American Board of Missions—

CIRCULATION OF BOOKS-This has become an important object with the Missionaries, and the field opened before them for this kind of labour is almost boundless. A number of appropriate Tracts, exposing the errors of the Catholics and the Brahmins, have been prepared by them. They have also put into circulation many Bibles, Testaments, or por-`

tions of them. The people now listen more attentively when they are read, receive them when given, and often solicit them. Mr. Spaulding, on one tour to the pearl-fishery, at Condachy, dis-. tributed 170 Portions of Scripture, besides New Testaments, Psalters, Catechisms, and 7000 Tracts; and remarked that he might have disposed of 20,000, as well as the 7000.

Indian Archipelago.

STATIONS-LABOURERS -NOTITIA.

BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

Sumatra-Mr. Ward still remains at Padang," diligently occupied," the Committee report, 66 in preparing a new and idiomatic version of the Malay Scriptures; a work much needed, and for which his long residence in Sumatra and his habits of indefatigable research well qualify him. He is preparing, at the same time, a Malayan Dictionary; to which will be annexed the information that he has acquired respecting the Batta, the Neas, and the Poggy Languages, of which little, if any thing, has yet been

known in Europe. While Mr. Ward is thus acting as a pioneer, to facilitate the future entrance of the Heralds of Salvation into these distant regions, he has the additional gratification of rendering this service without charge to the Society; certain arrangements of a commercial nature affording him the opportunity of suspending his drafts on the Mission Fund, without depriving him of the time requisite for his higher and more important avocations "-P. 41.

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

Batavia: 1814; revived 1819-Walter H. Medhurst; W. Young, As.; with Nat. As. Mr. Medhurst has English Service on Sunday Mornings; after which he preaches to about 300 convicts quartered near the town, who seem to receive his ministrations with gratitude: in the afternoon he preaches in Malay in the Dutch Church; and, on Wednesday Evenings, in the Mission Chapel: on Thursdays he preaches in Chinese; but as it is difficult to procure regular attendance, the Chinese not being disposed to be bound by any rules, he visits them at their own houses, and is encouraged by their attention and inquiries on these occasions In 4 Chinese Schools there are nearly 100 scholars-From old wooden Chinese Blocks, 2260 Tracts containing 34,400 pages have been struck off; and, at the Lithographic Press, in Chinese and Malay, 45,000 Tracts and School Books, containing 70,500 pagesFrom Aug. 2, 1828, till Jan, 18, 1829, was occupied in the voyage mentioned at p. 41 of the last Survey. Returning to Singapore from his visit to the East Coast of the Malayan Peninsula, he proceeded to Borneo, where he visited Pontianak, Mandoor, and Sambas. "The

Chinese at Mandoor, who are about 2000 or 3000, and are chiefly employed in working the gold-mines, received him," the Directors state, "in a hospitable and courteous manner, and seemed eager to obtain his books. Borneo," they add,

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presents a vast field for Missionary Operations, both among the Chinese and the Natives of the Country; among whom the savage tribes called Dayaks, or Dayakkers, who are desirous of obtaining Christian Instruction, particularly deserve at⚫ tention." Mr. Tomlin having arrived at Batavia at the end of October 1829, with the intention of accompanying him on another visit to the eastward, they left Batavia on the 14th of November, and returned on the 24th of January following; baving coasted along the north-east of Java to the Island of Bali at its eastern extremity, and travelling back to Batavia by land the whole length of Java: both suffered much from sickness: they distributed, on their return, hundreds of Javanese Tracts, and thousands of Chinese. Of the result of this visit Mr. Medhurst thus speaks: "Our object in going to Bali, was to ascertain the state of religion and morals among the people, with the possibility

