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AMERICAN BAPTIST MAGAZINE.

Vol. 15. July, 1835. ]¥o. 7.

Mr. Editor,

During the visit of my family last winter among our connexions and frienda at the
South, it was our affecting lot to watch over the last sickness and dying moments of
Mrs. Ripley's aged mother. Filial respect and desire for the welfare of her grand-
children, prompted me to prepare an account of her life furnished mostly from papers
which she left behind. I submit to your disposal an abstract of what 1 prepared.
Mrs. Winn moved in a comparatively retired sphere, " unknown to fame." Perhaps,
however, the record of her religious life may contribute to the spiritual welfare of
some, whose chief aim is to serve the Redeemer and to be made meet for the inher-
itance of the saints."

Yours,

Nevoton^ May 25, 1835. H. J. Riplet,

MEMOIR OF MRS. ANN WINN, OF SUNBURY, GEORGIA.

Mrs. Ann Winn was born October 18, 1758, in Libert/ county,
Georgia. Her maiden name was Sumner. Her parents were
pious, and endeavored to bring her up in the nurture and admoni-
tion of the Lord. At the early age of 12 years, she was deprived,
by death, of the care and counsel of her mother. Five years
after, at the age of 17, her father also died. On the death of her
father, the surviving members of the family were scattered, and
she took up her abode with her eldest married sister. She thus
remained two years, when, at the age of 19 years, she was mar-
ried to Mr. Charles Carter. This took place in the midst of the
revolutionary war. In consequence of the troubled state of the
times, Mr. and Mrs. Carter removed to South Carolina. After
the British obtained possession of Charleston, Mr. Carter was
taken prisoner, and, after many sufferings, died in prison. His
widow was left with an infant daughter in the midst of enemies,
not knowing at what moment she might be called, in her lonely
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condition, to encounter other trying vicissitudes incident to a time
of war. During these trials, she represents herself as supported
beyond all her expectations, but yet destitute of the comforts of true
religion.

Shortly after peace was restored to the country, she returned to
the place of her nativity and early residence. She was soon called
to a new affliction in the death of her only child, at the age of
three years and a few months. Some months after this affliction,
she removed to Bryan county, and resided in the family of her
brother-in-law, Mr. H. Carter. There was then, in that section
of the country, an entire destitution of religious privileges. The
preaching of the gospel was not enjoyed, and she knew not a
single person there who gave evidence of having experienced true
religion. Thus unfavorably situated, it is not suprising that she
had occasion afterwards to reproach herself as spending much of
her time in a vain and unprofitable manner. She again returned
to Liberty county ; but was here so situated as not to enjoy relig-
ious privileges. The early instructions of her parents, however,
and her knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, proved very service-
able to her. She had hours of serious reflection, and tlie Holy
Spirit was striving with her.

While thus situated, her second marriage occurred. This was
to a Mr. Good, whom she represents as possessing many amia-
ble qualifications, and expressing for her in all his conduct an en-
dearing afliection. This union was, however, of but short contin-
uance. It terminated in six weeks, by an accidental and fatal fall
of her husband from his horse.

This disappointment in her hopes of happiness on earth appears
to have been signally blessed to her spiritual welfare. She began
in earnest to seek the Lord, deeply convinced of the insufficiency
and uncertainty of all earthly comforts, and of her need of those
comforts which the world can neither give nor take away. She
also removed at this time to the house of her brother, where she
enjoyed religious privileges, such as she had not enjoyed since
the death ot" her father. At this time, too, she had the privilege
of attending upon the ministry of the Rev. Abiel Holmes, now the
Rev. Dr. Holmes, of Cambridge, Mass. From his faithful preach-
ing she derived much instruction; and in subsequent years she
remembered him with much affection, as the instrument, in the
hands of God, of special good to her soul.

" I then ventured," she says, " to make a public profession of
my faith in Christ, and was received into the communion of the
Congregational church at Midway. I was for some time much
engaged in religious duties. Being much retired and having con-
siderable leisure, I endeavored to improve it, and (if I mistake
not) found much peace and comfort lor a while. I have often
looked back to that period of my life, as the happiest I have seen,
though I was never free from doubts and fears about my spiritual
state. Yet I thought I had strong desires to serve God and to be
useful to my fellow-creatures."

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After this public profession of religion, she was, in 1789, mar-
ried a third time. This union continued until 1824, when it pleas-
ed God to remove her husband to his final rest, in peace, at the
age of 73 years, after he had, for many years, given evidence of
being a sincere disciple of the Redeemer. Subsequently to this
third marriage, the attention of herself and her husband was spe-
cially directed to the subject of baptism; and after mature exam-
ination of the Scriptures, they were both baptized, in the year
1808, by the Rev. Charles O. Screven, and became members of
the Baptist church in Sunbury. Mr. Winn served the Baptist
church in Sunbury as a deacon until his death, having also prof-
itably sustained the same office in the Midway church. Of the
six children with whom the subject of this memoir was blessed
after this third marriage, the afflicted parents were 'called to sur-
render three; namely, Sarah, who died in her 17th year; Abiel,
who died ten days after in his 20th year; and the Rev. Thomas
Sumner Winn,* who died in his 27th year.

From the time of Mrs. Winn's making a public profession of
religion she kept a diary, in which she recorded the exercises of
her mind and her reflections on important events and periods of
her life. These interesting remains of the deceased bear testimo-
ny to the sincerity of her repentance, to the singleness of her faith
in Christ, to her consciousness of her failings and of indwelling
sin, to her earnest desires for growth in grace, to her love oi
prayer and of social worship, to the tenderness of her conscience,
and to her solicitude for the salvation of her children and friends,
and for the spread of the gospel.

A few extracts from her diary will exhibit the character of her
piety.

" March d, 1786. Tomorrow, if God permit, lam to make
a solemn dedication of myself to the Lord. O that my heart may
be suitably affected with the solemnity of the transaction. O may
I come with a firm reliance on Christ, my Saviour, trusting in his
merits alone, hoping for acceptance through him, not trusting in
any thing I can do. I can do nothing of myself; but I desire to
trust in the gracious promises of the Lord. He has said. My
strength is made perfect in weakness. I desire humbly to trust
in these and other gracious promises. But O may I keep up a
godly fear, lest I come trusting in any of my poor, weak services.
O Lord, make me see my nothingness and great unworthiness,
and enable me to come with a deep sense of my sins, and true
repentance for them, with a true love for thee and faith in thy
Son Jesus Christ. I desire to give up myself, soul and body, to
thee, to be dedicated to thy service. O may the short remainder
of my time be spent in seeking thy glory, and may I be enabled
sincerely to say with the psalmist. Whom have I in heaven but
thee.'' and there is none upon earth I desire besides thee."

* A memoir of this pious and useful minister may be found in No. 90 of the tracts
of the Baptist General Tract Society.

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At this early stage of her religious life, she possessed no small
degree of acquaintance with her own heart. She complains of
much " dulness and hardness of heart;" expresses earnest desires
that God would soften her heart, prepare it more for duty, and
give her strength to resist temptation. She became early con-
vinced, that there was a law in her members warring against the
law of her mind, that the Spirit lusteth against the flesh, and the
flesh against the Spirit.

" April 6. My poor hard heart is dull and heavy. I have hard
struggles continually to perform my duty, the world taking strong
hold upon me, the vanity of it carrying me away from my God.
And O how prone am I to be puffed up with vain thoughts and
self-love; and how hard to fix my thoughts in meditation on any
thing worthy the attention of a reasonable creature. O my God,
I humbly beseech thee to look in pity on me; wean my affections
from the vain and transitory things of this world, and fix them on
thee, the author of all good. May I have an interest in Christ,
be found in him, washed from all sin and pollution in that fountain
which was opened for sin and uncleanness."

Under another date, May 6, occurs the following record: —
" Blessed be God for the mercies of another week. I have had
much opportunity for secret meditation and religious duties the
greater part of this week. I think I have enjoyed more peace of
mind and more real satisfaction, than if I had had the best of com-
pany. O what worthy companions I have had, though all alone.
I have conversed with some of the best of authors. What agree-
able amusement do they afford, and, I trust, good instruction. I
pray God to forgive my imperfections, pardon the sins of the past
week, and enable me to spend the next better than I have spent
this. O may he root out of my heart all pride and vanity, selfish-
ness and vain glory; and plant within humility, faith, love, and
true repentance. When shall I find that sweet communion with
God, that fervent love for Christ, that rapture and holy joy, which
many Christians experience?"

Sept. 1, 1801. This day I have come to a determined reso-
lution (if enabled by divine grace,) to do my utmost endeavors to
forgive all injuries, either real or supposed, done to me or mine.
O may I not lean on my own strength, but depend entirely on
grace to enable me to do my duty to God and man."

Similar expressions of self-renunciation, of contrition for sin,
of trusting in Christ, of desire for growth in grace and christian
comfort, are frequently recorded. She was also called to exercise
submission to the afflictive dispensations of divine providence.
The year 1813 was a remarkable period in her life. i)uring tha
year, her only sister was removed to eternity. Her sister " died
with much composure and a comfortable hope of an interest in the
Saviour. She manifested in her life for many years a pious, meek
and humble walk before God and towards her fellow-creatures."
Soon after this event, Mrs. Winn's two eldest children, with her
son-in-law, were separated from her for six months, for purposes

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of health and study. During their absence, " it pleased " (to use
her own words) " a just, wise, good and merciful God to remove
from her arms, her ever dear Sarah and Abiel, in the full bloom
of youth." In recording this event, she further says, "I desire
to say in sincerity, his holy will be done. I desire forever to bless
his name, that he has not caused us to mourn without hope. For
though they were obedient and dutiful children, moral in their
conduct and amiable in the sight of men, they renounced all hope
or confidence in any thing save what Jesus has done for sinners,
and appeared to take comfort in that alone. I trust the Lord
gave them such broken and contrite hearts as he will not despise.
And now, I desire to record the goodness of the Lord in support-
ing me under these sore bereavements. For, surely, if left to my
own strength only, I must have sunk under them. But I trust he
has made good his promise in giving me strength, in some meas-
ure, according to my day. O may the good Lord sanctify these
afflictions for his glory and my best good. O may they be sancti-
fied to each surviving brother and sister. May they hear the
awful admonition from their dear departed brother and sister,
speaking to them loudly from the silent grave, Be ye also ready.
The Lord grant, that all my children may experience a change of
heart, be adopted into his blessed family, and become heirs of
his heavenly kingdom above, through the merits of his dear
Son."

Under a subsequent date, she relates with considerable minute-
ness the mental exercises of her two deceased children. The
account which she gives justifies the hope, that they were admit-
ted among the redeemed. She then proceeds, in the exercise of
patient submission and of hope, " How the Lord has disposed of
my children, I know not; but this I can confidently say, he has
done right; for he is too wise to do wrong, and too good to do evil.
I dare not wish them back with me. I trust they are in the mer-
ciful arms of the Lord Jesus Christ, freed from all sin and sorrow,
uniting with the holy throng who cease not, day nor night, to sing
the praises of redemption. O what a blessing to have any grounds
for hope. How undeserving am I of such a favor. O! the Lord
had been just, had he deprived me of all my children, or made
them as goads in my sides, or thorns in my eyes, for my past sins
and transgressions. Adored be his holy name, for his patience
and forbearance toward me and mine. His ways are not our
ways, nor his thoughts our thoughts, or long ago I should have
been cut down as a cumberer of the ground. O that he would
sanctify my late bereavements, make me resigned to his will,
cause me to be more weaned from the world, and enable me to
live nearer to himself, prepare me for what is yet before me in
life, and especially fit me for death and eternity."

A new affliction awaited her. But mournful as it was, she was
enabled to bear it with christian fortitude and submission. And
though she seems to have felt it as the chief affliction of her life,
yet she mentions it repeatedly without murmuring, with confidence
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in the wisdom and goodness of God, and with desires that it might
be blest to the spiritual welfare of herself and of the family. It
was the death of her beloved son, Thomas Sumner Winn, pastor
of the Newport church, in Liberty county. This occurred in
January, 1819. One year after, she thus notices this event, " I
desire (if I know my own heart) to humble myself before God,
when I call to mind that this day, twelve months, he was pleased
to chastise me by removing from me my dear Sumner, I trust, to
a far better world. Yes, this day, twelve months, my first-born
son, the comfort of my declining years, lay struggling in the cold
arms of death. Many dear friends were around his bed, offering
every kind assistance in their power. But alas! what are earthly
friends at that solemn hour? They cannot give relief, they cannot
stay the grim tyrant, nor prevent for a moment his awful approach.
But blessed be God, he was not clothed with terror, but came in
angel form to remove my child from this vain world of sin and
sorrow, to that bright world of glory, where there are pleasures
forevermore. Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have
entered into the heart of man, the things that God hath prepared
for those that love and serve him. But, blessed be God, I trust
he often gave him some foretaste of that heavenly bliss, which, I
hope, he now enjoys. But, O my soul, how hast thou improved
this afflictive dispensation of divine providence? Surely it is a
loud call to thee to be also ready."

Thus did she endeavor to bear constantly in mind her accounta-
bility to God, the shortness of time, and the need and the happi-
ness of preparation for eternity. Nor was she destitute of those
comforts which religion is adapted to impart. In her experience
religious joy did not indeed abound. Her emotions seem rather
to have partaken of regret on account of sin, and of watchful
, jealousy over herself, and of desire that sanctifying grace might
be imparted. But she did not always use the language of mourn-
ing, or merely of desire. She actually possessed at times the joy
that results from the light of God's countenance. Speaking of
a funeral sermon, preached by the Rev. Mr. Screven, on account
of the death of one of his church members, she says, " September
13, 1820, I felt my heart hard and not easily aftected, though
many around ine were in tears, till he began to speak of Jesus
and of the happiness of those who are with him in glory. Then
was my heart melted, and I thought my desires and affections
were drawn out after him, and my heart even burned within me,
and I longed for more of his gracious presence. O how I longed
that evening for a warm, spiritual, zealous friend to converse with.
It seemed as though I wished to say with the psalmist. Come and
hear, all ye that fear God, and I will tell you what he has done
for my soul. Of late I seem to have stronger evidence of my love
to him than usual. O that I could daily love him more and serve
him better. May I not deceive myself. May Jesus appear to
me, more than ever, the chiefest of thousands and altogether
lovely. May I feel daily that he is more precious to my soul,
that he is my all in all."

