powers will supply an endless succession of golden harvests to enrich the garners of heaven. The Missionary Committee having carefully considered the position and prospects of our mission, are unanimously of opinion that our annual income must by all means be raised to at least FIVE HUNDRED pounds more than the income of last year, which was not more than £2,390 16s. This addition is indispensable. Our debt and our duty alike demand it. Let us not approximate this increase by little and little, during a succession of years; but let us at once reach it, at one bound, as we are well able. With such an increase, small as the total would still be, our seventyfive missionaries may be sustained in their sacred work; our debt will soon be liquidated; and then our long-contemplated Australian mission may be commenced; a mission to which our honour is committed, and to which the magnificent future of a great empire summons us, that we may aid in the sanctification of that future to God. A careful and impartial review has been taken by the Committee of the contributions in each circuit, and of the ability of its members and friends; and the sum of Five Hundred pounds has been allocated, as an assessment, among the greater number of our circuits; not to tax liberality, but to bring nearer to the point of Christian duty those circuits which, being weighed in the balances, are found wanting. The details are communicated by circular to the superintendents. In examining the report, the Committee could not fail to observe the names of many who, they confidently hope, can and will treble and quadruple their subscriptions, that they may entitle themselves to the Saviour's commendation "Well done." The great work which the Lord has given us to do is not to acquire the means of self-indulgence and of family aggrandisement, but, like himself, to live, and if necessary, to die, to promote the salvation of the world. Every human life and death is an event enrolled in the annals of eternity. If our perishing generation is to be saved, it must be by our agency. Unless we put forth our energies to save the condemned millions of our contemporaries, they will assuredly be lost; and other millions will first succeed to their places, and then succeed to their doom. Signed on behalf of the Committee, T. ALLIN, Secretary. RECENT DEATHS. MRS. T. W. BARLOW. ON Sunday, October 12th, 1856, Mrs. T. W. Barlow, of Dresden, near Longton, departed this life. She was the beloved daughter of Mr. Bourne, of Fenton, and the wife of Mr. T. W. Barlow. She died in child-bed. She has left an affectionate husband and seven small children to bemoan her loss. And, what seemed to aggravate the calamity, after her accouchement everything seemed So favourable. Little did the joyous family think that this dear wife and mother was so soon to be removed. No event could have excited greater sympathy generally, and on the part of the church more earnest prayer that her life might be spared; but her work was |