BIOGRAPHY. Memoir and Character of the Rev. C. to the Hon. East-India Company, on Friend, Missionary in North India.. 25 the Bengal Establishment Memoir and Obitu of the Rev. T. T. Memoir of Samuel, a Converted Malabar, Departure of the Rev. T. Sandys and Resolutions Mrs. Sandys; Mr. Thomas Chapman and his Wife; and the Rev. Charles Payments of the Year Blackman and Mrs. Blackman.... 22 Remarks on the Funds Dismissal and Departure of Missionaries : Address of the Committee on the Fi- 94 nancial Difficulties of the Society .261-263 Rev. W. Smith, and Mrs. Wilkinson, 166 || Resolutions &c. relative to the Financial Mr. William Ridsdale; the Rev. J. A. Situation of the Society, adopted at a Jetter and Mrs.Jetter ; the Rev. J.J. Meeting held at Freemasons' Tavern, Weitbrecht and Mr. J. Thompson; 190 List of Subscribers on that Occasion.... 285 Rev. J. Raban, and Messrs.W. Tubb, Address of the Committee, to the Com- mittees of Associations, and to Clergy- Proceedings of Associations, 69, 70, 94, 95 men connected with the Society, on 119, 142, 143, 166,167,190, 191,215,263, 264 providing for the Wants of the Asso- ciations at their Anniversaries 286 4, 54, 55, 148 Villages near Sammannoud River District-Kissey, Wellington, Leicester-Gloucester ....7, 57, 150 Return towards Caïro 7, 57, 58, 151 Bulak, near Caïro.. 8, 58, 151 Proceedings of Rev. Messrs. Gobat and Kugler, on their Mission to Abyssinia, 169 Report of the Mission for 1829 : Suez-Departure from Suez.... 169 Difficulties arising from Native Cħa Yambo, Jidda racter-Excitability of Africans 145 Conversation with Abyssinian Pilgrim, 170 Standard of Admission to Baptism... 1.45 Want of Native Teachers & Students, 146 Review of the Past Year-Conclusion, 147 Calcutta and North-India Mission. Proceedings and Plans in Egypt..... 12 Ministry of the Word-Schools....... 36 Atrocities of African Slavery... 14 Press-Native-Female Education..... 37 Account of the Magaginé, an African Tribe, 15 Examination of the Schools Geographical Situation of the Tribe .. 15 Burdwan & Culna : Government, Customs, and Manners.. 15 Baptisms-Schools. Religious Notions and Customs 16 Difference of Disposition between Hin- Difficulty of obtaining suitable Native doos and Mahomedans... 17 Influence of their respective Systems Importance of a Seminary for the Prepa- on the Mahomedans and Hindoos, 218 19 Dissimulation of the Hindoos....... 218 Journal of the Rev. John Hartley, on a Mosques— Temples.... Intellectual Powers of Mahomedans Hydra-Kastri-Kranidi.. 100, 101 Native Schools.. 102 General View of the Mission. 103 Inadequacy of Means when compared 107 Advantages of Culna as a Missionary 108 Station-Native Schools, Idolatry, 223 109 General Remarks ................. Napoli di Romania-Kiveri- Astros- Extracts from the Journal of Kurrum 110-113 Messeeh, Native Catechist... 224 Journal of the Rev. J. R. T. Leider's Visit Benares :- Archdeacon Corrie's Report 59 Extracts from the Journal of the Rev. Cochin :-State of the Mission ......... 214 241 Tellicherry :- State of the Mission..... 214 ARCHDEACON ROBINSON'S REPORT OF Extracts from the Journal of the Rev. Mr. Bowley's Review of his Proceed- Visit of Native Assistants to a Mela.. 133 Notices of Inquirers and Converts 245 Journey to Benares, Buxar, &c... Extracts from the Journal of the Rev. Cotta :-Ministry-Indifference of People, 172 Institution-Female Schools-English Allahabad :--Services and Schools... 41 School-Native Schools 173, 174 Further Openings for Schools-Press Ministry of the Word-Schoots 41 Rev. M. Wilkinson's Visits to Buxar, Kandy.--Congregations-- Indifference to Means of Grace- Schools - Atten- Agra :-Communication from Rev. Dr. dance on the Week-day Catechetia cal Lecture-State of the Heathen -Want of a Fellow-Labourer .... Visit to a Neighbouring Mela by the Rev. H. Fisher and Mr. Richards.. 