principles of biblical interpretation, and their spirits have been stirred within with thorough and comprehensive views them. They have, to use the words of of the great doctrines of divine revela- a missionary in that great Valley, lifted tion. They must also be thoroughly their hands to heaven, and exclaimed, versed in a knowledge of human nature "Lord Jesus, this land shall be thine, -and be able by their intellectual thy church will never give up the struggrasp and an electrifying spirit, to de- gle, till it be full of the knowledge of velope the minds of their pupils into an God." What can restrain the influence active, bold, and manly habit, like the of such men, and such a spirit? What free and restless spirits on which they can check the speed with which the are to act; and yet to give them that wheels of this mighty moral engine has evangelical bias, and in press upon them already begun to roll? We do not say, that holy simplicity, so befitting the of the West is safe, but that it is safe if fice, and so indispensable to the success Christians do their duty-and they will. of the Gospel n.inister. As to the latter, Christian principle is like leaven. It pecuniary endown ent--the East must will be diffused through the whole mass. assist. The Episcopalians receive aid Baptists may not do it. Christians will. from the East. The Presbyterians con-, And if Baptists do not awake soontribute to the funds of their rising In- God will not suffer them to do it. He stitutions in the West, their thousands. will pour upon them a spirit of deep The Pope endows his with tens of thou- sleep and of delusion, and of increased sands and shall not we? Shall we covetousness. He will say, 'Ephraim is calmly suffer our institutions of learning and Theology to grow up to a stinted, dwarfish stature--alu.ost useless to ourselves, and a by-word to others. It cannot be. Eastern intelligence and magnanimity, Christian benevolence, and love of country will forbid it. The love of Christ will constrain us to contribute to our utmost. THE PROSPECTS OF THE WEST. joined unto his idols, let him alone.' But we do believe it will be done-that great Valley shall yet be made as the garden of the Lord, And we do hope, and trust that our denomination will share in the glorious enterprize that they may partake in the reward. THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE. Twenty-sixth of February. The friends of temperance are requested to remember, that the 26th of February is the day for simultaneous meetings of all temperance societies throughout the world. Let not the supporters of this noble cause, forget their obligations to advance its prosperity by all possible means. meetings will have an important inshould therefore be made for them. As imfluence; timely preparation perfect as the reform has yet been, a great improvement is every where manifest in the morals of the community. The commercial interests are extensively These anniversary It is now asked what are the moral and religious prospects of the West? We say good. Decidedly good. Not that the work is done, or even fairly commenced. Not that there are not numerous and formidable obstacles to be met and overcome. There are ignorance, prejudice, an unsettled population, heresies, popery, and infidelity, not wholly unlike what exists among us, though developed under all the peculiar ities of a new country--but with the same depraved nature to act upon, as ev ery where perv des our fallen race. Yet to meet all this, is the Gospel-which is the power of God,--and it is preached there, and to a great extent in its truth and simplicity. There are the able ministers of the New Testament, (whatever exceptions there may be)-there are ac tive, praying, self-denying Christians, In one place, the inquiry is, 'How Literary and Theological Institutions, shall we get along?' In another, the Tract, Sabbath School, and Bible socie- word is, We will go ahead-we must ties, and all these are rapidly increasing live the life of Christ. In the former in number and in influence. There are case, the church uniformly languishes,— men there also, who have looked in the latter, the church is uniformly over this broad field of moral labor, and blest. feeling and supporting it, and the inSurance offices are offering a bounty on temperance ships. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHURCHES. ORDINATIONS AND INSTALLATION'S. Mr. ASA DRURY, Professor of Lan-, Mr. JOSEPH T. MASSEY, late of the guages in the Granville College, (Ohio) Newton Theological Institution, ordained was ordained to the work of the ministry, pastor of the Baptist church, Bel ingham, in Providence, (R. I.) Sept. 13, 1834. (Mass.) Sept. 10, 1834. Mr. JOSEPH CALL, ordained pastor of the Baptist church, Berkshire, Tioga Co. (N. Y.) Sept. 2, 1834. Messrs. WILLIAM G. CROCKER, and RUFUS A. LOCKWOOD, late of the Newton Theological Institution, ordained evangelists in the Baptist church of Newburyport, (Mass.) Sept. 25, 1834. Mr. EBER CRANE, late of the Newton Theological Institution, ordained pastor of the Baptist church at Amesbury Mills, (Mass.) Sept. 13, 1834. Mr. ALLEN BURROWS, a recent graduate of Waterville college, ordained pastor of the Baptist church, Hallowell X Roads, (Me.) Sept. 23, 1834. Mr. DEXTER MUNGER, ordained pas tor of the Baptist church, Ashford, (Conn.) Sept. 11, 1834. Mr. THOMAS O. LINCOLN, late of Newton, ord. pastor of the Baptist church, Kennebunk, (Me.) Dec. 10, 1834. Mr. ALBERT G. PALMER, ord. pastor of the First Baptist church, Hopkinton city, (R. I) Oct. 26, 1834. Mr. DANIEL JEWETT, ord..evangelist at Granville, (Ohio,) Oct. 25, 1834. Mr. DAVID THOMAS, ord. evangelist at Philadelphia, Nov. 12, 1834. Mr. WM. F. NELSON, ord. evangelist at the Baptist church, Baldwin Place, Boston, Nov. 9, 1834. Mr. GEORGE WATERS, ord. pastor of Bap. church in Holden, (Mass.) Sept. 25, 1834. Mr. ELIJAH HUTCHINSON, ord. pastor of the Bap. church in Windsor, Vt. Nov. 1834. Account of Moneys, received in Donations, by the Treasurer of the General From Mrs. F. Leland, avails of gold beads, to be appropriated by A half guinea from a lady, by P. Bond, Eastport, Me., 4,00 2,42 300,00 10,00 25,00 35,00 100,00 The profits of a fair held at Augusta, Geo. to be used towards 199,50 by Mrs. M. Mabley and Mrs. J. Coskery, Collected in Hancock, Mass., by J. C. Murphy, 28,05 for sup. of Moung Shway Moung and Ko Chetthing, $20 ea. 40,00-239,50 Washington Bap. Asso., John Straight, Treas., pro tem. 53,83 S. S. No. 1. 3,06 Bridgewater Association, Pa. M. S. Wilson, Treasurer, 52,00 20,00 18,00 Edward Johnson, Martinsburgh, 50,00 for the Burman Mission, Fem. Karen Soc., Paris, N. Y. in aid of Karen Teacher 12,00 A. Carmichal, $5, Dr. Babcock, $5, Rhoda Salisbury, 236,94 30,00 2,00 26,00 1,25 37,50-64,75 333,69 Abingdon Bap. Asso., Pa., by J. Manning, for Bur. Bible, S. C. Columbia, of Columbia, S. C., for Bur. Miss. A. Day, Jr., W. Bradford, for Bur. Bible, by W. Nichols, Franklin Co. Bap. Asso., C. Alden of Pittsfield, Tr., 1st Bap. Ch. Colerain, 14,20-Charlemont Bap. Ch. 5,50— 59,36 Sherburne Falls Bap. Ch. 13,88-Heath Bap. Ch., 11,50- Newton Bap. S. S. Miss. Soc., for Mr. Simons' School, A few married ladies of Mr. Malcom's church, appropriated for 100,00 24,00 3,00 2,38 1,75 98,41 3,70 100,00 2,00 9,75 14,10 177,60 Boston Bap. For. Miss. Soc., Dea. James Loring, Treasurer, Collected at Baldwin Place M. H. July 7, Collected at First Bap. Meeting House, Pr. Meeting, June 2, 81,20 60,51 Female Miss. Soc. of Charles St. Church and Con., 62,10 Charles St. Juvenile Miss. Soc., to educate a child 25,00 147,61 Collected at Federal St. Baptist Meeting House, Pr. A previous balance in hands of Dea. Loring, Sebery Fish, by D. Root, Sturbridge Asso. Miss. and Ed. Soc. Col. Ed. Phillips, Tr. * 37,35 ,66 444,42 1,00 93,92 ,50 2500,00 H. LINCOLN, Treasurer. NOTE. The unexpected length of some very important articles in the present number, has crowded out our Literary Notices and Religious Summary. They will be more full in our next. Will not our Correspondents give us some short and stirring articles on topics of present or permanent interest. The more point the better, but they must be brief to suit our pages. THE AMERICAN BAPTIST MAGAZINE. Vol. 15. March, 1835. No. 3. FAMILIAR ILLUSTRATIONS OF PROVIDENCE. IN ITS FORBEARANCE AND RETRIBUTIONS. (Extracted from my Journal.) Jan. 6, 1835. Left Boston for Worcester at 10 o'clock in the morning. The stage coach was full of passengers, all of whom were strangers to me; but I soon contrived to establish a communication, and some degree of acquaintance with them; for I make it a rule, never to spend an hour in any one's society, without bringing his mind, if he have any, into