perseverance in labour and in prayer on behalf of the House of Israel :

The numerous and unquestionable testimonies received from abroad, of a general and simultaneous spirit of inquiry among the Jewish people in various parts of the world-an increasing readiness among them to receive Christian instruction-the actual conversion of many individuals, in distant and unconnected places, to the faith of the Gospel-the growing feeling of compassion, in various parts of the world, toward the House of Israel-the translation of the New Testament into the Judeo-Polish Language, by the Rev. B. N. Solomon-his recent ordination as Priest; and the renewed invitation to him of Prince Galitzin, under the auspices of His Imperial Majesty, to exercise his ministry among his Polish brethren-the report of those persons who have visited the countries in which the Jews most numerously reside, of the probability of success, under the Divine Blessing, to the labours of Missionaries among them-and the consequent establishment, by the Society, of a Seminary for the Education of Missionaries to the Jews.

The receipts of the year had amounted to 10,7891. 18s. 2d., and the expenditure to 13,1371. 16s. 1d. One item of this expenditure, that for building the Schools, amounting to 23821., will not again occur.

The sum of 1061. 1s. 6d. was collected after the meeting.

NAVAL AND MILITARY BIBLE SOCIETY.

FORTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY. On Tuesday, May the 8th, at twelve o'clock, Admiral Lord Gambier having taken the chair at the Annual Meeting, held in the King's Concert Room in the Haymarket, the Report was read by Major Close, one of the Secretaries.

The Resolutions notice, with thankfulness

The unprecedented and regularly increasing desire to become possessed of the Holy Scriptures, manifested by the objects of the Society's bounty.

Of another Resolution we copy the principal part

-While this Meeting desires to express its grateful sense of the important and continued advantages derived from

the sanction and facilities afforded in the supply of the army with the Holy Scriptures, by the Circular Letter dated 8th June, 1818, inserted in the Standing Orders of the Army, by His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief---it would hail, with peculiar interest, the prospect of some facilities of a similar nature being afforded in the Navy under the sanction of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, with the hope that the British Sailor, in common with the British Soldier, may have the offer of becoming possessed of a copy of the Holy Scriptures. And this Meeting cannot but record its sense of obligation to the First Lord of the Admiralty, to whom in the first instance, the Committee applied as one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society, for the very prompt and liberal attention which his Lordship gave to the propositions submitted for his consideration, and which are now before the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty for their Official Sanction.

The Net Receipts of the year had been 23481. 4s. 4d., and the payments 23171. 7s. 7d. and the Society is under engagements to the amount of 19437.

Upward of 10,500 Bibles and Testaments had been distributed in the course of the year.

After the Meeting, Subscriptions and Donations were received to the amount of 491. 12s.; and the sum of 871. 3s. was collected at the Doors.

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.. TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY. The Sermons at this Anniversary were preached as follows:-Wednesday Morning, May the 9th, at Surrey Chapel, by the Rev. George Clayton, from Eph. ii. 11, 12. Wherefore remember that, at that time, ye were without Christ-the same Evening, at the Tabernacle, by the Rev. Thomas Craig, of Bocking, from Acts xx. 24-Thursday Evening, the 10th, at TottenhamCourt Chapel, by the Rev. John Brown of Biggar, N. B. from 1 Chron. xxix. 5, last clause-and on Friday Morning, at St. Bride's Church, Fleet-Street, by the Rev. Dr. Williams, of Stroud, from Matt. ix. 36. Discourses in Welsh, for the benefit of the Society's Welsh

friends resident in London and its vicinity, were preached, at Surrey Chapel, on Tuesday Evening, May the 15th -a first, by the Rev. David Peter, of Carmarthen, from Psalm lxxxvi. 9, 10; and a second, by the Rev. John Elias, of Llanfechell, in Anglesea, from Isaiah xlix. 9

The Annual Meeting took place on Thursday Morning, at Great QueenStreet Chapel, the Treasurer, William Alers Hankey, Esq. in the Chair.

