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3. There shall be, annually, at the seat of the Establishment, a General Meeting of the Missionaries, to make report of their labours and success for the past year; a summary of which shall be laid before the Societies supporting the establishment ;-and also to concert such measures as they shall deem best calculated to promote the cause of religion within their own bounds.

4. Should any Missionary of this Establishment act unbecoming the character of a Christian Missionary, it shall be the duty of this Establishment to inform the Society from which he was sent.

5. Any Bibles or Tracts forwarded to the Establishment, shall be faithfully disposed of, agreeably to the wishes of the donors. 6. In regard to church government, the Missionaries of this Establishment are to take for their rule, the plan jointly recommended by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church and the General Association of Connecticut.

7. Any Missionaries wishing instructions relative to their labours previous to the first General Meeting of the Establishment, can receive the same, on application to the Rev. Timothy Harris, of Granville.

The above plan, sir, is deemed best calculated to unite the efforts and secure the pecuniary aid of the people in this country, do lasting good, and prepare the way, by gathering churches and forming congregations for the permanent settlement of Gospel Ministers. It will also open a more inviting door for the employment of ministers who have families, and afford them much encouragement. It is also thought advisable that a similar Establishment be formed in every needy state and territory, as early as possible; that all Missionary Societies may know where to send their Missionaries, and have them labour to the best advantage.

Not knowing who the Secretary of the Massachusetts Missionary Society is, we beg leave, sir, to address this letter to you, with a request that you would lay it before the Board, Committee or Directors of that Society as early as possible; and also (in case the Foreign Mission Society are turning their attention this way) before their honourable Board. By so doing, you will oblige Yours, &c.

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LYMAN POTTER,

SAMUEL P. ROBBINS,

TIMOTHY HARRIS,

BURR BALDWIN, Missionary.

P. S. Possibly the publication of the above plan may be of You are at liberty, sir, to make any use of it, and also of the letter, that you may think proper. The country is deplorably destitute; and it seems as if something must be done,

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New-Haven Auxiliary Bible Society.

From the Religious Intelligencer.

ON Thursday, the 17th inst. agreeable to notice, a number of gentlemen of this city, and of the adjacent towns, convened at the State-House, for

the purpose of forming a Bible Society for the city and county of NewHaven, Auxiliary to the American Bible Society: when the following Re solutions were adopted as the Constitution of the Society.

1. That the object and Constitution of the American Bible Society have the cordial approbation of this meeting.

2. That a Society be formed to be called The Auxiliary Bible Society of the city and county of New-Haven, for the purpose of co-operating with the American Bible Society in promoting the distribution of the Holy Scriptures both at home and abroad.

3. That, conformably to the principles of the Parent Institution, the Bibles and Testaments to be circulated by this Society shall be without note or comment, and of the authorized version only.

4. That all persons subscribing and paying one dollar per annum, or upwards, shall be members of this Society; and that all who subscribe and pay 10 dollars at any one time, shall be members for life.

5. That the business of this Society shall be conducted by a President, Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, Secretary, Auditor, and a Committee, con*sisting of twelve members.

6. That every clergyman who is a member of this Society, shall be entitled to attend and vote at the meetings of the Committee.

7. That the Committee shall meet once in two months, or oftener, on some day to be fixed by themselves.

8. That the Committee divide this County into districts, and appoint twò or more persons in each district, who may associate with themselves any, subscribers for the purpose of soliciting subscriptions and donations from the inhabitants thereof; and that they establish proper agents and correspondents in different parts of the county.

9. That the whole of the subscriptions and donations received by the Society shall be from time to time remitted, after deducting incidental expenses, to the Parent Institution, in consideration of the advantages held out to Auxiliary Societies, viz.: that all such societies shall be allowed to receive Bibles at cost from that Society for distribution within their own districts.

