instance, was adjudged not guilty by the Higher Court of Justice in Königsberg. Br. Oncken's experience has already been mentioned, so that we see the Lord reigns in Zion. The annual conference of our Prussian Association was held on the 5th and 6th of July. Br. Köbner, of Hamburg, presided, and travelled afterwards through the adjacent churches. Particulars have not as yet been reported. Many Jews attended the service in Hammerstein, anxious to hear br. Köbner preach-he being a proselyte. 108.51 Boston, Charles St. ch. mou. con. 16.30; a lady in same ch. 30; South ch. 100; West Acton, ch. 9; Cabotville, ch, for sup. of native assistant under direction of Rev. J. H. Vinton, 200; Lowell, Central ch. 450; a class in Worthen St. S. S. 6; West Medway, ch 19; Northampton, ch. 8; Westboro', Mrs. L. M. P. Cushing, for sup. of Joseph W. Parker in Karen Normal Sch., 5; Worcester, 1st ch., to cons. Jona. E. French L. M., 100; South Gardner, Young People's Miss. Soc., for Mr. Pratt's Indian Sch. at Delaware, 25; Westfield, Juvenile Miss. Soc., to sup. John Alden in Mrs. Cutter's Sch., Sib. sagor, 25; 547.80 47.00 Boston South Asso., D. Sanderson tr., East Stoughton, ch. 15; Foxboro', ch, mon. con. 13; Fem. Miss. Soc. 19; Wachuset Asso, L. H. Bradford tr., 3.50; Harvard, ch. 1; Leominster, ch. 50 cts; Templeton, ch. 3; West Boylston, ch. 17.64; Westminster, Fem. Miss. Soc. 4.50; Winchendon, ch 25; do. S. Sch. 4; Barre, ch. 8; Mrs. John Smith 5; Rev. J. Walker 2; South Gardner, ch. 5; Princeton, ch., A. II. Goddard 10: Fitchburg, ch., L. H. Bradford 10.86; per Rev E. Savage, ag't, 100.00 Taunton Asso., S. L. French tr., Rehoboth, ch., 8.15 49.00 154.80 Oneida Asso., Ephraim Palmer tr., St. Lawrence Asso.: Potsdam, ch. 21.20; Malone, ch. 51 $3; Geo. Taylor 5; John Hunter 2; H. L. Day 1; T. Baldwin 1; Chateaugay, F. M. Soc. 8.43; Young People's Miss. Soc. 537; Juv. Miss. Soc. 47 cts.; Gouverneur, ch. 3; For. Miss. Soc. 10; Brandon, ch. 3.50; Burke, ch. 4; Canton, ch. 18.75; Massena, ch. 9.56; Madrid, ch 28.85, F. M. Soc. 25; Richville. ch. 21.17; Stockholm, ch. 10.75; Ogdensburgh, ch. 21.54; Johu Legg 10; Rev. T. Gregory 5; Herman, ch. 9; E.Slafter 1; Mrs.Slafter 25c.; Halsey C. Leavitt 5; Fort Covington, ch. 23.12; Coll. at Asso. 43.92; to cons. Rev. E. Goodspeed, H. L. P. Warren, and Mrs. Edna G. Babcock L. M., per Rev. H. A. Smith, agent, Madison Asso., Rev. S. Spaulding 6; Lenox, ch. 3; Fenner, ch. 3.13; Mrs. Betsey D. Badger, to cons. herself L. M. 100; per Rev. H. A. S., agent, Black River, Asso., N. W. Moore 1 A. B. Page 1; Mrs. Page 1; Ruth Caldwell 2; Lowville, ch. 12; Lowville and Denmark, ch. 1; Mary Gordon 150; North Wilna, ch. 2; Lafargeville, ch. 15.45; a friend of missions 1.21; with Dona.'s from St. Lawrence and Madison Asso.'s to cons. Rev. Peter F. Jones L. M., per Rev. H. A. S., agent, Essex and Champlain Asso.: Jay, ch. 46.94; T. E. Tumble 1; G. C. Dickinson 1; John Tenant 1; Essex, ch 2.37; P. S. Havens 20; Westport, ch. 18.53; West Plattsburg, ch. 40.50; Chazy, a friend 2.50; Keesville, ch. 54; Mooers, ch. 3.14; Willsboro', ch 2.25; Moriah, ch. 40 cts.; Coll. at Asso. 29.50; to cons Charles Hunter and Mrs. Betsey E. Havens L. M.; Elizabethtown, ch. 21.87; 0. J. Duraud, to "cons. himself L. M., 100; per Rev. 0. Dodge, agent, Lake George Asso.: Schroon, E. B. Potter 2; Shiloh, ch. 4; Coll. at Asso. 8.37; per Rev. O. D., agt., 849.71 112.13 33.16 345.00 14.37 Union Asso.: Carmel, ch. 1.19; Tarrytown, ch. 25; Sing Sing, ch. 79.07; Cross River, ch. 5.50; Peekskill, ch. 12; Red Mills, ch. 20; Bedford, ch. 22.87; F. M. Soc. 25 90; Yorktown, ch. 12; half of Coll. at A-so. 10; to cons. Mrs. Annis Gifford L. M.; per Rev. O. D., agent, Stephentown Asso., W. T. Douglass tr., 58; Berlin, ch. 21.50; Lebanon Springs, ch. 36.07; Schodack, ch. 15.75; East Hillsdale, ch. 11 to cons. Rev. Edward Conover L. M.; per Rev. O. D., agt., Resselaerville Asso., P. Tinklepaugh tr., 156.15; Berne and Knox, ch. 20.42; with other dona.'s to cons. Rev. Stephen G. Tower, and Rev. Harvey Corn 213.53 142.32 10.39 well L. M, per Rev. O. D., agt., 176.57 Hudson River North Asso.: Cohoes, ch., per