Whose art thou? Whither goest thou? 173 will give it you—binder us not." But, alas! the servants of sin are journeying to hell! Infatuated souls! Lovers of pleasure more than of God. They choose the pleasures of sin for a season, And venture everlasting pain, To gain some airy good. Man is constantly advancing towards the place of his final destination. There is no pause in time. Every rolling year, every month, every day, every hour, is hurrying us on to eternity. Perhaps, my dear young friend, you may never see another birthday; and youthful as you are, may soon be called into the presence of God, the Judge of all. Art thou prepared? "Whose art thou, and whither goest thou?" Let this inquiry be received with that attention which its importance demands, and never rest till you can answer it satisfactorily. Such inquiries have often been attended with real benefit. A company of friends dining together, one of the party observed, "It is a question whether we shall all go to heaven or not." This produced instant reflection: one thought, if any of this company should go to hell, it is 1; and so thought a second and a third, and through the divine blessing the question proved instrumental in the conversion of many of the party, and even of some of the servants that waited at the table. "Whose art thou, and whither goest thou?" Do not, I beseech you, put off the inquiry. Promptitude is no where more commendable than in religion. Death, judgment, and eternity, the invitations of the Gospel, the groans of accursed spirits, the raptures of immortal bliss, the mortality of the human race, all unite to enforce the exhortation, "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found " "The time of youth," (says a plain but impressive writer,)" is the time of salvation; it is the acceptable time, thy summer, thy harvest time." An Italian poet represents a young man rich and powerful, conversing with Death, who, in the habit of a mower, and with his scythe in his hand, was cutting down the hu"Wilt thou not spare any man's person?" said the young man. "I spare none," said Death. Rise then, dear readers, the Saviour calls you. Oh do not look disdainfully upon him that bled and died, but accept His mercy and adore His grace, lest, lingering from year to year, you should at length be cut off in your sins, and on your dying bed exclaim with Cæsar Borgeas, "When I was in health I provided for every thing but death; now I must die, and for death am unprovided." man race. .. SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF NEW-BRUNSWICK, N. 3. The benevolent solicitude which has been manifested in a remarkable degree for some years past, in several parts of Christendom, to improve the education of the indigent classes of society, is a peculiar feature of the present period of Christianity. We are gratified by receiving any communications tending to illustrate the history of charitable exertions of a social character, made in this country for the promotion of that object; and especially of such 174 Female Sunday Schoot at New-Brunswick. as chiefly aim at religious and moral instruction. Many facts have lately been made public, which prove these beneficent undertakings to have been neither so rare, nor of so recent an origin on this side of the Atlantic, as has been generally supposed. It is worthy of observation, that in almost every instance institutions of this kind among us have owed their existence to females, and that they have generally been the most active, persevering, and useful labourers in this field of Christian enterprise. The following Report of the Managers of the Female Sunday School Association in New-Brunswick, in the state of New-Jersey, will doubtless be read with much interest. LADIES, Conforming to what we conceive to be a duty at this time, we shall attempt to present you with a short sketch of the origin, progress, and present state of the Sunday School under the superin tendence of the young ladies belonging to the Presbyterian Church in this city. It may not be deemed uninteresting to turn back our recollec tion to the first attempts made by the young ladies of our congregation to render more comfortable a certain number of poor and destitute children, and to improve their morals. An Association consisting of fifteen young ladies was formed nearly twenty years ago, (in 1798,) each one of whom was at the expense of clothing one female child chosen by herself. A diligent and capable female was engaged, and paid as their instructress; and this establishment was continued without interruption until her death, which took place in 1806, a term of eight years. It was then suspended from want of a teacher. The children of this charge regularly attended the service of the church, and were assembled in the afternoon at the school-room for religious instruction, when one or more of the ladies always attended