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EDITED FOR
THE BOARD OP MISSIONS
OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
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PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE.
Vol. XIII. DECEMBER, 1848. No. 12.
MISSIONARY REPORTS.
illaine.
Brunswick — Rev. T. F. Fales.
“ Since my last report I have been almost entirely disqualified for all
the public duties of my station by continued ill health. It has, however,
been an unspeakable comfort to myself and my people that they have not
suffered from such a visitation, as under ordinary circumstances they would
have done. The Rev. Professor Goodwin, of Bowdoin College, whose
labors for the benefit of this parish, from the first, have been invaluable,
kindly and most acceptably officiated in my stead. Our church has been
closed only two Sundays during the whole time. I am now better, and
trust, by the blessing of God, I may soon resume my wonted labors.
“ I have no matters of especial iuterest to report in reference to the condi-
tion and prospects of this station. I trust that before my half-year’s salary
in April shall become due, I may be able to state, that we can dispense
with a portion, although it must be a very small portion, of the aid which
the Board has so long and patiently extended to us. It has not been for
want of inclination and effort that something of the kind has not been done
already. We can hope in this place for only a very gradual increase of
strength, but, at the same time, an influence may be exerted, which will be
telling every year upon the interests of the Church at large.”
Concord — Rev. N. E. Marble.
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“ The prospects of this parish were never so encouraging as at the pre-
sent time. The attendance on public worship has increased ; and as this
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is a growing place, we may reasonably hope for more additions to our num-
ber in due time. But though encouraged by signs of prosperity, we are
guarded against too great degree of elevation by the manifold indications
around us, that our permanent growth must be slow. Ignorance of the
character and claims of our Church, and deep-rooted prejudices, will have
to be overcome. But ther£ are cheering signs that these formidable barri-
ers to our progress are giving way.
“ This parish will, eventually, well repay whatever is expended upon it,
as from its location in the capital, and near the centre of the state, it will
exert a commanding influence upon the interests of our Church in this
diocese. Our Sunday-school, though small, is well organized, and both
teachers and scholars manifest a commendable zeal in its duties and stu-
dies. About ninety volumes of well-selected books have recently been
added to the Sunday-school library. We have also a small parish library.
And your missionary has recently begun to collect a minister’s parish
library, which is to be the property of the parish, and for the sole use of
the rector.”
Manchester — Rev. J. Kelly.
“ I took charge of this station in June last. In consequence of the pro-
longed ill health of my predecessor the church had been closed about four
months ; this could not but be detrimental to any parish, but peculiarly so
in a place like this, where the people, as a general thing, know nothing of
the Church, and where, on account of the changes constantly taking place,
(incident to all manufacturing towns,) there is little opportunity for church
principles to becom e fixed, producing thereby strong and permanent attach-
ment. Still, we have cause for thankfulness, that renewed zeal seems to
be manifested, and a disposition to make personal sacrifices for the sake of
sustaining and increasing our branch of the Catholic Church. We cannot
boast of numbers , yet we feel that the ministry, sacraments and ritual, are
quite as important and precious to us as if we numbered thousands.
‘•We have lately made some repairs and improvements in the interior of
our house of worship ; adding, we think, not a little to its convenience ahd
church-like appearance. The Holy Communion is administered each
month, and also on all other occasions for which the Church has appointed
‘ proper prefaces.’ The church is open for Morning Prayer, and usually
a sermon preached, on all the * Holy Days’ laid down in the calendar.
‘•We are trying to establish the Sunday-school, which, from the circum-
stances above mentioned, had been entirely given up. We have at present
seven teachers (including the rector,) and about forty scholars. After their
respective lessons they are all, adults as well as children, catechised every
Sunday.”
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Milford , Cedar Creek , and Georgetown — Rev. J. L. McKim.
“ The report cf this Missionary station must necessarily be so like my
former ones, that it v-ill be sufficient to particularize the items I give below.
In a field like this, where the soil is not new, and, consequently, ready for
the sowing of any seed, but already pre-occupied by systems that have once
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triumphed over and supplanted the Church, there is as much (or rather
more) to be effected by suffering as by acting. We have To go through
the tedious process of living down the opposition of enemies, and of re-
conciling the most obstinate and overbearing prejudices, by showing, as
we go along, all possible evidence of the reliability of the Church and
her principles. Popular sentiment is against us; and especially the
circumstances, that the doctrine, discipline, and worship, which once
obtained in this region, have given way, and almost disappeared before
an invading sect, has put us in the character of a conquered and despised
people. It requires an effort of courage to cheer one another in our holy
faith, much more to say to a stranger, ‘ Come with us, and we will do thee
good. ’ They look on us as bigoted disciples of an old exploded religion ;
and we make no new friends except through slow convictions and the force
of actual experience.
“ In the meantime, the young of our congregations are continually liable
to be drawn away by the popular feeling to follow the multitude. It is one
of our most onerous duties to preserve them from the influence of the
machinery employed on all sides to gain them ; to disabuse their minds of a
notion that all entertain, more or less deliberately, that though the worship
in the Episcopal Church may be very good, yet ‘ religion 3 must be obtained
abroad. And it is not an uncommon thing for persons to apply here for
confirmation who have qualified themselves (as they suppose) for the ordi-
nance, by ‘ getting religion 5 in some Non-Episcopal Meeting.
“ To these causes, if I could add a true description of the lamentable
ignorance of the Scriptures — of the most obvious and prominent truths of
the New Testament — which prevails outside of the borders of the Church,
even among conspicuous professors of religion all around us, you would
not be surprised that the truth is so little appreciated, that the Prayer-Book
is so reluctantly approved, that the Missionaries’ reports of ‘ communicants
added ’ are so meagre from year to year.
“ Then we have our losses by death for another discouragement. But
the other day our most excellent warden at Milford, Mr. John R. Draper,
departed this life — a blessed gain to him no doubt, but to us a loss that
cannot soon be repaired. Through all the adversity of the little church at
that place he had stood by it bravely and almost alone. His exemplary
character and prudent conduct went far to redeem it from total extinction ;
and he had lived to see it rise from the dust, and put on the appearance
of prosperity. He is now taken away from us in middle life, and even
already we feel sadly the want of a member as active, as zealous, as reliable
as he was.
“ And so it is ali around us. Now one, who was by birth a Churchman,
now one, who wras such by prejudice — for there are some even of this kind —
is removed; and our numbers seem to diminish rather than increase: and
latterly our very ministers have left us. My two missionary neighbors of
last year are now out of the field, and their stations vacant (I fear) for a
long time to come.”
(Georgia.
Atalanta — Rev. J. J. Hunt.
“ Our church at Atalanta was completed in the spring and consecrated
on the 28th of May. By the kindness of friends it has been furnished with
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books for the desk, lamps, and a little contributed for carpets. The
bell promised has been received, and on Saturday last was placed in
the belfry, serving to call the congregation together on the next day,
Sunday. It is of fine tone (180 lbs. in weight,,) and 1 hope will prove of great
advantage in giving notice for our services. Heretofore we have labored
under great disadvantage for the want of it. The congregation were very
good for three times on that day.
“ A Communion set has been purchased for us by friends, and is now
(as I have been advised) on the way from Philadelphia. So you see the
enterprize has been favored with at least marks of temporal success, and
from this, cannot we hope and trust for the Divine favor on its spiritual
interests, evidenced by its slow but sure and permanent advancement 1 ”
Alabama,
Carlowville — F. B. Lee.
“ I have preached occasionally in a neighboring parish at a distance of
ten miles; returning by night to hold a service in my own. A visit was
also made to a town twenty miles distant, with a view of giving counte-
nance and encouragement to a few members of the Church at the place.
An excursion is also contemplated to a new neighborhood, in which there
are said to be two or three families of Episcopalians. My circumstances,
however, and the importance of my charge here, leave me little liberty for
travelling about.”
Jacksonville — Rev. D. D. Flower.
“ Since my April report nothing of particular interest has occurred in
our parish. The Church is gradually becoming better known, and her
services and teachings better appreciated. But, as is always the case in a
new country, this is slow; and oftentimes the same thing which in one
person would lead to a searching of the Scriptures, whether these things
were so, drives another to blind opposition. Such seems to be the
case here, but there is hope that better times are reserved for us. The
annual excitement caused by the Methodists’ protracted meeting has just
subsided. This, for the present time, has caused some little prejudice
against the Church because we did not unite with them ; yet I have no
reason to fear that this prejudice will be either deep or lasting, but by
speaking the truth in love I hope to win souls to Christ.
“I was absent from home in the early part of July, by appointment, to
meet my Bishop, when owing to his illness I was detained three weeks (two
Sundays) from my parish. The Bishop, however, recovering, I w'as by him
admitted to the holy order of priests, on Wednesday, 12th of July; thus
enabling us to have the full services of the Church with the holy Eucharist
monthly, of which before we were deprived. Since Easter one communi-
cant has been added to our number, making six in all.”
Florence — Rev. J. B. T. Smith.
“I entered on my duties here the first Sunday in August, and have
officiated regularly at Tuscaloosa and Florence, with the exception of one
Sunday, when I was prevented by sickness.
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“ Little of interest can be expected from a station that has been unoccu-
pied for eighteen months. Soon after my arrival, several Episcopal
families left this place on a visit; and this, together with sickness, which
has prevailed to an unusual degree, has subtracted largely from my congre-
gations, and rendered them small. An encouraging degree of interest is
manifested by the few that have attended ; and as the congregations will
soon increase, it is hoped that by the time of the next regular report
gratifying information may be sent.”
intelligence.
