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rested the preceding night, he replied, "The Lord has spared my life one night longer; but I never longed for any thing so really, as to die and to be with my Saviour." Towards the close of his last sickness, he exclaimed with emphasis and in a voice stronger than usual-" I am now ready to be offered,

and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day."

ORDINATIONS, &c.

Feb. 9, Wm. W. Hall recently a student at the Newton Theological Institution, was ordained as pastor of the Baptist church and society at North Marshfield, Mass. Sermon by Rev. Silas Hall.

March 3, Mr. Benjamin Ropes was ordained at Haverhill, N. H. as an evangelist. Sermon by Rev. Timothy Spaulding.

March 10, Mr. Enoch T. Winter was ordained pastor of the Baptist church at Bradford, N. H. March 17, Mr. Norman Fox was ordained in the Baptist meeting house, Chester, N. Y.

The new and beautiful meeting house, erected by the Baptist church in Hartford, Con. was dedicated, March 23. Sermon by the pastor of the church, Rev. G. F. Davis.

March 27, the branch of the Federal street Baptist church at South Boston was constituted an independent church, by the name of the South Baptist church, Boston. Sermon by Rev. H. Malcom, from 1 Sam. 30: 6.

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Account of Moneys received by the Treasurer of the General Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States for Foreign Missions, from April 25, to June 25, 1831.

From the Madison For. Miss. Soc. Aux. &c. per Rev. D. Hascall, Treas. to be appropriated as follows:

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Hancock Miss. Soc. Aux. &c. Me. per Rev. J. Gillpatrick, by the hand of Mr. J. Faulkner, viz.
Male Pri. Soc. in Sedgwick,

5,00

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Rev. Amos Allen, being part of a legacy of the late Solomon Billings, of Brook

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A stranger, for Bur. Miss.

Rhode Isl. Bap. State Con. for For. Miss. per N. Waterman, Jr. Esq. Treas.
Bap. Fem. Miss. Soc. of Seekonk, Mass. Aux. &c. by Mrs. Anna Grafton, Pres. for the Bur. Miss.
per Rev. Benj. C. Grafton,

Unknown friend in Aurora, Portage Co. Ohio, for For. Miss. per Mr. B. Rouse, Cleaveland, Ohio,
Dea. James Loring, Treas. Boston Bap. For. Miss. Soc. contributed by Juv. Miss. Soc. of the Sab. Sch.
in Bap. Ch. Union-St. Boston, per Miss Sarah Jepson, Treas. for female schools in Burmah,
Mr. Goodale, of South Boston, towards procuring a bell for Thomas Miss. Sta. per Mr. Walton,
Mr. Robert Scott, Amesbury, for Bur. Bib. per Messrs. Lincoln & Edmands,
Board of Bap. State Cun. of N. C. per H. Austin, Esq. Treas. for Bur. Miss.

2,83 100,00

25,50 6,00

8,24

,50

3,00

120,00

Dea. James Fosdick, Treas. Middlesex and Norfolk Miss. Soc. for the following objects:

Foreign missions,

Burman mission,

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Education of Burman youth,
Burman Bible,

Oxford, Me, Miss. Soc. Aux. &c. for For. Miss. per Rev. A. Wilson,

Elder Nath' Chase, of Bucksport, Me. for Indian missions, per Rev. A. Wilson,

369,70

10,00

14,30

23,00

-417,00

18,CO

,81

100,00

33,50

Female For. Miss. Soc. of the First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, per Rev. W. T. Brantly,
Pennsylvania Bap Miss. Soc. per Rev. Samuel Huggens, Treas. having been contributed as follows:
Sansom Street Female Miss. Soc

50,00

Foreign Miss. Soc. of the First Bap. Church, Philadelphia, per Mr. Wm. Smith,
Sansom-Street Fem. Miss. Soc. for Burman schools, 20-Foreign miss. 75-Indian miss. 75, 170,00
Rev. Joseph Walker, in full of ten dollars,

Forwarded by Rev. W. T. Brantly,

6,50

C. Entzminger, Esq. of St. Matthews Parish, Orangeburg District, S. C. being the second payment towards 500 dolls. to aid in translating the Scriptures in Burmah, per Rev B. Manly,

-260,00

50,00

A friend in Wells, Me. "for publishing the glorious gospel to the poor pagans," per Capt J. Littlefield, 10,00
Dea James Loring, Treas of the Boston Bap. For. Miss Soc having been contributed by the Primary
For. Miss. Soc. of the Charles-Street Bap. church and congregation, Boston, for foreign missious,
per Dea. S. I.othrop, Treas.

