Religious Books recently published. An Account of the Life and Death of that excellent Minister of Christ, the Rev. Joseph Alleine, A. B. author of "An Alarm to the Unconverted," &c. and late Minister of the Gospel, at Taunton, in Somersetshire. Written by the Rev. Richard Baxter, his widow Mrs. Theodosia Alleine, and other persons. The select Sermons of Martin Luther, the great Reformer, with his Life by Melancthon, and a full-length Portrait from the large. German print, is just ready. One volume, octavo. The Moral Tendencies of Knowledge: a Lecture, delivered before The City Philosophical Society, Dorset-street; and The Christian Philological Society, Spitalfields. By Thomas Williams. Conversations on Matrimony, intended as an accompaniment to the Letters lately published, on the Duties, Advantages, Pleasures, and Sorrows of the Marriage State. By John Ovington. Clavis Sinica; or, Elements of Chinese Grammar, with a Preliminary Dissertation on the Characters, and the Colloquial Mediums of the Chinese, and an Appendix, containing the TA, HYOH of Confucius, with a Translation. By J Marshman, D. D. Printed at the Mission Press, Serampore, 1814, Quarto, pp. 622. Dissent from the Established Church justified by an appeal to facts. By B. Brooks. Third edition. Christian Baptism, a Sermon, preached in the Lal Bazar Chapel, Calcutta, on Lord's day, Sept. 27, 1812, previous to Missionary Retrospect, and Foreign Intelligence. Letter from Mr. W. Carey, at Cutwa, to his aunts (his mother's sisters) at Hacklington, in Northamptonshire. Cutwa, Jan. 8, 1815. Our dear Aunts, E. Old, J. Smith, and J. Timms, HAVING seen a letter from you, lately, to our dear father, we would avail ourselves of the pleasure of writing you a few lines. Although we are personally unknown, yet, I hope, our love to you, and all our dear relations in Europe, is VOL. VII. warm and cordial. Notwithstanding we have not, and, by all appearances at present, shall not, have the pleasure of seeing either of you in this world, yet this is a great consolation, that we have a good hope, through grace, that we shall meet with you, and the rest of our dear relatious, before the throne of God and the Lamb. You have heard often, no doubt, of the merciful dealmgs of God towards us, and all his dear people in this country of darkness. His glorious cause is going on, in a wonderful way, at Calcutta and Serampore, the seat of the missions, ST and where father lives. The Lord is constantly adding to his church. Mission stations are fixed at many places, and the Lord has been pleased to do something at every one of them. Since the Lord has fixed us here, we have had the pleasure of seeing 23 or 24 baptized, and great numbers constantly have the word of life preached to them. Thus the Lord has appeared for his people and his cause. Since brother Felix has gone to Rangoon, his afflictions have been great and many. At first our very dear mother, and then his own wife, died, and another dear child of his; and now, at last, when he seemed to be settled again, the Lord has seen fit to take away his all in this world as he was going to Ava, the vessel upset, and he lost his second wife and two sweet children. Thus the Lord was pleased to afflict him. O that it may be for his good! Jabez is married, as you have heard I think, and is gone to Amboyna: he is getting on very well. Jonathan is at Calcutta, well. Please to accept of our united love, and give the same to all our dear relations. We shall be very glad to hear from you as often as you can find time to write to us. Hoping this will find you well, we remain, Your's, affectionately, W. CAREY, PERSECUTION OF THE PROTESTANTS IN FRANCE. THE following letter arrived at Fowey, in Cornwall, by a ship from the South of France, directed to the Rev. G. C. Smith, Penzance. The writer feared to sign his name and residence on account of the recent alarming events in that country. Inclosed in the same parcel, was a pamphlet, lately published by the pastor of a Protestant church, entitled "Defence of the Protestants of Languedoc :" several extracts from this book have been published in the daily papers. SIR AND DEAR FRIEND, will discover, without difficulty, the author, by the sentiments and expressions it contains. Accept our best thanks for the interest you have taken in the young Timothy; we were much affected at the pleasure you expressed for his success in the schools at Paris, and the prayers you present for the favours of heaven on the object. Continue, my dear sir, to invoke the favour of him who is the "Father of every good and perfect gift," and the "God of all consolation." The prayers of our English brethren will be heard, and our young friend will obtain an abundance of that grace he so much needs in his present difficult and im portant situation. Indeed, he merits the love of all good men, from his assiduity and perseverance during the late terrible conflicts, so that he has not only survived the dreadful tempest, but comes out of it under the smiles of heaven, having now five