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AGENTS FOfTrfm pa dor AUGUSTA, J. & H. Ely. COLUMBIA, J.Bynom,Esq.PM.ColumbiaC.H. SAUNDERSVILLE , Robeit S. Degrove. GREENES BOROUGH, A. If. Scott. SWfaRTA, Cyprian Wilcox. JRWINTON, Wilkinson Th. Sherrer, Esq. PM. HARTFORD, PulajtijG.B.GardinerEsq.PM. ,POWELTON , S. Duggar, Esq. P M. CLINTON, Jones Cos. J. VV. Carrington. SAVANNAH, S. C. & J. Schenck. EATONTON, C. Pendleton, Etq. P M. ALFORD'S P.O. Greene, C. Alford, Esq. PM. ABBEVILLE, (5. C.) Rev. H. Reid. SANDOFER, Abbeville, S. C Maj. U. Hill. MARION, Twiggs , S. Williams, Esq. PM. JEFFERSON, Jackson, Rev. E. Pharr. LIBERTY HALL, Morgan, C. Allen, Esq. WATKINSVILLE, Clark. H. W. Scovell, Esq. P. M. RICEBORO', Liberty , Wm. Baker, Esq. F M. GRANTSVILLE, Greene, Samuel Finley. PENDLETON, S.C. Joseph Gresham, Esq.PM. DANIELSV/LLE, Madison, J.Long, Esq. PM. EFLVINSVILLE, Rutherford, N. C. Rev. Hugh Quin. ATHENS, Clarke, B. B. Peck. MADISON, Morgan, Milus Nesbit. LINCOLNTON,LincoIn. Peter Lamar,Esq. P VI. SPARTANBURGH, S.C. J.Brannon,Esq. PM. MILLEDGEVILLE, Leonard Perkins. ELBERTON, George Inskeep, Esq. P M. DUBLIN , Laurens, W. B. Coleman, Esq. P M. LOUISVILLE, Jeff ’n, John Bostwick,Esq.PM. MALLORYSVILLE, Wilkes, Asa Dearing, Esq. P M. WAYNESBORO', Samuel Sturges, Esq. PM. LAURENS. S. C. Archibald Young, Esq. WRIGHTSBOkO', Q. L. C. Franklin, Esq. MONTICELLO , Greene D. Brantley, Esa. PM. History and Present State of the Jewish Nation. FROM THE THEOLOGICAL REPERTORY. The people ofthe United States may be estimated at ten millions.—The greater proportion are occupied in agriculture. A variety of commercial, mechanical, and other pursuits, engage the rest. In their national and religions customs and senti ments, let there be supposed to be a gener al uniformity—admit, even, a much great er similarity in these respects, than actual ly happens to exist.—Next, suppose the most exposed of our states and territories to fill successively, and at distant periods, under the power of different foreign inva ders, —and the people of these dismembered, sections to be removed into the countries 1 of their conquerors, and all hope of their return cut off by the irruption of other set tlers into the habitations from which they had been excluded. Suppose these desponding and exiled captives much more destitute of knowledge and letters, at the time of their removal, than the people of any considerable part of this country ever have been ; and that, in their dispersed state, they gradually come to adopt the languages of their conquerors, and drop their own. Here leave them.— Return to the remaining states, which re tain for a feiv generations longer their na tional existence, —but the people of these are likewise despoiled, by degrees, of their civil and domestick privileges, by BWinfi tyrrtnnical power vlioh tliov aro unable effectually’ to resist. Conscriptions and exactions are incessanlly levied upon them, —till, exasperated by their grievan ces and forced to arm in selfdefence, they bring upon themselves the utmost indigna tion of their foreign masters. Their num bers are reduced by slaughter and famine, and the shattered remnant sold as slaves to every nation and city in the world. Nor suppose their ignominy to terminate here. The dishonourable close of their national history, the peculiarities of their character, and their indigent and dependent condition, expose them to the odium, contempt, and injury of mankind. The first generation, worn -out with sufferings and oppressed with ignominy, dies. Their posterity suc ceed to the same inheritance of shame and wretchedness. They are too much dis persed for mutual example to have any effect in perpetuating their peculiarities, or mutual encouragements to raise the hope of improvement in their future circumstan ces. Their condition of personal servi tude, being marked by no distinction of colour, cannot, of course, be perpetual. Here, then, are ten millions of people, scat tered among at least fifty nations—speaking half that number of languages ; and subject ed to all the varieties of climate, mode of living, and intellectual culture, incident to so dispersed a residence. What will be their condition three cen turies from thifperiod? Should any sin THE MISSIONARY. gle portion of them* more favourably situ ated than the rest, have undertaken to up hold their national Customs and tteks, by associating together under all the disadvantages of their circumstances ; we should see them at this time reduced to a handful; and, notwithstanding their utmost precaution, almost or quite identified with the aboriginal inhabitants about them. Double that period, and not a distinct ves tige of their national origin would remain. But they could have no motive to maintain their national peculiarities. To perpetu* ate these, would be only to protract their shame and sufferings; and a few, a very few, gradations of descent would effectually accomplish it. Half the period just named would, in most instances, merge every dis tinction ; and identify what was once the American people with the population ofthe other countrips Ibrous-h which tbev had i ..tiereu. X heir name would exist only in history.