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American Board of Commissioners for || Rev. Dr. Beman constituted the Assembly Foreign Missions.-A meeting was held in with prayer. Rev. Dr. Phillips, of New York, its behalf at the Chatham-street Chapel, on was chosen moderator, Rev. Mr. Krebs temFriday, May 15th, Hon. John Cotton Smith,porary clerk, and Mr. Jacob Green was apthe president, in the chair. Prayer was offered by Rev. John Woodbridge, D. D.; after which a statement respecting the Board and its missions was read by the Rev. Chauncey Eddy, general agent of the Board for the State of New York. Resolutions were then offered and addresses made by Rev. Amos Sutton, Rev. James Hoby, from England, Governor Vroom, Rev. A. D. Eddy, Rev. David Abeel, and Rev. E. N. Kirk.

The American Society for Ameliorating the Condition of the Jews held its annual meeting on Friday, the 15th of May, for the transaction of business; at which the annual report was read, and officers elected, etc. The farm purchased for the reception of Jewish converts has been sold, none being found to place upon it. The funds of the society will remain invested until Providence shall open the way for their being applied in some way consistent with the design with which they were given.

PHILADELPHIA.

The American Sunday School Union held its annual meeting in the First Presbyterian Church, on Tuesday May 26th, the president, Alexander Henry, Esq., in the chair. Paul Beck, Esq. read a report of the financial concerns of the society; and the report of the Board of Managers was read by one of the secretaries. Resolutions were offered, and addresses made by Rev. Messrs. J. M. Peck, Campfield, and Bethune, and Hon. T. Frelinghuysen. On the evening previous the Rev. G. W. Blagden, of Boston, preached the anniversary sermon from Psalm exi, 10.

pointed to act as permanent clerk, in place of Dr. J. McDowell, who was absent. The report of the Assembly's Board of Education was read on Friday, the 22d of May, and the narrative of the state of religion, and the report of the Board of Missions were given on Monday, the 25th; and the report respecting the Union Theological Seminary on the 25th; and that at Princeton on the 28th.

The Western Foreign Missionary Society held its annual meeting in the First Presbyterian Church, in Pittsburg, May 28th, the Rev. T. D. Baird, the vice president, in the chair.After singing and prayer, the Rev. E. P. Swift, the corresponding secretary, made a statement respecting the operations of the society, and resolutions were moved and seconded and addresses made by Rev. Mr. Osborn, of North Carolina, Rev. Mr. Edgar, of Tennessee, Rev. Mr. Potts, of Mississippi, Rev. Dr. Miller, of Princeton, and Rev. Drs. Green and Cuyler, of Philadelphia.

A Convention of Members of the Presbyterian Church was assembled on Thursday, May 14th, and continued its sessions till the meeting of the Assembly. Various questions relating to the doctrines and government of the Presbyterian Church were discussed, and a memorial to the Assembly prepared.

BOSTON.

The American Education Society held its anniversary in Park-street Church, on Monday evening, May 25th. In the absence of the president, the Hon. William Reed took the chair. Prayer was offered by Rev. President Bates, and the annual report was read

The General Synod of the Reformed Dutch Church commenced its session in Philadel-by the secretary, Rev. Dr. Cogswell. Resophia, on Thursday, June 4th.

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lutions were offered, and addresses were made by Rev. John Spaulding, Rev. Mr. Hoby, and Rev Dr. Cox, from England, Rev. Mr. Kirk, Rev. S. Holmes, and Rev. Dr. Skinner.

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States commenced its annual session in the First Presbyterian Church, on Thursday, May 21st. At the request of the Rev. Dr. Lindsley, of Tennes-presiding. Rev. B. see, the last moderator of the Assembly, who was necessarily absent, the Rev. Dr. Miller, of Princeton, preached the annual sermon, and

The American Temperance Society held its annual meeting in Park-street Church, on the morning of May 26th, John Tappan, Esq. Emerson opened the meeting with prayer. Rev. J. Edwards, D. D. read extracts from the annual report, and E. C. Delavan, Esq., Rev. Prof. Emerson, Rev.

