William Marshall, to be stationed in the island of Newfoundland.

Samuel Ironside, Charles De Wolfe, and John Warren, on being respectively called upon, gave detailed and satisfactory statements of their conversion to God, and their call to the Christian ministry. The first two had been Students in the Wesleyan Theological Institution. Adverting to this circumstance, Mr. Ironside observed, "I should be guilty of the blackest ingratitude to God and to his church, were I to forget what I owe to the Theological Institution. If I have any clear views of Wesleyan theology, if my mind and religious character have received anything like stability,—if I have gained any general knowledge of literature, I owe it to the Institution. There my piety was nurtured, increased, and strengthened, and there my Missionary zeal was fostered and inflamed. Long as I live that place will be dear to my affections, and, with its supporters, will have an interest in my prayers." The other candidate, Mr. De Wolfe, (a NovaScotian, who was not brought up a Wesleyan, and had gone through a course of preparation for the profession of the law,) after narrating the particulars of his conversion and engagement in the work of the ministry, said, "On being received by the District-Meeting of the Province, I sent to this country for leave to attend the Wesleyan Theological Institution for a year, which was kindly granted; and I should do injustice to myself and to the English Methodists, if I were not to acknowledge this evening publicly the ministerial, the personal, and the intellectual advantages I have received by a year's residence at that Institution."

The PRESIDENT.-Time will not allow us to hear more of our young brethren, or the rest of them could give equally satisfactory accounts of their conversion and divine call. They have all undergone various private examinations, by which these facts have been satisfactorily ascertained. We will, therefore, now proceed more directly to the solemn service for which we have assembled together.

The hymn on the 414th page,"Thou, Jesu, thou their breasts inspire," -(with a few verbal alterations to adapt it to the occasion,)-having been sung,

the platform,) he read the exhortation, "You have heard, brethren," &c.; and then put the ordination questions, requiring to each of them a token of assent from each individual.

A short time was spent in silent devotion, after which the President offered the ordination prayer, and the ceremony of "laying on of hands" took place. This duty was performed by the Presi dent, the Ex-President, Dr. Bunting, Dr. Hannah, and the Rev. Messrs. Treffry, Alder, Beecham, and Hoole.

DR. BUNTING then handed to each of the young Ministers, a paper, saying, "As long as you comply with the instructions contained in this sheet, the Committee of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, acting in the name and by the appointment of the Conference, will rejoice to acknowledge you as a Methodist Missionary."

The hymn, "Father, if justly still we claim," closed this part of the proceedings.

The Rev. Messrs. Waterhouse, Bumby, Eggleston, and Peter Jones (the Indian Chief) now came forward to the front of the platform.

The PRESIDENT said,-We now enter upon another service, similar in its nature to that in which we have been engaged, and not less interesting and impressive. The four esteemed men who occupy the front seat on my right hand have come to this place to take leave of us, and of their Christian friends, and that we may commend them to the divine protection and blessing, in united and earnest prayer. Our brother John Waterhouse has been employed in our ministry about thirty years in this country. The Lord has put it into his heart to offer himself for the Missionary service; and, in the course of a few days, he expects to embark, with his numerous family, for a distant region of the globe, intending to spend the remainder of his days in the service of Christ, partly among the Heathen, and partly among the English settlers whose lot is cast in that distant country. Our brother John H. Bumby has also been employed some years successfully in our home work, and possesses, in a high degree, the esteem, respect, and confidence of his brethren. The Lord has also put it into the heart of this young man to offer himself for the service of Christ among the inhabitants of New-Zealand.

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taking his leave, he solicits an interest in our prayers, and will not solicit it in vain. The esteemed young man who 3 E

sits beside him (John Eggleston) has been received into full ministerial connexion with us, having acceptably and honourably fulfilled the period of his probation as a Minister at home. He is going to Van Diemen's Land, there to preach the unsearchable riches of Christ. Our brother Peter Jones, from Canada, having again visited us in this country, is about to return to his native land. I will call upon each of them in order to address a few words to the congregation, after which a short address may be delivered to them, and we will unite in prayer to God, that his especial blessing may, in future life, rest upon these his esteemed servants.

