fore, as exigencies demand, for the support of the Gospel, and it shall be given unto you again, good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over. Your cruse of oil shall not fail, and your barrel of

Gospel. It does not substract from the pro-
perty of a society, but adds to it more than it
takes away. It is God himself who has said,
"Honor the Lord with thy substance, and
with the first fruits of all thy increase, so shall
thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy press-meal shall not waste. [Ibid]
es shall burst out with new wine." This
duty of supporting the worship of God, has
not ceased with the Jewish dispensation, nor
has this promise been repealed; and the whole
providence of God to this day, has been a
practical confirmation of his faithfulness in its
fulfilment. The Jews often distrusted this
assurance, and robbed God to save their pro-
perty; but they were always reduced by the
experiment. They sowed much and brought
in little, and when it was gathered, God did
blow upon it. The dew of heaven was
stayed, and the earth did not yield her in-
crease. "Ye are cursed with a curse, for ye
have robbed me, even this whole nation.
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse,
that there may be meat in mine house, and
prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of
Hosts, if I will not open you the windows of
heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that
there shall not be room enough to receive it.
And I will rebuke the devourer for your
sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of
your ground; neither shall your vine cast her
fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord
of Hosts, and all nations shall call you blessed,
for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the
Lord of Hosts."

"VALIANT MEN-MEN OF RE-
NOWN."

The same rule of administration is regarded still; the curse of heaven still fastens upon communities that despise the Gospel, and neglect its support. Their decline in outward prosperity is notorious; and their restoration is no less manifest, when, convinced of their folly, they make a competent provision for the public worship of God. Nor is the fact mysterious or miraculous; since the life of man, his health, his wisdom to plan and strength to ex ecute, the life and vigor of his flocks and herds, every stalk of grain and every blade of grass are in the hand of God. In ten thousand ways, he can add too, or substract from, your income. A fit of sickness, a broken bone, a profligate child, a vexatious law-suit, a death or a flood, a murrain among your cattle or a blast on your field, may cut off, at once, all your sacrilegious savings; while his blessing can, in as many ways, make you rich and add no sorrow with it. You may give there.

Of all the qualities needful for the emergencies of the church, her sons are more deficient in resolute, aggressive activity and perseverance, than almost any other. The advancement of theological science may have produced a generation of ministers who are able to do battle with the pen, against every kind of foe; but after all, they are the most needed soldiers of the cross, who are the readiest to endure hardness, and who carry the message of their Great Captain to the greatest number of souls—and keep doing 80, till he gives them their discharge.

We have selected the following examples of this class of ministers, which we record for the study of the junior members of the profession. The rising settlements of the West furnish innumerable occasions for such efficiency and endurance; and we hope that grace will be given to the Missionaries, fully to illustrate the power of Christ's love to excite and sustain this high degree of holy enterprise.

[From the Commercial Advertiser.]
Father Mc Ilhenny.

"Forty years ago he began his labors in Green Briar, Virginia, among a people then too poor to support him as a pastor, and too much absorbed in the matters of providing for the physical necessities of their families to have any great taste for refinement and letters. But the missionary Melihenny deemed it his duty not to seek for an intelligent community in which to labor, but to make one. He opened a school for the education of the children, and a Church for the spiritual education of all ages. The school furnished him the present means of livelihood, and prepared for him an intelligent congregation.

"Time passed on. The Green Briar settlement increased to a wealthy and enlightened community, and as lands near the school-house and Church became too valuable to be easily obtained, the sons of the settlers spread themselves into the surrounding hills and vallies and made new settlements; and again the new settlements became new unties, and the former pupils of the Green Briar

school became the intelligent leading men of the counties; and the teaching preacher, as year after year he labored on, saw new schools, new churches and new preachers arise in scores around him. And now, when age has stolen somewhat from the vigor of his strength, he hears himself saluted as Father Mellhenny by thousands of the worthiest of the land.

