require more attention than I can give them. But the present state of the Christian Institution, with its large and increasing number of Youths, precludes my attempting more.

Of the Schools, Mr. T. Peyton reports

Day School.

April 26, 1841 I received fifteen children into the Day School. It is indeed pleasing to see the Natives so anxious for the instruction of their offspring: every week our school becomes enlarged. · Dr. Madden and Mr. May 11 Jeremie, son of the late Governor, Sir John Jeremie, visited our Day School; and having examined the Monitors and first class of Boys in Geography, Reading, and Writing, and inspected the mode of our instruction, and the arrangements of the classes, they expressed themselves highly pleased with the good which the Church Missionary Society had effected in the Colony.

Sept. 21-Our Day School is advancing in the several branches of education which are taught, though not so rapidly as I could wish some of the Boys do not make that progress which they ought, considering their privileges and opportunities; while others are fast improving.

Sunday School.

April 11: Lord's Day - I admitted fifteen Adults to the Sunday School: eight of them were more than fifty years of age, and did not know the Alphabet. They said they wanted to learn to read the Word of God before they died.

Sept. 21, 1841-About 270 persons attend our Sunday School, which is held in the Mission Church. Here they learn to read the Word of God, and are taught those Gospel Truths which are able to make them wise unto Salvation. One hundred and seventy Adults and Apprentices are reading the Holy Scriptures. The following is an instance of the progress which some of the Liberated Africans, far advanced in years, make in learning the Word of God. Six months ago, I admitted a man about fifty years of age. When I received him, he manifested great anxiety to learn to read the Bible. In a fortnight, he had mastered the Alphabet; in three months, he was able to read the first part of the Union Spellingbook; and at the end of six, he could read the New Testament. Captain Trotter and Captain Allen, with several other Gentlemen of the Expedition, who visited

our Sunday School on the 27th June last, heard the man read, and expressed their surprise that such an old man should have learned to read so well in so short a time.

The two following Extracts are from Mr. Peyton's Journal:

Effect of a Word spoken in Season.

April 10, 1841-I to-day visited a party of people who had assembled for the purpose of revelling and drunkenness. I begged them to cease from their wicked ways, and begin to serve the God who made them. Perhaps," I said, “your day of Salvation may have nearly run its course; and if you die with your sins unpardoned, and your nature unchanged, you will be lost beyond the possibility of redemption."

One in the company said,

"Sir, I hear what you say, and my heart now tell me I do bad; and, by God's help, I will try and serve Him, and begin to come to your Sunday School."

This man was a very dissolute character; but on the following Lord's-Day Morning I received him into our Sunday School, when he assured me that this was the first time he had entered the House of God for two years; and that since he had been told about his soul, he had made up his mind to come to our Sunday School. My heart was drawn out in thankfulness to God for the good impression which seemed to have been made on his mind; and I was more deeply impressed than ever with the necessity of daily, in every house, not ceasing to teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Desire of a Negro to make known the
Gospel to his Countrymen.

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Aug. 5-This morning, a man came to my house, and said, Master, I come to your Missionary Meeting last Monday night, and me understand plenty that was said; but one thing me no understand good. One person said, that every true Christian who could read the Bible, and knew about the Saviour, ought to become a Missionary to his own countrymen who live in bad way and no come to House of God. This is the thing that me no understand good: me no know how I can be a Missionary." I told him that a Christian Missionary was one sent to make known the Religion of Jesus Christ. "Now," I said, "if you have experienced the power of the Gospel in your own heart, you can, in many ways, make known to your country people that Religion which you have heard and seen and felt."-The

children. This, also, I found in good order. After having examined them, I had the painful task of suspending one of the Communicants, on account of sin.

June 21, 1841: Lord's Day-To-day I preached for the first time since my fever, and gave humble thanks to God for having dealt so graciously with me. Before the fever came on, I attended the school as often as possible; and had 23 Monitors to give instruction in Reading and Writing, Bible History, and Geography, three times every week. I also met the Communicants, Candidates, and Backsliders, in different classes, which I begin now to do again. Mrs. Schmid had every day nearly 200 girls under her superintendence, giving them instruction in sewing and knitting, which they like very much.

Of the Wellington Day School, John Attarra reports, that 41 boys and 47 girls are able to read the Scriptures.

Visits to the Sick.

March 29 This morning I visited several sick persons. The mind of one was partially wandering; but when we spoke of his salvation, he was quite assured of his interest in Jesus Christ as his Saviour: his life has been consistent with his profession. Another, who had been suffering much for a long time, was praising the grace and mercy of God for having brought him to this country. "Wicked persons," he said, thought evil against me, in selling me from my country and relatives; but by God's grace it was done so [he meant, to his good]. This was the very way by which I was brought from darkness to the knowledge of the true Living God and Saviour, and to the salvation of my soul."

