From certain providential circumstances, her pity and her sympathies were particularly called forth in be her late pastor, the Rev. Dr. Sharp, at the Charles street meeting house in this city, on the Sabbath next succeeding the announcement of her lamented death. The discourse was found-half of the colored population. She ed on Mark xiv. 8, She hath done what she could. Having illustrated the import of this declaration in its original connections, and enforced certain principles of faith and duty which it naturally suggests, the discourse adverts at the close to the occasion which had led to the selection of the subject, and subjoins the following Brief sketch of Mrs. Crocker's life and character. not only taught for several years a colored school on the Sabbath, but inet with poor colored persons two or three evenings in the week, to teach them to read and to write, and to impart such moral and religious instruction as might exert a favorable influence over their condition, their personal habits, and their eterual prospects. She felt for this class, because others did not feel for them sufficiently. She attended to them because they were too much neglected. I honor her memory for these labors of love. If there be any thing godlike in human conduct, it is in regarding those with kindness who are passed by, and who need the encouraging voice of humanity, and the hand of kindness stretched out to them, to inspire them with selfrespect, and prompt them to efforts for their present and future wellbeing. In April, 1827, Miss Rispah Warren made a public profession of religion, and united with this church. I have not at this distance of time a distinct recollection of the process of her mind from a state of indifference to truth, to its sober and candid consideration, nor of the doubts and fears which terminated in an humble and thankful reliance on the mercy of God through our Lord Jesus Christ. So much I know --she had an inquisitive, investigating mind, and was excessively fearful of self-deception. She examined the Her labors among the colored popuscriptures for herself, and was not lation of her own city, suggested to her contented either with superficial views, the still greater need of attempts to or with superficial evidence of her own civilize, to christianize, and to regenpersonal interest and participation in erate Africa. She read and thought the blessings of the gospel. The con- much of the mission stations in that sequences were such as might have dark and degraded land. Her sympabeen expected-a uniformly cousistent thies were strong. She considered course of conduct. I believe that her herself a debtor to that untutored and whole deportment, during the many oppressed race, and was anxious to years of her membership, was such labor among them. There was, howas "becometh women professing god-ever, nothing romantic in her desire liness." I do not recollect having to go on a mission to Africa. heard any one find fault with her, and weighed the subject coolly-gravely-this is much to say in this fault-finding and yet with bigh Christian feeling. world. She consulted her pastor. He felt adverse to the undertaking. He stated the difficulties, and to his mind insuperable objections to a single female's embarking on such a mission. Another interview was sought-the objections were repeated. Still she was calmly and immovably bent on going, should circumstances seem to favor. An opportunity in process of time of fered; a mission family were going out, and she accompanied them. Before her departure, she communicated her views and desires to the Board of Foreign Missions, who, feeling entirely satisfied with her character for piety, prudence, judgment, charity and zeal, and believing that she might be useful in a mission family without being subjected to any thing unsuitable to female delicacy and propriety, cordially accepted the proffer of her services, But she was not contented to escape censure. Her aim was to do good. She became an assiduous Sabbath school teacher. Placed in favorable circumstances for doing so, she devoted the largest portion of her waking hours to visiting the poor, the sick, and the neglected widow and orphan, for several years. At home she made garments for the poor; abroad, her walks were strictly walks of usefulness. She was regardless of ornamenting her own person, that she might have more ample means of feeding and clothing others. It is not too much to say, that like her Master she went about doing good. "She did what she could." And when her own means were exhausted, she applied to those who had means and hearts to co-operate with her. She When the Board had decided that she might go, she expressed herself as having attained the great desire of her heart. From that time there was no faltering in her purpose ;--she never hesitated whether to stay or go ;-she had a desire to depart. And it is believed that to the day of her death she never regretted the course she took. She felt convinced that she was in the path of duty. You may judge something of the settled purpose of her mind, and of her happiness arising from a belief that she was where duty called, from a letter addressed to a member of this church in May last. She writes: "Far away as I am, from the home of my birth, the society of former Christian friends, and many associations calculated to endear the affections to beloved America, yet I am as happy and as perfectly contented here as in any situation of my past life, and am sometimes astonished at myself, and led to inquire