was well attended, and much interest was excited if we may judge from the urgent invitations given him to return. 11. Six men brought back their bibles, because the apochrypha was wanting and they were therefore "incomplete." Explanations and remonstrances on my part were vain, for they declared that the schoolmaster had sent their children home, informing them that he would not permit their children to remain in his school with these bibles. The men being poor could not, as they said, afford to buy two bibles, and at their request I took them back. 16.- Went to Kneden station, where I could find only five persons who would listen to the message of love and mercy. The inhabitants of this place are so oppressed by their masters and by the poverty under which they groan, that they seem to be dead to all spiritual impressions; the indifference I met with, while it shocked me, at the same time excited commiseration for them, such as those only who have witnessed their degrada tion can feel. Br. Dickmann during this week again undertook a journey as a bible colporteur. He went to the town of Liebemvalde, where a few years ago a brother was imprisoned for distributing tracts, and also visited five villages where he disposed in all of eight bibles. He distributed many tracts and took every opportunity to speak to sinners of the Saviour, but amongst all whom he addressed he met not one whose trust was in the Lord. Opposition by the clergy. 18. The clergyman of Gandenitz was highly incensed at the meeting we held in his parish. He admonished his hearers from the pulpit not to be led astray by wolves in sheep's clothing, but to remember the covenant made in infancy with God in baptism, and not to forsake the church which had kindly received them into her arms. 23. Went to Gandenitz, where I found the people not intimidated by the anathemas of their priest against heretics. Indeed, I think the meeting was better attended than on a former occasion. We were a little disturbed, however, by a man who made a noise at a window, saying he had come to fight for the priest. 28. Br. Dickmann returned from Prenzlau, a preaching station, where he had remained from Saturday to Tuesday. He told me that when they had all assembled for prayer on Sunday evening, the clergyman of that part of the town they were in suddenly entered their meeting room, and asked br. Dickmann who had given him permission to come into his parish to preach. Br. D. said the clergyman was so excited that he struck the table with his hand and almost overturned the lights. He continued to storm some time. At length one of the brethren rose and said he did not think either the clergyman or any one else justified in disturbing their religious worship, and he therefore opened his bible and proposed to read a chapter. The clergyman made several attempts to snatch the book from his hand, but finding that he gained nothing, at length quitted the room. The following day br. Dickmann was summoned to appear at the town hall, and various questions were put to him, among others, whether he had books with him, which being the case they were taken from him, and he was strictly prohibited from holding meetings again in the place. He sold four bibles on his journey. Inquirers - Oppressive statutes - A Jewish family. Feb. 4.-Br. Dickmann has this week taken bibles to eight villages. He met with several persons who are seeking the way of life, and who were awakened six years ago by the faithful testimony of a brother. They were much delighted after so long a period to find a person who loved the Saviour and was willing to advise them and converse with them. Br. Dickmann could not refuse their request that he would remain with them for a few days. Four bibles were sold on this tour. 10.-Visited several inquirers at Gandenitz, and held a meeting at which about one hundred persons were present. The apartment and hall were filled, and many persons were obliged to go away. Altogether, the spirit of the Lord is working in the hearts of these villagers, and I trust that in due season we shall reap abundantly if we fail not. 11. Preached at Beutel, where the clergyman has also taken a decided stand against us. He has taken great pains, from the pulpit and by personal visits to his parishioners, to warn them against the fearful errors of the Baptists. The amptmann (a village official of some importance) has also summoned the few brethren who live here, and a Christian friend who has permitted us to hold meetings at his house, to inform them from the statute book that if the meetings we hold have not been announced to the schulz (another dignitary) twentyfour hours previously, or have not obtained his sanction in writing, we incur a fine of from five to fifty dollars. 24.-Went by Hindenburg to Storkow, where I visited several inquirers, amongst these a Jewish family who seem disposed to receive Jesus as the Messiah foretold by the prophets. They uniformly attend the meetings that are occasionally held here, and I was altogether very favorably impressed by their earnestness and their simple desire to know the truth. Held a meeting here, about twenty persons being present. Visit to Berlin - Emigration-Restrictions on worship. March 1.—Travelled to Berlin to visit br. Lehmann, who is extremely indisposed. Found him very much reduced by his illness. After performing several offices for him and visiting several members of the church, I went on the fourth to Mariendorf to visit the brethren there. On the fifth, went to see the brethren at Britz and a woman there who is inquiring the way of life, and returned to Berlin in the evening. 7.-Lord's day.-In the morning br. Weist and in the evening I preached at Berlin. The meeting room was crowded 28 15. Br. Dickmann has been summonfor "transgressing the law" by the distried to appear before the court of justice bution of tracts. lin, in consequence of a citation I had 22.