ARRIVAL OF THE REV. MESSRS. SEABORN AND EDWARDS IN BERBICE. Ir affords us much satisfaction to state, that the Rev. H. S. Seaborn and family, the Rev. J. Edwards and Mrs. Edwards, who embarked on the 9th of May last, in the Thomas Snook, for New Amsterdam, Berbice, have reached their destination in health and comfort. Our friends landed at New Amsterdam on the 22nd of June, ult. THE SHIP THE friends of the Society will be gratified to learn that the Missionary ship Camden was spoken with on the 2nd of June, in lat. CAMDEN. 24 S., long. 32 W. by an American ship, the Eliza, bound to New Bedford. ORDINATION OF MISSIONARIES. MR. GEORGE PRATT. ON Thursday, July the 5th, 1838, Mr. George Pratt, Missionary, appointed to the Navigators Islands, was ordained at Southampton; the persons who engaged in the services were, the Rev. Messrs. Stevens, of Totten; Williams (Wesleyan ;) Dr. Draper (Baptist;) Flower, Titchfield; Adkins, Mr. Pratt's pastor; Henry Nott, the venerable Missionary from Tahiti; and the Home Secretary of the Parent Society. Mr. Nott, in describing the field to which our young brother is appointed, stated that on account of his infirm state of health, he should prefer answering any questions that might be addressed to him, to an elaborate consecutive discourse: accordingly, the following questions were answered by him from the pulpit, in the presence of a large, respectable, and greatly interested assembly. 1. What was the state of the inhabitants of the South Sea Islands when you and the brethren arrived? 2. What were the immediate means employed to effect the change which has happily taken place? 3. Were those means long in operation before the change was effected? 4. What was the definite character of the change on the morals, the religion, the social and political character of the people? 5. Has the character of the change been permanent or progressive? 6. Have the native churches evinced any thing Missionary in their character and operations? MR. JOHN LUMB. On Thursday, August 2, 1838, Mr. John Lumb, Missionary, appointed to Comba. conum, India, was ordained at Stepney Meeting. The Rev. A. Wells introduced the service by reading selected portions of Sacred Scripture, and by engaging in prayer. The Rev. E. Crisp, Missionary from the Station to which our young brother has been appointed, described the character and claims of the locality; the Rev. John Arundel asked the usual questions; the Rev. Dr. J. P. Smith (Mr. Lumb's tutor) offered the ordination prayer, with laying on of hands; the Rev. Dr. Fletcher (Mr. Lumb's pastor) delivered the charge; and the Rev. R. Saunders concluded. MR. JAMES KENNEDY. On Wednesday, August 1, 1838, Mr. James Kennedy, A.M., of King's College, Missionary, to Benares, was publicly set apart to his sacred work in Blackfriarsstreet Chapel, Aberdeen. The services of the day were commenced with prayer and reading the Scriptures, by the Rev. H. Angus, of the Secession Church; after which the Rev. Dr. Wardlaw preached from Numbers xiv. 21, asked the usual questions, and offered up the ordination prayer, with the laying on of hands; the Rev. Mr. Kennedy, (the Missionary's father) delivered the charge from Prov. xi. 30; Mr. Kennedy, the Mis sionary's brother, Mr. Scott, from Demerara, and several other ministers of various denominations took part in the important services of the day. DEPARTURE OF ON Tuesday Morning, July 31st, 1838, the Rev. W. H. Medhurst, with Mrs. Medhurst and family, together with Mr. William Lockhart, Medical Missionary appointed to China, and Choo Tih Lang, the converted MISSIONARIES. Chinese, returning to his family and country, sailed in the George the Fourth, Capt. Drayner, from Gravesend, for Batavia and China. EAST LANCASHIRE AUXILIARY. THE Seventeenth Anniversary of this auxiliary was held in Manchester, June 17th, and the three following days, and sermons on behalf of the Missionary cause were preached by the Rev. J. Clayton, Rev. J. Blackburn, Rev. J. Sortain, Rev. R. W. Hamilton, Rev. C. M. Birrell, and Rev. R. Knill. The public services on the Sabbath were well attended, and the collections amounted to more than 13007. On Monday evening, the Public Meeting was held in Grosvenor-street Chapel, J. H. Heron, Esq., in the chair. The Annual Sermon was preached on Tuesday evening, by the Rev. J. Clayton, in Mosley-street Chapel; and on Wednesday morning, a large company of the members and friends of the Society, exceeding 700 in number, met in the New Corn Exchange, for public break fast. The subsequent proceedings, (the chair being filled by Samuel Fletcher, Esq.) were interesting and impressive to a degree seldom before