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We cheerfully comply with a request, to publish the follow-
ing letter from the Rev. Dr. Adams, Professor of Systematic
Theology at Nashotah, in reference to the children of our
Mother Church, scattered as sheep without a shepherd, in our
Western States. It is taken from an Occasional Paper of the
Anglo-American Church Emigrant Aid Society, for whose infor-
mation it was written. Its statements, which we doubt not are
well considered, and authentic, are really appalling. Few would
have supposed that so many members of the Church of Eng-
land and Ireland are in our midst, with no provision made by
us for their spiritual welfare. “ Their debtors we are/’ not
only “ for our first foundation, and a long continuance of nurs-
ing care and protection,” but in duty, love, and self-defence,
we owe it to ourselves to seek their good. The following
matters stated strongly, and commended warmly to our hearts,
comes from the able author, as he is ever wont to feel warmly,
and speak plainly. May the facts and figures, with the informa-
tion and appeal, find their way to the hearts and sympathies, and

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prayers, of every member of our Church. We need no better,
more prevailing Missionary argument than the condition of
these scattered and neglected sheep. May we ever “pray to
the Lord of the harvest, that He may send forth laborers into
His harvest.”

From the Rev. William Adams, D. D., of Wiseonsin, to F. H. Dickin-
son, Esq.

Delafield, Wisconsin, U. S.,
Nov. 18, 1856.

Dear Sir : —

I have received, through the Rev. President of Nashotah Theological
School, a circular entitled “ A Scheme of an Association for the Spiritual
Relief of English Churchmen emigrating to the United States of America.”
This circular names three gentlemen, of whom you are one, and suggests
“ that persons desirous to give or receive information should communicate
with any of them .” I am not personally acquainted with any one of these,
but having seen your own name frequently mentioned in our Church papers
as an English layman deeply interested in the American Church, I con-
ceive that through you the experience I have had in reference to the Eng-
lish emigrants in the United States, and the statistics I may present, with
the inferences and conclusions that should be drawn, may be able most effec-
tually to reach your locality, and through it the English Church. I have
been deeply interested upon the subject for a long time, having come to
Wisconsin in the year 1841, and resided in the State for now fifteen years.
I came here at its first settlement along with two other clergymen, almost
upon the first flood of the emigration westward. Our business was, as Mis-
sionaries of the Church, to search out her children among the new popula-
tion, and to retain them if possible to her. For that purpose we itinerated
for several years among the new settlements, finding out the members of
the Church, preaching, administering the Sacraments, and organizing par-
ishes. During that period we thoroughly explored a space of sixty miles
by fifty, then the only settled part of Wisconsin. At that time I came into
contact with many English emigrants, professed members of the Church,
baptized — confirmed — and communicants. I was much struck with the
difficulties of their position and their spiritual destitution, and the conviction
settled itself strongly upon my mind that it was the duty of the English
Church to make some provision for these, her children. I was convinced
by my experience as a Missionary, that the English Church had duties to
them, which through want of consideration and through ignorance , she was
leaving undone, and therefore by neglect and unwittingly w^as doing a great

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wrong, both to these her children, and also to her daughter Church in the
United States.

That the English Church is beginning to awaken to these considerations
I cannot but rejoice, and the object Qf the present letter is to present actual
conclusions, derived from long experience, and statements of facts bearing
upon the same subject. The information I shall arrange regularly under
several heads.

First, the Protestant Episcopal Church in these United States, the daugh-
ter of the English Church, can give but little help to the emigrants of the
Mother Church. We are but a feeble minority in clergy and people among
the overflowing flood of manifold sectarianism. We have only 1,800 clergy
out of the 28,000 preachers in the United States. One Church clergyman
to 15 Dissenting ministers ; 1 Church communicant for 20 that belong to
the sects.* Again, we are unestablished, being upon what is called very
foolishly “ the voluntary system.”! We have no means, for the purpose,
indeed, no endowments for almost any purpose ; we are working up hill all
the time, struggling for an existence against a majority of 20 to 1. To ex-
pect, then, that the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, under
these circumstances, can put forth peculiar efforts in favor of the English
emigrants here, is out of the question ; she has not the means either in men
or money. Nay, in our present feebleness we lose multitudes of American
Churchmen moving westward, and our utmost efforts are required for them.
How can the Church in the United States, with only 1,800 clergy and
115,000 communicants, undertake the spiritual care of 400,000 English
emigrants, baptized, confirmed, and communicants, which the Church in
England, their spiritual mother, wholly neglects, — for whose spiritual inter-
ests in their destitution she does not expend one shilling ?

This, therefore, is my first conclusion. The Church here in the United
States, owing to her comparative feebleness, can give but little help to the
English Emigrant Churchmen, and that only when they come in her way
as others. She can put forth no peculiar efforts such as are absolutely
required by the necessity of the case.

Again, we approach another conclusion. The Church in England is
established by law. The burthen of its support is upon the land. To the
mere laborer, the expense is actually nothing in England. He goes to
Church — the edifice has cost him nothing, its revenues are no burthen upon
him — clerical superintendence and the expenses of the ministrations of reli-
gion are not paid out of his pocket. Now the English emigrants here are
for the most part of the very class who in England are at no expense for
the services of the Church — agricultural laborers. They find that here

* See Compendium of United States Census for 1850 for these facts.

t There exists no such system, in any sense that can be put on the word “ system.” All it
means is that the clergy are left, each man to scramble for his own support in the best way he
can ; that is to say, there is no “ system” at &U.— Note by Mr. Adams.

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the expenses of religion are wholly cast upon the congregation ; that if a
man has the spiritual services of a clergyman, and the use of a Church edi-
fice and Church instruments, he must pay for them, be a member of the
congregation, and defray his part of the cost, whether poor or rich : nay,
owing to the pew system, he finds that the poorer he is, the more he has
to pay proportionably to his means. Again, on the other hand, he finds
that so far as legal compulsion is concerned, he is entirely free ; that if he
do not go to Church he has nothing to pay. He actually saves money, or
thinks he saves it, by not going to Church ! If he goes he must pay five
to ten dollars a year for a pew in any church or meeting-house ; staying at
home, he saves so much per annum ! It seems to him that there is a gain
in staying away — a positive premium upon non-professorism. It takes a
training in American traditions, a teaching of years, to teach the individual
man, especially the man of the laboring classes, that religion is worth pay-
ing for ; that the family cannot exist without it ; that ruin, dissolution, and
destruction to morality and to character, and to prospects, are the conse-
quences of this saving of five or ten dollars a year, by going to no church
or place of worship weekly, but living as a heathen without God in the
world.

This is the general conclusion that experience has forced upon the mass
of Americans. Let your Society settle it as a great principle, an undoubted
matter of fact, that no foreigner of the laboring classes , transferred from
any country in Europe to the United Slates, can by any means short of
miracle be convinced of the necessity of supporting the clergy , even those
who minister to himself So certain is this by all experience, that the Mis-
sionary Bishop of the North-West wrote to the Domestic Committee of the
General Board of Missions of the American Church, expressing his con-
viction to this effect, and declaring that “ if the Board desired foreigners to
be in communion with the Church, they must pay their Missionaries en-
tirely, and expect no aid from the people themselves for the first genera-
tion.”

We have in the United States 280,000 English born, the mass of these
baptized, confirmed, and communicants of old in the English Church. The
English Church does nothing for them whatsoever ! The Roman Catholics,
in retaining their people, put into the hands of the Roman Catholic Bishops
here a sum of 200,000 dollars annually, and the Church of England does —
just nothing ! And yet, if the above principle be a true one, if she be a
member of the Catholic Church, her duty is clearly to aid her daughter
Church across the Atlantic in sending clergy to these wandering sheep, to
prevent them straying from the fold of Christ. We, the Anglo-Catholic
Church in these United States, suffer great wrong by the neglect of the
Established Church in England.

Another remark I would make is this, the English Churchmen that come
here have no sufficient training in Church doctrines. Dissenters from the
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they dissent, to know the reasons assigned or supposed to be assignable for
their dissent. Methodists have their defence of Methodism, their glorifica-
tions of Wesley, their strong reasons why they are Methodists, and not
Church of England people. Baptists have their arguments for baptism by
immersion, and their reasons for “ believers’ baptism ” and against “ baby
sprinkling.” Independents and Unitarians all have their reasons put on
their tongues’ end for their notions, and against the Church ; but the Eng-
lish peasant Churchman seems to have few reasons for or against to give.
He is dumb and uninstructed, and ignorant of any distinct reason why he is
a Churchman.

An American child of the Church knows in truth more of the reasons for
his faith and practice than the mass of ordinary English adults that come
out here. Therefore, English Baptists remain Baptists here, and join the
American Baptist denomination ; English Methodists become American
Methodists ; English Puritans remain Puritans here. The English
Churchman alone, uninstructed in the ground upon which he stands and the
faith which he holds, knows little or nothing of the constitution and peculi_
arities of the Church, and is lost to it. The English Church does in gen_
eral great wrong to her people by a teaching that brings about so sad a
result.

This evil of vague, or false, or rather no teaching, I suppose cannot be
stayed by any direct action of your Society ; it must await the effect of
increasing knowledge and increasing earnestness. But one thing the Soci-
ety can do. It can prepare a Tract for English emigrants to the United
States, showing them that there is a Church here in America ; that it is the
daughter of the English Church, holding the same faith, and in every
thing, except the matter of the Establishment, identical with the old ances-
tral Church. A tract showing the difference of position and duty, showing
that though climate and government are changed, still the Church is not
changed ;• and urging upon the emigrant never to desert the ancestral
Church. Let the Society have thousands of such a tract, and the clergy
in the seaports who attend to emigrants put one into the hand of each
English Churchman coming to the United States, and a great good will
have been done — a great evil averted.

Another matter I would notice — that of Dimissory Letters. In fact,
the total absence of them on the part of British emigrants struck me so
much in the year 1842, that I then wrote to the British Magazine , a cleri-
cal periodical since dead, in reference to it, suggesting a dimissory letter
always to be given to the emigrant. The paper, such as it was, and full
of defects, was printed in the August No. for 1842, page 209, and ran
through most of the Church periodicals in Great Britain and here, and I
believe was the first paper to draw attention to the subject. But the sug-
gestion of Dimissory Letters constantly to be given was taken up as a
very felicitous hint, and I believe was, in some degree, put in practice ;
still, it ought to be adopted universally by Authority , and not left to mere

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choice. I conceive that to keep this in sight constantly, and to bring it to
perfection, will be a very noble, as well as a very desirable object for the
Society to have in view.

Now, my dear Sir, as a fit termination to this letter, I may show you
something of the state of matters as regards the English population in Wis-
consin, and also some of the reasons of my interest in them. When I came
into the country in 1841, there were 30,000 inhabitants of this State. Now,
by census in 1856, there are 600,000 ; of these there are of English birth,
by the United States census of 1850, 18,972. Now what number has the
Church in Wisconsin of these English ? The Church in Wisconsin has a
Bishop and clergy certainly not inferior to those of any Western State, in
zeal, piety, and learning, and yet the number of her communicants is only
1,400. The number of her laity, including all attached to her worship and
attending upon her services, may be 15,000 — that is to say, we have, allow-
ing for the increase since the census of 1850, 20,000 English in the State,
and the Church only 15,000 in all. But are not some of these English
emigrants in connection with the Church % Of course there are some, but
I question, from my knowledge of the Diocese, (and Bishop Kemper also
is of the same opinion,) whether there are 1,500 in all, out of the 20,000,
attached to us. That is to say, here in the State of Wisconsin, of 20,000
English emigrants, by the fault of some one or other, 18,000 are lost to the
Church. In truth, my dear Sir, the gentlemen who have set on foot your
Society have a great end in view, a gigantic evil to grapple with.

I will give two instances now that come within my owTn personal know-
ledge. Within seventy miles or less of where I write there are two settle-
ments of English, each about the same number, say eighty families, or 400
people. The one has run through all grades of Sectarianism, until finally
it has ended in Socialism and Spiritual Rapperism. That settlement I
know personally, and looking upon things with the eye of a man, I say, if
a clergyman could have been sent in, these people 14 years ago were wil-
ling to be taught and trained, and abide by the Church and the Gospel.
But they were poor settlers, on ‘ claims ’ or ‘ pre-emption land,’ in debt for
it, too, with barely food, and that of the coarsest ; no money, no means but
the wild land they were upon. The American Church having then only
five or six clergy in Wisconsin, was utterly unable even to supply her own
native born children, calling upon her for clergy, and willing to support
them ; and the English Church, of which they were the baptized children,
was utterly careless of them, and the result is what I tell you. Again, a
different instance : I know of another settlement of English agricultural
laborers, of about the same number of families. In the year 1842 a parish
was organized among them ; owing to particular circumstances, the prox-
imity to them of Nashotah, and the pastoral work and care of us, the clergy
from there, they were enabled to have the services of the Church habitual-
ly, until they got in some degree above their original poverty. And now,

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although unable wholly to support a clergyman, still by Missionary aid they
have a resident clergyman and regular Church services. They are 350
people and 90 communicants at the present time. The difference between
these two cases is the supply of pastoral services to the one settlement, and
the impossibility of a supply to the other. What is the result? A pious*
moral, religious community in the one case ; Socialism, Atheism, Rapper-
ism, all kinds of irreligion in the other ! The moral of the whole is this,
‘ that during the first 10 or 12 years in this country the English emigrant is
poor. Then Church services should be supplied him gratuitously. His
Mother Church does not do it ; our Church has not, as you can see, the
means either in men or money of doing it ; and, therefore, during these
years, the emigrant too often falls away, ceases to be of any religion what-
soever, and souls perish, for whom Christ died.

We, the Church in the United -States, are unable, from the fewness of
our numbers, to do anything. The Church of England is careless, your
Society being the only spark of warmth, the only gleam of light, that seems
ever to have been kindled in her body, in reference to these poor and deso-
late souls. Is there not something to be done to remedy this great evil on
your part as well as on ours, in England as well as on this side the Atlan-
tic ? I look upon it as most desirable, that in reference to the case of
these emigrants in their desolate spiritual condition, the united wisdom and
the united labor of both Churches are most desirable, and that your Society
may be made under God the means of drawing forth these efforts, and doing
this work. And hoping that by means of you both Churches may be aroused
to this desirable object, I remain in Christ and the Church,

Sincerely yours, William Adams.

P. S. I give underneath the number of natives of England inhabiting

the United States, by the census of 1850 : —

Maine

Texas

New-Hampshire

Arkansas

166

Y ermont

Tennessee

706

Massachusetts

. .. 16,635

Kentucky

. . . 2,805

Rhode Island

Ohio

. . . 25,660

Connecticut

Michigan.

New-York

Indiana

. . . 5,550

New- Jersey

Illinois

. . . 18,628

Pennsylvania

... 38,048

Missouri

. . . 8,379

Delaware

‘Iowa

. . . 3,785

Maryland

. . . % 3,467

Wisconsin

. . . 18,972

District of Columbia . . .

682

California

. . . 3,050

Virginia

Minnesota Territory. . .

84

North Carolina

394

Oregon do.

209

South Carolina

921

Utah do.

. . . 1,056

Georgia

670

New Mexico do

43

Florida

300

Alabama

Total

Mississippi

593

Louisiana

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The Orphans' Mites.

To these may be added say one-tenth of all the Irish emigrants, one-tenth
of one million, say 100,000 ; so that if the English Dissenters be taken out
from the above, say 50,000, and these, with the emigrants since 1850 added)
the number of foreigners in the United States baptized in the English
Church, may be reckoned as not less than 400,000 ; of these, the Irish
Episcopalians are more intelligent, but a great deal more careless than the
English. The writer has known of a Western town in and about which
the rector calculated there were 120 families of them lost, 600 individuals
Not twenty of them belonged to the Church by profession or attendance
and not 20 dollars were contributed by the whole of them.

w. A.

®I)e GDrpljans- Jttites.

The following letter speaks for itself. The House of Indus-
try for Orphans, in a distant Western State, itself indebted for
its existence and support to the kind sympathy of others, is
not forgetful of the wants of those “ who are scattered abroad
as sheep having no shepherd.” Their offerings, though small,
have all the elements of a true Missionary spirit, involving
care, self-denial, sympathy, and prayer. May “ the Home of
the Orphans” be richly blessed of Grod, and the fruits of their
self-denial be abundantly rewarded, in their own spiritual wel-
fare, and in stirring up children more favored, and all the
families and members of the Church, to obey the Saviour’s
command, “ (xo and do thou likewise.”

Iowa City, Iowa , March 17th, 1858.

Dear Brother — Enclosed please find the small donation of one dollar,
the monthly offering of our “ Home of Industry” — to the Treasury of the
Domestic Committee one-half.