schools in progress, assisted and patronized by your noble British and Foreign School Society. May the instruction of the Holy Spirit guide him through all his eventful labours. Scarcely was Louis arrived, the second time, in the capital of his kingdom, when some wicked persons attempted to foment divisions between the Catholics and Protestants, who had, generally speaking, lived in the greatest harmony for many years. They began by spreading false alarms, and asserting the most infamous things, until they almost-succeeded in making a general impression on the public mind, that the king would in future suffer no religion, but the Roman Catholic, to exist in France. You may form an idea of the terror this excited in the thousands of families whom the providence of God had again settled in this fine country since the revocation of the edict of Ňantz. Our children, our property, our churches, and our local comforts all appeared at stake. Protestants trembled with dark suspicions concerning their neighbours, and the horrors of assassination, massacre, and expatriation were perpetually before our eyes, whether sleeping or waking. Superstition and fanaticism, taking advantage of this alarm, came forth from the tombs where they had I should have answered your in-lain concealed for twenty-five years; teresting and friendly letter before, had I consulted the impulse of my heart, but, as the packet I have addressed to you, is too large to send by post, I have waited for a favourable opportunity to send it by sea. Though you will receive this, written in a strange hand, I flatter myself you will easily conjecture the motive, and and, alas! were once more permitted, by a mysterious providence, to rekindle their expiring torches, and march through the kingdom, spreading terror and devastation on every band. The south of France was soon thrown into the most horrible confusion; the old cry of enemies to Church and State, was revived; the Protestants were stigmatized as Bo napartists; and the most abandoned Many intelligent persons in this coun wretches, having branded them with an try had long feared that the influence the opprobrious name, conceived, that, by court of Rome appeared to possess, would hunting them down with unabated cru- produce some fatal consequences for the elty, they should merit the name of Protestant faith in this kingdom. The Bourbonites, and make their slaughtered caresses of the Pope to our court have corpses, the stepping stones to favour been too flattering and too reiterated not and power, under the present dynasty. to be mistrusted. The artful politics of To detail the base ingratitude, gross the Papal court have been well known; obscenity, disgusting superstition, and it seeks to gain by flattery to day those infernal cruelties, that have been prac- it had lost by tyranny yesterday : let us tised, during this shocking attempt to distrust the Greeks, and their fatal preexterminate the reformed churches from sent. From the caresses of an enemy, the soil of France would, under present every thing is to be feared. I feel happy circumstances, be as imprudent as un. to turn, from a subject so painful to my availing. You will find, in the pamphlet heart, to one much more agreeable to accompanying this letter, some things every feeling I possess, viz. the estabthat will shock the humanity of English lishment of schools on the British system. bosoms. Happy, happy Protestants of We do indeed rejoice that the plans you that favoured land-no rude mob shouts first proposed to many of us in the through your streets and villages, "Give South have succeeded so much beyond us the blood of the Protestants; let us our most sanguine expectations. You wash our hands in their blood;-vive la have seen a report in our Moniteur preSt. Bartelimy !" -May you long enjoy sented to the Ex-emperor of two millions those privileges, communicating your of poor untaught children to whom this principles and piety to every nation under system may be applied, with every prosthe heavens. Nismes, that unfortunate pect of success. France needs, above city, where Protestants have so long every thing, education. Without morals, flourished, to the grief of their enemies, without bibles, and almost without rehas suffered dreadfully. Our ears have ligion,-infidelity, superstition, and vice, been assailed, and our souls wounded easily bear down the feeble barriers the with the afflictive intelligence of butcher- Protestants raise against them; and we ed families, pillaged houses, wandering are persuaded, that nothing will so effechouseholds, and churches burnt to the tually propagate light, and implant ground! O that such awful events may principles, as your excellent system in be sanctified to us all! Bourdeaux, England. Were Frenchmen more enwhere so many thousands of Protestants lightened, they would be better able to reside, has happily escaped the fury of estimate the benefits of religion, and the tempest. Toulouse and Montabon, acknowledge the excellence of the goswhere you have many friends, have