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THE

MISSIONARY HERALD

OF THE

AMERICAN BOARD.

YOL. LYIII. MAY, 1 862.

No. 5.

THE MONTHLY" CONCERT.— No. 2.

CONTRIBUTIONS AT THE CONCERT.

The custom of taking contributions at the monthly concert, to aid the
foreign missionary work, seems to have originated spontaneously, in various
places, previous to any public movement or any published article recommend-
ing such a course, and to have extended itself very gradually, for a time.
No evidence has been found by the writer, that such contributions were any
where taken previous to the year 1816, or the latter part of 1815. In May,
1813, the Treasurer of the American Board received S32.30, “ contributed
in Beverly, [Mass.] at a monthly meeting for the promotion of missions.”
In April, 1814, he received 810.77, and again in May of the same year,
87.36, “ collected at a prayer meeting for missionaries at Charlestown,”
[Mass.] but it is at least very doubtful whether either of these were properly
monthly concert contributions. Nothing designated as from the monthly
concert appears to have been received from Charlestown previous to Novem-
ber, 1817, or from Beverly, until a still later time. On the 22d of January,
1816, there was received, as acknowledged in the Panoplist, the sum of
827.12, “ contributed at a monthly concert for prayer, held by the two parishes
in Southold, L. I.,” and nothing has yet been discovered to show that South-
old is not entitled to the honor of being first in this good work. On the 20th
©•f August, the same year, 818 were received “from the Rev. Josiah Peet,
of Norridgewock, Me., the avails of a monthly contribution at the concert of
prayer for the success of missions.” In October, a small sum was acknowl-
edged from Keene, N. H., “ a collection at a monthly prayer meeting, by the
Rev. D. Oliphant.” In November, a like “ collection at a monthly prayer
meeting,” from St. Johnsbury, Yt., and in December, “ from the monthly con-
cert of prayer in Andover, So. Parish, [Mass.] by the Rev. Justin Edwards,
$20.” These five sums are all the concert contributions which have been
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found acknowledged as received during that year, or previous to January,
1817 ; and it is worthy of remark that they were received from five different
States, and mostly from not large, country parishes. The honor of leading
in this matter does not seem to belong to the cities or the wealthy churches.
It is to be regretted that the names of the ministers, at Southold and St.
Johnsbury, are not given in connection with the acknowledgments.

During the next year, 1817, monthly concert, or, in some cases, as before,
monthly ‘prayer meeting’ contributions were received from Foxboro’, the
Old South Church, Boston, Charlestown, and Brimfield, Mass. ; Norridge-
wock and Brunswick, Me. ; Acworth, Keene, and Dartmouth College, N. H. ;
St. Johnsbury, Wilmington, Rupert, Brattleboro’, and the concert for three
towns, Hardwick, Greensboro’ and Craftsbury, Vt. ; Pomfret, Conn. ; and
Utica, and Paris, N. Y. ; i. e. from four concerts in Mass., two in Maine,
three in New Hampshire, five in Vermont, one in Connecticut, and two in
New York. From this time the custom of making such contributions grad-
ually extended itself in different sections of our country, though not, it would
seem, very rapidly. A letter published in the Missionary Herald for Janu-
ary, 1824, urges increased effort in the way of concert contributions, and
says, “ It is becoming more common to make these occasions seasons of
contribution as well as of prayer.” Sixteen years later, (in 1840,) the
American Board received in donations, during the year, $239,462, of which
$39,475, about one sixth part, were from monthly concert collections.

This meeting having now become so general among the churches of our
land, and so important in its bearings upon the intelligence and the action of
Christians in connection with the foreign missionary work, it was formally
announced, in February, 1833, that in order to aid pastors and others in
preparing for the concert, a contract had been made with the publishers of
the Missionary Herald, by which they were to deliver the Herald for each
month so early, ‘ that, in the ordinary course of conveyances, each number
might be received at most places throughout the country, by the time of the
concert of the month for which the number was issued.’ It has ever been
the intention, since that time, thus to send the Herald, by mail or otherwise,
to pastors, in season for the meeting.

TIME OF HOLDING THE CONCERT.

The first Monday of every month was the day originally designated for the
concert, and on that day it was probably observed for some years, wherever
it was observed at all. It was not very long, however, before a change of
time began to be introduced, and at the meeting of the Board in 1838, the
subject came before that body. A paper was presented by Dr. Armstrong,
in behalf of the Prudential Committee, the first paragraph of which was as
follows :

“ It is known to the Board, that for some years a change in the time of hold-
ing the monthly concert of prayer for missions, has been gradually taking place.
Pastors and churches, in different parts of the country, finding it impossible, with
the present amount of missionary feeling, or, from their circumstances, highly in-
convenient, to assemble the friends of the cause for prayer on the evening of the

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first Monday of each month, have been led to meet for that purpose on the previous
Sabbath evening. This change began, and has continued almost to the present
time, without any extensive concert among those who have adopted it. It has been
gradually extending, until now it prevails in a large number of churches in some
of our towns, and in every part of the country. Within the last twelve months, it
has been formally recommended by several bodies, both missionary and ecclesiasti-
cal, of different denominations, and in different parts of the country. Many of the
friends and patrons of the Board have desired to have an expression of its judg-
ment in respect to the change. Such an expression, if favorable to the change,
might lead to its adoption by the great body of churches which co-operate with the
Board. If unfavorable, it might check the growing tendency to change. In either
case, it would, it is thought, promote a uniformity of practice. This is certainly
desirable in a meeting for such a purpose.”

The Committee to whom the subject was referred, however, while saying
“It is exceedingly desirable that meetings for prayer for the conversion of
the world should, as far as possible, be held simultaneously,” believing that
public opinion would soon settle the question one way or the other, recom-
mended that the Board take no action on the subject, “ but leave it to the
consideration of the churches, and such ecclesiastical bodies as may think it
proper to give it their attention.” Their report was adopted ; but public
opinion has not, as yet, fully settled the question, and that uniformity of
practice which has been ever felt to be so desirable does not now exist.
Indeed, since then, another difference as to time has been gradually intro-
duced. The first change was from the first Monday of each month to the
evening of the Sabbath preceding the first Monday, which must of course
be the evening of the last Sabbath of the month whenever the succeeding
month comes in on Monday. But some, inadvertently perhaps, forgetting
or diregarding the fact that the original day, (still observed in many places,
doubtless,) was the first Monday.^ and that the design, when a change was
made, was to keep as near to that time as might be and yet secure the
advantages of a meeting on the Sabbath, now observe the evening of the
Jirst Sabbath of each month, though that is, not unfrequently, six days after
the first Monday, and so six or seven days after most of the churches have
held the concert meeting for that month. Would it not be well to correct at
least this irregularity ? Indeed, since so very large a majority of the
churches, it is presumed, have fallen in with the custom of holding the con-
cert on Sabbath evening, as the best time on the whole, would it not be well
for all to conform to this judgment of the majority, and let the time be, uni-
formly, the evening of the Sabbath preceding the first Monday of each month.
The evening of the first Sabbath would perhaps have been better, had this
been the original recommendation, or even had the first and general change,
when there was a change from Monday, been to that time ; but if, as is
supposed, the other is the time actually observed by much the larger number
of the churches, is it not better that the comparatively few who still adhere
to the old, or have adopted a different time, should fall in with, the custom
of the many ; that thus we may have in fact, what we have in name, a
Monthly Concert ; — the churches really, in all places in our land, and exten-
sively throughout the world, gathering on the same Sabbath evening, to
offer united supplication for the world’s conversion.

140

Items of Intelligence.

Mat,

ITEMS OF INTELLIGENCE.

Greece.— Mr. King, who has been for a year past in great measure disabled
from labor by illness, wrote February 23 : “In addition to my bodily infirmities, my
spirits are often weighed down with the afflictions of our beloved, bleeding country
for which my prayers continually ascend to the mighty God of Israel, that he may
redeem us out of all our troubles. I cannot understand how Christians, and Chris-
tian ministers, at the South, can take part in or approve of a war the most un-
righteous that was ever waged in the world, since Cain killed his brother Abel.
The happiest country upon earth has been suddenly plunged into the depths of
sorrow. But God is great, and wonderful in working, and sometimes does terrible
things in righteousness ; and if we humble ourselves under his mighty hand, he
will exalt us in due time. I trust he will soon bring us forth like gold tried in the
fire ; and that our enemies, who have envied us on account of our freedom and
prosperity, and who now deride us, will be ashamed.

“ In the present state of the world, there is something wonderful. Almost all
the nations on the earth seem to be moved. A cup, like that mentioned in
Jeremiah, seems to have been put into their hand, ‘a cup of fury' of which they
have drunk, and are mad, and a sword is sent among them. (Jer. xxv. 15 — 29.)
The hand of God is no doubt in all this, as it was in bringing all the families of
the North, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, against Jerusalem and the
cities of Judah, and against all the nations round about. And all this is, I trust, in
order to break the bonds with which whole nations have for ages been bound, to
take out of the way every hindrance to the spread of the Gospel, and thus to
prepare the way for the spiritual coming and the reign of the Prince of Peace.”

Stri4. — Mr. Lyons wrote from Sidon, February!: “We have at the present
time, in our district, some twelve or fifteen hopeful candidates for church member-
ship, most of whom will probably be admitted soon ; and the prospect is that the
accessions to the church in our field, during the present year, will be greater than
at any preceding period. We observed the week of prayer at Sidon, at the begin-
ning of the year ; and we rejoice to say that the effect has been most salutary. The
Holy Spirit has been present with us. A few are rejoicing in hope, and have
expressed their desire to unite with the people of God. Our congregations upon
the Sabbath number from sixty to eighty, which is as many as our small place of
worship will contain. It grieves our hearts to feel that some who would be
benefited by the preaching of the word are excluded, or at least will not attend,
because we cannot afford them suitable accommodation.

“We have just formed a society at Sidon for the purpose of securing regular
weekly contributions from our native friends to the cause of missions. We pro-
pose to form such societies at all our out-stations, the proceeds to be applied to the
support of schools and native helpers in Syria, and the sums received to be reported
from time to time to the Treasurer of the Board.”

Mr. Jessup wrote from Beirut, February 8: “Two hundred and fifty persons
have come out as Protestants in Homs. Two of them are priests, who have doffed
their black robes and opened shops. They cry loudly for a missionary. The case
looks promising, and we hope to send a native helper there at once. Our native
brethren in Tripoli speak of the case as one of great interest and importance. The
Greek Patriarch has sent on men to stop the work, but who can withstand the
Lord ? Pray for these inquirers.”

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Itemi of Intelligence.

141

Central Turkey. — Mr. Goss, of Aintab, mentions the addition of three per-
sons, by profession, to the church at Birijik, on the 26th of January. All of them
— two men and one woman — were irreproachable in their lives, and “ gave pleasing
evidence of the genuineness of their religious experience.”

Madras. — Mr. Winslow wrote, January 15 : “ We have just observed the season
for united prayer throughout the w'orld, proposed by the Evangelical Alliance.
There have been several convocations ; one on Monday evening, for supplication,
and one on Saturday evening, for thanksgiving. These were held in the Govern-
ment Banqueting Hall. All classes united, and at one of them the Bishop of
Madras presided. There were also meetings in English on the intervening even-
ings, one of which was in our church at Chintadrepettah, which was well filled.
On nearly every morning also, there were meetings in Tamil. At the last, on
Saturday, the Bishop presided, and made an address, through an interpreter.
There were probably three hundred native Christians present, including some
children from the schools.

“ At our communion, on the first Sabbath of this month, at Chintadrepettah, I
had the pleasure of receiving three adult females to the church. Two of them,
having been Romanists, were baptized ; the other was the daughter of our cate-
chist. A poor member of the church named Tom^ employed at low wages in a
printing office, has given a cow to the Board ; and another, a young man from
Jaffna, named Tissera, employed in the Government normal school, has given fifty
rupees.”

Gaboon. — Mr. Walker, writing from the Gaboon, January 2, gives the following
cheering intelligence : “ There are now fourteen persons asking for admission to
the church. They have, since the last communion, given evidence of having passed
from death to life. Five of them are adult women, and not one of the whole num-
ber is now connected with our school or mission. But Mr. Preston is absent, and
two other members of the committee of four, whose duty it is to examine and
receive members ; so they must be deferred. New cases come to my knowledge
frequently, of seriousness and inquiry about salvation. There have been no
additional excommunications from the church the past year; and you see that the
Lord has not forsaken us, unworthy as we are.” Mr. Walker mentions, also, the
death of Captain Lawlin, an “ old, fast, and sympathizing friend ” of the mission-
aries, from whom they had received many favors. He died at Gamma, “ poisoned
by a native cook.” The brethren were doing what they could to secure for his
family the property which he left.

Senecas. — Mr. Wright, of Cattaraugus, wrote February 21: “We have, with
few exceptions, kept up our meetings every evening since the week of prayer.
There has been, throughout, good attention, solemnity, and some manifestation of
deep feeling. Six young persons were received to church fellowship last Sabbath,
all of whom had been baptized on the faith of Christian parents. Our last meeting
for inquirers, day before yesterday, was fully attended, and much feeling was man-
ifested.” He notices also the return of some backsliders, regarded as “ a great
gain to the church,” and a few days later says : “ Appearances still continue
encouraging, especially among the young people, but we all need a deeper baptism
of the Spirit. Pray for us that we may receive it.”

Ojibwas.— Mr. Wheeler writes from Odanah, March 6: “Our meetings have
been very well attended this winter. We have from 80 to 100 persons who attend
our Sabbath exercises with a good degree of regularity, and quite a number more

142 Items of Intelligence. — Letters from the Missions. Mat,

who may be called irregular hearers. We have two public exercises in Indian on
the Sabbath, besides the Sabbath school for all our children ; two meetings during
the week in Indian, and an English prayer-meeting ; and also a monthly meeting
for mothers, which is well attended, and exerts a very good influence. Once a
month, and sometimes oftener, we have a union meeting for one of the services upon
the Sabbath, when the members of the church, Indian and English, take a part.
The influence of this meeting is very happy, as it tends to keep up a bond of
sympathy between the two classes, and to make them better acquainted with one
another as Christians. Last Sabbath was our communion season. I was glad to
find the members in so good a state of mind. Rarely have I seen them more united
in the bonds of Christian affection and fellowship, or more tender and subdued in
their feelings. We notice also an increase of faith and confidence in God. We
expect to receive two persons to the church at our next communion, should they
continue to give evidence of true conversion.

“We have just had an examination of our school, and think the children
have made very commendable progress in their studies. We have had the best
school during the past winter we ever had. Our teachers have addressed them-
selves to their work with great industry, and adopted a course of study and exer-
cises which seem happily adapted to facilitate the progress of the children in
knowledge. There is much that is hopeful in our boarding-school.”

LETTERS FROM
^gria P^issioti.

Station Reports.

Reports for the year 1861 have been re-
ceived from the different stations of the mis-
sion in Syria, a condensed abstract of which
will be presented here.

Beirut.

Beirut has been the centre of the many
disturbing influences so seriously affecting
Syria. Thousands of refugees are still there,
and necessary care for the physical wants of
such refugees has continued to tax largely
the time and strength of the missionaries.
They have done what they could, by increased
effort for the spiritual good of the people, to
counteract the naturally evil influence of
such disturbances. Ordinary religious meet-
ings, and also special services, have been
well attended ; Sabbath schools and Bible
classes have been more prosperous than in
previous years ; and several persons have
made application for admission to the church.
Two candidates have been accepted. The
common schools, both for boys and girls,
have been well attended. The preparation
of a hymn-book for children has been com-
menced and nearly completed, something
like a thousand children, in different portions
of the Syria mission field, having learned to
sing. The translation of the Old Testament

THE MISSIONS.

