Now then by the merciful decree of the United States to the District Syn-|| naturally ceases with the occasion ods. Their next meeting was ap- which gave it birth. Nor, adds he, pointed at Johnstown, Montgomery can this be a just subject of comCounty, on the last Saturday in the plaint on your part. As your adopmonth of September next. The ed- tion originated arbitrarily, and for a itor of the New-York Magazine, special end, it may be as arbitrarily closes the notice of the new Synod, withdrawn. That your father Jawith the following language, which cob acquired it by no claim of right, must be gratifying to every true such as that of primogeniture, is evifriend of the Lutheran Church :- dent from the acknowledged fact, "The new Synod is based on the that he was the younger brother, and orthodox principles, which are pro- not the elder: that it was not confessed and inculcated by the great ferred upon him as the reward of body of Lutherans in the United merit is equally evident, because he States; and we trust, with the di- was elected as the founder of God's vine blessing, it will become an ef- people before his birth; consequentficient auxiliary in the work of spread-ly before he had done good or evil. ing the evangelical principles of our venerable church through the United States." We have only to add our es. The benefits of the new covesincere wishes for our brethren, that nant are now offered to all mankind the Lord may support them in this without distinction; and if the Jew undertaking, and grant them from fails to derive his share from the ofthe fulness of his grace, the strength fer, it is only because he obstinately which is requested for its accomplish- perseveres to seek for righteousness ment." where it cannot be found in ceremonies and formal expiations: and not in the mercies of that covenant, which alone is effectual to wash away sin. Let not however the genIt was not however expected that tile be unduly puffed up, nor you this declaration of the final extinc- unnecessarily cast down. If the tion of the Jewish privilege would gentile, escaping the delusion by be received by the parties to whom which you are now misled, is acit is addressed, without some feeling cepted because he throws himself of mortification: the writer accord-upon that mercy which you reject; ingly in this part of the argument let him recollect, that as you have checks himself, in order to introduce fallen from your adoption by your a supposed remonstrance on the part disobedience, so may he also evenof the Israelitish nation. "Can this tually fall, if he look not heedfully be just?" he makes them exclaim; to his ways. Whilst, on the other can that same God, who so solemn- hand, you may be assured, that if ly adopted our forefathers as his the Almighty, at a time when you chosen people, now, after the lapse lay undistinguished among the surof so many ages, withdraw from us rounding nations, chose you of his that special and distinctive protection own free will for his peculiar peowithout our own conduct having ple; much more will he now redone any thing to deserve the for- ceive with open arms if you will feiture Why not?" is St. Paul's continue to be his people, by acceanswer. "The Jewish nation was ding to the gracious terms which he selected for a specific purpose; and now offers to you in common with that purpose being now answered, the rest of mankind." The epistle their adoption as a peculiar people then concludes with a series of beau From Shuttleworth's Sermons. tiful exhortations to the love of God,|| I also know how many of the Holy and to works of mercy, justice, and Scriptures he has left here, I do not purity, the natural consequences of think that so many as the fifth part that religion of the heart and the affections which it was the Apostle's glorious commission to announce. OPERATIONS OF THE CH. MISSION ARY SOCIETY IN LOWER EGYPT. [Concluded from No. 8.] of you are provided with the word of God, except, perhaps, with the Psalms of David the prophet, (the Copts do not call David a king, but always a prophet;) can you prove that it is not so ?" Silence. I went on "Pious people in England have sent me to you: I have made Aug. 3. This morning, shortly af- the long voyage to Egypt, and am ter sun-rise, I proceeded towards Me- now travelling about here, from pure halet el Kebir, which lies two hours love to you, in order to do someinland from here. This is a consid- thing for your immortal souls. Pious erable town, adorned with twenty people have bestowed much money towers of Mahomedan mosques, and in printing for you the word of God the seat of a bey: a great quantity and other books, which I have with of linen and variegated woollen me, ready to give to the poor for clothes are manufactured here; and nothing, and to those who are more in the vicinity there is cultivated moneyed at a very moderate rate. much flax, hemp, and indigo. About Don't you fear God, to treat thus with 100 Coptic families live here, who contempt his holy word? or don't have a pretty large church, to which you remember that on the great day a Kumus and a common priest are of judgment you will be summoned appointed: they have also two schools to give an account of it?" My words each of which is attended by only made some impression. Several from 10 to 15 boys, and both are in blushed, and confessed that they rea most miserable condition. I began ally did not enough revere the word with visiting the church; to the fore of God; but, at the same time pleadyard of which curiosity had already ed their poverty: I therefore preconducted a few Christians, who came sented them with parts of the scripnot, indeed, to hear some good things tures. In the two schools, I found for their immortal souls, but to learn 10 boys able to read, among whom I news about the war; as soon as they distributed copies