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year 1828, their receipts were, $102,009 64, and their expenditures during the same period amounted to $107,676 25. The following summary is from their nineteenth annual Report, for the year 1828:-"There are now under the care of the Board forty-six Missionary stations, including one that is temporarily vacant. Con

nected with these stations there are forty-three ordained Missionaries, four licensed preachers, four catechists, and one hundred and seventytwo other Missionary assistants, male and female; making the whole number of Missionary laborers from this country, two hundred and twenty-three. There are, also, thirty-six native assistants, who are immediately connected with the Mission families; and as preachers, catechists, superintendents of schools, and distributors of tracts, are of great service in extending knowledge and Christianity. Besides these, there are about six hundred native teachers of free schools, connected principally with the Missions at Bombay, Ceylon, and the Sandwich Islands; most of whom were themselves first instructed, and all of whom are superintended in their labors, by the Missionaries. Five hundred and twenty-three exclusive of the Mission families, are members of the churches at the several stations. There are thirty-two thousand nine hundred and nineteen pupils in the Mission schools; of whom about eight hundred and seventy are in the boarding schools, at the stations. The Board have seven printing

presses connected with the different Missions, which are kept in constant operation, and have printed, or are in readiness for printing, in nine different languages. The whole number of copies of works printed at these presses, principally elementary school books, translations from the scriptures, and religious tracts, must now exceed five hundred thousand, and the number of pages twenty millions; most of which have been put in circulation. Thus languages, which were never before written, have been reduced to system and printed, and are now made the vehicles of diffusing knowledge widely; and others, in which were no books, except such as were filled with erroneous and polluting sentiments, are now made the channels of conveying useful knowledge and the word of God to the millions who speak them. Thousands of minds, which were wasting in ignorance and inaction, are becoming enlightened and fitted to perform the responsible duties of life. Others, which were the abodes of base and malignant passions, are becoming full of righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. The gospel is preached to hundreds of thousands sitting in the shadow of death. The Spirit descends, as upon our own churches, and the heathen are becoming new creatures in Christ.

Here let us pause. Who will not admire the condescension of the adorable Head of the Church, in permitting so much to be accom

plished by the designs of a single individual!

Could Mr. Mills have lived to witness the rapid advancement of this glorious design; could he have seen the whole army of the redeemed in New England in motion; could he have seen ten thousand hearts leaping in joyful eagerness, and ten thousand hands opened in liberal charities toward this hallowed cause; could he have seen the daily accession of talent and youthful vigour, as they have been consecrated to the work; could he have beheld so many Missionary stations blessing the dark regions of Asia, and have been told of the conversions amid the desolations and cruelties of our own wilderness; could he have been permitted to breathe his blessing into the breeze that wafts the glad tidings of great joy to the native isles of his own dear Obookiah; could he, lastly, have beheld the "holy city Jerusalem," the scene of a mission from the American church, surely he had felt he had not lived in vain. Some of these glorious events he was permitted to witness; and with what weeping modesty he occasionally adverted to them, a few will long remember. Never has he been more endeared, than when on one or two occasions he has been seen to be drowned in tears, and abased with self-confusion, in attempting to give utterance to his own views of what God had condescended to accomplish through the instrumentalities of one so worthless as he.

CHAPTER IV.

His acquaintance with Obookiah, and the consequent establishment of the Foreign Mission School.

WE have already mentioned the name of Obookiah. Mr. Mills's acquaintance with this youth forms an important era in his life, and in the history of Missions in the western world. Obookiah was a native of Hawaii, the largest of the Sandwich Islands. He was born about the year 1792. His parents ranked with the common people; but his mother was distantly related to the family of the King. During his youth, there was an unhappy contest in the island, as to the right of succession. After a severe and frightful carnage, the party to which the father of Obookiah attached himself was overpowered. The conquerors, having driven their antagonists from the field, next turned their rage upon the villages and families of the vanquished. On the alarm of their approach, the father took his wife and two children, and fled to the mountains, where he concealed himself with his family for several days in a cave. Venturing at length to leave their retreat, they were surprised

by a party of the enemy, while in the act of quenching their thirst at a neighboring spring. The father fled. To decoy him from his rctreat, the enemy seized his wife and children and put them to the torture. The artifice succeeded. Unable to bear the piercing cries of his family, the father returned, and with his wife was cut in pieces. An infant brother, Obookiah endeavored to save from the fate of his parents, by taking him upon his back and making his escape; but he was pursued, and his little brother pierced through with a spear, while Obookiah, by some mysterious providence, was saved alive. Being now a prisoner in the hands of the enemy, he was taken home to the house of the very man who murdered his parents. Here he resided till he was found by an uncle, who was High Priest of the island, and who received him into his family and treated him as a child. In narrating his own history, Obookiah says, At the death of my parents I was with them; I saw them killed with a bayonet; and with them my little brother, not more than two or three months old; so that I was left alone without father or mother in this wilderness world. Poor boy! thought I within myself, after they were gone, are there any father or mother of mine at home, that I may go and find them at home? No: poor boy am I. And while I was at play with other children, after we had made an end of playing, they returned to their parents, but I was returned into tears; for I

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