the Missionary work, in which I am now engaged. Through the usual recommendations, I accompanied the Rev. W. Moister to the annual District-Meeting, held in this island (St. Vincent's) in February, 1842. My examination having met the approval of the District, was recommended and accepted by the Committee and Conference the same year. It will doubtless be in your remembrance, that when I offered myself as a candidate for the Mission work, I confined my offer to the West Indies, from an idea that family circumstances might require my presence on some occasion in Grenada. Africa, hapless, benighted Africa, was, however, at that time in the eye of my mind; and had I seen my way as clearly as I now do, I would most cheerfully have offered my services as a standard-bearer to those deserts of superstition and idolatry: I trust, however, that it is not too late. I have only served two years in the Mission-field. I have youth, health, and vigour on my side, and no matrimonial engagement. I place myself at your disposal, and with a trumpet-voice cry across the vast Atlantic, " Here am I, send me." My principal reasons for offering myself as a Missionary for Western Africa, are the following: 1. I have read occasionally with feelings of sorrow of the mortality of our Missionaries in Africa. Being a native of the West Indies, and inured to a tropical climate, I am convinced in my own mind, humanly speaking, that I could much better endure the wasting effects of an African climate than any European. 2. I have frequently conversed with my respected Superintendent in reference to Africa; I have read the heart-stirring, soul-animating communications of the indefatigable Freeman; and from various other sources can form a tolerable idea of the labours, privations, and prowess requisite for the African Mission work; and, after deliberate and mature consideration, I cheerfully and voluntarily offer my humble services for that field of Missionary enterprise. I have endeavoured simply to unfold to you the naked sentiments of my heart. The acceptance or rejection of the offer I have here made lies with you. I now respectfully request that a reply at the Committee's earliest convenience may be forwarded, should my proposal meet their concurrence or otherwise. It would be wholly unnecessary, did our space allow, to enlarge upon the preceding documents and communications. No comment which we could make upon the facts they contain, illustrative of the prosperous state, the opening prospects, and the growing demands, of our Missions in Guinea, would equal the eloquence with which the facts themselves speak to the understandings and hearts of the friends and supporters of the Society. It will surely be strongly felt by our readers, that there exists a necessity for one combined and vigorous effort, on the part of our Ministers and people, in every place, for the purpose of raising the income of the now closing year (1844) to an amount which will enable the Committee to meet the claims of the Missions specially brought under review in this Number of the "Notices," and to maintain all our other important Missions in various parts of the world. It is our earnest hope that united and strenuous exertions, equal to the present emergency, will be immediately made in all our Circuits. Intimation has been given already, that a list of special subscriptions has been commenced, towards raising the sum of £7,935. Os. 3d.; being the excess of the expenditure at the Gold-Coast, Ashanti, Badagry, and other parts of Guinea, for the years 1841, 1842, and 1843. A selection of liberal donations, already received for this object, has also been noticed at page 1058 of the present Number. It is only requisite further to add, that, by the time when the satisfactory winding up of the present year's accounts shall have taken place, the special subscription-list, which is in preparation, will be duly laid before our friends; and that, although we are anxious that nothing should interfere with the exertions for augmenting the regular and ordinary income of the current year, should any of our friends be disposed at once to add their names to the special list of contributions before it be published, their subscriptions will be very thankfully received. INDEX ΤΟ VOL. XXIII. OF THE THIRD SERIES. N. B.