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member of the church, and promises to be a blessing to his countrymen on the island." At at public meeting, held at Sydney on the 24th of August, 1842, this excellent native delivered the following address, the sentiments of which impart to it more than a local or limited interest:

"Sons and daughters, and those among you who are chiefs and members of the churches, your attention I crave while I make known to you a little speech. I think you will not despise me in consequence of my colour, although you are different from me, but will have patience while I tell you something of what God has done for me and my people. I wish to make known some of the evils which for merly grew in my own land, such as wars, cannibalism and plurality of wives, and the way in which God has been pleased to remove these evils. I do not wish to dwell upon these evils, because they are now abolished; but to make known to you, how God was pleased to send his messengers, who came with the Word of life in their hand, and said, "This is the Word of God," though we did not know what was meant by it. After Papeiha, Mr. Williams arrived among us, and idolatry was abolished, but not the evils connected with it. Many of these remained, and were practised secretly in a very great degree. When Mr. Williams came, he ex plained to us more fully the love of God in sending his Son Jesus Christ; but still we were in partial darkness, as to these great and wondrous things. When the teachers explained more fully the true God, some of the people said that they were deceiving us, that Jehovah was a deceiver, and that their gods of wood (striking the table before which he stood,) such as this, were true gods; but now these things are more clearly revealed to us, and we have abandoned our gods of wood and stone. You understand what I have already said that the gods we formerly worshipped were deceivers. Still it was not soon that we could abandon the evil things connected with idol worship, and had it not been for the power of Jehovah, these things would still have remained. But this power has operated not merely in an ontward degree. It has shewn us the evil of our natures, and led us to forsake our wicked courses. I hope you will bear with me, while I endeavour to explain the means which God has employed in causing the good Word to grow in our land, and in destroying the evils which remained. The people had embraced the gospel in name, but knew little of its power, but they have been visited by afflictions, those afflictions have been sanctified. And now I stand here befort

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you as a Christian, and to what are we to attribute it-to your love?-to your compassion? No! It is in consequence of the love of God-the mercy of a Saviour, that I have been made a Christian, and stand before you this day as an evidence of what the work of God has been amongst You are well acquainted, dear friends, with that passage of the Word of God, spoken by Paul, which well applies to us. "We were once darkness, but now are we light in the Lord." Formerly we had bad gods, we were bad men, had bad clothes, bad bread, bad water, and lived in bad houses; but now we know the true God, and have good clothes, good, food, good water, and good houses to dwell in. You know the good God: and have good clothing, and every thing good. It all follows in the train, but though we are of a different colour, God does not look at that. He has not prepared heaven for one colour only; God is no respecter of persons; he looks at the heart. Why is it that you have not understood the command of Jesus Christ:-" Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature?" How is it that none from Sydney have been sent ?—that none from the church here have been qualified for this great work? Why leave it to ignorant natives such as myself? We may do very well to go before, to prepare the way, but Missionaries are wanted. At every land we come to, the door is open every one saying, "We want to know what is the Word of God." Let them not die for want of help. I have done I am much delighted to look upon your faces; I have seen something, which neither my father, my grandfather, my great grandfather, nor any of my ancestors have seen. They all perished in darkness, and only saw evil, such as killing and eating each other, but in consequence of knowing Jehovah as the true God I now stand before you, and behold this beautiful house, these beautiful lights, and these friends who make my heart rejoice. I have only one more little word to say, that is, I commend you to God and the Word of his grace-do not forsake the Word of LifeThis is what I have to say. These are the subscriptions from the church at Raratonga. It is very little, but we have not money as you have. What we get, we are happy to give. Mr. Williams told us something about what the people of England did; how they collected money for the Society to send forth the gospel. When we knew this, our desire began to grow for other heathen lands which have not known the true God, and therefore having been told how we might set to work, we planted some land, and sold the produce. This is the result. The sum is about £90."

SUNDAY-SCHOOLS,

SUNDAY-SCHOOL CLOTHING FUND.

THE annual distribution of the clothing fund tickets has just taken place in the boys' school connected with the new Independent chapel, Chelmsford; (Rev. J. Mark's.) We give the plan pursued in this institution, as other schools may perhaps find it advisable to act in a similar manner, though various modifications may be introduced. The following are the rules :

1. The Children who subscribe, must attend in time, both parts of the day; and repeat their lessons perfectly, as soon as called upon by their teachers. A "clothing fund" Ticket will then be given to them, each Sunday.

