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of the magistracy. This is always the great resource of the popish clergy. The magistrates had the weakness to comply with these base suggestions. Not only M. Thureau, but even the lady who permitted him to hold these meetings in her house, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment and a fine of fifty francs! Their only crime was that of having read and expounded the bible before ten or twelve persons! The defendants immediately appealed to the Royal Court of Lyons. Let us hope that justice and right will triumph over these iniquitous persecutions. Evangelical Christendom.

EXERTIONS OF THE JESUITS.

These reverend fathers have founded several institutions at Lyons; among others, a Society for the Propagation of the Faith. It collected last year the sum of 3,575,755f. The expenses were 3,882,273f. The Romish journals use very pompous language in speaking of these receipts. "More than three millions [of francs] collected in a single year!" they exclaim," and the greater portion of this sum contributed by poor persons, who subscribe one sou a week each. Is it not an evident proof that there is strong faith, living piety, and immense charity in our church?" If these apologists of Rome would take the trouble to examine what is doing in the reformed communions, perhaps their pride would not be so excessive. papists of all Europe have given three millions and a half of francs: be it so ; but the English alone, for their home and foreign missionary, bible, and tract societies, five or six times that amount. Popery, therefore, has not such great reason to boast of its liberality.

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A second observation which I must make on this Propaganda of Lyons, is, that its directors devote a large portion of their receipts to sending agents--not among the heathen-not among the French, who require their spiritual assistance, but into protestant countries. I find from the report of these reverend fathers, that nearly 200,000f. have been employed to propagate Romanism in England and Scotland. This is fair warning to all the protestant communions of your country. What is the character of the agents sent into Great Britain? What are their deeds? By what methods do they go about to seduce souls? I know not; for the Jesuits eminently possess the art of being discreet in their operations. But as you may be sure that these 200,000f. are not wasted, be on your guard against popish proselytism.Evangelical Christendom.

ACTIVITY OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY.

The Ecclesiastical Gazette states that "The committee of the National Society consider

it highly important at the present juncture that the church should make great efforts to supply the country more adequately with duly qualified teachers. Accordingly, they have recently sent letters of inquiry to the diocesan boards, in order to learn what force the church possesses, or is likely soon to possess, in the department of training institutions. The subjoined interesting digest of the answers hitherto received from the boards has been made by G. F. Mathison, Esq.,

It appears from this summary,

that whilst thirteen training institutions continue to be efficiently conducted, according to the wishes and the means of their respective bishops and supporters, three of those institutions are about to be enlarged (Exeter, Winchester, and Oxford), and five new ones (at Derby, Bristol, Carmarthen, Cambridge, and in Hertfordshire), on a sufficient scale will, if the public afford adequate support, be ere long added to our national and diocesan system.

"The committee of the National Society having considered the foregoing facts, and the importance of stimulating the establishment of church training institutions on an adequate scale, agreed to authorize endeavours to raise a fund for promoting the establishment and enlargement of diocesan training institutions throughout the country."

RAGGED SCHOOLS.

The following anecdote illustrates one of the leading principles upon which these schools are managed: "Whilst a visitor was at a school, a boy of about thirteen was seen to be extremely violent and refractory, a teacher endeavouring to lead him to the bottom of the class for inattention. He obstinately resisted, and stamped with rage. The master, observing the conflict, went to the boy, and patted him gently on the head and cheek, and begged him to be a good boy. In a minute, before the master had quitted him, it came again to his turn to be asked by the teacher one of the arithmetical questions of the lesson, when he cheerfully and promptly cried out 48,' the proper answer. The crimson flush of anger had left his face; his countenance was as bright and placid as if the last few moments had not witnessed the storm that had agitated his passions, and he became at once quiet and docile. The visitor asked the master about him; he replied, "That boy is the most unmanageable one in the school; he is clever, but very passionate. He has kicked my legs (happily he has no shoes); he has pelted me with mud in the streets. I have dismissed him from

Two at York; and one at each of the following places, viz., Chester, Warrington, Durham, Winton, Sarum, Chichester, Brighton, Reading, Oxford, Exeter, and Lichfield.

the school, but allowed him to come again on his earnest entreaty and promise of good conduct. If I had struck that lad when he was so irritated, or spoken harshly and angrily to him, his fury would have been quite ungovernable; but he can't stand a word of kindness.'"-S. S. Union Magazine.

TRANSLATIONS OF GESENIUS.

literary courtesy would have left the task to Professor Conant, if he chose to assume it, especially as he had shown himself so competent to its performance. But for some reason or other, this course was not taken, nor do we feel called upon to pass any further judgment upon the proceeding. Since the publication of Mr. Stuart's translation, Mr. Conant has printed a pamphlet of fifty-three pages, in which he exposes Mr. Stuart's errors with a considerable degree of minuteness. The Andover professor can find no ground of complaint in this. The charges are clearly and strongly put, and supported by the incontrovertible evidence of the original mistranslated passages. We

The North American Review for July, in a literary notice of the two translations of Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar, made by Professors Stuart and Conant, and the recent pamphlet published by the latter, exposing the errors and inaccuracies of Professor Stuart, after speaking of the labours of Pro-have examined them carefully, and must say fessor Stuart in Hebrew philology, adds the following remarks relative to the "grammatical melee" which has arisen in consequence, between these two eminent Hebraists.

that the errors of Mr. Stuart are such that honest criticism could not pass them by. They materially diminish the value of his work, and show indisputably that he ought Mr. Conant having translated the eleventh to give it a careful and thorough revision; edition of Gesenius, is evidently no legal bar otherwise, the rival translation, which has the to another gentleman's translating the four-highest excellence of which such a work is teenth; but we should suppose a liberal susceptible, will altogether supersede it.

