Stoke-Newington Chapel, at half-past Ten, the Rev. George Osborn; and at Six, the Rev. Robert Newstead. Hale-Street Chapel, Poplar, at half-past Ten, the Rev. Thomas Jackson; and at Six, the Rev. James Golding. Limehouse Chapel, at half-past Ten, the Rev. James Golding; and at Six, the Rev. George Cubitt. Stanhope-Street Chapel, Hampstead-Road, at a quarter before Eleven, the Rev. Samuel Jackson; and at Six, the Rev. Samuel Young. Salisbury Street Chapel, Lisson-Grove, at a quarter before Eleven, the Rev. John Crofts; and at Six, the Rev. James Cooke. Brixton-Hill Chapel, at half-past Ten, the Rev. John Farrar; and at Six, the Rev. Jacob Stanley. Southville Chapel, South-Lambeth, at half-past Ten, and at Six, the Rev. Thomas Monkhouse. Hoxton-Town Chapel, at half-past Ten, the Rev. Maximilian Wilson; at Three, the Rev. J. H. Norton; and at Six, the Rev. John Davis. Silver-Street Chapel, Rotherhithe, at half-past Ten, the Rev. T. H. Fisher; and at Six, the Rev. George Jackson. Albion-Street Chapel, Rotherhithe, at half-past Ten, the Rev. James Kendal; and at Six, the Rev. T. H. Fisher. Gainsford-Street Chapel, Horsleydown, at half-past Ten, the Rev. Peter Cooper; and at Six, the Rev. John Mason. Peckham Chapel, at half-past Ten, the Rev. William R. B. Arthy; and at Six, the Rev. Peter Cooper. Peter-Street Chapel, Soho, at Eleven, the Rev. James Cooke; and at Six, the Rev. John Crotts. Globe-Road Chapel, Mile-End, at half-past Ten, the Rev. Joseph Entwisle; and at Six, the Rev. William Griffith. Salem Chapel, Fox-Lane, near Shadwell Church, at Eleven, the Rev. Samuel Hall; and at Six, the Rev. Everitt Vigis. Tottenham Chapel, at Eleven, the Rev. John F. England; and at Six, the Rev. John Morgan. Hornsey-Road Chapel, at half-past Ten, the Rev. J. H. Norton; and at Six. the Rev. Joseph Lewis. Edmonton Chapel, at Eleven, the Rev. John Morgan; and at Six, the Rev. John England. Milton-Street Chapel, Lisson-Grove, at Eleven, the Rev. John Stevens; and at Six, the Rev. Richard Brown. Bayswater Chapel, at a quarter before Eleven, the Rev. Thomas Baker; and at Six, the Rev. William Williams. St. Mary-Axe Chapel, at half-past Ten, the Rev. Everett Vigis; and at Six, the Rev. Samuel Jones, A.M. Stratford Chapel, at half-past Ten, the Rev. Thomas Nightingale; and at Six, the Rev. John Warren. Bow Chapel, at half-past Ten, the Rev. John Warren; and at Six, the Rev. Thomas Nightingale. King-Street Chapel, Camden Town, at half-past Ten, the Rev. Joseph Watson; and at Six, the Rev. William Dowson. Gloucester-Place Chapel, Kentish-Town, at half-past Ten, the Rev. William Dowson; and at Six, the Rev. Joseph Watson. Saffron-Hill Chapel, at half-past Ten, the Rev. Richard Eland; and at Six, the Rev. Samuel Hall. Harp-Alley Chapel, at half past Ten, the Rev. Joseph Lewis; and at Six, the Rev. Richard Eland. Hampstead Chapel, at Eleven, and at Six, the Rev. Joseph Sutcliffe, A.M. Moor-Lane Chapel, Fore-Street, at Eleven, the Rev. Richard Brown; and at half-past Six, the Rev. John Knowles. Vauxhall Chapel, at half-past Ten, the Rev. Samuel Lucas; and at Six, the Rev. Joseph Crump. Broadwall Chapel, Lambeth, at half-past Ten, the Rev. Joseph Crump; and at Six, the Rev. Samuel Lucas. Queen-Street Chapel, King's Road, Chelsea, at a quarter before Eleven, the Rev. William Hill; and at Six, the Rev. William Hudson. Deptford Chapel, at half-past Ten, the Rev. William Wilson; and at Six, the Rev. William R. B. Arthy. Woolwich Chapel, at half-past Ten, the Rev. William Illingworth; and at Six, the Rev. Frederick J. Jobson. George-Street Chapel, Royal-Hill, Greenwich, at half past Ten, the Rev. Frederick J. Jobson; and at Six, the Rev. William Illingworth. ་་ MISSION IN CEYLON. We purpose to devote the remainder of this month's Number, almost entirely, to Extracts from a pamphlet lately forwarded to us from Ceylon, entitled Quarterly Letters," &c. It is intended chiefly for private circulation in that island; and serves as a convenient medium of communication between the Missionaries and Native Assistants, by which they become speedily acquainted with each other's labours, trials, and encouragements, and mutually make known their general views, as to the state and prospects of the work in which they are engaged. Our Extracts will show that they are prosecuting their evangelical toils, not indeed without many obstacles, which sometimes severely exercise their faith and patience, but still with hope and with assiduity, and with a degree of success, in some important particulars, which confirms the belief that" in due season they shall reap, if they faint not.” COLOMBO-Extract of a Letter from the Rev. R. Spence Hardy, dated Colpetty, July 26th, 1837. THE state of the work of God upon this station, during the past quarter, has presented few features of interest out of the usual routine of our regular engagements, though we are not without some pleasing tokens that the Lord is on our side, and is prospering the work of our hands. The 18th regiment, which