7. GODLINESS. The Missionary ought to exhibit in his spirit and conduct the character of that Great Being whose servant he professes to be. 8. BROTHERLY KINDNESS. Let the heathen say of you, as they did of the primitive Christians;"See how these Christians love one another." 9. CHARITY. Charity to the souls of men ought to be a principle deeply implanted in your hearts. You must possess 66 an earnest care" for the salvation of the heathen. Your "mouth must be open unto them, and your heart enlarged." You must approve yourselves as the ministers of God by love unfeigned." have long patience" until he re- | Wales's name stood at the head ceive the early and latter rai of the list for twenty guineas; and when his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland was asked to contribute ten guineas, he generously replied, that it would be shameful in him to give so small a sum for so good a purpose, and he therefore subscribed twenty. The Prince of Wales was applied to, through the medium of the Rev. Dr. Ayscough, clerk of the closet, and first chaplain to his Royal Highness. When that gentleman was informed that Mr. Sergeant was not a minister of the church of England, but a Dissenter, he replied, "What, though he be a Dissenter? He is a good man: that is every thing. It is time that such distinctions were laid aside, and the partition-wall thrown down, that so Christians may love one another. For my part, I love all good men alike, whether they are Churchmen or Dissenters." Dr. Ayscough continued to the last a distinguished friend of Mr. Sergeant, and of the school among the Indians. Whilst we admire the character and conduct of Dr. Ayscough, we also revere the memory of the Prince of Wales, on account of his possessing such a First Chaplain. See Brown's History of the Propagation of Christianity, Vol. I. p. 85. 66 10. To these qualifications must be added, not only aptness to teach, which all ministers should possess, but aptness to learn the languages of the places to which you are going. Without either of these, time and money will be expended in vain. 11. Consult 2 Cor. vi. 3-10, and other parts of the New TesV.R. T. tament. ANECDOTES OF THE BRUNSWICK FAMILY. THE Rev. John Sergeant of New England, was a zealous preacher among the Indians. In the year 1743 he formed an excellent plan for their conversion and civilization. With the view of carrying it into execution, a subscription was begun in England, and met with considerable encouragement from some. of the royal family. The Prince of * QUERY, I AM informed, that in an oath taken by Graduates in the University of Oxford, there is the *The Rev. Mr. Hollis, a Baptist Minister of London, subscribed one hundred and eighty pounds a year, for the maintenance and education of thirty-six Indian boys in Mr. Sergeant's school. following clause: "Item specialiter tu jurabis, quod inter nullas communitates vel personas istius Universitatis, impedies pacem, concordiam, et amorem. Nec conventiculis interesse debes, nec eis tacité vel expressé consentire; sed ea potius, modis quibus poteris, impedire. Excerp. e. Corp. Statut. Universit. Oxon. Tit. IX. Sec. 11, § 1. Will any of your readers have the goodness to say whether that oath is now taken, and if it is, what sense is put on the word conventiculis? X. DEJECTION REPROVED: AN ANECDOTE. POOR Mary was returning home, the picture of penury and want, thoughtful, yet serene and placid, when she was joined by a lady of affluence and piety, but who was the subject of some afflictive visitations, and was threatened with more. She immediately began to relate her sorrows and apprehensions to poor Mary, who heard her with much attention, and then with all the tenderness of Christian sympathy, besought her to be com. *The above query reminds us of our having somewhere heard the following anecdote. Complaint having been made to a head of a college at one of our Universities, that some of the students of his college had behaved improperly at a Dissenting place of worship, he summoned them before him, and thus addressed them; "Do you know, young gentlemen, that you are between two fires? In the first place, you have violated the Toleration Act; and in the second, you have acted contrary to the canons of the University, which forbid you to be present at conventicles." EDIT. forted, reminding her of the goodness and fidelity of that God who has promised never to forsake his people, and exhorting her to be grateful for the many mercies she now enjoyed, and to confide in the unchanging mercy and love of God for all future ones. By this time they had reached the door of her humble dwelling. Mary begged the lady to walk in, and taking her to a closet, said, Pray, Ma'am, do you see any thing?" The lady You see, replied "No." Ma'am," said poor Mary, "all I have in the world. But why should I be unhappy? I have Christ in my heart, and Heaven in my eye. I have the unfailing word of promise, that bread shall be given me, and water shall be sure,' whilst I stay a little longer in this vale of tears; and when I die, a bright crown of glory awaits me through the merits of my Redeemer." ANECDOTE OF MR. BENJAMIN BENNETT. THE pious and learned Mr. of Benjamin Bennett, author "The Christian Oratory," being solicited to preach when he was once in London, seemed inclined to excuse himself, when Mr. Timothy