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Amount of donations acknowledged in the preceding list, 83,002 52.

The following sums were collected in Hopkinsville, Ken. to defray the expenses of Mr. D. Remington, on his return from the Choc. nation.

Rev. R. Cushman 5; J. H. McLaughlin, 5; Y. Eving, 5; J. Purseley, 5; D. Park, 5; S. Shryock, 2; L. Shipp, 2,50; G. P. Shepard, 3; J. Breathitt, 2,50; B. Wilkins, 3; R. P. Henry, 3; J. McGaroy, 1; J. McCarroll, 1; J. Irvin, 1; J. Ficktin, 1; Mr. Hunt, 1; S. A. Miller, 1; T. Moore, 502. H. Crisman, 75c. amounting to

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Parish in Rowley, Mass.-Female Charitable Soc. in Pelham; Ladies in Walpole, Canterbury, Rindge, and Keene, N. H-Friends of missions in Hartland, Putney, Ludlow, Jamaica, Rochester, Poultney, Wilmington, Milton, and Fair Haven, Vt.-Otisfield, Winslow, and South Berwick, Maine-Ladies Char. Soc. in 1st Parish, E. Windsor, 1st Fem. Ben. Soc. in Windham, Young Ladies Ben. Soc. in Durham, Friends of missions in Norfolk, Hartford, Enfield, Farmington, Glastenbury, Simsbury, Weathersfield, and Wapping, Conn-Fem. For Mission Soc in Rodman, Friends of missions in Paris, Aagusta, New York city, West Durham, Sangersfield, Moscow, and Mt. Morris, NewYork. Fem. clothing Society in Bloomfield, N. Jersey; and to all others, in every place, who have been our helpers in the Lord.

The fruits of your pious liberality have reached us in safety, and proved a very seasonable supply for the wants of our numerous family.

It would have given us sincere pleasure to have written to you separately and individually, and not only to have acknowledged the receipt of your charities, but also to have made you fully acquainted with our circumstances and prospects.

But this we cannot do, without encroaching too much on the duties we owe to this perishing people, and to the cause in which we are engaged.

Be pleased, Dear Friends, to accept this expression of our gratitude, and rest assured that we shall ever retain a grateful recollection of those who have contributed to our comfort, and supplied us with the means of being useful. If done from love to Christ and the perishing heathen, you have already enjoyed a rich reward. Did time permit, we could say many things to encourage you in these labors of love. But we must refer you to printed notices of these missions, to the general aspect of the heathen world, and to the grand results which are every day witnessed, as so many pledges, that your labors will not be in vain. We joyfully hail you as co-workers with us, in building up the Redeemer's kingdom in this dark land. Beloved Friends, do not forget us. Bear us on your hearts at the throne of grace, and beseech the Lord to bless your charities, and our labors. In behalf of the mission families at Mayhew and Bethel. CYRUS KINGSBURY.

A few boxes of clothing, cloth, shoes, hats, &c. will be needed next fall at Mayhew, Bethel, and in the S. E. district. The Choctaw Mission is well supplied, for the present, with bedding, small shirts, and small socks.

LETTER OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

To the Female Cent Society in E. Bridgewater; Mite and Fragment Society in N. = Bridgewater; Heathen School Society in Carlisle; Friends of Missions in Lanesborough, Belchertown, Bedford, Leominster, Worcester, Montague, Sutton, and First

THE CHEROKEE MISSION

Writes to the Corresponding Secretary as follows-"We have omitted to mention, that but a limited supply of clothing for the children has been sent to us this year. We fear it will be difficult for us to keep them decent until their benefactors can be informed, and favor us with a supply. The readiness of our friends to furnish clothing, in the infancy of

our mission, on the first intimation that such donations would be useful, and the abundance sent to this mission, until notice was given that we had more than was immediately necessary; induces a belief, that there is now the same readiness to grant a supply, if our wants could be definitely known."

While we desire not a dollar, which would come to the Treasury in the form of money, to be diverted from its original destination to the purchase of clothing for the missions of the Board, since donations in money are imperiously needed at the present time, we think there are many friends, of missions, who wish to render more aid to the cause than they have been hitherto able to render, and to whom the proposal above made will furnish the opportunity. At Brainerd, shirts for grown per sons, and pantaloons of all sizes, are particul'arly needed.

