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APPOINTMENT AND DEPARTURE tober. The best acknowledgments of the

OF MISSIONARIES. TEXAS.-The Rev. James W. Miller, of the Presbytery of Steubenville, has been appointed a missionary of the Board, and will be stationed at Houston, the capital of the Republic; to which city he has set out on his journey.

CREEKS.-The Rev. John Limber, of the Presbytery of Erie, has been appointed a missionary of the Board among the Creeks, where he will be associated with the Rev. R. M. Loughridge. Mr. Limber expected to leave for his new field of labour, some time during last month.-Mr. Crawford, formerly appointed as an assistant missionary among the Creeks, was prevented from proceeding to the mission, and his appointment has been revoked.

Board are again due to Messrs. Talbot, Olyphant & Co., for giving Mr. Brown his passage without charge.

We commend all these brethren to the favour of the God of missions, and on their behalf we would ask for them the continued prayers of our readers.

A GOOD LETTER.

-, GEO., 25th Oct., 1844.

DEAR SIR,-Enclosed is a Ten Dollar Bill, in answer to the appeal of the Committee of the Board of Foreign Missions of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. It is according as God hath prospered me in temporal matters; though not according to the desires which my heart has for His cause-and it is accompanied with prayer for the enlargement of Zion. Yours truly,

A RULING ELDER.

CHINA.-The Rev. Hugh A. Brown, of the Presbytery of Logansport, embarked in the ship Huntress, from New-York for China, on the 29th of October. Interesting [Would that all office-bearers and members in religious services, in view of Mr. B.'s pro- the Church of Christ could be induced to conceeding as a missionary, were held at Nor-sider and to imitate this example. They would folk, Va., and also in the Presbyterian would be, if possessing the spirit which this letthen do no more than their duty; to do less church in Grand-street, in this city, on ter indicates, to deprive themselves of a blessed Sabbath evenings, the 20th and 27th Oc-privilege.-ED.]

DONATIONS TO THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS IN OCTOBER.

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Semi-Annual Report of Receipts

BY THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS.

For par

Total received by the Board of Foreign Missions during the Six Months ending November 1st, 1844, $22,992,29 from the following sources. [Note. ticulars see monthly acknowledgments.]

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SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT OF RECEIPTS.

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WANTS OF IOWA.

FROM THE PRESBYTERY OF IOWA.

THE Presbytery of Iowa, in session at Trenton, feeling deeply impressed with the low condition and wants of the Church, especially our branch of it in this Territo. ry, are constrained to address the Board of Missions on the subject. Their object in doing so, is to bring before them their ur. gent wants, that if possible, they may also be suitably impressed with the peculiar wants and claims of this section of our country.

this country, and others have written to us, but all are on these accounts discouraged from settling among us. The Presbytery therefore earnestly desire the Board to look at this field in connection with such considerations as have been mentioned, and with them the fact, that erroneous teaching of all descriptions abounds extensively, and act accordingly.

JAMES C. SHARON,
Stated Clerk.

Trenton, Iowa Territory, Oct. 1, 1844.

The views of the Board in relation to the Several reasons have induced the Presby. Territory of Iowa, as affording a missionatery to believe that this field has not re.ry field of almost unequalled interest and ceived attention proportionate to its relative importance. We verily believe it to be the most important field in the United States, and yet it receives less attention in point of fact than some others.

1st. This Territory has increased, and is still increasing in population, much faster than any other part of the country.

2d. This Territory is very destitute of preachers of our denomination. Among a population of more than eighty thousand, we have but eight or nine ministers of the gospel. The part termed the New-Purchase, embracing a population of from twenty to thirty thousand, has not a single minister of our Church. Many of our churches are sink. ing and scattering for want of a sufficient number of ministers, and of time to visit them and minister to them.

3d. The principal difficulty in obtaining ministers of our Church to labour in this field, lies in the fact that the churches here are not able to support them; and the Board of Missions afford so little aid to missionaries in this field. Itinerants here are receiving but one hundred dollars per year. Some excellent brethren have visited

promise, and the imperative necessity of immediate and energetic action for the sup. ply of that Territory with an active evan. gelical ministry, were fully expressed in the last No. of the Chronicle. The Board deeply and tenderly sympathize with the few brethren who are labouring there, amidst so many difficulties and trials, and would gladly, were it in their power, send them more men, and much larger means. We know both are needed, and we know too, that for want of these, souls are per. ishing, and the cause is suffering, we fear, irreparable loss; all this we know and deeply deplore.

But what can the Board do? We have done, and are now doing, to the full extent of our means. We can do no more than what the friends of this cause enable us to do. Christians, followers of Jesus Christ, what answer shall your Board return to such appeals as this from Iowa ? Shall we say to them, we cannot help you, you must go on and do as well as you can, and if Popery takes from you the few churches you have, and the mass of the people are left to perish in ignorance and sin, we shall be sorry for it; but we have

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