ing directions would greatly as sist them in the religious educa tion of their children. "For fulfilling this duty, by a method easy to yourselves, and advantageous to your family, let me recommend to your attention the venerable Assembly's Catechism. It contains a valuable and comprehensive summary of the Protestant religion: in it the sublime doctrines of Christiani. ty, its glorious privileges, and its pure precepts, are stated with accuracy, arranged in order, and expressed in language as plain as the subject will admit. Cause your children and servants to learn this catechism; explain its meaning; and allot proper seasons for examining their progress in the knowledge of Christian principles. "No season can be more suitable for this profitable employment, and none can be more convenient, than the evening of the Lord's day: you are not then fatigued with labour, nor encumbered by the interruptions of worldly business. That sacred day is appropriated for the purposes of obtaining and imparting heavenly knowledge; its precious hours must not be squandered in the circle of friends, nor in business, nor in recrea tions: these are allowed in six succeeding days of each revolving week: one day of seven is the day of God; he claims it for his own; he separates it for himself; and wills not that its hallowed joys should be molested or abridged. He commands his people to keep it holy, as a day of peculiar intercourse with heaven; and to seek their delight in those spiritual duties which become the followers of a risen Saviour. Every man, therefore, who bears the Christian name, ought to venerate the Sabbath. But heads of families, in busy or inferior stations, may particularly prize this day of sacred rest; and ought carefully to guard against the misimprovement of its valuable hours. The duties of the closet must neither be omitted nor superficially performed: the duties of the sanctuary, if attended with reverence, will yield sublimest satisfaction: yet let not these exclude the delightful exercises of family instruction and devotion; if these are omitted; if you only are well employed: if the members of your family are not attended to, they will increase, by their bad example, that general profanation of the Sabbath which you so justly lament. Suffer, therefore, the word of exhortation. On every returning evening of that hallowed day, convene your children, domestics, and servants; recommend religion to their attention and esteem; inquire into their conduct, and devotions, during the former part of the day; remind them of what they heard in the house of God; examine if they have committed to memory what you for merly appointed; commend the diligent; encourage to farther improvement; and close this profitable duty with suitable counsels, and with the de lightful solemnities of family worship. Religious Intelligence. INTELLIGENCE RESPECTING THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. (Continued from p. 483.) Extract of a Letter from a Roman Catholic Clergyman in Swabia. "I FEEL the highest regard for the wise and prudent zeal of the English Bible Committee, because it is my own desire to see the pure and genuine word of God spread, and am so entirely against all corruption of this invaluable treasure, that I my Vol. II. No. 12. BB b b self would prevent it by all means in my power. As the degeneracy of all outward churches is so great and general, and still threatens to become greater and more general, I comfort myself with this, that the Lord is retiring into the inner temple, and more gloriously building up the invisible church. At least he does not sit idle at the right hand of his Father, nor can he lose his suit: whatever may now be the appearance, he must finally be the gainer. Our duty however is this, to pray more earnestly than ever: let thy kingdom come! and, Lord abide with us, for it is towards evening. Dr. Sailer, (who by his truly evangelical instructions and writings has proved a great blessing to the Roman Catholics in Germany) thus expresses himself in his last so firmly book: Christianity is founded on its own basis, that after it has outlived the times of persecution, after it has remained unshaken in the age of superstition, it will also outlive this age of infidelity and contempt Therefore we cannot sufficiently rejoice, that we are privileged to serve such a Master, who is infinitely superior to all his enemies, who has the victory in his hands, ever since the world has stood, who finally shall put all enemies under his feet, at whose name every knee shall bow and every tongue confess, that Jesus Christ is Lord. Nor shall we be able sufficiently to know and to appreciate all the excellencies of the kingdom of Christ, and the exalted dignity of his person: never shall we be able fully to comprehend the favour and happiness vouchsafed to them who shall be partakers of the kingdom of God through faith in Christ. Would not even our blessed Lord and Saviour himself rejoice to see the fraternal union which subsists between us, the interest which we mutually take in each other, and the sincerity of our wish to see all our brethren become partakers of the same blessings? Yes, Lord let thy kingdom come, and be extended further and further. May our blessed Lord and Saviour daily more become that which he is made of God unto us, Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification, and Redemption; yea may he become our all in all, and we fruitful branches in him the living vine. May light and life and love be multiplied in us, and may the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keep our hearts and minds in the love of God and his dear Son Jesus Christ." - Extract from an Advertisement of the "Dear Brethren and Sisters in Christ! could be put into the hands of many "From these considerations bas arisen, in the minds of some clergymen, a wish to set on