Meetings were also held in behalf of For

N. Adams, Rev. R. G. Dennis, L. M.
Sargeant, Esq., and Rev. E. N. Kirk, pre-eign Missions, in connection with the Ameri-

sented or seconded resolutions, and made addresses.

The Prison Discipline Society held its anniversary in Park-street Church, May 26th, Hon. William Reed presiding. After reading the Scriptores and prayer, the Rev. Louis Dwight, the secretary, read extracts from the annual report, and Rev. Dr. Cogswell, Rev. Dr. Edwards, and Rev. N. Adams addressed the meeting.

The American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race held a public meeting in the Temple, Tremont-street, Hon. William Reed, the president, in the chair. The meeting not being the anniversary no report was presented. A brief statement respecting the objects and plans of the society

was read, and resolutions were moved and seconded, and addresses offered by Rev. S. M. Worcester, Rev. E. P. Humphrey, Hon. S. Willard, Rev. J. Abbott, Rev. B. B. Edwards, and Rev. E. N. Kirk.

The New England Anti-Slavery Convention, of which Mr. Amasa Walker was elected president, held its sessions during the anniversary week; during which many topics were discussed.

Meetings were also held in behalf of The American Colonization Society.

The American Tract Society, (Boston), held its annual meeting in Park-street Church, at which the Hon. William Reed presided. Rev. Dr. Park opened the meeting with prayer, and the secretary read extracts from the annual report; after which the Rev. Mr. Fisher, Rev. Mr. Pratt, Rev. E. N. Kirk, Rev. R. Anderson, Rev. Mr. White, Rev. N. Adams, and Rev. W. Clark moved or seconded resolutions, and most of them addressed the meeting.

can Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions; in behalf of Sabbath Schools, Seamen, Education in the Western States, in connection with local societies in aid of these objects.

ABSTRACTS OF REPORTS.

[The abstracts which follow are taken principally from the New York Observer, as the original reports have not yet been received.]

NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY.

Receipts.-The sum received into the treasury from all sources during the year has been $100,806 26, being an increase over the receipts of last year of $12,195 34. Of the whole sum received, $34,918 23 were received in payment for books; $3,373 26 from legacies; $34,021 02 towards foreign distribution; $27,983 78 ordinary donations.

Books Imported.-To supply the numerous emigrants coming into this country, the managers have imported copies of the Scriptures in the Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, and Polish languages.

Books Issued.-Bibles 47,703; Testaments 75,533. Total 123,236;-in eleven languages, being an increase of 12,404 over the issues of the previous year, and on an aggregate since the formation of the society of 1,767,936 copies.

Modern-Greek Testament.-All the copies of the first edition have been forwarded to Greece, Smyrna, and Constantinople, and a new edition is about to be put to the press.

New Testament for the Blind.—One thousand dollars has been granted to the New England Society for the Education of the Blind, to enable it to print an edition of the New Testament in raised letters; which the blind are found to read with ease, after a little practice.

Re-supply of the Destitute.-In the north and west parts of New York this work has been prosecuted with much spirit through the year. Not less than fourteen or fifteen counties have been engaged in this re-supply. Eight townships of one county, which was supplied in 1829, were found to have 325 destitute families. Another county, supplied at The Northern Baptist Education Society the same time, was found to have 505 families held its annual meeting at the Federal-street destitute. Should all parts of the United Baptist Church, May 27th, Rev. Dr. Sharp in States be as destitute as the average of those the chair. After prayer by Rev. J. B. Tay-ly or quite 30,000 households in need of the lately re-explored, there would be found nearlor, and the reading of the treasurer's report, addresses were delivered by Rev. S. F. Smith, Rev. J. B. Taylor, Rev. Mr. Wayland, Rev. Mr. Hoby and Rev. Dr. Cox, of England, Rev. President Wayland, and Rev. Mr. Hague.

Bible. The managers would earnestly entreat the auxiliaries throughout the country to ascertain and supply the destitute around them without delay. The safety of Protestantism and of religion requires this.

