are appointing agents on a similar plan, it may be hoped that a system of operation may soon be agreed upon, by means of which all conflicting efforts will be avoided, in prosecuting the several great charities of the day.

MISSIONARY HERALD.-Regarding the Missionary Herald as of primary importance in the system of means employed by the Board for awakening an interest in missions, the Committee resolved, some months since, to enlarge the work without increasing the price. Each monthly number now consists of forty pages, instead of thirty-two. Four of the additional pages are numbered separately from the Herald, and assume the form and name of a Monthly Paper. This Paper is designed to contain engraved representations of heathen rites and superstitions, of missionary stations, of countries occupied by missionaries, or proposed as the fields of new missions, and of other objects and scenes connected with missionary subjects; together with descriptions, statements, and anecdotes, illustrative of the character and condition of the heathen, and of the progress of the gospel. The remaining four pages will be included in the body of the work, and will afford room for greater variety in its subject-matter.

The Herald has been conducted, for a number of years past, by the joint agency of the Assistant Secretaries; but should the Board appoint three Secretaries, which the Committee recommend, it is proposed, in the distribution of their duties, to commit the care of that work wholly to one of the number.

The primary design of the Missionary Herald is to give a regular, connected, and succinct history of the operations of the Board. Its plan, however, embraces every department of Christian benevolence; and it is believed that no where, in the same space, will there be found a better summary of the more important facts relating to the foreign and domestic missions of this country, the distribution of Bibles and tracts, sabbath schools, theological education, the colonizing of Africans, the promotion of temperance, and the progress of geographical knowledge in its immediate bearing upon the moral renovation of mankind.

MISSIONARIES. Pursuant to arrangements known to the Board at the last meeting, eight ordained missionaries and a physician, with their wives, and an unmarried printer, embarked on the 26th of November at New Bedford, in the ship Averick, capt. Swain, for the Sandwich Islands;-making in all nineteen, and the most

numerous company of missionaries ever sent, at one time, from this country to heathen lands. Their names were as follows:John S. Emerson, David B. Lyman, and Ephraim Spaulding, from the seminary at Andover; William P. Alexander, Richard Armstrong, and Cochran Forbes, from the seminary at Princeton; Harvey R. Hitchcock and Lorenzo Lyons, from the seminary at Auburn, Missionaries; Alonzo Chapin, Physician; and Edmund H. Rogers, Printer. Mr. Rogers went out upon a contract for wages, and for a limited time.

The Rev. William G. Schauffler, who was mentioned in the last Report as set apart for a mission to the Jews in Turkey, embarked at New York on the 1st of December.

Two missionaries had been destined to Bombay at the time of our last Report. One only has been able to proceed on the mission-the Rev. George W. Boggs, who, with his wife, embarked at Salem, in the ship Black Warrior, capt. Endicott, on the 28th of May. Both Mr. Boggs and his wife are from South Carolina. He received his theological education at Princeton.

The Rev. Asher Wright, of the seminary at Andover, joined the Seneca mission, with his wife, last autumn.

The individual destined, a year ago, to liberated Greece, was providentially detained from the field; but another, the Rev. Elias Riggs, of the seminary at Andover, is expecting soon to embark for the Mediterranean.

The Rev. William M. Thomson, of the Princeton seminary, whose designation to Syria was referred to in the last Report, and Doct. Asa Dodge, a regularly educated physician since appointed to the same mission, are also ready to embrace the first opportunity for proceeding to Beyroot. It was thought expedient to detain Mr. Thomson, in order that he might perform an agency of several months in his native state of Ohio.

The Rev. Benjamin W. Parker, of the Andover seminary, the Rev. Lowell Smith, of the seminary at Auburn, and Mr. Lemuel Fuller, a printer, from Attleboro', Mass., have received an appointment for the Sandwich Islands mission, and will probably embark in a ship to sail within a few weeks from New London.

The Rev. Henry R. Wilson and Rev. John Fleming, of the seminary at Princeton, have been commissioned to proceed on a mission to the Cherokees of the Arkansas. The Rev. Ashur Bliss, of the Andover seminary, is on the point of becoming connected with the mission among the Indians in the state of New York.

The Rev. Messrs. Samuel Munson, Ira Tracy, and Henry Lyman, who finished their studies in the Andover seminary this fall, and the Rev. Stephen Johnson and Rev. Charles Robinson, from the seminary at Auburn, have been appointed to the mission in southeastern Asia. A printer, Mr. S. Wells Williams, of Utica, has also been appointed for the China press. They are expected to sail in the course of the next spring or summer.

Mr. James Read Eckard and Mr. George H. Apthorp, both of the Princeton seminary, have been designated to the Ceylon mission the former to be associated with Mr. Poor in the instruction of the seminary, or college, at Batticotta.