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[Rev. D. H. Schmid. Extract from Mr. S. Crowther's Journal. April 24, 1841-This morning, His Excellency Sir John Jeremie was buried. As I was going to Freetown, I overtook three women, communicants of Kissey, who were conversing about the proceedings of His late Excellency, and the great loss which the Colony had sustained by his death. After I had passed them a few yards, one of them said, after a pause, "We all cry so much for this Governor, because he stopped us from paying three coppers [market-fees, which the Governor reduced to a halfpenny]: what do you think of Him who gave Himself up for us ?" I felt the force of this remark. I doubt not," I said within myself, "if the servants of God

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HASTINGS. In our last Report of this portion of the River District, it was mentioned that the Rev. E. Collins had been obliged, by ill health, to return home. Since that period, the Rev. F. Bultmann has been residing at this Station, superintending not only Hastings and Waterloo, but also Kent, in the Sea District.

Mr. Bültmann's Journal :—
The following Extracts are from

Conversations and Meetings with Candidates for Baptism.

Aug. 2, 1841-One of my Candidates, a constant attendant at Church and Sunday School, came to me this morning, and exhibited his Bible-reading in several curious questions. The first was concerning the man of God who came from Judah to testify against King Jeroboam's idolatry, and whose history we had had in our First Lesson on the preceding day. Though I then gave such explanation as I thought necessary, my visitor had either not comprehended what I said, or was, notwithstanding, still inclined to believe that this awful visitation of God would not have been inflicted but for a corresponding criminality in the man, and not for this single act of disobedience. But on comparing the text with 2 Samuel vi. 6, 7, and Deut. xxxii. 48-52, and then reading the

express declarations of our Saviour in Luke xiii. 2-5, and John ix. 3, he was quite satisfied.

His next inquiry was, what Nebuchadnezzar had done before he was condemned to live with the beasts of the field; which being explained by a reference to Daniel iv., he fully agreed that it was dangerous to be proud.

Omitting some questions of minor importance, I will only add his last and most intricate inquiry; which was, what he should think of Melchisedek, seeing that he was without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days nor end of life. I told him, that this was a hard question; and the shortest way to have it fully solved, would be to walk the straightest road to Heaven, where all mysteries would be revealed to us; and that meanwhile we might partake of the comforts which the blessed doctrine of Christ's eternal priesthood was calculated to afford us; and which could not have been more strongly demonstrated, than by contrasting it with the Levitical priesthood by means of this mysterious person.

On a subsequent day, I asked my Junior Schoolmaster at Hastings whether he had had any thoughts on this subject; and I was so much pleased with the ingenuous simplicity of his explanation, that I cannot help giving it in full. He began by saying, that when, several years back, he first read with attention the seventh chapter of Hebrews, he was much perplexed; for he had never heard of more than one Son of God, eternal with the Father; but here he found another being, equally eternal with Jesus Christ, because said to have neither beginning of days nor end of life. His belief, however, in Jesus Christ, as the only-begotten Son of God, had been too firmly rooted to admit of any rival in his thoughts; and his only anxiety from that time had been, to meet with some explanation of this mysterious Melchisedek; which at length he found in an extract from a sermon printed in a newspaper, and which had, from that time, become his creed on the subject. The substance was this:-Melchisedek, by interpretation " King of Righteousness," was a King of Jerusalem; but called the King of Salem, because peace, by the administration of justice, spread from Jerusalem through the whole kingdom. Living anterior to the institution of the Levitical Priesthood, be united with his kingly office that of the first or

high-priest; and in this capacity he was said to be without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days nor end of life; because his title to the priesthood was original, not derived from any of his ancestors; while all ordinary priests and high-priests of the Old Testament would trace their office to Levi, their common ancestor, and were, moreover, prevented from exercising their sacred functions before the thirtieth year of their age, and after the fiftieth, when, as priests, they might be said to die; while there were no such limits in Melchisedek's case: thus typifying the endlessness of the priestly office of our great and glorious High-Priest, Jesus Christ.-Though I have altered the phraseology, this was the explanation given by my Junior Schoolmaster.

Aug. 21, 1841-Having spent nearly two days in examining the Candidates for Baptism of this place, and having since compared my own estimate of their character and qualifications with that obtained from my best Communicants and Schoolmasters, I have selected 48-about twothirds of the whole number-to be once a week taken under my more immediate instruction. I do not purpose baptizing them sooner than six months hence, except I be removed from this Station; which, however, I sincerely hope will not be the case. Among other causes tending to make me strongly attached to this place, is a discovery of sincere inquiry after the way of Salvation among a few of my more-advanced scholars, from 14 to 16 years of age. This pleasing circumstance forcibly reminds me of the want of the sacred rite of Confirmation; the introduction of which into this Colony, I have not the least doubt, would be an incalculable blessing; inasmuch as it would greatly tend to the promotion of early piety, and offer means for its development: for the few among the young who are now seriously inclined are kept back, either by diffidence, or a fear of being thought singular in applying for admission among the Communicants. Meanwhile, it is most gratifying to know that there are those whom we have reason to believe will become ornaments in the Church of Christ.

Remains of Idolatrous Practices. Aug. 17-I have heard to-day, that, for several years past, it has been observed that, at this season, a man has been drowned in the brook flowing through Allentown, two miles from Hastings; and that some