object of the Society were delivered by Rev. W. W. Hall, and the Rev. J. M. Duncan, and the meeting was closed with prayer by Mr. Duncan. From the Report we learn, that at the commencement of the year the Society had on hand 40,000 Tracts. Since that time they have printed 45,000 Tracts, and 2000 copies of their Annual Report and Appendix. During the past year they have sold and distributed gratuitously 31,958 Tracts; leaving 55,042 on hand.

The whole number of Tracts published by this Society since its formation is one hundred and twenty-three thousand four hundred and ninety-eight.

The Board of Managers, composed of different denominations of Christians, appear to be harmoniously and actively engaged in promoting the important objects of the institution, and the appeal they make to their fellow citizens in its behalf, may most aptly be addressed to the citizens of New-York. It follows:

In a large and populous city like this, one should suppose there would be numbers inclined to support a society of such approved utility as the one we are now advocating; and yet it is a fact, that many, very many otherwise well disposed christians, belonging to various denominations, have not yet come forward to bid us God speed, and to assist us in this work of love. And why this indifference, this backwardness, this inactivity? Do we exhibit any sectarian prejudice? Do we seek to promote any separate interest? Do we endeavour to accomplish any private views? If this were the case, then indeed we would deserve to be treated with neglect, to be called dishonest, and to be left to steer our own course. But what are the principles of this society? Its constitution embraces christians of every denomination. Our invitation is, come, all ye that love the Lord Jesus, come, join, and help us to enlarge his kingdom! See the many ignorant around us, unacquainted with their duty, regardless of the means to make themselves better informed, and altogether unconcerned for the awful consequences that await them. Observe the number of profane and intemperate mortals, blaspheming their Creator and Redeemer, drowning their senses by an incessant application of the inebriating cup, and hurrying their souls to the gulf of eternal perdition. Behold multitudes neglecting the ordinances of religion, seldom or never looking into the word of life, profaning the Sabbath of the Lord, and scarcely ever attending to the preaching of the gospel. Come, and help us to reclaim these poor, deluded, depraved, perishing sinners. Come, and help us, by adding the small yearly contribution we ask. Come, and unite your exertions to ours, that our sphere of usefulness may be extended. By increasing the number and variety of our little messengers, which are sent forth in the form of tracts, and by extending the limits, and increasing the force of our labours, the good that, by the Divine blessing, may be done is incalculable. We shall-and how many instances of the kind might be related-we shall become the means of instructing the ignorant, who have refused every other mode of instruction; of causing those to praise God, who before were accustomed to profane his most holy name; of leading others from habits of intemperance to habits of sobriety; of persuading many to respect the Sabbath of the Lord, and to keep it holy to frequent the house of God, instead of spending their time in houses of dissipation. All this may be done, by contributing but very little of your earthly portion, by lending but a small part of your time, by your fervent prayer for the Divine blessing. And can you withhold that which you so easily may spare, from Him, who became poor that he might make you rich? Can you refuse to spend a little of your time, to promote His cause, who spent his life in labour and sorrow, to procure for you never ending felicity? Can you, O say, can you close your heart, and withhold your assistance in leading those to the Saviour, who are going astray in the way to unutterable misery? Can you stand back, and say, the pressure of the times is too great? Will you not rather make a small sacrifice to Him, who shed his heart's blood on Calvary's hill, to wash out the sentence of your eternal condemnation, and to make you sons and daughters of God, and heirs of glory? If there be any love to God, any zeal for his glory, any affection to the Redeemer, any charity to our fellow men, let us put forth our endeavours, and work the works of Him who sent us while it is day, ever remembering that the night cometh, in which no man can work.

PRESBYTERY OF NEW-YORK.

THE Presbytery of New-York opened its Session in the Church under the pastoral care of the Rev. E. W. Baldwin, in Willet-street, on Monday evening the 8th instant. Sermon by the Rev. Moderator, Samuel H. Cox.

On Wednesday evening the Presbytery met in the Church in Springstreet, under the pastoral care of the Rev. Mr. Cox, when Mr. Daniel Waterbury, a licentiate of this Presbytery, was ordained to the work of an Evangelist in the Gospel Ministry. Introductory prayer by the Rev. William Patton. The Rev. Dr. Spring preached an appropriate Sermon from 1 Pet. i. 12-"Which things the angels desire to look into." The charge was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Romeyn, who, after the laying on of hands of the Presbytery, made the concluding prayer. Mr. Waterbury has received a commission from the " Young Men's Missionary Society" of this city, to perform Missionary labours in Delaware county,

in this state.

