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The principle on which the Association is conducted is well supported in the following remarks.

We have been enabled to bring into cultivation nearly the whole of our little enclosure. It has been fruitful now for nearly three years, and we can hardly expect its future to exceed its past produce: but we wish, if possible, to be useful to our neighbours; and if there is any thing in our mode of cultivation superior, we wish to impart the knowledge of it.

Now there is a material difference, and it lies at the commencement of all cultivation. We differ in judgment as to the quality of the soil. Other Associations think the soil will scarcely more than half pay for its cultivation: the Dean-street Association goes upon the principle, that it will fully pay the expence and, not only so, but that, by studied management, it will doubly pay. The Dean-street does not offer mere theory and speculation in support of its opinion: it has done the deed, as the Auxiliary Society has most handsomely acknowledged.

But, to drop all metaphor, the Dean-street Association always reckoned that it would be quite a sufficient accommodation to the working part of the community, to furnish them with Bibles at prime cost; taking their money by instalments of a penny or more per week: and, by bringing into their Asociation some individuals who did not want Bibles, and who would cheerfully give more per week, the Dean-street Association has honourably sustained the rank, and merited the title of an Auxiliary Society.

Other Associations go upon the principle, that the bulk of our population MAY not be able to pay the cost price; and, therefore, there is a scale of reduced prices exhibited. Here we are of opinion that they err. Other mechanics and working men can as well afford to pay the full price for their Bibles as those of the Deanstreet: for if there be a difference, it is this,—that the Members of the Dean-street are more sober and orderly than others: they are more correct in their conduct than to condescend to beg for that for which they are able to pay nay, further, they see the good work carrying on by the British and Foreign Bible Society; and they are

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ambitious, thinking it becomes them as men and Christians, to Do something, according to their ability, to accelerate its progress.

We are fully of opinion, and we beg leave from the purest and most affectionate motives to express our opi nion to our fellow-labourers, that the scale of reduced prices is, in great measure, fatal to their design.

Experience has proved, that the Members of Associations in Westminster have generally conceived that when they had paid up to the scale, all obligation has ceased, and they have then discontinued their payments: and when one man gets for six shillings a Bible, the prime cost of which is twelve, he shews it to his friends as a cheap bargain, and they come determined to give no more than he did. If pressed, they plead inability: in other words, they use hypocrisy to procure a Bible; and thus leave a very sorry pledge of their intention to make a proper use of it afterwards. So that this reduced scale is productive of two evils: it impoverishes the funds; and it brings into play prevarication and hypocrisy.

On the contrary, the plan of the Dean-street has been to set before its Members the excellence of the Bible Society-the miserable condition of the nations without the Scriptures, consequently without the consolations of religion to bear them up under the ills of life, and without a good hope of Heaven in their hearts to animate them in the prospect of death: such being their spiritual estate, their temporal we well know to be impoverished and rendered miserable, by long, cruel, and wasting wars; wars, too, in which, though they have borne the brunt, we have been as much interested as they. The Dean-street Association has endeavoured to instil into the minds of its Members adoring thoughts of the good Providence and distinguishing Grace of God in casting their lot in Britain; and then it says to them, "Now give something as a proof of your gratitude to God, in order to make these wretched people as happy as you are. The Bible will do it; for it is the Bible which formed the minds of the men who formed your happy Constitution of Government; and we are thankful for the hope, that it is the Bible which regulates the conduct of many of those who administer its blessings unte us at the present moment: therefore subscribe: thus

get a Bible yourselves, and be instrumental in putting one into the hands of a Foreigner, who, but for such assistance, must live and die without it."

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These are the principles which we have sought to lay at the foundation of our superstructure. The suc cess which God has given us emboldens us to bring them before you.

But it may be thought, that, in all this, there is no provision for the Poor.

