funds on which we can depend, to discharge the demands against us. We expect considerable help from other quarters; but cannot depend upon it with certainty. Perhaps we have done wrong in taking so many scholars. But we cannot with safety diminish our school while our mission-family, exclusive of scholars, is so large. Except two or three that we have promised, we shall not enlarge the school, until we hear from the Board. Disappointment with respect to supplies and help has been a great cause of increasing our expenses, though I have always used the greatest possible exertions to keep them within reasonable bounds; and I am confident, that the temporal concerns of this mission are managed with economy. "I am more and more convinced of the importance of my suggestion, that yourself, or some other agent of the Board, should occasionally visit the western establishments. They must be conducted on a system; and this should be fully understood by the Board." [The letter concludes by expressing, in an earnest and forcibie manner, the importance of having all assistant missionaries good men, affording efficient help, and able to engage cheerfully and constantly in hard labor. A postscript gives information, that Mr. and Mrs. K. were made the joyful parents of a fine son, born Jan. 2d.] REVIVAL OF RELIGION IN WESTFIELD, OHIO. A LETTER from a clergyman' in the northern part of Ohio, to the Editor of the Panoplist, contains the following notice. "The Lord is making some places in this wilderness to bud and blossom as the rose. A revival of religion commenced in Westfield, about the first of December; and thirty or more have already been made the hopeful subjects of divine grace. The work is still going on, and appears to be extending to the neighboring towns. May the Lord increase and spread it greatly. Probably you will be favored with a more particular account. DONATION TO THE PALESTINE MISSION. JUST as this number was about going to press, the Treasurer of the A. B. C. F. M. received the following letter from a venerable lady, the place of whose residence he does not feel at liberty to mention. "DEAR SIR, I ENCLOSE in this letter one hundred dollars for the mission to the Jews. It is what I promised, some years ago, to the first that should go from our happy country, on that important business. The widow's mite will, I hope, be acceptable, as it is given with a sincere desire to promote the happiness and conversion of God's own highly favored people. All our missionaries will prosper, I hope; and be blessed with abundant success. May the spirit of the Highest rest upon them, and upon all, who love our Lord Jesus in sincerity, is the prayer of your affectionate friend." ERRATA. A very unfortunate mistake of the press occurred, in our last number, at the close of the first half sheet, p. 8, by the omission of a few concluding lines of a communication. These lines beginning with the sentence abruptly broken off, at the bottom of p. 8, are as follow: "When fatigued with a toilsome journey, he was as willing to instruct the ignorant woman of Samaria, at the well, as the great assembly, at the feast of the passover. In the boat with fishermen, or on shore amidst fanishing multitudes,his divine compassion was ever ready to relieve their physical wants, and to impart the bread of life to their souls. To his unlimited benevolence, it was no more an effort to associate with the humble and depressed, than to strip the veil of hypocrisy from the boasting Pharisees, or to silence the Jewish teachers in the temple. 2. Y." house; In some copies of our last number, for my house, at the bottom of p. 39, read at my the word at having been pulled out in the course of working off the impression." In our number for December, p. 540, line 23 from top, for treasuries read treosures. P. 54%, line 21 from top, for viscious read vicious. THE condition of one in a foreign country is suited to exercise both the understanding and the affections. The new objects, which attract attention and awaken curiosity, cannot pass before the mind, and leave it in a perfect neutrality towards them; nor can its decisions concerning them be given with indifference. The revolution in his opinions, and often in his character, is sudden, and more perceptible than at any other period of his life. Not only do his sentiments on one or two points receive a new direction, but the change is sometimes so complete, as to give his friends a painful exhibition of the mutability of human opinions, and a warning against reposing confidence in a creature so frail. His estimation even of his own country is essentially altered. The land of his nativity continues more or less dear to him, as his new acquaintances have filled him with pleasure or disgust. Intending in this paper to mention a few of the resemblances between a traveller in foreign lands, and the Christian on earth, I shall offer my remarks as they occur to my present meditation, without much attention to systematic arrangement. 