TO THE BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF

The following is the account of my afraid of a riot, but the Lord softened the labours in the Province of New Bruns-hearts of these persecutors.

I left the Northwest of Miramichi on the 27th of January, 1826, to visit Black River, where I preached three times on the Sabbath. I spent the week in visiting from house to house during the day time, and preached in the evenings. The people were very attentive at the meetings, and some were affected under the preaching of the word. I found three in the settlement who were hopefully brought to the knowledge of the truth.

I left them on the 4th of February, and

returned to Northwest to attend our con

ference meeting. On the 20th I visited the Southwest branch of the river Miramichi, and spent two weeks. I preached] on week evenings in the various settlements on the banks of the river. There are a great many inhabitants scattered in this wilderness, who are altogether destitute of the means of grace. The morals of the people are very corrupt. spent the first Sabbath about 40 miles from Northwest, preached three times on that day, and travelled and preached every evening through the week, besides|| Dear Sir, three times on the Sabbath. I travelled

On

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM REV. BEK-
JAMIN G. AVERY TO THE SECRETARY

OF THE BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY
OF MASSACHUSETTS.

backsliders by the preaching of the word; after that, sinners were awakened to a sense of their lost situation. Christmas-day three young men came forward and gave satisfactory evidence of being born again, and were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. At the next The small Church that elder Benjamin conference meeting, eleven came forOviatt named to you in his Report of ward and were received, and afterwards missionary labours, which received felbaptized. A third conference was held;lowship in Nov. last, and then consisted

and the Sabbath following I had the pleasure of baptizing thirteen persons. The work continued till the month of June. Some came forward at every conference meeting, and before I left the added to the place forty-nine were

Dear Sir,

of thirteen members has now increased
to near seventy. The Lord still seems
to be carrying on his own work. It
commenced with some youths, but oth-
ers more advanced in years have expe
rienced its power.
The moral and the

church. The means that the Lord bless-vile; and some of the most wretched and ed, were the preaching of the word and profane have given great evidence of a the administration of the ordinance of change. It has spread over a part of baptism. There is one Roman Cathothree townships. lick among the persons that have been hopefully converted to God.

I remain, dear Sir, yours in the bonds of the gospel, DAVID JAMES.

Yours, with respect,

BENJAMIN G. AVERY.

Rev. D. Sharp.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

ΤΟ HIS

BROTHER AT

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM
PETER CHASE
NEWTON.

Village of Hinesburgh, (Vt.)
Oct. 10, 1826.

My very dear Brother,

THE REV. they are yet speaking, I will hear."
From that day our brethren and sis-
ters have been rising to a spiritual and
Our confer-
heavenly frame of mind.
ences soon became full and interesting.
A number of youths resolved that they
would attend to their souls' concern, and
seek the Lord till they should find him;
and that if they perished, they would
perish at his feet, pleading for mercy.
The young people soon had religious
meetings among themselves. Instances
of conviction multiplied, and blessed be
God, twelve or fifteen, or more, can now
say, 'Come and hear, all ye that fear
God, and I will declare what he bath
done for my soul.'

"Eight weeks ago last Saturday, at the close of our monthly church meeting, I suggested to our brethren the propriety and the necessity of our having a meeting as soon as practicable, for the express purpose of confessing to God and each other, our negligence in the service of Christ, and of supplicating the throne of grace for mercy, and for a revival of religion in our own hearts and throughout the town. We agreed to meet the next Saturday. The evening before we were to meet, a young man came to me and told me that he had been for some weeks under a deep conviction of his sins, and that whilst he was sinking under their weight, the Lord had appeared for his deliverance, and had made his soul to rejoice in the liberty of the gospel. I told him of our meeting the next day,

and he said he would attend.

We en

gaged together in prayer for a time of refreshing from the presence of the Lord. The next day, he went with me to our meeting, at the opening of which I observed to the brethren, This day is this scripture fulfilled in our ears: And shall come to pass, that before they call I will answer; and while

to

Last Lord's day, we had the happiness

'See how the willing converts trace
The path their great Redeemer trod,
And follow, through his liquid grave,
The meek, the lowly Son of God.'

buried eight blooming youths with
Christ in baptism, upon profession of their
At the conference in the
faith in him.
evening, I believe many could say,

"How sweet and awful is the place,
With Christ within the doors !'

Young converts and older christians
could testify of the 'joy unspeakable and
Sinners trembled; and
full of glory.'
some, in deep distress, requested prayer.

May the Lord continue his graciously begun work, till our town, and till the world, shall be filled with his praise."

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE

SOCIETY.

The last number of the Bible Society's Monthly Extracts contains an interesting account of the Twenty-Second Anniversary of the Society.

