In the month of September, 1794, a paper was published in the _Evangelical Magazine_, urging the formation of a mission to the heathen on the broadest possible basis. The writer of that paper was the Rev. David Bogue, D.D., of Gosport, Hampshire, and two months after its appearance a conference, attended by representatives from several Evangelical bodies, was held to take action in the matter. The result was an address to ministers and members of various churches, and the appointment of a committee to diffuse information upon the subject. Thereafter, and in September, 1795, a large and influential meeting, extending over three days, at which the Rev. Dr. Harris preached from Mark xv: 16, and the Rev. J. Burder and the Rev. Rowland Hill and many others took part. At that meeting the society was formed, and it was resolved, with reference to its agents and their converts, “That it should be entirely left with those whom God might call into the fellowship of His Son among them, to assume for themselves such a form of church government as to them shall appear most agreeable to the Word of God.” The Rev. David Bogue, D.D., has therefore well been styled “the father and founder” of the institution. -------------- APPENDIX (PAGE 256). At a meeting held in Leeds, 5th October, 1813, it was resolved to constitute a society to be called “The Methodist Missionary Society for the Leeds District,” of which branches were to be formed in the several circuits, whose duty it should be to collect subscriptions in behalf of missions and to remit them to an already existing committee in London. It was from this point that, by general consent, the origin of the Wesleyan Missionary Society is reckoned. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INDEX. Academy, Doddridge’s, 29 Lady Huntingdon’s, 257 Aftermath, 260 Age before the Revival, The 32 Albert, Prince, 120 Alleine, Rev. Joseph, 197 Allen, Ebenezer, Governor of Martha’s Vineyard, 226 America, Awakening in, 28, 73, 85, 281 American Baptist Missionary Union, 256 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 255, 256 American Revival, 28, 73, 85, 281 Sunday-school Union, 256 Amusements, 15 Anabaptists, 52 Ancaster, Duchess of 37, 41 Anecdotes, 17–20, 37, 39, 41, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 69, 70, 72, 76, 82–84, 87, 89, 94, 96, 100, 103, 109, 112, 113, 115, 116, 125, 129, 130, 133–135, 137, 138, 140, 143–145, 148, 151, 153, 158, 159, 161, 166, 172, 177, 183, 194, 198, 200, 202, 218, 234, 236, 239, 243, 245, 247, 255, 256, 266, 288, 291, 293, 294, 298, 300, 301 Aram, Eugene, 147 Armenianism, 60 Arrests, 102 Atheism, Prevalence of, 15 Austrian Exiles, 28 Baptist Missionary Society, 250 Union, American, 256 Band-Meetings, etc., Origin of, 100 Basle Evangelical Mission, 256 Baynham, James, 195