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THE REPORT
DI i " ORS
voxty-s1GH9H oxnénat MEETING
THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY,
The soon fiom Society.



NOTICE RESPECTING BEQUESTS TO THE SOCIETY.
—»>—-

An Act of Parliament ‘for the Amendment of the Laws with respect to Wills”’
having been passed on the 3rd day of July, 1837; which Act came into operation on
the Ist day of January, 1838; the attention of all persons who may contemplate
making Bequests to the London Missionary Society is respectfully called to the fol-
lowing Section :—

** 1 Victoriz, Cap. 26, Sec. 9.

*¢ And be it further enacted, That no Will shall be valid, unless it shall be in writing, and executed
in manner hereinafter mentioned; (that is to say) it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof. by the
Testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction; and such signature shail be
made or acknowledged by the Testator in the presence of Two or more Witnesses present at the same
time ; and such Witnesses shail attest and shall subscribe the Wul in the pussence of the Testator ; but no
Form of Attestation shall be necessary.”

N. B.—Wills executed prior to the first day of January, 1838, are not affected by the New Act; but
any alteration therein, or Codicll thereto, must be executed in the manner before mantionad,

The London Missionary Society having been deprived of several valuable legacies
owing to the operation of the ‘‘ Mortmain Act,’’ the Directors embrace this oppor-
tunity of introducing the following extract from a Work lately published, entitled,
‘¢ Plain Directions for making Wills,’’ &c.; by J. C. Hudson, Esq., of the Legacy
Duty Office, as worthy of particular attention :—

‘‘ The Statute of 9 Gen. II. c. 36, called the Mortmain Act, is not repealed or altered by the 1 Vic-
TORIE, c. 26; and therefore legacies to charities out of real estate will still be void. If a Testator
desires to leave legacies to charities, he must take care to make them peyable, either expressly, or by
ordinary course of law. out of such personal estate 88 may be applied for that purpose. bequest to a
charity for a term of years, or leasehold property; or o money to arise from, or be produced by, the
sale of land; or by the rents, profits, or other interest arising from land; or a bequest of money, to
be laid out in ; or a bequest of money secured by mortgages Or & bequest of anauities charged on
land, or rather rent-charges; or a bequest of money, with as direction to apply it in paying off mort-
gages on schools or chapels; or a bequest of money secured on parochia) rates, or county rates, or
fampike tolls—is, in each case, void; and even where no particular fund is pointed out in the Will
for the payment of charitable legacies, and they are consequently a charge on the residue, and the
residue consists in part of property of all or either of the kinds above specified: so much of the legacies
will become void as shall bear the same proportion to the entire legacies as the exemptel property
bears to the entire residue.”

FORM OF A BEQUEST TO THE SOCIETY.
oma.

‘6 I give and bequeath to ‘Tax Missionary Society,’ usually called ‘ Tue
Lonpon Missionary Society,’ instituted in London in the year 1795, the Sum
of Pounds Sterling, to be raised and paid, for the purposes of
the said Institution, out of such part only of my personal estate as shall not consist
of chattels real, or money secured on mortgage of Lands or Tenements, or in any
other manner affecting Lands or Tenements: for which Legacy the receipt of the
Treasurer for the time being of the said Institution shall be a sufficient discharge
to my Executors.’’



° OF THE
\
DIRECTORS
TO
THE FORTY-EIGHTH GENERAL MEETING
OF THE
MISSIONARY SOCIETY,
USUALLY CALLED
Che London PMisstonary Society,
ON THURSDAY, MAY 12rn, 1842.
WITH
LISTS OF CONTRIBUTORS,
&c. &c. &e.
PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE GENERAL MEETING.
LONDON:

PRINTED BY W. M‘DOWALL, PEMBERTON-ROW, GOUGH SQUARE.
SOLD AT THE MISSION-HOUSER, BLOMFIELD-STREET; BY W. OLIPHANT AND
SON, SOUTH BRIDGE, AND WILLIAM INNES, HANOVER STREET,
EDINBURGH ; BY MR. RISK, 9, COCHRAN
STREET, GLASGOW; AND AT 7; LOWER
ABBEY-STREET, DUBLIN.

MDCCCIXLII,.






CONTENTS...
Page
Form or LEGAcres . . . . . . . ii
REGULATIONS OF THE SOCIETY . : . . : Vili
Resovutions of the Annual Meeting | . : . : : x
List or Drrecrors and OFrFicEers . . . . . xiii
Report ° . : . . . . . . 1
SOUTH SEAS . : ° . . . ° 3
GrorGian (oR WINDWARD) IsLAxDS .. , . ‘ ; 25
Wangh Town . . . . . . 4b.
Hankey City . ©. . : : ~ ~—«£8.
Wilks’ Harbour . ° . . . . 8b.
Barder’s Point . : . . . 26
Haweis Town . . . . . ° ab.
Bogue Town . . . . . : , 27
Roby Town . : oe ‘ . . tb.
Eimeo . . . ° . . . ib.
Sociery (on LEEWARD) Istanps ‘ . . : ib.
Huahine . . . . . . . ib.
Raiatea . . : . : . . 29
Borabora . . : . . . ° #b.
Hervey Istanps . . . . . . -
Rarotonga . . . . e . id.
MARQUESAS ° ° ° : ° ° . . di
Samoas, on NAVIGATORS IsLANDS . . . : 32
Savaii . : . . . . . . 4d.
Upolu and Manono ‘ : . . 33
Tutuila e e e . rf e e e 35
New HearibDrEs . . . . . . . - 37
ULTRA GANGES . . . . . ° ° 38
Macao 6 e e e . e » ° «5,
Malacca e « e e s « ° 39
Singapore : . : : . . - 4d.
Penang . . . ‘ ‘ . . 40
Batavia : . . . . . . 41
NORTHERN INDIA . . : ‘ . . . 42
Calcutta . : . . . . . 4B.
Chinsurah : . . . ‘ : 45
Berhampore . ‘ . . : : - 46
Benares ° . . . . . . tb.
Mirrapore e . » . ° ° ° 44
Surat . . . ‘ . . . 49



vi CONTENTS.
Page
PENINSULAR INDIA . ° . ° . . - 50
Madras e e e a e e e 46.
Vizagapatam sis : : . ‘ , . Ot
Belgaum. . . . : ‘ . 53
Bellary s e e e e e os 54
Bangalore . ‘ . . : . 56
Mysore . . . . : : ‘ 58
Salem e . e e es oe e 59
Combaconum . . . . . . . 60
Coimbatoor . . ° . . . 61
SOUTH TRAVANCORE . . ° . . . . 63
Nagercoil . . : . . . . tb.
Neyoor . . . . . : . 65
Trevandrum ° ° . . ° . 66
Quilon @ e ° a o e e e 67
MEDITERRANEAN . . ° . ° . . 68
Corfu e o e e@ e e e e 16,
SOUTH AFRICA . . . . . . . ° 69
STATIONS WITHIN THE COLONY . . . . . ib.
Cape Town : . . , . . ‘ ib.
Paarl e e e es e e e 70
Caledon Institution ° . e . . . 71
Tulbagh . . . . ° . . ib.
Klaas Vooks River . a . ; . . ib.
Pacaltsdorp . . ° . . . ib.
Dysalsdorp . . . . . : . 72
Hankey e e e e e e ° 73
Bethelsdorp ‘ . : : . . : id.
Port Elizabeth . ; . ° . ° 74
Uitenhage e e oe es ® a Ss 1d.
Graham’s Town . ° . . e . 79
Graaff Reinet . . ° . . . . 1b.
Theopolis . . . . . . . 76
Kat River . . ° : . ° ° tb.
Cradock . . ° ° : ° . 77
Long Kloof . ° ° ° . e e 78
Colesberg . . . . ‘ ‘ ‘ ib.
STATIONS BEYOND THE COLONY . . . . . . 79
Caffreland . . . . . . : id.
Griqua Town . . : . . , 82
Lekatlong : . . . : . 83
Lattakoo . . . ° . . ° 84
Philippolis e s , e e e 6 85
Komaggas . . . . . . . 86
Steinkopff e e ° e e s e 1d.
AFRICAN ISLANDS . . . . ° : . 87
Madagascar . ° . . . . ‘ id.
Mauritius . . . . . . ° ib.
WEST INDIES . . . . . . . . 88
Demenarna—George Town . . . . . 89
Ebenezer Chapel . ‘ . . ib.
Freedom Chapel . . . 90
DeMERARA—Canal, No. 1. . . ° . td.
Montrose . . . ° . td.
Lusignan ss. . . , . ib.



CONTENTS. vil
WEST INDIES—(continued). Page
Brersice—New Amsterdam . . . . 91
Lonsdale . . . . . tb.
West Coast—Hanover . . . . 92
Fearn . ° ° ; : . ib.
. Blyendaal . : : . : ib.
Albion , ° . . . . ib.
JAMAICA—First Hill . : ° . . 93
Dry Harbour . . . . ‘ 94
Mandeville . . . . . 8b.
Whitefield . . . . ° id.
Four Paths . . . . . 95
Chapelton . . : . ° . 96
Mount Zion. . . . . id.
Kingston . « . : . . 97
Shortwood . . : ° . 98
Morant Bay . . . . .. &.
Prospect Penn . . . . £d.
List oF STations, MISSIONARIES, &c. : . . ° . 99
J.irz Memsens by Donations . ° . . . . i
—____—--——__——_ payments of Legacies. ° . . . vi
ContTaisuTions for the Year 1841—42:;
Annual Subscriptions in London and its Vicinity . . . vii
Donations in ditto . . . . . . . Viil
Auxiliary Societies, Congregational Collections, &c. . . x
Abstract of the London Auxiliary Societies . . . . xxvii
Legacies, Small Associations, Missionary Boxes, &c. . . i.
Contributions in Great Britain and Ireland :—
ENGLAND . : e . . . XXvii
WaLes . . . ° ; e lxxiii
ScorTrLaND . . . . . - lexx
IRELAND . . . . . : Ixxxiv
Contributions of Forricn Societigs . . » lexxv
Assta act of the County Auxiliary Societies . . . ° Ixxxvi
GeneRaL SumMARY or ContTrisurTions for the Year 1841—1842 . . ixxxvii
DisspursEeMENTS for Ditto . ° ; ° . - _ Lxxxviii
Generac STATEMENT of Receipts and Disbursements, &c. . ° . = Xcill
Conrriputions for Special Objects, viz.—
For African Objects . | . . . . ‘ xciil
the Anglo-Chinese College. . . : - «8»
building Chapels in India . . , : id.
the Chinese Mission . . . . . . 1b
Female Education . . ° . . 4b.
the Support of Native Schools. ‘ . ’ xciv
the Support of Native Teachers ‘ : . - xev
the South Sea Missions . . ° . : xcvi
the West Indies . . . . . ‘ td.
the Widows’ and Orphans’ Fund . . . 85.
the Widow and Family of Rev. J. Williams . ‘ «
Conraisurians received at the Missionary Stations . ‘ ‘ xoix
LEGACIES e e e e s e e o e cvi
Coucections at the ANNiveRsARY, May, 1842 ‘ ‘ . tb.



Regulations
OF
THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
ESTABLISHED IN 1795.
PLAN.

I.—Tur Name*.—THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

II.—Tuer Ossect.—The sole object is to spread the knowledge
of Christ among heathen and other unenlightened nations.

IIJ.—Tsr MemsBers.—Persons subscribing one guiner, or more,
annually—every benefactor making a donation of ten pounds—one of
the executors, on the payment of a legacy amounting to fifty pounds,
or upwards; and Ministers, or other representatives of congregations
in the country, who subscribe or collect for the use of the Society five
pounds annually.

IV.—Generat Meetines.—To be held annually in London, on
the second Wednesday in May, and oftener, if necessary, to choose a
Treasurer, Directors, Secretary, and Collectors, and to receive reports,
audit accounts, and deliberate on what farther steps may best promote
the objects of the Society. At every such Meeting, one Sermon or
more shall be preached by one or more of the associated Ministers, and
notice given, as usual, on such occasions. The President for the day
shall open and conclude the meeting with prayer, and sign the minutes
of the proceedings. All matters proposed shall be determined by the
majority of the members present.

V.—Tue Direction.—To consist of as many Directors, annually
chosen out of its members, as circumstances may require. At the first
meeting, twenty-five shall be elected, with power to associate with
themselves such additional number as may be judged by them expedient,
when the extent of the Society is ascertained. Three-fifths, and no
more, of the Directors shall reside in or near London; where all
monthly meetings shall be held for transacting the business of the
Society. Not less than seven shall constitute a board. For greater
facility and expedition, they may subdivide into Committees for managing
the funds, conducting the correspondence, making Reports, examining
Missionaries, directing the Missions, &c.; but no act of these Commit-
tees shall be valid till ratified at a monthly meeting. No expenditure
exceeding 100/. shall be made without consulting all the Directors; or
5002. without calling a general meeting of the subscribers. Annual

* 14th May, 1818.— Resolved, That the title of this Society be in future, Tue
MISSIONARY SOCIETY, USUALLY CALLED, Tuk LONDON Missionagy Socigery.



. PLAN OF THE SOCIETY. ix
Subscribers of 10/. or upwards, and benefketors of 100/. or more, may
attend, if they please, with the Directors, at any of the monthly meet-
ings. On any emergency, the Directors shall call a general meeting of
the Society, to whom their arrangements will be submitted; nor shall
they enter upon a new Mission, till they obtain the general concurrence.

VI.—Tur Funps—arising from donations, legacies, subscriptions,
collections, &c., shall be lodged, as soon as collected, in the hands of
the Treasurer. The Directors shall place in the public funds all monies
so paid, whenever they exceed 300/., until they are required for the
use of the Mission, except it appears to them prejudicial to the interests
of the Society.

VII.—-SaLaries.—The Secretary shall receive such a salary as
the Directors may appoint; but the Directors themselves shall transact
the business of the Society without any emolument.

At the Annual Meeting, held the 12th of May, 1824.

Resolved, That a Copy of the Fundamental Principle, adopted at
the First Annual Meeting in May, 1796, be printed at the end of the
Plan.

7 FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE.

As the union of Christians of various denominations, in carrying on
this great work, is a most desirable object; so to prevent, if possible,
any cause of future dissension, it is declared to be a fundamental prin-
ciple of the Missionary Society, that its design is not to send Presby-
terianism, Independency, Episcopacy, or any other form of Church
order and government, (about which there may be difference of opinion
among serious persons), but the glorious gospel of the blessed God to
the heathen; and that it shall be left (as it ought to be left) to the
minds of the persons whom God may call into the fellowship of his
Son from among them, to assume for themselves such form of Church
government as to them shall appear most agreeable to the word of God.

At the Annual Meeting, held the 14th of May, 1812.

Resolved, that those Ministers in the Country, who are annual
subscribers, or whose congregations send an annual collection to the
Society; and all Presidents, or principal officers, of Country Auxiliary
Societies, who may be in London occasionally, shall be Directors pro
tempore, and be entitled to meet and vote with the Directors.

At the Annual Meeting, held the 15th of May, 1828.

Resolved, That the Treasurer and Secretaries be, ex officio, entitled
to meet and vote with the Directors of the Society.



RESOLUTIONS.
AT THE FORTY-EIGHTH GENERAL MEETING
OF
THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY;
USUALLY CALLED
The Aondon Missionary Horiety,
HELD IN
EXETER HALL, STRAND, ON THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1842,
THE HON. WILLIAM FRANCIS COWPER, M.P.,
IN THE CHAIR,

An Abstract of the Report of the Society’s Froceedings for the past year
having been read by the Rev. Arruur Trpman, the following Reso-
lutions were severally moved, seconded, and unanimously adopted by
the Meeting:—

On the Motion of the Ricut Honoraste Sir Georce Grey, Bart., seconded
by the Rev. Tuomas Byrtu, D.D., Rector of Wallasey, Liverpool,
supported by the Rey, A. F. Lacroix, Missionary from Calcutta—

RESOLVED,

I. ‘‘ That the Report, of which an abstract has been read, be approved, printed,
and circulated. That this meeting reviews, with hallowed joy, the progress of the
Missionary cause, through the agency of the London Missionary Society, during the
past year, in the advancement of civilization and social happiness, among tribes and
nations once the victims of gross ignoranee and hateful passions; in the extended
education of the young, both in useful and in sacred knowledge; in the translation
and circulation of the Holy Scriptures in the dialects of Polynesia, India, and
Africa; in the numerous striking conversions of the heathen to the faith of Christ ;
and in the general purity, order, and activity of the Mission churches. But this
meeting, deeply sensible that such glorious results of an agency, feeble and imperfect,
must be attributed, exclusively, to the grace of the exalted Saviour, through the
power of the Holy Spirit, humbly and gratefully ascribe to Him the honour and the
praise.’”’

On the Motion of Wittum Evans, Esq., M.P., seconded by the Rev.

JoserH FiercuEer, D,D.—

RESOLVED,

II. ‘“* That this meeting, considering the general and unprecedented commercial de-
pression which has long prevailed, cannot but receive the announcement of an increase
in the Society’s income with unusual satisfaction. It marks with pleasure and with
hope the liberal offerings of the young, especially of those in Sabbath-schools.; and,
above all it is gratified and encouraged by the zeal and liberality of the Mission
churches, from which nearly a fourth of the Society’s income has been derived.
Nevertheless, contemplating the misery, degradation, and guilt of hundreds of mil-
lions of uninstructed heathen ; regarding, also, the wonderful facilities afforded by
Divine Providence for enlarged Christian efforts, and solemnly recognising the un-
alterable command of the Lord Jesus, that his Gospel should be preached to every
creature, this meeting urges on all the friends of the Society, both at home and
abroad, the imperative duty of persevering, systematic, and enlarged liberality, while
it trusts that their most generous efforts will be sustained and sanctified by the
spirit of devotion.”



RESOLUTIONS. xi
On the Motion of the Rev. W. G. Banrerr, Missionary from Jamaica, se-
conded by the Rev. Grorez Pritcaarp, Missionary from the South
Sea Islands—
RESOLVED,

III. ‘‘ That Thomas Wilson, Esq., be the Treasurer ; that the Rev. Arthur Tidman
and the Rev. Joseph John Freeman be the Foreign Secretaries, and the Rev. John
Arundel be the Home Secretary, for the ensuing year. That the Directors, who are
eligible, be re-appointed; and that the gentlemen, whose names will be read, be
chosen to fill up the places of those who retire; and that the Directors have power
to fill up vacancies.’

On the Motion of the Rev. Ropert Morrat, Missionary from South Africa,
seconded by Freprrick Smiru, Ese.—
RESOLVED, |

IV. ‘‘ That the most respectful and cordial acknowledgments of this meeting be
presented to the Hon. William Francis Cowper, M. P., for his obliging services, in
presiding on this occasion, and conducting the business of the day.”’

RESOLUTIONS AT THE ADJOURNED MEETING,
HELD IN
FINSBURY CHAPEL, CITY,
On Thursday Evening, May 12, 1842,
WILLIAM ALERS HANKEY, Esa., In THE CHAIR.

The Chairman having explained the circumstances under which the
meeting was held, and the Rev. J. J. FReeman having read an abstract of
the Report, the following resolutions were moved, seconded, and unani-
inously adopted by the Meeting: —

On the Motion of the Rev. Gzoree Gocer.y, late Missionary in Calcutta,
seconded by the Rev, Wiiu1am Buyers, Missionary from Benares—
RESOLVED,

I. ‘‘That this Meeting solemnly recognises the imperative claims for enlarged
Missionary efforts, presented in the absurd and abominable idolatry of the East, and
more particularly by the various tribes and natives of British India, where multitudes
of our fellow-subjects have long been suffered to remain in the lowest depths of in-
tellectual and moral degradation.’’

On the Motion of the Rev. W. G. Barrert, Missionary from Jamaica,
seconded by the Rey. Robert Hatzey, D. D., of Manchester—
RESOLVED,

II. ‘‘ That this Meeting is truly gratified by the success of Missionary labours in
the West Indies; it renders thanks to God who has favoured the devoted agents of
the Society with a share in these triumphs; and it is greatly cheered and encouraged
by the zeal and liberality of the negro churches, as affording strong grounds of hope
that they will speedily be not only able to discharge their own expenses, but will
also become effective auxiliaries in efforts to extend the Gospel throughout the world.’’
On the Motion of the Rev. Gzorce Paitcuarp, Missionary from the South

Seas, seconded by the Rev. Joun Campsext, D. D. of London—
RESOLVED,

III. ‘* That this meeting cherishes devout thankfulness to the God of all grace,

for the eminent success with whioh he has blessed the labours of our Missionaries



xil RESOLUTIONS.

in many of the Islands of the South Pacific Ocean; and they earncatly entreat the

friends of the London Missionary Society to adopt every practicable effort to increase

its resources, so as to enable the Directors to avail themselves of the new and widely

extended fields which Divine Providence is opening in Polynesia, for the introduction

of the Gospel.”’

On the Motion of the Rev. Joun Morison, D. D., of London, seconded by
the Rev. Ropent Morrat, Missionary from South Africa—

RESOLVED,

IV. ‘' That this meeting contemplates, with hallowed pleasure, the triumphs of
the Gospel in Southern Africa, in the advancement among savage tribes and nations
of the blessings of civilization and social happiness; and especially in the harmony,
order, and piety, evinced by those who have been converted by the Gospel, and who
are united in the fellowship of Christ ’’

On the Motion of the Rev. A. F. Lacrorx, Missionary from Calcutta, se-
conded -by the Rev. Joun ALExanpERr, of Norwich—
RESOLVED, _ |

V. ‘* That the most cordial thanks of this meeting be presented to William Alers
Hankey, Esq., for his able conduct in the chair; also to Frederick Smith, Esq., who
kindly succeeded Mr. Hankey, on his vacating the chair.”’

AT A MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
HELD AT THE
MISSION-HOUSE, BLOMFIELD STREET,
On Monday, May 16, 1842,
FREDERICK SMITH, Ese 1n THE cuHarr,
IT Was
RESOLVED,

‘¢ That the most cordial thanks be presented to the Rev. Thomas Byrth, D. D.,
the Rev. Joseph Sortain, A. B., and the Rev. William Buyers, for the important
services they have respectively rendered by the interesting discourses delivered before
the members and friends of the society at the late Annual Meeting.”’

RESOLVED ALSO,

‘‘That the grateful acknowledgments of the Board be presented to the Ministers
and Officers of those Places of Worship, the use of which was granted for the ser-
mons on the 8th of May, and for the various religious services at the late Annual
Meeting.”’



LIST OF DIRECTORS.
1842.
London,

Adey, Rev. John Allan, Mr. David
Archer, Rev. Thomas (A.M.) Bateman, Mr. William
Burder, Rev. H. F. (D.D.) Challis, Mr. Thomas
Burnet, Rev. John Charles, Mr. Robert
Campbell, Rev. John (D.D.) Coombs, Mr. T. M.
Clayton, Rev. John, Junr, Cunliffe, Mr. Roger
Dubourg, Rev. S. A. Dunn, Mr. Henry
Dunn, Rev. E. A. Dyer, Mr. John
Fletcher, Rev. Alexander (A.M.) Foulger, Mr. John
Harry, Rev. N. M. Freeman, Mr. William
Henderson, Rev. E. (D.Ph.) Hopkins, Mr. Henry
Hill, Rev. James Oldfield, Mr. T. B.
Hunt, Rev. John Piper, Mr. Thomas
Jackson, Rev. Thomas Simpson, Mr. Robert
Jefferson, Rev. John Smith, Mr. Ebenezer
Jenkyn, Rev. T. W. (D.D.) Smith, Mr. Frederick
Lewis, Rev. Thomas Sparke, Mr. John Guise
Mannering, Rev. Edward Stroud, William, M.D.
Morison, Rev. John (D.D.) Swaine, Mr. Edward
Palmer, Rev. W.S. Waller, Charles, MD.
Philip, Rev. Robert Wilson, Mr. George
Townley, Rev. Henry Wilson, Mr. Joshua
Vaughan, Rev. Robert (D.D.)
Yockney, Rev. John
Young, Rev. John (A.M.)

J. T. Conquest, M.D., F.L.S. ve

George, Darling, M.D. Physicians.

John Young, Esq. .

Joseph Blower, Esq. \ Solicitors.

Country.

Addiscott, Rev. Henry, Maidenhead. Eccles, Rev. W., Hopton.
Adkins, Rev. Thomas, Southampton. Edmonds, Rev. J., St. Helens, Prescot.
Anthony, Rev. Isaac, Hertford. Elliott, Rev. Richard, Devizes.
Berry, Rev. C., Hatfield Heath. Ely, Rev. John, Leeds.
Besley, Rev. H., I/fracomée. England, Rev. S. S., Royston.
Bristow, Rev. J., Exeter. Ewing, Rev. Alexander, Halifax.
Bull, Rev. Josiah, Newport Pagnell. Fletcher, Rev. Richard, Manchester.
Chaplin, Rev. W., Bishop’s Stortford. Flower, Rev. John, Beccles.
Clunie, Rev. J. (LL.D.), Manchester. Foster, Rev. J. K., Sittingdourn.
Connebee, Rev. R., Dorking. Frost, Rev. Richard, Dunmow.
Cope, Rev. R. (LL.D.), Penryn. Gallaway, Rev. J. C., West Bromwich.
Cousins, Rev. T., Portsea. Garthwaite, Rev. W., Wattesfeld.
Craig, Rev. T., Bocking. Gawthorne, Rev. T. R., Belper.
Cresswell, Rev. H., Canterbury. Gilbert, Rev. Joseph., Nottingham.
Cuff, Rev. J. H., Wellington. Gladatone, Rev. G., Lincoln.
Davies, Rev. J., Taunton. Glendenning, Rev. John, Huddersfield.
Davis, Rev. W., Hastings. Goulty, Rev. J.N., Brighton.
Dewhurst, Rev. C., Bury St. Edmunds. | Gray, Rev. Joseph, Chelmgford.
Durant, Rev. Thomas, Poole. Guyer, Rev. T.S., Ryde, Isle of Wight.



Halley, Rev. R. (D.D.), Manchester. Smith, Rev. George, Plymouth.
Hammond, Rev. John, Handsworth. Slate, Rev. R., Preston.
Harris, Rev. John, (D.D.), Cheshunt. Spencer, Rev. William, Devonport.
Haynes, Rev. T., Bristol. Stowell, Rev. W. H., Rotherham.
Hine, Rev. T. C., Plymouth. Stratten, Rev. Thomas, Hull.
Holland, Rev. J. K., St. Ives. | Thodey, Rev. S., Cambridge.
Hoxley, Rev. John, Sherborne. Wallis, Rev. William, Sudbury.
Hunter, Rev. George, Brighton. | Weaver, Rev. Thomas, Shrewsbury.
Hurndall, Rev. W. A., Huddersfield. Wild, Rev. William, Guernsey.
Jack, Rev. A., North Shields. . Wright, Rev. W., Honiton.
Jackson, Rev. James, Greenhammerton.
James, Rev. J. A., Birmingham. Ash, Mr. Richard, Bristo/.
Jinkings, Rev. E., Maidstone. Baines, Mr. Edward, Jr., Leeds.
Johnson, Rev. Joseph, Farnham. Beaumont, Mr. William, Birmingham.
Johnson, Rev. B., Halstead. Beddome, J. R. (M.D.), Romsey.
Kent, Rev. B., Barnstaple. Blackburn, Mr. T., Liverpool.
Keynes, Rev. Richard, Blandford. Blair, Mr. W. T., Bath.
Legg, Rev. William, Reading. Brooker, Mr. Henry, Brighton. .
Lucy, Rev. W., Bristol. Clapham, Mr. John, Leeds.
Luke, Rev. Samuel, Chester. Cobb, Mr. F. W., Margate.
Luke, Rev. Thomas, Taunton. Davenport, Mr. G., Oaford.
Mann, Rev. Thomas, Tro‘cbridge. Derry, Mr. David, Plymouth.
March, Rev. H., Newdury. Fletcher, Mr. S., Manchester.
Martin, Rev. S., Cheltenham. Foster, Mr. Charles, Guildford.
Moase, Rev. C., Bassingbourn. Goodchild, Mr. J. D., Reading.
Morell, Rev. S., Little Baddow. Hamer, Mr. J., Preston.
Morley, Rev. John, Hult. Hodgson, Mr. Joseph, Bakewell.
Moore, Rev. W., Truro. Ibotson, Mr. Percy, Poyle.
Moseley, Rev. T. (A.M.), Birmingham. | Job, Mr. Samuel, Liverpool.
Owen, Rev. John, Bath. Johnson, Mr. Professor, Hertford.
Parsons, Rev. James, York. Kay, Mr. William, Liverpool.
Pattison, Rev. J., Wem. Kershaw, Mr. J., Manchester.
Payne, Rev. G. (LL.D.), Exeter. Kingsbury, Mr. T., Putney.
Perrot, Rev. Francis, Island of Jersey. Nunneley, Mr. T., Leicester.
Pridie, Rev. James, Halifaz. Osborn, Mr. G., Newport Pagnell.
Pringle, Rev. James, Newcastle. Penfold, Mr. William, Brighton.
Pogsley, Rev. N. K., Stockport. Prust, Mr. Stephen, Bristol.
Raffles, Rev. T. (LL.D.), Liverpool. Ray, Mr. Shepherd, Ipswich.
Raven, Rev. John, Birmingham. Ridley, Mr. William, Felstead.
Redford, Rev. G. (D.D.), Worcester. Seymour, Mr. William, Jun., Odiham.
Reeve, Rev. W., Oswestry. Smith, Mr. J. W., Sheffield.
Reid, Rev. Alexander, Newcastle. Stancliffe, Mr. William, Hopton.
Reynolds, Rev. John, Romsey. Stuart, Mr. William, Plymouth.
Richardson, Rev. J. W., Sunderland. Thompson, Mr. T., Poundeford Park,
Robinson, Rev. Richard, Witham. Vallance, Mr. James, Brighton.
Roper, Rev. H. I., Bristol. Venning, Mr. John, Norwich.
Rooker, Rev. William, Tavistock. Walker, Mr. H., Rotherham.
Rowland, Rev. J., Henley-on-Thames. Ward, Mr. J. F., Brighton.
Scales, Rev. T., Leeds. Watkinson, Mr. Thomas, York.
Scott, Rev. W., Airedale College. Wells, Mr. W. C., Chelmsford.
Sibree, Rev. John, Coventry. Willans, Mr. Peter, Leeds.

CHales.
Breese, Rev. John, Carmarthen. Roberts, Rev. Samuel, Lianbrynmair.
Charles, Rev. David (A.B.), Bala. Warlow, Rev. William, Mif{ford.
Griffiths, Rev. William, Holyhead. Davies, Mr. John, Vronheulog.
Howell, Rev. David, Swansea, Davies, Mr. R., Aberystwith.
Hughes, Rev. Hugh, Llanrwst. Lloyd, Mr. Thomas, Cardigan.
Jones, Rev. W., Swansea. Morgan, J. L. (M.D.), Haverfordwest.
Lloyd, Rev. John, Henllan, Narberth. | Owens, Mr. T., Holywell.
Rees, Rev. David, Lianelly.



DIRECTORS, XV
Scotland.
Alexander, Rev. W. L., Edinburgh. Paterson, Rev. John (D.D.), Edinburgh.
Beattie, Rev. Dr., Glasgow. Risk, Mr. John, Glasgow.
Bennie, Rev. A., Edinburgh. Russell, Rev. David (D.D.), Dundee.
Brown, Rev. J. (D.D.), Edinburgh. Wardlaw, Rev. R. (D.Ds), Glasgow.
Cullen, Rev. G. D., Leith. Watson, Rev. John, Musselburgh.
French, Rev. John, Edinburgh. Black, Mr. Adam, Edinburgh.
Grey, Rev. Henry (A.M.), Edinburgh. Buchan, Mr. George, Kelloe.
Heugh, Rev. Hugh, (D.D.), Glasgow. Dalzell, Major, Glenae House, Dumfries.
Kennedy, Rev. James, Inverness. Douglas, Mr. J., Cavers.
King, Rev. David (LL.D ), Glasgow. Fullarton, Mr. J. A., Glasgow.
Morison, Rev. Joseph, Millseat. Paton, Mr. W. P., Glasgow.
M'Neil, Rev. N., Elgin. Yule, Mr. George, Edinburgh.
Ereland.
Carlile, Rev. J., Dudlin. Figgis, Mr. Thomas, Dublin.
Miller, Rev. T., Cooks- Town. Hogan, Mr. W. C., Dublin.
Singer, Rev. Dr., Dudlin. Logan, Mr. W. C., Cork.
Urwick, Rev. W. (D.D.), Dublin. Manly, Mr. Joseph, Cork. .
Watson, Rev. G. N., Limerick. Singer, Mr. P. /., Dublin.
Ferrier, Mr. J., Dublin. Weir, Mr. Joseph, Belfast.
Foreign Directors. |
EUROPE.
The Presidents of the following Societies: | Rhenish Missionary Society.
Religious Society at Basle. Swedish Missionary Society.
Missionary Society at Rotterdam. Also:
Society for promoting the Gospel in Den- | Rev. Mark Wilks, Paris.
mark. Mr. Bernardus Ledeboer, Rotterdam.
Paris Missionary Society.
AMERICA.
The Hon. John Cotton Smith, LL.D., | TheHon.StephenVan Rensselaer, LL.D.,
President of the American Board of Albany, New York.
Foreign Missions. Rev. J. Codman, D.D., Dorchester.
Rev. Leonard Woods, D.D., Andover, | Hon. Sam. Hubbard, LL.D., Boston.
President of the Missionary Society | Rev. W. Sprague, D.D., Albany.
in Massachusetts. Rev. Gardiner Spring, D.D., New York.



xvi | DIRECTORS, &c.
SOUTH AFRICA.
Rev. John Philip, D.D., Cape Town. | Mr. Rynier Beck, Cape Town.
MAURITIUS.
Rev. John Le Brun, Port Louis. | T. S. Kelsey, Esq., Port Louis.
SYDNEY.
Rev. ROBERT ROSS, M.D., Agent of the Society.
Trustees of the Society.
WILLIAM ALERS HANKEY, Esq. | THOMAS MERRIMAN COOMBS,
THOMAS WILSON, Esq. Esq.
OFFICERS.
THOMAS WILSON, Esgq., Treasurer.
Rev. ARTHUR TIDMAN. Foreion Secretari
Rev. JOSEPH JOHN FREEMAN, Greig wecrerartes.
Rev. JOHN ARUNDEL, Home Secretary.
Mr. JOHN SARD, Cullector.
Monations and Subscriptions
FOR
THE LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY
ARE RECFIVED BY THE
TREASURER AND THE SECRETARIES,
AT THE .
MISSIONHOUSE, BLOMFIELD STREET, FINSBURY, LONDON,
By the following Bankers. .
Messrs. Haxxegy, Fenchurch Street, The Rovay Banx or ScoTLanp, Glas-
London. | gow.
Messrs. Coutts & Co., Strand, London. | Bank or ScotTLanp, St. Andrew’s.
THOMASWALKER, Esq., & Co., Oxford. | Tax Bankine Company, Aberdeen.
Joun Mortciock, Esq.,& Sons, Cam- | G. Laroucak, Esq., & Co., Dublin.
bridge. ; G. Yuux, Esq., Broughton Hall, Edin-
Sir W. Forses, Bart. & Co., Edinburgh. | burgh.
AND BY ALL THE DIRECTORS OF THE SOCIETY.
** It is requested that all Letters on the business of the Society be addressed to
the respective officers, at the MISSION-HOUSE, BLOMFIELD-STREET,
Finsbury, London.