We have organized a Family Missionary Society, with a Family Box.
Our members are all members of “the Home,” and the youngest is a
foundling — a little girl three years old. She deposits her penny weekly —
the older children three cents — adults five cents.

These mites are the fruits of self-denial in going without tea and coffee,
and from the sale of rags, committing lessons, &c. Our children manifest
a growing interest in these weekly meetings, at which we read to them
from “ The Carrier Dove,” “ The Spirit of Missions,” and “ the Occasional
Missionary Papers.” We hope to divide between the two Committees at
least two dollars per month from these sources. And in this way, we trust,

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by God’s blessing, that some of these little ones will be led to consecrate
their hearts to the love and service of Him who invites — “ Suffer little
children to come unto Me, and forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom
of Heaven.”

I have written to-day to Rev. Dr. Chase, President of Jubilee College,
Illinois, to seek for admission, — into the Preparatory Department of the
College, — of two or three promising boys, who are anxious to enjoy greater
advantages than we can give them in our Industrial School. We hope yet
to see some of them seeking and doing the Missionary work of the Church
in the West. One or two of our grown girls are preparing to go to the
prairies as teachers, in the ensuing summer. I hope to visit your city
early in the summer, for another company of children, and means for their
removal and support, when it will give me pleasure again to meet you.
Meanwhile,

I remain, truly yours, &c.

' C. C. Townsend, Missionary .

0eorgia.

St. Marys — Rev. Marion McAllister.

The report upon this parish has been delayed, in order to include the
anticipated visit of the Bishop.

During the period from June the 10th to March the 10th, your Mission-
ary has continued to be engaged in this field, with the exception of August
and September, when he was temporarily removed by the Bishop to the
charge of St. Stephen’s Parish at Milledgeville . The town of St. Mary’s
was visited during the summer with an epidemic, which, however, proved
less fatal and prevalent than was at first expected. The inhabitants scat-
tered in every direction, and left your Missionary with but three persons
who attended the Church services. It was owing to this fact, and to the
absence of new cases of the disease, that the Bishop assigned me for the
time being to the parish at Milledgeville. It is just to state that this sick-
ness did not originate in the town, and was sporadical ; therefore, the
idea should not be entertained, that St. Mary’s is a sickly location ; for
its climate is most salubrious, and it is subject only to those exposures
common to every Southern port. I mention this explicitly, with the de-
sire to remove all unjust apprehensions from the mind of any Missionary
who may hereafter occupy this field, which I am obliged to desert in an-
swer to a call to the more important Mission established in San Fran-
cisco, California. If a fine winter and summer climate, the genial hos-
pitality of Southern hearts, the prospect of usefulness among an intelli-
gent white population, and the opportunity of preaching, during the week,
to large plantations of negroes ; if all these considerations can induce a

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faithful servant of the Cross, then let me call his attention to this field,
and urge his acceptance, with the assurance that no serious obstacles lie
in the way of his so doing.

Your Missionary hesitated at leaving a parish, which the subscribed re-
port will show to be quite promising. As stated in my last report, the
people had been without a Rector for five years previous to my arrival,
and, after six months of labor, I could only number eleven communicants,
and a congregation of twenty-jive persons. At present, the attendance is
excellent, averaging from fifty-five to seventy persons. This increase, how-
ever, may, in a measure, be due to the closing of the Presbyterian Churcb.
The communicants number 16; baptisms, 4; candidates for confirmation,
7, of whom five were confirmed by the Bishop in his recent visitation ;
the remaining two were prevented, one by sickness, the other by absence
from the town. As none of these seven have as yet partaken of the com-
munion, when they do so, the number of communicants will be in-
creased to twenty-one. These additions and results *may appear feeble to
those accustomed to well-crowded parishes, and yet they are evidences of
life, and may be the first fruits of greater ingatherings.

Your Missionary may appear anxious to give a favorable account of those
who, for the last year, have listened to his preaching, and co-operated in
his efforts to advance and establish the kingdom of Christ. This is natu-
ral enough, and yet he can with reasonableness speak encouragingly of
this small parish ; and, although sent to a far distant land to preach the
Gospel, we do say to those brethren, “We shall endeavor with great de-
sire to see your face again:” for, independent of the kindness receivedj
and the friendships formed, higher considerations make you precious in our
sight : “For what is our hope , or joy , or crown of rejoicing ? Are not
even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming? for ye
are our glory and joy.”

©l)io.

Ironton — Rev. W. C. French.

Nothing specially worthy of remark has transpired here since my last
report. The town itself is in a state of uncertainty, whether it shall go
on as in former years, or stop where it is ; and while this question con-
tinues undecided, there is but little hope for progress in Church matters.
Our services have been regularly sustained during the quarter, and a
Young Ladies’ Bible Class has been added to former services. It meets at
the Pastor’s residence on Saturday evenings, at 4 o’clock, and the interest
which is manifested is cheering.

We are waiting with some curiosity to know what the result of the

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effort to build a 11 Yankee ” town at Caeda, in Western Virginia, will be.
Quite a number of respectable families have already arrived — among them
some Episcopalians. I held the first religious service of any kind in that
place last November, and secured a pledge of eligible lots for church and
parsonage. If emigration of the right sort should continue in the spring,
it would be highly important that the conservative influence of the Church
should be planted along with it.

It is very difficult to write anything of interest, when everything seems
so entirely to depend on an uncertain future ; and I trust, dear sir, that
you will regard this merely as the indication of a disposition to keep up a
communication with the Board, which is so generously aiding to sustain
us here.

iUidiicjan.

Saginaw City — Rev. V. Spalding.

The long-looked for event of the finishing and occupation of our new
church, at this place, has at length taken place. We held our first ser-
vice in it on the 11th day of October last, and regularly, since that time,
two Sundays out of three in the morning. It is not yet consecrated, by
reason of a debt of a few hundred dollars remaining unpaid on it. It is
quite a commodious and church looking edifice, capable of seating about
300 persons ; and in its interior finish, no pains nor cost has been spared.
In order to defray this cost, it has been thought necessary to appropriate
most of the seats by sale or rent ; an arrangement much to be regretted,
as it seriously diminishes the number that would otherwise attend our
services, amongst those to whom the price of a seat, in these times, is an
obstacle. The association of ladies, whose zeal in behalf of the Church
I have had occasion to mention in former reports, have, this fall, by their
efforts alone, procured the carpeting for the church, and also a beautiful
and excellent melodeon, whose full organ-like tones add very much to the
attractiveness of our worship. The chants in the service are executed
here with as much regularity and spirit, as in places that are cities in deed,
and not in name only, as this one is. I cannot but hope that all these
means and appliances, added to the unceasing prayers of the faithful few^
may at last, by God’s blessing, produce an awakening of Church- life in this
community, and eventually “ turn many to righteousness.”

The other two places that I serve regularly, are as yet destitute of these
means, and in them my work is going on, as formerly, in borrowed houses
of worship. At East Saginaw, on the opposite side of the river from
this place, and a mile or two below, I serve in the afternoons of the same
Sundays on which I have morning service here ; and one Sunday out of
three, I hold two services at Lower Saginaw (now called “Bay City”),

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sixteen miles below here, and on the opposite side of the river. At this
latter place, my congregations of late have been quite large ; but the diffi-
culty of getting to and from it is pretty formidable in the spring and fall,
and sometimes in winter too, when the river is obstructed by bad ice, as
it has been for six weeks past. Asa specimen of these difficulties (which
frequently occur), at my last visit there, I went down [on Saturday by
water, the boat cutting its path much of the way through ice one-third of
an inch thick. By Monday morning the river was completely blockaded
with ice, and no other way left me to get home but on foot, by a road
through the swamps, which was at that time impassable by any beast of
draught or burden. I waited as long as my engagements would permit,
and then crossed the river, partly in a skiff, and partly on cracking ice ;
and, after being dragged, by the exceeding kindness of a friend, on a pony
sled about four miles on my way, I shouldered my pack, and put off on
foot, and alone, through the remaining twelve miles, leaping over the
quagmires, or into them, as the case might be, from log to log, and from
bog to bog, and reached home just at nightfall in a bitter snow-storm, and
in time to make my preparations for the Christmas Eve and Christmas
Bay service I had previously given notice of. “I was amply rewarded,
however, by seeing our beautifully decorated and illuminated church for
the first time filled to overflowing, with “all sorts and conditions of
men,” many of whom are never seen in a church on any other occasion
than Christmas Eve.

Upon the whole, I indulge the hope that my work here is slowly pros-
pering, and that I may yet “bring sheaves with me” from this unpromis-
ing field.

ttlisconsin.

Greeny Ba ( Oneida Indian Mission) — Rev. E. A. Goodnough.

This Mission is in about the same state as heretofore. The congrega-
tion is at present larger than usual, and there seems to be a lively interest
manifested, on the part of many poor Indians, in the religion of the
Saviour of the world ; but alas ! too many of them are under the influence
of the great enemy of their souls, to such a degree that they cannot break
the bonds of sin in which they are held. Many of them try to reform, try
to repent, weep, and beg for pardon, and promise that they never will sin
again ; and the very next time they go to Green Bay, they become intox-
icated, and rush, like lunatics, into all sorts of sins, crimes, and degrada-
tion. Another young Indian, to whom I have preached the Gospel, and who
was disposed to listen, has perished, body and soul, through strong drink,
the past winter, having been frozen to death while drunk. This makes
five young men, all of whom might have become good, respectable Indians,

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who have died through the direct agency of whiskey, since I have been
here. I say, that the whiskey traffic with Indians is a shame, a disgrace,
and an awful crime, that is permitted to be carried on freely by all civilized
Christian (so called) whites. Better to carry on a war of extermination
with Indians than to sell them liquor.

Minnesota.

St. Peter — Rev. Ezra Jones.

I am happy to be able to report the successful progress of my Mission.

The attendance upon the services is steadily increasing, and I think an
interest is already awakened, which will lead to good results. We are
looking forward to a visit from the Bishop in May ; and already I have
classes under instruction preparatory for Confirmation. I meet them in
private houses on week-day evenings, wherever I can bring two or three
together.

We have been spared any serious embarrassment from the hard times ;
for our Church is not in debt, except to the Missionary, and ,\Deo volentef
it will not be in debt. We have already experienced largely the benefit
of the maxim, “ Pay as you go,” and we can cheerfully recommend it to
others.

I suppose, my dear brother, I am indebted to your suggestion for ten
dollars, sent to us by the Sunday-school of St. Ann’s, Brooklyn. It was
received last month, and I have delayed to reply until I made my report,
for the lady who sent it gave me only her initials. I now enclose a line
for her. Will you do me the favor to forward it ? We have not adopted
the plan of making appeals or acknowledgments through the papers. We
have chosen to work quietly ; make known our wants modestly through
our private friends, and reply to them personally. It has in our case
been blessed to the furtherance of our work.

At times we have endured rather more privations than commonly fall
to the lot of Missionaries, even on the frontier. But, laus Deo, we have
been well, and have worked cheerfully and hopefully. The thought of
retreating has never been harbored. We have to some extent won (by
conquest) the good will of our neighbors, and our present prospects are
more cheering than at any point before.

I can but thank you for your kindly sympathy. The offering from St.
Ann’s was very timely and acceptable.

We have now a very comfortable house, though small, and all the es-
sentials of life common to so new a country. I have done as much pas-
toral work, and as much study and writing, in^three months past, as ever
before in the same time, and I never enjoyed it better.

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Acknowledgments .

(Dnr JFunbs.

In answer to many inquiries, we state that the funds have
not come in as well for the last two months as before, and that
we only hold our own , as compared with last year. Last year
in the May No., we reported $34,109 20. This year we report
$34,452 04. The receipts in the March and April Nos. last
year being $9,427 91, and $4,942 27, the amount this year
for March and April less by $2,578 90. What our friends
mean to do, we hope they will do promptly and liberally for
our cause. We shall need all that their united zeal and love
may give.

Appointments.

In Ohio, Rev. J. L. Grover, to Columbus, from March 1,
1858. In Illinois, Rev. Warren F. Roberts, to Syracuse, De
Kalb County ; and Rev. T. T. Castleman, to Kaukakee, &c.,
both from April 1, 1858. In Iowa, Rev. H. W. Beers, to
Lyons, from January 1, 1858. In Texas, Rev. C. H. Albert,
to Matagorda ; and Rev. M. P. Chariot, to Cold Spring, Polk
County, both from January 1st, 1858. In Wisconsin, Rev. T.
Greene (transferred), to Wausau and Mosinee, from April 1,
1858. In Minnesota, Rev. Benj. Evans, to Winona, from
January 1st, 1858.

designations.

In Maine, Rev. W. S. Chadwell, of Brunswick, from April
1st, 1858. In Georgia, Rev. F. Marion McAllister, of St.
Mary’s, from March 10, 1858. In Kentucky, Rev. G. A.
Crooke, of Maysville, Kentucky, from March 1, 1858. In Illi-
nois, Rev. G. Unonius, of Scandinavian Mission at Chicago,
from April 1st, 1858. In Texas, Rev. J. Wood Dunn, of
Lockhart, from Nov. 1st, 1857.

Acknowledgments.

DOMESTIC MISSIONS.

The Treasurer of the Domestic Committee
acknowledges the receipt of the following
sums from March 15, to April 15, 1858 :

Nefo-^ampslpre.

“Lizzie of Claremont, who prays
God-speed the work”

Vermont.

Bennington — St. Peter’s, Jg . . . . 5 00

Bethel — Christ 13 00

Norwich— Si. Andrews* 2 00

Royalton— St. Paul’s 6 00

St. Alban's— Union 10 09 36 00

JEassacfjusetta.

Andover — Christ, Easter collec-
tion 29 43

5 00

Achnow ledgments.

217

Boston— Advent 53 00

Do. Trinity 67 62

Cambridge — Christ 30 00

Ckarlestovm — St. John’s 36 00

Taunton— St. Thomas’, Jg 25 00

Vandensenvilie — Trinity 7 50

' “Mrs. T. G. F.” 15 00

“A Friend*’ 1 00 284 54

Connecticut.

Birmingham — St. James’ 100 00

East Haven— Christ 3 00

Essex — St. John’s 8 00

Meriden— St. Andrew’s, “ A

Friend ” 5 00

Norwich — Trinity 18 18

Trumbull — Long-Hill Parish. . . 2 83

IVatertown — Tnniiy, V> 20 00

From two Deacons of the Ch.. 5 00 162 01

Netosgorft.

Astoria — St. George’s 32 50

Brooklyn— Roly Trinity 50 00

Catskill — St. Luke’s 10 00

Cooper stown — Christ, from

Women’s Sewing Society, 8 69

Hudson— Christ 9 00

Jamaica — Grace 40 69

Kinderhook— St. Paul’s 7 89

Malone — St. Mark’s 4 00

Monticello-fr St. John’s 5 00

New- Brighton— Christ, Easter

offerings 6 00

New- York — Christ 2 00

“ St. Mary’s Sunday

School 7 29

“ St. Thomas’ 226 80

“ Transfiguration.. . .150 00

“ Anonymous, Two La-
dies 100 00

Peekskill— St. Peter’s, Easter

collection 18 00

Plattsbur g— Trinity 31 00

Sandy Hill — Zion, Easter of-
ferings 12 22

Troy— Holy Cross 55 00

“ A.” for Fort Dodge 10 00 786 08

NeimSerseg.

Morristown, j — Redeemer 14 35

Perth Amboy - Auonymous,for

Jews 2 00

South Amboy— St. Stephen’s.. . . 47 50 63 fc5

llennsglbania.

Germantown — St. Lnke’s, Eas-

ter collection 235 00

Manaynnk — St. David’s, for

Episcopal Miss’y Ass’n .... 47 77

Meadmlle— Christ 10 00

Morlattin — St. Gabriel’s 5 00

Norristown— St. John’s 30 95

Paradise — All Saints', 5 00

Philadelphia-i-Atcension. 45 75

“ St. Peter’s 150 00

“ Trinity 33 09

“ “ A Churchman ”. . 100 00

Pittsburgh— St. Peter’s 50 00

Pottstoion — “ In Memory —

Fourth Anniversary of the
birth of L.” 5 00 717 50

Delaware.

Newcastle— Emmanuel 27 43

JHarglanh.

Baltimore— Grace 500 00

Calvert Co. — St. Paul’s 15 00

Dorchester Pam'A-^Chapel of. . 15 00
Princess Ann Co., Somerset

Parish— St. Andrew’s Ch.. 10 00
Prince George's Co., — St.

Thomas’ Parish 10 00

Upper Marlboro — Trinity 7 15 577 15

Ftrgtnta.

Greenville Co., Meherrin Par.—

Sewing Society of, 12 50

Hanover Co., St. Peter's Par. —

Emmanuel Cn., ior Episco-
pal Miss. Association 5 00

Henry Court house — John R.

