more or less deeply impressed. I preach every evening in the week at different stations, three or four miles from the meeting-house; and find attentive, mourning, inquiring and rejoicing audiences. 17. Yesterday Mr. Going baptized nine persons, five of them young men, from twelve to twenty-two years of age. This makes twenty-four baptized here since the commencement of the revival, eleven of whom are young men. Of this number I believe the Lord is impressing several with the duty of preparing themselves for the work of the ministry. We feel that we have every encouragement to redouble our prayers and exertions. and evening Mr. Going. The Lord was very evidently present blessing his word. Friday morning was spent as a season of prayer. One old man of seventy years, who had spent a whole life in sin, had at the six o'clock prayer meeting requested the prayers of the meeting; and now several we trust "effectual fervent prayers of the righteous," which avail much, were put up for his salvation. In the afternoon Mr. Pacard, Congregational minister, at Spencer, preached repentance to a large and very deeply interested audience, from the parable of the prodigal son. Before closing the meeting Mr.Going requested, first those who had found the Saviour since the commencement of the revival, There has lately been a prothen those who had, after count- tracted meeting held in Spencer, ing the cost, seriously resolved in the Congregational church, atthey would immediately "Arise tended with happy results; proband go to their Father"-to arise. ably one hundred on the last day, About thirty of each class com- rose for prayers; and a goodly plied with the invitation, though I number are rejoicing in the Sanoticed others of both classes who viour. Our meeting was underkept their seats, and knew of taken in connection with one in others who were not present. the Congregational church in the The revival at this moment pre- south parish (Brookfield ;) the resents as interesting and encourag-sult of the meeting there has been ing an aspect as at any former favorable; about thirty, five of period. Indeed it seems to be them old men of seventy years, deepening and widening. My among the number. Excuse my whole time is devoted to visiting haste. Pray for us. In christian from house to house, and scarcely affection, I subscribe myself, your a house do I enter but some are brother in Jesus, rejoicing in the Saviour; others D. W. ELMORE. Account of Moneys received by the Treasurer of the General Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States for Foreign Missions, from Sept. 22, to Oct. 22, 1831. Cash from Mrs. Elizabeth Coggeshall of New Bedford, towards the support of a female child in Bur. mah, named Elizabeth Coggeshall, Mr. Jonathan Whitney of Conway, for Burman Bible, Bap. Fem. Miss. Soc. Newark, N. J. per Mrs. Sally Vanderpool, Treas. Cumberland Assoc. Me. being a contribution taken in North Yarmouth, at the annual meet- 15,00 5, 50, 25,67 A sister in Corinth, Me. for publishing the Bible in Burmah, per Dea. Hunting, Penobscot Assoc. being a contribution taken at the annual meeting at Charleston, Me. 30,10 1,10 5, ,25 ,25 Eli Towne, of do. 2, 139 Mrs. Judge Kinsley, Hampden, Me. Bap. ch. Bangor, Me. contributed at the monthly concert for prayer, per Dea. Clark, The above sum was collected by the Treasurer, while on a recent visit to the state of Maine; 5, ,06 82,43 Friend to Bur. Miss. after attending the prayer meeting held at Rev. Mr. Jacobs' church, Cam- Per C. Everett, Esq. 5, A little girl in the Sab. sch. in Portsmouth, N. H. per Mr. T. Simons, The late widow Peniah Baxter, of Pomfret, Con. for Bur. Miss. 935 2,59 200, This sum was fowarded by Rev. Messrs. Gurdon Robbins, James Elliot, and John Paine, Fem. Bap. Bur. Miss. Soc. in Sharon, for translating the scriptures, or otherwise, as the Board 8,25 1,00 A female friend of this city for Bur. tracts, per Rev. Dr. Bolles, A little boy, for Bur. Miss. by his father, 25, 162,53 ,25 Brookline (Mass.) church, for purchasing Infant school apparatus, for the mission schools at Society connected with the 1st Bap. Ch. Boston. for the support of a Burman child named 20, Female friend, being the first payment towards educating a female Burman child at Maulmein, Juv. Miss. Soc. connected with the Male Department of the Federal-st. Bap. Sun. Sch. Boston, Friend to Bur. Bible, per Rev. Dr. Bolles, Middlesex and Norfolk Bap. Miss. Soc. per Dea. James Fosdick, Treas. for the following H. P. L. for the support of a Burman child, named Eliza Lincoln, Dr. Thomas Huntington, Brooklyn, Con. for Bur. Miss. per W. Nichols, Mr. Otis Converse, Treas. of Worcester Co. Bap. Char. Soc. per Mr. Andrus March, for the Young Men's Tract Soc. Cambridge, per Calvin E. Morse, Treas. Female