The Prophet Isaiah when he saw, in vision, the gospel heralds proclaiming the kingdom of God, exclaimed, "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace, that bringeth good tidings of good" (Isaiah 52, 7); and it is with deep emotions of liveliest joy and gratitude that we announce to our readers the arrival on these shores of two Moravian Brethren, who are sent forth as heralds of salvation to the unenlightened and ruined aborigines of this land.

Brother Andrew F. C. Taeger, and Brother Frederick W. Spieseke, the former an ordained Minister, the latter a Lay-helper, arrived in Melbourne on the 25th of February last, by the ship "Sibella." The ultimate destination of these gentlemen we understand to be the banks of the River Murray, where they will endeavour to form a settlement amongst the black population; but before proceeding thither their intention is, if possible, to acquire some knowledge of the native language in one or more of its various dialects, and also to obtain an acquaintance with the character and habits of the natives themselves. For this purpose they propose residing for a few months on the Loddon, at the interesting station of Mr. Edward Stone Parker, Assistant Protector of the Aborigines; and they hope in the spring of the year to commence more direct Missionary exertions.

The difficulties which the messenger of peace must encounter in preaching the Gospel to the Aborigines, are but, too obvious to every intelligent observer - nevertheless, with a joyous anticipation of success in their labors, we can say to our newly-arrived brethren in Christ, "We wish you good luck in the name of the Lord." In the Lord's work they will experience, we are persuaded, the Lord's presence and blessing; they will see, we are sure, the might of his holy arm.

We should have gladly welcomed Missionaries to the natives from any body of faithful Christians, yet we confess it gives us peculiar pleasure to see amongst us the representatives of a Church whose praise is in all the world for its zeal in winning souls to Christ. God has greatly prospered the Moravian missions, and the devoted labourers of the Church of the United Brethren have always selected as the objects of their compassionate efforts the most ignorant and degraded of the human race - the Negro, the Esquimaux, and the Hottentot. The Moravian Church has its fields of successful labor in Labrador, Greenland, North America, the West Indies, South America, and at the Cape of Good Hope; and if in all these places men are to be now found worshipping God in spirit and in truth, who formerly were both debased in their minds and depraved in their habits, ought we not to take courage, and to hope in God that a brighter day will yet dawn, through his mercy, upon our neighbours, the poor benighted Aborigines of Port Phillip.

We confess that in sight of all the difficulties in the way of the realisation of our hopes concerning this people, we are 'perplexed,' nevertheless 'we are not in despair.' We know who hath said, "Preach the gospel to every creature;" and we silence every misgiving as to the conversion of the natives, with the enquiry "Is anything too hard for the Lord?" The work to be done, shall be accomplished by Divine power. We sympathise greatly with those Christian men who have yielded themselves to the Lord, if haply he will vouchsafe to use them as instruments for the accomplishment of his purposes of mercy. Let us endeavour to strengthen their hands in God. Let us fervently intercede both for them and for their work. Let the souls they seek to win be the objects of our special love and supplication; and if pecuniary aid should be needed for promoting their Christian efforts, let us esteem it a high privilege to offer them our substance for the Lord's sake.

It gives us great pleasure to hear that a lady in England devoted £2,000 for the purposes of the above Mission, and such an example of Christian liberality should provoke a lively jealousy in our Divine Master's cause, as it is written, "Your zeal hath provoked very many." 2 Corinthians ix. 2.

In the Intelligence of our April number, we noticed with much thankfulness the arrival of two Moravian Brethren, the Rev. Andreas Friedrich Christian Taeger, and his lay-brother, Friedrich Wilhelm Spieseke. They came to this country on a Gospel mission to its Aboriginal inabitants, and we have lately had the pleasure of renewing our intercourse with them in Melbourne, and hearing some account of their proceedings, since last autumn.

The winter months were spent at the Aboriginal Station on the Loddon, which is under Mr. Edward Stone Parker's superintendence, and there they acquired some knowledge of the native habits, customs, and language, as far at least, as regards the Aborigines residing in the Loddon district.

Early in the spring, the Brethren made an excursion into the country, visiting some of the tribes on the Murray, their object being to ascertain in what part of the colony it would be best permanently to locate, with the hope of forming a Moravian settlement. It is interesting to observe that as they travelled along, the blacks expecting their coming, and Mr. Horseburg, of the Aboriginal station on the Goulburn, learned first from the blacks themselves, that two of the whites were coming from the Loddon to teach them, as they said, significantly pointing upward, the way to Heaven.

The Brethren have determined, if possible, to settle eventually near Lake Boga, about ten miles from Swan Hill; and in the mean time they will proceed to Mr. Campbell's station on the Murray, which is about 40 miles from the proposed scene of their future labours.

The Moravian Missionaries have now been amongst us nine months, which have been spent in quiet but most necessary preparation for more direct labours in the missionary field; and as we know their willingness to preach both by word and example to the natives, laboring with their hands, as well as preaching with their lips; and knowing also their determination, by God's grace, to persevere through ten, twenty, or thirty years, if so be they may rescue one soul, we anticipate for them an abundant reward, if not now, at some future time, for their exertions will certainly not prove fruitless. We heartily pray for a blessing on their behalf, and desire both to help forward their work, and to emulate their zeal by a Mission from our own Church.