It seems obvious that the effect of the Resolution on the Parent Society, of 21st Nov., will be, to allow the Foreign Bible Society to apply the whole of their own funds to the printing of the Apocrypha. But a detailed statement of the grounds on which the Edinburgh Committee have come to this conclusion will shortly be submitted to the members of the Bible Societies of Great Britain and Ireland. (Signed) GEORGE ROSs, Chairman. RECENT DEATH. At Taunton, on Sunday, December 18, 1825, deeply regretted by his family and friends, the Rev. RICHARD PEARSALL ALLEN, late of Exeter, departed this life, aged 53 years. Declining health had compelled him to relinquish the stated duties of the Christian minlstry, and he had retired to his native place, with the hope of closing his career in peace. He was anticipating a speedy removal to the world of spirits; expected that his departure would be sudden, and in this he was not disappointed. He had retired early to rest, on the Saturday evening. On the Sabbath morning, he received his summons by a stroke of apoplexy; and about noon his unfettered spirit left its shattered prison for the realms of light. REMOVALS AND NOTICES. The Rev. J. Hoppus, late of Carter Lane, has engaged to preach at Haberdashers' Hall, Staining Lane, Wood Street, Cheapside, during the ensuing three months; morning and afternoon. The Rev. E. Corbishley, late of Rotherham College, has accepted a unanimous invitation to the pastoral office at Appledore, North Devon. The Rev. David Dunkerly, late of Loxley, near Sheffield, has accepted an invitation to the pastoral charge over the Independent Church and Congregation assembling in Ebenezer Chapel, Townley Street, Macclesfield. We are desired to state, that on the removal of the Rev. Alexander Good, from the Congregational Church, Launceston, in March 1824, the pastoral charge of the above church was undertaken by the Rev. J. Barfett, (late of Swansea,) whose character and labours are highly esteemed. We are requested to caution the religious public to beware of an application, which is anticipated on behalf of a new chapel at Hanwell, Middlesex, the place not having been put in trust by the individual who procured its erection. A LIST OF THE MINISTERS TO BE ENGAGED, AND OF THE SUBJECTS TO BE DISCUSSED, IN THE MONTHLY EXERCISES OF LONDON, FROM JANUARY TO DECEMBER, 1826. Answers to Correspondents, &c. COMMUNICATIONS have been received this month from the Rev. Dr. J. P. Smith-Thomas Morell--S. Percy--J. Fletcher--Thomas Luke-J. Thornton--J. Blackburn--C. N. Davis--J. Hoppus- Corbishley-I. Cobbin--W. Moorhouse. Also from Messrs. A. Haldane--G. Paul, jun.-S. Mills--T. Fisher-W. Derry. Devonshire Statistics continued in our next. The paper from a London Congregational Minister, on the subject of the monthly exercise, would have been inserted, but upon inquiry we find that recent alterations have been made in the arrangement of that Association, which will completely obviate his otherwise legitimate objections. MEMOIR OF THE REV. DAVID BOGUE, D. D. LATE TUTOR OF THE HAMPSHIRE AND MISSIONARY ACADEMY, AND PASTOR OF THE INDEPENDENT CHURCH, GOSPORT. (Continued from page 5.) AMONGST other calumnies which were circulated against the founders of the Missionary Society, was the ungenerous imputation, that they were ready to transport their brethren to ungenial climates, to labour amongst savage and heathen nations, while they continued to enjoy the delights of home. This reproach was as untrue as it was unkind, for Dr. Bogue, joined with his friends, the Rev. Greville Ewing, and the Rev. William Innes, about the year 1796, in several memorials and petitions to the Directors of the East India Company, requesting permission that they and their families might go to Bengal, and devote their future years to the propagation of the Gospel in our Hindoo empire. These repeated requests were most peremptorily refused, though made in language of earnest expostulation and Christian eloquence: one of these memorials was printed in their joint names, and circulated amongst leading and influential persons; and though no immediate effect resulted from it, yet it abides a monument of the personal devotion of its authors to the missionary work, and doubtless contributed to diffuse opinions, which have since so happily changed the policy of the Honourable Court. Though shut out from foreign labours, his assiduous apNEW SERIES, No. 14. plication to study, especially in foreign theology and biblical criticism, was continually enlarging his capacity for usefulness at home, and this literary diligence could not be