to conduct the exercises. The orderly decent deportment and reasonable improvement of the scholars, generally, was such as to prove highly gratifying to all concerned, and there is a well grounded belief that a foundation was then laid in many instances for future respectability and usefulness in life. In the year 1811 a Sunday School was established on a more comprehensive plan by the inhabitants at large. An approved master was then procured to instruct the boys, and a female to take charge of the girls. About 200 children were admitted. These were regularly conducted to church by their instructors. They also assembled in the afternoon at their respective school-rooms for the purpose of receiving instruction from the ladies and gentlemen who attended for that purpose. The good effects resulting from these establishments were too manifest to escape the notice of the most unobserving. The little idle ragged vagrants who were in the habit of spending the Sabbath in the streets and highways, were then collected in decent garbs for moral and religious instruction. Sunday School Hymn. 175 The manifest improvement in the general appearance and deportment, as well as in literary and religious knowledge, was such as to afford to every feeling mind the highest gratification, and the fullest conviction of the benefits likely to ensue to the most help. less members of the community from these benevolent exertions, This Institution continued to flourish until its most efficient promoters were numbered with the dead. It then languished for a season, but was again revived by a number of pious young gentlemen, who became the instructors themselves, and continued their labours until the close of the year 1815, when it was discontinued for a short time. On the 8th of December, 1816, it was again revived, though on a different footing, by the ladies of this Association only, and has by them been zealously and regularly attended to until this time. We have now on our books the names of eighty scholars. The greater part of these are regular in their attendance on the means of instruction. Many of them have made uncommon progress, and most of them a respectable advancement in literary and religious knowledge. Such, ladies, is a brief statement of our attempts to benefit a very interesting and helpless portion of the community. We may with propriety congratulate you on the success of your labours of love. Your zeal, industry, and intelligence in the discharge of the duties you have taken upon yourselves, leave little room for exhortation to continue in the way on which you have entered. The consoling reflection that you have faithfully endea voured to instil into the young minds of the most helpless and destitute of our fellow beings those principles which may be the means of rendering them useful and respectable members of society, will prove an ample reward. New-Brunswick, Nov. 5, 1817. HYMN Sung by the Children of the St. George's East Methodist Sunday School (England.) FATHER! unseen by mortal eyes, Thy name we bless, thine aid implore, And all their wants to Thee make His hands were open to caress, Prolong our benefactors' days 176 Donations and Auxiliaries to the Am. B. S. Extract of aletter just received by Divic Bethune, Esq. from the Rev. Robert Morrison, dated CANTON, China, June 20, 1817. MY DEAR SIR-On the 26th of May I received your letter by Capt. Miller, with 176 dollars, subscribed by the American Christians towards translating, printing, and distributing the Scriptures in Chinese. Please to acknowledge to the subscribers the receipt of this money, and offer rcspectful thanks to them in the name of the benevolent and pious object which they assist in furthering. I am just now engaged in writing to the Governor of Canton for your Consul, on account of an atrocious massacre of five Americans on board one of your ships lying in the roads, [The ship Wabash, of Baltimore.] AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY. The Treasurer of the American Bible Society has acknowledged the receipt of the following contributions in November: viz. thirty dollars each, to constitute the following ministers members for life:Rev. Joseph Harvey, by the females of the town of Goshen, Conn.; Rev. John M'Dowell, by several gentlemen of the congregation of the Presbyterian church in Elizabethtown, N. J.; Rev. Joel Baker, by the Charitable Society of Granville, Middle Parish, Vt.; Rev. Eliphalet Coleman, by the ladies of Hampden, Conn.; Rev. Sylvester Selden, by the Female Bible Society in Westbrook, in the town of Saybrook, Conn.; Rev. John L. Abbott, by the young misses of the North Society in Salem, Mass.; Rev. S. B. Balchi, by the ladies of the Presbyterian Church of Georgetown, District of Columbia; Rev. Thomas B. Balch, by the same; Rev. Caleb Burge, by the Female Cent Society in Brattleborough, Vt.; Rev. Bezaleel Howard, by