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There is a prospect of a considerable congregation being collected, but the distance (nearly thirty miles) is too great to admit of his frequently visiting the neighbourhood. DAVID DAY; Port Maria (church), Oraca. bessa (church), Bagnal's vale.

(1) We would therefore respectfully suggest to the Society that they send two missiona ries to the parish of St. Elizabeth, namely,

one to Black River, and one to Lacovia, or its neighbourhood; each of whom would find abundant room for out-stations. To this parish the Society has long stood pledged, and the people are still desirous of being supplied with Baptist ministers. Houses were rented at these places, and for a time supplied at the request of the Society, but were abandoned in consequence of no missionary being sent.

(2) One missionary to Green Island. This station being thirty miles from Gurney's Mount, is attended with peculiar difficulties as to its supply, while its importance demands attention, being situated in the centre of a population of 7000 negroes, and affording an opportunity of carrying on the station at Negril, relinquished by Mr. Hutchins from his inability to attend to it; as well as Fuller's Field, which, from medi. cal advice, Mr. H. fears he will be obliged to abandon.

(3) One for Bethtephil and outstations. (4) One for Bethany, and a station, as above referred to, in Clarendon. Mr. Clark confining himself to Brown's Town, and an immensely-populated district nearer the sea.

(5) And one for Ocho Rios and Cascade. Mr. Abbott taking St. Ann's, and Coultart's Grove.

Having thus laid our case before the Committee, we would again remind them, that, however necessary an increase of labourers has heretofore been, that necessity will be much greater in consequence of the almost immediate transition of our people from a state of slavery into one of perfect

freedom. We have often been told, when making appeals like the present, that "much has been already done for Jamaica, and that there is no part of the world on which so great an outlay has of late years been made by the Society." We partly acknowledge the force of this objection; but, while we feel grateful for what has been done, we think that far too great a stress is laid upon it. By reviewing the statistics of our Association, you will perceive that the number of missionaries in this part of the island, is precisely the same as it was seven years ago; while, in the same period, many churches and preaching stations have been formed. We have, it is true, at a consider

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able expense, an increase of native and other paid agency, but this is very trifling compared with the wants of the population, and cannot be expected, in the present state of society (except in very few cases), to be of a description to carry forward the general objects of the mission.

Should it be said, that there are many more missionaries of other societies in this

part of the island than formerly; while we rejoice at their success, we reply, that their number, united with our own, is far from being commensurate with the wants of the people, even if it were disposed of to the best possible advantage.

considerable objection; though, we trust, The expense will, doubtless, be another not an insurmountable one. The same Christian public which has lately subscribed so liberally on behalf of those who are tribute largely to promote the spiritual welperishing in the East would, doubtless, confare of those for whom we plead. That they may see that we have a fair ground of appeal to them, we request that you would publish this, and we pledge ourselves, that, if that appeal be properly met, we will raise as much as we possibly can towards the outfit, &c., of those brethren who may be sent to join us.

WILLIAM KNIBB, WALTER DENDY, BENJ. B. DEXTER, JOHN HUTCHINS, JOHN CLARK, DAVID DAY,

SAMUEL OUGHTON.

Brethren BURCHELL and ABBOTT absent.

While thus conveying to our readers the sentiments and claims of our brethren, which are admitted in all their force by the Committee, it seems necessary to add, that the receipts of the Society are far from keeping pace with the cent movements in the Eastern field, so enlarged demands consequent upon rethat a new debt is rapidly accumulating from that cause. We trust, it will be shown, that the progress of the gospel is not to be retarded for want of the means of sending forth and supporting those who are to declare and enforce it; but in what way, or from what quarter, the requisite supplies are to come, does not at present appear.

STEWART TOWN.

