He well remembers, and relates, how he was stolen from his mother. She was then a widow. They had laid down to sleep for the night, when the men entered the hut, and beating the mother and children, placed poor Abraham over their shoulders, blindfolded him, and carried him off. He is now sixteen years old and has been baptized. COMBACONUM, SOUTH INDIA. In the evening, at Galloway Chapel, as I was rising to preach there came in a fine. looking Brahmin lad, about fourteen years of age, and took his seat near me. Having recognized him as one of my constant and attentive hearers, and as the very youth who, a day or two before, seeing me opposed at another place, boldly came forward and reproved the conduct of my enemies, I asked him to draw near me : he willingly accepted the invitation, and, though a Brahmin, scrupled not to touch me. Besides his prepossessing appearance, I found him very intelligent and affectionate. He said that he felt much pleasure in hearing the Gospel, and acknowledged that an idol was no God. When I inquired whether he had read any of our books, and could remember anything he had read, he replied in the affirmative, and repeated nearly a whole page of the tract entitled, "Good Counsel." After a few words of exhortation, I placed in his hands a copy of the Gospel of Matthew, which he accepted with evident pleasure, and retired. Engaged all day in reading and preaching to some thousands of poor heathen. Many heard attentively, and some displayed a lively interest. Several aged persons sat and listened for hours together. One old man appeared deeply affected, and, at length, stretching forth his hand, he placed in mine a string of his praying beads, saying "I have done with this folly." Distributed this day upwards of nine hundred tracts, and about twenty single Gospels. Lord, crown thy word with thy benediction! At Koottalam, met a man who heard the Gospel at Combaconum, and had read sev eral of our books. I said to him, "I suppose you are now going to the tank to perform your evening poojars?" He said, "My poojars, what are they, sir? all nonsense. have left of repeating them these many years." I observed, "If that be true, I presume you have also forsaken your idols?" "Idols," he said, "What are they? are they not lifeless dolls?" "Why, then," I asked, "do you put these marks on your forehead ?" He replied, "I know they are vain things, but I put them on simply to please my friends." At the close of our conversation, to which several persons were listening, he said "It is my conviction, that, before long, all will become Christians; for see, how many, sir, most willingly accept your books. Is this not a sign that great numbers will, before long, embrace your religion? Believe me, you do not labour in vain." In At the village of Seejalee, many heard me gladly. On my return to Combaconum, a Brahmin, who first seemed an opposer, bore me company for nearly a mile. the course of conversation, he said, "You must not consider me your enemy,—I am fully convinced of the truth of all that you asserted. Yes idolatry is false; but what can I do? Being a Brahmin, I dare not speak disrespectfully of Idols in the presence of my neighbours." He said many things more which made me think he felt the power of the truth. On my presenting him with a Gospel, he thankfully accepted it, carefully wrapt it in his cloth, and placed it in his bosom.-Rev. J. E. Nummo, London Missionary Society. NAVIGATORS ISLAND, SOUTH SEAS. and many of the inhabitants of the village were prevented attending by the necessary preparations of food for their numerous visitors. I mention this to account for the comparatively small number present at this solemn commencement of the day. GREAT MISSIONARY MEETING.-June to join in supplicating the divine blessing, 2nd, we held the first great Missionary meet- if they had known that it was to be held; ing which has ever assembled in this part of the island. It was indeed a festival in the dis. trict and every one seemed to feel it so. A meeting of the church was held on the evening of the 1st, when four members were added, and nine individuals proposed as candidates for admission. On the morning of the 2nd, we held a prayer meeting, at the break of day which was attended by about 500 individuals. Many who slept at villages within three or four miles of Lepa, on their way to the nunu fiafia, (joyful assembly,) as they called it, would have been at this meeting, Immediately after breakfast we again assembled in our large place of worship, which was then nearly crowded. I preached from Mark xiv. 15, 16, to a highly attentive audience. After the sermon I baptized eleven adults, and three children. This being ended, the church united in the ordi nance of the Lord's Supper. In the early part of the afternoon we held le me, (the May meeting.) It was our intention to have held the meeting on the malae, but it began to rain about noon, and we had to hold it in the chapel, which prevented many attending. The meeting was exceedingly interesting, and the references in many of the speeches, to the past and present state of Samoa, deeply affecting, and such as could only arise from reflecting minds. The interest was fully kept up during the whole time of the meeting, nearly four hours. There were more than 2,000 present, all from my own district, who a few years ago knew nothing of the Saviour's name, but are now displaying the greatest anxiety to know if there is any. thing they can do for his cause, in proof of their gratitude for his love in sending them the glad tidings of salvation. Conversation with a candidate for communion. "What think you? is it right for you to desire this ordinance?" "I hope it is; for I feel differently to what I once did. If I truly repent and trust in Christ, it will be well for me. I desire and hope I do." Nearly three hours were spent by me this morning, (July 1,) in conversing with five individuals, candidates for church membership. Thinking that a specimen of the an. swers might be interesting, I