lieve me," he added, “if you admit Chris- In respect to the mortality which tian teachers into your island, you will has prevailed among their children, the find your negroes soon become affec- missionaries at Bombay have been tionate and faithful servants to you.?” * pierced with many sorrows.' Mr. and

Mrs. Graves had lost four, and were SANDWICH ISLANDS :- Burial of the left childless ; Mr. and Mrs. Garrett late King and Queen.-Mr. Whitney, had just buried a little daughter; and in a letter dated June 24th to the Sec- the only surviving child of Mrs. Nichretary of the American Board, thus ols died the day before Mrs. H. sailed. speaks of this occasion.

In reference to these and other afflic“On the sixth of last month, the tive dispensations towards this mission, Blonde frigate arrived at Woahoo, with the Editor of the Missionary Herald the bodies of the late King and Queen. remarks, that “they are such as should The minds of the people were, in a meas- call forth the tender sympathies of ure, prepared for the distressing scene,

Christians at home with reference to having had about two months notice of their brethren and sisters, who have their death. Their remains were interred borne the burden and heat of the day, in with many tears and much solemnity. that arduous field. Unceasing prayer

On the day of the ship's arrival, the should be offered, that the afflictions survivors who returned from England, and disappointments, which the missiontogether with the chiefs and many peo- aries have felt, may be the precursors ple, proceeded to the church, where di- of great spiritual blessings. How long vine service was attended : after which it may be the pleasure of our ileavenly Boka, the chief who accompanied the Father to withhold the influences of King, called the attention v the assem- his Spirit from the labours of his serbly to what his majesty, t:e King of vants, it is not within the reach of huEngland, had told him : viz.. to return man faculties to predict. We know, to his country ; to seek instruction and however, that no instance of faithful, religion himself; and to enlighten and self-denying labour, performed from reform the people.”

Christian principle, will pass unnoticed Advice so congenial to the minds and and unrewarded by the Lord of misinterests of all present, and from one sions; and we have much reason to bewhose word they consider law, could lieve that there is always a real connot but make a deep impression. A nexion, though it may not always be new impulse has been given to our easily discerned, between the plain work. Schools are establishing, in ev- preaching of the gospel and the uld. ery district of all the Islands. The mate salvation of some who hear it." chiefs are taking decided measures for the suppression of vice. Our churches SERAMPORE TRANSLATIONS.--At the are crowded with attentive hearers : the late anniversary of the English and I am happy to add, that an increas- Baptist Missionary Society, the Rev. ing number are inquiring with solici- Joseph Kinghorn vindicated the transtude, What shall we do to be saved ? lations of the missionaries of that Soci

the New Testament class. Such is the registers, not being signed by a judge, deinand for education among the poor

would be refused as evidence, either of of Ireland, that the Society is called up

a child's legitimacy, the nuptial conon on every side, to extend its schools tract, or of a person's death. This is an to a degree far exceeding the funds at intolerable nuisance, politically consi present placed at its disposal.

dered, and in a religious point of view

is a grievous impediment to the prcPROGRESS OF THE MISSIONARY SPI- gress of the gospel. One circumstance RIT IN BRITAIN. --Some idea of the ra- connected with it is very striking and pid progress of the Missionary spirit in , anomalous—the Catholics are all in fa. Great Britain, may be formed by the vour of granting to the various sociefollowing short sketch of the progress ties their rights, or rather,of interpretof the Church Missionary Society, insti- ing the law without restriction : while tuted in the year 1800. During the the ecclesiastics of the state church first ten years, that Society had but one are decidedly inimical to granting the mission; it has now nine missions. other denominations the evangelical The clergy who were supporters of its right to have their children baptized objects were, during the first year, 50; according to their own consciences, or at the end of the first ten years, 260; the melancholy pleasure of interring they are now about 1500. The whole their friends in their own way. income for the first ten years, was £15,000 ; for the last year alone it was WALDENSES.——The following account above $40,000. There were none, or of this interesting people is from an very few, converts who were communi- English Magazine. cants at the end of the first ten years; There are now living in the valleys there are now above 1000. There of Piedmont, called Luzenda, Perosa, were then few hearers; there are now and San Martino, about eighteen thouseveral thousands. Then it had but 4 sand Vaudois, the remainder of the schools, and 200 scholars; now it has Waldenses and Albigenses, who have 231 schools, and 13,200 scholars. in the midst of Popish darkness, enjoy

ed the light of truth, and, though surRELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE IN CANADA. rounded by the demons of persecution,

A writer in the New York Observer have nobly defied all their rage and crucommunicates the following particulars elty. These, like the famed 7000 of respecting the state of things in (ana- Old Testament record, have never bowda. With the substance of the com- ed the knee to Baal; and among them munication our readers are perhaps als have been numbers who have united the ready acquainted.

