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Genius; a Vision: by a Member of the University of Oxford. 2s. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. PRAYER-BOOK AND HOMILY SOCIETY. THE Committee of the Prayer-book and Homily Society begin their Sixth Annual Report in the language of congratulation. "To the minds of Churchmen," they observe," it cannot but be a pleasing circumstance, that as the great work of distributing the word of God proceeds, the demand for copies of our scriptural Liturgy, and other formularies, increases in proportion. You will be gratified to hear,' writes a valued correspondent, that Prayer-books are in great and increasing request in this very populous district;-a district containing 60,000 persons. The poor not only apply for them, but pay the reduced prices by penny subscriptions weekly (a plan which we invariably adopt, as satisfied by long experience of its superiority,) with the greatest cheerfulness. This eager desire to obtain the formularies of our Church, is to be attributed principally to the free circulation of the Scriptures in this town and neighbour hood; as the application for Prayerbooks was extremely uncommon before the establishment of the Dudley Auxiliary Bible Society. The Homilies also, which were scarcely known here even by name before the establishment of our Association in aid of the Prayer-book and Homily Society, are purchased with much avidity, and read with attention. Upwards of 2000 copies, either in single sermons or entire volumes, have been sold in two months.'" Under deepening convictions of the importance of the work, the Committee are desirous of sending forth the Liturgy, not only in the English, but in every language into which it has been, or may be yet translated. "Our assembly for worship on the Sabbath day," writes a correspondent at Smyrna, "consists of a variety of nations; EngJish, Dutch, Swiss, French Protestants, and Smyrneans, or those bred, born, and educated at Smyrna. Among these are many poor, destitute of Prayer-books: except the British, moreover, and three or four among the Dutch, none of these can speak or understand English: the language universally spoken here by Europeans, and by many of the Greeks, is the French." The Committee, upon receiving this communication, 100k immediate measures to furnish their correspondent with the number of French Prayer-books requested. "Curiosity," adds the same correspondent," sometimes induces a few Greek gentlemen to repair to our church. Perceiving the sociality of our worship in the Psalms, and the regular responses of the people, the great attention also and apparent devotion of the assembly, they express great admiration of our service, and a particular desire to have the prayers in Greek." A similar request had been previous ly forwarded to the Society by the Rev. W. Jowett, then at Malta. "I have often seen in England," he observes, "a Greek version of our Prayer-book. In the present time and circumstances, such a representative of our established Liturgy would be particularly seasonable." The Committee lament, that while every effort has been used to collect as many copies of this book as could be procured in London and at the Universities, its scarcity has not allowed them to do all they could have wished. The publication of a large part of the Book of Common Prayer in the Hindoostaunee language, which this Society undertook to print, has, with the loan of types, cut at the expense of the Church Missionary Society, been at length completed. CHRIST. OBSERV, No. 201. Since the last annual meeting, the attention of the Committee has been particularly directed to a reprint of the Book of Common Prayer, in the Irish tongue and character. "I am convinced," writes a clergyman, who was consulted on this occasion, "that it would be attended with an excellent effect to many, who would read the book as containing prayers in the Irish language." A gentleman, unfriendly to the object, remarked, that "Dr. Matthew Young, Bishop of Clonfert, one of the best and wisest men this country has produced, told him some time before his death, that, if God should be pleased to restore him to health, he would perform the Church Service in Irish in his own cathedral." The Committee close this part of their Report with a statement of the number of books issued from the Society's Depository, since the last anniversary, namely—Prayer-books, 11,254; exceeding, by 2,363 books, the issue of the former year; Psalters, 1,289; Homily-tracts, 42,186, being an increased circulation of about 3,746, since the last anniversary; Articles of Religion, as a tract, or bound up with the Homilies in duodecimo, 979, being a number somewhat less than that issued last year; Homilies in the octavo volume, 376-in folio, 25 copies. In the period just referred to, the following books have been presented gratuitously, for the use of the crews of ships, convicts, persons in foreign stations, the sufferers in Newfoundland, prisoners, and patients in hospitals:Prayer-books and Psalters, 444; Homily-tracts, 4,225; Homilies in the entire volume, 40 copies: 305 Prayerbooks, also, have been sold at two-thirds of the cost price to soldiers; and 500 Homily-tracts, at the same time, dis. tributed among them gratuitously. The total issue of books, since the formation of the Society, has amounted to 48,722 Prayer-books; 5,507 Psalters; 384,418 Homily-tracts, with 5,229 copies of the Articles in the same form; 975 copies of the Homilies in folio, and 376 copies in octavo. With feelings of pleasure, the Committee report, that the Bristol Tract Society, which till lately was accustomed to publish the Homilies, as well as other tracts illustrative of the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England, has, in the most cordial manner, resigned that branch of its original object 4 K into the hands of this institution. In consequence of this friendly resolution, the Society have established a Depository for Prayer-books and Homily tracts at Bristol; and they add, that an Association, in furtherance of this Society's objects, has since been formed in that