Ottawas of the State of Michigan, among are high schools, with upwards of three Connected with these missions, there are eleven stations and out-stations, and nearly as many more preaching places; eight missionaries, sixty-three male and female assistant missionaries, and five native helpers; seven churches, and two hundred and ten church members; eight boarding and two day schools, embracing five hundred and fifty pupils, in various stages of their edu cation. The number of communicants in connection with these churches, has been more than doubled during the past year. The schools have had a larger number of pupils, and better attendance, than in former years; whilst most of the tribes, but especially those in the State of Michigan and in the South-Western Territory, are making most encouraging progress in every department of civilization. Missions in Africa. Mission in Siam. In Siam there is one mission, connected with which there are two ordained missionaries, one licensed preacher and physician, two assistant female missionaries, and one native helper; one boarding-school, with twenty-six pupils. The missionaries have sustained the usual religious services, and have devoted more time than usual to missionary tours in different parts of the country, and in some regions where the gospel has never before been heard. One of the missionaries is still engaged in the work of translating the Scriptures into Siamese. The report contains brief notices of large unevangelized communities, other than the Siamese, but who are accessible at Bangkok, and to whom the gospel ought to be preached. Missions to the Chinese. There are three missions in China, viz., at Canton, Ningpo, and Shanghai, and a mission to the Chinese in California. Connected with these missions there are fourteen ordained missionaries, two physicians, fifteen female missionary assistants; three native helpers; eight schools, with one hundred and seventy pupils; two printing presses, from which have issued upwards of 4,000,000 of pages. The missionaries have been actively employed in the various duties of preaching, translating, teaching, distributing religious books and tracts; and those of the medical profession in the duties of the dispensaries, in addition to their other labors. China is still suffering from the dreadful evils of civil war. How long this strife is to continue is known only to God. It should be the earnest prayer of the friends of the Redeemer, that it may be overruled for the advancement of his kingdom among this unhappy people. There are two missions in Africa; one in Liberia, which operates upon the colored American emigrants and the natives of the country; and the other at the Island of Corisco, twelve or fifteen hundred miles to the south and east of Liberia, and nearly under the equator, which operates exclusively upon the aboriginal population of that island and the neighboring continent. In connection with these missions, there are six stations, six ordained missionaries, three licensed preachers, nine male and female assistant missionaries, of whom eight are white persons, and the remainder colored emigrants from this country; seven schools, one of which is a classical school, with about one hundred and fifty pupils; five churches, and about one hundred and fifty church members, being an increase of about thirty over the number reported last year. One small volume has just been printed in the language spoken by the Corisco people; and most of the missionary brethren there are engaged in the study of the language, and will soon be able to proclaim the unsearchable riches of Christ to thousands of the people around them in their own tongue. Missions in India. Mission in South America. The only mission that has yet been established in South America is at Buenos Ayres; and this, though of only one year's continuance, has already received very encouraging tokens of the divine favor. Measures In India there are four missions, viz., have been adopted for the commencement Lodiana, Furrukhabad, Agra, and Allaha- of another mission at Bogota, the capital of bad; thirteen stations and out-stations; the Republic of New Granada; and it is twenty-six ordained missionaries, two of confidently hoped that both of these miswhom are natives of India; twenty-three sions may be reinforced at an early period, female assistant missionaries from this coun- and prove a great blessing to the inhabitants try; thirty-four native helpers: eleven of that country. churches, with two hundred and ninety-one communicants; four printing presses, from which have been issued over 8,000,000 of pages; thirty-six schools, several of which the Missions in Papal Europe. There are no missionaries in Europe under immediate direction of the Board. Recent Intelligence. Summary. JULF, Appropriations have been made to Evangel- | ministers, and one licensed preacher. These ical Societies, which are known to be pros- missionaries have free access to their brethecuting the work of evangelization with ren in all these places, and in many cases, it zeal, energy and wisdom; and the results is believed, with happy results. of their labors, especially in France and Italy, are most encouraging. The appropriations made by the Committee to these societies, including $4,827 88 contributed for the endowment of the theological seminary at La Tour during the year, have amounted to $12,613 98. Mission to the Jews. There are among the Jews in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, two ordained twenty separate missions are reported; 59 Besides what is done for papal Europe, ordained missionaries; 5 licensed preachers; 114 male and female assistant missionaries; 43 native helpers; 24 churches, and about 650 native communicants; 26 schools, and have been issued more than 12,000,000 of 6,596 pupils; 6 printing presses, from which pages during the year. