ation towards this Miffion, in the free paffage which it has intimated will be given to thofe perfons who may hereafter be fent out, and of which the Directors have already availed themselves in the inftance of three Miffionaries, who lately failed on board,the Ocean. Whether this ftation may appear of fo much importance as to induce the government to adopt any measures, by which the Miffionaries may have the advantage of its more direct and conftant protection, is a circumftance to us unknown. The ftate of the natives, both civil and moral, is at prefent fo deplorable, that no apprehenfions can juftly be enter tained that any disadvantage On would accrue to them from a clofer relation to this country. the contrary, it would, moft probe ably, greatly ameliorate then con. dition; and by the fecurity which it would afford to miffionary exertions, gradually lead to the civ. ilization and religious inftruction of that and the contiguous islands. It does not, however, appear to be the province of this Society to take any aЯive part in relation to this circumstance. Our object being entirely fpiritual, our meafures muft correfpond therewith; and, while we fhould rejoice in any event which would be favorable to the converfion of these islanders, we must leave them in the hands of that gracious Providence, who, we hope, will in the best time, and by the moft fuitable means, accomplish the prayers which have been fo long and fo generally offered in their behalf. Before we quit this fubject, we have to mention, that two natives of Otaheite, about the age of fixteen, are in this country, under the protection of the Society. They are placed for their educa tion, in a Moravian School, at Merfield, under the care of Dr. Oakley; and the Directors have received repeated information concerning their improvement and conduct, of fo fatisfactory a nature, as to encourage the hope that, in due time, they will prove great bleffings to their countrymen. (To be continued.) Religious Intelligence. Letter from the Confociation of the Western Difrict of Vermont, to the Monary Society of Connecticut, dated Castleton, June 7, 1803. Fathers and Brethren. W E the fubfcribers, being a committee appointed for that purpose, do in the name of the Confociation of the Weftern District of the State of Vermont and parts adjacent, beg leave to return you our warmeft thanks for your Chriftian charity and be. nevolence towards thefe infant fet. tlements.-Impreffed, as we hope, with true zeal for the caufe of our divine Redeemer, we have long beheld with pleasure your pi ous exertions in favor of this part of Zion. Altho' we trust that you have divine confolation in your own minds, while your unremitted labors are bestowed in building up the interest of the bleffed Redeemer, yet we cannot anfwer our own minds without fome public manifeftation to express the grateful feelings of our hearts. We trust, that fome part of your crown of rejoicing in the day of the Lord Jefus will spring from the precious feed fown, in these parts, by the inftrumentality re in thefe parts; and we further truft that we have many praying fouls among us, that join with you and all the faints of Chrif tendom in crying to God day and night for the effufion of the ever bleffed Spirit of all grace. Oh ! that millions and millions of finners may bow to the fceptre of of Miffionaries acting under your | God of all grace, who hath the directions. While we behold how hearts of finners in his hands, beautiful on these our mountains, and can turn them as the rivers of are the feet of those that bring water are turned.-We hope that unto us good tidings, that publifh no difcouraging circumftances peace, that fay unto our Zion, thy may move your hearts or the God reigneth: We are conftrain- hearts of those who may engage ed to meet their blessed labors within this important work. We this language of infpiration-truft that we have already feen "Break forth into joy, fing to-good effects of miffionary labors, gether ye waste places of Jerufalem, for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerufalem: The Lord hath made bare his holy arm."-By these doings among us, we have the moft comfortable evidence that the bowels of many faints are freshed; and we hope and truft the obdurate hearts of fome fin-king Jefus.-We pray God to ners are melted. Oh! let us praise and magnify the riches of divine grace. While we behold the fervants of Jefus Chrift among us, difpenfing their labors in the gofpel, men that have hazarded their health, their wordly inter-ceafe to pray, with us, for the eft, their characters, and left profperity of Zion, and the con many dear friends and connexions verfion and falvation of finners, for the cause of religion, we feel we fubfcribe ourselves yours in ourselves in duty bound to pray the faith and fellowship of the for them, while we give all the gofpel. praife and glory to God. It gives us pleafure to reflect that we can give ample teftimony to the zeal, the faithfulness, the prudence and the exemplary conduct of thofe miffionaries, who have labored among us under the order and direction of your board.ing-houfe at Windham, County At the fame time, we truft it will be no fmall fatisfaction to you to hear this good report of them. It is highly probable that fome of them have had to encounter oppofition from the fhafts and irony of fteeled infidels, and oppofers of the doctrines of diftinguishing grace. For these things our hearts are . grieved, and our earnett prayers, with yours, are directed to that fmile on your endeavors, and put the means into your hands, further to promote the cause of our great redeemer, in these and oth er parts of this vineyard-Hoping and believing that you will not JAMES MURDOCK. JOHN B. PRESTON. To the Miffionary Society of the State of Conne&icut. ORDINATION. WAS Ordained in the meet of Greene and State of NewYork, on Wednesday the 14th of September, 1803, the Rev. Henry B. Stimpfon, to the paftoral charge of the church in that place. The feveral parts were performed by the following gentlemen: Rev. David Harrowar of Walton, Delaware County, made the introductory prayer; Rev. Samuel Fuller of Renfiel aerville, Albany County, preached the fermon, from 1. Cor. i. 21; Rev. David Porter late of Spencertown, and now preaching at Catskill, made the prayer during the impofition of hands; Rev. Beriah Hotchkin of 'Greenfield, gave the charge; Rev. Jefe Townfend of New-Durham, gave the right hand of fellowship, and Rev. Ezekiel J. Chapman, late miffionary to New-Connecticut, and now preaching at Canton, made the concluding prayer. It is pleafing to remark, that, a large concourfe of people were prefent on the occafion, and appeared fpecially attentive and folemn during the whole tranfac tion. POETRY. COMMUNICATED AS ORIGINAL. "Here raife aloud th' enraptured voice, "And ftrike th' immortal lyre. 6." Here pleasure ever springs; "Here joy forever grows; "And bleffednefs in endless streams, "In full completion flows." 