put down part of my conversation with one, a female. I asked her, "What is the meaning of this ordinance?" "It is a command of Jesus to his disci- altered in the slightest degree what she said, ples, and is symbolic only." "What advantages may be derived from it?" "It will be of advantage to none but those who truly rely on Jesus Christ," and here she drew a beautiful figure of the feelings excited by any object that reminds one of a dear friend who has been removed to a great distance from us. The last two questions caused much hesitation and feeling. I have not added to nor excepting where the idiom of the language required it. I have not particularly chosen the case of this individual; if selection had been my object, there are others I should prefer. The woman's husband is also a candidate; and instances are numerous of the husband and wife coming together, and seeking to be added to the professing peo "I asked, "If their was salvation in the ple of God.-Rev. W. Harbutt, London ordinance ?" Missionary Society. BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY. LEICESTER.-The annual services in connection with the Baptist missions held last week,excited an unusual degree of interest in consequence of this being the jubilee year of the Baptist Missionary society. On Sunday, two sermons were preached in Harvey lane chapel by the Rev. J. Aldis, of Maze Pond, London; and similar services were held at the chapels in the county. On Monday evening a public meeting was held in the New Hall, which was crowded. The Rev. J. Webb, of Arnesby proposed the first resolution, which was seconded by the Rev. G. R. Miall of Ullesthorpe. The Rev. J. Aldis of London, proposed the second resolution, and Mr. Alexander Fuller, a native of Jamaica, seconded it. The Rev. J. Tinson of Jamaica proposed the next res. olution, which was seconded by the Rev. J. Clarke, just returned from Western Africa. The meeting was also addressed by the Rev. J. Pike of Newbury, the Rev. J. Buckley of Market Harborough, and the Rev. J. P. Mursell, who stated that £18,000 had already been contributed to the Jubilee fund. On Tuesday morning a public breakfast was held in Harvey lane School room, and was very numerously attended. After breakfast the assembly were addressed by the Revs. T. Tinson, J. Aldis, J. Clarke, Mr. A. Fuller, and others, and about £100 subscribed towards the Jubilee and Mission fund. On Tuesday evening a public service was held at Arneshy, when about £50 was collected; and on Wednesday evening at Loughborough, when £45 was subscribed.-Nonconformist. EXTRACT FROM A SERMON ON THE DEATH OF REV. J. JARROM. To the Editor of the General Baptist Repository. Dear Sir, If you think the following extract from a sermon on the death of our late revered friend and tutor, Mr. Jarrom, will be gratifying to the readers of the Repository, it is at your service for insertion in that work. March, Nov. 2nd. Yours' affectionately, J. JONES. THAT We may glorify God in him, let us consider a little some features prominent in his experience and deportment, that may afford agreeable reminisences of our revered friend. He was enabled for many years to maintain a christian character, not only consistent but elevated. That he understood and experimentally enjoyed the grace of God in truth is not questioned by any that knew him. Nor was this the consolation merely of solitary or domestic life, but, in him it shone in the important public engagements that he sustained. As an instructor of youth, as a minister of the gospel, and as a tutor of his younger brethren for the successful discharge of the sacred ministry, it was his desire and endeavour to maintain a conscience void of offence towards God and towards man. More than forty years, our revered friend had walked in the fear of the Lord; and, for nearly that time, he was before the public in one town as a minister of the truth, and for more than twenty years he was intrusted with the training of students for the ministry of the word. How his official duties were discharged many can bear honourable testimony. The conscientious christian appeared in them all, sustained so long, and with such entire uniformity, as to raise a feeling of veneration in the surrounding neighbourhood which seemed to say, "This is a holy man of God which passeth by us continually." Such a person cannot sink into the grave unnoticed or unlamented; but praise to the God of all grace should predominate over lamentation, that an example so edifying was so long continued. Our friend attained to considerable eminence as a theologian and a preacher. Endowed with an understanding vigorous, capacious, and solid, when this was directed by the sanctifying influences of the Holy Spirit freely to choose and relish divine truth revealed in the Bible he was not VOL. 4.-N.S. 2 Z satisfied with a superficial view of revelation. Nothing was taken upon trust and appropriated without examination. Whether his opinions were correct or not, they were not adopted from the suggestion of others or formed without close consideration and probable reasoning. So that on almost every subject of general interest and usefulness he was found to have thought so as to qualify himself to be an intelligent and instructive companion. But especially in the science of theology, the most interesting and important to every man, and to the understanding and illustration of which our friend was, by profession and taste devoted, he was eminently skilled. Acquainted with the various systems of the christian world, what he advocated approved itself to his own judgment as the dictate of divine revelation. Nor was it ever found an easy task to overturn his conclusions. In the public ministry of the Gospel, Mr. Jarrom was very serious and instructive. Constitutionally averse to everything light and flippant, and his natural temperament confirmed by reason, in all his sacred exercises there was peculiar gravity and sedateness. His manner indeed to strangers might appear unnecessarily heavy, but