ners an H. M. 51,63; Syracuse, pres. ch. juv. miss. so. 10; Texas Valley, Mrs. D. 50e.; Troy, la. benev. sew. so. 32,50; Utica, orphan asylum children, 2,54; Valatie, pres. ch. 40; ded. dona. refunded, 15; Legacies.-Robert McFarland, wh. cons. NEW JERSEY. Board of For. Miss. in Ref. Dutch ch. C. S. 1,656 44 Grand Rapids, Hastings, 50 00 1,706 44 Three Rivers, Kalamazoo, Pres. ch. Mill Point, 19,94; s. s. 1,50; Schoolcraft, Washtenaw Presbytery, W. C. Voorhies, Tr. Ann Arbor, Pres. ch. 25,06; m. c. Little, Tr. 7,26; 32 32 600 Saline, Pres. ch. 40 05 8 12 25.00 Webster, do. (of wh. for Microne- 33 00 Ypsilanti, Pres. ch. 8.00-113 37 40 13-79 25 Elizabethtown, 3d pres. ch. m. c. 19,42; Fairfield, pres. ch. s s. 7; Hanover, 1st pres. ch. 60; Orange, 1st pres. ch. 312,93; E. Starr, 25; 2d pres. ch. 126,84; Wantage, 1st pres. ch. 56,50; Legacies.-Orange, Amos S. Baldwin, FENNSYLVANIA. Athens, Pres. ch. m. c. 11,62; Danville, Mrs. McG. 5; Girard, pres. ch. (N. S.) 10; Harrisburg, 1st pres. ch. m. c. 55,56; pres. ch. m. c. 14,66; Hartsville, st pres. ch. 91,25; Hawley, pres. ch. 12; Meadville, do. 10; Montrose, pres. ch. 100: Philadelphia, 1st pres. ch. a lady, 25c.; Pittsburg, pres. ch. of Mincesville, 24,30; Reading, pres. ch. 10; Smithfield, cang. ch. 15; Fon du Lac, Wm. Leith, 11; Mrs. B. B. W. MISSOURI. St. Louis, 1st ch. mater. asso. for Artemas OREGON TERRITORY. Oregon City, Cong. ch. m. c. IN FOREIGN LANDS, &c. M. 27 35 2.00 100 00 27 05 10 00 100 00 50 00 287 05 1,216 46 $10,395 49 $20,837 63 Donations received in September, 9,179 03 TOTAL from August 1st to CHILDREN'S FUND FOR EDUCATING 66 75 137 23 DONATIONS IN CLOTHING, &c. Brooklyn, N. Y. A box from Armstrong juv. 111 75 Montreal, C. E. A box, fr. Sarah E. Foote 25 00 George Merriam. 10.00 68 22 33 00 50 00 Sandwich Eslands. LETTER FROM MR. COAN, JULY 31, 1855. The Ministry prized at Kau. THE history of this station, on the southern end of Hawaii, must be familiar to the readers of the Herald. The death of Mr. Kinney, after having labored there for six years, was mentioned in the number for December, 1854. A letter of Mr. Paris, published in the number for August, 1855, brought the necessities of the bereaved flock distinctly before us. Hence it will be gratifying to all, doubtless, to know that the vacancy has been filled, Mr. Shipman having gone thither at the request of the brethren at the Islands, instead of proceeding to Micronesia, which was his original destination. This letter describes his introduction to the people of Kau as their pastor; and it also states some other facts which will deepen the interest of the Americaa churches in this remote station. Mr. Coan left Oahu on the 11th of June, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Shipman, Mrs. Kinney and others. The arrival of the party at Kau, and the most important events which followed, are mentioned in the subjoined extract: After a nine days' rocking and tossing in our sea-cradle, we were landed on the most southern cape of Hawaii, twenty miles from Waiohinu. This is a thirsty and sterile spot, inhabited only by three or four families of fishermen; but we had no sooner trod the shore, than we were met by numbers of people from the inland villages, with horses, pack-bullocks, &c., to help us up to the station. The 23 VOL. LI. cavalcade started about two o'clock in the afternoon, and reached a comfortable native village at dark. Here we spent the night, and were most hospitably entertained by the people. Three fat turkeys, with kalo and potatoes, were cooked, on which we all supped heartily. In the morning I preached to about one hundred people in a stone meeting-house reached Waiohinu about ten o'clock in near by. This was Saturday, and we all the morning. Here we remained ten days, during which time we were all busily engaged in labors, both secular and spiritual. The natives welcomed their new teachers joyfully; and with the desolate widow they wept tenderly at the memory of the departed. Organizing themselves into companies, they brought up Mr. Shipman's furniture from the vessel, and took down Mrs. Kinney's to go to Oahu, without charge. With a noble cheerfulness, such as would do honor to the most civilized Christians, they put their horses, their donkeys, their bullocks, their hands and their shoulders to the work. We spent two Sabbaths in Kau. On the first of these Sabbaths, Mr. and Mrs. Shipman were introduced to the church and congregation, he giving them an appropriate address. This was followed by counsels and a charge, when all the church officers came forward, and gave and received, with mutual pledges, the right hand of fellowship. The