School; the poor fellow was caught one evening (June 24,) between the main-collar and the main-chain, and was indeed very near being cut in two about the waist, but for God's interposing mercy. You cannot conceive what a sensation his shriek produced among all on board. Providentially one of the passengers, himself a nautical gentleman, ran up at once and extricated him; but when he was brought down, he seemed apparently dying. The doctor, however, was kind and attentive, but said he could not pronounce anything upon his case till he saw how he did that night. I at once besought both the captain and the doctor to let me take him into my cabin, and keep him till he got better. They kindly complied with my request, and I had the happiness to watch him and to nurse him for a few days and nights, and I am sure I cherished him as my own dear boy, for I was most anxious about him. God blessed every remedy, and the poor fellow was thankful to find himself raised up again, and restored to duty. I had reason to hope well of him, and as his glistened while taking leave of me as I left the ship the other day, you cannot conceive how my own bowels yearned after him.

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On the 7th of August it pleased God to visit us also with a painful dispensation of his providence, and I had to divide my grief with a friend bereaved of his dear partner. This was a Mr. ——, who had just been three months married. Mrs. -'s health seemed generally very good, and she was indeed the sweetest little body I ever saw. I had just made her acquaintance, and become so intimate as to have been permitted, only a few days before this event, to go into her cabin, and after a little profitable conversation with her and her husband, to kneel down and pray with her, which I always do whenever I can manage it; knowing how vain is our planting, when God does not water it. Oh, that we all felt more the need of Divine influence! Well, but little did I suppose that that would have proved my last opportunity with her-I am sure I looked for the return of many such occa

sions-but it was the last, and I am now so thankful that the Lord disposed my heart to improve it as I did, "For in the midst of life we are in death." And she, indeed, was a remarkable instance of this, for she took her dinner as well as ever, and suddenly, with no symptoms of pain, and without any struggle, she quietly fell asleep in the arms of her Saviour. Her poor husband, of course, was deeply afflicted; and I immediately took him to my cabin, and kept him with me for about ten days, till he was able to help himself. Poor man, after staying with me for some days here on shore, he is now gone to Calcutta, where he was destined. He is gone to join a firm there in connexion with the mercantile community; and I believe he is gone every way improved in mind and body, though he feels his loss much. May I hope that God worked in him; and if what gave me so much delight to perceive was indeed his work, I doubt not but what grace begins, grace will also perfect. I must say that before this I had a young cadet of the Bengal Infantry to join me in my cabin every night for reading, exposition, and prayer; and ever since Mr. came to me, he regularly continued to attend this prayer, and cordially to take an interest in all my exercises.

Some things of a most painful nature occurred, notwithstanding all the awful indications of divine power in governing the raging elements, and all the marvellous dealings of his providence and grace amongst us! Oh! it is awful!-it is awful to think of it; and it is a wonder that we were spared to reach our destination at all! But I am not without some ground of belief that God has overruled all for our good. Indeed, the voyage from first to last was fraught with many salutary lessons to all; and though, at the beginning, scarcely any would approach me, yet before it was all over, captain, officers, passengers, and crew, all looked up to me as if I were their only friend. Good, bad, and indifferent, all readily took me into their confidence, and would bear to be rebuked by me, and to be counselled by me in every way, and I really felt sorry at parting with

them all. What could all this have been but the Lord's doing? He it was who gave me grace, and favour before all men; and the captain, even while on shore, was glad to find me, and to consult with me; both he and his lady were always kind to me, and I am perfectly satisfied that they are not to blame for anything that has happened.

I have been preaching here for Mr. and others, in several places, both to English and native congregations. The land is still the land of idols and of the shadow of death, but there are great movements taking place now in the native minds.

Satan seems to be coming down with great rage.

I must now conclude my long letter, and hardly know when I shall be able to write again, as I am going to inspect my stations in the interior. Remember me most affectionately to dear- and his revered father, and to all the members of your beloved family, and ask them to pray for me, and believe me, with much gratitude, yours as ever,

[This letter is indeed valuable as shewing what good may be effected, even under the most unpromising circumstances, when there is only the heart to attempt it.-ED.]

WE quote with much pleasure the close of the address of the above honourable baronet, recently delivered by him as chairman of the East India Company, to the young cadets attending their Military Seminary at Addiscombe. It were well if influential laymen oftener copied the example of the chairman of the East India Company, and shewed, on fitting occasions, that they were not ashamed to press the claims of religion. May Sir J. W. Hogg's remarks be borne in mind by the youthful cadets whom he addressed. Alas, we know too well, how often the conduct of our countrymen abroad, has proved one grand stumbling-block in the way of the heathen's embracing Christianity! Every European abroad, if he be not advancing the cause of Christ, is certainly prolonging the reign of the prince of darkness. Who can calculate the effects of an unholy life visibly manifested by a professing Christian, on the heathen among whom he lives?

