place, to be baptized; but finding him | tend a temperance meeting, to be held deficient in the necessary qualifica- on the next day, at our preaching tions, I did not dare to baptize him. place near Batie's prairie. I sent him word last summer, to come here about the usual time of my arrival. But providence having detained me, by the sickness of one of my children, my arrival was unavoidably delayed to a very late date. They arrived just upon the eve of my departure. I communicated to them, however, the glad tidings of salvation; and they paid very good attention to all that was said to them on the subject. Missionaries from the United Brethren, and the American and Baptist Boards, were present at the meeting. Speeches were made by Cherokees, and by the missionaries. A strong feeling appeared to prevail against the use of intoxicating liquors, and against the traffic in them. Between thirty and forty signatures were added to those already pledged to total absti nence. A memorial to the National Council I am subjected to great inconvenience from being unable to obtain pro-was adopted by the meeting, praying visions when wanted, in these regions. that a law may be enacted, prohibiting The gentlemen in charge of the posts the introduction and sale of intoxicahave received instructions from Sir ting driuks, and pledging themselves to George Simpson, the governor of the support such a law, if enacted. NearHon. Hudson's Bay Company, not to ly if not quite the whole assembly give any assistance but to the Wesley- signed the memorial; and the leading ans connected with the British Board. members of the council present, enThus excluding all other denomina-gaged to support it before the council. tions, particularly those connected with Strong hopes are entertained of its foreign Boards. These instructions success. affect me very much, as I cannot receive any assistance from the company, being employed by a foreign Board. Memorials from other sections, against this evil, gambling and carrying deadly weapons, will be presented to The gentlemen of the posts, have the council. We hope the moral feelthemselves, always manifested a wil-ings of the community are awaking to lingness to favor and assist me in my missionary labors. I have ever experienced good offices from them, and I am therefore persuaded that the fault does not originate with any of those who constitute the body of the company. As I have here, on the borders of the lake, many members of the church, it is very desirable to adopt some measures for removing these obstacles to my laboring among them. The only effectual means that I can think of, is to obtain a recommendation to one of the Baptist Boards in England. And should any of these take me up, it will be advisable for them to make a formal application to the committee of the H. B. Company, commending me to their protection, and soliciting their kiud offices in my behalf, when needed. Cherokees. a sense of the ruinous effects of these vices, with which the season of agitatation and removal flooded the nation. September 2. We rode to Honey Creek, where an appointment had been made for us. Found the congregation already assembled. Observing very devout attention and deep seriousness in the assembly, we invited serious inquirers to come forward for prayer and instruction. Several immediately came forward, under apparently deep emotions. The brethren of Valley Towns church, have established a branch at this place, about twenty-five miles from Delaware Town, where the church is located. The brethren here have a neatly hewed log meeting-house, 20 feet by 25, ready for covering-evincing their interest in the religion they have professed. 3. Rode eight miles last night. This morning the man, at whose house we staid, proposed to send word to the EXTRACTS FROM A LETTER OF REV. neighbors, if we could wait and preach EVAN JONES, DATED CHEROKEE NA- to them. We agreed to do so, and a number of persons came in, at short Temperance meeting-Preaching-Val-notice, and gave serious attention to ley Towns church. On Tuesday the 31st ult. I started, in company with br. Bushyhead, to at the word. We afterwards visited some of our old neighbors on Grand river, who expressed a wish to have preaching among them also. We find open ings for preaching in all directions, stopped, and the solemn silence interand at every place serious attention isrupted only by deep sighs and mourngiven. Solemn attention-Deeply affecting occasion-Baptism. ing. The first speaker was unable to proceed, and the prayer was continued by another brother. The presence of the Lord was most graciously manifested. After sermon, eleven happy Cherokee converts were baptized, in the name of the adorable Trinity. An interesting season at the Lord's table, closed the exercises of the day. Before dismission, invitation to serious inquirers was We had preaching again at night, for the benefit of the near neighbors. The house was again crowded, and we had a profitable and soleinn meeting. 