very catholic; and a transient visitor will have no difficulty in believing that he may have a strong hold upon the confidence and affections of a portion of the good people of Germany.

He has never sought to establish auxiliaries, or other subordinate organizations. His treasury receives the free will offerings (amounting to not quite $5,000 a year) of all such persons as see fit to make use of this channel to send the gospel to the heathen; and that is the whole story. To those who go forth from under his care he makes no pledges. They must trust in God. "I promise you nothing," he says;'" you must go in faith. And if you cannot go in faith, you had better not go at all." Those whom he accounts suitable persons to preach the gospel, he ordains prior to their departure. He was once asked if he had the right to ordain. His reply was, "Not for Germany, but I have for the heathen." None of his missionaries have received any other ordination.

Domestic.

AMERICAN LUTHERAN MISSIONS.

On the 21st of April a Missionary Convention, composed of ministers and laymen connected

with the Lutheran Church in the United States,
was held at Baltimore; and to this body the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Evangelical Lutheran
Missionary Society submitted a report. From
this document it appears that the stations and
laborers of the society among the Teloogoos are
as follows:

Guntoor.-Rev. Charles W. Gröning, Rev. William
E. Snyder; Mrs. Gunn, Mrs. Gröning, Mrs. Snyder.
Gurjal.-Rev. F. W. Heyer.
Ellore.-Vacant.

Rajahmundry-Rev. F. A. Heise, Rev. William
J. Cutter; Mrs. Cutter.

The mission has been strengthened by a rein forcement from this country; and it has also lost two missionaries, one having died, and another having left for America. The schools are represented as prosperous. At Guntoor there were one hundred and ten pupils in four schools at the close of 1851, Mrs. Gunn being engaged in teaching thirty girls. At Rajahmundry there were one hundred and thirty-four boys in three schools. In December last forty pupils were receiving instruction at Ellore. Additions were made to the churches, from time to time; but the statistics are not given in the report.

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

Recent Entelligence.

thing serves to indicate a genuine work in that place." He represents the people at Tomahushi "as in a prosperous state." "At every visit," "we see new faces; and the gospel is even taking hold of the Chickasaws who are set tled among the Choctaws."

he says,

the two days and nights which I spent there, I preached six times. The state of things is very pleasant at present. Six were restored to Christian fellowship, and two were admitted on profession."

CHOCTAWS.-In speaking of the churches in the western part of the Choctaw nation, Mr. Copeland says, "There is a sad state of things in the Chickasaw church," about two-thirds of whom are blacks; "but the declension would never In a subsequent letter, dated April 12, Mr. have occurred, had the people received the care Copeland says, "I went last Friday over the and attention which they needed; and yet it Blue, and found the people on the ground preseems as if we have done what we could." Ofpared for a regular camp meeting.' During other churches, however, Mr. Copeland gives a more favorable account. "In the Six Town church the prospect is brightening. Several have been restored; other backsliders appear penitent; and there are a few cases of anxiety among the unconverted. There is hope for that people." "At Post Oak Prairie, near the mouth of the Blue, I found an interesting state of things at the time of my last visit; and I received two persons into the church. The people are talking of having a missionary." Bennington church is steadily increasing in numbers, but more from its branches than from its immediate neighborhood. It is probably as promising a place for a missionary station as any that we can occupy." Mr. Copeland speaks of White Sand, and says, "Every

Mr. Hotchkin states that six persons were admitted to the church at Good Land on the second Sabbath in April.

CHEROKEES.-Under date of March 29, Dr. Butler states that the second year of the national female seminary has commenced with fifty pupils. He also says that there is immediate and urgent need of additional laborers; and that, for want of these, important interests are suffering. Mr. Worcester reports the admission of two per

sons to his church, both connected with the female neighborhood of Fuh-chau once a week, for seminary.

DAKOTAS.-Dr. Williamson makes the following statement, in a letter dated April 13: "Our legislature, at its recent session, passed an act similar to the Maine liquor law, to take effect, if it should be approved by a majority of the voters, at the April election. It is now known that there is a handsome majority in favor of the law." If the act can be strictly enforced, it will prove a great blessing to the Dakotas.

SANDWICH ISLANDS.-Mr. Clarke wrote as

the purpose of making known to them the gospel of Christ. This was done during the last six months of 1851, as far as circumstances allowed. These brethren regard the prospect for this kind of labor as promising.