We recommend to the friends of the cause, who prepare clothing, to send for "Indian Missions generally," rather than for any particular station; and that, in a letter sent with the box, not in it, to the Treasurer, there be a general statement of the kind of articles, which the box contains. On the subject of leaving the particular station, to which the several boxes shall be sent, to be designated by the Committee, we need only remark;-that where a hundred socie ties, situated in different parts of the coun try, and having no communication with each other, select the station, to which they wish their donation sent, it would be strange if too much were not sent to one place, and too little to another. Particular circumstan ces, may, however, authorize exceptions to this rule.

Foreign Entelligence.

INFLUENCE OF THE BIBLE ALONE.

THE two first of the following paragraphs are
extracted from a letter of the Rev. Dr.
Marshman, and the others from a letter of the
Rev. Daniel Corrie,-both addressed to the
British and Foreign Bible Society.

this, numbers of these Sutya-Gooroos came to Dacca, and with Mr. Leonard and various native Christian brethren there, described a number of things mentioned in the New Tes tament, particularly those which related to caste, and the distinction of food. This ended in three of them being baptized in the course of a few months on a profession of faith in Christ, who afterward returned to their own villages. Our aged brother Kishnoo (baptized in 1800) went among them last August, and at the village, where he was constrained to remain on account of the rains, he found a copy of the second edition of the Bengalee New Testament, which they prized very highly, although they had not as yet made an open profession of Christianity.

About three years ago, a number of persons were found inhabiting certain villages near Dacea, who had forsaken idolatry, and who constantly refused to Brahmans the usual honors paid to them beyond the other classes of the community. They were also said to be remarkable for the correctness of their conduct, and particularly for their adherence to To these I may add another fact, which I truth. These were occasionally visited by believe has not appeared in any Biblical Re several of our Christian brethren, both Euro- port, if it has appeared at all in print. About pean and native, and were said to be scattered 16 years ago Mr. Ward, now in England, through ten or twelve villages. They were going through a village opposite Calcutta, however the followers of no particular leader, left at a native shop a Bengalee New Testa as is the case with many sects among the ment, that it might be read by any in the vil Hindoos; but from their professing to be in lage who chose it. About a year afterward search of a true gooroo, or teacher, they were three or four of the most intelligent of the intermed Sutya-Gooroos. Some of our native habitants came to Serampore to inquire fur friends being exceedingly desirous of knowing ther respecting the contents of the book left from whence they had derived all their ideas, in their village. This ended in six or eight of were at length told that they had imbibed them making a public profession of Christian. them from a book which was carefully pre-ity. Among these, three deserve a particu served in one of their villages. On arriving at this village, they were shown a book much worn; kept in a case (I think of brass) which had been made for the sake of preserving it, and which our friends were told had been there many years, although none of those present could say from whence it came. On examination, this book was found to be a copy of the first edition of the Bengalee New Testament, printed at Serampore in 1800. After

lar notice. One was an old man named Jug gernath, who had been long a devotee to the idol of that name in Orissa, had made many pilgrimages thither, and had acquired such a name for sanctity, that a rich man in Orissa was said to have offered him a pension for life on condition of his remaining with him. On his becoming acquainted with the New Testament, he first hung his image of Kishnoo. or Juggernath, which he had hitherto wor

hipped, on a tree in his garden, and at length left it up to boil his rice. He remained steadast in his profession of Christianity till his leath, which happened about eight years af

er.

Two others of them Kishnoo-das and Sebeck-ram, being men of superior natural endowments, employed themselves in pubishing the doctrines of Christianity to their ountrymen in the most fearless manner, while their conduct and demeanor was such is to secure them universal esteem. Kish100-das died rejoicing in Jesus Christ as the Redeemer of men about five years ago; and Sebeck-ram is now a member of the church meeting in the Loll-bazar, and resides to this day in his native village opposite Calcutta, where, and in the different parts of Calcutta, he explains the Scriptures to all who resort to him, being esteemed by all who know him.

