BATH. The Anniversary of this Auxiliary Missionary Society was held October 30th, and two following days. At the Public Meeting, which was held in the Assembly Rooms, the chair was taken by James Hammet, Esq., and the cause of Missions was effectively pleaded by the Rev. G. Clayton; W. Ellis; Edward Ray (the deputation from the Parent Society); and James Doney, of Trowbridge. Also by J. C. Hartsinck, Esq.; W. Stroud, Esq., M.D.; W. T. Blair, Esq.; T. Kingsbury, Esq.; and W. Kent, Esq. Sermons were preached by the members of the deputation, and the devotional services were conducted by the Rev. W. Jay, J. J. Richards, T. Eastman, and John Owen. The divine presence and benediction appeared to attend the several services, and circumstances have resulted which raise the hope of increasing zeal and liberality in this great cause. been stated by the Rev. John Arundel, Home Secretary, the Rev. Henry Townley read appropriate portions of Scripture and implored the divine blessing; after which the Rev. Dr. Bennett delivered an appropriate address from Acts xxviii. 15.; and the Rev. E. Cassalis, one of the missionaries, in a very the numerous assembly, and traced the protouching and interesting manner, addressed gress of the Paris Missionary Society; the Rev. George Collison, by solemn prayer, then commended our beloved brethren, and their mission, to the care and benediction of God. On the Sabbath following (Nov. 11th) our dear brethren sailed from Gravesend in the ship "Test," Capt. Browne, for the Cape of Good Hope, where they will be cordially received by the Rev. Dr. Philip, and from thence proceed to join those brethren from the Paris Society who went out under his charge in the year 1829, and who are now labouring, in connexion with that Society, among the Zoolas, a people still further in the interior of South Africa than Lattakoo. FORMATION OF NEW SOCIETIES. On Monday, October 22, a public meeting was held, for the purpose of forming a Missionary Society, at Bridgenorth, Salop, in aid of the London Missionary Society. Rev. Samuel Barber, the pastor of the church, was called to the chair. The Rev. Mr. Clark (Baptist) implored the divine blessing; and addresses were delivered by the Rev. J. Roaf, J. Whittenbury, J. A. James, and George Bennet, Esq. The whole of the proceedings were highly gratifying and interesting, and the sum collected was upwards of £15. PARIS MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Departure of Missionaries. On Tuesday evening, November the 6th, a special public meeting was held at the Poultry Chapel (Rev. J. Clayton's), of the members of the London Missionary Society and others, for the purpose of testifying their cordial approbation of the objects and operations of The Paris Missionary Society, and of expressing their fraternal love and Christian sympathy to three additional brethren, who were on their way from that Society to South Africa, namely, the Rev. Thomas Arbousset, Rev. Eugene Cassalis, and Mr. Constant Gossilen, artisan. After the object of the meeting had MISSIONARY CONTRIBUTIONS. *The Officers of Auxiliary Societies are earnestly requested to accompany their Remittances with correct Lists, having the Names of Places and Persons alphabetically arranged, as in the Society's Annual Report. [Collections, Anonymous Donations, and all other Donations of £5, and upwards, received from 1st September to 31st October, 1832, inclusive.] Additional Donations towards Relieving the Distress at Hankey (South Africa), occasioned by the late Inundation; particulars of which were detailed in August Chronicle, p. 363. The thanks of the Directors are respectfully presented to the following: To Thomas Pringle, Esq., for Prizes for Negro Children in the West Indies. Young Men at Messrs. Thomas and Sons, Oswestry, for Gold Ends. Mr. Macdonald, Mrs. Child, Mr. Woolams, and Anonymous, for Volumes and Numbers of the Evangelical Magazine, Work Bags, &c. &c. Printed by John Haddon and Co., 27, Ivy Lane. SUPPLEMENT TO THE EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE. FOR THE YEAR 1832. MEMOIR OF THE LATE MR. THOMAS SALMON, OF ULVERSTONE, LANCASHIRE. THERE is, perhaps, no department of history more truly interesting and profitable than that of biography. The different characters of men, with the almost endless variety of light and shade which distinguish them from each other, and give them individuality, are subjects which cannot be perused without considerable advantage by the contemplative mind. Every life is a volume-differing, it is true, wonderfully in the interest they afford, yet each one presenting something which may be rendered beneficial. In some, we are presented with the gradual unfoldings of a powerful mind, towering above its fellows, and erecting, in its progress, gigantic monuments of its strength, to stand amidst future generations as the memorials of its energy. In others, we behold a bright and lofty genius, struggling, perhaps, at the first, with all the disadvantages of an imperfect education, and with the difficulties, too, of pecuniary embarrassments, yet rising at last to eminence and fame; while in some, again, we are VOL. X. led to admire the loveliness and excellence of moral worth, exhibiting, in almost every page, the benevolence of its spirit, and the unbending firmness of its integrity: or, on the other hand, our hearts may be pained by beholding before us a reckless and abandoned character, on which may be seen the stains of indelible infamy, and "written within and without with lamentation, and mourning, and woe." These, I say, may all be made subservient to the improvement of mankind, according to the light in which they are viewed. The efforts of the learned, the noble, and the virtuous, have a tendency to excite in us a spirit of emulation, and to stir up the soul to similar deeds" of high emprize;" while the conduct and fate of the wicked afford an awful lesson of the consequences of guilt, and should be a beacon-light to warn us of the rocks on which they split and were lost for ever. But of all the descriptions of character, whose life and whose death may be equally productive of advantage to the 3 F |
