There have been received into the treasury since the date of the last Report, the following sums, derived from the undermentioned sources:-Donations from Auxiliary Societies, $5,810 89; donations from Bible Societies not auxiliary, $186 44; remittances from Auxiliary Societies, for Bibles, $15,387 8; remittances for Bibles, from Bible Societies not Auxiliary, $1,451 5; donations from Benevolent Societies, $5075; legacies, $140; contributions to constitute ministers Directors for Life, $270; contributions to constitute ministers Members for life, $2,741 24; contributions to constitute other individuals directors for life, $400; life subscriptions from other individuals, $570; annual contributions, $771; contributions by, or on account of, religious and charitable societies, to entitle them to the privileges of Members for life, $30; donations from individuals, $177 50.

(To be continued.)

NEW-YORK ORPHAN ASYLUM SOCIETY.

Summary of the Annual Report for 1820.

Mrs. Sarah Startin, No. 233 Broadway, Treasurer.

It is by no means through designed neglect that we have so long delayed noticing the last Annual Report of the benevolent and respectable Managers of this pleasing and highly useful charity; nor because we are unwilling to lend our feeble assistance to aid the helpless orphan. During fourteen years, "the hand of mercy, thus extended, has dried the tears of three hundred and sixty-seven fatherless and motherless children, upwards of two hundred of whom have been returned to the community, fitted to make useful members of society, with their minds stored with the word of God, which is able to make them wise unto salvation." During the past year, the conduct of the children has merited the approbation of their kind and affectionate guardians, and the "healthful appearance and smiling countenances" of one hundred and thirty-nine children, (the number now on the foundation) "evince that this is a work owned and blessed of the Lord." We are much pleased to observe, that they have been "storing their minds with scripture truth," and that their employment has been appointed in the most judicious manner, especially that of the boys, who have "cultivated the ground, which has yielded all the summer, and a part of the winter, vegetables used in the family."

The receipts, during the year ending April, 1820, from various sources, amounted to $8,434 21, and left bills unpaid to the amount of about $2000; for the discharge of which, and the future support of the establishment, the Board appeal to their fellow-citizens in the following strain:

"What heart does not throb with the delightful anticipation of being the instrument of feeding and clothing these lambs? What parent, surrounded by his smiling offspring, but feels his heart

melt for those whose fathers and mothers have forsaken them, but whom the Lord has taken up? What Christian, while viewing these little ones, but seems to hear the voice of his Redeemer saying, Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' Is there a heart that has not experienced that it is more blessed to give than to receive? Let all eagerly press forward to cast their gifts into the treasury. Freely ye have received, freely give. Blessed is that servant, who when his Lord cometh, he shall find so doing." From a notice annexed to the Report, we make the following extract:"Since the Report was prepared, and arrangements made for the annual meeting, it has pleased the Sovereign Disposer of events, to remove from the Board their beloved secretary, Miss ISABELLA W. OGDEN.

"To an intellect strong, prompt, and persevering, were added a highly cultivated mind, and a discriminating judgment, rarely to be found in one of her years; and a heart replete with piety towards God, and benevolence towards man. During six years that Miss Ogden filled the office of Secretary to this Society, she performed its various duties cheerfully, conscientiously, judiciously. From being actively engaged in these duties, she was called to encounter the last enemy, Death: the summons was unexpected, but it did not find her unprepared. She knew in whom she had believed, and was persuaded that He was able to keep that which she had committed unto Him against that day.'

"She immediately set her house in order took leave of her relations and friends without a tear, and admonished them not to put off preparation for death to a dying hour. Like her Divine Master, she went about doing good, yet she lamented that she had done so little for the glory of God; obeying the precept, "When ye have done all, say, We are unprofitable servants.'

SUMMARY.

Great Osages. We are happy to learn that the United Foreign Missionary Society have determined on sending out another mission to the west. The Great Osages, who live on the Missouri River, have sent to our government, requesting that such an establishment might be furnished for their nation, as has been sent to their brethren on the Arkansas. This request having been communicated by the government to the Board of the United Foreign Missionary Society, the Rev. Dr. Milledoler, was deputed to Washington, to hold a conference and make the necessary arrangements with the head men of the tribe. This conference resulted in a covenant, which was concluded on the 21st of last month, between the three principal chiefs (the chief, the counsellor, and the warrior,) of the Great Osages of the Missouri, on the one part, and the Rev. Dr. P. Milledoler, Foreign

Secretary of the United Foreign Missionary Society, on the other part.

Is there not in this an activity on the part of the heathen, in procuring the blessings of the gospel, to which ancient prophecy points in such words as these?" The Gentiles shall come to thy light." "All they gather themselves together, they come to thee."

The reader will find light thrown upon these passages likewise, in the account of the Sandwich Islands, published in this number. Indeed we anticipate with great assurance and delight a day near at hand, when the reporter of facts concerning the readiness of the heathen to receive the gospel, may say in the highest strain of prophecy "Who are those that fly as a cloud, and as doves to their windows?"

At a meeting of the Synod of the Associate Reformed Church, in May last, the Rev. Dr. PROUDFIT, of Salem, (N. Y.) was appointed an Assistant Professor of Theology in the Seminary connected with that Church. We understand he has accepted of the appointment.

American Bible Society.-The Rev. JAMES MILNOR, D. D. has been elected "Secretary for Foreign Correspondence," in place of the Rev. Dr. Mason, resigned; and the Rev. SELAH S. WOODHULL, of Brooklyn, has been elected "Secretary for Domestic Correspondence," in place of the Rev. Dr. Milnor. Communications for the Secretary of Domestic Correspondence, should be addressed to him at New-York.