Scriptures has been carried forward during
the year, from the 14th chapter of Numbers
to the end of the Second Book of Kings.
The press was mainly, though not wholly,
employed upon the Scriptures, until the
printer, Mr. Hurter, left for a temporary visit
to the United States, in October. 2,748,000
pages of Scripture had been printed. There
were issued from the depository 1,234 copies
of the Scriptures, or portions of Scripture,
and of other books and tracts, 4,398. The
falling off from the number of copies distrib-
uted last year, is to be attributed in part to
the fact that the pocket edition of the New
Testament, and some of the most useful and
popular of other books, have been out of
print. A second edition of the pocket Test-
ament had been carried forward as far as the
10th chapter of Luke, before Mr. Hurter left.

Abeih.

The field of this station is large, embracing
many of the villages of Labanon. The Sab-
bath congregation at Abeih, in the earlier
part of the year, was from 50 to 75, but of
late has been from 80 to 100. Most of those
who attend are in the vigor of life, the num-
ber of females present has considerably in-
creased, and the congregation is uniformly
orderly and attentive. There are also Bible-
classes and Sabbath schools, attended by “ a
goodly number.” The monthly concert is
well sustained, and a collection is always

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taken. There are two primary schools, one
for boys and one for girls. The average
attendance has been about 75. The semi-
nary has not been reopened since the war,
in its usual form, but the brethren had a
theological class during the summer, com-
posed of several young and middle-aged
men. Three persons were added to the
church during the year, and four stood pro-
pounded at its close, for admission in Jan-
uary. The report says : “ The state of the
country is not the most favorable, perhaps,
for making deep religious impressions. There
is much foreboding and anxiety in respect to
the future. Still, so far as our experience
goes, we have never had a more attentive
ear, nor a larger success.”

At Armnon, an hour’s distance from Abeih,
there is regular preaching on the Sabbath,
mostly by a native helper, with a congrega-
tion of from 20 to 30 ; and a school of about
25 pupils. At Am Zehalty, “ much higher
up the Mountain,” the work has continued
to prosper, the native helper having a Sab-
bath congregation of from 60 to 100. As yet,
the efforts of the old party to regain posses-
sion of the church, (mentioned in the Herald
for April,) have only served, apparently, to
awaken new interest in the truth among the
Protestants.

Suk el Ghurb.

The female boarding-school at this station,
owing, first, to the still disturbed state of the
country, and then to the necessity of econ-
omy, and other causes, has not been reopened.
And now, as there is another boarding-school
for girls about a mile from the Suk, sup-
ported by friends from Scotland, the mission
have concluded that their school should no
longer be in that vicinity. The average
attendance on preaching at this station has
been about 40. A Bible-class has been kept
up, and a Sabbath school a portion of the
time. Four persons from this congregation
are now asking for admission to the church
at Abeih. The Protestant community at the
Suk “ has decreased in number, but increased
in knowledge, and it is hoped in piety.” At
Deir Kobil, the work is now' less encouraging
than in the earlier part of the year. “The
state of the country,” the report states, “ is
anything but desirable. Protestantism in
Syria is so confounded, in the minds of the
people, with English politics, that we share
the odium cast, justly or unjustly, upon Eng-
land, for the part she acted in preventing, or
at least not securing, the punishment of the
wretches who murdered thousands in cold
blood.”

‘Station Reports.

Sidon.

“Uninterrupted peace and quiet have pre-
vailed throughout the extensive district ”
allotted to this station, during the year.
Early in May, Mr. Lyons removed his family
from Tripoli to Sidon, and Mr. Ford, after
visiting other places in the southern portion
of the field, arrived at Deir Mimas, in Merj
Aiyun, in June, where he remained with his
family, till near the close of the year. A
decided impulse has thus been given to the
cause of evangelical Christianity in that
interesting district, and a few have been
added to the church. Regular Sabbath ser-
vices have been maintained at Sidon, with an
attendance of about 45, and there is now
some unusual interest in spiritual things.
There are two schools, one for boys, with 25
pupils, and one for girls, with 23. There are
ten out-stations. Tyre has a native preacher
with a congregation of more than 40, most of
them, however, refugees from Hasbeiya and
Reshaiya. At Cana there is a congregation
of 32, a school of 30, and “ a good deal of
progress in light and know'ledge.” At Alma
“ the advancement has been still more
marked.” A little circle of eleven commu-
nicants has been gathered, connected, for the
present, with the church at Sidon. The
average Sabbath congregation is about 50 ;
the whole number claimed as Protestants,
over 70. Deir Mimas furnishes a Sabbath
congregation of about 50, “ the school is
large and fiourishing,” and “there is a little
nucleus of three pious persons, admitted to
the church last summer.” At El Kheiyam
a new and commodious place of worship has
been built and dedicated, and a church of 17
members — “ the church of Merj Aiyun” — has
been organized. Fourteen of these persons
w'ere members of the Hasbeiya church.
“ The school is not large, but the congrega-
tion numbers about 50.” “At Boaida, the
whole population, about 100, have become
Protestants. Nearly all the adults attend
the Sabbath services, conducted by the na-
tive helper, and the school, composed in part
of children from a neighboring village, has
upwards of 40 pupils.” “ Ibl is a small vil-
lage, and the school and congregation are
small.” At Hasbeiya there have been no
missionary operations during the year, the
dispersed Christian inhabitants not having
returned to their former homes. At Reshaiya,
the people having in part returned from their
temporary exile, occasional services have been
held, and well attended. “ The truth is surely
and steadily gaining ground” in other places,
as well as in those thus enumerated. “ The
sale and distribution of the Scriptures and

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Syria Mission : — Letter from Mr. Jessup.

other religious books has been considerable,
and the number of intelligent readers is rap-
idly increasing, as well among the women as
among the men.” In all, in the Sidon field,
there are 2 missionaries, 3 native preachers,
8 schools, with 132 male and 50 female pupils,
3 churches, with 51 members ; and 9 places
of stated Sabbath worship, with an average
aggregate of 360 hearers. The whole num-
ber of Protestants is about 600.

Tripoli and Homs.

Tripoli has been mostly unoccupied dur-
ing the year, Mr. Jessup being at Beirut
and Mr. Lyons at Sidon. The preaching
service was regularly maintained until the
first of May, (when Mr. Lyons left,) with the
usual small congregation. Mr. Jessup has
twice visited the place since that time. The
interest in this field is not in the city, mainly,
but in the region around. There are, how-
ever, but few Protestants in the field — about
thirty — only two of whom are church mem-
bers.

Mr. Wilson having returned to the United
States, Homs also is unoccupied by a mis-
sionary. The number of Protestants in the
city is “ probably not less than 40,” and they
“ ask for a missionary and a school.” Let-
ters from them “ speak of a large and in-
creasing number of young men who meet
every night to study the Scriptures.”

Meeting of the Mission.

The annual meeting of the Syria mission
was held January 21. Mr. Jessup was trans-
ferred from Tripoli to Beirut; Dr. Thomson
was requested to prepare a Bible Dictionary
in Arabic ; two persons, Mr. Bizk-allah Bar-
bari and Mr. Elias Yakob, were designated
to be formally set apart for the work of the
ministry by ordination, if Providence permit,
at the next semi-annual meeting ; and a min-
ute was adopted respecting the importance
of bringing the native Protestant community
forward in the matter of self-support as fast
as may be practicable.

B EIR UT.

Letter from Mr. Jessup, February

21, 1862.

Cheei'ing Indications.

The following letter from Mr. Jessup, of
later date than the reports, is very encour-
aging.

In weakness we are made strong, by
the various encouraging facts which

have come to our knowledge within the
past few weeks. There is a “ sound of
going in the tops of the mulberry trees ”
on Lebanon, in Galilee of the Gentiles,
and at “ the entering in of Hamath.”
Whatever may be the results of certain
movements now in progress, it cannot
be doubted that the work of the Lord is
going forward in Syria, in a manner
never witnessed before in the history of
this mission. There is an interesting
movement among the Protestants them-
selves, and a movement towards Protest-
antism— in Homs, in Cana, and in the
vicinity of Damascus. The harvest is
whitening, but alas, the laborers are
few.

JVative Missionary Societies.

The movement among the native Pro-
testants is the formation of native evan-
gelical missionary societies, at all the
stations of our mission. The native
brethren and sisters, and the Sabbath
school children, enter into the plan most
zealously. Societies have already been
formed in Beirut, Sidon, El Kheiyam,
and Deir Mimas ; and others are about
to be formed in Abeih, the Suk, and
other places. The officers are all na-
tives, and the societies have for their
object the spread of the gospel in this
and other lands. The plan for collect-
ing money is that known as the “ sys-
tematic benevolence” plan. The offer-
ings of the members are to be made
every iveek, and to be gathered by the
collector, who has the list of members,
with the amount, however small, which
each one pledges himself to contribute.
When the plan was first proposed, a few
objected to it as something new, but
now it seems to meet with universal
approbation. Some of the brethren, in
expressing their interest in it, have said
to me, “ Truly the Lord has prepared
our hearts for this.” “ There is a great
preparation for this among the people.”
“ It will be good to feel that we are giv-
ing to the Lord, and helping others as
the Lord has helped us.” I suggested

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to one of the young men that we ought
to have a new hymn, appropriate to this
new benevolent movement. “ That is
just what I W2LS thinking,” said he ; and
he promised to prepare one if possible.
The next morning he brought me a
beautiful hymn, written to the tune,
“ Shining Shore,” a gem of Arabic
sacred poetry. Following each verse is
a chorus, which roughly translated is as
follows :

“ True is the word of Christ our Lord,

Most blessed is the Giver :

To dreadful woe the heathen go ;

Give freely then, and ever.”

This hymn was sung with great de-
light, by the crowded congregation, on
the night of the organization of the so-
ciety. Remarks were made by several
of the native young men, and the meet-
ing was one of much interest. The na-
tive brethren express great satisfaction
in having thus begun the work of sup-
porting missionary operations in Syria,
among themselves. Said one of them,
“ W e may soon unite all our societies
into one, and who can tell but that we
shall yet send missionaries to foreign
lands.”

JVew Movement at Homs.

Simultaneously with this internal move-
ment, in the way of active benevolence
among the Protestants themselves, and
as it were in concurrence with it, a loud
Macedonian cry has just come from
Homs, for religious instruction. We
had heard indirectly of a new and ex-
tended Protestant movement there ; and
our native brethren in Tripoli urged the
case so strongly that we sent word to
the Sidon station to send us immediately
a young man, named Sulleba Jerwan, to
go at once to Homs. Sulleba lived for
two years in that place, with Mr. Wil-
son, and is well acquainted with the
people. He arrived here from Sidon on
the evening of the 19th, en route for
Homs ; and the same evening the mail
from Tripoli brought new and interesting
news from there. We received a peti-
tion, signed by thirty-six men, pleading

most earnestly for a religious teacher,
and stating that the number of enlight-
ened persons is very great. They de-
clare themselves ready to bear persecu-
tion for Christ’s sake, and to remain
steadfast adherents to the truth. The
Greek priests, having exhausted all their
own means of persecution, had had re-
course to the Moslems of the baser sort,
telling them that these Protestants are
free masons, or \vorshipers of the sun,
who deny the existence of God ; hoping
thus to stir up persecution against them
among the fanatical.

The native Missionary Society, on
hearing of the interest, at once decided
to assume the support of the native bro-
ther who was going there ; and before
his departure for Tripoli they had an
interview with him, at which it was
decided that he should be their first
missionary. The good work, of native
support of native helpers, is thus inau-
gurated in Syria, with a cordiality and
earnestness on the part of the brethren
which promises to be productive of good
fruit in the future.

Cana — Places on Lebanon.

There is also news from Sidon, by the
last mail, that from one to three hundred
persons in Cana have joined the little
Protestant community there. We have
new and pressing petitions from Mount
Lebanon, from Shweir, Zahleh and Aita-
neet, for religious instruction ; and our
brethren of the Damascus mission write
us that three villages in that vicinity
are begging for Protestant preaching
and for schools.

The enemies of the gospel are unu-
sually active, but when the Lord takes
the work into his own hands, who can
withstand him. We must not, indeed,
trust too much to appearances. The
almond trees, now in full bloom, are
loaded down with their mantle of snow-
white blossoms, yet their fruit may be
so small as hardly to repay the gather-
ing. But, however we may be disap-
pointed in human appearances, we know

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Mat,

Wesiern Turkey: — Letter from Mr. Leonard.

that the Lord’s promises are not almond
blossoms.

Brethren, pray for us ; — for the native
brethren, the newly formed missionary
societies, and the new inquirers after
the truth in Syria.

In a note to the Treasurer, dated February
26, Mr. Jessup adds :

The good work is still going on in
Syria. Missionary societies continue to
be formed among the native brethren
and sisters and the children, with much
zeal. It would have done your heart
good to have seen the earnestness of the
poor Hasbeiya women and girls last
night, at the meeting of the society, in
pledging weekly contributions for the
spread of the gospel. Some promised
two cents a week, and some half a cent ;
but even these small sums were large
for them, and they did it with a hearti-
ness and gladness which was most
cheering. Mr. Lyons writes from Sidon
a very interesting account of a recent
tour in his district. In the village of
Cana, two hundred have come out as
Protestants ; in Tibnin, sixty-one men
ask for preaching ; and in other villages,
both Catholics and Maronites are mov-
ing toward the truth. Missionary soci-
eties have been formed in all the Prot-
estant communities, and the depth of the
poverty of the people is abounding in
benevolence. There are some signs of
spiritual interest among our congrega-
tions, and there seems to be a general
feeling among the brethren that the
Lord has begun to visit this land.

fission to SSestmi: ^urhru.

MARSOVAN.

Letter from Mr. Leonard, Janua-
ry 28, 1862.

Mr. Leonard speaks of the fact that more
than a year had passed since he removed from
Cesarea, “ to take charge of the work in the
northern provinces along theEuxine during
which time, having no associate, he had been
so pressed with labor and care that he had
found very little opportunity for writing. He

now makes a brief statement of some of the
measures adopted to extend in that field a
knowledge of the truth ; and first refers to

The Work Abroad — Hadji Keuy.

Immediately on my arrival in Marso-
van I dispatched a messenger to recon-
noitre the town of Hadji Keuy, once a
promising out-station, but long since de-
serted. (See Mr. Bliss’s letters in Herald
for 1853, pp. 104 and 123.) Soon after,
I went there in person, and found one
Protestant family remaining. A priest,
who became Protestant, had mysteriously
disappeared, and had not been heard
from for four or five years. We gathered
a few strangers and held divine worship.
Some of them, though born Christians
in name, had never heard the Scriptures
read in an intelligible language. After-
ward I had the pleasure of addressing
about a hundred in the market, reading
and discoursing in the Turkish language,
from Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, the
doctrines of which are so appropriate to
a mixed assembly on any occasion. The
crowd gave good attention for the space
of about two hours, and thanked the
preacher for the “ sweet words ” of the
gospel. Our deacon Lazarus was sub-
sequently sent to occupy the field, but it
proves rather stony ground. With a
more efficient laborer, and more frequent
visits from a missionary, there is reason
to hope for a better harvest of grace
than has yet appeared.

