1819.] CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Deists are shaking to the foundation the superstitions of their country. Heathens themselves are liberally* aiding in the diffusion of Christian Knowledge. Every. where the Press is demanded, for the cirAn eagerness culation of Divine Truth. after knowledge, and a restless anxiety for something wiser and better than what they now have, are manifesting themselves in every quarter. Is this the actual state of things? Then who will not rejoice, that the Christian World is moving forward to meet the calls of Providence? The very magnitude, and the acknowledged difficulties of this work, will lead the sincere servant of Christ to rejoice that help is preparing in all quarters and of every varied kind. It would be folly to challenge this work to our own circles. No! we see, with joy, the different Denominations of Christians among us working the work of the Lord as we also do; and we pray that the Spirit of Wisdom and Counsel may ever rest on them. We see, in truth, the whole Protestant World in motion-the Episcopal Church of America; the Congregational, the Baptist, the Presbyterian Churches of the New World-and the Continental Protestant States-are all girding themselves to this Holy War. And our common difficulties urge us to unwearied Prayer and to mutual Charity; while one common Success carries us on with lively hope and assured confidence in the blessing of the Lord. Difficulties multiply, indeed, with ex. And this must ertions and with success. be expected. The Great Enemy of Man will not lightly yield his usurped dominion and there are signs, very evident to the discerning mind, of his malignant Possibly operation, in various ways. : Christians may be called to pass through "Look around," said the eloquent Misprinted "literally" in the Report. EDITORS. and to whose honour all the mysterious The Committee cannot but urge on all OF PROVIDENCE FAR OUTRUN THE CHARITY This Declaration could never have been made since the existence of the Church, with so much truth and force as at this hour. Some Duties are binding on Christians at all times. From the moment when our Lord, looking on the desolate multitudes of Judea, gave that injunction to his Disciples-Pray ye the Lord of the Harvest, that He would send forth Labourers into His harvest-from that moment, Prayer for this object has never ceased to be the From the moDuty of every Christian. ment when He left that last commandGo ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature-from that moment every possible effort has been the Duty of every Christian in every age. But some of the Duties which are binding at all times, may seem, for a season, to be left, as it were, to their own bare authority in the Divine Word. And then it is but here and there that a devout and heavenly mind rises above the circumstances of the Times, and discerns and feels Truths and Duties to which the Providence of God does not seem to call peculiar attention. How truly has this been the case, with respect to the conversion of the world! But things are wholly changed! Missionary Zeal, in our pious fathers, would shew itself in breathing forth fervent prayers, with David Our souls wait for the Lord, more than they that watch for the morningBut the Sun is risen in full splendour. It throws light on all the dark places of the earth, and shews them to us full of the habitations of eruelty. It has ripened the harvest, and it shews the field to the La bourer. And what is the extent of that field? Here is a call for Christian Charity, which was never heard before! We have found, in some measure, the level of Domestic Charities. It may be doubted whether the application of any very considerable addition of funds to these Charities would be really beneficial: but the Charity of Christian Missions is co-extensive with the Heathen World! Let us offer, then, as we have never yet offered. Let us meet the openings of Divine Providence. Let us give ourselves to this Labour, and great will be our Reward. 472 REPORTS OF SOCIETIES-CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. (NOV? APPENDIX. The Appendix contains the following Documents : 1. Act of the LIXth of the King, chap. 60, "to permit the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the Bishop of London, for the time being, to admit persons into Holy Orders specially: for the Colonies.' II. Instructions delivered to Missionaries, on the 9th of November, 1818. III. Extracts from the Address of the Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, at the Annual Meeting of the Auxiliary Bible Society of that Colony, on the 6th of January, 1819. IV. Journal of an Excursion, by the Rev. W. B. Johnson and others, round the Colony of Sierra Leone. v. Extracts of the Journal of the Rev. W. B. Johnson, at Regent's Town, for the year 1818. vi. Extracts of the Journal of the Rev. G. R. Nyländer among the Bulloms. vir. Mr. Robert Hughes's account of his Proceedings at Goree. VIII. Extracts of a Letter from the Rev. W. Jowett to the Rev. James IX. Extract of a Report of the Rev. Thomas Robertson to the Calcutta Corresponding Committee, on the state of the Burdwan Schools. x. Letter of Lieutenant Stewart to the Secretary, on the state of the Burdwan Schools. xr. Extracts of the Journal of Mr. William Bowley, at Chunar and in its Vicinity, from January to September, 1818. XII. Instructions