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(7 or 8 arks came and conducted with the greatest propriety. The next evening was spent in the same way. Mr. Byington preached to them in a very solemn manner. We could not but hope some good might be done. But, as we were soon separated, what the result was, 1 know not. At the day of judgment, O may we recogoize these among God's chosen. Not long after this, we landed in another group of boats. The brethren divided, and visited all the boats, in order to have religious conversation with the crews, and invite them to come and attend an evening lecture with us. They, also, came on this, and a succeeding evening. Out of this grew another very interesting event. A man, who lived at Illechen, a small village on the west bank of the Mis sissippi, coming on board one of these boats, was informed of our object. He immedi ately came to us, and with tears gushing from his eves, intreated us to land at the village, and have a meeting at his house. He said, some, who have grown to mature age, never heard a sermon. We thought such a Macedonian call as this must be at tended to. After landing, we dispersed ourselves among the inhabitants, and con versed with the people individually, recom mending to them the religion of Him, who came to seek and to save that which was lost. In the evening Mr. B. preached, and the other brethren exhorted. The people promised us, they would meet every Sab bath and read the Scriptures. They all appeared solemn, and seemed much inter ested ; particularly a young man about my age, who is blind. He was much affected ; and the next morning, while it was yet dark, he, with several others, came to the ark to hear more of these things, and unite with os in prayer before our departure. No one in whose heart are found any feel ings of compassion, could have witnessed these scenes, and not have his bowels yearn towards these people.—We often visited families scattered on the west bank of the Mississippi, in order to converse with them. On the eastern bank are no inhabitants for several hundred miles. Arrived at the long wished for Yazoo, on the 27th of January. T<he sun was about half an hour high and shone as pleasant as in May. The robin and other songsters of the forest filled the air with the melody of their notes. I trust our hearts felt disposed to sing a song of thanksgiving to Him, who had graciously protected us amid seen and unseen dangers. [Herald. Under the date of July 23d, Mr. Kings bury writes, that he had just received a very satisfactory letter from the Secretary of war. The government allows an addi tional sum of a thousand dollars towards the expenses of the buildings at Elliot. The plan of the'buildings at May hew is also ap proved, and a stipulated sum is allowed to wards erecting them. Col. M'Kenny had forwarded, by direc tion of the Secretary of War, a copy ofi “ No Fiction,” to be presented to the chil-’ dren of each school, as a token of the good will which the government cherishe9 for their welfare. Col. M’Kenny requestedj that a suitable time might he selected for i reading the work by portions to the chil-; dren, and that the effect might be observed j and reported to him. The following incident will show in what j light the school at Elliot is viewed by the natives. A half breed Choctaw, whose’ name is M’Curtin, had five children ati school, and sent a sixth. The school was : then full, and the sixth could not be receiv- 1 ed. The missionaries had repeatedly been obliged to decline receiving children. On : the return of his child, the father fell into a passion, sent for his other five children, and took them from the school. Not long af terwards, the father being absent, an uncle of the children, called Captain Cole, hear ing that Mr. Kingsbury was at Elliot, re paired thither with a petition that the chil dren might be received again. It is a cus tom of the Choctaw®, that an uncle is a sort of guardian to children, even during the life of the father. The following is a copy of Captain Cole’s petition: A Le-ate-up-in-Logue, June G, 1821. Friend and brother—l reflect that my nephews and nieces have been taken from your care, and the loss of education gives me a great dissatisfaction of mind. I wish to return the boys to your care again. Your sanction to my request will give me much pleasure. The girls, I leave that to your own breast, whether you wish to call them to your care once more. When they were taken from you, it gave me dissatisfaction of mind—but I gave way to the faMier as I thought it my duty. Should you he willing to take them, you will please to answer me bv the first oppor tunity, and you will much ohlige Your Friend and Brother, ROBERT COLE. We, the undersigned, humbly request that Mr. Kingsbury should sanction Captain Cole’s request, and receive his nephews in the school again, as we feel sorry for his nephews—the loss of their education, which appears much to affect him. [Signed Capt. Lf.vi Perrv, and eight In dian names with their Marks.] What can more clearly show the value which the native® set on education, than the fact, that nine chief* of a large district, should unite in a humble request, that chil dren, who had been rashly taken away, might be restored again to the school ? The missionaries agreed to receive the children again; but they had not returned at the last intelligence. Capt. Cole is the chief speaker of the district in which he resides, and may succeed Puck-sha-nub bee, in the government bf that district. [lb. The avaricious have no enjoyment of what they retain; the liberal enjoy even what they give away. PALESTINE MISSION. A letter has been received by the Trea surer, from Mr. Fisk, dated Smyrna, July 6th, in which the writer states, that he spends his time in the family of the Messrs. Vanlenneps, in study and teaching their children. The plague had made its ap pearance in Smyrna, and had excited con siderable alarm. Mr. F. gives a brief ac count of the massacres which took place in Smyrna, about the middle of June. The number of Greeks murdered was estimated at from 500 to 1500. The last accounts which Mr. Fisk bad re ceived from Mr. Parson*, was dated at Sa mos, June 22d. Mr. Parsons was daily ex pected at Smyrna. [/A. From the Woodslotk Ft. Monitor. Extract of a Letter from Mr. Moody Hall to a correspondent in this town, dated, Taloney, Cherokee Nation, Oct. 8. 