prayer, with laying on of hands; Dr. Steadman of Bradford gave the charge from Rom. i. 9; Mr. Pilling of Good, shaw Chapel preached to the people from Deut. i. 38, and concluded the morning service. In the evening the congregation reassembled, to witness the ordination of two deacons. Mr. Grant read the scriptures and prayed; Dr. Steadman delivered an address on the nature of the deacon's office, and prayed, with laying on of hands; Mr, Mann addressed the deacons from Zech. iii. 7, and concluded the ser vices of the day, which were very numerously attended, and considered highly interesting.

of the poor, and the want of suitable
means of education in the town, en-
deavoured to collect them together on
the Sabbath-day, to teach them to read
the scriptures, and to impart religious
instruction to them. Their efforts were
attended with success. In a short time
the number of their scholars amounted
to from 80 to 100: but, owing to the
removal of a friend, who kindly and
gratuitously opened his house to re
ceive them, and there being no other
place to be had in the town sufficiently
large to accommodate them, they were
reluctantly obliged to dismiss one-
half or more, of the children. Their
case was laid before the Hants and
Wilts Association, who encouraged
them to attempt the erection of a place,
to be used for the purposes of a school-
room and occasional preaching. After
patient waiting, and frequent disap-
pointments, they, in a very unexpect-
ed, but evidently providential way,
met with a piece of land for sale,
which they immediately purchased,
and upon which they have erected the
present neat and substantial building,
29 feet by 20. And it is believed that
the Lord's set time to favour this be-
nighted town, is now come. Send
prosperity, O Lord: hasten it in thy
time.-On the Sabbath after the cha-
pel was opened, upwards of 100 chil-cher, late of Oakham.
dren attended the school, and Mr.
Read preached to a crowded congre
gation in the evening. The expense,
including the land-purchase, convey-
ance, and trust-deed, is £190; towards
which these poor and truly-deserving
people, (with a donation of £10 from a
liberal individual in the neighbour-
hood,) have raised £40, with an addi-
tion of £8, collected at the door at the
time of opening the chapel; and for
the remainder an appeal must be
made to the friends of education and
religion. To help them in their good
work Mr. Franks has engaged, under
the sanction of the Association, to
make this appeal, which he must im-
mediately commence, as the whole of
the burden rests upon one individual,
who is quite unable to bear it.

May 20, a new Baptist Chapel was
opened at BACUP, for the use of the
church and congregation under the
pastoral care of the Rev. F. W. Dyer.
Sermons were delivered by the Rev.
Dr. Steadman of Bradford, from John
iii. 30; Mr. Fisher of Liverpool, from
Neh. x. 39; and Mr. Birt of Man-
chester, from Hosea xiv. 5. The de-
votional exercises of the day were con
ducted by Dr. Steadman and Messrs.
Trickett of Bramley, Gibson of Hall
Fold, Bottomley of Bingley, Jackson
of Hebden Bridge, Blackburn of-
Dyer, minister of the place, and Bel

April 29, the Rev. G. A. Grant was ordained pastor of the first Baptist church in BACUP. Mr. Belcher, late of Oakham, introduced the service with reading and prayer; Mr. Mann of Shipley described the nature of a christian church; Mr. Heyworth of Cloughfold asked the usual questions, and received the confession of faith; Mr. Mann offered the ordination

cupied by the Wesleyans in CAN May 22, the building formerly oeTERBURY having been purchased and commodiously fitted up, was opened as a Baptist place of worship. Messrs. Griffin of London, Giles of The ministers who preached were Chatham, and Uppadine of Hammersmith. The devotional services were conducted by Messrs. Atkinson of Margate, Cramp of St. Peter's, Giles of Eyethorne, Martell of Deal, Gates of Sandhurst, Shilling of Bethersden, Dean (Independent) of Sittingbourne, Flint, Dowsett, Waldon, and Kingsford.-Mr. W. J. Cross, late of Bristol Academy, the minister of the place, has been much encouraged by the excellent congregations which have attended since it was opened. The col lections amounted to £29.-The meeting-house, which is freehold, is secured in trust for the use of the Baptist De nomination. A Committee, consisting of ministers and others, in London, Canterbury, and the places adjacent, have the conducting of the business until a church is formed, and a pastor settled. The religious public will be applied to for their assistance towards

upon the place.

liquidating the debt which remains It was a season of great solemnity, and will long be remembered as a time of refreshing from the presence of the Lord.

