Rev. W. Miller and Congregation, High Wycombe Collected by the Rev. Mr. Frey: Bedford Old Meeting, Rev. S Hillyard Ditto, New Meeting, Rev. W. Anthony, on Friday evening St. Neots, Rev. Mr. Morell Potton Burg Friends at Turvey Friends at Biggleswade A Friend at ditto for the Jews - 43 10 о T3 10 O 18 0 3 15 06 7 19 0 396 2 II 6 3 3 HOME INTELLIGENCE. Gratis Sabbath-School Society, This Society has been established about eight years, and have now thirtysix schools under their care: the children who attend are about 1400. Of these schools about two-thirds are in the city and suburbs, and the rest in the country round about Edinburgh. The immense population of the city and its neighbourhood, together with the ig. norance and wickedness which so geRerally prevail, make the Society anxious to increase the number of their schools, if their funds would admit of it. Some have died rejoicing in the hope of future glory, and giving the most convincing proofs of real conver sion to God. Lately a remarkable instance of this occurred; and they have since learned that the conversation of an infant on her death-bed, though -only eleven years of age, has been blessed for the awakening and conversion of her father. Of many others the Society, entertain very pleasing hopes, from their regular attendance, and the progress they have made in the knowledge of the Scriptures. An Account of the Sixty-third General Conference of the People called Methodists, late in Connection with the Rev. John Wesley, deceased, held in Leeds, from July 28, to August 9, 1805. (Taken from the Methodist Magazine.) "WE are happy in having it in our power to inform our readers, that all our affairs, temporal and spiritual, at his Conference, were transacted with the utmost peace and harmony; and that the accounts received from different parts of the United Kingdom, as well as from the West India islands, and from America, afford ample proof of the great prosperity of the work of God in general among us. In Great Britain the numbers in society have received an increase of more than eight thousand souls last year; and fifty new chapels are erecting, or appointed to be erected. Some of the manufacturing districts have been peculiarly favoured; and a multitude have been converted to the Lord. In one large village, in the west of Yorkshire, in particular, almost the whole of the inhabitants have been brought under good impressions. In North and in South Wales the work continues to revive and prosper, and it has been conducted with a degree of order which affords us the greatest consolation. 66 "In many parts of Ireland also, preaching of the word. A spirit of much good has been done through the hearing has been excited in the minds of people of almost all descriptions, insomuch that no inconveniences of time or situation could prevent hunsembling in the streets to hear the dreds, in various places, from as gospel of Christ. These encouraging openings, we have reason to believe, will be followed up by the brethren, and will, we doubt not, be productive of the greatest benefit to mankind. taken into serious consideration; and, "Our great doctrines were again for their security, three of the brethren were appointed to draw up a Digest or Form, expressive of them, confirmed by a sufficient number of texts of RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. Scripture, properly selected; a copy of which Form or Digest, is ordered to be sent to the chairman of each district before next May. "We are happy to observe, like. wise, that a Plan for the Improvement of the Young Preachers was laid before the Conference, the heads of which were ordered to be printed, and a copy thereof sent to every preacher, that the brethren may have the opportunity of considering it maturely at their next district-meeting, and may report their collective jude ment concerning it at the ensuing Conference. re "Amongst various matters of discipline, Regulations were made specting the Union of the Brethren who labour together in the same circuit; respecting the Lord's Supper; and concerning the mode of conducting the Sunday service in our chapels, it is determined, That the Holy Scriptures shall be constantly and statedly read in public, wherever we have preaching in the forenoon of the Lord's Day. Our fixed rule is, that," Wherever divine service is performed by us in England, on the Lord's Day, in church hours, the officiating preacher shall read either the service of the established church, our venerable father, Mr. Wesley's Abridgement of it, or, at least, the lessons appointed by the Calendar. See the Minutes