whole scene was solemn, tender and impres A Blessing that burdens. sive. The following week was spent in recent developments at this point, to anticipate a great variety of labors. Out-stations a more rapid spread of light and truth among the were visited for preaching; meetings for Chinese, than we should have dared to expect a church discipline, for inquirers, for con- short time since. sultation, prayer, &c., were held; and preparations were made to celebrate the Lord's supper on the following Sabbath. Mrs. Kinney, with all her cares, met the females, and was in almost daily consultation with the dear people with whom she had so patiently labored for seven years. Sabbath came, and a large con-dows of heaven, and pour you out a gregation assembled from all parts of Kau. A few, who had long been candidates, were received to the church, and the Lord's supper was administered. The opening paragraphs of this letter have a significance that is very unusual. They are as follows: The promise is, "I will open the win blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it." Have any of the missions of the Board ever complained that they were overwhelmed with so By previous arrangement, a contribu- great a favor? For many past months tion was taken up, amounting to one such has been our case, to so great a hundred and sixty dollars. This the degree as to cause our hearts to be bur people designed as a donation and a last dened. Not that we have not room token of love to Mrs. Kinney and her enough in them, small as they are; for fatherless children. The church officers we cannot but desire, pray and labor requested my opinion on the appropri- that the blessing may be increased a ation, stating that they felt indebted to thousand fold. Not that there is not the deceased pastor; that they had re-room enough in our church; for we served this gift, hoping for his return would rejoice to welcome hundreds and from California; that God had taken him thousands of souls fleeing from the wrath from them; but, as they still cherished to come. Nor is it, as regards the perhis memory, as they were indebted for his labors, as they loved the desolate widow and the bereaved children, and as they had consecrated this offering to them, they wished it thus appropriated. They were assured that their desires and decision were not only right, but highly commendable, and that the value of the donation was greatly enhanced by the occasion, the manner in which and the feelings with which it was given. After the collection was taken, and its amount announced to the congregation, a vote was taken as to its appropriation, when the whole assembly unanimously confirmed the decision of the church session, and the money was passed over to Mrs. Kinney. * On the next day,” Mr. Coan says, "bidding ishing need of this people, that there is not room enough for a manifold greater blessing; for, alas! the dense mass around us are as ignorant of God, and as far from him, and as perfect slaves of sin and Satan, as ever. Still we are straitened. Our hands are too feeble, our strength too weak, our time too limited, as we are situated, to care for and gather in the precious fruit of the blessing which the Lord has poured out upon us. What the harvest might have been, had there been laborers according to our need, we cannot tell. We have seen and tasted the grace of God, and been made glad. Still we are constrained to indulge the humbling and sorrowful feeling that, had there been small degree to the necessity of the teachers and preachers adequate in some case, we might have witnessed much greater things than we have seen. We fear there has been a perishing of the harvest, because the laborers were so few. Some awakened souls have again gone to sleep in sin. Some, who began to feel after God, have ceased to stretch forth their hands. Some, who seemed THE brethren at Amoy are still permitted to ensnared by Satan. Some, who appeared almost clean escaped, have again been report favorably in respect to their work. The almost to enter the narrow gate, have Lord has been pleased to vouchsafe his presence ceased to strive. And over some, who to them in a very remarkable manner. Other were running well in the way of the missionaries at Amoy are participating in the Lord, the Tempter has gained an advan blessing; and we are fairly authorized, by the tage, and we have to mourn their fall. adieu to brother and sister Shipman, the rest of our party, nine in number, set out for Hilo, where we arrived on the 5th of July." Amoy. ÅLETTER FROM MR. DOTY, JUNE 25, 1855. Routine of Labor. The Sabbath congregation in the mission church, Mr. Doty says, will