hopes beyond the grave.A few days before her death, the fent for me, for the last time, to come and pray with and for her, as the expected daily to die. I found her greatly debilitated in body, (her voice reduced to a kind of loud whisper) and threatened with eve ry appearance of fpeedy death; but her understanding was found, and her mind completely tranquil,

joys above the terrors of death, and fully fenfible of its near approach, the converfation was chiefly turned upon the interefting nature of a change of worlds. I told her that death would clofe her probationary ftate forever; that as fhe died, a finner or a Chriftian, fo fhe would

from an enlightened underftanding, and a full belief of the neceflity of regeneration for admiflion into the kingdom of heaven. She, at length, admitted the hope of having experienced this defirable change. Her anxieties and diftreffes were removed; and the appeared to be filled with a fweet tranquillity of mind, daily rejoicing in Chrift, and often fpeaking with delight of the astonishing wonders-Finding her clated with fpiritual of redeeming love. She obtained the religious diary of an eminent Chriftian, which the often read with pleasure, feeling her own experiences correfponding in many particulars. At this period, the looked forward to an approaching day of death with great tranquillity of mind, and profeffed a readi-arife, and be found in the day of acfs to die, at God's will; appear-judgment, and fo she would remain ing to have the moft lively hopes to all eternity. She appeared to of joining glorified faints and an- be fully fenfible of this, and in fubgels in heaven, in finging the fong ftance replied, that fhe hoped the of Mofes and the Lamb. The had humbly and seriously confiderdistance of time prevents me from ed the matter -I then told her, diftinctly recollecting many of her that if he was deceived in her own words, which were fome of hope of being interested in Chrift, them peculiarly expreffive and in- in whom the now profeffed to terefting. She lamented that fhe truft with fo much confidence, had done fo little for God and the when the fhould come to apintereits of religion in the world, pear before the great fearcher of and that the had spent the moft in- all hearts, her profeffions here terefting and impreffible period of would be in vain, and she must fail this life, in walking in a vain fhow. of being an heir of falvation. She, She longed to redeem that precious in fubftance, replied, that the felt time, which had been inconfider- this to be a very folemn thought, ately wafted in the vanities of youth and a moft weighty confideration, -but knowing this to be impoff-which had confiderably tried her ble, her only refuge was in the all-mind; but, that she felt that full fufficient righteoufnefs of the great belief and joy in Chrift, which the Redeemer, whom the believed to could not think to be a delufion.have been wounded for our fins I told her, that death was in its and bruifed for our iniquities, that very nature terrible to man, as fewith his ftripes the penitent believ- parating the foul from the body, er might be healed.-During her and clofing our eyes upon our ficknefs I frequently vifited her, friends, the world and all its enand converfed freely with her upon joyments; and asked her what imthe nature and dutics of faving re- preffions the thoughts of it made ligion, and upon her own views and upon her mind. She replied, "I

"have no defire to live any lon- | fed! Bleffed !"--Meaning, by

Letter from the Directors of the, glad. He has given feals to the

London Miffionary Society, to the Trustees of the Mifionary Society of Connecticut.

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adminiftrations of thofe actually laboring in the miffionary field, both under the patronage of this, and of other focieties. The publication of the fermons and of the report of the Directors, given at our late feventh annual meeting will have informed you, before this letter can reach you, of the number and circumftances of our ac tual Miffionary Stations, to the time of that meeting. We fhall not therefore repeat what you will there find.

Moft of the accounts fince received from our feveral Miffiona

Thofe from our venerable brother Dr. Vanderkemp are peculiarly fo. God continues to uphold and ftrengthen him, and to furround him with fuch fignal manifestations of his providential care as ftrongly to revive in our minds the recollection of the wonders which he did of old in the land of Ifrael. To enumerate thefe would be pleafant, but as they could on

CHRISTIAN BRETHREN, NITED as we are in the faith and fellowship of the gofpel, and engaged in the fame bleffed caufe, the extenfion of the knowledge of that glorious Name by which only men are faved; we cannot but feel towards you brotherly affection, and with you good fpeed in the name of the Lord. It is a fubject at once animating to us in our own endeavours, and calling for congratulation to our fel-ries are confolatory and animating. low-laborers, that the Lord hath been pleafed to fpread abroad in the minds of his people in every place a fpirit of earneft prayer for the fulfilment of thofe glorious promifes which relate to the prof perity of the Redeemer's Kingdom; and that as the best evidence of fincerity their prayers are accompanied with correfponding exertions. Is not this the ufual courfe of the divine conduct? Is not this a fignly be mutilated accounts we fhall that the time the fet time to favor Zion is at hand, if not come? Did God ever fay to the feed of Jacob, feek my Face in vain? Let us, therefore, dear Brethren, by fuch views as thefc,-by the confideration of what is to be done,by the obligations we are under to our bleffed Redeemer and the fouls of our fellow-men,-by the recollection of the fhortnefs of the time and the animating hope of the recompence of reward, encourage one another; and in the ftrength of him who has promised to teach our hands to war and our fingers to fight" go forward" and ceafe not from the conflict till Zion fhall become the praife of the earth.

