scription and endeavoured to extend it or formed a new auxiliary as was found most expedient. Here I revived the old consisting of 64 members and $32, and added 7 members and $18 50, making 72 members and $50 50. 13th, Visited Unity, revived the old auxiliary and added $10, making 77 members and $40. 14th, Visited Greensburg.-The session resolved to continue their former subscription of $22 and endeavour to extend it. Have not since heard from them. 15th, Had an appointment at Long Run, but owing to harvest engagement, could not obtain a meeting. 16th, Visited Round Hill.-But few out owing to the cause just mentioned. Revived the former subscription which was considered but for one year, to which it was expected additional subscriptions would be made. Number of old subscribers 59, amount $29 64, not since heard from. 17th, Visited Sawickly. Revived and extended the former subscription. The amount of the old is not remembered. The present is $37 70. 18th, Visited Brownsville. Organized a new auxiliary, members 35, amount $31 25, with a donation of $1.25 from Mrs. McKee. 19th, Visited Dunlaps Creek. Organized a new auxiliary, number of members not known, amount $37 06 20th, Visited Laurel Hill. Organized a new auxiliary, members 75, amount of subscription $60 75, with a prospect of increase. Do. Visited Union Town, added to former subscription, which was $950, $550 with a donation of $10 by N. Ewing, Esq. 23rd, Visited Georges Creek, added to the old subscription, amounting to$24 624, $20 15, making $44 77), number of members not known. Do. Visited the Tent. Organized a new auxiliary, members 60, amount of subscription $45 25, with a donation by Mr. J. K. Duncan of $5. On the 28th, reached the Presbytery of Steubenville. 31st, Visited Crab Apple Obtained a subscription of $65 50, which in connexion with a former subscription amounts to nearly $100-say $95. Do. St. Clairsville. Organized a new auxiliary, amount $36, with prospect of increase, number of members not ascertained. 3rd, Mount Pleasant Ohio. Organized a new auxiliary, amount $21 50. 4th, Beach Spring. Organized a new auxiliary, amount between 50 and 60, say $55. Do. Cadiz, extended the old subscription amount not known. 5th, Bloomfield. Organized a new auxiliary, amount $14, a small congregation. 6th, Centre. The people failed to attend. Do. Ridge, appointment not made. 7th, Cross Creek, Washington Presbytery, new auxiliary amount $64. They expect to make it $100. 9th, Island Creek, appointment not announced. 10th, Richmond, new aux. members 29, amount $19 62, will be increased. Do. Annapolis,new auxiliary, members 25, amount, 18 75, will be increased. 11th, Two Ridges, new auxiliary,amt. not ascertained, say $40. Do. Rockhill. Per Rev. Joseph Anderson, missionary, new auxiliary-members 15, amount $9 75. 14th, Cross Roads, Washington Presbytery, amount subscribed $50, will probably be increased. Presbytery of Ohio. 19th, Visited Lebanon. Organized a new auxiliary, amount not ascertained. 20th, Williamsport. Organized a new auxiliary-members 45, amount $39 50. 21st, Bethel, added to former subscription, $40 12, will be increased. Bethel will probably make $70. 22nd, Prevented by rain from reaching Hopewell. 23d, Sharan, new auxiliary-amount $15 50, members 32-infant church. 24th, Montours. People failed to attend on account of rain. 25th, Had an appointment at Highland, which I found was not announced. In the congregations of Highland, Center, Cannonsburg and Millers run, quarterly collections are taken up for missionary purposes. From each of these congregations the Board may expect to receive from $25 to $30 annually. 26th, Had an appointment at Pine creek, which was not announced. 27th, Visited Allegheny church. Organized a new auxiliary-members 45, amount $73 40. Do. 2d church Pittsburg. Extended the former subscription-amount not known. 30th, Visited Chartiers and found the appointment had failed. Sept. 1. Attended a missionary con August 1, Visited Morristown. But few out. They have an auxiliary and resolv-vention in this place. ed to do what they can for your Board. 3d. Visited Rehoboth, Redstone Pres2nd, Visited Wheeling, was advised bytery, where I could not obtain an apnot to attempt any thing there at present.pointment when in that Presbytery, ad ditional subscription obtained-amount sons the following were then offered, not ascertained.'" 6th. Forwarded a 2nd appointment to LongRun but found it was not announced, They engage to pay $40 annually. 