siding temporarily at Maulmain, during the absence of Mr. Ranney, is suffering from occasional attacks of ague and fever. Mr. Stevens says: "I have resumed the Assistants' Bible-class, consisting of those only who are engaged in preaching. I meet with them only one forenoon in the week, studying a portion of Scripture, and exercising them in preparing plans of sermons. During the month the assistants have met with several interesting cases of inquiry, but no one as yet seems prepared to come forward and join himself to the people of God. One native Christian, a Karen, wife of Moung Thah No, the assistant stationed at Mopoon, has died of cholera. She showed no fear, but, calmly trusting in the death of Christ, expressed a hope of a happy immortality. Baptisms in Sandoway Mission. Letters from Sandoway, of May 20, state that Myat Kyau, one of the ordained Karen preachers, has just returned from a tour in Burmah Proper, and reports that he has had the happiness of baptizing 165 converts. We hope to receive, by the mail for the present month, full particulars of this interesting accession to the churches. Bassa mission. Mr. Vonbrunn, writing under date of Bexley, July 1, states that he and his associates are doing all that is in their power to carry on the mission. Their schools are regularly kept up, and also the preaching of the gospel, but they express the hope that some laborers will be sent from this country to aid them in their toils. EMBARKATION OF MISSIONARIES. Rev. William Ashmore, recently pastor of the Baptist church, Hamilton, O., and his wife, Mrs. Martha Ann Sanderson Ashmore, of Brookline, Mass., sailed from New York, for Bangkok, Siam, in the ship Channing, Capt. Johnson, on Saturday, Aug. 17. Rev. E. E. L. Taylor, of Brooklyn, N. Y., made appropriate remarks and offered prayer on the occasion. Mr. Ashmore is appointed to take charge of the Chinese department of the Siam mission, which has been some time vacant. BOXES OF CLOTHING, &c., Received from Jan. 1, to Aug. 26, 1850. Maine. South Berwick, Friends at Lebanon, per Mrs. L. G. Clarke, for African Missions, a box of clothing. Bangor, Sab. sch. Mission Soc., 1st Baptist ch., per M. B. Chamberlain, Sec., for Nowgong Orphan school, a box of clothing, cash for a globe, Massachusetts. Newburyport, Society for benefit of youth in Africa, per Mrs. R. B. Medbury, for African Mission, a bundle of clothing, do. Green St. Female Mission Soc., per Mrs. M. B. Crocker, for African Mission, a box of clothing, New Bedford, Ladies' Miss. Soc., Wm. St. Baptist ch., per Mrs. G.. Richmond, Sec., for T. S. Ranney, a box of clothing, (shirts,) Woburn, Domestic Miss. Soc., of 1st Baptist ch., for Rev. J. G. Pratt, Shawanoe Mission, a box of clothing, Boston, from Mrs. Baldwin, for Rev. L. Jewett, a parcel, sundries, do. Baldwin Place Baptist ch., per Mrs. J. Tucker, for Mrs. Benjamin, Tavoy, a box of clothing, Worcester, a box of clothing, per Rev. A. H. Danforth, no advice. Salem, Sab. school of 1st Baptist ch., for Delaware Station, Shawanoe, a box of clothing, E. Brookfield, Ladies Benev. Ass., of Baptist ch. and soc., per L. A. Stevens, Sec., for Rev. F. Barker, Shawanoe, a barrel of clothing, Barre, Female Benev. Society, for Rev. F. Barker, a barrel of clothing, Rhode Island. Providence, 1st Bap. ch. and cong. for Rev. A. N. Arnold, a box of clothing, Newport, Ladies of 2d Baptist ch. and Soc., per W. Stevens, for Miss Sakes, at Gowahatti, a box of clothing, Connecticut. Suffield, Ladies of 2d Baptist ch., for Rev. A. N. Arnold, Greece, a box of school-books, &c. Mansfield, Ladies' Benevolent Soc. of Baptist ch. and Soc., per Rev. A. S. Lovell, for the Karen Miss. under Mr. Vinton, a box of clothing, New London, Mrs. H. E. Thompson, for Maulmain Mission, 3 boxes medicine, New York. City, per Mrs. E. Kelly, for Rev. E. L. Abbott, a box of clothing, 27.21 3.50 25.00 12.50 75.25 4.00 70.00 33.62 14.50 156.97 35.00 54.17 220.00 80.00 63.03 100.00 Erratum. In the report for a box of clothing or Susan F. Colby, acknowledged in the Dec. No. of the Mag. for New London, Conn., read New London, N. H. Female Miss. Society, to New York. Marion, ch. 15; New York city, Amity St. ch., a lady, 100; Otsego Asso., 35.50; Mohawk River Asso., 19; do. for Karen Mission, 85 cts.; Ten Mile River, ch. 15 Pennsylvania. Peters Creek, ch. Chesnut Hill, ch. 10; Miss. Soc. for German Miss., 33.16; Lexington, Rachel Morris, 5; Philadelphia, "a friend of the cause," 5; Rev. Wm. Parker, 4; Sarah E. Edmonds, for Bur. Miss. 10; Lower Dublin, ch. 38.75; Fem. For. Miss. Soc. 45.66; Balligomingo, ch., mon. con., 20.28;. Holmesburg, ch. for Bur. Miss. 7.46; per Rev. B. R. Loxley, 13.00 185.35 179.31 192.31 GERMANY. LETTER OF MR. LEHMANN. The Prussian Association. Berlin, Aug. 14, 1850.