iv Sawyer, Mrs. C. M. 1, 194; Scott, Rev. 129. Mohammedan Catechism, a, 237, 260. Negroes, Tenth Report, &c., on the Religious DOMESTIC MISSIONARY CHRONICLE. A. A. 24, 120, 312, 344. Agencies, Dr. Alexander on, 186. Agents: Report of Rev. R. Happersett, 185; Rev. S. Scovel, 220. Annual Report, abstract of, for 1845, 218. Church Extension, 58, 252. Committee at Louisville, Ky., Action of the Cogswell, Rev. Dr., Donation of Books, 350. Edwards, his Works in Welsh, 90. Mahon, Rev. Joseph, Letter from, 57. Ministers, Want of, 61, 316; Call for, 153, 285. Missionaries, for the Coloured People, 30; Re- Missionaries, communications from- Delaware, 287. Florida, 29, 280. Illinois, 92, 153, 313, 347, 376. Indiana, 27, 61, 90, 121, 154, 222, 251, 282, 314, 347, 348. Iowa, 25, 60, 153, 250. Kentucky, 93, 125, 251, 285, 348. Maryland, 28, 124, 285. Michigan, 189, 316. Missouri, 26, 61, 122, 187, 281, 313, 376. North Carolina, 60, 157. Ohio, 92, 155, 188, 251, 283, 377. Tennessee, 59, 188, 252, 315, 316, 377. Retrospective Views of Duty, 24. Revival of Religion, 27, 28, 121, 123, 157, Scripture Manual, Donation of, 351. Synod of Mississippi, Second Annual Report Treasury, Quarterly Reports of, 320, Receipts THE FOREIGN MISSIONARY CHRONICLE. VOL. XIII. JANUARY, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. - The Board consists of one hundred and twenty clerical and lay members, elected by the General Assembly; one-fourth being elected annually. The Rev. Samuel Miller, D. D., is the President of the Board. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.-Rev. Dr. W. W. Phillips, Chairman, Rev. Drs. J. McElroy, J. J. Janeway, G. Spring, G. Potts, and J. M. Krebs, Rev. D. Wells, and Messrs. J. Lenox, H. Auchincloss, D. W. C. Olyphant, and W. Lowrie. BUSINESS OFFICERS.-Walter Lowrie, Esq., Corresponding Secretary, the Rev. Daniel Wells, Treasurer, and the Rev. John C. Lowrie, Assistant Secretary. Address-Mission House, 23 Centre-street. AGENT. Rev. I. N. Candee, in the western and south-western Synods. Address-New Albany, Ia. PUBLICATIONS.-The Annual Report made to the General Assembly, published in June of each year. The Missionary Chronicle, organ of the Foreign and Domestic Boards, published monthly: terms, for the Newspaper edition, fifty cents per year; for the Pamphlet edition, one dollar per year. The Foreign Missionary, a small newspaper, published monthly by the Foreign Board, at one dollar for eight copies to one address, two dollars for twenty copies, three dollars for thirty-five copies, and five dollars for sixty copies: circulation, 15,500 copies. RECEIPTS-For the year ending May 1, 1844, $74,374 07, of which, from the American Bible Society, $3000, from the American Tract Society, $3300. From May 1 to Nov. 1, 1844, the receipts of the Board were $22,992 29. MISSIONS.-Texas: the Rev. W. C. Blair, at Victoria; Rev. I. J. Henderson, at Galveston; Rev. H. Wilson, in Washington Co.; Rev. J. W. Miller, at Houston. lowa and Sac Indians: the Rev. W. Hamilton; Mr. S. M. Irvin, teacher; Mr. F. Irvin, farmer. Creek Indians: the Rev. Messrs. R. M. Loughridge and J. Limber. Ottawa Indians: the Rev. P. Dougherty; Mr. H. Bradley, teacher. Africa: the Rev. J. M. Connelly, Mrs. Sawyer, and native assistants, at Settra Kroo; Rev. J. M. Priest, and a native assistant, at King Will's town, among the Kroos; Rev. J. Eden, at Monrovia; Rev. T. Wilson, at Sinoe; Miss Vantyne in the United States, on account of health. Siam: the Rev. Messrs. W. P. Buell and R. Q. Way. Mr. Buell is on his way home on account of Mrs. B.'s health, and Mr. Way had not reached the station at Bangkok at the last dates. China: the Rev. Messrs. W. M. Lowrie, M. S. Culbertson, A. W. Loomis, A. P. Happer, M. D., J. Lloyd, H. A. Brown; Messrs. J. C. Hepburn, M. D., D. V. M'Cartee, M. D., and Mr. R. Cole, printer. Messrs. Lowrie, M'Cartee and Cole have continued at Macao, and Dr. Hepburn at Amoy; when the other members of the mission, who sailed from this country during the last year, reach China, the stations and designation of the missionaries will be determined. It is expected that, in addition to stations at Hong Kong or at Macao, and at