and guard, accompanied by a suitable who severally addressed the meeting. address, which was read by Mr. Robert Other speakers followed, including the Todd. Mrs. Clark was at the same time Rev. Thos. Michael. Mr. Clark made presented with a beautiful lady's dress- a suitable reply. The chairman and all ing-case, and a handsomely got-up album, the speakers expressed their sorrow and the latter being a gift from her class in regret at losing Mr. Clark. Indignation the Sunday school. After an excellent was also expressed, with which the tea, of which upwards of 250 partook, meeting fully shared, at the unfair statethe Rev. Bryan Dale, M.A., took the ment which had appeared in the papers, chair. The presentations were made by relative to Mr. Clark's resignation having Mr. William Duckett, Mr. William been unanimously accepted, the truth Robinson, and Mr. John Green Noble, being that he left them no alternative. Obituary. WILLIAM BOULTER was born at Thrussington, Leicestershire, Jan. 18, 1789, and died at Rothley, in the same county, June 11, 1864. Though his early days were passed under many disadvantages, yet he was blessed with a pious praying mother. The influence of her good example, pious counsel, and believing prayers, followed him when he left home, and though, for a number of years, he went "in the way of sinners,” these still exercised over him a restraining power. He enlisted in the Leicestershire Militia during the war, and for some time did garrison duty in Ireland; but on the proclamation of peace the force was disbanded, and he went to reside at Rothley with an elder brother, who is still a valued deacon of the General Baptist church there. Being again brought more directly under religious influences, he was led "to consecrate himself to the Lord," and joined the church in 1818. He was shortly afterwards married to Sarah Harrison, a woman of cultivated mind and exemplary piety, and who proved in many ways a help to him. Until he reached mature life he was unable to read, and this fact may serve partly to explain the unwearied interest he took in the education and religious training of the young. He was, for many years, a teacher, and afterwards superintendent of the Sabbath school, and the writer has often heard him endeavour to impress upon the young the great importance of improving their opportunities of learning in their youthful days. Although his principal sphere of action was in the Sabbath school, he was in many ways a useful and valued member of the church. He united to a considerable amount of Mrs. Boulter died, March, 1848. Christian catholicity a fervid zeal for the prosperity of the General Baptist denomination and its institutions, taking especial interest in the Foreign Mission, to which he was a subscriber from its formation; and one of his last public acts, when confined to his room, was to send a donation to that society. He was a man of vigorous and robust constitution, as his appearance indicated; but in the autumn of 1863, “the hand of God" was laid upon him, and he was no more able to mingle in the public worship of the sanctuary, which was to him a great denial, for he "loved the habitation of God's house, and the place where his honour dwelleth." He was seized somewhat suddenly with paralysis, which so affected his speech and brain as frequently to prevent him conversing intelligibly and rationally with his friends; and it seemed to them as if the enemy took advantage of his weakness, and so presented before him his exceeding sinfulness in the sight of God as to some extent to succeed in beclouding his latter days. He was heard continually to express the hope that "God would be merciful to him." There were, however, times in which he was able to express his entire trust and reliance on Christ as his Saviour, and he is doubtless now amongst that number who "have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." Our departed friend was interred in the burial ground connected with the chapel at Rothley, by Mr. Reeve, of Leicester. A considerable number of the scholars and teachers of the Sabbath school joined in the funeral procession. Mr. Reeve sought to improve his death a short time afterwards from the words, "The Master is come and calleth for thee." Notes of the Month. ECCLESIASTICAL. will still hold his post, and perhaps may yet have other followers in his heretical wake.-The Commission which has been appointed on the question of "subscription" have at last agreed to a resolution recommending the omission of the present form, and the substitution of another. Instead of the form prescribed by the Act of Uniformity about " 'unfeigned assent and consent to all and everything in the book intituled the Book of Common Prayer," they suggested this: “I assent to the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion and the Book of Common Prayer, and of ordering of bishops, priests, and deacons. I believe the doctrine of the United Church of England and Ireland as therein set forth to be agreeable to the Word of God; and in public prayer and administration of the sacraments I will use the form prescribed, and none other, except so far as shail be ordered by lawful authority." To our thinking