Grants to Sunday-school Unions.-To the Sunday-school Union of New York has been

made a grant of 500 Bibles and 500 Testaments; to the Sunday-school Union of the Protestant Episcopal Church 500 Bibles and 2,000 Testaments; to the Methodist Episcopal Sunday-school Union of 500 Bibles and 2,000 Testaments; to the Massachusetts Sundayschool Union 200 Bibles and 1,000 Testa

ments.

Scriptures for the Young.-The managers submitted to the society a proposition to furnish all the children in the United States, under fifteen years of age, who are destitute

and are able to read with a Bible or a Testament.

Bibles for Emigrants.-Sixteen societies so situated as to have facilities for meeting and furnishing the Scriptures to emigrants have received 2,375 Bibles and 4,000 Testaments. To a Bible society in France $500 in money has been sent, for the purpose of procuring copies of the Scriptures for distribution among emigrants at the time of their embarkation.

Bibles for Seamen.-Grants have been made during the year of nearly 3,000 Bibles and Testaments to societies along the seaboard, and near the lakes, for distribution among that long neglected class of men. Other grants have been made to seamen's chaplains and missionaries in foreign countries for the supply of destitute seamen.

Foreign Distribution.-To South America 1,750 Bibles and Testaments and 2,000 copies of the gospel of Matthew have been sent, mostly in the Spanish language. Other copies of the Spanish gospels, designed principally for use in schools, have been sent to Buenos Ayres, New Grenada, Mexico, and Havana.

Books sent to Canada have all been distributed, and about 2,000 families still remain to be supplied, between Vermont and the St. Lawrence river, which are generally emigrants for the United States.

Grants in Money, to aid in preparing and circulating the Scriptures abroad.

French and Foreign Bible Society at Paris,
Bible Society at Lyons in France,
St. Petersburgh Bible Society in Russia, in
purchasing Finnish Testaments,

$1,000 500

300

Rev. William G. Schauffler for publishing the Psalms in Hebrew-Spanish, translated by Mr. S. who is desirous of having the whole Old Testament thus prepared for the 300,000 Jews in the Ottoman empire, who speak that tongue, Towards the circulation of the Persian Scriptures by the Rev. Mr. Merrick, in Persia, to be expended at the depot of the British and Foreign Bible Society at Constantinople,

For Arabic Scriptures, to be procured from the British and Foreign Bible Society, and circulated by the Rev. Eli Smith in Syria,

1,000

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New Publications fifty-five, of which nineteen are Tracts in the General Series, and eight are volumes, viz. Abbot's Young Christian and Child at Home; Wilberforce's Practical View; Pike's Guide to Young Disciples, and Religion and Eternal Life; Gallaudet's Youth's Book of Natural Theology, and Child's Book of Bible Stories; and Memoir of H. Page. Whole number of the society's publications, seven hundred and ninety-two.

Among new tracts, the Committee are endeavoring to procure those in simple style, and especially narratives adapted to interest the great mass of readers.

The Christian Almanac is published in seventeen distinct editions. Of the American Tract Magazine, 7,000 are issued monthly; of the Monthly Distributor, containing specimens of new tracts, 1,000.

The society is about to issue eleven of its standard works: the Rise and Progress, Wilberforce's View, Edwards on the Affections, Pilgrim's Progress, Saints' Rest, etc., in a series of volumes of about 400 pages, 18mo., with the title of the 'Evangelical Family Library.'

Printed and Circulated.

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500

Donations, including $33,962 71 for foreign distribution, of which $8,000 is from the American Tract Society at Boston, and $8,080 57 was raised by ladies,

60,727 42

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Towards circulating the Scriptures at the Sandwich Islands,

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For the same purpose in the Mahratta

country,

3,000

Do. in Ceylon,

6,000

The receipts for sales are nearly the same as last year; the donations and total receipts are each greater by $25,000.

