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It is now more than four months since there has been any opportunity for sending communications to the Sandwich Islands, where is the largest and most expensive mission of the Board. No such opportunity is now known: and as the voyage thither occupies five or six months, a period of from nine to twelve months must necessarily elapse, before communications written on the first of February last could reach that mission. Similar difficulties exist to nearly an equal extent, in regard to all the missions beyond

sea.

Additional delay in effecting retrenchment is occasioned by the fact that contracts are often made with workmen at the press, with teachers and other classes of persons, which must be fulfilled, and works are in progress which cannot be immediately abandoned. Expenditures, therefore, must go on at the missions, and drafts on the treasurer must continue to arrive in the common course, long after the Committee shall have found retrenchment to be necessary, and shall have used all practicable measures to effect it.

Hence it is highly important that the resources of a society conducting foreign missions should be free from fluctuations, so that their amount may be calculated upon from year to year. With this the missions will have the air of stability and progress; but without it, they must be subject to frequent interruptions and retrogradations, and the missionaries and those who have the immediate direction of them to anxiety and embarrassment. In times of commercial distress might not the christian community retrench in some other portion of their expenditures, from which less permanent evil would flow, than from retrenchment in their contributions to such an institution as the Board.

The appeal then is made to the friends of Christ and of missions. With the field white to the harvest and perfectly accessible; with urgent solicitations from many of the missions for large reinforcements; with nearly one hundred candidates, male and female, ready or soon to be ready to go and labor among the heathen; with greater and more varied facilities than ever were possessed before for turning their labors, with the divine blessing, to the best account; with revivals of religion existing at a num

ber of the missions, and the religious state of most of them uncommonly promising; yet with the treasury embarrassed with a debt of about $40,000; with the unavoidable monthly expenditures amounting to nearly $25,000; and with the monthly receipts falling much below that amount, and the prevalent pecuniary distress threatening a still further reduction,-what course' must the Board pursue?

May it not be hoped that the friends of Christ and the heathen will afford such aid as may be in their power; and especially that their prayers will ascend with faith and importunity that the work of the Lord in converting the nations may not be retarded?

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MAHRATTAS.-Mr. Boggs, who visited the mission of the Church Missionary Society to the Syrian Christians on the Malabar coast, about the beginning of the last year, after remarking that the account given by Dr. Buchanan of those Oriental churches was too favorable adds

The missionaries who had been long on the ground thought the field in some respects much more difficult than that of the surrounding heathen. I visited one of their

churches in which there were a number of

images; and the Rev. Mr. Peat, who conducted me, said that many of the people worship the images just as much as do the Roman Catholics. When I visited Cottayam the missionaries with one exception, had come to the conclusion that they must change their ground. They had never altempted to plant a church. Supposing that the Syrians were once a true church of Jesus Christ, the society at home and the missionaries in the field had been laboring to bring them back to their own standards. After laboring nearly twenty years with little or no success, you will be interested to hear, that, since I left that place, they have agreed to regard them, as they do the heathen, as entirely destitute of Christianity,

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New Haven, Fem. benev. so. 6,44; coll. 5,33; mon. con. 1,16; Orangeville,

Oswego, Ist presb. chh. (of which fr. Mrs. Condit, for Elisha Whittlesey at Cape Palmas, 15; sab. sch. for hea. child, 3,91; Miss L. Park, for Louisa Park in Ceylon, 20;) 157,75; 2d presb. chh. mon. con. 7,69; Prattsburgh, Presb. chh. Richland,

West Bloomfield,

Greene co. N. Y. Aux. So. Rev. Dr.

Catskill, F. Hill, 10; S. 8. Day, 5; Hunter, Presb. chh. mon. con. 13,45; coll. 14,36;

Lexington, Mon. con.

10 62

165 44 5.00

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80 70-425 32

Porter, Tr.

15.00

27 81

11 52-54 33

Hillsboro' co. N. H. Aux. So. R. Boylston, Tr.

con.

