Cherokees: five stations

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more tranquil, and it is now hoped that one printer, one female assistant, one native the labours of the missionaries will be less assistant, and about 90 scholars. embarrassed. books have been printed in the Bassa lanand two out-stations; one white preacher guage. and five native preachers; one printer; four

BURMESE AND KARENS-The missions of

rens embrace about fifteen stations and as many sub-stations; seven preachers, two preachers and printers, three preachers and teachers, one bookbinder, fourteen female assistants, upwards of fifty native assistants; upwards of 2000 church members reported,

teachers, of whom two are females, and the Board amongst the Burmese and Ka. one female assistant; about 1000 church members, of whom 271 by baptism and three by letter were added during the sixteen months preceding Nov. 1842. "A portion of their national fund is appropriated to the support of public schools; and ten such schools, under the direction of a superintend- and it is supposed that between 2000 and ent appointed by the National Council, have|| 3000 Karen converts are not yet associated been sustained during the past year. In-into churches; between 200 and 300 scholars creasing attention is also paid to agriculture, reported; and 352,000 pages printed. The and the mechanic arts, and to the comforts of domestic life."-Creeks: about 200 have been baptized during the year; "religious meetings are conducted by two black men, both slaves." "In regard to the re-estab lishment of a mission among the Creeks, Mr. Jones [of the Cherokee mission, who visited the Creeks in Sept. 1842,] apprehends no serious embarrassment."-Choctaws: one preacher and teacher and his wife; church members, 83, of whom 27 were added during the year; scholars, 20, of whom 11 are boarders; two natives were licensed to preach the gospel.

FRANCE.-Seven stations are reported in France, with one missionary, one female as sistant, and ten native preachers and assist. ants; members in thirteen churches, about 210, of whom 17 are reported as having been added during the last year. Four colporteurs are employed.

GERMANY and DENMARK.-Nine stations are reported, with thirteen preachers and assistants; 304 church members are reported at Hamburgh and other places in the German states, and 179 in the Danish churches. The proceedings of the mission. arics have been much embarrassed by the intolerant and persecuting conduct of the civil rulers.

GREECE.-Stations are reported at Corfu and Patras, with two preachers, three female assistants, and one native assistant. Three baptisms are reported, and about 60

scholars.

WEST AFRICA.-Stations at Edina and Berkley, among the Bassas, with three preachers, one of whom is in this country,

native converts at some of the stations have formed missionary societies, and nearly twenty of the native assistants have been support. ed by their funds. It is expected that in a few more years" the churches will support all their own teachers; and so soon as the mis. sion is able to give a suitable education to these teachers, the teachers and the church. es will be able to act of themselves inde. pendently of the missionaries." At present, however, "the amount of scriptural knowledge acquired by even the most successful of the native preachers is exceedingly small;" but they are considered very interesting pu pils.

SIAM. The mission at Bangkok has a Chinese and a Siamese department; two preachers, one preacher and printer, four fe male assistants, two native assistants; thir. teen Chinese church members; and a small Siamese school. A considerable amount of printing has been executed.

CHINA. Two stations are reported on the island of Hong-Kong, with three preachers, one physician, two female assistants, and one native assistant. Two chapels have been erected at Hong-Kong, and a mission-house. About 100 Chinese attend religious worship in one of the chapels, and a small congrega. tion of English and Americans at the other, nine of whom, besides the missionaries, are church members.

ARRAKAN. This mission consists of three stations, four preachers, one of whom, Mr. Kincaid, is now in this country, four female assistants, several native assistants, 344 Ka. ren church members, and about 40 Burmese. One of the missionaries had about 30 Karen

students for the ministry under his carc presented as being in a flourishing condi.

during the rainy season.

ASSAM.-Three stations are reported; three preachers, one printer, four female assistants, four native assistants; about 100 scholars. Several books have been published, and it is expected that the whole New Testament, in Assamese, will be prepared for publication during the current year.

TELOOGOOS, in South India.-There is one station at Nellore, with two preachers, two female assistants, and two native assist. ants. Scholars not reported.

RECEIPTS. Donations, legacies, &c., $47,141 06; from the U. S. Government, for Indian schools, $4400; from the Amcrican and Foreign Bible Society, $6000; from the American Tract Society, $2200. Present balance against the Board, $14, 859 16.

PUBLICATIONS.

about 5000 copies; the Macedonian, a small newspaper, over 20,00 copies; Annual Report, besides its publication in the Magazine, 1000 copies.

The Methodist Missiouary

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tion."

INDIAN TRIBES.-In connection with the Oregon Mission we observe the names of seven preachers, and eleven lay missionaries; and one of the missionaries states that about 500 of the Indians "are now in communion with the Methodist E. Church." The Report mentions, however, that a few of the missionaries had left the mission; and it seems that "unfavourable reports" had been made concerning its prospects. Recently another superintendent has proceeded to the Oregon country, charged with authority to make full inquiries and arrangements touching the welfare of the mission.

