keep us from desponding, and to stimulate to perseverance.

Oct. 19, 1835-I rode to the blacksmith for some of the iron-work for the mill. Returned late, jaded with a ride of thirty miles on bad road, and not a little chagrined with disappointment. He had promised to have the spindle and rynd done eight days ago; but on my arrival, I found that he had not commenced them; and being out of coals, there is no prospect of getting them speedily.

Nov. 5 and 6 At the Indian Settlement I baptized an infant; the child of the Indian on whose ground we have built the mill. His house is built upon the highest site in the vicinity; which leads us to build the mill near to it. As columns of red embers are constantly being emitted from the chimney, in the winter, the sails are in danger of being set on fire from his house; consequently, it has to be removed. I have offered to bear the whole expense of rebuilding it; but I wish him to do it himself, and receive the pay. The old man is indolent he wishes to employ another to do the work, and receive only half the sum proposed. This being such an unreasonable proposal, the bargain has been hanging for two months, and the house remains on the old site. I proposed today to rebuild it; but he perceived, that if it were done by us he would have no further right to compensation. He therefore resolved to pull down the house himself, dwell in a tent all winter, and take next summer to erect his house. I have been struck, every day for two months, with the indolence of the old man. have daily asked him when he was going to remove his house.

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He would answer, "I am waiting to see if the mill will grind this winter. I have been consulting several who know about building mills; and they say the mill will not go soon. I will therefore let my house stand." When we put up the pillar, I said, “Charles, it is time for you to be taking down your house." He said, "I will wait till the cap is on." When the cap was finished, the same was said to him; and the reply was, I shall let it stand till the wings are on the mill cannot grind without wings to turn it." The wings being fixed, the same subject was touched upon. He said, I shall wait till I see the wheels." Thus, like Solomon's sluggard, he has deferred needful work from time to time, till our indusRECORD, June 1837.]

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try has dislodged him, and cold winter drives him to a tent.

Feb. 11, 1836-The Indian Settlement seemed quite in a bustle to-day. Some were carrying their wheat to the mill upon their backs; others were hauling it, with oxen, upon sledges. The mill was gliding steadily round, driven by a northwind. I found twelve persons waiting for their flour. The Grist-Mill is the most conspicuous mark of civilization that we have planted in this rude waste, and its beneficial effect is strikingly felt by the savage. He seems all at once stimulated to develope a new character. On the blowing of the wind, he is out with his wheat to winnow; gets it into his bag, runs to the mill, and stands in eager expectation of his turn. When once it is in the hopper, and the stones at work, he handles it as it falls into the box, to see if it be well ground. I thought it scarcely possible so to rouse the Indians' drowsy powers.

April 25-We commenced ploughing, as the ground was sufficiently thawed to admit the plough. When the long dreary winter has passed, and the south winds begin to prevail, every thing springs immediately into life. The patches of cultivated ground that have been deserted, and apparently forgotten, as useless, for six months, all at once assume their value. They are paced over, their boundaries are surveyed, the fences examined and repaired, and old and young are in a bustle upon them. Some are digging up roots; others collecting them; and a third class turning the virgin earth with the plough, which has lain at rest for ages.

Something of the carelessness of the native character, and the provident measures of the Missionaries, will appear in the following brief Extracts from the Journal of Mr. Jones.

Oct. 14, 1835-All the hay, made in the plains at great trouble and expense, was burnt yesterday, in consequence of the carelessness of Indians in not extinguishing their fires on leaving their encampments.

Nov. 20 The weather during the last three days has been very cold, Fahrenheit's thermometer being 9, 10, and 12 degrees below zero. We finished slaughtering and stowing away our winter beef.

Fourteen oxen, three cows, and about twenty hogs, cut up into butcher's meat, and put among snow, will thus remain in a frozen state, and perfectly fresh,

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till next June, by removing it to icecellars in the month of April. I have also about 10,000 white fish at Lakes Manitobah and Winipeg, which weigh from four to six pounds each; so that, through a kind Providence, I shall not have the pain of seeing starving wretches, this season, without the means of relieving them, which has often been the case.

Our Readers will be gratified to observe, in the same year, Mr. Jones's brief notice of the

General Thanksgiving for a Favourable Harvest.

Oct. 7, 1835-According to public notice, given last Sunday, we observed this as a day of general thanksgiving for the abundant harvest given us; and I was happy to find the churches crowded, and the stillness and solemnity of a Sabbathday reigned universally through the Settlement.

