ful revival of religion, by request, and in conformity to the spirit and practice of the times, sent us a visiting committee. But the arm of religious exertion seemed to be paralyzed by the prevalence of sin and stupidity.

Previous to the time specified for another anxious meeting, the next week, it was seen that preparations were making among young people for a ball. This arrangement was deprecated by some as a serious evil, but others viewed it as an indication of good, as the last efforts of an expiring enemy, determined to give a parting blow. Nor were they mistaken. On the evening appointed for the ball, a number collected; but as the assembly was not graced by the presence of a single female, they soon dispersed with mortified feelings, with wounded pride, and with frustrated hopes.

The next evening about 25 attended the anxious meeting, some of whom began to hope and rejoice in the Lord Jesus; others were deeply convicted of sin, and the rest were more or less anxious about the concerns of the soul. The subsequent week, the number was considerably increased; and for a few of the succeeding weeks it continued with about an equal ratio of increase, until it amounted to rising of one hundred.

The revival in the month of March was slow and gradual in its progress. In this month there were not more than eight hopeful subjects of grace. On the last week in March, and on the first week in April, the revival broke forth with great power, and extended rapidly and in various directions from the place where it commenced its operations. It continued for a few days with accelerated force, and 30, as the traits of it that week, were hopefully the subjects of conversion.

From this time the work advanced; not indeed with the rapidity and power by which it was so strongly marked the first week in April, but solemnly and steadily, and with distinctness and decision, till the middle of June. Eighty were induced to cherish a hope of pardoned sin.

Of the number, that have expressed hopes, about 40 have been examined, propounded, and on the first Sabbath in September, will make a religious profession, and for the first time will mingle with their brethren around the sacramental board. Others as fruits of the revival, will unite themselves to the church hereafter. A few individuals will probably be united to other denominations. Those who are about to profess their faith in the Redeemer, under the impressions received during the awakening, are principally from among the youth. Many family altars, perfumed with the morning and evening sacrifice, have been erected. The proportion of males to that of females, is as 2 to 3.

In Somers, Conn.-About eight weeks since it began to be manifest that the Spirit was moving upon the hearts of God's people, and that sinners where no longer indifferent to the momentous question of the trembling jailor. Soon the voice of distress was heard, and soon too it was mingled with that of rejoicing and praise. The work has been still, but powerful. Between 90 and 100 are rejoicing in hope. At our last meeting of anxious inquiry, about 170 were present, including 60, who hope that they have recently passed from death unto life. The work is still spreading, and has, perhaps, never been more interesting than at the present moment.

We have had information direct from South Wilbraham, that the number of hopeful converts in that town, and in Somers, is not far from

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200; and that the good work still goes on. A similar attention has been excited in other towns in the vicinity. In Ellington, nearly 20 persons; and in Tolland, 60 give some evidence of having recently become subjects of that Kingdom which is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Recorder.

JEWISH EMIGRANTS.

Philadelphia, Aug. 20.--A company of German emigrants, eightyfour in number, passed through this city on Sunday morning, on their way to Ohio. We are informed that they profess the Jewish faith, but what is most remarkable is, they all make up one family, consisting of grandfathers, grandmothers, sous, daughters, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, grand children, &c. all connected. They appear to be rich for settlers, having brought with them from Germany, wagons, harness, and various kinds of goods, wares, and merchandise, sufficient to fill ten baggage wagons. In two of the wagons, it must however be observed, they found room to deposite the children. The men and women trudged on foot. The long beards, broad brimmed hats, small clothes and short coats of the former, with the drugget bed gowns and red under-dress of the latter, gave the whole group a singularity of aspect, such as was well calculated to arrest the attention of the passing traveller. Union.

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BURMAH.-American Baptist Mission. A letter from Mrs. Judson, who is now in England on her way to America, dated at Calcutta in December last, states that Mr. Judson was well, and duly expecting the arrival of Dr. and Mrs. Price, and Mr. and Mrs. Hough, with their two children, who sailed for Rangoon on the 30th of December. Thirteen Burmans have been baptized; but the present prospects of the mission are rather gloomy, on account of the persecuting spirit manifested by the government.

INDIA WITHIN THE GANGES.-Serampore. A letter received in Philadelphia from Dr. Ward, states that the College buildings form a noble pile. Strangers visit them daily, though in an unfinished state.

