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approach this church with a pail in each cluding a balance of 19,177 francs from hand, I had the curiosity to see how he would the preceding year) were 156,989 francs, manage. Holding his cap in his teeth, he while the expenditures had reached passed by the building as religiously as the 174,994 francs, leaving a deficit of 18,005 francs. The missionaries employed

next devotee.

A pious German friend visits every Sunday a German family, consisting of the father by the Society last year were sixty-five and two daughters. He there holds a little in number, namely, eleven ministers of meeting, and gives them religious books and the Gospel, nine evangelists, and fortypapers to read. The children express a five teachers, male and female. The strong desire to learn to read and speak Report contains a multitude of interestEnglish, so as to attend services at my house ing facts respecting the work of the on Sunday. I hope this may yet be accom-Society, especially in relation to Haute plished. Vienne, and other departments where the local authorities had long hindered, and even prevented, the labors of the Society.

Last week, in passing by a little store, I saw children playing around the door, with white curly heads. On inquiry, I found that a German family lived there, who had formerly lived in the United States. The man But no fact contained in the Report was a Catholic. He hoped to do a good will compare in point of interest with business by making images of plaster of one related by M. Henri Rutteroth, the Paris for the churches, but the priests would not bless images made of that material.sion. It was to this effect: In the gentleman who presided on the occaThey were pleased to meet an American,and gladly took some papers.

I know another German Catholic family. I lend them books and give them papers, which they read with interest.

year

1791, three gentlemen in Paris, Messrs. Didot (printer), Moreau (an artist distinguished in drawing), and Saugrain, (publisher), undertook to publish a magA few days ago, a friend bought a Span- nificent edition of the four Gospels in ish Bible, to put into the hands of a Chilano, four vols., 8vo., to which at a later day who with his family are inclined to some- they added The Acts of the Apostles. thing better than they are taught by the Their desire in doing this, was not only priests. His wife thinks the Protestant reto publish the most beautiful and perligion better than the Catholic.

I am told that one of our Sabbath-School fect of all books, and a collection of scholars, whose parents are Protestant, is eternal truths, a work that emanated accustomed to pray to the saints, with the from the Deity Himself, but that it other scholars who attend the native school. should lie at the foundation of the new -The parents of the little girl must be social edifice that was about to arise in spoken to on the sin of praying to any but France, and that the Spirit of the Gosto God. pel might animate the nation and those who were charged with the task of making its Constitution.

How thankful you ought to be that you not only have parents to instruct you rightly, but that you have good schools to attend. One of the great evils which children suffer here, is the lack of good schools.

Yours, very truly, N. P. GILBERT.

Under the influence of such feelings and motives, these gentlemen asked permission of the National Assembly to dedicate to that body the new edition of the Gospels which they proposed to The last Annual Report of the Evan- publish. And strange as it may apgelical Society of France states that pear, the Assembly unanimously passed last year the receipts of the Society (in- the following vote: "The Assembly,

FRANCE.

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GREECE.

although it has decreed that it will "accept no dedications, has received. On the 1st of November, the Rev. "this with acclamation, desiring to give George Constantine and his wife sailed "this new proof of its attachment and in the Kangaroo for Liverpool, where "its respect for the Christian Religion." they arrived on the morning of the 14th, And this was done in France, where having had a short and pleasant voyage. during the fifty years preceding, the They had for fellow-passengers the Rev. great infidel writers, La Mettrie, who Drs. Dales and Prestley, of the United died in 1751; Helvetiens, in 1771; Presbyterian Church, who purpose visVoltaire and Rousseau, 1778; d'Alem-iting the Missions of that Church in bert, in 1783; Diderot, in 1784; and Egypt and Syria before they return.d'Holbach, in 1789, had done so much to overthrow Christianity!

THE ITALIAN COMMITTEE AT

GENEVA.

Mr. Constantine having heard at Queenstown of the Revolution in Greece, resolved to go on with as little delay as possible to Athens. He was, as may well be conceived, greatly interested in

the news of what had occurred in his

The Report of this effective little Committee at Geneva, Switzerland, native land, and full of hope that the (which embraces the excellent Messrs. Saviour would cause the great uprising Tronchin, Turrettini, Cremieux, Barbey, and E. and G. Naville), for the had endured for thirty years, to be so of the Nation against the despotism it year 1861, but embracing a part of 1862, is a very interesting document. guided and directed as to tend greatly to the furtherance of the Gospel in that important country. Surely there ought to be many prayers offered up in behalf of that land and its people.