1. The feelings of a stranger. As he is removed from the immediate protection of friends, he may be more needful of the kindness of the community than formerly, but still, he is to expect permanent supplies only from home. His sensibilities are alive to the treatment received in the nation through which he is passing, and indignities offered him inflict a deep wound. He sometimes construcs them into an insult offered his native country in the person of its representative. The impression of his own helplessness, and his distance from the ordinary sources of relief, may increase his circumspection, while it urges him forward in the prosecution of his duties, that he may sooner retreat to a shelter. His transient residence affording little opportunity for the display of his true character, both the kindness and reproaches of the people among whom he passes should be placed often to the account of the ignorance, rather than to the malice of his enemies. Remembering this, he will be less elated with attention, and less dejected by injuries. Customs rendered familiar to the natives by habit, are to him disagreeable and pernicious. If he attempt a compliance with these, he finds how irkVOL. XVI. 13 some is the practice of what has never been learned. With a taste cultivated in different circumstances, and fitted to other objects, he has no relish for the entertainments which he sees grasped by multitudes with keenest appetite. So in the case of the pilgrim on earth. He knows that this is not his home, and is not to receive his affections. The people of the world he is to regard as foreigners--subjects for his kind offices, but not for his imitation. If he perceive a growing attachment to the people of this "strange land," his allegiance to his rightful Sovereign must be brought to its proper place, and seen to be utterly incompatible with serving another master. Far from the Heaven he desires, he must never lose the recollection of his dependence on that gracious Benefactor, who knows his wants, and will supply them. Should no kindred spirit accompany him, his fervent intercessions should be increased, and his aspirations rise more strongly for the society of the just made perfect; if the spark of divine love be once enkindled, and there be no external support for such a pure flame, he learns that he must daily seek at the altar in the appointed method, that it may be rekindled from its native heaven. If persecuted, and a selfish ambition resents the wrong, he is not to forget the high command of his Savior, "Love your enemies." As his principles were not received from the multitude, he is not to look to them for rules of conduct. His hopes centre not below; why then should he break his peace at the distribution of earthly good, as if his soul were nourished by these empty husks, or as if he could look to no other source of consolation? How strongly are impressed on his mind the image of this cloudy region, this dreary abode; with what alacrity should he pass through such a desart land, and with what calm serenity should he prepare for his passing its furthest bounds, and exchanging such a parched desart for those fields of perennial felicity through which flows "the river of the water of life." 2. Although the traveller's visit to distant regions be voluntary, and often undertaken for his own advantage, the sojourning of the Christian on earth is not precisely of this description. His duties relate to the Sovereign, by whom he is sent on this pilgrimage, his fellow-travellers, and himself. To understand these duties, in his hands is placed an ample fund of instruction on all points which can essentially effect his happiness. The chart, in which are drawn the directions for his journey, has hitherto misled no one who honestly consulted it. Its marks are equally suited to all, from whatever quarter they may have come, are changed neither by the revolutions of time, the caprices of opinion, nor the fluctuations of human affairs. This Grand Directory displays its excellence and the wisdom of its Author, in the universal happiness of all who sincerely take it for their only guide. The duties which concern his fellowtravellers, are to occupy a large portion of his thoughts. Their happiness he is bound to seek, their progress to accelerate, and their souls to save. Equally with them is he placed in a post of danger, which must be bravely defended, and relinquished only at the call of his King. Planted on the ground of probation, every step here taken will be remembered in eternity. Each of his enjoyments is a loan, for the use of which he is most solemnly accountable. s. The progress of a traveller is powerfully assisted by the vivid recollection of home. Sometimes, in the midst of his disheartening prospects, a cheering vision of the land of his nativity gives to his footsteps a new energy. Then the dangers before him are overlooked, or seen with a full purpose to meet them with a dauntless resolution; the toils already passed are forgotten. The thousand endearments, which bind him to the spot where dwell his friends, and where he has tasted the pleasures imparted by Providence, fill his memory, and elevate his imagination. Whatever portion of labor remains unaccomplished, with invigorated activity he renews his efforts, and is sustained in the season of severe application, by the hope of a return, and the joys which will attend it. But if the traveller to that "city whose builder and Maker is God," could once open his eyes on the glories to be revealed; if his