Negroes are better treated, more comfortable, contented and happy, than is generally conceived, even by Anti-Abolitionists. I have on many occ: sions already preached on the plantations and in Baton Rouge, to hundreds of them assembled to hear me. I could see no difference in their appearance and evident contentment and those of our Kentucky Negroes. They are evidently better off than our nominally free blacks. Oh! that you could visit this region-say Vicksburg, Natchez, Baton Rouge and New Orleans— you could, in a few discourses at each place, effect a vast amount of good I am most thoroughly convinced. May grace, mercy, and peace rest on you and yours from our heavenly Father, through our dear Redeemer! Brother Baxter is here. His health is improving. JNO. ALLEN GANO. Paris, Monroe county, Missouri, January 13, 1848. On Friday last I crossed the Mississippi river, and spent Saturday and Lord's day at Hannibal; at which place we had several good meetings and very attentive audiences. A singular occurrence took place here. On Lord's day, after attending to the Lord's supper, a Presbyterian preacher being present, was invited to speak. He gave a good address, expressing his approbation of what he saw and heard, and that he thought it was the duty of all Christians to attend to that solemn institution every Lord's day. When he concluded, a hymn was sung and an invitation extended, when a member of the Presbyterian church of that place came forward, confessed the Lord, and was baptized in the Mississippi, and united to the church. The brethren at Hannibal have just built a good brick meeting house, and will be happy to enjoy the labors of any travelling proclaimers who may be able to visit them. A meeting has just closed at Columbia, during which 32 persons were added to the church. Brothers Allen, Thomas, and Wills were present and labored faithfully for the salvation of souls, and the Lord blessed their efforts. May they be kept by the Lord for many days of usefulness, is the prayer of yours, W. F. M. ARNY. Tuesto, St. Louis county, Mo., January 19, 1848. In this region of country we have an organized congregation of about 15 members, with a fair prospect of many more. Brother R. S. Patton will be our regular evangelist. We were visited last fall by brothers Hopson and Hall, both good speakers. It is, brother Campbell, a source of great joy to all your friends west, that you have been spared once more to return to your adopted country and home, to labor in the cause of Christ. Brother Thomas M. Allen is conducting an interesting meeting in Cclumbia at this time. Some fourteen put on Christ, Lord's day before last, by being immersed into his name. He has promised to visit us in the spring. God grant it may be productive of much good! R. H. STEPHENS. Wainfleet, U. C., February 11, 1848. It will, no doubt, be interesting to you to hear of the cause of the Redeemer's kingdom in this part of Canada West. A young and flourishing church has arisen here in the township of Wainfleet, Niagara district, organized in the year '45, numbering nine members, which was commenced by the labors of brethren Landis Cornell and D. Oliphant, and has increased since that time to twenty six. Eleven of that number were baptized during the labors of brother A. S. Hayden in October last, who visited us. The brethren were strengthened and much encouraged to press forward toward the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. May they be preserved unto his heavenly kingdom should be the prayer of all those who love the Lord in sincerity. The brethren in this place and elsewhere in Canada, so far as known to me, deeply sympathize with you in your persecutions and loss in your family, knowing that you had sorrow upon sorrow. We regret to say that Mr. Robertson, Secretary of the Scotch Anti-Slavery Society in Scotland, while advocating freedom in one sense, is holding to slavery principles in another form, by not allowing you to express your opinion on the subject of slavery in private without denouncing you in public the same as a manstealer. There is no doubt that he will see his folly, if he does not repent of it. THOMAS BRADT. Marion, Grant county, Indiana, January 27, 1848. There have been about one hundred and twenty additions to the churches under my teaching within the last year-eighty by immersion-the others had been immersed. J. B. NEW. Georgetown, Scott county, Ky., January 31, 1848. Since my last, dated October 15, I have taken a tour of some weeks. I labored through much infirmity of the flesh and inclemency of weather; notwithstanding, the result was 17 additions-5 from the Baptists and 13 from the world, principally in the Greenbrier country, where I had the pleasure of meeting several of my fellow-laborers in the gospel. I found the brethren much devoted to the cause. May the Lord bless the efforts of all who strive together for the faith of the gospel! JAMES M'MILLAN. Athens, Tennessee, January 6, 1848. The cause of reform is rather at a stand here. There are but few of us, and the sects are using exertions to hinder the progress of the best cause in the world. My brother generally preaches somewhere every Lord's day; but is so situated that he cannot devote his time to study. The congregation meets weekly. Can you tell me of brother E. Smith's whereabouts?