1821. The astonishing revivals of religion in various parts of our land are calculated to fill the mind of the Christian with anima ting hopes. Events, with prophecies, csn spire to favour the expectation, that the time is not very far distant, when all w\ll unite in the service of the King of ZioL Who that reflects on the mighty transac tions of the present day, can be inactive, ot unmoved ? None but he whose portion is in; this world. Christians will awake ; they must come forward to the help of the Lord against the mighty. “By their fruits ye shall know them.” It is now about seventeen months since I opened a sthool here for the instruction of the dear children of this immediate neigh bourhood. More than 25 have, on an ave rage, regularly attended. All, except two, can read a chapter in the Testament with some ease, and nearly all write a tolerable hand. We have made it our first object to acquaint our dear pupils with the word of God, and to this end, have used every ex ertion to qualify them to read it for them selves, and to excite in them a love for this sacred employment. I have had oonside rable experience in teaching school, and I can truly ay, 1 have never seen the same number of children make heller improve ment. Previous to the commencement of this school, most of my scholars were per fectly rude and uncultivated : and when 1 consider, that they now compose a well or ganized school, cheerfully submit to whole some regulations, and are eager in the pur suit of useful knowledge, I cannot help exclaiming, “ It is the Lord's doing.” “ I have held meetings regularly on the babbath, and in general a goodly number have attended. I have also a Sabbath school for the poor blacks, to which ten belong—some of them can read the word of truth. All my scholars are required to attend meeting, and are catechised in the presence of the whole congregation. In this way, all who attend meeting, receive some instruction in the first principles of our j holy religion. Oftentimes, a great degree ! of solemnity has pervaded the whole as sembly, and some have appeared deeply affected; but, my dear brother, there are • I nnnP thus ICP f tiD rorlcnn ac iko aul>jooto xj f j redeeming grace in this particulai region. I trust, however, I have not wholly labour ed in vain. There is a great improvement in the outward conduct of most of the peo ple around. The Sabbath is considerably respected, drunkenness and other vices are less prevalent. A foundation is laid, and, we trust, the dear Saviour will here, in his own good time, have a seed to serve him. At Brainerd a few dear Cherokees have recently been received as candidates for holy baptism. At Spring-place, 30 miles hence, where the Uui;ed Brethren have a missionary establishment, a good work is going on. Several of the most influential in the nation have been added to that church within a year. This nation is, in deed, highly favoured. There are Seven missionary stations in it, viz. three under the patronage of our Society, two of the United Brethren, and two of the Baptists. The Methodists have a preaching station also, and have gathered a church of ten or twelve members this summer.” ‘• GVPSIES. Two gentlemen were lately appointed by the London Home Missionary Society, to take a tour through the kingdom for the purpose of collecting information respect ing this extraordinary race of beings. It appears they are continually strolling in companies through the country, resorting to fairs and wakes, where they go as tink ers, fiddlers and horse dealers ; encamping away from the high road for fear of the magistracy, who seldom permit them to stop more than one night in a place. When the deputation met with any of the gypsies, they were received with a great degree of shyness ; and their ques tions were answered with a denial that they were gypsies or aa apology for their con duct; from which it seemed probable that they apprehended the object of the inqui ries was to lead to some measures of a mag isterial kind. When once their confidence was gained, they were communicative, and received the cards with great thankfulness. Most of the children were unable to read, and tbeir parents lamenteJ their ignorance. The deputation met with one woman in the 102d year of her age, and another was at hand aged 112; with the former they held some conversation ; and it was affect ing to observe the attachment of the poor old creature to the sins and follies of her usual mode of life. They found a general prejudice against the gypsies ntherever they went; and they i were accused of living by plunder. How , ever they could not meet with one instance in which their accusers could afford the most remote evidence of the truth of the charge. It seems to be laid at tbeir door, by the ignorant and prejudiced, as witchcraft was formerly at that of any poor crabbed old woman whose face and form were of a peculiar cast, and