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We insert some extracts from the letter of a Missionary in India, dated in July last, showing the disheartening influence of the limited support given to the cause of missions on those who labour in the high places of the field. Want of room compels us to omit some valuable parts of this communication.

weapons with which he has been attacked. || prays about as little as she gives.....Or if These weapons in his hands, however, will further evidence of this painful fact be reat length pierce himself. Error cannot quired, we have only to look at the obserstand before Truth in a fair discussion. We vance of the monthly concert of prayer. regret to learn that the health of Mr. How many churches are there which do not Morris, of the Lodiana mission, has not be- pretend to keep up this exercise? And come better from his residence in the moun. where it is held regularly, how many comtains. muning members are there who are never found there?... Whatever be the reason of their not attending this meeting, the fact is that not one-half (perhaps not one-fourth) of our members are ever present on any given occasion. Now of all things which can be mentioned, this, perhaps, is that which most discourages those who are labouring in the mission field. God's people do not pray for us. Some do indeed. But when we know that these few are about assembling, the thought that there are so many absent who ought to be there greatly abates the joy which we might otherwise feel. But more than this, we see around us hundreds and thousands of precious souls who have a sufficient knowledge of the gospel to be saved, were the truth only applied to their hearts. We preach to them day after day and week after week, yet they remain obdurate in heart, even laughing at the fruitlessness of our efforts. This distressing fact causes the inquiry, Why is it so? In ourselves, we know that there is enough to provoke the withdrawal of the Spirit, (and would that we could mourn over this more bitterly than we do,) but still, when we remember the value which belongs to the prayers of the righteous, we feel that they too must bear a part of the sin. Would it be so if our beloved fellow Christians prayed for us as they ought?

"A few days ago, we received the January (Extra) number of the Foreign Missiona. ry Chronicle, containing an account of the donations of our churches to the cause of Foreign Missions, and also an address to the churches, by the Executive Committee. While reading their address and looking over the list of contributions, I could not prevent a feeling of sadness and despondency from arising in my mind. Perhaps it may do some good to let the churches know just how a missionary feels under such circumstances. Without assuming the right to judge how much our Church ought to give, and without pretending to condemn any of her members, who are no doubt as conscientious as others of us who have made great. er personal sacrifices, it may be well to pre. sent some of the reflections naturally sug. gested by this paper.

"1st. Here is evidence of the annual estimate which the Presbyterian Church on an average, puts on the conversion of the world.... Individual members may feel and act differently, but this is the average. Does our Saviour demand no more than this? Does gratitude to Him call for no more than this? Are the souls of 600,000,000 of human beings worth no more than this?

"2d. Another consideration which is equally discouraging in its effect, is that the Church which gives so little cannot be very much in the spirit of praying for the world's conversion. Were there evidence that thirty-four cents a member is all our Church is able to give, then this small amount might afford satisfactory evidence of the sincerity and fervour of her prayers, or of her interest in the work; but while it is universally conceded that she might and ought to do more, we cannot resist the conclusion that she

"3d. We have, in Northern India alone, room to employ a host of men and any a mount of money that may be put at our dis. posal. It is of great importance, too, that some of the stations now open should be speedily filled; while the missions already in existence greatly need to be strengthened. At some stations one brother has to toil along in solitude with the labour of two or three to perform; at others sickness is making serious inroads upon us, some laid aside,-others fearing it. Now, we had fondly hoped that the Executive Committee would soon be able to send us more men and means, to occupy these vacant stations, to relieve these brethren, and to take the place of those who may be laid aside by sickness. But what is the fact? We have this day received a letter of three months later date, from the Corresponding

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on the Chronicle in its present pamphlet form when sent to places over 100 miles distant.