* JAMES METCALFE. Mount Eden, Spencer county, Ky., February 3, 1848. I have lately obtained nine noble additions to the cause. L. MARRETT. La Fayette, Ohio, February 9, 1848. Lam seated to communicate good news. Brother William Hayes, M. D., has been here eight or ten days proclaiming the gospel, and eight noble souls have confessed the Lord and were immersed Prospects are favorable for more. Six of those immersed are young ladies attending my school here. I have been inculcating the mild, ennobling, regenerating, and expanding principles of the Bible to them all winter, and now we see the result. I use the Bible in my school daily, and at the close of the morning lesson lecture upon it, accompanied with prayer. The church here has received a new impetus. May the good Lord bless you in all your labors! J. R. FRAME Wooster, Ohio, February 12, 1848. Brother A. B. Green closed a meeting of ten days here last week. We had a very good hearing, and I believe much good done. Eight persons were added to the faithful-six by immersion, one by letter, and one from the Methodists, (immersed.) The good cause is prospering in this section of the country, and we should be very happy to see you at our place during the coming spring or C. LAKE. summer. * Erwinton, S. C. Erwinton, S. C., January 30, 1848. During a protracted meeting held at this place in November, four made the good confession and were buried with their Lord in baptism. Of this number, two were pupils of mine, for which I thank the Lord. Such is the result of making the scriptures of truth a text-book in my school. How astonishing it is that so much pains are taken to cultivate the intellectual powers, while the moral are suffered to lie neglected-so much anxiety to train up the young to appear to advantage in this world, while no thought is given to fit and prepare them for immortality! O Tempora! O Mores! I wish that all schools would adopt the following motto:-"Cor et mentem colore nitimur”—(We endeavor to improve the heart and the mind.) Those whom God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. J. S. HAVENER. Euclid, Ohio, February 25, 1848. The good seed in good soil has taken root and is springing up in many fields in this part of Ohio. The principal success of the gospel on the Western Reserve, within a few weeks past, has been at the following places:-Hiram, Portage county, fifteen additions; Southington, seventeen; at Bloomfield, thirty-four-both in Trumbull; at Russell, Geauga county, seventeen; at Chagrin Falls, two; Euclid, twenty-two. Indeed the prospects of the cause are brightening every where; and if this were not election year, great grace would be upon us all I have no doubt There are still in the churches, with shame be it spokeu, some more zealous for the success of a dear party political or a favorite leader, than for the rescue of a soul from ruin, or for the adorning of their own spirits with the graces of righteousness and peace. Brother, is the chain of friendship broken that has long bound Bethany to this lake country of Judea? Not broken, neither can acid rust it. Let us brighten it. A.S. HAYDEN.. OBITUARY. Cookstown, January 25, 1848. Dear brother Campbell-I am called on to let you know that brother A. BUGHER has departed this life. He left here with his family for Cincinnati about the first of November, and on the 27th of the same month died in the city of Cincinnati. He was an ornament in the circle with which he was associated. We have lost a valuable member. He was truly a devoted follower of Jesus and a sincere Christian. D. F. Pilgrim's Sojourn, Pulaski, Va., January 16, 1848. Dear brother Campbell-Man is of few days, and those few are full of trouble; but our kind heavenly Father graciously permits us to die in order to enter upon an estate incorruptible, undefiled, and unfa ling. My beloved son-in-law, HENDERSON F. VAUGHAN, of Amelia county, Va fell asleep in Jesus. on the 9th day of December, 1847. His brief history deserves a passing notice. Liberally endowed by nature with intellectual powers, with social qualities, and with a large, warm, and benevolent heart, he was the hope of his mother and the pride of his family. Caressed by his relatives and flattered by his friends, he became the com pinion of the gay, the cheerful, and the buoyant. Always supplied with ‹ the means of enjoyment, no wonder that his besetting sin for a time overruled his better judgment. His weakness was the want of self-control. In February, 1841, he married my daughter Mariamne. Meantime, amid the anxieties and the efforts of his friends, a thousand fervent prayers found their way to the listening ear of a prayer-answering God. At length he SERIES III.-VOL. V. 15* became concerned for the salvation of his soul; but, like the Eunuch, he needed some one to guide him. At his request I wrote him an outline of the Bible, exhibiting its classification, &c.; and, as he afterwards said to me, the light broke in upon his hitherto bewildered intellect; the Bible became a new book, and his way became clear. He now saw that religion consisted in serving the Lord, in doing his will on earth as angels do in heaven. Under these convictions he wished to be immediately baptized; but no opportunity offering, about the first of March, 1847, his affectionate brother, James P., mailed a letter to me, expressing his afflicted brother's anxiety on the subject of baptism, and urging me to lose no time. as he was then laboring under severe hemorrhage of the lungs. Again I asked the Lord to spare him and protect me till I could ride 200 miles. That prayer was also granted; and when I arrived I found him partially convalescent. I never saw any one more determined on doing the will of God, than was Henderson F. Vaughan, when, on the 8th day of April, 1847, I led him slowly and solemnly down into the water, and there buried him in the likeness of Christ's death; nor did I ever feel more assured that I was doing God's service than on that interesting occasion. He did not disappoint the hopes of his friends; for eight months he lived the Christian's life. About the last of October, accompanied by his wife and infant child, and my son Barrett, he set out to