Protestant faith with a corresponding The provincial law requires that all walk and conversation. From France cburcbes, congregations, and religious and Sardinia they have endured thirtycommunities, shall keep a duplicate re- two persecutions, in which the furnace gister of baptisms, marriages, and fune- seemed to have been heated with a derals; one to be retained by the congre- sign to extirpate their whole race; and gation, the other to be annually depo- nothing has saved them from their fury, sited in the office of the clerk of the but the almost miraculous care of the Superior Court, which registers must Almighty, connected with their own be authenticated by the signature of union and courage in their mountainous, one of the judges on each leaf or page. intricate, and impregnable fastnesses, All those persons who are non-conform- whither they have fled for shelter. ists to the established church of Eng- Thousands of them have suffered mar. Jand, except the Presbyterians of the tyrdom, and shown their inflexible atestablished Kirk of Scotland, are de- tachment to the cause of the Redeemprived of this privilege, by a construc- er ; while, like him, these peaceable tion of the act equally novel and curi- people invoked with their dying breath

It has been adjudicated in the forgiveness for their enemies. highest

t court of law, that the term Pro- When Piedmont was under the late testant includes only persons of the government of France, the Vaudois state church, and consequently the dif- were put in full possession of all the ferent ministers of the Congregational, privileges common to other subjects ; American Presbyterian, and the Me- but on the restoration of the Bourbons, thodist Societies, can neither adminis- in the year 1814, they were again uniter baptism, celebrate'marriage, or at ted to Sardinia ; and, though they never Lend a fanera) with security; and their marmur, they are subjected to the most

noon.

grievous restrictions. They cannot, manage the fund raising for them in the for instance, purchase lands out of the United Kingdom. confined limits assigned them; they are obliged to desist from work, under the PROTESTANTS IN FRANCE.--Ata late penalty of fine or imprisonment, on the monthly concert in Boston, the Rev. Roman Catholic festivals, which are als Sereno E. Dwight, recently returned most perpetual; they are forbidden to from Europe, gave some account of the exercise the professions of physician, religious condition of France, a sketch surgeon, or lawyer; and these people, of which was published in the Recorder together with their ministers, are com- and Telegraph. Most of our readers pelled to serve as private soldiers, witb- may have seen this sketch, yet as it is out the possibility of advancement. All interesting, for the facts it embodies, religious books are prohibited, except and valuable for reference, we shall the Bible, which is subject to such a preserve the substance of it on our high duty as almost to place it beyond pages. their reach. Schools are, indeed, al- “ In Paris,” says Mr. D.," there are lowed on the old system ; but on Bell's four places, where public worship is and Lancaster's system they are pro- held on the Sabbath in the English lanhibited. The scriptures and cate- guage :- 1. The Chapel of the British chisms have sometimes been circulated Ambassador, where the chaplain of the among the Vaudois leaf by leaf, as the embassy preaches every Sabbath inornonly means of obtaining a perusal of ing. 2. The French Protestant church their pages. They are not allowed to in the Rue St. Honora. in which the multiply their places of Worship, though same gentleman officiates in the afterthey may rebuild and enlarge their old

