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f RELIGIOUS. AMERICAN BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS. Abstract of the twcniy-eighth Annual Report. Domestic Peimiitment. I The Hon. VVm. Rccd of Mai biehead, a member of the Board eighteen years, and of the Frudentiai Committee sixteen years ? died on the 18th of February. Two ordanincd missionaries; one physician, and one male and two female assis. tant missionaries have died since the las' meeting of the Board . Eight missionaries, one physician, and fire male seventeen female assistant mis[f* sienaries have been discharged from the service of the Board, on account of chanties | O in the mlssious, failure of health. and oth.1 er causes. Twentymine missionaries, and Jivo male seventeen female assistant nnss'onsrries,havo received appointments during the year. It pkj is known that others would havo ofibred ^ their services, if they had nof been discouraged by the detention of thorc already appoinSixty-three missionaries and assistant missionaries have beensent out since die last meeling^f the Board?viz;:o Cape Palmas three? to Southern Iudia fourteen; to the Sundvvich Islands thirty .two; to Ooroo. ^ miah four; to the bland ofSdio two; to the Choctaw Indians four; to the Pawnees one; to the Sioux two; to Indians in the S:ate of '^ew ^r?r'c onc There are now under oppoinimcnt and waiting tdl funds can be obtained to send - them out, thirty.four missionaries, and four male and six female assistant missionaries. The debt pf the Board at the close of the last year was $38,866 57. The expenditures of the year were $253,587 51, exceeding those of the last year by $44,181 97. i . The rs< eipis into the Treosury from ail the ordinary sources of income for tho year en. / - ding July 31st, were #*252,076 55, being an increase upon a deficiency on that day of $41,379 53. TJic increased expenses of the year are owing partly to the cost of sending out so many laborers, and pardy to the great in: V- creased expense of making remittances to the missions abroad, through the dranged , state of the finances of die country. But other causes lie at the foundation of j * r-?: the augmented expenses of the last two i years. These aro, 1. The fact thai from r the year 1632 until this year, the receipts have increased very little, oniy ?23,000 in ' the four years. Tnerft has been a general ; * - impression that the Board wanted men, not funds. 2. While tlic receipts have increased so nlnwlr. there has been a ran id evtension nf I ?. ~.w?v,?- - ? I the operations of the Board. From 1933 j to 1836, one hundred and eighty-five h | borers have been sent out. This ti e h-! I borers have increased in a ratio quite out of j proportion to the increase of funds. 3. This disproportion has b*?en still grea- ? ter as it r?gards i c schools, seminaries! printing presses, and other operations of the j micoinnsripa. Fnr the CommiltcA. hpinw I \ assured by the friends of the cause, in everv j rip part of the couutryT -?Pthcrr rccitiiinrsy to* provide any amount Gf funds that could be ! judiciously and economically expended, and not being able to obtain as many men as j f. needed, were led mors than three j years ago to encourage the missionaries then in the field, to take steps for enlarging ! ? tlteir influence and usefulness. The effect of these measures in swelling [ V>t* ihe expenses of the Board was not felt until j last year, owing to the grent distance of the j principal missions. For the same reason j the measures adopted tvvelve mcnthnago to j lessen expenses, will not diminish the drafts j upon the treasury until 1838. The expenses last year have been based j upon estimates made when the pecuniary , ; situation of the Board and of the country were very different from what they are now. ! The increas of receipts last year does in j reality but rr ake up the deficiency of pre. vious years. The cost of sending out sixtythree laborers, and the debt due at the commencement of the year exhaust it,leaving a deficiency of the amount necessary to meet f r the current expenses of the year, a little greater than that of last year. The Agencies of the Board are filled by the same persons who have labored so di. I - v iigently and successfully in them in former ? yean.' No important change ras taken t r -L .