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subject, spiritual mercies to souls. From "These boys read such things that I am that time we said nothing more to them on almost ready to take my only haran from the subject. A few days before the new my pocket, and give it." After the reading year, Mr. Perkins told John in Seir that he must go to the village and begin this work. John went on the Sabbath. He talked with the people in the church about it; and they were ready to begin. The first Monday of the year a collection was taken up. In the middle of our village is a house for prayer, where the people assembled. I was not present, and cannot tell you all that happened there; but I understood that a few harans were collected.

The February Concert.

of the texts, both John and Moses spoke on the subject. We then asked Mar Elias, Malik Agha Bey, and the aged men, if they were willing from all their hearts to see this work go forward. We have never heard such a cry of readiness as we heard on that day. They cried out, "We are ready; we are ready. It is a good work." At the time of the setting sun, we struck the nakoosha. This was an extra one; and we named it the "gospel nakoosha." Could you at that time have seen the little children hanging upon the skirts of their parents, and asking something to put into the I was greatly rejoiced when I heard that box, you would have been pleased. One the work was really begun. I have been little boy, less than three years of age, fell present at the other gatherings, and will down upon the ground, and cried, saying, tell you about them, as well as I can. We "I want something for the gospel; and only have our concerts on Sabbath evening, in- that I want." Great and small were all stead of Monday, because then the people occupied in finding something to give; for are scattered about their business. The they had not yet learned to lay by in store first Sabbath in February it was my turn to for the first of the month. At the time for preach in the village; so I prepared myself meeting, our house of prayer was full; and on this subject. I went to the village, and as many as twenty were seated in the carried a map with me, which we hung up entry; and in all about two hundred were in the church. More people than usual present. We talked with the people, and assembled; and the church was so full that had three or four prayers. At the close we some stood up. I first pointed out the sung the Missionary Hymn. While we countries on the map, and spoke about were singing, two of us carried about the Greenland, its inhabitants, and the work of little boxes for the money. Some gave God there; then about Africa, and its poor skeins of cotton yarn. These we put in our people, and the missionaries there; after- bosoms. Just as we were finishing the colwards about the Sandwich Islands, their lection, a little sick boy, who had heard it former state, their present change of condi- was concert-day, rose from his bed, and crept tion, and how the people there give for the in to give his cent. I was just putting the spread of the gospel. Our people heard box on the desk, when that child motioned these things with gladness. After I had to me, "Take," "take." I took his cent spoken of the countries, we gave to each of and kissed him. This month we got fifthe readers a Bible. We had prepared our- teen harans,t and several skeins of cotton selves with three kinds of references in re- yarn. These last were brought to the city, gard to giving for the spread of the gospel. and sold in the morning. We have several I. To show that this work was from ancient days in the year in which, if we labor, we times; and that the people of God from the are blamed by our ignorant people, because first had given to the Lord, as in the days of they consider them saints' days. This Abraham, and when Jacob promised to give month several had worked on these days, a tenth of his substance to the Lord; also and got money for the concert. When the contributions for the Tabernacle, and asked by the ignorant in regard to it, they the collections that were taken in the days replied, "It is better to labor for the spread of the Apostles. 2. To show that not the of the gospel, than to be idle for Satan." rich alone have a hand in this work, but also the poor; for instance, as in the days of Moses, when the rich and poor gave equally. In the face of all we brought the The first Sabbath in March Mr. Stoddard widow's two mites, and placed before their came to the village. So many people aseyes the deep poverty of Macedonian Chris- sembled, that as many as thirty or forty tians. We also told them of the poor remained outside of the church. Mr. Stodwidows in America, who were giving them dard inquired of the Malik what he would preachers, books, and instruction for their do. "Your church is so small, what will children. 3. To show that both spiritual you do with those without? Where will and temporal blessings are promised to they go?" The Malik replied, "We will those who give to the Lord. We brought find a remedy." Mr. Stoddard took India many texts on this point. The readers were for his subject, becuse the people had exscattered over the church, one on this side pressed a desire to send their money there. and one on that side, one here and another He told us about the country, its size, its there. They read all the texts, while the people listened most attentively. There was a soldier in the church all this time, who whispered to his companion, saying,

The March Concert.