Tract Soc. West Cambridge, for printing tracts in Burmah, by Mrs. Nelson, Treas. purposes: 113,66 25, 4, 7,34 150, 25, 20, Miss Hepzibah N. Bennett, of Middleborough, Mass. being deficiency in amount forwarded A few young females of Oliver-St. N. Y. for Bur. tracts, per Rev. S. H. Cone, A young man, a member of Rev. Mr. Knowles's church, for the Bur. Miss. per. T. Simons, Infants' Bur. Bib. Soc. connected with the 1st Bap. Sab. Sch. Boston, per H. J. Howland, Mrs. Mary Arnold, of Cumberland, a member of the church in Medfield, Mass. to be appro- Rev. Daniel Hascall, Treas. Madison Bap. For, Miss. Soc. Aux. &c. H. LINCOLN, Treas. The last item in our account last month, from the Oliver-St. Foreign Mission Society, N. Y. we ought to have stated, was given by this liberal church, for a printing press in Burmah. Let other churches follow their generous example, in such distinct objects of charity, and acts of benevolence. The American Quarterly Register, for November, contains an interesting Memoir of that devoted friend of Missions, Mr. EVARTS, late Corresponding Secretary of the American Board of Missions, from which we extract the following particulars. MR. EVARTS was born of respectable parents, in the town of Sunderland, Vermont, on the 3d of February, 1781. At the age of ten years, he removed with his father to the town of Georgia, in the same State. In this place he acquired the usual English education, and commenced preparation for college. In January, 1798, he repaired to East Guilford, in New Haven county, Connecticut, and pursued his studies under the direction of the Rev. Dr. Elliot, the minister of the place. In October of the same year, and in the eighteenth year of his age, he entered Yale College. Here he had the high privilege of listening to the instructions of President Dwight, both as a preacher, and as the director of the studies of the senior class. The class with which he was connected, consisted of nearly sixty members at the time of graduation, and contained an unusual amount of talent. It has furnished, perhaps, as great a number of useful and distinguished men, as any class that has received the honors of the institution. Mr. Evarts, as we learn from one of his classmates, was much beloved and respected by his fellow students. He applied himself to his various studies with great diligence; he then gave much promise of his future eminence as a writer, by the facility and correctness with which he communicated his thoughts. There were men in his class who pushed their researches farther than Mr. Evarts did, into some of the branches of literature and science. As a general scholar, however, he had no superiors. In his senior year, during the winter of 1801-2, Yale College was visited with an interesting revival of religion. Among the fruits of it was Mr. Evarts. His feelings, though generally calm and equable, were, sometimes, characterized by great warmth and tenderness. In the April following, he made a public profession of religion, and joined the church in the college. At the time his DEC. 1831. 45 class graduated, in 1802, he united with those of his classmates who were professors of religion, in a mutual covenant, a copy of which has been found among his private papers, to pray for each other, to learn one another's circumstances, and to correspond with and counsel one another in subsequent life. It was a singular felicity for Evarts, and his young friends, to enjoy the instructions of such a man as President Dwight-one, "who did his duty with his whole mind and heart, who thought nothing adequately done, till all was done which the case admitted of." "Into his recitations and discussions he also threw a vast fund of practical instruction, on almost every subject of life, manners, and human business; for few men ever observed more carefully and extensively." In the various subjects, which came before the senior class, it was usual for the President to assume a considerable range of statement and argument, so that the driest parts of logic and metaphysics were rendered exceedingly interesting and instructive. To the counsels and labors of this excellent man, the successive classes of students were greatly indebted. While attending upon his instructions, Mr. Evarts was in the habit of taking notes, or short memoranda-a habit which he continued through life. His appointment at the commencement, in which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, was an oration. His subject was the "Execution of Laws." "At the close of it," says one who was present, "when in a strain of commanding eloquence, he introduced Lord Mansfield as rebuking the British community, it seemed as though every heart anticipated in the youthful speaker, some future champion of liberty and law, that