Vezir-Keopren.

Taking out the deacon from our little
church, there remained but six male
members. Of these, but two appeared
to have sufficient piety and good sense
to be sent out as colporters or preachers,
and these could not afford to leave their
respective trades for any considerable
time, unless I could give them a pledge
of permanent employment and support,
which of course I could not do. With
warm Christian hearts, and great self-
denial, they were ready to enter upon an
expedition for exploring the field and
distributing Bibles in the depth of win-

1862.

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Western Turkey: — Letter from Mr. Leonard.

ter ; and as I had no other help, I sent
them out. Their first visit was to Vezir-
Keopren, a city twenty-five miles north
of Marsovan. The Armenian population
of the city is not large, being but about
1,000; but the Mussulmans and Greeks
are said to number from eight to ten
thousand. The city has also in its vicin-
ity, and under its jurisdiction, according
to common rumor, “ a village for every
day of the year.” It certainly has a large
number, about half of which are Greek.
A good number of books were sold, and
much discussion was held, according to
the ability of the colporters, who were
indeed “ unlearned and ignorant men.”
On one occasion, one of several Turkish
gentlemen present, little thinking that
the words might apply to himself, joined
in, and exhorted the Greeks and Arme-
nians after this fashion : “ Embrace this
religion. This is the truth. This is right.
Your religion is all corrupt. These men
speak truly. This is the right way.”
One of the brethren, giving his enthusi-
astic and graphic narration of the scene,
said he turned his face to the wall and
wept, to see these Turks so far in ad-
vance of the so-called Christians, his
kinsmen according to the flesh. Several
visits have been made to Vezir-Keopren
during the year, and six men there, heads
of families, profess themselves ready to
embrace the truth openly as soon as a
teacher can be sent to care for them.

An Exploring Tour.

Next an exploring tour was planned,
extending north-east through Ladik to
Charshambah, thence west along the
coast, through Samsun to Baffra, on the
Halys, and so around through the region
of Kastarauni, and back to Marsovan. To
narrate the very interesting particulars
of this tour, so far as executed, would
carry me beyond the proposed limits of
this letter. It is chiefly necessary to
state, that in the region of Charsham-
bah, in a valley called Kurshunlu Der-
esi, an Armenian population was dis-
covered, numbering, as nearly as could

be ascertained, about 20,000. They are
grouped in nine or ten separate districts
or villages, of from one hundred to three
hundred houses each ; each district
having its own well built Armenian
church. These rude people, who had
never before seen a Protestant, or heard
the first lisp of Christian doctrine, re-
ceived the word with gladness. They
are tired of priestly corruption and mis-
rule, and profess strong desires that
preachers of the gospel may be sent
among them.

Charshambah — Samsun.

In the notoriously wicked city of
Charshambah, opportunity was found to
proclaim the truth to both Greeks and
Armenians. Of the latter, four men,
who had been in the habit of meeting
secretly for worship and reading the
Scriptures, now more openly embraced
the truth. Afterwards, being left with-
out civil protection or a spiritual guide,
under severe persecution, they fell
away. Their Bibles were violently
taken from them by the Armenian pri-
mates, and they will be compelled to
conform to the idolatrous practices of
the Armenian church till we can fulfill
our almost vain promise of sending a
helper to them.

Samsun was early seen to be an im-
portant strategic point, both from its
relations to the interior, by the great
amount of travel through that port, and
as a basis of operations along the coast.
After many delays, a young man of
good natural endowments, but with little
education or experience in the work,
was obtained for that post. Thirteen
young men assembled with him regu-
larly for worship on the Sabbath, and
I was much pleased to learn that they
had begun to observe the monthly con-
cert of prayer, and to take up collections
for the American Board. More than
1,000 piasters’ worth of books have been
sold there during the last four months,
and — which is an interesting sign of the
times — a large part of them to Greeks.

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May,

Eastern Turkey : — Letter from Mr. Knapp.

This young helper is obliged to divide
himself, as it were, into three parts,
being charged also, with the care of
Baffra and Charshambah, cities from
twenty to thirty miles distant from Sam-
sun, east and west. At the former of
these places, 200 piasters’ worth of
Bibles were sold in a single week.

Mr. Leonard has been unable, as yet, to
tour among the towns between Marsovan
and the sea, though repeatedly entreated to
do so. He has visited Araasia several times,
“ where a small and rather unstable congre-
gation has been gathered, in the face of the
strongest opposition.” The persecution has
been severe. He visited Zilleh in December,
and left a young man there selling Bibles at
the annual fair. At Marsovan there are
“ four prosperous schools, numbering about
two hundred pupils,” and the “ congregation
is one of the largest north of the Taurus;”
but the church is small, numbering, with
three received by profession on the first of
January, only twenty-two. This discrepancy
in numbers, between the Protestant commu-
nity and the church, Mr. Leonard regards as
“ the lamentable result of neglect,” in leav-
ing the place without a missionary after Mr.
Bliss’s removal, in 1856.

glbsiou to (Kasttnt ^urkg.

BIT LIS.

Letter from Mr. Knapp, December

26, 1861.

In this letter Mr. Knapp gives a brief ac-
count of two exploring tours, made in August
last. “ The object of these,” he says, “was
not so much to do missionary work, by way
of discussing the truth with the people, (as
at that time they were fully engaged in har-
vesting their wheat,) as to ascertain how
many villages there were, and to locate
them,” with reference to future operations.
In the first tour, he had with him Kevork, a
helper, and a Mussulman who was acquaint-
ed with every village, as guide. Going east
from Bitlis, they crossed the high mountain
overlooking the town, and descended to the
large village, Kultig, containing about 300
houses, all Armenian. Going still eastward,
the next morning, over uninhabited hills, they
came unexpectedly upon a large stream,
larger than the Bitlis river, not down on
their German map, which the guide said was
the Bootan river. They followed this stream

about ten miles, to its source ; continued on
in a north-easterly direction, to the north-
east corner of the Bitlis Mudirlik ; then re-
turned by the lake road, westerly, to the
south-west corner of Lake Van, and thence
south-west to Bitlis. On this tour they
located 29 Armenian and 25 Koordish vil-
lages ; the former having 663 and the latter
447 houses.

Population.

The following passage from the letter is of
value as illustrating the habits of the people,
and the difficulty of making an accurate
estimate of the population.

We stopped on our way at the village
of Top, with some thirty houses, but we
were told that there were only twelve
families. There were formerly more,
but the men had gone to other places to
avoid the oppressive taxes. I refer to
this fact to show how difficult it is to
get the exact population of any village
by counting the houses. Houses and
barns are alike, so that we have to make
allowance for the number of the latter
according to our best judgment. In
most places, if we ask what the popula-
tion is, they are sure to give less than
the real number. For example, we came
to the Armenian village Ootab, south of
Tad wan Bay, on Lake Van. I counted
seventy houses, but when I inquired of
our landlord respecting the population,
he gave us thirty as the number [of fam-
ilies]. I accordingly have put down
thirty on the map, as in similar instan-
ces, that I might not overrate. I was
told by my guide, that as a general rule,
we should reckon every tenth building
a barn. VVe however generally relied
on the number given by our guide as
the population of each villlage, as he
was acquainted with all.

Dwellings.

While I am speaking about the num-
ber of houses, I may refer to the number
of persons in each house. All the build-
ings in our villages are in the shape of
a flat haystack, and the houses from a
distance have the appearance of so many
knolls. A house is framed in this wise :

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Eastern Turkey : — Letter from Mr. Knapp.

the beams of the main building’ are
supported by numerous pillars, and on
these beams are placed a pile of timbers,
built in a “ cob-house ” fashion, the
timbers of each ascending layer being
shorter than the lower ones, thus giving
a tapering appearance, resembling that
of a square pyramid. This frame-work
supports the roof, which extends contin-
uously from the apex, sloping down to
the ground, the whole frame-work being
covered with poles, over which are spread
bushes, or straw, and over the whole a
thick coating of earth. There is no
chimney, and the only outlet for the
smoke and the steam of animals, (for
nearly every house contains, under the
same roof, the stable, which is not board-
ed up, and thus separated from the
kitchen,) is a small orifice in the apex
of the building, which is kept closed
most of the time during the winter
months. The buildings are probably of
the same kind as described by the his-
torian when the 10,000 passed through
this same region.

Families.

As the heads of the family, with all
their children and grandchildren, live
together, and sleep together upon the
ground, under the same roof and in the
same room, much less space is required
for a family than in our town-houses,
and this may account for the greater
number of souls in a house than we may
at first suppose there are. I was once
in the village of Tadwan, when the land-
lord, a man about forty-five years old,
took me into his house and showed me
his grandmother, who was seated, help-
less, in the centre of one of these great
rooms. They told me she was one hun-
dred and twenty years of age. There
were two or three of her sons living
under the same roof, grey-headed farm-
ers, one of whom was the father of our
landlord. There were, therefore, this
woman, and her descendants to the
fourth or fifth generation, to the num-
ber of forty souls, all under one roof.

I was shown a house in Zearet, near
the western end of Moosh plain, in
which resided ten married children,
there being fifty souls in the house.
These are rare cases probably, but they
go to confirm me in my adoption of
eight as the average number for each
house; but I wish to say, that it is
almost impossible for us to get the exact
population of any town or village.

Moosh Plain.

On a second tour, of two weeks, Mr. Knapp
thoroughly explored the plain of Moosh,
“which is from eight to ten miles wide and
sixty miles long.” He writes :

There are 112 villages on this plain,
i. e. 68 Armenian, containing 2,810
houses, and 22,480 souls ; 3 Armeno-
Catholic, with 360 houses, and 2,880
souls ; and 41 Koordish, with 969 houses,
and 7,752 souls.

In regard to the town of Moosh, I was
told by an aged Mussulman, that in the
days of his boyhood it contained only a
very few hundred houses. Now it con-
tains of Mussulmans, (Koords,) 1,200
houses, or 9,600 souls ; Armenians, 700
houses, or 5,600 souls ; Armeno-Catho-
lics, 30 houses, or 240 souls ; and Prot-
estants, 5 houses, or ten souls ; making
a total of 1,935 houses, and 15,450 souls.
The whole population of Moosh plain is
therefore 6,074 houses, 48,562 souls. It
might safely be put down, in round
numbers, as 50,000, about two-thirds of
whom are nominal Christians. All the
help we have for that large population is
one single native preacher, now located
at Moosh. The plain is very level.
Through the western half flows the
Euphrates, which continues its course
in the form of rapids for a number of
miles after leaving the plain, so that it
may not be improbable that the whole
plain was once a lake. The ancient
Armenian name of this plain was
Dooron.

The eastern part of the plain con-
tains considerable marshy land, and the
whole is so level, that the marshes.

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May.

Nestorian AEssion : — Letter from Mr. Rhea.

together with the irrigation, cause the
prevalence of fever and ague. The
town of Moosh is decidedly the most
filthy place I have seen in Turkey. It
appears for the interest of the money-
making men to have the streets as dirty
as possible, and they encourage the
throwing of all the filth that can be
collected into the streets, that at stated
times they may have it washed down by
the brooks of water turned in, and thus
enrich their numerous tobacco fields
below the city ! No foreigner can re-
side on this plain with safety, owing to
the fever.

There are four monasteries on the
mountains surrounding the plain, each
of which contains about half a dozen
Vartabeds, and a class of thirty or more
students ; and all these must be sup-
ported by the surrounding villages.
These institutions keep a sharp watch
over our every movement, and oppose
us by all possible means. One of the
Protestant brethren of Moosh went to
one of the villages on the plain on busi-
ness, a few weeks since, and was there
caught by a Vartabed reading the gospel
to others ; whereupon the Vartabed beat
him with his cane and drove him out of
the village! At Havadorik, an Arme-
nian village of forty houses, two hours
south-east of Moosh, there are a few
persons convinced of the truth, and
there we have a house for a school, but
no teacher. They besought us to supply
them with one for the winter, which
would cost only from three to four dol-
lars a month ; but owing to the state of
your treasury we dared not comply with
their request. We had to refuse a like
request for a school in Moosh, for the
same reason. How much longer shall
we be thus straitened ?

Including the plains of Boolanuk, reported
by Mr. Burbank, the whole field now ex-
plored, which probably does not embrace
half of that belonging to Bitlis station, pre-
sents an aggregate (including the towns of
Bitlis and Moosh) of 200 towns and villages,
containing more than 15,000 houses, or 120,-

000 souls. Of these, 128 towns and villages
are Armenian, with a population of 71,000.

grstorian glission. — ^trsia.

OROOMIAH.

Letter from Mr. Rhea, January

10, 1862.

The following extracts from this letter
will be found to touch briefly upon several
topics of considerable interest.

fVeek of Prayer — Turkish Service.

We are in the midst of the week of
prayer. It is a rich spiritual festival to
us, and I doubt not to many Nestorian
Christians. Our services, held twice a
day, have been well attended ; the pray-
ers have been earnest and appropriate,
and at times deep solemnity has pre-
vailed.

Recently we have opened a Turkish
service in the Armenian and Nestorian
quarter of the city. There are some
twenty Armenian families residing there.
It is also the Papal head-quarters, and
Mussulmans are on every side. For
many years we have had a burning and
shining light in that dark quarter — our
good brother Pera, a devoted layman, a
carpenter by trade. A number of the
Nestorians there do not know their own
language, but speak the Turkish. The
service is attended by Nestorians, Ar-
menians, and occasionally a Mussulman.
It is ostensibly for the Nestorians and
Armenians, to communicate with whom
the Turkish is our only medium ; but we
intend that this shall be a place where
the Mohammedan, if he chooses, may
hear about the only Savior of sinners.

Our mission is more and more deeply
impressed with the conviction that we
are sent to all the races of this empire.
We feel called upon to lengthen our
cords in every direction, and then to
strengthen our stakes. We have gone
west, and placed our outposts in the
Koordish mountains ; and we have, as
we trust, a firmly planted stake two
days north, among ten thousand Arme-

1862.

mans, far more accessible than the
Armenians of Eastern Turkey.

Cholera — Schools — Benevolence — Pro-
gress.

The cholera prevailed in Oroomiah a
little more than two months, but disap-
peared about a month since. Its prev-
alence prevented the assembling of the
seminary pupils until quite late ; but
both schools are now in session, and
have opened under pleasant and en-
couraging auspices. A number, in each,
contribute liberally towards their sup-
port. The theological class in the male
seminary numbers twelve.

The people, for some months past,
since the harvest and vintage, have been
redeeming their pledges. It is interest-
ing and very affecting, remembering
their poverty, to see with what hearti-
ness they come forward with their
offerings.

As the work of evangelization pro-
gresses, the old church people find
themselves hardly pressed. Their priests
have become scarce, and sometimes
they have great difficulty in finding one
to come and administer the ordinances
to them. Our Reformed Communion is
gradually being transferred to the vil-
lages, and additions are slowly but
steadily made to the number of com-
municants.

Oppression — Punishment of Robbers.

The Nestorian people are becoming
more and more restive under their heavy
burdens of oppression. Could they
escape from the hands of their masters
many of them would flee into Russia.

The chiefs of the Shekoik tribe of
Koords, whose people were guilty of the
robbery of Mr. Cochran, and also of
Persian merchants to a very large
amount, have been dealt with, with
great severity at Tabreez. We trust
they have received a lesson which they
will not soon forget.

