OF THE SOCIETY'S PROCEEDINGS. INDIA. Calcutta. A Corresponding Committee is established, to whom is allowed the sum of £.1000 per annum, to which the European Residents and others add £.400, to be applied, beside the Salaries allowed to the Society's Missionaries, to the support of Readers of the Scriptures and Catechists, and to the maintenance of Native Schools on the National System. Agra. Abdool Messee, a converted Musselman, with several other Christian Natives, are Readers of the Scripture and Catechists, under the Society, with great and increasing success, among the Mahometan and Pagan inhabitants of that large and populous city. See an account of Abdool, and his very interesting Journals, in the Missionary Register. Tranquebar.-Two Lutheran Clergymen, the Rev. John Christian Schnarrè and the Rev. Charles Theophilus Ewald Rhenius, after having been educated by the Society in the Seminary at Berlin, and admitted to Holy Orders in the Lutheran Church, are now on their voyage to Tranqnebar, under licence of the Court of Directors, to enter into the labours of the late Rev. Dr. John, and extend his admirable plans as the Providence of God shall open opportunities before them. Ceylon. Two English Clergymen, the Rev. Thomas Norton and the Rev. William Greenwood, educated at the charge of the Society, and admitted to Holy Orders, are destined for this important station. WESTERN AFRICA. The Society has formed various Settlements on this coast : 1. Bashia, on the Rio Pongas. 2. Canoffee, on the Rio Pongas. 3. Yongroo, on the Bullom Shore. 4. Gambier, on the Rio Dembia. Rev. Gustavus Reinhold Nylander. Just erected, as it is supposed, under the Assistants to the Mission: Conrad Henry Meissner and his Wife. In these Settlements about 150 Native Children, many of them the sons of the neighbouring Chiefs, are constantly under Christian Instruction: most of them are wholly maintained by the Society. The Society's Missionaries have supplied, for several years, the place of Chaplain to the Colony of Sierra Leone. A great num ber of Native Children have, in that Colony, received instruction from them. The Rev. Leopold Butscher, with Mrs. Butscher, will probably permanently settle there, when fresh Missionaries arrive to take charge of the Settlement of Gambier. The Colony is now become a place of great importance; and has received a large accession of Native Inhabitants, and not much less than 1000 Native Children of different African Tribes, liberated from Smuggling Vessels. The Society clothes, maintains, and educates a poor African Child for £.5 per annum; and affixes any name to such poor liberated child as the benefactor may wish. Directions have been already given by benevolent persons for the selection of about 40 such children. NEW ZEALAND. Lay Settlers, preparing at New South Wales: William Hall and his wife.-John King and his wife. On his voyage-Thomas Kendall, with his wife and family. The sum of £500. per annum has been appropriated, under the direction of the Rev. Samuel Marsden, and an Auxiliary Society to be formed in New South Wales, to the promotion of Christianity, principally in New Zealand, there being the most encouraging prospects of success among that noble race, and of suitable instructors from the Colony. ANTIGUA. As a Catechist and Correspondent of the Society. Mr. William Dawes. MALTA AND THE LEVANT. Dr. Cleardo Naudi is the Society's Correspondent at Malta. After spending a considerable time in this country, he has lately sailed for his Native Island. Two pious young Maltese are about to be sent over to this country, by Dr. Naudi, for education for Holy Orders, to act as Missionaries under the Society. The Rev. Wm. Jowett, M. A. Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, is preparing to proceed to Malta, in order to act as the Representative of the Society, and to promote its objects in the Mediterranean and Levant. Three English Students are preparing for Holy Orders. Three German Students are likewise preparing in the Berlin Seminary. Three Lutheran Clergymen are preparing in the Society's Seminary for Africa and India. Jellorum Harrison, a young African, son of a Chief in the vicinity of the Society's Settlements, after passing several years at Karass in Georgia, and learning various languages, is about to return, attached to the Missions of the Society. SEPARATE SCHOOL FUND. Anxious to employ to the utmost the important improvements made in Education, and to apply this powerful engine to the benefit of the Heathen, a Fund is opened for the maintenance of Schools among them, and in the Foreign Possessions of the British Crown. LITURGY AND TRACTS IN MAHOMETAN AND HEATHEN LANGUAGES. The Liturgy of the Church is in preparation in Persian, Arabic, and Hindostanee; and, in these and various other languages of Mahometans and Heathens, measures are taking to print and circulate widely Scriptural and Religious Tracts. Published on the last Day of every Month, Price 4d. (No. I. having been published on the last day of January, 1813) By L. B. SEELEY, 169, Fleet Street: Sold also by J. HATCHARD, Piccadilly; and by all Booksellers and Newsmen: of whom may be