March, joined the communion of Dr. Romeyn's church. Several of the adults, we confidently hope, are at the Gospel pool, and will in the Lord's good time receive strength to step in. One hundred and thirty-two chapters of Scripture have been committed to memory. Frances B, an African who lives at service, committed 40 of the chapters. A Cent Society has lately been formed for the education and maintenance of a Hindoo girl, to be named after the First Directress of this Institution. SCHOOL NO. 4. The school at present consists of one Superintendent, 18 Teachers, and 104 scholars; of these, 26 are white children, 63 coloured adults, and 15 coloured children. Three women above the age of fifty, who commenced with the alphabet, have committed to memory the whole of Brown's catechism, 52 hymns, and the ten commandments, by spelling every word. Another coloured adult has been received into full communion in the Reformed Dutch Church, and we add with pleasure, that those reported last year walk consistently with their profession. We have three Bible classes: the scholars in two of them have committed to memory 280 chapters in the Old Testament with M'Dowell's questions. The third class has been formed but three months, in which time they have committed 12 chapters, with the questions, hymns, and catechism. The remainder have committed 822 hymns, Brown's, Watts', Historical, and the Shorter Catechisms with proofs. Twenty have been brought from their letters to read in the Bible. SCHOOL NO. 5. Seventy-two scholars have been admitted, 34 now attend regularly, viz. 11 white adults, 10 coloured do. and 13 children. The school is under the direction of one Superintendent and 6 Teachers. Many have advanced from the first lesson to reading in the Bible, and have committed to memory various catechisms, hymns, and portions of Scripture. One coloured girl aged 15 has learned one Psalm and twelve chapters in the New Testament. Besides the books furnished by the Society, we have received 16 catechisms with Scripture proofs, from our pastor, the Rev. R. B. E. McLeod. SCHOOL NO. 6. The number admitted during the last year is 273; 210 are reckoned scholars, viz. 14 white adults, 102 do. children, 40 coloured adults, 54 do. children: 88 have advanced from letters to reading, some to the Bible and Testament, and others to the collective lessons. The progress of the white adults is in general slow; one is worthy of notice: C. M. whose anxiety to acquire knowledge is so great, that since the 15th of February she has lived at service with no other remuneration than the privilege of attending Sunday School. She has attended three months, and now begins to read. 9462 texts of Scripture, and 8451 answers in catechism, have been committed to memory; also Watts' Divine Songs, Hymns, and Scripture cards; 16 of our pupils have subscribed for Bibles, 13 for Prayer-Books, and 6 for Hymn Books. Two have apparently received spiritual benefit, and after conversation with our beloved Pastor and Spiritual Guide, have been admitted to the communion of the church. Great reason indeed have we, who are attached to this part of the Lord's vineyard, to rejoice for what he has done for us, in inclining the hearts of so many of those, who are engaged in this profitable work, to seek Jesus as their only hope, and rely on his gracious promises for mercy and forgiveness. Seventeen of our teachers, since the commencement of the school, have made a public profession of their faith, and have joined the communion of St. George's church. (To be concluded in our next.) ADDRESS TO YOUTH. I may be addressing some young person, or even some farther advanced in life, who can bring to recollection some interesting transactions, perhaps "The son of parents pass'd into the skies." Recal this morning to your remembrance the scene to which your memory never adverts without exciting peculiar emotions. In that room well known to you-in that spot never to be forgotten by you, there a father sat, and held the word of God. The group was assembled around, and you were one. It was the still and sacred evening of a Sabbath. The truths of Scripture were brought to your remembrance-their importance urged upon your conscience. Then you knelt to pray. What blessings were entreated for you!-how fervently prayed the pious spirit that God would dwell in this house, and, when he was no more, would be the God of his seed after him; do you remember the last time when you so met? do you remember the last family prayer? Perhaps you do, and did not anticipate that it would be so soon succeeded by the long farewell; but you were soon after summoned to attend him on his dying bed-you received the dying charge, and closed the eyes to which the spirit ceased to give animation. My dear friend, whosoever you are, you must meet that affectionate parent again-you will meet him before the throne of the Judge. What account will you have to give? What improvement have you made of privileges such as but few have possessed? Perhaps, my young friends, some of you are adverting to those domestic duties, not as the scenes of former, but of present days. Hapру is your lot! the "lines have fallen to you in pleasant places. You have parents, like Zacharias and Elizabeth, "walking in all the ordinances of the Lord blameless.". Together you come "to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise" and together you return to make the truths you have heard the topics of conversation, and the occasions of prayer. Happy family! far more dignified and blessed than if you resided in a palace whence God was excluded. But have you ever adverted to the consequences which these privileges involve? How will you stand in the day of account? Will you then be a family united or separated? Will you then see your parent near ot afar off? Will you reside for ever together, or for ever apart -wide as the extremes of heaven and hell ? [Youth's Mag DEATH OF OBOOKIAH. Extract of a letter from a lady in Connecticut to her friend in Boston, dated Feb. 21st. I have just been to Cornwall, to attend the funeral of the lamented Obookiah. He is not to return to Owyhee; but God has taken him to heaven. He was ripening for the latter, while we thought it was for a mission to the heathen. But we trust his death is to be made a mean of as great a sum of good as a long life of usefulness might have been. His deportment in sickness and death has been of the most marked kind. Perhaps he came here to teach Christians how to die. His heart, however, has constantly burned with an ardent desire to return to Owyhee, and on the day of his death, (though through the whole of it heaven seemed open to his view,) he several times burst into tears, remembering his native island and perishing brethren, to whom he had hoped to carry the news of the Gospel. Still he continually thought that God will do right, and that it was better for him to depart and be with Christ. He sent a note the Sabbath previous to his