Secretary, telling us, that, however painful it is to us and to them, still they cannot send us the amount of money we had requested to The Committees cannot but hope that the carry on our operations,-that we must not Chronicle in this new form will meet with a - exceed a certain sum in our expenditures, largely.increased circulation among the and that they have no hope of sending us any churches. The general information which more labourers for a long time to come. Poor it will continue to supply concerning reliIndia! Africa! China! when shall thy bond-gious and benevolent institutions, and espe-age cease? When shall thy gloom be dispersed? When shall thy dry bones live? May each member of our church ponder these questions, and do in regard to them, what his duty to God and man requires! Or if no higher motive moves them, let them take compassion on us whom they have sent forth -and promised to sustain both by their prayers and donations. Not that we have any fear of suffering for the necessaries of life. But in our spiritual conflicts and in the prosecu. tion of our work;-here it is that we need their prayers and their pecuniary support, which too they are pledged to give us. Will they fulfil this engagement? If not, how can we expect this work to prosper?"

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THE MISSIONARY CHRONICLE

NEWSPAPER EDITION.

cially the great and increasing value of the
communications of our missionary brethren
in the home and foreign fields, giving a
distinctive character to the work, and ren-
dering it an invaluable record of the mis
sionary zeal of our body, will surely com.
mend it to the cordial esteem and patronage
of all who feel an interest in the labours of
the Church for the spread of religion. The
influence of such a work on the intelligence
of the members of our congregations and
the children of our families, can hardly be
over-rated; while to the Boards of Missions,
or rather to the great objects entrusted to
their direction, it is a convenient, economi-
cal, and most necessary agent-one which
cannot be dispensed with. The attention of
pastors, elders, and other influential persons,
is therefore earnestly solicited to the impor-
tance of greatly increasing the patronage of
the Chronicle. It is believed that there are
few amongst the families connected with our
churches who could not afford to take a copy
of this work on its new terms; and assuredly
their support of it, under God's blessing upon
the information which it would convey to
them from month to month, would greatly
add to their comfort and usefulness in the

AFTER mature consideration the Executive
. Committees of the Boards of Foreign and
Domestic Missions have determined to pub.
lish an edition of the Missionary Chronicle
> in the form of a Newspaper-to be published
monthly, the first number to appear on
the 1st of January, 1845. It will be
printed on a single sheet, and so folded as
to make sixteen pages, each page contain-service of our Divine Redeemer.
ing three columns. By using a new font
of type, procured expressly for this work, the
quantity of matter will be somewhat increas-
ed, while the beauty of the page, and its
suitableness for binding, will be but slightly
if at all diminished.

TERMS.-Newspaper Edition: Single copics, 50 cents per annum. Five copies to one address, $2 00-payable in advance.

Pamphlet Edition: The Chronicle will still be published in its present form, as a pamphlet of 32 pages, on the same terms as heretofore, viz., $1 00 per volume. Of this edition copies will be sent only to those who order them.

In this edition the expense of covers will be avoided, and a large reduction obtained in the cost of press-work, so that it can be furnished to subscribers at a remarkably low price, as will be seen by a reference to the Free Copies-Copics of the Newspaper terms below; but what is of even greater Edition will be sent, free of charge, to importance, the expense of postage will be pastors, stated supplies, &c.; to theological brought down to the lowest point-that of students; to donors of $10 and upwards newspapers, the Chronicle in this edition annually to either or both Boards; to treabeing strictly a newspaper in fact and in the surers of Sunday School, Missionary, and eye of the law. The cost of the proposed work, other Societies paying $10 annually to including the postage, when five or more co-cither or both Boards; and to the honorary pies are taken, will be less than the postage members of either Board, for one year after

their being so constituted. Information is requested as to the names and post-office address of persons entitled to receive the Chronicle free of charge.

present subscribers to the Chronicle, who prefer having the Pamphlet Edition still sent to them, that they will kindly make known their wishes, by letter or otherwise, before the 20th of December-at the Misson House,

It is particularly requested of the 23 Centre-street, New-York.

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DONATIONS TO THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS IN SEPTEMBER.

SYNOD OF BUFFALO. Pby. of Steuben. Vienna 1st ch.

Wyoming ch.

Pby. of Wyoming.