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Recent Entelligence. CHOCTAWS.-At the last meeting of the Choctaw presbytery, held in April, reports were received from the different churches, showing that the number admitted thereto by profession during the previous year was 236. The additions to the churches connected with our mission amounted to 143. SANDWICH ISLANDS.-Messrs. Hitchcock and Baldwin, with their wives, arrived safely at the Islands in the Ocean Pearl, on the 31st of March, having sailed from Boston, November 28. STRONG'S ISLAND. A communication has been received from Mr. Snow, written at various times between September 19 and December 18. The small-pox has not been permitted to attack the inhabitants of this island as yet. Death, how. ever, is doing its work. King George expired on the 9th of September. A favorite son preceded him on the 21st of June; a younger brother followed him on the 7th of Novemher. The last himself as doing very well, having led a life that evening my heart was drawn out to of prayer for some time. At family worship plead for him with unwonted earnestness and importunity. My feelings were, “I cannot let thee go, except thou bless me. The church in my house poured out their souls with weeping for the King. The next morning I called to see him again, but found him sleeping. I called again after school, in a drenching rain, and found him in much with him, was more satisfactory than any pain, and weak. But the interview I had previous one. In my journal for that day I wrote, "The King says he feel no all same as before.' He thinks he has given every ed him. At evening worship all our little thing to Christ, and that Christ has acceptchurch led in prayer, not from any intention to do so when we bowed, but being led by the Spirit, as I trust. It was a dear little meeting for the disciples. Oh how glorious the Lord, and rejoicing in the glory of God! it would be to see this people turning unto O Lord, hasten it in thy time! three men to the three most important The following Sabbath, the King sent places on the large island to see that no work was done. This looked like a hope. was cut down very suddenly, having ruined him self by drinking kava The son was naturally mild and amiable; but he seemed to be inveter-ful beginning of a religious life, though he ately wedded to the old superstitions of the island; and his influence was adverse to the mission The following extract from Mr. Snow's letter, relating to King George, will be read with special gratification. I had done something of that sort before. When I went to hold a religious service with him, I found him in great bodily distress. prepared some black pepper tea for him, which soon relieved him, so that he was Though he was from the first deeply in-have me leave till I had prayed and talked able to sit up. He was quite unwilling to terested in religious truth, he utterly failed with him. Before I left, I inquired in reto see that he was a lost sinner till just one spect to his feelings. He replied, "This month before he died. I had never been so morning me feel first rate; last night at sensible of this defect before, and was led same.' ly, when the Spirit was thus teaching, lest I I thought it became me to walk softshould quench "the smoking flax." On the 20th of August, he told me that when he had been in very great pain, as soon as he could fix his thoughts on Christ, he was to illustrate my views in a variety of ways, such as he could most easily understand. To be told that he was lost, when apparently so near his end, evidently awakened his solicitude; for I suspect that he had regarded Sed preache ccess to the and in maya results. quite unconscious of his sufferings, for the joy he felt in thinking of Christ. He thought his sickness was not unto death, for he was not an old man yet, but felt himself to be in the prime of life. He seemed much interested in that idea of old Cyprian, I think it was, "Christ is a ladder to climb to God on." On the 27th of August, I spoke to him of baptism and the Lord's Supper. He expressed a strong wish to be baptized, as soon as it should be proper; but he preferred to wait till he could do it in the church, that his people might see the act. He was also desirous to partake of the holy Supper. There was no unfavorable change in his feelings, subsequently, that I am aware of. At one time he seemed delighted with the thought that, by and by, some of his people would be able to go to other islands. to tell them of Christ, as we were doing among his people. From all these things you may wonder why I should have a moment's doubt of the genuineness of the change wrought upon his heart. But from my long and very intimate acquaintance with him, I have felt obliged to look with much suspicion upon all his acts. His passion and his weakness were a desire to please every body, especially those whom he loved. I do not know, however, that he acted this double part in any of this last month's experience. But I greatly desired to see the genuineness of his hope put to the test of a practical life. Yet my confidence was so strong in him, that if I had thought his end was so near, I should have felt it my duty and my privilege to administer baptism and the holy Supper, ere he left us. I know you will excuse the particularity with which I have detailed the above. Much of deep interest to us has been left unsaid. The morning we learned of