Whiting and Mrs. Sherman.-One native | Ebenezer Burgess, and Ozro French, Mishelper. sionaries; Amos Abbott, Teacher; Mrs. Ballentine, Mrs. Burgess, Mrs. French, Mrs. Abbott, and Miss Cynthia Farrar, Teacher.-Three native helpers. DEIR EL KAMER, among the Druzes. -Samuel Wolcott, Missionary; C. V. A. Van Dyck, M. D., Physician; Mrs. Wol cott. ALEPPO.-E. R. Beadle, Missionary, and Mrs. Beadle. In this country.-Isaac Bird and John F. Lanneau, Missionaries; Mrs. Bird. JALNA. Sendol B. Munger, Missionary, and Mrs. Munger.-One native helper. MALCOLM-PEгH.-Allen Graves, Missionary, and Mrs. Graves. Though the progress of this mission is ap preparing among the Mahrattas. They now stand very differently related to the christian religion from what they did in the year 1814. The principal ports of Syria have been sub-parently slow, the way of the Lord is evidently jected to a destructive bombardment, and the country has passed from under the government of Mohammed Ali to that of its old master, the sultan. Whether its social condition and prospects have improved by this change, is yet un certain. MISSION ΤΟ THE NESTORIANS OF PERSIA. OOROOMIAH.-Justin Perkins, Albert L. Holladay, Willard Jones, William R. Stocking, and Austin H. Wright, M. D., Missionaries; Edward Breath, Printer; Mrs. Perkins, Mrs. Holladay, Mrs. Jones, and Mrs. Stocking.-Eight native helpers. We are beginning to witness the gradual revival of preaching in this ancient church. Three bishops and four priests have made a beginning in this heretofore to them unwonted service. Only bishop Elias ventures as yet, however, to conduct a preaching service alone, the others acting as aids to members of the mission. The seminary has a class of eleven in theology The Nestorian pupils amount to 476, and are taught in two boarding-schools and sixteen village free schools. Sixty-two are boarding scholars. Eighteen priests and sixteen deacons are teachers in the schools. The Mussulman school is still in existence. The mission has continued its stated and itinerant preaching as usual. The seminary at Ahmednuggur has 60 pupils, and four other boarding-schools have 15 boys and 67 girls; making nearly 150 boarding scholars. Twenty-three free schools contain about 700 pupils. The printing for the last year was somewhat more than 2,000,000 pages. MADRAS MISSION, IN SOUTHERN INDIA. ROYAPOORUM, a northern suburb of Madras. Miron Winslow, Missionary, and Mrs. Winslow.-Two native helpers. CHINTADREPETTAH, a southwestern suburb of Madras.--John Sendder, M. D., Missionary, and Mrs. Scudder.-One native helper. BLACK TOWN, where the printingoffice is.-Phineas R. Hunt, Printer, and Mrs. Hunt. The large printing establishment in this mission has nearly refunded the amount of its purchase money, and is expected to meet, in great measure, the expenses of the mission in 1812. This it does by the profit on its job-work, of which there is a considerable amount in such a place as Madras. The Tamul printing in the last year comprised about 11,660,000 pages. The number of free schools is sixteen, containing about five hundred pupils. Several useful and encouraging tours were performed during the year. MADURA.-Daniel Poor and Ferdinand D. W. Ward, Missionaries; John Steele, TABREEZ.-James L. Merrick, Mis- M. D., Physician; Mrs. Poor, Mrs. Ward, sionary, and Mrs. Merrick. This mission has been abandoned, and Mr. Merrick has been authorized to join the Nestorian mission at Ooroomiah. MISSION TO THE and Mrs. Steele.-Thirteen native helpers. DINDIGUL, thirty-eight miles northwest of Madura.-Robert O. Dwight and John J. Lawrence, Missionaries; Mrs. Dwight and Mrs. Lawrence.-One native MAHRATTAS IN preacher, and ten native helpers. WESTERN INDIA. BOMBAY.