received instruction by conversation and reading. His attention, of late, while the Word was preached, has called forth the observation of all who witnessed it. From the first, he seemed to be concerned about sin: and the way of Sal. vation through Christ is now, I trust, his only hope. He has been a Devotee for many years: for twelve years, he says, he stood with his arm uplifted; but, finding sin still reigning within him, he took a vow of standing for an other period of twelve years. The time of this vow would be completed in about three months; but this morning, I hope, is to witness his casting it off, instead of completing it. The poor man has found this a great struggle. For a long time he could not endure the thought of all that he had done being lost labour. At length he tried hard to comfort himself by the thought that it had led to his seeing me; which meeting has been, he says, the salvation of his soul. Recent Miscellaneous Entelligence. UNITED KINGDOM. Church Miss. Soc.-The Rev. A. N. Brown and his companions, appointed (see p. 158) to New Zealand, embarked at Gravesend, on the 25th of April, on board the Elizabeth, Captain Macdonald, for New South Wales Mr. Kitto, employed in the Printing Office at Malta, has returned home in the Maria, Captain Tregarthen. : Episcopal Floating Church-On the Morning of Good Friday, Divine Service was performed, for the first time and will be continued every Sunday; in the morning at halfpast ten, and in the afternoon at three. The vessel is moored opposite to Rotherhithe Church: a person, appointed by Government, has charge of it: he lives on board, with his family; and will always be ready to shew it to visitors. The Chaplain is the Rev. James Hough, late Chaplain on the Madras Establishment. The appointment is in Five Trustees: the present Trustees are, the Marquis of Cholmondeley, Lord Calthorpe, Lord Bexley, Edward H. Locker, Esq., and W. Williams, Esq. The vessel being moored on the Surrey side of the River, the Chaplain has been licensed by the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of London having first countersigned the nomination. A debt of 4001. has been contracted, and an income adequate to the maintenance of the establishment is not yet secured; but as the work has been entered on under the highest sanction, the public will doubtless afford liberal support to a design so excellent. WESTERN AFRICA. Church Miss. Soc.-The Missionaries have latterly enjoyed better health than at many former periods. We regret, however, to state, that they have sustained another loss, in the death of Mrs. Gerber, wife of the Rev. John Gerber. After confinement on the 28th of November, she recovered gradually till the 11th of December, when a change for the worse took place, which ended, in her death on the 16th. She was a Native of Germany. Divine Grace had prepared her for her departure, and her end was peace. Her remains were interred, the same evening, at Wellington. MEDITERRANEAN. American Board The Rev. Rufus Anderson, one of the Assistant Secretaries of the Board, has arrived at Malta, in pursuance of the design stated at pp. 41, 154, 155. He was about to embark for Greece, with the Rev. Eli Smith, one of the Missionaries of the Board. American Episc. Miss.- The Rev. Mr. Robertson, sent to the Mediterranean by the Missionary Society of the American Episcopal Church, was about to accompany Messrs. Anderson and Smith from Malta to Greece. His first object will be to report to the Society what has already been done for Greece in respect of Missionary Labours, and his views of the method in which the Society may most beneficially exert itself in behalf of that country. Church Miss. Soc. The labours of Mr. Jowett, in respect of Maltese Translation, have been deprived of the able aid of Signior Vassali, who died on the 12th of January. Wesleyan Miss. Soc.