I announced in my last as having recently arrived from England, though it is an Irish regiment, and consists of a great proportion of Roman Catholics, has brought us a large increase to our congregations, and a respectable accession to the members of our society. It was a pleasing circumstance, that when I renewed the tickets of the class, I found that all were yet steadfast whose names had been written on the class-paper in Ireland, though they had been exposed, in the mean time, to the spiritual privations of a long voyage, and to many temptations. The 90th regiment, which has been in the island a little more than a year, contains several individuals who are aroused to a sense of their danger as sinners, and there are a few who are ornaments to their Christian profession, men of judgment and stability. We have ever found the advantage of being able to reckon among the military persons of this description, as amidst the various changes to which the church of God in any particular regiment is subject, they are as rocks that out-brave the storm, and form the rallying point for new exertions and new triumphs. From the cheapness of arrack in the garrison, the temptations to which the soldiers are now exposed are increasingly powerful; and as the greater part of those who have withdrawn from us have been overcome by this grand snare of the enemy, I have thought it my duty to lend all my influence to the cause of temperance, as one collateral means by which we already find that much good has been effected. At our love-feast, held on the 9th inst., about forty persons were present. The Lord was among us of a truth. Several individuals related that they had come to this distant island with heathen hearts, but that they had here found the pearl of great price, and were now happy in that Saviour about whom they were previously ignorant, though living amid the full blaze of his glory as manifested in more favoured lands. The return of Mr. Anthoniez from Galle will, I trust, throw additional energy into the Portuguese department of our work. In his absence, he has had to suffer excruciating pain from an operation that he underwent, but we are thankful that the cure bids fair to be permanent, and to afford him the prospect of spending a few more years in the active service of his Divine Master. The wife of one of our members was called into eternity on the 4th inst. She had long been the subject of much affliction, and was visited in her last illness by Mr. Parys, whose attentions appear to have been rendered a blessing to her soul. "Now, my Saviour gives me to feel that he has forgiven my sins," were the last words that she spoke. The Singhalese work is, as usual upon this Station, a source of great depression to our spirits. Now and then we can rejoice over a few aged people, who appear to be sincere, amidst much comparative ignorance, and to die with a saving faith in Christ; but the mass of the native population are unconcerned about their souls, or resort to forbidden practices with the vain hope of thus acquiring salvation. I regard the fewness of our hearers as, in one sense, an act of homage to the truth. The people once attended our services with the expectation that they were procuring the favour of heaven merely by this means, though at the same time they were living in heathenism and sin; but as our addresses become more pointed, as we acquire the idioms of the language, the minds of our hearers have gradually been undeceived npon this important point, and though our actual numbers are less, we have greater decision in the few, and therefore greater hope that permanent good will be effected. The gaol of Colombo is one place upon our plan, and it is regularly visited upon the Sabbath. Though the greater part of the prisoners evince a perfect indifference to the preaching of the word of God, there are a few who listen with attention, and apparently profit by what they hear. They have been known to warn their fellow culprits, that to a more awful tribunal than that of an earthly judge they will one day, have to render an account; and some have returned to their families with a firm determination to forsake their evil practices, and become useful and upright members of the community. The most promising native congregation, at present, is that of Modera, where we have a large school, well attended, and a number of members in society. It has yet been established too short a period to enable us to judge what may be its eventual effect upon the people. We can now rejoice over them with great satisfaction but we have seen so many prospects of a similar description blasted by the withering influence of an aroused heathenism, that we are yet constrained to "rejoice with trembling.' 99 We hope, by a little alteration in the arrangement of our services, to render our plans as efficient as is possible with our limited strength; but we look to the pouring out of the Holy Spirit, as the only effectual power that can convert the souls of men. KANDY.