dougale's labours. Peace, love, and activity, seem to prevail. Among the places where I delivered addresses was Howdon. The church at this place seems very promising: it has been recently planted, and stands as the fruit of Brother McDougale's efforts. The brethren number 17, two having been added since I left. A letter from Brother M. informs me that the hall continues to be well attended, and he expects some confessions. Upon my return to the metropolis, I found several brethren about to leave for distant parts, thus reducing our number.-On the following Lord's day I was called upon to lecture at HAMMERSMITH, on ancient and modern baptisms: as usual, we had a goodly meeting, and one, at the conclusion, made a most interesting confession of his faith in Christ, and of his determination to follow Him for the remainder of his days, at the same time informing us that he had been some years connected with the infidels at John-street, but having carefully read Keith on the Prophecies, and the the Campbell and Owen Debate, he could now say, "I believe with all my heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God." His immersion was duly attended to. Since then Brother Black has given an address there on Judaism and Christianity, and he was called upon to immerse another. This church, numbering about 13, bids fair for usefulness. They love as brethren. At AYLESBURY, some 60 miles from London, I had an opportunity of delivering several addresses. I found there a congregation of some 12 persons teaching each other, breaking the loaf every first day, and loving one another. One thing I regretted, they have not seen baptism to be an institution which introduces into the kingdom; and therefore they permit persons, should they require, who have not been immersed, to unite with them while they instruct them as to their duty in this particular. I was much pleased with this people. They manifested the utmost willingness to hear, called the public to their meeting-house, and requested me to speak upon baptism for the remission of sins, solicited that I would instruct them more fully in the order of the church, and exhibited an amount of kindness and love not often surpassed. — At BUCKINGHAM, 17 miles more distant from London, I found 6 brethren well instructed on most points, having had the Bible Advocate and our tracts. With these we had sweet communion for a few days, held some reading meetings, and left them, to all intents, a church on the same basis as ourselves.-BANBURY was the next place visited. Here I found brethren seemingly living in love, but not doing much to extend the kingdom. I gave four addresses, and left them determined to increase their activity. Wardington is a village five miles distant, where we have a little church of 8 brethren. At this place we had a crowded meeting. From Banbury I returned to Aylesbury, and having sent out the bellman to inform the public that D. King, of London, would deliver an address upon the kingdom of heaven, we had a full house, five or six ministers being present. Here we kept up a constant attention for three hours, without either singing or prayer, having given them to understand that they were not called together to worship, but to hear speaking. Having returned to London, we shortly left the great city again for CHOLDERTON, in Wiltshire, to which place Brother Scott and most of the church from Seale had removed. In this neighbourhood we gave seven addresses upon the name of the Lord Jesus, and the things of the kingdom: several persons confessed the Lord, two of whom were at once immersed into Christ. At SHIPTON, two miles away, we gave two addresses to the members of a small Baptist church, and certainly expect that they will shortly return to the good old way, and become imitators of those who were first in Christ Jesus in Judea.—At ALLINGTON, another village two miles on the other side of Cholderton, we were invited to preach in the Primitive Methodist chapel, and we consented to do so; but after a while we had a note informing us that the good people had taken fright, and would not admit us. We gave an address at a Baptist meeting-house close by, upon the rise and destruction of the apostacy, and baptized one of the trustees of the chapel from which we were shut out. During this last visit, two were baptized, and added to the church in London. Since writing the above I have given one address in our London meeting-place, when one confessed the Lord, and desired baptism. Another confession has been made at Hammersmith. Without comment, I subscribe myself, your's in Christian love, DAVID KING. HOWDON, DECEMBER 11TH.-Dear Brother, I am happy to inform the brethren of our present position and prospects here. We have now the attention of the people to the number of 100 or 150, at the Lord's day proclamations in our meeting place. Here they have unfolded to them, the original gospel of Christ, in its power and simplicity, by our Brother McDougale, to whom the church and the world are greatly indebted. His clear and scriptural exhibitions of divine truth are powerful and convincing, and our prayer to God is that the church may fully enjoy the truth thus presented. Oh that the world would submit to the King of Kings, who, in his own time will show who is the Blessed and only Potentate! Your's in love, : CROSSGATES, 12TH DECEMBER. - Beloved Brother Although few in number, and of little knowledge, we are not willing to keep ourselves hidden from our Brethren, or from the world; and therefore intimate to you, that with the