This Committee have printed in Italian several excellent tracts and books, employed ten colporteurs, and several ministers and evangelists, sold 3,503 copies of the Sacred Scriptures, in whole or in parts, 50,899 tracts and almanacs (Amico di Casa.) They have extended some aid to the enterprise of founding a Theological School at Geneva, in

which Dr. De Sanctis and Professor Mazzarella are the teachers. The receipts of the Committee from all quarters were 51,798 francs, of which 7,783 were from the American Bible Society, 267 from the American & For. Chris

left us, the Rev. Mr. Kalopothakes arrivA few days after Mr. Constantine had ed from Athens and brought us much news from Greece respecting the Revolution and its actors and their objects. Mr. K., like Mr. Constantine, was educated in this country, so far as his theological and, to some extent, his medical training is concerned. He came on business connected with his mission and the Star in the East, a most important weekly paper of which he is the editor. That paper has been published for four years, and exerts a most happy influence, as letters from Dr. King and other

tian Union, 8,922 from the London Tract Society, 3,062 from the Continental Society of Dublin, Ireland, 7,227 from friends in Geneva, and the rest brethren in the East testify. We are from different quarters, chiefly from happy to say that Dr. Kalopothakes, England and Scotland.

As the sun is necessary to the world, the eye to the body, the pilot to the ship, the general to the army; so is experimental knowledge to the humbling of a soul.

having succeeded in accomplishing every thing which he desired to do in reference to both his Mission and the 'Star,' left us in good hope for his native country in the Africa, on the 10th of Dec.

THE HOME FIELD.

WE give this month extracts from the Reports of several of our Missionaries in the Home Field.

AN IRISH MISSIONARY in the West | terrible war and these perilous times fill the

writes:

SINCE my last report we have resumed one of our Industrial Sewing Schools which had been adjourned for several months. We have a very flourishing school; and this department of your missionary work is one of the most important among his labors here, instilling into these young, neglected girls habits of cleanliness, industry, morality and religion, which, under God, will fit them for usefulness here and for heaven hereafter. We have a staff of excellent teachers, principally from the Presbyterian and Episcopalian churches. Our superintendent is a highly accomplished lady of the latter, who is well qualified for the important and laborious duty she has taken in hand, both this year and last, and she has discharged her duty with a faithfulness and earnestness worthy of the good cause in which she is engaged, and her teachings from week to week, and the little hymns she causes the children to commit to memory must do good. I open the school with prayer and then leave the rest to the superintendent. The other departments of our work are hopeful.

P. S. I see from the November number of the magazine, that Bishop Hughes has made a statement in regard to the converts, &c., which is not true in fact. Now, although I do not pretend to be as good a scholar as many of the priests in the Bishop's diocese, yet I hesitate not to say that I am as good if not a better general scholar than the majority of the priests in his diocese.I fear not a comparison, and that I can read my Bible in as many different languages as the majority of the priests under him; and when I say so I have no idea of being near as good a scholar as many of those who left popery. Respectfully.

minds of the lower classes with consternation

and superstition, and they seem to grasp
with avidity any sympathy or consolation
that presents itself. The approaching winter
is, with many of them, a source of anxiety,
as their little ones have little or no clothing,
and they readily promise their little girls for
the sewing school to get them clothed. Al-
so to the Sunday-School, as there is quite an
exertion being made for these poor little
ones to give them clothes and shoes for the
Sabbath. Several large girls came bare-
footed last Sabbath, but will be supplied be-
fore another. As everything has taken such
a rise in market, especially fuel, that the poor
widow is just trembling for the coming days;
and it is a source of happiness to be privi-
leged to send her to the Relief Committee;
for her ward, for this city does nobly for her
poor. There is ample provision for the sol-
diers' families, and we love to give them a
note to our Union Aid. In doing this, we
get quite acquainted, and they learn to look
up to us as their real friends, and to hail our
coming as among their happiest hours. Our
schools are not as full as they have been, but
quite as interesting, and as we have new
scholars every Saturday, we are not in the
least discouraged. Teachers are not regular,
but will soon be settled for winter, and will
be punctual. It seems to me that Mission-
ary labor was never more acceptable than
now, and certainly never more needed. The
mind is anxious, looking forward, for, they
know not what; and to call on them, with
hope in your face, and cheering words on
your lips, they will very soon kindly listen
to the word of God. The precious influer.ces
of the Spirit of God seem already to be in
some of the Mission Sunday-Schools here,
and Churches seem to be arousing, and who
knows but we are to have a genial shower

REPORT OF A BIBLE-WOMAN IN of Divine grace even in this city!
THE WEST-

OUR visits have averaged from ten to twenty-five per day during the past month, and all of them fraught with interest. This

Visited the Hospital: several very interesting cases. Oh, how quick kindness there finds its way to the heart and opens a fountain of sensibility! They gladly received

There are some materials for the commencement of our Sewing-School, but we shall soon want more; and therefore I would humbly beg to be provided, as soon as possible, with some more goods, that we may not come short.

our tracts and papers. Lent a young man will increase very fast, I have no doubt.— Pilgrim's Progress, said "he would read it." The Sunday-school and the Sunday meetWe had thought our precious work was ings are attended as usual. nearly ended here, but our improving health makes us think that God has something for us yet to do. Our dear friend, Mrs. has been with me, and is a great help and comfort. This month we should, by the blessing of Heaven, be stronger, and more able to endure the sudden changes of the weather; consequently can be out more.Pray for us, that our work may be blessed, and God own us in the covenant of His grace.

