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No. 19 Vol. HI. EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY NATHAN S. S. HEM JIN <s■ CO. VW.WVV The Terms of “ The Missionary” are Three Collars a year if paid in advance, or within sixty days from the time of subscribing; or Three Dol lars and Fifty Cents at the end of the year. No Subscription will be received for a short er time than one year, and no papei discontinued until all arrearages are paid. Adverti kMc.wts will be inserted, by the •quare, at 62 1-2 cents for the first insertion ; and for every subsequent insertion 43 3-4 cents. Those who furnish standing advertisements for the year, shall be entitled to a deduction, of one quarter of the amount from the above rates. All Communication> and Letters relating to the Office , will be directed to i\'. S. S. Beuian At Cos. and whether enclosing money or not, must come POST PAID: Should any neglect to do this they will be charged with the postage. 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JLINCOLNTON, Lincoln. Peter Lamar,Esq. I*M. SPARTANBURQH, S.C. .I.Brannon,Esq. PM. MILLEDGEFILLE, Leonard Perkins. EhBERTON, George Inskeep, Esq. P M. DUBLIN. Laurens, W. B. Coleman,Esq. PM. LOUISVILLE, Jtff'n, John Bostwick,Esq.PJVl, MALLORYSFILLE, Wdkes, Asa Hearing, Esq. P M. WAYNESBORO ’, Samuel Slnrges, Esq. PM. LAURENS. S. C. Archibald Young, Esq. WRIGHTSBORO', Q. L. C. Franklin, Esq. MONTIC • LLO, Greene D. Brantley, Esq P M. CARNI.SVILLE, Henry Freeman, Esq. P. M. SALEM, Clark, Raleigh Green, Esq. P. M. THE CRUSADES. Extracts from the History of the Crusades, for the recovery and possession of the Holy Land. By Charles Mills. London, 1820. [Continued from our last.] For several years the Latins were en gaged in consolidating’ their conquests: a Christian kingdom was raised, and the laws, language, and manners of Europe were planted in Palestine. The snperiour political and military vir tues of Godfrey pointed him out as the per son best fitted for the guardianship of the young state : the princp.s conducted him in a religious procession to the church of the Sepulchre ; but it may be recorded to his honour, that he refused to wear a diadem, in a city where his Saviour bad worn a crown of thorns. Os all the champions of the cross, he was roost distinguished for the real virtues of the heart—for modesty, generosity, and piety—tinctured, indeed, with the errours of the age, but based in sin cerity. disinterestedness, and consistency— so that the praise which Tasso accords him seems scarcely too fervid. He died after a short reign of five years ; and his tomb was not only watered by the tears of his friends, but honoured by the lamentation* of many of the Moslems, whose affections his excel lent qualities had conciliated. Baldwin, his brother, count ofEdessa; Baldwin du Boorg ; Fulk, count of Anjou; and Baldwin 111., were his successors. In the reign of the latter, \. D. 1145, Edessa, the eastern frontier of the kingdom, was lost, which gave the impetus in Europe for a second crusade ; nor was there wanting a second Peter, in the person of the cele brated St. Bernard, to preach to its princes the paramount duty of again embruing their swords in the blood of the infidels. Louis of France, and Conrad, emperour of Germany, were convinced by the eloquence of the successor of the hermit. The towns again'became depopulated, from the thous ands who crowded around the saint for the purpose of receiving the croslet from his hands, the ceremonial induction into the office of warriour of Christ. After encoun tering the usual distresses on their march, from famine, the sword of the Musselman, or the cruel frauds of the Greeks, the ur mies of both princes reached Palestine ; hut instead of proceeding immediately to the recovery of the Edessene territory the ostensible object of the war, they resolved, in a council composed of the princes, ba rons, and prelates of Syria and Palestine, to lay siege to Damascus : but when it was apparently in their power, the Latins de bited only to whom the prize should be given, and the favourable crisis was irrp ooverably lost. They were compelled disgracefully to raise the seige. Conrad •oon after returned to Europe with the shattered relicks of his army ; and his steps were a year afterwards traced by the French king. We cannot follow our au thor through his details of the various THE MISSIONARY. GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE OOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE Jesus Christ. MOUNT ZION, (HANCOCK CO. <*A-j MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1821. struggles which the Latins continued to make with Noureddin the Persian king and the Sultan of Iconium, for the posses sion of Edesea ; his narrative of the fortunes which Antioch underwent; or the achieve ments of the Christians in Egypt under Al