Son's death and funeral, her behaviour was singularly calm and solemn. When she perceived that his spirit was really departed, the tears rolled down her face, and she exclaimed in Indian, " My Son ! my Son!" but, further than this, not a complaint or groan was heard to escape her lips. After the funeral, I sat down with her, and had a long conversation. Among other things, I asked her why it was that she appeared as she now did; and whether it had been so at the death of her other children. She said, No; for that she had, as is common among the Indians, wailed, and mangled her own body, in her affliction. "I have no such feelings now. God is good; and I feel that what He has done must be right." She expressed no consciousness of the love of God in her soul, yet she furnished evidence that her feelings were under the sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit. Nor was it long, through the mercy of her Heavenly Father, before she began to experience peace and joy by believing in Christ. Her soul was also filled with love to all the members of the family. At times, her mind would recur to the scene of her Son's death; but, to use her own expression literally interpreted, I felt as if I was in a narrow happy way; and if a thought came to me about my Son, it seemed like being drawn out of this way, and I longed to get back immediately.' With these feelings toward God and Christians, she now became very anxious for the souls of her own people; and said, "Oh, if they could only see as I do, how happy they would be!" 66 When asked, a considerable time afterward, about the state of her mind, she said, “I have always been happy in God since then the more I have seen of the love of Christ, and the longer I have lived, the more I have desired to love Him, and to be more and more like Him in my soul. I do not know that I have since ever had any sorrow of soul so great, as I have had for those who are ignorant of God. Sometimes, when going to Church, or while there, it has made me weep to think of those who do not love God. There has never been one day since I found peace to my soul, when I did not feel that God was with me." The reason which she assigned for this mercy was, that God would soon take her out of the world; and that He was pleased to be thus preparing her for His presence. "Every Sabbath," she I had afterward the following conversation with her. You said, that, before you found peace in Christ, you long felt yourself miserably wretched, and that you often prayed: was it for the merits of these prayers that God gave you peace? No: it was because of Christ's pity to my soul; because he died for sinners; and it was of God's mercy that Missionaries were sent to teach me -"Do you mean that you never had any fears that you were deceived?" گو 65 79.66 I have always felt sure that God has had mercy on my soul; and, the more I have thought on my old wicked life, the more it has drawn me near to God; it has made me feel more humble in myself, and a strong desire to live only for Him But should God take away His Spirit from you, and leave you to yourself, what do you think would become of you?" "I should be good for nothing Have you any fears that God will ever take away His Spirit from your soul? No" "Why? "From what I have heard of His Word, He has promised to keep those that trust in Him; and I believe He is faithful to His Word "- There have been several times when in your sickness you have been very low, and have had reason to think that you would live but a few hours or days; have you, at none of these times, been unwilling or afraid to die?" "No""Have you always felt, if it were God's will, that it would be a privilege to die, and you would be glad to have the hour come?" ""Yes, I have. This Fall, when I was very sick for two days and nights, and felt that God only could make me better or take me away, I thought, if it were His will, how glad I should be to be sure that I was dying, that I might be with God "-" A year ago last Spring, you were baptized and received into the Church can you tell me any thing of your feelings at that time about the Or3 dinances ? "After I understood their design, that Christ had commanded them, and why he had done it, I had a very strong desire to be baptized and to receive the Lord's Supper; nor is there any thing in this world that I felt to be so great a privilege. When I was baptized and promised solemnly to be for God, I really felt in my heart every word; and that I was now all the Lord's, and no more for myself, or for any other. I was happier than I can express, in the privilege of being there with the love of God in my heart; and when receiving the bread and wine, I