Rev. O. D., agt.. Saratoga Asso.: Milton, ch. 18.87; Jamesville, ch. 6.41; Greenfield, 1st ch. 7.40; Burnt Hills, ch. 12.59; Galway, 1st ch. 12.53; 24 ch. 14. per Rev. O. D. agt., Albany, 1st ch. Fem. Miss. Soc., Mrs. Daniel Smith tr., to sup. Reuben Jeffrey in Assam Orph. Sch., Masonville, ch. and cong., mon. con, 71.80 25.00 10.00 26.61 1,617.49 113.53 140.14 Philadelphia, Broad St. ch. Juv. Miss. Soc. and S. Sch., for sup. 3 children in Assam Orph. Sch. 75; and to sup. a native Karen preacher 25; to cons. Miss Roxana Sheppard L. M.; do. Mrs. Mary Howard Anderson 50; Thomas Wattson to cons. Rev. D. F. Carnahan L. M. 100; Reading, ch. 10; S. Sch. and Bible Class 5; Phoenixville, ch. 15.15; Holmesburg, ch. 14.69; S. Sch. 9.04; Hatboro', ch. 10; Upland, ch., S. Sch. Class, Elizabeth Crozer 1.50; Chestnut Hill, ch. 10.25; North Auburn, ch. and Soc. 3.06; South Auburn, Stephen King 3; Ray King 3; Wm. King 1; Deborah King 1; Phebe Green 1; Pittsburg, C. Arbuthnot, to cons. himself L. M., 100; Muddy Creek, ch. 5; North Moreland, ch. 1; Eaton, ch. and cong 5; Minersville, Welsh ch. mon. con. 5; Ohio. Huron Asso., Coll. 14; Mrs. R. P. Lowry 1; J. S. Lowry 1; Elyria, ch. 8.45; Kingsville, ch. 10.98; Jefferson, ch. 13.92; Geneva, ch. 10.12; Conneaut, Ladies' Benev. Soc. 25.53; Cincinnati, 1st ch., Eliza Rendall for China Missions 5 Lebanon, East ch.. mon. con. 28.80; S. Sch. 175; Blooming Grove, ch. 5.78; Fairfield, ch., mon. con. 24 39; S. Sch. 138; Norwalk, ch. 21.14; S. Sch. for Assam Orph. Sch. 2; Miami Asso. Ann. Coll., In Foreign Countries. Assam, Sibsagor, sundry donors for schools, 34.54; Nowgong, sundry donors for Orph. Sch., 206.73; Gowahati, sundry donors and avails of needle work for sch., 20.90; 453.69 1,056.41 16.00 159.27 14.00 189.27 262.17 $1,850.87 French Creek Asso., Geo. Gallow hur tr., 50.00 9.08 Tioga Asso., Lower Merion, ch. 50; Philadelphia, 289.15 42.88 6.00 105.00 Do., do., Rev. H. L. Grose and family, clothing, &c., in same barrel, for Rev. F. Mason, Russia, N. Y., Orson Moore, 1 box of cheese for Rev. C. C. Moore, Ripley, N. Y., Ira C. Stoddard, 1 box clothing for Rev. I. J. Stoddard, Rochester, N. Y., James II. Hooker, 1 barrel flour for Rev. II. L. Van Meter, Philadelphia, Pa, ladies of Broad St. Church, 1 box clothing for Rev. J. Dawson, 50 00 MAULMAIN KAREN MISSION. LETTER FROM REV. W. MOORE. The following letter, though of a date earlier than some that have been published, contains the latest information from the Karen churches connected with the Maulmain Mission. Maulmain, March, 12, 1852.-Real or fancied hindrances have kept me from giving any account of jungle travel this season. In the early part of the season the minds of the people were distracted by various and exaggerated rumors. After the battle of the stockades at Rangoon, in the early part of January, both town and country in Tenasserim were panic struck for several weeks, and war is still the absorbing theme. For the last two months it has been considered unsafe for a white man to venture beyond the protection of the Maulmain cantonments. We have therefore only made short visits here and there, as if dodging an enemy. The people here are disconcerted at the prospect of war to a degree that can scarcely be conceived of elsewhere. The mode of warfare they have been accus The tomed to is that of barbarians. Burmese government forces the peasantry into the army and indiscriminately seizes from its subjects whatever property the army requires. The people in many parts of this province suppose the English will do the same. But what they fear still more is the marauders from the other side. A large part of the inhabitants who are not forced into the service take advantage of the unsettled state of affairs and form themselves into gangs of banditti, to surprise and plunder the defenceless. A European nation may have little to fear from a conflict with Burmah, but a war is a terrible scourge to Burmah's own inhabitants, and very liable to be such to those who live on its borders. Notwithstanding the excitement and confusion that have everywhere existed, the people have given better