experienced. The lamented illness of the Rev. Dr. M'All occasioned a feeling of deep solemnity throughout the Meeting. Special prayer was offered on his behalf, and a resolution, expressive of the deepest sympathy, was unanimously passed. He had made an earnest request that the cause of Missions might not be allowed to suffer from any considerations whatever, and this was spontaneously met. The whole proceeds of the anniversary amounted to about 30007., and at no former period was the manifestation of a desire to send the Gospel to the heathen more evident and decided. NOTICE. THE Anniversary of the Southampton and Romsey Auxiliary Missionary Societies will be held (D. V.) at those places, on Sunday, Sept. 16th, 1838, and two following days. The Rev. Dr. Raffles, of Liverpool, and the Rev. J. J. Freeman, formerly Missionary at Madagascar, are engaged to attend. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. The thanks of the Directors are respectfully presented to the following:-viz, To the ladies of the United Associate Congregation, Biggar, for a box of apparel for the Hottentots on the Fish River Settlement; to Miss Hobson, Welford, for a box of fancy articles for Pinang; to the Missionary Working Society, in the Rev. John Burnet's congregation, for a box of work for the schools in the South Seas, under the care of Mrs. Williams; to the congregation of the Rev. J. Flower, Beccles, for a case of useful articles for Mr. Mather's school Benares; to the ladies of Mosley-street Chapel, Manchester, for a box of useful articles for Mrs. Beighton's School, Pinang; to Messrs. Mather and Headley, Newcastle, for a box of useful articles for the Rev. A. Robson; to S. B. East Kent, for a box of useful articles for Mrs. Dyer's Schools, Malacca; to Mr. Hubbard, Bernard-street, for 43 volumes of the Evangelical and other Magazines; to Mrs. Farrar, Heckmondwicke, for a box of linen-drapery, value 51. 5s.; to the children of the Above Bar Sundayschool, Southampton, for a box of apparel for Mrs. Pratt's school, Navigators Islands; to Mrs. Bunnell, Islington, for a parcel of useful articles for Mrs. Beighton, Pinang; to S. F., Clapham, and to the Rev. T. Williams, for Nos. and vols. of the Evangelical and other Magazines, &c. &c. Mr. Lockhart, Medical Missionary, returns his grateful acknowledgments to the ladies at Great George-st. Chapel, Liverpool, for a valuable case of fancy articles to be sold for the medical department of the Chinese Mission. MISSIONARY CONTRIBUTIONS, £ s. d.l Messrs. Palmer and Hope 5 8 8 E. Gouldsmith, Esq. Marlborough Chapel Aux. on account 0 S. Morley, Esq. T. A. Hankey, Esq. ...... 10 10 ...... 50 0 Derbyshire. 0 0 Aux. Soc. on account......10000 0 10 8 4 Messrs. J. E.Spicer & Sons 50 0 0 Devonshire. 5 0 0 Essex. per B. Eccles, Esq.: Blackburn, gen. pur.. ...211 13 11 Yorkshire. Bingley......................... 18 8 11 For Hervey Chapel...... 10 00 Skipton For Chapels at Madras, 1646 to be called James Dewhirst's, and Hannah Johnston's......... 20 00 Stainland 20 0 0 Wakefield, Zion Chapel... 57 13 8 For Chapels in India, to be called Zion, Thomas', the Two Marys', Zillah's...... 25 0 0 Salem Chapel ......... 25 13 3 Ladies' Mis. Basket 500 Alverthorpe Assoc....... 4 4 0 6 Brighouse................... 21 0 0 West Melton ............... 31 16 0 7 15 10 Lancashire. Mid Lancashire Aux. Soc. Barnsley 9 10 0 2 12 0 0 0 0 Cleckheaton. 53 2 9 For Chapels in India, to be called Ellen's, Ann's, and Sprott's Delph...... 0 Haslingden Darwen, Lower Chapel... 15 Colne..... Tockholes..................... Knowl Green Clitheroe Chorley, Hollingshed Ch. 17 Less exps. 201. 10s. 11d. 315 13 Dogley-lane, for Nat. Tea. For Nat.Tea. J. Burnley 10 0 Halifax, Square Chapel... 15 0 Sion Chapel 1 11 For Chapels in India, to be called Wade-street, and Wade-st. Branch 16 10 Heckmondwicke, Upper Chapel 1 0 0 Lower Chapel Nottingham, Castle-gate 63 12 5 James-street Friar-lane.... Public Meeting Edwin Firth, Esq....D. 30 0 Holmarth For Nat. Tea. J. W. G. 33 0 C Cockin... 28 13 5 7 7 0 12 11 0 Soc. .... 0 Glasgow College Assoc. 600 0 20 0 0 16 3 0 For Female Education 10 0 For Nat.Tea. J. Oldfield, and J. Wrigley Huddersfield, Collections ......... at 25th Anniversary ... 201 18 6 1 Idle. 10 0 0 Hutchesontown Relief Subscriptions Less exps. 41. 18s. 37 11 0 IRELAND. Hibernian Aux. Soc. on account For Nat. Tea. J. Geoghegan and J. Hutchin 5 4 615 14 0 0 son 0 30 1 3 15 0 10 35 0 0 15 0 0 501. 0 Londonderry, for a School 3 10 0 in the West Indies, to be 5 12 5 Colerain, Collection 50 0 0 112 0 Rehoboth.................. 27 9 6 Port Stewart, ditto......... 4 S0 W. Tyler, Printer, Bolt-court, Fleet-street. |