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the day, went in quest of a poor Indian Boy, whom we had baptized by the name of Jack Spense. I found him dying of consumption, and in a state of the most awful poverty and destitution, in a small birch-rind covered hut, with nothing but a few fern-leaves under him, and an old blanket over him, which was in a condition not to be described. After recovering from my surprise, I said, "My poor boy, I am very sorry to find you in this state had you let me know, you should not have been lying here." He replied: It is very little I want now, and these poor people get it me; but I should like something softer to lie upon, as my bones are very sore." I then asked him concerning the state of his mind; when he replied, that he was very happy; that Jesus Christ, the Lord of Glory, had died to save him; and that he had the most perfect confidence in Him.-Observing a small Bible under the corner of his blanket, I said, "Jack, you have a friend there: I am glad to see that: hope you find something good there.' Weak as he was, he raised himself on his elbow, held it in his attenuated hand, while a smile played on his countenance, and slowly spoke in precisely the following words :-"This, Sir, is my dear friend. You gave it me, when we all went down to live at Mr. Cockran's. For a long time I read it much, and often thought of what it told. Last year I went to see my sister at Lake Winipeg"-about 200 miles off

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where I remained about two months. When I was half way back through the Lake, I remembered that I had left my Bible behind me. I directly turned round; and was nine days by myself, tossing to and fro, before I could reach the house; but I found my friend," and determined that I would not part with it again; and ever since, it has been near my breast, and I thought I should have it buried with me: but I have thought since, I had better give it to you, when I am gone; and it may do some one else good." He was often interrupted by a sepulchral cough, and sunk down exhausted. I read, and prayed; the hut hardly affording me room to be upright, even when kneeling. The evening sun was pouring its rays through the holes in the bark-covered hut; and I could not but mentally exclaim, on coming away,

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Richmond!" Mrs. Jones lost no time in sending a clean tent, a flock bed, and some clean blankets, together with a few other things, to smoothen his few remaining footsteps; also some sago and arrow-root, for him to take.

July 4, 1836-Poor J. Spense left this world of suffering and pain early this morning. I truly rejoiced on hearing it, for I am persuaded he was prepared; and, consequently, that death was his gain. This instance of encouragement came in well, when my mind was disturbed, by a variety of causes, to an unusual degree. I received a pressing call to visit across the river, and to administer the Sacrament to him. This also calmed my mind very surprisingly; and I found much comfort and liberty in pleading the cause of the repentant sinner on the brink of eternity. On my return home, the scene was beautiful beyond description. The coolness of evening had succeeded to the intense heat of the day; the broad river was clear as transparent glass; the clouds of silvery whiteness lay motionless, and suspended in the heavens, and were reflected with perfect precision in the waters below; all nature seemed to be in a state of perfect repose. In contemplating such a scene, the transition was easy and natural from earth to the Rest which remaineth for the people of God.

July 6 J. Spense was laid in the clods of the valley, to await the sound of that trumpet which shall awake the dead. The old Indian, at whose hut he died, handed me his Bible, on coming away from the grave, according to his own dying request. I am at a loss how to dispose of it. I think sometimes of sending it to some Missionary-loving young friend at home, as the poor Indian Boy's only friend; and as a proof that Christians at home labour not in vain, in sending the Gospel into Heathen lands.

The accounts of the Schools, as has been already noticed, are incomplete; but, from incidental passages in Mr. Cockran's Journal, the following are selected, indicating the

Beneficial Progress of Education. Oct.7, 1835-I went to the Indian Settlement. The Indians have now secured all their crops. Several of them have as much wheat and potatoes as will

serve them through the winter. Notwithstanding natural difficulties, the poverty of the Indian, and his habits of indolence and indiscretion, the marks of civilization are beginning to appear. We have a School-house, in front of which you may see sixty children, morning and evening, leaping, running, wrestling, and amusing themselves with all the variety of games which their ingenuity can devise. To the right and left of this, stand a number of little cottages; around them are patches of cultivated ground; and near to them stand stacks of wheat and barley. The cows are heard lowing for their calves, and the pigs are busily employed digging up roots and feeding themselves for the benefit of their owners.

