T spect. On the contrary, every one Excellency, himself, and the Govern seemed to wish well to his object, and ment; and that they and himself wishmanifested a desire to further it by alled me a pleasant passage, and hoped the means in their power. In not a my absence would be short." Gen. single instance did he meet with the Magny expressed at parting the same semblance of molestation. On one sentiments. Indeed, the wish for Mr. occasion, doubtless for the first time Paul's speedy return, seems to have in the island of St. Domingo, he ad- been very general. ministered the ordinance of baptism by immersion. The spectators wereject of Mr. Paul's first destination acuniversally as solemn and respectful as they would have been in any part of the United States. We may thus consider the great ob complished. It is now ascertained, that Hayti is a field white for the gospel harvest. It is ascertained, that the government is decidedly favourable to toleration, and is only restrained from the public avowal of its sentiments by a prudent apprehension, that it might, by sudden innovation, alarm the prejudices of an uninformed peo Before the departure of Mr. P. from Cape Haytien, President Boyer and Gen. Inginac arrived there from Port-au-Prince. Just before the vessel sailed, Mr. P. called on Gen. I. at the Government house, to inform him of his intended return. "On this oc-ple. And more than this, it is ascercasion," says Mr. Paul," he took me by the hand, and was pleased to say, that he was very sorry that I was about to leave the island; but it was with pleasure he could announce to me, that by my prudent conduct I had merited the implicit confidence of his tained, that the gospel may be publicly and statedly preached in the second town in the republic, without exciting any expression of unkindness; nay, with as much security from mo lestation as in any town in our own country. Contributions received by the Treasurer of the Baptist Missionary Society, from July 20, to August 20, 1824, not including Individual Subscriptions. Birmingham, Auxiliary Society, by Owen Johnson, Esq. Treasurer: Collections at the Formation, Sept. 1823 131 13 8 Mr. Deakin, for Anotta Bay, Jamaica, 311 19 Collections at the Anniversary, July, 1824 159 Do.. Coventry, Auxiliary Society and Collection Coseley, Penny-a-week Society, &c.. Appleby, Ditto.. Netherton, Subscriptions and Collections 34 17 5 17 6 27 by Mr. Hear.. 1 9 16 1 20 1021 11 4 2 4 567 9 0 S. d. Bristol and Bath Auxiliary Society, by Mr. John Daniell, Jun. 30 0 ..... Bucks Association, Sundries, by Rev. P. Tyler... 9 15 4 31 16 3 8 15 18845 2 1 14 17 0 0 6 2 10 ....... Sherborne, Subscriptions, by Benjamin Chandler, Esq. .... West Yorkshire Assistant Society, by Michael Thackrey, Esq.: Bridge House Leeds ... .... ... a5 0 21 7 6 Rawdon (Part for Translations) Carlton le Moorland, Collection, by Rev. W. H. Newman. TRANSLATIONS. Bristol and Bath Auxiliary Society, by Mr. John Daniell, Jun... 136 14 Bristol and Bath Auxiliary Society, by Mr. John Daniell, Jun. 16 14 FEMALE EDUCATION. Broadmead School, Calcutta, by Mr. John Daniell, Jun...... 5 Bristol and Bath Auxiliary Society, by Mr. John Daniell, Jun. 6 3 TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE Thanks of the Committee are presented to Friends at Malmsbury, for Magazines, &c.; also, to a Female Friend at Birmingham, for a small Box of Trinkets. Just Published, The Annual Report of the Baptist Missionary Society for 1824, with an Appendix, comprising an Abridgment of the Ninth Memoir of the Serampore Translations, Sermon by Paunchoo, the Native Preacher, List of Contributions for 1823-4, &c. An Engraving of Krishnoo, the first Hindoo Convert and Preacher, is prefixed to the Report. Baptist Magazine. OCTOBER, 1824. MEMOIR OF THE REV. JOHN EMERY, Pastor of the Particular Baptist Church at Little Staughton, Bedfordshire. THE subject of this Memoir was born in the year 1739, at a small village called Bolnhurst, in the county of Bedford, where he continued to reside until a short time after the Lord was pleased to awaken him to a sense of his state, as a sinner, and to give him a good hope, through grace, of his interest in the merits of a gracious Redeemer. After his conversion, he became a lively and zealous Christian, and, as the gospel was not preached at Bolnhurst, he went to hear preaching occasionally at different places, until Providence guided him to Carlton, (a village about seven miles from Bolnhurst,) where he heard the word with much satisfaction, and, shortly after, joined the church in that place, which was then under the pastoral care of that highly honoured man of God, the Rev. Thomas Hull, whose ministry was most profitable to him, as he often afterwards acknowledged with great delight. After he had continued a short time in church-fellowship, it was thought, by his pastor, and the church to which he was united, (by whom he was held in the highest esteem,) that the Lord had endowed him with talents for the ministry; accordingly he was called upon by them to exerci se his gifts, that they might be VOL. XVI. better able to judge what was the will of the Lord in an affair of such magnitude. Mr. Emery, having been previously much exercised in his own mind, complied with their request, committing himself unto the Lord, and the judgment of the church. He had spoken but a few times before it was discovered that he possessed talents, not only acceptable, but singularly promising and engaging: he was, therefore, sent forth in the most affectionate manner, with the cordial concurrence, and unanimous approbation of the whole church and their worthy pastor, to preach the gospel wherever the Provi dence of God might call him. This event took place at the latter end of the year 1766. During the time Mr. Emery exercised his gifts, for the approbation of the church at Carlton, a few people, meeting at Little Staughton for prayer, on Lord's-days, and who occasionally obtained a preacher, hearing that the church at Carlton had a young man among them who was likely to be sent into the ministry, solicited the favour of his assistance for one Lord's-day, which was granted, and they heard him with much pleasure; which induced them to request the same favour again. After he had preached to the few people 2 R at Staughton two or three times, the