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him your verdict of approval. We have seldom read a book involving so many questions provocative of strong feeling equally impartial and dispassionate.

CAREY, MARSHMAN, AND steadfastly all temptations to digression WARD.* ABRIDGEMENTS are generally as unsatis- incessant difficulties, the varied opposiand partiality. The early struggles, the factory as Chinese pictures, and for the tion, the baseless calumnies, the selfsame reason. The objects are all crowded denying toil, the large success of Carey, together; men, pagodas, trees, bridges. The nose of one man touches of Christian civilization in Hindostan, and Marshman, and Ward, the three pioneers the angle of a quaint pagoda; the but- are told without one particle of laudaton on the cap of another is as big as the tion or bitterness. Indeed the narrative largest spray on the tree behind him; is rather like the summing up of a and the bridges are so flimsily constructed judge than the address of an advocate. that no ordinary mandarin, if he regarded Not that Mr. Marshman forgets to call his safety, would ever trust himself upon persons by their right names, or shrinks them. In a word, the Chinese artist from the strongest denunciations of evil. despises perspective. This is very much But he does this after showing you the the case with 66 abridgement-makers." character of both, and so carries with In the attempt to make everything impressive, nothing impresses. The canvas is too crowded. The suggestive and needful details are omitted where they are wanted, and put in where they are worse than useless. Insignificant events are blunderingly thrust into the foreground, and events of real importance get only the scantiest notice. abridgement-maker is what the Germans The a bread-artist," and has but one by three men of humble lineage,-apos. "The Serampore mission was established dubious qualification-necessity. is often inaccurate, and cannot be opponents delighted to designate them,He tates from the loom and the anvil, as their quoted with certainty, even where he but of sterling genius and deep piety. pretends to give the precise words of his Brought together by unforeseen circumauthor. He has no fulness of informa-stances, their characters were immediately tion, such as usually marks the indepen- put to the test by the occurrence of diffi dent worker; and hence his "abridgements" are crude, jejune, and lifeless. In one respect even the Chinese artist has an advantage over him-his pictures arrest the eye by their paint.

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Mr. Marshman's book is the reverse of all this. Not that he affects fine writing, or groups his facts for scenic effect, or rushes on to a rhetorical climax. He is a historian, and not an orator; and his narrative commends itself to the reader by its calmness and moderation. He knows where the real attraction of his story lies, and he brings us to it, not by circuitous paths, but easily, naturally, and directly. The eloquence is in the facts, rather than in their mode of treatment. Few men could have resisted so

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*The Story of Carey, Marshman, and Ward, the Serampore Missionaries. By J. C. Marshman. (Bunyan Library, Vol. xiii.) London: Heaton & Son, 42, Paternoster Row.

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culties which served to cement their union. When their establishment was threatened in its cradle with extinction by their own vided with an asylum under a foreign flag, Government, they were providentially prothirteen years they had to encounter the until the storm had blown over. prejudices and opposition of the governors of India, and it was mainly to their zeal and fortitude, combined with a singular spirit of moderation, that the diffusion of secular and religious knowledge in India, which they had laboured under every discouragement to promote, was at length recognised as the object for which ProviGreat Britain. A unity of object produced dence had entrusted the Indian empire to a unanimity of sentiments and a constancy of friendship, of which there have been few examples. Every private feeling, and in the prosecution of their great underevery individual predilection, was merged taking, and their confidence in each other was never interrupted for an hour. They

were exactly fitted for mutual co-operation. economist of time, and always acted on the They were all embued with the same large principle of taking care of the moments, views; the same spirit of zeal and anima- and leaving the hours to take care of themtion, and the same pecuniary disinterested-selves. He was greatly attached to the ness. Their united energies were thus pursuits of science, but his garden was his consecrated to the cause of religion, for earthly paradise. the promotion of which they were enabled, acquisition of languages has seldom been His aptitude for the by severe and protracted labours, to con- exceeded, and to supply the Sacred Scriptribute a sum which, at the close of the tures to the nations of the East in their mission, was found to fall little short of own tongue became the ruling passion of £80,000. his life.

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ment, or any attempt at eloquence. His His preaching was without ornamanners were easy, without being graceful. His stature was not above the middle height; the upper portion of his countenance exhibited all the indications of genius, but his figure was of a plebeian cast."

Ward, deserves the widest circulation The Story of Carey, Marshman, and among young men of every name and party. It is full of the healthiest stimulus, and cannot be read without permanent advantage.

