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has been made the power of God unto salvation, but more frequently direct appeals to the conscience in private have been blessed.

The affectionate warnings and invitations of young converts, whose hearts have glowed with ardent desires for the salvation of their fellow creatures, have often had the happiest effects. They have been encouraged to exhort in conferences, and their exhortations have served in good measure to keep alive the interest of these meetings. Though persons who are just born into the kingdom of Christ may not speak with the clearness and accuracy which are expected in christians of longer experience, yet their addresses, flowing from lips recently touched with a live coal from off the altar of God, are calculated to exert a powerful and salutary influence. We are informed that when the woman of Samaria, having just tasted of the water of life, went into the city and said to all around, Come, see a man that told me all things that ever I did ;" and inquired, "Is not this the Christ? Many believed for the saying of the woman."

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The ordinance of baptism has also been signally owned of God as an instrument of awakening sinners in this revival. Several date the commencement of their religious exercises from the impressions made upon their minds at the water-side.

One instance, in particular, deserves notice. A man in the north part of Saugus who had long been a decided Universalist, and exerted considerable influence among his neighbours in favour of universal salvation, having heard that several were to be baptized, was prompted by curiosity to witness the ceremony. As the last candidate, a lovely youth of fifteen, was raised from the water, conviction seized his mind. He looked forward to the judgment, and reflected on the eternal separation that would then be made between him and this youth His universal sentiments forsook him, and he returned home in a state of deep anxiety. His conviction lasted several days. He viewed himself to be a lost sinner, and justly exposed to "the wrath to come." One day as he was passing alone through a wood, he often kneeled down by the side of the way and begged for mercy. At length this passage of Scripture occurred to his mind, "I know that my Redeemer liveth." use his own expressions, his "heart leaped for joy," and he then "kneeled down and devoutly thanked God for the gift of such a Saviour."

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He had conceived a strong aversion to those principles usually called Calvinistick, and even after this change in his feelings said, in conversation with a brother, that he would as soon return to Universalism as to embrace Calvinism. But having made this expression, he thought it was possible he had gone too far. Beseeching God to guide him into truth, and going to the Bible for direction, he opened without design to the 8th and 9th chapters of Romans. The reasoning of the apostle in these chapters completely revolutionized his views. He has since been baptized, and we hope he is walking in "the truth as it is in Jesus."

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The displays which God has cently been pleased here to make of his power and love have excited considerable interest in the minds of his friends in the metropolis and in other neighbouring towns, and we have often been made glad by their presence. We are particularly indebted to our brethren Paul, Jacobs, and Jackson, for their iabours of love among us, and trust they have not been in vain in the Lord.

The meeting of the Association was blessed of God to the promotion of the good work of grace. We had looked forward to that meeting with raised expectations, nor were these expectations disappointed. We enjoyed repeated seasons of refreshing from the presence of the Lord." Some received impressions in connexion with the Association which have since issued in hopeful conversion.

In conclusion it may not be improper to remark that this revival has been almost exclusively confined to the Baptist Society. I have been informed however that there have been six or eight instances of conversion in the oth

er.

We pray that it may reach every family and every heart in town.

Finally, I have enjoyed for several months "a feast of ingathering" I consider myself the most unworthy of all to receive the blessings which my gracious Lord has conferred upon me, and have much reason to say, "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits."

Asking an interest in your prayers that God would make me more humble, more faithful, and still more successful, permit me to subscribe myself,

Your brother and companion,
In the kingdom and patience

Of Jesus Christ,
GUSTAVUS F. DAVIS.

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Monies received by the Treasurer of the Executive Committee of the Massachusetts Baptist Education Society from Sept. 20, to Oct. 20, 1826.

1st Bap. Ch. & Soc. Charlestown, 14,00 3d. Bap. Ch. and Soc. Boston,

Lucy Fosdick, Charlestown,
Sab. School children, do.