-We had agreed to hold the annual session of our Prussian Association at Elbing this year, as you will recollect. Our dear br. Köbner, of Hamburg, who was sent, on our invitation, from the Board of Managers of our general Mission there, arrived at Berlin on the 28th of June, and we had the privilege on the same evening of baptizing six dear disciples of Jesus into his death. This was one of the great occasions for praise and joy, yet so full of recollections, while a large assembly stood by the water side. We then spent a most heavenly Sabbath, br. Köbner preaching to us an excellent sermon. the sweet communion of saints. A repeated trip to Frauendorf and up to the Julow brought back to us in spirit our dear br. Parker and all our beloved brethren in America. Again we had a sweet foretaste of our eternal home. Yes, "Here thy blessed people see Much of heaven and much of Thee." The same evening we started for Elbing, and after a very tedious journey of two nights and days in a mail coach, arrived there on Saturday, the 6th of July. On our journey we had much opportunity of doing good by tracts and testimonies of Christ. We found that more of our brethren had flocked together at Elbing than we had anticipa ted. For as br. Gulzau, of Stettin, and myself were alone expected, from our western churches, we feared a scanty meeting; yet the eastern churches were more fully represented, and twentythree names were put down as representatives of the various flocks. The Sabbath was an occasion of great bless The following week we proceeded through Neustadt, Eberswalde, and Tornow, (where a little church had been formed, but which found it expedient to disband itself as a separate church, and to become a branch of the church at Berlin,) to Stettin, where a large meeting. Br. Niemetz, of Allenstein, preaching of the church took place in the evening, and br. Köbner preached to the people. Here we enjoyed much in ed in the morning a very clear and fervent sermon, which endeared him to us at once. I had not heard him before, but thought of him at once as a good servant of Christ if his services could be secured entirely. In the afternoon br. Gulzau preached a sermon, in his accustomed manner as a good soldier of Christ,-pointed and straight-forward. The Lord's Supper was administered by br. Köbner. was On Monday, our conference opened. Our dear br. Köbner was called to the chair, and led the transactions with much wisdom and success. A brotherly feeling was breathed throughout, and no unfriendly thing disturbed our peace. The Lord presided. The subjects discussed were various and important; our missions, especially home missions-our relation to the State-ordination-regeneration and baptism--predestination-on regular attendance at meetings-how to deal with Baptists not in connexion with us-ceremony of marriage-temperance causeon singing-Sabbath schools, &c. Perhaps the most important event of this conference was, that we were allowed to hold two public meetings in the vast hall of the Gymnasium (college) on Monday and Tuesday evenings, for which the legal conditions (now much narrowed) were complied with, and notice given in the newspapers, so that a great mass of people crowded the place. Br. Köbner and myself then had very fair opportunities to preach the gospel, and to lay before the public of this important town, our principles, so much misconstrued by our enemies. The principal and most of the professors of the college were among the attentive hearers, while all behaved very decently and not the least interruption disturbed the peace. At the close of our conference, a marriage solemnized by br. Köbner-a lovefeast-and the ordination of our dear br. Niemetz, as co-pastor of the church in Elbing, to be stationed in Allenstein, gave an interesting and impressive conclusion to our transactions, which were very sweet in our recollection. We all felt that the Lord was truly among us. Visit to Stolzenberg. On the 12th, we went in company of our dear br. Weist, of Stolzenberg, and several of his flock, to visit his interesting station. Very pleasant was the journey in our two carriages all the day long, when sometimes we rested by murmuring springs, or stood on high tops of hills commanding a wide view over the "Frishe Haff,” (near the Baltic), or gave out great numbers of tracts to a mostly Catholic population,-the bishop's see in Frauenburg being one of the most splendid, and the palace of his " Hochwürden" built magnificently on a high hill. Thus we arrived late in the evening in Stolzenberg, where our br. Weist labors hard under the bitterest persecution. We had at once a specimen of this. We had scarcely descended from the carriage, when two drunken men assailed us, and would urge us to come with them to the shulze (magistrate), to show our passports, using very abusive language. But we left them unnoticed and