In consequence of the lamented decease of our Missionary brother, Mr.
Pearson, the Committee have determined to send Mr. Ebenezer Quant to
the Bahamas, instead of Jamaica, as previously designed. Mr. Quant, who
is a native of Bury St. Edmunds, and has for some time been engaged in
ministerial labour in connexion with the church under the pastoral care
of the Rev. Cornelius Elven, was designated to foreign service at the
chapel in that town on Tuesday, March 24th. This commodious place of
worship, which will seat more than a thousand persons, was crowded in
every part, and the service of the evening proved deeply interesting.
Rev. W. Reynolds, of Sudbury, began with reading the Scriptures and
prayer. Mr. Quant then gave an account of his own religious experience,
and a brief statement of his doctrinal views; at the close of which
his respected pastor gave him the right hand of fellowship, and
congratulated him on his entrance into the office of a Christian
Missionary. Mr. Ellington, of West Row, offered up the designation
prayer; the charge was delivered by Mr. Elven, from 2 Tim. iv. 5; and
the service of the evening was closed in prayer by Mr. Fuller, of
Harston, nephew of the revered Andrew Fuller, of Kettering, and himself
uncle to our young Missionary brother. A passage to Nassau has been
engaged for Mr. and Mrs. Quant, by the Little Catherine, Captain Kopp,
and they are expected to sail in a few days.
Mr. William Shotton, late of Darlington, is also about to sail to
Kingston, with a view to take charge of the School at Spanish Town,
under the direction of Mr. Phillippo, and Mr. John Clark, a member of
the church at Devonshire Square, has been accepted as an assistant
Missionary for the same colony, and will probably be engaged in
connexion with Mr. Coultart, in the parish of St. Ann's.
These new efforts, as well as all preceding operations of the Society,
are earnestly commended to the supplications of all our Christian
friends.
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_Contributions received on account of the Baptist Missionary
Society, from March 20, 1835, to April 20, 1835, not including
individual subscriptions._