An additional argument for increased effort | may be derived from the untiring zeal of the emissaries of Popery. By grants of money from the local or Imperial Government, and by large sums from the Propaganda priests of Rome, the "man of sin" has acquired a power with which it is difficult to contend. In the year 1822 there were but two Popish priests in the whole of Australasia. There are now two hundred, with eight bishops and an archbishop! They are indefatigable in their efforts, striving to insinuate themselves, and to diffuse the poison of their dogmas through all the ramifications of society. Against this flood of error, the Protestant Episcopal Church forms but a feeble barrier, being, in many respects, too much assimilated, in her ceremonial observances and precise rituals, to her rival hierarchy. The only hope, therefore, of preserving the "simplicity that is in Christ," and of promoting the cause of " pure and undefiled religion," is found in the evangelical efforts of those who are contending earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints." Amongst the foremost of these are to be found the agents of the Colonial Missionary Society. To increase their number, until all the Colonies of the British crown are furnished with an able, zealous, and successful ministry, is the object to accomplish which the Society exists and labours. Will not the British churches with their pastors aid the Committee in their efforts to effect this? Let every one who reads these statements, ask himself, have I done all that I could, all that I ought, to help onward a cause that so commends itself to my principles, my conscience, my heart? Can I not encourage the Committee in their arduous, anxious work, by my sympathies, my prayers, and my contributions? To these inquiries it may be answered, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, for there is neither work nor knowledge nor device in the grave whither thou hastenest." THE JEWS. BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL AMONG THE JEWS. THE friends of this Society have been frequently reminded of the devoted and useful services of Mr. BEN OLIEL, their Jewish Missionary on the northern coast of Africa. In answer to prayer, the bitter enmity manifested by his family on his having avowed himself a believer in Jesus, has been subdued-a father's and a mother's blessing has succeeded to the malediction once uttered. But there was no evidence in any of them of a change of heart. At length a younger brother has been won to Christ. The parents were induced to commit him to the care and tutelage of our missionary, and it has been his joy to behold the once bigoted rabbinist sitting at the feet of Jesus, and joining with the little band of disciples at Gibraltar to commemorate His dying love. The missionary, on departing for a tour on the coast of Africa, left him under the care Mr. Lowitz, another of our missionaries, and also under the instruction of the Wesleyan ministers, the Rev. Messrs. Alton and Cheeseborough. He has preached the gospel which once he despised, fully and freely to Papists and to Jews, and walks holily and unblameably before the church and the world. One of the above ministers thus writes of him: "To me it has been a spiritual treat to listen to his religious experience from week to week, and to trace the gradual clearing of his views and deepening of his feelings on religious subjects. He is thoroughly in earnest, but, from his natural diffidence, he rejoices with trembling; yet I think you would be surprised to hear the humble but strong confidence with which he expresses himself when speaking of the peace and joy he feels through believing in Christ, whom he has embraced, and now magnifies as his Messiah, his Saviour, and his all. His general deportment is truly admirable. His talents are good, and he is very meditative." The other respected minister says: "I believe that the Lord is preparing him for an ambassador of the cross, and should this be the case, it will be very desirable that an effort should be made to place him in some college, for a year or two, in England." The record of this instance will, it is hoped, awaken prayer for our young brother, and call forth some aid for the Society, whose resources are far below the demands made upon them. 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