of 1795. Respecting extravagant and costly dress; and buying or selling uncustomed goods, it was agreed to enforce the former regulations. "There were present at this Conference about 240 itinerant preachers, and an amazing concourse of people; probably on some days, especially Sunday, August 3, not fewer than from 15 to 20,000. The effects of this day's solemnities, we doubt not, will be found after many days. Tuesday, August 5, in the evening, was appointed by the Conference for the admission, and solemu dedication to God, of the candidates for the ministry. They had been examined in private by the President, and in full conference: crowded audience was present in the chapel. The young men were in the front seat of the gallery. They were called, in succession, to give an account of their experience, and the ground on which they exercised the office of the Christian Ministry. The examination concluded with appropriate addresses delivered by the President and Mr. T. Taylor; when the young men were commended to God by solemn prayer. A Thirty-two preachers have been 475 admi ted into full connection this Conference, having been four years on trial. 46 There remain still on trial ninetyfour, having not yet completed their four years. Admitted on trial fortyfive. "The following preachers have died this year: Jonathan Coussins, John Crook, Thomas Mill, John Paw¬ son, Peter Mill, Edward Jackson, Joseph Mallam, Thomas Rutherford, Jolin Baxter, and John Hawkshaw." June and 4 5. The Annual Association of Independe Ministers was held at Mr. P. Pallips's, Cilcennin, in the County of Cardigan. Thirtyattended; and sermons were preached three Ministers, besides probationers, by Messrs. Wal. Lewis, Evan. Davies, Roberts, B. Jones, Mor. Lewis, Hugh David Williams (Bailihalog) John Pagh, D. Williams (Llanwrtyd) G. ministers engaged in prayer. Lewis, and J. Davies. Various other Their next Meeting was agreed to be held at Brynberian, Pembrokeshire, as usual, on the Second Wednesday and Thursday after Whitsuntide, 1857. June 18th. The Rev. John Harris, from Hoxton Academy, was ordained at Peterborough. Mr. Pickering, of Brigstock, began with reading and prayer; Mr. Knight, of Yelvertoit, delivered the introductory discourse; Mr. Whitehead, of Creaton, gave the charge; Mr. Wood, of Rowel, offered the ordination prayer; Mr. Griffiths, of Long Buckby, preached to the peo ple; Mr. Pickering preached in the evening. shut up about seven years, was re This Chapel, after being opened in the year 1802, and supplied from Hoxton. July 2. A new erected Chapel was opened at Barton upon Humber, Lincolnshire. In the morning Mr. Clark, of Brigg, preached from Haggai ii. 9. ; Mr. Richards, of Hull, and Mr. Hob son, of Driffield, engaged in prayer. In the afternoon, Mr. Lyons, of Hull, preached from Rom. i. 16.; Mr. Smelle, of Grimsby, and Mr. Wade, of Hull, prayed. In the evening Mr. Richards pre.ced from 2 Chron. xiii. 13.; Mr. Clark, and Mr. Collins prayed, and concluded the services. About a twelvemonth since, the Lord, by a peculiar providence, removed Mr. Collins from Hull to Barton, who liceuced his house, and preached the gospel at first to a very few; but hearers continually encreased, so that his house, though large, could not nearly contain them; which gave rise to the said building. July 23. Rev. Richard Hartley, from Hoxton Academy, was ordained at Lutterworth. Mr. Gawthorn, of Derby, began with reading and prayer; Mr. Burder, of London, delivered the introductory discourse, &c.; Mr. Whitehead, of Creaton, offered the ordination prayer; Mr. Simpson, of Hoxton, gave the charge; Mr. Evans, of Foleshill, preached to the people; Mr. Bicknell, of Welford, concluded; Mr. Jerard, of Coventry, preached in the evening; Mr. Hartnell, of Nun Eaton, and Mr. Gardner, of Pottersbury, engaged in prayer. The Wilts Association intend to hold their next Meeting at Melksham, on Wednesday, October 22; when the Rev. Messrs. Mantell, Sibree, and Thorp are expected to preach; and Mr. Jay the preceding evening. The next Half-yearly Meeting of the Independent Ministers of Dorset, will be held at Shaftesbury, October 22; when Mr. Weston, of Sherborne, and Mr. Wheaton, of Lyme, are expected to preach. sey. LONDON. July 15. A small handsome chapel was opened at Crouch End, near HornIn the forenoon Mr. Fowler, of Edmonton, read the Scriptures and prayed; and afterwards Mr. Ivimey; Mr. J. Hyatt, of the Tabernacle, preached; and Mr. Jackson, of Stockwell, concluded. In the afternoon, Mr. Rance, of Hackney, prayed; Mr. Upton, of London, preached; and Mr. Shenston, of Alyffe Street, concluded. - From