10. That, for the still further promotion of the circulation of the Scriptures, it is expedient to encourage the formation of Branch Societies in the various towns or parishes within the County. Such branch societies and their members to be entitled to the same privileges from the Auxiliary Society, as it, and its individual members, enjoy from the Parent Institution. 11. That for the purpose of giving full effect to the benevolent design of the American Bible Society, the Committee shall make it their business to inquire, what families or individuals residing within their several districts are in want of Bibles or Testaments and unable to procure them; and it shall be the duty of the Committee to furnish them therewith at prime cost, at reduced prices, or gratis, according to their circumstances.

12. That all clergymen, or others, within the County, making collections in their respective Societies in behalf of the institution, shall be entitled, on remitting such collections to the Treasurer, to receive Bibles and Testaments to an amount not exceeding one half of the said respective collections, estimated at prime cost, as shall be found to be needed by the poor in the vicinity; such return of Bibles and Testaments to be claimed within one year from the remittance of such collection.

13. That a General Meeting of the members be held at the city of NewHaven the third Wednesday of October in each year; when the accounts shall be presented, the proceedings of the past year stated, officers chosen, a new Committee appointed, and a Report agreed upon to be printed under the direction of the Committee, and circulated among the members.

14. Voted, That this Society reserve to itself the right of becoming aux iliary to the Connecticut Bible Society, whenever the latter Society shall become auxiliary to the American Bible Society, on terms to be approved of by this Society.

Officers for the present year.

Rev. Timothy Dwight, D. D. President.

Hon. Judge Baldwin, David Dagget, Dyer White, Rev. M. Gillet, VicePresidents.

Rev. Nathaniel W. Taylor, Secretary.

William Leffingwell, Esq. Treasurer.

Rev. Bezaleel Pineo, Rev. Erastus Scranton, Rev. Saul Clark, Rev. John Elliott, Rev. Zephaniah Swift, Mr. Benjamin Silliman, Mr. Jeremiah Day, Mr. Nathan Whiting, Mr. G. W. Stanley, Mr. James L. Kingsly, Eleazer Foster, Esq. Samuel J. Hitchcock, Esq. Committee.

The Female Bible Society of Boston has lately become Auxiliary to the American Bible Society.

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Extract of a letter to the Editor of the Recorder, dated Locke, Cayuga county, New-York, Oct. 4, 1816. "The Lord, at the present time, is visiting this people in awonderful and gracious manner. For several months past an increasing attention to religion has been gaining upon the minds of the people, about five or six weeks ago some instances of deep conviction were witnessed in one part of the society, which, we hope, have terminated in saving conversion. Since then, the good work has been progressing gradually, till within a week past, the Holy Spirit appears to have been poured out upon us in a powerful manner. About thirty are rejoicing in hope, and many more are under very pungent convictions. Meetings are crowded, attentive, and a deep solemnity seems to possess every mind."

"A work of divine grace has, for some time past, been prevailing in Aurelius, in this county. Thirty, by the last intelligence, had been added to the church. Some months since, the town of Owasco, in this county, was favoured with an extensive revival of religion. The work was powerful, and appeared to be genuine. At the two last communions of the Dutch reformed church, more than a hundred were received to the church at each time."

CONVENTION OF EPISCOPALIANS.

A convention of the clergy and lay delegates of the Protestant Episcopal Church, within the States and parts of States, and the territories west of the Allegany mountains, is to be held in the Parish of St. John's Church, at Worthington, in the State of Ohio, on Monday, the 21st inst. and the succeeding days; for the purpose of erecting and constituting a regular diocese in the western country; of selecting a suitable person for the Bishop thereof, and adopting a proper course of measures, that he may be ordained or consecrated, and set apart to his office; of providing for his support and comfort: and generally, to transact such other business as The convention may think expedient and proper.

THE

CHRISTIAN HERALD.

VOL. II.] Saturday, November 9, 1816.

[No. 7.

Extracts from the 7th Report of the London Society for promoting Christianity amongst the Jews.