7th. Byards Town-new auxiliary formed-amount not ascertained. 8th and 9th. Prevented from travelling by the failure of my horse, &c. 10th. Visited Montours-new auxiliary, amount not ascertained. viz. "We consider the Board of Missions of the General Assembly as our natural organ for Missionary operations. -We desire the Board of Missions of the General Assembly to continue and increase its activity: and this it cannot do without the co-operation of the churches under the supervision of the General Assembly; therefore, we consider it our duty and wisdom to act through that channel. Further, from the relative position taken by the American Home Missionary Society and Board of the Assembly, the adhesion of a part of the Presbyterian churches to the Home Missionary Soci12th. Chartiers-addedto a recent sub-ety, would produce disunion and discord scription of $50, $13 40, making $63 40. 11th. Racoon-new auxiliary formed. It being the Sabbath they were unwilling that subscriptions should be taken, but the session engaged to attend to it as soon as practicable. Sessions of the Richland Presbytery. Sep. 16th, 1831. in the body to which we are attached.We have vowed to study the peace of the church to which we belong, and we feel ourselves bound by our vows, and even if by amalgamation with Christians In considering the recommendation of of other denominations, in domestic misthe last General Assembly to the Synods sions, an increase of harmony might be and Presbyteries in the Valley of the brought about among different denomiMississippi, on the subject of conducting nations; we would consider this a poor Domestic Missions in the Western States, compensation for the breaking up of the Presbytery voted, to adopt the fol- sisterly affections, and cordial co-operalowing resolutions, as expressing their tions in our own church. We believe views and determination, viz: Resolved, that the bond of peace, among different 1. That, in the opinion of this Presby-denominations, is more likely to be tery, as we want but one General Assembly for the Presbyterian Church in these United States; so, we want but one Board for conducting Domestic Missions within its pale- and that Board to be directly under the control and supervision of the General Assembly, according to the constitution of our church. 2. That, in the opinion of this Presbytery, the Board of Missions, since its reorganization in 1828, has conducted with an energy and wisdom, entitling it to our continued confidence, and by its rapid and annually extending operations, has clearly shown, that were all the Presbyteries and churches of our denominaton to unite in cordially adopting its plans, this Board would be abundantly competent to carry on all the Missionary operations within our Church. strengthened by harmonious and friendly separate action, than by commingled operations in the work of Missions." Eighteen months later, viz: in September, 1830, stronger language was deemed necessary, as appears from the following extract of part of a resolution adopted then on the same subject, viz. "This Presbytery feel also, that they are called, from the circumstances of the times, to express their decided disapprobation of the attempts made, and making in various quarters, to produce an amalgamation of the Assembly's Board of Missions with the A. H. M. Society; a measure which this Presbytery would deprecate, as a violation of both the spirit and letter of our well devised form of church government, upon which, so many inroads have already been made, that it has, in 3. This Presbytery is more and more viewofthis Presbytery,becomeindispensadeeply convinced, that the operations of bly necessary for all that wish to preserve the American Home Missionary Society, inviolate the principles and government of in its distinctive, independant character, the Presbyterian Church, to take a decided within the Presbyterian Church, are un- and open stand in their maintenance, constitutional; and both injurious to the and in openly disapproving of all such peace, and dangerous to the purity of the measures as tend to weaken and impair same. This Presbytery as early as April the soundness of the one, or the efficacy 1829, expressed their sentiments mildly, of the other: such, it is believed, is the in a communication, by them, to the tendency of the operations of the Home Home Missionary Institution, declining Missionary Society, in its distinctive, inany further connexion therewith, an- dependent, non-ecclesiastical character, nouncing their intention hereafter to seek within the Presbyterian Church." And missionary aid from the Board of the we do, now, consider the course and conGeneral Assembly.