all, after which a public - tors were connected with the church almost from the time of its formation, and seven of whose descendants are now members of it. The well known hymn, " Kindred, in Christ," &c., being sung, and prayer offered by G. C. Ashmead, Esq., of Bristol, excellent addresses were delivered by Messrs. Wassell of Bath, Davies of Wells, Nettleship of Clutton (Independent), and Sutch of Paulton (Wesleyan). During the evening Mr. H. W. Stembridge, pastor of the church, presented to the meeting a sketch of its history; from which it appears that, during the 200 years of its existence, eleven pastors have been settled over it, the united pastorates of the first four extending over a period of 143 years; 379 have been added by baptism; and the church now numbers 120 members. LIVERPOOL, Great Cross Hall Street,Welsh Baptists.-We opened this place in October, 1852, after thorough repair and enlargement, at an expense of £700. We determined at the time that we would not rest so long as one shilling of this debt was unpaid; and now, chiefly through the exertions of our respected pastor, Mr. Price, only about £140 remained of the debt we had thus contracted. We had sermons on Oct. 28th, to crowded audiences. On Tuesday next, more than 700 sat down to tea, after which we met in the chapel, and several Welsh and English ministers addressed us with great vigour and effect. We hope soon to clear off the £140. J. S. H. E. WESTBURY, Wilts-Penthrop Chapel.— Mr. Joseph Huristone was recognized as pastor of the baptist church here, Oct. 23, when Messrs. Winter of Bristol, Grigg of Leigh, and several other ministers, took part in conducting the interesting services of the day, which were highly encouraging to Mr. H. and his friends. -set. The baptist church public services on Wedr the purpose of review- NEW ROMNEY.-The friends attending the gracious care and the baptist chapel here-a correspondent eat King in Zion during tells us have been permitted to see a new existence. In the after-thing, not under, but over the sun; for when of Keynsham, read and he has gone down their place of worship is sworth, M. A., of Bristol, lighted with gas, the expenses, of which interesting discourse, in were promptly paid by voluntary subour early denominational scriptions. dington-We are gratified in being able to state that the church and congregation meeting in this place have made a final and successful effort to remove their remaining responsibilities. Dr. Burns, the pastor, give you pleasure 11 letter or two concern carried on for the eva tions which inhabit Malayan Archipelago. Islands were favoured the gospel. Many pic them formerly who sou place to place to mak the inhabitants by m tongue; and the chris manner spread widely. still sixty thousand p christian name in thes which divine worship number of places the on by native teachers, REMOVALS.-Mr. James Harcourt, of Welgovernment, and are lington Street Chapel, Luton, to Regent school-masters in the Street, Lambeth.-- Mr. Makepeace, late Mis- they are stationed. sionary in India, to Union Chapel, Luton, have been well educ Beds. Mr. T. Edwards, of Chipperfield, to Institution which has Western Turville, Bucks.-Mr. W. Under- than twenty years at wood, of Sache verel Street, Derby, to Ches- school-masters and rea ham. Mr. S. C. Sarjant, B. A., of Praed a pious man of the Street Chapel, Paddington, to Sacheverel was sent out for this Street, Derby.-Mr. T. C. Keen, of Regent Mission Society of R Street, Lambeth, to the General Baptist school a considerable Church, Borough Road, Southwark.-Mr. cated pious young na S. Edgar, of Kimbolton, to Oak Street, who carry on schools Abingdon. Mr. W. B. Bliss, of Kington, worship by reading, p Herefordshire, to Bethel Chapel, Pembroke many communities on Dock.-Mr. Aldis, of Maze Pond, South- Thus it has pleased th wark, to Reading. to carry on his work these Islands. To th such as Amboyna and of the Dutch church ment and supported, means able to visit masses of people wh Islands; besides, thei small, sometimes ther ister for all the Islands or three; at last it w ministers should be eastern Isles, who sho christians on them; b has seldom been main preached on the sabbath, Oct. 28th, to crowded congregations; and on the next day a tea meeting was held in Portman Hall, when 400 sat down, and it was stated that the receipts exceeded the amount required by £40. This balance was unanimously voted to the pastor of the church. BAPTIST W. NOEL.-We are thankful that we are able to state that this esteemed minister is recovering from his late severe attack of fever. RESIGNATIONS.- Mr. T. Cole, of Paradise Row Chapel, Chelsea-Mr. J. W. Warren, of New Mill Chapel, Tring. us NOTICE.