probably average two hundred and fifty; the chapel connected with the dwelling of Mr. Talmage has an audience, each Lord's day, varying from sixty to one hundred. Nearly one-third of those who assemble in both places, are women. The school consists at present of twenty-one boys and eight girls as regular pupils, most of whom have been baptized. Mr. Talmage devotes special care to this little nursery of the church; and to this end it has been removed to his house. The subjoined extract will give the reader some idea of the heavy responsibility which our brethren have been obliged to bear within the last few months. timid must be strengthened and encouraged. Those who seem to be indulging a hope of salvation on insufficient ground, must have their danger pointed out. There may be those, heartily sincere and earnest, who, in their imperfect conceptions of the spirituality of the religion of Jesus, place too great a reliance upon the ordinances of the gospel. Others, again, may have advanced no further than to a mental conviction of the truth of the gospel, with little sense of sin or need of a spiritual work in the heart. Accessions to the Church. Since the letter of Mr Talmage, dated August, 1854, which will be found in the Herald for February, 1855, twenty-eight persons have been received into Christian fellowship at Amoy. In respect to those previously admitted, Mr. Doty says, "We continue to enjoy much comfort and assistance." "A disposition to be useful, and a readiness to put forth personal effort, prevad." Among those who have been received into the church within the past year, there are a few who may become efficient helpers in the missionary work. Mr. Doty makes the following statement in reregard to Chidh-bé, a place which is destined to become familiar to the friends of missions. Meeting with inquirers and candidates has been our most solemn work and most pressing duty. For about one year and a half, each Friday has been devoted to more direct and personal contact with souls, as regards their individual experience. The interview has seldom occupied less than three hours; often it has been four, and even more. Yet we have not seen the time when we could say, "We have got through this work of personal examination and instruction." Here we have been oppressed with the burdened feeling, "The blessing is The work at Chiòh-bé continues to greater than there is room to receive it." afford us much encouragement, while it It is here that we have been constrained also is a source of increased care and to groan, on account of our utter inability labor. Of the fruits, seven males were to give that time and strength, which the admitted to baptism and the ordinance importance of the work demanded. Could of the Lord's supper, administered for we have devoted unitedly our whole the first time in that place January 7, time and energy to only this one part of 1855. At our second communion season, our various duties and labors, we could March 4, seven more were received to have been wholly and profitably occu-church-fellowship. Of these, one was a pied. Inquirers, usually to the number widow aged sixty-five years. By her of twenty, thirty, forty, or more have assembled on these occasions. Of such a number it is utterly impossible, at any one meeting, to speak personally with more than a small minority, so as to find out their individual circumstances, and instruct them accordingly. Again and again have the great majority had to go away, saddened with disappointment, to come again and again. marriage, and by the marriage of her only daughter, she is connected with Mandarin families of considerable note. Her attention was first arrested by a visit from one of our Amoy female members, the first woman baptized here, and, so far as we know, the first Chinese female publicly baptized in China. Our old Amoy woman induced the Chiòh-bé one to come to the chapel and hear the gosOur treating with persons just emerg-pel. Her attention was awakened, and ing from the darkness of heathenism, as she became at once a constant and earto their souls' condition, and their right nest hearer. Soon she was not content to church fellowship, is a different thing to hear alone, but used her influence to from what pastors and church officers induce others to join her in hearing the do with those who have been born, and Word. She has encountered much ophave ever lived, in the full blaze of gos- position, especially from her daughter, pel light. This deep soul-darkness can who, priding herself on her high family be removed only by much watchful care connection, regarded her mother's change and diligent instruction. The