June, these, with the members of the mission families, amounting to twenty-two in all, sat down in the wilderness to communicate the dying love of the Savior of sinners, hundreds of miles in advance of where a similar scene had ever before been witnessed or enjoyed. The two posts selected as stations are lake Harriet, five or six miles west of Fort Snelling and Lac qui Parle, on the St. Peter's river, about 200 miles by land and about 400 by water, west by north from the same point. Doct. Williamson and Mr. Huggens and their wives, and Miss Poage, arrived at the latter on the 9th of July, after a fatiguing journey of seventeen days, having seen no human being or quadruped, except what belonged to their company, on their way. Mr. Renville, the gentleman engaged in the fur trade at Lac qui Parle very kindly furnished a comfortable temporary shelter for the mission family, and seems disposed to favor their object. A small school was immediately opened, attended by seven or eight children, though no suitable accommodations had been provided, nor any effort made to gather in the children generally. About seventy Indian families spend their summers within half a mile of the station, besides a number of families, embracing twenty children of mixed blood; and near lake Travers, within a day's ride, there are about 200 families. The Indians appear friendly and desirous of being instructed. Near lake Harriet, at which Mr. and Mrs. Stevens have fixed their station, there are about 200 Indians, who seem to some degree disposed to adopt the agricultural mode of life, and have made some advances in it, by means of aid furnished by the Agent, and under the instruction of two young men, by the name of Pond, from the State of Connecticut, who, without patronage from any society, have spent the last two or three years in this humane and self-denying work. It is hoped that forty or fifty children and youth may be gathered into a school at this station. The Sioux generally, owing to their distance from the white settlements, have been far less contaminated with intoxicating drinks than the tribes immediate on our frontiers. From Lac qui Parle, the nearest white settlement, except Fort Snelling, (which merely includes the garrison and its dependents,) is Lord Selkirk's settlement, on Red river, which flows into lake Winnepeg. CALL FOR ADDITIONAL MISSIONARIES. IN the number for September, it will be remembered, that a call was made for sixteen missionaries, two physicians, and twenty-one schoolmasters, for the Sandwich Islands. In the letter of Mr. Thomson and in the preceding notices, it will be seen that three missionaries are urgently demanded, with the least possible delay, for the island of Cyprus: others are needed for the Mahrattas, two of the brethren connected with that mission having been compelled by impaired health to leave their work, for some years at least: others are needed for Singapore, and among them two or three to engage in the work of printing and binding books: two or three missionaries are demanded for the Bugis, occupying the island of Celebes: others are demanded immediately for the Malays, and some of the many tribes and nations speaking the Chinese language: missionaries and schoolmasters are needed for the western and northwestern tribes of American Indians.