attention to preaching, and appeared more interested in the truth, than I have before witnessed in any previous year. I left home on the second of December and spent two and a half months in the jungle. I might have continued out the whole time, and I fancy I might yet be absent a month with perfect safety, but all the weight of advice says, Remain at home, and it is probably the most prudent course. Prosperity of Dong Yan church-Support of its pastor. I have made three visits to Dong Yan during the season. The second was in company with brethren Kincaid and Dawson; and last week brother Van Meter came up to see the place and people, and we spent several days together there. In all, I have spent six weeks in Dong Yan and vicinity. This, as a missionary field, has been so often and so fully reported, that little now need be said about it. Changes for the better are visible. The church is increasing both in numbers and influence. Nine have been added by baptism during the year, and two excluded members have been restored to fellowship. In December the church requested that their pastor, Telaw, be ordained. They were told that if they would support him themselves it would rejoice the missionaries to ordain him. He is a tried man, and though no great preacher is a judicious and faithful pastor. He was ordained at the meeting of the Association in January. The deacons and others had desired me at different times to tell them what plans to adopt in reference to the support of their pastor and how to carry them out. I made some suggestions but refused to take any leading part in the matter; told them that they were a regularly constituted church, capable of managing their own affairs. When asked what salary they ought to give, I answered that they themselves were the best judges of the cost of living in Dong Yan; that the laborer was worthy of his hire; if five rupees a month was a fair support, give it, if ten, give ten or even twenty; let their pastor be well provided for. After talking the subject over among themselves, they concluded that eight rupees a month would be a reasonable support for Telaw, as he has no children to provide for. He was satisfied with that. It is the same the other ordained pastors are accustomed to receive. Last Saturday, the day of church meeting, a subscription was drawn up and on that and the following day ninety-five rupees were subscribed. All the members cheerfully subscribed and will pay cheerfully. The subscriptions ranged from thirteen rupees down to one anna. This is the first church in this province that has undertaken to support its own pastor. It has made a good beginning. The members take the right view of the subject. Prayer in their behalf will help them make good and become a shining example. progress Christianity self-witnessing-A shipwreck of the faith. Christianity is better appreciated from year to year, both by Christians themselves and by their neighbors. A few years ago in Dong Yan,-and the same is the state of feeling still in every village where the people have had but little intercourse with Christians,-the man who came out for Christ was regarded with mingled feelings of pity and contempt, similar to those indulged in by his neighbors when a respectable and intelligent citizen in America turns mormon. That feeling has to a good degree worn off here. One of the Christians remarked, that when he first joined the church he knew little about the gospel. He thought it was good, he could forsake all for it, but still on the sabbath he was afraid to go to church by the public path; his neighbors ridiculed him and he was ashamed. But now the scale has turned. His worldly associates are ashamed to meet him on the sabbath, because they know it is the Lord's day. They avoid him more studiously than he ever avoided them. Regular attendance upon the services of the sabbath, the influence of education and books, and their intercourse with missionaries have gained for the Christians a general intelligence that distinguishes them from the multitude. This superiority is felt and appreciated; and though it may not beget a desire for the