Amongst various tribes on the borders of the United States there are missions connected with several Conferences. The church members, we presume Indian conMissionary Magazine,|| verts, as enumerated in the Report, belong to the following missions, viz. Shawnee mis. sion, 163; Delaware, 95; Kickapoo, 42; Peoria, and Potawatomie, 45; Kansas, no report; Indian Manual Labour School, out of about one hundred pupils, 37; Choctaw, 921; Upper and Lower Cherokee 1349; Seneca, 4; Creek, 450; Oneida, 47; Brothertown, 106; Wyandott, 200; Oneida and Onondaga, 53; besides sixteen others, either new, of small numbers reported, or designated by names which do not indicate the tribes, and embracing together 339 members. The names of the missionaries are not generally given in the Report; and from the missions being connected with the Conferences, it may be inferred that the same system is adopted for the religious instruction of the Indians, which prevails commonly in the Methodist Episcopal Church-the leading feature of which is that of an itinerant ministry.-The Manual Labour School, reported above, appears to be in a prosperous condition. Two academies among the Choctaws have been placed under the care of the Society, towards which the Indians have appropriated $12,500 per annum, and the Society $2000 per annum, so long as the control and direction remain in their hands. These arrangements cover the space of twenty years to come. Besides these, another academy is to be under the control of the General Council of the Choctaw nation, and four female seminaries are to be under the care of the missionaries of

WESTERN AFRICA. "The Annual Con. ference of the Liberia Mission numbers, ac. cording to the Minutes of 1843, twenty preachers, all of whom are coloured except brothers Chase and Pingree. It has a membership ranging between eight and nine hundred." Mr. Chase has been called to his reward since the above paragraph in the Report was written. Mr. Pingree has returned to this country, and Mr. Seys has gone back to Africa as superintendent of the mission. About 40 natives had professed converting grace,' during Mr. Chase's labours in the mission.

SOUTH AMERICA.-At Buenos Ayres, the mission has been resumed, and one missionary has been appointed to that city; some gentlemen there having pledged $1000 per year for his support.

TEXAS." The Texas Conference now stations 36 preachers. It has a white mem. bership of 3162, coloured 536, and 40 local preachers, making the aggregate number in society 3738. The nett increase for the last year is 956. The Rutersville College is re-the American Board—making seven in all,

established and mainly supported by the Indians themselves. This is certainly an encouraging proof of their advancement in civilization.

STATE OF THE TREASURY.-Receipts for the year ending April 20th, 1843, for foreign and domestic missions, $109,452 17; debt of the Society $35,583 67. The amount received and expended for foreign missions is not distinguished from that for domestic missions both being under the direction of

the same Society.

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AFRICA. Among the Zulus in South Africa, there are three stations, two mission. aries, one physician, and their wives. This mission is to be discontinued.-In Western Africa, there are stations at Cape Palmas and Gaboon, near the equator, with three missionaries, one printer, and three female assistant missionaries. The station at Ga. boon has been formed within the year, and is one of much interest. The Gaboon people, and two tribes residing amongst them, form a population of about 25,000 within thirty miles of the coast, speaking a language of their own, and superior in civilization to the Grebos and other windward tribes. Their government is mild, and the rights of person and property are respected. Though the people are docile and anxious for instruction, they are heathens in their character, morals, & One of the missionaries had penetrated seventy miles into the interior, and found the country everywhere open for missionary la. bours. He met with some of the Pangwe people, from a country much further inland, who are described as a fine race of men, and who spoke of their country as mountainous, healthy, and populous-and of their coun. trymen as not addicted to the use of rum or tobacco, nor at all concerned in the slave. trade. At Gaboon, there are 50 or 60 scholars, and religious services were well attend. ed. At Cape Palmas there is a small school. The other stations in that vicinity have been transferred to the Episcopal mission.

GREECE. There is one station, at Athens, with two missionaries and their wives. Pub. lic preaching has been maintained, and 908, 000 pages of books have been printed-making 6,525,500 pages from the beginning of the mission.

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TURKEY.-Stations at Constantinople, Smyrna, Broosa, Trebizond, and Erzeroom; eighteen missionaries, all married but one; fifteen native helpers. "The chief labours of the mission are for the Armenians.......but the Greeks are not forgotten......One member of the mission devotes his time to the Jews," and the sum of £2162 has been placed at the disposal of this branch of the mission by the Jews' Committee of the Church of Scotland, to be devoted to circulating the Hebrew-Spanish Scriptures, &c. of 3000 copies of the Old Testament translated into that language by Mr. Schauffler, has been printed at Vienna, besides other works. The whole number of pages issued at Smyrna, in four languages, was 7,116,400. The book distribution at Smyrna and Constantinople has been quite large; at the latter city, "twice as large as in any former year." Nearly 200 scholars are in the various schools, of whom one-third are girls. The desire of education has led some, who could not be received because of the limited funds of the mission, to seek instruction in the Jesuit school.-An important work of grace is in progress among the Armenians. The spirit of religious inquiry is on the increase, and is even more encouraging "from the character of the persons, and from the numerous places in the empire in which they have their abode," than from the numbers who are thus influenced. Some obstruction was caused to the religious services of the missionaries, by the opposition of some Armenians formerly reckoned as brethren, whose change of conduct is attributed "to their forming an acquaintance with individ uals who had imbibed errors which now threaten the peace and unity of the Episcopal

churches of England and America." Notwithstanding this persecution, the progress of this religious movement among the Armenians is full of encouragement, as is evinced by extracts from the communications of the missionaries given in the Report.