[ From the. Banner of the Cros.>.]
TV ILL THE CHURCH SUSTAIN HER WESTERN MISSONS?
This is the real question before the Church, and its final decision cannot
long be delayed. Let not the members of the Church deceive themselves,
nor unwisely refuse to consider in time a disagreeable truth.
The questions are not merely, Shall this or that station, in some field
white unto the harvest, be abandoned? Shall the Church’s prayers and
praises rise no longer from some hamlet or village in the western wilds?
Shall the deep voice of her supplications, and the music of her solemn
chants, he heard no more upon the vast prairie, and wake no more the
echoes of the mighty hills? Shall this or that missionary be left to starve
upon the unfulfilled promises of the Church ? These, though questions of
moment, do not include the great and real question now at issue, which is
in truth the one ^et forth at the head of this article. In other words, shall
the whole domestic branch of the Board of Missions be broken up? This
must be the result; and we say deliberately, that it is far better it should be
so, than that Body, which the Church has solemnly adopted as part of her-
self, should stand before the world as unable to fulfil its engagements and
discharge its debts.
We know it to be a fact, that our Missionary Bishops have suffered great
inconvenience for want of their stipulated salaries. And we Icnoio cases of
Missionaries, who, having held to their post until they have been literally
starved out, have at last been obliged to leave the place where they could
do no good, because they had lost their credit, for the simple reason, that
the Church had given them “nothing to pay.”
These remarks have been occasioned by a stirring letter from the Rt.
Rev. Dr. Kemper. Although this letter is written in the hurry and occu-
pation of a western visitation, yet as the words of a Bishop, whose zeal and
devotion have been shown by his works, and who speaks from actual know-
ledge and observation, must have greatest weight, we will quote a portion
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[December,
of this interesting letter. The justice of the views first expressed, will ap-
pear evident to all, and the few facts related speak more powerfully than
any words.
“ I observe that the Spirit of Missions proposes a collection on Advent
Sunday for the Domestic Committee. May I beg you to urge it upon the
attention of all the Clergy and the whole body of the faithful. In my opin-
ion, it is a subject of immense importance. I am so incessantly occupied
that I cannot arrange my thoughts ; but I will state as they occur, and as 1
have time, a few facts and opinions of which you can make use.
“ I think at the last meeting of the Board of Missions it was recom-
mended to the Domestic Committee to pay the Missionaries hereafter at the
end of every quarter. I wish the Church would urge this, and insist upon
this as a matter of vast concern. I have proposed to the Domestic Com-
mittee to do it hereafter from 1st January, even if they have to borrow
thousands of dollars. A debt incurred, by paying the Missionaries punc-
tually, what has been solemnly pledged to them, in the name of the Church,
would rouse the feelings, and zeal, and generosity of Churchmen, if anything
can do it.
I do not think that the interest of Churchmen in the broad subject of
Missions has lessened, but it has of late been nearly absorbed by Diocesan
and Foreign Missions, while we in the west, in the midst of our labors, so
important, so promising, are almost left to perish. This almost abandon-
ment of the west has in a good measure arisen from ignorance, prejudice,
or calumny. The great body of the Missionaries are, and have been, sound
divines, and practical, pious and useful men. Of course, at times, some
who were unworthy, or could not succeed at the East, have found their
way to our new country, and the folly of a few has been visited upon all;
while the vast majority, amidst unnumbered trials and privations, have per-
severed in laying a foundation which cannot be moved.
“ For two or three years past, the delay in making remittances to the
clergy has been most painful and injurious. The Rev. Mr. came to
Wisconsin with a large family and a few hundred dollars. He purchased
some land and paid for it in part, promising the other payments semi-
annually as his Missionary salary was sent him. Month after month
elapsed, and no remittance arrived from New-York. He must then either
lose his land, which was becoming valuable, or borrow money to meet his
payments at 12 per cent. His parish gave him but little, for they were
building a church, and he was too modest to complain. For a time he
preached at three stations, one of which was fourteen miles off, and the
other eight, and to both of which he walked. He and his sister
taught school, and he and his little boys at odd hours cultivated the land
to some extent. By the strictest economy in his family (in which there
has been much sickness) he has thus far saved his land — but it has been
amidst anxiety and debt.
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“ The Rev. Mr. lately wrote me that he left the service of the
Domestic Committee, because he could not receive his Missionary salary.
I found Logansport in Indiana vacant, as it generally has been for years
past. The Rev. Mr. has been there for ten months without receiving
one cent from the Domestic Committee. Having a family to support, he
readily embraced an opportunity to return to Ohio, where he would be
relieved from his difficulties. And yet he was beloved by his parish, and
they mourned his departure. One of our best and truest men, the Rev.
Mr. , has a little parish at Mishawaka. The members are warmly
attached to him, but they are few in number, and have a heavy debt on the
church hanging over them. Every /thing around his little establishment
was neat and respectable — while the garden and the chicken-house have
supplied him and his excellent wife (they have no children) with the greater
part of their food ; but the rent was to be paid quarterly, and he depended
upon his Missionary salary, and twelve months had elapsed the day I was
with him — and for those twelve months he had not received one cent from
New-York. I said a few days since to the Rev. S. L. Johnson of
Indianapolis, that his Missionary salary would be reduced. He replied that
he did not know how he could bear it — but added, on reflection, that he
would give it up from this time, provided all now due to him was paid
without delay. These are a few of the best cases, and do they not prove
that the gifts of the Church, solemnly pledged, but delayed month after
month, to the mortification, anguish and distress of the Missionaries, pro-
duce as much evil as good ? He who should set an example in all things,
and who is a representative of the Church — cannot pay his debts — violates
his word — and suffers in every respect — because the Church forfeits her
word to him ! ”
To this, the Bishop adds a word of encouragement. “Of our success
and prosperity something can be said, of a most encouraging nature.
Wisconsin, the youngest Diocese, exceeds in the number of her clergy and
communicants twelve or fourteen other Dioceses. And Indiana, with more
than twenty parishes, shows what can be done, with the blessing of God, in
a country where, thirteen years ago, the Church was unknown.”
The question then is, not whether the Church is to grow and extend in
the West. It has been planted there, and neither the active hostility, nor
the passive neglect of man may stop the work which is of God. The
question is, whether the Church at large, and we especially in the East, are
to have a share in this great and blessed work 1 If not, we must blot from
our Prayer Book the 105th Hymn, that the concluding verse may no longer
testify against us.
*• Saviour, we own this debt of love :
O shed Thy Spirit from above,
To move each Christian breast;
Till heralds shall Thy truth proclaim,
And temples rise to fix Thy name,
Through all our desert West.”
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[ December,
The following notice calls upon the Church to give an immediate answer
to the question proposed in the beginning of this article.
COLLECTION ON ADVENT SUNDAY, FOR DOMESTIC MISSIONS.
To the Bishops , Clergy and Laity , of the Protestant Episcopal Church :
It will be remembered, that the Board of Missions, at its Triennial
Meeting, recommended a collection to be made on Advent Sunday last, in
aid of Domestic Missions.
This was generally adopted, greatly to the relief of the Missionaries. In
some portions of the country, however, the collection was riot made, because
the season appointed had passed before notice thereof could be given.
As usual, during the past summer, but little has been received into the
Treasury, and the Missionaries remain unpaid.
In view of the many advantages to be derived from a systematic plan of
contribution throughout the churches, and especially of the great importance
to the Missionaries, that they should receive their arrears before the setting
in of winter, the Domestic Committee respectfully request your attention to
the subject; and ask that on Advent Sunday, the third of December next,
or on some other day near that time, a collection or contribution may be
made for this object, and as soon thereafter as practicable be remitted to
the Treasurer of Domestic Missions.
In behalf of the Committee,
Charles H. Halsey,
Secretary and General Agent.
CALIFORNIA.
We can serve the cause here presented in no better way than by laying
this document before our readers.
Rev. and Dear Brother in the Lord :
A new territory has been added to these United States, and thus a new
and wide field opened to the blessed influence of our branch of the Church of
Christ. Upper California, with unparalleled climate, soil and native riches,
draws hundreds of our countrymen. More than twelve thousand Americans
are already there. It is estimated on reliable authority, that, next spring,
many thousands will cross the Rocky Mountains, to seek a home in Cali-
fornia. The town of San Francisco, increasing with unprecedented ra-
pidity, and evidently destined to be a central point of A.merican enterprise,
has actually a population of more than two thousand Americans. The im-
portance of establishing a Mission at San Francisco, has been considered
by the Domestic Committee of Missions. Having been appointed to that
station, and leaving in December, I hope, with God’s favor, to be in Feb-
ruary next on the field of labor, to which I intend to devote my life.
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The Mission at San Francisco seems, in more than one respect, to have
a peculiar claim on the attention and co-operation of the American Church"
men. I abstain from mentioning the expenses of so distant a journey. I
would only lay before my Reverend Brethren the importance of going
there, with part, at least, of the funds necessary to build a Church, wherein
to preach the Word, and to administer the Sacraments ; to establish a
School, wherein to assemble the children of the hardy pioneer. Not, that
the people of San Francisco will be backward in doing their part ; the ap-
pended note gives proof to the contrary. But let the warm-hearted and
generous Churchman, enjoying the privileges of civilization, send them a
token of brotherly love and communion. Let not the Missionary come
with empty hands. Let him be encouraged in the arduous task before him.
