the Indian trade. He entreated them to reform their lives, and to read the Scriptures. He related to them much of the past exercises of his own mind, and how the reading of the Scriptures had been blest to the comforting of his own soul. The earnestness and apparent solicitude with which he exhorted these ignorant and depraved men, at a time, when he expected to live but a few hours, could not be exceeded.

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that institution which has done so much for me.'

He always appeared afraid of deceiving himself by setting too high an estimate on the evidences of his christianity. He usually spake of his comfortable frames of mind, with a modest reserve, while on the subject of his doubts, and when speaking of his unworthiness, he took greater liberty. On the morning of the 7th of May, being very low, he said, "My mind is not so comfortable as it has been. The evil one seems to be trying to distress me." On the following day, being almost speechless, he said, "I am happy in my mind-I believe that after death I shall go to heaven, and I long to be gone." On the 9th of May, he was deeply af

He was asked, How do you feel reconciled to the thought of dying? He answered, "I am satisfied that God should do as he please." Do you hope to be saved? "O yes, I have comfortable hope, and have had for some time." What is the ground of your hope? My hope is entirely in the Lord Jesus Christ-infected on the departure of two of the fewhat he has done to save my soul." How male missionaries for Carey, not expectmuch more comfortable it is, said one, to ing to see them any more in time. He trust in the merits of Jesus, than to trust gave unquestionable evidence, that he apin our own works! "O yes!" he replied, || preciated the kindness of those who had and became overcome with affection and been instruments of comfort to his body, tears. It was asked, Do your old Catho- and of bringing hope to his soul. A similar lick notions and forms trouble you? "No, occurrence was realized on the 22d when not at all; I wish to say a good deal, but another of the missionaries parted with I am too weak. It has been a great mer- him under similar impressions. His life cy that I have been allowed to live in the being unexpectedly prolonged, in June, a mission family, for which I feel thankful periogue was coming in from Thomas to to my Maker, and I feel thankful to you Carey, and Anthony, being extremely all, for your kindness. Had I been else- desirous to get to the latter place, was where, I might have died neglected, be- carried on board and conveyed thither, fore this time." Sometimes he was heard though unable to stand alone on his feet. to say, "How much better it is to trust in One reason which he assigned for wishing Christ than in a priest." to return to Carey was, that he might once more see some of his Puttawatomie relations, for whose welfare, both temporal and spiritual, he felt uncommon solicitude.

In his protracted illness he was never heard to complain either of the hand of the Almighty, or of those who attended him. His patience was remarkable. For about one year previous to his demise, he lived in constant expectation of deathwe say expectation, because, as he often expressed himself, death to him had lost his sting. He did not dread, but desired to die.

One of our hired Frenchmen, a Catholick, advised him to bequeath his land to the Catholick church, for the purpose of procuring masses to be said for him after death; and then, as this counsellor instructed, if he should not go safely to heaven, the masses would relieve him from purgatory. Anthony heard him without saying much in reply at the moment. But his reflections on the man's blindness, awakened in his bosom so much solicitude for him, that shortly afterwards, he sent for him, and addressed him as follows:-"I once believed as you do, but now I know that these notions and forms are all useless. All the masses that could be said in the world, could not save me, if once I were dead and lost. 'If the tree fall toward the south or towards the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be."" "I went on," said he, after-thony, said one, you have been a long wards, to explain to him as well as I time afflicted, do you think your affliccould, the meaning of this passage of tions are greater than you deserve? "No, Scripture told him of my former unwill- nor a hundredth part of what I deserve." ingness to read the Scriptures, and how Can you say, "Thy will be done?" " I they had since instructed and comforted my think I can." soul; and expressed my earnest wishes, that he had capacity and disposition to read them also. He appeared pretty well satisfied with what I said, and expressed a desire to be able to read the Bible." He bequeathed his land to the mission, saying, "I wish I had it in my power to do more for

On the 25th of December, he was asked, Do you think you are wasting away? He answered, "I do." Does it appear that death is near? "It does, and I feel willing to depart. I feel at times as though I had rather die than live. Christ appears very precious to me.' An

January 6th, he said his mind had been in darkness several days. He had been almost ready to give up his hope, he felt himself to be such a sinner. "But Christ," said he, "is all my hope, if I have any. I know there is none else to whom I can go with the hope of relief."

February 23d he was asked, what was the state of his mind? He burst into tears, saying, "My heart is so hard I cannot pray." A few days previous to his death, he said, "I feel a peace which the world can neither give nor take away. I can look forward with pleasure to the hour of my dissolution: death does not appear to me like the king of terrors: Christ is very precious to me."

Through the course of the night previous to his death, he frequently remarked, that he could not remain here much longer. By morning light, he was speechless and insensible. For an hour, or more, every departing breath was accompanied by a moan, but without any contortion of the body whatever. Without the least convulsion of any part, his spirit took its flight, leaving not the smallest doubt with those who had been acquainted with him for the last three years of his life, that it "was carried by angels in

to Abraham's bosom."

to God by thy blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation!"