May 21, 22. The YORKSHIRE and LANCASHIRE Association of thirty-nine churches, held their annual meeting at Accrington. Ser mons were delivered by the Rev. Messrs. Lister of Liverpool, (Jer. xiv. 8,9;) Fisher of Liverpool, (Rev. iii. 19;) Birt of Manchester, (Rom. vi. 10, 11;) and Larom of Sheffield, (Isa. lv. 10, 11.) The devotional exercises by the Rev. Messrs. Smith of Newcastle-under-Line, Lister of Liverpool, Larom of Sheffield, Birt of Manchester, Grant of Bacup, Hey worth of Cloughfold, Holroyd of Wainsgate, Trickett of Bramley, Scott of Colne, Thompson of Newcastleunder-Line, Stephens of Rochdale, Colcroft of Bolton, Dyer of Bacup, and Harbottle minister of the place. Moderator, Rev. W. Stephens of Roch dale. Clear increase about 120. Circular Letter by Mr. Birt, on The obligations of christians to observe the Lord's-day. Next Association at Sheffield. Mr. Lister to write the Letter, on The duty of church-members to those whom they have excluded for improper conduct.

the present Number another article, WE stop the press, and exclude from TIST HOME MISSIONARY SOto inform our readers that the BAPCIETY held its Annual Meeting, June 17, at the City of London Tavern, Edward Phillips, Esq. in the chair.→→ This Society now affords assistance to upwards of ONE HUNDRED Village Preachers, whose labours are carried on at about THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY stations, which are si. tuated in thirty-four counties in ENG. LAND, and seven in the principality of WALES-and with which are connected one hundred and eight Sunday Schools. The receipts of the last year amounted to £1059. 188. 8d. being considerably more than those of any former year. There are also many Local Baptist Itinerant Societies, of whose expenses we have no account. The Particular Baptist Fund in London expends annually upwards of £2000 in assisting poor churches to support their pastors-many of whom, but for this assistance, would be unable to preach in surrounding villages.

The first number of the "Quarterly Register," containing the operations of this and similar institutions, will be published in September next. The Meeting was numerously attended; there were many able speakers; and the contributions amounted to nearly Two Hundred Pounds.-Subscriptions and Donations will be thankfully re

May 29, the Rev. James Acworth, M.A. was set apart to the copastorship of the Baptist church in LEEDS.-W. Steadman, D.D. stated the nature and constitution of a church of Christ, and proposed the usual questions; Mr. Thomas Langdon (who for more than forty years has faithfully and affectionately discharged the duties of the pastoral office, but whose age and in-ceived by WILLIAM DAY, Esq. Treafirmities have rendered assistance necessary,) offered the ordination prayer; John Ryland, D.D. delivered the charge; and Mr. B. Godwin, Bradford, addressed the church and congregation. The devotional services were conducted by Messrs. E. Parsons, J. Scales, R. W. Hamilton, and J. Mann.-The attendance was numerous and respectable, and the whole service highly interesting.

June 5, the Rev. G. Alvey was publicly recognized as the pastor of the Particular Baptist Church at SOUTHWELL, Nottinghamshire; when Mr. W. Nichols preached an affectionate sermon to the pastor and people, from Phil. i. 9-11. He was assisted in the other interesting services by Mr. J. Coles, formerly pastor of the Baptist Church at Gretton, Northamptonshire.

surer, 99, Newgate-street; and the Rev. J. EDWARDS, Secretary, 21, Thornhaugh-street; of whom may be had the Quarterly Register, Missionary Boxes, Collecting Cards, &c.

