parts of India." "Several of the younger members of the church have applied to the study of the Bengalee, Nagree, and Persian characters, to enable them to read the New Testament to their servants and neighbors." "The Benevolent Institution for the instruction of poor children, has been this year extended to girls, who, with the boys in a distinct apartment, amount to upwards of 300." "A building, during this year, has been erected near the chapel, which will contain 800 children."

The impression made on the neighborhood by the conduct of the Missionaries, and the quiet manner in which they are heard by the natives, will appear by the following account of one of their excursions: "On January 23, in the evening, the brethren Marshman and Ward went to Ishra. The people in the bazar kindly ac commodated them with seats; and nearly fity sat down around them, to whom they read and expounded the Ten Commandments, asking the people which of them they thought evil or unjust. They answered, 'None; they were all good.' The tree then, said they, must be good from whence these branches come; and proceeded to shew them how every man by nature was averse from these righteous commandments, and of course from the God who gave them; which state of mind must be a state of wickedness, and of the utmost danger. They then shewed them how Jesus Christ came into the world to deliver men both from the guilt and the domin ion of sin; and that their errand into this country was wholly to bring a message of Jove, to make known these glad tidings to them, and beg them to come to Christ and share the blessings which they themselves enjoyed, appealing to them whether, in the twelve years that they had resided near them, any thing had appeared in their conduct which could lead them to deem them enemies instead of friends! They answered, No;' and seemed extremely attentive to the discourse."

Feb. 23, 1812. "In the afternoon," observes one of the Missionaries, "I renewed my visit to the once hardened prisoners in the house of correction. The women here are but little interested; but the men, both old and young, Hindoos and Mussulmans, when I compared their conduct towards God to that of the prodigal, and set forth his long-suffering and mercy through the Son of his love, were so affected that both they and myself found it a painful task to part. They followed me as far as they could, and when we parted it was with tears. One of the seapoys on the guard, á Hindoost'hanee man, told me with tears, also, that though I had spoken in Bengalee the words had pierced his heart, During

my address an inquisitive Hindoo inter rupted me by asking where our Lord Je sus Christ, the new Savior that I declar ed unto them, had been for so long time, that he had only now heard of him? I told him that the Savior I preached was no new Savior, but the only one appointed of God, even that God against whom we had sinned; and that to him alone all the ends of the earth are exhorted to look and be saved. If he then said he be a Savior for all the world, how is it that the Europeans who appear to have had him revealed to them, did not all this time make him known to us? I told him, this did not lessen the truth of my assertion; for that all the Europeans whom he saw in India were not Christians."

March 11. The Missionaries having heard that at Chagda, about 24 miles from Serampore, a large concourse of people would be assembled, sent thither Jonathan Carey, with the native converts Deepchund and Vikoontha. They arriv ed there the next morning at seven "Here," the itinerants observed, "a spec tacle was exhibited which we seldom witness. The river, which at this place is about three quarters of a mile wide, was covered with men, women, and children, nearly to the middle of the stream. In one place was a Brahmun

and his train of followers, dipping themselves with the greatest devotion in the sacred stream; in another, a mother was seen dragging her shivering child into the river; in another, a Gooroo instructing his disciples in the rites and ceremonies practised on these occasions; in short every one, from the grey head to the youth scarcely versed in idolatrous ceremonies, rich and poor, Brahmuns and Shoedrus, all seemed intent on the same object. The immense crowds which thronged the shore seemed like a forest of heads. Some had travelled journeys of several days; some had come from Chittagong, others from Orissa, and from other parts of the country not less than a hundred miles distant. About seven in the morning we went out, and Deepchund began to speak to the people; but so great was the press that we were obliged to climb a boat which lay on the shore with its bot tom upwards; from which place we declared to them the inefficacy of the act they were then performing to remove their sins, and pointed them to the Lamb of God. The people listened with the greatest attention. After preaching for more than an hour, we brought from our own boat a number of Scripture-tracts, but we were again obliged to ascend the boat, where the people followed us clambering up the sides till tl.e boat itself was covered with the crowd, all eager to ob-.

* This donation by Mr. Goodell was first mentioned in the Panoplist for Feb. 1812, in a note. It was soon after secured to be paid with interest from March 30, 1812, but as the business was conducted by a member of the Board, who lives at no great distance from Mr. Goodell, and who has the papers in his possession, the sum has never been formally entered on the books of the Treasus until now. The donations from Mr. Goodell to the Board may be found in the following numbers of the Panoplist; viz.

Feb. 1812. For the current expenses of the Board, $50 00

July, 1812. Do.

Do.

March, 1813. Do.

Do.

July, 1813. Do.

Do.

