of the correspondence is a conviction that our apprehensions were well founded. Two other situations are strongly recommended-the one at Saginaw, on a branch of Lake Huron, and the other at Chicago at the extremity of Lake Michigan. The latter, most probably, will eventually be preferred. Under this impression, Mr. Hudson has been directed to transfer the children and the Mission property at Fort Gratiot, to the Establishment at Machinaw; and Miss Osmar, the Assistant Teacher, has been requested to repair to that Station. MACHINAW MISSION. Influenced by information received from various sources, the Board, in August last, resolved to enterprise a Missionary Establishment at Machinaw, in the Territory of Michigan. The Rev. Wm. M. Ferry, who had resided there about ten months, and who had strongly recommended the measure, was appointed Superintendent of the projected Mission, and directed to commence his journey as soon as practicable. His Commission and letter of Instructions, dated on the 20th of August, were transmitted to him at Northampton, in Massachusetts. On the 5th of September, he and his wife passed through Albany, and on the 19th of October, having encountered severe storm on the Lake, and providentially escaped shipwreck, arrived in safety at their destined Station. a Several letters and Journals have 'been received from Mr. Ferry, announcing the pleasing intelligence, that within fifteen days after his arrival, he had hired a convenient building, procured the necessary furniture, and embodied in the Mission Family, twelve Indian children; that within the first month, the number had increased to twenty; that in the course of the winter four more had been added; that the whole had been reduced to habits of order and of diligence in their studies; and that a considerable accession to the present number was promised in the spring. It was intended, that, in addition to a Minister of the Gospel, the Family at this Station should ultimately comprise one male and two female teachers, a farmer, and a man and woman suitably qualified to conduct its domestic concerns. Were the requisite means at hand, the present promising condition of this infant Establishment would justify your Managers in carrying the whole plan into immediate effect. Notwithstanding our present embarrass....... ments, we have deemed it our imperative duty to send forward, without delay, a female Assistant; and, at the recommendation of the Superintendent, have appointed to that office, Miss ELIZABETH M'FARLAND, of Plainfield, in the County of Ostego. Miss M'Farland has accepted the appointment, and is making the necessary preparations for her journey. EDUCATION OF HEATHEN YOUTH. It In the last Annual Report, it was stated, that Guy Chew, a young man of the Tuscarora Tribe, had been sent by your Managers to the Foreign Mission School in Connecticut. was also mentioned, that his Teachers had represented him as diligent in his studies and amiable in his deportment, and as having given satisfactory evidence of his piety. We have now the pleasure to report that he "still continues to merit the approbation and esteem of his companions and instructers," and that within the last year, he has made “a public profession of his faith in Christ." In the course of the exercises of this evening, he will be introduced to the audience, and will exhibit some evidence of the importance of the aid which he has received from your bounty. a Since your last Annual Meeting, George Fox, a youth of the Seneca Tribe, has been transferred to the same School. This youth is nephew of Capt. Pollard, one of the principal Chiefs of the Christian party. He is represented as possessing respectable talents, and making good progress in his studies. At one period since his arrival at the School, he evinced a degree of seriousness, particularly encouraging to the Board; and his letters were honoured as the instruments of the first serious convictions of one of his female relatives at Seneca, who is now rejoicing in the hope of salvation through the blood and the merits of a crucified Saviour. Several communications have been received from the Superintendent at Union, urging the importance of transferring Stephen Van Rensselaer, and Robert Munroe, two of the Osage Youths, to the Mission School in Connecticut. The Superintendent has, accordingly, been directed to send them forward by the first safe conveyance; and it is probable, they will arrive at the School in the course of the ensuing autumn. A similar application has also been made in behalf of two of the Chippewa Youth in the Mission School at Fort Gratiot. They possess some property, which they propose to contribute in defraying the expenses of their education. On this application the Board has not yet decided. Impressed with the importance of communicating instruction to the Indians through the medium of native teachers, your Managers have been solicitous to select, from each Tribe under their care, a few young men of promising talents, and correct deportment, and to give them an education that would qualify them for extensive usefulness among their benighted countrymen, and render them efficient aids in