Entering into life, halt and wained is Liaost descared of. Since, Che interesting case of hopen en version has occured. It sun of a young man new twenty-ce perso are, the son of an elder in the des For him many prayers zad been offered Especial 7, dining the last summerte father fell latensely miss it is ca. Dowever, he has recovered, prays in our berg ini gres evidence of a change of bear Be blesses God for de cust semen, though oce exceeding a. Beses tu as - better to e un Le lui a au ned, rather dan haring te danes, or two seet, to e as all tretastig ie" us." About this time another ordained minister came in. I then asked him to preach, but he wished me to talk. So I gave them a talk, but did not think it was an ordination sermon, (although I afterwards heard that they or dained the man). I then said I must leave, as there was nothing there for my horse to eat, and it was Saturday, about three o'clock, P. M., and it was about ten or twelve miles through the woods to where I had to go. The minister of the place said, "When you go after your horse, go into my house, and there you will find a pot on the coals. It has a piece of beef in it. Take it out and eat some." I thanked him, and told him I could not stay. When I went after my horse, I went into the house. I saw the pot, but saw no barrel nor bag, nor any thing that looked like flour or meal. I suppose what was in the pot was all there was to eat in the house. A Patriot. At twelve o'clock I gave a talk on temperance and religion to a room full of people. At the close of my remarks, one man got up and said he was opposed to the Temperance Society, because he was opposed to all combinations. I said to him, "Do you ever vote for Governor ?" He said he did. "But you suppose ?" do not vote for any person that any other Refuge in Distress. To day I visited a number of sick families -one a Catholic. I found the husband on a bed with a burning fever, and two children on the floor-one appeared to be near his end. I told his mother, who sat on the floor near the child, that I thought her child could not live. She cried out, (prostrating herself on the floor,) Virgin Mary, help! Holy Virgin, help! I told her Jesus Christ could help her. She then called on the Virgin Mary to ask Josus Christ to help her. Loving Darkness. man. I asked him if they had any school there. He said they had a large nunnery with over three hundred girls in it, but they had no school for boys, and they didn't want any. He said they had no place to keep a school, and they did not want a schoolhouse. I saw many groggeries, and many people that appeared to be drunk, or under the influence of liquor, and I heard much profane swearing. A field to do good in. them a stable. Many of them think, (or at The farmers have no barns, and not all of least they act as if they did,) that a yard with a hollow log split in two, for a horse to eat out of, is a good place for a horse. Here is the least enterprize, and the least appearance of comfortable living, of any place I was ever in. Many a time I have made a meal out of corn bread or "corn dodgers," made out of unsifted meal that had been but coarsely ground in a poor ox-mill, and poor smoked hog-meat, and very thick black coffee, (for coffee they word said but that they thought they had the will have,) without sugar or milk, and not a best meal that could be provided. I name these things to show what may reasonably be expected from such a people towards supporting a missionary. And here I will say that counties of this State have many such inhabitants, and you cannot offend them more than to say any thing to them about paying their minister. They will say the minister can work for a living as well as they can, and if he is too lazy or too proud to work, they do not want to hear him preach. Campbellite Converts. They ask those they baptize two questions, 1st. Do you believe in Jesus Christ? and 2d. Are you willing to be baptized into that faith? If these two questions are answered mitted into the Church; and I find them of in the affirmative, they are baptized, and admany beliefs. Some (and perhaps most of them,) are Unitarians, some Universalists, and many seem to have no creed at all. I think they are doing great evil in this part of the State. The only wonder is, that they do not get many more to join them than I had a talk with a French gentle- they do, their way is so easy. I visited their