death, "beseeching that he might be spared to carry the Gospel to Owyhee, but that whether he lived or died God might be glorified." He addressed a great deal of conversation to his brethren, and took leave of them all with the greatest affection and composure. Thomas was his bosom companion; they expected to go home together; they were continually praying and weeping together, and felt as though they could not be separated. "You will not go with me to Owyhee now," said Thomas to him, "and I cannot go alone." Henry put his hand before his eyes, and appeared in prayer; he then looked at Thomas, and both burst into tears. When he was dying, the other youths hung upon each other's necks, being overwhelmed with grief; but at that moment Thomas was raised above it, and did not shed a tear; he seemed transported with heavenly views. Henry departed in perfect peace; he had no strug. gles; and the attendants said the smile on his countenance surpassed any thing they had seen. I saw the heathen youths stand around to take leave of the remains of their beloved companion; I was struck with the dignity and affliction they manifested. I told Thomas he must not be discouraged, for perhaps God meant to do all that by him which we expected of Henry. "Yes, (said he,) I wish to stay and do God's work; but I shall not see Henry in these streets again; there he walks in the streets of the New Jerusalem!" On entering the burying-ground the anthem was sung, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. Some of the people said it seemed almost as though the earth shook with the presence of God. Mr. Dwight made a short address at the grave. Mr. Beecher's sermon upon the occasion was upon the Providence of God, "Clouds and darkness are round about him, but justice and judgment are the habitation of his throne." Some memorandums of Henry's conversation were read, and the whole scene was one of the most interesting a people are ever called to witness. Mr. Beecher remarked, that if the churches of NewEngland had chartered a ship to go to Owyhee and bring Obookiah that he might be converted and die as he has, they would be amply recompensed." Who will say he has done too much for him?-who would wish to take back the prayers he has offered for him, the alms he has given, or rob heaven of its joy at his conversion and triumphant entry, or Henry of his crown?"" [Bost. Recorder. On last Saturday afternoon, (28th March,) we had the pleasure of witnessing about eighty children assembled in Mr. Crowell's schoolroom in Southwark, for the purpose of forming themselves into a "Male" and a "Female Juvenile Society auxiliary to the Female Domestic Missionary Society of Philadelphia." The Rev. Dr. Ely being present by invitation, the meeting was opened by him with prayer and a short and appropriate address; after which, agreeably to constitutions which had been previously subscribed to by those present, each association proceeded to elect their officers. The constitutions of these Societies require that each member contribute 50 cents a year in quarterly payments of 12 1-2 cents; and the money when collected be paid to the Treasurer of the Society to which these are auxiliary. Their annual meetings, when their report will be read and their officers chosen, is statedly on the last Saturday in March; and their meetings for worship, at which it is expected the parent Society's Missionary will attend, are to be held (unitedly) on the last Saturdays in April, June, August, October, December, and February. [Rel. Rem. A society composed of about 12 young ladies, in Connecticut, have met for two years on Saturday afternoons in summer, and one evening in a week in winter, to work in aid of missionary purposes. They have been able to sell their work, and have received for the various articles the sum of seventy dollars, exclusive of the commissions which they paid to a shopkeeper for transacting their business. This industry is worthy at least of imitation. [Bost. Recorder. It appears by statements with regard to a revival of religion which a few months past took place in Brandon, Vt. that about two hundred persons are believed to have been subjects of the renovating power of the Holy Spirit, 94 of whom were added to the Congregational, and the remainder principally to the Methodist, and Baptist churches in that place. [Rel. Rem. FOR THE CHRISTIAN HERALD. A general revival in my congregations of Hackensack and Schraalenburgh, New-Jersey, which, under the smiles of the great Bishop of Souls, progressed for several years, and afterwards became stationary, had finally suffered considerable declension. Our churches on the Lord's day and private lectures continued, indeed, to be well attended; and we still enjoyed the droppings of the sanctuary in a few solitary cases of hopeful conversion ;, but that life and fervour of religion which had for such a length of time gladdened the hearts of the pious, had abated; professors became relaxed in their wonted zeal, and in a measure conformable to the world; praying societies, though continued, yet apparently languished. But in the beginning of last autumn things began to put on a more encouraging appearance. We witnessed an increasing attention, and the people often deeply affected under sermons and lectures. Several instances of serious conviction and earnest inquiry have occurred during the winter. The work has not been rapid. At present, however, it seems to spread. Towards the latter part of March, and a few days previous to our communion, twenty-three were admitted-a much larger number than usual. All gave evidences of a saving change. Since that period several more have become seriously impressed. Thus we hope the day-spring from on high is again about to visit us. -Blessed be the name of the Lord. The above statement appears in the Herald at the request of brethren in the city of New-York, whose names could not be mentioned by my informant, said to be members of Dr. Romeyn's congregation; doubtless friends to experimental godliness, who, I trust, will. unite their prayers with those of their humble servant, SOLOMON FRÆLIGH. Schraalenburgh, April 7, 1818. SERMON OF THE REV. DR. THOMAS CHALMERS, Delivered in Glasgow, Scotland, on the day of the funeral of H. R. H. THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES. An event which blighted the fondest, the proudest hopes of a nation, by suddenly crumbling into dust the fairest idol of its desires respecting the succession to its throne, afforded too important a lesson on the uncertain tenure of earthly possessions, and of the vanity of human expectations, not to be improved by those whose duty it is to apply such signal visitations of Divine Providence to the consciences of the people by whom they are experienced. Among the numerous discourses delivered on that affecting occasion, which have been published, that of the learned, eloquent, and pious Pastor of the Tron Church in Glasgow appears to hold a dis |