1 the copies amounted to 69,300, and contained 2,943,200 pages; making a total of 276,150 copies, containing 10,645,400 pages. Of these, 52,036 copies, containing 1,953,342 pages, were issued in 1829; making a total issue of 186,485 copies, containing 6,708,126 pages. Of the "Alphabetarion," a School Book of about 120 pages prepared by Mr.Temple, 12,000 copies have been required for the Greek Schools: it is 3 pronounced by the Greeks to be unexceptionable, both in respect of matter and of style; and "is fitted," the Board say, "to exert a pure and excellent religious influence; and promises, as Dr. Korck believes, to become a General School Book in Greece": 15,000 copies of this book are going to press in America, as the press in Malta cannot supply the Greek Schools with sufficient despatch-Pp. 13,119,158,191. GREECE. By an arrangement with the Ladies' Greek Committee of New York, the Rev. Jonas King has again entered into connexion with the Board: he is to continue the course of measures in which he has heretofore been engaged for the dissemination of useful knowledge in Greece. Notices of the state of that country, by the Rev. Rufus Anderson, appear at pp. 136-139 of our last Volume; and, at pp. 176-179, his intercourse with the President on the subject of Education-Pp. 13, 158, 179. SYRIA-The Rev. George B. Whiting 66 arrived at Malta in February, and, with the Rev. Isaac Bird and their Wives, left Malta on the 1st of May to resume the Mission at Beyrout, in which Mr. Bird had, in conjunction with Mr. Goodell, been before engaged: they arrived at that place on the 18th. "Our reception on shore," they write, was just what could have been wished: no shy gazers-on, ready to scoff: on the contrary, all respectfully saluted us as we passed the streets. The Priests, however, were much disturbed; and the very next morning the Papal thunders began to roar in the churches." These fulminations, however, did not prevent many, even some of the Maronites, from calling to see them; and they were likely to find no difficulty in getting a good house. Asaad Shidiak is still in prison; and there is every reason to believe that he loves and obeys the Truth, and is ready to suffer for the Truth's sake-Pp. 13, 158, 383, 491, 492. ARMENIA-The Rev. Harrison G. O. Dwight arrived at Malta with Mr. Whiting, and, with the Rev. Eli Smith, left, on the 17th of March, for Constantinople, on their way to Armenia, with the view of exploring that Country. In the beginning of August they were at Tiflis, and were about to proceed to Erivan-Pp. 158, 472, 491; and see pp. 492, 493 for a statement of the objects of the journey. AMERICAN EPISCOPAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY. GREECE-The Rev. J. J. Robertson, who visited Greece last year, will take up his residence, together with the Rev. J. H. Hill, in some part of that Country -Pp. 13, 240, 336, 429; and see at pp. 139-141, his Notices of the State of Greece. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. MALTA-1815-W. Jowett, Christ. F. Schlienz; Peter Brenner, Matt. Weiss, Printers. Mr. Schlienz visited Greece for a few months last summer, for the benefit of his health; and Mr. Jowett has been obliged, for the third time, to seek the restoration of his strength in his Native Country, arriving in London on the 3d of December-The Press has continued its effective operations. Elementary Books, Portions of the Scriptures, Catechisms, and Religious Tracts and Books, have been translated, printed, and put into wide circulation-Pp. 13, 14, 429, 452. GREECE-1827-Christian L. Korck, MD., Frederick Hildner, J. A. Jetter; Demetrius Pieridi, As. Mr. Jetter, formerly of Calcutta, not being likely to recover his health so far as to allow of his return to India, has, with Mrs. Jetter, joined Dr. Korck at Syra, as Mr. Hild. ner had previously done from Corfu. Dr. Korck has married a Greek Lady. The Rev. John Hartley is still in England-His Journal in Greece, printed at pp. 222-239, will have been read with much interest. In reference to his proceedings it is stated in the Report: "The Committee regard with special thankfulness the opportunities which have been afforded to Mr. Hartley for the public preaching of the Gospel, and the energy with which he has availed himself of them. The Scriptures are now publicly read in the two principal Schools of the Greeks and Armenians at Smyrna; at which place three Roman Catholics, several Greeks, and some Armenians, appear to have received religious benefit from Mr. Hartley's labours. A friend of the Society, who has visited Smyrna, mentions it as a i Church Missionary Society most important Missionary Station; and ed the affections of the people" - Dr. sures from Greek Females: he writes, "In EGYPT-1826-W.Krusé, J. Rudolph, Theoph. Lieder, Theodore Mueller; Isa Petros, Nat. As. Mr. Mueller withdrew for a season from the service of the Society, and went to Jaffa: being there persecuted by the Maronite Patriarch, he removed to Cyprus: he has now been re-instated in his connexion with the Society, and has resumed his labours. Such difficulty is found in procuring Native Assistants of suitable qualifications and disinterested character, that the Missionaries earnestly wish to be enabled to establish a Seminary for the training of such Assistants-Scholars, in two Schools at Caïro, 51; with 21 Girls in a Female School-Mr. Lieder's Journey in the Delta, mentioned in the last Survey, occupied from the latter part of July 1829 to the middle of SeptemberPp. 