at that corner, fixed the stone in the ground, repeating the 16th verse of the xxviiith chapter of Isaiah. My interpreter rendered the words into Susoo; and I and the other boy fastened the stone, in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The stone being laid, I explained and expounded the words of the

text.

I then proceeded, with the interpreter, to the South corner, and laid the second stone, with the other boy who was placed there; repeating the 22d verse of the cxviiith Psalm. These words also were interpreted into Susoo, and a short explanation of them given.

After this I went to the West, laying the stone with Matt. xvi. 18; these words being likewise interpreted and explained.

At the North Corner, the text used was 1 Cor. iii. 11. The stones at the four corners were all laid and fastened in the Sacred Name of the Triune Jehovah.

I then went to the middle of the Church-ground, and read a part of the ciid Psalm, beginning at the 12th verse; the lxxxviith Psalm; and the ivth chapter of Micah.

After I had read the Psalms, and the chapter in Micah, I kneeled down, with the children, and prayed, and dis missed the assembly with the Blessing of the Church. We then returned, singing part of the cxviiith Psalm, "Behold the sure Foundation Stone," to the School-house.

Here I addressed myself particularly to the boys; and called their attention to the blessings which they enjoyed; and assured them that the Honourable Society wished that they might be brought so to know the Lord and to become Christians, that they also might be Missionaries, and one and another of them go into the country, and preach the Gospel of our Lord to other Susoos. The children seemed all to be much affected, and the people thanked me for their invitation. I gave them a breakfast, and a little wine when they went home.

The spot on which the Church is built is very good ground. Nothing is to be feared from floods. I have made the walls so strong that the tornadoes cannot blow them down. This spot is also close to the path by which the people have to pass, who come from the interior.

From subsequent accounts it appears that both Churches were, by much exertion, covered in before

the last Rains began. Good bells and clocks have been sent out by the Willding; the measured and orderly sound of which over the surrounding plains, will insensibly form the minds of the natives to new and useful habits, and awaken, in due time, the most benignant associations. The children being accustomed to singing, and that elevating part of Divine Worship being very attractive to the natives, an organ which plays by barrels thirty of the choicest congre, gational tunes, has been sent out for the Church at Bashia; prepared so as best to resist the heats and damps of the climate. If it shall be found to do this successfully, a similar one will be sent out for Canoffee. Each of these Churches contains about three hundred square yards, and may accommodate from two to three hundred persons.

Account of the School Children at Bashia.

The Missionaries faithfully detail both their discouragements and their hopes respecting the children under their care. The following extracts will, on the whole, prove highly satisfactory to our readers.

You would wish to hear (says Mr. Wilhelmí, in Fe bruary last,) some encouraging account of the proficiency which our children make in learning and piety. As to learning I have no cause to complain, though none to exult. Some are teachable, and others are very dull scholars. Hopeful appearances often change, and dis appoint our expectation; yet where we are ready to give up hope, a better conduct sometimes follows after repeated correction.

At the last Anniversary with our children, Brother Wenzel was in Sierra Leone, but Brother Klein came to Bashia and attended. After the first singing, the children were addressed, by way of explaining to them the reason for which we had called thein together to Divine Worship. They were urged to attend to the instructions of that word, which it had been God's good pleasure

to send to them that they might learn the way to heaven. We placed before them the gratification which it would afford to us, to our Benefactors, and to every Christian Mind, if we could confidently hope that one of them did really love our Lord Jesus Christ, and the joy which is in heaven over one sinner that repenteth; and concluded with the hearty wish that God might give them his Holy Spirit to teach them these things, and to Iring them to heaven. After this address, prayers were read, and a Sermon was preached from Ezekiel xxxvi. 26.

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The list which I now send (says Mr. Renner) contains. not so many names as the last. There are various reasons for this. Four of Lawrence's children were taken away by their friends out of enmity, because the dying father enjoined us and begged us to bring up his children in a Christian Manner, and, when of age, to marry them out lawfully to deprive us of this, they took the children away rather artfully. The two Gumas were too tall for school and would suit no longer, and were sent, therefore, home. Ilickum's three children were removed because the father was tried a second time for Slave-dealing and was found guilty, and the Governor left the property for the children on condition that they must stay in Sierra Leone. Bailey left school out of choice. Hannah Cumings left, and married David Lawrence in the country fashion against our will and asking. In such cases the mother pretends to be sick-sends for the daughter, and lets her not come back again. The boy Butscher is eleven with the carpenter; Tobias and Joseph I have put with the blacksmith: they go on well; so that, in these two necessary trades, we shall soon get strength.