—ln the fifth ceutury the Saxon tribes conquered England, and estab lished themselves among the original peo ple of that country. But, in how few age 9 was it impossible to be told who was of Anglian and who of Saxon descent? The Danes obtruded themselves upon this min gled population in the ninth century : and, when the Normans conquered England in the eleventh century, who could designate the families of Anglian, Saxon, and Danish origin ?—And for how manj’ ages have not only these distinctions—but even the most recent, that of English and Norman, —been utterly lost; except in the dooms-day re cords, or some most tangible family memo rials?—Without a miraculous interposition of the Father and Buler of nations, so it must he in every similar case. But imagine the American people eigh teen or twenty centuries from the date of their conquest and dispersion, with the ex ception of speaking a diversity of languages and exhibiting the effects of a variety of climates, almost precisely as they were in th-e beginning of their reverses. This phenomenon is not limited lo one, to five, to twenty, divisions of the nation ; but to every one—from China to Mexico; and presents itself, with little variation, in those portions which, daring the whole period, have had no correspondence, and were not known by each other to be in existence. Number (he dispersed fragments of (his people,and you find them ten millions still.* They are found now to display certain pe culiarities; which, even in their national state, they never possessed: and these, in the midst of all their adverse circumstances, are universal. Though all possess a com petency, and many of them an abundance of wealth, they have all vested their pro perty in nearly the same way. They might, in most countries, have bought from their persecutors, the very soil on which they live; bat scarcely are they the pro prietors of an acre of land throughout the world ! With few, very few, exceptions, it may be said of them, they are nowhere mechanicks: they are nowhere mer chants ; or, if at all, only on the most limit ed scale: they are nowhere occupied in agriculture: nor, with few exceptions, are they any where found engaged in the pur suit of general science, or the exercise of the learned and liberal professions.—With the politicks of the world they have no concern; and, with the happiness or snffer ings of others, little or no sympathy. Ev en at this remote period, an (inextinguisha ble desire and confident expectation of vis iting and re-occupying the territory from which they were formerly expelled, with out a single visible circumstance to author ise such a hope, or hardly to prompt soch a wish, pervades the whole people. But why these suppositions ?—They are not suppositions :—but a reality. Every read er knows (he originals of the picture. Every Jew exists, the monument and the witness of this stupendous miracle of Pro vidence. The circumstances of their general de fection from the God of their fathers ; their subjection, dispersion, sufferings, persecu tions, and the perpetuity of their national and religious character, were all distinctly predicted in the scriptures common to * In a tract lately published at Paris, by \l. Bail, the following is given as a fair calculation of the number of Jews in the different parts of the globe. In all parts of Poland, before the Partition of 1772, 1,000,000 Ist Russia, including Moldavia and Wallacliia 200,000 In all the states where the German language is spoken 500,000 In Holland and the Netherlands 80,000 In Sweden and Denmark 5,000 In France 30,000 In England (of which London itself contains 12,000) 50,000 In the states in which Italian is spoken 300,000 In Spain and Portugal 10,000 In the United States 3,000 In the Mohammedan States of Asia, Europe, and Africa 4,000,000 In Persia, and the rest of Asia including China and India 500,000 6,608,000 They are still nearly as numerous, (admitting the correctness of the above estimate,) as at the most prosperous state of their nation ; which, it is supposed, did not exceed in the time of Solomon, SEVEN MILLIONS* GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACIt,THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE.— Jesus Christ. MOUNT ZION, (HANCOCK CO. GA.) MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1821. them, and to us, for many centuries before the earliest of these events cme to pass. A9 nothing but the power of Gid could ac complish their national preservation, and perpetuate their national peculiarities, in the midst of causes continually operating to counteract and efface them; so lj s om niscience only could have foresee* ;md foretold the circumstances of their lon and mournful history. He had given bis Vord that such should be the judgment of{his once favoured, but ungrateful, people [See Amos, ix, 9.]