weak and of religious views as a degradation. But there has been no hesitation on the part such entreaties? What answer will of the mother. She seems to possess an those young men make, who are just unusual degree of mental strength and buckling on their armor and professedly independence, and throws all her influ-longing for the time and opportunity to ence on the side of Christ and the gospel. Chiefly through her efforts and example, there are quite a number of females who have become regular hearers of the gospel, some of whom are professed (if not hopeful) inquirers. At our last communion in May we did not receive any accession to our number of disciples. This was not, however, because there were no hopeful candidates, but chiefly for want of time for a full and thorough examination. There are still a number concerning whom we have much encouragement. Some of these, it is probable, will be soon received. The joy of our brethren, however, has been mingled at times with feelings of an opposite character. Three of their Amoy members have incurred the discipline of the church, one in its extremest form; and a native assistant, in addition, has been displaced for a time from his office as a helper. But in all this they can feel that no strange thing has happened unto them. Appeal for Missionaries. It will be inferred from the foregoing statements that there is need of additional laborers in the field which is occupied by this mission. The subjoined appeal is certainly deserving of the thoughtful consideration of those who are particularly addressed. enter upon the world-wide conflict for Christ and the salvation of men? Again, we need a good physician; not one so enamored of his profession as to regard everything out of the line of the healing art as beyond his province; but one who will esteem it a privilege to be the "beloved physician" to his brethren and their families, whether foreign or native; glad also to alleviate suffering humanity as he may have opportunity, and yet aiming at the higher privilege of apply ing the gospel balm to sin-diseased souls. Canton. LETTER FROM MR. MACY, AUGUST 7, 1855. Progress made in six Years. MR. MACY sailed for Canton in November, 1854, and joined the brethren who were stationed there in the following spring. He had had some personal knowledge of this missionary field at an earlier day; and he noticed with particular care, therefore, the changes which had taken place since his first acquaintance with it. He speaks of these changes in the following extract. In the early part of 1849, there were services at two missionary hospitals, and possibly occasional ones at Dr. Ball's, The town of Chiòh-bé and its imme-infrequent and thinly attended. The diate environs doubtless contains a hearers of the gospel were certainly, for greater number of souls than are in all the Sandwich Islands, according to the highest recent estimates. Are we asking too much of the church of our Lord to send at least two men to occupy this field? Two men ought now to be there, with hearts burning with love for Christ and souls, and tongues unloosed and never tiring in holding forth the Word of life. the most part, the patients and their friends in these hospitals. As we passed through the streets to the residences then just secured by the missionaries, outside of the limits of the factories, we were met with constant marks of insult and ill-will. The six years have witnessed the opening of at least five chapels; religious services are not now confined to At the lowest reckoning, two the Sabbath, but are held on every day more men should be joined to us in of the week, at one place or another; Amoy, to break ground in the city and and the personal bearing of the people, in places contiguous, where enough of though not as agreeable as we could the truth has been heard to awaken an wish, is yet greatly improved. The interest and create a desire for instruc- name tion. Think too of partially awakened persons coming twenty, thirty, and even forty miles from different quarters, and pleading for some one to go and preach to them and their villages the everlasting gospel! For want of ability, we have been compelled to refuse a compliance with their wishes. What answer will the church of the Lord Jesus make to ever "foreign devil" is constantly heard; but it has ceased to be opprobrious in most cases, and is scarcely coupled with such words as "kill," "crush," &c., so constantly heard in previous years. At the various chapels and preaching places, eight in number, there is in general no lack of hearers. The throngs which fill the streets, are easily induced to enter and sit awhile |