Reports have just reached us of the
deeply interesting meeting of the Board

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at Cleveland. We rejoice with you;
our hearts are encouraged ; and we will
enter upon our winter’s work with new
zest. How the precious promise is ever
and anon renewed to our faltering faith,
“ Lo, I am with you always.”

^a^ratta glissiou. — |nbia.

Annual Reports.

Several reports respecting the missionary
operations in the Mahratta field, during the
year 1861, have been received. The following
extracts bring to view the more important
matters presented, and will be found of much
interest.

Liberal Aid Received in India.

First of all, the peculiar anxiety of the
mission on account of the war in America is
referred to, and the great liberality with
which friends in India, apprehending serious
financial embarrassment, came forward with
assistance. Some of the facts, including the
mention of very liberal donations from indi-
vidual British residents, and contributions,
in some cases, by natives who have not em-
braced Christianity, as well as by the native
Christians, have already been published in
the Herald. It is now stated :

The whole amount received [in India]
from all quarters, in aid of the mission
funds the past year, was 15,375 rupees.
Of this sum, 13,375 rupees have been
received since the 1st of July. 673
rupees were collected from the native
congregations of the mission, [more has
been pledged,] and 400 were contributed
by natives not Christians, making 1,073
rupees received from natives of this
country. 1,168 rupees were given by
the missionaries themselves, and the
remainder, amounting to 13,134 rupees,
was contributed by kind Christian
friends, who have thus manifested their
deep interest in our work. Of this sum,
1,497 rupees were sent us from England
and Scotland, having been contributed
or collected by old friends of the mis-
sion, formerly resident in this country.
These contributions rendered any seri-
ous curtailment in our operations un-
necessary, and they have very greatly
cheered us in our labors.

Mahratta Mission : — Annual Reports.

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May,

MaJiratta Mission : — Station Reports.

Ahmednuggur Branch of the Mission.

In the report of what is called the “ Ah-
mednuggur Branch” of the mission, (i. e.,
what was formerly the Ahmednuggur mis-
sion,) it is said :

In all, there were in connection with
this field, at the close of 1861, five
missionaries and six female assistant

missionaries, two native pastors and
one licentiate, sixty native helpers and
two colporters. There are twenty
churches, containing 545 members and
382 baptized children. These were
residing in 96 villages and towns in
this district. The statistics of these
churches are given in the following
table.

Names of the

Churches.

No. of members,
January 1, 1861.

Received on pro-
fession.

Received by letter.

Dismissed to other
churches.

Excommunicated.

Died.

No. of members,
December 31st.

Children baptized
in 1861.

No. of baptized
children, Dec. 31.

Villages represent-
1 ed in each district.

1. Ahmedmiggur, 1st,

103

2. “ 2d,

3. Seroor,

4. Khokar, .

5. Shingvay,

6. Chanday,

7. Lonee,

8. Kolgaum,

9. Dedgautn,

10. Gahoo,

11, Panchegaum, .

12. Kendal,

13. Wamboom,

14. Shingave,

15. Wadgaum,

16. Satral,

17. Rahoone, .

18. Newasse, .

19. Sonai,

20. Padhegam,

Totals,

473

545

382

Four new churches have been formed
the past year, one in the district under
the charge of Mr. Abbott, one in that
under Mr. Barker, and two in that under
Mr. Fairbank. Each of these brethren
has now five churches under his care.
The 20 churches now connected with
us, number from 9 to 103 members each,
or, on an average, about 27 to each
church.

Of the 545 members, 85 were receiv-
ed during the year. Three of these
came from another mission, where they
had been baptized, though residing
there only temporarily, and having their
permanent home in our district. The
net increase in the number of converts
during the year is 72.

Diffusion of Light — Schools.

We have added a new column to our
table of statistics, to show the number
of villages represented in the churches ;
and it will be seen that the members of
our twenty churches are living in ninety-
six different villages and towns. This
shows how the gospel is extending its
influence among villages around us.
The mission has only thirty-nine out-
stations, besides the six stations ; so
that there are fifty- one places in which
Christians reside, where there is no na-
tive catechist or Christian school-teacher
to maintain religious services on the
Sabbath. Nothing could show more
strikingly the importance of our efforts

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to raise up native catechists and teach-
ers, for the purpose of supplying this
need.

We have now twenty-four village
schools, containing about 275 pupils.
The children of Christians are taught
in these schools, with the children
of heathen parents. In some cases,
promising young men, after working all
day for their own support, attend a
school at night, and make good progress
in their studies. The most promising
children and youth taught in these
schools are subsequently taken into the
school for catechists in Ahmednuggur,
(the advantages of which are sought
after by many in the villages,) and after
two or three years of study there, are
prepared to become catechists or teach-
ers. Thus the village schools become
feeders to the school for catechists, and
with it serve to raise up the men we so
much need. In these schools many
pupils are converted, and many others
receive lasting impressions for good, so
that the schools, with their Christian
teachers, are an important evangelistic
agency.

Distribution of Bibles.

Several of our native agents were
employed in the service and at the
expense of the Bombay Bible Society,
during the months of November and
December. The results of their efforts
up to the close of the year were, that
about one hundred and sixty copies of
the New Testament, and forty copies of
the whole Bible, in Mahratta, were sold
and given away in different places
within one hundred miles of Ahmed-
nuggur. A large tract of country was
traversed by the colporters in carrying
on this work, and besides the portions
of the Word of God sold and distributed,
a great amount of religious instruction
was given to the people. It 'has been
discovered that very many would gladly
receive copies of the Scriptures, and
some would purchase them, but for fear
of the Brahmins.

VOL. LVIII.

; — Station Reports. 153

School for Catechists.

A few extracts from Mr. Bissell’s report of
this school will serve to show its value in con-
nection with the mission work.

The school is designed to supply the
mission with agents for carrying on its
work of evangelization, and also to meet
the wants of the native Christian com-
munity, by furnishing educated young
men, prepared to become pastors of
churches, teachers of schools and cate-
chists. The course of study includes
the higher branches of Mathematics,
Natural Philosophy, Astronomy, the
Bible and Moral Science, and English,
taught as a classic. This last is taught
only to those who have already made
good attainments in the vernacular.
During the past year there have been
about thirty scholars in regular attend-
ance.

The importance of this institution in
connection with our missionary work,
can hardly be over-estimated. Young
men and lads of promise, selected from
the twenty churches in this and the sur-
rounding districts, are here brought to-
gether, and receive that instruction and
discipline of mind which will fit them
for future usefulness. Most of those
received to the school are members of
the churches, and others are the sons of
Christian parents — children of the cov-
enant. The parents, when able, are
required to support their children while
attending the school, but most of them
are too poor to do it. There is a call for
these young men to occupy posts of use-
fulness in the surrounding districts much
faster than we can furnish them. Six of
those who were studying last year are
now employed as teachers or catechists,
in as many different villages.

When we consider for w'hat a paltry
sum a young man can be supported in
this school, and what an urgent call
there is for such Christian men as labor-
ers, we cannot but regret that so many
of those who make application, and are
deemed worthy of aid, must be refused.
Two or three rupees a month support a

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single person, and four or five rupees, a
married man with his wife ; and by
spending from two to four years here,
they are fitted for a life of usefulness.

The wives of some of these pupils, and
the mothers of others, (who are at Ahmed-
nuggur taking care of their sons while
they are in the school,) have formed a large
class of females, to whom Mrs. Bissell has
given religious and other instruction.

Other Schools — Aim of the Mission,

A report of the “ central district, Ahmed-
nuggur station,” states that the school for
girls, under Mrs. Ballantine’s care, has num-
bered about forty-five pupils. Miss Farrar
had also, under her supervision, until increas-
ing illness constrained her to lay aside her
work, a girls’ school and a small school for
boys. Ten young men, as last year, have
been pursuing theological studies, while con-
nected also with the school for catechists,
preparatory to engaging in pastoral labor;
and the report says :

This, then, is the chief end and aim
of our mission labors — to spread the
gospel and gather churches in the dif-
ferent towns and villages ; to collect the
children of the Christian converts and
of their heathen neighbors into schools,
and teach them the elements of knowl-
edge and the great truths of the word of
God ; to bring the most promising of
these children and youth into the higher
schools at Ahmednuggur, and prepare
the young men for becoming teachers
and catechists and the young women for
becoming helpmeets to them in their
work ; and then, from the most faithful
of our catechists and teachers, to take
those whom we may deem suitable for
becoming pastors, and prepare them for
their work ; and finally, to place them in
charge of the churches we have gath-
ered. This is the work we are endea-
voring to do, and God is prospering us
in it. We desire to give him all the
praise.

Wadale Station.

Mr. Fairbanks’s report shows, that to the
five churches now connected with his station,
viz. Chanday, Dedgaum, Shingave, Newasse

: — Statio7i Reports.

and Sonai, there were added 29 members by
profession during the year 1861. The five
now contain 132 members in all. The par-
ticulars are given in the general tabular
view of the churches. The greatest increase
has been from the villages along the Mul
river, in the w'estern part of the district.
Special effort has been made to give increased
efficiency to the schools of the district, and
they have given better satisfaction than
heretofore. The Wadale Home Mission-
ary Society has continued to send out lay
preachers, two by two, when its funds
would permit, to the regions east and north,
where there are as yet no professing Chris-
tians. “ It has thus secured six months of
service during the year.” There is a vast
region to the east, the report states, seldom
visited by a Christian preacher, and it is
asked, “ When shall the time come for all
these moral wastes to be evangelized ? When
will the church of Christ enter fully on her
w'ork ? ”

Khokar Station.

Favorable Prospects.

Mr. Barker sends a brief letter in con-
nection with a report of the Khokar station,
in which, as well as in the report, he men-
tions facts of much interest.

I think the work in this district is now
in a more interesting state than it ever
was before. Among the indications for
good are these : 1. Our Christians have
begun to give, with much cheerfulness,
to sustain the institutions of the gospel.

2. There is an increased spirit of inquiry
among those who have been for some
time under the influence of the truth.

3. There is also a remarkable and very
encouraging readiness to hear among
those even who cannot yet he called in-
quirers.

We have now been itinerating among
the villages for two months, and have
not, during that time, heard a word of
disrespect from any one. The improve-
ment in this regard has been very
marked within the past four years. It is
interesting to watch the way in which
the truth is spreading among distant vil-
lages, which our helpers have not visited.
A few days ago a man came on foot
twenty miles, from a village north of the

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Godavery, to attend our Sabbath servi-
ces, and that day heard a sermon for the
first time in his life. He appeared to be
a sincere inquirer, and he has already
begun to suffer persecution. This man
first learned of Christ from a member of
the Satral church, who was baptized
only four months since. He can read a
little, and we have hopes that he will
soon be received to the church. His
village is more than thirty miles from
Satral, so that the catechist stationed
there can visit him only at long inter-
vals.

Openings for Helpers.

A native helper is much needed in
the region where this inquirer and two
Christians now live, one of whom is
Bhaoo, the Manabhav convert, who is
still suffering bitter persecution. All
that is wanted is means, for there are at
least three men very well fitted to be-
come readers, whom I should like to
employ at once. Eight or nine cents a
day is all a man of this stamp would
require ! There is a most inviting re-
gion in the north-west part of this dis-
trict, where there is no one to break to
the people the Bread of Life.

We remember our distracted native
land daily, at the throne of grace. May
our God speedily restore peace and pros-
perity !

Mr. Barker speaks of sickness in his fam-
ily, by which he was detained at Ahmednug-
gur, away from his field, for three months in
the spring. Unusual labor and responsibility
were thus thrown upon the native helpers at
Khokar, but “ with trifling exceptions,” it is
said, “ they discharged their duties with com-
mendable fidelity ” The number of additions
to the church was less than in 1860, partly
because of this absence of the missionary ;
but the report shows that there has been
much occasion for gratitude.

Signs of Progress — Itinerancy.

One new church has been formed, and
has commenced its existence under flat-
tering auspices. Fifteen adults and
twenty-five children have been baptized,
in connection with the five churches in

■ — Station Reports.

this district. Recent visits to many
of the villages have convinced me
that there is a growing interest in a
large part of the field, and that this
interest is spreading more and more
among the higher castes. I can truly
say, that as we become better acquainted
with this people, our intercourse with
them becomes more and more agreeable.
The Khokar district extends over more
than 1,100 square miles, an area nearly
as large as that of the State of Rhode
Island, and more than half the size of
Delaware. It will therefore be seen
that itinerancy is an important part of
our labors. There are now church
members, or inquirers, scattered over
500 square miles, whom it is very desi-
rable to visit as often as practicable.
More than three months of the year
have been spent in making these pas-
toral visits, and during a large part of
this time I have lived in tents, with my
family. In some of the villages visited,
Mrs. Barker has found the women very
ready to listen to the truth.

A new chapel, forty feet by sixteen, has
been built within the year, near Mr. Barker’s
residence, and now some of the higher caste
people are seen in the audience nearly every
Sabbath. A chapel has also been built at
Wadgaum, at a cost of seventy-five dollars;
and four other places are mentioned where
such buildings are needed. “ The work is
suffering for want of them.”

The Churches — Benevolence.

On the first Sabbath in December a meet-
ing of special interest was held at Khokar,
when members of the other churches of the
district gathered there, by invitation, for a
united celebration of the Lord’s supper. A
young catechist gave an excellent discourse
from the words, “ It is more blessed to give
than to receive,” urging the Christians to do
all in their power to spread the truth among
the unconverted. The report says :

During the year our churches have
employed two men to labor for a short
time as home missionaries, in the Nizam’s
dominions, and at a noon prayer-meeting
these men related some interesting inci-
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some cases, the strong desire of the
people to hear the truth. These re-
marks were followed by several appeals
in behalf of those who are still in deep
moral darkness. Soon there was a mov-
ing in the audience which seemed to
say we must not only talk, but do, and
presently the giving commenced. * *

I am pleased to see, that some of the
Christians seem resolved to contribute
for the spread of the gospel as the Lord
shall prosper them. A. few of the most
intelligent have been accustomed to give
even “ beyond their power,” so that I
have at times received their contributions
reluctantly, but they have begged “ with
much entreaty, that we would receive
the gift.” The members of our churches,
and the class from which they have
chiefly come, are very poor, yet I trust
the day is not far distant when they,
like the Karens, will support their own
schools and pastors.

A Victory over Caste.

The church at Panchegaum has re-
cently gained a victory over that greatest
obstacle to the spread of the gospel in
India, caste. A man of the Mang, or
lowest caste, was one day in conversa-
tion with Jayaram, the teacher and vir-
tual pastor, and asked if the church
would receive him, provided he passed
a satisfactory examination. J. assured
him that they would, but the Mang
replied that he had doubts concerning it,
and added that several of his caste had
long desired to unite with the church,
but they feared those who had become
Christians from the higher castes still
retained so much prejudice against the
Mangs that they would not be received.
He then proposed to give a trial dinner,
and said if the whole church would
come and partake of it, his doubts would
be removed. J. accepted the invitation,
and at the time appointed all the Chris-
tians and their families, and one in-
quirer, went to the dinner which the
Mang had thus prepared.

It is cause for rejoicing that the trial

’ — Station Reports. May,

came so naturally and was so nobly en-
dured. This step was not taken blindly
or by impulse; but with a full knowl-
edge that persecution, bitter persecution,
would follow, and it came. Two fam-
ilies were separated, temporarily, and
the neighbors of the “ defiled ” Chris-
tians would give them neither fire, wood
nor water, and would no doubt have
driven them from the village, had not
the fear of the authorities restrained
them from using violence.

