WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17.
Morning, xi.—Sermon at the Poultry Chapel (Rev. J. Clayton's), by the Rev. Samuel Summers, of Bristol.
Evening, vi.—Sermon at Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars Road, by the Rev. Benjamin Godwin, of Bradford, Yorkshire.
THURSDAY, JUNE 18.
Morning, ix.—Meeting for prayer, at Eagle Street Meeting House. Some Minister from the country is expected to deliver an Address.
xi.—Annual Meeting of the Society, at Finsbury Chapel, T. F. Buxton, Esq., M.P., in the Chair.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
COLOMBO.
We have much pleasure in communicating the following intelligence from this important station. The baptism of twenty-four native converts in less than a year, and the formation of another church composed of those who were lately heathens, are circumstances of great interest, and must be very encouraging to our worthy brother, who has been labouring so diligently among them.
At nearly the conclusion of another year, I am reminded of my obligations to write to you. On surveying the events which have occurred in it, we have reason to sing both of mercy and judgment to our heavenly Father. While much affliction has reigned around us, I have to bless God for the continuation of my own life and health to labour for Him. Each of the members of my own family have had to endure a large degree of sickness and debility; yet it has not come near to myself, except as the enervating nature of a tropical clime has produced a considerable degree of lassitude, connected with the labours of a Missionary life. Nor do I recollect that, during the year I have been obliged to suspend any public exercise through personal indisposition. This continuance of health has been rendered more valuable in consequence of the repeated illness of my colleague, brother Siers, who has been many times laid aside from his work, so that I have been obliged in many instances, as far as I could consistently with my stated engagements, to take what devolves on him. As he is chiefly occupied in labouring among the Portuguese, I have been under the necessity of cultivating an acquaintance with their language, and have now acquired a sufficiency of it to preach in it the glorious Gospel of the blessed God.