felt that I could not be thankful enough to God for bringing me to His Table once. I thought I should " come there no more; but that the next time I should be at God's Table in Heaven" "You see that it has not been as you thought. You have communicated several times have those always been precious seasons to your soul?" " Yes, every one of them "Have they been as precious as the first?" "Yes: as I have heard more of the Saviour, and have learnt more His love from the Bible, I have felt each time, if possible, more and more near and happy in Him "- "What good do you think that Baptism or the Lord's Supper could do for you, without a heart to love the Saviour? "None: there would be no joy to my soul in them" -"Could you have this joy and peace, of which you have told me, if you did not, as far as you know, strive to serve God in all things?" "No, I could not. Though unable to do any thing with my hands and to labour for God, it is my sincere desire daily to have my heart much in prayer for my friends, and for the salvation of their souls; and because God lets me live, I believe He wishes me to be devoted in spirit to this "-"Do you think you love God and souls as much as you ought?" "No: I try to love, but do not feel so much as I ought"-" When do you expect to have perfect love to God and souls?" At first she answered, "Never;" thinking I meant while in the body. After which she said, "When I get to Heaven." A little time after the preceding narrative was written, this Indian Convert died. Of her death, which took place at Mackinaw on the 23d of November last, Mr. Ferry gives the following account : She exhibited the character of the Believer triumphing in death. For many months she had been almost daily looking for her departure. Though suffering much in body, yet she was uniformly patient and happy. She repeatedly said on the day of her death, "I think I shall go to-day." At night she shook hands with some of the members of the Mission Family; and, with a smile, spoke of it as the last time. But a few minutes before her death, in allusion to David's words, she said she feared no evil. Surely no Unbeliever, observing her course down the dark valley, could any longer doubt the reality of religion, or deny the importance of carrying the tidings of the Gospel to the unlettered Savage. In reference to the happy frame of her mind Mr. Ferry says In what I have written, I have scrupulously avoided any thing like a more favourable colouring than facts would justify. In respect of uninterrupted peace and spirituality of mind, the case of this woman is unlike any other which I ever knew. She was indeed a privileged Child of God, ripening fast for glory sick or well, in pain or at ease, she always met us with a placid, and most commonly with a smiling, countenance. Proceedings and Entelligence. United Kingdom. ANNIVERSARIES. Ir will be seen in the following abstract of the Proceedings at the Anniversaries of the different Societies, that the usual course was interrupted at several of the Meetings. We have thought it right to put the facts on record and shall make no other remark on them on the present occasion, than that it most seriously behoves every conscientious man to consider, whether, in these days of dangerous excitement and of the fearful but unheeded working of the Malignant Spirit, he will not far more consult the interests of Truth, the Peace of the Church, and the preservation of many Individuals from disquieting and sinful Emotions, if he confine himself, for the prevention or the recal of any measure which he may deem injurious, to those quiet means which are afforded by intercourse with the respective Committees or by appeals from the Press; rather than bring such questions before large Assemblies, where they cannot but interrupt both the regular business and the harmony of the Meeting, while no fair and adequate consideration of the merit of these questions can be there obtained. -That the object of this Meeting is the Entire Extinction of Negro Slavery. -That the time has now arrived, in which the people of Great Britain and Ireland may give, by their votes, as they have already given by their petitions, efficacious assistance toward delivering the Negroes from the evils of Slavery, and the Nation from the guilt of tolerating it; and that the Address now read be adopted by this Meeting and circulated throughout the country. -That the buying, or selling, or holding of our Fellow-men as Slaves, is contrary to the Christian Religion, and to the principles of the British Constitution. -That, under the strongest rational conviction, fortified by the experience of all ages, that the Holders of Slaves are, by the very