-Among other rea-duct of that voluntary institution, as of fensively intrusive; and that it alreadyes around are at the distance of six miles exercises an extensive patronage, bane-"apart in each direction; and in most of ful to the character and true interests of them there have been meetings for the Presbyterian Church. Therefore resolved, 4. That it is the determination of this Presbytery to adhere exclusively to the Assembly's Board of Missions, and steadfastly to oppose every other organization for conducting missions within our Church. preaching for four days in succession, with greater or less results-In one of the latest, there are said to have been more than three hundred converts. There was also a meeting held in this congregation. Now, my design in writing, is just freely to relate to you what has passed in my own thoughts and feel5. That therefore, this Presbytery willings on this subject; which is what I have send delegates to the Convention to meet never attempted before, because when I at Cincinnati, on the 23d of November was not quite hard and felt the most, I next, on the principles proposed by the was ashamed and afraid-besides listenWest Lexington Presbytery, to carrying to the devil, that it would do as well into effect the above 4th resolution; by which the delegates from this Presbytery are to be governed in deliberating and voting in said Convention. 6. That we cordially accede to the proposal for observing the first Thursday of November next, as a day of fasting and prayer in our churches, on account, not only of the "collisions" arising from separate missionary operations, but also, and especially, on account of the prevalence and propagation of doctrinal sentiments within the Presbyterian Church, at variance, as we believe, with the plain and obvious sense of our standards, and in violation of solemn vows to maintain the same. JOHN MCKINNEY, Moderator. HENRY HERVEY, Clerk. MISCELLANEOUS. CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE. at some other time-The will was never brought deliberately to choose what God has chosen "now. While things were continuing thus, the sensibility which I had upon this subject was gradually wearing away. On the Sunday preceding the meeting at this church, it occurred to me that now most likely, I should see what I had wished long since to see, a revival of religion fairly before my own eyes. Then the surmise came into my mind, that if I should pass through such a season without being saved, I should never have another feeling on the subject. This thought continued in my mind, and led me to determine to give all attention. But I felt nothing; my heart was hard, though I wished it to feel. I wanted to pray, but could not. But still I wondered that I was not distressed. This one thought was firmly fixed in my mind, the infallible certainty of a judgment, and of eternal happiness or misery. So I continued, as the days of meeting were passing on.-I watched myself The following letter was very recently addressed by a young gentleman in the country at no great distance from Phila-closely; saw others going forward to be delphia, to an aged friend and relative in the city. We have been permitted to copy it; thinking as we do that it exhibits, in a style of peculiar simplicity, the genuine workings of a mind, with which God has been graciously dealing, by the influences of his Holy Spirit. prayed for, but dared not do this. It neglected until my day was gone, and then came to me like a reality, that I had that now there was no longer any hope. But then I knew, though this was to be feared, yet that the devil often uses it most cruelly-that I must leave this matter entirely with God, and only cry to him, and resolve in his strength, if he Sept. 20th, 1831. grant any influence of his spirit never to My dear Uncle. It has occurred to me resist it. The last day of the meeting to be at this time in a peculiar manner came, and the line was soon to be drawn, my duty to write to you; though I have and my side would quickly be determinhad some striving within my own minded. I dreaded the close of the meeting about it: yet I have determined to write-but the hour came, it could not be dewithout delay, though I may still say it with trembling, lest what I have to say may produce in you expectations to be disappointed. layed. The last words were spoken, and the people were departing -I walked out, not overwhelmed, but mournful, and cast a sad look around on the people, and There is one piece of information to felt that I was an outcast-I cannot descommunicate, which I know will be grat-cribe the sensation. Thought I was ready, ifying to your heart-It is that through but then I could not repent of myself.. this district of country there has been If I only had that, then I thought I might and is a revival of religion. The church-be saved by Christ. Witherspoon, N. C.,terson, King PORTER. 