I am happy to say that the Christians,
men and women, have borne these severe
trials without a murmur, rejoicing that
they are counted worthy to suffer for the
name of Christ. They have also the
joy of seeing some of the despised
Mangs now expressing a desire to re-
ceive baptism. No one can understand
the full meaning of this “ victory ” who
has not seen the deep-rooted prejudice
which the Mahar feels towards the Mang,
who will compare favorably with him in
point of intellect and intelligence.

The church at Wadgaum has suffered
severe trials from opposition, and especially
in connection with a disgraceful case of riot-
ous violence against a native helper and his
wife. The case was promptly taken up by
the authorities, and thirteen persons were
punished by imprisonment. In revenge, th«
villagers have refused to give the Christians
and their relatives the usual remuneration
for village work, which they were accustomed
to perform. “ The trials have been borne
with an uncomplaining spirit.”

Bhaoo, the Manabhav Convert.

The faithful labors and fervent pray-
ers of “ Blind Mohana,” [at Satral,] have
been much blessed during the past year.
He has the confidence and respect of his
neighbors in a marked degree, and by
his efforts a spirit of inquiry has been
awakened among the higher castes.
Among those received to the Satrai
church is a man by the name of Bhaoo,
who lives in a village north of Satrai,
and not far from the Godavery. He was
a Manabhav, and is the first person who
has united with any of the churches in

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157

connection with our mission from that
curious sect. They are worshipers of
Krishna, and, like the Jains, believe it
to be a great sin to take animal life.
They go even farther than this, and
refuse to take vegetable life ; and hence
the thoroughly orthodox of that sect will
not cultivate the ground, and nothing
but dire necessity will induce one of
them to fell a tree, or even cut a spire
of grass.

Bhaoo reads both Mahrathi and San-
scrit, and was a leading man among the
Manabhavs. His leaning towards Chris-
tianity, therefore, awakened much oppo-
sition. As soon as he had declared his
purpose to become a Christian, his sons
and his wife refused him admittance to
his own house. The old man was an
exile for more than four months ; but he
bore all his trials without a murmur, and
said he was resolved to cast in his lot
with the people of God, whatever be-
came of his few worldly possessions.
He has recently petitioned Government
for redress, urging the declaration of
Her Majesty, that no person shall forfeit
any of his rights by changing his reli-
gion. His house has been restored to
him, and I trust God will make him a
burning and shining light in his distant
village.

New Church — Seroor.

A church was formed, December 5, at Pad-
hegaum, nine miles south-west from Khokar.
There are twenty villages within a few miles
of the place, up and down the river, making
it quite a centre. Eight persons were dis-
missed from the Khokar church, and one
from that at Wadgaum, to form the new
body, to which three were added by baptism,
the next Sabbath. There are several inquir-
ers in the region. The church was placed
under the care of Khandoba.

Mr. Bissell reports respecting the Southern
and South-'Western Districts of this mission
field, which have been still under his care,
though he has been called to leave the sta-
tion he formerly occupied at Seroor, to take
charge of the school for catechists at Ahmed-
nuggur. The statistics of the churches will
be found in the general table, and an extract
from his report will probably appear in an-
other place.

•

glabura glissioir. — |nbia.

P ERIACUL UM.

Letter from Mr. Notes, December
31, 1861.

The account given in this letter of the
benevolent contributions of the native Chris-
tians, the religious interest awakened in con-
nection with such benevolent efforts, and the
day of fasting and prayer appointed by the
station helpers themselves, will well repay a
careful and thoughtful perusal.

Benevolence.

Mr. Noyes first refers to the hope expressed
by him at the close of the year 1860, that
during 1861 every man, woman and child of
the 1,200 members of his village congrega-
tions would contribute at least one farthing
to the funds of the American Board. He
then writes :

At the close of the year, the ques-
tion naturally arises. How far has this
hope been realized ? To this I am able
to answer, first, that there are very few
if any to whom the subject has not been,
in some form, presented ; and second,
though I cannot assert positively that
every one has given a farthing, yet the
donations have been very general, and
the average for each one of the number,
now swelled to 1,300, is a trifle over six
farthings, or three cents. The total
amount contributed by the native Chris-
tians at this station, to the American
Board, during the year, is $40.65, and to
other charities, $56.86 ; making a total
of $97.51, or about seven and a half
cents for each member of the congrega-
tions, including children. Do congre-
gations in America, taking the country
through, do more than this ? Do they do
as much in proportion to their ability
You well know our deep poverty.

In contributing to the Board, the na-
tive Christians have manifested great
interest and some enthusiasm. Their
gifts, though small, have been the offer-
ings of warm and generous hearts. At
your late meeting in Cleveland, the
question was asked by Judge Jessup,

‘ Who has denied himself of any thing

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really needed in order to sustain the
missionary enterprise ? ’ I do not believe
that sacrifices adequate to the impor-
tance of the object have been made to
sustain the Board, by Christians any
where ; and there is but little room for
comparison when we speak of sacrifices ;
but in our Tamil church, instances can
be produced of real self-denial, and such
as ought to put to the blush many pro-
fessed Christians in American churches,
whose very necessary articles would be
rare luxuries to their poor brethren in
India. One brother owned a calf, worth
$3.50. This was probably the sum total
of his property ; and though he was
dependent upon scanty earnings for the
support of his family, when he heard of
the embarrassment of the “ Board,” he
sold his calf and brought the full price,
$3.50, to be sent to America. The only
son of a poor widow had a young buffalo,
which he himself had reared, and which
had grown to be worth $2.00. This
was all he had to give, but this he freely
offered. A young man, not two years
out of the seminary, with a young wife,
and no other dependence for support than
his $3.00 per month, gave $2.50, and a
part of his wedding jewels. A catechist
with a wife and two children, dependent
for support on his $2.25 per month, gave
$3.25. Another, in similar circumstan-
ces, gave $3.62^. These are instances,
among many which might be mentioned,
of real self-denial. To make these do-
nations, not luxuries, but what seem real
necessaries are sacrificed. There are
but few of my native helpers who have
not given all they could afford, — some
have given even more, — at a time when
rice, which to natives of India is the
staff of life, is selling at famine prices.
After our collection had been made,
there came across the sea another call
for retrenchment ; and when the letter
from the “ Rooms ” was read, and we
were told that the Board would probably
be $75,000 in debt at the end of the
year; when we were urged to save in
every possible way, and to obtain all we

could in this country, I had not a heart
to take up another collection. But the
native helpers, of their own accord,
agreed to relinquish the usual pittance
paid them for expenses in attending the
monthly meetings at the station centre.
And this liberality has not been without
spiritual benefit.

Increased Spirituality.

In many instances the self-denial has
been accompanied by unusual devoted-
ness and prayerfulness. On returning
from the general meeting of mission
helpers, held in Madura in September,
when there was awakened among the
helpers and the missionaries a wonder-
ful spirit of liberality, accompanied by
an unwonted spirit of prayer, a few
carried of the fire from that altar to
their own congregations, and were in-
strumental in imparting to the members
a like spirit. The most remarkable case
was that of the Kombey congregation.
There had been among that people
much coldness, while several congrega-
tions were enjoying the manifest pres-
ence of the Holy Spirit. Many of the
members had but lately come out from
heathenism, and none of them had
become strong enough to relinquish all
work on the Sabbath. They felt that
they must water their gardens, before
the Sabbath morning service ; and
though they had contributed somewhat
liberally towards the erection of a sub-
stantial church in their own village,
their charities had there ended. But
now, as their catechist presented this
new object, and told them of the enthu-
siasm with which it had been met in
Madura, they came forward with their
gifts, and seven dollars were subscribed
on the spot. This was the beginning
of a new state of things in that congre-
gation. A suspension of all work on
the Sabbath followed, and crowded
meetings, and sighs and groans from
conviction of sin. When, one week
feter, I visited the congregation, the
money was paid into my hand, and I

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was greatly refreshed by finding such a
change in the aspect of things since my
previous visit. I proposed to them
another collection for their new church,
which they made, with no less liberality
on account of their contribution to a
foreign object. On my next visit, I had
the pleasure of receiving six persons to
the communion of the church, previous
to which, as an evidence of their renun-
ciation of “ caste,” they ate food with
me, cooked by a pariah.

During the year, five congregations
have enjoyed, in a greater or less
degree, an outpouring of the Holy
Spirit ; and though there is at present no
unusual interest, the congregations are
mostly in a satisfactory state. The
church and congregation which has a
native pastor is almost the only excep-
tion ; yet I am far from feeling that it is
the pastor’s fault, for I believe him to
have been faithful and prayerful.

Additions — A Day of Fasting.

I am able to report thirty-two new
members, added by profession to the

Other Societies.

seven churches in Cumbum valley, and
one hundred new members to the 22
congregations ; so that we now number
1,300 catechumens and 171 church
members, in good standing. On the
first of August, my helpers, by previous
appointment, met at Kombey, to consult
on matters pertaining to the interests of
the churches and congregations in Cum-
bum valley, and to interchange views
on various subjects of general interest.
They spent the day in prayer and con-
ference, and appointed the 4th of August
as a day of fasting and prayer, to be
observed in all the congregations, the
principal subjects being the war in
America and the American Board.
Each catechist was requested to hold
public service in his church, morning
and evening, and to preach in the
morning from Joel ii. 12, 13 ; and in
the evening from John xiv. 1. The fast
was strictly observed, and was said
to be a very interesting day. It
interested me the more, from having
been entirely voluntary on the part of
the natives.

PROCEEDINGS OF

(Americax) Methodist Episcopal Mis-
sions.

An interesting pamphlet has recently been
published, piepared by Dr. Durbin, Corres-
ponding Secretary, entitled “ Picture of the
Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church.”
The following statements respecting the mis-
sions to heathen nations are from this pam-
phlet. The Society has also, among its foreign
operations, the Bulgarian, the Foreign Ger-
man, the Scandinavian and the South Amer-
ican missions.

Indian Missions.

These are the oldest missions of our
Church. Their origin indicates clearly
the hand of a Divine Providence. They
arose on this wise. Some forty years ago
there dwelt in Marietta, on the banks of
the Ohio, a colored man named John
Stewart. He was deeply pious, and
seemed to have close and constant com-
munion with God. He was powerfully
mpressed that it was his duty to go

OTHER SOCIETIES.

through the then thinly settled country to
the northwest, on some divine mission
which he did not comprehend. He set
out from home and traveled to the vicinity
of Tipper Sandusky, in Ohio, where he
found the Wyandot tribe of Indians. The
same strange impression which called him
to his feet now constrained him to halt.
The Indians gathered round him, but
could not talk with him. At length they
remembered that there was a man of his
color residing among them, and they
brought Jonathan Painter to him. As
soon as they met they knew they were of
the same race, and spoke to each other in
English. Stewart learned that Jonathan
ran away from Kentucky some ten years
before ; that he had been a Methodist, but
had lost his religion and become a savage
Indian, and spoke their language fluently.
“God,” said Stewart to Jonathan, “has
sent you here to assist me in what I feel is
my mission ; I must preach the gospel to
these Indians to-morrow, and you must
be my interpreter." The tears gushed out
of Jonathan’s eyes, and he exclaimed,
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Indians, when I have no religion myself? ”
“Then,” said Stewart, “you must get
religion to-night, for to-morrow I must
preach to these people, and you must in-
terpret.” All that night Jonathan wres-
tled with God in prayer, and Stewart
helped him ; and the next day they opened
the kingdom of God to the Indians.

From this providential beginning our
missions among the Indians spread until
they have extended from Western New
York to Wisconsin, and are under the
care of eight Annual Conferences. But
upon the division of our Church in 1845
the much largest portion of the Indian
missions fell to the Church, South. At
present we employ 21 missionaries among
the Indians, have 1,066 members and 105
probationers, and 19 local preachers. The
Church South, have an Indian Mission
Conference of two districts, divided into
25 circuits, and employing 29 missionaries.
All this, both North and South, is the
fruit of our first Indian mission, so prov-
identially commenced. To this we are to
add the thousands of these children of the
forest who have been gathered to their rest
in heaven. Many of them gave beautiful
examples, in their lives and deaths, of the
power of religion.

African Missions.

Among the first colonists which were
sent to Liberia, Africa, were some mem-
bers of the Methodist Church. When they
were landed on that distant and unknown
coast, and the ship had weighed anchor
and turned her prow homeward, they
stood on the beach and watched her
fading from their view in the distance,
and when she was gone, one said. Let us
pray ; and they knelt down on the sand
and prayed. It was Saturday afternoon.
On Sunday they had a meeting, and at
the close one said, “ What shall we do for
preachers ? ” The conclusion was, to send
home to the Church and ask her to send
them preachers. Could the Church re-
fuse ? Bishop Hedding appointed Rev.
M. B. Cox, with others, to go to our
brethren in Africa. Those who saw bro-
ther Cox preparing for his departure in
1832, will need no exhortation or argument
to convince them that he teas called of God
to this great work. A little incident will
characterize the whole.

Brother A. Cummings, of the New
York World, met brother Crx in Phil-
adelphia, and said to him, “Brother Cox,
why will you go to Africa ? Do you not
know that you will die there quickly ? ”
The divine fire flashed from the eyes of
the missionary ; his lips quivered, and he
said : “7 know I cannot live long in Africa,
hut 1 hope to live long enough to get there;
and if God please that my hones shall lie in
an African grave, I shall have established

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such a bond between Africa and the Church
at home as shall not he broken until Africa
is redeemed.” He went to Africa and died
there quickly, and is there buried ; and in
dying he said: “Lef a thousand fall, but
let not Afriea he given up.” In the mis-
sionary cemetery in Monrovia there lie by
brother Cox eleven of the thousand, and
yet the children of the Church are ready
to go, serve, and die there.

The African mission now covers the
whole of the Republic of Liberia, and
extends from Cape Mount on the north to
Cape Palmas on the south, say six hun-
dred miles ; and from the sea on the west
into the interior, from ten to more than
fifty miles at one point. Within its limits
are 140,000 native Africans, accessible to
the mission. It exists as one of our regu-
lar Annual Conferences, with its own
missionary bishop, (Bishop Burns ;) is
divided into four presiding elders’ dis-
tricts, and each of these into circuits and
stations. The best buildings in the Re-
public are academies built by our Mis-
sionary Society. The following is a tab-
ular view of the mission, in which, please
remember, there is not a single white per-
son :

SUMMARY.

Bishop Burns, 1

Members of conference and on trial, . . 18

Local preachers employed, .... 8

Members in the churches, Americo-Liberians, l,39i

Probationers, 89

Native members, 12

Week-day schools, 19

Scholars, 600

Sunday schools. (Number not given.)

Scholars, 980

Native youth in families, on Bishop Scott’s
plan, for instruction in letters and in home
and industrial affairs, .... 32

Select youths educated for service in the
missions, 9

China Mission.

