INTELLIGENCE.

AMERICA.

NEW YORK.

The following list of baptist churches and pastors in New York and its vicinity is given in the latest number of the New York Recorder which has arrived in London.

Norfolk Street Church-Norfolk Street, cor.
Broome-Rev. T. Armitage, 152, Clinton
Street.

North Beriah Church, Macdougal Street,
opposite Vandam-Rev. J. S. Backus,
4, Cottage Place.

Bethesda Church, Christy Street, near De-
lancey-Rev. N. B. Baldwin, 291, Broome
Street.

Zion Church, Pearl Street, near City Hall
Place-Rev. J. R. Bigelow, 82, First
Street.

Olive Branch Church, Madison Street, cor.
Montgomery
Rev. W. S. Clapp, 47,
Gouverneur Street.
First Church, Broome Street, cor. Elizabeth
-Rev. S. H. Cone, D.D., 394, Broome
Street.

Twelfth Street Church, Twelfth Street, near
Third Avenue-Rev. S. A. Corey, 250,
Twelfth Street.

Welsh Church, 141, Christie Street-Rev.
Thomas H. Davies, 359, Twelfth Street.
Broadway Church, Broadway, above Fourth
Street Rev. John Dowling, D.D., 6,
Perry Street.

Cannon Street Church, Cannon Street, near
Broome-Rev. H. G. Eddy, 276, Madison
Street.

Laight Street Church, Laight Street, cor.
Varick-Rev. Isaac Wescott, 34, Domi-
nick Street.

German Church, Avenue A, near Second
Street-Rev. J. Eschmann, residence at
the church.

Union Church, Twenty-second Street, near
Third Avenue-Rev. D. S. Parmelee,

181, Third Avenue.

Tabernacle Church, Second Avenue, near
Tenth Street-Rev. E. Lathrop, East
Nineteenth Street, near Second Avenue.
Oliver Street Church, Oliver Street, near
Chatham Square-Rev. E. L. Magoon,
184, East Broadway.

Ebenezer Church, Avenue A, near Second
Street-Rev. L. G. Marsh, 21, Avenue A.
Shiloh Church, Twenty-ninth Street, near
Ninth Avenue-Rev. L. Parmely, 148,
West Twenty-eighth Street.
Abyssinian Church, Anthony Street, near

FOURTH SERIES.-VOL. XV.

West Broadway-Rev. J. T. Raymond
11, Dominick Street.

Stanton Street Church, Stanton Street, near
Forsyth-Rev. S. Remington, 186, Christie
Street.

Sixth Street Church, Sixth Street, near
Avenue C-Rev. J. T. Seeley, 307, Ninth
Street.

South Church, Corner Hammond and Factory
Streets-Rev. Charles G. Sommers, 77,
Jane Street.

Mariner's Church, Cherry Street, near Rutgers
-Rev. Ira R. Steward, 148, Cherry
Street.

Berean Church, Corner Downing and Bedford
Streets-Rev. J. R. Stone, 39, Greenwich
Avenue.

Sixteenth Street Church, Sixteenth Street,
near Eighth Avenue-Rev. J. W. Taggart,
168, West Seventeenth Street.

Rose Hill Church, 130, Thirtieth Street-
Rev. S. S. Wheeler, 130, East Thirtieth
Street.

North Church, Bedford Street, cor. Chris-
topher-Rev. A. C. Wheat, 134, Chris-
topher Street.

Amity Street Church, Amity Street, cor.
Wooster-Rev. W. R. Williams, D.D.,
27, Grove Street.

Providence, 472, Broadway-Rev. Samuel
Willis, 120, Sullivan Street.

Bloomingdale Church, Corner Eighth Avenue
and Forty-third Street-Rev. S. Wilkins,
pastor.

BROOKLYN.

East Church, Skillman Street, near Myrtle
Avenue-Rev. A. Haynes, Franklin Street,
near Park Avenue.

First Church, Nassau Street, cor. Liberty-
Rev. J. L. Hodge, 219, Washington
Streett.

Central Church, Bridge Street, near Myrtle
Avenue-Rev. J. W. Sarles, 310, Gold
Street.

Strong Place Church, Strong Place, near
Harrison-Rev. E. E. L. Taylor, 329,
Henry Street.

Pierrepont Street Church, Pierrepont Street,
cor. Clinton-Rev. B. T. Welch, D.D.,
11, Schermerhorn Street.
Concord Street Church, Concord Street, near
Gold-Rev. Sampson White, 11, Chapel
Street.

