Jacksonville, Il. Rev. T. Baldwin, Millbury, Mass., a Lady, to const. Rev. Osgood Herrick Life Member, through Mass. Miss. Soc., 8.50 30 00 750 3530 14 30 00 Newark, N. J., 1st Presb. ch., per C. J. Graham, Esq., Willliam Rankin, Life Member, 50; Israel W. Clark, 30; P. H. Porter, 5; J. Baldwin, 10; W. Hedges, 3; E. Holloway, 1; A. Beach, 10; Wm. Tuttle, 5; J. Ives, 1'; A. Johnson, 1; W. Gathwaite, 1; J. Baldwin, 10; C. J. Graham, 5; A. Nichols, 5; A. Linn, 2; R. Cornwall, 1; R. Crawford, 1; J. W. Poineer, 1; E. P. Poineer, 1; J. C. Hornblower, 5; J. H. Robinson, 5; L. A. Smith, 1; C. Baldwin, 2; John Taylor, 10; P. Jacobus, 10; C. J. Jacobus, 1; James Bruen, 5; J. Nichols, 5; A. Stites, 1; O. H. Boyden, 1; C. Parkburst, 1; I. D. Coe, 1; M. B. Coe, 1; S. Coe, 1; E. Nichols, 1; R. Nichols, 1; C. W. Bruen, 3; A. W. Corey, 3; W. Nichols, 1; A. J. Nichols, 1; J. I. Baldwin, 1; 8. H. Pierson, 1; Sundries cash, 12 50, 221 50 New-Hampshire Miss. Soc., reported by Treasurer, New-Haven, Ct., East. Dist. Aux. Assoc., Do. Sab. Sch. Fem. Miss. Assoc., per H. E. Newport, E. Ten., Rev. N. Hood, Do. do. Fem. Assoc., per Mrs. Roosevelt, Do. do. Male Assoc., A. L. Ely, Do. Pearl st., Mon. Con. coll., per A. Ogil vie (including John Baker's subscrip- De. Rutgers-st. ch. Fem. Assoc., per Mrs. Do. Mrs. Montgomery, Do. T. Williston, 2454 17 95 00 23 00 South Hadley Canal Miss. Soc., for the val ley of the Mississippi, through Mass. Miss. Soc., Townsend, Mass., of the estate of Mr. Samuel Stone, by gentlemen appointed to distribute the same, through Mass. Miss. Soc. Troy, N. Y., Legacy of D. W. Walker, deceased, per R. D. Silliman, Vermont D. M. S. Home Missionary, 35.00 200 00 50 00 1399 19 45 00 10 00 3.25 123 29 $14,257 45 Notwithstanding the foregoing receipts, the balance due to the Treasurer, on the 9th May, was two thousand five hundred and nine dollars. Received since the Anniversary, May 9th. 62 00 Big Hollow, N. Y., Antrim Hitchcock, Blooming Grove, N. Y., Fem. Miss. Soc., por Rev. J. Arbuckle, 30 00 3. 00 4.00 10 00 51 00 5. 00 44.00 Bottle Hill, N. J., Aux. Soc., Mrs. E. Britton, Treas. 10 00 22.00 50 00 10 00 Cattskill, N. Y. Amos Cornell, Life Mem ber, 30; Rev. T. M. Smith, Life Director, by young men of his Bible class, 100, per Rev. Dr. Porter, 130 00 Clintonville, New Sweden, N. Y., Fem. D. M. S., 25 00 17 50 60 00 3 00 5.00 2.00 70 00 Cummington, Mass., Fem. Miss. Soc., in part to const. Rev. R. Hawkes Life Member, 16 00 Fryeburg, Me., John Bradley, Esq. and Rev. Carlton Hurd, Life Members, Goshen, N. Y. Mrs. Catharine Wells, per Rev. Dr. Fisk, 21.50 77 12 2.00 1 00 30.00 Grass Creek, cong., Granville Co. N. C., per Rev. S. L. Graham, Great Barrington, Mass. Miss S. Kellogg, Greenwich, Ct., Young Men's Miss. Soc., per S. Mead, Pres't., Hampshire Miss. Soc., per E. Williams, Tr., 522 22; Granby West Parish, to const. Mrs. C. K. Moody Life Member, 30; Hadley, to const. Rev. William Porter, Deac. William Dickinson, and Natha niel Coolidge, jun., Life Members, 90; Granby East Parish, to const. Rev. Joseph Knight Life Member, 30, Harford, Pa., Three Young Ladies, each 1, per Rev. A. Miller, # 672 22 7 00 50 00 Pittsfield, Mass., Lemuel Pomeroy, Life Member, 50 00 Riceborough, Ga., Mrs. Jane Dunwoody, per J. Dunwoody, 5 00 Rising Sun, Ind., Aux. 6, coll. 2 29, per Rev. W. Lewis, 8 29 Rochester, Mich., per Rev. L. Shaw, 198 3.00 Romeo, Mich., per do. 4 28 Salem, N. Y. 1st Presb. ch., per Mr. Free 10 00 Shelter Island, N. Y., coll., per Rev. J. Huatting, Kinderhook, N. Y. Aux. Soc., per S. Mot 50 00 Southbury, Ct., Fem. Cent Soc. South Hadley, Mass., 1st Soc., to const. Rev. David C. Austin Life Member, through 1 00 2.00 Masa. Miss. Soc., 30 00 Rev. P. C. Hay, 116 50 Homer, N.Y., Juv. Miss. Soc., per Miss Julia M. Hubbard, in full, to constitute Mrs. Lydia H. Keep Life Member, do. Sabbath School under the care of Miss Hubbard, for Sab. Schools in the valley of the Mississippi, 