< ? pracetn ineni uunug mc \ctui uuuci review. $ DbPARTMBNT OF MISSIONS BEYOND SEA. mission at cape palmas. Fair Hope.?John Leighton Wilson4 * missionary; Benjamin Van Rensselaer James, Printer; Mrs. Wilson. (1 station; 1 missionary, 1 printer, and 1 female assistant missionary;?total, 3.) Mr. and Mrs. White and Mr. James arrived at Cape Palmas in December, in good health. Mrs. White became sick of t* a foyer on the 10th of January, and died on % the 28th. Her husband's anxious care of her in the first days of her sickness, notwith. standing the remonstrances of his more experienced missionary friends, was bproably the reason that when the fever seized upon him on the 18th of January he sunk I at once,and died on the 23d. Mr. James had the fever lightly. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson enjoy excellent health, and much solid happiness in their work. The more they know of their field of labor, the more highly do they think of it. Mr. Wilson made three tours the past year, in'o the interior. One was thtrty miles to the chief town in the Bolobo terito. ry; another thirty five miles to a town twenty miles up the Cuvally river the third 130 miles from Grabba,eigbty-five miles beyond the termination of his second tour. He was then on his way to a people supposed to j inhabi* he declivities of the Kong mountains J But havn.g been lep out of his way, and ! falling among an inhospitable tribe of can- j nibals, he returned. The country in the | interior, and especially along the river, is of; surpassing beauty and fertility. Nor does J 'r. ~ : it want in habitants. j Mr. Wilson has commenced ?a seminary j oi bourJing scholars liotn different p:ir.si of the country. It conlans lbrt) "pupils, one forth of wnom arc females. Tnore are four day-schools, containing one hundred pupils taught by coiored men. He has commenced printing in the Grey bo language. No field occ ipi d by the Board promises a speedier or more abundant harvest for ihose w o can endure the climate, than this; | and the call is urgent for ivroor three cleriI cal men from our southern states to asso- . i ciate themselves immediately with Mr. Wb! son. Nothing has yet occurred lo prove that the danger of early death is imminent, to such men, if they use the precautions which experience suggests to mitigate Me violence of the cons i.utional changes by which the system is accommodated to ill climate. MISSION* AMOXG THE ZCOI.AHS OF SOCTII AFRIBA. Port Natal.?Newton adams, M. D., Physician, and wife. Gin an i.?Aldcn Grout and George Champion, missionaries Mrs. Champion. - . . t . r\._: i t I ... dianons yet not Known, lmuh i uuiuiey. Henry. J. Venable, and Alex mder C. Wilson, M D. ,Missionaries; Mrs. Lindfey a;id I and Mrs. Venable. (2 stations; 5 missionaries?one of them a physicicn, 1 physician, and 4 female assisant missionaries; total, 10.) God in his providence has resolved the two South African missions into on**. Taa destined to thointerrior,-t.r vedat Mos'ka, ii? the country of Moselekaisijune 15th, 1336. fifteen mouths after leaving Cape Town. Their missionary labors, however, had been j virtually commenced at Gnqua Town, onlv i two months after leaving the Cape. The I climate of South \frica is one of the healthiest in the world; but beginning to lodg in iheir houses before the mud floors wer< sufficiently dried, all, except Dr. Wilson, I suffered from fever and rheumatic affections, ! and on the 18th of Sep ember, Mrs. Wilson j died. Scarcely had they recovered from i the effects of this ininlul dispensation,which ! i they were subjected to another, when broko j \ up their mission, and removed them from I O.r, /-nimirv S!nmr? Dutch firmer*?. rich . , | in flocks ar.d herds,and dissatisfied with the | j colonial government, had emigrated from i j the colony the year before, a id set led at | some distance south of the country of Mosn. lekatsi. These Mosciekatsi attacked and robbed, without provocation, in the fail of I836,s!aying some of their number. Rein forced by new emigrants, they invaded u s country in January, destroyed tour een or fifteen of his villages, slaughtered raany oi hi3 people, and captured 6,000 head of cat. tie. They declared their intention of re. nev.ing the war, and driving him from the countiy, and earnestly advised the m ss on. aries to relinquish their mission and go with them. No other course seemed prop r, and our brethren entered upon another long and tedious journey of 1,200 or 1,500 miles io join their brethren of the maritime mission j at Port Natal In Mty there were at Gm. ham's Town, and probably reached Port Natal in Jul v. TLo orcttiTT-ti Krt tTrc mit ttiinv tmoonm irr- f~ rived at Port Na aion the21st of M iv 1936 and sonn after by invi:ttion from Dmg.