and relates encounters of heroism and valour, and when we see Hector, Paris, Ajax, Ulysses, and a host of others performing such marvellous feats, we ask, How can the interest be sustained? When Achilles leaves his tent and buckles on his armour, and goes forth to fight, do you know of anything that surpasses his deeds? He brings the gods down from the lofty height of the mountain to the battle-field to help him, and victory is the result. That is what we want to do-not to bring the gods down, but by prayer to bring down the God. There is only one God, the King immortal, eternal, and invisible, the Lord, He is the God, worth more than all Homer's gods, and He is able to subdue all India's gods. May He send down His showers, and bless our efforts, and crown them with success!" Dr. Mullens seconded the resolution, and made a very able and instructive speech. Among other topics, he spoke, as follows, on PROGRESS AND UNION IN THE INDIAN MISSION. "You have heard much to-night about the grandness, and the greatness, and the honour, and the glory of the Baptist Missionary Society in its labours for India, and I for one will second every word that the gentleman who preceded me has said on that subject. I never forget-somehow it came to me after the first and earliest months of my residence in India-that there were men of all missionary societies labouring around me, and labouring together. I think I had the honour of being one of the first missionaries to gather up in a single paper a description of the labours of all my breth ren put on a common level, treated in the same way, and represented as a joint contribution to the evangelisation of the country, and I am glad to see it well noted in a Government report that there are 600 missionaries alto gether belonging to these evangelical missionary societies scattered all over India, with 3,000 native helpers, and a community of over 150,000 converts. We are thankful for all these things. There is one thing I never can forget. All we see in our results of progress in India is not a tithe of what we have done. We see our 80,000 church members gathered together month by Christian Churches and people in England ?' He had lived many years in India, and known some of us during that time, and he never was able to find these differences out. What finer testimony to the unity of our labourers and our Christian fellowship could be given by any man? There is one thing I wish specially to urge upon you to-night. We have lived long in India, worked hard, and God has helped us, and we are exerting great influences upon India; but there is one thing we are only just beginning to gain. I hold that a Christian missionary and a Christian society gains nothing in a foreign. country so long as the whole spiritual force exerted by the missionary comes from the Englishman alone. I hold that so long as it is the Englishman who is the fountain of knowledge, and the fountain of power, and the fountain of zeal, and so long as the supplies of funds, and resources, and Bibles, and Christian literature for schools, and native agency, come only from London, or Boston, or Paris, and do not rise upwards out of the heart and the life of our own converts, we have not yet gained anything worth having. We are only in an initial state of things. Unhappily, that has been to a large extent the history of our Indian Mission in past years. Yet I am thankful to say there are in our missionary societies signs of a new state of things. The old state of things has passed away and there is a brightness, and a life, and an earnestness, and a willingness among the natives spoken of in your report, which I was delighted to see. The second resolution was moved by the Rev. W. Brock, of Hampstead. This was also his first appearance on our platform, and he was welcomed both for his own and his father's sake. The resolution was as follows : This meeting rejoices in the fact that a large addition has been made to the staff of the Society's missionaries during the past year, and also in that, to a considerable extent, the pecuniary liabilities incurred thereby have been met. It recognizes with thankfulness the responses so far made to the Committee's confidence in the liberality of the churches. With increasing liabilities, this liberality must still further be trusted, and this meeting expresses the hope that the Committee's reliance on the churches, and on God, from whom all inspiration to self-sacrifice must proceed, will not be disappointed during the ensuing year. During a thoughtful speech, he referred, as follows, to OBJECTIONS TO MISSIONS. “After all," it is said to us, "why do you not let the heathen alone? You are very disinterested, very earnest; but, after all, do they want you? There are the Hindus, to whom so much of your missionary labour goes. They have a religion as vene rable as their own Ganges or the eternal snows on