this is even worse than the other. It actually declares baptismal re LYONS Seems to be eminently favoured with Papist tricksters. Not long ago, in a church in that city, a thread was fastened to a dead man's arm, and during a peculiar ceremony was drawn up. The people shouted, "A miracle! A miracle!" The man's garments were torn into fragments and distributed among the crowd. Unfortunately for the priest, his sister saw the trick, and was heretic enough to proclaim it; whereupon, to his no small chagrin, the bishop was obliged to repudiate the whole affair, In the same town a missionary priest, who had come to consecrate the parish church to Mary, arranged a little drama with the curé; but during the ceremony, while the church was crowded with people, the curé, incited by the comicality of his friends device, concealed his face in his handkerchief to hide his laughter, and the missionary priest at once cried out, "See the emotion of your venerable pastor! Hear his sobs! He has no strength left for the consecration !" This time the trick was not dis-generation, and all the other Papist teachcovered, and the people sobbed in sympathy ings of the Prayer Book to be agreeable to with their tender-hearted curé, and the the Word of God! If Evangelicals can church was duly consecrated! Can any swallow that pill they will swallow anyone wonder, in the face of such things, thing. The laity have presented their adthat the men of France look on religion as dress of thanks to the two Archbishops for a sham, and turn sceptics ?-The Estab- their protest against the decision of the lishment has been engrossing an unusual Privy Council on the Essays and Reviews. measure of attention during the past month. The Archbishop of Canterbury seems to Foremost among the causes of this must have done nothing more than repeat the be mentioned the Colenso trial. The here- substance of his reasons for dissent which tical bishop of Natal has been formally de- had already appeared in his pastoral, while posed by a Synod" of South African his "brother" of York affirmed that "the bishops, consisting of the Bishop of Cape Church of England is founded on the Town and two other bishops, one not con- Word of God-and that she has no other nected with the diocese, and Colenso dis- weapons against the sin and evil in the putes the right of the synod to do it. The world." Very fair-spoken; but is it true? knotty point is that the Bishop of Cape If Christ's kingdom be not of this world, Town claims to be independent of the how comes it to pass that this church being Queen, or, as one writer puts it, defies the founded upon it has not only alliance with Queen's jurisdiction. The Privy Council | the State, but is controlled and governed have deferred their judgment. On that in matters of heresy by certain decisions of will depend the future position of all the lawyers? This may seem very clear to colonial episcopate. If the Council decide Establishmentarians; but it puzzles the in favour of Dr. Grey, the other colonial brains of Free Churchmen to understand bishops will immediately claim the same it.-But the chiefest wonder connected liberty. If they decide against him, Colenso with church movements is to find D'Israeli 64 evidently for mere party purposes, trying | children illegitimate: if the consciences of to head a new church faction. In a speech their people were to be disturbed, and the GENERAL. made in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, sacred and hallowed relations of their on the occasion of a meeting of the Society families questioned, then it might become for augmenting poor benefices in the dio- necessary for them, at whatever amount of cese of Oxford, he stept out of his way to personal risk, to take their stand, and to ! have a fling at the Broad Church party, keep it.-We are glad to find that Mr. and to rally to his banners the party of Nevile entirely approves of the petition to whom Drs. Wilberforce and Pusey are the Parliament asking for an enquiry into the joint chieftains. He showed his usual state church which was adopted at the readiness to pick out stinging epithets. Baptist Union, Birmingham. He suggests "Having," he says, speaking of the Broad that three commissioners should be apChurch School, "examined all their writ- pointed, one nominated by the crown, one ings, I believe, without any exception- by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and one whether they consist of fascinating elo- by the Liberation Society; and states that quence, diversified learning, or picturesque great as the evils we already know, they sensibility; or whether you find in them are nothing to what would come out in the crude conclusions of prelates who evidence before such a commission, such appear to me to have commenced their indeed as might "surprise even the most theological studies after they grasped the rabid enemy of the church." The letter is erosier, and who introduce to society their addressed, evidently with his consent, to obsolete discoveries with all the startling Mr. S. Morley. wonder and frank ingenuousness of their own savages; or whether I read the nebulous professors, who appear in their style to have revived chaos, and