CORRESPONDENCE.

ON MINISTERIAL EDUCATION.

To the Editor of the Baptist Magazine. MY DEAR SIR,-As a member of the committee of the Theological Education Society, you are no doubt aware that my connexion with it as collecting agent is to cease with the present quarter, through my inability to procure upon its behalf what would justify my being further retained, even at my acknowledged moderate salary.

I am sorry for my own sake, as well as for the sake of the society, that the fact is so, for it would give me the most sincere pleasure to see such a society suitably supported, and the salary in my circumstances was also to myself an object of considerable importance; but nothing is clearer to my mind, than that our brethren in general are by no means properly sensible of the necessity that exists for creating funds for the efficient support of institutions for training our promising junior brethren for the Christian ministry.

I do not indeed believe that the advocates for an ignorant ministry are at all numerous. Even those that most loudly reprobate our colleges, would, I suspect, in very few instances, be willing to sit regularly under a ministry that was notoriously and outrageously ignorant; and our churches, though they may not have contributed sixpence in fifty years to all our colleges unitedly, when they are in want of a pastor, (whatever may be their means for supporting him) generally, if not always desire, very properly, to procure one that has the character of being well

educated; and I am exceedingly mistaken if all that is wrong upon this subject might not without any great difficulty be speedily set right with all that are really worth conciliating towards it.

Those that shut their pockets against such institutions, under the plea of an objection to men-made ministers, that they may either hoard up their wealth, or spend it in worldly gratifications, have I suspect in general a punishment in their own temper, and their want of real spiritual consolations, that would readily proclaim to them their sin, if they were not under a spirit of delusion; but a little right consideration on the part of our ministers, and the thinking part of our churches, would I hope induce a conduct of which they would not fail in a little time to discover the manifest advantage.

What is wanting is for our educated ministers to reflect how it is that they have acquired their present standing; and for our uneducated ministers to reflect upon the difficulties they have had to encounter for want of a suitable training; and both should seriously consider the duty which this imposes upon them in reference to the rising ministry. Churches also that enjoy an educated ministry should have it urged upon them to consider seriously the source of their privilege, and our other churches should be taught how the want which they deplore may be supplied in their after necessity; and a very slight systematic general effort will soon be found to be all that is necessary to provide necessary funds, provided they are not to be

devoted to accumulating stones and mortar, to ape the state universities, with their accompanying ruinous costly establishments.

Many to whom I have applied for the Theological Education Society have assured me of their good will, but "the calls upon them are so multitudinous, that they cannot possibly do what they desire for the old institutions, therefore they cannot contribute to any new society." Of this I cannot complain, and most sincerely do I sympathize with our ministers and deacons particularly upon this subject, for, by my long connexion with the Irish Society, I well know the difficulty in which they are not unfrequently placed in proposing additional collections; but if our rising ministry is to be efficiently trained, this difficulty must in some way be surmounted; and though I have failed in my earnest and not inconsiderable effort, I shall rejoice if, as in the case of Ireland, another agent is speedily found who will at least make the want of my service a matter of no importance except to myself personally.

I am, my dear sir, Yours very sincerely, STEPHEN DAVIS. 18, Upper North Place, Gray's Inn Road.

EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT. Our readers are aware that a remarkable old work exists in the Dutch language, entitled Van Braght's Bloody Theatre, or Mirror of Baptist Martyrs, and that a translation of this work has been contemplated by the Council of the Hanserd Knollys Society. At a meeting of the Council last week, it was determined to prepare an English version for immediate publication; and we have the pleasure to add that a specimen of it may be expected in our next number.

The health of Mr. Abbott, Mr. Knibb's successor at Falmouth, Jamaica, has been for some time failing, and he has felt apprehensive that a return to this country would become necessary. We regret to learn, by the last packet, that his illness had increased, in consequence of which he was about to embark for his native land.

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tion for the year 1847," issued by the committee of the Baptist Union, is published, though, by some accident, it did not reach us time enough to receive a full and deliberate It contains lists of baptist churches in Great Britain, Ireland, and British North America, with such other statistical information as it is accustomed to furnish. One thing it is however important for its readers to remember; we wish to call their attention to it particularly, in order to guard them against mistaken conclusions. The "General View of the State of the Denomination," the "Tabular View," &c. are necessarily drawn, not from the returns of this year, but from the returns made in the spring and summer of 1846. They are consequently more than a year old. Any inferences derived from them respecting the present state of religion among us, or the progress that has been made of late, would be fallacious. They show, not what has been done the last twelve months, but what had been done in the year ending about midsummer 1846. The new association letters were not accessible when these tables and calculations were made: some of them are not accessible even now.

We have just received publications from the United States, giving an account of the annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union. Our readers will be pleased to learn that it is said, "In reviewing the history of the past year, the executive committee have perceived so many marks of divine favour to the missions, and so numerous and gratifying instances of spiritual prosperity and enlargement, that they invite the attention of the board to a particular consideration of some of them, as an expression of their gratitude to God for his great mercies, and as an encouragement and incentive to a more vigorous prosecution of the missionary work. In almost every mission, we might say in every mission from which the annual returns have reached us, God has distinctly manifested his gracious presence, and in most of them his power to create anew and to save. In several portions of our missionary field, the months of harvest and the

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