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and four by removal; but three others have begun to meet with us, and I have hope respecting several more. But we want more of the spirit in His mightier and more effectual workings. The Irish mission has cost me much anxiety, much toil, and much suffering; but I hope to see it in a happy state before I die. The Lord send us the promised shower. Yours, affectionately,

W. SORSBY.

GALWAY.

[FROM THE REV. T. SEYMOUR TO

THE SUPERINTENDENT.]

Galway, July 26th, 1852.

Dear Brother,-It has been several times insinuated to me in this place, by persons who should have known better, that our community had no call to send a Missionary to Connaught, for this reason-that he would be more successful elsewhere; but I had not my answer to look for. Jesus Christ, the Church's Head, says; Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature;" and you say I should not come into this part of the world. Whether shall we obey you or Christ? To this there is no reply. Home blows, I find are the best in dealing with this people.

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I am far from regretting that I ever came to Connaught, for I believe it is more honourable to labour in this unparalleled region, which resembles a province of perdition, than in the most polished and splendid town in England.

It may be worth while to record the proceedings of one day in this town, and which may serve as a fair specimen of almost every day in the year. We generally rise about five o'clock in summer, which has grown into a habit. As I am dressing, I read a portion of God's word, which winds up my mind into a spiritual frame. After private prayer, I go out to inhale the atmosphere of Heaven. But as I open my door I find an inscription on it,-"What brought you here, when you should have been in hell;" and an open violation of the law in Deut. XXIII, 13; for our newly painted hall door is intentionally defiled; and as I pass along the streets and roads, I am obliged to restrain respiration from the most noxious effluvia arising from a thousand violations of the same commendable precept. When I get to the extremity of the town, I meet about half a dozen dirty females, each with a milkcan on her head, without shoes or stockings; bonnets on females here are quite out of the question. Advancing onward a little, I meet two or three women rid. ng on horses, into town on straw

saddles, and sometimes racing. When these have passed, I come up to three or four females sitting by the way-side, on the cold ground, begging, just in view of the poor-house; one cries out, "For the sake of God and the blessed Virgin, will you give me a half-penny; for I have eaten nothing for two days." Coming up to another group, they cry; "In honour of God and Mary, give me a half-penny."

As I return home, I go into a field, and read my Bible, and meditate, and pray in the open air. As I come along the streets, half a dozen of old dirty women will accost me for half-pence; when I get into my dwelling, the letter carrier will knock at the door and hand me a letter, perhaps from my brother Thomas, or from my daughter in Lurgan, or from Mr. Baggaly, and such an epistle is a great luxury in this arid desert, and the whole family circle assemble to hear it read; but we are soon interrupted by a loud knock at the door, "three Girls want to see if Miss Seymour can employ them in the daily school." She leaves the literary banquet, and goes down and attends to their requests. After breakfast, we get out our Bibles, and assemble for prayer; but no sooner is the first verse read, than a very respectable rap is heard; and though we have made a law that God's worship shall not be interrupted by any one, we think it better to send one to see who is there, than have our minds agitated all the time. But when one of my daughters looks out, an ill-looking vagabond peeps out of some corner, where he had secreted himself, after mocking us by a false rap; and this is fine sport. After family prayer the girls assemble in the Industrial School; they are not long assembled, when the Protestants and Papists are about to fight about their respective denominations. When this is hushed. up, another comes in, saying, I am going to leave the school, for the Nuns have offered me a good situation; she lays down her hoops and her work. Another comes up with a piece of work torn, for which she is likely to receive no wages, though she has been sewing six weeks at it; when the Bible comes forward to be read, three ask to go into the yard, which cannot be refused; but they design to avoid the reading of the Scriptures. Then more come in, and say, I cannot do this work, and I must go back to the Nunnery, for the Nuns say they will do for us; and away they go. During this annoyance, Mrs. S. and I, go out to visit and invite others. As we enter the popish houses irrespectively, it is a constant warfare. One woman will say. "Is it a Catholic or a Jumper's School;" we say, it is neither, it is an

Industrial school: and both catholics and protestants are in it. The school is not to proselyte; then they mutter in Irish to one another, and rebuke the offender; and she asks pardon in English, and they calm down; and by talking kindly to them they promise to send a girl or two. We then ask them, are there any other girls idle in the street, who would come? They say there is not one in all that neighbourhood, but who is employed by the Nuns, and we need not go to another house; but not believing. them, we go into another, and find five or six idle, who never were with the Nuns; and thus we go on.

