1824, near the close of the morning service at Tillipally, Mr. Woodward observed some of the boys to be peculiarly affected by what was said. Thus encouraged, he appointed another meeting for them in the afternoon, and another in the evening. The next day, being unwell, he sent for Mr. Winslow, who repaired to Tillipally in the afternoon, and found seven or eight of the boys manifesting much anxious concern for their spiritual welfare, and others more or less serious. Most of them belonged to the boarding-school. They were assembled together for religious services when he arrived, and the Spirit of God seemed evidently present. The disposition to serious and anxious inquiry continued to increase, till all the members of the school, (about 40 in number,) the domestics of the family, and two or three schoolmasters, were among the inquirers. The result was, that most of the older boys, and two girls, gave pleasing evidence of a change of character. On the 24th of March, when Mr. Winslow wrote, the revival in that place still continued to prevail. Oodooville.-Mr. Winslow returned to Oodooville impressed with the importance of looking for a similar blessing on his own station. And a similar blessing was granted. In dispensing the word of life on the next Sabbath, he was, himself, favoured with a remarkable tenderness and ferycncy of spirit. The effect of his preaching upon his hearers he thus describes; "Some were much affected, and tears began to flow from those unused to weep. The impression continued through the other meetings of the day; and at evening, I found that a number of the girls in the Female Central School here, were convinced of their sinfulness and need of salvation by Jesus Christ. Meetings for inquiry into the state of individuals followed, and the Lord graciously caused the work to proceed, until no one in the school remained wholly unaffected." Batticotta-The monthly prayer meeting was held at this place on the 2nd of February, at which most of the Missionaries of Jaffna district, together with J. N. Mooyart, Esq. and some others were present. Mr. W. observes: "It was a day ever to be remembered. The promising appearances around us gave new feeling and hope to all. The forenoon was occupied in relating, as usual, whatever of particular interest had occurred at our different stations; but a new spirit prevailed: and we had scarcely assembled in the afternoon, and sung a hymn, when the Holy Spirit seemed to fill all the place where we were together. The brother who was leading in prayer Manepy.-The next Sabbath was a new day at Manepy. The Holy Supper was celebrated, and an adult man baptized and admitted to the church. The serious lads from Tillipally, and the girls from Oodooville, were there; also Mr. and Mrs. Winslow. Mr. W. adds: Many "During the sermon and ordinances, the Spirit of God was evidently present; and when, in the afternoon, the children and youth of the boarding schools of that and the other stations came together, an affecting scene was exhibited. were in tears. More than thirty expressed a desire to forsake all for Christ. The Lord has since carried on the work, till, in a school consisting of about forty-five boys, many of whom are young, nearly half profess themselves to be the Lord's. visitation was yet to be experienced. Panditeripo.-But a more remarkable This was at Panditeripo. There had been some previous attention at that station. But, on the 12th of February, while Dr. and Mrs. Scudder were absent, and after the boys had gone to their room, and were about to lie down to sleep, Whelpley (a native member of the church) was induced to exhort them most earnestly to flee from the wrath to come. They were roused, and could not sleep. By little' companies they went out into the garden to pray, and the voice of supplication was louder and louder, each one, or each comsoon heard in every quarter. It waxed pany praying and weeping, as though all were alone. More than thirty were thus engaged in a small garden. The cry was, "What shall I do to be saved;" and, "Lord, send thy Spirit." In about an hour Dr. Scudder returned, and, after waiting a while, rang the bell for the boys to come in. They came, and, with weeping, proposed to him the inquiry, "What shall we do to be saved?" next day I saw them. They seemed to their souls. More than twenty at that be earnestly seeking for the salvation of place now indulge the hope that they have obtained the forgiveness of their sins. And the Lord is still there. The uncommon Central School at Batticotta.-There had yet been, however, no attention in the Central School at Batticotta, in which our feelings were much interested. Prayer was made, and had been made, almost without ceasing, for that school; and, in two or three instances, some little meetings held for this purpose, experienced very sensible tokens of the divine influence, and continued in supplication through a great part of the night. At length several of the serious lads at Tillipally, where the revival of religion commenced, visited this seminary, and conversed with the youths there with good effect. The Sabbath following, a serious influence on the minds of the scholars was manifest. The next Tuesday, most of the Missionaries were there with their wives. A meeting, held on the evening of that day, was deeply interesting. About ten of the youths expressed a determination to forsake all for Christ; and scarcely one in the school was altogether unmoved. The good work in this school continued at the time Mr. W. wrote. He remarks: "The next Thursday was our quarterly meeting and communion, and was such a day as we have never had before. The sermon was from the text, Bring ye all the tithes into my storehouse, &c. Jaffna.