The prisoners in general evince a greater attachment to the Scriptures than I have hitherto noticed, as they read them more frequent, and evince a great desire to bring them home, which they are permitted to do. the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, Pat | hope I will," said the man. Letter from Mrs. Hawkins of Stroud, to When reading the 7th chapter of 1st Cor. he asked, why the clergy did not marry; when it was not forbidden in the scriptures? I told him that that law, was one of their own making. When reading verse about in Romans v. and vi., I observed to them how plain the way of salvation was, so that the man who run might read it. A prisoner, named John Tige, said, God grant us grace to earn it. I told him it was not to be earned, that it was earned already; that Jesus Christ purchased it with the price of his blood, and that he was only called on to believe it. Yes, said he, but you know without the grace of God we can do nothing. I asked Michael Collary, when reading in the Irish Testament, 1 John i. “How could God be faithful and just to forgive us our sins:" he said, "By our repenting." I then asked if a prisoner was found guilty of murder, would the judge be considered just or righteous, if, upon the prisoner's repenting, he forgave him without any satisfaction or atonement for the breach of the law? he answered, "He would not;” then, said I, How can God be just in forgiving us who have broken his laws, which are holy, just, and good, and trampled on them? He said, he did not know. I then endeavoured to explain to him how he was faithful and just, by telling him there were two conditions in man's salvation to be performed, without which, God could not be just in justifying the sinner, which were perfect righteousness and perfect atonement; and that no man could be found fit to perform them, having all sinned, and come short of the glory of God. Therefore, God so loved the world, that he sent his own Son into it, to take on him our nature, in order that he might accomplish these conditions. The Roman Catholic chaplain having visited the prison lately, found a man named Pat Tully reading the Testament, and asked him if it was a Testament he was reading? The man answered, Yes, sir. I hope, said the chaplain, you will make good use of it: "I Stroudwater, July 1832. DEAR SIRS, You will oblige by acknowledging in the Irish Chronicle the following articles contributed by various young friends for the "Hammersmith School," in Ireland. Sixty work bags, containing sixty_magaballs, and one halfpenny in each, given by zines, the like number of thimbles, and cotton the children of the Sabbath School of the Baptist Meeting House, Stroudwater, Glou cestershire. Exeter, similar presents in the Chronicle last If any other school should be in want of a friends will not be backward in sending, if similar encouragement, I trust, our country it is made known to them. M. H. HAWKINS. The kind contributions of the children in the above school, will, it is hoped, lead other Sunday School Teachers to recommend the example to the children under their care, as such presents are very acceptable indeed, the extreme poverty of the Irish children in the Society's schools preventing them from purchasing such articles. Extract from a Letter of Mr. S. Jackman, to Mr. Ivimey, dated Boyle, Sept. 12th, 1832. MY DEAR SIR, You are, no doubt, before this fully aware of the painful calamity which befel us on the first instant, by the death of your valuable agent, the Rev. Josiah Wilson. We bow, I trust, with Christian submission to the dispensations of an all-wise Providence, whose ways are hid in deep and unfathomable mines, and which are past finding out. At the same time, considering the situation of Ireland, and what we have witnessed for the last thirteen years of the labours of that efficient servant of the Baptist Irish Society, we are constrained with every class of persons, and of all religious denominations in the counties of Mayo, Lietrim, Sligo, and Roscommon, to mourn his death as a public loss. I never witnessed such a general feeling of sorrow respecting any individual, and this you will conclude to have been the case when | remarks on what was read. I cannot deI inform you, the circumstance was men- scribe the thankfulness of those poor ignorant tioned publicly in the Roman Catholic chapel creatures, who heard the word with joy, of this town, "as the loss of a kind, bene- with tears in their eyes,saying, Blessed be God, volent, useful man." Yes, my dear Sir, an that he has sent us angels in disguise to reveal ornament to your useful Society has fallen at and tell us how we should escape the wrath his post, and while employed in his work of and vengeance of God, which is due to us faith and labour of love. hellish