Con your book so much saved. If about to make a tea-party, where rich cakes, sweet-meats, wine, and other luxuries, are used, ask yourself, how are the poor in the high-ways and hedges to be fed by this waste? And how is the cause of my Master to be promoted by it? science will tell every one, that to entertain our real friends and our rich neighbours with plain food and pious conversation is more like Him, who fed the multitude with barley bread and fishes. Then write so much saved towards edu cation of my little son or daughter in India. Add to this, time saved from needle-work, ruffling, flouncing, plaiting, &c. &c. which will enable you to hire less or earn more, and you will be more like Him, who in his word has said, that he would have women adorned with good works; not with gold, or pearls, or costly array. I am sensible, that many fine ladies, who know no pleasure but the gratification of sense, and whose hearts idolize dress, as much as the heathen do any of their gods, will care for none of these things. Let them remember, however, that for this misapplication of money and time they will have to give an account in the day of judgment.Though the heathen will be gathered, it will not be said of them, that they have done what they could. There are others who will shed the sympathetic tear when reading of orphan children, wandering with none to pity or relieve their misery, in whose emaciated bodies are lodged immortal souls, every one of which our Saviour has declared to be of more value than the whole world, who will yet go away sorrowful, and put off to a more convenient season, every effort to relieve these sufferers. But can the daughters of Zion beg to be excused, who have publicly taken the word of God to be their guide, and professed to love the cause of Him, who has said, If any mau will be my disciple, let him deng himself daily, and take up his cross and follow me.' I have recommended no self-denial but what I have myself tried, and found my health and mind much improved by it; and the effects have enabled me within six years past, to send something to the Board of Foreign Missions, and something to the Society for evangelizing the Jews. We have our Bible, Education, Domestic, Missionary, and Sunday School Societies in this place, which every Christian ought to promote in his own town; yet while these things are done, the others need not be left undone. If a woman, who, in conse quence of narrow circumstances, must have been obliged to be plain in dress, and economical in living, can save something annually for these objects, how much can those save, who are accustomed to move in the high circles of fashionable life.' MISSIONARY SHEEP.-A Mission Society exists at Wincasset, whose contributions are raised by keeping a number of sheep. In a letter from a member of that Society, to his friend in Boston, he says, 'Twenty farmers in the neighbourhood of Wincasset are now keeping, without charge to the Society, a missionary sheep; and they all appear to take pleasure in doing it; and I suppose that thirty more sheep might as easily be kept as these twenty are. Our subscription in money is so small, that were it not for this method of keeping sheep, connected with it, we should have no Society at all in this place, and, of course, no Anniversary, and no contribution. We expect that our sheep and lambs will produce next year at least 60 dollars. [Collections, anonymous Donations, and all other Donations of 51. or upwards, received from 16 May, to 16 June, 1820, inclusive.] Amount of a Missionary Box, by Miss Tite, London; by Rev. John Davies From a Well-wisher; being the amount saved, annually, by taking one glass of wine a day instead of two... 5 0 0 IN LONDON AND ITS VICINITY. T. S. P. C. K. G. G. 1 0 0 Miss Harriett Magan, donation; by Messrs. Puget, Bainbridge & Co. 20 0 0 3 13 0 500 4 10 4 7 6 30 0 0 25 0 0 Produce of a Missionary Box, in the Shop 1. and T. Welsh Independent Congregation, Guildford-street, Borough; by Mr. E. Jones, Treasurer cotland.-Legacy of the late Miss Elizabeth Smith, of Glasgow, less duty, &c.; by Mr. W. M'Gavin, of ditto itto.-Glasgow.- Hutchinsontown Congregation Auxiliary Bible and Missionary Society; by ditto itto.Greenock Auxiliary Missionary Society; by Mr. A. Laird, Secretary ent.-Ramsgate.-Rev. G. Townsend and Congregation. iddlesex.-Willesdon; by Mr. Nodes. piety of the produce of a Missionary Box, n a poor man's Cottage oiety of Subscriptions of a Ju venile Association oduce of a swarm of Bees K. Ditto. Cowes.- Penny-a-week Society; Worcestershire.-Broadway.-Rev. J. Morris and Congregation Glocestershire.