speech lately made in the House of Commons by Mr. Brougham, that a ship which bore the name of the Marquis Romana, but which was in reality the Prince William, an English vessel, the owners of which are well known, was fallen in with by a King's ship, and was found to have on board 109 negroes. Two other vessels had been detected, which passed by the names of the Gallicia and Palafox, it being pretended they were Spanish vessels, but they were in reality English. The traffic in slaves has certainly been very much diminished, yet it still exists, and in a considerable degree. The Judge of the Admiralty at Sierra Leone has had no fewer than 1091 slaves brought into his court, since March, 1809, taken, as we presume, from ships detected in this nefarious business. To prevent the continuance of this detestable evil, Mr. Brougham moved for leave to bring in a bill to render more effectual the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade: this, we understand, will be done by making the crime FELONY, and subjecting the criminal to transportation for 14 years, or imprisonment for three years. We rejoice to find that the motion was carried nemine contradicente. 1 Feb. 20, an Auxiliary Bible Society was instituted at Weymouth; a meeting having been called by the Mayor at the Guildhall for the express purpose. Sir James Pultney, Bart, M. P. is appointed President;-Sir J. L. Johnstone, Bart. M. P. Vice President; S. Weston, Esq. Mayor, Treasurer: 14 Gentlemen, with the above, were chosen a Committee for the present year; among whom were the Rev. Drs. Wyndhau aud Cracknell; Rev. Messrs. Gorton and Chamber. laine; W. Williams, Esq, &c. WELSH SUNDAY SCHOOLS. Extract of a letter from a respectable Clergyman in Wales. We have had Bibles in the Welsh Language for above 200 years; yet they were of no real utility to 99 out of 100, as whole districts were perfectly illiterate; no stir was made about learning to read. Now the children and the young people universally attend the Sunday Schools. Hundreds of grown-up people have learned to read their Bibles with in these two years, and more are coming to the schools continually.' NOTICE. The annual Meeting of the BAPTIST ACADEMICAL INSTITUTION Will be held (providence permitting) on Thursday, May 16th, when the Rev, Robert Hall, of Leicester, is expected to preach, at the Meeting-house in Prescott-Street, Goodman's-fields. Hymn, from the 149th Psalm. Hear, all ye nations, hear! Bring your sublimest songs, And earth, with every stranger sphere, Let Israel, too, employ Her loftiest powers, to sing Dwell on his sacred name With harp and timbrel's sound; For his fond pleasure waits On those his heart approves, O let their midnight choice, And praise possess their tongue! Then, in their honour'd hand, Shall bind their kings in chains, The Glory and Goodness of God. Thrice holy Lord, whose awful throne, August, and holy, great, and high, Millions of Saints uow raised to prove, And tune their harps thy praise to shew. And Saints who tread this vale of tears, Nor ours alone: Almighty King, There's not a flower that decks the earth, But sets thy power and wisdom forth, Yes, Lord, thy matchless power we prove, That thou should'st pass thine angels by, All language fails! -e'en thought is lost, e! We, by the amazing theme engrossed, Printed at Smith's Printing-Office, Tiverton. E. T. f... Faith in the Death and Resurrection of Christ, ・and its divine Effects. And they said one to another, did not our hearts burn within us while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to as the Scriptures ? Luke xxiv, 32. THIS is the reflection of two Disciples on a remarkable pearance of Christ to them, and conference with them in their abic apway to Emmaus; it was on the evening of the day in which he rose from the dead; they were talking together on the death of their beloved Lord, and the report that certain women of their company had made of his resurrection; they did not intirely believe the report, nor absolutely reject it; but their minds were in suspense between hope and fear, faith and unbelief. Jesus knowing their thoughts and discourse, drew near and joined company with them; but he was unknown to them; so that he conversed with them as a stranger, on the subject of their discourse, and the cause of the sadness which might be seen in their faces: they expressed their wonder that any man who had been near Jerusalem should not have heard of the great things that had so lately happened there, the trial, condemnation, and crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in word and deed before God and all the people; they freely and honestly declared the confidence they had placed in him as the Redeemer of Israel, and the fears that now possessed their minds, though some of their number had spoken of his being risen from the dead; Jesus heard them with patience, and, after he had reproved them for their backwardness to believe what was written in the Old Testament concerning the death of the Messiah and the glory that was to follow it, he expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. Vol. III. It h When he departed from them, they said one to another, Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures? "What a delightful interview have we had with our risen Redeemer! how instructive and heavenly was every word that dropt from his lips, but when he explained the sacred writings with relation to himself, the promised seed, the Shiloh whom the gathering of the people was to be, the Son of David and his Lord, the Man of Sorrows that was to be cut off and slain for the sins of his people, and then exalted and extolled and made very high, and to possess a universal and everlasting kingdom; when he talked with us on these points, and gave us to understand the meaning of these ancient prophecies which were fulfilled in him. O! what love and joy did we feel burning within us? Our hearts ascended up to heaven in warm praises and devout affections. We never understood the Scriptures before, never saw so much of Christ in them, never had so full a conviction of his Divine character and office, so perfect a determination of our souls for his service, nor so much gladness in the consciousness of our relation to him and interest in him. We hope we shall never forget the things which we have seen and heard." Some useful remarks might be made with regard to the character of the first disciples, whom Christ chose to be witnesses of his resurrection; it appears they were upright but weak men, in particular that they did not understand the prophecies of the Old Testament relating to the Death of the Messiah, and his Resurrection from the dead; they were carried away by the popular opinion of an earthly and perpetual reign of Christ, in outward splendour and glory. Christ could have taken away this ignorance in his life time, but he suffered it to remain, not only to humble them when they should be convinced of it, but to assure mankind in future ages, that they were in no artful confederacy to delude the world with a false story of their Master's sufferings and the glory that followed; so far were they from sach a design that they could not be persuaded to believe that he would ever die till he was actually apprehended, and then they forsook him and fied, and despaired of seeing him any more in this world. I shall pass from all these things to observe that a realizing faith in the Death and Resurrection of Christ causes the hearts of his people to burn with holy affection. I shall divide this subject into two parts. 1. What the faith of real Christians is, with respect to the Death and Resurrection of Christ. II. The Effect of it on their hearts. |