ing our labours are so appreciated. After | tea a public meeting was held in the chapel, and so densely was it crowded that numbers were unable to gain admittance. The Rev. J. H. Wood, pastor, took his seat in the pulpit; the speakers were Revds. Pike, Shaw, Dickinson, Jones, Chorlerton, and others, and addressed the meeting from the pulpit steps. A report was read by the Secretary, from which it appears that its founders, the late venerated Mr. Edward Bissell, Mrs. J. Bissell, Mr. and Mrs. Seymour, and Miss Millhouse, have all entered upon their reward. The school has, at present, on its books 130 scholars, taught by 26 teachers, 15 of whom are members of the church. The past history and success of the school excites thankfulness to our Heavenly Father, and inspires hope for the future. At half-past nine the meeting closed by singing the doxology. Thus past away a jubilee demonstration, deeply interesting in its character, and long to be remembered by all present. G. F. M. ANNUAL MISSIONARY SERVICES, TARPORLEY.-On Sunday, Oct. 24th, Rev. H. Wilkinson preached two sermons in the Baptist Chapel at this place; after which collections were made for the Mission; and on Monday evening the public meeting was held in the Town Hall, which was well filled. E. G. Salisbury. Esq., M.P., Chester, presided. Addresses were delivered by Revds. J. C. Pike, H. Wilkinson, Mr. Pedley, and Mr. Dutton. These services were full of interest, and our Missionary would be gratified to find that the amount raised for the Mission exceeded any former year-total £54 18s. MISSIONARY SERVICES, MELBOURNE. -On Lord's day morning and evening, Oct. 10th, annual sermons, on behalf of the Orissa Mission, were preached here by the Rev. Henry Wilkinson, who also, in the afternoon of the same day, gave an interesting missionary address to the teachers and scholars in the Sabbath School. On the following evening an efficient and impressive Missionary Meeting was held in the chapel, in which the following ministers and friends took part:-The Rev. John Fletcher, Independent; J. Cuthbertson, Wesleyan; J. Carey Pike, H. Wilkinson, and T. Gill; Messrs. W. Ingle, of London; John Adcock, and Josiah Pike. It is pleasing to state that, nothwithstanding the very unfavourable state of the weather, the collections were quite equal to former years. From the financial report presented, it appeared that the collections and subscriptions for the year, including extras, amounted to £68 5s. 11d. HOLBEACH CHAPEL ANNIVERSARY.— The services of this anniversary were holden on the 24th and 25th of Oct. The Rev. T. W. Matthews, of Boston, preached on the Sabbath, and on the Monday there was a tea meeting, and a public meeting afterwards. The congregations were good throughout, and the collections, &c., about £10 18s. 8d. The pastor of the church reported at the meeting on Monday, that the Bazaar, which had been held for the liquidation of the Chapel debt, had yielded a clear sum of £40 18s. 9d; and that, in February last, £60 of the debt had been paid. Blessed be God, and thanks sincere and hearty, to all friends who have kindly aided us. May they be abundantly recompensed, and may we soon see the desire of our hearts in the extinction of the debt, and a gracious effusion of the Spirit of God. J. C. H. HALIFAX. The anniversary services of our Chapel have again taken place, and we are much gratified in being able to inform the Connexion that the Lord has blessed our exertions and disposed friends so kindly to assist us that we have been enabled to pay the third £300 towards the removal of our Chapel Debt. Year by year difficulties in raising so large a sum are increasing, but we have felt the propriety of a meeting for special thanksgiving, that we are enabled to say, "Hitherto the Lord hath helped us.' Our anniversary sermons were preached, with interest and ability, by the Revds. Bruce, of Huddersfield, Stevenson, of Ilkeston, and Whitewood, of Halifax. Ministers of the town and neighbourhood kindly assisted in connexion with the public meeting. MACCLESFIELD.-Our anniversary sermons for the Sabbath school were preached Aug. 29th, by our pastor, the Rev. J. Maden. The congregations were very good, and the collections several pounds in advance of last year. MISCELLANEOUS. MACCLESFIELD SUNDAY SCHOOL, Nov. | this advice:-"Don't assume that any 14.-17 young persons who have long been in connexion with our school were publicly recognized as teachers and each presented with some useful work, among which were several of Pike's Guide. Our pastor preached to the young, on the occasion. The congregation was good and very attentive. W. G. LECTURE ON DREAMS.-On Sunday afternoon, Oct. 24th, Mr. D. T. Ingham redelivered, by request, a lecture on "Dreams" in the Temperance-hall, Townhead-street, Sheffield; the largest public room in the town, capable of holding 2,000 persons. The audience was very numerous and respectable, nearly filling the hall. The lecturer dwelt first on the mystery of dreams. Lord Bacon gave up the attempt to solve it, and handed the problem down to posterity. Baxter's theory, that dreams are the suggestions of spiritual beings, shows how the subject puzzled him. The absurdity of such a theory-why should they pay us so much attention after overtasking our stomach or brain? And how will this apply to the brutes, many of which-if not all-dream? Not that such suggestions may not sometimes be communicated by Divine appointment. Many instances within our knowledge seem rather