Could we keep out sin from this place, it would excel Adam's Paradise; but, alas! far from it. Not only is foolishness but iniquity bound up in the hearts of children; and, whilst they are young, according to a German Pro verb, the ears are young or little, but as they grow, the ears increase, and their imagination grows more and inore evil, instead of good.

Thank God that I have such an excellent help-meet, who watches and suppresses the most distant vice among her female children; and her constant care is crowned with some success. You may believe, Sir, that at requires a good deal of strictness in a place where two

sexes are together, to keep upchastity and virtue. My good wife is very much fitted for children, but the necessary talking to them from morning to night, hurts, I believe, very much her weak constitution. Her chief complaint lies in the breast, which, I think, came by much speaking; but yet she spends and will be spent in that line of life which God has allotted her; only she wishes now and then to have a month's repose, and see her friends in Sierra Leone, as she has been absent from them nearly six years.

Method observed in the School at Canoffee.

The arrangement with my children and family (says Mr. Wenzel) is as follows.

At day-break all the boys rise. The little boys, and those who only have begun reading, are employed in cleansing the school, bed-room, and piazza; during which time the larger boys go through the Addition and Multiplication Tables. Then all go to the brook and wash themselves: one is Captain over them, and prevents the others from doing mischief. When they are come_from the brook, all the family are called to prayer. I read and expound a portion of Scripture, and make some applications suitable for the children and ourselves, in order to make the boys better acquainted with their own hearts, and shew them the need of a Saviour; after which we go to prayer. After prayer we have breakfast, about eight o'clock. After breakfast some boys learn their tasks, and others instruct the little ones in theirs: some boys work in the garden, or are employed to fetch wood in the canoe.

About ten o'clock school begins. First a hymn is sung: then we go to prayers: after prayers the Bible is read by all who are able to read; the second class begins to spell; and two of the first class act as monitors to instruct the others. When reading is finished, the first class begins to write; some on books, and others on slates. When every boy has written one page, and it has been corrected by me, a chapter of the Bible is read by the whole class. The conclusion of the school is with prayer and singing. The whole time of the school lasts three hours.

Between one and two o'clock is dinner. After dinner some boys are again instructed in writing and in arith

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metic the lesser exercise themselves in learning their tasks.About four o'clock the boys have liberty to go into the bush, where Mr. Klein now generally accompanies them. At a proper time they are called together, and each boy brings some fruit out of the bush home.

In the evening, when the lamps are lighted, the first class is employed in making one or more examples in arithmetic. After eight o'clock they assemble for Evening Prayer; at which all the family attends. I expound again, but not so large a portion of Scripture as in the morning. The conclusion is with prayer. After I have finished prayer, all the boys rise and stand in one row, repeating the Lord's Prayer and the Blessing 2 Cor. xiii. 14. Then they bid us good night. All the family goes then each into his bed-rooom, where they exercise their private devotions, and so retire to rest.

Account of the Canoffee Children.

I exhort my school-children every day (says Mr. Wenzel), and endeavour, as much as is in my power, to bring them into the ways of the Lord. Some of them are very young; and some, alas! have imbibed the vices of their former associates, and would practise them if they were not restrained: but, God be praised, I can say, that, of two or three, I may indulge a blessed hope that my labour is not in vain in the Lord.

One boy acts in my house as a good steward. I have brought him, by the grace of God, forward in reading, writing, and arithmetic; and in catechising the other boys. If other business hinders me from keeping school, he instructs the children, and they willingly obey him. He is very useful to me if I am called to go out: he can buy and sell, and manage some things in the house, in which I instructed him, when I was a widower. But my joy and hope consist in this, that he is desirous to know the way of salvation, and to experience its power in his own soul. He retires sometimes with one boy or another in the evening into the school-room, and reads the word of God with him, and afterward with him and in private also he pours out his heart before God in prayer. 1

Another boy is very industrious, and employs himself usefully in carpenter's work. He repairs the canoe, and mends doors and benches.