Lee, Esq., % 20 00

Lynchburgii — Mrs. Cornelia

Jordan, X 1 00

Middleburgh — Emmanuel 7 50

Upperville — Trinity 10 00

by illiamsburgh— Benton Parish 5 00 61 00

Nortf) Carolina.

Newbern— Christ 5 00

Raleigh— St. Mary’s 30 00 35 00

£outf) Carolina.

Charleston— St. Paul’s 40 00

Fairfield — St. John’s 20 00

Walter boro— St. John’s 20 00 80 00

JFloriba.

Pensacola — Christ 3 00

©fcio.

Cincinnati— St. John’s, Sunday

School 100 00

Clifton — Calvary 82 38

Columbus— St. Paul’s 10 00

Milan — St. Luke’s 5 50

Monroeville 4 00

Piqua— St. James’ 10 00 211 88

iHtSStesippt.

Pass Christian — Trinity 46 30

Ucnturkg.

Lexington— Christ 55 00

Louisville — St. Paul’s 1 00

Paris— St. Peter’s 5 00

Versailles — St. John’s 34 35 95 35

SUabanta.

Cahaba — St. Luke’s 16 00

Greensboro — St. Paul’s 48 50 64 50

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A clcnowledgments.

JHicIjigan.

Grand Rapids — St. Mark’s, Eas-

ter offerings of a Lady 20 00

Pontiac— Zion 4 00 24 00

^Louisiana.

New- Orleans— St. Peter’s 14 05

Enbt'ana.

Connersville — Trinity 10 00

Fort- Wayne — Trinity, Easter

offerings 10 00

Hillsboro— St. John’s 3 50 23 50

JHtgsourt.

Louisiana — Calvary 4 00

Illinois.

Chicago — Holy Communion, >£, 12 50

“ St. James’ 100 00 112 50

Eotoa.

Fairfield — St. Peter’s 1 25

Iowa City — Home of Indus-
try, % 1 00

Do. Hon. N.B. Baker 5 00 7 25

fflJItsconstn.

Marquette — Trinity 2 50

Nashota Lake— St. Sylvanus
Parish, Easter offerings,
of which $21 39 are from

Nashota Chapel, and $8 61

from Utica Mission 30 00

Oconomowoc — Zion 2 25 34 75

JHtnncsota.

Minneapolis — Gethsemane.. . . 42 00

St. Anthony— Holy Trinity,

Easter offerings 5 00 47 00

Stkansas.

Boonsboro — Mrs. M. E. Camp-
bell 4 00

Nebraska.

Omaha — Trinity, for Episcopal

Miss. Association 10 00

©rejjon.

Champoeg — Grace 25 00

jKltsccIIaneous.

Interest on Bonds 84 07

Episcopal Miss. A ss’n 9 00 93 07

Total from March 15th to April „

15ih * $3,615 85

Total from Oct. 1, 1857. . . . $34,452 04

Corrections. — In the April No., Owego , W. N. Y., should have been Oswego. The amount
acknowledged as for Bp. Lee, of Iowa, from Christ Church, Rochester, W. N. Y., should have
been $15. St. John's , Charleston, S. C., should have been St. Philip's. The amount acknowl-
edged as for Tennessee, from Trinity Church, Columbia, should have been for Texas.

The following sums, in aid of Domestic Missions, have been contributep
through the Episcopal Missionary Association for the West, in Philadelphia, by
the following named Churches and individuals, from March 1st to 31st, inclu-
sive, 1858, viz. :

New-Jersey — From Christ Ch.,

Belleville 100 00

St. Peter’s Church, Perth

Amboy 50 43 $150 43

Pennsylvania — St. Paul’s Ch.,

Wellsboro’ 10 00

H. & L., by Mr. J. S. Mc-

Calla 5 00

Interest on School Warrant

for $68 75 paid 7 41

St. Luke’s Church, Phila. .365 00 •

Trinity Ch., Carbondale.. 11 00 398 41
Maryland — From Mrs. R. T.

Earle, by J. S. McCulla ... 5 00

Virginia— St. Peter’s Church,

Westmoreland County 22 82

Christ Church, Norfolk... . 100 00 122 82
Iowa— St. Paul’s Church, Coun-
cil Bluff. 10 00

Of the above aggregate, the
Treasurer of the Domestic
Committee has received

within the same period 350 00

There has been paid by the
Association for incidental
expenses 50 00 400 00

To which add balance on hand,
March 1st, 1858

And leaving to be received by
the said Treasurer, when
appropriated by the said
Association, the further
sum of

$286 66
4,061 24

$4,347 90

Total receipts in the month of

March $686 66

FOREIGN MISSIONS

OF THE

Ijntestanl dpistapl

MAY, 1858.

FELLOWSHIP IN THE GOSPEL OF JESUS

CHRIST .

In another part of this Number, we publish a full account of
a special meeting of the Church Missionary Society of Eng-
land, called for the purpose of considering measures having
reference to the crisis in India. Truly that has been a sharp
and hitter conflict through which it has pleased God to allow
His servants, of that and other Societies, to pass — some to a
higher sphere of glory — some to a deeper experiepce of God’s
goodness, in preservation amid great peril. They who support
Missions in India, and they who have given themselves to the
work, are one with us in the fellowship of Christ’s precious.
Gospel. In their sufferings we suffer ; in the glory of the tri-
umphs of Divine grace attending on their labors we rejoice,
and join in a tribute of praise and thanksgiving. Christians
there, foreign and native, have together passed through martyr
fires unto the glorious recompense ; and though the way has
been hard, it has led them safely to the “ rest that remaineth.”
The clouds are now rolling away, and calm and hopeful
views are now being taken of all that has happened.

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North India.

The following paper, contained in a recent number of the
Church Missionary Record , we took up with a view to
gleaning from it certain facts ; — on reading it, however, we
find so much that is interesting scattered through it, that we
think it well to give the same entire.

NORTH INDIA.

The extracts which follow are from various sources. They tend espe-
cially to throw light upon the character, conduct, and future prospects of
the native Christians, as well as upon the beneficial influences exercised
by the Missionaries upon those with whom they have been brought fairly
in contact. •

We begin with an important document drawn up by the Missionaries of
the Bengal Conference in October last.

“ The brethren of the Bengal Conference, upon re-assembling at this
time in comparative quietness and safety, feel called upon, ere they pro-
ceed to the more regular and usual objects of their meeting, to take some
notice of that fearful judgment of God’s providence which has visited an
extensive district in this land ; and desire to express their prayerful sym-
pathy with the Missionaries of other Societies in the North-West, in the
extensive loss of Mission property, and, above all, in the sacrifice of life :
and they wish to record it as a reason for humbling themselves before Al-
mighty God, that He has been pleased to place this temporary check upon
Mission work ; yet they see cause for thankfulness also in the fact, that
the Church Missionary Society, amidst immense destruction of Mission
property, has suffered no loss of life ; while in this part of Bengal, though
ajt one time there were grounds for the gravest apprehensions, there has
been no outbreak, the Missionaries’ liyes have been spared, and their la-
bors not materially interrupted.

“ It has been insinuated that Missionary operations, either directly or
indirectly, have helped to produce this extensive mutiny : they however
state as their opinion, that Mission labors have had no connection with the
rebellion. They are rather inclined to think that the causes of the mutiny
were deeply seated, and of an entirely different character, and had been
long slumbering, and only wanted occasion to burst forth into a flame. It
has not been evident in any place that Missionaries have been marked out
distinctly from the Europeans as being more peculiarly the objects of ha-
tred and vengeance ; that, on the contrary, the experience of the brethren
is very uniform in showing that, as Missionaries, they were so far from
being regarded with distrust and embittered feelings by the natives, that
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confidence and trust ; and, in corroboration of this, they desire further to
state, that in those places which they have most frequented, and in propor-
tion as their labors were known, invariably a more friendly feeling has
been manifested. But as regards the Sepoys, who, of all classes involved
in the late rebellion have been least under Missionary influence, it is ob-
vious that the notion of Christianity and conversion which they enter-
tained was most erroneous, and altogether alien from that which Missiona-
ry teachings would have produced. While, therefore, the brethren feel
that the consideration of the political causes of this wide-spread mutiny is
not within their province, they do feel very strongly that these unparallel-
ed massacres are but the legitimate fruits of the dark and cruel creed of
Hinduism, and the bigoted and exclusive faith of Mohammedanism ; and
though they would be most unwilling to mitigate the feelings of horror and
indignation which must animate the heart of every one upon reading the
accounts of the fearful atrocities committed by the rebels, yet they would
deprecate that spirit of indiscriminate revenge, which they are pained to
see is being manifested by many persons, both here and in England.

“ On reviewing the whole circumstances of this awful visitation of God’s
wrath, which they are constrained to confess the sins of Europeans in this
country may have helped to provoke, the brethren do not give way to any
feelings of despondency in looking forward to the future and ultimate suc-
cess of their labors. On the contrary, they perceive many reasons for
hopeful encouragement, and many inducements to press forward in faith
and hope. They feel more urgently than ever the need of redoubled ef-
forts on the part of God’s people, both here and in England, to diffuse the
knowledge of the gospel through this land. The relaxation, therefore, of
efforts for the enlightenment of the Hindus — the withdrawal of co-opera-
tion in the cause of Missions in India, which the brethren regret to see as
one of the results of this mutiny — is not warranted by the circumstances
of the case, and is inconsistent with the sentiments which a broader and
more enlightened view of Christian Missions would suggest ; and espe-
cially when it is considered that this rebellion, unspeakably disastrous as
it is, is likely to break down some of the most formidable barriers to the
free course of the gospel : not the least of these is the system of caste.
It may be hoped that the employment of high-caste men, almost exclu-
sively, for both the civil and military services, will be discontinued, and
that, in future, less regard will be paid by Europeans to all such distinc-
tions. The brethren also trust, that eventually this outbreak, which has
detracted much from the influence of Mohammedans in India, will be over-
ruled by God, so as to open out more extensive fields of usefulness among1
that section of the native population.

“ The prejudices against the native Christians, which hitherto, the
brethren lament to say, have been strong, are likely to be weakened, and

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in future they hope to see more native Christians employed in offices of
^rust and responsibility.

“ The history of this mutiny has furnished full and deplorable proof of
that which the brethren were well assured of before, viz. : how ineffectual
are any means of enlightenment and civilization which stop short of a
cordial reception of the Gospel of Christ. The foulest and most horrible
cruelties which have, more than anything else, disgraced this rebellion,
were perpetrated at the instigation of one who had enjoyed the benefits of
a liberal English education. While the brethren feel that education im-
parted under the auspices of the gospel, may, by the blessing of God, be
most wholesome and blessed in its results, the mere quickening and train-
ing of the intellect is wholly unable to repress evil dispositions, and reno-
vate the character. They therefore, more earnestly than ever, would urge
upon those who love the Lord Jesus not to slacken their endeavors in dis-
seminating the seed of Christ’s gospel ; but. meditating afresh upon the
jove of our Saviour to our sin-stricken, rebellious world,, to go on boldly in
faith and hope ; for assuredly at no preceding time in the history of India
has her need of the saving and regenerating knowledge of Christ been
more clearly shown.”

Extract from a letter of the Rev. Dr. Bluff, dated Calcutta, November 20 :

“ As to lovers of us or our rule, in any sense of the term, probably there
are none among any class, except the comparatively small body of pro-
fessing native Cnristians. In them, participation in the transcendent ben-
efits of a common and glorious faith has overcome the antipathies genera-
ted by foreignness of race. The reality of their good will and affection
towards us — and to their credit it ought to be specially noted — has in va-
rious ways been made manifest throughout the progress of the recent aw-
ful rebellion. No sooner did the intelligence reach Calcutta of the mas-
sacres at Mirut and Delhi, than the educated native Christians of all de-
nominations met in our Institution, and drew up a truly loyal and admira-
ble address to the Governor-General. A similar address was also forward-
ed from the large body of native Christians in the district of Kishnagurh,
offering at the same time any assistance in their power with their carts and
bullocks, &c. The native Christians at Chota Nagpore, a hilly district,
offered their personal services as police guards, or in any other capacity.
The native Christians in the district of Burrisal, East Bengal, were ready,
if called on or accepted, to form a local military corps. The magistrate of
Tipperah — a zillah still further to the east, and still in a state of great in-
security— sent the other day, to one of the Dacca Missionaries, an earnest
requisition for 150 native Christians for defensive purposes, as the only
class of natives in whose loyalty and attachment to us any real confidence
could be placed. The individual who gave information to the authorities

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at Patna, which led to the discovery and defeat of a desperate Mohamme-
dan plot to massacre all the Europeans at that station, was a native Chris-
tian. But enough. Theory and practice alike concur in proving, that to
increase and multiply the number of native Christians is to increase and
multiply the only class of truly staunch and loyal native subjects of the
British Crown among the teeming millions of India.”

Extract from the Bombay Guardian :

“ Is it not a fact that we are indebted to native Christians for the dis-
covery of several deep-laid plots in different parts of India, since June
last? The Mohammedan plot, organized on Monghyr and Patna, and ex-
tending to we know not what places beside, which was to have been carried
out on Buckree Eed, was brought to light through the agency of a native
Christian. The Belgaum and Dharwar conspiracy, connecting itself with
Poonah, and possibly with other places, the carrying out of which might
have imperilled the entire Presidency, was brought to the knowledge of
the authorities by a native Christian. Other facts of a similar kind may
be added, if we mistake not, to this list. We are not aware that there has
been a single instance of a native convert joining the mutineers, even to
save his life. Should such instances come to light, we could not greatly
wonder, seeing that an Englishman, once a non-commissioned officer in the
Company’s army, was conspicuous among the defenders of Delhi, and was
killed in the ranks of the mutineers. But as we said, no such fact is re-
ported of any native Christian, though it may be that nearly a thousand of
them have been put to death for their religion since the commencement of
the mutinies.”

The following is an extract from the Special Correspondent of the
“ Times,” dated Calcutta, Nov. 23 :

“ On the termination of the Santhal campaign, the Lieutenant-Governor,
finding that the complete barbarism of the Santhals had become dangerous,
proposed to civilize them. He handed them over to the Church Missionary
Society for education, selecting that body because two of its agents had
won the confidence of the Santhals. The tribe liked the arrangement, and
began to fill the schools. The surrounding classes did not care, regarding
Santhals in about the light in which we regard centipedes, or other danger-
ous vermin. There was no doubt of success, when out comes an order
from the Court disallowing the whole arrangement, as the development of
Christianity was 1 contrary to their policy.’ Well, the Santhals have a
Commissioner, a man known as no saint, a desperate hunter, always either
in the saddle or inquiring into the complaints of his subjects. He’was
ordered to produce a new scheme. He quietly replied that he could not
and would not, and that he hoped soon to see the end of ‘ a policy which

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made us cowards in the eyes of men, and traitors in the eyes of God.’
Similar ideas are coming up from every corner of India.

44 I add a proof stronger than an assertion.

44 ‘ Memorandum by Mr. Montgomery , Political Commissioner in
the Punjab.

44 4 The sufferings and trials which the Almighty has permitted to come
upon His people in this land during the past few months, though dark and
mysterious to us, will assuredly end in His glory. The followers of Christ
will now, I believe, be induced to come forward and advance the interests
of His kingdom, and those of His servants.

“ 4 The system of caste can no longer be permitted to rule in our ser-
vices. Soldiers, and Government soldiers of every class, must be enter-
tained for their merits, irrespective of creed, class, or caste.

“ ‘ The native Christians as a body have, with some exceptions, been set
aside. I know not one in the Punjab (to our disgrace be it said) in any
employment under Government. A proposition to employ them in the
public service six months ago would assuredly have been received with
coldness, and would not have been complied with. But a change has come,
and I believe there are few who will not eagerly employ those native
Christians competent to fill appointments.

44 ‘ I understand that, in the ranks of the army at Madras, there are native
Christians, and I have heard that some of the guns at Agra are at this
time manned by native Christians.

“ 4 I consider I should be wanting in my duty at this crisis if I did not
endeavor to secure a portion of the numerous appointments in the judicial
department for native Christians ; and I shall be happy as (I can) to ad-
vance their interests equally with that of Mohammedan and Hindu candi-
dates. Their future promotion must depend on their own merits.

44 4 1 shall therefore feel obliged by each Missionary favoring me with a
list of any native Christians belonging to them, who, in their opinion, are
fit for the public service.^ . ' ' I*?"

44 44 The following suggestions will aid the Missionaries in classifying
their men :

44 4 For Burkandazes (policemen in the ranks,) able-bodied men are re-
quired. If the candidate can read and write, and is generally intelligent,
he is pretty sure to rise rapidly to the higher ranks.