Nov. 9, 1835-The children at the Indian Settlement are very regular in their attendance: to-day we had sixty-five in school. Though we may be able to effect very little reformation among the old and adult of the present day, owing to their confirmed vicious habits, yet it is a matter that calls for our constant gratitude and praise to Almighty God, that He so far overshadows the human race in this country with His benign presence and blessing, as to inspire the hope that Christ shall have a seed, that He shall here see of the travail of His soul, and be satisfied. When the children, who are now receiving instruction, shall be fixed in sober, industrious, economical, and pious habits, they will gain an ascendancy over their dissolute countrymen, and rapidly facilitate the increase of piety, and the spread of Christianity and civilization.

Feb. 21, 1836-Preached at the Rapids in the morning, and at the Indian Settlement in the afternoon. The School-room was perfectly full. I counted 102 child

ren.

I begin to feel considerable inconvenience for want of a Church to accommodate the congregation, and have had some thoughts of building one; but the

Grist Mill has so exhausted the funds, that I fear it will take a whole year to balance matters.

April 13-I visited the Indian Settlement, and engaged some men to saw and prepare wood for building a Church. Here our congregation is gradually increasing ; the School-room is now much too small to contain them. I then examined the scholars.

May 8-Preached at the Rapids in the morning: the Congregation was large and attentive. Rode to the Indian Settlement, and preached there. Our School-room is now too small to hold the adults and children who assemble for Service. The effluvia from the Red Men is particularly strong at this season. Sturgeon are now abundant, and constitute the principal part of their food. The Indian is seldom favoured with a knife and fork in taking his repast; consequently, his fingers are employed, and receive a liberal share of the oil, which, when the meal is finished, he wipes in his hair instead of a towel.

How serious an evil the interruption of the communication between this Country and the Missionaries was felt to be, in reference to the Schools, is sufficiently apparent from the following brief statement of Mr. Jones. He writes

Oct. 16, 1835-Late in the evening, in a deluge of rain, the last boats arrived with the packet; bringing, also, a lady from England, as Governess over our young ladies. I was much disappointed in not receiving the things expected from England: thus am I left for ten months without Bibles, school-books, or any wearing apparel, though mine is literally threadbare. The Society's publications are I do not know where. Thus, when our wishes seem to be just realized, we often find pain, and not pleasure.

HOME PROCEEDINGS.

Ordination of Missionaries. MR. Frederick Bültmann, Mr. Joseph Henry Gray, A. B., and Mr. Henry Powell, were admitted to Deacon's Orders, by the Lord Bishop of London, on the 21st instant.

RECORD, May 1837.]

THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY.

The Annual Sermon was preached before the Society, on Monday Evening, the 1st instant, at the Parish Church of St. Bride, Fleet Street, by the Rev. Thomas Dale, M. A., Vicar, from St. John iv. 36: Collection, 2001. Os. 5d.

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The Annual Meeting was held on Tuesday the 2d of May, at Eleven o'clock, in Exeter Hall; the President, the Right Hon. the Earl of Chichester, in the Chair. The usual Prayer was offered up by the Clerical Secretary. Collection, 260l. 58. 9d.

Movers and Seconders.

The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chichester; and the Rev. Edward Tottenham of Bath-Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Winchester; and the Rev. Professor Scholefield - Most Hon. the Marquis of Cholmondeley; and Lieut. Col. Mackworth-Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chester; and the Rev. Hugh Stowell - Sir Robert H. Inglis, Bart.

the Society, with regard to those countries, to the prayers of its Members and friends; that millions of their benighted inhabitants may be made fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of the promises in Christ by the Gospel.

--That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Rev. Thomas Dale, for his Sermon before the Society last evening; to the Right Hon. the President; to the Vice-Patrons and Vice-Presidents; and to all those friends, who, during the past year, have exerted themselves in its behalf; and that the following Gentlemen be appointed the Committee for the year ensuing, with power to fill up vacancies : Messrs. John Ballance.

M. P.; and the Rev. J. B. Marsden of John Bridges.

Tooting.

