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but for the melancholy event of the decease of their Monarch; an event of painful coincidence with the departure of Mr. Tyerman. We will not attempt to describe to you how deeply we feel for the public loss, and our loss, sustained by the death of the Sovereign of this Island-a man who had always shewn himself alive to our object, the warm patron of our Schools; in fact, the Father of his Country.

Leaving the house of Mr. Jones, the body was conveyed first to the Chapel, where the Rev. Messrs. Griffiths and Johns officiated, in Malagasy and English; and from thence to the grave, where the Rev. David Jones delivered an Address, and ended with prayer in Malagasy, in the presence of a great concourse of Natives. In the burialground, a spot was selected for the mortal remains of our friend, near the graves of three individuals who had fallen in the service of the Missionary Society. In life, he had associated with the friends of Missions; and in death he is not divided.

The Directors marked their sense of the loss which the Society had sustained in the death of Mr. Tyerman, by putting on record the following Resolution:

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The Directors having bowed before the Supreme Disposer of all human affairs, in humble acknowledgment of His prerogative in determining all the circumstances of the life and death of His servants, and of His kind preservation of the deceased till so near the close of

his important Mission, now record on their Minutes the deep sense which they entertain of the valuable services rendered by the late Rev. Daniel Tyerman, in connection with his highly-esteemed colleague, George Bennet, Esq., to the London Missionary Society, and to the cause of Christ in general, during the period of more than seven years; during which they visited the Missionary Stations of the Society in the South Seas, together with those beyond the Ganges, in the East Indies, Mauritius, and also Madagascar, where the remains of our departed friend now repose till the resurrection of the just.

From affection to the objects of this Society, Mr. Tyerman voluntarily relinquished the engagements of the Ministry at home, the endearments of a beloved family, and the enjoyments of his native land. Regardless of personal labour; or of danger-whether that arose from climate, from barbarous society, or from long and fatiguing journeys-intently desirous of promoting the usefulness and comfort of the Missionaries and the prosperity of the Society -he prosecuted his arduous under

taking, to the end of his career, with unabated energy and zeal.

By the Missionaries abroad and the Directors at home, his memory will continue to be loved, revered, and honoured. The Directors are persuaded, that, in these views and feelings, all the members of the Society will cordially concur, and that they will unite with them in kindest sympathy with the family now left to deplore his loss.

OBITUARY OF REV. BENJAMIN ALLEN,

RECTOR OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA; WHO DIED, AT SEA, JAN. 13, 1829. THE following Letter, addressed under date of April 27, 1829, by the Rev. W. Carus Wilson, of Whittington, near Kirkby Lonsdale, details the melancholy circumstances under which Mr. Allen left England, on his return to the United States, after his attendance at the Anniversaries in London in May of last year. The Rev. Benjamin Allen will be remembered as speaking with great effect at the Anniversary Meetings in London last May. He had come over to England with a constitution shattered and enfeebled by arduous duty in his Master's

Service, in the hope of being recruited by the voyage and relaxation. Unhappily, on his landing, he either failed to represent with sufficient force the extent of his bodily weakness (for he had long spit blood, and had other consumptive symptoms), or was unduly and inconsiderately pressed into the service of our various Religious Institutions. I am afraid of saying the number of Meetings at which he told me that he had spoken within the limits of a very few weeks, before he came into the North on the Bible-Society Tour. Between the end of that tour and his engagement in the service of the Church Missionary

of his Church during his absence.

His widow, and six children, are left entirely destitute: and if any benevolent friend should feel disposed to contribute to their relief, I shall have great pleasure in forwarding their bounty. If paid to Messrs. Hatchard, or Messrs. Seeley, for "the Family of the late Rev. B. Allen, of Philadelphia," I will take care that it is duly remitted, through Samuel Hope, Esq., banker, Liverpool, who has connections in Philadelphia well acquainted with the family. Where more convenient, the money may be paid directly to Mr. Hope.

Society, there was an interval of a fortnight, which I prevailed upon him to spend quietly with us, instead of returning to London, as he intended. He failed to complete his latter engagements, and affecting symptoms of mental weakness were but too manifest. He lingered in our neighbourhood for some time, first going to one friend's house and then another continually changing his plans-one day starting for Liverpool, another day for Edinburgh, and returning back to his old quarters by the first coach which he met on the road: till, at length, some members of the Society of Friends, in Kendal, among whom he received the greatest kindness and sympathy, wrote to me in such alarming terms, that I went over to see him immediately; and, under the advice of his medical attendant, I ventured to take him to Liverpool, with some hope that he might be able to sail by a packet which was expected to leave Liverpool for Philadelphia in a few days. A considerable hope was expressed by his physician, that if he was once away from the excitement into which he had been thrown, with the prospect of speedily joining his family, his mind would become tranquillized, and his general health be amended by the sea-voyage.

