The Lord has poured down his blessing upon his word in a remarkable manner, consequently several have been, as far as we can judge from profession and conduct, converted; and the congre ation is considerably increased, so that we are happy to say, there is a demand for more pews, and a baptistry. It was formerly a primitive methodist place of worship, which accounts for its being destitute of that essential concomitant to a baptist meeting-house- a baptistry. Some repairs in the vestry and chapel are also required. The converts hitherto have been baptized at Kingstanley, a distance of three miles; which of course makes against the cause here, as God always honours that ordinance.

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Now we want immediately about £30. hope to raise £10 among ourselves, and in the neighbourhood. "How much will you feel for us?" What will you have the goodness to do for us now? The more you do, the more we shall feel disposed and the more we shall be able to do for your society in future.

Your agents, and those of the Baptist Irish and Foreign Missionary Societies, have all been received by the church here up to the present day. The above-mentioned objects, however, have reluctantly necessitated us to request your Mr. Fuller to pass us by this time, trusting this will not be the case next year. I will engage a strenuous effort shall be made, if you will do as much as you can for us at the present juncture. This is the first request made by them, may it be the last.

Hartlepool, October 29, 1846. DEAR SIR,-You will be glad to hear that Mr. J. Phas resolved to stay and become our pastor. There is so great a prospect of usefulness that nothing, he states, can tempt him to leave. Thus we are now likely to make progress as we wish, so far as I can yet judge. We received the grant of the committee through Mr. Sample, and right glad we were of it; and we received £2 10s. from Mr. Thomas Bell of South Shields, with a note stating that amount should be sent quarterly making £10 annually; for this I hope we are grateful, and we trust such helps will be the means of promoting the extension of the Redeemer's kingdom. Should you find that Mr. P. is deserving, I hope you will increase your grant till twelve months after the chapel is built. We wish him to have more than can possibly be given, so long as we are in such a small room: if you can I know you will do this. It is very likely next week we shall get a piece of ground for a chapel in a good situation. We pray all these efforts may tend to the glory of the great Head of the church, and that we and all who profess to love and serve him may be endowed with every gift and grace of his Holy Spirit.

The following extracts are from the report of the Yorkshire Auxiliary. :

In presenting their annual report of the

Itinerant Society's progress, the committee are thankful to say that their work has been favoured with tokens of the approbation of God. Amidst the fluctuations of trade, and the uncertainties of the empire, the cause of Christ has been quietly, but steadily advancing. Souls have been converted, and churches have been formed.

It seems unnecessary to notice, in detail, the stations at Rotherham, Hunslet, Stanningley, Bingley, and Cullingworth, as their respective letters are before the association.

From the beginning of the present year, the second church at Sheffield has been favoured with the services of Mr. Rodway, formerly the pastor of the baptist church at Gloucester, and the church at Wakefield with those of Mr. Howieson, from the college. Both these stations are now in a greatly improved condition. The congregations are larger than they were: and the churches more united, and more active in the service of God.

At Daw Green a room was taken before the last association: and the word preached there has been blessed. For want of more attention the cause has latterly suffered. The management of the Itinerant Society having been combined with the pastoral oversight of a church, has prevented the requisite attention from being given. Contentions have arisen: and division and weakness have followed. Recently, however, a union has been effected between the station at Dewsbury, commenced by Mr. Allison, and that at Daw Green. Some devoted servants of God who were in the church at Chapel-fold have had their dismission: and some others have been baptized.

Immediately after the last association, Mr. Law, who was leaving the college for missionary service in the West Indies, was requested to spend a few weeks in Barnsley. He preached almost daily in the streets and outskirts of the town. And after he left, the brethren, Mr. Eady, Mr. Lindley, Mr. Green, of Sheffield, and Mr. Fletcher of Hunslet, supplied. For some time the services were still held in the open air. At Worsboro' Common, a neglected village at the outside of the town, infidelity presented some opposition. But the attendance gradually increased. One person at the Common offered the use of a house; and shortly after, another in the town, a small school-room. Two or three then came forward to assist in lending tracts and inviting persons to hear the word. They also began to meet through the week for reading the scriptures and prayer: and thus the work gradually deepened and extended. The zeal of our brother Mr. Eady appeared to increase with the increasing demands of the station. Though constantly engaged through the week, he was always ready, when requested, to take the journey of 12 or 14 miles to make known Christ on the sabbath. And through the blessing of God on his labours principally, there has been formed a church which now has 9 members; and in the congregation several are considered hopeful inquirers after the way of salvation.

At Huddersfield, about 12 months since, a room was taken for sabbath-evening worship, by Mr. Lomas and Mr. Ash. They felt that the large town in their neighbourhood demanded their sympathy and their efforts: and therefore.

besides attending to their own churches, determined on preaching Christ among its population. For eighteen months before, there had been a weekly prayer- eeting, held by a few baptists in the town: and when the room was taken, they considered the step an introductory answer to prayer. They heartily united in circulating tracts and giving invitations; and the blessing of God manifestly attended the means. It soon appeared desirable to have worship on sabbath morning, as well as evening: and soon afterwards it appeared a duty to unite in church fellowship those who were labouring together in the work of the Lord. The forination of this separate organization has been made a blessing. It has increased the number of labourers, and deepened their interest in the work. Already the church has 25 members in its community and at this annual meeting seeks a place in the association.