merick, brother of Baldwin 111., the then king of Jerusalem; but they do not yield in interest to the events we have cited, and are written with the same spirit. More immediately connected with our subject are the acts ofSaladin. By birth a Curd, he rose in the service of Noureddin to be lord °f Egypt, after that prince had terminated the dynasly of the Fatimite Caliphs; and he now resolved to consolidate the Mussel man strength, and overwhelm the Franks with their weight. Guy Lusignan was at this period governour of Jerusalem; but its military energy was weakened by the civil dissensions of the barons, and bv dis putes between the knights of the Temple and of St. John. The battle of Tiberias, which decided the quarrel between the two powers, is thus given by our historian: “Saladin was encamped near the lake of I iberias,and the Christians hastened to encounter him. But they soon experienced those evils trom heat and thirst, which the count ol T[ ripoli had prophesied would be the tale ot their foes, if the Christians re mained at rest, lu the plain near Tiberi as the two armies met in conflict. Fora whole day the engagement was in suspense, and at night the Latins retired to some rocks, whose desolation and want of water had compelhd them to try the for'une of a battle. The heat of a Syrian summer’s night was rendered doubly horrid, because the Saracen* set fire to some ivooils which surrounded the Christian camp. In the morning the two armies were for a while stationary, in seeming consciousness that the fate of the Moslem and t.ie Christian worlds was in their hands. But when the sun arose, the Ratios uttered their shout ol war, the Tuiks answered by the clangour of their trumpets and ntabals, and the san guinary tumult began. The bishops and clergy were, occording to custom, the uourishers ot martial virtue. They ran through the ranks, cheering the soldiers of the church militant. The piece of the true cross* was placed on an hillock, and the broken squadrons continually rallied round it. Piety was equally efficacious on the minds of the Mussclmans, and the Sara ceuian hatied of infidels was enkindled by the religious enthusiasm of the Christians, The crescent had more numerous support ers than the cross, and for that reason tri umphed. The battle ended in the massa cre ot the Latins. They who fell in the field were few in number when compared with those who were slain in the flight, or were hurled from the precipices. The fragment ol holy wood was taken from the hands ol the bishop of Acre. The king, the master of the Templars, and the Mar quis of IVloutterra t, were captured. The chief of the Hospitalians fled as far as Asca lon, and then died of his wounds.” The consequences of this battle it is easy to foresee ; Acre, Jaffa, Cesarea, and Beri tus iustantly yielded to the conqueror: Ascalon followed; the metropolis of Pales tine could not long hold out against the formidable arms of the Cordick prince; and alter a short and ineffectual resistance, Jerusalem finally surrendered to him, Oct. 11 87 : the Latins left the citv, and passed through the enemy’s camp. It is the gen erous remark of a foe, that Saladin was a barbarian in nolhing but the name. The event of the battle of Tiberias was felt as a calamity from one end of Europe to the other: nothing could exceed the terror of the court of Rome. The emperour Frederick of Germany summoned a council at Mayence to consid er ot the propriety of anew crude : Philip of France, Augustus count of Flan ders, and Henry 11. oi’ England, wpre fired with the same enthusiasm. Befote thpy departed on tfie expedition, Henry dipd ; but his place in the armament was more than supplied by the military genius of his successor, Richard Coeur-de-Lion, whose subjugation of Cyprus and heroism at Acre are events universally known. Leaving Acre under the ensign of the cross, he ad vanced toward® Azotu®, and defeated Pala din in a terrible battle, which left him free to march upon Jerusalem ; prudential con sideration*, however, prevented him from attacking it, and he fell hack on Ascalon. Saladin’s spies had communicated to their master the vacillations of (he crusaders’ councils; and by quick marches he hasten ed so lay sieg-e to Jaffa : it was on the point of'surrendering; one of the gates was al ready broken down; when Pfantagenet suddenly appeared, and the Turks retired with terror from before his invincible arm. This was the last of his exploit® in Pales tine ; domestick occurrences obliged him to return to England. He concluded an honourable peace with Saladin, and rich in laurels left the Holy Land. Saladin soon after died; and a fourth crusade was pro moted by pope Celestine 111 , which was embraced by Germany. Her forces march ed in three bodies to the relief of tbe Syrian Christians; and their measures were upon the point of being crowned with complete