this was compensated by a profoundness and intelligence that was always delightful and instructive. If he did not attract the frivolous and volatile, even the young and gay, if not void of reflection could not fail to be instructed by his clear and forcible illustrations of divine truth. And not unfrequently after a plain exposition of the subject of his discourse, it was confirmed and enforced by an energy and directness in which the preacher was peculiarly animated and earnest, and which left on the consciences of the hearers a conviction of his sincerity and of the great importance of true piety. Thus by a ministry of marked faithfulness and honesty, without the enticing words of man's wisdom and the showy ornaments of artificial oratory, did our friend succeed ' in demonstration of the spirit and of power," to win many to Christ, and firmly to attach them to his own ministrations. His church consisting, in late years, principally of the fruit of his own labours, having full confidence in his good intentions and sound judgment, trusted in him, and venerated him as a father. Nor were this confidence and this veneration confined to the church and congregation under his own immediate superintendance; they were participated in a considerable degree by the whole connexion in which he stood as a pillar both of support and ornament. As a man of wise foresight and sagacity he was remarkable; and this caused his counsel and advice frequently to be sought by ministers and churches. Not unfrequently by his suggestions an entirely new view would be given to pending discussions and to previously arranged plans, and generally they commended themselves to the deliberate judgment of parties interested. Seldom indeed was there reason to regret having followed his advice. The experience of years added to much attentive observation on men and things, and great deliberation of reasoning and reflection, wrought in him a degree of prudence and practical wisdom seldom to be found. These qualities, under the sanctifying influences of the Holy Spirit, and regulated by the precepts of scripture, constituted our friend a man of peace and an adviser safely to be trusted. Many knew this, and reposed in him a confidence never found to be misplaced. His caution and prudence indeed seemed almost extreme, inducing unusual silence and reserve, but these, the attentive observer might notice, were exercised chiefly in reference to things on which it was not necessary or desirable to volunteer information in mere gossip. If information was sought, he was not backward to communicate, and in the social circle he was frequently very cheerful and instructive. Sad and mysterious indeed was the dispensation of divine Providence that silenced the public ministry of such a person, several years before his death. But painful as was this event it was mingled with mercy. It was a gradual preparation of relatives and friends for his entire removal, which would have been much more severely felt had a Pastor so experienced and prudent been precipitately removed. Though not in the pulpit, he was still living, and though painfully afflicted so as to demand and receive the mourning sympathy of a large circle of friends, the disease did not affect the intellectual powers, so that his remarks and counsel still possessed their accustomed acuteness and value. In his retirement from public life, and comparative obscurity, many felt it a privilege, as opportunities offered, to visit Mr. Jarrom and enjoy his intelligent and pious conversation. In this number was the writer, who availed himself of several opportunities of friendly intercourse with the departed, and never did he retire from them without instruction and edification. As, for several years, it appeared not improbable that any interview might be the last, the writer was anxious to preserve some of the last sayings of his revered tutor and friend; and, for this purpose, as soon as possible recorded the substance of some conversations. A few extracts from notes preserved may not be uninteresting. June the 11th, 1838-After some general conversation respecting his affliction, in which he very feelingly referred to Job vii. 13-14. I remarked, it is a happy circumstance sir, that you have so bright and glorious a prospect before you, as a believer in Christ. To which, after a short interval of silence, he said, "Doubtless that is a happy circumstance, but that does not take away the burden of my affliction now. It tends greatly to support me under it, as it would be awful indeed if nothing but clouds and darkness were before me. I hope I don't complain, but I think it is allowable to afflicted persons to say that they feel their afflictions. The prophet Jeremiah did so; and our Lord said, 'My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death. Father, if it be possible, remove this cup from me.' But it is right that we should go on with him and say, not my will, but thine be done.' I feel that I am required to be passive in the hands of the Almighty. I can do nothing." It was then remarked, it is pleasing to hear the observations of aged christians respecting those religious truths that have long been their support and comfort. Especially is this the case when they are under affliction and in the near prospect of a future state. You have long enjoyed religion and have clearly and fully exhibited the great truths of the gospel in your ministry; those truths, I trust, you now find the support of your hope and the source of your joy. A solemn pause ensued, when he replied, "I am not greatly exalted with those raptures that some speak of, and I am not depressed. I have never been subject to such fluctuations of feeling. God is very merciful. He has manifested his mercy in ten thousand ways, but chiefly in the gift of his Son. All my dependence is on his atonement and intercession. I am nothing. I have no goodness to recommend me to his notice. have long felt, a comfortable confidence in him. Any trial of faith that I I feel, and |