knowledge of the Scriptures, and that faith in them, which would make you Christians indeed-which would shine forth in your actions, and render you examples and patterns on distant shores? To acquire this knowledge and this faith, search the Scriptures, (see John, ch. v.) and be governed by their holy precepts. The effect is certain; for they are able to make you wise unto salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus: (see the 2d Epistle to Timothy, ch. iii.) With such a compass on board, the tempest may blow, and the angry billows may beat but they cannot shake yo your confidence in that Pilot who said unto the raging waves, Peace, be still; and there was a great calm. (see Mark, ch. iv.)

When you possess a Bible, and, reading it with serious wattention, find that it leads to that hope which is an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, (see the Epistle to the Hebrews, ch. vi.) a sacred joy will fill your hearts; you will feel desirous of imparting to others the happiness which you enjoy; and, while you are engaged in conveying to Foreign Nations the necessaries and the comforts of life, you will meet with many an unenlightened Heathen, and many an ignorant professing Christian, to whom you may be the messenger of glad tidings, and the happy instrument of eternal salvation.

You live in an age of the world which may well be called an Age of Wonders.-Among those wonders, the BIBLE SOCIETY is a noble FIRST-RATE-She has hoisted the colours of the PRINCE OF PEACE: she has visited, with favouring gales, the most distant shores, and found a friendly harbour on every coast: she has conveyed upward of one million three hundred thousand copies of the Holy Scriptures to the various nations of the earth; and she still pursues her course, and will pursue it, until every port is blessed by her entrance. The Crew of this noble Ship is composed of all nations, and of all classes the Emperor of Russia, and the Princes of the House of Brunswick the Kings of Prussia, Sweden, Denmark, and Wirtemberg-Admirals of the Fleets, and Generals of the Armies-Prelates of the Church, and Members of the Senate Tradesinen, Mechanics, and Servants-all meet on her deck, and cordially lend a hand in spreading. her canvas to the winds of heaven.

While the rich and the poor, the high and the low, are thus coming forward to assist in the glorious design of

SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL:

The Annual Sermon was preached before the Society, and the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, on Friday the 17th of February, at the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, by the Right Reverend William, Lord Bishop of Oxford, from Psalm ii. 8. I will give thee the Heathen for thine Inheritance, and the uttermost Parts of the Earth for thy Possession.

The Anniversary Meeting was held, after the Sermon, in the Vestry. From the Report of the Proceedings of the year, it appeared that the Society has the following Missionaries, Catechists, and Schoolmasters and Schoolmistresses:

In Newfoundland

In Nova Scotia

In New Brunswick

In Cape Breton

In Upper Canada ........

The stipends of the Missionaries vary from 357. to 2007. per annum; and those of the Schoolmasters from 101 to 201

The sum disbursed, during the preceding year, in Salaries and Gratuities to Missionaries, Catechists. and Schoolmasters, and Exhibitions to the Scholars at the College in Nova Scotia, was 49057. 12s. 11d.: beside which the sum of 3934. 13s. 8d. was expended in Bibles, Prayer-books, Religious Tracts, and other Books, for the use of the Missionaries and for distribution.

Nearly the whole of these Missionaries confine their labours to the maintenance and extension of religion among the descendants of the European Settlers, subjects of the Crown. Mr. George Okil Stuart, Missionary at Kingston, in Upper Canada, is, however, appointed to visit the Mohawk Indians, and Mr. John Green to be their Schoolmaster; and Mr. Robert Addison, Missionary at Niagara, visits the Indians.

The Society annexes to its Annual Report the following Notices respecting its Missionaries.

The Society, taking into their serious consideration the absolute necessity there is, that such clergymen as are sent abroad should be duly qualified for the work to which they are appointed, desire every one, who recommends any person to them for that purpose, to testify his knowledge, as to the following particulars :

1. The age of the person.

2. His condition of life, whether single or married.

3. His temper.

4. His prudence.

5. His learning..

6. His sober and pious conversation.

7. Ilis zeal for the Christian Religion, and diligence

in his Holy Calling.

8. His affection to the present Government.

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9. His conformity to the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England.

And the Society request all persons concerned, that they recommend no man out of favour or affection, or any other worldly consideration, but with a sincere regard to the honour of Almighty God, and our blessed Saviour; as they tender the interest of the Christian Religion, and the good of men's souls.

But if any person should appear abroad in the character of a Clergymau of the Church of England, and disgrace that profession by improper behaviour, the Society desire their friends to examine, if they can, into his Letters of Orders, and to inspect the list of the Missionaries annually published by the Society; by which if it should be found that he came thither with their knowledge, they will, upon due information, pat away from them that wicked person.

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

The first Anniversary of the Hibernian Auxiliary Church Missionary Society

Was held in the Great Room at the Rotunda, in
Dublin, on Tuesday, April 18th;

The Right Honourable Lord Viscount Lorton,
President, in the Chair.

The Meeting was very numerous and respectable, The Report, which was read by Francis Corbet, Esq. one of the Secretaries, detailed the exertions of the Society's First Year, and was received with the highest testimonies of satisfaction.

Our readers have already learnt, (see p. 275 of the Number for May,) that the Society has paid to the Parent Institution the sum of 10721. 17s. 2d.

The great press of the Society's business in London rendered it impracticable for the Secretary to attend the Anniversary; or to assist, with some friends, in extending the Auxiliary by Associations,

this summer, in different parts of Ireland, as was designed; but such arrangements are making as will enable the Parent Society, it is hoped, to render effectual aid to this noble Auxiliary early next year.

In the mean time, we may safely commit to our zealous friends in Ireland the interests of the Society, and of that great cause to the furtherance of which it is devoted; assured that no practicable and expedient means will be left untried to extend in the Sister Church a warm and steady zeal for the conversion of the world.

We regret that our limits allow us to transcribe but a few extracts from the impressive speeches delivered on this occasion."

The following anecdote, related by the Hon. and Rev. James Hewitt, will much interest all persons who are desirous of ascertaining the extent of the power of Superstition among the nations of the East.

A tribe in India, called the Bhaunts, chiefly live by offering themselves as guarantees to treaties and other contracts; to which, instead of affixing their seal after signing their name and place of abode, as is customary with other tribes, they affix the figure of a dagger, significant of the dreadful security which they have given; for, if the agreement be broken, the Bhaunt proceeds to the house of the offending party, and in his presence destroys either himself or one of his family. The object of our Society, my Lord, is to change this dreadful security for a feeling of religious duty and moral obligation to substitute the Bible for the dagger-and the fear of God for the fear of man.

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From a passage in the speech of P. E. Singer, Esq. we infer that Dublin has followed the example of London in concentrating the interest of her public Charities by holding several of their Anniversaries in the same week,⠀