Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-07-12
LONDON ANNIVERSARIES.
From the London Correspondent Of the N. \.
Com. Advertiser.
WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

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WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
The anniversary of this society occurred
on Monday, Nav I'd. The meeting was
held in Exeter Hall, and that immense room,
which will hold not far from 1000 people
was crowded to excess. Sir Oswald Mos
ley member of parliament, and also
member of the established church, was
chairman; and in his speech at the opening
ofthc business ofthc society, he made some
appropriate remarks on the zeal and energy
with which the society had prosecuted its
missions. The report was read by the
Rev. DR.. Bunting. 1t was excellent, but
entirely too long, exceeding indeed all hour
and half. The survey which it took OF the
missions ofthe society was very satlsfacto-
ry. The missions in France, in Ceylon, i'll
New Zealand, and in the Friendly Islands,
in the West Indies, and in the British pos
sessions of North America, were represent
ed to be in a most Furnishing state. =
The following may be given as summa-
ry of the report
Mission stations, l73; Missionaries, 209;
sent out last year, 80; commandments, 54,-
426; added TO the churches last year,
$500; in the West Indies, $4,000; scholars
in the mission schools. 4s,672 increase Of
last year, 5,527; receipts oflast year, f6o,-
O39 los. 3D., expenditures, about EOS, 5000.
Addresses were delivered by Sir Andrew
Agnew, NJ. p, John Hardy, Esq. MI
Edward Baines, ESQ. NJ. p, Col. Concllv,
NJ. p, Rev. Mr.. Waugh, oflrcland, Alex
auder Johnston, Esq. NJ. P, Capt. Packcn-
ham, Rev. VIM. Shaw, from Caffraria, in
South Africa, Rev. DR.. Pyc Smith, ]. Head,
Esq, Rev. T. Lessey, Rev. L. Ryerson,
Of Upper Canada, and Mr.. Wood. Two
cheques, ono for flOOO and the other for
$500, were presented to the society during
the meeting by Messrs. Crawther and Far
mer, which, togethe: with the amount COL
lccted, made the sum received on the oc-
casion, fle6l 7s.6. Some ofthc speech
Is at this meeting were very good. An OBJ
yious fault at this meeting, and at many Of
the others, was the continued effort Of the
speakers 10 say smart things, with the view
of exciting the audience. | am not an
enemy to Wit, far from ii; and think that
Christians ought, in all their meetings, SO to
act as not to offend the ever-blessed God by
cxtravagant and thougMless mirth, and moi:
sy applauding of speakers. The English
anec'ings, to my feelings, are greatly want
ing in solcmnitv and that devout spirit which
is so necessary in religious assemblies, and
i, oix
liable. do not make these remarks at
this place because they have greater ap-
plication to the meeting of which | have
just spoken than any efliers Of all denomi-
nations. The practice of which speak,
and the excess ofwhich at any rutc I DO
most decidedly condemn, is very prevalent
in English public meetings. 1t might rath-
er be said that il is universal. II is really
amusing TO see a British audience composd
of hundreds, and even thousands Of indlvid-
uals, clapping their hands, striking their
canes and umbrellas upon the floor, or
stamping with their feet, after the express
sion of some striking thing by apopular
sreakc. Not only the Young, but also the
old enter into it with all the heart. | have
seen them stamping, beating with their
canes, and clapDing their hands, until their
noble-lookmg solar faces grew even dark
with excessive redness, if may SO speak.
This has powerful influence, certainly, on
the speaker.
cannot take leave Of this society with
out saying that its labours have been eml-
nen,ly blessed. 1t is now among the very
first missionary societies, both for the
amount ofits receipts, and for the number
and the success ofits missionaries. Indeed
am not sure that it is not the very first
of the whole band Of blessed associations
which are labouring for the conversion Of
the world.