"We would glorify God in you, and to Him, the fountain of all good, we desire, amidst our grateful recollections, to render praise and honour for the usefulness with which he has crowned your long and valuable life in so many relations. It would be unbefitting the close of a pastoral relationship such as yours has been, much honoured friend, not to signalize it by some significant act, by some practical proof of love, as well as by words of sincere affection tendered to you, and of devout acknowledgment addressed to God. After much careful deliberation, it appeared to us as most useful in itself, most appropriate in connection with your past collegiate services, and most welcome and gratifying to your own mind, viewed as a method of perpetuating usefulness in association with your name through future ages, to establish a foundation at New College, to be called The Burder Scholarship.' Accordingly, a sum of £1000 has been raised for that purpose; and we cannot forbear adding, that it has been obtained with so much ease, and contributed with so much pleasure, as greatly to increase our gratification in publicly communicating to you the fact this day. "In conclusion, while we cannot but be sensible of the loss which we shall sustain by the dissolution of the endeared tie so long existing between us, we trust that your retirement from the arduous duties of the pastoral office may tend, under God's gracious blessing, to secure for you prolonged health, increased comfort, and further usefulness. Be assured, we shall never cease to regard you with veneration and love, nor shall our prayers be wanting for the welfare, peace, and joy, both of yourself and the justly esteemed and beloved companion of your life. We trust that we may still share in your occasional ministrations, and that the extension of such services to the Churches of London and the neighbourhood may circulate among them spiritual advantages such as it has been our happiness long to appreciate and enjoy. May the favour of God illuminate and gladden all your latter days, and, at a far distant Several points of the Address elicited the kindly and loving feelings of the audience towards Dr. Burder, and at its close the cheering was warm and general. Mr. Tozer then proceeded to remark, that it had been suggested that each of the deacons should say a few words expressive of the esteem which they felt for their beloved pastor; but it was feared that, if the seven deacons spoke at such length as would be necessary for them to give expression to the feelings of their hearts, the time allotted to the proceedings would not suffice for other gentlemen to address the meeting. The idea was therefore abandoned; two other of the deacons, however, would briefly give expression to the views and feelings which were entertained by all the rest towards their venerated and beloved pastor. Messrs. HENDEBOURCK, PITMAN, RUTT, and ATKINS, as representatives of the congregation, then addressed the meeting with a degree of talent and good feeling which will not soon be forgotten by those who listened to them. They bore testimony in most gratifying terms to the high character and devoted labours of Dr. Burder, and to the promptitude and cheerfulness with which the flock at large had come forward to testify their gratitude and love to their beloved pastor. The Rev. Dr. BURDER then rose and responded to the address, and was warmly greeted. He said:"My grateful acknowledgments are due, first of all to Him, 'whose I am,' and whom I have desired to serve. I bless the God of all grace for calling me, as I trust, into the ministry of the Gospel, for guiding me into this important station, and for favouring me with health and strength, encouragement and comfort, during the forty-one years of my ministry, and the thirty-nine of my pastorate. I bless God for the delight which I have found in the arduous duties of the pastoral charge. In the study of the Sacred Scriptures, and in the services 6 hallowed place of my highest enjoyments! And now my affectionate and cordial acknowledgments are due to my kind friends and loving brethren and sisters, for the munificent testimonial which I have just received. I read in the name of every contributor a symbol of Christian love, still more expressive than any of the figures which indicate the amount of their respective contributions. And be assured, my dear friends, that the object to which your subscriptions are devoted, is peculiarly gratifying to my heart. In a way quite unsought by myself, I have been connected with college training for the Christian ministry from an early period of my life. It is more than fortyfive years since I became a tutor at Wymondly College; and during twenty years I took part in tuition, first at Hoxton, and afterwards at Highbury College. I scarcely know which of the two engagements-that of college tuition, or that of the Christian ministry-has