his death, and for a day or two before, the moistened eyes about the missionary's house seemed as when a beloved father is leaving for a better home. He was faithful to his promise, "I will be all same father to missionary." His dying charge to his son and the other chiefs was, "Take good care of the missionary." Mr. and Mrs. Pierson arrived at Honolulu, March 31, on their way to Strong's Island. “Our voyage," he says,' "was more than usually pleasant. Captain Sears did every thing in his power to make us comfortable and happy; and no danger was permitted to alarm us." We ble familiarity with the natives for impart ing religious truth, such as we could scarcely have had in any other way. have been triumphantly preserved from the machinations of foreigners. Our prayers have been answered in the non-arrival of a cargo of rum. But we have occasion for grief in the dreadful mortality; in the resistance which we have encountered in endeavoring to save lives; in the death of many scholars, and the total breaking up of our school, which we cannot recommence at present; in the destruction of Mr. Stur ges's house by fire; in the coldness of our own hearts; and in the total absence of life among the bones of the spiritual valley which we inhabit. We ask for the prayers of Christian friends. Another letter has been received from Dr. Gu lick, dated February 2. A number of sheets of an earlier date, however, have failed as yet to reach the Missionary House. CEYLON.-A letter from Mr. Smith, dated April 3, contains his report for the six months ending April 1. The missionary work at Panditeripo has been greatly interrupted by sickness and death. But though many have passed away on every side of him, only one church member (Susan S. Hunt) is of the number. 66 She was enabled to trust in her Savior," Mr. Smith writes, "and found sustaining grace in the hour of trial. She was educated at Oodooville." The schools have been broken up, fifty children that were in them having died. Much of the time, moreover, it has proved impracticable to assemble the people in any considerable numbers for religious worship. The effect of this visitation is not such as our missionary brother wished to see. He thinks, however, that superstition has a feebler hold upon the native mind than it had during the general prevalence of the cholera, nine years ago. One man has been received into Christian fellowship. "He has wished to unite with the church for several years." Mr. Burnell writes, April 5, that the cholera has so far disappeared from Manepy, as to justify the opening of the schools. The Sabbath schools have an attendance of more than one hundred and fifty. Several of the workmen in the printing office profess to be inquiring after the truth. "Mr. Poor is greatly mourned; and in one instance his death bas apparently been the means of awakening an excommunicated church mem ASCENSION ISLAND.-A letter has been re-ber to a new view of himself." Mr. Sanders has seen the ravages of disease on every hand. Prior to January 1, no one had The year 1854 is nearly closed. In the been taken from the Christian families at Chavareview of it, we have much for which to be gacherry; subsequently, however, and before the thankful. Our own lives have been pre-date of his letter, April 6, seven were cut down. served from disease and from the anger of the natives. We have saved many lives. Among them was Charles A. Goodrich, formerly Our character has been tried, and we have a native preacher. "He died under a cloud, greatly strengthened our influence. By the passing from the discipline of the visible church disease we have been brought into, admira- to the awards of Him who knoweth the heart." Recent Intelligence. Joseph Tilliampalam soon followed. "He had been a suspended church member for about three years, and did not give satisfactory evidence of repentance." Two persons have joined the church. The attention of one, a trader of industrious habits and increasing influence, was first arrested several years ago, when Mr. Whittlesey was at Chavagacherry; the impressions then received have never passed away." The other, Sarah Taylor, was once in the girls' school at Batticotta. AHMEDNUGGUR.-On the 31st of March, Mr. Ballantine wrote as follows: "On the 18th instant, Hurripunt baptized four adults, three of whom are females. One of these was long a member of Mrs. Ballantine's boarding school. The fourth is a young man, the nephew of the teacher of the Christian boys' school; and he has been a member of that school for more than a year. He has given up father, mother, and all earthly friends, and cast in his lot with the people of God. He promises to become a good teacher or catechist. To-morrow Ramkrishnapunt expects to baptize four persons; one of these also is a young woman who was trained up in the girls' boarding school. She and her husband have for a long time been desirous to come forward and profess Christ before men. I married them about a year ago. Thus God is adding to his churches here." ASSYRIA.-The Assyrian mission held its second annual meeting at Diarbekir in March last. Much of the time of the brethren was spent in examining candidates for admission to the privileges of the church. Twenty-four presented themselves, of whom seven were deemed worthy to belong to the body of Christ. The mission letter has the following statement in regard to the importance of reinforcements. We believe that the time for occupying Mardin has come. way JULY access, on all sides, to the Christian popula tion, as also a wide-spread spirit of inquiry among a people who buy more books than are sold elsewhere in the Turkish empire. The only limit to direct missionary labor is large Christian village, where are twenty strength. Across the river is Cutterbul, & Protestants, with several church members; and whenever a missionary can be spared for them, a congregation may be gathered almost as large as that of Mosul. It is, moreover, one of the most accommodating to be preached to in Turkish, Arabic, or ones in the world; for the people are ready Koordish, though they prefer the Arabic. the villages would be on all sides of DiarAnd Cutterbul is but a sample of what bekir, if the station were properly manned. BROOSA.