2. Two of these Tickets will entitle each child to pay in two-pence, to be entered in the first column, and the amount so entered, will be doubled at the end of the year, except as after stated.

3. Any misconduct, either in the school, chapel, or streets, which may be reported by the Teachers, will be noticed, and proportionate deductions made at the end of the year.

4. Any additional sums may be subscribed, which will be entered in the second column.

At Christmas, the cards are taken in and the amounts made up, and the value delivered to the children in tickets, for one shilling each; upon which are the names of various tradesmen, at whose shops they are taken, and pass as money. This mode is considered better than payment in goods as it creates much less trouble and confusion, and the parents are better satisfied in laying the money out themselves. The tickets are afterwards cashed by the secretary or treasurer of the school: they are then re-sorted and again issued the following Christmas, and the names of the children not being put upon them, they thus last for several years and save the expence of re-printing.

The effect of this plan upon the attendance of the children is very manifest, for the average number of absentees is under twenty out of a school hardly exceeding one hundred. The additions made cannot (under our rules) exceed four shillings in a year, there being two or three sundays when no payments are received.

The amount just distributed in the boys' school alone is above forty pounds, and during the last ten years upwards of three hundred pounds have been dispensed in this manner.

SHEARCROFT, PRINTER, BRAINTREE.

E. C.

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CONTENTS.-A Sermon by the Rev. Julius Mark, of Chelmsford-Satan permitted to Tempt Job-Memoir of Miss Emma Cornwell, of Saffron Walden-(ECCLESIASTICS.) To the Editor-(MISSIONS.) Resolution of the Essex Auxiliary Missionary Society-Address-(SUNDAY-SCHOOLS.) The Instrumentality as related to the Design of Sunday-schoolsAn Address to Sunday-school Teachers-(REVIVALS. No. 1.) Thou art neither Cold nor Hot-thou art Lukewarm. Rev. iii. 15, 16.-(MISCELLANEOUS.) Importance of Decision in Nonconformists-Candid Confession-(POETRY.) Fight the Good Fight of Faith." 1 Timothy vi. 12.

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SERMON.

NOW THERE WAS A DAY WHEN THE SONS OF GOD CAME TO PRESENT THEMSELVES BEFORE THE LORD, AND SATAN CAME ALSO AMONG THEM. AND THE LORD SAID UNTO SATAN, WHENCE COMEST THOU? THEN SATAN ANSWERED THE LORD, AND SAID, FROM GOING TO AND FRO IN THE EARTH, AND FROM WALKING UP AND DOWN IN IT.

AND THE LORD SAID UNTO SATAN, HAST THOU

CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOB, THAT THERE IS
NONE LIKE HIM IN THE EARTH, A PERFECT
AND AN UPRIGHT MAN, ONE THAT FEARETH
GOD, AND ESCHEWETH EVIL?

THEN SATAN ANSWERED THE LORD, AND SAID, DOTH JOB FEAR GOD FOR NOUGHT?

HAST NOT THOU MADE AN HEDGE ABOUT HIM, AND ABOUT HIS HOUSE, AND ABOUT ALL THAT HE HATH ON EVERY SIDE? THOU HAST BLESSED THE WORK OF HIS HANDS, AND HIS SUBSTANCE IS INCREASED IN THE LAND.

BUT PUT FORTH THINE HAND NOW, AND TOUCH ALL THAT HE HATH, AND HE WILL CURSE THEE TO THY FACE.

AND THE LORD SAID UNTO SATAN, BEHOLD, ALL THAT HE HATH IS IN THY POWER; ONLY UPON HIMSELF PUT NOT FORTH THINE HAND. SO SATAN WENT FORTH FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD.

THIS passage of Scripture will lead us to consider, in the first place,

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We observe in it the following things

1. Subtlety. The term subtlety, conveys an idea which is hateful to an honest man. It is a disposition to act deceitfully-to deceive under a pretence of friendship to act the hypocrite. Hence, we read of "the wiles of the devil," and of his "cunning craftiness, by which he lies in I wait to deceive." Hence, he is said, to "trans-. form himself into an angel of light," to put off his proper color, and to assume the appearance of religion, by which he deceives mankind. We wisely seclude ourselves, if possible, from men

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