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where the people are more disposed to re ward the laborer—ihe minister as well as •miy other derailment of labor. Faithful la- • borers will be faithfully rewarded. Can [ you send some faithful .'men, such as Pauli and Barnabas (men who will hazzard, if liecil be) to preach the jfospel to those who wish to hear it t .. • We expect to hold a meeting 0f,5 or 6: rlays continuance, commencing on Thurs- j day night before the fourth Sabbath in June, at this place, Ministering Brethren, north and east of Us, will find it perhaps the best tout to the Convention to be held with the Palestine church, 16 br 18 miles southwest from Jackson. Ministering Brethren with others, who intend going to the Convention, arc earnestly solicited to attend our Pro tracted meeting. Will you give notice of this in your pa per and you will very much oblige your humble servant and fellow laborer in the Gospel. BURWELI, L. BARNES. May 6th, 1844/ Bro. linker. —Dear Sir—Since I last wrote yon 1 have had the pleasure of atten ding two very interesting meetings. The first was at Clinton, Hinds county, (the seat of the New School [Presbyterian] College.) Although there was no particu lar excitement, we trust much good will re sult from the labors of that meeting, as there was measuies adopted for the Con stitution of a Baptist Church in Clinton. { Wc then repaird to Kayinond, 8 miles dis-’ taut from Clinton, and the county seat, i where we adopted measures for the Con-; slitution of a Baptist Chuich, which will take place on Wednesday after the third Sabbath in this month, under the Pastoral care of Bro. Geo. W. Dorrotn, who labors in that place under the Boaid of the State Convention. It is rejoicing to the hearts, ot Christian Brethren throughout these re gions to see these “waste places” building Up; two important vilages where there has never been u Church of our order. lam more and more confirmed in the opinion expressed in iny last, that our Denomina tion is advancing and not under enthusias tic excitement, but under cool and calm de liberations, seeing and feeling that the cause is of God and is a good cause. With the deepest sense of our own insufficiency (as a denomination) to promote this great and glorious cause, we pray God that we may fully realize that “our sufficiency is of God.” Pray for us. Your very unworthy fellow laborer in this Cause of the Redeemer. U. L. BARNES. For the Christian Index. May Oth, 1844. Bro, Baker —l see in the Index, No. 15, Pinevilte, February Ist, 1844, a protest a gainst the correctness of my report to the Executive Committee of the Columbus As- j sociation, by Daniol H. I loll; his first com-I plaint is, that 1 say there is great destitution | ou their southern boundary churches, with out pastors, some without regular discip line, and many settlements destitute of any tegular preaching; truly the harvest is plenticus, interesting fields already white, but alas, none to in the gospel seed, that these immortal souls may be reaped to the glory of God.” These reports, says Mr. Hall, present a doleful picture of this country; according to them this is one of the darkest places of the earth; much strong er language it seems to me could not be used if they were describing the central parts of Africa, and those who know noth ing of this country. But what they hear from these reports, might’ be almost as j much afraid to trust their peison here as ] there, and so Mr. 11. goes on to describe 45 miles long and 16 or 17 broad, “and be ing no inattentive observer of men and things hi nine years past, he thinks he has a right to know, and enters his protest a- . gainst the correctness of the report. Now, bro. Editor, l am not for war', but for peace. I have not went through that countiy getting up religious controversies, or, ill the least degree, abusing the unties, 1 Methodists, or any other religious denomi- j nation’, as Mr. Hall knows. I will now, rrison with Mr. H.—-suppose Mr. Hall, there was not one anti-preacher in all the | country you have described, that would take j care of the anti-missionary churches, would ! you not feci that your people were desti-j ’ tute?—suppose then, you were to write to some of your brethren in the ministry, (as for an Executive committee you hhve none) your destitute condition, soliciting their kind aid, in ptomotinii of good discipline, and to cast m the good seed of life for their com fort ! and 1 was to publish you, over many States, as a man of falsehood; would you not have great reasons to think that I had forgotten the true principles of the Gospel, and the admonition of the Apostle to take heed how we bite and devour one.another; lest we be consumed one of another. 