-David O. Allen and Robert W. Hume, Missionaries; Elijah A. Webster, Printer; Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Hume, and Mrs. Webster. TERUPUVANUM, twelve miles southeast of Madura.-Nathaniel M. Crane, Missionary, and Mrs. Crane.-Four native helpers. SEVAGUNGA, twenty-seven miles southAHMEDNUGGUR.-Henry Ballantine, east of Madura.-Henry Cherry, Mission ary, and Mrs. Cherry.-Three native help ers. TERUMUNGALUM, twelve miles southwest of Madura.-Clarendon F. Muzzy and William Tracy, Missionaries; Mrs. Muzzy and Mrs. Tracy.-Seven native helpers. Mr. Spaulding, of the Ceylon mission, explored the territory occupied by this mission, as a preliminary step to its commencement. Seven years after that exploring tour, that is, during the past year, he again went over the ground, and was much struck with the progress of the mission, and with the openings for usefulness on every haud. Αι Six boarding-schools contain more than a bundred pupils, and a hundred free schools embrace more than three thousand pupils. Twelve native converts were added to the mission churches during the year. Pains are taken to scatter the good seed over the district. Dindigul a mission-chapel has been erected, through the liberality of individuals. Mr. Poor greatly needs a commodions church at Madura. Saying nothing of adults, he has under his care more than a thousand children who might be assembled for preaching, while now he has only a dwelling-house for his meetings, that will not accommodate more than a hundred persons. The mission needs also more laborers, and more ample means for training up a native ministry. The pages printed in 1840, exceeded 11,300,000. Forty-eight converts were admitted to nine schools of different kinds, was nearly the church. The number of pupils in eighty3,400. These may be divided into three classes, viz., about 2,500 in seventy-five free schools, about 500 in ten English day schools, (a higher class of free schools,) and 312 boarding-scholars, 162 of whom are members of the seminary at Batticotta. About one hundred of the seminarists are members of the church, and eight of them form an advanced or select class. MISSION TO SIAM. BANGKOK, the seat of government, TWO STATIONS. - Charles Robinson, Stephen Johnson, Dan B. Bradley, M. D., Jesse Caswell, H. S. G. French, Asa Hemenway, and Lyman B. Peet, Missionaries; Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Bradley, Mrs. Caswell, Mrs. French, Mrs. Hemenway, Mrs. Peet, Mrs. Benham, and Miss Mary E. Pierce, Teacher. The last three of the Gospels have been translated into Siamese and printed, together with the Acts, the Epistle to the Colossians, and the three Epistles of John. The idle for ten months for want of pecuniary press was means. CEYLON MISSION. TILLIPALLY.-James Read Eckard, Missionary, and Mrs. Eckard.-Eleven native helpers. BATTICOTTA.-Henry R. Hoisington and Richard Cope, Missionaries; Nathan Ward, M. D., Physician; Mrs. Hoisington, Mrs. Cope, and Mrs. Ward.-Two native preachers, and sixteen native helpers. OODOOVILLE.-Levi Spaulding, Missionary; Mrs. Spaulding and Miss Eliza Agnew, Teacher.-Eight native helpers. MANEPY.-Samuel Hutchings, Missionary; Eastman S. Minor, Printer; Mrs. Hutchings and Mrs. Minor.-Five native helpers. PANDITERIPO.-(Vacant.)-Four na tive helpers. MISSION TO CHINA. MACAO.-Elijah C. Bridgman, D. D., and David Abeel, Missionaries; Samuel Wella Williams, Printer. In this country.-Peter Parker, M. D., Missionary, and Mrs. Parker. The past year has been one of serious interhostilities are to cease, or what is to be the reruption, in consequence of the war. When sult of them, does not yet appear; but there is ground for hope found in the analogies of divine Providence. The Chrestomathy was nearly One of the Japanese sailors under the care of completed at the beginning of the present year. Mr. Williams gives evidence of conversion to God. INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. MISSION TO SINGAPORE. SINGAPORE.