camp-meeting, and another such place of confusion and all sorts of noise, I think cannot be found in this world. No education. churches who shall make report to the Home Missionary Society, that they have erected log houses of worship after the plan proposed in your number for December. These libraries contain about eighty volumes each, and will answer, whenever improved, as the foun I found but few schools in this county, and many of the people opposed to educated minis-dation of a good library for a new church and congregation. ters. The remark was made to me frequently, that they wanted heart religion, and they did not believe that a man that had an education could have as much religion as one that had no education. In the latter case it came from the heart-in the former from the head, Hoping that much good may be effected by the plan for building cheap and handsome houses of worship, I am yours, respectfully, A FRIEND TO HOME MISSIONS. LOG CHURCHES. Five Sunday School Libraries offered. To the Secretaries of the A. H. M. S. [For the Home Missionary.] To Pastors and Missionaries at the ness. Dear Brethren-Many of the churches and Sabbath-schools at the East, are evidently Some person has sent me a few numbers feeling a very deep and increasing concern of the Home Missionary; and among them in regard to the moral and religious welfare that for December, 1843. In that number, of that portion of our common country, where you give a plan for the erection of cheap your lot, in the Providence of God, has been places of worship, calculated for the new cast. They seem to be looking with special settlements of our country. In this plan you interest and hope upon your department of combine utility, economy, and beauty. I am labor in its behalf. And their concern in relamuch pleased with it, and for two reasons; tion to this matter, is not exhibited merely in one, that those who pursue the plan may act feelings; but also in their greater efforts both independently, and have a house of their own, to augment the number of your fellow-laborwithout running in debt for its erection; anders in the field, and to furnish the means of a second reason is, that it will put a stop in a increasing your own influence and usefulgreat measure, to the system of begging money for building churches, which has been so prevalent for a few years past. These frequent calls have become very burdensome. An agent called on me a short time since, from Iowa, and wanted money to build a meeting-house. I asked him how many families belonged to his congregation; his reply was, "six." Hardly worth while, it appeared to me, to come all the way from lowa to beg for a church, when the whole congregation might meet comfortably in any of their log houses. In another instance, an agent had the assurance to ask the public for forty thousand dollars to build a church in N. This request was dictated by sheer pride, and ought never to be encouraged. In order to encourage some of the feeble congregations at the West, I send you five Sabbath-school libraries, to be given to the first five Congregational or Presbyterian Through the medium of the Mass. S. S. SOCIETY alone, these churches and schools have, since the last spring, sent out more than one hundred and sixty libraries, to aid you in establishing and sustaining Sabbath Schoolsthese "helps" in the ministerial work. Their growing interest in this enterprize, is manifested by their increasing contributions. The present month we shall despatch to some portion of your field, $400 or $500 worth of books; and we expect by the opening spring, to have received the means of sending to you a much larger amount. And within the present year-should your applications seem to demand it, and should the churches and schools meet our hopes-we shall forward to your aid not less than $4,000 or $5,000 worth more. The object of this communication is, to sug. gest to all those pastors and missionaries who need libraries-either in sustaining schools already existing, or in establishing new ones where they, or members of their respective churches, can have the oversight of them, should send to us their applications as early as may be. These applications should be as full and definite as possible, so that our committee for disbursing funds for this object may be able. to judge, and decide correctly respecting them, No one, we presume, will apply for libraries, excepting those who are