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tures, chiefly through the agency of Mr. Medhurst.

With regard to the actual state of China as a field for missionary exertions, the Committee know of no better view than has lately been given by Rev. Mr. Dyer, of the London Missionary Society.

“In my humble judgment," says Mr. Dyer, "there are some senses in which China is not yet open.

"1. China is not generally opened to the reception of missionaries. We need go no farther, in proof of this assertion, than the journals of very recent expeditions into the interior of China. It is true that the common people manifested no opposition to the stangers; but then, as soon as the authorities interfered, the common people slunk away in much timidity. But here is the point: as long

as the authorities in China are so ex

tremely jealous, however favorable the common people may be to the strangers, it is quite impossible for them to settle down among them. It would appear indeed, from some of the voyages along the eastern coast, that in some places perhaps a missionary might settle down for a month, or even two; but this is vastly

different from what the case would be on the supposition that China were open to the reception of missionaries. If China were thus open, there are men upon the borders of the empire who would locate themselves within the walls of the cities at the very first signal; yea, and even at the hazard of their lives, for they love not their lives to the death."

"2. China is not yet open to the establishment of christian schools; and

"3. China is not open to the printing of scriptures and tracts in the interior.

"4. We want something more than bare assertion to prove the point in question; we want ONE missionary to settle, and having settled, and having made suitable attempts to publish the gospel to the people, let him write to us, and invite us to join him; and woe be to us if we refuse to come to the help of the Lord against the mighty!

"II. There are other senses in which China is open. And here I would observe that never was the prospect more bright, more glorious, than at this day.

"1. We can pour as many books into China as we can print. I speak not now of the Chinese colonies in the Archipelago, which would consume vastly more books annually than we can at present print; but into China Proper we can pour books by myriads.

"2. Never were our books better adapted to accomplish the desired end than at present. Leang Afa's tracts, at least many of them, are beautifully simple. The later tracts from the pen of the missionary at Batavia, are most readily understood by the people. I appeal to the illiterate and uneducated Chinesethe poor emigrants from China. They point to certain books as most easily understood, and these are the very books we are now speaking of. I appeal to the well educated and well informed. I appeal to the Chinese classics themselves. Never were our books more idiomatic than at present.

"3. The means of multiplying these books are rapidly increasing. Although I must needs speak with great diffidence on this head, I may state that, besides the scylographic presses now in operation for China, typographic presses are preparing for four different missionary stations; and that when the preparatory work is accomplished, which makes progress from day to day, in eight months, and for £100, we can put any typographic press in operation, in behalf of China; whereas the outlay for the first edition of 2,000 copies of the Scriptures from a set of new blocks, (blocks included,) is nearly £2,000.

Our brethren at Canton have repeatedly urged upon the Committee the duty of sending out one or two missionaries to acquire a knowledge of the language of JAPAN, with a view to operating in that country as soon and as far as Providence shall prepare the way.

OCEANICA.

MISSION TO SINGAPORE.

Ira Tracy, James T. Dickinson, Matthew B. Hope, and Joseph S. Travelli, Missionaries; Alfred North, Printer; Mrs. Tracy, Ms. Travelli, and Mrs. North.

Stephen Tracy, M. D.. Physician, and wife, designated to the Chinese, and temporarily stationed here.

(1 station, 4 missionaries, 1 physician, 1 printer, and 4 female assistant missionaries.)

Messrs. Dickinson and North arrived at Singapore in the early part of the present year. Messrs. Hope and Travelli and Doct. Tracy embarked at Boston, on the 1st of July. Mr. Hope will direct his attention to the Chinese language, and Mr. Travelli to one or more of the languages of the Archipelago.

Mr. Tracy began, in the early part of the last year, to preach and pray in the

Chinese language, though with a stammering tongue.

Mr. Parker remained at Singapore till the 20th of August, and with Mr. Tracy gave much attention to the dispensary. Thirteen hundred received medical treatment during the year, from more than twenty different countries and nations.

Mr. and Mrs. Robbins sailed from Boston on the 1st of July. No letter has been received from Mr. Arms since his arrival at Batavia. The decease of his wife has probably led to a change in Mr. Arms's plans. The information received by the Committee is of such a nature, that, should they be induced to prosecute missions on Sumatra, it will more probably be from the northern than the southern shore.

MISSION TO JAVA.

Elihu Doty, Jacob Ennis, Elbert Nevius, and WilMiss Azuba C. Condit, Teacher.

