"The magistrate of Furrukhabad informed me that he found the Sauds an orderly and well-conducted people. They are chiefly engaged in trade. Bhuwanee Dos was anxious to become acquainted with the Christian religion, and I gave him some copies of the New Testament in Persian and Hindoostanee, which he said he had read and shown to his people, and much approved. I had no copy of the Old Testament in any language which he understood well; but as he expressed a strong desire to know the account of the creation as given in it, I explained it to him from an Arabic version, of which he knew a little. I promised to procure him a Persian or Hindoostanee Old Testament, if possible. I am of opinion that the Sauds are a very interesting people, and that an intelligent and zealous missionary would find great facility in communicating with them!"

This is indeed a Heathen sect; but its members so surpass many who call themselves Christians, in mildness of temper and in purity of life, that a place could not be refused to it in this work.

JERKERS AND BARKERS.

THE following account is extracted from an interesting American work, entitled, "A General History of the Baptist Denomination in America and other parts of the World," by David Benedict, A.M., pastor of the Baptist Church in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

"From 1799 to 1803, there were in most parts of the United States remarkable outpourings of the divine Spirit among different denominations; multitudes became the subjects of religious concern, and were made to rejoice in the salvation of God. The revival among the Baptists in the southern and western States has already been frequently referred to, and accounts of the astonishing additions to their churches have been given. This great revival in Kentucky began in Boone county on the Ohio river, and in its progress extended up the Ohio, Licking, and Kentucky rivers, branching out into the settlements adjoining them. It spread fast in different directions, and in a short time almost every part of the state was affected by its influence. It was computed that about ten thousand were baptized and added to the Baptist churches in the course of two or three years.

This great work advanced among the Baptists in a much more regular manner than people abroad have generally supposed. They were indeed zealously affected and much engaged. Many of their ministers baptized, in a number of neighbouring churches, from two to four hundred each. And two of them baptized about five hundred a-piece in the course of the work. But throughout the whole they preserved a good degree of decorum and order. Those camp-meetings, those great parades and sacramental seasons, those extraordinary exercises of falling down, rolling, shouting, jerking, dancing, barking, &c., were but little known among the Baptists in Kentucky, or encouraged by them. They, it is

true, prevailed among some of them in the Green River country; but, generally speaking, they were among the Presbyterians and Methodists, and in the end by a seceding party from them both, which denominated themselves Christians, but which were generally distinguished by their opposers by the name of New Lights and Schismatics!

"These strange expressions of zeal, which have made so much noise abroad, came in at the close of the revival, and were, in the judgment of many, the chaff of the work. There was a precious ingathering of souls among the Presbyterians and Methodists, at which they rejoiced; but when the work arose to an enthusiastic height, many different opinions were expressed respecting it. The Methodists had no scruples of its being genuine; but among the Presbyterians, some doubted-some opposed-but a considerable number overleaped all the bounds of formality, fanned the flame as fire from heaven, bid up camp-meetings, and sacramental seasons, and finally ran religious frenzy into its wildest shapes. Soon a number of these ministers separated from the rest, formed a new presbytery, called the Springfield, upon New-Light principles, soon dissolved that, and five or six of them in a few years became Shaking Quakers."

MILLENARIANS.

THE Millenarians are those who believe that Christ will reign personally on earth for a thousand years; and their name, taken from the Latin, mille, a thousand, and annus, a year, has a direct allusion to the duration of the spiritual empire. "The doctrine of the Millennium, or a future paradisiacal state of the earth, (says an able writer,) is not of Christian, but of Jewish origin. The tradition is attributed to Elijah, which fixes the duration of the world, in its present imperfect condition, to six thousand years, and announces the approach of a sabbath of a thousand years of universal peace and plenty, to be ushered in by the glorious advent of the Messiah ! This idea may be traced in the epistle of Barnabas, and in the opinions of Papias, who knew of no writ-ten testimony in its behalf. It was adopted by the author of the Revelation, by Justin Martyr, by Irenæus, and by a long succession of the fathers. As the theory is animating and consolatory, and, when divested of cabalistic numbers and allegorical decorations, probable even in the eye of philosophy, it will no doubt always retain a number of adherents." It is remarkable that Druidism, the religion of the first inhabitants of this island, had a reference to the progressive melioration of the human species, as is amply shown in an "Essay on Druidism," prefixed to Richards's "Welsh Nonconformist Memorial, or Cambro-British Biography."

The doctrine of the Millennium has for several years past attracted the attention of the public.

Joseph Mede, Dr. Gill, Bishop Newton, Mr. Winchester, and many others, contend for the personal reign of Christ on earth. Bishop Newton observes, in his "Dissertations on the Prophecies,"— "When these great events shall come to pass,-the reality of which we cannot doubt, this is to be the proper order: the Protestant witnesses shall be greatly exalted, and the 1260 years of their prophesying in sackcloth, and of the tyranny of the beast, shall end together; the conversion and restoration of the Jews succeed; then follows the ruin of the Othman empire; and then the total destruction of Rome and of Antichrist when these great events, I say, shall come to pass, then shall the kingdom of Christ commence, or the reign of the saints upon earth. So Daniel expressly informs us, that the kingdom of Christ and the saints will be raised upon the ruins of the kingdom of Antichrist, vii. 26, 27. But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion to consume and to destroy it unto the end: and the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.' So likewise St. John saith, that upon the final destruction of the beast and the false prophet, Rev. xx., 'Satan is bound for a thousand years; and I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given