Resolutions.

-That the Report, of which an Abstract has been read, be received, and printed under the direction of the Committee; and that while this Meeting would thankfully acknowledge the enlargement of the Society's Funds as a token of the Divine Favour, it is encouraged also to regard it as a pledge that the Cause of Missions is gaining ground in the sympathies and intercessions of the Christian Public.

-That this Meeting heartily rejoices in the quietly-prospering state of the earliest Mission of the Society-that in Western Africa; and, anticipating the complete approaching period of the emancipation of the Negro Population in the West Indies, is animated by the persuasion that God is answering the prayers of British Christians on behalf of both those long-benighted and afflicted regions.

Charles Brodrick. Robert J. Bunyon. Captain Cotton. William Dugmore. William A. Garratt. Captain Harkness. Henry Kemble. Hon. Capt. Maude,

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R. Munt.

Messrs.
John Rudall.
John C. Symes.
E. V. Sidebottom.
Benjamin Smith.
Joshua Stanger.
J. M. Strachan.
James Taylor.
E. N. Thornton.

R. B. Todd, M.D. Hon. Capt. Waldegrave, R.N.

The Meeting was closed by singing the, 117th Psalm, and the Gloria Patri.

Abstract of the Balance Sheet.

RECEIPTS OF THE YEAR.

Paid direct to the Society:

Anniversary Collections
Individual Collections.............
Benefactions ..

Annual Subscriptions
Legacies....

Contributions through Associations....
Foreign Contributions
West-Indies' Fund (including 26941. Go-
vernment Grant for Negro Education
in the West Indies).
India-Native Female Schools.......

Waimate Church, New Zealand
Interest on Government Securities..
Interest on Exeter-Hall Shares...
Rent of House at the West-End of the
Institution

Sale of Publications

-That while this Meeting deeply Allepie School Fund.... lament the out-burst of war in the Southern Stations of the New-Zealand Mission, it would, at the same time, gratefully acknowledge the gracious Hand, by which both the Missionary Labourers themselves and their property have been preserved in safety; and rejoices in the continuance of the Divine Favour to the older Stations of that Mission in the North.

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Drawbacks on Books and Paper.

Disabled Missionaries' Fund Institution Building Fund

Missions:

Total

£. s. d.

376 3 6

152 17 8

4939 3 5

1422 17 0

1404 18 3

54210 13 1 2531 16 8

4513 19 8 92 13 10

92 0 0

21 12 6

833 15 5 10 0 0

0

52 10 217 2 6 225 19 6

71,098 3 0 615 50 13 13 0 £71,727 1 0

PAYMENTS OF THE YEAR.

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several sums of £2500 Government Grant for West-Indies' School-houses, £1362 17s. 8d. for Contributions to the WestIndies' separate Fund, and £1111. 11s. 3d. for Waimate Church. The Net Income, from the same sources, for 1836-37deducting £1819. 18s. 8d. West-Indies' Contributions, £2694 Government Grant for West-Indies' Negro Education, and £21. 12s. 6d. for Waimate Church, was £66,562. 11s. 10d. It hence appears, that, deducting from the General Fund Receipts of the two years, the sums derived from temporary resources, there is an increase in the last year, in what may be considered the permanent sources of income, of £3845. 16s. 7d.

The amount of Association Contributions in 1835-36 was £52,093. 8s. 10d.; last year it was £54,363. 10s. 9d.; giving an increase, under this head, of £2270. 1s. 11d.

The Expenditure of the Society during the past year, on account of the General Fund, amounted to £69,668. 4s. 1ld.; that of the preceding year was £64.213. 17s. 3d.; being an increase of £5454.7s.8d.

PATRONAGE.

During the year, the Society has been deprived, by death, of two of its VicePatrons, the Venerable Bishops of Norwich and Salisbury; of one of its VicePresidents, Lieut.-Gen. Charles Neville; and of one of its earliest Members, the Rev. Charles Simeon.

During the year, the Lord Bishops of Chichester, Ripon, and Salisbury have accepted the office of Vice-Patron of the Society; and the Right Hon. Lord Ashley, and George Finch, Esq. M.P. that of Vice-President.

