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“...disposition was amiable, hér piety unaffected, and her love for the poor heathen unfeigned. She died, after a tedious Ulness, worn out in the service of the Mission, & Mrs. Davies was also an excellent woman; she unex- pectedly departed on the 4th of September, 1812; her mfant followed her to the grave three weeks after. Mrs. Hayward also, after suffering much from a com- plication of disorders, departed October 4, 1812. She was greatly supported in the prospect of death by the precious promises of the gospel. These valuable women are doubtless gone to receive the gratuitous reward of those labours and sufferings which they voluntarily encountered, that they might advance the kingdom of Christ in the world; and their mewiory is blessed. : The Missionaries had come to a determination, agreeably to our directions, to separate and form a Mission on another of the Society Islands, and they had fixed upon Reiatea, as the largest or most central of the group; but the melancholy losses they had sustained...”
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“...TWENTIETH REPORT. 5 *APRICA, Pepi Durine the past year, the communications from Africa . have been peculiarly interesting. Our dear brother, Mr. 3 Campbell, agreeably to the proposed object of his Mission, | has vi-ifed the various Missionary stations in distant parts of South Africa; has suggested many excellent regulations for their improvement ; aud has fixed upon several new places, in which Missionary settlements may probably be established. A minute account of his journies would fill a volume; and such a volume, we trust, he will supply, after his return to England, which is shortly expected :* a very slight sketeh is all that can be admitted into this report. e After a careful examination of official papers relating to the Missionaries, with which he was indulged, and obtaiming passports from his Excelleacy the Governor Sir John Crad- dock, to the Landrosts of the districts through which he was to pass, he left Cape Town on the 3lst of February, 1813, accompanied by Mr. Hammes...”
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“...gospel. In the last letter to the Directors received from Mr. Hands, he states that his charity school was in a flourishing state ; and that he had nearly forty boys in his native school. Some ad- ditions had been made to the church. He was engaged in + correcting his trauslation of the gospel of St. Matthew into the Canara language, the second time; and he hoped soon to send to the press both that and the gospel of St. Luke. ua CHINSURAH. Mr. May, who was sent out with a view of aiding the Mission at Vizagapatam, especially in the tuition of the chil- dren, for which he has a peculiar talent, was enabled, after a long detention in America, to proceed to India. He landed at Calcutta, Nov. 21, 1812, and by a peculiar concurrence of circumstances was led to settle at Chinsurah, where he has the pleasing prospect of much usefulness, especially to | the rising generation. ‘The Directors lament that they have received no letter from him of later date than Feb. 4, 1813, when he had but just entered...”
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“...last Report. His pamphlet on Indian Civilization, has, we trust, excited an interest among British Christians, in behalf of the rising generation of Hin- doostan, which will eventually prove of great advantage to that populous country, This great object, it will be seen, has not been lost sight of by the Directors, CEYLON. __ Iv was stated in the last Report, that through the kindness of Sir Alexander Johnston, and other Honourable Members of the Government in Ceylon, Mr. Palm, one of our Mission- aries, had been appointed minister of the Dutch church at Columbo. He had previously been useful in visiting and reviving some of the schools; and in his present situation,...”
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“...their advan- tage, it was determined that they should proceed to Batavia, for which they were peculiarly qualified, as they would be able to preach in Dutch (the language there spoken by the Europeans), and be usefully employed in preaching to them, while preparing to evangelize the uative heathen. ‘They were ordained at the Dutch Church in London, Noy. 14, 1813, by Dr. Werninck, and embarked for Java (by way of the Isle of France), Dec. 31. While the Directors were employed in preparing this Mission, it is very remarkable that two gentlemen of fortune, who were on a visit for their health, at the Cape of Good...”
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“...to that amount was sent over to us by Mr. Thom, which will no doubt be paid to our Missionaries on their reaching that _ place. Thus the Lord was pleased both to raise up preachers for the intended station, and a handsome donation towards the great expense which would be incurred. We cannot but take encouragement from this remarkable concurrence of favourable circumstances. MAURITIUS, or THE ISLE OF FRANCE. To this populous island, now under the crown of Britain, the Directors judged that a Mission might with great advan- tage be sent. ‘To this measure they were much encouraged by the information afforded by Mr. Thompson and Mr. Milne, who touched there on their way to Lndia and China, especially as they found that some persons of influence were well dis- posed to encourage such an undertaking. One of the students at Gosport, Mr. Le Brun, of Jersey, whose native language was French, appeared to be an instrument well adapted for this undertaking ;—he was ordained in Jersey, Nov. 25, 1813...”
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“...patronage of this Society, to labour im Newfoundland, appears to have been useful at St. John’s; he has also visited some other parts of the island, aud at one place established a Sunday-school. : Through his instrumentality, an Auxiliary Society has been formed in aid of this Institution, and nearly £40. the produce of a single quarter’s subscriptions, have been received ;—other useful societies were also contemplated, We cannot but re- joice that in distant parts of the earth to which our Mission- _ arles are sent, the spirit of Lenevolence is soon rendered ma- uifest, He speaks with great concem of the deplorable state of the island in general, and the great ueed of additional la- bourers, We earnestly hope that other faithful ministers will be sent out to this destitute and neglected part of the world....”