I need not enlarge upon the state of tremendous anxiety in which he placed me during the three days that we waited in Liverpool for the sailing of the packet: suffice it to say, that, after having twice got out of my sight during the time we were together, he contrived effectually to get out of the way on Sunday Evening; and all our efforts, aided by the watch and police during the night and the following day, to discover him, were in vain, till about two o'clock in the afternoon, and the packet was to sail at three. With the full concurrence of the judicious and sympathizing friends who afforded the most affectionate cooperation on this melancholy occasion, it was determined that it would not be safe to incur the responsibility of allow ing him to sail; and Mr. Samuel Hope and myself had the distressing task of placing him in the Lunatic Asylum. There he remained for some months, anxiously watched by his benevolent friends on the spot; and, appearing a little better, he was allowed to sail.

The following Letter gives the melancholy sequel of his history. It is written by his Brother, who took charge

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We subjoin the chief part of the Letter here referred to by Mr. Wilson, as containing the affecting description of the final scene. addressed to Mr. Wilson, by the Rev. T. G. Allen, under date of Philadelphia, March 18, 1829.

Ere this comes to hand, I presume you will have learnt that my beloved Brother has safely escaped from the troubles and storms of this changing world, and has entered into his eternal rest in our Heavenly Father's house. From the last account which we received from our friend Mr. Hope, we were led to anticipate his return nearly or quite as well as when he left us. But, oh! the Lord has thought proper to order it otherwise; and we all submissively exclaim, Blessed be His Holy Name!

The brig had a very long, boisterous, and hazardous passage-96 days to the Capes. She did not arrive here till Saturday last. They endeavoured to take a southern passage, but could not: she encountered a severe storm about two weeks before my dear Brother departed, and threw over part of her cargo: the last twenty days the crew had no other provisions but potatoes: my Brother, however, was safely moored in the haven of eternal repose before that trial came on.

After they went to sea, he became worse: he was sea-sick but a short time: he was labouring under a deep melancholy, disposed to have no intercourse with those around, but perfectly harmless as a child. The Captain informed me that he spat blood every day from his coming on board to his death: he appeared to suffer no pain, and made no complaint he was never heard to groan: he was confined to his bed about fifteen days. No doubt his disease was pulmonary; and, as it was partly spent

upon the brain, it assumed the mildest form in connection with the chest.

When the Captain told him that he could not stay long, he roused up as one out of sleep; and, looking earnestly, expressed a wish to have prayers. The Captain told him that he was not gifted that way. He then requested the Bible to be read to him, and prayers to be read in his hearing; which was done. The Chapter which he particularly selected was the Fifteenth of 1st Corinthians. The Bible was read to him, at his instance, the greater part of that night; which was the night previous to his death. The chief part of the time he was perfectly himself: about four o'clock in the morning, he was asked by the Captain if he was willing to depart from this world; and he answered, "I am." After some further time for reflection, he observed, "I am ready to go;" and these were the last words which he was heard to speak. He gradually sunk as one falling into a sweet sleep, till he yielded up his spirit into the hands of his God. Though he did not speak after the above expressions, yet for the last two hours he took notice of every thing around him. He died on the fiftieth day of his sailing, the 13th January, at six o'clock p. m., lat. 42 deg. 18 m., and long. 50 deg. west from Greenwich: he was entombed in the deep, on the 14th, at meridian.

This is truly an afflictive dispensation to us all: but, oh! to his widowed wife, and six helpless orphan children, it is a loss not soon to be repaired. Though some of the circumstances of his depar

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ture are painful to us, yet hushed be every murmur. Were they not all especially ordered by Infinite Wisdom and Unbounded Love? Did not God fulfil His promise, and make all his bed in his sickness ! Yes! I trust the presence of Jesus, in all the tenderness of His sympathy, banished every fear froin his heart, and assuaged every sorrow: and though the waters overflowed him, yet his ransomed spirit was snatched from the evil, and conducted, by a melodious choir, to those bright abodes where pleasures spring immortal in the skies. Oh, what a cordial is this to the bereaved bosom! What but this hope can reconcile us to death in ourselves or our friends! Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ! May we all come out of this fiery trial, purified and prepared more fully for the service of our God here, and the enjoyment of Him hereafter !

My dear Brother's race has been short and rapid, but extremely useful. The present prosperity of the Evangelical Portion of the Church in this region may be traced to him, as a prominent instrument in the hands of God. His sun, setting at noon-day, should excite us to be up and doing what we find to do with all our might, and to attend to the vineyard of our own hearts as well as our fellows. May we be made faithful unto death, and then obtain the crown of life! Amen.

