For the Queen to command which he felt in being present on t and especially Non-con- occasion, and referred to the very u ney would have a grievance ful efforts which the society had ma in Wales, contrasting the religio condition of that country a few ago with that which it happily presen at the present time.

Evans of Scarborough, and Newport, moved— Union regard with much satisbill introduced into the House by Sir William Clay for the ion of Church-rates, and that presented to both Houses of

praying that the same may be

law.

Acworth of Bradford, and ondon, moved

Union see with regret that s still busying itself with the ducation; not because they are ther of the value of popular its deficiencies, but because inced it is rather impeded than legislative action. That the acious diversities of opinion Parliament on this subjectsix education bills, to a great

yea

The Rev. S. J. Davis read the

port:

"The number of members in th Missionary Churches is 4,125; an of this number 340 have been bay tized during the year. There are 10 principal stations; and the sub-station are 119.

The number of weekl hearers is about 18,000; but th places of worship at the principal an subordinate stations will accommodat about 27,000. At the commence ment of the financial year, by far th larger part of the debt reported to th last annual meeting was removed by the bequest of the late Mr. B. Wil son. The present financial condition of the society was reported as

Income.
Expenditure

.£4,451 13 10

THE BAPTIST IRISH SOCIETY.

The annual meeting of this Society

Datible with one another, being was held in Finsbury Chapel, on of the House of Commons at Tuesday evening, April 24, when oment-afford a demonstrative C. B. Robinson, Esq., of Leicester, unfitness of that body to deal

ate and complex a question. presided.

ls, for the most part, before The Rev. William Groser read the ave one most unsatisfactory report, of which the following is an mmon; they propose a school-abstract :

ing a fatal blow at all educa

on the voluntary system, most noring the educational duty

"The committee that was appointed this time last year entered upon its

of parents, and introducing an course in circumstances which in the

:

hair, and Cara.' R in the last report 1 of an intelligent an a city missionary in in the south of Ire of this experiment, Waterford, have be satisfactory to the c encouraged the bel tentatious and kind highly valuable el lady of similar qua mended by the Re of Dublin, and the F of Greenwich, has Dublin.

A third Belfast, and proc. domestic afflictions of her services. T having been audit

Catholic population. The committee longer. I have g engaged Mr. Keen to do the work of Skreen, Carnagera an evangelist in Cork and its vicinity for six months. He entered on his work with characteristic energy; but Mr. Keen was suffering from a malady to which he was constitutionally disposed he therefore requested the committee to release him from his engagement, and returned to England. Providence, however, again interposed. The Rev. John Crawford, himself also a native of Ireland, being about to remove from Lee, in Kent, was able to repair to Cork in time to occupy Mr. Keen's post the very Sabbath after he had quitted it. New Ross, in the county of Wexford, a town in which no effort had ever been made by our society, having been pointed out by a deputation which visited Ireland in 1853 as a place affording peculiar facilities for exertion, the committee there is a balance engaged the Rev. D. R. Watson, of society of £379. 5 Ryde, to spend a few weeks there last summer. Mr. Watson's visit was so acceptable to residents of various denominations that in the autumn a memorial was forwarded to the committee, signed by seventy inhabitants annual general mee of the place, expressing their earnest desire that he should be sent to reside among them. Mr. Watson, taking the same view of the case, has engaged to devote himself to this work for one year. A few months ago, Mr. Samuel Willett, formerly a minister among the Primitive Methodists, was appointed first subject name assistant to Mr. Hamilton, in the carry out the mea county of Mayo. Having been ac-mittee, Mr. Unde

BAPTIST MISSIC

Members'

On Tuesday mo

the Baptist Missi held in the Librar house, in MoorgateEsq., in the chair.

The Rev. F. 1 then read a digest the committee f

information given by the

s to the manner in which

was ultimately appointed to co with the general committee on subject.

forward a motion, of which he h The Rev. W. Robinson broug given notice, respecting the operatio of the British and Foreign Bible S

Si

rs of the London Mission-ciety in India. His object was had dealt with the ques-mitteee of that association as to t ascertain the intentions of the co he Motion and the Amendtranslation of the words rendered ba y leave withdrawn; and a was passed, in substantial tise, &c., in the English version. T with the course adopted by referred to a committee now to be a motion was carried, and the subje rs of that institution, with for the preparation of a pointed. e missionaries in India. Mr. Pottenger then introduced th shes a case of prosecution. India Education question, and rs in the itinerary school lengthened discussion followed. d and fined while performS. M. Peto, observing-How was i ties. The Court of Cassa- possible, when ministers and mem e the decision of the Court bers of our own churches at hom The ground of informality, joined in receiving grants, to for the merits to the Court of bid its being done abroad? The ch confirmed the original society first denied the right of misThe counsel both in Paris sionaries to take grants, and then renes declined taking any pudiated schools accepting grants. ground that the question Was not that as far as they were preeligious liberty. Through pared to go? He could not impose entality of Mr. Bright, upon another fetters which he would ruel attempt to injure as ess Mr. Capern, made by authorities in the Bahamas, ppily defeated. The calissionary has been triumnerated from the odious tempting to defraud the charge for which, it is now d, there was at no time foundation.