success. All the sea-coast of Palestine was in possession of the Christians; but in their march from Tyre to the holy city, fhey made a fata) halt at the fortress ofThoron. After a month’s labour they succeeded in piercing the almost impregnable rock upon which it was placed, when rumours that the sultans of Egypt and Syria, were concen trating their levies to attack them, struck a pariick into the German princes: they deserted their post by night; and the death of Henry VI., the great support of this cru sade, was a convenient rea&Bn for their en tire abandonment of the cause, and for their return to Europe. From the London Missionary Chronicle, for Au gust, tB2L SOUTH-SEA ISLANDS. Interesting intelligence has been recent ly received from Otaheite, in a letter from Mr. Henry Bicknell, dated Taheite, May 22, 1820. In relation to the state of the mission at Taheite, he writes in an encouraging man ner; he says, “ I have baptized 297 per sons;” and, in the various stations he judg ed that about 2000 had been baptized. “ We are living (says Mr. B.) in a remote part of the island, for the sake of the mis sion, hut there is work enough for ten mis sionaries. About 700 people attend at the chapel near our residence, and 1 preach to them four times a week ; and when from home, at the other districts, more frequent ly. About 400 belong to the school, where l attend two days in the week, and twenty teachers are employed. Thus diligently was this good man, (the first individual, we believe, who offered his services to the Society) engaged; and it might have been hoped, from the improv ed state of his health, that his exertions would be long continued; but we are in formed, by a letter lrom Port Jackson, that his labours are terminated, and that the Lord, whom he faithfully served, has been pleased to call him to his rest and reward. We are concerned to add, that another labourer, in the same part of the vineyard, Mr. Tessier, is no more in this world. He tvas advanced in years, and so feeble that he could not travel, but was useful. Mr. Wilson also, who has been an effi cient labourer, was mentioned in Mr. Bick ne.ll’s letter as greatly reduced by illness, so that his recovery was deemed doubtful. We are now informed, that he thought it necessary to remove to Port Jackson, in hope of restoration. Mr. Darling, who had resided for a time at Eimeo, returned to Otaheite on the 22d of October 1819. and settled at anew sta tion (called Border’s Point) among the peo ple of Atahuru. A great alarm of war prevailed at that time, which, heweyer soon subsided, and a considerable number of the natives have settled near the spot. In a letter dated June 5, 1820, Mr. Dar ling says, “We have baptized 151 adults and 287 children. The work of the Lord is prospering among ns, and many who were formerly thirsting for blood have become as mpek as lambs. This is the Lord’s do ing, and it is tvonderful in our eyes.” “ The people of Atahuru consist of two principal divisions; we agreed to supply that at some distauce from us, every Sab bath ; but this would not satisfy them; they determined to remove and live near us that ‘hey might enjoy the means of in struction on the week days also. This thev have done. Their principal chief has of late become very attentive, and we in tend soon to baptize him. We think it necessary to make a selection of those who offer themselves, for were we to receive all who desire it. we might baptize all the people of Atahuru next week. Those whom we baptize we consider as can didates for the Sacrament of (he Lord’s Supper, and we catechise them twice a week. The (Gospel of Matthew has been print ed at this station; the people received if with great eagerness, and many were much disappointed who could not obtain a copy. HUAHEINE. We have received the First (printed) Report of the mission at this island, up to • December, 1819. This Report states that at Fare, tbe dis ■ trict in which the brethren reside, the con gregation has considerably increased, and consists generally of 300 or 400 persons. ■ Two of the brethren had made a tour of the island, and it is hoped, that some were awakened to a sense of Divine things. Schools. —The number of scholars has been greatly augmented. There are schools also at Maeva and at Mahapu, and a Sunday-school at each f tbe three place®, which promise® much usefulness. The Dumber of scholars at Fare is about 500, and 100 in,the Sunday-school; at Maeva 300, and 80 children : at Mahapu 250, aßd 50 children. Translations. —Tbe good work of trans laiing is going forward. “We have (say the brethren) been enabled to put another portion of the word of God into the hands of tbe people—an edition of 2000 copies of the Gospel of Matthew, which we finish ed in October last. They were sought with avidity, and received with gratitude by all. The Gospgl of Mark is translated, and the Psalms