in the Maulmain Mission, as estimated by | sionary Society. Another cause is the loss the mission, for the year ending April 1, of government and other patronage to the 1848. Such estimates are usually made printing department, by which, in some by the missions from year to year, and the years, the expenses of its ordinary operaCommittee having compared the several tions have been largely defrayed. A third estimates with one another, and with the and fourth, are an addition to the number estimated aggregate of receipts for the year of missionaries the past year, and the nein question, proceed to adjust the respec-cessary growth of operations which results tive appropriations with studied impartiality and with the largest liberality compatible with the financial condition of the Union. In the present instance, when the time for making out the annual appropriations arrived, the expected estimate from the Maulmain Mission had not been received by the Committee, and they were consequently obliged to proceed on the basis of the information already in their possession, together with the schedules of previous years. And they were also bound, as in former years, to keep in mind the known wants of other missions, and the all too inadequate resources which would probably be placed at their disposal within the period.

from successful labor. The mission is not responsible for either of these causes, unless it be the last. Nevertheless, the exigency exists. It was partly anticipated by the Committee; and guarded against, so far, at least, as was within their then ability; and now it is confirmed by the mission, who, as faithful men, report the deficiency. What, now, can be done to meet this deficiency of funds in the Maulmain Mission? Shall the Committee vote an increase of the appropriation? This were easily done; but the appropriation, if voted, must be carried into effect. Shall the mission be instructed to reduce the expenditure? This, too, can be done; but where shall the reduction begin? We cannot ask them to reduce their own allowances: these are based on the principle, not of compensation for service, but of sufficiency for subsistence. Shall we ask them to cease from labor, from preaching, and teaching, and printing, and circulating the words of eternal life? but therefore were they sent, and for this cause went they forth. Shall we deprive them of a shelter from the sun and the storm, from "the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon day?" Or shall we require them to disband their schools, and dismiss their native assistants, and cast by the helps and facilities for effective labor which for many

It now appears from the schedule just received, what indeed had all the while been matter of painful apprehension, that the appropriation made by the Committee is altogether below the mission estimate. The aggregate difference, including Rangoon station, is more than 10,600 rupees, or about $5000. And from a careful examination of particulars, it is difficult to ascertain wherein a reduction can be effected without great injury. The ordinary expenditures in the mission are for salaries of missionaries, and of native preachers and assistants; for schools, boarding, day, and theological; for printing operations, travel in preaching tours, &c., and repairs of houses; and for various unavoid-years they have toiled to accumulate, and the able miscellanies of small account. The aggregate is considerably in advance of the previous year, but this is owing to incidental causes not subject to the mission. One principal cause is the large decrease of the European population at Maulmain, connected with the withdrawal of part of the military; and the consequent diminution of receipts from the Maulmain Mis

fruits of which are already beginning to appear, and prosecute their work, as at first, unaided by native helpers? But it is by native instrumentality the work of evangelizaation is mainly to be accomplished. What, then, shall be done? What answer shall be given by the Committee, by the Union, by the friends of Christ and the heathen, to their brethren of Maulmain Mission?

ANNUAL MEETINGS.

The American Baptist Missionary Union will hold its Second Annual (12th Triennial) Meeting with the 9th St. Baptist church, Cincinnati, Ohio, on Thursday, May 20th ensuing, at 10 o'clock, A. M. Rev. WILLIAM R. WILLIAMS, D. D., of New York, is appointed to preach the annual sermon; Rev. JAMES N. GRANGER, of Providence, R. I., his alternate.

Boston, March 16, 1847.

ROLLIN H. NEALE, Rec. Sec'y.

The Board of Managers of the A. B. Missionary Union will hold their 33d annual meeting in the meeting-house of the 9th St. Baptist church, Cincinnati, Ohio, on the Tuesday preceding the meeting of the Union, May 18, at 10 o'clock, A. M. By order of the Executive Committee,

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REFLEX USEFULNESS OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS. N°. III.

IX. As the utility of Foreign Missions appears in the diversified and extensive appeal which they make to our various sensibilities, so it is natural to observe, in the next place, that their utility appears in the stimulus which they give to all kinds of benevolent action. The principle of benevolence in all its forms of manifestation is essentially one and the same. Love to God is of the same genus with faith in Christ, and faith in Christ with humility for sin, and humility for sin with love to men; and he who hath no Christian attachment to his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen. One branch, then, of true benevolence is connected with every other by fibres that can never be untwisted. He, therefore, who is animated by a religious zeal for the heathen as one part of the moral creation, will, unless he distort his character, feel a kindly interest in the welfare of his kindred, and acquaintance, and countrymen. If he strive to raise the community toward so high a degree of self-denial as will induce them to give up their silver, or their friends, or themselves for the good of Arracan or Caffraria, he will find that many who are not raised to this height of beneficence, are yet raised higher than they would otherwise have been; many who are not persuaded to deny themselves for so remote a people, become ashamed to refuse all sacrifice of self, and will consent to renounce their own good for their fellow-citizens in need, if they may be exempted from self-renunciation for foreigners. They will consent to an abandonment of some personal good, although they cannot relinquish all that is demanded of them. By aiming high, we may not reach the precise mark we aim at, but shall reach a higher mark than if our aim be low. When our young men have so little of disinterested love, that all of them shrink back from Rangoon and Bassein as the scene of their ministry, they will also recoil from service in Wisconsin and Iowa; but the same wave that sweeps some of them to heathen shores, will waft others, if not so far, yet much farther than they could have been conveyed, had no billow arisen upon the calm dead sea. An intelligent man, who is interested for Pagans, must perceive that their welfare is in a measure dependent on the good estate of Christians, and he must, therefore, pray for the churches at home as the fountains of influence from which flow the streams that are to fertilize the wastes of heathenism. Is there any danger that a desire for the conversion of idolaters will lessen our interest in the circulation of religious tracts among the ignorant and impenitent of our own land? Do we not know that every such tract may awaken the mis17

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