British Government, to spy out the nakedness of the land. We were accordingly prevented from accomplishing what we wished, of travelling across the island; and were interdicted from entering into their campongs or dwellings, being restricted to the public highway, and to so much of that only as we could conveniently travel on foot, having no horses, or other conveyances, that we could use. This suspicion and distrust, however, wore away by degrees; and, in proportion as they found our medicines beneficial, they began at length to request us to go into all parts of their campongs, to administer to their wants: so that in the course of a short time, by a patient continuance in well-doing and a quiet endurance of their perverse ways, we might have won their confidence, and perhaps their esteem. A Missionary, settling on the Island of Bali, would have much to bear, and be obliged to wait with great patience before he could expect to see the least fruit of his labours"-P. 41.

of establishing a Mission on that island. Much had been said of the advantage likely to attend Missionary Efforts at Bali, from the circumstance of their not being warped by Mahomedan Prejudices: and we hoped, at least, to effect some good by conversation with the people, and by distributing the new Javanese Tract just published by Mr. Bruckner, which, from the supposed similarity of the language, might be understood in Bali. On our arrival there, we found the people in a state of great ignorance and barbarity, and almost entirely given up to vice and sensuality: their religion is a sort of Hindooism; their priests are Brahmins; and their people, especially the women, are incessantly devoted to idolatry. Great suspicions were excited as to our object, and they could not conceive how persons should come among them merely for the purpose of doing good at last they concluded, in spite of our protestations to the contrary, that we were political agents, sent by the Of the proceedings of the Netherlands Missionary Society we have received no intelligence.

Australasia.

A view of the Stations of New South-Wales appears at p. 383 of our last Volume.

BIBLE, TRACT, AND EDUCATION SOCIETIES.

NEW SOUTH-WALES.

The Bible Auxiliary has remitted 1507., making a total of 27901. Its total issues have been 6340 copies; those of the year having been 248 Bibles and 327 Testaments-In 1829, the Tract Society issued 22,885 Tracts; making a total, from August 1823, of 122,040: the remittances to the Parent Society amount to 751; and 9700 Books and Tracts, with a complete Library, were sent by it to

Sydney in the last year. The Van-Dieman's-Land Tract Society has remitted 251. to the Parent Society: about 31,000 Tracts have been circulated in the year: 1060 Publications have been sent. To emigrants proceeding to the Swan River the Religious-Tract Society has also furnished 7900 Publications. Notices appear at p. 429 of our last Volume of a plan for establishing Grammar Schools in the Colony-P. 42.

STATIONS, LABOURERS, & NOTITIA OF MISSIONARY SOCIETIES.

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

NEW SOUTH-WALES.

Mr. and Mrs. Lisk have been obliged, by continued ill health, to return home. Mrs. Norman, after a lengthened illness, died at Hobart Town, much esteemed and lamented. The Committee have under taken to provide two Religious Teachers for the Aborigines, for whose support Government will allot 5001. per annum -Pp. 42, 199, 382.

the New Orthography now in use in relation to this Mission.

Rangihoua: on the north side of the Bay of Islands: 1815 John King, James Shepherd, As.- Divine Services continued-Scholars, in March last, 17 men and boys and 10 girls-After much consideration of all the circumstances brought before them, the Committee have directed the Missionaries to give up this Settlement, in order to strengthen At p. 55 of our last Number we noticed the other Stations; rather than to remove

NEW ZEALAND.

Church Missionary Society—

tized in the year. In August, a Youth

it to Tepúna, as mentioned in the last died in a very hopeful state, and a Girl Survey. was then happy on her dying bed.

Kerikeri: on a river which falls into the Bay of Islands, on the west side: 1819 - W. Yate; James Kemp, G. Clarke, James Hamlin, C. Baker, James Smith, As. About 200 Natives are under regular instruction: the unsettled state of those in the vicinity is such, that sometimes not more than 200 are met with in a journey of 40 miles: of those who reside in the Settlement, consisting in March last of 44 men and boys and 22 females, many are, apparently from the heart, inquiring what they shall do to be saved: "I do hope," says one of the Labourers, "that a genuine work is begun in the souls of many"-A School Room, 38 feet by 18, has been built Mr. Yate visited New SouthWales last summer, and printed there various pieces for the use of the Mission. James Smith, a youth, accompanied him back in July, and is now employed at a small press established at this Station. The whole of the Liturgy has been translated and printed-See an account and engraving of Kerikeri at p. 430 of our last Volume.

