coffee-houses, and caravanserais. The A CURIOUS PASS seraglio is to the east of the city, and or GEMS.-The la comprises an area of about three miles, world, priceless a separately enclosed by walls, and ex- Charles the Bold tending down to the sea of Marmora. his neck, and which The Golden Horn is a fine harbour, the crown of the gr deep enough to float ships of the largest in the road, droppe size; it can receive 1,200 sail of the line, of the duke, who fle and is always full of mercantile and ing his master's jev other vessels. On the north shore of the to show their wort Golden Horn are the imperial arsenals pared to the hope and dockyards; there is always a very This wonderful jev strong garrison of troops in this city, small box adorned and many new barracks have been built The man who found by the late and present sultan. The box, kept it, but commerce of the port is extensive, but away, considering it not so great as might at first sight be recollecting, howeve anticipated. The city is the see of the was likely to posse Greek, Armenian, and Catholico-Arme- was placed in so p nian patriarchs. turned to the spot w it, and found it lyin wheel. He took it tagni, who, though seur in precious bought it of him fo he went away, sa OF MR. WM. HITCHMAN, a baptist minister, of Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, in the last century, the following pleasing and instructive testimony is given-" In addition to his labours as a preacher, he laid himself out for general usefulness in the surrounding villages. There was hardly any thing he could not do. The weak and superstitious consulted him in the hour of alarm-parents sent their profligate sons to him to be instructed and reformed-the watchmaker employed him to make calculations-farmers engaged him to measure their land-he studied pharmacy, and could mix a medicine, extract a tooth, and use the lancet as well as many men of the profession. He gave advice to the poor, made the wills of those who possessed property, and was ready to do good to all. He could construct a weather-glass, draw a map, and make an almanack. He was a very assiduous cultivator of his garden and orchard, and was no stranger to the science of botany. Above all, he was a good man, and shone as a light in a dark village for many years. Did not he do excellently well? DANIEL WEBSTER.-Some one speaking in the hearing of the late Daniel Webster on the sublime poetry of the Old Testament, the great statesman and orator seriously remarked, "Ah, my dear sir, the poetry of Job, and Isaiah, and Habakkuk, is beautiful indeed; but when you have lived as I have, nearly seventy years, you will give more for the fourteenth and 17th obes of John's Gospel then made so good a barga THE LORD'S PRA asked whether the I is affirmed that, wh receive the favoura his tribunal, he rep cisely say just no words that must be 1 the publication of th ous. Give us this savours singularly of strued into meaning words Thy kingdom not content with that with whom they are The CYRIL OF ALEXAN worldly heart and and for hatred, ali phrase, with his ca shadow among shado of Exeter, into who Cyril has unquestion is a living reality in be pleasant to approa ecclesiastical mud vol growling and simmer an instant with such spattering baptism of Baptisms. DIA FOREIGN. Puna, Bombay Presidency.respondent of the Oriental Baptist “Several have been waiting here for portunity of professing their faith in in the way of his appointment. rrival of the baptist missionary from ay has given four the opportunity ning forward for baptism. The on was embraced for setting forth asons for believers' baptism, founded e commission our Lord gave to his les, Mat. xxviii. 19. The tenor of words prohibits infant sprinkling. he church is commanded to 'dis'that is, to lead the nations to rethe doctrines of redemption. This es previous instruction, which infants capable of receiving. Your prayers e prosperity of Zion, especially for who have lately put on the Lord Christ here, are earnestly solicited." om the Herald for October we learn he missionary mentioned above is Cassidy, who has chosen this new promising field of labour. Mr. C. ed at Bombay in April last, and reda very cordial welcome from various onaries and christian friends. A was engaged as a school and teachlace, and when opened, only four or children, and from twelve to twenty s, attended. Presently, Mr. C. was ed to Puna, usually spelled Poonah, about eighty miles from Bombay, a population of 100,000, the object the baptism referred to above, h is thus graphically