Rogers, who was in company, broke out into some such expressions as these, "Oh preach, by all means preach, I' would fain preach, but cannot: how do you know, but you may do some good, which you may. never hear of till the day of judg ment?" Wilson's History and Antiquities of Juvenile Department. NEGRO SLAVERY. "I would not have a slave to till my ground, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd; I would much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him." Cowper. IN perusing a recent volume of Travels in North America, I was much gratified to learn, that the people of colour, who are very numerous in the city of New York, have instituted what they call "A Wilberforce Society." It is indeed pleasing to reflect, that this distinguished senator, who has devoted his whole life to the great work of abolishing the accursed traffic in the flesh and bones of our fellow-creatures, has not laboured in vain. Wreaths of never-fading laurel, undrenched in human blood, do indeed adorn his brow; and he enjoys an enviable fame, unsullied, and as much above that of the mere conqueror, however numerous or splendid his victories, or vast his conquests, as the heavens are higher than the earth. Much however remains to be done, before this infamous trade (trade shall it still be called, which is nothing but the vilest robbery, oppression, and murder, on a large scale?) is completely exterminated. The friends of God and man should still employ their influence and exertions at home and abroad. The period, I fear, is yet distant, when they may be permitted to rest from their labours. It is a horrible and an alarming fact, that the slave trade yet exists in many parts of the world, and immense multitudes of the human race are still bought and sold like cattle in a fair, and involved in all the terrible calamities of interminable slavery; and the sentiment cannot be disguised, if ever it be destroyed, it must be through the instrumentality of the British people. Nothing can be more disgusting than to perceive, that this infamous system of oppression exists and flourishes, where we should least have expected to find it, IN THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA-yet such is really the case. The following advertisements are actually taken from their newspapers, and similar ones pollute most of their public journals— 66 "To be sold. A servant woman, acquainted with both city and country business, about thirty years of age, and sold because she wishes to change her place." New York paper. Twenty dollars reward will be paid for apprehending and lodging in jail, the following slaves, belonging to Joseph Irvin; Toм, a light mulatto, thirty-five years of age, can read and write, and preaches occasionally-and Charlotte, his wife; who decamped from their owner's plantation the 14th of September, 1817." 66 The following sentences are from "An Ordinance of the City Council of New Orleans." - Any slave, or slaves, residing or sleeping in any outhouse or building, but such as belong to their owners, shall receive twenty lashes.-Any slave who shall walk in the street, or open place, with a stick, or cane, or cudgel, shall be carried to the police jail, and receive twenty-five lashes.-The dancing and merriment of slaves shall take place only on Sundays, and if any continue dancing after sunset, they shall receive twenty-five lashes.-Any slave who shall be guilty of disrespect to any white person shall receive thirty lashes." Reader! all this, and much more of the same kind, takes place in a country, whose inhabitants boast perpetually of their freedom!! Would the English people, however the citizens of the United States may despise them, endure such laws, or such practices? Assuredly they would not. his assistance to whip Cæsar; of "At Natchez, in the State of Missonri," says an intelligent traveller, "I saw fourteen vessels freighted with human beings for sale. They had been collected in the several States by slave dealers, and shipped from Kentucky for a market. They were dressed up to the best advantage, on the same principle that jockeys These are scenes frequently exdecorate horses for sale." The same hibited in this boasted land of liberty writer adds, "Blacks who are pos--in a country where the people are sessed of the rights of citizenship, so ridiculously fastidious, that the are not admitted into churches vi- very servants will not endure to be sited by white people. There ex- called servants, and they are usuists a penal law, deeply written in ally termed "Helps!" "Be kind the minds of the whole white popula- | enough," said Mr. Fearon, "to tell tion, which subjects their coloured your mistress, that I want to see fellow-citizens to unconditional con- her." "My mistress, Sir! I tell tumely, and never-ceasing insult. you, I have no mistress, or master Even the white criminals in prison either. I will not tell her. You will not eat with the black culprits, may go yourself to her, if you want but are driven to a separate table. Mrs. ***. In this country there are Though New York is professedly a no mistresses or masters. I am a free state, it is only such on parch- woman citizen❞—was the impertiment-the black Americans in it are nent reply. The poor blacks, howpractically and politically slaves."