The Sun.
London, England, 1824-05-10 00:00:00

SCOTTISH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

On Friday the 30th ult. the Annual Meeting of the Scottish
Missionary Society was held in the Assembly Rooms, George-
street, the Right honourable the Lord Provost in the Chair.
The Report contained a review of the operations of the So-
ciety during the past year, and on the whole presented
pleasing prospect to the Christian world. At Astrachan an
interesting young Persian, named Mahomiti Ali, who is de-
scended from one of the principal families in Dtrbent, was bap-
tized by the missionaries ; and a considerable sensation was
excited among the Persians resident in that city. In the
East Indies, the Reverend Mr. Mitchell, the first mis-
sionary of the society to that quarter of the globe, had in
.the course of a few months established in Bancool and the
neighbourhood, twelve schools, containing upwards of 400
children ; but the Directors had at the same time to lament the
premature death of Mr. Mitchell, who had scarcely commenced
his labours when a period was put to his life. In the West Indies
a new mission has just been begun under very favourable cir-
cumstances. Two gentlemen, who possess estates in Jamaica,
have not only granted permission to Mr. Blyth, who sailed for
that island in January last, to instruct their slaves, but have ge-
nerously engaged to bear a considerable part of the expence of
the mission. The meeting was very numerously attended, and
was addressed by the Rev. Dr. Gordon; the Rev. Mr. Young
of Perth, .James Dickson, Esq., the Bev. Mr. Henderson, the
Rev. I). Dickson, the Rev. Mr. Young of Whitby, and several
other gentlemen.

The octogenarian Physician, who has been in the practice,
for many years past, of going to the top of Arthur's Seat, on
May-day, at an early hour in the morning, took his accustom-
ed walk, on Saturday last, the Ist of May, 1824, accompanied
by four grandsons. He put into the hands of several friends,
particularly students of medicine, whom he met there, the fol-
lowing Address to Old Age :
Welcome, Old Age, I'm glad to see your face,
On this high hill we meet with mutual grace.
I've reached its summit, in my eightieth year,
In good Old Reekie where is my compeer ?
My legs, thank God, are still for motion free,
I'll stand by them, while they can stand by me ;
Together we'll jog on, while I have breath,
Till to a better world I'm sent by death.
This old Professor, on Thursday the 2'2d of April, 1824,
brought to a happy termination the fifty-fifth winter course of
medical lectures, which he has delivered at Edinburgh. In
this course, which has consisted of more than one hundred lec-
tures, he has regularly read five every week, without a single
interruption, on any appointed day for teaching at the College,
during the whole winter session.
For this singular blessing, when on the summit of Arthur's
Seat, on May-day, he returned thanks to Almighty God,•front
that high altar, in the following abridged Paraphrase of the
Lord's Prayer.
Our Father, which art in heaven.
Father of all, I kneel to thee,
Supreme in heaven adored,
And present here, through all thy works,
The Universal Lord.
Hallowed be thy Name.
Accept, 0 God, my grateful thanks,
For all thy blessings given,
And may on earth thy praise be sung,
Eien as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
This day be bread and peace my lot,
All else beneath the sun
Thou knoweet if best bestowed or not,
And let thy will be done.
Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory.
To thee, whose temple is all space,
Whose altar earth, sea, skies,
One chorus let all beings raise,
All nature's incense rise.