-"Since then, an awakening has commenced in Jaffna, where we have all been, and attended meetings more or less; and the prospects there are still very encouraging. "Last week we had a most reviving season of prayer there, in the house of J. N. Mooyart, Esq, who had called together all his Christian friends to take leave of them; he being about to remove to the southern part of the island." Mr. Winslow states, that the number at the different stations who have hopefully experienced a change of heart, is about eighty; but that, as many of them are young, hope should be indulged with trembling. EUROPE. SOME of our readers are already familiar with the name of Gossner, a pious ecclesiastic, whom God has recently raised up in Germany, and whose zeal and fidelity have already exposed him to persecution for the cause of Christ. At the moment of sending this sheet to press, we are favoured with a perusal of a letter from a foreign friend at Leipsig, from which we extract the following paragraph respecting him. "I Do not know whether you have already heard of that truly evangelical preacher, the Rev. John Gossner, a native of Bavaria, and member of the Catholic church, though a decided enemy of Romne and its impostures. "This highly-gifted man, by whose preaching hundreds have been snatched from the world, and converted to Christ, after having suffered persecution and imprisonment in his own country, was called to St. Petersburgh, by the special wish of the Emperor. This is now about five years ago. In St. Petersburgh his preaching was uncommonly blessed, and a large congregation gathered, who assembled in a hall hired for the purpose. "The enemies of the gospel were not a little disappointed by his success, and used all the means they could to destroy his work, and at length they also succeeded so far, that last summer Mr. Gossner was suddenly sent out of the country, by command of the Emperor. His enemies, among whom were many of the Greek and Roman clergy, had insinuated that, in a work which he had written,-a kind of commentary on the New Testament-he had spoken against the Virgin Mary, and the Saints, and preached rebellion against the emperor. The falsehood and wickedness of these assertions, especially of the last-is known to every one who has read the book, which tends only to practical godliness; and has done already much good in Germany. After Mr. Gossner's return to Germany, he first went to Altona, and for the last four months he has been in Leipsig. I had been already connected with him when in Petersburgh, and carried on a corresgreat privilege of being almost daily in pondence with him; and I enjoy now the his company-to share in his prayers, and to hear the word expounded by him. He is very far from any thing Roman CathoProtestant church, if he did not see it so lic, and would long ago have joined the full of unbelief, and estranged from the truth of the gospel." Contributions received by the Treasurer of the Baptist Missionary Society, from February 20, to March 20, 1825, not including Individual Subscriptions. £ 3. d. 90 9 Bristol and Bath, Auxiliary Society, by Mr. John Daniell, Jun. Friends at Garmond Olney, Subscriptions, by Mr. Wilson.... ....... 11 6 0 2 0 0 13 5 Montrose, Society in aid of Missions, &c. by Mr. Dow...... ....... Hemel Hempsted, Missionary Association, by Mr. Howard Norfolk, by Rev. Joseph Kinghorn, viz. Ingham ........ 13 12 0 20 12 12 8 15 18 42 14 9 19 21 15 12 J. H. by the Secretary Donation 50 W. P. Parker, Esq. by Sir John Perring and Co. by the Secretary by Mr. Nisbet Richard Bevan, Esq. Mr. Watts, Kislingbury, TRANSLATIONS. Legacy of Mr. J. M. Colman, late of Norwich, by Rev. Joseph by Rev. T. Blundell by Henry Butterworth, Esq. 200000 0 Lockwood, near Huddersfield, Female Friends, by Mrs. Willett. 'Dundee, Westport Penny Society ...... West Yorkshire Auxiliary,-Leeds-by M. Thackrey, Esq. Mem. In the Acknowledgment of Remittance last month from the North of England Auxiliary Society, there should have been included the Sum of £10 17s. 5d. from the Juvenile Society at Rev. R. Pengilly's, Newcastle. N.B. The Treasurer of the "West Middlesex Baptist Missionary Union" requests us to state, that he has received the sum of £4 6s. collected at Staines, after two Sermons in the Baptist Meeting by the Rev. C Woollacott, together with £2, contributed for the Native Schools, by Dr. Pope and other members of the Society of Friends, in that town. London: Printed by J. BARFIELD, 91, Wardour-Street, Soho. BAPTIST MAGAZINE. MAY, 1825. Extract from the Funeral Sermon for the late Rev. John Saffery, delivered in the Baptist Meeting-house, Brown Street, Salisbury, Monday Evening, March 14, 1825. OF the early part of Mr. Saffery's life, I have no information. He was born, I have understood, at Hythe, a village near Southampton; and, while yet young, went to reside at Portsea. Here he was, by the good providence of God, brought under the sound of the gospel; and, having experienced its power, he was baptized and united with the church at Portsea, then under the care of the amiable and venerated Mr. Horsey, into whose family he afterwards married; and with whom, till death removed him from the church below, he maintained a close and beneficial friendship. It was soon discovered that Mr. S. possessed talents for public use fulness, and, according to the usage of our churches, he was invited