44 4 For assistants in public offices, and for higher appointments in the
judicial and police departments generally, it is imperative that candidates
should read and write Urdu, in the Shikarba hand, fluently, and be intelli-
gent, ready, and trustworthy.

^Candidates must be prepared, at first, to accept the lower grade of
appointments, in order that they may learn their duties, and qualify them-
selves for the higher posts.

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“ ‘ Arrangements can sometimes be made to apprentice a candidate for
a few months, with a view of teaching him his work ; but during this period
the candidate must support himself.

“ ‘ It is suggested that no person be nominated whom the Missionaries
do not consider, by their character and attainments, to have a good pros-
pect of success. Better wait till a candidate qualifies himself fully, than
recommend an inferior man. (Signed) R. Montgomery.’

“ The order was issued three months ago. It was received without the
slightest animosity, and is being carried into effect ; that is to say, Sir John
Lawrence, the one successful pro-consul in India, has, in his own province,
decreed that caste shall cease.” — Times , January 1.

BENARES.

The Rev. C. F. Cobb writes from Benares, November 16, 1857 :

“ I must just mention to you a circumstance which much interested and
encouraged me the other day. Mr. Edwards, late judge of Futtehgurh,
called here. I believe he is one of five only who escaped from Futtehgurh.
He and Mr. and Mrs. Probyn (magistrate) and their four children were saved
by a native in his fort. For two months of the severest weather (heat) they
were in a little shed, and two of the poor children died. He himself was
so altered by suffering and anxiety, that his friends here scarcely knew
him : his black hair turned grey, his face became haggard, and his whole
system so shaken as to oblige him to go down to Calcutta for rest. He
asked me about our work and friends here ; and hearing that we had had poor
refugees (native Christians) from other stations, and a large falling off in
our funds, he at once gave a donation of fifty rupees, and said he wished
he could afford more. I said, how cheering it was, when many are saying
they would do nothing any further for the natives, to receive aid from one
who had been such a sufferer through their wickedness. He replied that
surely the native Christians ought not to suffer for the wickedness of the
heathen and Mohammedans. He had had a servant, a Sikh, converted to
Christianity and baptized by Mr. Ullman of the American Mission, at Futteh-
gurh ; that he was the only one who had stuck faithfully to him through
all the troubles, and he had never concealed his profession. Mr. Edwards
further said, that he and others in the Civil Service were resolved hence-
forth to employ only Christian servants, if they could get them. He said
he had done this at Budaon, where he found a little Christian colony, and
had found his Christian servants worthy of perfect confidence. He alluded
to the horrible massacres of native Christians, both at Futtehgurh and
Bareilly, and said he felt how convincing a proof their suffering had been
of their sincerity.”

The annexed extract has reference to the Missionary exertions of a
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excited much attention — Mr. Robert Tucker. The tablets erected by him
suggest a mode of preaching worthy of extended imitation.

“ I believe that there was no European clergyman or Missionary at
Futteypur, but the native Gopinath Nundy, so nearly martyred with his
wife at Allahabad.

“ Mr. Tucker was in the habit of reading the Bible in their native
tongue to upwards of 200 poor — the lame, the leper, and the "blind — on
every Sabbath-day. Seed has therefore been sown at Futteypur, and,
though I know not what has become, during these fearful troubles, of the
children of the school, or any native Christians of the place — except
Gopinath, his family, and a man called Joseph, who escaped — surely we
may venture to hope that it will spring up into a harvest of light !

i£ It is remarkable that two tablets of stone, which Mr. Tucker, years
ago, set up by the high road, containing the Ten Commandments in the
native character, and John iii. 14, 18, in both Persian and Hindu, were
both standing by last accounts, one in good repair, the other only a little
injured. They have been spared, when he who raised them was cruelly
slain ; they have been silently bearing witness to the truth, and preaching
to the heathen, when Robert Tucker’s voice was silenced in death !”

AGRA.

The Rev. T. V. French (December 2d), is already occupied in
endeavors to repair our ruined establishments at Agra, both materially and
morally.

“ We are trying hard to rally our students, but without adequate success.
My own first class is the only one which remains entire, and in proportion
to the influence our teaching, as a whole, had gained over the minds of
the youths instructed, was a better spirit exhibited towards Government,
and more sympathy exhibited with our cause.”

Mr. W. Wright, in a letter, dated Agra, November 19, after alluding
to the employment of the native Christians as gunners, on the Commissa-
riat, and as servants, remarks in reference to the natives generally —

“ Painful indeed as it is to reflect that many have dyed their murderous
hands in the blood of our countrymen, yet not even so have they forfeited'
all claims to the Missionary’s love. ‘While we were yet sinners, Christ
died for us ;’ and God, perfecting His strength in my weakness, my single
desire is to spend and be spent in labors among them.’ ”

AMRITSAR.

Rev. H. Strawbridge, October 16, says :

“ Speaking of the villages, I am reminded of a very interesting fact con-
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city turned out and damaged every house in the station, excepting three
or four, and these were the residences of the Missionaries. Neither was
this accidental ; for it appears, that when certain of the Badmashes of the
city were about to do their work of destruction, they found the house de-
fended by men from neighboring villages — men who are still heathen, but
who had been visited from time to time by the Missionaries. These men,
upon hearing of the intention of the Missionaries to leave Sealkote for
Lahore, begged them not to go, and promised to come and defend them in
case of an outbreak. However, they went ; but the men kept their word,
and came and acted as above stated. So true is the promise, ‘ W hen a
man’s ways please the Lord, He maketh even his enemies to be at peace
with him.’ ”

MULTAN.

Extracts from private letters of Rev. T. H. Fitzpatrick, dated Multan,
Punjab, November 2d, 1857.

“ There is now no hindrance to my work of any kind. I have no more
to fear in preaching in the town than I would in London ; and I have
commenced an Urdu, Sikh, and Persian school, under a Mussulman
teacher, with five boys. The continued success of our arms in all parts
of Hindustan, enabled our Government to recover lost ground very rapidly.
The rapidity of our successes is remarkable. I take it as an evident
and most striking answer to the prayers of God’s people in England and
India.

“ I scarcely wonder at your thinking me too sanguine in my views of
the mutiny and rebellion, for the facts were undoubtedly most appalling,
and the accounts, not at all exaggerated, very alarming ; Fut yet I was not
singular : on the contrary, I believe the general feeling of all praying
Christians in India, or at least in the Punjab, was much the same. The
promises of God have been strikingly fulfilled, and His people have been
kept in peace ; and not only so, they have been drawn into very sweet
fellowship, one with another, and the trials of the last five months have
been working in them a spiritual-mindedness more clear and decided than
commonly seen in less trying times.

“ A fact of Missionary interest has occurred since my last letter, in the
baptism of Daoud’s father, an aged Sikh. Mr. Strawbridge wrote to me
in great delight about it, and the same mail brought a letter from Daud, of
which I give you a translation, as literal as possible, except in some of the
honorific names, which I prefer to construe in a manner less liable to be
mistaken by English minds. It runs thus —

“ ‘ Padre Fitzpatrick, Sahib, in the order of the priesthood, a teacher of
the true knowledge, may God’s grace rest upon you, &c. Polite compli-

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ments and humble salutations* &c. Your humble servant Daoud begs to
state, that his family, by God’s grace, are all quite well, except his aged
father, who is very ill ; indeed, it is not unlikely that God may by this ill-
ness call him away,* for He has opened his heart, and he has, in this his
time of sickness, of his own free will, and with happiness, received bap-
tism.

“ ‘ This seems to be of God ; for before his sickness, your servant
sought to give him much instruction, through the medium of the Bengali
language, and often said to him, £ Father, you have heard that he who be-
lieveth and is baptized shall obtain salvation, and whosoever will not do
so, upon him there is already condemnation. Now, father, if you wish
salvation, become a Christian ;’ but then he used to reply, 4 What remains
to my becoming a Christian? I eat, and drink, and live with you, and I
hear your words (instruction), and now I am no longer a Hindu, nor can I
become one again.’ From this your servant clearly perceived that his
father did not yet understand the excellence and beauty of the Gospel, nor
had he any clear perception of the power of God’s salvation ; and there-
fore your servant began again, and instructed his father in St. Luke’s
Gospel, from the beginning to the end, and with this entreated God to
draw him to His Son ; and so it pleased God of His abundant grace to
make him a member of His church. Glory be to God the Father, Son,
and Holy Ghost, on earth and in heaven, to all eternity !

u 4 And your humble servant is most grateful to you for having called
him here from Hindustan, and that by coming he has thus been privileged
to meet his father, and in this way he has obtained baptism ; and now his
hope is that his mother also will in like manner become a Christian.

“ 1 And now your humble servant respectfully urges that you have quite
put him away, and remembered his unworthiness, for you have not writ-
ten to him for a long time ; and he, like an unworthy thing, is not kept
in mind : but this is far from kindness, for mercy triumphs over justice
(in Scripture 1 rejoiceth against judgment.’) Therefore, in mercy favor
your servants, Daoud and Alice, with a lettor stating how you are. Alice
and Daoud' (i. e. himself and wife), George, Mary, Hannah, and Sarah,
(children), send polite and humble salutations to Mem Sahib and your
honor, and Jesse also, your servant’s aged father, sends his salaam to
your honor, and the whole congregation offer their best wishes.’

“ Daoud’s father and mother are a fine, intelligent, respectable old cou-
ple, I trust his mother will at length repent and believe. She stayed some
months with Daoud, before I left, and used then to come to church ; but
Daoud was sorely troubled that she seemed so little awakened.”

11 Nov. 19. — We are very quiet and peaceable here, but rather concerned
lest our Government (not the Punjabi, but the Calcutta Government)

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should follow the old system of misrule, and in their efforts to build up a
false and infidel system, continue to dishonor God, and perpetuate the
wretchedness of India.

“ We hold India in spite of the jealousies, fears, and hatred of all classes,
simply because God has given it to us ; but we have failed, utterly failed.
There is no way to gain the respect, much less the affections of the peo-
ple, but by truth and uprightness. We who are trying to serve the Lord
feel this strongly, and several of us have joined in an union for prayer.
We each one in private plead with God, about midday every Monday, for
an abundant pouring out of the Holy Spirit —

li 1. Upon the Church in India, for its edification in Christian doctrine,
and holiness of character ; and upon the people of India, that they may be
led to consider and receive the gospel.

“2. Upon all Christian ministers in India, that they may be guided
into all truth, and become patterns of holiness ; so devoted to the minis-
try that they may seek nothing else but the salvation of souls.

“3. Upon the rulers, magistrates, and legislators of India, that it may
please God to put into their hearts such faith and fear towards Him, that
they may, in all their public acts, as well as private conversation, seek His
glory, and the salvation of India ; and, in particular, may be led to esta-
blish a sound system of Christian education for all classes.

11 A good many have united ; and now, on every Monday, these prayers
ascend to 'God from individuals here, and at Peshawur, Amritsar, Simla,
Kotgurh, Kangra, Hera, Ghaji Khan, Muzaffargurh, &c. Some are san-
guine that the days of India’s regeneration are drawing nigh.”

PESHAWUR.

The following extracts are from private letters, dated Peshawur :

u August 3. — An interval of a month has occurred since I commenced
this letter. The disturbing nature of the events happening around us;
renders communication quite uncertain, not to speak of its absorbing
much of one’s thoughts. Even while I write, the rumor is abroad, that,
at the conclusion of the feast now being celebrated by the Mussulmans —
the Beiram — the fanatical hill-tribes around us, are to surround and des-
troy us. I am kept, however, by God’s goodness, in great peace of mind,
and have not had one uneasy night, except from dyspepsia, since the be-
ginning of the mutiny.

“ A few months ago, Peshawur was looked upon as a place to be shunned
and dreaded, not only as one of the most unhealthy, but also as one of the
most dangerous stations in this country. Now it has turned out to be
one of the safest. Through the admirable management of Colonel Ed-
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we have been devoted to the sword ; letter after letter has been inter-
cepted, and from great men among the Mahommedans to our Sepoys*
counselling indiscriminate murder of men, women and children. Colonel
Edwardes has himself been prepared to fly at a moment’s warning, so im-
minent has been the danger. Twice, within the last three days, the Ar-
tillery have limbered up, on some false alarm ; and only yesterday a let-
ter was intercepted, inculpating the only Sepoy regiment in Peshawur
which was thought trustworthy. In common with others, I have a few
shirts, &c., papers, and money, made up, ready at any alarm to betake
myself to the Residency, which is the appointed rendezvous in case of an
emergency.

“ August 23. — The Sepoy mutiny is an event of such unparalleled mag-
nitude, that people in India find their thoughts and pens almost exclu-
sively occupied by it. The horrors and dangers of that movement have been
brought to our very doors, and we feel as if there was nothing else going
on throughout the whole world. Here, in Peshawur, though surrounded
with dangers, we have hitherto been wonderfully preserved. It seems as
if God had put the fear of us in the hearts of the ferocious people around
us. 1 Surely they had swallowed us up quick,’ if they had risen up against
us. And that they were fully disposed to do this, they have themselves
candidly avowed. It was passed from mouth to mouth in the city of Pe-
shawur, that when our Sepoys should mutiny, all the people of the city
would join them in exterminating the Sahibs. A letter was intercepted
purporting to be from the King of Delhi ; and in reply to a question asked
him by the Peshawur Sepoys, ‘what they should do with the women and
children of the English V the answer was to the point, ‘ Kill every one.’
Colonel Edwardes has intercepted numbers of letters of a similar kind, in
which a tiger-like thirsting for the blood of the Christians was manifested.
The impression among thoughtful men relative to this movement is, that
it is the death-throe of Mohammedanism. The Hindu soldiers have been
nothing more than tools in the hands of the more energetic Mussulmans.
This is Dr. Pfander’s opinion, and Colonel Edwardes’. The latter sees
God’s hand in it all, and looks to great and blessed results to the church
from it.”

CHINA .

EXTRACTS FROM JOURNAL OF E. W. SYLE FOR DEC. 1857.

ls£. — Miss Conover has returned from Ningpo, so manifestly recruited
in health, that I feel as if a — 1 had been converted into 4- 1, in the esti-
mate of the Mission’s working force. Thus it is in our circumstances ;
and I can speak from my own recent experience as to the relief which it
is to a Missionary’s mind, when he finds himself convalescent after being
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to take one’ 8 place, once more, among the burden-bearers, after haying
been dragging along the road wearily and heavily. I am thankful to say,
that my own health is above the usual average ; a relaxed throat being my
only ailment.

NEED OF A HOSPITAL.

2d. — This afternoon, I attended the annual meeting of subscribers to
Dr. Lockhart’s Chinese Hospital. It proved a painful occasion to most
of us, though it must have been truly gratifying to Dr. L. himself, to re-
ceive so many heartfelt assurances of regard and esteem as were volun-
teered to him on all sides ; this being his farewell to Shanghai, at least
for a season, perhaps finally. This hospital is one of the ‘ institutions ’
of the place, having been in operation now for about fourteen years, and
its fame being spread abroad far and near. Happily for us, and for the
poor Chinese here, Dr. Hobson (late of Canton) has undertaken to carry
on the work of the hospital ; and we know it will be done kindly and
efficiently. Nothing, however, in my judgment, can compensate, or does
compensate, to us, as a Mission, for not having a physician and a hospital
of our own. I have always urged this from the first year of my Mission-
ary experience, as may be seen by referring to the Spirit of Missions for
May 1847.* My convictions on the subject are now the same as they were
then, only deepened. I maintain, that a Mission is lame without a phy-
sician connected with it ; that the argument from the Scriptures in favor
of healing and hospitals, is stronger than that for schools and orphan
asylums; and I profess myself one of the most strenuous advocates for the
maintainance of the latter. I am confident that a hospital for us might
have been built and maintained, without diverting one dollar from our
available Missionary funds ; nay, I believe it would have increased them,
both presently and prospectively. And how many souls it would have
brought under the direct influence of Gospel truth, in a condition most
favorable to an humble reception of it, God only knows ; I can only con-
jecture, and be sorrowful ! •

* “ You speak of our having means at our disposal as soon as you have more frequent com-
munications from China. Ah, my dear brother ! the mtn are the means, and when shall we
have these 1 Especially, I think, do we need a physician, for many reasons. These people
cannot be made to comprehend the disinterestedness of our object. Their general opinion of
foreigners is, that they are bad, rich, violent men, and they have had too much reason for think -
ingso. Dr. Lockhart’s Hospital is beginning to make them feel that all foreigners are not
what they suppose, but it is slow work. While Dr. Boone (a brother of Bishop Boone, who
made a voyage to China, fordiis health) was with us, it was delightful to observe how naturally
the poorjpeople came to us for relief, like sick children to their parents, so that in a little while my
house (which was the most convenient) became a little Dispensary, and my heart was made
glad to see with what confidence in our ability and good-will the poor people came to us with
their ailments. But now he is gone, and Dr. Lockhart has removed three miles off, to the other
side of the city, and I am forced to send away from my door many whom the report of Dr
Boone’s skill and benevolence had brought to it. When our friends want to know what are
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Sunday, bth. — A promising lad of twelve years old' was brought to me,
this afternoon, as a candidate for baptism. Ilis grandmother, a lively old
woman, is the last adult I have baptized, and her conduct shows a plea-
sant blending of natural affection, with what I hope is true to the feeling.