of the Acts: neiperceived that I was not a living gather of the priests made their apzette, they had nothing more to say pearance; both having hid themselves or ask. The Copts thought to have to avoid being seized by the soldiers. found out from the Apocalypse, and As the bey is at present in want of according to a prophecy of one of people to labor in the field, many of their saints, that in one year and a the meaner ranks among the Copts half the Turkish dominion would be have hid themselves; the soldiers, at its end; and that it would be o- therefore, sought to seize the priests, verthrown by Constantine, the bro- which is a common practice here, ther of the Russian emperor, who in order to force them to procure was to come himself to Egypt, and people to work. I also visited take possession of it. I asked them, the divan, where most of the Chris"Why did none of you yesterday tians who can read and write are to buy the word of God ?" "Because be met with, and where they are emare provided with it, having ployed in the service of the pacha; bought it from the abuna Mueller." but they treated me in a most oppro"I know very well that my friend brious and contemptuous way; I abuna Mueller has been here; but therefore left them. we British and Foreign Bible Society. 211 professors in the University there, applied for Bibles on behalf of the 1700 Catholic Students, of whom TWENTY-SIXTH REPORT Of the British and Foreign Bible Society. As the British and Foreign Bible Society is, to a greater or less ex-600 are studying theology, and many are destitute of the Scriptures from their poverty. In Augsburgh a Bible which 900 Bibles and Testaments Society has recently been formed, to the Wurtemburgh Bible Society cirhave been granted. In eleven months tent, connected with nearly all the principal Bible Societies on the continent of Europe and in other parts of the world, except the United States, a statement of its proceedings will give a tolerable view of what is doing to supply the various Chris-culated 19,596 copies; its total dis tian and Heathen nations of the world with the sacred volume. As brief a view as possible of the labors of the various societies, from which accounts are contained in the report, will be given here. BIBLE SOCIETIES ON THE CONTI NENT OF EUROPE. tributions having been 203,019 copies. Pastor Barth of Moettlingen has received 300 Bibles and 500 Testaments. To other individuals in the German States 51,530 copies have been granted. means many more than the preceding year, and 900 copies have been granted it. The Lausanne Society has distributed since 1827, 2,782 Bibles and 400 Testaments with its own funds; and 1550 copies of both have been granted to it. The Gen Switzerland.-The Basle Society has circulated 5,000 during the year, and 100 more have been distributed Germany. In Elberfield and Hes-by an individual. The total by the se-Cassel, societies have distributed Society is 156,307. The Berne So8,950 Bibles, and 1,100 Testaments. ciety has distributed by its own At Dusseldorf, Cologne, Neuield, and Halle, 55,930 Bibles and Testaments were distributed during the year. At Dresden, 6,897. Bishop Fabricius at Herrnhut issued in half a year 2,110 copies, making 11,314 Bibles and 38,202 Testaments, since 1814, most of which went into Bo-eva Society has effected much in its hemia. The Central Prussian Bible Soci-2,400 francs for French and German ety, with its 44 auxiliaries, has distributed since August, 1814, 450,000 copies of the Sacred Scriptures; and 8,000 copies besides have been grant-bles have been granted. ed to individual agents in Berlin, for distribution. At Wittemburg 1050 Bibles and Testaments have been circulated.Arrangements have been made at Leipzig for printing 5,000 Bibles, and 5,000 Testaments extra, with 2,000 Servian and 5,000 Popish Testaments; which were nearly completed. At Nurembergh 7,436 Bibles and Testaments have been circulated; the Society there having circulated 18,179 since its commence own neighborhood, and contributed Bibles; and is now printing an edition of the New Testament for Greece. To individuals at Neufchatel 150 Bi France. The Paris Society has circulated 5,355 copies during the last year, and 193,751 since its organization. Prof. Kieffer has circulated 38,384 during the year, and three other individuals 1,200; and 22,850 besides have been sent to the depository, on behalf of the British and Foreign Society. The Testament has been printed for the Basque population of France, amounting to 60,000; among whom not a сору the Scriptures could be found. At Munich the friends of the Russia. About 10,960 copies of Society have been supplied with Bibles and Testaments have been 1,100 Bibles and Testaments. The distributed by individuals, principal ment. of ly grants from the British and For-||New Testament in Armeno-Turkish, eign Society. prepared by the American MissionaSweden. The Swedish Bible So-ries, is in press. Also an edition of ciety, from its organization to 11th the whole Bible in Modern Greek is of April 1829, printed 106,687 en- preparing at Corfu. An edition of tire Bibles, and 177,100 Testaments; the New Testament in 10,000 copies making 283,787 copies; while its is also in press. About 12,000 coissues had been 273,518. Grants pies have been circulated in Greece amounting to 300 copies have been during the year. The issues from made, during the year. Smyrna and Constantinople were nearly 9,000. Editions are in press in the Tartar and Constantinople dialects: and 700 Testaments and Psalters have been issued in the Persian. An edition of the Persian Bible has been ordered. Norway. To the Norwegian Bible Society 2,000 copies have been sent, and 50 to an individual. Denmark. To individuals and societies 6,375 copies have been sent. The Sleswig Holstein Society has circulated, since its