trust, winged its way to glory. Thus far, my daughter's Narrative.

As soon as we had ascertained that the soul of our poor suffering girl had quitted its frail tabernacle of clay, we again prayed. The prayers of the Believing Natives were very solemn

and impressive. Truly it was a solemn

season.

During the poor girl's illness, she was much visited, and prayed with, by all the Converted Natives; and I trust their prayers and conversations were a mutual and lasting benefit to their souls.

Thus have we given an account of the gracious dealings of a compassionate Redeemer with the soul of an humble Slave in New Zealand. Much, very much, might have been written; but I have merely sent you this, in order that those servants of Christ who have long prayed for New Zealanders may rejoice with us in the faithfulness of a Prayeranswering God. In the case of this poor girl, Christians will be able to see a faithful God dealing in the same gracious manner with the soul of a New Zealander, as with the soul of the privileged Englishman; and those gra

cious dealings having the same gracious effects.

The Native Girl, Rama, mentioned in the above narrative, died a few months after Betty. It is consolatory to learn that there is also hope in her death. In a Postscript

to Mr. Davis's Letter, dated February the 22d, 1831, he writes—

Since I wrote the above Narrative, the Girl Rama has died: her end, I trust, was also peace. Her evidences were satisfactory, but not so bright as my poor Betty's were; yet I trust their happy souls have now met together in everlasting glory.

He adds

The poor Natives are dying and decreasing fast. Oh that Christians would but be VERY EARNEST IN PRAYER for them! The Gospel is gaining ground. I hope, in about a fortnight, to see about ten more Natives received into the Visible Church of Christ.

Thus have we reason to bless God for the testimony given to the word of His grace, in New Zealand!

United Kingdom.

BRITISH & FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.

OUR Readers will receive much pleasure from the subjoined simple narrative of the

Efficient Distribution of the Scriptures by

a Greenwich Pensioner.

I beg most respectfully to present the Report of the distribution of Fifty Testaments, which your kindness voted me. I have distributed some in Bethnal Green, among families who were destitute-a few in Deptford Parish-some in Whitechapel-some in Mile Endsome I have left with parents whose sons have been executed; and I have given some to widows of those executed, who were destitute-also some in St. George's in the East. I have seen some of the Books at times, and they appeared to have been much read. In one of my

circuits in the distribution of Tracts in Bethnal Green, April 25, 1831, I found seventy-four families destitute of Bibles or Testaments; and on May 2, I found twenty-five; and on May 9, I found sixty-four. In this visit I met a girl, about twelve years of age, who told me that she did not know what a Bible was. These three visits were in different parts of Bethnal Green and there are some parts of Whitechapel which are wholly destitute of Bibles and Testaments at the present time: brutish ignorance, gross impiety, and great wretchedness, exist; and in many other parts it is the same. If, Gentlemen, you will please to vote me a grant, to distribute among such as I think will take care of them and read them, I shall be very grateful.

P. S. I beg permission also to mention, that the three German Testaments were received very gratefully, and with tears, by the three women who were in confinement in Horsemonger-lane Gaol;

and they used to read them diligently, and very highly prized them. At the expiration of their imprisonment, they took them with them.

BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
ANNIVERSARY.

THE Committee met the Ministers from the Country, at the Society's House in Fenchurch Street, on Tuesday Morning, the 21st of June: the Missionaries Flood and Cantlow, who had just returned from Jamaica on account of ill health, attended this Meeting.

On Wednesday Morning, at the Poultry Chapel, the Rev. C. E. Birt, of Portsea, preached from Psalm xlv. 3, 4; and in the Evening, the Hon. and Rev. G. H. R. Curzon, at Surrey Chapel, from Matt. x. 8. Freely ye have received, freely give.

A Prayer Meeting having been held, on Thursday Morning, at Devonshire-Square Meeting-House, the Annual Meeting took place in Finsbury Chapel; W. B. Gurney, Esq.,

in the Chair.