-All these are to supply openings which cannot be supplied by the eighteen or twenty missionaries now under appointment, and who are destined to strengthen other missions, or, in answer to other not less urgent calls, are to enter into other new and opening fields. Do not these numerous and affecting calls which the providence of God is bringing to us from the unevangelized portions of the world, urge candidates for the ministry, young ministers, and others to examine anew the question whether the Lord Jesus does not require their services among the heathen? It should be anxiously asked, also, whether the churches are making any adequate effort to raise up that greatly increased number of missionaries which we may calculate with much certainty, from the openings which the providence of God is now making and is about to make among the unevangelised nations, will be demanded before young men can be selected and the ordinary preparation for the ministry can be gone through? The friends of Christ need more forecast, to look forward and form correct estimates of what the Lord will demand of them ten years hence, so that they may provide for the emergency, and be prepared then to do all which their Master will then require. If they fail to do this, they may hereafter find that the work actually pressing upon them must be delayed ten years, while they prepare the instruments which they ought, at that very hour, to be using. ANNUAL REPORT. Ir is expected that the Annual Report of the Board will be ready for distribution by the 15th of the present month. Donations, FROM SEPTEMBER 1ST, TO OCTOBER 10гн, INCLUSIVE. Board of Foreign Missions in Ref. Dutch chh. W. R. Thompson, New York city, Tr. Schenectady, Sab. sch. in R. D. chh. for sab. sch. in Greece, Central Board of Foreign Missions, Southern Board of Foreign Missions, James Adger, Charleston, S. C. Tr. $1,000 ackn. in Oct. p. 391, were for the support of Rev. J. L. Wilson at Cape Palmas, and Rev. J. L. Merrick in Persia. Auburn and vic. N. Y., H. Ivison, Jr. Agent, 50,25; Miss F. 1; av. of jewel- Aurora, Mon. con. 15; benev. asso. 10 00 10.00 Elizabethtown, Fem. miss. so. in 1st and 2d chhs. 20 00 25 37 21 37-211 29 Tr. 5.00 25 20 16 250 775 88 77 26 72-151 15 Berkshire, A friend, Enosburgh, Gent. 10,04; la. 10,12; Fairfax, A friend, Montgomery, Cong. chh. St. Albans, Cong, chh, and so. Swanton, Benev. so. 17; cong. chhs. mon. con. 9,72; Greene co. N. Y. Aux. So. Rev. Dr. Porter, Tr. Durham, Mon. con, in 1st presb. chh. 175 16 00-191 00 Hartford co. Ct. Aux. So. J. R. Woodbridge, Tr. Avon East, Gent. 29,62; la. 30,72; mon. con. 12,31; 72 65 Cortland, Presb. chh. 40 80 Berlin, Worthington so. Gent. Genoa, 1st chh. to constitute 15,13; mon. con. 16,27; 31 40 Rev. SETH SMITH an Honorary Bristol, La. 89 00 Member of the Board, 55 34 Homer, 2,37; presb. chh. 162,57; 164 94 Burlington, Gent. 19,08; la. 18; av. of beads, 4.50; 41 58 Jordan, 1st chh. 68 15 Lisle, 13 00 Lisle Centre, 12 60 Ludlowville, 75 78 Masonville, Mon. con. 13; coll. 31,62; 44 62 Mc Grawville, 5 79 Newark Valley, 38 00 Ovid, 50 00 Otisco, Cong. chh. 12 23 Prattsburg, 35 00 Preble, Presb. chh. 15.00 Summer Hill, Cong. 20; Mrs. Johnson, for China, 5; 25 00 Tully Corners, 8 00 Union, Cong. chh. 5 67 971 29 Farmington, Gent. 136,31; la. (of which to constitute SIMEON HART an Honorary Member of the Board, 100;) 126,66; young la. so. for miss. at La Pointe, 50; 312 97 Hartford, B. Hudson, to constitute CHARLES HUDSON an Honorary Member the Board, 100; N. so. mon. con. 25,07; la. 89,44; 1st so. la. 322,10; mon. con. 27,90; S. so. la. 59,25; W. 80. gent. 25,31; la. 24,31; Hartland West, Gent. 8,50; la. 7; Manchester, Gent. 190,13; la. 673 38 15 50 260 86 96.54 87 75 50 00 70,73; 37 60 Marlboro', Gent. 8,30; la. 12,38; mon. con. 5,30; 25 98 Mr. Bent's 80. 