FORTY-EIGHTH REPORT
OF
THE LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY,
18% 2.

IN closing their duties fur the year, by rendering a faithful, though
very condensed, statement of the proceedings and interests of the Lon-
DON Missionary Society, the Directors are gratified in being able to
express their deliberate conviction that its advance in the path of
christian philanthropy has been steady and unintermitted, and that at
no former period of its history were its position and its prospects cal-
culated to afford to its enlightened friends stronger motives to encou-
ragement and perseverance.

The recent operations of the Society have not, indeed, been followed
by results calculated to produce powerful and unusual excitement, yet
the power of divine mercy has ceased not to attend its course, and, like
the influence of nature in the vernal season, gentle but omnipotent, it
has heen followed by the bud, the blossom, and the fruit. If Mission-
ary success ought to be appreciated, as the Directors are assured by this
assembly it will, not by the particular or uncommon appearance it may
assume, but rather, hke good seed, by the pledge it affords of future
extension and productiveness, then must the labors of the Society for
the year just closed, supply an ample remuneration for the past, and
ground of glorious hope for coming years.

With thankfulness to the Father of mercies, it must be stated also,
that the faith and patience of the Directors have been less severely tried
since the last Anniversary by the loss of faithful brethren laboring
among the heathen, than in many former years of the Society’s history.
They have not, indeed, been exempted from the visitations of disease
and death; three male, and four female, laborers have been called from
their work:—Rev. G. Walton, of Salem; Rev. C. Miller, of Nager-
coil; Mrs. Flower, of Surat: and Mrs. Slatyer, Mrs. Holland, and Mrs,
Morris, of the West India Mission. But, while the Directors honor
their memory and deplore their removal, they cannot but rejoice that
the number of the departed is less than that which the Society has suf-
fered during some preceding years. Seven faithful brethren, Rev. A.
F, Lacroix, Rev. G. Gogerly, Rev. W. G. Barrett, Rev. W. Swan,
Rev. E. Stallybrass,, Rev. H. C. Werth, Rev. C. G. Stevens, accom-
panied by their wives and children, have been constrained to retire
by the loss of health, or other imperative causes, from their fields of
labor; but of those now at home, twelve, at the least, anticipate an
early return, accompanied by new companions and fellow-laborers in
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While regretting even the temporary absence of devoted Missionaries
from a service in which they are so greatly needed, the Directors cannot
too strongly assure the friends of the Society, that their brethren never
retreat from their much-loved labors till the preservation of life demands
it, or unless constrained by the well-founded hope, that with renovated
strength they may return to labor for future years for the glory of
Christ and the salvation of the heathen. Nor can the Directors for-
bear to observe, that, in many instances, the suspension of their labors
among the heathen, great as the loss must be, has been more than
compensated by the value of their exertions'at home, and has thus
turned out rather to the furtherance of the Gospel. These are men
who do not eat the bread of idleness, and pass their days among us in
self-indulgence or needless relaxation; they are workmen not needing to
be ashamed,—abundant in labors, in season and out of season, to the
utmost of their power, yea, and beyond strength. And as witnesses
for Christ, and advocates for the heathen, their services are cheering
and profitable to our churches, and to them, under God, above all other
advocates, the cause of Missions at home is chiefly indebted for its
vitality and strength.

The members of the Society will be rejoiced to learn, that, although
a reduction exceeding twenty has been made from the laborers in the
field, their places have been more than occupied by others. Twenty-
six have gone forth: four to Polynesia, two to Singapore, five to India,
six to Mauritius, and to the West Indies nine. The names of those
who have embarked are as follow:—for the South Sea Islands, Rev. J.
T. Jesson, with Mrs. Jesson and family; Rev. T.S. M‘Kean and Mrs.
M‘Kean.—Ultra Ganges, Rev. Samuel Dyer and Mrs. Dyer.—India,
Rev. J. H. Budden; Mr. B. H. Paine and Mrs. Paine; Rev. William
Morton and Mrs. Morton.—Mauritius, Mrs. Johns and four Malagasy
Christians; Mrs. Baker.— West Indies, Rev. F. W. Wheeler; Mr. and
Mrs. Pettigrew; Rev. E. A. Walibridge, Mrs. Wallbridge, and family;
Miss Hick; Miss Scrymgour; Mr. Dalgleish; and Mr. Parker.

The Board of Directors has been deprived by death of the presence
of George Bennet, Esq. This active and long-tried friend of the So-
ciety terminated life without the warning of a moment, while pursuing
his wonted course of benevolence, on the 13th of November. On this
solemn occasion, the Directors gave expression to their sentiments and
feelings in the following Resolution, in which they doubt not the Society
at large will cordially concur: —

** Resolved, That, in receiving the mournful intelligence of the sudden
decease of George Bennet, Esq., the Directors of the London Mis-
sionary Society, while devoutly solicitous to improve this solemn
and admonitory dispensation of infinite wisdom, cannot withhold
the tribute of respect and affection to the memory of their departed
friend and fellow-labourer in the service of Christ.

With humble gratitude to fhe God of Grace, they record his vo-
luntary withdrawment in the vigour of life from the advantages of
secular occupation, and the consecration of his time and influence to
the sacred objects of benevolence and religion ;—objects which thence-
forth occupied his time and engaged his energies to the latest hour of

e.

But especially would the Directors embrace this solemn occasion
to bear testimony to Mr. Bennet’s disinterested zeal and self-denying
devotedness to the cause of Christian Missions;—motives which in-
duced him, at the invitation of the Board, to relinquish the enjoy-
ments of country and home, and, in association with the late Rev.



1842. ] . SOUTH SEAS. t 3
‘Daniel Tyerman, to persevere, during a period of nearly eight years,
amidst perils by sea, perils by land, and perils from the heathen,
in a course of visitation of the varied fields of the Society’s la-
bours in Polynesia, Asia, and Africa, with the view of augmenting

its efficiency, and promoting its great object—the glory of Christ in
the salvation of the heathen.” | -

In surveying the several fields of the Society’s efforts,

THE ISLANDS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN,
in which its course of mercy was commenced, require the first attention.

In the Reports of former years, the apprehensions of the Directors
were fully expressed, that, in the islands composing the Society and
Georgian Groups, the advance of piety had, to a grievous extent, given
place to the spirit of the world. Those fears have proved but too well
founded; and in Tahiti, the principal island, and the seat of govern-
ment, the spirit and habits of many of the people are marked by levity,
avarice, or open immorality, and in the same degree by indifference to
the blessings of education and religion.

Still, among the members of the several churches, there are not a
few who have kept themselves unspotted from the world and walk
worthy of their high vocation; and as it respects others, amidst many
causes of sorrow, there are not wanting indications and promises of
improvement.

The Rev. J. M. Orsmond, who lately visited Sydney, gives a lively
picture of the joy and gratitude of the people on his return.

‘“* My short absence,” he writes, “from Tahiti has proved of the most
essential service to my health. Daring that period my native schools were
well kept up, and I was comforted on my return by witnessing the great
joy of my people in again beholding me. As soon as it was said, ‘ Here is
our Missionary, he has not abandoned us, he has come indeed,’ all were in
motion. First, the children of each school came in separate bodies with
food of all sorte—fish, fowls, plantains, oranges, &c., which they threw
down in a heap before me. Ater shaking hands they retired, exclaiming
as they went, ‘ Because of the goodness of God you are brought to us
again.’

“‘ Almost every family came separately to shew their pleasure on the
occasion of my return. A hog was presented by one; a huge bunch of
banana, or mountain plantains, by another; a fowl or fish by another ;
others brought a selection of fruit ; and tears of joy were shed by all. The
poor people sat about my doors, in my rooms, about my feet, for hours ;
some weeping, some shouting ‘Salvation to you, our Pastor ;’ while, at a
little distance outside, others expressed their delight by dancing about, and
singing ‘Our parent is come, is come ; our parent is come, and God brought
him back.’

‘“‘ Our congregations increase, and many are pressing into our churches.
For goodness of temper, general moral conduct, correct scriptural know-
ledge, decided attachment to the gospel, and, in the aggregate, pleasing con-
sistency, as church-members, I am bold to say, that they are fit to be
placed on a footing with any equal number of professing Christians of any
church in any part of the globe.”

While deploring the evils that have drawn away many from the ways
of righteousness, and hindered the gospel of Christ in its triumphant pro-
gress, we must not forget that their tempters and seducers have been
found among the nominal Christians who have visited the islands for

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purposes of commerce, or for the direct practice of licentiousness, and
who have laboured too successfully to diffuse the deadly influences of
their vices. One of our brethren, writing in July last, observes—

“* We have had peace in the islands for several years, and for the last six
or seven we have had but little drunkenness. But of late the French and
American Consuls have determined to break though all restrictions, and in
spite of law they have openly forced the public sale of spirits. They had
Jong tried to do this, but were kept in check by the British Consul,
Mr. Pritchard, but now that he is on his way to England they are carrying
things their own way. In consequence, I have seen more drunkenness at
Eimeo the last six months than in seven years before; and it is daily
increasing.”

An attempt has recently been made by the French Consul to obtain
the introduction of French laws, and the acknowledgment of French
sovereignty in the Islands. This was carried into operation during the
absence of the Queen, by inducing certain of the Chiefs to sign a docu-
ment, which they did not understand, to the effect just stated; but
there is reason to hope that this base design will prove abortive, and
that, whatever may be the policy of France, the Government of Britain
will interpose by strong remonstrance to secure for the Islands the en-
joyment of their own laws and the preservation of their national inde-
pendence.

In The Hervey Islands the hopes inspired in former years have been
fully realised. ‘The churches continue to enjoy rest, and, walking in
the fear of the Lord and the comforts of the Holy Spirit, are multi-
plied. The translation of the entire Old Testament into the language of
Rarotonga, (a language unformed when they were first visited by the
Gospel), has been completed by Messrs. Pitman and Buzacott. The
Sacred Volume, now complete, including the New Testament translated
by our lamented brother Williams, will be printed in the Islands under
the superintendence of Mr. Pitman; or, if deemed more advisable, he
will visit England for that purpose.

In the spring of last year, Mr. Gill visited Mangaia, an island in
which no European Missionary had previously laboured, the people
being wholly indebted for their instruction in Christianity to the
efforts of a native teacher. Describing this new scene of his labours,
Mr. Gill observes: —

‘* Mangaia is an island about 120 miles south of Rarotonga ; it has a po-
pulation of several thougands, and has hitherto been supplied by native
teachers, placed here by our departed brother, Mr. Williams. The ood
work has been truly triumphant here. There are three settlements, about
eight miles distant from each other. Most of the old people read; and
although the Tahitian natiye teachers have not sufficiently attended to the
school, we have not less than 1,200 children, all most anxious to be in-
structed. We have brought a good supply of books; and the people are
building a school-house.

“‘ Since our arrival, our hands have been full of work. Day and night
the people come for instruction. The principal chapel is 133 feet long
by 35 wide. On the Sabbath it is overflowing —the children and young
people crowd round the windows.

‘* Pray for us, that strength and wisdom and prudence may be given to
us,—that, by our visit, souls may be saved, the church edified, and the
Saviour exalted.”

From these interesting and warm-hearted people the following letter
has just been received: —



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* Friends, Brethren, and Sisters, in England,—may you have the un-
numbered blessings of the new covenant, and e from God and Jesus
the Messiah, for seeking measures by which to bless all lands under heaven,
together with us also.

“ We are now rejoicing in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and in the know-
ledge of his death. This is why our present joy is very great, because of
the compassion of believers in Bnglan to us, and in their adopting plans
by which we early obtained a knowledge of Jesus the Saviour; and because
of your prayers, through which we have received an early acquaintance
with the Gospel of endless life.

“< We were heathens formerly, when the word of God came to Mangaia;
we did not quickly hold fast the word, but we persecuted it when Williams
first came to our land; then we were blind; we did not know that this was
the true message of God; but now we know.

‘We are now praising God, and praying that you may be assisted in the
work which is instrumental in causing this word of God to grow in all
lands; and we also have collected the little property of our land to unite
with you.

“ Last year we collected kaa, {native material for ropes]. Mr. John
Williams has taken the kaa to sell for us. This year we have collected
arrow-root, net, and other small articles of our land, and we have just planted
arrow-root for the year now before us, we, the men, the women, and the
children also. If we had other property in our land, we would collect the
things; but our land does not resemble yours, for the number and variety
of articles. Ours is a land of no real property.

“* Brethren, we are now compassionating the heathen, as you compas-
sionated us. Some of our brethren are greatly desiring to go to heathen
lands to make known the name of Jesus; because they are calling to us,
saying, ‘ Brethren, come over and help us.’

“* Now, brethren, pray to God for us, that His word may run quickly in
our land. There yet remains much evil, both in the Church and out.
Great numbers are yet obstinate, and will not receive the word of God.

“‘ This is the conclusion of our message at this season. May you be
saved by the living God!

“Na Namancatint, Collects.
Na Tax, Writes.

“‘ This is sent to Thomas Wilson, Esq., who collects together the pro-
perty of the Missionary Society, London, England.”—The sum was £16.

In The Navigators Islands our Missionary brethren have been un-
wearied in exertion, and the blessing of God has most conspicuously
and largely accompanied their labours.

In the establishment of schools both for the young and for the adult;
in the preparation and printing of school books and religious tracts
adapted to the people; and above all, publicly and from house to house,
in teaching and preaching Jesus Christ; they have manifested indefati-
gable diligence and untiring zeal.

In the month of June, 1840, the prayers of our brethren stationed
in the Island of Tutuila were answered in a remarkable awakening,
which appeared about the samc time among the people at three different
stations.

In relation to this solemn and delightful season, the journal of Mr.
Murray abounds with passages of extraordinary interest, of which the
following is an example: —

June 15th.—* The past night has been a most remarkable one—such a
sight as certainly never before occurred in this district. I retired about half
past ten o’clock, and fell asleep, with the voice of prayer and weeping sound-
ing inmy ears. About one o’clock, I was aroused by the same sounds, and

oing out, I found there was a general commotion throughout the village.
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and melting language, for the conversion of their brethren, while the voice
of weeping and wailing was heard in every direction, from those who have
been recently awakened. It was most deeply affecting to hear and to wit-
ness what was going on, and well fitted to fill the mind with the most
solemn and delightful emotions. It was a sweet, still, moonlight night,
and every thing seemed to wear an aspect of peculiar loveliness. I thought
of by-gone days, and experienced a thrill of grateful Boy; which words cannot
express, at the wonderful change which has been effected.”

As the happy result of this holy excitement, upwards of 400 souls
were added to the churches. of Tutuila in one year, while many re-
mained as candidates for the same privilege; and their subsequent sted-
fastness and consistency justify the conclusion that these unusual scenes,
though always to be viewed with the wisest discrimination and extreme
caution, were, in the present instance, the result of an extraordinary
outpouring of the Holy Spirit—times of refreshing from the presence
of the Lord. The blessed influence permanently lett on the minds and
habits of the people generally is strikingly displayed in the following
selection from the journal of Mr, Murray: —

Jan. 7.— A vessel has just entered the harbour. What a change has been
effected within a few months! Formerly, the approach of a vessel to our
shores used to make our hearts sink within us; now we hardly fear them,
knowing that they can do us but little harm. Some months ago a few
young men, from a ship at anchor in the harbour, went on shore to one of
the villages in our nelg bourhood, avowedly for base purposes. They went
into one house, and found the inmates singing the praises of God ; they
went to a second, and the family were employed in reading the word of
God ; and to a third, and they were kneeling at the throne of grace, presenting
their grateful homage to the Father of mercies. This was more than the
young men could outbrave, and constrained by feelings more easily con-
ceived than described, they Joined with the poor Samoans in their devotions,
and afterwards returned on board their ship, and confessed that they had
been completely defeated. Blessed be God for what his hand hath wrought !”

A most satisfactory testimony to the practical piety of these Samoan
converts is borne by the Rev. T. Bullen, in a Jetter from Sydney, whi-
ther some of them had gone with Mr. Murray:—

‘‘T have been living for three months in the same house with some of
these converted heathen, the first fruits to Christ in the Island of Tutuila;
and I am able to testify that they adorn the Gospel of God our Saviour in
all things.”

The New Testament is in process of translation into the language of
the Samoas; and, when it shall have undergone very careful and repeated
revision, it will be printed in the Islands. For this purpose, an excel-
lent press has been sent out by the Directors; and the Committee of
the British and Foreign Bible Society, with their accustomed liberality,
have granted the requisite supply of paper. ,

The Camden was expected to accomplish her fourth Missionary
voyage, from Sydney to the islands, about the close of last year, and to
return to the colony during the present spring. In these several voy-
ages, while the Missionary ship has greatly aided and encouraged our
brethren, by affording a regular means of intercourse with their friends
and the Society at home, it has also enabled them, by the agency of
native teachers, to introduce the Gospel into several of the extensive
and populous islands of the New Hebmides.

The manners and morals of the inhabitants have been found degraded
in the extreme; but in every case, with a single exception only—that of
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Christian teachers no little kindness, and have respected, not only their
persons, but also their property.

The Directors cannot, however, record these successful efforts to in-
troduce the Gospel to the tribes of Polynesia, still sitting in darkness
and the shadow of death, without mingling with their pleasure feelings
of anxiety. The efforts of the native teachers, to become effectual for
the great purposes of civilisation and religion, must soon be followed by
those of the European Missionary; and the Directors cannot but fear,
that they are awakening desires and hopes in these islanders, which
they may not be able hereafter to fulfil, For to meet the necessities of
these new fields, so full of promise, an addition to the number of our
Missionaries will be requisite, for which the present resources of the
Society are painfully inadequate.

ULTRA-GANGES.

Tae Uxtra Gances Missions of the Society, comprising Batavia,
Penang, Singapore, Malacca, and Macao, have necessarily been affected
throughout the past year, in a greater or less degree, by the continuance
of hostilities between China and Great Britain.

While the faithful subjects of the Prince of Peace cannot but deplore
the violence of human passion, and weep over the desolations of the
sword, their sorrow is alleviated in the present instance by the well-
founded hope, that the infinite wisdom and overruling power of Jehovah
will make the wrath of man to praise him, by rendering the present
contest not only the means of securing future peace and amity with
China, but also of securing for the champions of the Cross free admis-
sion into that mighty region, in which Satan has long maintained an
undisputed sway. ‘‘ It seems to me,” observes Dr. Legge of Malacca,
‘‘ impossible to doubt, that, in a few years, it will be practicable for
Missionaries to carry on their labours, if not in the heart of the country,
at least in its outskirts. English settlements will surely be established
in various places; and to one of these, if not to a Chinese city, the
Anglo-Chinese college may be transferred.’’ Three years since, such
prospects could not have been contemplated by the Church of Christ,
and now they appear so bright, and so near, that our brethren, who
have been waiting in faith and hoping against hope, are arming them-
selves for the long wished-for contest with the powers of darkness.
Some of our devoted Missionaries have been spending the vigour of
years in the acquisition of Chinese, and are now able scholars in that
most difficult of all languages. Not less than eight of their number,
besides devoted agents of other institutions, will be ready with the first
opportunity to make known to the millions of China, in their own
tongue, the wonderful works of God; while two members of this conse-
crated band will commend to the afflicted multitudes, by the free exer-
cise of their medical skil], the tenderness and generosity of Christian
love.

The Directors have lately received an interesting letter from Leang..
Afa, the first-fruit of Missionary labour at Malacca. He was baptized
by the late Dr. Milne, and subsequently employed by the late Dr. Mor-
rison as an Evangelist at Canton. When compelled to flee for his life,
by the fierce persecution of the Chinese authorities of that city, he re-
tired to his native village, where he appears not only to have held fast
his integrity, but also to have been actively engaged for the salvation of



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his kindred and his countrymen. His letter is dated Macao, Novem-
ber 1, 1841, and the following passages will be read, especially by those
friends of the Society who are acquainted with its history in former
years, with devout pleasure and thankfulness.

<‘ Dear Christian Brother,—On my return to China, I found my son in
the employment of Imperial Commissioner Lin: he stayed in Lin’s Court
nearly two years; therefore, I could not immediately answer your letter.
I thank you very much for the kindness of sending a good ong letter,
which Mr. Bridgman has read to me; and my son has translated it, and
now writes this in answer, containing my ideas. I know, indeed, that by
the persecutions which I suffer, God wants to have me understand more of
his Joctrine. Besides, I have very many sins; and if, on account of my
sins, I suffer these calamities, then I ought to repent, and pray that God
will pardon them for the sake of Jesus Christ.

«} find on reading the Bible, that when the Apostles were persecuted by
kings and officers, they generally rejoiced for it ; therefore, when in misery,
my heart was always happy, and I am glad to suffer for the true doctrine,
and wish that I may act as God in the Bible commands me.

“When there are convenient opportunities, I always preach to my
countrymen. A fortnight ago, a sister-in-law was baptized by me: she is
a widow, and lives with my mother-in-law, who is also a widow.

“(In the village where I formerly resided, nearly all my relations were
angry at me, because, when the officer persecuted me, they sent their police
and soldiers to go and make trouble there, and they robbed me of alt my
property ; therefore I could not live in my own country. But as St. Paul
said in his Epistle to the Galatians, By Christ the world is crucified unto me,
and I unto the world. But now I have got a house, and live in a village
mear Canton City. Last spring, when the English soldiers besieged the
city, some balls of cannon came down very near my house; yet God al-
ways protected those who believed and trusted im him.

“ At the time when Lin was here, my son advised him not to be so cruel
to foreigners, but he could not hear him ; and afterwards, when the English
man-of-war had nearly arrived, Dr. Parker asked my son to tell Lin that he
would like to be a peacemaker; but when my son told him he was dis-
pleased ; for our God said, Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be
called the children of God. Therefore I like to have my son a peacemaker.
I think that God has permitted the devil to raise uP this war to destroy
some of these idol-worshippers; yet I pray to God that it may be settled
soon.

“‘T have finished correcting the New Testament, and I gave a set of my
corrections to Mr. Milne, but I am afraid that there must be some errors
in it, so I had to look it over several times more. °

‘“« Asto my son, when he was nine years of age, I gave him to study Eng-
lish, Hebrew, &c., with Mr. Bridgman, that- he might understand the
original Bible ; and if our Heavenly Father please to bestow upon him the
Holy Spirit, to help him to translate the Bible, then my heart will greatly
rejoice. Sometimes, when he was home, at his leisure time, he had to com-
pare my corrections with me.

“ The new Governor, Ki, and the prefect of Canton, Yu, sent for him
several times, but he refused to go to their employinent, but rather to study
and be able to translate.

“T thank you very much for your comfortable words to me. I know
that God will not forget those who love him, and obey his commands; and
I know pou and many other Christians in England, love me; but I know
that if I can act as God commands, then he will love and protect me always.
I always remember you in my prayers, and hope that God will make
you al happy in this world, and take your soul up to heaven after your

eath.

“* My wife, my dear son, and all men who belong to my family, send
their regards to you, and to all who are christian brothers in England; and



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may the peace and blessings of our Heavenly Father be with you all and for
ever. Amen,
‘¢ J remain, most dear brother,
‘¢ Yours in the bond of christian affection,
Lane AFa.”

Of the state of the Anglo-Chinese College at’ Malacca, Dea eee
pepores ators; and, although his hopes have been somewhat blig

y the infirmities and imperfections of some of the Chinese converts,
yet from the general state and prospects of the Mission He-derives-.
encouragement.

‘“‘ Amidst some trying circumstances (he writes) there have been a few
things to cheer our spirits. The man whom I mentioned in a former letter
has continued zealous in his examination of the Word of God, and in his
attention to those things that make for his everlasting peace. About two
months ago I admitted him to the ordinance of baptism; and on the first,
Sabbath in the present month he united with us at the table of the Lord.
May he be preserved, by the power of God, through faith unto salvation!
He left China about twelve years ago, for the purpose of making money,
but disappointed in all his plans and soured by the world’s rough usage, he
was about to return home and enter himself in some fraternity of the Bud-
dhist sect, when his attention was arrested powerfully by the Gospel. At
first, he looked on Jesus in the light of a sage, who communicated his in-
structions and held out his example to the world; and I was exceedingly
struck with the manner in which he was driven from this view. Calling
on him one morning, I found him reading the closing scene of the Saviour’s
life. ‘ There is something,’ said he, ‘ which I cannot understand. Why
did such a good man as Christ suffer such hardship and so much punish-
ment from God?’ ‘£ This would have been strange,’ I replied, ‘ had Jesus
been a mere good man; but all this he endured in our room, as he came
into the world to give his life a sacrifice for sin.’ From that time he seemed
to comprehend the doctrine of redemption.

“The College School has continued to succeed as before. It is now in
favour with the Chinese; and, were the step desirable, I could easily get,
a hundred boarders after their next new year. Several of the boys have
made very good progress, and can now read and spell tolerably well in
English, besides having acquired some knowledge of writing and the ele-
ments of arithmetic.

“The attendance at the preaching in the Bazaar is encouraging. We can
now reckon on seven or eight regular hearers at the Canton service. The
number does not seem great, but it is exclusive of goers and comers. These
individuals have sitten for many months, from the beginning of the service
to the close, so that they must have acquired considerable knowledge of the
Gospel ; and I trust some of them will soon be found to declare on the side
of the Lord. Upon the whole, I think that prejudices have been removed,
to some extent, from the minds of the Chinese in this settlement during the
past year.”

Our Missionary brethren in the several settlements, while looking to
China as the wide sphere of their future labours, are, in the mean time,
zealously improving the abundant opportunities afforded them at the
several stations for imparting to the natives of China, who are found
there in great numbers, the knowledge of salvation by the Gospel. In the
schools also, connected with these stations, there are about 150 children,
male and female, under n course of domestic training and christian edu-
cation, most of whom are familiar with the distinguishing truths of
Revelation, while some, who afford indications of youthful piety, encour-
age the hope, that, by the grace of God, they may become, under Eu-
ropean superintendence, able Evangelists for China.



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_ Te no field of Missionary effort, should the churches of our country
look with deeper interest and solicitude, than to
INDIA—

That distant empire, with her hundred millions of people, acknowledg-
ing the authority, and open to the christian influence, of Britain. And
in no other sphere, have greater encouragements been given to exertion,
both in the removal of mountainous obstructions, and the supply of fa-
cilities for the propagation of the Gospel. _

A few years since, the christian Missionary was forbidden, by his
countrymen in authority, to set his foot upon the soil of India; and, if
he dared intrude, he was regarded as the most dangerous of intruders;
but the jealousy and suspicion of the Government have yielded to the
force of his integrity and benevolence; and now, no visiter is more wel-
come, and no labourer more respected, than the enlightened friend of
education, and the humble minister of Christ. A few years since, also,
the lives and habits of Englishmen in general were a reproach to the
holy faith which they assumed, and, in many instances, such as would
have been deemed a scandal to the heathen; but now, through the
blessing of God on the ministry of his faithful servants, many are to be
found among our countrymen in India, who are truly the followers of
Christ and helpers to the truth.

Among the many advantages secured in India for the cause of Mis-
sions, the Directors are thankful ip recording the gratification of almost
their largest wishes, and those of the christian public in general, in the
termination of that connection which so long existed between the British
Government and the absurd rites‘and polluting services of Paganism; —
a connection no less dishonorable to our country, than injurious in its
influence to the cause of Christianity. For the early and happy accom-
plishment of an object so important, we are indebted to the honest in-
tentions, and well-directed measures, of Her Majesty’s late Administra-
tion; which the Directors are happy in thus gratefully acknowledging,

In the state of the heathen themselves, a great and happy change
has been accomplished. The bondage of caste, though not removed, is
greatly mitigated; brahminical influence, though not destroyed, is greatly
weakened; the native mind, aroused from the lethargy of ages, has put
forth an energy, no less surprising than it is delightful and encouraging.

The direct efforts which have been made for the diffusion of divine
knowledge, and the propagation of the Gospel, have been attended with
success which may jostly be called great; limited, indeed, compared
with our wishes and the claims of India; but great, and very great,
when compared with the feebleness of the agency employed and the
formidable obstructions which it has overcome. The oracles of God now
speak in almost all the diverse tongues of India; education, and christ-
ian education, is shedding its benign influence over multitudes of the
rising race; converts have been won to Christ from the highest classes of
the Brahmin, and from the lowest ranks of the licentious; and churches
have been formed in the midst of persecution and peril, in which the
institutes and commands of ‘the Redeemer are loved and honoured.
The moral regeneration of India, the conversion of her millions to the
faith of Christ, is a work too mighty, and an honour too great, for any
one society of Christians; but ought rather to be sought as the common
aim and effort of the universal Church. And the Directors rejoice that
the agents of this Institution have been permitted to take their share



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in this honourable service, and to receive their full measure.of reward,
in the success which has been granted to their varied efforts. Through-
out the year, though sometimes discouraged by the failure of health
and the fall of companions, they have continued at their respective
posts, both in Northern and in Southern India, stedfast and immover
able, and their labours have not been in vain in the Lord.

Among their appropriate and successful exertions, the Directors can-
not omit to mention the translation of the Holy Scriptures into the
Urdu language, by the Society’s Missionaries in Benares. The books
of the Old Testament are in progress; and a second and revised edition
of the New, consisting of 5,000 copies, has been printed in London, under
the superintendence of the Rev. W. Buyers; the entire expense of
which has been most kindly met by the Committee of the British and
Foreign Bible Society, in a grant of money to the Directors for that

urpose. .

7 With deep regret, the Directors are compelled to state that their de-
voted Brethren, labouring in the city of Calcutta and its vicinity, have
been resisted in their ministry by a new class of opponents. Episco-
palian ministers, associated in sentiment and purpose with those who
are labouring at home insidiously to undermine the foundations of
Protestantism, have gone forth, also, to India; and there, instead of
directing their efforts against the monstrous evils of Paganism, and
spending their strength in bringing its perishing victims to the Saviour,
they have set up their claims to exclusive apostolical succession; and,
by the introduction of their semi-popery, they have endeavoured to se-
duce the infant native churches from the simplicity of the Gospel, and
to withdraw their confidence and affection from those who are their
fathers in Christ Jesus,

‘“‘ Considerable excitement of an unpleasant nature has taken place
during the last year among the Native Christians,” says the Report of the
Bengal Auxiliary, “in the district, occasioned by the agents of the Society
for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts having openly asserted and
disseminated, that none but episeopa “ ordained persons are lawful minis-
ters of Christ, and that consequently the ministrations of all other Mission-
aries are void and nugatory. .

“ These claims are especially ilJ-placed in the above district, which thé
Missionaries of the London Missionary Society had been the first to occupy,
and where the Lord had crowned their efforts with much success. Several
years afterwards, the agents of the Propagation Society entered it, in con-
travention of the prineipe which the London Missionary Society considers
should ever guide the Missionaries of different denominations labouring in
heathen lands, ¢ and which it has itself always endeavoured to act up to, viz,
the principle of not entering into spheres already pre-occupied by other So-
cieties; and this intrusion was also in direct violation of a written pledge in
the hand-writing of the late Bishop Corrie, that the Missionaries of the
Propagation Society should never encroach on the fields of labour occupied
by this Society, unconnected with great cities. This pledge was given by
Bishop Corrie when the London Society transferred the Mission at Tally-
gunge to the Propagation Society at the request of the Committee of that

society.”

The Native Churches have presented a memorial to the Directors, in
which, the evils resulting from the intrusion of these ecclesiastical ex-
clusives, and the peculiarities of denominational distinction, are strongly
set forth.

While the Directors cannot but sympathize with the Bengalee con-
verts under the perplexities and evils arising from these conflicting



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claims, it is gratifying to learn, that the priestly pretensions (no less ab-
surd than unscriptural) that have been made to their confidence, have
been attended with no other success than that which they merited.
‘‘ An appeal to the Sacred Scriptures,” say our Missionaries, ‘ that
only sure rule of faith and practice among Christians, has generally
proved sufficient to convince the native converts belonging to our
churches, of the unscripturalness of the claims set forth by the agents
of the Propagation Society.” |

A gratifying evidence of their stedfastness, and affection to their
minister, the Rev. A. F. Lacroix, was given by these native Christians,
on his departure from India for Europe. On that occasion, they pre-
sented our esteemed Brother with a copy of the Bengalee Bible com-
plete, and the Testament in a separate form, with the following in-
scription inserted in the volumes, in the native language: —

“The Christians residing at Rammakal-Choke, Gungree, and the sur-
rounding villages, together with the brethren and sisters of the churches
in the above-mentioned places, mindful of the great labour and anxiety
with which he has striven to spread the Gospel amongst them for many
years past, present to the Rev, A. F. Lacroix, with expressions of gratitude,
this Gospel of salvation.”

Although the Directors have gladly recapitulated many decisive
manifestations of divine power and mercy on behalf of India, they
cannot express in language sufficiently strong, their solemn and painful
conviction of the numerous and gigantic difficulties that still obstruct the
progress of the Gospel; or the utter insufficiency of all the means yet in
operation for the conversion of the teeming myriads to the Lord Jesus.

A glance at the map of India is sufficient to remind us that—

“ Kingdoms wide still sit in darkness.”

The great masses of her people are still degraded, guilty, perishing.
The majority, the overwhelming majority, of these living, dying, multi-
tudes, have never, to this hour, heard the tidings of redemption; and,
unless the number of christian Missionaries be multiplied, and greatly
multiplied, beyond our present means, they must remain in their mise-
ries and vices, and generation after generation will go down to the pit
without a ransom. For these blind and degraded idolaters, the provi-
sions of the Gospel are free and all-sufficient: they do not then perish
by necessity, and shall they perish through neglect? God has been
gracious—will the Church continue unfeeling or unfaithful, and suffer
souls to be lost, and lost for ever, through inactivity and self-indulgence ?
«© Whosoever calleth upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How
then shall they call upon Him in whom they have not believed? and
how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? and how
shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach, except
they be sent?” The heathen, from the depth of their miseries, are
crying ‘‘ Come over and help us.” Men of God well qualified for the
service are waiting, and with importunity are saying—‘‘ Here are we,
send us;”’ and the Directors entreat the friends of Missions to relieve
them of the painful necessity of resisting such entreaties and rejecting
such applicants, and to enable them to send forth more laborers to India,
where for every one engaged more than a hundred are demanded.

