Parsonsfield Church and Society, for Burman mission, at Mr. Judson's station, by Rev. P. L. Fogg, Mr. Samuel Jones, Kennebunk, Mr. John Fairfield, Kennebunkport, 10, 1, ,75 2,25 1, 1, Mrs. Dorothy Fall, Kennebunk, 1, 300, The Lincoln, Maine, Baptist Auxiliary Society in aid of Foreign 131,20 Lincoln Female Baptist Missionary Society, in aid of Foreign Missions, per Mrs. Priscilla Prince, Treasurer, 63,85 195,05 Rev. Benjamin Titcomb, Brunswick, Maine, collected at his meetinghouse, on the evening of April 7, at the Union meeting for Foreign Missions, 30, Also from John Oran, Bristol, same 1, per Alfred Richardson, Esq., 31, W. R. Stockbridge, Treasurer of the Cumberland, Maine Baptist Female Burman Society, N. Yarmouth, for educating Burman youth, 21,96 The Virginia Baptist Foreign Mission Society, per A. Thomas, Esq., 600, Richmond African Missionary Society, for African mission at Monrovia, per A. Thomas, Esq., Lake George Baptist Association, for Foreign Missions, Ach sah Barton, Per Alvin Barton, Corresponding Secretary, Deacon Isaac Chapin, of Heath, Massachusetts, for General purposes of missions, Printing the Bible in Burmah, 5, per Mr. Hans Thompson, 25, Charles Street Fem. Sab. School Missonary Society for Burman 5,72 2,50 3, Rev. L. Austin, being contributions from a pious family who are friends to missions-for Burman mission, per Mr. C. D. Fitts, Thomas E. Sawin, being the proceeds of a gold necklace from two aged females in the Baptist Church at Wendell, Female Foreign Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church and Congregation, meeting in Second Street, Philadelphia, to be appropriated as follows: For general purposes of missions, To educate a Burman child, named Robert B. Semple, Salem Bible Translation and Foreign Mission Society, being a do- A sister in the Baptist church in Eastport, being the avails of all Rev. Otis Converse, Treasurer of the Worcester County Baptist The Penobscot Foreign Mission Society, Auxiliary, &c., by Dea. 100, 30, 35,56 165,56 100, 10, 250, 95, Levi Morrell, Treasurer, of Dexter, by the hand of Lysander 'Cutler, Esq., for foreign missions, E. K. Knap, Ohio, being balance of money sent to pay Magazine account, for Burman Bible, A female friend for Burman mission, Deacon E. Fuller, of Ludlow, Massachusetts, for foreign missions, per Rev. L. S. Bolles, Different individuals, being the avails of jewelry, as follows Mrs. Walker, Savoy, Mass., a gold ring, which was the gift of her father, Mrs. R. Howland, of Webster, ear pendants and ring, A friend to Burman mission, per Rev. F. A. Willard, Mr. Brooks, for Burman mission, A friend for Burman mission, the same having been paid him for work done for the missionaries and refunded, The pupils in Miss M. B. R. Kidder's school, in Lynn, Mass., for printing tracts in the Burman language, The Female Karen Education Society, in first Baptist Church, Miss Margaret S. Griffith, Treasurer, The above $100 to be appropriated as follows: Education of a Karen child, named Georgianna Boardman, $30.-Printing and circulating tracts in the Burman language, $70. A female friend in Shelburn, 21,68 100, 5, ,50 A Per.Rev. T. C. Tingley, A sister in Randolph, for Burman mission, being the avails of earknobs and rings, For Burman Bibles and tracts, per Cyrus Alden, Treas. Frank. Ass., poor female in Foxborough, for the Carey Station, 5,50 1, ,95 1,95 1,96 .,30 Mrs. Rebecca Brown, of Douglass, of which 10 cents is a donation from her daughter, Harriet, to aid Mr. Judson in the translation of the Bible into the Burman language, Miss Nabby Loud, of Plainfield, being the avails of a pair of ear- Mrs. Wetherbee, of Federal Street Baptist Church, to be applied as Nathan Sprague, of Templeton, for Burman mission, per Rev. S. Associations of Ladies in Newburyport, for assisting the Bengal 2, 17,50 5, 16,50 Rev. Phineas Bond, being a collection at the monthly church conference at Pembroke, 8, An unknown friend, to aid in the support of a Karen child, named 50, Mrs. Sarah Hunting, Newton, Upper Falls, for Burman mission, per 2,50 Baptist Female Foreign Missionary Society, at Mount Desert, Maine, for Burman mission, per Mrs. Milliken, 5,06 Mrs. Rice, for Burman mission, per Dr. Sharp, The avails of a gold ring, from Mrs. Gilbert, for Burman mission, Deacon James Fosdick, Treasurer of the Middlesex and Norfolk Of the