Let him bring to the shores of the Pacific, the visible proof, that the
Churchmen on the borders of the Atlantic sympathize with their brethren
in the common Faith.
Wherefore, Reverend and Dear Brother in the Lord, I humbly request
your co-operation in this work, by directing the attention of your congre-
gation to it, by reading this letter, or, better yet, by preaching a sermon, to
impress them with the importance of the subject, and by receiving such
contributions as your parishioners will give, as a “ free-will offering to the
Lord,” and forwarding the same to the Domestic Committee of Missions
at New-York, to be appropriated to the purposes herein contemplated.
In the bonds of Christian love,
Your Servant and Brother,
John L. Ver Mehr, Ph. D., LL. D.,
Missionary to San Franciscoy California.
Philadelphia, Oct. 2 6th, 1848.
The undersigned cheerfully commends the above to the favorable notice
of his brethren. Alonzo Potter,
Bishop of the Frot. Epis. Church in> Pennsylvania.
The undersigned, residents of, or about removing to California, fully
aware of the importance of establishing the Church in San Francisco, will
contribute towards the erection of a Church there; and hope that the call
upon the Church, made by the Rev, Dr. Ver Mehr, who has their entire con-
fidence and warm support, may be abundantly responded to.
B. Riley, Brig. Gen. U. S. Army.
Alex. V. Fraser, Capt. U. S. R. S.
G. C. Westcott, Bit. Capt. U. S. Army.
J. W. Revere, Lieut. U. S. Navy.
George A. Ward.
Frank Ward.
John G. Christie.
Rodman M. Price, Purser U. S. Navy.
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DOMESTIC MISSIONS.— ADVENT COLLECTION.
It is impossible to overrate the present importance of our Western Mis-
sions.— Never was there such need of doing what we do with our might.
Nations are springing into being there in a day. They are now plastic,
and ready to be moulded as the heart of the Church may will. If we wait,
they become barbarized and indifferent to the faith and life of the Gospel.
Our operations are on a narrow scale. They ought to be vastly increased.
If we had ten laborers in the field where we have one, it would be too little
for the harvest ; it would be far too little for the wealth which belongs to the
Church, and ought to be consecrated to the cause of Christ. And yet this
Advent Collection, which is about to be made, is needed to pay up arrears!
To keep us from breaking our engagements with the few Missionaries we
have in the field ! If we were ever permitted to appeal to the patriotism of
our people, we would tell them, that in no way can they more effectually se-
cure the stability and grandeur of the great American Republic, than by
planting the living law of Christianity in its farthest bounds. Only let it
be made and kept a Christian nation, and we have no fears for its future
destiny. But we would urge all who have been baptized into Christ to
manifest their love and loyalty to their heavenly King, by consecrating freely
their earthly substance to the glory and extension of the divine Kingdom.
Our forefathers freely offered up both their fortunes and their lives for the
establishment of the earthly Republic : shall we not give freely of our sub-
stance for the building up of the Divine Commonwealth, in which we are
fellow-citizens with the Saints?
The Advent collection will, we trust, show that we have all studied, no
how little we could satisfy our consciences with, but how much we can
take from our luxuries /and even our wants, to give to the cause of Christ
and His Church. — [Calendar.)
Collection on Advent Sunday for Domestic Missions. — We notice
that in one or two Dioceses it has been recommended to make a collection
on Advent Sunday for their own objects.
We trust that our request for a collection will not interfere with any
Diocesan arrangement, and that by convenient adjustment of the time, as
near Advent Sunday as practicable , every Parish may be enabled to make
us a remittance.
secretary and general agent.
The Domestic Committee give notice, that the Rev. C. H. Halsey has
consented to withdraw his resignation, tendered at the time of accepting
the Rectorship of Christ Church, New-York ; and relinquishing one-half
of his salary, will continue to discharge the duties of Secretary and
General Agent until the next meeting of the Board of Missions.
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Funds. — The present number gives the last opportunity for this year, to
appeal to the Churches in behalf of the Missionaries.
Like almost every year before it, this has been one of continual solicitude
on their account.
The Treasurer, with the generous assistance of two friends of Missions,
has at last sent to all the Missionaries their salary due on 1st April, 1>48.
The money thus advanced, must be returned out of the Advent Collection-
The Board of Missions has recommended that they should receive pay-
ments quarterly — yet the Church is actually indebted to them for more than
a half year’s salary. It is impossible for the Committee to carry out the re-
commendation of the Board without funds ; and now we speak with deep
earnestness in their behalf, when we say, that it is of the utmost importance
to the Missionaries , that they should receive their salaries as speedily as pos-
sible. Surely the Church will not require that, in addition to the great
delay of payment, their privations consequent shall again be published to
the world, before they can be relieved ? A slight effort on the part of their
clerical brethren can impart joy and gladness to hearts now oppressed with
great anxiety respecting the future, — to say nothing of the past.
Appointments : — The Rev. J. L. H. Ver Mehr, Ph. D.t LL.D., to
San Francisco, California. From November 1st, 1848.
The Rev. W. M. Steel, to Tipton, Randolph and Somerville, Tenn.
From October 1st, 1848. P. O., Beaver Dam Forks, Tipton Co.
THE SPIRIT OF MISSIONS.
To the Clergy of the Churchy
and the Subscribers to the Spirit of Missions :
The undersigned thankfully acknowledges the valuable aid of many of the
Clergy in different parts of the country, in procuring and transmitting sub-
scriptions to this publication.
Twelve hundred copies of this work are distributed without charge,
(chiefly among the Clergy.) To sustain this distribution, and to recover
the cost of the whole edition, reliance is had upon the paying Subscribers;
but a large amount of subscriptions remains unpaid. The publication now
stands in need of all its dues, and of additions to the list of Subscribers, to
prevent its becoming a burden to the Treasuries of the Board of Missions.
Should these dues be paid up, and should each Clergyman who receives
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the work send back but a single new name with one year’s subscription, not
only would the threatened demand upon the Treasuries be prevented, but
with the greater diffusion of information, a greater interest in the work of
Missions would be awakened, and this publication would actually be
enabled to pay into ike Treasuries jive hundred dollars, instead of becoming
a burden to them. Is anything more than this statement requisite to induce
the Clergy generally to take this matter in hand? — to induce those
who are indebted to the Spirit of Missions, to pay up the amount of their
arrearages without delay?
Remittances may at all times be made to the Publisher, by mail : but
should the Subscriber reside in one of the places where there is an agent,
(see list on second page of cover) he would do well to make payment to
him.
Daniel Dana, Jr.,
Publisher, &c.
Qlckiicrolebgments.
DOMESTIC MISSIONS.
The Treasurer of the Domestic Committee, ac-
knowledges the receipt of the following sums from
October 15, to November 15, 1848.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Ashfield— St. John’s 1 00
Boston — St. Paul’s 12 50
Church of tlie Messiah 3 00
Cambridge — Christ Ch 39 50
Marblehead — St. Michael’s *5.... 5 23
Ne wton Lower Falls — St. Mary’s 10 00
Salem— St. Peter’s.... f 53 78 125 01
CONNECTICUT.
Monroe — Rev. J. H. Betts 2 50
New- Haven — Trinity 100 00
Newtown — Legacy of the late Mrs. R.
Glover. V. .. 25 00
Watertown — Christ Ch 20 00 147 50
NEW- YORK.
Goshen — St. James’s, for 111 45 00
New- York — St. Mark’s, C. Carville,
Esq. i 5 00
Ulster — Trinity Ch. 2 00 52 00
NEW-JERSEY.
Newark — Trinity 25 72
New- Brunswick — Christ Ch 10 00 35 72
PENNSYLVANIA.
Butler — St. Peter’s 4 50
Leacock — Christ Ch • 3 00
New-London, X Roads — St John’s, LI 04
Pottstown — Ch l ist Ch 18 00
Reading — Christ Ch., Mo. Miss. Coll.
for San Francisco 30 00 56 54
DELAWARE.
Newcastle — Emmanuel 30 00
Wilmington— St. Andrew’s 55 87
Triuity 22 90 108 77
MARYLAND.
From “Charles,” through the Editors
of the Epis. Recorder 20 00
VIRGINIA.
Portsmouth — Trinity Ch 20 00
NORTH CAROLINA.
Raleigh — Hon. D. Cameron 50 00
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Charleston — St. Philips, for Bishop
Kemper’s jurisdiction 32 00
Do. for Bishop Freeman’s... .32 00
Do. for Jews 5 00
Mo. Miss. Lee., Oct. and Nov. 6 30
Do. for Indiana 50
Edgeville — Trinity Ch 10 00
Pendleton — Summer off’gs. ofafami-
ly of children.., 5 00 90 80
GEORGIA.
Macon— Christ Ch. £ 10 00
FLORIDA.
Key West — St. Paul’s *5 00
ALABAMA.
Carlo wville 11 70
Dallas Co. — St. David’s 5 31 17 01
ILLINOIS.
Joliet and Lochport 10 00
Lancaster — M. L. Marsh, £ 5 00 15 00
ARKANSAS.
Fort Smith — All Saints 30 00
Fan Buren — Trinity 2 00 32 00
MISCELLANEOUS.
A Friend to Missions, post-mark Cam-
bridge, ^ 2 50
A Lady, per the Secretary 2 50
Legacy of the late E. Hallam, Esq.,
New-London, Ct , £ 696 12 701 12
Total $1,486 47
(Total since June 15, 1848, $5,493 56.)
