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ANNIVERSARIES OF BAPTIST SOCIETI

in the perilous task No: we must imit fathers, and carry

EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY- acting as a police
FOUR will long be remembered by
many as the year when, after an inter-
val of peace extending beyond the
limits of an ordinary human genera- they began, not
tion, war, with all its accompanying
horrors and wasteful expences, again
broke out, and alarmed the world by
the apprehension of a general Euro-
pean conflagration.

renewed energy.
Jesus Christ is in
kingdoms of this
rise or fall, but his
Impressed forcib
But it was at such a time, when tions, we turn to
one of the greatest and most success-giving some brief
ful captains of any age was pursuing ceedings at the A
his victorious career, subduing nation own Institutions.
after nation, and threatening to invade order of time come
our own, that most of our missionary
institutions for sending the gospel to
the heathen were projected and esta-
blished.

Our fathers seem to have been impressed by the conviction that they must not wait for more favourable circumstances. The walls of the spiritual Zion must be built though the times were troublous. And they were right. Peace again returned, and the Lord rewarded their faith by succeeding their efforts with his blessing.

So we, now war is again raging, demanding its enormous sacrifices of money and men, must not allow the great work of the evangelization of the world to be interrupted, because some despot felon is attempting to seize in his withering grasp a tempting region contiguous to his own, while others,

BIBLE TRANSLA

The annual mee held in Blooms Thursday evening, The attendance was larger than last yea taken at the com meeting by Dr. Ho by the Rev. W. Br

The chairman in ness of the evening priate speech, in wh the history of the S that it originated hostility to the Bri Bible Society, but a necessity, and out word of God.

The Rev. J. Bi secretaries, read the

BAPTIST UNION.

fifteen years of the Society's ume, from a single gospel to the en The Rev. J. C. Page, in bible. The report stated that the Rev. J. Wenger, bore translations published by the Soci stimony to the value of a had, in some cases, been used by ot ion of the Bengalee scrip- bodies of christians. The Calcu beauty and compactness Bible Society had in this way ask elcome amongst all classes permission to print various version In the last report it was which had immediately been grante Mr. W. had published a The income of the Society during t anslation of the book of Job past year was reported as follows:He was engaged in a new From collections and subscription of the Psalms into Sanscrit £1,232 19s. 11d.; and from legacie this very difficult work he £364 16s. 8d.; making altogeth ed to the end of the 101st £1,597 16s. 7d. £50 was acknow bout the same time he also ledged as received from G. F. Angu a fresh revision of the Esq., of Angustown, Australia. ible. It is advanced to the 24th chapter of Numbers. and Mr. Parsons are per- The forty-third Annual Meetin e same work for the Hindu was held on Friday, April 20, at th ment, whilst a new edition Library of the Baptist Mission House re Testament in the Deb Moorgate Street, the Hon. and Rev acter is in the press. The Baptist Wriothesly Noel in the chair tatement will show what has who, after a devotional service, rea in printing of the scriptures a beautiful, instructive, and thrilling past year. In Bengalee, address, in the course of which he s, 5000 copies; Proverbs, dilated on the nature, and power s; the Psalms and Proverbs and triumphs of the Gospel-on 2000; the gospel of John, these triumphs as visible in Europe ne Acts, 10,000; Luke and which, though at the time of Christ's her, 5000; a pocket edition ascension was comparatively idolatrous, ole Testament, 3000. In is now called "Christian Europe.' ritzi the gospel of Matthew, The Churches of Christ are not yet Sanscrit, Luke, in Bengalee conquering the world. In order to their 2000. The following works doing so, a high order of piety is gress: in Bengalee, Genesis needed. Pastors ought in the general us, Isaiah and Daniel, the to be exclusively devoted to their work, d Acts together, the whole and to be liberally supported by the ment, and a new edition of Churches, who ought to attach a greater scriptures. In Sanscrit, the value to spirituality than to talent. The nes of the bible, comprising speaker then dwelt at some length on from Job to Canticles; and the blessings civil, political, and re

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terised the last few yea tries shall be abunda it may be hoped that the clear increase, bey the part of the deno more than 4,500 me strained to recognise t and mercy calling for ment. In response to and more earnest devo

Messrs. Burns New of Birmingha

That the Union sym ing of discomfort and

The Rev. J. H. Hinton then brought the of the Committee, which up report stated that the whole gain to the Union this year amounted to 23 Churches. The total gain of members on 1,045 Churches had been 1,776. This increase afforded an average of one and two-thirds-an augmentation, the com-kens be much more ab mittee were happy to say, on the years 1852 and 1853. In addition to the usual analysis of the Association returns, the committee had endeavoured to procure from the Churches the has so extensively triennial returns which, for a consider- Churches in relation able period, had been solicited. About proclamation enjoinin ance-proclamations, 1,357 Churches had responded to this which Nonconformists request, and an analysis of the returns seem either, by their afforded the following facts: 826 nise in religion an Churches reported a clear increase; conscientiously repudi 289 reported the increase and decrease compliance, to treat re tempt or indifference. equal; and 242 reported a larger de- That the Union th crease than increase. The clear in-in common with thei crease on 826 Churches amounted to every denomination, i 5,990; but deducting 1,457, the numtablishment, the Bapti ber by which 242 Churches had the duty and privilege diminished, the total clear increase was 4,533, or an average of 3 on the reporting Churches. With respect to the apparent diminution of the Churches, it was but just to

and all that are in aut ready to unite with the seasons of prayer for but they respectfully e not to continue in Roy use of phraseology w gering remnant of time ance long and happil has at the present peri or applicability.

say, that in several cases this was only apparent, and not real, being occasioned by large draughts for the formation of new Churches, and constituting rather a movement of members within the body than a departure of members from it. The committee go on to speak resolution had any of the late Royal Proclamation for a obeyed. If their

An extended disc The Chairman th clamation such as

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