistinct even to himself, but though confused they were sincere ; and this became prayer to him "who seeth in secret, and despiseth not the sighing of the contrite heart, nor the desire of such as be sorrowful."

The sight of this "CHAPEL for Seamen," had unquestionably pleased him. His heart felt the cheering sensation of hope, that now he was returned to London, and that there was a CHAPEL for Seamen, he should in some way be the better for it.

The brig brought up in a tier just above the "Ark," and scarcely was she fast before he was with the pilot, hoping to learn from him what he wanted to know. "Was the chapel entirely for seamen? Might any sailor go there? Whose was it? Who preached there? Was it for captains, or for common sailors as well as for masters? Was it free and open every Sunday? And what were the hours ?" Such was the nature of Newman's inquiries: but as the chapel had no attractions for the pilot, he could give him no information, except indeed, that he had heard that many seamen went every Sunday, and that some methodists, well meaning perhaps, but more zealous than wise, wanted to make methodists of the sailors.

Newman's curiosity was by all this rather increased, to see the inside of this ship so converted into a floating church. He cast many a look towards her as he attended his duty on board the Hope; he sighed from the very weight of his own emotions, and fervently longed for the coming Sunday.

Captain Adams had also eyed the Floating Chapel as the Hope passed her, and although he made no inquiry about her, he had made many observations. He too, had inwardly determined to visit the chapel, of which he had heard when abroad more than had come to the knowledge of his mate. When the latter respectfully asked permission to go on the Sunday to the chapel, the captain consented cheerfully, and, to Newman's high delight, declared his intention to go with him.

At length the Sunday came, and as early as some necessary duties would permit, he went to his birth and dressed himself in his best suit. He then walked the deck, watching at every turn as the expected hour drew near, whether any thing was doing on board the Ark. He observed the ensign displayed at the staff, the jack forward, and a pendant at the mast head, and at ten o'clock the Blue Peter run up, which he was informed by a waterman, was a signal for the congregation to assemble; and when he saw several ship boats pulling towards her full of people, he could no longer refrain from going to the cabin to inform the captain, who was reading below. The rest of the crew being also desirous of seeing the chapel, their own boat was soon manned, and leaving the boy to keep ship, they were soon alongside the

after-stage of the Ark. Other boats arrived at the same time, and Newman entered the place of worship with a sense of awe, attended with a sensation of delight. He could hardly believe his eyes, when he saw the galleries, the pulpit, and every accommodation of a spacious chapel, and his heart rejoiced when he cast his eye on the benches, already occupied by seamen in clean jackets and trowsers; some reading, some sitting, as if meditating, and all in perfect silence, decorously waiting the commencement of divine ser

vice.

He and his shipmates took their seats beside the sailors, and when he saw some on entering fall upon their knees for a minute or two for silent prayer, his tears could no longer be restrained. He wished to do so too, but was ashamed; yet, as he sat with heart and eyes full, ere he was aware, he inwardly and fervently prayed for God's blessing on himself and his ship

mates.

The prayers, reading, and preaching were very interesting to him; but when the psalm was given out, (the words suiting his frame of mind,) and he, at last, by dint of effort, was enabled to join his voice of praise and thanksgiving with the animating voices of hundreds of seamen, he felt a delight which made him really despise all which before he had called plea

sure.

Captain Adams had met with some brother captains, who had invited him to take a seat with them in the gallery, formerly the gun deck, when the ship was in his majesty's service as the "Speedy." The scene and the solemnities were not lost upon him, and he acknowledged himself at the conclusion of the worship to have been highly gratified, and declared his purpose to renew his visit.

For the information of strangers, notice was given, that in the evening the Seamen would assemble for prayer and praise. Newman was earnestly desirous to be with them, and asked and obtained his captain's permission. The evening meeting was not so numerous as that in the morning. It was composed mostly of seamen of religious character, in number about one hundred. Here was a new scene. Newman had formerly often been pre sent, when the gentlemen who had acted as teachers at his Sunday school had engaged in prayer. He had also heard extempore prayer by ministers at the chapel where he attended, when he belonged to the school, but it was beyond any idea which he had formed, that a sailor in his jacket and trowsers should pray without a book; and when he heard sailor after sailor offer most solemn prayer, in easy, intelligible, and scriptural language, asking just for such mercies as he knew he stood in need of, and returning, for himself and those around him, thanks for the blessings which he knew he had enjoyed, and often without a thought of gratitude to their bountiful bestower, his heart melted within him. He had, as the other sailors now had, kneeled down; and, concealed by his hands which covered his face, he gave vent to his feelings, and let his tears flow freely.

At the conclusion of this affecting service he withdrew with a full heart, and returned to his ship with emotions really indescribable. While in port, he continued a constant attendant on the public worship on board the chapel. Sometimes also he visited his brethren, who invited him to their week evenings for prayer, on board other ships, under the care of the Seaman's Bethel Union Society. He found these meetings growingly attractive.

The sight of so many sailors on their knees, and the sound of sailors' voices, artlessly and fervently imploring God to forgive their sins, and expressing thankfulness for a cheering hope of eternal blessedness through Jesus Christ, was fixed deeply in Newman's mind. He thought of it over and over again, and was led on by degrees to consider, that if other sailors were thus concerned for their souls, he, a sailor too, ought not to be indifferent about his own.

He remembered some of his former companions who had died, and some,

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