to confirm the idea. Perfect sleep is free from dreams. Dreams are, perhaps, intended in part to warn us against impropriety in diet or other habit, and sometimes of threatened disaster or destruction. In old times the Almighty often made important communications to his faithful servants by these means. Some instances of coincidence and of apparent Divine interposition were narrated. Very striking cases within our own knowledge render it quite easy to believe the records of miraculous dreams in the Scriptures. Mr. Sheppard, of Frome, in a book on this subject, suggests that the state of the heart is often indicated in dreams. The audience were cautioned against placing any dependence on dream-books. Rules cannot be applied to such airy, whimsical things as dreams. For a knowledge of one's fortune or duty for guidance, comfort, safety, and happiness, the lecturer urgently recommended the reading of the Bible and earnest prayer. The first part of the subject, on the nature of dreams, was wound up with dream is certainly prophetic! Don't assume that it may not be so! If it appear to prognosticate evil, don't despair, but pray! If it seem to betoken death, see that you are prepared for the worst! And welcome any impression, though it be but from a dream, that may lead to greater earnestness in the pursuit of life's great object!" The lecturer then noticed day dreams, and advised the young to examine well the ground on which they build their aspirations. Some persons denounce all religion as a mere dream; but the deep-felt craving of the thoughtful soul and the dread of judgment-the shortness and vanity of life are no dreams. Reference was made to John Bunyan and his immortal allegory, modestly called a "dream." A remarkable incident in his life was related, bearing on the subject of the lecture. The life of man was next compared to a dream, in its brevity, its changeful scenes, its often want of purpose and satisfaction; but it was contrasted in the solemnity of its interests, its real perils, and awful, actual tragedies. An impressive quotation was then given from Mrs, Hannah More, on the importance of "redeeming the time; " and the lecturer concluded as follows::-"We spend our years as a tale that is told;" we all do fade as a leaf." Man, however great his wealth, rank, or splendour, shall fly away as a dream and not be found. And if those years-that life-shall have been spent in sin and godlessness, 66 as a dream when one awaketh, so, O Lord! when Thou awakest, Thou shalt despise their image." God forbid that our lives should prove as empty, useless, and unsubstantial as a dream! that we should have our portion in this life! Rather may it be the workshop for our everlasting portion and fortune! the vestibule of an eternal heaven! the college in which we shall graduate for glory, honour, immortality! an apprenticeship for the divine profession of Jesus Christ in the heavenly city-the capital of the universe! We are fleeting-wearing away-rapidly gliding down the stream! Eagerly, believingly, confidingly-not despairingly— let us seize each precious moment and opportunity to fit us for the destiny that awaits us!"-Slightly altered from the Sheffield Telegraph" newspaper. 66 66 Notes of the Month. ECCLESIASTICAL. November 22. The Bishop of London has held his first visitation, very many clergy were present. The charge was very long, and embraced a vast variety of topics; and, on the whole, was moderate and sensible in its tone and spirit. He condemned Romish confession; regretted the interruption of the special services in Exeter Hall, and the tendency to extreme ritualism manifested in some of his clergy. He recommended the adoption of vigorous measures for the evangelization of neglected districts. The interior of St. Paul's is prepared for evening services. The Gospel Propagation Society has opened a special fund for sending Missionaries to China. With all its diversities of sentiment, its internal feuds and parties, it cannot be denied that there is great energy displayed by many members of the Church of England. Popery is still active too. The Pope is about to make Dr. Cullen a Cardinal. This honour to the titular Archbishop of Ireland will be very grateful to the Irish saints. An Irish M.P. is soon to take the vows as "a knight of Malta!" What next? The spiritual Quixotte is said to be madly zealous for the papacy. Great confusion, extreme immorality, and every hateful passion are said to prevail in Rome. Perhaps it is the vilest capital in Europe. The presence of "his Holiness does not purify the people. The French and Roman soldiers hate each other, and often stone or stab each other in the streets. Our congregational brethren shew good signs of vitality. The "special fund" for India Missions already amounts to upwards of £14,000. Six new Missionaries have been sent out during the past six months; and some eighteen young men have offered themselves for Missionary service within a short period. Several ministers have also emigrated to Australia under the auspices of the Colonial Missionary Society. There are no Dissenting colleges sustained with more efficiency in this kingdom than those of this section of the Christian Church. The Wesleyans have recently sent seven more Missionaries to the Feegee Islands. They propose to appoint Missionaries to the army in India. The last of the "helpers" of John Wesley is dead, the Rev. John Hickling, in the 71st year of his ministry, and the 93rd of his life. The Conference