-Some intelligence which reached "too late" will appear in our January number. We wish just to say that it would be much more convenient to us, and prevent any disappointment to our friends, if they would kindly favour us by sending communications earlier in the preceding month. Some seem to forget the matter until reminded that the coming month is at hand. ssionaries have proved e christians and men rk. Owing to their cirre not permitted o culround for the advancem of Christ; they were, ments, in the Lord's hand, ristian congregations in lapsing into pagan idolmadanism, for both syson the Islands to a conAs the government sees an of sending ministers -hristians on these Isles r expectations, they have nd out two ministers to the wants of the Euro, but for the native chrisd out and maintain six Eastern Isles. To exe→ government has applied es to the Dutch Mission n. But as that institusupply so many young e has yet arrived for the the greater number of left to be guided by their teachers. It may easily these people are not far an knowledge and morals, they are greatly superior heathen and Mussalmans. struction being scarce ought not to be expected have the Bible in Malay, e people it is not intele language of it is obsoy is a foreign tongue to ders. these Islands have never the gospel until about rs ago; to these belonged orneo. Although several opeans were formed on e thought of sending a r the spiritual wants of ate years. It happened years ago that the Rev. n missionary at Batavia, Banjarmassing on the Sundays he preached in Dutch to the Europeans, and to the native christians in Malay. Much good has resulted from his labours. The Lord has been pleased to be with him and bless his preaching to Europeans and natives. He has been there now some twenty years, and is still able to carry on the work as usual. After he had been alone several years several more brethren were sent out by the same Society to his assistance; and these, after having remained for a short time in order to acquire the Malay language, endeavoured to widen the missionary field, and went to settle in the interior among the aboriginal inhabitants, two days' journey on the rivers to the westward, on an Island which is formed by three rivers, called Poolopetak, which is inhabited by the tribe called the lesser Dyaks. This island is a swampy, woody, and unhealthy place: This tribe of people are numbered at ten thousand souls. Here three missionaries settled first, formed two stations, and built houses of wood and leaves on posts like the natives. Some of this rude, lewd, and drunken people, appeared pleased with the settling of these foreigners among them for the sake of being profited by them in their worldly prospects; for they looked upon the missionaries as being great men. The missionaries behaved in a friendly and winning manner towards these wicked and profligate natives, and learned their language from their mouths; for the Dyak language differs from the Malay. These natives have no written language like the Malays. They have no letters, nor alphabet, nor writing of their own. Yet the missionaries soon яcquired the native tongue so far as to be able to converse with the natives in their own language. And when I visited the missionaries there, after they had been settled two years among the Dyaks, I was surprised to hear my son-in-law, Mr. Becker, one of the missionaries there, preach fluently in the Dyak language in his chapel, to more than fifty natives on Sunday. On week days he had worship every evening with a smaller number in his house. Every forenoon he kept a school of native children." both in the Madras and in the Bengal presi- the above statement dencies, who still sit in darkness. "The thing was not publiely in open day, witnesses. THE BAPTISTS AND THE STATE EDUCATION SCHEME IN INDIA.-It is stated on the authority of Mr. Underhill, one of the Secretaries of the Baptist Missionary Society, now in India, and in communication with the missionaries, that not one of them is likely to avail himself of the grants of the Education Board in India. RELIGIOUS. OPEN AIR PREACHING AND THE ESTABLISHMENT.