dently intoxicated, they would admon-ish of Sharon reported resolutions, in ish him when sober-and on a repeti- || substance as follows: That the Sabtion of the offence, either lay it before|| hath ought to be regularly observed as the Society for advice, or present it indispensable to the support of moraldirectly to an informing officer, and be ity; that they would refrain from unready, when duly called on, to testify necessary journeying, labor, and recrebefore any lawful tribunal; that they ation, on that day; that they would would use their influence to prevent carefully guard themselves against evsuch buying and selling of ardent spirits ery thing implied in profane swearing, as the statutes prohibit, and hold them- and be vigilant in restraining those unselves bound to make the proper au-der their direction from this heaventhority acquainted with the breaches daring vice; that to offer ardent spirits of the law upon this subject, that shall||—excepting in cases of sickness, could come to their knowledge; that, with not be considered either as a deed of their families and domestics, they charity, or as the smallest evidence of would-unless prevented by some jus- politeness and hospitality; that they tifying cause-attend public, worship would diminish, and, as far as praction the Sabbath, and on other days set cable, discontinue the use of distilled apart for this purpose by competent liquors among the laborers they em authority, and use their influence with ployed.....substituting other kinds of others to do the same; that neither drink and means of sustenance; that, they, nor theirs, would labor, travel, or by mutual advice and friendly reproof recreate unnecessarily on the Lord's they would assist each other, and their day, and would be ever ready to aid neighbors generally, in the promotion the civil authority in preventing chil- of good morals; and that, to a correct dren and others from wandering idly example in their own conduct they or mischievously in the fields, or along || would add a constant readiness to supthe public roads, or from house to port the civil authority in executing house,on the Sabbath; that if any grand the laws of the State against every spejuror, constable, or tithing-man, neg- cies of immorality.-Such measures lect the duties of his office, when point- had already produced a favorable ased out to him, they would take meas- pect in the social state. Magistrates ures for his due presentment; that, as had become more evidently a terror travelling on the Sabbath, for either to evil doers." Considerate observworldly business or vain recreation, is ers had begun to indulge animating a public affront offered to God and to hopes, that many, and of long continthe State, they were determined, both uance, would be the happy effects of in word and deed, to be faithful in the their exertions to do good. performance of such duties as the peaceful order of society and the welfare of mankind required at their hands ---that they would bear a uniform and decided testimony against the impious and destructive practice of profane swearing, and, when other means ofreformation fail, they would make some informing officer acquainted with such offences;—and that, in their intercourse with each other, with their neighbors and the world, they would be careful not to sow discord, or to invent, take up, or propagate, falsehood, concerning their fellow men.

The Branch Society in the first par

The Branch Society in Green's Farms, Fairfield, reported, That the measures they had adopted and carried into operation, had been productive of salutary consequences; and that they held themselves ready to unite their labors with those of others combined in every part of the State for the suppression of vice, and, of course, for the promotion of good morals.

The Branch Society in the first parish of Coventry reported, as their deliberate and decided sentiments, That using the Sabbath as a season of rest from worldly recreations, and of selfdevotedness to spiritual exercise; als

that the regular attendance on public The Branel Society in Woodbridge, worship, the religious education of parish of Amity, reported their organchildren, a sacred regard to moralization, and their adjournment to recharacter in the election of rulers, and ceive communications and instrucopposition to vice of every sort, are tions from the General Society. things essential to good morals and de- The Branch Society in the first parsirable enjoyment in a community.-ish of Farmington reported, That they They reported, likewise, their resolu-had resolved to exert themselves, as tions to carry into practice the forego-far as possible for the suppression of ing sentiments in their own personal Sabbath breaking, intemperance, proconduct, and in their families respect-fanity, and licentiousness of every ively; and that, while they would bear description; that, by the activity and their testimony against immorality in public spirit of one magistrate, travelgeneral, they would particularly dis-ling and impious recreations on the countenance and oppose those fash- Lord's day had been seriously, and aljonable habits of devouring strong most wholly, checked; that the relaxdrink, by which intemperance and ruation of wholesome laws, relative to a in are brought upon so many thousand number of gross immoralities, had so in our country. long been tolerated, that many were nearly ready to believe it impractica

The Branch Society in North Haven reported arrangements for secur-ble to revive the execution of them; ing a better observance of the Lord's day; hoped to strengthen each others hands in duty, both social and moral, and to do good by their exertions for the suppression of vice.