accounts showed a total in= year of £21,259 1s. 7d., balance of £1,208 7s. 6d.

not allow another to impose upon himself. Why, then, place the missionaries in India under such restrictions? At the same time he hoped that his sentiments were too well known to make it needful for him to disclaim all sympathy in government grants; nor let it be supposed that in the committee there had been the least desire to encourage participation in them, either directly or indirectly.

The decision of the committee was left to stand as it did.

The chairman said he might have excused himself on several grounds from occupying the position which he filled; but he could not deny himself the honour which the Committee had offered him, more especially as it was desired, by placing him in the chair, to exhibit that catholicity of spirit which existed among those who, though belonging to different denominations, were labouring to promote the same ends in the field of missionary labour. He heartily sympathised with the Baptist Missionary Society-the first society of the kind established amongst the nonconformists of this country. At its formation, in 1792, the two older institutions of the Established Church had accomplished, and indeed attempted, but little for the conversion of the heathen. At first the society was looked upon with jealousy and suspicion, especially in regard to its labours in India; but at the present time its efforts in that country were acknowledged by the highest authorities to be highly beneficial. Energetic attempts were formerly made to discourage and counteract the labours of the missionaries in India, and even to recall them. It was alleged that those "disaffected persons" were misleading the native troops, and that the greatest harm would result from the free circu

served the gratitude but they had also b bringing many thou low-creatures to the need not defend the

generally. It had b

the warmest friends
religion, the sanction
was a guarantee to
the cause.
He hop

continue to prosper
world would feel m
claims which it had

The report, an ab read by Dr. Angus, tions of the society year, and gave a sa of the general progr The balance sheet, Peto, showed the been £20,050, and £21,993; balance treasurer, £736 7s. Sir S. M. Peto

propriate phrases, upon the character o Mr. Gurney, for surer of the societ wise, practical, and seemed to be a pra on the text, " Breth grace of our Lord though he was rich became poor, tha poverty might be following Christ his him; and pity, ben for his fellow-ma characteristics of h friends, may we b him as he followed

SOI, WHuse agrou everywhere taught in the scriptur break up, and into whose The Psalmist represents the " bless

ave to deposit the seed of nd truth. Such views of

If

so partial as frequently to ng idea of its nature. al existence is to be reprematerial objects I select the fairest type. It contains fall that it will ever become.

h seed, within its slender rind,

n threads in endless circles wind; in maze the lucid webs are roll'd, y burst the living flame unfold." on between barbarous hordes ed states-between Milton y in the nursery, and the ard thrilling the ages with furnishes obvious illustraan's capacity for growth. owever, one peculiarity in al growth. The individual

wers.

man to a tree planted by the rivers
water, whose leaf doth not wither, a
which bringeth forth its fruit in
roots and branches like Lebano
season; Hosea, as casting forth
Christ, as a branch engrafted on h
as the living vine, and deriving fro
him its life, vigour, foliage, and frui
Paul, as passing from a child to
young man, and from a young man
a father in Christ as having
"inner man" strengthened and co
stantly renewed amidst the perpetu
waste of the outer; and, in the con
text, as progressing unto a "perfe
man"-to the full measure of Christ
stature.

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"who

GOODNESS AND GREATNESS ca ery other life exhausts itself only be in the true growth of tha but in growing the mind spiritual nature which God has give increase its capacity for thee. Thou canst never becom The soul which reaches the greater than thy nature. Shoulds int, however advanced in thou find a home at last amidst th he most spring-like and celestial scenes of the good, there wil the morning dew lies on its come a period when thou wilt be Exhaustless are the greater than Abraham, the man in these breasts of ours- presses on an angel's wing," is a hall appear in new branches this moment. That point of greatnew forms of beauty, and ness will be but the outgrowth and s of fruit, as ages run their development of what is now in thy t in addition to this capacity breast. As the acorn becomes the there is, in our constitution, monarch of the forest, robed in luxurind ever-pulsing desire for ant foliage, so thou art to become great e nowhere satisfied with the in eternity by growth, and by growth ned. The whole creation only. As that seed, 66 ere it swells, nd travaileth for a higher contains the oak's vast branches in its ne desire of the child to milky veins," thou, in thy first stage, cature of physical manhood contained the germs of all the power hadows the impulse of the and greatness that in future ages thou re to ascend: it seeks to wilt ever reach.