-We have watched with the deepest interest the labours of those excellent men who have carried forward the plar of open air preaching in various parts of the kingdom. While precious hours and days have been wasted by our ecclesiastical rulers in the barren debates of Convocation, practical men have been solving the great question about the state of our lower classes, and applying to the prevailing evil the one allsufficient, and only efficient remedy. We thoroughly believe that, if our bishops and clergy have but an earnest heart and a resolute will, they will find that our church system is pliant and elastic enough, without any action of Convocation or Parliament, to meet the social necessities of the times, urgent as we confess them to be. Let them, then, cast away that suspicions fear and hesitating timidity which have so often fettered their energies, repressed the impulses of their better feelings, and made them look coldly on the bolder efforts of other men.Record. GLASGOW BIBLE SOCIETY. The Committee of this Institution have voted five hundred pounds to the "Chinese Evangeli cal Society," in aid of publishing and distributing Gutzlaff's version of the entire Bible in the Chinese language. BIBLE BURNING! It is reported that Lord Palmerston has directed the Attorney General for Ireland to prosecute certain parties for bible burning in Kingstown. One of m man of well-known ber ability, took one of the volume ont of the whe the flames, and, show policeman standing by bible? Do you not k an actionable offence rescued portions of o ashes, which I have in which, with the witnes at any moment." SUNDAY AFTERNOO THEATRE. The first was delivered in the Sunday afternoon, N and the Right Way." Rev. B. O. Bendall; excited, and a large a assembled. The Re Rev. H. W. Holland object of the lectures ferent under the sound movement is manage mittee of Independe Notices are given in th bills freely circulated town. Union prayer alternately in the Inde chapels, to ask God's b services. BURNING OF THE Oct. 16, being the 300 event, religious servic parish church of Thur followed by a public near the clergyman's h dressed by speakers tions. We were prese the opportunity; for th able, and all were delig in which Latimer was by a staunch old bapt much interest. e veil from before the braham, that they may their fathers pierced I native of China, who s medical studies in the urgh, has received the e Occasional Paper of cal Missionary Society, g Fun has not as yet he character and office onary to China: He ountry for a time to s; and it is earnestly at he may in due time ecrate his life to the tian Medical Missions, gh expectations which as expressed regarding ISON.-At length legal en against this popish ish church. Sir Fitzroy lied to the Court of rule against the Archto shew cause why he ainst the Archdeacon; ranted it. GENERAL. LORD JOHN RUSSELL, at a meeting in the city a few weeks ago, said:-"There was no use in our free institutions if men were not to form their own opinions. He would only say, that in all the opinions he had expressed, his chief object and reward had been the welfare of the country. Totally mistaken, no doubt, he had been on many occasions, but he had always said on those occasions, If I am wrong let the opinion of the country set me right and direct me."" DR XING, THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY AT ATHENS, was some years ago cruelly persecuted by the Russian party, and actually imprisoned in the criminal gaol, with felons and malefactors, for having spoken disrespectfully, in his own house, of some of the mummeries and superstitions of the so-called Orthodox Church. Since then, however, the tables are turned, and the American alliance is now as earnestly courted by the Russian party as it was then despised. CHAPEL ROBBERY.-On Saturday morning, Nov. 3, a robbery was perpetrated at the Tabernacle, Moorfields. Having in the minister's vestry regaled themselves on biscuits and port wine, the thieves proceeded to the long vestry, breaking open several closets, and, finding nothing but tracts, left the doors standing wide open; but returning to the minister's vestry, decamped with the silk gown. During 102 years this is the first attempt at robbery. the autumnal meeting al Union in London, mes said, that at the try, he had been preis, with £200 more, he form a fund on behalf Ten thousand pounds RCH.-Samuel Morley, the same Union, said: reat dismay on what he nals' of religion. In e attention given to organs, chanting, &c., uld be our ruin." IC PREACHING. - The THE CHINESE are flocking into Australia Court has decided, in by thousands. They are frugal and induseyan preacher, that a trious-make money by the refuse thrown ersuasion had a clear away by the English diggers-and of 20,000. ublic street, so long as men not twenty have been committed for public peace-[or, we crime in six months. Still they are not thoroughfare.] popular. A CAUTION.-A man was placed a few days ago in a lunatic asylum at Berlin to be treated for mental alienation, brought on by the use of hair dye. On examining the dye which he had employed, it was ascertained to be composed of lead, mercury, and lunar caustic. It produced violent pains in the head, and at length led to madness. |