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JOSEPH S. BAKER— Editok. VOL. XIV. TERMS —PER ANNUM. The Christian Index, publish ed on Friday in each week, (except two in the year), will he furnished to each sub scriber at $2 50 cents, in advance; or $3 if not paid within the year. Every Agent, (and all Baptist Ministers are particularly solicited to become agents,) who will procure and pay for live copies of the Index, shall be entitled to a sixth, as a compensation for his trouble. Letters on business, or communications must be addressed to the Editor, post paid. Advertisements may be inserted on usu al tDtUnC, at .he discretion of the Edijpr. j For the Christian index. CHURCH. The Greek noun ekklesia, which our translators have been pleased to render church-in some places, 1 Cor. xiv. 4, 5- 23, and assembly in other places, Acts xix. 32-30-41, iu the New Testament, is de rived from the Greek verb ekkuteo, which sifiuities, according to Donegaii, and oilier .good Greek lexicographers, “to call forth; to call up ; evoke as departed Spirits; to cain%neji self, &c.” UonsequeiiUjxilie most USMSf- and plain delinition, Oiyne nuult. is an assembly of the peo ple calleooigether, or collected together by Convention, for any definite or indefinite purpose : whether it be for the purpose of worshiping the Lord, Heb. ii. 12, or for transacting the political affairs of the coun try, Luke ii. 3, or for performing some intiifaiy exploit, Matt. IG. or for adminis tering justice, through the judiciary of the government; Acts xix. 3D, or for the more reprehensible purpose ol holding a'riot, as brought to our notice in Acts xix, 33-41. ‘llie twelfth verso ol the second chapter of Hebrews, which reads thus, “1 will de- ttiv name unto my brethren, in the oi the church will 1 sing praise ntiio tliec,” is a tpioiaiion from* the twenty-sec ,ond verse of “the iweiny-seeoml Psal.-ii, whero it reads, “1 will declare thy name unto my hreilucn : in the midst of the con gregulion will 1 praise thee;” ami in the twenty-fifth verse of the same Psalm, “.My piaise shall be of thee iu the great congre gation that is, in the congregation of toe Jews, where the multitude was a mix ture of evory sort, both ol good and of bad. The reader will readily perceive, that the term ekk/esiu iu the original, and the word church, by which it is translated in more than thirty places in the New Testament, leaves it very undetermined whether we mean an assembly of rioters, or a mixed congregation of Saints and sinners; ot ‘•ilia general assembly and church of the first born, which tire written in heaven,” Heb. \4i. 23; Acts xx. 28; Epli. i. 22; v. 24, 25-27 ; and which is the true ckklcsiu, or assembly, or congregation, or chureli ol the living God. We have commonly heard it called “the invisible church,” be cuiise the liicmbeis, of which it i-s compos ed, are invisible to us, including all those who have already gone to glory, and all those wlio are scattered over the earth, from the North to the South, arid from the East to the West, and all those who shall yet be bom. If we mistake not, some at tempt lias been made to point out the time and place, when and where this church had its commencement, hut as that is more than we feel to have the ability to do, we are content to leave it to others, and would bßtely assert, that it had its origin with the first soul \f,at truly believed in the Lord Jesus Clirist; anil | l;iS continued to the present day, and will comi.uie till the last soul of the Fleet of God shall t,<, brought to life and immortality. We have promised not to be uncharita ble, or uncotuTeous, and we hope we shall not be considered so to be, when we assert that the visible church—so called because it is an assembly of persons, who, after giv ing satisfactory evidence to each other and to the world, that they possess those qual ifications required of them by the Lord Je sus Christ; the great Head of the cuurch ; Acts ii. 47; xiv. 23-27, unite themselves together, publicly, and positively for the purpose of more effectually carrying into operation the laudable, benevolent, and heavenly designs, of their .Master in heaven —is as indefinite at the present day, as is the term ekklesia or church by which it is denominated. Now is the time, and here is the place, to point out more explicitly, what those qualifications are, which are necessary to be possessed by an individual, belbie lie is a fit subject to fill a place in this sacred in stitution ; but as we design giving a sepa rate essay on a few of the most important of these heads, we shall now simply state some of the most prominent, am! pass on with but little comment. 1. Regeneration, or to be born of the Spirit, is an entirely indispcnsiblc qualifi cation. and we might say without the fear of contradiction, the chief of all the remain ing. 2. A profound knowledge of, and a firm belief in the leading doctrines of revealed religion, is a second very important qualifi cation to constitute an individual a member of the visible cjturch of Christ. 