not pel, and the value of true piety. Othat been greatly disturbed; we were much the blessed epoch which shall introduce concerned for our University in the latter this dominion of the Redeemer may be city, and especially for the promising speedily hastened! We look to Paris, youths there, who are training up as the full of hope; and, as our Sovereign has future supplies of our churches. Mercy patronized the schools established there, has indeed abounded in the midst of we pray for that tranquillity which judgment. It is as melancholy as afflic-will justify a commencement in other ting, to think that, under the reign of a Sovereign so naturally mild as Louis XVIII. and within the reach of so many Protestant princes, who bave twice placed the august family of the Bourbons on the throne of France; and that, in the 19th century, so many Protestants should have been pillaged and massacred, and the authors of those crimes allowed to triumph with impunity over the bleeding bodies of their innocent victims. Your countrymen will sympathize with, and pray for us. We do hope that the justice of Louis will yet bring to public condemnation the murderers of our brethren and the destroyers of our peace, though we pray with the martyred Jesus, in whose Cause we have suffered, "Father forgive them, they know not what they do." parts of the country. Many of your countrymen have visited France; but it has been said in our social circies, that if a few of your rich and pious promoters of public institutions, were to visit our churches, particularly in the South, that their assiduity, humility, and zeal in the several duties of religion, would produce a wonderful effect on our infidel and superstitious neighbours. In admiring the piety of the English, they would, we trust, determine to imitate them, and we should have the satisfaction, like many other nations, of learning from Britain, how to live and act for God. The example of persons eminent by their birth or fortune, would certainly be of great importance in a country like I have often thought that this this. would be a most effectual means, by the blessing of the Almighty, of producing and establishing among us the reign of our Lord Jesus Christ; and many, many Protestants think with me. May not such an object be worthy of the zeal INCREASE OF THE CHURCH. and piety that so eminently distinguish, LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY. your privileged nation? Several persons desire their affectionate remembrance. May the favour of the Almighty rest on all your labours, especially those which aim to promote his glory in France. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. By a letter from Mess. Schnarré and Rhenius, dated franquebar, Dec. 6, 1814, it appears, that they have fixed upon Madras as their station, and anticipate, in the occupation of it, a wide field of usefulness. Extract of a letter from Mr. Read, dated Bethelsdorp, April 9, 1815. "The work of conversion goes on rapidly. We can say, that, almost every day, souls are added to us. We trust in Christ that our enemies are curbed, and that the work spreads. YESTERDAY, ABOUT TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY WERE SITTING AROUND THE TABLE OF THE LORD! Many, very many, with tears streaming down their cheeks, while receiving the emblems of Christ's body and blood." Domestic Religious Intelligence. BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY. At the General Meeting of the Baptist Missionary Society, held at Northampton, Oct. 11, 1815, After prayer, by Mr. Steadman, Tho. Potts, Esq. of Birmingham, was called to the chair,- on which, it was moved by Mr Hinton, seconded by Mr. Steadman, and resolved unanimously, 1 That we deeply feel the loss which this society has sustained, by the death of its late inestimable secretary, the Rev. Andrew Fuller; and, by entering this resolution on our records, we are desirous of expressing our high veneration for his memory, our respectful sympathy with his afflicted family and friends, and our gratitude to God for the many and eminent services which he was enabled to render to this society, and to the general interests of religion. On the motion of Mr. Roberts, seconded by Mr. Blundell, it was resolved unanimously, 2. That the thanks of the society be given to Mr. King, the treasurer, for his past services, and that he be requested to continue them another year. It was moved by Dr. Ryland, seconded by Mr. King, and resolved unanimously, 3. That the thanks of the society be given to the committee for their services; and that the following brethren do conitute the committee for the year ensuing: 1. Anderson, Rev. Chr. 2. Barclay, Rev. Geo. 3. Birt, Rev. Isaiah, 4. Blundell, Rev. Thos. 5. Burls, William, Esq. 6. Coles, Rev. Thos. 7. Cox, Rev. F. A. 8. Deakin, James, Esq. 9. Dent, Mr. Joseph, 10. Dyer, Rev. J. 11. Fawcett, Rev. Dr 12. Hall, Rev. Robt. 13. Hall, Rev. John, 14. Hall, Jos. Esq. 15. Hobson, James, 16. Hogg, Rev. Reynold, 17. Hughes, Rev. Jos. 18. Ivimey, Rev. Jos. 