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As she advanced in life, she appears to have thought more
habitually of her latter end, and to have been habitually applying
her heart to wisdom. In January, 1821, recording a notice of a
serious sickness with which she had been visited, she observes,
" I trust I felt in a measure resigned; but my constant petition
was, to be prepared for the will of God, and to possess an over-
coming faith in a dying hour, lest I should dishonor God by unbe-
lief and slavish fears in my last moments. If I am restored to
health, I earnestly desire to live near to God, and more in con-
formity to his holy law.* May I spend the remnant of my days
more like one on the brink of eternity."

Among the many expressions indicative of the humility of her
heart, the following occur: "August 16, 1822. O this sinful
heart. How hard and unprepared (I fear) for the solemn duties
and privileges of the approaching Sabbath, when the Lord's peo-
ple in Sunbury expect to surround his table, and commemorate his
dying love. O may the Lord meet with all his dear people there,
and make himself known to them in the breaking of bread. May
he speak peace to their souls, even that peace which the world
cannot give nor take away. And if I am permitted to be among
them, may I receive a crumb, though so unworthy."

Her diary exhibits a varied experience of spiritual joy and
Borrow, and particularly of submission to the divine will. There
occur, however, in the latter part of it, less frequently doubts of
her acceptance with God; and there abound desires for holiness,
for the salvation of her children and grandchildren, and for the
prosperity of religion.

We are at length brought to another affecting event in her life.
She thus notices it. " February 27, 1824. Alas! alas! little did
I think last month, when I noticed the death of my dear Sumner
five years ago, that I should so soon have to record the death of
his dear father. Yes, my aged husband was removed from a
world of trouble and sorrow, I trust, to a world of bliss, free from
all sin and every imperfection." After noticing the christian
manner of his death, she proceeds in a strain of supplication that
this dispensation might be sanctified to her, that she might be
prepared to follow her departed husband, and that she might be
prepared for the trials of her widowed state. " Choose for me,"
she continues, " my changes, while it is thy will I should remain
in this vale of tears. Show me the path of duty, and enable me
to walk therein with fidelity and meekness: never let me stray
from the ways of rectitude, or bring reproach on my christian
profession. O may I glorify God through life, and in my last
moments may I feel and give evidence of the power of religioii
and the faithfulness of Jesus to his people. Amen and amen."

I pass over many pages of her records to introduce the last no-
tice which she entered among them. "January 1, 1834. Well^
have I been spared to see the beginning of another new year,
when so many of the human family have passed from time to eter-
nity! O what is eternity.'' No one comes back to tell us. But

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ah! we, too, soon shall know. Time is short, to me especially,
an aged sinner. Alas! what has been my life! I cannot look
back but with shame and deep regret on my sins and the unprofit-
ableness of the days that are now past and gone, never to return.
And should these things be brought against us in the day of judg-
ment, who could stand ? But blessed be God for the unspeaka-
ble gift of a Saviour — for the glorious gospel of salvation revealed
in his word. Have I fled to this glorious refuge? Am I a child
of grace? Do I depend entirely on the Saviour's work of redemp-
tion for the pardon of all my sins, and for acceptance with the
Father? Do I find Jesus more and more precious, altogether
such a Saviour as I need? Surely if I do know my heart, 1 de-
sire to be like him. O to be holy, to be perfectly free from sin,
to have that spirit and temper which was manifest in our adorable
Redeemer. Even this world with all its various afliictions and
fiuff<erings would then be a heaven to what it now is. But, alas!
inbred sin and the corruption of my depraved heart is my daily
grief and burden. And yet I have reason to say,

O to grace how great a debtor!

And I think I can say, with a late dying friend when gasping
for breath, "All my trust is in Christ; no other, no other." O
may I in my last moments have an overcoming faith, and know
assuredly in whom I have believed, and give up my departing
spirit with joy, resting on Christ. And may my faltering tongue
be able to lisp the words, " None but Christ, none but Christ,"
and thereby glorify God in death. Amen."

The last year of her life was a year of considerable bodily
infirmity. She was attacked with her last sickness in October,
1834. And it was while laboring under this sickness, that divine
providence gratified one of the earnest desires of her heart. For
eight years her youngest child, Mrs. Ripley, had resided in New
England without a favorable opportunity of visiting the South.
In the fall of 1834, the long desired visit was made; and Mrs.
Winn, near the close of her life, was permitted again to embrace
her daughter, and to receive those attentions which are so grateful
to a parent. By this sickness, her strength was much diminished;
so that when her disorder had spent itself, she was still for the
most part confined to her bed. She was able, however, for some
days to be helped out of bed and to sit up an hour at a time. Her
disposition to arise gradually abated, and she appeared to be slow-
ly failing. The last week of her life she failed more rapidly and
perceptibly. Her state of mind during this last sickness was to
iier friends very cheering. It was marked with the utmost com-
posure in view of her departure, and with an unwavering confi-
dence in the Redeemer. She expressed herself as feeling " safe
in Jesus." On Friday morning, as I was standing by her bed-
side, she told me she did not expect to arise from that bed. On
inquiry, I discovered that her mind was in a state of great calm-
ness, steadily fixed upon the Saviour. On Saturday morning, as

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285

I had occasion to be absent through the day, I had a few moments*
conversation with her and found her in the same state of mind.
She appeared more reduced, and it was with some difficulty that
she spoke to me. On my return just after dark, she was evidently
approaching her end. The power of speech had failed, and she
lay quiet. Just before 12 o'clock that night, January 3, 1835,
she gently fell asleep in Jesus, without a struggle or a groan, in
the 77th year of her age.

She was not able in her last moments to say, according to the
closing sentence in her diary, " JVone but Christ, none but
Christ." She felt this, however, and the Saviour was honored in
her death. It was one of her recorded petitions, the feeling of
which was dear to her heart, and to which her last moments rather
corresponded, " When the summons shall come, may I be enabled
to say with sincerity, ' Lord, when thou wilt, where thou wilt, how
thou wilt.' "

In the life and death of Mrs. Winn, we have evidence of the
reality of religion. It could not have been the influence of imagi-
nation merely, a succession of mere vagaries, an entirely errone-
ous view of things,' that gave a new direction to her life; that
controlled her alike in prosperity and adversity; that excited within
her a habitual submission to God; that gave her a longing for
holiness; that enabled her to say, even when her heart was riven
with grief. Not my will, but thine, O God, be done. It was a
reality that produced these effects. It was not enthusiasm.
There was no enthusiasm in her constitution. She was of too
sober and careful a cast of mind, and had mingled too much with
the realities of life, to be borne away, year after year, by an imag-
inative, enthusiastic impulse. The natural timidity, too, which
made her so much shrink from danger, and which often made her
dread the prospect of dying, required something different from an
unsubstantial, unreal principle, to sustain her in protracted sick-
ness and to enable her calmly to meet the king of terrors. Reli-
gion is a reality, the absence of which nothing can supply.

In her life, also, some of the leading doctrines of the gospel
are confirmed. She deeply felt the depravity of her heart, and with
much frequency bewailed it. Her expressions of acknowledgment
as to her easily besetting sin are frequent and affecting. She
felt the need of becoming " a new creature " by the influence of
the Holy Spirit, and her entire dependence upon that divine agent
for the progress of holiness in her heart. She renounced all hope
of gaining the divine favor by any righteousness of her own; and
placed her hope of pardon and acceptance with God wholly upon
the obedience and atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ. Guilty
and lost, in herself considered, Jesus Christ was her only and her
safe refuge. But though her reliance was simply upon Christ and
the Holy Spirit, she felt the need of habitual and unremitted dili-
gence in the christian life, and was anxious ever to be found in
the path of duty. And it was by the combined influence of these

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truths, that she became prepared for a quiet endurance of afflio-
tions, and for her happy entrance upon final rest.

In her life we also discover encouragement to prayer and effort
for the salvation of our children. On this point she felt very
deeply, and repeatedly expressed herself in a very affecting man-
ner. Nor were her prayers in vain. Of her six children who
arrived to years of discretion, she had reason to believe that five
were adopted into the family of God, one of whom became a zeal-
ous and useful minister of the gospel.

Let us learn from her own case, too, the value of early relig-
ious instruction. Amid all the unfavorable circumstances through
which she passed in early life, and even in the absence of the
ministrations of the sanctuary, she forgot not the lessons of piety
which her parents enforced. Their instruction operated as salu-
tary restraints, and were instrumental with the chastening provi-
dences of God in bringing her to the Saviour. Early religious
instruction will not be in vain. If conversion to God be not one
of its results, it] will yet be efficacious in many respects. And
where conversion is long delayed, we still have reason for hope
that "the precious grain will not be lost."

Once more. We are here furnished with a worthy example of
solicitude for the spread of the gospel among the heathen. Mrs.
Winn fully entered into the plans that were formed for dissemi-
nating the light of revelation, and hailed with joy any indications
of divine favor in the conversion of the unevangelized. In the
monthly concert of prayer she delighted; in maintaining societies
for contributing pecuniary aid she exerted herself; and whatever
seemed to her the demand of duty on this subject, she was willing
to perform. Her influence on this point was, doubtless, consider-
able; it strengthened the weak, and stimulated even the active.
W^ould that the spirit she cherished in regard to the spread of the
gospel pervaded every christian heart. Then there would be no
lack of pecuniary means, or of human instruments; and the fer-
vent prayers which would then ascend, accompanied with corres-
ponding efforts, would return with rich blessings on the earth,
until the wilderness and the solitary place should be made glad,
and the desert rejoice and blossom as the rose.

But I must stop. And in view of the life and the death which
we have been contemplating, I would present the language of the
apostle: We desire that every one of you do show the same dili-
gence to the full assurance of hope unto the end; that ye be not
slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience in-
herit the promises.*

* Hebrews vi. 11, 12.

Report on the Burman Mission.

287

[The publication of the following Reports on the Burman Mission, on Indian Mis-
sions, and on the communication ot the Virginia State Bible Society, as presented to
the Convention at its late session, and appended to the Report of the Hoard, was nece*-
sarily deferred to our present number.]

1>

The Committee, appointed to prepare a Report upon the state of the Burman Mis-
sion, would respectfully submit the following : —

They esteem it cause for deep and devout gratitude, that God has continued
Bo signally to guard and bless this Mission. Rejoicing, as do our churches, in the
Immble confidence, that they have endeavored to preserve the apostolic disci-
pline and ordinances in their simple purity, it is matter of delight to see these
combined with what seems like the returning display of apostolic energy and
adventurousness, and crowned with some measure of apostolical success. These
may be followed by the trials that tested the faith of apostles. From the unsta-
ble and capricious governments of the East, constant danger may well be appre-
hended for the converts who shall be gathered from beneath the shadow of idola-
trous fanes and despotic thrones into the fold of Christ. And your Committee
believe it the duty of our American Churches to remember their Burman brethren,
as men who may be called to seal their testimony with their blood, and to swell
by their personal sutferings the long line of christian martyrs. The Guardian
of the Church will not save it from trials like these. He has often preserved
best its purity by causing it to pass through the searching fires of persecution ;
has bereaved his people that he might stren*then them, and smitten, that he
might consolidate his kingdom. The ravages of death in some fields of mission-
ary labor tilled by others of our christian brethren, while they remind us of our
comparative exemption from similar desolation, were probably intended not on-
ly to excite our fraternal sympathy, but also to awaken us to the personal sensi-
bility of our danger and dependence ; and perhaps, yet more, to prepare us for
scenes of like trial and of equal or deeper gloominess.

Your Committee are unable to give language to the emotions with which they
regard the completion, in the Burman language, of a version of the Scriptures.
For the grace which has upheld the life and health of the beloved translator,
they would feel and record their profound gratitude. Needing, as a first version
must, the continuous revision of the author, it is yet no slight achievement- It
is matter of wondering praise to Almighty God, that at length the fountains of
heavenly inspiration have been unlocked to the Empire of Burmah. Upon
American Baptists must now rest the work of sending a copy of these Scrip-
tures into every household of that acute and inquiring nation ; and your Com-
mittee trust that our denomination will regard the event as a solemn call from
on high to greater and more systematic exertions throughout our churches, in
aid not only of this enterprize but of the general labors of the American Bible
Society.

Your Committee fear that we have not yet learned to feel sufficiently the op-
pressive responsibility imposed by Divine Providence upon us, as a denomination,
in giving to the Baptists of this nation the exclusive supply of the spiritual
wants of Burmah. Other evangelical denominations have relinquished to us
the undisputed culture of this territory ; and your Committee cannot but think
it the duty of our churclies to send forth into the Burman Mission at least aa
many laborers, as would have been commissioned to enter upon it, had other
divisions of " the sacramental hosts of God's elect" sent into this field their
sectarian laborers, to act as our rivals, or our coadjutors. To effect this ardent
duty, not merely are the treasures of the church to be expended with a more
free and unsparing hand; but men, — qualified and devoted men, in greater
numbers are now demanded, to rush forth in this the season of opportune provi-
idences, and to stay, if it may be, the downward career of the generation that
are even now passing, day by day, from the homes of Burmah into the prisoi>
bouse of hell. Our churches, and especially the pastors and the young men of
our churches, are summoned, as churches scarce ever before were, to come to
tlie rescue — to the rescue of thousands from the ruin that has neither end nor
alleviation.

Still it is believed that, although for the present generation large draughts are
to be made upon the strength and resources of the church in our own country,

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our hopes, under God, for the evangelization of Burmah must rest,>tnainly and
eventually, upon the churches that God is now gathering vs^ithin the bosom of
that empire. Tracts prepared by Burman christians with a native's mastery of
his own familiar idiom, and with a nice adaptation to the peculiar feelings, — the
varied and flickering habits and fashions that distinguish each people from their
neighbors, and which only one of themselves can perfectly catch and success-
fully address ; — translations polished with a skill in language Avhich few can
attain but in their own vernacular tongue ; — and Burman pastors and evange-
lists trained by Burman teachers, are yet, we trust, to occupy and to bless the
fair regions now resigned to the dreamy reign of Gaudama. But American
christians must give, and pray, and sacrifice more upon the model of primitive
times, ere this can be effected. With these views, your Committee cordially
adopt and renew the suggestion contained in the Report of the Board of Man-
agers, in favor of a Missionary Seminary in Burmah ; and commend the object
to the remembrance of American Baptists in their local societies for Foreign Mis-
sions, in the prayers and alms of the sanctuary, and m the devotions of the closet.