VERSION OF THE PSALMS.

12 tli. — The growing need which is felt for Psalmody in our Chinese
worship, had led to a renewed attempt to produce a good version of the
Psalms. The Committee of our Mission have instructed me to prepare a
small collection of metrical Hymns — “if possible,” I would like to add,
so great do I find the difficulty of doing anything satisfactory in this way.
All that Trench says in the invaluable Introduction to his little volume
of “ Sacred Latin Poetry,” as to the bondage which the old heathen poetic
forms would impose upon the composition of Christian lyrics, is exempli-
fied, in regard to the Chinese language, more distressingly than he himself
could have imagined. After trying in vain to bring some of the Psalms
into regular verse, I have been obliged to content myself with irregular
lines of iambics, and which my chief effort is to bring out the parallel-
isms of the original. The monosyllabic nature of the Chinese language
favors this, -while the iambic form gives a rhythm to the whole, and
adapts it perfectly for chanting. Oh, for the day when the Christian
heart of a native Chinese shall be inspired to pour forth in true lyric
forms the experiences of the converted soul, as well as the praises of the
Redeemer, and the truths of His Gospel ! It will hardly be in this gen-
eration ; the power of pedantry is too strong over the minds of all edu-
cated on the present system.

15 th. — At the meeting of our Literary and Scientific Society this even-
ing, one of the matters under discussion was the degree of credit due to
certain traces found in Chinese books of the history of three consider-
able islands in the North Pacific, which are calculated to have been situ-
ated between Japan and the -west coast of North America, and are now
supposed to be submerged. The data brought forward were few, and not
very well substantiated. Yet there were many considerations which favored
the supposition ; and the light which this matter, if cleared up, would
throw on the perplexing question of the peopling of the islands of the
Pacific, gives it an especial interest.

UNEXPECTED SUCCESS.

16 th. — A remarkable thing has occurred, and in a somewhat remarkable
way. Some time since, Mrs. Nelson mentioned, in the course of conver-
sation with a lady of the mercantile community, that the poor people in
our neighborhood were great sufferers, by reason of the overflows which
had occurred this fall during the high tides of three successive months.
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Taoji Tai, the mandarin of highest rank in the place, 'who promised that
wadded garments should he provided for the poor, to the number of one
thousand suits. Contrary (I must acknowledge) to my own expectation,
this has actually been done ; and among the rest, some thirty or forty of
the blind people under my care have got the benefit of the well-timed
effort. How almost unaccountable to our friends at home will it appear,
that, while at Canton the Chinese and foreigners are making deadly pre-
parations to destroy each others lives and property, here at Shanghai
English and American ladies and Missionaries are co-operating with the
Chinese mandarin, in relieving the distresses of the poor around them !
Truly, the position of things is anomalous ; and we have good reason to
be thankful that the lines have fallen to us here, rather than in the city of
Rams.

Sunday, 20th. — Performed the chapel service myself, and baptized three
adults ; two of whom had been first instructed under Mr. Keith’s hand,
and one under the Bishop’s. I feel that our harvest-time is approaching,
and that sowers and reapers will soon have frequent reason to rejoice to-
gether. May we all have grace to labor diligently, while our little day of
health and opportunity shall last !

24 th. — Yesterday, and again to-day, Mr. Nelson and myself spent some
time together considering the principles and manner of performing that
revision of our Chinese Prayer Book, which the Bishop, in his parting ad-
dress, had committed to our joint performance. I shall have occasion to
refer to this matter more fully hereafter.

CHRISTMAS SERVICE.

Christmas Day. — At our chapel service this morning (which was con-
ducted by Mr. Nelson), the congregation was larger than I ever remem-
ber to have seen there. Extra benches from the school-house were brought
in, and the number of communicants who surrounded the table was about
forty. AY e attained to no great hilarity at our accustomed social gather-
ing ; so many, and those the most cheerful, of our number being absent.
For my own part, a pall had been spread over my feelings, by having wit-
nessed, as I went into the city to preach at the church, the hurrying off
to immediate execution of seven wretched, emaciated, half-naked criminals.
Such sights have become painfully common of late ; and I fear the time
is distant when scenes of blood will cease in this now disorganized coun-
try. Anarchy and brigandage are, as might have been expected, making
themselves apparent on every hand. And when will the end be ?

26 th. — A Christian wedding ! and that, too, performed with unobjection-
able simplicity. The sexton of our chapel sought for, and obtained for
his wife, one of the elder girls in our boarding-school — A-doo , by name.
I stood in loco parentis to her, she having been brought first under our
charge through my poor old teacher, Soodong, now himself departed.

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There is much connected with this marriage, which it would he interest-
ing to recount, if time permitted ; hut matters of interest are now multi-
plying around us so fast, that it is impossible to note down even the out-
lines of all that occur.

CHAPEL REPAIRS.

21th. — A substantial addition has been built on the eastern side ot
our chapel, for the purpose of strengthening the wall in a place where it
had begun to give a little, owing to the yielding character of the soil on
which the foundation was laid. The Chief Engineer of the “ San
Jacinto,” when here, had very kindly furnished us with the plan, and the
expense has been borne by some of the foreign residents, who are inte-
rested in the Sunday evening service. We have now no fears for the
stability of the chapel for some time to come, though the general dilapi-
dation of all buildings in this climate is very great.

28th. — Our younger brethren, Liggins and Williams, have returned from
their exploring tour, and were present at the Mission Committee meeting
held this morning. They report a favorable opening at a place called Ta-
chong, between this city and Soo-chow ; and their hope and expectation
is, that they will secure a residence there in a short time. God grant it !
The time has fully come when we ought to be branching out from Shang-
hai into the regions round about.

30th. — Liggins and Williams left us again, taking Chi with them, to
assist in the carrying out of their plan for a new Station.

31s£, last dag of the year 1857. — In the preceding extracts, I have
omitted to copy the constantly-recurring notices of Sunday services and
week-day preachings. My work here has settled into a tolerably regular
routine, about which there is very little to be said, though everything to
be done. Mere routine is the most uninteresting thing in the world,
though I feel it to be a very high attainment, even one that approximates
a poor human laborer to the great Divine Architect and Ruler of all,
when life and energy are imparted to every movement of a weekly, daily,
hourly routine. Brethren, pray for us !

JOURNAL OF C. M. WILLIAMS.

BAPTISM OF THREE PERSONS.

September, 20th. — A day long to be remembered by me. This after-
noon I baptized, at Christ Church, three of the Catechumens — two blind
men and one woman — who have been under instruction at my station at
Sing-Zah. The words of our blessed Saviour have been forcibly brought
to mind in this instance — “ One soweth and another reapeth — other men
labored and ye are entered into their labors.” One of the men had ap-

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plied for baptism to the Rev. Mr. McClatchie, of the Church Missionary
Society, who, on his return to England, transferred him to Mr. Syle. The
other man and the woman had also been instructed by Mr. Syle, but as
all three lived near Sing- Z ah, they were placed under my charge. They,
continuing steadfast in their desire for baptism, and giving very satisfac-
tory evidence of their meetness to receive this holy sacrament, were this
day admitted into the Church of Christ. God grant that grace may be
given to keep them from falling away, and going back to the polluting
heathen practices they have now renounced ; that being strengthened with
might by the Spirit, in the inner man, they may be enabled to fight man-
fully under the banner of Christ against the world, the flesh and the
devil, and continue His faithful soldiers and servants unto their lives’
end.

A female relative of the woman came up to me after the congregation
was dismissed, and said, a I also wish to enter the religion of Jesus. I
want to save my soul.” The wife of one of the men baptized, said, a few
days previously, “ I do not want to be separated from my husband, but
will go with him on the narrow road which leads to life eternal.” I may
add here, they have attended the services at Sing-Zah, quite regularly
since then.

Oct. 2d. — In company with Mr. Liggins, left home on a missionary
tour to the region of country around Soo-Chow.

PREACHED IN THE COURT OF THE TEMPLE.

Sunday, Oct. 4 tli. — In the morning, walked to the temple of the Zung-
wong, and in the open court within we both preached to a congregation of
about one hundred persons, who were quite orderly and attentive. While
I was preaching, the priests in the temple, struck up with their not very
melodious music, to drown my voice or draw off the people. If such was
their intention they did not succeed, for, they being some little distance off,
it was only necessary to raise my voice to be heard, and the crowrd re-
mained quietly till we left.

Afternoon, went to the lower part of the town to preach, but when in
the midst of my sermon it commenced raining, and we were forced to re-
treat to the boat. When the rain ceased we again went out, and both of us
preached to a congregation not very large, but composed principally of
respectable, genteel looking men.

DISTRIBUTION OF BIBLES AND TRACTS.

Oct. 5th. — Reached Soo-Chow at an early hour. Profiting by the ex-
perience of a party who, after being sent back by the gate-keeper, suc-
ceeded in entering by a water-gate ; we ordered the boatman to take his
boat into the city. Whenhe had passed the gate some little distance, we
left the boat, and taking two men, with a good supply of Bibles and tracts,

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walked through a number of streets, giving them to the shopmen and in-
telligent men we met. Having disposed of all the books, we ascended the
nine storied Pagoda, from which we had a fine view of the immense city
and the surrounding country. We also visited the Yuen-mian-Kwan,
the largest temple in Soo-Chow, and the Sih-to-ling , the temporary resi-
dence of a former Emperor when on a visit here. In this quiet garden,
shut in from the busy, noisy world without, we proclaimed the glad tidings
of salvation to about seventy-five persons, who had followed us.

Oct. 6th. — Went up to the Tanist monastery, on the mountain of
Choong-Loong. As this was some great worship day, a large number of
beggars had congregated from the surrounding country, and had placed
themselves along the road leading up the side of the mountain. It was
sickening to see some of these poor, miserable creatures, and a matter of
surprise how they had managed to drag themselves so high up this steep
road. We preached in front of the monastery to about seventy-five per-
sons, twenty-five of whom were priests. Our audience was attentive
and quiet, but the chair bearers, going and coming, inviting persons to
ride in their sedans, squabbling among themselves, and chaffering with
their passengers for more cash, made it, at times, excessively noisy. We
gave away all the books we had brought, and seven of the priests ac-
companied us to the boat to get more.

Went on to Kwong-fok, where we passed the night.

PREACHED THE GOSPEL IN ANOTHER CITY.

Oct. 7th. — After preaching at Kwong-foJc, we started for Hine-z-kwan
which we reached by 2 P. M. By keeping close in our boat, we suc-
ceeded in passing the smaller Custom House, but when we had gone some
distance into the town, our boat was stopped at the larger Custom House
by a boat placed across the stream. We were seen here by some one, and
in a few minutes crowds were collected on the banks to get a sight of the
“ foreign devils,” a term by which foreigners are very generally designa-
ted by these 11 celestials.” As the boats would not be permitted to pass
for some time, we directed the boatman to land, that we might go out and
preach. We went to the Zung-wong temple and preached in an open
court to a congregation of five hundred persons. The streets were too
much crowded and the people too excited to admit of our distributing
Bibles and tracts, so we returned to the boat intending to give them in at
the stores next morning. But when we reached the boat, we found one
of the numerous hangers-on of a Mandarin’s office awaiting our arrival.
He was attended by four soldiers, who did not inspire us with very great
fear, though they had the character 11 ioong ,” courage, valor, written op
their breast and back. The young man informed us, with all the polite-
ness of a Chinese, that he had been sent by the Mandarin to say, that we
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quite Chinese — First, the country people were not polite and might insult
us. Probably he wished to leavo the impression on our minds, that this
dear Mandarin had such regard for our feelings, that he could not consent
to our being exposed to such a terrible evil. As this reason did not satis-
fy us, he added, a Mandarin had been threatened with a “ bambooing ”
for suffering a foreigner to pass ; and in the third place, the Mandarin
would be degraded if his superior at Soo-Chow should learn that he had
permitted us to go beyound Hme-t-Kwan. We were compelled to return
to Kwong-FoJc .

Oct. 8th. — To-day crossed the Great Lake, Ta-oo, at a point where it
was twenty or twenty-five miles wide. On an island I preached to some
villagers.

A WELL ORDERED CITY.

Oct. 9 th. — Travelling all the morning, we reached Voo-Sih in the after-
noon. Mr. Liggins being too unwell to accompany me, I went into the
city alone, and after walking through a number of streets, distributing
books, preached to about one hundred persons, remarkably orderly and at-
tentive for a Chinese congregation. On my return to the boat, passed
through a street, the sidewalks of which were wide, well paved, and planted
with a row of fine large trees. It had an appearance of cleanliness and
comfort, such as I have seen in no city in China. I was so much pleased
with my visit within the wails, we would have remained here longer, but
Mr. Liggins’ sickness, which was increasing, made it necessary for us to
return home.

AU-ME-DOO-VEH.

Sunday, Oct. 11 th. — Passed the day quietly at the village Nga-ko-Dong.
Met in a temple an old Budhist priest, seventy years old, with whom I
had a long conversation. He would finish nearly every sentence with,
Au-me-doo-veh, the name of Budda, the repetition of which they think
very meritorious. When I told him the folly of this “vain repetition ” —
that the frequeut use of these words would not save his soul, he acknowl-
edged that it was true, but in the same breath added, Au-me-doo-veh. By
this time a number of persons had come in, and I preached to them “ The
only name under heaven given unto men, whereby we must be saved.” I
said to the old priest, if he would send some one to the boat with me, I
would give him a Bible. He thanked me very politely, saying he would
send, and finished with his Au-me-doo-veh. My instructions had made
but little impression.

Oct. 14 th. — Reached Shanghai this morning, where I remained for three
weeks, engaged in my regular duties.

8TARTS ON ANOTHER TOUR.

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this time alone, as the physician thought it would not be prudent for Mr.
Liggins to go out so soon after his recovery. By walking in advance of
my boat, reached Nen-Ziang before sunset, and from the top of a bridge
preached to a number of persons who collected around me.

Nov. 1th. — Moved off at day-light, and by 8 o’clock arrived at Ka-Ding.
Walked to a temple in the heart of the city, and preached to a small con-
gregation. This place being near to Shanghai, has been often visited by
foreigners, and some of them have behaved so improperly, that they are an
object of aversion rather than a curiosity.

Re ched Ta-Tsong in the evening.

Sunday, Nov. 8 th. — Entered the city by the west gate and walked
nearly to the east gate, distributing Bibles and tracts. Stopping at a store
to give a book, a crowd collected before the door, when I declared to them
the terms of salvation through a crucified Saviour. In the afternoon, too
unwell to preach.*

Nov. 10 th. — Reached LoJc-DzuJc, a town of thirty-five thousand inhabi-
tants, which, I understood from several persons, had never been visited by
a missionary. Distributed a large number of Bibles and tracts, and
preached ; with but very little comfort to myself, and, I fear, but little
benefit to my hearers. The people were so intent on seeing the foreigner,
that they paid little attention to his message. Stopped at a small town —
gave away books and preached. As no one had been here before, I had
a large congregation. They behaved quite well.

PREACHING FROM PLACE TO PLACE.

Nov. 1 1th. — After breakfast, went through several of the principal
streets of Doong-le, a town of about thirty thousand people, and distribu-
ted books. The conduct of the people showed plainly that this place had
very seldom, if ever before, been visited by a foreigner. Some would jump
back, evidently a good deal startled, when I would hand them a book.
Others would decline them, as at Lok-Dzuk, till assured by the boatman
that they were given. Stopped on a corner of a street, hoping a crowd
would collect and give me an opportunity of preaching ; but it was rain-
ing and they did not turn out. Chinese prudence is greater than Chinese
curidsity.

Nov. 12 th. — This morning preached once inside and once outside the
city of Ng-Kong , and in both places gave books. At Pah-Tsak, a town
of twenty-five thousand people, I distributed books, and preached in the
street to about two hundred attentive listeners. I give the population of

* I was so much pleased with the quiet and order of Ta-Tsong, that Mr. Liggins and my-
self have visited it together, and have determined to return again, to make an effort to rent a
house and live there. Ta-Tsong offers more advantages for carrying on a successful mission,
at the present time, than any place we have'seen. It is a “ foo ” city, to which scholars to
the number of three thousand, resort every year to pass their literary examinations. The peo-
ple are remarkably well disposed towards foreigners. Its population is aboqt one hundred
thousand.