3. The American church; so ones.

called because an American resident in In the time of Oliver Cromwell, col- Paris (who has since returned to this lections were made throughout ng country] procured, through the medium land, on behalf of the Vaudois, amount of Mr. Gallatin, our minister at the ing to 38,2411. 10s. 6d.; which after af. French Court, the consent of the gove fording them considerable relief, left a ernment for its establishment. It is a fund of 16,3331. 108. 3d. ; which Charles emall circular hall in the upper story of the second, on his restoration, used for the church last mentioned. The prehis own purposes, assigning as a reason, sent minister is the Rev. Mark Wilks, that he was not bound by any of the en- a most valuable and pious man. 4. The gagements of a usurper and a tyrant. fourth place of worship in English, is in William and Mary restored the pen. the Chateau Marboeuf in the Champs sion; but during the reign of Napoleon, Elysees, a building purchased by the the British Government, from political Rev. Lewis Way, at an expense of motives withheld it, and the Vaudois 10,0001. sterling. Mr. Way is possesse pastors (thirteen in number) are for the ed of a very large fortune, and is a man most part living in a state of poverty. eminently devoted to the prosperity of

Efforts are now making to recover religion. He himself opened this place this lost aid, and thereby enable the of worship, and preached there regularpastors to surmount their difficulties, to ly until his health failed, which was assist in the establishment of schools, some time in the month of May last. and the education of their ministers, When Mr. D. attended, the house was and especially in building a hospital filled ; almost all the hearers being Enge among them. His Majesty George the lish residents in Paris, of which descrip Fourth has presented them with 100 tion there are said to be usually not guineas. Several of the Protestant less than 20,000. States on the continent are interesting Of French Protestant churches in themselves for these suffering people : Paris--either Reformed or Lutheranand it is hoped that a favourable mo- there are four or five. Some of the ment has arrived for the relief of the clergy, who formerly embraced the oppressed Vaudois. The valleys have Unitarian sentiments, appear to have lately been visited by some English renounced them. Yet their preaching, clergymen, who have taken a lively in- even now, is not remarkably discriminterest in the fate of their inhabitants. ating. Among other things, the long

A highly respectable committee has contest with Popery seems to have had been formed in London, to promote

unfavourable influence. Those, subscriptions for the Waldenses, and to however, who have witnessed the pro

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The pre

gress of evangelical religion in that tants as having winked atil; yet they metropolis, are greatly encouraged; appear to suppose that Louis XVillth and Mr. D. was assured by Rev. Mr. himself was opposed to it, and was not Wilks and other clergymen, that nothing unfriendly to their cause. was wanting but houses of worship and sent king is far less favourable to the faithful ministers, to induce many thou- Protestant religion than his predeces. sands of the people to unite themselves sor. He has been through life, an open to Protestant congregations. The profligate, and most notorious libertine : existing churches for French Protest- and now, to make his peace with heaants are very much crowded. A French ven, he has commenced the furious biBible Society, Missionary Society, and gol, and readily consents to any meaTract Society, are strange names-yet sures, however oppressive, which are such societies have recently been form- proposed by the Catholic party against ed, and are every year gaining strength. the Protestants and their religion.

There is also in Paris a Theological Far the larger number of the ProInstitution, under the charge of the testants are in the south of France. Rev. Prof. Galland, a man of high at- There they have many large congretainments and great excellence, who gations, furnished with respectable was called to that station from his pas- clergymen, and in many of the departtoral labours in Berne. Two or three ments constitute the majority of the professors are connected with him in population. Since the persecutions of the management of the Institution, all 1815, they have increased very rapidof whom are regarded as men of piety. ly in that part of the kingdom. They The students, of whom there is a con- are very numerous, also, on the borders siderable number, are generally poor, of Switzerland, and on the Rhine ; in and are aided by the liberality of Eng. the two Departments of the Upper and lish Christians. The character of these Lower Rhine, far more so than the young men is excellent.