On the 11th of October Mr. Tracy had the joy of receiving the first fruits of the mission into the christian church. This was a Chinese young man named ChaeHoo, about twenty-five years of age. Six others had expressed a desire to receive baptism. Mr. Tracy now began linm Youngblood, Missionaries, and their wives, and to meet these persons every Sabbath for religious conversation, and as liberty was given for others to attend, the number increased to about twenty. He soon commenced a bible-class on the Sabbath, which was regularly attended by about fifteen Chinese, including those who had expressed a wish for baptism, several of whom Mr. Tracy could not but regard as sincere believers in the Lord Jesus.

The arrival of Mr. North must needs

give new vigor to the printing establishment. He carried with him materials for type and stereotype founderies.

The printing during the year 1835, was as follows:

60,000

500 volumes. | 1,916,000 pages in Chinese. 44,500 tracts. in Malay. 2,017,000 pages. 41,000 ** in Bugis.

About 4,000 books and tracts were distributed at Singapore during the year, and the remainder sent to China, Siam, etc. The opportunities for distribution are great at Singapore, owing to the number of native vessels which annually visit the port, as was stated last year. A brick printing-office, sixty-five feet by seventeen, has been erected for Chinese printing.

The mission has been authorized to erect a chapel, with special reference to the Chinese. The average congregation on the Sabbath is thirty-five. There are two Chinese schools containing sixty scholars.

Singapore sustains at present a common relation to all the missions of the Board in that part of the world. It is the central station. There is to be our principal seminary for rearing up native helpers in the more important languages, and there our principal establishment for printing books in those languages.

MISSION TO SUMATRA.

William Arms and Samuel P. Robbins, Missionaries; and Mrs. Robbins.

(4 missionaries, and 5 female assistant missionaries.)

The members of this mission, all besailed for Batavia on the 8th of June. longing to the Reformed Dutch Church, Their object is, under the guidance and with the favor of the King of Zion, to effect a new mission in some eligible part of the Archipelago. They were instructin the site of their mission: (1.) not to ined to regard two things as indispensable terfere with any existing protestant mission; (2.) to have a reasonable prospect of operating upon a sufficient number of native inhabitants to create an enduring interest in their own minds, and in their patrons at home.

MISSION TO THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.

ISLAND OF HAWAII.

KAILUA. Asa Thurston and Artemas Bishop, Missionaries, and their wives.

KAAWALOA.-Cockran Forbes, Missionary, and

wife.

WAIMEA.-Lorenzo Lyons, Missionary, and wife. HILO.---David B. Lyman and Titus Coan, Missionaries, and their wives.

ISLAND OF MAUI.

LAHAINA.--William Richards and Ephraim Spaulding, Missionaries, and their wives; and Miss Maria C. Ogden, Teacher.

LAHAINALUNA.-Lorrin Andrews, Ephraim W. Clark, and Sheldon Dibble, Missionaries, and their wives; Edward H. Rogers, Printer.

WAILURU.---Jonathan S. Green and Richard Arm

strong, Missionaries, and their wives; and Miss Lydia Brown, Teacher.

ISLAND OF MOLOKAL.

KALUAAHA.-Hervey R. Hitchcock, Missionary, and

wife, and Miss Elizabeth M. Hitchcock, Teacher.

ISLAND OF OAHU.

HONOLULU.-Hiram Bingham and Reuben Tinker, Missionaries; Garret P. Judd, M. D., Physician; Levi Chamberlain, Superintendent of the Secular Concerns of the Mission; Henry Dimond, Book-binder; Edwin O.

(2 missionaries, and 1 female assistant missionary.) || Hall, Printer; and their wives.

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Ewa.Lowell Smith, Missionary, and wife. I made known to Mr. Johnstone. He WAIALUA.John S. Emerson, Missionary, and thought it his duty, however, to continue to devote himself to the school, and his

wife.

KANEOHE. Benjamin W. Parker, Missionary, and connection with the Board was of course dissolved.

wife.

ISLAND OF KAUAI.

WAIMEA.---Samuel Whitney, Missionary, and wife. KOLOA.---Peter J. Gulick, Missionary, and wife. KAPAA.---William P. Alexander, Missionary, and

wife.

Station unknown.---Dwight Baldwin, M. D., Missionary, and wife.

(16 stations, 23 missionaries, 1 physician, 1 superintendent of secular concerns, 1 book binder, 2 printers, and 30 female assistant missionaries.)

