equal to the preceding year. The number of attending scholars has not been uniformly the same, but the average for the whole year exceeds eighty boys."

In the female department of the same school, the number of regular attendants has increased, and the general improvement of the children is such as to afford the highest gratification to their Teachers, and amply compensate for the time and attention so cheerfully and unremittingly devoted to their welfare. The school at present consists of one hundred and thirty-nine white. girls, and thirty-seven coloured women and children, divided into thirteen classes.

It is an earnest of the valuable accession we have, in the newly formed school of Zion Church, that it has entitled itself to the second place in the order of this report. The male department was opened on the 3d of January, 1819, with sixteen scholars and two Teachers. Since that period it has been gradually increasing, and is now in successful operation, with two Superintendents and sixteen Teachers, and the names of one hundred and fifty scholars on the Numerical Register, between fifty and sixty of whom attend regularly.

The female department of this school commenced the 31st of January, 1819. The number of scholars placed under its care since that period is one hundred and eighteen of whom fortyeight attend regularly.

They are under the care of seventeen young ladies, who are regular in attendance, and persevering in their duties.

The coloured class is under the care of two of the ladies, and consists of twenty-one. Their improvement has been very satisfactory to their Teachers.

Of the male department of St. Paul's Chapel school, we have obtained the following information.

"During the last summer, and throughout the winter, the male department of the Sunday school attached to St. Paul's Chapel experienced considerable reduction in its number of scholars. It is pleasing, however, to add, that the school is now increasing: the number of scholars attending is between forty and fifty; and the perseverance and assiduity of the Teachers, aided by a visible increase of interest among the Directors, will, no doubt, add much to that number.

"Female school. From January, 1818, until July and August in the same year, between sixty and seventy regular scholars attended. The number was afterwards reduced to about forty. This school now consists of about fifty."

In the female school of Trinity Church there are seven regular classes of whites, and four of coloured. Four classes of whites read, learn Catechism, and study Bible Questions; also two coloured classes perform the same. Every fourth Sunday these classes are examined upon the above mentioned lessons.

About forty-seven scholars attend regularly; of these twentythree are white, and twenty-four coloured children. Twentyeight are capable of reading the Prayer Book, and joining in with the services of the church.

At present there are eight Teachers, and one Assistant; three Teachers having been prevented from attending during some weeks.

In the male school of Trinity and Grace Churches there have been added, since the last report, eighty-six scholars. Forty-six have been discharged.

The present number of scholars is sixty-five; viz. forty-four whites and twenty-one blacks. Of this number about forty-six are regular in their attendance.

The schools in connexion with St. Mark's Church have, from various causes, very much diminished since the last report. The whole number of scholars being now reduced to somewhere about fifty. The principal cause of this is the want of sufficient voluntary aid; the number of young persons in that parish, especially of males, qualified to take an active part in the school, being very small.

From the female school of Grace Church the following report has been received.

"About one hundred and fifty scholars have been admitted in to the school, since its formation in 1817; of which but a very small proportion has ever attended. The number of scholars who have been, at any one time, in regular attendance, has rarely exceeded thirty. The size of the school may be accounted for, in some measure, by its local situation, in a part of the city where com paratively but a small number of the poorer classes are to be met with; and also by its being the last formed in the lower churches."

From the above statement it appears that the aggregate number of scholars at present regularly attending the several schools in union with this Society, is six hundred and fifty-four, viz. two hundred and seventy-three males, and three hundred and eightyone females.

It ought, in justice, to be stated, that the very general change of residence, and the difficulty of ascertaining, for some time, whither the scholars have removed, always produce a temporary di munition of numbers at this period of the year.

The reports of the schools above detailed, afford much matter for commendation and encouragement.

Extracts from the Second Annual Report of the Philadelphia Sunday and Adult School Union.

Since our last Report was published, the number of schools belonging to the Union has greatly increased.-Eighty-four have been added to our list in the course of twelve months. The whole number now on the roll is 129 schools. These contain 10,550 white children; 377 white adults;-663 black children, and 716 coloured adults;-making in the aggregate 12,306 learners, who constantly receive instruction from 1,431 teachers, of whom 631 are males, and 761 females.

Our internal operations have likewise been considerably extended during the last year. The following is a catalogue of the articles which have been printed for the Union: 32,000 premium books; 10,000 copies of a Sunday School Spelling Book ; 6,000 alphabetical cards; 3,000 class papers; 500,000 red and blue tickets; 10,000 addresses to parents; 1,000 internal regulations for Sunday and adult schools; and 1.000 copies of the First Annual Report. A large edition of a hymn book may be expected shortly.

[With the following remarks the managers conclude their Report:-]

Our Corresponding Secretary has lately received a friendly communication from the London Sunday School Union, with a parcel containing copies of several useful little works recently published. Affectionate intercourse is desired by both institu tions, and the officers of each express their conviction that much benefit would mutually result from it to our great and good

cause.