20 00 Newark, N. J., Balance of legacy of Miss Frances Forman, (300 paid in Feb.), of which 100 to constitute Rev. P.C. Hay Life Director, Do. 3d Church, per Rev. B. Dickinson, LutherGoble, 50; Frederick Thomas,50; Hugh M'Dougal, 10; E. Park, 1; J. K. Gardner, 1; A. Reuck, 0 50; John Hayes, 5; R. B. Campfield, 10; a Lady, 0 31; Mrs. Mary Pierson, 1, New-York, Bleecker-st. Assoc., A. Porter, Do. Brick Ch. Assoc., W. L. Stone, Do. Rev. H. Norton, West Bloomfield, Lad. Aux., Cong. Soc., in part to constitute Mrs. Harriet Steele Life Do. Mrs. Gouverneur M. Wilkins, per Mr. Van Rensselaer, Pleasant Valley, N.Y., Mon. Con. coll., 10, Aux. 17 50, 27 50 AMERICAN PASTOR'S JOURNAL, OR, ORIGINAL SKETCHES OF REAL CHARACTERS, CONVERSATIONS, AND STRIKING FACTS, FURNISHED CHIEFLY BY CLERGYMEN. "THE LORD LEADETH THE BLIND." church where there was no minister located. He had not yet visited his friends, from whom he had been absent several months, and his feelings were much opposed to going to the proposed meeting. But as he was without " a charge," and those whom he consulted thought it his duty to go; he finally consented. The time for the meeting arrived. He was one of three that performed nearly all the ministerial labour. The blessing of God attended the means used, and nearly fifty souls were turned from sin to holiness. While in this place, he received an invitation to be present at another four days' meeting, a few miles distant; he went, and, with another, performed nearly all the preaching. A goodly number were hopefully plucked as brands from the burning. A few months succeeding this, he took the fore-front of the hottest battle in conducting a meeting which lasted seven days, at a place [Furnished by a Clergyman.] In looking over past experience, every one can trace the footsteps of an unseen guardian Power, which has stood by him in the time of peril, and gently drawn him aside from the shafts of misfortune or death. He may also perceive that the great Author of his existence has been promoting his good, and the good of others, in a way, and by an instrumentality, of which his mind, at the time, had no conception. He has found the truth of this divine declaration, "The heart of man deviseth his ways, but the Lord directeth || his steps." A few items in the writer's history, of the last twelve months, are dwelt upon with humiliating satisfaction by himself, and may lead others to join with him in adoring that Being who "doeth his pleasure.' At one time, when his arrangements were made to spend a "Com-where ministers, and professors, and munion Sabbath" with his relatives, unbelievers, were nearly all opposed the Lord unexpectedly threw him into to what are called "revivals." the midst of a protracted meeting, ring the meeting, something like fifty where he was called on to take a con- turned to the Lord, several of whom siderable part, and where he had the belonged to families, the heads of pleasure to learn that his labours were which, though professors of religion, blessed to the salvation of souls. were opposed to the meeting. More than two hundred were hopefully converted to God, during and after the meeting. While at this place, the writer was urgently pressed to spend the Sabbath in a neighbouring parish. He very reluctantly, though under a conviction of duty, went. During the day and evening, he thrice attempted a faithful exhibition of divine truth. He was afterwards informed that several souls were brought to see their guilt and danger by that day's preaching; who, after a short period, found peace in believing. While at the former place, he also received a very urgent request to attend a protracted meeting, in a Du He A few months afterwards, as he was about to visit the town where he was brought up, a protracted meeting of another denomination commenced three miles distant; as the stage would not pass till towards evening, he went over to the meeting, to