journeys never entered the scene of gay and mad frivolity, nor yet joined in the wild, deluding chase after gold or earthly fame. In going these ways, those who bear His name have mistaken His footprints for that of one who will surely lead them astray.

Sad will it be for us, if, as we descend into the dark valley, we cannot discern the footprints of Him who is "the way, the truth, and the life.” Bunyan tells us that when Mr. Standfast had gone down into the river, he said to his companions who had followed him thither, “ This river hath been a terror to many; yea, the thoughts of it, also, have often frightened me. Now, methinks I stand easy ; my foot is fixed upon that on which the feet of the priests that bore the ark of the covenant stood, while Israel passed over Jordan. . . . I see myself now at the end of my journey; my toilsome days are ended. I am going to see that head that was crowned with thorns, and that face that was spit upon for me.... I have loved to hear my Lord spoken' of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there I have coveted to set my foot, too."

Reader, can you use such words as these ?

OUR MISSIONS :-THE MORANT BAY MISSION. This mission, as our readers will re- / than to any share they had had member,sprang out of the lamentable in its evangelization. In point o events which took place in Jamaica, at fact it was proved that the Baptis the close of the year 1865. For the mission had never been able to es time public opinion was led to be tablish itself in St. Thomas in thi lieve, that the disturbances, which is East, that its efforts, many years ago sued in the slaughter of some twenty had been suppressed, by the im Englishmen by the native popula prisonment of one missionary and tion, were the result of the teach the hostility displayed to another ing of Baptist missionaries. The | The religious instruction of th Jamaica legislature was induced people had been left mainly in th by Governor Eyre to pass mea hands of the Church of England, th sures of the most tyrannical and labours of other sects being eithe oppressive nature, by which not unsuccessful or of a very feebl only religious liberty, but the very kind. existence of Baptist churches was The Royal Commission had ng threatened. The dreadful retribu completed its labours, when the Bar tion which followed the suppression tist missionaries were earnestly er of the disturbances, happily also led treated by Sir Henry Storks to er to an investigation, by which the deavour to establish a new missio calumnies floating about against the | in the district, an entreaty th Baptist missionaries were refuted, Governor afterwards renewed per their uprightness was vindicated, / sonally in his interviews with th and it was made apparent that the officers of our Society at home. state of things in the district of As soon as practicable, the missio Morant Bay was owing rather to was commenced, in October, 186 the absence of the religious instruc by the Rev. W. Teall, when he r tion, afforded by the Baptist mission moved from Lucea, on the nort aries in those parts of the island side of the island, to St. Thomas i where order and quiet prevailed,' the East. The first four month were spent in visiting the numerous | lands Baptist Church.” Monklands villages, and holding religious ser- was the district in which the severivices on Sundays at Morant Bay and ties of the suppression were most at Arcadia. In these visits com shocking and atrocious. Let us munications were freely opened with hope that the triumphs of the Cross the native Baptists, who are nu will efface the memories of that fearmerous in this section of the island, | ful time. and who, for the most part, have For the proper working of the misexpressed their desire to place them sion, the two churches are divided selves under the guidance and in in ten districts, and these again into struction of the Society.

twenty-eight classes, under thirtyEarly in 1867, sufficient progress nine leaders and nine deacons. The had been made to justify the forma total number of members is 305. tion of a church. This was done on These churches are formed on the the 10th July, and a hundred per principle of self-support, and already sons, gathered from the whole dis one of the Calabar students has gone trict, are brought into fellowship at to the assistance of Mr. Teall, who Morant Bay. In September, Mr. Teall will be supported by the contribuwelcomed the arrival of the Revs. W. tions of the people. Last year they Dendy and J. E. Henderson on a tour raised £75 for these purposes. of inspection. Their visit was most A commencement has also been grateful and encouraging, and will be made with day and Sunday-schools long remembered as a time of refresh at Arcadia, but this department of ing from the Lord. On the 15th Sep operations is at present in a very tember, the ordinance of baptism incipient stage. was for the first time observed, During the present year the erecsince the commencement of the tion of chapels will be proceeded mission. Seventy-seven persons put with. This has been delayed till on Christ, at the mouth of the experience had been gained as to Bamboo River, Morant Bay, the the best localities in which to place deputation taking part in the service, them. Three have been decided and Mr. Teall officiating as baptizer. upon, and operations will immedi. Twenty persons more were baptized ately commence. on the last day of the year in the “I have much satisfaction," says Great Negro River, near a spot of Mr. Teall, “in my work. The people land just purchased for the mission. have been docile and affectionate to A very large number of persons wit- a degree which has endeared them to nessed the impressive rite on both me very greatly. I feel that the occasions. A portion of the mem mission has begun hopefully; but it bers have been formed into a second is only begun. We shall see greater church, and is called “The Monk- | things yet.”

