admit the church at Ovenden into the Connexion, that it may participate in its privileges. The report of the Home Mission was read, adopted, and ordered to be printed.

A request was made by the church, meeting at Oak street, Manchester, to be admitted into the Yorkshire Conference. The following is the reply:-Agreed, That we wish it to be certified that their admission will not be disagreeable to the Lancashire and Cheshire Conference.

The arrangements to collect for the Foreign Mission were referred to the financial committee.

Statistics.-At Bradford there is no perceptible change. The minister at Allerton is indisposed. The finances of the church at Clayton are so low that they cannot support their minister. They have a few inquirers at Queenshead and Ovenden. At Halifax they have a few candidates for baptism. No change at Birchcliff. At Heptonstall Slack the minister is laid up: the church is peaceable but not so prosperous as is desired. They have baptized four at Lineholm, and the aspect is encouraging. At Todmorden they have two candidates. A few inquirers at Shore. At Burnley they have seven candidates, and appearances are gratifying.

In the evening Mr. R. Horsfield, of Leeds, preached.

The next conference to be held at Heptonstall Slack, on Sunday, the 28th of Decem. ber, 1847. Mr. Josiah Pike to preach. JAS. HODGSON, Sec. ANNIVERSARIES.

PACKINGTON.-On Sabbath day, July 25th, 1847, two sermons were preached in the G. B. chapel Packington, by Mr. Yates, and £10. were collected towards the reduction of the chapel debt. On Monday afternoon, Sep. 6th, 1847, a tea meeting was held in the same place of worship. The trays were furnished gratuitously. The attendance was very large, and the entire proceeds-which considerably exceeded our expectationswere all applied to the chapel debt funds. Suitable addresses were delivered after tea by brethren Staples, James Salisbury, Bullivant and Dickinson, (Wesleyans,) Sowter, (Independent,) and Yates.

ILKESTON. Mr. C. Springthorpe commenced his ministerial labours, on Lord'sday. August 8th, 1847, by preaching the chapel anniversary sermons. The following day, about 150 persons took tea together. Several ministers of the town, in conjunction with Mr. Springthorpe, delivered appropriate addresses. A spirit of love and union pervaded the meeting. W.

MACCLESFIELD.-On Lord's-day, Sep. 26, two sermons were preached on behalf of the G. B. Sabbath-school, in the afternoon by by Rev. S. Bowen, and in the evening by the Rev. G. Barrow. Collections, £10. 17s.

LEICESTER, Friar Lane.-The anniversary services of this place were held on Sabbathday, Sep. 19th, when two sermons were preached by Mr. T. W. Mathews, of Boston; and on the following Wednesday, about 300 persons took tea together. After tea, the pastor took the chair, by whom, as well by Messrs. Mathews and Marshall, interesting addresses were delivered. The amount raised by these services and by subscriptions, was upwards of £63., which, taking into consideration the almost unprecedented high price of provisions and scarcity of work, may be considered a very generous sum. At this meeting collecting cards for the forthcoming year, to the amount of between £30. and £40. were taken by the friends.

BAPTISMS.

ILKESTON.-On Lord's-day, Oct. 3, 1847, believers' baptism was administered to seven candidates. Our minister, Mr. Springthorpe, preached from the commission. Our prospects are cheering. Several are anxiously inquiring what they must do to be saved. H. H. W.

BELPER.-Sep. 26th, 1847, seven persons were baptized. Mr. Felkin, our pastor, delivered from an impressive discourse Luke xii. 50. The place was crowded, and the people attentive. We are looking from the watch-towers of Zion with great joy on others who have their faces thitherwards.

THURLASTON.-On the second Sabbath in September five persons were buried with Christ by baptism. They had long lingered on the borders of Immanuel's camp, but have now joined themselves to it. May they be good soldiers of the cross.

WENDOVER.-On Lords'-day, Sep. 12th, two young men were added to us by baptism. In the afternoon they were received into the church, and the Lord's-supper was administered. A. S.

THURLASTON.-On Lord's day, Sep. 19th, two sermons were preached by our highly

He delivered a spirit-stirring address at the water side, which caused many to weep tears of joy. We thank God and take courage.

