eral donations. "First, To the Hottentot Christians at Bavian's kloof and Grune kloof, in South Africa, so many Bibles and Testaments; second, To the Reverend Dr. Van der Kemp, at Bethelsdorp, South Africa, for the Christian Hottentots, &c. fifty Dutch Testaments and twelve Dutch Bibles; third, to the Reverend Mr. Anderson, Orange River, South Africa, fifty Dutch Testaments, and Twelve Dutch Bibles, fourth, To the Reverend Mr. Albrecht, in the Namacqua country, South Africa, fifty Dutch Testaments and twelve Dutch Bibles; fifth, To the Rev. Mr. Kicherer, Graaff Reinet, South Africa, one hundred Dutch Testaments and twelve Dutch Bibles." Now, what names and what countries are these?-They are the very countries which the Missionary Society is now cultivating, and the names of the very laborers sent out and maintained by them. The Bibles and Testataments are sent out in behalf of the many hundreds whom our Society had previously reclaimed from heathenism: The one Society is enabled to scatter the good seed in such profusion, because the other Society had prepared the ground for receiving it. Nor are the labors of these illustrious men confined to the business of christianizing: they are at this moment giving the arts, and industry, and civilization, to the natives: they are raising a beautiful spectacle to the moral eye amid the wilderness around them;-they are giving piety, and virtue, and intelligence, to the prowling savages of Africa; and extending among the widest of nature's children the comforts and the decencies of humanized life. O, ye orators and philosophers, who make the civilization of the species your dream! look to Christian missionaries, if you want to see the men who will realize it: you may deck the theme with the praises of your uusubstantial eloquence; but these are the men who are to accomplish the business! They are now risking every earthly comfort. of existence in the cause; while you sit in silken security, and pour upon their holy undertaking the cruelty of your scorn!* "But I must draw to a close; and shail only offer one donation more to your notice, as an evidence of the close alliance in point of effect betwixt the Bible and Missionary Societies-those two great fellow taborers in the vineyard of Christian benevolence. "For the Esquimaux Indians, one thousand copies of St. Matthew's Gospel,in their vernacular tongues?" Who gave these Indians a written language? *We suspect the Edinburgh Reviewers muy inquire, l'ho is meant here? ED. PAN. Who translated a Gospel into their ver nacular tongue? By what unaccountable process has it been brought about, that we now meet with readers and Christians among these furred barbarians of the north? The answer is the same,-AIE done by the exertions of Missionaries: And had it not been for them, the Bible Society would no more have thought at present of a translation into the language of Labrador, than they would have thought of a translation into any of the languages. of unexplored Africa. "The two Societies go hand in hand. The one plows while the other sows: and let no opposition be instituted betwixt their claims on the generosity of the public. Let the advocates of each strain to the uttermost. The statement I have already given proves that there is a vast quantity of unbroken ground in the country for subscriptions to both; and how, by the accumulation of littles, which no individual will ever feel or regret, a vast sum is still in reserve for the operations of these Christian philanthropists. They are at this moment shedding a glory over the land far beyond what the tun.ults or the triumphs of victory can bestow: their deeds are peaceful, but they are illustrious; and they are accomplishing a grandeur and a more decisive step in the history of the species, than even he who in the mighty career of a sweeping and successful ambition has scattered its old establishments into nothing. I have only to look forward a few years, and I see him in his sepulchre; and a few years more, and alt the dynasties he has formed give way to some new change in the vain and restless politics of the world. But the men with whom I contrast him have a more unperishable object in contemplation: I see the sublime character of eternity stamped up-, on their proceedings! The frailties of earthly politics do not attach to them; for they are the instruments of God,-they are carrying on the high administration of Heaven, they are hastening the fulfil ment of prophecies uttered in a far distant antiquity: Many are going to and fro, and knowledge is increased: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord; for as the heavens are higher than the earth, 80 are my ways higher than your` ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, aud returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the euter,-80 shall my word be that goeth" forth out of my month. It shall not return unto me void; but it shall accomplish that which 1 "I stand here as the advocate for the Missionary Society-or the men who are now going to and fro and increasing knowledge, and are preparing ground in so many different quarters of the world for the good seed of the word of God. I have already urged upon you the plea of their usefulness: I have now to urge upon you the plea of their necessities. They have exerted themselves not only according to their power, but beyond their power: They are in debt to their Treasurer. Their embarrassments are their glory; and it is your part to save them from these embarrassments, lest they should become their disgrace." pp. 15-20. The following address to the rich is well worthy