CEYLON. In a letter dated March 6, Mr. Mills says: "The last term of the Batticotta seminary closed January 15. During the term E. T. Miller received a certificate of dismission, and Jacob Bailey has been since dismissed. Both were church members. Gilbert Mollison and J.

Edson Rockwell left in the vacation, because their parents refused to pay the sum required for their board. In November, Joel Fitch and David. Seabury were received into the church; and on the last Sabbath, the first of the present term, David Ball and Joseph H. Bailey were admitted to the same privilege. A few others have appeared to be serious, and a very few have given evidence of being born again."

follows from Honolulu, February 16: “Unusual interest has been manifested in the subject of religion of late. Protracted meetings have been held in different parts of my field, and in other parts of this island, conducted in great part by native helpers. Meetings are well attended still. Many backsliders, Catholics, Mormons and others, have professed to return to the right ways of the Lord; how stable they will prove, remains to be More than fifty were restored to the fel-the 21st of February. They were expecting to Mr. and Mrs. Sanders arrived at Madras on lowship of my church in January; and one hundred and thirty-three were proposed for admis- proceed to Jaffna as soon as a favorable opsion to its privileges." portunity should occur.

seen.

FUH-CHAU.-A letter from Mr. Doolittle, dated NESTORIANS.-His Royal Highness, Hamza December 31, brings the report of this mission Meerza, the Prince Governor of Azerbijan, has for the last half of 1851. The labors of Messrs. made a donation of fifty tomans (more than one Johnson and Baldwin have been less abundant hundred dollars) to the Nestorian mission, and than heretofore, on account of their impaired has ordered a like sum to be given hereafter anhealth. They hope, however, that this hinder-nually. When we remember that this distinance will not exist to the same extent hereafter.

Four schools are sustained by the mission. Mr. Johnson has had about fourteen pupils under his care, and Mr. Peet about twenty-five. In Mr. Baldwin's school there are fifteen boys and eight girls, a smaller number than he had a few months ago. Mr. Cummings has twenty-five girls, whose attendance is reported as "pretty regular." A considerable amount of religious truth has been communicated in these schools.

guished Mussulman is uncle to the present King, and is the third in power in all Persia, it may well excite our surprise that he has become a contributor to the treasury of the Board. Mr. Perkins, in communicating the fact, very naturally remarks that such an occurrence cannot be lost "on the thousands of our American Israel, who, with ample means, have infinitely higher hopes."

follows:

The autograph note, announcing the donation, Mr. Baldwin's chapel was given up in Novem- was addressed to the British Consul at Tabreez, ber, the place being regarded as undesirable. Mr. R. W. Stevens, Esq., whose kindness to the Cummings has not been able to secure a build-mission has been frequently mentioned. It is as ing, though he once appeared to be on the point of obtaining one in a very eligible position, the "Let the high in rank, exalted in dignity, the money having been paid and the writings drawn. companion of intelligence and sagacity, the posMessrs. Johnson and Peet have occupied their sessor of solidity and ingenuity, the pillar of chapels, as heretofore. All the brethren have Christian chiefs, the most exalted of the nobles of sustained religious services on the Sabbath, when Christ, the Consul of the august British governtheir health permitted. The number in attend-ment, be assured of the gracious interest of our ance has varied according to circumstances. Mr. love-disclosing mind. Cummings has had as many as one hundred and fifty hearers at the same exercise, though all were not present at the same time. Mr. Peet has continued his meeting for native females; the number present, however, has seldom exceeded twenty.

Last spring Messrs. Baldwin and Cummings formed a plan for visiting the villages in the

"When that well-wisher brought to our view details respecting the beauty of conduct and labors of the high in rank, the American clergymen residing in Oroomiah, who are occupied in the instruction of youth, the perfection of regard for them took possession of our mind, and we deemed it incumbent to make an exhibition of our favor toward them. Wherefore the sum of

fifty tomans we establish in the form of an allow- | for worship according to the Protestant doctrine; ance to the above named high in rank; and we have ordered the noble servant of His Majesty, Jan Mohammed Khan, Governor of Oroomiah, to pay that amount to them yearly, and take their receipt. As it is proper that that well-wisher should be informed on this subject, this statement is made."