circumstances of their situation, rendered as unfit, as they have always proved themselves unwilling, to frame laws for the benefit of their bondmen, this Assembly cannot refrain from avowing their utter despair of receiving any effectual aid from the Colonists in the prosecution of their great object. -That this Assembly consider it incumbent on them to renew the declaration of their decided conviction, that Slavery is not merely an abuse to be mitigated, but an enormity to be suppressed; that it involves the exercise of severities on the part of the Master, and the endurance of sufferings on the part of the Slave, which no laws can effectually prevent; and that to impose on the British People the involuntary support of a System so essentially iniquitous, is an injustice no longer to be endured. -That the experience of the last eight years has not only furnished additional evidence of the Criminality and incurable Inhumanity of Slavery, but has also demonstrated incontrovertibly, that it is only by the direct intervention of Parliament that any effectual remedy can be applied to this enormous evil; and that it is the unalterable determination of this Meeting to leave no lawful means unattempted for obtaining, by Parliamentary Enactment, the Total Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Dominions. State of the Funds. The Receipts of the Year, including 8061. 7s. 11d. for Publications sold, amounted to 28461. 8s. 11d. The Payments were 31851. 15s. 10d. Issues of Publications. In 1829, there were issued 261,500 copies of the various Numbers of the Anti-Slavery Reporter, and 15,625 of other Publications. In 1830, the issue of Anti-Slavery Reporters amounted to 421,250 copies, and that of other Publications to 151,465. UNITED BRETHREN. LONDON ASSOCIATION. Sermon. Tuesday, April 26, at xi; at St. Clement Danes; by Rev. J. W. Cunningham, M.A.; from Psalm LX. 4: Collection, 351. 2s.-Tuesday, May 17, at vi; at Spafields Chapel; by Rev. H. Cooke, D. D., of Belfast. State of the Funds. The Receipts of the Year were 43177. 10s. 6d., and the Expenses 8047. 5s. 5d. The Balance, amounting to 35131. 5s. 1d. was paid to the Brethren's Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel. SUNDAY-SCHOOL SOCIETY. FORTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY. Meeting. Wednesday, April 27, at vi P. M.; at the London Coffee-House, Ludgate Hill; the President, the Marquis Cholmondeley, in the Chair. Collection, 51. Movers and Seconders. Rev. John Harding; and Rev. C. L. Gilbert-Rev. T. Harding; and W. B. Gurney, Esq.-Professor Hoppus; and W. H. Watson, Esq.-and Rev. Mr. Griffiths, of Holyhead; and T. Pell Platt, Esq. Resolutions. -That, while the aspect of the times demands our prayerful attention and presents powerful motives for Christian Exertion in every department of benevolence, this Meeting especially regards them as calling for extended efforts for the Instruction of the Rising Population in the Principles of Scriptural Truth; that wisdom and knowledge may become the stability of our times, and the Kingdoms of this World become the Kingdoms of our God and of His Christ. -That this Meeting, convinced that signal benefits have been conferred on our Country and the World by means of Sunday Schools, cordially approves the measure proposed by a kindred Institution, of celebrating a Jubilee on the return of the Birth-Day of Robert Raikes, their Founder, the 14th of September next ensuing, which period, as nearly as can be ascertained, will complete the Fiftieth Year of their establishment; and earnestly recommends the Friends of Religious Instruction, everywhere, to mark the occasion by extraordinary efforts, personal and combined, to extend and to promote the SundaySchool System in their various localities. State of the Funds. Receipts of the Year. £. s. d. 86 12 6 83 12 100 0 209 12 0 Payments of the Year. .... 226 8 91 Rent, Taxes, &c... Merging of the Philo-Judæan and Operative Jewish Converts' Societies into this Institution. The Philo-Judæan Society, of which the Fourth Anniversary was noticed at p. 205 of our last Volume, has merged into this Institution; and so also has another Society, just coming into operaration. The object of the Friends of the Hebrew Nation," in forming themselves into a Society, having been originally confined to Inquiring Jews, many Christians were anxious to open an Asylum where Baptized Jews might also have an opportunity of learning a Trade, by which they might support themselves; cast out as they were by their own people, and often regarded with suspicion by Christians. For this purpose a considerable sum had been subscribed, for the establishment of a Society to be entitled