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JOSEPH S. BAKER— Editok.
VOL. XIII.
R ANNUM.
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Revival Intelligence.
Hinds Cos.. Mi., ? i
hear Brother elletftt it
will he cheering to tlie friends of the Re
deemer, to hear of die dealings ol God
with fiis people in this section of country,
1 inform you of what great things God lias
Rone Lpr ns; whoreofwn are glad
I atmnded six days of a infecting of eight
days, held with the Beulah Church, near
Brownsville. Hinds county, commencing
Friday befoie die 3d Lord's day in August.
Brother B. L. Barnes attended the first day ;
brother I). .11. Crawford tlie first and thud
days ; brother Parsons the first three days ;
brother T. 8. N. King three days ; brother
N. I{. Gran beery, the pastor of the church,
attended the meeting through the two la—t
days by Ijimself. During die meeting the
filmrchwsstniic.il revived; si finer* •awaken
ed and mourners Comforted. Sixteen wer#
added bv baptism, and-one restored. In
Jlebwflst.illn’, near dm rlntrch, there had.
been. .previoush the. meeting, a (lam ing
. school, which •aupoy.et! the’ church.’ f)u
---‘. ring fle tueeting, ahe most ul the letvdifig
‘persons .roil iye< te J <v iik live scfjit.l^prpftsss-,
t yd religion', %b*ch. H
• -.thb-meetm#.
Brother Graii'icrry’s haUlh is
hjy improved • siuce brother
you in reference No i(. He is low aide to
preach ~n Saturday and Sunday hi ear-h
week, about half an hour at a time; and I
hope that lie may Ire restored ; but it re
quires time and care.
I then attended a meeting of seven days
i t Raymond, wheie brother R. Warner hs
charge. Brethren L 11. Holloway, W. 11.
Aaiifer.-ciii .and E. C. Eager, and B. Whil
liald. a licensed preacher, were, in aiieud
ance three i(a vs. Tlie word’ was prfiac'ljed’
with power; and-,* lying atlcmled by ihci
spirit of God, was nlTVctnal in diminishing
.Satan's kingdom, and adding 10 the kingdom
of the R ;dSeiner. There were ten added .
. by baptism, and one by restoraion. Since j
that i nee ling three more have been added
by baptism.
I h ive since attended a meeting (a part
of tite time) with the Bethel church, m Lin
en, Hinds county, which continued ten i
days. Brother W. 11. Taylor has the care
of fins church. Brother Taylor, V. W.
Brock, and Deacon 8. W. Sexton, were
the only laborers at the commencement.
On the third rlay ¥ at. night, 1 teached there,
and cmifimipd till Tuesday evening ; but,
owing .to other engagements, 1 was com
pelled to leaw. .1 returned, however, ou
Thursday evening, and remained till Satur
day morning. I then left to fill mv own
appointment in Copiah county. Mi.
The brethren above named continued lo
wait upon the Lord, believing that they
that wait upon tlie Lord shall renew their
strength. In answer to prayer there were
added sixteen try baptism.
1 have, since then, attended another meet
ing with the Mepltzibalt church, Copiah no.,
of 5 days ; and had no ministerial help, ex
cept brother Win. Allen 3 days of the time,
and W. F. Green, a licentiate. We bapti
zed ten, and one of that nuinbei. was the
Senator of the district.
I then proceeded lo my regular meeting
at Palestine. This meeting continued nine
days, commencing Saturday before the 2nd
Lord's day in September. Christians pray
ed will, i'ereenar of spivlt. Tlie .Spirit ot
God was poured out upon the church ; sin
ners erled for mercy, and mourners found
joy and peace in believing.
I bad the unspeakable pleasure, during
the meeting, of burying with Christ by
baptism 38 willing converts. I had the as
sistance of brother U. Warner the meeting
through. Brother W. 11. Taylor was with
us the 3.1 and fill days of lire meeting, and
brother 1,. B. Holloway the two last days.
1 can safely say, brother Baket, I never
have, at any petiod of my life, felt a deep
er interest for the salvation of sinners. The
same feeling seemed to be manifest in the
prayers of all the brethren; and I never
have witnessed more direct answers to
prayer in any meeting. Os the number
baptized, 10 were Sabbath School scholars.
At our last meeting 1 baptized 0 more, and
received another for baptism.
I have also attended a meeting ol three
days with brother Cranberry it: Yazoo co..
at which he baptized six.