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The REV. PETER JONES.-I feel thankful in my heart, that I am permitted to occupy a seat among these your Ministers, who are about to say "farewell" to their brothers and sisters, and to go into distant lands to preach the Gospel of Christ, willing to give their lives and themselves up to the work of the Lord. I have been highly gratified with my visit to your country. here about eight years ago; but during that visit I had very poor health, and thought I should never return to my native land. The Lord, however, spared me to go home. After I returned, I endeavoured to continue preaching the Gospel of Christ to my brethren on the other side of the water. But, about a year ago, a way seemed to be opened for my coming again to this country, on some important business connected with the prosperity of my Indian brethren, who have found the Lord, and are trying to be good Christians and good farmers. They have felt much alarm, and their hearts have been much troubled, on account of the manner in which they hold their lands. They were afraid a time might come when these lands would be taken away from them; and this fear gave a powerful check to their industry, and to the improvement of the lands on which they had settled. So my brethren, in a council, commissioned me to come over, and speak to our great mother the Queen, -to present petitions in their name, and to ask the Queen for title-deeds. When I arrived, I waited upon your Secretaries at the Mission-House, who fully entered into our feelings, and assisted me in laying our claims and wishes before Her Majesty. I rejoice to tell you, that I shall go home with a glad heart on the subject. The Government have heard our cries, and Lord Glenelg has sent despatches to the Governor of Canada reesting him to give us the title-deeds

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we ask for. Our Indians will rejoice when they hear all the good words that Lord Glenelg has spoken concerning his wish for our prosperity and welfare. rejoice to tell you, that this day I have had the honour of being presented to your excellent Queen. My friend Mr. Alder accompanied me to Windsor, from whence we have just returned; and I rejoice to say your Queen seems to love her red children on the other side of the water. Another thing has gladdened my heart,-that your Committee have resolved to employ ten additional native labourers among my countrymen in the woods of Canada. I know, if these native labourers are employed fully in the work, that work will spread further and further, and new fields of labour will be opened before you. One thing makes my heart sorry. I had been anxious that a manual-labour school,-a school of industry,-might have been established among our Indians, where the rising generation might be taught to work, taught useful trades, and taught to read and write. The Society is not able to estab lish these schools; and they tell me the reason is, the want of funds; but I hope, by your liberal support of the Missions, you will be able, in the course of a year or two, to give us such schools. Now, let me entreat you to pray for us. All your Indian brethren love you, and love the English nation, more than any other na tion on earth. They look upon your Queen as their great mother; and they look upon the English people as their benefactors and friends. I shall have great pleasure to tell them all I have seen, all the good feeling I have witnessed. I can truly say, that I have received nothing but kindness in all my journeyings up and down this island: Í have always been treated far better than I deserved. And now, in the name of my brethren on the other side of the water, in bidding you farewell, I shake hands with you all in my heart, by shaking hands with your President.

The REV. JOHN EGGLESTON, after giving some account of his conversion and call to the ministry, continued,— Following the leadings of Providence, I was brought into full Connexion at the last Conference, under peculiar circumstances, feeling a strong conviction upon my mind that the divine Being designed me for the foreign department of the work. Until the Conference, I had no idea of leaving my native land. There, Mr. Waterhouse pressingly requested me to accompany him to Hobart-Town. I felt such a consciousness of the omni

presence of God, and that in his presence I could be happy in any part of the world, that I did not see any strong objections. I knew that I had a mother who loved me dearly, and that even my leaving her to go into the ministry at home had cost her many a pang. I wrote to her, however; and I received an answer of assent which overwhelmed me. I saw clearly the finger of God in this dispensation, and that a blight would be brought upon my ministerial character if I resisted this call. I therefore yielded to the impression; and I present myself before you this evening, feeling more than I have ever felt of the true Missionary spirit, entreating an interest in your prayers, and trusting that the blessing of heaven will continually rest upon you.

The REV. J. H. BUMBY said,-I have this morning parted with my Birmingham friends, my heart is almost broken, and, having travelled all day, I feel exceedingly unfit to stand in the place I occupy; but I should despise myself if, while this heart of mine trembles at the importance and responsibility of the work before me, it did not expand and bound with gratitude and delight at the honour which God is putting upon me, by calling me to preach among the Heathen, at the ends of the earth, the unsearchable riches of Christ. I love my country; it is endeared to me by the strongest and tenderest associations and ties; I will not yield to any one in devotedness and attachment to my fathers and brethren; and all the feelings and inclinations of flesh and blood are in favour of continuing in the work at home; but God has laid his hand upon me,-the Spirit has said, "Go,"-Providence has opened a way,-I am shut up to the work,-necessity is laid upon me,-the love of Christ constrains me,-the zeal of the Lord hath eaten me up; and in soberness and truth I can say, in the language of Mr. Wesley, and I rejoice to say it in this sanctuary, distinguished as the scene of his ministry, and sacred as the sleeping-place of his ashes,

"Now, O God, thine own I am;

Now I give thee back thine own; Freedom, friends, and health, and fame, Consecrate to Thee alone: Thine I live, thrice happy I! Happier still if thine I die."

free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you."