Messrs. Coan, Dimond, and Hall, and their wives, and Miss Brown and Miss Hitchcock arrived at Honolulu on the 6th of June. Doct. and Mrs. Chapin. have returned to this country, on account of the confirmed illness of Mrs. C. Mr. and Mrs. Goodrich have also returned with their five children. Nearly two years since the Committee decided that the school for foreigners' children, taught by Mr. Johnstone at Honolulu, did not come within the range of objects embraced by the Board. This decision was

The works printed during the year amounted to 925 pages, numbered in a continued series, being 118,728 copies, and 5,891,936 pages; making the whole amount of printing from the beginning, 978,528 copies, and 42,532,056 pages. By a later date, the Committee have been informed that the whole of the New Testament has been reprinted, in an edition of 10,000 copies. Portions of the Old Testament have been revised for a reprint, and other portions have been translated. The Hymn-Book is in great demand among the natives.

The mission has been authorized to erect a school-house at each of their stations at the expense of the Board, and to pay wages, to a certain extent, to native teachers.

The following table will exhibit the number of marriages and baptism during the year ending June, 1835, together with a statistical view of the native churches.

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Miss Brown has made a promising be- || full, and valuable answers returned by ginning in the manufacture of cloth from this mission. An answer, however, was the native cotton. She has several na-purposely delayed by this mission to the tive females under instruction.

Mention was made in the last Report of a Circular sent to several of the missions of the Board, and of the prompt,

following question, viz:-"What are the decisive evidences of progress in your work, comparing the present state and character of the people with what they

were at the commencement of the mission?" More time was needed to mature the reply. An answer, of nearly fifty pages, has been received from the mission during the past year. Such a statement is worthy of all confidence; and the perusal of copious extracts will be the most satisfactory method of becoming acquainted with the state and prospects of the mission. It was inserted at pp. 305-9 and 353-60|| of the last volume of the Missionary Herald.

NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.

MISSION TO THE CHEROKEES.

BRAINERD.--Daniel S. Butrick, Missionary; John Vail, Farmer; Ainsworth E. Blunt, Mechanic; and

their wives.

CARMEL. No resident missionary.

CREEK PATH.-William Potter, Missionary; Mrs. Potter, Erminia Nash and Nancy Thompson, Assistants.

WILLSTOWN.William Chamberlin, Missionary; Mrs. Chamberlin; John Huss, Native Preacher.

CANDY'S CREEK.William Holland, Teacher and Farmer; Mrs. Holland; Stephen Foreman, Native Preacher.

RUNNING WATERS.-Sophia Sawyer, Teacher.

RED CLAY.-Elizar Butler, Physician; Mrs. Butler; Delight Sargent, Teacher; Jesse and Walker, Native Teachers.

(7 stations, 3 missionaries, 2 native preachers, 1 physician, I teacher, 2 farmers and mechanics, 11 females, and 2 native teachers.)

Mr. and Mrs. Elsworth left Brainerd in May last, on account of the impaired health of the latter. They were accompanied on their return by Miss Catharine Fuller, the state of whose health also required a temporary suspension of her labors.

Miss Sargent removed from Brainerd to this new station, and opened a school in July, containing about thirty pupils.

The stated religious meetings at most of the stations have been thinly attended during the past year; the same temptations and evil examples, and the same distressing anxiety respecting their political affairs, which have exerted so unfavorable an influence for the preceding four or five years, having continued and increased during the last. On some occasions, however, large numbers of the Cherokees have assembled to hear the word of God preached, and witness the celebration of the ordinances of the gospel. At Carmel the religious meetings continued to be large and solemn, till Mr. Butrick left the place in February last, and the invitations to visit settlements in the vicinity and hold meetings were numerous and urgent.

Eleven Cherokees have been admitted to the church at Carmel during the year, one of whom was supposed to be above a hundred years old. This church has now sixty-five members. Four have been received to the church at Brainerd, and six to that at Willstown and Haweis. A number of cases of defection have occurred, most of which are attributable to the use of intoxicating liquors, to which the people generally have been strongly tempted. The means of temptation abound every where. The present number of members in the several churches is estimated at 270.

The boarding-school at Brainerd, embracing twenty-five pupils, was closed about the first of March. Most of the Cherokee families having removed from Carmel, it was thought best to discontinue the school; and for the same reason Mr. and Mrs. Butrick removed to Brainerd soon after, where they have since resided. Thirty-two Cherokee children, and four from white families, have at

Willstown and Candy's Creek there have been fifteen or twenty pupils each; about twenty have attended Miss Sawyer's school at Mr. Ridge's, and about thirty that at Red Clay; making the whole number of pupils in the schools at the several stations 162.

About the middle of September, Doct. Butler and his family removed from Brainerd, where he had resided subsequent to the seizure of the mission prem-tended the school at Creek Path. At ises at Haweis under the laws of Georgia, to Red Clay, a Cherokee settlement within the limits of the State of Tennessee, about twenty miles east of Brainerd. The settlement was populous and healthy, having forty families within three miles; besides the importance attached to it from its being the place where the national councils have been held for some years past, and the residence of four or five of the principal Cherokees. He was most cordially received, and the people united promptly in erecting a comfortable house for the new teacher, and expressed a strong desire to have their children educated.