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Constantinople.
REPORT OF RT. REV. HORATIO SOUTHGATE, D. D. ( Continued .)
May 1 5th. — Communicated to the Greek Patriarch my thanks and con-
gratulations on occasion of the successful issue of his opposition to the
religious propagandism of the Papal Envoy. Tine mission of the Envoy,
as I have mentioned, soon took a religious turn ; and at length there ap-
peared, under cover of his popularity as Ambassador from the Pope, a letter
from the latter, addressed to all the Oriental Christians, inviting them into
44 the fold of the Catholic Church,” and telling them plainly that they were
now out of it, on account of their separation from Rome. This letter was
translated into the different Oriental languages, and distributed in large
numbers. Copies were sent to the Patriarchs, Bishops, and other clergy,
and left at the churches. The Armenians received it very meekly after
their manner. Some were pleased with the compliments which it con-
tained upon Eastern Christianity of olden times ; some laughed at it ; some
were indifferent; but most seemed to take it with that quiet spirit which
marks the nation. I have often remarked, that the Armenians set less
apparent value upon their membership in the Church Catholic, than any
other Eastern Christians, and therefore are more easily drawn away from
their Church. There is, too, a very unhappy spirit of discord among the
Armenians, — a want of fraternal feeling among themselves, — which is most
unfavorable to their unity as a Church or a nation. The Greeks, on the
contrary, are a solid, compact mass. They stand together shoulder to
shoulder, like brothers; and, therefore, with some slight exceptions of
proselytism, which were effected at the times of the Crusaders, when Rome
was in her glory, they have suffered little from schism.
Among them the Pope’s letter was received with an universal burst of
indignation, and it was soon apparent that serious consequences must follow.
The Patriarch, a thorough Greek in his church feelings, represented the
matter and the whole object of the Envoy’s visit to the Porte and the Sultan
in such a light, that the Envoy was compelled to leave, not only with haste,
but with far less of eclat than had marked his arrival. 7'he event has been
of great importance. It has been disastrous to the Papal prospects in the
East, and it will be long before the Greeks will recover from the sense of
insult which the Pope’s letter excited. It is owing mainly to the firm
stand of the Greek Patriarch that so happy an issue has been attained, and
I conceived it to be becoming that a representative of another branch of
the Catholic Church should present his thanks for the effort and his con-
gratulations for the result. My communication was received with great
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cordiality by the Patriarch, who gave me various details of his labors in
this common cause.
May \lth. — Met a Roman Catholic priest at the house of a friend. We
had some talk upon the present state of things at Rome. He said that the
Pope had a good head, but was surrounded with difficulties, and ppposed by
many of the higher ecclesiastics. He seemed to think that he was doing a
good work by his political reforms, but he spoke of no others as contem-
plated or likely to follow.
May 23 d. — Received tidings from Mossoul. Kas M. writes more parti-
cularly of the nature of his occupation in the school. He acts as rector,
gives lessons himself, and assists the other teachers, of whom there are two.
He expresses his intention of going again to the mountains after the Feast
of the Ascension, and desires to employ as permanent teacher there, one
who is in the same ecclesiastical position with himself, and who has been
repeatedly recommended to me as a priest of reformed views and of a pious
character. He mentions also his desire of going once every three months
to the mountains, for the purpose of preaching among the villages and
teaching from house to house. He says that the people made a special
request to him to do so.
Mutran Behman writes details concerning the school, the same in sub-
stance as have been already reported. He appeals very earnestly for fur-
ther aid in carrying out his plans. I have arranged that everything of this
nature should be through Kas Michael and administered under his direc-
tion, as he is our recognized agent there.
June Sth. — Received a new student — the third. I hardly know how to
provide for so many in the present irregularity and uncertainty of my
receipts; but the case seemed so strong a one that I could not well refuse.
Others I have declined without hesitation for the present, but Paul, the
new student, knowing English already, and having been trained thus far
chiefly by our benefactions, and being withal a person of very superior
abilities, I could not hesitate to take him.
I will say a word here of the course pursued by me with my students.
They go to their own Church in the morning; afterwards they hear from
me an exposition of some part of Scripture, and attend Mission prayers.
They also have religious lessons twice a week. My object — my constant
object, with them — is to make them, with God’s blessing, good Christians
and good Churchmen. They attend to their ordinary studies during the
day, hut they are constantly under my eye, and I endeavor, hour by hour,
rising up and sitting down, at table and in our walks, to inculcate those
principles and precepts which I wish to make the basis of their character.
My only design is to fit them for usefulness among their own people. For
this purpose 1 give them my personal attention and care, hoping that they
may thereby become more efficient instruments of good. I have declined
receiving many who have applied for admission. I wish to be particular in the
choice of students, as I can have but few, and to train only such as may
be suited to my purpose. For this reason, I may dismiss one.that I have, who,
although of good disposition, desirous to learn, and ready always to receive
religious instruction, is not of that intellectual grade that I can expect much
of hicrh and influential effort from him for his nation’s good. The other
who has been with me, is all that I could wish, both in his ardor for learn-
ing, his ability to learn, and his moral dispositions. I expect much from
him, if I am permitted to finish his training. One or two even, of such
men, will be inestimable blessings; but my plan is gradually to enlarge
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the number as the Church enables me to do so, until I reach the point to
which my own ability extends. In this way, we may hope to see one after
another go forth into the heart of his nation, to work there for greater results
than any direct effort of a foreigner, however well qualified for his task
can hope to secure. They are all entirely dependent upon me for support
which is not an evil, but rather a good, since they are thus more completely
under my direction and authority.
June iist. — Received letters from Mossoul Kas Michael reports farther
upon his excursion to the mountains. He says there are twenty large
villages of the people to whom he referred, and ten priests: that he started
three schools ; that all the people wherever he went, wished him to take
them under his care ; that he visited only a part of the villages on account
of the severe cold and snow on the mountains at the time; that he intends,
in his next, to visit the n at large, leaving his family in Mossoul until he
learns whether he is to be permanently located in the mountains; that it is
a good field and promises much ; that it will require an increased expendi-
ture above my present appropriation to that department. He also asks a
supply of paper for books for the schools, which he proposes to translate
from Arabic.
June 29 tli. — Calling in the city to see an old friend, a Greek Bishop, I
was surprised to find that he had died. He wa& one with whom for years
I had been on terms of intimate intercourse, and with whom I had had
many long and interesting discussions on religious thing3. He was a man
of pure views, of a remarkably liberal and Catholic disposition, and one
from whom one could differ without danger, of breaking “ the unity of the
Spirit in the bond of peace.”
In his place I found a priest who had lately arrived from the interior, and
expected to be consecrated soon by the Archbishop of Constantinople, the
Greek Patriarch. I introduced myself, and sat with him an hour, talking
on religious matters. He was evidently puzzled to find my ecclesiastical
position. He had never heard of any Chiistians in the West but “Papists ”
and “ Luthero-Calvinists,” to neither of which I professed to belong 1
gave him some account of my Church, with which he was well pleased,
excepting (he asked particularly on this point) the Double Procession of
the Holy Ghost. For the hundredth time, perhaps, I bad to state and
defend our position on this point, giving the Orientals, as I uniformly do,
the credit of having retained the original language of the Creed. He was
not satisfied; he had never heard of any but Papists who held the Double
Procession, and it was with some difficulty that I convinced him that 1
was not one. We then got on more smoothly, and had a long and animated
discussion on many matters, doctrinal and practical.
He drew forth a pamphlet which I was pleased to see — an Answer to
the Pope’s “ Letter to the Orientals” — which had just been issued by the
Greek Patriarch and Synod, signed also by the Patriarchs of Antioch,
Alexandria, and Jerusalem — a document, in fine, bearing the impress of
the whole Greek Church. He read from it large portions in which the
Papal claims were strongly disputed, and, for my particular benefit, gave
me an extract bearing very hard upon the Double Procession, caliing
it in downright terms a “ heresy.” I had something to say in reply, and
we parted very good friends, notwithstanding our differences, upon which,
I hope, he got some light which he had not before.
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Qifricrt.
EXTRACTS FROM JOURNAL OF REV. J, PAYNE.
April 2d , 1848. — 1 had little expectation of any congregation to-day,
after the tidings brought to our people last night. It was reported and
confidently believed, that during the night or early this morning, a com-
bined attack would be made upon these towns by the River Cavalta, Grah-
way and Cape Palmas people, at four different points. As I made my
usual visit through the town yesterday, 1 found thp people everywhere fix-
ing their guns, breaking up pieces ofiron and brass for shot, and sitting in
groups, with care written on every countenance, as if expecting a despe-
rate encounter. Desperate indeed it must have proved, if, as reported, they
had been attacked by one-half of the Grebo tribe at once. Happily, how-
ever, the night passed away, the Sunday dawned peacefully and brightly
as it ever did in a Christian land — no enemy making his appearance. I met
our Mission family for prayer, as usual, at half-past six o’clock, A. M., a
congregation of 200 people at ten, administered the Lord’s Supper to
twenty five professing Christians at half-past two o’clock, P. M., and held
the usual evening service, including lecture in English, at seven — thus con-
cluding the public services of as delightful a Sunday as I have passed in
Africa. “ Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine ene-
mies.” Laus Deo !