Some painful facts are related by Mr. Jones, relative to the

Encroachments of Intemperance. Aug. 30: Lord's Day In the course of my address, I felt it necessary to advert very strongly to an abuse of liberty which has sprung up. The people have been, for several years, allowed to brew malt liquor for their own use, ad libitum. In a little time, the Indians, who, in the first instance, despised what they called "barley-broth," began, by degrees, to find that a quantity of it produced stupefaction and other effects similar to those of ardent spirits: the people began then to hire them as labourers, and pay them for a week's work with an eight-gallon keg of such stuff as they could extract three kegs of out of one bushel of malt. The transition from this step of nefarious traffic into selling for cash was both natural and easy; and during this summer hundreds of Saulteaux, from Red Lake and other places, have brought their maple-sugar, which they make in great uantities, to our market; and thus possess an abundance of ready money, which they dispose of in the purchase of the deleterious article above alluded to. We have been, by day and by night, lately, constantly disturbed by drunken Indians, who go roaring from place to place, opening gates, destroying fences, &c. In short, setting aside the sinfulness of thus brutalizing more and more the native character, this evil, if not stopped, will break up the Colony, and drive the well-disposed and

virtuous to seek a home elsewhere. Among other things, I observed to-day : "Poor people in Britain pray for Missionaries-pray for the conversion of the Indians: they subscribe their pennies aweek to send the Gospel to them; and shall we send home to them, and say that their relations in Red-River Settlement have raised up a standard against us? that they are striving to put into their hands, not the Word of God, but the means of intoxication?" It is right, however, to state, that the transgressors in this respect are few in number, compared with the upright in heart; and that the bulk of our people are anxious that the evil should be stopped.

Aug. 31 I heard of several animadversions on yesterday's discourse, which I was fully prepared for. Some said, It was all against the poor, and not a word applicable to the rich." Others, What a pity he has nothing to preach about but beer!" And the most general remark was, Let him buy our barley, for which we have no market, and then we shall desist, but not otherwise."

Nov. 10-Fell in with a party who have lately been in the habit of brewing ale, and selling it to Indians. I reasoned with them on the impropriety and danger of engaging in such an iniquitous traffic. I exposed all their plausible excuses, and perfectly silenced them; but made no converts to my opinions. Gain, however unjust, or whatever evils it may inflict upon our fellow-men, quickly biases the mind of the possessor of it. The Indian is miserable in the winter, destitute of both food and clothing: he lives by begging and foraging, and is passionately fond of any thing that intoxicates him. The vender of ale knows this, but has no compassion for his miseries: his love of gain silences all the better sympathies of his heart. He will therefore trade from the miserable wretch his gun, kettle, or his half-worn blanket, the very articles on which his life depends, and send him off reeling and stumbling under a keg of ale. When the Indian's property is exhausted, he will hire his labour, and pay him with the same article, because he will work cheerfully and cheaply for it. While the Indian is labouring for ale, his family are pining for want of food. They are begging from house to house, to get a scanty supply; and, when disappointed in this

way, they slily help themselves to a cake that may be standing by the fire, cull the potatoes, skim and tithe the soup; so that you find every article short before the cravings of nature are satisfied. These are facts, which often come under my observation.

We add one or two short passages from Mr. Jones's Journal, descriptive

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Extreme Severity of the Cold. Jan. 24, 1836–Decidedly the severest Lord's Day I ever passed in North America. Thermometer 36o below zero, and blowing a gale of wind. The church was full; but the cold was so intense, as not to allow undivided attention. In going and coming to and from the Middle Church, nothing but constant friction kept the face from becoming a mass of ice.

Jan. 25-The thermometer was 37° below zero this morning.

Feb. 7: Lord's Day-Condensed vapours have again arrayed the trees and shrubs in a garment of perfect white, and of such exquisite beauty as no fuller on earth can whiten. God grant that the dew of His doctrine may adorn His people-trees of his own planting-among us here this day! At half-past ten the bell called us to church, which was full. I preached from Rom. viii. 9. May the Lord revive His work among us!

March 20-A very stormy day. I never had such a difficulty in getting to my afternoon congregation; and if my horse had not been a very powerful, as well as a spirited animal, I must have stuck in the drift, as I saw dozens doing. In places exposed to the hurricane of

wind, the whirling masses of snow were more like the foam at the foot of the furious cataract, than any thing else.

The following brief passage in Mr. Jones's Journal cannot fail to persuade our Readers, that the continued exertion sustained by a Missionary, conducting alone the whole of Public Worship, and leading the singing also, is far too great for his health. The reasonableness, and, we might add, necessity of aid in this respect is very apparent; as the use of an organ, or other suitable instrument of music, may, in both hot and cold regions, prove to be the means of saving valuable lives. Mr. Jones remarks::

Oct. 25, 1835: Lord's Day-A beautiful morning. All nature is clothed in a mantle of the purest white. There is something very appropriate in the appearance of this crystallization of atmospheric moisture on the Sabbath morning. All is so still, so solemn, so purely beautiful, that it has a very soothing effect on the mind. I preached, in the morning, from Psalm ciii. 19; and in the afternoon, from Heb. i. 9. At the Indian Meeting we could only sing and pray, the interpreter being absent. I was to-day fortunate enough to get a clerk, to lead the singing at both churches; which, for the last three quarters of a year, I have been obliged to do myself, and which has fatigued me very much since the warm weather, producing a feeling of faintness, and sometimes of nausea, in the middle of the sermon, which has often distressed me beyond measure.

right to place on their Minutes a brief view of his labours and character.