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Sermons by Henry Ward Beecher.*Four characteristic sermons. are "Strength according to days," "on The titles pleasing men," "a sermon to young Beecher is not free from Americanisms men," "Christian heroism." Mr. in his speech. He talks of "a well

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"The Serampore missionaries never considered themselves in any other light than as the pioneers of Christian improvement in India, and it is as pioneers that their labours are to be estimated. In the infancy of modern missions, it fell to their lot to lay down and exemplify the principles of the missionary system. They were the first to enforce the necessity of giving the Scriptures to all the tribes of India. Their own translations were necessarily and confessedly imperfect; but many imperfections may be overlooked in the labours of men who produced the first editions of the New Testament in so many of the Oriental languages and dialects, and gave that impulse to the work of translation which still sustains it. They were the first to insist on the absolute exclusion of caste from the native Christian community and church. They established the in Hindostan, and organised the first col- man" who does not need a staff, of lege for the education of native catechists "society nature," of "getting along," and ministers. They printed the first of a man who "reluctates about going books in the language of Bengal, and thus into a lawful traffic," of making young laid the foundation of a vernacular litera- men "too plenty, and therefore cheap," ture; and they were the first to cultivate of being kept headed in the right and improve that language, and render it direction," and of the nature of God as a suitable vehicle for national instruction. "forth-putting, not ingurgitating." But They published the first native newspaper he everywhere reveals his marvellous in India, and issued the first religious facility and beauty of illustration, and periodical work. In all the departments his power to touch men's consciences by of missionary labour and intellectual improvement, they led the way, and it is on a direct, homespun practical Christhe broad foundation which they were entianity. The sermon on pleasing men" abled to lay, that the edifice of modern is an excellent lecture on Christian Indian missions has been erected." politeness. "Why," he asks, "should This second quotation is from an we have so many salutations? Well, estimate of the character of Dr. Carey folks, without some little ceremonies, are for my part, I think that even good "His exertions were sustained less by like grapes packed for market without the impulse of enthusiasm than by a pre- leaves between them. They will crush dominant sense of duty. The basis of all his excellences was deep and unaffected and come in mashed. Even good folks piety. So great was his love of integrity, need to have little courtesies between that he never gave his confidence where them to keep them from attrition.. he was not certain of the existence of We need not fewer, but more civilities moral worth. He was conspicuous for in life, to take away its vulgarity, and constancy, both in the pursuits of life and its hard surfaces, and to enrich it with the associations of friendship. With great flowers and perfumes." "A disagreesimplicity he united the strongest decision able piety is impious by so much as it is of character. He never took credit for anything but plodding, but it was the disagreeable." plodding of genius. He was a stern

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Our Churches.

CONFERENCES.

Intelligence.

THE NORTH DERBYSHIRE CONFERENCE assembled at Smalley on GoodFriday, March 25. Brother Eaton presided.

1. The reports from the churches were fewer than usual, but some of them were decidedly pleasing.

1. Agreed that we adopt Dewsbury as a Home Mission station, and request the present Committee to act according to the best of their judgment, bearing in mind the financial position of the Home Mission.

2. Agreed that we approve of the £90 received from the Executors of the late Miss Ibbetson being made the nucleus of a fund for the lending of money without interest to churches for the erection of

2. Resolved unanimously by the chapels and the reduction of chapel brethren assembled, That this North debts, to be repaid by instalments; and Derbyshire Conference shall not be that we leave ourselves at liberty to add given up at present, but that efforts to this fund from the Home Mission shall be made to revive and improve it. money at any time by vote of the 3. Brother Yates is requested to be Conference. the secretary another year at least.

4. Brethren Renwick, Wooley, Fox, and Yates, are requested to "stir up" the churches, by visiting them, or writing to them, specially with reference to the Conference.

5. Brother Renwick is desired to act as treasurer of this Conference.

6. The next Conference to be at Kirkby, the first Monday in August (D.V.).

A comfortable tea was provided in the chapel at Smalley, and a revival meeting was held in the evening.

THOS. YATES, Secretary.

THE YORKSHIRE CONFERENCE assembled at Queensbury, on Whit-Tuesday, May 17, 1864.

In the morning Rev. J. H. Beevers, of Bradford, read the Scriptures and prayed, and Rev. T. Gill, of Shore, in the absence of Rev. Mr. Leigh, of Clayton, through illness, preached from Psalm lxii. 11.