SYNOD OF ALBANY. Pby. of Albany. Galway ch. 73 78; Albany, 3d ch. sab. sch., 4th payment for Maria Shaw, 25; W. Galway, Mrs. BETTS to con. herself 1. m. 30 SYNOD OF NEW YORK. Pby. of Hudson. Goshen ch. Mrs. E. Fisk, sup. Rev. J. Wilson, Pby. of New-York

Wallabout ch. mo. con. 4 55; Brooklyn, 1st ch. mo. con. 13 18. Brick ch. mo con. 6; New-York, 1st ch. mo. con. 74; Newtown ch.55

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15 00 Clarkson ch. of which 5 for sup. Rev. J. R.
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Harmony ch. 8; Mt. Carmel ch 5 25; Ox-
ford ch. 4 68; College Corner, 1 02; Bethel
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Pby. of Donegal,

Louisville 1st ch. mo. con. 33 88; Mrs. P. II.
Pope, 5; Louisville 3d ch. in). cun. 14 50;
Mulberry ch. 19 25; New-Castle ch. 27

99 63

Churchville ch.25; Leacock and Middle Octorara chs 3 64; Eng. Presb. ch. Boro' of York, 14 77

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Ply. of Baltimore.

Baltimore 24 ch. Samuel Cummings, 10; Baltimore 4th ch. 75

SYNOD OF INDIANA. Pby. of Salem.
Jeffersonville ch. 1 70; New-Albany, Rev.

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Pby. of Carlisle.

Pby. of Madison.

Bedford ch.

South Hanover ch.

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SYNOD OF PITTSBURG. Phy. of Blairsville.
Youngstown fem. miss. soc. 21 80; Fairfield
and Union chis. 8 83; Murraysville ch. 3 33 33 96
Phy. of Redstone.

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25 00

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Pby. of Beaver.

Bethany ch. 4; Little Beaver ch. 20 46

24 46

Phy. of Erie.

Mercer ch. 13 62: do, feni. benev. assoc. 1 12; Franklin ch. 8 50; Meadville ch. 45;

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Ir the vigorous prosecution of the work of this land, in 1704, it was organized as a Domestic Missions be necessary for the pre- Missionary Institution, and no object was servation of our civil and religious privileges, pursued by it with more intense zeal than it is equally evident that it is as necessary that of sending the gospel to the destitute. for the extension and prosperity of that Every minister was expected to be engaged, branch of the Church of Christ with which in a greater or less degree, in the work; to we are connected. In a country like ours, be employed in surveying destitute regions, no church can flourish, or even long exist, in collecting information respecting the state without the missionary spirit. If its members || of religion, in organizing churches, and would exhibit the temper, and pursue the using the best means for the establishment course of the Redeemer, the claims of the of a permanent gospel ministry. The Synod spiritually destitute must be fully and fre- of New-York and Philadelphia, then the quently presented to them; the hallowed Supreme Judicatory of the Church, as early flame of missionary zeal must be enkindled as 1767, directed that an annual collection in the bosoms of all, both pastors and peo-j should be made in all the churches under its ple: and then they will understand the full care for the support of missionaries; and it import of that wonderful declaration of appears that almost all complied with its Jesus Christ: "It is more blessed to give order; much fewer being found deficient, in than to receive;" and while the fruits of proportion to their numbers, than there now holiness cluster upon the vine which they are. As soon as the General Assembly was are bound to watch and protect, the wretched formed, in 1789, the Missionary cause claimaround will exult in its shadow, and be reed its particular attention; it occupied the freshed from its boughs. greater part of its time, and called into exercise much of its wisdom and enterprise. In 1802 was constituted the "Standing Committee of Missions ;" and in 1816, the 'Board of Missions," with full power to transact all the business relating to this subject; the organization of which tended to infuse new life and vigour into the cause. It is pleasing to know that our Church, from its first organization, has endeavoured in this respect to do its whole duty, and has prosecuted it from time to time with growing zeal. In attention to this object, it has not laboured in vain. Its missionaries have been the instruments of reclaiming many waste places When our Church was first organized in from barrenness, of preserving many feeble

Our fathers, who planted in this land that branch of the Christian Zion which we love, were of this opinion. They esteemed the missionary work as an enterprise of supreme magnitude, not inferior to any that could occupy and move the Christian's heart; an enterprise which owed its origin to God's own purposes of mercy; an enterprise dear to the heart of the Son of God, and on which all the inhabitants of heaven are looking down with delightful approbation, and there. fore as one worthy of the most ardent wishes. the most fervent prayers, and the most strenuous efforts.

