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Vol. 4, Nl ONI 14 of education, therefore, were, as Mr. TajM and 1812 as two distinct works i these it, beautifully practical. 1 hese were thej turret wide fiel.l of labor opening he- I have failed lo obtain letters from those, who not now be very terpR. vivals can I mArtOD a anJ tions and fore them -ii -hpm solemn were then members of the institution.

From oth- went about lepiunug wnose Ss.oOO for the large mission to Op I be what mustccome of my soul it was to see Parsons in th state of mind respecting himself. He soon, rwever, became pessessed ot the same firm and baiy hp as before and it was an 1 They seem i -i I .1 er sources i learn simpiv ine general lacis, iiiai cess was seen in the knowmgness of their helrtr Ion and the 1'nmul pmple in whose language ting wor ks and two or them, at least, very pow-tbe'ir operation and happy in their results. erful in To be continued. And beyond all doubt they did increase knowledge and intellectual ability of probably only a S'won ol tne testing of his first hope, jeparatory to the refining ol his for many of them were able and learned. the result was corruption and ruin.

VERMONT CHRONICLE. several students were deeply wrious, and reckoned among the converts; and that two or three, who have since done much for their country and the church of God, were among the acknowledged subjects of the work. Second, Third and Fourth Revivals. I place the three (or, as some distinguish and reckon them, the four) revivals, which occurred This lesson is from the heathen world. WINDSOR, JANUARY 22, 1840.

gacres Ol ureecc "messed Christian characf, and tne more mui enjoyment of relgm." In accordance uith the reminiscenes of my esteemed corres ponnnt, I find in the biography of Parsons, an extrac from his private diary, bearing the date or Noember 22, 1811 in which he records his feeling! during this period of trial and doubting, and ol lonfirmation and rejoicing in hope. As he afteward exhibited so elevated a Christian charade; and wascalled to act so ni nioneerin a new missionary process and the results, give us their voice ofs Ansl nil Vtietrirv aAAa during the short period between the autumn of SANDWICH ISLANDS. emn warning, uraia. The following is stated by the N. Y.

Journal of bout "IhJ hruiian books ami 1 racts are already prepared, and seventy individuals ate employed in" priming and binding, "2,500 and for the Santlwich lands, where the children and youth are reported as "wide awake for schools and books, and in a most favorable posture to be periled upon by the press." and the thousands who have recently professed faith in Christ surely need all practicable means of religious knowledge, For the devoted laborers in behalf of the of Russia, who are extending- the circulation of publications by sale in the national fairs and by all other methods which Christian ingenuity ami lore can devise, in every direction throughout thai vast empire, so that pedlars of these books have offered them lor sale at the house of Rev. Mr. Swan, in Siberia, and many worshippers of the Grand Lama have been supplied, $2,000. The mission of the Doard of Commissioners in Cireece, with native presses at command, a constant call fr books, Baxter's Saint's Rest and Abbot's Mother at Home translated have official -Ul TllB rnmmnrr.e to be from a respeciauns Irr-omstances are so similar to what took place field. I cannot Yorlear to transcribe a portion of and its sanction.

A Christian people, sort! ought to beware of following the down-hill of Paganism. With the Bible in our hands, the history of the world before us, weoogfe feel as deeply, at least, as did Plato, Plutartl, Quintilian, the utter worthlessness of mere ome time ago at the Society Islands, as lo per flint inffrctinT Hi fnrf Cil dcro experience ho mil the hope that there may be some mistake. ping, that it may afford instruction to others, who may fall undei rhe hidings of God's face," or whom he may rreparing, by severe discipline. The conduct of the French is outrageous. i ney r-ttn r.omnel submission to nave me ovi, 1 Iectual acquirement and culture; and those for some loft irorise he revival ol rei what terms they please.