of their pe Jusal; particularly the rule of their beneficence, Give only what you can spares "We do not ask any to impoverish or exhaust themselves: We assail the rich with no more urgency than the poor; for we say to both alike-Give only what you can spare. We hold the question of almsgiving to depend not on what has been already given, but on what superfluity of wealth you are still in possession of. We know that to this question very different answers will be given, acording to the principles and views and temper of the individual to whom it is applied; nor are we eager to pursue the question into all its applications: We do not want the offer ings of an extorted charity; we barely state the merits of the case, and leave the impression with your own hearts, my friends and fellow Christians. But when I take a view of society, and see the profusion and the splendor that surround me,-when I see magnificence in every room that I enter, and luxury on every table that is set before me,-when I see the many thousand articles where retrenchment is possible, and any one of which would purchase for its owner the credit of unexampled liberality,-when I see the sons and the daughters of fortune swimming down the full tide of enjoymen; and am told, that out of all this extravagance there is not a fragment to spare for sending the light of Christianity into the negro's hut, or pouring it abroad over the wide and dreary wilderness of paganism;—surely, surely, you will agree with me in thinking, that we have now sunk down into the age of frivolity and of little men. Think of this, my brethren, that tipon what a single individual has with held out of that which he ought to have given, the sublime march of a human souf fom time to a happy eternity may have been arrested! Seize upon this conception in all its magnitude; and tell me, if, when put by the side of the sordid plea and the proud or angry refusal, all the gay eties of wealth, and all its painted insignificance, do not wither into nothing." pp. 22, 23. LXX A Summary of the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion, designed for Young Persons By A CLARKE, A.M. Preceptor of Salem Street Academy, Boston. Boston; S. T. Armstrong. 1814. IT is a fact well known to those, who are conversant with modern publications, that Infidelity, in the course of the last half century, has marshalled all its forces, and exerted all its strength and ingenuity, to undermine the foundations of religion. For this purpose it has labored to pervert all the principles of sound learning and correct logic. With this object in view, it has distorted facts and invented fables;—bas substituted bold conjecture for careful inquiry and sober criticisin;-has, in a word, exhausted the stores of superficial learning, unsanctified reason, and profane wit. Metaphysical subtilty and licentious ridicule have each in their turn been employed in at tempts to abolish the beautiful fabric of principles, hopes, and morals, which Christianity has erected in the world. The poi. son of infidelity has been distributed in every form, which prom. ised to deceive and destroy. Books of natural philosophy, of history, of travels, of romance, &c. have been written with the sole design of propagating li centious opinions. The beauties of style and the enchantments of fiction have thus been employed to catch the attention, conceal the danger, and decoy the unwary to their destruction any other portion of the community. To prevent this evil, every boy in our schools should be furnished with a general view of the evidences of natural and revealed religion, before he enters upon the stage of active life. The Summary before us. we think well calculated to give such a view, and worthy of a distinguished place among our school-books. It is a pamphlet of twenty four duodecimo pages, written in a catechetical form. The author has for several years been an approved instructor of youth; and, as he informs us in the preface of this little book, he originally compiled it for the youth immediately under his care. We think the compilation well made; and are gratified with its publication for the use of others. It is certainly a very rich compend of the evidences of natural and revealed religion, The plan is judiciously formed and ably executed. There is indeed a small inadvertency, which should be corrected, in the answer to the question, "What evidence is there of a Divine Providence in the government of the world?" We think too, that the answer to the first question on the fourteenth page is rather more extensive, than the question demands, or truth will justify. With these two unimportant exceptions, we cheerfully recommend the work to the public; especially to parents, instructors of children, and It is true, that antidotes to this moral poison, in most of its forms, have been provided. The friends of religion and human happiness have not been idle. We have elaborate treatises on the evidences of Christianity, calculated for men of literature and leisure. We have smaller works, also, in abundance, for those, who have less time and ability for deep research and thorough investigation. Our col: leges are furnished with volumes on the subject, suitable for young men, while engaged in a course of liberal education; and even in our best academies the evidences of Christianity are studied. Still, however, there is a class of the community who have been left almost without a weapon of defence against the insidious attacks of the great enemy. We mean that class of persons, who go directly from our minor academies and common schools to the active employments