At least one-third of the human race is
within the Chinese Empire. Until lately
they were inaccessible to Christian mis-
sions. But at the opening of five ports
for trade some years ago, the Church uni-
versal felt a powerful impulse to send
the gospel to these 400,000,000 of idola-
ters. Our own Church felt the impulse,
and in 1847 sent her infant China mission
to Fuhehau, on the River Min. The city
and towns immediately in sight contain
2,000,000 of people. Amid this vast pop-
ulation our mission planted the standard
of the cross. For ten years they sowed
in faith and hope, and prepared parson-
ages, and churches, and schools, believing
that the harvest would come. They have
not been disappointed. The seed is
springing up, and scarcely a monthly
communion passes without the baptism
of adults and children, and their enroll-
ment in the native Chinese Church. The
mission now extends into the country,

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Proceedings of

and the converts are formed into churches
and classes, and observe all the forms and
usages of our churches and classes at
home. God has already raised up six
native helpers, who faithfhlly exhort and
preach the gospel. One of them has
charge of a native society in the country.

The arrangements for prosecuting the
missions are most appropriate and efficient.
There are already six good parsonages,
two good churches, besides two or three
native structures for worship, a superior
girls’ boarding-school building, a boys’
boarding-school, a girls’ day-school, a
female orphan asylum, supported by com-
mercial residents at the port ; and a com-
plete printing establishment, to print the
Holy Scriptures in the colloquial language
of the province, and also books of in-
struction for the mission, and tracts, and
religious books.

A tabular view of this mission is given,
showing that there have been in all 62 adult
baptisms, and there are now 54 adulc church
members. There are 7 missionaries, 8 assist-
ants, 6 native helpers, and 2 churches.

Missions in India.

In 1856 our young and vigorous Church
was moved by her sense of duty, heighten-
ed by a strong manifestation of the desire
and expectation of the Christian world,
to send a mission into the Northwest
Province, particularly comprehending the
kingdom of Oude and the adjoining Prov-
ince of Bareilly, containing say 10,000,000
of people, being the most thickly inhabit-
ed part of the world. The banner of the
cross had not been unfurled among them,
except by one feeble missionary agency,
which voluntarily gave way upon the
appearance of our mission with the prom-
ise of vigorous action. Just as the place
was selected where first to set up our
banner, the mutiny broke out, and our
missionaries had to flee to the mountains.
At the close of the mutiny in 1857-8,
they returned and began again their
glorious work. The European population,
consisting of civil, military, and commer-
cial residents and citizens, seeing the
vigor with which the mission was recom-
menced, and hearing, as they expressed
it, of the great Methodist Church in
America as the author and supporter of
the mission, cordially proffered their aid,
on condition that its plan and execution
should be worthy the field of operation
and the power of the Church at home.
The plan was clearly drawn up by the
mission and sent home, and was by the
Board and General Committee approved,
though not formally engaged to be execu-
ted as a whole plan. And yet a declara-
tion of purpose to carry it out was made
to the mission, should Providence con-

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tinue to favor us. This declaration was
satisfactory to the mission in India, and
to our European friends there, and they
have gone forward in the execution of
the plan. The European residents prom-
ised to give, in cash, one-half of the
expense of a good missionary residence for
every missionary sent, the Board supplying
the other half. They further promised
to aid in building school-houses and
churches, and to assist in supporting
teachers, all on condition that the mission
should be vigorously prosecuted accord-
ing to expectation. They have nobly
done their part, and the Board, up to this
present year of trouble, has nobly done
its part. We have requested our mission
in India to assure our European friends
there that we will do our best if they will
stand by our missions in this our year of
peril and trial. Not one of these princi-
pal European contributors is a Methodist,
and yet some of them have given as much
as $1,000 a year; others $700, $500,
$300, and so on down to $5 each. In
alluding to these donations in India,
Dr. Butler, superintendent, says : “ There
have been raised in India, in two and a
half years (ending in 1860), over $15,000,
to enable the Board to send us the men
needed for this vast field.” Since 1860,
the Europeans have continued to aid us
as heretofore. Our mission property in
India, created since 1857, and wholly free
from debt, so that we pay neither rent nor
interest in the mission, is worth, say
$30,000.

The spiritual aspects of the mission are
no less encouraging, as will be seen by
the following tabular view, prepared in
September, 1861.

Nineteen new parsonages

Missionaries

Their wives

Native preachers

“ exhort ers

Places of worship

Church members, native .

Baptisms ....

English Church members

School-houses .

Schools ....

Day scholars

457

Teachers ....

Sabbath scholars

223

Orphans in Asylum .

100

Each city occupied by the missionaries
is a station, and is the centre of a circuit ;
and the missionary force in each, at the
proper season of the year, itinerate amid
the surrounding villages and cities, and
preach the gospel in the streets, bazars,
and in their own traveling tents, so that
Dr. Butler says not less than two hun-
dred and fifty villages and cities have been
thus visited this year.

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Miscellanies.

May,

MISCELLANIES.

Weekly Gatherings.

A poor clergyman writes to the Treas-
urer : “ It is now nearly two years since I
sent you five dollars towards liquidating
the debt of the Board. I should probably
have sent the inclosed five dollars much
sooner, but I have lost twenty-six dollars
this last year, which I had been receiving
for seven years previously — that amount
each year. I do most sensibly sympathize
with the Board and with the worthy mis-
sionaries, whose souls are so severely tried.
But the present war will be overruled to
bring about some glorious and blessed re-
sults, to the nation, to churches, and to
missions.

‘ ‘ What I have sent is but a mite, yet
it may help a little. It gradually and
w'eekly accumulates, in the exercise of
prayer, faith and self-denial, and never
fails to prove a rich means of grace to
my soul. My prayer for the last fourteen
years has been, once a week, that every
minister, every church, and every pri-
vate Christian, may be brought to adopt
the same plan, according to 1 Cor. xvi. 2.
And I do feel confident that God, by his
Spirit and Providence, will accomplish it
in due time.

“ The Lord guide and bless all the offi-
cers and missionaries of your Board.”

A Donation from Malta.

Mr. Goodell wrote from Constantinople,
February 11, sending the following copy
of a letter received by him from Lev.
George Wisely, minister of the Free
Church of Scotland, dated Malta, Decem-
ber 31, 1861 ;

“ I have much pleasure in being able
to send you a little assistance for your
missions. My congregation, a few weeks
ago, contributed £12 for this purpose,
which I now beg to send you, and which
I hope you will receive as a token, how-
ever slight, of our sincere regard for you
and your fellow laborers in Turkey, and
of our sympathy with you in the present
distress. Most earnestly do I pray that

the Lord may remove the sad unpleasant-
ness which has arisen between our two
nations. But whatever may happen, I
trust that all sincere Christians, of both
countries, will remember that they are
brethren, and will cherish towards each
other, more and more, those senti-
ments of brotherly kindness by which
all men shall know that they are Christ’s
disciples.”

Mr. Goodell says : “ This letter and the
remittance were the more acceptable, as
they came at a time when, judging from
the tone of the English press, both secu-
lar and religious, war between our two
countries seemed inevitable. I may say
that I have no personal acquaintance with
Mr. Wisely, nor do any of my brethren
here know him, unless it be Mr. Bliss.”

Is This the Time to Withhold ?

“I, with others, would say, ‘Econo-
mize ; ’ but economize from the base of
your head first — from your appetites and
passions ; then economize in your social
necessities ; and then, last of all, econo-
mize at the altar. Let your own lamp go
out, but never take oil from the lamp that
bums in the sanctuary. It is not the way
to begin retrenchment at the house of God.
If you must retrench anywhere, let it not
be in the means of spreading the gospel.
Let us not take back the books from which
Indian children are learning to read, nor
the trumpet that calls men to the sanctu-
ary in the Orient, where God is opening
the eyes of the blind, and raising up the
dead, indeed.

“ Nay, this is the very time, of all others,
in which God’s people are called upon, not
to relinquish, but to double their exertions
in behalf of the work of the gospel. For
moral power is to be the secret of success
in this great struggle, if we succeed — and
we shall.” * *

“Is this, then, the time to begin to
forsake our work, and to neglect our
missionaries and churches in heathen
lands ? It is the continuance of our

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Miscellanies.

163 .

missionary labor that is to save us. Mul-
tiply your work. Call more upon God.
Throw away the things that are between
you and him. Revive his Spirit in your
hearts. Cleanse your churches. Sup-
plicate revivals of religion through all the
land. Look out for God's cause. Iden-
tify yourselves with it. Throw out the
white banner of salvation, and unsheathe
the sword, and fight the battle of the
Lord, and you shall have victory. But
now to begin to abandon God, when only
God can save us ; now to draw back,
w'hen to draw back is to go toward de-
struction— is that wisdom ?

“Yonder, on the heights, is the Ridge-
w'ood reservoir. Not a drop of water can
it supply itself with, although from it the
w’hole city is supplied. That mighty
engine slave, (for it is the slavery of
machinery that is to do away with the
slavery of muscle,) that steam-pump,
labors with solemn grandeur and unwea-
ried patience, lifting oceans full and
oceans full of water, and throwing it
incessantly up into that reservoir. And
although there is a main along every
street, although there is a distributing
pipe for every house, and although every
man in this great city draws for refresh-
ment and cleanliness and luxury, there
is always enough ; because silent, and
far away, and unthought of, and unre-
munerated, that lifting arm goes on
throwing up, and throwing up, and throw-
ing up.

“Now command stillness there, and
let the fires go out, and let the pump for-
get its work, and let the draught continue,
let all the streets suck out the stores from
the reservoir, and by- and -by there will be
a sense of want in all our houses. The
want is occasioned by the going out of
the fire, and the cessation of the working
of the pump.

“ And as it is with the reservoir, so it
is with us. Where you must watch,
where you must see that you maintain
power, is at the sources. There, where
the fountain is ; there, where is the reser-
voir from which we are to draw courage,
and inspiration, and perseverance — there
we are to watch and maintain a supply.
And to this end we must keep up our

connection of faith with God, and feel the
influence of the eternal world.

“Now, more than ever, 0 Jesus, open
thy bosom, and show thy heart. Now, for
our banner’s sake, for tbe poor and des-
pised slave’s sake, and for the sake of
thine own cause, show thy people thy
salvation.

“In the salvation of Christ, in the
blessed power of faith in the gospel, in
that love which from the bosom of God
has come to our hearts, and in the spirit
and work of it, make yourselves strong,
and all other things shall be given unto
you. Amen and amen.” — H. TF. Beecher.

Persecution at Angora.

Some account may be found of the city
of Angora and of Protestant efforts there,
in the Herald for August, 1861, page 239.
Mr. Bliss, of Constantinople, sends the
following letter which, he says, is “just
received (March 11) from the native helper
at Angora. The brother Hasan, mentioned
in it, is a converted Turk of whom we
have heard during the past year. The
letter has no date.”

“Brethren, — This letter contains sad
news, but there is joy also in it. You
know that brother Hasan has, up to this
time, openly professed the religion of
Christ. But in these days, all the Turks
here have risen up and put him in prison ;
and this is the fifth day of his imprison-
ment. Yesterday evening they called him
before the council, and asked him about
his religion. He answered that he held to
the gospel, and not to Mohammed. This
morning I went to see him, but was not
allowed to go near him. They had taken
him from one prison, and put him in an-
other. Before his accusers brought any
charge against him before the council,
they had put him to work with felons, to
bring water. Now his feet are in the
stocks. I have not seen him in the stocks,
but one of the police said to me, ‘The
stocks on his feet ought to be on yours,
for you are the real cause of all his trou-
ble.’ They do not permit us to carry him
any food, and I fear he will die of hunger
in the prison. The present is a great op-
portunity for them. The Pasha h^ just
been removed from office. The Judge is
at Constantinople. To whom shall I go ?
"WTiat shall I do ? I know not. I hear
that they have written to Constantinople,
by telegraph, to ask if it is allowed that
a Mohammedan become an Armenian,
(Christian,) and I have little hope that

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May,

they will leave him alive. Just as I am
W'riting, one comes in and relates that
when the police officers were bringing him
aw'ay from the council, they sprang upon
him and almost strangled him. But w’hen
he cried out at the top of his voice, ‘ I
am dying,’ the Pasha ordered them to
desist.

“ Brethren, I entreat you in the name
of Christ, that without any loss of time
you make efforts for the deliverance of
this brother. You know better than I,
what is to be done. Whoever can most
quickly attend to the business, let him do
it. If possible, obtain his summons to
Constantinople. If possible, let the order
come by telegraph, and write me the par-
ticulars by post.

“ Brethren, we are in great distress.
The Turks have all become our enemies,
and wish to do us harm. Many are in-
quiring where we live. Truly we are in
great danger, and entreat your special
prayers for brother Hasan, that the Lord
may deliver him ; and for ourselves, that
he may protect us.

“ Your faithful brother,

“ Abgar,”

A Blind Hawaiian Missionary.

Mr. Alexander, of Wailuku, in a recent
letter, gives the following very interesting
account of one of the Hawaiian mission-
aries to the Marquesas Islands.

“We recently had a visit from Kapo-
haku, the blind missionary, returned from
the Marquesas Islands. He possesses
great power to move a native audience,
and roused prodigious enthusiasm among
the people. Quite a number eagerly vol-
unteered to go as missionaries ; and wffien
called upon to contribute for the cause,
the women would strip off their orna-
ments, such as bonnets made of a sort of
fern, which they can sell for five dollars
apiece, gold ear-rings, beads, bracelets,
&c. &c. Their zeal reminded me of the
Nestorians. Indeed the Hawaiians, ac-
cording to their means, are more liberal
than any people I know of under the sun.
Kapohaku’s account of his perils when
the enraged Marquesans burnt his house,
was well adapted to rouse his audience.
He had gathered a number of Marquesan
children into a school. Some of these
pupils had stolen and eaten a hog belong-
ing to their neighbors ; and they took it
for granted that Kapohaku was privy to
the theft and responsible for it. He w’as

alone in his house, lying on his bed, his
wife having gone to a distant field for
potatoes, when the first notice he had of
their evil intentions was the falling of
brands of fire on his face from the blazing
roof. He stealthily crawled out, and
passing through some tall potato vines,
hid himself in a pig- sty ; but he was soon
discovered and surrounded by a crowd
armed vdth muskets and knives. He met
them fearlessly, told them he was inno-
cent, and his trust was in Jehovah. They
said they had come to kill him, at the
same time leveling their guns at him ; but
he replied, calmly, that they could not
without Jehovah’s permission. Most ap-
propriate passages of Scripture came to
his mind, wffiich greatly strengthened him,
and he called on the Lord for help. His
enemies retired. Presently several of his
pupils came, and observing them whisper-
ing with each other, he asked what it
meant. One of them replied, — ‘ Kapo-
haku, the people are going to kill you,
and w’e have come to witness it.’ He
was soon again surrounded by an armed
company, who, pointing their guns at
him, told him they had come to take his
life. His wife having returned, he and
she prayed, and then got up and walked
through the ranks of the enemies, when
they raised a shout, ‘ Good are the ser-
vants of Jehovah,’ and requested him to
stay among them and teach them the gos-
pel.”

Wesleyans in the Fiji Islands.

The following statistics, presented at
the “ Fiji District Meeting ” in June last,
exhibit wonderful results of Wesleyan
missionary effort there ; the second col-
umn of figures showing the increase dur-
ing the last year. At this meeting, t-wo
native ministers “ were ordained to the
full w'ork of the ministry,” and eight,
after examination, w'ere imanimously re-
commended as assistant missionaries.

Number of chapels, .

344

Increase.

Other preaching’-places, .

247

Catechists and assistants, .

231

Local preachers,

400

Full chuixh members,

11,251

. 927

Scholars,

31,566

. 4,857

Attendants on public worship,

67,489

. 7,322

1862.

Donations.

165

Death.