whose nose and chin happened unfortunately to meet. Os their general moral demeanour the deputation were furnished with some infor mation ; they learnt that they usually mar ried—that some of the females give them selves up to acts of licentiousness, but it does not appear to be their common practice ; and when the camps are near a parish church,they sometimes attend it on Sunday. They seem to have no notion of attending a dissenting place of worship ; and if they have any prejudices, they are evidently in favour of the established church. The deputation are of opinion that they must principally live through the means ot fortune telling: many credulous persons beiog ready to listen to the women, and others less credulous frequently having their fortunes told by way of trolick. The men also gain something by the employ ment above mentioned. Avery conside rable means of support among many is beg ging. The disputed fact of their having a language of their own has also been set at rest, to the satisfaction of the deputation.— This they will in general deny ; and they avoid speaking their language before stran gers ; the reason of which is, that they ap prehend it may excite suspicion that some thing of an unlawful kind is going on among them. The deputation found on inquiry that they have a language peculiar to them selves, and is the same as spoken by the other gypsies in other parts of the world, and bears a strong atfiuity with that of Hin doostan. The language must, however, be greatly degenerated after the lapse of several ceoturies, during which period it does not appear to have beeu communica ted to paper, hut has only been transmitted orally from generation to generation. The deputation met with two invincible arguments io favour of the efforts employ ed for the religious benefit of the gypsies. These were two converted gypsies. These people are a striking proof of the power of genuine religion in bettering the condition of mankind, as well as changing the heart. They travel now in their own caravan, ac quire a decent competency by their own industry, and with a large family of children look neat ami cleanly, not to say respecta ble. They no longer sleep under hedges; and being respected in their circuit, the barns are open for their accommodation wherever they go. They had no reserve; but on learning the object of the deputa tion, Heartily rejoiced in their efforts, and gave them whatever information they could aflord. American Board of Commissioners for For eign Missions. The twelfth annual meeting of this Board was held in Springfield, Ms. at Ma son’s Hall, Sept. 19th and 20ih, 1821. A sermon was preached on the occasion by the Rev. Dr. Morse, from Ps. ii. 8. Ask me,and I shall give thee the heathen for thy in heritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. The usual business of tbe. .Board was Transacted, and the Following gentlemen elected officers for the ensuing year: The Hon. John Treadwell, L.L.D. Presdt. The Rev. Joseph Lyman, D.D. V. Pres. The Hon. Wm. Reed, ‘j . The Rev. Leonard Woods, D. D. | Jeremiah Evarts, Esq. Samuel Hubbard, Esq. and j g The Rev. Warren Fay, J Jeremiah Evarts, Esq. Sec’y. and Treas urer, and Ashur Adams, Esq. Auditor. A resolution was passed to erect a suita able monument at Brainerd, as a tribute of respect to the memory of the late Dr. Worcester. NEW RELIGIOUS PAPER. D. Heartt, editor of the Hillsborough Recorder, proposes publishing in Hillsbo rough, N. C. a religious paper, to be enti tled the North Carolina Evangelical Intelli gencer,—“ in which will be given the most important information respecting the spread of the Gospel, and the consequent meliora tion of the condition of tbe human family, with such other intelligence as may be in teresting to the Christian reader—occas ionally enlivened with religious and moral essays, and lighter articles, tending to pro mote Christian charity and heavenly mind edness.” It will be published once a week, and contain eight quarto pages, neatly printed on good paper ; and a liberal patronage will doubtless render it a valuable acquisi tion to the moral and religious community. The first number will issue on the first Sat urday in January next, if the encourage ment beiufficient to warrant it. W. Carolinian. PULPIT ELOQUENCE. Extract from “ Two Discourses, containing the History of the Old North, and New Brick Churches, united as the Second Church in Boston, delivered May 20, 1821, at the com pletion of a Century from the Dedication of the present meeting house in Middle street.” By Henry Ware, Minister of the Second Church. The occasion reminds us what a chang ing world we live in. This house has stood for a hundred years: and who is there among you that saw it in its glory ? Every one of the crowd that thronged it then has long since departed to his eternal home. Five successive ministers have la boured here, and gone to their account. Even in the memory of many present, ev ery seat has changed its occupant. You seek the friends whom you once met here, and they are gone. Time has more than once swept clean these seats; and how soon will it be done again ? The celebration of a day like this, no man can hope to see twice. When Xerxes looked upon his im mense army, and thought that in a hundred years not one of that multitude would be living, he was overcome by the reflection and wept aloud. 