THE BAPTIST ANNIVERSARIES.

IN conformity with our usual custom dress you, more advanta we gave, in our June number, an out- ferring to the dark cond line of the business transacted. We mouthshire forty-five y now give extracts from the addresses, selecting those which are the freshest and most pointed.

BIBLE TRANSLATION SOCIETY.

we commenced our op Myself and about fou from Pontypool, and th we held was in Cardiff, v tained only a sinall p The Baptists and the Bible Society. where the first baptist p -But we must pass this over; for on had been just erected, reading the speech of Mr. Robinson, first nonconformist pla of Cambridge, we find it to be of such that was erected in tha an important character that we must will mention an inciden make a separate article of it in a future vey to you some faint i number; for it contains the whole case dition of the people between the Baptists and the Bible There were two minis Society, lucidly and forcibly stated. but there were not more Mr. Makepeace, from India, in an or twenty people to h eloquent speech (not reported)described the close of the service the great progress the gospel had made a humble dinner, and a in that idolatrous land, chiefly through of the gentlemen prese the diffusion of Bible truth. Mr. incident that I think yo Middleditch, of Frome, delivered a surprised at. Having thoroughly practical address. Dr. baptist chapel as the Steane introduced F. Delethe from formist place of worship Holland, once a pastor of a Muscovite erected in the town, he Church, who described the present state the body of a child ha of evangelical religion in Holland, and in the burial-ground a the efforts of Romanists and Ration- place, but the grave-d alists to corrupt the Word of God. seem, not being very mu in his occupation, was after the funeral to dis in order to place it in sidered to be the right ing at the great day I just mention this as the superstition that p

HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

The Principality-The Chairman, W. W. Phillips, Esq., of Pontypool: "I have thought as a Welshman, coming out of Wales, I might occupy the few minutes during which I shall ad

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nany years, and was the years these churches will not only be ing a great deal of good. self-supporting, but will be able to give what are called the great you some help, instead of requiring it lace opposed him to the at your hands. It gives me very great ich I will give a very pleasure to take an humble part in this One of the farmers good work. I have known this inse of a barn to hold ser- stitution for many years, and I trust were some great folks in to the end of my days I shall never hood who kept a pack of be otherwise than a friend to the Bapey bethought themselves tist Home Mission. O overturn the poor man Open-Air Services.—Mr. J. Hirons, egation by getting a fox of Brixton: "I think that we should through the fields in the do well as ministers to bear in mind 1 of the barn, and right that the pulpit is not the only place middle of the barn; and where the gospel can be preached. I or man was in the midst dont think that any man can prove , there came a pack of that Jesus Christ or any of his aposthrough the bari at full tles ever preached in a pulpit, using have reason to be thank- the word in the way we moderns use it. erent state of things ex- We read that they preached to many esent day, and I do not people; that they were very much atbehalf of this society for tached to open-air services: we read of this change. Happily that they preached on the mountaineen a number of faithful top; that they preached in the porticos cablished church set over of the temple. We read also that they the agents of other re- preached in fishing-boats, and standinations have also been ing on the sands of the shore, and in in their services in this the market-places; and our brethren, I have been through the the agents, are in this respect closely there was scarcely a cot- imitating Christ and the first preachers I not an old horse-shoe in standing in the open air, under the er the door to keep the canopy of heaven, and there inviting nd even upon the turn- people to receive the blessings of the e same thing was to be great salvation. You have already am happy to say that a heard from the report that many outhings has arisen in that door services have been held during has become an altered the past year, and that God has emiparish where I live, I re- nently blessed them. No wonder; it contained only 1,000 because they are the means of God's they now number more own apppointment. We ought to reWe therefore need more joice in these special services; they ow than in the days to have done a great work, and the master

of the population, and make an effort countrymen have n to gather them around you, one per- middle of the ninete haps standing at the door, another evangelical instructi peeping from the window, and scarcely that appliances have any coming into proximity to you. It in late years. We k is a thing which requires a moral strumentalities have heroism which very few possess, and I We know that a bette honour our brethren for that branch of the church in respect their work more than for any other but still I believe the department of labour in which they enjoying all they wis have been engaged. And I trust they with the means of g will be made to feel, through this asso- ponder upon the fac ciation, that the sympathies of our are the subjects of Christian friends are with them in that those born on the sam work; and if they have again to on the same seagirti struggle as they have had to do, the tute of the means of affections, the thoughts, the prayers of tion and knowledge a a considerable body of Christians will some of the distant attend them; and in answer to their again, is there not sce supplications they may hope for their adaptation of the m Master's presence and blessing. II dont think supercil know of no other mode by which large fined to the baron, th masses of the population can be rector. reached. In our day it has been said, and said with some confidence too, that the pulpit has lost its power. In some quarters this has become quite a cant term, but the men who use it do not like the searching power of the pulpit. It is nevertheless quite true that many men will not enter within the walls of the sanctuary. Whether their prejudices are well founded or not I will not pretend to say in reference to the friends of religion, but this we do know, that unless the light of truth is brought in contact with these men's minds by some other means than the preaching of the gospel in the sanctuary, that light will never reach them, and those not decline as other