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these places, as it will convey some idea of the immense number of people
in this province. The towns are but a few miles apart. From Doong-le
to Ng-Kong is four miles, and from Ng-Kong to Pah-Tsak is ten.

PREACHES IN A TEMPLE.

Nov. 13^A. — At j Bing-Mong, preached in the Zung-Wong temple, and
distributed books through the town. Population, sixty thousand. Reached
Tsung-dzuk-a-yuen of one hundred thousand inhabitants, where I gave Bi-
bles and tracts, but did not preach, as my throat was affected by speaking
in the open air. At Non-Dzing , a town of one hundred and twenty thou-
sand inhabitants, distributed books. The crowd was so very noisy and
unmanageable, that I walked on, hoping in this way to get out of it. But
a large number followed, shouting and screaming at the top of their voices.
Having gone about four hundred yards from the town with this not very
agreeable escort, I found that the boat, contrary to my directions, had
stopped, so I had to retrace my steps. This was a signal for renewed
shouting, and several times, when my back was turned to them, they
threw dirt at me. Several of the leaders seemed to be intoxicated. In
all the places visited, this is the first time I have received any ill-treatment,
and it encourages us to think that the opposition to foreigners is not from
the people, but from those in authority above them.

Nov. 14<A. — Afternoon; arrived at ’Oo-Chow, and distributed books
within the city. As the boat was passing out of the water-gate, some
boys threw down stones to the great annoyance of the boatmen. No one
was struck.

Sunday, Nov. 1 5th. — Preached once within the city and once outside.

Nov. 1 6th. — At Ling- Oo, a town of thirty thousand inhabitants, dis-
tributed Bibles and tracts, and preached to a congregation of several hun-
dred persons. Reached Song -Ling, a town of one hundred and fifty thou-
sand inhabitants, where I gave away books.

Nov. Ylth. — Arrived at ’ Oo-Tsung, a town with a population of two
hundred thousand; distributed books, and preached in front of my boat, to
a large congregation, which was more orderly than any I have had for
several days. I understood that this place had never been visited by a
missionary. Afternoon, gave books at Sing-Dzang.

Nov. 18£/i. — Distributed Bibles and tracts in Ka-Hiung, a “foo” city
with a population of three hundred thousand. Yisited the En-yeu-lue,
the residence of the Emperors, Kaag-Hie and Jen-Loong, when on a
visit to Ka-Hiung. It is built on a little island, in the midst of a beauti-
ful sheet of water, near to the city. Reached Bing- Oo in the afternoon,
and found that Mr. Williamson, of the London Missionary Society, had
been compelled, by severe illness, to return to Shanghai ; A mission had
been commenced here, under favorable circumstances, by Mr. Burden, of
the Church missionary society, and Mr. Aicheson, of the A. B. F. C., but
had been abandoned after six months, as it was necessary for Mr. Burden
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there to live, and carried on the work till forced by ill-health, to return
home. The Mandarins have not interfered, though they must have known
that foreigners were residing there.

Nov. 20 th. — Preached this morning at a little village, while waiting for
a favorable tide. Reach home at night.

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

SPECIAL MEETING ON THE INDIAN CRISIS.

A Special Meeting of the Church Missionary Society, England, on
the Indian Crisis was held in the large room, Exeter Hall, on Tuesday,
January 12th; the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Yiee-Patron in the
Chair.

Prayer having been offered, and Isaiah xxvi. read by the Rev. W.
Knight, the Meeting was addressed by the Chairman. The Rev. II. Yenn
then read the following statement: —

“ The Committee lay before this Special Meeting, a brief statement of
the measures which they have already adopted in reference to the Crisis
in India, as well as of those which they propose to adopt, when that land,
through the mercy of God, shall have been restoredto tranquillity.

“ When tidings of the revolt first reached England, a few voices de-
nounced Missions as one of its causes. But these voices have been
silenced by the unanimous verdict of acquittal, pronouneed by statesmen,
by public journals, and by the best informed classes of society. As each
successive mail brought its direful accounts of the extent and depth of the
calamity, a solemn impression pervaded the national mind of England that
the hand of God was in the visitation, and that His voice called us to con-
sider our ways in respect of our Christian responsibilities towards that
benighted land. On the approach, therefore, of the day of public humi-
liation appointed by Her Most Gracious Majesty (October 7, 1857,) the
Committee ventured to put forth an address on the Christian aspect of the
Indian crisis. Having had the largest share in the efforts hitherto made
for evangelizing India, they are acquainted with the obstructions which
impede the attainment of their object. These obstructions have partly
arisen from the course of Government, partly from the apathy of the
Church. An overwhelming national calamity has now awakened the
Church, and has made 1 India’ a great national question, not a mere prob-
lem for statesmen or military commanders; and Christian men must not
shrink from sharing the responsibility, imposed by the British Constitution
upon all good citizens, for the faults or shortcomings of the Government.

“ The views of the Committee on the Christian duty of the Government
of India have been embodied in a Memorial to the Queen, and in an ac-
companying explanatory statement. They do not propose that Memorial

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for adoption to the present Meeting : for they conceive that its weight
will depend upon the well-considered judgment of each person who signs
it. They trust, also, that the friends and supporters of Missions through-
out the country will study this great question, and by petitions to Parlia-
ment, and by communications with their representatives, help to secure a
more Christian policy in the future government of British India.

“ The Committee, having thus dealt with the more general question con-
nected with the progress of Christianity in India, address themselves to
the duties belonging to their more special province of Missionary agency.

“ They entertain, in common with the conductors of all other Mission-
ary Societies, the solemn conviction that God has called the Christian
Church, by His late dispensations, to new and greatly-enlarged efforts for
the conversion of India, and has opened a wider door than ever for its
accomplishment.

“Yet here the Committee feel bound to notice an inquiry, which has
been sometimes made with no friendly intentions, What success have
Indian Missions as yet achieved? Under ordinary circumstances it
would be superfluous to notice this inquiry. But every question con-
nected with India must now be sifted to the bottom ; and therefore those
who desire to be fully informed upon this point are referred to two pam-
phlets, entitled, ‘ The Results of Missionary Labors in India,’ and ‘ The
Statistics of Missions in India,’ compiled in 1852 by Mr. Mullens, an
experienced and able Missionary in Calcutta, published on the spot, and
subjected to the careful revision of a Missionary Conference.

u The Committee will quote but one sentence of these documents : ‘ A
complete inquiry into the statistics of Christian Missions in Hindustan
exhibits those Missions as occupying a higher position, and as being
blessed with larger fruits, than previous researches had ever before shown,
or their warmest friends had ever anticipated.’

“ The Annual Reports of this Society have borne frequent testimony to
the genuine Christian character of the native converts. But the present
crisis has not only brought out their character, and tested their fidelity, but
it has also exhibited the estimation in which they are held, even by their
unconverted countrymen. The largest body of native converts are in
South India, and they, upon the breaking out of the mutiny, nobly pro-
fessed their loyalty, and offered their aid to the Governor of Madras in
any way in which their agency could be employed at this crisis. The
native Christians of Kishnagurh, in Bengal, exhibited the same spirit.
In the North-west Provinces there were, at the time of the outbreak, be-
/ tween 2,000 and 3,000 native Christians, connected with different Mis-
sionary Societies, scattered in various stations ; and, to the praise of
God’s grace, it is reported that, as a body they have stood firm to their
God, and to their allegiance to the Queen. They hare shared, every-
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European Christians. It has not yet been ascertained that more than a
few individuals amongst them have been induced by fear to renounce their
Christian religion ; while at Bareilly and Futtehghur 100 are said to have
perished with the Europeans. At Delhi, a native preacher, Waylayat
Ali, a Mohammedan convert, suffered nobly for Christ under a cruel death.
At Amritsar, a native pastor, Daoud, a converted Sikh, was living in the
midst of an excited population, who abused the native Christians, and
warned them that their days were numbered. Upon his being invited to
remove to a place of safety, he magnanimously replied that he would rather
die in his house than flee, as he daily exhorted the people not to fear
them who can kill the body, but to fear God. At Allahabad, a native
preacher, Gopenath Nundy, the companion of Ensign Cheek, endured
cruel torments with unshaken fidelity, sustaining himself by repeating the
verses, ‘ Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and
shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and
be exceeding glad : for great is your reward in heaven : for so persecuted
they the prophets which were before you.’ (Matt. v. 11, 12.) Tn other
districts, where the converts were not exposed to the rage of mutineers,
they found protection with their heathen countrymen. Two catechists of
this Society were located in a village twelve miles from Benares, in the
midst of a heathen population. When the whole surrounding country was
scoured by plunderers and murderers, the Missionaries at Benares invited
those two catechists to come to them for safety. But the villagers remon-
strated against their leaving, and pledged themselves to their defence ;
and they have continued their peaceful labors throughout the revolt. At
Gorruckpur this Society has a Christian village comprising 200 native
Christians with a church and schools. The Government thought it right,
from its proximity to Oude, to remove all the Europeans and the treasure
to other stations. A Hindu rajah came forward and guaranteed the pro-
tection and safe custody of the Christian village, and of all the Mission
property ; a written list was signed by himself, and given to the Mission-
ary upon his departure, that all might be delivered up again safely when
all the troubles should be over. The station at Gorruckpur was immedi-
ately occupied by Oude mutineers, and the green flag unfurled upon the
Residency, but all has been peace in the Christian village, by the lates
accounts.

“ The fidelity of the native Christians has given them a new position
also in the sight of Europeans in India. Their help has been earnestly
sought by those who had been deserted by their heathen attendants in their
hour of need. The local authorities at Benares and Agra have invited
them to enlist as policemen, and as gunners ; and in the Punjab a Com-
missioner has thrown open the public service in his department to any
who may be qualified for admission.

“Such proofs of the genuineness of native Christianity are encouraging,

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if viewed only as the results of past Missionary labor. That a large pro-
portion of the converts are infirm and immature Christians, is confessed by
all. But many bright exceptions there are ; and these are the staple from
which native teachers may be obtained. The hopes of Missions centre in
native agency, under European superintendence ; and now the quality of
such an agency may be known and read of all men.

“ The Committee have reason to thank God that, though much of the
property of the Society has been destroyed, not one of their Missionaries
has perished. They sympathize with their elder sister, the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel, in the loss of her valued sons ; and with
other Societies so afflicted. They admire the faith in which those be-
reaved Societies have appealed for fresh candidates to be baptized for the
dead ; but in their own case they trust that motives of gratitude to the
God who has preserved the lives of their brethren, may also prevail for
the increase of their ranks.

<l When to the prospects abroad is added the consideration of the
present awakened zeal of the Church at home in favor of Indian Missions,
a ground is laid for bright anticipations of future results, if only the ade-
quate means be supplied for enlarged Missionary operations. The Com-
mittee have ventured, therefore, to put forth an appeal for increased
contributions, and to summon this Special Meeting. And now, on the
present solemn and important occasion, in humble dependence upon the
presence of Christ, promised specially to the Missionary exertions of Ilis
Church, they state their belief that the time is come when the evangeliza-
tion of the whole of India may be proposed to the Christians of Europe
and America as an object to be aimed at, or at least to be kept in view, in
aying out all future plans of operation.

“ Hitherto the efforts of Christendom on behalf of India have been few
and feeble. There is not more than one European Missionary to half a
million of its inhabitants, and vast tracts of country, comprising many
millions of souls, have never heard the sound of the gospel ; and not one
in a thousand of India’s sons and daughters has embraced the faith of
Christ.

“ The Committee rejoice in the fact, that more than twenty Protestant
Missionary Societies of Europe and America have directed their efforts to
India. The Lord has given spiritual bessings to all ; thus owning their
laborers as sent forth by Himself. Though each Society may follow its
own form of discipline, each presents to the natives, as the pearl of great
price, one common salvation. There is no difficulty in the native mind in
recognizing the essential unity of the Church of Christ, under the strong
contrast and the essential difference between the true and false religions.
The future of the native church may well be left in the hands of the Great
Shepherd and Bishop of souls. Let the preaching of the faith of Christ
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with renewed vigor in the name of the Lord, and in the spirit of harmony
and Christian sympathy, by all Potestant and evangelical Christians, as
the special work of this day and generation.

“ With this end in view, the Committee will anxiously consider how they
may best dispense the additional means which may be placed at their dis-
posal. They will review the map of Indian Missions, both in reference to
the labors of other Societies, and also in reference to the most influential
races, and the most commanding situations of India. All will, however,
depend, under God, upon the response which the friends of the Society
will make to this appeal towards the realieation of these blessed prospects.

“ On the present occasion, the Committee will refer only to the North-
west Provinces as the disturbed districts of India. Many stations in
these districts need immediate help. Gorruckpur, on the confines of Oude ;
Bhagulpur, with its Santal tribes ; Jubbulpur, for Central India. In the
Punjab, Amritsar, Peshawar, and Multan, require additional laborers ;
and the claims of the Punjab upon England’s gratitude will be allowed by
acclamation. The Society also stands pledged to Oude, in some degree,
by the acceptance of an offer of £1,000 for the first Missionary sent there ;
but in a far higher degree by the earnest invitation of one of India’s
noblest statesmen and heroes, the late Sir Henry Lawrence. It was he
who prompted the Society to send its Missionaries into the Punjab upon
his first settlement of the country ; he generously contributed to their
support ; and he desired that the Society’s Missionaries might enter Oude
concurrently with the establishment of his own Civil Government. The
Missionary occupation of Oude is now become doubly incumbent upon
this Society, when it shall be given back to British authority.

“ Such is the ground on which the Society pleads for a Special Indian
Fund. If the enterprise is to be taken up on the principles already sug-
gested, a large annual increase of funds will be required. The Committee
thankfully acknowledge many encouraging promises of support which they
have already received. They will need, however, the continuance of such
report from year to year. They will need contributions from the wealthier
classes, as they have long received them from the poorer classes — weekly,
monthly, quarterly contributions, as the Lord prospers them.

“The Committee humbly trust that men will not be wanting for the
work. They have lately received an increase of Missionary candidates.
They believe that this supply has been granted in answer to prayer, and
they would earnestly repeat the appeal, often addressed to their friends
and supporters on such occasions as the present, to bear continually their
need of additional laborers on their hearts before the Lord of the harvest.

“ Let the words of the prophet of old be our encouragement — 1 Thus
saith the Lord, the maker thereof, the Lord that formed it to establish it,
the Lord is his name : Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show
thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.’ ” — Jer. xxiii. 2, 3.

The Resolutions were as follows : —

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Moved by the Right Hon. the President ; and' seconded by the Lord
Bishop of London, Y. P. : supported by Hon. A. Kinnaird, Y. P.,
and by the Rev. C. Reuther, Missionary from Jaunpur, Benares :

I. That this Meeting recognizes with deep reverence, the visitation of
God in the recent calamities of India, as calling them to self-abasement
under His mighty hand for past national sins, and to the more faithful
discharge in time to come of all national duties, especially in respect of
the many millions of our native unevangelized fellow-subjects in British
India.

Moved by J. C. Colquhoun, Esq. ; seconded by John F. Thomas, Esq.,
member of Council at Madras :

II. That a Christian nation entrusted with the government of a people
ignorant of the true God, and suffering under the social and moral evils
inseparable from false religions, is bound to commend the true religion to
the acceptance of its subjects, by such measures as consist with liberty of
conscience, and with the principles of a just toleration.

Moved by the Bishop of Winchester, Y. P. ; seconded by the Rev. Henry
Yenn Elliott, Perpetual Curate of St. Mary’s, Brighton :

III. That the past success of Indian Missions ; the recent proofs given
by native Christians of fidelity to their Saviour, and of loyalty to the
British Crown ; the preservation of the lives of the Society’s Missionaries ;
and the awakened sense of national responsibilities in the Church at
home, all combine to excite to praise and thanksgiving towards God, and
call upon the friends of the Society for a special effort to enlarge and
strengthen the Indian Missions, and for their continued prayers that God
may bless the work, and 1 send forth laborers into His harvest.’

Moved by the Rev. John Hobson, Chaplain at Shanghae, China ; seconded
by the Rev. Dr. Miller, Rector of St. Martin’s, Birmingham :

IY. That this Meeting desires on the present occasion to record its
earnest expectation of the speedy removal *of obstacles of all kinds to the
success of Christian Missions, and its solemn pledge of renewed zeal in
the work, and of its cordial sympathy with all other Protestant Societies
engaged in advancing the Kingdom of Christ throughout the whole world.

The Benediction having been pronounced by the Chairman, the Meeting
separated. Collection, j£98 8s. 3d.

