mother of God, curse him! May Saint Michael the advocate of Holy Souls, curse him! May all the Angels, Archangels, principalities and powers, and all the heavenly armies, curse him! May the praiseworthy multitude of Patriarchs and Prophets, curse him! May St. John, the Precursor, and St. John the Baptist, and St. Peter and St Paul, and St. Andrew, and all the other of Christ's Apostles, together, curse him! And may the rest of his disciples and four Evangelists, who by their preaching converted the universal world, and may the holy and wonderful company of martyrs and confessors, who by their holy works are found pleasing to God Almighty, curse him! May the Holy Choir of the Holy Virgins, who for the honor of Christ have despised the things of the world, damn him! May all the Saints from the beginning of the world, who to everlasting ages are found to be beloved of God, damn him! May he be damned wherever he be, whether in the house or the stable, the garden or the field, or the highway, or in the path, or in the woods, or in the water, or in the church, may he be cursed in living and in dying. May he be cursed in eating and drinking, in being hungry, in being thirsty, in fasting, in sleeping, in slumbering, in sitting, in lying, in working, in resting, in and , and in blood letting. May he be cursed in all the faculties of his body. May he be cursed inwardly and outwardly, may he be cursed in his brains, and in his vertex-in his temples, in his forehead, in his ears, in his eyebrows, in his cheeks, in his jawbones, in his nostrils, in his teeth and grinders, in his throat, in his shoulders, in his arms, in his fingers. May he be damned in his mouth, in his breasts, in his heart and purtenances, down to the very stomach. May he be cursed in his reins, and in his groins, in his thighs, in his genitals, and in his hips, and in his knees, his legs, and feet and toe-nails. May he be cursed in all his joints, and articulations of his members, from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, may there be no soundness in him! May the Son of the living God, with all the glory of his Majesty, curse him! And may Heaven, with all the powers which move therein, rise up against him, and curse and damn him-unless he repent, and make satisfaction! Amen, so be it—be it so, Amen! Can any thing be more dreadful than this? What a spectacle, to see a worm of the dust thus invoking upon his fellow worm, such a horrible catalogue of evils! Could the ingenuity and malice of a fiend suggest any thing beyond it? And yet, this is the system, which many among us regard without suspicion, and will not believe that it has not lost its virulence by transfer from Italy to to America. But there can be no mistake as its identity. "It is not a tiger in Sardinia and a lamb in America. It is not an Apollyon in Italy and an Angel of light in the United States." It is always and every where the same, provided only that it has the same facilities for developing its nature. "Its operations are seen at the Sandwich Islands and Tahiti-in Madeira and the Gaboon River-in Persia and other countries of the East-nay, in our own country, under the direction of Bishops Hughes and Kenrick, seeking the exclusion of the Scriptures from the schools and interfering with our political institutions, proscribing men from civil office for their protestantism, and threatening destruction to all who oppose them." Popery at home. Letter from a gentleman in Canada. Dear Brother-I travelled a few weeks ago in company with a Roman Catholic. As we passed a church, I observed that he raised his hat. Having employed him to carry me to the place where my business led me, and being a stranger in that part of the country, I thought I might ask him the meaning of the act. The following conversation ensued: Q. Be kind enough to explain why you take off your hat on passing a church? R. C. I do it because the good God is there. Q. Then the "good God" is not the true God. Q. How did he get into the church? Q. But the true God is every where; the "good God" in the church cannot be the true God. What part of the church does he stay in? R. C. In the altar. The priest puts him there; and we take off our hats to do reve rence. Q. But where was your priest educated, that he knows how to make God? R. C. He was educated in Montreal College; his father lives in the parish. The priest is very rich—because