described in a to the Rev. C. Stovel :-" Along the rn limit of Poonah cantonment runs le stream whose tiny rills murmur gently or altogether disappear during hottest months; but now, when the -east winds blow, and let loose the urs upon our arid hills and parched s, this small rill swells up into a ng torrent, and lifts up its grateful = in many waters. Over it rests a ge, and across its channel, a little e the bridge, runs up a wall which ns the waters above, till they swell ow, and fall in graceful cadence over ummit, and foam themselves on their y channel, or wear away the hard s below The mushing. the gurgling streams sound symphonious to one while he stands below the bridge, for the stream is chiefly spanned by the middle arch, and at either side you stand upon the naked rock below the rising arch. Upon that bridge stood a few, last sabbath afternoon, and they were looking down below. Upon whom do you suppose they gazed? There was a small tabernacle there, which had been set up the evening before; and not far off, and partly under the arch, stood a few who had assembled there at five that evening, to obey our Lord's command, and endeavour to fulfil all righteousness. The presence of the Lord was sought and felt to be present. Thoughts of Jesus, and John, and Jordan, were in our minds. We prayed, and heard his voice in Matthew's closing lines, and thought who his disciples were, and how he has commanded such to worship him by obeying his commands; and we asked ourselves whether he had drawn us to his fold. Then we sang a hymn on being buried with Christ in baptism, and some of that small assembly then entered the tent, and after a few minutes your poor missionary came out, and walked a few yards down the bank till he saw where much water was, and thither he went and stood. Presently an officer of H. M. 86th entered the stream, and came to where the baptist stood; and then the baptist, lifting up his hands, as if fulfilling a solemn vow, uttered the words of the commission referring to the ordinance, and then quietly laid the subject before him into the stream, and raised him up again. A private of H. M. 78th Highlanders followed, and him he also in like manner immersed; and so a third, a private of the same regiment; and so a fourth, a corporal of the same regiment. These four have long been convinced of the necessity of obeying our Lord's command to be baptized; and, as this is the first opportunity they have had, they have embraced it. When they had been baptized, they were commended to the Lord in prayer, and the congregation below the arch was dismissed with the blessing. It was a day long to be remembered in Khári.-Two persons were baptized at this village on sabbath day, the 19th of June. Calcutta-On Sunday, June the 5th, one person was baptized at the Intally chapel. Serampore.-Three persons, the fruits of the labours of our brethren at Delhi and Benares, put on Christ by baptism at this station on the first sabbath in June. Cawnpore.-On sabbath morning, June the 5th, Mr. Williams baptized one young man, on a profession of his faith in Jesus. Chitoura.-Mr. Smith writes:- "On the first sabbath in this month, I had the pleasure of baptizing the Gosain who accompanied me from the last Bhuteshwar mela, his wife and family have joined him, and he is employed daily going from village to village preaching the gospel. His being a Brahman with a good knowledge of Sanscrit, as well as a Gosain, gives him much influence among the people, and I hope he will be the means of doing much good." PRUSSIA. Herr T. Penner says:-"I started with my brother to visit the brethren at Furstenau and Dirshau. At the former place I held several encouraging meetings, and found some persons who had been brought near to the kingdom of God through tract distribution. At the latter place, they told me of the awakening at Schöneek, and urged the desirableness of my going thither. We arrived at ten o'clock, p. m., and were heartily welcomed. Notwithstanding the late hour, the good people where we were would spread the news, and by twelve o'clock about thirty persons were assembled to hear the word of God. I was obliged to forget my long journey and fatigue and preach to them. After the service many spoke of their great longing to be received into our community. We appointed the approaching sabbath as a day for personal intercourse with these dear ones, that we might become acquainted with them, and know their faith and experience. We met again at nine o'clock on Saturday night, and on Sunday, aided by three friends from Dirshau, we examined the profession and conduct of the inquirers. The result was the acknowledgment with joy of twelve as fit candidates for the baptism which they so much desired. The administration of the ordinance of baptism, and the feast impression on all that many more wil Two persons hav Pobethen, near Kon two more from Fur various places are ap SAXONY.