time immemorial, Horusey, a village but five miles from London, has been without the gospel. Several attemp have been made to carry the glad tidings to its inhabitants, tho' withou' success; but the last effort has happily succeeded. Two sermons are preached every Lord's Day, in the afternoon and evening; and a lecture on Tuesday evenings, by various ministers. A Sunday School is also established. The attendance is very encouraging. Aug. 18. A small chapel was opened at Norwood, under the patronage of the London Itinerant Society, when two sermons were preached: that in the morning by the Rev. Mr. Collyer; and that in the afternoon by the Rev. Mr. Frey. The attendance from London and the surrounding villages, was numerous and respectable. The chapel being far too small for the congregation, the service was conducted out of doors. A collection, amounting to 841. 6s. was made on the occasion. Union Chapel, Compton Terrace, Islington, was opened on August 29, by the Rev. Henry Gauntlett, of the Church of England, from Reading; and the Rev. D. Bogue, of Gosport. Divine worship began in the morning with the church service, solemnized by Mr. Gauntlett, who afterwards preached from Hag. ii. 9. In the evening Dr. M'Dowell, of Dublin, prayed; and Mr. Bogue preached from Ps. cxxxii. 13 to 16. The services were throughout solemn, impressive, and well-attended. - This chapel was erected by the proprietors upon the most enlarged and liberal principles of general utility and accommodation in that populous village, and will contain from 1000 to 1200 persons. As the name imports, it neither belongs to, nor takes the exclusive denomination of, any one party of Christians; but is the friend of all, free and open for the occasional labours of evangelical ministers of the Church of England, the Church of Scotland, and of those who dissent from them. The church and congregation hitherto worshipping in Highbury Grove (a remote situation, and an inconvenient ill-built structure) under the pastoral care of the Rev. T. Lewis, their stated morning preacher, are the origin and foundation of this new chapel. While Mr. Lewis presides over them and the new congregation, and administers the holy Socrament, both in the Church and Dissenting forms, aided in the former by an Epis copal clergyman, who will constantly solemnize the church-service in the mornings, the services of the most able ministers will be sought in the evenings. The proprietors and friends of this Union have a pleasing prospect of the enlargement of the great Redeemer's kingdom by their sincere eadeavours, on a plan somewhat, new, to promote harmony and love, and subdue party prejudices among Christian brethren. BAPTISM OF JEWS. On Saturday evening, Sept. 20, Mr. Abraham Lande and Mrs. Clara Cohen, natives of Germany, were publicly baptized at Sien Chapel, London. The service was conducted RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, in the following manner: — - the Rev. Mr. Nicol, one of the ministers of the Scots Church in Swallow Street, read two portions of Scripture, Jer. xxxi. and John iii. 1-21.; after which he offered up a solemn prayer, suited to the important occasion; the Rev. Mr. Winter, of New Court, delivered an appropriate sermon from Rom. xi. 1, 2. 1 say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid ! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew." The chief design of the sermon was to point out the impressions which the public baptism of two persons of the Jewish nation, professing Christianity, should make on the spectators. 1. We should contemplate, with grateful adoration, the triumphs of divine grace over the prejudices of the human mind. 2. We should observe the peculiar features of that change which takes place in the views of converted Jews, in distinction from those of Heathens, or of merely nominal Christians. 3. We behold in these converted Jews a pledge that all the unfulfilled promises of God respecting their nation, will be fulfilled in due season. 4 We learn to attach sentiments of high importance to the people of the Jews: "God hath not cast away his people."-What an example for us to follow! 