sinners, and to make known to us how we shall be saved, through believing in that great, good, and loving Saviour, Jesus Christ, that died on Calvary for such poor sinners as us, crying, O the love, the love of Jesus Christ to us, &c. CONTRIBUTIONS. Received by Mr. Pritchard. A few friends, from the church £. s. d. Collected by Rev. J. Franks. He has left to our care, unprovided for, an amiable and afflicted widow, and five small children. I have good reason to conclude, that your heart will respond on behalf of the friends to Ireland, and of the whole Baptist denomination. Yes, they are left to our care, for that faithful servant of Christ "went out for his name's sake," in the strength of his divine Lord, determined to discharge the duties devolving upon him, and from his tomb is now saying, "I have fallen in the work, and have left my helpless widow and children, to the merciful Husband of the widow, and Father of the fatherless, trusting to you under God to provide for them." Many individuals here are concerned to Mr. Studdart, Banbury, Annual know what can be done: knowing your kindness and influence I cannot take one step without your judgment and advice. I feel, however, that it is important something should be attempted immediately. I am happy to say, that Lord Lorton, will patronize and assist any of your benevolent designs for the permanent benefit of the bereaved family this assurance I have had from his Lordship's mouth. May the great Head of the church direct the Committee in the choice of a suitable minister to fill his place, so that the good work may still go on and per, and dispose the hearts of his own people to assist in that object, for which I feel it to be my duty earnestly to plead: hoping they will do "even more than I say," pros Most affectionately yours, Donations towards affording relief to the family of the late Mr. Wilson will be received by the Treasurer, the Secretaries, or at the Bankers. Extract from the Journal of Mr. Anderson. REV. SIR, On Sunday, April 1st, 1832, I visited four Roman Catholic families, reading for them a few chapters from John's gospel, making some remarks on what was read. There was some of them that had a dislike to the reading of the Scriptures, refusing the instructions given from the Word of God, while others listened with great attention, and were thankful. Sunday 8th, I visited five Roman Catholic families, reading for them a few chapters from Paul's Epistle to the Romans, making some Guildford Yarmouth Ryde Wootten Bridge 4 0 0 0 10 0 17 6 By Mr. Ivimey. 0 5 0 0 10 6 6 5 0 1 16 41 MISSIONARY HERALD. Subscriptions and Donations in aid of this Society will be thankfully received at the Baptist Mission House, No. 6, Fen Court, Fenchurch Street, London: or by any of the Ministers and Friends whose names are inserted in the Cover of the Annual Report. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. SULKEA. Extract of a Letter from Mr. Thomas to Mr. Dyer, dated, Sulkea, 21st Feb. 1832. met's mission from our scriptures. He said he had a copy of the New Testament in Hindoostanee, in which he had seen predictions which relate to Mahomet. I requested him to bring the book that we may examine the subject more fully. He did so, and as he could not readily find the place, I requested him to allow me to do it, as I thought I knew to what he referred. He consented, marked a number of passages, where the and I turned to John xiv., &c. He had Holy Spirit is promised; and to shew him that those expressions could not refer to Mahomet, I read several portions of John xiv., xv., and xvi., and Acts i. and ii., and also other places where the Holy Spirit is spoken of as actually communicated. He seemed confounded, and gave up the point, but could not understand what is meant by the Holy Spirit, as the actions ascribed to him suppose him to be an agent of the human species, and he could not conceive how a spirit, distinct from matter, could operate on men, so as to be said to teach them, &c. &c. government. REV. AND DEAR SIR, During the cold season now ending, I have frequently gone over to Calcutta, to attend our Bazar Chapel, where the hearers are mostly Mussulmans. I have been many times pleased and encouraged by what has taken place; though I am afraid to say that conversion has actually taken place. The latter end of January and beginning of this month was spent by Brother Carepeit and myself in a missionary excursion up the river. We went out for the sake of the Mussulmans, and when we could meet with any we directed our attention chiefly to them, though among the Hindoos we circulated about 1000 tracts, besides gospels, and might have circulated many more, had we and afterwards talked of writing an answer He took copies of most of our books, possessed them. I expected some