Can it be that such con lft09 and the summer of under one head because Ihey followed each other in quick, and almost continuous succession. This was a period of prest interest both in the village and in the college and through the instrumentality of those who were then members of the institution, it proved to be of immense importance to the church and the heathen world. Concerning the latter portion of this period, a graduate of 1814 thus writes: "The revivals, which occurred during my connection with the college, were much the same as those which are so often witnessed in the towns and villages and colleges of highly favored New Knrland nd which, I trust and hope and pray, are ere long to be witnessed, in every region of the globe. The fust was in the year 1811. It was a powerful and blessed work of the Holy to be denied even by the most skeptical and hardened of those, who were, and continued to be unconverted.

With many others, who like my irion in this colljtre commenced about the be take the position of leaders among na ii duct will be sanctioned by the rencn govern ginning of September. For several youths pre cause of education, should be held to a strict viously to this, the blessed work, my mind was in ment 1 Mazatlan, JVov. 31, TS39. ly expressed their opinion" the distribution of darkness, and at times in much distress. 1 was often convinced that mv hone was only the hope count for the character and influence of in th'i3 respect.

It is on this account, chit and because it has been introduced liiel; By the arrival of the brig Joseph Peabody, Capt of the hypocrite; and that notwithstanding the at this port, from the Russian Vt'e" BetthjVf of religious books and I racts is perhaps the most extensive anil likely to be the most permanent mode of usefulness to the Greeks and while the 1 .1 IHCl UljC much larger amount than the 81,500 now proposed fijtf- their use, could be advantageously autiic ra.iej.it nmona us, that we have beeo mda life. Mv reasons for this conclusion were the visited the Sandwich Islands for the purpose ot obtain ing reparation or indemnity on account ot the sending following; my hope did not affoid consolation to examine, in this public way, the "Corns School Assistant." We pronounce ifi from their islands in 837, of the French Catholic missionaries by the Sandwich Island government. Twen- I prayer wis not refreshing and spiritual religious conversation was no more interesting than con paper." versation upon things of ihe world. If I am 1. In the first place it is not Christian.

self had been 'living without hope and without God in the wo'rld, I experienced, at that time, wholly unsought and unexpected by myself, a great and wonderful change, like that described in Scrinture. when a man is born and 12, which was meant lo prepare the waj lot ty thousand dollars was aeminacd Dy tne commanaer of the frigate to be sent on board his vessels, to be held by the French government as security for the faith of that of the Sandwich Islands; and a treaty admitting all French products and manufactures free of duty into those islands, that Catholic missionaries should be allowed to land and pursue their calling unrestrain child of God, why is it thus with me During all this time, I believe, the Spirit of God was striving with me, and preparing me for a more thorough next volume, we find an appeal "to the pen The large mission to Asia Min or, whose printing establishment is at Smyrna, but which embraces the stations at Constantinople, Croosa and Trebizond, have likewise appealed for immediate and libera! assistance begging to be informed whether the Society will sustain their Tract operations, or by withholding the means offer them a premium lo sloth and the Committee hope to be able to remit 2,500 for their use. heroin i-s a new creature in Christ Jesus The knowledge of my own heart. When the revival nature and circumstance of this change were edly, was sent for signature, with a threat that if both commenced, I said, now this question must be decided. I cannot live in this state of anxious such, as compelled me lo believe il could have proceeded from no other source than the Author were not complied with within 45 hours, the lrigate would fire upon the town of Honolulu, for which every preparation was made.

uncertainty. I must have more evidence or pie of all innd. 1 wenty-etght years nave now eiaps fc.re the completion ot this time, the aoove treaty was ly, or live without hope." After relating his conversation with pious friends and alluding to their ed and my conviction is. possible, situ strong signed, and the were sent on board the frigate. er that it was il must have been the work of nravers and sympathies lor turn, he adds uu A party ot Catholic missionaries, wailing this result, had disembarked and had already commenced building in this strain "The most of the taxes job: are raised to support criminals and fined in jails and poor-houses.