to exercise them. After he had been thus engaged, in a more limited way, for some time, he was invited to supply this congregation, then vacant by the death of your former pastor, Mr. Phillips; and thus commenced an union, which, after subsisting for thirty-five years with uninterrupted harmony and confidence, has, at length, yielded, as all such unions must, to the awful touch of death. Speaking, as I do, among those who knew him well, and esteemed him highly, it seems hardly necessary to enlarge much on his character. In whatever I may say, I desire religiously to observe his dying injunctions, not to exalt the creature, VOL. XVII, (See our last Number, p. 168, 181.) but that Redeemer to whose grace he was so much indebted, and whom he faithfully served. As a man, he was not an ordinary character. He was frank, open, and generous; susceptible of strong feel, ings, and disposed to take a lively interest in all that passed around him. His discernment was quick, his judgment mature, and, had his intellectual powers been cultivated in early life, they would doubtless have appeared to greater advantage: though his very general intercourse with society had done much to supply and conceal the want of a more liberal education. As a preacher, he may be characterized as plain, impressive, and forcible. He prepared his sermons with care; and, in the delivery of them, it was evident that he regarded chiefly their effect-that he sought to approve himself to his Lord and master, and no farther to please men than should be for their good unto edification. Nor was he suffered to labour in vain and spend his strength for nought. This church, composed, for the most part, of those who were turned to God by his instrumentality, stands as an evidence that the hand of the Lord was with him; to say nothing of many who entered before him into the world of glory, or of the benefits derived from his occasional services in many other places where he was called to preach the gospel. R His piety, it was evident, was furnish a more lively and affecting deep and genuine; not the mere illustration than any thing I could say. flash of transient emotion, or a bigotted attachment to a few lifeless opinions, but the habitual and ruling principle of his soul. His sermons, his prayers, his letters, his conversation-in the family, the church, or in wider circles still, uniformly attested this. He was a man that feared God above many. Sincerity was conspicuous in all his movements. Hypocrisy he detested, and, I suppose, was never accused or suspected of it for a moment. Whether his manly countenance were gathered into a frown, or relaxed into a smile, still it was the faithful index to his heart. In the discharge of his pastoral duties, in the sanctuary, and in the intercourse of social life, he had obtained mercy to be faithful. I call you to witness that he did not shun to declare the whole counsel of God, or aim for a moment to accommodate his public or private instructions to the taste of his hearers. Like the apostle of the Gentiles, if he saw that his brethren ought to be blamed, he withstood them to the face; and was never, I feel assured, led to suppress the truth out of deference to wealth or station. But, with all his natural firmness and energy, he was not devoid of the milder graces. He knew how to weep with those that weep, and to comfort them that are cast down. His friendship was warm and steady; and instances will occur to the memory of some present, in which, by pleading their cause with the generous and the wealthy, he did much to alleviate the sorrows of the widow and the fatherless. How he conducted himself in the more private relations of life, as a husband, a father, a master, it is not necessary for me to describe. The heart-felt grief of those connected with him by these endearing relations, will He was remarkably distinguished by his uniform and glowing zeal for the spread of the gospel, and the enlargement of the Redeemer's kingdom at home and abroad. He was in labours more abundant-in former years as an itinerant among many of the surrounding villages, where happy fruits of his exertions remain to this day-every plan which seemed likely to benefit the souls of men, had his warm support-and, up to his last illness, he was unwearied in his efforts to promote the interests of the Baptist Missionary Society. The institution I have just named, indeed, attracted his attention, and secured the warm affections of his heart, almost at its commencement. Within a few months after it was formed at Kettering in 1792, he succeeded, in conjunction with one or two valued brethren, one of whom yet survives to fill a most important station in a distant part of the kingdom,* in establishing the Hants and Wilts Assistant Society, which proved, for more than thirty years, a source of valuable aid to the Parent Institution, as well as of increasing labour to himself. Nor was bis zeal confined within the limits of this district. Throughout England and Scotland he has travelled as its advocate, and successfully pleaded its cause. His counsels, too, were always given as promptly as they were highly valued; he naturally cared for its state-and some of his last breath was employed in uttering those expressions in which he was wont to pray for its success. Such, by the grace of God, was our departed friend; and, so far as he discovered the mind of Christ, let us glorify God on his behalf. But, after having long served his generation by the will of God, the time came that he must die! * Dr. Steadman, of Bradford, |