benevolent persons, who wish to remunerate Africa for her wrongs, by facilitating the means of her instruction and improvement. Coutributions to the West African Missionary Ship Fund, will be thankfully received by the Secretary of the Society, the Rev. Josiah Pratt, at the Church Missionary House, Salisbury Square. The names of the Contributors will be printed. Manchester and Salford Association. In our last, we stated the formation of this Association; and now proceed to give, as we then promised, some further particulars. The sermons and collections were as follows; no collections being made after three of the sermons. Sunday Morning, April 9. St. Stephen, Salford: by Rev. Daniel Wil- St. Luke: by Rev. Win. Jowett, M. A., (Rev. X. 16 Sunday Afternoon. St. James: by Rev. J. Pratt, (Rev. Henry X. 2. Sunday Evening. St. Clement: by Rev. D. Wilson; from 2 .L.28 2 8 87 17 6 60 13 3 Sunday Morning, Afternoon, and Evening. 70 2 Monday Evening. St. Clement: by Rev. E. Burn; from Col. i. 20. Tuesday Evening, St. Stephen: by Rev. D. Wilson; from Isa. xix. 23-25. Wednesday Evening. Billinge, near Wigar: by Rev. D. Wilson, (Rev. Samuel Hall, M. A., Minister); from 2 Cor. ii. 14. 23 8 7 37 13 o 22 6 8 St. John by Rev. Wm. Jowett, (Rev. John St. James; by Rev. D. Wilson; from Isa. 40 0 0 The Subscriptions and Benefactions which are, collecting will carry the whole amount, it is hoped, to 10007.; which liberal assistance to the Society, granted under some unfavourable circumstances, must be ascribed, in a great degree, to the zeal with which its friends at Manchester had prepared the way by the wide diffusion of information respecting the objects and proceedings of the Society. The system of Weekly Contributions, by which small sums are collected. from a great number of individuals, is peculiarly adapted to the sphere in which the Manchester and Salford Association have to act; and it cannot be doubted but the Society's friends will lay judicious plans for availing themselves of this method of obtaining a steady support to the funds. In our last, the Meeting was, by mistake, said to have been held on Thursday the 13th of April: it was held on Monday the 10th. St. John's Chapel Association. The Congregation of St. John's Chapel, Bedford Row, have contributed very liberally to the Society for several years. A regular Association is now formed, an account of which has been circulated as follows At a Meeting held at the house of the Rev. Daniel Wilson, on Monday, April 24, an Association was formed in aid of the Church Missionary Society. The design of this Association is, to diffuse information concerning the state of the Heathen and the measures of the Church Missionary Society, to stimulate to prayer for God's blessing on such measures, and to afford the Congregation of St. John's Chapel the greatest facility for combining such exertions as they may be disposed to make in this great cause. There are four departments of contributions:- the first, of Annual Subscribers, a Guinea a-year constituting a Member;-the second, of Benefactors; Ten Guineas entitling the donor to be considered as a Member for life; the third, of Collectors, who engage to collect from others, or to contribute themselves, such sum as they may be pleased to make themselves answerable for. Each Collector of 1s. per week, or 2l. 12s. per annum, will be considered a Member of the Association, and will be further entitled to a copy of the Missionary Register monthly, and to the Annual Reports of the Parent Society. The fourth department is, Congregational Collections: these already amount, from the five collections, which have been made in this chapel in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, and 1815, to 566%. The Members of the Association will meet quarterly, for the purpose of receiving subscriptions, donations, and contributions; and for imploring the blessing of God on the designs of the Society, and the extension of his kingdom in the world. Such Gentlemen as may be disposed to contribute to any of the four departments of the Association, will be kind enough to send their names to the Rev. D. Wilson, President; to the Rev. Mr. Bartlett, Secretary; or to T. Bainbridge, Esq. Guildford-street, Treasurer. The first Quarterly Meeting will be held at the Rev. Mr. Wilson's, on Monday, July 24, at seven o'clock in the evening. A similar Association was formed among the Ladies of the Congregation, on Monday the first of May. Both branches of this Association have already received very liberal support. The Second Anniversary of the Southwark Asso ciation Was held on Thursday Evening, April 27, in the Spiritual Court at St. Saviour's Church. Charles Barclay, Esq. Member of Parliament for the Borough of Southwark, was in the Chair. The Chairman succeeds the late Mr. Thornton as President of the Association. After the Report had been read by the Rev. W. Mann, the Secretary of the Parent Society addressed the Meeting. The Chairman entered at length, and with great ability, into the subject. The Rev. Daniel Wilson, the Rev. Mr. Mann, and other Gentlemen followed. The Meeting was very numerous, and highly respectable; and we doubt not but the proceedings of the evening will greatly strengthen the interest of the Society in that quarter of the Metropolis. (LONDON) MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Twenty-first Anniversary. On Wednesday, May 10, Sermons were preached, in the morning, by the Rev. Angus M'Intosh, M. A. Minister of the Parish of Tain, North Britain, at Surrey Chapel, from John xvii. 8; and in the evening, by the Rev. James Boden, of Sheffield, from Zech vi. 15. The Annual Meeting was held on Thursday Morning at the City Chapel, Grub Street; Thomas Wilson, Esq. in the chair. The Report having been read, many Gentlemen addressed the Meeting with much effect.-The Rev. John Hyatt, of London, preached in the Evening, at Tottenham Court Chapel; from Isaiah Iv. 10, 11. On Friday Morning, at St. Luke's Church, Old Street, the last Sermon was preached by the Rev. Martin Richard Whish, M.A. of Bristol, from Matt. xxviii. 19. In the Afternoon, the Society met for business, at the Committee Room of Sion Chapel ; and, in the Evening, the Lord's Supper was administered at Sion, Orange Street, and Silver Street Chapels. . We shall, as soon as practicable, furnish our readers with a full abstract of all such parts of the Report as, may not have already appeared in our pages. JEWS' SOCIETY. The Sixth Anniversary Meeting Was held at Freemasons' Tavern, on Friday, the 5th of May: two Sermons having been previously preached; one on Thursday Evening, at St. Lawrence Jewry, by the Rev. J. W. Cunningham, M. A. Vicar of Harrow; the other on Friday Morning, at St. Ann's, Soho, by the Rev. W. Dealtry, M. A. Rector of Clapham, In the unavoidable absence of his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, Patron of the Society, Sir Thomas Baring, Bart. M.P. President, took the chair at the Meeting. |