From Mr. Dexter, dated 13th June, 1838:

We have, as missionaries, I believe, along

the whole of this side the island, almost every thing of a cheering nature we could ask for. Our congregations and schools are larger than ever; the work of conversion appears to be going on at our several stations, and numerous other doors of usefulness are continually opening, into which we cannot, with our present strength, enter. At Stewart Town the congregation has of late so much increased, that I have been necessitated to make alterations, so as to accommodate from 300 to 400 persons underneath, who can hear and most of them see the minister through an aperture caused by the removal of a part of the flooring, which can be put down at pleasure for those services when our numbers are not so large. This space was used for the first time last Sabbath, when brother Dendy preached to about 1100 people at the chapel, and I addressed about 500 in the open air. In the afternoon about 500 members of the united churches, 40 of whom had been baptized in the early part of the day, partook of the Lord's Supper, and in the evening brother D. again preached. On the preceding day the children of the Clarkson school, and those of the Sabbath school, in all about 350, were examined, and acquitted themselves, in their various exercises, in such a manner as to convince all present that they and the master, Mr. Dillon, must have laboured diligently during the six months which have elapsed from the commencement of the institution. Services in every respect similar to these had been held three weeks before at Rio Bueno, when 53 were admitted to the church by baptism. The examination of candidates for this ordinance has this time been unusually pleasing. Having asked one poor old woman what it was which made her so earnestly desire to go to heaven, she replied, 'Spose massa Christ is there, me oblige for want for follow him ;" and on the question being afterwards put in a different way, she said, "He is not heaven for me home? Is it not my papa's ?" Speaking of remaining sin, and of the temptations of the great adversary, she said that when they troubled her, she begged God to let her not have one word with Satan. She expressed her dependence on Christ in the following manner, "Me hab no broder, me hab no sister; all my stay and all my depend is 'pon my sweet Massa." Another, in speaking of her gratitude to God, said, "Me sit down and drink me water; den me praise God; him give it. Me go out and get wood, me praise him, he give me strength, else me no able; me sit down with me pics (she has a numerous family); me praise him, he send them." This poor woman had learnt the spirit if not the letter of the injunction, "In every

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thing give thanks." African woman, speaking of her being brought here, said, "Me often tell God thank'ee, for bringing me to buckra country to hear about massa Jesus."

Our friends in the neighbourhood of Maho Hill have repeatedly and pressingly urged upon me the necessity of recommencing my labours there, which you will remember I had relinquished on account of inability to attend to them in a proper manner. We have beyond that place, which is itself twelve miles from Stewart Town, about 300 members and inquirers, while many others, who are too far distant to come to chapel at all, call themselves Baptists, though their conduct is such as to disgrace the society to which they profess to belong. Several of my free members have united in forming a little town or settlement in the neighbourhood, and one of them has offered me the loan of a paved space, formerly used as a barbecue, over which the members on the surrounding properties have promised gratuitously to build a shed, which will answer as a place of worship, till we see whether appearances will justify us in purchasing or building something more substantial. On these conditions, I have promised to go up once a month myself, and to send Mr. Dillon, our schoolmaster, once a month to read a sermon. They will thus have a service every alternate Sabbath day, while Rio Bueno and Stewart Town will be deprived of their minister only once in every alternate month. I could not have made these arrangements, had it not been for the assistance of a kind friend, a member of the church at Bath, under the care of Mr. Cater, who has recently settled here as clerk in a store. His efforts to do good in the Sabbath school and the church are unwearied, and of course there is ample scope for him. He generally reads a sermon when I am at Rio Bueno, Mr. Dillon having wished him to do so on account of his own youth, and the short time that he has been connected with us. As, however, circumstances require it, I shall now make use of them both, while Mr. Innis, our native schoolmaster at Rio Bueno, is, on alternate Sabbaths, similarly engaged there. You will perceive from this that, though we have not what some of our friends at home have so loudly called for, native preachers, we are glad to employ in a proper manner every instrument which may be raised up around us.

HONDURAS.

We have the pleasure to state that, after an unusually quick and pleasant

SOUTH AFRICA.

