AMERICAN BOARD OF MISSIONS. CHICKAMAUGAH, 1816. Cyrus Kingsbury, Missionary. Messrs. Hall and Williams, Teachers. This Mission is established with a view, more particularly, to benefit the Cherokee Indians. These Tribes possess the mountainous country westward of the Mississippi, as the Chikasaws do the plains to the south-west of the country of the Cherokees. Both are numerous nations. The Creeks and Choctaws are other Tribes of Indians, not far distant from one another. It is one great object of the Board to form the young Indians to habits of civilized life, as well as to impart the knowledge of Christianity. The Schools are highly gratifying to the Cherokees. The Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Creeks, also express an ardent desire for Schools. The Government favours the design of in. structing these Four Nations. Other Tribes of Pagan Aborigines attract the attention of the Board. They express their full persuasion, that -the time is come for a great and vigorous effort for bringing up, in part, the long and heavy arrears of our country to those poor and diminished Tribes of our fellow-beings, whose fathers once called their own the widely-extended territories over which our prosperous dwellings are now spread and continually spreading. Appointed to the Indian Tribes: Missionaries. W. Chamberlain, Teacher. A small Town in Upper Canada, on the Northern St. Mark has been, for many years, bound Shore of Lake Ontario. George Okill Stuart, Missionary to the Mohawks. up with the Common-Prayer. The remaining Gospels will, it is expected, be shortly translated. To the present Settlements of the Brethren in Labrador, it has been proposed to add a Fourth, north of Okkak. The British Government has granted them undisturbed possession of the coast for that purpose. The Scriptures are, by degrees, enlightening the minds and comforting the hearts of the Esquimaux. The Four Gospels and the Acts are now read by them with delight. "We see more and more plainly," say the Missionaries, "how powerfully the Spirit of Truth speaks to their hearts, by the simple reading of the Word of God." of 1817, there were in the Congregation 155; the whole number living in the Settlement being 196. NAIN. 1771. Missionaries : Halter, Koerner, Kunath, Müeller, Schmidtman, Schreiber, and Stock. There are many proofs of grace among 1776. Missionaries: the people, in the midst of great scarcity Knaus, Kohlmeister, Lundberg, Martin, from the failure of the fishery. At the close and Sturmans☛ Many of the Esquimaux have learned, more than ever, to value the privilege of belonging to the servants of God. In the external circumstances of the Mission there is much difficulty. On the land there dwell 237 persons, of whom 178 are Members of the Congregation. HOPEDALE. 1782. Missionaries: Beck, Kmock, Meisner, Mohrhardt, and Nissen. Stations: NEW HERRNHUT (1733). LICHTENFELS (1758). LICHTENAU (1774). Missionaries: A fresh awakening has taken place among the Esquimaux. The numbers are as follows:-Communicants, 50: Baptized Adults, 25: Candidates for Baptism, 15: Baptized Children, 50:-in all, 140 persons, beside 27 not yet baptized, chiefly Children, The wants of the people being supplied, they were able to assist their poor Countrymen at Nain. Greenland. Albers, Beck, Fleig, Gorcke, Grillich, and Müeller. The Missionaries acknowledge, with much thankfulness, refreshing Letters received from Mr. Latrobe, while on his way to South Africa. Mr. Grillich writes from New Herrnhut, in July, 1817 Lichtenau is warm, in comparison of New Herrn. hut. Having resided at Lichtenau a long time, we very sensibly feel the roughness and severity of the winters of New Herrnhut. The last has been very severe indeed. There was no difference between Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide. We lay buried in snow. In Lichtenfels, Mr. Gorcke says they have lived in peace, and the blessing of the Lord has attended their endeavours to declare His Name and serve this Congregation. The people have suffered from sickness, so that the deaths have been more than the births. At Lichtenau, the numbers were 487, most of whom were earnestly intent on living in communion with the Lord, and walking according to his word. There were 150 Communicants. Much distress is endured by the widows and orphans of Greenlanders ; particularly at Lichtenau, as being the most numerous. Many Heathen Widows seek a refuge there. The Missionaries assist to the utmost, but are unable to meet their wants. Some friends in England have contributed liberally to this charitable object: nor can they better express their love to Him, who is the only Saviour of that World which we have surveyed, and who will gather to himself a great multitude which no man number, of all nations, and kindreds, and Even now, being the 10th of July, hardly any thing has come up in our garden. The season here seems to have become more unfavourable to vegetation. The winters are longer, the summers shorter, and the supply of driftwood more scanty than when our Mission was first established. It is, in truth, a barren and inhospitable region. You remark on the necessary diligence in learning the Greenland Language. It is a difficult one; of origi-people, and tongues, who shall stand nal construction; and a dialect of the Esquimaux. || before the Throne and before the Lamb ! can THE HARVEST TRULY IS PLENTEOUS, BUT THE LABOURERS ARE FEW. PRAY YE THEREFORE THE LORD OF THE HARVEST THAT HE WILL SEND FORTH LABOURERS INTO HIS HARVEST. MATT. IX. 37, 38. INDEX OF STATIONS IN THE PRECEDING SURVEY. [The Names printed in Italics are those of Stations recently relinquished.] We have given, in the present Number, a much larger quantity of matter than usual, in order to present, at one view, to our Readers, the précelling Survey of the Missionary World, which has been brought down to the day on which we are writing. Many interesting details of intelligence, therefore, with the usual Report of the Contributions to the Church Missionary Society, are unavoidably deferred till next month. Jan. 29, 1819. FEBRUARY, 1819. NOTICE. IN the Survey of Missionary Stations, which occupied the whole of our last Number, various Communications were mentioned as soon to be laid before our Readers. In the present Number, and in that for March, we shall redeem our pledge, by giving every document to which we alluded. Reports of Societies. REPORT OF THE BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY. FROM the Thirty-third Number of the Periodical Accounts of the Society, we extracted, in the Survey given in our last, the principal facts connected with each Station of the Society. From a "Review of the Mission" mentioned at p. 24 of the Survey, we shall now complete the Report of the Society's Proceedings, which we promised, at p. 18 of