1 having no means of knowing anything .certain with regard to your people, the doors being shut against me, and (he eAvord of an iinfellowship, that turns every way to keep the good things secret, good things of your .people, from me a Missionary Baptist. 1 thought it right to sav nothing about you ; i.did not fed disposed to meddle with oih men's matters; open your doors and let me see your good works, and I will speak ‘of your ‘virtues, and will watch over you-for good; but how am 1 to speak of your quiet ness, sobriety, hospitality, good neighbor hood, love of the truth, when 1 am not per mitted to participate in any of your religious devotions as a minister of the Go’spel, I felt not disposed to Speak of your people’s vices without their virtues. Now Mr. Hall, 1 will speak what I know and testify what 1 have seen, beginning, at Flint river: and .there is a section of.coun try from Antioch, Talbot, to Corrinth, in Sumter, near Danville, about 60 miles, there is not a Minister of oui order, and I found , two churches wilhoutdiscipline,or Pastors. From James Lunsford’s in Stewart county, to Talbolton, there is butone ordained Min ister, and he lias had so much affliction in his family he )ias not taken the chaige of> any church ; this is a section of 40 miles distance. Fioin Carey Willis and- T. J. Hand’s in Muscogee, to J. Rushing’s and l bro, Cox’s in Stewart, is about 40 miles, | there is no ordained Minister of our order. There is an average of 20 or 30 miles from | F-lint river, to Chattahoochee, with but one ordained Minister. I speak of Missionary Baptists. In these bounds I travel and preach, and I find more destitution than 1 can possibly fill, and the Macedonia cry is heard every week. Brother J. Howel attends four churches ill the bounds of my labor, and wc-havc baptized about 150 persons, and we hope by the mercy of God to do good, and you know, Mr. Hall, that I found a place of destitution within three miles of your house, where (if I am not mistaken) 1 baptized 13 persons, and I preached in the woods a portion of the lime. I feel like I have done but little for the Lord, and I pray i the Lord to forgive me for any error, or any i affliction that I may have given any person. !If Mr. lla)l had watched me for good ; and not for evil, ho would have seen my | report did not include the whole of the ter- I ritory in which I labuted. Yours in Christian affection. ISAAC B. DEVOUR. For Children should be taught to be very careful of the A B C of swearing, such as sink andjing, drot and dearn, &c., for in so doing they enter under a very brisk and certain teacher, (the Devil,) who will soon have them in the grammar and parsing of Oaths with a great deal of adroitness. Chil dren he careful then of small beginnings in sill. • And as this is the’case in children, so it is with all other sins, in all people, and all I ages. Be afraid then, of the entering wedge ; of sin ; for tbc larger will find room by its little aperture and then a still larger by dial one, &e. &e. This principle will be seen on the left as well as on the right, as well in sins of omis sion as thoso of commission. This entering wedge of sin, then, should jbe watched with the .tenacity of young 1 Brewer, (uarrated by Mr. Buck) whose I punctuality beat the clock and corrected the whole school. But a greater than Brew er hath said, “ Behold, how great a mailer a little (ire kindleth,” to him we call your | respect, most emphatically ! Children, this old writer has the advan | tage of a great many people in this world, for he knows what he writes about this thing, amljCtfpecially thus testifies, that ye younger may know die truth. Yours, Verity. P. B.—Pa, please teach your little son the forepart of this and I will giv you the ballance. Anwrirnn Tract Society. The nineteenth year of the Society’s la bors lias been attended with the signal bless ing of God. The receipts have exceeded those of’thc jyevious year by more than $12,000 ; the gratuitous issues of publica tions by more than seven million pages; •the foreign pecuniary grants by $5000; and the number of colporteurs employed among the destitute of our own country is more than doubled ; while the evidences weekly received of the blessing of the Holy Spirit in lending souls by these means to the Di vine and only Redeemer have caused (he : hearts of the officers and. members of the > Committee to bound with joy and thanks giving. D’Aubigne’s History of the Great Re formation has been issued, by the Society in 3 volumes, containing 1200 pages 12 mo; Jay’s Morning Exercises; Bishop Hall’s Scripture History, or Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments ; Oiven on the Forgiveness of Sill, Or Psalm 130; Matthew Hemy’s Church in the House; a treatise on Self- Deception ; 16 new Tracts—to No. 482 of the general series—in all 41 new publica tions making the whole number on the So ciety’s list, 1109, including 147 volumes, besides 1930 publications, including 164 volumes,, approved