We are sorry to observe this word "Poor" incorporated into almost every line that is said and written upon the subject of Bible Associations. Some use it as a sweeping term, which includes all who cannot live in fine houses, and keep servants; and, of course, it must comprehend the Members of the Dean-street Association: but the fact is, that, though many of them get but little money, yet they manage to live upon that little without being chargeable to the community; and they ought not to be classed with paupers and idle people who will not work. Some other term "should be found, whereby to designate honest working people; for this word POOR induces the disposition which it describes, and has a pestiferous effect upon the public morals: whoever accepts it with complacency, next looks up, and says, or seems to say, "I hope you will give me something to make me richer."

But the Dean-street does provide for the Poor. Many of its Members do not want Bibles for themselves, and therefore we infer, that they give them to proper objects.

The Association appeals thus forcibly to the Families and to the other Associations of the District to which it belongs.

In conclusion, our hearts' desire is, that this great cause may be duly appreciated in the City of Westminster. We have done what we could'; and though people in general are not connected with Manufactories, they are either Heads of Families or Members of Families; and the plan will as well apply to a Society of five as of five hundred, and house might in this case be joined to house without offence.

But it may be said, that there are many Societies

which have claims. True; but the Bible has claims paramount. The Apostle enjoins the Churches of Galatia and Corinth every first day of the week to lay up in store, as God had prospered them, for a similar purpose; and, if Heads of Families would explain the matter, and contribute themselves, and encourage their children and dependants to contribute, it would be a fit subject for their meditation and employ on the morning of the first day of the week now.

Could we upon this plan get five thousand Contribu tors of only a penny per week, which seems no extravagant expectation for the City of Westminster, we should then have an Auxiliary producing a thousand pounds per annum for general purposes, whereas last year the Westminster yielded only four hundred pounds.

Under the Divine Blessing, we owe the credit which we have gained to the exercise of these three virtues-Liberality, Moderation, Patience: Liberality, as exercised towards Foreign Objects; Moderation, in that we have chosen the Brevier Bible, in order that we might be liberal; and Patience-every one has waited patiently until he could be supplied, and that was not before double money had been paid to the Auxiliary Society.

Now if these virtues can be made to predominate more in your Associations, we shall soon lose our distinction: and we do most devoutly wish this to be the case; for, although it would argue insensibility, to be unaffected with the applause of good and discerning nien, yet, feeling as we de, that before God we are unprofitable servants, and that before men we have done no more than it was our duty to do; feeling, also, the importance of the great cause in which we are all en-gaged, we say that we would rather be OBSCURED by the great crowd of vigorous Associations, each of which should come up to or exceed our standard, than merit any particular distinction amongst them.

We shall only add, that this Association has collected, since its first establishment, the sum of eigh ty-five pounds; that it has received seventy-four Bibles, chiefly Brevier; and that its number of Subscribers is now ninety-six.

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

Fifteenth Report.

THE publication of this Report has been delayed by the difficulty of collecting the Lists from the various Associations.

The principal details of the year have been already brought before our readers; but they gather new interest, when connected, as in the Report, in a regular series, interspersed with new matter, and with the remarks and decisions of the Committee. After tracing the progress of the Society at home, the Committee report its increased EXERTIONS, under the heads of Western Africa, India, Ceylon, Persia, New Zealand, and Malta and the Levant; with the proceedings which respect Translations of the Scriptures, and of the Liturgy, and the preparation of Tracts.

The Appendix contains various important Documents, some of which have appeared in our pages.

The Society has expended, during the last year, on its Missions and on the preparation of Missionaries, with the various objects connected therewith, upward of 10,0001.

Departure of the Rer. Wm. Jowett for Malta.

Mr. Jowett, having spent a considerable time in preparation for the important office to which he has devoted himself, of Literary Representative of the Society in Malta and the Levant, embarked, with Mrs. Jowett, at Gravesend, whither they had been accompanied by the Secretary, on the 2d inst, on board the Lauderdale, Capt. Beal. The vessel pre

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