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cut off. This was done accordingly. He directed that the girl should be compelled to eat her own flesh, or die. She did eat part of her own arm, after it had been cooked, and proceeded till she became very sick. She was then permit ted to live.

There is one thing remarkable in the revolting accounts which this people give of their man-eating career; that is, that the flesh of human beings is really very good, and they like it. The flesh of women is rather better than the flesh of men; and when the chief wants something very delicate, or, in case many bodies are before him, a child is roasted for his repast.

A Rewa canoe was wrecked near Natawa, and many of the crew swam to the shore. The Natawa people found them, took them into the town, and at once began to make preparations for cooking them. They did not club them, lest a little blood should be lost; but they bound them until the ovens were heated. Some of the cannibals could not wait, but plucked off pieces, such as ears and noses, from the bodies of their victims, and ate them raw. When the ovens were ready, they began to cut up the poor wretches, who were crying to their murderers for mercy. They first cut off their legs as far as the knees, afterwards the arms, and then the trunks. While they were thus engaged, they had dishes placed under the different parts to catch the blood; and if a drop happened to fall on the ground, they licked it up. The different parts were then cooked and eaten. The whole of this was seen by an intelligent Christian native, named Micah, or, in Feejee, Maicha, who is on the spot where I am now writing.

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through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator; who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections;" (and are not the facts above narrated a clear comment on what is meant by vile affections?") and because of these things, "God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness," (far too gross and revolting to be placed on paper,)" covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful." (Rom. 1: 21-31.) Here we have a perfectly accurate portrait of human nature as it was in Egypt and Moab, in Greece and Rome, and exactly as it is at this hour in the heathen parts of Feejee. But he must be a man of strong faith, who is able to believe that this human nature is very good. On such a mind the evidence of facts must weigh just as little as the testimony of scripture. And when the goodness of human nature is preached up, the understandings of those who hear must be trampled under foot.

Mr. Hunt asserts, and the other missionaries confirm it, that the Feejeean language contains no word for a corpse; but the word they use, bakola, conveys the idea of eating the dead. This is their war-cry, when one of the enemy is slain, and his body found: Here is a dead body to be eaten :" the word they use is bakola.

They also affirm, that within the last four years, fully one thousand people have been killed within twenty miles of Vewa; and that they keep far within compass, when they say, that of these slain, five hundred have been eaten. As to the total number eaten in that period in all Feejee, it would not be easy to form a conjecture, inasmuch as many devastatory wars have been going on beyond the limits of twenty miles.

The Socinian says, that human nature is very good; and the Feejeean says, that human flesh is good, for he has eaten it, and likes it. But perhaps the Socinian will not receive this testimony; whether he receive it or not, one fact is clear, that these people are in a state of nature, and are quite free from education and religion. The Apostle, writing to the Romans, describes human nature just as I see it in Feejee. When they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish It seems that at Ngau, an island withheart was darkened. Professing them in sight of the place where I am writing, selves to be wise, they became fools, they prepare the human body, about to and changed the glory of the incorruptible be cooked, in any form they may desire. God into an image, made like to cor- The limbs are tied, say in a sitting form, ruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed and there they remain; the body is roastbeasts, and creeping things. Wherefore ed, hot stones being placed within, as in God also gave them up to uncleanness the case of other animals: when dressed,

they take the body up, paint the face red, place a wig upon the head, put a club or fan in the hands, as they may happen to fancy, and then carry the whole as a present to be eaten by their friends. They sometimes travel far with this spectacle, which, when met in the path, may easily be mistaken for a living man in full dress. When the carver commences his work, he observes the same rule as in dividing other food, only the cutis, or outer skin, is first removed, leaving what remains white. A man here, not long since, killed and roasted one of his wives, who had offended him in the preparation of some food: he ate a part, and hung up the rest in a tree in front of his house, for the other wives to see; and there it remained. He did not say, like Abraham, Bury my dead out of my sight."

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of recent growth. Varani fully believes, and confidently asserts, this revival and extension of the works of darkness, of these frightful and startling deeds of blood. He says, all the old people, and especially his own father, used to tell him, that these bloody wars and this eating of one another, upon the present enlarged scale, sprung up in their days, and did not obtain to such an extent in the generation before them. All testimony speaks to this effect throughout Feejee; so says Varani; his friends support him in this view; and it is difficult to imagine how the human race could so long exist, where violence had become so rife, and death ruled as the king of terrors over the children of pride, whom he permitted not to live out half their days. The history of infanticide here is too revolting to be written it may be enough to say, that it is very general, and has not merely become an abominable custom, but is reduced to a system. The chief women recommend the practice to the common people; and there are persons whose profession it is to aid and abet them therein. —Mr. Lawry in Wesleyan Miss. No

There are, however, a few in Feejee, who have now the fear of God; and they, to a man, abhor their former practices, and insist upon it, that, though cannibalism is a very ancient custom among them, yet that it did not formerly obtain to the same extent that it has done latterly; that the present overflowing of this tide of blood, this abounding of iniquity, istioes.

ANNUAL MEETINGS.