for publication abroad. Three valuable German volumes have been stereotyped : Eli jah the Tishbite, originally written in Gei inart ; Doddridge’s Rise and Progress, and Abbott’s Mother at Home, making in all nine volumes; besides more than 120 Tracts and Children’s Tracts issued for the Germans of our country. The receipts for the, year have been in donations $56,680 31, including $18,781 98 for colportage, and $4382 78 for foreign distribution ;’ and for sates $51,804 13; making a tola), with the balance of $290 in the Treasury, of $108,774 84. The ex penditures have been for paper, printing : and binding, $57,987 10, lor colporteur operations, (in addition to nearly 11,600,000 pages distributed to. the destitute) $15,611 15; remitted for foreign and pagan lands $20,000 ; all other expenses, as by items in the Treasurer’s.report, $15,776 59-Sto tal as above $108,774 84. The gratuitous distributions of. publica tions to the destitute, made iii 974 distinct grants by the Committee, have been for for eign lands 1.659,816 pages; to seamen’s chaplains, shipping for loreign ports and on lakes, canals, and rivers 1,137.957 ; to Home and Domestic missionaries 759,000, to Auxiliary Societies 2,149,052 ; distribu ted by colporteurs and Agents of die Soci ety 10,948,982; to Sabbath schools, liter ary, Humane and Criminal Instilutionsuaiid individuals, 1,119,189—-total 20,77!WU0 pages; besides 3,541,125 pages delWlred to members and Directors. Total gratui tous issues 24,315,121 pages, in valueflo,- 210 08. , Printed during the year, 217,000|vol uincs, 5,536,000 publications, 96,119,000 pages. Circulated during the year, |92,- 480 volumes, 4,937,684 publioations|9l,- 471,456 pages. Circulated in 19 wars, 2,-118,886 volumes, 73,340,753 publica tions, 1,391,325,867 pages. About 12,000 volumes in German, and 80,000 Christian Ahnanacs have been cir culated during the year, and the lotai circu lation exceeds that of the last year by 10,- COO,OOO pages. Os one Tract, the Holy Ghost Resisted, 200,000 have been primed within the year ; of the Stricken Bride, the Sinner and the Savior, and the Sinner Be lieving, all four-page Tracts, more than 175,000 each ; of Baxter’s Call, 20,000 ; and of Alleine’s Alarm and Harlan Page 8000 each. THE AMERICAN COLPORTEUR SYSTEM. The name is derived from the French, and is synonymous w\lh-pious book-bearer, implying personal effort for the spiritual welfare of men in connexion with the diffu sion of good books. The history of uolporlugc, in its broadest sense, is traced from apostolic days'to the Reformation, when the 715 books and Tracts written by Luther, in the thirty years of his public life, were diffused by convert ed monks and others; Flavel, Zuingle, and the other reformeis employing the press and colporteur labois, and establishing a Tract Society and colporteur association at Baslo, in 1534. The English Reformers and the Puritan non-conformists of a later period employed a kindred agencyiii dif fusing piety among the common fPbple ; John Knox and his associates availed them selves of itinerant and lay agency in the Scottish Reformation, and Howell Harris, of Wales, rekindled the fires of devotion in thousands of hearts by similar means.— The Moravian and Wesleyan systems owe much of their efficiency to this feature.— | The more modern history of colportage on I the continent of Europe and in qur own country is.also sketched in the Report. The elements of power involved in the; system arc the individual influrnre of man v( his I'ollow-inan in private intercourse, I and thepress —the mightiest known engine ! of intellectual and moral power—and these i combined and sanctified. The spirit of the system is catholic, e vangelical and purely benevolent, seeking to bring men lo Christ, regaidless through what window of the visible church th^smils converted may depait for heaven, ifiso be they enter it through’ Christ, “ the door.” Member* of thirteen different denomina tions have co-operated harmoniously); and the colporteurs are connected with line e vangelical denominations. ‘1 here isjhcnce no room for sectarian jealousy ; andfevery i Christian agency for ovangclizing the land I is welcomed and rejoiced in as a co-worker, j The system is in the way of no good in flu- i once, and docs not claim to be a substitute I for any other agency. The. psculiarfield for colpnrtage embra ces the absolute destitutions of the conn-1 try, North, South, East and West, Protest-! ant ot Romanist, foteign or domestic; * The necessity for such a system is argu ed from the extent of territory and spnrse ness of population, a colporteur in Georgia having traveled 000 miles to reach 287 fain- 1 ilies, and another in Arkansas 520 C miles to’reach 2000 families ; fiom the existing destitutions of other means of grace, colpor teurs frequently meeting families and neigh borhoods where a