HASBEIYA.-Mr. Thomson says, writing from Sidon, February 3,-" I have recently returned from a month's tour through our large field. The work is making very decided progress in Hasbeiya, through the blessing of God on the labors of John Wortabet. I spent a considerable part of my time at Ibel, in visiting the villages around Hasbeiya. In almost all there are some avowed Protestants; and Ibel requires about as much labor as Hasbeiya itself. We have, therefore, transferred Elias Yacobe to that place. He enters upon the work of preaching with a fair promise of making a valuable helper. I heard him preach an excellent sermon; and the people after a full trial are much pleased with him."

SMYRNA.-A letter from Mr. Benjamin, dated April 6, states some interesting facts in regard to a field which has not been yet occupied by missionaries.

and to this intent I have made many recommenyourself diligently that this end may be accomdations to our friend, and I beg you to exert plished." The writer afterwards expresses his own fixed purpose to surrender himself to the instructions of the will of God. I cannot but hope that the divine seed has found some good soil in that beautiful vale of Thessaly.

ADA BAZAR. The pastor of the church at Ada Bazar has left his people, and set out upon a long preaching tour. After visiting Cilicia, he is expected to proceed easterly to Mûsh and Van, proclaiming the gospel in the intermediate places. His church have not only relinquished his services for six or eight months, but they have made a small contribution, out of their deep poverty, toward defraying his expenses.

NICOMEDIA.-The brethren at this outstation are actively engaged in imparting the blessings of the gospel to those who have not hitherto received them. Priest Harûtun acts as colporter in Nicomedia; and he is every where treated with respect. Another member of the church is laboring in the adjacent villages; and he also is generally well received, so that he is greatly encouraged in his work. Still another has gone to Cesarea.

CONSTANTINOPLE.-On the 15th of February a church was organized at Haskeuy, called the In a fertile district of Thessaly there are twenty-Third Evangelical Armenian Church of Confour villages, inhabited exclusively by Greeks; and from their comparative seclusion they are stantinople, and composed of the Protestant said to possess a very simple and unsophisticated communicants residing in Haskeuy and Balad. character. One of the first men of that district Mr. Dwight represents the occasion as having was in Smyrna two years since; and during our frequent interviews I was struck with his freedom been one of " solemn interest." The Pera church from superstition, and his ready reception of the has twenty members at the present time; the truth. At his request I furnished him, on his second church sixty-two, and the new church return, with a small supply of books; and he has since written to me several times, asking a thirty, making the whole number one hundred further supply, assuring me of the cordial recep- and twelve. Under date of March 13, Mr. tion of the books, and urging me to visit that Dwight says: "A portion of the families atregion for the purpose of preaching the Word. In one of his letters he says, "Do not think that tached to the third church and congregation rewe here are like the Greeks in other parts. side in the quarter of Constantinople which is There are far more simplicity and desire to learn; called Balad, and which is directly opposite to and you would be cordially received. Since learning that an evangelical sect has been estab- Haskeuy, on the other side of the harbor. lished in the Ottoman empire, I feel a greater Hitherto there has been no crossing the harbor in desire that you, or some other one of the mission- that place, except by the light, frail boats of the aries, should come over and preach the truth to country, making it particularly difficult for women our people." and children. Now a fine bridge connects the two places, over which our people can pass with great comfort in all weathers. Truly the Lord reigns!"

Another individual whom I have never seen, a relative of the former, the style of whose letters indicates a person of education, has also written me several times in the same spirit; and the following extract is from a letter received a few days since. "I have just received a letter from A letter of Mr. Everett, dated March 31, conour friend, [a Greek gentleman residing in the tains a gratifying account of the labors of the United States,] who informs me that he has desired you to visit our parts for the distribution of colporters, eleven in all, employed by the Conbooks, and to convince yourself by personal stantinople brethren. Two traveling book-sellers observation of the good morals of this popula-have also been sent forth during the past year, tion, and their readiness to receive joyfully the and two men have been connected with the bookpreaching of the divine word. In my answer I express to him that the desire of the people is so store. Four of the colporters direct their time much the greater, as at this our new settlement to the capital, and seven to other places. permission has been obtained of the Turks to Constantinople Baron Vertanness stands first. build a place of worship, according to the doctrine of the Greek church. Now I judge it more He is a most active man, full of faith and the consonant with our views that a church be built Holy Ghost, every where attending meetings,

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