The seriousness inspired by the momentary expectation of the enemy,
contrasted strongly with the noise and bustle common amongst the hea-
then in less dangerous circumstances. And as they sat before me in the
chapel with guns in hand and in fall war dress, with monkeys’ and tigers’
skins and greegees dangling about them, and painted twice as black as
natural, ready to sally out to battle at a moment’s warning, I could but
hope that there must be some reverence for God’s word, and his day, too,
to bring and keep them together under such circumstances.
Mondap, April 3d. — Satisfactory information was brought to-day show-
ing that the report of the Cape Palmas people’s intention to take part in
the contemplated attack on this place was false. The Grahwayans, how-
ever, really did design it, and actually slept in the woods near Cavalla on
Saturday night, with a view of making an attack early next morning.
Strange to say, aft^r proceeding thus far, the greater part concluded that
there was no just cause for the course which had been decided upon, and
all in consequence returned home. The River people, who, it appears,
waited for a signal from the Grahway side, before making their appearance,
finding that they were left alone, likewise retired. Thus has our God
again caused a black cloud to roll away from us.
Sunday, April \)th. — Our congregation this morning numbered about
159. The people of this place had, without recollecting that the Sunday
was so hear, determined to sleep near Wotteh, on Saturday, with a view
to attacking it next morning. They, however, readily desisted on being
informed that the Sunday would thus be desecrated. The fact that this
has been done before, is very gratifying, showing, as it does, that the peo-
ple here have some regard for God’s holy day.
Tuesday , April l \ th. — This has been another memorable day for Ca-
valla. It had been determined again by the people here to make an at-
tack on the River towns. They had, however, ascertained that the Grah-
way people, while professing not to take part in the war, were really
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only waiting to see them engaged with the River people, when they design-
ed coming up on the other side. In order to be perfectly satisfied on this
point, before leaving home the following plan was adopted. At day-break
this morning, by previous concert, guns were fired in all the Ca-
valla towns, as if an attack had been made upon them. This had the de-
sired effect. The Grahwayans, believing that their allies on the river
were actually engaged with the Cavalla people, soon came over to Dodo
Lu ; the Cavalla people, who were waiting behind their breast-work, fully
prepared, as soon as they came near enough to show their hostile inten-
tions, sallied forth, and within the space of an hour drove them home to
the very gates of their town! Here, however, having bad one of their
leaders wounded, and being completely exhausted, they were compel-
led to withdraw. The Grahwayans now took courage, and followed
them back to Dodo Lu, where the fight continued for some time. Mean-
time, while our people were engaged with the Grahwayans, near their
town, the allies of the latter made their appearance, and attacked Nyaro
on the opposite side. As there was but a handful of people in this vil-
lage, and the River party has always been considered stronger than the
Grahwayan, it was with no little anxiety, that from the piazza of the mis-
sion-house, only a few hundred yards distant, we watched the result of
this unequal combat. But the Nyaro people fought valiantly for their
homes, their children and their wives. Indeed, the last, though they did
not actually fight, by binding around them old cloths, and mats, holding
sticks in their hands in imitation of guns, and manoeuvring in the distance
like warriors, did much to keep the enemy in check.
The battle on both sides continued over three hours, and every moment
which made up these hours Was fraught with anxiety to us. It is true, as
has been stated before, that both before and since the war commenced, I
have been in the habit of visiting and preaching to both parties; and were
I alone, or had, beside my immediate family, only colonist assistants, I
should have felt little apprehension in view of any event likely to occur.
But I have in the mission grounds six native families, besides our large
boarding-schools of native boys and girls. Now, as these are Cavalla
men, women and children, in case their party should be beaten, they
could but expect to share their fate. It was on their account that I
felt the deepest solicitude ; and being the children of God, the foundation
of His Church here, I felt that I might pray for His own glory’s sake, that
their people might not be defeated — that they might not be given into the
hands of the enemy. Our prayers were answered. At half-past eleven
o’clock, the distant sounds of the firing on one side, and the black masses
of people moving off on the other, made it evident that the enemy was in
full retreat The loss from all this fighting was, on the Cavalla side, one
killed and some six or seven wounded, and on the other, four killed and
several wounded! Knowing from past experience that after such an ef-
fort as that this morning, the natives are not apt to fight again very soon.
At two o’clock, P. M , i started for Mount Vaughan, to meet my regular
appointment there, passing Grahway on the way.
Friday , April 14 th. — Visited Wotteh (River Cavalla) as usual. Some-
thing having been said here about the native youths living on the Mission
premises having taken part in the battle of Tuesday, I thought it proper to
tell them that, though l had discouraged it as much as possible, some of
these had done so, urging in their justification, that their enemies, if suc-
cessful, would not spare them because they lived on mission premises. I
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asked if this was so. They answered that they were Cavalla people, and of
course would be treated as such wherever found. While admitting, how-
ever, the justice of this view in reference to young men and boys belonging
to Cavalla. I told them th o t in the case of the girls, some of whom were
from their own towns and others from neutral tribes, being unmarried, I
must consider them members of my family, and should feel bound to pro-
tect them in our house, in case the Cavalla people should suffer defeat.
They appeared to be satisfied with the reasonableness of such a course in
regard to the girls. The attendance on religious services was as large and
respectful as usual.
Friday, April 2\st. — Returned from Fishtown, Cape Palmas. At the
latter place I preached and held service on Tuesday evening, and on the
following morning attended a meeting of the, members of our Church, and
called to taka preliminary measures for organizing an Episcopal Church
in “ Maryland in Liberia.” In the afternoon I proceeded to Fishtown, on
my quarterly pastoral visit to that station.
On Thursday afternoon I baptized Sia Nyine, alias Ellen May, a mem-
ber of the boarding-school at Fishtown. She is an interesting girl, about
13 years of age, and had been for some time a candidate for baptism. On
the evening of the same day, I administered the communion. This occa-
§ sion was more than usually interesting, from the fact that Mrs. Perkins, a
sister beloved in the Lord, who has been' connected with the Mission for
some eight years, partook with us, probably for the last time in Africa.
The very delicate state of her health in the judgment of her husband, ren-
ders her removal from this climate absolutely necessary. She takes
with her an interesting son, 7 years old, born at Mount Vaughan.
Sunday, April 23 d. — Congregation this morning about 150- At half-
past ten o’clock, I baptized Mary Tibayu, wife of John Mussu Neapo, now
in the United States with Mr. Hening. Mary, after years of instruction and
prayerful effort in her behalf, has been brought to hopeful repentance and
faith.
In the afternoon I administered the communion to twenty-eight pro-
fessing Christians. On this occasion we had present Mr. and Mrs. Apple-
by, who are expecting to leave shortly with Mrs. Perkins, for the United
States, on account of the ill health of the latter. Thus three more are
about to withdraw from the Mission. But though thus forcibly reminded
of the truth, ‘ all flesh is grass, and withereth,” and yet we know “ the
word of the Lord endureth forever.” And “ this is the word which by the
Gospel is preached” here, blessed be God ! For if the word of God is
preached, then Jesus is with us. And He cannot die — His work cannot
stop — it must go on.
Sunday , April 30 th. — Congregation to-day about one hundred and
twenty.
Friday , May bth.— To-day, Mr. and Mrs. Appleby left us for Cape Pal-
mas, expecting to sail for the United States in the ship Madonna, Captain
Lawlin.
The providence which removes Mrs. Appleby so soon from her chosen
work in this destitute field, like many others, is mysterious to us, though
we know infinitely wise and good. She appeared both heartily interested
in and well qualified for the duties of a Missionary teacher, and her guile-
less spirit and amiable conduct will make her live long in the memory and
affection of those whom she has left behind.
Sunday, May 7th. — Our congregation this morning did not exceed 150
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Alas, this people would appear given up to their idols. Although they
have already more than a score of deyabo amongst them, and have lost
their confidence in all these, I learned yesterday that they were about to
send to a great distance and at much risk for another, to make them gods
of wood and stone, although the $inly true one is “ not very far from every
one of them.”
Wednesday , May 10 th. — In passing through Bevede, the largest of our
towns here, on my way from Cape Palmas, l found the people all in com-
motion. It was soon ascertained that the occasion of it was the adminis-
tering of gidu to three women. The charge against them was, that they
had gone to the towns lately burned by these people, and brought “ we,”
witchcraft, in order to make the enemies of these people successful against
them. Whether there was any proof ol this charge, more than the ordinary
ipse dixit of the deyabo , I am not informed. If, however, there are traitors
in civilized countries, it is not wonderful that they should be found, espe-
cially where, as in the present case, the husbands and parents of the
accused are the contending parties. The attachments of blood relation-
ship are here much stronger even than that between husband and wife;
and were the question put to either of these, in case of distress, which should
be succoured first, it would be answered in favor of the parent, rather than
the party allied by marriage. And in reference to witchcraft, having long
been convinced that this is not only firmly believed in, but extensively prac-
tised amongst these people, it is to be expected that treachery, when resorted
to, should take this form.
At a time when it is expected every day that an attack will bet made by
these people upon the River towns, it is not wonderful that, believing the
unfortunate women guilty, their excitement against them should be very
great, and the utmost potency given to the poisonous draught. In about
one hour after I reached the mission-house they were all dead ! One of
them was the mother of Horatio Gillet, a Christian youth, and member of
our boarding-school. Having procured from me two yards of cotton cloth
to cover her, and assisted by another of our scholars, the poor fellow bore
her away a few moments after her death, to her last resting place. She
was probably perfectly innocent of the crime laid to her charge.