Seme two weeks ago. I returned from
our Association, We had a very pleasant
time. The Association embraced such an
extent of .territory, it was thought best to
divide it, and organize anew Association.
Ft was a very affecting time, when brethren
had in pait who had co operated together
for so long a lime ; very unlike those divis
ions which take place on account of differ
ences of opinion.
I have j'.ist returned from a meeting- of
THE CHRISTftN HEX-,
six days, held with the County line church.
Dtothci L. B. Holloway has care of the
church. Brother Holloway and* brother
cf. Warner attended each day, and I at
tended 4 days. The church was much re
vived, having been in a very cold state for
a length of time. There were lObaptizeil,
and another received for baptism. There
is in that community a better slate of reli
gious feeling than has been for years ; and
in fart t throughout our Association, there is
a general feeling on the subject of religion.
Brother E. C. Eager'* churches have
been wonderfully revived, and numbeis ad
ded to the elitircltos ; hut I cannot speak de
finitely. I have expected to see sbme ae
cotlttts of the revivals in his section in the
Banner or Index, hut have been disappoint
ed.
From what i have heard in the
that brother Barnes attends, many have been
lvapto<l t “*til l • - paolmJ to itovi* a6M|) JlC
counts of his meetings in the Index.
I omitted, in the commencement of this
communication, to tell you of the revivals
at Mound Bluff and Society .Ridge church
rs, under the pastoral care of Elders D. R.
Campbell and N. 11. Cranberry.- Brother
Latlimnre visited those churches, and the
chinches protracted their regtiljii meetings.
I Imre were added by baptism, to tlie Mound
Blufi. about 30 ; and to the Ridge church
15. BrethiPii Barnes and Dawrenee at
tended those meetings.
If 1 have communicated anv thing you
have heretofore leceivetl, plerfXi; omit it and
publish so much as you think necessary.
There are other protracted meetings now
appointed ; and if tile Lord should meet
with us at those meetings, and pour out his
spirit upon tt, l Wifi wrin? you again.
I remain yours affectionately in the
•dotivand p.;uiei^ee'(rfsesff‘C.ifist. , >
TSAMGEL THIGPEN. .
-, lamny J,-.
From the and Pioneer, t
. ; ‘• ~ “3* ‘ ■■■ Us- -'• *
p j!jtfran of a Letter from Rev. Joseph
Smedly.
Four Smith, Sept. 18, 1845.
lien, /sane McCoy:
My Dear Brother,—! have just arrived
at the Fort from the Creeks and Choctaws,
and nut obliged to give you only a hasty
bruev, owing to information of the serious
.illqes* of four of my family, which will ob
lige me to proceed oil my way home imme
diately.
AfliVTrme rmrphUlwtsc for nTtYtommyElm'-’
aweiing your lasi very affectionate letter. I
thought 1 would delay writing until I had
met brother Polls among the Creeks, for
the purpose of ordaining our native brother
Islands; Imt I have had two disappoint
ments, owing tosii kttess and tilings beyond
Ins control. He, however, proposes meet
ing me fur that object on me first Sabbath
in October, it appears very desirable that
our brother Islands should be ordained as
soon as possible.
ATt.-r preaching at the Choctaw agency,
and the other regular stations on my way
to the North Fork, 1 at rived at the Creek
Camp ground on Saturday the 12ih inst.,
where I bad the pleasure ol meeting our
briillierlslands, and several hundred Creeks.
Our religions services continued that night
till nearly midnight.
Early the next morning, Sabbath, before
sunrise, the liortt blew lor prayers, <fcc.
After partaking of. our morning’s repast,
had church mealing for the receiving of
candidates for baptism. Seventeen had
previously been received. After singing
and prayer, 1 preached the baptismal ser
mon from •* Go ye into all the world,” <fce.
We then proceeded to the water, about two
or three hundred yards distant, singing as
we went. Aftet the immersion of twenty
one, brother Islands concluded with a very
feivent prayer. After a short interval,
called the people together, and gave the
right hand of fellowship. This scene was
lit for angels to admire and men to imitate.