With regard to the missions commenced or prepared in other and adjoining
portions of heathen Asia, and which, as your Committee believe, have been
heretofore considered as coming within the scope of the duties assigned to the
present Committee, they would urge upon the churches the need of fervent
prayer in relation to the plans and laborers and funds that shall be needed in the
missions now commenced in Siam, and determined upon for Arracan and China.
Your Committee trust that from the astounding and overwhelming magnitude
of the latter enterprize especially, our churches may be thrown back into that
salutary state of conscious weakness, and earnest prayer, and simple faith, by
which they may be prepared to become approved and mighty instruments in the
Redeemer's hand, for the subjugation of tiiese nations to the obedience of the
faith. In the history of our infant mission at Bankok, your Committee would
commend to the especial observation of our churches the fact that the labors of
Abeel, Gutzlaff and Morrison, beloved brethren of other communions, have been
instrumental in preparing the converts who have been added to the Baptist
Church of Christ in Siam. In these circumstances — in the well-known fact
that our christian brethren of other churches have joyfully resigned to our sin-
gle occupancy the field of Burmah, though as accessible to them as to ourselves,
— in this blessed interchange of aid, — in the mutual excitement and support
given by evangelical Protestants of various sects to each other, your Committee
would hail the proof that we are indeed of one heart, and that in all the greater
points at least of christian faith, we are of one mind.

And, lastly, your Committee would say, that they cannot deem this a time for
relaxation in our efforts, or for indolent self-gratulation in the review of the suc-
cess already vouchsafed. What are the few and scattered sheaves already gath-
ered, compared with ihe fields that wave in wide luxuriance before your Society
What the six hundred and nineteen baptized since the foundation of the Bur-
man Mission, to the myriads that have, in that space of time, and within the same
land, gone from a death-bed unblest by the light of heavenly truth into those
regions where truth shone in upon the soul with a sudden blaze that tortured
and blasted them by its radiance, and, awaking them to their true condition,
revealed at once the fact of their utter despair and their endless condemnation.

Your Committee feel that the church may in this matter be misguided alike
in their calmness and in their zeal ; — that they may venture too confidently, and
triumph too soon. The haze of romantic interest which clings to the perilous
life of the missionary may charm the distant observer, but, melting away before a
nearer view, leaves us shocked by the difficulties when seen in their hard and
bare reality. Nothing will sustain him in his arduous toils, or uphold the Church
in their efforts on his behalf, but a heart overflowing with love to God and man,
soberly conscious of the whole difficulty, schooled to patient and protracted dili-
gence, and sternly resolute in the duty it has undertaken. Nothing can give to
the Mission enterprize prosperity but the outpoured Spirit of God ; — and that
effusion we may not expect but in answer to earnest and prolonged and united
prayer, — prayer that shall prove its sincerity by bringing with it the offering and
the a Ims-deed, — prayer that, taught by the Spirit, shall win the descent of the
Spirit, and open again the heavens from which it came down.

Daniel Sharp, Chairman.

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II

The Committee to whom was referred the subject of Indian Missions,
beg leave to Report. —

The more we contemplate the history and condition of the Indian tribes on our
continent, the more do we feel that they have strong claims upon our sympathies,
our prayers and our exertions. It is true, that the enterprise of conducting Chris^
tian missions among them is not invested with that attractive charm which belongs
to missions among the nations of Asia, whose territories are immense, and who
are increasing in population, wealth and power. The Indians are emphatically a
people " scattered and peeled," without wealth, without power, without the ele-
ments of progress and increase, and thence, without every thing which would
tend to make a mission among them deeply interesting to a worldly mind. But,
as Christians and as men, we would not forget that the soul of an Indian is as
precious as that of a Burman or a Hindoo; and while the story of his wrongs is
fresh in our memory, while we think of the wounds and the woes, the losses and
the degradation, which have come upon his people in consequence of their con-
nection with the white men, and that they are still inhabitants of the same
country and subjects of the same government with ourselves, we feel bound to
them by the strongest ties and the most imperious obligations.

The number of Indians, however, east and west of the Mississippi is by no
means inconsiderable. On this side of the Mississippi there are 81,904, among
whom our missionaries, to a very encouraging extent, have preached the word of
life successfully. A large proportion of these will emigrate to the Indian Territo-
ry west of the Mississippi, as public opinion among them is turning in favor of that
project. The Indians of the State of New York have already sent forth a deputa-
tion to explore that distant territory ; and as there is a high probability that they
vt'ill determine to go thither, it is exceedingly important that all possible efforts be
made before they leave their present location, to give them such instruction as will
tend to prepare them for the important exigencies in which they must be placed.

The number of Indians west of the Mississippi is 201,750. Of these, 25,000
are emigrants to the Indian Territory, who, together with 21,820 who were
there belbre, make a total of 46,820 within the territory assigned to them by the
United States. Thus far, the hopes which were expressed at the last meeting of
the Convention, that the concentration of the scattered tribes into one district
which they might call their own, would exert a favorable influence upon their
habits and afibrd superior advantages for instruction, have been very much con-
firmed. Removed from the pernicious influence of the lower orders of the whites,
exposed to fewer temptations to vice, and united, in so large numbers, into a
kindred community, they feel that they have reached a new era in their history; —
they are stimulated to put forth fresh exertions; — they express the desire to be
united into one political brotherhood, under a civil government; and as the incen-
tives to war have now disappeared from among them, moral and saving influences
can be brought to bear upon thein with greater effect, and with the prospect of
more permanent results.

In view of all the information which we have received from different quarters,
and especially in view of the facts which the Reports of the Board have, from
lime to time, conveyed to us, we cannot but feel that the history of the past is full
of incitement to more enlarged and strenuous effort on behalf of the Indians. The
mere fact, that the teaching of a written language among them has been success-
ful, and also, that the press is now at work, diffusing the light of knowledge and
religion an)ong them, speaks volumes of encouragement. Connecting with this
the probability of an increasingly rapid change of their habits, in fivor of agricul-
tural pursuits and the arts of civilized life, we are furnished with abundant reason
to thank God, and take courage, and resolve liberally, in behalf of this outcast race.
A consideration of their circumstances at the present moment, has prepared us to
receive with pleasure, the intelligence, that a periodical, entitled the Indian Ad-
vocate, devoted chiefly to Indian affciirs, has been established by bro. Isaac
McCoy, than whom there is no man better acquainted with Indian interests, or
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more ardent in their promotion. As a considerable space of time musi ekp^e
before such a paper can be sustained by the Indians themselves, those amone n»
who may now become its subscribers, will do an act of immediate kindness to
that part of the Indian community who can read, and of ultimate benefit to the
whole.

While contemplating the prospect of better days, which has now dawned upon
the Indian tribes, it is with heartfelt sorrow that we hate heard of the death of
our brother, Duncan O'Briant, whose life proved him to be a faithful missionary
of the cross, and a faithful friend to the Indians. While we deplore his loss, we
rejoice that he has gone to his grave in honor and in peace. The death of our
sister Lewis, who, while she lived, was a faithful servant of Christ, also calls for a
tribute of affectionate regret; and we earnestly hope, that while thus some are
falling from the ranks of missionaries of the cross, others may be raised up to
fill their vacant places.

Your Committee cannot refrain from expressing the deep impression made upon
their minds by the recent arrival of bro. Evan Jones, one of your missionaries to
the Valley Towns in N. C. accompanied by Oganaya, a converted Cherokee and
a minister of the Gospel. The privilege of beholding one of the sons of the forest,
recovered from the superstitions of savage life by the power of God, through the
labors and prayers of his people, has awakened a new interest in their hearts,
touching the claims of this injured people upon the sympathies of the white men
of America; and they would fondly hope that the members of the Convention, and
other Christians here, who have enjoyed this favor, will carry to their homes such
feelings as will result in more vigorous efforts to promote this"important enterprize.

Jesse Mercer, Chainnan.

The Committee to whom was referred the communication from the Vir^
ginia State Bible Society, beg leave to Report. —

It is now more than two years since the plan was first proposed, and the reso-
lution adopted, of supplying the whole world with the Word of God within a short
period of time.

This measure, which originated in Virginia, and in one of the anxiliaries of the
Virginia State Bible Society, has been heartily responded to by the American Bible
Society, and by other kindred institutions in our own country and other portion*
of the world. It has received the cordial approbation of many thousands of minis-
ters, of many tens of thousands of laymen, the members of religious bodies, and of
deliberative assemblies in this and other countries, all of whom have given the
pledge of their vigorous and effective co-operation in the accomplishment of this
desired end.

God seems indeed to be opening the way, in his providence, in a very remark-
able manner, for the accomplishment of this grand and glorious object. The light
of truth and revelation is bursting forth on every side, is removing the darkness of
ignorance and superstition in every quarter of the globe, is penetrating the gloom
which enshrouds the idolatrous natives of the earth, is spreading its peaceful and
heavenly influence in those benighted regions where are the habitations of cruelty,
and in the dark valley of the shadow of death is kindling up the lamp of life, the
blessed hope of a glorious immortality beyond the grave. Wherever a single raj
of light has penetrated, there is evinced an ardent desire for more, an eager demand
to know more of the contents of the book of God; and we have reason to believe
that many millions of the lost family of man, who have never heard the sound of
the glorious Gospel, are prepared for its reception, are ready to cast away their
dumb idols, and to fall down and worship the living and true God, and Jesus
Christ whom he has sent.

Already the empire of darkness is shaken to its very centre. In South Ameri-
ca, the Governments of Chili and Buenos Ayres have recently passed laws per-
mitting the introduction of the Bible, for general use, into their schools and semi-

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naries of learning. It is true, the Catholic priests have, in some instances,
followed up the distribution, and demanded and destroyed the books which have
been given — yet many of them have been retained — and others will be supplied.
At least, the law is on our side, and we may confidently expect that the cause of
truth and righteousness will finally prevail.

A nobleman, Count Rosenbladt, of the north of Europe, has caused to be trania-
lated all the proceedings had in this country on the subject of Bible distribution,
and is circulating them throughout Norway, Denmark and Sweden.

The British and Foreign Bible Society are already successfully distributing the
Bible in Portugal, and they hope soon to obtain equally free access to the hitherto
oppressed, deluded population of Asia.

We have heard, with joy and gratitude, of the precious seed sown in Persia,
Arabia, Hindoostan and Burmah, by the hands of the honored and lamented
Martin and Carey — by our beloved brother Judson, and by others, who are engaged
in the noble work of disseminating the word of life among the deluded Moslems
and the superstitious and degraded Hindoos. The wall of adamant which has hith-
erto barred the missionary of the Cross — the entrance to China, is rapidly
demolishing, and the intrepid Gutzlafi^, with the Word of Life translated by the
beloved Morrison, is pouring the light of heaven upon the benighted souls of her
perish ng millions.

In a word, the emphatic language of the nations of the earth now is, — Give us
light — give us the light of heaven. — We are perishing, for lack of vision !

God is affording us, by the indications of his providence, a most delightful assur-
ance of the speedy fulfilment of his promise, that the knowledge of his glory
shall cover the whole earth as the waters cover the face of the great deep.

The Committee also beg leave to report the following Resolutions: —

Resolved, That this Convention have heard with unmingled satisfaction, of the
Resolutions of the Virginia Bible Society and of the American Bible Society, cou-
templaling the distribution of the Word of Life to every accessible family in the world
within a short period of time.

Resolved, That this Convention earnestly recommend to their brethren in this
country, to sustain this enterprize by their fervent prayers and liberal contribu-
tions, and in every appropriate way to lend iheir cordial and efficient aid in carry-
ing it out to its full accomplishment.

Resolved, That Baptists throughout the world, and especially in the British do-
minions, be affectionately invited to engage in this great work, and to lend the influ-
ence of their exertions to the completion of the noble enterprize of supplying the Word
of God, in as short time as possible, to all the reading population ol the earth.

All which is respectfully submitted.

J, S. Bacon, Chairman,

MISSIONARY REGISTER.

Subscriptions and Donations to the General Convention of the Baptist Denomina-
tion, in tiie United Slates, for Foreign Missions, Sic, should be transmitted to H'^man
Lincoln, Esq., Treasurer, at the Baptist Missionary Rooms, No. 17, Joy's Buildings,
Washington Street, Boston. The communications for the Corresponding Secretary
sliould be directed to the same phice.

33ucmal).
JOURNAL

or THE MISSIONARIES, WHO SAILED
IN THE SHIP CASHMERE FOR AM-
HERST IN BDRMAH, JULY 2, 1834.

In the last number of the Magazine, we
had the pleasure of announcing the safe
arrival of the Cashmere at Amherst. See
p. 253. The following extracts from a
joint letter of the Missionaries who era-
barked in her, to the Corresponding Sec-
retary, detail some interesting incidents
which occurred on their passage.

Maulmein, Dec. 12, 1834.

Rev. and dear Sir,

We arrived at Amherst, Dec. 6,
1834, having been out to sea one
hundred and fifty-seven days. Al-
though the time we have been
obliged to traverse the ocean has
exceeded, by forty days, that which
we had been encouraged to hope
would be requisite to complete our
passage, yet so signally and merci-
fully have the everlasting arms em-
braced us, that we experienced little
difficulty in submitting the time of
our arrival, and a?l our future con-
cerns, to the righteous will of our
heavenly Father.

Our passage was but little varie-
gated by storms and gales. Indeed,
it has been signalized by the almost
entire absence of both. Two or
three Sabbath evenings in succes-

sion, after having passed the Caps,
we witnessed something like gales,
and " siiipped " a few small " seas ; "
but we were very little shut up in
our cabin during the passage, in con-
sequence of falling weather. There
was scarcely one rainy day in all
the time. On the 30th of July, we
had the pleasure of speaking the ship
Sumatra, Captain Roundy, of Salem,
bound to Canton. She had been out
only thirteen days, while we had
been out twenty-seven.