Sunday , May Wth. — This morning, on looking out on the peaceful, bright,
welcome light of the Sunday, almost the first object that met our eyes, was
another victim of gidu stretched out on the sand.
She was quite a girl, the wife of a prominent man in the community,
who has been for some time seriously indisposed — of course, according to
public opinion he was bewitched — and his father, the chief of the place,
as he lay down to sleep, anxiously revolving in his mind. .who could be
attempting to cut off his right arm by depriving him of his first born son,
dreamed, as he says, that this young woman was the witch. The husband,
when told the dream, was somewhat incredulous; but determined, for his
own and his father’s satisfaction, to examine the woman, and by false
representations calculated to operate upon her fears, to ascertain the truth.
When all were buried in sleep, he entered the house where she was lying,
and thus addressed her : — “ Y., a doctor who has been consulted in refer-
ence to my illness, declares that you are the cause of it — that you are
atttempting to kill me by witchcraft. The Sedibo, filled with indignation
at your conduct, c itne to-night to subject you to trial by gidu, but in consider-
ation of your youth and my affection fox you, I prevailed upon them to desist,
or at least, allow me to have this interview with you. Tell me, truly, are
you guilty ] If you confess, I solemnly promise the matter shall end here ;
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but if not ” “ G.,” said she, after some hesitation, “ I am not falsely
accused. 1 am attempting your life.” “ And what,” asked G , indig-
nantly, “ havewl done to merit such conduct at your hands'?” “ You have
treated me,” replied Y., “ with cruel neglect. This l have mentioned
more than once to N., whom you regard with no more favor than myself.
Still I do not implicate her or any one else. I take all the blame : I am
the witch.” Next morning G. called an older member of his family, and
made known to him the woman’s confession. “ Mind,” said N., after
hearing the story, “ that you are not deceived in this matter. It is very
plain to me that this young woman is not alone in this work. She is only
the instrument of some other older persons in accomplishing their wicked
purposes ; and probably through their influence, when again examined, she
will deny everything which she has said to you.” Early next morning she
was sought but could not be found. She returned, however, late at night
to her house, where she was caught and secured. Next day, W., the
chief, examined her in reference to the confession which she had made
to her husband. She at first denied everything, nor was it until after
much difficulty, that something like a general confession was extorted.
Partly with a view to detect her accomplices, and partly to frighten
her, the old man directed some members of his family to take the
girl to the place where gidu is usually administered. On arriving here,
she denied all that she had. before confessed, and solemnly protested that
she had done nothing to her husband. This so much exasperated the young
men that they determined to give her gidu. A very small portion was
given, but its effects were fatal. In a few moments she was dead.
In this case there was nothing more than what is constantly occurring
around us ; but having got all the circumstances from the husband of the
deceased (one of the most sensible natives of my acquaintance,) I have
recorded them, as presenting one view of the superstitions and social state
of the heathen here.
Sunday , May 21st. — The day has been very inclement; but notwith-
standing this our congregation numbered about 200.
Tuesday, May 23 d. — To-day the people of this place, after having been
preparing for several weeks, made an attack on Wotteh. This, however,
entirely failed ; the warriors having all fled after the first fire, leaving three
of their number dead, and in the hands of the enemy. The repulse was
owing partly to the strong position of Wotteh, which enables its people to
fire on the assailants, without any exposure to themselves, or even being
seen ; but chiefly to the dissensions amongst the leaders of the Cavalla
people. Since the death of Nye-Praa, their late distinguished warrior-
chief, three or four have aspired to his place, and as only one could hold it,
the others appear disposed to avenge themselves by defeating the measures
of their successful rival.
On reaching Wotteh to-day, B., the present leader, and a few otheis,
rushed boldly to the gate, and although three of their number were shot
down in the attempt, from the enemy concealed by their fortifications, B.
and another spirit like himself actually forced their way into the town.
They announced their success to the people without, and called upon them
to follow. Not one, however, would do so. It seemed as if they were
determined to leave these two brave men to perish, in order to gratify their
envious feelings. They, however, did not perish, but after finding that
they were left alone, rushed by the dangerous pass over the dead bodies of
their comrades, and followed the flying host to a place of safety.
What will be the result of this day’s cowardice, God only knows. It
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certainly has had the effect of dispiriting this people, as it must have, of em-
boldening their enemies.
Sunday , June Mh, 1S48. — Congregation this morning about one hundred
and sixty. The extreme scarcity of food amounting, indeed, to a famine,
which has prevailed for a month past, has the effect to prevent our poor
people from moving about much, even to get out to the chapel.
This afternoon I administered the Lord’s Supper to twenty-eight commu-
nicants. Amongst these was Robert Henry.Gibson, brother of the teacher
at this station, and one of the Colonist Beneficiaries, lately taken into the
Mission. H. has always appeared a very sober-minded youth; but he pro-
fesses lately to have been led to realize his sinful state by nature, and in
repentance and faith, to have been brought to a knowledge of the Saviour.
He was admitted to the communion to-day, the first time.
John Payne.
€l)ina.
REPORT OF REV. P. D. SPALDING.
To the Missionary Bishop of China ; transmitted to the Foreign Committee
for publication in the Spirit of Missions.
Rt. Rev. W. J. Boone, D. D :
My dear Bishop : — T now submit to you my report for the quarter, end-
ing June 30, 1848. God has continued to bless me with uninterrupted
health and all needful temporal blessings, for which I trust I am truly
thankful to the giver of them all. God’s spiritual mercies and blessings
cannot be compared with these, because they are eternal ; I only pray, that
the more I see and can rightly estimate their value, that I may in that pro-
portion, at least, strive to make them known to these poor heathens, by
whom we are daily surrounded
Sutiday, April 9 th. — I conducted divine service, and preached to a good
congregation at the British Consulate. My duties during the week, as you
are aware, are wholly comprised in the study of this language of the people
to whom I have come as a Missionary of the cross of Christ. This being the
case, the events which have come under my observation must be those which
would have sufficient general interest to justify the mention of them in my
report to you. In my last report, I mentioned the congregation of poor
people, which assemble every Tuesday afternoon, at two o’clock, to receive
the alms of the offertory at the Holy Communion. They still continue to
come very regularly, and I detain them about one hour, in trying to give
them some instruction about the great salvation which their Maker has
provided for them in Jesus Christ. I have good reason to think that I am
understood in most that I say. I confine myself to the great doctrines
contained in the Catechism, and there explained by question and answer.
I find that it will afford foundation for instruction for a long time to come.
I teach them to repeat the Creed, and then take one of the articles and try
to explain it to them. I always dismiss them with prayer ; they are very
attentive, and sometimes ask curious questions, which of course show
how dark the human mind is, uninstructed by God in the gift of his
revealed will. The number is between 40 and 50 who come weekly to the
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chapel, and then there are 8 or 10 who are not able to come, being either
blind or lame, to whom I go every week and carry their portion, and speak
with them about their souls. Some of them hardly know that they have a
soul. The general belief among the great mass of people, 1 should judge,
is that of the metem-psychosis, or the transmigration of the soul of a man after
death into some other animal body.
April \ltk — I went into the country a mile or two with the Rev. Messrs.
McClatchie and Syle, to see a procession which takes place every year at this
season, dedicated to an idol called the “ Yang-law-ya.” His office seems to
be the exercise of some restraining influence on the destinies of those who
have departed this life. Those who have been sick during the past year,
show their gratitude for their recovery, by joining in the procession, and
are distinguished by some badge. The procession was full two miles long,
some on foot, some on horseback, and some in sedan chairs. A great vaviety
of banners were carried, and many implements, the use of which I could
not surmise. My teacher tells me that they are implements used in
inflicting punishment on those who come under his displeasure in the place
of future existence. At the end of the whole procession the idol itself was
carried on a kind of chair by eight men. The image was very large, and
his face painted black — on the whole, a most hideous object. We saw sev-
eral persons in the procession, who seemed to be performing penance to
atone for some kind of sins ; both of their arms were extended, and from
the muscular portion of the fore-arms were suspended heavy incense pots,
by being hooked into the flesh. In some instances, the blood was percep-
tible, oozing from the perforations made by the brass hooks; these men were
walking in the procession. It was very heart-sickening to behold them thus
macerating their bodies to please a wooden idol. We questioned them as
to whether it was painful, and they declared that they endured no pain.
They haye some kind of medicine that is applied to the flesh in which
the hooks are placed, which removes all susceptibility of pain. It is
used likewise in extracting teeth and amputating limbs. The whole coun-
try seemed congregated at the different hamlets, through which the pro-
cession was to pass. It is hard for one who has been blessed with the light
of a better way, to see how reasonable men could be engaged in such vain
and superstitious ceremonies. I suppose the sober reason is, that the devil
is leading them captive at his will.
On the evening of this day we were permitted to welcome three Mission-
aries of the Church of England. They had a passage of five months and
some days, and arrived in health at the port of their destination. Two of
them ate unmarried, and after spending a few days here, left for Ningpo,
the station fur which they were designed by the Church Missionary Society,
under whose patronage they have engaged in the Missionary work. The third
is a married man, and remains in Shanghai with the Rev. Mr. McClatchie.
They were here oir Easter Sunday ; the Holy Communion, was adminis-
tered by the Bishop to six clergy/nen, and it was truly a blessed privilege,
thus to meet with so many engaged in a common work, in so solemn a
service. The service on Good Friday was conducted by Mr. Syle, and the
Sermon was preached by Mr. Cobbold, one of the newly arrived Missionaries.
