gave a correct decision. In important cases his advice was almost univerally sought. The services which he has rendered to his Nation will always be remembered, and long will the Cherokees speak of him as of a great and good man. About eight years ago, national affairs caused him to go to Washington, the seat of government of the United States; and his exertions there were crowned with success : but, on this journey, through a cold, the abscess in his leg again appeared, and from that time forward he enjoyed only a few days of health. During the last six years of his life he could visit but twice here in Spring Place the first time, on occasion of the funeral of his beloved niece, our late Sister Margaret Ann Crutchfield, October 22, 1820; and again, August the 12th, of the last year, when three persons received holy baptism. We visited him as often as circumstances permitted, in Fortville; and administered to him the Holy Communion on such occasions, which always refreshed him, and drew from him the most lively expressions of gratitude. Last autumn he attended the council in Newtown for the last time: on his way home, he was obliged to encamp a night in the woods, when he took fresh cold; after which his strength decreased daily, and his complaint assumed the character of a dropsy. He, at length, was confined to his bed altogether, and suffered severe pain. Two days before his death, being visited by our Cherokee Brother Samuel, after he had saluted him, he addressed him as follows Brother, I am glad to see you once more. My time, it appears, is expired; and I must depart. I am not afraid to die, for I know that my Redeemer liveth. I know in whom I have believed, and that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day. I trust in Jesus's merits and His blood. I am His, and He will receive me, a poor sinner. We must all die : we have all to travel the same road: dust we are, and to dust we must return: this is God's appointment. If we believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who came into the world to save sinners, and ask of Him the forgiveness of our sins, our souls after death come to Him, and we inherit eternal life. The time is approaching when our mortal bodies shall be fashioned like unto His glorious body. After this our late Brother grew weaker, till he gently fell asleep, January 20th, at two o'clock in the morning, in the 60th year of his age. According to his particular request, his body was brought to Spring Place on the 22d; and having been set down before the Church, Major Ridge delivered an impressive exhortation to those assembled, concluding with the wish, that all present would follow the footsteps of this good man, who is now with God. Br. Smith then delivered a Discourse in the of our Brother's departure, the 20th, Church, on the doctrinal text of the day being John xvii. 2, in connexion with Luke x. 42. After the Sermon, we accompanied the corpse to our Burial Ground, where it was interred in the manner usual in the Brethren's Church. Proceedings and Entelligence. United Kingdom. BRITISH FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. TWENTY-THIRD REPORT. Issues of the Scriptures. THE distributions of the Scriptures from the Society's Depository during the year have amounted to 294,006 copies, being a larger number than that of any preceding year. The following numbers appear in the Appendix Issued in this country, during the Twenty-third year, Bibles, 127,142; Testaments, 166,864 — purchased and issued for the Society in Foreign Parts, during the same period, Bibles, 196,249; Testaments, 739,984-Total issued on account of the Society from its establish Spanish and Latin... Danish. Bibles. Testaments Newcastle-upon-Tyne Auxiliary, and 13 23,480 6,100 1,000 50,000 4,700 500 300 23,060 21,000 1,000 Bible Societies throughout the World. The following recapitulation shews the number, so far as information has been received, of Bible Societies throughout the world : In great Britain, connected with the British and Foreign Bible Society, 2006 -in the Colonies, connected with the same Society, 86-in Scotland, 160—in Ireland, connected with the Hibernian Bible Society, 232-on the European Continent and in the Ionian Islands, 825 -in Asia, 14-in Africa, 4-in America, 578. Total, 3905-not 3965, as erroneously printed in the Appendix. Grants of Money and Books. £. s. d. Arabic, Gospel & Acts.. Coptic & Arabic Psalter. 7100 10 9 10463 16 1 Spanish and English.... Indo-Portugu. Gen.& Ps. Indo-Portuguese... 14,026 Esquimaux 1,000 Mohawk, St. John's Gos. 2,000 Ethiopic Gospels. 2,036 Ethiopic Psalter.. 2,100 French and English.. Malay, in RomanCharac. 10,000 Malay, in Arabic Charac. Turkish.. 5,000 11,000 Total....27,988 7 5 Of the Domestic Grants, the largest portion has been to Ireland; amounting to the sum of 50167. 12s.ld. Of those to America, nearly the whole, amounting to 65657. 