The Report having been read by the Secretary, the Meeting was addressed, in making or seconding Resolutionsby the Rev. Dr. Bogue, of Gosportthe Rev. William Ward, from Seramthe Rev. Rowland Hill-the pore Rev. John Brown, of Biggar, N. B.the Rev. Dr. Steinkopff--the Rev. Isaac Saunders-Lieut. Col. Munro Edward Philips, Esq.-the Rev. Joseph Taylor, one of the Secretaries of the Wesleyan Missionary Society - the Rev. J. A. Coombs, of Manchesterthe Rev. James Jackson, from Yorkshire-the Rev. J. M. Ray, of Sudbury -the Rev. Joseph Slatterie, of Chatham -the Rev. John Campbell-and the Rev. W. B. Williams, of Homerton.

Unusual interest was connected with this Meeting, by the attendance of a Madagascar Chief, and by the arrival of Mr. Campbell from his Second Voy. age to South Africa.

We stated, at p. 26 of the Survey, that Governor Farquhar being about to send from Mauritius a Commissioner to Radama, the principal Chief of the neighbouring part of Madagascar, Mr. David Jones, the Society's Missionary, then waiting at Mauritius for an opportunity of re-establishing himself at Madagascar, had obtained permission to accompany the Commissioner. Mr. Hastie, the Commissioner, introduced Mr. Jones at the Court of Radama as his particular friend. Mr. Jones availed himself of this opportunity to promote the object of the Society with reference to Madagascar. The King, being satisfied with the views of the

Society, consented that Mr. Jones should write to the Directors for Missionaries to instruct his people in the knowledge of Christianity, provided a number of Artisans accompanied them; as he was solicitous that his people should be instructed in the useful Arts, as well as in Religion. He himself afterward agreed to address the Directors to the same effect; and the following is a Translation of his Letter:Radama, King of Madagascar, to the Missionary Society, usually called the London Missionary Society.

Gentlemen

When the Treaty was concluded between me and Governor Farquhar, which has for its object the cessation of the exportation of Slaves from the Island of Madagascar, the Missionary, Mr. David Jones, accompanied the Commissioner from the British Government, and arrived at Tananarive, the capital of my kingdom; with the intention of paying me a visit to solicit from me leave to settle, with other Missionaries in my dominions. Having informed myself of his profession and mission, I acquiesce with much pleasure in his request.

Mr. Jones, your Missionary, having satisfied me that those sent out by your Society have no other object than to enlighten the people by persuasion and conviction, and to discover to them the means of becoming happy by evangelizing and civilizing them after the manner of European Nations, and this not by force, contrary to the light of their understandings-therefore, Gentlemen, I request you to send me, if convenient, as many Missionaries as you may deem proper, together with their families, if they desire it; provided you send skilful Artisans to make my people workmen, as well as good Christians.

I avail myself of this opportunity, Gentlemen, to promise all the protection, the safety, the respect, and the tranquillity, which Missionaries may require from my subjects.

The Missionaries who are particularly needed at present, are persons who are able to instruct my people in the Christian Religion, and in various trades, such as Weaving, Carpentering, Gardening, &c.

I shall expect, Gentlemen, from you, a satisfactory answer by an early op portunity.

Accept, Gentlemen, the assurance of my esteem and affection,

(Signed) RADAMA, King.

We are happy to state that the treaty here referred to was concluded. One condition of this treaty was, that twenty Madagascar Youths should be sent-ten to Mauritius, and ten to England-to be instructed in such Arts as may be beneficial to their native country.

The Chief who attended the Meeting is named Rataffe, and is brother-in-law to Radama, by whom he has been sent to this country on a Mission to Government. He was accompanied by a Secretary, an Interpreter, and four of the Youths who are come to England for instruction.

In reference to the Mission to Madagascar, Dr. Bogue observed, in moving the adoption of the Report

You have now heard of a new field opened in the Island of Madagascaran island larger than England. You have heard the letter of the king of that island. Pomare, king of Otaheite, has sent various letters; and now the king of Madagascar honours us with a letter, and invites us to send over to his country to instruct his people.

