of the Government, that the New Testament shall be read in all the elementary schools. As there are about two millions of children in those schools, it is to be expected, that as many copies of that blessed book will be in the hands of the rising generation. In France, however, there is a great want of such books as convey to the mind of the reader clear and scriptural views of the great doctrines of our holy religion; and one of the greatest charities that could be exercised towards the Continent, would be to provide as many copies, as possible, of such books. Under these views, I beg to suggest to you, that the Sermons of the Rev. John Wesley, if well translated into French, would, in my opinion, be of immense service to the cause of truth. Several single sermons have been translated at different times by the Rev. J. De Quetteville, but their circulation has been confined chiefly to the Channel islands. The Conference felt the importance of this subjeet so much about twenty years ago, that M. De Kerpezdron was employed and encouraged to proceed with the work. A few sermons

were translated; and the writer has the means of knowing, that they were well received in France. You will judge how much I have been pleased, within the last few days, in seeing two numbers, containing eight of Mr. Wesley Sermons, translated by the Rev. Theophile Marzials, Pastor of the Protestant church at Lille; the price of each sermon being only three half-pence. They are printed on good paper, with an excellent type. The style is remarkably clear; and I think Mr. Wesley speaks with as much simplicity and energy in French as he does in English. May I take leave to say, that if you could by any means encourage the continuance of such a work you would do an essential service to thousands in France who are destitute of religious books. When it is considered that the sermons can be sold at three halfpence each, one hundred pounds would supply upwards of twenty thousand copies. I leave this subject in your hands, and beg to subscribe myself Your constant reader, AMICUS.

London, March 17th, 1835.

MEMORIAL ADOPTED BY THE COM-
OCCASION OF THE
MITTEE, ON
DEATH OF THE REV. DR. MOR
RISON, LATE OF CANTON.

SCARCELY had the Committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society paid their tribute to the memory of one highlyvalued and distinguished fellow-labourer in the East, before they are called to mourn the loss of another. To the name of CAREY, they have now to add that of MORRISON,-names, both of them, which will ever hold a high rank among Oriental and Biblical scholars. The talents of Carey were employed on a va riety of languages; the energies of Morrison were concentrated on one, but that one was the Chinese. Carey lived to a good old age; and came to his grave, like as a shock of corn cometh in, in his season. Morrison was cut off in the vigour of life, when years of further ser vice might have been, not unreasonably, anticipated. Both, however, had finished the work appointed them to do; and for both is, doubtless, reserved the applauding sentence, "Well done, good and faithful servant! enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."

Twenty-seven years ago, when Dr. Morrison, then a young man, embarked for China, no Protestant Missionary had

trodden that vast and neglected field; and, for sacred purposes, there was but one Protestant European who had attempted to master the difficulties of its most difficult language. Dr. Marshman was at that time laudably engaged in a distant province of India, in effecting a translation of the sacred Scriptures into Chinese, which, after a few years, passed through the press at Serampore; but Dr. Morrison was the first to make the attempt in China itself; and this gigantic work (aided in part by the late lamented Dr. Milne) he lived to accomplish: thus unfolding the volume of inspired truth to above three hundred millions of the human race.

The talent, the zeal, the devotedness, the perseverance, requisite for such an undertaking as this, may be more easily conceived than described. Yet this was not the only task which Dr. Morrison imposed upon himself: his Chinese Dictionary, printed at the expense of the Honourable East India Company, would alone have been a noble monument of his industry and learning. He also published, in Chinese, many smaller works; among which, as illustrative of his catholic spirit, may be mentioned his translation of the Liturgy of the Church of England.

In order duly to estimate his fervent and unwearied zeal, it should be borne in

to strengthen the hands of those Protestants in France who adhere to the truth, surrounded as they are by superstition, infidelity, and worldliness. It is infinitely desirable that primitive Christianity should be revived in that fine country.

THIS school will be opened at Lille, as soon as the funds will permit. It will embrace two objects; the education of Protestant children in the north of France, and the training of male and female teachers. This establishment will occupy a building proportioned to the wants and number of the children, and will be divided into two distinct parts, one part for the boys, the other for the girls there will be no communication between the one and the other. The course of education will be, first of all, evangelical, and founded exclusively upon the word of God. There will be family worship morning and evening. In the boys' school six hours each day will be devoted to reading, writing, arithmetic, sacred music, geography, &c., &c.; and four or five hours to the learning of a trade. In the girls' school six hours will be employed in study, and the rest of the day in needle-work, &c., of various kinds. The children of the poor shall board and lodge in the house, and be instructed, gratis; the price of board for those whose parents are in easy circumstances is fixed at 250 francs a year.

This establishment is placed under the direction of a Committee consisting of Ministers and laymen.

The following, dear brethren, are the motives which have induced us to institute this school: :

1. The Protestants in the northern departments of France are so few in number in any given place, and the greater part of them are so poor, that they cannot provide a school and a master for each locality; consequently, their children must either remain without education, or be placed in Catholic schools. To this many heads of Protestant families have been obliged to have recourse. But what has been the result? Their children, instead of returning home with their minds stored with good principles, have come back to their parents with ideas such as every disciple of Christ is bound to condemn. The first years of those dear children, years so precious, which are often indicative of their future life, were lost. Brethren, think you not that this evil ought to cease? Would it not be a great sin in the sight of God, and in the sight of the church of Christ, if

the fear of some little sacrifices should render us indifferent to the pitiable condition of our children?

