DEATH. DIED, August 5, aged eighty-one, Mrs. Elizabeth Yeandal, a consistent and useful member of the Baptist church, Blindmore, Buckland, St. Mary, Somerset. She died in full expectation of the promises of the gospel, through her dear Redeemer. DIED, on Sept. 22, Mrs. Betty Knight, a member of the same church, and kind and highly useful to the church, her afflicted neighbours, &c. She was greatly distressed with agonizing pains, but committed her departing spirit into the hands of her Saviour. These two beloved sisters in Christ were baptized together, the elder first, and the younger succeeding; so they departed. Both lived in high expectation of being gratified with seeing our new temple opened for divine worship, which they were denied, the latter only to be caried there as a corpse, both being now interred near together in our burial ground, attached to our chapel. Many of our little band of disciples have been, and some still are, greatly afflicted, and have also been denied the enjoyment of spending a few hours in that house which they longed to see dedicated to the service of the Most High God. S. H. Editorial Postcript. WE had hoped that we should have been enabled to gratify our friends by the announcement that the price of the Primitive Church Magazine would be reduced to threepence, beginning with January, 1852; but the communications which we have received have not been such as to warrant this step. We stated in our last, that a reduction of our price to threepence, including the stamped copies, without an increase of sale, would make an annual deficiency of £36 128.; excluding them, the deficiency would be about £30. Now, unless the proprietors could see their way pretty clear to the meeting of this deficiency, either by a proportionate increase of sale, or by annual subscriptions, they do not feel themselves justified to incur the responsibility. The best way by far, as it appears to them, of effecting a reduction in price, is by extending the sale; as it not only would protect us from pecuniary risk, but would also promote the object which we have chiefly in view, by the diffusion of our principles. Seeing, then, that there is a strong desire on the part of many of our friends that the price of our Magazine should be reduced to threepence, the proprietors are induced to make the following offer:--To make up the deficiency which would arise from the proposed reduction, our sale should be increased by one thousand per month; but the proprietors engage that the price shall be reduced to threepence so soon as the sale is increased by five hundred per month. In making this proposal, it will be seen that the proprietors take on themselves a full half of the additional pecuniary responsibility, whilst they leave the other half to be discharged by the kind exertions of their friends. This, they think, is advancing as far as they can do under the present circumstances, and they hope it is imposing no more on their friends than they are willing to undertake. We would say therefore unto them, arise, dear friends, and do it, for the work belongeth unto you! Arise and strengthen the good cause; for the God of heaven he will prosper you! We rejoice to know that many of our friends have already anticipated our counsel by the putting forth of zealous exertion, and we cannot doubt that very many more will be induced to do the same. shall be glad to receive from them, as early in the present month as possible, some account of their proceedings, and of the success of their labours. Will they kindly set to work immediately, and will they work with a determination in the divine strength, to be satisfied with nothing short of the accomplishment of that at which they aim? If so, the thing is done. We Printed by JOSEPH BRISCOE, 28, Banner Street, in the Parish of St. Luke, in the County of Middlesex; and published by ARTHUR HALL and GEORGE VIRTUE, 25, Paternoster Row, in the Parish of St. Faith under St. Paul's, in the City of London.--MONDAY, DECEMBER 1st, 1851. one. be situated? What would become of their great unto us; although he has permitted large meetings, and what of their numerous that many should go out from us to the Sunday-schools, and their tract distribution? Mormons, yet about double the number has Where would they invite people to come to been added to us in the same time. In the on the Lord's-day to hear the Word of God? country is a continual increase. In Aalborg and how would they edify and build up the people are hard hearted with respect to themselves on that holy day? In short, all spiritual things; but we labour in hope, as what good could they do?" Contrasting the farmer does, and I believe that we shall the state of Denmark with that of England, not be made ashamed. In the town there he says, "You have thousands of chapels are but sixteen Baptists, the others are gone and other places to meet in; we have not to the Mormons. The church rejoices in You have hundreds of well educated peace and love. I do not think that many learned, and talented men, to labour in word more will leave us, for God is with us. and doctrine, and to defend by word of May he be with you also, and with as many mouth, as well as by writing, your holy prin- as love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity." ciples; we have not one, although our The island of Christiansö near Bornholme, adversaries are numerous and learned, and in the Baltic.