7. But where's my chofen good, In whom I still confide; My hope, my warm defire? Oh where's My great unerring guide ? 8. In yonder world of woe, When anxious care opprefs'd, "Twas he reviv'd my drooping foul, And cheer'd my pensive breast. 9. And when my faith arose On promifes of grace, The heaven I hop'd was to behold The beauties of his face. 10. If this fhould be denied, My finking foul would mourn; Tho' joy and blifs around me fmile, I ftill fhould be forlorn. II. No angel high in power, Norfongs, nor fruits,nor blissful streams, 12. But lo! this face unvails : My foul diffolves with love: TO THE EDITORS OF THE EVANGEL- My heart exults in blifs complete, ICAL MAGAZINE. A Vifion. WHAT heavenly voice is that Which calls my foul away? I leave, I leave this dark abode, 2. What glories ftrike my fenfe? 3. "This is the heavenly plain; A. "This water's ever fief: This fruit forever new: "And he that takes this living food, "Shall live inmmortal too. 5." Here pleafant fongs are heard: "The glorious heavenly choir Enjoy'd in heaven above. 13. These myfteries now unfold, He is the flowing stream of life, 14. Here reft, my joyful foul, Be this thy portion, this thy heaven, Thy everlafting home. 15. Here let me fing his praife, Or in angelic form Launch'd forth upon feraphic wings, 16. But lo! the fcene withdraws; 17. Yet fhall I rife and tafte From a Friend of Miffions 400 copies of a Sermon to Children. church of God, and that in confequence of this guilt, by which the meafure of their iniquities would be full, God would bring upon that nation the most dreadthem the more awful and exemful judgments; and would render plary, on account of all the guilt of this kind which had ever been contracted, from the foundation of the world, vifiting upon them the iniquitics of all former perfeifeftation of his abhorrence of all cutors, and giving a decided manthis kind of wickednefs, by the effects of his wrath upon them; and that the then prefent generation fhould not pafs away, until all these things fhould be accom I there plifted. other words, in confequence of their perfecutions, God would bring them to a reckoning for all former perfe words, muft be very different from It is conceived, that the fentiment here expreffed by Jefus Chrift is, that that generation of the Jews would perfecute the VOL. IV. No. 6. Several things will be noticed to fhow that this is the import of the words under confideration.Firft: This appears from the words themfelves. They form a plain correct fentence, perfectly intelligible; there is no ambiguity in the expreffion, it is capable of no other conftruction. Our Lord B b meant that the Jews fhould underftand that fuch judgments would be poured out upon them, as fhould give a public manifeftation of di. vine wrath, for all former perfecutions. That this is the true fenfe of the words is further evident from the established and avowed principle of divine adminiftration, which God has adopted, and plainly and abundantly revealed in his word. This is the character which he gives of himself in the fecond commandment: I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, vifiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, unto the third. and fourth generation of them that hate me.' The fame idea is here expreffed; if children hate God, the fins of their ancestors for three or four generations shall be vifited upon them. God will remember thofe iniquities when punifhing their pofterity in temporal judgments, and deal with them the more feverely on that account. and twenty years before it was fent, God threatened the world on account of their great wickednefs, that his fpirit fhould not always ftrive with man, but that his days fhould be an hundred and twenty years. The earth had long been filled with violence; all flesh had corrupted their ways before God, and every imagination of their hearts was evil continually; yet the divine forbearance lafted; God prolonged their opportunity to become reconciled to him, until in an ordinary course of providence, millions died, and millions were born ; and then God reckoned with the world, and brought into view all their former iniquities, and executed his vengeance for the whole upon that generation, in which millions were in childhood and infancy. And God's wrath appeared the more vindictive because he did not spare even the brutal creation, but let loofe his indignation upon every thing which was not housed in the ark, Befides there are a multitude of facts of this kind recorded in Sodom and the cities in its the bible.--Immediately after the neighborhood, furnish another inapoftacy, God began his dealings ftance of the kind. The inhabitwith the world on this principle. ants had long been notorious for "By one man fin entered into wickednefs, and God is reprefentthe world, and death by fin, and ed as coming down to attend to fo death hath paffed upon all it, and he has made them all enmen, for that all have finned." | famples to us, fuffering the ven. It is a token of God's abhor-geance of eternal fire. The inrence of Adam's apoftacy, that fants perifhed with the older finall his pofterity begin their exift- ners, and on account of their ence depraved in heart and prone wickednefs; the beafts were not to fin-fhapen in iniquity, and fpared, and even the very land is conceived in fin, and by reafon of faid to have become a poisonous their fin, death paffes upon all. bituminous lake, called the Dead This takes place in confequence Sea. of the firft tranfgreffion, and is an awful manifeftation of God's wrath on that account.-The next inftance of the kind, which fhall be here mentioned, was the univerfal deluge. An hundred Egypt is alfo an example of the fame nature. Not only the first born, old or young, were all flain, but God poured out his tokens of vengeance upon the fervants, the cattle and all vegeta |