The new members’ were arranged near the
preacher’s place; and first, the principal
brethren and myself gave the band of fel
lowship ; then the. members front the Cana
dian church, Nor'.h Fork church, and
Puckabatchee church, folio wed ; and during
this delightful service, which lasted nearly
half an hour, the aged mom bets in particu
lar would do little else than weep for joy;
and, reclining ttpnn each other’s shoulders,
bathed them with tear*. The spectators
appeared spe 1 bound. Happy would it be
if city churches would go and do likewise.
The churches appear anxious to become
united in an Association. I wish vou
would luvor us with a plan suited to the
condition of those people, and calculated to
cement all together in love. You know
the best means to lie adopted. At present
a lovely spirit seems to prevail among the
brethren.
Other things f must omit. Shall write
again after seeing brother Potts. 1 expect
a baptism on tire Choctaw side thenext time
I vist then*. Yours in Christ,
JOSEPH SMEDLEY.
Report of Rev. S. Dyer, Jlgent.
Locisvilt.e, (Ky.,) Oct. 9, 1845.
Rev. Isaac McCoy ;— My dear Brother,
—ln closing my three months’ labor as the
Agent of the American Indian ’Mission As
sociation, permit tne to say, that I was re
ceived most cordially by our friends in the
Green river rnnptry ; and, notwithstanding
the unparalleled sickness of the season, my
receipts show the interest they feel in the
FOR THE BAPTIST CONVENTION OF*ATE OF £QR&XA:
PEN FI ELD, G A , IN O V EM-BE U sH,
cause of Indian retqfHH. , o
by the accompanying report, my cash re
ceipts have amounted to $607.08. I also
secured a large number of boons lor broth
er Islands; among which will be found an’
“Encyclopedia of Religions knowledge,”
and fitteen or twenty volumes of the
“Christian Family “Library,” obtained ftt
Hopkinsville. ‘ *
1 have endeavored to secure future co-6p
eration. by recommending the formation ol
Auxiliary Societies, or the adopting ofsome
systematic mode of operations ; in which.
I trust, I have in some measure succeeded.
A untuber of planters in the lower part of
the Slate have, upon ftiyirj|cotiimeriditimi,
adopted the plan of raising an acre, or half
acre of tobacco, and give the -proceeds to
Indian missions; which, under ordinary
circumstances, will amouul-to twenty or
thirty dollars per acre. The UetTiifel Asso
ciation, by a resolution passed aijts ipeent
session, lias become auxiliary to ynur’
Board ; it is no small accession to mir
strength, for it is a body which shows its
“faith by its works.”
In conclusion, I should remark that 1
have reason to believe, that my visit in the
Green River section of K’ up'tcky.Jlia’? pro
duced an impression very favorabl'6 to In
dian missions.
Affectionately yours, Ate. •
SIDNEY DYER, Agent.
Female Education-v*- ■
It is of great importaflfe.Ao a country,
that there, should be as many understand
ings as possible actively employed within ■
it. Mankind ate much happier fqr the dis
covery ofbarometers, therino'meuVrs, steam
engines, and all the in'nmiiet'aqhi tifvealioie.
i'nTlvS arts and Scrertcee.’ We are ‘every,
day, ami evSij.- IVoflT reapHTg’ the'bepeffr of
such talent *and'iitgeninty. The /aide i*hr
eorvatihh fig true hjfsuch-wqffca as those of .
.D'tvsWm, -Wupe; ‘MilitTft, 1
Man kind’a>e much happier’ that such imli
vMirajlVnflelived and written; they add
every day 16 the-stock.of public enjoy mejtf
—and perflemfjSHy gladden and* embellish
life. Now, Mw number of those who exer
cise their understandings to any good pur
pose, is exactly in proportion to those'who
exercise it at nil; hut, as the matter stands
at present, half the talent in the universe
runs to waste, and is totally unprofitable.
It would have been almost as well for the
world, hitherto, that women, instead of
possessing tire capacities they do at present,
should have been horn wholly destitute of
f mrrt p r>his,"~.’tiitf stiMuiT. „r
mind, of which inen make so eminent an
use : aid the ideas of use and possession
ate so united together, lltal, because it has
been the custom in almost all commies, to
give to women a different ami a worse edu
cation than to (lien, the notion lias obtained
that they do not possess faculties which
they do not cultivate. Just as, in breaking
np a common, it is siimeiiutes very difficult
to ma Re the poor believe it will carry corn,
merely because they have been hitherto ac
customed to see it produce nothing hill
weeds and grass—they vety naturally mis
take present condition for general natine.