unable to obtain the means of purchasing them. of the offer of the Am. S. S. Union, or Mass. Missionaries desirous to avail themselves S. S. Society, to furnish Sabbath-school libraries, are reminded, that their requests, with full and specific information, should be forwarded directly to the officers of those Societies, and not to the Secretaries of the Among the publications of the Society, there are several volumes on Church History whose influence at the West, in reference to Romanism, we learn is very happy. We have also recently published a book, from the pen of Dr. Pond, of the Theological Seminary, Bangor, Me., entitled, "No Fellowship with Romanism," and also an interesting volume, eu-A. H. M. S. Notice to the Missionaries of the A. H. M. S. Dear Brother-By the terms of your commission, it will be recollected, a Statistical Report is to be forwarded to the Society by the first of April. The data supplied by such Reports are indispensable for making out a full exhibition to the public of the doings of the Society for the year. We, therefore, make early and earnest request, that you will furnish the following list of particulars, in a special communication, by mail, as early as the FIRST DAY OF APRIL NEXT. If by the terms of your commission, a quarterly Report is due from you to this office at that time, you can, of course, forward that on the same sheet. But you are requested, on no account, to delay your statistical Report after April 1st. 1. Name of the Church, with the township, county, and State; and also the post-office address of the missionary. 2. Number of hopeful conversions.* 3. Number added to the Church by profession.* 4. Number added to the Church by letter.* 5. Number of Sabbath-school and Bible-class Scholars. 6. Number of Volumes in S. S. Library. 7. Number of Temperance Subscribers. 8. Number of Churches organized during the year. 9. Contributions to benevolent objects, such as Home Miss. $. For. Miss. *To be reckoned from April to April, if you have been in commission the whole year; if pot, for the portion of the year, between these dates which your commission covers. 10. Other interesting facts, such as the erection and completion of church edifices, number of young men preparing for the ministry, Monthly Concerts, &c. Affectionately, yours, MILTON BADGER, CHARLES HALL, Secretaries of the A. H. M. S. Appointments by the Executive Committee of the A. H. M. S. from Jan. 1st to Feb. 1st, 1844. Re-appointed. Rev. R. E. Wilson, Hammondsport, N. Y. &c., O. Rev. Royal West, Fairport, Perrinton, N. Y. Rev. O. P. Clinton, Aztalan and Atkinson, Wis. Rev. C. P. Bush, 10th Church, N. Y. City. Rev. James Ballard, Grand Rapids, Mich. Rev. Samuel Newbury, Allegan, Mich. Rev. Noah Cressy, Pinckney and Unadilla, Mich. Rev. L. Rogers, Hebron and Montelona, Ill. Rev. Thomas Riggs, West Mendon, N. Y. Rev. George W. Seaman, Big Flats, N. Y. Rev. John Krach, Evan, Luth. Ch., Madison, Ind. Rev. D. II. Kingsley, Pompey Center, N. Y. The Treasurer of the American Home Missionary Society acknowledges the receipt of the following sums, from Jan. 1st to Feb. 1st, 1844. Enfield, Lad. Sew. Soc., by N. P. Pearce, Farmington, from the estate of Rev. E. Gleason, 10 60 50 00 15.00 Hartford, James W. Bunce, L. D. in full, $75; Henry A. Wells, L. M., by C. Hosmer, $30, Lancaster, Rev. D. Perry, 10.00 Sanbornton Bridge, Cong. Ch. 2.00 Lebanon, H. M. S., by Rev. J. C. Nichols, Middletown, First Ch., Mon. Con. Col, $12 69; Friend, by H. S. Ward, $57 31, 105 00 7. 00 100 00 20 00 New Britain, First Con. Ch., to const. Rev. C. S. Lyman, L. M., New Fairfield Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. Rev. Daniel C. Perry a L. M., by S. Barnum, 57 50 30.00 32 06 2000 00 216 00 50 00 South Weymouth, Elizabeth T. Lund, RHODE ISLAND 10 00 New-Haven, Centre Ch. Sab. Sch., to const. Mrs. Leonard Bacon a L. M., $39 24; Ch. and Cong., of which $30 is from Thaddeus Sherman, L. M., $314 25, North Woodstock, Village Corners, Coug. Ch. and Soc., by Rev. D. C. Frost, Norwich, a Friend, to const. Mrs. Harriet M. Learned, L. M., 353 49 40.00 30.00 Providence Benef. Cong. Ch., by B. Dyer, Simsbury, B. Ely, $1 50; H. Ely, $1; Friend, $1, 3.50 448 29 CONNECTICUT Providence Richmond St. Ch., by D. Andrews, 52 00 Stonington, Lad. Aux., by Miss L. A. Sheffield, $26; a Friend, to const. Mrs. Maria Sinith a L. M., $30, 56 00 Westminster Ch. and Soc., by Rev. G. J. Tillotson, 22.00 |