565 wing more grace. I will stop here, tell you. I have written this to have your nough this is not the half that I might counsel, if you should find time to write; but if not, pray for me-for this I feel would be more than a host. One more reflection. I know that the tree must be known by its fruits, and if this change be genuine, there will soon be trials for me to go through, which will thoroughly test it. Labours and self-denials of a Missionary of the Board, in New-York. I engaged with this people for one year, for the small sum of one hundred dollars, and what I could obtain from the Missionary Society. The year is at an end, and I have received nearly the hundred dollars from the society here, and $87 from your Board. The society here has also furnished me with some few necessaries of life. But I have lived, for the year past, as I am sure but few ministers would be willing to live. On the following Sunday N. Har thing like an intimation that God weat willing to be gracious, which moved me in a manner very unlike any thing I had felt before. My heart seemed sinking within me. Still the command was "repent." We had a sermon in- on the discourse of Christ with Nicodemus. The whole of this appeared to me as in the light of day. In the evening the idea was suggested that I was in some degree repenting, and that the command was, go to the Saviour without delay. I remembered the promises "ask and ye shall receive seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you: and those that seek me early shall find me." Now, as far as consciousness testifies, I immediately embraced these promises, and with all the powers of the soul freely threw myself into the arms of the Saviour and prayed for deeper repentance, and stronger faith: and this was repeated again, on going to bed at night. For the next day, and the two following, I felt at peace, but still desiring further light. Every thing seemed new-I was much inclined to talk freely.-I thought of home, and wished to be with my sister. Still, however, I feared to be at rest, and often the question came into my mind, whether this were really all of God, or merely delusion-and then I went into an argument with myself, first on the one side, and then on the other.icate health, was erected for a shop, for Presently, however, this feeling or influ- the wheel-wright business, and has only ence seemed to me visibly departing-I a temporary partition through the midtried to hold it-it was gone. All was dle; rough and loose floors; no plastering; darkness; and fear was coming with it, temporary doors; a poor half-built chimand this torturing reflection, that I deser-ney; and the inconsiderable parts of three ved none of that mercy which I had so long trifled with.-I dreaded a return to indifference, as I well knew the consequence. I was almost ready to despair; but I remembered that "God's arm was not shortened that it could not save;" and I determined never to cease from striving: but even this, I knew was what I would not be able to do of myself. This continued to be my state, with little variation, for more than a week. Often did I long for an opportunity to converse with you;-but before that would be in my power, something else must be done. We had an excellent man here Mr. My labours have been abundant, and God only knows how I have been supported under them. My health has been poor, generally; but I have been able to labour almost incessantly. The house in which I have lived for a considerable part of the time, with a wife in very del windows. The bed on which we reposed, consists mostly of straw. The benevolence of the people however, supplied us with seven pounds of feathers; which, in a tolerably good tick, which I bought at the store, we spread over our straw, and on it we have often slept comfortably, and I trust thankfully. When we would have been glad to have enterwe were visited by our friends, whom tained through the night, we were under the necessity of having thein lodge with our friends in the neighbourhood; for the above mentioned bed, was our only one. I Our household furniture in short, has been very inconsiderable.