SYRIA. There are stations at Beirut and Abeih, on Mount Lebanon; five missionaries, two physicians, and one printer, six of whom are married; and seven native helpers. The Report gives various reasons to show that this mission should not be abandoned, which cannot easily be stated in a brief form. Some of the former missionaries having returned to this country, the

station at Jerusalem has been suspended, and The Madras Mission has three stations, some other changes contemplated which will || four missionaries, one of whom, Dr. Scudder, give greater influence to the mission-parti- || is in this country, one printer, and their wives; cularly with reference to the Druze popula- three native helpers, 616 scholars, 35 church tion. Of works printed, there were 1,708,000 members. This mission was instituted "to pages, and about 300 pupils in the schools. do the principal part of the printing necessary NESTORIANS.-The Board had two mis- in the Tamil missions,"-"the Madras, Ma. sionaries among the Nestorians, the oldest || dura and Ceylon missions being all to a peoamongst those tribes of that people who live ple alike in religion, language, manners, and in Western Persia; the other amongst the customs."-Mr. Winslow writes that he had Mountain Tribes, who were independent." never known the native community of MaThese tribes have lately been reduced to sub- dras so full of the spirit of inquiry on the subjection by the neighbouring Mohammedan ject of Christianity." powers, with much loss of life, and under circumstances which have awakened a deep and painful interest in their unhappy fate. Amongst them there were three missionaries, and one physician, and their wives.

sion, but incline to prefer native settlements for the other labours of the missionaries. Dr. Abeel has been much encouraged by the attention of the Chinese to the doctrines of the gospel at Amoy. Two of the missionaries from Borneo have been authorized to remove to the China mission.

SINGAPORE.-The mission at this place is to be discontinued; only the printer and his

wife are there to close the mission.

preacher, three assistant missionaries, and ten female assistants, two native catechists; church members, 459, of whom more than a hundred were admitted last year; scholars, 210; boarding scholars, 54. The National Council has appropriated $26,300 annually for the support of academies and female schoolssee under Methodist Missions above. Three Choctaw young men are pursuing studies with reference to the ministry of the gospel.-The Pawnee mission has one missionary with his BORNEO. Two stations; six missionaries, wife. Additional missionaries are greatly and six female assistant missionaries; two or three small schools. The Committee call for needed.-The Oregon mission has three stations, three missionaries and their wives, and more missionaries to labour among the Dyaks. one physician; scholars, about 250. A conSANDWICH ISLANDS.-We regret that our siderable number, it is thought, have become notice of this large and successful mission true converts. The attendance on public wormust be so brief. It comprises nineteen sta-ship is large, when the Indians are not on tions on five islands, twenty-five ordained and fourteen lay missionaries, all of them married but one, four female teachers, and two native preachers; church members in regular standing, in June, 1842, 19,210, of whom 2443 were admitted in the preceding year; scholars, between 18,000 and 19,000; boarding pupils, 319; printing, 13,394,600 pages.-The missionaries make a favourable report of the piety of the church members. Three large churches have been built, one of them of stone, 95 feet by 42, another 137 by 72 and six others commenced-all by the natives; three of the churches contributed during the year more than $3800 for various purposes. The education of the people is on the advance. A school system is established by law over all the islands. Thirty-six of the most intelligent and promising natives are employed as subordinate religious teachers. These may be considered the germ of a native ministry. There is thought to be a steady improvement in the moral habits of the people, though the French compulsory treaty, requiring the admission of intoxicating liquors, has threatened much injury. To counteract this evil, a temperance movement was simultaneously made, headed by the king and the chiefs.Romanism is not thought to be gaining ground. -The independence of these islands is now recognized, and they are a Christian nationchiefly made what they are, through the blessing of God, by the missionary labours of the Church of Christ.

INDIAN TRIBES.-The Choctaw mission has six stations, four missionaries, one licensed

their hunting grounds; and their general condition is improving.-The Sioux mission has three stations, three missionaries, and three lay assistants, with their wives, and one other female assistant missionary; printing, 818,400 pages.-The Ojibwa mission has three sta tions, four missionaries, and two lay assistants, with their wives, and one other female assistant missionary; scholars, about 60; at one of the stations three persons were added to the church.-The Stockbridge mission has one missionary and his wife; church members, about 50. One Indian of this tribe is now at a theological seminary. - The New-York Indian mission has four stations, four missionaries, and one teacher, with their wives, four female teachers, and one native helper; church members, 234; scholars, about 250. The Abenaquis mission has one native preacher, and 41 church members.

RECEIPTS. During the year ending July 31, 1843, $244,224 43; debt at that time $13,022 82.

Other Societies,

The Free. Will Baptist Church has missions in the province of Orissa, India, but we have no returns of their condition. We are under the impression that three or four missionares are stationed at two or three places.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church has a mission among the Teloogoos in South India, commenced about a year ago with one missionary. Recently another missionary has embarked, to labour in the same field.