CALCUTTA, Lewis, C. B., August 20, 21, JAMAICA-Millard, B., and others, Sept. 1. and 25, Sept. 7 and 8. COLOMBO, Allen, Jas., August 26. SERAMPORE, McKenna, A., August 10; BAHAMAS-INAGUA, Littlewood, T., Sept. 1. NASSAU, Davey, J., Sept. 9. ATLANTIC OCEAN, East, D. J., Oct. 13. SPANISH TOWN, Phillippo, J. M., Sept. 8. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. The thanks of the Committee are presented to the following friends :Juvenile Society, New Street, Hanley, for a box of clothing, for Africa; Miss Michell, Redruth, for a parcel of magazines; Miss Jane Williamson, for lace, value 17, and Miss J. Green, Leicester, for a pair of sleeves, for Rev. W. K. Rycroft, Bahamas. CONTRIBUTIONS, Received on account of the Baptist Missionary Society, from September 21 to October 20, 1858. W. & O. denotes that the Contribution is for Widows and Orphans; N. P. for Native Preachers. 358 Pole Moor For AFRICA. Annotto Bay and Buff Edwards, Rev. J. ford Bethtephil 0 Brown's Town and Beth 6 Clarksonville and Mount Coultart Grove Dry Harbour and Salem ock, ad Cross Falmouth 2 7 1 Green Island 1 13 10 Shipley Do., Public Meeting 3 9 2 Gurney's Mount 600 Collections ........... 11 12 4 Contributions Lucea 1 17 7 8 0 0 Skipton Collection............................... Do., Sunday School 0 13 6 Maldon. 3 1 0 0 Manchioncal Steep Lane Collection 0 14 2 Wainsgate 7 13 2 Collection 280 Contributions Less expenses....... Mount Angus and Wal- Mount Carey, Short wood, Bethel Town, Mount Nebo and Mo New Birmingham Port Maria and Oraca bessa... 4 3 2 Porus, Mandeville, and Thompson Town 3 5 11 20 0 0 500 613 0 1 10 0 300 10 9 4 16 16 7 3 16 3 Spanish Town. 4.12 9 100 0 12 6 Pontrhydyryn Collection Contributions Pontypool Contributions, for Rev. 0 Spring Gardens 5 15 0 Springfield, Mount Mer T. Evans, Muttra ... 16 10 Pontypool, Crane Street- rick, and Elim Staceyville 6 Stewart Town.. Sturge Town Thompson Town Waldensia and Unity 8 Watford Hill 360 100 Contributions..... 916 6 2 15 0 Do., Sunday School 12 7 0 Do., for Jamaica In- Subscriptions and Donations in aid of the Baptist Missionary Society will be thankfully received by Sir Samuel Morton Peto, Bart., Treasurer; by the Rev. Frederick Trestrail and Edward Bean Underhill, Esq., Secretaries, at the Mission House, 33, Moorgate Street, LONDON; in EDINBURGH, by the Rev. Jonathan Watson, and John Maeandrew, Esq.; in GLASGOW, by John Jackson, Esq.; in Calcutta, by the Rev. C. B. Lewis, Baptist Mission Press. Contributions can also be paid in at Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, and Co.'s, Lombard Street, to the account of the Treasurer. IRISH CHRONICLE. NOVEMBER, 1858. THE INCOME OF THE SOCIETY. THE friends of the Baptist Irish Society are respectfully, yet earnestly, requested to favour the Treasurer with their contributions as early as they can. Loans to a considerable amount have already been advanced by the bankers. These will have to be increased if liberal aid be not soon afforded. The financial affairs of the Society therefore occasion to the officers and Committee much concern. They rejoice in the hopeful prospects of the mission, but they cannot be insensible to the want of adequate support. Many churches and friends, who used to afford considerable aid in former years, have not now rendered any pecuniary help for a considerable time. These are earnestly entreated to think of the claims of Ireland. Rome is not unmindful of them. Her agents are sent forth in great number, and sometimes in great pomp, in order to sustain the claims of her priesthood. The evangelical Christians of Britain might well consider whether their zeal be properly manifested in efforts to uphold the sole priesthood of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Committee of the Baptist Irish Society are not unmindful of the fact that great demands are made on the liberality of Christians for the extension of Christian missions in heathen lands, and that these demands have been enforced by events that are likely to give to them an almost absorbing interest. Neither are they insensible to the commercial difficulties which have been so widely felt in England and Scotland. But even when the utmost allowance has been made for events calculated to divert the attention, and to diminish the means, of the Christian public, the fact must still be deplored that Ireland does not hold the place in the benevolent efforts of the friends of evangelical truth to which her wants and her capabilities entitle her. The Committee are quite aware that in many instances the support formerly rendered has been greatly lessened, if not altogether withheld, in consequence of deputations not having been sent as in previous years. They believe, too, that since the deputational system has been partially resumed, some churches refrain from effort till such an appeal be made. The Secretary devotes to this department of labour quite as much time as can be given to it in connection with the other duties of an office in which no assistance whatever is provided by the Society. It is therefore at once evident that the help rendered must be to a very large extent spontaneous and unsolicited. It is impossible that all places should be visited without an amount of charge for deputations that the income of the Society would not warrant, and the friends of the Society would not approve. The utmost effort will be made to send suitable representatives where they are desired. But the friends of the cause are earnestly entreated to render aid of their own accord, that the expense attendant on the deputational system may be kept within limits as narrow as the interests of the Society will permit. During the past month the Secretary, and the Rev. J. Milligan, of Dublin, have visited Scotland; but