14, 15, 157: and see 63-70 for the Plans and Proceedings of the Missionaries, including an Account of the Magaginè, an African Tribe; and 320-331 for Mr. Lieder's Journal. ABYSSINIA-S. Gobat, Christian Kugler -These Missionaries left Caïro at the latter end of October 1829, on their way to Abyssinia, by Suez and Jidda: embarking at Suez on the 8th of November, they reached Jidda on the 27th; and, leaving that place on the 7th of December, arrived at Massowah on the 28th. Massowah is a small island off the coast of Abyssinia. Their favourable reception by Subagadas, Governor of Tigrè, has been recently reported. The Abyssinian, Girgis, had returned to Caïro; but the Missionaries had left before his arrival: he wrote to them at Suez, to delay their departure, on account of the troubled state of Abyssinia; but they had probably quitted Suez before the Letter reached that place. A fresh Deputation had arrived in Caïro from Abyssinia, for a Patriarch from the See of Alexandria. The Committee state: "The accounts of Girgis, which have been received from one who accompanied him to Abyssinia, are calculated to strengthen the hope of his ultimate usefulness; as this person spoke of him as often reading the Amharic Gospels, speaking of those books as exceedingly dear to him, and praying to God after reading them.... The Committee look up to Him who directs all things to His own glory, to overrule the discord and confusion which so frequently distract and afflict that unhappy Country, that they may not obstruct the entering in of the Gospel, but rather open a great and effectual door for its admission. The Amharic Scriptures appear likely to be one of the main instruments for reviving Christianity in that Country"-Pp. 15, 157, 285, 352-355,383. See, at pp. 158, 159, an Account and Engraving of the Church at Axum, in Abyssinia; and, at p. 553, a Plan of the City of Jerusalem and its Environs. The general views of the Committee respecting this Mission have been fully stated in the Instructions given to Mr. Jowett, and in his Reply, printed in the Missionary Register for September 1829, pp. 407-417. The extent and magnitude of its direct sphere of operations, and its bearing on so large a part of the Heathen World, with its immediate connexion with all the scenes in which the events that most deeply interest man were transacted, will ever make it an attractive scene of labour to the Christian's mind: but the growth of the Mission itself, the course of Providence as it regards the chief Empires around its shores, and the predictions yet to be accomplished concerning those Empires, will yet more intensely increase the expectations and hopes of the Christian, that here again God may especially manifest himself, in the restoration of these fallen Churches to the pure faith of Christ. (Committee.) GERMAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Karass: a Colony of German Settlers, near the Caucasus-James Lang-P. 15. Madchar: another Colony of German Settlers, near the Caucasus-C. Lewis Koenig-Р. 15. "In these two Colonies of German Settlers," the last Report states, "which offer many opportunities for Missionary Labours among the numerous tribes of Tartars in the vicinity, the Missionaries have been engaged for several years as Ministers to the Christian Colonists and as Missionaries among the Mahomedans. They are still, under many trials of faith, going on to preach the Gospel of Salvation to the deceived and unhappy followers of the False Prophet who live around them. They have not yet seen much fruit of their labours: but it pleases God to strengthen their faith and hope by encouraging blessings; and Mr. Lang not only wishes himself to go on with his work, but urges the Committee to send him some fellow-labourers for this great and difficult field. Frequent attacks of the savage inhabitants of the neighbouring mountains render these Stations insecure and dangerous; but the opportunity there afforded of making known the Word of Life among these tribes, and some rays of a rising light among them, fill the Missionaries with hope and expectation of better days." The Missionaries record with thankfulness the preservation of these Colonies from the fearful ravages of the Cholera Morbus. Mr. Lang writes, in October last: "While the mighty arm of Jehovah laid in the dust thousands at our right hand and ten thousands at our left, and death was fast approaching our habitations from every side, we and our little Congregations remained an example of the most remarkably preserving mercy of our God and Saviour, which filled us with thankfulness and praise. It was a wonder before our eyes, and a wonder before the eyes of our neighbours, so severely visited by the mighty arm of God in this time of terror. Even among the hordes in the desert a very great, but not yet fullyknown number were carried away into Eternity." Shusha: 1824-A. H. Dittrich, Felix Zaremba, C. F. Hohenacker, C. F. Haas; J. C. Judt, Printer. Mr. Pfander has proceeded to Bagdad-" Mr. Dittrich," it is stated in the last Report, "is principally occupied with translations into the New Armenian; and with the instruction of some Armenian Priests, who had applied to him in order to become more acquainted with the Holy Scripture, and the use of it for the edification of their Congregations. Several important Tracts and School-books are already printed, and the Four Gospels are ready