which the thanks of the Board and its friends are due to this Society. They are also indebted to the American Bible Society for a grant of $1,000 to print the New Testament in the Zulu language, and of $100 in aid of the circulation of the Scriptures in the Madura mission. THE LENOX CHURCH -DONATIONS. MR. HOBBS, laboring again among the Choctaw Indians, writes to the Treasurer, that "the donations for the Lenox Church have been most thankfully received, appreciated, and appropriated as far as materials could be obtained. Some of the money will be applied to finishing the school-house which was raised and covered the winter before the war, so that the school may not be kept in the meeting-house." GLEANINGS. The translation of the Old Testament into Turkish, by Rev. Dr. Schauffler, will soon be completed. It is bad enough to be obliged to contend with all possible forms of error and superstition in India, without the hindrances thrown in our way by the English Government. From the March number of the "Foreign Missionary Record," of the Church of Scotland, we learn that at Madras "the Government publish and use in their schools certain Tamil books which teach pupils to invoke and to worship heathen gods and to believe in pantheism, fatalism, and transmigration of souls." One of the books which the University prescribes as one of the examination books, “contains obscenities which are actually untranslatable." Such is the training still given by a neutral government to the higher classes of Hindoo youth. Shall we wonder at their indifference and opposition to the gospel, and that our missionary efforts are so much limited to the poorer and humbler classes? "John Concordance," of Shepik, Eastern Turkey, has been reprinted lately in the "Missionary Record" of the U. P. Church, at Edinburgh, and also as a tract for church use, at fourteen shillings the thousand. This illustrates the reflex influence of foreign missions. Mr. Howland, of Ceylon, pays the following tribute to the love and faith of the native Christians of Batticotta, whom he was about to leave to occupy another station: "One fear I have is, that I may not be sustained as I think I was at Batticotta, by the prayers of others, who felt that I had a great burden. I have often me. drawn comfort from the remark of one of the mothers there, who, coming to their weekly prayer-meeting and hearing that I was not well, came into my room to see When I said that I hoped I should soon be better, she replied, 'Yes, you will be well and strong. God will hear our prayers.' It was a better tonic than the doctor could furnish. She had said before that she always prayed for me." The Greek Church of Russia has entered upon missionary work in Japan. A Russian paper speaks of a church formed at Hakodadi, to which 95 Japanese were recently received, while 500 more desired baptism. The question is already raised in India in regard to donating the public revenues of the temples to the interests of popular education. The native Christians are reminded, by one of the leading journals, of their right to portion of the vast sums now devoted to mosques, monasteries, and temples. Miss Carpenter, an English lady, went to India a few years since, and endeavored to promote female education on a purely secular basis. Though receiving liberal government grants from Lord Lawrence for these normal schools, her efforts have utterly failed. The government now recognizes the fact, that the instruction of women must be based on religion. Nine pages are given in the March Rev. Dr. Tracy, of the Madura mis- number of the "Chronicle" of the London sion, presented a valuable paper at the Missionary Society, to correspondence beAllahabad conference, on the training of