For the purchase of Syriac Scriptures for the Nestorians in Syria, to be distributed by the Rev. Mr. Perkins, To the Western Foreign Missionary Society at Pittsburg, to aid the circulation of the Scriptures by its missionaries in Northern India,

Foreign Appropriations.—There have been ||lains, and have been supplied during that porremitted during the year to

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About forty original publications have been approved during the year, in foreign languages; and at Ceylon, Rev. Mr. Knight, of the Church of England. Rev. Mr. Daniel, of the Baptist Church, and Rev. Messrs. Scudder and Winslow, constitute a committee to examine original publications in Tamul, reporting their character to the publishing committee, that they may be approved without being translated into English. A similar committee for China consists of the Rev. Mr. Gutzlaff, Rev. Mr. Bridgman, and Rev. Mr. Jones, at Bankok.

At the Sandwich Islands, 1,988 pages have been prepared and printed in Hawaiian; and 166,000 copies issued the last year. In France, the number of laborers is comparatively few.

In Greece 2,703,945 pages have been put in circulation by Dr. Robertson. Among the Mahrattas, 28,300 tracts have been printed during the year. Nineteen tracts have been adopted during the year in the Tamul language.

SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE AMERICAN SEAMEN'S FRIEND SOCIETY.

DURING the past year nearly all the funds of the society have been expended in foreign lands, the chaplains at the several ports in the United States having been supported by local societies formed in the places where they labor; and which are more or less connected with the general society as auxiliaries.

Foreign Operations.-The society has chaplains at six foreign ports and at two ports in the United States.-At Canton there were last year 75 American vessels and about 90 British, and not less than 4,000 seamen, most of whom spoke the English language; besides multitudes of Chinese and other seamen from other countries. At Havre the congregation is small. Honolulu was visited in 1833 by 135 vessels, most of which were ships, having on board between 3,000 and 4,000 seamen.— The chaplaincy at Marseilles, and at the other places to be mentioned, was commenced during the last year. Smyrna has a chaplain

sotes a part of his time to seamen. and New Orleans require chap

tion of the last year, when they are most resorted to by vessels. Havana has been visited by an agent of the society, who states that at least 10,000 seamen enter that port in American vessels annually, 1,000 of whom may be found constantly in port.

Local Institutions.-On the sea-coast of the United States there are eighteen ports where societies are organized for the moral and spiritual improvement of mariners, in ten of which public worship is regularly held on the Sabbath.

On the Lakes, Rivers, and Canals much progress has been made during the year in efforts for the spiritual good of seamen. Reg. ular Sabbath worship is held in these places, and preliminary measures have been adopted in others.

Funds.--The receipts have been $12,367 71; and the expenditures $12,262 56.

The society contemplate greatly enlarging their operations by stationing chaplains in other foreign ports frequented by American

seamen.

SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PRESBYTERIAN EDUCATION SOCIETY.

REV. William Patton has been appointed corresponding secretary.

Beneficiaries under Patronage.-In estimating the number of beneficiaries, the Board have counted only such as have actually received pecuniary aid from the society since the last annual report. Appropriations, amounting to $25,383, have been made to 490 young men in 85 institutions of learning. The whole number who have received the aid of the society, since its formation, is 1,049.

New Applicants.-One hundred and fortyone new applicants have been received during the year upon the recommendations of examining committees. The Board earnestly call the attention of all clergymen and laymen, to whom young men may apply for testimonials, to the vast importance, on their part, of caution and discretion.

Patronage has been withdrawn from nine beneficiaries during the year on account of various causes.

Twenty-seven, having gone through a thorough literary and theological course, have been licensed to preach the gospel.

Earnings. The last report stated that $10,301 19 had been earned by 321 young men in 52 institutions. This year there have been earned $10,722 97, by 367 young men in 64 institutions, making an average of $29 22 to each beneficiary. The amount appropriated to these 367 was $21,043;-less than twice the amount of their earnings.

Receipts. The receipts from collections in churches and individuals, etc., including $1,000 at Cincinnati, subject to the order of the treasury, have been $35,551 51, being an increase, exclusive of monies borrowed, compared with the previous year, of $7,590 42.