May the Lord abundantly reward all those benevolent Individuals in England who were kind to our afflicted and muchloved Brother!

Proceedings and Entelligence.

United Kingdom.

ABSTRACTS OF ADDRESSES AT VARIOUS RECENT ANNIVERSARIES.

THE number and length of the Addresses delivered on these occasions oblige us to confine ourselves, at present, to a selection of the FACTS stated chiefly by eye-witnesses of what they related. If our limits shall allow, we may hereafter put on record some of the SENTIMENTS, expressed with great force and eloquence by many of the Speakers at the respective Meetings. The Facts here collected are arranged in the usual geographical order of our Work.

IRELAND.

Missionary Feeling awakened.

At the period when the Deputation of the Church Missionary Society visited Ireland to call us into co-operation, Protestantism was there at a low ebb, and its Ministers seemed

to sleep in the enjoyment of their privileges. Much of the animation and increased interest which now exist in that country on Religious Subjects is to be attributed to the Society; which had something so peculiarly interesting in its object, and, if I may use a worldly

phrase, so romantic in its operations, that it found a responsive chord in the hearts of my countrymen. On some occasions, the Rooms, where Meetings of the Society were held, were too limited for the accommodation of the numbers anxious to be present: and I can state from personal observation, that poor Protestants, who had retained their faith in the midst of a Catholic Population when neglected by English Protestants and by their own countrymen, often walked thirty and forty miles to attend a Meeting of the Church Missionary Society.

In point of fact, the labours of the Society furnish the Protestants of Ireland with a source of consolation. There is no subject on which Catholics are so prone to indulge in ridicule, as with respect to Protestant Missionaries. Roman Catholics conceive that to their Church alone is given the privilege of making Converts to Christianity. They are wont to say to Protestants, "Where are the thousands and tens of thousands whom you have converted?" But the Protestant is now enabled to reply, by adducing the important facts with which this Society furnishes him.

It has already been most truly stated, that this Society has given the Irish Church an impetus, and that it now possesses a Missionary Character. A Home-Missionary Society is now established in Ireland, at the head of which there are two Archbishops and several other Prelates: that Society sends forth numerous Missionaries; not for the purpose of controversy, but for the purpose of spreading the Word of God in its simplicity. Those who go forth from it do not bear the badge of party, but go forth to declare the power of God unto Salvation; and I rejoice to say, that the result has been two-fold: Roman Catholics and Protestants meet in thousands, and listen with deep attention; and when God's Word is spoken in their own language by the Missionaries, attention is changed into sensibility, and tears are seen flowing down those rugged cheeks which have seldom borne the marks of such deep feeling.

[Rev. Dr. Singer-at the Church Miss. Ann. Increased Circulation and Influence of the Scriptures.

The Hibernian Bible Society has been, by the blessing of God, during the past year, most successful, and has extended her operation through every part of Ireland. There is not a County, in which there is not a Bible Society; and scarcely a Parish or a Village in the Island, where there is not a Depository for this Sacred Volume. And where their advocates can prosecute the aggressive system against the ignorance and indolence of man, the Bible Society does not only sound the bell, and call mankind to come and receive the treasures of immortal life; but, knowing

that man of himself cannot do any thing, this Society sends persons-enters into their houses with all the earnestness of affection and loveand puts the Scriptures into their hands, begging them to read them, as they contain the message of eternal life.

And this has been most effectual; the circulation of the Scriptures, during the past year, having far exceeded that of many of the preceding years, in the proportion of the number of the copies of the Scriptures which have been PURCHASED, to those which have been GRATUITOUSLY circulated. Thus the Peasantry, who are the principal purchasers, seem aware of the value of that Book circulated by this Society; and, in order to purchase that Book, they must have been compelled to labour-they must have been compelled to save: and thus the Bible Society has become the best instrument of accomplishing that great object of Political Economistsindustry and frugality. This great object has been progressively advancing in Ireland.

Another particular feature in the extended circulation is, that, during the past year, the proportion of Bibles which have been sold, including the Old and New Testament, has exceeded very far that of any other year. During the former years, the greater part of them consisted of Testaments; but, in the past year, those individuals who had perchance read the New Testament, and knew that the Prophets did testify of Jesus, have come crowding round our Depositories, to possess the whole of God's Revealed Word.