J. B. LEEDS, Byron street.-On Lord's-day evening Oct. 3rd, the ordinance of baptism was administered, on which occasion the chapel was nearly full of people. In the afternoon our much esteemed friend, Mr. Wilkinson, addressed the children in the school, with whom they were much interested. Altogether we consider the cause never was more encouraging than at present.

PACKINGTON.-On Sabbath day, Sep. 5th, 1847, six individuals were baptized in the G. B. chapel, by Mr. Yates, after an impres sive sermon by brother Wood, of Melbourne. The day was much enjoyed. May we be favoured soon with others equally interesting and profitable. T. Y.

CONGLETON.-On the first Sabbath in Oct. six persons were baptized. Good is being done in this place. May it increase ten-fold.

MISCELLANEOUS.

BOSTON CASE.-At the last Association, held at Nottingham, it was agreed that the following resolutions in reference to this case be inserted in the Repository:

'A meeting having been convened of the committee appointed in the case of brother Mathews, three members only being present, not one of whose names was appended to the document presented to the Association -it appeared that the views entertained by Mr. Mathews of the spirit and design of the interview are quite different from those of the brethren appointed: he regarding himself, (and as the brethren present think not entirely without reason,) as appearing in the character of an individual already accused, and brought up as a culprit for trial; and they, repudiating any desire or intention to occupy the position in which his views would place them. On these grounds the brethren present declined to pursue the investigation. JOSEPH WALLIS, JOHN JONES, JOHN STEVENSON.' 'Though the deputation were constrained to come to the above resolution, they afterwards entered into brotherly communication with Mr. Mathews; and the following is the statement which they have unanimously adopted :

"We have had considerable and free con. versation with Mr. M. as to his doctrine and sentiments as exhibited in his publications; and while we are sensible that in many passages his language is ambiguous and therefore liable to be misunderstood, and to convey to general readers impressions not cherished by the writer; we are satisfied, on the whole, with the correctness of his sentiments on those

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great doctrines of the gospel to which our attention has been directed. Mr. M. has also admitted the force of many of the suggestions and criticisms advanced by us, and will give the whole subject of our conversation, and especially of his peculiar phraseology, a careful revision.' JOSEPH WALLIS, JOHN JONES, JOHN STEVENSON, JOSEPH GOADBY.' AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSION IN GERMANY.-We are again permitted to report abundant manifestations of Divine favour to this rapidly growing mission. At Hamburg seventy-three were added by baptism last year, and the church now contains upwards of 286 members. New converts have also been added to the little bands gathered at Elmshorn, Pinneberg, Wilhelmsburg, and other out-stations. A delightful progress has been made at Berlin and its associate stations. Ten have heen baptized at Memel, the eastern extremity of the Baltic. At Marburg twelve have been buried with Christ, and at various places in the duchy of Nassau, in Baden-Baden, Baden see, and in Hessia. New churches have been constituted in Breslau, Stettin, Eastfriesland, Westphalia, and Elsass. The church at Aalborg, in Denmark, has had accessions; but that at Copenhagen has been in difficulty. We regret that the principles of religious liberty are but in the infancy of their development in Protestant Germany. Our brethren are still subjected, at various points, to restrictions enforced by fines and imprisonment. Messrs. Lehmann and Hinrichs, at Berlin; Mr. Sander, at Oberlingen; Mr. Steinhoff, at Marburg; and Mr. Oncken, at Königsberg and Elbing, not to mention other and severer cases, have been made to feel by privation, the value of the rights of conscience, and of freedom to worship God. Bible and tract operations have been carried forward with their wonted energy: 387,405 tracts have been issued in German, Danish, Dutch, and Polish; and 5,649 copies of the scriptures.

MISSIONARY ANNIVERSARY.

