"WHAT have we got here ?" It is a picture of one of the ugly worshipped in the East Indies. this is INDRU, or the " King of

I will tell you
idols which is.
The name of
Heaven ;" and

the wicked priests make the ignorant and foolish people believe that he can do many wonderful things for them. But it is only a stupid senseless idol, without life or motion, as the Bible says:-" Their idols are silver and gold, the work of meus' hands. They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not: they have ears, but they hear not; noses have they, but they smell not: they have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not; neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them." To such things as these the Heathen pray.

In June we inserted an account of a Childrens' Missionary Meeting, connected with the London Missionary Society. We now give another connected with the Baptist Missionary Society. This Society was the first in the field, and as it is now fifty years since it was formed, they are this year celebrating its Jubilee. Many great meetings have been held; one at Kettering, where the Society was formed, was assembled under a large tent, and many thousands were present. Children's Jubilee Meetings have also been held; one at Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, was also held under a tent, which would accommodate 3.000. It was a delightful day, and the children had tea and were very happy. About £100 was collected. The following tells what took place at a children's meeting in London.

On this interesting occasion about one thousand children, connected with Baptist Sunday Schools in the district, with their teachers, assembled in New Park Street chapel, Southwark, to celebrate the Jubilee. We have seldom attended a meeting composed of adults in which more order and decorum were observed than on the present occasion. The children-nearly all of whom, with their teachers, wore the Jubilee medals-appeared highly gratified, and paid remarkable attention to the respective speakers. Their expressions of applause at the commencement and close of every speech, proved that they were not altogether strangers to the mode in which public meetings are usually conducted; and when the resolutions were submitted for their adoption, a forest of hands was held up in their favour, while on the contrary" being put, we did not observe one child that voted against them.

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The Rev. J. BELCHER said, When I was a little boy I was a Sunday Scholar. There were no such meetings as this then; it is quite a new thing, reserved for you to see and to enjoy. We must have a Chairman, and it should be some one who belongs to a Sunday School. We have a gentleman on the platform who was one of the founders of the Sunday School Union, and is now its Treasurer. I shall propose that W. B. GURNEY, Esq., be requested to take the chair.

After singing and prayer, the CHAIRMAN said, It is pleasing to see you assembled so orderly. You have read in the Old Testament of the Jubilee of ancient times, and you have now come together to hear of the Jubilee of the Baptist Missionary Society. When the Society was formed, I was a youth, just leaving school. I then took great interest in this Society. I have since grown old and become grey-headed, but I feel more pleasure in its welfare now than I did when young. Before we sent Missionaries out we had received sad accounts of what was going on in foreign countries. Perhaps there are some of you here who do not know what idolatry is, and your curiosity may be awakened to know what it is that the people are worshiping. I have before me a box in which there are fifteen or twenty heathen gods, and when I have shown you them, I will then tell you of the wickedness and cruelty of idol worship. [The esteemed Chairman then exhibited a number of idols, from various parts of the world, and pointed out the attributes assigned to them; showing that idolatry was a system of fear, not of love; of cruelty, not of benevolence.] In reading the Old Testament, he went on to observe, you must have been struck with the cruelty that was connected with idolatry in those early times. Children were sacrificed by their parents to Moloch; they were put into the breast of the hollow brass image and burned to death.

In England, the Druids in former times made a figure of wicker work, and they put 100 or 200 children into it, and then set fire to it; thus they were all destroyed, and presented as a sacrifice to the false gods. And wherever idolatry now exists, the lives of children, to a very great extent, are sacrificed. You do not know the advantage of being English children: your parents pay you every attention; if you are sick, every thing that can be, is done to preserve your life; but not so in many parts abroad.