3. A determination, by the grace of God to live in perfect obedience to all the com mandments of the Lord Jcsto Christ, is a third qualification, and one of no little im portance, for “if ye love ine, keep my commandments;” eailh the Lord of life and glory. THE CHRISTIAN INDEX. 4 Submission to, and performance of, the ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s Suppei, are so particularly enjoined on those who would be members of the visible church of tfie Lord Jesus Christ, that I do not see how it is, that the church and her membeis do not take mote interest in the investigation ol those ordinances, in order to have them attended to iti a proper man ner. I lie only way in which I have been able to account for the manifest indifference with which those lively figures have been trea ted, lias been by a consideration of the growing coldness, and indifference of all aliose who, m die pre&cnt day, name tIA name ol the Christ. We are’ told that when “iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax old.” Matt- xxiv. 15. A knowledge of the piesent slate of things reminds me, very forcibly, of the frailly and fickleness of the human neart. — We have seen husbands lose their wives, and wives their husbands,—each, for a time, took a melancholy delight in manifesting their love for the deceased, by repairing to the held the beloved object and wnjtaiHuverii; and il they should happen throve a poi trait of the deceased, they would n peatedly steal it out and cast an affectionate glance on the once beloved features of then departed ‘companion; “'ldle <> silent tear trickled down the cheek. But at length they became interested in a nother; the grave of the deceased was for gotten ; the pnrtiail of the once beloved ob ject was laid away in some secluded place; and il ever seen, perhaps not seen more than once, twice, thrice, or lour times at most in a year, and then looked upon more lor curiosity, than for the purpose of awak ening any leader emotion of recollection in tlie heart. Is not this iu some degree anal agous to the “signs of the time” with the visible church, from first to last ? Did not the primitive. Christians take the greatest delight in pnilrajtng (he burial, and , osur rccimii.ol llieir Lord and Master by’being ■buried with him by “buplismatos (is ton thuiUiton,” Rom. vi. 4, or by immersion into death ? And did nut thev take the greatest delight, in coininemora ling the Af ing love of the Lamb of God, by the lovely portrait which he left them in the sacrament ol the Lord’s Supper? Not once, not twice, not thrice, not four times iu a year, hut every time they went together, which was, at least every Sabbath or fust day in the week; and we believe much of letter; for ‘ they that JVaieit tlie Lord ipnke oftr.n 1 one to another,” Matt. iii. Iti. lint we have become interested in anothet; in the God, Mammon; in “covetousness, which is idolatry.” Brethren, are these lamenta ble tacts; or have 1 been mistaken! 1 would to God that you could say, nay, they are not lans; lon a mistake of yours; but 1 lear that you cannot say it and tell the truth. We have made the foregoing remarks on the term ckklesin and tlu; term chinch by which it is indefinitely translated into Eng lish, fearing, and believing, that many of our beloved fellow-creatures, who are bone ol our bone and flesh of our flesh, aru too well satisfied with the bare name of being a chinch member: having a name to live while they are dead. Rcvelu. iii. 1. Reader, art thou a member of anvclmrcli? Os what church ? Do you know, certain ly, that you are a member of the “church ol the first born ,” and that your name is written in the Lamb’s book of life in hea ven ? If you are not, let me temind you that being a member of a visible church— I care not what your standing in that church may be, or by what name that church may be called—will do you no good. Trie as sembly may soothe your fears and bear you, recklessly, on to everlasting perdition; b ‘“ being visibly a member ofany assembly or church, will never entitle you to a crown of immortal glory, which shall be reserved for the finally faithfully jp heaven ; kept alo/ie by the Lord Jesus Glinst, who pur chased it for his followers with bft heart's blood. ELUZAI. March 18th, 1816. To insure the publication of Ins articles, our correspondent must send us his name. We do not insist on its being appended to his article, but we require that lie should have sufficient faith in us to trust us, (the editors) with his name. Where an indi vidual desires his name concealed, we feel morally hound to keep the knowledge of it to ourselves, unless justice to others re quires its disclosure, and this can only hap pen wheie there are reflections on others, or statements of facts that ate contested.