among many other instances, such a time of refreshing has visited Oneida county, in the State of New York, and more than three thousand souls are said to have partaken the blessed effects. From a narrative of this work, lately published in America, we extract the following enumeration of the means which have been thus wonderfully owned of God: 1. Seasons of Fasting and Prayer. In most, if not all, the Societies which have shared in this work of grace, days have been set apart for the special object of praying for the influences of the Spirit, to humble and sanctify the professed disciples of Christ, and to convert sinners. 2. Confession of Sin in Churches. Whereever churches have met, and with evident sincerity of heart, confessed their "faults one to another," God has granted them a sweet sense of his forgiving mercy, given them free access to his throne of grace in praying for others, and great boldness and zeal in using means for their salvation. 3. Church Discipline. This has tended to humble churches, and to alarm the impenitent. Discipline, judiciously administered, has been found a powerful method of enforcing some of the truths of the Gospel. Many are hardened in unbelief by the irregular lives of professors. When such are led to repent and confess their sins, or are excluded from the church, one of the objections is removed, with which sinners often successfully ward off the sword of the Spirit, pointed at their heart. 4. Visiting from House to House. This has been done extensively. These visits have been strictly religious. Every member of the family, capable of receiving instruction, has been addressed; and such visits have usually been closed with prayer, adapted to the character and circumstances of the different members of the family. upon sinners without respect of persons. The sinner has been followed into all bis hiding places. Every mask has been toru off from the moralist and self righteous. 6. Union of Feeling and Effort in churches Where the has promoted this revival. great body of the church has come up to the help of the Lord, the work has been powerful. And although there have been in most of the churches, some who have stood all the day idle; yet a larger proportion have manifested a deep interest in the work than in former revivals. The coldness or the opposition of professors, has been found far more injurious than the opposition of others. 7. Avoiding Disputes upon Minor Points. Care has been taken to guard Christians against all sectarian feelings. In some instances injury has been done; but we believe that the churches generally have done less to grieve the Spirit, by any improper conduct in this respect, than is common in revivals. Indeed we may say, that, with few exceptions, churches of different names have felt and manifested more solicitude to make converts than proselytes. 8. The Visits of Ministers, professors, and others, where revivals had commenced, have had a powerful effect in extending the work. Ministers and private Christians have thus been refreshed. When they returned home, they have told others, and exhorted their brethren to awake. Sihners have in many cases returned, rejoicing in hope, or deeply convicted. 9. United, agonizing, persevering Prayer. This has evidently been one of the principal means which God has blessed, in originating and extending this work of grace. The promises of God made to prayer, have been frequently presented; and Christians, encouraged by these promises, have wrestled with the God of Jacob in public prayermeetings, and in the family, and the closet. Prayer meetings have been numerous and frequent in most of the churches. 10. The Instructions given in Sabbath Schools, and Bible Classes, have been eminently blessed. A large number of those 5. Preaching the Gospel, its doctrines and who belong to our Sabbath schools give saprecepts, its promises and threatenings, with tisfactory evidence of piety. Superintendgreat plainness and earnestness. Churches ents and teachers have, in many cases, been have been reproved in the most pointed the honoured instruments of their convermanner for their lukewarmuess, their pride, sion. In several instances, most of the and worldliness, and unbelief. They have members of Bible classes have become conbeen urged as strongly to repent and hum-verts, and promise to be among the most ble themselves before God, as the most re-stable and valuable members of our churches. bellious sinners. This plain and faithful application of divine truth to the churches, while it has produced great searchings of heart, and led some to abandon their hopes, has, in several cases, excited greater alarm among sinners than a direct address. The HOME PROCEEDINGS. We are happy to record in our truths of God's word have been pressed pages this month, a continuation of services on behalf of the Mission, similar to those which were detailed in our last number. After remaining in town two or three days on his return from Cambridge, Mr. Carey proceeded on Saturday, Oct. 20, to Portsea, where he spent the Sabbath and nearly all the following week, being joined by Mr. Yates who had taken Newbury, and made the annual collection in that town, on his way. The anniversary of the Auxiliary Society for Portsea, Portsmouth and Gosport, was held on Thursday evening the 25th, when the large Chapel in Meeting House Alley was crowded to excess. Appropriate addresses were delivered by the Rev. Messrs. Birt, Morris, Griffin (Independent), McDonald (Methodist,) and other friends of Missions, as well as by the brethren Carey and Yates, and it is earnestly hoped that the impressions made on that