sermon has not been hoard for four, eight, or twelve years, and a single county in “the Empire State” hav ing 1298 families destitute of the Bible: from the inadequacy of picsent schemes of evangelization to reach the masses of the people ; from the prevalence of etror, the victims of whieh will not come to the sanc tuary, and must be reached at their homes or not at all.: from the vast increase of im migrants, who must be approached by pi ous laymen with pious books, until an ade quate ministry ean be raised up; and from the coirupt condition of the popular press, respecting whieh startling disclosures are made in the report. The adaptation of the system to the con dition and wants of the heterogeneous class es comprising our population is noticed, and the fact stated that already, in the in fancy of the enterprise, colporteurs are em ployed for-the islands along our coast : for the sailors and ships at Mobile, and the raft men and boatmen at New Orleans, for Germans and Danes, in various parts of the counliy ; for itnmtn Catholics, infidels, and other errorists ; and for the French in i our noihem frontier and at New Orleans. The results of Colportage for thojtar Are cheering and satisfactory in the highest degree. Several items will be noticed, and one or two faels illustrative of a large class of similar facts staled. - Supervision. General Agents for the Northern, Middle, Southern, Western and j South-western Stales have explored, fields, secured and instructed colporteurs, address ,ed large churches, and raised funds. Qne | of this class, at the far South, has provided f for four colporteurs jn Florida, and secured i one ; and secured one each fiir Alabama, | Georgia, and other States , raised SI3OO at New Orleans, and SIOOO at Mobile, to be expended in Louisiana nnc[ Alabama ; and has Iraveled thousands of miles on steam {boats, rail-roads, and in stages, without charge. Does “ prejudice against agents ” extend to such men ? Efficient and expe rienced agents for the immediate supervis ion of the labors of the colporteurs are also employed, Mr. S. Wood having the over sight of thirty at the West. Expansion. —27 colporteurs had been in the service of the'Society at the last an niversary, including 4 Germans; the past I year 73 colporteurs, including 23 Germans and Frenchmen, have been in the service, ‘■ and 29 additional laborers, including 14 stu dents for the vacation of three months, and exclusive of those in the service of the A merican Tract Society, Boston, and the ” Savannah Colporteur Association,” are now under commission, making 102 in commission during the year. These labor ers, with those in the service of the Boston Society, are dispersed over 27 States and Territories, as follows: New “England Stales, 7 ; Northern and Middle, including the Germans in Pennsylvania and students for New Jersey, &c. 46; South and South western Stales, 18; Western, 37. Distribution. —Nearly 35,000 families have been eacli supplied gratuitously with a book, and thousands with Tracts. The cost of publications distributed gratuitously is 87300. The sales on the Western field, under the supervision of Mr. S. Wood, a momvt to $11,340, and the grants to 83029. Total of volumes circulated during the year j 192.480. Morals.— E very Colporteur is, in a sense, a Temperance Agent. Besides addresses given and pledges obtained, distilleries have been stopped by their influence. One in the mountains of Kentucky put out the dis • tiller’s fires ; and a German colporteur was the means ol leading a Universahst dis tiller to abandon his establishment, which cost 81000 1 and the man and wife, his j brother and wife, and mother, were hope i fully converted. Education. —A colpoiteur in Indiana j gave a Tract volume to a family without a ! reader in it. The mother being taken sick. | a girl came into the family, who read the J oook in her hearing. It was the means of ! her conversion, and of leading her to send | her children to school, which she had nev j er done before, and of bringing the family | into church. Sabbath schools are encour aged or established where the influence of | the colporteur can effect it. The Aineri j can, German and French colporteuis. at j New Orleans, each have schools under their direction, gathered from the poor. | Intelligent piety is promoted by the i thousands of practical treatises placed in the j bands of professors of religion, many of whom have been found without a religious j book in the house. .Attendance on public worship is invaria bly iitcruas.ed. *• Hundreds have been • brought to the house of God,” says one, ; who states that previous to his visit not 500 out of 2500 population were accustomed to attend the sanctuary. Other facts corrob orate this. fictitious and injurious reading has been-supplanted. —ln Florida, ihe colpor- ‘ tour sold 29 volumes in a family Where