— In the foregoing article we sec nothing tiiat could either justify a call for tlie author’s name, or render it binding on us to give it, were it communicated and were it demand ed. All professions have their secrets— printers and editors, as well as doctors and lawyets. For a writer for our columns to withhold his name from us, is indirectly n reflection upon our honesty in keeping the secrets of our profession. Surely no one can expect us to pay attention to commu nications made in such a way as to reflect upon our faithfulness iu keeping|those secrets. For the Christian Index. The Term Bishop. Bio. Baker, — Sir, — It has often struck FOR THE OF TMStATE OF GEORGIA. PENFIELD, GA„ A RILL 10, 1846. me as a singular inconsistency, that some are disposed to introduce the custom of calling all pastors of churches by the name Bishop, and lately I see that in some notices sent to the Index they are published, and thus we have it Bishop A. and Bishop B. I openly protest against the term, and send you Dr. Wm, T. Brandy’s opinion in re gard to it, which you will please publish : “We ha’ve been addressed several times of late both by word and writing, with the dignified appellation of bishop. This odd scheme owes the currency which ilhas oo tauifid. cnuuly Reformer, and ‘ePm! destinerl. to become one of-jYej features in the baptismal regeneration The word bishop, if any one can Ijeffeve it, is derived from tlie Gteek which, in Lit tin is Episeopus, and detorled into Saxon, is biscop. This natural enough, since by dropping the e and substituting b forp, an orthogrhphy often- observable a rnong illiterate people even in the word baptist, improperly spelt bablist, the word becomes biscupus. People unacquainted with its import would readily cut off the us, and so make biscop of it. The transi tion, thence, to bishop is very short and easy. It would hence appear that bishop is nut a translation of the original word, but rather a coiruption of it. Tlie knowledge which the early English obtained respect ing the office of a bishop, came from the Roman church in the Latin language. In that language it means a dignified clergy ivii.li inferiot clergy i t lias ; ■ imliiiiis, ii .i bidiop, a;.d Ik n a ik. . nVHBH This fact enables us to the* words Easter, Bishop, which evidently favor episcopacy. Had the word been translated, it would have been rendered “ overseer ” in every ease,’ as il is in some ins lances. We are therefore of opinion, that since the term bishop is one which Episcopacy has appropriated to itself, and since 100 it Jias been corrupted from tlie primitive sim plicity of its import; Baptists should not be very forward to adopt it as a designa tion ol 11 1 a ministerial office. Tlie use of it ‘ooks rather too much like a disposition lo plume one’s self with borrowed leathers.— ‘1 o call a plain Baptist preacher, who claims no pre-eminence among his brethren, by the imposing name of bishop, lo our ear sounds more like the ridiculous, than the sublime. We trust that the sound discre tion of onr brethren will reject ptomptly, the silly gravity by which such an innova tion is recommended to patronage. As all the substitutes which have been proposed for the title of -Reverend’ appear be exceptionable, and as ‘■llc.vejK^^ thought by many to make us too sacred and holy, we would respectfully suggest the ab olition of all titles, and a recurrence to the simple cu-iom of naming ministers without any honorary appendages.” By referring lo the Columbian Star, it will be seen, that brother Brandy,- a minis ter of the gospel, ennobled whilst lie lived by unusual talent and devotion in tlie cause of bis divine Master, pursued the course above given even in ordinations. Did the apostles and firt l ministers of the gospel ever assume such titles. They were satis fied to be called Peter, Paul, John, &c. A PARISHIONER. Oconee, Ga. For the Christian Index. ’’v- Extracts from a MS. Volume of “One Hundred Maxims, Illustrated in Minia ture Sketches and Essays .” Maxim I.—“A Constant dropping will wear away Stones.” Frank Harwood would continuo his dram every morning, and some times, also, at noon, notwithstanding the many friendly warnings he received from his more sober associates. Frank was a good fellow, as every body admitted, and he w as fond of good company and good liquors, so that the warnings of his friends did little good. “I’m in no danger,’’.said lie; “I’m not the fool to throw myself away as you all seem to fear ; I can take a dram before breakfast, I hope, without going to bed dtunk.” And then he would exhibit to advantage his powerful frame, as if he would intimate that such a constitution could not be easily weakened or seriously deranged by a little good liquor. Well, Frank’s wife wotdd sometimes say a friend ly word or heave a deep sigh when his morn ing glass was emptied ; buthe would laugh at her fears or hiss away her pallid looks, and go cheerily to hi* business. By