information of our brethren in the statistics of those communities who are united in the holiest and best of causes-the practical enjoyment and thorough restoration of the Original Institution of the Messiah.-A. C.

BOON COUNTY, Mo. September 29, 1837.

As it may be of some satisfaction to you, I will annex an account of the congregations heard from, with their place of location, number, increase, &c. In some instances they may not be correct, but the object was always to be below than exceed the number.→→ Wherever inaccuracies are found it is hoped the friends will correct them, as our object is not to deceive, but to exhibit correct intelligence.

Name of the place

Dover,

Added

church meets.

When planted.

Randolph county,

57

A. D. 1837

Middle Fork,

Do.

Union,

East Fork of Chariton,

Millersburg,

Callaway,

51

1836

Fulton,

Do.

Persin,

Boon,

47

1835

I humbly trust the above information may be acceptable to you and your readers, and that others may be stimulated to give similar intelligence; for I know that the public have very incorrect knowledge of the strength, growth, and influence of those who are contending for the faith once delivered to the saints. THOMAS M ALLEN.

-Having a few moments leisure, and knowing that you rejoice to hear that the disciples are walking in the truth, and that the Redeemer's kingdom is enlarging its borders and strengthening its stakes, I take pen in hand to inform you that the disciples in this city have recently been made to feel the necessity of greater devotedness and exertion in the cause of the King Messiah.

For several weeks past there have been indications of what is generally termed a revival fy the congregation meeting in Sycamore street. A spirit of prayer and of supplication has been manifest among many of its members. The consequence is, that love, joy, and peace abound among us; and for several weeks last past we have had additions to our number. Last week we immersed two-to-day (Saturday) four more put on the Lord by being immersed into his precious name. In all some 15 or 20 have bowed to the King within a few days past, Brother Challen delivers a discourse on each Lord's day morning and evening; also, on each Friday evening. We meet for mutual edification on each Thursday evening. A female prayer meeting is held on every Tuesday, and a Bible clues is about to be held on each Friday afternoon. Brother Challen is engaged in the work heart and soul, and has, under the Great Head of the Church, been the happy justrument of bringing about this state of things. Our meeting-house, which you know is large, is well filled each Lord's day morning and at 3 o'clock P. M. to witness the large assembly convened to show forth the Saviour's death, is calculated to call forth thanksgiving to our heavenly Father, and cause us to exclaim, What hath God wrought!

I have just been informed that some five or six intelligent brethren and sisters, from the Christian Church in this place, are about to unite with us; also, that there are severa L

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more almost persuaded to become Christians, and will no doubt soon be buried with their Lord in baptism.

The more I know of the ancient gospel, the more am I convinced that it is the power of God unto salvation to every soul that believes it; and the more am I convinced also that the systems of men, so far as they are human, will effect but little in the great work of converting the world. T. CRANE.

WHEELING, Va., January 17, 1838.

I am happy to inform you of my success in the gospel for the last three weeks in the congregations of Middletown and Morristown, Ohio. I spent one week in each congregation, in which time I immersed 14 persons into the name of the Lord Jesus.

J. H. JONES.

STANFORD, Lincoln county, Ky., December 26, 1837.

Since I saw you in Georgetown I have been laboring in that portion of the vineyard of Christ allotted to me by the Christian congregations in Lincoln and Garrard counties of this state. It gives me much pleasure to be able to add, that I find my services acceptable to the brethren and in a considerable degree popular with the sects and the world. I have, however, much to lament. There is a degree of ignorance and a strength of prejudice manifested often to the excitement of painful emotions of pity and sorrow in any breast; but knowing that I am called and sent by the churches for the defence and proclamation of the gospel, I feel this view of the state of my fellow-citizens inspiring me with more generous feelings and noble sentiments towards them, and prompting me to use the mildest and most approved means of cure.

Since I wrote to you in last September there has been an accession to the churches in in my circuit of about 30 persons. The present, however, seems to be rather a seed-time: but the prospect of a good harvest is encouraging. WM. BEGG. GEORGETOWN, Ky., February 8, 1838. We have just closed a most interesting meeting of 13 days at this place. Brother Gano was the speaker, while the brethren with one aocord held up his hands. We had 39 added to our congregation-amongst the number were my son and daughter. All those of my family who are old enough are in the kingdom. It was a most blessed time. The additions here including Christmas, amount to about 55-nine of them are students. The additions at Paris recently are 117, and at Millersburg 34. Praised be the name of the Lord. [Amen!-A. C.] J. T. JOHNSON.