* A thick board, perforated with holes, and beaten with a mallet, to call the people to meeting. A little more than three dollars.

climate, and great population. He also told taments were given to men and women, us of their cruel religion; how the people who had learned to read during the last cut their bodies, and fill their mouths with two years; and I am sure I have never seen mud; and many other such things. He a gift of our missionaries received with so gave us the number of their gods, and much joy and gratitude. After dinner we brought with him a picture of Juggernaut. put up the map in the church, which was And we understood from him how many crowded. Mr. Stocking spoke on the greatroll hundreds of miles to perform a pilgrim-ness of the work of giving the gospel, which age to it, often dying on the way. He also we had before but imperfectly understood. brought with him two idols, one from China He also gave us something of the history of and one from India. He took them in his the church, and told us who were the enehands, and spoke as if the idols themselves mies of the blessed gospel, particularly the were speaking in this manner: "O sons of papists, who just now are making a great Geog Tapa! Ye Nestorians! We are the commotion among our people. As he exgods of the people of China and India. posed the errors of the papists to our peoThey worship us. Do something for them, ple, our joy was so great that we could that they may turn from us. Help them. scarcely restrain our laughter. He also Let your hearts burn for them." We were told us of the progress the gospel had made thankful that day that our people could at the Sandwich Islands, and that they supstand in Elijah's place, and laugh at idols. ported their own schools and some of the Some said, "They have eyes, but they see missionaries. Mr. Stocking was so denot; ears, but they hear not." After Mr. lighted in our Sabbath school, to see there Stoddard closed, Mar Elias was invited to assembled the fruits of the labors of years, speak. He spoke of the times of the that he spoke to us on this wise: "O ye prophets, when there were idols; and that people of Geog Tapa! Enlarge your church. it was the work of the prophets to prevent Take down this wall here, and that one the people from worshiping them." So," there. Put up others yonder; then you he said, "we must labor for people wor-will have room to bring in all the people of shiping vanity." It was very good for the people to hear words of encouragement in this work from their old bishop. About five hundred people were present this Sabbath, beside children, and those who went away for want of place. They were very much pleased with what they heard this day.

At evening we thought the house of prayer would not contain the people; so we had our meeting in Mar Elias's house, which is larger. We passed two boxes and a basket for cotton yarn. Some of the people said to me, "It is a shame for you to carry about that basket." I said, "I am not begging for myself; I am begging for Christ.' This time we got twenty-four harans, twenty-four eggs, and sixteen skeins of yarn. The eggs and yarn were sold, and the money was put in the box.

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In the evening we again assembled in Mar Elias's house. John conducted the meeting, to encourage our people to give in their poverty. We told them of the founding of the church in New England, and how they labored to send forth missionaries. We closed by singing the Missionary Hymn. While they were passing the boxes and the baskets, the boys and the girls of our seminaries, and the readers of our village, sang this hymn with so much animation, that we almost felt that the seraphs were with us. This time we got sixteen harans, including the price of sixty-eight eggs; also a piece of cotton cloth, worth two harans, and eight skeins of cotton yarn. We had not expected to get so much, because it was just the time for giving the yearly taxes to the government. This work has become so much a subject of conversation in our village, that we often hear persons say, "This shall not be used needlessly; it shall be given for the gospel." One old man has written four tomans* as his bequest to the gospel.

* Nearly ten dollars.

Proceedings of other Societies.

Domestic.

PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF MISSIONS.

FROM the report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, submitted to the General Assembly at Charleston, it appears that the receipts were $145,059 06, and the expenditures $144,472 48. The income was from the following sources;-Balance from last

year $136 16; donations 101,358 53; legacies $10,162 20; Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church $1,800; avails of Life and Sermons of Rev. W. M. Lowrie $714 21; contributions in India $3,847 96; sums received from government for Indian schools $19,240; sums received from Bible and Tract societies $7,800. The following table presents a condensed view of the missions.

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FROM the ninth annual report of this society it appears that its receipts from all sources during the year ending April 1, 1852, were $15,380 03. Of this amount, $7,468 91 were received from the United States and the Choctaws for educational purposes. The expenditures of the year were as follows:-$11,756 25 for the missions; Secretary's salary, $1,000; agencies, $1,202 90; miscellaneous expenses, $1,007 56. Four missions are sustained by the society, one of which is among the Choctaws, one among the Creeks, one among the Weas, and one among the Potawatomies. The laborers at the different stations are as follows:

Choctaws.

ARMSTRONG ACADEMY.-Rev. R. D. Potts, Rev. A. Moffat, Missionaries; Mrs. Potts, Mrs.

Moffat, Miss Chenoweth, Miss Davis, Female Assistants; Rev. Henry Graves, B. M. Worcester, Native Assistants.

CANADIAN RIVER.-Rev. Joseph Smedley, Missionary; Peter Folsom, Native Assistant.

Creeks.

NORTH FORK TOWN.-Rev. S. Wallace, Missionary; Mrs. Wallace, Female Assistant; Rev. Chilly McIntosh, William McIntosh, Native Assistants.

CREEK AGENCY.-Rev. H. F. Buckner, Missionary; Mrs. Buckner, Female Assistant; Rev. D. N. McIntosh, Rev. Lewis McIntosh, Rev. J. Perryman, and Rev. Mr. Jacob, Native Assistants.

Weas, Piankeshaws and Miamies. Rev. D. Lykins, Missionary; Miss Eliza

McCoy, Miss S. G. Simmerwell, Female As-AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY union.