In 1813, a Mahomedan Hukeem came to me at Agra, from Burthpore, saying, that he had many years before read the Pentateuch in Arabic, a copy of which had been given to him by a Roman Catholic priest: that about two years before the time he came to me, he had obtained a copy of St. Matthew's Gospel in Persian, from reading of which he had become convinced of the divinity of Jesus Christ. This man, with his son, was afterward baptized.

The next instance that occurs to me is of an aged Hindoo. This man, from reading the writings of Cubeer, had been led to renounce idolatry, and finding the law and Gospel spoken of by Cubeer as divine books, he was for several years anxious to possess a copy. After several ineffectual attempts to procure a copy from English gentlemen, he at length obtained the Gospels in the Nagree character. He was also afterward baptized.

A third instance of good derived from the Scriptures alone, was Buruket Museeh, in 1813. He got a manuscript copy of Job, which he perused with great interest; afterward he got a copy of the Psalms; then Isaiah; and finally, the New Testament, in Hindoostanee. His exemplary life and happy death, are recorded in the London Missionary Register.

The only other case that occurs to me, is that of Fyz Museeh, baptized in 1817. At 17 years of age he became a Mahomedan, purely from the abhorrence of idolatry expressed in the Koran. He remained upwards of 20 years, a strict and indefatigable disciple of the Koran, living as a Fakeer, and obtaining great honor among his countrymen, for his supposed sanctity. At length, being disgusted in his own mind with the practices recommended by his spiritual guides, and wearied with his own ineffectual labors after holiness, he abandoned all his honors as a devotee, and bought from a lady a copy of the New Testament, if haply he might find in it that rest for his soul, he had hitherto sought in vain from other quarters. He sought and found, as his conduct hitherto leads us to think, the object of his pursuit.

DISTRIBUTION OF THE SCRIPTURES IN SOUTH

AMERICA.

WITH respect to the circulation of the Scriptures in some parts of South America, our

former numbers have contained notices; and we are happy to find the following, in one of the late numbers of the Monthly Extracts of the American Bible Society. They were taken from a letter, dated Lima, Oct. 18, 1822.

During the time I remained in Buenos Ayres, after writing you, I had the pleasure of seeing the New Testament of our Lord and Savior, circulate in that place, and of seeing it make its way in all directions to the surrounding country. Some copies were sent to a small colony on the east side of Patagonia, and one copy at least, was carried by an Indian chief acquainted with the Spanish language, to the very heart of that comparatively unknown place. This Patagonian was wonderfully pleased with a copy he received in Buenos Ayres, and said he should take great pleasure in explaining it to his countrymen on his return home. To the various provinces on both sides of the Parana, a few copies have been sent as opportunities offered. To Monte Video, some Spanish New Testaments, and Portuguese Bibles were sent. I also found a favorable opportunity of sending some Portuguese Bibles and Testaments to Bahia in the Brazils.

In the end of May 1821, I left Buenos Ayres, for Valparaiso by way of Cape Horn. I carried with me to Chili about sixty New Testaments. I had more at my disposal at Buenos Ayres, but took only that number with me, as I was afraid I might find some difficulty, in introducing them into that place. I am happy to state, however, that no serious difficulty occurred. If the clergy were disposed to throw obstacles in the way, as they sometimes are, the government is as ready, on the other hand, to remove them. The greater part of these sixty New Testaments, were sold in Santiago, and the rest I carried across the Andes to Mendoza, on a visit to that place in April last, where they met with a very favorable reception. The number thus disposed of in Chili was but small. They were however all sold, and this way of distributing the Scriptures, I conceive every way preferable to giving them gratis. I except, of course, the cases that occur of poor people wishing to obtain a copy, and who have not sufficient to purchase it. By the sale of these few, an opening has been made in that place, and I have no doubt but sales may be effected there, increasing from year to year. I was very sorry that I had no more on hand on leaving Chili, as I could have distributed one or two hundred in the schools, which would have been the accomplishment of a very desirable object. I hope I shall yet be enabled to attend to this before long, as I am looking for a considerable quantity every day from London.

