there in translating the scriptures | Three hundred Testaments have

been dispatched to Sierra Leone and Goree; and a much larger number has been consigned to the care of the Rev. Mr, Marsden, for the benefit of the convicts in New South Wales. Your committee have also availed themselves of the offer of S. D. Street, esq. senior master in chancery for the province of New Brunswick, to take charge of a number of Bibles and New Testaments for the accommodation of several families in that province, where they were much wanted.

into different dialects of India; nor have they yet received any acknowledgment of their resolution granting a donation of 2000 in aid of this desirable undertaking. They have it, however, under consideration to print an edition of the Tamulian version of the scriptures; and they availed themselves of their communication with Bengal to send 500 Bibles and 1000 Testaments, to be placed at the discretional disposal of the corresponding committee in that country, for sale or gratuitous distribution to the army and navy, and other The printing of an edition of poor Europeans. They have al- the scriptures in Arabic, adverso resolved that 250 German Bi-ted to in their last report, has not bles and 500 German New Testaments be sent from Haile to the German missionaries in India for the like purpose.

escaped the attention of your committee; but the expense of this work, and a variety of important circumstances involved in the execution of it, are sub

much deliberation, before a final decision upon it can be made. Your committee have also under their consideration a proposal to

The preceding detail comprises nearly all that your com-jects which will still require mittee have to report with respect to the transactions of the society in foreign parts. Under this head, however, it remains to mention, that they have dis-print the New Testament in patched 700 copies of the New modern Greek. Testament in Spanish to Gibraltar, for distribution among the Spaniards. The committee had reason to believe they would be received, as they had information that 600 Spanish Testaments, furnished by this society to respectable individuals, and by them transmitted to Monte Video, had been sought for with avidity by the inhabitants of that country; that even priests had come for them," and had recommended them as "good and fair / copies." A large supply of English Bibles and New Testaments has also been sent to Gibraltar for the use of the garrison.

In reporting their proceedings within the united kingdom, your committee have the satisfaction to announce that the editions of the scriptures in Welsh and Gaelic have been completed; they have further the pleasure to remark,hat applications have been already received for more than half the impression; and they have no doubt but that the whole will be wanted after the copies now called for have had the advantage of circulation. Of this edition 500 Gaelic Bibles and 800 New Testaments have been voted to different correspondents of your committee

in Nova Scotia and Canada, for care of your committee, may sale, or gratuitous distribution, have occurred, they take this at their discretion, among the opportunity of earnestly requestpoor Highlanders in that part of ing the members and friends of the world. the society to communicate any

It has been the anxious wish typographical or other errors and endeavor of your commit-which they may observe, to their tee, that the editions of the assistant secretary, Mr. Tarn. scriptures printed by the Brit-The observation of an omission ish and Foreign Bible Society in the Welsh Bible, which was should be exempt as far as pos-immediately corrected, has inible from errors; and with a duced them to make this review to the future correction of quest.

any, which, notwithstanding the

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE

POETRY.

CONNECTICUT EVANGELICAL MAGA

ZINE.

THE following paraphrastic version of one of the most beau tiful Elegies* in our language, is from the pen of Bishop Lowth, and must be an acceptable present to all your readers of taste, if not already familiar to them.

AS pants the wearied hart for cooling springs,
That sinks exhausted in the summer's chase ;
So pants my soul for thee, great King of kings,
So thirsts to reach thy sacred resting place.

On briny tears my famish'd soul has fed,
While taunting foes deride my deep despair;
Say where is now thy great deliverer fled ?
Thy mighty GoD-deserted wanderer, where?

Oft dwell my thoughts on those thrice happy days,
When to thy fane I led the jocund throng;
Our mirth was worship, all our pleasure praise,
And festal joys still clos'd with sacred song.

Why throb my heart? why sink my sadd'ning soul?
Why droop to earth with various woes oppress'd?
My years shall yet in blissful circles roll,
And joy be yet an inmate of this breast.

By Jordan's banks with devious steps I stray,
C'er Hermon's rugged rocks and deserts drear ;
Ev'n there thy hand shall guide my lonely way,
There thy remembrance shall my spirit cheer.

