we have laboured to diffuse a knowledge or extensive awakening. In these cirof divine truth, and to save men's souls. cumstances, I shall take the liberty of Preaching the Gospel to the adults, suggesting to you, for the progress and teaching the young, and the various other good of our mission, the desirableness of means which we have endeavoured, how-extending it. I am aware of the diffiever feebly, to employ,-all these, not culties; but if you could found a mission separately, but collectively and unitedly, in the south, of a purely pastoral kind, it seem to be the human agencies specially would undoubtedly be attended with sanctioned by God as the divinely ap- beneficial results. There are flourishing pointed instrumentality for, in the first congregatious there, and thousands of place, calling out from among all nations native Christians. If this be found posa people chosen by himself, and so, finally, sible, nothing is more deserving of your for introducing that period when the attention than the advance which might kingdoms of this world shall become the be gained by the missionary, by a previous kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ. study of the language, and an abridgment Intelligence of the baptism of at least of his preparatory term of general study. one convert, we hope to be able to com--Letter from Rev. Mr. Wallace. municate at no distant period. The number of pupils that have received instruction in the year 1854, amounts to 812. BOMBAY. The Institution is in a prosperous and progressing condition. By comparing former minutes with our present numbers, I find that the increase of daily attendance in the English department is 90 in excess of any former year. The difference does not appear so much in the numbers on the roll. Of the 497 pupils belonging to the Institution, there are present generally about 400, or fourfifths; and the rules in regard to attendance are strictly enforced. The absence proceeds entirely from religious observances, travelling, and sickness. In every class, with one exception, books of religious instruction, and Bible history are used. I have perfect confidence in the great majority of our monitors, although heathen, that they do nothing to counteract any persuasions which may arise from perusing those books which it is necessary to entrust to them in the lower classes. But I am not at all convinced that nothing is done by parents at home to counteract impressions. Parents send their sons to us not without a grudge; and not a few prefer forfeiting the advantages of an English education altogether, to running a risk of what they regard a great evil. The Parsee portion of the population continue to resist every inlet to the truth, and for them there is at present no hope. As far as I have seen, although with little personal encouragement hitherto, I have great confidence in the beneficial effects of missionary institutions, which will certainly tell with power in the end. Still, it is likely that for many many years, things will just go on as they have been doing, without a decisive striking, MISSION TO THE JEWS. The excellent Mr. Sutter writes from Karlsruhe: Wthe young candidate for baptism concerning whom I wrote to you last month, has been allowed to remain here since, unmolested. He comes to me daily for instruction, which he receives with much gratitude. He is full of joy in having found the pearl of great price, and is evidently growing in knowledge and grace-in short, I am altogether satisfied with him. At the beginning of this month another Jew came to me requesting instruction, with the view of joining the Church of Christ. He is from Nassau, his name is AM. Several years ago he was with me for some days, and seemed at that time, although without much knowledge, favourably disposed towards the Gospel. He has been in the army during the last six years, and is about to be discharged from duty. He has been receiving daily instruction for the last three weeks, and he leaves upon those who converse with him an impression of single-minded sincerity, which is highly pleasing. The Jewess to whom I gave instruction for a short time in December has not since returned to me. From what I hear of her, however, I conclude that she still desires to become a Christian. MB, the young proselyte mentioned in one of my former letters, is still here, and, I am happy to report, is maintaining with consistency his Christian profession. He attends regularly my Bible meetings, and occasionally the instructions given to B- W— I am happy to add, that from two former proselytes, who went last year to America, I have lately received pleasing accounts. I had the pleasure last Sunday of preaching in the Protestant church of the neighbouring town of Ellbinger. The place is Roman Catholic, and the Protestants residing in it were formed into a parish only within the last eight or ten years. There are many among them who seem to be earnest in their profession of the faith. In this neighbourhood, generally speaking, among the common people living Christianity seems to be increasing. Conversions from Romanism to Protestant truth are frequent, chiefly through the instrumentality of pious laymen of the labouring class. DARMSTADT. cants, of which two are at Smyrna and Thyatira, and a third near Antioch. In Constantinople there are four evangelical congregations. Among the Greeks in the capital, and in North-Western Asia Minor-a field long worked without any apparent fruit an awakening has commenced, and there is a cry for the Gospel. Among the Armenians-through Asia Minor, Arnienia, and Northern Syriathere is a wide-spread and earnest spirit of inquiry, which has extended greatly during the war. One hundred Native agents could at once be employed. occupy this ground.