for the press. The Committee, in the Autumn of 1829, sent Mr. Judt as a Printer to Shusha; and he safely arrived there on the 2d of April 1830. Mr. Haas, who superintended two Armenian Schools, and had a Seminary for preparing Schoolmasters under his care, was very much gratified by that success which it pleased God to bestow upon his hard and assiduous labours; not only in the progress and diligence of the pupils in general, but in a change from the natural state into a true desire after the salvation of their souls which appeared in several of them. The Schools were increasing; and not only a considerable number from the common class of the people, but also many sons of Armenian Priests came for instruction. The Committee having resolved to send Mr. Sproemberg, a Student of our Institution, to partake in these important labours, he has for some time been learning the Russian Language." Mr. Haas, in returning from St. Petersburgh, was detained at Moscow by the prevalence of the Cholera. Mr. Zaremba left Shusha in February last, on a Journey of Investigation as far as Erzerum, and returned in July: he narrowly escaped death by a severe attack of Cholera. Persecution was beginning to shew itself against some of the Armenians who manifested the power of the Gospel on their hearts. The Committee state, in reference to the Mission: "The labours of our Missionaries in this place are increased in extent and importance, and the blessing of God is evidently resting upon them. Wherever they ge, there are wide and hopeful spheres of labour opening before their eyes, of far greater extent than the weak powers and few means of the Mission enable them to enter upon. Through the last conclusion of peace between Russia and Persia, not only their boundaries are sure and fixed, but also entrances for Missionaries are opened into the very heart of West Asia; and we deeply feel our great want of means to send Messengers of Christ to those inviting re German Missionary Society gions." We have already noticed, under the head of the British and Foreign Bible Society, the employment of the Press at Shusha, by that Institution-P.15; and see, at 97-99, various particulars relative to the Armenians and Tartars. Bagdad: 1829-C. G. Pfander-Mr. Pfander, as we stated at p. 451 of our last Volume, accompanied Mr. Groves from Shusha to Bagdad. He left on the 20th of October, and reached that place on the 6th of December. His object is thus stated by the Committee: "Mr. Pfander has found a valuable opportunity to make an important Missionary Journey to Persia and Mesopotamia, in order to become fully acquainted with Arabic and Persian, and with the moral and religious state of those countries, especially with the Jacobites and the numerous Nestorian Congregations in their wild and corrupted state; and to ascertain the most suitable means of promoting Christian Knowledge among them." JEWS' SOCIETY. W. B. Lewis, John Nicolayson, Joseph Wolff; S. Farman, As.-Mr. and Mrs. Lewis arrived at Smyrna, to resume their station there, on the 4th of December 1829: see at pp. 182, 183 of our last Volume, some interesting communications from him relative to the JewsMr. Nicolayson and Mr. Farman returned to Malta, from their visit to the Barbary Coast, at the end of January: see much information relative to the Jews there at pp. 355-359- Mr. Wolff visited Alexandria early in the Spring; and, having stuck up Proclamations on the walls, announcing it as his conviction, produced by reading the Book of Daniel, that Christ would come again in the year 1847, when the Jews should be restored to Jerusalem and the Turkish Empire should fall, the Pacha directed him to quit Egypt: this he did in the beginning of June; and proceeded, by way of Rhodes, Scio, Mytilene, Tenedos, and Lemnos, to Salonichi. At this place he states that he found about 22,000 Jews; and was informed that there are about 60,000 in the confines. He had circulated more than 200 Bibles and Testaments among them; and had stuck up a Proclamation on the walls, briefly declaratory of the Gospel, but adding, though without any reference to the destruction of the Turkish Empire-"The Lord shall pour out upon you the spirit of prayer and supplication, and you shall return to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God; and then He will come, after seventeen years hence, in the clouds of heaven, with great glory and majesty, and build up the city of Sion; and then He shall raise up the poor out of the dust, and lift the needy out of the dunghill." He writes-" In a few hours 2000 Jews were assembled around it, who read it. A Turkish Soldier stood near it, in order that no one might tear it up. The chief of the soldiers, who placed a man there, desired an Arabic Bible as a reward." The Committee have made these statements public: but it will be seen, by a Resolution printed at p. 335 of our last Volume, that they disown proceedings of this nature; and, in the last Number of the Society's "Monthly Intelligence," it is remarked-" It will be perceived, that, in fixing the precise period at which he expects that the Lord Jesus Christ "will come again," Mr. Wolff has clearly stated that this was HIS OPINION, derived from the study of the Prophet Daniel. Most of our readers, however, in common with ourselves, will be jealous of the admixture of human conjecture with undeniable Sacred Truth; and would rather adopt the words of that Saviour, whose glorious appearing it