DEDICATION.

The house is

On the 21st of May, the new Baptist Meeting-house in Woburn was opened for worship, and an interesting sermon delivered by the pastor, Rev. S. S. Malducted by Rev. Mr. Weston of Camlory. The devotional services were conbridge, Rev. Mr. Malcom of Boston, and the Rev. Mr. Bennet of the Congregational Society, Woburn. situated in the centre of the village, and in its dimensions is 53 feet by 60 exclusive of a projection 6 feet by 36, with a handIonic columns. some tower supported in front by four the floor and 20 in the galleries. There are 88 pews on house, and land connected with it, are the property of the Church, and the day following the dedication, nearly all the

pews were rented.

Churches Constituted.

The

A new Baptist Church was constituted at Great Falls, Somersworth, N. H. May 29, under promising circumstances, and has since received an addition of 5 by baptism and two by letter. Rev. David James is their Minister.

Immediately preceding the funeral, a discourse was delivered, when the surviving pupils, who had been associates of the deceased were warned by the late death, to be ready also; and encouraged to come to Christ, by the circumstances of the conversion of the deceased. Christians were consoled by the reflection that the late sufferer had joined the choirs above; and the missionaries were happily reminded that this fruit of their labours had pass- On Thursday, June 5, a new Baptist ed beyond the reach of their helping church, consisting of 36 members, was conhands and anxious bosoms. At the same stituted in Brookline, near Boston. The time, the reflection was brought home with Rev. Joseph Grafton was Moderator, and weight-how few of the Puttawatomie Rev. C. P. Grosvenor, Clerk, of the meettribe had reached the abodes of the blessing, and the following gentlemen officiated! Alas! only one other of whom we have heard, has left behind known evi-read portions of Scripture; Rev. D. Sharp dence of sanctification! This was an el- made the introductory prayer; Rev. H. derly Puttawatomie woman, a member of Malcom preached the Sermon; Rev. Bela the church at Carey, who died in the Jacobs expressed the fellowship of the mission family last October. We humbly churches; and the Rev. C. P. Grosvenor trust that these two are with the Lord. Omade the concluding prayer. The prosgracious God, permit us to hope that many pects are flattering that this effort to enothers of this tribe will be allowed to unite large the kingdom of grace, will be in the everlasting song, "Thou art worthy, crowned with success by the Head of the for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us Church.

ed on the occasion:- -Rev. E. Williams

LINES

OCCASIONED BY WATCHING THE LAST MOMENTS OF MARIA E. B. JUDSON,

AH! this is death my innocent!-'tis he

Whose chilling hand has touched thy tender frame;

With placid feeling we behold thee still,

For thou art lovely in his cold embrace.

Serene thy whitened brow, and thy mild eye
Tinged with a deeper blue than when in health.
Thy trembling lips are pale, thy bosom throbs;
Yet still we weep not, for full well we know
This agitation is the soul's release
From its low tenement, to mount above.

Thou heed'st us not-not e'en the bursting sigh
Of thy dear father, now can pierce thine ear-
And yet that look, that supplicating glance,-

What would it crave? what wouldst thou ask, my love!
Has e'er thy father told thee of a spot,

A dwelling place, from human ken concealed?
A mansion where the weary and the sad,
And broken-hearted find a sweet repose?
And has he told thee, in that dwelling-place
There calmly slumbers one whose gentle hand
From earliest infancy supplied thy wants;
Whose bosom was thy pillow, and whose eye
Forever beamed on thee with fondest love?
And would'st thou seek thy mother in the grave?
(For 'tis the grave I speak of,) there is rest-
And thou art weary, love, and need'st repose.
Though short thy life, full many a day of pain
And night of wretchedness has been thy lot.
Born in a heathen country, far removed
From all thy parents loved in former years,

When thou first saw'st the light, friends were not there,
To kneel beside thy mother, and implore
Blessings upon thy little head, and sing

The song of gratitude, and joy, and praise.
Strangers were there-strangers to truth and love,
Strangers to feeling, strangers to her God.

Thy father came not there to bless his babe,
And glad the heart of her who gave thee birth.*
Alas! a loathsome, dark, and dreary cell
Was his abode, anxiety his guest.

Thy mother's tale, replete with varied scenes,
Others will tell-I leave to other harps,
And other voices, sweeter far than mine,
To sing her matchless worth, her deeds of love,
Her toils, her zeal, her sufferings, and her death.

But all is over now-she sweetly sleeps

In yonder new made grave-and thou, sweet babe,
Shall soon be softly pillow'd on her breast.
Yes, ere to-morrow's sun shall gild the west,
Thy father shall have said a long adieu
To the last ling'ring hope of earthly joy,
And thou, MARIA, wilt have found thy rest.
"Thy flesh shall rest in hope," till that great day
When he, who once endur'd far greater griefs
Than mortal man can know, who, when on earth,
Receiv'd the little children to his arms,
Graciously blessing them, shall come again.
Shall come, not in the garb of sinful man,
But clothed in robes of everlasting power.
Then shall thy dust arise-nor thine alone,
But all who sleep shall wake, and rise with thee.
Then, like the glorious body of thy Lord,
Who wakes thy dust, this fragile frame shall be.
Then shalt thou mount with him on angel wings,
Be freed from sorrow, sickness, sin, and death,
And in his presence find eternal bliss,

S. H. B.

* Referring to Dr. Judson's imprisonment at Ava, at the time Mrs. J. was confined.

