we subtract the 72 churches in British | Memoir of Mrs. A. H. Judson, with a America, there will appear to be nearly History of the American Baptist Mission in Burmah. four thousand Baptist churches in the United States; viz. 3,974! These charches, too, are so much on the increase, that about 10,000 members were added to them in one year, and about 200 new churches had been formed. But as the writer of the "Notions" proceeds to say— On the first appearance of this most interesting work, we expressed our conviction that it would have an extensive circulation, but the event has far exceeded our anticipations. Scarcely six months have elapsed since its publication, and we understand that no less "The most important point that is proved than ten thousand copies have been sold, by the condition of this country, is the fact and new editions are called for both that religion can and does exist, as well in America and in this country. Such without as with the aid of Government. The an unusually extensive and rapid deexperiment has been tried here for two cen-mand renders it wholly superfluous to taries, and it is completely successful. So add another word of recommendation. far from competition weakening, it increases its influence, by keeping zeal alive. You Greatly shall we rejoice in learning that may be inclined to ask if such a rivalry does the perusal has been honoured to infuse, not lead to strife and ill blood? Just the into many a Christian heart, an increascontrary. Each party knows that he is to ed portion of that zeal and devotedness gain or to lose influence, precisely as be ma- to the work of God, which were so nifests the practice of the doctrine he conspicuous in the lamented friend it teaches; and that I apprehend so far as Christianity is concerned, is charity and for- describes. bearance." "It is true, one does not see so many churches in a given number of square miles in America, as in a given number of square 'miles in France or England; nor are there as many people to use them. In order to institute a fair comparison, all things must be considered. In the first place, I am of opinion that the Americans have more places of worship than twelve millions of people in any other country of the globe; and if the peculiar condition of the new States be considered, I believe they have, in point of moral truth, twice as many." We have no doubt but that the wish of the editor will be attained, aud that the "Olive Branch" will be permanently included in our list of useful Annuals. Much more is to be found in this Letter, illustrative of "Religion in a new settlement-the progress of the sects in a parish―reserve of land for the sup- Nothing shall be wanting on our part port of religion-building of a church," to give so unexceptionable a miscellany &c. with some striking and important publicity. We cannot, however, refrain remarks to illustrate the uselessness of an Establishment, either for the purpose of maintaining truth or extending Christianity. from observing, that so fine a set of jewels merits, in our estimation, not a more gaudy, but a more neatly-finished .casket. NEW PUBLICATIONS. 1. Affection's Offering; a Book for all 7. Astronomy; or the Solar System exSeasons: but especially designed as a Christ-plained on Mechanical Principles, and the mas and New Year's Gift, or Birth-day Laws which govern the Distances, the Orbital Present. and Diurnal Motions, and the Inclinations of the Planets clearly demonstrated, with the Law of Light, and a new Theory of Tides, Comets, &c. Demy 8vo. with Sixteen Copper Plates. 8s. boards. This is a neat little volume, containing contributions from several popular Authors, distinguished for their piety and talents, and is calculated to amuse and instruct the rising generation. The design of the Editors in promoting a laudable emulation among the British youth of both sexes, by assigning prizes for the exertion of their intellectual powers is good, and deserving of encouragement; we therefore cordially recommend this little elegant production as a very suitable Christmas present. 2. Just published, adorned with a fine portrait of Professor Carey, and continued monthly at Cardigan, No.37 of " Greal y Bedyddwyr," (The Welsh Baptist Magazine) which is the organ of the Denomination amongst the Welsh Baptists. Edited by Joshua W. Thomas. The above Publication is sent free of carriage to all the agents in the Principality; and those Welsh Baptists, and their adherents, that reside in different parts of England, may obtain it, on application, through the medium of the publishers of the EnglisS Baptist Magazine. N.B. The whole profits accruing from the sale of the Work are given to aged and necessitous Baptist miuistes. 3. The Juvenile Forget Me Not; a Christmas and New Year's Gift, or Birth-day Present for 1829. The Work is beautifully illustrated, and contains contributions from many distinguished Authors, particularly those who have written most successfully for the young. 4. A Funeral Discourse, with a brief Memoir of the late Mrs. Wilson of Denmark Hill, widow of the late Captain Wilson of the Duff. By the Rev. George Clayton. 5. A Grammar of the Egyptian Language, by the Rev. H. Tattam; with a Dictionary of the Ancient Egyptian Language, by the late Dr. Young, in one vol. 8vo. 6. A Lecture on the Lord's Prayer. an Under Graduate. 2s. 8. A Collection of Hymns adapted to Congregational Worship. By William Unwick, Dublin. 9. Good's Forty-five Lectures on our Lord's Sermon on the Mount. 