is their privilege to be looking for and hasting unto -Take ye heed, watch and pray; for ye know not when the time is." Our object, in recording these opinions and the circumstances under which they are promulgated, is, to enable our Readers to form a just estimate, so far as these documents will serve, of Mr. Wolff's proceedings. LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Malta: 1811 - S. Sheridan Wilson; who spent several months in England, last summer, with his family, for the recovery of their health-Congregations, twice on Sundays, encouraging-Sunday School continued-Besides one or two Publications in Italian and in English, 4000 Elementary Books and 5600 Re ligious Books and Tracts, with a number of smaller Tracts have been printed in Greek. The Issues have been as follows: Corfu, 1440 copies; Zante, 938; Syria, 2373; Tino 566; Cyprus 873; Egypt, 660; Palestine, 384; Lesser Asia, 1384; Tripolis, 90; in ships, 81; making a total of 8789 copies. Of one of these Books, the "Clergyman's Guide," which the Directors regard as "peculiarly valuable," they say : "It contains the Life of the Apostle Paul, a Pattern for modern Ministers of the Gospel; the Epistles to Timothy and Titus, in Ancient and Modern Greek, with a Paraphrase and Scholia; and a Treatise on Pulpit Eloquence. The whole is composed with a special view to point out the spiritual nature of the Christian Ministry - to impress the minds of those who are professedly engaged in it with a sense of its awful responsibilities-and to shew how the Gospel is to be preached, in order, by the Divine Blessing, to secure the salvation of men "-Pp. 16, 285, 471. Corfu: 1819-Isaac Lowndes-Only one Preaching Tour, in consequence of other engagements, was made in the course of the year. Lectures were delivered, as usual, during winter, in Greek. The English Services have been attended with a blessing-The English and Greek Sunday Schools are continued: Mrs. Lowndes has added one for Girls, in which she has 20 scholars. Mr. and Mrs. Lowndes co-operate with Mr. and Mrs. Leeves in the Schools in Corfu, before spoken of under the head of Education Societies-Mr. Lowndes has begun a Hebrew and Modern-Greek Lexicon. A Version of Scott's Essays, in Modern Greek, which he had previously prepared, is printing at Malta-P. 16. The Directors cannot close this part of their Report without gratefully recording the sense which they entertain of the importance attaching to the labours of their Missionaries in the Levant, in connexion with the rapid developements of the plan of Divine Providence, in reference to Greece and the adjacent regions of the East. While Political Wisdom is exercised in settling the boundaries and adapting the internal regulations of a regenerated empire, and the Friends of Humanity and Science are lending their aid to the emancipation of the enslaved and the instruction of the ignorant, the efforts of Christian Philanthropy, collected from different Countries, and put forth by different Societies and different outward Communions, are directed, with concentrated aim, to spread along the shores of the Mediterranean, and throughout Greece and Asia Minor, the pure light of that Gospel, which, in the beginning, shed its rays on their inhabitants, and chased away the thick darkness of idolatry in which, for ages, they had been enveloped. Already the torch is again burning in various parts; and it is our privilege to hail the near approach of the period, when every valley and every mountain-top shall be illumined the arm of Mohammedan Power completely dried up the diversified superstitions of Corrupted Christianity abolished and the beatifying influence of True Religion substituted for the dreadful evils under which the people of those regions have so long groaned. (Report.) SCOTTISH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Karass-James Galloway - Individuals among the Tartars are partially enlightened, but none profess themselves Christians: many oppose bitterly. Mr. Galloway, notwithstanding, perseveres in his labours-Pp. 16, 359. Astrachan-W. Glen-Mr. Glen expected to finish the Translation of the Prophetical Books into Persian in the course of last summer: some delay was occasioned by the confusion into which the city was thrown by a violent attack of the Cholera Morbus, but the work was completed by the end of August. Of this awful visitation, Mr. Glen writes, on the 27th of August, when the disease, having continued its ravages for 28 days, had disappeared" Such a time the city of Astrachan never saw, in the memory of the present generation at least, as has elapsed since the 30th ult.; at which Jan. 1831. date it was ascertained that the Cholera was in the town. The greater part of that period, business was, in a manner, completely suspended, at the Bank, the Bazaar, &c.: the shops were almost all of them shut; and a universal gloom sat on the faces of the inhabitants, as they passed through the streets of the city. Out of not more than about 40,000 inhabitants, it is calculated that from 5 to 6000 must have fallen victims to it in the city alone, and that about onehalf of the adults have been more or less affected with it. Some were cut off almost instantaneously, and multitudes in the course of six or eight hours; while others, after appearing to be in a state of convalescence, relapsed, and were carried off. It is said, that on one day 500 were interred, and on another 480" -Pp. 16, 359, 360. E |