Amoy, there will be a station at one of the northern cities, probably at Ningpo, where it seems expedient to concentrate the chief strength of the mission. India; Lodiana Mission: the Rev. Messrs. J. Newton, J. Porter and L. Janvier, Mr. R. Morris, printer, and four native assistants, are at Lodiana; the Rev. J. R. Campbell, Mr. J. Craig, teacher, and one native assistant, at Saharunpur; the Rev. J. M. Jamieson, at Simla; and the Rev. J. Caldwell and one native assistant, at Merat. India; Allahabad Mission: the Rev. Messrs. J. Wilson, J. Warren, J. E. Freeman, J. Owen, and J. Wray, Miss Vanderveer, teacher, and native assistants, are at Allahabad. India; Furrukhabad Mission: the Rev. Messrs. H. R. Wilson, J. C. Rankin, W. H. M'Auley, J. J. Walsh, and two or three native assistants, are at Futtehgurh and Furrukhabad, and the Rev. J. L. Scott at Mynpurie. France: through the Evangelical Societies of France and of Geneva, some contributions have been made to promote the spread of pure religion in France, Belgium, &c. It is hoped that the churches will become deeply interested in this field of labour. The plan of the Board in reference to this department is, not to send mis sionaries to Europe from the United States, but to support such labourers as their funds will provide for, under the appointment and direction of the Societies above mentioned. Connected with nearly all the missions of the Board are Schools, of two classes-day and boarding; it being a leading principle in the policy of the Board to endeavour to prepare natives of the several countries to become ministers and teachers. There are Printing Presses in connection with the Iowa, Lodiana, Allahabad and China missions. In the last mentioned, a promising experiment is making with metallic types, instead of the wooden blocks heretofore used in Chinese printing. There are churches at the stations in Texas, among the lowas and Ottawas, and at Lodiana, Saharunpur, Futtehgurh and Allahabad. The missionaries in India have been organized into Presbyteries of which there are three in connection with the General Assembly, and one in connection with the Reformed Presbyterian Church. The latter is formed of the brethren settled at the stations of Saharunpur and Merat. The Presbytery of Lodiana embraces the missionaries at Lodiana and at Simla; the Presbytery of Furrukhabad, all the missionaries of the Furrnkhabad Mission; and the Presbytery of Allahabad, all the missionaries of the Allahabad Mission. The Presbyteries of Lodiana and Furrukhabad have each licensed a native candidate to preach the Gospel.-There is also a Presbytery in Texas. And it is the undoubted wisdom of the Church to have all her missionaries organised into Presbyteries as soon as practicable. According to Hassel's estimate, the Pagan population numbers 561,820,000; the Mohammedan, 120,105,000; the Roman, Greek, and other corrupt oriental Christian, 196,774,000; making a total of 878,699,000 of our race under the influence of Pagan, Mohammedan, Papal, and other corrupt Christian Systems. No true follower of Christ can contemplate the present condition and the future destiny of these vast multitudes, without having his mind filled with the most solemn emotions. We forbear attempting to describe them. To "every creature" of all these multitudes, the Gospel must be preached; otherwise, the express commandment of Christ will not have been obeyed. How great, then, is the work of missions! That work is indeed great, beyond the conceptions of our minds, and it is attended with difficulties of the greatest magnitude. But the arm of the Lord is not shortened that it cannot save. The power of almighty grace can remove every let and hinderance, provide the amplest means, or work with the feeblest, and finally crown the work of evangelization with complete success. In God is all our hope. If we were not assured that the work of missions is His work, we should at once abandon it as hopeless and visionary; believing that it is sur ly God's work, we can have no misgivings as to its final accomplishment. But God works by means, by the instrumentality of his people, no less than by his holy providence, and the