Two other brethren, one from the Princeton and the other from the Union seminary, have received appointments as missionaries; but it being thought advisable for them to spend a year as agents in this country, they have not yet been designated to particular fields.

The spirit of missions is evidently gaining ground in most of our seminaries and colleges, and there is a greater number than heretofore devoted to the work. But how small the number, compared with the demand; far less even, than the churches, with their present measure of knowledge and zeal, would cheerfully send forth and support. Our recent experience should rebuke every unbelieving fear on the subject of funds. Less than two years ago, the Board was nearly twenty thousand dollars in debt, and at the same time the Committee felt bound to give fifteen young men appointments as missionaries, most of them to distant missions. But these facts were made known to the churches, and what do we see this day? Those men actually in their several fields, and the debt paid-notwithstanding that our executive forces have been weakened by unexampled bereavements! Surely the Lord of missions designed to teach us to trust in Him, and not be afraid to go forward in the performance of our duty.

Library of the BOARD.-In order that the officers and agents of the Board, and the candidates for missionary employment, may possess the means of learning the actual state of the unevangelized world, the Committee have been gradually accumulating a Library at the Missionary Rooms, which now amounts to twelve hundred and fifty volumes, and eight manuscripts. Some of these volumes were donations from friends of the cause in various parts of our country; a very valuable part were bequeathed to the

Board by Mr. Evarts; and most of the periodical publications were obtained in exchange for the Missionary Herald.

The Board has, also, many hundred volumes in the several missions under its care, distinct from the private libraries of the missionaries, forming Mission Libraries, in which the books are designed to be placed in charge of some one individual, as librarian, and to be kept for the use of each member of the mission, according to rules agreed upon by the missionaries themselves. The Committee have a book, in which the lists of these several libraries are entered as fast as they are obtained; and they hope to have this branch of expenditure, which is becoming a considerable and important item, soon reduced to a simple, intelligible, economical, and satisfactory system. Far away, in general, from civilized society, the missionaries must have the inducement and the means for cultivating their minds, which are afforded by a well selected library. Such a library is also needed for the native pupils, who often become acquainted with the English language; and it is indispensable to enable the missionary to translate the Scriptures, and prepare a variety of books for native schools and readers. At the same time, the Committee feel that there is considerable danger here of unprofitable expenditure.

The members and patrons of the Board might probably spare so many works from their private libraries, that, when brought together, they would form a rich depository, from which to enlarge our several mission libraries, and add not a little to the satisfaction, as well as usefulness, of our brethren among the heathen. RECEIPTS AND Expenditures.-The receipts for the year ending August 31st, were as follows, viz:

The expenditures during the same period, including the sum of $2,941 95 for which the Board was indebted at the last meeting, were $123,896 48; leaving a balance in the Treasury of $6,677 64. This balance, however, will all be required, and more than all, to send forth the fifteen missionaries and two assistant missionaries now under appointment; while, to sustain the missions al

ready in existence, old and new, as they ought to be sustained, a greater sum will be needed for the year on which we have entered, than has been received the year past. But, with unfeigned gratitude and praise to the bountiful Giver of all good should we acknowledge, that the receipts of the past year exceed those of any former, by more than twenty-three thousand six hundred dollars.

MISSIONS.

In presenting a view of the Missions under the care of the Board, the Committee follow the geographical order;-beginning with those in India-proceeding thence to the missions in southeastern Asia-thence to Syria, Constantinople, Greece, Maltathence to a contemplated mission in Western Africa-thence to the Islands in the Pacific Ocean-and thence to the Indian tribes on our own continent. The field is large, and the objects which claim attention are many, but as much regard will be had to brevity, as will consist with a just exhibition of the state and progress of the several missions.

X. Endia.

BOMBAY MISSION.

BOMBAY, on the island of that name.-D. O. Allen, Cyrus Stone, William Ramsey, Missionaries; Mrs. Stone, Mrs. Ramsey, and Miss Cynthia Farrar.

AHMEDNUGGUR, on the continent, 175 miles a little north of east from Bombay.Allen Graves, William Hervey, Hollis Read, Missionaries; Mrs. Graves, Mrs. Read.

Mr. and Mrs. Graves returned from the Neilgherry Hills in October of the last year, but without all that renovation of health, on the part of Mr. Graves, which had been anticipated. Previous to their arrival Mr. Garrett, for ten years the faithful and eminently useful printer to the mission, had died in the triumphs of faith. This event occurred on the 16th of July, the day on which Mr. Garrett completed the thirty-fourth year of his age. Nor was this the only painful bereavement, to which the mission had been subjected within the space of a few months. On the 5th of February Mrs. Allen, and on the 3d of May Mrs. Hervey, were both called from their earthly labors. Why these successive strokes were in