So completely have the talents of women
been kept down, that there is scarcely a sin
gle wot k, either of reason or imagination,
written by a woman, which is in general
circulation, cither in tire English, French,
or Italian literature; —.scarcely one that has
crept into the tanks of our tumor poets.
If the possession of excellent talentts is
not a conclusive reason why they should
be improved, it at least amounts to a very
strong presumption; and, ifilean besltown
that women may be trained to reason and
imagine as well as man, the strongest rea
sons are certainfy necessary to show ns
why we should not avail ourselves of such
rich gifts of nature; and we have a rieht to
call lor the clear statement of those perils
which make it necessary that such talants
should be totally extinguished, or, at most,
very partially drawn out. The burthen of
proof does not lie with those whos.iv, in
crease the quantity of talent in any country
as much as possible—for such a proposi
tion is in conformity with every mini’s
feelings: but it lies with those who say.
fake care to keep that understanding weak
and trifling, which nature has niixle strong
and powerful. The paradox is with them,
not with us. In all human reasoning,
knowledge must he taken for a good, till u
can be shown to he an evil. But now, na
ture makes tins rich and magnificent pre
sents ; and we say to her—You are too lux
urinnt and munificent—we must keep you
tinder and prune you ;—we have talents e
noiigh in die oibpj half of lire creation ;
and if you will nolsuipify and enfeeble tile
mind of women to our hands, we ourselves
must expose them to a narcotic process,
and educate away that fatal redundance
witlr which the world is atHicted, and the
order of sublunary things deranged.
One cf the greatest pleasures of life is
conversation ; and the pleasures of conver
sation a(e of course enhanced by every im
crease of knowledge : not that we should
meet together to talk about alkalis and an
gles, or to add to ottr stock of history and
philology—though a little of these things
is no had ingredient in conversation ; but
lot the subject be what it nitty, there is al
ways a ptodigimis difference between the
conversation of those who have not njoy
ed litis advantage. Education gives fecun
dity ol thought, copiousness of illustration,
quickness, vigor, fancy, words, images,
and illustrations;—it decorates every com
mon thing, and gives the power of trifliog
wl lhoty ttiipfc^uhfeffiml Ju
The suhje.'JfflWetnsefvos tffirtr;pot be-wattfj
ed upiui ifop)t the taietits ralueatf-d
man have.lwJ’ Aerciied Uiere js id
ways a thpse tßlonts ‘tvliicff*h^,
education rendered.,
Now, fewljyj bertyrther ffomd
our inteiirjtv tlrSrtr to say tiring,pud*’
and unp'eaEfit t but we’ BftiiWse - exfffised
for olrserutg that it is not now a very com
mon things to be interested by the variety
and ex(ent|f ‘female ktirfWtedge, but’it i* •
very corntron thing to (ament that the fin
est faculty! it# thfe world li-ve'been eorrfrti- ■
ed to triflriuttgrly unworthy of
ness and tleir strength. -
The pajs'oit of is the. most,
innoeeftt twd interesting occupation which
pan be givti ip tbp fjjtnaje sex; nor can
there lift q|A-iip. t- me , spy
!, y ’“•t'dngfnp something else against it.— .
Give to,*!tom#ti, in early youth, something
to acquire^)aufTieieni interest and imporj,
tatvte lo'eornmaucl the application of their
nattitSYfn.i|ii t .s, and lo excite tneir perse-
future 1 1 1'e'-' ~ ■im m ~i.
happiness is to be derived from tlta,aeqni
sition or knowledge, as well ns die gralifi*
ration of'anity: and yon will raise it pa
much mote formidable barrier against dis
sipation, titan a host of exhortations andin
rect;ve* ran supply.
It sometimes happens that an unfortunate
man gets iliunk with very bad wine,—-not
to gratify bis palate, but to forget his eares;
—he does not set any value on what he re
ceives, but oniM-eount of what if excludes:
—it Keeps but something worse than itself.