The REV. JOHN WATERHOUSE said,

I stand before you this evening in a new relation, and one to myself deeply interesting and solemnly important. After having travelled twenty-nine years at home, I have been led, by the good hand of God, to offer myself for the foreign work, to serve you and the Connexion, as God may give me grace. I have weighed the matter well;--this is not a rash and hasty step. I recollect the time when I gave myself to God and to his church, when I made profession of my faith, after the manner of my young brethren,-when I avowed my attachment to Wesleyan Methodism, and expressed my determination to preach its doctrines and maintain its discipline. I have gone out and in before you, Sir, and my fathers, and some of my brethren,

for I am older than many of them;→→ you have known my manner of life as a Methodist Preacher for the last twentynine years ;-I thank God that he has given me favour in the sight of the people, and a few seals to my ministry; and I would now state, that I am more than ever attached to the entire system of Wesleyan Methodism. During the twenty-nine years I have studied Christianity, I have studied it under the form in which it is maintained by you. I have admired the doctrines for their clearness; I have considered that they presented the Gospel in all its richness and fulness, and in a manner peculiarly adapted to bring sinners to the knowledge of the truth, and to build up the church of Jesus Christ. I thank God that I am permitted to preach those great, important, and impressive truths which are contained in the sacred Scriptures, and embodied in the Notes on the New Testament, and the four volumes of Mr. Wesley's sermons; and while I can most heartily give the right hand of fellowship to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ, I feel more especially and particularly attached to our own system. I am now going to embark for a new sphere of la bour, where it will be my study to preach these truths with simplicity, clearness, force, fidelity, and affection, and to apply them to the consciences of those who hear me. I shall endeavour to unfold the glorious privileges of the Gospel, urging those who believe to go on to higher attainments; and I shall also endeavour to inculcate its precepts and duties, remembering that that religion which is genuine, is experimental and practical. I shall endeavour to watch

I have two requests to make of this congregation the first is, that they will continue to love and stand by the Missionary cause; the second is, that they will pray for us. "Brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have

over these young men, who may be, when separated from you, more immediately under my care, with the tenderness, I trust, of a father, but with the fidelity of a man of God. I shall also interest myself in all your Missionary Societies. I look not for a life of ease, but of toil. I expect to be in perils by water and by land, to be subject to many privations, and to leave my family for months together, in order to visit savage nations, and Missionaries labouring among them. I shall do my best to promote the good of the whole of your societies,-to unite utility with economy, so as to promote the extension of the work. I will try to be faithful to the grace of God, and to the trust reposed in me by you. It will be my aim to cultivate kindliness and Christian feeling with Missionaries belonging to other sections of the Christian church, that, while we maintain our peculiar distinctions, we may be one in the Lord, labouring together in the great and good cause, and looking to God for his blessing. I have been delighted with the testimony given by my young brethren to-night; and I trust when we have left our native land, we shall be privileged to hear, from time to time, that God is raising up a succession of Ministers, who feel that the world is their parish, and are willing to go to the ends of the earth, if God in his providence point out the way. I trust to see, in my new country, a native agency raised up, who will do credit to you at home, and be abundantly useful to the Heathen abroad. Having experienced some of the roughs and smooths of life, I shall go better qualified for the work than if I had entered upon it at an earlier period; but I feel all my dependence is upon God. "Lord, be thou my helper." "Brethren, pray for us." I pray that the God of heaven may bless us, and make us a blessing.

The PRESIDENT then addressed the Missionaries newly ordained as follows:

MY DEAR BRETHREN,-Next to the day of your conversion to God, this is the most important day of your lives. You have given what we believe to be satisfactory proofs of a divine call to the office and work of the Christian ministry; and to that office and work you have this evening, in the presence of God and of this congregation, been solemnly devoted by the imposition of hands. You will recollect especially, from this day, that you are all devoted men,-that you are, in an eminent and especial manner, the servants of our Lord Jesus Christ. You are to serve your great Master as Christian Missionaries. From this time, you

are to be men of one business,-that of saving your own souls, and, as much as lies in you, the souls of all the people to whom you can have access. Many of these people you will find deeply degraded by ignorance, superstition, and sensuality; the servants of sin in its most hateful and frightful forms; a sad mixture of the demon and the brute. Your business is not to make proselytes of these men, but to convert them, and effect their regeneration through the grace of the Holy Spirit. You are not to be satisfied with teaching savage men the arts of civilized life, or with merely reforming their outward conduct; you are to persevere in your labour until they are brought to the exercise of "repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ,"-until they are "justified and sanctified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God,"—until they are made fully "meet for the inheritance of the saints in light." You are to preach Christ, so as to "warn every man, and teach every man in all wisdom, that you may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus." Considering your own infirmity, the greatness of the work to be accomplished, and the difficulties that beset you on every side, you may well inquire, with anxiety, fear, and alarm, "Who is sufficient for these things? Let me, then, suggest to you a few topics of encouragement.