to the condition of the church under his care, and to the state of his own mind at the earlier stage of the disorder which was commissioned to remove him hence :—

passage, Mr. Philpot arrived at Belize, on the 30th of April; and was received by our worthy friends, Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, with the most affectionate "We still live in harmony, and brotherly cordiality. Mr. P. has been received into the mission family, and entered love is permitted to continue among us. upon his educational labours; besides Our congregation is generally good and atwhich, he is engaged on the Sabbath attentive, and I am in hopes that the work of the Lord is going on amongst us. Both the a new preaching station, recently fitted church and congregation continue to show up at the sole expense of Mr. Adams, the much valued deacon of the church, which is to me a source of no small consome every mark of respect and kindness, in a distant part of Belize. lation in the land of my exile, and amidst the many privations I have been called of late to endure. I hope and trust that God has lately poured upon us the influences of his Holy Spirit. There has certainly been a revival amongst us, though not a noisy disorderly one. Sometime ago, a good deal of excitement appeared, especially amongst our young people, and the children of our Sunday-school. Fourteen or fifteen are now proposed as candidates for Christian baptism, and there are others seeking the way to Zion with their faces thitherward. Indeed there are few but have felt, more or less, the influences of the word of God, and the importance of being prepared for the eternal world. Two or three of those who are to be baptized are very young, only twelve or thirteen years of age; yet they have given for months, and still continue to give, satisfactory evidence that they have been visited by the dayspring from on high, and are under the teaching and guidance of the Holy Spirit of God. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is within me bless his holy name!

Another of our missionary band has been summoned to his rest! We refer to the Rev. W. Davies, of Graham's Town. The mournful event is thus announced in a letter from the deacons of the church under his care, addressed to the Secretary, and dated June 1, 1838.

It is our painful duty to inform you of the death of our pastor, the Rev. W. Davies, which took place on the 13th ult., after a lingering illness of about eight months, occasioned by an affection of the chest, and weakness of the digestive organs. Thus, by a dark and mysterious providence, we are again without a pastor. For six months previous to his decease, his complaint had rendered him unable to preach. He used every means, tried change of air, but to no purpose; the disease had made such ravages on his constitution that he sunk under it. It is consolatory to reflect, that, during his illness every means was made use of to alleviate his sufferings, and to render him comfortable, not only by his members and hearers, but by Christians of other denominations.

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We add from the "Graham's Town Journal" of May 24, His remains were interred in the Baptist burial ground, and were followed by a larger number of persons than we ever witnessed on such an occasion at Graham's Town. Amongst those who paid this last mark of respect to his memory, were the two Episcopalian clergymen, four Wesleyan ministers, and the pastor of the Independent chapel. The Rev. William Shaw delivered an exhortation in the chapel immediately before the funeral, and the Rev. Mr. Monro a short address at the grave."

Our deceased brother had, from the very commencement of his missionary life, much affliction to endure, but they appear to have been sanctified, and to have rendered him a vessel meet for the Master's use. In the last letter received from him, dated Dec. 13, 1837, he adverts, in the following terms,

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During the last six months I have been troubled with a cough, soreness of the chest, and spitting of blood. For two months I have not been able to preach; but, as our fine weather is now coming on, or rather has commenced, I hope I shall ere long get better. If it is the will of God, I should like to live a few years longer for the sake of my children, and of our little church; in the welfare of which I feel much interested. But, on the other hand, I would lie passive in the hand of God. He is not to me an unknown God. I have committed my all into his hand. Year after year he has been to me good, immensely good,' and I can truly say, that all his ways are love.' I am not conscious of any remains of enmity against him; I love him. Yes, I think I can say, if I love any thing, I love our most merciful God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Yet I thoroughly feel my unworthiness. I would humble myself before Him in dust and ashes. With Job, I know, I feel, that I am vile.' Living and dying, I would be found lying at the foot of the cross, looking for the mercy of

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our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.' Let me have an interest in your prayers, that to me to live may be Christ, and to die gain.""

HOME PROCEEDINGS.

DESIGNATION OF A MISSIONARY.

On Tuesday, July 31, Mr. George Par sons, about to proceed to India, to be associated with Mr. Leslie at Monghyr, was designated to his important work at the chapel in Badcox Lane, Frome. Prayer was offered and the Scriptures read at the commencement by the Rev. Mr. Crossman, of Wells. The Secretary of the Parent Society delivered the introductory address; the Rev. W. Jones, of Frome, asked the usual questions; the Rev. W. Walton, of Trowbridge, offered the ordination prayer; the Rev. Benjamin Godwin, of Oxford, gave the charge from Matt. xxv. 23; and the service was closed in prayer by the Rev. C. J. Middleditch, the minister of the place. The Annual Meeting of the Frome Aux. iliary Society was held in the evening, when the chair was filled by the Rev. Joshua Russell, of Melksham. The brethren who had been engaged in the morning, with several other friends, addressed the audience, which was large and respectable. The receipts of the Auxiliary, including £30 for India, have exceeded £100, which is, we believe, a larger sum than has been raised in any previous year.