We have heard from those that have gone to Ningpo, and they are now
engaged in their work, with much to encourage them.
Monday , May lsf. — This evening, returning through the city from the
Missionary meeting, I went into an opium shop with Mr. McClatchie and
Mr. Farmer. Mr. McClatchie and myself had seen these dens of misery
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more than once before, but Mr. F. had some curiosity to see them. There
were in the one which we entered, six persons, lying on the lounges around
the side of the room, some smoking the baneful drug, and others sleeping
off its effects. Mr. McClatchie entered into conversation with one man,
who told us that he had used it for 24 years. He was a painful-looking
object to behold, and seemed quite conscious of the wretchedness of his
condition in this life. He expressed his willingness to give it up, and de-
sired to be sent to Dr. Lockhart’s Hospital, in order that he might procure
some medicine to eradicate his vitiated taste. All we could do was to urge
him by greater reasons than he had before known of, to give up this sin,
and told him where, and at what hour of the day he could get access at the
Hospital. Several persons had gathered into the room from curiosity at
seeing three foreigners enter before them. Mr. McClatchie exhorted them
as became a minister of the Gospel; to the truth of his words, they all
yielded assent, because, according to Chinese customs, it ^ould be impo-
lite not to agree with you while in your presence. We left this place and
proceeded on our way through several streets, end in passing a house, we
heard the noise of a human being in great distress ; we entered the house
from whence the noise came, and found that it wras a person mourning on ac-
count pf the loss of his brother, who had died that day. He was raving,
and several persons were trying to hold him and restrain him. Thus he
was sorrowing without hope. The coffin was in the place, and we inquired
what was the reason of the man’s distress, and we were told that the brother
of the man had gone away — meaning by this that he was dead. They have
a great dread of death. Passing on from this a few rods further, we saw
a crowd of people gathered in the street, and in their midst a man lying on
the ground, whose friends were trying to persuade him to go to his home.
It turned out that he was drunk from the effects of wine. They called him
a “ Chew-chii,” or wine-devil.
Tuesday, May 2 d. — In company with the Rev. Messrs. Milne, Muir-
head, and Southwell, I went to a village by the name of “ Kong Wan,”
about five miles from Shanghai. It was the time of a feast to the “ Ching
Hong,” or idol of the district. It is a large village, and looked much
cleaner than Shanghai. The principal street of the place, through which
we passed, was about half a mile in length, closely built up, and the
buildings occupied by various tradesmen, from butcher’s shops to silk
dealers. The street was decorated by a great variety of lanterns on
either side, and overhead, crossing to and fro, it was festooned with a kind
of red cotton cloth ; these, with many other ornaments, must have presented
a very pretty effect when lighted in the night. This was done in honor of
the “ Ching Hong.” 7'here were thousands of people in and around the
various temples. Judging from their outward appearance, they were a
much more respectable class than we see generally in Shanghai.
There were many respectable females in and about the temples, and they
did not appear to be so much afraid of meeting with foreigners as most of
those we see in this city. The idols within the temples were very large,
and looked as though more care was bestowed on their preservation than is
general. I have never seen anything elsewhere like the devotions that
were paid to these. No matter which way you turned, you were in
danger of interfering with some one engaged in his prostrations. Beggars,
— limbless, clotheless, and afflicted with almost every imaginabledisease, —
were sitting at the gates and beside the idols in the temples, asking alms
of those that went in and out. The feast had lasted several days, and the
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interest seemed as much alive as when it commenced. At this place a man
was buried alive a few days before we were there, because he had murdered
his grandmother. He was taken by the people of the hamlet in which he
lived, himself made to kneel by the side of his coffin, his hands nailed to
the same, and then buried to the neck with earth ; and there he remained un-
til he died. This is what would be called lynch-law at home, yet it was af-
terwards sanctioned by the authorities on the ground of its being the most
merciful way to dispose of the affair; they said that if they had been com-
pelled to examine into it, the whole neighborhood would have been
implicated for allowing such an atrocious thing, as that of a man mur-
dering his grandmother to take place. Mr. Milne preached in two
different temples in this village. The people stood in the courts, while
Mr. Mil ne, from a table placed for him by some attendants at the tem-
ple, spoke to them from each place for about one half hour. They
were very attentive, and made but little noise, considering the mixed
multitude assembled. A great many Christian tracts, and portions of the
Word of God, were distributed among the people of the place. We re-
turned and reached Shanghai about five o’clock, P. M.
Thursday , May 4 th. — To-day we heard of the melancholy death of
Dr. James and lady, which happened near Hon"g'Kong, on their way from
Canton to the former place. The vessel in which they had taken passage
was struck with a squall, capsized, and Doctor and Mrs. James both per-
ished, with three or four others on board of the same vessel. They were
Missionaries from the Southern Baptist Board of Missions, and were on
their way to this city to join that Mission here. It is a great loss to the
Missionary work here, as well as to those whom he has left behind among
his friends at home.
Sunday , the 7th — I administered the Holy Communion at your residence,
it being the first Sunday in the month.
Sunday, 14 th. — I attended the Rev. Mr. McClatchie’s Chinese service.
The day was unfavorable, and not so many present as usual, though the at-
tendance was good. He will erect a Chinese Church in the course of the
year, as his society have made an appropriation for that object, and also for
dwelling houses for their Missionaries. Messrs. McClatchie and Farmer are
looking out for a piece of land for their dwelling, and as soon as secured,
will commence the erection of their houses.
Tuesday, May 1 6th. — To-day, at my poor congregation, an elderly wo-
man came, who said she belonged to the “ Tien Tsoo Kean,” which is
the title which the Romanists take in China. She sat very attentive du-
ring all the time I was speaking to my congregation, and when I had fin-
ished, she repeated the Apostle’s Creed, in a kind of chanting tone. She
quite astonished my congregation, and they gathered around her, arid took
hold of her, and asked her a great many questions, as to where she came
from, and where she learned the “ Sing Keung,” which is the name of the
creed in Chinese. The meaning of the name is “ belief’s classic.” She told
them if they would be more attentive, and do as I bade them, they would
soon be able to repeat it as well as herself. She said she came from
“ Siong Kong,” a place about 75 miles from Shanghai, that her an-
cestors for five generations before her had been Romanists, and that in
that place, there were a great many disciples of the “ Tien-Tsoo-Kean.”
They have four chapels, which are now, all but one, supplied with foreign
priests; that one is supplied by a native priest. I saw in this person
an illustration of the value of teaching the heathen the great leading features
of the Gospel. With these facts so deeply imprinted on her memory, had
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she been more fully instructed in their application, they would have been a
great blesssing to her soul, by teaching her the knowledge of Christ and his
precious salvation ; but I fear in her case that she only had the doctrines on
her lips, and that they had never entered her heart. She said she wor-
shipped the cro^ss and the Virgin Mary. She had her beads with her, as
she showed me. I am satisfied that this must prove the most effectual way
of dealing with the Chinese, namely, give them in summary the leading
doctrines of the^Goispel, and when they are familiar with these, you can
bring in all you want to say about the Gospel, in explaining to them the doc-
trines therein contained. For this reason I think you have given us an in-
valuable aid in our work, by prepaiing a Cathechism in the Chinese
language.
Sunday, May 2$th. — I conducted Divine Service, and preached at the
British Consulate. The weather has, been very rainy, and for that reason
I have been more in the house during this month of June, and consequently
have not many observations to note.
Whit-Sunday, June 4th. — I administered the Holy Communion at
your residence.
Sunday , June 18 th. — This being Trinity-Sunday, the new church built
for the Foreign Community here, was opened for Divine Service. The name
of the church being that of “ Trinity,” it was thought most appropriate to
have it opened on this day, though not entirely completed. It was a source
of no little regret to many, that your health would not permit you to com-
ply with the request of the committee engaged in its erection, and preach
the first sermon in the building you have taken such a ^eep interest in
erecting. The day was exceedingly wet, yet a large congregation came
together. The service was read by the Rev. Mr. Syle ; the sermon appro-
priate to the occasion, was preached by the Rev. Mr. McClatchie, and the
prayer and benediction by yourself. The pastor for this flock of Christians
in a foreign land, is nowon the great deep, hastening to this point, we trust,
by God’s direction, “ to seek for Christ’s sheep that are dispersed abroad,
and for his children who are in the midst of this naughty world, that they
may be saved through Christ for ever.” The person who has been called
to this charge is the Rev. Mr. Souder of Devizes, England. We hope and
pray that God will bless and prosper him, aud bring him to the important
post which he is called to fill.
This day, at 4 o’clock, the Holy Communion was administered by your-
self, as on all holidays for which a preface is appointed. This concludes
the things worthy of being noted in my report. I have been enabled to
pursue my studies without any interruption, for which I feel very thankful
to God. I feel very much encouraged in the work before me, and the pro-
gress I have made since I last reported to you. I hope before it becomes
my duty to report to you at the end of my fourth quarter, to have made a
beginning in really preaching the Gospel to the Chinese. I pray that God
will bless me with continued health, and every needful help, to enable me
to accompli: h this desire of my heart. Mr. Syle is now moving to the
New School buildings, and the boys have this morning been dismissed
from the school to their homes with a week’s vacation, when they will
assemble at their new horfte and again enter upon their duties. It is my
earnest prayer that God will continue to bless you in your bodily health,
and in his own appointed time fully restore you to strength, and preserve
you long to guide this important Mission of Christ’s Church in its onward
march. May God give you wisdom to devise, and strength to carry out
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to successful termination, every measure undertaken for his glory ; — may
the Lord of the harvest raise up and send into this field to labor with you,
and those under your direction already here, many faithful servants to do
his will. I would now commend you and your work to the God of all
grace, and pray that He will bless you, and further your work begun in his
name, till greater glory shall resound to his everlasting praise, from out of
this now so deeply benighted land.