-Besides the particular references to each Article, the following Africa, early plans for the benefit of,, Apuleius, remarks Alleine, Rev. Joseph, letter by, on fa- America, British. Establishment of the America, United States of. Character Andover, "Sketch" of Congregational- Anniversaries held in London in May, Anthem, national, controversy respecting Apollonius Tyanaus, compared with VOL. XXIII. Third Series. Ass" of, 567 Aquinas, Thomas, account of the treatise Arnauld, Abbess, remarkable statement Ashley, Lord, opposition of, to the Go- Augustine, the Monk, mission of, to Avignon, picture of the pontifical court Bailey, Mrs., visit of, to the death-bed Baptist writers, eminent, mentioned, 480 Baxter, Rev. Richard, quoted, on pas- Belgium, cathedral services in, 923 988 4 E Bernard, St., quoted, 42-referred to, 136 Bible Societies, condemnation of, by the Booth, Rev. William O., recollections by, Brackenbury, Richard, Esq., of As- Braithwaite, Rev. John, visit of, to the British constitution, excellence of the, "British Magazine," extract from the, Brown, Rev. Charles J., sermon by, on Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress," histo- Calvinism, controversy on, in Exeter, Candlish, Dr., attack upon, in the "Record," noticed, 117 Caribbs, early attempt to educate the, Caswell, Mr. James, communication Catechising, family, letter on, 550 quoted, 475-observations on, 573 Chalcedon, Bishop of, note respecting Chalmers, Dr., sermon of, referred to, 16 Chapel Fund, General, Report of the, Chapel opened at Thurles in Ireland, 325 Chappell, Mr. George R., speech of, in Charles I., secret dealings of, with Po- Charles II., opinion of, concerning Po- Christianity, early writers against, 470, 567-essay on the truth, power, and OBSERVATIONS Opening of Parliament: Irish Affairs: ation of Texas to the United States: The Queen: Visit of Louis-Philippe : "Christian Observer," extract from the, "Churchman's Monthly Review," ex- Church Missionary Society, origin of Church of England, divisions in the, Church, Presbyterian, in England, pro- Ciocci, Raffaele, narrative by, of iniqui- ties and barbarities practised at Rome mentioned, 117; the wish fulfilled, Factory Bill, Parliamentary debate on Faith working by love, remarks on, 279 Fennel, Rev. John, mentioned, 104 Clerical immorality, case of, referred to, Fisk, Rev. George, narrative by, of a vi- Coates, Mr. Alexander, mentioned, 3 Coke, Dr., agency of, in the establish- Colosseum, of Rome, present state of the, Copleston, Mr., of St. Alban's, men- Cottington, Sir Francis, notice of, 830 Crowther, Rev. Jonathan, speech of, in Cudworth, quoted, 576 Curio, Cœlius Secundus, extract from, 35 D'Aubigné's, "Rome and the Reforma- Davies, Rev. John, flagellation of, for Doddridge, Dr., quoted, 573, 720-Mr. Duelling, Parliamentary debate concern- Duff, Dr., shipwreck of, referred to, 916 Edict of Nantes, cruelties perpetrated on Epictetus, notice of Christianity in the Eslake, Mr. John, of Exeter, mentioned, Expediency, remarks on the doctrine of, 315 sit to Rome during the Holy Week, 45 Fletcher, Mrs., mentioned, 89 Foster, Rev. John, Lectures of, reviewed, Foulahs, failure of an intended Mission France, labours and success of Wes- Gambling, suspension of the Acts against, "Gentleman's Magazine," extracts from George IV. and Bishop Porteus, anec- Georgia, foundation of the colony of, 919 Goodman, Bishop, notice of, 832 respect to the Factory Bill, 428, 493 Growth in grace, observations on, 208 Hall, Rev. Robert, mentioned, 485 Hampstead Heath, intended enclosure of, Harris's "Mammon," referred to, 9 Hierocles, treatise of, against Chris- Hill, Thomas, Esq., of Tern-Hall, ex- Hoole's Madras," &c., noticed, 408- Hospitals, remarks on religious instruc- Howe, John, observations by, on God's Hymn-Book, Wesleyan, an important aid | Literature, state of, in the twelfth cen India, extension of British territory in, INTELLIGENCE (Foreign). Germany, state of religion in, 240 Conference in Dublin, 738-in Bir- Fast-day, quarterly, 242, 490, 1037 Shetland, journal of a tour in, 681 Theological Institution, 146 Thurles, opening of a chapel at, 325 Jackson, Dr. Thomas, quoted, 136 Jews, taxation of the, under the law of Jobson, Rev. Frederick J., speech of, in Kalley, Dr., persecution of, in Madeira, 236 Kempis, Thomas à, referred to, 216 Keys, the power of the, what is to be Labruyère, awful reflection of, quoted, 24 Leach, Rev. William, recollections by, tury, 126 Lloyd, Rev. Edward B., death of, men- Lombard, Peter, writings of, noticed, London Missionary Society, early pro Louis-Philippe, visit of, to the Queen, 950 Lumb, Rev. Matthew, imprisonment of, Lutheran Reformation, connexion of Macaulay, Thomas, M. P., detractive Macauley, Zachary, letter of, to Mr. M'Crie's "History of the Reformation Macdonald, Rev. George, speech of, in M'Ilvaine, Bishop, quoted, 135, 138— Marden, the young Curate of, rebuked, Marriott, Mr. Thomas, communications lian, 289, 403-Spanish, 464, 562, 649 Beecroft, Mrs., of Great Budworth, 536 Finley, Miss Rosanna, of Drum- Fowler, Mr. George, of Gunhouse, 265 Harper, Mrs., of Bristol, by the Rev. Hartshorne, Mr. Hiram, of Broseley, |