* - аге Amidst the many societies already existing, it is very desirable, if possible, to avoid forming a new one. I visited Worms and villages on the Many in the United States many right side of the Rhine, in which there is students in the mission seminaries— a considerable Jewish population. In many evangelists and colporteurs Worms there are about one hundred and desirous to enter the field. fifty Jewish families, some in the possesII. What can we do?. sion of considerable wealth, and the None of our British missionary socigreater number in comfortable circum-eties are in a state, or are prepared to stances; very few, as I was informed, being in poverty. The attendance at the synagogue is, generally speaking, confined to occasions of high festival. The Word of God is only little known and lightly esteemed, and the worth of all things estimated by their price in money. From what I heard, the only true members of Christ's Church who do anything for the salvation of the poor ignorant people around them, are three sisters of charity, and a brother in charge of the hospital, and the teacher of an infant school. They have come from Prussia, and are distinguished by their zeal and earnestness in the work of God. -Letter from Rev. Mr. Lehner, MISSIONS TO TURKEY. THE following is the Circular published by the London Committee for aiding the above Missions : In consequence of the remarkable openings for spreading the Gospel in Turkey, an association has been formed in aid of missions in that empire, especially among the Armenians and Greeks. I. What are the openings? From Ararat, Ur of the Chaldees, and Antioch, to Constantinople and the shores of the Mediterranean, where Paul planted the earliest Gentile churches, "the Word of the Lord has free course and is glorified." Two hundred places in that region now contain Protestants, but of these only about thirty have stated pastors or teachers. A truly evangelical missionary society is already working in this field, has all the necessary apparatus at work, and is capable of extension, but has limited means, viz.: THE AMERICAN BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. III. The Western Asia Missions and Society has, therefore, been formed to aid and supplement the Turkish Missions of the Board chiefly by Native pastors, evangelists, and colporteurs. The preparation of pious youths for generally. the missionary work, and education The result will be A great saving of expense. To work in union with our brethren in Christ. whom we wish to evangelize, and to all To present a united front to those the enemies of our faith. To strengthen the foundation already fore, earnestly invited— Christian communities. this great object. The Church Missionary Society has at present but one agent in Asia Minor, its chief efNineteen churches have been formed forts in the Turkish dominions being in Egypt and Palestine, in connexion with the encouragwith more than four hundred communi-ing work of Bishop Gobat To seek to interest others in it by dif fusing information. The Characteristics of this work areIt interferes with no other mission. The apparatus for carrying it on is already at work. It seeks to "bring into the way of truth those who profess and call themselves Christians." It is for a field "white unto the harvest," and of deep and peculiar interest at the present time. ASKING THE WAY.* "CHRIST DIED FOR THE UNGODLY." (Rom. v. 5.) "In me is thy help," is the Lord's message to a soul that would fain be saved. (Hos. xiii. 9.) The name "Jesus" signifies "the Lord who saves." The Holy Ghost shews the sinner that Jesus gave kimself in room of a "multitude whom no man can number"-bearing every one of their sins on the cross, as well as giving obedience to the whole law, obedience which they might take as their own. This is the divine method of saving sinful souls. The immense value of this work of Christ none can tell; thousands upon thousands have found it all-sufficient for their need, and it is free to YOU, whoso ever you are. It is for the guilty. "Christ died for the ungodly." He meant His salvation to be for sinners, even the chief. He has never saved any except the ungodly and the guilty! You are just the kind of person He delights to save. He saved Manasseh, who had sinned worse than the old Canaanites, that were destroyed root and branch. (2 Kings xxi. 11.) His love is free, sovereign love. He designs to shew that God can love those that have nothing in them deserving of His love. And since Christ pays the debt, and furnishes the obedience of every one whom He saves, it is a most righteous thing in God to save whom He pleases, even though they were worse than the worst now in hell. You, you may come and prove this to be true in your own case. "He will in no wise cast you out." (John vi. 37.) BELIEVEST THOU THIS?" (John xi. 26.) "Whosoever believeth in Him shall never die-believest thou this?" The Gospel proclaims, that whosoever has ears to hear, whosoever in all the world is thirsty, whosoever of mankind of any age, in any country, at any time, listens to what he is told concerning Jesus Christ giving himself for sinners, that man is warranted immediately to take it all for himself. It is with individual persons that Jesus deals. You are one of these. When He says, "Come unto me ALL ye that labour and are heavy laden," (Matt. xi. 28), is He not including you, you who are so heavily laden with sin, and so nearly sunk under it says to all," Thou shalt love the Lord the burden? If the law means you when thy God with all thy heart," no less certainly does the Lord Jesus mean you when He says, "Come, ALL YE.” You and Jesus meet together. Your soul thinks of Him, as well as of His work, hearing Him say, "Come, let us reason full of tender pity, full of love toward together." (Isa. i. 18.) Full of grace, you, He reasons thus: "Look at this sight, look at ME obeying and dying in of pardon, and if you like Him that sets your room; and say if you like this way it before you. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." "Believest thou this?" When thy guilty soul lets this reasoning enter in, saying to it," Amen!" this is "receiving Christ," or "taking Christ." 