P. Davis, jr. Esq. of Detroit, Michigan, for Indian stations in that Territory,

Wm. Colgate, Esq. of New York, having been contributed as follows:

Courtland Miss Soc. Aux. &c. per Rev. Alfred Bennett,

Seneca Association Miss. Soc. one gold ring and cash,

Oliver-Street Fem. Miss. Soc. per Mrs. Mary Purser,

Oliver Street Fem. Miss. Soc. per Rev. S. Cone, for general purposes,

A friend for the Burman mission, per W. Colgate, Esq.

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John T. Anderson, Esq. of Hanover Co. Va towards the education of a Burman child to be called
Frances Ann Anderson, per Rev. L. Rice,

10,00

A constant reader of the Missionary Magazine, for the Burman mission,
Mr. A Baldwin, of Townsend, Mass. for the Burman mission, per Mr. Wright,

5,00

2,00

Mr Jacob C Woods, Executor of the will of Miss Louisa Smith, late of Walpole Norfolk Co. Mass.
per Rev. Moses Curtis, of Medfield, Mass being a legacy for missionary purposes,
Penobscot Foreign Miss. Soc. Aux. &c. per Mr. Levi Morrill, Treas.-thirteen dollars by Dea. Benj.
Greene, and sixty dollars from Elder Hatch,

Ladies Miss. Soc. of Robertville, S. C. forwarded by Mrs. Phoebe M. Robert, Sec for the Bur. miss. Mrs Sally Purmort, of Jay, Essex Co. N. Y. by Mr. Sawyer, four dollars, being proceeds of a gold necklace,

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HB Rounds, Esq. Treas. of the Utica Bap. For. Miss. Soc. per Messrs. Lincoln & Edmands, viz. Watertown church, N. Y. to educate 2 Burman child to be called Jacob Knapp, after their pastor, being the first instalment,

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Friends in Beverly, Mass belonging to Rev. Mr. Aldrich's Society, being the first payment towards
educating a Burman child to be called Francis Macomber, per Rev. Mr. Aldrich,
Young Ladies Judson Society, of Cambridge, for the education of Burman females, under the care of
Mrs. Wade, per L. Farwell, Esq.

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Troy, N. Y. Baptist Fem. Miss. Soc. for the Bur. mssion, per Mrs. Mahala Dennison, Sec.
Baptist Church in Troy, N. Y. for the Bur. miss. per Rev B. M. Hill, Pastor,

13,CO

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Dea. Amasa Brown, Treas. of Black River Miss. Soc N. Y.

Thirteen collars for printing the Bible in Burmah, the remainder for Bur. miss.
Watertown church, N. Y. towards the support and ed. of a Bur. child, nanied Jacob Knapp,
A youth, for Bur. Miss.

Forwarded by Rev. Jesse Elliot, by the hand of Mr. Abner Webb,
From York Mc. Bap. Miss. Soc. Aux. &c. per A. Smith, Jr. Treas. contributed as follows:

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The Baptist church in Rowe, Mass. for printing the Bible in Burmah, per Mr. P. Hall,

4,12

H. LINCOLN, Treas.

TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.

AN account of the revival of religion at Troy, and other deferred articles,

will appear in our next Number.

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THOUGHTS ON THE DANGERS INCIDENT TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SABBATH SCHOOLS:

Delivered before the Sabbath School and Bible Class Association in the Newton Theological Institution, April 11, 1831. By H. J. RIPLEY, Professor of Biblical Literature and Pastoral Duties in the Newton Theological Institution.

THE beneficial tendency of well conducted Sabbath schools is conceded by the judicious and informed part of the community. Philanthropists and statesmen, as well as Christians and ministers of the gospel, proclaim their excellence, and connect with them the prosperity and happiness of coming generations. The members of Theological Institutions, then, may be expected to cherish a deep interest in these nurseries of piety, and to avail themselves of opportunities for becoming better acquainted with their condition and results, and for advancing them to a state of greater completeness and of more extensive influence. The forming of Bible Class and Sabbath School Associations, among those who will in a few years occupy important stations in the churches, shows that to some extent this subject is justly appreciated. I rejoice that in this Theological Institution the interests of Sabbath schools are occupying a prominent place.

The Association which you have formed, will, I trust, be attended with incalculable advantage. Coming, as you do, from various sections of the country, visiting, in your seasons of vacation, still other sections, and receiving printed publications from various sources, you may be expected to become better acquainted with the actual state of means for the religious instruction of the young. In the course of a few years you will be widely scattered, and then it will be in your power, by epistolary communications, essentially to benefit your successors in this society, by making known the wants of different places, the means best adapted to supply those wants, and by imparting the results of personal experience. Not only may this society become a depository of the most useful inforAUGUST, 1831.