foot a cheap German edition of the New Testament, for the use of many pious Christians, the Repository thereof to be at Ratisbon, in the Ecclesiastical Seminary, as a central place in Germany. "I hereby give this intelligence to some known confessors of Christ, with a request that they will consider the matter before the Lord, recommend it to him in prayer; and if he is pleased to afford them any opportunity to contribute in any way toward it, that they will not neglect it. Christian poverty and love have accomplished greater things in the world than the power and riches of the world could do. "O Lord! Redeemer of our souls! Shepherd of the small despised flock! do with this work as may please thee. Thy kingdom proceeds an incessant pace in a still small way, and those who oppose it can do nothing against it, but become thy footstool, and contribute to the rest of thy feet in the peace of thy people. If it please thee, let thy holy history, the history of thy childhood, of thy ministry, of thy suf fering, and of the victory of the Holy Spirit in the apostles and firstlings of the Christian Church, come into the hands of thy little ones for their comfort and confirmation." Extract of a Letter from a respectable Lutheran Minister in Esthonia. "As you made some inquiries respecting the state of the Bible in the Russian Empire, permit me now to return you the following answer :- "Among the poorer classes of our. countrymen the Holy Scriptures are so scarce, that perhaps out of 100 families hardly five will be found in possession of a Bible or New Testa ment. "The scarcer Bibles are, the more diligently they are read by the people when they can obtain them. "Throughout the whole province of Esthonia there is a great want of Bibles, chiefly among the Swedish and Esthonian peasants. "There is in general neither a public nor private institution for the express purpose of relieving this want by a gratuitous or cheap distribution of Bibles, except a few small legacies, which have been left to some churches for supplying the schools with Bibles. "Many, who are destitute of the Bible, express a great desire after this treasure, which desire is increas. ed, when they find it in the possession of others. "I have not a moment's doubt, that here a Society of respectable Clergymen and other pious Christians might be formed for the express purpose of spreading the Bible more generally. "I feel the less hesitation in saying that such a Society might be estab. Lished, because among the 50 or 60 clergymen in this country, as also among the private gentlemen in Lapponia, several are known to me as men who feel the most lively interest in enlightening the mind, and meliorating the state and condition of their fellow-creatures, by faith in Christ. "Permit me now, reverend and dear Sir, to accompany this information with a humble petition to the British and Foreign Bible Society kindly to remember the 50 country parishes in Esthonia, which contain at least 15,000 families, and to assist them with a pecuniary aid, in order that the whole Bible, or at least a part of it, may be gratuitously or cheaply distributed to the many indigent persons who are at present destitute of this treasure. "In the mean while I shall endeav our to form a Bible Society in our parts; and should it please the British and Foreign Bible Society to lend us their generous aid in procuring a fund for such an institution, I have not a moment's doubt, that many gentlemen in our parts would thereby be excited to take an active part in such a benevolent design." -- INDIA. Ch. Ob. Extract of a Letter from F. Marshman to the Rev. Dr. Green, Philadel phia, dated Serampore, November 4th, 1806. REVEREND AND DEAR SIR, You will be pleased to hear that the Lord has not forsaken us; but still continues to own our humble and weak efforts to promote his cause in this land. Within about twenty months past we have baptized nearly fifty of those who once bowed down to dumb idols, the greater part of whom, by their walk and conversation, afford us a degree of pleasure peculiar, perhaps, to persons in our circumstances. We have, also, the happiness of seeing not a few of them our helpers in the work of the Lord. Had you been present this evening you would have felt pleasure of no common kind, while joining with us in giving the parting benediction to six native brethren, going out to carry the news of life to their perishing fellow country men. It will be acceptable to the friends of God and man, with you, to hear that their generous exertions to forward the translations of the Sacred Scriptures into the Indian languages, are not in vain. The Lord is greatly enlarging us in this work, and that in such a manner as leaves no doubt whether it be his hand or not. The New Testament, in five languages, is now in the press; the Bengalee, the Hindoosthanee, the Mahratta, the Orissa, and the Sangskrit languages; and translations in five others are go. Among ing forward successfully. these the goodness of God respecting the Chinese, demands particular ac-oracles' being one day, not only wholknowledgments (when we consider the ly translated into that extraordinary number of souls interested) in giving language, but of this translation being us so able and judicious a translator so fully revised, and compared with in the person of Mr. Lossar, and in other writings, in the language, as enabling some of the younger branch- shall remove every doubt of its fidelity es of the family to make so rapid a and accuracy. With the most cor. progress in the Chinese language and dial regards to our honoured Christian characters, as well as in the originals brethren with you, I remain, reverend of the Scriptures, that the most pleas and dear Sir, very sincerely yours. ing prospect is afforded of the sacred As. Mag. List of New Publications. 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