concealed. On the death of Mr. Welsh, the patron of Gosport Academy, it was found that he had made no provision for its continuance by bequest, and therefore that useful institution would have ceased, but for the reputation of its tutor, which commanded the liberal support of several friends till 1800, when Robert Haldane, Esq. of Edinburgh, a gentleman of distinguished intelligence and Christian philanthropy, proposed to subscribe £100 annually, one fourth of the expense, towards the support of ten additional students, if the churches in Hampshire would supply the remaining sum requisite for their education and support. This was accepted, and the County Association of Hampshire has continued to patronize the institution to the present time. Amongst other schemes of usefulness, which arose out of the religious excitement produced by the establishment of the Missionary Society, was the admirable plan of a Religious Tract Society, "to print and distribute small pieces on subjects purely religious." This valuable institution I was founded in May, 1799, and the subject of this memoir took a prominent part in describing its character, and asserting its claims. He penned the first Tract in the Series, An Address to Christians, recommending the distribution of cheap Religious Tracts, in which he proclaims, that "PURE TRUTH" is to be the exclusive subject of its publications; and adds, "nor should any worldly scheme be interwoven with the truth, nor attempted to be concealed under its folds. Here should not be seen the slightest vestige of any carnal end, in any form, or for any purpose, however laudable some may think it; nothing but divine truth, unmingled, unadulterated, and pure, as it came from heaven, fit for the whole human race to imbibe." Such wise principles naturally commended their author to the managers of - this Catholic Society, and they requested him to advocate its cause from the pulpit of Dr. Hunter, where he preached an able sermon, in May, 1800, from Psalm xliii. 30, and which discourse he afterwards gave to the public, entitled, "The Diffusion of Divine Truth;" in which he re-asserts those principles which cannot be too much enforced on the attention of the religious public at the present moment. About the same time, the Missionary Society's Directors wisely resolved to place their future Missionaries under a course of preparatory studies, and in deliberating on the best means of establishing the proposed seminary, they observe, in their report for 1801, "the superintendence of a person of eminent abilities, of exemplary piety, and of a true missionary spirit, seemed to be an acquisition, first in order and importance in this business. With these views, they were directed to their reverend brother, Dr. Bogue, whose laudable zeal and efficient labours they have before acknowledged and recorded, and whose disposition to promote the designs of the Society, and his devotedness to the cause of God, were again manifested by his consenting to accept the office of Tutor to the Missionary Society." He therefore added to his other lectures a course suited to form ministers for foreign missions, and three students were, for this purpose, immediately placed under his care. The public mind had been powerfully excited by the entire abolition of papal authority in France, and the Directors of the Missionary Society felt, in common with all pious minds, that if the fabric of superstition had been demolished in that country by the hand of infidelity, it could never be the design of Divine Providence, that infidelity should acquire a permanent influence over the popular mind; and they were, therefore, called to deliberate what was their duty, as Christians, towards their unhappy neighbours. The state of political hostility which subsisted between the two countries, prevented, at that time, all personal intercourse; it was therefore suggested, we believe, by Dr. Bogue himself, that it was most important to circulate, in Franceand Belgium, a large edition of the French New Testament, with a suitable preliminary dissertation on the evidences of its divine inspiration. This proposal was deemed important, and its projector was naturally requested to prepare the intended introduction. This led to the publication of his "Essay on the Authority of the New Testament;" a work which condenses a great mass of evidence into a small volume, and places it in a most perspicuous and convincing light, and which claims the attentive perusal of every intelligent Christian. The providence of God having, however, by the cessation of a destructive war between this coun |