While passing eastward, between
the latitudes of 30 and 40, we were
almost daily attended by flocks of
Cape pigeons and Albatrosses. They
were seen generally sailing in our
wake, seeking their food from the
hand of the Lord, as he scattered it
on the waters. Many a time have
we been strikingly reminded of the
following scripture, when watching
these beautiful creatures, — "These
wait all on Thee, that Thou mightest
give them their meat in due season.
That Thou givestthem, they gather."
And when we beheld how fitly they
were attired, and how providen-
tially fed, our faith Avas invigorated
by calling to remembrance our Lord's
instruction, " Behold the fowls of the
air, &LC." The Cape pigeon is about
the size of tho American wild duck,
and formed much like it. Its pre-
vailing complexion is white, being
admirably adorned by spots of a
dark slate color. Several dozen of
these birds were caught on our

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passagt?, by means of a snare made
of a single twine, with which they
entangled themselves in flying. The
Albatross we found to be no small
" wonder of the deep." The largest
one taken on our passage, when
standing on deck, was ten feet high.
It measured, from the extremity of
one wing to that of the other, ten feet,
two and one half inches. The jaws
were the most curious part of the
bird. They were nearly white, and
nearly of the texture of horn. In
length they were nine inches, and
so constructed that the smooth, cut-
ting edges of the one shut close by
the side of the other, and cut on the
principle of the shears. The upper
jaw was hooked like that of a p rrot.
When provoked, the Albatross uses
these cutting instruments with fear-
ful power. The prevailing complex-
ion of these birds is white, displaying
elegant undulations of a slate color.

So far as health would allow, the
several individuals of our company
have been employed in studies pre-
paratory to their future labors. Br'n.
Wade, Howard, and Vinton, and
their wives, have attended to the
Karen language ; br'n. Comstock,
Dean, and Osgood, with their wives
and Miss Gardner, to the Burman ;
and br'n. Bradley and Dean, their
wives and Miss White, to the Chi-
nese. Some time has been em-
ployed in miscellaneous reading,
and the brethren and sislers, much
to their satisfaction r.nd advantage,
have taken daily lessons in medicine
and surofery with Dr. Bradley.
Some of the brethren have devoted
considerable time to reading on
these subjects, for which they ex-
pect a com.pensation in the privilege
of administering to the suffering
natives, from whom the missionary
receives repeated solicitations for
medical assistance. While on this
subject, we would not fail to mention,
with gratitude. Dr. Bradley's kind
attention and successful administra-
tions to the sick during the voyage.

Our relation to the officers and
crew has been sustained with inter-
est to us and, we believe, with sat-
isfaction to them. It is 'lue to Capt.

j Hallet and the first officers, to ac-
1 knowledge their unwearied efforts to
j render our condition comfortable, and
I our voyage agreeable. The ship-
j owner, the Board and other friends
who contributed to the convenience
I of our passage have our sincere ac-
j knowledgements.

Our religious exercises during the
I first part of the voyage, consisted of
I social prayers in the cabin, attended
j by the officers and crew, a public
sermon and Bible class on the Sab-
bath, and a weekly prayer-meeting,
besides the Monthly Concerts of
Prayer, for seamen, Sabbath schools,
and the heathen. Opportunities for
private conversation with the impen-
itent were often secured ; and, after
gaining their confidence, we felt
ourselves justified in addressing both
officers and crew personally and
pointedly on the interests of their
souls. An increase of religious
feeling on the part of Christians,
and a spirit of anxiety among sin-
ners being discovered, it was thought
advisable to increase the number of
our religious meetings. Consequent-
ly, on the 16th of September, in-
stead of pursuing the course at first
adopted, another sermon was added
to our Sabbath services, and a course
of meetings commenced for every
evening of the week. These meet-
ings were opened by reading a por-
tion of scripture, which, after singing
and prayer, was made the subject of
remark. In these addresses from the
brethren indiscriminately, and in the
sermons of the Sabbath, our object
was to show the sinner the incon-
sistency of his opposition to God,
the imminent danger of his soul, and
the necessity of immediate repent-
ance, enforced by the terrors of the
Lord, and the suflferings of the Sa-
viour.

In observing the Monthly Concerts
of Prayer, the attending circumstan-
ces have added much to their ordi-
nary interest. In praying for the
heathen, the expectation of soon be-
holding them in their own land, and
witnessing their degradation and
wretchedness, has given ardor to
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Sabbath schools, the interesting re-
collection of former associations,with
the pleasing hope and confident ex-
pectation that these nurseries of
piety were to furnish our successors
in carrying the Gospel to the perish-
ing and the lost, stimulated to fer-
vency and faith ; and, while praying
for seamen, their actual presence
with us, and a knowledge of their
present condition and gloomy pros-
pects, with the aid of a divine influ-
ence, enabled us to pray with the
spirit, and with the understanding
also.

Besides these, we have held a
prayer-meeting on Sabbath morning,
and the sisters have had frequent
seasons for prayer during the week.
The results of these efforts afford us
occasion for humble and devout
thanksgiving. Notwithstanding the
serious inconveniences unavoidably
connected with a voyage at sea, we
can sincerely say that this has been
the happiest portion of our lives;
and, in consequence of the divine
visitation with which we have been
favored, we hope a character has
been given to our religious feelings,
which will prove lastingly advan-
tageous in our labors among the
heathen. The Cashmere will long
be remembered as a v.itness to the
goodness and pleasure of fraternal
unity and peace, the sweetness and
solemnity of the Saviour's habita-
tion, and a thrill of interest which
nothing could impart but the peni-
tent's prayer and the song of the
redeemed. In this season of solici-
tude and rejoicing, our Burman breth-
ren have shared their portion with us,
and exhibit a decided improvement
of religious character. The entire
results of this revival, in relation to
the impenitent, it must remain for
the revelations of a future day to
disclose. But we anticipate the
pleasure of meeting some of our
ship's company at the right hand |
of the Judge, while others give us
too much reason to think that the j
punishments of the wicked will be
their future inheritance. It will
undoubtedly give you pleasure to
learn that the Captain, first mate,

the steward, and twa sailors, afford
us encouragement to hope that they
are forgiven and accepted of the Sa-
viour.

Some of these friends, who were
the most easily affected by religious
truth, inform us that they accompa-
nied the Rev. Messrs. Allen, Hutch-
ins, and others, (missionaries to Cey-
lon) on board the ship Israel, bound
to Madras and Calcutta. One of
them, as we have reason to believe,
then received those serious impres-
sions which have now resulted in the
conversion of his soul. It may not
be unprofitable to submit to you a
brief sketch of his religious expe-
rience, which, with little exception,
we shall do in his own language.
It appears from his account, that he
was born A. D. 1807, of respectable
parents, in the city of New York.
While favored with parental super-
intendence, he was the subject of
moral discipline, and enjoyed the ad-
vantages of Sabbath school instruc-
tion ; but, at an early age, he was
lefl a friendless orphan, to select
for himself an object of pursuit, which
has since exposed him to the dangers
and temptations of those who do
business in great waters." He says,
" When on board the Israel, I attend-
ed a Bible class in the forecastle,
and went to meeting on Sunday.
Some wotild weep Avhen they heard
the missionaries tell about Jesus,
but would not confess him, lest their
shipmates should make game of
them. Still, my heart was as hard
as a flint stone ; but I knew I had a
soul to be saved or lost ; and some-
times I would say to myself, Shall I
save my soul, or shall I «sait a little
longer.^ I kept putting it off till
going round the Cape, when the wind
blew a gale, and I unfortunately fell
overboard. Though I came near
losing my life, the first word I utter-
ed, after coming on deck, was an
oath. The next Sunday, I heard a
sermon on the dreadful consequences
of taking the name of God in vain.
It made me feel deeply at the time,
but it lasted but a little while. I
sometimes wished to have a soft
heart ; then again I gave up all these

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notions, and concluded (according
to the sailor's proverb) ' that a
man could not be a Christian in a
ship's forecastle.' One night after
this, I was more alarmed about my
soul than before, and promised the
Lord that I would give myself up to
him when I went back to Boston ;
but, when in Boston, I never so much
as went to church, though my con-
science often smote me for my wick-
edness. When I heard the Cash-
mere was to take out missionaries to
some place in India, I was glad of
an opportunity to ship on board.
Something seemed to tell me, all
the time, that I should be the gain-
er by it. I resolved, from the first
of the voyage, to attend all the
meetings I could ; but some of my
shipmates laughed at me, and told
me there was no reality in reli-
gion. Finally, I thought I would
give up myself to the Lord Jesus
Christ, let what would come; but
again I thought that the devil had so
many ' round turns and half hitch-
es ' about me, that I could not get
away from him. Then I remember-
ed how long God's Spirit had been
striving with me, and thought it
would leave me soon. Perhaps one
year, one month, one moment, and I
shall be shut up in hell forever.
O what feelings I had then ! I
thought of dying, which made me
feel that I needed a friend, but I was
so wicked that I thought the Lord
could not be my friend. The next
Sabbath I felt worse than ever and,
after meeting, I went down into the
hold of the ship. There I made my
poor petitions known to the Lord Je-
sus for deliverance, and he put words
into my mouth. O what delight I
found in praying and thinking of
Jesus! I found that trying was the
great thing. At last, after two or
three hours, I came up oat of the
dark, and felt that the chains of mas-
ter Satan were broken off ; and I
cannot express the joyful feelings I
have enjoyed from that time to the
present. I am now resolved to spend
the remainder of my days in the
service of the Lord Jesus Christ."
Another convert inform.s us that

he received an irreligious education,
and, from his childhood, has been an
alien from his parents' home, and a
stranger to the path of virtue. Dur-
ing a previous voyage at sea he was
brougiit, as he supposed, upon his
dying bed ; when, for the first time,
he seriously reflected upon his con-
dition as a sinner, and felt his expo-
sure to the wrath of God. Finally,
the prospects of recovery banished
his fears ; and, when restored to
health, he again returned to the paths
of vice. He was the first from our
crew who broke away from the
tempter's snare, and manifested a
resolution to seek the Lord. The
first time he addressed us in public,
he used the following language : —
"I am not ashamed to acknowledge
before God, and his children, and my
shipmates, that I am a sinner ; and I
am resolved to serve the Lord the
remainder of my days." He then
fell upon his knees and, with tears
and groans, offered the publican's
prayer. From that time to the pres-
ent he has been forward to discharge
religious duties, and evinces much
interest in behalf of his neglected
fellow-seamen.

And here, from our acquaintance
with the character and condition of
seamen, we cannot forbear an ex-
pression of our deep regret, that this
interesting portion of our race have
so Ion? been neglected in the prayers
and efforts of the friends of humani-
ty and religion. While these men
of the seas stand the nightly watch
and encounter the threatening bil-
lows of the deep, to enrich the lands-,
man with the productions of other
countries, and while their aid is in-
dispensable to the work of preaching
the Gospel to the heathen, it is a
lamentable fact, that few of our
American citizens remember them
with a grateful thought, and few of
our American Christians, either in
concert or in private, raise a prayer
for their conversion.

In conclusion, we wish you to
participate in our joys, and our grat-
itude to God, for bringing us in safe-
ty to the continent where we expect
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men. For this work our hearts
have been much encouraged, by the
conversation of our dear brethren at
this station. We are happy to find
them pleasantly and usefully employ-
ed, while we learn, with deep inter-
est, that inviting fields for usefulness
are opening on every hand. Surely,
there is yet "wiuch Und to be pos-
sessed." These eastern nations,
with their hundred millions of im-
mortal beings, are waiting for the
" bread of life." Why are they not
supplied ? Are there not means in
our American churches ? Let them
visit these temples of heathenism,
which during the last year have
been extensively repaired, and whose
gilded imagps have been greatly
multiplied, by people who gladly
lessen their pittance of rice thatthey
may maintain the worship of their
imaginary deities, and learn their
comparative want of zeal for the
Lord of hosts. Are there not men
in sufficient numbers, who have
love enough to perishing souls and
a once suffering Saviour, to forego
the endearments of home and the
delights of civilization, for the more
Christian part of pointing these sons
of the east to happiness and heaven ?
Let them once enter the field,
prompted by love to Christ, and they
would look back upon their present
supinene.-:;s and criminal timidity
with penitence and wonder. In our
estimation, the Lord has opened the
field before the church, has furnish-
ed her the means, and given her the
men ; and Jioiv says, Go work in my
vineyard.'

Desiring that you may share rich-
ly in the consolations of the Gospel,
and that wisdom from above may be
given to guide in all your efforts to
send its blessings to a perishing
world, we subscribe ourselves your
brethren and fellow-laborers.

Jonathan Wade,
D. B. Bradley,
William Dean,
g. s. comstock,
S. M. Osgood,
J. H. Vinton,
HosEA Howard.

RANGOON.

In our number for May, we laid before
our readers such portions of tlie intelli-
gence lately received from Burrnah as our
limits allowed. The following is extract-
ed from the journal of Mr. VVehb, for-
warded at the same time. It will be re-
collected that Mr. Webb arrived in Cal-
cutta May 4, 1833, and at Maulmeia
June 16, whence he removed to Raur
goon Feb. 19, 1834.

MR. WEBB'S JOURNAL.

Rangoon, Oct. 2, 1834.

Dear Sir,

The Brig Neptune, from Salem,
Capt. Lampson, is now lying in the
river before Rangoon. This is the
first American vessel that has visit-
ed Burman shores for 20 years. By
this opportunity I intend sending
you something of a sketch of what
lias passed around me, though I have
been able for want of words to take
but little part in it.

Administration of the Lord's Supper,
Sabbath evening, Feb. 23. This
evening administered the Lord's sup-
per to the little church in Rangoon.
Although there were but ten of the
native disciples present, the occa-
sion was not the less affecting on
that account. It resembled the more
the circumst nces of that nicmora-
l)le night when the Saviour institut-
ed this ordinance. We were in an
upper room, by night, because the
disciples were ;ifraid to come by day.
Their pastor Ko Thah-a had recent-
ly been put into the stocks and fined
60 rupees, under a pretence that he
was plotting against the govern-
ment, though the blow, as all under-
stood, was aimed at him as a disciple
of Christ, if not rather with a view-
to get his money. As the pastor had
never officiated at the Lord's table,
and I did not sufficiently under-
stand the Burman language, I ad-
ministered the ordinance in English,
[t was to me a most solemn and
interesting time. After the ordi-
nance four Karen women were exam-
ined for baptism and approved. Two
young men also presented them-

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selves, whose examination, as well
as the baptism, of the whole was de-
ferred for the present.

Distribution of Tracts.

March 4. Moung San-lone, our
former teacher, sits daily on the ver-
andah to receive visitors, and gives
about 100 tracts a day.