if it is for want of natural feeling and affection, that I have never seen cause to regret that I am placed in a foreign land. I feel, that one of the prominent reasons why I enjoy so much peace of mind is a conscious sense that I am in the path of duty. There is an increasing satisfaction in trying to do something in the cause of our blessed Master. There are vast responsibilities resting upon me and others, connected with this mission. There is an influence going forth from this mission, which will tell in future years more clearly what the faithfulness or remissness of those shall have been, who have the care of nearly fifty children. Pray for us, my dear sister, that we may possess wisdom, grace, patience, humility, perseverance, and every Christian grace. I sometimes think I am not forgotten by all the dear church I have left." On the 28th of August, after a severe attack of fever, she departed this life, we have no doubt for a better. She was prevented by disease from giving a dying testimony to the excellence of the religion of Christ, but that was not at all necessary. Her whole life, from the time she professed the name of Christ, had been one continued testimony to the heart-expanding, and lifepurifying efficacy of the gospel. Her bereaved and afflicted husband remarks," Had her life and health been preserved, she would no doubt have been eminently useful in this 6 VOL. XXI. land. Her prudence, self-denial, deadness to the world, and devotedness to the cause of God, eminently qualified her for the station she occupied. To you, who had been for so many years intimately acquainted with her course, it will not be necessary to say any thing respecting her religious character. Her unobtrusive and unremitting efforts for the temporal and spiritual welfare of the ignorant and wretched in the city of Boston, though unnoticed by the crowd, were, no doubt, to you a source of much satisfaction." Although not spared in that unhealthy clime to labor as she had fondly hoped for years, yet I have no doubt that her Heavenly Father was pleased that it was in her heart, as he was pleased with David, who "desired to build a house." And I know not any one in the whole circle of my religious acquaintance, of whom I think it could be more truly said than of her, "She hath done what she could." LOVE, DATED CORFU, NOV. 14, 1840. Renewed sickness of Mr. Love-Earnest call for more missionaries. At the time of my last letter,* the prospect of soon recovering my health was very flattering. But we knew not what was just before us. Two weeks since, I was seized with another turn of the spasmodic affection. It continued eleven hours; for the last five or six, the spasms were intense. This is the third severe attack I have had in Corfu, either of which a little more severe, or a little longer continued, must have closed my earthly ex istence. I am now recovering, but feeble. We are accustomed to look on the bright side of things. We are praying that it may be pleasing to our Heavenly Father to spare us, and we hope He The will hear our supplications. regular time for my next attack will be the 4th or 5th of December. I come now to the burden of my Fathers and brethren, pardon soul. me, in the few words that I am able to speak. I call you this day to record, that if this mission fail, I wash my * See page 7, last number of the Magazine. hands in innocency. I have said what | friends, and threats of foes, baptized a convert to these principles, into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The dark waters of spiritual death have curled and murmured. But our Father bas permitted no angry billow to roll over us. From the date of that event-the baptism)-the interest of our labors has increased in a ten-fold degree, and the enemy are this day on the retreat. I could, I have done what I could. Oh God! have mercy on me that I have been no more holy! Have mercy on my brethren bought by the Lamb's redeeming blood, and disobeying the last command of their risen Lord! Have mercy on the churches,-satisfied themselves with the bread of life, and withholding it from the famishing! Were three brethren sent out immediately, they would begin to do something in two years. Two should be sent to Patras, and one to Corfu. My work may be, and probably is, almost done. One of those to Patras may advantageously be a printer. Printing at Greek presses, and book business in general, will require all the labor of one active man. The one to Corfu, if it be not convenient for him to acquire two languages, might take the Italian only, and be almost as efficient in preaching, as if he spoke the Greek. The Italian is very easy, and one may be able to speak it with considerable readiness in one year. Nearly all the English citizens of Corfu speak also the Italian. Corfu is the key to twenty millions of souls, in the south of Europe, speaking the Italian language. We greatly need three men. We cannot do with less and hope for success. The safety of the mission requires at least two stations. And one man cannot well be sent alone to Patras. The door to missionary labor is wide open, and the fields are all white. Greater toleration than we have hitherto enjoyed, especially in Corfu, I ask not. And the domination of the patriarch in the island has just closed forever. I have abundant memoranda for these statements, but am too feeble to communicate them now. Progress made. As for Corfu, I regard the experiment as having been fully made and a great victory won. Supremacy of conscience-strict adherence