designation was to the interior by the way of the Niger, in company with Mr. Fielding; but no favorable opportunity presenting for their immediate passage to Fernando Po, at the mouth of that river, and Edina being judged the most favorable place for passing through their acclimation, they remained at that station by suggestion of the Board, and in accordance with their own judgment and choice, and the advice of their missionary brethren. The issue of this enterprize, in the death of two of their number and the return of Mr. and Mrs. C., is occasion of deep sorrow. Donations, FROM NOVEMBER 1 TO DEC. 1, 1841. Maine. Wiscasset Ladies Miss. Soc., Miss Randolph, Jonathan Wales 10,00 Margaret Waters tr., 5,00 Dorchester, Neponset village, Washington Co. Association, T. Louisa Seaver 2,00 Wilder tr., 678,42 Rev. Mr. Emerson ,50 Rachael M. Caler ,50 T. Wilder Machias Port, Bap. church 3,37 Rev. Mr. Boynton 1,00 Hancock. Aux For. Miss. Soc., Rhode Island Bap. State Conven Sedgwick, Benev. Soc. Eden, females Rev. James Gillpatrick tr., Elsworth village, Bap.ch. 11,00 Hancock B. Association 15,77 1,00 tion, V. J. Bates tr., collected 7,00 by Rev. Joseph B. Brown, agent of the Board, 1,75 Rev. A. G. Palmer 12,50 Sullivan, friends Hancock, Fem. Prim. Soc. 3,34 Mt. Desert, do. do. do. 7,00 Sedgwick Bay, Male do. 9,06 William C. Pendleton 1,00 Henry Remington 1,00 55,92 Mrs. Remington 1,00 68,29 Freelove Breed 1,00 Sarah Remington ,25 Massachusetts. George Ells 1,00 24 New York. Hamilton Lit. and Theol. Inst., Anti-slavery mon. con., for African miss., per Stephen Wright, Woodbull, Mr. Martin, per P. Colgrove, New York City, 1st Bap. ch. and cong., per John W. Rand, do. do. do., Oliver St. Fem. For. Miss. Soc., S. E. Bleeck er secretary, For Burman schools, 10,00 general fund, 40,00 salom Janes tr., 50,00 For Burman Mission, 42,56 African do., 7,00 Cazenovia, three sisters, 66 general fund, 754,35 per Rev. Wm. Clark, 3,00 803,91 Watertown, Baptist church 19,00 Mrs. Ruth Caldwell 2,00 Alabama. Utica, Broad St. church 8,00 Mrs. Tamson Griswold 2,00 Mrs. Emeline Wheeler ,25 Miss Sabra Arnold 1,00 Mrs. Ellen Tracy ,50 Steuben Association 195,70 do. do., collection, 41,71 Louisville, Baptist church, mon. con., per J. Elliot, 4,00 Sheldon Fitch 1,00 Ohio. Mrs. Payne 1,00 Cortland Asso., collection, 35,50 Milan, Fem. Miss. Society 6,50 Nathan Gilbert 1,00 Genessee River Assoc. 18.00 Onondaga Association 8,67 A. Wheeler 1,00 Cayuga Assoc., collection, 7,25 do. do. 70,91 American Bap. Anti Slavery Convention, S. G. Shipley tr., Wendell Association, J. Wood bury tr., For Burman Mission, 20,79 66 Pike, females, per A. Case, 12,00 Burman bible, 1.00 Mrs. Jane Tidd ,25 general fund, 11,00 Mrs. Huldah Rouse ,25 32,79 Mrs. Lucy Hildreth Mrs. Betsey Williams 1,00 Legacy. Dickson Gazley ,50 E. B. Cobb 1,00 Mrs. C. E. Chittenden ,25 Miss. P. E. Chittenden Eastham, Mass., estate of Polly Smith, deceased, Freeman Ď. Mayo Executor, per Miss Thankful F. Smith, Mrs. Gibbs 1,00 Mrs. Gilbert ,25 20,00 $3041,16 Ontario Association 28,37 G. Bennett 5,00 CLOTHING, &c. Wayne Association 21,38 Munroe Miss. Soc., A. G. Smith tr.. 75,00 Canistea River Assoc., per Lebanon and North Berwick, Me., two boxes of clothing, &c., for Ivory Clarke, Africa, per Daniel Wood, valued at Rev. B. R. Swich, 19,39 48,56 Miss Lucinda Murdock 1,00 Seneca Association 15,27 D. Cole ,6 Coventry, R. I., box of clothing, &c., from Caleb Waterman, for H. T. Love, Greece, 11,38 Levi Call ,25 Genessee Association, per Rev. J. Elliot, 17,37 Jefferson Union Assoc., per Rev. L. C. Bates, 38,31 Jedediah Smith, for Bur man bible, 2.00 Orin Wilber 5,00 Miss Sarah Frey ,37 per Rev. Alfred Bennett, Agent of the Board, Bradford Assoc., Abner Wood tr., 24,60 Pennsylvania. A box of fruit and calico, for Lyman Sulson, Arracan, (no advice), Cummington, Ms., box of hard ware, clothing and fruit, from Robert Dawes, for Lovell Ingalls, Mergui, Riceboro', Liberty Co., Ga., box of clothing, &c., from Oliver Stevens, for Edward A. Stevens, Maulmain, Mansfield, Ms., Miss Maria Newcomb, 3 rings, per Rev. George W. Bosworth. Wendell Association, Ms., J. Woodbury treasurer, for Josiah Goddard, Bangkok, per S. G. Shipley, do. do, goods sold, per Rev. J. R. Burdick, 6,62 Rev. J. R. Burdick 1,00 Mrs. A. M. Burdick 1,00 per Rev. Alfred Bennett, Agent ed to of the Board, 33,22 As Mr. Love's communication, in some of its bearings, is liable to the imputation of censoriousness, or sectarianism, we take occasion to disclaim on his part any such intention. A love for the truth only, we believe, bas led our brother of the Greek mission to express himselt as he has. And as the things which he has described enter into his condition as a mission ary, it is proper that they should be communicated to the friends of missions, by whom he is sustained, and on whose sympathies and prayers and friendly co-operation he relies for success. We have read these papers with no ordinary degree of interest. Primary importance of preaching the gospel. communication of the truth, from a heart warmed and glowing with the love of Jesus; that Christ, by his spotless obedience to the holy law of Jehovah, and by his suffering in our stead, made appeasement for sin and now, gloriously exalted, obtains by intercession the free remission of sin, and through the Holy Spirit effects the purification of every sinner that manifests the temper of heart designated in the word of God, by faith. Now, I care whether it be in the street, the school, the parlor, or the pulpit; nor whether to one or to