Letters and Dialogues between Theron, Faithful Warnings, and Affectionate Advice, addressed to hearers of the Gospel A Pastoral Letter. London. Wight man. THIS Letter is written by Mr. Brawn, who has for several years respectably and usefully discharged the pastoral office at Loughton. It is an earnest, serious, and appropriate address; and we hope it will THE celebrity of the writer of these Letters and Dialogues, renders it unnecessary for us to dilate on the publication. The views of Dr. Bellamy on Faith, in contra- be read, especially by those for whose bediction to those of Marshall and Hervey, nefit it has principally been prepared, appear to us to be sound. Dr. Burns with the attention it merits therefore has rendered a service to religion by issuing, under his auspices, this new edition. INTELLIGENCE, &c. FOREIGN. UPPER CANADA. The following is an extract of a letter lately received in London from Mr. Edwards, who, for many years, has settled at Clarence in Upper Canada, on the banks of the river Ottawa, and through whose persevering exertions a small Baptist Church has been formed, the members of which are zea lously engaged in making known the "way of salvation” to their neighbours, who, for the most part, know not God, nor believe in our Lord Jesus Christ. During the last year Mr. Edwards undertook, at his own expense, a visit to this country, with a view of exciting the sympathies of British Christians in behalf of the people among whom providence had called him to sojourn, and to lay the foundation, if possible, of supplying them with the means of spiritual instruction; and, it is to be hoped, an impression has been made that will lead to very important results. Mr. Edwards met with much encouragement from ministers and friends, both in England and Scotland, who shewed every disposition to forward his views. It is very pleasing to know, as the immediate effect of Mr. Edwards' visit to this country, an able labourer is already in the field, from whose exertions much good may be confidently anticipated. We now allude to Mr. Gilmore, (late of Aberdeen,) who has arrived at Montreal, and is now zealously engaged in preaching the Gospel, and we have good reason to know he is not labouring in vain. In all probability, an appeal will shortly be made to the Christian public, in behalf of the benighted inhabitants of this part of the world, as it is in contemplation to form a Missionary Society, with an especial view to their benefit. Mr. Edwards's letter is dated from Mon treal, November 9, 1830. "MY DEAR SIR, "It is probable you have heard from some friends in Great Britain, that I reached my home on the 10th of June, in peace and safety, and found my family in merciful circumstances, after an absence of seven months and fifteen days, having gone at least by water and land 8500 miles. I have great reason for thanksgiving and praise to the author of our mercies, for his preserving care and goodness to me and mine. We continue to go on at Clarence much in the same way I told you of last winter. "Our Sabbath School goes on well, and our little church continues to meet on the Sabbath day, and on Wednesday evenings. "We have had two additions this summer, and we are endeavouring, to the best of our ability, to enlarge around us the boundary of Zion, by making known the Gospel of Christ. But O, could the friends of the Gospel in Great Britain, see the many thousands in this country who are perishing for lack of knowledge, I think they would hasten to devise means to send among them that Gospel, the entrance of which imparts life and light to the soul. In these quarters, infidelity, errors of various kinds, and awful carelessness, are greatly on the increase. Upwards of 20,000 have this season landed on our shores from Great Britain and Ireland. You see our population is rapidly increasing, and no adequate means employed for their spiritual instruction. "These alone could employ forty missionaries, considering their scattered situation in this country. “Mr. Gilmore arrived in this city about two months ago; he is in good health and spirits, with Mrs. Gilmore and son. His labours are very acceptable, and highly prized. DOMESTIC. SERAMPORE MISSION. "2, Jeffrey Square, St. Mary Axe, London, Dec. 25, 1830. "The very extensive and valuable labours in which the Serampore Missionaries have been so arduously engaged for nearly forty years, have induced several gentlemen in the metropolis, to form themselves into a Society, called, THE LONDON ASSOCIATON IN AID OF THE SERAMPORE MISSION. The object of this associated body, is, to obtain subscriptions, donations, and collections for the translations, the schools, and the general purposes of the mission, which have been so long conducted by the venerable Dr. Carey, and his brethren at Serampore. "The length of time in which the Serampore brethren have been engaged in their labours of love, the assiduity