The Branch Society in Granby reported nothing further, than that they had appointed a committee to form resolutions for their consideration at a future meeting.

that it had been difficult to find suitable persons willing to serve as informing officers; that, in several instances, those appointed informers refused to take the qualifying oath; but that the Society, nevertheless, hoped, in future to perform their part in furthering the excellent object of the institution.

The Branch Society in the first parish of East Windsor reported their organization; their appointment of a committee to prepare regulations and to point out measures to be pursued for securing the object of the associa tion; and their hope, by mutual counsel and support, to accomplish the very useful purposes for which their Society had been formed.

The Branch Society in the third parish of Wethersfield reported, That measures had been taken to support the civil authority in putting a stop to forbidden travel and recreation upon the Lord's day; in preventing the sale of ardent spirits contrary to law; in suppressing places where gaming and other licentious practices were tolerat- The Branch Society in Somers reed; and in rendering intemperance, ported, that their organization was reprofanity, and vice of every sort, more cent; that they felt the duty of disdeeply disreputable. By these meas-couraging idleness, profanity, gross ures the profligate had been consider- breaches of the Sabbath, intemperably disturbed. ance, and immorality of every sort; The Branch Society in New-Lon-that they were cordial in resolving to don reported their approbation of the attempt a reformation; and that they general object; their determination to were not without hope of doing someexert themselves for its accomplish-thing for the promotion of a cause so ment; and their intention to confer desirable. with the civil authority, on the importance and best means, of executing the laws provided for the suppression of Fice.

The Branch Society in Hadly me reported, That they had commenced a system of efforts to produce a reformation; that, beginning with them

tizans of every description, who, some weeks since, were in circumstances more or less easy, and at least knew no want; of their all, are with their families perbut now, without a home, and stripped ishing of hunger. What the industry of many years had acquired, was annihilated in a few hours. All around is one wide waste. The numerous villages and hamlets are almost all entirely or par

selves, such of their members as shall be guilty of known immorality, and will not be reclaimed by the kind admonitions of their brethren in the society, shall have their names erased from the list of members, as unworthy of a place in the association; and thai it shall be the duty of every member to use his influence for the reformation of the openly vicious, and by comtially reduced to ashes; the yet remainplaint, to bring before the constituted authorities such as shall prove incapable of being reclaimed.

ing buildings are perforated with balls, in of every thing; the barns, cellars, and lofts a most ruinous condition, and plundered are dispoiled, and stores of every kind carried off; the implements of farming and domestic economy, for brewing and distilling-in a word, for every purposethe gardens, plantations, and fruit-trees

The

The Branch Society in North Coventry reported, That they had punctillously pursued the course recommend-|| ed in the constitution of the General Society; that the members had pledg-are destroyed; the fuel collected for the ed themselves to pay a sacred regard winter, the gates, the doors, the floors, the to their own conduct, and to that of consumed in the watch-fires; the horses woodwork of every description, were their families; that they would bewere taken away, together with all the ware especially of idleness, profanity, other cattle; and many families are degross breaches of the Sabbath, and in-ploring the loss of beloved relatives, or temperance, by example and reproof, are doomed to behold them afflicted with testifying always and boldly against sickness, and destitute of relief. transgressors as opportunities should miserable condition of these deplorable offer; that they would hold themselves victims to the thirst of conquest, the disready to aid the civil authority in the discharge of their duty as ministers of God for good" to the people; that the said authority should have no excuse for "bearing the sword in vain ;" and that the members would not deem it either sordid, inhospitable, or impo-poor people, who have such need of assislite, to omit giving ardent spirits to people in health

(To be continued.)