After an eulogium on the native troops for their fidelity and bravery, and warning the young cadets, above all means never to run in debt one rupee without having the immediate means of paying it, the hon. baronet concluded as follows:

"And now, my young friends, before bidding you adieu, let me urge my last and most earnest injunction. You are proceeding to a distant land, where you will be encompassed by superstition and darkness; but you bear with you the blessed light of revelation to guide your path, and illuminate your course. When raising your head from your pillow, implore by fervent prayer that Divine aid without which all human efforts must prove vain; and when retiring to rest, forget not your humble thanksgiving to the Author of all good. Neglect not your religious duties and observances. Rather cherish and hallow them the more when assembled together in a foreign land, it matters not whether under the dome of a cathedral or the roof of the humblest dwelling. You will mark the Hindoo, and observe him, with unfailing regularity, seeking the banks of the sacred stream, and conforming, with undeviating fidelity, to every rite prescribed by the religion of his forefathers. You will see the Mahomedan daily prostrating himself in prayer, at the rising and setting of the sun, and hastening, at prescribed periods, to his mosque, with a fidelity and zeal worthy of a purer faith; and will you,

regardless of the injunction of your Redeemer, allow your neglect to the sacred ordinances of religion to appear in unholy contrast with the more rigid observance of those whose superstition and errors you profess to deplore? True it is that the faith you profess is spiritual, and ought to be seated in the heart; but be not deluded by the impression that you can dispense with the forms of your religion without perilling its substance and your own salvation. This, my young friends, is the last time when my duty will call upon me to address you. That duty has been to me most pleasing and grateful, because I have had only to use the language

of praise and approbation. You may, perhaps, think that I have exhorted you too earnestly and too tediously to the discharge of duties which you are incapable of neglecting. Believe me, it has arisen from no doubt of the soundness of your principles, or the firmness of your purpose, but from that anxious solicitude that would induce me, under similar circumstances, to hold the same language to my own children, in the spirit of affection, not of harshness or suspicion. Allow me to bid you farewell, and to offer my earnest wishes and fervent prayers for the health, happiness, and welfare of you all."

We believe that our readers will be as much interested as we have been ourselves, in the following account of a missionary meeting held at the residence of Dr. Chase, the venerable Bishop of Illinois, in Jubilee College, which he has founded in his remote diocese. The meeting is called by Bishop Chase a "missionary meeting," but, as will be seen from the account, the sphere of the labours of the missionaries for whose training Jubilee College has been instituted, is not the heathen, but the Christians in profession at least, who have settled in the Far West of the United States, and who ought to be peculiar objects of solicitude to their brethren more favoured in religious privileges. Undoubtedly, in the first instance, the spiritual care of those distant settlers devolves upon the Church of America, and we deeply regret to see, from the bishop's statement, that the sum allowed him for the purposes of his diocese by his own church, is less by nearly a third this year than it was last year. Yet, many English and Scotch families have relations settled in Illinois, and ought to feel warmly interested in good Bishop Chase's undertaking. Should any such feel inclined to contribute to the support of the church in Illinois, the editor will undertake to forward their contributions to Bishop Chase.

We must preface our extracts with

one passage from a letter of the good bishop's to a private friend, which has been put into our hands. "At present the aspect of affairs is truly melancholy. The Protestant church every where drooping its head and expiring. While Roman edifices are every where rising in splendour, and Papists triumphing, crowned with the laurels won by the hands of Mr. Newman and his Oxford friends, the pure Protestant church has nothing that she can call her own in the vast regions of the West but two colleges, founded by Bishop Chase, and these languishing even to death for want of support."

Several of the clergy and laity of the diocese being called together, as well by an expected ordination in the chapel of Jubilee College as the commencement of the college term for 1846-7, by invitation dined with the bishop.

The prospects of the Church in Illinois, the exigency of the missionary cause, and its intimate connection with Jubilee College as a nursery of missionaries, having become the subject of conversation, and exciting much interest and solicitude, the following are extracts from the address made by the bishop:

"My beloved brethren in the Lord, -I can assure you I feel an uncommon sense of grateful emotion to the Author of all blessings, that he hath

been graciously pleased to prosper your journey hither. For though few in number, yet coming from different parts of the diocese-and being all of you either clergymen, candidates for orders, or communicants at the Lord's table-I trust that your minds and hearts are furnished both to give information and to suggest the measures most conducive to the welfare of the Church. Of both of these I stand at the present more in need than ever. "Not to mention what you perceive to be so true, viz. my disabled state of body, my advanced age is sufficient premonition that the duty which God hath given me to do, if done at all, must be done quickly; 'for the night of the grave cometh soon, wherein no man can work.'

"That to which I now allude is, that something should be done, and that speedily, by way of affording the weight of your testimony to the great truth so long maintained by the founder of Jubilee College, namely, that this institution is one and the same, in its end and aim, part and parcel, with the missionary cause of our primitive church in the Far West, and that to fail in the one is to fail in the other.