establishment, India. The Calcutta Society dis80,000. tributed 6,109 copies, and 1,100 have In Lubec, 4516 copies have been been granted them. The Madras Socirculated; in Bremen, 8450; in Os-ciety have distributed 18,952, mostly naburg, 850; to Hamburg, 425 have in Tamul. The edition of the Tesbeen sent; and the Hamburg Society tament was begun with 5,500, and has circulated, since its commence- 5,000 more of Matthew were afterment, 40,857 Bibles, and 5,774 Tes-wards added, and 1,000 or 1,200 taments. The Dantzig Society has circulated 1,143; and since its commencement, 15,105; 200 copies have been granted them. more must be printed, so great had been the demand for the parts first struck off, before the latter part could be put to the press. To Bombay have been sent 900 Gospels and Prussia. The Konigsberg Society Psalters in Persian and Syro-Chalhas circulated many in Lithuanian daic. Some of the Gospels have and Polish, and 590 have been sent also been printed there. In Goojuto it. The Detmold Society has cir-rattee 3,350 copies have been disculated 3,174 copies in all. The tributed. At Colombo 6,000 copies Carlsruhe Society and individuals have been printed in Cingalese. To have circulated 8,439; the Minden Malacca 800 copies have been sent; Society 6,115; 800 Bibles and Tes-to Singapore some, and some to Siam. taments have been sent to Buchwald; At New South Wales and Van Dieand 850 to Buntzlau; 550 to Frau-man's Land 975 copies have been stadt. The Leignitz Society circu- distributed during the year, lated 1,260 copies, and individuals than 6,340 in all. and more 920; the Barth Society 750; Upper The translation into the Tahitian Pomerania Society 1,000; the Stet-language is nearly completed, and tin Society 13,291 in all; the Pots-arrangements are made for printing dant Society 7,500; 1,850 have been it. sent to Warsaw, and other parts of Poland. Italy. An edition of 5,000 copies have been printed in Italian. Mediterranean.-8,950 Bibles and Testaments, in various languages, were sent to the depository at Malta. An edition of 2,500 copies of the The Amharic Bible is also preparing for the press. The Epistles are printed. About 400 copies in various languages were distributed in Egypt; 150 have been sent to Sierra Leone. South America and West Indies.Nearly 500 copies have been sent to Bermuda and Demarara; 115 to investigation, the number of families Berbice; 300 to Antigua; 1,381 to in some counties is found to be unJamaica; 1,000 to Surinam; 300 to expectly great, amounting, in some La Paz; and 201 to Mexico. Mr. instances, to one third of the whole Thompson, who has, for some years population. The number of auxilpast, been very actively engaged in iaries and subordinate societies, and distributing Bibles in the country, their receipts and issues of the Scriphas found his labors so much imped- tures have been much increased dued by the political state of the coun- ring the year. All the various socitry, and by edicts against the circu-eties for promoting morals and relilation of the Scriptures, that he has been induced to return to his native country. The circulation of the Scriptures, both on the continent of Europe and in South America has been very much restricted by the resolution of the Society to distribute no copies of the Bible themselves, and to aid no societies who do distribute copies containing the Apocrypha. In all Papal countries there is a prevailing unwillingness to receive the Bible, without this appendage. Many of the avenues, however, by which the Society formerly caused its blessings to flow into and over the continent of Europe, and which, for a time were shut, are again opening and the objections to receiving the simple Scriptures are diminishing. North American Provinces.-To these Provinces 9,907 Bibles, 2,700 Testaments, and 500 Gospels or other portions of the Scriptures have been sent during the year. These are principally received and distributed by auxiliaries, which made remittances to the present society. To the Missionaries of the United Brethren, 450 copies of the book of Revelation, in Esquimaux, and 100 Greenland Testaments have been sent for the use of the Esquimaux and Greenland converts. The Society has also printed 1,000 copies of the Psalms in Esquimaux. gious knowledge have exerted themselves with great success, in distributing the Bible. In the first report of the Merchant's Seaman's Auxiliary it was stated that 590 ships, having 6149 men on board, of whom 5490 were reported as able to read, were utterly destitute of a copy of the Bible; while last year it is stated that only four vessels, having 47 men on board, were found without the Bible. Ireland. During the year 79,329 Bibles and Testaments have been granted to various societies to be sent into Ireland. Two societies, have, since their organization, sent 812,835 copies of the Scriptures to Ireland. [Mis. Herald. From the Evangelical Luth. Intelligencer. SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE REV. DAVID JACOBS. Seldom has it fallen to the lot of the periodical press, to deplore the death of one, who departed so early from the scene of his future promise, and from whom more could have been expected by our Lutheran Zion, than from the subject of this obituary notice. In him were exhibited, even in early youth, the traits of a noble soul, and the promise of a future greatness; and these expectations he honorably sustained, even until death. Great Britain.-While the Socie- He stands (and especially to those ty has been endeavoring to bless oth- more closely associated with him in er and distant nations with the word life) as a beacon to all, and reminds of life, great exertions have been also us "that it is appointed unto man made to ascertain and supply the once to die, but after this the judgwants of the British people. Upon ment." "Oh! may we die the |