Wedonotr to ask whether this is fact. Ignorance cause of almost all the crime and pauperism are yearly supporting. The ignorant mait not foresee the consequences of idle, vicioMl: its and actions," In the same nut is an article to circulators of the which they are told that they are the first thing" for them to do is, to see tit God's grace, for which many immortal souls will ring ihe two succeeding weeks, I walked in thick bless his holy name for ever darkness surely it was the darkness ot tne snaa ow of death. 1 read the promises lo the penitent but could not apply them to myself. 1 here was nothing in the Bible to heal my wounded spirit How readily would I have given the world, were il in my possession, for that peace which God givelh to his children." After recording again a chapel.

THE AMISTAD TRIAL. The Africans are declared to be free, and are to be restored to their country. A notice of the decision in the case will be found in another column. The decision was communicated to the negroes by Rev. H.

G. Ludlow, who, in a letter to the New Haven Heiald, gives the following account of the interview Another graduate of the same class, whose residence in Middlebury, as a member of the academy and of the college, embraces the whole period from 1809 to 1814, in answer to my letter of inquiry, thus writes Iear Sir, your inquiry of me, respecting the revivals of religion in Middle-bury College, during my residence there, sent my thoughts back to seasons and scenes, which I have often recollected with peculiar interest with painful interest also, as seasons poorly improved lo my own spiritual good. For it was not ery child and youth in the United States'! the effect of conversation and exhortation on his mind, he proceeds In this situation I contin he mission of the Board of Commissioners in Sirtm have addressed the Society with disappointment and grief that no more aid has been afforded while books are prepared, the language is irnut easily acquired, and is so generally read by the population, that a Siamese almost considers himself insulted by the question if he can read. The mission report, that by strict economy and using Chinese piper, they have continued printing lhufr; but though many are inquiring for the true religion, and have devoured every book issued and seem impatient till another could be printed, yet without pecuniary aid the presses must stop. That mission anxiously wait for the $1,509 the Society are now attempting to raise.

The Rev. Mr Sutton, in Orissa, where the Committee propose to remit 91,000, not only urges that their issues will not supply the multitudes that yearly come up to the festival of Juggernaut with one Tract each their facilities for distribution their need of help, and the blessing thai is descending on these publications, whereby they believe that "one hundred persons hnre been won front idolatry, having baptized several who had ued until Sabbath morning, November lit) morning, which I shall ever remember as ihe happiest of my life. After prayers in the chapel to read the Bible. They are told that "pro: sums" are yearly expended in giving the those who cannot read. A third article it same number is an appeal to Parents" in ir nothing else is urged in favor of educating: children, than worldly and prudential const tions.

These editorial articles show the sp nil mv iunior year, that I become possessed of I took my Bible, and retired to a grove west The decision of Ilia Honor Judge Judson, in favor of the Africans of the Amistad, has railed a wave of ihe college. I recollect distinctly the impression on my mind, while I walked to the grove, that joy through the community. Nothing could exceed the deep and thriliing interest which our fellow citizens who crowded the Court Room during the whole was the last attempt if unsuccessful now, I ca the Christian hope. The recollections of those seasons, however, which preceded my own supposed conversion, I hope, have proved of some profit to me. While I was in the Academy in Middlebuty, in the fall and winter of ISO!) there was a very powerful revival in the town, which was shared do no more.

I his passage of Scripture wa ine number, and of the volume. Wesijht of the trial, felt in its result, so that when His Honor decided that they should not be returned to Havana, fixed in my mind, 'O Israel, thou hast destroyed Christian. It is not true it is not but delivered into the hands of our resident, to be re My past abused privileges, my unholy to assert that ignorance is the cause of aim nravers. my opposition lo a holy God, were set i stored to their native country, the audience could scarcely repress an outward demonstration of their satisfaction. Never was a cause managed with more force in by the college.

I recollect the mingling of array before me: and I saw the wickedness of crime and pauperism; and that knowledge my whole life, as clearly as I saw the sun whic of argument, and I may add, of eloquence, than this never seen a missionary and were converted sole- remove it. It is not Christian to treat iheL the students with the inhabitants of the town, in the meetings of that revival. Pious students took shone upon me. I believe, I had no doubt, that by the noble counsel, Messrs. Staples, Baldwin, and rtnfurps hut bution or the Bible, in a country like iwu "rt i'i-i rrfrrfnv llmm III eti ts rrmrifttf hmbuKir i i eai irti Tc" 1 1 dniiin lnmn IniT, i lso attended with them.