The Missions of the Society in

AFRICA
will gladden the heart of the Christian and the Philanthropist, by the



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sure proofs they afford of advancing civilisation, and the glowing
scenes and yet brighter prospects they exhibit of moral fertility and
beauty. In the month of June last, the Society’s judicious and inde-
fatigable agent, Dr. Philip, commenced a Missionary tour in the Interior,
and of his ample and interesting reports the Directors gladly avail
themselves to describe the condition of some of the principal Mission-
ary stations within the Colony,—the limit of the Doctor’s progress at
the date of his last communication.

“We arrived at Caledon Institution (writes our friend) on the 25th of
August. This station presents a most gratifying spectacle to those who saw
it in former times. In 1823, the people were in rags; few of them had any
covering on them, except the flithy sheep-skin kaross their huts were
of the most wretched description; they were given to drunkenness and
its kindred vices; and the ground on which they resided lay waste. In
1825, and the two following years, their condition was, if possible, still
more miserable, and the lands were in possession of the neighbouring Boors.
The people are now dressed in British manufactures, and make a very respect-
able appearance in the house God. 'The children, who formerly went
naked, and presented a most isgusting appearance, are decently clothed—
the effects of an improved taste, and of habits of temperance and industry
which have arisen from the power of religion among them. Instead
of a few wretched huts resembling Ppigstyes, we have now a rising and
regular village; and the valley on which it stands, which till lately was
uncultivated, is now laid out in gardens, and the turf enclosure is rapidly
giving way to a live fence. While religion was in a low state among the
people, we could not get them to build decent houses; last year the walls
of forty houses were raised beam-high, and fifteen of them have been co-
vered in and are now inhabited.

“ In 1839, the Institution was favoured with a remarkable awakening.
Its beginnings were at first small ; and, without noise, it continued till men,
women, and children, became anxious about their salvation.

“At one public meeting, (attended by several hundreds), Mr. Helm, the
venerable Missionary of the Institution, after the public service was over,
asked all to remain who felt anxious about their souls: only fourteen re-
tired out of between three and four hundred, and some of these afterwards
became inguirers. Among them were to be seen the married and the un-
married, the male and the female, the youthful and the aged, with those
who had been all their lives insensible to religious impressions, and noto-
rious drunkards. This state of things has continued without interruption
down to the present period.

“To use the significant language of some of the people with whom I
have conversed on the subject—* We thought,’ said” they, ‘ that all had
been converted.’ This has not since proved to have been the case; but be-
tween eighty and ninety have been added to the church, and a great moral
reformation has taken place upon all the people of the Institution. The
members of the church walk worthily of their profession: their general
character is marked by humility; their views are simple and scriptural;
there is much spiritualit of mind among them; they are strongly inclined
to converse about the things of God; while they are liberal according to
their means, and discover a commendable earnestness to be useful to each
other.”

In a second letter written from Dysalsdorp, dated October 25, Dr.
Philip observes: —

“In every thing my expectations concerning this station have been ex-
ceeded, and I see nothing to be wished for, but the continuance of that
prosperity with which it has been blessed. Many of the people arrive on
the Saturday night, when a religious service is held for their benefit; and
we had upwards of 250 present at worship last Saturday evening. I
preached on the following morning. The people never seem to tire of the
church and the school. During the school-exercises I counted 120 out of



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doers, conning over their lessons, and seventy yo eople in the infant-.
school, who could not get admission into the place nf worship. Under-
standing that I was to preach again in the evening, the great body of the
People, with the exception of a few who were obliged to take their departure
at the close of the afternoon service, remained till nine o’clock in the even-
ing, when most of them took their departure to travel all night. Such was
their attention and the interest they falt in the addresses delivered to them,
that, notwithstanding the distances from which they had to come on foot
and the journeys they had before them, most of them stood to listen, in-
stead of sitting down, during the morning and evening services. a ney
seemed to drink in all that was said, and appeared afraid to lose a single
word. I was greeted more than once by upwards of 400; many of them,
holding my hand, delivered very appropriate speeches, and wet it with
tears of gratitude. It has been altogether a most exciting occasion.”

In his progress northward, our venerable friend spent his first sab-
bath of the present year at Philipton, the Kat River station; and in
reference to the solemnities of that season, and the state of the Mission
in general, he expresses himself as much animated and encouraged.

** About sunrise, January 2, the people assembled for prayer. On the
slope on which Philipton stands, I counted thirteen wagons, and the
ground was covered with groups, presenting, amidst scenery calculated to
raise the soul to heaven, the most picturesque and appropriate appearance
imaginable. At the close of the morning service fourteen people were bap-
tized and admitted to the church. After a short interval. the church as-
sembled to celebrate the Lord’s Supper. It consists of nearly 700 members,
and there were about 500 present. There we beheld Hottentots, Bechu-
anas, F'ingoes, Caffres, Bushmen, listening to the wonderful works of God,
and commemorating the most wonderful of all his works, the love of the
Father in giving his Son to die for a perishing world, with affections and
sentiments suited to the occasion. On the following day, January 3, was
held the Anniversary of the Auxiliary Missionary Society. The attend-
ance was good ; a great seriousness rested upon the minds of the people, and
all seemed deeply affected on hearing of the distressing state of the Society’s
finances. One poor Fingo said, ‘ Money is wanted, and it must be forth-
coming, and if nothing else will do, you must sell your cattle; and if that
will not do, you must sell your garments to keep the Gospel among you.’
‘The Gospel,’ said another, ‘is my wealth, my honor, my health, my life,
my all, and we must hold it fast.’ The income of the Auxiliary Societ
will be greater this year than any former year ; and in the year ensuing, I
hope it will be doubled.”

At this station, there are located several hundred Fingoes, a tribe of
savages formerly in a state of slavery to the Caffres, by whom they
were called dogs, and treated with contempt and cruelty.

“In 1838, I saw them for the first time,” says Dr. Philip, “and from
their state of nudity, and their savage appearance, I questioned whether
their settlement at Philipton might not retard the improvement of the
Hottentots ;” but he adds, “‘ Many of them have since been converted, have
clothed themselves after the European manner, and are members of the
Church.” =“

The character of the Fingoes im their heathen state strikingly an-
swers to the inspired portraiture of Paganism, in which it is exhibited
as destitute of natural affection. The following are examples—the
one supplied by Mr. Read, the other by Dr. Philip—

§* Among the recent inquirers is an old Fingo woman, whom I had seen
behind the wall of the chapel weeping, but knew not who she was, Sin-
gella, the Fingo native teacher, introduced her to me, and said she had
been attending him as an inquirer for several months, and being satisfied as
to her hopeful state, he brought her to me. She said that she had come to



mo with a heavy burden upon her heart ; that she had been a great sinner ;
and that with many other sins, she had been the cause of the death of her
own children, one of whom she burned to death in time of war—the child
was sick, and she could not take him with her. She put him into a
hut, and on leaving, set fire to it, and thus the child was burnt alive, I
asked where she thought of getting relief from her burden. She said at
the feet of Jesus Christ. She had heard that he had died for the worst of
sinners, and therefore fled to him for mercy. She had not, in former days,
known what sin was, but now she knew it, and knew the remedy too.

“Tt is no uncommon thing among them, for children to put their aged

arents to death, when they are no longer able to provide for themselves.
Shortly after Mr. Joseph Read was settled at his present station, some
young men took their aged parents to a neighbouring mountain, and left
them to perish. Mr. Read, hearing of the circumstance, next day sent them
necessaries, and in this way they were supported three days,

‘“‘ The old man got strength and crawled back to his hut. In the course
of a few days he again disappeared. It was not at first known what had be-
come of him, but e tterwards it was ascertained that he was carried back to
the place where he had been left to die, and he and his wife were both buried
alive by the hands of their own children.” |

It is delightful, however, to contrast with these awful proofs both of
parental and filial cruelty, a striking exemplification recorded by Dr.

hilip, of distinguished tenderness and maternal love.

‘“* After the defeat of the Tambookies by Capai, a living child was seen
beside its dead parent. In the general flight, it was passed unheeded by
many who were anxious only to save themselves and what remained of
their cattle. One woman, however, looked with sympathy on the child,
and, although she had an infant of her own in her arms, she took it upon
her back, and, in this state, fled before the enemy for three days, carrying
the infant. The child was a Fingoe, and not of the same tribe with its pre-
server, and many of the companions of her flight urged her to throw away
the child; but the remonstrances of some and the ridicule of others had no
effect upon her mind. This woman is the wife of the chief’s brother, Pala,
and is now standing before me, She is a fine woman; and to the questions
I put to her, she replies with great modesty, and wonders that I should
take notice of a circumstance in which she followed the impulse of her feel.
ings only, and to which she attaches no merit, I confess that this one in-
stance of benevolence in a heathen female affects me more, and makes me
more anxious that they should be brought under the saving influences of the
Gospel, than all ‘the exhibitions of depravity I have seen in this degraded
country. Let my female friends in England reflect upon the state of females
in heathen lands, and think how many thousands of such females are in
no better state than the slaves—a state from which Christianity alone can
raise them.”

A leading object of Dr. Philip, in accordance with the earnest re-
quest of the Directors, in his visit to the several Missionary Institu-
tions, was to urge upon the native churches the duty of relieving the
funds of the Parent Society, and of honoring the ordinance of Christ, by
providing the necessary funds for supporting the ministry which they
have so long enjoyed. The success of his judicious and affectionate ap-
peals, so far as they had been made, was truly encouraging. It is thus
stated— |

“The following subscriptions the people have engaged to pay during the
ensuing year ; and notwithstanding their poverty, if Providence give them
a fair return for their labours, the Missionaries think that they may be de-
pended on. Caledon Institution, £115; Pacaltsdorp, £109; Dysalsdorp from

£80 to £100; Hankey, £150; Bethelsdorp, £100 ; Port Elizabeth, £70 ;
Uitenhage, £90: making from seven stations £714. :

‘When the low state of wages in the immediate neighbourhood of the
Institutions is taken into account,” remarks Dr, Philip, “ and considering



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that they have all the poor, aged, and infirm of the coloured population to
support, the sums they Propose to raise may be said to be great in propor-
tion to their means ; and will, I hope, stimulate the liberality of our friends
in England, Scotland, and Ireland.”

From Griqua Town and Kuruman, the Society's principal stations
beyond the Colony, cheering intelligence has also been received.

The account given by the brethren at the latter station of the con-
version and baptism of Mateebe, the aged chief, will be read with feel-
ings of holy gratitude and joy. .

‘‘ Lately, an old man, feeble from age, stood forth with others to make a
public profession of his faith in Christ, by being baptized. This individual,

ateebe, our old king, and chief of the Batlapi, had been considered ‘ among
the dead,’ having neither influence nor power over his people, who view
him as one of a former generation.

“TI had heard, a few months before he Jast visited us, that he was be-
coming much concerned about the state of his soul, and could no longer
conceal his fears, which only increased the longer he kept silent. Being
quite overwhelmed, he made known his alarm to the believers, and re-
quested their counsel and sympathy. Morisanyane, the native reader at
his residence, was made useful to him. Mateebe at length urgently en-
treated his sons ‘ to take him to Kuruman, to see his own Missionaries ;’
immediately on his arrival, he bent his feeble steps to the Mission-house.
Never before, I believe, did he visit a Missionary with so much anxiety
and diffidence. I found him not inclined to speak much, but rather to
hear what might be said to him. He said, however, that ‘he had come to
speak about his soul—that he was an old man, great for age, but without
understanding ; there is nothing left’ he exclaimed, ‘ but my old bones
and withered skin. I heard ‘the word’ from the beginning (twenty-five
years ago), but never understood, and now have no rest night nor day ; my
soul is sorrowful, and burning with anguish ; my heart is sick, and rises
into my throat ; my mind is dark, and my memory cannot retain the good
word ; but though it forsakes me, it does me good ; it leaves something be-
hind in my soul which I cannot explain, but which causes me to hope. I
wish to cast myself at the feet of Jesus the Son of God, in hope and expect-
ation that he will have mercy on me. I feel that it will be my wisdom to
sit at the feet of believers, who are grown to manhood in knowledge, to be
ever instructed by them in the paths of duty and salvation.

“ On inquiring among those who had observed him of late, I found that
they all thought favourably of him, for they had seen him weep repeatedly
over his sins and his lost state asa sinner. He expressed ardent desires to
live and die at the feet of Christ, and to be united to his people ; and there
being no Scriptural objection, he was proposed, and received by the church
in this place. Though the rightful chief of 20,000 Bechuanas, Mateebe
stood with as much humility as others of his people beside him, whom he
formerly considered as his ‘ servants’ or ‘ dogs,’ to receive the ordinance of
baptism.”

The duty of bearing the blessings of the Gospel to the populous re-
gions lying northward, is deeply felt by the brethren in common, as
well as the importance of native agency for the accomplishment of this
holy enterprise.

Messrs. Edwards and Livingston, towards the close of last year, accom-
plished a journey of about 700 miles, in which they proceeded as
far as 250 miles directly north of the Kuruman. In the course of this
journey, they visited places where the face of a white man has been
hitherto unseen. They found the people generally kind, and it is their
strong conviction, that, in many places, Missionaries would be wel-
comed,



1842. ] WEST INDIES. 17
MADAGASCAR.

The continued and aggravated sufferings of the persecuted Christians
of Madagascar demand the tenderest sympathy and most fervent inter-
cessions of our churches. They are proscribed by the cruel sovereign
and her tyrannical government, and their names are cast out as evil for
the Son of Man’s sake. ‘The dens and caves of the earth are their
places of refuge, and for the preservation of life they wander as outcasts
in the wilderness, being afflicted, persecuted, tormented. From these
dreary retreats, they pour forth to the Christians of Britain, through
the medium of a faithful friend, in simple and affecting language, the
depth and bitterness of their sorrows, mingled with the expression of
their confidence in God.

“ This is what we have to communicate to you, beloved Father !—the
affliction which has occurred to us, and of which you have heard, greatly in-
creases. Executions, ordeals, and miseries, increase throughout the country,
so that 3,000 persons have lately taken the tangena, in Vonizongo, by order
of the sovereign and officers; and at other places it has been the same.

‘You exhort us to take courage, and not to be cast down. We accept
your exhortation, and we all take confidence and rejoice. You further
ask us if there is anything we want, adding, that we should write and tell

ou. Now there is one point on which we are much afflicted—our want ot
Bibles : we can conceal them, though there are many enemies. Those we
possess are quite worn out. Many thanks to you!

‘‘ And with regard to the means of our support, it may be said we have,
and we have not. All our property was taken from us formerly, before we
were reduced to slavery, and we are not yet free, but remain in service.
However, this is the word of the Lord; ‘ Consider the ravens, they sow
not, they reap not, yet God feedeth them :’ and just so, beloved friend,
the Lord has pity on us. We have been in great affliction and danger,
but God has mercifully preserved us hitherto.”

But amidst these fiery trials they are sustained by the gracious pre-
sence and faithful promises of the Saviour; not one of the number ac-
counted believers has proved traitor and denied Christ; but, on the con-
trary, some have embraced the faith for which the martyrs died; so that
amidst banishment, bonds, imprisonment, and death, the number of
the faithful has increased.

Vigorous and enterprising measures have been adopted for the relief
and rescue of the deeply afflicted refugees, but they have been hitherto
unsuccessful. The position of the persecuted Christians is one of
peculiar difficulty, as the cruel and oppressive conduct of the Queen
renders her odious throughout the Island, and stimulates to resistance
all the various tribes, except those of the interior, who are unable to
throw off the galling yoke: her subjects are regarded as enemies by the
surrounding tribes: and, should the Christians be able to escape from
the power of their cruel sovereign, yet for her sake they would become
victims to the barbarous tribes who dwell upon the coast. In this ex-
tremity it is consoling to know, that God is their refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble, and to Him should our daily prayer
ascend on their behalf: Arise, O God, plead thine own cause!

WEST-INDIES.

In directing the attention of their friends to this the remaining field
of the Society’s labours, the Directors feel persuaded that the report,
which they are enabled to make, will fully sustain the interest already
excited by the facts they have presented,

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18 FORTY-EIGHTH REPORT. (1842.

The operations of the Society in Jamaica were commenced in the
year 1834. The christian influence of Britain had then just accom-
plished the downfal of slavery. The legislature had, with another
name, already given it a milder form, and decreed its early and entire
abolition. The great body of the negro population in Jamaica,
amounting to about 330,000, had up to that period remained in the
grossest state of mental darkness and moral degradation,—the bitter
fruits, the inseparable concomitants, of slavery. The christian Mis-
sionaries already in the field had laboured nobly and successfully to ac-
complish both the temporal and everlasting freedom of the despised and
the oppressed; but, though a gallant band, their numbers were too few
and their strength too feeble, to meet the claims and answer the
entreaties of emancipated thousands. The entire christian com-
munity of our country felt that to the Negro there was due a
debt,—the accumulated debt of many generations,—that the tender-
est and most expansive charity was demanded for those who had
suffered so long and so cruelly under the sanction of the British
name. The Church Missionary Society, the Presbyterian Missionary
Society, and the London Missionary Society, as though moved with a
common sympathy in the cause of righteousness and mercy, sent forth
their messengers to soothe the lacerated spirits of our former slaves,
and teach our fellow-freemen how to value and improve their newly
granted liberty. A devoted company of christian Evangelists from the
churches of America also, familiar with the horrors of slavery in their
own country, and yet unable to remove the curse, sought in Jamaica
a fair field for the activity of their zeal and affection for the negro race.
Since that period, the number of our agents in Jamaica has risen from
six to nineteen, including six native assistants; and the Directors
are no less gratified in stating, that the Missionaries of kindred Socie-
ties have, in like manner, increased in numbers and in usefulness.
But still the labours of all Societies united are too few for the great
work of civilizing, instructing, and evangelising, the thousands on whom
the debasing yoke of bondage rested from their youth.

Although our Missionary brethren have encountered many difficulties,
aud in some instances have met with opposition where they antici-
pated cordial greeting and fraternal love, their character and labours
have secured the confidence and esteem of the Directors; and the im-
portant objects, which they have been enabled to accomplish, justify
their appointment to the field, and amply reward the labours of their
love. They have permanently established eleven principal stations,
with several out-stations; and they have erected fourteen commodious,
and, in some instances, spacious, chapels, beside several school-houses.
The aggregate number of their congregations is not less than 6,000;
and more than 1,500 children are receiving the benefits of instruction
in their schools. Upwards of 500 persons are united in the fellowship
of their churches; and about three times that number are included in
their probationary classes of inquirers. The number of their church-
members might have been greatly increased; for the desire of the ne-
groes, who attend christian worship, to enjoy the external privileges of
religion is strong and universal; but our brethren have been compelled,
though reluctantly, to believe, that to a great degree this desire is the off-
spring of ignorance, vanity, and superstition, rather than enlightened piety,
and, in some instances, that it is prompted by no higher motives than the
distinction and advantage by which membership is usually attended.



1842.] . WEST INDIES. 19
In the admission, therefore, of members to their churches, they have
been anxious to exercise a holy prudence and fidelity; and, by a judicious
course of catechetical and scriptural training, and by their direct per-
sonal labours, (in all cases for many months and in some for years),
they have endeavoured to prevent the intrusion of the unworthy and
self-confident; while, to the diffident and contrite, they have delighted
to present all the encouragements and facilities which their state de-
mands, The Directors are happy in bearing testimony to the general
purity and zeal of the Mission-churches of Jamaica, under the pastoral
oversight of our beloved brethren; amd, as an evidence of their love to
the Gospel and to their teachers, it may be stated, that, at several of
the principal stations, the amount of their free-will offerings during the
past year was more than equal to the salary of the Missionary.

In British Guiana, the unwearied and persevering efforts of our Mis-
sionaries continue to be blessed with manifold and peculiar indications
of prosperity. The places of worship are too small for those who are
anxious to attend; and crowded congregations listen to the word of life
with lively interest and fixed attention. The churches continue to
hold forth the Word of life; and by the divine blessing on their holy
example and their active efforts, many that were wanderers and out-
casts have been restored to the Shepherd and Bishop of souls.

The christian liberality of these negro churches, which formerly
awakened no less astonishment than admiration, has, during the last
year, attained a yet higher standard.

The Rev. James Scott, whose congregation of about 800 consists,
as he has more than once stated, exclusively of “ field-labourers,”’ wrote
thus to the Directors, in January last :—

‘The sums raised by the church and congregation, during the year,
have exceeded in amount my most sanguine expectations, being in all
rather more than £800 sterling. I have thus been able to meet the entire
expense of the station, including current and extra-expenses, repairs &c.,
my own and teacher’s salary, and to place between two and three hundred
pounds to the building fund.

* You will not be surprised, when I say it affords me much Joys that the
liberality of the people has enabled me to go on conducting the extensive
and complicated nachinery of this station, including all its schools, without
drawing a farthing from your funds. This would have been delightful
under any circumstances; but at the present moment, when we hear so
much of the embarrassed state of your finances, it is peculiarly so. We
bless the Lord who has Biven our people money, and a heart to consecrate
a portion of it to himself.”

The Rev. James Roome, of Berbice, informs the Society, that

‘¢ The services connected with the opening of the new chapel were held
on the Ist and 2nd of January, when the brethren Haywood and Davies
preached. As the chapol will cost a considerable sum, I felt it my duty
and privilege to set a good example before my flock on that occasion,
and gave I had (about thirty-five guineas). This was nobly fol-
lowed by my beloved people ; so that the collection exceeded £400 sterling.
I communicate this little matter respecting myself, simply and only to shew
you that I have no wish to spend the Society's money, without, in addition
to no little toil and anxiety, giving of my own, to the utmost of my ability.

‘‘T am moreover very happy to be able to say, the entire mmcome of
my station for the past year amounts to 21,000 guilders, exactly £1,500
sterling ; being (exclusive of the thank-offerings of the people) nearly
£300 sterling more than that of last year.”

The Rev. E. Davies, of New Amsterdam, who is zealously exerting

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himself for the erection of a new and spacious chapel in that town, re-
ports proceedings in the following terms: —

“‘ Tt is not from a wish to spare ourselves that we cry for help, but rather
that we may be sooner in a position to help the world. Two thousand
pounds sterling, our church, of only between 300 and 400 members by all
working, raised towards the cause of God during last year; so that whilst
we are not ashamed to beg, we are not too lazy to labour.”

From these facts, it is evident, that the churches of Guiana well de-
serve the assistance they have received from the churches of Britain,
aud that at no distant period they will not only repay their debt of love,
but aid us, by their generous contributions, in our efforts to extend
throughout the earth the blessings of salvation.

SUMMARY.

The number of stations and out-stations belonging to the Society in
different parts of the world, Missionaries, and European and Native As-
sistants, labouring at the same, are as follow: — |

Stations and Out-Stations. Missionaries. Asalstants.
South Seas . .....159 . ... 3... . 189
UltraGanges ..... 5&5 ....d10..2.2. «~4
East Indies . .... .122 .... 65 . .. «. 274
Mediterranean sos sot 1...-e.- 1.... 9
outh Africa an
African Islands : ° eo e 60 s e ® e 35 e e o e 68
West Indies . . . ... 46.2... 2.2.24. 838
, 393 161 643

The number of Churches is 115; communicants, 13,156; and scholars,
42,960.

FUNDS.

The Directors, in submitting the Financial Statement for the year, are
happy in being able to express their deliberate conviction, that, as a
whole and in comparison with those of former years, it is calculated to
afford pleasure and encouragement. -

The income of the Society is as follows: —

£ 8. d,
From London and its vicinity . . ‘ - 11,718 4 8
the Counties of England. . . . 37,460 13 8
Wales . . . . . . . 2,161 0 9
Scotland. . . . . . » 1,658 16 O :
Ireland ° . : . . . . 68410 2
Legacies. : . ° . : - 6,951 19 5
Dividends . ° . ‘ . . 877 2 0
Contributions at the Mission-stations towards
their own support, and from Auxiliary So-
cieties abroa . . . , . 19,461 14 6
80,874 0 2

The expenditure has been £87,868 158, 10d., leaving a balance

against the Society of £6,994 15s. 8d.



1842, ] CONCLUSION. 21

It should, however, be remembered, that the excess of outlay for the
year 1841 was nearly double this amount, while various measures
adopted by the Directors for the reduction of the expenditure have
not yet come into full operation.

The receipts for the year, as compared with those of the year pre-
ceding, present an increase (excluding in each year the amount contri-
buted for Mrs. Williams and family) of £3,102 Os. 10d.

This fact considered in connection with the unprecedented commer-
cial depression which has prevailed throughout the year, the amount of
the home contributions is truly gratifying.

The attention of the Society is particularly directed to the increase
of contributions, towards their own support, at the several Missionary
stations. The sum received from these sources in 1841 was £11,079
Is. 8d.; for the present year, it amounts to £18,490 138. 9d.; being
an increase of £7,411 12s. 1d. This great advance on the contribu-
tions of former years affords the greater satisfaction, as it is for the
chief part the result of no particular excitement or occasional exertion,
but a progressive improvement, arising from a growing convittion in the
Missionary Churches of the duty of supporting the ministry and ordi-
nances of the Gospel among themselves, and thus affording a well-
grounded assurance of permanent relief, and ultimate augmentation of
the funds of the Parent Society.

CONCLUSION.

In reviewing the diversified and extended operations of the Society
throughout the year, with their happy results, the Directors cannot
suppress the hallowed expression of wonder and of joy—‘‘ What hath
God wrought?” The Lord of Missions has vouchsafed to his servants
proofs of his presence so conclusive, and displays of his power so glo-
rious, as to relieve the mind both of doubt and dismay, and yielding an
ample compensation for years of sacrifice and arduous toil. Souls—
immortal souls—have been given as their hire;—souls for whom they
long travailed; over whom they now rejoice; and who will be their
crown of rejoicing in the day of the Lord Jesus.

That great result to which all our agencies are directed, and in which
all our hopes centre—the conversion of the heathen to Christ, by the
power of the Gospel and the renewing grace of the Holy Spirit—has
been realised in evidence so plain and so abundant, as to leave us no-
thing to seek, and nothing to desire for the salvation of all nations and
people and tongues, but the continued application of the same power,
and the wider diffusion of the same grace.

‘In the imperfection of our motives, our counsels, and our measures,
we find indeed occasion for humility and sorrow; but the weakness and
imperfection of the agency serve but to prove more clearly that the glo-
rious results are superhuman and divine, demanding from every tongue
the grateful exultation, ‘‘ Now thanks be unto God, who always causeth us
to tnumph in Christ Jesus.”

In the varied works of faith and labours of love brought under review,
the Directors rejoice in the assurance, that the agents of the Society, in
harmony with fellow-labourers of kindred institutions, are sowing that
precious and incorruptible seed that will produce the harvest of the
world. That glorious consummation of our hopes is made indubitably



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sure by the sufferings and glory of the Saviour, the boundless grace
and power of the Holy Spirit, and the oft-repeated promise of a faithful
God. But, while labouring to accelerate its progress, may we not defeat
our purpose or retard its coming, by ignorance, impatience, and self-
confidence ? may we not grieve the Holy Spirit, and charge God foolishly,
as though success were long delayed or reward inadequately granted ?
The field is the world !—how vast the space, how few the labourers!
Generation after generation passed away; age followed age; and thorns
and briers nigh unto cursing, with trees of evil striking their roots deep
into the soil and raising their branches in pride and vain-glory to
the skies, were suffered to thrive and strengthen, unchecked and un-
disturbed. Into this wide wilderness a little band of christian hus-
bandmen entered but as yesterday; and before this new and feeble
agency, the wilderness and the solitary place have been glad for them,
and the desert has rejoiced and blossomed as the rose—it has blos-
somed abundantly, and rejoiced even with joy and singing. Surely
this is more than reason could anticipate, or human strength command.
This is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes!

Let us not impede the progress of this hallowed work by estimating
lightly its gigantic difficulties; by vainly confiding in our wisdom, or our
strength; or by the indulgence of self-adulation, rather than of humble
gratitude to God. While our brethren, ready to faint beneath the heat
and burden of the day, are exclaiming, Who is sufficient for these things?
let us not withhold our tender sympathy and fervent prayers, nor regard
their arduous toils chiefly as a subject of recreation from our worldly
cares, answer their importunities with the cheap and easy tribute of our
superfiuities, and then deceive ourselves with professions of Missionary
zeal and compassion for the heathen. Silver and gold, though de-
manded by our Master and Lord as proofs of our sincerity and expres-
sions of our love, are in themselves but poor and powerless, and if pre-
sented as a substitute for richer offerings, they will provoke his anger
rather than ensure his grace. The consecrated lives and labours of our
brethren in the Mission-field, sustained by the humble but ardent de-
votion of our churches at home—these combined are the secret of our
strength, and the pledge of our triumph.

Instead of complaining that our success has been restricted, let us
rather inquire, have our encouragements been faithfully improved? and
are we prepared for augmented prosperity? We lament that China,
with her multitude of souls, is still closed against the heralds of salva-
tion; but should it speedily be opened (and even zow its gates and
walls may have fallen), are we prepared to take possession, or even to
send a man of God to every million of her people? India, which once
excluded the heralds of salvation, is barred no longer: for years, the
length and breadth of that mighty continent have been open to our la-
bours, and still we have not a Missionary to every million of her be-
nighted children! Though joined to us as fellow-suljects, countless
multitudes are left to perish in their sins, upbraiding our supineness
with the dying cry, ‘‘No man hath cared for our soul!” The voice of
God in his providence, no less distinctly than by the commands of his
Word, has long been saying to the Church, ‘ Go forward: behold, I have
set before thee an open door, and no man shall shut it, go up and pos-
sess the land;’ but, as though unworthy of the honour, we have moved
slowly—moved feebly; and slowly and feebly we are moving still.



1842. ] CONCLUSION. 23

Our prayers have been answered; prospects of usefulness of boundless

extent, have been opened to us; and our responsibilities have, in like

amount, been multiplied and strengthened. Can we then complain of
hinderance or disappointment; ought we not rather, with the deepest

contrition, to confess our want of zeal, fidelity, and gratitude? While

we pray for augmented success, let us pray also that our hearts may

be prepared more justly to value, and more diligently to improve it; and
then the time to favour Zion, yea the set time, will come. Then, when
the faith of our Churches has become more correspondent to the pur-
poses and promises of God; then, when with firm unhesitating steps
we follow wherever his Providence invites us to usefulness and honour;

then, when we answer the piteous cry of perishing millions, with
promptitude and self-denial proportioned to their miseries;—then,

when we are thus prepared to receive enlarged prosperity,—that pros-
perity will be granted; and then success will prove a blessing to our-
selves as well as to the heathen. Let us then unite the aspirations of
heartfelt piety, of consecrated patriotism and universal love, in the
inspired supplication, ‘God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and
cause his face to shine upon us. That thy way may be known upon
earth, thy saving health among all nations.”’ Such prayer will prove
prophetic, and foretell the good it seeks: ‘‘ God shall bless us, and all
the ends of the earth shall fear him.”

The Reports of the Mission-Stattons in detail will be found in the fol-

lowing pages.



SOUTH SHAS,
GEORGIAN (or winpwarp) ISLANDS.
Districts. Stations. Missionaries.
TAHITI—Maravart . Waugh Town. . CHaries WILSON.
Pant. . Hankey City . . Henry Nortr.
Pane . . Wilks’ Harbour .
ATEHURU . Burder’s Point. . { D Missi DaBLiING; ALFRED Suez,
issionary Printer.
Joan Davies.
Parana . Haweis Town . .< JosEepu JoHNSTON,
Normal School Teacher.
Papeuriri . . . THomas JOSEPH.
TAIRAPU . Bogue Town " ‘} Joun M. Onsmonp.
Teraret . Roby Town. . . Wititam Henry.
{Tew T. JESSON.
Tuomas S. M‘Kean,
ALEXANDER SIMPSON.
EIMEO—Paperoas . Blest Town. . . {aeexa Biossom, Artisan.
Grifin’s Town. . Witi1am Hows,
MAIAOITI . . . . «4 ws « « « Native Teacher.
* Waven Town. _

No material alteration has taken place in the affairs of this station.
The report from Mr. Wilson presents the following general view of its
state and progress: —

“The attendance on divine worship has been pretty regular; but the
schools have not been so well attended as we could wish. Meetings with
the candidates for baptism and church fellowship have been regularly at-
tended. A considerable number I trust have been awakened to & concern
about their souls, and have come out of the bush, as they express it, to be
joined to the Lord and his people. May they indeed come to Christ, the
shepherd and bishop of souls! Sixteen adults have been baptized, and
twenty-two members added to the Church.”

fw Hi
ANKEY. .

The report from this station has not arrived. By the last commu-
nication from Mr. Nott, dated in December 1840, we learn that our
venerable brother was pursuing his labours with comfort to himself, and,
it was hoped, with benefit to the people.

* Wiis’ Harsour.

In the absence of Mr. Pritchard, who is at present on a visit to this
country, the station now under notice is superintended by the neigh-
bouring Missionaries in rotation.

Among the fruits of the late revival, nearly fifty new members have
been added to the church, and thirteen, who had formerly been mem-
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The adult schools are well attended. The Queen Pomare, and her

family, with many of the people, manifest an exemplary diligence in

their attendance on the Bible classes, which are held at dawn of day.

The progress of the Mission is still fearfully impeded by the com-
bined efforts of insidious priests and political agents, sent forth, as they
affirm, and sustained by the Government of France.

The Bethel-flag continues to wave over the English chapel on the
sabbath, inviting the foreign residents, together with the captains, officers,
and seamen, of the ships occasionally anchored in the harbour, to meet
for public worship. ividence is from time to time afforded that, the
services held in this chapel are not without a blessing.

Church members 200. ;

” Busper’s Pornt.

Mr. Darling states that the two congregations under his care include
nearly 1,000 persons, Connected with each congregation there are two
schools, one for adults and one for children.

On the state of religion among his people, Mr. Darling furnishes the
following report; —

“‘ Of late we have neither had occasion for elation or depression. The
people appear to be going on steadily, and we hope many of them have their
faces Zionward. It is true that the Tahitians are not such experienced
Christians as we could wish ; but, when we consider the manner in which
these people were brought up, the nature of their climate, and the bountiful
way.in which Providence has provided for them, leaving but few incen-
tives to labour and industry, we need not wonder at their defects, nor can
we hesitate to make allowances for them, Wherever the work of grace has
been commenced, its appropriate fruits will appear: these we look for, and
hope to see to a greater extent than it is as yet our privilege to witness.”