It was our purpose to have abridged the following discourse by Rev. William T. Brantly, delivered before the Board of Foreign Missions at their late annual meeting in New-York; but on careful perusal, we are unwilling to diminish its full effect by subtracting any thing from the important matter it exhibits. The forcible illustration in this discourse cannot fail to interest the heart of every christian reader; and besides gratifying our patrons, it may be read with decided advantage, in every assembly that has not the privilege of a stated ministry.

PHILIPPIANS ii. 16.

Among whom ye shine as lights in the world, holding forth the word of life.

Why is it, brethren, that in con- urges spirit into benevolent action ducting to maturity the designs of with spirit, and thus honours with mercy, God has always employed a participation in each other's hapthe instrumentality of human ac-piness the fallen children of his tions? On other occasions he has great family. not appealed to the operation of We may not go beyond the intermediate agencies, but has scope of divine benevolence in commanded, and it was done-has quest of the reasons of such a uttered his decree, and obsequious providence as this. For, it is easy nature has assumed the command- to perceive that such an order ed posture. But in the work of of things is, of all others, best human renovation, in which Deity adapted to the moral ties and bearproposes the most exalted expres-ings of our apostate race, and that sions of his own character, and on which he suspends the brightest emphasis of his glory, he has adopted an arrangement by which the co-operation of inferior agents is constantly invited. By a re- creatures. markable economy, he here brings We admire then, the wisdom man to man, turns the force of one and the mercy which are combinintelligent nature upon another, "ed in the constitution of that uniAUG. 1828.

thereby the great designer has consulted, by a determination of his plans unexpected to us, the most direct and certain means of happiness to a whole species of guilty

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versal apostleship, by which the
spirit of true religion has transfu-
siveness as one of its prominent
characteristics, and in making
communicable goodness one of the
dearest fruits of light. We there-
fore assume as a position fairly de-
ducible from the text-THAT THE
SPIRIT OF CHRISTIANITY, AND THE

DESIRE OF ITS EXTENSION ARE IN-
SEPARABLE.

the negligence and omission of their past life. When, however, the great Master requires it at our hands, and holds us responsible to him for the faithful discharge of our duty, we must exhibit the claims and principles of his religion as they truly exist, and not as they stand, frittered into insignificance, by the dull and reluctant conceptions of those who fail in its exemplification.

In taking such a ground as this, we are sensible that we adopt a We are acquainted with no parprinciple of a most uncompromis- ticular in which there is a broader ing import. And should it be un- disproportion betwixt the genuine tenable, or merely gratuitous; spirit of religion and the actual should the spirit of our profession history of its professors, than there demand no such maxim as one of is in respect to the efforts and the ultimate laws of our religious achievements of propagation. experience, we should deserve to There have been a few in all ages be confounded before you, for at- of the Church, and we are happy tempting to impose that upon you to believe, more in this than in any as a law of Christ, for which no other, who have indeed felt and part of his religion will be answer- acted in honourable accordance able. But should the comprehen- with the sentiment which constisive and affecting sentiment now tutes the thread of this discourse; advanced, be found strictly true; but this number is small, even should the inquiry which we now now, in comparison with the great institute, result in the refutation of body of the Redeemer's avowed every objection to it, and in its full friends. It is only some of a famand undeniable confirmation, so ily, and some of a church, and that we are urged by the power of some of a community, who stand truth, to concede the point that forth to vindicate that wisdom of there is no true religion apart from which they are the professed chilthe desire of its extension, we shall || dren. Their zeal and spirit are be laid under the painful necessity almost smothered by the mass of of affixing the mark of spurious- inertness with which they are enness to the pretended christianity of compassed; and instead of being many; of applying the goads of able to shed forth the lustre of a reprehension to the indolence of collective flame, they can but some; of entering a sharp expos- sparkle in the dim flickerings of tulation with the tardiness and in- the "smoking flax." difference of others, and of charging upon ALL, the guilt of a life wretchedly at variance with the requirements of duty. It cannot, of course, be a welcome office to disturb, merely for the sake of disturbing the ancient repose of those who have so long rested in quietude upon the indulgence of a sleepy conscience; nor can it be desirable to fret into the irritations of compunction, those whom inveterate habit has reconciled to all

We think, therefore, that it is high time that the discriminating maxims of experimental christianity were appealed to, for the decision of the question betwixt those who acknowledge no other religion than that which seeks to impart itself, and those who are contented to lock up their religion, if religion it may be called, within the silent chambers of their own breast. This appeal will be fairly made in the elucidation of the