Another interesting feature in the history of the last year, and one for which Ireland's Children will raise their prayers to the throne of God for England, is, that the whole Bible, in the Irish Character, has been circulated in Ireland, for the first time for 150 years. The Irish Peasant has seen the Book of God in a language which he has learnt to venerate, and which is dear to his recollection and his feelings: and thus, while, after the art of printing was found out, 150 years elapsed before they had the Scriptures for the first time in that language, the same period has elapsed before a second edition of them has been given to the Irish Peasant. The results have been most happy: not only has that Book been circulated, and read, and an attachment to it been manifested, resisting the oppression and disregarding the menaces and threats of those who would exercise spiritual tyranny over them-not only so, but I can add, that the circulation and reading of the Irish Scriptures has, in every instance, led to examination, to anxiety to possess, and, finally, to the purchase of, the English Bible. The Irish Bible, when perused in the Irish Peasant's Cottage, has excited a desire to possess, first the English Testament, then the Bible, and then the

large English Bible with Marginal References. All those who possess the Irish Scriptures wish to examine for themselves, and to possess every aid by which their minds can be improved or their salvation promoted. [The Same at the Bible Soc. Ann, Beneficial Influence of the Scriptures on the State of Society.

In those provinces in Ireland where the Bible is most read, the people are most comfortable and most quiet; while in those provinces where the Bible is least read, the people are least comfortable and most disturbed. In the Province of Ulster, there are 251 inhabitants to a square mile--the most dense population in Ireland; and there we have the worst and most barren soil, the least likely to be productive: but there, where nature has thinly spread her blessing over the rocks, we find the inhabitants in possession of a blessing which has raised them above all the provinces of the kingdom: there, the Bible is more generally circulated and read. In Leinster, the inhabitants are 204 to a square mile: this is naturally a better and more fertile province than Ulster; but there, the Bible is less read, and the province is less comfortable and more disturbed. In Munster, the population is still thinner, and the soil is richer; but the Bible is still less read, and the people are still less comfortable. At last, you come to Connaught, the most fruitful province in Ireland, which nature has clothed with the richest verdure; where the population is the thinnest, not being more than 161 to a square mile; and there is Ireland's greatest misery-the largest measure of its ignorance and its sufferings; and there, the Scriptures are almost unknown. These are facts. I do not presume to say in what way a change may be brought about in the state of that country; but I leave you to judge, whether a country situated as that is should not encourage you to circulate more widely the Word of God.

The years 1821-22-23 were called years of starvation; and we received 300,000l. from England, to save our people from starving: yet, in those years, our exports in the articles of provisions alone amounted to sixteen millions sterling; and, in 1822, the year of our greatest distress, our exports of provisions were no less than four millions and a half: so that it was not the want of the bountiful provisions of nature, which caused our misfortunes; but it was the want of a proper tone of mind, of that enlightening influence, which watches, like a presiding genius, over the happiness and prosperity of the people and, as a proof of this, I may state that every fraction of that 300,000l. which we got from England, was confined in its distribu

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tion to the South of Ireland, where the Bible is least known; while, in the North, it was not wanted. [Rev. John Burnet-at the same.

Victory of the Scriptures over Infidelity. It is an awful fact, that, notwithstanding the ignorance and errors of the Irish Peasantry, yet, in many parts of Ireland, Infidelitydeep, pernicious, soul-blasting Infidelity→ has been found to spread its roots and exert its influence and it has been discovered, that where education has not been founded on Scriptural Knowledge, it has led them to see nothing in the Bible but those difficulties which have not been revealed; and they have dared to dispute its authority, and to charge it with falsehood, error, and impos

ture.

And what has been the only remedy? It has been proved, most conclusively, that the only remedy is, Scriptural Education-the circulation of the Holy Scriptures, and the enforcement of the doctrines which they contain. This general proposition is capable of most satisfactory demonstration: and I will venture one fact, which is well calculated to display this state of opinion, and to shew that the Book of God is an effectual remedy for these evils.

Some time since, in a Northern, or rather Midland, County, in Ireland, a discussion took place, arising from the operations of the Reformation Society, between a Roman-Catholic and a Protestant Clergyman. Many farmers and peasants from the neighbourhood attended that discussion; and, being under the influence of Infidelity, they did so merely for the purpose of ridiculing and censuring the contemptible arguments (in their opinion) which were brought forward by the two Clergymen. Many of the farmers and peasantry who attended were well acquainted with the writings of Paine and Voltaire; whose works, strange to tell, especially those of Paine, have been circulated, in print and manuscript, through the country! They ridiculed the Meeting: it amused them; and they said, "We will have a discussion of our own." "You shall be the Roman Catholic," said one, "and I will be the Protestant; and our friends here shall be judges, who displays the most ability and ingenuity." They carried their blasphemous object almost into effect: the time was appointed, and they seriously set about preparing for the contest. It was agreed that they should do what they had never done before

read the Scriptures, in order to prepare for the attack and the result was, as might have been expected; that those who did so became convinced of the truth of that Book and converts to its contents; and a neighbour of theirs, from whom I had the particulars,

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