10. The Cabinet Lawyer; including the Statutes of the 10 Geo. IV. and legal Decisions to the close of the Summer Assizes, presenting in a popular and comprehensive form, a complete Digest of the Civil, Criminal, and Constitutional Law of England as now administered. In the Press. A second edition, 2 vols. 8vo. of "Essays on the Principles of Morality, and on the Private and Political Rights and Obligations of Mankind." By Jonathan Dymond. Samuel Drew, Editor of the Imperial Magazine, begs leave to announce. that, as the Copy-right of his "Original Essay on the Immateriality and Immortality of the Human Soul," which has passed through many editions in England and America, will revert to him in the course of the ensuing year-be is revising this work, preparatory to its republication on his own account. The beginning of January will be published, A Defence of the Serampore Mahratta Version of the New Testament, in reply to the Animadversions of an Anonymous Writer in the Asiatic Journal for September 1829; in which the gross misrepresentations of that writer are fully exposed, and the accuracy of the Serampore Version satisfactorily established. By Wil. liam Greenfield. On the first of February will be published, Memorials of Practical Piety, as exemplified in the lives of Miss Marianne Bewzeville and Mrs. Bridget Byles. By By their sister Esther Copley, author of "Cottage Comforts," etc. MR. MILLARD. OBITUARY. him. He did so, snd found peace and The subject of these lines was one of pardon to his soul. "I was hearing, a numerous family, the cares and sup-(said he) one of Mr. Talbot's discourses port of which entailed on his parents, on the Law, its requirements; and the particularly the mother, such anxieties Gospel, its blessings and privileges : for their temporal support, that religion when he gently paused, and laying his formed but a small part of the instruc- hand on his breast, and giving an intertion given them. esting smile, looked around on the assembled multitude, and enquired, "what says the law; do and live: what says the gos Mr. John Millard was for a period of fifty-four years an honourable member of the Baptist Church at Reading, forty-pel; live and do." These words flashed five of which he sustained the office of a deacon, in which he was useful and active. He joined the church during the early part of Mr. Thomas Davis's ministry, and at a period when that good man's labours excited uncommon attention in the town and neighbourhood. Mr. Millard when quite young, was impressed with serious consideration of the value of the soul and of its ultimate destination; he read the Word of God, and pondered over its momentous truths. Still he remained unacquainted with salvation through the blood of Christ. Often has the writer of these lines heard him remark how attentive he was to the outward forms of religion, by a regular attendance at his parish church, and a becoming demeanour in his devotional engagements. These outward "excellencies gained for him the respect and notice of the clergyman, and particularly of a highly respectable family residing in the neighbourhood: and it is more than probable, might have been the means of his worldly prosperity, had not he been one of those whom his divine Lord had determined to bring to Zion. Feeling that these externals in religion were only the body without the soul, his mind was seeking for that heavenly food of which whosoever tasteth he shall never die: and becoming acquainted with a serious individual who attended the ministry of that amiable and excellent man, the Rev. Mr. Talbot, Mr. Millard was invited to hear light and joy into his soul. There he saw that the gospel imparted those holy principles and powerful affections to the soul which produce righteousness of conduct. The gospel taught him the imperfection and emptiness of his own previous cobweb righteousness: that it was "as dross and dung to the excellencies of the knowledge of Christ Jesus his Lord." Removing to London he heard many eminent servants of Christ in that day. The labours of Mr. Toplady were truly blessed to Mr. Millard's soul, in enlightening, establishing, and building him up in heavenly knowledge. After the lapse of about three years he returned to Reading, and having had his mind led to consider the nature and order of a Gospel church, and examining the Word of God thereon, he saw it his duty to avow himself a candidate for believers' baptism, and was baptized and received into the church at Reading, about the year 1773. From this period up to his decease, he felt a strong and lively interest in the happiness and prosperity of that part of his Lord's vineyard. Many personal and relative trials he was visited with during the ensuing years. On his launching into the cares and business of life, affliction overtook him; himself just young in the matrimonial state wes seized with an alarming fever, and then his wife; they lay in their chamber expecting every hour to put a period to their earthly sufferings; but, as regards himself, God was pleased to spare him yet many years for usefulness in his church. To|ing him, he expressed the holy tranpass over many succeeding years of anx- | quillity of his soul in the prospect of ious solicitude in his personal concerns, eternity, saying— he found the gracious realization, and that promise, "that as thy day thy strength shall be." In filling up his place at public worship, so becoming in members of Christian churches, scarcely was his place ever vacant, except when labouring to do good, he was offering some pious reflection to any neighbouring congregation. And without presumption it may be truly said, in taking part in the affairs of the Baptist Church at Reading, her spirituals and her temporals lay near his heart. And so far as his abilities enabled him, he co-operated in every measure for her welfare in a word, this Christian community drew