Rev. Messrs. Buyers and Schurmann, April 19. Madras, Rev. J. Smith, March 9 (two letters,) May 7. Rev. W. H. Drew, May 7. Coimbatoor, Rev. W. B. Addis, March 12. Neyoor, Rev. C. Mead, May 4. RUSSIAN EMPIRE, 1838.-Khodon, Rev. E. Stallybrass, May 14 and May 15. MEDITERRANEAN, 1838.- - Corfu, Rev. I. Lowndes, April 16. SOUTH AFRICA, 1838.-Cape Town, Rev. Dr. Philip, April 4, June 1, June 18. Mrs. Philip, May 31. Hankey, Rev. E. Williams, April 23. Bethelsdorp, Rev. G. Schreiner, March 10. Graham's Town, Rev. John Monro, June 7. Griqua Town, Rev. P. Wright, March 5. AFRICAN ISLANDS, 1838.-Mauritius. Rev. D. Jones, March 30. Rev. Messrs. Jones and Johns, March 30. WEST INDIES, 1838.-Demerara, Rev. Messrs. Rattray and Watt, June 12, July 6, and July 12, Rev. R. B. Taylor, June 6. Mr. T. Henderson, June 20. Berbice, Rev. S. Haywood, June 20, and June Rev. G. Forward, June 11, and June 27. Rev. H. S. Seaborn, June 30. Jamaica, Rev. J. Wooldridge, June 9, July 7. Rev. W. Alloway, June 11. Rev. W. Slatyer, June 19. 26. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. The thanks of the Directors are respectfully presented to the following:-viz., To the young ladies of Miss Jameson's school, Ramsgate, for a box of useful articles for the schools in Jamaica; to friends at Stepney and Plaistow, for a box of useful articles for Mrs. Porter's orphan school, Vizagapatam; to "E," for a parcel of cotton prints, books, &c., for Rev. H. Nott; to friends at Greenwich and Blackheath, per Mr. Wilshere, for a cask of useful articles for Rev. R. B. Taylor's school, Demerara; to the congregation of the Rev. John Rogers, Lowestoft, for six lamps for the West Indies; to Mr. Whitehouse, City-road, for a cask of nails, and two bundles of spades for the Hottentots; to friends at Wem, for a parcel of useful articles for the Bangalore Mission; to Mr. King, Aberdeen, for a parcel of school materials for Rev. C. D. Watt, Demerara; to ladies at Hackney, per Mrs. Charles, for a case of wearing apparel for the Hottentots on the Fish River settlement; to "A Friend to Missions," for a parcel of axes for Rev. J. Williams; to the ladies | of the Rev. R. Connebee's congregation, Dorking, for a box of wearing apparel for the Hottentots; to Mrs. Patrick, Commercial road, for a box of use. ful articles, and parcel of newspapers for Rev. Dr. Philip; to friends at Finchingfield, per Mrs. Christie, for a box of children's clothing for Theopolis: to the Rev. T. East, Birmingham, for a parcel of the "Patriot," and "Morning Chronicle" newspapers, for the Rev. John Williams; to Miss Thomp son, Hull, for a splendid robe of patchwork made by herself, for sale in India, the proceeds to be given to the Society; to the Ladies' Working Society, Union Chapel, Sherborne, for a case of useful and fancy articles for Rev. Edw. Porter. Vizagapatam; to Miss Nicholls, Nottingham; to Capt. Allen, and to T. H. Burder, Esq., M.D., for vols. and Nos. of the Evangelical and other Magazines, newspapers, &c. MISSIONARY CONTRIBUTIONS, London and its Vicinity. Bedfordshire. W. B...... .... 5 0 0 Monmouthshire. £ s. d. Abergavenny£ s. d. 215 0 Collected by Miss Lewis 11 4 0 1 18 8 Warwickshire. 0 6 4 Smethwick, J. Boyle, Esq. for School at Bellary. 500 Stagsden Astwood 10 10 0 4 10 0 Cambridgeshire. 0 0 Steeple Morden Ditto, for the Hindostan Mission.... 0 Nantwich Church-lane 0 0 Chapel Durham. ....(D.) 10 0 0 Durham, Legacy of the Queen-street, Ratcliffe, Church and Congregation, per Rev. J. Drummond SPECIAL DONATIONS, in consequence of the increased expenditure of the Society: ... 10 0 0 23 1 $ Wiltshire. Hull, Legacy of late Mrs. 10 0 0 North Riding Aux. per late Mr. J. Wheatley, 45 0 0 T. Walker, Esq. 50 0 0 C. N.Welman, Esq. Poun disford Park............. 50 Miss Ainsley 5 5 0 (D.) 5 0 0 Miss M. Ainsley............ Rev. W.Crowe and friends, Rev. J. Scott, on accot. 75 Tain, for Nat. Tea. Angus 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 East Aux. Soc. on accot. 1000 0 0 Fraserburgh, for Nat. Tea. pel burgh.......... 3 0 1 1 0 22 10 5 0 0 Thank-offering from J. E., for Rev. H. Nott...... 20 0 Highgate, Misses Porter 2 2 0 32 10 0 W. Tyler, Printer, Bolt-court, Fleet-street. THE EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE, AND MISSIONARY CHRONICLE. FOR NOVEMBER, 1838. LOVE TO THE HOUSE OF GOD. "Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house."-Psa. xxvi. 8. THE whole life of David was but one continuous and splendid proof of the truth and sincerity of this declaration. Professions are sometimes made which are ill sustained; but here is one which shrinks pot from an appeal to the Searcher of hearts. A whole nation beheld the outward signs of David's love to the house of God; but it is to God himself that David looks as the witness of a feeling which Omniscience only can fully attest. We may deceive our fellow-creatures with the semblances of love to the house of God; but him we cannot deceive; for his eye is as a flame of fire, and he searches Jerusalem as with lighted candles. But amidst the bright train of evidences which shine forth in the characters of God's children, there is none more expressive of their celestial birth and destiny, than is their love to the house of the Lord. Where this is wanting, all other marks of piety become equivocal; but where this is fully developed, it will associate itself with all that is fair and lovely, and of good report, in the Christian life. When sorrow dims our prospect, when temptation bewilders our path, when the shadows of life's evening fall thickly around us; when mortality comes to shut up the scene of earth, and to open the portals of eternity, O how sweet will VOL. XVI. it then be, to look up to Him whose name is love, and to say with a bursting-grateful heart, "Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth !" It is the link this to a thousand tender and touching associations. Which of all our loftiest conceptions, noblest privileges, purest pleasures, brightest anticipations, is not, in some way, connected with the house of the Lord? It is from the vantage ground of the sanctuary, as from the top of another Pisgah, that we look on all the splendid scenery of the spiritual world, trace the stream of God's mercy as it issues forth from its eternal fountain, survey the wonders of that cross on which the Prince of glory died, behold the King in his beauty, and gaze on that fair land of promise, "where there is fulness of joy, and where there are pleasures for evermore." The affection which David avows in the text is that to the spiritual life which the vital current is to the animal frame. Without it, every function of the new man in Christ Jesus is instantly paralyzed, and the whole framework of religion in the human heart falls into a state of disorganisation, decay, and death. How important, then, that we should endeavour to analyse this affection, that we should strive to ascertain in what it really 2 T |