(of

ket-st. La. sew. so. 300; mem.
of cong, 237; mon.
which to constitute JOSEPH W.
DURYEE an Hoa. Mem. 100;)
127,12; for support of Mr. and
Mrs. Doty in Java; fancy art.
so. colleg. R. D. chh. to consti-
tute Rev. ABRAHAM POLHE-
MUS, Rev. WILLIAM I. POHL-

MAN and Rev. CORNELIUS BOGARDUS Hon. Mem. 175; Mrs. Maria Brooks, to constitute Rev. HART E. WARING an Hon. Mem. 50; Ref. South D. chh. mon. con. 123,10; Miss M. B. Kittle, for Isabella Buloid Kittle in Ceylon, 20; a sub. 5; C. ann. contrib. 3,65; Tompkinsville, R. D. chh. s. sch. No. 1,

Union Village, R. D. chh. to con-
stitute Rev. BENJAMIN VAN
ZANDT an Hon. Mem.
Utica, R. D. chh. to constitute

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CHARLES C. BRODHEAD, Rev.

Brighton, Indiv.

15 19

GUSTAVUS ABEEL and Rev. JOHN C. F. HOES an Hon. Mem.

Geneseo, 2d presb. chh.

111 25

Henrietta, Cong, chh.

21.00

200 00

Pembroke, Presb. chh.

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Boston, Ms. Mass. miss. so. as income fr. Mrs. Osborne's legacy, for pro. of the gospel among the Indians of the U. S. Bradford, Vt. Cong. so.

100 00

44 00

Bridgehampton, N. Y., A friend,

5 00

Brookline, Ms. By Mrs. Pierce,

10.00

Brooklyn, Pa. Presb. chh.

15.00

Burton, N. Y. Mon. con.

10.00

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do. coll. 45,50; a friend, 10;

62 56

Cheapside, N. J. Mon. con.

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presh. chh. and so. (of which
for Bombay sch. 50;)

Watertown, A. B. 30c. Stow's
Square, 4,70;

Waterville, Presb. so. sub. 70,25; mon. con. 44,14; (of which to constitute Mrs. HARRIET H. MYERS an Hon. Mem. 100;) Whitesboro', Fem. miss. so. Palestine Miss. So. Ms. E. Alden, Tr. Braintree and Weymouth, Union

so. fem. evang. so. 50,25; mon.
con. 66,42;

Hanson, Mon. con.

Randolph, 1st par. Gent. 57,85;

la. 45,03; E. par. mon. con.
15,41;

Weymouth, N. par. Gent.

5.00

114 39

83 31-333 27

62 00

Pilgrim Aux. So. Ms. Rev. A. Jackson, Tr. 112 28
Piscataqua confer. of chhs. N. H., S. Blake, Tr.
Exeter, Mon. con. in 1st and 2d chhs.
Strafford co. N. H. Aux. So. A. Freeman, Tr.
Dover, Gent. 25; a friend, 8; H.

S. C. 5;

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Darien, Ct. An indiv. 15; Rev. U. M. 10; S. F. 10; E. C. W. 10; J. F. 5;

Delhi, N. Y. Mon. con. in presb. chh. 38,04;
Av. of jewelry, 2,50;

Durham, Ct. Ladies of Mr. Gleason's so.
Fast Franklin, N. Y., J. Russell,
East Groton, N. Y. Ist cong. so.

50 00

50 00

40.54 80 00

5.00

5.00

100 00

5.00 7 00

2 00-77 77 Ellicottville, N. Y. Presb. chh. mon. con. Exeter, N. H. Coll. 80,35; Mrs. M. Dean, for Ward C. Dean in Ceylon, 12;

18 00

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Fairfield, N. J. Fem. mite so.

20 00

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F. 20; T. O. B. 10;

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Franklin, Ten. Presb. chh. mon. con.

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Geauga co. Bainbridge, 4,45; Troy, Z. P. 2,25; Huron co. Paris, 62,834 New Haven, 1,46, Peru, 31,08; Norwalk, 30; Monroeville, Mrs. S. H. C. 5; la. 5; Ridgefield, Mon, con 6; Lyme, M. K. 3; a boy, 4c. Bellevue, D. H. Fitch, 20; Margaretta, Rev. H. S. 1,50; Norwalk, Rev. T. K. 2; Greenfeld, 7,37; Sandusky city, mon. con. 3; juv. sew. so. 5,73; S. Moss, 12; indiv. 15,75; Milan, Indiv. 44,34; Florence, Mon. con. 1; Lorain co. A friend, 2; Portage co. Hudson, La. sew. so. 15; la. sub. 45; (of which to constitute Rev. GILES DOOLITTLE an Hon. Mem. 50;) J. B. 1; Seneca co. Eaton, Mon. con. 2,64; a Indy, 3; Scipio, for China, 4,05; Trumbull co. Bloomfield, 18,50; Clarksfield, S. H. and son, 3,50; Fitchville, 9,13; Vermilion, 11,54; Wakeman, L. Hill, 6; jewelry 75c.

