since June, amounts to two hundred, and about seventy are supposed to be hopefully converted.

In the Presbytery of Susquehannah, which has lately been received under the care of this Synod, while there is in many places a famine of the word of God, in others there are manifest proofs that God has not forgotten to be gracious. At North Moreland, Gibson, and Silver Lake, the power of God has been displayed in quickening his people, and rescuing sinners as brands from the burning. At Wilkesbarre and Kingston there has been a special work of grace, and fifty have declared themselves to be on the Lord's side.

In reviewing what God has done within the bounds of this Synod during the last year, ministers of the Gospel may find powerful motives to make full proof of their ministry-the people of God may find strong encouragement to engage in persevering and importunate prayer to Him who hath done great things for them. And all ought to join in the devout aspiration, "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. And blessed be his holy name for ever and let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen."

SUMMARY.

The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, have appointed JEREMIAH EVERTS, Esq., Corresponding Secretary, and HENRY HILL, Esq., Treasurer. The receipts of the Board last year were about $60,000, and the expenditures about $1,000 less. The receipts for the month ending 12th September last were $3,301 26.

Recent deaths. At Mayhew, Choctaw Nation, September 15, Mrs. SARAH V. KINGSBURY, wife of the Rev. C. Kingsbury, missionary.

At Salisbury, Vt., October 12th, Rev. C. PAIGE, aged 60. Rev. UZIEL OGDEN, D. D. of Newark, N. J. Rev JOHN OWEN, D. D., London; one of the Secretaries of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and the distinguished historian of that institution. Rev. JOHN COVERT, in Williamsburgh district, S. C.; Mr. C. was a native of New-York, a graduate of Columbia College, and passed through a course of Theological studies at the Princeton Seminary.

Russ Testament. The translation of the Testament into modern Russ is completed, and 30,000 copies printed. An edition of the book of Psalms has left the press, consisting of 15,000 copies. The Pentateuch, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes are translated, and Isaiah is begun.

Licensures. At the late meeting of the Presbytery of New-York, three young gentlemen were licensed to preach the Gospel. Four young men were licensed by the Presbytery of Philadelphia at their late meeting.

Notices and Acknowledgments.

"T. S."; "T." and "D. R." will be inserted.

The office of the CHRISTIAN HERALD and SEAMAN'S MAGAZINE, is removed to the Theological Bookstore of JoпN P. HAVEN, corner of John-street and Broadway, where all communications relating to the work may be left, addressed to "THE EDITOR."

A FIRE, which broke out in the printing office, when this number was nearly ready for publication, has been the cause of delay in issuing it.

During the late afflictive dispensation of Providence, our work was not delivered to all the subscribers, and we will thank those whose sets are incomplete, to ascertain what numbers are wanting, and send to the office for them as soon as convenient.

EIGHTH VOLUME.-Those subscribers who have not paid for the eighth volume of this work, which was completed on the first Saturday in May last, will oblige the proprietors by making immediate payment.

The ninth (present) volume will consist of 25 numbers, making 800 closely printed pages, at the low price of three dollars, in advance, or four dollars at the close of the volume.

The friends of this work will find it a faithful record of the progress of the Gospel in every part of the world. Besides intelligence, each number contains original articles, which are designed to promote the best interests of mankind. We have not half the patronage we need. We are sorry to say it, for it is exceedingly difficult to labour even for the public good, unless the public will furnish the means; and because, after all our labour, and pains, and perplexities for the want of means, we can do but little in accomplishing our purposes, from the fewness of our readers. One comfort we have, many of the best people in town and country, are our stanch supporters and friends. This one fact would brighten our hopes, if we had not toiled so long, not only without profit, but without compensation. We have, however, had compensation, in as much as we know that our pages have, originally, and by republication, met the eye, and in some degree influenced the mind of thousands.