At Ripon, soon after the last association, the neat and commodious room which the Temperance Society had fitted up, was engaged for the worship of God. The committee had appoint d a deputation to visit the place, because of the very liberal offer of assistance which had been made there. This deputation had recommended the committee to begin. The providential residence and zealous co-operation of Mr. Thomas furnished additional reasons for comp y ing with this advice; and after Mr. Law had spent a few weeks at Barnsley, he was requested to go to Kipon. The congregation at once became much larger than had been expected. The word preached has also been made useful. Some have been converted to God; and there is reason to conclude that Christians have been growing in grace. Mr. Peacock of Masham, Mr. Atty of Bedale, Mr. Davies of Borobridge, with two of his deacons, Mr. Morley and Mr. Norris, have rendered valuable assistance by supplying the station sometimes. At other times it has been very acceptably supplied from the college. Mr. Pigg, who is just leaving Horton, has been invited by the Ripon friends to supply them for a quarter of a year.

At Armley a room has been taken, and supplies for a season have been sent; but hitherto, at that place, and that only of the new stations, the attempt has not been successful.

Four of the number have been baptized, and added to the Stanningley church. Mr. Harrison, one of Mr. Colcroft's deacons, has been very zealous and persevering in this effort. And towards the expense of erecting a room, a subscription list has been com enced, headed by the treasurer of the society, with a promise of twenty pounds.

From this brief report of the stations which have been recently formed, it will be perceived that the labours and the expenditure have not been in vain. Money has been consecrated to God. Piety, zeal, and talents have been employed: and, though the blessing of the Holy Sp rit, three churches have been brought into existence in the year. The measure of success has not been satisfactory: not what should now be desired: but it is encouraging. It should call forth gratitude. It ought to stimulate future exertion.

It is a duty to remark that a very important part of the labour which God has thus blessed, has been gratuitously rendered. The committee take this opportunity of expressing their thankfulness for this valuable help. Besides being indebted to the brethren whose names have been mentioned, there is a simi ar debt of gratitude owing to many other brethren.

It is earnestly hoped that such services will be kindly continued; and that other brethren will render similar aid. But to proceed with the work, and extend it, as the county demands extension-as inviting fields are calling fr extension, larger contributions will also be required; they will, though there is at this meeting a balance in the treasurer's hands. Even with the stations now hegun, the next year is sure, at several places, to be much more expensive than the last; and the whole year is likely to be much more expensive than any which the society has hithert known. The commencement of other stations will of course involve addit onal outlay.

safed to him, and the boyish fear of death grew into habits of reflection, so that, when a somewhat extended excitement took place in the district of his residence, he found himself comprised within its influence and yielding to its sway. He does not give the date of his uniting with the presbyterians at Llwynrhydowain, but it must have been about 1782 or 1783, when he was in the sixteenth or seventeenth year of his age.

Of the whole of this period of his life, and of the predisposing causes of his seeking membership in the church under Mr. Davies's care, Christmas Evans says, "I was disturbed by certain operations of mind which, I believe, were not common, from my ninth year upwards. The fear of dying in an ungodly state especially affected me, and this apprehension clung to me till I was induced to rest upon Christ. All this was accompanied by some little knowledge of the Redeemer; and now, in my seventieth year, I cannot deny that this concern was the dawn of the day of grace on my spirit, although mingled with much darkness and ignorance. During a revival which took place in the church under the care of Mr. David Davies, many young people united themselves with that people, and I amongst them. What became of the major part of these young converts I have never known, but I hope God's grace followed them as it did me, the meanest of the whole. One of the fruits of this awakening was the desire for religious knowledge that fell upon us. Scarcely one person out of ten could, at this time and in those neighbourhoods, read at all, even in the language of the country. We bought bibles and candles, and were accustomed to meet together in the evening, in the barn of Penyralltfawr; and thus, in about one month, I was able to read the bible in my mother tongue. I was vastly delighted with

so much learning. This, however, did not satisfy me, but I borrowed books and learnt a little English. Mr. Davies, my pastor, understood that I thirsted for knowledge, and took me to his school, where I stayed for six months. Here I went through the Latin grammar; but so low were my circumstances that I could stay there no longer." About this time it was that he lost his eye, which took place in this wise :— Six young men fell upon him unawares in the darkness of night and beat him unmercifully; one of them, using a stick, struck him above the eye, which occasioned the loss of its sight, “though,” he piously observes, in recording the event, "I had my life spared." It is a great mistake that has gone abroad which makes Christmas Evans "a noted boxer." So far otherwise that he says, he never fought a battle in his life. Indeed, he was by no means a man of great physical courage; he was too much a man of imagination, while his habits were the simplest, the least offensive, and the most yielding that can be conceived. On the night after this accident he had a dream, in which the day of judgment was represented to him; he saw the world in a blaze, and conceived that he enjoyed great confidence in calling out, "Jesus, save me!" The Lord seemed to turn towards him and to say, "It was thy intention to preach the gospel, but now it is too late, the day of judgment is come." This he felt as a reproof, that he had not yielded to the strong promptings of his heart to preach the gospel, and it powerfully affected his mind. It was always his firm belief that he had received some of the most important intimations of his life in dreams, and it was utterly vain to attempt to persuade him to the contrary.

To preach the gospel was now the object of his most ardent desire. There was a kind of law in force at Llwynrhydowain that no member of the church