Georgia, A lady, 1st pay for Anna Stiles at Cape Palmas,

of Mr. Emerson, Sandw. Isl.

Gloucester, Sandy Bay, Ms. A fem. friend, Greenfield, N. Y. Chh. and cong, to constitute Rev. THEOPHILUS REDFIELD an Hon. Mem.

Halifar, Ms. Mon. con.

Hannibal, N. Y. Cong, chh. mon. con. Hartford, Ct. La. sew. so. for Nathan Strong in Ceylon,

Hopkinton, N. H. Gent. asso. 56,90; la. asso. 26,41; mon. con. 19,87; s. 8. chil. 1,82; to constitute Rev. ROGER C. HATCH of Warwick, Ms. and Rev. Amos BLANCHARD of Warner, N. H. Hon. Mem. Ipswich, Ms. Young ladies of fem. sem. for Mary Lyon Grant at Mackinaw, Jaffna, Ceylon, Rev. A. C. HALL, (of which for Frances Adeline Hall and Phila Willard in Ceylon, 100;) which constitutes him an Hon. Mem.

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Marblehead, Ms. Gent. asso, in part,
Marietta, O., E. Cutter,

Marshfield, Ms. A. Ames, 10; fam. m. box, 2;
Middlefield Centre, N. Y. 23; presb. chh.

coll. 20, la. miss. and benev. so. for Mary Smith in Ceylon, 24;

Milford, N. H. Sab. sch. for Josephine Ellis in Ceylon,

Millbury, Ms. Miss P. Goff, for miss. to Syria, Monroe, Ct. Mrs. H. Hawley,

Monticello, Ga. Miss A. S. Reese and Miss C. M. Glover, for hen. girl in India, Montrose, Pa. Presb. chh. mon. con. Moravia, N. Y. Cong. chh.

Newark, N. J. Mon. con. in 3d presb. chh. 66,57; do. in 2d do. 4,75; a few ladies of 1st do. 12,50;

New Castle Presb. Del. Pequea, J. Byers, 30; cong. 60; New London cong. 30; Churchville do. 50; Centre do. 7,75; Rock cong. 5; Chesnut Level and Little Britain cong. 41,32;

New Echota, E. Boudinot,

New Market, N. H. Lamprey River, fem. for. miss. so.

New Milford, Pa. H. Burritt,

Newport, N. H. Mon. con.

Newton, Ms. Mon. con. E. par.

Northampton, Ms. Hannah Burt and Julia A.

Barnes, for Mary Todd in Ceylon, North Andover, Ms. Evang. chh. mon. con. North Granville, N. Y. Mon. con. 1st presb. chb.

Northumberland co. Pa. Warrior Run sew.
so. for John Bryson, Sandw. Isl.
Norwich, Ct. A lady, av. of jewelry,
Patchoque, N. Y. Cong, chh. mon. con.
Peacham, Vt. Rev. L. Worcester, fr. estate
of his son, L. Worcester, late of Newark,
N. J. dee'd, to constitute Rev. SAMUEL
A. WORCESTER an lion. Mem. 50; coll. in
cong. so. 44,19; mon. con. 17,81;
Pelham, N. H., J. Caldwell, for a child in
Ceylon,

Pencada, Del. Presb. chh. mon, con.
Peru, Vt. Mon. con.

Philadelphia, Pa. Miss ELLEN NAGLER,

which constitutes her an Hon. Mem. 100; youth's miss. so. of 11th presb. chh. for Jesse in Cher. na. 30; s. s. chil. 3d presb. chh. 13;

Pittsburgh, Pa. Infant sch. in 1st presb. chh. to constitute Rev. F. HERRON an Hon. Mem.

Princeton, N. J. Theol. sem. miss. so. for Mr. Thomson, Syria, 10; presb. chh. 5; Phil. so. Nassau Hall, 3,74;

Redfield, N. Y., A. Johnson, a rev. pensioner, Richford, N. Y. Cong, chh. mon. con.

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Rockaway, N. J. Presb. chh.