England and Ireland.-We learn from England, that the place left vacant in the British Ministry by the death of Lord Londonderry, is filled by Mr. Canning, a gentleman well known for his popular and parliamentary abilities, and eminent, as well for acuteness and comprehensiveness of mind, as for a practical acquaintance with the duties of a statesman. Having been connected with the present ministry, and been an advocate of most of their measures, no material change is expected to take place at his suggestion, in the foreign or domestic policy of Great Britain.

It gives us great pleasure to learn from Ireland, that the distress in that country is abated, and it is a fact highly honourable to the people of England that, of the money raised by subscription to assist the Irish, a considerable surplus remains; this it is intended to devote to the encouragement of some of the more oppressed branches of Irish industry. We hope, however, that the recent state of Ireland will not pass off from the attention of those who have her welfare in their hands, without causing some permanent effectual change in the internal economy of that country. In vain will be the endeavour, with the flow of individual liberality, however ready, to water fields made desolate by a general system of bad institutions; not more in

vain, in our opinion, than to expect Etna to be quenched by the numerous rills which the occasional warmth of the sun, causes to flow from its snowy summits. For distress owing to the internal economy of a nation, external remedies must ever be ineffectual.

Continental Europe.-The affairs of Continental Europe, including the momentous question of hostilities in its South-eastern quarter, are in suspense, awaiting the issue of the congress of sovereigns at Verona. It is not among the least interesting features of the present age, that such congresses are held for preserving the peace of Europe, and have taken the place, to so great an extent, of the intrigue and jealousies by which the same object was attempted to be secured by the statesmen of former ages. This system of a mutual deference by the great powers of Europe to the voice of the continent, and of a peaceable discussion of matters affecting the general interests, are happy incidents in the history of our times. Yet, as friends to the general liberty and improvement of mankind, we look with apprehension at the right which is assumed of interfering in the concerns of powers not parties to the plan, and more especially at the principle of supporting established systems, however corrupt, unless altered (strange absurdity!) by the government itself, whose misrule makes reform necessary. It is understood that no interference will be attempted with Spanish affairs; to such interference France, under the restraint of a government in which some little regard is obliged to be paid to the popular voice, is said to be hostile; and the slowly growing tranquillity of Spain, in which the constitutional party have an entire ascendency, would render such interference too palpably improper for even a congress of sovereigns to attempt.

The Greeks continue their war with energy, and considerable success; although on the subject of the latter, reports are very contradictory. It is certain, however, that measures of firmness and wisdom are adopted; among these is the giving up of the administration of military affairs by the Senate to a Dictator; a measure indicative, it is true, of critical times, but of men united and determined.

DOMESTIC.

Return to our homes.-But of all news, that of our return to our homes and of the cessation of the pestilence are most grateful and interesting to us; and in offering our congratulations to our readers on this event, we lose our sober character of politicians, and usurp that of private friends. The happy return of so many friends to their social intercourse and of so many fellow-spirits to their common and accustomed occupations and engagements for the advancement of their own just interests, and the promotion of the moral and religious welfare of our community, the escape of so many uninjured, through the danger to which we have been exposed, are circumstances which, in the feelings of our hearts, turn rough November into Spring Those who have felt with us the inconveniences of an absence from our homes and accustomed comforts and avocations, of the separation of friends and families, of the dispersion of social circles and religious communities, who have shared with us the alarm at the