6. In my morning walk, visited a
little village insulated from the rest
of the town by an arm of the river
and a swamp, where the people
seemed to know less of our books
than I had usually found. On enter-
ing, a man among a group called to
us, " Where are you going ? " San-
lone replied, " We are come to give
the Lord Jesus Christ's books to all
who want." In five minutes 20 or
30 men, women and children were
gathered around us. We gave them
20 tracts and portions of scripture.
AVhen several of the women urged
their suit for books, Sanlone said,
" No, we can't give the women
books." What, I replied, shall we
not give these women books ? They
have souls as well as the men, and if
they do not believe in the Lord Jesus
Christ, they can never go to heaven,
but must be punished for their sins
forever. " Yes," said Sanlone, " but
your women can't read, let the men
read, and you attend." One elderly
man seemed rather difficult in his
choice of a book. He took a nimi-
ber, one after another, and after turn-
ing them over returned them, saying,
they wpre good but he had read
them. Where did you ever see these
books ? "I have been to the teach-
er's house in town, and brought them
home." I gave him a copy of He-
brews. He se-emed so much grati-
fied, that I gave him, contrary to my
usual custom, a second book, John's
gospel.

March 8. Visited a village, in
which I learned that most of the
people do not worship images, but
are believers in that atheistical phi-
losophy, dignified in other countries
by the name of Deism, which makes
the human soul an emanation from
God, a portion of the Divine essence
inhabiting the human body for a

season, and at death remingling
with its native Divinity. Found the
people here much less anxious for
tracts than is usual — gave 30 or 40
only.

26. Gave 70 tracts on the wharf
this morning. At eleven o'clock a
funeral procession formed before our
house. They soon discovered we
had tracts, and in a few minutes so
thronged the house, that we were
obliged to shut the doors and give
them through the grates. The pro-
cession soon moved on, but we had
given 4 or 500 tracts.

27. This morning gave 80 tracts
to the boatmen at the wharves.

28. Gave 70 tracts at the wharves,
almost wholly to boatmen. I went
upon one wharf where were 10 or
12 boats, and stood for some minutes
without any one's observing the
books. At length I opened one, and
a man standing near observing it to
be Burman, asked if I would give it
to him. Finding they were to be
given away, he cried out, " Halloo !
boatmen, do you want these writ-
ings ? come." Within 5 minutes,
more than 30 men came and received
each a book.

Thermometer at 82, and we in a
free perspiration, our teacher wrap-
ping himself closely in his silk
" paso." I asked if he was cold,
" Ta-site-ta-bouk-khyan-thee, see-
yah." (A little cold, teacher.)

Curiosity of Children.

March 3L The children of the
neigiiborhood have been troublesome
for some days, looking in at the win-
dows and making noises for the pur-
pose of annoying us. Just at even-
ing I sat in the door, and began to
converse kindly with a little fellow
who seemed to feel my attentions,
especially as I told him a few Eng-
lish words. A dozen little boys and
girls in a few minutes gathered
around, and greatly amused them-
selves in trying to speak English
words. A middle-aged man, and
apparently a government man, eyed
me jealously, and many others came
to spy what I was doing ; and the
poor children got many a reproof.

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One old gray-haired woman said she
believed they had come because
they wanted Jesus Christ's writings,
and ordered them home. Indeed
she Avas half right. Many a one
asks for tracts whom I refuse, on the
ground that he cannot read. Two
little girls just tben asked for books,
saying they could read. " Well,
read and you shall have a book."
They ran away, saying they would
ask their mother, and quickly re-
turned, read, and received each a
book. The children were so much
pleased with their visit, that several
of our neighbors, I discovered, were
not a little vexed at it. In our even-
ing walk, five or six of our little
visiters counted it a favor to be al-
lowed to follow.

Burman division of Time.
April 1. Burman worship-day.
This recurs at every change of the
moon. It is a fact worthy of remark
that, though their worship-day is not
the same with any one day of our
week, and though their year and
month are not divided into weeks
corresponding to ours, yet they name
their days by sevens, as we do ; as if
their week had once been the same
with ours, but they liad changed
their worship-day, which always
strongly marks a division in the time,
on chan'jing their religion. Their
worship -day being changed agrees
with no one day of their former week,
rendering the old division obsolete,
though the names of the days by
sevens still continues, Sunday being
reckoned the first, and Saturday the
last.

The days are named from the sun,
moon and planets thus : —

Ta-ning-ga-nwa, tlie Sun, Sunday.

Ta-nin-la, the Moon, Monday.

Ing-ga, Mars, Tuesday.

Bod-da-hoo, Mercury, Wednesday.

Kyah-iha ba-da, Jupiler, Thursday.

Thouk kya, Venus, Friday.

Tsah-na, Saturn, Saturday.

Query. Is this division of time
into periods of seven days, derived
from that which God made at the
creation ?

The Woongee and his train pass-

; ed at half past six o'clock this morn-
I ing to pay his devotions to the great
pagoda. I followed. Before a large
image of Gaudama standing near
I the great pagoda, composed of beau-
[ tiful white marble and weighing, 1
should judge, two tons, all of one
piece, kneeled a female worshipper.
Before her stood a marble cone
which she raised with considerable
efixjrt. After worship, as a test of
the efficacy of her prayers, she at-
tempted again to raise it. But from
some disadvantageous circumstances
in her manner of seizing the stone,
to her surprise she failed. The
group of natives around her rallied
her with a hearty laugh.

Interference with Tract Distribution.

The city is divided into wards of
ten houses each. Over each of these
wards is placed a petty ruler. The
tyranny which they exercise over
those of their ward will be seen by
a little circumstance which occurred
this morning. I visited 4 or 5
wharves along the bank of the river.
Generally the people received the
tracts with eagerness. On the sec-
ond wharf, however, a man after
taking a tract returned it, as if afraid
to receive it, and none were dispos-
ed of there. On the two next, the
boatmen took them as fast as I could
give them. On the next! was about
to give, and a number had risen in
their boats to come, when a man be-
hind me sharply hallooed and shook
his head, and not a tract was given
there. However, during an absence
from my house of one hour I dis-
tributed 200, giving, as in all cases,
to none but such as seem anxious to
receive, refusing many and never
giving unless the applicant comes in
person.

Burman Festival.

April 5. Gave 100 copies of the
Investigator, and 50 of the Cate-
chism and View of the Christian
Religion, on the wharves and at a
feast. The feast was, as usual, under
a cover in the street. A Burman
feast consists not only of eating and
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tonslant music and dancing, such as
it is. In Ihis instance, when 1 first
passed through the assembly, two
females were dancinor to the sound
of drums and a hoarse kind of
bugle, bat without any reference to
each other. Twelve priests, in their
yellow robes, sat on one side of the
cloth enclosure, one of them repeat-
ing a prayer, to which 20 or 30 men
and 3 or 4 women, silting before
them on mats, responded. This
closed, the priest with breathless
rapidity continued his voice in what
they call preaching the law, in pali,
a dead language, probably not un-
derstood by an individual present
beside the priests. This, however,
was of no consequence, as there was
so much noise, that the fpreaching
could not have been understood even
if it had been in Burman. I improved
the opportunity to supply 15 or 20
who asked, with tracts. No images
were present.

7. Some hatred to the tracts was
manifested this morning ; one was
torn in pieces and thrown into the
river, as soon as my back was turned.
And I do not wonder. It was the
"Investigator," which exposes not
less than half a dozen falsehoods in
their sacred book. More than 1500
copies of this tract I have scattered
within 3 weeks, 154 this morning.
(To be continued.)

AVA.

MR. KINCAID TO DR. BOLLES.

Ava, August 13, 1834.

Rev. and very dear Sir,

I am just now made acquainted
with the fact, that a Government
mail is to be sent off tomorrow over
land to Calcutta. My last journal
accompanied with a letter was sent
off on the first of July. At that time
I was only just able to hold my pen,
though I had continued to conduct
worship every evening, and occasion-
ally converse with inquirers ; but
about the middle of July my strength
entirely failed, and I felt myself ap-
proaching the home of redeemed
spirits. I was advised toleave Ava,
but just as I was making up my mind

to this a favorable change took place.
For ten days past I have been get-
ting out a little, and have visited Sa-
gaing, Ummerapoora, some neigh-
boring villages and various parts of
the city, partly with a view to bene-
fit my health, and partly to give
books and preach the Gospel. This
morning I visited three villages west
of the city. In two of them but few
listened ; but in the other a fine
group came out of their houses, and
sat down on the ground around me.
After speaking about ten minutes, I
perceived an old man apparently
making signs for me to stop. I
paused and looked him steadily in
the face, when the venerable old
man, partly rising, bade me go on,
saying, "You teach new things, but
what you say appears to be wise,
and we would like to hear more."
After preaching a few minutes long-
er, the old man said, " What will
become of us who worship these
pagodas ? " " You will be punished
for not worshipping the living God."
" Why shall we be punished for wor-
shipping idols?" "Does not the
king punish rebels.'"' "Yes."
" Why does he punish them ? " " Be-
cause they despise his majesty, and
break his laws .^^ " "Just so you
who worship gods of gold, of silver,
and of stone, despise the great God
who made you, and thus you trans-
gress the divine law, which says,
' You must love God with all the
heart, and love your neighbor as
yourself.' "

I intend to make excursions every
morning, and preach to groups of
people. This I can do till 8 or 9
o'clock in the morning ; after this,
the sun becomes too painful to be
out. More or less visit the house
every day. Now and then we have
some who appear to be diligent in-
quirers after truth. There are four
persons for whom I cherish a com-
fortable hope that they have passed
from death unto life. Two have
been talking about baptism; but
when (if ever) they will venture all
for Christ, I cannot say. Baptism
brings the faith of a convert to a
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times is not shed abroad in Burmah, i it so : this divine law must be more
and I am confident that there will important than any history." He then

not be great accessions to the church
in Burmah Proper, till there is more
faith in us who preach and in those
who become disciples. Those who
have been baptized, appear very
well ; and this to me is an omen of
future prosperity to the cause in
Ava. Ko Kai is not second to any
one in the Burman church: he is
daily studying the Scriptures; and,
in many respects, has become a val-
uable assistant. I could wish you
was personally acquainted with them
all. I know it would call forth sen-
timents of gratitude to God for this
rich display of saving grace. How-
ever, as we do not expect to meet in
lime, we look forward to a more
happy meeting, Avhere the redeemed
of every nation will assemble. In
that blessed assembly, you will meet
with some precious souls who first
heard of Jesus in Ava. You, my
dear sir, and others who have, for so
many years, toiled and prayed for
the salvation of Burmah, must feel a
peculiar thrill of joy, when you look
over this great nation, and see the
truth taking root. I sometimes think
the day is not distant, when streams
of living water will break forth in
this long degenerate land.

I am happy to state that Govern-
ment has manifested no hostile feel-
ings for a long time. Perliaps it is
because less has been done, for two
months past, than what was done
before. One of the princes frequent-
ly sends for me to visit him. At
first, he seemed to be anxious only
about science ; but, of late, he has
become a student in the Scriptures.
He says, that St. Paul's Epistle to
the Romans is wonderful beyond
any thing he ever read. I found
him one evening comparing several
passages too-ether: he had the places
marked which speak of the law of
faith. I said, "Your highness wi

inquired, " How is a person to know
that he is a believer, and that he will
be saved from all his sins ? " I gave
a short relation of my oAvn Christian
experience, particularly the peace I
felt when the eyes of my under-
standing were first opened to see
the beauty of the divine character.
He listened, with the most eager
attention, to every word. I urged
the importance of venturing all on
Christ, who alone can save us from
our sins and present us pure and
holy before the throne of God.

I have before written to you on
the subject of schools. The one
Mrs. Kincaid got up last October,
encourages us to believe that much
good might be done in this depart-
ment. The whole number of schol-
ars is fourteen, though only eight
are now in school. Elizabeth Nel-
son is a fine scholar ; and all kinda
of plain sewing she does exceeding-
ly well. Others are making good
progress for the time they have been
in school. It would be easy to ob-
tain a large female school, if we
could teach them needle-work ag
well as letters. We hope, before
long, a box or two of such things as
I mentioned in a former letter will
come on for Ava schools. It is
wonderful. Sir, what influence our
school children have over their pa-
rents and relatives. When they get
permission to go home for a day,
they beg for some tracts to take to
their friends, and they induce them
to come out and hear the Gospel.
The mother of Mary Connell comes
frequently ; and she says she can no
longer worship idols. Moung Oug,
(12 years old) by repeating the Cat-
echism to his parents, has induced
them to come to worship on Lord's
day. Could Christian females in
America see the wants of this great
metropolis, they would rejoice to

be much gratified in reading the Old j have it in their power to do some-
Testament Scriptures." " Why ?" j thing to elevate the female charac-
he inquired. '* Those writings give ! ter, and pour into their hearts the
an account of the most wonderful ^ hope of future bliss,
events from the beginning of the i Kindly remember me to the Board,
world to the coming of Christ. " Be ; I beg an interest in your prayers,

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that I may be guided in the path of
duty. From your unworthy brother,

E. KiNCAID.

To Rev. Dr. Bolles.

P. S. Since I have been in Ava,
I have iriven away more than a ream
of letter-paper. If a prince or no-
bleman wants five or six sheets of j
paper, he sends a polite message, j
and asks the favor of a few. I can- j
not well refuse, and this is the way j
my paper has gone. I shall be un- j
der the necessity of doing the same {
in future, and will not some breth- |
ren, who feel interested in the cause
here, supply me with a ream now
and then; also a few rolls of good
sealing-wax. Paper is high in Ben-
gal. A few days since, the queen's
brother sent to me for a pair of scis-
sors. We had but one pair in the
house, and was obliged to send him
such word. A few trifling things of
this kind would, I tliink, be service-
able, situated as I am.

The journal to which allusion is made
in the preceding letter, appeared in the
Magazine for May. A continuation of it,
to Sept. last, has been received at the
Missionary Rooms, and will be published
in our next number. Meanwhile, Ave can-
not withhold from our readers the follow-
ing extract of a letter addressed by Mr.
K. to Dr. L. C. Paine, and published in
the Baptist Register. In a letter to the
respected editor of that paper, dated
Clyde, N. Y., Dr. P. remarks of Mr.
K.'s communication, — 'It contains much
interesting information from that perse-
vering and daring missionary — later, too,
than any which 1 have seen from that im-
portant and memorable station. To the
friends of the missionary cause every
where, I would urge the feeling appeal of
Mr. Kincaid — "Praj/ for us; pray for
the little band of redeemed souls in
Ava.'' '

Ava, Nov. 10, 1834.