delivered to the Schoolmasters under the Madras Mission. XIII. Extracts of the Journal of the Rev. C. T. E. Rhenius, at Madras and in its Vicinity, for the year 1818. XIV. Account of a Gooroo, or Spiritual Guide, at Madras. IV. Extracts of the Correspondence of the Rev. J. C. Schnarrè, at Tranquebar. XVI. Extract of a Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Munro to the Rev. Marmaduke Thompson. XVII. Abstract of a Brief History of the Syrians, preserved among themselves as their Genuine History. XVIII. Extracts of the Communications of the Rev. Benjamin Bailey and the Rev. Thomas Norton, respecting the Syrian Christians. XIX. Extract of a Report of the Rev. Joseph Fenn to the Madras Corresponding Committee, on the same subject. xx. Extracts of the Journal of the Rev. Thomas Dawson, at Cochin, and in its Vicinity. XXI. Letter of the Rev. Deocar Schmid to Rammohun Roy. XXII. Extracts of the Journal of the Rev. Robert Mayor, at the River Gindra, in Ceylon. XXIII. Some Account of the New-Zealand Chiefs, Tooi and Teeterree, with Extracts of their Letters. XXIV. Extracts of the Journals and Letters of Mr. and Mrs. Thwaites, at Antigua. xxv. Letter of the Right Reverend Bishop White, of Philadelphia, to the Secretary; with Minutes of the Board of Managers of the Episcopal Missionary Society of Philadelphia. 1819.] BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. COMPENDIUM OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY CORRECTED TO OCTOBER 1, 1819. THE extent and importance of the Appendix to the Fifteenth Report of the Society has unavoidably delayed the publication of the Report. We shall give an Abstract of its contents, as soon as practicable after its appearance. In the mean time, we lay before our Readers a Compendium of the Society's Transactions from the beginning of its course, corrected to the First of October. Instituted Bib. Test. 23. Frankfort German Psalters 25. Cologne. 26. Kreutznach 27. New.Wied and Wied 28. Waldeck & Pyrmont 1817 Europe. 29. Lippe-Detmold 1. Bâsle Instituted Bib./ Test. 30. Hanover 1816 1814 German, French, and Italian, Romanese Testaments, 2,000 in 60,000 22,000 with Auxiliary, Societies at Osnaburg, Aurich, Buecke burg: German Bibles. 2. Zurich 1812 German Bibles & Testaments, 8,000 4,000 32. Hildesheim 1818 3. Chur. 1813 33. Bremen. 1815 Romanese Bibles & Testaments, 3,000 4,000 4. Schaffhausen 1813 3,000 1813 6. Aargovian 7. Bern 8. Lausanne 9. Geneva 10. Neufchatel 11. Waldenses,at La Tour,ib.. 12. Glarus 1819 13. Hungarian, Presburg, 1812 Slavonian and Wendish Testa- 1815 1814 1814 10,000 1816 5,000 41. Brunswick 14. Konigsfeld. i816 42. Berlin 15. Wirtemberg, at Stut gard. 1812 with Branches at Tübin gen, Haidenheim, &c. German Bibles and Testaments, 15,000 7,000 16. Strasburg German Bibles. 17. Hesse Darmstadt 1815 comprehending, among o- 18. Hanau 1817 1818 19. Hesse Cassel 20. Ratisbon German Testaments. 21. Hesse-Homburg. 1816 22, Nassau, Duchy 1816 47. Eisenach 1818 48. Anhalt Koethen 1818 with its 120 Auxiliaries, at Moscow, Dorpat, Mittau, Riga, Revel, Yaroslaff, Arensburg, Irkutsk, Voronez, Vladimir, Kamentz-Podolsk, Theodosia, Tula, Sympheropole, Odessa, Cronstadt, Wilna, Moghilef, Witepsk, Grodno, Minsk, Kostroma, Pscow, Pensa, Charkow, Saratow, Simbirsk, Resan, Taganrog, Bialastock, Tcherkask, Wiatka, Kiew, Pernau, Twer, Kasan, Krasnojarsk, Tiflis, Kursk, Orlow, Bessarabia, Tambow, Perm, Nischegorod, Poltawa, Ischewsky, and other places. These have undertaken the printing of the Scriptures in the Twentythree following Languages and Dialects: Calmuc; the Gospels of St.Matthew and St. John, in which language the Scriptures were never printed before. Buriat Mongolian Gospels of St. Matthew and St. John Armenian Bibles and Testaments, Finnish Bibles and Testaments for the use of the Finnish Inhabitants In the Government of St. Petersburg. German Bibles and Testaments, Samogitian Testaments . Tartar Testaments, Gospels, and Psalters. Antient Greek Bibles. Modern Greek Testaments Moldavian Bibles and Testaments Modern Russian and Slavonian Instituted Bib. Test. 59.Swedish1809; enlarged 1814 with its Auxiliaries, at Gothenburg, Westeras, Wisby, Lund, Upsala, Askersund, Hernosand, Skara, Carlstadt, Wexio, Carlscrona, and Linkoping: Swedish Bibles and Testaments (on standing types) 54. Norwegian 55. Danish 33,000 79,00s 1816 1814 with Auxiliaries, at Oden- 56. Sleswick-Holstein. 1815 with Auxiliaries, at Rendsburg, Flensburg, Meldorf, Husum, Kiel, Hadersleben, Ploen, Apenrade, Oldenburg, Tonderen, &c. in all, 101 Auxiliaries or Associa tions: German Bibles and Testaments, of various sizes. 1817 57. Rendsburg. Malay Bibles and Testaments, 1817 61. Paris Protestant . 1818 with Auxiliaries, at Bourdeaux, Toulouse, Tonniens. 1819 10,000 15,000 5,000 2,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 62. Montauban 63. Ionian, at Corfu. 1819 with Auxiliaries, at Cephalonia, Zante. EDITIONS OF THE SCRIPTURES PRINTED 4. Sumatra, at Fort Marl 10. Tobolsk . America and West Indies. American NATIONAL Bible Society, at New York, May 11, About TWO HUNDRED exist in the United States, several of which, as well as the above, have been aided by the British and Foreign Bible Society : English Bibles and Testaments. French Bibles, printed by the New York Bible Society Spanish New Testaments Bermudas 1,079, 1271,538,141 2,617,268 and Foreign Bible Society, 425,840 32gin 819,820 |