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gold watches pleased much. It appears
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CURIOUS SECT OF JEWS.-The Jewish Chronicle has an article descriptive of a singular tribe of the Jews, called "Yehud Chebr," said to be the descendants of the father-in-law of Moses. They live isolated, and avoid any intercourse whatever with the rest of the Jews. They are only to be found in Arabia, mostly on the eastern shore of the Red Sea, and are solely occupied with rearing cattle. In the environs of Tunbua, a sea-port on the eastern shore of the Red Sea, they are also found to be smiths, and to stand in commercial association, by barter, with the Arabian tribes, who call them "Irab Seb'th," i. e., Arabs who celebrate the sabbath. They are esteemed and feared everywhere, "for they are a giant-like people." They speak only They speak only Arabic and Hebrew. Their most particular wish is not to have any intercourse with the Jews; and if any one enters into conversation with them they quickly deny their descent, and say they are of a common Arabian origin. About twenty five years ago the sheriff of Zenaa decided on going a pilgrimage to Mecca. While going through the great sandy desert they missed their road. They found themselves destitute of provisions, and famine stared them in the face. length they come upon a whole town

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ROBERT HALL.celebrated Robert Jay gives the follo the Tabernacle th preached in Bristol little more than s came down from th him, he said, 'Sir, much better than never knew him se however moderate from affectation, he s nor tried to rise ab as to others, nothin be more witty an remarks. One e crowded place-I a minister was prea flourishingly to littl "white horse,' and the 'black horse,' a in the Revelation. tiently, and when t pushed out toward Let me out of this in the library at the with one of the stud ing of his experienc hardness of his hea was near, taking d shelf, hearing this,

U Lorɑ, upon my mouth; keep of my lips. A minister, popune day said to me, 'I wonder Iso highly of Mr. Hall's talents. netime ago travelling with him es, and we had several disputes, re than once soon silenced him.' Hed how the truth was; and, eks after, when his name was d, Mr. Hall asked me if I knew lately travelled with him,' said it was wonderful, sir, how such e of ignorance and confidence e been squeezed into the vehicle. sted and wearied me with his n and perverseness, till God enough to enable me to go to

I SMITH AND DR. CAREY.y or other we found ourselves ing about Sidney Smith; and ry pleasant to me, recalling the when your father bas read and laughed over him, to hear him f as a living existence by one known him. Still I have always rrel with Sidney, for the wicked ich he put his wit in abusing Dr. Carey and the missionaries nay, in some places he even to be spiteful and vulgar. I help, therefore, saying, when observed that he had the most wit of any literary man of his nce, "Well, it was very agreeit could not have been very to the people who came under of it;" and instanced his treatDr. Carey. Some others who sent seemed to feel warmly on ect too, and Macaulay said:ell, Sidney repented of that Is. He seemed to cling to his and to turn from every fault to lity as a thing he could not lelight to remember. Truly,

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THE MISSISSIPPI BY NIGHT.-1 night the scene is one of startling intere and magical splendour. Hundreds lights are glancing in different direction from the villages, towns, farms, a plantations on shore, and from the ma nificent "floating palaces" of steamer that frequently look like moving mou tains of light and flame, so brilliant are these enormous river leviathan illuminated outside and inside. Indeed the spectacle presented is like a drea of enchantment. Imagine steamer afte steamer coming sweeping, sounding thundering on, blazing with these thou sands of lights, casting long brillian

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looking like merry-making bonfires.
These, I believe, are usually signals for
the different steamers to stop to take up
passengers, goods, and animals.-Lady
E. S. Worthy's Travels in the United
States.

STARTING CHILDREN IN THE WORLD. Many an unwise parent labours hard and lives sparingly all his life to give his children a start in the world. Setting a young man afloat, with money left by his

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Baptisms.

UNITED STATES-Baptismal Scene in
Penfield, N. Y.-For some months past
there has been a good state of religious
interest in the church in Penfield.
Weekly prayer meetings have been sus-
stained through the summer, the result
of which, by the blessing of God, has
been the conversion of a number of
precious souls, and the reclaiming of the
wanderer to the fold of Christ. Several
have united with the church and are
doing valiantly in the cause of the Re-
deemer. Among the number referred to
as having experienced emancipating
is a young lady educated a Roman-
grace
ist. The circumstances connected with
her rescue from papal influence are of so
marked a character, that I beg the in-
dulgence of the reader while I recite
some of the most important. In 1851,
an Irishman, named John Collins, came
with his family to this country. He was
a devoted Romanist, and being a man of
considerable influence among them, and

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o seek the Lord, asked the Christians, attended the prayer and soon obtained deliverance hrough the blood of the Lamb. several others, united with the urch, and sabbath, Oct. 1st, ed to administer the ordinance 1. The spirit of Romanism to develop its real characterer parents raved and threatife, and her father said, that if for the law he would kill her is he would a snake. On one e, with several others, attempther from Griswold's by force, on found his way out of doors. fterwards put under bonds to eace. As the time drew near n, the Romanists became exuch a degree that they seemed d on a demonstration, and some tacked Griswold's house, broke ow with stone, &c., and it is some Romanists in the city of were heard to say that if she zed it should be in Protestant statement came to the ears of t class called Know Nothings de such use of it as he thought The sabbath for baptism at ived, and early that morning strangers from different localig their way to Penfield, and time for public services came, with it a large number of those who were quietly seated in the od, and attentively listened to e on the subject of christian by the pastor of the church, sten) These exercises closed

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Narsigdarchoke.-One man was bap-militant to join th tized by Mr. Lewis at this place on the third Sunday in October.

Rangoon.-A recent letter states :"During the last two months there have been baptized at this station, exclusive of Burmese, two hundred and thirty Karens. Within the last six months, six new churches have been formed, making twelve new churches and seven hundred and forty-one baptized, since we came to Rangoon. It is not enough that some of the older churches support themselves, but we have just formed a Karen Home Missionary Society under pleasing and hopeful appearances. As liberality has always been a very prominent characteristic of the Karen churches, we hope to see them not only supporting their own pastors and schools, but also sending out ministers and school teachers to the destitute."

Dinagepore.- Mr. Smylie had the pleasure to baptize three young persons on Lord's-day, November 12.

Sibsagor.-Assam.-On sabbath day, Oct. 15, Mr. Brown baptized three young women, belonging to Mrs. Brown's school. Agra.-On August 30, after a sermon on baptism, preached by Mr. Jackson, Mr. Williams baptized two men belong ing to Her Majesty's 8th (King's own) Regiment, at the chapel in the cantonments. On November 1, Mr. Jackson baptized two men of the same Regiment. Berhampore, Orissa. Mr. Bailey writes:-"We had a baptism on Sunday, Nov. 5, when two young friends from the Asylum put on Christ. They have been candidates for more than a year, and we trust they will continue to the end."

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season of stillness have been again m of Dec. 24, our pa down into the wa young man, the sor his late grandfathe tist minister, and h a baptist church; t mise, instead of the the children.

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of the past year, M six believers, who to the church. One was a converted H copal church, who Brussels as a missi

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