"One of the Sanscrit Students (says Dr. W.) is a member with us, a young man of promising parts, and I hope really pious." "Another student in Sanscrit, a fine youth, has offered himself for church membership." "I found the number of native converts had considerably increased during my absence, and when I had them all, men and women, one by one, to talk to, and to talk to them about the state of their souls, I was surprised to observe the increase." The New Testament in eight languages has recently issued from the Serampore press; and in eleven languages the same book is now in press. The Old Testament in four languages is in press, and in three other languages it is now reprinting. The Schools are less extensive, for the want of funds. Besides Calcutta and Serampore, there are eight missionary stations, supported by the proceeds of the labour of the Serampore Brethren. Mr. John Marshman is about to visit England.

Female education is commencing here and there on a small scale, and the government continues favourable. Mr. W. concludes by

saying, "We want the days of Brainerd, the revivals of America Oh! pray for us. Forget us not. Wrestle earnestly for us, that India may yield her increase.'

MASSACHUSETTS. --Baptist Missionary Society.

This institution,

which was formed twenty years ago, continues in the sphere of active usefulness, and employs thirteen Missionaries in the States of NewHampshire, Vermont, New-York, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Illinois, Massachusetts, and the Province of New-Brunswick. Mr. Kimball, at Claremont, writes, "the number of those who have passed from death unto life is about sixty. The good work is still going on." "In Bradford, about thirty souls have been hopefully converted unto God." Mr. Cook states that in the part of New-Hampshire which has been the scene of his labours, "There are not less than twelve towns in that region, which are destitute of the Gospel, and many had not heard a sermon for nine years. "But we have not room for further extracts. The whole report gives ample testimony to the faithfulness of the Missionaries and the importance of their work, whether we regard it as a command of the Gospel or the destitute state of those sections of our country where they have laboured. We would here remark, that the cause of Home Missions is gaining upon the attention of Christians of all denominations, and that, when viewed in connexion with Foreign Missions, there appears a remarkable fulfilment of the promise, He that watereth shall be watered also himself.

THE JUDGMENTS OF HEAVEN UPON OUR CITY.

OUR readers will naturally expect that we should not dismiss this number without a formal notice of the fever which exists in our city. In the absence of important political news, we shall devote the pages usually allotted to our " Civil Retrospect," to direct the attention of our citizens to the subject which seems so fully to engross the public mind. The last three weeks have considerably enlarged the boundaries of the infected district; though, as appears from the official reports, the number of daily victims continues to be about the same. In the mean-time, the Board of Health, in conjunction with the Corporation, are taking such mea sures to check the progress of the disease, as appear to them to promise the best results. That part of the city extending from the Battery to Fulton-street, is nearly evacuated, though, on the East River, no cases of fever have originated, we believe, east of Nassau and Broad-streets, if we except one or two in Wallstreet. The banks and public offices have removed to the upper part of Broadway and to Greenwich Village, where the principal part of the business of the city is transacted, and where people from the country may come, with no more exposure to the disease than in former years.

To such efforts for averting this public calamity as the civil authorities have used, we yield our most hearty assent. Our belief in the agency of God, who is omnipresent, and extends his providence to the minutest portions of his creation, is not, in the least, at variance with the fact of operating through the instru mentality of second causes. To such causes, we have never doubted, the pre sent calamity may be distinctly traced. And we anticipate deliverance from it, in the use of appropriate means, or through some perceptible change in the state of our atmosphere; although now the agent of the disease may elude the grasp of the chymist and philosopher. But while we cheerfully admit all this, and are,

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moreover, persuaded, that the devout and prayerful believer in the particular providence of God, will ordinarily be most impressed with his obligations to apply the appropriate remedy, we are desirous, at this time, to draw the attention of our fellow-citizens to the agency of the great FIRST CAUSE. "Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" "I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I the Lord do all these things." The instructions of Revelation hold but one language on this subject. They trace all the sore trials and sufferings, which affect the world, to iniquity as their procuring cause, and to the righteous JEHOVAH as their awarder. They advise us to amend our ways, and to call upon him in the day of trouble. Accordingly, the ancient saints were accustomed to have immediate recourse to God, under their afflictions, from whatever source they might come; and both the precept and example of the first Christians recognize this practice, as being not only rational and proper, but an incumbent duty,

It therefore affords us great satisfaction to observe, that several of our churches have set apart days of fasting and prayer, to humble themselves before God, and supplicate him for pardon and deliverance.* But we cannot easily repress the sentiment, that fervent, effectual prayer and REFORMATION are, in the present case, most inseperable. If it would be quite absurd to expect a cessation of the disease, while the natural causes of infection exist in all their virulence; we think it no less irrational to hope for a removal of the judgments of God from our city, as long as our provocations of his wrath continue the same. The very exemption from temporary afflictions, may prove, in the end, the greatest calamity.