Additional donation at the same time,

Jan. 1814. To aid in translat

ing the Scriptures into the languages of Asia,

June, 1814. To the permanent fund to be applied to the diffu sion of a knowledge of the Scriptures in the East,

July, 1814. To aid in the distribution of the Scriptures in India,

To which is to be added the donation entered above to the permanent fund, which was secured in March 1812,

126 00

123 90 200 10

FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY OF PLYMPTON,

Mr. Editor,

IF you think the following will be a mean of exciting others to form similar Societies, you will oblige one of your constant readers by inserting it in your useful publication. The Society formed under the following Constitution is not large; but has increased much beyond the most sanguine expectations of its first projectors; and there is a probability that it will still increase. The members appear to be animated with zeal for the spread of the Gospel. The Society heard with pleasure the address of the American Board of Commissioners, published in the Panoplist for October, 1813. If Foreign Mission Societies were formed in every town in this state, to cast in their mite to the Board, would not piety be thereby promoted in our land? Would not the Board receive a large accession of pecuniary aid from those little streams? And would they not be enabled more extensively to sed out Missionaries, and the Holy Bible to the poor heathens, who are perishing for lack of vision? Are not souls precious? Christians! can you withhold your mite, when such a door is open? Have you forgot the exhortation, To do good, and to communicate?* Have you the Spirit of Christ? Can you tell what may be done, till experiment be made?

L. B.

$500 00 14 00

198 00

100 00

1,277 00

1,000 00

We consider ourselves invited to this by the leadings of Divine Providence in opening the door for the establishment of the Christian Religion in the heathen world. What has already been done by the churches in this country through the channels, which are now opened, affords us the fullest assurance, that what is given will be faithfully and religiously appropri ated to the object we now have in view. This Society shall be called by the name of the The Aiding Foreign Mission Society of Plympton and iis Vicinity.

We agree to adopt and maintain the

*Heb. xiii, 16.

† Rom. viii, 9; Matt. xviii, 11; Luke iv, 43.

following Articles as the basis of this Society.

CONSTITUTION,

I. Officers.

1. There shall be a President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Committee, chosen annually.

2. The duty of the President shall be to preserve order, and make known business, in all meetings of the society.

3. The Secretary shall record all proceedings of the society, and manage their correspondence, by receiving and transmitting all communications to and from the society.

4 The Treasurer shall receive the subscriptions, donations and contributions made to the society, and faithfully transmit the same to the Treasurer of the American Board of Commissioners for For eign Missions; or to the persons qualified by said Board to receive it, and produce a written instrument certifying the sum annually transmitted by this society.

5. The Committee shall use all Christian exertions in their power to obtain subscribers, donations, or contributions, to the society, and audit the Treasurer's accounts, and lay them annually before the society.

II. Membership.

1. All persons, who believe the Christian religion, sustain good moral characters, and desire to promote the kingdom of Christ, may be admitted into this society by vote; having been previously propounded three months.

2. Every person received into this society, shall, at the time of his admission, pay into the Treasury of the society, the sum of one dollar at least, and one dollar yearly, at or before each successive annual meeting, while he continues a member of this society.

3. Any person wishing to withdraw his connexion from this society, shall certify it to the Treasurer, who shall record his desire, after which, he shall not be considered a member; provided he pay his arrearages, if any be due.

III. Of the Meetings of the Society.

1. The society shall meet annually on the third Monday of April, at one o'clock, P. M. at which time such religious exercises shall be performed, as the society shall have previously determined.

2. There shall be Quarterly Meetings; the times and places of holding them to be determined by vote of the society at each annual meeting. At which times, prayers and religious conversation, calcu lated to engage each other in the work of the Lord, shall be attended to.

3. Every meeting shall be opened and elosed by prayer.

There shall be no alteration of this Con

On the 7th of January a meeting of this Society was held at Freemason's Hall, the Right Hon. Lord Gambier in the chair, for the purpose of addressing four Missiona ries who were designated to stations in the East;

1st. The Rev. Thomas Norton and the Rev. W. Greenwood, who having been educated in the Society's Seminary and admitted to Holy Orders, are now serving curacies. When their engagements are fulfilled, they will embark for the island of Ceylon, to act as Missionaries of the Society.

2d. The Rev. John Christian Schnarre, and the Rev. Charles Theophilus Ewald Rhenius, who having studied some years in the Missionary Seminary at Berlin, were ordained in that city by the Counsellor of the Consistory, the Rev. Jacobus Hecker; and having since passed about fifteen months in this country in preparation for their future labors, were appointed as Missionaries to Tranquebar.