with which they have pursued their plans for diffusing the knowledge of the Gospel through the eastern world, the extensive good they have already done, and the permanent foundation, which, under the blessing of God, they have laid for the successful operations of future Missionaries, strongly concur to recommend their case to the benevolent consideration of Christians of all denominations. "Deeply impressed with a sense of the vast importance of this mission to the spiritual interests of India, and of the necessity of its continued operations for the furtherance of the Redeemer's kingdom in that extensive This constitutes a new era in this city, empire of idolatrous delusions, the members there not having been before a church on of this Association embrace the opportunity Gospel principles. I have no doubt but of appealing to the friends of religion on beMr. Gilmore's labours will, by the divine bles-half of its funds, through the medium of this sing, be eminent in building up and com- circular. forting the people of God, and be honoured in turning many from the error of their ways to the wisdom of the just. He is a zealous and faithful labourer, willing to spend and be spent in the good cause. They are about establishing in this city an academy for pious young men ; they are however deficient in funds, and look to Great Britain for a helping hand. They judge, and I think rightly, that young men reared in this country, who in other respects are fit for the work, will be far the most eligible missionaries for it. I hope, my dear brother, we shall have your "Should any friend to the spiritual welprayers, your influence, and aid; and that fare of India be disposed to assist the Seramof the friends of the Gospel with you, to pore Missionaries under their present pecuassist in carrying the message of reconcilia-niary embarrassment, communications may be tion, through these extensive provinces, so that by the united energy of British and Canada Christians, our barren wastes may be made to hear "the joyful sound," and our lofty forests resound with the songs of Zion. Wishing you an increase of grace, mercy, and 2 sent to G. F. Angas, Esq., Treasurer, 2, Jeffrey Square, St. Mary Axe, where the business of this Association is conducted. "Subscriptions and Donations will also be received by the following gentlemen; James Pritt, Esq., 15, Wood Street, Cheapside; Messrs. Fletcher, Alexander, and Co., Bankers, Coleman Street; Messrs. Parbury, Allen, and Co., Leadenhall Street; Messrs. J. and H. Gamble, Fish Street Hill; William Napier, Esq. Mecklenburgh Street, Foundling Hospital; and by the Rev. George Gibbs, Secretary, Brunswick House, Peckham." Died on the 29th December, 1830, in the 73d year of her age, Mrs. Hoddy, wife of the Rev. William Hoddy. She was interred the following Wednesday, January 5. A few hours after her funeral, the bereaved husband was summoned to his rest, and was interred on the following Tuesday in the meeting-house. On the Sabbath, a funeral sermon was preached by his nephew, the Rev. T. Hoddy of Clare, from Acts xi. 24, to a numerous congregation. W. Hoddy was 80 years of age; and for 34 years the beloved pastor of the Baptist Church of Bildeston, Suffolk; and no man ever lived more respected by Christians of different denominations. The Rev. Charles Caddy, many years a Baptist preacher in the counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, (particularly at Salhouse in the latter,) terminated his earthly career in the 69th year of his age, on Lord's-Day morning December 26th, 1830. The three last years of his pilgrimage were remarkable for extreme bodily sufferings. He endured this great fight of affliction in the exercise of patience and resignation; deriving all his comfort and support from the glorious Gospel of the blessed God. His remains were deposited at Rehoboth Chapel burying ground, Union Place, Norwich, on Saturday, January 1st, 1831: when a sermon was preached by his J. Chin, London Subscriptions: union, and comfort, by the settlement among the Rev. Messrs. Bennett, D.D. and Dean; them of Mr. James Bisset, who was the and at the latter by the Rev. Messrs. Binney first Pastor of the Baptist Church at Stoke and Townley. Newington,-by whom the infant baptist cause there was raised, and Shacklewell Chapel, erected for their accommodation, the charge of which he resigned, by mutual agreement, to the late Mr. C. T. Mileham. Mr. Bisset was invited in January last year to supply the church at Hertford, and, by their unanimous request, continued his labours there till nearly the close of the year, when the church gave him their unanimous and urgent invitation to take the Pastoral Charge of them; to which request, after mature consideration, he has considered it his duty to accede, and commenced his pastoral labours on the first Lord's day in the present year. OXFORD BUILDING-CASE SOCIETY. To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine. Oxford, Jan. 20th, 1831. W. COPLEY. LIST.