to give his only begotten Son, that all our doubts will be removed, whosoever believeth in him might and our faith and hope firmly estanot perish, but have everlasting blished. All its discoveries evince life.' Thus it disperses the clouds the superiority of the Gospel, and that hover about the unseen world, prove that the eulogy pronounced and by evidences clear and une-by the Psalmist on the word of quivocal, ratifies the doctrine of God is founded upon truth, and immortality, and commands us to verified by experience. "The law be strenuous in its pursuit. By a of the Lord is perfect, converting moral and divine efficacy, of which the soul; the testimony of the Lord the light of nature is incapable, it is sure, making wise the simple; is the province of revelation, when the statutes of the Lord are right, savingly applied by the Spirit, to rejoicing the heart; the commandrenew the hearts of the most de- ment of the Lord is pure, enlightgenerate, and to raise them from ening the eye; the judgments of the debasement and infamy of sin, the Lord are true, and righteous to the dignity of virtue and the altogether. happiness of heaven.

More to be desired

are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honey-comb. Moreover, by them is thy servant warned, and in keeping of them there is great reward."

PHILAGATHON.

But although human ignorance and corruption rendered a revelation from God necessary to salvation, it cannot be deemed a right to which all are entitled on the score of justice, but must be regarded as entirely gratuitous on the part of God, a free gift to which we had no claim. Its necesSANDANEE'S DREAM. sity, however, may be deemed a (From the Amulet for 1828.) presumptive evidence that its com- SOME years ago, two negro youths munication formed an essential were taken out of a vessel in the part of the divine plan when he London Docks, and brought to created man at the beginning, and Sheffield, by a benevolent lady, foresaw in long perspective the belonging to the Society of Friends. neglect and criminal abuse of his They were placed under the care mental and moral powers. It of Mr. William Singletou, who reshould also dispose us to receive sided at a small village in the with gladness every intimation of neighbourhood. By him they were the divine will, resigning our judg-instructed in reading, writing, and ments to the force of truth, and the feelings of our hearts to the calls of duty.

Has then a revelation of the divine will been given to the world? By what process and agency has it been communicated? What are the evidences of its truth and authority? And in what consist its distinguishing excellences and genuine effects? If we examine the Scriptures in a right spirit, with humility and prayer, we shall find answers to these inquiries by which

other branches of useful learning; but above all, in the knowledge of the Scriptures, and the doctrines of Christianity, as held by the friends,-to qualify them to become teachers of their countrymen at some future time. Their conduct was creditable, and their improvement satisfactory during the period of their schooling. About six years ago, they accompanied their kind patroness on a visit to West Africa; and by her were left among their kindred, with a fair

"O Fader, when I sleep last night, I hear something like as it call me here; (laying his hand on his breast) Sandanee! Sandanee! look at this.'

prospect of fulfilling the hopes and which he related in language nearexpectations of their benefactors. ly as follows: The writer of this notice has not had any opportunity of making recent inquiries concerning them. During their residence in this neighbourhood, one of them, named Sandanee, had a dream of so ex"Then I look, and see a great traordinary a character, that his star there (pointing backward.) teacher thought it worth recording O! I never saw such a great star as literally as possible from his in all my life. When I look at him own description, while the senti- I cry water from my eyes--I canments and imagery were quite fresh not look, he so bright. in their impression upon the youth's "Then the star go that way (forown remembrance. The follow-ward)-O so quick! And when ing copy of this singular narration the star go quick, the clouds all was received from Mr. William go away- some on this side, some Singleton himself, by the under- on that side, and no sky left, but signed. The accounts of the day all fire in the middle, and very of judgment, which are to be found light with the star. And the star in various parts of the Scripture, has great tail, and the tail go every evidently suggested the scenery way, and turn about; and when and circumstances of this dream. he go so very quick to the West, The personage styled "the Minis-then he fall, and make very great ter" no doubt represents "the fire, and burn the earth, and burn Judge of quick and dead:" the the trees, and burn every thing. form in which He appears, and the And the fire make very great noise, part which He and the Bible may and go over me from the West to be said to act in this tremendous the East, and the clouds very drama, have not been exceeded in red, and the ground all red; and I splendid imagery, or sublime con- saw the Minister very, very tall. ception, by any thing in the writ-He stand very great height, upon ings of uninspired man; nor are a beautiful stone, very high; I no they in the smallest degree de- see his face, he stand so high, and graded, but rather heightened by then I see the Bible open of itself, the inimitable simplicity and beau- no man open it, and all the black tifully-broken English, in which print turn red. the story is given, from the lips of the poor negro-lad. What can be more exquisite than the effect of the last paragraph; -the repose, the reality, the deliverance implied in the sight of "the moon, and the stars, and the clouds, all there!" after the terror, the peril, and "horrible imaginings" of the ceding vision?