to the word of God-individual responsibility-the cessation of an earthly priesthood-the spirituality of religion-voluntariness in its profession-faith in Christ crucified and arisen-redemption through His obedience, blood, and intercession --are principles which we have most openly and fearlessly declared. Such have been our principles, and for our practice, we have in the sight of all southern Europe, amid the fears of In respect to the principles above stated, only give them free course, and spiritually enslaved minds will receive an impulse, that will heave the throne of despotism from its base, and Christianity in Europe will again be free, pure, and lovely. Advantages of Corfu as a missionary station-The Pargiot Greeks. Corfu, I said, is the key to Italy. In this town are a thousand Italians, many of them men of intelligence, who either will not, or cannot remain in Italy, because of their hatred to the pope. Besides these, three thousand Jews, and four or five thousand others in Corfu, have the Italian for their common dialect. And there are in town four or five thousand more, who speak the Italian as readily as the Greek. The inhabitants of the city and suburbs are about twenty-five thousand souls. The importance of Corfu as a missionary station for the Greeks, we were never prepared to estimate till within a few months. In this town are some five or six thousand active, enterprising and intelligent men, mostly from continental Greece-of whom about one halfare the Pargiots, who, like their Sulote neighbors never bowed the knee to Ali Pacha, the tyrant of Albania. They are the flower of the Greek nation. It is from this class that we have every thing to hope. The little band in Corfu who are searching the scriptures are mostly of this class. They already see much of the error and wickedness which surround them. They are men not afraid to speak the truth. Says one of them to a priest, who, a few days since, came out to revile him for reading the New Testament, Sir, take yourself in peace out of my shop." "With such men," says he, "I wish to have nothing to do; liars, thieves, fornicators, and adulterers, in the garb of sacredness":—facts indeed, which one cannot fail to see in Corfu, if he opens his eyes. | Let these intelligent and enterprising On the 21st inst. we ordained Messrs. Greeks become converted, and they Pruvots and Foulbœuf at Bertry. Bewill carry the gospel to their brethren, tween the examination of the candiin every part of European Turkey. dates and the services, we examined The same may be said also of some, and baptized two colporteurs. One with whom we have become acquaint- named Dumanche, came up from the ed, of the two hundred students in the Département de l'Aisne, with Messrs. Jonian College and University at Cor-Moutel and Froment-the other was a fu. O how I long to preach to them son of our colporteur Michel, stationed the gospel,-the blessed and glorious at Cambray. gospel! But alas! I am able to do nothing but simply to direct Apostolos. I try to hear his report every evening of all his conversations during the day, and to give him such instruction as he needs. But when I am no longer able to do this, if left single handed, as now, the fearful retrograde immediately begins, and soon all the ground that has been gained, is lost forever. EXTRACTS France. FROM A LETTER OF MR. WILLARD, DATED DOUAY, NORD, SEPT. 30, 1840. For further information relative to the state of the French Mission, our readers are referred to the last Annual Report, page 130, of last vol. Since that time, nothing has occurred to materially change the condition or prospects of the mission. Mr. Willard continues to reside at Douay and is chiefly employed in instructing the native assistants, and in directing their la bors. In a letter of the above date, he writes: About the middle of August I went to visit Mr. Foulbœuf, 100 miles distant, and was absent one week. We examined and baptized eight persons, four had already been baptized, and one has since been baptized, who, with Foulbœuf and his wife, make fifteen. These are regularly organized into a church, having examined and adopted our common articles of faith. I broke bread to them on Sunday, and left them on Monday in an apparently prosperous condition. Those people are strongly attached to Mr. Foulbœuf. When he expressed to them, during our late embarrassment, a determination to stay and labor with them, though he had absolutely nothing to live on, they came forward and supported him voluntarily. There are seven persons more, hopefully converted, who will, I trust, be added to them in due time. That station is at present perhaps the most flourishing of all. Mr. Thieffry has recently baptized four persons, of whom two are of Lille. He has since been there to preach. Ojibwas. EXTRACTS FROM A LETTER OF MR. CA- Church on Lake Superior-Baptisms. It is with unfeigned gratitude to God, our Heavenly Father, I now take up my pen to communicate to the Board the grateful intelligence of the success which has attended my feeble efforts to promote the cause of our blessed Redeemer. Since my last communication I have had the pleasure of administering the sacred rite of baptism to seven females upon their profession of faith in the Lord Jesus, making an addition of ten members to our church on Lake Superior in the course of last year. The church consists at present of twenty-four members, all natives. I am now on the eve of returning to my field of labor. I am not yet certain where to winter, but shall probably go