neighborhood with my own, and so learning what his ideas are, if I learn nothing more. I regard all mankind as brethren, sprung from a common origin, sharing a common fate in this "vale of tears," and destined to a common immortality; and I therefore consider it a part of family duty, as it were, to maintain an amicable and sociable intercourse with every human being that comes in my way. There are some men that will travel a hundred miles, without unlocking their lips, except to eat, or drink, or yawn. Such men are transgressors against many a statute of brotherly love and decency. From such, I always endeavor to cast out the "dumb spirit.' I soon discovered that two or three of my companions were servants,―servants to the same Master, although they had never before seen each others' faces-servants who labored industriously and faithfully for their employers,-looking forward to a reward beyond the grave, laid up for them in heaven. They were God's servants,-ministers of the Gospel. They were amiable, intelligent, and holy men; and their conversation was both delightful and instructive,-worthy of their vocation. During our ride, the discourse turned upon the subject of enthusiasm, fanatics, and impostors. And it was remarked by a venerable old gentleman present, that he had observed it to be true, that persons, who, at the outset of their career, display excessive zeal and fiery enthusiasm in the matter of religion, frequently pass over, in course of time, to the opposite extreme of hardened infidelity and open profligacy. Several examples of this revolution in external character, were mentioned; and, finally, allusion was made to the notorious leader and champion of infidelity in Boston,—an old gray-headed man, who was, in early life, a minister of the Gospel, but who now devotes his failing energies to the proclamation of those impure and brutal doctrines which would break up the very foundations of civil society, destroy all the comforts of social life, and reduce man to the grade of a mere animal. It was related of him, that, at several of his lectures on the shocking tenets of his infidel creed, after denying the existence of a God, he had impiously defied the Deity, if such a being existed, to vindicate his insulted majesty, by striking the blasphemer dead; and, taking out his watch, had declared that he would wait five minutes for Jehovah to smite him, if he chose so to do. We were, of course, horror-stricken at the idea of such audacious wickedness, and sat for some minutes silent. When the conversation was renewed, some inquiries were made, as to how far the laws of the state ought to tolerate such blasphemous expressions and impious conduct; but all who expressed their sentiments, were united in the conviction, that whoever so assails religion, as to endanger the welfare of society, and the security of government, ought to be punished. Jan. 10. In company with my venerable father, and some other friends in New-Hampshire, I repeated to them what I had heard, and have before recorded in my journal, of "the hoary advocate of infidelity and licentiousness." My friends manifested the same horror which I had myself felt, when I first listened to the story. "I should suppose," said one of them, "that he " (meaning the bold blasphemer) "would feel afraid that God might grant his wicked prayer, and strike him dead on the spot." This remark implies in the speaker a suspicion which is felt by ninety-nine hundredths of those who listen to the assertion of professed infidels, that they belie themselves, when pretending to disbelieve in the existence of a Supreme Being. I have often felt that suspicion. Nay, I never could conceive it possible, that a rational being, with brain enough to draw an inference, and, in the possession of sanity, could disbelieve the doctrine of a Divine Mind, the Universal Father, the former of our bodies and the father of our spirits. It seems to me just as impossible that any person should live in this world, surrounded by such countless manifestations of infinite wisdom, as greet my eyes from day to day, and not become convinced that there is, somewhere in the universe of being, a Creator, the King of kings and Lord of lords,-as for that same person to travel upon a sandy plain, whose surface every where presents the stamp and impress of the feet of man and beast, |