2d Bap. Ch. & Soc. Haverhill,
Contribution at concert of pray-
er, Chelmsford,

Male and Fem. Ed Soc. Beverly,
Fem. Mite Soc do. for Mr. Peck,
2d Ch. and Soc. Boston,
Fem. Ben. Soc. Newburyport,
Newburyport Bap. Ben. Society,
Bap Ch. and Soc. Cambridge,
do. do. Lynn,

African Ch Boston,

76,44 Boston Fem. Ed. Soc. for Newton
4,00 Theological Institution,

85,00

1,00 1st Ch. and Soc. Salem, 17,35
1,00 Salem Fem. Juv. Ed.

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5,00 Soc.

38,58

Annual Subscriptions,

by gentlemen of Salem, 41,00
per Rev. R. Babcock,

-107,84

7,50 Miss Sukey Nixon, by Rev. C.
5,64 Train,

,50

50,00

13,75 A friend at Lincoln,

,63

Fem. Ed. Soc. Haverhill,

16,00 Fem. Bap. Ed. Soc. Newton and

Bap. Ch. and Soc. Methuen,

5,50

vicinity, per Mrs. Bacon,

32,00

do.

do. Littleton,

8,70

Ed. box, Mrs. Grafton,

1,16

A friend at Lowell, by Rev. J.
Cookson,

Dividend on Stocks,

316,50

2,00

2d Bap. Fem. Ed. Soc. Salem, for
Newton Theological Ins.
2d Ch. and Soc, Salem, collection,

Young Men's Society, Boston,
December 1825,

150,00

30,00

Cash of Rev. Irah Chase, to consti

9,00

tute him a trustee for life of Ed. So. 50,00

Rev. G. F. Davis, South Reading,

1,00

Interest on note,

57,00

Fem. Cent Soc. Beverly,

4,62

Dea. Benj. Kent, Danvers,

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Rev. Wm. Gammell,

Monies received by the Treasurer of the Baptist Missionary Society of Massachu

setts, from May 31, to Oct. 7, 1826.

By cash of Rev. E. Andrews,

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Irah Chase,

Salem Bap. Ch. and Soc.

cal School at the West,

1,00 By cash Sec Ch. & Soc. Boston,

87,81

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a friend of missions in
Roxbury, for Theologi-

10,00

1,00

from do. for missions,

2,00

Two children, by G. F.

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interest of six per cent Stock,

4,50

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A. Fisher, jr.

1,00

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Joseph Ballard,

1,00

lumbian Bank, April,

6,00

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Joel Briggs,

1,00

from a young lady in the

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Benjamin Putnam,

1,00

First Bap. Ch. Boston,

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Mission Box, Danvers,

4,25

by Mr. Wayland, for

Rev. G. F. Davis,

1,00

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benefit of Mr. J. M. Peck,

2,00

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Rev. C. O Kimball,

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female friend, for Mr. Peck,

1,00

Rev. J. Grafton,

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Mission Box, Prayer

By cash coll. by Rev, J. M. Peck, viz.
Collection first Bap. Ch. Paw-

Meetings, Roxbury,

15,45

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Rev. C. C. P. Crosby,

1,00 Collection first Bap: Ch. Provi

Rev. E. Nelson,

1,00

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dence, R. I.

9,60

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collected after Missionary

Donation from John Turney,

Sermon, at 2d Baptist

Weston, Ct.

1,00

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Collection Bap. Ch. Hartford, 30,70
Catherine Raymond, N. York,

,50

do. 10,00

do. 10,00

Wm. Brown,

do. 5,00

Wm. Hovey,

do.

1,00

Ebenezer Hovey, do.

1,00

Collection,

26,87

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Mission box at Vestry,

13,56

Collection Bap. Ch. Mulberry

Street, N. York,

Do. third Bap. Ch. Phila. 13,50
Do. New Market-St. Bap.
Ch. Philadelphia, 10,23
From a few individuals, Pough-
keepsie, N. Y.

Collection Bap. Ch., Amenia,

35.05

2,87

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Account of Monies received by the Treasurer of the General Convention of the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions, &c. from Sept. 2, to Oct. 18, 1826.

