party at Halle, shewed upon every occasion both in word and deed, a decided attachment to real Christianity.' His biographer adds :— 'The late pastor Seyd, that faithful servant of God at Wichlinghausen, who was his fellow-student at Halle, used to relate how Rauschenbusch, even at that early time of his life, bore the stamp of one who decidedly knew his own mind, and what it was that he wanted; and how all who knew him respected him greatly on this very account; as also how he often appealed to them in a very significant and serious manner, saying, “We, who shall one day have to convert others, ought to be converted ourselves, and to seek and endeavour above all things to be truly turned to God!". From Halle, he was suddenly called home by his Father, and there his sorrows recommenced. His whole deportment was altered, and much anxiety thus created to his family. He talked but little on scientific subjects, though it was known that he had worked hard at his studies. The consequence was that, 'Pietism, that sad and offensive thing bore the blame of all this alteration in him, and his father, mother, brothers, and sister, sighed at it. He was reproached as having taken up with ignorant, narrow, and one-sided notions; but he bore it all in quietness and confidence.' His case affords a remarkable proof of the delightful truth, that 'the grace of God' when it is once effectually sown in the heart, is not to be eradicated by the prudent admonitions of half-enlightened friends, any more than by the open opposition of avowed enemies. The calm seriousness which marked his present state of mind, is forcibly illustrated by the following brief extract. 'When I returned from Gottingen,' he said, 'many years after, I could talk much because I knew much that was, after all, of no real value; but now I had gained a more solid acquaintance with the relative value of things, and this would not suffer me to talk away as heretofore.' He did not remain long under his parental roof, but accepted another situation as private tutor in the family of General von Landsberg, at Wormshalt. There, though subject to many trials, he shewed much firmness even in little matters. This is evinced by the following incident, which, though apparently trifling, seems well worthy of the regard of that most self-indulgent of all classes of society-the rising generation of youthful students : 'The General would have him take some wine every day at dinner; but he replied that he did not know whether he should hereafter be able to get it in another situation, and therefore refused this indulgence.' Another incident, relative to the same period, conveys a striking proof of the power of conscience even in the case of an ungodly and worldly-minded man: while it exhibits the pleasing growth of religious feeling in the mind of the subject of the Memoir. It is as follows: 'Neither was he out of the reach of ridicule against seriousness in religion. He always remembered that the General, whenever it thundered, made his whole family come in to prayers, and hymn-singing! What a festival (Rauschenbusch would say) was the tempest to me, when my (heavenly) Lord made him feel that he was his Lord also.' This year was the last that he ever gave to merely scientific studies. There was no opening for him-in a ministerial capacity in the province where he at present resided, and he returned home. While his mind laboured, his heart suffered.' Of this we may easily be convinced when we read the following passage:— 'His parents would gladly have retained him near them, but were at a loss how it was to be done, and even doubted how any one could employ him with such notions as he now held. Deeply did it pain him that in the house of his parents there was no end of hearing lamentations upon the change which his mind, manners, and habits had undergone. His good mother thought quite differently afterwards, but at the time was excessively grieved to think that this son, whose noble behaviour had always given her so much pleasure, should have been so sadly led away. Most of all was he grieved that his father perseveringly thwarted every endeavour of the Halle divines to draw him back to that university.' Various situations were proposed to him by his friends at Halle, and amongst others, a plan was suggested, of sending him as a Missionary to India, which he would willingly have acceded to. But his father would not listen to anything of the kind. His family would fain have retained him at Merbeck, to which he was much opposed, saying that 'he should be nothing better than a mere cipher there.' When, however, the family at length perceived that nothing could be done with him, they accepted the proposal of the late eminent pastor Weihe, who invited him to take the office of family-tutor at a nobleman's country seat near Gohfeld in the principality of Minden, though the situation promised him but half the amount of his present salary.' A new era now opens in the life of Rauschenbusch. 'I had now come into Immanuel's land, he used to say, whenever he spoke of this change of residence.' There we must, for the present, bid adieu to him, purposing on another occasion to take further notice of this very interesting and valuable little volume; which, in addition to its other merits, may claim that of being very neatly printed, and published at a cheaper rate than is usual in the present day. These advantages may secure for it a wider circulation than it would otherwise have obtained, and thus its usefulness be materially increased. While then we can safely and cordially recommend it to our readers, we hope, on another occasion, to enter into some particulars of the ministry, character, and labours of the subject of the Memoir; and to close with a notice of his death, which took place in the 71st year of his age, on the 10th of June, 1815, at Elberfeld in Prussia, where he ministered for upwards