-iuu the chief of the Zoolahs, they visited him, and were cordially received. They miine. diately commenced two stations, one ut or near the residence of' Digaan, the other ar the port, and wroto home for helpers. With these they have been providentially furnished, in the unexpected manner jus' described. A printing establishment presented by a munificient friend of the cause, has been sent to this mission duriug the past year. The uniting of those two missions is not on the whole undesirable. The impressions of our brethren concerning the character of Moselekasii, were by no means favorable. The extent of his country and the number of his people olso fell short of their expectations. Being an unprincipled freebooter, * ^itwPAtmrlinrr t T i l>n o O'n i>li I1JS reuuiuu* lU UIU eunuuuuui^ u wo *?viv j sue11 as in great measure to insolate his p,jo. pie, and afford little prospect of making the mission, within moderate period and to any great extent, aradiating point of influence. Nor was it very improbaie that moselekatsi j1 and his people would emigrate to some other j( region more remo'e from the vengeful and |1 dreaded power of Dingaan. MISSION OF GREECE i ' Athens.?Jonas King D. D., missionary :' and wife. ( Argos.?Klias Riggs and Nathan Benjamin missionaries, and their wives.' (2 stations; 3 missionaries, and 3 female , assistant missionaries, total 6.) During the past year a violent opposition I has been excited, by designing men,?ga-ns j the Americans, under which appellation all protestent missionaries and Bible agents were included, from whatever part of th? *'"- '1 (Ii/i.r tr.n\r h:ivo /?rtmp This has !l?> v> VI 4't lll^jr i?i' % t V \ v.nv, - ?? .?w J only pervaded Greece, but the whole Greek 1 comtnuni'y. Notwithstanding this. Dr. |, King wntesi at the comm?ncemeiit of the I present year, that he was never so much encourged in his mission. From thirty to forty, which was all his room woul I contain, statedly attended his Greek preaching on the Sabbath. Ho had sold and gra ui ously distributed, in the twelve months past, 4.697 copies of New Testament and parts of the Old Testament in modem Greek, and 43,32*2 copies of school-books arid religious tracts?in all 48,000* Add to these what Mr. Riggs distributed and the number amounts to near 50,000. The other labors of the mission were as heretofore. The seminary was continued at Ather s; had the two female schools at Argos contained se. venty scholars. 1 Prof. Bambas had com*-forward in and swer to the inflammatory tract, which was j the cheif insfrument iu exciting the opposition just mentioned. H s reply vindicates rhereadingof tho word of God in mod<m J Greek, and as trmstated from the Hebrew, j and is said to be beautifully written.?Mr. i j and Mrs. Benjamin arrived at Agros on ht. j 1 15th of November. 1} MISSION TO COXTAOT7XOPLE. GoNsTAXTixorrr,?Wiihnm Goedeil, f-J, ^ G. O Dvvigiu, William G. Scbaufller, an<. Hfcnry A. Homes, missionaries; Mrs. Good HI M.a. Dvvight, Mrs. Schuufller.? i'lireo nativ helpers. (1 station: 4 missionaries, three feinak ussirtunt miss.onaries, and 3 native helpers toiai, 10.) T.ie means o communication n Turkey have greatly increased within a tew years and are increasing. Tno plague, however seriously obstructs travelling, and all kind; of labor. TneLaueastcrian schools amoiu the Turkish soldiers continue to flourish.? Among the Turks, he following change! mil indications of'fcaange are worhv ?. notice; viz. Tfi" intio luc ion by tne ul .*t <?f the European nomenclature in designa ung his ministers of slate? lie construe ioi of a regular carrriage road to Nieoinedw in one direction, and Adnnnople m .inotlie ?t c assump ion bv me Govcrmnem o t.ie nilii) -US ' landed '*st .tcs b-longing ? t ie niosks oi Constantinople?<nd h pin cuigoi hiso-Vii portraits, ontrarv o ie po oepisol the Koran, in the ourncks of \u< soldiers. I h' Gftfks ol Con^ta t ?? p1*' an os iniiit'd at Z ttkOJO?i greater numb r n .n fun oo toiinn collected in any o. he po . Th end'Miry to infidelity anion* ii in is probably no n?oro iiian a revu1s<oi oi teehng and opiu.o - from the oxirenie o supers,ition, witti no lung ,o give it the ngli d.roc ion- As i body, t icy are p- culi >rb accessiol . 'J' ?er?