and by, Frank had to empty two glasses every morning, and from that to three or (bur; his decanter was replenished very often, and the glow upon his cheeks began to deepen into the burning red of drunken- ness. Stutfiose friendly warnings of as sociates, sometimes tears — of wife w4-npt regarded:—“he was in no j„deed !” ’I lie/c ‘. f(H gevera i debts hanging over T as i e | la d | o st his love for hard work #c stirring industry, there was little pros peel of theiL being soon paid; at least, so Lis cl-etlitors, and they proceed ed tosti-mer mJ ;lßUreg which ended in the sale cfhis homJ an( ] propeity. Then with his wiping whjj, an d little babes he was into the world. “Will you f w , Frank?” said one of iibll .anxious to save him. Ihe rejK- was ;ii angry bTWTnuI a halt aj lie again sought the rum shop ! ljn aishort time his broken-hearted wife wife lakkn from his poor hut and dc posiiedßn t||e cold grave; she entreated him in laer lait horns to reform and protect her littiY suit-ring children, and be once more iiCpectal'le amongst men. Remorse did gn;j/ hjs very heart strings for awhile; but Hull is stronger Iliad Remorse, so he .sougl j#ius aid. His fine, noble counle uaiiet,®'d strong, stout frame were gone, ....u iiWv'as the poor, emaciated, tottering I. runny; t Often that dreadful visitant, Dcieiflip Tremens, looked in upon him, contoud his body, wrung his soul, and al most#’, k his life: yet did he not reform, he cotihwjot then ! He must either be a mad man e a dec'll man, for these were it is on ly alternates— Death just before him, imul behind ! He was in the hands of ■ whose grasp was too linn ami K ‘broken ; so lie yielded lo bis ; :bed ! His eliililiun ucie thrown cold charities of a bad world, and deprived of all those kind of ficvs# love which parents alone can be- I 1 rank Harwood sleeps iu a drunk ard’s grave, from which lie will one day be raised to give an account of his dark actions while ‘iving !To be Continued. j, For the Christian Index. The Nature ami Importance of a Useful Life. Lil; is a solemn introduction to the great PL'ge of eternity, and it was said by Goethe ■ !;A ‘4*1.0 scenes change, but we never quit tile Stage.” If this life does not manifest n fulfillment of the highest purpose and desti ny of the soul, then it becomes us carefully to weigh tlie influence which it exerts up on a future life, and to learn the part which we should piny in so solemn a drama.— Nor should we trifle and speculate, where wo should be active and watchful. Again, it is a beautiful and merciful ordination of God’s wisdom, that our happiness and our interest and our duty are me, and indivisi ol duty always compre hends our true interest and highest happi- ness, a departure from one of these neces sarily involves a derangement of the rela tions of all. Again; The most humble duty of the most retired life is important, and necessa ry; because it bears an immediate and inj's lerious, though apparently remote relation to those’duties, which are esteemed higher and greater. Nor do we find that wide separation between the little and tlie great, which we often imagine. Perhaps, with less enthusiasm, and more reverence, we might be able more successfully lo study oar present condition, and lo investigate its present and future bearings upon ourselves and others. But again ; God overcomes as effectually by us as for us, and makes us llis inslru muents in our own advancement in grace. Nor need we expect that lie will effect great and glorious changes among mankind by our labors, unless lie produce siinilai trails within our own stubborn and rebellious hearts. God first made Moses himself tlie subject of strange and mighty influences in the solitude of Mt. Horeb, be fore lie sent lii in into the presence of Plia rouli. Again : we should study our intellectual condition, that we may learn the duties of a rational being, obtain just conceptions of truth, acquire correct views of tlie nature and influence of our mental powers, and make them subservient to tlie higher and greater faculties of our spiiitual nature.— The mind is continually receiving and em bodying principles, which will ennoble or debase it, in future ages when the (earful retribution of habit will have made resis tance useless. Our moral condition also requires our close investigation; because, without the healthy exercise of our moral faculties we sink iuto the crimes, and igno rance of an uncilized life. Again: a disobedience to the laws of our physical constitution makes us the victims of premature decay, and the unconscious instruments of our own uselessness, and unhappiness*. DELTA. YOUTH’S DEPAROIKNT. No. VII. The Gardener and the Gambler. Gambler. Good morning uncle Charhs. Gardener. Good morning, sir. Gam. What! are you always to be delving and toiling in this little spot? and that 100 iu tlie cultivation of trifles? Gar. Yes. My life will probably be spent mostly in