same denomination; and no Tract shall be published to which any member of that Committee shall object. Article 7.-Any Tract Society contributing one-fourth part or more of its annual receipts to the Treasury of this Society, shall be considered an Auxiliary, and be entitled to purchase Tracts at the most reduced prices. And any Agent or Treasurer of such Auxiliary annually transmitting five dollars to the Treasury of this Society, shall be entitled to vote at all meetings of the Board of Directors; and the officers of any Auxiliary, annually contributing ten dollars, shall be entitled to the same privilege. Article 8.-The Executive Committee, subject to instructions from the Board of Directors, may admit any Tract Society to the privileges of an Auxiliary, with such relaxation of the terms above prescribed as they shall approve; and may confer such privileges as they think proper on any important kindred Institution circulating this Society's Tracts. Article 9.-All Benevolent Societies and Institutions, and individuals, pur chasing for gratuitous distribution, or to sell again, shall receive Tracts at reduced prices. Article 10.-That the benefits of the Society may be enjoyed no less in distant places, than near the seat of its op erations, the prices of its Tracts shall be, as far as practicable, the same in all parts ofthe United States. Article 11.-All meetings of the Society, the Board of Directors, and the Executive Committee, shall be opened by prayer. Article 12.-The President, or in his absence, the Vice President or other Officer first on the list in the city of New-York, at the request of five Directors, may call special meetings of the Board of Directors, causing three days notice of such meetings to be given; and any two members of the Executive Committee may call special meetings of that body. The Board of Directors shall have power to call special meetings of the Society. Article 13.-This Constitution shall not be altered, except at an annual meeting, and by a vote of two-thirds the members present. After various resolutions and addresses, the Society proceeded to lay the corner-stone of the edifice to be erected for the use of the Society. This act was performed by the President, who addressed the numerous spectators as follows: "Whilst we thus place the cornerstone which will serve to uphold this edifice, angels, we may believe, contemplate with joy and admiration our labours of love. Generations, yet unborn, will elevate songs of praise to the great I AM, for the blessings which the enterprise of this hour may be instrumental in procuring for perishing millions. And if, through the bounty of Divine grace, in a crucified Redeemer, we ourselves shall be admitted to the happy mansions of endless rest, the period will arrive, when we may unite in their song over the multitudes that are redeemed through these humble exertions." UNITED FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.-The eighth anniversary of this Society was celebrated on the evening of the 11th of May. From the Treasurer's report, it appears that the receipts of the Society, during the past year have been $20,975.45, and the expenditure, including a balance of $7,953.19 due the treasurer at the date of the last still due the treasurer of $257.62. report, $21,233.07, leaving a balance by agents; $3,375 were contributed by Of the receipts, $4,086 were collected auxiliary societies; $3,124 were donations of individuals; $2,600 were paid by the U.S.government to aid in buildings and schools; $1,779 were given to coustitute ministers members for life; $1,481 were congregational collections; and $1,481 were collected at the Monthly Concert of Prayer. in support of the different missions: Mackinaw Union Seneca Tuscarora Fort Gratiot, Haytien $2,983 2,522 do. do. 2,030 The Society has two hundred and forty-five Auxiliaries, fifty-six having been added during the past year. UNITED DOMESTIC MISSIONARY SOCIETY.-From the report of the Treasurer of this Society, it appears, that the receipts during the past year, have been $11,262.40; of which sum $3,482.85 were for annual dues and to constitute directors and members for life, $2,195.81 were donations, $3,485.89 from auxiliary societies and missionaries, and $2,097.85 were collections in churches, at prayermeetings, and sundry other places. The Society has employed, during the past year, one hundred and twenty-one missionaries. Among the late celebrations in the city of New-York, one of the most interesting was that of the Sunday School Union. On Tuesday, at 3 o'clock P. M. says the N. Y. Observer, the children of the schools belonging to the Sunday School Union, amounting to between four and five thousand, assembled in the Park, arranged in companies, each company under its respective banner, which bore the number of the school and an appropriate motto. They then walked in procession, accompanied by the Superintendents and Teachers, and preceded by the President of the Society, and the other officers and members, to Castle-Garden. The society took their seats on an elevated platform in and around the orchestra. The girls were seated upon the lower benches of the gallery, and the boys stood in groups in the area below. The concourse of ladies and gentlemen, assembled to witness the spectacle, seemed nearly to fill this vast amphitheatre, capable of holding conveniently 15 or 20,000 people. After prayer by the Rev. Mr. Cox, a hymn was read by Mr. Sage, which was sung by ten thousand united voices. The Rev. Mr. Cone then made an appropriate address, and another hymn was sung, when the lowering aspect of the weather induced the President to dismiss the assembly. The first annual meeting of The Connecticut Sunday School Union, was holden in Hartford, on Thursday evening the fifth of May inst. Ministers and Delegates from Auxiliaries, and a very respectable audience of Ladies and Gentlemen were present. The Rev. Joel Hawes, one of the Vice Presidents of the Society opened the Meeting with prayer. Addresses were made by the Rev. Mr. Hewit of Fairfield, and by Rev. Dr. Beecher of Litchfield. The officers for the year ensuing, are, the Rev. Nathaniel W. Taylor, D. D. President; Mr. Timothy Dwight, Rev. Samuel Merwin, Rev. Joel Hawes, Rev. Lyman Beecher, D.D. Vice Presidents; Mr. T. D. Williams, New-Haven, Secretary, Mr. Amos Townsend, jr. of do. Treasurer, and gentlemen in various parts of the state, Managers. This Union which was but recently formed, now embraces between thirty and forty Auxiliaries, and will soon, it is hoped, include every village in the state. FOREIGN MISSION SCHOOL.