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churches, of establishing many new congre- satisfied in such matters, that she died in the gations, of converting many sinners, and of faith.' According to the account of Aaron, comforting and confirming many saints. To (the man just alluded to—who by the way its devotion to this subject it is owing that is, in my judgment, a most exemplary Chris. our Church has extended its boundaries in tian,) her sole dependence was on the all directions, and exerts such influence in merits of Jesus Christ-she was utterly unevery part of our land. The very moment worthy, but Jesus is worthy,' said she, we cease to be a Missionary Church, there and I hope that I have committed my will be written upon us, "Ichabod"-the soul to him,' May I not hope that she is glory is departed. now singing in more exalted strains than the most exalted Christian on earth can use, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive glory, and honour, and dominion, and praise forever?'

It would be interesting, had we room, to give extracts from the journals of many of those eminent men, whose "praise is in all the churches;" who, " being dead, yet speak;" of Duffield, and Beattie, and Tennent, and Hall, and Jedediah Chapman, and others, who laboured so indefatigably and successfully in the missionary cause. We cannot, however, forbear giving the journal of one who is well remembered by many as one of the most spiritual, learned, wise, and useful ministers of our Church-the Rev. John H. Rice. After his licensure, he was employed for a time by the "Committee of Missions," as a missionary to the coloured people of Virginia; and the following is one of his communications, dated May, 1812.

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"The effect of my labours during the past year has been pretty much as usual. Nothing very remarkable has occurred; but yet I have reason to hope that my labour has not been in vain in the Lord.' The conduct of professors among the blacks has been orderly, and in some good degree as 'becometh the gospel. Not a case has occur red requiring the exercise of the discipline of the Church. I have heard of no complaints against any of our black members.

"There has been an addition of five mem. bers to the church since last Spring; and when I left the congregation, there were three or four others who seemed anxiously to desire a full participation of the privileges of the gospel; and who, in due time I hope, will be received as members. The whole number now exceeds ninety.

"The circumstances which occurred when I preached my last sermon at CubCreek church, convinced me more fully than any thing ever had done before, that I have not been uselessly employed while la. bouring among the blacks. I cannot do justice to the scene. It was a sacramental occasion. About ninety had partaken of the Lord's supper. During the whole day they looked at me with a mournful expression in their countenances, which convinced me that they felt pungently. They hung over the table in a sorrowful manner, as if they thought, this is the last time that he will minister to us.' They however commanded their feelings pretty well until near the close of my farewell sermon: and then such a flood of grief burst out, as I have never be fore witnessed on a similar occasion. When I came down from the pulpit, they crowded around me, and while they, with a sort of convulsive squeeze, pressed my hand, some could just articulate, May God Almighty bless you!-pray for us!' and others were too full to utter a word. But I at this time so feel the contagion of their grief, that I must drop the subject-only I will observe, that two worthy brethren have already succeeded me in the congregation, who, I be. lieve, will carefully attend to the interests of my beloved blacks. This is consoling to me.

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"Before I bring this communication to a "One of the congregation died during the close, I will observe, that although there has winter. She lived at such a distance from me been nothing like a revival of religion in that I heard nothing of the matter until this country, yet it is manifest to a careful some days after her death. The most intel. observer, that religion gains ground among ligent and best instructed man of all the us. Its progress is silent and slow; but I number attended her during her sickness, hope that it is sure. Its influence is gradu and gave me such an account of her dying ally extending among those classes of sociexercises as satisfied me, as far as we can be lety which were thought, not long ago, to

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