*

REV. GOPENATH NUNDY AND HIS FAMILY BEFORE THE MOULW1

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SCENES OF SUFFERING IN INDIA.

THE REV. GOPENATH NUNDY AND ENSIGN CHEEK.

The Rev. Gopenath Nundy, a native Missionary of the American
Presbyterian Board, was stationed at Futtehpur, where he had been a
faithful laborer for several years. When the insurrection broke out, he
and his family escaped without much difficulty to Allahabad. Finding
the fort much crowded with European families, and thinking that, as a
native, he could make his way in comparative safety, he set out, writh his
wife and two children, for Mirzapur. They had not gone far before they
fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped off their clothing, and other-
wise cruelly treated them. With difficulty they returned to Allahabad.
Of their subsequent sufferings he has drawn up the following narrative,
which is taken from the pages of the “ Foreign Missionary

“ We inquired of our host about the fort, and the fate of the Europe-
ans who were in it. The poor man, as far as his knowledge extended,
said the fort was taken by the mutineers, and its inmates murdered. This
sad news, at this critical time, grieved us greatly, and brought us to utter
despair. Our host, seeing us in such a state, said that a moulwi had come
from Kurria with some men, to shelter and help the distressed and afflict-
ed, without any distinction of creed or color. This was rather cheering
news, and we made up our minds to go to him. About sunset wre directed
our course towards that side, and when we came near the police station-
house, we found out that he was hostile to the English ; and all the Chris-
tians, whether European or native, brought before him were massacred.
This greatly alarmed us, but .to turn our course in any other direction then
was utterly impossible, as we were surrounded' by thousands of infuriated
Mussulmans ; so we made up our minds to go to the moulwi, and throw
ourselves on his mercy, to do with us as it pleased him, either to kill, or
spare our lives. Accordingly we went to him, but, before reaching his
place, our lives were often in jeopardy, by those who surrounded us, for
they wanted to kill us, but we besought them not to do so nntil we had an
interview with their head, the moulwi. They accordingly brought us to
him . W e found him seated on a chair, attended by a number of men
with drawn swords, and he put the following questions to us, viz. : ‘Who
are you ?’ ‘ A Christian V ‘ What place do you come from V ‘ Futtehpur ?’
1 What was your occupation V ‘ Preaching and teaching the Christian re-'
ligion.’ ‘ Are you a Padre ?’ ‘ Yes, Sir.’ ‘Was it not you who used to

go about reading, and distributing tracts in the streets and villages V
‘ Yes, Sir, it was I and my catechists ?’ ‘ How many Christians have

you made?’ ‘ I did not make any Christians, for no human being can
change the heart of another ; but God, through my instrumentality,
brought to the belief of His true religion, about a couple of dozen.’ To

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this the man exclaimed in a great rage, and said, * Tobah ! tobah ! (fy !
fy !) such a downright blasphemy ! God never makes a person a Christian,
but you Kaffirs — Infidels — pervert the people. He always makes Moham-
medans, for the religion which they follow, is the only true one. How
many Mohammedans have you perverted to your religion V ‘ I have not
perverted any one, but, by the grace of God, ten were turned from dark-
ness into the glorious light of the Gospel.’ Hearing this, the man’s
countenance became as red as hot iron, and he said, 1 You are a great
haramzuda (a wicked rogue). You renounced your forefather’s faith, and
became a child of Shoytan (Satan), and now use every effort to bring
others in the same road to destruction. You deserve a cruel death ; your
nose, ears, and hands should be cut off at different times, so as to make
your sufferings continue for some time, and your children be kept in
slavery.’ To this, Mrs. Nundy said to the moulwi, 1 You will confer a
very great favor by ordering to kill us all at once, and not torture us.’
After having kept silent for awhile, he exclaimed, ‘Soovan Allah!
(Praise be to God !) You appear to be a respectable man : I pity
you and your family. I, as a friend, advise you to be Moham-
medans : by doing so you will not only save your lives, but will be
raised to a high rank,’ My answer to this was, that we preferred death
to any inducement he could hold out. Then the man made an appeal
to my wife, and asked her what she meant to do. Thank God, her
answer was as firm as mine. She said she was ready to sacrifice her
life in preference to any inducement he held out as to the renouncement
of the true religion of Jesus. The moulwi then asked if I had read the
Koran. My answer was 4 Yes.’ He then said I could not have read it
with a view to be profited by it, but simply picked passages to argue
with Mohammedans. However, he said he would allow us three days’
time to think over the matter, and then he would send for us, and read
a portion of the Koran : if we believed, and became Mohammedans,
all right and good, but if otherwise, our noses were to be cut off. W e
further said there was no occasion to wait till that time : as long as
God continues His grace we will not renounce our faith ; so he had
better at once order our heads to be taken off. He then pointed to
his people to take us to prison. It was a part of the Sarie, where
travelers put up, guarded by his men, with drawn swords, not very far
from him.

u While on the way to the prison, I raised my heart in praise and
adoration to the Lord Jesus for giving us grace to stand firm, and to
overcome all the temptations which the moulwi held forth ; and, while re-
peating the 11th and 12th verses of the 5th chapter of St. Matthew, I
thanked Him for counting us worthy to suffer for His name’s sake. When
we reached the place of our imprisonment, we found two other Christian
families, one native and the other European ; the former from Mr. Hay’s

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printing establishment, and the latter, Mr. Conductor Colman, his -wife,
and five children. AY e felt extremely sorry, seeing them thrown in the same
difficulty as ourselves. After conversing and relating each other’s dis-
tress, I asked them to join with us in prayer, to which they all of them
readily agreed ; and when we knelt down, one of the guards came and gave
a kick on my back, ordering me to keep quiet, or pray according to Mo-
hammedan form. Our lips were truly closed, but our hearts were in com-
munion with Him who required the emotions of our hearts more than the
utterances of our lips. Next day, Ensign Cheek, an officer of the late 6th
Native Infantry, was brought in : he made his escape when his regiment re-
belled, and his bearer took him on the other side of the river Ganges.
There he was attacked by a Jemadar, and some other people, who
wounded him most cruelly. He made his escape from their wicked hands,
and hid himself for three days. At nights he used to hide himself on a
tree, and, during the day he kept himself under water, with his face above
the water. At last, when he was exhausted, and could not keep himself
hidden any longer, he was brought, with severe and putrified sores, to the
moulwi, as a prisoner, who sent him where we were. I mention this sim-
ply to enable you to conceive the extent of the awful cruelties perpetrated
towards every Christian, without any distinction of color or nation ; even
the poor helpless women and children not exempted. Such barbarity was
even not heard amongst the most savage nation of the earth. Since the
good government of the English has come into this country, which is ex-
actly one hundred years, we have enjoyed peace and tranquillity in every
respect ; whereas, prior to this, the country was in a dreadful state of an-
archy and despotism under the Mohammedan government. May God of
His infinite mercy direct the movements of our rulers, and restore once
more that peace and quietness which we had before, by giving victory over
the enemies, and that His blessed cause may be uninterruptedly promoted
throughout the length and breadth of this benighted land !

“ I resume my narrative. Poor Ensign Cheek’s sufferings were exces-
sively great and severe ; he was unable to sit up or lie down on the bare
ground, which we all had to do ; but I, a prisoner, and hated the most, yet
felt it my duty to do what I could to relieve the agonies of poor Cheek. I
went up to the daroga (jailer), and begged him hard to allow him a char-
poy (coarse bedstead). The hard-hearted jailer condescended to grant my
petition, with the greatest reluctance, and though he gave a charpov, yet it
was a broken one, for their object was to see how much we could suffer.
He was in a state of fainting, and evidently sinking, as he had had no food
for three days and nights. AYe had a little cherttoo and gur, which we
brought with us before coming to the prison, and which I turned with a
little water into a kind of gruel, and gave it to him. Taking this, and
drinking a full mud-pot of water, he felt greatly refreshed, and opened his
eyes. Finding me a fellow-prisoner, and a Missionary, he opened his

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heart at once to me, and told the history of his sufferings ; he also re-
quested me to write to his mother in England, and aunt, which I intend
to do as soon as I can spare time. The wicked daroga, finding that I
was attentive and kind to poor Cheek, ordered my feet to be fastened to
the stocks, after which they removed me into a different place, thus caus-
ing a separation, not only from Ensign Cheek, but from my poor family.
To this I made a great resistance, and a body of the rebels fell upon us
with weapons, and forced my feet into the stocks, at the same time hold-
ing out the offer of pardon, if I became a Mohammedan. They dragged my
poor wife by the hair, and she received a severe wound on the forehead.
While they were maltreating us so cruelly, poor Cheek cheered our spirits
by saying, ‘ Padre, Padre, be firm, be firm, do not give way.’ His mean-
ing was, do not become Mohammedans.

At this time the danger of our lives was most imminent, and the temp-
tation was strongest, but the Lord delivered us from their wretched de-
signs, and rescued US' from the snares of Satan. To aggravate my suffer-
ings, they put me out with the stocks in the hot burning sun. But not-
withstanding all the exposure to the sun, and hot winds, and privations,
our gracious Heavenly F ather did not permit the disease in my head to be
increased, but it remained as it was before.

We were in the prison from Wednesday the 10th to Tuesday the 16th.
All this time our sufferings were great, indeed ; for our food we re-
ceived only a handful of parched grain in the middle of the day, and at
night a siDgle chapaty (a cake made of course flour, about three ounces in
weight). Water was supplied only twice daily, and that sparingly. Every
five minutes the Mohammedans would come and threaten to take our lives,
if we did not become Mussulmans. Once an ill-educated moulwi came
with a portion of the Koran, and read a part from it. When I asked the
meaning thereof, he could not give it, as he himself was ignorant of it. To
this I answered, ‘ IIow can you expect to make proselytes of others, when
you yourself do not understand what you read V

Instead of the moulwi sending for us on the third day, as he arranged at
first, he came himself on the sixth day, and, drawing near to us, he inquired
of the daroga where the Padre prisoner was ; and when I was pointed out,
he asked me if I were comfortable. My answer was, * IIow can I be com-
fortable, when my feet are in the stocks ? but I take it patiently, as it is
the will of our Heavenly father?’ I then begged of him to order a little
milk to be given to our baby, which was in a state of starvation. He re-
luctantly gave the order, which was never executed.

The moulwi left nothing untried to make us converts to his faith. He
made our sufferings of the worst kind, threatening to take our lives every
moment ; and yet why he spared us I cannot tell. It was, I believe, that
he thought it would promote his glory,, and that of his religion, by mak-
ing us converts and preachers of the same, more than by killing us, who

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are but natives like himself* Whatever it was, this much I know, that
the finger of God directed the whole course. He sent these dangers and
difficulties, no doubt, to try our faith, and gave us grace sufficient to make
a full confession of it before the world. The saving of our lives was a
miracle, for they were no less exposed than that of Daniel of old. Thanks
be to the all-protecting hand of God !

“On the sixth day of our imprisonment, that is, on the 15th of June,
Captain Brazier came out with some European and Sikh soldiers, to meet
the enemy ; he had a regular fight not far from the place where we were
confined, and totally defeated them.

“ The next morning, about three, A. M., the enemy retreated, and for-
sook Allahabad, leaving us prisoners. When we saw that they were all
gone, we broke the stocks, and came into the fort, where our Missionary
brethren, Messrs. Owens and Manis, rejoiced, and welcomed us in their
quarters. They all heard that we had been killed by the mutineers.”

MISSIONARY SCHOLARSHIPS— MISSION
SCHOOLS.

We take the following from one of the publications of the
Presbyterian Board of Missions. The result of their experi-
ence in the matter of having certain children in the Mission
Schools supported by the contributions of particular Sunday
Schools or individuals, agrees entirely with our own. The
method here spoken of is, and has ever been, a favorite one in
many of the Sunday Schools of our Church ; for that reason
we have hesitated to say that the plan is entirely impracticable
and must of necessity he abandoned ; we have however said
to those asking information on this subject, that the difficulties
are many, and that no promise could be given of a full carry-
ing out of the wishes of parties applying to the Missions to have
children taken up and named after persons in this country.
The nearest approach to it which we can venture to promise,
is the founding of scholarships bearing such names as contribu-
tors may choose, leaving the same free from any stipulations
in regard to the particular children who shall enjoy the benefit
of those scholarships.

“ It is considered deeply important to enlist the children of the Church in

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the work of Missions. As a means to this end, the plan has been softie*
what extensively adopted, of Sunday-schools supporting each a scholar in
some Mission-school, by the contribution of $25 a year. About three
hundred of these scholarships are now on the lists of the schools connected
with different Missions.

This method of promoting the Missionary work was adopted by some
of the older Missionary Societies, and was found to be in use when our
Board was formed. Moneys were offered to the treasury of the Board for
this special object ; and although serious doubts were then felt as to the
expediency of this method of doing good, it was still considered desirable
to attempt to carry it into operation. The great advantage attending it is
the special interest likely to be awakened in the minds of children, by
their having a scholar of their own to be supported by their donations.
The reports or letters of these scholars, received from time to time by the
Sunday-schools, no doubt add to the interest of this plan of Missionary
agency.

On the other hand, it is found to be difficult, if not impracticable, t© fur-
nish special reports or letters from these scholars. They are commonly
not far enough advanced, or not able to write letters themselves ; some do
not stay long in school ; others turn out badly ; while the Missionaries
seldom have either time or strength to prepare minute reports concerning
each of the scholars. The result is, as the trial of years clearly shows,
that in a majority of cases this plan of proceeding ends in greater or less
disappointment ; in some cases, however, it has worked well, but these are
very few.

A more serious objection to this method is, that it tends to limit and
confine the views of our children to a narrow object in the field of Mis-
sions. This is the tendency of the plan ; it may be guarded against, and
the plan itself may certainly be used as a starting place for enlarged views
and efforts, as is often done ; and yet the tendency remains, and cases not
a few may be cited in which Sunday-schools, able to support the Mission-
ary work to a large degree, are contented with supporting a single schol-
arship. In other instances, the Sunday-school has fallen off from the
Missionary cause altogether, because the scholar has not met the expecta-
tions that were formed.

This subject has often received the consideration of the Executive Com-
mittee, and they would long ago have recommended the discontinuance of
this plan, but for their wish to carry into effect the preferences often ex-
pressed for this method, and their desire also to see its merits fully tried.

It is not considered judicious to resort to what may, without offence, be
called expedients, in order to interest the minds of the children of the
Church in the subject of Missions. The Committee regard it as best to
rely on the general merits of the cause, as learned from Scripture, and as
taught by Providence ; and on these, as presented by our ministers,

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parents, and Sunday-school teachers, as the great means of securing the
co-operation of the children and youth of the Church in this work of God.
In aid of those on whom the instruction and training of the children
properly devolve, information of a suitable kind is furnished, with Mis-
sionary arguments and examples, through the medium chiefly of the peri-
odicals of the Board. Beyond this, it is doubtful whether any general
agency can be employed to advantage, certainly none that can take the
place of the varied efforts, which are within the province of the appointed
guardians and teachers of our youth.

To those who prefer a special object, however, it is recommended that
the Mission-schools should receive the contributions of children, though
not to the exclusion of other parts of the Missionary work. They form a
most important part of the Missionary work. Their support is an object
easily understood, and the idea is one of touching interest, that by means
of them our Christian children may give the Gospel to the heathen chil-
dren, so far as these are within the reach of the Missions. The reports
of these schools would be the common property of all who contribute to
their support ; and thus, with much less risk of disappointment, a greater
number and variety of reports would be brought before each Sunday-
school.

Beginning with the support of these Mission-schools, our beloved chil-
dren should not have their attention confined to them, however; but
should be trained to regard with interest all the parts of that great work,
which in a few years must devolve upon them. With these remarks, we
append a Minute recently adopted by the Executive Committee,:

“ The Committee took into consideration the plan of scholars in the
Mission-schools being supported by Sunday-schools or individuals; and it
was agreed that while existing arrangements may be continued at the
option of the donors for the time specified when they were made, it is not
expedient to receive additional scholarships on this plan. It was further
agreed that it should be recommended to those who prefer a special object
to make contributions for the support of the Mission-schools, though not
to the exclusion of other parts of the Missionary work.”

LESSONS FROM THE HEATHEN.

Good lessons may be learned sometimes of heathen parents. Mission-
aries tell us that when the devotees of Juggernaut are driving the idol car
through the streets, mothers may be seen placing the tiny hands of their
infants upon the ropes, thus early teaching them the duties and practices
of idol worshippers.

Here we may discover the secret of that tenacity with which idolaters
cling to their heathen rites. They are ready to sacrifice their richest trea-
sures, even their wives and babes, to appease a supposed angry God.

