Foreign Intelligence. DENMARK. BIBLE SOCIETY. Increasing Exertions of the Society. THE Rev. Dr. Henderson has communicated to the British and Foreign Bible Society some encouraging statements of the progress of the Bible Society in Denmark. Its proceedings have, within these few months, assumed an aspect which has long been desired. Under date of Copenhagen, April 3, 1819, Dr. Henderson writes In the different Provinces, a number of Clergymen and others have come forward simultaneously; and have not only sent in their own individual contributions to the Society, but have 'succeeded in the formation of Filial Associations, for the purpose of exciting a local interest among their parishioners and dependents, and more effectually aiding the cause in general. But nothing will more essentially accelerate and extend the prosperity of the Danish Bible Society, than the adoption of measures, which have just been proposed, and will be resolved at the next meeting; namely, the publication of a Monthly Circular, containing, in as condensed a form as possible, the History of Bible Societies, and the most interesting occurrences of recent date, connected with their progress and beneficial effects; together with the incidents of a journey, undertaken by one or more Members of the Parent Committee through the Provinces, with a view to plant new Societies, and to water such as are already planted. Numerous applications for Bibles and Testaments have been pouring in from Country Clergymen, who wish to supply such of their Young Charge as are to be confirmed at Easter. The Right Rev. Bishop Boysea has ordered not fewer than 600 copies of the New Testament for this purpose. The Society is actively extending its care to the Foreign Possessions of Denmark. At our last Meeting (says Dr. Henderson) supplies of the Danish Scriptures were voted for Greenland and the West Indies. From the latter have been received by the Society, in quarter upward of 1700 silver dollars the course of last year. The Edition of the Creolian New Testament, consisting of 1200 copies, has now left the press; and a supply will be sent, by the earliest opportunity, for distribution among the swarthy sons of Africa: who, by a Divine Blessing on the perusal of them, may become the freed-men of Christ; and be taught to render service from the heart as unto the Lord, and not to man, till that period arrives when they shall be invested with the same privileges as the rest of our common species. SWEDEN. BIBLE SOCIETY. Activity of the Association in the Parish of Alrum. DR.Henderson writes from Gottenburgh, May 28, 1819— In the Parish of Alrum, in Scania, which, I doubt not, Dr. Steinkopff well remembers, there is one of the most flourishing Bible Associations in Sweden. Its worthy founder, the Rev. Gabriel Thulin, has been indefatigable in carrying forward its operations: till none has been left Eternal Life, excepting such as may unsupplied with the Records of have settled in the Parish subsequently to the last investigation; and who will, in their turn, be put in possession of the inestimable treasure. Among other regulations adopted by this Association, it may be menbration of the Marriage-Service, the tioned, that, previously to the celeBridegroom presents his Bride with sented by the Sponsors of the Child, a Bible; and, at Baptism, one is prefor whom it is kept till he be able to make use of it. Upward of 600 copies have been distributed in the Parish of Alrum. Activity of the Gottenburgh Societies. writes) that I have to state the progress which is made by the Bible Societies of Gottenburgh. The members of the larger Institution, aided afresh by the bounty of your Committee, are encouraged to carry on their investigations, and enabled to supply the spiritual want of the Poor in these times of severe external pressure. Upward of 3000 Bibles and 2000 Testaments have been distributed, in the course of the last year. In this labour of love, their operations are greatly facilitated, as far as it regards the town and imme diate neighbourhood of Gottenburgh, by its active Auxiliary Society, in which the young bear so distinguished a part. I had last night the pleasure of attending a Meeting of its Committee, and was happy to observe the minuteness and accuracy with which its investigations are carried on. Of the scope which exists for their exertions, I need only state the fact, that upward of forty cases were presented as the result of applications and investigations for a single month, all which related to families or individuals whose circumstances put it entirely out of their power to procure the Sacred Volume. Nor is the attention of the