—And, though a ctn stant miracle is requisite to verify the de nunciation, his power has never ceased, f#r a moment, to be exerted, in so extraordina ry a way, for the confirmation of his justice and truth. And why that hope -bj ? fc^ erings , can fi ,tinvn h in the broaf of every Israelite, again to return to the land of his forefa thers ?—a hope which governs the pursuits of their nation, carries a practical influence into all (heir calculations of trade, brightens the obscurity of their prospects, softens the scourge of their persecutions, and af fords, almost the only mitigation of their sufferings ?—ls it the purpose of God to accomplish this hope ? There is much in the prophetick declarations of his word, to justify this belief, but ire must with caution indulge our inquiries into the yet undevel oped mysteries of the Divine counsels. — But on one point the scripture is explicit. The Jewish nation shall, as a nation, return to the God of Abraham; and acknowledge and embrace, as their Saviour and Lord, the crucified Redeemer. [See Romans, xi. 12, 15, 23, lo 32.] To this glorious issue of all their sufferings, and aberrations, we are required to look forward with confi dence : and it should be, as it is beginning to become, an object of incessant prayer, and unwearied effort, throughout the Chris tian church, to hastcu the event. The same prophecies assure os that the Gentile world will never experience the full bene fits ofthe gospel, until the Jews are re-in stated in their former privileges ; —and that, with their restoration, the fulness of the Gentiles will come in. —— *:o:&:o:<c* — EPISCOPAL CONVENTION. From the Washington Theol. Repertory. The Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, convened at Raleigh, N. C. on Satur day the 28th A pri I, and adjourned on Wednes day—The venerable Bishop Moore President. Address of Bishop Moore at the conclusion of the Convention—Extracted from the Min utes. Brethren : The prospect of success which gradually unfolds itself to our view, in the advancement of the interests of the church, is truly encouraging. We have, -hitherto, met with no difficulties to retard our progress; no untoward event to par alyze our minds; no afflicting circumstance to excite a desponding fear. Our path has been rendered clear by the pointings of Providence, and the mot animating light has been reflected upon it by that God, in whose service we are engaged. When we consider the depressed circum stances under which the episcopal church of North Carolina laboured, at the period in which the attempt to revive its interests first commenced, we must be aware of those effects of which the least check (o ourexer tion* would have been productive. *tho’ the union into which the friends of our com munion entered was ardent and sincere, still, as the object they had in view was of great importance and the number of those who sustained the ark was very small, diffi culties which would have been disregarded by a larger body, would not only have sha ken the hopes of the chosen few, but pros trated. their best efforts in the dust, and produced a relinquishment of the concern in which they had so nobly engaged. The Almighty, in tender mercy, Ime suljcc.tcjj us to no such discouregeaaents. In every step we have taken we have been sustained by his benevolent arm : a pillar of light has shown us the way by which to proceed; obstructions have been removed; the moun tains of difficulty have been made easy for the passage of his church and people; friends have been raised up far our support; the different societies of Christians have re ceived us with open arms, and have wished us success in the name of the Lord. These considerations have made an im pression upon my mind, which no circum stances can ever efface; and I rejoice that the Almighty God has made choice of me to assist you in the work and to aid you in the resuscitation of this portion of his vine yard. To ensure success to your further efforts, I would urge yon to persevere in the same course of conduct you have hitherto pursu ed. As long as the clergy continue to preach Jesus Christ, and him crucified, Je hovah will continue to bless their labours. As long as the laity follow Christ, and obey his precepts, Jehovah will own them as his servants. Marked with the features of the cross; making mention of the righteousness ofChri9t, and of his only, we shall be uni versally acknowledged as the friends of that Being who died on Calvary and is risen from the dead. The proposition which has been made to this convention, by a portion ofthe Luther an church of this state, is calculated to ex cite our warmest gratitude to God: it pro claims, in language which cannot be misun derstood, the confidence they place in our integrity, and the preference they give