almost visible approach of disease and death to the abodes of our friends, and our own, and who have been embraced in the general confusion which has interrupted us in the performance of so many duties, and exposed us so often and so much to unprofitable companions and employments, and thrown us into so many temptations to neglect the Sabbath, and its ordinances, and our stated duties of religious reading and meditation, will well know how to appreciate with us the blessings of a removal of these evils. And it is no small incident too in the pleasure of our present meeting, that the removal of the disease is so complete, and that the return of our citizens to their houses has been attended with so little injury to any of them. Indeed the whole of this dispensation of Providence, grievous as has been the calamity with which our city has been chastened, has been full of mercy. The disease, although very mortal, has had a comparatively small number of victims; its progress was slow and regular, to a degree almost mathematically exact; its warning was timely, and proved, for the most part, effectual; our houses, during our absence and their consequent exposure, have been preserved from conflagration and plunder, almost entirely; and among the victims of the disease are few of those whose character and labours have signalized them as the support of all that is useful and profitable among us.* And amidst the blessings of our return, let us take care that our hearts have not been hardened by our mercies, and that the removal of present apprehension become not a state of fatal security; many of us have been alarmed for our own safety; many more have, in their own view, been within an inch of danger, and many have suddenly died who never supposed themselves near danger: neither imagined peril nor fancied security can, therefore, be trusted to as indicatious of what is to befall us; nor let us suppose that life is any more secure because we have now escaped. Mortal as was the pestilence which we have witnessed, yet how small is the proportion of our population which the yellow fever carries to the grave, and how numerous, and how much more important are the other regular purveyors to the king of terrors. He has been visibly near to us; the noisy streets and crouded halls of our proud city have been stilled at his approach; he has put the question distinctly to each one of us, are you ready to meet me? And although one weapon has been taken out of his hands, and we have been rescued by the Divine arm from the impending blow, let us not, like savages after a victory, give ourselves up to stupid exultation at our recent escape, or imaginary security, but let us soberly ponder the meaning of the assurance, that we know neither the day nor the hour when the Son of man cometh.

November 6, 1822.

Let us take care that in reflecting on calamities, the second cause of which we have so vainly endeavoured to discover, we have not so fixed our eyes upon second causes as to have lost sight of the one first cause, or forgotten the truth that the hand of Providence does not less really exercise the control over every occurrence in the ordinary and regular succession of seed time and harvest, summer and winter, heat and cold, than over events strictly miraculous.

Seaman's Magazine,

He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they [sailors] glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

A TRAVELLER'S JOURNAL.

EXETER.

Psalm s.

ON Wednesday Morning, July 10th, at four A. M. arrived at Exeter, and in the course of the day had the pleasure to see the Bethel Flag hoisted by that active and pious sailor, George W. In the evening preached at the Quay, to a very large congregation of sailors from Topsham, Starcross, and other places. The utmost decorum prevailed. I stood on the deck three vessels were well filled, and numbers stood on the shore. One or two naval officers here are active in the cause, but they have had no public meetings, and I had not time to stay at present.

BRISTOL.

Friday, 12th March. Interested with the view of the seaman's chapel, especially the figure head, which is a large folio Bible open. The 107th Psalm appears in large letters, and can be distinctly read from the shore. In the evening preached on board to a crowded assembly. It was highly gratifying to me, especially when I recollected two years since I began preaching on the decks of ships in Bristol; and, after innumerable difficulties, opposition, and discouragements, succeeded at last in establishing a Seamen's Friend Society, and alternately in obtaining the vessel. My esteemed friend, the Rev. Thomas Roberts, and some of the Committee, were then actively engaged with me in this work. I rejoice to see they have succeeded so well. The ship is admirably well fitted up, is well attended, is out of debt, and visited by persons from all parts, from curiosity. The gentlemen of the committee are very active. The Bethel Companies I had the pleasure to form in the spring of last year are of the first importance to the worship of God in this ship. There are many pleasing instances of success to this cause. Trowmen (i. e. the men who navigate a sort of barges or lighters up the Severn, to Gloucester) attend also as well as seamen, and some of them appear to manifest a decided attachment to religion. I was first advised to preach among the trowmen here, two years since, by that pious and active merchant, Stephen Prust, Esq.; I am happy to find the result has been most blessed. A captain this evening informed me of a friend of his, a captain also, who received serious impressions from a discourse I had preached in London, and was now zealously en gaged in gathering his brother seamen to Christ Jesus.

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