Ordinations, &c. Ox Thursday, Oct. 24, 1816, the Rev. Messrs. Jesse Frost and Samuel Potter of Waterbury, (Conn) were ordained to the work of Evangelists. There being no house sufficiently large to accommodate the people, the ordination took place in a field, where suitable preparation had been made. The weather being pleasant, a numerous and respectable audience attended the services. Introductory prayer and sermon by Rev. James Miller of Wallingford. Ordaining prayer by the Rev. Henry Lines, of New Haven. Charge by the Rev. Mr. Fuller, of Litchfield. Imposition of hands by Rev. Messrs. Miller, Fuller, Lines, and Wright; and Right hand of Fellowship by Rev. David Wright, of Southington. The New Meeting-house in Milford, (N. H.) erected the past season by the Baptist Church and Society in that place, being completed, was opened on the 11th of Feb. last, by solemn worship; and Brother George Evans ordained to the work of an Evangelist Brother Elisha Williams commenced the exercises by prayer. An Anthem taken from the 132nd Psalm, "Where shall we go to seek and find," &c. was sung, by a select choir. Part of the 7th chapter of the 2 Chronicles was read by Brother Sharp. Sung 122nd Psalm, P. M. Prayer was again offered up by Brother Baldwin, who also delivered an appropriate discourse founded on Psa. xxvi. 8, in which, both occasions, though blended, were particularly noticed. Sung 132d Psalm, C. M. “A rise, O King of grace, arise," &c. The ordaining prayer was now offered by Brother Sharp, while the hands of the Presbytery were laid on the candidate. Brother Merrill of Nottingham-West, delivered the Charge, Brother Parkhurst, of New-Ipswich, gave the Right Hand of Fellowship, and Brother Stone, of New Boston, (N. H.) made the concluding prayer. The whole was concluded by an Anthem, and the Benediction by Br. Evans. Al The day was fair, but very cold. Yet the house, which is a neat, well finished wooden building, 54 by 40, was so entirely thronged, as to render it almost uncomfortably warm. though a considerable part of the assembly were obliged to stand during the whole of the exercises, no symptom of uneasiness was discoverable, but the most perfect order and profound silence were observed throughout the day. After an intermission of thirty minutes, Brother Sharp again addressed the people in an interesting discourse, from 1 Peter iii. 13. A Baptist Church was constituted in the City of New Haven, on Wednesday, the 30th of October, 1816; and in the afternoon of the same day, Rev. Henry Lines was publicly installed their Pastor. The sermon was preached by Rev. Mr. Cushman, and the Right hand of Fellowship was given by Rev. Mr. Miller. The services were performed in the Old Episcopal Church, the use of which was politely tendered the Baptists by its Proprietors. NEW PUBLICATIONS. Scott's Family Bible, in three vols. quarto. One vol is published. Philadelphia. W. W. Woodward. Scott's Family Bible, in 6 vols. 8vo. 04 vols. are published. Boston. S.T. Armstrong. The Old and New Testaments con. nected, in the History of the Jews and neighbouring nations, from the declension of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, to the time of Christ. By Humphrey Prideaux, D. D. With a Life and portrait of the author, and 8 new maps and plates. In 4 vols. octavo. Charlestown. William Collier. Travels in South Africa, undertaken at the request of the Lon. Miss. Society. By John Campbell, minister of Kingsland Chapel. Andover. Flagg & Gould. The History of the propagation of Christianity among the heathen since the Reformation. By the Rev. Wil liam Brown, M. D. In 2 vols. octavo. First American Edition, from the last London Edition. N. York. F. P. Low. The first vol. of Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion. A new translation. By John Allen. Newburyport. W. B. Allen & Co. A discourse, delivered in Haverhill, July, 1816, on a baptismal occasion. By W. Batchelder, Pastor of the Baptist church in that place. Haverhill, (Mass.) Burrill & Tileston. The Shepherd of Salisbury-Plain. By Miss H. More. With a Short Memoir, and an Original Letter of the Shepherd. Taken from the Lon. Evan. Mag. Boston. Lincoln & Edmands. NOTICES. Baptist Missionary Convention. The triennial meeting of "The General Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States of America for Foreign Missions," will be holden in the Baptist Meeting house in Sansom-street, Philadelphia, on the first Wednesday in May next. It is fervently hoped that the united prayers of the churches will unceasingly ascend to the great Head of the church, that his presence may pervade this contemplated meeting of his saints, and that it may result in the divine glory and the furtherance of the gospel. livered by Rev. Dr. BALDWIN, of Bos. The introductory sermon will be deton, President of the Board of Com. missioners. In case of failure, by Rev. Mr. Brown, of Washington. Quarterly Prayer-meeting. The churches uniting in this relig. ious exercise will meet on the first Tuesday of April next, at the Rev. Mr. SHARP's Meeting house in Charles street, Boston, at 3 o'clock, F. M. Poetry. FAREWELL TO THE MISSIONARIES. LINES, ON THE DEATH OF A BELOVED INFANT. Addressed to Mrs. L SLEEP on, sweet babe, securely rest; The