-The Protestant church at Broosa is in deep affliction. Last year, as is well known, their house of worship was destroyed by fire; and in their deep poverty they raised some three thousand piastres to pay in part for rebuilding it. The enterprise had proceeded far towards its completion; and our brethren were rejoicing once more in their beloved sanctuary, though “a considerable debt" remained upon it, when a violent earthquake prostrated it to the ground. "Their case," Mr. Dwight says, "calls for deep sympathy from all the children of God. They were a united and happy people, devoted to the service of the Lord, having a pastor whose who was a real help-meet to her husband." It whole heart was in his work, with a pastor's wife will be supposed, of course, that the members of the Protestant community have suffered much in their private interests. Many shops and dwellings were thrown down; and a fire subsequently broke out, which did not a little damage. The loss of life was fearful. friends of the mission have been involved in these calamities, does not appear. To what extent the GABOON.-A letter from Mr. Best, dated JanChristian population, which would unques-at Olandebenk: "Preaching in the native lanIt contains a large uary 29, gives the subjoined account of his labors tionably soon become accessible to a resident missionary. Messrs. Marsh and Wguage has been regularly maintained at the sta liams spent the Sabbath there, on their tion on the Sabbath, and generally in one or more up, and preached for two hours to a congre- of the neighboring towns. The attendance has gation of fifteen or twenty, who were atten- usually been from forty to fifty. Sometimes the tive, and apparently ready to be disabused number has been greatly increased by strangers of the lies which they have heard concerning us. Two men are needed for Mardin. in town; and sometimes, owing to various causes, Diarbekir needs another man. It cannot it has been much less. About the middle of the be that the Prudential Committee realize year, there were indications of the special prethe importance and promise of this field. sence of the Holy Spirit. The members of the After Aintab and Constantinople, we be- school seemed deeply impressed by the truth. lieve it to be the most important and en- They met the missionaries daily for conversation couraging post in Western Asia. Here are and prayer. They prayed among and by thema church of eighteen members, a regular selves; and it was hoped that some of them had congregation of two hundred, and a large been born of the Spirit. But this state of things Protestant community, who, though necessarily left hitherto almost wholly to them- gradually passed away; and at the close of the selves in consequence of the station's being year we were left to mourn over the want of suf so feebly manned, have adhered to us in spite ficient evidence to justify us in receiving a single of severe oppression. Here is unrestricted individual to the fellowship of the church." From letters of a later date it appears that the Gaboon mission has been called to pass through another severe trial. On the 24th of February, Mrs. Pierce was released from her earthly service. On the following day she was buried from the church at Baraka, Messrs. Walker and Herrick having preached to the natives who were present. Though her decease was sudden and unexpected, she expressed her confidence in the Savior. Home Proceedings. MEETINGS IN BEHALF OF THE BOARD. A MEETING in behalf of the Board was held A similar meeting was held at the Tremont EMBARKATION. On the 9th of June, Rev. Ira F. Pettibone, of Rockton, Illinois, sailed from Boston for Smyrna in the Sultana, Captain Watson, with the design of joining the Constantinople station. He received his education at Union College and Andover. Three children of Mr. Goodell, and a daughter of Mr. William M. Thomson, sailed in the same vessel. One of the foriner, Miss Isabella Goodell, is expecting to aid the missionaries in their work. Dr. William Goodell contemplates a permanent residence at Constantinople as a physician. DONATIONS, RECEIVED IN MAY. Cumberland co. Aux. 8o. D. Evans, Tr. Portland, 2d do. m. c. 30,14; 3d do. 53,57; s. s. for Miss Cheney's 60 00 113 46 50 00-150 00 Winthrop, Mrs. Elizabeth Sewall to cons. Rev. JOTHAM B. SEWALL of Lynn, Ms. an H. M. Penobscot co. Aux. So. E. F. Duren, Tr. Bangor, Hammond st ch. 50; a friend, 20; s. s. miss. cir. for Gaboon m. wh. and prev. dona. cons. MARY S. POND York co. conf. of chs. Rev. G. W. Cressey, Tr. an H M. 50; Kennebunkport, South cong. ch. South Berwick, J. P. 45.00 120 00 1 00--46 00 666 17 Addison co. Aux. So. A. Wilcox, Tr. Orwell, Cong. so. 710 99 59 00 769 99 42 66 Burlington, Mrs. R. W. Francis, 100 00 Union Village, Young misses class for ed. Rutland co. Aux. So. J. Barrett, Tr. Windham co. Aux. So. F. Tyler, Tr. West Brattleboro', Ch. and so. Windsor co. Aux. So. J. Steele, Tr. 4 30 56 50 15 30-71 80 124 15 55 75-281 81 41 00 563 57 MASSACHUSETTS. 87 88-318 88 Tr. 11 00 13 00 Barnstable co. Aux. So. W. Crocker, Tr. |