The issues from the depository during the last year were 110,963 Bibles, and 175,439 Testaments, forming a total of 4,009,389 copies of the Scriptures issued in this country by the Society in twenty two years.

tinguished advocates of the Bible cause, The following observations by two diswill be read with the most lively interest.

Rev. J. W. Cunningham.-" We like a practical conclusion to all our remarks; and I confess I have a great design upon every man's bosom and powers and faculties in this assembly. For the danger is, lest, delighted with what you have heard, you should take up your strain of congratulation, or go away, saying it is all exceedingly true; and there the matter should end: whereas, I speak to my clerical brethren and other ministers of

Lord Teignmouth, the president, opened the meeting. "In the success," said his lordship, "which has so amply rewarded our efforts for the distribution of the holy Scriptures, we cannot but recognise, with heartfelt gratitude and devout thanksgiving, the guiding and protecting hand of the same good and gracious God who has so wonderfully preserved his written and inspired word to these times, for the instruction of mankind in righteousness, and to point out to them the way to eternal life. If obstacles have occasionally occurred, they have been removed; difficulties have been surmount-religion behind me, and to those beed; and if a passing cloud has thrown a dark shade over the horizon of our hopes, it has soon been dispersed. I could with pleasure expatiate on the benefits conferred on mankind through the instrumentality of our institution, if my strength permitted. It is a topic peculiarly calculated to excite the best sympathies of our nature, and to animate our perseverance in our labour of love."

An abstract of the Report was read by the Rev. Andrew Brandram, one of the Secretaries in the introduction to which the following Resolutions were contained, as the final determination of the Society on the subject of the Apocrypha :

fore me; and the meaning of this
plain honest English address is, that
you should bend your powers, your fac-
ulties of body and mind, to the work;
and it is from yourselves we expect the
restitution of what we have lost. I look
at many faces to-day; and I should say,
we have so many staunch friends, every
man will be a hearty operator in this
great work-but that is not the fact. I
know that the very energy which we
sometimes feel on occasions like the pre-
sent, instead of exciting to action, be-
comes the apology for inaction; and we
go home and do nothing. I trust a di-
yine blessing will be so granted to every
man, that all will take this resolution-
I will not be the dead picture, but the
living man; and this Society shall feel
the benefit of my prayers and my la-
bours. I will endeavour to turn one sub-

1. That the fundamental law of the Society, which limits its operations to the circulation of the holy Scriptures, be fully and distinctly recognised as excluding the circulation of the Apocrypha. 2. That, in conformity to the pre-scription into two, and to deepen the ceding Resolution, no pecuniary aid can be granted to any Society circulating the Apocrypha; nor, except for the purpose of being applied in conformity to the said Resolution, to any individual whatever.

3. That in all cases in which grants, whether gratuitous or otherwise, of the holy Scriptures, either in the whole or in part, shall be made to any Society, the books be issued bound; and on the express condition that they shall be distributed without alteration or addition.

The cash account of the year was as follows:

Free contributions from
Auxiliary Societies, £36,631 19 10
Receipts for Bibles and
Testaments, Reports, and
Monthly Extracts,

Legacies,

Sundry other sums,

Total net receipts,

Total net payments,

DEC. 1826.

36,462 1
3,434 11
6,239 9 6

82,768 2 9
96,014 13

interest in all hearts in my parish: and, instead of suffering myself to be rocked to sleep in that cradle which not the friends but the enemies of the Society have provided, I will go forth to the battle of the Lord, and strive to live to his glory, in promoting the salvation of all mankind.'"

The Rev. W. B. Fox, a missionary from Ceylon, said, "I have seen the fruit of the operation of the Bible Society in far distant countries, where the ef fects have been greater than I can describe. The natives of Ceylon were under the dominion of Europeans for 250 years before their conquerors gave them any part of the word of God; and it was not till this society arose, that they had versions of the scriptures. I beg to relate one very striking circumstance respecting the first labours of this society in Ceylon. Three hundred copies of St. Matthew were circulated, and one of them fell into the hands of the second person in the island, who had been rais

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ed to the highest honour in the Budhist
priesthood. He has now become a cler-
gyman of the Established Church. When
the Scriptures were completed, it was
supposed that the Cingalese would not
receive them; but a number of schools
had been established, and, as soon as the
first edition came out, the copies were
taken up by them. There are now twen-
ty thousand souls who can read the
sacred volume; and, by liberal supplies
of this Society, within eighteen months
one in every fifty speaking this language
will have a copy.
So great has been
the effect of the Scriptures, that there are
now whole parishes in which there are
heathen temples, but no worshippers;
and the inhabitants offered, about four
months ago, a Budhist temple for Chris-
tian worship. But the most singular

thing I have seen is the destruction of
caste, that horrid monster which had do-
minion over all India; and while all ages
have shown that it is not by might nor

by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord, it is true, that in the same degree that the book of revealed truth has circulated,

caste has hid its head.