50 87

Roxbury, Ms. Eliot chh. and cong. 267,25; mon. con. 9,11;

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Sag Harbor, N. Y. Coll. 51; moa. con. 24; St. Augustine, E. F., O. Conger, Salisbury, N. H. Coll. to constitute Rev. Mr. FOSTER an Hon. Mem. Savannah, Ga. A friend, for a child to be selected by Mr. Eckard in Ceylon, 50; fem. pr. m. of Ind. prest. chh. for Martha Cleland and Jane Bayard at Cape Palmas, 30; Scotchtown, N. Y.

Setauket, N. Y. Presb. chh. av. of beads, Sharon, Ms. Mon. con. and coll. 51,43; av. of ring, 89c. to constitute Rev. JACOB CUMMINGS an Hon. Mem.

75.09 10 00

50.00

80.00 23 00 3.00

100 00

10. 00 2.00

The following articles are respectfully solicited from Manufacturers and others.

Printing paper, to be used in publishing portions of the Scriptures, school-books, tracts, etc. at Bombay, and at the Sandwich Islands.

Writing paper, writing books, blank books, quills, slates, etc. for all the missions and mission schools, especially for the Sandwich Islands.

Shoes of a good quality, of all sizes, for persons of both sexes; principally for the Indian missions. Blankets, coverlets, sheets, etc.

Fulled cloth, and domestic cottons of all kinds.

James Adger, Charleston, S. C., Treasurer of the Southern Board of Foreign Missions, acknowledges the receipt of the following sums, viz. Charleston, United mon. con. in 3d presb. chh. 24; Mrs. M. Dickson, 20; Cane Creek chh. to constitute Rev. A. WILLIAMS an Hon. Mem. 50; Fairfield dist. H. Milling, 25; Indian town cong. Ladies, to constitute Rev. A. G. PEDEN an Hon. Mem. 50; gent. 7; John's Island and Wadmalaw presb. chhs, and so. ann. sub. for support of Mr. Wilson, Cape Palmas, 600; Augusta, Ga. Coll. 70, mon. con. 20; Spartanburg, S. Morrow, 10; sent by Mr. Hobby, 130; Bryan co. chh. 21; Camden co. S. E. A. 20; less postage, 63c. $1,046 37

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Warsaw, Ill. J. Slater,

Washington, N. Y., Z. Bisbee,

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EXTRACTS FROM THE GENERAL LETTER OF THE MISSION.

Istitched, covered, and cut.

Another edition of the New Testament will be called for immediately. The Old Testament might also be prepared for the press and printed in course, if we had THE annual meeting of the missionaries paper; but no more can be done at printfrom the several stations was held at Hono-ing the Scriptures till we receive a fresh supply from America.

lulu, opening on the 1st of June, 1836, and closing on the 7th of July. The letter from which the following extracts are taken, was written at the close of the meeting, and was designed as the annual report of the proceedings of the mission in the several departments of labor.

Translation and Printing-Education— Manufacture of Cloth.

Some progress has been made in translating the Scriptures the past year. First of Chronicles, Esther, Ecclesiastes, Solomon's Song, Isaiah, most of Jeremiah, the remainder of Proverbs, and the minor prophets have been translated. The above-named books, except first of Chronicles, the minor prophets, and the last twenty chapters of Jeremiah have been printed. There are a number of the remaining books of the Old Testament prepared for the press. Some new school-books have been printed during the year. The whole number of pages of new matter added to the Hawaiian library, since the last general meeting is about 1,850. This does not include reprints.

The business of printing and binding books has been carried on vigorously and successfully, till within about two months past, when the presses were obliged to be stopped for want of paper. There have been bound the past year 10,546 volumes, and 36,050 pamphlets,

VOL. XXXIII.

The whole amount of printing executed at the mission presses during the year is 151,929 copies of various works, embracing 11,606,429 pages, at an expense of $5,336 48, being more than twenty-two pages for a cent. Most of the pages were duodecimo, a few being octavo and quarto.

Common Schools.--Our common schools have, for the most part, remained the past year nearly as they wer the preceding year. We have paid but little attention to them as a mission, except in cases where we have been able to secure a teacher of more than ordinary qualifications to place in them; because they have not in general been worthy of much attention, where the teacher was one of ordinary stamp. We have, however, obtained from the class who have recently left the high school, twenty or thirty, who, we hope, will be of some value as teachers. A new others, also, have been trained up at our stations, who have been some help the past year, and we hope will be of more value the year to come. In all cases where we have found individuals possessing any good degree of the requisite qualifications to teach the art of reading, we have encouraged them; and in most instances either given them some compensation ourselves, or induced the people among whom they were located to do it.

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