gracious Pow'r that gave theebirth, Where thorns so thickly strew the way. To Correspondents. I. C. [Eng. Bap. Mag. Several obituary articles are on file, and shall be attended to. We regret that we are obliged to omit until our next No. a communication on Sabbath Schools, by A.Z. We hope the friends of these benevolent institutions will not relax their labours at the opening of the present season. A communication on the Union of Alms and Prayer, by the same, has been received. Gaius, on Rom. viii. 19. And Hospes on Heb. x. 29, are on file. Interesting communications from India, have just been received, particularly from Mr. Judson. They shall appear in our next. We are gratified with the prospect of increasing support from our correspondents and friends in different sections of our country. TOWARDS the end of January, 1805, in one of the visits of his affectionate assistant, Mr. Gray, he appeared very poorly, and not able to talk much; but what he said was of a spiritual kind: "Oh, that I may be submissive to the will of the Lord, whether for life or for death! What an unspeakable mercy it is, that Christ Jesus came into the world to die for poor sinners!" Then, breathing with great difficulty, he said, "Oh, that I may breathe after holiness, more and more after holiness; and be fitted for the great change, whenever it shall come !" A few weeks after, being very ill, he said, "But I am in good hands. I think I am more afraid of dishonouring God by impatience, than I am afraid of death:" adding, "I must go to Christ as a poor sinner, a poor grey-headed sinner; I can go no other way." In this manner he generally talked with different persons; and they have left him, ashamed of themselves that they felt no more of the same spirit. Some months since, he was taken ill in his way home from a meeting of his brethren. Mr. Gray went to see him; and asking him how he felt in his mind, he instantly replied, with a firm tone, "I have no fear about my state." And this was his answer to the affectionate inquiries Vol. I. 11 of several of his fellow-labourers. Indeed, through his whole affliction, he was graciously supported in his soul. He felt no raptures; nor have we any reason to believe that he even so much as wished for them. He was generally serene, breathing after heaven, expressing his earnest desires after conformity to the image of Christ, and submission to the will of God; daily blessing him for a good hope through grace, and waiting for the coming of his Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. But though he was mostly laid aside from his public labours for several months before his death, he employed himself in revising and completing an Essay on the Love of God to his chosen People; and another, on a Conduct and Character formed under the Influence of Evangelical Truth; which, it is expected, will in due time make their appearance. Thus he continued better and worse in his health, generally according to the state of the weather. But even in the course of his last week, he wrote two letters to his brothers in the country: he also attended the Monthly Meeting at his own place the very Thursday before his death. He was worse on Friday, but said to two of his friends, "I now live upon what I have been teaching others;" and was capable of arranging many of his papers, which he did with perfect composure. Even on the Lord's day he was sitting up in his study. But apprehensions being entertained that his dissolution was very near, several of his friends went to see him, as they supposed, for the last time. They found him in the sweet enjoyment of the Lord's presence, and Satan kept at a distance from him. To one, he said, "Ah! Jesus Christ is indeed a good Master!" To another, "But a little while, and I shall be with your dear father and mother!" He also affectionately dropped a word to several of his young friends, who longed just to see him. To one, "I have often borne you on my heart before the Lord; now, you need to pray for me." Soon after, to a son of one of his most intimate friends, "Take care of your precious soul; take care that you be not merely half a Christian." On a wish being expressed that, under his present circumstances, he might experience divine support, he said with considerable energy, "Amen." But it does not appear, that even then he thought his departure to be so near at hand as his family apprehended. When he was drawing very near to the close of life, it did not appear that he thought the moment of his departure so near at hand as his family apprehended it to be. We now add, that when his friend Mr. Gutteridge, at parting with him on the Lord's day afternoon, said to him, "The Lord be with you; and if I do not see you again, I trust we shall meet in the better world!" he replied, "I expect to see you again in this.' Nor did he express any thing to the contrary, when two of his dear children, with their husbands, Mr. Robinson and Mr. Granger, were with him on the Lord's day evening, and took their leave of him, after one of them had engaged in family prayer with him. He was put to bed about nine in the evening; and lay down, not to rise any more! On the next day he was mostly deprived of his speech; it is thought, not of his reason: but just at