consent and approbation of the church in Dunfermline, we formed ourselves into a church in Crossgates, a village about four miles east of Dunfermline, on the 22nd of October last, numbering 22 members. On the 19th of November two put on Christ by immersion, and were added the same day to the congregation. On the 10th of the present month one was added by letter, making a total of 25 members. Our little company is, we hope, enjoying and exhibiting spiritual mindedness, with its happy results, life and peace, in no ordinary degree. Being thus blessed by our beloved Lord, we anticipate that he will make us a blessing to the world. Brother Dowie, from Cupar, visited us two first days of the week, and proclaimed the gospel to large and attentive audiences; also Brothers James and George Mill, from the same place; and on all these occasions our meeting-house has been filled with attentive hearers. WM. RAMSAY. FOREIGN ITEMS. BOON COUNTY, SEPTEMBER 21ST, 1848.On Saturday before the 4th Lord's day in July, Brother D. P. Henderson and I commenced a meeting at Union, 6 miles West of Paris, in Monroe. The meeting was continued for two or three weeks, and resulted, through the united labors of different brethren, in the addition of 143 to the church in that place. In Mirrison County, Brother Henderson obtained 40 at Palmyra; and Brother Thomas, at the same time, obtained 72 at Houston. Brother Thomas and others have since held meetings at Madison, where 50 to 60 were added; also at Florida, where 40 to 50 were added. Brother Henderson met me in Columbia, where we labored for 8 or 10 days, and 9 were added to the Lord; also 3 at Mount Pleasant and 3 at Redtop, in that County. I attended a meeting at Richland, Howard County, with Brothers Elder Gaines, Wright, Hopson, and Burton, on the fourth Lord's day in August, when 54 were added to the Lord. A few days ago, I closed a seven days meeting, a few miles north of me, 8 accessions being made to the church. At the same time Brothers Gaines and Wills had 12 additions at Dover, in Lafayette County. But enough is here reported in one letter to gladden the hearts of all the brethren. Affectionately yours, T. M. ALLEN. The GOSPEL PROCLAMATION for November, 1848, reports additions in different States and Counties, to the number of 700, within three months, all of whom were buried with the Lord by immersion into his death for the remission of sins, through faith in his blood.-J. W. FAMILY CIRCLE. THE ESCAPE OF THE POPE.- The Times correspondent, under date Naples, Nov. 27, communicates as follows:---According to previous arrangement at an hour previously agreed on, the Pope retired into a private room, for the purpose, apparently, of conferring with a gentleman, and there disguised himself in livery of the Bavaria Legation. In a few minutes the carriage of the Minister was called, and the Count de Spaur, followed by the Pope, disguised as his servant, descended the grand staircase, entered his carriage, the Pope mounting on the box alongside the coachnian. The artifice succeeded; no suspicion arose either in the Quirinal, or among the outward guards, and the good old man was enabled to breathe the air of liberty. Immediately on arrival at the residence of the Bavarian Minister, another metamorphosis was made. The Pope took off the livery suit, and dressed himself in the usual costume of the Minister's chaplain; and M. de Spaur having already given notice of his intention of going to Naples, and received passports from the government, post horses were soon procured, the Count and his supposed chaplain took their places in the carriage, and cleared the gates of Rome. It was some time before the escape was discovered, as due care was used by those in the secret to say that the Pontiff was engaged in his devotions, and could not be disturbed. When the flight became known the Ministry were thunderstruck, and, as I hear, dragoons were dispatched to bring failed, or the new government hesitated in back the fugitive; but either these measures Count de Spaur, with his reverend charge, arresting the person of an ambassador, and the crossed the frontier in safety, and arrived in Gaeta, a large town, the first in the Neapolitan territory, not far from Terraime. The Pope fled from the Quirinal on the 24th, and arrived at Gaeta on the night of the 25th. He was received by the king of Naples with the utmost respect, even to the kissing of his foot, and was on his way to the capital. GREAT COUNTRY.- Oregon is said to contain 218,535.320 acres; California and New Mexico 500,000 square miles. These countries, together with the other territories of the Union, equal at least 1,600,000 square miles, or in square acres, 1,024,000,000. EMIGRATION TO AMERICA. -During the month of June, 1848, 23,047 emigrants arrived at the port of New York, 11,524 being from Ireland, 7239 from Germany, and the remainBetween January and July, 85,924 emigrants der from other portions of the Old World. arrived at the same city. It is a singular fact, that the age of but one woman is mentioned in the Bible at the time of her death. The inference is obvious. efforts being made for the accomplishment of stone into the water and how circles widen you With the throw it. Live to elevate and bless, and not curse and destroy-feel that you are living for other worlds, and that your immortal destiny depends upon how you live, move and act. PEACE V. WAR.