REVIVAL AT NEWPORT, (R. I.) | I know, my dear brother, that you, AND ITS RESULTS. EXTRACT FROM A LETTER OF R. My dear Sir, and all your dear brethren and sisters in your highly favored churches, will unite with us in devout aspirations to the throne of grace, that the good work may not slacken, until all our numerous congregations I know it will gladden your soul, as well as others in this town, shall to hear that God, in his infinite be duly humbled under a sense mercy, has blessed us with the out-of sin, and brought to the foot pouring of his blessed Spirit upon of the cross, and crown our blessed our church, and that the indefatiga- Jesus Lord of all. ble labors of our devoted pastor has been crowned with success, in bring-you will feel yourself highly intering many, particularly the dear youth, from nature's darkness into God's marvellous light. For some months after his settlement with us, our conference, prayer, | and, more particularly, our covenant meetings, were thinly attended, and many pious souls mourned in secret, on account of the waste places of Zion. For three or four months past, the attendance on these meetings was gradually increased, and a deep solemnity seemed to prevail throughout the listening audience, and the Spirit of the Lord was evidently at work in our solemn assemblies, and proved the truth of his blessed word, "It is not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord." Cold-hearted professors were aroused to a sense of their duty; backsliders returned with contrition to the fold of Christ, and all united in giving thanks to the God of all grace, for his superabounding goodness and abundant mercy manifested to us in the present revival. Mr. D. has not yet completed one year of his ministrations with us, yet he has led 73 willing converts into Jordan's liquid streams, professing, before many witnesses, that they were not ashamed of Jesus-64 of whom have been added since our last association. Five or six more have been received as candidates for baptism. Our conference room continues to be crowded with solemn auditors. Another circumstance in which ested-we have at length formed a Missionary Society, for the express purpose of aiding the Burman Mission. Having obtained a number of subscribers, we proceeded last week to elect officers as follows:-Rev. John Dowling, President; Brother Robert Rogers, First Vice President; Deacon Abner Peckham, Second Vice President; Deacon Nathaniel Sweet, Brethren Benjamin Marsh, Jr. and Daniel C. Denham, Directors; and Henry G. Cranston, Esq. Secretary. On Monday evening last, at the Concert of Prayer, a resolution was moved and adopted, by which we pledged ourselves to raise sufficient funds the present year, to support a native Burman preacher. This is a good beginning, and I sincerely hope the Lord will open our hearts to go on, and increase our benefactions, until the necessity of raising funds to support missionaries shall be done away by the blessing of God, in turning the whole Burman empire to the worship of the true God. The widow Woodman, lately deceased, the only child of the late venerable Gardner Thurston, in her will, devised 100 dollars to the Foreign Missionary Society, and 100 dollars to our Baptist State Convention. Yours, in the endearing bonds of the Gospel, ROBERT ROGERS. SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL. Ordained ministers, 172; licentiates, 64. We have received the last annual In no other State in the union, are Baptist churches so well provided with pasReport of the English Baptist Missionary Society, which gives a very encouraging tors, nor shall we be thought to underrepresentation of the progress of the value the talents of our brethren in our Society's labors. In August last, it had own State, when we say, in no other sixteen missionaries in the East Indies,-State are the churches so well prepared two in Ceylon, one in Java, one in Sumatra, sixteen in the West Indies, two in the Bahama Islands, and one in Honduras. Of sixteen natives who became members of the Church in Calcutta, under the care of the Rev. W. H. Pearce, six were youths from the Christian boardingschool at Chitpore," a circumstance peculiarly gratifying, as it encourages the hope that, at no distant day, this seminary may supply well-instructed native preachers to proclaim to their countrymen the Gospel of God." The new translation of the Bengalee Testament is printed. The English language having been adopted, in the official correspondence of the British government of India, a new opening has been made for schools and reading books. Sixty persons renounced caste, last year, in a small village fifty miles from Calcutta. Great dependence is still put every where on the schools for the children and youth, as the great hope of the final and complete triumph of the Gospel. A Sunday school has been established in the great city of Patna. The society has thirteen schools in Ceylon, containing 536 pupils. Among the contributions to the society, we observe a second