-Brother Förster says, "Mr. talented too. You have plenty of means to Ryding made a journey to Christiansö, near educate young men for the ministry; we Bornholme, a few weeks ago. He baptized have none. You have many hundreds of three believers, so that there are now four various religious tracts, so that you can have Baptists on that island. It was a very inloan societies, and regularly distribute tracts teresting tour. The commander on the from house to house; we have about half a island provided a place for him to preach in, dozen tracts of different sorts. You have and Mr. Ryding had several interviews with numerous and well conducted Sunday-schools, him. Mr. R., as I have told you before, and plenty of means to carry them on; in travels generally at his own expense, and Denmark we have scarcely one. A little yet he is but a poor man. It would be wellhas been commenced in that respect; but it if he and others whom we might employ can hardly be reckoned anything. You could receive a little support." LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE IN GERMANY. know not how badly we are off, until you come and see. Yet notwithstanding our many disadvantages, much good has been done. Truly we can say, "The Lord has THE fourth annual assembly of the done great things for us, whereof we are GERMAN EVANGELICAL CHURCH UNION was glad;" but I feel persuaded that much more held at Elberfeld in September last. Pubmight be done, both in Copenhagen and lic business commenced on the 16th. This other places, if we had the means to do union or Kirchentag consists of members of things properly." the state churches only, with the exception It is certainly difficult for us in England. of the Moravians, who are included as to realize fully the state of our brethren in having long held an acknowledged position. Denmark, but it is pleasing to remember Considering the objects of the union, this that the sum received by brother Förster limitation of membership is not perhaps when in England, for the erection of a remarkable, but the manner in which the chapel in Copenhagen, only awaits a favour-members of the union at their late meeting able opportunity for expenditure on that treated a reference to the Baptists, and to object, and gives hope that before very long the persecution still carried on against them, there may at least be one Baptist meeting- has awakened deep regret among the friends house in Denmark. What can be done to of religious freedom. The four bodies obtain a suitable place of meeting in Copen- united in it, are the Lutheran, the Rehagen till then? and what to assist our formed, the United, and the Moravian brethren in other places in Denmark? We churches. have not, like the Mormonites, a fund of Californian gold to sustain our missions, nor are the Strict Baptists of Britain so well supplied themselves, but that they too know the pinch of need. But still, if God shall please, something more may certainly be done to supply brethren in Denmark with better places for their meetings. Aalborg."Last week," says Mr. Förster, "I received a letter from Mr. Föltved in Aalborg. He says, "With respect to the church, the grace of God is particularly The President stated that he and other members of the Kirchentag had been invited to attend the recent meetings of the Evangelical Alliance in London; that a reciprocal invitation had been given to the British brethren, and that the council of the Alliance had deputed their president, two of their honorary secretaries, and three other members, to attend the meetings of the Kirchentag. Dr. Steane was a member of this deputation. "It is said that he was strongly urged to be a member of it, on the ground that the English dissenting element their fellow-Christians, but that he had no ought to be represented, and that he was doubt they all concurred in his own convicacquainted with the hardships that the tion that they should keep to the four con.. Baptists were suffering." (Christian Times, fessions on which they stood. He called for Oct. 3.) Dr. Steane was aware that this a show of hands in support of this statement, latter subject was a delicate one; but he felt a call to which every one in the assembly it a duty, when called upon to speak, not to seemed to respond by holding up his