Church members, 116 ; schools, 2; scholars, 180. _

Vo
Hawes Town. |

Mr. Davies reports that his people have in the past year afforded
pleasing evidence of their attachment to the Mission, by engaging in the
erection of a dwellmg-house and a school-house for Mr. Johnston. He
also states that the people at Papeuriri have built two substantial
places of worship, each capable of holding from 500 to 600 persons,
with suitable dwellings for the accommodation of the Missionary.

The arts of civilisation are making rapid progress at this station,
especially the manufacture of sugar, which is now conducted upon a
large scale as compared with former years, and promises to be a source
of permanent and extensive benefit to the people. As their temporal pro-
sperity advances, it is hardly possible they can escape exposure to the evils
of worldly-mindedness and covetousness; and it is already feared their
minds are too much engrossed in pursuits that can yield no abiding good.
Our brethren are called to exercise increased vigilance and activity to

prevent the inroads of a carnal and worldly spirit—they see the evil
fgendencies to which their people are exposed, and, by a faithful discharge
of their ministerial duties, warning every man and teaching every man,
they hope, under the blessing of God, to keep their flocks stedfast in
the faith, and to bring back such of them, as may have strayed, to the
fold of the great Shepherd.

After retiring from the station at Wilks’ Harbour, Mr. Joseph, by an



1842, ] GEORGIAN ISLANDS, 27
arrangement with Mr. Davies, removed with his family to Papeuriri.
In relation to his new sphere of labour, Mr. Joseph observes: —

‘We have three schools under our care, with an average attendance of 190
scholars. They are all condueted on the monitorial plan, as far as our
scanty apparatus will permit. It is our main object to impart as much re-
ligious instruction as possible in these threatening days. The congregations,
though small, are pretty steady.”

Church members, 482 ; schools, 4; scholars, 224. |

S ®
Bocuse Town.

Mr. Oramond, having in the early part of last year repaired to New
South Wales for the benefit of his health, returned in July considera-
bly restored, and received a most cordial and animating welcome from
his people. They manifested their joy and gratitude upon the occasion
by bringing numerous presents to Mr. Orsmond, consisting of various
kinds of native produce,—the only offerings at their command. They
also gave expression to their feelings by crowding round his house
in great numbers, entreating and gaining admission to his presence,
and uttering in accents of the utmost delight and thankfulness, the emo-
tions they experienced on once more beholding their affectionate and
faithful pastor.

On his return to Bogue Town, Mr. Orsmond was furnished with a con-
siderable number of Bibles in the native language, which were eagerly
applied for, and most gladly received, by the people. He had also the
happiness to find that the eandidates for church fellowship had been
stedfast in their profession; that their number had much augmented
during his absence; and that they were all diligently engaged in im-
proving the means of grace, with a view to an early admission to the
church. The congregations had increased; the use of ardent spirits
had greatly declined; and several new chapels were in course of erection.

4
Rosy Town.

The usual report has not been received from this station, but in the
last communication from Mr. Henry, it is stated,—

‘We much need the prayers of our friends, that the Lord would pour
out his Spirit upon us more copiously, and again revive us. The foreign
residents here are doing a great injury to the cause of religion, and, of
course, seriously obstructing the operations of the Mission: they betray their
ruinous designs by trampling on the laws of the land, and, in reckless de-
fiance of native law and native authority, encouraging and carrying on the
sale of ardent spirits. In this they are stimulated by the example of all
the foreign functionaries, (the British only excepted), under whose protec-
tion they find shelter from deserved punishment.”

: ” Emeo.

Blest Town.—In relation to the spiritual condition of the people of
his charge, Mr. Simpson states: — ]

*‘ The state of the church at this place presents an appearance of prospe-
rity. In the last ten months there have been few defections, while on the
other hand we have had several additions from the young and the careless.
We should rejoice to be able to say, that the scriptural views of those whom
we deem converts to God were displayed in more habitual self-denial, in a
greater deadness to the world, and in livelier desires and efforts for the sal-
yation of those who perish for lack of knowledge.

“ The two greatest evils among our people are indolence and covetous-
ness; but to this there are many happy exceptions. They have no syste-
matic industry among them, either to increase their own means of im-
provement or to provide for the wants of a perishing world. They still



28 FORTY-EIGHTH REPORT. [1842.
suffer the evil effects of their former heathen state, when vassals of the god
of this world. ‘To reach the moral injuries they have sustained requires
labour the most arduous; and, were it not that we are sure from the Word
of Him who cannot lie that these people shall be willing in the day of his
power, we might well say, ‘Can these dry bones live?’”

’ Griffin Town.—The labours of Mr. Howe have been obstructed by dif-
ficulties of almost precisely the same description as those stated in the fore-
going report. His encouragements have been alloyed with many trials,
Chiefly arising from the want of spirituality among the people, and their
inattention to the means of instruction. But he labours in hope, knowing
that he has the sympathies of the Saviour and of his disciples in every
place, and that the work in which he is engaged is not his own, but the
work of God. The church under his care contains 120 members, and
the congregation numbers 400. As soon as Mr. Howe obtains a mas-
tery of the language, he intends to pay particular attention to the
schools, and cherishes the hope of their becoming a source of most be-
neficial influence to the Mission at large. |

With reference to the supply of Tahitian Bibles conveyed to the
islands by Mr. Nott, Mr. Howe states: —

“ The Bibles have been bought up with great avidity by the people. This
we regard as a very encouraging circumstance, inasmuch as it will add to
our means of interesting the minds of the people; and, should the influences
of the Holy Spirit descend upon us, we Anal herein possess an additional
guard against error and iniquity. May it be my happiness soon to witness
scenes of profound contrition, holy indignation against sin, joy and peace in
believing!” _

‘ Mataortt.

When Mr. Barff last visited this island, he found the interests of re-
ligion in as favourable a state as could be expected, considering the
isolated circumstances of the people. During his stay, they evinced a
lively interest in the meetings held for religious instruction, and testi-
fied their zeal for the spread of the Gospel by contributing from their
slender means 560 bamboos of oil.

SOCIETY (or Ltezewarp) ISLANDS.
Places. Stations. Misstonaries.
Hvuawine . . . Faré Harbour. . (cae
RalATEA . . . Utumaoro . . . { Geonce PATTY om.
Tanaa. . . . Vaitoaré . . . A Native Teacher.
BorasonA. . . Beulah . . . . Joun RopnGerson.
Maupitt. . . . . ~ + « « + Ywo Native Teachers.
‘ HUvAwINE.

Mr. Barff presents an cncouraging view of the progress of his labours.
The members of the Mission-church generally exhibit an exemplary
firmness of principle, and a growing attachment to the ordinances of re-
ligion. The congregation on the sabbath is uniformly large and atten-
tive, and the week-day lectures are better attended than formerly.
There are two out-stations, Maiva and Farerii, at both of which the
people manifest an increasing interest in the means of grace. At Fa-
rerii a chapel was erected at the beginning of the year.

Social improvement and the arts of civilisation are steadily advancing
in this island.

The arrival of the Tahitian Scriptures at Huahjne was a truly joyful



1842.] HERVEY ISLANDS. 29
event to the people: 150 copies of the Bible, and 150 copies of the
New Testament, found immediate purchasers, and obtained a most ex-
tensive circulation. |

Church members, 449; schoojs, 4; scholars, 872.

* Raratea.

No decided improvement has yet taken place at this station. Mr.
Platt has to lament the prevalence of a worldly spirit amongst his peo-
ple, and finds it difficult to attract their attention to the interests of
eternity; but he labours in hope, looking to Him who alone can give
the increase, assured that his word shall not return unto Him void.

In the early part of last year, Mr. Charter, with his wife and child,
proceeded to Sydney for the benefit of his health, and sailed on his re-
turn to the islands in July last,

Church members, 116, | :

BoraBorRa,

In the midst of various obstacles, the work of God at this station has
continued to advance. The people have been much divided by disputes
respecting the apportionment of their land, and at one part of the year
a war was apprehended as the consequence; but these alarming demon-
strations have been mercifully overruled, and there is reason to hope
that, under the faithful ministry of the Word, the people will henceforth
be induced to avoid those wars and fightings which are so contrary to
the spirit of the Gospel, and learn to hold the unity of the Spirit in the
bond of peace.

Church members, 280, LO

MauvpPitTi.

Mr. Rodgerson visited this island.in the course of the year. He
found the native teacher Tehei and his wife labouring diligently for the
diffusion of the Gospel, and the people busily engaged in the erection
of a new and commodious place of worship.

HERVEY ISLANDS.
Places. Stations. Missionaries.
Rarotonca. . . . Ngatangiia . . . . CHARLeEs Pitman.
Titikaveka(out-station) Ko Ino, Native Teacher.
Avarua . . . . . AaRnon Bozacortr.
Arorangi . . . . Wreriam GILL.
AITUTAKI . «+ + © «© «© « « © « « Henry Royte.
MITIARO soe ee ew ww ww ew he )~6One Native Teacher.
ATIU) 2 6 6 6 ew ew ew ew we hw he he) 6Three Native Teachers.
MavotTt . «6 + 6 © © «© «© «© «© © « One Native Teacher.
Manata (or MANGATA). 6 6 6 we ee { Ke and two other Na-
RAROTONGA.
1) Ngatangiia.

Mr. Pitman continues to experience various encouraging tokens of the
divine favour in prosecuting the hallowed object of his labours. He
writes :—

‘“‘ God is still graciously pleased to smile upon our feeble attempts to ad-
vance his glory. Very many are the applicants and candidates for admis-
sion to the ordinances. Here, and at the out-station, a few weeks ago, I
had the happiness of baptizing one hundred persons, and last ordinance
sabbath I edmitted twelve members to church-communion. There are
nine candidates for the latter privilege at Titikaveka, whose spiritual



30 FORTY-EIGHTH REPORT. (1842.
knowledge and consistent conduct assure us that they have been born of the
the Spirit, and are numbered among the heirs of the kingdom.”

In reference to the severe epidemic which has so long ravaged the
island, Mr. Pitman observes:— —

“It is my painful duty to state, that death is still cutting down young
and old, parents and children, bafiling all our attempts to save, and deaf to
our entreaties to spare. Many very excellent and useful persons have been
called away by their gracious Lord; leaving, in their dying testimony,
strong ground of assurance that they had washed their robes and made
them white in the blood of the Lamb; and that now they are before the
throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple.’

Church members, 129 ; schools, G ; scholars, 1,610.

V Avarua.

The cause of truth and righteousness is steadily advancing at this
station. The institution for training a native ministry, under the care
of Mr. Buzacott, although necessarily limited in its operations, promises
to be of eminent advantage to the islands. The students, five in
number, besides being instructed in theology, are conducted through a
course of general xnowledge, and their leisure hours are regularly em-
ployed in manual labour, chiefly cabinet-making and carpentry.

To the work of translation Mr. Buzacott has devoted so much of his
time as he could spare from other important engagements.

Church members, 112; schools, 3; scholars, 891.

Â¥ Arorangi.

Mr. Gill thus refers to the progress of his work: —

“The peculiar tokens of divine favour which our churches, congrega-
tions, and schools, have hitherto received, call for the liveliest expressions
of gratitude, both on the part of the churches at home, and of those actively
engaged in the Mission; but the most vigilant wakefulness and constant
prayer are essential, lest this highly exalted position should become a
temptation and a snare.

“Since I last wrote, the church at Arorangi has been called both to weep
and to rejoice. Disease is still doing its terrible work, and greatly dimi-
nishing our population. At this station alone, where we have a population
of 1,100, we lost, in 1840, by death, nearly 150 of our people; while the
number of births was only thirty. Of the departed, seventeen were mem-
bers of the church: these, and many others, afforded, in their dying mo-
ments, pleasing evidence of an interest in that blood which cleanseth from
all sin. While we mourn their loss on earth, we rejoice that the object of
our Mission has been accomplished in their salvation.

“Thus, in the midst of judgment, we can sing of mercy. In February
last I had the pleasure of administering the ordinance of baptism to eleven
individuals ; and, at the commencement of this month, nine others were
added to the church. Oh, that they may be kept stedfast in the way of
peace, and appear at the last day among the saved of the Lord; our joy
and our crown!”

Church members, 80; schools, 2; scholars, 847+

* AITUTAKI.

Mr. Royle has continued to prosecute his arduous labours in this
island; but no direct communication has been received from him since
the date of the last report.

* Manata (or Mangaia).

In addition to the intelligence communicated by Mr. Gill respecting

this island, Mr. Pitman has furnished the following particulars: —



1842. ] MARQUESAS. 31
“My native assistant Maretu, who was deputed by our churches to visit
the brethren in Mangaia, was received by them with christian affection ;
and I hope his residence amonget them has been beneficial, About six
weeks ago he returned in the den, accompanied by a deacon of the
church, who came to Rarotonga, to request on its behalf that Maretu might
be permitted to return ; stating, that during his sojourn of twenty-two
months amongst them, they received the greatest benefit from his in-
structions. oO ensure our compliance, they detained his wife and son
among them. It would have filled your heart with delight to have wit-
nessed the importunity of this good deacon when urging the speedy return of
Maretu to the island. He gave me no rest till I made him a direct answer.
He reminded me of Abraham’s servant, who would neither eat nor drink
till he had delivered his message ; and, until I told-him he should have my
consent if agreeable to my respected brethren Buzacott and Gill, he would
nrc The cause of Christ appears greatly to prosper at Ma ly all th

“* The cause o ist & eatly to pr at Mangaia. Nearly all the
adults have joined the clases, and are living together in ence and harmony.
There are three places of worship, well filled with attentive hearers. The
supplies of the Scriptures sent to Mangaia have been caught up with
extreme avidity, and read with great delight. The people have presented
an urgent request for a larger supply, for which they propose to pay with
fishing-nets and arrow-root.

“Upwards of 400 members have been admitted to church fellowship ;
and the candidates are very numerous. The children of the schools show an
ardent desire to advance in knowledge. Little, however, can be done till
they have a supply of elementary ooks and slates. At present, they
learn to write on sand, and on the broad leaves of the banana tree, using a
sharp-pointed stick for a pen. Our beloved brother Gill is waiting an op-
portunity to proceed to this interesting island, and spend a few mont
there, This f have long desired; and I rejoice that there is now 4 pro-
spect of the people being instructed more fully in the things of God.”

Mr. Heath visited this island in January of last year, and administered
the sacrament to between 300 and 400 church members,

/
MARQUESAS.
Station. Missionaries.
Sania Christina or Tahuata. . . . . {poorer RTALLWORTHY.

The same obstacles and discouragements which have from the first
impeded the spread of the gospel in this group still exist. The de-
voted brethren, engaged in a work so full of trial and difficulty, have a
strong claim upon the sympathy and prayers of the churches.

It has been found an extremely hard task to interest the minds of the
young people in the pursuit of knowledge, either secular or religious; but
our brethren have at length succeeded in teaching ten or twelve of them
the elements of reading and the first truths of religion. The attendance
on public worship continues very limited; andthe means of grace are but
little prized by the people at large. The true light has arisen upon
them, yet they still walk in darkness, according to the course of this
world. Our brethren have long planted and watered, and see as yet
no increase, but they do not despair. They know that all things are
possible with God, and they wait in faith until the Spirit be poured from
on high, to quicken into life the incorruptible seed, which with a liberal
hand they have cast into the moral soil around them.



FORTY-EIGHTH REPORT. (1842.

Finding in the present circumstances of the Mission that they cannot
effectively manage more than one station, the brethren have given their
chief attention to Vaitahu, and the neighbouring valley of Hanamiai,
Visiting at intervals the more distant parts of the island.

SAMOAS, or NAVIGATORS ISLANDS,
Stations. Missionaries.
Savaii . . . . {Cnaares Harpiz, ALEXANDER MacpboNaLD, GEORGE
Pratt, Groncr Daummonn, THomas BULLEN.
\ ma Heato, Wittiam Miris, WiLLiaAM Day, WIL-
Upolu and Marono LiAM Harsort; J. B. Stam, Printer; E. Bucwanan,
Infant School Teacher.
Tutuila ; j ARCHIBALD WriGcut Muaray, THoMAS SLratTyeER; Mat-
_ ° *\ THEW HunkKIN, European Assistant.
, J SAVAII.
“ Sapapalii.—Mr. Hardie has furnished the subjoined information
concerning the state and progress of his Mission: —

“ Since I last wrote, a large addition has been made to our church. The
entire number now in communion is 340. Since the formation of the
church, six have died in the hope of the Gospel. The church is in a very
pleasing and encouraging state. The members greatly aid us in our Jabours

y going from house to house, endeavouring by conversation and prayer
to lead the minds of the ignorant, the careless, and the wicked, to Enrist.
It is quite delightful to see those who formerly spent their time in idle-
ness and sin, now visiting the sick, the aged, and. the worldly ; and taking
the greatest pains to bring them to a consideration of their eternal interests.
Their labours have not been in vain. The success, with which it has pleased
the great Head of the Church to crown our work, is in a great measure
owing to their efforts.”

The greater part of the adults and children in the district receive
general as well as religious instruction. Every Friday, Mr. Hardie
holds a Bible class for adults, when the place is crowded to excess,
Many come on these occasions from the other villages of the district to
hear the Scriptures explammed; and it has been ascertained, that some
of these visiters are in the habit of communicating what they learn
on returning to their several homes. Amid these evidences of the di-
vine blessing on the operations of the Mission, it is a lamented fact that
a number of the inhabitants of this island still cling to heathenism and
its kindred vices. This, however, though a subject for regret, is by no
means viewed as an occasion of despondency. The brethren are not
cast down because their success is not yet complete, but pursue their
labours in the animation of hope; believing that He, who has gra-
ciously disposed so many to turn from the error of their ways, can turn
the hearts of all to himself.

Palauli.—This station, with its several outposts, is stil. under the
care of Mr, Macdonald. Our brother has encountered much oppo-
sition in his labours; but, along with his trials, has received ample
encouragement to abound in the work of the Lord. In his latest com-
munication he remarks: —

“At Palauli, the state of things is improving. I hope there are some
who see the importance of inquiring the way of salvation, and who have
begun to walk in newness of life. “Tn October I formed a church of four



1842.) . NAVIGATORS ISLANDS. | 33
members at this station. It is the day of small things with us at present ;
but, if the hand of God has laid the foundation, we are assured he will carry
on the work.”

In July, Mr. Macdonald made a tour of his extensive district, and
had much reason for thankfulness in the results of his investigation.
Among these he mentions the following: — |

“ Salailua, about thirty miles west from Palauli, was from the first a
promising place. Our native brother, Matatia, a Rarotongan, labours in
this locality : he is a pious and very intelligent young man, and affords me
great assistance. The congregation is good, and the people are very atten-
tive to religious instruction. During my stay, I formed a church of four-
teen members: these had been candidates for a considerable time ; and with
each of them I had, previous to their admission, conversations on the nature
and necessity of personal religion, emphatically insisting on the inadequacy
of a mere external reformation to constitute atrue disciple of Christ.”

“6 Falealupo is an interesting place. The last time I was there, seven mem-
bers were added to the church, increasing the number to, I think, forty-five.
It is truly pleasing to see the decision and fortitude with which they con-
tinue to discountenance every evil practice to which they were accustomed
in the days of their ignorance.”

,Church members at Palauli and out-stations, 67.
“ Matautu.—In May, 1840, Mr. Pratt had the privilege to form the
native believers under his pastoral care into a church. Referring at a
subsequent period to this grateful subject, he observes :—

“ The infant-church at this station has had an addition of four members,
one of whom exhibits a most remarkable change in her whole conduct and
appearance. From being stupid, almost to idiotey, and lazy and filthy in
her habits, she has been transformed, by that same power which has quick-
ened her soul from spiritual death, into an useful and industrious member
of society.”

In January of last year, Mr. and Mrs. Drummond joined the Samoan.
Mission from Tahiti. Mr. Drummond co-operates with Messrs. Mac-
donald and Pratt, and has commenced his labours by taking charge from
them of the church and congregation at Falealupo, which, from the dis-
tance of the place, they were not able to attend to as they wished.

Church members, 22,

‘ Upo.tv ann Manono.

Mr. Heath returned to his station in January of last year, after
accomplishing his important Mission, in the Camden, to the westerly
islands, comprising the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, &c.; ample de-
tails of which have already been conveyed to the friends of the Society
through other channels.

In May following, Mr. Heath thus notices the progress of the work
in his own stated sphere of labour: —

‘¢ Since my return, I have visited the whole of my district in the island
of Upolu. in most places I found a more marked distinction than I had
formerly observed, between the more serious and the merely nominal pro-
fessors of the Gospel. The latter, in consequence of the death of some na-
tive chiefs and other influential persons, who were favourable to Chris-
tianity, and whose example acted as a salutary restraint upon them, are
become more openly wicked, again addicting themselves to the polluting
pleasures of their former heathen state. On the other hand, our chure
is increasing.

“ We had a very interesting meeting of the brethren here last week, and
our engagements lasted for three days. One day was devoted to business,

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34 FORTY-EIGHTH REPORT. { 1842.
one to a public meeting and the celebration of the Lord’s Supper, and one
to devotional purposes among ourselves. It was to us an occasion fraught
with the purest happiness, and the people manifested a lively interest in
the several services which were held : the divine presence and Pleasing were
with us.’

In the twelve months from January, 1840, to January, 1841, Mr.
Heath admitted to church fellowship 251 persons.

“ Apia.—Mr. Mills furnishes the annexed view of the religious condi~
tion of the people committed to his charge: —

** The inhabitants of this station are in a most interesting state ; a great
number of them appear very anxious about the salvation of their souls.
Many from distant stations have repaired hither, requesting to be admitted
into the church ; but, from the diffeulty of knowing the real characters of
those not residing near us “nd of observing closely their conduct, we are
obliged to keep many back. I wish we had a few more Missionaries—active
and devoted men—who might occupy many of those extensive and interest-
ns districts around us, to which we are ourselves unable to pay due atten-

on.

Another portion of Scripture, the Gospel of John, has been issued
from the press. Mr. Mills has no doubt that it will obtain extensive
circulation. It is a pleasing fact, that the word of God is valued by the
people above any other book. In addition to those who have joined
from other churches, the number received into communion by Mr. Mills
is stated to be thirty-two; and there are many hopeful candidates for
the privilege of membership. The schools, under the superintendence
of Mr. M., are imcreasing in numbers and in interest; and afford de-
lightful promise in relation to the well-being of the present and rising
generation.

v Sagana.—Mr. Day has been induced to remove from Falefa to this
«locality, deeming it, among other reasons, better adapted for carrying
on the instruction of the native teachers.

“Tam much pleased,” he writes, “ with my new station, though it is of
small extent, including only three villages. It will, however, leave me a large
portion of time to devote to the native teachers, and to employ my pen.”

Mr. Day has not been without his trials, arising from the worldly-
mindedness of some, and the insincerity of others; but grace has also
abounded through his ministrations, and he rejoices in the prospect of
success which is now set before him. Among his latest communica-
tions, we have the following: —

“JT am in immediate connection with the chief, Malietoa, and wish I
could say, that he gives evidence of being a Christian: he continues, how-
ever, in his way, to support the Missionary cause, and is very kind to us.
There are a few individuals here, whom, with trembling, I have resolved
to form into a church. Of these, one is Mori, a son of Malietoa, who, I
trust, is destined to be a monument of divine grace. Formerly, a volup-
tuous and sanguinary young chief ready to take the life of an inferior for
a word, he is now the docile, humble Christian, and a preacher of that
Gospel which has made him what he is.”’

vo Sepa.—This comparatively new station is occupied by Mr. Harbutt,
who thus describes the interesting sphere of labour committed to his
charge :—

“‘ My nearest neighbour is brother Mills, from whom I am separated b
the whole breadth of the island—a distance of about thirty-five miles, made
up of mountains, waterfalls, and tremendous precipices. My district ex-



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tends to twenty-eight miles on each side of me, and above 12,000 immortal
souls are directly of indirectly depending on my efforts for instruction.

“My peculiar circumstances prevented me devoting much attention to
the janguage, before I arrived at my present station ; but, thanks be to God,
I was enabled, in September, to deliver my first sermon in the native
tongue to a large and attentive congregation, and, I am happy to add, was
understood through the whole of the discourse.”

Mr. Harbutt reports that there has been a remarkable religious
movement among the people in one part of his district, similar to that al-
ready recorded as having taken place at Tutuila, Partly as the first-
droppings of the shower of blessing which has fallen, and partly as
forming a portion of the fruits which it has produced, Mr. Harbutt
records the pleasing facts contained in the succeeding extract from
one of his communications: — |

‘* Since I came into this district, I have baptized 174 individuals, chiefly
adults, including several whole families.- The number admitted to the
church in the same space of time has been 64. Though I have been
called to exercise church discipline in a few instances, I do not think that
any minister in my beloved native land can rejoice in a church which has
cost him less pain, or given him more joy.”

Church members, 76.

Falelatai.—Mr. Stair has prosecuted his labours in the printing de-
partment with great vigour and effect. The progress and operations of
the Samoan Mission have been materially facilitated thereby; and the
Press is evidently destined to be the instrument of conferring the highest
and most permanent advantages on the population of these islands. Mr.
Stair has printed 9,000 copies of the third and fourth numbers of the
Sulu Samoa,—a popular periodical now circulated extensively among the
natives. He has also primted 5,000 copies of a work entitled Folanga
Faauma, containing an account, in the Samoan language, of the last
voyage of Mr. Williams; together with numerous other publications,
suited to promote the interests of the christian cause. An additional
printing press has, in the course of the year, been sent out for the use
of the Samoan Mission. In reference to the general aspect of his sta-
tion, Mr, Stair observes: —

“‘ After a season of darkness, we are beginning to rejoice in the evidence
we sec before us, that the hand of the Lord is at work, stirring up the
hearts of the people. I have long had a large congregation, to whom it has
been my joy to proclaim the unsearchable riches of Christ. _ There are six~
teen in church fellowship, with several candidates for admission. In ad-
dition to this, there seems a renewed desire on the part of some members who
had grown careless of the claims of the Gospel, to seek and love the Lord
and surrender themselves to his service.”

Falefa.—Mr. Buchanan has succeeded Mr. Day at this station; his
former station, Falealili, being now included in Mr. Harbutt’s district.
Besides engaging in direct Missionary duty, Mr. Buchanan has been
actively employed in forming infant-schools, and in training teachers
to conduct schools upon the same system, for the supply of the different
stations belonging to the Samoan Mission and of the islands to the
westward. A

V Turui.a.

Pagnopagno,—Our last Annual Report contained extended accounts
of signal manifestations of divine grace towards the inhabitants of this
Island, in connection with the labours of Mr. Murray, Recurring to
this delightful subject, Mr. Murray remarks:—

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36 FORTY-EIGHTH REPORT. 1842.

“‘ Our most sanguine hopes have been more than realised ; and often have
we felt astonished and reproved, while with grateful hearts we have con-
trasted the abundance of the blessings bestowed with the scantiness of our
expectations. The gracious promise in Mal. iii. 10, has had an extraordi-
nary fulfilment in this distant island of the sea. The windows of heaven
have been opened, and a blessing, so large, has been poured out, that there
has not been room enough to receive it. ‘Not unto us, O Lord, not unto
us, but unto thy name, give glory.’

“This great work appears more and more manifestly to be a genuine
work of God. Begun, as it was, in our own family, we have had the best
opportunities of satisfying ourselves as to its real character ; and it is with
feelings no language can express, I declare my conviction, that many, who
have Feen the subjects of this awakening, are now real Christians. That
this will be the result in every instance where deep feeling has been evinced,
is more than I expect, though I earnestly desire and pray that it may be
80.”

The population of Tutuila is estimated at 4,300. It is about equally
divided between the districts of Leone and Pagnopagno. The sabbath
congregation at Pagnopagno amounts to nearly 1,000. In this district
about 300 of the natives, living on the extreme point of the island, still
continue heathen. The efforts of our brethren, hitherto, have been in-
effectual to induce them to embrace Christianity; but there is now
strong reason to hope, that they will soon abandon the lying vanities to
which they have been clinging, and embrace the worship and service of
the living and true God. During the past year, 260 adults have been
baptized, and 107 admitted to church fellowship; and considerable pro-
gress has been made in civilisation and general improvement. The
number of native assistants employed last year on the island was
thirty-four. Nine of these have since been sent forth as teachers to
the islands around, still in a state of heathenism.

Leone.—At this station the riches of divine mercy have been poured
out in signal and gracious abundance during the period embraced in the
report from Mr. Slatyer. His communication on the subject is a3 fol-
lows:—

‘* Ere this reaches England, you will have heard of the great work which
the Lord has begun at Bagnopagno, under brother Murray. It will there-
fore produce the less surprise, though not the less joy, when I state, that
the district of Leone has shared in that blessed effusion of the Spirit, by
which our island has been so copiously visited.

“ Through the mercy of God I have to record the commencement of my
public preaching among the people. On the 25th of October I preached
my first sermon ; and such a day, one so deeply interesting and affecting, I
had never expected. The sermon was from the words, ‘So thou, O Son of
man, I have set thee a watchman to the house of Israel.’ We first sang a
hymn, the subject of which was the blessedness of a people in having the
Gospel sent to them. After prayer and another hymn, T stood up, while
there sat before me, anxiously waiting for the word of life, at least 1,000
persons. It wasto me a most deeply affecting sight, when I thought of the
solemn position I was just then about to assume among them, as the watch-
man of their precious souls. The profoundest solemnity pervaded the dense
assembly when I read the text, and proceeded to make a few introductory
remarks on the occasion of my first standing up among them to preach the
everlasting Gospel. I next called on them to unite with me in thanksgiving
and in solemn prayer to God, that he would graciously bless the beginning
of my labours for the salvation of their souls. Considerable feeling had al-
a begun to manifest itself; deep sobs broke forth in various directions ;
and I only uttered a few words more, when my voice was entirely drowned



1842.] NEW HEBRIDES. 37
by the simultaneous weeping of the whole congregation. Not being able to
proceed, I looked abroad upon the’mass of people, and it was certainly the
most affecting sight I ever witnessed ; every head was bent down, and every
eye was filled with tears; the feelings pf some were so strong, that it was
necessary to take them out of the chapel: about twenty minutes passed
away before I could proceed. . L

‘* In the afternoon we held an examination, when it appeared that those
who had been at the morning service remembered every important feature
of the sermon. The deacons afterwards informed me, that Chiefs who had
looked savage before, had that day been broken down. Such an encou-
raging commencement of my labours T never anticipated. To the Lord be all
the praise !”

/ NEW HEBRIDES, &c.

Missionary V oyage.—Mr. Murray, having been deputed by his brethren
to visit the westerly groups, in prosecution of the plan commenced by the
Rev. John Williams and the Rev. T. Heath, sailed from the Samoas
in the Camden, on the 13th of March last year, and arrived at Eranan, or
Fotuna, the most easterly of the New Hebrides group, towards the
close of the same month. He next proceeded to Ekeamu, and, at each
of these islands, succeeded in fixing two native teachers under very en-
couraging circumstances.

At Tanna, the next island he visited, Mr. Murray discovered much
cause for gratitude, though some painful events had transpired, and two
of the teachers formerly stationed there had finished their course.
Having offered suitable encouragements to the surviving teachers, and
recruited their force by leaving with them an additional teacher, Mr.
Murray proceeded to Nina, where he found the work prospering under
the teachers left by Mr. Heath. On arriving upon the fatal shores of
Erromanga, he was grieved to learn that the savage natives had se-
riously ill-used the teachers planted there by Mr. Heath, and Mr.
Murray had some difficulty in bringing them away from the island.

Having thus completed his visit to the New Hebrides, Mr. Murray
next touched at Britannia island, one of the Loyalty group, and left be-
hind him two teachers who experienced a most cordial reception from
the people. He sailed thence to the Isle of Pines and New Caledonia,
and was much encouraged by what he witnessed in those islands: two
additional teachers were stationed on the north-east end of the island of
New Caledonia, between Cape Coronation and Cape Queen Charlotte,
about thirty or thirty-five miles from the Isle of Pines.

Having thus happily accomplished the principal objects of his voyage,
Mr. Murray set sail for Sydney, and arrived there on the 28th of
April.

The Camden was detained at Sydney until the following July. On
the 14th of that month she sailed for the Islands, having on board Mr.
and Mrs. Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Bullen, Mr. and Mrs. Charter, and
Mr. Smee; also Mr. and Mrs. Nisbet and Mr. Turuer appointed to
the New Hebrides Mission. Mrs, Turner, we regret to add, was detained
at Sydney by illness.



38 FORTY-EIGHTH REPORT, [1842.
ULTRA GANGES. |
Stations. Missionaries.
WittiamM Crawrorp Mine; Dr. Witiiam Locx-
Cuina . . Macao. 4 HART, Dr. Bensamin Hosson, Medical Mission.
arveé.
Jamrs Lecce, D.D.; Hzinnicn CHRISTIAN WERTH
Matacca . Malacca { ‘Assistant Missionary. ,
Stneapore Singapore . SAMUEL DER, JOHN SreOwACH) BP KEASBUSY:
mas BEIGHTON, XAN ; R, T.
Prnana . Georg eTown { “Garis, Schoolmaster. *
WaLTER Henry MeEpuurst; WILLIAM YOUNG,
Java . . Batavia. . \ JON’ Assistant Missionary ; Lucas Monron, Cate-
Chit.
“ Macao.

The brethren at this station are still waiting and watching with in-
tense solicitude and fervent prayer for a door of entrance into the dark
and populous regions of China. Besides instructing the young, visiting
and relieving the sick and afflicted, and engaging in the‘distribution of
the Scriptures and other books, they have hitherto been diligently occu-
pied in the acquirement of the language, and such other preparatory
labours as their critical circumstances would permit.

It was stated in the last Annual Report that Dr. Lockhart had pro-
ceeded to the Island of Chusan, and opened an hospital in its principal
town, Tinghae. During his stay of five months, no less than 3,502 pa-
tients received his advice and assistance, and he enjoyed abundant op-
portunities of conversing with the people, and of distributing Scriptures
and tracts. His stock of 6,000 volumes was speedily exhausted.

In the meantime, Dr. Hobson was actively engaged in the hospital
of the Medical Missionary Society at Macao, in conjunction with Mr.
Diver of the American Board. In the six months ending March, 1841,
medical relief was administered to 600 persons, and a few were admitted
as in-patients.