LONGFORD, Union Place.-October 5th, 1847, the Rev. J. G. Pike preached an excellent sermon, in the afternoon, from Ephesians iii. 19. The missionary meeting commenced at half past six o'clock, when Mr. Shaw, minister of the place, took the chair. After a hymn had been sung, Mr. Weigham engaged in prayer. The meeting was then addressed by the chairman, Revds. Hillyard, Peggs, Pike, Chapman, Franklin, (P. B.) and Mr. Weigham. It was a good meeting, and well attended. The collections, subscriptions, and donations, amounted to £8. 11s. 2 d. J. S.

LETTER FROM REV. J. GOADBY.

[IT gives us pleasure to be able to furnish our readers with another letter from Mr. Goadby. We insert it here, as it refers more especially to matters which have occupied the attention of the Deputation, through the presentation of documents with which they were entrusted by the Mission com. mittee, and drawn up by the esteemed secretary.]

Boston, Sep. 28th, 1847.

MY DEAR BROTHER OWEN,-I have but little time to give you a line or two to-day; as however I purpose travelling to morrow, and the steamer leaves on the 1st of October, I must write now or not at all.

I have visited New York, and conversed a good deal with persons in that city and state about the question of American slavery, and I am really grieved to tell you that I very much disapprove of the coldness and apathy evinced in almost all quarters of this city and state on the slavery of the South. Many are the apologies that are offered for it: many the nice and subtle distinctions that are made to palliate slave-holding, and great and deep is the antipathy to colour which pervades all ranks and classes. In New York, circumstances seem as if they were specially arranged to drive the poor, industrious negro out of the city and state. He can be there only as a menial. He is permitted to keep a store only as a privilege. In short, his black skin is a crime. I had a long conversation with a pious negro female servant, in the family of a relative in the city, and her statements astounded me. The negroes have their own chapels, that they may not be subject to the indignities they suffer in other congregations. Now it is not so, or at least to that degree, in New England. In Providence, Rhode Island, while I was preaching in Roger Williams's church, I observed black and white intermingled. And after service I was introduced to a negro brother, the pastor of a Free-Will Baptist congregation, which he told me was mixed, consisting of more whites than blacks. I should have rejoiced to have preached for him, but I was afterwards so affected with one of their summer complaints as to be unable to do so while I stayed there. In Providence, R. I., and in Boston, Mass., you will very frequently meet with well dressed negroes in the streets, and see them in their shops and stores, but I did not find it so in New York. You may talk to the New Yorkers. We can do

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nothing, or very little. power,' is their reply.

The South has all Indeed they think

and care very little about emancipation generally. There are, however, some choice, and bright exceptions.

Well brother Burns and I visited New York, and presented the documents intrusted to us by our Foreign Missionary committee, to the officials we found on the spot. We took them on Thursday, September the 2nd. I engaged to preach for a P. B. brother, Davis, of Cameron-street church, on the Lord's-day. Brother Burns preached at two places. In the evening we went to Brooklyn, to the farewell service of two missionaries. The chapel was large and well filled. The service was not very animated; but to me it was peculiarly interesting. Mr. Jones, seventeen years a missionary in Burmah, was returning to Bankok. His statements were very impressive and affecting. Mr. Johnson, the other, is going to Ningpo. I spoke to each, and wrote a note for brethren Hudson and Jarrom, to go by the latter. We saw, too, a brother from Montreal in Canada. But to return to our deputation. We were sent for to meet such of the committees of the American and Foreign Bible Society, and the Tract Society as could be called together, on Monday morning, Sep. the 6th. We went to the Bible Society first. There I met among others, the good brother for whom I had preached on the preceding day. One of the secretaries entered into a full reply to our document, which he had evidently read with care. He gave the lie' to the accusation brought against them, if intended against them, by the Anti-slavery Society of England. He spoke very calmly, and with the utmost frankness. He assured us there was every disposition to circulate the scriptures among the blacks; that very much was doing in that way; and that there was no inclination to overlook the oppressed, injured, and degraded slave. We assured him that this explanation would give the committee delight; that we regarded slavery as a sin that in no shape admitted an apology; and considered it as being very materially sustained by men calling themselves Christians; that it lay at the door of the professed church, &c., &c. They informed us that they had applications for help from our missionaries in India and China, and should be happy to assist them. We then visited the Tract Society. Here a large number of gentlemen were present: Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and Baptists. They did not appear to have read our docu

ment; at any rate they made no allusion to it. They treated us very courteously, and told us they had applications just received from Orissa and Ningpo for help to our missionaries; that they should be glad to assist us; that we laboured very commendably in the cause of missions, &c. We requested them to forward to our F. M. committee, (as we had done the other society,) an official reply to our document, and retired.