Catholics. There the Lutheran cler. Though France is a Catholic coun

gy are more numerous than those of try, yet with the exception of a few pe- the Reformed Church; and too many riods of short duration in the sixteenth of both have imbibed the Unitarianisin and seventeenth centuries, dissent from and Neologism of Germany, with efthe established religion has not been fects equally undesirable upon the rewholly prevented, as it has been in ligious character of the people. Spain and Italy. The Protestants were Though the government is thus hosvery numerous before the massacre of tile to the Protestants, and inclined to St. Bartholomew's Eve, and again be- exercise severity towards them, yet so fore the revocation of the Edict of long as the charter of Louis XVIlIth is Nantes. The late emperor, though he permitted to continue in force, they established a Catholic Church, was an will retain no small degree of religious avowed enemy to religious persecution, freedom, as by it they are permitted to and a decided friend to the Protestant circulate books, and, on application to church, to which he gave many impor- the constituted authorities, to establish tant privileges. As such, bis memory churches. The general mtelligence is cherished with gratitude by all the which exists in France, the freedom of Protestants of France. The charter the press, the unpopularity of the given by the late king, Louis XVIIIth, French king, and the prevalence of inowing probably to the very difficult fidelity, all afford a sort of security to circumstances in which he was placed religious freedom. on ascending the throne, was favoura- The Bible is very rarely to be found ble to their civil and religious liberty. in France, either in families or in the It acknowledged and secured the rights booksellers’ shops. Except in the few of the Protestant church. Yet in the shops kept by Protestants, it is not for early part of his reign, in 1815, 16, and sale in Paris. The Catholics are al17, very violent persecutions existed in most without exception, extremely igthe south of France against the Pro- norant of its contents. It is indeed vetestants, and a considerable number of ry rare to find either a layman or a them are said to have suffered death clergyman of this denomination, who from the hands of violence. If the go- appears to have any knowledge of it vernment did not directly sanction this except wbat is derived from a compilaviolence, it is regarded by the Protes- tion often to be met with, made up of ex

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tracts from the histories of the Old and pers; and, since the abolition of the New Testaments, the Apocrypha, and censure, in those of France also. The the Lives of the Saints.

clergymen employed as agents, by the The number of Protestants in France Continental Society, have succeeded in was estimated in 1807 at 2,000,000; waking up a spirit of inquiry; and in a and probably may now amount to considerable number of places their la2,500,000 or 3,000,000, scattered ex- bours have been followed by unusual tensively throughout the kingdom.- attention to religion, both among ProThis dispersion, if they can be united, testants and Catholics Several of the will give them far greater influence.- Catholic Clergy have, in consequence, And many circumstances now conspire come forward as open friends to evadto promote union and co-operation- gelical religion. particularly the persecutions of the government, the liberty of the press, the establishment of a Bible Society, a Tract Society, a Missionary Society, In the month of November. and the Theological Seminary at Paris. To the American Bible Society, British Christians, also, particularly in $4,497.12. the labours of the British and Foreign To the American Board, $5,178.49; Bible Society, and the Continental So- exclusive of $215 in legacies, $127 to ciety, are exerting a powerful influence the permanent fund, and $40 to the in uniting the hearts and concentrating Missionary College in Ceylon. the efforts of the Protestants of France. To the American Tract Society, Extracts from the Reports and Corres- $1,879.43. pondence of the British Religious Char- The treasurer of the Baptist Geneitable Societies are regularly published. ral Convention acknowledges the reAttempts at persecution are immedi- ceipt of $916.88, from Oct. 5, to Nov. ately exposed in the English newspa- 2, inclusive.

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Sept. 25.—The. Rev. BENJAMIN C. Nov. 9.- The Rev. OREN Tracy, as Tarlor, (installed,) Pastor of the Re- Pastor of the Baptist Church in Ranformed Dutch Church at Patterson dolph, Mass. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Landing, N. J. Sermoá by the Rev. Putnam. Wilhelmus Elming.

Nov. 15.—The Rev. JOHN H. KENSept, 28.—The Rev. Thomas Hall, NEDY, to the pastoral care of the sixth over the Congregational Church and Presbyterian Church (late Dr. Neill's) Society in Waterford, Vt. Sermon by of Philadelphia. Sermon by the Rev. the Rev. Silas M-Kean, of Bradford, Vt. Dr. Janeway. At the same time and

Oct. 5.-The Rev. GEORGE SHEL- place the Rev. Mr. Smith, as Pastor DON, was installed at Franklin, Por- of a Church gathered by him in the tage co. Ohio. Sermon by the Rev. Northern Liberties. Mr. Seward.

Nov. 23.-The Rev. ROBERT DizOct. 12.-The Rev. WASHINGTON WORTH, at Greensburgh, Penn. as an THACHER, (installed,) Pastor of the Evangelist, by the Presbytery of HartFirst Presbyterian Church and Con- ford. Sermon by the Rev. William gregation in Onondaga Hollow, N. Y. Maclean. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Keep of Nov. 23.-Mr. Amos REED, to the Homer.