Auxiliary Committee confined to the regular inhabitants of the place: they extend it to the shipping, supplying such of them as are found to be destitute of the Scriptures. It is worthy of notice, that there is scarcely an English Vessel, which they have visited of late, that has not a Bible on board. The greatest demand is from Danish and Norwegian Seamen. lected from Dr. Paterson's different Letters. Great Circulation of the Scriptures. From our depository in the Bible Society House, we have, during the last month, sent away copies of the Scriptures, to the amount of nearly 100,000 roubles; to every quarter and almost every province of Russia, whether European or Asiatic. Twenty cart-loads were sent directly across the Caucasus to Tiflis, in Georgia, for Christians and Mahomedans. Our friends in Georgia are full of animation; they have collected not less than 18,000 roubles; which, in whatever light it be viewed, is a considerable sum for them." We have orders to send away copies of the Scriptures, for about 120,000 roubles. Completion of the Gospels in Modern Russ. On Easter Evening, I had the unspeakable pleasure of presenting to Galitzin, the first copy of the Gospels our excellent Emperor, through Prince in the Modern Russ. As it was needful that the first edition should have a short Preface, giving an account of the cause of its being translated into the Modern Russ, and the good Monarch fearing that those who him undue praise, I was repeatedly drew up the Preface might have given charged not to deliver out a single copy, until he had read the Preface, and approved it. Nothing having been said to hurt the feelings of the modest Alexander, he approved of the whole; and was highly delighted to see this important part of the Word of the Livabout thirty millions of his subjects. ing God, in a language understood by I immediately received orders to distribute as many copies as we had got ready. I then sent copies to the Members of the Imperial Family, and several of the leading Members of our Committee; which caused much joy to them and their families. The day before yesterday our Committee met, when I had copies prepared for the remaining Members; and, the business being ended, and my packages opened, every copy was speedily carried away. We are likely to be, in a manner, devoured at the depôt, by the people, eagerly soliciting copies, The following information is col- and begging to be allowed to deposit RUSSIA. BIBLE SOCIETY. LETTERS from the Rev. Dr. Paterson, dated in February, March, and April, from St. Petersburgh, convey many proofs of the enlarging influence and exertions of the Russian Bible Society and its numerous co-adjutors. Sixteen new Associations have been formed in various parts of the Empire. money in order to secure them. A second edition, to the number of 10,000 copies, was immediately ordered, and two sheets are already composed. Organization of Finland. Six Auxiliary Bible Societies have been fully organized in Finland-one at Uleaborg, a second at Kuopio, third at Wasa, a fourth at Bjorneborg, a fifth at Tavastehus, and a sixth at Borga; so that only Wyborg remains: and, when this shall have been occupied (an event which would have taken place long ere now, but for the indisposition of the Governor, whose heart is with us), the whole country will be organized; and arrangements have for some time past been making for that purpose. What I have stated, has been officially communicated to me by the President, the Governor-general, Count Steinheil; who, in the Society's name, has requested me to remit to the Parent Society in Abo, the sums promised to each of these Auxiliaries by your Committee. The statutes of all these Auxiliary Societies have been sent to me, and they are highly satisfactory indeed: the spirit which they manifest is delightful; and, as Count Steinheil expresses himself, must, in its effects, cause the light of Divine Truth to shine more and more on the inhabitants of Finland. All the money is to be sent to the Parent Society, which is to furnish the Auxiliaries with copies of the Scriptures to the amount. It is impossible to calculate the effects of these Societies on Finland. The people are capable of reading the Scriptures, and desirous of having them; but the vast extent of the country rendered it hitherto impossible to supply them. Now, in every Government Town, there will be a Bible Society; and, in every Parish, that Society will have its Commissioners, whose duty it will be to find out the wants of the people, and to supply them.