of a quarter of a century. (To be continued.) Entelligence. BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. THE Fortieth Annual Meeting of this Society was held at Exeter-hall, on Wednesday, May 1. At eleven o'clock, Lord BEXLEY came upon the platform, accompanied by a crowd of the leading friends of the Society, and the business of the Meeting commenced. Lord BEXLEY having taken the chair, intimated his inability to speak in person the few words he wished to address to the Meeting, and the Rev. A. BRANDRAM, explained, that having been indisposed for some time, the Noble Lord felt himself unable to address the assembly as he was wont; his kindness would be all the more appreciated in coming to preside on the present occasion. His Lordship had requested him (Mr. Brandram) to read a few words that he would otherwise have spoken. Mr. Brandram added that he had it in charge to express the very sincere regret both of the Bishops of Winchester and of Chester, that they were prevented by important duties in their respective dioceses, from being present on this occasion. He would now proceed with much pleasure to read the Report, as the deputy of his friend, Mr. Browne, the writer of that document, whose voice did not happen to equal his (Mr. Brandram's).. The Fortieth Annual Report commenced by stating, that the Society had now distributed nearly 16,000,000 copies of the Scriptures, and aided in the circulation of above 10,000,000 more, in various languages, and in almost every part of the world. From the Society's depot at Paris the Society had issued during the year 145,267 volumes, 145,035 having been actually sold, of which 112,269 were disposed of through the medium of Bible colporteurs, and with the exception of 300 or 400 copies, among members of the Roman Catholic communion. The Society had more or less employed eighty-four colporteurs, seventy-five of whom were formerly Roman Catholics; and it had made a further grant of 500l. to the French and Foreign Bible Society. In Belgium the distribution amounted to 13,919 volumes, of which only 140 had been gifts; making a total of 124,000 copies in that country in something more than eight years. In Holland, three colporteurs had already entered on that field of labour, and in twelve weeks above 12,000 copies had been disposed of; and large editions of the Dutch Scriptures were now in the press. The issue of copies from the depot in Hungary, had amounted to 663,400 copies in thirteen years. The Society had made a grant to its correspondent at Berlin of 15,086 copies; between 1831 and 1843, 199,622, New Testaments had been supplied to the Prussian troops. The issues of the Prussian Bible Society, for the year, had been 40,313. In Sweden, 16,000 copies had been printed during the year, and the issues were 23,806 in number, the Swedish Bible Society having also circulated 18,022 copies. the present King had succeeded his predecessor in sanctioning the cause, and having been accustomed to be present heretofore at the Society's annual Meetings. In Norway, the distribution had been 541 Bibles, and 5,053 Testaments. In Russia, the issues had been 19,186. Of Spain and Portugal little could be reported, In Madeira, 1,800 portions of Scripture. In Greece, the version had been revised, and 10,000 copies would soon leave the press at Athens; since 1810, nearly 210,000 copies of various books of Scripture had been issued in modern Greek. In Turkey the circulation exceeded the previous years by 2,013, being 6,430. From Jerusalem the Rev. F. C. Ewald wrote, that thousands might be circulated, and a change was preparing in the East; 1,250 copies had been granted to him. To the Calcutta Auxiliary, 10007. had been granted towards the Urdee Old Testament, and that version was now completed; the issues for the year there were 55,630 volumes. At Madras the distribution of English Scriptures had been 1,365 copies during the year; and 27,910 in the native languages. The Bombay Aux iliary had sold or granted 5,556 copies during the year; the Jaffna, 3,054, chiefly in Tamil. In China an unexpected impediment had arisen, owing to the necessity for a thorough revision of the Chinese version. The Society, however, were about to send a few thousand copies to Hong Kong, as the version now stood. The circulation in New Zealand was proceeding rapidly, and the natives had now remitted altogether 1521. To Sidney, 818 copies had been sent. In Tahiti, events had occurred to awaken solicitude and alarm; but with their political bearing the Committee had nothing to do, but as they might affect the cause of Christian truth, and the progress of the Gospel. There was no evidence, however, as yet, that the peculiar work of the Society had been interfered with, or impeded; the Scriptures being still read, valued, and in large request. The missionaries at Tahiti and Eimeo had sent their thanks for the large grant of Bibles and Testaments they had received, but which, they said, was not sufficient to meet the demands of the people. Another 3,000 copies of the Tahitian Bible had been put to press; 245l. had been received from Tahiti for the sale of the Scriptures. One of the missionaries wrote:"There are only two missionaries in this group of islands; they were here before our arrival, two years since; but though they have a few adherents from Chili, Iceland, &c., they have not yet made a native convert; for the natives have the Bible, and the Bible and Popery, cannot co-exist." The Camden left Samoa in Dec. 1842, 10,000 copies of the Gospel of St. John and the like number of St. Mark had been nearly disposed of. A remittance of 100%. had been received from the South African Auxiliary at Cape Town, and 600 Bibles and 600 Testaments had been forwarded. The Auxiliary Society at Salem had remitted 80%. More than one consignment of the New Testament and of the Psalms in the Sichuana language had been sent to the care of the Rev. R. Moffatt; 50 Bibles and 300 Testaments had been granted to the Rev. Barnabas Shaw (Wesleyan Missionary), on his return to South Africa; 600 Bibles and Testaments to the Sierra Leone Auxiliary Society. The Rev. A. W. Hanson, native African chaplain on the Gold Coast, had taken with him a supply of Gospels in the Accra language. A Baptist missionary station had been established at Fernando Po, an important central point, and to that place 500 Bibles and Testaments had been granted. 