die in the Lord.' Some of the people said it seemed almost as though the earth shook with the presence of God. Mr. Dwight made a short address at the grave. Mr. Beecher's sermon upon the occasion was upon the Providence of God, "Clouds and darkness are round about him, but justice and judgment are the habitation of his throne." Some memorandums of Henry's conversation were read, and the whole scene was one of the most interesting a people are ever called to witness. Mr. Beecher remarked, that if the churches of NewEngland had chartered a ship to go to Owyhee and bring Obookiah that he might be converted and die as he has, they would be amply recompensed." Who will say he has done too much for him?-who would wish to take back the prayers he has offered for him, the alms he has given, or rob heaven of its joy at his conversion and triumphant entry, or Henry of his crown?" [Bost. Recorder.

On last Saturday afternoon, (28th March,) we had the pleasure of witnessing about eighty children assembled in Mr. Crowell's schoolroom in Southwark, for the purpose of forming themselves into a "Male" and a "Female Juvenile Society auxiliary to the Female Domestic Missionary Society of Philadelphia." The Rev. Dr. Ely being present by invitation, the meeting was opened by him with prayer and a short and appropriate address; after which, agreeably to constitutions which had been previously subscribed to by those present, each association proceeded to elect their officers.

The constitutions of these Societies require that each member contribute 50 cents a year in quarterly payments of 12 1-2 cents; and the money when collected be paid to the Treasurer of the Society to which these are auxiliary. Their annual meetings, when their report will be read and their officers chosen, is statedly on the last Saturday in March; and their meetings for worship, at which it is expected the parent Society's Missionary will attend, are to be held (unitedly) on the last Saturdays in April, June, August, October, December, and February.

[Rel. Rem.

A society composed of about 12 young ladies, in Connecticut, have met for two years on Saturday afternoons in summer, and one evening in a week in winter, to work in aid of missionary purposes. They have been able to sell their work, and have received for the various articles the sum of seventy dollars, exclusive of the commissions which they paid to a shopkeeper for transacting their business. This industry is worthy at least of imitation. [Bost. Recorder.

It appears by statements with regard to a revival of religion which a few months past took place in Brandon, Vt. that about two hundred persons are believed to have been subjects of the renovating power of the Holy Spirit, 94 of whom were added to the Congregational, and the remainder principally to the Methodist, and Baptist churches in that place.

[Rel. Rem.

FOR THE CHRISTIAN HERALD.

A general revival in my congregations of Hackensack and Schraalenburgh, New-Jersey, which, under the smiles of the great Bishop of Souls, progressed for several years, and afterwards became sta tionary, had finally suffered considerable declension. Our churches on the Lord's day and private lectures continued, indeed, to be well attended; and we still enjoyed the droppings of the sanctuary in a few solitary cases of hopeful conversion; but that life and fervour of religion which had for such a length of time gladdened the hearts of the pious, had abated; professors became relaxed in their wonted zeal, and in a measure conformable to the world; praying societies, though continued, yet apparently languished. But in the beginning of last autumn things began to put on a more encouraging appearance. We witnessed an increasing attention, and the people often deeply affected under sermons and lectures. Several instances of serious conviction and earnest inquiry have occurred during the winter. The work has not been rapid. At present, however, it seems to spread. Towards the latter part of March, and a few days previous to our communion, twenty-three were admitted-a much larger number than usual. All gave evidences of a saving change. Since that period several more have become seriously impressed.. Thus we hope the day-spring from on high is again about to visit us. -Blessed be the name of the Lord.

The above statement appears in the Herald at the request of brethren in the city of New-York, whose names could not be mentioned by my informant, said to be members of Dr. Romeyn's congregation; doubtless friends to experimental godliness, who, I trust, will unite their prayers with those of their humble servant,

SOLOMON FRELIGH.

Schraalenburgh, April 7, 1818.

SERMON OF THE REV. DR. THOMAS CHALMERS, Delivered in Glasgow, Scotland, on the day of the funeral of H. R. H.

THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES.

An event which blighted the fondest, the proudest hopes of a nation, by suddenly crumbling into dust the fairest idol of its desires respecting the succession to its throne, afforded too important a lesson on the uncertain tenure of earthly possessions, and of the vanity of human expectations, not to be improved by those whose duty it is to apply such signal visitations of Divine Providence to the consciences of the people by whom they are experienced.

Among the numerous discourses delivered on that affecting occasion, which have been published, that of the learned, eloquent, and pious Pastor of the Tron Church in Glasgow appears to hold a dis

tinguished place. It was composed on a short notice received by the author at a distance from home. Though it does not display all that originality of thought and expression with which the maturer productions of this great pulpit orator abound, yet it has some of the touches of his masterly genius, much of that glowing and impressive eloquence which characterizes his popular discourses, and much of it is of so general an application as to make it not less useful and interesting on this side of the Atlantic, than to the people for whose immediate benefit it was intended.

In his exordium, after some prefatory remarks, the eloquent author thus introduces the subject which furnished the occasion of his address.