the ladies of Springfield, Mass.; Rev. Samuel Osgood, by the same; Rev. Nathaniel Dwight, by the Colchester Female Bible Society, Conn.; Rev. Matthew Harrison, by the Auxiliary Bible Society of the towns of Preble and Tully, N. Y.; Rev. Stephen Fenn, by the Female Bible Society of Harpersfield, N. Y.; Rev. Eliphalet Gillet, by the ladies of Hallowell, District of Maine; Rev. John Ford, by the Female Evangelical Society of Persippany, NJ; and 30 dollars from Charles Tappan of Boston, as a nember for life: also, 30 dollars from the Auxiliary Bible Society of Wilkesbarre, Penn.; 6 dollars from the Female Bible Society of Westbrook, Conn. as a donation; 500 dollars from the New-York Female Auxiliary Bible Society; 6 dollars from the ladies of Springfield, Mass.; 400 dollars from the Vermont Bible Society; 15 dollars 80 cts. from the Colchester Female Auxiliary Bible Society; 150 dollars from the Bible Society of Jefferson County, Va. of which 50 dollars for Bibles; 30 dollars from the Female Cent Society of Griswold, Conn.; 40 dollars from the Auxiliary Bible Society of William and Mary, and St. Andrew, parishes, Md.; 10 dollars from Samuel Wood, New-York; and 400 dollars collect ed in this city by Garret Cozine, for annual subscriptions. DONATIONS TO THE BIBLICAL LIBRARY. By Mr. Daniel D. Arden,-A Welsh Bible, with the Book of Common Prayer, and the Psalms in metre, 8vo. London, 1718. By the Rev. John Owen,-The History of the Origin and first ten years of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 2 vols. crown octavo, London, 1816, splendidly bound. NEW AUXILIARIES TO THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY. The Female B. S. of Harpersfield, N. Y. formed in October, 1817; Mrs. Catharine M'Intyre, Secretary. The Auxiliary B. S. of the towns of Preble and Tully, N. Y. The Aux. B. S. of William and Mary, and St. Andrew, parishes, Md. instituted in November last. Rev. John Brady, President; M. C. Jones, Secretary; Robert Hammet, Treasurer. The B. S. of the young men of Pittsburgh, Pa. recently formed. THE CHRISTIAN HERALD. VOL. (V.] Saturday, December 13, 1817. [No. 12 REVIVAL IN THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND Extract of a Letter from a Minister, who witnessed it, to a Friend. MY DEAR SIR, To Having been up the country during most of last month, and being at that time a week in Glenlyon, I am now able to give a short account of the great revival of religion which has taken place in that highly favoured part of the Highlands. The great desire evinced to hear the glad tidings of salvation, by the people in general, surpasses every thing of the kind I ever witnessed. inform any person, who may fall in the way, that a sermon is to be preached at such a place and hour, the report flies, like the fiery cross of old, in all directions, on both sides of the river, to the distance of many miles, and old and young are at the place fixed on, a long while before the hour appointed. Mr. K. of Aberfeldy, by his prudence, excessive and disinterested labours, and the remarkable success attending them, has gained the esteem and confidence of the people in Glenlyon. To introduce me, therefore, to them, he preached there in the open air, cold as the day was, on the Sabbath before I went thither, and intimated a sermon for me on Monday evening, at Invervar, and continued to labour with me during the week. On my arrival at Invervar, the largest dwelling-house in the hamlet was immediately cleared, and temporary forms were placed closely in order: but long before the hour appointed for sermon the house was completely filled, and men, women, and children were seen coming in crowds, with hasty steps, from all quarters of the long glen. As we could not, like Mr. K., once before, preach at night by candle light, in the open air, the people applied for a large meal mill which was near, and though busy at work, it was instantly stopped to give place to the bread of immortal life. When the broad two-leaved door was thrown open, by the eagerness of the people to gain admission, the press was so violent, that we feared what might be the consequences: a vast number, for want of room, stood contentedly before the door, beaten by the high wind and pierced by the cold. The most of those within were standing; and when we, with some difficulty, got entrance, nothing could be seen around the rough machinery, and on the area of the mill, but human faces. In a Glen so narrow, and in many places of it where the inhabitants live at so great a distance from one another, it would astonish a stranger whence so many human beings came: I was so wedged in where I stood, that some of those behind had their chins placed almost on my shoulders. A young woman, who was very near, wept bitterly and aloud all the time, which would have been exceedingly disagreeable to me, had I not known the cause of her grief. Though M |