- art* ulso tnous nils o Frank Greeks in i a; in .rop lis, generaib from liberated Geecc, w.ioowe no ullegi once either to sultan or pa riarch. Tnori seems, now ever, to be wan mg among tin Greeks of (Jo us! a u inople thai preparuhoi oi neart?tne result ofdiv.no influence w ild is lound among ihoarment us Hence bu low insances of spiritual renovation have yet bven seen among m? m. Tiiere h is oeen However, a deficiency in the appro,>riat< means: none oi our present m.ss o arte: speaking the modern Greek. A missionary acquainted with that language will probably bo soon transferred iroin one oi our o lio s'ations 111 ?li*! Leva a . Tne work of God among the Armenian co itinues with increasing interest. Wnat, evor of opposition has existed has bcr*>i overruled tor good. Early, in 1ie presen year, ilie vakeel, a son ot prime in insiero 110 p atri ?rch, resolved upon breaking uj ourseminery tor Armenian you it, and, tin in-ssion ininking it advisable o yi?-!J tin pomi, lie easily succeeded. Ai the sarn< nine ne in ended to destroy Ine r putatior and uiHuenee of Aouames, the pi.uis priu c.paloflhe seminary, and of Setinekerim iiis pious friend, now in iti United States li pleased God 10 make ail the subserve is ih< cause of truth and righ eousness. An opu lent and mumnoien banker had undertakei to r -orgarnz . and enlarge an Arrnenuir scliool ot 40J puoils. wnic i was in chargt ot an evangelical and devou une.it. Ttio bun iter and never s< en our ui.ssionar.es he liuu cordially received no same blcssei principles wirii tne pries and tio iaiin< s. a hi earnest rccouitiieii <atio.i of tucvjus ru uou, tne loriner taking a stiho; hate pos in the scnool. Tne placing Hit- iio mnuc: |tl t'll-S nii.s.fin-1 MT-i-- '* T rrrc-?, H'v and by some of tne chief m n in trio na ton; but the resolution and influence of the ban k r were su m, winle at the s.nne time h boldly avoWed ihecoincid nco ot nis own religious views and feelings with tnos ol O o iionauces,lhat tin* national synod sane ioned me appointing n*. Tne scnool is intended lor the higher branch' s ol science, has h Luncustenan depar.ment lor the smalltf boys, a.id another lor gins, It is exjiec ed to contain about OOU scnoilars, and to be u tree school. Tne wortny patron is reported to have expended $.">,000 in getttng the school in.o operation, and will be at no small annual exjienses for teachers, etc. etc. Mm rln;ties neurlv a hundred of the girls, and nearly two hundred boys. Thus has the Lord suspended our Armenian seminary only to rear up ouo more efficient and equally evangelical; and a the same time he has relieved us of uot not a smuli item oi sxpendi.ure. The insu ution just mentioned is at Has Koy, a suburb of Constantinople. At Sou. Lari, another suburb, the Armenians are erecting a building tor a college, containing more than 120 rooms. What is more than ail (bLs, the work of spiritual renovation . is making manifest progress among t us people. It is not tune o make use o! numbers in our s atementa on tms subject; bu it is certain tha .he gospel isihere producing i s legitimate etFcc s. It is bringing men to (Jurist and salvat.on; teaching them tuut denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, uiey should live soberly, righteously, and godly in dus present world. It is found too, that a very little of God's precious truth is amply sufficient foi the purpose, when it is accompanied by tneifluen cesof he Holy .Spirit. An ong the Jcws% the state of things is much as was reported last year. There is to some extent a hearing ear, and .0 a great extent the absence of an understanding heart. The German and Polish Jews are less bigoted and more intelligent than the Spams i Jews, but are more ludiff Tent on the subject of religion. On tlio great day ot atonement, hey allowed Marcussohn, the baptised German Jew, to address them at considerable length in iheir synagogue on the christian religion.the **ruler of the synagogue" having first given him a chair in the elevated enclosure where prayers and the Scriptures are read and sermons delivered. The printing of the Psalms in Hebrew and H -Drew Spanish has been completed. Mr. Schauffl -r's visit of some months to his German relatives and friends a' Odessa, resulted in an interacting revival of religion in that place. MISSION TO ASIA MINOR. Smyrna.?Daniel Temple and John B. A.dger, Missionaries Horn an Hillock, Printer; and . wive..? P . u. . iclpers. Scio.?Samuel R. Houston and George IV. Leyburn Missionaries, and their wives. ~>nc native helper. I' Bkoosa.?Benjamin Schneider and Philander O. Powers Missionaiies, and their -1 wives. Trebtzond.?Thomas P. Johnston and j William C. 5dcksou,Missionaries, and their 5 i wives. (4 s:ation-?; 8 missionaries, 