First Baptist Church, Hoboken, Washington
Street, corner Third-Rev. Josiah Hatt,
Washinton Street, near Third.
Union Baptist Church, Jersey City-Rev.
William Verrinder.

ASIA.

THE BURMESE CHURCH.

Dr. Wade writes from Maulmain last March in the following terms :-"Owing to our lamented brother Judson's heavy labours as a translator and lexicographer, he could not devote that time to the discipline of the Burmese church which was requisite to keep it in a healthful state. The consequence is that some old difficulties, and disorders which have crept in from time to time, are such as to make the exercise of discipline a necessary and yet perplexing business. Brother Stevens felt the necessity; but his other duties would not admit of his bestowing the requisite time on the subject; and as my eyes would not allow me to engage in book-making, the brethren thought it my manifest duty to take the pastoral charge.

"Unless this church is in a healthy state, preaching to the heathen about the city will be of little use. They look to the church to see what Christianity is. They need the example of an irreproachable life in the native Christians, to convince them that the Christian religion is superior to their own. Brother Judson did all that he had time to do, burdened as he was with other labours. The pastor of a native church should be free from other cares, that he may be able to enter with interest into all their matters and investigate them patiently, as a parent would do with a large family of children.

"This church was constituted in 1827. Since then about 240 have been added, fortysix excluded, and forty-nine died, leaving, according to the records, as its present number, 145.

"There are at present two native assistants supported by the church, and five by the

mission. Of these assistants I have had the charge about a month, during which time they have preached Christ to 2353 heathen. There is one preaching station at Mopoon, one at the south end of Maulmain, one at the north end, and three in the heart of the city The two assistants supported by the church go together."

EUROPE.

FRANCE.

The following interesting narrative is taken from the December number of The Missionary Magazine, published by the American Baptist Missionary Union. It is from the pen of Mrs. Devan, wife of an American baptist missionary at Lyons.

Yesterday afternoon, while at dinner, we were told that a priest in full costume wished to see Dr. Devan, and upon hearing he was at table had proposed taking a walk in the garden until he should be at leisure. The domestic who brought us word looked wonderfully alarmed at the strange visitor, for she knew that we had been persecuted by the Romish fraternity; and I cannot say that

was wholly free from apprehension. Dr. Devan immediately went into the garden and conducted his visitor into an adjoining apartment, and as I heard an earnest conversation going on, of which the words were not disstole over me so that I found myself tremtinguishable, an oppressive feeling of danger bling violently. Then this thought came to me with great force: Priest though he be, is he not in the Lord's hand? I inwardly and inclined to persecute us as he may be, prayed that even if he had come as a persecutor, he might go away a brother in the Lord. At this instant Dr. Devan opened the door and said, "Come in and talk to this man; I believe him to be a true Christian.” You may imagine the revolution in my feelings, when I saw before me a man in priest's costume taiking of Jesus and his great salvation. And while he partly drew aside the veil that hides the deep corruption of the apostate church, the feeling constantly arose, Who shall limit the Lord of hosts?

This man is from La Haute Bretagne. orders in the Romish church. But he comFrom his extreme youth he was destined to menced his studies under a teacher who allowed free discussion among his pupils, and gave them leave to read the Romish version of the bible. This pupil is evidently a man of deep thought and much study. He attached himself to the sacred word and made Still he continued in the dark till one Christit the man of his counsel night and day. mas night, about four years ago, when it was his duty to perform midnight mass in public. After his congregation had been dismissed he remained alone and a deep melancholy stole over him. The oft-repeated and still unanswered question returned, How can unjust arrayed before him, taking from him the man be just before God? His sins were righteousness of the law and showing him light from the throne shot across his saddened condemned before his Judge. A gleam of spirit. He exclaimed: "But Christ is there. He bore my sentence of condemnation, and I bear his righteousness. I am, therefore, a free man in Christ." Peace came into his soul, and he remained by the altar all night style of his preaching changed. It was all in prayer. As a necessary consequence the superiors. He was sent from city to city, "faith in Christ," and this did not suit his from university to university, everywhere complained of as "preaching just like the Protestants."