tween that Society and the Society for native agents. the Propagation of the Gospel, the ArchThe famous sermon on tithes, by bishop of Canterbury, and officials of the English Government, and between missionaries of the two Societies in Madagascar, presenting an ineffectual attempt to dissuade the high church Episcopalians from intruding their missionaries and a "bishop" upon fields so long and so successfully cultivated by the London Society in Madagascar,—to induce them, in accordance with common rules of missionary courtesy, to limit their operations to unoccupied portions of the island. The Church Missionary Society has fully recognized the rights of the London Society, but the Propagation Society is quite another body. The directors of the London Missionary Society have memorialized the English Government, urging "to the adoption of every wise and vigorous effort to put down the labor traffic [slave traffic] in Queensland and Fiji"; and also in regard to recent violent proceedings of Roman Catholic priests against Protestant converts on the island of Uvea, asking the intervention of Her Majesty's Government with the Government in Paris. Rev. Dr. Wenger has completed the translation of the Scriptures into the Sanskrit language, a work which has cost more than twenty years of labor, and has received high encomiums from some of the most learned Sanskrit scholars in England. The Wesleyan collegiate institution in Jaffna furnishes instruction in Trigonometry, Natural Philosophy, and Whateley's Logic. Good for a mission school. The Church of Scotland "Missionary Record" says, there is one Protestant missionary, European and American, in British India, for each 350,000 of the population; equal to "ten ministers only for the whole of Scotland." The average annual contribution from each member of the Church of Scotland, to its Foreign Mission Scheme is "under fourpence farthing, or less than a farthing and a half per month." The governor of Ceylon, on visiting the schools of a missionary station recently, remarked that, " as far as he could judge, the progress which education had made in Ceylon, was to be attributed far Το more to missionary efforts than to the operation of Government schools. the energy and activity of missionaries were due, not only the prevalence of education, but the desire which existed among the people for instruction." The new Theological Seminary at the Sandwich Islands was opened in October last. In December there were thirteen students, admitted "on probation of six months," and several other applicants for admission. The "Lucknow Witness," India, rejoices to hear that the good work among the Santhals still goes forward. "The applicants for baptism are literally numbered by thousands, and the missionaries are overwhelmed with their abundant labors." The Papacy does not remit its missionary efforts, because of its recent trials at home. The "Annals of the Propagation of the Faith," published in January, announces the departure of sixty-four "missioners," for Australia, Africa, South America, the United States, and the British Provinces of North America. An "apostolic caravan, consisting of nineteen persons," arrived at Cairo on the 26th of September, on its way to Central Africa. And yet it is very difficult, as well in England as in this country, to obtain the men who are urgently needed for Protestant missions! Rev. Robert Moffat, D. D., the apostle of Africa, has just received, as a testimonial of esteem, the handsome sum of over £5,000, from friends of missions in England. Richly deserved is the tribute of love which accompanies the gift, and finds substantial expression in it. DEPARTURE. REV. JOHN T. GULICK and wife, of the North China mission, sailed from San Francisco April 1, returning to their field. DEATH. AT Marsovan, Turkey, January 13, Fanny, youngest daughter of Rev. J. F. and Mrs. L. E. Smith, of the Western Turkey mission. DONATIONS RECEIVED IN MARCH. 