thus be founded, against which the gates of hell shall not prevail. But I will not trespass longer on your attention. We have all our several duties to perform: the day is already far advanced: it were a waste of time, to press upon your notice those ideas Recent Miscellaneous Intelligence. UNITED KINGDOM. Church Miss. Soc.-At the Monthly Meeting of the 9th of February, the following Labourers received the Instructions of the Committee-the Rev. Charles Pinhorn Farrar and Mrs. Farrar, with the Rev. John Dixon, proceeding to Bombay-the Rev. A. N. Brown (see p. 125) proceeding to New Zealand, with Mr. Charles Davis returning thither, and their intended Wives, with Mrs. Hart. The Rev. William Jowett addressed to them a few words of counsel, and the Rev. J. H. Stewart commended them in prayer to the blessing of God. Mr. Farrar and Mr. Dixon had been admitted to Priests' Orders, together with the Rev. Joseph Marsh, on Sunday the 21st of December; on which occasion, Mr. Timothy Sandys and Mr. Charles Blackman, two other Students of the Society were admitted to Deacons' Orders. The Missionaries for Bombay embarked at Gravesend, in the Valleyfield, Captain Johnson, on the 13th, and sailed the same day- Of the three Students from Basle, mentioned at p. 629 of our last Volume as engaged in the service of the Society, Mr. T. T. Weitbrecht arrived on the 23d of December, and the Rev. Peter Fjellstedt on the 23d of March. WESTERN AFRICA. Church Miss. Soc.-The want of Labourers has led to the suspension, for the present, of the Mission in the Sea District. Mr. and Mrs. Gerber, having suffered in their health at Waterloo, have removed to Hastings, both in the River District. - Baptist Miss. Soc. The Rev. Richard Burton, of Digah, died at Bankipore, near Patna, on the 6th of September, after an illness of 16 days. He had been engaged nearly nine years in the work of Missions; having left England for Sumatra, in company with Mr. Evans, at the close of 1819. Church Miss. Soc. - Messrs. Eteson and Friend (see p. 213 of our last Volume) arrived at Madras on the 17th of August; and, from Letters of the 12th of September, it appears that they had safely reached Calcutta, and had been appointed to Benares-Mr. Eteson to take charge of the English School, and Mr. Friend of the duties of the Mission; dividing between them the duties of the Hindoostanee Chapel at Secrole. Mr. Reichardt has resigned his connection with the Society. London Miss. Soc.- The Rev. Joseph Ketley (see p. 575 of our last Volume) arrived in Demerara, after a voyage of six weeks, on the 7th of December. Miscellanies. THE Engraving on the opposite page is taken from a sketch on the spot, made by the Rev. Basil Woodd, on a visit to Cornwall, in July 1814. The Altar is situated on the heights of Karn-brê Hill, about two miles from Redruth, in Corn. wall. Karn-brê means the Hill of Stones, with which it abounds, interspersed with circles and other relics of Druid Worship: there were also, when this Drawing was taken, remains of the oak-trees which those Idolaters cultivated, which have since been removed: their worship was performed in the groves of oaktrees; and they regarded the mistletoe as sacred. "Redruth" means the Ford of the Druids. The Altar is about eight feet in height and twelve in length: on the upper surface are hollow excavations, like basons; supposed to have been designed to collect the morning-dew, which the Druids regarded as sacred. In the smaller basons, it is conjectured, they used to lay children, and in the larger, men, for particular disorders; that, by the healing virtue attributed to the God who inhabited the rock, they might be cured of the disease.-See Borlase's “ Antiquities of Cornwall." APRIL, 1829. Biography. OBITUARIES OF FOUR FEMALE LABOURERS. THE spirit and character of the Wives of Missionaries are, in general, intimately connected with the efficiency or inefficiency of their Husbands' labours. We rejoice, therefore, when opportunity offers, to put on record testimonies to the piety of Female Labourers, who, after honourable services in the Cause of Christ, have fallen asleep in Him. MRS. JUDSON. It was noticed, at pp. 263, 264 of our Volume for 1827, that Mrs. Judson, of the American Mission in Burmah, died at Amherst, in her Thirty-seventh Year, on the 24th of October 1826. We have collected a few facts relative to this excellent woman, which are here subjoined. Dr. Judson, having left Amherst on the 5th of July 1826 to proceed to Ava, writes, a few days afterward, from Rangoon.— I left Mrs. Judson at Amherst, in the house of Captain Fenwick, Civil Superintendant, who, immediately on our arrival, vacated it for her present accommodation, and who exerted himself in every possible way to render her situation comfortable during my absence. She is delighted with her situation and prospects, though all around her is yet wild, and she can expect at present but very little society. A few months after Dr. Judson left Amherst, Mrs. Judson died. In a Letter to her Mother, of Feb. 4, 1827, he thus describes his return to Amherst Mrs. Wade has taken charge of my poor motherless Maria. I was unable to get any accounts of the child at Rangoon; and it was only on my arriving here, the 24th ult., that I learnt she was still alive. Mr. Wade met me at the landing-place; and, as I passed on to the house, one and another of the Native Christians came out, and when they saw me, they began to weep. At length, we reached the house; and I almost expected to see my Wife coming out to meet me as usual; but no! I saw only, in the arms of Mrs. Wade, a poor little April, 1829. puny child, who could not recognise her weeping father, and from whose infant mind had long been erased all recollection of the mother who loved her so much. She turned away from me in alarm, and I, obliged to seek comfort elsewhere, found my way to the grave; but who ever obtained comfort