In June last I arrived in this city, where I expected to find a box of 250 New Testaments, which I had ordered to be sent on to this place. I was greatly disappointed, however, in not finding them according to my expectation; especially as I thought I could have distributed them to advantage. Whilst I was

thus regretting the want of them, there came from London, to the house of Mr. Lynch in this city, 500 Spanish Bibles and 500 Spanish New Testaments. Mr. Lynch, soon after their arrival, began to sell them, the Bibles t three dollars, and the New Testaments at six rials. The result of this sale is gratifying in the extreme. I have great pleasure in communicating to you, and I am sure you will have unfeigned satisfaction in hearing, that the whole of these five hundred Bibles, and five hundred New Testaments were SOLD in TWO DAYS. This is a new thing in South America, and affords a most encourag ing prospect. May the Lord enlighten the understandings of those who have received his Holy Word in this place, that they may understand it; and may He speedily send another supply which may satisfy the wants of all here. By every vessel that arrives, I am looking for a liberal supply, and hope not many days will elapse before they are in my possession, or rather in the possession of the inhabitants of this place.

In Buenos Ayres there is a sufficient supply, I believe, of New Testaments at present The number disposed of in that place, is not so great as might be expected. Several object to buying them there, because they had formerly been distributed gratis, and the same objection has been made in Monte Video. I have already mentioned to you my opinion upon this subject.

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What I have hitherto stated applies solely to the circulation of the Scriptures entire, that is, the whole Bible, or the whole of the New Testament. This is what concerns the Bible Society, and this only, as a body incorporated for the express purpose of circulating the Scriptures in this manner without note or comment. The individual members of the Society, however, are not limited in their exertions to this object, and much less in their wishes. To every one who loves the Bible, it will afford satisfaction to learn, that parts of the Scriptures are circulated, however small these parts may be. Something of this kind has been done here. We have printed at different times, lessons for our schools, consisting of extracts from the Scriptures; and these lessons are now used in the schools on the Lancasterian plan, in Buenos Ayres and in Chili. In this place I am printing just now an edition of these lessons, consisting of 2,500 copies at the government printing office. No objections have hitherto been made to my introducing the Scriptures into the schools in this manner, nor is there any interference in the manner of selecting the parts of Scripture for these lessons. I have hitherto enjoyed full liberty to select and arrange these as I think best. You will easily perceive the great advantages arising from this indirect circulation of the Scriptures. Instruction will be communicated thereby at that age, in which the tender mind easily receives, and to a certain extent permanently retains, the impressions then made. From the slow progress of truth, of religion, and virtue among men, and from the adherence to evil in all its forms, I turn my eyes, and I turn them with pleasure, to children. There the great reformation mast begin. Upon this foundation must be

built all that is noble in our species, by which God may be glorified. And the deeper this foundation is laid, that is, the earlier instrue tion begins, so much more majestic and beat tiful will be the edifice erected.

PROGRESS OF RELIGION IN FRANCE.

A LETTER from the Rev. Mark Wilks, dated Paris, March 12, 1823, and published in the London Missionary Chronicle, contains the following remarkable declaration.

Meetings for prayer and Missionary Asso ciations are already established, and are estab lishing from the Alps to the Pyrennees, from the Mediterranean to the Atlantie. in the largest cities and in the humblest villages.

The following extracts, having respect to some of the prayer-meetings, were forwarded by the same indefatigable laborer, who wrote the letter above mentioned.-The first is extracted from a letter of a pious layman, who resides in a small town in the mountains of the Pyrennees, dated February 1823.

"I was invited on Sunday to a meeting which was to be held the next evening, it be ing the first Monday of the month, for the purpose of imploring the divine blessing o the Missionary Society of Paris, &c. The meeting was held in a private house. I was punctual to the hour appointed; but instead of being among the first, I was the last. I found about 120 persons already assembled, and it was easy to perceive by their serious ness that they were deeply interested in the object of the meeting. Though I did not ob serve among them either the rich or the wise of this world, I could not but enjoy the co soling conviction that the Lord, who is no respecter of persons, was in the midst of these sincere worshippers, and that he would not send them away without having opened to them the precious and inexhaustible "treas. } ures of wisdom and knowledge that are hidde in Christ."