"Whenever in any of the hundred vallies that lie hidden in the mountains of South Western Virginia, you shall observe a dwell ing around which reign thrift and neatness, and within which are found domestic happiness and enlightened piety more than is common, there shall you hear them speak with reverence and affection of Father McIlhenny, and tell many a story of school-boy days in Green Briar. Let it be known that Father McIlhenny is to preach, and all will be seen moving as when John the Baptist preached in the wilderness of Judea; for even those who at all other times neglect the house of worship will not neglect it when Father McIlhenny officiates. For the space of 200 miles all around him, he is the Bishop acknowledged by all hearts.

"In his age he retains much of the energy and activity of youth. He has ceased to teach his school, but his labors in preaching are only the more abundant. He performs the full work of an itinerant missionary, in addition to the work of a pastor. No man in Virginia rides and preaches more than he. His fame as a hard rider is in all the mountains. None but the well-mounted shall be his company for a whole day, on one of his preaching tours to the destitute settlements of these moun. tains. To ride on forty miles and preach three or four discourses, is an ordinary day's work for this man of threescore.

"Dr. Mellhenny appears to be ever in a hurry to do good. He has been in a hurry all his life. He has no time for elegant circumlocutions. As soon as his message is delivered he is in motion again to deliver his message somewhere else. He is the very personification of motion. He is a striking illus. tration of how much a man may do who does it with his might."

I may add to this fine sketch of one of the most venerable ministers, that such a man, in the best sense, never dies. His spirit and principles will live in ten thousand hearts, in successive generations, while a single human voice is heard, or footstep seen, among the mountains of Virginia.

forgotten more than some ministers of thirty know, still knows more, and is willing to do more in the sacred office, than some who are in the prime of life." We at the West understand this to refer to Dr. LYMAN BEECHER; and that your readers may see how true it is in this application, I send you the following narrative of what actually took place during the first week of the present month of November. We will give it in the good doctor's own words, as related at the social fireside after his return from Fort Wayne-a town which many of our readers knows, lies in the North of Indiana-where he was called to attend a protracted meeting, and also to assist in the ordination of one of his sons.

"Well, our boat landed at St. Mary's, about seven o'clock Friday afternoon, and there were over sixty-two miles of hard road between me and Fort Wayne, and I knew if I didn't make a bold push, I could not get there before Sunday. So when the landlord came down on the boat, I hailed him directly.

Sir, I must have supper directly, and a horse, saddled and bridled, for Fort Wayne.' Here stepped up a gentleman, who it seems knew me, and said,

'Doctor, you must come down with me to my house.'

So I went down with him, and understanding I was bound for Fort Wayne, he said,

You will remain with me to-night-for of course you can't think of going on tonight.'

Yes, sir, I must get over fifteen or twenty miles to-night'

Oh! impossible! the road is horrid, and it will be very dark.'

'Can't help that, I must go.'

Why, but doctor, you don't know any thing about it. I would not risk my own neck on that road.

Very likely you wouldn't-but I think I must try it.'

'Well,' said my friend, if you are so bent upon it, and will come to my house and rest till ten o'clock, the moon will rise then, and I will take my horse and go with you, and pilot you through the first fifteen miles.'

Well, I thanked him, and after supper went and lay down to rest, and at ten o'clock he called me, and the moon was up and our horses ready, and we took to our saddles, and well it was that he went with me, for, sure enough, I never could have found the horrible way, deep in woods-half the time mid-leg deep in mud, amid stumps and logs, and sometimes black sloughs, and places where we had to turn off the track and make a circuit of a mile about through the woods on the right, and then come back and just strike the path and diverge off for a mile on the left. We must have made as much as eight miles additional in these crossings. At last between two and three o'clock at night, we came out of the worst of it, on to a tolerable western road, and In some interesting remarks on this ques- as there was a little village there, I thanked tion, from a report of the Essex County Edu- my guide, and told him I would not trouble cation Society, lately published in the Re-him to go farther; so he stopped to lodge in corder, I find the following sentence. "We the village. As for me, I felt lively and brisk, could name a man in the valley of the Missis-and the moon shone clear, and I thought I sippi, about seventy years old, who, if he has would just hold on the rest of the night. About

[From the Boston Recorder.]