-Mr. Keeling has obtained the sanction of the Governor for the establishment of a Charity School at Malta, and authority to print a Maltese and English Spelling-book. JAPAN. Morrison's Chinese Dict.-It is a curious fact, stated in a Journal published at Canton, that Japanese Translators are rendering Dr. Morrison's Chinese Dictionary into the Japanese vernacular dialect. The arrangement of the alphabetical part of the Dictionary pleases the Natives so much, that it has become fashionable, at Nangasaki, to write a column of characters, with their definitions, on fans, and present them to friends. INDIA BEYOND THE GANGES. American Bapt. Miss.-The death of Dr. Price at Ava (see p. 158) took place on the 12th of February of last year: his disease was pulmonary consumption-Dr. Judson writes, on the 3d of May, from Maullaming, that he had baptized Six Burmese since the beginning of the year, and hoped that as many more had cordially embraced Christianity : the inquiry and excitement were evidently increasing. A New Station had been formed at Tavoy, and was occupied by Mr. Board man. INDIA WITHIN THE GANGES. Calcutta-We regret to learn, that the Rev. T. T. Thomason, having resumed the charge of the Old Church on his return to Calcutta, was attacked by severe indisposition. The Rev. Henry Goode, who had been in charge of the Old Church during Mr. Thomason's visit home, had proceeded to the Cape for the recovery of his own health. The Rev. Deocar Schmid, Chaplain of the Female Orphan Asylum, and assiduously engaged in the furthering of Missionary Objects, departed from his labours on the 3d of December. Deaths at Bombay-The Chief Justice, Sir Edward West, died on the 18th of August, and Lady West on the 15th of October. To these deaths are to be added those of Sir C. H. Chambers, one of the Puisne Judges; and of Mrs. Hawtayne, Lady of the Archdeacon: she departed in much peace, casting herself wholly on the Saviour of Sinners. The death of the Judges is a great public loss: they were able and upright men, and favoured the plans which are in progress for the benefit of the Natives. Sir C. H. Chambers, in particular, was the decided and steady friend to every Institution for propagating the know ledge of the Gospel: he had always presided at the Annual Church Missionary Meetings, and took the chair at the last Bible Society Meeting previous to his death: his depar ture was so sudden, that no one saw him except his own family and his medical attendants: his eloquent Address in reference to the labours and death of Bishop Heber, printed at pp. 587-589 of ourVolume for 1826, may be re-perused with melancholy pleasure. POLYNESIA. London Miss. Soc.- Mr. Buzacott, after remaining (see p. 128) at Otaheite upward of five months, writes, on the 1st of April of last year, from Rarotonga, that he had reached his Station; and had found Mr. Williams and his family in good health; but Mr. and Mrs. Pitman indisposed, though recovering. CONTRIBUTIONS TO CHURCH MISS. SOC. BY ASSOCIATIONS & COLLECTORS, From Dec. 16, 1828, to April 20, 1829. [Totals and Grand Totals appear in our pages: particulars, with Benefactions, are given in the Society's Monthly Paper.] Aberdare, Glamorganshire..... Present. Total. L. s. d. L. s. d. 600.. 600 ASSOCIATIONS. Calverley, Yorkshire.. Camberwell, Peckham, Dulwich, and Brixton...... Camborne, Cornwall. Cambridge, Town, County, and University........ Cardiff &c...... Carlisle................................ Carmarthen.. Carshalton and Croydon..... Chelmsford and West-Essex... Chester and Cheshire........ Chichester and West-Sussex... Christ Church, Newgate Street, Clapham.. Clare, Suffolk.. Clerkenwell Clifton-on-Dunsmore.... Colchester and East-Essex.... Coleshill.... Cornwall, East...... Coventry Cricklade Curry Rivell, Somersetshire... Darlington. Darton, Yorkshire........ Denbighshire and Flintshire... Derbyshire.... Devon and Exeter........ 1102 16 1.33,324 17 9 45 3 4 .. 994 7 10 53 10 8 .. 4427 8 4 84 10 T.. 470 4 4 18 13 2.. 124 3 5 6 11 10.. 