After speaking of the prayers offered, h

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Verses of Psalms and Cantiques suited to the object of the meeting were sung. The Address from the Society of Paris was read, and a collection was made at the close of the service in favor of the Society. The amount of the collection was small, because it was strictly the mite of the widow, and the far thing of the poor; but as meetings will be held on the first Monday of every month, when the sum is larger, it will be forwarded to Paris. I mentioned the next day to one of our pastors the delightful service which I had st tended the night before, and he assured me that if they had received the official circular from Paris, a public prayer meeting would have been held in the temple.

The next extract is from a letter from Asene near Bourges. The letter is dated Janary 12, 1823.

I have read with the deepest interest the Address of the Missionary Society of Paris, nd bless God who has put it into your hearts o form an institution so sacred, so noble, and useful. I assembled my parishioners in he temple, on Monday evening at seven 'clock; the church was nearly full; love to God, zeal for his cause, and the novelty of he subject that occupied us brought togethr nearly all my flock. After prayers and inging suitable to the occasion, I addressed he assembly from Matthew ix, 35. &c.

Mr. Wilks remarks, after copying the bove,

Calvin completed his preparatory studies at Bourges, and preached the gospel there at the commencement of the Reformation.

Our last extract was written at the foot of the Pyrenees, on the 10th of January.

Our first business on the receipt of the Address from the Committee of Paris was to as. semble on the first Monday of the month, to recommend your Society to the blessing of the Lord; and I hope that every Christian of our flock will also pray in his closet, and in his family, that you may be blessed with wis dom from on high. Yes, may the Lord shed on you the same blessings which have so visi bly accompanied the labors of those societies which are your elder sisters, and may thousands of souls be turned from darkness to light. I send you 60 francs collected at our first Meeting, and to which some Catholics contributed.

EDUCATION IN EGYPT.

MR. Wolff, the Jewish missionary, has proposed to the Bashaw of Egypt to establish a school at Boulak near Cairo, on the new sys tem adopted in England. The Bashaw

readily accepted the proposal; recommending however that the teachers should be established at his Lyceum. "Let them," he says, "be clever men, capable of teaching the new system of education and the sciences, and I will afford them every facility, that is, I will collect for them as many scholars as I can get together. Let them teach the languages, Italian, French and English, trigonometry, or measuring of land, and weighing connected with the science of engineers; but let them be men of abilities. I shall be glad to contribute towards the payment of such men." says again, "I am obliged to pay those who come to be instructed, to some 30, to some 40, to some 100 piastres per month; and even then with difficulty can I persuade them to come; so ignorant and barbarous are the people of this country, whether Copts or LevanLines."

CHINESE NOTIONS OF A FUTURE STATE.

From the Indo-Chinese Gleaner.

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THE Chinese must have a very irrational idea, as it would seem, of the state of the dead, from their supposing that houses, and garments, and money, and food, are wanted by spirits in that state. Paper houses, and gilt garments, are commonly burnt and sent by fire to the invisible state for friends deceased. However, we have lately had an instance here of a complete wardrobe, consisting of silks, sables, &c to the amount of eight thou. sand dollars, being all consumed for the service of a rich old merchant, who died about four months ago. His son, who has committed this folis, is a person of education, and of the Joo-KEAOU, or sect of philosophers in China.

The brother of the deceased also departed this life but a few months ago, and left a large and necessitous family, in which similar expensive and useless rites were performed. Such cases are some of the minor temporal ills arising from the superstition of fallen reason; but when compared with the burning a widow, the burning of a wardrobe is indeed but a light evil.

Domestic Entelligence.

· FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY OF BOSTON AND VICINITY.

Our readers will remember, that this Society held a special meeting in June last. The Resolutions then passed, and the Speeches then made, were given in our number for July; and, at the end of all, was inserted the Address of the Prudential Committee to the Christian Public. Perhaps it is hardly time to know what effect these have produced upon the friends of missions, in the interior.

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But the friends of missions in this city, they have not been lost. Coinciding, in their influence, with that of the revival of religion, which still refreshes us, like a gentle vernal shower, they have kindled a disposition in the young to solicit, and in the old to grant, benefactions in aid of the missions of the Board.

Soon after the public meeting of the Society, a gentleman, connected with the Missionary Rooms, attended a meeting of young ladies, with the view of securing more exten

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