The Honolulu Commercial Advertiser, of
Feb. 6, announces the death, at Makawao,
East Maui, Jan. 27, of Mrs. Anx S. An-
drews, wife of Rev. C. B. Andrews.

DONATIONS.

RECEIVED IN MARCH.

MAINE.

Cumberland co. Aux. So. H. Packard, Tr.
Brownfield, Rev, J. G. Merrill’s fam. 2 00

Portland, Charles H. Osgood, 50 00

Pownal, 28 50

Scarborough, 41 60 — 122 10

Franklin co. Aux. So. Rev. I. Rogers, Tr.

Farmington, Cong. ch. m. c. 30 00

Lincoln co. Aux. So.

Bath, Winter st. cong. so. 604 00

Penobscot co. Aux. So. E. F. Duren, Tr.

Bangor, 1st cong. ch. 50; Central
ch. 172,30; 222 30

Monmouth, Rev. H. S. L. and Avife, 6 00 — 2S8 30
York Conf. of Chs. Rev. G. W. Cressey, Tr.

Buxton Centre, Rev. G. W. Cres-
sey, wh with prev. dona. cons.

Miss MakyC. Cressey an H. M. 25 00
Saco, Cong. ch. m. c. 65 79 — 90 79

1,075 19

Bluehill, A soldier’s offering, 2 00

Sweden, Rev. A. Loring and others, 10 00 — 12 00

1,087 19

Ze^acie.?.— Bangor, Mrs. Ann B. Loomis, by
Robbins Battell, Adm’r, 300 00

1 387 19

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Cheshire co. Aux. So. A. Duren, Tr.

Paper Mill Village, Rev. D. Adams, 5 00

Grafton co. Aux. Sio.

Bristol, Cong. ch. and so. 15 00

Canaan, m. c. 9 00

Lebanon, Cong. ch. and so. 60 00

Plymouth, do. do. 27 00—111 00

Hillsboro’ co. Aux. So. J. A. Wheat, Tr.

Amherst, Gent. 95,50 ; la. 78,04 ;

m. c. 33,60 ; 207 04

Hollis, Cong. ch. 61 22

Mason, do. 22 00

New Ipswich, do. 18 00

Pelham, La. asso. 32 17—340 43

Merrimack co. Aux. So. G. Hutchins, Tr.

Sanbornton Bridge, Cong. ch. and so. 28 00

Rockingham co. Conf. of chs. F. Grant, Tr.

Exeter, 2d cong. ch. and so. 91 55

Hampstead, A lady, 5 00 — 96 55

Strafford Conf. of chs. E. J. Lane, Tr.

Gilmanton Centre, m. c. 20 98

North Conway, Ch. and cong. 5,27 ;

R. K. 5 ; Mrs. Towle, 3 ; 13 27 34 25

Sullivan co. Aux. So. N. W. Goddard, Tr.

Newport, Cong. ch. and so. 69 00

Plainfield, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Ha-
ven, dec’d, 25 00 — 94 00

709 23

VERMONT.

Caledonia co. Conf. of chs. E. Jewett, Tr.

Hardwick, A family contrib. 10 12

St. Johnsbury, South cong. ch. m.
c. 67,.51; 2d do. m. c. 71,17;
heirs of Mrs. S. C. Hinsdale,
wh. cons. John C. Murdock
anH.M. 127; 265 68

Waterford, A friend, 10 00—285 80

Chittenden co. Aux. So. E. A. Fuller, Tr.

Burlington, 1st Calv. cong. so. 190 55
Jericho Centre, La. cent so. 15 00-205 65

Franklin co. Aux. So. C. B. SAvift, Tr.

Georgia, Cong. ch. m. c. 8 00

Orleans co. Aux. So. Rev. A. R. Gray, Tr.

Derby, Cong. ch. and so. 3,81 ; Rev. J
F. 2;

Rutland co. Aux. So. J. Barrett, Tr.

Castleton, Rev. U. Maynard,

Fairhaven, C. Reed,

Rutland, Cong. so. 6,10 ; m. c.
12,06;

West Haven, Cong. ch.

Windham co. Aux. So. F. Tyler, Tr.

Westminster, West, Friends of mor-
als and missions, 50 ; la. benev.
so. 41 ;

Windsor co. Aux. So. Rev. J. Steele, Tr.

Bethel, Cong. so.

Hartford, do. m. c.

Woodstock, Cong. ch. and so. 35
m. c. 7;

5 81

’ 18

00-

-111

Tr.

’ 42

00 — 81

788 32

MASSACHUSETTS.

Barnstable co. Aux. So. W. Crocker, Tr.
Harwichport, Pilgrim ch. m. c. 20 00
North Falmouth, S. Nye, 25 00

Provincetown, Cong. ch. and so. 32 10 — 77 10
Boston, (of wh. fr. a friend, 12; do.

50c; E. H.R. 5;) 1,98124

Essex CO.

North Andover, Trin. cong. ch. and
so. (of w’h. to cons. Miss Mary
M. Johnson an H. M. 100 ;) 140 00

W'enham, Cong ch. and so. m. c. 1 06 — 141 06
Esse.x North Aux. So. J. Caldwell, Tr.

Groveland, Cong. ch. 9 00

Essex CO. South Aux. So. C. M. Richardson, Tr.
Marblehead, 1st cong. ch. 198 ; 3d
ch. m. c. 7 ; 205 00

Middleton, Cong. ch. 20 00

Salem, Tab. ch. m. c. 17 57—242 57

Franklin co. Aux. So. L. Merriam, Tr.

Greenfield, 2d cong. so. m. c. 60 00
Leverett, Cong. so. 16 08

Shelburne, Gent. 30,50 ; la. 28,37 ; 58 87
South Deerfield, Monument ch.
and 60. 15 00 - 149 95

Hampshire co. Aux. So. S. E. Bridgman, Tr.
Amherst, L. H. 1 00

Chesterfield, A friend, 1 00

Cummington, Village ch. 29 81

Easthampton, 1st ch.8,19 ; m. c. 17; 25 19
Granby, Cong, ch gent, benev. asso.

86; m. c. 41,23; 127 23

Hadley, 1st ch. 50 ; m. c. 35,85 ; 85 85

Hatfield, Cong. ch. and so. 59 00

North Hadley, do. 30 ; Russellville,
m. c. 5,03 ; 35 03

Northampton, 1st ch. 310,67 ; m. c.

41,06 ; Edwards ch. m. c. 38,36 ;

E. A. W. 5 ; 395 09

South Hadley, 1st cong. ch. m. c. 34 59
Williamsburg, Cong. ch. 17 68—811 47

Middlesex co.

Cambridgeport, 1st evan. cong. ch.

and so. 344 70

East Cambridge, Evan. cong. ch.

and so. m. c. 11 00

Fitchburg, C. C. ch. m. c. 27 00

Hopkinton, A friend, 2 00

Marlboro’, Union ch. and so. 5 00

Natick, Cong. ch. m. c. 4,06; a
friend, 3 ; 7 06

Newtonville, A friend, 5 00

Sherborn, Evan. ch. and so. 15 34

Somerville, 1st ortho, cong. ch. (of
Avh. to cons. Henry Howard an
H. M. 100 ;) 183,87 ; m. c. 18,82 ; 202 69

Southboro’, Pilgrim E. so. 29 11

Stoneham, Cong. ch. 30 00 — 678 90

Norfolk co.

Brookline, Harvard cong. so. 584 00

Roxbury, Eliot ch. and so. gent.

59 ; Vine st. ch. and so. 154,14 ;
m. c. 33,18 ; 237 42

West Roxbury, South evan. cong.

ch. and so. 25 26

Wrentham, Miss Julia Hawes, 10 00—856 68

Old Colony Aux. So.

New Bedford, Pacific cong. ch. 200 00

166

Donations,

May,

Palestine Miss. So. E. Alden, Tr.

East Randolph, Winthrop ch. and
so. in. c. 83 05

South Weymouth, Rev. Mr. Terry’s
so. m. c. 33 21—116 26

Taunton and vie.

Berkley, Trin. ch. 25 00

Fall River, Central cong. ch. Abra-
ham B. Pierce to cons. Mrs. Har-
riet A. Pierce an H. M. 100 00
Norton, Trin. cong. ch. 23 72 — 148 72

Worcester co. Central Asso. W. R. Hooper, Tr.
Auburn, An induidual, 25 00

Barre, Evan. cong. ch. and so.

131,03; m. c. 87,59; wh. cons.

John F. Woods and Thomas
P. Root, H. M. 218 62

Northboro’, Cong. ch. and so. 25 00

Princeton, do. 81 47—350 09

Chelsea, Winnisimmet ch. and so. 40 ; m. c.

35,43 ; Broadway ch. and so. 14,27 ; 89 70

5,85^

Legacies.— George Champion,

by Jonathan Edwards, Ex’r, 2,100 09

Southwick, Rebecca Bingham, by
L. Warriner, 15 00

Waltham, Joanna Bond, 100 00-2,215 00

8,058 74

CONNECTICUT.

Fairfield co. West, Aux. So. C. Marvin, Tr.

Greensfarms, 8 00

Long Ridge, Cong. ch. 5 00

Ridgefield, do. wh. with prev. dona.

cons. Ebenezer Jones an H. M. 21 00 — 34 00
Hartford co. Aux. So. A. G. Hammond, Agent.
Canton Centre, E. Whiting, 11 00

East Avon, m. c. 10 00

East Hartford, A friend, 50 00

East Windsor Hill, Cong. ch. 56 28

Hartford, 1st ch. 3 ; Centre ch. m.

c. 5,93 ; 8 93

Windsor Locks, Cong. ch. ack. in
the Feb Herald as from Wind-
sor, 100.

W’"arehouse Point, Miss H. Abbee, 10 00—146 21

Hartford co. South, Aux. So. H. S. Ward, Tr.

Middletown, 1st so. gent, and la. asso 142 05
Litchfield co. Aux. So. G. C. Woodruff, Tr.

Terry ville, Cong. ch. m. c. 4 00

Middlesex Asso. J. Marvin, Tr.

East Haddam, Rev. I. Parsons, 5 CO

New Haven City, Aux. So. F. T. Jarman, Agent.
New Haven, Chapel st. ch. 188,75 ; North
ch. m. c. 7,79; Miss N. Atwater, 25;

South ch. m. c. 8; united m. c. 16,92;
Davenport chapel, m. c. 4,36; Yale
college ch. m. c 3,23 ; J. A. P. for
bibles for heathen, 1 ; 255 05

New London and vie. and Norwich and vie.

F. A. Perkins and C. Butler, Trs.

Franklin, W. B. Hyde, a thank-

offering. 2 00

Lebanon, 1st ch. and so. m. c. 19,96 ;
an indiv. 3,04 ; 23 00 — 25 00

Tolland co. Aux. So. E. B. Preston, Tr.

A friend, 200 00

Vernon, Cong. ch. and so. 184 50—384 50

Windham co. Aux. So. G. Danielson, Tr.

Chaplin, Cong. ch. and so. 73,50 ; ack. in
April Herald as fr. Mansfield Centre.

Abington, Cong. ch. 17 09

North Woodstock, Cong. ch. 6 00

Pomfret, 1st cong. so. gent, and la.
asso. (of wh. to cons. Rev. Wal-
ter S. Alexander an H. M.

50.) 217; m. c. 55,97; 272 97

Westford, Rev. E. D. Kinney, 1 00—297 06

1,292 87

Bloomfield, Mrs. S. Filley, by H.

Sill, Ex’r, 400 00

1,632 87

EKODE ISLAND.

Providence, High st. cong. ch. (of wh. fr.

A. C. Barstow, to cons. William H.

Bradford and Charles L. Thomas

H. M. 200 ;) 279 36

NEW YORK.

Auburn and vie. I. F. Terrill, Agent.

Auburn, Pres. ch. wh. cons. ABu.iH
Fitch and Horace 1. Brown
H. M. 262 48

Aurelius, Cong. ch. 7 17

Genoa, do. 43 56

Meridian, Pres. ch. 30 00

Skaneateles, do. 47 39

Union Springs, do. 7 00 — 397 60

Buffalo and vie. H. Stillman, Agent.

Buffalo, 1st pres. ch. coll, and m. c. 181 ,87 ;
exc. 45c ; La Fayette st. pres. ch. 140 ; 321 42

Geneva and vie. Aux. So. W. H. Smith, Agent.
Geneva, T. C. Maxwell and broth-
ers, to cons. Mrs. Puella Max-
well an H. M. 100 00

Junius, Pres ch. 12 42

Pulaski, do. 20 46

Rushville, Cong. ch. 15 00—147 88

New York City and Brooklyn, A. Merwin, Tr.

(Of wh. fr. James Stokes, 1,000; G. 20;

Rev. H. D. Ward, 50; E. J. Woolsey,

500 ; E. A. Graves, 50 ; students of
Union Theolog. sem. 13,25;) 1,774 25

Oneida co. Aux. So. J. E. Warner, Tr.

Utica, W. dividends, 165,71 : W. J.

Bacon, 25; Mrs. W. J. B. 5; F.

E. B. 5; 2:0 71

Vernon Centre, Mrs. E. Skinner, 5 00
Waterville, Philip Lumbard and
Daniel B. Goodwin, wh. cons,
them and Mrs. Daniel B. Good-
win and Mrs. Maria Avery,

H. M. 400 00—605 71

Otsego CO. Aux. So. D. H. Little, Tr.

Cooperstown, Pres. ch. 18,22; m. c. 24 ; '
fern. miss. so. of Cooperstown and vie.

62,56 ; wh. cons. Mrs. James Cockett
an H. M. 104 78

St. Lawrence co. Aux. So. C. T. Hulburd, Tr.
Potsdam, 1st pres. ch. and so. 54 19
Stockholm, H Hulburd, 10 00 — 64 19

Watertown and vie. F. Baker, Agent.

Watertown, 1st. pres, ch 39/, 61 ; m. c.

140,22; wh. cons Mrs. Robert Lan-
sing. Mrs. O. V. Brainard, Miss Fan-
nie E Hungerford, H. M. ; 2d pres,
ch. to cons. Milton Clark an H. M.

100 ; 637 83

Albion, Pres. ch. miss. so. 64,65 ; less
exc. 32c. 64

Amsterdam Village, Pres. ch. m. c. 65
Aquebogue, Cong. ch. wh. cons Rev.

Samuel T. Gibbs an H. M. 50

Batavia, Pres ch. 63

Beekmantown, Pres. cong. 12

Champlain, P. Moore, 50

Fort Columbus, G. Loomis, U. S. A. 4
Fort Covington, Pres. ch. 23

Franklinville, do. m. c. 10

Greenville, Pres. so. 4

Hamilton, Cong. ch. 10

Malden, Pres. ch. m. c. 5

M h, J. M. 5

Nassau, Pres. ch. wh. cons. Rev.

Charles Doolittle an H. M. 50
New’ Lebanon, A friend, 5

North Granville, Y'oung ladies’ sem.

for ed. in Gaboon m. 15

Portville, Pres. ch. 10

Poughkeepsie, Pres. ch. m. c. 17

Prattsburgh 1st pres. ch. m.c. 24,12 ;

less exc. 25c. 23

Sackett’s Harbor, for school-house at
Madras m. 17

Saratoga, A friend, 20

Sheldon, do. 2

Smyrna, Cong ch. 4

Somers, C. Childs, 5

Southport, Pres. ch. and so. 12

Walton, 1st cong. ch. 45

Wantage, 2d pres. ch. 25

W^aterford, A friend, IGO

4,053 66

1862.