-An agent of one of our missionary societies, speaks of this school as follows. "If there is a parallel in the records of the church, it seems to be in Acts ii.-For in America also, there are "devout men out of almost every nation under heaven,”-Owhyheans and Chinese, and the Narragansett, and the dwellers in Tuscarora, and in Oneida, and Caughnewagah, in Iroquois and Russia, Malay, and India, in the Marquesas, and in the parts of the South Sea about New Zealand, and strangers from Europe, Jews and Portuguese, Greeks and Indians-" We do hear them speak in our tongue the wonderful works of God." And will not these go every where preaching the gospel? Will they not diffuse the language, the literature, the liberty, the religion of America? And will not these things build up a free, industrious, moral community, wherever they go? Come then, ye admirers of whatever is American, act in consistency with this admiration-aid the feeble-handed, in sending these blessings where they are not." DONATIONS TO RELIGIOUS AND CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. In the month of April. To the United Domestic Missionary Society, $1156.96. To the American Education Society, $367.10. To the American Bible Society, $8,783.85. To the American Board, $5,022.39. To the United Foreign Missionary Society, $3,794.33. To the Trustees of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church for the Theological Seminary at Princeton, $3,826.45. ORDINATIONS AND INSTALLATIONS. APRIL 3.-The Rev. DANIEL L. B. GOODWIN, and the Rev. THOMAS S. W. Morт, admitted to the order of Deacons, at Boston, by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Griswold. April 13.-The Rev. JOHN D. HART as Pastor of the Baptist Church in Southwick, Mass. Sermons by the Rev. Mr. Barrett of West-Springfield, and the Rev. Asahel Morse of Suffield. April 13.-The Rev. DAVID M'KINNEY at the borough of Erie. Sermon by the Rev. Timothy Alden. April 14.—The Rev. GILES DOOLITTLE, over the societies of Northeast and Ripley, N. Y. Sermon by the Rev. Johnston Eaton. April 20.-The Rev. NATHAN HARNED Over the four congregations of the county of Warren, N. Y. Sermon by the Rev. Samuel Tait. April 20.-The Rev. ROSWELL HAWKES as colleague pastor of the church in Cummington. Sermon by the Rev. President Humphrey. April 27.-The Rev. JOHN MITCHELMORE, by the Presbytery of New-Brunswick, to the work of the ministry. Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Boggs. PORTER April 27.-The Rev. over the Congregational Church in Somersworth, N. H. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Webster. April 28.-The Rev. MARTIN CHENEY, at Olneyville, R. I. as an evangelist. The HENRY BOYNTON Over the Congregational Churches of Sharksborough and Bristol. Sermon by the Rev. J. Hopkins. The Rev. JOHN BLATCHFORD over the United Presbyterian and Congregational Churches of Stillwater, N. Y. The Rev. WILLIAM JAMES, of Albany was ordained at the same time. Rev. C. C. P. CROSBY Over the Baptist Church in West Boylston. Sermon by the Rev. Daniel Sharp, of Boston. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. M. should have been informed sometime since, that we declined publishing his communication chiefly because the subject had undergone an extensive discussion in the newspapers. OCCIDENS will appear in our next number. B. V. A. will probably appear, but is reserved for further consideration. The author of a certain very long communication had better, perhaps, make a book of it, and publish it by subscription. Considering the abstruseness of the subject and the extent of the discussion, we think our readers might prefer purchasing it in boards to having it stitched in a miscellany. We are by no means averse to thorough discussion; but it requires a subject of no common interest, and no ordinary ability in the treatment of it, to tempt a reader through twenty or thirty pages of a magazine. Several other communications, not noticed in the above list, will be attended to hereafter. Several communications addressed to the C. S. have not been taken from the post-office. They come closely sealed up in strong wrapping paper, and marked so many sheets, paid. They are not delivered to us however, without being 'weighed in the balances,' the thick wrapper with the rest, and marked with an additional postage in some instances of between one and two dollars. It is a charitable supposition that the authors of these papers are ignorant that the law puts a difference between printed sheets and manuscripts. We acknowledge the receipt of an assortment of books for children and young persons" lately published by Messrs. Whipple & Lawrence, of Salem. We cheerfully quote the opinion of several intelligent and pious mothers, who have read them, that they are well calculated to interest and profit those for whom they are designed. BIOGRAPAICAL SKETCH OF THE LATE ing him again, some years after, he DR. SMALLEY. The following memoir was found among the manuscripts of one who, like him of whom he speaks, now rests from his labours. It was written by the colleague and successor of Dr. Smalley, the Rev. NEWTON SKINNER, who died suddenly on the last of March, deeply lamented by his people. JOHN SMALLEY was born in the north part of Lebanon, now