The Lord is in various ways doing great things whereof we are

not abridge the pleafure you will receive from the unaffected recital of them in his own words, which will be given in an early number of the Evangelical Magazine. But what is better, he has reaped the first fruits of his labors among the unenlightened Caffres with whom he dwells. Our other brethren too are not without encouragement, both from past experience and future profpects. Several heathen have been baptized, one at least among the Boschemen has died in the faith; others seem to be awakened. There is even ground to hope that God will render the poor native employed as an interpreter to the Bofchemen, not only a reporter of what he is told by others, but a relater of what he

himself has feen, the word of life. ther to add refpecting our brethren in that quarter, that we truft they that he has accompanied our feewill labor with increafing encour- ble efforts with figns following. agement and effect, from the af-Yet we account not ourselves to Gftance they will receive from the have attained. These things we Miffionaries lately fent out to their confider as but the laying of the aid and of whofe fafe arrival at first stones of future and more exthe Cape we have just had the hap- tenfive buildings. And at the py intelligence. fame time that we would confirm and enlarge the stations already occupied, we are not unmindful of fuch other new ones, as the calls of providence, or an enlarged knowledge of the state of the world point out to us. These rife continually to our view. At pref

tafted and felt of of thankfulness; and would acWe have fur-knowledge with unfeigned gratitude to the Father of our mercies,

Since our last meeting we have received, both by letters and by the arrival of fome of our late Miffionaries to the South Seas, from New-Holland fuch accounts as tend to remove the remaining apprehenfions we entertained for the fafety of the brethren who re-ent we have but one Mishonary in mained behind, and even to en- the extenfive region of India. It Courage the hope that the Lord has is, therefore, near to our hearts to gracious defigns towards that peo-fend him out ample affiftance as ple, although he has been pleased to fit as a refiner among the inftruments engaged in carrying on the work. We are anxiously waiting for the account of the arrival of the brethren fent out to their help in the Royal Admiral, and truft that we hall ere long, receive good news from that far country.

The accounts received alfo from our Miffionary, Mr. Mitchell, who is laboring at the Bay of Chaleur, are pleafing and excite in our minds a defire to liften to the carneft call fent to us from the people of that quarter to come over to help them fill more effectually. Could not you, dear Brethren, afford that place the temporary aid at leaft of fending thither one Mif fionary till we can provide one or more to relieve him? Letters of an equally agreeable import have atrived from Mr. Hillyard laboring at Newfoundland.

Thus, dear Brethren, although we have had many difcouragements we are not without grounds

foon as the Lord shall furnish us with men, fuitable for the work. The large and populous ifland of Ceylon, alfo attracts our notice, and we truft fhortly to be able to fend out laborers to it; for we are daily expecting the arrival in London of feveral Miffionaries fent by our brethren in Germany, whofe knowledge of the Dutch language will render them peculiarly adapted to that station. The feveral fettlements in the Weft-Indies and on the continent of America, which in the difpenfations of providence have come under the dominion of our crown, share likewife our attention, and ftrongly excite our prayers, that the Lord of the harveft would fend forth more laborers into his harvell. The unenlightened tribes of the interior of your country we rejoice to think, will be the objects of your zeal and exertions, fo that great and extensive as is the field. we have good ground to indulge the hope that it will not be long before every region of the globe fhall

lifhed in England: the laft accounts received from the Miffionaries of our Baptift brethren in India, inform us that the publication of it in the Bengalic language is

fociety is taking measures for printing and circulating in the Catholic countries of Europe, a large impref fion of the New Teftament in the French language, accompanied with an extenfive introduction, by our refpectable and learned brother Mr. Bogue, the English edition of which is at the point of publication.

Our chief difficulty in our Miffionary work is, procuring inftruments well adapted for the arduous ftations they are intended to fill, and to this we are directing our

have in it fome one to repeat the angelic chorus "Glory to God in the higheft, and on earth peace good-will towards men." God feems indeed to be taking unto himfelf his great power, and man-nearly completed; and our own ifefting it by the inftrumentality of his fervants. He is railing up new helpers in the work; new focieties are forming; plans varying in their means but uniting in their end, are every where adopting. Our brethren of the church of England have engaged in the work. Their Society is yet in its infancy but we trust the little one will become a thoufand." On the continent of Europe, the flame has broken forth. Men unknown to each other have been devising methods for propagating the gof-attention. We have lately eftabpel, and were aftonifhed to find when they began to communicate their views that they were an hoft. Our correfpondence with various parts of your quarter of the globe, is in this refpect confolatory in the highest degree; and the more fo, as the fame evidence of divine approbation which has we humbly hope diftinguished our endeavors, has alfo marked theirs; that in proportion as the minds of God's people have been concerned for the falvation of the natives of diftant countries, religion has revived and fpread in their own.

lifhed a Seminary for the inftruction of those who are in other refpects qualified, under the care of our above mentioned brother, Mr. Bogue. At prefent there are but two young men in preparation, but they are both highly promising for piety and talents.

Such, dear brethren, are our prefent fituation and future defigns. But time would fail,-our hearts warm with the fubject would lead us to tranfgrefs the bounds of a letter. We must therefore refer you for further information to the intelligence which is from time to time communicated in the Evangelical Magazine, which is known to you.

Among other excellent modes of co-operation in the bleffed work, we should not omit to mention that which now engages confiderable We have read with pleasure the attention here and elfewhere; the few numbers of your Evangelical publication of the holy fcriptures Magazines which have reached us. in the language of feveral nations The account it gives of the various. which are either totally deftitute revivals of religion in your counof that ineftimable treafure, or pof- try exhilirate our hearts, and fefs it in a very feanty measure.-rengthen our humble belief that We have reafon to think that we we may infcribe upon our mutual fhall fee a copious edition of the endeavors, "Jehovah Shammah." word of God in Arabic and a Favor us, dear brethren, with

tranflation of it into Chinese pub. I your correfpondence. Freely com.