*Forty second Psalm,

In rapid floods the vernal torrents roll,
Harsh-sounding cataracts responsive roar ;
Thine angry billows overwhelm my soul,

And dash my shatter'd bark from shore to shore.

Yet thy soft mercies ever in my sight,

My heart shall gladden thro' the tedious day;
And 'midst the dark and gloomy shades of night,
To thee I'll fondly tune the grateful lay.

Rock of my hope, great solace of my heart,
Why, why desert the offspring of thy care;
While taunting foes thus point th' invidious dart,
Where's now thy God! abandon'd wanderer, where :
Why faint my soul? why doubt Jehovah's aid?
Thy GoD, the GoD of mercy still shall prove,
In his bright fane thy thanks shall yet be paid,
Unquestion'd be his pity and his love.

Hymn to Enjoyment.

COME Enjoyment, teach thy nature,
To an heir just born to thee ;
Of thyself grave every feature,
On thy infant progeny.

Art thou like the meteor glaring,
Found alone in cloudless skies?
As the meteor full orb'd, transient,
Trackless, lost upon the eyes?

Why dost shun fame's crowded temple,
And the sumptuous banquet why?

Why the proud and envied palace,

Stranger, dost thou ever fly?

Why the breast o'erspread with honors,

Bosoms ne'er by conscience stung?

Why the heirs of golden plenty,

Why the jocund sons of song?

Envied guest, reveal thy nature,
And thy haunts disclose and source,
Say why shun the bow'rs of pleasure,
Ease and honor in thy course?

Not for fear-the crown'd head courts thee,
For without thee crowns are nought;
Not for shame-the humblest cottage,
Is thy most belov'd resort.

Not for want of admiration;
Live for thee, or from life flee

Courtiers, slaves, kings, peasants, villains;
Every creature pants for thee.

Yet but one of thee lives worthy,
One alone successful flies,

All else seek in earth the treasure,
He more subtle in the skies.

Hence the breasts that never glitter'd
With a star, thy presence share;
Wonder! now stretch all thy vision
For the reason-God is there.

And where God is-lov'd, possess'd,
Or in dust or souls above;
There Enjoyment, thou art, must be,
Mystery vanish-God is love.

God is love, and love makes blissful,
Pure and holy-hence thy source;
Man's inconstant, fickle, absent,
Hence thy devious, trackless course.

Be this heart then, glorious spirit,
Ever hence thy constant home;
Then Enjoyment ne'er shall leave it ;
Ne'er from thee my spirit roam.

Haste the hour when love imperfect,
Shall receive its finish'd pow'r,
Fulness, constancy immortal,

Fruitful, blissful, glorious hour!!!

1808.

Donations to the Missionary Society of Connecticut.

Dec. 16. Willington Female Association.......................... 10. 50 David Harrower, collected in new settlements....8 50

$19.00

MR

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paigns at the Northward, and husbanded with rigid economy his earnings in this and other methods, he at length deemed it prudent, to think seriously of qualifying himself for the ministry. As it respected a liberal education, this was happily effected, and in 1765 he received the honors of Yale-College.

R. BRAY was born in Branford, Sept. 22, O. S. 1738. His father was lost in Long-Island sound, when he was about three years of age, leaving him and a brother under the care and instruction of their mother. She afterwards removed to Far- During his college-life he was mington, where her children exceedingly intent in the pursuit were brought up. In providing of knowledge, and especially in for them, it was judged best, as that of the holy religion which with her husband the greatest he loved and professed. From part of his property was lost, the time of commencing his stuthat the subject of these memoirs dies, he kept his eye fixed on should learn a mechanical branch the sacred desk, as the field in of business. He accordingly ser- which he thirsted to labor, and ved an apprenticeship. During was assiduous in those, which this time he was impressed with would more directly qualify him a deep concern for the welfare for usefulness in this station.of his soul, and having obtained Of the church in college he was a comfortable hope, at the age an active and exemplary memof nineteen, made a public pro-ber, and in academic pursuits in fession of religion. As his cir- general, made reputable procumstances were straitened, it gress. is probable, however great his desire might be, that he thought at this time, but little of attempting to obtain a public edugation. Having served two camVOL. II. No. 2.

In Feb. 1766, he was licensed to preach the gospel. In April, he was invited to supply the pulpit at North-Guilford, vacant by the dismission of the Rev. John

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