spend the winter in Florida. For the first 15 or 20 days he rallied very much; but his health suddenly giving way, admonished him to hasten his return to the family cemetery in Amelia. But arriving in Petersburg on the 8th December, he died there the day after in the family of a devoted sister. He was sensible to the last, and closed his eyes in the full assurance of a blissful immortality. He has left a wife, three children, and a large number of friends and relatives, to bewail his early removal. May we, who remain, so order our conduct and conversation, that, like him, we too may die the death of the righteous. A. B. WALTHAEL. Erwinton, S. C., January 30, 1848.. Fell asleep in Jesus, at Erwinton, S. C., the residence of her father, Gen. J. D. Erwin, on Tuesday the 11th of January, 1848, Miss JULIA C ERWIN Her disease was typhus fever. During her illness she had all the attention which kind friends and skillful physicians could bestow; but Death had marked her for his own. It is with no ordinary feelings that I take up my pen to record the death of this amiable and beloved sister, who was cut off in the morning of life, just as the amiableness and sweetness of her disposition began to be developed, whose death will leave a vacuum in the circle of her acquaintances that will not soon be filled. But we confidently trust the Saviour has taken her to himself, and that she now enjoys that rest which remains for the people of God in that house of many mansions, prepared for all his sincere followers, where sorrow and crying, sickness and death will be no more. O blessed place! O glorious hope! I immersed her, with several of her schoolmates, on the first Lord's day in June, 1846, since which time she exhibited in her Christian deportment that uniformity and consistency which are among its ornaments. She was the first of the family to confess the Lord, and had the satisfaction before her death to see her parents, and all her brothers and sisters, who had come to the years of understanding, follow her example.. How remarkable that, as she was the first fruits of her family to the Lord in his kingdom here, so she was the first fruits in his kingdom above. May the premature death of this amiable young sister be an effectual warning to her young friends and acquaintances to prepare to meet her in heavon! Her friends and relatives ean say with the poet "Thou art gone to the grave; but we will not deplore thee, And the lamp of his love is thy guide through the gloom." Her remains were followed to the grave by her friends and relatives, where brother E. A. Smith made some appropriate and practical remarks suitable to the occasion. J. S. HAVENER. Evergreen, S. C., February 6, 1848. Another beloved and valued friend is gone the way of all the earth. Brother S. G. EARLE departed this life on the 5th of last month, in the state of Georgia. He left Evergreen the morning previous, well, and died about 9 o'clock that night, in less than one hour after he was attacked with the cramp cholic. Alas how frail we are! In the midst of life we are in the midst of death. He was the first person baptized in the present reformation, about eighteen years ago, and ever since his life and ample means were devoted to the cause of Christianity; for no man in this country ever -did more. He was emphatically the poor man's friend; and, as the Presbyterian preacher truly said publicly on the day of his burial, he never sent the widow and orphan empty away. His afflicted and bereaved family has the consolation to know that, although dead, yet he lives in the memory and affections of many of whom he was the greatest of earth's benefactors, and that in the great day his deeds will be remembered and rewarded by the great Head of the Church. And I think it can truly be said of him, that although engaged in a large mercantile business, he lived and died without a personal enemy. He was in his 59th year. J. MOORE. Brother Earle was our first reader of the "Christian Baptist" in the Carolinas indeed, in all the South. In South Carolina, as well as in Georgia, he introduced our name and our writings. General Erwin, of Erwinton, was next to him in South Carolina; and so the doctrine of reformation spread so far as it is gone. Sister Tubman, in Augusta, and brother Dunning, in Savannah, pioneered the way in their respective cities.These, we thank the Lord, yet live; but our brother Earle is no longer with us. I had the pleasure of once seeing him at home, and witnessing the esteem and affection which he enjoyed amongst his brethren and neighbors. He was with me when last in Augusta, and bade me his last adieu in Charleston, S. C., April 16th, 1S45. While we sympathize with his excellent lady, sister Earle, and his family, and with our brethren in South Carolina, in their common loss and bereavement, we cannot but rejoice in the hope that while absent from the body from us, he is "at home with the Lord, in whose presence there is fulness of joy, and at whose right hand are pleasures forevermore!" A. C. Todd county, Ky., November 21, 1847. Our much beloved brother JOSEPH M'BRIDE, of Todd county, fell asleep in Christ, at brother Coleman Durrett's, in this county, on Thursday last, the 18th instant, after lingering for months with dyspepsia. His loss will be sorely felt by his numerous friends and brethren in this region, having labored faithfully in the good cause for the last twelve or fifteen years, with becoming meekness and simplicity. So constantly had this good man the example of the Saviour before him, that he was enabled to rise high above the envy and jealousy that sometimes characterize public speakers. Consequently he could labor pleasantly and cordially with any of his fellow-laborers in the good harvest in which |