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Potawatomies.

Rev. J. Lykins, Rev. B. W. Sanders, Rev. I. F. Herrick, Missionaries; Mrs. Sanders, Mrs. Herrick, Female Assistants.

Boarding schools are sustained among the Choctaws, Weas and Potawatomies, the whole number of pupils being 165. The additions to the churches during the last year have been 126; and the present number of communicants is said to be more than thirteen hundred.

THE American Baptist Missionary Union met at Pittsburgh on the 20th of May, the Board of Managers having convened in the same place on the 18th. The Treasurer's report presented the following statement of receipts for the past year :-from donations, $89,439 44; from legacies, $9,375 25; from the Karen mission fund, $1,000; for real estate and interest, $2,797 25; making the total, $102,611 94. The sum of $19,500 were also received from the United States and from other societies. The subjoined table will give a general idea of the operations of

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BAPTIST FREE MISSION SOCIETY.

THIS Society held its ninth annual meeting at Montrose, Pennsylvania, June 2. The Haitien mission is represented as prosperous. Churches have been organized at Port-au-Prince and St. Marc, the first having forty-eight members and the other eighteen. During the past year eleven have been baptized by the mission. The number of preaching places is four. The mission force consists of one American preacher, one Haitien preacher, three American females, and two unordained natives. A missionary society has been organized by the converted Haitiens; and they

Including one Burman church. 50 places for stated preaching. 292 places for stated preaching.

have resolved to raise one hundred dollars for the annual support of the native preacher at St. Marc. One of its members, whose poverty compels him to eat but two meals a day, gives twelve dollars annually.

The society sustains twelve persons, in whole or in part, among the fugitive slaves in Canada three of whom are ordained. To the seven churches under the care of this mission fifty are reported as having been added by baptism. There are four schools, which contain nearly three hundred pupils. This society is also contemplating the commencement of a mission in

Africa; and one of its Canada missionaries has | stationed at Buenos Ayres, who reports fifty-one

offered his services for the enterprise. The home operations of the society are quite miscellaneous, and need not be described in this notice.

ASSOCIATE

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church members and twelve probationers. The China mission consists of Rev. R. S. Maclay, Rev. M. C. White, Rev. J. W. Wiley, M. D., Rev. J. Colder, and their wives; the Rev. J. D. PRESBYTERIAN Collins, the superintendent of the mission, having recently died in this country. These brethren

THE General Synod of the Associate Re-are laboring at Fuh-chau, side by side with our formed Presbyterian Church held its twelfth own missionaries, and with similar encouragement. meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 26; The Liberia mission consists of fourteen misand its Board of Agency for Foreign Missions sionaries, most of whom are laboring among the submitted a report of its proceedings during the colonists. The following table, taken from the previous year. It has three ordained laborers last report of the Methodist Missionary Society, and one physician in Damascus, who have sus-will show the character and extent of its operatained two Arabic services on the Sabbath, in tions in West Africa.

connection with the Irish Presbyterian missionaries in the same place. The average native attendance has been about twenty. A weekly prayer meeting has been held at the house of Dr. Mishakah, which is regarded as promising happy results. The mission in Oregon is represented as prosperous, there being three ordained preachers of the gospel in that territory, and another on his way thither.

METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

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THE thirty-third anniversary of this society Peter Harris, was celebrated in Bromfield Street Church, Boston, May 19. The income during the previous year was $152,482 48; the expenditure amounted to $157,309 83; and the balance due the Treasurer was $3,173 34. Of the disbursements, $30,572 49 went to California and Oregon; $8,456 62 to Germany; $7,100 51 to China; $18,217 09 to Liberia ; $300 to Buenos Ayres.

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LEIPSIC MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

THIS Society held its last anniversary on the 26th of August, 1851, in St. John's Church, Leip

Isic. At the close of the sermon the annual re

port was read; from which it appeared that the receipts for the year had been 19,049 Thir. The India. In fact, it has entered into the labors of efforts of the society are confined to Southern Ziegenbalg, Schulze, Schwartz, &c., and one of their missionaries proclaims the gospel in the old Jerusalem church at Tranquebar. The number of ordained laborers is six, who occupy as many stations, including Tranquebar, Trichinopoly and Madras. The congregations at all the stations embrace about three thousand souls. Baptism has been administered to 154 heathen, and to 89 children of Christians. Instruction is imparted to 833 children, who are gathered into 26 schools. 176 The missionaries are aided by 15 catechists, 3 readers, 33 teachers, and 14 others. Two native preachers render assistance at Tranquebar and Trichinopoly.

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This society has five missionaries and assistant missionaries in Germany; but the statistics of this mission are not given. One missionary is

After the reading of the report, two young men were set apart to the missionary work. During the address of Pastor Schneider, they were called upon to answer the following inquiries: "Do you abide, really and truly, by the confession of our church? Are you ready to

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