But the interest, with premature, and to say that we ought to itk ('iincu wiin i ne iingin; tnough tee di the words of truth are immortal." It was my happy lot to communicate to Cinquez and his associates, the result of the trial. They were all which Christians in town regarded the cases of till all the children can read. It is notChi's awakened members of college, was of peculiar 1 lie committee hav also just received from irunng me, ana awaiting with deep interest lo speak as that article does or educatte and contemplated the miseries of hell. My thoughts were these Your doom is now certain you did hope for heaven but you will hope no more. Your sentence is just.

miserable hell God commands you to repent but your wie issue, out no tongue can express their gratitude tenderness and strength. doubt whether there ever has been an instance, in which the feelings -tru kjiu iney were not to be sent to preparatory to religious influences. Thetb uui to tneir rather land. Many of them arose and prostrated themselves at mv feet. irivinr to read is a far less important part of Chris uean is too nara, it will not At this mo cat, on i both by words and actions of their thankful- education, than the influence of the Bible; lie.

Of. Scudder, of Madras, who has been toiling twenty years in India, an affecting appeal, requesting at least $3,000, the whole amount now designated for that station, to be employed in his own extensive tours. A liute volume of Tracts, first showing the Blind Way" of heathenism) and then proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ, lie has found very effective; and he wishes lo fol ment, I was directed lo Jesus, as an all-sufficient Savior. Then my heart acquiesced in his atone oappiness too. Sierra Leone is a place it is unchristian to contrast them, as if educe of Christian inhabitants of any town toward a college in it, were more like those of a parent, in lime of revival, than those of the good people in Midfebury." -'In the years mi and 12, if I recollect right." continues my there was another revival in college, connected with the one in town.

1 I mey never were there. They were something distinct from and pteVvmina1 "jriuui ior tneir reci countrymen. We then tnA llmm i i a ment, and in his dealings with such a vile sinner as I saw myself lo be and my soul reposed itself on an arm of everlasting love. 1 felt the the influence of divine truth. The influent low up impressions made by Tract after Tract, of divine truth is the first and most essential elf chain break.

it was the bondage of sin I My recollections of it are, that it was a work of opened the Bible, and read these words For in education. It is not Christian, to appex this cause I bow my knees to the God the Father parents in favor of educating their childret i-r wouia prooahiy remain here some weeks, and asked them whether they would continue to study and learn to read the Bible' They "'Jl" the affirmative. If when they returned home they would worship the mountain and the idol as formerly iN, they replied, we will pray to TTh ih- woul Protect and provide for them lo this they answered with indications of great irratifi-cation, in. er ol our Lord Jesus It will never be in my power to give an adequate description of my feelings in view of this passage. There was a beauty, a majesty, and sweetness in it, which are the ground of worldly and prudential coaac tions merely, this being the only grounds peal to them for a whole twelvemonth.

We have referred to the editorial articte Then they knelt and I prayed with them, James Co indescribable. 1 dwell upon it, until my heart was in a flame of love. Jesus revealed himself in his glory To him I dedicate my life, my talents, my all desiring lo be devoted to him. ana they following in an audible voice, and with much apparent devoutness. And now 1 entreat of your readers, that they would single number.

We refer to what the editor: not cease to pray for these men, nicht and dav without deep solemnity and power of pungent convictions and deep distress and of great earnestness, activity, prayer fulness, and anxious wrestling for souls, on the part of the pious students. I can testify, as one then in an unconverted state, that the manner in which Christian students lived, talked, prayed, and addressed sinners in conference meetings, was such as to jrive emphasis to the text, There js no peace to the Every thing was kind and adapted to win, if possible, upon the feelings of those of us, who were in an unconverted sifrte and also such as to make us feel, that they had a deep and overwhelming sense of the solemnity of eternal things the pre ciousness of souls; the guilt and danger of the condition of their unconverted fellow" students. Fisk and Parsons, since missionaries to the Holy Land, and gone to their reward and Ebenezer Weeks, who died that spring, I think, were in the revival, as Christians of some age and exne- self writes, because his own articles roustk garded as characteristic of his work. And: wnue i remain in the tlesh and lo be acrento.1 thC thin'r9 are taught them from the ol him, hen I pass the valley of the shadow of prrpare mem to he Miinnir the beginning of the volume to the end, nay death. lo God, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, be blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, for ever V'" tnem men ot hne talents, and if sanctified, do much good.