yielded me the greater amount of enjoyment; and I scarcely know which to regard as the more important in my own career of service to our Divine Lord and Master. In looking around on many of my beloved brethren in the ministry, who have this day favoured us with their presence, I am most pleasurably reminded of college engagements long since past, but never to be forgotten; and I rejoice to see among them not a few refreshing mementoes of Christian friendship now matured, the buddings of which were first put forth in college classes. In New College, in which three of our academic institutions are now united and blended, I cannot but take the deepest interest. May God honour and prosper it for generations yet to come, and render it, on a large scale, a blessing to the church and to the world. I ought to regard it, and II do regard it, as a distinguished honour, that a scholarship should be founded and endowed in my humble name, by members of this church, who thus record their love to their aged and retiring pastor. I must reserve, my dear friends, for other opportunities now approaching, the utterance of feelings which rush with painful emotion on my heart, in the anticipation of the sanctuary, I have found an ample recompense for all the labours and all the solicitudes of the Christian ministry. I bless God for enabling me at least to aim at faithfulness and usefulness. I may venture to affirm, that I have not shunned to declare the whole counsel of God.' I began my ministry with avowing my determination to preach nothing which does not connect itself with 'Jesus Christ and him crucified.' I have seen no cause to change my views on any leading point of doctrine, in the system of revealed truth, since I gave to this church, at my ordination, the confession of my faith; and, so far as I have been blessed with success in the prosecution of my ministry, I trace it to the endeavour, in reliance on the Holy Spirit, to preach the glorious Gospel of the blessed God,' with simplicity, with clearness, with fulness, with earnestness, with pointed appeals to the conscience, and with the enforcement of its practical bearings on character and on conduct. The measure of encouragement and of success with which God has graciously indulged me, although much below the extent of my desires, has been far above my highest expectations. Glory be to his name! I bless God for the peace and harmony which, during so long a period, gave a character to this church, and which were interrupted only by the unsuccessful attempt to obtain an effective and congenial coadjutor in the labours of the pastorate. In entering on my seventieth year, and not venturing to repeat the hazardous experiment of taking another colleague, I have thought myself, after much deliberation, counsel, and prayer, justified in resigning into the hands of the church the charge I have so long sustained. In retiring, however, from the pastoral charge, I do not consider myself as closing my ministry. God forbid that it should now terminate! shall still be most desirous of improving such opportunities as may be afforded me of pulpit usefulness. May I find, through the blessing of God, in occasional services, some relief under the privation which I expect intensely to feel in vacating the pulpit, which has been to me, through a long succession of years, the The ministers and others who spoke were the Rev. Geo. Clayton, the Rev. Dr. Morison, the Rev. Thos. Binney, the Rev. John Stoughton, the Rev. Dr. Harris, the Rev. Professor Godwin, the Rev. Dr. Campbell, the Rev. Geo. Smith, Josiah Conder, Esq., and the Rev. John Watson. The brethren present, who had not an opportunity of pouring forth their hearts, were the Rev. James Stratten, the Rev. Robert Philip, the Rev. Dr. Stowell, the Rev. Dr. Henderson, the Rev. Henry Townley, the Rev. John Burder, the Rev. Thomas James, the Rev. Dr. Cox, the Rev. S. B. Bergne, the Rev. Joshua Harrison, the Rev. John Davis, the Rev. H. J. Campbell, the Rev. John Hoxley, the Rev. John Gill, the Rev. Ebenezer Cornwall, the Rev. E. Mannering, and the Rev. D. Katterns. There were also present T. M. Coombs, Esq., Joshua Wilson, Esq., Samuel Morley, Esq., Roger Cunliffe, Esq., Martin Ware, Esq., Charles Ware, Esq., and George Burder, Esq., M.D. At the close of one of the most interesting and delightful meetings we ever attended, T. Smart, Esq. moved a vote of thanks to the chairman, which was carried by acclamation; when the Doxology was sung, and Dr. Burder pronounced the apostolic benediction. CONGREGATIONAL SCHOOL, LEWISHAM. ON Sunday the 5th of December, the Rev. J. B. Lister took an affectionate farewell of the people of his charge at North Allerton, previous to his removal to the Congregational School, Lewisham, London. He has presided over this people for three years and a half, with comfort and usefulness. The chapel was crowded to excess by persons of every