above, to aid in educating a Burman child, named Maria T. Roxbury, $25. Baptist Church in Townsend, for Burman schools, Utica Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, for the following objects: Burman tracts, 588, 5, Burman schools, 1, By the hand of Professor Ripley, 78,61 9,08 A female friend of Granville, Ohio, in cash, $5-and avails of string of gold beads, $4,08, (Enclosed)" For the Burman mission, by a female friend, who, through the abounding grace of God, has recently been made richly to partake of spiritual gifts." A "friend to missions," for the support of a child at the Valley Towns Ladies of the Baptist Church and Society in Lynn, for Burman tracts, "Kennebec Missionary Society," for general purposes of foreign Burman tracts, per Jos. Fogg, Treas., 80, 250, 18, 318,51 11,24 329,75 400, The Oliver Street, (N. Y.) Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, Young Ladies in Oliver Street Church, to educate an Indian girl, (This sum, together with $400, received at other times from this Female Burman Education Society, of the Sixth St. Baptist Church, (13,94 of which was contributed by the Juv. Miss. Soc., Aux., &c.) Pennsylvania Bap. Miss. Soc., per Rev. Samuel Huggens, Treas., New York, per William Colgate, Esq., as follows: W. Swift, Ohio, received from a friend to missions, who from the appeal to American females, by Rev. A. Judson, sold a necklace, the proceeds, 152,10 400, 3, Miss Ann Beebee, Utica Female Miss. Society, per A. M. Beebee, Baptist Church of Middlefield, N. Y., per Mr. Joshua L. Binney, 31, 318, 5, 170, Rev. John Ellis, Stamford, Connecticut, for foreign missions, Abraham Spear, Treasurer of the Ontario Association for foreign missions, per Mr. William Parker, Deacon J. Nickerson, from the Madison Foreign Miss. Society, A memoir of Mrs. Malcom is prepared, and will appear in the next magazine. "Not unto us, O Lord! not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and thy truth's sake." Psalm cxv. 1. Mrs. M. was the eldest daughter of Mr. ROBERT SHIELDS, of Philadelphia. and eldest grand-daughter of THOMAS SHIELDS, Esq. who for more than fifty years was deacon of the first Baptist church in that city, and, after the organization of the Triennial Convention, was Vice President of its Board.* She was born July 17, 1797, and enjoyed the best advantages of education, which that city afforded. In her youth, she was remarkable for a taste for reading, and a mind of uncommon vigor; but chiefly for the ardor with which she engaged in the amusements and in the pleasures of a numerous gay acquaintance. At this period she kept no diary, and few of her letters are extant. In In the year 1816, a small party was formed to spend a few weeks at the sea shore. Of this party, the young persons, who had never seen each other before, were Miss Shields, another young lady, and Mr. M., at that time a member of Dr. Staughton's church in Philadelphia. The latter took frequent opportunities of conversing with the two young ladies on the subject of religion. a few days, it became apparent that these conversations had produced a deep effect on the mind of Miss S., while to the other, the subject seemed rather to become repulsive; especially after the arrival of a friend, who in a week or two, joined the party. Among other walks in the neighborhood, one led to a retired, private burial-ground. There, on a rude seat, almost daily conversations occurred between the new inquirer, and her young spiritual adviser. Her mind seemed to embrace with avidity the glorious truths of revelation. Surprising as it may seem, they had never before been urged upon her, personally, by any Christian friend. A diary, which she was now persuaded to commence, exhibits in the most ample manner the genuine feelings of evangelical conviction. On returning to the city, the acquaintance thus commenced continued. Miss S. was gradually led to devotional meetings, introduced to serious persons, and persuaded to read religious books. Still, however, the influence of gay acquaintances, and the force of early habit, often led her into her early extravagances, and made it obvious that, notwithstanding all her convictions of See an obituary notice in the American Baptist Magazine for March, 1820, and in Vol. II. of the Latter-Day Luminary, published at Philadelphia. sin, and strenuous