Oh! how it tends to quiet the agitations of every earthly interest and earthly passion, when Death steps forward and demonstrates the littleness of them all-when he stamps a character of such affecting insignificance on all that we are contending for-when, as if to make known the greatness of his power in the sight of a whole country, he stalks in ghastly triumph over the might and the grandeur of its most august family, and singling out that member of it on whom the dearest hopes and the gayest visions of the people were suspended, he, by one fatal and resistless blow, sends abroad the fame of his victory and his strength, throughout the wide extent of an afflicted nation. He has indeed put a cruel and impressive mockery on all the glories of mortality. A few days ago, all looked so full of life, and promise, and security-when we read of the bustle of the great preparationand were told of the skill and the talent that were pressed into the service and heard of the goodly attendance of the most eminent in the nation--and how officers of state, and the titled dignitaries of the land, were charioted in splendour to the scene of expectation, as to the joys of an approaching holiday-yes, and we were told too, that the bells of the surrounding villages were all in readiness for the merry peal of gratulation, and that the expectant metropolis of our empire, on tiptoe for the announcement of her future monarch, had her winged couriers of dispatch to speed the welcome message to the cars of her citizens, and that from her an embassy of gladness was to travel over all the provinces of the land; and the country, forgetful of all that she had suffered, was at length to offer the spectacle of one wide and rejoicing jubilee. O Death! thou hast indeed chosen the time and the victim, for demonstrating the grim ascendency of thy power over all the hopes and fortunes of our species!— Our blooming Princess, whom fancy had decked with the coronet of these realms, and under whose gentle sway all bade so fair for the good and the peace of our nation, has he placed upon her bier! And, as if to fill up the measure of his triumph, has he laid by her side that babe, who, but for him, might have been the monarch of a future ge

neration; and he has done that which by no single achievement he could otherwise have accomplished-he has sent forth over the whole of our land, the gloom of such a bereavement as cannot be replaced by any living descendant of royalty-he has broken the direct succession of the monarchy of England-by one and the same disaster, has he wakened up the public anxieties of the country, and sent a pang as acute as that of the most woful domestic visitation, into the heart of each of its families.

The author, in the first branch of his discourse, treats of " the duty that subjects owe to their governors ;" which he illustrates with his usual ingenuity, and applies to the most salutary purposes.

He then inculcates the lesson, "that under every fear and every difficulty, it is the righteousness of the people alone which will exalt and perpetuate a nation." Hence the importance of attending to the moral and religious education of the great mass of the people.

Under this head the author exhibits a most deplorable picture of the profanity and general depravity abounding in the city where he delivered his discourse. Would to God that such a picture had no resemblance to the state of the large towns and cities in this western world! He then indicates the principal means which ought to be used to produce the remedy-the support and extension of the Gospel ministry. The concluding part of this sermon, especially that which so aptly and so truly exhibits the importance of the various ministrations of a faithful pastor, is so excellent, and of so useful a tendency, that we have considered it proper to insert it entire.

And when the seventh day comes, where, I would ask, are the efficient securities that ought to be provided against all those inundations of profligacy which rage without control through the week, and spread such a desolating influence among the morals of the existing generation?-Oh! tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon-this seventh day, on which it would require a whole army of labourers to give every energy which belongs to them, to the plenteous harvest of so mighty a population, witnesses more than onehalf of the people precluded from attending the house of God, and wandering every man after the counsel of his own heart, and in the sight of his own eyes-on this day, the ear of heaven is assailed with a more audacious cry of rebellion than on any other, and the open door of invitation plies with its welcome, the hundreds and the thousands who have found their habitual way to the haunts of depravity. And is there no room, then, to wish for twenty more churches and twenty more ministers-for men of zeal and of strength, who might go forth among these wanderers, and compel them to come in -for men of holy fervour, who might set the terrors of hell and the

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free offer of salvation before them--for men of affection, who might visit the sick, the dying, and the afflicted, and cause the irresistible influence of kindness to circulate at large among their families-for men, who, while they fastened their most intense aim on the great object of preparing sinners for eternity, would scatter along the path of their exertions all the blessings of order, and contentment, and sobriety, and at length make it manifest as day, that the righteousness of the people is the only effectual antidote to a country's ruin-the only path to a country's glory!

My next remark shall be founded on a principle to which I have already alluded-the desirableness of a more frequent intercourse between the higher and the lower orders of society; and what more likely to accomplish this than a larger ecclesiastical accommodation? -not the scanty provision of the present day, by which the poor are excluded from the church altogether, but such a wide and generous system of accommodation, as that the rich and the poor might sit in company together in the house of God. It is this Christian fellowship which, more than any other tie, lin's so intimately together the high and the low in country parishes. There is, however, another particular to which I would advert, and though I cannot do so without magnifying my office, yet I know not a single circumstance which so upholds the golden line of life amongst our agricultural population, as the manner in which the gap between the pinnacle of the community and its base is filled up by the week-day duties of the clergyman-by that man, of whom it has been well said, that he belongs to no rank, because he associates with all ranks-by that man, whose presence may dignify the palace, but whose peculiar glory it is to carry the influences of friendship and piety into cottages.

This is the age of moral experiment, and much has been devised in our day for promoting the virtue, and the improvement, and the economical habits of the lower orders of society. But in all these attempts to raise a barrier against the growing profligacy of our towns, one important element seems to have passed unheeded, and to have been altogether omitted in the calculation. In all the comparative estimates of the character of a town, and the character of a country population, it has been little attended to, that the former are distinguished from the latter by the dreary, hopeless, and almost impassable distance at which they stand from their parish minister. Now, though it be at the hazard of again magnifying my office, I must avow, in the hearing of you all, that there is a moral charm in his personal attentions and his affectionate civilities, and the ever-recurring influence of his visits and his prayers, which, if restored to the people, would impart a new moral aspect, and eradicate much of the licentiousness and the dishonesty that abound in our cities. On this day of national calamity, if ever the subject should be adverted to from the pulpit, we may be allowed to express our riveted convictions of the close alliance that obtains between the political interests and the religious character of a country. And I am surely not out of place, when, on looking at the mighty mass of a city population,