carrying forward your benevolent and holy enterprise. From young men thus educated, some of the Tribes on our southern borders are reaping solid and essential benefit, and we indulge the hope, that the friends of the United Foreign Missionary Society will duly appreciate the importance of the object, and by their augmented liberality, meet the pressing claims of the red men of the wilderness, and the increasing and imperative expenditures of your Board. AUXILIARY SOCIETIES. One hundred and sixty-five Auxiliary Societies were recognised in our former Reports. To this number, we have now the pleasure to add twenty-four, making the present number one hundred and eightynine. The "Female Clothing Society of New-York," formed about the time of your last Annual Meeting, has furnished sixty-five garments, and paid into your Treasury one hundred dollars. The " New-York Female Society for the education of Heathen Youth," was organized in June. Its object is to aid in supporting your Beneficiaries at the Foreign Mission School in Connecticut; and in pursuance of this object, its Managers have contributed the sum of sixty-six dollars. For the same object, we have also received twenty dollars from Female Society in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and a few dollars from other sources. a The "Female Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in CedarStreet, New-York," formed in July, has paid into your Treasury one hundred dollars, of which ninety dollars are the avails of needlework. The "Female Missionary Society of Brooklyn," was instituted in December. Within five months, it has raised from donations and the annual subscriptions of its Members, about one hundred dollars, and from the sale of various kinds of needlework, one hundred and eighteen dollars. Of these sums, nearly two hundred dollars have been remitted to your Treasury. From the Female Clothing Societies of Philadelphia and Baltimore, we have received valuable donations in clothing, and from each one hundred dollars in money. In closing this head of their Report, your Managers have the pleasure to acknowledge the important pecuniary aid which has been rendered by the Missionary Society of Baltimore. Three remittances, amounting to six hundred and fifty dollars, have been received in the course of the year, from this active and efficient Auxiliary. BOARDS OF AGENCY. The Board of Agency in Cincin nati, Ohio, is still affording to your Managers its zealous and efficient cooperation. In forming Auxiliary Societies, obtaining contributions, and forwarding supplies to our Missionary Stations in the West, its assistance is of high and indispensable import ance. [The second Report will be found under the head of Home Proceedings, in the present number.] The Board of Agency in Louisville, Kentucky, was organized on the 5th of June, 1822. A letter announcing the event was duly prepared; but in consequence of the sickness and death of the Secretary, the Rev. Daniel Smith, it was not forwarded until the summer of 1823. From the Boards of Agency appointed in Pittsburgh and St. Louis, no communications have yet been received. Neither, it is probable, has yet been organized. AMERICAN MISSIONARY REGISTER. It was stated in the last Report, that this publication had become the exclusive property of the Board. The diffusion of information respecting the operations of your Managers, and of general Missionary intelligence, was considered an object of paramount importance to the prosperity of the Institution. The indifference, want of zeal, and opposition to the cause of Missions, so manifest in many sections of the Church, has doubtless originated in a prevailing and deplorable ignorance of the nature and tendency of efforts so peculiarly Christian, and so evidently commanded and approved by the King of Zion. To subdue the prejudices and correct the misapprehensions, which prevent a general and cordial co-operation in the Missionary cause; to strengthen and perpetuate the ennobling sentiments, which have already urged so many to consecrate their lives to the Missionary service; to spread through the community the record of our exertions, and the smiles of Providence which cheer and animate us in the discharge of our duty; to exhibit the exigencies of the perishing pagans, and to vindicate their well-grounded claims to our commiseration and charity: such are the primary objects contemplated in the publication of the Register. The work was expected, also, to constitute one of the permanent sources of our funds. Where it has been read, the desired effects have generally been produced. Its circulation, however, is yet limited, and its publication still an expense to the Board. Board. It is deeply to be regretted, that the influence of the clergy and laity has not been more generally exerted to secure its wider extension, and its more ample support. moderate price at which it is published, cannot be regarded as an additional burden to the expenses of any family, or individual; and we are persuaded that were the Clergy to recommend it to their people, they would benefit the funds of the Society, and materially subserve the interests of the