Chr. Obs.

Frankfort Primary Society, organized April 17. Dea. Daniel Perkins, Pres.Stephen Littlefield, Jr. Sec.

Prospect Primary Society, organized April 20. Capt. Henry Hichborn, Pres.Silas Putnam, Sec.

Freedom Primary Society, organized April 23. Elder Daniel Richer, Pres.Cyprian Twitchell, Esq Sec.

Palermo Male Primary Society was organized April 23. Elder William Bowler, Pres.-Dea. John Rigley, Sec.

Palermo Female Primary Society was formed April 23. Mrs. Sarah Bowler, Pres.-Miss Nancy Eastman, Sec.

Montville Primary Society was organized April 25. Joseph Chandler, Esq. Pres.-Samuel Campbell, Sec.

Kennebec and Penobscot Auxiliary So

cieties.

Rev.

The Auxiliary Foreign Mission Socie-
ty of Kennebec County, was organized
at Waterville, August 29, 1826.
Dr. Chaplin, Pres.-Rev. Daniel Chess-
man, of Hallowell, Sec.

Primary Societies connected with the
Kennebec Auxiliary.
Bloomfield Primary Society, organized

AUXILIARY AND PRIMARY FOR- June 6, 1825. Mr. J. White, Pres.-J.

EIGN MISSION SOCIETIES.

Emery, 2d, Sec.

Bloomfield Female Primary Society,

The labours of the Agent of the For-organized June 6, 1825. Mrs. Benjamin eign Missionary Board in the State of Shepard, Pres-Mrs. James Bowen, Sec. Belgrade Primary Society, organized Maine, have been attended with the most gratifying success. Rev. E. Taylor, Pres.Most of the follow. July 30, 1826. Mr. N. Gubtail, Sec. ing Societies have been organized through his exertions.

Waldo Auxiliary Foreign Mission Society, organized at Belfast, April 26. 1826. The Officers are the following, Elder N. Hooper, Pres. John Clark, Esq. Secretary.

The several Primary Societies subsidiary to the Waldo Auxiliary.

The Belfast Male Primary Society, was organized in February, 1825. Elder N. Hooper, Pres.--John Clark, Esq. Sec. The Belfast Female Primary Society was organized in February, 1825. Mrs. Betsey Hooper, Pres-Mrs. Sally Williams, Sec.

Appleton Male Primary Society was
organized March 31, 1826. Elder A.
Richardson, Pres.-Joshua
Sec.

Bowdoin Primary Society, organized August 20, 1826. Rev. N. Norton, Pres. Dea. M. Dennett, Sec.

Bowdoinham Female Primary Society, organized Feb. 2, 1826. S Gardner, Esq. Pres.-S. Sumner, Sec.

Bowdoinham Primary Society. Mrs. R. Pierson, Pres.-Miss B. Huntington, Sec.

Chesterville Primary Society, organized Sept. 13, 1826 Dea. Wm. Bradbury, Pres.-Mr. Wm. Chaney, Sec.

China Primary Society, organized 1825. Rev. H. Proctor. Pres.- Fairfield, Sec.

East Livermore Primary Society, form-
ed Sept. 5, 1825. Mr. Benj. Thombs,
Pres-Dea. E. Turner, Sec.
Fayette Primary Society, formed Aug.
Rev. O. Billings, Pres.-L.

27, 1826.
Linnekin,
Stacy, Esq. Sec.

Appleton Female Primary Society. Mrs. Abigail Hartford, Pres.-Elizabeth Misservey, Sec.

Swanville Primary Society was formed April 14, 1826. Capt. Benj. Tripp, Pres.-John Lenfist, Sec.

Monroe Primary Society was formed April 15. Elder R. Lambert, Pres.-Elder J. Boden, Sec,

Fayette Female Missionary Society was formed June 1817. Mrs. Harriet Stacy, Pres.-Miss Dolly Watson, Sec.

Farmington Primary Society, organized Sept. 12, 1826. Wm. Parker, Esq. Pres.-Mr. N. Bullen, Sec.

Gardiner Primary Society, organized August 14, 1826. Mr. N. Currier, Pres. -Mr. J. Getchell, Sec.

Mount Vernon Female Primary Society, organized Sept. 22, 1825. Mrs. Sa-ciety, organized in June, 1826. Elder rah B. Robinson, Pres.-Miss Abigail P. D. M'c Master, Pres.-D. Dennett, Esq. Robinson, Sec. Sec.

New Sharon Benevolent Society, organized in 1819. Rev. Sylvanus Boardman, Pres.-Mr. H. A. Boardman, Sec, Readfield Primary Society, organized in 1825. Rev. J. Torrey, Pres.-Mr. J.ganized July 16. Mrs. Eliza Kelsey, Lane, Sec.