At length he went to Paris, and there he taught the self-same doctrines. He is evidently a man of talents and learning, and being thrown into the society of infidels, he tried the force of reasoning to prove to them their error, but this was unavailing. As a last resource he lent them his Testament, begging them, when too dispirited to find pleasure at the theatre or in the dance, to shut the door of their room upon themselves and the bible, and there study its sacred pages. In this way, he assured us, he had been the means of converting several. A poor nun came to confess to him. She told him of her sins and all her anxiety of mind. As usual, he lent her his bible. A few days after she returned, with clasped hands and streaming eyes, exclaiming, "Father L., I have found him!" "Whom, my sister?" "The one that bore my sins! If the great God was made a curse for me, the malediction is abolished. Now what shall I do, not to be saved, but to show my love to my Saviour ?" "Come out of your convent, since you are not happy in it, and with your fortune establish an orphan asylum." She did so, and the school is now in operation at Paris, but under Romanist influence.

After one of his sermons in a Romish seminary where he was a professor, another professor attacked his doctrines. The matter was argued and the superior decided in favour of Father L., when he in turn attacked his opponent with the question, "Is there salvation out of Christ ?" "Yes," exclaimed the other, "the pagan world, if they follow the light of nature, are saved."

"To prove that," replied L., "you must burn the bible and burn the fathers of the church, for they

all say the contrary." "Agreed," returned the other; "burn the bible if you will, and burn tradition, provided the Protestants are not in the right and the Roman church stands."

A few days afterward, as he was walking with another priest belonging to the university, his companion turned the conversation upon the Virgin Mary, exclaiming, "As for me, I never pray to God, for he is too wicked! I pray to the Virgin, because all I ask she gives me." This disgusted and horrified our friend, who was never a worshipper of Mary, and his disgust was increased at the fete of the Virgin. In the chapel of the seminary the image of Mary, decked with flowers, lace, and ribbons, was placed on the altar, and a priest standing beside it preached upon her divinity, saying that God the Father had despoiled himself of the attribute of mercy to give it to Mary, reserving to himself justice alone. After this each professor and student in turn took a lighted taper, and prostrating himself before the statue used this formula: "O Mary, I dedicate myself, body and soul, to thee, now and for ever, to do whatever thy good will directs me."

When it came to L.'s turn he would not stir from his seat. The superior nodded to him to fulfil his duty, but in vain. He turned his back to the statue and so remained. Matters had now reached a crisis. He had to leave the seminary.

He soon after fell in with some evangelical protestants near Nismes, who advised him to abandon his profession as a priest. For that purpose he came to Lyons, had conversations with the evangelical pastor, and was about to enter their service. Meanwhile he heard that Dr. Devan had been a missionary to China, and thinking that he was probably a converted Romanist called upon him. He professes entire accordance with our views upon baptism, saying that infant baptism is a relic of Romish error, and that protestants can never say they are emancipated from tradition while they maintain this. After a long conversation with him, Dr. D. invited him to remain at family worship and then go with him to our evening meeting at the chapel. He readily consented, but when the members of the church who had collected about the door saw a priest coming in, consternation seized them all and they hastily dispersed, casting many a woe-begone look toward the man in the long robe, which is to them a sign of evil omen. May the Lord grant that their fears of him prove unfounded. and that, like Paul, he may be a chosen instrument of much good in this great city which is almost "wholly given to idolatry."

REPORT OF THE DEPUTATION TO HAMBURG.

The brethren who were deputed by the Baptist Union to attend the Triennial Conference have addressed to the Committee the following report:

DEAR BRETHREN,-As the Deputation appointed at the last Annual Session of the Union to attend the triennial Conference of the German baptist churches at Hamburg, we lay before you the following report of our proceedings, in order that, through you, it may reach the Union at its Annual Session of 1852.

With the view of forming a somewhat larger acquaintance with the churches than could have arisen from a visit to Hamburg exclusively, the deputation travelled by way of Berlin, and spent in that city Lord's day, July 20th. We attended both the services held at the baptist chapel on that day, and, by request, occupied a short portion of time, both in the morning and the afternoon, in addresses which were translated by the Rev. G. W. Lehmann into German. The day was closed with the communion; and its entire services left on us a very pleasing impression of the sincere and simple-hearted piety of the church. Their reception of the deputation

could not in any respect have been more cordial or more gratifying.