who, if they could only succeed in obtaining a perpetual study of their writings, would go far to realize the eternal punishment to which they object; lastly, whether it be the provincial arrogance and precipitate self-complacency which flash and glare in an essay or review, I find that the common characteristic of all their writing is this: that their learning is always second-hand." As might be expected, all this was received with shouts of laughter and applause. But perhaps the enthusiasm of the meeting reached its climax when he spoke of the question which was now being placed before society with a glib assurance most astonishing, the question as he aptly put it, whether man is an ape or an angel, and,, turning to the chairman, said, “My lord, I am on the side of the angel."-The Wesleyans are beginning at length to cry out against the insolence of the State Church priests. Dr. Waddy, not long since president of the Conference, recently declared conservatives.-The Queen and Royal in a public meeting in London that he should deeply regret their being driven into a position of active hostility and agitation; but if their dead were to be insulted; if their married people were to be told that they were not married at all, and their THE month has not been fruitful of absorbing topics. Perhaps the chief event would be regarded by some as the evident revival of a genuine desire for parliamentary reform. It is useless, however, to expect anything from the present House of Commons. After going in, on the understanding that reform should be introduced, they have by turns ridiculed and neglected it, and have then declared that the country was quiet, and did not want it. The most outspoken meeting was at Bradford As for the Essex liberals, they really seem to be in Earl Russell's earthly paradise, wherein the people rest, and are thankful. It behoves every liberal and nonconforming elector to weigh well the claims of the men who may ask his suffrage at the next general election. Much will have to be done by the new Parliament, and church questions are sure to claim a large share of attention. Vote for no man who does not make up his mind till he knows the electors. Let us have genuine and not sham liberals, and no more hybrids, called liberal Family are now at Osborn. Newspapers are again loud in their calls for the Queen to cease her "unavailing grief" and take a more prominent part in public affairs, and foremost in this rude and unseemly conduct is the Times. Marriages. October 18, at the Mission chapel, Cuttack, India, by the father of the bride, assisted by the Rev. J. Buckley, George S. Sykes, Esq., of Calcutta, to Harriet Newell, only daughter of the Rev. I. Stubbins. Nov. 16, at George-street Baptist chapel, Hull, by the Rev. L. V. Brown, Edward Reynolds Fidel, of Farrindon, Berks, to Penlope Charlotte Medcalf, of the former place. Nov. 18, at Bethany old Baptist chapel, Neath, by the Rev. C. Williams, Ystalyfera, assisted by the Rev. B. Evans, Meath, M. Evans, Esq., of Cwmturch, to Mrs. Mary Evans, draper, London House, Ystalyfera, the eldest daughter of the Rev. B. Williams, Baptist minister, Penbrey. Nov. 21, at the Baptist chapel, Oldham, by the Rev. William Stokes, pastor, Mr. Edward Thomas Atkinson, to Miss Sarah Fitton, both of Oldham. Nov. 21, at Trinity-road chapel, Halifax, by the Rev. J. Drew, Mr. Edmund Wm. Stradling, to Miss Martha Elizabeth White, both of Halifax. Nov, 29, at Coate chapel, Oxon, by the father of the bride, Richard, eldest son of Mr. John Giles, of Gaunt House, Standlake, to Elizabeth Anna, daughter of the Rev. B. Arthur, of Aston house, near Farringdon. Nov. 29, at Newport Pagnall, Bucks, the Rev. Thomas Owen, Cranfield, Beds, to Mary, widow of the late Rev. James Simmons, of Olney, Bucks. Dec. 3, at Tewkesbury, Mr. Wilkes, to Rev. E. J. Frances, Baptist missionary, Esthralice, eldest daughter of the late Jacmel, Hayti. Dec. 7, at Bewick-street chapel, Newcastle-on-Tyne, by the Rev. W. Walters, Thomas Howard, to Ann Gilchrist, both of Newcastle. Dec. 14, at the Baptist chapel, Ightfield, near Whitchurch, Salop, by the Rev. J. E. Yeadon, Frederick Haigh, Esq., of Quarmby, near Huddersfield, to Septima, third daughter of Mr. E. Ackroyd, of Gildersome. Dec. 15, at Bewick street chapel Newcastle-on-Tyne, by the Rev. W. Walters, John Henderson Hawdon, to Jane Gibson, both of Newcastle. Deaths. Sep. 10, at Virginia Grove, Iowa, U. S., | second two lines of the first hymn for the James Smith, son of the late Mr. James service, "God moves in a mysterious way," Smith, Tollhouse hill, Nottingham, aged 73. &c., and, while they were singing the fourth Oct. 12, at Blue River, Nebraska, U. S., line, he quietly sank down in the pulpit, James Hollingworth, formerly of Mel- breathed a few times, and then expired. bourne, England, aged 73. He was a devoted Sunday school teacher. Oct. 14, at Calcutta, Mrs. M. A. Edmund, widow of Mr. Joseph Edmund, and daughter of the Rev. Felix Carey. Nov. 17, at Millburn Bouse, Renfrew, Jane Smith, relict of the Rev. Ralph Wardlaw, D.D., of Glasgow. Nov. 23, at Gosport, the Rev. Alex. Ewing, M.A., formerly minister of Square chapel, Halifax, and latterly of the Congregational