their Himalayas. There are the Chinese beyond them ; they have three religions; is not that enough? And even the most debased and degraded among the Africans have a religion somewhere. Have not our learned men discovered that in language after language there is the same name for the Supreme Being, and that we, when we say the Lord's Prayer, begin it with the very terms in which the primeval prayer of many nations went up-'Our Father which art in Heaven ?'" And so heathen virtue and heathen morality are quite fashionable things in our time, and the echoes of the Royal Institution are heard not always very correctly rendered even in railway carriages and at dinner tables. It was only the other day I heard a Mahommedan merchant of Bombay held up to the admiration of Christians-and I do not see without reason-because such was his adherence to principle, and submission to Providence, that he always sent his ships to sea without insuring them. The conclusion is this. If everywhere there is goodness, and if everywhere there is truth, why do you give so much labour, so many precious lives, and so much money as your resolution points to? What do you mean by sending coals to Newcastle? I do not believe there is any advocate of foreign missions here who would for an instant meet the pleas for this virtue and these religions with contempt or absolute contradiction. Wherever Jesus Christ came into the world, God gave the light, and we are not to deny that He is the "Father of lights," in the past as well as the present age. If there was light in the old Greek poet whom Paul quoted cn Mars' Hill, let us be thankful that there was light. And because of this are we to pluck the crown from Christ's head, and hold ourselves released from missionary labour? Why, sir, the stars give light; the lamps in our houses and along our streets give light. If we were in a country lane in a dark night we should be glad of a rushlight and horn lantern; but when there is goodness, whether it be among the sanctities of some old church or among those brave Africans bearing Livingstone's body to the sea through the jungle, English Christians have no need to overlook it; and whereever there is truth and wisdom, and devoutness, whether it be among the Hindus or in the moral teaching of Confucius, we have no need to deny it. But if there was light before the sun has risen we do not shut out the sunshine. If here and there Plato's wisdom guided to some foothold of a temporary trust and confidence some shipwrecked souls, or if the wisdom of Eastern sages did the same for a man here and there, more than this is scarcely to be contended for. Was it not well? And shall we, when we reach our heavenly home, repine if there come thither those who have reached it by other ways than we think of? Assuredly not. The sun had risen over the world, the stars had gone out, whatever light they gave once. Those old sages are dead; at best they had their day and ceased to be. They were but broken lights of Thee, Dr. Cairns seconded the resolution in a short but effective speech, of which we give the substance: "After expressing the pleasure it afforded him of being in London and taking part in the proceedings, he referred to the rapid progress made by the Society since its formation. Englishmen would not give the large sum of £40,000 a-year for nothing, or for that which was proved not to be needed, that had been so earnestly urged upon the meeting, to do their utmost to reach such a result as that, and he trusted that his own people would be impelled by the Society's example, and by the noble and heroic efforts that had been put forth. Having read the report from beginning to end, he trusted that Christians, whether they lived on one side of the Tweed or not, or, like him, in the middle, would go in one mighty column, in one mighty phalanx, to the 'help of the Lord against the mighty.' We lived in times when God was speaking to us. He was speaking to us abroad in such wonderful and stupendous results as had been reported from Madagascar, and He was speaking at home by that blessed revival which had overspread so many parts of the country. How gigantic were our responsibilities in regard to the Church both at home and abroad! He appealed to Christians to awake to a sense of the magnitude of the crisis and the importance of the time in which they lived, and to give their whole hearts to Him who alone was worthy, and then God would send His blessing. The former times, good and glorious as they were, would not be better than these. All should humbly strive to earn the commendation bestowed upon one of the apocalyptic churches, 'I know thy faith, and thy patience, and thy charity, and thy service, and the last shall be more than the first."" or which would bring forth no fruit. There was a proof, from the way in which the word 'liberality' was so often reiterated in the resolution, that