donation from one who wishes to be his own executor," of upwards of four thousand dollars. S. S. Journal. BAPTISTS IN MASSACHUSETTS. to appreciate the duties and labors of an intelligent pastor-nor do the churches in any other State render so ready and generous and punctual a support. Baptisms the past year, in all their associations 247. Net increase, 577. The next annual meeting of their ConThe Pastoral Letter is on the important vention is to be held in Worcester. subject of Religious Periodicals, and maintains that it is "the duty of every family to procure, if possible, one or more Baptist Periodical Publications.” BAPTIST CONVENTION AT PHILA- A number of Delegates from Baptist churches in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, recently assembled in Philadelphia, for the purpose of promoting ministerial education. After a busy and animated session of three days, they agreed to form a Baptist Education Society for the Central States. A resolution was also adopted, that the Board of Directors be instructed to enter into a negotiation with the Trustees of the Philadelphia Association, for the transfer to the Society of the Haddington Institution. Considerable discussion took place on the question, whether the Constitution of the Society should recognize a literary department, distinct from the Theological course. It was at length determined that whilst a Theological Institution should be the prominent object to which the efforts of the Society should be directed, there should also be a Literary Department connected with it. We have their statistics from the minutes of their last convention. They have, in 191 churches, 20,897 members. While they are a quarter more numerous than the Baptists in Maine, they have a less number of churches. This may be owing, in part, to the less extent of their territory; but still more to their greater care in not erecting feeble churches any where within a reasonable At a recent meeting of the Trustees distance of those already established. [of the Wake Forest Institute, the plan We have now a Northern Baptist Education Society, a Baptist Education Society for the Central States, and a Western Baptist Education Society. We trust that ere long a Southern Baptist Education Society will also be formed. WAKE FOREST INSTITUTE. of an edifice, 82 by 45 feet, adopted at a preceding meeting, was abandoned, and another of 132 by 45 feet, with other material improvements, was adopted in its stead. The Board have contracted for the erection of this building, to be completed in Jan. 1837, at a cost of $14,000. The subscription list, we understand, has been raised to $15,000, and prospects fair. Bro. William H. Jordan has been appointed agent in place of bro. Armstrong, who will commence his duties, as Professor of Languages in the Institute in February. We are told that 160 students have made application for admission the next session. The temporary accommodations are progressing with all possible despatch, and will be completed, it is thought, during the present month. We have been favored by the Faculty with a copy of the catalogue of this Institution for 1834-5. There are three professors; Irah Chase, of Theology; Henry J. Ripley, of Biblical Literature, and James D. Knowles, of Pastoral Duties. In the Senior Class, there are 13 students, in the Middle Class, 20, in the Junior, 16, and in the Preparatory Class, 7; forming a total of 56. months will be placed at the disposal of some person qualified to arrange them for the public eye. A BIBLE SHIP. Dr. Morrison, of China, write thus to a clergyman in Virginia :— I beseech you, if you have influence among the opulent Christians in America, to consider the practicability of a Bible ship, to navigate the shores of eastern Asia. If science, and discovery, and luxury, and commerce, have their ships sailing the ocean, and visiting every shore, why should it be thought strange that the Christian should also have his ship, to convey to man the written mandate of his Maker, the proclamation of mercy, from the Saviour of the world, who has issued his command to "go and disciple all nations?" They cannot go, unless sent, and they cannot be sent to some places, without a ship on purpose. ENGLISH BAPTIST DEPUTIES ΤΟ AMERICA. We are happy to learn, that the Rev. Dr. Cox, of Hackney, and the Rev. James Hoby, of Birmingham, have complied with the request of the Baptist Union, to visit America, and to represent that body at the Triennial ConvenThis institution commenced in De- tion at Richmond, in Virginia, on the cember, 1825. Since that period, about last Wednesday in April next. These 70 students have graduated; a large interchanges of Christian sentiment and number of whom are now filling the feeling will be found to have an imporresponsible station of pastors of church- tant bearing on the prosperity of the es, chiefly in the Eastern States. Four cause of Christ. The Baptist Board are engaged as missionaries in Burmah, have unanimously recommended their one in