4. Rode seventeen miles to Delaware Town. Found here an excellent hewed log meeting-house, thirty feet square, enclosed and filled with seats, and a temporary pulpit. The house was crowded. A spirit of solemn and devout attention pervaded the assem-given, and about twenty, who appeared bly. After preaching, candidates for deeply affected, came forward for baptism were examined. Ten were prayer. approved-four of them quite young. They gave such an account of the exercises of their minds as, taken with the testimony of the brethren who knew their conduct, satisfied the church that they had experienced a change of I am greatly rejoiced to find the heart. At night, the native brethren Valley Towns church holding fast delivered interesting discourses. The their profession, and manifesting an range of thought was quite respectable ardent and growing zeal for the cause for the limited advantages of the speak- of the Redeemer. Since their arrival The sentiments were truly evan-in this country, a new church has been gelical, and the style of address solemn constituted from it, near Batie's prairie, and impressive. as you have been informed, and considerable numbers have been added to both churches. ers. 5. Sabbath. We assembled in the meeting-house for worship at sun-rise. I addressed them on the importance of cherishing devotional feelings on the Sabbath day. At ten o'clock a uative brother named Dayubsene preached, after which, and the reception of another candidate for baptism, the principal services of the day commenced. This was the most interesting season 1 have witnessed for years. At the very commencement of the first prayer, all hearts were full, every eye suffused with tears, the utterance of the speaker It is very gratifying to learn the fact, that since the arrival of the Cherokees in this country, much fewer deaths have occurred among the pious portion of the community, in proportion to their numbers, than among other classes. The prospect of the extension of the Redeemer's kingdom among the Cherokees, and especially in our own denomination, is in a high degree encouraging, and calculated greatly to strengthen and animate our zeal. Miscellany. ENGLISH DEPUTATION TO DENMARK. In a letter of Mr. Oncken, on a preceding page, our readers are informed that a deputation of English Baptists, consisting of Messrs. Giles of Leeds, and Dowson of Bradford, had been sent to Denmark, to intercede with the authorities there, in behalf of our imprisoned brethren P and A.Munster, and of the infant churches who are struggling with the fierce spirit of persecution that prevails in that kingdom. The following letter from the deputation, and the documents connected with their mission, from which we make some extracts, are published in the October number of the English Baptist Magazine. Letter from the deputation. Through the very kind introductions of Lord Palmerston and Sir H. W. W. Wynn, the British plenipotentiary for Denmark, we have been twice favored with an audience with the king, who accepted our memorials and received us very kindly, expressing much respect for the body by whom we were sent. We had also interviews with the prime minister, the Bishop of Sealand, and other persons of high rank and influence; from whom we also received Adolph Munster, after having for nearly four months, and Pastor Peter Munster for nine months, undergone the hardships of imprisonment, besides the various other inconveniences which such a situation necessarily involves, are now sentenced to a fine of sixty dollars each, with costs; also that in Langeland, among other instances of hardship, a poor man, named Andreas, has been called to suffer the loss of all his worldly goods, together with a rigorous much politeness. What the final result of our errand may be we cannot tell, though one thing is certain, that our visit has produced a very powerful impression both on the government and the people; so that a provisional sentence passed on our brethren has been very unexpectedly light and speedy, and the laws are already under consideration with a view to their being modified. Bitter enmity however against our brethren, whom the Superior Court has pronounced to be men of unimpeachable moral charac-imprisonment, on bread and water; and that ter and of evangelical sentiment, exists in some quarters; and so purely despotic is the government, that, though the case has been decided in the chief court of justice, our brethren are still kept in bonds, because they will not promise to refrain from public worship until the law of the case is ultimately settled. We send you for insertion our printed address to the clergy and a copy of our final address to the king. In a postscript they add So powerful is the influence of Prussia over the neighboring countries, that we have felt it our duty to seek an interview with the king of Prussia, respecting the state of whose feeling towards our denomination we were questioned both by the king of Denmark and his prime minister. We hope to procure his intercession for our brethren in Denmark, and obtain from him definite and permanent concessions towards our body. He is most favorably inclined. Our persecuted brethren in Denmark are every thing the denomination could wish, both in piety and intelligence. Mrs. Fry, and J. J. Gurney, Esq. have done every thing at Copenhagen to forward our cause. Address to the Bishops and Clergy. Reverend Sirs similar fines and punishments are threatened against all baptists who do not bring their children to the Lutheran font. That measures so severe should have been adopted against men guilty of no other crime than the peaceable diffusion of their conscientious opinions, cannot in our judgment be reconciled with the principles either of justice or humanity; and while it must occasion pain to those who are actuated by no higher feeling than philanthropy, will especially be deplored by all who have felt the love and are animated by the spirit of Christ. Hence, throughout Great Britain and America, wherever these proceedings have been made known, they have been received, by the several branches of the christian church, with such unmingled feelings of grief and astonishment, as that clergymen of all denominations have with most unusual promptitude, availed themselves of the opportunity afforded by our visit to this country, of laying their sentiments on this subject at his majesty's feet. Most willing, reverend gentlemen, are we to believe that, by what has already taken place, your pious and benevolent feelings have been painfully shocked; and that you must feel with us, that to seize