NOTICE RESPECTING COLLECTORS. BY Collectors is to be understood Persons who gather, in behalf of the Society, the Contributions of such of their Friends as may be able and willing to render assistance to the great Work of Christian Charity in which the Society is engaged, but who may not have it in their power to give their Annual Guinea. Those who may have leisure for this service, are Members of the Society, so long as their Collections amount to Fifty-two Shillings per Annum. They may collect this sum in such way-weekly, monthly, or quarterly-as may best suit their own convenience, and that of the Contributors. Collectors will, of course, exercise due discrimination. While they bestow their own time on this work, from a just conviction of the misery of the Heathen and the duty of sending to them the Gospel, they should ask no contributions but from such as may be able to give them; and should endeavour that their contributors may give on the same just sense of duty as they act themselves. For this purpose, they will be regularly supplied, on writing to the Secretary, with the Numbers of the Missionary Register, and Tracts calculated to diffuse information and excite attention, and with Cards to assist them in making their Collections. They will be furnished, also, with a sufficient quantity of Quarterly Papers, to supply a Copy to each Contributor. These Quarterly Papers consist of a few pages of striking Facts and Anecdotes; with Addresses and Exhortations, adapted to the level of the Labouring Classes and the Young; and are illustrated by Engravings on Wood. If Five or Six or more Collectors unite together in any place, the Committee will send the Monthly Numbers and the Quarterly Papers in a parcel; but, in order to this, it will be requisite for the parties to procure the permission of their Bookseller in the country, to have such parcel sent with his monthly packet of Magazines, and to apprise the Secretary of the names of the Bookseller, and of his Correspondent in London. A single Collector, or any number short of Five or Six, may purchase of the nearest Bookseller, both the Missionary Register and the requisite Quarterly Papers, and deduct the cost from the sum collected, and remit the remainder to the Society. This method is, on the whole, more convenient and economical to the Society than that of sending the Numbers and Papers in a parcel, in cases where the Collectors are less than five or six. While Collectors render important aid to the designs of the Society, they both contribute to the strength and honour of that Church with which the Society is connected, and confer also great benefit on those persons whose contributions they gather. This system of engaging, according to their power, the Labouring Orders and the Young in this work of charity, has a direct and important influence on the real strength and honour of that Church of which we are Members. Facts are multiplying daily which demonstrate the growing attachment of those persons to the Church, whose minds are interested in the great objects of the Society, and who are themselves associated in its charitable labours. For the Contributors themselves, the regular diffusion among them of intelligence respecting the state of the world and the efforts now making for its conversion, enlarges and elevates their minds. Many, who may not be able to give their Annual Guinea, would gladly take their share in this noblest work of Christian Charity. That numerous class have, in our days, the opportunity given them, for the first time, of regularly contributing, according to their power, to extend the Kingdom of Christ in the world: and HE, who accepted the two mites of the Widow, will accept every gift when offered from love; and will look with especial approbation on that servant of His, who, "remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive”— “labours, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth." PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY. TO BE HAD OF ITS BOOKSELLERS. PROCEEDINGS of the Church Missionary Society, containing XX Sermons and Reports. 8 vols. 8vo. price 21. 2s. boards. The Spirit of British Missions, dedicated to the Church Missionary Society, by a Clergyman, a Member of that Body. 8vo. price 3s. 6d. GROTIUS on the Truth of Christianity, in Arabic, abridged from Pococke's Version by Professor Macbride, and printed at the Clarendon Press. 8vo. price 2s. OSTERVALD on Christianity, in Arabic. 8vo. price 2s. The British System of Education, in Arabic, by Professor Macbride. 12mo. price 6d., or 58. per dozen. The "Way of Truth and Life," in Persian. 18mo. price 6d., or 5s. per dozen. Memoirs of Mowhee, a Young New Zealander: by the Rev. Basil Woodd, M. a. 12mo. with a Portrait: price 8d., or 6s. per dozen. Memoir and Obituary of Simeon Wilhelm, a Young Susoo; by the Assistant Secretary. 12mo. with a Portrait; price 1s., or 10. 6d. per dozen. Missionary Register. Published on the Last Day of every Month, Price 6d. By L. B. SEELEY, 169, Fleet Street. Sold also by J. HATCHARD & Son, Piccadilly; and by all Booksellers and Newsmen ; of whom may be had, the Volumes for 1816, 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820, price 35s. boards. A Copy of this Work is presented by the Committee to all Persons who collect to the amount of 1s. per week in behalf of the Church Missionary Society. All Communications to the Society may be sent to the Secretary, the Rev. JOSIAH PRATT, at the Church Missionary House, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, London; where attendance is given daily, from Nine o'clock till Seven, and where every information and assistance may be obtained in the Establishment of Associations. SERMON, PREACHED AT THE PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT BRIDE, FLEET STREET, ON MONDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1820, BEFORE THE Church Missionary Society, BY THE REV. BENJAMIN WILLIAMS MATHIAS, M. A.` OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN. B |