here till October, then removed with his family to Lahaina, to wait the further indications of Providence respecting his location. Mr. Baldwin remained with us till the fourth instant, when he sailed with Mrs. Baldwin, and have taken their post at Waimea in Hawaii. These three brethren while they were with us, besides attending successfully to the study of the language of the country, preached in English pretty uniformly twice a week; that is, once at the chapel on Sabbath morning, and once in the evening at a private house, with special reference to the benefit of foreign residents and seamen, mostly at the house of Mr. Johnson, who has also devoted special attention to that class of men.

Mr. Shepard, on account of declining health, has been induced to leave the care of the printing office, and without any very apparent change, has gone with his family to Lahaina; and Mr. Goodrich, agreeably to the arrangements of our last meeting, takes his place for the present, but not with sound health, and superintends native journeymen and apprentices in printing and book-binding.

Miss Ward, who from June till the close of the year gave more uninterrupted attention, perhaps, than any of the other females at this station, to the instruction of females and the superintendance of female teachers and their classes of children, has gone to Kaawaloa, where Mr. and Mrs. Ruggles would otherwise have been more alone than usual, in consequence of an arrangement for. Mr. Bishop and family to spend some months with Mr. Baldwin at Waimea.

It will give you pleasure to know that the general and ordinary labors of the station have, by the aid of Providence, been continued in the different departments here to the present time with the same encouragement to prosecute them with courage, as has been given in former periods; for which, we doubt not, the patrons of the mission feel bound to give thanks to the great Dispenser of all good. While, by the undiminished labors of the press and pulpit, by school instruction, and daily personal interviews with the natives who throng around us for some cause or other, we have been endeavoring to sow the seed of the divine word,--we have reason to think that the Holy Spirit has been watering it, and in some instances making it effectual to salvation.

Numbers have appeared to hear with good attention. Hundreds have sought to have their names enrolled with those who profess to be seeking in earnest the kingdom of heaven, and hundreds more have expressed a desire to be baptised. We labor with them long, and are slow to hear their applications. But during the year past there have been successive classes of propounded candidates for church-membership, who, excepting a class of twelve that still remain, have, at the successive communion

seasons, been baptised and received to fellowship; viz. 13 in March, 30 in June, 25 in September, and eight in December; making 75 added to the church the last year, and whole number admitted at this station 166.

Removal of the Jesuits from the Islands.

Allow us here to mention some particulars of a providential character not immediately connected with our labors, but not less interesting to the nation on that ac

count. You have heard of the disastrous barked, soon after the visit of the U. S. ship enterprise in which Boki and Manuia emVincennes, and the loss of Manuia and most of his crew, and the almost certain loss of Boki and his crew and vessel, and the consequent change of the government of this island. You are aware also of the fact that, subsequently to those changes, the government ordered the Jesuits to leave the islands within three months, or be liable to be treated as strangers in other countries who refuse to comply with the laws, or who render themselves obnoxious to govern

ment.

During the three months alluded to, Captain Hill, a member of the church of England, from Liverpool, made a visit to this part of the world as a philanthropist, and exerted a direct influence to second the orders of the chiefs, both in respect to the removal of the Jesuits, and the suppression of the injurious traffic in ardent spirits, carried on chiefly by foreigners against the wishes of Kaahumanu and nearly all the principal chiefs in the islands.

He labored with the Jesuits themselves to persuade them, as they desired the good of the country, as they hoped to be useful to their fellow men, to remove without delay to some other part of the world where their labors would be more acceptable, and to leave the natives in quiet possession of the Scriptures and of the Protestant faith; assuring them that the doctrines of the Romish church are so different from those of the Reformation, that they can never coalesce, and that the islanders were not able to digest them both at once. He labored also with other foreigners to produce the same impression.

During the same period, General Miller, an English gentleman distinguished in the revolutionary struggles of Peru, in a voyage for his health, arrived as a passenger in a Prussian ship, the Princess Louisa. Kaahumanu said, "This ship will perhaps help to accomplish our wishes by carrying away the Frenchmen." General Miller seemed during a stay of four months, to take a lively interest, not in the case of the Jesuits, but in the general state and prospects of the country. He encouraged the king and chiefs to endeavor to improve the form and character of their government; to look well to the future interests of their country;

6. Attended the monthly meeting of the native church, and urged them to live and act as children of the same blessed Father-to encourage, to reclaim, to strengthen one another-to labor together-to act in concert and unison-to show clearly, by lives of holy obedience and zealous activity, that we are on the Lord's side, and that we use no weapon, in assailing or opposing the enemies of truth, but the word of Godthat as church members we have no sword but the word of God, though rulers had, in a different capacity, a sword put into their hands by God himself, for the punishment of evil-doers.

8. Held a church-meeting for the examination of candidates: examined four, and selected eight to be examined to-morrow. Made some remarks to them to show that not those who were simply regular in their lives, but those who were renewed in heart, and engaged in God's service, were suitable candidates.

The native members, who were well acquainted with the candidates whose names we announced, were allowed to express their opinion in favor or against their being brought forward; which would, we thought, tend on the whole to promote union and fellowship among the members; though we take the principal responsibility and direction of their examination and admission. The ninth whom we announced, had been recommended by several of the members, and was distinctly approved by a considerable number present who appeared to be acquainted with her; but John li said, "If we know any reason why she should be deferred, it is not right to conceal it. I do not censure her as evil, but it is my opinion she ought to be deferred." She was accordingly deferred.

10. The eight above mentioned were to-day examined, all of whom gave evidence of loving the truth, and of desiring to follow Christ and to trust in him for salvation.