10s., was as5,000 signed to South America and Mexi1,000 Co. The following notice occurs 2,000 relative to another part of the Domestic Grants: 10,000 5,000 10,000 Foreigners residing in this country, where they have sought a temporary refuge, have received copies of the Scriptures in their respective languages; and, as far as can be ascertained, have read them with devout attention: in one particular instance, after returning to their own country, an application has been made for an additional supply; some of their fellow-countrymen being desirous, on seeing the Sacred Volume, to obtain copies for themselves. Individuals of the Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Dutch, German, and Greek Nations, have thus been supplied, and the grants added together amount to 766 copies; which have been distributed in sinall numbers, from time to time. Missionaries connected with the different Missionary Institutions have also been sup plied, on proceeding to their respective Stations. Explanatory Notices. At pp. 233, 234, we quoted the re marks of the Committee relative to the Apocrypha; and here subjoin further notices from the Report, in explanation of various points which have been the subject of animadversion. In reference to the Apocrypha it is said It was naturally to be expected, that, a close inquiry having been instituted into one part of the proceedings both of former Committees and of that for the past year, other subjects would be found to require investigation. To satisfy inquiries that have been made relative to the Management of the Funds of the Society, the Committee have been induced to publish a more detailed Balance Sheet than the Committees of former years, conscious of their own integrity, had felt to be necessary: and while they claim, neither for themselves nor their predecessors, exemption from error in every particular of the expenditure, they do feel authorised to say, in their own behalf, that if they have fallen into error, in this or that item of expense, or in not more minutely distinguishing particular payments, their error has never been of an intentional character. Without any further attempt to vindicate themselves, they leave the facts of the case, as stated in the document referred to, to the judgment of the Society. With reference to two individuals in whom the Committee have hitherto placed, and still do place, the greatest confidence, Professor Kieffer and Dr. Van Ess, they feel called upon to say, that when they review all the circumstances connected with their highly important and extensive labours, they cannot conceive that they have exceeded the bounds of propriety in continuing the remuneration severally assigned to them by their predecessors. The characters of these individuals stand too high on the Continent to make it at all necessary to enter into their defence, or the Committee might adduce the strongest testimonials on their behalf: for the satisfaction, however, of the Subscribers, it has been resolved to publish in the Appendix one of the Accounts of each, as a specimen of the accurate manner in which they attend to the affairs confided to them. The substance of the Balance Sheet here mentioned, with the grounds on which remuneration is assigned to Professor Kieffer and Dr. Van Ess, will be found at pp. 405, 406 of our last Volume. The Report proceeds Besides the enlarged Cash Account, two other publications have been issued; the one containing the Minutes and Proceedings of the Committee relative to an edition of the German Bible, published at Strasburgh, with a preface; and the other relating to a French Bible, printed at Lausanne with the aid of this Society. On these documents the Committee offer no comment: the Subscribers must judge for themselves how far they exculpate the respective Committees during whose management these Bibles were printed. On the merits of the Lausanne Bible the Committee have, indeed, pledged themselves to appoint a Sub-Committee, to institute an inquiry, and form an opinion. The time of their continuance in office has not, however, permitted them to realise this measure: and, on further consideration, they cannot but recommend that the design should be relinquished, inasmuch as it would be attended with inconceivable difficulties, arising from the nature of Biblical Criticism; and that no further encouragement should be given to the Version, unless it shall completely establish its reputation in France and Switzerland, and shall have acquired a just claim, by further revision, to be reputed an Authorised Version. With respect to continuing their researches into the past proceedings of the Society, in the manner which has been adopted in the two preceding cases, the Committee are not aware that it can answer any useful purpose. Many of the parties by whom the affairs of the Society have been carried on are now no more; who, were they alive, might, in all probability, afford satisfactory reasons for various measures which have been the subject of complaint. The researches already made have involved a considerable expenditure, as well as greatly interrupted the regular business of the Society; and, with reference to the future, the duty of every subsequent Committee is