From Berlin the deputation proceeded to Hamburg, on Monday, July 21st. The Conference opened on the 22nd, at seven o'clock in the morning. It consisted of pastors of churches comprehended in the three German Baptist Associations, of missionary agents, and colporteurs; amounting in the whole to between forty and fifty brethren. They sat de die in diem from seven o'clock in the morning till twelve; and from five in the afternoon till eight; the final sitting, which was held on Saturday, being protracted till two o'clock. Devotional services, which occupied two hours the first morning, occupied about one hour every other morning; and the evening sittings were devoted entirely to the reception of reports from the various brethren of the state and progress of the work in their hands. Beyond matters of form and routine, which were all attended to in due order, the business of the Conference consisted primarily in the reception of a report from a kind of missionary committee, appointed by a conference held not quite three years ago, and the first of its kind, to superintend generally the work of evangelization in its several departments; and the appointment of a similar body for the three years ensuing. The details presented by this Report, although chequered, were on the whole satisfactory and encouraging.

The time of the Conference at its morning sittings was engaged in the consideration of various topics, of greater or less importance, of some of which notice had been given beforehand. The principal of these appeared to be a plan for an organic union of the churches, which was brought forward by the Rev. Julius Köbner, one of the pastors of the church at Hamburg, in a lithographed paper which was distributed among the members, and a copy of which was handed to the deputation. The discussion of this proposition was extended, but inconclusive. In succession came up other subjects: the plurality of pastors; the statement of the confession of faith on the law of marriage; the qualifications of bishops, and the relation of missionstations to the churches on which they were dependent. On all these subjects there was much conversation; but upon no one was a deliverance come to but the first, on which a resolution was adopted recommending a plurality of pastors when circumstances might be found suitable. A proposal to publish an en raving of baptism was made and adopted.

The statements made by the brethren at the evening sittings were, we were assured, on the whole highly encouraging; the enlarging spheres of labour giving origin to a cry from many stations for help, both in men and

means.

A translation of this document is appended to this Report.

The attention of the Deputation to the proceedings of the Conference was kindly facilitated by the Rev. G. W. Lehmann, who took notes of the whole in English on slips of paper, which were handed to us in rapid succession for our immediate information. Upon all subjects of interest the sentiments of the English brethren were requested; and the Deputation expressed themselves freely as the several topics were brought before them.

The reception of the Deputation was in every respect most gratifying. At the commencement of the proceedings the letter of the Committee by which they were to be introduced to the Conference (a translation having been effected for the purpose) was read, and the Deputation themselves requested to address the assembly, and both at the commencement and the close resolutions were unanimously passed, expressing the thanks of the Conference to the brethren who had taken the trouble to come, and to the body of Christians who had sent them. The latter resolution the Deputation were requested to convey, and they desire thus to acquit themselves of this obligation.

If the presence of the Deputation was, as we hope, gratifying to the German brethren, it was certainly gratifying to ourselves. It was evident by many proofs that we had come into contact with godly and devoted men, whose labours, already blessed, gave promise of more abundant fruitfulness. Our love towards them grew with our knowledge of them, and we shall bear the remembrance of our interview with us to the grave. Most worthy, in our judgment, are these faithful brethren of the affection and sympathy of British baptists.

How far the visit of the Deputation was useful as well as gratifying to the brethren, it is scarcely for us to say. Our impression, however, is that it was useful, sufficiently so to warrant in the fullest manner the expense and trouble occasioned by it. In the position which the continental baptists occupy, it is of no small advantage to them, both as it may affect their own conscience upon the one hand, and as it may affect their public estimation on the other, that a demonstration should be given of the identity of the baptists of this country with them: and in the determination of such topics as were brought under discussion, it can scarcely be altogether without benefit that the opinions of English brethren should be submitted, in conjunction with their own, to consideration and remark.

Commending the conduct of the Deputa tion in the fulfilment of their interesting mission to the kind acceptance of the Union, we subscribe ourselves, dear brethren,

Your faithful servants in Christ,
EDWARD STEANE,
J. H. HINTON.

* These notes are at the service of the Committee.

KINGSTANLEY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

Mr. John Lewis, a student from the Baptist College in Bristol, having accepted a very cordial and unanimous invitation to the pastoral office, over the baptist church in Kingstanley, will (D. V.) commence his stated labours there on Lord's day, the 11th of January.

The Rev. Daniel Jennings has resigned his

charge at Sandhurst, Kent, and is at present supplying the church at Yarmouth.

HARPOLE, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.

The Rev. J. Ashford has resigned the pastorate of the baptist church at Harpole. He informs us that his address for the future will be Oakham, Rutlandshire.

The Rev. C. R. Player, jun., has accepted an invitation to the pastorate of the baptist church, Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, intending to enter upon his labours there on the first sabbath in the new year.