The records of the Society, from his first opening of a correspondence with it

in December 1813, when Chaplain at Agra and directing the labours of Abdool Messeeh, bear continued testimony, all through his life to its very close, to the combined wisdom and zeal with which he endeavoured to promote its great design.

Returning from India in June 1815, for the recovery of his health, he passed nearly two years at home, not re-embarking till April 1817. On occasion of this visit, he preached the Annual Sermon before the Society in 1816-giving therein affecting testimony, as an eye-witness, of the delusions under which the Heathen labour; and shewing, from his own experience, the special adaptation of the Scriptures, Missions, and Christian Education, as means, under the Divine Blessing, for recovering them from these delusions. On these important subjects, he enlarged, with great effect, at the Meetings of various Associations connected with the Society; everywhere increasing the interest which was beginning to be taken by Members of the Church of England in the Cause of Missions.

Succeeding in due order to the Chaplaincy at Calcutta, Mr. Corrie was appointed, by Bishop Heber, Archdeacon of the See. In this office he was thrice called on the deaths of Bishop Heber and of his two immediate successors to supply, so far as it was in his power, the wants of the vacant See. In April 1835, he arrived a second time in this country, to receive consecration as Bishop of the newly-formed Diocese of Madras. The short period of his stay did not allow of his renewing the exertions which he had made on his first visit; but, at the Annual Meetings of the Society and of the British and Foreign Bible Society, held in May of that year, he traced, with an able hand, the Rise and Progress in India of Missionary Labours and of the Bible Cause.

Arriving at Madras in the latter part of October, the Bishop entered on the duties of his See; but has been spared only for the short space of little more than one year. When at Hydrabad, in November last, he complained, for the first time, of a pain in his head; which was thought to be the effect of the labours of the Visitation in which he had been engaged. Returning to Madras on the 15th of that month, he had soon to encounter the anxiety and fatigue of watching by the dying bed of his beloved Wife,

who fell asleep in Christ on the 21st of December. From her, who had been his affectionate and faithful companion during almost the whole of his residence in India, he was not long separated: his own infirmities rapidly increased upon him; and on the 5th of February, he was called to enter into the joy of his Lord. The next evening-the evening of the Sabbath-his honoured remains were laid by the side of his Wife, in that grave at which he had stood but a very few weeks before, calmly submitting himself to the will of God.

The Committee, in recording this brief notice of the labours of Bishop Corrie, desire to ascribe all glory to God, for carrying His servant through such a course of toil in India, and for enduing him with gifts and grace so peculiarly fitted for the work committed to his charge. He stands forth, in his whole life in India, an exemplification, above the usual range of Christian Labourers, of the words of the Apostle James— Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show, out of a good conversation, his works with meekness of wisdom.

Bishop Corrie entered on his labours in India with an observant mind. Discharging with fidelity the duties of his Chaplaincy, he from the first determined to connect with these duties every degree of relief to the spiritual wants of the Natives, which it might be in his power to render, consistently with the more immediate care of his countrymen. He looked round him, therefore, with a watchful eye and a compassionate heart, on the character and state of the millions among whom he lived; and, as he devised means of opening a way for the Light into the thick gloom which hung on the Heathen, he was prompt in executing what he had devised: insomuch, that the First Bishop of Calcutta, when he wished, at his Primary Visitation, to stimulate and encourage the assembled Chaplains to unite with their immediate duties all practicable care of the Heathen, pointed to the Chaplain of Agra as their pattern.

Thus trained in the school of experience, and turning all his observation to practical purposes, his suggestions to others and his own measures were grounded on large intelligence and comprehensive views: and, though naturally susceptible, the grace of Christ had so chastened his spirit, that he could meekly

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and with gentleness bear up under indifference, and even opposition; while he immoveable in such plans and measures as it came within his own province to devise and pursue. Rarely, indeed, had he occasion to retract any opinion which he had given, or to regret any step which he had taken. He seemed to have acquired, through grace, an almost intuitive perception of what was fit to be done on all occasions; and to take such quiet and firm hold of his object, as to give confidence to his friends, even in difficult circumstances.