the children we’re engaged in reading fiction : : another in Illinois has bartered Doddridge and Baxter for “the Devil on two sticks” and other trash, committing it to the flames. Infidelity has been refuted. Nelson’s work on infidelity is accomplishing won ders. Ah infidel Judge in Tennessee was led to Christ by it and loaned it to two law yers on his circuit, who were also convert ed, and established (heelings, in which some 200 souls were hopefully born from above. Ilomanism lias been successfully en | countered. The converted Romanist cot | por:eurs have had large meetings of Romaii i ists, and a larger proportion, probably, of j ibis population have been led to the Savior j than of any other class, compared with the number visited. In one instance the lead- : ! mg Romanists in the town went from bouse ! to house with 4h books and sold or gave them to the people ; telling them -that the colporteur was-right, and wished to bring them back to primitive Christianity and to the Bible. The German population constitutes one of the most important and inviting fields of evangelical effort. Evangelical Pastors’ have been greatly encouraged and strength ened by jlte co-operation of the Society.— The Genn'an colporteurs are-not excelled by any others in zeal and devotedness.— •One ‘of them preached or lectured once or twice each day from January 1 to April 1, holding a prayer meeting in die morning j and going from house to house during the day with his books; but was at4ast attack ed with bleeding and prostrated for the time. Another braved the yellow-fever at New Orleans ; was altaeked by it, but recover ed. A grea’ change is going on among the Germans, and the aid of colportage is-inost opportune. „ Individual conversions are reported by nearly every colporteur, though the fruit ■ from the seed sown must necessarily be brought to the knowledge of live laborer, chiefly at the great harvest day. Revivals of Religion aie reported by American colporteurs in New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Wiskonsan, &e. and by Germans in Penn sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, &c. The reflex influence of the colporteur • system has been increasingly manifest in I prompting to kindred • voluntary efforts to save souls. A distinguished gentleman in Kentucky, with his lady, have made volim ! tary. colporteur excursions ;. two clergymen !.in.Georgia have undertaken the visitation ; of their respective counties with the Socie ty’s books ; the Savannah -Colporteur As sociation has employed five colporteurs du i ring a part of the year, sustaining the ex pense oi’the effort: individuals, churches, I associations, presbyteries, &c. in many 1 parts of the country are making arrange ments for the supply of destitutions in their vicinity. One of the richest blessings of the system is thus experienced: may it be extended, until every benighted household and every desolate heart, in our Tand is gladdened with the Gospel! FOREIGN OPERATIONS. In foreign.and pagan, tends the work of the press, goes on with steady progress, as a grand auxiliary to missions arid all evan gelical labors. Neither the written not preached word alone are most successful for the salvation of men; they must go hand in hand, and be accompanied with the pray erful labors of the members of the church, or tire command of Christ to “evangelize every creature” will not be fully obeyed. In the necessity of this blessed union the churches of l/hristare agreed, and perhaps it has a happier exemplification in missions to pagan lands, where the true convert feels bound to make known the Saviour’s name, than amid the luxury and worldliuess which so ensnare the churches at home. The Society’s co-operation has been cor dially welcomed by all our foreign mission ary boards; and’ the appropriations have been distributed among thirty-two stations as they appeared to be most vrgently needed in view of all the information received.— No less than 1930 publications have been approved abroad, and die Society and all the institutions it aids have issued publica tions in ninety-nine different languages and dialects. During the year there has been paid for our North American Innians S2OO through the American Board of Commissioners; for thejTract and Book Society at Toulouse, in the South of France, and the American Swiss Committee at Geneva $600; Baptist mission in France $300; Paris (Religious Tract Society $500; Tract and Book So ciety at Strasbourg $100; Tract depart ment of the Belgian Evangelical Society $200; Tract Society at Caiw, Germany, for dark and destitute parts of Hurtgarv, $300; Baptist mission in Hamburg $600; Lower Saxony Tract Society at Hamburg $300; Prussian Tract Society at Berlin for Hungarians, Wendes and Poles $200; Friends at St. Petersburg, Russia, ssoo— on Continental Europe, and for our aborigines