-Let us praise God for these results. Juvenile Bible Society of Odessa. The Boys of the High School at Odessa petitioned to be allowed to form a Juvenile Bible Society. This being granted, a Meeting was held, attended Oct. 1819. by the most respectable inhabitants of the place. The Parents of the Chil dren were present, their Teachers, and, all the Committee of the Auxiliary Society of that place. The business was conducted in the most solemn and impressive manner. Immediately after the Public Meeting, the Children held a Committee, when their young Secretary, with the aid of the Secretary of the Odessa Society, conducted the business. They commenced by distributing copies of the Scrip tures, to the amount of forty rubles, to their poorer school-fellows; and this money had been collected by: themselves. Exertions in Moldavia, Wallachia, and Bessarabia. Every Letter from Moldavia brings us glad tidings of the progress of the work, in that Province, and in Wallachia. The demand for copies of the Scriptures is very great, and daily increasing. This seems to be more particularly the case in the Turkish part of these Provinces. The Metropolitan there has applied for 700 co pies of the New Testament, chiefly: for the Priests, to each of whom he intends giving a copy. They have, ere now, received 2000. In Bessarabia things are prospering greatly. The Moldavian Testaments were all distributed in a very short time; and pressing Letters for 2500 copies more were received; 2000 copies have since been despatched. The printing of the whole: Bible is advanced to the end of the Old Testament. Application has also been made for 500 Modern Greek Testaments. One priest writes, that, happening to read a portion of the Testament to a poor man, who could not read himself, and who had never heard the Scriptures read in his own language before, the poor man, after listening for a time with attention, burst into tears, and exclaimed, "How sweet are these words to my mouth!" The Bishop of Ackermann and Bender is particularly active. New Translations of the Scriptures. I have received the Gospel of Matthew, in the Karelian Language, which is of Finnish origin, and spoken in the Government of Twer, to print it for the poor people who speak this language: they were quite overjoyed · S.N to hear that they were likely to have the Word of Life in a language which they understand. The Members of our excellent Society in Tobolsk inform us, that they have found opportunities to get the Gospels translated into Two New Languages, spoken in Siberia, the Rangusian and Chapoginian. You see we bid fair to rival our friends in the East, in the number of Translations. Matthew is translated into the Tschuwashian, and the other Three Gospels are in a state of forwardness. This is going forward under the direction of our Societies in Kazan and Simbirsk. The works will be printed in Kazan. WESTERN AFRICA. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. SIERRA LEONE. Unusual Rains and Mortality of the Present Year. LETTERS of various dates in the months of April, May, June, July, and August, have been received at different times, from his Excellency Governor Mac Carthy, and from the Society's Missionaries and Teachers. Among these have been recognised, with mournful associations of mind, the hand-writing of one whom we must now call the late Chaplain, the Rev. John Collier; and those of two very estimable characters, Mr. John Brereton Cates and Mrs. Jesty, who have also been called away from their labours. The Rains of the present year, on the Western Coast of Africa, have been unusually severe and uninterrupted, beyond those of any season in the memory of man; and sickness and mortality have prevailed, therefore, more than ordinarily, among Natives as well as Europeans. Most of those persons, connected with the Mission, who had arrived in the preceding Drys in the Colony, have been attacked with Fever; and some of them severely: but, at the date of the last advices, the greater part of the survivors were recover ingro Means of preserving and recovering Health in Western Africa. A single failure in the most rigid and scrupulous attention, particulary in new comers, to the rules requisite in that climate for the preservation of health, will often lead to fatal consequences; while a vigilant and cautious adherence to such regulations is generally the means, under the blessing of God, of escaping, though not the attacks of fever, yet the frequent recurrence or long continuance of such attacks. His Excellency, Governor Mac Carthy, lamenting very feelingly the loss of valuable lives around him, and anxious " to prevent," to use his own words, "the exagge rated statements which the report of the death of Mr. Collier may cause at home," expresses his opinion