***If you see my journal, you will
know what wehave'been doing, and
what our prospects have been ; but
just now a threatening storm hangs
26

over us. On the 5th of this month,
early in the morning, I was summon-
ed before a high court of the empire.
All the noblemen and an immense
crowd of the common people were
gathered together in the great court.
As soon as I entered the great black
book was called for, and chapter after
chapter was read, in which they had
attempted to draw a full length por-
trait of my character. I did not feel
myself worthy of so good a character
as this testimony Avould go to estab-
lisli — in one word, they read from
their record, that the American teach-
er had come to tiie golden city; had
stirred up great numbers of the peo-
ple to despise the gods and religion
of Burmah ; was disturbing the pub-
lic peace ; was preaching a law
which the king, the princes, and the
nobles did not approve, and was giv-
ing books which taught a foreign
religion — this, and a good deal more,
they read, and no voice was heard
but the reader.

At length they read a chapter to
wiiich I could not listen in silence. In
substance it was this : " About seven
months ago the American teacher
promised to preach no more, and give
no more books ; but disregarding that
promise, he iiad gone on ever since,
preaching and giving the bookq in
every direction."

I replied, I never heard of such a
promise before ; but that I liad prom-
ised to give no more of the Investi-
gator ; and that the JVoongees gave
me permission to preach and give
the sacred scriptures.

I had no sooner said this, than a
Woongee, in a boisterous and angry
manner, said, He knew nothing about
our book, and that I had promised to
give }}o books.

A Woon Donk then took up the
subject — said, They knew nothing
about the distinction i made, and
were determined to put down all
preaching and all books which taught
a foreign religion.

I remonstrated with them — told
them about the Mahomedans and
Papists, who are not molested; they
became more vehement and rude,
said these people did not preach and

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give books, and that I should not.
Over and over again, they flatly de-
nied ever giving me any permission
to preach or give books. They then
called upon me to promise that I
■would presjch no more, and give no
more books of any kind.

I replied, " I dare not promise."

They said, " You must promise ."

I replied, I cannot, I dare not
make such a promise ; I fear God
more than kings ; and if you cut off
both my arms, and then my head, I
cannot make such a promise."

One said, " Remain quiet, and
you can stay."

I replied, " I dare not remain
quiet ; I came here to preach, and
the command of God is, to preach in
all the world."

Half a dozen cried out furiously :
" Send him away I send him away ! !
he is not fit to live in the empire ! "

I then made an appeal to the
prince, the queen's brother ; he list-
ened to my story till I came to that
part where I said the Woongtes '
promise induced me to rent a house
at considerable expense. He then
inquired how much money was ex-
pended, and said the owner of the
house should pay back the money.
I have omitted to say, in its proper
place, that they called the owner of
the house, and before me threatened
the old man with prison, and death,
and every thing that makes a Bur-
man's blood freeze in his veins, for
renting it to me. The poor old fel-
low prostrated himself before them,
begging for his life. Though the
old man was a great villain, I pitied
him, and told the ministers they had
no reason to blame him, for if they
Jiad not given him permission, he
never would have rented me his
house. — " Do not punish him for what
you gave him permission to do."
The old man dared not utter a word
in his own defence.

Thus I have given you a concise
view of the affair ; and what will be
the result it is impossible for me to
say. For two months past, great
numbers have been calling at the
house, and an increasing interest to
read our books has been very appa-

I rent. This, together with some
things not connected with my do-
ings, has probably aroused the gov-
ernment. We feel greatly distress-
ed on account of the disciples here
— there are also many promising
inquirers, and a few who give evi-
dence of piety. It seems to us like
being driven from the field of labor
to relinquish our footing here. O
I God! look in mercy on these mil-
j lions. The cause is God's — this is
' a cheering thought ; the counsels of
j men cannot overthrow the . doings
I of God. But 0, sir, I feel the need
of having more of that wisdom which
Cometh from above.

One of the ministers said to me,
"If Ave do not oppose you, we shall
go to hell."

I said, " Do not I preach the di-
vine law .? "

He replied, " We dare not listen
to you ; we are afraid of hell! "

Thus, they would have you think
that from pious motives they set
themselves against you. I have
some hopes that this fit of bigotry
will wear off", and the sun of pros-
perity again shine upon our path.
I know the day of opposition will
come ; I know the empire of dark-
ness is not to be overturned without
much toil and suffering. We must
not be discouraged ; if driven from
one point, we must seize upon anoth-
er ; and as good soldiers of the
cross of Christ, we must continue
struggling on the field of battle, till
the triumphant shout is echoed
through heaven and through earth,
" The kingdoms of this world have
become the kingdoms of Christ."
Pray for us — pray for the little
bund of redeemed soids in Ava.

Your ever aff'ectionate friend and
brother,

EUGENIO KiNCAlD.

To Dr. Lemuel Covell Paine.

TAVOT.

MR. MASON TO DR. BOLLES.

Tavoy, July 14, 1834.
Dear Sir, /

We have but a short notice of a
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send you a continuation of ray jour-
nal to Mergui, with a brief notice of
my presenremployments.

English.

My services in the English chapel
have' been as usual whenever sick-
ness has not prevented, which it re-
peatedly has. There are two or
three in the congregation who, I
trust, are new men in Christ, but
none have as yet been admitted to
baptism. Of the three Europeans
baptized last year, two were removed
with the troops six months ago ;
the third, who is in charge of the
Commissariat Department, alone re-
mains to exhibit a most interesting
example of the power of relio-ion.
Before he began to entertain Chris-
tian views of himself and God, he
lived unmarried with a native woman,
by whom he had several children.
He could not give up his children
nor abandon the mother that bore
them. Christianity left him but one
alternative ; and, humbling as that
was to the human heart, he readily
chose it and I married him. His
baptism followed, and his growth in
grace has been most apparent ever
since. Before his conversion he
kept a horse ; but, after the event, j
he discovered that this was a luxury, I
and a luxury with which, while he
could walk, and the wants of the
world were so great, he said he was
determined to dispense ; and, instead
of keeping a horse, he has ever
since afiven fifteen rupees per month,
as the subscription of himself and
family to the missionary society for i
the support of a native preacher, j
The duties of his situation require ;
but a small portion of his time, and :
Christianity soon taught him that j
the rest ought to be usefully em- j
ployed. To be short, he now spends j
his forenoon in tke study of Burman, j
with a view of rendering himself]
useful to the native population, and j
his afternoons are devoted to an \
English school consisting of soldiers'
children, Portuguese children, and a I
few European soldiers who are now |
desirous of learning to read. Last '
week I visited his school, and was i

equally surprised and gratified by
the knowledge of scripture manifest-
ed by some of the oldest scholars.
All the most important parts of the
New Testament they are both able
to repeat and correctly explain ; and .
that, too, in a manner which indi-
cated that their hearts were not un-
affected.

Burman.

Ko Myeat h'ta, the Tavoyer I bap-
tized last year, is my assistant in
this department, and occupies the
zayat daily. He affords most valu-
able aid, and his progress in Chris-
tian knowledge is truly surprising.
His respectability draws company,
and we have more visiters at the
zayat now, than ever heretofore
since I have been in Tavoy. Our
meetings on the Sabbath also are
unusually well attended. I wish I
could add that the truths preached
were blessed to their conversion.
On Tuesday evening I conduct a
Burman service in the English
chapel, — on Wednesday forenoon
Mrs. Mason has a female prayer-
meeting, — on Saturday night is the
prayer-meeting for the males, and
on the other evenings Burman wor-
ship is conducted in the zayat. Two
persons, both females, are now
before the church and their bap-
tisms have been appointed for Wed-
nesday.

Karens.

The season precludes the possi-
bility of our doing much for this peo-
ple at present, except in the way of
a female school in our compound,
which is superintended by Mrs.
Mason and myself, and one or
two other schools in the jungle,
taught by native Christians. One
great difficulty is want of books.
I have one tract nearly through the
press; and a considerable part of my
time, with the aid of Moung Sha-too,
is devoted to the composition of
another intended to consist of thirty
small chapters, one for each day in
the month. Every chapter is in
three parts, — the first a striking por-
tion of scripture, the second explan-

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atory thereof, with practical reflec-
tions, and the third an appropriate
hymn. It is intended to be a com-
panion for family worship, and will,
at the same time, be a suitable
school-book and a useful collection
of hymns for our public service until
a larcrer one can be composed.

Allow me just to add that Mrs.
Mason's day schools have nearly
doubled their numbers since she
wrote to Mrs. B. Yesterday there
were more than fi/hj at the Sabbath
school, Avhich she regularly conducts
every Sunday morning-, the after-
noon being devoted to a Sabbath^
school with the Karens.

Yours, &c.

Francis Mason.

MR. MASON^S JOURNAL.
(Continued from p. 159.)

Monday, Jan. 20.

To-day we started on our south-
ern journey, intending to go up the
river Ben so far as it is navigable
for canoes, and then to cross over
the mountains to the Karen settle-
ments in the southwest. We are
encamped in a populous village of
Meet-kheens, who have nothing to
recommend them but what drew the
Saviour to earth. They have been
visited repeatedly, yet they all re-
main decided enemies of the Gos-
pel. The head man is what may be
denominated a necromancer. He is
one of a class of persons among the
Karens, each of whom professes to
possess a " familiar spirit." These
spirits give information to their pos-
sessors concerning any future event
respecting which inquiries may be
made, more especially concerning the
sick. The process has been described
to me as follows : The necromancer
sits down cross-legged, and, placing
his hands on his knees, shakes him-
self until he trembles all over; at
which point the spirit enters him :
he then addresses it, and the spirit
replies through him in a manner
which seems to make real the poet-
ical description of the sybil when
visited by Eneas.

The following is what really oc-

curred, as related to me by a spec-
tator : — While the persons who came
to visit the oracle were sitting round,
he addressed the spirit, — " My Lord,
my Lord, surely this is a difficult
affair. O my Lord, look about and
assist: this individual is most griev-
ously sick." (The spirit now speaks
in him.) " O my disciple, my disci-
ple. A Ka-lu has got his guardian
angel and you cannot restore him."
(The necromancer again addresses
his spirit.) " O my Lord, what shall
we do ? Speak, I entreat. Assist,
I beseech." (The spirit again.)
" Offer a hog and you will be deliv-
ered, my son, my son." Here the
farce closed, and the people returned
to offer the hog, as they had heard
the spirit direct. These offerings
are made to malignant spirits, sever-
al of whom are designated by name,
but others are known as the " spirit
of the waters," "the spirit of the
forests," "the spirit of the moun-
tains," and many others.

Pla-shaw is the king of Nats ; all
others being his servants, and ap-
pointed by him to the several sta-
tions they occupy. He is worshipped
once a year, about the time of har-
vest. Spirituous liquor is poured out
to him, and fowls sacrificed, with
offerings of plantains and sugar-cane,
praying as follows : — " O lord of the
streams, lord of the land, lord of
the hills, lord of the mountains, lord
of the trees, lord of the bamboos,
thou to whom we offer food and
drink of spirituous liquor, boiled
rice, fowls, plantains, sweet sugar-
cane and every thing, let comfort
and happiness come to us. In going
and returning, in labor and toil, let
success attend our endeavors. Let
us be exempt from enemies, and
wild beasts of every description."

The Tho-ray-tha-kha are the sol-
diers of Pla-shaw above. They are
represented as carrying pipes with
very long stems, such as the Chinese
use, and when they lie down in the
woods to sleep, people often walk
across their pipes, arms and legs, at
which being very indignant, they
uniformly afflict the transgressor
with sickness. They are believed

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':a be the spirits of persons, who
:3.ve died violent deaths. The offer-
ngs are made in the woods and con-
~;ist of spirituous liquor poured out,
and boiled rice scattered about. The
offerings are accompanied with the
oHowing prayer: — "O ye, who eat
joth raw food and cooked, ye, who
have died from accident, ye, who
have been starved to death, ye, who
have died from falls, ye, whom the
tigers have devoured, ye, whom the
lightning has struck, O ye, who have
died unhallowed deaths of whatever
description, this person having walk-
ed across your silver pipe-stem, your
golden pipe-stem, across your arms
and your legs, you have brought
sickness and suffering upon him.
I now offer thee food and drink, of
black boiled rice, and red boiled rice,
and white boiled rice, and yellow-
boiled rice, of curry also and spirit-
uous liquor ; therefore, let this per-
son return to health again."

They are strong believers in
■witchcraft, and sometimes they are
told that they are bewitched, in
which case the rule is to take every
thing out of the house, and throw
it into the jungle with the follow-
ing prayer: — O cheet-khun witch,
cheet-tho witch, Taling witch. Bur-
man witch, dog witch, pigeon witch
or sparrow witch, you have come
and asked of us food and drink, and
we have this day given for your
nourishment, every thing that was
in the house. Go, eat and drink
what has been offered to you, and
carry food to your own region, to
your own city, to your own village.
If you do not go back T will cut off
your head, and overcome you with
niy weapon." The last sentence is
■Qttered, while flourishing a knife or
sword about the house.

These necromancers are regarded
as wicked men, and like the spirits
which they serve, are feared by the
people. Tradition says, that formerly
God gave them a succession of in-
dividuals, who were insrructed by
himself to give occasional informa-
tion in relation to future events, but
the instruction of these pious indi-
viduals being neglected, God de-
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prived them of their aid. They say,
" had we not in ancient times diso-
beyed the instructions of the persons
God sent us, he would have contin-
ued to afford us the aid of such per-
sons in each succeeding generation;
but because we did not obey, unho-
ly and wicked necromancers abound
among us." The people are all evi-
dently conscious that the whole of
these offerings to Nats is wrong, and
most acknowledge them to be so,
which feeling is kept up by the
prophets that are constantly rising
up among them, who uniformly con-
demn the practice. The people are
very tenacious in protesting that it
is not religious worship, and that
fear only impels them to do thus,
while they continue to believe in
and worship God.

The individual before me this
evening says, that he gave himself
up in form, to the spirit he serves,
for fourteen years, twelve of which
are already past, that he must obey
the spirit until the time expires,
when- he intends to become a Chris-
tian. I have had a long conversa-
tion with him since worship, but it
were as well to talk to a maniac, for
on this subject reason seems to have
left him.

Jan. 21. Nya h'tsaway. This is a-
nother large village of Meet-kheens,
which we reached this afternoon by
wading a few miles without shoes or
stockings up a small tributary of the
Ben, at the mouth of which we left
our canoes. The people, like all
their tribe, are characterized by dis-
like to the gospel. Of one man,
however, I am not without hope ; he
hangs around us now, as he did last
year when we were here, but his
confidence in God is not yet strong
enough to overcome his fear of ma-
lignant spirits.

The head man, who was our vio-
lent enemy last year, lies in a high
fever, afraid, he says, of dying and
going to hell, and appears very
grateful for the medicine I have pre-
scribed for him.