19. Jarman, Rev. J. 20. Kinghorn, Rev. Jas. 21. Lomax, Mr. James, 22. Morgan, Rev. T. 23. Newman, Rev. W. 24. Nicholls, Rev. J. 25. Page, Rev. Henry, 26. Palmer, Rev. John, 27. Potts, Thos. Esq. 28. Ragsdell, Rev. Ŵ. 29. Roberts, Rev. T. 30. Saffery, Rev. John, 31. Steadman, Rev. W. 32. Thomas, Rev. Micah, 33. Wilks, Rev. Mark, 34. Wilson, Mr. W. 35. Yates, Mr. John, Edinburgh. Kilwinning. Birmingham. Northampton. London. Bourton. Hackney. Glasgow. Milton. Reading. Halifax. Leicester. Kettering. Northampton. Kettering. Kimbolton. Battersea. London. Nottingham. Norwich. Nottingham. Birmingham. Stepney. Collingham. Bristol. Shrewsbury. Birmingham. Thrapstone. Bristol. Salisbury. Bradford. Abergavenny On the motion of Mr. Robert Hall, seconded by Mr. Coles, it was resolved unanimously, 4. That our esteemed brother, Dr. Ryland, be requested to undertake the office of secretary for the year ensuing. It was then moved by Dr. Ryland, seconded by Mr. Saffery, and resolved unanimously, 5. That the Rev. James Hinton, of Oxford, be requested to act as joint secretary with Dr. Ryland, for the year en suing; and that they be empowered to procure what assistance in the office they may deem necessary, at the expense of the society. On the motion of Mr. Newman, seconded by Mr. Page, it was resolved unanimously, 6. That it be referred to the committee to prepare a connected statement of the rules on which this society has hitherto acted, and to make such alterations as may be found necessary: the whole to be submitted to the next annual meeting. It was moved by Mr. Birt, seconded by Mr. Kinghorn, and resolved unanimously, 7. That it be earnestly recommended to our brethren, throughout the kingdom, to form Assistant Societies, and to make annual congregational collections in aid of the society, as far as it may be found practicable. On the motion of Mr. Timothy Thomas, seconded by Mr. Cox, it was resolved unanimously, 8. That the general meetings of the society be held, in future, at such places, in various parts of the kingdom, as may be fixed upon by the society at their previous annual meeting. On the motion of Mr. Jarman, seconded by Mr. Morgan, it was resolved unanimously, It was moved by Mr. Ivimey, seconded by Mr. Saffery, and resolved unanimously, 12. That the next annual meeting of this society be held in Cannon-street, Birmingham, on the third Wednesday in October, 1816. Mr. Potts having left the chair, it was taken by Mr. King; on which it was moved by Mr. Edmonds, of Cambridge, and seconded by Dr. Ryland, and resolved unanimously, That the thanks of this meeting be given to Thos. Potts, Esq. for his able conduct in the chair; after which the meeting was closed with prayer by Mr. Edmonds, of Cambridge. The public services commenced on Tuesday evening, October 10th, at six o'clock in the evening, at the meetinghouse, College-lane. Mr. Page, of Bristol, preached from Matt. xii. 20, 21. On Wednesday morning, at half past six, a prayer-meeting was held, to implore the special direction and blessing of God on the business of the Mission. At half past 10, two sermons were preached by Mr. Roberts of Bristol, and Mr. Kinghorn of Norwich, from Mark, xvi. 16, and Isaiah, lv. 8, 9. The brethren who engaged in prayer, at the differeut meetings, were Messrs. Newman, Birt, Hogg, Edmonds, Coles, Ivimey, Saffery, Morgan, Hinton, Edmonds, junr. Nichols, and Ryland. Extracts of Letters from one of the Readers of the Irish Testament, dated July 21st, 1815. 66--- There is not a place, or part of the country, to which I have gone since my commencement, where I have read and spoke, how9. That T. Potts, Esq. of Birmingham, ever great the prejudices and hatred and J. C. Gatch, Esq. of Kettering, be at first, that the people did not wish requested to audit the treasurer's accounts. me to come again. Even in It was moved by Mr. Roberts, second- where my brother told me they would ed by Mr. Page, and resolved unanimously, dash out my brains, if I attempted 10. That the very cordial thanks of this to speak in that place: but it turned society be presented to W. Burls, Esq. out quite contrary, as I never exfor the constant, valuable, and disinterest-perienced more civility in any place ed services which he has for many years past rendered to the Mission, and that he be requested to continue the same. On the motion of Mr. Robert Hall, seconded by Mr. Reyuold Hogg, it was resolved unanimously, 11. That the cordial thanks of this society be presented to the Rev. Christopher Anderson, of Edinburgh, for the many important services which he has rendered in various ways to the society, and that he also be requested to continue them. I ever visited. By means of reading the Irish Testament, and explaining it, it is plain, that the Lord is bringing many, through every opposition, to make open profession of their love to the truth, and renunciation of their former errors; and very many do this secretly. So that, I hope, our labour is not in vain in the Lord. If you recollect, I once told you of a very wicked, desperate |