How old must a minister be to cense from labor?

meetings for prayer, at the Monthly Concert, &c. The terms, as given below, are such as to place it within the reach of all who may desire it.

day-break I got into the town of Wiltshire, cause. It is therefore submitted to all who where I slept two hours, took breakfast, and may read this notice, whether they may not, then went on. At three o'clock 1 came within eleven miles of Fort Wayne, and really, by a trifling effort, do great good by increas I can tell you, I did feel tired-almost worn ing the circulation of this work. Take it yourout. I didn't know but I had gone beyond the self; induce your neighbor to take it; promark. I stopped an hour for dinner, and jog-cure the reading of it in social circles, in ged on. Soon a young man overtook me, and company and talk revived me, and seemed to revive my horse too, for he pricked up, and the first I knew we came right into Fort Wayne. It was five o'clock, and I had travelled as I reckon, with all the windings and turnings, about seventy-two miles since ten o'clock the night before. I bathed all over in cold water, and then in spirits, went to bed at nine, and slept soundly and sweetly, and rose the next morning fresh and bright, without any soreness or fatigue. Preached twice that day with great delight and freedom, visited all day Monday and part of Tuesday, and preached Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday, besides studying and writing."

How many ministers in the prime of life would be willing to make equal effort, rather than encroach on the Sabbath in travelling to their place of preaching? How many young candidates at the East, are willing to come West and do Dr. B.'s labor for Dr.B.'s salaryS. which is simply trusting in God?

THE HOME MISSIONARY.

The Executive Committee would respect fully urge on the friends of Home Missions, and especially on Pastors, the importance of promoting the circulation of this periodical. The foundation of all well-directed and efficient zeal in this cause, is a just appreciation of facts. Let the community but understand the claims of our country, as seen and reported by the sentinels of the Church, stationed in all parts of the land, and we have no fears that the needful contributions of mind and of means will not be promptly made.

The policy pursued by the A. H. M. S. leads to the employment of as few agents as possible. It has at present no agents merely for the purpose of addressing the churches and taking up collections; nor any, whose labors are not indispensable for other purposes. Hence, there is the greater need that the periodical of the Society should have a large circulation, so that the churches may be ap prised of their duty in reference to the Home Missionary work. The experience of the Society shows, that wherever its publications are circulated, there is intelligence and prompt and liberal action in behalf of this

TERMS.

One Dollar a year for a single copy. Persons paying for four copies may receive a 5th gratis.

GRATUITOUS DISTRIBUTION.

The Home Missionary will be sent gratuitously to the following individuals, unless they prefer to take it as subscribers:

To Life Directors and Life Members of the Society.

To Missionaries of the Society.

To every clergymen in whose congregation a collection is taken up during the year for the Society, (or one of its auxil aries,) one copy for every ten dollars collected,

To every individual who contributes ten dollars or upwards, during the year.

To every Auxiliary Association, one copy for every ten dollars collected and paid into the Treasury of the Society, (or of any Auxiliary Society.)

To every Sabbath school one copy for every five dollars contributed during the year. Individuals and associations, entitled to the Home Missionary under these regulations, are requested to give information, without expense to the Society, as to the manner in which it shall be forwarded.

Every Pastor will confer a special favor by availing himself of the facilities offered above to introduce the Home Missionary among his people. In notifying the Secretaries of his desire to have the work sent on these terms, he is requested to mention the name of some person to whom each copy shall be addressed.

Appointments by the Executive Commillee of the A. H. M. S., from Dec. 1st, 1844, to Jan. 1st, 1845.

The Treasurer of the American Home Missionary Society acknowledges the receipt of the following sums, from December 1st, 1844, to January 1st, 1845.

*Corrections.-The $7 acknowledged in the H. Miss. for January, from Westfield, N. Y., by A. T. Hopkins, should have been by Rev. T. M. Hopkins, in full to const. him a L. M.

Of the collection acknowledged from Brooklyn, Ct., Dec. 1844, $30 18 from Mrs. Esther Smith,

Donations of clothing, &c., with the valuation of Greenfield, Cong. Ch., $6; Rev. B. Fowler,

45 67
75.00

Rev. J. A. Murray, Secretary of the Western Agency at Geneva, N. Y., acknowledges the receipt of the following sums

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