had, all the Numbers yet printed. THIS Work contains an Abstract of the HOME and FOREIGN PROCEEDINGS of all the principal Missionary and Bible Societies throughout the world, and of such other Institutions as tend to promote the civilization and con version of the Heathen; together with SELECT MISSIONARY BIOGRAPHY, and MISCELLANIES, consisting of interesting anecdotes, suggestions, &c. The friends of the different Missionary and Bible Societies, both British and Foreign, will find, in the Missionary Register, a faithful record of all their most important proceedings. Its circumscribed limits will oblige the Editors to abridge and condense their reports; and they will enter most into detail respecting the "Church Missionary Society:" but they pledge themselves, that it shall be their constant endeavour to avoid giving reasonable ground of offence to the friends of any of these Institutions, either by saying what ought not to be said, or by omitting to report what ought to be reported; and they will be open to any friendly remarks on this subject, addressed to them at the publishers. Thirteen Annual Reports, before the present, have been printed by the Society; with Sermons preached by the Reverend Messrs. Scott, Simeon, Cecil, Biddulph, Venn, Burn, Woodd, Robinson, Richmond, the Rev. Dr. Buchanan, the Rev. M. Horne, the Rev. W. Goode, and the Rev. Wm. Dealtry. These Reports and Sermons may be had of the Society's Booksellers, in 3 vols. 8vo. price 18s. in boards; and the 13th, price 28. Notice from the Church Missionary Committee. ALL Persons who collect to the amount of 1s. or upward per week in behalf of the Church Missionary Society, are furnished by the Committee with a copy of each number of the "Missionary Register", and of all the Publications of the Society. They are considered Members of the Society, and are entitled to attend and vote at all its Meetings. Whoever shall become a Collector to the said amount, on or before the 31st day of December, 1814, will be presented with all the preceding Numbers for 1813 and 1814; but whoever shall begin to collect after December 31, 1814, will receive no preceding Numbers except those of the current year in which they shall begin. Such benevolent persons may act separately: or, in conjunction with others, they may form a Committee of a few persons; and, if sufficiently numerous, may organize themselves into a regular Association, with a President and other Officers, It is particularly recommended to Ladies, to exert themselves in collecting Contributions. They cannot employ their influence and their leisure in a more noble canse. All Contributions may be sent to the Rev. Josiah Pratt, Secretary of the Society, at the Church Missionary House, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, London; from whom every information and assistance may be obtained, in the establishment of Associations. A. SERMON, &c. PSALM xviii. 48, 49. THOU LIFTEST ME UP ABOVE THOSE THAT RISE UP AGAINST ME: THOU HAST DELIVERED ME FROM THE VIOLENT MAN, (man of violence: marginal interpretation) THEREFORE WILL I GIVE THANKS UNTO THEE, O LORD, AMONG THE HEATHEN, AND SING PRAISES UNTO THY NAME. MAN cannot be profitable unto God, nor can our goodness extend unto him. The almighty, selfexistent, self-dependent Being cannot be affected by what we may do, or leave undone. He resides in bliss infinite and unspeakable, from everlasting to everlasting, bliss incapable of addition by our performance or diminution by our neglect of service. Such is God in his nature and essence, as revealed by himself in Scripture; and, to keep down the ever rising spirit of pride within us, it is well, when, with Job and the Holy Psalmist, we thus contemplate him under his own designation, "I AM THAT I AM," in the independent greatness, the all-sufficient power, and the perfect fullness of the Godhead. As such he might have given to us existence, laws, and capacity to obey, might have commanded our obedience under the threat of punishment, and avenged our disobedience by its immediate execution. But, in condescension to our infirmities, He hath thought fit to reveal himself with more particularity under a different aspect; as taking a PECULIAR interest in our concerns, as the covenant God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; as in Christ reconciling the world unto himself; as a God that heareth prayer; as accepting the offering of praise and the tribute of thanksgiving; as receiving the incense of adoring lips, the aspirations of a devoted heart, and the labours of active gratitude, presented through the Mediator, with gracious approbation and even with the gratuitory promise of a return. In this view, then, we are especially called upon to contemplate God, in order to raise up and maintain the decaying spirit of believing love and godly diligence. Though he needed nothing, he determined to make all things for himself, to form us for himself, that we might shew forth his praise. We have ever then, under the grace of God, to mark and own his bounteous hand in all our blessings; and to labour in that work of grateful worship and bounden service, which he points out |