Propagation of the Gospel and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge for the means by which we have brought this building to its present state, without which aid it would have been impossible for us to proceed. I trust we shall be allowed to complete our undertaking in the next summer. New Germany is situated more than twenty miles from Mahone Bay, where is the nearest Church, and about fifty miles from any other. I paid them a visit last week; and in consequence of a severe storm and rapid thaw, encountered considerable difficulties in my way back, the roads being obstructed by large deposits of ice from the neighbouring river, and by trees blown down by the violence of the wind, and some bridges being carried away. I brought my horse over one swollen stream upon the floating remnants of the bridge, consisting of poles only bound together by a crust of ice on the top, through which the horse's feet easily broke. But by the kind aid of some of the settlers I came safely home, thankful to Him who has preserved me in many dangers.

"My pastoral journal gives the following note of the year's duties:

"Miles travelled, two thousand six hundred and fifty; full services, two hundred and thirty-one ; missionary visits, one hundred and eight; pastoral visits, seven hundred and twenty-two; visits to afflicted persons, three hundred and eighty-six. I pray God to pardon all deficiencies, and accept the poor service here mentioned. My baptisms were one hundred and twenty-one; marriages fourteen ; burials twenty-six; communicants, whole number on my list, two hundred and three.

"We have heard with great concern of the inadequacy of the Society's funds to meet the numerous and pressing calls for its aid; and we can only pray the Lord to dispose the hearts of all who love their Church, and care for the souls of others, to come forward and replenish the treasury which has been

so freely emptied for the benefit of Christ's people dispersed abroad throughout the world."

A short extract from the letter of the Bishop of Nova Scotia to a private friend, will show both the psesent flourishing condition of King's College, Windsor, and the large proportion of communicants in the diocese.

"March 2, 1844.

"You will be glad to hear our Church Society is increasing its powers of usefulness, and blessed be God, the Church is increasing here on every side, and enlarging the number and the seriousness of her communicants. Our college is also flourishing, and is preparing some candidates for the ministry, who would do no discredit to any society in Oxford or Cambridge. We are likely to be soon engaged here in preparing for a chapel of ease in this parish, and providing a salary for a second curate. The chapel is to contain a thousand seats, and to have five hundred of these made comfortable and inviting for the poor. The crowds which attend the parish church in the evening, when all the pews are open to the public, has supplied evidence of the large number of persons who may be brought into the Church, if accommodation is provided for them.

"The returns which I have just received from fourteen of my clergy, which is less than a fifth of the whole number, contain a list of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six communicants, which leads me to hope that more than a sixth of our numbers, of every age, are communicants."

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NEW BRUNSWICK.

From the Rev. W. E. Scovil, Missionary at

Kingston.

In the discharge of my duties as a missionary, little has occurred during the past year to

require special remark. While constantly inculcating faith in the merit and mediation of the Divine Redeemer, and preaching in His name repentance for the remission of sins, I find it necessary to preserve unity by insisting also upon the apostolical precept of one Lord, one faith, and one baptism,' in order to put the unwary on their guard against those who, in the ardour to make proselytes, may be said to 'hunt the souls of my people.' Seasonable warning and instruction are the more necessary, because, in the proselyting system which here prevails, so great reliance is placed upon frames, and feelings, and supernatural revelations, that, when once infected, the victim gives little heed to argument or scriptural demonstration. Last summer, hearing that an elderly female, whom I had sometimes seen in my congregation, in a remote part of the parish, was about to join the sect of the Baptists, I paid her a visit, in hopes of being useful, by showing her a more excellent way. To all I said, she thought it a sufficient answer, that she had seen a vision of two Angels with flaxen hair, commanding her to go down into the water. I mention this as an instance of that over-wrought excitement of feelings which some around us teach their followers to call the beginning of conversion. To what an alarming extent this excitement may be carried, was shown in the case of one Shanks, who many years ago was executed in this parish for the murder of his wife. After frequent disputes, unable to bring her to acquiesce in his religious opinions, he struck her to the ground, and then deliberately cut off her head. It is well remembered that in his defence he alleged that he was impelled to do the deed by the Saviour, whom he supposed he saw in a vision; but no sooner was it done, than he knew it to be the work of Satan transformed into an angel of light.

"It is, I am happy to say, of rare occurrence that any member of our communion departs from the faith;' and I pray God that, by His grace, we, and

those around us, may profit by the word of truth which the Church holds forth, and endeavour to adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour by 'living a sober, righteous, and godly life.'"

(From a Quarterly Paper of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.)

AN ADDRESS (OF ST. AUGUSTINE'S) TO THE NEWLY BAPTIZED.

My brethren, my children, ye new shoots of Mother Church, I beseech you by what you have received, to listen to Him who hath called you, who loved you, who sought you out when you were lost, who enlightened you when found; I beseech you not to follow the ways of reprobate men, to whom the name of "faithful" is misapplied: for the question is, not what they are called, but whether they agree with their name. If a man is born, where is his new life? if he is one of the faithful, where is his faith? I hear the name, I would also recognize the thing. Choose ye, for those whom ye will imitate, men who fear God, who enter the Church of God with fear, who listen diligently to God's word, retain it in their memory, ponder it in their hearts, fulfil it in their actions; choose these for your imitation. Let not your hearts say; And where shall we find such as these?' BE SUCH, and you will find such. In every thing, like clings to like: if you live as a reprobate; none but a reprobate will join himself to you. Begin to live well, and you will see how many companions will surround you; on how great a brotherhood you may congratulate yourself. Finally: do you [really] find nothing that you may imitate? [Then] BE YOUR

SELVES WHAT ANOTHER MAY IMITATE.

St. Augustine (Sermon 228). The New Testament was veiled in the Old: the

Old Testament is unveiled in the New.

St. Augustine.

THE PRAISE OF LAZINESS.

[The following translation of a little German poem of Lessing's may amuse some of my readers.] LAZINESS! to thee I'll bring A small poetic offering.

It's ve-ry-hard-oh-dear! oh-dear!
I ne-ver-shall-suc-ceed-I-fear—
But come, I can but do my best,
After toil how sweet is rest!

Happy who by thee inspired,
Ever in unbroken peace—
Oh a-las!-I'm-get-ting-tired,
Here-I-must-ab-ruptly-cease.
Forgive: I cannot sing of thee,
For thou thyself preventest me.

You, my brethren, who from your age, as reckoned from your regeneration, are parents; you I address and exhort you so to live, that you may rejoice, and not perish, with those who imitate you. One who is just born', observes some one or other of the faithful, who is a drunkard: I fear that he will say to himself: Why is this man one of the faithful, and drinks so much ?' He observes another who is a usurer, an unwilling giver, a savage exacter, and says to himself; 'I too will do this. They answer: Thou art now one of the faithful do it not thou art baptized; thou art born again; thy hope is changed, let thy character be changed.' He replies: 'why then are such a one-and such a one among the faithful?' I am unwilling to say more for who could enumerate all of such instances? Therefore, my brethren, when you lead a bad life, you who are already of the faithful, you will render a bad account to God, both of yourselves and of these your imitators.-St. Augustine (Sermon 228).

That is, just baptized.