In the afternoon the Conference met for business; Rev. J. Maden, of Gambleside, opened the meeting by prayer, and Rev. R. Hardy, minister of the place, presided.

According to reports received from the churches, thirty-seven had been baptized since the previous Conference, and twenty remained candidates for baptism. After the singing of the doxology and the reading of the minutes, business was transacted as follows:

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3. Agreed that Revs. R. Hardy, J. H. Beevers, B. Wood, and Messrs. J. Rhodes of Bradford, and Woodson of Leeds, be a Committee for the drawing up of rules according to which the monies of the Conference shall be appropriated.

4. Agreed that the friends at Edgeside receive from the Home Mission fund £25 this year instead of £12 10s., as agreed upon Sept. 8, 1863.

5. Revs. R. Ingham, T. Gill, W. Salter, who were intending to visit Edgeside in a few days, on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of the new chapel, were requested to make all necessary inquiries relative to the erection of the building, and to give such advice to the friends as they might deem most requisite.

6. Rev. C. Springthorpe was thanked for his past services as secretary of the Home Mission, and requested to remain in the office.

7. Rev. R. Ingham received the thanks of the Conference for his services as treasurer of the Home Mission, and was re-elected.

8. The secretary of the Conference resigned his office, which he had fulfilled for three years, and was thanked for his services.

9. Rev. T. Gill, of Shore, was appointed the Secretary of the Conference.

10. Agreed that the next Conference be held at Allerton Aug. 30, 1864, and that Rev. Mr. Leigh, of Clayton, preach in the morning.

O. HARGREAVES, Secretary.

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THE LINCOLNSHIRE CONFERENCE was held at Spalding, on Thursday, June 9. Brother Cookson read and prayed in the morning, and brother Horsfield preached from 1 Cor. xiv. 8.

In the afternoon, after prayer by brother Watts, reports were presented from a goodly number of the churches, and we were glad to find that fifty-seven had been baptized since the last Conference, and seven remain candidates for baptism.

The Home Mission accounts, having been audited by brethren Newman and Cave, were brought forward. There was a balance in hand of £2 4s. 6d. The accounts were unanimously passed. The following grants were voted for the ensuing year : to Holbeach, £10; Whittlesea, £10; Lincoln, £20.

Resolved-That the thanks of this

Conference be presented to brother R. Wherry for his services as treasurer, and that he be requested to continue in office another year.

The brethren from Eastgate chapel, Louth, having stated their wish to remove, as quickly as possible, the debt now on their new chapel, it was resolved, that this case be commended to the sympathy of the churches in this district. That we recommend the Association to adopt the following resolutions :

1. That with a view to save both the time and the travelling expenses of the deputations of the Missionary Society, it is expedient for our whole Connexion to be divided into local districts, and that the deputations should visit all the churches in one district, and then in another; and this Association respectfully and earnestly requests all the churches to sanction such a plan, and to fix their other annual meetings at such times as will not interfere with this arrangement. The drawing up of this plan to be committed to the Secretaries of the Foreign Missionary Society.

2. We request the Association to give to the Rev. J. Oncken, of Hamburg, an opportunity of making a verbal statement of the condition and prospect of the Christian missions he is connected with in Germany and Poland, Denmark and Sweden.

That the next Conference be held at Lincoln, on Thursday, Sept. 15, and that brother J. C. Jones be requested to preach in the morning.

In the evening brother Cookson preached from Gen. xxviii, 16-17. THOMAS BARRASS, Secretary.

KEGWORTH.

BAPTISMS.

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Seven persons, all in or beyond middle life, were baptized in the river Soar on Sabbath morning, June 5. The weather was beautifully fine, the spectators were numerous, and the whole day was spent delightfully by preached, and brother Jarrom baptized. the friends at Kegworth. Brother Yates A large number of friends assembled at

the Lord's table in the afternoon.

ISLEHAM.-On Lord's-day, June 5, five persons were baptized by our pastor, in the river Lark. One, a Primitive Methodist, remains amongst her own people; the others were received into the church the same afternoon by the table. right hand of fellowship at the Lord's

EDINBURGH.-On Lord's-day evening, June 12, six believers were immersed in North Richmond-street chapel, by Rev. Francis Johnston, on which occasion he delivered a powerful reply to Rev. Dr. Hanna on infant sprinkling. J. W.