250 French Bibles, and 750 French and English Testaments had been granted for distribution in the Mauritius; and 860 of the same to the Mico Charity, for the schools there. The British Guaina Auxiliary at Demerara, had remitted 1137., and received 1,035 copies. In the course of the last twenty-one months, no fewer than 32,726 copies had been issued from the depot at Jamaica, and chiefly sold to the black and coloured population; 6677. had been remitted thence for sales; and 16,294 copies sent to the depot there. 1197. had been received from Barbadoes, and 3,714 copies forwarded. D. B. Garling, Esq., of Antigua, had remitted 100%., principally on account of Scriptures supplied. Similar proceedings had taken place with respect to Tobago, the Bahamas, Bermuda, the Danish islands, &c. The receipts of the American Bible Society for the past year were 126,448 dollars; the issues 216,605 copies, making an aggregate issue since its formation of 3,269,678 copies. In British North America there are 246 tributary Societies, and they have remitted. 1,581., and received a supply of 19,643 copies. The Newfoundland School Society had made a return. of 657., and received 1,600 Bibles and Testaments. The total amount re- Amount received from Total amount from all sources £46,563 12 11 51,373 4 8 422 4 9 98,359 2 4 Being 5,2827. 19s. 8d. more than in the preceding year. The expenditure was 84,6691. 8s. 3d. 117 new Societies had been formed, and the total number in England in connexion with the Society, was 2,952. Considering the importance of the movements making in reference to education, the committee had granted £5,000 for the gratuitous supply of Bibles and Testaments in aid of education amongst the poor. To the London City Mission 5,000 Testaments and Psalms had been granted for the district of Spitalfields, where 6,075 families were found without the Scriptures. To various other Institutions in England, Scotland, and Ireland, liberal grants had been made. In conclusion, the Committee thought that the review of the circumstances of the past year afforded fresh materials for joyous remembrance, shewing that tokens of the Divine favour had not been withheld from the Society, and giving reason to hope for still further prosperity. The Marquis of CHOLMONDELEY, V.P., in proposing the first Resolution, said, he rose with some little sacrifice of personal feeling, in order to show his continued respect for the Society. I feel, said the noble Marquis, that the Report which we have heard read is calculated to cause thankfulness to the Giver of all good; and it is delightful to see that notwithstanding we had last year to lament a time of depression, and notwithstanding the demands on the funds of the Society, they have increased by nearly £6,000, and that the issues have been greater than in any former year, with one exception. When we look also to the reports from different parts of all the world, we find them of a satisfactory character. In France particularly, where a few years ago, Infidelity so largely prevailed, many now possess the unspeakable treasure of God. When we look to the further parts of the world, and especially to New Zealand, and see the cannibal and we savage no longer drinking the blood of their fellow-creatures, but thirsting for the waters of life, can not say, what hath not God done? I view that part of the Report with pleasure, which refers to the Wesleyans, as showing the importance of the co-operation of Christians of all denominations in circulating that word which they all allow as the only infallible standard of faith and righteousness. The Noble Marquis concluded by moving the following Resolution:-"That the Report, an abstract of which has been read, be received and printed under the direction of the Committe." The Right Rev. the Bishop of CASHEL seconded the Resolution, and after stating that he loved the British and Foreign Bible Society for the universality, the largeness, the extensiveness of its love for the whole fallen world, and that he attended its meetings from gratitude for what it had done in the world at large, and above all, in his own country, proceeded thus:-I love it for its influence on my own_character and position in life. When I first began to think of serious things, this Society was in its infancy, about the year 1811 or 1812. In that year I first attended a Meeting of the British and Foreign Bible Society, in Freemason's Hall, and I shall never forget what I heard there expressed, and which entered into my heart, for it said that of the Society which Í have myself experienced that it pilots us over the narrow seas, and leaves us sailing on the great Pacific Ocean.' In 1813, I, then a country curate in Ireland, attended a Meeting of the Society, and I joined with some others in setting up a Branch Society in my own country; and I consider it one of the many instances of God's mercy to me, when he allowed me to begin that Society, that he permitted me for thirty consecutive years to attend its Meetings; and in 1843, when I was removing out of the country which I so loved and valued, to leave in a state of vigour, not only willing to circulate the Bible in the country round, but able -it is the only Society in Ireland that could-to send an humble contribution of £10, annually to the British and Foreign Bible Society. I am bound to express my gratitude for what the Society is doing in Ire |