AFTER Congratulating the Society on the improved state of its Funds, and the opening of the Episcopal Chapel at Bethnal Green, the Report notices

The Hebrew Translation of the New-Testament.

The Gospel of St. Matthew was published more than a year ago. That of St. Mark is now published.-The first two halfsheets of St. Luke have been printed in a rough state, and sent to the literary inspectors. The translation of the first two Gospels has been honoured with the approbation of some of the first Hebrew Scholars in the kingdom. Your Committee cannot but feel that the prospect which is afforded, of speedily being enabled to circulate the New-Testament in pure Biblical Hebrew amongst the dispersed of Judah and Israel in every part of the world, will, if realized, be one of the most remarkable occurrences of the present times; and they earnestly hope that in the Divine Counsels it may be the appointed means of removing the veil which has so long covered the hearts of the ancient people of God.

Schools.

Since the last annual Report, 7 boys and 7 girls have been admitted into the schools of the Society; making the total number since the formation of the Institution, 83 boys and 59 girls. There now remain under the charge of the Institution, 51 boys, and 40 girls of which number 43 boys, and 32 girls, are in the schools in town, and the remainder, being too young for the schools, are boarded at the expense of the Society.

Jews Baptized.

Since the last Annual Report, two adult Jews have been admitted to baptism.

The case of one of these adults is worthy of particular notice. He is a native of Germany. He states that for some years past he had always, though a Jew, had a desire to know something of the Christian Faith. This desire was excited by his finding that in the Jewish Synagogues the service is unintelligible. When he was fifteen years of age he was taken from his parents as a conscript in the French armies, and served in Spain as a light horseman he was in several battles, and twice wounded. From Spain he was VOL. II.-No. 7. G

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marched into France, and thence into Germany, where he remained five months with the grand army of Bonaparte. On being ordered to march for Russia, he deserted, with six others, and got into Denmark. He next went into Sweden, where he obtained a recommendation from a Jewish gentleman to a Jew residing in Church-street, Spitalfields, nearly opposite to the Jews' Chapel. Having gone several times to hear Mr. Frey, he resolved to quit the Jews, and came to the London Society. After being under their patronage about a year, the last part of which he was in the Basket Manufactory, being daily solicited and importuned to leave the Society, he was at length tempted to do so, and went to Holland. But there he found no peace: his conscience smote him day after day. He at length returned to this country, and applied to the Society again to receive him. He was re-admitted to the Basket Manufactory, and has since conducted himself in a manner worthy of his Christian profession, and your Committee have every reason to believe that he is a true convert.

Jews' Chapel, Spitalfields.

The late arrangements, whereby the future management of the Society was placed in the hands of members of the Established Church, and the rules then adopted, which provide that public worship, in the future operations of the Society, shall be conducted according to the formularies and discipline of that church, have rendered it necessary for your Committee to discontinue the lectures at the above Chapel by Mr. Frey.

Applications have been made for the ordination of Mr. Frey in the Church of England, which have failed of immediate success ; the regulations of the Establishment not allowing the admission of a person who has so recently officiated as a public preacher, without any other authority than that of a license under the Act of Toleration.

The sphere of usefulness in which Mr. Frey may hereafter be called to act, with the greatest benefit to the cause of his Jewish brethren, is a point which as yet the Committee do not feel themselves competent to determine*.

The difficulties in which the Society was, until the present moment, known to be involved, may have inspired the unbelieving Jews with a hope that this Institution, like every former attempt which has been made to shake the prejudices of that people, will fall to the ground. But as it has already, in a great measure, emerged from its embarrassments, and is likely, with the Divine Blessing, to proceed in its course with increasing energy, we may confidently hope that the existence of so considerable a number of converted Jews, collected in one congregation, under the patronage of the Established Church, cannot fail powerfully to attract, and ultimately to command, the attention of the Jewish nation.

*The Rev. Mr. Frey's arrival in this city was mentioned in the 1st Number of this volume. Mr. F. still continues to preach with great acceptance and edification to crowded assemblies. Ep.

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