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From Mrs. Guitteau, Buffaloe, Col. Hunt, Detroit,

Harmon Kingsbury, Cleaveland, April. I found deposited with Jonathan Carle ton, Boston, without dates to tell when deposited, a box containing sundry articles of clothing and Bedding, from Fem. Soc. Sedgwick, Me. 22,00 I found at same time and place labelling destroyed, know not whence they came, 3 woollen frocks, 3 pair of Woollen pantaloons, 2 Woollen spencers, 3 smali vests, 3 shirts, &c. 5,00 do. forwarded by Mrs. Prudence Dodge, Secretary for the Phil. Soc. of Claremont, N. H. do. forwarded by Rev. Silas Davison, from members of his church of St. Johnsbury and Waterford, Vt. a box of clothing and bedding, do. forwarded by Mrs. Anstress FessenJeden, Treasurer of Female Missionary Society, in West Townshend, sundries of bedding and clothing, do. forwarded by Rev. Levi Paine, Treas. of the United Baptist Soc. of Plymouth County for Foreign and Domestic Missions," sundry articles of clothing, wrapped in a linen cloth and marked M.

do. which had been forwarded by Mrs.
MSAlverd, from female friends in Hart-
land, Vt. to Charles Forbes, Esq.
Windsor, Vt.

do. having been forwarded by Mrs. M.
Haskell, Secr'y of the Baptist Dor-
cas Society of Harvard, from mem-
bers of Rev. Mr. Sampson's church
and society,clothing, &c.
do. but could not ascertain where or
whence it came, a bundle of cloth-
ing,

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Monies received by the Treasurer of the Baptist Board of For. Miss. for the U. S.

1825.

May 4. From a female friend in the vicinity of Boston, for Burman Mission, by Rev. George Evans,

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MEMOIR OF REV. EMORY OSGOOD,

Late Superintendent of the Missionary Station at Oneida Castleton, N. Y.

[Concluded from p. 165.1

loved the people of God; I loved the church; that it had ever been my highest aim to do them good; that I was willing to suffer in the cause of God; and that I could renew covenant with them and Now a recollection of

WHILE MR. OSGOOD was en-you tell the church if you were gaged in his missionary exercises, there? I could tell them that I his whole heart seemed inflamed was not sick of religion; that I with animated zeal, which opposition could scarcely abate. Yet, during these seasons of absence from his family and the people of his charge, he did not forget his conjugal, parental, and pastoral duties at home. He frequently travel on. mentions his family, in his jour- my trials bursts upon me; thanks nals, with the tenderest solicitude; be to God for supporting grace! and commends them to the protec- I inquire of my imagination, that tion of Heaven. To illustrate this is now at Henderson, whether the point, I transcribe a passage from church is in union, but cannot be his journal while at Sheldon, Ver- favoured with an answer. Well, mont, July 31, 1819. "It is a I will trust them in the hands of little after two o'clock, and I am the great Shepherd of the sheep; now writing something like 300 but if I could be transported to miles from home. But O what is covenant meeting, and be back to the mind of man! I can fancy fulfil my appointment at five myself at home with my dear com- o'clock, how quickly I would go. panion and family, walking with The clock strikes three, and I am her to covenant meeting; begin to still here, separated from my famiwonder why the brethren and sis-ly and church, by many a long ters do not come; look out, see mile: Yet, I feel that I am pursuthem coming; they arrive; I ing the path of duty, and many shake hands with them; then open times am astonished at the Provimeeting, and proceed to express dence of God, which has attended my feelings. Well, what could me ever since I left home. I think JULY, 1825.

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that God is pleased to make such || the missionary fund by means of an unworthy creature as I am, an forming Religious Agricultural instrument of good, in the cause Societies, the object of which is of missions." expressed in the second article of the constitution:

Under date of August 4th, at Enosburgh, his journal contains the following interesting note:

"This Society shall consist of such persons as subscribe to this constitution, and annually set apart a piece or parcel of land, with the produce thereof, to aid the cause of missions."

His zeal and success in mission

ary objects, forming societies, and collecting funds, were equalled by few. It was principally through his influence, that the Black River B. M. Society was formed, of which he was Secretary for several years. He made collections to a considerable amount both for the Foreign and Domestic Missions, in New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Upper Canada.

In July 1823, he received a call from the Hamilton B. M. Board, to go and reside at Oneida Castleton, and take the superintendence of their missionary establishment in that place.

The emotions which

"Went to the place where I worked 22 years ago. My feelings were considerably wrought upon, in calling to remembrance past scenes, especially when I came to the falls, where I worked at a mill dam. O, the astonishing grace that has saved the chief of sinners! While I view the ground on which I have committed so much wickedness, and think that God has spared me to this day, what shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits? I thought while I surveyed the spot, what a privilege it would be to me, to preach a sermon in the very place where I impiously profaned the name of my Maker, and preached out of derision. Again viewed that my former comrades were all gone, some of them run away, poor and wretched, and God has distinguished me. Nothing, nothing but sovereign distinguishing grace! O may I be more and more prepared to serve and venerate him, whom I trust has plucked me as a brand from the burning." * * * ** * "I had calculated to have seen, to day, J. M. from whom I, with three others, took something like fourteen dollars by gambling. I have since many times thought, that if I could ever have an opportunity, I would re-quences, all combined, confounded fund him that part of the money I received. But finding I should not see him, I thought it my duty to write him a letter, and enclose three dollars and fifty cents, as money wickedly obtained, and to request him, inasmuch as the money was lost to him, and he had no legal right to demand it of me, to lay it out in some benevolent

cause." ""

It was during this tour that he originated the plan of augmenting

that call produced in his mind, are expressed in a letter to a member of that Board, from which the following is extracted:

About a

"Dear Brother C. week since I received your letter. Its contents overwhelmed me. Such a conflict of feelings, for a few hours, I never before experienced. A retrospect of former feelings, a consideration of present circumstances and future conse

and overwhelmed me. My companion seemed to share equally with me. It is beyond my power to describe my feelings to you; suffice it to say, that I have called to mind some of the times, when I and my dear partner conversed together on the subject of missions, how willingly we could part with the blessings of civilized life, and settle down with some tribe of Indians, and spend our days, and try to do them good; but had no ex

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