-That eminent individual, Elihu Burritt, known as the American blacksmith, is at present lecturing in Liverpool, on the Peace Question. Last Thursday evening, the 7th Dec. he gave his first lecture. The spacious hall in which he spoke was crowded in every part; and on the platform were many influential gentlemen, and several members of the Society of Friends. My kingdom is not of this world," said the Saviour, since which announcement centuries have passed, and strange to say, that the war spirit pervades the minds of many who profess to call him Master. It is a cause of thanksgiving that there are a few generous souls, anxious to bring about a state of peace, one of whom is Elihu Burritt, and who has risen from plebeian rank, to be one of the most eminent men of the present day. Surely such a one attests the dignity, the nobility of man. Here is one who has risen from the forge to an honorable distinction, who will, it is probable, do much good for this and future generations. Would that more of the working-classes would so exercise them selves. They are the sinews of a nation, and if they could be induced to think and act religiously, the nations would become religiously strong, as the Laborers's Daughter remarks, quoted in last HARBINGER. If the working population were to value the privilege of the Lord's day, and attend to the institutes of the Lord's house, poverty and other evils would soon be unknown, and war would cease for ever. EMPLOYMENT OF EVENINGS.-It is a quesWith such a one I entirely agree. The sword tion of great importance, especially to young might then be unsheathed, but not to kill-no, men, how you spend your evenings. If you that it might be laid upon the anvil of the have no regular employment, no fixed pursuit smith, that he might beat it into a ploughshare, to engross your attention, and operate as and the spear also into a pruning hook. Wealth stimulus to the mind when unemployed, you is now the fountain of honour; it would not be must of necessity have many leisure and unso if the working-classes were to follow in the occupied hours; intervals when time will hang footsteps of a Burritt. Merit would then be heavily on your hands and suggest the necesthe fountain of honour, and not wealth. Man sity of some means to relieve it of its weight. is a dignity, considered apart from wealth or The very time which is dissipated in idleness, worldly grandeur. Surely we behold the dig- would, if devoted to study, enable many a young nity of man in a Jesus of Nazareth, though, man to obtain eminence and distinction in some more abject than the fox or the bird, he had useful art. A sexton's son became an astrononot where to call his own, to lay his head. The mer by devoting a few hours every evening to dignity of man is acknowledged when we hear the study of the stars, after ringing the bell for the Saviour's birth announced to shepherds, or nine o'clock. Gifford was in early life, an apwhen we hear the fisherman called to publish prentice to a shoe-maker, and spent his leisure salvation, or when we see an Apostle Paul in-hours in study. His destitution was such, that structing Philemon to receive his slave Oncsi- he was compelled to work out his problems on mus as a brother beloved. Surely such ina smooth piece of leather with a blunted awl. stances prove to a demonstration the dignity of David Rittenhouse was a plough boy, and coverman. The Saviour acknowledges the poorested his plough beams and fences with his juveof the sons of men, as his brother upon conditions of belief and obedience. It is to be hoped that the useful and honorable position attained by Burritt, may serve as an impetus to the working-classes to cultivate their intellectual powers, for the well-being of man generally, and glory of Him who has so benevolently conferred such noble powers. It is gratifying to find so many influential supporters rallying around Burritt. It is equally gratifying to see nile calculations. James Ferguson was a shepherd's boy, and learned to read and write, while watching his flocks in the field by no other light than the moon and stars. Every mother, on the birth of a child, should imagine herself addressed by the Creator, in the words of Pharoah's daughter to the mother of Moses-"Take this child and nurse it for me." THE POWER OF THE WIFE.-IT needs no guilt to break a husband's heart; the absence of content, the mutterings of spleen, the untidy dress and cheerless home, the forbidding scowl and deserted hearth: these, and other nameless neglects, without a crime among them, have harrowed to the quick the heart's core of many a man, and planted there beyond the reach of cure, the germ of dark despair. O may woman, before that sight arrives, dwell on the recollections of her youth, and cherishing the dear idea of that tuneful time, awake and keep alive the promise she then so kindly gave. And though she may be the injured, not the injuring one- the forgotten, not the forgetful wife-a happy allusion to the hour of peaceful love a kindly welcome to a comfortable home -a smile of love to banish hostile wordskiss of peace to pardon all the past, and the hardest heart that ever locked itself within the breast of selfish man, will soften to her charms, and bid her live as she had hoped, her years in matchless bliss, loving and content, the soother of the sorrowing hour, the source of comfort, and the spring of joy. a TRUE WOMEN.