Now, though it were denied that the acqui
sition of serious knowledge is of itseihitn
poriant ton Woman, still it prevents ajlaste
)br sijly aind pernicious works of imagina
tipnj jf jjfejgps away the horrid trash of no
.vels f jml. in lieu of that eagerness fore-
adventure which hooks of that
sort insp'.re. promotes a calm and steady
tcmpfflrelnent of mind
Abie .i'Vho deserves such a piece of good
for'ftrbe, may generally find an excellent
companion for all the vi< issitudes ol life ;
hbt it is not so easy to find a companion for
his understanding, who has similar pursuits
with hibfSelf, or who cart comprehend die
pleasure lie derives from them. VVereally
see no reason, why it should not he other
wise; nor) 'comprehend how the pleasures
of doinestre life can he promoted by dimin
ishing the dumber of,subjects.in which per
sons, .wh'djre tit spend their lives tngether,
mkeereorftnrrm-iniorrst.
One of the most agreeable consequences
ofknowreJge is the respect and importance
it communicates to old age. Men rise in
character often as they increase in years ;
they are vetiersible from what they have ac
quired, and pleasing from what they can
impart. If they outlive their facilities, the
mere frame itself is respected for what it
once contained; hut women (sue.lt is their
unfortunate style of education,) hazard eve
ry thing upon one east of the die. When
youth is gone, ail is gone. No human
creature gives his admiration for nothing :
either the eve must he charmed, or the ttn
deistanding gratified. A woman must talk
wisely oy look well. Every human being
must put up with the coldest civility, who
has neither the charms, of youth nor the
wisdom of age. Neither is there the slight
est conimisefation for decayed accomplish
ments, no man mourns over the fragments
of a dancer, or drops a tear on the relics of
musical skill. They are flowers destined
to perish ; hut the decay of great talents is
always the subject ol solemn pity ; amt even
when their last memorial is over, their ru
ins and vestiges are regatded with pious af
feet ton*.
There is no connection between the ig
norance: in which women are kepi, and the
preservation of moral and religious princi
ple ; and yet certainly there is, in the minds
of some timid and respectable persons, a
vague, indefinite dread of knowledge, as if
it were capable of producing these effects,
it miglit almost lie supposed, from the dread
which’ the propagation of knowledge has
excited, that there was some great secret
which was to be kept in impenetrable ob
scurity—that all moral rules were a species
of delusion and imposture, the detection of
which, by the improvement of the under
standing, would be attended with the most
fatal conseqoencts to all, and particularly to
women. If we could possibly understand
what these great secrets wore, we might
perhaps be disposed to concur in their pre
servation ; but believing that all the saluta
ry rules which are imposed on jvotnen are
the result of trim wisdom, and productive
of the greatest happiness, we cannot under
stand how they ate to become less sensible
of this tmtli tti pioportion as their power of
discovering truth in general is increased,
and the Iwbit of viewing questions with ao
cuiacy and comprehension established by
education. There are men, indeed, who
arc always exclaiming against every species
of power, because it is connected with dan
ger; their dread of abuses is so much storn
ger than their admiration of uses, that they
would cheerfully give up the use ol fire,
gunpowdci, and printing, to be freed from
robbers, incendiaries, and libels. It is true
that every increase of knowledge may pos
sibly render depravity more depraved, as
well as it may increase the strength of.vir
tue. It is in itself only power; and its
value depends on its application. Blit,
trust to the natural love of good where there
• is no temptation to be bad—it operates no
; where more forcibly than in education.—
[No’ mall, xghptfreclta be- tuior. ‘giardiyn, V
friend, ever contents himself with infixing
the inert) abi'Wit; yjiiinf’ the
ii.vjljtit la'ste’for jhehtfi'so
and rational ejsetcise
Ma feducateff ia,aoy-’ faftypib willi
‘^a|-bet tiff, /afui 01 hew;
Wt with a more useful
’pfTsidort ’betteF euttl vatetG^-tf^rafeiii^iirtioi#
of a higher and mote iinportini'tphlss.
|n short, and to recapitulate the Jh.ajn
.points upon which we have insisted
Wlfy the disproportion in krlowiedfe be
.tween t()e two sexes altottld fc so great,
when the inequality in natural taldnls is o
small; or why die of ivo
mhnrs.hotild be yjWi trifles, when
nature has- ruaJe it capable Os highet .-.nd
better things, we profess ourselyea not nbleto
nnil.crstand. Tlie nffectaiion cltargdl upon
that
jjonomv developed upon wbnnetl
dated by the ruin, di ? S ra< ’ c < and incoitve
njenee ivliiel) proebeds from neglecting it.