CORRESPONDENCE.

remarks from our Correspondent at We have received some explanatory Henley. Had the statement he sent us in May of there being 66 an Independent church at Rotherfield Grays, situate near Henley," been contained in his first communication, all the obloquy and perplexity it has occasioned would have been prevented. If, we had known (as we now do) that contrary opinions, upon the subject of the division which has taken place, are held by ministers of the greatest respectability, we would not have in serted the original article.

SLAVERY: from a LiverpoolPaper. Verses by the present Bishop of

Irish Chronicle.

Baptist Society for Promoting the conduct of the people too power

the Gospel in Ireland. THE Ninth Anniversary of this Society was held at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on Friday, June 20.-The great room began to fill at six o'clock in the morning. (Breakfast was served in the Coffee-room.) At seven o'clock the seats were all occupied. A few verses of a hymn were sung, and the Rev. W. Shenstone offered up prayer. The question being then put and carried,

Joseph Butterworth, Esq. M.P. on taking the chair, stated that the meeting was convened to hear the Report of the Baptist Society for Promoting the Gospel in Ireland, and had never yet assembled at a crisis so important as the present. The Laws and the Government of that ill-fated country had been set at defiance by a large portion of the population. Human benevolence had, during the last year, been most liberally exerted to supply the wants, and conciliate the affections, of the lower orders in Ireland. We

fully proved the absence of moral and religious principle. The British nation had of late years made great exertion for the salvation of the heathen world, but surely we ought not to neglect our own countrymen, and expend all our exertions on Missions in remote quarters of the globe; we ought not to confine our labours to distant vineyards, and neglect to sow the seeds of Christianity at home, where there was, so large a field,' so vast a wilderness. Notwithstanding, however, the awful condition of Ireland during the past year, he believed that the Society would find much encouragement in the details of the Report, which was about to be read, amply sufficient to excite their hopes, and to stimulate their utmost exertions for the support of this excellent Institution. He should not, therefore, longer detain the Meeting, with any farther observations, but request the Secretary to read the Report.

The following are brief Extracts.

"The very destitute circumstances of the native Irish, engaged the early attention of this Society; and it is pleasing to know that the apathy which at that time prevailed, has given place to a general concern for supplying them with the means of instruction. Many schools have been estab

wherein those parents who wish it, may have their children instructed in the Irish language: and thousands of copies of the scriptures in Irish have been circulated for their use.

had, however, found, that neither human laws, nor human benevolence, could of themselves effect the happiness of that people, and bring them into social order, without the superior influence of Divine grace on their hearts. We must, therefore, look to a higher power than mere human in-lished by this, and other societies, struments for accomplishing the great objects we had in view. This Society, most happily, provided the means which, under the blessing of God, might prove of incalculable benefit, especially to the rising generation. Education and the communication of scriptural knowledge would be the best means of promoting social order, and moral and religious improvement. The public papers had reported many particulars of the dreadful state of the South and West of Ireland; but it was too true that the actual condition of things there was much worse than had been generally known in this country. The nightly burnings of property, destruction of cattle, and horrible murders, had now become of common occurrence. In certain districts, there was no security in country places, and the inhabitants had been driven into the towns for safety. These awful facts respecting

VOL. XV.

"The sentiments of a Noble Lord, the President of his Majesty's Council, upon this subject, justify the measures which have formed the chief feature of the Society's operations. In a speech at the Nineteenth Anniversary of the British and Foreign Bible Society, the Right Honourable Lord Harrowby, speaking of Ireland, said, 'I cannot sit down without adding one word more, on a subject to which I feel it necessary to advert. From what has been stated in the Report, it is impossible for us not to feel a degree of exultation, in knowing that the word of God has been disseminated, through the instrumentality of this Society, in a nation, (which indeed ought not to be called a distinct nation, because it

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Sligo, Mayo, and Roscommon, sixtyfour. The schools contain about 7500 children: all these belong to Roman Catholic parents, excepting about 500, whose parents are Protestants.