1 woqld not have you weep, brethren, as the same thought passes youi mind in looking around you now j for the Christian, in his church, should regard time and death with other views, than the heathen at his army’s bead ; hut I would to God you would pause and consider. The time is short. A century ! What is a cen tury ? Ask the man of eighty, who lias al most seen that term, and he will tell you it is as yesterday, when it is past ; it is but as a day and a iiight; and he that has surviv ed it, does not feel that be has lived longer than when he had lived but twenty years. Yet in that space what changes occur ? The strong men and women, and the very children of this assembly, shall in that time be no more numbered among the living ; the youngest child here—yea, the very in fant that we have this day offered in bap tism, shall have witnessed all the fortunes of life, and perhaps worn a grey head for years, and perchance growu weary of a helpless and burdensome old age, and then slumbered for years in the mighty congre gation of the dead, before a century shall close. In a century, cities flourish and de cay ; the boundaries of nations are broken up, and the earth changes all its inhabitants again and again. Observe what has taken place just around you, during that which has now past. Instead of eleven churches in this town, you find twenty-eight, and all have been built or rebuilt within that time excepting two. You find flourish ing city instead of a small town, a sovereign state for a dependant colony ; a mighty na tion for a few scattered provinces. And who can number the changes in the old eastern world ; the improvements that have carried the sciences and arts to an un equalled perfection, and the revolutions that have removed again and again the land-marks of an empire, and elevated the low and depressed the high among the na tions, like the heaving of the earth in the throes of an earthquake ! All this has been, and yet what is a century ? He that should have lived through all, and then looked on the world in its present state, would almost feel as if the whole had been effected in a moment by the wand of enchantment. The time has fled like a dream. What then will time be to those, who know, as we do, that we have probably a small part of such period to live ? O that we might learn so to number our days as to apply our hearts unto wisdom ! Finally, brethren, permit me to congrat ulate you on the prosperous condition in which this day finds you. These walls have stood an hundred years, and they still stand firm. Whilst you have seen most of jour sister churches compelled to destroy (he ancient templps in which they and their fathers had worshipped, lest the}’ should fall upon them in ruins, and burdened with the costly labour of rearing other places of worship, you have the privilege of still as sembling in this house of your ancestors, consecrated by age, and by the devout breathings of great and pious men of the times that are gone by ; where the word of life has been preached to four successive .jfcnroiniivuo , whore Wtci J spot is httlloW* ed as your appropriate religious home ; and the ground on which you stand is holy.— There is something solemnly pleasing in the thought that the walls which are echo ing back the voice of your preacher and the songs of your praise, have resounded with those of venerable men, whose praise is in all the churches,that have long been sleep ing in the dust, & are strangers to all themes but those of religion. And there is something delightful in the hope that our children and children’s children shall sit where we have been sitting,and seek the inspiration of Hea ven on tbe same spot where we have found it. This hope, my friends, is yours. God, it is true, may commission his elements, and they shall shake this house to its founda tion at once. The earthquake and storm have hitherto assailed it in vain, and it has thrice been rescued from devouring flames. Another visitation may destroy it without remedy. But in the ordinary course of Providence it may see this day return, and listen to the devout thanksgivings of those who shall assemble here, without one of us amongst them, to celebrate the mercy of Him, who in the midst of change and death, is forever the same. And when that day shall come, oh, may it find our children wiser and purer and worthier than we. If God hath any more light to break forth from his word, may it be theirs to see it,and rejoice in it,as we doubt not the spirits of the good men that came up here to dedicate this house are rejoicing in the greater light which God has poured upon us. May that day find all the darkness of errour and super stition which clouds our faith removed, and all the sins which defile our lives vanished, and as many surrounding the table of their Lord, as worship at the altar of their God. Happy they, that shall see that day ! Thrice happy they that shall walk in that light! Yea, happy even these venerable walls, that shall have witnessed the gather ing knowledge and growing virtue of many generations, and shall then hear prayers of warmer devotion, and the outpouring of hearts lifted nearer to heaveD, and shall learn something of that purer and more per fect worship,which is to be the employment and glory of the temple above ! In that temple there shall be no change of day and night, and no revolution of time ; a thousand years shall be but as one uninterrupted day ; and no returning century shall warn us that life is drawing nearer to its close ; (for that life shall have no close. In that j glorious temple, in that unchanging day, may it be our happiness to meet those ven erable saints, who have crowded these courts before us, and the multitude of our posterity, who shall receive the beginning of that life on this spot, where their fathers worshipped. This is our heart’s desire and prayer, that the power of the Gospel may always be exhibited here in