Satan appears to have employed all his art to make the people of Hindoostan very religious. But false religion makes them worse: it has seized and polluted their whole souls; and it may be said that it is the most difficult thing in the world to eradicate such impressions: it is so, and we might despair, were we not assured that the power of God can surmount every difficulty, and turn men, in the most unfavourable circumstances, from the kingdom of Satan to the kingdom of God.

Madagascar presents a different field. There, Satan's aim has been to keep them without religion: for they have no established religion, no priesthood, no temple-only once or twice in the year, some acknowledgments to the Sun, as the author of their comforts. Here then is a people exempt from superstition, who have no religion: but the Gospel is able to give them one, and to communicate the best kind of religion to those who at present have no religion at all.

The arrival of Mr. Campbell was another circumstance which gave great

interest to this Meeting. Having embarked at the Cape, on the 15th of February, on board the "Castle-Forbes," in the hope of reaching England in time for the Anniversary, he was just able to accomplish his purpose: for, leaving the ship, in the pilot-boat which met her in the Channel, he landed at Portsmouth on Tuesday, May the 8th ; and, travelling all night, arrived in London on Wednesday morning, about three hours before the commencement of the Service at Surrey Chapel. In his Address to the Meeting, Mr. Campbell gave a brief account of his journey beyond Lattakoo; some particulars of which our readers have already seen in the first volume.

We quote another passage from the Address of Dr. Bogue, because it enforces attention to that important subject-expectation and desire of the abundant influences of the Holy Spirit -which we wish to impress most strongly on our readers :

Some worthy men have said that we cannot expect great things in the present generation: we may translate the Scriptures, preach the Gospel, or establish Schools; and some of those who are young may live to see the fruits of these labours. But I am not satisfied with this. I wish to see more done for the propagation of the Gospel; and I wish to have it impressed on my mind and yours, that there is a more abundant effusion of the Holy Spirit needful to render the Gospel efficacious.

There have been two grand eras of the propagation of the Gospel, and I consider the present as the third. The first was in the preaching of the Apostles: they had the advantage over all others, by working miracles; so that there was no man who had reason, but must have seen that these men were from God but they could not change the heart-the grace of God alone could do that, and this was graciously afforded. The other remarkable era was at the Reformation from Popery, when the Spirit of God was diffused over the nations of Europe, and many millions were brought to the knowledge of true Christianity.

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But we must lament, that there has not yet been, since the Missionary Spirit was roused in this country, such a remarkable effusion of the Spirit, either

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Introduction.

Ir became our melancholy duty, while the last pages of the Missionary Herald for July were printing, to stop the impression, and announce the decease of a beloved and revered friend, whose labours for the cause of Christ among the heathen have created in many thousand hearts the kindest interest in his welfare, and whose removal from the world is very extensively regarded as a public calamity of no ordinary magnitude.

Perhaps no events in the divine administration are more mysterious to human view, than those which respect the time and manner, in which eminent servants of God and benefactors of mankind, are often taken from their labours and their usefulness. This is peculiarly the case, when they occupy stations of great difficulty, to which they have been fitted by a long course of laborious discipline, and from which they are removed at the very time when the value of their services has become extensively known, and is generally acknowledged; when their power of doing good, after a series of regular and rapid augmentations, is greatly distinguished; and when their time of life might seem to promise the world many August, 1821. 6

years of faithful labour and exemplary beneficence. But if an individual is taken from us, who, by a rare combination of original talents and favourable opportunities, has been enabled successfully to hold a place, much out of the circle in which even eminent men are accustomed to move;-a place, to which no person can be altogether competent, who has not been prepared for it by a long process of suitable training ;-the dispensation of Providence appears still more dark and incomprehensible. At the occurrence of such a calamity, a void is left, which no human contrivance is able to supply. Survivors are taught, in a manner peculiarly impressive, their dependence on God. Happy is the effect, if those, who are ready to sink with gloomy apprehensions, resort to the inexhaustible Source of wisdom; and wait, in a filial manner, for the peculiar interposition of the Most High.

Though we mention mysterious events, which are visible in the divine government, we would do it reverentially, and without expressing, or attempting to justify, even a momentary murmur. While we cannot avoid exclaiming, Clouds and darkness are round about Him, we would add that most consoling truth, which should not