"The weapons of your warfare are not carnal;" they are spiritual, and "mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds." You are sent forth, not to teach philosophy, the opinions, speculations, and uncertain conjectures of men ;-you are sent to preach the eternal truth of God,-the truth which God himself has revealed,- the truth which his incarnate Son published, -the truth which the holy Apostles propagated and taught in their generation,the truth which is placed upon record by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost in the sacred Scriptures; and that truth you will find from the history of the church in all ages, is possessed of a divine and vital power. Human error may evade it, but cannot stand against it. The world cannot withstand its ancient conqueror." Study that truth. God grant that it may "dwell in you richly ! Endeavour to understand it in all its bearings and relations. Let your minds be so embued with the truth of God, that, upon all occasions, and in every emergency and place, you may be prepared to deliver your evangelical message.

Remember that you go forth accompanied by the promised influence of the Holy Spirit of God. Christ has obtained for his church, and mankind in general, the gift of the Holy Ghost. It is by the power of the Holy Ghost that you have been qualified for this great work; and the Lord Jesus, who has called you to it, will accompany your ministrations with the gracious influence of his Holy Spirit. You go not "a warfare at your own charge." It is the same Spirit that garnished the heavens, and that fills all space with his presence; it is the same Spirit that moved upon the face of the earth in its dark chaotic state, and invested creation with every form of beauty. That Spirit is almighty; and your sufficiency, as Ministers of Christ, is of him. This is a ground of mighty encouragement. That Spirit can remove the veil that hides the truth, and cause divine light to flash upon the most darkened mind; he can produce conviction in the most hardened and obdurate conscience, and give penitential grief and sorrow, to the most stubborn and callous heart. That Spirit is able to quicken and sanctify the most degenerate and sinful of mankind. Go forth, then, "strong in the Lord and in the power of his might." Let me say to each of you, as Paul said to Timothy, "My son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ

Jesus."

Remember, too, that you labour in a cause which, you are assured, must ultimately triumph over all opposition. God himself has said, that "every knee shall bow to Christ," and that "every tongue shall confess that he is Lord, to the glory of the Father." The promise stands upon the page of inspiration, that "the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea." Every form of idolatry, superstition, error, and wickedness shall be overthrown, and "the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our God and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever." The ordinances of heaven shall sooner fail than this promise fall to the ground. God, who placed this promise upon record, to encourage the faith and hope of his church, is "the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever." He can do whatsoever he will. This is your encouragement. You are authorized, therefore, to cast all your care upon the Lord; and, in the midst of the severest toils and the greatest difficulties, it is your high privilege to possess your souls in patience, and calmly trust in the Lord assured that "he will cause

his goodness to pass before you," and will never suffer you to "spend your strength for nought."

With these encouragements, give yourselves unto prayer. Whatever you neglect besides, never neglect secret prayer. Receive upon your knees every day, before the throne of the heavenly grace, a renewal of your evangelical commission from your great Master. So will you go on, in a holy and delightful course, from strength to strength, till you render your account to the Judge of quick and dead, "with joy, and not with grief."

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Go forth then, my brethren, under the full influence of these convictions to the great work to which you are called. and preach Christ, as "God over all, blessed for ever;"-Christ, "the brightness of God's glory, and the express image of his person; "--Christ, as incarnated "for us men and for our salvation; "Christ as dying upon the cross, the substitute of a sinful and guilty world, and bearing the sins of all mankind in his own body on the tree." Preach Christ as our Advocate, who "ever liveth to make intercession for us," and is "able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God by him." Call the people every where to the exercise of faith in Christ. Invite them to the enjoyment of God's pardoning mercy through faith in the blood of the atonement; and tell them of the gracious power of the Holy Spirit, and of his willingness and ability to make them inwardly as well as outwardly holy,-to sanctify their natures, and give them to enjoy a heaven upon earth.

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You have avowed your belief in the doctrine of entire sanctification. I trust you have received this truth not merely as an article of faith, but a practical principle, as a truth which you are called upon to realize in your own happy experience. Press after the attainment of this inestimable blessing. qualify you the better for the understanding the holy Scriptures, especially "the deep things of God," the more spiritual parts of the inspired volume; it will render the work to which you are called more delightful and pleasing. When you love God with all your heart, that love will sweetly and powerfully constrain you; and, in the midst of privations, toils, and sufferings, you will enjoy, in an eminent degree, the presence of your great Master, and be able always to

say,

"Labour is rest, and pain is sweet, If thou, my God, art here."