occasion, as well as by the various sermons delivered in connexion with the meeting, will not soon subside. From Portsea, Mr. Carey proceeded to Southampton, where he preached and collected on Lord's day the 28th, and we are happy to add that a female missionary association has since been formed there in aid of our Society. He delivered another sermon at the Baptist Chapel, Romsey, on the Monday evening, and then went forward to Bristol, where Mr. Yates had arrived before him, as well as the secretary of the Parent Society. For an account of the proceedings at the annual meeting of this leading Auxiliary, we are indebted to the pen of one of its esteemed Secretaries:-"The ninth anniversary of the Bristol and Bath Auxiliary, was held at Bristol, on Tuesday, Oct. 30th and following days. On Tuesday evening, the Rev. W. Yates, from Calcutta, preached at Counterslip meeting-house, from the former part of the 11th verse of the 53d chapter of Isaiah He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied.' On Wednesday evening, the Rev. John Mack of Clipston, preached at King Street meeting-honse, from John xv. 12. This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.' the Society, however iuteresting, are too well known to the readers of the Missionary But Herald, to justify their repetition. the introductory paragraph of the Report, relative to the present situation of the Society at home, may not be inappropriately quoted: "It has been usual, on these occasions, to give a summary of the proceedings of the Parent Society. In conforming to this custom, they will hastily glance at its present situation and prospects. "In doing this, it is impossible not to advert to a fact, which must be well known to this assembly--that a separation has taken place between the Society at home, and the senior Missionaries in India. "The grounds of this separation the Committee deem it unnecessary to state; nor do they make any comment on documents already before the public. As individuals, they cannot pretend to be neutral in this controversy: but as an official body, they content themselves with making only a brief allusion to an event, which, in itself, must be considered as a matter of regret. If this mode of acting be regarded as indicating a diminution of attachment to the Parent Society, it will be misinterpreted. The Committee cannot, indeed, but highly value the services of the senior missionaries, acknowledge the magnitude of their labours, and pray for their extension; at the same time, the interest which they feel in the important operations of the Parent Institution, and their desire for the success of these efforts, remain unabated." The Resolutions were moved and second ed by Capt. Pelly, and the Rev. Messrs. Dyer, Leifchild, Cubitt, Yates, Thorpe, Carey, Winter, Crisp, Woolridge, and Guy, most of whom addressed the meeting: and the Rev. Mr. Whittar, supplying at the Tabernacle, concluded with prayer. As the following Resolution, which will very shortly, we believe, be carried into effect, may excite other Auxiliaries to "do likewise," its insertion may be desirable : "It was moved by the Rev. Eustace Carey, seconded by the Rev. Thomas Winter, and resolved unanimously, "That, while this meeting congratulates the Parent Society, on the cheering intelligence received from their various missionary On Thursday evening, the public meeting stations, and especially from those in the was held at Broadmead, and a more exhila- West Indies, it deeply regrets that its operating service was never witnessed. The rations should be restricted for want of place was crowded to excess, and many sufficient pecuniary resources, and earnestly hundreds, we regret to add, were unable recommends a simultaneous and energetic to gain admission. Mr. Dyer opened the exertion on the part of its friends in this meeting with prayer; after which the chair- city; suggesting particularly, as a powerman, Mr. Addington, of Ashley Court, call-ful means of recruiting its finances, the esed on the Rev. Thomas Winter to read the tablishment of a branch Society in each of Report of the Committee. the congregations with which this Auxiliary is connected." The details of the foreign operations of The speeches were exceedingly animating and cheering, and we were greatly obliged by the kind co-operation of our friends of other denominatious, resident in the city; nor can we forbear to express in this place, the very high gratification afforded by the presence, and the interesting services of our missionary brethren from Calcutta. One circumstance, and one alone, created a temporary feeling of disappointment-the absence of Mr. Hall, who had engaged to take one of the Resolutions, but who was unable to gain admission, in consequence of the immense crowd assembled. As far as such a disappointment could be repaired, it is but justice to Mr. Hall, to observe, that, on the following morning, after Mr Carey's sermon at Broadmead, he stated, in a few words, the purport of what he had intended to deliver the preceding evening; expressing his undiminished attachment to the Society, and, without reflecting on any individual, his unhesitating conviction, that the important steps taken by the Committee during the past year, were unavoidable. He also expressed his earnest hope and confidence, that the Society would continue to receive that countenance and pecuniary assistance, which it so greatly needed, and to which it was so justly entitled. Mr. Carey preached from Rom. xiv. 17. "The kingdom of God is-righteousness, and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost:" and Mr. Hall concluded in prayer. In