Donations.

167

West Chester, Mrs. G. M. Wilkins, 25 00
743 64

Deduct this amount ack. tTvice, last
month, from Malone, 40 47—703 17

4,756 83

Legacies. — Buffalo, Jabez Goodell, by

H. Shumway, Ex’r, 666 00

Kirkland, Charles Marvin, by R.

S. Nichols, Exb-, 100 00

Vernon, Martha Dana, by Thomas
Williams, 84 00—850 00

5,606 83

NEW JERSEY.

Mendham, 1st pres. ch. coll, and m.
c. which cons Rev. David .Magib,

Jr., an H. M. 100 00

Newark, A corporate member, 25;

South pres. ch. a friend, 20 ; 45 CO

Orange, 1st pres. ch. m. c. 26 00

Princeton, Prof. A. Guyot, 4 00 — 175 00

PENNSYLVANIA.

By William Work, Agent.

Chester, Rev. G. Hood, 10 00

Minersville, Welsh cong. ch. 25 00

Philadelphia, Pine st. ch. 50 ; 8.

W. 25 ; O. H. W. 20; B. W. 10;

Miss McF. 7 ; I. W. 5 ; W. T. 5 ;

G. F. W. 5; W. W. 5 ; G. Y. 5 ;

W. C. 5: J. F. 5; S. R. H 5;
other indiv. 50,09 ; m. c. 26,40 ;

J. U. L. (of wh. for students at
Bebek sem. 6 ,) 16 ; Cedar st. ch.

27,40; 271 89

Titusville, Pres. ch. 12 80 — 319 69

Montrose, Pres. ch. m. c. 14,5J ; la.

cent so. for Syria, 2,.50 ; 17 00

North East, m. c. 16 00

Pompton and Waymart, Pres. chs. 17 00
Sylvania, Mrs. J. Peck, 5 00 — 55 00

374 69

DELAWARE.

Port Penn, Miss S. R Cleaver, 10 00

Wilmington, Fem. miss. so. of Han-
over st. pres. ch. which with prev.
dona. cons. .Mrs. Ellen B. John-
son an H. M. 27 12 — 37 12

MARYLAND.

Frederick, E. H. Rockwell,

20 00

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Washington, 81; miss. asso. of 1st pres. ch.

179,62 ; 4th pres. ch. miss. so. 140 ; 400 62

OHIO.

By T. P. Handy, Agent.

Rockport, J. H.

3 00

Toledo, Ch.

10)

103

Ded. exc.

53-103 17

y G. L. Weed, Tr.

Canal Dover, Pres. ch. m. c.

Central College, Rev. H. Bushnell

and wife, 5 ; L. B. 2 ; Mrs. J.

T. 1,.50 : Miss A. W. T. 1,.50 ;

Cincinnati, 2d pres. ch. 2,70;

do. 4,50 ;

Dayton, I. A. I. Inskeep,

Columbus, 2d pres. ch.

Gallipolis, 1st do.

Hanging Rock, Pres. ch.

New Philadelphia, do. m. c.

Springfield, Cong. ch. G. W. H.

Walnut Hills, Lane sem. ch.

41 — 88 82

Austinburg. S. B. 2 00

Champion, Pres. ch. 6 42

Columbus, Rev. John H. Janies, wh.
with prev. dona. cons. Edward P.
Morris &JOSIAHR. Smith H. M. 150 00

191 99

Elyria, 1st pres. ch. 82 ; exc. 35c. ; 81 65

Ellsworth, Ch. 4,80 ; a box of dona.

16 ; 20 80
Farmington, 1st pres. ch. 9,40; m. c.

3,72; 13 12

Granville, G. B. and C. T. A. John-
son, 50 00

Harmar, Cong. ch. m. c. 60 00

Kinsman, Cong. ch. 39,50 ; m. c. 10 ;

T. Kinsman and fam. 30 ; P. Allen,

10; H. Lillie, 10; J. Christy, 10; 109 50
Logan, E. T. R. 1 00

Mesopotamia, Pres. ch. 15,97; Mrs.

C. G. 10 ; 25 97

Nelson, P. Hannahs, 5 00

Ravenna, Cong. ch. m. c. 16 07—541 53

733 52

i/Cgacres.— Elyria, Heman Ely, by
Heman Ely, Ex’r, 500 ; exc.

2,50 ; 497 50

Walnut Hills, Gabriel Tichenor,
by G. L. Weed, Tr. 100 00—597 50

1,331 02

INDIANA.

By G. L. Weed, Agent.

La Fayette, 2d pres. ch. Ill 00

Mishawaka, do. m. c. 5 00—116 CO

Bloomington, L. G. H. 5; friends,

1,50 ; (by Rev. D. Lindley) ; 6 50

Green Castle, A friend, (by Rev. Mr.

Lindley,) 1 00

Indianapolis, D Yaudes, 210 tO

Michigan City, W. Peck, (by Rev.

Mr. Lindley,) 5 00

New Albany, E. L. H. for Assyrian
miss. 10 00

Rockville, Pres. ch. 11 50 — 244 00

360 00

ILLIK OIS.

By Rev. C. Clark, Agent.

Chicago, Union Park Theolog. sera.

ch. and cong. 32 37

Fulton City, Pres ch. m. c. 20 62

Galesburg, Rev. E. Jenney, 12 50

Knoxville, Pies. ch. m. c. 7 43

Sandwich, do. 4; Somonauk, do.

9,35 ; wh. with prev. dona. cons.

Rev. Levi P. Crawford an
H. M. 13 3.5 — 86 27

Augusta, Pres. ch. m. c. 5 00

Big Spring, Rev. S. Ward, 3 tO

Chicago, Olivet pres. ch. 55 46

Decatur, 1st pres. ch. 15 30

Metamora, A. Walker, 10 00

Mt. Sterling, E. F. Crane, 10 00

Ottawa, 1st cong. ch. 38 19

Springfield, 2d pres. ch. 105 ; J.

Thayer, 50 ; reported by Rev. Mr.

Lindley, E. Wright, for Zulu in.

10 ; J. Thajer, lo ; indiv. 20 ; 195 CO

Tolono, W. Keeble, 10 00

Tremont, Cong. ch. and so. .5 00

Wilmington, 1st pres. ch. 10 tO— 356 95

443 22

MICHIGAN.

By Rev. C. Clark, Agent.

Birmingham, Pres. ch. 16 ; ack. in Mar.

Herald under Illinois.

Grand Rapids, Cong. ch. Rev. Mr.

W. 85c ; pres. ch. 5 ; 5 85

Richland, Pres. ch. 50 6 35

By J. 8. Farrand, Agent.

Brighton, Pres. ch. .5 fO

Detroit, N. D. S. 5 00

Yassar, Pres. ch. m. c. 1 : Mrs.

Yoorheis, 10 ; Rev. G. W. 3 ;

Mrs. W. 2 ; 16 00 — 26 00

Detroit, 1st cong. so. (of wh. fr. Philo
Parsons to cons. Mrs. L. B. Par-
sons an H. M. 100 ;) 204 00

32 35

168

Donations,

Flint, Pres. ch.

122

Kalamazoo, H.

Monroe, Pres. ch.

Three Rivers, do. hal. of annual coll.

wh. with prev. dona. cons. Edward

S. Moore an H. M.

00-388 19

420 54

WISCONSIN.

Fall River, Rev. J. Q. Adams and
wife, 10 00

Janesville, 1st cong-. ch. 24,58 ; U. H.

N. 1 ; 25 58

Reedshurg-, Rev. T. Williston, 4 00

Rosendale, Mrs. Maria Hill, which
cons. George Hill an H. M. 100;
cong. ch. and so. 27 ; 127 00

Waukesha, H. E. and H. A. Barrett, 7 00—173 58

IOWA.

Big Rock, Rev. Ozias Littlefield, 20 00
Cherokee, J. S. W. 2 00

Garnaville, B. S. 2 ; Rev. L. P. M. 2 ; 4 00 — 26 00

MISSOURI.

St. Louis, 1st pres. ch. 85 23

MINNESOTA.

Bloomington, Oak Grove pres. ch. 35 00

CALIFORNIA.

Downieville, Cong. ch. 25 00

San Francisco, E. B. Babbit, (J. S A. 50 00 — 75 00

FOREIGN LANDS AND MISSIONARY
STATIONS.

Abeih, Syria, H. L. Van Dyck, 15; G. Som-
erville, 5 ; 20 CO

Batticotta, Ceylon, A native Christian, a

thank-offering, 1 20

England, J. S. Bright, 25 00

Fuh chau, China, Rev. Justin Doolittle, wh.
with prev. dona. cons. Mrs. LuCY E.
Doolittle an H. M. 50; VV. S. Sloan,
for building fund, 145; D. O. Clark, for
do. lOu ; G. F. Weller, for do. 25 ; Rev.

W. C. Burns, for do. 5U ; Rev. N. Bos-

worth, 40 ; 410 00

Madras, subscriptions rec’d, for ed. 332,44 ;
printing office people, 19,33 ; Mr. Carroll,

5 ; avails of cow, fr. a ch. mem. 5 ; 361 77

Madura mission, by Rev. J. Rendall— Mad-
ura, 23,35; m. c. 2.5,88; coll, at Septem-
ber meeting, 23,43 ; girls’ hoarding sch.

3,30; by S. W. A, 25; TOO 96

Malur, Missionary fam. 3,90 ; coll, at Sept,
meeting by catechists and native Chris-
tians, 10,13 ; 14 03

Mandapasalie, Native Christians, to cons.

Rev. H. S. Taylor an H. M. 50 00

Nestorian mission. City m. c 9,10 ; Degala
m. c. 5,45 ; Geog Tapa, m. c. 25 ; Gool-
parhan, m. c. 2,62 ; Seir, m. c. and con-
trib. 31,50 ; Vazier Abad, m. c. 8,18; fr.

Priest Elias and others, 34,65 ; 116 50

Pasumalie, Coll. 9,03 ; avails of jewels, 1,03 ; lO 06
Periaculum, Mr. Noyes and fam. 60 ; coll.

(of wh. at Sept, meeting, 19,39 ;) 40,65 ; 100 65

Pulney, by Mr. White, 7 ; coll, at Septem-
ber meeting, by do. 50 ; 57 00

Quebec, Canada, A friend, 20 ; united m. c.
held in cong. ch. 12 ; do. in Chalmers
(free ch.) 8,40 ; two friends in do. 8 ; J.
Dickenson, a little boy, do. 9,27 ; Baptist
ch. united m. c. 15,33 ; Misses Clarke,
and Miss Alice Gibbs, for ed. of a child,

20 ; C. Wintell, 5 ; 98 00

Sandwich Islands, Hilo, Native ch. a thank
offering for support of Kanea and Aea, of
Micronesia miss. 300 00

Sivagunga and Mana Madura, coll. 4 92

Sorel, C. E., J. Allen, 5 00

Tirumungalum, (of wh. fr. Rev. J. Herrick

and fam. 17,50 ;) 55 13

1,730 22

MISSION SCHOOL ENTERPRISE.
received in march.

MAINE.— Brewer Village, Cong. s. s. for
miss. sch. at Kharpoot, Turkey, 10 ; Far-
mington, cong. s. s- to sup. a teacher in
Madura, 25,18 ; Gorham, Miss C. Frost’s
class, 3 ; young friends, 1 ; Monmouth,
cong. s. s. 4 ; Saco, cong. s. s. 52c. ;
Southport, Melatoph and Isabel Beale, 1 ;
Sweden, sons of Rev. A. Loring, 1 ; Wa-
terville, E. Wilkins, 2;

NEW HAMPSHIRE. —Acworth, 5; Ca-
naan, cong. s. s. 1 ; Fitzwilliam, Thomas
D. Jenkins, 1 ; Willie L. Jenkins, 1 ; s. s.
asso. for miss. sch. 12,50; North Conway,

8. s. 1,85 ;

VERMONT.— Bar^, 8. s.9 ; Georgia, Mary,
Temple and Julia, 1; Granby, s. s. 10;
children, avails of berries picked and
dried, 4.09 ; St. Johnsbury, South ch. s. s.

30; Westfield, 7;

47 70

22 35

61 09

MASSACHUSETTS.— Boston, Mt. Vernon
s. s. for a sch. in Madura, 27,47 ; juv. miss,
so. for Miss Fisk’s sch. Oroomiah, 25 ;
Medford, Mystic s. s. for sch. in do. 30 ;
Quincy, Mrs. Benjamin Brewster, Jr., for
sup. of a girl in fern. sem. Oroomiah, 18 ;
Reading, Old South s. s. for sch. in Mad-
ura, 9,24 ; Southampton, inf. class s. s.
30c.;

RHODE ISLAND. — Providence, Relig. so.
of Brown Univer. for Turkish miss. sch.
sch. 50 ; prev. ack. 38 ; High st. cong. ch.
s. s. fern, classes Nos. 2, 3 and 21, 8 ;

NEW YORK.— Brooklyn, Juv. miss. so.
wh. with prev. dona. cons. Rev. John H.
Mellish, of Kingston, N. H., an H. M.
15 ; Cambria, cong. s. s. for a teacher in
Madura miss. 25; for mothers and daugh-
ters who cannot attend the miss. sch. 10 ;
Owego, s. s. 10 ; Rome, pres. s. s. for sch.
at Abeih, Syria, 15; Westport, 1st cong.
ch. juv. miss. so. 5 ;

PENNSYLVANIA. — Carbondale, Pres. s. s.
for sch. at Ain Zehalty, Syria, 12,50 ;
Indian Orchard, Bible class, for do. 12,50 ;
Philadelphia, Pine st. ch. s. s. 50 ;

OHIO. — Columbus, 2d pres. ch. s. s. for
Madura and Kharpoot miss. schs. 60 ;
Kinsman, s. s, for Mr. Scudder’s sch.
Madura, 10; Maumee, 1st pres. s. s.
3,40; Mesopotamia, pres. so. inf. class,
53c. ; Portsmouth, Miss Bell’s inf. class for
Mr. Preston, Gaboon m. 3 ; Warren, pres,
s. s. for Mr. Scudder’s sch. Madura, 25;

INDIANA.— La Porte, Savings of two chil-
dren, dec’d, 2; a boy, 25c. ; a little girl,
1 ;

ILLINOIS. — Jacksonville, 1st pres, s s. for
Mr. Webb’s sch. Madura, 25 : Mt. Ster
ling, N. S. pres, ch s. s. 17,10; Sand
wich, pres. ch. s. s. class, 65c. ; Spring
field, 2d pres. ch. s. s. for a sch. in Mad
ura miss. 25 ; P. P. Enos, for do. 25 ; Mrs
L. Woods, for do. 25 ;

MICHIGAN. — Birmingham, Pres. s. s
10,13; ack. in March under 111. ; Flint
pres. s. s. 15; Grand Rapids, two little
girls, 35c. ; Tekonsha, pres. s. s. miss, so
3 ;

MISSOURI.— South Hannibal, Union s. :
for Mr. Scudder’s sch. fund,

FOREIGN LANDS.— Abeih, Syria, Girl
boarding sch.

110 01

20 00

80 CO

75 00

101 93
3 25

117 75

Donations received in March,
Legacies,

4,362 60

$ 24,896 37

total from September 1st,

1861, to March 31st, 1862, $ 161,509 77

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