DUBUQUE, W. T., November 16, 1837.

The good work of the Lord has again revived in this country. Last Lord's day was a "week I immersed two into the name of Jesus Christ. Last Lord's day brother Weaver immersed one. The prospect appears good for more shortly. Brother Weaver is a worthy proclaimer, a merchant, lately settled in Dubuque.

J. BAUGH.

CHARLESTOWN, Ind., January 31, 1838. The cause is not progressing here as well as we could wish. We pray and hope for better times. This can be effected in a good degree by doing better. The Baptist friends ! are moving slowly. Some two or three of the old school who belonged to our congrega. tion have joined them. They have baptized none. Of those that left us are one or two white women and one black woman, who could be spared very well.

* A week or two ago brother Jacob Wright immersed ten at Coffee Creek, Jennings county, and three from the Baptists joined the disciples-so I was informed by a brother yesterday, who conversed with brother Wright. /M. COLE.

Brother W. O. Conner, of Euclid, Ohio, who is now appointed by the church in that place to preach the word, under date of 29th January, says that church, which was organ. ized some ten years since with ten members, owing to the many embarrassments and much opposition, only yet numbers fifty-eight members besides those that have migrated to other countries.-A. C.

The church in Alleghanytown, Pa. still increases by regular accessions. We had the pleasure of spending two Lord's days with it since our last number. The church in Pittsburg bas heen recently re organized, and is doing much better. It now meets in one of the public school-rooms, and begins to increase. The growth of a Christian body is generally a sympton of health; while a steady and gradual decrease is a pretty sure sign of approaching dissolution. A church of two members is within one step of the graves A.C.

FEMALE SEMINARIES.

GOOD seminaries for young ladies are exciting considerable interest and attention in our community in many parts of the country. The education of the female sex, I contend, is at least of equal importance to society as the education of our own. In moral results it is perhaps, greater Their influence in extending and perpetuating general education, as well as their moral influence, is likely to be greater than ours. We therefore regard it as a happy omen that this subject is being discussed more and more every year. Our brethren are patronizing several very flourishing institutions of this sort. That of brother Fall, near Frankfort, Kentucky, who has now the best philosophical apparatus belonging to any private school in Kentucky-perhaps in America, is one of the oldest. We learn, however, that he has had to refuse very many applicants. Brother Fanning and his accomplished lady, have also established a very flourishing female seminary in Franklin, Tennessee. It is, we are happy to learn, very well patronize 1. And now brother Thornton F. Johnson, of Bacon College, is about establishing, on an enlarged and very flattering plan, a female seminary at Georgetown, Ky. I am not sure whether brother Ilicks, near Lexington, yet continues his. This of brother T. F. Johnson's is designed for the special not exclusive accommodation of the female relatives of those young gentlemen in attendance at Bacon College. I am aware, from some experience and much observation, that these institutions can be fountains of great good or of great evil to a community. Great blessings are easily perverted into great curses. If piety and morality are enthroned in these institutions, every thing is safe; if otherwise, I had rather keep my daughters at home, and educate them so as to insure the greatest good to them, rather than for the sake. of fashion and a name, to have their hearts sown in the beginning of life with a thousand follies which will produce years of anguish on earth, and perhaps an eternity of woe hereafter. I trust our brethren who have in charge, and those who are about having in A. C. charge such institutions, will never lose sight of this.

CONSOLIDATED FORCES.

THE "Christian," "Christian Preacher," and the "Christian Panoplist," have all united, amalgamated, and combined in the CHRISTIAN PREACHER, now conducted by Elders D. S Burnet and J. T. Johnson, of Georgetown, Ky. The "Christian Panoplist," very ably conducted by our highly gifled and eloquent brother Hunter, and "The Christian," recently edited by brother Johnson, whose praise is in all the churches of Kentucky, when united and incorporated with the "Christian Preacher," cannot fail to make, that work, highly acceptable to the brethren and the reading public. The first discourse from the pen of our inuch esteemed brother Benjamin F. Hall on the conversion of Cornelius, a part of which only appears in the first number, is worth the price of the "Christian Preacher" for one year. I have read all that discourse with more than ordinary pleasure, and conceive it to be admirably adapted to the present crisis, and certainly it is one of the best I have ever read on the calling of the Gentiles.Its author is distinguished for a clear, orderly, well-balanced, and vigorous mind, and he has well studied this subject, and very convincingly arranged his thoughts upon it. I wish it were read by at least a million of our halting, doubting, fearing, pious, sectarian riends and fellow-professors.