faculties were for a moment expanded to embrace a conception of those ineffable joys, which "eye hath not seen nor car heard," the veil would be stripped from all illusions by which he is now captivated. "How would a spirit late escap'd from earth, Extending his view forward in the vista of ages, the moments spent on earth would seem as they are-a fleeting dream, and the grandeur of eternity alone would occupy his exclusive attention. Actions of basest deformity, the offspring of selfishness and pride, here alternately practised and applauded by fools,-if once transported across the narrow vale dividing us from a world of retribution, would lose all the tinsel which covers their detestable nature. The most atrocious guilt would be often found veiled under the cloak of fair pretensions; and many a false hearted knave be seen to have varnished over the darkest designs, and to have passed among his fellows for an honorable man, perhaps called a patriot, while recorded in heaven as an incorrigible enemy of God, a destroyer of the souls of men. In the light of that day, revealing the secrets of all hearts, disguises will flee as the shadows of a night. Now, though such a disclosure cannot be made to the eye of flesh, the exercise of a vigorous faith performs a service to the advancing Christian, similar to what might be supposed to follow such an anticipation of the final day. It gives an antepast of the entertainments prepared for the ransomed servants of the Most High. What memory, imagination, and true interest, do for the traveller in a foreign country, faith performs for the pilgrim on earth. One is reminded to hasten his return, that he may again mingle in the society of his family, and partake of their pleasures; the other is taught to quicken his pace, that he may enjoy the society of the blessed, witness the accomplishment of all the divine promises, and exchange hope for fruition. To reap the full advantage of this eminent grace, requires a more entire devotion to its Author than most, who are called Christians, possess The eye of faith must be steadily fixed on the abode of peace and of purity. With such intense activity must the pilgrim's steps be directed towards the end of his course, that inferior objects shall lose their hold on his attention, and to his mind be almost annihilated, while contemplating the "exceeding and eternal weight of glory." The inconveniencies attending any part of a journey never increase. our attachment to the place in which we meet them. We rather remember the region with grief, where the hand of the Lord has been laid heavily upon us. Instead of wishing to visit again the scene of our disasters, we choose to avoid it, even at the expense of other sufferings. But the proper use of all the troubles of this toilsome journey is, to make us look more intensely towards our home. If every day's occurrences forcibly remind us, that we are pilgrims, and have no business for which we should loiter, they may be made to assist us in advancing more eagerly towards the long desired rest. A very large proportion of the events of life, soberly considered, would withdraw our affections from the present state, by placing in a strong light its true character. No man ever loves God, till by grace he is strongly impressed with the unwelcome truth, that the world contains nothing worthy of his love. X. For the Panoplist. ON THE CHRISTIAN HAVING ELEVATED VIEWS, THERE are some comparatively happy hours, in which the soul seems so nearly released from the body, as to be partially emancipated from the bondage of material objects. Time is lost in contemplating the grandeur of eternity; earthly enchantments vanish, the dreams ordinarily indulged flee away, delusions are stripped of their covering, and the hopes of heaven are called to remembrance. The renewed soul discovers its proper business to be pressing forward to the promised rest, where the perfections of God revealed in cloudless lustre fill with joy all the assembly of his devout worshippers. Then the deformities of sin are more fully discovered, and virtue in its loveliness shines through the cloud. In the transport of finding itself so clevated and its powers so delightfully exerted, the almost disencumbered spirit seems to exult in the prospect of what it shall be. With such feelings, the deadly stupor of former days can no longer be endured. The faculties are ready, as originally designed, for the service of the Great Donor, the voice would be attuned to its never ending song-the eye, dropping its scales, would adapt itself to view the ineffable splendors of the new Jerusalem,-the pulsations of the heart accord with the holy sensibilities of the church triumphant, and the whole soul would unite in the anthems of eternity around the throne of the Most High. In moments like these, the world appears what it truly is. Pleasure, falsely so called, is seen to be more trifling than the buzzing of insects. Amusements are forced to drop their mask, and their effects on immortal souls acknowledged to be more destructive than the poisonous wind of the desart on the health of the traveller. Titles of distinction, which men wade through seas of blood to obtain, are confessedly more ridiculous than the sports of children, and their |