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right, let us become unpopular. Our loss of conventional status will be our gain of moral power, our suffering will be our stability, our weakness will be our strength, our feeblenesss our defence.

at the earliest period the country, and whe quired it, it is their grea and there preaching the unsearchable ric And yet, I was inform

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great mountain? Be thou shalt become a pl bring forth the head s shoutings of grace, gr Power and profit o C. Vince: The pres nently a time when

A General Baptist Missionary.-man, that he believe Mr. J. Buckley: As the representative least 4,000 missionari of the missionaries in Orissa, I am in different parts of happy to acknowledge our obligations. there are not 400 Ch When my predecessors entered that aries of all societies land thirty-three years ago, they found member, my friends, t what very few missionaries have found mitted to the spirit in entering a new field,-the whole India. The difficul word of God in the language of the greater, as they appea people; and this translation was made than you can suppos by the "consecrated cobbler," to whom were a thousand tim repeated reference has been made this they are, what would morning, whose name will live when Omnipotence? that of his reviler shall be forgotten. The tracts, too, that were blessed by God to the enlightenment of our elder converts were either printed at Serampore, or were translations of Bengalee tracts prepared there. It is therefore right for a missionary returned from that land to acknowledge such obliga- Christian church, to tions, in the generous spirit of christian practical proof of he love. I shall now be glad to enlist in the efficacy of pray your sympathies in behalf of Orissa, that brings down to ea the scene of our missionary operations. that raises it to heaver To me it appears as important a sphere an atheistic writer ass for Christian exertion as any that India tians were losing the presents. Of this I am persuaded, profit of prayer, and that in no part of the world is the joy at the prospect darkness denser, or the ignorance speedily abandoning greater, or the depravity more awful. However, mistaken i The celebrated shrine of Juggernaut, was most consistent i to which pilgrims from every part of for he who would

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And tender in address, as well becomes
A messenger of grace to guilty men."-Cowper.
London: Jarrold and Sons.

OUR departed friend and brother, whose Memoir now lies before us, with a striking likeness of his familiar face, was a man of whom we expect we must say:

"Take him for all in all,

We ne'er shall look upon his like again."

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For thirty years we knew his " of life;" and many things could we say― for, for a season, he invited us to share them with him of his abundant labours; but we must refrain. Neither would this be either expedient or desirable, except as supplementary to, or in confirmation of, the valuable "Memoir and Remains," which his sons, with filial affection for their honoured parent, have, in this handsome volume, presented to the numerous friends of the departed, and the christian world at large. We know something of the peculiar difficulties of the delicate duty which his sons undertook to discharge; but after a careful perusal of the volume we must acquit them of all undue partiality, and very few are the words or sentences that, in our judgment, should not have been inserted. There is, indeed, throughout the whole volume, a manly tone, becoming the dignity of the character pourtrayed; so that could it have been prepared and submitted, with the exception, of course, of its closing scenes, to our departed friend himself, much as he disliked merely human praise, in our opinion he would have objected to but little of what his sons have said of him, or made him say of himself.

We feel confident that this Memoir of departed christian excellence will find a wide circulation among evangelical christians of every name; for to them, though himself a minister of one of the smallest

deep for expression, and, spiritual profit. Some we give in following col only refer now, by requ of the press, at page 210, tine, a Latin father, is Greek father."

A Manual of the Baptis for the year 1855. By of the Baptist Union of and Ireland. To wh Appendix, containing a Forty-third Annual Body, etc., etc. Lond Stoneman.

WE are happy in having tunity of expressing ou the industrious and pai piler of this valuable many years yet may our e be favoured with opportun for the discharge of this which he has now so lon to the baptist churches of sections. With regard t which have too long rega with something akin to s they could by some me into closer contact. In we have now for about t publishing impartial rep ceedings of those section to make them better a each other; and the pu annual Manual, under t ment of brother Howa had the same tendency we believe, will also hea tion and pleasure, that Meeting of the General in Nottingham, a few w tinct resolution was una to on this subject, whi give in our next.