As we come home, Mrs. S. says, she is quite in her element working among them-reproving them for bad tempers and bad language, and rendering them some assistance for both soul and body. When we get home, in comes James from school: Miss S. says, my head aches with the stench of those girls and with their contentions; though they are not at all so bad as they were. James comes up and makes his piteous complaint, that a mob of ruffian papists threw stones at him, bespattered him with dirt, and jostled him in the street. On going in search of the rabble, we find the ringleader, and hand him over to the police, who say that he has been with them before; and they take him to the barrack. As my daughters look out of the window, a respectable young man from an academy looks up, and he shouts "Kilhamites," and passes along. A servant maid is sent to our house on business and as she is in the hall, a papist looks in, and says with a loud voice-" and Two are you turned Jumper too?" or three girls come after school hours, and although this is an infraction of the laws of the school, Miss S. is so goodnatured with them that she attends to what they want; and off they go, saying-"As long as you are in Galway we will never leave your school for any one-I don't care what either priests or nuns say." Dinner is served up, and we are in a great glee, rehearsing what we have passed through. Miss S. says "I think we should be lonely, after all, if we had not this school in this unsocial desert." "School," says Mrs. S., "the Connexion need never send a Missionary to this country without a school." But, as we dine with a good conscience, having done a little for the cause of God, a loud knock is heard at the door. One leaves the table; and there is a young boy with a paper in his hand; having read the bills in the windows, and found out my name, he sends up a document, saying that his name is William Seymour, and that he is dying of hunger: though there never was a person called

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Seymour heard of in this place, except two Episcopal ministers, and myself and family. After dinner and a little rest, Miss S. proposes that we all go down to the sea shore for health. Off we start; and a whole troop of paupers attack us in the street, shouting, "for the honour of God, give us a penny," and "for the virgin's sake." I speak to some of them, and ask-"Why do you not go to the priests? I am not a priest; you dont belong to me." They reply, "O, sir, I know you are not a priest: the priests will do nothing for us; the protestants are better than they. "And why do you stay with them ?" One cries, "I'll turn for one-halfpenny." When we get down to the shore, there we see about fifty idle fishermen and their wives, basking in the sun like sheep, all in one mass of filthy rags. One of them will come out and say "I'll turn for a halfpenny;" others call out "look at the Jumpers." The priests also come out to watch us. Reaching home as the hour draws near, a fidler enters the street; and, sometimes, his music outside, and ours inside, come into contact, to our great annoyance. When he goes off, up comes a beggar to the window, and continues shouting for help, until some one must go out and drive her away. A fellow then comes and gives a polite knock, and runs off, so that I am glad when the service closes, as it is perpetual annoyance. Shutting up the house, we calculate upon having done with perplexities; but, to our astonishment, an unearthly howl comes through the key-hole of the hall door, "for God's sake, and for the honour of God, will you give us something; and this is repeated twenty times, till we go and drive them away. After singing and prayer, we retire to bed, somewhat weary, but, just as we go to sleep, we are aroused by loud knocking at the door. I put out my head at the window, and I must make half a dozen enquiries "what is wanted" (most of what they say being inexplicable.) At last I shut up the window, and from the unexpected alarm, sleep goes away for a time. Then we compose ourselves again; and just as we fall over, an ill-behaved young man, who has been out, as it is reported, in the fields, doing no good, till two o'clock in the morning, comes home, and kicks his door so violently, that we suppose the noise is at our own door: so our sleep departs. Next, we hear low talk under our window; and, when I put out my head, I see, with the moonlight, persons under a coverlet, lying just at my hall door; I run down stairs, and as I turn the key through its wards, up rise a man and a woman, and haste away. On returning to bed, the scenes

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witnessed having driven away sleep, 1 get up and walk in my night.dress on the floor, look out at the moon walking in her brightness: go to prayer; hear the clock strike ten, eleven, twelve, one and two. Then we go to sleep; and, during the next day, we feel sleep overtake us sitting upon our seats, or by the sea side.