116 16 Suffield, 1st so. Gent. 17,50; la. 26,20; mon. con. 10; 53 70 55 15 Windsor, La. 30 07 Sandwich, Gent. and la. 122 15 South Dennis, Gent. and la. South Wellfleet, Gent. and la. 8 00 Truro, Gent. 12,50; la. 12; 24.50 Wellfleet, Gent, and la. 20 00 West Barnstable, Gent. and la. 20; a friend, 50c. 20 50 451 47 Ded. am't paid to Mrs. Munson, 100-00-351 47 1 03-1,862 28 23 75 35 45 12 00-71 20 1.00 Cheshire co. N. H., Aux. So. S. A. Gerould, Tr. Keene, Mon. con. Marlboro', Mon. con. 21 20 9 22 Attica, Presb. chh. Bergen, 1st. cong, chh. 7.72 46 00 Churchville, N. Savage, 4.00 Rochester, 1st presb. chh. 37,50; 3d do. 44,50; Brick chh. 50,60; sab. sch. 3d pay. for John H. Thompson in Ceylon, 20; Sweden, Presb. chh. 12; fem. benev. so. 14; Upper Canaan, A reader of the New Haven city, Ct. Aux. Fo. C. J. Salter, Tr. in 1st and United cong. so's, 3 35 South Reading, Asso. Stoneham, La. Wilmington, La. 31 60 32 82 31 98-99 75 York co. Me. Aux. So. C. W. Williams, Tr. Kennebunk, 2d par. La. 50 00 152 60 26 00 VARIOUS COLLECTIONS AND DONATIONS. 1 60-435 18 129 52 Athens, Pa. Mon. con. 19.50 Canaan Four Corners, N. Y. 43 76 New Hartford, Mrs. C. Risley, 4.00 North Adams, Fem. benev. so. 5 00 Oneida co. A family, 15th ann. contrib. 25 00 Baltimore, Md. Rev. Dr. Nevins, given a few Barrington, R. I. La. benev. asso. Boston, Ms. Mater. asso. of Union chh. for Brooksville, Me. Fem. mite so. for hea. chil. Canterbury, N. Y. Presb. chh. Cazenovia, N. Y. Presb. chh. 100; free chh. 28; Centreville, N. Y. Mon. con. Chapel Hill, N. C. Mon. con. 21,94; Mrs. J. Clintonville, N. Y. Presb. chh. Colebrook and Columbia, N. H. Mon. con. Columbia, Pa. M. E. Ely, for. miss. to China, 10 00 Dorchester, Ms. Museum of F. P. and M. E. M. for hea. chil. 586 00 13.00 12 00 20 00 4.00 29 93 19 28 15.00 7.00 128 00 2.00 36 94 20 00 12.00 11 21 26 00 75 New Hartford, an Honorary Member of the Board, 50 00 East Brewer, Me. Mon. con. 28 00 Edinburgh, Scotland, J. Dunlop, 25 00 Framingham, Ms. Juv. benev. so. for Indian chil. at the west, 15 00 Geauga co. Painsville, 27,56; Trumbull co. Boardman, Mon. con. 6; Mesopotamia, Mon. con. 6,16; sub. 19,50; Youngstown, Gent. 15,50; la. 15; mon. con. 62,02; Medina co. Richfield, J. Newton, 20; Lorrain co. Elyria, M. box of Rev. J. M. 75c. Portago co. 9,75; Atwater, 43,72; Freedom, 15; Randolph, Mon. con. 3,37; Rootstown, 17; Twinsburg, Fem. miss. so. 81c. Stark co. Canton, F. A. S. 5; W. H. C. 5; indiv. 41,35; Cuyahoga Co. Cleveland, Fem. sew. so. 35; Michigan Aux. So. E. Bingham, Tr. Detroit, Mon. con. for N. M. Wells and Joshua Moore, at Hamp. Chris. Depos. Ms. Profits of Miss. Her. agency, for 1833 and 1834, viz. Ashfield, E. P. 5,04; Rev. M. G. 3,32; Buckland, Z. H. 1,08; Rev. Mr. C. 83c. Charlemoat, Rev. W. T. 7,75; Chesterfield, M. B. 3,89; Conway, J. W. 1,55; East Hampton, S. W. 78c. Goshen, R. D. 3,87; Granby West, H. W. G. 3,11; Hadley, N. C. 14,74; Hatfield, G. P. 10,02; Hawley, J. L. 3,10; Northampton, D. S. W. 23,77; Norwich, N. S. 1,72; South Deerfield, A. W. 4,65; South Hadley, L. B. 83c. Southampton, E. E. 7,75; West Hampton, Rev. E. H. 8,54; Whately, L. B. Jr. 6,92; Williamsburgh, Rev. H. L. 8,54; Worthington, Rev. H. A. 83c. 122 63 North Bridgeton, Me. Fem. for. miss. so. Orono, Mo. Mon. con. 45; la. asso. in 1st cong. 8o. 30; Philadelphia, Pa. A mem. of 1st presb. chh. for Rev. Mr. Eckard, 50; youth's miss. so. in 11th presb. chh. for support of a native travelling preacher among the Cherokees, 20; a female, for China miss. 5; Pompey, N. Y. (Of which to constitute Rev. JOHN GRIDLEY an Honorary Member of the Board, 50;) Portage, N. Y. Indiv. of 1st presb. chh. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Mon. con. in 1st presb. chh. Prince Edward, Va. Coll. in sab. sch. Princeton, Ms. Indiv. of chh. to constitute Rev. ALONZO PHILLIPS an Honorary Member of the Board, 50; mon. con. 10; Princeton, N. J. Miss. so. in theol. sem. for Rev. Mr. Thomson in Syria, 29; fem. miss. so. for two schools in Ceylon, G0; Providence, R. I. Benef. fem. for. miss. so. (of which fr. Mrs. A. B. Arnold, 2d pay. for Lucy Arnold in Ceylon, 20; class No. 2 in sab. sch. 2; coll. by E. C. 15,88;) Rehoboth, Ms. Fem. miss. so. Randolph, Vt. A fem. friend, for west, miss. Reading, Ms. R. Carlton, Rochester, N. Y., A friend, Rowe, Ms. A friend, for Ceylon miss. Rushville, N. Y. Chh. Sandgate, Vt. Mon. con. Sandwich Islands, Miss M. C. Ogden, for Sandw. Isl. miss. Savannah, Ga. Juv. so. of sab, sch. in Indop. 17 00 3.00 6.00 75.00 75.00 105 56 20 00 35.00 4.50 60 00 89 00 92 64 18 00 87 10 00 1.00 1.00 100 00 2.50 123 00 25 58 2.00 10.00 DONATIONS IN CLOTHING, &e. Acworth, N. H., A box, fr. fem. miss. so. Amherst, Ms. A bundle, fr. chil. in infant sch. for Mr. Perkins, Persia. Andover, Ms. A box, for Mr. Boutwell, Chester, Vt. A box, for Mrs. L. Butler, Cooperstown, N. Y., A box, fr. fem. miss. so. in presb. chh.; a box, fr. la. so. $10. Irasburg, Vt. A box, fr. la. miss. so. Martinsburg, N. Y., A box. Meredith Village, N. H., A box, fr. fem. so. for Mackinaw, Middlefield Centre, N. Y., A box, fr. la. miss. and benev. so. for Stockbridge miss. New Haven, Ct. A box, fr. H. E. Hodges, for Mr. Parker, Sandw. Isl. New York city, Two boxes and a keg, fr. W. W. Chester, for Rev. J. King, Athens; a bundle, fr. a friend; a bundle, for Smyrna; a bundle, fr. a friend. Preble, N. Y., A box. Peterboro' and vic. N. Y., A box, fr. ladies, Upper Beverly, Ms. A bedquilt, fr. little girls, 44.00 49 18 24.08 56.00 25.74 38.50 56.00 28 00 40 00 The following articles are respectfully solicited from Manufacturers and others. Printing paper, to be used in publishing portions of the Scriptures, school-books, tracts, &c. at Bombay, and at the Sandwich Islands. Writing paper, writing books, blank books, quills, slates, &c. for all the missions and mission schools; especially for the Sandwich Islands. Shoes of a good quality, of all sizes, for persons of both sexes; principally for the Indian missions. Blankets, coverlets, sheets, &c. Fulled cloth, and domestic cottons of all kinds. 7.40 3 00 97 50 200 00 Trumansburg, N. Y. Presb. chh. Waterford, N. Y. Mon. con. in presb. chh.. Wendell, Ms. JOSHUA GREEN, which consti 70.00 40.00 tutes him an Honorary Member of the Board, West Rorbury, Ms. Spring-st. mon. con. West Rutland, Vt. Mrs. W. Chatterton, Wilmington Presbytery, Del. Newark mon. 100 00 51 10 1.00 19 65 15.00 5.00 3.50 Amount of donations acknowledged in the preceding lists, $9,926 79. Total of donations and legacies from August 1st, to October 10th, $19,405 22. James Adger, Charleston, S. C., Treasurer of the Southern Board of Foreign Missions, acknowledges the receipt of the following sums, viz. Charleston, Juv. miss. so. 134,22; fem. miss. so. of 2d presb. chh. to constitute Mrs. THOMAS SMITH an Honorary Member of the Board, 100; mon. con. in do. 32,02; do. in circular chh. 45,50; do. in 3d presb. chh. 19,25; asso. in do. 268; ladies of do. 50; an indiv. for cir. of the scrip. in Persia, 10; Rev. Z. ROGERS, which constitutes him an Honorary Member of the Board, 50; ladies, to constitute