-Extract of a Letter from the Rev. J. A. Poulier, dated Nagaha Wideye, July 5th, 1837. THIS my second quarterly letter from this Station, I regret, must contain for the most part intelligence of a mournful nature. An account of the havoc done by the last inundation, not only in Kandy, but throughout the whole of this island, must have come to your notice : this, and the long-continuing plagues of small-pcx and other pestilential diseases in this country, have been bars to the work of God, particularly as it regards our school-department. One of the two schools connected with this Station, that of Peradinea, was washed away from the very foundation, as it stood on the bank of the Peradinea river; since which time the poor people, of whom I fully hoped a few would be turned to the Lord our God, have not had an opportunity of hearing the word of life, to this day, for want of a suitable place. However, I am given to understand, that one is going to be constructed again, in a more eligible situation, by Messrs. Watson and Solo monsz, both of whom have the interest of this people's welfare at heart. At the English school, it was with much difficulty we could get half a dozen boys to attend daily, the parents not being willing to send them in such sickly times. I have not been able to divide the class as I expected to do, for only four persons have been added to it duringthe last quarter. The prayer-meetings are well attended, and I have lately had access to another village called Kattukelle, a little more than a mile's distance from my house. At the house of an Aratchy of the Agent's office, a prayer meeting is to be contin ed once in the month, at his own request. My congregations, both of the Singhalese and Portuguese, have for some time been reduced, but now they are gradually increasing week after week, as the sickness is subsiding. Amidst these distressing circumstances, the tokens which we have daily received of the divine approbation, during the past quarter, are many and undeniable. They are of a truth most cheering to our hearts; but still we desire, I mean our little circle of the members of this society, to "rejoice with trembling," knowing where alone our strength lies; and for such tokens of continued acceptance and blessing, we ascribe thanksgiving and glory to the adorable name of our blessed and heavenly Master, in our assemblings together from time to time. NEGOMBO.-Extract of a Letter from the Rev. Wm. Bridgnell, dated Negombo, July 3d, 1837. SINCE I last wrote, my esteemed brother Pereira has visited the Rillegalle side of this very extended Circuit. The people received him gladly, heard the word with attention, and, we hope, with profit. He carefully inquired into the state of the schools. Many things were far from being satisfactory. But the state of these schools, as well as the state of all the other schools carefully and regularly examined by myself, since I last wrote, will be fully explained in my general School Report, at the end of the year. I will here only observe, that, in addition to the weekly meeting of the masters, we endeavour to make the general monthly meeting of all the masters, a time of more than ordinarily rigid investi gation, and special instruction. "Men are but children of a larger growth: " and we sadly prove the truth of this saying in the meetings of our Mission schoolmasters. But we spare no pains on them. Our meetings have sometimes lasted full four hours. Thank God! I have had uninterrupted health since I came to Negombo. But Mr. Pereira has been a sufferer during the past quarter. One night he thought he was almost gone. The moment I knew of his danger, (a Sunday morning,) I hastened to his bedside, and was delighted to witness the calm composure, the perfect resignation, with which he spoke of death! One distinguished member of our society, Donna Wilmina, distinguished by more than common piety, energy, and holy zeal, has joined the deathless ranks of "the noble army" of saints who have fought "the good fight of faith," and "entered into rest. "" As soon as Mr. Wijesingha heard of her illness, he hastened to see her, and found her "full of joy," and expecting quickly to depart and be with Christ.' In answer to an inquiry respecting the state of her soul, she said, "I feei the love of Jesus more than ever, and the sanctifying influence of his Spirit is working within me." When asked if she had no fear of death, she replied, "No; the sting of death is taken away by Jesus my Saviour." She 66 66 appeared "full of faith" and hope. On another occasion she said, "I have had much sweet communion with my Saviour." She was continually either exhorting all who heard to seek salvation by Jesus Christ, or praying for the church and her relatives and friends, or commending her soul to God. Her state, when visited again by Mr. Wijesingha and his wife, was truly triumphant. She said, "I am glad to see you once more in this world. I shall now soon be gone, to join