2. Protestant France has at present but one school, from which male and female Teachers are supplied. In addition to the impracticability of this school supplying all the wants of the respective churches, its distance is so great from the north, and the circumstances of the people are so limited, that they cannot afford to send their children to it. Is it not then necessary that a second school should be established? Is it not probable that this second school, if directed by the spirit of faith, and the blessing of God, may become to our dear churches, a seminary for male and female Teachers ?

3. There is another consideration which has much encouraged us in our project. The north of France has, for some years, been mercifully visited by the Lord. Many souls, in different places, have passed from death unto life. This revival has, above all, taken place among the young people. We have the proof of this, in that many of them are ready to begin the good work of instruction, as soon as the Lord shall open their way. Such a school as we contemplate would probably open a door for many of them.

Shall we now, dear brethren, hide from you our poverty, and, consequently, our insufficiency to meet the pecuniary demands of such a school, the various obstacles which lie in our way, the serious discouragements we have to overcome, the efforts of our feeble faith, the stones which imprudent hands have placed in our route; in a word, shall we hide from you the difficulties, known and unknown, which oppose us? No; but we will say to you, in a word, "Come and see the greatness of the power of God, which surmounts the most formidable obstacles!" Do we speak of difficulties? Twelve Jews undertook to convert the whole world! And is it not for the same end that we undertake this work? "There is a diversity of operations, but only one Lord." Is His arm shortened, or His ear heavy? Ah! if anything be changed, it is our faith, that faith which once produced such wonders. Let us now believe, and all things are possible. Difficulties! yes, thanks be to God, we have them; but they will only serve to magnify the glory of God who will conquer them, because he is greater than they; and in this thing, as well as in everything else that is truly Christian, we shall say in the end, "Glory to God who

put forth his full powers in behalf of his -clients. The Doctor's Counsel appear to have been instructed to treat the character of some of the most esteemed and venerated Ministers in the Methodist Connexion with sarcasm and invective, and to hold them up to the Court and the nation as objects of distrust, and even reprobation. Never were censures and degrading comparisons more obviously misapplied than against such men as the Rev. Messrs. Taylor, Bunting, and Newton. The defendants, and indeed the Wesleyan body generally, are greatly indebted to the learned Counsel on the other side, for the deep attention which they had evidently paid to the subject, and the clear and convincing manner in which they stated and defended the rules and usages of the Connexion.

The following is the decision of his Honour the Vice-Chancellor, after a patient hearing of the arguments of Counsel, and a careful examination of the documents.

THIS case appears to me to have been argued with very great ability on both sides; and I think with great reason, for I do not concur in an observation made by one of the learned Counsel, Mr. Rolfe, that the question is one of a trifling na

ture.

I do not think that any question can be deemed or considered of a trifling nature which concerns the well beingI may almost say, the existence of a body such as that which is composed of the Wesleyan Methodists.

It is my

firm belief, that to that body we are indebted for a large portion of the religious feeling which exists among the general body of the community, not only of this country, but throughout a great portion of the civilized world besides. When, also, I recollect, that this society owes its origin and first formation to an individual so eminently distinguised as the late John Wesley, and when I remember that, from time to time, there have arisen out of this body some of the most able and distinguished individuals that ever graced and ornamented any society whatever, I may name one for all, the late Dr. Adam Clarke,-I must come to the conclusion, that no persons who have any proper understanding of what religion is, and regard for it, can look upon the general body of the Wesleyan Methodists without the most affectionate interest and concern.

The question now before me is this,Whether the Court of Chancery is to interfere in a case, in which the Trustees

of a chapel have virtually excluded Dr. Warren, or any other gentleman, from preaching or performing any other duty in that chapel, to which he had originally been appointed unquestionably in a lawful and proper manner. It has been said that this Court has no jurisdiction in such a case. Now, that is a proposition to which I cannot accede; for it appears to me that by the deeds themselves, which had the effect of making certain persons Trustees of this chapel for certain purposes, a trust is of necessity created; and I do not know why, merely because this is a trust affecting particular individuals who have formed themselves into a voluntary society, that it is not to be regarded, and not to be treated, by this Court, just precisely in the same manner as any other trusts affecting the common and every-day concerns of life. My own opinion is, that those persons who are called Trustees are Trustees in the strict sense of the word, having a legal dominion over the chapel in question, but holding the trust which they are possessed of, not for the benefit of themselves, but of certain other parties, for whose benefit the trust is constituted. Here a trust is therefore created, over which this Court will exercise a jurisdiction.

Then I must consider, whether, under the circumstances of this case, it is right and proper that the Court should interfere in the manner sought for by the plaintiff, Dr. Warren. It is to be observed, that the deeds of trust are not, according to my humble apprehension, to be construed merely with regard to the words that may happen to be contained in the deeds themselves, but must be construed and looked at as part and parcel of the whole machinery by which the great body of Wesleyan Methodists, amounting to, I believe, nearly a million of people, is kept together, and by which Methodism itself is carried on. I think I should take a very narrow view of the case, if I contented myself with merely looking at the words of the trust-deed, and not going further, and considering whether, from the very nature of the transaction and the matters connected with it, some circumstances extrinsic of the deed must not be taken into consideration. And I do this in pursuance of what I have understood to have been the law laid down by Lord Eldon, in a case which I have before had occasion to refer to,-I mean the suit between the tenants on the Duke of Bedford's estate, and the British Museum. It was there contended by the plaintiffs, that the persons who represented the