Two Toung-thoos are here, Avith
whom I have had a long conversa-
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hists. There are none of the tribe |
dwelling in this province, but a few |
came, trading in trinkets, from the
provinces of Maulmein and Marta-
ban, where they reside. They claim
the honor of first bringing the Bood-
hist scriptures from Ceylon, and it is,
I believe, generally conceded there,
though not strictly correct; for, al-
though Bug-da-gan-tha was born
among them, he was the son of a
Brahmin. This honor proved their
ruin ; for, in the year eight hundred
and eighty-six of the Christian era,
when Bug-da-gan-tha returned from
Ceylon with two copies of the scrip-
tures, the Toung-thoos were an in-
dependent nation, governed by kings
of their o\rn. These nations were
unquestionably Boodhists, before
Boodhism was introduced from Cey-
lon ; and, when it was noised abroad
that the king of the Toung-thoos
was in possession of the copies of
books so valuable, the king of Pug-
han sent and demanded one. The
Toung-thoos refused to comply with
the demand and war ensued in which
they were completely conquered,
their royal family exterminated, and
their capital, the sight of which is
still shown near the Seet-toung riv-
er, was razed to the ground. The
people were carried into captivity,
or driven into the forest where they
have since dwelt.

(To be continued.)

BANKOK.

The following letter, which has been
kindly passed to us for publication, needs
no comraent. We would simply reiterate
the expostulatory demand of our beloved
brother, " If men do not think, how can
they act'? When called to any important
station at home, they think, and think
deeply, whether they shall accept it.
Why icill they not think about poor,
miser able, deluded, perishing pagans V

MR. JOxNES TO REV. H. MALCOM.

Bankok, Siam, Jan. 16, 1834.
Dear Brother,

In writing to you hitherto, I have

written too much about ourselves.
In this letter I wish to write of
something more important. Still
self is so sly it may insinuate itself
even here to some extent. I wish
to plead the cause of the heathen.
It is true Ave have not been a long
time in this country, but we have
been long enough to perceive what
heathenism is, not only in theory but
in practice. The daily and hourly
degradations and abominations we
witness, pain our souls. Humanity
revolts, decency is outraged, natural
affection, except in its basest forms,
is unknown — humble poverty is op-
pressed, and iniquity triumphs. A
full fed, insolent, indolent and almost
innumerable priesthood riot upon
the wealth of the country, and delude
the people with a superstition which
God abhors. Have x\mericans com-
passion ? here is a field for its exer-
cise.— Do they love decency ? let
them try to implant that love here.
Have they a regard for the ties of
nature ? let them teach that regard.
Do they love freedom? let them
compassionate the oppressed. Do
they hate imposture r let them at-
tempt its overthrow. Do they fear
God ? let them persuade their fellow-
beings to fear him too. But earthly
circumstances and prospects are
hardly worth mentioning here. The
prospects of a future state to such
beings, as they are disclosed to a
believer of revelation, are appalling.
An apostle has said, " Now the
works of the flesh are adultery, for-
nication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,.
idolatry, variance, emulation, wrath,
strife, seditions, heresies, envyings,
murders, drunkenness, revellings,
and such like; and that they which
do such things shall not inherit the
kingdom of God," — and I can safely
add, that if such be the fact, for this
people as a mass there is nothing
but a " certain fearful looking for of
i judgment and fiery indignation."
They know not God and our Lord
Jesus Christ. In view of their char-
acter and prospects and the com^
mands of the Saviour, I ask, what
ought Christians in America to do ?
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trifling annual or monthly contribu-
tion, which they can spare as well
as not, and a few stated prayers that
God's kingdom may come? Tliey
cannot feel as we do who see the
heathen in all their wretchedness,
but they
They can
God, and ask him what he would
have them to do. They can con-
template the example and precepts
of our blessed Redeemer, and ask
what they require. They cari look
forward to the judgment day, and

must be done quickly. The work
will require the utmost diligence
not of one, or two or half a dozen
solitary laborers, but of multitudes.
It cannot be accomplished by con-
tributions, be they ever so liberal,
call read their Bibles. ! or prayers, be they ever so holy ; men
pray on their knees to i must come, men full of faith and of
the Holy Ghost must come, and
study, and labor, and preach, and,
perhaps, suffer. When we think of
the centuries that have rolled away
since Jesus suffered, and the ex-
ceedingly limited extent of Chris-
consider what the scrutiny of that : tianity, while we most fervently im-
day will demand of them. When I ' plore God's grace for the heathen,
look back to the hours I spent in I we cannot but also beg of Him, to

considering whether I should be-
come a missionary to the heathen, I
wonder and am astonished at my-
self. May God pardon me that I
hesitated so long. What! love the
Saviour and hesitate about making
his salvation known to millions of
benighted men! Love him, and
hesitate to obey his last command !
Situated as I am now, alone, in the
midst of millions of idolaters hast-
ening like myself to death and judg-
ment, I want to raise my feeble
voice and let it resound till it should
reach my antipodes, and cry, Breth-
ren, awake ! awake ! — call upon God,
that, as he has had mercy on you,
and given you a title to heaven, he
would also have compassion on your
fellow-beings, and save them from

forgive Christians for their apathy
and inactivity in an enterprise so
dear to God, so immeasurably im-
portant to man. And while we beg
forgiveness of what is past, we pray
for guidance and activity in future
efibrts. We do not say cease your
contributions, or cease your prayers
— but Avhile you give your propert}'
and your supplications to such a
cause, give yourselves also. Pray
for us, and come and help us.

Dear brother, I pray you, stir up
the disciples of Christ to this enter-
1 prise — with all the might that God
shall give. — Have you not some men
in your church who love the Re-
deemer's cause, and the souls of
their fellow-beings, enough to come
up to the help of the Lord against

hell. The time is come when Zion | the mighty ? Get them to consider
must arise and shine, and if you | it. There are many young men of

altogether hold your peace, deliver-
ance shall arise from some other
quarter, and the delight of doing
God's service shall be denied you.
Awake, and come to our aid, ye
young men who would part with life
rather than the hopes you cherish.
Do you believe God, when he says
his "Son shall have the heathen for
his inheritance.'"' The inheritance
of the Saviour shall believe on him,
but " /loit' shall they believe on him
of whom they have not heard ? and
how shall they hear without a
preacher?" Do, dear brethren, re-
member time is short. The heatlien

sterling worth, who have just enter-
ed or are about to enter the minis-
try at home — who have never had
one serious thought whether it was
not their duty to become missiona-
ries to the lieathen. — If men do not
think, how can they act? When
called to any important station- at
home, they think, and think deeply,
whether they shall accept it. fVhy
will they not think about poor, miser-
able, deluded, perishirig pagans') I
conjure them, by every thing that is
sacred, not to ask where they can
best enjoy themselves, Knd have most
spiritual privileges — but where are

are dying by thousand?, if not by < they called by the command of
millions, every year. What you do, j Christ, the claims of humanity, and

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the awards of eternity ! " The Lord
give them wisdom."

Truly yours,
Jno. Taylor Jo>'es.
Rev. H. Malcom.

P. S. In my opinion, it deserves
very serious consideration whether
laymen, in considerable numbers,
ought not to devote themselves to
the service of the heathen by a per-
sonal residence among them. A
merchant, such as Mr. W. was in
France, with a knowledge of the lan-
guage, and Christian books in his
hand, might have access to thousands
whom a missionary would never see,
and exert an influence which a mis-
sionary could not, inasmuch as they
(the natives) think the propagation
of religion is a missionary's trade.
An American merchant here would
be regarded with much favor, as the
Siamese are very fond of foreign
articles; as cloths, hardware, &c.,
and are partic\ilarly desirous of see-
ing American vessels. Now would
be a favorable time, as the Ameri-
cans have just formed a treaty of
amity and commerce with Siam. No
fears need be entertained regarding
success in their business.

Jibe -la.

DR. SKINNER TO DR. BOLLES.

Monrovia, Jan. 19, 1835.

Dear Sir,

I would inform you, that a Baptist
church was formed the last week in
December, at Edina, of thirteen per-
sons that came out in the expedition
from Pennsylvania, to be settled
at Port Cresson, in Bassa Cove,
eight males and five females. This is
the fourth Baptist church in the col-
ony. Five were baptized on Satur-
day, 17th, at Caldwell, and a church
will be formed there on the second
Friday in February, unless it should
be thought best to do it before.
Our present calculation is to form an
Association on the third Friday of
February, which will probably be
the First Baptist Association ever
formed in Africa. We are poor, and j

we want help. We want a whitd
man of bright talents and good edu-
cation : and I verily believe one may
come with safety, if acclimated at
Bassa. We have three men here
that might be employed with advan-
tage. The first organized Temper-
ance Society in the Colony was
formed at Edina, January K In
20 days including to-day, we have
obtained two hundred and sixty-one
signers to total abstinence. I ob-
tained seventy-seven signers in a
meeting at Caldwell, Tuesday eve-
ning last. There is some attention
to the things of religion there. May
God bless you, and the Board and
Society with which you stand con-
nected, and if you do any thing here,
direct you by his providence to do
it in the best manner for his glory
and the advancement of truth, is the
earnest prayer of your affectionate
brother in Christ,

EzEKiEL Skinner.
Rev. Lucius Bolles.

In a postscript dated March 3, 1835,
Dr. S. subjoins, —

A church has been constituted at
Caldwell of twelve members,seven of
whom have been recently baptized :
fourteen or fifteen more, members
of other churches, we expect will
jom us soon. We have obtained to
the total abstinence pledge in respect
to ardent spirit, five hundred and
three in two months and two days ;
and it is agreed by three venders of
that article, that for a month past
they have not sold more than a ninth
or tenth part as much spirit, as they
usually have in the same length of
time.

Knlrtan Stations.

REV. EVAN JONES TO DR:
BOLLES.

Valley Toions^ C. N. April 7, 1835.
Rev. and dear Brother,

We have just closed a series of
meetings of three days' continuance.
This appointment was made for the
purpose of bidding the brethren fare-

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well, preparatory to my starting for
the General Convention.

The prospect at present is quite
encouraging. Attention to the Gos-
pel is gradually and steadily increas-
ing. At the meetings which Ave
have just closed, applications were
made from seven different settle-
ments .for preaching, besides those
at which we statedly attend. Two
of the places are 40 and 50 miles
distant, and the others from 16 to 30
miles.

Not being able to attend all these
places regularly, we have concluded
to visit them occasionally as often
as we can.

The members of the church gen-
erally appear to be advancing in the
divine life. Many are quite humble,
devoted Christians. Family wor-
ship is regarded as a sacred duty,
and the fruits of family religion are
frequently witnessed in the conver-
sion of the children and other
branches of professing families.
The political troubles which at this
time disturb the community, may
seem to forbid the hope that much
attention could be directed to any
other object ; but the fact is, that
moral and intellectual culture, do-
mestic industry and domestic virtue
are making rapid advances among
them.

I am, Rev. and dear Sir, your obe-
dient servant in the Gospel,

EvAX Jones.

ENCOURAGING TOKENS.
The Resolve of the Convention to " en-
deavor, by the blessing of God, to raise
at least $100,000 during the coming year,
for the purpose of sending the Gospel to
the heathen," has been met, so far as we
have learned, with decided approbation.
It is stated in the Baptist Register that,
at the Anniversary meeting of the New
York Baptist Association in May, the
Rev Mr. Dunbar announced to the As-
sociation that " the church in McDougal
street (N. Y. city,) of which he was pas-
tor, had resolved to raise 81,000 the

present year for this cause." The vene-
rable Jesse Mercer, in a letter to the Cor-
responding Secretary, dated Washington
June 3, speaking- of the meeting of the
Georgia State Convention, says, " All was
harmony and brotherly love. The in-
creased interest felt was manifest in the
increased funds sent up for the various
objects before the Convention. In view
of the resolve to raise atleast $100,000
this year by the General Convention, our
Convention resolved to make an eflbrt to
raise $3000 of that sura." The Rev. J •
Hartwell, who was appointed by the
Board to an Agency at the South, has
also received several unequivocal tokens
of the favor with which the plan is re-
garded by our southern brethren. He
writes thus:

Soon after my return I was relat-
ing the circumstances of the meet-
ing-, with our prospects and the
8100,000 resolution, to a broth-
er at his fire-side, when he, of his
own accord, presented me with a
hundred dollar bill, to carry forward
the noble object. Another put into
my hand forh/ dollars, &c. I am
persuaded that nothing but informa-
tion and eifort is wanting, to bring
forth from South Carolina Baptists
their full proportion of the hundred
thousand. Neither do I believe
that the other southern States will
be behind their more favored sisters
at the north.

Ordinations,

Mr. Columbus F. Sturgis, ord.
missionary to the Cherokees, at Augusta,
Geo. March 8, 1835.

Mr. Trumax O. Judd, ord. pastor of
the Baptist church in Middletown, April 2.

iMr. Lemuel Covell, ord. pastor of
the Baptist church in Athens, N. Y.
April 23.

Mr. William H. Dalrymple, ord.
' pastnr of the Baptist church in Abington,
I April 29.

3Ir. Richard N. Herndon, ord.
evangelist at Long Branch, Fauquier Co.
Virg. May 25.

Mr. Lorenzo O. Covell, ord. pas-
tor of the Baptist church in West Boyls-
ton, June 3.

310

Account of Moneys.

Account of Moneys, received in Donations, by the Treasurer of the General
Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States, for Foreign
Missions, from April 15 to June 15, 1835.

From Rev. I. M. Allen, Agent of Baptist General Tract Society, to

aid in publishing Tracts in Burnraah, by Rev. Otis Briggs', $100,00
The Young Ladies Retrenchment Soc. of Federal Street Bap-
tist Church, for support of native Burinan teachers, by a
frie^id, 100,00
Baptist State Convention of Alabama, in a letter from Mr. A. G.
• McCravv, 132,00
Male and Female Missionary Society of Andover,Vt. from Rev.

Joel Manning, by iiand of A. B. Foster, Esq. 23,00
* Mr. Joseph Fogg,'Read(ield, Me. Treas. Kennebec Anx. For.
Miss. Soc. by hand of IMr. J. Lambert, for the education of
Timothy Boutelle, 25; and S imuel Francis Smith, 12,50, 37,50
Burman Tracts, 4; Burman Mission, 172,50, 176,50

214,00

Miss Betsev Sprague, of Attleboro', for Jewelry, 4,50
Mrs. H. Tafr, 1; a friend in Wreniham, 1; 2,00

by Rev. J. E. Forbush, 6,50

Swnbury," Ga. Fern. Cent Soc. by Prof. Ripley, 51,25
Rev. J. Billings, Addison, Me. by Capt. J. Reynolds, 10,00
Dea. J. Briggs, of Coleram, Mass. for Bur. Tracts, 1; Bur.