with the angels and the redeemed, in the praises of God and the Lamb." She was asked if she had no doubt, no fear. She smiled and said, "Not the least, my dear friend; I am a daughter of the Lord Almighty; God is my Father; my soul is happy beyond measure; I shall soon be in Abraham's bosom." When her father, mother, and sisters began to weep, she said, “O do not weep for me, but cry for your sins; cry for mercy." When united prayer was made for her, that she might be sanctified wholly, and thus be completely prepared for her awful change, she so heartily responded "Amen, amen,” that many were exceedingly affected. Who can doubt that God's work was indeed completed in her, for she did indeed "rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory." This is one "fully ripe" and divinelyblessed fruit of the Ceylon Mission. Blessed be God! she died in the full triumph of faith. There is nothing on earth more glorious excepting an immediate flight to heaven, like that of Enoch and Elijah. Hundreds of eyes poured tears upon her grave. She was a young woman of deep piety, of unblamable conduct, and of amiable manners, and she was beloved by all of every class. A monument to her memory is about to be erected by her Christian friends. She was sent by her parents, at the early age of six years, to the Seedua Mission school; where she continued to learn, until she was appointed, six years ago, as the mistress of the same school; in which office she continued until June last year, when she was married. Subsequently to this, she continued as before regular in her attention to the duties of religion, and was never absent from public worship, or from her class, until prevented by her last illness. She frequently spoke at our love-feasts. She and several others of our members, steadily refused offers of marriage from wealthy young men of the Roman Catholic religion, and accepted Protestants in preference, though both parties were very poor. The moral and religious character of the young woman who has lately departed from us to be "ever with the Lord," was truly exemplary. I may safely and truly say, "she was a burning and shining light among the inhabitants of Seeda. She was particularly remarkable for her very careful observance of the Sabbath, and uniformly displayed a truly Christian "simplicity and godly sincerity." 99 Mrs. Wijesingha, her Class-Leader, says, "Her Christian experience was very clear and sound. She uniformly professed to have an undisturbed sense of the pardoning love of God, through the merits of the blood of the cross." Her amiable Leader's esteem and affection for this truly upright, humble, and devoted young woman, was very great; and on witnessing her death, she exclaimed with emotion, "Let me die the death of this righteous person; let my last end be like hers." Her good example, her fervent prayer, her persevering kindness, had a most favourable influence upon the heart of her husband, and he soon joined our society, and has acted in a manner consistently with his profession as a follower of Christ. Our late friend was indeed "a preacher of righteousness to her worldly and wicked neighbours. Not only were her husband and sister awakened by her warning voice to a sense of their danger, and effectually persuaded to "flee from the wrath to come," but many were brought by her persuasion to the house of God to hear the Gospel of life and peace; the words whereby they may be saved. Having adorned the doctrine of our adorable Redeemer nearly twelve years, her short but happy, humble, yet honourable course on earth was ended. Her life and death practically, powerfully, pathetically, declared, "For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." In her death, the loss of the church of God at Seedua is very great. We have lost a most useful member, a most bright example, a most shining ornament of the church of Christ. Her prayers were very affecting; she seemed to have "power with God." Her last prayer is still fresh in the minds of all who heard it. But her prayers are now converted into praise. Having a fair prospect of usefulness in the village of Miriswatte, on the Kornegalle road, we have commenced a school and preaching in that place. I preached there lately to a congregation of about eighty persons, who were all exceedingly attentive. At times the effect of our preaching is cheeringly visible. Mr. Pereira was preaching lately at Katunayaka, when five or six strangers entered, one of whom seemed uncommonly affected by what he heard. His countenance changed, his eyes were filled with tears, and in various ways he showed the mysterious operations that were going on in his "inner man." After the sermon, he came to Mr. Pereira, and said to him, with many tears, "Sir, had you continued much longer, my breast would have burst. My soul was melted within me, as iron in a furnace. I have left my father's house, I am in a far country, I am a prodigal son. Will my father receive me, if I arise and go to |