Redeemer's Kingdom among the Heathen. The $2387 36 1086 00 1238 48 722 50 500 00 134 00 81 83 389 12 90 00 3540 84 CONCLUSION. In reviewing the history of the past year, the Board would distinctly 1331 91 recognise the superintending Providence of God, under whose smiles, their operations have been extended, and their labours peculiarly blessed. Death, that insatiate destroyer, who levels without distinction, has not been permitted to invade the list of your Managers, nor diminish the number of your devoted Missionaries. Twelve additional labourers have been sent into the field; two new stations have been added to your number; an accession of seventy children has been made to your Indian Schools; the most distinguished Chief on the Cataraugus Reservation has abandoned his Pagan Religion, and taken a vigorous stand in support of Christianity; and two of the Seneca Chiefs, who had previously deserted the 7 29 camp of the adversary, have at length publicly enrolled their names under the banners of the Cross. Of your little Church at Seneca, we may sing in the sweet strains of the Psalmist -This and that man was born in her; and the Highest himself shall establish her. The Lord shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. 3 25 100 00 1636 34 25 00 46 50 5 87 Total Receipts, $14,486 78 EXPENDITURES. Balance due the Treasurer as per last Report, $2962 94 6730 71 4839 54 1518 61 1166 96 2521 85 Paid to the Union Mission, Bank Discounts, Postage, Clerk hire, Office Rent, Printing Sixth Annual Report, Notices, &c. In commencing our labours, we did not anticipate an exemption from trials and discouragements. We ex710 24 pected that our faith and patience would often be put to the test. looked for systematic and persevering opposition. In computing the cost of our enterprise, we were constrained from a knowledge of the history of Christ's kingdom on earth, to make an afflictive calculation of indifference and defection among the 100 00 232 00 professed friends of the cause. But we did not imagine, it is frankly confessed, that on your seventh Anniversary, your funds would be involved to the amount of nearly eight thousand dollars. We did not imagine, that the fact would exist to reprove and reproach us, that the three denominations combined, in their two thousand Churches embracing in their limits more than three-fourths of the Union, would still, through the medium of an Institution, formed by their direction and under their plighted patronage, contribute less to extend the kingdom of Christ, among the Heathen, than is annually contributed for this and other benevolent purposes in the single City of Boston! While we honour the self-denial and liberality of some of our Churches, we discover a fearful delinquency in others. With these facts before us, we earnestly, in behalf of your Managers, in behalf of your Missionaries, in behalf of the thousands of unredeemed Indians, press upon you the question are our pecuniary embarrassments thus to remain ? We urge the inquiry upon our Clergy, our Churches, and our Fellow-Christians -Must your own Institution continue to be fettered in its operations, by the want of a prompt and ample support? We have looked forward to the day, when we should convey our Missionaries, in the path that God in his Providence is opening, across the de sert, and beyond the Rocky Mountains. We have anticipated a liberality in our Churches, that would reproach the inactivity of their Managers, and propel us onward, from tribe to tribe, until our Standardbearers should lift up their banners, in the name of our God, on the shores of the Pacific! Should this be accomplished-should our animating anticipations be realized-still, how small a portion of the wealth of these large and opulent Churches would be consecrated to the service of Jehovah? And yet should this be accomplished-the dwellers in a thousand Pagan villages, would "rise up and call you blessed." "The wilderness and the solitary place would be glad, and the desert would rejoice, and blossom as the rose." Who would not contribute to the accomplishment of so glorious a result! We will not, we dare not, FellowChristians, yield to despondency. In the name of our God, we will still plant our banners upon Indian soil. In the name of our Churches, we will still address the sweet accents of consolation to our consecrated Missionaries. We will still cherish the hope, that the long slumber of the Churches will soon be broken, and that all will arise, in one combined and efficient effort, to dissipate the moral darkness, which has so long enveloped the tribes of this Western Continent. Home Proceedings. UNITED FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Communications have been received, since the date of our last number, from Union, to the 7th of April; from Harmony, to the 3d of March; from Seneca, to the 10th of May; from Fort Gratiot, to the 19th of April; and from Machinaw, to the 2d of March. UNION MISSION. The Superintendent to the Domestic Seere- month, I mentioned that Dr. Palmer was about to take a tour down the Arkansas on business. He expects to go in Mr. Chauteau's boat. I accompanied him to this place with the |