21 16 Devonport... Dudley Edinburgh Auxiliary Emberton.. Evesham... Folkingham, Lincolnshire.... Fowey Glasbury, Brecon Grittleton, Wiltshire......... Guildford and Vicinity. Harrow 11 0 0 .. 75 19 9.. 38 22.. 20 70.. 12 0 0 .. 4 12 0.. 27 14 9.. 1646 18 9 T 15 0.. 153 7 4 863 2 1.11,214 14 2 900.. 49 12 5 690.. 17 06 56 10 0.. 4475 7 S 109 12 3 .. 2084 9 6 223 00.. 2047 0 0 .1270 10 4.. 3469 16 10 10 2 0.921 19 5 112 14 10.1145 5 1 10 5 6 95 3 0 23 1 0.. 23 1 0 134 13 Hay, Brecon 8 108 12 0.. 492 0 3 1 24.. 91 18 2 325 0 0 .. 9100 0 11 27 17 0.. 27 17 0 160 11 10 .. 3619 19 10 26 14 4.. 202 15 4 360 1641 8 1 207 10 0 .. 771 8 2 262 4 7.3880 15 0 50 0 0 1901 4 6 31 3 7. 1060 14 0 234 5 3.. 4838 6 3 28 10 6.. 108 7 4 127 1 & .. 2754 8 10 26 12 0.. 369 5 0 214 9 7. 6345 6.2 58 5 0.. 317 4 6 90 15 9 .. 243 10 2 88 18 3 .. 1753 6 0 30 6 5 100 65 116 0 0 553 7 3 135 15 9 50 0 0.. 50 0 0 152 11 6 724 16 1 Hibernian Auxiliary Lamphey and Pembroke... Leeds..... Leicestershire ... Liddington-cum-Caldecot..... Liskeard Little Stukeley, Hunts Liverpool & West-Lancashire.. Louth... Lyme Regis and Charmouth... Lympsham'. Malmsbury. Manchester & East-Lancashire, 0.. 1380 I I 2..22,862 7 2 18 17. 143 6 3 228 1 10.. 4626 14 6 284 12 11 9337 8 4 241 14 7.. 1331 19 8 35 14 33 16 1.. 216 18 3 34 16 8.. 1022 8 3 12 2 0 .. 678 13 9 398 11 0 .. 8525 14 0 68 09. 1254 3 10 55 19 1.. 1831 13 7 36 15 3 78 8 3 75 0 0 3142 4.. 76 14 10 T 25 11 264 O 0.8116 19 6 411 10 10.11,358 10 14 200 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. [1829. Mark Martock, Somersetshire....... Melcombe Horsey & Cheselbourne, 8 0 0..109 0 0 Melksham.. Milford, Pembrokeshire....... Monmouth and Vicinity 61 6 0 121 15 2 265 5 11 557 13 6 39 3 3 307 6 6 Nazing and Royden, Essex... 2 0 0.. 96 13 2 COLLECTIONS. Newark and Vicinity Newcastle-upon-Tyne 43 417 1 6.. 320 10 8 8 10.. 3162 15 8 5.13,824 3 7 7.6736 10 T 483 4 0 677 12 7 30 0 0.. 20 6 0 68 0 0.. 480 9 7 191 50.. 2306 7 T 523 610 Betts, Mrs John, King's Langley.. 0 18 Bird, Mrs, Kenilworth.. Carrington, Mrs, (Contents of Mission Box)... Carter, Mr R., Aldersgate St...... City Sunday-School.. Davis, Miss, King Swinford 12 00.. 616 1 16 70 15 6 0.. 61 4 8 1 16 2.. 990.. 2 35 9 0 4 16 0.. 25 0 6 4 7 10.. 4 7 10 3 13 0.. 48 11 0 1 00.. 14 5 0 6 16 Dell, Miss, Kilburn..... 60 18 10 25 00 135 0 44 0 496 33 10 6.. 33 10 6 65 00.. 2871 3 6 296 4 11 5331 1 11 22 7 8 1213 " 1 8 540.. 540 3 0 0.. 600 9 17 6.. .301 8 10 245 0 0 8263 19 0 1808 19 0 5 60.. 92 2 6 50 13 4 3316 0 7 50 0 0 .. 900 0, 0 15.. 228 16 3 7 2 3.. 189 2 8 27 0 0 .. 383 11 6 800.. 44 7 5 18 18 0.. 112 15 8 3 11 6.. 10 15 10 41 0 4 674 16 2 68 16 0.. 529 12 130 0 4 564 17 3 40 4 10. 1125 16 11 20 0 0 .. 114 16 100 17 0 1139 12 43 8 0.. 43 8 0 5 12 4.. 5 12 4 4 9 4.. 494 70 0 0.. 1214 5 5 18 8 6 426 10 6 20 15 6.. 742 18 4 89 13 4 .. 359 17 1 2 6 8 Heather, Mrs, Bishop's Waltham. ... 0 13 0 400 500.. 32 6.. 0 14 0.. 1 18 6.. 400.. 1.5 6.. Ladies, Young, at Miss Kennion's School, Mecklenburgh sq., 2 Lake, Rev. Edward, Worcester.. 14 Lamb, Mrs, Stretton 213 O 38 2 0 5 0 0 36 16 2 1 1 6 48 0 2 4 0 0 4 15 0 0 1 0 0 0.. 0.. 0 .. 2 0 0 416 16 7 219 2 2 19 0.. 26 13 4 45 1 0 18 2 0 14 0.. 11 16 G 200.. 14 14 3 Landon, Miss, Aberford ........ Sincere Wellwisher, Wigan.... 8 116 10 0 1 4 0 3 40.. 23 00.. 294 11 1 400.. Sutton, Miss S.. Rowde..... 1 2 0 11 9 0 1 2 0 659 7 1 5 5 8 Vol. 1828: Contents, under American Board of Missions, for Prospects of Usefulness in Grace, read Prospects of Usefulness in Greece-p. 141, 1. 20 from the bottom, for Aingenberg, read Klingenberg-p. 143, 1. 