That the present aspect of Divine Providence toward the world at large, viewed in connexion with the spirit of compassionate zeal increasingly prevalent in the Christian Church, awakens the delightful hope that the day is approaching in which the Kingdom of the Great God, even our Saviour, shall be universally established; and that, in this expectation, it becomes all His servants to pray more fervently, labour more diligently, and cultivate more earnestly in all their proceedings the spirit of meekness, humility, and Christian Love.

Missionaries sent out in the Year.

A considerable addition has been made, of late, to our Missionary Strength. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner, Mr. Shoveller, Mr. and Mrs. Griffith, have proceeded to Jamaica; where also Messrs. Whitehorne and Abbott have entered upon the field. Mr. J. D. Ellis, from Exeter, and Mr. John Lawrence, from Loughton, having been accepted by the Committee for the East Indies, have been designated for their important work, and have just embarked for Calcutta: Mr. Ellis is to act as a co-adjutor with Mr. W. H. Pearce, in the Printing Office, as well as in Missionary Labours: Mr. Lawrence will proceed to occupy the station at Digah, which has not till now

every opportunity of extending the circulation of their Tracts, which the operation of this Society affords them; and would thus testify their conviction of the excellence of a plan, which, whether it be regarded in its bearings on the Church of England, or (what is still more important) in reference to the glory of God and the salvation of the souls of men, is one of the most comprehensive schemes of Christian Benevolence to which the present times have given rise.

It affords the Committee pleasure to remark, that the formation of District Visiting Societies is gradually increasing. Several applications have been made at the Depository for Tracts, both by grant and purchase, from Societies of this description in different parts of the country; and the Committee would express their earnest hope, that the time is not far distant, when there will not be found a single city, or parish of large extent and numerous population, destitute of such an auxiliary to the labours of its Clergy, throughout the Kingdom.

South Africa.

UNITED BRETHREN.

BR. Hallbeck, in writing from Gnadenthal in the early part of December, gives but a melancholy account of the

Infirmities and Sickness of the Missio

naries.

A large party is now preparing to proceed hence to Europe in February or March next, namely, Brother and Sister Thompsen, and Brother and Sister Voigt, with their four children, and six children of other Missionaries, being in all 14 individuals. Besides these two couples, who are entirely unfit for service, we have a considerable number of invalids among us. Br. Luttring has, for a length of time, suffered from a pulmonary complaint; and is now under the care of a skilful physician, who has forbidden him to speak in the School or Church for at least three months, and has put him on a very strict regimen. Br. Stein had a large wen on the head, which increased in size alarmingly he therefore went to Capetown, and underwent an operation, which lasted three quarters of an hour: he is now fully restored. Br.Clemens complains of a pain in the side, which I fear augurs no good; and Br.Hornig suffers more and more from a disorder which he had before he left Europe. Br.Lemmertz, August, 1831.

who retired to Enon on account of a serious attack of rheumatism, appears to be restored; but is unfit to undergo great fatigue, and liable to a relapse every rainy season. In short, out of eighteen Brethren in South Africa, only nine can be said to be in good health; and here, at Gnadenthal, I am the only one at present who is quite well. We are, however, by the mercy of God our Saviour, enabled, as usual, to attend to our various duties, and a blessed spirit of peace and harmony prevails everywhere in our Mission Families.

In the same Letter, he thus speaks of the

State of the Mission at Gnadenthal. In consequence of the free trade in grain, a much larger quantity is cultivated than formerly; and as there is rather a want than a superfluity of hands for the gathering in of the harvest, our Hottentots have had good earnings for some weeks past. Our Church and School are, in consequence,somewhat thinly attended; yet both the ordinary Services and the Schools are held in the accustomed order. For some time past, a considerable number of the neighbouring farmers have attended our Church regularly, and, we have reason to believe, with blessing to their souls.