chapel, Gosport, aged seventy. Nov. 28, at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, aged seventy-two, Mr. William Robins, connected with the Baptist cause at the western end of the island fifty years, greatly respected for his consistency by all classes of the inhabitants. Nov. 28, at Green-hill, Evesham, Emma, the beloved wife of the Rev. John Horne, in the twenty-ninth year of age. Dec. 8, at Moorside, Yeadon, the Rev. Joseph Entwisle, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. He had just given out the Dec. 9, suddenly, Martha, the beloved wife of James Smith, Esq., of Wilton Court, Ross, Hertfordshire, aged sixty years. Dec. 9, Mary Eliza, the much loved wife of the Rev. W. D. Elliston, of Leighton Buzzard, after an illness of eight days. Dec. 11, at 14, Paradise place, Hackney, Selina, the wife of the Rev. John Robinson, of Calcutta. Dec. 11, at 3, Tufnell park, West, Rachel Ainsley Aldersey, the beloved wife of Edward White, minister of St. Paul's chapel, Hawley-road, Kentish Town, aged forty three. Dec. 14, at his residence, Belvidere house, Prince's Park, Liverpool, Joseph James Godfrey, Esq., aged seventy-six years. He was the oldest member of the Royal College of Surgeons, the pupil of Abernethy, and the oldest practitioner in Liverpool, as well as the senior deacon of the Baptist chapel, Myrtle-street, Liverpool, of which church the Rev. H. S. Brown is pastor. Missionary Observer. KOOLIN BRAHMINISM. A RECENT issue of the "Friend of India" contains the following notice : "At Union Chapel, Calcutta, there was baptized on Sunday last a convert, Nironjon Makarjee, whose family history strikingly illustrates one of the grossest features of Hindooism. This young man's grandfather, a Koolin brahmin, during his lifetime married sixty wives. His great-grandfather married one hundred and sixty, eleven of whom, girls of eight and nine years old, he married in one day. On his death, eleven of the wives burnt themselves on his funeral pile. Such was Hindooism a hundred years ago." at her father's house once in three or he expects a handsome present for doing four years by her so called husband, but her the honour of calling. Such is Koolin brahminism. BAPTISM AT CUTTACK. LORD'S-day, September 4th, was a day of much interest and holy pleasure at Cuttack. At the morning service Mr. his beloved and only daughter. The Stubbins had the pleasure of baptizing scene was peculiarly interesting, and the remembrance of the hallowed emotions which it awakened will be long cherished with devout thankfulness and joy. It We may add, for the information of may interest our friends to add, that this was the first time since the establishment our readers, that the Koolins are the of the Mission that any of the children highest caste of brahmins, and the mon- of the missionaries had in this country strous polygamy which obtains among publicly professed their Lord and Sathem, bas, as Ward truly observes, "no viour. Two dear young friends were parallel in the history of human de- baptized some years ago in England, one pravity." The reader will be surprised to of whom is now a member of the church know that lads at school have been known here; but our native friends saw on this to possess five or six wives! Some instan- occasion, for the first time, the child of ces of this kind are given in an Educa- one of their teachers buried in the baptional Report of Government six years tismal stream. The scene at the Lord's ago. One lad of this caste, under table in the afternoon was a deeply fifteen years of age, supported, while at affecting one. Mr. Stubbins referred to school, his father and mother by the the desire he had long felt to see that doweries he gained on his marriages! day-a desire which none but a ChrisI have heard of others who have paid tian parent could fully know; and then their school fees and supported them- in a few weighty words, wisely chosen, selves at school by the presents given and spoken with much feeling, he welwhen they visited their wives; for comed, in the name of the Lord Jesus, another feature of the system is, that and in the name of the church, "my many of the wives remain at their daughter, now my sister in Christ," to father's house, and whenever visited by the privileges of Christian fellowship. their husbands the father-in-law is bound As it was ten years on this day since the to give him a present. If the sum late revered Secretary of the Mission offered be not so much as he expects he entered into his rest, "Worthy the Lamb will go away highly displeased, and for sinners slain" was sung after the adrefuse to see the wife. Curious scenes ministration of the Lord's supper. May are sometimes witnessed when very "the children of the kingdom," whether early marriages are contracted. I heard, here or in other lands, be brought into not long since, of a little fellow crying the fold. bitterly for his mother in the midst of the ceremony! Many cases have been mentioned of old men of this caste marrying little girls and never seeing them after the day of the wedding. In On Friday and Saturday, Sep. 9 and 10, other cases, the neglected wife is visited a bazaar for the benefit of the Female C BAZAAR IN THE MISSION |