For the care oj^qhiltlrerr-nature has made a
ilirerC'SKnS , ■ <d. the
oentlenens gml ..hlaatirieo of
“Bulurrf-tfnttsßqueiicg of that desircio please^ 1
which is productive, of the greatest part ol
civilization and pptineinent, and w|iiclt rests
upon a fonndaiio't- ti/o deep to hp.shaken by
such modificqUons rh*eduralion t as we itave
proposed. II yott educate tv,omen to at
tend to dignified and important-subjects,
you are multiplying, beyond measure, the
chances of human improvement, by pre
paringand medicating these early impres
sions, which always come from the mother;
and which, in a great majority of instances,
are quite decisive ol character and genips.
Nor is it only in the business ol education
that women would influence the destiny
of men. If women knew more, men must
learn more—for ignorance would then be
shameful—and it would become the fash
ion to be instructed. The instruction of
woman improves the stock of national ta
lents, anti employs more minds for the in
struction and amusement of the world :—it
incteases the pleasure* of society, multi
plying the topics upon which the two sex
es take a common interest; and makes
rnariinge an intercourse of understanding
as well as of affection, by giving dignity
and importance to the female character.—
The education of women favors public
morals; it provides for every season ot
life, as for the brightest and the best; and
leaves a woman when slto is striken by the
hand of time, not is she now is, destitute of
every thing, neglected by all ;’ but ‘with the
full power amPtne splendid attractions of
knowledge,—diffusing the elegant pleas
ures of polite literature, and receiving the
just homage of learned and accomplished
men.— Rev. Sydney Smith.
From the Religious Herald
At the suggestion of Rev. YV. C. Buck,
President of the China Mission Society, it
was deemed important, by the Foreign
Mission Board of the S. R. C., to send a
delegate to the annual meeting of that So
ciety, which took place in Georgetown,
Ky., Friday, October 18. Our excellent
brother, Rev. T. Hume, was selected to fill
the appointment. He was happily, for
himself at least, prevented from accepting
the office hv an interesting revival in the
church under it is charge. 1 was requested
by the Board to supply his place. After a
tedious and fatiguing journey of a week, I
found myself in Georgetown, [was high
ly gratified to meet the reprove.natives of
the Baptist churches and Associations in
Kentucky. A few of them I had previous
ly known ; of many of them 1 had heard ;
and by all of them I was cordially received.
I soon felt myself quite at home. A ma
jority of the ministers, I should judge, are
Virginians by birth, and not a few of them
commenced their evangelic labors in this
Stale.
The names of the people, their manners
and customs, are all Virginian. Kentucky
is the first born of Virginia, and the raotlu-r
need not be ashamed of Iter daughter.
By the China Mission Society I was
welcomed, and 1 had the privilege of laying
before it the, plans and prospects of our
Foreign Mission Board. The Society dis
solved its connexion with the Triennial
Convention ; and, on the report of a high
ly respectable committee, adopted, with
great unanimity, the following resolutions :
Resolved, That our Corresponding Sec
retary be requested to cotrespond with El
der Issachar J. Roberts, and advise him to
place himself under the direction of the
Southern Board of Missions.
Resolved, That this Society deem it ne
cessary to renew our exertions in order to
raise funds for the spread of the gospel in
China.
Resolved, That this Society will pay
over the funds now in the Treasury, with
any additional funds which may be collect
ed during the ensuing year, to the Treasu
rer of the .Southern Baptist Convention,
with the understanding that such funds
shall be appropriated to the support of El
der Issachar J. Roberts, and It is assistants
in China, as far as tnay be iiecessaiy for
their support.”
In tlie evening a sermon on behalf of the
Society was preached by the Secretary,
Rev. T. S. Maloom, It was a very appro
ptiate and impressive discourse. The
claims of the China Mission were clearly
and effectively exhibited. At the elose of
the servi/.-f a collection Imt tlie Society was
taken.
Publisher— BENJ. BRANTLY.
Robe r is’ has a strong hold on The
Confkleuye and affeotioni of the Kentucky
Baptists. Rev. W. G. Buck gave an ia
tprastfng history of the China Mission So- ’
ftfjy to the congregation. It
apf>iw iftat . the Robert’s intftf, from
j ths'+wgifftfing muelt good was ex-
IPN;_fnt-lgScia entirjfly sunk, tliroitgh the
in the value of M issjjttp
pi Fartd, The property had been sold for
taxes, and if redeemed; it will bereiy i satis
fy soine alaims for which, it w respofiaible-
I clierialt the hope that the Kentucky
Bajitrtts will prove themeelvei to ba eflt
cient supporters’ of she S. B. Contention.