not find any thing, in his articles, to coonr woicn ne says mere should be "no end to the distribution." You must," he says at leat double your donations and you will take into consideration the season when vou are to meet these heathen, in whose behalf I cry to you for help, at the judgment of the final day. While I thus plead with you." he continues, 1 do not forget that a compliance on your part will be to me attended with many things which we are apt to look upon as trials, and which are indeed trials to flesh and blood. I have a broken-down constitution, little able to bear up'under what I sometimes have to endure. Especially in seasons of sickness, persecution, and stoning, and want of faith and.devoteduess, my head well nirh sinks tinder water. Bat if, by the grace of Ood, I am willing to break through all obstacles and go forth, ought you not to be willing to furnish me with all the means I ask to enable me thus to go forth I know you are." The friends of Zion in every part of the country and of every condition in life, are entreated at least to give so much attention lo this subject that they shall see what are its bearings and what are the claims or a wise and holy Providence; and may it be true of some, that, in the abundance of their joy," though it be in their deep poverty." ihey may be willing of themselves, pray ing us that we would receive the gift," and thus min the impression made by those that we hare Amen." In view of this record of experience, the biographer of Mr.

Parsons makes the following REVIEW. ted; but much to confirm it. True, there; occasionally selected paragraphs in farorol" Common School Assistant: A Monthly Pa statement and remark During the period under consideration, Mr. Parsons supposed that he gion; but from beginning to end of the noo per, or the improvement of Common School Edu before us, we do not find a single article, orir una ever oeiore been a stranger to vital godliness. But on farther examination of his heart and more mature reflection, he was on the whole raihor in cation.

Edited by J. Orville Taylor. Vol. I pp. 9G.

(Nos. 7 and 10 missina.) iriitc in me iirisiian ine ana were active in the revival. Their spirit of devout nietv. thir or selected, that can be called a disettssiod topic relating to rnliaimi. i-iato teacnes that the end of education and of fervency, their sound Christian judgment, in counselling and exhorting ihe unconverted in col the instruction of youth is to make them better not simply more intellectual but mnn.

i a for the editor's advocacy or education onCt tian principles in his own articles, hardly naming Christianity at all, except 1 "lIV til. He says of Pericles that he filled Athens with temples, statues and public buildings, beautified clined to think otherwise. Whether he was or was not, a true believer before this was eminently a new era in. his Christian life and he now received an impulse in religion, which he never lost." With regard lo the revival of 1814, I have referred to the same source of information and find in Mr. Parsons' diary under date of May 30, 1814, the following minute: Prayer meeting' in my room; delightful season sinners tremble, saints rejoice.

God is present of a truth. A few berin" to hope." As furnishing the best descriptioiTof the character and extent of this work, I quote it with the most famous monuments, and set it ister 10 inose who, though now sitting in dark- off with ornaments of gold but" he asks "can ness, shall be made, Vy this instrumentality, fellow-citizens with the saints and of the household duce Christian men to take his paper or their Christian labors as vain and fruitless6-' the way has been prepared, after his fa we look for it among the articles not cdii and while we find line upon line and discs after discussion upon other subjects, there any one name the man, native or foreigner, old of God." II. or young, that he made wiser or better He made them more knoicing never before were from discussion at all on the importance, or chrt; they so intelligent in regard to all the arts of lire- I- i icner, wriuen june 4, by ihe same devo lege, were peculiar. I have never seen men who sui passed them. "And so far as human instrumentality is concerned, in giving character lo a revival, they had a happy share in that one.