there? Thence I went to the house, in which I left her; and I looked at the spot, where we last knelt in prayer, where we exchanged the parting salutation. He adds the following particulars of his Wife's last hours: The Doctor who attended her has removed to another station; and the only information which I can obtain, is such as the Native Christians are able to communicate. It seems that her head was much affected during her last days, and she said but little. She sometimes complained thus The Teacher is long in coming, and the New Missionaries long in coming: I must die alone, and leave my little one; but as it is the will of God, I acquiesce in His will. I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid I shall not be able to bear these pains. Tell the Teacher, that the disease was most violent, and I could not write: tell him how I suffered and died: tell him all that you see; and take care of the house and things until he return. When she was unable to notice any thing else, she would still call the child to her, and charge the nurse to be kind to it, and indulge it in every thing, until its father should return. The last day or two, she lay almost senseless and motionless-on one side-her head reclining on her arm-her eyes closed; and at eight in the evening, with one exclamation of distress in the Burman Language, she ceased to breathe. A few days afterward Dr. Judson adds these further circumstances— I have been on a visit to the Physician Y who attended my Wife in her illness. He has the character of a very kind, attentive, and skilful practitioner; and his communications to me have been rather consoling. I am now convinced, that every thing possible was done; and that had I been present myself, I could not have essentially contributed to avert the fatal termination of the disease. The Doctor was with her twice a-day, and frequently spent the greater part of the night by her side. He says, that, from the first attack of the fever, she was persuaded that she should not recover; but that her mind was uniformly tranquil and happy in prospect of death. She only expressed occasional regret at leaving her child, and the Native Christians and Schools, before her Husband or another Missionary Family could arrive. The last two days she was free from pain. On her attention being roused by reite. rated questions, she replied," I feel quite well, only very weak." These were her last words. The Doctor is decidedly of opinion, that the fatal termination of the fever is not to be ascribed to the localities of the New Settlement; but chiefly to the weakness of her constitution, occasioned by the severe privations and long-protracted sufferings which she endured at Ava. Oh with what meekness, and patience, and magnanimity, and Christian fortitude, she bore those sufferings! And can I wish that they had been less? Can I sacrilegiously wish to rob her crown of a single gem? Much she saw and suffered of the evil of this evil world; and eminently was she qualified to relish and enjoy the pure and holy rest into which she has entered. True, she has been taken from a sphere, in which she was singularly qualified, by her natural disposition, her winning manners, her devoted zeal, and her perfect acquaintance with the language, to be extensively serviceable to the Cause of Christ: true she has been torne from her Husband and from her darling babe; but Infinite Wisdom and Love have presided, as ever, in this most afflicting dispensation. Faith decides that it is all right; and the decisions of Faith, Eternity will soon confirm. We notice, in an American Publication, a remark on Mrs. Judson's death, which we think very exceptionable. Mrs. Judson's life was preserved to the end of a scene of unparalleled suffering, in which she was made the instrument of saving many valuable lives: the constancy of her affection to her husband during his imprisonment, and the ardour of her character under the most trying circumstances, have given her a name and praise in all the Churches. We ask, what pious female of our country would not go through the trials which awaited her short earthly course, to inherit her name, and the honour of leaving behind her such an example of Christian greatness! To live in the memory of the servants of God may well gratify the Christian; but to labour for the purpose of obtaining a name among them, is not a motive becoming one who must ever feel himself an unprofitable servant, and whose high and holy aim must be the glory of Him in whose grace he lives, and in whose merits he will be accepted. MRS. TEMPLE. The death, at Malta, of Mrs. Temple, of the American Mission in the Mediterranean, on the 15th of January 1827, was stated at p. 182 of our Volume for that year. Of her last days it is said Her disease, which was consumption, did not assume a very threatening aspect until the 1st of January, when she suddenly apprehended herself to be dying. On reviving a little, she desired Mr. Temple to read the passage of Scripture in which our Lord promises to manifest Himself to His Disciples as He does not to the world. This request she made, because her mind, owing no doubt to the influence of disease, enjoyed not its usual light and consolation: but the reading of that promise afforded considerable relief. On the 3d of January she wept abun dantly while speaking of the supposed hardness and insensibility of her heart. The next day she said, that her strongest evidences of piety consisted in the love which she had felt, for many years past, toward the children of God. Mr. Temple thus speaks of her state on the day preceding her de cease I spent the whole of this day with her, in prayer, in reciting the great and precious promises of the Gospel, and in such conversation as seemed to me to be best adapted to promote her edification. When I had been enlarging on the glorious perfections of God our Saviour, His ab |