1 prin'er, 9 , female* ass.slant missionaries, and 4 native , | helpers; iotal, *22.) , No report has been received of the prin* ting at Smyrna since June of last year. The I' issues from the deposi ory during the year - 1830, amounted to 27,568 books, & 1,920,s 1 L2 pages The sc iooIs have been susi pen v<i on aceou.it of nie Greeks. Mr. i Adg *r is uletuily t*m 1 >yed in revising n v rsion of ilu* N w T s ainent in modern i Armmian, made some tune since by an Ar? menian. Mr. Adger regards the anci *nt \ i_ r m iiJ'.tixiii vcisiou as scarcely niieiiur iu f oar own excellent E iglisn version, some , f-w interpolations ex *ep.ed. It w is mad* <iljo.it .ne rift.i cent <ry. A Greek periodi eal, <: tiled me Repository of Us fill Knowl egc, issued by t.ie mi>s.on, is received with iuvor by Greek subscribers. Tne s u ion at tici jreceived the accession >. ol Mr. aud Mrs. Lcyburn the past .year, r and taut at Trebizoud of Mr. and Mrs. r Jackson. It is doub-ed whether Scio is the i place f ra Greek seminary, and whether i a sem n iry oti a large scale is exped ent any wuere at present for educating native ; Greek helpers. The schocls at Brossa 1 confer ed wit.i trie mission have been supr pr-s cd, and a considmble number of . bouks, including tne Scriptures, wbieh had i been dis ributed by tne missionaries, were burned by trie Greeks. Tne flames made i R.iown tne existence ot the books to the i wnole people and awakened curiosi y con ; cerniug tnein. Not a tew books were pre. ? served and valued die more on uccount of , th" risk encountered by tne preserva ion, * and att lees: a lew of the people were led to 4 examine taern tne more carefully by the ; order f >r tneir destruction. I In October, Messrs. S Mneider and Pow. r ers made a our to Ku oieh,a city of cnrisid. erubie note in me country anciently called ? Parygia. Mr. Joans on also m ?de a tour . from Trebizond, accompanied by Mr. Sen. i nekernn, die Armenian already mentioned, i Tiiey visited Samsoon, Tcharchambath, f j Ooneteb, Am issia, Tokat,3ivas, Erzeugan. ) and Erzerooai. At Tokat taey tound an ? Arrnen an bisuop, waose mind had been > \ so inucn ewig itened, and wno had attemp. ; j ted some salutary reforms. Mr. Johnston i recommends Erztroom as a proper site for . a missionary s aiion. mission to syria and the holy land. Beyroot.?Eli smith; Willi.tm M. Thornson, and Story Hebard, Missionaries', Mrs. ' T.ioinsou, Mrs. Hebard.?One native hel. i Pera I Jerusalem.?George B. Whiting, and j John F. L<\iitn:nu,Missionaries:Mrs. Wni. mg, and Miss Tddon. [ larnika, on the island of Cyyrus, cgii. t netted with this mission.?Lorenzo W. Pease. J nn- s L. Thompson, and Daniel ( La Id.Missionaries-, Mrs. Pease,Mrs. LadJ One native ..elper. * ^ fir &IL[T(sS Bird, Missionary, and wife. ' (3 sia ions; 9 missionaries, 8 female assis am in ? siouut (es, and Z native helpers;? tptal, 19.) I M iss Williams was united in marriage to Mr. iiebard on the 6tn of October. Mrs. I Smith, aft r suif ring much in consequence of shipwr < k on the coast of ^aran ania, . wmle on he way with her husband CoStnyr. I na for tiie benefit ot her heath, slepi i i Je. sus at the latter place, September 31st.? I Sue possessed uncommon excellence of character. In tHe s npwreck Mr. Smith lost tiie valuable manuscript of a journal kept by him during his tour through the j tiooran and the counrry north ofDamascus j ' ii^tne year 1834,w.iich he had not lound time prtj are for tne press. While on a visit iO Constan iaople, Mr. O r.j _i . >1Ait I_l . t l. oiimu procureu uuoui ?uu moueis ui Arau. : in letters lor tue cuting ofa new lount of type m ttuu language. He succeeded in so shaping these that puncnes formed from tliem, will make noi far from a thousand ma.ricesand letters, and a fount embracing nearly every variety. Tnce models he left in the handset Mr. fJallock at Smyrna, who will probably succeed in cutting the puuenes. The Arabic founts now in use by the mission are very imperfect. The ( prai.iog during the year 183b, all in Arabic, I amounted to 4.200 copies, and 391,000 ; pages. A printer is ihjoIi needed. Four of the r gulur at.endants on tho Arabic preaching a Hey root are thought to be .ruiy pious ; and the bretnren see cause to hope mat a work has co umenced in many near s, which wdl receive its coinple. tiou in neuven. | Tue excitement among the Greeks for a j time had much effect on the schools. It led I to tne establishment of a largo sc.iool by t a; ; Greek bishop as a substitute for the mission ' schools, to which oi cour>e the mission could i hai'H nn r?hii>r?tii >n T'hp j however, feel no real interest in the educa j | lion of the youth, and the people aro learn- j i iiig the fact. Tae seminary, undercharge i oi Mr Hebared, >as ten boarding and a : number of day scholars. At Jerusalem | tnere is a decidedly Christian school of I about twenty Mussulman girls, taught by Mrs. Whining and Miss Tilden. Mrs. Dodge and Mrs. lie bared teach a lemale sc.ioul at Beyroot, containing about forty scuolars. Missionaries are needed for Damascus, Alleppo, Tripoli, and Lad.ikia. A part of Syria was shaken terribly by au earthquake on the first day of ths present year. Safet and Tiberias, with some neighboring villages, were totally destroyed. Mr. and Mrs. Ladd arrived in Cyprus October 28th. The storm of hostile feeling among the Greeks against evangelical, religion and influence, passed over Cypru i with Lille efievt. The three mission j j schools contain nearly 200 scholars. The ; ... d.i n o ?'>!? ny use is to be made o. v?.e pftuieu worn of God?is appaientin ' the fact, that in tl irty-oix villages, contain-1 ming 5,352 inhabitants, only sixty?seven ! ' could read at all. and these not fluently. ' i mission to the nestorians of persia. Ooroomiah.?Justin Perkins, and Albe L. Holladey, missionaries ; Asahel Gran M. D,, Physician; William R. Stockinj Teacher ; and their wives,?One nativ helper. (I station ; 2 missionaries, I physician, teacher, 4 female assistant missionaries, an 1 native helper ;?total 9.) Messrs. Holladay and Slocking, an their wives, embarked at Bosron for thi mission January 7th. [n April they wet on the Black Sea proceeding to 1 rebizonet . printing press acoompanied them. ; fount of Syro Chaldaic type, adapted to ill aste of tne Nestorians, has been procure in London. A printer is indispensabh but pious and competent printers willing ! devote themselves o gratuitous service i /%i ,n rwi/%? ?/\rt xi'ltK m'doiAnc Ql7l n< V^U[aiv.^uvui niui uhooi^uo^ uiu ir easily found Tne same tide of prosperity, as in ti beginning:, continues to attend this mission /ti except that the members suflft red lusi ye? from a fever then preyalunt at Ooroomiai The sick resort from all quarters to Di Gran*. Fify operations lor cataract he greatly increased his cclebrty. One ofji patients was a Kurtish chief from the baoi of the Tigris, The sennnary contains 44 boardin scholars from different Nestorun vdhigw Among them are three deacons and a pries n a i i .1 t J rriesi Aoranam, me one wno restaeu wh Mr, I erkinsat Tubreez, performs the ac live duties of the school, assisted by tw deacons as monitors ; bat Mr. Perkins dt votes mncii time to it. There are thr? free-schools, containing near a hundrt scholars. The numerous fasts and feasts amon the Nestonans exert an unfavorable iufli ence upon temperance, indus;ry, and" tt schools ; and in their public warsnip tliei is macn room for retormaiion. In coi necucTa with these things it is delightful j tiling of die lights ofscriptural doctrine ar example, wnicii are now shinning upon tto venerable fc interesting remain of toe enure o. Antioch. In February the missiouartc i - i - .? : A? commenced translating tne oiuie into u Nesiorian^anguage. That language is modification oftneaucien: Synac. A IriendLy correspondence has been Oj ened wuh tiieputiurcnoftiieNestoiians, f siding at Joolam *ik among the Kurdi* moun.ains, preparatory 10 a visit to bit which is justly deemed of great importanc The commute*.- hope the time is near wht a branch of the mission shall be estabiis ed a: tins sea^ of ecclesiastical power 10 U Nostonan church, i To be continued. | Who is on the Lord's side V?We rej in the book of Exodus, that the people i Israel?the peculiar people of God?tl people who had experienced at his hanc such signal mercies and deliverances?tt j people who, within less than forty day i had beheld the terrors of hjs presence, c Mount Sinai, had heard the law from h mouth and had pledged themselves to air et re and steadfast obedience, nowdis*egai I Xljfir prom'my dp^piexut tho commam ments of the Lord, and were rioting in ido atrous festivities consecrated to tho none of a golden calf. Professing 10 be 111 servan s of Jetiovah?