spend part of the day as a hearer among these devoted friends of Jesus. was gratified with an excellent discourse, in the morning, from one of their ministers. After attending the inquiry meeting in the intermission, at the solicitation of the pious elder, in whose church the meeting was held, the writer consented to preach a short sermon to the people. The house convincing them that it was sinful. But she was not more remarkable for sweetness of disposition, than for quickness of apprehension, solidity of judgment, and a tender conscience, which took an alarm at the appearance of the smallest sin. After learning to read, she commenced reading the Bible through in course, and fearing that she should tell an untruth by saying that she had read the Bible was solemn as the house of death, and|| flowing tears evinced the deep anxiety of many a heart. As soon as the discourse was ended, he hurried off, that that he might be in time for the stage; but Divine Providence so directed that the stage came earlier that day than usual; consequently, he failed of that opportunity to go to his friends. The stage passed that way but thrice a week; he must, therefore, remain two days longer. The day but one follow-through, when she had not, she read ing, he again attended in the forenoon, and was again called on to preach the word to the congregation. He had considerable freedom in showing the fallacy of the excuses which sinners make for deferring the subject of religion. An hour and a half were occupied in attempting, by the blessing of God, to sweep away these refuges of lies. During the whole time, the audience gave the most solemn and silent attention. Immediately after the morning service closed, the writer left the place, praying that God would turn many to righteousness through the instrumentality of that meeting. In giving an account of this meeting, and its results, the minister mentions, that in six weeks after it closed, he had baptized more than eighty persons, as the fruits of the meeting. These items of history, showing that "the Lord leadeth the blind in a way that they know not," might be greatly multiplied. But here is enough to humble the short-sighted creature, and to magnify the grace of God. If the writer has been instrumental of saving souls from death, he would desire to ascribe all the glory and praise to God, and consider himself THE LEAST OF ALL SAINTS. THE DEATH BED OF A CHRISTIAN. [Furnished by a Clergyman.] The subject of the following notice was, when very young, remarkably distinguished for sweetness of temper. She was seldom, if ever, known to be in a passion; and whenever she saw others indulging angry passions, would endeavour to soothe their minds, by all that was over each chapter and column, and put a mark at the end of the chapter she had last read. When a very little girl, at school, she manifested great reverence for the Holy Bible. One time, when studying her Bible lesson, something took place in school which rendered her unable to maintain the gravity which she thought becoming, when she laid away her Bible, saying, that it was too sacred a book to read, feeling as she did. The impression made by this, on the mind of one of her little schoolmates, was such as to make her, ever after, feel it to be the word of God; although before she had considered it as no more than any other good book. We shall give a brief notice of her last illness, omitting many other particulars of an interesting character. She had been gradually declining for some time, until, in June, 1830, she became mostly confined to her room. She endured her sufferings with much patience; not a murmuring word escaped her lips. This sweet frame of mind continued, except some short intervals of intervening clouds; and one continuous, benign and heavenly smile seemed to irradiate her pale and deathly countenance. Seeing the matter which she discharged from her lungs, she observed, "This