Since the return of Dr. Lockhart to Macao, the charge of the hospital
has devolved upon himself and Dr. Hobson jointly. Multitudes of the
sick and diseased repair to this institution to seek restoration from their
ailments. |

The patients are liberally supplied with christian books, portions of
sacred Scripture, and tracts; and by these and other means every effort
is made, in dependence on divine grace, to heal the soul as well as
the body.

Mr. Milne has devoted a portion of his time to the instruction of
the Chinese pupils of the ‘‘ Morrison Education Society,” and expresses
himself much pleased with the progress they have made in religious and *
general knowledge. Since June, he has also, at the request of Captain

lliott, conducted the service at the British chapel.

Early last year, Mr. Milne, with a party of Missionary friends, pro-
ceeded to the Island of Hongkong, after its cession to the British
Crown, to ascertain, from personal inspection, its eligibility as a centre
of future operations for the evangelisation of China. The island is
situated near the mouth of the Canton river, about forty miles north-
east from Macao, and has a circumference of thirty miles: from its local
position, it seems destined to become the site of a great commercial
emporium, though in other respects it has but few advantages. The
population is about 2,500.



1842.] MALACCA—SINGAPORE., 39
The native Evangelist, Leang Afa, is still residing in Canton. He

continues stedfast in the Gospel, but his means of diffusing it under

present circumstances, are very limited. He longs to raise up his voice

for Christ, to his benighted countrymen, and with delight anticipates

the day when he shall have full liberty to invite them to become par-

takers of the blessings of the Gospel. |

Maxacca.

This station is now in the sole charge of the Rev. Dr. Legge, who
has laboured assiduously to improve its organisation, and raise it to the
highest possible state of efficiency. His efforts hitherto have been at-
tended by an encouraging measure of success. He has formed a Chinese
church consisting of a few members, of whose piety the most satisfac-
tory evidence was afforded previous to their admission.

The internal arrangements of the Anglo-Chinese College have under-
gone considerable modifications, by which Dr. Legge hopes to promote
the character and interests of the Institution. Two schools have been
opened for the instruction of Chinese youths in the Canton and Hok-
keen dialects respectively; each school contains fourteen pupils, who
have been received as boarders for a term of three years. Several of
these exhibit very good progress in English reading and spelling, be-
sides making a commencement in writing and arithmetic.

There has been an encouraging attendance on the preaching of the
Gospel in the Bazaar. Mr. Werth, who had been labouring among the
Malay population, has been obliged to return to Europe, in consequence
of the failure of his health. He reached England with his family in
April, and has since proceeded to his native place on the Continent. -

~ SINGAPORE.

The brethren at this station have prosecuted their work during the
past year under circumstances of mingled encouragement and trial.
Mr. J. Stronach has frequently visited the Chinese shops for the pur-
pose of conversing with the people on the subject of Christianity; and,
although no immediate good has appeared, it is hoped, that, under the
divine blessing, the seed thus cast into the soil will hereafter spring
up and bear precious fruit.

A pleasing instance of the power of the Gospel, to subdue prejudice
and renovate the heart, has appeared in the case of Mr. Stronach’s Chi-
nese teacher. He was for some time greatly opposed to the truth—it
suited not the depravity of his heart nor the pride of his intellect,
and could only be received at the expense of the most fondly-cherished
and deeply-rooted opinions and habits. But all things are possible with
God—the doctrine of the Cross found its way to the heart of the young
pagan, and he became a believer in Christ. On affording satisfactory
proof of his attachment to the Saviour, he was publicly admitted to
baptism and the Lord’s Supper, in January, 1841. Already has he ap-
proved himself an intelligent and useful assistant to Mr. Stronach, par-
ticularly in the composition of tracts designed for circulation amongst
his countrymen. ee

Mr. Stronach has been also employed, with the assistance of Ab-
dullsh, a learned native, on a revised translation of the Epistles into

the Malay language,

A highly interesting feature in the Malay department of the Mission
is the boarding school under the care of Mr, Keagbury. Some of the.



40 FORTY-EIGHTH REPORT. | 1842.
pupils have manifested deep concern about their souls, and this has
been followed by the expression of a strong desire to obtain an interest
in Christ, and to be conformed to his image.

Of the general state of the Malay branch of the Mission, Mr. Keas-
bury thus speaks: —

*‘ Our little church continues to afford us great interest. The members
are ten in number. Our sabbath attendance varies. Sometimes we have a
goodly number ; at other times, only the members, But we must not de-
spise the day of small things. The children of the school are gradually
improving, though much impeded for want of books in their language. A
book of natural philosophy has just passed through the press, which, I
trust, will be of use to them, and in course of time, other books will be
provided.” !

* PENANG.

The Malay services have been continued by Mr. Beighton as for-
merly, and christian knowledge appears to increase among the followers
of the false prophet. The prejudices of the Mohammedans against our
holy religion are still exceedingly strong, but with this there co-exists
a spirit of inquiry from which there is every thing to hope. It is
found difficult to bring together any large number of Mohammedans
for divine worship at stated periods, and, of those who attend, many
retire before the service has concluded. The regular congregation on
the sabbath morning consists of the schoolmasters and their youthful
charge, together with the female children who are under the immediate
care of Mr. and Mrs. Beighton: others attend occasionally.

Mr. Beighton has sustained a serious loss in the death of his valu-
able Malay schoolmaster, Thomas John Ince. He had been in the ser-
vice of Mr. Beighton seventeen years, and gave pleasing evidence of being
a true disciple of Christ.

The Tamil service, reported last year as having been established by
Mr. Beighton, is now maintained through the instrumentality of a na-
tive Christian named Joseph. The English service on the Sunday
evening, and the monthly administration of the Lord’s Supper, have
been regularly kept up.

The Chinese school, under the superintendence of Mr. A. Stronach,
has made satisfactory progress in the past year. The boys read the
Scriptures in English, and are taught to translate them into their own
language,—an exercise in which they have acquired considerable facility.
Several of the more advanced pupils have realised a pretty extensive
acquaintance with divine truth, and the capacity of their minds is
daily enlarging under the instruction they receive. Two or three of
them have repeatedly expressed a wish to join the church, but the sub-
ject has been for the present deferred. Two of the Chinese boys died
during the year.

““ One of these,”’ writes Mr. Stronach, “‘ was about seven years of age,—a
very promising little boy. He was with us about one year, during which
he was repeatedly detained at home by illness. A few weeks before his
death he became very unwell, and his mother was allowed to take him
home to nurse him, but he grew gradually worse, and died. His mother
has since called on us, and seems to take a melancholy pleasure in telling
us of the sweet spirit he latterly displayed. During his illness she often
heard him repeating the lessons and passages of Scripture he had learnt at
school, and frequently perceived him engaged in prayer. Even on the day
he died, he entreated his mother to take him back to school.”

The school for Chinese girls, of which Mrs. Stronach is still in
charge, has advanced to a state most pleasing to contemplate. The



1842. | | BATAVIA. 4l
children have realised, under her careful instructions, a decided im-
provement, and, by the blessing of God, there is a well-founded assurance
that they will rise up a seed to serve the Lord.

Chinese preaching is continued by Mr. Stronach on the Friday even-
ing. At times, he finds these services exceedingly encouraging; but
the Chinese who attend are for the most part so worldly-minded, that
the necessity’ of divine influence to fix the truth in their minds, is in
their case most strikingly apparent, Still our brother declares, that he
is often filled with delight, and led to indulge most animating hopes,
from observing the intelligent, serious, and earnest interest with which
he is often listened to while preaching the unsearchable riches of Christ.

In his ministrations from house to house among the Chinese, Mr.
Stronach experiences constant and peculiar pleasure. He is received
with kindness, and often on these occasions has the satisfaction of ad-
dressing little congregations of attentive and deeply interested hearers.

Some thousands of tracts and books in the Malay, Chinese, Tamil,
Teloogoo, and other languages, have been distributed at this station
during the year.

Schools, (Malay and Chinese), 5; scholars, 98.

Vv Batavia.

The report from this station calls for grateful acknowledgment to the
Most High. Preaching in Malay and Chinese, and in English on the
sabbath morning, has been sustained regularly by Mr. Medhurst and
Mr. Young; and, with the aid of American brethren, an additional
English service has been held on the sabbath evening.

The Chinese seminary has received an addition of twelve scholars,
who were formerly under the care of the Rev. Dr. Boone. Their pro-
gress has been steady and encouraging, and their conduct unexception-
able. They are beginning to acquire a clear understanding of the truths in
which they are instructed, and which are communicated to them through
the medium of the English and Chinese languages; and their views on
the most important subjects have been gradually undergoing a salutary
and hopeful change. With the contents of the New Testament they
are intimately acquainted, and they have occupied a portion of their
time in the past year in translating Mr. Medhurst’s Malay Commen-
tary on Matthew into English.

The Parapattan Orphan Asylum is reported to be in a prosperous
state.

In August last, Mr. Medhurst proceeded on a journey of Mis-
sionary observation to the eastern extremity of the island of Java, and
returned after an absence of six weeks. During that period, the Ame-
rican brethren kindly supplied his place in the Mission-chapel, and Mr.
Young conducted the general affairs of the station. In the course of
his tour, Mr. Medhurst visited Samarang, and penetrated the interior
of the island in that direction; after which he travelled overland to
Sourabaya and Passerwang, distributing large numbers of tracts in the
Chinese and other languages, and preaching and teaching Christ.

At Sonrabaya, Mr. Medhurst was informed of the existence of a re-
ligious movement among the Javanese; which, though not unalloyed
with present evil, promises to issue in happy results. He was told
that hundreds of Javanese had renounced Mohammedanism, professedly
embraced Christianity, and only waited to be more instructed in the
grounds of their new belief, in order to be baptized and formed into a
christian church. Such a movement of course received all the atten-



42 FORTY-EIGHTH REPORT. [1842,
tion Mr. Medhurst could bestow upon it at the time. He spared no
pains to ascertain its real character, to encourage every symptom of
good, and to correct any evil tendency which he could discover. In a
village near Sourabaya, he found about forty of these inquirers; at
other places in the vicinity, a number more; and about two days’ journey
in the interior, he communicated with another body of natives who had
apparently been impressed in favour of the Gospel. Mr. Medhurst has
not ventured as yet to pronounce any decided opinion on the character
of this excitement: he hopes it will prove to be a work of God, and that,
in his next communication, he will be enabled to record many triumphs
of divine grace among a people who have so long been bound in the
chains of spiritual death. ,

Church members, 40 ; schools, 5 ; scholars, 135 ; tracts and books printed

and circulated 40,000,
NORTHERN INDIA. |
Stations. Missionaries.
G. Goc¥riy, A. F. Lacrorx, JoHN CAMPBELL, THoMAS Boaz,
Caleutta { Minister of Union Chapel, W1LL1aM Morton, JAMES Brapsury,
° RopoLpHE DE Ropt; RHADANATH, Gosinno Gin, Parsorttt,
RaMKuMAR, CounpDRA, Native Teachers.
Chinsurah . GEORGE MUNDY i Moro and Josere, Wave Teachers. S
ICAIAH HI.u, James Paterson, T. L. SEL; BoLal, U,
Berhamp ore { Panes, Native Teachers. “ee
Wittiam Buyers, J. A. SaurnmMan, JaMes Kennepy, D. G.
Benares 4 Wart, J. H. Buppen; Nasaport Sine, Native Preacher ; lsai-
DAS, PRABHUDIN, Native Teachers.
Mirzapore. {* C. Maruer, a.m, Wittiam GLEN; MIRzA Joun Axpas,
JoHn Hani, Azim KHAn, ANTUNI JABJIS, Native Assistants.
Surat. . {Woram Frvig, WILLIAM CLARKSON, WILLIAM FLowern ; Racu-
NOTH, Native Assistant.
/ Caucurta,

The Rev. William Morton, with Mrs. Morton, embarked on his re-
turn to Calcutta 19th of February last. On the 4th of April, the Rev.
A. F. Lacroix and Rev. George Gogerly arrived in this country with
their families. After twenty years’ arduous service in India, Mr.
Lacroix now revisits Europe, chiefly for the purpose of seeing his
friends, and advocating the cause of Missions, on the Continent. The
Directors regret to state, that the health of Mr. Gogerly has so seriously
failed, as to render it more than probable that he will not again be able
to engage in Missionary service.

Native Preaching.—In this branch of labour, our Missionaries have
been engaged twenty-five years at Calcutta; and, though many of them
have died in the work, God has raised up others to fill their places, who,
stimulated by the example of their departed brethren, have stediastly
persevered in preaching to the heathen the Gospel of the grace of God.
The result of this long-continued labour, in connection with the opera-
tions of the Mission in other departments, has been a most extensive
dissemination of divine truth; which, in its turn, has had the effect of
weakening prejudices undisturbed for centuries, of producing doubts in
the minds of thousands, and so preparing them for a more candid inquiry
into the claims of the Gospel, and of convincing many that the religion
of the Bible is the only guide to heaven. Indeed there is no part of
Bengal on which Missionary labour has been expended, where these
effects to a greater or less degree have not been produced.

At the chapel in Bow Bazar, the services have been more frequent



1842.] _ CALCUTTA. 43
and regular than in any preceding year. Messrs. Gogelry, Lacroix,
Campbell, and de Rodt, have each generally preached there once a week,
and the chapel has presented on those occasions a very pleasing appear-
ance, from the largeness of the attendance and the seriousness of the
hearers. During the year, many thousands have heard in this place the
word of life, and several, who are among the most regular in attending,
manifest an intimate acquaintance with the leading doctrines and facts
of the word of God. Once a month, an especial service is held, when
the Missionaries unitedly attend and one of their number preaches.
At such times the congregations are larger than usual.

Occasional services have been held in the chapel at Chitpore Road,
which is situated in the midst of a dense population, and, though the
engagements are sometimes interrupted by the intrusion of disorderly
persons, unfriendly to the cause of Mission, there is ample encourage-
ment to persevere in them. The Rev. J. Bradbury preaches at this sta-
tion regularly once a week.

Through the kindness of the Missionaries belonging to the church of
Scotland, in granting the use of their commodious chapel at Simlah,
Messrs Lacroix and de Rodt have, from time to time, addressed large
and attentive congregations in that building.

In the chapel at Bhowanipore, service has been conducted twice a
week during the year. Standing on the high road that leads to Kalee
Ghaut, it appears, a solitary witness for the truth in the midst of super-
stition and error. Many a devotee, with garlands of flowers adorning
his brows, after having presented a bloody sacrifice before the idol, has
had his attention drawn, in this place, to the only true sacrifice for sin.
In all these chapels, tracts, and portions of scriptures have been distri-
buted in the past year, to the number of about 8,000.

English Preaching.—The services at Union Chapel have been main-
tained as informer years. The pastor, Rev. T. Boaz, has been kindly
aided in the discharge of his duties by Missionary brethren, and minis-
ters of other churches. Twelve have been added to the number in
church fellowship; but, in consequence of repeated diminutions by death
and other causes, the whole number is not greater than it has been for
some years. One of those of whom the church was originally com-
posed has lately entered into her rest; her life was eminently consistent,
her end peace, and her triumph in Christ complete. Four only of the
original members of the church remain, and they live to adorn the
doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. |

The services in Bengalee, held in Union Chapel on the Sabbath after-
noon, for servants belonging to the members of the congregation, continue
to be well sustained. During the latter part of the year the attendance
has very materially improved, and the attention has been encouraging.

Krishnapore.—-This station is situated on the eastern shore of
the salt-water lake, and was established in 1828. In the early part
of the past year, the church and the station generally were in a more
gratifying condition than they had been for some time before, but cir-
cumstances subsequently transpired, connected with the dismissal of a
native school-master, which had an unfavourable influence; but, by the
blessing of God, it is hoped the injury will be speedily repaired.

Rammakal-Choke and Gungree.—The native churches and congrega-
tions in the villages south of Calcutta have sustained a severe trial by
the death of the Rev. Charles Piffard, their devoted pastor for more
than fourteen years, through whose instrumentality many of the native



44 FORTY-EIGHTH REPORT. [1642,
converts had been brought to a knowledge of the truth. The native
catechist Radhanath, (Ramsay Paterson), bas been invited to take the
pastorate of these churches,—an office for which he is well qualified, but
which, from motives of humility, he has declined. He has spent nearly
the whole year at Rammakal-Choke, and made himself very useful by
going about from house to house, instructing, advising and comforting
the people. But he is again at Calcutta, where there is a wider sphere
for his activity in labouring to diffuse the knowledge of the Gospel
among his heathen countrymen. In this work he is aided by Go-
bindo Gosai, a converted Sunyasee, who, after spending a consider-
able time in the theological class, is now competent to act as a native
preacher.

Two native brethren, who were instructed in the theological class at
Bhowanipore, have been appointed as resident teachers at Rammakal-
Choke and Gungree, where they have given satisfactory evidence of
their ability to render service to the cause of God. The worship on the
sabbath has been regularly conducted at these stations by Rev. Messrs.
Lacroix and de Rodt, who have, as usual, maintained a system of visit-
ation of the neighbouring villages on week days. Mrs. Lacroix has
occasionally visited the stations, for the purpose of instructing the fe-
male portion of the churches and congregations. On such occasions,
the heathen women have attended with cheerfulness.

The number of persons, including men, women, and children, at
present in connection with the congregations belonging to the stations
south of Calcutta, amounts to about 500; and the three schools in this
district contain about 120 boys, together with a few girls, daughters of
native Christians, who are instructed in the usual branches of learning,
through the medium of their native tongue. .

Kidderpore.—Since the lamented death of Mr. Piffard, his devoted
partner has supported three schools, which are taught by Sirkirs, under
the superintendence of a Missionary. These schools, containing col-
lectively 116 children, were originally established by Mr. Piffard, and
were always a special source of delight to his benevolent mind. Mrs. P.
also defrays the expenses of the chapel at Koilah Suruk, where a ser-
vice for the benefit of the heathen is held twice a week, by Mr. Brad-
bury and the catechist Radhanath.

Christian Institution at Bhowanipore.—The object of this institution
is to communicate, in connection with a thorough education in the ver-
nacular and English languages, a sound knowledge of divine truth.
Many indications of a promising nature have transpired during the
year among the young men of the two senior classes. Their prejudices
in favour of idolatry and against Christianity have, in the majority of
instances, been subdued: they are solicitous for instruction in Scripture
truth, and have spontaneously requested the delivery ofa course of lec-
tures on the Epistles. They shew themselves conscious of their moral
weakness, and evince deep sensibility of the turpitude of sm. The
candour of their confession on these points, and the subdued spirit
with which they receive the admonitions of their teachers, indicate a
state of mind precisely adapted to the enlightened and cordial reception
of Christianity. Such, our brethren believe, will be the result at no
distant day. The pupils of the Senior Classes positively aver, that

they no longer worship idols, or sanction idolatry; in some instances,
this has come to the knowledge of their friends, who, ceasing therefore



1842.) CHINSURAH. 45
to regard them as Hindoos, are willing, for the public honour of their
families, to connive at their change of sentiment, so long as they refrain
from openly professing their faith by being baptized.

The last annual examination of the pupils of the Institution was
held at the Town Hall, in February. The Rev. T. Boaz presided.
Prize essays were read, and three prize medals (the gift of H. Wool-
laston, Esq., and Mr. Boaz) were bestowed on the successful candidates,
and several valuable rewards in books were awarded to the most diligent
in the different classes. The progress of the pupils afforded extreme
gratification and encouragement to the friends who were present. The
average attendance during the year has been about 380, and the num-
ber of pupils who passed through the Institution, in the three years
preceding, was upwards of a thousand.

The Committee has been encouraged by the increasing prosperity of
this establishment, and the distinct promise of permanency which it
holds out, to renew the lease of the premises for four years, and to
erect new buildings upon a larger scale. This of course will involve a
large expenditure, which they hope will be met by the increased sup-
port of the christian public.

Mr-Campbell has been encouraged, from the general feeling existing
amongst the more advanced pupils, to establish a service in the English
language for their especial benefit.

The female branch of the Institution continues under the superin-
tendence of Mrs. Campbell. The girls are daily instructed in the
truths of Christianity, together with reading, writing, arithmetic, and
needle-work. They have also been directed to the acquisition of quali-
fications more especially requisite to their duly sustaining those domestic
relations to which they may at some future time be led. The number
at present in the Institution is 20.

During the year, Messrs. Lacroix, Paterson, Boaz, Bradbury, and
de Rodt, have each performed extensive and important itinerant jour-
neys, Visiting the Melas, and taking every opportunity to make known
the glorious Gospel of the ever blessed God.

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Vv CHINSURAH.

Mr. Mundy has had pleasing evidence in the past year that his
labours have not been in vain. He has received several most gratifying
letters from officers and soldiers quartered at Chinsurah, acknowledging
the personal benefits they have realised under his ministry.

Two native chapels have been erected in eligible situations, and the
congregations assembling in them have been at once remarkable for
their number and the attention exhibited by them to the instructions
of the sanctuary. These congregations constitute a source of strong
hope to Mr. Mundy, and encourage him to be stedfast and unmov-
able, always abounding in the work of the Lord.

The schools connected with the stations are three in number. The
progress of the boys belonging to the upper classes in scripture know-
ledge is described as truly pleasing; and, if sanctified, cannot fail to lead
to the most gratifying and important results. Mr. Mundy has been
cheered by indications of the presence of the Divine Spint among
his youthful charge in the past year, and has therefore reason to hope
that the schools will ultimately send forth a stream of saving and pu-
rifying influence on the masses of the surrounding population.

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marked by prosperity. The constant attention she bestows on the
children claims grateful acknowledgment. The conduct of the elder
girls is very gratifying, and shews, in some instances, that real good
has been imparted to them. A former pupil, who is now engaged in
the active duties of life, has forwarded a very handsome memorial of
her affection and gratitude to Mrs. Mundy, from a station in the Upper
Provinces, where she resides. The infant-school continues to operate
most beneficially, and forms a source of the highest gratification to
christian friends visiting Chinsurah. The Bishop of Calcutta, whose
opinion upon such matters possesses great weight in India, has passed a
high commendation on the schools under Mrs. Mundy, for their order
and usefulness. / | a
BERHAMPORE.

No material change has occurred during the year at this station. The
way of salvation through Christ is becoming increasingly known among
the people; though few, as yet, appear to have entered the path of life.
Inquirers have occasionally presented themselves; and there are some
who affirm that they both read and believe the Scriptures. None of these,
however, if sincere, have yet had boldness openly to acknowledge their
faith and take up the Cross.

The former applicants for the ordinance of baptism are still kept on
probation: meanwhile their acquaintance with scriptural truth, and their
practical experience of the need of divine aid in the christian warfare,
are enlarging; and our brethren indulge a hope that this prolongation
of their trial, will, by the blessing of God, ultimately be advantageous
both to themselves and to the other native Christians.

During the cold season, Mr. Paterson, with two of the native cate-
chists, made a short excursion to the east of Berhampore, to preach the
Gospel, and distribute the word of God. At this period they visited
the Mela of Muritia, to which multitudes of the heathen were then
flocking, for the purpose of presenting their offerings at the shrine of
a new deity, who it was said had taken up his abode in a tree, and, in
the neighbourhood of the village where the tree stood, had wrought
many miracles of healing.

At Murutia and other places in this part of the country, the people
in general heard attentively, and manifested but little opposition, except
in a village called Dagachhiya; where some wealthy Musalmans having
been defeated in argument, became very violent, and threatened to expel
the messengers of Christ from the neighbourhood.

Two girls have been received into the Orphan Asylum, and one has
died since the date of the last report. All the children of this institu-
tion are making good progress both in general and religious knowledge.
Some of the elder boys have been put out to trades of different kinds,
and the rest occupy a part of their time as before, in learning the art of
weaving. Another youth has been sent from the asylum te reside as a
pupil in the Theological Institution at Bhowanipore. The total number
of children is 41, viz., 28 boys, and 13 girls.

Mrs. Paterson, who had been on a visit to this country for the benefit
of her health, arrived safely at Berhampore in March last year.

v BENARES.

Four members have been added to the native church at this station in
the past year; while the congregation on the sabbath morning, including
the children of the schools, has increased to more than five hundred.



1842. ] MIRZAPORE. 47

The Mission has been strengthened by the accession of the Rev. J.
H. Budden, who arrived at Benares on the 12th of January.

On the subject of preaching to the heathen, the following statements
occur in the report: —

“The labours of*the Missionaries in this department have occupied a
large portion of their time during the year, and afforded them much

‘satisfaction. "When, in the streets and market-places in the city, from ve-
randshs and other suitable stations, we call on the passers-by to listen to
the voice of heavenly wisdom, we know we are obeying a divine command,
and following in the track of our Saviour and his Apostles.

‘* As in former years, our native brother Narapat has been abundant in
labour, preaching the Gospel with great zeal to thousands of his fellow
countrymen. He hasa very earnest and lively mode.of address, and is often
most attentively heard. Another native brother, Prapauptin, has occa-
sionally distributed tracts at Melas, and conversed with the people. We do
not employ him much in work of this kind, and have chiefly directed his
attention to the schools. Isarpas, the catechist, is very zealous, and con-
verses daily with the people. He has improved greatly during the a
year; his knowledge is very considerable; he speaks in a warm and affec-
tionate manner ; and his answers to captious questions are ready and appro-
priate. ., We trust he may be preserved, and turn out a blessing to the

ission.

When the weather permits, our brethren preach almost daily in the
city, and occasionally twice aday. The verandahs in which the schools
are held afford appropriate places for morning preaching, and in the
evening the Bazar chapels are employed for that purpose.

Considering the peculiar character of this city—its great number of
heathen temples—its crowds of Brahmins—its ever-recurring melas or
festivals—and the swarms of haughty Moslems, cherishing a deadly ha-
tred of Christianity, by which it is infested—the quiet and respectful
demeanour with which it appears the Gospel is generally heard, is justly
regarded as astonishing. No one, say our brethren, looking on a city,
inhabited as it is by superstitious Hindoos and fanatical Mohammedans,
could anticipate any thing for the Missionary of the Cross, proclaiming
his message in its streets, but rancorous opposition and constant clamour.
Such treatment, however, is now the exception, not the rule.

The girls’ school, under the charge of Mrs. Kennedy, has made great
progress during the year; and a few of the children have attained a
knowledge of christian doctrine, seldom exceeded in schools of a similar
character at home. A class of English children, consisting chiefly of
the offspring of European soldiers, stationed at Benares, has been re-
cently commenced. Besides the communication of religious instruction,
they are taught reading, writing, arithmetic, and geography.

Church members, 10; schools, 12; scholars, 463.

“ Mirzapors.

Mr. Mather continues earnestly engaged in prosecuting the objects
of his mission. He has given his chief attention to the preaching of
the Gospel among the heathen; and, to facilitate his labours in this
most important part of the work, he has secured accommodation in
three different quarters of the city, for the reception of his hearers;
each of which he visits once a week. He thus describes his mode of
proceeding on these occasions: — |

«Tn an open verandah, the Missionary accompanied by a catechist takes
his seat. The catechist commences by reading a tract, on some important
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48 FORTY-EIGHTH REPORT. (1842.
speedily brought together, and they continue to listen to the catechist, till
the prescribed portion is completed. The Missionary then, seizing on some
point alluded to in the tract, explains it at large, developing as he proceeds
the great doctrines and precepts of Christianity, and comparing them, when
necessary, with the corresponding points of the Hindoo systems. In
nearly all cases, he is heard throughout with interest and attention, and
without opposition. Now and then, some one in the crowd may have an
objection to state, or a question to ask, which is invariably heard, and the
matter in question argued, till the party is convinced and satisfied: at the
close of the service, tracts are given gratuitously to those who ask for them
and are able to read. This plan of public teaching is by no means repug-
nant to the customs and ideas of the natives; while it 1s sanctified by our
Lord’s own example, and venerable is the path which his blessed feet have
trod.”

During the past year, no instance of conversion has occurred amongst
the heathen, though there have been many inquirers, expressing a
desire for books, and some of whom seemed to he quite earnest in their
search after truth.

Among the native Christians and the children of the Orphan Schools,
the labours of Mr. Mather have been eminently useful. Three of the
female scholars, formerly baptized, and respecting whom he indulges
a full persuasion that they are subjects of saving grace, have entered
into full communion with the church. Their conduct is most exem-
plary, and it is believed that they are steadily advancing in the divine
life. ‘Two of the orphan boys have become candidates for church fel-
lowship, and six of them, with two of the girls, have been baptized.
Of the children who died during the year, three gave satisfactory evidence
that they had received the truth in love. One little boy, named I’sh-
war Datt*, when on the point of death, expressed a strong desire to
pray with his fellow-scholars, and actually succeeded, though suffering
under the most extreme weakness, in fulfilling his wish.

The subject of suitable employments for the children has recently
undergone mature consideration, and it has been decided as most expe-
dient to direct the children of both sexes fo the acquisition of suitable
trades, by which they may be enabled to obtain a permanent mainte-
nance. Mr. Mather reports: —

“ For the girls, four looms for weaving tape and bobbin and two looms
for weaving calico have been made, and are now being worked. With this
department is blended the preparation of cotton for weaving, and of wool for
the carpet manufactory. Of the boys, twelve are employed in the Litho-
graphic Printing Office, and four or five in manufacturing English soap.

he latter is at present in some measure experimental, as the design is to
produce the best kinds of scented soaps, equal to those received from Eng-
and. If this scheme should succeed, of which there is now little doubt, it
will yield a remuneration, sufficient to warrant considerable expenditure.
Four or five others are employed in manufacturing the Mirzapore carpet.
The object of this is, in addition to furnishing the usual Galichas, to effect
improvements in the dyeing processes, and to introduce new patterns.”

The English service has been continued without interruption. Mr.
Glen assists in this branch of labour and now preaches in the Urdu lan-
guage.

The English School, which was commenced in the city, continues
to prosper. There are in attendance upwards of fifty boys: of. these
one half are learning English and Urdu, and the other half Urdu alone,
as taught through the medium of the Roman character,

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Speaking on the subject of publications and the press, Mr. Mather
observes: —

“It is matter of joy to be able to state, that in the course of the year
the translation of the entire New Testament, commenced five years ago by
the Benares Translation Committee, of which the Mirzdpore Mission is a
part, has been successfully brought to a close. This translation is a sim-
plification of Martyn’s difficult, though otherwise most excellent, transla-
tion. ‘The work has been executed for the Calcutta Bible Society, and its
last portions are now passing through its press. We may confidently ex-
pect to have the work out and in use by the end of the year.

** Four Lithographic Presses are now set up. Of these two are the pro-
perty of the Calcutta Religious Society, with whom an engagement has

een made to print all their Persian Tracts. As yet, it has been impossible
fully to employ them, as workmen have not been obtained in sufficient
numbers, but as the orphan boys become more competent to the task this
evil will be proportionably diminished.”

Church members, 10; Orphan-school children, 51 ; English scholars, 50.

V su RAT.

In the midst of severe and diversified trials, the labours of this ex-
tensive mission have been continued through the year. The lamented
death of Mrs. Flower at Poonah, on the 2('th of August last, has been
already recorded; and the Directors have had the further regret to
find that scarcely one of the members of the Mission has been exempted
from illness. In addition to these trials, our brethren are still called to
sustain others of a more public, but to themselves far more painful,
nature, arising from the rebellious and gainsaying spirit of the people
among whom they labour. But none of these things move them: their
reliance is placed upon the promises of a faithful God, whose word can-
not return unto Him void, and the scene before them, though dark
when contemplated apart from the divine assurances, is bright to the
eye of faith. Amid their difficulties and discouragements, they perceive
tokens of an approaching harvest, which fail not to sustain and ani-
mate their hopes, while there is not wanting an amount of positive and
present good, which they prize as an earnest of the abundant reward in
prospect. |

In the early part of the year Mr. and Mrs. W. Fyvie were absent from
the station on a tour of six weeks. It was undertaken partly for the
benefit of their health, and they confined their route to those places
where the Goojurattee is spoken. They proceeded in the first place to
Cambay, where Mr. F. frequently went out among the people, and dis-
tributed a large number of books and tracts. During their stay at
Cambay, Mr. F. paid a visit to Kaira. The few native Christians re-
siding there were most happy to see him, and he preached in front of
one of their huts to a large and attentive congregation.

At a village on the road to Kaira, our brother met with an aged
Hindoo, who had repeatedly read the gospel of Matthew, and could
relate many of the principal facts, relative to the life, ministry, death,
and resurrection, of our Lord. Here he had an opportunity of stating
‘to him and others their need of such a Saviour, and exhorting them to
renounce all other false refuges, and to put their trust in Jesus the true
incarnation of God.” .

After leaving Cambay, our friends proceeded to Gogo, and visited
the ancient town of Bawnuggur. The people were most clamorous for

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50 FORTY-EIGHTH REPORT. (1842.
books and tracts, and were furnished with a good supply. The Hindoo
Rajah and one of his sons shewed Mr. and Mrs. Fyvie much attention.

The native schools connected with the Mission are located in differ-
ent districts of the city of Surat, and contain upwards of 300 children,
the most advanced of whom can answer with much intelligence and rea-
diness questions proposed to them on the leading truths of Christianity.

‘* All our school-rooms,” say the brethren, “are adapted more or less for
preaching. Indeed we could preach from the door of the school-rooms any

our of the day when the schools are open. The congregations are chiefly
composed of passers by, who are induced to turn aside to hear and see what
is going forward. e frequently visit the streets and lanes of the dis-
tricts where the schools are located, and various other quarters where no
schools yet exist ; preaching as opportunity offers, and giving away tracts
to such as are able to read. We often experience considerable encourage-
ment, and at other times meet with decided « opposition ; but the moral con-
dition of this people, the command of our Lord, and the intimations of his
Providence, urge us to go forward. We desire to feel more sensibly the

onour conferred upon us in being permitted to preach among the Gentiles
the unsearchable riches of Christ. May we all be diligent while the day
lasts, for the night of death may soon—very soon—overtake us!”

The English Institution, notwithstanding the opposition which it has
to encounter, arising from the prejudices and errors of the people, has
been attended with an amount of encouragement which fully sanctions
its continuance, and amply repays the labour and expense it has in-
volved. There can be no doubt that, under the divine blessing, this
Institution will prove a mighty moral agent to elevate and purify the
character of a community at present sunk in the lowest state of degra-
dation. The number of scholars under instruction in this useful esta-
blishment is 101.

A large number of tracts and books has been issued from the Mis-
sion Press, and about 30,000 tracts and 4,000 books have during the
year been distributed.

PENINSULAR INDIA.