city. One of the resolutions entered into by those gentlemen, who formed the Association, is, that "The lay-members of the Committee shall visit the shipping in port, thrice or oftener in the week, for the purpose of distributing Homily-tracts among the sailors, and of recommending them to purchase Prayer-books." The port of Bristol affords peculiar facilities for distributing the Liturgy and Homilies in various languages, especially in Welch. Upon the whole, therefore, although the funds of the institution are still very low, the Committee express themselves as rejoicing both in its progress, and in its prospects. During the last year, they have been enabled to add to the list of its vice-presidents, the much-respected name of the Lord Bishop of St. David's. "The simple character and important objects of the Society," add the Committee, seem to be rising in estimation. The Homilies and Thirty-nine Articles, and consequently the doctrines of our church, are more generally examined, and more frequently referred to. Several of the Homilies have been translated into French, by a clergyman in Guernsey, and are read in the churches, as well as distributed among the people. The Homilies in French,' writes one of the clergy of that island, have produced the best effect; not a house in my parish but gladly received them; and they are heard from my pulpit with singular at tention, and bring crowds to hear them.' "Nor is it only in our own country and in its neighbourhood," continue the Committee," that these valuable compositions of our Reformers, rescued, as one has observed, from almost total oblivion,' have been rendered the means of good. A correspondent in the Ionian Islands informs the Rev. Mr. Jowett, that he has derived great benefit from the Book of Homilies. His doubts and difficulties on the subjects of Absolution and Confession, (points respecting which his mind had been inquiring),—were much cleared up by reading that volume. You must be aware,' Mr. Jowett remarks, that a conscientious mind, viewing the state of the churches in these parts, seeks for information and arguments, which in England would not have been so feelingly wanted. The Homilies, witten shortly after our country had emancipated herself from the shackles of superstition, forcibly delineate scenes, which are, alas! yet familiar every where around the Mediterranean. They furnish, also, the best exposition of those principles, on which our own happy liberty was established."" We must not omit to add, that the Report is prefaced by a very excellent and appropriate sermon, preached by the Rev. Edward Cooper, before the Society, at their last anniversary, from Heb. xiii. 9: “Be not carried about with diverse and strange doctrines." SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. The following are short extracts from the Yearly Epistle of the Society. "We have received an Epistle from our friends in Ireland, and one from each of the yearly meetings in America, except that of North Carolina. Our brethren in the State of Ohio, although themselves removed from the scene of slavery, have, after the example of those in Pennsylvania, thought it right to address a memorial to their general government, on behalf of the African race, who in various parts of the United States are kidnapped, and involved in the miseries of lawless violence. The Epistle from New York conveys the acceptable intelligence of an act of their législature which declares that slavery shall cease in that State in the year 1827.” "The awful subject of the punish ment of death has at this time deeply impressed our minds. We believe that where the precepts and spirit of our great Lord and Lawgiver have a complete ascendency, they will lead to the abolition of this practice. The situation of those who have forfeited their liberty by the commission of crime, has also claimed our consideration. We regard such as objects of great compassion, and desire that they may receive the kind assistance of friends who may have it in their power to help them; but this should be coupled with due prudence and discretion, and with that respect to the laws of our country, and to those who administer them, which we have ever believed it our duty to enjoin, "As a choice of representatives in parliament is expected soon to take place, we wish to caution all our members against entering into political parties. This meeting has formerly manifested its care on the subject; and we desire that the conduct of such friends as have any share to take herein, may be marked by a Christian demeanour, and that they may shew themselves to be truly redeemed from the spirit of contention and tumult." The remainder of the Epistle consists of advice respecting the duty of attending public worship, keeping the "first day" holy, attention to the education of the children of the Society, and similar topics. The tithes and other ecclesiastical claims on the members of the Society, during the year, with some small demands for military purposes, are reported at about 16,2001. NEW YORK RELIGIOUS TRACT ciety commenced its operations with SOCIETY. The Managers of the New York Religious Tract Society have proceeded in their labours, during their sixth year, with undiminished success. They have added to their ordinary funds about six hundred and fifty dollars, and have gained an accession of about one hundred and fifty to the list of annual contributors. A correspondence had been opened with a respectable gentleman in New Orleans, on the subject of distributing French and Spanish Tracts among the inhabitants of Louisiana; and donations have been received, for this express object, to the amount of one hundred and fifty-five dollars. The Committee have printed 20,000 Spanish, and 50,000 French tracts; and 2,850 of the Spanish, and 100 of the French tracts, were sent to a gentleman in St. Jago, in Chili, for gratuitous distribution in that destitute part of the continent. One hundred of the Spanish tracts have also been sent to the island of Cuba; and a quantity in both languages will be transmitted to New Orleans by the earliest conveyance. The tracts on