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Dedication. The new Presbyterian Church at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, was dedicated to the worship and service of Almighty God, on Sunday, the 23d of last month. The congregation assembled on this interesting occasion was large and respectable. The builing is very neat, and is commodiously situated for the attendance of a large number of persons, on the preaching and ordinances of the gospel.

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The intelligence contained in the letter from Rangoon, which we publish in this number, is deeply interesting. After long and patient labour amid severe trials, the missionaries behold a few of the Burmans submitting to the power of the gospel ;the strongest encouragement to hope that this mighty empire, full of the habitations of cruelly, will soon become a subdued and obedient province of the Prince of Peace. In view of this encouragement to our hope, and of all those promises which should make us hope even against hope," we urge every reader, at the present crisis, to call upon the mighty God.

Whilst our brethren are exerting their utmost efforts, and endangering their lives to make known the gospel, let us not fail to pray that they may be delivered from impending dangers, and be successful in their efforts to make the miserable Burmans the willing and the happy subjects of their Lord and King. And when can we better present our supplications on so interesting a subject than at the approaching monthly concert, which unites the hearts of our Israel in asking blessings for the heathen? When will the ear of the Lord God of Sabaoth be open, if not when the universal church on earth is sending up its united prayer?

VOL. VII.]

Saturday, August 19, 1820.

[No. VIII.

Miscellany.

ON ENTHUSIASM.

An Extract.

WHEN we hear of sudden and unusual impressions made on the mind, it is our duty to investigate and try the spirits of those who relate them; because it is possible for weak minds to be beguiled--and men may be very sincere even in very great errors: yet he who spurns with cold stoical pride, or self-righteous, formal apathy, every relation of people having received instant and soul-refreshing answers to prayer; he who smiles with contempt at the relation of his neighbours, when they tell a tale "of being for a little while almost in glory," while singing the praises of Jehovah, and of receiving repeated assurances of their acceptance in the Beloved, by passages of holy writ and verses of scriptural poetry being brought home in power to the mind-whosoever, I say, smiles with contempt at these relations, is in far greater danger of suffering through the coldness of his heart, and the superabundant caution of his head, than the others are, through the little extra heat of their imaginations, or their occasional warmth of heart and want of judgment. I now speak in reference to persons who really border on enthusiasm.

I must beg leave to express my undisguised sentiments on one glaring feature of the present times as seen in but too many societies of professors of the gospel-I mean that morbid sensibility of criticism, that overstrained and often affected and unscriptural delicacy of taste, which has entirely overstepped all legitimate bounds-and that coldness of heart which is often sheltered under the flattering guise and appellation of judicious proceedings, cautious language, sober-mindedness, &c. &c. Now, every man of common sense will allow, that judicious proceedings, cautious language, and soberness of mind, are really excellent things and very necessary in their place; but it is one of the evils of the age in which we live, that we are from time to time obliged to hear things called by improper names; and to behold men deceive themselves with some phantom or other which obtains current credit for a day, and then is succeeded by another and another. A few years ago, England was the theatre of a mighty work of God on the souls of men. In that great spiritual awakening which then took place, and ran, and had a triumphant course, notwithstanding all opposition, no doubt but there was danger of VOL. VII. 2 F

some good men blending a little enthusiasm with their much heart-felt religion. That danger was seen and pointed out by many an elder now in heaven. The religious world heard the warning, and took the alarm in such a manner, that they have run into quite an opposite extreme; to escape the unpleasant heat of the torrid zone, they have fled to the extremity of the arctic regions. To shun the charge of enthusiasm and fanaticism, the greater part of our professors of the gospel have assumed so cold a manner, so stoical a language, so cautious, or rather suspicious a carriage, that the great world of ungodly men, and the little world of pious characters, can hardly distinguish whether these modern Christians are worshippers of Jehovah or of Baal. We can now scarcely find a hymn-book or a hymn in the English language of a few years' standing, however experimental and spiritual, which has not been garbled, and cut to pieces, and pruned away by our hyper-critics and people of taste, until that simplicity and fervour of devotion, which once charmed the spirits of our predecessors, is nearly or quite expunged. In our day, many professors of the gospel are in reality becoming intent on courting the world. They are determined to shun the cross; they show a melancholy desire to hold well with man, and to get to heaven by a fashionable route, and to be complimented all the way they go, as being the more enlightened members of society-a people of taste and refinement. To taste and refinement I have no objection, while they intrude not into the sanctuary to remove the language of the Bible, or to condemn the effusions of a heart, which, while it glows with love to God, would give it utterance in plain and scriptural language. But, alas! many of our modern professors are too judicious, too refined, too sober-minded, or, in plain words, too cold-hearted, and too little acquainted with that kingdom of God, which is within men, to tolerate the language of the Bible, or to enter on those subjects of conversation, which once were the delight of those who often met together to build each other up in their most holy faith.

SIR,

ANSWER TO "A SLAVE HOLDER."

To the Editor of the Christian Herald.

No benevolent mind can feel uninterested in the remarks of the "Slave Holder" in your last number, and I hope that they will receive that consideration which is due to so momentous a subject, and to the interesting quarter from which they come. Every one, however, must perceive, that the subject is of a very delicate nature, and that both in planning and doing, it requires no ordinary prudence and wisdom, to check or guide the career of zeal. The following remarks, which are suggested by a conversation on this very subject, with an excellent southern gentleman, may be considered as important. CLERICUS.