should be the pride of his country." This performance subsequently appeared in a series of numbers from a weekly paper printed in Wiscasset, Maine, and was publickly attributed by the editor, to the pen of President Dwight. After leaving college, he engaged in no settled employment till April, 1803, when he took charge of an academy, in the town of Peacham, in Vermont. In this employment, he remained nearly a year. Soon after the close of his connection with this academy, he returned to New Haven, and entered himself as a student at law, in the office of the late Judge Chauncey. In this office, Mr. Evarts enjoyed eminent facilities for obtaining a knowledge of his profession. Mr. Chauncey was a striking instance of a self-taught man, rising, by native energy and unwearied application, to a post of great usefulness. Without the advantages of a public education, he reached a commanding eminence in his profession. He was attorney for the State of Connecticut, and in 1789, was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court. Under him Mr. Evarts acquired a familiar acquaintance with the principles of law, and political economy. Early in the summer of 1806, he took the oath of admission to the bar, and opened an office for the practice of his profession in New Haven. His business in the profession which he had chosen was very limited, and his income from that source did not much exceed the mere expenses of his office, the charge of his family being defrayed principally by keeping boarders. This fact is, doubtless, to be ascribed, not to the want of energy and skill in his business, but to the well known circumstance, that in this profession especially, years of industry and application to study, must be expended, before the general confidence of the community can be acquired. Mr. In May, 1810, Mr. Evarts removed to Charlestown, near Boston, for the purpose of pursuing the duties of his profession, and also to take charge of a literary and religious monthly publication-the Panoplist. This work was commenced in June, 1805, and was discontinued in 1820.* With what ability Mr. Evarts discharged the duties of editor, thousands in the Christian community well know. While the literary character of the work is, in general, very respectable, there are occasional articles of great ability. Evarts, it is well known, was the author of a large part of the original matter inserted in its pages, from 1810 to 1820. His published pieces, in June, 1814, amounted to two hundred and twenty-nine. Most of these were inserted in the Panoplist. As a vindicator of the great doctrines of the gospel, as a repository of interesting biography, as a record of the first thoughts and earliest aspirations of those who laid the foundations of our benevolent societies, as an index of the literary character of the religious community in this country, and in its last years, as the organ of the American Board of Missions, the files of the Panoplist will be of great value to future generations. In June, 1810, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, was formed at Bradford, Massachusetts, for the purpose of devising and prosecuting measures for the extension of the gospel in heathen lands. In 1812, at the third annual meeting of the Board, Mr. Evarts was elected Treasurer, and in 1813, was chosen a member of the Board, and of the Prudential Committee. Besides these duties, Mr. Evarts was intimately associated with Dr. WORCESTER, the Corresponding Secretary, in conducting the correspondence of the Board, in maturing the plans for the complete organization of the Christian community into auxiliary associations, and in all the concerns of the missions. In 1821, Dr. Worcester died, and Mr. Evarts was, with great unanimity, chosen to succeed him as Corresponding Secretary. His field of labor was now much enlarged. It was such a sphere as would call forth his great powers. In 1811, it was thought that the American churches had not zeal and ability enough to sustain a single mission to the heathen, and one of the missionaries actually received a few hundred dollars in England. In 1810-11, the income of the Board was about fourteen hundred dollars; in 1821-22, when Mr. Evarts became Secretary, it was more than sixty-one thousand dollars. So remarkably had the Lord of missions smiled on this infant enterprise. Since that time, the progress of this noble institution has been equally cheering. In 1827-28, the income of the Board exceeded one hundred thousand dollars. The number of letters now prepared, annually, at the Missionary Rooms, many *It is due the late Dr. Morse to state, that he commenced the publication of the Panoplist, and principally by his personal efforts conducted the work for five ED. years with much ability. |