precious spiritual benefits of the gospel, it does awaken in those who see and know them a desire to possess the temporal benefits that come with it. money. They who do evil that good may come, usually make shipwreck of faith. There is however a degree of charity to be exercised toward this man beyond what could be allowed to one thoroughly instructed in the doctrines of the gospel. In one part of the village the people were making brick and other preparations to rebuild a dilapidated pagoda. They did not wish their pious labors interrupted by the teachers of a better faith. In that section Boodhism still holds the people with a firm grasp. Their hearts are enshrouded in darkness. But there is no darkness so dense that the gospel cannot dissipate it. Cheering gleams of light are already here and there visible. Almost all the men on both sides of the mountain have visited us once or more during the season to inquire about the prospect or progress of the war. We gave what information we could, and always embraced the opportunity to point out to them the fatal enmity that existed between their own souls and the King of kings, and endeavored to make them feel what would be the result of the unequal contest if they stood out in rebellion. Our remarks often appeared to make a deep impression. We sow the seed in hope. In Temper-tang, a large adjacent vil- | to do so, when he had got back his own lage, several families gave a serious hear ing to the truth, and desired to have a chapel built and a preacher stationed there. This is an encouraging sign, an opening from the Lord. One of the leading men had been a hopeful inquirer for three or four years. When I went to the village last season, the people told me to go to his house. "He is ready to be baptized," they said; "he preaches Christ like a missionary. He has not tasted arrack for three years. He has not listened to the priests nor followed the old customs." When I visited his house he conversed like a man not far from the kingdom of God. His wife gave evidence of the possession of a "new heart," but she delayed baptism, hoping soon to enter the church with her husband. Week before last I was there again. The wife still appears well, seems to be an humble, praying woman. But the man said "his heart had got far from the good way. He had taken hold of the wicked thing and it had destroyed him." During the last rains he had urged his neighbors in good earnest to become Christians, but "they all preferred arrack." "Then mark," said he, "I urge you to take the good, but you wish the evil; I will deal it out to you to the full." He purchased two hogsheads of arrack, took out a license, and as he said, " commenced dealing out for the devil.” His wife wept bitterly, and he himself soon found that he had made a mistake. Formerly he had been in the habit of praying with his family every evening, but now he "durst not pray, nor would it be of any use, God could not hear." When asked to stave in his casks, he said," No; I am like a man who has jumped from a tree and broken his leg; he is compelled to suffer a long time on his back for his rashness. So with me. I have taken hold of the wicked thing and am now compelled to hold on until it is gone." When again and again strongly urged to bring forth fruits meet for repentance he was once on the point of knocking in the cask's head, but his heart failed him. He promised faithfully Tour up the Gyne-Romanism—An attentive audience. On Christmas day I started on a tour of a month up the Gyne river and some of its branches. On account of the disturbances at Rangoon, however, I was sent for to come home a week sooner than I had intended. During the three weeks I visited eight villages, five of them for the first time. I need not give the particulars of what occurred at every place. One instance may serve as a specimen of our reception and mode of instruction. We landed late in the afternoon of Jan. 1, at Thee Mayh, a village of fourteen houses, about ten miles above Krai on a small branch of the Gyne. After "taking rice" we went up to the village, to call on an old man who had frequently |