-Mr. B to Hilburghausen, i baptized five. Wh to the baptism, a ge house to hinder hi he dared not return regrets that no open there, so greatly do the pure word of G DOM STRADBROOK, S Lord's-day in Octo Eyres, preached fr thou?" In discou shewed that the ordi immersion is scriptu literal meaning of t divine command- t by our Lord and his designed to answer is connected with m After which he bapti on the same day he the church. The se and solemn. Mr. E other persons some t not reported. And several others who they must do to inhe ROWLEY AND SHO sabbath evening, Se to a crowded audito Mr. G. Whitehead, water; what doth h tized," two believers and Master in the or and were afterwards lowship. One had b Church of England three females, wives (one of them previo Ìndependent church with Christ by bap willing testimony t many witnesses. Τ excited much attenti are intimating their truthfulness of the or WELSHAMPTON, S ham. of Wem, bantiz ONDON, Devonshire Square.-A bap- CEFN MAWR, Denbighshire.-On Lord's day morning, Sep. 18, an immense crowd of about 1200 persons assembled on the banks of the river Dee, which runs through our neighbourhood. We commenced by singing, and then Mr. Ellis Evans, our pastor, after reading and prayer, delivered an appropriate address based on the words, "Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen." After the sermon, Mr. Edward Roberts, of Cefn Bychan, led one candidate into the river and immersed him into the names of the Father, the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.. This young man has been a member with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists about. ten years. He felt much regret in leaving his former friends, some of whom indulged. a sarcastic smile. Still the determination bonestly to carry out his convictions overcame all opposition, and now his willing footsteps were found moving in the way the Saviour trod. A solemn feeling per vaded the audience while the service was conducted, and many said they never witnessed a more interesting scene. In the afternoon our brother was admitted to our fellowship at the Lord's-table. Our friend has received three or four letters from some of his late friends exShouldham Street.-On Lord's-day even-pressive of regret that he had become an unfashionable ignominious J. R. R. BEDFORD, Mill Street.-On Lord's-day evening, Sep. 25, our pastor, Mr. Killen, preached a sermon on baptism, from Acts viii. 12, from which he shewed, 1. The fearful condition of the Samaritans before Philip visited them.-2. The divine power and efficacy which attended his testimony. 3. The subjection of the Samaritans to Christ, his word, and ordinances. After which Mr. K. led down into the water and baptized two candidates. One had been a member of the Establishment for several years, but having lately witnessed the baptism of her husband, she was convinced of her duty and privilege to follow him in the same way. T. R. , Oct. 16, after a sermon by our pastor, E. W. S. Blake, from Matt. x. 32, he ptized six disciples of the Saviour, three les and three females. One of the canlates was a city missionary, a second scripture reader of the British Refortion Society, and the third a master of e National School of the District. F. F. Regent Street, Lambeth.-On Thursday ening, Sep. 29, five believers were baped upon a profession of their faith in rist. A husband and wife were amongst e number; two others were aged, and e fifth was a young man. On the folwing Lord's-day it was also our privilege restore three wanderers, who, after some o years' separation have re-joined the eople of God. Meard's Court, Soho.-Mr. Bloomfield aptized eight believers in the Lord esus Christ, on Thursday evening, ptember 29. G. J. SHELFANGER, Norfolk.- Mr. Winter ad the pleasure of baptizing his youngest aughter on a profession of her faith in e Saviour Oct 2 "such الم SALEM, near Haverfordwest.-Since our last report we have had several baptisms. On Friday evening, July 8, Mr. Griffiths baptized three females: one had been a member with the Independents for many years. And on Lord's-day, Oct. 2, after a discourse at the water-side, three more candidates were baptized by Mr. Matthias, |