of life. Let it not be said, that such persons are free from danger. They meet with infidel objections in all their walks, and in a thousand forms. They find them at our taverns, in our streets, and even in some of our public journals, We believe too, that it would be discovered upon inquiry, that infidelity is more prevalent, at the present moment, with men of this description, than with - school-committees. VOL. X. 70 MISCELLANEOUS. Gentlemen, I WITH Sentiments of the sincer est gratitude, I now undertake the confidential office with which your choice has honored me. am aware of my deficiencies; and they could not fail to occasion me great anxiety, even so as to make me very doubtful whether I ought to accept this place among you, when I consider that I succeed that venerable and revered character, whose great age has induced him to withdraw from a Presidency which he has held from the commencement of this Society, and which, under the blessing and favor of Almighty God, he has filled, with great advantage to the diffusion of Gospel Light, as well as with much satisfaction to all the Members of the Institution. But, Gentlemen, I have considered your call as the finger of Providence, pointed by that unerring Hand, which, unseen, directs the conduct of mortals, and always with a view to lead them nearer to himself. The principal part of my life has been occupied in my extensive and laborious official engagements; and the unceasing care I have been obliged to exercise in order to accomplish their many important duties, has not seldom awakened in me the painful reflection, that but a small portion of my time had been alike laboriously devoted to advancing the cause of religion. But now, although in the autumn of life, a gracious Providence has been pleased to open to me a new field, and so favored me with an opportunity of correcting my past neglect: placing me,through its kind guidance, within this not only more exalted, but also more peaceful sphere of action; in order that I may do my part in furthering and supporting the important objects of this Society. To do so is my resolution; nay, the very desire of my heart: but I feel my own incapacity for such a solemn work, and rest all my hopes of success upon assistance from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ-yes, upon him alone, who has assured us, that he will not quench the smallest spark of grace: and truly we may all encourage ourselves in the certainty of his Almighty aid, if we follow the light of his Holy Spir it, and have a single eye and a firm purpose to promote his glo ry, and to communicate to our fellow-men a knowledge of salvation by faith in His atonement. We have outlived the awful period when the doctrine of the Atonement of Christ was shrouded in darkness. Mournful was the lot of those who confessed His name. For almost an entire century, did infidelity, with unblushing front, deride the revealed Will of God, and either openly or secretly undermine the sacred foundations of the Gospel doctrine. The deleterious poison, having worked its way among what are called the most enlightened nations of Europe, and established its influence in their higher circles, soon spread abroad among the mass of the people; and rolled on in fearful torrents of iniquity, carrying with it a sweeping destruction wherever it went-We have truly the most abundant cause for thankfulness to a gracious God, for having preserved our native land from such scenes of desolation. We dare not, how ever, deny, that even among us were found an increased indif ference to the Word of God; and with many, a bold contempt of it. Not a few were ashamed to confess the name of Jesus; and have we not ourselves had to endure long discourses upon religion, in the course of which we hardly heard that blessed name mentioned, before which, however, every knee shall bow, "whether it be upon earth or under the earth?" But the promises of God are fulfilling; for "heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.", (Luke xxi, 38.) And "Upon this rock will I build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail dawning again on those nations where the shadow of death sat almost enthroned, and barriers are raising against "the abomi nation of desolation." In a certain country, most powerful because of its veneration for religion, and consequently for the laws; where, as a result, the welfare of the public and individuals rests on the surest foundation; a Society was established, and in times too, while the whirlwinds of desolation were yet laying waste the earth; the aim and glorious object of which Society embrace a distribution of God's Holy Word and Gospel Light through the whole habitable globe. That revered Societỳ, which has also held forth its friendly and generous hand to our Swedish Evangelical Institution, has found in its zeal and liberality a success which so utterly exceeds the power of all human effort, as evidently to proclaim-that the finger of God is in it: His guardian care is therein distinctly unveiled. Warned and roused from their indifference by what they have. experienced of the horrible effects of infidelity, several other nations have also bestirred themselves, and followed the glorious path struck out by the beforementioned honored Society. And we, among others, cannot help being exceedingly thankful to God, that what is called the "New Philosophy," begins to be treated with contempt in our na tive land, and the minds of men have taken a favorable turn towards better things. Under the protection of a Government affectionately atten tive to the preaching of the pure |