In all this course, there was a simplicity and a saintliness of demeanour, which awakened love and reverence in all around him; and, of his influence over others, he was ever on the watch to avail himself, in leading them to that Saviour for mercy and grace, through whom he himself had habitual access, by the Holy Spirit, to the Father.

A few months after his arrival at Madras, the Bishop felt some discouragement under the difficulties which sur

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Stephens, Esq., Chn. Coll. 57. 148. 51.- May 26: Meeting at St. Columb, Rev. F. Vyvyan, Chn., Coll. 41.-May 28: Sermons, by Rev. Dr. Doran; at Bodmin, Coll. 71. 14s. 3.; at Roche, Coll. 41. 4o. 2d; at St. Columb, Coll. 74. 168. 4d.-May 29: Meeting at Bodmin, Hon. G. M. Fortescue, Chn., Coll. 61. 79. 2d.; May 30: Meeting at Lostwithiel, Rev. V. Vyvyan, Chn, Coll. 61. 39. 10d. - May 31: Meeting at Roche, Rev. C. Lyne, Chn., Coll. 31. 78. 5d.-June 1: Meeting at Lostwithiel, Hon. G. M. Fortescue, Chn., Coll. 41. 11. 1d.-June 4: Sermons, by Rev. Dr. Doran; at Liskeard, Coll. 6. 158.; at St. Eve, Coll. 21. 10. at Collington, Coll. 41. 49. 61.- June 5: Meeting at Liskeard, Rev. J. Lakes, Chn., Coll. 31. 10.-June 11: Sermons, by Rev. Dr. Doran; at Veryan, Coll. 41. 14. 51.; at Ruan, Coll. 41. 78. 3d.; at Tregony, Coll. 15. 3. 4d.

Derby-April 23: Sermon at Doveridge, by Rev. A. Macpherson, Coll. 71.-May 17: Meeting at Brails. ford, Chn. not known, Coll. 41. 158. May 18: Meeting at Belper, J. Evans, Esq., Chn., Coll. 15.May 19: Meeting at Ashbourne, Rev. S. Shipley, Chn., Coll. 361.- May 21: Sermons at Ashbourne, by Rev. J. H. Woodward: St. Peter's, Coll. 10. 10.; St. John's, Coll. 281. 2. 1d.; St. Warburgh's, Coll. 21. 69. 61.-May 22 Meeting at Ockbrook, Rev. W. Hey, Chn., Coll., 26. 14. 6d. May 23: Meetings at Derby, J. Evans, Esq., Chn.; Morn., Coll. 71. 169. 7d.; Even., Coll. 8l. 48. 6d.

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rounded him. His ignorance of the vernacular tongues of South India seemed to separate him from the Natives, and his time of life for bad the hope of acquiring the necessary information in due season. 'All I can now do," he wrote, "is to watch and pray against despondency; and, by the grace of God, to be found doing what I can in my place." And the Committee are persuaded, that, short as was the period allotted to the labours of this Servant of God in South India, they have answered a most important end. He arrived at a very critical season; and was enabled, in a wise and gentle manner, to rectify disorders which had crept in, and to diffuse somewhat of his own meek spirit around him. His brief administration will not soon be forgotten; and the Committee cannot but earnestly hope and pray, that it may please the Great Head of the Church to lead those in authority to the appointment of a successor of like mind with their late revered and beloved friend.

Meeting at Poole, Rev. P. W. Joliffe, Chn., Coll. 171. 08. 91.-May 23: Meeting at Parkstone, Rev. J. C. Parr, Chn., Coll. 31. 1s. 41-May 24: Meeting at Wareham, Rev. Daniel, Chn., Coll. 31. 48. 1d. May 25: Meeting at Wimborne, Rev. Dr. Irving, Chn., Coll. 81. 138. 51.-May 26: Meeting at Blandford, Rev. H. Parker, Chn., Coll., 10l. 98. 10d.May 28: Sermons; at Wareham, by Rev. J. Spooner, Coll. 61. 3. 2d.; at Dorchester, by Rev. - Birch, Coll. 67. 148.-May 29: Meeting at Dorchester, T. Williams, Esq, Chn., Coll. 15l. 13s. 6d.

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Lincolnshire-June 4: Sermons at Boston, by Rev. C. Hodgson; Parish Church, Coll. 131. 7s. 31.; Skirbeck Church, Coll. 51. 12. 4d.; Chapel of Ease, Coll. 121. 8. 4d.-June 5: Meeting at Boston, Rev. R. Connington, Chn., Coll. 9.-June 6: Meeting at Leake, Rev. J. Barfoot, Chn., Coll. 51. 49.; Sermon at same place, by Rev. C. Hodgson, Coll. 15s. - June 7: Meeting at Wainfleet, Rev. R. Cholmley, Chn., Coll. 41.