largely on his affection, his zeal, his talents, and his time. "There is a land of pure delight, "On Jordan's stormy banks I stand, Filled with delight my raptured sonl Meditating on the 17th chapter of John's Gospel, his soul seemed imbued with those words in the 24th verse; "Father I will that they also whom He witnessed her ebbings and flow-thou hast given me be with me where ing, with anxious solicitude; his prayers, I am, that they may behold my glory.” his sighs, and his tears, have borne wit-To a young person who stood at his ness to it. For many years it fell to his lot to read the hymns at public wor- consolation religion had for a long sebedside, he expressed the support and ship, and the ardency of his mind, audries of years afforded him. And now, the devotion of his soul was frequently when apparently on his dying bed, when raised to a high degree by exalted com- the world and all its shadowy scenes positions of the illustrious Watts. To were receding, and totally unable to hear him announce the following linesyield him satisfaction and support, he found the hopes and prospects of divine truth opened to his view, which filled his mind with heavenly joy. Of the gospel he could say : "Oh the delight, the heavenly joys, "I love the windows of thy grace, Through which my Lord is seen; And long to meet my Saviour's face Without a glass between." bas excited delight in the minds of many, while joining with him in those sacred and elevating services. "'Tis this that bears my spirits up, On being visited by Mr. Allom of Missenden, he exultingly said, “Oh, my dear Sir, I would not part with the comforts and joys of religion for all the world can give. What would all It is time, however, to draw to the the pleasures of sense yield me now? closing scene of his life. Early in the What solid comfort can this world's year 1827, he was seized with a serious fleeting joys afford to a dying man? inflammatory attack, which to those But the gospel carries us beyond the around was thought to be the announce- boundaries of time;" and then repeating ment of his dissolution, and he felt him- various parts of the above quoted chapself the probability that such would be ter, mentioned the 24th verse as the the issue. To a friend or two on visit-basis of an improvement of his death. To other friends of his family, who will, were heard by those around. To kindly came to see him, he expressed his chamber and his bed he was once his dying testimony to the grace and more confined, for about ten days prior love of his Redeemer, in thus preserv-to his quitting this mortal to put on iming him, and now enabling him to finish mortality. In this his last sickness, he his course with joy. In this happy frame spoke but little. On his son entering he continued for some weeks till the his chamber to enquire how he had force of the disease was abated, and he rested the previous night, he with conwas raised up to spend a few more siderable emotion and eagerness grasped months in this vale of tears, saying, his hand, and said, "Oh, my son, I see, "All the days of my appointed time I see;" and then faultered. But his will I wait till my change come." And eyes were expressively uplifted, and his thus did he calmly and serenely wait, son gently replied, "What, my father, till the heavenly messenger came to do you see?" He whispered, but what translate him to the skies. For a few he expressed could not be understood. weeks previous to his death, it was evi- His daughter-in-law said to him, "Sec dent nature was sinking under infirm- the kind angels at the gate:" he feebly ities: he complained of great debility replied, “Yes, yes.” He breathed his and unusual languor, and considerable last at about nine in the morning of depression of spirits, after saying to his Friday, August 8, 1828. family, "Oh, when will it be over; Oh, may they who now survive, even when will the poor tabernacle be finally at the eleventh hour, be led to seek for taken down, when will the thread of pardon and life, through the blood of life be cut?" And frequently, pious the Lamb; and may his children be enejaculations for grace, patience, and abled to copy him, wherein he was resignation to all his heavenly Father's enabled to copy his divine Lord. INTELLIGENCE. FOREIGN. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AMERICA. Taken from the New York Observer for The Catholic Church.-Who would have believed it? What would the Pilgrims bave done, if they could have looked into the futurity of two centuries? The Roman Catholic church, in New England, with its houses of worship surmounted by the cross, its hours of mass announced by the pealing bell, its bishop, and its nunnery! voted to the vindication of Catholic princi❤ ples? Strange to tell, all these wonders have come to pass. Here, in the capital of Pu ritanic New England, all these may be found. We lifted our eyes in amazement, when a few weeks ago we met with a little paper, called The Catholic Press," published in Hartford, and mueh did we marvel, to learn that in Connecticut, the very citadel of stern Protestantism such a thing should have dared to show itself. But with greater astonishment did we contemplate the title of a full quarto sheet, which fell into our hands last evening. "The Jesnit!" printed in Who would have believed it? What this good city of Boston, and to be issued would the Monks of the fifteenth century weekly. What the friends of Rome or their have said could they have foreseen a Sunday indefatigable bishop expects to accomplish, school, where Catholic children were taught we know not, and have not sufficiently reto read the Bible, and a weekly journal de- covered from our surprise to form any spe |