CORNWALL AUXILIARY SOCIETY. The annual services connected with this Auxiliary were held during the last month, when the Rev. Messrs. Ainstie, of Exeter, Horton, of Devonport, and New, of Salisbury, attended as a deputation from the Parent Society, and warmly espoused the interests of the mission. The appeals of the dear brethren who so kindly lent their aid were cheerfully responded to by the liberal contributions of the various friends in the different towns. The collections in general exceeded by many pounds those of the former year. An additional interest was given to the services at Penzance by the presence of our beloved brother, the Rev. R. Pengilly, of Newcastle-on-Tyne,

(who was visiting his friends in the neighbourhood, and who kindly presided at the public meeting. At St. Austle, the friends of the Saviour again came forward, and raised an extra subscription of £14 after the services of the Lord's-day, as well as those of the public meeting. At Falmouth the services were unusually interesting. The various speeches which were delivered at the public meeting were listened to with deep interest, while a holy unction appeared to rest on all who were assembled. Our brother, Mr. Burchell, announced a prayermeeting for the following morning at six o'clock, at which many persons were present, while a spirit of pure devotion ap peared to prevail. Some kind friends had prepared a public breakfast on the same morning, to which between 50 and 60 persons sat down. After breakfast the time was occupied in singing and prayer, with addresses. Our worthy friend and brother, W. H. Bond, Esq, who is the deacon of the Baptist church at Falmouth, and the mayor of the town, hailed the strangers welcome in an affectionate and heart-stirring address, while all appeared to be impressively reminded of the language of the Psalmist, Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity." The sum subscribed at the breakfast-table exceeded £14, our excellent and warm friend to the mission, Mr. Edward Read, having commenced with a subscription of £5. At Helston the annual meeting of the County Auxiliary was held, and from the report it appeared that the sum of £179 12s.-11d. had been remitted to the Parent Society last year, making a total of £3405 4s. 10d. since the formation of the Auxiliary.

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Might not some plan be adopted to bring, if possible, all our friends throughout the kingdom to form district Auxiliaries? The funds would thereby be abundantly increased; and now that the barrier is so happily broken down, by the union of the Serampore stations with the Society, what can hinder the Baptists in the kingdom adopting and carrying out the Cornish motto, "One and all"? If such an auxiliary had not been formed for Cornwall, it might safely be added that not one half of the above amount would be raised in the county.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Received on account of the Baptist Missionary Society, from July 15, to August 15, 1838, not including individual subscriptions:

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"Please acknowledge in the Herald the receipt of boxes of useful articles, for sale for our Schools, from Nottingham, Norwich, Kingsbridge, Exmouth, Harlington, and Harlow. We have received them but lately, as the Captain of the Annandale did not land them for many weeks after his arrival. Please return our most cordial thanks to the friends for this aid. In connexion with our church, we have at present nearly 800 day-scholars receiving instruction, involving me in an annual expense of £800 currency. We are, and shall be exceedingly thankful for every little aid from every friend of the cause of negro education."-From Mr. Burchell, May 1.

Our worthy friend at Montacute, whose letter has but lately come under our notice, is informed that the Committee have no present intention of sending missionaries to Van Dieman's Land.

A box for Jamaica has been received from Messrs. R. Stacey, Tottenham; another of baby-linen and fancy articles for the Orphan Institution and school conducted by Mrs. W. C. Barclay at Serampore, from the ladies at Boroughbridge, by Mrs. Johnson; another from Miss Hepburn, Southwark, for Mr. Phillippo, Spanish Town; and another from friends at Bow, per Mrs. Norton, for the Bahamas.

The thanks of the Committee are presented to Mrs. Stanley, of Wokingham, for five vols. of the Evangelical Magazine; and to Miss Metcalf, of Ware, for sundry schoolbooks, for Jamaica.

J. HADDON, CASTLE STREET, FINSBURY.

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