unpleasant to some of them, only said he feared the treatment from the followers of the false prophet, but with very few exceptions we alone, confine yourself strictly to religion, and We said, Let government were very well received, and much readiness was evinced by many to receive our tracts and that we wished he, or some other, would you may write and publish what you like; and copies of the Holy Scriptures. We pur-write and let us know their sentiments upon posely went among the most respectable and what we had written. learned we could find, that it might not called on a Nawaub, who proved a man of At Hoogly, we be said, we took advantage of the ignorance very gentlemanly deportment, and said his of our hearers, and were afraid to meet their Moulavee (a kind of domestic chaplain) learned men. We had many very interest- should converse with us. ing and spirited conversations. He was accordSome ap-ingly called; when Brother Carapeit requested him to inform us why or wherefore he believed Mahomet to be a prophet of God, and the Koran to be the Word of God. He gave one reason, viz. the testimony of multitudes in many different countries, &c., an argument of really no weight at all. he at length professed to have got by him an answer to one of our tracts. we engaged to pay for its being copied, and To obtain this, gave him a note to that effect to the Rev., Mr. Higgs of Chinsurah. We have not heard peared at first very haughty and overbearing who afterwards became very kind and gentle. We were enabled, I trust in some measure, to exhibit something of the meekness and gentleness of the gospel, and thus to gain a much more candid attention to our message than would otherwise have been given to it. At Chinsurah we met with one of the editors of an edition of the Koran, in Arabic and Hindoostanee, a staunch Mussulman, and possessed, as he supposed, of proofs of Maho But any more about it, and I suppose it was only a manœuvre to put us off. The Nawaub had a beautiful copy of the Pentateuch in Arabic, in manuscript, which he said he had purchased. He read and translated into Hindoostanee a few verses, and from his conversation, I conjectured that he must have read a good part, if not the whole of the volume. To him we gave some tracts and the Psalms, Isaiah, and the New Testament; and among the people about the premises we distributed a goodly number of tracts. Oh! that there, and in every other place, the word of the Lord may have free course and be glorified. COLOMBO, (CEYLON.) Extract of a Letter from Mr. Daniel, dated, Colombo, 31st Oct. 1831. MY VERY DEar Brother, About a month since, I sent you a letter containing my quarterly statement, and at the conclusion of the year, I shall have again officially to write to you; I do not, therefore, intend this as a missionary communication; but as I have a space in my paper to spare, I do not know that I can better occupy it, than by giving you a short account of a visit 1 some time ago made to the idol feast of Boodha, at Colany, in order to improve the opportunity, which the visit of so many thousands of pilgrims affords to make known to them the way of salvation. said, if such numbers of people were going to At I tore he could not make even that bit of paper, and yet he declared he was greater than God, who had, out of nothing, made the sun, the earth, the moon, and the stars. I then shewed to them the folly of following the directions of such a person, and taking their offerings to him, and exhorted them and him to repent of sin, to abandon idolatry, and to believe in Christ, that they might be saved. The Lord bless the exertions of the day to the glory of his holy name, and the salvation of souls. A missionary, I am persuaded, need to be instant in season and out of season. On one of the great festival days, I provided myself with a stock of tracts, and, taking with me two of my friends as inter-off a little bit of paper I held in my hand, preters, besides being attended with others and said, that without materials to work on, who wished to join us, one of whom had been a Boodhist priest, and therefore well qualified to cope with the artifices of the priests, I commenced my journey. It was really affecting to see on the road in all parts of it the number of votaries who were returning, after having presented their offerings, and the multitude who were going with their offerings there. Thousands upon thousands we saw at the scite of the idol; and on the road thither, wherever we could induce the people to stop and hear us, we halted, distributed to them tracts, and delivered to them short discourses on the folly and sinfulness of idolatry; on the necessity of renouncing it, and on the only way of salvation by Jesus Christ. Both at Colany, and on the road, we preached fourteen or fifteen