Christ, not the Law but the Gospel, reigns" -may be expected to receive, in a peculiar manner, a blessing from the Lord, and to produce and send forth Labourers into the Vineyard fitted for their arduous duties.

These are sentiments, the Committee are persuaded, in which not only they and the Principal, but the Members of the Society at large, cordially concur.

Deeply impressed with the important bearing of the Institution on the future operations of the Society, the Committee have framed the New Regulations with the view of placing it on the footing proposed by the Investigation Committee, and earnestly recommend it to the prayers of their friends; since it is peculiarly the work of the Divine Spirit to call forth and prepare Missionaries for their work, and to render effectual their labours.

From circumstances which came before them, the Investigation Committee were of opinion that a saving of expense might be effected in the LOCAL EXPENDITURE OF THE ASSOCIATIONS, without diminishing their efficiency. A Circular on the subject was, therefore, addressed to the Associations, which met their cordial

concurrence.

The MODE OF KEEPING THE SOCIETY'S ACCOUNTS, both at home and abroad, received the very particular attention of the Investigation Committee. Various improvements have, at their recommendation, been adopted; which, when they fully take effect, will exhibit, the Committee anticipate, the whole of the Expenditure, with a clearness and ful ness of detail, that, while it facilitates reference to all its parts, will operate as a salutary check on its undue or unauthorised increase.

We subjoin, from the Report of the Investigation Committee, the honourable testimony and the impressive remarks with which they

conclude.

We cannot close this Report without observing, that the nature of our investigation led us in a course rather to bring into view the failings of the Society-if failings there were-than to dwell upon its great excellencies. It should also be recollected, that our part has been, not so much to contemplate the general nature and objects of the Society, as to examine into the minutiae of its proceedings, and to rectify minor defects of detail where such defects appeared. But let it not be supposed that we are insensible

to its merits; or that our affection to its Cause, or our respect for its Conductors, has been diminished. We bear our fullest testimony to the cordiality and good feeling manifested by all the Secretaries, throughout our prolonged inquiry and we rise from the laborious task assigned to us, not only with unabated affection for the Society, but with an increased impression of the magnitude of its objects, and of its claim to our most efficient support.

In tracing the operations of the Society through every quarter of the globe, we are compelled to acknowledge, that darkness covereth the earth and gross darkness the people; and that to live degraded, and to die hopeless, is the lot of millions of human beings like ourselves-of beings who are to live for ever!

The gift of Christianity would be to them the greatest of temporal mercies: it would be instruction, civilization, peace, industry, and the enjoyments of social life, to those who are now living in ignorance, wretchedness, war, cruelty, and licentiousness. Here alone would appear to be inducements sufficient-to those to whom it may be said, Freely ye have received, freely give-to come forward to their help. But further: we cannot close our eyes to the more momentous consideration, that, degraded and wretched as they are, they are yet immortal beings, who must enjoy or suffer to all eternity; that many are hourly dropping into the grave without the knowledge of the only way by which man can be saved: and we are constrained to ask ourselves, whether, with our views of the worth of the human soul, we are duly using the means within our power to hasten the day of their deliverance.

Considering the high and important objects of the Church Missionary Society

the millions now living, and the myriads yet unborn, whose eternal happiness it contemplates; and satisfied with the integrity and personal piety of those to whom the direction of its affairs has been entrusted; we confidently and earnestly recommend the Society to the continued and more active support of the Christian Public.

Candidates, Students, and Missionaries.

There were in the Society's Institution at Islington, at the time of the last Anniversary, Fifteen Students: in the course of the year, Nineteen Candidates have

been received. Nine have quitted the Institution for their respective scenes of labour; Two have withdrawn from the Society; and Twenty-three remain under preparation, or on probation.

The Lord Bishop of London has admitted three of the Society's Students-Messrs. J. A. Jetter, W. Nicholls, and W. Smith, to Deacon's Orders: and three others the Rev. Messrs John Murrell,

Charles Blackman, and Timothy Sandys -have been ordained Priests.

In the course of the past year the Society has had to deplore the loss of the services of several of its Labourers, by death and other causes. On the other hand, it is matter of thankfulness to Almighty God that the Committee have been enabled to send forth, to the various Missions, Sixteen Individuals, beside the return of Five others to their former scenes of labour.