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mation, but it may diffuse information by its members from year to year entering into pastoral engagements, and by means of publications whose columns are open for the reception of such intelligence. And is it too much to hope for, that by your mutual consultations, by your attending to particular topics relative to the religious instruction of the young, you may devise improvements in the existing plans? When regarded as members of this Sabbath School Association, and as theological students enjoying helps for acquiring a correct knowledge of the Bible, is it too much to hope for, that you will become workmen that need not to be ashamed, not only as ministers and pastors, but also as those upon whose direction Sabbath schools will mainly depend?

We hear much (not indeed too much) of the benefits resulting and yet to result from Sabbath schools. But while you contemplate these benefits, I trust also your minds will be occasionally and very seriously directed to the dangers which may be incident to them. That much human imperfection has mingled with the manage. ment of Sabbath schools and Bible classes, who does not know? That much imperfection still remains, and consequently that dangers ought to be guarded against, who can doubt, especially when he considers that the sacred institutions of the gospel, proceeding directly from a divine source, have sometimes been contaminated by earthly mixtures, and have even been made the occasion of ruin to many an immortal mind?

It is, my brethren, to a consideration of some dangers which may be apprehended from the existing arrangements for Sabbath school instruction, that I wish now to direct your thoughts.

1. It is the obvious dictate of revelation, and strong principles natural to the human heart coincide with this dictate, that parents should have much to do with the religious instruction of their children. The natural affection which a parent must feel for his offspring, and the confidence which a child reposes on the instructions of his parents, are peculiarly favorable circumstances. Besides, who, like a judicious parent, can seize the proper times, and deal out instruction in the proper measures? Who like him can bear with the peevishness and childishness of the little scholar, and can know when to curb and when to excite ? But no proof is needed, that parental instruction is all-important, is indispensable to the proper culture of the child. With this nothing should be allowed to interfere. Now, unless I greatly mistake, there is danger that many parents may feel themselves exempted from this duty, in consequence of the advantages which the Sabbath school furnishes. The ignorance and the indolence of many parents may shelter themselves under the wing of the Sabbath school; and even natural affection may plead with some for an exemption from this duty, by intrusting the performance of it to those who are supposed to be more capable of discharging it.

Parents may also think themselves relieved, by the Sabbath school, from personally instructing their children, on account of the irregularity with which their own instructions would have to be imparted. By not rightly distributing their time, or by not rigidly

adhering to a right distribution, they find various operations interfering with each other, and not unfrequently some of their duties wholly neglected; and the long intervals which occur are specially injurious to their children's advancement in the knowledge of the Bible. By irregularity and various sorts of mismanagement, the waywardness of their children increases, and the parents may come at length to the settled belief (and perhaps in their case, after having spoiled their children, it may be true,) that almost any one can do more good to their children than themselves can perform. But whatever may be said of the Sabbath school as furnishing a system of correctives for children who have been the victims of such mismanagement, it is certain that those parents greatly mistake who deliberately neglect at a very early period the religious instruction of their children in consequence of the provisions which Sabbath schools furnish. The truth is, these schools are intended not to supersede, but to assist, domestic instruction. And nothing can be plainer, than that the benefits of Sabbath schools must be exceedingly restricted, unless the scholars receive at home instruction that may prepare them for the school, and instruction suited to deepen the impression which the school exercises may make. I fear also that parents who may be willing to relieve themselves of responsibility by placing it upon others, will directly counteract the good they profess to desire for their children from the Sabbath school, and which they flatter themselves their children will more readily gain from the school, than from the domestic instructions which they might impart; for such a shrinking from responsibility, or rather such a glad withdrawing of themselves from it, will have a baleful influence upon their whole characters, and will produce in numerous particulars a carelessness of conduct, and an unconcern respecting the example they set before their children. And may

it not be a natural consequence, if children receive all their religious instruction from those who are not their parents, that they will not regard their parents with that religious reverence which their relation and their best interests require and may they not naturally be led to undervalue those who have been appointed by the God of their existence as their protectors and guides?

The true interests of the rising generation, then, and no less the true interests of Sabbath schools, require that parents should cherish a deep sense of their personal responsibility, should regard the Sabbath school chiefly as a most valuable auxiliary to their own efforts. The altar of domestic devotion must not be deserted, because we can resort to the public altar of the sanctuary. Upon no pretence must the vivifying heat of family religion be chilled. The assiduities of parental care cannot be safely substituted by any other anxiety, by any other diligence, however intense, however constant. Let parents then be continually reminded, that while divine authority proclaims, "Children, obey your parents in the Lord;" the same authority proclaims with a plainness which cannot be misunderstood, and an urgency which must never be unheeded, "Ye fathers, bring up your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." Whatever other persons may do in the training up of children, upon parents is laid an in

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