now plain and explicit, and there is no reason to suppose that any considerable portion of the Subscribers desire that such investigation should be further extended. Relations with Scotland. In reference to a deficiency of somewhat more than 2500l. in the receipts from Scotland, compared with those of the Twenty-second Year, the Committee remark Though lost to this Society, they are not lost to the cause of the circulation of the Scriptures. The friends of the Bible in that quarter will doubtless continue their exertions, and the members of the Society at large will unfeignedly rejoice in their success. At Glasgow an Auxiliary Bible Society is continued, its friends being satisfied with the Resolutions adopted by this Society in May last: the Rev. Dr. Wardlaw is the Secretary; and, in addressing your Committee, he observes, "I trust, that, by an unbending adherence to the Resolutions laid down for the future procedure of the Society, you will be enabled fully to re-establish the confidence of the public." Other Societies are influenced by the same feeling; though they have nearly all agreed, for the present, in thinking it both necessary and prudent to take no very active measures. Increasing Demand for the Scriptures in Ireland. No one can have looked on with indifference at what has been passing in Ireland, in connexion with the circulation of the Scriptures; and it has been a matter of unfeigned pleasure to the Committee, to have been called upon to provide large supplies of the Sacred Volume for that part of the British Dominions. The Irish Society in Dublin, for promoting education through the medium of the Irish Language, have had considerable openings for diffusing the New Testament in the vernacular character. The Rev. Robert Daly, the Secretary, writes The demands, upon opening New Schools, are every day increasing.... If you send us only 500 copies, we shall be forced to trouble you again almost immediately: in fact, they will be all appropriated before they arrive. There is a great door and effectual opened, and we may indeed add, there are many adversaries....There never was such a demand for the Sacred Scriptures as at the present moment. I found, in a late tour through the South, one parish without a Glebe-house, Church, or resident Protestant Minister, in which 360 adult Roman Catholics were reading the Irish Testament. The Irish Sunday School Society has lost a valued friend in the late J. D. Latouche, Esq., its active Secretary. In acknowledging the grant mentioned in the last Report, that Gentleman took the following striking retrospect It is sometimes useful to pause in our progress, and look back to what has been already effected. On looking into various documents connected with the subject, I find, that, previously to 1806, there was only one Bible Society in Ireland-the "Association for discountenancing Vice;" and that, up to that period, they had distributed, in fourteen years, 60,533 Bibles and Testaments: since that time, in twenty years, there has been a distribution of little less than 1,100,000; and, in the last year, of not less than 90,000. This is surely matter for the warmest congratulation, that so much has been done for the Scriptural Instruction of Ireland; and yet, when we further calculate the number of houses in Ireland, and consider how many of these Bibles and Testaments have been worne out, how many are kept in schools, and how often there are two or more in the same house, I do not think it is extravagant to suppose, that there are nearly ONE MILLION HOUSES in Ireland which have not beneath their roofs a single copy of the Word of God! The London Hibernian Society has presented a detailed account of the distribution of the last grant, and has obtained a fresh supply of 1000 Bibles and 20,000 Testaments: in acknowledging the vote, the Secretary writes In transmitting this Resolution, I cannot refrain from adding, that every packet from Ireland brings renewed assurances of the increasing desire for the Holy Scriptures, and of the moral benefits resulting from their perusal. It is with pleasure that the following extract of a Letter from the Secretary of the Hibernian Bible Society in Dublin is given It affords me much pleasure to be able to say, that our Society here continues to advance in usefulness. Toward the end of last year I mentioned, in a Letter to you, that if our sales continued at the same rate which they had then attained, our issues for the year would exceed those of the former year by about 10,000 volumes: in this anticipation, however, we were disappointed: the sales did not continue at the same rate; so that our increase was only 5194 at the close of that year. Our expectations, however, have this year been much more than realized: the excess of our issues for the year just closed, above those of the former year, amounts to 2480 Bibles, and 5777 Testaments, or 8257 volumes; and, when these are added to the issues reported in April 1825 above those of the preceding year, it exhibits a very marked extension of the Society's sphere of