* ever, greatly to their cost, can tell The people of America seem to be a very different tale. A slaveholder of opinion with Mr. Jefferson, and is a master, or rather, perhaps, a to act on the principle, that the tyrant of a horrible description. poor blacks are of an inferior species to the rest of mankind. Mr. Fearon affirms, "that in the States of New York and Jersey, the treatment of Americans of colour by their white countrymen, is worse than that of the brute creation. A few minutes before dinner my attention," says he, "was excited by the piteous cries of a human voice. Looking into a log barn I perceived the bar-keeper, and a stout man more than six feet high, called Colonel ***, and a negro boy about fourteen years of age, stripped naked, receiving the lashes of these monsters, who relieved each other in the use of a horsewhip. The poor boy fell on his knees praying that they would not kill him, and he would do any thing they pleased. At length the master of the inn arrived, and bade them desist, as the boy's refusal to cut wood was by his orders. The Colonel said, 'That he did not know what he had done, but that the bar-keeper requested * Sketches of America, by H. B. Fearon, p. 61, 168, 270. A work which Earl Grey has publicly noticed with his approbation. It would scarcely be believed, though it is literally a fact, that the Constitution of most of the different States begins with the following article, " ALL MEN are born equally free and independent." And although in the New England, and some other States, slavery is professedly abolished, it appears, that even the free blacks, however respectable or excellent in character, are, in many respects, outcasts from society; as if "God had not made of one blood all the nations of the earth." Well might even Mr. Birkbeck exclaim, I want language to express the loathing I feel for personal slavery; when practised by freemen it is most detestable. It is the leprosy of the United States-a foul blotch, which more or less contaminates the entire system in public and in private, from the President's chair to the cabin of the hunter."§ How can any liberal individual eulogize such a people? In every encomium I hear on this astonishing country, I cannot forget that, how Ibid, &1. + Ibid, p. 242--244. Sketches, p. 434. ever the citizens of it may boast of their liberties, a large proportion of them are detestable slaveholders. And whatever are the defects of our Constitution in principle or in practice, thanks be to God 'Slaves cannot breathe in England-if their lungs They touch our country, and their shackles fall; What are the friends of God and The To the reflecting mind a slave is a shocking spectacle. Yet how awful the consideration, that every individual who lives in the violation of the divine commands, is involved in the most fatal bondage. body of the poor negro may be bound, but "in thought" he may still be as free as ever"-the oppressor may fetter his mortal frame, but he knows not what a range his spirit takes"--perhaps it rises to heaven and holds converse with the Eternal Majesty, and anticipates, with unknown rapture, the moment, when-set free for ever he shall have an inheritance where the slaveholder has no admission--where "the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest." But the sinner, who is the slave of his evil passions, is a voluntary bondsman of the worst kind-his mind is fettered as well as his body. Sin and Satan tyrannize over the understanding, will, and affections of their votaries. Living and dying in this wretched bondage, as appears from a multitude of passages of Revelation, they are undone eternally. The present scene is a state of probation, and the character that is formed in this world will survive the grave, and is unalterable. There is only ONE-O that all eyes and all hearts were directed to himwho can raise the moral slave from his present awful and degraded con- sold themselves for nought," (Isa. lii. 3.) into the vilest slavery. Through the riches of his grace, HE and HE ONLY, gives liberty to the miserable captive," opens the prison doors to them that are bound," and confers a freedom, "Which whoso tastes, can be enslaved no more!" "If the Son make you free, ye shall be free indeed!" regions of darkness and woe, or Reader! eternal slavery in the liberty in the realms of light and victory, will be thy portion. Exthe faith. Hast thou been brought amine thyself, whether thou art in into the glorious liberty of God's dear children? A liberty from tyrannizing evil passions, and the curse of God's righteous law, justly due to thee on account of thy transmaster, hast thou devoted thyself to gressions? Renouncing every other the service of the Lord Jesus? Has the grace of God effectually taught thee to deny ungodliness, and righteously, and godly in this preworldly lusts, and to live soberly, sent evil world? Great Liberator, that you may O come to the dantly." How, if you neglect the "have life, and have it more abunglorious salvation of the Son of God, and utter ruin, which your iniquities will you escape the misery, death, deserve! No eye but his will pity, -no arm but his can possibly resto be gracious. Arise! Go to him cue you from destruction. He waits without delay-go instantly-tohe calls thee,-and for thine infinite morrow may be too late. Hark! cometh to me I will in no wise cast "Him that encouragement he says, out!" Coseley. B. H. D. |