entered the house, when no further trouble befell us. The church met at once, and a great crowd thronged a narrow room, the ceiling close over head. Six ministering brethren one after another addressed the meeting, partly out of doors and windows, while a keen draught passed over our perspiring heads. The scene was impressive while with tender words we comforted these dear disciples of Jesus under their affliction. We then viewed by moonlight the new place of wo ship in progress, which bids fair to become a refuge for many a lost sinner, and delivered saint. Br. Weist is diligently at work in erecting this, and encourages the good people to lay on hands with their might. There are 30,000 tiles digged and burned at a considerable distance, and brethren and sisters are engaged to carry them to the spot, unload them and hand them to the masons. Difficulties at Rositten. We had to walk half an hour to get to our night's rest; and after so many days Joyful labors. and nights spent in wakeful exertion, | brethren went to the magistrate with the we hoped to have at least one of rest, letter from Eylau. When he had read but in vain. As early as four o'clock it he declared that no meeting should be we were awakened and told that the held, and that he would oppose it to the brethren at Rositten were just arrived uttermost. I wrote a protest against the with a case of deep concern requiring amptmann's decree, and a notice that instant decision. A meeting had been hereafter regular meetings would be intended there that night. The law now held, beginning with next week. prescribes that notice of such meetings must be given at the police office in Eylau, fourteen English miles distant. The chief magistrate there, the "rentamptmann," has frequently shown his enmity to our cause, and forbidden all meetings in Rositten. On appealing to the government in Königsberg, he had been instructed not to hinder the edification of our brethren. But notwithstanding this, he had rejected a notice of the meeting to-night, and had given our messenger a letter to the magistrate of Rositten, containing, as he said, instructions to prevent our meeting, as he had again appealed to the government. Of course the letter, entrusted strangely to our messenger, must be delivered, but how to deal further was difficult. At last we decided to divide our force of ministering brethren, and scatter at once over the inviting fields around us. To me Rositten was allotted, and I was soon on the way, in company with br. Weist, and the brethren from Rositten. It was resolved that the brethren should go before us and immediately, but quietly, invite as many brethren and sisters as they could; after half an hour we would follow them, hold a meeting in the afternoon (which was not announced nor forbidden), and after the close of it deliver the letter. When we entered the town we found a good congregation already assembled, while, from all sides, behind the houses and hedges, others bent their way towards it. I began the service at once, and preached to the dear people from Luke 12: 32,their countenances expressing hunger and thirst after the precious word of God. Afterwards we had much conversation on the salvation of souls. The meeting being closed, one of the Then a carriage was ready to bring distant, where a meeting could be held me to Schlakainen, a village nine miles in the evening without disturbance. There, in the midst of dear friends, I had the sweetest of all evangelical labor, to comfort an awakened soul anxiously longing for grace,-a widow, who could not believe that there was grace for her; but more and more light sprung up within her, and she was among those baptized a few days after. The meeting here was well attended, and passed without any disturbance. After the service I walked with br. Weist to Creuzburg, a small town, where one of the magistrates, with his wife, fears the Lord. They received and entertained kindly, and we had much conversation us on the wonderful works of the Lord here. In the morning we proceeded on foot, in great heat, for ten miles, and at noon reached Carschellen, the estate of an agricultural gentleman. He called together his servants and tenants and I preached to them,-which seemed to make the greater impression, as they word of God. After a refreshing bath rarely have opportunities to hear the in the lake adjacent, and a walk of ten miles more, we again safely reached Stolzenberg, where our brethren had already returned from their various missions; and much we had to relate to each, other. Interesting meetings at Stolzenberg-Baptisms. It was now necessary to provide a larger place for meeting on the Sabbath. A large barn was quickly made ready for the purpose, a joiner's work bench formed the pulpit, boards and sheaves were arranged for seats, and all promised |