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“...TWENTIETH REPORT. 29 WEST INDIES. TOBAGO. . Tue accounts from Mr. Elliot at Tobago, are by no | means encouraging: he appears almost to despair of success, | and was therefore induced to remove, for the present, to an- | other station, at that time destitute of a preacher. We should, 4 however, be sorry to abandon Tobago altogether, but hope to | furnish the people with another minister, should they be able and willing to defray a part of the heavy expense attending the support of this Mission. TRINADAD. SEVERAL letters in the course of the past year have been received from Mr. Adam, who resides at Port of Spain, where he regularly preaches in the new chapel to a considerable number of persons of various colours, to several of whom he has the satisfaction of believing that the gospel has been made the power of God to salvation; their growth m knowledge and piety afford him much pleasure, and great eucouragement in his work. THe takes pains also in catechising the negroes and their children...”
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“...Mr. H. have unhappily been lost in a vessel which was conveying them from Calcutta to Madras. The disappointment is severely felt. The country had suffered severely by drought; but Mr. Hands and his family were greatly assisted by the kindness of ladies and gen- tlemen in the neighbourhood, without whose friendly aid they could scarcely have obtained the necessaries of life. He ex- presses also much thankfulness, that the Government has favoured him with a grant of the ground occupied by the Mission Garden, which contains about eight acres, and is to be held free from rent, as long as it is appropriated to the use of the Charity School. CHINSURAH. Mr. May, ina letter to the Directors, dated November 26, 1813, mentions the death of Mrs. May on the 17th of September. Her last moments were peaceful and happy. On the following Sabbath the solemn event was improved by two funeral discourses; one in the morning by Mr. Forsyth, and another in the evening by Mr. Lawson, one of the Baptist Missionaries...”
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“...dated August 23, 1813, has just been received, containing many pious reflections on the instances of mortality among the Mis- \ sionaries ; expressing also his earnest hope that the Legislature of this country would afford that liberty for sending Mis- sionaries, which we now rejoice bas been granted. He mentions that the American brethren Hall and Nott were at Bombay, where they were permitted to remain; and it 7 was expected that they would proceed to Surat. He re- commends strengthening the Mission at Belhary, especially | on account of the state of Mr. Hands’s health. | Mr. Loveless was attended at the chapel as usual, and was greatly encouraged by the generous exertions made by | the friends of religion at Madras to liquidate the debt of | his chapel. One liberal gentleman, who would not suffer . his name to appear, has contributed seven hundred pagodas | for that purpose. He longs for additional help in that great | and populous city. | _ oo...”
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“...was held at Surry Chapel, (Silver Street Chapel being thought too small for the purpose.) The Rev. Dr. Romeyn, of New York, commenced by prayer. The original plan of the Society was read. The preceding Re- port of the Directors for the past year was then read. Some of the Lascars who had been under the tuition of the Society, were introduced; a portion of the scriptures was read, and some verses of a hymn sung in their tongue. The Rev. J. Campbell, who had been absent nearly two years on a Mission to the different stations in South Africa, gave an inte- resting account of his journey, the particulars of which will here- after be published. The acceptance of the Report, the thanks of — the Society to Mr. Campbell for his eminent services, to the Treasurer, to the Secretary, to the Directors, to the Ministers and Auxiliary Societies, by whose exertions the funds of the Institution had been so materially improved, were moved and : seconded in able and impressive speeches, and carried with...”
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“...| MISSIONARY LABOURS. 43 | mansions of endless bliss and perfect peace, which are reserved for the people of God. Go ye into all the world, said the | ascending Redeemer to his apostles, and preach the gospel to every creature ; do not confine yourselves to this or that parti- | cular nation, tribe, kindred or people, nor to any solitary spot, town, country or climate, no; embrace them all, begin at Je- rusalem, traverse Judea, pass on to Samaria, and then proceed on your divine mission to the uttermost parts of the earth. In my name offer remission of sins, life and salvation to all the sons of Adam; invite the rude Barbarian as well as the civilized Roman. The apostles went forth endued with power from on high; and, fall of the most enlarged views and generous desires, occupied much ground, penetrated into the darkest recesses of sin and Satan, overthrew many an altar reared by the hand of superstition, and turned the people of different countries, from the service of dumb idols to that...”
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“...and abroad! The Dutch Society in Rotterdam, the Berlin Seminary, and_ several smaller Associations in Germany and Switzerland owe to it their origin, and I am happy to find that these Foreign So- cieties have supplied several truly valuable Missionaries, among whom Van der Kemp, Kicherer, and Butscher, stand honour- ably distinguished. This pleasmg union and co-operation of protestant churches on the Contiuent with the Missicnary So- ciety have® lately furnished the means of undertaking a new mission to’ Java, to which a Dutchman and two Germans have freely devoted themselves. Nor can I omit mentioning with feelings of sacred exultation, that by the late wonderful events, in which the hand of God has been so eminently con- spicuous, the free communication between England and the | Continental nations, so long and so painfully interrupted, | has been mercifully restored. May this renewed intercourse, under the blessing of God, prove a powerful means of still | more universally spreading the...”