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They will endure torture and suffering almost unparalleled, to atone for
their sins. They run through fire with unprotected feet, walk upon the
points of nails and spikes, and walk upon their hands for weary miles, all
to secure the favor of an idol God.

Why this unyielding adherence to their religious forms ? One reason,
and perhaps the principal one, is found in the early training of the child.
Before it can pull an ounce, its little hands are laid upon the ropes, when
the car of Juggernaut is dragged along. Its eyes behold, its hands feel,
and its senses are made alive to the rites and forms of a parent’s religious
creed.

How different it is with children in this Christian land ? Even pious
parents do not think of impressing their little ones religiously thus early
in life. Some appear to think that twelve or fifteen years is early enough
to begin their definite religious instruction. They have little faith in early
conversions, and doubt very much the propriety of admitting children to
the church. Such parents need to learn of heathen mothers the art of
training children up in the religion of their fathers.

A missionary says that in the South Sea Islands, the mother goes to the
temple with the required offering, even before the birth of the child, where
the priest performs the ceremony of infusing “the spirit of the god” into
the child. Christian mothers, with equal confidence in the Father of all,
might infuse somewhat of the spirit of the gospel into their offspring, before
they attain to six years of age. If the heathen infant may learn to pull the
idol car, why may not the Christian child be taught to love and serve the
Lord ? — C ongregationalist.

[From the Cavalla Messenger.

BREAD SEEN AFTER MANY DAYS.

THE REPENTING MISSION SCHOLAR.

“ Cast thy bread (bread-corn) upon the waters ; for thou shalt find it
after many days.”

This text sets forth the duty and reward of benevolent effort. But
especially is this true of the work of the spiritual laborer, who, in God’s
name, guided by God’s Word and Spirit, casts abroad His seed. “ God’s
seed will come to God’s harvest ,” quoth good old Rutherford.

Here is a case : Eighteen years ago, Rev. Dr. Savage was returning
from Taboo to Mt. Yaughan. While passing along the coast through the
Babo tribe, a little boy came out of one of the villages, and insisted on fol-
lowing him, though an utter stranger, to school. Whence he came, or
why, the Doctor could not ascertain for some time. At length he learned
that he was from a village built on the coast by a few people from the
populous Tebo tribe, forty miles interior.

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Faithful to his purpose, Sa-kra entered, and remained in school at Mt.
Vaughan, a good boy, until he appeared to be truly converted, and was
baptized, receiving the name of Franklin G. Smith. After some time, he
fell into sin, and was tempted to go to sea, He was absent a number of
years, and returned a hardened Krooman. Again he went to sea, and now
God laid upon him the hand of affliction. In returning from Monrovia to
Cape Palmas, he was in company with a Missionary, who, without know-
ing his former connections, was struck with his subdued, pious, manner ;
and when he reached Cavalla, he was again faithfully instructed and
warned. He appeared affected, but was silent, and thus went home.

After this, it was reported that he had become very unwell, and had been
sent by his relatives into the interior to their people. But during two
years nothing definite could be learned concerning him.

At length in God’s providence we send a Catechist to the interior Tebo
tribe. Here he finds Franklin Smith. He is a poor, miserable invalid,
But his afflictions have humbled, and, wre trust, saved him. “ Oh, that I
had heeded my teacher’s instruction ! Oh, that I could now get them
again !” Such were the words of the penitent scholar to the Catechist.
May they he the expression of a heart reconciled to God !

INTELLIGENCE.

Appointment to Africa — Dr. S. B. D’Lyon has been ap-
pointed Medical Missionary to Africa, and expects to embark
for Cape Palmas on the 1st of May, in the ship Mary Caroline
Stevens, from Baltimore. Dr. D’Lyon has spent most of his
life in Africa, to which country his family emigrated as Colo-
nists many years ago. The Dr. is a graduate of the Medical
School in Pittsfield, Mass. ; the Foreign Committee are glad to
avail themselves of his services, and hope that he will be
spared to long and extensive usefulness in the Mission.

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Acknowledgm ents.

N. B. — Parties sending packages, &c., to be forwarded to
oar Missionaries, will please inclose to ns a description of the
contents and value of the same, as it will facilitate their
clearance at the Custom House.

LIST OF PACKAGES, <$-c ,, received at the Office of the Foreign Committee, 19
Bible House, since March 15th, 1858.

From

For

Package.

No.

Forwarded by

N. Y., Rev. J.Rambo

R. II. McMorine, Af.,

One box,

1

Ship, “ M. C. Stevens.”

“ Mrs. Tracy,

Miss M. Williford, Af.,

One parcel, . . .

2

“

“

“

One box,

3

“ “ “

Va., H. P. Lefebvre,

Rev. C. M. Williams.
China,

One box,

2

Ship, “ Nabob.”

“ “ “

Rev. E. W. Syle, Chi.

Six bbls. Flour,

4

“

it 44 44

Rev. C. M. Williams,
China,

One box,

6

«

By Westcott’s Ex-
press,

Rev. Wong Kong Chai
China,

One box,

3

Ala., by ship, “ Ca-

hawba,”

Miss E. G. Jones, Chi.

One trunk, . . .

5

“ “

Phila., Robt. Graf-

fen, ..........

Rev. E. W. Syle, Chi.

44 44 4* 44

One hhl.

9

<t u

One keg,

Three boxes, . .

. 10
11, 12 & 13

21 c k n o vo L

FOREIGN MISSIONS.

The Treasurer of the Foreign Committee
acknowledges the receipt of the ! following
sums, from March I5th to April 15th,' 1858.

NcSn^ampsfjtre.

Manchester— St. Michael’s. . . 32 00

Fermont.

Bennington — Rev. Dr. Manser. 5 00
Jericho — Calvary 5 27 10 27

Massachusetts.

Andover— Christ, S. S. sup. F.

Clark, Af 7 30

Ashjield— St. John’s S, S., for

China 7 27

Aubemdale — St. Paul’o, for
building Church at Hoff-
man Station, Af 11 00

Boston — St. Paul’s 85 50

“ Trinity, for Af 55 00

Marblehead — St. Michael’s 50 00

Medford— Grace 15 00

MiUvill-— St. John’s 8 00

b g m t n t s .

N cwburyport — St. Paul’s, for Af. 50 00

Quincy — Christ Church 8 00

Taunton — St. Thomas’, % 25 00

Vandeusen — Trinity 7 50

Waltham— Christ Ch., $25 ; S.

S.ofdo , $5 30 00

Miscellaneous— Mrs. T. G. F. . 10 00 819 57

Bljobe^EsIanb.

* Wickford— St. Paul’s 23 50

(Connecticut.

Birmingham — St. James’ 50 00

Bridgeport — “ Macedonia,” for

Af 50 00

Cheshire— St. Peter’s 9 00

East Haven — Christ Ch 2 00

Fairfield Co., Trumbull— Long-

Hill Parish 4 83

Litchfield — Easter offering of a

Lady, for Africa 5 00

Monroe — Little Nellie’s Easter
offering, to aid C. C. H. in
building St. James’. Af.... 1 00

New- Mil 'ford— St. John’s 38 00

Norwich — Christ Church 26 00

Watertown — Christ Ch 20 00

« • Miss H. P. B 3 00 208 38

* $21 50 were sent from this parish last year, which failed to reach us.

Acknowledgments ,

257

Awtenia— St. Thomas’, Misses

R. & M. H., for Af. 2 00

Brooklyn — Church of the Holy
Trinity, S.S. (Infant Dep.),

for China 28 40

Cooperstown — Christ Ch., Wo-
men’s Saving Fund of. 7 00

Geneva — Trinity, from a S. S.

Teacher of, for Rev. Mr.

Hoffman’s Ch., Cavalla... . 1 00

Hudson— Christ Ch 13 55

Malone — St. Mark’s, S. S. M.

M. Miss. Circle, for ed. of
Margaret Marion An-
drews, Af. 20 00

New- York — Ascension, S. S.,
for the purchase of the
whaleboat sent to Africa. .237 70

Christ Ch., add. for Af 2 50

Colonization Society, for
scholarships in H. S.,

Cape Palmas 250 00

St. Mark’s, towards the
salary of the first Mission-
ary to Japan 200 00

For Africa 100 00

Piermont — Christ Ch., from S.

G. H., for Af 3 00

St. Mark’s, towards the sal-
ary of the first Missionary

to Japan 200 00

For Africa 100 00

Plattsburgh— Trinity, S. S., for

ed. a child in Af 35 00

Pottsdam — Trinity Ch 9 00

New-Brighton — §• of an Easter
offering of a member of

Christ Ch 6 00

Staten Island — Rev. W. G.»

French 1 00

“ Richmond, St. An-
drew’s, S. S., Af. & Chi. . . 20 00 636 15

Wctosfrrsrg.

Clarksboro — St. Peter’s, S. S ,

for Rev. Mr. R.'s Miss., Af. 7 00
Morristovm — Ch. of the Re-
deemer, for Af. 14 35

“ St. Peter’s, $53; for Af.,

$2 50 55 50

South Amboy — St. Stephen’s.. . 27 50 104 35

^ennsplbanfa.

Brownsville — From a Lady, for

ed. of Jas. L. B., W. L.B.,

Jas. J. P., Cavalla, Af. . . . . 95 00
Cumberland — Emmanuel Par-,

$29 for Af. and Chi.; S.S.

do. , for Af. and Chi., $9 39, 38 39

Honesdale — Grace Ch , Miss.

Soc 50 00

Huntingdon — From Rev. R. W.

Oliver, for Af. 3 00

No‘, ristoum— St. John’s 30 95

Paradise — All Saints’ 5 00

Philadelphia— Ch. of the Cove-
nant 81 00

Do. St. Mark’s 100 00

Do. St. Peter’s 50 00

Do. Trinity Chapel, S. S.
for Af 10 00

Do. H. L., for Chi., $5;

Af. $5 10 00

Do. Willie, John and Kezie
Wells, for Chi. and Af. . . . 5 66

Do. Chestnut Hill, St.

Paul’s, ed.Ann. Childs, Af. 20 00

Pottstown — Christ Ch 23 00

Rockdale— Calvary, $20 ; ac-
knowledged gen’l in March
No. Spirit of Miss., should
have been for Af. 522 00

Selahiare.

Lewis— From “C.” 5 00

JHarpIanb.

Cecilton—St. Stephen’s, for Af. 10 00
Queen Ann's and Talbot Co.'s

— St. Paul’s Par 40 00

Washington, D. C. — Ch. of the
Epiphany, S. S., for Ch. of
the Epiphany, Cavalla, Af. 17 19

Do. Sigma 10 00

Washington Co. — L. Cross-

Roads, St. Mark’s, for Af. . 5 00 12 19

Ftrjjmfa.

Accomac County — St. James’

(black congregation), for

Africa 2 00

Albemarle Co. — St, Ann’s Par.,

Christ Ch., $41 ; from La-
dies’ Soc. of do. for ed. of

boy in Chi., $40 81 00

Do. St. Paul’s, Miss F. J.,
for Chi., (to be appropriat-
ed by Miss F. J.) 10 00

Do. do. Miss N. C., for

Chi 10 00

Do. do. Master W. F. G.. 25

Brunswick — St. Andrew’s Par.,

from Robt. M 2 00

Charlestown — Zion Ch 110 00

Greenville — Meherrin Parish,

Sewing Soc 12 50

Hanover Co. — St. Paul’s Par.,

Immanuel Ch., Mrs. G. W.

B., $5 ; G. S. C., $5 10 00

Henry Court House — John R.

Lee 20 00

King George Co. — Mr. R. T.,

China 10 00

Do. Mrs. V. T., Chi 25 00

Do. Mrs. C. T., Chi 5 00

Lynchburg — Mrs. C. J.. 1 00

Middleburg — Emmanuel 40 00

Petersburg — Colored seam-
stress, for Chi 1'00

Richmond — St. James’ Church,
from Frederick Bransford,
for sup. 5 emigrant chil-
dren under C. C. H., Af.,

for 1858 400 00

Do. Mrs. M. B. C., for spe-
cial use of Rev. C. C. H.,

Africa 30 00

St, Martin's Par. — C. D. Soc.,
for School under Rev.

Robt. Nelson, Chi 1 30

Staunton— A young lady, for

Africa 2 00

Williamsburg— Bruton Par. . . , 5 00 778 05

25S

Acknowledgments,

$orttj Carolina.

Fayetteville-^ St. John’s, $55; a
member of, for ed. of J. Wi

Wright, Af, $20 f5 00

Newbern — Christ Ch., Mrs. E.

S., parishioner of 5 00 80 00

JSoutfj Carolina.

A iken — St. Thaddeus, $15 57
for Af.; S. S. of do., $6 for

Africa 21 57

Beaufort — T. M. B. , for Af. . . . . 6 00

Bluff ton— St. Luke’s 23 29

Do. J. S., a member of, for
schol’ship in High School,

P., Af 100 00

Charleston— Calvary, $23 89 :*
do. for Af., $3 31 ; S. S. of
do.forAf., $124; colored
congregation of do., for Af.,

$2 74; colored S. S. of do.,

for'Af., $3 12 34 30

Do. Grace Ch., two ladies

of, for Af 10 00

Dr. St. Peter’s, $25 ; for
Chi., $120; for Af., $30;

China and Af., $72 53. . . .247 53

Cheraw — St. David’s 8 00

Georgetown— Prince George’s

Par., for Af 16 05

Grahamsville — Ch. of the Holy

Trinity 286 00

Do. St. Luke’s, a few

slaves of, for Af. 1 67

Do. Trinity, for S. James

Hoffman’s Station, Af. 7 50

Society Hill— Trinity. 5 50

Waccamaw — All Saints’ Ch.,
for enlarging St. Mark’s
Ch., C. P., Af., $72 75 ;
from Rev. L. C. L., of do.,
for scholarship in Native
School, C. P., Af., $20;
from slaves of do., for en-
larging St. Mark’s Ch., C.

P., Af., $16 62 109 37 876 78

(Ecorgta.

Augusta — St. Paul’s, for Af. . . 30 58
Columbus— Through Messrs.

D. & D., for ed. Wm. D.

Cairns, Af 20 '00

Do. From Mrs. H.H. M., for

Bp. Payne’s Miss., Af 5 00

Do. Anonymous, $20, ed.

C. F. H., Af. ; $25 ed.
scholar in Rev. Mr. L.’s

School, Shanghai 45 00

Lexington — Through Dr. Hen-
derson, from Mrs. C., for

ed. native child, Af 5 00

Savannah— St. John’s, S. S.,for
Chi. and Af., ed. a child in

each 45 00

Do. St. Stephen’s (colored)

Chapel, for Af. 4 00 154 58

jnortba.

Jacksonville — St.John’s, for Af. 18 50
Palatka — St. Mark’s 17 62

St. Augustine—' Trinity, for Af. 24 00 60 12

Alabama.

Greensboro — St. Paul’s

33 50

Mobile— Trinity

37 03

Uniontown — Ch. of the Holy

Cross

10 00

80 53

j3dl32IS2ippt.

Pass Christian— Trinity

Do. Trinity, Female Semi-
nary, Rev. T. S. Savage,
Principal, from the Mis-
sionary Soc. of do., for the
ed. ofa native girl in Miss.

35 00

School, Af

20 00

55 00

©fito.

Cincinnati — St. John’s, a Com-
municant of, for Rev. Mr.
Rambo’s work, $20 ; two

Communicants, for do,,

$10 ; S. S. of do., for O.

Asylum, C. P., $75; gen’l,

$343 47 448 47

Clifton— Calvary. S. S., for Af. 53 00

Columbus — Trinity, S. S 50 00

Gambier — Harcourt Par., $65
for Af.; semi-annual pt.
ed. OlinWing, Af., $10 — 75 00
Springfield— Christ Ch., $25;

S. S. of do., $7 32 00 658 47

HUtnotff.

Chicago— Ch. of the Holy Com-
munion, 12 50

Do. St. James’ 50 00

Do. St. John’s, for Af. (part

of Easter offering) 20 00

Metamora and Washington —

From the Missionary and

others 2 00 84 50

iUntucftg.

Columbus— Christ Ch., for Af.. 12 00
Hickman — St. Paul’s, for Af... . 3 00

Lexington — Christ Ch 15 00

Louisville — Christ Ch., for Af. 44 50
Do. St. Paul’s 101 20 175 70

JKtcfjtgan.

Flint— St. Paul's, for China... 22 00

Jo£oa.

Dubuque— St. John’s 20 00

Iowa City — Orphan’s Home

Miss. Soc jj»l PO 51 00

©rcgort ©crrftorg.

Champony— Grace, Children’s

thank off’g for the C. Dove, 3 00

$5,793 59

Amount previously acknowl-
edged 36,515 42

Total since 1st Oct., 1857.. . . $42,309 01

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