one thousand, that this truth be thus communicated. It still, as I conceive, possesses the essential element of" preaching the gospel," by the foolishness of which preaching God has declared that he will save the believing. not In contemplating this subject, and particularly within the last year, I have allowed the various phases of Mediterranean missionary labor to pass in free review before my mind; and I seem to myself to gain at every step an additional assurance, that schools and tracts, nay and bible distribution too, unaccompanied by this heaven-ordained feature of missionary work—the preaching of the gospel-will prove utterly fruitless in converting these sinners to the living God. In these remarks however, I do not intend to disparage these secondary means as auxiliaries, for as such they are altogether important, and perhaps essential, to a vigorous operation in this enlightened age of the world. From allusions in former communications to the Rooms, it may perhaps have been observed, that with some of the so called "missionary labors" of these parts, we have but little sympathy. In order to be distinctly understood, I shall here say that we believe the "preaching of the gospel" to be, by Way of eminence, the means that God has ordained for converting the soul; If it be asked to what may be attrithat in these parts, specially, it is an el-buted the little success of missionary ement essential to a healthy and vigor- operations among nominal christians ous operation, nay, a sine qua non to any in the Mediterranean, and particularly reasonable hope of success. This ex- among the Greeks, for a series now of pression, preaching the gospel, we take in twenty-five years, it is answered, to a its most generic sense, namely, the oral two-fold cause:-1. The missionary making primary in his operations what | more, that for a person to be baptized God has made secondary in His. "A man is not crowned unless he strive lawfully." 2. The missionaries in the Mediterranean as pedobaptists, cannot stand upon the simple truth and sovereignty of God's word. The case, I apprehend, is a little different from that in countries which, by way of distinction, we call heathen. Heathenism, there, is of such a nature that the pedobaptist may thoroughly combat it, without entering the field of his own error. But not so in the Mediterranean.* Pedobaptist missionaries in the Mediterranean feel, no doubt, to some extent, the embarrassments under which they labor in attempting to make a proper application of truth to the spiritual condition of this people. Hence, doubtless, the energy with which secondary means have been prosecuted among them. And God has doubtless designed to teach us all a salutary lesson, in the signal manner in which he has brought much of these efforts into disgrace. Hence, too, the extremes of error in sentiment, which missionaries have been under the necessity of adopting. They tell us of "Christian churches," of 8 "Christian ministry," of "Christian baptism," &c. &c., connected with the religious affairs of the country. Nor is it with them a mere manner of expression that these terms are used-a mere name to distinguish one class of persons or one community from another. I have been told by pedobaptist missionaries of every denomination on the ground, that "the baptism of infants by these priests is ample and valid baptism, for any true profession of faith which an individual so baptized might afterwards make;"-the simple and legitimate doctrine of which is, that piety is not an element necessary either to a ministry of Jesus Christ or to his church. That it is not essential to their being His ministry, and His church, that they obey any of his commands, or observe any of the duties and callings which the New Testament enjoins upon his disciples. And still *Say the Greek ecclesiastical books, "Baptism cleanses from original sin, and from sins deliberately purposed (apaprias poatpETIKàs.)" The Greek does not misunderstand this language. You find him living in the grossest sin, and ask him what hope he has of heaven, and he answers, " my holy baptism." (ro yo μάυ βοπτισμα.) I have heard it and its like a thousand times. into the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, it is not necessary that himself be pious, nor his father, nor his mother, nor his grandfather, nor his grandmother, nor his brothers, nor his sisters, nor the priest that baptizes him, nor the god-fathers and godmothers that stand his surety, nor the community of which he becomes a member. Nay more, that he may grow up actually living, in accord with all around him, in the open habit of a gross idolatry, and in, perhaps, a grosser immorality, and still be, by virtue of the unmeaning and unbidden ceremony, a baptized member of the body of Jesus Christ. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. We repeat it, therefore, the work to be done in order to the salvation of this people, is the preaching of the gospel— sowing the seed in the morning, and in the evening withholding not the hand, for "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Character of teachers employed in the schools-Religious instruction. It is a primary principle in all our operations, to use none but sanctified talent in endeavoring to affect the moral condition of this people. We can have no teacher prejudicing the minds of children against the missionaries, and embittering them against the missionaries' religion, incorporating into their education hatred and abhorrence to the bible, and an utter disregard to the commands of God. There is a teacher in one of the so called missionary schools of Corfu and vicinity, who has been employed, if I mistake not, ten years. Says this teacher to a class reading the twentieth chapter of Exodus, "this command" (the second) "does not forbid us, the orthodox, from worshipping the sacred Eikonas, and this book (the bible) you are not to road in your houses. It is anathematized by the Patriarch." When I was at S. a few years since, I spent a social evening with the missionaries of that place. A number of the teachers of the mission schools were also present. A little before the company was to break up, perhaps about ten o'clock, the missionary brought forward the bible and his prayer book, and every Greek present immediately arose, and bade us good night, and left the room. I thought it possible that I might have mistaken the cause of this sudden and therefore made inquiry. My egress, informant expressed astonishment at my having supposed that Greeks would hear protestants pray (!!) Mr. within the last few weeks has commenced a small private school for little children, to be superintended an hour a day by some one of the females of his own family. The instructress of this school is a Roman Catholic. There are twenty Roman Catholic priests in Corfu. Mrs. Dickson opens her school with prayer and reading of the scriptures, and the scriptures are illustrated with great plainness, affection and solemnity. About one hour daily is devoted to these exercises. It is interesting to see, united in one school, and enjoying the same means of grace, English, Greeks and Jews, on terms of perfect equality. They are objects for whose salvation intense solicitude is felt, and unceasing prayer to God offered through Jesus Christ, the one Mediator. The school numbers at present about forty. world that lieth in wickedness, we have not yet apprehended that we can, either from convenience, courtesy, or caprice, lightly put the sacred trust away. We hold not ourselves responsible for any consequences that may follow from our obeying the simple commands of Jesus Christ. On this principle we shall, with the help of God, venture to stand undismayed. Any other course we believe to be infidelity. Wo to those who go down to Egypt for help-who rely on means not appointed for doing the work of God. Service in English. Since the arrival of br. Buel, and in accordance with a suggestion in his instructions, we have commenced a weekly English service. It is held in our school room on Sunday afternoon, an hour before sunset, this being the only time that we could well have such an exercise. It is designed for the benefit of our own family, the English part of our school, and as many of our friends at Corfu as may be pleased to On other occasions also, no oppor-attend. The house in some respects tunity is lost for imparting moral and religious instruction. From a class of the larger Greek girls I hear six lessons a week. Twice, besides Sabbath morning, this class reads in the New Testament. On these occasions, in particular, we endeavor to illustrate and enforce with much plainness the teaching of the scripture that is contained in the portion read. is an unfavorable one, yet we already have, including the larger of our scholars, from forty to fifty in attendance. The number is gradually increasing. The importance of this branch of our labors cannot be too highly estimated. The influence, for good, or for evil, which this class of persons must always have on the religious destinies of this republic, will be and is immensely great; and it is this circumstance which renders the mixed character of our school a matter of so much importance here in the Mediterranean. In our little assembly on Sabbath afternoon, there seem to be manifested some tokens of religious interest; and some cases of persecution lead us to The Sabbath school, containing between fifty and sixty scholars, of whom some fifteen are boys (English and half English,) and under the immediate instruction of br. Buel, is conducted on the same principles. We seek to secrete it from no one that we are teachers of the religion of Jesus Christ, and that we labor primarily for the wel-hope that the great adversary of souls fare of the souls of our fellow men. "But will not such a course of action call down upon the mission the hatred and anathemas of the people for whose good we labor, and thus remove the youth from under our charge, and destroy our influence in the community ?" We answer, Having we trust, as called of God, taken upon our selves the high responsibility of being ambassadors for Christ, to beseech our fellow men to become reconciled to God, and believing that the ministry of reconciliation is for the feels that a portion of his kingdom is in danger. The two young ladies whom we have before reported as having become hopefully pious, [see Magazine, January, 1841,] give good evidence of a thorough work of grace. One of them in particular, has known, for the last year, what it is to bear the cross for Christ's sake. Soon after her conversion strong efforts were made to drag her to the ball-room and to the theatre. Among other requisitions she was neither to read, converse, nor think on the subject of baptism. And for a time she was not allowed to visit in our family. During the past sum* More than twenty children have been received into the Sunday school who are not unmer spiritual hostilities have been der our instruction on other days of the week. I again renewed, and within the last few |