2, for 21.152 as the total of Slaves, read 21,552-p. 508, col. 2, the passage quoted as from Mr. Robertson was from Mr. Burton-p. 530, Mr. Ashmun died Aug. 25, 1928; not Aug. 10. Missionary Register. MAY, 1829. Biography. THREE YOUNG NATIVE CONVERTS. OBITUARY OF KANYA, A HINDOO. THE following account of the happy death of this Youth is extracted from a communication, dated on the 3d of April of last year, relative to the proceedings of Anund Messeeh, a Native Teacher, under the Church Missionary Society, at Kurnaul, in the vicinity of Delhi. The first fruit of Anund's labour, I believe I have not yet communicated. A young lad named Kanya, about 17 years of age, the son of a Naïck, became one of Anund's scholars; and eagerly received the doctrines of the Christian Religion. He was taken seriously ill, and ultimately died. In the course of his trying sickness, Anund was continually with him; and, at the youth's own earnest request, used to pray for him and with him to the Blessed Saviour of sinners' souls. On the day of his death he was listening, with intense delight, to Anund's conversation, respecting the pardon of sin and the Lamb of God. His weeping mother entreated him, now that death was near, to pray to Devi Bowanee: with apparent disgust and indignation, he replied, in his native language, "I want not Devi Bowanee! Eessa! Eessa! Anund," said he, turning faintly to wards him, "Pray! Ah! Eessa, Eessa: from Him I shall receive salvation." With such expressions as these upon his dying lips, he closed his eyes and expired. The parents came up to Anund when they found that he was dead; and, with the tears streaming down their cheeks, exclaimed-" Our boy was not willing that we should burn him. Our boy has died in your faith, and it is better that he should be buried by Christian hands." May, 1829. Anund replied, that he would bury him after the form of our Church; but, as Kanya had not been baptized, he would not take him to the Christian Burialground. He was at once requested to do so, and the parents and crowds of their friends attended the funeral, while Anund committed his body to the earth in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal Life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. OBITUARY OF RURE, A NEW ZEALANDER. Mr. John King, of the Church Missionary Society, in a Letter of October 1827, from New Zealand, gives the following particulars— Rure lived with Mr. Hall until he removed to Port Jackson; and then with ine until his death, which took place on the 14th of August. I believe that his soul is gone to rest. Formerly he used, he said, to disbelieve all that was said about Jesus Christ, and believed Jehovah to be a very angry God; but, about five months before his death, the Word of God came with power, and made him tremble and be much afraid. From that time he began to pray, and seek the Lord in earnest; and has given satisfactory evidence of his being a brand plucked out of the burning: he prayed, as our Natives observed, night and day to God for the pardon of his sins, and to wash his soul in the blood of Christ, and to prepare his soul for heaven, and for a new and good heart, and not to permit him to go to hell, but to take his soul to heaven. He had peace and joy, at times, in believing, as well as fears and doubts at others. Our Natives were surprised to see him so calm and cheerful in the prospect of death and labouring under bodily pain, and say that he is gone to heaven, for they remarked that his end was peace. 2 D MEMOIR OF JOHN ARCH, A CHEROKEE. The death of this Young Man, with a few particulars, will be found noticed at p. 549 of our Volume for 1825. The American Board of Missions have lately published a Memoir, the substance of which we shall here lay before our Readers. John Arch was born about the year 1797. His mother died when he was very young; and his father taught him scarcely any thing, except to hunt deer and other wild animals of the forest. When he had become fully instructed in the art of hunting, and old enough to travel all day through the woods with a gun on his back, his father bought him a good rifle, and bade him seek his own support. He was remarkably successful in hunting, always killing more game than his companion, and received a great deal of praise whenever he returned to the village: it