deputation to the Home Secretary, on Sabbath desecration, met with a favourable reeeption. An Evangelical Christian Conference has been held in Liverpool. India, the Maynooth Grant, and the general objects of the Evangelical alliance, were the subjects discussed. The Baptist Association of Scotland held its meeting in the end of October. It was well attended, and the discussions practical and useful. The anniversaries of the Free-will Baptist Societies of the United States, were held in Lawrence city, Mass., on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, Oct. 12th, 13th, and 14th. The education, missions, home and foreign, temperance, and antislavery Societies, are in a promising condition. The speaking was homely and vigorous. A young candidate for Missionary labour has engaged to travel among the churches, and collect for his own outfit and expenses. Such zeal ought to succeed. We hope it will. It is pleasant to us to mark the names of men at these meetings, whom we knew there ten years ago, as being in full strength now. Silas Curtis, Durgin; J. B. Davis, Knowlton, Day, &c. May the Lord bless them. In Norway, as well as Mecklenburg, religious intolerance, on the part of the Lutheran clergy, is manifest. It seems as if no party, when in power, is free from the spirit of persecution. It is reported that the Quakers have agreed to tolerate the marriage of their members with persons "not in membership." and that a relaxed rule will be allowed as to dress, &c. Wonderful! Thomas Cooper, the notorious Leicester Chartist, and teacher of sedition and missrule, and the author of "The Purgatory of Suicides," written in prison, has become a zealous Christian teacher, and is attracting great crowds; and, we hope, doing great good by his preaching. He is a fearless, strong-minded man; and we hope he will now be a greater blessing than he once was, a curse. Let us glorify God in him. GENERAL. THE great event of the past month, politically, is John Bright. The sturdy, stalwart, and eloquent Quaker, has given a general view of his politics to his Birmingham constituents. This is so radical, independent, anti-aristocratic, as to awaken the slumbering thoughts of hosts of radical reformers: and to disturb the repose and provoke the ire of the conservatives, old wigs, and old tories, in the whole land. His honest speech or speeches seem to have aroused all people. He has engaged, at the instance of the Liberal party, who seem resusitated, to bring in a Reform Bill, independent of the Government. Its chief features will be household suffrage, and an approach to electoral districts. The idea predominant in his mind is, that the aristocracy are the present rulers of England, are responsible for its wars, debt, diplomacy, and public crimes; and that it is full time their rule came to an end. He is not a man to be played with; and his followers may become too numerous to be easily managed by any lordly clique, whether whig or tory. There is so much of health and strength, and high toned morality in his statements and principles, as warrants that, 'erelong, they shall prevail in this land. The Government profess to be the friends of progress! Well, we shall see. They will bid for public favour in the next session of Parliament, which is postponed to January. If they do not promise and perform more than Lord Palmerston, we shall be deceived. The French Government, or rather one of its over officious agents, has commenced a prosecution of Count Montalembert for an article on British freedom. This is very bad. In the worst days of the Casars this would hardly have been done in imperial Rome, as the discussion in question is very temperate and patriotic. The French have compromised their dignity by a sanction given to the slave trade, and a subsequent commission of enquiry. Portugal was obliged, under protest, to yield to the greater Power. We gave the present Napoleon credit for more sense than be has displayed in this wretched affair. The weather has been very cold in France, and unusually so in this country for the season. In China matters are progressing towards tranquility. A treaty with Japan has been entered into, so that English, Americans, French, Russians, &c., may have mercantile relations. What a mercy if these relations prove a blessing to them! Hitherto the junction of any foreign and barbarous (?) nation with Europeans has been the beginning of their degradation and destruction. The Atlantic Telegraph is still silent Some hope it may yet speak, at all events the idea lives, and the force of enterprise, skill, and capital will carry it into effect. SPAIN and Portugal are busy electioneering, but who cares for countries effete and doomed for past and present delinquencies? Once the greatest, now the most contemptible of nations, Belgium, Sardinia yea, even Greece, are of more account in European polities than the land of Ferdinand and Isabella, and the Cid. Russia seems to be rising in intellectuality and attention to all that promotes it. It will show in time that "knowledge is power," as well as the knout. America, that is, the United States, is feeling more and more that slavery and free institutions are incompatible. The North has so succumbed to the South as to feel humiliated in its own estimation by its position. What will be the end, who can tell? Little is reported about the revivals now that trade is revived. We hope, however, that all has not been in vain. Australia seems to be growing both in intelligence