DISTRESS IN GERMANY.

tress which meets our view whenever we cross our thresholds, no language is capable of describing. The horrid spectacle wounds us to the very soul.

"All the countries of our Continent have been more or less drained by this destructive war. Whither then are these

tance; whither are they to look for relief! Ye free, ye beneficent, ye happy Britons, whose generosity is attested by every page of the annals of suffering humanity; whose soil has been trodden by no hostile foot; who know not the feelings of him that beholds a foreign master revelling in A memorial, addressed by the city of his habitation; of you the city of Leipsic Leipsic to the independent and benevo- implores relief for the inhabitants of the lent British nation, in behalf of the inhab-circumjacent villages and hamlets, ruined itants of the adjacent villages and hamlets, by the military events in the past month who have been reduced to extreme dis- of October." tress by the military operations in October, 1813, states as follows:

"Our resources are exhausted, and we have yet here a prodigious number of sick and wounded; upwards of 30,000 in more than 40 military hospitals, with our own poor, to be provided for."

A letter from Mr. Kaufmann, counsellor of the regency of Lauenburg, has the following passage:

"We have suffered here beyond all belief. Only our lives are saved; and if Providence preserves us from the epidemical diseases, which begin to spread around "We have before our eyes many thou-us, as the effects of our wants, anxiety, sands of the inhabitants of the adjacent and grief, we shall be thankful. The two villages and hamlets, landed proprietors, || last harvests are entirely lost to us; and farmers, ecclesiastics, schoolmasters, ar- many fields could not be cultivated for

want of labourers, cattle, and seed. Thousands of horses and waggons, cows and sheep, have been taken from us ; and we have been, for these three months past, exposed to all kind of exactions and cruelties. Even now we stand helpless and forsaken. But God will have mercy upon us, and our countrymen will pity and assist us whenever they can reach us. Had we only some money to buy bread and fuel! All our wooden fences are destroyed by the French in their watch-fires. Our situation is such that we fear a famine."

to return, were stripped of their coats, boots, or shoes. To most of them not a shirt, coat, boot, or bed was left. Some, far advanced in years, cannot yet recover from the effects of this cruel treatment.→ The wives of some of the clergymen of my diocese are now lying on nothing but straw, expecting the birth of infants, for whose covering they have hardly a few rags left, nor have they even the means of keeping a fire in their rooms: indeed most of the houses of the clergy are burnt and they have been obliged to take shelter in such huts as were too wretched to Extract of a letter from the Rev. Mr.attract the notice of the French soldiers. Wynecken, superintendant of Ratzeburg. The churches afforded no refuge; for ev"I will not hurt your feelings by a min- en they were plundered, and the pews usute description of the incredible suffered as fuel. It is impossible to obtain, in ings of this little country, which has been occupied these three months past by almost the whole of the French and Danish armies; 11,000 of whom, were, in one instance, quartered for several days on the small town of Molin, containing no more than 250 houses. Our ruin seems inevitable; every thing around us is destroyed, our fields and gardens laid waste, our houses emptied, 10,000 head of cattle consumed by the enemy, who barbarously shot three of our honest peasants, for not willingly surrendering the last of their property. Epidemic diseases begin to complete our misery: but God will No intelligence has been received of late help us over the hills, since we have sur- from our missionaries in the East, except mounted the rocks, being now free from what is contained in a single sentence of a the enemy. letter written by Mr. Johns, the Baptist Extract from a letter of the Rev. N. N. missionary who had been arbitrarily sent superintendant at Eckhartsberg in Saxo-to England by the Bengal government. ny, addressed to the Rev. W. Kuper, in London.

our own country the means of relief; for the distress is too widely extended, and the inhabitants too much impoverished. May we then not hope, that from England the hand of charity will be stretched out for the relief of the distressed ?— and that also the suffering clergy of my diocese will find some alleviation of their misery in the Christian sympathy of our English brethren ?"

Christian Observer.