different times, and were heard at some of the places with considerable attention; in others with derision. Some of the people JAMAICA. Since our last number, further intelligence has arrived from the north side of Jamaica, more especially sys and if any gentleman had come prepared with resolutions, he hoped they would be submitted to the consideration of the meetlittle occasion for discussion, as he was sure ing; but he anticipated there would be but there was no difference of opinion among any gentlemen present as to the necessity and expediency of the Union. They all knew the full object which it had in view, as it had been expressed in the resolutions entered into at the different parochial meetings, which were on the table before him. He could not conclude without adverting to the many questions that had been put to him, as father of the Union, as to what were the duties required of the members; he had committed and which he would read, viz.-First, to to writing what he considered them to be, support the Established Churches of England and Scotland. Secondly, to expel the sectarians, and other incendiaries, from the island. respecting the proceedings of what is now termed "The Colonial Union' —the epithet "church" having been, for some reason or other, omitted. Disgusting as these proceedings must be to every honourable mind, we deem it right to put them on record; they may, hereafter, when the tem which has inspired them shall have been added to the list of obsolete abominations, be referred to as admonitory proofs of the almost inconceivable baseness and folly to which it could reduce its abettors. That the doom of colonial bondage is sealed, and that its destruction became inevitable when it dared to lift its puny arm against the servants of Christ, are facts, we believe, well known to those its supporters who have the least penetration. Nor is it surprising that our leading daily journals should begin at length to re-echo the public opinion on this point. In illustration of these remarks, we shall now lay before our readers an extract from a Jamaica paper, giving an account of a meeting held at Falmouth, the town in which Mr. Knibb resided, on the first day of August last; and add, by way of important part; and it had afforded him considerable gratification to witness the immense supplement, the remarks upon this number that had gathered together in 24 article in the "Times" and "Morn-hours on a recent occasion in St. Ann's; and ing Herald" of the fifteenth and seventeenth of this month (September). among (From the Cornwall Courier,) FALMOUTH, Aug. 1. On Saturday a general meeting of the Colonial Union of the north-side parishes, was held at the Court-house in this town. James L. Hilton, Esq. in the chair. The chairman, in commencing the business of the day, observed that he felt deeply the compliment they had paid him in calling him to the chair on that important occasion, more especially when he saw opposite to him the worthy custos of Trelawny. He congratulated the meeting, and the island at large, on the respectability and strength of the present assemblage, which he hoped would come to such resolutions as would do honour to the island of Jamaica. (Cheers.) He would do his duty with the utmost impartiality, He said other incendiaries, because there are men not clothed in the garb of re ligion, who are promulgating treason and rebellion, and who are enrolled in the ranks of our bitterest enemies. Thirdly, to give no employment to any of their proselytes. Fourthly, to hold every man an enemy who fosters or encourages them. It is requisite to do so, that they should be taught to feel that they will not be allowed to foster these canters to the destruction of the island. He was sure that if this resolution were strictly adhered to, they would drive them away. Fifthly, to be ready and prompt in assembling on every requisite occasion. This was a most he trusted that a similar alacrity would be everywhere displayed whenever it should prove necessary. Sixthly, to risk their lives in expelling the enemies of the country. And, finally, to strain every nerve to preserve this island to our gracious sovereign King William the Fourth. These he considered as the principal duties of the members of the Colonial Union, and he hoped every man present would act up to them. (Loud cheers.) The Hon. W. Miller then read a series of resolutions, entitled a solemn declaration of the Union. Dr. Neilson and Dr. Lawson, jun., also read resolutions. Some desultory conversation then ensued, which ended in appointing a sub-committee, for the purpose of preparing resolutions for the consideration of the meeting. Previous to the appointment of the sub-committee, Mr. H. Brown rose and moved, that a letter, which had been sent from the King's |