are iD hand.” Mr. Nott I has also translated the Gospel of John, and! the Acts of the Apostles. Baptism. —“On the 12th of September; we bad the happiness to baptize 15, who were proper subjects ; among whom were Mahine and Hant, the principal chiefs of the island: there are also several candid ates now under instruction, whom we intend soon to baptize.” Civilization. —We have observed, with peculiar pleasure, the improvement iD the outward condition of the people, and their progress in civilization. Several of them have finished very neat plastered dwelling houses, with doors and windows ; and are boarding their bed-rooms. They have also erected a very strong and capacious place of worship, 90 feet by 60 ; it is plas tered within and without, and they are sau-ing boards for the floor. Considerable progress has also been made in culti vation: many acres around us are enclosed, and stocked with food of various kinds. Useful tools, pit-saws, Ate. together with paper and writing utensils, are in great de mand among them. The females especial ly, are much improved in their habits and appearance. When they procure a few yards of foreign clolb, it is not, as former ly, carelessly bound round their waists, but made up into gowns, which gives them a much more decent appearance. Our sis ters have, by every means in their power, contributed to their improvement; and they continually instruct them, in their own respective houses, in needlework; in which some have made considerable pro ficiency. We cannot conclude our report, without testifying our gratitude to the Divine au thor of all good, for the mercies we have received since “the commencement of our mission here ; and we earnestly intreat an interest in the prayers of all who long for (he extension of the Redeemer’ kingdom among men, that our feeble hands may he strengthened by the mighty God of Jacob, and we enabled, with a single eye to his glory, and a love for immortal souls, to hold on, till he shall call us from the fields of labour to the abodes of rest.” Further information. —In a letter from one ot the brethren at Huahiene, to a friend, dated June 1820, enclosing the preceding Report, he says, “Since that time (Dec. 1819) our missionary affairs have prosper ed greatly. Our people, I believe, have finished the best, neatest, and most commo dious place of worship in all the islands, though there are several good ones at Ta hiti and elsewhere. Our people may be divided into four classes. 1. Common hearers. —Almost every one in the island may he included iD this clas.-, and our congregation at Tare Harbour, for many weeks past, has been on the Sabbath trom 1400 to 1600, yet our chapel is not nearly full. 2. Those who are Candidates for baptism, nnd have tickets for admission to a weekly meeting, held every Thursday afternoon for conversation with them, Their num ber el present is about 570. The conduct end experience of these are carefully in quired into, that we may he able to ascer tain who are qualified for Baptism and Church-membership. 3. The baptized. We have baptized in all 55, including some children. 4. Those who have been admitted to the Lord’s table, are, as yet, only 14; but most of the baptized are judged to be prop er subjects for this ordinance also, and are intended for regular church-membership ; and probably about 30 more will be shortly baptized, as they desire it earnestly, and their profession aßd conduct are, in every respect, consistent. School. —The School tinder my superin tendence (says Mr. D.) has prospered greatly. It consists now of between 700 and 800, including children and adults: and there are now but few in the island who cannot read. SIERRA LEONE— West-Africa. From the London Missionary Register, for July. ’ Sir George Jl. Collier's Testimony to the rap id Improvement of the Colony of Liberated Negroes. From a “Second Annual Report upon the Settlements on the Coast of Africa,” by Commodore Sir George R. Collier, re cently laid before Parliament, we extract, with great pleasure, the following testi mony • “ The Colony of Sierra Leone has been so differently represented, so much has been urged against its rising prosperity, and proposals said to have been made for it® abandonment, that I consider myself, as an impartial person, the one, from whom opinion and remarks may he expected; and when 1 declare, that 1 shall not swerve in any degree from the plain and simple matter of fact, I trust I shall have full cred it with their Lordships, for 1 can have no local interest to bias me any way. “ The coDtioued and increasing improve ments of Erectown attracted my particular notice! and, added to my respect for tbe Governour, whose perseverance and inde fagtigable exertions, though almost unaided anti unassisted in the great and iqborioug Price, $ s 3 ’ so fir - tinn - or - l duties which he has to perform, had effect ed