hand. omit kind and earnest intercession for his Dr. Steane had not asked for the admission suffering brethren. The first part of his of the Baptists to the Union; but this deaddress was well received, but when he monstration seemed to imply either that he began "to assert the rights of conscience, to was understood to have done so, or else that state existing instances of persecution, and the meeting did not recognize the sentito plead for religious liberty, great uneasi-ments as to religious liberty which he had ness became apparent, especially on the expressed, as belonging to their four confesplatform and about the chair, and more sions. than once an effort was made by professor Even if there was mistake as to Dr. Hengstenberg, to induce the president to Steane's design, "is there not room,' says stop him." This state of commotion was the correspondent of the “Christian Times," happily not observed by Dr. Steane. He "for saying that it was a melancholy thing is reported to have said, that such an assembly could be told of the "My second point relates to the promo- gross instances of persecution which were tion and extension of religious freedom, and brought before them-of fellow-Christians the discouragement of all persecution for suffering bonds and imprisonment in some conscience' sake. We must stand together instances, fines and banishment in other in times such as these, upon the great fun- instances, and in one, expatriation for life, damental principle of the Reformation, the for conscience' sake, and express no symright of every man to take God's word, pathy with the sufferers, and no righteous judge of its meaning for himself, and then indignation of their wrongs. Was this worship his Maker and his Redeemer ac- charitable? Was this Christ-like ?......If I cording to the dictates of his own conscience. had met a Roman Catholic, I felt that I .You, beloved brethren, can have no must hide my face from his reproach." sympathy with persecutors, but you will have In reference to the position of the Bapinuch sympathy with the persecuted; for tists, this writer says that "they are the "if one member suffer, all the members only body of dissenters in Germany. All suffer with it.' Let me then mention that the other denominations are acknowledged scattered over Germany there are many and supported by the state. They are the Baptist churches, and I mention it the more only body decidedly and openly opposed to freely because I have already been intro- the existing relations of church and state. duced to you as a member of that commu- They are consequently regarded with excesnity. These churches are formed on the sive jealousy, are charged with being anticongregational plan, but they nevertheless monarchial, and inimical to governments; love peace and social order. Their pastors so that high conservatism would think are good men, and their members are loyal almost any measures justifiable which would subjects of the governments under which arrest their progress. In the next place they live, and let me add, they hold in com- the diametrical opposition of their views to mon with yourselves the fundamental veri- the doctrine of baptismal regeneration, and ties of the gospel.......Ought these brethren of sacramental efficacy generally, of which then to be persecuted? I am sure you will it is only a part, and which is both theoretinot think so." Dr. Steane then referred to cally held, and zealously maintained by a the persecution they were suffering in large portion of the Lutheran clergy, marks Mecklenburg Schwerin, and in Baden, and them out as the objects in which the relito the perpetual banishment of Mr. Nilsson gious rancour such questions are apt to enfrom Sweden. He commended these facts gender may expend itself. And besides to their consideration, these brethren to this, I cannot but suspect that prejudices their sympathy, and concluded by throwing connected with the excesses of the Munster out the suggestion, that next summer "a Anabaptists of Luther's time are still lingreat Protestant meeting should be some-gering in the minds of some." where held, in continental Europe, for the Whatever may have been the chief cause, vindication and promotion of religious it appears certain that Dr. Steane's remarks freedom." At the close of this speech, the president referred to what Dr. Steane had said, and stated that it was their desire to love all on religious liberty were received "with impatience and disfavour;" and the "Christian Times" of Oct. 31, after stating this fact, says, "We ask our continental bre thren to ponder well the effect which must tree of the village. (That is the tree, beneath inevitably be produced in Europe, if the which, on a heap of stones, or a platform, or inference which will certainly be drawn in a small temple, the idol is placed.) An from this proceeding