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Mr. E. Lincoln,

from Male Mite Society, St. Amanas, L. C.

Female do. do.
from Female Benevolent Soc. Stanbridge, L. C.
from Mite Society, Franklin, Vt.
donation from Mrs. Murray, St. Amanas, by

Mr. John Hovey, Treasurer of the Baptist
Auxiliary Society for the County of Kenne-
beck, Me. by the hand of Wm. Day, per Mr.
E. Lincoln,
from James M'Crillis, Esq. Treasurer of the
Waldo, Me. Auxiliary Foreign Missionary
Society, per Mr. E. Lincoln,
from Mrs. Lydia Gordon, Belfast, Me.
Levi Farwell, Esq. it having been received by
him, as Treasurer of the Boston Baptist As-
sociation, at their late annual meeting in
South Reading, as follows, viz.

from concert of prayer, Chelmsford, Indian

Mission,

Female Missionary Society, Chelmsford, and

32,55

2,00 2,00

Chessman,

13,25

Male Primary Society, Bowdoinham,

· 7,02

55,00

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36,00 1,00

11,27

Winthrop Male Primary Society,

13,91

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5,42

2,50

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Fem. Charitable Soc. do.

,50

7,00

Received by Rev. Professor Briggs,

-67,33

from Mrs. Sally Allen, Treasurer of the first
Female Primary Society, in Sedgwick, by
Capt. Tibbets, for Burman missions,
from Warren Association, collected at North
Randolph, received through Rev. G. Evans,
from Mrs. Rachel Newcomb, President, and
Eliza C. Newcomb, Treasurer of the Fox-
borough and Mansfield Fem Miss. Soc. Aux-
iliary, &c. through Dea. J. Loring,

Female Burman School Society, Haverhill, 13,00
Fem. Charitable Society, Littleton, Burman

Mission,

13,00

17,10

Mission box, Littleton, Burman mission, 12,10
Female Foreign Mission Soc. Lowell,

27,00

17.21

Collection monthly concert, Lowell,
Woburn Female Domestic Missionary Society
Carey Station,

13,50

16,00

12,62

a Fem. friend in Milton for Burman mission, from Joshua Tucker, for Burman Mission.

,70

5,00

from Joshua Tucker, (14th April,) for do.
Andrew Witham, Esq. Treasurer of the Han-
cock Auxiliary Society, Me. forwarded by Mr.
Otis Witham, per Mr. E. Lincoln,
Mrs. Abigail Greenleaf, of Templeton, for-
warded by Rev. E. Andrews,

10,00

Female Mite Society, Framingham, to edu-
cate a Burman named Charles Train, 15,85
Miss Sukey Nixon, by Rev. Charles Train, 1,00
do.
by
Western Mission,

do. for

Malden Female Mite Society,

,50 18,90

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from Rev. Dr. Chaplin, for Burman Mission,
profits on the publication of the sermon de-
livered at the ordination of Rev. Mr Boardman, 16,CO
from North Yarmouth Minor Female Benevo-
lent Society, for the support of a pious Bur-
man youth to be called Stephen Chapin, re-
ceived by C, Stockbridge, Esq.

Mrs. J. C. Greely, Nottingham West,
Mrs Burnham,
do.
Primary Missionary Society, Milford,
Female
do.
do.
Friend of Missions, Milford,
Mission box, kept by Mrs. Everett, Milford,
Carey Station,

,50

,50

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36,07

34,59

20,00

1,64

-269,42

718,72

23,00

H. LINCOLN, Treas.

To Correspondents.

Several communications have been received, but are necessarily postponed until our next Number.