preparing men for salvation. INTERESTING ANECDOTE. From the Winchester Republican. It is frequently remarked that the most laudable deeds are achieved in the shades of retirement; and to its truth history tes tifies in every page. An act of heroism or philanthropy, performed in solitude, where no undue feelings can affect the mind, or bias the character, is worth, to the eve of an impartial observer, whole volumes pf exploits displayed before the gaze of a stu pid and admiring multitude. It is not long since a gentleman was travelling in one of the counties of this state, and about the close of the day stopped at a publick house to ob tain refreshment and spend the night. He had been there but a short time, before an old man alighted from his gig, with the ap parent intention of becoming a fellow guest with him at the same house. As the old man drove up, he observed that both the shafts of his gig were broken, and that they were held together by withes formed from the bark of a hickory sapling. Our travel ler observed further, that he was plainly clad, that his knee-buckles were loosened, and that something like negligence perva ded his dress. Conceiving him to be of the honest yeomanry of our land, the courtesies of strangers passed between them, and they entered the tavern. It was about the same time that an addition of three or four young gentlemen was made to their number—most, if not all of them, of the legal profession. As soon as they became conveniently accommodated, the conversation was turned by one of the lat ter upon an eloquent harangue which had that day been displayed at the bar. It was replied by the other, that he had witnessed the same day a degree of eloquence, no doubt equal, but that it was from the pulpit. Something like a sarcastick rejoinder was made to the eloquence of the pulpit; and a warm and able altercation ensued, in which the merits of the Christian religion became the sub ject of discussion. From six o’clock until eleven, the young champions wielded the sword of argument, adducing with inge nuity and ability every thing that could Ikt said pro and con. During this protracted period the old gentleman listened with all the meekness and modesty of a child, as if he was adding new information to the stores of his own mind; or perhaps he was ob serving with philosophick eye the faculties of the youthful mind, and how new ener gies are involved by repeated action ; or perhaps, with patriotick emotion, he was reflecting upon the future destinies of his country, and on the rising generation, upon whom those destinies must devolve; or most probably, with a sentiment of moral and religious feeling, he was collecting an argument which (chnracteristick of him self) no art would he u able to elude, and no force resist ” Our traveller remained a spectator, and took no part in what was said. At last, one of the young men, remarking that it was impossible to combat with long and established prejudices, wheeled around and with some familiarity exclaimed, “Well, my old gentleman, what think you of these things?” If, said the traveller, a streak of vivid lightning had at that moment crossed the room, their amazement could not have been greater than it was with what follow ed. The most eloquent and unanswerable appeal was made for nearly an hour by the old gentleman;, that he had ever heard or read. So perfect was his recollection, that every argument urged against tbe Chris tian religion was met in the order in which it was advanced. Hume’s sophistry on the subject of miracles, was, if possible, more perfectly answered than it had already been done by Campbell. And in the whole lecture there was so much simplicity and energy, pathos and sublimity, that not ano ther word was uttered. An attempt to de scribe it said the traveller, would be an at tempt to paint the sunbeams. It was now a matter of curiosity and inquiry who the o\d gentleman was. The traveller concluded* it was the preacher, from whom the pulpit eloquence had been heard—But no, it was the Chief Justice of the United States! “ We may die,” says the celebrated Wes ley, “ without the knowledge of many truths, and yet be carried into Abraham's bosom ; but if we die without love, what will knowledge avail? Just as much as it avails the devil and his angels! I will not quarrel with you about any opinion: only see that your heart be right towards God; that you know and love the Lord Jesus Christ; that you love your neighbour, and walk qs your master walked, and I desire no more, iam sick of opinions: I am weary to hear them : my soul loathes this frothy food. Give me solid-and substantial . religion; give me an humble,gentle loverdj of God and man; a man full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy; a map laying himself out in the work of faith, the patience of hope, the labour of love. Let my soul be with these Christians wheresover they are, and what soever opinion they are of. ‘ Whosoever thus doth the will of my Father which is in heaven, she same is my brother, and sister, and mother.’ ” A gentleman of our acquaintance being in Tennessee soon after the famous report of Mr. Lacock of the Senate, in regard to the occupation of the Floridas, called upon Gen. Jackson. In the course of the visit the conversation turned upon the Report. The General became at last very loud and vehement, on the injustice that had been done him ; when the door opened, and Mrs. Jackson, a lady of exemplary piety, put her head into the room. “ Don’t swear so, Mr. Jackson,” said she. The General im mediately became calm, and conversed very dispassionately during the remainder of the interview. Prov. pap