"Mr. Wilson gives a statement of the improvement of the children in three schools, as it relates to their repeating chapters of the scriptures. Of the children examined upon the forementioned plan, more than sixty re

is part of ourselves,) and, in a lan- | guage in which I should be happy to see still greater exertions made to spread the scriptures-the language of our neighbouring country, Ireland. I am satisfied if any thing can be found to allay the terrors and to heal the wounds of that unhappy country, it is the dissemination of the Gospel of Peace; and the best mode in which that Gospel can be distributed, and the most likely to overcome the preju-peated ten chapters each; thirty redices of the people, is, to present it to them, not in a tongue with which, from the unhappy prepossessions of many minds, they may not associate the most favourable ideas, but in their own tongue, divested of every thing that can give it any unfavourable impression.'

peated twenty chapters each; eight repeated sixty each; three upwards of one hundred each; two, one hundred and sixteen each; and one the surprising number of one hundred and twenty chapters. These last three were in the Haddington School,' supported by a gentleman in Scotland, in which there were seventy-three chil dren present, the whole of whom are the children of Roman Catholic pa rents.

"The Inspector of the Society's schools in Erris, (situated at the north-west extremity of the kingdom, and where the inhabitants are in a dreadful state of destitution,) says,

"The employment of persons, natives of Ireland, to read the scriptures in the Irish language, has proved a happy means for gaining access to the adult part of the population. Their partialities for every thing Irish, have thus been interested, and their prejudices against Protestant Instructors shaken and overcome. Having conveyed the light of the HolyThe scriptures are exteusively cir Scriptures to those who inhabit the mountains, bogs, and glens of Ireland; and furnished the cabins of those who were formerly known only by the appellation of the Wild Irish,' with pure christian instruction, (the glorious principles of the Reformation,) are circumstances that afford indeed matter for abundant thanksgivings to God. There is no instance perhaps in the history of modern Missions, that will more justify the application of the prophet's language: The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death, light hath sprung up.'

"The number of the Sabbath and Itinerant Irish Readers of the Scriptures is twenty-four. Some idea of the usefulness of the Sabbath Readers may be formed, from the report of the labours of five men in the county of Clare. They have read the scriptures in the Irish language in more than two hundred and fifty distinct cabins. One of them only has taught forty-seven adults to read the Irish perfectly.

culated among the Roman Catholics in Erris, by means of our schools. Major B. the chief landholder has lately established a Protestant colony, by giving every Protestant a house and half an acre of land, during two lives. This measure, aided by the efforts of our Society, has already produced many beneficial changes. Several parents who are Roman Catholics, told me that they were very thankful to the charitable people in England, who were giving their children education gratis, and that they would not be prevented by either priest or monk, from sending them to the schools. I am happy to say, that one of the priests told me, he was favourable to the schools, and had given an invitation to the Rev. Mr. M'Kaag to come to his house whenever he visited the schools in Erris,

"The Committee have placed the schools under the inspection of the Readers of the scriptures, and the superintendance of the Itinerant Ministers employed; all of whom have, by their vigilance and integrity, "The Committee report that thereare entitled themselves fully to the conninety-two day schools, and fourteenfidence of the Society. The schools in evening schools for adults, besides several Sunday-schools. There are in Tipperary, Cork, Westmeath, Longford, and Kilkenny, eleven; in Clare and Limerick, seventeen; and in

Connaught are under the active super. intendance of the Rev. Josiah Wilson, who resides at Boyle, in the county of Roscommon, and the Rev. John M'Kaag, who lives at Ballina, in the