the evening, the Rev. Mr. Copley of Oxford, preached at Mr. Cowan's chapel, Great George Street, from Phil. i. 18. Christ is preached; and therein I do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice." On the following Sabbath, services were held in Welsh, by the Rev. Mr. Rees of this city, and the Rev. Mr. Symmonds of London and our friends Yates and Carey again advocated the cause of missions at Broadmead and Counterslip. While in the neighbourhood, Mr. Carey availed himself of the opportunity to fulfil a long standing engagement with his friends at Salisbury, whose steady attachment to the cause of the mission is well known. Sermons were delivered on the Sabbath, and a public meeting held on the next Tuesday evening, the 13th, and collections more liberal than usual, proved the interest which had been excited. While this narrative is going to press, our esteemed brother is visiting several of the churches connected with the Oxfordshire association, from whence he will pass into the adjoining county of Northampton, where a few engagements were left unfulfilled on his previous visit through want of time. Should he be mercifully assisted through this journey, it will become absolutely necessary for him to suspend his exertions for a season, especially as his state of health renders travelling during the winter highly improper. Many will unite with us in gratefully acknowledging the support and preservation which have been already granted him, and in the earnest hope that he may yet be spared long to occupy that department of missionary service, whatever it may be, in which he may most effectually promote the sacred cause. KINGTON. (HEREFORDSHIRE.) On Lord's day, Oct. 21st, two excellent sermons were preached on the behalf of the Kington Missionary Association, by the Rev. C. N. Davies of Hereford. The congregations were numerous and attentive. Many members of other Christian denominations in the town were present. The collections amount to 3171, about 201. The collections after the services were more than last year." On Tuesday evening, Nov. 6. the missionary friends met again at Trowbridge, and a Missionary Branch Association, in connexion with the Wilts and East Somerset Auxiliary, was formed in Bethesda chapel, where the Rev. Peter Anstie has lately been ordained as successor to our lamented friend Mr. Macfarlane. The secretary of the Parent Society was requested on this occasion, to occupy the chair, and the large and respectable audience appeared much interested in the accounts given by our friends in the East, and in the speeches delivered by the Rev. Messrs. Walton, Bunce, Rodway, and other ministers. The sum of 131. 1s. was collected at the close. The formation of a similar society, in the congregation under the care of Mr. Walton, is postponed, we understand, till the spring. 6l. 10s. 6d. And on Monday evening, Oct. 22nd, a public meeting was held in the same chapel in aid of the association, After singing and prayer, the Rev. S. B. Moens was called to the chair. The report was read by the secretary, and the respectable auditory present were very solemnly and affectionately addressed by the Rev. S. B. Moens, T. Mann, J. Rees, J. Radford, C. N. Davies, and S. Blackmore. Mach religious feeling was evidently excited. The meeting closed with singing and prayer, The sum of 71.13s, was collected, in addition to the 6l. 10s. 6d. on the preceding day. This association has remitted during the past year 351. to the Baptist Missionary Society, and 104, to the Baptist Irish Society. Contributions received on account of the Baptist Missionary Society, from October 20 to November 20, 1827, not including individual Subscriptions. FOR THE MISSION. Reversionary Legacy of Miss R. Tomkins, late of Finsbury Square, by Legacy of Mr. Henry Cox, late of Waddesdon, Bucks, by the Rev. W. Bristol and Bath Auxiliary Society, by John Hart, Esq. late Treasurer £ s. d. 233 45 0 Ditto, on account for the current year, by Mr. Robert Leonard, Treasurer.. 300 0 0 Bluntisham, Profits on " Miscellanies," &c. by the Rev. Samuel Green (in addition to 21. 18s. previously) Bromyard, Collected by Miss Hopkins .... Chalford and Eastcombs, Collections, &c. by Bev. J. Dean.. ..... .... Essex, Auxiliary Society, by Rev. J. Wilkinson; Potter Street. W. Gray Road, Collection and Subscriptions, by Ditto ... ....... 5 17 4 10 0 0 8 0 2.14 0 10 0 0 47 10 2 Burton Street Auxiliary, by Moses Poole, Esq. (one-third) ...... ...... Liverpool Auxiliary Society, by W. Rushton, Esq. Treasurer. ..... Derbyshire, &e. by Mr. James Lomax, Nottingham : Chesterfield... Sutton Ashfield Swanwick Burton-on-Trent.. Derby.... 92 3 6 Previously acknowledged.... 15 0 0 77 3 6 N. B. Remittances, on account, have been received from Reading, and from the Treasurer of the Oxfordshire Auxiliary; a statement of which will appear in our next Number, if the remaining sums be forwarded by the 20th instant, TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Box, containing Work-bags, Pincushions, &c. has been received from the Jersey Ladies' Working Society, by Mrs. Griffiths., We avail ourselves of the suggestion of a Female Correspondent from Hampshire, to say, that contributions of this description, intended for Female Schools in India, will, at any time, be gratefully received. Such articles would be of use, Mrs. Coultart informs us, as rewards for the female children in the Kingston School; and we should have equal pleasure in receiving and forwarding any that may be sent us for that quarter also. A parcel of Magazines and miscellaneous Pamphlets has come to hand, from Mr. Samuel Jackson, of Clapham. |