They are nunterou* and wlkfdtjfV and if
their .liberality should correspond with their
nuntb/p and resources, they will” well de
serve the high distinction ofbei uncalled
v"l’he Banner Suto or the Baptists-”
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*• Ihe splendid description which Mr.
Bancroft ha* given of Roger William*,rep
resents him as emerging frofti the moral
darkness by which lie had been surrounded,
Tnnrra rffeirepjv wofßTngsol his keea and
far-sighied mind, groping and grappling
and bringing to light, u mighty prjnctple,
flte nucleus and concomitant of oilier stu
pendous conceptions, to which all the rest
of the wotldwere as yet stranger*. -This
singular eminence, to which the father of
this state has been exalted, i* equally unne
cessary and unreasonable. It has made him
the subject of undue praise on the one |iand,
and of unjust representation on the ot.her.
His defenders have been betrayed into a
spirit of vain-glorious adulation; his accu
sers have been quickened into a spirit of
captiousrress and detraction. He is prais
ed by the one ns a star of the first magni
tude, which all at onee shed its brilliant
l’ght upon mankind, as the pole-star of their
destiny: bythe other M is viewed as an
errati® planet, breaking from its oibil, svtb
jeet to no law, and striking its path into the
realnWof chaos. lie has been called the
great modern law-giver in moral and politi
cal jurisprudence, by many Baptists, who
are willing to own him as the father of their
religious denomination in this country ; and
by others lie has been accused with being
“conscientiously contentions, ’’—governed
by a spirit of restlessness, which, rendered
him as liable to stumble oil a false principle,
as to alight upon a into one; while his
wortied conscience was nothing hut a sanc
timonious bundle of pride, self conceit, and
evil passions.
Both nl’ these opposite views of his char,
arier are equally unrounded. The truth is.
that he possessed a noble character, com
bining a vigorous intellect, disciplined and.
furnished by generous learning, with a myf-*
al nature, softened and sanctified with the
graces of piety. But in all his published
works, and in all his written ,memorials,
there is no evidence tiiat his intellect wasso
singularly quick and far-sighted, or that
his moral philosophy was sclf-deiived front
his own original conceptions, He drew
his moral creed from the Bible alone: and
from Ins inieicourse with multitudes of no
ble minds in his father-land, whose intel
lect, philanthropy and piety, jwere equal to
his own. Though he occupied a peculiar
position, and seemed to strike out new and*
starting theories, in New England, he was
not in advance of thousands in Wales and
in England, who had as clear and familiar
an acquaintance with the great jfrinciples
ha advoaated, as he had himself: and from
whose companionship, indeed,, he must
have derived his first conceptions of the
doctrines lie maintained. To him, indeed,
belongs the honoi of establishing the first
civil government in modern. Christendom,
which gave equal liberty of conscience to
all its subjects : but th e moral principle on
winch he acted, so far from being his own
original discovery, was the carrying out,
under fortunate circumstances,’ of the great
idea, which multi hides before him hadclear
ly Uetived from their Bibies-— Bap. Memo.
Mr. ami Mrs. Davenport. —ln’ the Bap
tist Missionary Magazine for November, we
find the following extract. Erom this it
vtrill be that therii arrival in this city
may he daily expected-. The Magazine
states that two Missionaries have been ap
pointed to the Siam Mission—one for the
Siamese and one for the Chinese depart
ment—who are detained in this country by
the want of funds for their support:
“ A letter has been received from Mr.
Davenport, announcing firs arrival, with his
family, in London, oil h : s way to this coun
try from Siam via Singapore, no direct op
portunity offering at that port of a passage
to the United Stales, lie expected totake
passage for this country about the 20th of
•September.’— Richmond Heligious Herald.
It is stated that MiHerrsm has been again
revived in Philadelphia. A number of the
followers, who appeared to be porsons of
respectability, were baptized in the Sehuyt
: kill, near the U. S. Arsenal. One of ho
: converts was a colored woman. A tent
was erected on the bank of the river, and
the deluded victims went out fit by twos
to go into the water.
The Mormons, it is staled 1 , are making
arrangements to remove to Oregon.
Cincinnati contain? 80,000 rebtbitants,
and the second child born there still lives,
and has not reached the mUJ'le age cA
life.
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