-Dyer Ball, M. D., Missionary; Alfred North, Printer; Mrs. Ball CHAVAGACHERRY.-(Vacant.)-One and Mrs. North.-One native helper. native preacher, and two native helpers. VARANY.-George H. Apthorp, Missionary, and Mrs. Apthorp.-Three native assistants. In this country. Benjamin C. Meigs, Missionary; Mrs. Meigs and Miss Sarah F. Brown, Teacher. Three OUT-STATIONS, with three native helpers. *Rev. B. C. Meigs, also Rev. Messrs. S. G. Whittelsey, Robert Wyman and J. C. Smith and their wives, have recently embarked for Ceylon. In this country.-Ira Tracy, Joseph S. Travelli, and George W. Wood, Missionaries; Mrs. Tracy and Mrs. Travelli. The The seminary for boys contains 57 pupils, and the female boarding-school ten. Printing has all been in Chinese, amounting to about 1,146,000 pages. Owing to failure of health and other causes, only Doct. Ball and Mr. North are now left in this mission, and the Committee have lately adopted the resolution, which they have been coming to for several years, to relinquish the mission. MISSION TO BORNEO. SAMBAS.-Elihu Doty and William J Pohlman, Missionaries; Mrs. Doty and ISLAND OF OAHU. HONOLULU. Richard Armstrong and PONTIANAK.-Elbert Nevius and Wil-Lowell Smith, Missionaries; Gerrit P. liam Youngblood, Missionaries; Mrs. Nevius, Mrs. Youngblood, and Miss Azuba C. Condit, Teacher. BATAVIA, a temporary station on the island of Java.-Frederick B. Thomson, William T. Van Doren, and Isaac P. Stryker, Missionaries; Mrs. Thomson and Mrs. Van Doren. The Rev. Messrs. William T. Van Doren and Isaac P. Stryker have been sent forth during the past year. Mr. Pohlman has probably reached Borneo ere this. As it is not now deemed expedient to aim at having a perma nent station at Batavia, Mr. Thomson will be instructed to join his brethren in Borneo. Two brethren are under appointment for the mission, and are expected to embark soon after the annual meeting. NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN. KEALAKEKUA.— WAIMEA.-Lorenzo Lyons, Missionary, and Mrs. Lyons. HILO.-David B. Lyman and Titus Coan, Missionaries; Abner Wilcox, Teacher; Mrs. Lyman, Mrs. Coan, and Mrs. Wilcox. Judd, M. D., Physician; Levi Chamberlain and Samuel N. Castle, Secular Superintendents; Amos S. Cooke and Horton O. Knapp, Teachers; Edmund O. Hall and Edmund H. Rogers, Printers; Henry Dimond, Bookbinder; Mrs. Armstrong, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Judd, Mrs. Chamberlain, Mrs. Cooke, Mrs. Knapp, Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Rogers, and Mrs. Dimond. EWA.-Artemas Bishop, Missionary, and Mrs. Bishop. WAIALUA.-John S. Emerson, Missionary; Edwin Locke, Teacher; Mrs. Emerson and Mrs. Locke. KANEOHE.. Benjamin W. Parker, Missionary, and Mrs. Parker.-Miss Marcia M. Smith, Teacher. ISLAND OF KAUAI. WAIMEA.-Samuel Whitney, Missionary, and Mrs. Whitney. KOLO A.-Peter J. Gulick, Missionary, and Mrs. Gulick. WAIOLI.-William P. Alexander, Missionary; Edward Johnson, Teacher; Mrs. Alexander and Mrs. Johnson. On their way to the Islands.-Daniel Dole and Elias Bond, Missionaries; Mrs. Dole and Mrs. Bond. In this country.-Hiram Bingham, Missionary; Mrs. Bingham and Mrs. Thurston. Somewhat more than 4,000 members were KOHALA.