Stations. Missionaries.
Madras. . « . Joun Smita, W. H. Daew, W. Pontes, A. Leitce.
Viztgapatem ene J. W. Gorpon, E. Porter, Jopn Hay.
Cuddepah . . . R. D. Jonnsron, Assistant Missionary, pro tem.
Welajapettah ane \ Joun Britperseck, Isaac Davin.
Belgaum . . . Josep Tayitor, WILLIAM Beynon,
Bellary «... { W. Tuompson, S. Fraver; B.-H. Pains, Missionary
Printer; JoHn Surigves, Missionary Assistant.
Bangalore . . . J. Hanns, E.-Crisp, B. Rice, J. Sewrx, J. A. Rece.
Mysore. .« . « Coxin CAMPBELL, B.A.
Salem . . . . J.M. Lecuien.
Combaconum . . Joun £. Niwmo.
Coimbatoor. . . W.B. Appis, Esenezer Lewis.
‘ _Mapras.

The Rev. John Smith is preparing to embark for India, to resume
his labours at this station.

Mr. Caldwell and Mr. Bower have transferred their services to ano-
ther society engaged in the Missionary work in India. After their re-



1842. ] VIZAGAPATAM. 51
tirement, the Rev. W. Porter had charge of the station until relieved
by the Rev. A. Leitch, from Chittoor.

Besides attending to his duties as pastor of the English church, Mr.
Porter has closely applied himself to the study of the Tamil language,
and has rendered service by superintending the catechists and visiting
the out-stations. He has also succeeded in forming several Bible-classes
among the native Christians. ;

Adverting to the progress of the Mission in the native department,
Mr. Leitch observes: —

“Since the departure of Mr. Caldwell, there have been three members
added to the church. One of these is a woman who, shortly before her ad-
mission, was baptised by Mr.C. Another is servant to the Scottish Senior
chaplain, and was some time a candidate for church fellowship. The third
is the teacher of a day-school established by Mrs. Porter. Formerly he
was a member of the church; but, having for some years led a wandering
life, he became destitute of the means of grace. At length, however, he
came and applied for re-admission to the church. These three members

ossess considerable religious knowledge; and their conduct, so far as we
{now, is consistent with their holy profession.”

The work of native female education forms a prominent feature in
the operations of this Mission, and presents an aspect equally encou-~
raging and delightful. The boarding-school, originated by the late
Mrs. Drew, is now under the superintendence of Mrs. W. Porter, and
contains forty scholars. In the report of this valuable institution it is
stated: —

*‘Titese scholars, it must be expected, will by their example make a
favourable impression on the dark world of heathenism around them. The
will go forth with enlightened minds. Their memories will be stored with
divine truth ; the power of conscience will be alive; and they will feel a
respect for the Bible and divine worship ; even if their hearts should not be
savingly impressed and changed. But is it unreasonable to suppose that
the light they have received will be vitally and permanently beneficial to
them ; that the recollection of their early instructions may finally lead them
to consideration, conviction, repentance! We think not: we know it to be
our duty to instruct them; and the history of the past year, combined with
our own experience, teaches us to believe that, if the seed-corn be cast upon
the waters, we shall find it after many days.”

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V VIZAGAPATAM.

From the communications of our brethren at this station, we are
assured that the work of the Lord, though beset with obstacles of no
ordinary kind, has exhibited decided proofs of advancement in the past
year. In urging the peculiar claims of the cause of God in this part
of India, on the resources of christian benevolence, Mr. Porter re-
marks :—

“ The plant which is most exposed to the scorching winds of an eastern
clime, and has to contend with its rank and poisonous weeds, most requires
the husbandman’s care and attention. So it is with Christianity in this
country. The rank vegetation of a corrupt and soul-destroying supersti-
tion needs, for its removal, a long continuance of patient labour and fervent
prayer, ere the Rose of Sharon can flourish in this heathen wilderness and
shed its fragrance all around. Thanks be to God! although the contest
between truth and error be long Protracted, the result is certain. ‘The
idols he shall utterly abolish.’ ‘ The kingdoms of this world shall become
the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ.’ ”

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and more especially at the station now under notice, Mr. Hay, the fel-
low-labourer of Mr. Porter, thus expresses his views: —

“ The days of Brahminism are numbered—that is beyond doubt. It
must quit this land. Is then the knowledge of Christianity, and Christianity
itself, to follow hard in its rear, occupying every inch of ground from which
the fiend retreats; or shall the Church of Christ look quietly on till another
take the field, and then again join battle with him? This surely cannot
be. India is now in the hands of the Church. Never since the days of
the Apostles, has the Church had such an opportunity of moulding the
mind of a people. As to the progress of the truth generally in this quarter,
it is very plain there is a sort of under-current at work, sapping the foun-
dations of idolatry, and demolishing its more prominent and horrible fea-
tures. In this neighbourhood there are several interesting inquirers after
the truth; but still this is the time of sowing in tears, Pray for us that.
the season of reaping in joy may not be distant. One intelligible sign of
the times is, that the priests are beginning to be ashamed of the more un-
clean parts of their idol-worship, and certain revolting objects which were
formerly exhibited to public view, are now covered over with a cloth in the
day of the festival.”

At no period of the Mission have there been so many religious
inquirers as in the past year. The wide and profuse circulation of use-
ful and popular tracts, together with the preaching of the Gospel and
the education of the young, have been the chief means, in the hand of
God, of exciting this spirit. To attract the heathen and to endeavour
to keep up the declining fame of their idols, the zealous advocates of
Hindooism have lately set up a service in one of the chief temples in
the town, in imitation of the christian worship held in the Mission-
chapel. It is not, however, open to all, but only to the privileged wor-
shippers of Vishnoo.

“ The principal part of the service,”’ says Mr. Porter, “ consists in read-
ing one of the Puranas in praise of Vishnoo, and expounding it: this is
what the Brahmins call ‘ instructing the people;’ they find they must have
the appearance, as they cannot have the reality.”

It is cheering to find that the native Christians are beginning to
evince a desire for the larger diffusion of those spiritual blessings
of which they are themselves partakers. When Mr. Porter was made
acquainted with the financial depression of the Society about the
middle of last year, he immediately circulated a statement on the subject
among the members of the church and congregation, and he soon had
the happiness to perceive that the appeal made to them was not in vain.
They felt its force, and immediately contributed towards the funds of
the Society a sum amounting to £18. The chief part of this was sub-
scribed by persons of very limited means, and in addition to their
regular contributions for the schools and other local objects; but,
observes Mr. Porter, ‘‘it was evidently communicated with a liberal
mind, and will therefore prove acceptable to the Lord.”

The Native Female Orphan School, which was commenced in Decem-
ber, 1835, with little prospect of success, has succeeded beyond all
expectation. The number of children in the school, when last reported,
was sixty, and this might be indefinitely increased, had Mrs. Porter
the necessary funds. She has sent home the most urgent and affect-
ing appeals for assistance, and to these several kind responses have
been given, but the amount is still quite inadequate to the exigencies of °
the case. Many of these poor children have been rescued from scenes
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1842.] BELGAUM. 53
they have undergone, it would be impossible to describe. Some of them
were brought to the Mission during a famine, almost dead, and it was
only through the kindest and most assiduous care that they recovered.
But they are now happy and comfortable. Most of them can read the
Scriptures both in their own language and in English, and it is hoped
that the early lessons instilled into their minds will not be lost in
reference to their eternal interests.

At the out-station, Chicacole, under the care of Mr. Dawson, the
divine favour has been largely experienced during the past year, in
the varied and happy results of Missionary labour among the people.

Mr. Porter has earnestly recommended the opening of a Mission
among the Coles in the Nagpore Territory. The Directors are deeply
sensible of the validity and imperativeness of the claim, but, in the pre-
sent state of their funds, they are unable to make arrangements for
responding to it. They strongly hope that He who has all hearts at
his disposal will graciously condescend, ere long, to provide the means
for the accomplishment of an object so interesting and desirable.

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BELGAUM.

Our brethren at this station have been favoured with unequivocal
marks of the divine blessing upon their labours. They have had espe-
cial encouragement in connection with their out-station, Shapore. It is
evident to them, that many of the natives residing in that neighbour-
hood are only deterred by the fear of man from openly joining the
ranks of their converted countrymen.

<< Most of these,” they observe, “ are individuals who received their edu-
cation in our schools, and they have generally a good knowledge of the
Gospel. Their behaviour is decorous and becoming, and they unite with us
in the several parts of worship. Some of them have, we believe, little or
nothing to do with idolatry, and others have abandoned it in its more gross
and sinful forms. They seem to feel the importance of Christianity, and
their judgments are convinced of its truth. Still they hesitate to cast off the
trammels of their erroneous and sinful customs, while they declare them-
selves secretly and in their hearts disciples of Christ, pleading as their ex-
cuse for not making a public recognition of their faith, the painful conse-
quences resulting from loss of caste.”

Instances, however, have recently occurred among those who are fa-
vourable to the Gospel, of a readiness to avow their change of mind, and
to suffer for the sake of Christ. At Shapore there is a Brahmin, who,
on account of his abstaining from idol-worship and publicly declaring
his conviction of the truth of Christianity, has exposed himself to the
bitter opposition and contempt of the heathen.

Among the Lingarts and other castes in the vicinity of Belgaum,
strong excitement exists with reference to the faith of the Gospel. In-
quiries concerning the nature and claims of the “ new religion,”’ combined
with a perception of its immeasurable superiority even to the purest
parts of Hindooism, are rapidly spreading throughout the country.
The native mind is kept in a state of lively attention to the subject by
an expectation,—the source of which it would perhaps be difficult to
trace,—that some great change is at hand. There is, in general, a
readiness to hear the Gospel-message, but, sad to say, united with an
unwillingness to act in harmony with its holy and saving require-
ments. Little open hostility is manifested to the Truth. Even from



54 . FORTY-EIGHTH REPORT. (1842,
the Brahmins and other priests, the Missionaries seldom experience any
violent opposition or abuse, though, it is well known, the former do all
in their power to frustrate the efforts of the christian labourer, and to
fortify the people in their prejudices and their errors. Such obstruc-
tions, however, must be expected so long as the native priesthood find
it their worldly interest to keep the population in a state of spiritual
thraldom and delusion.

In connection with the native church, our brethren report that they
have not been exempt from trial, while they express a hope that
the members, for the most part, are gradually improving in know-
ledge and piety. Four have closed their‘earthly existence. One of
these was an individual of considerable influence and long standing in
the church. His character, while yet living to himself, and the man-
ner in which he was brought to know and love the Saviour, are thus
noticed: —

** Previous to his conversion, our departed friend was a leader in iniquity,
and a zealous servant of Satan. The change he underwent afforded a mani-
fest proof of the power and riches of divine grace. In his life and conver-
sation, our friend was a living epistle known and read of all; and in death,
the Lord forsook him not, During a painful and lingering illness, which
he sustained with great patience and submission, he eminently enjoyed the
grace and presence of the Saviour, by which he was enabled to make a
good confession, and triumph over the fear of death. His end was peaceful
and happy. A large concourse of heathens and of native Christians, both
Protestant and Roman Catholic, attended his funeral, and thus bore testi-
mony to their sense of his worth, and acknowledged the extent and reality
of his influence upon their minds.”

The native schools connected with the Mission are in a highly efii-
cient and prosperous state. No effort is spared to urge upon the chil-
dren the importance of what they learn; and, though there have not
been of late any decided instances of conversion among them, it is ob-
vious, that the truth is gradually enlightening their minds, contributing
to undermine their prejudices, and storing their minds with those seeds
of good, which, under divine influence, may hereafter bring forth pre-
cious fruit.

Church members, 38; day-schools, 7; scholars, 280; native assiatants, 3;
books and tracts distributed, 3,334. |

V Bertany.

By the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, on the 5th of March,
last year, Mr. Taylor was relieved from the charge of this station, de-
volved upon him by the death of Mr. Reid. Mr. and Mrs. Paine joined
it on the 8th of December.

On returning to Bellary, Mr. Thompson began the study of the Te-
longoo language, believing that a knowledge of it, as well as of the Ca-
narese which he had previously acquired, was essential to his efficiency.
To this important object a large portion of his attention has been pro-
fitably directed.

Although the general interests of the Mission suffered in a measure
for some time after the death of our lamented friend and brother, Mr.
Reid, the report furnished by Mr. Thompson shews that a decided im-
provement has already taken place: —

“< We believe our prospects to be much more cheering than they were a
few months ago, and in some departments of labour there has been positive



1842. ] BELLARY. 55
success. Our hope is, that the labours of the ensuing year will be still more
abundant and encouraging.”

Numerous itinerant journies have been made by Mr. Thompson, Mr.
Flavel, and other members of the Mission. In March, Mr. Flavel,
Mr. Shrieves, and two of the native catechists, attended the annual
festival’ in honour of Verupachy, held at Humpee, and for several suc-
cessive days preached to large congregations, and distributed por-
tions of the Word of God and tracts. On such occasions many hear
the Gospel and are supped with books, who, on account of the dis-
tance of their villages from any Mission-station, or from their being
situated in the territorities of the Nizam and other unfriendly powers,
can seldom be visited by the Missionaries of the Cross. On these oc-
casions likewise, our brethren not unfrequently make their most system-
atic and valuable aggressions on the popular idolatry, having around
them, in rank profusion, matter for illustration or argument; and then
also are they favoured with opportunities of making their fullest exhi-
bitions of divine truth, in contrast with the madness and folly of Hin-

ooism,

In November, Mr. Shrieves, accompanied by the native teacher Steven-
son, paid a visit to the town of Kistnagherry. Referring to this event,
he states: —

“ Many heard us with attention, while some deplored their inability,
from weakness of memory, to retain what they heard. One aged man,
more intelligent than the rest, listened, I trust, with some earnestness,
asked questions respecting God, his nature, and character ; also concerning
Jesus Christ, and the way of obtaining salvation. At the conclusion, he
said, ‘I shall forsake idolatry, and from this day strive to possess true
riches in heaven, build my house on the rock, and not on the sand, as I
have hitherto done.’ ”

There has been an addition of eight members to the native church.

“ Many of the native believers,” observes Mr. Thompson, “ are, we trust,
growing in grace and in the nurture and admonition of the Lord ; but,
alas! some of them seem to have forgotten their first love, and cause me
much sorrow of heart.”

The work of education continues to be vigorously and hopefully pro-
secuted at this station, although the actual condition of the schools in
the past year has rendered discipline and vigilance more than usually
necessary.

The Mission-Press still affords abundant aid to the cause of God and
truth, throughout a large extent of country in this part of India. The
natives are furnished with Bibles and Testaments in English, at a greatly
reduced price; and, by this means, several copies have been put into cir-
culation among the students of a Hindoo college, lately established at
Bellary. The hope is cherished, that while endeavouring to acquire a
knowledge of the English language by the help of the sacred Scriptures,
these young men (some or all of whom will probably be called to sus-
tain important relations in society) may, with the blessing of God, ob-
tain the infinitely more valuable knowledge of Him, whom to know is
life eternal.

Church members—native, 43, English, 26. Day-schools, 12; scholars, 412.
Sabbath-schools, 2; scholars, 85; native teachers, 4 ; other native agents,
13, Issued from the Mission-press, tracts and portions of Scriptures, &c.,
85,519 ; distributed-tracts, 61,762 ; portions of Scriptures, 1,441.



56 aa REPORT. (1842.
- BANGALORE.

The Canarese department of this Mission now receives the united at-
tention of Messrs. Rice and Sewell, who, with the assistance of their -
native fellow-labourers, have been enabled to maintain nearly the same
amount of labour as in former years, They have derived, during the
period now under review, great encouragement from the conduct of the
native assistants, whom they characterise as faithful, diligent, and hun-
ble, co-workers in the vineyard of the Lord.

In the attendance of the heathen on the Canarese services, our bre-
thren have been pleased to sce many of the same faces again and again
amongst their hearers; and, in not a few, they observe a seriousness which
they cannot but regard with hope. They deem it probable, that some
are secretly inclined to the Truth; though, on account of the fearful
consequences of making a public profession, they shrink from an open
declaration of their belief. |

In addition to the stated services, the Gospel is almost daily preached
in the pettah or native town, where the attendance is usually good; and
sometimes, large crowds assemble to hear the word of life. The people
are, for the most part, attentive and decorous; but occasionally indi-
viduals obtrude themselves for the express purpose of exciting, by their
example, a spirit of tumult, mockery, and disputation.

Many of the heathen openly admit the truth and excellence of Christ-
lanity, but plead, as an excuse for not receiving it, their inability to com-
ply with its holy precepts, and the extreme difficulty of acting in
opposition to the national creed. ‘‘ Your religion,” they say, “is very
good for you, but it will not do for us. It is your custom, and there-
fore easy to you. Our customs are very different from yours, and how
can we oppose the customs which have been handed down by our an-
cestors from the most remote ages ?’’ When exhorted to abandon the
lying vanities of Hindooism, they sometimes reply: ‘Our fathers were
far wiser than we are in this evilage; they examined this matter and
approved of it; how then shall we reject it?” Others declare the
Gospel beyond their comprehension; and others, still, pronounce it
foolishness.

These, and innumerable objections of a similar kind, are constantly
urged against the Missionary, in the course of his conversations with
the heathen; and, although they have been as often refuted, the multi-
tude adhere to them, at least in appearance, with a tenacity worthy of
a better cause. In the midst of this moral darkness, bondage, and an-
archy, there are a few who seem to be anxiously feeling after God, and
by slow degrees groping their way to the light and liberty of the Gospel.

Among numerdus pleasing instances of the good resulting from the dis-
fribution of tracts and portions of the word of God, the following is re-
lated in the report from this station: —

** A man in the pettah-bazaar having received a tract on the Incarnation
of Christ, and not wishing to Keep it, gave it to another person who had not
heard anything of Christianity before. ‘he latter read the tract, felt his
mind interested in its contents, came to the Missionary to have them more
fully explained, and has for some time past continued his visits for this
purpose: he has every appearance of being an honest inquirer.”’

Our brethren at Bangalore unite in expressing the opinion that “next
to the public preaching of the Gospel, the great desideratum in our In-



1842. ] BANGALORE. 57
dian Missions is Vernacular Christian Education.” They are accordingly
acting, to the full extent of their means, on this principle, and the want
of resources alone prevents them from considerably enlarging the oper-
ations of the Mission in this department. The Canarese day-schools
contains 150 children; and it is in contemplation to establish two
boarding-schools,—one for boys, and one for girls,—in connection with
the same branch of effort. It is described as truly encouraging, to wit-
ness the intelligence and seriousness of some of the children in the
higher classes, and to hear them unhesitatingly condemn the religion of
their fathers. Many of the heathen attend to witness the weekly ex-
aminations, in which they evince a lively interest. :

The Tamil department of the Mission, under the care of Mr. Regel,
is receiving varied and distinct tokens of the divine approval: twelve
members have been added to the church. Mr. R, is endeavouring to
introduce an improvéd system of domiciliary visitation, from which he
anticipates very beneficial results. In this attempt, he has received ma-
terial assistance from students of the Theological Seminary.

The first stone of the Institution just named was laid, with suitable
observances, on the Ist of January; at which time Mr. Crisp had nine
students under his tuition, ‘The report he has forwarded, contains the
following interesting account of the plan of instruction which is pur-
sued : —

“The subjects to which the students have attended are principally, sys-
tematic theology, careful analysis of Scripture; plans and skeletons of ser-
mons ; and essays on subjects arising generally out of the lectures, or the
portion of Scripture under consideration, and written in reply to distinct
questions given out for the purpose. These papers have frequently indicated
a very pleasing acquaintance with divine truth, and give considerable pro-
inise of future efficiency.

“Our engagements, which are conducted in Tamil, open and close with
prayer, and it is my constant desire to render them seasons of practical and
vevotional advantage, as well as of intellectual profit 5 and the careful
searching of Scripture forms a leading feature in all our inquiries.

“The theological course of instruction is intended to include lectures on
the general scope, chronology, &c., of the various books of sacred Scripture,
on the national peculiarities, civil institutions, and religious observances of
God’s ancient people, and on the proofs of the divine authority of the New
Testament, with other kindred subjects.

‘It is part of the plan, that every student shall attend to the grammati-
cal study of his own language, or the language in which he is designed to
labour. They are likewise at present paying attention to the English lan-
guage, and it is hoped will gain a sufficient acquaintance with it to give
them access to the stores of valuable information on all subjects, accessible
in that language. Provision is also made for their attending to Sanscrit.
Mr. Regel hhas very kindly given them a lecture on geography once a week
for some time past, the value of which it is believed they appreciate

“The plan of instruction originally proposed, embraces other studies of a
useful and important nature, and we hope that they will gradually, and
successively, be introduced, as the advancement of the students and other
circumstances render it practicable.

‘¢ Several contributions have been received from England, for the support
of a student, which we reckon may be met for about -10/. or 12/. 4 year.
Thus far, the building occupied by Mr. W. Campbell for his Canarese school,
has been made use of for the seminary; but as the accommodation afforded
is inadequate, and there appears a reasonable prospect that the plan will
succeed, we arc desirous of erecting such buildings as will afford the gene-
ral accommodation needed, and a small separate study for each stucent. It
is estimated that the cost will be about 2,600 rupees, and we shall be thank-



58 FORTY-EIGHTH REPORT. [1842,
ful for any contribution with which our friends will favour us for this spe-~
cial purpose:

“In conclusion, the individual on whom the responsibility of the Insti-
tution at present devolves, most earnestly solicits the prayers of the church
of God—for the native churches, that many may be raised up from among
them ‘vessels of honour fitted to the Master’s use,’—for himself, that he
may have all the grace and wisdom needed in one who is called ‘to commit
to faithful men, that they may teach others also,’ the glorious Gospel of
the blessed God—and for those who are confided to his care, that they may
become ‘workmen that need not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word
of truth.’”’

Much time and attention have been bestowed on the cause of native
female education at this station; and the results hitherto have been
such as to constitute a present reward, and to afford a pledge of more
abundant success at some future time. Mrs. Rice and Mrs. Sewell at-
tend to the day-schools, and Mrs. Crisp superintends a Tamil school,
which she opened in February last. There is also a very promising
infant-school, containing fifty children, under the management of an
efficient teacher.

Church members, 59; schools, 12; scholars, 325; sabbath-school, 16;
native assistants, 5; tracts and books distributed, 3,600.

e f :
” Mysore.

The general operations ot this Mission have been steadily maintained
since the date of the last report. The plan followed by Mr. Campbell,
in street-preaching and conversing with the native inhabitants, has had
no interruption, nor do the spirit and conduct of the people, in relation
to those efforts, appear to have undergone any material alteration. Our
brother has not the slightest doubt that although there have not been
as yet any ascertained instances of conversion, many of the natives are
convinced of the folly of idolatry, and the superiority of Christianity as
a system; that much knowledge is spread amongst them; and that the
foundations of Hindooism are gradually giving way.

A few of the heathen regularly attend the Pettah Chapel on the Sab-
bath morning, and the occasional listeners are numerous. From the
repetition of their visits, it is naturally supposed that many of the latter
begin to feel really interested in the means of grace and salvation. Mr.
Campbell has found it advantageous to devote one evening in the week
to conversation with inquirers, and the distribution of tracts. These
plans of usefulness are particularly adapted to the feelings of the Hindoos,
and the occasions of their exercise frequently bring together large
assemblages in the chapel. The native church has six members. One
of these is married to a Roman Catholic who has obtained notoriety for
his intemperance and habitual unkindness to his believing wife, whose
patience under the unmerited sufferings received at his hand affords
strong testimony to the genuineness of her faith.

Two more schools have been opened for the instruction of Canarese
children. The work of female education, though abounding with en-
couragement, labours at present under serious disadvantage by the
temporary loss of the excellent services of Mrs. Campbell, who is now
on a visit to her native country, seeking restoration from a painful
ophthalmic affection, under which she had suffered for some time pre-
vious to her departure from India. Happily there is every prospect of
her being enabled to return to her station in the course of next year.

In a general statement of his labours, and of his views upon the whole



1842.] SALEM. 59
subject of the Missionary work in India at the present time, Mr.
Campbell observes: —

“ During the past year I have had many delightful opportunities of
preaching the Gospel, and holding lengthened discussions with the people
regarding the things of God ; and it may be my privilege in an eternal Fold,
if not before, to know that these labours have not been altogether in vain.
Of late, we who are in the field, in common with our friends at home, have
had much to try us, and, amid other facts ofa painful nature, our compa-
ratively small measure of visible success is calculated to produce depression.
But, on the other hand, the promises of a faithful God, respecting the future
glory of the church and the universal spread of truth and righteousness,
are admirably fitted to support our faith and strengthen our hearts. For
my own part, [ feel more and more convinced that the friends of Missions
generally are right in their views of these promises, and I no more doubt
that glorious and blessed days'are speedily drawing near than that days of
darkness and sorrow have been already seen.”

Schools, 4; scholars, 77; books and tracts distributed, 720.

y |
SALEM,

The Rev. George Walton, who had Pong occupied this station, was
taken from the scene of his labours on the 9th of June last, after a short
but severe illness. Mr. Walton was a widower, and had eight chil-
dren, who are now partly dependent on the Society for their support.
Mr. Lechler, his fellow-labourer, thus speaks of the estimation in which
our departed brother was held among the inhabitants of Salem: —

“The great number of natives who surrounded the Mission-house during
his last hours, and afterwards attended his funeral, as well as the attention
paid to him by all the European residents of the place, was expressive of
the high regard in which he was held. The tears of all connected with the
Mission spoke volumes in his favour. His end was peace. He now rests
from his labours, and from the many and severe trials by which the Lord
saw fit to prepare him for glory; and I have no doubt he has heard the
glad salutation, ‘ Well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into the
Joy of thy Lord.’ ”

The work of God at this station has still many and serious ob-
stacles to encounter, but the incitements to perseverance and aug-
mented effort are no less numerous and powerful. The leaven of divine
truth is silently pervading the dense mass of heathenism, and the indica-
tions of ultimate and complete success are neither few nor indistinct.

At the commencement of the year there were eight native teachers,
two of whom were subsequently sent to the Theological Semmary at
Bangalore, and another was dismissed. The individual, selected in place
of the latter, has proved himself a diligent and devoted helper in the
Gospel. He labours at an out-station about thirty-nine miles from Salem,
and chiefly occupies himself in conversing with the people respecting
the way of salvation, and in reading and distributing books calculated
to lead them to a knowledge of the truth. He is held in much respect
by the people, and his ministrations always command their attention.
Many, even of the heathen, are in the habit of visiting him at his house,
and of joining in the morning and evening worship of his family.

The native congregation has augmented considerably during the
year, and spiritual religion appears to keep pace with its visible en-
largement. Respecting the native believers united in church fellow-
ship, Mr. Lechler states: —

“ Though we should wish to see them more fully deserving to be cha-



60 FORTY-EIGHTH REPORT. [ 1842,
racterised as shining lights, we hope they are advancing in knowledge and
grace. We must not forget that t ley live in a country covered with gross
arkness, and that they themselves but lately came forth from the gloom
and corruption of heathenism. On the whole they walk consistently, and
seem to enjoy the means of grace. Most of them take an active part in
supporting our local Bible and Tract Associations. They have contributed
during the year nearly forty rupees. “This is little compared with the dona-
tions of the rich, but much in proportion to their means, for they are all
very poor, and work hard for their daily bread. The women, only, subscribed
over eleven rupees, and the girls of the orphan-school found the means of
offering a contribution by saving weekly a part of their allowance of rice.”’
In the Salem district there is abundant room, and excellent oppor-
tunity, to extend school-instruction, and Mr. Lechler would readily avail
himself of the openings that exist, had he the means. His appeals for
help, towards promoting this object, have been frequent and earnest;
and the claim is strongly commended to the special efforts of those
friends in England and India, who feel peculiarly interested in the cause
of Christian Education in the East. Through the commendable and
unwearied exertions of Mrs. Lechler, the work of native female educa-
tion at Salem is making gradual and substantial progress. In the
course of the year, nineteen girls have been added to the school which
enjoys the advantage of her superintendence. The whole number is
twenty-two.

“ Among these,” it is stated “ we are happy to observe a decided improve-
ment both in knowledge and behaviour. Eight of those, who did not even
know their letters when they joined us, can now read the Scriptures. The
girls learn sewing and knitting, and some of the eldest engage in domestic
duties. Among the latter are a few whom we hope soon to place out as Ayahs,
and in other useful capacities. Most of the children were heathens when
we first received them, and so unruly, it was with difficulty we could even
make them sit still. In this respect there is now a marked improvement,
and, when questioned on the subjects connected with their lessons, they often
give very pleasing answers. The suspicions of the heathen in relation to
such schools are gradually wearing away, and several have lately asked us
to admit their children, agreeing to leave them with us for six years,”

The Orphan and Boarding-school stands greatly in need of assistance,
and it would be difficult to name an institution more worthy of support.
One rupee and a half (three shillings) per month, is sufficient for the
maintenance of one child.

Church members, 39 ; schools, 14; scholars, 578; native teachers, 6.

“ ComBaconum,

The native Christians attend regularly on the means of grace at this
station, and exhibit a pleasing progress in religious knowledge. There
has been an addition to their number from the Roman Catholic popu-
lation of the town of Ammenpethah, in the vicinity of Combaconum.
The places of worship at the several out-stations have been well at-
tended; and “our hearts,” says Mr. Nimmo, “have not unfrequently
been gladdened to ‘observe the attention and general good behaviour of
our heathen hearers.”

Among the encouragements which he has experienced, Mr. N. men-
tions the following: —

‘One evening before preaching at Masbro’ chapel, as I was walking in
the street, I met an old and interesting Brahmin, who, accosting me, said,
‘Will you not, sir, give me a Food christian book? I greatly desire to know
your religion ; I am almost all day in my paddy-field, where I have much



1842, | COIMBATOOR. 61
leisure, and I wish to occupy my spare hours in learning your religion,
which I firmly believe is the only true religion in the world: Believe me,
Iam one of your number.’ I invited him to the preaching at Masbro’
chapel, where I promised to give him the book he requested. He soon
made his appearance in the chapel, and with another equally interesting
old Brahmin heard the word with apparent pleasure. When the service
was over, he came to me, and, in allusion to the subject of my address, said,
‘True, sir, we must all flee to the rock Jesus, and to the ark Jesus, or we
must all perish.’ I presented him and his friend with a Gospel each, and
he went away with his book, in great joy.”

Speaking of his native assistants, Mr. Nimmo writes thus: —

‘* During the year they have not only attended to their usual routine of
work, but have also itinerated far into the country, and I trust their labours
have not been in vain. With a view to their improvement as evangelists,
I have occupied one day in the week in teaching and expounding to them
the historical parts of the New Testament, and any difficult passages that
may have occurred to them while reading the Scriptures ; and I am thank-
ful to add, these exercises have been evidently beneficial to their minds.,”’

Among the instances which have occurred within a recent period, of
the decline of idolatry, and the growth of opinion in favour of the Chris-
tian religion, Mr. Nimmo relates the following: —

‘At Koothalmo, I met a man who had heard the Gospel at Combaco-
num, and had read several of our books. When I said to him ‘I fancy you
are now going into the tank to perform your evening poojahs,’ he replied,
‘My poojahs! what are they, sir? all stuff and full of nonsense. I have
left off repeating them these many years.’ I remarked, ‘If that be true, I
presume you have also forsaken your idols?’ ‘Idols,’ he said, ‘what are
they? are they not lifeless dolls?’ ‘Why do you then put these marks upon
your forehead?’ I asked ; he replied, ‘ I know they are vain things; but I
put them on simply to please my friends.’ At the close of our conversa-
tion he said in the presence of several persons, ‘It is my conviction, that
before long all will Become Christians ; for see, sir, how many most willingly
accept your books. Is not this a sign that many wil] before long embrace
your religion? Believe me, you do not labour in vain.”

In illustration of the utility of Mission-schools Mr. Nimmo adduces
the following facts: —

“At Kottyoor, while addressing a small congregation, the father and
grandfather of one of the schoolboys (both priests of one of the small pa-

odas) informed me that their little boy, who is not above ten years of age,
had for the last two or three weeks been in the habit of daily telling them
that an idol should not be worshipped, {” it could neither see, hear, smell,
talk, nor walk. Both of them oxpresse to me their fear lest the boy should

one day or other be induced to throw all the igols in their pagoda, into an
adjoining pond. This boy has been in our school at Kottyoor, for the last
two Wri

“While engaged with the priests, a notorious drunkard present thus ad-
dressed me :—‘ M y son also ts very troublesome to me: he tells me I
must not get drunk, for it is a sin; and that if I continue to drink, I
shall ruin both my soul and body.’ How cheering are such facts as
these! May we not regard them as instances of the fulfilment of the say-
ing, ‘Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected
praise’ 2?”

Church members, 32; schools, 11; scholars, 365; native teachers, 7 ;
tracts and books Astributed, 15,000.
CoIMBATOOR.
In the course of the year several from among the heathen inha-
bitants at this station have forsaken the superstitions of their fore-
fathers, and cast in their lot with the disciples of the Saviour.



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These, it is true, may not all be subjects of divine grace, but such are
the circumstances of the Hindoos, that, to make even a profession of
Christianity and openly to become the recipients of christian instruc-
tion, involves no small sacrifice, and requires no little determination; so
that there is strong reason to believe, that those who have thus enlisted
themselves under the standard of the Cross, are entitled to be thought
sincere. Amongst them is a young man, formerly belonging to the
English school at Coimbatoor, who has for many years possessed a
knowledge of Christianity, but, until lately, had manifested an apps-
rently immovable attachment to heathenism. While engaged with Mr.
Lewis as a moonshee, his confidence in the heathen mythology began to
waver; his doubts gradually subsided; all his arguments were refuted;
and he was finally led to decide in favour of the Gospel, as revealing the
only way of salvation. Since that period his sincerity has been attested
by the purity of his life and the consistency of his conduct.

The members of the native church continue stedfast in the faith. In
the midst of trial and temptation, the grace of God has abounded to-
wards them, preserving them from error, and causing them to grow in
spiritual knowledge and experience. One has been received into the
Theological Seminary at Bangalore, and another has been removed by
death. The latter was a member of the chureh since its commence-
ment in 1834. In his last hours he was surrounded by his heathen
friends and relatives, and his death afforded an illustration of the sanc-
tifying and elevating power of faith, which, it is hoped, has left a deep
and abiding impression on their minds.

It is a truly gratifying fact, that not a single individual among the
number baptised since the commencement of this Mission, eleven years
ago, has turned aside from his profession, but that all have steadily per-
severed, through ever-varying circumstances of adversity and pros-
perity, ridicule and commendation, in following Christ.