-Bristol Juvenile Auxiliary Missionary Society; by Mr. Joseph Talbot. Bucks.-Olney.-A few Friends of Rev. Messrs. Hillyard and Morris's Congregation The Young Ladies at Miss Mabley's Boarding School Mr. Morris and Pupils. Dorset. Beaminster; by Rev. Dr. Cracknell. 1 10 0 11 0 0 20 0 0 220 2 3 0 1 10 0 5 15 0 7 8 0 4 60 0 60 300 15 0 0 Collected at the Anniversary 0 14 0 900 2 15 0 Ladies' Association, Mrs. Con ....... Ditto.-Weymouth.-Subscriptions by ditto 2 20 Somersetshire.-Somerset Auxiliary Mis sionary Society. Treasurer. By Mr. J. Spencer, Rev. W. Lane and Congregation, Wells Hants. Christchurch.- Contributions, by Rev. D. Gunn Yorkshire.-Wakefield.-The Young Ladies of the Institution for Ministers' Daughters 3 3 0 5 11 6 800 9 0 0 17 1 0 Collections in Kent, by Rev. John Leifchild, .... Canterbury, Rev. Mr. Gurteen and Rev. Mr. Bloomfield Ashford, Rev. Mr. Chapman Margate, Rev. Mr. Young and Ramsgate, Rev. G. Townsend.Collected at the Anniversary of the County Auxiliary Cha ham, Rev. J. Slatterie Deptford, Rev. Mr. Barker.-A few Friends in the Vestry .......... 12 16 6 2 10 0 500 36 13 4 400 6 16 6 200 20 3 0 580 2 2 0 15 0 2 1966 23 9 0 700 300 2 4 3 -176 15 9 27 8 6 Yorkshire.-Selby Missionary Association; (a Branch of the Hull and East Riding Auxiliary) by Rev. G. Mayhew Donations in aid of the Anglo-Chinese College at Malacca. aptain Ferris, R. N., Weymouth, by Rev. Dr. Cracknell.... 110 The Thanks of the Directors are presented to the following: To the Juvenile Missionary Society at the Old Chapel, Cliff, Lewes, Sussex, by Rev. Joseph Kerby, for 1 copy of his Funeral Sermon on the Death of the King, for Pomare; 12 copies of Ditto; 100 copies of his Scripture Catechism; 24 copies of Mason's History of Jesus; and 12 copies of Campbell's Worlds Displayed; for the Missionaries at Otaheite.-A Friend, Whitechapel, for 56 Pick-axes, for the South Sea Islands.-Rev. Dr. Brown, for 2 copies of his History of the Propagation of Christianity, for Otaheite; 6 copies of ditto, for Africa; 2 copies of ditto, for Demerara; 1 copy of ditto, for Vizagapatam; 1 copy of ditto, for Madras; 1 copy of ditto, for Bombay; 1 copy of ditto, for Surat; snd 1 copy of ditto, for Malacca.-Mr. Fyffe, Holborn, for 27 Numbers of the Missionary Register, and 65 Numbers of the Christian Guardian. Mrs. Strange, Kettering, for Bunyan's Minor Works, 1 vol.; 1st vol. of Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary; 12 copies of Watts's Catechism; 6 copies of Watts's Divine Songs, and 5 Books, miscellaneous Mr. Lush, Blandford, for 12 Numbers of the Cottage Magazine, and 10 Numbers of the Youth's Magazine.-J. D., Hackney, for & Books, miscellaneous. Mr. Slack, for I Report of the Missionary Society, for 1819.-Mr. Simco, Air-street, Piccadilly, for Fox's Book of Martyrs, 1 vol.; 3 vols. of Tracts; 3 vols. of Sermons; Gurnall's Christian Armour; and Geography Reformed, Í vol.-A Friend at Romsey, for the Baptist Magazine, for 1817 and 1818.-Mr. Stephenson, Great Preston, near Leeds, for 24 Books, miscellaneous, and sundry Tracts.-Mrs. Emmet, for 1 vol. of Tracts -G. H., for the 1st vol. of Gill's Body of Practical Divinity; Macgowan on Ruth; 1 vol. of Sermons; 3 Reports of the Tract Society; Hill's Tour; 8 Sermons, and 3 odd vols.-S. W., for 11 old Books, and sundry Articles of Ironmongery.Mr. Powell, Bath, for sundry Books, miscellaneous.-Mrs. Lydia Wragg, King-street, Northampton Square, for 129 Tracts.-Mr. F. Wragg, ditto, ditto, for 22 Numbers of the Christian Guardian, and 11 Numbers of the Methodist Magazine. Mr. Ball, for 4 Years Methodist Magazine, in numbers; Webb's Sermons, 1 vol.; Baker's Meditations on the 1st Psalm, and Beveridge's Private Thoughts, Mrs. White, for 4 Years Methodist Magazine, in numbers.-Mrs. Hughes, for 3 Years Jewish Expositor, in numbers.-Mrs. Gibbs, Battlebridge, for 2 Years Philanthropic Gazette.-Anonymous, by Rev. Mr. Yockney, Islington, for Malham's History of Jesus Christ, in numbers.-M B. Bognor, Sussex; for 1 Year's Baptist Magazine, in numbers; 3 Reports of the Tract Society, and 3 Sermons. Mrs. Edwards, No. 85, Hatton Garden, for 1 Bible; 1 copy of the Missionary Voyage to the South Seas, in boards; Bogue's Essay; 1st vol. of Blair's Sermons; Pope's Essay on Man; 1st vol. of Claude on Composition; Whitfield's Hymns, and sundry Books, miscellaneous. The remainder of the Presents in our next. MISSIONARY MUSEUM.-The Friends of the London Missionary Society are respectfully informed, that the only days of admission are Thursdays and Saturdays, from 10 to 3 o'clock. Tickets may be obtained by application to any of the Directors. |