the result of their appeals cannot be known till after these lines have been sent to press. It is, however, to be feared that certain commercial difficulties that are widely felt in that country, and applications in behalf of other institutions made nearly at the same time, will be found to have so operated as to render this appeal to the churches of Christ in England not at all less urgent. Contributions, liberal and prompt, are therefore most earnestly requested. BANBRIDGE. THE following letter from our devoted missionary, Mr. ECCLES, will be read with much interest : able light than before. After the stir and excitement of a large commercial town, in my present sojourn I seem almost an exile. Amid the comparatively unbroken quiet that seems here everywhere to prevail, I sympathise, in a manner hitherto unwonted, with the poor mariners on ocean's too placid bosom, whose sails not even a breath from heaven any longer moves : "More the treacherous calm they dread that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.' It is not to my taste to balance difficulties when sinners all around are perishing 'for lack of knowledge.' "My reception has been as respectful, cordial, and encouraging as I had any reason to anticipate. I have already had the pleasure of occupying the platform along with other ministers of the town and neighbourhood, who, I ought to say, behaved to me with much kindness and consideration. Than tempest bursting overhead.' "Belfast I had regarded as my home-a home peculiarly desirable in consideration "I have already two stations in the counfor my sons, now of that age when the try, each about two miles distant from opportunities connected with a large and town, where I preach the gospel regularly flourishing town are of special importance. on week-day evenings. I hope shortly to But after the adhesion of a Belfast minister, have others also. The attendance has inhimself a minister's son, widely known and creased considerably. Last Wednesday respected among the other bodies in the evening was very wet. I was quite drenched town, and owing to local connections arising long before I arrived at the place of meetfrom a seven years' pastorate possessing ing. It was dark, and the very worthy advantages which no mere Baptist, how-man-a Presbyterian-who kindly gives ever gifted, could command for rendering me the accommodation of his house, had Academy Street, almost immediately, a selfsustaining church, I felt that neither my own interests nor those of my family should stand for a moment in the way of an appointment so eligible for the cause. come out to meet me and be my guide. I hesitated to ask him whether as yet any had come, as the darkness and the rain made the ways through the fields so diffi cult that I felt convinced that, for that "I feel the change much; yet my judg- night, I should have no congregation. ment still approves the course I adopted. Imagine my surprise when, on entering, I Am I a soldier of the cross? And where, found the house crammed. And throughout then, ought I to be but where the Captain the address they testified in marked attenpoints out as the place of peculiar need? tion the same warm interest] they must Ireland is not my rest, nor my reward. have felt to induce them to come out on It is not name, place, or position I here such an evening. At the close of the serseek. Oh, how much better when the vice, after several had expressed aloud their Master cometh to receive his heart-satisfy-intention to hear me on the Thursday fol ing 'well done!' And-if I know anything as I ought to know-this has been the polestar of my labours since the day that, in youth's vigorous prime (long before I knew anything of the Baptist Irish Society, or of the magnanimity of British brethren), with my hand on my heart and my eye on the cross, I presented myself to God a living sacrifice to promote, as far as in me lay, the evangelisation of my country. 'Many days have passed since then. Many changes I have seen.' But 'hitherto hath the Lord helped me.' And I regard it among the sweetest satisfactions of my life, when I visit the churches over which it has been my happiness to preside, to find them vigorous and prosperous, and ready to receive, as the vein of their hearts,' this old pastor, who, they thoroughly know, entertains for them a love which neither time nor distance can impair. After what you already know, I need not now say anything as to the disorganised, dispersed, and discouraging state of the cause here. I shall only observe, in one word, that the work must be begun anew, and, unfortunately, without advantages which were at first possessed. But he lowing at the other station, a number of them began to gather around me to give me that peculiar love-token-'the pressure of the thrilling hand;' not your dignified, gentlemanly touch, but a good, hearty, bone-trying squeeze, which he only understands who ministers among the poor who have no other way of testifying their kindness. The products of the richest benefice would not, I believe, yield me such thorough satisfaction as I derive from the increasing outflow of the heart-wealth of these people. "I have also an interesting Scripture class which I meet every Lord's day morning. I trust that my efforts may be honoured in imparting, not merely the knowledge that may only 'puff up,' but that which is connected with eternal life. How pleasant to have won one soul as a crown of rejoicing in the day of Christ Jesus! "Last Lord's day was the third occasion of assembling our Sabbath school. We had forty children, and are encouraged, in respect of future effort, in this useful department of labour. "The attendances on the Lord's day services, both morning and evening, are, in permanency and interest, giving increased |