denomination. Mr. Lister preached from Phil. iv. 9: "Those things which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you." And Acts xx. 31: "Therefore watch and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day, with tears." Most earnestly do we commend the Congregational School to the increased support and sympathy of the churches. It deserves a patronage it has never received. HERNE BAY. THE Rev. Frederick Newman, late of Lyme Regis, has accepted an invitation to become the pastor of the Church of Christ assembling in Union Chapel, Herne Bay, Kent, and commenced his stated labours on the second sabbath in December, 1852. Previous to Mr. Newman's departure from Lyme Regis, the Church presented him (through their deacon, T. B. Goddard, Esq.) with a handsome written testimonial, expressive of their "best thanks for his pastoral services, accompanied with the deepest regret that the happy union that has existed for a period of six years, should have been severed." WEST INDIES. DEMERARA. MEMOIR OF A NATIVE EVANGELIST. THE following impressive narrative is from the pen of the Rev. Charles Rattray, of the Demerara Mission, and by all those who have sympathized in the wrongs and sufferings of the African race, and who can take delight in tracing the hand of Providence in leading a descendant of that race from the degradation of slavery to the glorious light and liberty of the Gospel, it will be read with peculiar interest: 'The subject of this notice, Goodluck Day, was a Creole, a native of the estate to which he was attached, when I first knew him, and on which he had lived thirty-eight years as a slave, and four years as a freeman, when, in 1840, he came to reside at this station, (Canal, No. 1,) in the capacity of native teacher." THE SLAVE THIRSTING FOR KNOWLEDGE. "At the time of my first acquaintance with him he could read very slowly, and by spelling the long words, make out a chapter in the New Testament. Even that slender acquirement had not been made without some experience of the severities usually inflicted on slaves found guilty of possessing books, or of making any attempt at learning to read. On one occasion, after he had by some means learned the alphabet and short words of one syllable, his back was bared to the driver's lash for the heinous crime of scratching with a stick upon the ground, something like 'cat bat.' That was, perhaps, his first and last lesson in writing, while slavery continued; for when he first became known to me, he could not, so far as I now recollect, form the letters of his own name. But entirely to prevent even a slave from learning to read, if he was bent upon it, was a more difficult matter. The book, or the leaf of a book, could be carefully concealed about his person, or elsewhere, to be ready on every favourable opportunity when he happened to meet a friend who would teach him a little bit.' "When the Sabbath came to be recognized on the plantations as a day of rest, it was generally held as the weekly market-day; and the people having obtained the necessary 'pass' from the manager, went to town with their provisions, firewood and poultry for sale. On those occasions, Goodluck, after disposing of his articles, usually went to Providence Chapel. He thus became familiar with portions of the catechisms and hymns of Dr. Watts, and obtained some knowledge of the holy Scriptures. In course of time he came to be regarded by the rest of the people on the estate as their teacher, and a Bible was purchased for him by their united contributions. He could not read very well, but they were greatly delighted to have a teacher and a Bible of their own, albeit they well knew both to be against the laws then in force amongst them. The precious book must be carefully concealed. It was, therefore, wrapped in a handkerchief, placed in a box, and buried in the ground, under a coffee tree, at some distance from the negro houses. Goodluck often retired to that place on the Sabbath mornings, or when he could secure a few moments unobserved, to read the word of God. [See Engraving.] Slowly would he read, pointing to each word: 'I-sayunto-you-love-your-e, n, e, m, i, e, s—— bless-them-that-curse-you-do-good -to-them-that-hate-you; and, under such circumstances, very slow and uncertain must have been his growth in knowledg When they ventured to hold a meeting, a watchful eye was directed towards the buckra house, to prevent surprise from any unwelcome visitor, while the teacher read, in an undertone, a portion of the Bible, and all things were kept in readiness to bury it again as quickly as possible, in the event of any emergency. In this way he gained some acquaintance with portions of Scripture, and his influence among the people gradually increased; but for many years after that period he was a stranger to the saving knowledge of the truth." INTRODUCTION TO THE MISSIONARY. "After we had taken up our abode in the |