that his sickness was brought on by various causes, which he enumerates, and which might, by scrupulous care, have been avoided. His Excellency himself affords: a striking illustration of the remarks which we have made. He has had the goodness to state, in a Letter to the Secretaries, of August the 21st, the course which he has himself so successfully pursued. His Excellency observes It is my general habit to take a great deal of exercise, on horseback; and even in an open boat, since the formation of the Soldiers' Establishments. This is (he adds) the Eighth Rainy Season which I have encountered in Africa I make it a rule to avail myself of every opportunity to change, when wet. When, from DUTY, and not otherwise, during the Rains, I visit the new Soldiers' Towns in a boat, I adhere to the same rule, as far as practicable. By the use of a Shower Bath, I have accustomed myself to wet. I keep my windows open all night, at all seasons of the year; and I am thus less affected by exposure to a damp atmosphere. I dispel all gloomy impressions, as far as I can, by keeping body and mind engaged, and mixing with ble dependence on the blessing of God, of the results of long expeSociety. rience in able men. To this account of a successful method of guarding against or of the weakening the diseases climate, we shall subjoin the sentiments of a Member of the Society, who formerly occupied the same station in the Colony as that now filled by his Excellency, on that method of Cure which experience has proved to be the most efficacious, ap The practice which I have known to be most uniformly successful, has been that of commencing, on the first pearance of Fever, with such emetic and cathartic applications as will best clear the bowels, and tend also to produce moisture on the skin; to be followed, as soon as a remission of the Fever has been obtained, by Peruvian Bark, in considerable quantity, say an ounce in twenty-four hours. I have known the following plan very useful. Take an ounce of Epsom Salts; and infuse the same in a pint of water, adding to it a solution of a grain or a grain and a half of Emetic Tartar. On the appearance of Fever, let a wine-glass of this mixture be taken every fifteen or twenty minutes, until the stomach is moved. Bleeding, in cases of Remittent Fever (I speak of Tropical Climates), I regard as very destructive: but copious bleeding is almost certain death. I have never known it to answer. During an experience of fourteen years, I acquired a fixed conviction of its being dangerous to have recourse to it, except in cases of violent topical inflammation; and, even then, the use of it, with Europeans, appeared very questionable. This Gentleman furnished the Committee with these remarks, with the same view that induced Gover as nor Mac Carthy to appeal to his own practice. They are influenced by a benevolent anxiety to arrest, much as possible, the loss of useful health and of valuable lives; and it may be hoped, that every one who is conscientiously desirous of promoting the good of Africa, will profit, to the utmost, in hum Death of Mrs. Jesty. At the end of June, both Mr. and Mrs. Jesty were much indisposed. Mrs. Jesty, though near the time of her confinement, exerted herself to the last in the Female Department of the Colonial or Freetown Schools. On the 1st of July, Mr. Jesty was obliged to call in medical aid, as his fever increased; and, on the same day, Mrs. Jesty was seized with fever. He himself was carried down to the lower part of the house, for the benefit of air, and to leave the upper apart- ; ments more retired for his wife; but this proved to be a final separation between them for the present world. On the 7th of July, Mrs Jesty was delivered of a still-born child. Mr. Morgan and Mr. Taylor had come to visit them on the preceding day, and had slept at their house. About three o'clock in the afternoon, an hour after her delivery, she sent for these friends, and told them that she wished to take leave of them before she departed to Glory, to which she felt that she was just going. She had said to a person who waited on her, “ I do not love my Saviour as I ought, and as I wish to do; but when I am in Glory, which will be very soon, how pure will that love be with which I shall then love Him!" "Tell dear Jesty," she said," that I am going to Glory; and that, ere long, we shall meet in heaven, never to part again!" She now begged Mr. Morgan to Her two friends pray for her. had scarcely kneeled down by her side, before her spirit was released from sufferings, and entered into the joy of her Lord. This (says Mr. Jesty) increased my fever. I was not allowed to see her |