-Went to the burgomaster of Tempreceived. He read to me several exing the announcement of every dissenting tracts from the statute book, commandreligious meeting twenty-four hours previously to its being held, also that the sanction of the authorities be first obtainto supply him with our confession of faith ed. The burgomaster also requested me and a list of our members, the latter to be renewed periodically. He is by no means opposed to our sentiments, but owned he had been urged by the clergy to take decided measures against us. 23.-At Friedenfelde, where formerly I frequently held meetings at the house of a friend. He was informed of my coming, and had been very active in inviting his friends and acquaintances to attend our service. People had flocked hither from four different villages and we were about to commence, when the amptmann of Friedenfelde sent to prohibit it. This was probably owing to the omission of the legal announcement, I explained the matter to those present which my friend had not time to make. and invited them to come again on Friday. 24.-Visited the brethren at Prenzlau, whose firm and fearless attachment to the Saviour's cause gives me much pleasCalled on several Lutheran Chrisstate of their church, but have not courtians here, who acknowledge the sad age to come out of it. ure. 26. At Gerswalde visited a carpenter who received me very kindly, and after conversing with him proceeded to Friedenfelde to hold the promised meeting. All that were present on Tuesday came this evening, and many others beside them. Many were evidently much affected. The carpenter whom I visited in the morning and invited to be present came to me at the close of the service, and with tears expressed his gratitude to the Lord for having led him hither; he also begged me very soon to visit him again and to preach at his house, for, he said, he longed now to see his friends partake of the same blessing with himself. This man, who is no longer young, is a kind of village oracle; old and young resort to him for advice in difficult matters and he is regarded with great reverence. I trust his influence will now be exerted in a good cause. 27. Returned to Templin. On the way I reflected on the wonderful dealings of Providence. On Tuesday we were disappointed that our meeting was put off to Friday, whereas, had our will instead of the Lord's will prevailed, our friend the carpenter, whose conversion is perhaps the harbinger of many more, would probably not have heard the gospel proclaimed. How much fruitless anxiety would a trustful reliance on the everwise leadings of the Almighty spare us!-Rom. viii, 28. GREECE. LETTER FROM MR. BUEL. Sowing in tears-Dr. King's case. The following communication gives an idea of the routine of Mr. Buel's labors. It is the day of small things, but not therefore to be despised. Piræus, Aug. 7, 1852.-The number of persons attending preaching at the Piræus the five Sabbaths in May was respectively sixteen, seven, twenty-one, twelve, twelve. In that month I exchanged twice with br. Arnold, when I found at Athens audiences of eleven and sixteen persons. The first Sunday in June, at the Piræus, thirteen were present. On the four following Lord's days I preached in Athens to hearers numbering eleven, five, six and eleven. During those four weeks br. Arnold's family exchanged residences with me in order to have the benefit of sea-bathing. Since that time my numbers have been fifteen, eleven, and nineteen, at Greek preaching here. I have preached once on board the U. S. Flag ship Cumberland. I have a bible class on Wednesday evenings, attended by the greater portion of my little Sabbath congregation. From this summary you see how often the word has been publicly preached. There is nothing interesting to report as to the fruit of such preaching. We sow in tears. We wait in patient hope for the early and the latter rain. No good result as yet appears,-not even "the blade," much less "the ear and the full corn in the ear." It is of little moment to say that my audience is increasing in point of worldly respectability; that a professor of the university and a judge of the courts, with their families, and some military officers, were present last Sunday. I shall think the aspect of my audience improving when some begin to show that they receive the word into good and honest hearts. The publication of the Pilgrim's Progress is delayed by the non-arrival of the plates from England. The mission has been cheered by the presence of Dr. Hackett for some ten days, on his return from Palestine. He left on the 27th of June. The frigate Cumberland sailed to-day for Malta, having staid in this port three weeks. The U. S. Steamer San Jacinto arrived here from Constantinople the 1st inst., bringing our Minister to examine and report upon the case of Dr. King. This done, Mr. Marsh retires with his family to the baths in Austria, and will wait the further instructions of the government touching Dr. King's affairs. MISCELLANY. sponsibility reaches back to the churches he represents. To whatever degree they have contributed to make him what he is, his influence is their influence. They are the vine; he is, so to speak, the tendril by which the vine reaches forth to take a new hold, from which still to extend its fruit-bearing branches. The communion of saints is a suggestive fact, an idea that has a sublime expansion of meaning, including, among its other implications, a community of spirit that pervades the entire fellowship, unlimited by the barriers of space, quick as the pulsations of the electric fluid, pervasive, like the common atmosphere. LIVING FOR THE HEATHEN. At the late anniversary of the American Board, Rev. Dr. Hawes quoted a remark made by Dr. Rice, to the effect that "he did not believe that God will allow the present character of the Christian world to be impressed upon the heathen world." The suggestion is worth considering. That