to Fort William, as it is much visited by Indians from all quarters to procure their respective supplies. It is at present unoccupied by missionaries of any denomination. The Board may suspect me of having too much of a roving disposition; but you are aware the people among whom I am laboring are of such a character, as to make it a necessary qualification in a missionary for these regions. I may soon require a fellow-laborer; it is impossible for me to attend to all the scattered sheep. They are so far apart from each other, that some are entirely debarred of the blessings of the preached word. They hear it once a year, a space of time too long for a disciple to be hungering and thirsting after the bread and the water of life. THE JEWS. Faiscellany. Some time since three clergymen were appointed by the Church of Scotland to visit the various countries inhabited by the Jews, for the purpose of inquiring into their number, and condition, and the prospect for establishing missions among them. From the report of this deputation, published in the Scottish Missionary Record, we make the following ex tracts: Suitable places for missionary stations. 1. SAPHAT, IN GALILEE.—In every point of view, the Holy Land presents the most important and interesting field of labor among the Jews. Ever since the year 1832, when the Pasha of Egypt took possession of Acre, the Jews of Palestine have enjoyed toleration, and some measure of protection. The recent interview of Dr. Duff with Mehemet Ali has shown the policy of that singular man. He says, "that the Government will give every facility to the Jews to return, in any number, to their own land;" that they will be treated exactly like Mohammedan subjects;" and that he is even willing that they "become proprietors of the soil." Whatever reliance may be placed on the word of the Pasha, we are quite assured of this fact, that the Jews have hitherto enjoyed peculiar tranquillity under the Governiment, and that there are no obstacles whatever on the part of the Government to the operations of the Jewish missionary. This is an advantage opened up to us by Him who has the hearts of kings in his hand, which it is impossible for us to overlook. Again, the Jews are in affliction in the land of their fathers, and this makes them more open and friendly there than in any other land. It is plainly intimated in the bible that affliction is one of the means which God will employ in the conversion of the Jews. (Ezek. xx. 37; Hos. ii. 14.) In other countries, where they are deeply engaged in worldly buisness, rich and comfortable, we found that they care little to attend to the missionary. But in Judea, the plague, poverty, the oppression of their rabbies, and the insults of the heathen, have so humbled them, that they cling to any one who will show them kindness, and listen without bitterness to the words of grace and love from the lips of the gospel messenger. They are strictly Rabbinical Jews-untainted by the Infidelity of France or the Neology of Germany. They hold the old Testament to be indeed the word of God -they have a real expectation of the coming Messiah; and this expectation is certainly greater than it was before. The missionary has thus firm ground to stand upon, and with the Hebrew bible in his hand, may expound to them, with intelligence and power, all that is written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalmis concerning Jesus. Moreover, Judea must be regarded as the centre of the Jewish world. True, the once favored nation are wanderers in every country under heaven; yet the heart of every real Israelite beats high at the very name of Jerusalem, and morning and evening he turns his face toward it during prayer. It is the heart of the nation, and every influence felt there is transmitted to all the scattered members. At Ibraila, a small town upon the Danube, a poor Jew told us of conversions at Jerusalem. In this way, whatever is done for the Jews in Palestine, will make a hundred-fold more impression than if it were done in any other land. Another important consideration is, that the Jews there look upon the English as friends. The very name of an Englishman carries with it the idea of kindness, protection and sympathy to the ear of the too often insulted Jew. Three months before our arrival in Jerusalem, an English consul had been stationed there--a gentleman in every way qualified to be the true friend of Israel and of the Jewish missionary. The boundaries of his jurisdiction are the same as those of Israel of old; and his instructions from the British Government, that he should, to the utmost of his power, extend his protection to the Jews. Is not the hand of an overruling Providence visible here? And is it not our duty to improve the interest we have in the affection of the Jews, by being the friends of their never dying souls? In addition to all this, there is no country under heaven to which Christians turn with such a lively interest as Immanuel's land; and those who love Israel bear it especially upon their hearts, because its name is interwoven with the coming conversion of Israel. It is " upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem," that God has said he will pour his spirit. (Zech. xii.) "On the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be." (Ezek. xxxiv.) "And he will feed them in Bashan and in Gilead, as in the days of old." (Micah vii.) For all these reasons, we feel no hesitation in stating that, to ns, the Holy Land presents the most attractive and the most important |