-The true woman-whether she be a modest virgin, a prudent wife, or a careful matron - is more serviceable in this life than all the heroines of novels since the day of Cervantes. She who makes the fire of virtuous emulation spring in the heart of youthshe who rears a family in virtue and honesty, renders a nobler service to the world than was ever done by a Joan of Arc. Women are not formed for severe cares of life, but to smooth the brow of those who bear the heat and burden of the day. And she who performs well in her appropriate sphere does queenly. But where she moves out of her sphere she moves graceless and loveless. WHAT PLEASURE IS IT TO PAY ONE'S DEBTS. --I remember to have heard Sir T. Lyttleton make the same observation. It seems to flow from a combination of circumstances, each of which is productive of pleasure; in the first place, it removes that uneasiness which a true spirit feels from dependance and obligation. It promotes that future confidence which is so very interesting to an honest mind; it opens a prospect of being readily supplied with what we want on future occasions; it leaves a consciousness of our own virtue, and it is a measure we know to be right, both in point of justice and of sound economy. Finally, it is the main support of simple reputation. A lady is now studying medicine, and attending lectures in the Medical College, at Geneva, New York. INFALLIBILITY is the attribute of Him who is immutable, and it pervades His word. To this word, then, as to a standard, must be referred whatever is propounded for our belief and acceptance. ETERNAL RE-UNION OF FRIENDS. If high that world, which lies beyond It must be so! 'tis not for self, To hold each heart the heart that shares- LINES WRITTEN IN SICKNESS. BY WILLIAM BAXTER. With deep submission, gracious God, I'm all unworthy-all defiled- Though rack'd with pain, if Thou art near, SPIRITUAL-MINDEDNESS WHAT IS IT? of me, even as I also am of Christ. Those things also, which ye have learned, and received, and heard, and seen with me, practice, and the God of peace will be with you." Buried with Christ in baptism, he rose to walk in newness of life, as a follower of his Divine Master. Freed from the accusations, and pollutions, of a guilty conscience - the condemnations and curses of a broken lawthe bondage of Judaism, and the traditions of men-and possessing, at the same time, the plenary inspirations of the Holy Spirit, with an assurance of pardon, and enjoyment of that peace of God, which passeth all understanding, he was fully qualified for the great and important work assigned him to do. From the character of his education, the Apostle had necessarily more accurate knowledge of human nature, the Old Testament Scriptures, corrupted Judaism, Gentileism and subsequently of Christianity—than other of the Apos Since we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Now they who live according to the flesh, mind the things of the flesh; and they who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. But the minding of the flesh is death; and the ininding of the Spirit is life and peace: because the minding of the flesh is enmity against God: for to the law of God it is not subject, neither indeed can be. Those, then, who are in the flesh, cannot please God. Since, then, ye have been raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead; but your (resurrection) life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ our life shall appear, then ye shall also appear with him in glory. Mortify, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; for which things the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience; in which ye also formerly walked, when ye lived in them. But now also put away all these, anger, wrath, malice, defamation, obscene discourse, from your mouth. Lie not one to another, having put off the old man, with his practices; and having put on the new tles of the Lord. Introduced into a man, who is renewed in knowledge, after the new and perfect state, as regarded image of him who created him:-where there his conscience- - and invested with is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor un-office, character, and prospects — he circumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free, but Christ is all, and in all. THERE is scarcely any religious subject in reference to which the mind is more liable to be deceived, than on what is usually designated spiritual-mindedness. A few thoughts on this topic, therefore, may be of some service, especially to those who have recently taken upon themselves a profession of Christianity. any took an enlarged and correct survey of the past, the present, and the future. He rose from the grave of water, untrammelled by his former ignorance, prejudice, and pride, affirming, boldly and confidently, on the testimony of Christ, that he had redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace. His mind, therefore, becoming steadily fixed on the things of the Spirit, those sentiments and practices which he previously esteemed, were entirely abandoned, as mere dross and refuse, compared with the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus the Lord, to which he had now attained. The love of God, in its heighth and depth, in its The Apostle Paul, from the day of his conversion to the day of his martyrdom-a period, we suppose, of about thirty years—was consecrated, in mind and body, to the cause of salvation, and the glory of God. He was devoted to the things of the Spirit. Such were his firmness of length and breadth, as revealed in faith, patience of hope, ardour of love, and purity of life, that he could say to his brethren, "Be ye followers D the pages of inspiration, engrossed his enlarged and courageous heart. Thus he who had persecuted the (No. II. Vol. II. Third Series.) |