corruption shall put on incorruption ;" and, speaking about her swollen feet, she said, None of these things move me!" Although absorbed in the love of Jesus, her tenderness and affection to her friends was manifested with peculiar strength and ardour. Her father had been dangerously sick; she had in expectation buried him; but seeing his strength returning, and her's constantly wasting, she said to him, nance. She soon became much distressed; her jaws were set for some time; but she again revived. She said "I have come back; I am sorry that I have come back." A friend said to her, "are you not willing to wait God's time?" "O yes," said she, and "Father, I shall reach heaven before you." To her mother she said, "I love you, my dear mother, but love Jesus better. Tell all my dear brothers, I hope to meet them in heaven!" She expressed her love to her absent sister, and said, "O tell her to lay a sure foundation for her hope. Al-wished us to pray God to forgive her. though it is an awful thing to die; yet, 'Jesus can make a dying bed feel as soft as downy pillows are."" Her anxiety for sinners during this important time, was equal perhaps to her love to saints. Some young ladies, with whom she was formerly acquainted, came to see her; she said to them, "I am going, I trust, to heaven are you prepared for death?" Her mother observed to her, that one of them was a professor of religion. "But," said she," is your hope a good one ?" Two nights previous to her death she spent mostly in prayer to God, and broke out, in conclusion, " O, who shall separate us from the love of Christ? No, my dear Jesus, nothing shall separate us." The day before her death, she manifested such placid calmness and tranquillity of soul as plainly evinced that the sting of death was taken away; and joined with her sister in singing. A Christian friend called to see her the day she died; she remarked to her, that her soul was full of glory; that she felt such assurance of an heaven as banished every doubt. As our friend was holding her death-cold feet, she asked, "do you think me dying?" Being told that she could not live long, she replied, "pray that I may have the presence of the Lord in my last moments; and that I may have an easy death." She requested us to sing; being asked, what? she said, "the Dying Pilgrim." We sang "To see a pilgrim as he dies, She appeared filled with joy, and a heavenly smile beamed on her counte She prayed herself; and said, "that she was willing to suffer what God should see fit." Shortly after she said, with a smile, and great elevation of soul, “I am going again; O, Jesus! glory! glory! If this be dying, sweet dying! happy dying! I shall die this day according to my desire. I feel a sweet sinking into the arms of Jesus." And then she cheerfully surrendered her body and soul to him who died to redeem her. Then, giving an affectionate parting kiss to all her friends who were present, she fell sweetly asleep, October 15, 1830. "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints." It was on a lovely Sabbath, in June, 1830, that a village preacher, distinguished for his meekness and self-denial, was prosecuting his official duties in his wanted meek and unobtrusive manner, when his attention was painfully arrested by the gross indecorum of two brothers, both gentlemen of the cloth, belonging to another denomina tion. The subject of the sermon was that interesting passage in Zech. iv. 7. "Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, grace, grace, unto it." The discussion of the latter part of the text seemed in a particular manner to excite the spleen of the "Par nobile fratrum." They were observed to be engaged in hissing and bandying alternately the question, "Who ever heard the like?" Though richly meriting public reproof for their ungracious conduct, they received none. At the close of the sermon, one of them arose, and with very much of a pugi |