When we came to reside in Nun's Island Street, a woman, very near to us, was so outrageously wicked, that we thought we could hardly live beside her; by returning good for evil, she and her family were melted down; her daughter was taken so ill, that her life was despaired of. Mrs. Seymour went to see her, and though a bigoted Romanist, she was so far impressed, as to allow Mrs. S. to pray with her. After her recovery, she and her mother paid us a visit. After some conversation in our drawing room, about the goodness of God in her recovery, Mrs. S. proposed prayer. The young woman fell down upon her knees at once, but the old woman stood on her feet, as papists will not kneel with protestants. Mrs. S. commenced her prayer; when the old matron exclaimed, it is not sin to pray, I'll kneel too.' After prayer, she said, "give me the religion that does not hold a horse-whip over my head-give me the religion that shews me a good example, instead of whipping me." This was a reference to the priest: and this was one of the most ferocious papists in Gal

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Yours, in the Lord Jesus,

J. SEYMOUR.

RESOLUTIONS OF THE LAST ANNUAL MEETING, HELD AT THE LAST CONFERENCE, IN HUDDERSFIELD.

The following resolutions, passed at the general meeting of the society, held on the evenings of Whit Monday and Tuesday last, but omitted in the Missionary Report, the written copy having been mislaid and lost, are given from the original draft, which has been subsequently found. Resolved:

First, That this meeting, humbly and devoutly acknowledging, that whatever good is done, the Lord doeth it; and more especially, that the success of the gospel in the salvation of souls is not by human wisdom or power, but by the agency of the Divine Spirit, would express its warmest gratitude to God for the special outpouring of his Spirit with which he has so graciously visited some of our

mission stations in Ireland and Canada, during the past year; and not only joins in present supplication, but pledges itself to make it matter of earnest and persevering prayer throughout the coming year, that God would vouchsafe the like blessing to all our stations and home circuits, and to all the churches of his saints making each and all centres of purity and peace, and successful instruments in accomplishing the salvation of a lost world.

Second,―That, impressed with the importance of establishing Christian ordinances, and a Christian ministry, in the various colonies now so rapidly forming in various parts of the British dominions, this meeting pledges itself to increased exertions in support of the funds of the mission, and will rejoice to learn that the Committee have thus been enabled to extend the sphere of its operations and usefulness.

Third, That this meeting learns with high satisfaction, the success with which it has pleased God to crown our home missionary labours in the populous and rapidly enlarging town of Bolton; and, assured that other fields of usefulness, equally necessitous, and at the same time, equally hopeful, are presented in the other manufacturing and mercantile towns of Great Britain, it would express its confident hope, that an effort will be made during the year, to open, at least, one other home missionary station, and earnestly prays that it may be crowned with equal

success.

Fourth, That while this meeting would express its gratitude to God, whose influence extends to all hearts, and to all circumstances, for the increased liberality with which the funds of the mission are supported by some of our esteemed christian friends; it also tenders its thanks to them, together with the collectors and the general and local committees, for their valuable services, and hopes that, during the ensuing year, both increased activity will be displayed in the means employed to secure an augmentation of our missionary income, especially in the establishment and extension of juvenile societies; and that the examples of zeal and liberality, so nobly set, will be imitated through all the borders of our Zion.

Fifth, That the best thanks of this meeting are due, and are hereby given to Benjamin Fowler, Esq., for the valuable services which he has rendered to the society as general treasurer, and for the able and efficient manner in which he has conducted the business of this meeting.