to our religious institutions. The door which has been opened for the reception ofthe messenger into our bosom, which conveyed to ns their proposals, forms an event ofthe most imposing character. In a point from which we apprehended some difficulty, there has no difficulty arisen ; and we have 9ent him back to the people of his charge, clothed with that ministerial authority re quired by our fellow labourer in the Gospel —our friend—our brother. If the .Lutheran —{■ —— tend upon our proceedings, breathe the same sentiments which warm my heart; if they possess the same desire to effect as perfect and entire an union as hath been exemplified in their representative, it can not be long before that union will be com pleted. We shall then form one fold under one shepherd; meet around the same altar; constitute one household, Jesus Christ himself the Bishop of our souls. On my way to (he convention, 1 preach ed inWarrington to a large congregation, k confirmed ten persons. Since (he present session of the Convention in Raleigh com menced, I have ordained three deacons, and admitted one of the number to the priest hood. I have confirmed forty-nine persons, baptized twenty-five children, and adminis tered the Lord’9 supper to many ofthe fol lowers of the belonging to the va rious congregations in this place. Brethren of the clergy and laity, accept the assurances of my great respect and re gard: I wish you a happy interview with your families, and may the Lord be with you. FROM THE BOSTON RECORDER. At the laying of the corner stone of a new Episcopal Church in Wheeling, Virgin ia, May 9, 1821, the Ilev. Dr. Joseph Dod dridge delivered an Address, from which we extract the following sentence; — “ Why should we send our Missionaries to the inhospitable climes of Asia or Africa, while so many thousands and tens of thou sands of our Zion, are perishing for lack of knowledge in our own country ? You have before you the mournful prospect of the des olations of Israel presented to the mind of , the Prophet Ezekiel in bis vision of the valley of dry bones, to be covered with flesh and skin from above.” It would be manifestly unjust to question the piety of a man who seems anxious for the advancement of religion in his own country, on account of his opposition to Foreign Missions—but it may be allowable to question the soundness of his logick. If we receive it as established truth, that Christians are under obligations to send the gospel to every creature—and that obedi ence to Divine commands will no! lose its reward, we may pretty safely conclude that the interests of religion at home will lose nothing by their advancement abroad. If it is not right to behold with indifference the millions of Asia and Africa in a state of ignorance and guilt, it doubtless is right to afford them all the means of relief in our power, and exert ourselves to the utmost to make them acquainted with the only name given under heaven whereby any can be saved. And if it be right, there can neither be folly nor guilt in giving them this information: and if there be neither folly nor guilt in doing it, the plan of God’s government does not allow u 9 to fear any evil consequences. Religion, and the preachers of religion, are too often regarded as commodities, suit able only for home consumption—as not bringing back from countries to which they are sent, an equivalent in value, and of courno, occaainmng lOSB tn the exporters. No notion is more groundless. The church can never he impoverished by giving, nor enriched by withholding. So long as her treasures are not of this world, she is not at liberty to adopt the maxims of the world in the distribution of them. She never im parts them to others, without increasing her own stock. The principles of revela tion, the very nature of Christianity, diffu sive and kind, together with long tried ex perience, unite to testify that the best meth od of promoting religion at home is to send it abroad ; it makes sure and invaluable re turns, in the spirit of enterprise it awakens —in the devotion and zeal it enkindles—in the evidence it briugs home to the heart of an interest in the love of God —in the grat itude, the hope, the faith and the joy of those who receive it. Accordingly, at no period of the church, has she found so great enlargement, as when she has been most obedient to the last injunction of her ascen ded king; the Spirit hath been poured up on her from on high—her cords/have been lengthened, and her stakes strengthened in proportion as she has commiserated the con dition of “ a world iyiug in wickedness,” and sounded abroad the Word of the Lord. Nothing short of a blinded understanding, or perverted heart, would sanction any plan for improving the moral condition of man kind in general, which involved the dere- Price, P r - f n - or *i ( $3,00 in Advance. J iictton of duties connected with the partic ular sphere in which God has placed us. Beyond a