he says money, money, money, for every thing. Q. But I do not understand how he is able to make God. God cannot be made. He made all things. Do you understand it? States? R. C. The priest says he makes the good Q. Have you ever been in the United God. I believe the priest; all the people do. Q. Do you pray to that "good God" which the priests make? R. C. Yes; don't you believe in it? R. C. Then you are not a Catholic. Q. But I pray to the true God in the name of Christ; and I believe he hears my prayer. Your good God cannot hear. Do you think he can? R. C. Yes. Q. Have you noticed how every one there can read and write, and transact all his own business? and how neat and comfortable every thing appears ? R. C. But our priests say it is good enough to be without learning. They teach us the Catechism. We are all very poor-we can't pay-the priests are all rich. They get When my mother was sick, and I went for the priest-he said, Where is your offering? he would not have come without it. I think we shall always be very poor. R. C. No, I do not. But the people all do money for every thing they do. it; why should not I? Q. It is wrong; it is sin. If you prayed to the true God he would hear, and your sins would be forgiven. R. C. But then I should not be a Roman Catholic. It is good to pray to the true God -but can't we do both? When the priests tell us we must obey. The remarks and answers of this benighted soul filled me with profound sorrow; and as he finished his last sentence I said to myselfthe Lord deliver the American people from the unhallowed influence of Popery! Appointments by the Executive Committee of the A. H. M. S., from Nov. 1st to Dec. 1st, 1844. Re-appointed. Rev. I. Chichester, Bennington, N. Y. Rev. Isaac Flagler, Hopewell, N. Y. Rev. R. Hawley, Putnamville and Greencastle, Ind. Rev. Aaron Thompson, Greenville, O. Rev. B. O. Springer, Addison, O. Rev. J. A. Davis, O ikhill, &c., O. Kev. Wm. Fithian, Chatham, Ill. Rev. L. Benedict, Pecatonic, IIL Rev. S. A. Benton, Armada and Bruce, Mich. Rev. C. Warner, South Prairieville, &c., Wis.. Not in commission last year. Rev. Whitman Peck, 2d Ch., Genoa, N. Y. Rev. Wm. Homes, St. Louis Co., Mo. The Treasurer of the American Home Missionary Society acknowledges the receipt of the following sums, from November 1st to December 1st, 1844. 45 00 40 00 69 58 13 88 10 00 500 32 00 Grafton, Evan. Cong. Soc., to const. Rev. Thomas C. Biscoe a L. M., by E. B. Greenfield, 2d Cong. Ch. Ladies' Miss. Williamstown, Mrs. Lucy Whitman, Kingston, Fem. H. M. S., of which $30 Branford, James F. Linsley, of which $30 is to const. Mrs. Polly F. Linsley a L. M., by H. E. Hodges, Darien, Cong. Ch., by Rev. E. D. Kinney, Deep River, Ladies' Mite Soc., in part, to const. Rev. F. A. Pratt, of Peru, III., a L. M., by Rev. F. W. Chapman, East Haddam, Ct., Ladies' Cent. Soc., in fall, to const. Rev. Isaac Parsons a L. M., Lisbon, Ct., Friend, by Rev. L. Nelson, Madison, Ct., Ladies' Cent. Soc., by HanDah M. Wilcox, Treas., Crawfordsville, by Rev. J. H. Johnston, ILLINOIS 30 00 7.00 50 00 50 00 New Providence, Mrs. Margaret Riggs, Shrewsbury, Friend, 10 00 4. 00 23 70 Westfield, Ladies' Sew. Soc., to const. Rev. John O. Rice a L. M., by H. Da. nielson, 30 00 Providence, Cong. Ch., by Rev. C. Adams, 5.80 Friend, 50 00 Swan Creek, Presb. Ch., by Rev. J. Sum Carlisle, Presb. Ch., by Mr. Shibley, Centerville, Green Co., by Rev. T. Blair, Colchester, a Friend, Durham, Lyman Strong, by L. Baldwin, Elizabethtown, Cong. Ch., by Rev. C.C. Stevens, Greenville, Presb. Ch., of which $30 is to const. Rev. Edward Hopper a L. M., Holland Patent, Mrs. A. L. Hasbrouck, Jay Ch., $1 59; Miss E. Morse, 25 cts., by Rev. I. Manley, Kinderhook, Miss. Soc., by H. Blanchard, New-York City, viz: Mercer St. Ch., Mon. Con. Coll., W.C.R., J. CORNING, Treasurer. The Treasurer of the M. S of Connecticut, Auxiliary to the A. H. M. S., acknowledges the receipt of the following sums, for the quarter ending Dec. 1st, 1844. Low's District, by Rev. N. Cressey, Mount Clemens, by Rev. A. S. Wells, Otsego and Plainfield, Mon. Con. Coll., by Rev. F. L. Fuller, 92 2 50 1.30 Pinckney, by Rev. N. Cressey, 95 Portage, by do. 2.00 Richmond, Cong. Ch, by Rev. C. Kel logg, 178 Schoolcraft, Mon. Con. Coll., by Rev. J. S. Kidder, 2 12 Unadilla, by Rev. N. Cressey, 5 82 WISCONSIN Wethersfield, First Ch. Mon. Con. Coll., by T. Stillman, Goshen, North