The American Baptist Missionary Union will hold its next annual meeting in the meeting-house of the 5th Baptist Church, Sansom Street, Philadelphia, Pa., on Thursday, May 17th ensuing, at 10 o'clock, A. M. The annual sermon will be preached by Rev. MORGAN J. Ruees of Delaware, or Rev. E. L. MAGOON of Ohio, his alternate.

Brookline, Ms., March 19, 1849.

WM. H. SHAILER, Rec. Sec'y.

The Board of Managers of the American Baptist Missionary Union will hold their 35th annual meeting in the meeting-house of the 5th Baptist Church, Sansom Street, Philadelphia, on Tuesday, May 15, 1849, at 10 o'clock, A. M.

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Oct. 17, Nov. 16.-N. Brown, Aug. 11.-| O T. Cutter, Dec. 21.-A. H. Danforth, Aug. 19, Nov. 23-1. J. Stoddard, Nov. 18.

SIAM J. H. Chandler, Aug. 3.-J. Goddard, Aug. 21, Oct. 3, 13, Nov. 17.-J. T. Jones, July 15, Aug. 2, 3, Nov. 24.-Miss H. H. Morse, Nov. 23.

CHINA W Dean, Oct. 12, Nov. 3.-J. Johnson, Sept. 19, Oct. 26.—D. J. Macgowan, Aug. 1, Sept. 5.

BASSAS J Vonbrunn, Nov. 21.-J. H. Cheeseman, Nov. 23.

FRANCE.-E. Willard, Nov. 6, 8, 20, Dec. 12, 31, Jan 1, 1849, Jan. 19, 23, Feb. 5, 7, 16 -19.-T. T. Devan, Nov. 2, 30, Jan. 5, 25, Feb. 22.

GREECE.-A. N. Arnold, Oct. 9, Nov. 8, Jan. 8-R. F. Buel, Oct. 20-8. Feb. 8, 1849; Mrs. B., Oct. 10.—Mrs. H. E. Dickson, Oct. 8.-Mrs. E. Waldo York, Dec. 21. · GERMANY.-J. G. Oncken, Oct. 27, Nov. 10.-G. W. Lehmann, Nov. 30.

CHEROKEES.-E. Jones. Dec. 8, Jan. 16.W. P. Upham, Jan. 7.-H. Upham, Jan. 11, Feb. 12.

SHAWANOES.-F. Barker, Nov. 13.-J. Meeker, Jan. 13, 22—J. G. Pratt, Jan. 10, 16. OJIBWAS-A. Bingham, June 30, Dec 30 (2), Feb. 2.-A, J. Bingham, Nov. 14, 17, Dec. 31.

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New Bedford, William St. ch.,
tr., Holden, ch.
L. G. Hewins tr, mon. con.,
to cons. Isaac M. Richardson
L. M.,

Boston, Charles St. ch., to cons.
A. Everett L. M., 101,12;
Fem. Miss. Soc., to cons.
Amos F. Spalding L. M.,
100.00,

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Wheelock, to cons him L. M., 100,00
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100,00; Charles H. Nichols,
for sup. of native Karen
preachers and to cons. Mrs.
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100.00,
Seekonk, ch. 25,31; Fem. For.
Miss. Soc., Mrs. A. Carpenter
tr., 16,00; Sab. school 1,32;
Rev. J. C. Welsh 5,37,
Newton, 1st ch., non. con..
63,71; Rev S. F. Smith 20,00;
others 5,87; for Indian Miss.
1,00; Juv. Miss. Soc., for
school in charge of Rev. E. A.
Stevens, Maulmain, 18,00; to
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L. M.,

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per Rev. J. F. Wilcox, agent,

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"Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God." What are the glorious things spoken of the city of God? Many glorious things are said of its dignity, its beauty, its final destiny, of the love borne to it by the Redeemer, of its safety, its influence, its strength. But our present design is to contemplate its prevalence on earth. Among the glorious things spoken of the city of God in the predictions of his word, one is, that it shall be exalted to great prominence, honor and glory. "It shall come to pass in the last days," saith God, "that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say,-Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths." "Thus saith the Lord God,-behold I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people. And they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers. They shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me." Other passages might be quoted to show the prominence to which the church of God shall hereafter be raised, and how all shall conspire to do it honor. Religion and its professors shall no longer be hidden in corners. The church and the world shall change places, the church becoming as great and honorable and influential as the world now is,—and the spirit of holiness prevailing over and shutting out the spirit of the world.

The church shall also be exalted to great authority and power. Kings' and queens shall be among its friends. The prophet says also,-"A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation." That which formerly hid itself before the great and the mighty, and bowed down in the dust before worldly magnificence, shall itself be exalted. Now the poor, the ignorant, the despised, form a large body of professed believers on earth, and, perhaps, the largest proportion of the church. But, in some future day, Christians will be the honorable of the earth, and the honorable of the earth will be Christians. Confidence will be placed in them. Authority will be entrusted to them. The throne of prayer will be in the path to honor; and they who walk most humbly with God, will be most esteemed.

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