great effect, without art or design, must be wanting in any relation given you. I asked a Female Negro whether she felt any sin, now her heart was changed. Her reply was, "It trouble me too much it tick to me, Massa, as close as de clothes to me back." To another Woman, who was complaining much of the discouragements which she meets with, I said, "Well, how do you think to get through them all to heaven? You say, you are weak." "Yes, me weak for true, Massa: but me hang on him arm-Jesus can help-an, Massa, him promise." Mr. Godden states an affecting proof of the strong attachment felt by the Negro Christians toward their Instructors:― In the night of the fire, a poor Young Woman, a Slave, whom I had previously baptized, exerted herself much in carrying water from the river; and, when nearly exhausted, she inquired of the by-standers, "Where my Minista ?" A person answered, "He is burnt in his bed." The poor thing fell down, and expired immediately, without uttering another word! : Miscellanies. A NATIVE-HINDOO SCHOOL. (With an Engraving). THE accompanying Engraving is a View of a Hindoo Village-School. It is taken from a drawing by a Native. The few Boys here seen at their lessons, small as their number is, have a Master and an Usher or Monitor to teach them. The cane in the Master's hand and the rod under the Monitor's arm, with the fruit (as it seems to be) in the Master's right-hand, shew that the general method of getting these poor Lads through their tasks, is, to drive them by fear or coax them by rewards sometimes an offender is harshly punished, by being compelled to stand on one leg, holding up a brick in each hand, or having his arms stretched out, till he is completely tired. The Boys first learn to write on the ground; then, with a sharp piece of iron or a reed, on a palm-leaf; and, afterward, on a green plantain-leaf. Some of these leaves are seen in the Boys' hands, and a bundle of others lying on the ground. The School begins early in the morning, and continues till nine or ten: after taking some refreshment at home, the Scholars return about three, and remain till dark. In bad weather, the School is kept under the shed or in the Master's house, which is seen in the Engraving. The pay of the Master is small: for the first year's education, about a penny a month for each Boy: when a Boy writes on the palm-leaf, two-pence a month: after this, as he advances, four-pence or as high as eight-pence a month. Many millions of Children in India, have either no education at all, or none but that wretched education which is given in this way. How poor and worthless this is, will sufficiently appear from the statement quoted, at pp. 109 and 110 of our Volume for 1819, from the Serampore Missionaries. The Importance and Necessity of Christian Schools for Hindoo Children, will be strongly felt from a knowledge of these facts; and, more especially when we add Mr. Ward's account of the domestic habits of the people. Children (he says) are seldom corrected; and, having none of the advantages of the Children of Christian Parents, they ripen fast in iniquity. At a very early age, they enter the paths of impurity; in which they meet with no checks, either from conscience, the virtuous examples of Parents, or the state of public morals. A Brahmin, who appeared to respect Christianity, was one day reading the First Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans; and while going over this melancholy description of the sins of the Heathen, he confessed, with astonishment, how remarkably applicable it was to the manners of his own countrymen. REFORMATION OF SABBATH-BREAKERS. THE Tract entitled "Sabbath Occupations," was put into the hands of a Shopkeeper, in a hamlet in Lincolnshire, who was in the habit of selling his goods on a Sunday. This Tract produced so decided a conviction in his mind of the sin of such a practice, that he resolved to profane the Sacred Day no more in a similar manner: and, though he had many difficulties to contend with, he persevered in his resolution, and his shop has ever since remained closed on the day of rest. A poor aged man in the village, who occasionally made purchases at this shop on the Sabbath, applied one Sunday Evening for a loaf, as he had none in the house, but was refused admittance; and he was so forcibly struck with the idea, that the people should refuse to profit by his custom, that sooner than be a temptation or throw a stumbling-block in the way, by visiting another shop, he determined that nature should make a sacrifice, and went supperless to bed. These people are now regular attendants upon the Means of Grace, which they once totally neglected; and it is to be hoped that they will thus be brought to a saving knowledge of the truth. This shopkeeper declares, that he has felt no diminution of profit on account of closing his shop; and even if he had, he would rather have his pocket a little less filled, than have the curse of God upon such unhallowed gains. A Shop, in Hull, had often given pain to a Lady, as she passed it on her way to Worship Him who hath said, Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy in it thou shalt dono manner of work—and she took an opportunity, on one of those mortifying occasions, to put in a Tract, on the evil and danger of Sabbath-breaking. To her agreeable surprise, the shop was shortly after closed upon the Sabbath: this encouraged her to call upon the shopkeeper, and inquire the reason why he did not keep his window open on that day as formerly. The answer was such as she had anticipated :-Some person, with the best intention, he had no doubt, had thrown into his shop a little book, which had convinced him of an evil that he had too long practised, but which he trusted he should never practise again. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY, The Names printed in Italcs, are those of African Children named by Benefactors. Abraham... 489 Benson, Rev.John 360 -146,308-310 Berry, Rev. J.. 216 Bardwell, Rev. H. 75 303 218 Bärenbruck, Rev.G.T 71 Arnott, Rev. S. 147 69 62,63 Arthur, Col.109,303 Barff, C. . . . . . 96 Bickersteth,Rv.J.220 Ackersloth Albert, J. . Barnes, Sir E. 183 Biddulph, Rev..T. T, 271 Barton, Rev.E.B. 176 229,323 91 Atkison, Rev. Mr. 218 : 304 Beck, J. C. . 119 Blakiston, Sir M. 307 Babington, M.esq.222 Bailey, Rev. Jos. 88 261,464 304 22 Bellamy, Rev. J. 225 Anderson, W. (Anti- Bailey, Mrs.. 88,464 ... Anthimus, Archb.447 Baugor, Bish. of 229 Bennie, John,.. 30 106 406 Cairns, Professor, 215 90 Boswell, Mary . 136 Brown, Rev. R. 271 Byington. 112, 113 351,482, 513-515 366 Cameron, Arch. 488 315 Canham, John . 35 Chapman, E... 110 220 Charles, Rev. T. 233 shop of 122, 229 420 448 511 73 Carey, Mrs. 131 Burgusta 361 Broadbent, Mrs. 25 Burnett,Rev.Mr. 227 916 176 esq. .. 107 511 182, 494 447, 461 461 Clarke, Rev. W, 226 369,408 278,280 210 Clemens, C. A. . 27 Coates, Miss 183,304 457. 95 Dionysius, Abp. 39 heite). Davis, Mrs. . 431, 432 . 136 408. Dobson, liev. J. 270 Davis, Mrs. Mary, 216 Dobell, Mr., 497 369 Dockard, Mr. 8, 155, Cox, Rev.Joseph, 224 Davies, John, (Ota- Diodati . 57 75 Coombs, Rev. J. A. Cunningham, Rev. J. Debrisay, Mrs. G. 310. Dschirme. Daly, Mr.Justice, 218 106 Davidson, Mr. T. 307 rara) . |