-Although the people agreed to supply us with our provisions, mostly, I have been obliged, generally, to tell them when we were in want of flour, meat, sugar, &c. Doubtantness of going around, beggar-like, to less you are well aware of the unpleastell the people, when you are hungry, and what you want.-The above will give you a true idea of our manner of living the year past, in this place. listened with great interest to his preaching, and likewise had an opportunity of talking with him, and with several other Christians-Nothing they said, however, gave me much encouragement-It was only "strive" "seek" "ask," "knock.". That I was ready to do; and for the few days past, this darkness has been breaking away and in its place, a calm assurance has been succeeding. But still I would not be too confident, nor rest at ease without dy Old fashioned preaching. A Missionary in Pennsylvania says preach that Christ magnified the law and made it honorable" and, that, by answering its demands on the redeemed sinner. If the sufferings of Christ were something else than the penalty of the law, what was it? If it was not our sins (that is, the penalty due to them) that "He bare in his own body on the tree," What did he bare? If he did not "redeem us from the curse of the law," by "being made a curse for us," How did he do it? And what is the curse of the law but its penalty? Indeed if our iniquities were not laid on him, it seems to me they must be laid on us, and if so our preaching is vain and our faith is vain. I have not sagacity sufficient to discover how the law can be honored, by an innocent person's suffering what it never demanded. But perhaps those minds which are not shackled by any frame-work of faith have made this discovery. es around INTMENTS. anm the 20th of August, to the 20th of Sept. Rev. Jos. Wilson for one year, to Greenbush, N. Y. Rev. Jesse Rankin for one year, to Fellenburg and vicinity, N. C. Rev. T. Gallaudet, for one year, to Rus. selville and vicinity, Ky. Rev. Jas. Coe, for one year, one-third of his time, in Miami Co Ohio. Rev. J. H. Wallace for one year to Christiansburg, Virginia. RE-APPOINTMENTS. Rev. J. Pitkin for one year, to Stillwell, Dresden and Muskingum settlements, O. Rev. P. Monfort, for one year, to Hancock, Co. Ohio. Rev. W. Sickles, for one year, to Rushville and vicinity, Ind. Rev. S. Scovel, for 1 year to Lawrenceburg and vicinity, Ind. Rev. Thos. Barr for 6 mo. in destitute I am willing to remain in the "old fash-settlements under the direction of the Cor. Ex. Committee at Cincinnati, Ohio. ioned" doctrine of the vicarious atonement, and I can venture also to invite sinners to place their confidence here. Rev. J. S. Thompson for one year, at Providence Congregation and Park, Montgomery and Putnam co. Ind. Rev. S. H. M'Nutt, for one year to Shiloh Church and vacancies in Park Co. Ind. Rev. S. B. Smith, for one year, to Green Account of Money received by the Board Rev. Isaac Purkis, for one year, to La since May last 1831,-in the following Prairie and vicinity near Montreal Lower places. 7 22 7 37 350 20 00 25 89 7 75 23 37 26 75 Lower Congre'n of Tuscarora, 31 00 11 85 15 00 Upper Cong. of Penns Valley, 32 00 Bellefonte, Spruce Creek, Alexandria, Huntingdon, Licking Valley, Shirleysburg, Shade Gap, 15 50 LETTERS RECEIVED J. Lewars, and W. B. Sloan, N.J., J. R. Moreland, Ind. S. Cowles, O., J. M. Ellis, Ill., H. Wilson Pa., B.R. Kile Ky. J. Hutchison Ky., F. Chipman N. J., S. M. Williamson, Tenn., J. Stoneroad, 2 Va., W. B. Sprague and J. N. Campbell, N. Y., I. P. Kendrick, O., A. Hamilton, Ky., H. Hamil, N. Y., N. H. Hall, Ky., C. Cist, 2, 0., 2 00 J. D. Matthews, 2, N. J., A. Clark, Pa., 75 62 S. Royer, Pa., H. Catlin, N.Y., T. Phillips, 5 00 31 60 79 37 Upper Congre'n of Path valley, 11 82|| O., J. L. Wilson, O., W. Jones, D. C., J. 3 00 D. Paxton, Ky., J. Dinsmore, Pa., J. Stone, N. Y., A. McDonald, Ga., W. Foulke, O., J. Burbank, N. Y., R. H. Lilly, 2, N. J., I. Bennett, Ill., S. Galbraith, Pa., A. McKindley, Pa., J. McKinney, O., S. SturNo. 200, South Fourth Street, Philadelphia.geon, Pa., S. Van Rensselaer, N. Y., S. L. $590 00 JOSEPH B. MITCHELL, Treasurer, |