Columbia, Conn., June 4th, 1734. His parents, Benjamin and Mary Smalley, were both professors of religion, and sustained a good Christian character-his mother in particular was considered eminently pious. From her frequent conversations, he received early religious impressions; but what affected his mind more than all that she said, was, his discovering her, as he entered a certain apartment of the house, in a kneeling posture, engaged, as he supposed, in prayer. This made an impression upon his mind which was never erased; and when, not long before his death, he gave the writer this account, it was apparently with the most tender emotions of filial gratitude-the greatness of the man seemed for the time to be lost in the affection of the child. He also received very deep religious impressions under the preaching of Mr. Whitefield, whom he beard for the first time when he was about six years of age. Upon hearVOL. VII.-No. 7. 43 was still astonished at his eloquence; but he was led to fear that his manner was better calculated to move the natural passions, than to produce a zeal according to knowledge. He observed, however, that the preaching of Mr. Whitefield gave a reality to things invisible, which he had not before seen. In the judgment of his own minister, the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, he became pious at a very early period; but this he himself always thought doubtful; and he did not build his hope upon what he then experienced. As it is both pleasant and instructive to trace the progress of great minds from the first dawnings of intellect to their highest attainments, it is to be regretted that this cannot his early advantages little is now be done in the present instance. Qf known; but they were, probably, no greater than what were then com mon. When young, he was put out to learn one of the mechanic arts, which he might have pursued through life, had not God designed him for a different employment, and found for him a gratuitous instructor in Mr. Wheelock. That benevolent man, perceiving him to be a youth of fair promise, kindly offered to assist him in his preparatory studies; and at the age of eighteen be became a member of Yale Col The founder of Moore's school in Lebanon, which was removed to Hanover, New-Hampshire, and afterwards became Dartmouth College, of which he was the first president, lege. While an undergraduate, his father lost his little property, by being surety for others, and he would have been constrained to relinquish his studies, if Mr. Stiles, who was then a tutor,* had not become bis patron and benefactor. But pecuniary embarrassments did not form the only, nor the least subject of his anxiety, during that period. His mind was extremely exercised upon the things of religion, especially upon the doctrines of human depravity, election, and moral inability. He was led to reflect that he had taken the doctrines of the gospel upon trust; and, on examination, he discovered the opposition of his heart. After passing through a scene of darkness and distress, he perceived, by reading President Edwards on the Will, the distinction between natural and moral inability, saw the doctrines of the gospel clearly, and felt, as he thought, a spirit of reconciliation to them. He then experienced what he used to call his second conversion. From that time he dated an enduring hope of an interest in Christ, and while he was in college made a public profession of religion. Soon after taking his first degree in 1756, he commenced the study of theology, under the direction of that faithful and distinguished servapt of Christ, the Rev. Dr. Bellamy, of Bethlem, Conn.; and shortly after receiving license he was invited to preach in the second society in Berlin, Conn. He was ordained, and a church was organized in the same society, April 19th, 1758. Thus in the providence of God, he received the charge of the church in that place in its very infancy, and he nourished it with "the sincere milk of the word.” He married Miss Sarah Garnsey, daughter of Peter and AnnaGarnsey, of Bethlem, in 1764; by whom he had six children,-all daughters. * Afterwards President One died in infancy, another in childhood, and a third at the age of 38; the other three are still living. His wife, who was hopefully and professedly pious, died in 1808, in the 68th year of her age. The first sermons which he had published, were two on natural ability and moral inability, in 1769. These sermons were read with interest, and they probably cast more light upon the subject, than any other publication at that time.* Not much has been said or written since upon the same subjects which may not be found in them; and they may still be read with profit by every humble inquirer after truth. Though the author was then but thirty-five years of age, the sermons exhibit a maturity, depth, and richness of thought, and a clearness and force of reasoning, seldom surpassed by persons of any age. The subjects were then comparatively new, and they were much less understood than they are at present; but the author of these sermons appears to have been complete master of his subjects, and he presents them in so clear a light that they may easily be comprehended. To the change which took place about that time, in this part of the country, from semiarminian to sentiments more strictly Calvinistic and evangelical, he probably contributed as much as any other man. The next event which deserves to be noticed, as being intimately connected with his labours among the people of his charge, was the special attention to religion which took place among them in 1784. The attention continued almost a year, and about forty were hopefully made subjects of divine grace. Of that number, the greater part have fallen asleep, but some remain to this time, and still remember with gratitude the unwearied They were republished in England, translated also, and published in the Ger man language. |