the liberality of the Baptists in England had not been appealed to in vain. He hoped the day would come when the £40,000 would be doubled. The church of which he was a minister began its mission work in 1836, but they had not, he was ashamed to say, the courage of the Baptist Missionary Society. They sent out their first missionary to Canada as a sort of stepping-stone, and they almost deserved to step into the water for taking that stepping-stone only, but they went onward, and after labouring a good many years they went, after the mutiny, to India, impelled by the awful words of Burke, that if Britain were deprived of India, she would leave no further trace but the hyena and the tiger. They felt they had done nothing for India; but now, by the good hand of God, they had some ten or fifteen missionaries, and he trusted they would soon have twenty. The funds the Society raised annually for foreign missions amounted to wellnigh £40,000. Although no man had a higher or more profound admiration of what the society had done in the days that were past, than he had, he thought that in the next twenty-five years they would be able to raise £80,000. He appealed to them, by the vast and unspeakable necessities The Doxology and the Benediction concluded this interesting meeting. Missionary Notes. C. B. BENARES.-The Rev. W. Etherington writes that he perceives many signs of cheering progress, and that he is not without frequent visits from persons inquiring into the truths of the Gospel. The Zenana teaching is much blessed. He is also engaged, at the request of his brethren, in preparing an annotated edition of the four gospels, similar to the work of Dr. Wenger, in Bengali. A school for Eurasian children has been established, and, in conjunction with Mr. Miller, an English service for soldiers has been begun at our old station Chunar. Mr. Miller has also taken charge of the Sunday school in Benares. SERAMPORE.—The Rev. T. Martin informs us that there are about 300 pupils in both departments of the College. The congregations, both English and Bengali, are good, and, in company with Mr. Jordan and the evangelists, he visits various parts of Serampore twice a week to preach the Gospel, and never fails to secure a good number of hearers. LAL BAZAAR, CALCUTTA.-The work of grace begun last year continues to make the most cheering progress, especially among sailors of all nations, many of whom have found peace. The Sunday school and ragged school are also in a flourishing state, the former contains 120 children. Open-air preaching is kept up by one of the young friends, in connection with our native brother Banerji. INTALLY.-The school under Mrs. Kerry's charge is much in want of funds; five girls during the year have been brought to Christ and baptized. In the villages to the south of Calcutta, thirty-seven persons were baptized last year, and since the commencement of this year fifteen more have been added to the church at Khari. TRINIDAD. The Rev. W. H. Gamble writes that he has lately baptized two persons, and that the four village stations in connection with the Port of Spain congregation are in an encouraging state. He hoped to be able to leave for England early in April, via the United States. CALCUTTA.-Mr. Miller arrived safely in Calcutta on Wednesday, February 3rd, and a few days after proceeded to Benares, where he will reside during his probationary period. JACMEL, HAYTI.—Our native brother, Mr. V. Domond writes, that the church has received with great joy the tidings of the appointment of Mr. Gummer to this station, and states that God has so much blessed the work, that Mr. Gummer will have to receive many persons into the church on his arrival. He also gives an interesting account of the Christian and happy death of the English consul. BONJONGO, AMBOISES BAY.-The Rev.'Q. W. Thomson has furnished us with an interesting narrative of an attempt he has recently made to penetrate the interior, beyond the Cameroons Mountain. Much opposition seems likely to be made to any permanent settlement by the chiefs of the old Calabar River. MORTONVILLE, CAMEROONS RIVER.-Although most of the people have left for their fishing-grounds at the mouth of the river, the congregation continues good. Mr. Fuller has visited some places on the river and has met with a very cordial reception. He wishes to commence a school and preaching among them. CACHAR, BENGAL.-In a recent visit to this district, the Rev. I. Allen mentions with pleasure the considerable sale of tracts and scriptures. He found the people, however, very ignorant and few among them able to read. INTALLY, CALCUTTA.-The Rev. G. Kerry reports that the church has recently elected Gogon Chunder Dass as their pastor. He has held for some years the office of deacon, and been very active in all good works. He is much respected by his brethren. The religious life in the south villages continues to |