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HAVING again failed in his attempts to introduce Christianity on the Susquehannah, Mr. Brainerd returned to Crosweeksung; and, on his arrival, was much struck with the vast difference between the Indians in that quarter, and his congregation at this place. To dwell with the one was like being banished from God and all his saints; to live with the other, like being received into his presence and his family. Yet only a few months before, these were as thoughtless, as barbarous, as averse to Christianity, as those on the Susquehannah; but now, instead of engaging in idolatrous feasts and drunken revels, they worshipped the God of heaven, received his word, and lived devoted to his glory. Such is the power of divine grace! Such the transforming influence of the gospel!

On resuming his labours at Crosweeksung, Mr. Brainerd beheld the same powerful and happy effects attend his ministry as before. He was often wonderfully assisted in his publick discourses, being enabled to accommodate his DEC. 1826.

sentiments and his expressions to the understanding of the Indians, in such a manner, as he never could have done by the most careful study; yet he spoke with as much ease and freedom, as if he had been addressing an ordinary congregation, who had been instructed in the principles of Christianity from their early years. A dry eye was often scarcely to be seen in their assemblies; yet there was no disturbance of the publick worship: a deep impression was made on their hearts ; but there was no boisterous agitation of their passions. All was powerful and efficacious; yet calm and peaceful.

One day after a sermon on the new birth, by which a general and deep impression was made on the minds of the Indians, many of them followed Mr. Brainerd to his lodgings, and begged to be further instructed in the way of salvation; but he had not spoken long, when they were so affected with what he said, that they filled the house with their cries and groans. Almost all whom he apprehended in an unconverted state, were.

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seized with concern for their souls; it seemed as if none, whether old or young, would now be left. No pen can describe the interesting scene. Numbers might be seen rejoicing that God had not taken his Holy Spirit from them, and delighted to behold so many of their countrymen "striving to enter in at the strait gate." Others, both men and women, both young and old, might be seen dissolved in tears, some of them so overwhelmed with anguish, that they seemed like malefactors on the way to execution. The whole scene exhibited a striking emblem of the day of judgment; of heaven and hell; of infinite joy, and of inexpressible misery.

With the view of improving the Indians in Christian knowledge, Mr. Brainerd now began a catechetical exercise among them. Sometimes he examined them on some important point of divinity; sometimes on the discourses he had delivered to them; but most commonly on the Assembly's Shorter Catechism. In these catechetical exercises, he had much satisfaction. It was truly surprising to see how readily and scripturally the Indians answered the questions proposed to them : their knowledge of the principles of religion was found on trial far more extensive and correct, than could reasonably have been expected. When Mr. Brainerd began this exercise, he was apprehensive it would necessarily prove of so doctrinal a nature, as merely to enlighten the understanding, without impressing the conscience, or af fecting the heart. But in this he was mistaken, for it was remarkably blessed for promoting their progress in experimental as well as in theoretical knowledge. The serious attention, the tender affection, the many tears which of ten appeared at these catechetical meetings, would have been deemed very extraordinary, had not

these things been now so common that they ceased to excite surprise.

In February, 1746, a school was opened for instructing the Indians in reading and writing the English language, &c. under the care of an excellent schoolmaster, whom Mr. Brainerd had procured for this purpose. About thirty children immediately entered it, and made such surprising progress, that the teacher remarked, he never had English scholars who, taking them in general, learned so rapidly. Of the whole of this number, there were not more than two, though some of them were very young, but what made themselves masters of all the letters of

ter the opening of the school; some in that short time even made some progress in spelling, and in less than five months were able to read the New Testament. Besides the children, there were about fifteen or twenty of the old people who attended the school at night, when the length of the evenings would admit of it.

Besides attending to the religious and moral improvement of the Indians, Mr. Brainerd was anxious to obtain for them a fixed settlement, and to form them to habits of industry. Having in time past run themselves in debt by their excessive drinking, and several of them having been arrested by the white people on this account, he was apprehensive they might be deprived of a great part of their lands; and being convinced that they could not remain in that quarter of the country, nor maintain the order of a Christian congregation, should their ground be taken from them, he prevailed on the gentleman who had the superintendence of the mission, to expend a considerable sum of money in discharging the debts of the Indians, and thus averted the danger which threatened them. Having by this means

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