resolutions, her heart was not right with God. Her friend, however, continued his occasional visits, and, amid many and long discouragements, kept her attention directed to the considerations of eternity. Gradually, but obviously, she became in the next six or eight months more serious, as well as more enlightened. Her diary proved an important auxiliary to the growth of religious principle. Beside this, an acquaintance with an eminently religious female friend, now ripened into an ardent friendship, which exerted the happiest influence on her heart and character. She thus writes in a letter about that time: "Serious reflection has for the last week engrossed my mind. I am reading Cole's work with a tranquil and divine pleasure, never before experienced by me in the perusal of works of a religious nature. Unto my Heavenly Father I present my most fervent acknowledgments for so disposing my mind, that those things which were once my aversion, are now my desire; and for what once constituted my sole felicity, I now entertain the utmost disgust. The allurements of fashionable pleasure I determine to relinquish, that my mind may not be abstracted, and my affections alienated from God, their only proper object." About eighteen months from the time of her first religious impressions, namely, July 5th, 1818, she was baptized by Dr. STAUGHTON, and became a member of Sansom St. Church, Philadelphia. She thus describes, in a letter to a friend, her emotions on that solemn occasion. After stating her previous fears of being intimidated, she says, "When the hour arrived, I experienced no such emotions. My soul was devoid of rapturous feelings, but exalted joy pervaded every faculty, and every feeling vibrated with celestial love. I exulted, when I stood up with the Dr. during a portion of his address, in thus publicly professing myself a candidate for an eternal world, a child of God, a follower of the blessed Jesus. My happiness was consummate, and I panted to tell those who were present what a precious Saviour I have found, and most ardently I desired again to relate to them what Jesus has done for my soul, and to persuade precious immortal souls, who do not love God, no longer to pursue the fleeting shadowy pleasures of time, when immortal substance awaits them. I regretted that it was not customary for candidates on baptismal occasions to speak to the audience." The emotions at her first participation of the Lord's supper, as described in her diary, were not joyous but aspiring. Usefulness absorbed her desires, and the burden of her prayers was to "implore the omnipotent Spirit of God to impart strength, that I may work while it is day." At her second communion season, her experience was more pleasurable. Under that date she says, "My second communion season approaching, I devoted the week prior, to reading "the Communicant's Spiritual Companion." The attentive perusal of it, united with prayer and meditation, had a most happy effect in preparing my mind for that solemn ordinance. My soul was dissolved in mingled love and gratitude. My tears flowed with very little intermission, and relieved my surcharged heart. I felt sensible that sin was intimately commingled with my nature; but saw before me that solemn ordinance which appeared as "a rainbow set in the clouds," to indicate that I shall not be swept away by the wrath of God. In the language of scripture, I could say, "He brought me into his banqueting house, and his banner over me was love." The most supreme bliss that can be experienced in this terrestrial scene, sinners are deprived of, by being estranged from God. O Lord! thou who hast snatched me as a brand from the burning, for which I desire to present to Thee the oblation of love and gratitude, extend thy pity to the victims of delusion; displace the bandage from their eyes; may thy holy Spirit induce them to seek and love holiness, that they may be saved. My heart throbbed with joys, when, after the celebration of our Lord's supper, the names of twelve candidates were propounded. I rejoice that so many are coming out to enlist under the banner of the Lord. O Lord, may thy churches flourish as a well-watered garden; may they be clothed with "zeal as with a cloak, and converge nearer and nearer each other in the bonds of affection, as they approximate to Thee, their common object." |