and strength. It will, in a few years, become a glorious empire. Whether or not we agree to the Yankee notion "the Anglo-Saxons are to rule the world." the tendency of events seems to point to such a consumation. Mexico will soon become a part of the States; and then with Canada, the whole of the North American continent will be theirs. Then there is Australia, New Zealand, India, and perhaps China and The news from India has been but Japan, Africa, and where else? we tremlittle. It should seem as if the insurrec-ble to write, may become colonized, subtion will be crushed out during the present ject or tributary. Is not this a fulfilment cold season. The kingdom of Oude is of the prophecy- God shall enlarge the chief seat of action. Some disarmed Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents regiments in the Punjaub have shewn of Shem, and Canaan shall be his that they are not again to be trusted with servant?" weapons. When will the infatuated English cease to place confidence in these men? 66 Missionary Observer. LETTER FROM MRS. TAYLOR. MY DEAR MR. GOADBY,-It is only fourteen months since I wrote and informed you and your readers of the death of our first-born, a fine little girl. It is now my painful duty to inform you that on the 13th instant we were called to part with another, our second and only daughter, nearly nine months' old. Had not Mr. Goadby been with us, her sorrowing father must have made her coffin; but your dear son very kindly made it, and covered it with white calico, so that it looked very nice. Before nine o'clock, on the same morning, the dear little body was borne to the grave, by our two Christian servants, and followed by Mr Taylor and Mr. Goadby, with most of our people. The native preachers were away from the station at the time, and Mr. Goadby, of course, was not able to conduct a funeral service in Oriya, so my dear husband tried to officiate at the grave, but his feelings quite overcame him, and he was unable to say more than a few words in prayer, when all present were much affected. I need not say that the removal of our sweet babe has been a great trial to us; but thank the Lord we have been most graciously supported by His blessed Spirit. We know that she is still ours"Not lost, but gone before" to bloom in a more congenial clime, and that the Hand that tends her now is far more kind than the most tender parents could be. Dear as Piplee has been to us, I often think that henceforth it will be much more dear, as the graves of our two beloved children are side by side in the little chapel yard. I trust this event will stimulate us to a more entire consecration of ourselves to God, and the great work to which He has appointed us; and that long as our lives are spared we shall live and labour for the good of this unhappy people. You will be pleased to hear that the "Lord of the harvest" does not suffer His servants to labour in vain in this part of His vineyard. Within the last eight months two young men have come and "asked the way to Zion, with their faces thitherward, saying, ‘come and let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.' One of these, last cold season, went with Mr. Taylor, as cooley, on his September 30, 1858. missionary tours, and while out, broke caste, and expressed a determination to join the Christians, and become one of them. After our return to Piplee he wished to remain with us. So Mr. Taylor thought he had better be put with one of our Christian people to learn farming, but he said he would rather be a house servant, so I took him to teach him house work, and I am thankful to say that his conduct has been most exemplary. For sometime past we have been very much pleased with his behaviour. Often before retiring to rest at night we hear him, in the most earnest manner, supplicating a throne of grace. The first Sabbath in September he was baptized by Mr. Goadby, and on the same day was admitted into the church where, I trust, he will prove a faithful servant of Christ, and be made a great blessing. As all his friends live at a village very near to us, he has been much persecuted by them. His poor old mother is constantly coming and trying in every possible way to persuade him to return to heathenism, and sometimes his little brother, ten or twelve years' old, will come and do all he can to get him to go back. The other evening I found them both weeping together. Poor lad! he is quite as anxious for his friends to come and join us as they are for him to return. According to Hindoo custom he was betrothed to a young person, when both were mere children, and it has been very pleasing to see the anxiety of the lad respecting the said young girl-anxiety arising, we hope, from a sense of her spiritual danger. He has made several attempts to obtain her, but without success. A short time since Mr. Goadby and Mr. Taylor, with the native preachers, accompanied him to make a last effort to bring out the girl. When they reached the place of her residence, however, her friends made the most hideous noise. Mr. Goadby said he never heard anything more horrible in his life. The girl's grandmother (her father and mother are dead) commenced screaming at the top of her voice and was at once joined by her female friends, who, unitedly made an indiscribably melancholy howl for several successive minutes, when no one could hear his own voice. After remaining at the place for some time, and seeing that they could not prevail upon the girl's friends to give her |