France, and three as Home mis-churches to contribute towards the exsionaries. Seven are principals of literary institutions or academies, and five are Professors in Theological and Literary Institutions. The regular course occupies three years, and embraces "Biblical Literatare, Ecclesiastical History, Biblical Theology, Pastoral Duties, and, in short, the various studies and exercises, appropriate to a Theological Institution, designed to assist those who would understand the Bible clearly, and, as faithful ministers of Christ, inculcate its divine lessons the most usefully." MEMOIR OF PROF. ROSTAN. We are gratified to learn that materials are now collecting for a memoir of penses connected with the deputation. [London Patriot. Death of Rev. Dr. Wisner. It is with pain we announce the sudden deccase of the senior Secretary of the Am. Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The Rev. Dr. Wisner died at his residence in this city, on Monday, Feb. 9th, after an illness of but four days. His complaint was the scarlet fever. This is a severe loss to the Christian communinity and the cause of Missions. this excellent and learned servant of In a future number, we hope to notice it Jesus Christ; and in the course of a few more at length. ORDINATIONS AND INSTALLATIONS. Mr. SAMUEL MILES, ord. evangelist | while studying at Andover, and he was in the Baptist church, Milesburg, Centre Co. (Penn.) Oct. 27, 1834. Mr. JACOB TINSLEY, ord., evangelist in the first Baptist church, Richmond, (Vir.) Dec. 12, 1834. accordingly baptized about a year ago. Mr. ROBERT HALL SEDWICK, ord. evangelist in the Baptist church Zanesville, (Ohio) Jan. 19, 1835. Mr. OLIVER A. DODGE, a graduate of Waterville College, ord. pastor of the Baptist church, Lexington, (Mass.) Jan. 7, 1835. Mr. DANIEL E. JEWET late of Andover Theological Institution, ord. evangelist in the Baptist church at Gilford, N. H. Dec. 25, 1834. Mr. Jewett Mr. AARON R. BEACH, ord. pastor received licensure in the Pedo-baptist of the Baptist church Springfield, Otsego connexion; but his views were changed Co. (N. Y.) Dec. 4, 1834. Fem. Missionary Society, Jay, N. Y., Betsey Stone, Treasurer, 11,50 Account of Moneys, received in Donations, by the Treasurer of the General From L. Arnold, of Jay, N. J., by request of his wife, (deceased,) for Fem. Working Society, at Lebanon Springs, N. Y. by Rev. E. Sandys, Treasurer of Berkshire Co. Bap. Asso., 20,00 31,50 14,50 25,17 508,53 3.00 Wm. Inglesby, Esq., Charleston, S. C., for Bur. Mission, 50,00 Rev. Daniel Packer, Mount Holly, Vt., for the support of a na tive Burman Teacher one year, 100,00 for printing the Bible in Burmah, 100,00 Also $25,42 for the Am. Bap. II. Miss. Soc., by Rev. H. Carr, 26,42 5,00 P. Townsend, Esq. Treas. of the Utica Bap. For. Mission Soc. 10,00 Charles and William Burrows, Albion, N. Y., for Bur. Miss. do 4,00 do ,25 1,50 409,68 5,00 PUBLISHER'S NOTICE. Our friends at the South and West, who are in arrears for the Magazine, are reminded that a favorable opportunity will be presented for transmitting their subscriptions by their delegates to the Triennial Convention, at Richmond, Va., in April, where the Treasurer of the Convention is expected to be present, and will take charge of the same. THE WALDENSES, VALDENSES, VAUDOIS, or people of the vallies, were the most celebrated body of Protestant Dissenters during the middle ages. The history of these churches of persecuted saints, these "meek confessors," this "noble army of . martyrs," this "most ancient stock of religion," to use the words of Milton, is a topic, which, of late, has been rising in popularity and interest every year. No writer appears to have laid before the public an account so thoroughly digested, accurate, and comprehensive, as Mr. Jones, whose History of the Christian Church, the second volume of which is almost wholly devoted to this subject, has already gone through eight or ten editions. We have endeavored, however, to collect every ray of light from other quarters in making out the following summary view of their history. ORIGIN OF THE WALDENSES. It seems to be a serious mistake into which some popular writers have fallen, who represent the Waldenses as originating'in France about the year 1170, and deriving their name from the celebrated Peter Waldo. The evidence is now ample, that so far from being a new sect at that period, they had existed, under various names, as a distinct class of dissenters from the established churches of Greece and Rome in the earliest ages. x It is, indeed, an egregious error to suppose that when Christianity was taken into alliance with the state, by the emperor Constantine, in the beginning of the fourth century, all the orthodox churches were so ignorant of the genius of their religion as to consent to the corruption of a worldly establishment. Of the Waldenses, Crantz (in his History of the United Brethren) says, "These an 11 X See to this affect the quiver of John Pype Ponitt in Lond. Esan. Mag. for "Jes. $835. p. 58. |