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“...their priests, whose interest and very existence are at stake; the unhealthiness of some cli- mates ; the dreadful deserts ; the dangers from wild beasts, and men more savage still than these; the combined efforts of wicked men aud wicked spirits; the scandalous lives of nominal Christians, by whom the name of Christ is blas- phemed among the heathen; the distance of many heathen lands trom Europe ; the long interruption of all intercourse ; the sudden deaths of the most able and experienced Mission- aries ; the destruction of whole settlements ; with many other | obstacles that might be mentioned ; and you will be con- strained to exclaim with the apostle: “ Who is sufficient for these things?” But let us not be discouraged ; let us hear the language of the Otaheitan Missionaries, after having had their full share in difficulties like these : “ Nothing (say they) is too hard for God. King Pomarre had been a very wicked man. When we returned, we lived for a time in the same house with him...”
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“...: not regarded as the noblest philanthropists the world has ever known: As they approach the towns and yillages of Judea, or present themselves before the cities of the Roman Empire —are they not welcomed with tumultuous joy—hailed by lisp- ing infancy and hoary age as the widow’s friend—the orphan’s hope—the fairest ornaments of the human race—the best be- nefactors of mankind? No!in too many instances the in- | vitation of mercy which they bear is rejected with disdam— the object of their mission is first misrepresented, and then treated with affected abhorrence by the leaders and rulers of the people—the cup of salvation which they freely offer, as though it were mixed with the deadliest poison, is dashed, un- tasted, from the lip, and they are every where loaded with infamy, as the lawless adherents of a crucified impestor, and the disturbers of the public peace: These men being Jews do exceedingly trouble our city, is the general outcry, whilst through all the streets and avenues they...”
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“...untutored tribes of Africa expressed surprise that our la- : mented Mungo Park should brave the dangers of the deep, expose himself to the varieties of climate, should sustam the 7 i pangs of fatigue, and all the woes of a solitary and defenceless i wanderer in the interior of their inhospitable clime, merely i to ascertain the manners of a people unrecorded in history, ! and the course of a river unknown to song; and well they : might.. But had Mungo Park assured them that the object i of his mission was to make them happy—presenting the ‘i Bible, had he told them that it contained his commission from the eternal God to preach to them life and immortality i beyond the grave, they would have ceased their wonder, and i? have deemed the object proportioned to the toil. And such is } the object we have in view ; such is the commission we are anx- i ious to fulfil. It is to the wild savage in his native woods the / Christian Missionary goes: he teaches him to read—but it is 4 that he may read...”
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“...refuse, on this principle, to foreign objects, to some plan of Christian benevolence nearer home? And is your own neigh- bourhood, your own church, your own Sunday-school, so much the gainer? If not, to urge such an excuse is to be guilty of deceit and robbery—deceit to man, and robbery to God. ) Much has been said of late about home missions, and that we should convert the heathen in Britain, ere we at- | tempt to convert Hottentots and Hindoos. But has not every county in the empire, its home mission, its association for the spread of the gospel, to which you already do, or ought immediately to subscribe; and are not the pages of the | Evangelical Magazine every month crowded with accounts of the proceedings and successes of such domestic missions ? | But are we to remain at home, nor ever bear the gospel , to a foreign clime “till all the inhabitants of Britain are con- | verted? Was it thus that the apostles acted? Alas! had they staid in Judea till all their countrymen had embraced , ...”
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“...ever commence with vigour tll | Carey went to India, and Morrison to Canton? | Who is to take the Bible when translated ?—Missionaries must; merchants will not; they have other goods with which | to freight their vessels, and other business to transact in | foreign ports. Who is to excite attention to it when taken?—Mission- aries; or else God by a miracle. But as God has ceased to ! work by miracle, the most probable method of rousing the attention of the thoughtless heathen to the precious volume, 1s the faithful, animated preaching of devoted Missionaries. Who is to explain and enforce ut when that attention 1s excited ?—Missionaries. In fact, we must either have Mission- aries, or miracles—and I will leave you to judge which of the two classes of instruments we are most likely to obtain. I will ask (and no one will charge me with disaffection to that noble institution by the demand) would the Bible Society ever have existed without the Missionary Society ; and if the cause of missions...”
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“...PLAN OF THE SOCIETY. | factors of £100 or more, may attend, if they please, with the Directors, at any of the monthly meetings. On any emergency the Directors shall call a general meeting of the Society, to whom their arrangements shall be submitted: nor shall they enter upon a new mission till they obtain the general concurrence. VI. Tur Funps—Arising from donations, legacies, subscrip- tions, 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; excepting it appears to them prejudicial to the interests of the Society. VIT. Sataries.—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 14th of May, 1812, Resolved, That those Ministers in the country who are an- nual...”
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