(for even tms impioi least was named by Aaron a feast tO-'Mh | Lord) they were became the Slaves of : senseless idei. Forsaking tho ordinance? < j tlio true God, in ordet that they might pui sue their own devices, and, under the prt tence of worshipping him. polluting themse ves with those very practices which he ha recently declared to be abominable in h sight, they clearly proved tiiat, althqug they called themselves his people, the hearts were alienated from him; that ti was not the master whom they loved phi his will was not the law to which chey wei disponed to conform. It was time, thei that a distinction should be made betv ee the faithful servants of God, if such the wete, and the unworthy multitudes who jot tended to serve him. It was time that M ses, the ainbassodor of the Most Higl should cry out in his oame to ail the peopl Who is on the Lord's side ? Tins is a question which the ministei of the gospel may well put to tho idolatroi inhabitants of the world in every age. Re; der, cast your eyes abroad in the christia world?among those who profess and cs themselves christians-?even within the cii cle of your immediate observation : and i< i your understanding and conscience detei mine whether scenes too nearly resemblin that which Moses beheld in the camp < Ura< 1 be not presented to your view. It true that, trough the enlightening grace < God, our land is not now overspread wit worshippess of graven molten images. Bi are there not numbers of those who profes the christian faith and who make some ou ward show of obedience to divine commant yet whoso hearts are nevertheless set upo their idols ? The convetous man is decla ed, in the scriptures, to be an idolater. Mor ev is his God ! and how large a portion ( mankind is included among the worshii pers of mammon ! The scriptures reprt scut the glutton also as an idola'or. II Worships the brutish appetite by which i? is enslaved. On the same authority, th man whose chief object is any sensual plea sure, incurs the same condemnation. The pleasure is his idol. He, likewise, whos chief pursuit is reputation or honor or jwivv e?* is an idolater. Reputation or honor i power is the object of his worship. In short he who sets his heart wholly on any world ly object, instead of fixing it upon God, i considered in the scriptures, as partaking in the guilt of idolatry?as a slave to tha object which ho makes his principal pursuit and therefore as not being on the Lord\ side. Know ye not to whom ye yield your selves servants to obey, his servants ye art whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, 01 of obedience unto righteousness ? When we survey multitudes among those who are denominated christians, who were babtized in the name of tho Father and o! the Son and of the Holy Ghost?who profess to believe that the Son of God died upon the cross to purchase for them the- par don of sin, the santifyiug iofluenccs . r; [Io'.y Spirit, and the everlasting gk>ri$L?f t, the kingdom of heaven?when we jjggjMj, , i t, tirades of these nominal christians y { c up their whole hearts to things tempera^ \\ \ instead of things eternal? when we 1 them acting as the slaves of the world, Jjjjj 4 d flesh, and the devil, instead of s'riving^^^^^ j become in truth the children of the -fifest ' d High God?is it not time for every mincer ^ is of the gospel to address his people andejy e aloud, in tiie language of Moses, " J. among you is on the Lord's side "? Di^l^ \ it not behoove every one of us to put ie question to his own heart," On whosoijfe ; *d am I engaged ? am I on the Lord i <2t Ought not every one who is, in smcemgrajH ?l to and truth, on t?*e Lord's side to stand fS^p ^rj in and prove himself to be so ? Can we^h*-'?;!^ J 01 tinue careless and indifferent, while the qt^^r,-; lion remains undecided, whether ie g.i ds us as on his side, or looks upon iii|SB5E& * \; his enemies * Can any be ignorani > ir who is not wiih God is against hinw'rfal^ip (I 1. he who does not receiveGod as his i*. and love God as hi$ supreme delight, is rof?;4 id servant of the devil, aad the enemy <jf is Can we forget that salvation through C$^j? jjk :s will be bestowed on those ofldy who pftijSSpT lli(*>ncplvH? to hf? nn ?' ?- V?? M1V MU1U Q OI?C? g thai for those, who are'hoi on the* LkmAuOk > r. side, nothing will remain but tribulationimSBBB t. anguish, and everlasting destruction, whith ' \ h die Lord Jesus shall be revealed in flanuS?; i- fire, to take vegeanee on Ihem that knoyr '< : o not God, and obey not ihe gospel. - ? i* It is easy for anyone to say that h$ ? on the' side of the Lord. The sacri^ee^ftf-V'^ I the lips is an offering that cosis nothijMp^3? > and is, therefore, an offering whi0r9|^HE!; g are ready to make.