gracious influences of his Spirit. Keeping these general truths in view, we have supposed that it might be useful to place before our readers the population of the different missionary fields, in which our Church is now conducting the work of evangelization. Perhaps few persons have duly considered the magnitude of the foreign missionary work of the Presbyterian Church. Her missions connect her members with two-thirds of the Pagan, Mohammedan and Papal inhabitants of the world -with more than five hundred and eighty millions of our race. This results from the fact that the missionaries are the representatives or agents of the Church, doing her work, in her name, at her charge, supported by her prayers; to them and to their labours does every member of the Church at once turn his thoughts, when in the hour of solemn self-review he asks the question, What am I doing to obey my Lord's last commandment? If the plan of the missionary enterprise includ ed no more than the preaching, viva voce, with their own voice, of the foreign missionaries, the statement in the last paragraph might be liable to exception. It might then be alleged that the missions of the Church connect her members with those only whom her messengers, the missionaries, can actually address. But the aim of Christian missions is far wider than this. The missionaries do preach the Gospel themselves, directly, as opportunity serves; but they also translate, and print, and send forth the Word of God, and they devote a large part of their time and strength to efforts whose object is to train up a native ministry, on whose labours eventually the conversion of every heathen people must mainly depend. The missionaries put in motion principles, living and ever expanding; they sow the seed of life; they plant the leaven of divine truth. When they have done this, they may die and go to their reward, but their work shall live-God shall make it live and prosper. And every follower of Christ who has assisted in their support, by his prayers and his pecuniary offerings, has been taking a direct part in the movement of that great system of means by which the Gospel shall be made to triumph in the world. Thus the humblest disciple may now, through these missions, become a co-worker with his blessed Saviour in the salvation of men on the plains of India, in the crowded cities of China, in the heart of papal Europe. How great this privilege! We could earnestly desire to see one more mission supported by our Church, a mission amongst God's ancient people, the Jews. And we shall not abandon the hope of seeing this mission yet established. In the mean time, we avow the conviction, that our Church has been highly favoured of God in the choice of her missionary fields. A nobler platform of missionary enterprise can hardly elsewhere be found than that which these missions afford. May God grant that, as a body of Christians, we may be found worthy of being called to so great a work! A TABULAR VIEW OF PROTESTANT MISSIONS, Compiled for the Foreign Missionary Chronicle. In compiling the following Table we have taken the latest returns within our reach. The statistics of the American, Baptist, Episcopal, Methodist, and Presbyterian Boards; of the English Baptist, Independent, Jews', and Wesleyan Societies; of the German Missionary Society, and of the Scotch Free Church Missions, are taken from the last Annual Reports of those Institutions, dated in 1844, except the German, dated in 1843. The returns of the other Societies are taken chiefly from the London Missionary Register, of 1844. Ministers of the Gospel are classed as Missionaries; all others as Assistant Missionaries. Female Missionaries are not included. The column headed "Native Assistants" requires explanation, the usage of the Societies not being uniform in reporting this class of labourers. Some report all in their service, converted or pagan; others, only native preachers. Some use vague titles, such as 'native assistants,' 'subordinate agents,' &c. It may be presumed, however, that most of the persons reported in this column are members of the church, and that a small part of them are preachers of the Gospel. |