Brethren, let "us work while it is called to-day." Time is short, and much is to be done. Our fellow labourers are leaving us, and entering the eternal world. Many who formerly united their exertions with ours, have been by death called away from the field, and taken to those abodes where they can be useful no longer as instructors, patrons and promoters, of Sunday schools. That zealous Minister of Christ, and faithful friend of Sunday school children, who had the honour of introducing the present system of Sunday schools into the city of Philadelphia, and even into the United States, has finished his labours, and gone to enjoy his reward. The Rev. ROBERT MAY is dead! India-thousands of whose sons and daughters he collected round him, and taught the salvation of Jesus-has furnished his grave. His name will long be revered. His praise is in all our schools. "Babes and

sucklings," children and youth, both in this land and among distant heathens, view him as the best of all their earthly benefactors, and erect to his memory a monument of gratitude and love. His death calls loudly to each of us, "what thou doest, do quickly."

Third Annual Report of the New-York Female Auxiliary Bible Society, April 13, 1819.

At this third meeting of the New-York Female Auxiliary Bible Society, the Managers report, that since the last anniversary of this Society, they have sold Bibles to the amount of $31,36; that they have paid to the Treasurer of the American Bible Society $900; that they have made a donation to the Sabbath School Union Society of 150 Bibles and 100 Testaments; also a donation of 50 Bibles to the Sabbath School City Committee; and that they have distributed gratuitously 300 Bibles.

The Managers cannot do justice to their own feelings, without taking particular notice of the efforts made by "The New-York Female Juvenile Bible Association." This Society is composed of children and youth, who would emulate the zeal and perseverance of riper years, in giving the word of life to those who are "sitting in the region of the shadow of death." During the month of October last, they became Auxiliary to this institution, and have contributed to its funds $109. If such are the efforts of childhood, to what results may we not look, when years shall have extended their views and confirmed their virtue! It was not in vain that the blessed Redeemer said, "suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven." "Out of the mouth of babes and of sucklings strength is ordained, praise is perfected ;" and as another indication of the day of glory, their voice is heard in the living Temple, "Hosan na to the Son of David."

The Managers cannot yield the occasion which this Report gives, without expressing their increasing conviction, that the grand design of our National Institution is best accomplished by the establishment and support of auxiliaries; especially as it af fords us, though on a more limited scale, an opportunity of doing something in the great cause. Though our efforts are so small, as alone not sensibly to affect the vast operations and high prosperity of the parent institution; we are yet aware that efforts like these, multiplied and concentrated, have furnished the materials, and reared this mighty fabric, in honour of the Bible, and the glory of God. We are also aware of encouragements to proceed in this momentous work, arising not from our auxiliary character and circumstances, but from the good which we hope has been done-encouragements sufficient to reward our zeal, and stimulate us to ten-fold exertion.

Though the effects produced by the distribution of the Bible, among those called Christians, be not as visible and striking as those which frequently attend its circulation among the heathen: they are no less deep and powerful: though less remarkable in appearance, they are no less so in fact.

The efforts of the Managers have been chiefly confined to the circulation of the Holy Scriptures among the destitute of this city. And while they have been dispensing the precious gift of heaven, to the ignorant and the afflicted, it has become more precious to themselves; they have realized its value more while witnessing the divine consolations which it has power to give; knowing that it can enrich the children of want and sorrow, and inspire a soul, who otherwise might have departed "without hope and without God," with the assurance of immortality and heaven.

Among a number of instances that might be mentioned, proving the happy effects of such distribution, upon the smallest scale, one or two may not be impertinent.-A Bible was sold at a reduced price to a Tayloress who boarded in the house with several ap-i prentice boys; one of them having seen it, became very anxious to obtain one on the same terms, and soon saved from his small earnings a sufficient sum for its purchase. He began to be seri ous, and kept his Bible constantly with him while at work. His associates, in the same occupation, were thoughtless, profane, and constantly disposed to ridicule the book he so much prized. One of them particularly, more wicked than the rest, used to take it up frequently and read a passage for sport, or something worse. At length, however, the truth became too powerful for his depraved heart, he began to reflect upon the sin he was committing,soon solicited the boon for himself,-ceased all profaneness, and in connexion with the owner of the Bible, succeeded in making it fineable for any one of their number to utter an oath. The effect, upon the whole, has been remarkable; and several, we hope, are truly anxious and sincerely praying to be made "wise unto salvation."

The following instance affords the most powerful argument for translating the Scriptures. It is not casy to describe the eager ness with which we have seen this blessed book received by a poor German. He was on a bed of sickness, far from his home, and possessed only of a prayer book, in his native language, for he could read no other. This book was interspersed with passages of Scripture, which he embraced as a revelation from the most High God. When informed that perhaps the whole Bible in the German language could be procured for him, had we promised bread to a starving man, he could not have been more eager to receive it; and when the book was obtained, one who visited him from time to time in his poor dwelling, and afterwards in the hospital, always found him absorbed in reading it. He wept over the sacred pages: embraced the gracious promises, and under the influence of the Divine Spirit, meekly submitted himself in poverty and suffering to the will of God.

The Managers, while they rejoice in the privilege of co-operating as auxiliary, congratulate the Society on the progress of this