-Isaac Bliss, Missionary, and added to the nineteen churches during the year Mrs. Bliss. ISLAND OF MAUI. ending June, 1840. The number of members then in good standing was 18,451. In some of the larger churches there has been a season of coldness and reaction; but a statement of the case cannot be attempted in a brief abstract. Eight houses for worship were built by the na LAHAINA. Dwight Baldwin, M. D., Missionary; Mrs. Baldwin and Mrs. Mctives during the year, and three more were in Donald. progress. The natives had also built about twenty school houses; besides contributing in money and articles for a variety of objects to an amount exceeding 4,000 dollars, which they gave out of inconceivable depths of poverty. The number of pupils in the common school is estimated at 14,000, about 10,000 of whom are readers. The number of boarding-scholars in the mission is 235. Eighty-three of these are in the seminary at Lahainaluna, on the island of Maui; fifty-four in the female seminary at Wailuku, on the same island; eleven in the HANA. Daniel T. Conde, Missionary, school at Honolulu for the children of the chiefs; and Mrs. Conde. ISLAND OF MOLOKAI. KALUAAHA. Harvey R. Hitchcock, Missionary; Bethuel Munn, Teacher; Mrs. Hitchcock and Mrs. Munn.-Miss Lydia Brown, Teacher. ten in the manual-labor or self-supporting school at Waialua, on the island of Oahu; and fiftyfive in the male and twenty-two in the female boarding-school at Hilo, on the island of Hawaii. The printing embraced more than 100,000 copies, and more than 4,600,000 pages. The whole amount of printing in this mission from the beginning, is about 100,000,000 of pages.. SUMMARY. MISSION TO THE OREGON INDIANS. WAIILATPU.-Marcus Whitman, Phy The number of missions in this department is 17; of stations, 61; of ordained missionaries, 115, five of whom are also physicians; of physician and Catechist, and Mrs. Whitman; sicians, 7; of teachers, 8; of secular superin- William H. Gray, Mechanic and Teacher, tendents, 2; of printers, 11; of bookbinders, 1; and Mrs. Gray; Cornelius Rogers, Printer of female helpers married and unmarried, 141; and Teacher. -making a total of laborers beyond sea from this country, of 237. To these add 4 native preachers, and 135 other native helpers, and the number of laborers who are employed and supported by the Board in the missions beyond sea, is 426. CLEAR WATER.-Henry H. Spalding, Missionary, and Mrs. Spalding. KAMIAH.-Asa B. Smith, Missionary, and Mrs Smith. TSHIMAKAIN.-Cushing Eells and Elkanah Walker, Missionaries; Mrs. Eells DEPARTMENT OF INDIAN MIS- and Mrs. Walker. MISSION TO THE CHEROKEES. DWIGHT.-Jacob Hitchcock, Superintendent of Secular Affairs, and Mrs. Hitchcock; Roderic L. Dodge, Physician, and Mrs. Dodge; Henry K. Copeland, Farmer, and Mrs. Copeland; Ellen Stetson and Hannah Moore, Assistants and Teachers. FAIRFIELD.-Elizur Butler, Missionary and Physician, and Mrs. Butler; Esther Smith, Teacher. PARK HILL.-Samuel A. Worcester, Missionary, and Mrs. Worcester; Stephen Foreman, Native Preacher and Assistant Translator; Mary Avery, Teacher; Nancy Thompson, Assistant; John Candy, Native Printer. HONEY CREEK.-John Huss, Native Preacher. MISSION TO THE CHOCTAWS. WHEELOCK.-Alfred Wright, Missionary, and Mrs. Wright; Jared Olmstead, Teacher, and Mrs. Olmstead; Anna Burnham and Sarah Kerr, Teachers and Assistants; Pliny Fisk, Native Catechist. STOCKBRIDGE.-Cyrus Byington, Missionary, and Mrs. Byington. MOUNTAIN FORK.-No resident mis-sionary at present. PINE RIDGE. Cyrus Kingsbury, Missionary, and Mrs. Kingsbury; Jonathan E. Dwight, Native Assistant. GOOD WATER.-Ebenezer Hotchkin, Missionary, and Mrs. Hotchkin. John D. Paris, Missionary, and Mrs. Paris; William H. Rice, Farmer and Teacher, and Mrs. Rice; on their way to the mission. MISSION TO THE SIOUX. LAC QUI PARLE.-Thomas S. Williamson, Missionary and Physician, and Mrs. Williamson; Stephen Riggs, Missionary, and Mrs. Riggs; Alexander G. Huggins, Farmer, and Mrs. Huggins; Fanny Huggins, Teacher and Assistant. NEAR FORT SNELLING.-Samuel W. Pond, Missionary, and Mrs. Pond; Gideon H. Pond, Farmer, and Mrs. Pond. MISSION TO THE OJIBWAS. LA POINTE.