the property, deal harshly with the persons, and distress the families of men, conscientious, however mistaken you may suppose them in their views, can never, as it is alien to the spirit of Christ, promote his glory. That under all forms of government and religion the baptists, wheresoever they exist, petitted unmolested to maintain and By various associations of baptists and by many ministers and christians of all other denominations in Great Britain, we have been deputed to lay before his gracious majesty, the king of Denmark, numerously signed and duly attested memorials, praying for the release of the baptist pastors, Peter and Adolph Munster, from prison and from all other legal inflictions; and for the exten-page their opinions, except in one or sion of religious liberty to the denomination to which they belong. This duty, in a full and gracious audience with his majesty, it has been out happiness to discharge; and we now, reverend gentlemen, respectfully call your attention to the subject; in the hope that our efforts, through your christian influence and intercession, may not fail of the desired success. two nose countries which owe their religion to the right of private judgment established by the immortal Luther, appears to us and to the whole Christian world, as far as the circumstance is known, an anomaly most strangely unaccountable: and, therefore, in the name and for the honor of our common Christianity, we earnestly invoke your powerful aid to take from the enemies of divine truth the prolonged opportunity of saying, that professed Christians withhold from each other that charity which pagans are unwilling to deny. That the Lutheran in England has the fullest liberty to practise and propagate his faith, we most heartily rejoice, and were an attempt made, by any class of British Christians, to injure him either in his person or estate for doing so, we should unhesitatingly denounce his spirit as injurious to religion and dishonoring to Christ. It is alleged against the baptists in general, that, using no written confession of faith, their sentiments must of necessity be fluctuating and indefinite; while respecting Danish baptists it has been affirmed that they disregard the sanctity of marriage, and that their ministers have been impelled by motives of vanity to assume the office which they hold. As to the charge of vanity, founded as it is in mere suspicion, we would say to those by whomsoever it may be made, in the words of our blessed Lord, "Judge not, that ye be not judged." In answer to the accusation respecting marriage, we pronounce it altogether either a misrepresentation or a mistake; since we find, upon inquiry, that our brethren have never deviated in this matter from the ceremonies of the Lutheran church. And as to the instability of sentiment supposed to exist among the baptists in general, we adduce the decisive testimony of three hundred years to show that, while churches with written confessions of faith have been, and still are, agitated by great differences of opinion, a striking uniformity of sentiment has, in all important points, prevailed amongst the baptists, as the result of that more direct appeal which they are in the constant habit of making to the word of God; so that the tenets anciently expressed by Johnson, Bunyan, and Gill are, with little or no difference, those which have been more recently propounded by Fuller, Carey, and Hall. And now, reverend gentlemen, fully as sured of the truth and importance of these statements, and with a solemn anticipation of that day when we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, we beseech you by the mercies of Him" who hath redeemed us unto God by his blood," to stantly, and "as with the heart of to rise and join with us in a hol ny against regulations and practices which involve so dangerous a supposition as that it is possible by carnal weapons to promote the interests of truth. So, reverend gentlemen, shall it once more, even on earth, be said, "See how these christians love one another;" and Jesus Christ, accepting as a personal service, your kindness to his disciples, will say at last, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." CHINESE MISSIONS. Their Practicability. The following are extracts from a communication of the Rev. Mr. Orr, of the Presbyterian Board, lately returned from Singapore. There is probably no field of missionary labor, which has been subject to so great vicissitudes in the estimation of the christian public, or in the interest which has at different times been felt in reference to it, as the field of Chinese missions. At one time there was no part of the heathen world, which was thought to be so important, or awakened so deep an interest in the public mind, as China. It is wellknown that the popular but extravagant and unguarded statements, of Mr. Gutzlaff, contributed more than any other cause, to excite this extraordinary interest in that country. A few years, however, passed by, and it was found that the high-wrought anticipations which had been raised, were not realized-it was discovered that after all that had been said and written on "China Opened," the Chinese Empire yet remained as effectually closed against all direct missionary effort, as it was twenty years ago. The discovery of these facts, and the disappointment given to the sanguine hopes of some, have, I think, produced a re-action in the public mind: and there is at this time, a tendency in the christian community of this country, to underrate the importance of what can be done, and what ought to be done, in the field of Chinese missions. In speaking of Chinese missions it is unnecessary, at this time, to say any thing of the Chinese Empire, for the obvious reason, that there is so much uncertainty about it, that whatever