each of us in preserving our Health. Dear Sister Brunsdon gets stout & well. The children are all remarkably healthy. The small pox being very prevalent at Calcutta, we have had them Innoculated, and they have now recovered therefrom. They had it so lightly as scarce to make them ill. In consequence of all the goodness we have experienced. and the pleasing prospects before us, we consecrated yesterday as a day of Thanksgiving. as also to the taking into the Church the Brethren & Sisters lately arrived. The business of the Day was conducted in the following Manner.

Met at 6 oclock in the morning, when Bror Ward began by reading the 23rd and 103rd Psalms, after wch he read out a hymn and Prayed. All the Brethren followed in the same excercises. This meeting lasted two hours-Met again at 10/oclock, Bror Fountain began by reading Ist Timothy 3rd. Singing & Prayer. After this the Dismissions of the Brethren & Sisters from their respective Churches were read by Bror Carey, and the Right Hand of Fellowship given to each by him & Bror Fountain as a token of acceptance.

Agreed that Sister Brunsdon (having left England before she had an opportunity of procuring her Dismission from Lairford Church) have Communion with us at the LORD's table till her Dismission arrives.

Agreed that Bror Carey be the Pastor of this Church & Brethren Fountain and Marshman the two Deacons.

Agreed that the Ordinance of the Lords Supper be Administered to us the first Sabbath in every Kalendar Month.-After this business the Brethren related the manner in which they were brought to the Knowledge of the Truth.

Bror Carey concluded in prayer. Met again at 4/ oclock p.m. Brother Marshman read the Address of the Committee of the Baptist Society" delivered May. 7. 1799.-A Letter from Bror Pearce of BirminghamAnd an address by Brother Booth of London.

May the LORD impress their sentiments on our Minds. Bror Carey concluded in prayer.-During this meeting the following Address was voted to the Governor of the Settlement.

"To the Honourable Colonel BIE.

"" SIR.

Having set apart this day in our family to return thanks to GOD for the establishment of our Missionary Settlement in this country, we could not but recollect the many gracious, and important favours which we have received at your hands. We have prayed, and shall not cease to pray that our Heavenly father may pour his most sacred Benediction upon you, and long make you a blessing to the World. We hope our Conduct will always show that our Gratitude is sincere and that we aim at being truly the Disciples, of him who exhibited a perfect pattern of Universal obedience.

'Accept, Sir, our fervent, and united Acknowledgments; in which we know our Society in England would be very happy to concur.

Met again at 8 oClock in the evening for more Public worship. Bror Forsyth, a Paedo Baptist missionary (whom we had previous invited) engaged in Prayer. Brother Carey afterwards preached an Animating sermon from Romans 12. ver 12th "Rejoicing in Hope."

This morning the above address was presented to the Governor. He was considerably affected by it, and assured the Brethren who waited upon him, that it gave him great pleasure to have us in the Settlement.

He has again and again declared that he would do every thing in his power to promote our Welfare. We hope the Society will never forget in their Prayers, the Man who shows so much kindness to us.

Were you also to vote him an Address of thanks it would be well received.

Yesterday's pleasure was considerably heightened

by the Arrival of English Letters for Bretheren Carey, Ward, & Brunsdon. We did not forget you in our prayers, nor could we refrain from Blessing God for your great and constant care of us. The Zeal & Generosity of our Scotch Brethren is surely beyond example! Pray let our United Thanks be presented to them. One circumstance however was a matter of grief to us vizt. The Capture of the Ship Duff. We will not cease to pray for the dear Missionaries on Board her, that the Lord their God may prosper them wherever they go. This is our Joint prayer-May the Kingdom of our LORD come with Power.

We are Dear Brethren

in endless affection
Yours

WM. CAREY

J. FOUNTAIN

J. MARSHMAN

W. WARD

D. BRUNSDON.

The two letters here given, with the preceding one, furnish a brief epitome of the history of the Mission up to the time when the correspondence began which it is the chief purpose of this little book to set forth. But before proceeding to introduce that correspondence, it may be well to give a hasty sketch of the man who was largely instrumental in bringing the new

missionary movement into prominence in the American churches; and to do this, it is necessary to go back again to a little English hamlet less known even than the quiet town of Olney.

On the somewhat barren and rocky slopes of the range of hills whose loftiest summit is the peak of Snowdon, in North Wales, nestles the little village of Y Garn, and near that hamlet lies the farm known for generations as Plas Llecheiddior. Exactly when the old farm-house was built no one seems to know, and speculation is still rife as to the meaning of the name. Some have suggested that it signifies the "Place of the Ivied Rock"; others, that it simply means "Pleasant Place"; but family tradition has it that the true meaning is, "The place where Ior hid himself"; and till recent years a rude niche was pointed out in the wall of the stone farm-house, where the fabled Ior was said to have taken refuge in some dire local disturbance. At this old farm-house, which had for some hundred and fifty years been in the possession of his forefathers as peasant farmers, there was born on the 8th of March, 1767, John Williams, a sturdy Welsh lad, but with a lameness from birth which unfitted him for the agricultural pursuits of his father and kinsfolk. It was his father's desire that he should prepare himself to enter the ministry of the Established Church; but not finding himself in sympathy with that Church, he at first determined to acquire a

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