NEWS OF THE CHURCHES, THE Annual Meetings of our Some very interesting statements various Societies have been held have been handed to us of the actual during the past month. At the work done by the various agencies time we write it is impossible for in connection with the Baptist us to give any account of them, Church in Myrtle Street, Liverpool, but we hope to give the results of which the Rev. Hugh Stowell

Brown is the pastor. Briefly stated

the facts are these :—There are 597 | Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks, has been members and seven deacons. In recognised as pastor of the Church addition to the parent Sunday-school, at Brixham, Devon.The Rev.J. H. there are three branch schools and Feek has been recognised as pastor three ragged schools. In one Sun of the Church at Redditch.--The day-school there are above 100 Rev. G. T. Ennal has been recog. teachers and about 1050 scholars; nised as the pastor of the Church in while in the ragged schools there Harvey Lane chapel, Leicester.— The are about fifty teachers and about | Rev. J. Pickering has been recog. 450 children. Three Bible-women nised as the pastor of the Church at are at work, and there are a goodly Moriah, Cardiganshire.--The Rev. number of young men engaged in T. Bateman, late of the Metropolitan lay preaching. Two of them visit Tabernacle College, has been recog. the vagrant-sheds at the workhouse, nised as co-pastor with the Rev. J. a lady visiting the female vagrant Hockin of the Church at Niton, Isle sheds. There is also a tract distri- of Wight.-The Rev. W. Cuff, late bution agency at work; a juvenile of the Metropolitan Tabernacle missionary society raises about £75 College, has been recognised as coa year, and it has been eulogized as pastor with the Rev. C. Elven of one of the best societies in England. the Church at Bury St. Edmund's.The New Year's Lord's-day collec The Rev. W. A. Thomas has been tion for the widows and orphans of recognised as the pastor of the Baptist missionaries was £50, which Church at Henrietta Street chapel, Mr. Trestrail, in acknowledging, London. states, “is by far the largest sum received from any Church in the The following are the MINISTERIAL denomination.” The friends are, it CHANGES since our last issue:--The seems, engaged in the erection of a Rev. W. B. Hobling, of Shaldon, chapel for the colliers of St. Helen's, Devon, to Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks; which will cost about £2000.

the Rev. E. Edwards, of Ohard, to

Upton Vale Chapel, Torquay; the A new Baptist Church has been formed at Sheerness, Kent, under

Rev. G. Durrell, of Bristol College,

to Warminster, Wilts; the Rev. C. the pastorate of the Rev. J. R. Hal

White, of Merthyr Tydvil, to Corn

wall Road chapel, Notting Hill, LonA new school-room has been don; the Rev. J. Thomas, of Ponty. opened in connection with the Bap- pool College, to Sion, Cefnmawr; tist Church at Tonbridge.—The the Rev.J.Jones, of the same college, Baptist chapel at Chepstow has

to Taibach, Aberavon; the Rev. W. been re-opened after having been Piggott, of Winwick, Hunts, to enlarged and considerably improved. Speen, Bucks. The Rev. G. S.

Reaney has resigned the pastorate The memorial stone of a new school

at Taunton. The Rev. W. Norris has and mission station in connection

resigned the pastorate at Little with which a chapel is to be here

Kingshill. The Rev. T. M. Roberts, after erected), has been laid in Bur.

B.A., has, on account of ill-health, ley Road, Leeds.--A new chapel has

resigned the pastorate of the Church been opened at Cwmdale, Glamor

at Chipping Norton, Oxon. The ganshire, for the ministry of the Rev.

Rev. D. B. Joseph has resigned the D. S. Davies.—The Baptist chapel

pastorate of the Church at Salem at Appledore, Devon, has been re

chapel, Burton-on-Trent. The Rev. opened after extensive alterations

J. P. Barnett has resigned the pasand repairs.

torate of the Church at Mount The Rev. J. Curtis, formerly of Pleasant, Swansea. .

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