AMERICAN MISSIONARIES.

This letter is dated March 7, 1814, and states that a letter had been that week "After the battle of Leipsic, the received from Calcutta from which Mr. great mass of the retreating, as well as Johns learnt, that Messrs. "Nott and the pursuing armies passed through our Hall had received the sanction of the neighborhood; and my diocese, con-worthy Sir Evan Nepean to remain in his sisting of thirty-seven parishes, suffer- department if they pleased."

Panoplist.

ed the most dreadful calamities. The fate of the clergy is peculiarly distressing. The doors, shutters, floors, and even the roofs of the houses, were seized The reader is requested to correct the and burnt at the bivouacs by the French; following passages in the piece on praying who, in their flight, also carried off all for perfection, first sentence, "the folutensils, beds, and clothes. Though the lowing reason is offered for this answer," Austrians, Prussians, and Russians, de-read "the following reason is offered in serve high praise for the discipline which support of this answer." 40th line, 2d cowas maintained in their armies, yet alumn, "salutary to persons health," read great number of marauders scoured the country, and took away what the inhabitants had endeavoured to hide in the woods. Many clergymen were personally compelled to drive their cattle after the French armies, and, when permitted

"salutary to persons in health." 5 lines from bottom-"as events in connection with its consequences," read “their consequences." 2d page, 1st column, 30th line, for "period of probation," read " period of their probation."

THE

UTICA CHRISTIAN MAGAZINE.

VOL. II.

NOVEMBER, 1814.

No. 5.

For the Utica Christian Magazine. by which we may be led to acknowledge, that it is a marvellous work of God.

THE MARVELLOUS WORK OF THE LORD.

1. How soon and how marvellously did the kingdom of Christ triumph in Jerusalem! Within fifty days after he was laid in the sepulchre, when all

Matthew, xxi. 42. The Stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner. This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes. ALL the works of the Lord are mar-hope concerning his kingdom had exvellous. "The works of the Lord are pired; the good news of his resurrecgreat, sought out of all them that have tion and ascension was preached to pleasure in them." The works of cre- the assembled nation of the Jews, and ation, providence, and grace, justly attended with the conversion of about excite our admiration. But among all three thousand. The marvellous the works of God, none is more mar-scene, on the day of Pentecost, comvellous than that which is announced menced, on the part of the people, in the text. The stone which the buil-with mocking, but concluded with ders rejected, is Christ, who appeared gladly receiving the word. The church in the world as the founder of a king-in Jerusalem soon consisted of about dom, or as the corner stone of a church. He professed to be the promissed Messiah: but was rejected by the Jewish builders. By them he was delivered to the Romans, and at their instigation he was condemned to the death of the cross. He expired under the mockeries and insults of his enemies. He was laid in the sepulchre, at the mouth of which, a great stone was laid, sealed by public authority, and effectually guarded.

five thousand and they were all of one accord, in prayers and praises, in holy conversation and divine ordinances. All this took place in defiance of the power and malice of the chief priests and rulers of the Jews. On this occasion, the power of God was as manifest, as it was at the creation of the world. This was, evidently the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes. Under the circumstances which have been considered, no man In his hour of peril, Jesus was for- can account for the first establishment saken by his disciples and friends.- of the christian church, on any natural His enemies appeared to be trium-principles. Had all this been effected phant; and he was rejected by the by a wicked imposture, how easily whole authority of Jews and gentiles. might this imposture, odious to God Placed under the power of death and and man, have been detected; and the grave, and forsaken by his friends, how soon would the cause of Christ if he ever became the head of the cor- have fallen into just contempt! Left ner, if he ever succeeded to lay a firm to themselves, the weak and ignorant foundation for his church, it must have disciples of Christ, would have speedibeen a marvellous work of God. ly plunged in ruin, had they been destitute of divine support. Thus reasoned the wise and candid Gamaliel."Refrain from these men, and let

Let us now attend to some of the nost striking instances of Christ's building and establishing his church VOL. 2. R