Soc. Ladies, by Hannah Collinsville, by Rev. Mr. McLean, Granby, First Cong. Soc., by Rev. I. P. Litchfield, Coll. at Annual Meeting, by M. Morse, Treas. of Litchfield Co. Aux., Friend, $3; do. three Friends, $3 40, do. Litchfield county, a Friend, do. Warren, do. 59 38 30 00 The Philadelphia Home Missionary Society ac- Fairmount Presb. Ch., Phila., Sab. School Elkton Presb. Ch., Md., Frisby Henderson, Minersville Presb.Ch., Pa., John Herron, $26; Wm. Herron, $5; S. D. Herron, $5; James S. McCord, $i; H. P. Cain, $6; others, $4, Wattsburgh Presb. Ch., Pa., coll. in Ch., in part, 1st Presb. Ch., Washington, D. C., Juv. Miss. Soc., by Rev. W. T. Sprole, A Lady, by Mr. Wm. Purves, West Nantmeal, Pa., Presb. Ch., John McClure, $2; Wm. Denny, $2; Joseph McClure, $1; R. Rhodes, $1; Miss Elizabeth Denny, $1; D. Henderson, M. D., $1; J. Graff, $1; others, $25 39; to const. the Pastor Rev. W. H. McCarer a L.M., Snow Hill, Md., Mrs. H. P. Robbins, by Rev. J. J. Graff, Pitts Creek, Md., Mrs. L. J. Dennis, by Rev. J. J. Graff, St. George's, Del., Presb. Ch., John C. Clark, $10; bal. of coll. in Ch., $24 50; by Rev. J. L. Grant, Pencador, Del., Presb. Ch., coll. in Ch., by Rev. J. McIntyre, 13 63 3.50 50 00 22 67 34 39 1.00 1.00 34 50 60 45 Springfield, N. J., Presb. Ch., coll. in Ch., by Rev. Mr. Rankin, 23 56 2.00 74 16 2.00 75.50 42 02 1 00 Green Township, (Welsh Ch.,) Pa., coll. by Rev. J. Williams, Wilmington, Del., Hanover-st. Ch., coll. in Ch., by Rev. Wm. Hogarth, 11th Presb. Ch. Phila., bal. of coll., by Mr. Edward Sprague, 218 50 Mount Pleasant do. Blue Licks do. Versailles do. Macedonia do. 50 00 New-Providence do. Scottsville, do. 375 Owenton and Liberty, coll, 36 73 5.00 Stump Meeting House, coll, Ruddle's Mills, coll., THE work of selecting ministers for the new settlements is one of great delicacy, and requiring much wisdom. Fidelity to those whose funds are appropriated, and to the wide territory whose institutions are to be shaped by the ministry of this generation, requires that the precious gifts of charity shall not be wasted, nor the interests of religion embarrassed, by the employment of men who are not qualified for the emergencies of the work of Western Missions. There is, also, an opposite danger to be avoided. Through a defect of information, worthy applicants for missionary employment may possibly be rejected, while inferior men may be more successful in obtaining patronage. at the East, and moved by a desire to do good, as well as to improve their own circumstances, have applied to the Society for facilities of transferring themselves and their families to the new states; and have been denied. But in every case of this kind, the Executive Committee have been governed by a conscientious conviction, that the proposed change was inexpedient either for the individual, or for the cause of missions, or for both. This opinion, however, is not unfrequently disregarded; and ministers whom the Society has declined to send, find their way to the West; and as there is no want of openings of some kind, they soon attach themselves temporarily to congregaThe Executive Committee of the A. H. M. tions. There are not a few such ministers now S. do not pretend that they have in no in- in the West, who have found too late, that it is stance erred in the selection of missionaries a matter of no small difficulty for a minister to sent to the West under their commission. make a permanent lodgement in a western They do, however, profess to exercise the ut- community. After a time, their resources are most carefulness, and to avail themselves of exhausted, and no means remain to supply the the best sources of information. And they most urgent necessities of their families, but to are happy to know, that of all the cases of ask the A. H. M. S. for aid. The sympathy ministers in the West who have retired from of their ministerial brethren is excited in their the work, or otherwise failed to meet the behalf, and urgent endorsements of their appublic expectation, very few reached that por-peals for assistance are easily procured, and tion of the field through the agency of this Society. It has frequently happened, that ministers, dissatisfied with their position and prospects the Society is obliged to do violence to the feelings of those who make and those who recommend the application, or else to afford the aid of public charity to ministers, and in |