S3BOO. To the Baptist mission'in Greece $300; die large mission iu Tin key, embracing the stations at Smyrna, Constantinople, Broosa, Erzeroom and Trebizoud, where the Spir ! it is poured out, especially on die Arme nians, a great demand lor books ’has been awakened, and all previous grants have I been expended, $2000; to Rev. William G. Schaeffler for dark parts of Austria and Germany $200; Nestorians of Persia $300; mission a'. Gaboon, Africa. s3oo— for countries mound the Meditei ranean and Africa S3IOO. For die mission at Bombay $300: Ah mednugger $600; Ceylon 81600; Madura $500; Madras $500; Tclnogoos, Lutheran mission $200; General Baptist mission in Orissa $500; Rev. Mi. Carapeit, Armenian Baptist missionary in Calcutta $100; the large missions of the Genera! Assembly's Board in Northern India, all die Society’s giants having beer, expended, and 73 ap proved Tracts issued s3ooo—making to Hindoostnn $7300, For Bnrmali $400; Siam, Baptist mis sion S6OO, mission of A. B. Cl F. M- $500; China, where on the wonderful opening of its principal ports, all the protested! missions' 1 are concentrating their energies, mission ofi the Board of Commissioners SI7OO, Bap tist Board SBOO, General Assembly’s Board $300;- Sandwich Islands slsoo—making for Eastern Asia and those Islands ssßoo more than half of the total amount has J been granted had reported the expenditure 1 of all previous grants. A Sketch of Western Missionary- Life, BY MRS. 11. B. STOWE. “Mother’s sick, and I'm keeping house!’’ said a little flaxen-headed girl, in aH the importance of seven years, as her father entered the dwelling. “Your mother sick! whatVthc matter?” inquired Mr. Stanton. “She caught could washing, yesterday, while von Vere gone;” and when the min ister stood by the bed-side of his wile, saw her flushed face, and felt her feverish pulse, he felt.seriously alarmed. She hail scarce ly recovered from a dangerous fever when he left home, and with reason he dreaded relapse. “My dear, why have you done so?” was the first expostulation: ‘ why did you not send for old Agnes lo do your washing, as I told you?” “1 felt so well, 1 thought 1 was quite able,” was the reply; “andxouvknow that it will take all the moueiigj|M?'|tgtyeH!o\v on hand, to get the cold weather comes, and iwhen we shall have, any more.^^BP^^ “Well, Mary, comfort your heart as to that. I have had a present to-day of twen ty dollars—that will last us sometime.— God always provides when need is great-’ est;” and so, after administering a liftle ■ to the comfort of his wife, the minister ad dressed himself to the business of cook ing something lor dinner for himself and his little hungry flock. ■’ ‘ . “There is no bread in .the house,” he’ ex claimed, after a survey of the ways and means ai his disposal, . ‘ * “I must try to set up long enough to make some,” said his wife I’eiritly.'- ‘•you must try to be quiet,” replied the husband. “We can do very well on pota toes. But yet,”.. he added, “1 ihjnk if I bring the things to your bed-side, and you show me how to mix-them, 1 could make some-bread.” • A burst of laughter from the young Try, chorused his proposal; . nevertheless, as Mr. Stanton was a man of deckled genius, by help of much sho wing, and strong arms, and good will, the feat was at length accom plished in no unworkmanlike manner; and while the bread was put down to the fire to rise, and the potatoes were baking in the oven, Mr. Stanton having enjoined silence on his noisy” troup, sat down pen cil in hand, by his wife’s bed, to prepare a sermon. * We would that those ministers who feci that they cannot compose without a study, and that the airiest and pleasantest room in the house, where the floor is guarded by the thick carpet, the light carefully relieved by curtains, where papers are.filed and ar ranged neatly in conveniences purposely adjusted, witli books of reference standing invitingly'around, could figure to them-, selves the process of composing a sermon in circumstances such as we have just pain ted. Mr. Stanton had written his text, and jbtted down something of an introduction, when a circumstance occurred, which is al most inevitable in situations where a per son has anything else to attend 1 6-the baby awoke. The little interloper was to be tied in the chair; while the'flaxen-headed young house-keeper was now installed into tl.e office of waiter’ in ordinary to her ma jesty, and by shaking a newspaper before her face, playing a rattle, or other arts known only to the initiate, to prevent her from indulging in any unpleasant demon strations, while - Mr. Stanton proceeded with his train of thought. , ; “Pappa? pappa! the teakettle! only look!” cried all ihe younger ones, just as he was again beginning, to abstract his mind. Mr*. Stanton rose, and adapting part of his sermon paper to the handle of the tea kettle, poured the boiling