was customary for two to hunt in company, though each retained without division whatever game he had himself acquired. The last year which he spent as a hunter, however, he had a poor gun, and then his companion succeeded better than himself; which so mortified him, that he was ashamed to return home, and resolved to hunt no more. In speaking of this period of his life, five years afterward, he said, the world then appeared empty and vainlife seemed a burden. A deep melancholy seized upon his spirits, and nothing could afford him relief. This was in the year 1818, when he was about twentyone years of age. Going, soon after, with several of his countrymen, to Knoxville, in East Tennessee, he there met one of the Assistant Missionaries among the Cherokees. The Missionary soon perceived that John was desirous of learning to read, and advised him to apply for admission to the school at Brainerd. He was so much interested in the prospects thus opened before him, that he could not wait to revisit his home; but travelled through the woods, nearly a hundred miles, to the late Mr. Hicks's-well known to the patrons of the Cherokee Mission, as an excellent Christian Chief; and there inquired the way to the Missionary School. His dress and appearance, when he came to Brainerd, shewed at once that he belonged to the most uncultivated portion of his tribe: he had spent so many years in savage life, that the Missionaries received his application with reluctance; but, having heard his story, and noticed the marks of intelligence consented to take him on trial. He inwhich his countenance exhibited, they formed them, that, having lived on the borders of North Carolina, and near the white people, he had attended school a short time when quite young, and had learned the letters of the alphabet. After his removal from school, he studied his spelling-book till it was worne out, and had ever since desired to learn to read; but, being too poor to support himself at school, and having worne out his book, he had relinquished the hope of learning, and nearly forgotten all that he had known. He once travelled to Washington, where he received some tokens of kindness from Mr. Madison, then President of the United States: but it was the state of despondency, into which he had been thrown by his unprosperous pursuit of the chase during one whole hunting season, which was the principal cause of his looking for enjoyment beyond the confines of his native forests; and it was his interview with the Missionary at Knoxville, which had led him to determine on cultivating his mind at school. His views on religious subjects, before and after his coming to Brainerd, as he subsequently described them to one of the Missionaries, were as follows He always believed, that there was a "Great Being above," but supposed that He took little or no notice of His creatures here below. With regard to man, his prevailing impression was, that when he died he ceased to exist, and that there was no future state. He had heard it said, however, that men lived after death, and that the good went to a place of happiness, and the bad to a place of misery; and he sometimes thought this might be true: but he was persuaded, he said, if this was true, he must go to the place of misery; for he was bad, and had no idea that his character could be changed. Not long after his coming to Brainerd, he was convinced that there was a future state of rewards and punishments; but he saw not how any, who had been once sinners, could be pardoned and saved. On this account, he became very much distressed: and the more he saw of his own sinfulness, the more distressed he was; until he began to wish that he had never known any of these things. He had, indeed, heard the Missionaries say that the greatest of sinners could be saved through the blood of Christ; but he did not believe it: in his apprehension it seemed plain, that the sinner could not become holy, and thus gain |