missionaries act by their character no less than by their teaching, and that they should be examples, as well as teachers, of faith and holiness and all virtue, is often, perhaps not too often, insisted on. The analogy between the ceremonial purity required of those who ministered at Jewish altars, and the inward, yet ever discernible Thus, not only the missionary, but the purity appropriate to the Christian minis-church, acts by character, as an organic try, is just; but it does not stop there. Every member has a ministry, and that as well among the heathen as in his more immediate society. In disseminating Christianity, we do, to an extent beyond our power to appreciate, transfer abroad the type and character of religion in the churches at home. Allowing that foreign missionaries are among the choicest growth, the fairest product of our domestic faith and piety, yet the difference tween the best, and what may be called the average style of Christian living, is not extraordinary. That is to say, there are so many more points of resemblance than of contrast, in habits of thought, of feeling, and of action, in the tendencies and manifestations of character, that every missionary is to the heathen truly a “representative man," revealing, radiating, infusing, reproducing the spirit and form of religion, derived by assimilation from the religious atmosphere he has breathed since the time that he began to walk in newness of life. whole; and whether the churches of our land are to be distinguished as the agents to diffuse Christianity through the earth, will depend on the degree in which they become the adequate exponents of the gospel. The Divine sovereignty does not often act in the conversion of sinners, while the church is in a state of such spiritual frigidity as is fitted to chill and dwarf every young child of God that be-should be introduced into it. And may it not well be asked whether we are able to set forth to the heathen a Christianity, a piety, such that it will be for the honor of God to have it reproduced in the ends of the earth? In this view, the church seems to stand in an attitude towards the world, not unlike that long held by European Christendom towards the Mohammedan power. In spite of the energy of crusaders, the Mussulman standard continually advanced towards central Europe, and it was not till the sixteenth century-the era of the Reformationthat the wave of conquest was stayed. With the rise of European Protestantism rose a bulwark for external Christendom. A more direct analogy may be drawn from the succeeding history. The fact, which has been the subject of no little This consideration is fitted to excite in his breast a profound sense of responsibility, of personal insufficiency, and of humble dependence. But the effect should not be confined to him. The re speculation, that Protestantism so soon ceased to be aggressive, that the Reformation abruptly terminated, and that the boundary of Protestant Europe has remained essentially unchanged for these two or three centuries, may appear to have been a consequence of the imperfect degree in which the reformed churches set forth the true character of spiritual Christianity. It may appear that while appointed to be the recipients and guardians of primitive faith, they were not deemed fitted for the more honorable trust, to bear the truth onward to victory. Essential as it is, then, that the missionary should be an exemplar of the faith and holiness he preaches, it is of no less consequence that the churches that send him forth maintain, in their entire membership, a like high standard. As it has been felicitously said, we should not only pray and give for the heathen, but we should live for the heathen. “Arise, shine,” is the prophetic appeal to the church, which prefaces the promise, “and Gentiles shall come to thy light." AM. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions held its forty-third annual meeting at Troy, N. Y., Sept. 7-10. The Treasurer's Report stated the receipts last year as $301,732.70, and the expenditures as $301,727.35, of which $13,999.40 was for the liquidation of the debt; leaving a balance in the treasury of $5.35. By the Report of the Prudential Committee, it appears that one ordained missionary and two assistant missionaries have died, fourteen ordained missionaries and twenty-three assistant missionaries have gone out for the first time, and five ordained missionaries and four assistant missionaries have returned to their fields of labor; and thirty-four persons, eleven males and twenty-three females, have been appointed during the year. The The following is a summary of the missions. Missions, 26; stations, 111; out-stations, 45; ordained missionaries (seven | CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. ates 162 missionaries supported by this The fifty-third annual report enumersociety, of whom ninety are English, fifty-one foreigners and twenty-one converted natives. There are also twentyseven European laymen and 1,630 native and country-born assistants. The missions report 107,000 attendants on public worship, 15,302 communicants and 40,000 scholars; increase of communicants last year 1,148. The receipts into the treasury were £118,674, the expenditures £104,219. The missions are in eastern and western Africa, Palestine, Cairo, Smyrna, India and Ceylon, New Zealand, British Guiana, Jamaica and Northwest America. In Sierra Leone, out of a population of about 45,000, there are more than 36,000 nominal Christians, representatives of no fewer than one hundred tribes speaking different languages and dialects, by whom the truth may be carried in every direction into the interior. The communicants number 2,732, an increase of 661 from last year. Many stations have been placed under charge of native pastors, and there were twelve candidates for ordination waiting the arrival of the bishop. As the colony becomes supplied |