During the session, the Rev. Mr. Frey, with the church and congregation under his pastoral care, in Vandewater-street, were admitted into the Presbytery.

GENERAL CONVENTION OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

A special General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America has been called, to meet at Philadelphia on the last Tuesday in this month, (the 30th.) The object of this meeting is to take into consideration the expediency of removing the General Theological Seminary from New-Haven, (Conn.) to this state, in order to receive the residuary legacy left by the late JACOB SHERRED, Esq.j.

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ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE STATE OF NEW-YORK.

THE Convention was opened on Tuesday morning last in Trinity Church, in this city. Divine service was celebrated by the Rev. L. M Smith. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Henry U. Onderdonk, M. D. Rector of St. Ann's, Brooklyn, from Isaiah v. 21.-" Wo unto them that are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight."

The Holy Communion was then administered by the Right Rev. Bishop Hobart.

At 2 o'clock the Convention organized. The Rev. Benjamin T. Onderdonk was appointed Secretary, and they proceeded to business.

In the evening a sermon was preached by the Rev. Orrin Clark, of Geneva, from Rev. xiv. 6, and a collection taken up in aid of the Mission Fund.

On Wednesday, after divine service, the bishop read his annual address, and the trustees of the " Protestant Episcopal Theological Education Society" of this state presented their first annual report. From this report we learn that the Society have established two theological schools, one in this city and the other at Geneva, in the western part of this state. In the former, Bishop Hobart, Mr. Clement C. Moore, Mr. Gulian C. Verplanck, Rev. B. T. Onderdonk, have been appointed professors, and the Rev. H. J. Feltus, librarian; in the former the Rev. Dr. M'Donald, the Rev. John Read, and the Rev. Orrin Clark, have been appointed professors. The interior school has ten students, and the city school has eight.

We have neither time nor room to notice, at present, the other parts of the report, but we cannot forbear remarking the apparent confidence with which the trustees have appropriated the residuary legacy of the late Mr. Sherred to the establishment of several professorships. This legacy is still in the hands of the executors, where it will probably remain until the question shall be determined, whether the general or a local school have the right to it.

For the Christian Herald.

AN EVENING HYMN.

SAVIOUR, with thee I love to dwell,
In orient vales, on Calv'ry's steeps,
Where broken rocks thy sorrows tell,
Where fond remembrance freely weeps.

My heart would hear thy gentle call,
When forth I stray at evening hour,
O'er fields, by some lone waterfall,
That softly laves the woodland flow'r.

Oh, let me then enrol thy name

In ev'ry flow'r around my feet,
And muse on Him, who wrought its frame,
And touch'd its leaves with hues so sweet.

Or, gazing on the evening sky,
Its richly woven wreaths of gold
Have charm'd away my roving eye,
To that secluded, lovely fold,
Where all thy ransom'd flock, at last,
Shall range in trackless fields of light,
And, death's dark shade for ever past,
Eternal morn succeeds the night.

In that dear fold my soul would rest,
Yet all its pow'rs would active be,
As when a harp, with vigour press'd,
Pours forth its softest melody :

Where moves the star, to blend its beam
With the rich flush of evening tide-
And deck the clouds, which radiant seem,
As robes by angels cast aside.

Snow-Hill, Md.

B.

The Seaman's Magazine.

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. - They cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.-Psalms.

THE CONVERSION OF SEAMEN WILL ENLARGE THE PRAISES OF ZION. ADDRESS TO SEAMEN*.

You have doubtless perceived, that the profession which you have chosen is essentially connected with the interests of commerce, and the kingdom of heaven. You have special reasons for gratitude, that your vocation is sanctioned by heaven, and is destined, in the providence of God, to become a distinguished medium of conveying the rich blessings of the gospel to the numerous nations of the earth.

But while you count your high privileges, you must not forget the numerous dangers that may attend your course.