Increase of Candidates for the Ministry.For some years past, the proportion of young

aging to the patrons of Education Societies, as is also the fact that connected with evangelical churches are at least 20,000 young men hopefully converted within five years;

men, whose parents or friends can sustain the expense of their education, has considerably increased. It is not too much to say that the proportional increase of this class of candidates has been greater even than of the indi-and that between the ages of fourteen and gent. It has been obvious that as the Education Society has with energy pushed forward the claims of the Lord Jesus upon the talent and piety of the rising generation to serve him in the gospel ministry, many youth have responded to the call. This is highly encour

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twenty-five there are not less than 70,000 who are already enrolled as disciples of Christ. By judicious agencies thousands of these may in a single year be selected and put in a course of thorough preparation.

Miscellanies.'

ADVICE ΤΟ MISSIONARIES ABOUT TO ENTER ON THEIR WORK.

THE following article embraces the principal parts of a public address delivered by the Rev. Miron Winslow, of the Ceylon mission, temporarily in this country, to Doct. Asahel Grant, and his wife, destined to the Nestorian mission, Miss Rebecca W. Williams, destined to Beyroot, Rev. Messrs. J. M. S. Perry and J. J. Lawrence, and their wives, destined to Ceylon, and Rev. Henry Ballantine, and Mr. E. A. Webster, and their wives, destined to Bombay. They were assembled to hear the address on Sabbath evening, May 10th, embarked during the week.

and

Though the address was prepared with particular reference to missionaries about to labor among the Hindoos, yet most of its counsels and suggestions are equally applicable to all who go to preach Christ among the heathen.

After noticing some of the exciting and painful circumstances under which a missionary leaves his country and home, Mr. Winslow proceeds to dwell on the

Importance of Deadness to the World and

entire Consecration to God.

Being fairly at sea you will have leisure for some appropriate reflections and occupations. Let me advise that one of the first be to BURY THE WORLD. I trust that it is now crucified to you, let it then be buried out of your sight. Like the nuns, but with a very different spirit and for very different objects, "take the veil." Let you language be, what have I any more to do with the world? My beloved brethren, you may think this easy, but believe me it is most difficult. You will not leave the world because you leave America, you will carry it with you, and when you try to bury it, you may find that it is not dead but sleepeth. Yes, you will still find a little world within and around you, and you cannot escape from yourselves. Whatever you may now think, your greatest danger will be from the revival

of a worldly spirit. You will not by being missionaries become aerial nor above the attractions of earth, though placed in a situation in some respects elevated. As the chambers of imagery in your soul are opened to heavenly or earthly prospects, whether they are more or less extended-so will your character still be earthly or heavenly. In some respects your danger will be increased rather than diminished. You will at times be brought more into notice. Let not your ears be open to hear what sounds of commendation may be borne to them across the great waters. Would that the church tempted their missionaries less by the voice of praise. It will be well if you so know yourselves as to be humble in you own eyes, and not be pleased with the praise of men. Let your renunciation of the world be complete, your dedication to your work, as complete.

Give yourselves wholly to Christ. Offer your souls and bodies to him a living sacrifice -a whole burnt offering. I trust that you have done this-that looking upon a revolted, perishing world, your inquiry has been, where can I do most for its rescue? And feeling the constraining love of Christ, and looking at the providence of God and the qualifications given you for usefulness, you have from principle and not from impulse devoted yourselves wholly and for life to his service among the heathen. Oh, that thousands in this favored land, instead of waiting for a sign from heaven, would freely open their minds to the conviction that they are bound to go where they can do the most good, and to do just what will promote the glory of God in the conversion of the world; and be convinced that to them also is this grace given to preach among the gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. I have said that I trust you have devoted yourselves for life. Some may object to this thought as giving needless pain, but I am convinced, from some observation, that in the present state missionary devotement for life is altogether necessary. One of the darkest clouds which has of late obscured the prospects of Christianity in India, is the resolution of some societies operating there, to send out missionaries for a limited number of years. They hardly arrive on the ground, and master the difficulties of an eastern dialect, and obtain some knowledge of the customs and habits of thought among the people, and some influ

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