The numerous schools established at Coimbatoor are in a state
of vigorous advancement. Many among the elder boys can readily
answer questions on the doctrines and duties of Christianity, while
they regard idolatry not only as absurd and dangerous to the best in-
terests of man, but as sinful in the sight of God. Some of them have
acquired a considerable share both of ability and zeal, in defending the
Gospel against the attacks of sophistry and infidelity. At the close of
an examination in one of the villages, a native from another part of the
country, who had been an attentive listener, came forward and offered
some objections to the doctrines of the Bible. When he had con-
cluded, a young man who had been listening attentively, undertook to
reply, and in a quiet but masterly way, and to the astonishment not
only of the objector himself, but of many more who were present, met
and refuted all his sophistries. Upon inquiry, it was found that this
young man had formerly been a pupil in the very school which Mr.
Addis had been examining.

“‘ Many such instances,” it is observed, ‘could be mentioned, so that
there is good ground to hope that our efforts in this department of Mis-
sionary labour will not be lost, but ultimately produce varied and abundant
fruit.” |

The native female schools, under the care of Mrs. Addis and Mrs.
Lewis, have made very cheering progress in the past year, and fully
sustain the pleasing anticipation of their friends and supporters on the
spot.



1842. ] NAGERCOIL. 63

The itinerant labours of the Mission have been pursued under most
encouraging circumstances, and it is in contemplation to conduct this
branch of effort on a more enlarged and systematic plan. |

Every out-station belonging to Coimbatoor is occupied by an efficient
native teacher, and forms the centre of a large district, in which the
Gospel is proclaimed by the living voice, and through the medium of
christian books of which vast numbers have been put into circulation.
These outposts are scattered over the province, to a distance of sixty
miles from the head-station, and constitute important auxiliaries in dis-
seminating the glad tidings of salvation, among a native population of
nearly one million. Our brethren visit them as often as practicable, to
encourage the “ faithful men ”’ to whose charge they are committed, and
enjoy, upon these journies, numerous opportunities of preaching the
word of life. They express the belief, that through this varied instrumen-
tality, “ageneral savour of the knowledge of our holy religion” prevails
throughout the country.

Church members, 17; day-schools, 17 ; scholars, 723, all of whom receive
instruction on the Sabbath; female boarding and orphan schools, 2; scho-
lars, 35; native assistants, 20,

SOUTH TRAVANCORE.

Stations. Missionaries.
Nagercoil « 4 « {Onantss Mauvtt, James RussE.,, J. T. Parrison, pro
Neyoor.s «.. {ee Jonn Anss; WILLIAM AsHTON, European
Trevandrum . . Joun Cox.
Quilon . « « « J.C. THOMPEON.

“
" NAGERCOIL,

The Directors have received with solemn and poignant regret intelli-
gence of the death of the Rev. Charles Miller, who died on the 9th of
September, at Poonamallee in the Madras Presidency; whither he had
gone in pursuit of health. Our lamented brother was ardently devoted
to the service of his Divine Master; and, after a course of unwearied
exertion and eminent usefulness, as a Missionary of the Cross, he de-
parted from the field of his labours with a hope full of immortality.

During the long-protracted illness with which it pleased God to
visit our departed friend, the seminary, which had been his pecu-
liar care, was carefully superintended by the Rev. James Russell,
who has furnished a very satisfactory report of the progress of the
pupils. But, finding this additional charge too much for his strength,
he has resigned it to one of the brethren of the Quilon Mission, Rev.
J. T. Pattison, who will shortly be succeeded by the Rev. J. O. White-
house, now on the eve of embarkation from England.

Referring to the general subject of the seminary, and the course of
study pursued by the pupils under his care, Mr. Russell supplies the
following intelligence: —

‘<< T am happy to say that this institution has now attained a position in
which it may speedily become eminently instrumental in promoting the
spread of the Gospel. At present it contains about sixty boys who are
divided into five classes. The first or highest class read the Greek
Testament, the Elements of Euclid, a Tamil body of Divinity, by the
late Mr. Rhenius, the English Bible, and Blair’s Preceptor. The second
class read the Greek Testament, a history of the Bible in Tamil, the Eng-



64 FORTY-EIGHTH REPORT. 1842.
lish Bible and Church History, which last they render into Tamil. The
third class read the Manners and Customs of the Jews, and receive instruc-
tion in English Grammar, Geography, and Arithmetic. The fourth class
read an Epitome of the History of England in English, and English Gran-
mar, which they also render into Tamil. The fifth class read the New-
Testament in English, rendering it into Tamil, and are taught English
Grammar. The sixth class consists of those who are just beginning to
learn the Alphabet, and those who can nearly read the New Pestanent.
Besides the exercises already mentioned, the four first classes spend an hour
every day under a native Moonshee, acquiring a knowledge of the Tamil
Grammar, and studying a dictionary of the higher dialects.”

On the subject of native female education, the most gratifying com-
munications have been received from Mrs. Mault. The school at the
head-station contains ninety-four children, and of these thirty are
entirely dependent on the funds of the Institution, as derived from the
liberality of Christian benevolence. Many of the children were rescued
from a state in which they would inevitably have perished, only for the
timely and providential aid which Mrs. Mault was enabled to afford,
and, if now that aid were withdrawn, there is no other shelter to which
they could flee. Some of them were found forsaken by their parents
and destitute of all human care; some were sent to Mrs. Mault when
the parents were in a dying state, and others have become orphans since
they entered the school. Of late years indeed none have been admitted
but the children of want and indigence. The aim of their kind pro-
tectress and teacher is to impart to them a knowledge of -divine truth,
and to impress them with a sense of the importance of personal holiness,
as well as to instruct them in the usual branches of a plain’ education
and train them to habits of cleanliness and industry. - -

There are eighteen village day-schools, each provided with-a teacher,
and conducted on the same principles as the school under the imme-
diate care of Mrs. Mault. bi several of these, native female teachers
are now employed; and, as they are found the most suitable and effi-
cient, every possible endeavour is made to add to their number. This
part of the plan is comparatively new, and, from the prevailing preju-
dices of the people, its introduction and extension have been found ex-
tremely difficult; but in the same degree, does it supply a well-grounded
expectation of future advautage to the cause of the Redeemer in this
part of India.

Mrs. Mault has been much encouraged by the liberal assistance she
has received from christian friends in England, towards carrying on her
highly interesting and important labours, and still urges, on behalf of
her youthful charge, the continuance of their kind benefactions, while
she appeals to the christian public in general, for that enlarged support
which is requisite to give full scope and efficiency to her compassionate
designs. She concludes her reference to the subject by stating: —

“Itis to usa matter of thankfulness that many who were educated in
our home school have become decidedly religious, especially as their example
cannot fail to be beneficial to those around them. Some of them occupy
useful stations in the Mission, and to this source we must look principal y
for future female teachers.”

The full report of this station not having come to hand, we are un-
able to furnish any lengthened statements as to the general progress of
the work, but in a letter from Mr. Mault, under date of September last,
the following brief but gratifying passage occurs: —

“ T am happy to say that the different departments of the Mission are in



1842. | NEYOOR. 65
a favourable state. Several young men among the higher castes seem to be
under deep conviction of the errors of heathenism, and are inquiring after
the truth.” ;
y” .
Neyoor,

Though various trials have attended the progress of this Mission in
the past year, it has received peculiar marks of divine favour and pro-
tection. Our brethren refer especially to the encouraging character of
their labours in the mountain district, where the inhabitants of thirty
villages, including 135 families, having abandoned idolatry, are now
under christian instruction. Already have these new adherents of the
Cross been called to sustain severe trials of faith and patience, and it is
cheering to find that they have continued stedfast in their profession.
Mr. Mead, alluding to their sufferings, observes: —

‘‘ They have been persecuted by the rich heathen natives, and forcibly
tuken from their houses by night to drag the timbers required for the re-
pairs of idolatrous cars. Some have been imprisoned and fined; others
cruelly beaten and lacerated with branches of the tamarind tree ; and no
redress has been obtained. The British resident attended to my represen-
tations on one occasion, and issued orders that the proclamation for tolerat-
ing Christianity should be observed; but secret orders from the Native
Authorities have recently been issued to take all our people, except on the
Sunday, to drag the pagoda timber.

‘ The object of the native government is to discourage and defeat our
attempts to propagate the truth, and to compel the people who are now
coming to the light to return to the gloom of heathenism. Their efforts,
however, will fail as they have always done.

“The Society will, I hope, endeavour to obtain justice for christian
Missionaries and their converts who reside in native states in alliance with
the East India Company. This is the point to which attention should be
directed, and inquiry made of the English Authorities, It will be found
that we and our converts are at present without the least protection, and
are exposed to the operation of the native laws, which make no distinction
between the killing of a man or a cow, or defacing an idol, but award the
punishment of death equally to each of these acts.”

The native readers and assistants are labouring diligently and suc-
cessfully for the furtherance of the Gospel in their respective spheres.
The numerous schools connected with the Mission present a truly in-
teresting and gratifying aspect. The local societies are in a flourishing
condition, and the operations of the press are vigorously sustained.
5,000 copies of the Gospels and Acts have been printed, and the printing
of an edition of 3,000 copies of the remainder of the New Testament
has been commenced.

In the western division of the Mission, under the care of Mr. Abbs,
there are fifty-two stations, occupied by as many native agents. The
number of families under religious instruction is 921, containing 2,954
individuals, to whom the Gospel is regularly preached. The schools
are 39 in number, and contain 1,140 children.

A bungalow for the accommodation of Mr. Abbs and his family is
in course of erection. The locality chosen for their residence lies about
fifteen miles from Neyoor, and is considered advantageous, on account
of the superior salubrity of the climate and its proximity tg the chris-
tian village of Seruvarconam and the heathen town and temple of
Parashaley.

The agency employed for the dissemination of divine truth in the
western division is small, compared with the extent of the population,
and Mr. Abbs endeavours to remedy the deficiency by a plentiful cir-

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66 FORTY-EIGHTH REPORT. [1842.
culation of the Scriptures and religions tracts. There is reason to be-
lieve that these have often been blessed as messengers of mercy where the
Missionary himself would be denied admission. ‘‘Through them,” ob-
serves Mr. Abbs, ‘‘ we have access to the haughty Brahmin in his way
te the daily service or periodical festival; by them we instruct the be-
nighted Papist when returning from his feast of superstition; while
the deluded followers of the bold impostor are by them arrested in
their journeys, and exhorted to forsake the way of delusion. The Mo-
hammedan merchant, the heathen soothsayer, the enslaved Roman
Catholic, and the worshipper of demons, receive from our hands the
word of life. We offer these books to the sepoy on his march, the
trader in his bazaar, and the athegary on his seat of justice. They are
often received with apparent pleasure by natives having their foreheads
covered with ashes, and their persons adorned with beads and other
gewgaws of idolatry, while on their way to visit the pagodas and tem-
ples. Although some take them from us with hesitation, and others,
we are told, use them as charms to counteract the supposed power of
Satan over their bodies, the hope is suggested, from observing the care
taken of them, that they are generally preserved, and perused with at-
tention.”

In a general review of the state and prospects of religion among the
people of his charge, Mr. Abbs thus writes: —

“T am happy to report, that the people in the villages have, during the
past year, shewn signs of spiritual life by assembling in each other’s houses
at stated times, to hold prayer-meetings. This may be regarded as but a
shight indication of piety by our friends in Britain, accustomed as they are
to have their regular meetings for social devotion ; but, in a land where so
many are ignorant both of the nature and design of prayer, it is an encou-
ragement to know that a few have obtained such a sight of their necessities
and their duty, as to prompt them to meet in the name of Christ, to ask
for those blessings which has promised to bestow through him. May
the small handful of sincere worshippers be speedily increased to a large
army of faithful disciples !’

And in concluding his report, Mr. Abbs observes ;— ,

“ Although the Christians in this part of Travancore are assailed on the
one hand by opposition, and tempted on the other by false and imposing
forms of religion, we have been allowed by the Great Head of the Churebe
to pass through another year without witnessing any particular defection
from the faith. We trust that the constancy of our people has been
strengthened by affliction ; and that whatever changing scenes or cruel suf-
ferings they may be called to behold or to endure, many of them will be
found faithful even unto death.”

Church members, 104 ; schools, 195; scholars, 2,960; readers and assist-
ant readers, 100; schoolmasters, 64; female teachers, 19; village stations,
106 : at each of these, one or more native agenta are employed ; at 93 of
them a congregation has beep formed ; and all of them (with the exception
of 7) contain schools. J

TREVANDRUM.

Since the last report, Mr. Cox has received thirty-eight native fami-
lies, containing 166 persons, under his instruction; making the whole
number whg statedly assemble to hear the Gospel, 471. There has
been a slight decrease in the number of village schools and native
teachers. Our brother speaks of the native agents now employed in
the Mission as useful and devoted men. They assemble once a week
for reading and prayer amongst themselves, besides meeting Mr. Cox
once a fortnight to be instructed in the Scriptures, In reference to



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the teacher supported by friends in England under the name of Samson
Newland, Mr. C. writes: —

‘The sphere in which he labours is the locality of Matilda chapel. He
has succeeded in raising @ congregation here,—a place where none of the
people could read, and where they thought of nothing temporal but working
and eating, and nothing spiritual but Habolical agency, to which last they
traced all their ills and maladies, and to be saved from which their only
resource was the performance of idolatrous rites. Now, upon the sabbath,
I meet occasionally 80 or 100 people, several of whom, I observe listen at-
tentively to the word of truth, and receive it regularly from the reader.
The place is called Nellikah-kurly, and lies about sixteen miles from Tre-
vandrum. Newland is active and zealous, and seems well qualified to rous¢
and keep alive the attention of the people to the means of religious in-
struction.

“When I was preaching at Matilda chapel in February last, a few low-
caste slaves came near and stood to listen. After service, I went out to
them. I could only induce one to come near me; the others ran away to
some distance, through fear. I talked to the former and told him that he was
my brother, and I Ais, and invited him to come to the chapel and hear the
Gospel. I felt shame rising within me at the existence of such a state of
things as required me to tell my fellow man that he was not unfit to come
near me. This is one of the evils of caste—the fatal instrument which Sa-
tan has so long employed to enslave and destroy the souls of millions in this
part of the earth. ‘The reader also spoke to him, and told me afterwards,
that some of the people murmured at him for so doing, for they said, ‘If
you speak to these slaves they will come among us, and we shall be defiled.’

“On the following sabbath I addressed the people from Mark vii., ‘ out-
ward things cannot defile aman.’ I observed, that many in this country as-
serted the contrary, and even they themselves opposed the truth of the text.
Either the words of Christ, or their words, I said, must be untrue. Then
I asked them to decide—they said, ‘The words of Christ are true ;’ and
some said, ‘ We have heretofore observed the distinctions of caste, but now
we will obey the commandment.’ But the principle of caste is so deeply
seated in them, that it is no thing to eradicate it; and it is spread so
widely as to render it a most difficult task to trace out all its ramifications.”.

The subjoined passage of a very recent communication from Mr.
Cox will be read with peculiar interest and delight: —

“ We have all joined in praise to the Lord of hosts for the measure which
has separated the British Authorities from participation in the idolatrous
rites of the heathen. No more shall Englishmen bearing the christian name
be called forth to attend on theidols of this State. ‘The native government
tried hard to prevent the meagure, and after it was effected they evidently
felt sorely vexed ; and while they gave out that they were glad to be freed
from the presence of strangers who might pollute them in their rites, they
tried all the could to have the measure reversed. The heathen in general
know that the support of many of their outward exhibitions of idolatry will
cease with the withdrawal of English participation, and we know that, as
the heathen system has nothing solid, good, or true in itself, it will soon
moulder away.”

Schools, 9; scholars, 143; native assistants, 7.

QUILON.

The general character of the report from this station is calculated to
sustain our hopes, though several events of a trying nature have oc-
curred. By the retirement of two members of the church from the
station, under circumstances of suspicion, and the expulsion of two
others, for improper conduct, the number in church fellowship has
been reduced to five. In these, however, Mr. Thompson has great
reason to rejoice. ‘¢ Their walk,” he says, ‘‘is satisfactaxy, and some

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of them have discovered a tenderness and depth of feeling in reference to
their fallen brethren for which I was not prepared.”

Tn a general review of the spiritual condition of the people in this
part of Travancore, and the character and progress of the missionary
work among them, Mr. Thompson thus expresses himself :—.

‘“‘ The native mind is so steeped in attachment to unmeaning frivolities,
that it is extremely difficult to awaken thought or excite rational curiosity.
Did we not know that the Spirit of God often employs at a future day the
Yaw material of holy thought and feeling contained in the naked facts and
words of Scriptures, we could not help viewing our labours as almost use-
less. The higher classes here are, generally speaking, infidels, for even the
Brahmins, when brought to the point, avow their, disbelief in the popular
system, while they continue to pursue it (like many ungodly men, in

hristian lands, who attend divine worship merely for the sake of example, )
to save the populace from utter forgetfulness of God. But we are not
without our encouragements. The schools have been increasing for several
months past; knowledge is spreading ; and idolatry is despised, though out-
wardly followed by the majority.”

Seminary, 19 pupils; village schools, 13; scholars, 329; native assistants,
14; tracts and books distributed, 7,620.

° MEDITERRANEAN,
o Station. Missionary.
% Corru... . Corfu... . . Isaac Lownpgs.

Mr. Lowndes has been mercifully enabled to maintain his varied ope-
rations throughout the year, and has substantial reason to indulge a
hope that they have shared the divine approbation and blessing. . His
English preaching especially seems to have been rendered productive
of good, though at one part of the year his labours in this department
suffered disadvantage by the changing of the troops, for it should be
stated, that his congregations have hitherto consisted, for the most part,
of the military quartered from time to time at Corfu. Mr. Lowndes,
we regret to state, is still precluded, by circumstances beyond his control,
from preaching in the Greek language,—an object most near his heart,
and to which he is looking forward with earnest desire and hope.

Mr. Lowndes has accepted an invitation to hold service once a week in
the Palace of the Lord High Commissioner, on which occasion the house-
hold and a few other individuals attend. The service consists of sing-
ing and prayer, in addition to the reading and exposition of the word of
God, and has afforded hitherto much satisfaction and encouragement.

The distribution of books has been continued, though not so exten-
sively as in some former years. In this branch of usefulness a new
and pleasing feature is presented, namely, a demand for Bibles in the
Italian language, which, happily, Mr. Lowndes has been enabled to
meet to a considerable degree.

The female schools, under the care of Mrs. Lowndes and her daugh-
ters, have been sustained on their scriptural basis with unabated assi-
duity and interest; and we feel great satisfaction in stating, that the
year has been distinguished by the establishment of two infant-schools
under efficient teachers, One of these, which is conducted in the



1842. | ; CAPE TOWN. . | 69
Italian language, contains forty children; the other, in which the chil-
dren are taught through the medium of English, contains fourteen; but
has an immediate prospect of increase. After acknowledging the libe-
rality of some friends in England towards defraying the expenses of
these schools, Mr. Lowndes proceeds to observe: —

“ T hope the subject is also beginning to excite a general interest here.
The Governor and his lady have been to visit the infant-schools, and so
have the President and his lady, with other influential. fersans. .-It. is, spapcin
bable a meeting will shortly be convened, for the purpose of givin ee.
scope to the system, and attracting more attention to the cause of infant
education, This event will be deeply interesting, and, if the object be not
lost sight of afterwards, it may lead the way to incalculable blessings. It
is a satisfaction to fee], that in the event of the plan being carried out to
any considerable extent, there are many young women who have been in-
structed in our female schools, able and willing to take charge of the infant-
schools as teachers. The Governor, the Right Hon. J..A. Stewart Mac-
kenzie and his lady, are most decided and sincere friends of education ; and
they both regard the promotion of it as a very prominent object of their so-
licitude.”’ - ce

Mr. Lowndes reports that the printing of his Hebrew and Greek
Lexicon is in a forward state. It will probably contain about 900
pages; 634 of which had been printed when he wrote.

V SOUTH AFRICA.
ae
STATIONS WITHIN THE COLONY.
Stations. Missionaries.
JoHn Puiip, p.p., Superintendent, M. VocELGEzanG, H.
Cape Town . . { CALDERWOOD, pro tem.
Paari . . . . Gronrce BARKER.
Tulbagh . . . Anix Vos. .
Klaas Vooks River Cornnetius KRAMER.
Caledon Institution H. Heim; D. J. Heim, Schoolmaster.
Pacaltsdorp . . Wriiitam ANDERSON.
Dysaledorp. . . Joun MELVILL.
Hank {ean W. Painip, E. Sovomon; W. Kgtrv, School-
Yrrsrs master; J. CLaRnk, Artisan.

Bethelsdorp. . . Jamrs KITCHINGMAN.
Port Elizabeth . A. Rosson; W. Passmore, Schoolmaster.
Uitenhage . . . J.G. Messer, Wittram Exxiotr.
Graham's Town . Joun Locwe; N. SmitH, Schootmaster.
Graaf Reinet. . A. Van LINGEN. T | E aT

. C. Sass, R. B. Tayitozn; Toomas EDWArpDs, and 1HOMAS
Theopolte . . . { MerarnctTon, Schoolmasters.
Kat River . . . James Reap, SEN., James READ, Jun.
Cradock . . . JouNnN Monro.
Long Kloof . . T.S. Hoop, Schoolmaster.
Colesberg . . . THEOPHILUS ATKINSON.

' Care Town.

In September last, the Rev. Dr. Philip left Cape Town for the inte-
rior, proposing to visit the stations within the colony, and Caffreland, and
if practicable to extend his journey to the stations north of the Orange
River. Some account of his proceedings and progress, to the period of
his arrival at the Kat River settlement, will be found in a former part



70 FORTY-EIGHTH REPORT. [ 1642.
of the Report (pp. 13, 15); but of his movements since that period
no intelligence has yet reached us.

In the absence of Dr. Philip from Cape Town, the Rev. Henry Cal-
derwood has taken charge of the church and congregation. Mr. Vo-
gelgezang continues actively employed in promoting the interests of
education and religion among the coloured classes in Cape Town. The
schools under his superintendence contain 475 children; many of whom
are making truly delightful progress in the acquisition of general and
religious knowledge. The church, which it. has been his happiness to
form, has 85 members; and his congregation numbers 400. Many
of these are distinguished for intelligence and piety, and promise
to become efficient fellow-helpers in the work of the Gospel. He
has succeeded in forming an Auxiliary Missionary Society among his
people, by whom the greatest interest and a corresponding spirit of liberal-
ity is manifested on behalf of the general interests of the cause of Christ
among the heathen. In harmony with this effort, Mr. Vogelgezang
has also established a monthly Missionary prayer-meeting, which has
been attended with the happiest results, and bids fair to exert a-power-
ful influence in raising the tone of piety among the people of his
charge. f

PAARL.

Mr. Barker has furnished a very gratifying report of the progress of
his labours at this station. The attendance on the preaching of the
Gospel has greatly increased in the past year, so much so, that the place
of worship is now quite inadequate to the accommodation required.
On the Sabbath morning, more than one hundred persons are com-
pelled, for want of room in the chapel, to remain outside. An enlarge-
ment of the building is in contemplation, but even when that is accom-
plished, a part of the congregation must still bear the trial of being ex-
cluded. Under these circumstances, the erection of another place of
worship, sufficiently ample to meet the existing exigency, is obviously
demanded, and would immediately be carried into effect, could funds be
obtained to meet the expense. In the present straitened condition of
the Society's resources, the Directors can only assist the object, by
strongly commending it to the special and generous consideration of the
friends of Missions in this country.

The outposts of the station are every year growing in importance,
and exhibiting augmented claims on the time and attention of the Mis-
sionary. The congregations altogether amount to about 800 persons,
whose awakened minds and earnest desire for religious instruction de-
mand the unceasing exercise of both his mental and bodily energies.
Mr. Barker preaches six or seven times a week, and still finds that
there is room for augmented exertion. The work of instruction in the
several schools presents a delightful aspect of prosperity, especially the
Sabbath and infant schools, which promise to become eminent sources
of blessing to the population at large.

The contributions of the people, for various benevolent purposes of
a local and general nature, have been marked by a liberality which
strongly attests their attachment to the cause of Christ, and their own
participation in the blessings of his salvation. They have subscribed
upwards of £50 toward a new place of worship, £9 to assist in enlarg-
ing the school-room, and rather more than £60 to the funds of the Pa-
rent Society.



1842.] / PACALTSDORP. 71
Caxepon InstiTurIon.

_ The work of God at this station continues to present a truly cheer-

img aspect. This is confirmed and illustrated by the following state-

ment from Mr. Helm: — :

“ The preaching of the Gospel has been diligently and largely attended,
both on the Sabbath and in the week; and not only by our people, but by
strangers. In the early part of the year, a concern for their salvation was
manifested by a number of our people, and the result was, that fifteen of
them were converted and baptized. Again, in the beginning of September,
two young men were awakened to a sense of their guilt and danger; and seve-
ral others, one after another, began to ask what they must do to be saved.
This continued till about the middle of October, when through the grace
of God an extensive revival took place. As the beginning of this work
is but of recent date, I think it better to say no more about it at present,
than that it existe, that it embraces both old and young, and includesa few
who seemed to be hardened in sin, and of whom I had hardly any hope:
It appears to me, that what we now witness is an answer to our prayers
for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, which we have often fervently im-
plored both in public and in private. | |

“ The seasonable visit of Dr. Philip, Mr. Bruce, Mr. Williams of Hankey,
and Mr. Calderwood, who stayed with us several days, at the close of Sep-
tember, and in the beginning of October, was also, very probably, made
instrumental in bringing it to pass; for it was but the week after they had
left us that several of the people became alarmed about their sins; and
others, when spoken to, manifested a softness of heart, and heard atten-
tively, with tears in their eyes, what was said to them. vo

“ Though previous to this revival, our church members were not desti-
tute of spiritual life, and their moral conduct was good, yet I had té regret
that they were, generally speaking, not sufficiently zealous and active in
endeavouring to bring sinners to Christ, But in the resent season of re-
freshing, they are, blessed be God! all life and activit : and the Lord is
pleased to answer their prayers, and to own in mercy their efforts to glorify
the Saviour.”

Church members, 123 ; schools, 2; scholars, 325.

. Tuisacs. °

Amid the infirmities of advanced age, our devoted brother Vos con-
tinues to minister the word of life to an affectionate and exemplary flock.
Two individuals have been added to the church, which in November last
contained eighteen members. The work of education among the young
proceeds in an encouraging manner, although there has been no addi-
tion to the number of children under instruction since the date of the
last report. /

Kuaas Vooxs River.

The ministrations of Mr. Kramer, both among the native and Euro-
pean population, have been continued under circumstances of much
mercy to himself, and of encouragement in relation to the people of his
charge. The increasing infirmities of age have obliged him to contract
his labours within a narrower sphere than formerly, but to the extent
of his ability he ceases not to hold forth the word of life, and to urge
its gracious invitations on the weary and heavy-laden.

* PACcALTSspDORP.

At this station the divine favour has abounded in the past year.
Mr. Anderson states in his report: —

‘‘ At a Missionary meeting held in October, at which Dr. Philip was pre-
sent, we endeavoured to impress upon the minds of the people the duty of



rendering more pecuniary aid to the Parent Society, as a mark of their gra-
titude for what bod had done for them. They seemed to be fully sensible
of the truths stated to them ; readily agreed to exert themselves to do more
than they had previously done; and each person present had his or her
name put down as monthly subscribers. If, as I trust they will, they ful-
fil their promise, the amount will be next year upwards of £100; and this
they have promised to repeat annually. The amount of their subscriptions
from October, 1840, to September, 1841, amounts to £42 18s.

“ Pacaltsdorp, when there was a more regular attendance of the people on the
Sabbath, or a more general interest and inquiry among them about the
concerns of their souls, than at present. I have baptized this year eight
men, five women, and fourteen children ; and persons now come to me daily
to converse about the things of eternity, and the salvation of their souls.
It is very cheering to my heart that the Lord is pleased still to own the
labours of his poor aged servant. I hope I shall continue to have a share
in your united prayers, that I may remain faithful to the end, and finish
Imy course with joy.”

In relation to the secular affairs of the institution, Mr. Anderson
adds:— —

‘The Lord has been pleased to send us abundant rains. The cattle are
in good condition, and our people had an excellent return last season for their
gardens. This year there is considerably more cultivation. I know of no
period equal to the present for active exertion among the people. This is
particularly noticed by all who come to the place.”

The statements of Mr. Anderson are pleasingly corroborated by the
testimony of Dr. Philip, who, in reference to the various improvements
which have taken place among the people, states: —

*« Some gentlemen who saw Pacaltsdorp for the first time two Sabbaths
ago, and whom we met on our arrival at George, expressed their astonish-
ment at the decent and respectable appearance of the congregation. I did
not see one in the whole audience who was not decently dressed ; rags and
finery have disappeared, and those contrasts so offensive to good taste, the
marks of a semi-barbarous state, are no longer to be seen in the place of
worship. Mr. Bruce was quite taken with the appearance of the youn
men—their countenances were marked with intelligence and self-respect, and
the loose airs which in former times characterised the appearance of the
young women seem to have entirely left them. I saw nothing in their
dress or manner intended to attract notice. Their whole demeanour was
impressed with an air of modesty without bashfulness which surprised me,
and in the house of God they seemed wholly occupied with the service in
which they were engaged.

‘“‘ Last Sabbath morning I preached from Jude 20—1, and I never recol-
lect having a more attentive audience. The manner in which the Sabbath
is obeerved at the institution is truly pleasing. I met perhaps nearly 200
people at the morning prayer-meeting, held at sunrise. All who can leave
their houses attend the morning and afternoon worship: the evening service
is conducted by the deacons and others, possessing qualifications for in-
structing the people and taking the lead in their devotions.”

Church members, 75; schools, 2; scholars, 235, not including the Sab-
Dath-sehool’

DysautsporpP, (formerly called Dysal’s Kraal).

The report furnished by Mr. Melvill bears au encouraging character:
it thus describes the general aspect of the Mission: —

“The Lord has vouchsafed his blessing during the past year in such a
measure as to cheer our hearts and strengthen our hands in prosecuting his
holy work, The whole number of persons who receive spiritual instruc-
tion is at least 650, but as they reside dispersedly among the farmers, and



1842, } BETHELSDORP. "3
some at a distance of thirty miles from the station, only about a third of
this number attend the preaching of the Gospel on the Sabbath. There are
from thirty to forty people, more or less, seriously concerned respectin
their eternal welfare: a few of these we regard as hopeful converts, and
they will shortly be baptized. The conduct of those united in church-fel-
lowship gives me great pleasure and satisfaction; some of them are truly
zealous and useful.”’

Church members, 30; schools, 4; scholars, 111, Contributed by fhe
Local Auxiliary, £85. "A

HANKEY.

The usual report from this station has not arrived; but the Rev. Dr.
Philip, who visited Hankey in December last, supplies the subjoined
information :—

“‘ I visited Hankey under peculiar circumstances. On my arrival there,
Mrs. Solomon was so ill, that her recovery was doubtful. This circum-
stance gave occasion for a fine display of the affection of the people to their
teachers. Each seemed to feel as if Mrs. Solomon had been a near relation,
and their frequent meetings for prayer upon her account afforded a favour-
able estimate of their piety. The Directors are not ignorant of the difficul-
ties we have had with this station. Two Missionary brethren formerly
sent there were both obliged to leave it. The place is nothing without
water to irrigate the ground, and after the people had been at immense la-
bour and expense to lead the water over their gardens, their aqueducts and
troughs, some of them erected along the front of perpendicular rocks, and
forming part of a watercourse five miles in length, were completely washed
away. And after having repaired the ruins occasioned by the first flood the
work was a second time destroyed in a similar manner, and their spiritual
concerns were not in a better condition than their temporal affairs. Find-
ing that the whole watercourse could not be repaired, an extent of ground
covered by a thick and apparently impenetrable bush was obtained from
Government, on the other side of the river. By very great labour much
of this bush has been removed, and the water fas been led over it, and a
great part of it is now under cultivation; and in a spiritual as well as in a
temporal sense, the forest has become a fruitful field, and the fruitfal field
as the garden of the Lord. 7

BETHELSDORP.

The labours of Mr. Kitchingman have had a large share of the
divine blessing during the period under review. He commences his
report by observing: —

‘“‘ Last year I had the satisfaction to transmit:some particulars of a revival
among the inhabitants of this place; and it now affords me pleasure to state
that the good work then begun is still in operation. The new converts are
holding fast the profession of their faith, and evince their sincerity by a
conversation in harmony with the Gospel of Christ. Among the inquirers,
several, who at one time appeared under serious concern for their salvation,
have relaxed in earnestness,—their goodness, like the morning cloud and
early dew, has passed away; but there are still some in whose hearts, I
trust, a good work of grace is begun, and who, having given themselves first
unto the Lord, will ere long, I hope, give themselves up to his people ac-
cording to His will.”

The public religious services are all well attended, and a spirit of
christian love appears to pervade the people. By the blessing of God
on the labours of Mr. Kitchingman, twenty members have been added
to the church. Our brother has taken pains to impress on the minds
of his people the duty of contributing more largely for the spread of
the Gospel. The Anniversary of the local Auxiliary was held in De-
cember, when the amount subscribed during the year was found to be
nearly £70. The spirit manifested on the occasion has encouraged the



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hope that many begin to feel more deeply their obligations to liberality in
support of the Missionary cause, and that greater efforts will in future
be made by them on its behalf.

Dr. Philip visited Bethelsdorp in December, and was greatly cheered
by what he witnessed. Among many pleasing events that occurred
during his stay he mentions the following: —

“‘ An incident that affected me more than anything I have met with on
my journey, occurred after I had retired from the third meeting. While
reflecting alone on what had passed during the evening, a deputation from
the church was introduced to me. After a short address, adverting te
what the Lord had done for them, they concluded by stating, that they had
been deputed by the church to request me to continue over Sabbath among
them, that we might join in commemorating the death of Christ toge-
ther ; and they were the more earnest in urging this from the consideration
that it was likely to be the last time that we should have the opportunity
of enjoying that privilege on this side of Jordan.”

Church members, 150; schools, 2; scholars, 115.

V Port EvIZABETH.

Mr. Robson has been graciously assisted and abundantly blessed in
his labours during the past year. The stated services have been main-
tained without interruption. The native church has received an addi-
tion of twenty-three members, and six have been added to the English
church. Mr. Passmore continues to devote his earnest attention to the
Fingoe population. A new place of worship intended for their accom-
modation was opened in September last, since which time the congre-
gation has greatly increased. A few among them afford evidence of
change of heart, and others are earnestly inquiring after the truth.
The Fingoes have exhibited an exemplary spirit of christian liberality
m the past year, by contributing upwards of £9 to the funds of the

ociety.