doubt, unfaithfulness to our rel atives and friends, must incur the displeas ure of God, and ought to subject us to the reproach of our consciences. The only queslion is,whether unfaithfulness to friends, is necessarily involved in the discharge of duties which we owe to strangers —in other words, whether every man on earth is not a “ neighbour,” who has claims on U 9 to the full amount of our ability—so that we can not-be faithful to one portion of our neigh bours, while we utterly neglect the demauds of others. We humbly conceive, that as all our success in any exertion to do good, depends on the blessing of God, so we have manded, and equally serving the great end of ail benevolent exertion—the illustration of the grace, the mercy and the justice of God, before an ungodly world. BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. SEVENTEENTH ANNIVERSARY. In opening the meeting, the President, Lord Teignuiouth, commenced hi* address as follows; “ Gentlemen —During the sixteen years in which I have had the honour to address you from the Chair of this Meeting, l have had the invariable satisfaction us being able to congratulate you on the continued pros perity of our institution. Our first anniver sary, as many present may remember was a “ day of small things but I refer to it with the greatest pleasure, as we now enjoy the realization of the hopes which we then indulged, and which have never ceased to animate os during the whole course of our proceedings. Our vessel, freighled with a cargo more precious than evpr was collected from Ihe mines of the East or the West, & impelled by gales from Hea ven, has hitherto made a most prosperous voyage, and has nearly circumnavigated the globe, dispensing blessings at every port which it has entered; while the occasional storms which threatened to overwhelm it, have only contributed, to accelerate its pro gress, and prove the selidity of its texture. Rev. William Jowett related many interesting particulars respecting the introduction of the Bible on the coasts of the Mediterranean, particu larly in Abyssinia. “ I feel in some degree happy, that it should fail to my lot to address this Meet ing, after the eloquent appeals which you have just heard; because, as an invalid, this circumstance furnishes me both an apology and a motive for passing over my around as quickly as possible ; but having mcen announced as one of the Secretaries of the Malta Bible Society, I should fail in my duty, were I not to express our deep debt of gratitude to this society. Perhaps few persons have more reason than myself to feel the, greatness of this debt; for having assisted at the first institu tion of our Society, when we formed a re solution that the version of Archbishop Martini should be the only Italian version circulated by us, l knew at that time of only one copy of that work -without notes in the island, and that single copy was in my possession. In a small company of Chris tians who assembled at my house for the purpose of reading the Scriptures, that copy was used; we read it in turn, and I have seen at my table the Syriack, the Arabic, the Hebrew, the Greek, the Ger man, the English, the French, and th* manuscript Maltese Scriptures, in the hands of the different persons assembled ; while this single copy of Martini went round, from hand to hand, and each read five ver ses in his turn. While we are bound to thank the Pihle Society, for giving us the Italian Scriptures* I may also state that not only was the scar city of the Scriptures great, but the neces sity for them also was evident from the de sire to obtain them : and in order to show how unacquainted with them many persons in the Mediterranean are, I might mention that, one evening, one of our company who had not arrived when we began reading, having entered the room, and it being an nounced to him that we were reading the Gospel of St. Luke, he knew 60 little where to find the place, that he was looking for it in Revelation. “The churches of Greece, I hopeere reviving: and while hearing the Report, I was happy to observe one thing, (hat though mention was made ofCalholick and Protestant opponents, not one word was said of Greek opponents. Yet there is great reason for hastening to give the Scrip tures to Greece ; since not only in England, in France, and in Italy, may infidelity be found, but I have seen even on the classick soil of Greece the works of Voltaire. “ But I must proceed to offer a few ob servations respecting Abyssinia, and that remarkable version of the Scriptures in the Amharick Dialect, to which the Report alludes. \Y ere all the circumstances of this version detailed, they would prove that, nlthoogh we may readily admit that miracles have ceased, yet there is often such a providential coincidence of unfore seen circumstances a* evidently declares the work to be of God. Such circumstan ces have often occurred in the history of the Bible Society, and the present instance