In the course of this month one of my scholars, a girl of about 18 years, died.— She attended the day-school as well as the Sunday-school regularly. On Tuesday of the first week of this month she attended the day-school, and died the next Saturday,

REPORT OF THE ITALIAN MISSION- leaving her terrestrial home with a happy ARY in New-York:

mind.

In making my report for this month, I On Thanksgiving Day I had quite a numhave to state, in general, that I have con- ber of girls to practise the hymns that they tinued my Missionary labors among the had sung the day before. At this unexItalians in the usual way, visiting many pected visit I was surprised, but I did not Italian families, and pursuing the different hesitate a moment to open the school-room branches of instruction. I find from month and commenced a very interesting meeting to month more Italian parents willing to there. We had singing, and prayer, and send their children to instruction, and thus reading the Bible. At the end of this small is the number of scholars of my daily morn- service for Thanksgiving Day, my wife preing and evening school increasing pretty pared some tea and bread for the girls, and fast, and my school-room is entirely filled, we spent the afternoon very happily. especially in the evenings, which are more I distributed two Bibles and two Testaconvenient for my scholars than the morn- ments in private families. Pray for our ings. Though it is a pretty hard task to Italian Mission. instruct a number of children whose educa

tion is so much neglected by their parents, yet I do it with a joyful heart, seeing that this field of my labors is more promising than my work among those who have grown up in superstition and indifference to religious matters; only I regret that the expenses which are caused by my school-keeping fall so heavily upon me that I fear I shall be compelled to drop the evening course.

OUR GERMAN MISSIONARY in New
Jersey reports:

NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 28, 32. Under the Lord's blessing has this little seed here considerably grown. I am grateful and happy to be enabled to give you for this month the following statistics, which will, no doubt, cheer you in your anxious, manifold labors for the cause of our blessed Redeemer.

In these hard times, I have to pay very high prices for many necessary articles.-- Eighty-three persons (with their families Last winter I collected some money among they amount to 139 persons) have come formy scholars; but those who come now are ward, wishing to unite with the church.--in such destitute circumstances that I can Many of these were Romanists, others infiraise almost nothing. I should feel very dels; only one of them belonged, with his sorry if, after so much effort in gathering wife, to another church. I have reason to children, I were to lose the greatest number believe that more than half of the number of them for want of means for light and are truly converted. My sermon lasts gen-. fuel. The Industrial School commenced last erally about three-quarters of an hour, but Friday, with a small number of girls, which as many, who formerly never came to church,

called upon me and expressed the desire that We continue with our regular exercises :

preaching, lecture, prayer meeting, Bibleclass, and Sabbath-school. Visiting takes away considerable of my time; but though the duties are manifold and arduous, I trust the Lord will sustain me and continue to bless our labors here, and in all parts of the world, so that soon the time may come when our prayer will be realized: "Thy kingdom come!" Mr. Constantine's visit and preaching here is well remembered, and many prayers are following him on his voyage to Greece.

I should preach longer, I do so now. They said they felt like parched ground, and their souls yearned to drink from the living well! Other cheering signs manifest themselves among them. Having expressed the desire to unite with some church, I called a meeting in which they might determine for themselves what church they would like to connect themselves with. They have decided to join the Presbyterian Church. I made this known to the brethren here, and they will have a meeting next week, to see what might be best done with them for the present. This people themselves wish very much to have a regular morning service, which, under the present circumstances) the church being occupied in the morning by another congregation) could not well be done. They have pledged to raise at once the sum of supporting the noble work of evangelizing $500, in case they could buy or build an edifice for them to worship in. Considering the whole expense, this sum certainly appears small, but it is a large sum, if we take their means and the hardness of the times into consideration.

I should like to have a few more copies of The Christian World. The sale of the work is increasing every month. A gentleman told me to-day, that he never had a clear idea of what was going on in the various Missionary fields, and that the necessity of

the world never had come home to his heart until he read the excellent Monthly of the Christian Union. And this gentleman stands high in the estimation of the community. Continue to pray for us.

MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE.

From all parts of the Missionary Field there comes up interesting intelligence-more than we can find room for this month.

TURKEY.

The Rev. Dr. Hamlin has given a most interesting account of his visit to Adabazar, whither he went to the ordination of Baron Alexander of that place, and compares the present state of things with what it was in 1840, when he and Dr. Dwight visited Nicomedia. On that occasion a few Testaments and > some tracts were sent to Adabazar by a young man of the place, the circulation of which was the means, through God's blessing, of beginning the good work there. In 1846, the little company of inquirers after the truth at this place were persecuted, but found a protector in a certain Hussein Agha, (a Mohammedan.) In 1849 Drs. Hamlin

and Goodell visited this place to ordain and instal as pastor over the little church which then enjoyed comparative peace, Rev. Hohannes Der Sahakyan. At that time they first saw the boy Alexander, whom in 1862, thirteen years later, Dr. Hamlin had the pleasure to assist in ordaining to the ministerial and pastoral office. The present occasion was most interesting, as were all the services. The young pastor not only preaches, but with a younger brother carries on the instruction of the Mission-school. The Adabazar Church has now assumed the entire support of its own institutions, and begins to act as a Missionary power for the waste places around it. Hussien Agha, who