Afterwards, in the course of the day we met one of the brethren, a Baptist minister, in the street, and he stopped to tell us they had been reading our document. He looked full of amazement, and said, 'What a letter it is! Well, you must not complain of us if we cannot do all you wish. It is but little we can do.'

I am pleased, as far as I have seen the Free Will Baptist friends, that they are all thoroughly sound on this question. There are no Free Will Baptist slave-holders. Frederick Douglass was incorrect. The documents we took, are copied for the 'Morning Star,' where they will be inserted in due time.

I hope to be at the Conference the greater part of the time of its sittings. It is to commence next week. I must now conclude. With christian love, Yours affectionately,

Jos. GOADBY.

LETTER FROM REV. J. BURNS, D.D. TO HIS CHURCH AND CONGRE.

GATION.

[We are glad to be able also to publish a communication, (just received) from Dr. Burns. We feel persuaded it will be read with much pleasure. Our brethren at the time of our writing are, we expect, attending the Triennial Conference held at Sutton, in the State of Vermont. This meeting commenced on Oct. 6th, and was, we understand, to continue for ten days.]

DEAREST FRIENDS,-I have now been absent from you for eight weeks, and have voyaged over 3,000 miles of sea, and travelled about 1,600 miles in this country. Through God's rich and unceasing goodness I have been able every day to attend the public engagements made for me, and have been preserved from all suffering and peril. I have been able to preach twice or three times every Lord's day, and to address large congregations on temperance, peace, and slavery. I have met with unvarying kindness, and have enjoyed much sweet communion with God's people. Christian love and unity have been my chief themes, and religion in this, as in every land, comprises the great elements of supreme love to God,

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and unfeigned love to all the disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ.

My heart has been greatly cheered by the tidings I have received of the regular, good attendance on the means of grace, and the place I have always in your affectionate remembrance and prayers. My soul daily and with much earnestness is poured out in supplications to God for you. I am ever with you in spirit: when you meet and sepa rate on Lord's days, and week-evenings I am with you; and my journeys in this distant land become sweeter and lighter as the period draws near for my return to your midst; and I am sure that when I come unto you I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ. I entreat you, beloved friends in Christ Jesus, to honour God, by an early, regular, and devout attention on all the services of his house. Expect a blessing to accompany the word preached, and pray that God by his good spirit may bless you with all the rich mercies of the New Covenant.

Death, that fell destroyer, has been amongst you since I left. May these loud warnings be especially useful to us, in reminding us of the instability of all earthly things, and the necessity of living for a better land. In a day or two after I write this I expect to be in Canada, and from the 6th to the 14th of October to be attending the sittings of the Triennial Conference of our brethren in this land. On the 1st of November I hope to begin my homeward voyage, in the same splendid steamer, the 'Cambria,' in which we came to this country, and from the 12th to the 15th we may be expected to reach our native land, the most highly-favoured of all lands under heaven. I shall return with admiration for this country, but with increased love for my own.

May heaven's rich and sacred dews descend upon you, and make you fruitful in every good word and work. May peace be with you all, and good hope, increasing joy and grace for every time of need. Ever your affectionate pastor, in ardent and devoted christian esteem and love.

J. BURNS.
Buffalo, New York, Sep, 27th, 1847.

REV. T. HUDSON'S JOURNAL.
(An Extract.)

Monday, Feb. the 22nd, 1847.