Disabled Missionaries' Fund. The Committee have long had under consideration the means of providing for Disabled Missionaries, their Widows and Children. This subject is one of much difficulty and serious responsibility. After mature deliberation, the Committee adopted a series of Resolutions, embody ing such general principles as appeared to them applicable to the case. In prosecution of the plan thus formed, a Separate Fund has been opened, to provide for these affecting contingencies of Missionary Labours. The sum of 5007. has been granted by the Committee, to form the basis of this Fund; which it is purposed to increase, by Annual Grants, and by Voluntary Contributions from the Public. Can Christians have a more deeply interesting object placed before them, than that of supplying the means of making a provision for the Widows and Orphans of those who for Christ's Name have gone forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles, and whose own health and strength have been consumed in their labours? The Committee trust that this part of their plans, which is so intimately connected with the general efficiency of the Society's operations, will be adequately supported by their friends.

Associations.

During the year, 21 New Associations or Branches have been formed, in various parts of the Kingdom.

The Committee not having obtained a second Visiting Secretary, the services of the Rev. Messrs. Mayor and Ward

have been engaged to assist the Rev. F. Leicester in visiting the Associations during the present year. The Rev. John Hartley has also undertaken to give a considerable portion of the ensuing summer to the same object.

Appointment of a Lay Agent.

The Committee have long been convinced of the importance of making known more widely the object and claims of the Society in places which, either from the full occupation of the time of its Deputation or from other circumstances, it has been impracticable to visit in former years. They have, therefore, engaged the services of Mr. George Courtnay Greenway, as a Lay Agent for the Society; in the expectation that this measure will, under the Divine Blessing, be the means of increasing its funds, by the formation of new Associations in aid of its objects, and, where the Society's local friends think it can be done with advantage, by systematically organizing the Associations which have been already formed.

We extract some passages from the

Conclusion of the Report.

To have found men, far removed from direct controul, disinterestedly and faithfully labouring year after year, approving themselves to God, and, in the fruit of their labours, manifesting their fidelity to their engagements, calls us to thank God, and take courage.

Had a human scheme with such extended ramifications been carried on by Agents, who, without prospect of pecuniary recompence or worldly glory, were merely to have their subsistence for their work, it would have come to nought long ago. But God has sustained His servants: the work has been steadily advancing; and has been proved to be His, by the effects already produced: and hence we gather the encouraging conclusion, that it cannot be overthrown.

But, while the Committee thus gratefully look back on the past, they cannot but express their conviction, that the efforts yet made are inexpressibly feeble, compared with the magnitude of the ob ject, and with the means of the Protestant Churches, and of our own in partieular. Far more is spent, in our own country, in vain pleasure or mere luxury which might easily be dispensed with, or indulgences which are injurious, than is raised, by all the Religious Societies of the Protestant World put together,

for the advancement of the Kingdom of Christ. A comparison of the sums paid in articles of luxury, with the returns of all the Religious Societies put together, will shew how much more the lovers of pleasure do for vain indulgence, than the lovers of God do for His Glory and the salvation of man.

. The Committee have found it requisite, wherever they have been able-as in North and South India, Ceylon, and the West Indies-to limit the sum which they expend on a particular Mission. The Expenditure being found to exceed the Income, they have felt that a Christian Society is no more justified than private individuals in running into debt, and, by so doing, exposing the Society's operations to the greatest risk and embarrassment. But the effect of thus restricting the expenditure has been, to cramp those operations, and to obstruct that breaking forth on the right hand and on the left, which is the great privilege of the Church of Christ. They place this subject on the conscience of every friend of Missions. For themselves, they have had the accounts of the whole Expenditure submitted to the scrutiny of two Committees of Investigation, which examined it, throughout, with unwearied patience and labour: and they now confidently appeal to the Christian Church for more enlarged support. Christians Now are not justified, and are not placing this matter on the right footing, in questioning Expenditure, instead of enlarging Contributions-in raising light objections, instead of pouring out their liberality. In a Cause so momentous as the advancement of the Kingdom of Christ, minor objections may be relinquished, so that we may but glorify His Name, and help to save those for whom He died.

Appendix to the Report. The Appendix contains the following articles :

I. Regulations of the Society relative to

Disabled Missionaries, and their Widows andChildren: Sept.14,1829. II. Report of the Committee appointed

Feb. 21, 1829, to review the Expenditure and Finances of the Society. III Regulations for the Society's Institution at Islington.

IV. Instructions of the Committee to the

Rev. Joseph Marsh, proceeding to
Madras: delivered April 1, 1829.

July, 1830.

BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY. ANNIVERSARY.

THE Committee met about Sixty Ministers from the Country, at Salters' Hall Chapel, on Tuesday Morning, the 15th of June.

On Wednesday Morning, at the Wesleyan Chapel, City Road, a Sermon was preached by the Rev. John Brown, of Edinburgh, from Psalm ii. 8. In the Evening, the Rev. J. H. Hinton, of Reading, preached at Surrey Chapel, from Isaiah lii. 1. Awake, Awake, put on thy strength, O Zion!