hand, at the commencement of the year, amounted in number to 17,650. In the course of the year, the Managers have printed 180,000; namely, 155,000 English, 5000 French, and 20,000 Spanish. During the year 66,220 tracts have been sold, and 8,880 have been drawn from the depository, by members of the Society, for gratui about seventy members of various religious denominations, who, as stated in the letter, "were induced to form the institution by the great good that had been done by the circulation of tracts, which pious individuals had kindly sent among them, for gratuitous distribution." A society had also lately been formed in the city of Troy, for the purchase and distribution of tracts. Orders have been received from this Society for the purchase of 6895 copies. Another society had been formed at Newark, in the state of New Jersey, and an order for the purchase of 873 tracts had been transmitted to New York. The Report abridges the proceedings of numerous other tract societies both in America and Europe, presenting upon the whole a most favourable prospect of the benefits which are every where resulting from this highly useful mode of promoting the knowledge and practice of true religion throughout the world. WIDOWS' FRIEND AND BENE VOLENT SOCIETY. After several fruitless attempts to recruit the finances of this Society during the distresses of the poor in 1816, it appeared to the Committee expedient to investigate some very distressed district of the metropolis, by visits from house to house, and room to room, and to present to the public a statement of the misery which might be found to exist there. The district, selected as one of peculiar wretched ness, embraces the east side of Shoe Lane, and west side of Fleet Market, from Fleet Street to Holborn, with all the intervening courts; the whole of Field Lane and Great Safforn Hill, with all their numerous and crowded courts adjoining. The proposed investigation was made by the Committee, who presented to the public, through the medium of the daily newspapers, a statement of the misery they discovered, but which they considered as inadequate to convey a correct idea of the reality. This appeal, bowever, more than answered the most sangnine anticipations, and large sums were in consequence contributed. The Committee, now animated by the prospect of immediate usefulness, devoted themselves to the application of these funds; and many other persons benevolently came forward to assist their labours. The district was immediately subdivided into sixteen divisions, and one, two, or more members of the Committee were appointed to visit and relieve each division according to its peculiar circumstances and distress. Every house and room in each division, where there was any probability of finding distress, was again investigated, and particulars were delivered in to the Committee by each member. At least half of the cases consisted of persons entirely with out work-the other half only casually employed. Upwards of the sum of 1174. 15s. was due among 801 cases for rent; the sum of 18141. 17s. 9d. was about the amount of property in pledge, among 784 cases; and the sum of 7831. 3s. 6d. the value of unredeemed goods, which had been lost by 348 of the cases during the last six months; and 347 of the cases owed 4061. 58. 3d. for bread. Many families were found without beds of any description—others with only straw to lie upon; the greater part had beds composed chiefly of old rags; many were barely clothed-the majority possessed only the clothes they actually had on; some were actually starving, and the greater part chiefly lived upon potatoes; some had not tasted meat for several weeks, others for as many months; some were reduced from respectable circumstances to such distress as to be living from day to day on the produce of the furniture and other comforts and necessaries which they had acquired in better circumstances, and which they were pawning, as hunger compelled them, to procure a scanty meal. Many were sick without the means or hope of obtaining medical aid, and others were dying without either temporal comforts or religions instruction. For the relief of this distress the contributions made, in answer to the public appeal through the medium of the daily papers, amounted to about the sum of 15001. in addition to 370l. 19s. 5d. arísing from the ordinary resources of the Society. The labours of the Committee being entirely gratuitons, and the place of meeting being furnished gratis, the expenses incident to the distribution of 80 large a fund appear to have been reduced to the smallest possible amount. The number of cases throughout the metropolis, relieved by this Society, during its seventh year, was not less than 1090, consisting of 3346 individuals, to whom 11,051 visits have been paid by the Committee. Of these cases, It is added that upwards of 165 had been so effectually relieved that the sufferers have been enabled to provide for themselves and their families without parochial or other assistance. The Committee state, that the prin cipal modes in which they deemed it expedient to apply the funds, were, by weekly donations of potatoes, herrings, and coals-by redeeming from pledge, and purchasing clothes, bedding, and other necessary articles of furniture, tools, and other working utensils, and also materials for work-by supplying, in many cases, baskets of fruit, fish, &c. by sending destitute_fe-' males to their friends in the country; by employing some individuals in whitewashing their own apartments, and those of others in the district; by establishing several in small shops; and, in some few cases, under circumstances of most peculiar distress, by paying arrears of rent. The Committee subjoin a few cases, to give some idea of the distress that has been relieved. Of these we shall extract a specimen. "Amidst these scenes of wretchedness, the following cases, which comprised the inhabitants of one whole house, were among the most striking. "The first-floor front room was oecupied by a widow, who had supported herself by washing and any other casual employment she could obtain; but in |