IN visiting some parts of the city to-day, I imagined it was the turn for females to go and worship, for I saw but few men, as on previous days, going to the temples. In giving a book to a good looking man, I asked him to allow me to see what he had in the paper, which he carried so

carefully in his hand. He in the most friendly manner opened it, and it contained six small candles, and a considerable number of incense sticks, which he was carrying to the temple, to perform his ceremonies before a block of wood, or lump of clay. I told him it was of no use, and exhorted him to read the tract. I saw many females going in small companies, each with a small basket in her hand, or a servant boy to carry it, containing what would be needful. In a temple which I visited, I saw one man and several females worshipping. In our native land, males and females with their families go together to the house of prayer, at regular and stated times to worship the true God, and hold communion with the Father of Spirits; but here they have no Lord's-day, the temples are generally open, and you may go when you please. Without either priest or levite you may do all that the gods require, though there is frequently a man to light the candles, and render aid, if required. At holiday times, or special days, and festival occasions, the temples are frequently crowded, and the O-me-too-fuhs' of the worshippers, the gongs, drums, and cymbals of the musicians, and the chantings of the priests make you anxious to retire. Such scenes I have frequently seen- my soul has melted within me, and my bowels have yearned over dying men. We come to bring them out of darkness into light, and from the power of Satan unto God. The Saviour came to destroy the works of the devil; and we pray that the Sun of Righteousness may arise in all his meridian splendour upon this benighted land, and remove the moral woes of this ancient and venerable people!

A circumstance has occurred to day which deserves a special record. Our teacher has renounced the worship of his ancestors, which seems to have created considerable excitement among his friends. When it becomes generally known, he will be regarded as having committed a crime of no ordinary magnitude. We trust he has been guided to this conclusion by the influence of christian truth, and will stand fast in the day of trial. He is a respectable Chinese teacher, and was a most devoted Confucianist. He has endured much hatred in consequence of his connexion with foreigners, and now in their estimation, has completed his apostacy by refusing to prepare the ancestral rites, and bow before the ancestral altar. It requires no small degree of moral courage in China to rebel against a whole line of ancestry; to oppose a whole community in what is to them as dear almost as life, and resolve to embrace the religion of Jesus, so much opposed to the religion of the whole land, and designed to destroy every vestige of idolatry and superstition to which the hearts of millions are at

tached. To-day a small written paper was pasted upon our yard door, over the one which states the times of our services on Lord's-day, in which the writer speaks of us as foreign dogs, declares that the teacher deserves to be classed among animals for renouncing the worship of his ancestors, and exhorts him to immediate repentance and virtuous conduct. I remember years ago reading the memoirs of one of the early Wesleyan preachers, who bore much persecution and did much good, and he said, he could do no good in a certain place, because the people were never moved, but always consented to what he said, and would have it that all was right. We have something of this spirit in China. You may preach, and circulate books, and the Chinaman, whatever he may think, smiles, bows, and says, 'Haou, haou,'' good, good;' but when the truth begins to reach the heart of some of his countrymen, of a teacher who belongs to the highest class of society in China, and he too practically renounces one of the dearest rites in the land, then he feels a blow is struck, and rages under the wounds which are inflicted. Then we become 'foreign dogs,' and our disciples 'domestic beasts.' 'Let the man,' said our teacher,' tell me of my sins, and I will depart from them and rejoice; but I do not fear his anger.'

THE SNANU AND RUT JATRA OF JUGGERNAUT.*

AT early dawn, on the day of the full moon, in the month Joisht-hu (June), the brahmins are seen wending their way to the temple of Juggernaut. When they arrive at the temple door, a shrill blast is blown from the Shuaka,+ which wakes the god from his slumbers. When he has recovered himself from the effects of sleep, the announcement is given with all becoming reverence by the officiating priest, To-day is the day ap pointed for your bathing. Give the order, and we will remove you from your throne to the place prepared for the ceremony.' The god condescendingly gives a nod of assent; ten brahmins take hold of the stumps of his arms and legs, and lift him from his throne, and place him upon the floor of the temple. They then fasten a long piece of wood, well bound with a rope, to the back of the lord of the world, which assists them in moving him from one place to another, for, be it remembered, the god being of solid wood is very heavy, and consequently very difficult to move. He is brought out

*Snanu,' bathing; 'rut,' car; 'jatra,' festival; Juggernaut,' is derived from two Sanscrit words-'jugut,' the world, and 'nat'hu,' lord. + A large shell.