ASSOCIATION PROCEEDINGS.

It affords the Committee satisfaction again to report an increase in the number of Associations. During the past year, Fifty-four new ones were formed; exclusive of the re-organization of old

ones.

Under this head, the Committee with pleasure record their grateful acknowledgments of the valuable aid rendered to the Society by those Clerical and Lay friends who have aided as Deputations to Associations during the last year.

INSTITUTION AT ISLINGTON.

From the Principal's Annual Report to the Committee of Visitors, the Com

ORDINATION OF MISSIONARIES.

mittee extract the following passages, which explain the state of the Institution during the last year :

"The Principal has again to congratulate the Committee, and to acknowledge a great debt of gratitude to Almighty God, for the satisfactory state of the Church Missionary Institution. In point of numbers, it is more prosperous than it was at the last Anniversary: the health of its Members is generally good; and its moral and religious state justify a persuasion, that a Divine Blessing is not less abundantly poured upon it now than heretofore."

During the year, Sixteen Students have been received, in addition to Twenty-four who were in the Institution at the last Anniversary. Of these, EightFour Ordained, and Four Catechistshave departed to their respective Stations; one has been removed; one left on account of ill health; three have withdrawn; and twenty-seven are still resident at the Institution.

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The Principal has only to express, in conclusion, his humble confidence, that our Committee, and the Members of the Society at large, will constantly bear in mind, how much the object they aim at -the unspeakably great object of converting the Heathen-depends on the efficiency of the Islington Institution, as wrought out in the character of the Missionaries it produces. And since that efficiency can result only from the blessing of God our Saviour, there can hardly be a prayer which Christian love will more frequently breathe forth, than for a double portion of the Spirit of Grace to descend upon this Seminary; that truly Apostolical men may proceed from it; their hearts imbued with the love of Christ Jesus; their loins girt about with truth; their lips set on fire to publish salvation, as by a live coal from the altar; and their holy demeanour adding lustre and authority to the doctrines they zealously inculcate."

MISSIONARIES SENT OUT.

Seven Missionaries, and Eight Catechists and Artisans, ten of whom were married, making a total of 25 individuals, have been sent forth during the year; including two Missionaries and one Catechist, who have returned to their Stations.

Two of the Society's Students, and Mr. Schlienz from Malta, have been admitted, by the Bishop of London, to Deacon's Orders; and one, including Mr. Schlienz, to Priest's Orders, during the past year; exclusive of two who have been admitted to Priest's Orders and one to Deacon's Orders, by the Bishop of Gloucester, on Letters Dismissory from the Bishop of London. One has been admitted to Deacon's Orders by the Bishop of Calcutta; and one by the Bishop of Barbados.

CONCLUSION.

Your Committee, in closing their Report, desire to make a few general observations on the operations of the Society, both abroad and at home.

By gradual steps, its Foreign Operations have been extended to various parts of the four quarters of the globe. To undertake, and steadily to follow up these operations, requires, the Committee are sensible, great faith, strong hope, and unquenchable love. It demands, also, constant dependence on the promised aid of the Holy Spirit, to bestow on them renewed and inexhaustible supplies of his support. It is, your Comare aware, natural to feel elated with success, and depressed by failure: and this may render the mind partial to one particular Mission, so long as it prospers; and cold, or even desponding about it, when in adversity. But this, surely, is not agreeable to the spirit of faith!

Sympathy, moreover, with the Missionaries, demands that Christians at home should persevere alike through good and through adverse events, assured that in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. For do not Missionaries persevere ? Are not they in the fore-front of the battle, and we far off in the rear? The work that costs us a little self-denial, an occasional alarm, or a passing sigh, costs them the sacrifice of country and friends -costs them the privation of many religious privileges, so precious to their own souls and to their rising families: it costs them many a pang, to think whether they are satisfying friends at home; and most of all, whether they are satisfying their own conscience and their God. Their personal religious state, and the progress of their Mission, seem so closely bound up together, that every fluctuation fills

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