We have lately been much encouraged by the happy departure of several individuals, who rejoiced in the prospect of soon being with their Saviour. In the course of this year, 69 individuals have obtained leave to live with us, many of whom have resided here in former years. In January he gives further details:—

Our Services at the New Year were attended by such a concourse of people of all classes, that our large Church was completely filled. The greatest attention was manifested by all our visitors, and good order prevailed throughout the Settlement. Last Sunday, 7 persons became candidates for Baptism,3 were baptized, and 11 received or re-admitted into the Congregation. Br. Sonderman and his Wife are now engaged in conversing individually with the Baptized, and the Candidates for the Holy Communion, previous to the celebration of the Lord's Supper on Sunday next. Our Schools are again in full activity, after the short interruption occasioned by the harvest. The Day Schools are attended by about 200 children of both sexes; and, last Sun

2 Y

day, I began a Sunday School for Young Men, at their own particular request: Br. Luttring attends to a similar institution for Young Women and Girls.

Although the mortality at this Settlement was greater than usual last year, our number has not decreased; and the same is, I believe, the case at all our other Stations, with the exception, perhaps, of Enon. But it is not to increase in numbers that we principally look, though it is certainly encouraging to the Missionary to have the sphere of his activity extended: we are far more anxious to discover real growth in grace among those who call themselves by the name of Christ. In how far this can be truly said to exist, is known to Him only who searcheth the hearts and trieth the reins: we, His feeble and short-sighted servants, can only here and there discover the outward signs of this inward work; and even the discovery of these outward signs in a great measure depends on the state of our own hearts. Hence, it too frequently happens, that those in whom we had the least confidence prove stedfast followers of Jesus; while others, of whom we had formed a very good opinion, disappoint our expectations: by such experience we become more wary in forming judgments of others. I trust, however, that, though there are everywhere tares among the wheat, the work of the Holy Spirit is going forward.

This, indeed, becomes evident at the approach of death, when every earthly support must fail: on such occasions, we have generally the satisfaction to find, that those, who have embraced the Gospel and maintained their profession of it, rejoice at the prospect of meeting their Saviour. Proofs of this were particularly abundant last year, and afforded us no small comfort and encouragement. Our Young People, it must be confessed, exhibit, in general, a spirit of greater levity and obstinacy than in former times: yet seasons are not wanting when THEY too are led seriously to consider their ways; and such opportunities we seek to improve as much as possible, for the promotion of their spiritual good.

Mr. Hallbeck adds the following report of the

State and Prospects of the Tambookie
Mission.

after all, appear to have been beneficial to the Mission. On the 29th of September, poor Bowana was murdered, while attending his cattle in the field; probably by some of Chelela's people, with whom he had been on bad terms for a length of time. Soon after, Mapas, the son and successor of Bowana, endeavoured to revenge the death of his father, surprised several kraals of Chelela's tribe, and took about 1000 head of cattle. On this expedition he passed and repassed the settlement on the Klipplaat with 52 warriors; and, as several of Chelela's people lived there, and his appearance was not very friendly, apprehensions were entertained that some mischief might occur. He had, indeed, a private quarrel with one of the individuals belonging to the Mission, which was, however, amicably settled by the interference of the Missionary and by the resolute conduct of the Hottentots. Br. Halter, in the presence of the whole population, put the question to the New Sovereign, whether he would leave the Mission undisturbed, and suffer the Tambookies to come and live there without hinderance or interference : which questions he answered in the affirmative, after a long and grave consultation with his counsellors; at the same time praying that a Missionary might also come and reside with him. Though the words of Mapas are not fully to be relied upon, it is, however, of importance to have this solemn pledge, to remind him of in future; and it is highly interesting and encouraging, that, when the Tambookies on the Station at first apprehended that Mapas would endeavour to disperse them, they all declared, that THEY WOULD RATHER DIE THAN LEAVE THE WORD OF GOD, and not a single person could be induced to follow Mapas. On the contrary, these disturbances had induced many Tambookies to seek protection at the Station: eight families had arrived in November, and more were expected. Besides these new-comers, the numbers of those who had been regularly admitted amounted to 192. One Tambookie woman was

baptized, and two men and two women became Candidates for Baptism at the last Congregation Day.