mobe than I had thought possible. For it is not merely to the improvements of Freetown, nor to the comforts of ,he resi dents, that Governour MacCarthy’s mind is -given ; hut likewise to the general increase of the Colony, by attending to the popula tion from one extremity of (his peninsula to the other, by protecting (he untutored and ignorant African, and by giving the most patient consideration to his most mi nute grievances and wants. “ It* n>y formei Report, I observed, that, in publick improvements, the per ons under surveillance of the Law, might, I thought, be employed. I wasgiad to see these peo ple engaged in clearing the ground in (he immediate neighbourhood of Fn etown, and in removing the grn„s and indigo from Ihe streets of the town ; a measure which, if persevered in with Cure and attention, cannot fail to be highly beneficial to the general health of the community ; for. af tera heavy foil of rain, and the sun striking on the ground with its vertical power, ihe vapours from the vegetable matter over running the streets is so perceptible, that, in draw ing breath, 1 have felt that I was in haling a vapour, which I could but compare to ga* from coal. I cannot better mark the Rapid Vege tation of Sierra Leone, than by noticing the following circumstance. When sft Sierra Leone in January 1819, in an unoc cupied lot of ground in Freetown, where two or three small trees had just sprung tip (seedlings of the last year,) 1 was ‘induced, trom curiosity, to measure and mark them, in a particular way. On my return this year, 1 observed the trees thus marked still standing ; hut their extraordinary iacrease made me doubt my own correctness ; my initials on the bark, however, removed ail doubt: they had grownup largo trees, and were at least four times their former diam eter. “ Stone and Brick Buildings are now sao ceeding the wooden houses and crazy huts, of tvhich, in former days, Freetown was composed; and the improvement by Bridg es oi Stone, ever the rough and craggy wa tercourses which the torrents have formed, is very considerable. “A Reservoir is now forming for affi.rd mg a more ready supply of tyater to men of war and shipping, without interrupting the demand for the town. This, as i;> my former Report I observed was much want ed; sliil, an additional conductor to this supply from the town mast be prepared, if Freetown continues to increase as rapidly as it has done since 1 have bad opportuni ties ot making any observations opon it. “The Defensive Works have been put into an excellent state: and some of the houses for the accommodation of the various Servants ol the Colony are nearly complet ed; and not only with a marked attention to neatness, hut to the personal comforts of individuals destined to occupy them. “The Church, though a work of great labour, is going on with spirit and perse verance ; but some time musl elapse or# it can be opened. The Barrack* of the Officers have been much improved ;-und a Commissariat-Store is constructing, which will shortly be finished. “ The manner in which the publick schools are here conducted reflects the greatest credit on those concerned in their prosperity ; arid the improvement made by the scholars proves the aptitude of the Af rican, if moderate pains be taken to instruct him. “ I have attended places of publick wor ship in every quarter of the globe, and I do most conscientiously declare, never did I w itness the Ceremonies of Religion more piously performed, or more devoutly at tended to, than in Sierra Leone.” IRELAND. The following interesting passage is extrac ted from the Speech of the Rev. George Marsden, one of the Treasurers of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, at a late anniversary meeting of the Baptist Irish Society, in London. Some time ago, I travelled through part of Ireland, and through that part of it where popery puts on its most frowning aspect; for it is a fact, that in Ireland popery wears a darker hue than in most parts of Europe; and I am happy to find that your Society has directed its labours to the prov ince of Connaught, one of the darkest in the island. I hare Leant there some very af fecting statements, which prove the neces sity of preaching the gospel, and establish ing schools, and of using every means for enlightening that county. At Carlow my friend# introduced to. me a young man of deep piety, a member of our Society, who i® training up for preaching the gospel. They desired me to couverse with tbe young man, and to know from him how he had been brought to the knowledge of the truth. From him I learned, that his father was a Catholick, and the whole family were CatLolicks; and that he had hee trained up by them for a lie had received a good education, undorstood Lat in and Greek, and some other- languages tolerably well; but he now nothing of the word of God. A family, who were about