5. We should regard these instances of converting grace among the Jews, as strong incentives to the use of all means for spreading among them the knowledge of the gospel. It was intended to shew, in the close of the discourse, the tendency of the affecting scene with respect to the Jews at large. But as an address to them was very properly allotted to Mr. Frey, this was omitted in the sermon; and a few hints were added on its tendency with respect to persons inclined to infidelity, to worldlyminded professors of Christianity, to young persons, humble, practical believers. - and to serious, The Rev. Mr. Burder then addressed the congregation, giving a short account of the nature of the Christian institution of Baptism. After descending from the pulpit, he proposed to the candidates for baptism a few questions respecting the grand essentials of the gospel; which were answered with an audible voice. They were then baptized in the name of the Eternal Three. Ao exhortation to 477 the persons baptized, concluded this part of the service. Mr. Frey, the Jewish preacher, then delivered from the pulpit aw earnest and affecting admonition and exhortation to a considerable number of the Jews who were present. The Rev. Mr. J. Townsend concluded the whole with prayer. A great congregation of at least 3000 persons were present. A becoming solemnity pervaded the multitude; and it was judged to be a peculiarly interesting and affecting solemnity. On the evening of Thursday, Sep. 18, a Miss Cohen, a young Jewess, who, like the above mentioned persous, had been brought to the faith of Christ, by the blessing of God on the ministry of Mr. Frey, was baptized at Hoxton Chapel. The Rev. Mr. Atkin son, one of the Tutors of the Academy, engaged in prayer, and delivered a discourse from Rom. xi. 23, "And they also, if they abide not in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again." After which, the Rev. Mr. Simpson, the senior fator of the same seminary, administered the ordinance of baptisin. A great congregation filled the chapel, which has lately been considerably enlarged. British and Foreign Bible Society. WE are happy to learn that the Com mittee of the above Society are not only assiduously engaged in promoting the circulation of the Holy Scriptures in foreign parts, but have also adopted a system which cannot fail to encourage an extensive distribution of the same in the United Kingdom; where, notwithstanding the number of Bibles already in circulation, it has been ascer tained, that there are numberless families and individuals among the poor who are destitute of the word of God. It appears by the following Notice, prefixed to the Second Annual Report of that Society, that every Member may obtain a return more than doable the value of his subscription; having the privilege of purchasing for less than two-thirds of the usual price, as many Bibles and Testaments as shall subject the Society to a loss on the wholesale price, equal to the amount of such subscription. The Committee offer the following advantages to the subscribers: Every Annual Subscriber will be allowed to purchase, within the year, Bibles and Testaments to the amount of Five Guineas for every Guinea sub scribed, at a deduction of twenty per cent. from the cost prices. "A benefactor of 201. to be considered as an Annual Subscriber of One Guinea. "A Benefactor of 50l. to be considered as an Annual Subscriber of Five Guineas. "The Commit wish the Members to understand, that, as the Bibles and Testaments are purchased by them at the wholesale price, and the 20 per cent. taken from this charge, the advantage offered to the Members will not be less than the average of onethird, or 33 per cent. from the usual sale-price of these books. 66 Every Member of the Society will be also entitled to purchase a further quantity of Bibles and Testaments at cost price to the Society, on application to the Committee." List of Lectures, &c. in and near London, for October. 19. LORD'S DAY MORN. at Seven, Camomile Street, Mr. Gore. Ev. Broad St. Mr. Gatfee; Chapel Str. Mr. Buck; Devonshire Sq. Mr. Shenston; Palace Str. Dr. Duncan; Orange Str. Mr. Burder; Peter Street, Mr. Keeble; Crown Ct. Mr Hyatt. 21. Tu. M. Broad St. Mr. Clayton. 22. Wed. Ev. Prayer Meeting for the Nation, at Mr. Knight's. 23. Th. M. Monthly Meeting (Bapt.) at Mr. Burnside's, Mr. Rance to preach.-The Purity of Discipline. Ev. Fetter Lane, Mr. Hughes. The Devout Parent's Request. 24. Frid. Er. (at Seven) Lecture to Young People, by Mr. Greig, at Peckham Meeting. 26. LORD'S DAY MORN. at Seven, Camomile St. Mr. ———. — -Ev. Broad Str. Mr. Dore; Crown Ct. Mr. J. Clayton; Hare Ct. Mr. Lyndall; Chapel St. Mr. Atkinson; Peter Str. Mr. Brown; Palace Str. Mr. J. Thomas; Devonshire Sq. Mr. C. Ilyatt. 28. Tu. l. Broad Street, Mr. Barber. 29. Wed. Ev. Prayer-Meeting for the Nation, at Mr. T. Thomas's. 30. Th. Ev. Fetter Lane, Mr. Townsend. Unsanctified Prosperity. MINISTERS SUPPLYING AT The Tabernacle and Tottenham, Mr. Surry Chapel, Mr. Jay. Hoxton, Mr. Brewer, of Birmingham, |