Schools, 1; by H. Thompson, Esq. 2,00
Cat.sk ill, N. Y. Bap. Ch. bv W. A. Wilson, 11,00
N. J. State Convention, by P. P. Runyon, Treas. 160,00
Chenango For. Miss, Soc. Aux. by I. Randall, Treas. 112,00
Fem. For. Mi.«s. Soc. of Mulberry St. Bap. Ch. N. Y. for Bur.

Miss. 1834 ^5, 100; from same, to educate Ann H. Jud-

son, for 1834 & 5, 40, 140,00
Half amount of Collections at Mon. Con. from same, 23,56
Col. after a sermon by Rev. Mr. Wade, 40,00
Donations, 10,60; Sabbath School, 15,27, 25,87
Bible Class, 1834 & 5, 11,00
Deduct advances made by Treas. of Mulberry St. Soc.

in 1832 & 3, 6,32

94,11

Col. at Mon. Con. in Rrockville, U. C. for Bur. Miss. 10,00
Lewis Porter, Treas. Seneca Co. Miss. Soc. 80,00
J. Nickerson, Treas. Madison Bap. For. Miss. Soc. 600,00

by W. Colgate, Esq. 1207,11

Cumberland, Me. For. Miss. Soc. Aux. &c. W. R. Stockbridge,
Treas. viz. S. School 1st. Ch. Brunswick, 6,10; Fem. Bur. Soc.
N. Y^armouth, 19,41; Male Prim. Soc. N. Yarmouth, 19,38;
Mission Box, do. 3,87; R. Mitchell, ,37; Fem. Prim. Soc. ViU
lage Ch. Brunswick, 12,25; avails of a Ring, 1,50; Rev. B. Tit-
comb, 2,0G; Male Prim. Soc. New Gloucester, 7,25; Fem.
Prim. Soc. New Gloucester, 6,10; Male Prim. do. at Bath,
13,50; Mission Box, 11,50; Fem. Prim. Soc. at Bath, 25;
Male Prim. Soc. at Freeport, 8,50; Fem. Prim. Soc. at Freeport,
12,00; Col. at Bath, 5,37; Fem. Prim. Soc. N. Yarmouth, 21; 175,10
Fem. Bur. Miss. Soc. Kingsville, Ohio, by Rev. A. Chapin, 20,00
Mrs. A. P. Staughton, for Phil. Fem. Bur. Ed. Soc. to educate

William and Maria Staughton, 100,00
Phil. Fem. Bib. Soc. for Bur. Bible, by Mrs. E. C. Allen, 100,00
2d Bap. Ch. Phil, for Bur. Bib. bv Rev. I. M. Allen, 100,00
Bap. Gen. Tract Soc. for Bur. Tracts, by do. Agent, 300,00
W. Winterton, Esq. for support of Ko Thah-a, 3d payment, 100,00
Avails of Jewelry, by a family in Richmond, Va. 2,00
American Bible Society for Bibles in the Burman Empire, 1000,00
Dea. Levi Morrill, Treas. Penobscot Aux. For. Miss. Soc. 214,00
Friends at Powelton, Ga. for Bur. Bib. 25; Friends in Sparta, Ga.
5,0e for Bur. Bib.; Mr. G. Leaves of M iUedgeville, Ga. for Bur. Bib.
5,00; Mr. D. Baihea, of Ala. 8,00; Georgia Bap. Convention,

Account of Moneys.

311

536; Mr. G. Camp, of Ga. 3, for Bur. Miss.; Rev. E. Battle, of
Missis. 10; Geo. Bap. Coiiv. for Bur. Bib. Ill; Rev. J. Mat-
thews, Ga. 10 ; Geo. Bap. Con v. for Bur. Tracts, 3,00,

by Rev. Je.sse Mercer, 716,00
Bib. Class, Frankfort, Pa. Bap. Ch. in aid of the Karens, by I. Mul-

ford, Treas. &c. 10,00
Juv. Ind. Miss. Soc. 5th Bap. Ch. Philad. Mrs. E. A. Crosby, Treas. 62,00
Rev. Alfred Bennett, cpllected by him as agent of the Board,' 818,19
Gennesee Bap. Assoc. by Rev. J. Claik, of Batavia, 118,00
For. Miss. Soc. of Holland Purchase, N. Y. by Rev. E. Tucker, of
• Buflalo, 300,00
Miss. Soc. of South Bap. Ch. N. Y. by Rev. C. G. Sommers, 225,00
Ladies in do. for sup. of Feni. School in Ava, by do. 100,00

Also a box of sundries for same, valued at ^75.
Ladies of the For. Miss. Soc. of 1st Bap. Soc. Providence, R. 1. for

support of Ko Thah-a, 100,00
Rev. D. Witt, by the Churches of which he is pastor, 100,00
Mount Tirzah, Shiloh, Ash Camp, Mossingford and Antioch, Va.

Churches, by Rev. G. Mason, pastor, 100,00
Scholars in Milton Street Sab. Sch. Boston, by Mr. Cobb, 2,06
Fem. Hasselline Miss. Soc. of King and Q. Co. Va. Mrs. C. W. Ry-

land, Sec. 100,00
Bap. Fem. For. Miss. Soc. Amity Street, N. Y. Mary Edwards,

Treasurer, 105,00
Youth's Miss. Soc. 2d Bap. Ch. Richmond, Va. I. Rust, Treas. 221,82
Penn. Bap. For. Miss. Soc Rev. S. Hnggens, Treas. 200,00
East Jersey Bap. For. Miss. Soc. by Rev. G. S. Webb, 130,00
Bap. Fem. Miss. Soc. of Baltimore, Md. by Rev. J. G. Binney, 100,00
Brooklyn, N. Y. Fem. Juv. Bur. Sch. Soc. to educate Sarah Board-
man, 4th payment, Mrs. S. Crosby, Treas. 22,00
Bap. Ch. Great Valley, Penn. by Kev. L. Fletcher, pastor, 100,00
Evangelical Soc. Columbian College, by Dr. Chapin, 100,00
Youth's For. Miss. Soc. Portsmouth, Va. to educate a heathen youth

to be named Thomas Hume, 25,00
Bap. Ch. Portsmouth, Va. per Rev. Thos. Hume, 75,00
Fem. Miss. Soc. 1st Bap. Ch. Philadelphia, per Rev. \Y , T. Brantley, 200,00
Bap. Ch. McDougal St. New York, hy Rev. D. Dunbar, pastor, 100,00
Soc. of Inquiry of Vir. Bap. Seminarv, by Rev. W. F. JN'elson, 100,00
Mr. J. Rorer, of Frankford, Pa. per "Rev. I. M. Allen, 5,00
Dea. and Mrs. Lapham, of Hamilton, N. Y., parents of Mrs. Wade, 15,00
Ladies in Bap. Cong. Cheney ville. La. for Bur. Bib.— Rev. J. B. Smith, 100,00
Richmond, Va. African Bap. 31iss. Soc. to support a colored

missionaiv in Africa, 156,82
Va. Bap. Miss. Soc. for Bur. Miss. 354,14— Bur. Bible

54,55— African Mis. 32, 73— General purposes 400,79, 892,21

bv A. Thomas, Treas. 1049,03

Bur. Bib. Soc. Bruington, K. & Q. Co. Va. A. Fleet, Treas. 30,00
J. Withers, Esq. of Alexandria, D. C. for Bur. Miss. 50,00
G. Scruggs, of Huntsville, Ala., for Bur. Miss, by Rev. C. C. P. Crosby, 5,00
Bap. Fem. Mis. Soc. Brooklyn, N. Y. by Rev. L. Howard, 200,00
For. Mis. Soc. 1st. Bap. Ch. Richmond, Va. lor Miss, to China, 169,65
Burman schools, 30,35

by James Sizer, Esq. 200,00

Goose Creek Ch. (of Ketochton Assoc.) by Rev. W. F. Broaddus, 5,00
Dr. W. Gwathney, King William Co. Va., 5,00
Miss Harriet Hadlev, Nashville, N. C. for Bwr. Bible, 2,00
Karen Soc. Society Hill.S.C. 45,-Rev. R. Na|;ier, Bennettsville,S .C. 5, 50,00
Fem. Mon. ConceVt for Bur. Bible, per Rev. J. C. Furman, 10,00
SansomSt. Phil. Bap. Fem. Soc. for sup. of For. Ev. Miss., forsund's, 466,00
Bap. Ch. New Market St. Phil., per Rev. J. H. Kennar«l, 60,00
Children Mr. R. P. Anderson of Washington, D. C, besides 3 rings, 14,00
Rev. J. E. Welch of N. J. 5,00
Fem. Karen Soc. Upper Alton, 111. 20,25— contributed by others, 3,75,

by Rev. J. M. Peck, 24,00
Miss Martha Booker, Amelia, Va. 5,00— Rev. V. M. Mason, 5,00, 10,00

312

Account of Moneys.

208,73
87,10

100,00
10,00

50,00

Oliver St. N. Y. Fem. For. Miss. Soc, per Mrs. Purser,

Oliver St. Burman School Soc. " " "

Oliver St. For. Miss. Soc, 981,00— Females in same Ch. to support
Indian child named Sally W. Cone, 10,00— A friend for Bur. Bible,
7,00— African Mission, 2,00 per Rev. S. II. Cone, 1000,00

Portland Bur. Fem. Ed. Soc, Jane Radford, Treas., to support Mar-
tha Mayo, 50,00— Elizabeth Nelson, 50,00

A friend in Richmond, Va., by Dr. BoUes,

Ladies of Longtown, S. C. Bap. Ch., for the circulation of the Bible

among Burman women, per Mrs. F. D. Furinan,
E. Monroe, 3,00— D. Trump, 4,00— Bap. Ch. Smithfield, Pa.

5,50 — Mrs. Lake, 2,75 — Onondaga Bap. For. Miss. Soc.

J. Munro, Treas. 296,76 312,01
A friend, 1,00— B. F. Alden, Annsville, 33,31— C. Walker,

Burlington Flats, 10,00— Bap. Ch. Sennett, E. Healy, 25 ;

S. Smiih, Volney, 5,C0 — for Bur. Miss. 74,31
A sister in Becket,' Ms. for China Miss. 1,00 Bur. Tracts, 1, 2,

per Messrs. Bennett & Bright, Utica, N. Y., .

From Mission, box of a little girl at Eastport, per Mrs. Hayden,
Legacy of Mrs. Clarissa Long, late of Shelburne, Mass., lor Burman

Bible, 150,00 — Bur. Female Schools, 37,50, (besides 37,50 in trust

for Am. Bap. Home Miss. Soc, )
Rev. Otis Converse, Treas. Worcester Bap. Assoc.
Fem. Ben. Soc of 1st Bap. Ch. Pittsburgh, Penn. 10,00- Juv. Soc. of

do. 8,00— col. at Mon. Con. 2,00— by Rev. S. Williams, 20,00
Levi Peirce, Esq., Treas. Old Colony Bap. Miss. Soc. Mass. for Bur.

Miss, and Bur. Bible,
Rev. S. Peck,

New Hampshire Bap. Conv., W. Gault, Esq., of Concord, Treas.,

by Rev. E. E. Cummings,
Ladies in Hopkinton, by Rev. C. Train,
Female friend, for Bible in Burmah, by Mr. H. Lamb,
Primary Soc. connected with 2d Bap. Ch. and Soc. in Hallowell,

by Rev. Mr. Drink water.
Bap'. Ch. Pawtucket, R. I. collected at Mon. Con., by Rev. J. Blain,
Sisters in Bap. Ch. Pittsfield, Ms. to ed. Bur. fem., by Kev. Mr. Francis,
Col. at Mon. Con. 1st Bap. Ch. VVickford, R. I., by Rev. B. C.Grafton
Friend in Virginia, for African iNli.^sion,
Miss. Soc of 2d Bap. Ch. Brunswick, Me.,
Lady ill Maine, by H. Homes, Esq.,

Rev. J.'Gillpatrick of Bluehill, Me., Treas. of Hancock Aux. F. M. S.,
Oliver St. N. Y. For. Miss. Soc, in trust, for the distribution of the

Scriptures in Orissa, under the supervision of Rev. A. Sutton,

by Rev. S. II. Cone,
Col. at Mon. Con. Isi Bap. Ch. Hingham, Miss Polly Barnes, Treas.,
Friend to Foreign Missions in Braintree, Mass.

Dea. Jos. Fogg, Treas. Kennebec For. Miss. Soc, per J. Smith, Esq.,
Mrs. Wright of Filzwilliam, IS'. H.. by Mrs. Blanchard,
Framingham Juv. Soc tor .Mrs. Kincaid's school — .Miss E. H. Bige-

low, Treas. (with a box of school apparatus valued at 8,)
Mr. Caleb Brayton, Treas. Washington Co. N. Y. Bap. .Miss. Soc,
Mrs. John Smith, Treas. Bur. Fem. Ed. Hoc. of 6th St. Bap.

Ch. Cincinn.iti,
Col. at iMon. Con. for Bur. Miss, per Mrs. Smith, in do.,
James Thomas of Harri^bui gh, la., collected atMon. Con.

at his house, for Bur. iVli.-s.,
David E. Straiham of Cheviot, O., from Bethel Bap. Ch. and

Cong., tor Bur. .M iss.
Rev. W. C. Wurfield of i renton, Ky.,from friends to For.

Miss, for tracts to the heaihen,

per Dea. John Smiih of Cincinnati,
Mrs. O. J. Fav(jr, Treas. JSharon Bap. Fem.

per C. Johnson,
Young meml)ers of 1st Bap. Ch. Providence

male child in Bunnah,
SuLscriber lo the Southern Baptist, S. ., per Rev. W. H. Bri.<bane

H. LINCOLN, Treasurer.

388,32
2,60

187,50
15,25

208,72
15,00

500,00
7,50
,50

10,50
11,64
11,00
, 10,00
100,00
10,00
3,00
135,12

200,00
13,39

5,00
70,00

1,00

3,50
32,00

117,10
34,62

7,00

34,95

10,00

For. Miss. Soc. Mass.
R. I., for support of a

203,67

9,25

25,00
5,00

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