Affectionately, yours in the.Lord,
Phineas D. Spalding.
P. S. — I have forgotten to notice, in the above, the attendance at
the Chapel on the Lord’s-day. Tne congregations have been much on the
increase, — many Sundays very large. Mr. Syle has preached every Sunday ;
and those who attend seem to be manifesting more and more interest in
what they hear. P. I). S.
Intelligence.
China. — Since the publication of the last number, letters have been re-
ceived from Bishop Boone, dated at Shanghai, on the 4th July, and 2d
August. •
In the first he remarks, in reference to the liberal grants which had been
made to his Mission by individuals for the erection of Mission buildings,
“ God has been truly gracious to us in the two large donations we have re-
ceived, and we are most devoutly thankful. May his blessing rest upon and
consecrate these to his own service and glory.
“The school house is nearly finished. I have been living in it for the last
ten days, having moved down in advance of others, for the benefit of my
little boy. The fresh air has improved him very much, even in this time.
“ One of the oldest and most promising boys in the school has come for-
ward voluntarily, with a request for baptism. He is about fifteen or sixteen
years of age, and seems to be fully awakened by the Blessed Spirit to a
sense of the sinfulness of his condition and the hopelessness of his state with-
out Christ. We indulge much hope of his true conversion to God. There
are others, also, who are manifestly feeling the power of the truth.”
In his letter of 2d August he says, “ My general health is very much
improved by my residence at our new house. I hope (D. V.) in October
or November to resume full Missionary duty, and to preach as heretofore.
“We were all much delighted with the receipt of your letters by this
mail. The Lord has been truly gracious in providing for our wants, and
I trust it proves a stimulus to every member of the Mission to greater zeal
and earnestness in His service.
“ We recently had the greatest flood that has been at this place for twenty
or thirty years, accompanied with a typhoon Our house was much exposed
to its fury, but we escaped with less damage than almost any foreigner in
the place. This storm is considered as giving a good proof of the substan-
tial way in which the house is built.”
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COLLECTION FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS.
First Sunday after the Epiphany, January 7th , 1849.
To the Bishops, Clergy, and Laity
of the Protestant Episcopal Church : —
In accordance with a recommendation of the Board of Missions, at its
late Triennial Meeting, a collection for the Foreign Missions of the Church
was very generally made at the Epiphany season in this year.
The result was a most liberal contribution, relieving the department from
embarrassment, and bringing with it many expressions of cordial interest,
highly encouraging to those entrusted w'ith the work.
Although the offerings of the Church enabled the Foreign Committee to
meet the claims of the last financial year, and- likewise to extinguish the
indebtedness which oppressed their treasury, still no surplus was accumu-
lated for the expenditures of the ensuing year.
As is usual during the first or summer quarter, the receipts of late have
been light, and the Committee are now pressed with great urgency by their
respected Missionaries abroad, for the remittances essential to their subsis-
tence. The Church has but to repeat her offerings, to carry forward her
Foreign Missions with comfort during the year.
The receipts for the Missions at Constantinople and Athens, have
not been sufficient to cover the first quarter of the present financial year,
while the second quarter is more than half expired. The Committee are
yet in debt for the whole amount of the annual shipment made to the
African Mission in August. The contributions to the Mission in China,
which sufficed to meet the tw<> first quarters of the year, have not yet
enabled the Committee to authorize drafts for any portion of the quarter
due on the 1st January next, so that the Missionary Bishop at Shanghai
must necessarily be left at least three months in arrears for his remittances.
The Foreign Committee therefore appeal, with much earnestness — and
they may say with confidence — to the Church; and solicit contributions to
their treasury, to be made on the 7th January, 1849, the first Sunday after
the Epiphany, or on some other Sunday of the Epiphany season.
In behalf of the Foreign Committee,
Pierre P. Irving, Sec’y fyc.
Foreign Mission Office, 2 Park Place, )
New-York, Dec. 1 1848. f
Receiving Agent at Philadelphia. — The Foreign Committee having
accepted the resignation of E. Wilcox, Esq., who has long, with great kind-
ness, acted as their receiving agent for the Diocese of Pennsylvania, they
have appointed in his place, Lambert Duy, Esq., of Philadelphia.
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QuknotDlcbgments.
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
The Treasurer of the Foreign Committee ac- i
knowledges the receipt of the following sums from j
the 15th October to 15th Nov. :
MAINE.
Saco — Trinity Ch., a lady 3 00
MASSACHUSETTS.
Cambridge — A friend to Missions, \ 2 50
Springfield — Christ Ch., Africa 40 00 42 50
CONNECTICUT.
Ncw-Haven — St. Paul’s Ch., Africa... 50 00
Watertown— Christ Ch 20 00
Do. for Constantinople 2 00 72 00
NEW- YORK.
Esopus — Ch. of the Ascension for
Afrifca 110 57
Flushing — St. George’s Ch. Sunday-
school, for educa. of a child in
China ... 25 00
Goshen— St. James’s Ch., Africa ... 16 00
New-York — St. Bartholomew’s Ch.,
Geo. Clark, Esq., Ann. Con. for
education, China 12 50
St. Mark’s Ch., Charles Carville,
Esq., for Africa 5 00
Anonymous, for the African Miss. 50 00
H , for Africa 2 00
F. for the Ch., Africa 3 00
Family Mite Box 4 25
Do $1, do. SI, do. $1, do. $1.. 4 00 332 32
PENNSYLVANIA.
Bellefonte — St. John’s Ch. S. S. for
Africa 6 00
Brownsville — Christ Ch., for Greece 30 00
Churchtown — Baugor Ch. additional,
Africa 5 00
Leacock — Christ Ch 2 00
New-London — X Roads, St. John’s
Ch 1 54
Philadelphia— St. Andrew’s Ch., a
lady, for ed- of a child, China 25 00
Reading — -Christ Ch. S. S., for ed. of
Richard W. Morgan, Africa.. 10 00
Westchester — Mrs. John B. Clemson,
for ed. of Daniel Lewis Clem-
son, China 25 00 104 54
VIRGINIA.
Accomac— St. George’s Par., Africa.. 5 00
Alexandria — Christ Ch. S. S., for ed.
of a child, Africa 25 00
Clark Co. — Wickliffe Par., for Afri. 70 00
Fredericksburg — St- George’s Ch. ;
omitted in the Nov. No., Miss
A. Gray, for Athens, $10 ; do.
do. do. for Africa, $10; Mrs.
L. Gray, for China, $5 25 00
A few members of Mrs. Wii-
mer’s School, for Africa 4 25
Kanawhi Co. — Miss Jane A. Sum-
mers, for Africa 10 00
Lancaster — St. James’s Ch., Africa. . 20 00
Two ladies, do. 7 00
Norfolk — Christ Ch., from the Miss’y
Board, for Africa 7 50
From ten ladies, for ed.of a child
in Africa, first aim. payment. . 20 00
From a few friends for do 5 00
From a lady for do 10 00
From a friend to the Mission,
for do 5 00
From do. do. do. 7 50
Petersburg — St. Paul’s Ch., for Chi-
na and Africa 115 00
Grace Ch.S. S., for ed. of achild,
Africa 20 00
Portsmouth — Trinity Ch., Constant. 2 00
Prince George Co. — Merchant’s
Hope Ch., for Africa 15 00
Richmond — St. James’s Ch., Africa. 21 25
Monumental Ch., do 28 00
From a colored man, do.. 0 50
From a clergyman 5 00
St. Paul’s Ch., a member, for
Constantinople 30 00 458 00
MARYLAND.
Hagerstown — College of St. James,
St. James’s Chapel, from the of-
fertory, for Africa 40 00
Urbanna — Zion Ch., Africa 5 00
Washington, D. C. — Trinity Ch., for
Africa 49 01
A member of do., for do 20 00 114 01
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Charleston — Mon. Miss. Lee. for Oct.
St. Philip’s Ch 5 05
St. Philip’s Ch., Africa 10 00
Do. do. Constantinople 14 00 29 05
GEORGIA.
Macon — Christ Ch 10 00
Do. Greece 20 00
Do. Africa 20 00 50 00
FLORIDA.
Tallahassee — Miss L. B. Parkhill, for
Africa 10 00
KENTUCKY.
Hickman — A Missionary station, for
Greece 6 20
OHIO.
Columbus — Trinity Ch., for Greece,
Africa, and China 77 00
ILLINOIS.
Collinsville — St. Paul’s Ch., 150
Lancaster , Cass Co — M. S. March... 5 00
Do. for Greece 5 00 11 50
LEGACIES.
Connecticut, Newtown — F rom the
late Mrs. Rebecca Gh ver 25 00
Do. do. New- London — From the late
Edward Hallam, Esq 696 12
Maryland , Baltimore — From the late
Miss L. E. Arthur, for the Mis-
sion in Africa and China 100 00 821 12
Total .$1881 24
(Total, since 15th June, $6,967 67.)
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