22.22; m. c. 21.03; John B. Page, to const. G. H. REYNOLDS, W. S. TERRILL, F. E. CHENEY, G. H. PAINE, and B. D. PAINE, H. M. 500.00; Windham county Aux. Soc. C. F. Thompson, Tr. Putney, Levi L. Houghton, Windsor co. Aux. Soc. Rev. C. B. Drake and J. Steele, Tr's. Springfield, Cong. ch. and so. to const. Miss H. N. LOCKE, Miss E. P. PROCTOR, Mrs. M. G. HOLBROOK, Mrs. AUGUSTA DERBY, CHARLES D. WALKER, and I. W. BARNARD, H. M. Woodstock, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 543 25-643 25 3 00 630 60 48 41-679 01 2,007 21 30 00 Cherryfield, John W. Coffin, 100 00 York county. 893 86-906 01 Saco, Cong. ch. and so. add'l, York, 1st Cong, ch. and so. 500 NEW HAMPSHIRE. North Truro, S. Paine, 10 00 Coos County. South Wellfleet, Cong. ch. and so. m. c. 10 00 George 12.00 2.00 48 00 71 05-128 05 121 35 Bristol county. 75 20 East Taunton, Cong. ch. and so. Fall River, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 31 56 Union m. c. 5.50; Strafford county. Laconia, Cong. ch. and so. 115 70-190 90 Legacies.Tilton, Mrs. Nancy Hanaford, by L. C. Morrison, Adm'r, Andover, N. S. Wright, Theol. Sem. 5; a friend, 2; 700 122 50 Methuen, 1st Cong. ch. and so. m. c. Nov. to March, 95.02; 95 02-102 02 617 77 VERMONT. Essex co. South Conf. of Ch's. C. M. Richardson, Tr. Hall, Tr. Addison county, Amos Wilcox, Tr. Bristol, Rev. Stillman Morgan, Middlebury, Cong. ch. and so. 52.21; Orwell, Cong. ch. and so. Weybridge, Cong. ch. and so. Caledonia co. Conf. of Ch's, T. L. Lower Waterford, Cong. ch. and so. 43 00 St. Johnsbury, South Cong. ch. and so. 69.42; Dea. Luke Spencer, 50; 119 42 St. Johnsbury East, Cong. ch. and NO. Saugus Centre, Cong, ch. and so. Franklin county Aux. Soc. William B. 89 23-198 23 Chittenden county. Greenfield, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 8.30 Burlington, 1st Calv. Cong. ch. and Sunderland, Cong, ch. and so. 112 91-215 56 80. (of wh. m. c. 18), Orange county. Marsh, Tr. Chelsea, Donation acknowledged in March "Herald" as from Mrs. Martha, should have been from Mrs. Sophia D. Drew. Chester, 2d Cong. ch. and so. 30 00 North Thetford, a friend, 2.00 Orleans county. Springfield, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 165.71; a friend, 5; Thorndike, Mrs. E. G. Learned, West Springfield, Park ch. and so. Hampshire county Aux. Soc. S. E. Bridgman, Tr. Northampton, Mrs. A. Lyman, 200; a friend, 300; 170 71 5.00 9 00-234 71 500 00 Plymouth county. Abington, 1st Cong. ch. and so. Marshfield, 1st Cong. ch. and so. Worcester county, North. Athol, Lois and Chloe Bassett, Petersham, Cong. ch. and so. Templeton, Cong. ch. and so. add'l, Worcester co. South Conf. of Ch's. William R. Hill, Tr. Saundersville, Cong. ch. and so. with prev. dona. to const. C. H. SEARLES, H. M. a friend, Boston, Ira Greenwood, by 600 Pomfret, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 158 98-377 98 1,288 87 18.00 53 31 400 00-3,015 08 Legacies. Hartford, Mrs. Mary A. Warburton, add'l by N. Shipman and H. A. Parker, Ex'rs, 2,882 65 72 25 4,171 52 24 76 NEW YORK. 19 45-116 46 Albany, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 214 95 200 Baiting Hollow, G. L. Edwards, Binghamton, Daniel Munson, 10 00 10 00 9,672 18 Brookfield, Oliver C. Howe, by G. Pawtucket, Cong. ch. and so. Gents'. Miss'y Soc. 100; m. c. 171.99; to const. A. R. MATTESON, T. P. BARNEFIELD, and Dea. W. D. BULLOCK, H. M. Providence, Pilgrim Cong. ch. and so. Taylorville, 1st Welsh Cong. ch. and so. 7 60-362 60 271 99 CONNECTICUT. Fairfield county. OHIO. Wethersfield, a widow's mite, 5 00-46 71 Elyria, 1st Presb. ch. 190 20 Litchfield county. G. C. Woodruff, Tr. T Lyme, Cong. ch. and so. 43 72 Warren, a lady, Middlesex county. John Marvin, Tr. Middletown, J. F. Huber, for Madura, West Chester, Cong. ch. and so. a friend, 10; Oberlin, Rev. F. Shipherd's Bible Class, 10 00 Toledo, S. D. Harrington, 5 00-544 02 Fort Wayne, Plymouth Cong. ch. and Aurora, N. E. ch. S. B. Dyckman, 44 31 ILLINOIS. 