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the Forty-third Annual

e Baptist Union of Great The Fifty-sixth Annual Report of the Ireland. London: Houl

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Religious Tract Society, for circulating
Religious Publications in the British
Dominions and Foreign Countries.
Instituted A. D. 1799. 1855. London:
Depository, 56, Paternoster Row, and
65, St. Paul's Churchyard: Western
Depository, 164, Piccadilly.

WE always look forward with much
interest for the arrival of this yearly
volume-for a volume it is truly, full of
exciting facts and details of the wide,
and yet more widely extended, efforts of
one of the most generous and useful of
our British Religious Institutions.

Narratives and Anecdotes.

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C MEMOIR AND REMAINS OF THE LATE REV. J. G. PIKE.

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INSTRUCTION.-Like many ve been distinguished by e usefulness in the church Pike was indebted to the cude of a mother's love for uctions in religious truth, t impressions of its beauty ce on his youthful mind. e makes grateful reference on of his first work of any ize, and which has been, HIS BAPTISM.-It was while Mr. Pike most popular and useful of was a student at Wymondley that he ations. It was dedicated took a step which gave a very decided nor's affectionate mother, colouring to the whole of his future life; al tenderness has been the this was the practical adoption of what, merable comforts to him, for want of a better term, are called ly instructions first taught baptist sentiments. The subject of pon that adorable Being believers' baptism had for some time n to “Persuasives to Early Piety," engaged his attention, as he mentions that when about eighteen I thought of

whose glory he endeavours, by the following pages, to promote." This beloved mother was permitted, for more than fifty years, to witness the result of those seeds of piety which she had been instrumental in planting in the youthful heart of her eldest son, and was filled with rejoicing and gratitude as she observed the abundant fruits which they produced.

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have been unable to discover, but his nearest relatives were decided pædobaptists. It was in August, 1804, that he" confessed Christ in baptism," being baptized by Mr. Evans in Worshipstreet chapel, but without uniting with the church under his pastorate. The sentiments which on this christain ordinance Mr. Pike now adopted and professed, be continued to hold with firmness and consistency during the remainder of his life. Though cordially loving all who "hold the Head," and praying that grace, mercy, and peace" might be multiplied to all who love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity; yet he entertained very decided views respecting the importance of this institution, and of attending to it in what appeared to him the scriptural manner.

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HIS DESIRE TO BE A MISSIONARY.-On Saturday, May 6, 1809, he thus records his feelings on this subject:-" My mind has to-day been often engaged on a mission to Africa, and on becoming, if Heaven prolong my days, a missionary to that much-injured land. Some particulars stated in the third Report of the African Institution turned my thoughts to it. Wilt thou, O my God, lead me thither ? If thou wilt, enable me willingly to sacrifice every earthly tie to thee. There the field is wide, the Jabourers few, if any. In Britain the labourers are many; and most, who will, may hear or read the word of life. There, perhaps, by me thou wouldest open a path which should never again be closed. There, perhaps, I might be the instrument of unfolding the word of life to thousands and shall I go thither ? Guide me, O God; and if such be thy

བས ཨuཎྜས་བསཔསཡp་པ་ཕ to labour in some other of those circumstances in themselves, but o divine direction, the following life depends. was nearly concluding separating, and many but some were going house for the last pub Thursday evening. I and having finished tea minutes at the inn door entire stranger, the lat of Leicester, accosted me to visit him. After three days on a visit Heard, Esq., of Nottin turning home, but ha call on Mr. D., did so ; pressingly to stop the for him the next Lord's reasons led me to desir but his importunity w sense of duty urged me his kind request. I di me to come again, and, a promise to that eff apparently trifling ci hinged the whole subs my father, the associa the peculiar labours i engaged, and the vari which he was favoured

SETTLEMENT AT DER mer of 1810 my fathe stated labours in Derby first instance he accept for but two years. Th time numbered only s bers. A visible imp general state of affairs rent. In the report

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