usefulness in the short period of two years. The total numbers of copies issued during the past year were, 17,391 Bibles, and 17,933 Testaments; which make upward of 13,000 volumes more than were issued during the year ending April 1824 of these, about 3000 Bibles and Testaments were granted to Week-day Schools, agreeably to the arrangement with your Society. In renewing an application for Bibles for the use of a particular class of Schools, the Secretary observes The demand is steadily increasing, and we have no doubt will become one of the most important departments of the Society's ope rations. Various individual applications have been addressed to your Committee from Clergymen and others, stating that the demand in their respective neighbourhoods is so great as quite to exceed all their ordinary resources, and that they therefore solicit the help of the Society: these applications have all been referred to the Hibernian Bible Society; as the Committee wish, in every way, to strengthen the hands of that Institution. Its Committee has, at the same time, been informed, that should these applications exceed their own resources, they have only to apply, and any number of Bibles and Testaments will readily be granted. Conclusion. In concluding their Report, your Committee see no reason why they should not, as on every former occasion, call upon the Subscribers to rejoice, yea, greatly to rejoice in the Lord: there are, indeed, circumstances connected with the past, as well as anticipations with respect to the future, which will throw over that joy a chastened character; but such a chastened joy, they may observe, is, perhaps, best befitting every human institution. The Society has passed the days of its youth; and if all the ardent hopes and expectations in which, as is the manner of the young, it may have indulged, have not been realized, it has, more than enough, received encouragement to gird itself up, in the years of its maturity, at which it has now arrived, to renewed and increased exertion. If its labours shall meet with a less measure of approbation than that with which they have been hailed in former times, a heart-stirring inquiry will be made, whether the favour of Him, whose favour is life, is enjoyed, and a more simple desire will be created to secure His approbation. If, in former times, looking at the delightful harmony, union, and love, which everywhere prevailed within the circle of the Society's operations, a confidence of strength was felt, that confidence led, perhaps, to an exultation, similar to that experienced by the Psalmist, who writes-In my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved: he coupled with this an acknowledgment, doubtless sincere, Lord, by Thy favour, Thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: an afflictive dispensation soon befell him, and induced him to repair right humbly to his God: and if such a view of the trials of the Society shall be taken by the Subscribers and the Committee, the Society will with the Psalmist exclaim, Thou hast turned my mourning into dancing: Thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness; to the end that my glory may sing praise to Thee, and not be silent. O Lord, my God, I will give thanks unto Thee for ever! But, while they have thus alluded to the subjects which should chasten their joy, your Committee cannot refrain from adverting to those topics which form a just ground of gladness and thanksgiving. The desire for the Holy Scriptures remains unabated-they have continued to be willingly received where they have been offered-and the Reports of Societies, both at home and abroad, have brought a large measure of glad tidings of good, which, there is reason to hope, has been effected by the circulation of the Sacred Volume. A trial has been made, and has succeeded to a considerable extent, of distributing the Scriptures divested of an appendage, which, however it may plead the sanction of custom from time immemorial for its being joined to the Sacred Volume, partakes not of the character of Inspiration: the first-fruits have been gathered, and they are hailed as the forerunners of a still more abundant harvest: the application and practical operation of laws is always attended, at first, with some little difficulties: the construction and the bearings of the Regulations adopted at the last Annual Meeting are, by the experience of the past year, ascertained; and will not give rise to the renewal of discussions, which, if they have been attended with some degree of pain, have been accompanied with a corresponding degree of advantage: and the difficulties of carrying on the affairs of the Society in accordance with the Regulations, as far as the Committee are concerned, may be considered as removed. The movements taking place among so many who have long borne the Name of Christ, but have seldom, if ever, had the Word of Christ-the desire to possess the Scriptures prevailing among many members of the Roman-Catholic Church, in Ireland, in France, in Germany, in South America; as well as in |