our last, to lay before our Readers. This "Review of the Mission" was addressed to the Society, in December, 1817, by Dr. Carey, Dr. Marshman, and Mr. Ward. INTRODUCTION. We now attempt, after a lapse of more than two years, to lay before you a brief Review of the general state of the Mission in India. In doing this, we are feelingly reminded of the important truth, that the Lord Jesus Christ alone is able to destroy the works of the Devil; and that all the labours of His servants, directed against the power and influence of the God of this World, are as nothing, considered separately from the power of their Lord. But it is their consolation, that their Lord is mighty, in whose Name they go forth; and that, while He NEEDS the help of none, He despises not the day of small things; but, amidst all the trials and discouragements which His servants have to meet, renders His strength perfect in their weakness, that none may glory but in the Lord alone. Relative to the work of conversion in India, perhaps all our expectations have been far wide of the mark. We have been so accustomed to fix our eyes on a Pentecost, as to account every thing short of it nothing. But have we reasoned wisely concerning this? Have we at all taken Scripture for our guide herein ? We do not deny that God is Feb. 1819. able to take a man, completely ignorant of every principle of religion, and at once create him anew in Christ Jesus. But is this His general method, in converting any people or nation? Does His infinite wisdom deem no preparation necessary? Did none precede even the Day of Pentecost itself? A little reflection on this-the brightest display of the power of converting grace ever known-may be highly profitable to us; as it may teach us to exercise faith according to knowledge-a matter of high importance in the work of Missions; for, although the desire, when it cometh, is a tree of life, it is no less a fact, that hope deferred maketh the heart sick. And, if we have suffered our expectation to rise beyond the highest ratio warranted even by a due consideration of Apostolic Times, we cannot complain that God or His Holy Word have deceived us: we have rather deceived ourselves, by not duly weighing that which His word has revealed. This view of the subject, if it be just, will prepare the mind for this brief Review of the Mission. It is not intended for a review of Conversions, of Churches established, of Days of Pentecost wit nessed: it is, rather, a review of feeble I and imperfect efforts to spread light amidst the thickest darkness; to erect the standard of the cross where Christ has been scarcely named; to contend with the spiritual rulers of the darkness of this world, and with the desperate wickedness of the human heart, strengthened as it is by prejudices which have stood the shock of ages and survived the revolutions of empire. It will shew the manner in which the Lord is gradually opening the way for the diffusion of light throughout India, by the Three grand methods which he is pleased to employ: MISSION STATIONS, as furnishing the means for putting things in motion; the SCRIPTURES, by the circulation of which light is diffused; and SCHOOLS, as enabling men to receive the light conveyed by the Sacred Scriptures. We have detailed the principal proceedings at the various MISSIONARY STATIONS, in the Geographical Survey; and shall, therefore, confine ourselves here to the other two great branches of the Mission. PUBLICATIONS. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. We now now come to another grand means which the Lord is pleased to use in diffusing light abroad throughout India; a means which distinguishes the present day as really as miraculous gifts distinguished the Apostolic Age, though neither in the same way, nor of course with the same effect-the OPERATION OF THE PRESS. Though this means, however, differs so widely in its operation and effects from those employed in the first age of Christianity, both may, possibly, be found to possess a peculiar fitness for the age and the circumstances of the world in which they are brought into operation. In the first age of Christianity, miracles were necessary; not merely as a means of saving faith, but as a seal from heaven to the truth and excellence of the Gospel-intended for all nations. But, in the present age, wherein the number of those capable of reading the Scriptures is increased throughout the world perhaps a thousand-fold, it is chiefly necessary that the doctrines of the Gospel, and the miracles which confirmed them, be set before the nations, in the words wherein the Spirit of God has caused them to be narrated, for obedience to the faith; which the Divine Spirit can as easily work in the heart by the PERUSAL of these facts and miracles, as he formerly wrought saving faith in the heart by the SIGHT of them: though the sight and the hearing of them are diverse operations, it is the same God which worketh all and in all. That miracles should precede in their fit season as a means of faith, and give place in these latter ages to the narration of these miracles as the means of causing the nations to believe, seems, therefore, suited to that wisdom which the Re deemer manifests from age to age, in adapting means to the circumstances of men, and thus abounding in all wisdom and prudence in drawing all men to Himself. In the present age, therefore, when an ability to read is so increased, that we may accommodate the words of the Apostle, and say, that faith cometh by READING, the operation of the Press must be ranked among the chief means of working faith among the Gentiles. To this, then, as the medium of pouring forth light on the millions of India, through the Scriptures and Scripture Tracts, it seems not unreasonable to devote some degree of consideration. THE SCRIPTURES. In thus reviewing the operation of the Press, however, it is not necessary to take precisely that view of the Translations required in a Memoir respecting them, and which we hope to publish in a few months. The purpose now is, rather to notice the effect produced relative to Missionary Objects, than the Translations which are in a train of preparation. The number of volumes produced in the Translations under our own direction, however, has been lessened, in this period, by a circumstance in which we no less cordially rejoice—our having had to print certain editions for our highlyvalued friends, the Calcutta Bible Society. For them we rejoice that we have had an opportunity of bringing through the press an edition of the whole Scriptures in Armenian; and another in Malay, "printed in the Roman Character; together with an edition of 3000 copies of the Arabic-Malay New Testament. These editions, which together make six thousand volumes of the Scriptures, are intended, principally, for the use of |