We are pleased to see some of the columns of at least one of our daily papers open to a communication well calculated to direct the public mind to a proper view of this subject. "A Citizen," in the "Commercial Advertiser" of Saturday last, justly observes, that "amidst all the desolations which the most alarmed imagination can conceive," if our people are exercised with repentance, deep humiliation and prayer, and the forsaking our sins, "we may be made partakers of joy and peace." In addressing those who profess to be Christians, he further ob

serves:

I feel, however, a peculiar liberty and obligation, to address my professing brethren of all denominations, and to urge them to imitate a very holy example, in confessing their own sins, and the sins of their people. Though we are a very smail part of the mass of citizens, God gives us the privilege of numbering many thousands of the professed, and, I trust, real friends of truth and righteousness; and it is due to our professions, that we should be foremost in the private and public duties of the present emergency; and especially in the primary duty of confessing our personal sins and the sins of our people. If we consider our prevalent alienation from the God, whom yet we call "Our Father;" our ingratitude for the experience of his rich grace; and our failure in every Christian duty, we shall not be at a loss for occasion of private humiliation. If, however, any professed disciple be at a loss, we will express our fear that a stupor has seized him, more alarming than the most awful bodily disease. No temporal evil, if accompanied with a tender, humble and believing mind, is to be dreaded in comparison with a sinful stupor in the soul, however it may be gladdened with outward prosperity.

And again :

As in our lives, we have exceedingly failed to exhibit the sweet and holy influence of Christianity-as we have been at best, so dim lights in the world, and our

* Since writing this article, we have been informed that two of the Churches in a neighbouring sown have observed a day of fasting and prayer, partly with reference to our calamity.

good works have been so few and feeble, that men have not learnt to glorify our Father which is in heaven.

And as we have failed in the duty of earnest, believing and importunate prayer; having had the remedy, and failed to apply it, we are now called upon not only to bewail, but confess the sins of our people.

Brethren, these are not empty words; they are the words of truth and soberness. Let it not be our condemnation, if irreligion and vice hereafter increase; let us not expose ourselves to the just and disheartening reproach of offended Heaven "Why should ye be stricken any more; ye will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart is faint." Let us earnestly seek, that the season of our affliction may be a season of spiritual reviving to our distressed and scattered citizens. Let no heart be dull; let no hand be idle; let not those who think they have escaped personal danger and suffering, spend the season of public calamity in a hard-hearted gladness, and worldliness.

In all our dispersions, let us earnestly call upon God, that he will spare our peo ple from threatened judgments, and that the cup of temporal sorrow may be sweetened with assurances of spiritual and eternal mercy. It may be, that only in a little wrath he hides his face from us, and that in great mercy he will gather us; that he will speedily remove our present calamity, and pour upon us a spiritual blessing, until there shall not be room to receive it.

Without ascribing this frown of Providence to any one prominent sin among us, we think the reflecting Christian will perceive, in the open licentiousness, which occupies so many neighbourhoods and lanes of our city,-in the horrid profaneness, which assails our ears on every side, and from persons of every rank and age, in the midnight revels and drunkenness, which continue to exist and increase upon us, in defiance of our laws and vigilant police,-in the Sabbath day's profanation, converting the hours which Jehovah has formally set apart for his worship, and our spiritual welfare, into seasons of loitering idleness and shameless dissipation,-and in the public amusements, which have for some time past exhibited a character of indecency seldom known among us,-enough to draw down upon us the wrath of indignant Heaven,-enough over which to lament, not only as the guilty cause of present judgments, but the direful harbingers of future and still more awful visitations.

Nor does it occur to us, that the duty of repentance and reformation rests exclusively with the persons who are reckoned to be guilty of these enormities. Over this state of things, the ministers of public justice and religion may have too nearly slept. Professing Christians, of every name, may have been by far too negligent and inactive. We have listened in vain for the loud voice of reprobation, going forth from the different communions, which, though separate in the minor distinctions of forms and ceremonies, ought publicly to UNITE in stigmatizing those practices among us, which they would all admit to be offensive to God and destructive to ourselves. There is then resting upon us all a measure of guilt, which it becomes us to recognize and confess before God-enough to unite our spirits in humble contrition, and in earnestly supplicating deliverance from impending chastisement, as what our personal sins have richly merited.

We had intended to notice the mercies of God, which have, thus far, been mingled with his judgments;—such as the general health of the city, with the exception of the infected district—the slow progress of the disease, affording ample time for the removal of our citizens, and inviting the thoughtful to consideration and prayer. But we trust that the reflections of the pious reader will easily supply what is wanting in this respect. Most sincerely do we wish them, and all our fellow-citizens, such a practical improvement of this visitation of God, as shall convert the calamity into a spiritual blessing.