-Andover, Anmore, Ashford, AtchLench, Bath, Berwick St. John, Bilston, Blunaevon, Bloxham, Caerleon, Campden, Cooleford, Corsham, Cuddington, Earl's Barton, Fisherton, Heaton, Henley, Honiton, Kidderminster, King-Stanley, Lake Lane (Portsea), Lane-end, Little Kineton, Little Tew, Long Crendon, Minchinhampton, Missenden, Newnham, Newton St. Petroch, Paulton, Poole, Shilton, Stoney Stratford, Stroud, Swanbourn, Thame, Torrington, West Drayton, West Haddon, Whitchurch, Winchester, Winslow, Winterslow, Witney, Worcester, Gascombe. A DAY FOR HUMILIATION On Wednesday, January 19th, several of the ministers and members of the churches held special prayer meetings in London, on behalf of our beloved, but greatly distressed country. The places appointed for these services, were Barbican and Salters' Hall Chapels, where addresses were delivered appropriate to the occasion:-at the former by 66 We earnestly hope a similar spirit of pious philanthropy will be manifested through all If ever "the land of our faour churches. thers" required the individual and united intercession of the righteous to be poured forth When on its behalf, it requires them now! the vessel that was sailing to Tarshish was overtaken by stormy seas, so that the ship was like to be broken," and "the mariners were afraid," they arose, and cried every man unto his God." And shall the worshippers of the one living and true Jehovah be found sleeping in insensibility, in the midst of surrounding dangers? As citizens, we unite to present our petitions to our revered sovereign, and the legislative assemblies of the land; and shall we fail to unite as Christians, to present our petitions to HIM, "whose throne is above the heavens, and who reigneth and ruleth over all," that at the present crisis,—a season of great national calamity, agitation, and peril, he would be graciously pleased to interpose on our behalf, to alleviate the sorrows of the oppressed, to allay the elements of discord, to "counsel our counsellors, and teach our senators wisdom?" ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. Recent Meetings for the Abolition of Slavery, have been held at 1. Edinburgh.-2, Second Meeting at Edinburgh.-3. Perth.4. Kelso.-5. Aberdeen.-6. Paisley.-7, Glasgow.-8. Scottish Synods and Presby teries.-9. Bradford.-10. Melksham.-11, Truro.-12, Kingston.-13. Falmouth.— 14. Southampton.-15. Huddersfield.-16. Hanley and Shelton.-17. Kendal.-18. Hadleigh. 19. Penzance.-20. Welling borough-21. Portsea.-22.Stowmarket.23. Reading -24. Liskeard-25.Plymouth, 26. Bath.-27. Bristol.-28. Second Meeting at Bristol.-29. Derby.-30. Chelmsford.-31. Birmingham.-32. Rut land.-33. Durham.-34. Halifax.-35, Chesterfield.-36. Salisbury.-37. Calne. -38. Watford.-39. Lincoln.-40. Brighton. 41. Bury St. Edmunds. We intended to have given the very excel lent speech, made by Mr. Jeffrey, at the Edinburgh Meeting, but our limits will not admit it. NOTICE. The Rev. S. Whitewood, late of Andover, has accepted the unanimous invitation of Pastor over the Particular Baptist Church, Halifax, Yorkshire. The Eternal Sonship of the Saviour A Series of Letters on the Serampore considered, in a Letter to the Rev. ADAM Controversy, to the Rev. Christopher AnderCLARKE, LL.D., &c. &c. occasioned by son, occasioned by a Paragraph dated, some Strictures in the Methodist Magazine" Edinburgh, 6th November, 1830," apfor August, 1830, on his third Volume of pended to the "Reply," &c. &c. &c. of the Sermons, and on his Comment on Luke Rev. J. Marshman, D.D. By Joseph i. 35. IVIMEY. Second Edition. The Persecutions of the Nonconformists contrasted with the Liberties of the present Dissenters; with remarks. By JOHN HOLLOWAY. It is the intention of Mr. Eustace Carey, speedily to reply to the several Pamphlets recently issued from Serampore upon the Subjects involved in our Missionary Con Published on account of the Repeal of troversy. the Corporation and Test Acts. The Pillar of Divine Truth immoveably fixed on the Foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the Chief Corner Stone: shewn by the Genuineness, Preservation, Authenticity, Inspiration, Facts, Doctrines, Miracles, Prophecies, and Precepts of the Word of God. The whole of the Arguments and Illustrations from the pages of the Comprehensive Bible. By the EDITOR of that WORK. Knox's History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland; with an Historical Introduction and Notes, by WILLIAM M'GAVIN, Esq. 1 vol. 8vo. A Help to Professing Christians in judging their Spiritual State and Growth in Grace. By the Rev. JOHN BARB, Author of "The Scripture Student's Assistant," &c. We learn that Mr. Booth, the Author of A Letter to a Conscientious Advocate "The Analytical Dictionary," has a Work in for Strict Communion. By WILLIAM the Press on "the Principles of English Composition." GROSER. |