tins little spot nursing tri- Hes, you call them. But, sir, perhaps a round or two in my garden might be ser viceable to you, trifling as it appears. Will you walk ? Gum. Thank you. 1 have no objec tion. Gar. -incline ly the right. Let me show you nty cabbage. Gam. Well indeed ! these are fine ! Early Yotk I suppose.? Gar. Yes. Gam. How have you succeeded in bringing them to iiiaitn^^so,early ? Gar. By digging deep,,manuring well and sowiug good se. il early. Gam. What species of turnips are these that grow so finely ? and how did you suc ceed iu growing so fine a crop ? Gar. Early Dutch. They have been brought on by tlie same process that the cabbage were—deep digging, manuring and good seed early sown. Gam. Well indeed! if you do labor, you have some profit. But uncle Charles, what bed is that on the left, with such ten der luxuriant little growth? Gar. Ah ! that is asparagus, a rare ar ticle, just now come to perfection, alter two or tinee years care and labor. Gum. Well, now we’ve come to some of your trifles—that bed of roses—those pinks and oilier flowers, what say you a bout them, old man ? Gar. I have something to say about them too. character, young man, your profession and your habits are not un known lo me, and 1 have sought this op portunity to teadi you a useful lesson, sim ply with my vegetables and flowers, for 1 give lessons out of the book of nature. — Will you bear with me while 1 proceed ? Gam. Go on. Gar. This world is blit a garden.— Human beings are its plants.—ln a state of nature they yield neither fruit nor flow ers to glotify llieir Creator—bulunder pro pot culture, both. The cabbages and turnips you first no ticed are no extraordinary or Jmiraculous pioduotioii, out just rue!) as naturally re sult from tile course of labor bestowed upou ilium. As excellence is not liie result of chance in tlie vegetable kingdom, neither is it iu tlie animal. So in due season, tlie man whose mind lias been early prepared, before tlie poisonous weeds of vice and idleness have taken possession of it, and lias received tlie good seeds of useful knowl edge and virtuous habits, will do honor lo himself, his cultivator and his Maker. Would a man excel in any fine art or science? Let nim remember that rarities grow not on every bush. As I have labor ed for my asparagus, and as my babors are crowned, so must lie labor and so will he teap his reward. As lo those flowers you last noticed, they beautify and adorn my walks, perfume the air with their odors, variegate tlie scen ery, bespeak die wisdom of the hand that made them, and are raised without ex pense. As tlie graceful accomplishments of a gentleman ornament Ins usefulness, so do they crown with their beauties and sweetness the surrounding vegetables of more substantial kind. Gam. Your remarks appear very rea sonable. Gar. Give attention then to my clos ing words. Do you see yonder, without the wall, that poisonous vine entwined around the body of that oak, and insinuating itsell a mong the brandies ? Its appearance is de ceptive T!ioiigli,liamlsou>o Wrffjipeaeance, its very tniii |i nates and poisons.— Iy draws sustenance from soil belonging to better growth. Its poisonous wreaths en twine tlie generous stock that supports it, and will finally rob it of its very life.—lt bears no fruit, docs no good, but injures or destroys every tiling associated with it.— Shunned by the- animal creation, and un welcome to the vegetable, it is a emnherer of tlie ground.—How very like tlie Gam bler! Wilt thou longer be one ? Gam. I will reflect on tlie subject.— Adieu. From the Alabama Baptist. DOMESTIC MISSIONS. “Where there is a will there is away” is an old proverb containing much truth.— When tlie heat t is fully’ set upon tlie aceom- plisliment of an object involving interests important to us or to those dear to us, schemes are devised with that skill and piosecuted with that vigilance and industry which neither formidable power, violent opposition, embarrassing difficulties nor distressing poverty can defeat. Ihe Chris tian church has, in all its vie. shades, fur nished many illustrious examples of this character in defending and sustaining the gospel. The present period is not without them. There are many whose attachment to Christ is so strong the ardor of their love to his cause so great, that nothing can deter them from doing something tp make his love known to poor sinners. One of these btigbt examples came tinder Publisher— BENJ. BRANTLY. my observation a few days since. I men tion it with the hope that many others may be benefilted by it. During the exercises of last Sabbath, at a neighboring church, I piesented th plans, wants and the field of operations of the Board for Domestic Mis sions. .Making no public collection on the occasion, I visited, the next two days, from house to house soliciting donations and subscriptions. The manner with which the brethren received me, the cheer fulness and liberality with which they gen erally gave their support, the pious feeling that accompanied the work of their hands, added much to the pleasure of my visit, and the encouragement of my heart. There was cue case of peculiar interest. Such instances of sacrifice and devotion to the cause of Christ awaken pleasing emo tions in the breastsofall who love the Lord’s work. This man has contended with ad versity and poverty during the last few years, his head is frosted with age, he is lipcning for the grme and for heaven.