The schools for teaching the Cherokees to read their own language have been much extended and highly prosperous during the past year. Jesse, one of the teachers, had at the beginning of the year fourteen schools, scattered through a district fifty miles long by twelve or fifteen broad, and embracing 253 pupils. These he visited and taught in rotation,

completing the circuit once in three weeks. The number of his schools was subsequently increased to seventeen, and then to twenty-five; when a promising young man, a member of the Haweis church was engaged as his assistant. The two teachers going through the circuit alternately, which extends to about 137 miles, were then able to visit each school once in two weeks. All these schools embrace 440 pupils.

Stephen Foreman, a Cherokee preacher under the patronage of the Board, and connected with the station at Candy's Creek, was ordained about a year since by the Union Presbytery of East Tennessee. His labors as a preacher have been continued as heretofore, and are highly acceptable and useful.

the month of December, which was attended by a portion of the Cherokees opposed to Mr. Ross. With these the outlines of a treaty were agreed upon, and another delegation appointed to proceed to Washington to consummate it; which was finally effected, with some modifications, and the treaty, approved by the president of the United States, was ratified by the Senate in June last. Mr. Ross, and the delegates associated with him, protested against this treaty in all the stages of its progress, as being unsatisfactory in its provisions, made contrary to the will of the nation, and with persons wholly unauthorized to transact such a business.

By this treaty, the Cherokees cede the whole of the country which they now occupy, and within two years are to be removed to a territory west of the Mississippi river. For their lands, improvements, buildings, etc., they are to receive $5,000,000, and $650,000 to defray the expenses of their removal, and of sustaining them one year after arriving in their new country. The buildings and improvements at the mission stations are to be appraised and paid for by the Unit

The condition of the Cherokees remains nearly the same that it has been during the three or four preceding years, except that the continuance of their unsettled and anxious state, and the great and increasing temptations to which they are constantly exposed, are more and more destroying all motives to industry, undermining their morals, rendering them familiar with scenes of iniquity, and augmenting among them the amount of pov-ed States in the same manner as the erty, vice, and wretchedness. A large portion of those who resided in that part of the nation included within the limits of the State of Georgia have removed to their lands in Tennessee or North Carolina, and those who remain behind, unless they have purchased or rented their own houses and fields of those to whom the possession has been transferred by the laws of Georgia, are liable to be driven from their homes at any moment, when the new owners shall choose to take possession.

property of the Cherokees, and such missionaries and assistants as a committee of the Cherokees shall designate, are to be allowed for their removal the same sum each which is allowed to the Cherokees.

MISSION TO THE ARKANSAS CHEROKEES.

DWIGHT.--Cephas Washburn, Missionary; James Orr, Farmer and Superintendent of Secular Affairs; Jacob Hitchcock, Steward; Asa Hitchcock, Teacher; and their wives, Aaron Gray, Mechanic; Asa Egerton, Ellen Stetson, Emeline Bradshaw, Teachers.

FAIRFIELD.Marcus Palmer, Missionary and Physician; Mrs. Palmer; -, Teacher.

Samuel Newton, Teacher: John F. Wheeler, Printer; and their wives; Esther Smith, Teacher.

PARKHILL. Samuel A. Worcester, Missionary;

(3 stations, 3 missionaries, 3 teachers, 5 farmers and

mechanics, and 10 female teachers and assistants.)

In July of last year, the Chorokees were met in council by the Rev. J. F. Schermerhorn, commissioner on the part of the United States, but the negotiation was broken off without any progress having been made towards forming a treaty. In October another council was held, with nearly the same result. Sixteen delegates were, however, appointed by the party adhering to Mr. Ross, (which is said to embrace a large majority of the tribe,) to continue the negotiations, either in the nation or at Washington. Immediately after, a reconciliation was effect ed between the two parties, and four more delegates were appointed from the other party. The delegates decided to proceed to Washington, to continue the negotiation directly with the secretary of Mr. Washburn returned to Dwight war. After their departure another counnear the close of the autumn, accompancil was called by the commissioner inied by Misses Louisa Clark and Emeline

The members of this mission, and the same is true in respect to other missionaries of the Board west of the Mississippi river, have suffered much less from severe sickness and removals by death, during the last year, than during either of the two years preceding; and through the merciful protection of God, the labors at the several stations have been prosecuted with few interruptions from any source.

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