I have a very clear and vivid recollection of the meetings held in college, in that revival. There was nothing of bustle and parade all was still and solemn One partTcular room, used for senior recitation I think, in the old college building, I remember as the scene of some of the meetings and of which it might have be-n said for il was apparently felt how dreadful is this place It seemed lo be felt, that Ood was there. Plain, solemn, and frequently awful truth was set forth, in the addresses to the pious students. The excitement produced was entirely that which came ol the clear and faithful setting forth of Bible Iruth, accompanied by the Holy Spirit." It is added in the same letter: There was one interesting fact in relation to the missionary Parsons, in that revival. He came to college hopefully pious and devotedly so, apparently; and one of the last men, who would have been thought to have occasion for questioning his own oeiore aia tne children know so much of or means, of religious education, or anj1" topic.

what they were to do when they became men'; but from his time the whole mass desenerated' Here we must stop for the present points may be noticed at another time. ted servant of Christ to the Rev. Moses Hallock of Plainfield, Ms. The present is a solemn period. God is pleased in his mysterious providence, to visit this seminary again by the effusions of his Holy Spirit.

The work commenced about four weeks since. Four young gentlemen of promising talents, who had been long regardless of God and their own salvation, are now proclaiming their Maker's praises. Thousands may REVIVALS IN MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE. IPrepartd by Rev. Dr.

Bat, for the Quarterly Ktgulrr First Tlceical. Middlebury College, as previously stated, was instituted, and put in operation, in the year 100. The next year was a year of the right hand of ViY. "illage and township of Middlebury; and many of the inhabitants were brought under the influence of divine grace and led to embrace the offers of merer, and devote themselves lo the service of God. "But I find no evidence, that the few members of collie were i i i Fire.

The new building, directly opposite tin fned and occupied bv Mr. Sebre Gustin.J. terprising mechanic, as a dwelling house stove ware room, was totally consumed morn in? of the 27th alt. No insurance, led at J500 or 2000. The fire oriffinated tn oe orougnt to glory through the instrumentality Qr cicisiy laid against a stove in a room -r "-i-iien in me wort.

Unt in the years juumj aiscipies; pernaps many perihiiig heathen. Some or those very individuals, who were most active in wickedness, now cry for merry. God has smiled upon the institution in a peculiar manner. This is the fourth re again visited in i piety. In that revival he passed through a course and Middlebury was mercy.

A revival commenced 1 he wise in all ages have been of Plato's mind all experiments in the the way of making children more knowing, as the great object of education, have come to the same result and taught the same lesson. Polybius justly attributes the greater-permanence of the Roman power to religious education the young were taught to reverence the gods and to feel the awful sanction of an oath while at Athens the knowing ones discovered that perjury broke no and succeeded driving from the popular mind all its reverence for the mysterious and the divine It was enough for them, forsooth, to know what Ihey could see, feel and handle; to understand how things are done in the world. Their notions I in September, i of rrli ous exercise, very much like those of an i-, nl continued i. i the winter and spring of the year lOf! sui.i. pave and considerable power In ,1 up.

a lime, his hope and tho2h thre was no IV towards i cloT Jit' i ilh cnool-room. Let this admonish others to u-- ful how they leave fires in chambers, or in situation to expose their lives and property to tion. Chelsea JVetes. We understand that the fire originated A boy who was boarding in Mr. fire into the stove without the knowledge" G.

or any other person in the house, and ood as above stated. The boy bad not allowed to make a fire there, nor bad he ticijntecl. and enpyed a i iiiin-rs, jei ne maniii-stea a most ilrpn and 1le Olll! iilixcr.l ii.A.i. i shar vival that 1 have witnessed here. In the senior class, twenty-five are hopefully pious in the freshman, all but four.

Not unto us, Lord not unto us but unto thy name be all the dory. fa The number of new converts in these three, (or if, with Mr. Parsons, we consider that of 1S11 ences. am not able. 1 Mfliculif nee.l ol the prayers ol Christians.

If nny pa.ucular concerning its character as thing could make a sinner fee then I i.