"Then I see plenty people, black and white, men and children, and babies come out of the graves. O great many! If I take great many sheep, and drive them, they go close together; so the people go very close, some fall down, some go over them, they all come very quick by the Minister, where He stand; and they run to the East away from the fire. Some say to the minister, what must we do? What this star? Then the Last night Sandanee had a dream, Minister say very loud in English,

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J. MONTGOMERY.

8th month, 7th, 1820.

and all could hear him :-' I been again, and dream the same, and told you all these things many when I awake again, I very much times before, and you no believe; frightened, and I sit up in bed, but now there is the day for you and make the bed shake very to believe these things.' much, O very much! I never saw

"Then the Bible speak like a such a dream in all my life! I no man, and it say the same as the dare go sleep again: I never for

Minister: I been told you all get him till I die. these things many times before,

and you no believe; but now there companion); and he say, 'I never is the day for you to believe saw such a dream!' these things;' and the people

"Then I look through the wincry very much, and they have dow to see if it be so; but I see no clothes. And I very much the moon, and the stars, and the afraid, and I awake. Then I sleep clouds all there!"

POETRY.

[Extracted from "The Amulet for 1828."]

REVIEW.

Brief Memoir relative to the Serampore | from an early period of the Society Missionaries, Bengal. 8vo. pp. 86. known by their present designation," the Price 1s. Parbury, Allen, and Co.

Serampore missionaries." He says,

"The state of the different editions of these translations, with an exact account of monies received and disbursed, on account of them, has been given by the Serampore brethren from time to time in " Memoirs," of which nine have been already published, and a tenth will be given as soon as pos

how effectually the Serampore missionaries have been assisted in this work by congregational collections, and the individual donations of friends in Britain, through the Baptist Missionary Society-by grants from the British and Foreign Bible Society the Edinburgh Bible Society, and other institutions; as well as by similar assistance from America." p. 10.

THERE is nothing so painful in religious publications, as " contention among brethren." We are truly sorry to announce this pamphlet as having relation to that subject. That ❝contentions" like those which are therein presented to the Christian pub-sible. Meanwhile, it is generally known lic, should have been suffered to take place among the "brethren" of the Baptist Missionary Society, viz. those who were engaged as a Committee in conducting its affairs at home, and the Society's Missionaries at Serampore, is indeed matter, not only for lamentation, but for deep humiliation. It is not, however, perhaps, cause for wonder. Our Would any one, from reading this Lord has said, "It is impossible but statement, conclude, that until after that offences will come:" he added, the printing of the Scriptures in the "but woe be to that man by whom the Bengalee, and several other dialects of offence cometh." If the members of India, and also the New Testament in the Committee have been the procuring Chinese, (see p. 5.) no one belonging to cause of this disruption in the Society, the Society in this country or in Amethey have indeed incurred a most fear-rica, ever imagined they were assisting ful responsibility; and so also in regard a body of "Serampore missionaries" to the writer of this Memoir, the Rev. who had separated themselves from the

Dr. Marshman.

Society which sent them out; but that, instead of this, they were giving their money to, and not, as stated by Dr. Marshman, "through the Baptist Missionary Society." We are certain no such item will be found in any of the Reports of the Society, as "Remittance to the Serampore missionaries of monies entrusted to the Society, from congregational collections and the individual donations of friends in Britain," &c.

