Baptist Missionary Society, and recording the principal transactions of other similar institutions. A copy to be furnished, gratis, to all opened for the use of the Baptist church | meeting at New Mill, near Tring, Hertfordshire, under the pastoral care of Mr. D. Clarabut. Mr. Wake of Leighton began the services of the day with read-annual subscribers of one guinea or uping the scriptures and prayer; Dr. Rip- wards, persons collecting to the amount pon preached from Psalm ii. 6; and Mr. of a shilling a week, and ministers who Harrison of Woburn, (Independent,) make annual collections on behalf of the concluded with prayer. In the after- Society. noon, Mr. Ashton of Berkhampstead, (Independent,) began; Mr. Ivimey preached from Gen. xxviii. 16, 17; and Mr. Daniels of Luton concluded. In the evening, Mr. Tomlin of Chesham began; Mr. Maslin of Hertford, (Independent,) preached from Haggai vi. 7, 8, 9, and concluded the pleasing services of the day. The gospel has been preached on this spot for many years, and the interest has been gradually increasing, the former house having been twice enlarged. The present building is 50 feet by 40, exclusive of the vestries, and is capable of seating 700 persons. £400 have (at present) been raised towards it by the church and congregation; £64 15s. 9d. was collected on the day of opening. A debt of about £700 still remains to be defrayed. NOTICE. THE Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society have conceived that some alteration may be made with advantage in the mode of communicating their Missionary Intelligence. The plan hitherto adopted, of publishing Periodical Accounts, in pamphlets of a considerable size, and at distant and uncertain intervals, seems more adapted to record the commencement and earlier efforts of a Mission, than to convey information of its progress in the more advanced stages of its history. So great an interest, also, is now happily excited on behalf of Christian Missions in general, that it seems desirable to present the friends and supporters of each distinct society, with brief notices, at least, of the principal transactions of the rest. With this view, the Committee have determined that the Series of Periodical Accounts shall terminate with No. XXXIII. now in the press, and which, with an Appendix, to follow almost immediately, will complete the sixth volume. The following arrangement is proposed in lieu : A half-sheet (or eight pages) to be published on the 24th of every month, under the title of " The Missionary Herald;" containing intelligence, at large, of the proceedings and operations of the A sufficient number of "The Missionary Herald," will be struck off, for the purpose of stitching into the Baptist Magazine of the following month, for the accommodation of those friends who prefer receiving it through that medium. All other subscribers, desirous of having copies transmitted to them, are requested to address, (if by letter, post paid,) either of the Secretaries, Dr. Ryland of Bristol, or Mr. Dyer of Reading, or the Publisher, Mr. Button, Paternosterrow, and to mention the channel through which the Numbers may be regularly transmitted from London. An Annual Report, condensing the intelligence of the preceding year, will also be published, subsequent to the annual meeting in October. This will comprise the Cash Account, Lists of Contributors, &c.; and be circulated gratis among the subscribers to the Society. In conformity with this plan, the first Number of "The Missionary Herald" will be published on the 24th of this month, (December,) and will contain some pleasing intelligence lately received from Calcutta; extract of a letter of the Hindoo idol SHION. from Dr. Carey, &c.; and an engraving All communications on this subject, addressed as above, will receive imme. diate attention. Reading, December 1, 1818. ONE pound for the poor negroes in Jamaica is received from a gentleman of Portsea, who has lost more than 1007. by the stopping of the Portsmouth Bank; but who thus manifests his gratitude to God for what he possesses, in those very dispensations, from which the sordid professor obtains a momentary relief, during the accusations of his conscience, for with-holding what remains. Ir is with considerable regret that we announce the sudden death of the Rev. Dr. Balfour of Glasgow, who was a zealous friend to the Baptist Mission. We are in expectation of being able to insert a Memoir of him early in the ensuing year. THE CHRISTIAN's THANKSGIVING On a Lord's-day Evening. THANKS to thy name, thou God of grace, TO THE CHIEF SHEPHERD. COME Jesus, and visit thy fold, Thou Shepherd of Israel divine, Enable thy fold to rejoice, I. T. D. THE HEATHEN COMMISERATED. 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