The Committee of the Local Auxiliary, to whose unwearied and ge-
nerous co-operation our Mission at Port Elizabeth continues to be
largely indebted, thus close the report from which the preceding parti-
culars have been derived: —

‘On reviewing the labours of the past year, the Committee would raise
up their hearts in gratitude to God for what He has done, while they would
remember that much yet remains to be accomplished. They lament to see
Mohammedanism and heathenism still holding their fellow-creatures in bond-
age, and deeply regret the extent of intemperance and Sabbath desecration
which still prevails. But they are comforted by the assurance that this
shall not always be the case, and, as time is hastening on, they would ear-
nestly urge the friends of the cause at Port Elizabeth, to a solemn consi-
deration of the position in which they are placed, living among a people of
different tribes, and having various opportunities of instructing them in the
knowledge of the one living and true God.”

4
V UrrenwaAGE.

The operations of the Mission have been vigorously sustained
and by the blessing of God upon the labours of the brethren, Messer
and Elliott, there has been an addition to the church of forty-two
members. Among the Fingoes, the work of God, though attended by
some discouraging circumstances, has made decisive progress. On
this subject, Mr. Elliott observes: —

“ These people are exceedingly erratic in their habits, on which account
the congregation is constantly changing its aspect. About thirty of them,



1842. ] GRAAFF REINET. "6
however, are tolerably regular in their attendance. Two of these have given
such satisfactory evidences of piety, that I have had no hesitation in bap-
tizing them. 'T condueted the baptismal service in the Caffre language in
the presence of a very large congregation, including more Fingoes an Caf-
fres than I had ever seen together. This being the first baptism which
these people had ever witnessed here, in their own language, considerable
interest was excited. |

‘“< In the afternoon I preached in Caffre, on the subject of baptism, to a
large congregation. When a Fingoe embraces Christianity, he is generally
exposed to a good deal of persecution from his fellow countrymen, so that
were it not for the restraining power of the law the most serious conse-
quences might be apprehended. In consequence of this state of things,
when a Fingoe professes the christian religion, he generally separates himself
entirely from Fis countrymen, enters into service, and almost loses the
Fingoe character. While this is advantageous in regard to themselves, it
is to be regretted in respect of the Fingoes generally, who are thus left with-
out the salutary influence of a christian leaven among them.”

Augmenting encouragement is experienced in the itinerant labours
of the Mission. To this effect Mr. Messer, writing in January,
makes the following statement :—

*¢ Some months ago I went a journey of about 160 miles up the Elephants
River, in the district of George, to see my two daughters, who are married
to respectable farmers. I availed myeel of the opportunity to preach the
word of God, and am happy, to say that the coloured people shewed them-
selves very willing to listen. On the Sabbath I had above 100 hearers ;
some of them appeared anxious to pay attention, and the tear of joy or of
sorrow trickled down their sable cheeks. After travelling for two months
along the river, I preached my farewell sermon. The house of my daugh-
ter was too small to contain the assembly, and my friends prepared a place
in the garden, where I preached under a large and beautiful mulberry-tree,
and I believe not without good effect, if I may judge from the earnestness
with which the poor people pressed me to stay sometime longer with them.
My separation from my dear children, and people, was not easily accom-

lished.
ue On my road towards home I met with some very hospitable farmers,
living quite in a desert. Seeing that my oxen were fatigued, they gave me,
without asking them, the use of a teem of strong oxen for a day, without
any charge. There is @ great and happy change in progress among the
farmers. Wherever I came I received, with only one exception, a cordial
welcome.” fo
' Granam’s Town. -
No report has been received from this station.
’ Graa¥FF REINET.

The blessing of God has been abundantly vouchsafed upon the la-
bours of the venerable Missionary at this station. He has had an ad-
dition to his church of not less than fifty-two members; and his people
have evinced their increasing piety, and love to the Saviour, by forming
themselves, at the suggestion and under the guidance of Mr. Van
Lingen, into an Auxiliary Missionary Society, which they have pro-
‘mised to support to the utmost of their ability. A large number of the
subscribers were once in an entirely heathen state, but now they know
not how sufficiently to manifest the gratitude they feel for the blessings
of the Gospel. In September, a meeting of the Auxiliary was held,
and the subscriptions for the first three months were found to amount
to eighty-eight rix-dollars.

The various stated services, as formerly reported, have been all sus-



76 FORTY-EIGHTH REPORT. [ 1842.
tained without any interruption; and it is evident, that, by the divine
blessing on the diversified means in operation, the kingdom of our Lord
is gradually extending throughout the district of Graaff Reinet.

V THEOPOLIS.

In the report from this station, it is stated: —

‘* Although there has not been such a general revival among us as at
other stations, we are not without a measure of the same encouragement.
By this we are cheered and led to look for a brighter day. We have been
privileged to receive an addition of eleven members to our church, with all
of whom there is much reason to be satisfied. One of these is a Hottentot,
two are Basutoos, one a Mantatee, and the rest are Fingoes. We cannot
but rejoice tly at witnessing the power of the Gospel on the hearts of
those lately benighted heathen. By a consistent walk, by a meek and lowly
deportment, by constant attendance on the means of grace and instruction,
they seek to adorn their profession. Brought to abhor their former hea-
thenish and immoral customs, they are led at the same time to pity their
fellow countrymen who continue under the delusive and soul-destroying
power of Satan, and to desire that they may become partakers of the same
grace which has been conferred on themselves.”

The Rev. R. B. Taylor, who arrived at Cape Town from England,
May 17, has taken up his position for the present at Theopolis.

hurch members, 52; sehyols, 3; scholars, 148,
“ Kat River. .

The subjoined intelligence respecting the state and progress of this
extensive and highly-favoured Mission has been received in a commu-
nication from the Rev. James Read, sen.:

““'We have had much to be thankful for in this settlement during the
past year. There has not been so much religious excitement as was visible
the year before, but the work of the Lord has been gradually extending
among our people. The seed of the word, sown by the native teachers and
others, has been watered with the Holy Ghost; the blade has appeared,
the ear, and the full corninthe ear. During the year, upwards of two hun-
dred souls have been added to the church, including persons of various na-
tions and tongues,—Hottentots, Gona Hottentots, Caffres, Fingoes, Manta-
tees, Tambookies, Bushmen, and liberated apprentices. Some of our con-
verted Fingoes are going to Tambookie-land, to make known the Saviour.
Singella the native teacher, has been out among the Ammapondas, going
from kraal to kraal and preaching Jesus, The barbarous people receive
him with kindness, and heard him giadly. .

*‘ We have not been able as yet to send the Gospel to the newly-proposed
station called Hackney. The three chiefs have been here repeatedly, and
are most earnest in their entreaties for a Missionary. Neither have we been
able to meet the urgent appeals of the Ammapondas, who are come to re-
from kraal side close to the Bushman stations.

“We much enjoy the company of Dr. Philip, who has been spending
a little time with us in his visit to the interior. He will leave behind him
a strong feeling of increased attachment to himself and the Society. He
Proposes leaving us next week, and, God permitting. 1 shall accompany

im, to visit our new and prosperous stations in the Tambookie and Bush-
man countries.”

The death of a native chief, of whose reception to the rest and
blessedness of heaven there is no just reason to doubt, is thus recorded
by Mr. Read: —

“We have suffered a great loss by the death of the Tambookie chief, Kal-
Jagalla. Perhaps we should not say that he died a decided Christian, but he
died & praying man. He had long listened to the Gospel with apparent
interest, and it was his constant practice, after hearing the word preached,
to retire to some distance to the bushes to pour out hhis heart before God.



1842. ] CRADOCK. nt
He was often long away, engaged in earnest supplication. Although a
young Chief, it appears he had long ceased to render compliance to the
Caffre customs, and for a considerable time before his death had declined
attending the dances. When the Chiefs were last called out to the field of
battle against the Galakas, he requested to be excused from joining, assign-
ing as his reason that he had given himself up to God. In his Fast sick-
ness, as long as he could craw! out of his hut to the bushes, he did it, and
when he had not strength to leave his house he prayed upon his bed. He
requested in his dying hour that his children would not leave the station.
They have hitherto, with his two wives, yielded to his request.

“ ‘Luponda, the Tambookie station, where my son J oseph and one of my
daughters are residing, is in a prosperous state. The Chiefs Jumba, Pala,
and Pombani, who are brothers, and the first of whom is the head Chief,
are all very kind and attentive to my son, as well as their wives and mo-
ther who possess much influence among the people. These Chiefs and
their families attend regularly the worship of God. The congregation is
large, and from thirty to forty children, chiefly girls, (the boys being herds
to the catéle), attend school daily. These girls, besides being religiously
and generally instructed, are taught to sew by my daughter.

sé With the poor Bushmen we are still persevering. Our patience will
be tried for want of provision. Most of them have been obliged to be much
away in pursuit of game, and in several instances have of necessity taken,
their children with them. However, the harvest is now ripe, and we hope
they will be provided with a stock of food sufficient to supply them for
several months, and thus be enabled to reraain at home to hear the Gospel,
and attend to the means of general improvement. Several of them, we
trust, have felt the power of the Truth, and are living under its influence.”

The contributions of the Kat River Auxiliary Missionary Society in
the past year have amounted fo the sum of £150.

“ Crapock.

The report from this station is encouraging. Mr. Monro writes:—

“At the commencement of 1841, several of the people began to inquire
anxiously respecting the way of salvation : this being pointed out to them,
they felt encouraged to walk in it, and with only one exception they have
continued their course without wavering. Some of them have made good
progress in the knowledge of divine truth. Meetings for prayer, reading
the sacred Scriptures, and spiritual conversation, are regularly held; and
though Satan has repeatedly stirred up a spirit of opposition, our converts
persevere in well-doing, remembering what the blessed Saviour said, ‘In
the world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome
the world.’ ”’ |

The church, which in February contained only five members, has in-
creased to nineteen. There are three candidates for church-fellowship
whom Mr. Monro expected shortly to receive.

“ Divine grace,” he observes, ‘“‘ makes no distinction in colour ; two per-
sons, formerly in bondage to white men, are now about to receive the right
hand of christian fellowship ; and at the same time a free-born Briton will
be numbered among the professed followers of the Lamb.”

It is pleasing to notice the existence of a strong Missionary spirit
among the inhabitants of this village. It was particularly manifested
in the liberality with which they came forward to help the cause of God
at the formation of the local auxiliary, To contribute for such a pur-
pose, is to these people a new thing; yet nearly all of them have sub-
scribed, with a generosity worthy of imitation, towards the new chapel
at this station.

Mr. Monro preaches twice in Dutch and twice in English on the



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Lord’s day; besides which he holds a religious meeting every evening
in the week excepting Saturday. ‘‘ These occasions,” he observes, “‘ are
often-times of refreshing wa the presence of the Lord.”

Lone Kuioor.

The results of Missionary labour at this station are well calculated
to sustain hope and stimulate exertion. Mr. Hood enjoys the coun-
tenance and co-operation of several influential persons in the neighbour-
hood, to whom, under the divine blessing, he is considerably indebted
for the measure of success which has hitherto attended his exertions.
The anniversary of the local auxiliary held in September was largely
attended; and the indications of augmenting interest in the cause of
Missions, manifested on the occasion, were both distinct and numerous.
The amount of income for the year, viz. £74 7s., considering the very
recent commencement of the Mission, clearly shews that the cause of
christian beneficence is rapidly gaining ground among the people. The
sum of £51 has also been contributed for the erection of a building to
serve for school and public worship.

The number of religious inquirers has heen steadily increasing during
the year. ‘‘ Many of them give evidence, by a decided change in their
walk and conversation, that the Gospel has been to them the power of
God unto salvation.”

The preaching of the Gospel commands a full and regular attendance,
and many come from considerable distances to hear the joyful sound.
Adverting to the character of the meetings held for divine worship,
Mr. Hood remarks: —

“Tt is a pleasing fact connected with our public services, that many of
the farmers and their families are in the habit of mixing with the coloured
people. If we succeed in erecting the chapel now in contemplation, many
mores at present excluded for want of accommodation, will be induced to
attend.

Mr. Hood devotes a portion of his time to itinerant labours;” and
finds by experience that this form of exertion is likely to be productive
of the happiest effects. = |/

CoLEsSBERG.

This station was commenced by Mr. Atkinson in 1840, but it is
feared the state of the Society’s funds will not permit its continuance,
Reporting the progress of his labours towards the close of last year, our
brother thus wrote: —

“ Many of the Bechuanas have recently removed from this neighbour-
hood to the north of the Orange River, in consequence of not being allowed
to graze their cattle in the vicinity of the village: This has considerably
lessened my Bechuana congregation ; and has deprived me of six more of
the candidates for church-fellowship, making ten altogether who have re-
moved to other parts of the country. As these are connected with other
stations, they will still enjoy refigious advantages, but it is a disap-
pointment to me to lose them, especially as I had intended very shortly
to form them into a christian church. But to compensate for this dis-
couragement, there is an increased attendance on the preaching of the
Gospel among the other classes of my people ;—the late apprentices, Hot-
tentots, &c. A still more encouraging circumstance is, that just at the
time when the Bechuanas were leaving, several of the other people began
to manifest a concern for their salvation. There is at present a little band
whom I meet weekly for conversation and special instruction ; and I have
reason to believe that several others are beginning to think seriqualy about



1942.} CAFFRELAND, 79
their eternal interests. I cannot but hope that the Lord is about to begin
a work of grace among this people. : .

“«] shall now be able to form the few remaining Bechuana candidates
into a christian church, which I fervently hope will ere long be increased
by many more of such as shall be saved.” _

Mr. Atkinson has succeeded in establishing several schools, and has
found them of great utility in subservience to the preaching of the
Gospel. |

| STATIONS BEYOND THE COLONY.
Stations. Missionaries.
. JoHN BROWNLEE; JAN TZATZOE, Assist-
CaryagLanp. . Buffalo River. . { ant Missionary. oF
Ketskamma . . F.G. Kayser.
Blinkwater, . . Henny CALDERWOOD.
| Umrelo. . . . RICHARD Bier, leaac Huouxs: J
Garava Lanp . Griqua Town . . { "Fourutn, Native Assistant, yeas
Lekatlong . . . Hoitoway HELmore. :
BusumaNnCountry Philippolie . . . e: SCHREINER. D. Livingston.
ERT FAT . Li N,
Becnuana woon: \ Lattakoo . . . Winnram Ross, Roser Hamitton,

TAY sss Rocers Epwarps.

NAMACQUALAND. Komaggas . . . J.H. Scomeren.
Steinkopf . . . Vacant.
CAFFRELAND.

In an united report of the brethren labouring in this part of Africa,
the following general view of the work is furnished: —

‘** Amid much that is trying to our minds, we are not destitute of grounds
of encouragement. In Caffreland, as elsewhere, hopes fondly cherished
have often been sadly disappointed ; yet we have good reason for thinking
that the cause of the Redeemer never occupied such vantage ground, in this
quarter of the Missionary field, as it now does. The field we occupy
is but too evidently a portion of the land over which the dark shadow of
spiritual death extends : but there are facts, now and then transpiring,
which we cannot but regard as distinct indications of fe, leading us to hope
for a coming resurrection. There is generally a Goo attendance on the
means of grace; more conversation than usual about the word of God ;
but, with this, much bitter opposition. The details of our respective
stations will fully illustrate and sustain these general statements, The
darkness truly is not yet cleared away ; but we can distinctly see the bow
in the cloud, cheering us onward by reminding us of the promise of a faith-

Keiskamma.—Various tokens of the divine blessing have accompa:
nied the labours of Mr. Kayser in the past year. The native church
has been increased by an addition of three members, and a further aug-
mentation is anticipated. An evident work of grace is in progress
among the young people, affording the most grateful anticipations in
relation to the future interests of the cause of Christ in Caffreland.
Efforts are making to enlarge the educational department of the Mission,
and with this view a second infant school-house has been erected. The
infant-school already established contains twenty children, and is found
to operate most beneficially. A native youth who had been under the care
of Mr. Kayser has been sent, at the suggestion of Dr. Philip, to Cape
Town, to enter upon a course of preparation for the Missionary work
in Caffreland. He is pious and intelligent, and by the blessing of God
may hereafter be an instrument of bringing many of his perishing coun-
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Mr. Kayser has laid before his people the present pecuniary embar-
rassments of the Society. A missionary feeling has been awakened
among them; and, though very poor, they have given a proof of their
desire to serve the cause by subscribing £3, in aid of the efforts now
making at all the stations to relieve the funds of the Parent Institution.

Church members, 11 ; schools, 2; scholars, 70.

Buffalo River.—The native Christians at this station appear to grow
in grace, and in the knowledge of the truth. Four members have been
added to the church, and further additions are expected.

The peculiar circumstances of those proposing to join the church,
their slow progress in knowledge, and the difficulty they find in divest-
ing themselves altogether of former heathenish habits, have obliged Mr.
Brownlee to lengthen the period of their probation. The strictness in
this respect, which he has deemed it necessary to exercise, accounts for
the smallness of the number gathered into visible communion. As an
instance of their slow advance in the qualifications requisite to church-
membership, Mr. Brownlee adduces the following: — |

‘‘ Among our present candidates is a man about forty years of age.
Many years since, when I visited the kraal where he resides, I observed that
he paid particular attention to the word of life, still he would not consent
to atten worship at the station. About three years ago, however, he came
for a short period, joined in our worship, and appeared deeply affected under
the means of grace. From that time to the present he has been a constant
attendant at our place of worship, generally bringing others with him. His
residence is about three miles from the station, and he has established family
worship. But notwithstanding the length of time he has been in the ways
of religion, and although he seems sincere and possesses an excellent under-
standing, I should not feel justified, with my view of his attainments either
in knowledge or in piety, in yet admitting him to church-fellowship.”

The state of the schools is more encouraging than in the previous
year. A secoud infant-school has been established by a daughter of
Mr. Brownlee. The former one still continues under the care of the
daughter of the chief Tzatzoe.

Blinkwater.—The labours of Mr. Calderwood at this station have
been eminently honoured and blessed. Writing in July last, he commu-
nicates the following important and gratifying intelligence: —

“ On the first Sabbath of this month, I had the very great happiness of
baptizing fifteen adult Caffres and six children, We had a special ser-
vice for the interesting occasion of so many being received at once. The
assembly was unusually large. I publicly questioned the candidates on all
the fundamental and practical doctrines of the Gospel. The answers were
most satisfactory. The impression was deep and solemn in no ordinary
degree. We felt as though the Lord were indeed with us. The attention
of the most careless was completely secured. Hearts the most hardened
and full of enmity to the cause of Christ, and which perhaps never before
experienced one solemn impression, appeared for a little to bow before the
majesty of the truth asitisin Jesus. I cannot but believe that the impres-
sions of that day will remain on many a heart. O may the dew of the eternal
Spirit descend on the precious seed of the kingdom then sown in much weak-
ness, but under a deep conviction that the Lord would cause it to grow!”

In addition to the foregoing communication, Mr. Calderwood states: —

“We have just had our Missionary meeting ; and all present seemed to
feel it to be a refreshing and encouraging season. We had upwards of 300
children present. Between thirty and forty of them were Hottentot chil-
dren : all the rest Caffres. Mrs, é. gave each of them a piece of bread, and



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alittle of what the Dutch very significantly call tea-water. We have col-
lected during the past year, and at our meeting, £21. This is a far greater
sum than any one could have expected. Considering our circumstances, it
is quite an extraordinary effort; and I am now Fully satisfied that the
effort has done a great deal of good to the minds of the people. They get
by it new objects of thought and conversation ; and profitable desires spring
up in their hearts, and it expands and elevates their moinds as well as
benefits their hearts, to feel that they are acting in unison with the whole
family of God throughout the earth.”

In a subsequent communication, Mr. Calderwood thus writes: —

“Tam sure you will rejoice to hear that we have had a large measure of
encouragement in the work of the Lord, for the last four or five months.
There is a decided, and, I think, growing spirit of hearing, both among the
Caffres and Hottentots in this neighbourhood at present. Several of the
Hottentots on whose account I experienced at first great trouble and an-
xiety, now show a much better spirit. Amongst the Caffres near us, the
excitement and earnestness about eternal things 1s most gratifying, and en-
courages us to pray and labour increasingly for their salvation. Surely
the Lord has now said, ‘ Prophesy to these dry bones!’ I have prophesied
to them in very much weakness: often has my feeling been as though I
were beating the air, and in such circumstances I have more than once been
disposed to ask, Why should I have left at home multitudes who were
willing to hear me, and could understand me? But the Lord is now hum-
bling me by the displays of his wonderful grace towards these wandering
sheep. I feel in what I see to-day, that the Lord is bidding me go for-
ward, saying, ‘O thou of little faith, wherefore shouldst thou doubt ?’”

One of the most serious difficulties our brethren in Caffreland have
to contend with is the low state of mental cultivation among the people;
and this they think will never be so effectually and speedily met as by
raising up a better educated native agency than they have at present in
the field. Mr. Calderwood has a class of four boys under his instruc-
tion to become native Missionaries; and Mrs. C. has just taken charge of
a young daughter of the Chief Macomo, with a view to her instruction.

Umzelo.—The report forwarded by Mr. Birt presents numerous fea-
tures of encouragement. In the religious progress of the candidates
for baptism, he has had special reason for thankfulness. Four of them
were baptized in November, and the admission of another to this ordi-
nance was fixed to take place in January.

“ These five,” observes our brother,—“ the first fruits of this Mission—I

resent to your affectionate and prayerful regards, Bear them upon your
frearts before God—they are children given for your encouragement while
you have been contending with the difficulties of the Society. To be the
means of redeeming souls is surely a noble reward for all your struggles.
and conflicts. These converts have till now given us unmuingled satisfac-
tion. Their steady developement of character, and their unflinching bold-
ness in the faith under varied and trying circumstances, is truly delightful,
and tends not a little to strengthen and encourage our hearts. The perse-
cution they endured at the first was severe ; for all the people, but especially
their friends, were most violently opposed to them.”

Some of the native inquirers, of whom Mr. Birt had once good hope,
unable to endure the day of trial, have, to his great sorrow, returned to
heathenism. Among those who continue stedfast, Mr. Birt particu-
larly refers to one who promises to become an eminent blessing to his
countrymen. Of this native brother, he says: —

. “In six weeks after he mastered the alphabet, he was able to read the
Scriptures, and the only instruction he received was on the Sabbath. He
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had only been a short time with me, when he exemplified the most ex-
traordinary conscientiousness, and love for the word of God,:so as to leave
no doubt that he was divmely taught. His name is Kalepa, and he is the
very first fruit of this Mission. His age is about nineteen, but his character
an deportment, as well as his knowledge, would mark him out for thirt
at the least. Kalepa shews a greater disposition and ability to learn than f
have ever observed before among the people. Coupling this with his depth
of piety and uncommon love for the doriptures, we cannot but regard him
as one who may be of great benefit in this country as a native teacher.”

Mr. and Mrs. Birt are making very strenuous exertions to advatice
the interests of education as part of their Missionary work. They have
more especially directed their attention to the youthfal portion of the
female population; and, though opposed by serious obstacles, their pro-
gress has been such as to afford a sure pledge of ultimate success.

v Griqua Town.

Messrs, Wright & Hughes report as follows on the state and progress
of their Mission in the past year:—

“‘ The attendance on the means of grace and our Sabbath-schools has
continued good. Our day-schools, infant-schools, and sewing schools have
undergone no material change. We greatly need an increase in the number
of native agents, and things have now reached that point when the acquire-
ments of all our native teachers must be improved, in order to promote the
general advancement of our people. The number of our native helpers is
twenty-two, and for these we have reason to thank God. They continue
to prosecute their labours with commendable diligence, and with a tolerable
measure of success.”

Our brethren report an addition of forty-eight members to the native
churches under their care. In reference to this gratifying fact, they
observe : —

© The additions to our churches during the year afford us much encour-
agement, and matter for devout thanksgiving to Him who still manifests
hinself as mighty tosave. The three branch-churches gathered from amon
the heathen around us, as well as the large number dwelling within the fold
of Christ at the head station, continue, by their order and stability, the as-
sistance they render in our efforts to advance the knowledge of salvation,
and particularly by their firmness in the cause of temperance, to afford us
solid’ satisfaction. Still we feel we have need to double our diligence and
earnestness, both in our labours and prayers, and we beg a special interest
in the prayers of the Directors, that God would continue to revive his work
among and around us.”

The improving character of the native mind, both in a religious and
literary point of view, is happily exemplified in the following statements
of the report: —

_ Among the events of the year, it has been particularly pleasing to us
to witness the desire of our people to obtain the Sacred Scriptures, and ele-
mentary books of instruction. Griquas, Corannas, Bechuanas, and even
Bushmen, have given us ground to hope that the desire to search the Scrip-
tures is extending throughout the country. It ought to be remarked, that
the number of Bibles, Testaments, &c., sold, and not the number given
away, is the surest ground of hope that they are valued and read by the
people. We rejoice in this fruit of the Mission, even though its increase
should lessen the ability of our people to contribute to the Soaiety’s funds
by the more direct and usual way of subscriptions. For Dutch Bibles,
£5 5s. has been received; for Dutch hymn-books many applications have
been made. Of Sichuana Testaments received from Kuruman, 64 co-
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the poor and the native teachers, 16 copies, making the total disposed of 80 ;
and we should have far exceeded thie number ad we “oasessed the need-
ful eupply. Of Sichuana hymn-books, 105 copies have seen sold.

“Dutch and Sichuana rplling-books, Scripture lessons, tracts, catechisms,
&c., have been distributed to the number of 500 copies. About fifty of the
Dutch elementary books, with five Testaments, have been applied for by
Corannas and Bushmen. Many of the applicants, among whom isa Coranna
Chief, residing on the Great River, 110 miles west of this, have urgently
requested eachers to instruct them how to use the books thus put into their

nds. ,

“‘ It will be observed among these payments, that one large item is from
the Bechuana part of our people for Sichuana Testaments, which now for.
the first time are published in that language. Scarcely a week had elapsed
after the arrival of the Testaments from Karuman at this place, before we
were beset hy people from all parts of the country with payment in hand,
eager to receive them as a gift from Heaven, and as a boon from the Bible

iety.

_ Both translator and publisher are worthy of sincere praise for the gene-
ral fidelity, correctness, and beauty of this first edition. We hail it as a
great blessing to the Bechuana nation: it is a volume just in season for the
converts among that poople, and will be a mighty weapon in the hands of
our nativeteachers. May the Spirit of truth rest upon it, and show it to be
indeed the sword of the Spirit!”

V LzKaTLone.

Mr. Helmore, writing in November last, thus expresses his senti-
ments on the progress and prospects of his Mission: —

** Trials and discouragements of various kinds have attended us, but these
are to be expected. The picture I had drawn of my sphere of labour proves
to have. been in many respects incorrect ; but this is not to be wondered at.
To persons unaccustomed to scenes of uncivilised life, written descriptions
seldom convey an accurate idea: they will probably either lead to too ele-
vated or too depreciating an estimate. Having, however, with Mra. Helmore
resided amongst these people for sixteen months, dependent upon them
occasionally for food, often for manual assistance, and sometimes for friendly
aid in affliction, I have been enabled to form a deliberate opinion of the
minds and hearts which are to be acted upon by the transforming and puri-
fying energy of the Divine Spirit; and, though often struggling between
hope and fear, joy and sorrow, surprise and disappointment, I am induced
to take courage, and to believe that the great and good work that has been
commenced amongst them will be carried on and perfected in Christ Jesus.”

The circumstances of the station are such as to place the majority of
the people under the direct instruction of the Missionary. Strictly speak-
ing, there are no heathen in this quarter. All the people are favourably
disposed towards Christianity; and many, it is hoped, are imbued with
its sanctifying influence. The Missionary has no occasion, as in India,
to go to places of public resort to defend by argument the truths of the
Gospel, for all admit them; nor is he called to attend heathen festivals
to proclaim to large concourses of people the glad tidings of salvation,
such having ceased to be held.

The public services are largely and regularly attended, and the schools
are in @ prosperous condition. .

Respecting the state of religion among the members of his church,
Mr. Helmore makes the following remarks: —

‘There is a want of those exalted and reverential views of the infinite
Jehovah which produce just ideas of the turpitude of sin, and of the amazing
love and pity displayed in the plan of redemption. This, perhaps, is not
surprising, when we consider their former degraded and grovelling state. In
other heathen lands great reverence is shewn to the idols and their priests;

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but here the traces of idolatry are few and faint, and no respect is paid
either to idol or priest. May we not then look for better days, when pure
and undefiled religion shall prevail; when the fruits of the Spirit shall be
made manifest ? hough Africa is a dry and barren land, nature can pro-
duce graceful and lovely flowers; and shall not the garden of the Lord,
planted in South Africa, produce flowers equally graceful and lovely? There
1s an earnest spirit of inquiry and thirst for knowledge, amongst those Be-
chuanas who have embraced the Gospel at the various Missionary stations;
and I cannot but believe, that if attention is paid to the proper cultivation
of their minds, the result will be that the Lord will be glorified, and his
laws honoured and name adored by thoughtful and intelligent worship-
pers.” J.
LATTAKOO.

At this station God has borne ample testimony to the word of his
grace in the past year. The church has had an addition of fifty-six
members. Sinners, who had long resisted the invitations of the Gospel,
have been renewed in the image of Christ, and some have entered into
rest, in whose deliverance and salvation the divine mercy has been
strikingly exhibited and magnified. The following instance, related by
Mr, Edwards, pleasingly illustrates the latter statement: —

“It is truly gratifying to think of our departed friends, who in the hour
of death bore testimony to the value of the Gospel An aged woman, who
lived here, was lately removed to a better world. Some years ago, she be-
longed to a class of native impostors, who affirm that they “have seen God,”
meaning thereby, that something has been intimated to them respecting the
future occurrence of famine, war, or plenty, by an invisible ing ; of whom,
however, they can give no account whatever. Every attention is paid by
the people to these favoured individuals ; and gifts of corn, beans, pump-
kins, meat, and milk, are brought to the ‘seers,’ to secure their favour ;
and these offerings are frequently followed by a dance, in honour of those
to whom the pretended revelations are made.

“¢ Our departed friend, pretending to the power of the Mamothobigi, (the
name by which the impostors referred to are called), was the oracle of
many, and had her daughter in readiness to officiate as a dancing-maid, A
few of those once engaged in the same occupation have, we believe, been
brought to Christ. She, who wished others to believe that she had ‘seen
God,’ lost, by a dispensation of divine Providence, both her fame and her
sight. In her blindness she lived to an old age, and, when far advanced in
years, it pleased God to make her sensible of a blindness still more awful.

ome very simple means were used to open the eyes of her understanding,
and she was led to seek and trust only in the Lord Jesus for salvation. In
her old age she appeared to dwell with delight on the ‘marvellous good-
ness of the Lord to her. Believing she would not survive, she admonished
all who visited her to think of eternity. A few days before her death, she
wished her children and grandchildren to be gathered together in her pre-
sence, desiring to speak to them before she died. They met around her,
and, when informed that all werepresent, she addressed them, saying,
“Children of mine, I wish you to know that I am to be separated from you,
but your hearts must not be sorrowful on that account. The Lord has
spared me not a few days ; He has taken care of me many years, and He has
ever been merciful to me—TI have wanted no good thing : therefore, when I
am separated from you, do not think the Lord has taken me away in his
anger. I know Him to whom I have trusted the salvation of my soul—
my hope is fixed on Jesus Christ, who died for my sins, and still lives to
save me. But, children of mine, give yourselves no concern about me—I
shall soon die and be at rest; but I do wish you to attend to these my
words, Isay to you, children of mine, hold fast your faith in Christ—trust
in hin—love him and serve him—turn not aside from him, and let not
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in this world, hold very fast the word of God, and faint not in persevering
prayer. My last word to you is this: strive to live together in peace—fol-
ow peace with all, and among yourselves especially. Love each other,—
comfort each other—watch over each other in the Lord.’

‘* After thus addressing her children, she spoke but little more. The last
words she uttered were some hours before her death. A church mem-
ber, who is ever in attendance at sick beds, called ; she heard his voice, and
said, ‘ Yes, I know thee, Makame, my brother in the Lord!—I am going,
but thou wilt remain—hold fast the word of God—turn not from his
ways; and take a message to thy wife, my sister in the Lord, that she must
use all diligence in seeking eternal life.’ ”

Mr. and Mrs. Ross and Mr. Livingstone reached Lattakoo in safety
on the 31st of July. A communication from Mr. Ross, dated in Au-
gust, contains the following gratifying intelligence: —

*¢ On our journey from Algoa Bay, we were greatly cheered by observ-
ing the general prosperity of the cause of God among the heathen. Multi-
tudes of them are flocking to the standard of the Cross, and are fighting
nobly under the Captain of our salvation, with the armour of righteousness
on the right hand and on the left. Our drivers and leaders from Bethels-
dorp, as well as three Bechuanas belonging to the Kuruman, whom we
brought along with us from Graaff Reinet, are noble instances of the ef-
fects of the grace of God. It is extremely pleasing to see Hottentots, and
Griquas, Bechuanas, and Bushmen, notwithstanding all their prejudices and
superstitions, bowing down and worshipping one common Father.

** On Sabbath last I was much delighted at seeing a young man named
Baba, formerly an obstinate, notoriously wicked, and dangerous character,
agonising under the preaching of the Gospel, and bathed in tears. The bre-
thren say, if Baba be converted, he will indeed be another and a wonderful
monument of mercy.” .

In September, Messrs. Edwards and Livingstone paid a visit to the
Bakuane tribe, inhabiting a part of the country at a great distance from
Lattakoo. The population is considerable; both the Chiefs and the
people, though from various motives, are earnestly asking for Mis-
sionaries to settle amongst them; and the brethren strongly urge a
compliance with their request. For the present, they propose sending
two native teachers, hoping that a Mission may be commenced among
the Bakuane through their instrumentality.

Church-members, 200; schools, 2; scholars, 80; printe |—15,000 tracts,
spelling-books, and catechisms.

Z
’ Parippo.is.

The report from Mr. Schreiner affords cheering evidence that his la-
bours in the past year have been owned and blessed of God. There has
been a considerable addition to the number united in church fellowship,
and some, to whom he had broken the bread of life, have fallen asleep
in Christ. Respecting one of the latter (a female member), he gives a
truly interesting account. In her dying hour, she addressed the follow-
ing pathetic exhortations to her husband, who had long been deplorably
addicted to the use of ardent spirits: —

“When I am gone you will be grieved. Now listen to your dying wife.
Do not seck your comfort in drinking brandy, and in other worldly things ;
herein you will never find it: but seek it in Jesus the Seviour, give Z/am
your heart ; He will take away its grief, and make it glad. Oh, I should
not like to recover, lest I should again sin against Him who loved me, and
gave himself for me; go to Him, cleave, ever cleave, to Christ!”

Mr. Schreiner adds: —

‘This woman lived some miles fiom the station, and I was consequently