nine o'clock, Mr. Gray and Mr. Granger, his sons-in-law, thinking that they did not hear him breathe, went to the bedside, and saw him lay himself quite back; when, in a moment, he gently expired, without even a struggle or sigh. This was on Monday, January 27, 1806. He was in the sev enty-second year of his age, and had been pastor of the church in Goodman's Fields nearly thirty seven years. Thus terminated the mortal career of this apostolic servant of the Lord; of whom it may fairly be said, in honour of the grace of God, that, viewed in all his characters-in his family, in his church, and in the world; in his learning, his influence, and his piety, he was truly eminent. Great are the changes which have taken place in the world, within a few months; and much has been said of our loss of talent in the senate, and of valour in the navy; but of what talents are his mourning people and the whole church of Christ bereaved by his death! He was not, indeed, a statesman, nor a warrior; but he waswhat will appear to be of infinitely greater consequence at the day of judgment-he was an eminent saint, and a faithful, laborious, successful minister of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Hitherto, we have borrowed our account of this excellent man from a short Memoir which was incorporated with the Address delivered at his interment, in the meeting-house at Maze Pond, Southwark, adjoining the burial-place in which his remains were deposited. We shall now take the liberty of transcribing a few lines from the Funeral Sermon, preached at Mr. Booth's meeting-house, PrescottStreet, on the following Lord's day, Feb. 9, 1806, by the Rev. James Dore; which sermon Mr. Dore found it needful to preface, by reading a memorandum in the hand-writing of the deceased, addressed to the executors of his will. It is as follows:-"I desire that nothing may be said of me in a funeral discourse, whoever may be chosen by my people to preach it." This request, unreasonable as we conceive it to be, carried with it, to the preacher and his friends, the force of a law; and while it alleviated the pain of the preacher, who modestly expresses his inability to do justice to such a character, has deprived the public of that lively description of Mr. Booth's excellence as a Christian and a pastor which Mr. Dore was qualified to afford, and which the public is taught to expect on a funeral occasion. This defect, however, Mr. D. has attempted to supply, as far as was consistent with the restriction under which he laboured. The text chosen on this occasion is Num. xxiii. 10. "Let me die the death of the righteous;" from which the preacher shews that the death of the righteous is always safe, it is generally attended with happy circumstances; and is, in some instances, followed with peculiarly glorious consequences. We shall borrow from the improvement of the subject the following practical inference : "If the death of the righteous be supremely desirable, the consideration of it should reconcile us to the departure of those to whom this character did undoubtedly belong, whatever loss we, in consequence of their removal, may sustain. Among those who are truly righteous, there are various degrees of moral excellence. Some are like "the hyssop that groweth on the wall;" and others may be compared to the majestic cedars of Lebanon. Some are as "reeds shaken with the wind;" and others resemble the British oak, which, for centuries, defies the fury of au tumnal hurricanes. As none are righteous by nature, so none are righteous in perfection. Some are so low in the graduated scale of excellence, that it may be difficult, if not wholly impossible, to ascertain whether they are on this or on that side of the line which separates between the righteous and the wicked. The world and the church claim them as their own;--the world, from the severity of their judgment; and the church, from the candour of their dispositions. but others rise to so high a point, as to prevent every painful suspicion respecting their religious integrity. "Yes, my brethren, you well know that there have been some individually so pre-eminently distinguished, whose characters were so decided, whose moral features were so strongly marked, and whose Christian virtues shone with such a bright, steady, and commanding lustre, that two opinions respecting them could not be entertained. They united in their favour the suffrages of all. Of such a man, all speak the same language:"Truly, this was a righteous man," exclaims the church: "Truly, this was a righteous man," echoes the world. "To such a man, the God of grace and truth hath promised that "an entrance into his heavenly kingdom shall be abundantly administered." Yes, he shall enter the temple of bliss in the most auspicious circumstances, amidst the shouts of angels, and the joyful acclamations of "the spirits of just men made perfect." "Could we see those who died the death of the righteous, now standing before the throne, clothed in white robes, with palms of victory in their hands, and crowns of glory on their heads; could we behold them, "satisfied with fulness," exulting in bliss, tuning their golden harps to songs of immortal praise; could we hear their melodious voices, celebrating the |