because they are so far gone before | Buckley, aged five-and-a-half years. being placed under medical treatment. Not till they are unable to speak are they carried out of the lodging houses and laid in the streets. Were they carried out too soon they would be able to report what property they possessed, and the selfish, cruel, lodging housekeepers be deprived of their booty. There is another incident which I may as well mention; it relates to a Pooree man of the oil caste, who has broken caste, and is now living in Cuttack. He joined the native brethren several days before the festival, and though he might have cooked his food separately he preferred to break caste and eat with them. His friends came after him and wished him to return, but this he positively refused to do. He has not much knowledge of christianity, but is regular in his attendance at the Sabbath services. He expresses himself willing to work, but for several weeks he has not been at all well, and we have supplied him with food from our school. The other day he came to report himself better, and requested me to try to find him a situation in which he could earn his livelihood. To the best of my knowledge he is the first native of Pooree who has broken caste, left his home and taken up his abode with christians, and this invests his case with not a little interest. He is not, at present, a very bright specimen, or the interest attaching to his case would be tenfold greater. Not the righteous, however, but sinners our Saviour came to call to repentance, and it is our prayer that he may learn the way to heaven, and prove the firstfruits of Pooree to Christ. W. HILL. A FLOWER GATHERED. You may have heard that our dear brother and sister Taylor have again been in deep waters owing to the loss of their eldest little boy, George He was taken away very suddenly, of congestion of the lungs, and before medical attendance could be procured, the disease had gained too strong a hold. None but those who have tried can fully comprehend what it is to live all alone, twentyfive miles from a European, especially when there are young children. Though the dear little fellow might not be a healthy child he was full of life and activity, and when I saw him a few weeks ago at Pooree he seemed as well as ever. With his parents he has been all over the province, yet always seemed pleased to return to Piplee. Dr. Sutton on his return from Pooree the last time, wrote from Piplee his last letter to the late Secretary, and said, "this station (Piplee) looks very cheering after desolate Pooree, but it is not like the land where everlasting spring abides." Pleased as little George Taylor always was to return to Piplee, he too has doubtless long ere this 'discovered that Piplee is not like heaven. There may we all meet. WISBECH. W. H. THE Rev. H. Wilkinson visited us last month, and delivered a very interesting address, at the Ely Place Chapel, on "the present state of the mission." He exhibited on a large map of India, the Orissa Mission Field, and pointed out the Hill Tracts, where efforts are now being made to evangelize the Khonds. Mr. W. also called attention to the work that had been done, to the men who had laboured, and the prospects of future success. On his telling the congregation he hoped to get £50 in Wisbech to meet the present very unsatisfactory state of the funds, many looked very dubious until they were informed that more than half that sum had been already received, and that several friends had made conditional promises. Recent Missionary Services, &c. 39 RECENT MISSIONARY | Missionary meetings on the Monday SERVICES. NOVEMBER 2nd. Sermons were preached at Wirksworth and Shottle, by Rev. T. Yates. Public meeting on the following Tuesday, attended by the Secretary and other friends. Nov. 9th, Macclesfield. The Rev. E. Stevenson, of Loughborough, preached on the Sabbath, and attended the missionary meeting the next evening. Nov. 23rd, Walsall. Sermons by Rev. J. P. Barnett, of Circus Chapel, Birmingham, and by Rev. R. Nightingale, of Prince's End. Missionary meeting the next evening. The chair was taken by John Brewer, Esq., a warm hearted, elderly gentleman connected with the Wesleyan body. Speakers, the Revs. I. Lord, T. McLean, and J. Harrison, of Birmingham, W. Lees, of Walsall, minister of the place, and the Secretary. Nov. 30th, Ashby and Packington. Sermons were preached by Rev. C. Clarke, B.A., late of Huntingdon, and now the pastor of the church. and Tuesday. Speakers at one or both meetings, Revs. C. Clarke (chairman), C. Burrows, of Measham, J. J. Goadby, of Leicester, T. Mays, of Ashby, J. Salisbury, of Hugglescote, and the Secretary. Dec. 7th, Beeston. Sermons were preached by Rev. W. Underwood. Missionary meeting the next evening. Mr. Felkin, junr., in the chair. Messrs. Evans and Page, from the College, the Tutors, and the Secretary of the Mission also took part. held in a few other places, of which Missionary services have been no particulars have come to hand. Contributions RECEIVED ON ACCOUNT OF THE GENERAL BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY, From November 20th to December 20th, 1862. Error in December Number.-£2, the donation of E. West, Esq., of Caversham, near Reading, was placed by mistake under Ilkeston. Subscriptions and Donations in aid of the General Baptist Missionary Society will be thankfully received by Robert Pegg, Esq., Treasurer, Derby; and by the Rev. J. C. Pike, Secretary, Leicester, from whom also Missionary Boxes, Collecting Books, and Cards may be obtained. THE title of this article carries us back to the bright morning of the world, and forward to scenes far lovelier than those of Eden. Rejecting the facts presented in the brief documents which relate to the primal condition and fall of man, we become at once enveloped in impervious darkness. No effort of the intellect can explain the past, or form the slightest satisfactory conjecture as to the future. Scepticism in every form stands in antagonism to the most cherished convictions of the noblest spirits of all ages. Men have ever talked and sung of the good time past and the good time coming. However we may differ in our exposition of some of the biblical details, Eden is the only exponent of both philosophy and history. Without it, the traditions, thoughts, aspirations, and life of our race are inexplicable. In Eden we trace the first development of that defection from rectitude which has led to all our woe. We meet a prophecy of how Infinite Love intends to restore the fallen. We have no data from which we can form an opinion as to the changes VOL. IV.-NEW SERIES, No. 2. which the physical creation may have undergone in consequence of man's disobedience. It would be therefore vain to speculate. One thing is evident, that prior to the fall, the whole earth must have been a scene of unsullied beauty. During the progress of untold ages the Divine Architect had been rearing it as a fit habitation for beings but a little lower than the angels. New objects of ambition, new forms of thought, and a government distinct from His own, and hostile to it having been introduced, all these had necessarily to be met by revolutions in the material, as well as in the moral world. For the present we must confine our attention to man's expulsion from the earthly paradise, and the merciful provision which has been made for his restoration to the Divine favour. The garden, there can be no question, was a natural temple, a sacred enclosure, where God. communed with Our first parents. There were furnished special manifestations of His glory, preparatory, as we conceive, to still brighter manifestations in a higher |