11. Sabbath. I preached in the morning, with reference to the solemn transactions anticipated for the afternoon--the admission of members, baptism, and the Lord's supper. My theme was the declaration of the good king Hezekiah, who said, "Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us." 2 Chron. xxix. 10. Illustrated the nature of the transaction of making a covenant with God, and the advantages of such a transaction.

13. Phelps has been taking the census of the village of Honolulu. He makes 5,522 inhabitants, including 180 foreigners. The inhabitants living on the plantations of Honolulu are not included. These, when added, will probably make from 7,500 to 8,000.

14. I preached the Wednesday lecture -an exposition and application of Matthew

Constantinople.

EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNAL OF MR. GOODELL.

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Dec. 20, 1831. P. informed me that most of the Greeks in the village visited the school yesterday. They came in a body, and were much gratified: but when, at the close of the prayer, they saw no one make the sign of the cross, they exclaimed against the omission of it, and ordered the children to cross themselves. P. simply remarked that the church was the place for religion, and that the priests were specially set apart to give instruction on that subject; but that the school was for science and literature, and that he had been employed to teach them solely these latter things. As however, a great deal of relig ious instruction is given in the school daily, as well as from Sabbath to Sabbath, the answer was not altogether satisfactory; and the children in obedience to the order of their fathers and guardians made the sign of the cross in the Greek orthodox manner. I told P. I thought he had better say nothing to the children on the subject, but leave them to do every one according to his own pleasure; or otherwise, an importance might in their view, be given to the subject, to which it was by no means entitled. It was sufficient for our purpose not to enjoin it on them, nor teach them, the orthodox way of making it. P. said, a few days since one of the boys brought a complaint to him against some of the others that they were eating cheese, and that he

told them, they might eat whatever they chose, or their parents chose to have them: he would be no judge in such matters. For the teachers of the schools not to enjoin it upon the scholars on pain of corporal punishment to keep the fast, go to church, kiss the pictures, pray to the saints, &c., is something entirely new. Heretofore, they have always been perfect tools of the priests, and the schools the very gate of the church.

21. In return for some specimens of our Greek school books which Commodore Porter sent to the Russian ambassador, he received to-day a very polite note, thanking him for the favor, and saying, that the American institution was a noble and benevolent one, deserving of patronage, and that he and the Spanish minister would have great pleasure in visiting the school in this village on any day it might be agreeable to us.

On the report of a friend, that the papal priests were greatly alarmed and offended, because the New Testament was read in the Greek school, Mr. Goodell replied

That the school was for Greeks and not papists; and that so long as the former were satisfied, it was no concern of the latter what books were used: moreover, that the Greeks did not consider the New Testament as heretical, but had always been accustomed to make more or less use of it as a school book; and that, instead of its being now forced upon them against their wishes, they had themselves purchased for their children every copy which was found

in the school.

There are not less than five Latin priests in this village, and I think there are more. Several of them are chaplains to the different embassies, and one of them is found in the palace of a minister, who represents a Protestant government. The Russian minister has also his chaplain, a man of a most cheerful and animated countenance, and much apparent friendliness. In the Greek church are three priests and one deacon. The papal Armenians and Greeks are not deficient in this particular, and there are besides a Syrian bishop and a Georgian priest, both papists.

28. As yet I have seen neither ice nor frost in this country, nor till this morning have I seen snow. The surrounding hills are now partly covered with it, and it is also falling here, though it melts as fast as it comes.

Jan. 14, 1832. Went to Galata, and thence down nearly to the seven towers to make a visit to the Armenian patriarch in his palace. He appeared to be about fifty years of age, of deliberate habits, his beard long, black, and thick, befitting his exalted station, and his deportment in all respects marked with dignity. Both he and his vicar received me very graciously, and con

versed with much apparent interest about America, schools, &c. The patriarch was very inquisitive respecting our religion, and wished to know whether we followed Calvin or Luther. The vicar having previously laid it down as an incontrovertible proposition, that all protestants were followers either of one or of the other. I replied that in America there was the most perfect freedom in regard to religious sentiments and worship; and that of course there were various denominations of Christians, and that though some of these, it was true, were called Calvinists, and some Lutherans, and others by still different names; yet I knew the fact to be, that they did not generally inquire what Luther, Calvin, or any other man believed in order to know what to believe themselves, but were remarkably free from all shackles of this kind, and inquired simply what God had said in his holy Word. To this they at once bowed assent. The patriarch then inquired about missionary operations in China, which led me to speak of the missions recently established there; of those also in India and Burmah; and of the wonderful change that had been produced in the moral condition of the inhabitants at the Sandwich Islands. He was very anxious to know what kind of Christians our missionaries made them; what sect they were made to follow; what name they took, &c. I told himn, that they were not baptised in the name of Calvin, Luther, the pope, or any one else, but simply "in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost;" that they embraced Christianity in its primitive purity without any thing foreign being mixed with it, and that they were formed into churches that "knew no man after the flesh," but received the pure unadulterated word of God as the sufficient and only rule of faith and practice. To this he with his vicar gave the fullest assent, but seemed at the same time to be filled with wonder at so extraordinary and yet so reasonable a He expressed for me and for America much of the oriental kind of love, of which every man here seems to keep always a large stock on hand, and said, if he had not seen me, he must have gone there; but in being favored with a sight of me, he had seen America, and was glad.

course.

In regard to Lancasterian schools among his nation he expressed himself favorably, and called up Boghos, (the very man we wanted) and said he might come to be instructed in the new system, and then commence a school according to it, as an experiment. On rising to depart I him gave my blessing, which he received with a smile, remembering, I suppose, that "without all contradiction the less is blessed of the greater."

Returned to Galata, and spent the night with a pleasant Greek family-the aunt of I. C. He also was with us, having invited Commodore Porter and myself to accom