Rev. A. GILCHRIST an Honorary Member of the Board, 50; P. F. Eve, 5; a servant girl, 1; Fairview chh. for Ahmednuggur, 25; James Island, Mon. con. 12,50; Cheraw, A mem. of presb. chh. 5; Walterboro', A friend, 11; Columbia, La. to constitute A. W. LELAND, D. D. and Rev. GEORGE HOWE Honorary Members of the Board, 100; a friend, 5; Stoney Creek, Cong. 35; Columbus, Ga. Presb. chh. 10; Beach Island, Ladies and children, 50; $1,018 49 IT will be recollected that the extracts from the journal of Mr. Champion inserted in the last number, left him prosecuting a tour among some of the villages and missionary stations a few days' ride back of Cape Town. Additional extracts from his journal while on this tour will now be given. Tulbagh-Missions in the Vicinity. March 17, 1825. Tulbagh has two villages. The one in which I write this is situated in an amphitheatre of mountains. The principal street is not far from a stream. On one side of the street are the thatched houses, and on the other gardens (in which are grapes, figs, pears, tomatoes, etc.,) descending gradually to the river. The Rev. Mr. Zahn, of the Rhenish Missionary Society, has his station here. He has a small chapel which he uses for a school-room. He has a delightful infant school of thirty or forty lively children, of every cast of complexion; also an evening school. 18. The Hottentots away from the mission stations are very degraded. Today I have seen a native hut. It is thatched with flags, in the shape of a roof of a house, with little or no furniture, beds of a single sheep-skin, etc., and covered with dirt, from which bushes are growing. The kitchen was not far off in which were two pitiable objects, one of them a Bushman woman, the cook for the Hottentot family. She was very small in size, though she bore all the marks of age. The Hottentot is known VOL. XXXI. by his sallow complexion, resembling the color of a fallen leaf of autumn. The hair is in knots upon the head. The cheek-bones are quite prominent; the forehead is broad; and the face tapers from the cheek-bones downward. Around the hut was the flock of goats, the horse, the fold, the threshing-floor, and oven. 19. Returning we were at the Paarl on the occasion of choosing a precentor in the Dutch church. This, like that of the predihaut (or preacher), is a salaried office, and is for life. The salary makes it quite an object of ambition. The precentor reads the Bible in the absence of the minister, and leads in singing. There were seven or eight candidates. Each was called to read and sing in presence of the people, and the best on those points, in the opinion of the pastor and his elders, will be chosen. The Paarl has been a missionary station ever since the arrival of Mr. Campbell, in 1812. He found quite a number of pious people here, who were doing something for the slaves, and proposed to send a missionary of the London Society to them. This was done, but he was placed under a board of Dutch directors. At first the missionary was supported by the people here, but now that the slaves have gained their freedom through the missionaries, as the slave owners believe, the missionary receives but about a quarter of his support from the villages. He is also harassed by his board of directors. It is a singular fact that no where will the Dutch allow their slaves to be preached to, unless they have had a previous service themselves. Why is this? Because they have heretofore regarded the slaves as an inferior class of beings, and religious instruction as a means of raising them to a level with 56 |