JANUARY, 1823.

No. 1.

Circular Address.

f the Gospel, Managers of Auxiliary Societies, and other Friends of the Missionary Cause.

EN,

gressive affairs of the UNITED FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOhas arrived of interest, of promise, and of action, in seveprecedented in our previous history. Briefly to acquaint resent circumstances, and engage your liberal and zealous our future efforts, are the objects of this appeal.

now occupy five Missionary Stations among the Heathen e boundaries of our country; and an exploring agent has as highly eligible, which the Board wish to occupy as able.

tures of the past year have been increasingly great. Our austed, and the Board are largely in advance in sustaining of the Institution.

wever, adopt the apostolic language, perplexed, but not in r dependance is our strength. The Lord God of the holy our enterprise. In Jehovah alone is our confidence that it hat the everlasting gospel shall ultimately visit and bless nd kindred, and tongue, and people.

the resources and efforts of the christian public more exdequately in this glorious work, the Board are convinced ffusion of information on missionary topics and events, elation to this Society, is both desirable and indispensable. efore taken measures to render the AMERICAN MISSIONARY a vehicle of missionary intelligence, at once more widely e permanently established, and more easily obtainable by e American community. They have assumed this publiown, and have appointed their Domestic Secretary to be I will henceforth be issued monthly, in numbers of thirty-two d neatly executed, at the reduced price of one dollar and fif

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feel indifferent to the questions, Shall my children remain ignorant of these wonderful works of God, the brightening presages of Zion's ultimate enlargement and millennial glory? Shall I neglect to furnish my family with this entertaining and increasingly valuable publication? Shall I lose any opportunity of being a co-agent with God himself in speeding through the world such a divinely effective system of "glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men ?"

In thus changing the basis and appropriating the responsibilities of the American Missionary Register, the Board have incurred a heavier obligation, and will need, and, they trust, receive a larger and more prompt assistance from their Auxiliary Societies, from the individual ministers and members of the three denominations whose union constitutes, under God, the being, the strength, and the honour of the Parent Society, and from all the friends of missions and of man to whom directly or indirectly this Circular may come.

For a detail of the particulars of interest connected with our missionary operations, and of the principles and facts in relation to the general cause, we refer you to the current statements of our publication.

It is our reiterated request and entreaty that something may be immediately and energetically done. "Come over and help us," is the Macedonian prayer which is borne to our ears on the pinions of the western winds. Help us and us-and us, successively say the needy and perishing tribes of our own degraded species! And what shall we answer? Shall we say-Desist-expect nothing from us—we cannot retrench one superfluity, nor lift a finger to relieve you-live, die, go to judgment in your bloodwe will not send you the gospel of salvation-the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, occupy us, and exclude you, and dissuade us from honouring the mandate of our beloved Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, authoritatively saying, PROPAGATE CHRISTIANITY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE."

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In presenting and urging these claims upon your attention, our earnestness may, we know, wear the semblance of importunity. But need we assure you, dear brethren, that our motives are not sordid-that the love of Christ constraineth us-that we mean not that ourselves should "be eased and you burdened." The time, the toil, and the care, which are necessarily expended in managing the concerns of the Society, would, if you could experience them, enable you better to appreciate the present appeal, and induce you more zealously and steadily to co-operate in our labours. The theme and the occasion demand earnestness. We are pleading with professed Christians-pleading for our country and our kind, for souls, for Jesus Christ and the church which he purchased with his blood.

In the conclusion we respectfully request that ministers of the gospel would read this paper to their respective congregations, and make a collection for the object-that they and their people would pray for us at their monthly concert meetings-that they would endeavour to procure subscribers for the American Missionary Register, and to inspire and maintain a missionary zeal within the circles of their influence, and finally, that each one would feel and assert the privilege of doing something. Thus

may much-very much good be most easily accomplished; and the reaction of cheerful giving, to such an object and from a proper motive, will render the habit easy, the character noble, and the gracious reward a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. No donation will be slighted because of its smallness; and let those that are made be forwarded as soon as practicable to Mr. Zechariah Lewis, our Treasurer and Domestic Secre tary, No. 38 Broad-street, New-York. On behalf of the Board,

Since the publication of the last number of the Register, communications have been received from our various Missionary Stations, to the following dates:-From UNION to the 16th of September; HARMONY to the 12th of October; TUSCARORA to the 18th of November; SENECA to the 10th of December; and CATARAUGUS to the 12th of the same month. With the exception of a few cases of Intermittent Fevers, of a comparatively mild type, our Missionaries were enjoying comfortable health, and were pursuing their labours generally with encouraging prospects of success. Details will be given below.