Our readers are already apprised of the benevolent and extensive plans of Dr. John, and of the pecuniary aid rendered to them by the Calcutta Corresponding Com mittee of the Society. Mrs. Schnarre and Rhenius having been destined by the Committee to enter into the fields of labor which he has presented in the peninsula of India, their attention was directed to the studies suitable to that destination, in the confidence that the Court of Directors of the East India Company would grant them their license to proceed to India for the furtherance of plans so wisely conceived, and put in practice with so much benefit to the natives. This confidence was not disappointed. The Court granted, with the utmost readiness, the request of the Committee; and these Missionaries are now on their passage to India, on board the Marquis of Huntly, Capt. M'Leod.

On this occasion there were present 1300 or 1400 members and their friends.

The Secretary of the Society delivered the Instructions of the Committee to the

Missionaries, and the Rev. William Dealtry, Rector of Clapham, in the unavoida ble absence, through indisposition, of the Rev. Dr. Claudius Buchanan, delivered an Address to them, drawn up by Dr. Buchanan, at the request of the Committee

From the Christian Observer.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.

SOME select Extracts from the Correspondence of this Society since the publication of the Ninth Annual Report have been printed and circulated, We propose to give the substance of them.

1. From Copenhagen we learn, that the resolution of the Committee to print 5000 additional copies of the Icelandie New Testament was on the point of being executed. "This generosity," it is observed, "towards the poor Icelanders, could not have been applied to more deserving objects. Their assiduity in reading the Scriptures when they have access to them, and the veneration in which they hold their contents, give the fullest anticipatory assurance that the grand object the committee have in view will be attained in that island." It was intended shortly to send a rumber of Bibles and Testaments to Norway, where the want of the Scriptures was greatly felt. A farmer, eager to possess the Bible, had offered a cow at the next market town for one, but in vain. There were none for sale, and those who possessed a Bible would nor sell it for any price.

2. From Zurich we learn, that the "Bible Institution prospers wonderfully."

3. A Bible Society has been formed at Kanapa in Esthonia, under the patronage of the Dean. In that district, Mr. Paterson states, that among 106,000 inhabitants, 200 Testaments are not to be found. Thousands had never seen a New Testament, and many pastors had it not in the vernacular tongue; although there are great numbers of very pious people, and among the rest, 11,000 persons connected with the United Brethren, in this district. An edition of 10,000 Testaments was to be forthwith printed.

Another Bible Society, to be called the Courland Bible Society, has been formed at Mitau in Courland, with the full concurrence of the principal clergy, and under the patronage of Count Meden, President of the Consistory. The meeting for this purpose took place in the hall belonging to the nobles, where persons of all ranks assembled. The business was opened by Count Lieven. "The subscription," says Mr. Paterson, "I hear, will amount to about 3000 rubles, a sum, con

sidering what this province has suffered by the calamities of war, more than dou ble whatever could have been expected from the first meeting of the Society; but a fire is kindled by the Lord in the Rus sian empire which warms every heart, and inflames them with zeal to follow the example of their much beloved monarch."

A third society has been formed at Riga, through the instrumentality of the same indefatigable servant of Christ, Mr. Paterson, in which the Consistory and some noblemen took the chief lead. Mr. Paterson expects great things from this Society, which, after that of St. Peters burgh, he thinks will be the first on the Continent. A fourth Society has been formed at Dorpat, and a fifth at Reval, still under the same kind of patronage. The Society at this place are about to print a large edition of the New Testa ment, and Mr. Paterson adds, "the translation in the Revalian dialect, is sup posed to be one of the best in Europe."

After completing these great objects, Mr. Paterson returned to Petersburgh on the 23d of July, when he found that on "the same day on which the Society was formed in Revel a Bible Society had been es tablished in Moscow. At the first meet ing, the Bishop and a number of his clergy were present, and subscribed largely The Bishop publicly thanked Mr. Pinker ton for the part he had taken in the business. This Society will prove of great importance to the cause in Russia. There are now seven Bible Societies in the Russian empire, including that at Aboin Finland."

A peasant, living beyond Moscow, led written to prine Galitzin, the President of the Petersburgh Society, begging a large folio Bible to read to his family and neighbors, and sending five rubles to pay for its carriage. Another peasant offered to subscribe 20 rubles yearly, and presented the Society with some leather for binding the Bibles.

ORDINATION.

ORDAINED, at Dennis, Barnstable co Mass. on the 27th ult. the Rev. Jose HAVEN. Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Ware, from 1 Cor. xiii, 9. We know in part.

AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY OF NEWARK (N. J.) AND ITS VICINITY.

AGREEABLY to previous notice in the pub lic paper, and from the pulpit in the ser eral congregations of this place, a number of the YOUNG MIN from the town and its neighborhood met on Thursday, the 30th