the Institution." Operative Jewish Converts" An offer of union with the "Friends of the Hebrew Nation" having been made, and a general feeling prevailing of the inexpediency of unnecessarily multiplying Societies for the same object, a union has taken place between the Institutions. The Asylums for the Inquir ing and the Baptized Jews will still be distinct; that for Inquiring Jews at Camden Town, and that for Baptized Jews in the immediate vicinity of the Episcopal' Jews' Chapel. Whatever is paid to the General Fund will be at the disposal of the Committee; but if any wish to subscribe to the Baptized Jews' Asylum or that for Inquiring Jews specifically, they will be at liberty to do so. Amendment on the Report negatived. It was stated at p. 199 of our last Volume, that Twelve Adult Jews were baptized on the 14th of April. These Converts were received into an Asylum at Camden Town, under the superintendence of Mr. Erasmus H. Simon. February of the present Year, these Jews, with other inmates of the Asylum, were formed by Mr. Simon into 8 In 1831.] UNITED KINGDOM. Church; which he considers, not a New Church, but the re-establishment of that Hebrew-Christian Church, founded at Jerusalem, of which St. James was the head; the Jews being, in his opinion, entitled as a Nation, however scattered, to a National Church. The Committee entirely disapproving this step, which was taken without consulting them, Mr. Simon, and a part of the inmates of the Asylum, withdrew from the Society. The Report of the Committee censuring this attempt at the formation of a separate Hebrew-Christian Church, Dr. Biber moved an Amendment to the following effect: -That in receiving the Report of the Committee, the Meeting, while it approves of the separation between the Committee and the inmates of the Institution concerning the revival of an Apostolic Hebrew Church, would keep the counsels of Gamaliel with respect to that revival; for that if this had not been brought about by God, any expression of the feeling of the Meeting against it would be unnecessary; but that if it were of God, to object to it would be to strive against His will. Dr. Biber urged this Amendment on the ground, that, in condemning the conduct of Mr. Simon and his friends for having established a New Church, the Committee had themselves departed from what was the understood objects of the Society; as, in the union with the PhiloJudæan Society, such an understanding existed among at least the members of the Philo-Judæan Committee. Chairman having shewn that the Committee, so far from being pledged to the object referred to in the Amendment, was pledged to resist the establishment of any separate Hebrew Church, the Amendment was negatived, very few hands being held up in its favour. IRISH SOCIETY. NINTH ANNIVERSARY.. Sermons. The Thursday, April 28, at vi P.M.; at St. John's Chapel, Bedford Row; by Rev. Henry Beamish, M.A. Vicar of Kinsale, Ireland, and Chaplain of the Irish Episcopal Chapel, West Street, Seven Dials; from Isaiah Lv. 8-11: Collection, 117. 13s. -Tuesday, May 3, at vi P. M.; at St. Clement Danes; by Rev. Henry Melvill, M.A.; from Zech. iv. 6. Not by might, nor by power; but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts: Collection, 667. 68. 6d. Meeting. Friday, April 29, at xii; in Exeter Hall; Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, the President, In the Chair. Movers and Seconders. Bishop of Chester; and Rev. Henry Melvill-Lord Lifford; and T. Mahon, Esq.-Sir G. Grey, Bart.; and James Cummins, Esq.-Rev. H. Beamish; and Capt. Vernon, R.N. and John M'Clin tock, Esq.; and Rev. J. W. Doran. Resolution. -That the value and importance of the Irish Language, as a medium of communicating the knowledge of Divine Truth to a large portion of the population of Ireland, is rendered increasingly evident by the experience of every succeeding year. £. s. d. 122 9 6 State of the Funds. ... 317 18 7 257 2 6 Total.... 1918 19 11 April 29, at xi; at Great-Queen-Street Chapel; by Rev. T. Raffles, LL.D.; from John xii. 6. I am the Way.-Same Day, at vi P.M.; at Southwark Chapel, Long Lane, Borough; by Rev. Robert Alder; from Rom. i. 16, 17. On Sunday, the 1st of May, 107 Sermons were preached for the Society, in 52 Chapels of the Wesleyan Methodists, in and near London. Meeting. Monday, May 2, at xi; in Exeter Hall; Lancelot Haslope, Esq. in the Chair. The Meeting of the London Auxiliary had been held, April 27, at vi P.M., in Great-Queen-Street Chapel; John Josiah Buttress, Esq., Treasurer of the London Districts, in the Chair. Movers and Seconders. Rev. Robert Alder, late Missionary in British America; James Montgomery, Esq., of Sheffield; and John Poynder, |