church at Carlton agreed that he should supply them, for a time, once in a month; but those few people being much enlivened by his zealous and animating discourses, longed to have him more constantly among them; they, therefore, went over to Carlton, and earnestly solicited the church that he might be allowed to preach regularly to them, which they obtained, and, from that time, he laboured statedly among them. abundantly!" The same eminent servant of Christ also remarks, in his Diary. "This afternoon, Mr. Emery preached at Cotton-end, a very excellent savoury sermon, Acts viii. 5: I think he bids fair to be useful. God grant he may be abundantly so." Such was the success that attended Mr. Emery's ministry, that the people soon found the place in which they worshipped was too straight for them to dwell in; so that it became necessary to enlarge it, and, after the enlargement, it very soon again overflowed with attentive hearers. six miles from Staughton, where he and his family resided for many years, he bearing the character of a worthy and reputable farmer, From thence he used to ride to Little Staughton, on Lord's days Sometime after Mr. Emery had preached at Staughton, a church was formed there of the Baptist Denomination, consisting of eight Soon after the commencement members; the place in which of his ministerial labours, Mr. they then met was very small, Emery removed from Bolnhurst, but the Lord was pleased to bless to a considerable farm, called his ministry, abundantly, and, on | Ravensden-grange, about Tuesday, October 18, 1768, he was publicly ordained; at which service the following ministers were engaged. Mr. Knowles, of Rushden, in Northamptonshire, began with singing and prayer; Mr. Keymer, of Great Grands--to den, Cambridgeshire, asked the usual questions, received the confession of faith, and prayed; Mr. Walker, of Olney, Bucks, also prayed; Mr. Hull, of Carlton, gave the charge, from 1 Peter v. 2; Mr. Brown, of Kettering, preached to the people from Col. ii. 5; and Mr. Twelvetree, of Ringstead, closed with prayer. The late Rev. Joshua Symonds, of Bedford, who was present at the ordination, thus writes.* "Mr. Emery's account of entering upon the ministry, &c. was vastly affecting, and his confession of faith very sound and evangelical. The good Lord prosper, own, and succeed him * In some manuscript now in the possession of a branch of Mr. Sy monds's family. church-meetings, and at other times, when his services were required. The road was extremely bad, but neither distance, nor bad weather, nor bad roads, hindered him from going forward in his Master's work. Soon after his removal to Ravensden-grange, a singular circumstance occurred, which serves to illustrate the goodness of God towards his little cause at Staughton. Mr. Shaw, a merchant from London, being on a visit at Bedford, heard of the "preaching young farmer," and having a desire to hear him, he rode over in his carriage to Ravensden-grange, on a Saturday evening, to see him; the arrival of a perfect stranger, at such a time, very much surprised Mr. Emery and his family, but that gentleman soon told them the purport of his visit; that it was to accompany Mr. Emery to his place of worship, and to hear him preach the next day. Being accustomed to preach only to plain villagers, Mr. Emery was much alarmed at the thought of preaching before a merchant of the City of London, so that his feelings were painful beyond description; but, on the Lord's-day morning, his spirits revived, and his mind was sweetly composed; relying on the assistance of the Holy Spirit, his Lord and Master carried him far above the fear of man, and, through the day, bore him up as on eagles' wings. had been incurred by erecting the new meeting-house. Of this circumstance he afterward often spoke with much pleasure, expressing gratitude to his friend, and great thankfulness unto the King of Zion, of whom it is written," The silver is mine, and the gold is mine." On his return from London, he pursued his ministerial labours with increasing success, so that the new place was soon quite filled, and the hearers appeared to possess much of that zeal which pervaded the breast of their minister; most of them lived at the distance of from two to twelve miles, and yet they were generally constant and early in their attendance, even in the winter, as well as in the summer season. Still it pleased the Lord so abundantly to bless Mr. Emery's ministry, to the conversion of sinners, that, about the year 1793, it became necessary to enlarge the meeting-house again; which was done, and the whole expense borne by the church and congregation, which, at that time, had become large and respectable, as there were then upwards of two hundred members, and the church continued to increase during the remainder of his useful life. When Mr. Shaw had heard him, and seen the smallness of the place, and the number that was gathered together to hear, he, in the most friendly manner, said, "I wish I had known this before you enlarged this place, I could have been of use to you; this place will not do for you." As the Lord was pleased to keep up in Mr. Emery that lively, energetic way of preaching, and to accompany the word with much success, the meeting-house again became too small, so that it was determined by the church to pull down the old place entirely, and erect a new one on the same spot, capable of seating At the commencement of the between four and five hundred year 1795, Mr. Emery was seized people. When the church and with a severe affliction, which congregation had exerted them-threatened the termination of his selves to the utmost, to raise labours and his life. On the semoney towards paying for the cond Lord's-day in January, he new building, Mr. Emery went to was only able to preach once, which London, where he was most discourse was from the words of our kindly received, and most hos-Lord to Peter," Feed my Lambs." pitably entertained, by his friend Mr. Shaw, for about eight weeks; during which time, through his influence, under the blessing of God, he collected all that was wanted to clear off the debt that The tenderness, love, and condescension of the Saviour, were most beautifully described on that occasion, and especially to the "lambs" of his flock. After that sermon, he was confined to |