water upon some I herb-drink for his wife, and then recom menced. i shan’t - have much of a sermon!” lie soliloquized, as his youngest but one, with I the ingenuity of common children of her ; stending, contrived to tip herself over in j her chair, and cut her under lip, which for i the time being, threw die whole settlement 1 into commotion; and this conviction was strengthened by finding that it was now time to give the children their dinner. “1 fear Mrs. Stanton is imprudent in ex erting herself,” said the medical man to the husband, as lie examined hersyinpto...s. “I know she is,” replied the husband, “but I cannot keep her from it.” “It is absolutely indispensable that she should rest and keep her mind easy,” said the doctor. “Rest and keep easy”—how easy the words are said, .yet how they fall oil the ear of a molher, who knows thaL her whole dock have not yet a garment prepared lor winter, that hiring assistance is out of die question, and that the work must all be dong by herself—who sees that while she is sick, her husband is perplexed, and kept from liis appropriate duties; and her chil dren. despite his well-meant efforts, suffer ing for the want of those attentions which only a modier can give, will not any moth er, so tried, rise from her sick bed before she feels able, to he again prostrated by over exertion, until the vigor of ihe consti tution year by year declines, and she sinks into an early grave? Yet this is the true history of many a wife and mother, who, in consenting to share the privations of a Western minister, has as truly sacrificed her life as ever did a martyr on heathen shores. The graves of Horrid Newell and Mrs. Jndson are hallowed as die shrines of saints, and their memory made as a watchword among Christians; yet the •W estern Valiev'’is lull of green and name less graves, where patient, long enduring wives and mothers have laid down, worn omny itir j) matrons or ns severe a mission ary field, and “no man knoweth the place of their sepulchre.” Deplorable Igiiorauce. A Colporteur of the American Tract So ciety in one of the most destitute parts of the West, writes that his sales had amoun ted in two months to about 500 volumes ami his grants to more than 200. “Many of the people,” he says, “are as ignorant as the heathen. 1 have found many whole tain dies in width there was not a single in dividual who could read: and agic-at many who can read, have no books except the Bible and some old song book. 1 have fou.nd some fifteen or twenty families with out the Bible: but what is even more to be lamented, there are many, even -in the church, who have the Bible but do not read v it. For instance, l called oil one of the first families in a villiage named ‘l'., which consisted of.ihc parents ynd six or seven children, who could read—some of them members of the church. While conversing on some points of Bible truth, the story of David and Goliath was alluded to. The old gentleman • remarked, ‘I have never heard of that!” ‘Nor I,’ said the old lady. I took my Bible and read the narative, which was listened to with breathless at tention. I also gave them the narative of Samson, and Moses, and then commenced a sketch ol Joseph’s life, when the olif man remarked, * l'hace Hearn tell of that!' —of the other stories not one ot that large fami ly had ever heard or read! I have often seen tears flowing freely, when rising front ‘ my knees; in cabins where the voice of prayer had then been heard for the first time: ai*d that heart must be stone which, would not be moved by such indications.” To Parents. —-When chastisement is ad ministered, let it be brief and severe, in ex act proportion to the necessity of the case, lest it .degenerate into worrying; let all scolding be abstained from, for this only exasperates. One single severe word.f. g., ‘silence!’ uttered-with a commanding voice, is better than many. But let all be done without passion, for ahgry face can only procure a frightful impression on the child. And now, when the child is content and yields, let him at once again see a serene brow, and art unclouded face, and talk with him about tilings; this*wi|l operate like the warm sunshine after the first thunder-storm in spring. . The Seneca Indians. —A Buffalo letter, says; “There is-to be no resting place for the red man this side of the Rocky Moun tains. Their extinction is slowly but sure ly approaching.’ The Ogden Company, which purchased the Seneca Reservation of the .State, have paid the full instalment. $75,000 at New York, and having thus fulfilled their part of the bargain, will now exact of the authorities a strict- compliance with theirs by the enforcement of the latv whieh compels the Seneca nation to yield up their lands to the above corporation— Go they must, and that speedily, or the strong arm of the. State will be brought to bear tipon.tlieui.”