— Though poor, he has a liberal soul; and “a liberal soul deviseth liberal things.” He ‘old me that since bearing my statements of the destitution of our own country, fie had been studying a plan to do something in this mallei, vi/ ; He Hail a piece ofground containing about twownd a half acres winch lie would plant in cotton, ami the proceeds of it should be devoted to the cause -rinis sions. With the ordinary blessing ol Goa it will produce a bale of cotton, which, at a low estimate, will sell for thirty dollars.- This certainly will be a liberal donation for a poor man. llow many who make one, two, three and four hundred bales of cotton, put in the plea of poverty a* an excuse for doing nothing for the cause of missions. Tlie above is not the only instance of this poor man’s sympathy for the destitute. — He lias been known to deprive himself of a portion of his sleep, and employ the time in making shoes to procure something to cast into the treasury cf the Lord. If all Christians would make equal exertions and exercise like self denial, there would be no want of means to send the gospel to all the world. KUSSEL HOLMAN, Cor. Sec. B. D. M. S. B. C. Gospel Light. —Gospel light now shines in the South Sea islands. A missionary, in one of the islands, preached from the text, “Let him that stole, steal no more,” Eplt. tv. *JB.—The next morning, when he opened bis door, he saw a number of the natives silling on the ground before his dwelling- He asked what made them sit there so early. They said, “We have no! been able to sleep all night: we were in the house of God yesterday: we thought, when we were pagans, that it was right to steal when we could do it without being found out. Iliro, the god of thieves, used to assist us. Hut we heard what you said yesterday from the word of God, that the Lord had commanded that we should not steal. We have stolen, and all these things that we have brought with us are stolen goods.” Then one of them lifted up an axe, a hatchet, or a chisel, and cried, “I stole this from a carpenter of a ship,” naine ing the vessel: otheis held tip a saw or a knife ; and, indeed, almost every kind of property was 1.-ought and shown with similai confessions. The Missionary told them to take the stolen goods home, and restore them to the owners when an oppor tunity should occur. They all said, “Oh no! we cannot take them back; we have bad no peace ever since we heard it was displeasing to God, and we shall have no peace so long as they remain in our houses; we wish you to take them, and give them hack to the owners whenevei they come.” The influence of Christian truth, as seen *n their conduct, much encouraged the mis sionaries in their work. Let us now turn to another part of the world, and trace the gospel light as it has “begun to shine in New Zealand. An Eng lish carpenter, who was building anew church at one of the stations, engaged a na tive convert, promising to pay him for his labor. As soon as the native had finished, lie went to the carpenter for his waees; hut one of the woikmen told him to go away, and then struck and kicked hitn verv cruelly while lying on the ground. The native Christian bore it all patiently; but when theollier had ceased bis cruel conduct, lie starled or. his feet, seized him by die throat, shook hint, and taking in his hand a sharp tool, he brandished it over the Head ot the trembling man. “Now,” said the native, “you see your life is in my hand. You owe your life to the preaching of the gospel. My arm is quite strong enough to kill you, and my aim is willing to kill you; but my heart is not, because l have heard the missionaries preach the gospel. If my heart was as dark as it was before I heard them preach, 1 would strike off’your head. You owe your life to the preaching of tho gospel.”— Chris. Ob. Revival in France. —M. De Pressense, agent of the British Bible Society for France, had an application from a young man, of weakly and timid appearance, to be appointed colporteur. Mr. P. presented to him the difficulties of the work. He re plied— I have weighed them all, but it has not moved me.’ The agent, fearing that he might eioss the will of God by rejecting him, consented to appoint him, but propos ed that he should connect himself with ex perienced laborers, and learn of them. He consented to this, if thought best, but add ed. ‘My heart would lead me to Bens.’-^ NO. 15.