be accredited by their old Brahmin sat blowing himself out with silence." The " Archives du Christianisme," wheat bread and mangoes on the opposite the most influential French Protestant side of the road. It appeared that he was a journal, says that "the meaning of this thannada, or crop valuer, and with him was deplorable vote, unless it is to be regarded a ragged sepoy, armed to the teeth. The as having taken the meeting wholly unawares, is that of a protest against liberty of conscience and worship," and that its effect, though not intended, it is hoped must be to encourage the persecutors of the Baptists. NATIVES OF INDIA. Extract from a son's letter to his mother, in pair excited old Sursojee's ire, and out came a burst of vituperation loud enough for the old fellow to hear. "Just look, Sahib, how these Brahmins stuff themselves! They will eat as much as other six men, each of them, and six or seven pounds of ghee, to wash it down, into the bargain; poor tender things, their women despise them,-they are as cold as a wet cloth. Look how fat the fellow is turn him out in the sun, and he will melt like butter. Look at poor Bambojee, In answer to a question of yours, dated (pointing to the Baja, Ormrah Potail, who Feb. 13, I reply, that with the vulgar Hin- was at hand,) with nothing but a rag upon dostani used by the sepoys, and the inhabi- his shrivelled carcass. The vagabond goes tants of the towns and villages, I have been round with his book, valuing property of us for some time familiar. No one who wishes poor potails, and for ten rupees' worth to be comfortable in his house, or to know writes twenty, and fattens along with his the country and its people at all, has any master, out of our plunder. Shame, great other alternative than to learn the language. shame! Oh, that God may take the NiWith the exception of a few Paria servants, zam's country out of his hands, and give it and those not the best, who speaks English? to Koompany." As for spelling, you would be utterly help- Old Sersojee, though coarsely, speaks less without this necessary knowledge. Once truly here; throughout he shares in the master the grammatical construction, which general detestation felt by the other castes of is very simple, (at least the syntax,) and Hindoos for the Brahmins, who seem in this the rest, with practice, soon comes. Not country to be a sort of dirty lawyers, when one of my servants speak English, or has engaged in financial departments. The last done for the last two or three years. The words of his speech are a cordial echo of language of the country about Jaulna is the whole heart of the Maratta country. Maratta; but all the principal parties in a I wish I could give you an exact impression village speak" Musulman best,” alias Hin- of the country scenes among which I dwell, dostani, whether these parties be Potail and have roamed for four years. An ordishicarris (hawkers,) &c., &c. This is the nary village is a cluster of mud hovels, language in which they tell tales of griev- thrown together without order, and surances, their traditions, &c., to me, and which rounded by a mud wall. In the centre I am simple enough to sit and listen to by of the village stands a square mud fort, with the hour. A great gossip of mine at Taul- four bastions. When attacked by robbers, nah, was old Sursojee, a Maratta, and Potail as is common in the Nizam's country, the of Wuatagoun, a good shicarri, and a man villagers retire within these forts, which of much shrewdness and observation. He afford them tolerable security, as also their was one of those, "the walls of whose rude cattle, but they must bundle in quickly mind," Emerson would say, "were scrawled enough. Large trees and lawns being geneover with facts," and his talk was very rally about the villages, the fort, peeping amusing. Extract from journal :-To Os- through these, has a picturesque appearance. meru, started and killed a hog at Atchlu, an At earliest dawn, the ryots, (or labourers) old ruined fort, almost hidden by thick turn out into the gardens to work, and the jungle. I followed the course of a dry herdsmen drive their cattle into the plain for river-bed, wooded thickly on both sides until pasture. Down go the females of the vilits termination in as wild a looking spot as lage to the river to bathe, and fetch water. ever I saw, shut in on three sides by moun- After this, with the exception of the occatains. I expected to meet with a tiger; and sional passing by of a traveller, the village we saw his fresh foot-marks, but he man-is still and silent till the evening; when, in aged to sneak away somewhere. After re- come the ryots from the gardens, saluting turning home, dined, and then sat listening to the idol, under the villager's sacred tree; old Sursojee's yarn, under the large divinity and the tinkle of bells gives warning of the |