We must acknowledge, that while reading the first part of this pamphlet, in regard to "translations of the Scriptures," we felt aggrieved with the frequently repeated phrase, "the Serampore brethren," identified as that description is, throughout the work, with those Missionaries who have now become a separate Missionary Society from that to which Drs. Carey and Marshman originally belonged. We hazard no There is another instance of this kind, conjecture in saying, that until the latp. 11. in which, speaking of the paper ter part of the year 1815, all the Bap-made in India being soon consumed by tist missionaries in India were the misworms, it is said, sionaries of the Society in England; not only Chamberlain, Mardon, Rowe, Lawson, Yates, and others, but Drs. Carey,Marshman, and Mr. Ward. Yet the writer of this Memoir speaks of the missionaries at Serampore, as if they were

"To meet this obstacle, the Serampore missionaries have for fifteen years been attempting to manufacture paper on the spot, impervious to the worm. In this they have at last, after much labour, succeeded; and are now producing paper little inferior to

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that made in England. In these attempts | employed. Serampore was considered they have had to sink altogether at least by Mr. Ward, as "a station" of the 50001.; but the result is one which, ere long, will justify, if it should not ultimately Society, in common with Cutwa and all repay, the expence. The versions of the others; and "the premises and the Scriptures are now printing on this improved stock of the printing-office as belonging paper." to the Society."

Now, would any one imagine, from this statement, that Mr. Joel Randall, a paper-manufacturer, had been sent out by, and at the sole expence of, the Society, as one of their missionaries; not for the purpose of uniting with the 66 Serampore missionaries," as a separate Society, but to assist in promoting the labours of their missionaries at Serampore?

In the account of "Native Schools," p. 12. the "Benevolent Institution at Calcutta, established in 1810," there is nothing said which would lead the reader to conclude that this school was under the direction of the Society, and supported at their charge. Indeed, in p. 15. it is asserted that this Institution was established by the "Serampore brethren;" and yet all who have read the history of the Society's proceedings, know that Mr. Penny, the master, was sent out as a missionary at the charge of the Society.

The following paragraph is curious, as compared with the date of Mr. Ward's letter. But let it be borne in mind, that the news of the death of Mr. Fuller had not then, Oct. 13, reached India. Dr. Marshman informs us in the Memoir, p. 60–

"From the beginning their brethren at home had requested them to take charge of the funds they sent to India, with which they united their own until the year 1810, when they began to keep them distinct, applying the Society had sent out, and their own to the Society's to the support of the brethren the support of those raised up in the country, and the advancement of the cause in various ways. On receiving intelligence, in 1815, of the decease of the venerable Fuller, the Serampore brethren, aware how im portant it was that the Committee should take the management of their funds into their own hands, and have the state of them constantly under their own eye, as the Serampore brethren had theirs, urged this on them in a letter dated October 28, 1815, by the following reason:- - Missionary brethren, according to the Gospel and the constitution of our churches, are independent of each other; but when they receive their salaries from other brethren, a kind of infludetrimental to the cause." ence may be exercised over them highly

Dr. Marshman says, that from the

had kept their own funds distinct from
those of the Society." Had this been
the case, would Mr. Ward have spoken
of that species of property at Seram-
"the stock of the printing-office,"
pore,
as belonging to the Society? The writer
of this article states, from his own know-
ledge, that the late Mr. Fuller, the Se-
cretary, had no idea of any such division
of funds, when such exertions were made,

In proof of the statement, that up to the year 1815 the missionaries at Serampore, viz. Drs. Carey and Marshman, and Mr. Ward, considered themselves as the missionaries of the Society, and that all the property which they had realized, whether in houses or move-year 1810 the "Serampore brethren ables, was bona fide the property of the Society, the following extract is given from a letter of the late Rev. Wm. Ward to the writer of this article. It is dated Serampore, Oct. 13, 1815. He says "Now let us look at the work which the Lord has done in these sixteen years. A mission settlement has been formed, bringing in a mission revenue of 48,000 rupees a year." In a note to this last sentence, in the margin, Mr. Ward ex-in 1811, to repair the loss occasioned by plains "The premises belonging to this station, or rather to the Society, have cost more than 50,000 rupees, and the stock of the printing office cannot be much less than 20,000." At this time, Oct. 13, 1815, the phrase, the "Serampore missionaries,” had never been

the burning of the printing-office. He is prepared to prove, by Mr. Fuller's own hand-writing, (which he shewed to Mr. John Marshman, when in England) and from being an ear-witness of his statements, that the following sentiments, in a resolution of the Committee,