500 123 46 Chesterfield, Cong. ch. and so. 20.00 81 30 Dixon, Cyrus A. Davis, 10 00 Ch. MISSION SCHOOL ENTERPRISE. MAINE. Garland, Cong. s. s. 7.75; Norridgewock, Cong. s. 8. 32.50; St. Stephen, Milltown, Cong. s. s., for school in Turkey, 86.90; NEW HAMPSHIRE. - Amherst, Cong. s. 8. VERMONT.Gaysville, Chil. Miss'y Soc'y, 2.50; Cong. s. s., for pupil at Marsovan, 40; MASSACHUSETTS. Boston, Old Colony s. 8. (of wh. for Pilibos, Harpoot, 30; for David, Madura, 25), 65; Charlemont, Cong. s. s. 6.50; Fitchburg, Calv. Cong. 8. 8., to support Muggerdich and wife at Erzroom, 92.80; Granby, Cong. s. s., for pupil at Harpoot, 30; Northampton, Edwards ch., Miss Goddard's s. s. class for an orphan in Mrs Bissell's school, 7; NEW YORK. Brooklyn, New England ch. 8. NEW JERSEY.-Cong. s. s. Miss'y Soc'y, ILLINOIS.Chicago, 47th st. Cong. s. s., for MISSOURI.La Grange, Salems Ev. Cong. s. s. 127 15 25.00 42 50 201 30 50 00 50.00 24.03 15 50 235 12.00 10 45 50 560 78 [May, 1878. Keokuk, Cong. ch. and so. to const. Rev. CLAYTON WELLES, H. M. 64 80 M. DEWITT PEAK, H. M. ter, Lansing Ridge, Cong. ch. and so. New Hampton, Cong. ch. and so. Osage, 1st Cong. ch. and so. WISCONSIN. Appleton, Rev. Ed. Ebbs, Green Bay, 1st Presb. ch. to const. Platteville, Cong. ch. and so. add'l, Two Rivers, F. Barns, a friend, through Mrs. J. Por Fredonia, Rev. C. H. Richardson, Oswego, Cong. ch. and so. 400 00-565 12 KANSAS. Donations received in March, Legacies 66 Total, from Sept. 1st, 1872, to March 31st, 1873, 20,166 28 Andover, Mass. Stephen Tracy, M. D. Three boxes medical books and surgical instruments for missionary physicians. FOR WORK IN NOMINALLY CHRISTIAN LANDS. 6,676 92 $26,843 20 $212,563 60 5 00 4.00- -9 00 NEBRASKA. Columbus, John E. Elliott, 5 00 Omaha, Reuben Gaylord, Salem, 1st Cong. ch. and so. Grass Valley, Cong. ch. and so. 12.50, gold, Oakland, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 75.00, 200-700 OREGON. prev. dona to const. E. M. C. LANE, H. M. 20 00 Swanzey, Rev. Charles Willey, 5 00-38 00 MASSACHUSETTS. 80 00 CALIFORNIA. 14 40 Abington, 1st Cong. ch. and so. Andover, N. S. Wright, Theol. Sem'y, Boston, Park st. ch. and so. 281.32; Old South ch. and so. 256; F. B. P., 5; 28 75 5 00 542 32 Framingham, Plymouth Cong, ch. and gold, 86 44-100 84 DAKOTA TERRITORY. Groton, Union Cong. ch. and so. 46 35 Greenwood, Rev. J. P. Williamson, 5 00 80. 85 00 IDAHO TERRITORY. Riverside, L. Bridgman, Kamia, H. T. Cowley, toward support of Mr. Sheffield, of North China, 8.00 FOREIGN LANDS AND MISSIONARY STATIONS. Mahratta Mission, T. Bosanquet, Rs. 4.70 Springfield, Indian Orchard ch. 11 11 25.00 Ware, 1st Cong. ch. and so. RHODE ISLAND. Providence, George H. Corliss, CONNECTICUT. 8 25 69.56 40 00-850 91 80 00 300; Mrs. Severance, of Cleveland, Westbrook, Cong ch. and so. 24 26 O., 72; a friend, 9; Dr. C. Jynt, 25; Col. J. Field, 25; Col. Wahab, 30; NEW YORK. L. A., 15; Wm. Thompson, 2;= Rs. 478, Madura, Mission Prayer Meeting, MISSION WORK FOR WOMEN. From WOMAN'S BOARD OF MISSIONS FOR THE 11 60 Council Bluffs, Rev. B. Talbot, for Italy, 2; Farmington, 1st Cong. ch. and so. 28.90; 30.90 $979 07 Wakefield, Cong, ch. and so. INTERIOR. Mrs. Francis Bradley, Evanston, Illinois, Treasurer. 926 99 Total for Nominally Christian Lands, from Sept. 1st, 1872, to March 31st, 1873, $7,293 17 |