"When well assured on this subject, take a view of what is now before you, and with your own eyes see how well adapted is Jubilee College to supply all our wants. 'Walk about' this our little ‘Zion; mark well her bulwarks, and tell all her towers.' She removes her students far from temptation. No town or city is near to corrupt her children. She calls them to the True Saviour of the penitent, and to the Redeemer of the souls of all men. She opens to them the study of the Word of God, the only source of divine light to benighted man, and sends them to the throne of grace for strength to do his will. To endure hardness as good soldiers of the cross, and to be accustomed to the wants of new settlers in a country peopling fast with the poor and destitute of all states and nations, she takes peculiar care that all be instructed; so that none, however well taught in learning and polished in manners, and piously disposed to the order and beauty of holiness in her worship, shall mar

their work by effeminacy of manners and the silly affectations of a city life. In them you will see no longings 'To RETURN EAST. They are taught the great sin of destroying whole parishes by this grating, heart-sinking sentence."

It was stated in the course of the meeting, that "the Church in Illinois is, in the strictest sense of the term, missionary ground; i.e. that it must be aided and sustained by means sent from abroad; this needs no proof or even illustration on the part of those who are here present-most of whom well know by experience the greatness of its necessities and the smallness of its resources. Of some thirty-five organized parishes in the diocese, only three have sufficient revenues within themselves to sustain a clergyman; the others must consequently be deprived of the stated services of the church, or receive aid. The church throughout the United States have ever looked upon this diocese, in common with others, as missionary ground; and to this favourable regard of the church, bestowed in response to the repeated and earnest calls of our venerable bishop, the church in Illinois, under God, owes its existence. And yet it has been but scarcely brought into existence; it still demands daily sustenance, or it must languish and die. And it is with the most heartfelt regret-the deepest despondency-that we behold the appropriations of the board, instead of increasing in proportion to our wants, diminishing year by year; instead of 3,500 dollars, which the diocese received for 1845-6, it receives but 2,500 dollars for 1846-7. This deficiency must be met. If it be not derived from some source, it must be endured and suffered in the families of the missionaries-not in diminishing their luxuries or comforts (alas! they have none of the former, and few of the latter); but it must be drawn from the stern necessities of every-day life. I confine myself in this assertion, to the case of those already at their stations, and who are looking forward confidently to an appropriation for the coming year as large as the one for the past.

"But the deficiency falls still more

heavily upon those destitute parishes who are looking for an appropriation to enable them to call a minister. Unless relief come from some source, the church must suffer. Our clergymen cannot devote themselves to their high and holy calling in spiritual things, when harassed with solicitude for the bare necessaries of daily subsistence.

"In order that the second resolution may not be misunderstood, it should be borne in mind that the Diocesan Association has it in contemplation to aid only those places not deriving assistance from the General Missionary Society: the one is not designed to interfere with or interrupt the operations of the other."

It was further remarked, "the institution in question is, as such, part and parcel of the missionary work; that just in proportion as it prospers, in the same proportion will the church succeed in this diocese. From its earliest conception to the present time, in all its operations it has concurred with the church. Its welfare has ever been identical with that of the church. It has been the germ of missions-the source whence has been sent out a spirit rousing and exciting the hearts of men in behalf of the church, and enkindling among all a flame of love and devotion.

"All who visit and become acquainted with its internal arrangements— witness the uniform propriety of conduct which characterises its members -the efficiency of its discipline-the alacrity of obedience on the part of the students and above all, the silent yet effectual influence which the spirit of the Gospel exerts in the hearts of the pupils, showing itself in devotional habits and Christian deportment; all who witness this, as the

result of principles inherent in the organization of the institution, express their unqualified approbation.

"Indeed as we all know the intention of the founder of this institution hath ever been that it should be a missionary establishment, 'a school of the prophets,' where the sons of the church should be taught all that pertains to a missionary life-should become inured to its privations, its self-denials, and its sacrifices-that they should early learn to devote themselves, their souls and bodies, unreservedly, to the cause of building the church in lonely, destitute places, far away from the honours of the world, its praises and its eclat; that among the cabins, the lowly cot and humble dwelling, they should seek the wandering and erring, and bring them back to the true fold, and that too with joyfulness, expecting no reward in this world, but enduring hardness as good soldiers, that in the day of account they may be found acceptable unto the Lord.

"Such then being the object and purpose of the founder of the institution in all that he hath done in the disbursement of the funds, whether in present expenditure, or investment in reference to future revenue-I have no hesitation in declaring my conviction that the interest of Jubilee College is identical with that of the church in this diocese. Let Jubilee College be cherished as it deserves to be by the church; let it now receive that aid which will bring its resources into activity, and the church will be amply repaid. Let the church contribute to its beneficiary fund, and in return for such aid the college will send forth a pious, devoted, and selfsacrificing ministry."

at least, in a popular and practical point of view, consist? Of a superstitious formalism, and a degrading materialism. Is a blessing to be sought, or an evil to be averted? Instead of presenting sincere and intelligent prayer to God, recourse is had to the Virgin, and to the saints, male and female, with which Rome peoples