While engaged in foreign trade, you may pass through all the varieties of climate, and be exposed to all the changes of weather. Exposures, fatigues, watchings, and fastings, may engender fatal diseases, and carry you to an early grave; or they may bring on the premature decrepitude of old age. When in port you may be surrounded with the pestilence that walketh in darkness, or by the destruction that wasteth at noon day. Not only is your health in danger, but your faith may be shaken and your morals corrupted. By witnessing the divisions and corruptions of Christianity, and the varieties of her dress in different countries; by beholding a still greater diversity in the idols, and in the senseless and polluting worship of Pagans, you may become as indifferent as Gallio, or even be tempted to explode revelation and every form of religion, as the offspring of delusion. How vastly important, that your hearts should be established with grace, and that your opinions be settled in the truth, and sustained by familiar and irrefragable arguments. The luxuries, the popular vices, and the ease of secret indulgence, in great commercial cities, all combined, form a temptation by which many have been cast down, yea, by which many strong men have been slain. " Set your feet on shore therefore with the most deliberate and devout resolution to shun the spot of sin and of temptation; to flee from the very appearance of evil, to deny yourselves and take up your cross; in a word, to curb those lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition, and to keep yourselves unspotted from the world."+

Few men fill places of so much trust as yourselves. Are you the owner of both ship and cargo, then through the want of skill or judgment, or in consequence of a little inattention, all may be lost, and your family reduced to poverty and sorrow! Are you employed in the service of

* In order to give the concluding part of Mr. Chapin's Sermon to Seamen entire, we present it in the form of an address, as our limits in this number will preclude any remarks of our own. See p. 281-285 of No. IX. † Abbot's Sermons, VOL. VIII.

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others, their property to a vast amount is intrusted to your fidelity. How responsible this commitment! The ship owner, the merchant, the consignee, the reputation of yourself and connexions, and the morals and lives of your men, are all involved in your integrity!

The ease with which property may be embezzled, or clearances destroyed, and forged, makes it of the highest moment that ship commanders possess that unbending honesty, which the richest temptations can never bribe. This truth, I trust, has been strongly felt. As a body of professional men you have never been reproached with a proneness to betray the confidence of your employers.

You, my respected hearers, have long been viewed as a valuable portion of the civil community. Your calling holds a distinguished rank in the pursuits of time. Respect then yourselves as citizens and as seamen, and stand aloof from every thing that may stain your character. But, sirs, do you realize, that men of your profession are yet to be elevated to far higher and nobler stations, and are to perform services, which will enrich the kingdom of heaven to the latest moment of time, and in every point of eternity? They are to become the carriers of God's word and people, and to be helpers in diffusing the light of revelation through all the kingdoms of men.

Permit me then to press the question upon your own consciences; are you now prepared by the mercy of Christ to enter on this glorious work? For your highest welfare and usefulness, the church of God take a lively interest, and for your salvation they continue their daily prayers. You have seen the weighty reasons to desire your conversion, independent of your own personal happiness. But wave, for the present, all these considerations, and confine your thoughts to your own independent good. You, like all other men, are involved in the guilt and misery of the fall. Have you ever been convinced by the Spirit of God, that you are poor sinners? Have you learned the motives by which you have been governed, and have you been slain by the sword of the law, as was the great apostle of the Gentiles? Can you look back to some season of distressing conviction of sin, and to the period of your joyful deliverance and espousals to Christ?

You, more than most men, need the supports and consolations of religion. Your vocation requires you to spend much of your time on the bosom of the deep, far removed from domestic endearments, and from the privileges and assemblies of the house of God. Here, without grace, you are in constant peril of being lost for ever. Waters in the bilge, admitted through a worm hole gnawed in the forest centuries ago, may breed a pestilence, that may sweep you and all your comrades to a watery grave. A starting plank, or a hidden rock, or shoal, or some sudden flaw, or tempest, may sink you to the bottom. If you are in a state of impenitency your immortal interest is in continual jeopardy. Your souls are embarked, which, if lost, no price can redeem. Of what infinite moment, that they should be prepared by the grace of God, to meet death, however suddenly, and in whatever terrific forms it may come.

While far off on the sea, you may learn much of Jehovah. There you behold the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. There you behold the wonders of his goodness in making the ocean a mean both of separation and union among all the nations of the earth, and in turning it into a great store-house of provision for the support of man. There you behold the wonders of his power in keeping it within its an