A. C.

QUERIES FOR NEXT NUMBER.

WHETHER had we better, to save from the error of their way, treat as aliens all unhaptized persons, or acknowledge them as worshippers of the true God, and as a kind of half. way Christians?- M. W. Jan. 1838.

Did the Lord never use things that had no real existence in his parables; or, in other words, had all the things mentioned in the parables a real existence?M. W. 1838.

What is a church to do when its Elders leave them on the Lord's day and go to other meetings among the sects?-Mrs. T.

Ought Christians to pray with any with whom they would not commune in all religious or Christian institutions?-Dr. J.

PPCPOSALS, by D. S Burnet, of Georgetown, Ky, for publishing the second stereotype edition of THE CHRISTIAN BAPTIST; revised by him, from Mr. Alexander Campbell's second edition, with Mr. Campbell's lust and permanent corrections.

The work comprises about 1800 pages of the seven volumes of the Christian Baptist, in one large and handsome royal octavo volume of 760 pages, two columns on a page,-at the reduced price of $3,00, substantially bound in sheep, or four copies for $10,00. Or, where it is preferred, the work can be separated into seven volumes, as it was originally, and any of these single volumes, done up in paper covers, can be sold for 37 cents per copy, or $3,00 for ten single copies. When the first stereotype edition was published, two and a half years since, the inanuscript prospectus required but $3,00 for the complete work; but the printer, who was a bookseller and publisher, dissuaded from the low price as insufficient and unsafe; therefore the price was $4,00 And though that edition has been disposed of, the size of the work and the expenses of stereotyping, with many losses, have prevented the return of all the monies expended; but having the plates, and being impelled by a desire for its general circulation, he offers the Christian Baptist at the above prices, which put it within the reach of all. This statement, it is hoped, will prove satis factory to those who purchased the first edition.

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It is to be understood that this prospectus is for the benefit of the agent. I can send no single copies but by mail in sheets, nor can I supply boxes of books for agents to retail from, at my risk, except where there is a special contract. When the book leaves my hands, it is the property of him who orders it. Unless there is a large number ordered at an early date, the edition cannot be published; therefore the friends of the work are requested to be active. I can be addressed on the subject through my general agents, or directly, the letters being post paid.

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NOTICE.

Brother A. Graham, formerly of Tuscaloosa, Ala, and co-editor of The Disciple published in that place, has removed to Springfield, Ill., and proposes there to publish a periodical to be entitled "The Berean." May success crown his efforts! From my ae. quaintance with brother Graham, as a Christian and as a writer, I heartily recommend the proposed work to all who desire to become acquainted with the principles and practices for which we plead. B. F. HALL.

NOTICE.

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ERLATOK. For “February” read MARCH, in the first page of this number.

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VOLUME II.- -NUMBER IV.

BETHANY, VA. APRIL, 1838.

MORALITY OF CHRISTIANS-No. IV.

THE religious and moral education of children and servants has not yet sufficiently arrested the attention of those who would be righteous. Few Christian parents, and still fewer Christian masters, seem to know that the eternal destiny of all the infants given them is, in a great measure, in their hands. The language that a child shall speak, the associations of ideas which it may form on religion, morality, and politics, and the habits which it may acquire, are, in a general way, all committed to its parents and guardians. They must plant the seeds of truth or error, of righteousness or iniquity, of life or death in the hearts of those dear little creatures that God has lent them. If they wisely and faithfully use the moral instruments which he has given them in those tender years while every thing is soft-the mind unsophisticated by false reasonings, the memory unoccupied with tares, and the affections disengaged from unworthy objects; if they will then pour the fresh instruction from the books of Nature and of Grace over their opening faculties, and lead their souls to Him from whom all blessings flow: if they will talk to them often of sin and death by Adam, and of righteousness and life by Christ: if they will season all their communications with the unaffected breathings of a prayerful spirit, and let their fervent ejaculations to the heavenly Father intermingle with all their efforts; and above all, if they will constantly and cousistently exemplify their lessons in their own practice, their children and wards will rise up and call them blessed, and they shall reap an eternal harvest of honor and bliss in participating with them the joys of immortality. What a felicity!

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