KNIPTON.-At Hose, June 5, three persons were baptized by Mr. Smith; two of them are teachers in our newlyformed Sabbath school, the other was mother to one of the candidates.

WHEELOCK HEATH, Cheshire. — On June 5, three persons were baptized by the Rev. R. Pedley, and in the afternoon of the same day were received into the church. R. P.

BRADFORD, First Church.-On the first Lord's-day in May we baptized six, and on the first Lord's-day in June five; all of whom were added to our fellowship. B. W. B.

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BARTON FABIS.-On Lord's-day, May 29, four friends were baptized, and the same day were received into the fellowship of the church. G. N. PETERBOROUGH. On Lord's-day, June 5, two young men were baptized by Mr. Barrass, and, with another 3. That we recommend the Associa- friend, were received into the church. tion to elect the chairman and preachers BIRMINGHAM.-On the last Lord'sfor the following year on the Tuesday, day in May, our minister baptized eight and that the election be made by ballot. | persons.

J. S. C.

CHAPELS.

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LOUGHBOROUGH, Wood-gate. On Lord's-day, June 12, the annual sermons in behalf of the Sabbath school were preached by Rev. S. Cox, of Nottingham. Collections, £35 9s.

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EdgeSide. New General Baptist Chapel-On Saturday, May 21, the corner stone of the new General Baptist chapel at this place was laid. The scholars and friends walked in procession from the old school to the site of the THE Treasurer begs to acknowledge the chapel. After the singing of a hymn, following sums:Rev. E. Gladwell, the minister, presented a silver trowel to R. Ashworth, Esq., of Lea Bank, who had kindly consented to lay the corner-stone. A bottle, containing several newspapers, a brief account of the rise and progress of the church, Barton Fabis the number of scholars, the names of the Ashby-de-la-Zouch minister, deacons, trustees, and building Packington... committee, was deposited in a cavity in Castle Donington the stone. After the ceremony of lay- Sawley... ing the stone was concluded, Rev. John Wirksworth Howe prayed, and Rev. T. Gill, of Shore, gave an address. A collection was made in aid of the building fund. As the weather was favourable, the attendence of friends was large. A public tea meeting was subsequently held in the Odd Fellows' Hall, Newchurch, and addresses were delivered by Revs. R. Ingham, T. Gill, and W. Salter. The cost of the chapel will be about £1,100. R. P. B.

ROTHLEY.-The General Baptist chapel in this village having been closed for repairs, painting, &c., was re-opened on Lord's-day, June 5; Mr. J. S. Lacey, of Loughborough, preached in the morning, and Mr. B. Baldwin in the evening. The next day a tea meeting was held, which was numerously attended. The trays were given by the ladies of the congregation. Mr. Marshall, of Loughborough, presided at the meeting after tea, and addresses were delivered by Messrs. Lane, Brooks, Riley, Lacey, and Baldwin.

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YARMOUTH, Norfolk.-On Thursday, June 2, the Baptist chapel which has been recently erected upon the ground formerly known as "The Bleach," facing Crown-road and St. George's Denes, was formally opened by special religious services. The chapel is a neat, unpretending structure of white brick, and is seated for the accommodation of about four hundred persons. The total cost of the building, including the ground, was about £1,500. At the morning service, the Rev. Mr. Price, the pastor, gave out the hymns, the Rev. Mr. Green read the lessons, and the Rev. Mr. Robinson, of Cambridge, preached, and took for his text, Deut. xxxii. 3, 4-" Ascribe ye greatness unto our God. He is the rock, his work is perfect." At two o'clock, about a hundred friends sat down to an excellent dinner at the Corn Hall, Mr. BURTON-ON-TRENT.-On Lord's-day, G. Blake in the chair. The company June 5, three sermons were preached was addressed by the Rev. Mr. Price by Mr. Thomas Cooper, lecturer on (who stated that the collection in the Christianity, after which collections were morning had been £67); the Revs. made towards the reduction of the debt T. A. Wheeler and G. Gould, of Noron the chapel, amounting to £30 1s. 7d. wich; the Rev. W. Simpson (Wesleyan), Congregations very large. J. B. H. Rev. W. Tritton, and other gentlemen.

BIRCHCLIFFE.-On Sunday, June 5, two sermons were preached on behalf of the Sunday school by the pastor of the church. The day was very wet, but our spacious chapel was filled on both occasions, and the collections, inclusive of a few sums sent in since, amounted to upwards of £38. W. G. B.

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