might be said, can not be any thing but conjecture. The present struggle between the English and Chinese may bring about results of intense interest to the christian world, and of vital importance to the Chinese people. But on the other hand it may terminate so as to leave the prospect of the evangelization of China, in the same condition that it was previous to the commencement of the war. It is enough for us to know, that He who sitteth in the heavens, working out his wise and beneficent purposes, amidst the jarring and discordant elements of this world, will throw the door wide open, at the time which will accord best with the advancement of his glory and his kingdom. But the Chinese Empire, like an immense and over-crowded hive, has long been pouring out swarms of its superabundant population, which have, to a certain extent, overspread all the surrounding countries. The kingdom of Siam contains | ment under the English government, is ■ Chinese population, more numerous than the Siamese themselves, the owners and rulers of the country. The Chinese of the city of Bangkok alone are estimated at more than three hundred thousand. There are a few trifling restrictions placed upon the missionaries in that place, as they are not always permitted to select their own place of residence in the city. However, the Chinese in Bangkok may be considered as, in the main, fairly open and accessible to the labors of the Christian missionary. And here, in this single city, there is a population more than sufficient to give employment to all the Chinese missionaries in that whole field. And little, very little, has yet been done for these immortal souls, and few, very few, are now preparing to break the bread of life to these three hundred thousand Chinese. But so far as the gospel has been preached among them, it has been attended with encouraging suc cess. There are several settlements of Chinese scattered over the immense island of Borneo, in two of which our brethren of the Reformed Dutch Church are now laboring. | The island of Java contains a Chinese population, estimated at 70,000. In the city of Batavia, there are about 35,000; in Samarang, a town on the north-east side of the island, about 20,000, and in Surubaya, a seaport farther to the east, about 10,000. In the island of Bintang, in and around the settlement of Rhio, there are about 4 or 5,000 Chinese, among whom one brother from the Netherlands Missionary Society is laboring. But in some respects the most interesting settlements of the Chinese, are those under the English government; for they are free to the operations of missionaries of every kind and quality, whether they be protestant or popish, christian or infidel. The town of Malacca, with its immediate vicinity, contains a Chinese population of about 5 or 6,000, and was the seat of the first protestant mission to these colonies. It was established by the Rev. Dr. Milne. This town is the seat of the Anglo Chinese college; and the London missionary society, has here a flourishing mission. There is a christian church collected from the heathen, which contained, when I was there in 1838, about forty members, of whom thirty were adults and of course in full communion. In Penang or Prince of Wales island, another English settlement, the number of Chinese is about 8 or 9000. Here too the London society has a mission established, and a boarding school containing about 30 scholars. Singapore. It is the most important because the Chinese population there is much the most numerous-it is increasing the most rapidly-it contains the greatest variety of dialects,* and because Singapore is a point from which easy access can be had to China itself, and to all the surrounding countries to which the Chinese have emigrated. According to the census taken in 1840, the Chinese population of Singapore, and a few small islands connected with it, was 17,179. Here, then, as far as numbers are concerned, there is, in the English and Dutch settlements, a Chinese population nearly as large as the whole population of the Sandwich Islands; while in the kingdom of Siam, or even in the city of Bangkok alone, their number is more than double the whole population of those islands. And while so many of these settlements are accessible to us, and they are so imperfectly supplied with laborers, it does not become us to complain that the Chinese empire is closed against the efforts of the church of Christ. There is at present work for us to do, much more than could be done by all the laborers now in the field, if they all had the language perfectly. And I hope to show at another time, to the satisfaction of all your readers, that there is no special advantage in having a very large field, when there are not the men nor the means to occupy it fully. These settlements may be considered the outposts of the kingdom of idolatry, which Satan has set up in the great Chinese family. Let us possess ourselves of these. If we can succeed, by the blessing of God, in evangelizing the Chinese of these settlements, if China should not be thrown open, a great object will have been gained—a most blessed work will have been done. And if the Chinese empire should be thrown open, the evangelization of these outposts will be a good beginning; it will, prepare the way for going on to the conquest of the empire.-For. Miss. Chron. GREECE. The state of education and religion. The following remarks occur in the journal of a tour through Northern Greece, by the Rev. Mr. Benjamin, missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. From the same author are the "Observations on *The variety of dialects is no advantage except so far as it is considered a place for learning the language and making preparation to But the most important Chinese settle-enter the Chinese empire. |