At Eleven o'clock on Thursday Morning, the Annual Meeting took place at Spafields' Chapel; John Foster, Esq., of Biggleswade, in the Chair.

Movers and Seconders.

Rev. T. S. Crisp, of Bristol: and Rev. John Birt, of Manchester-John Poynder, Esq.; and Rev. Dr. SteinkopffRev. Eustace Carey; and W. B. Gurney, Esq.-and Rev. T. James, of Woolwich; and Rev. C. C. Tauchnitz, from Leipsic.

Resolutions.

-That the very considerable increase, during the past year, of the Contributions to the Society-the additions which have been made to the number of our Missionaries-the Abolition of the inhuman practice of Suttee in the Presidencies of Fort William and Madras-and the manifest tokens of a Divine Blessing resting on the labours of our Brethren, both in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, are circumstances which demand our most fervent gratitude, and should stimulate to unremitting and increased exertion.

-That the experience of the past year has furnished new and pleasing motives to persevering earnestness in Prayer for the Divine Guidance and Blessing on all the operations of this and similar Institutions; and that the Mission in the West Indies, especially, needs to be commended to the all-powerful protection of that Glo rious Being, who can make the wrath of man to praise Him, while the remainder thereof is restrained.

The Collections amounted to 3631. Os. 10d.

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Lawrence Saunders, Rector of Allhallows, London, who was burnt at Coventry, in the reign of Queen Mary;" and A Short Account of Popery, or the Re

ligion of the Church of Rome:" also of the Tracts for Children and Sunday Schools, "A Historical Catechism on the Resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."

Publications of the Society. The Publications now on sale consist of 84 General Tracts, 16 for Children and Sunday Schools, 4 Tracts in Welsh, 4 in Manks, and 10 Cottage Tracts on folio sheets. Duty of Increasing Vigilance against the Errors of the Day.

Your Committee feel, that the eventful times in which we live call for increasing vigilance on their part, that nothing but pure, unadulterated truth should find its way into the pages of those Publications which emanate from them. They are persuaded, that the insidious efforts which the Father of Lies is now making, to introduce infidel sentiments into the great mass of the community -whether by employing the pens of those who profess themselves the friends of Truth, to support a species of Rationalism entirely subversive of our belief in the necessity of miraculous interference, and thus sapping the very foundations of Revealed Religion-or by fostering a union between Real Christianity ▾ and that which falsely bears its name; thereby throwing down the barriers that separate between truth and error, and aiming to substitute liberality of sentiment for the unchanging principles of the Gospel of the Only True God, even our Saviour Jesus Christ-cannot be too

narrowly watched: and that every real Member of the Church of England is called on to take his stand in her defence; and, by an uncompromising avowal of his sentiments, by the most determined opposition to false doctrine and he resy, and by using his utmost endeavours to propagate the Truth as it is in Jesus, to evidence, at once, the consistency of his faith, and his value for the privileges with which he has been favoured.

Continent.
France.

BIBLE SOCIETY.

Increasing Eagerness for the Scriptures. A CORRESPONDENT of the British

and Foreign Bible Society, in speaking of a short journey from which he had just returned, says—

in demand-is read with beneficial effects Everywhere, the New Testament is and is approved of by all rational and enlightened persons.

Extracts are given from various Letters received by this Correspondent, the chief of which we subjoin.

The following communications are from Roman-Catholics Ministers of Parishes.

-Your valuable consignment of copies of the Sacred Scriptures is duly come to hand: I hastened to make known this circumstance from the pulpit. You should have seen with what joy my poor parishioners received the glad tidings. Children, and fathers of families, pressed round me, to partake of that distribution which I made; and I had much difficulty to prevent tumult and confusion.

-I have just learned, that, inspired by a desire of promoting the cause of Religion, you are willing to issue books to those who have not the means of purchasing them. Might I venture to request that the poor in my parish may be permitted to share in your benevolence? I reside in a mixed parish: the Catholics form the poorest portion, and their

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number is the most considerable. am permitted to enjoy some aid from you, you may reckon in advance on my lasting gratitude; and I venture to promise, that the poor and the children will always remember you in their prayers, and not cease to entreat the Lord to bless those who provide them with the best of books.

-God be praised, that the Spirit of God inspires the souls of the benevolent; that the Gospels of the Saviour of the World are granted to the poor; and that the children in our Schools will be enabled hereafter to obtain nourishment from the sacred precepts of Jesus Christ! Have the kindness, I beg of you, to furnish me with 100 copies of the New Testament; and be assured, that the benevolence of the respected Society_will never have been better applied. May this Institution, so truly Christian in its principles, condescend to accept the assurance of our prayers for the blessing of God to rest on it!

Since I have distributed your books, the children in our Schools are become more submissive: they respect their