In the 3 Stations, there were 4 English Clergymen, 10 Laymen, and 13 Females employed; and, in 4 Schools, 134 male and 65 female scholars. In December 1829, at a general and very satisfactory Examination of the Scholars of all the Settlements held at Kerikeri, there were assembled 72 Europeans of all ages, 150 Native Men and Boys, and 68 Native Females.

Of Mr. C. Davis, who sailed from Port Jackson for New Zealand, with his Wife and Mrs. Hart, at the end of October 1829, no intelligence having been received up to the end of September last, the melancholy conclusion seems inevitable that the vessel must have foundered at sea. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman, who embarked in January of last year, arrived on the 1st of August: they came from New South-Wales in the Society's new vessel the "Active;" which, unhappily, belies her name, as she proves to be a heavy sailer.

The Rev. S. Marsden arrived on the 8th of March, on his Sixth Visit to New Zealand. He made arrangements, on this occasion, for the establishment of a New Station at Waimate, about 9 miles inland from Kerikerí: about 250 acres of very good land, well wooded and watered, are there secured to the Society, for the purpose of cultivation : Messrs. Clarke, Davis, and Hamlin were appointed to enter on the Station. A Watermill is to be erected near one of the present Stations, for the grinding of corn for the supply of the Mission Families.

Paihia: on the south side of the Bay of Islands: 16 miles S E of Kerikerí, and the same distance across the Bay southward from Rangihoua: 1823-H. Williams, W. Williams; Alfred Nisbet Brown; Richard Davis, W. Fairburn, W. Puckey, As. Mr. and Mrs. Brown arrived Nov. 29, 1829: he is in special charge of the education of the Missionaries' Children-A spirit of inquiry has been excited among the Natives resident in the Mission Families, who consisted, See at Pp. 42, 43, 72, 113–116, 369 in March, of 77 men and boys and 25 -378, 382-384, and 467-471 of our women and girls: 12 adults were bap- last Volume, many interesting details. The New-Zealand Mission continues to encourage the best hopes of the friends of the Society. The Committee have viewed with cordial satisfaction the zealous and persevering labours of the Missionaries, and the spirit of concord which prevails among them. Few things have been more strikingly illustrative of the gracious care and watchful providence of the Great Head of the Church, than the perfect security of the Missionaries among the warlike and turbulent Natives: devoid of all European Protection, situated among wild and cannibal savages, God has, now for fourteen years, preserved them unhurt: as he shut the mouths of the lions in the den into which Daniel was cast, so has He marvellously restrained the sanguinary disposition of the New Zealanders; and preserved His Servants from all injury, that they may declare His glory to the people among whom they dwel (Committee)-According to human estimate, it appeared impossible that these wild ferocious cannibals could ever be brought under the influence of Christian Principles; but the power of Divine Grace has most unquestionably subdued the hearts of some of these Heathens to the obedience of the Gospel (Rev. S. Marsden)-Our Heavenly Father is, I hope, carrying on a great and glorious work in this dark land. Some of the New Zealanders are acknowledging that the yoke of Christ is

easy and His burden light. You would be pleased to see what ardour and attention are manifested when we speak to them about their eternal interests. That part of the Word of God which is translated into the Native Tongue is read with eagerness. The Sabbath is more strictly regarded in our Settlement, than in many villages in England. Some are in the constant habit of praying in secret (Letter: Sept. 1830) -We have, before this, had DYING TESTIMONIES; but now we can bless God for LIVING WITNESSES (Mr. Richard Davis)—Some of the Natives are beginning to express, in their own terms, their Christian Feelings: a New Zealander thus describes the trouble which he felt on account of the obstinate hardness of his heart: "I am bad with vexation for the exceeding fixedness of my bad heart” (Report). WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

Polynesia.

ISLANDS-STATIONS-LABOURERS-NOTITIA.

WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

Wesleyan Missionary Society—

vicinity-John Thomas, Peter Turner. Beta, a pious and active young Native, was sent, with his wife, to Lifuka, the chief island of this groupe; and was, some months afterward, followed by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas: they were to be

joined by Mr. Peter Turner, who left England with Messrs. Watkin and Wood-In 17 of the 20 small islands which form the groupe, Idolatry is entirely abolished; and "the people are waiting," it is stated, "for the Law of the Lord."

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

FIJI OR FEEJEE ISLANDS: 180 s. 178° E. Lageba: 1826-The Native Teachers sent to this Island were obliged by various difficulties to return to Tahiti. A promising opportunity having offered, another sailed for Lageba in January of last year.

HARVEY ISLANDS: 19° s. 159° w. Rarotogna: 6000 inhabitants: 1821At Gnatangiia, C. Pitman; at Avarua, Aaron Buzacott: 2 Tahitian TeachersThe Chapel is well filled, and a spirit of inquiry is extending.

At the following OUT-STATIONS there are Eight Tahitian Teachers. Aitutaki prospers in both its temporal and spiritual interests. The inhabitants of Mitiaro continue to manifest the greatest kindness toward their Teachers, and are attentive to their instructions. The people of Atui, or Atiu, who formerly persecuted their Teachers, have wholly changed their conduct toward them. At Mautii, as well as at the other Stations, the blessing of God has been bestowed on the labours of the Native Teachers: here, as in the islands already mentioned, there is a neat and substantial Place of Worship, and a number of dwellings after the model of European Cottages: the work of instruction is advancing, and many of the people can read with ease and fluency. The Mission at Manaia, or Mangeea, which was begun in 1824, has been exposed to peculiar trials of five Chiefs who divide the island, the most powerful is bitterly opposed to Christianity, and has put to death 10 adults and 10 children who had become Christians: yet the converts have continued to increase-P. 44.

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SOCIETY ISLANDS: 16° s. 151° w. Raiatea: 1818-John Williams-The Mission prospers. Mr. Williams visits the Out-Stations: his Missionary Ship, the "Olive Branch" or Messenger of Peace," makes frequent voyages among the islands.

Tahaa-James Smith-The Congregations are large and attentive, the communicants in a good state, and the Schools for adults and children well attended. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, sailed in September -P. 471.

Huahiné-C. Barff- The Congregations are large and attentive: 15 members, added in the year, make the total number 477; who, in general, advance in knowledge and piety: 7 died happily : 17 marriages were solemnized: weekly visits are paid to the people, and with the most beneficial results, for the purpose of calling their attention to the nature of real religion as having its seat in the heart. The island has been divided into ten parts, with a view to the operation of a "Sick Visiting Society" lately established; a leading man being appointed to each division, with several persons both male and female as his assistants: beside the relief afforded, individuals are appointed to read the Scriptures and pray with the sick persons

Scholars about 200, beside adults: the progress is encouraging-2500 copies of St. John's Gospel, 1000 Watts's First Catechism, and 1000 Hymn Books, have been printed-Industry increases: some large enclosures have been planted with coffee: small vessels, from 60 to 80 tons burden, have been built, two of which are designed chiefly for Missionary purposes. The inhabitants have built five large and convenient houses, for the hospitable accommodation of the large parties which occasionally visit them from other islands-P. 44.

Borabora-G. Platt-Communicants 288: the total admitted from the beginning have been 332, of whom 33 have died in the Faith-Pp. 44, 45.

Maupiti-Two Native Teachers-On Mr. Platt's visit, mentioned in the last Survey, to rectify the abuses introduced by some Visionaries, 27 men and 11 women gave in their names as engaging to return under instruction and discipline: he earnestly urged these persons to exert themselves for the recovery of such as still persisted in their errorsP. 45.

Maiaoiti-Three Native TeachersThe Religious Services and Schools are well attended-Two large houses have been erected for the accommodation of strangers-P. 45.

At the Annual Missionary Meeting, held, in May 1829, in Huahiné, the child