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are not honoured as by some of the weal our churches, and ev occupy a more promi the ministry; nor do blame of this upon And then I believe, m spirit of Christian de at present cultivated t to which it might be ; the case there would terest in all the hom well as the foreign ope to promote the kingdo the trumphs of his go the world. If Britain

that there is such an n included in that great the Lord had said sim

there will ever be any need for a new revelation of the mind and will of God in order to keep pace with humanity's the world, and do the progress. For myself 1 think it a duty to look boldly to science in her fullorbed glory, and claim her as an emanation from the Father of light, from

of good that you posthe commission had hat conflicting opinions

ve been amongst various whom every good and every perfect ades of philanthropists; gift cometh down; and whilst I do so, nd disputations it would I boast of the possession of a higher e to in committees and illumination, for I have the light of out all these are super- the knowledge of the glory of God, Master's own words, in the face of Jesus Christ. Afraid of ospel." That is the in- intellectual culture! My fears go much bing the greatest possi- the other way. I am not afraid of knowgood in this perishing ledge; I am afraid of ignorance. I am the Master has said this, not afraid of useful invention, I am mediately and implicitly afraid of brutish self-indulgence, I ain est. In the kingdom of not afraid of the calm features of Minot the legislators, but nerva, as she looks down from the portal tors; we are not pleni- of an Athenæum or Mechanics' Instiut humble and willing tute-but I am afraid of the Red crown in our own fixed Lions, the George and Dragons, and partments. And what a the Millers and his Men, which form too, that this gospel the designations of so many styles of e instruments which we drunkenness and of dissipation. Then I know there are men look at the great tide of emigration s in other parts of the going forth to other and distant lands. they have got a-head of How much of that great tide is conit was a very good and trolled by persons who come under the bout a thousand years description of those who are visited by now it is old-fashioned the agents of this society. Oh! that obsolete. Got a-head as they go to those distant lands, they I am persuaded I speak may go as those went who crossed the of every minister here Atlantic some two hundred years ago, dream of such a thing! and founded that great republic, the e bible! We find the strength of which was not in her comly a-head of us. What-merce-not even in her intellectual we make in spiritual culture-but above all, in her respect e bible is there before and reverence for religion. You are r journey is like that of sending out the fathers and mothers of g up the mountain side: future legislators and statesmen. See

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prove her condition. All honour in great religious institu this respect to our friends connected passed into rest. with the established church, who have memories! God gra done so much lately in preaching the portion of their spiri gospel in Ireland. Our Presbyterian those who are rising friends, our Independent friends, and posts they have vaca our Methodist friends, have also exerted remember that the da themselves usefully in the work. ness are every minut there is something, I confess,—and and nearer to a close. you will excuse me as a baptist in that our fathers have g saying so, in the efforts of this so- that therefore we sh ciety which specially commend them- doing. We ourselves selves to my heart. Its agency is ing away from this perfectly simple, and, at the same activity. Just as the time, it is perfectly spiritual. Your evening are now drav agents are devoted, earnest, self-deny- so the shadows of de ing men, who go throughout the land gradually upon us. scattering the word of eternal truth. I am happy to say, that success to a considerable extent has attended the labours of the devoted servants of this society in that land; and though that success may not have been equal to our anticipations, it has, I think, been equal, at least, to our faith and our efforts. I myself have been accustomed, for the last twenty years, to spend about a month there each year, and I can testify to a practical change for the better.

Duty of British Christians.—Mr. Walters, of Halifax: The Lord Jesus died for us, not simply that he might secure our salvation for us, but that he might make us the instruments of extolling his name, and spreading his cause throughout the world. Would to God that all of us understood Christianity and Christian obligations as the apostle Paul understood them!

England and Ir Webb, of Ipswich: ciated was Ireland wi nearly was it united the same form of closely were the two to each other by tr habit, and daily inter interest which British in extending the we became indefinitely i immigration, also, of t of Irishmen into thi necessarily have a m on the moral and re our own people. English life, Irishmen were connected with 1 by land and sea, and i private and public un lishmen and Irishmen Irishmen entered into as servants and domest

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