- But God require^^^^^ u loose who profess to be on his side not ' ?e empty word*, but evidences and detijSJfc; re stradons of their sincer^y. i- Give to religion, then, the foil to your example, of your influence, of id recommendation. Show that you assist? vBh9 nt religion the first p?ace in your ki tit a decided conviction that;ne first pfacSS ?>> is -its due, and that here it does not hold in place, happiness w.ll never take" up*fl| a iihod^, Lei otners be won to thov k H G)d, by discerning the blessed effectr-liC^Hu. J p. thai love upon yourself. Lot them pereef^^SBrj o. that in consequence of having set your-bfli^yfflWjl >h upon God, you are become more ; unai(^^fe n, more gen lc, more lender, more kind, 0?p R? x e beautiful more amiable, morehSppy.. je without regrei?a are-waiting in naticnt andchfiarfii^22iS^^^3 Dt under every dispensation orProvidenqafA^^P5-* je die blessed hope which is set beforp y<ki5^|^MK ,8 the glorious appearing of the greet SsSfejf 13 and our Saviour Jesus Christ. II these ^ s' of holiness?if this peace and joy ^ V !n Holy Ghost, shine forth in your condft^ ^,-: 18 surely there will be those around you, ever* >' l" among the wicked, who will bo inducetT^Mk..^ exclaim, " Happy is the man who is in J* a case ; yea, blessed is the man. who hatjpgpf^ the Lord for bis God,"> >r S and forth,, thon, ye *'no are Ort tip*, 10 Lord's side?stand forth, to save yourSffc* iS souts, ar.d the souls of others, ChildretrS^ Jes^i T e the faih of Abraham ; heirs oft he * ? <safGod! Be ye etettdfost?be Vigi&HI . ' 51 ?fear nothing. You servo a mister who jj?L\ T' will never forsake his people. You serve .> ^5^* '* an unchangeablo^Father, who wiR ^ J* antly perform his con vepunt. You 5 sePre . . him who Iiveth forever and ever, K$ng of kings nnd Lor i of lonis-^hmt *^01 ; .vi power Tii carol anu in % ,r and in eternity-remain whose hand is apt-'? */ ie cy, and glory, and blessedness* .*nd \ 11 lasting salvation. r :h Liberality of Primitive Times.?mi. r. ico the example of the Christians of ^|fc; > g. cedonia : I/- They^wewth^selves, j church, in 44 deep poverty," but, when v i* brethren in Judea were in greater necessity* ^ Oj they did not plead their indigence as a > son for refusing assistance^ vbot prompt' rs con:routed to their ^elief. 2. They djtLnei*" is give grudgingly or on compulsion on fhi?/~Vri!fc2?i. occasion. They were not 44 willing of ,n themselves," but prayedlfeier'apostle, (wlte ill probably wished to discourage them from I r- an effort that would be burdensome,)44 with n much entreaty," to be their agent in distrj. p. buuug thetrchariy. 3, They did not giyo g meanly, or no more ihan they could help'; -.1*1 tl?PV innnifAolo/t <i !??. ji ...uuHvuiuu u iii.il iiiAiiauijri ilicit won* is evolence gbing even " beyond their power" ^ 3f Here was the voluntary, self-denying bene. ^b volence of the first age of the church, and ; jt it is an example that needs to be studied M ;s | this day. The amount of unsolicited offer- J&S9 t. ings to the channels of religious -charity ?$ j, astonishingly small. The habit nof having ' n each object formally presented in gufeitf* ^ r. and then of being especially called upon', hal 1.1 almost b-.nished spontaneous behevoleac^. )l In some oases this feeling has extended efCft 4 ). to positive engagements, k men are j. to keep religious institutions tlieir creditor?"^ ^ v v though tehy know their indifference is tho ^ / f; princip I cause of their embarrassed oper* 0 ations. Tins paragraph will probably meet yS? > the eyes of many who know that our own , it society is compelled to abridge or cease its ' v op -rations for the want of means and who, - / would aid in supplying those means, if called upon, but who have hot thought ftto 1 bo their duty to send that aid without par. ' v'y . i sonal application. Our remarks may bo ,:v s j seen, also, by many whose names are on t ) our books as donors, subscribers, debtor% r* - t ! but who do not feel called upon to makw , I special efforts to cancel their obligations. . ~ A y ! To some we may say, with no irrevereuo ^ . . or inappropriate application of the apostles ^ ?j language, " Now therefore perform ths . -, doing of it ; that as there was a readiness *. ~ . i to will, so there may be a performance also ^ s i out of that which ye have." To all upon r ' , !! whom the society has any claims of char. / ^' r-ity or debt, we would seriously coirimend the consideration of their Christian duty, as ' set forth in the gnspcl, and exemplified by<; - / i '>< churches of Macedonia. - ' USgl t m