63 HE THAT BELIEVETH SHALL BE SAVED." (Mark xvi. 16.) It is in the very act of believing on Him that your tempest-tossed soul sails into the haven of rest. It is not some time after believing; it is not when you are both believing and also feeling that you believe; it is in the moment of simple believing that you are saved. It is in the hour when you finally give up dealing with others, and with yourself too, and do simply receive Christ as all your salvation, that you are for ever safe. In that moment, Jesus has accepted you, pleaded for you, spread out His righteousness before God for you, and claimed for you full redemption. Before you had time to do one good work, or speak a word for Him, or thank Him, or pray to Him, He took you as you sank weariedly upon Him for rest, and He said, "Be of good cheer, thy sins are forgiven thee." May the Holy Ghost persuade and • Asking the Way. London: James Nisbet enable you to receive this testimony conLad Co. cerning Jesus and His work for sinners. We have told you good news about Hin. Is it not wonderful? Is it not very blessed? Is there not enough in what Christ wrought, in living and dying, to justify the Father in being well-pleased? And if so, is there not enough every way to satisfy thy soul, and send thee on thy way well-pleased? "Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth." (Rom. x. 3.) The law has no more to ask of thee. The law says, "I am satisfied, for I have been obeyed by thee who art believing in Jesus." 66 BEHOLD WHAT MANNER OF LOVE." (1 John iii. 1.) The Father so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son. The Onlybegotten Son (such was His love!) came in the form of a servant, to live and die for us. The Holy Ghost (so great toward us was His love!) anointed the incarnate Son, upheld Him, dwelt in Him without measure; and then went forth on the errand of opening our eyes to see Him. And now, "Behold what manner of love!" The Father has made us sons! "We are children of God by faith in Christ Jesus." (Gal. iii. 26.) Doing no work ourselves, but believing on Him who did that wondrous work that "magnified the law and made it honourable," and pleased the Father to the full, we at once have become sons of God! He may well win our hearts! Truly, "He has lifted us from the dust to set us on the throne! " (1 Sam. ii. 8.) He has sent forth in us the Spirit of His Son, crying, "Abba, Father! Lord, what wouldst thou have us to do? "The grace that bringeth salvation teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live soberly and righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ." (Tit. ii. 12, 13) O wondrous grace! How excellent is thy loving-kindness, O God! Therefore, the sons of men shall put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. (Psalm xxxvi. 7.)—Asking the Way. The man with earthly wisdom high-uplifted But he in heavenly truth most deeply gifted The lowly spirit God hath consecrated And angels by some patriarch's tent have waited "Never let men forget that there is scarcely a single moral action of a single human being, of which other men have such a knowledge-its ultimate grounds, its surrounding incidents, and the real determining causes of its merits, as to warrant their pronouncing a conclusive Bright verdure fringes the small desert fountain, judgment."-Quarterly Review. 1 The dew that never wets the flinty mountain But barren sand the sea. • Thoughts on Sabbath Schools. By HUGH BARCLAY. Pp. 121. Edinburgh: Paton and Ritchie. This little book is a reprint from the pages of this Magazine, with considerable additions. It is one of the most useful of the many excellent pamphlets by Sheriff Barclay of Perth. Unpretending and homely in its appearance and its style, its contains the well-digested experience of thirty years of Sabbath school teaching gathered by an observing mind. There is nothing in the book which more impresses the reader than the evident adaptation of the writer's mind and manner to children. There is hardly a page which a child might not understand. More than most men, he has a power of making thoughts, by no means simple, plain to the most unlearned; and the hundreds of happy similes throughout the volume give a peculiar piquancy to what is said. There is much valuable matter, which cannot be too well remembered, in the chapter on the objects of Sabbath school teaching, one of the most practical, and, as we can testify from experience, one of the most needed portions of the book. A tone of piety pervades this volume, such as is rare, indeed, in a work from the pen of a man of business, and which gives a practical example of the truth (oftener met with in theory) of the priesthood of all be lievers. From this piety, indeed, springs what we cannot help feeling as the chief fault of the book, and one which may have a bad effect on many readers,-we mean, the very strict requirements from a Sabbath school teacher. Unintentionally, no doubt, but not the less surely, the standard for every candidate seems to be, the assurance of an interest in Christ. The words used seem to us to be too strong, even if meant for ministers of the Gospel; and we are not sure whether the effect of them may not be to discourage many from coming forward to offer their services, and, perhaps, cause some already working to cease from their labours. Making all allowances for the state of schools where teachers are not much needed, (which the author seems to have chiefly in view,) and desiring, as earnestly as any one can do, personal piety, personal love to the Saviour, in all who teach the young, we yet cannot accede to the strong terms used by Mr. Barclay in more than one page of the volume before us. We would suggest, also, the need of supplying, in future editions, (should they be called for,) one omission in this otherwise pretty complete manual. A chapter on infant classes would be very useful. There are, perhaps, no classes in a Sabbath school more difficult to conduct efficiently, none more needing a patient and loving spirit, and none which a book on Sabbath schools is |