-Sherman Hall and Leonard H. Wheeler, Missionaries; Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Wheeler; Grenville T. Sproat, Teacher and Catechist, and Mrs. Sproat; Woodbridge L. James, Teacher and Farmer, and Mrs. James; Abigal Spooner, Assistant and Teacher. POKEGUMA.-William T. Boutwell, Missionary, and Mrs. Boutwell; Frederic Ayer, Catechist, and Mrs. Ayer; Edmund F. Ely, Teacher and Catechist, and Mrs. Ely; Sabrina Stevens. MISSION TO THE STOCKBRIDGE IN DIANS. STOCKBRIDGE.-Cutting Marsh, Mis sionary, and Mrs. Marsh. MISSION TO THE NEW YORK INDIANS. TUSCARORA.-Gilbert Rockwood, Missionary, and Mrs. Rockwood; Hannah T. Whitcomb, Teacher. SENECA.-Asher Wright, Missionary, and Mrs. Wright; William S. Vanduzee, Farmer and Teacher, and Mrs. Vanduzee; Asenath Bishop and Sophia Mudgett, Teachers. CATTARAUGUS.- -Asher Bliss, Missionary, and Mrs. Bliss; Fidelia Adams, Teacher. ALLEGHANY.-William Hall, Mission- teachers, 12 printers and bookbinders, and ary, and Mrs. Hall; Margaret N. Hall, Teacher. 12 other male and 198 female assistant missionaries. The whole number of laborers from this country is 381, or 16 more than were reported last year. To these we must add 7 native preachers, and 138 naP. P. Osunkhirhine, Native Preacher; tive helpers, which makes the whole numCaroline Rankin, Teacher. MISSION TO THE ABENAQUIS. SUMMARY OF INDIAN MISSIONS. 25 stations; 25 missionaries-two of whom are physicians, 2 other physicians, 5 teachers, 10 other male and 59 female assistant mission aries, 3 native preachers, and 3 other native assistants. Total, 107. GENERAL SUMMARY. The sum of the whole is this. The receipts have been $235,189,30, and the expenditures $268,914,79, exceeding the receipts by 33,725,49, and increasing the debt of the Board to $57,808,91. The number of the missions is 26, of the stations 85, and of the ordained missionaries 136, ten of whom are physicians. There are 9 physicians not preachers, 13 ber 526, 39 more than the whole number reported a year ago. Nine ordained missionaries, and 3 male and 17 female assistant missionaries, in all 29, have been sent forth during the year. The number of mission churches is 59, containing 19,842 members, of whom 4,350 were received the past year. There are 15 printing establishments, 29 presses, 5 type-founderies, and 50 founts The of type in the native languages. printing for the year was about 50,000,000 pages; the amount of printing from the beginning, is about 290,000,000 pages. Seven of the 34 boarding-schools have received the name of seminaries, and these contain 499 boys; the other 27 contain 253 boys and 378 girls;-making a total of boarding-scholars of 1,130. The number of free schools is 490, containing about 23,000 pupils. Miscellany. INFLUENCES OF THE SPIRIT. We think we shall be rendering the cause of missions a good service by submitting to our readers the following remarks, published in the Missionary Chronicle for Jan. 1842, on relying more explicitly upon the influences of the spirit, from the pen of the Rev. W. S. Rogers, missionary of the Presbyterian Board, stationed at Lodiana. It is upon the influences of the spirit, as Mr. R. has justly remarked, that we must rely, mainly, for the conversion of the heathen to God; and the cherishing of these sentiments by missionaries, furnishes a delightful assurance of their success, and should the same sentiments be cherished by christians at home, this assurance would be rendered doubly sure. I have long thought that both missionaries and the church at large, were prone to depend too much upon the instrumentality, and too little upon the agent, who alone can convert the soul. Much is made of schools and presses, tracts and zealous preachers. These are all important in their place. But we should never for a moment forget that neither nor all combined can convert a single soul. This is an honor |