135 | Baddagame :-Ministry of the Word ... 176 Conversation with the Agent of a Schools-Boarding-School for Boys Female School Want of additional Conversation with two Native Ze. Female Schools—Effect of Disap- Madras and South-India Mission... 78 General Sketch of the Mission.... 78 Encouragements from the Progress of Madras :-Extracts from the Rev. P. P. Female Schools-Beneficial Influence Congregations--Seminary_Schools193 of Education, 21-Press....... 21, 179 Beneficial Effects of Publications Pulicat :--Congregation-Schools Schools Seminary – Female Chris- Tinnevelly: - Summary View of the Mis Sketch of the Mission Extraets from the Rev. C. Rhenius's Rangheehoo-Kiddeekiddee. iv...,181, 182 88_94, 201--209 | Pyhea:-GeneralExamination of Schools, 183 Extracts from the Rev. B. Schmid's Spirit of Inquiry among the Natives at Journal ...138,140, 209-212 Pyhea-Baptism of Three Converts Extracts from the Journal of the Rev. Beneficial Effects among other Sufferings of the Converts ---- Trials Hostilities among Native Tribes 186 : from within Increase and Im- Extracts from the Rev. W. Williams's provement of the Congregations 196 -Journal General Effect on their Heathen Neigh Extracts from Journal of Rev.W.Yate, 235 Schools— Applications for Schools Increase of Teachers and Schools., 198|Jamaica:-Coley, St.Thomas's in the East, 67 Cottayam :-Grammar & Fem.Schools, 165-66 Demerara :-St. Matthew's Parish 68 Essequibo :--Union and Alliance Plantation,68 Preparation of Native Teachers-Se- Press-Beneficial Influence of Publi North-West-American Mission. cations-Concluding Remarks 200 Sketch of the Mission.. State and Prospects of the Mission 212 Labourers-Congregations Account of the Syrian College by Schools, Indian Boys Rev. J. Doran Observations on Want of a School of Industry. some of the Youths in the College, Temporal Condition of the People at the abridged from Mr. Doran's Report the Lower Settlement -New Boys admitted, and Feel Intended Erection of a New Church'... .283 Beneficial Influence of Communications culation of Scriptures, and Forma from England 230 || Remarks on an anticipated Reduction of Church Missionary Record. No. I.] JANUARY, 1830. [Vol. I, The reasons which have led to the enlargement of the “ Monthly Paper," and to the publication of the Society's Proceedings under the title of the "Church Missionary Record,” have been already stated in the Circular addressed by the Committee, in the Monthly Paper of October, to the Collectors and Friends of the Society. It is a subject of thankfulness with the Committee, that the mode of publication, which, after mature deliberation, they have been induced to adopt, has been sanctioned by the approval of a large portion of the Society's intelligent and efficient supporters. The commencement of a publication, exhibiting the Society's proceedings in a distinct and separate form, seems to be a suitable occasion for giving a brief sketch of each Mission, from its commencement to the present year, as the events connected with it are brought under notice. The first of these is the WEST-AFRICA MISSION. This Mission was commenced in been followed, in various years, by 1804. The spiritual darkness of the others; and the number of the Lainhabitants of Africa, the wrongs bourers, namely, Missionaries, Catewhich this country had inflicted on chists, and Females who have gone them by its participation in the in- from this country in connection with human Slave-Trade, the guilt con the Mission, since its commencement, tracted by that nefarious traffic, and has been ninety-three. the duty of attempting something to With the exception of Freetown wards a' reparation of the injuries in the colony of Sierra Leone, where which we had heaped on them, were one or other of the Missionaries offipowerful and constraining reasons ciated as Chaplain till 1816, the chief why the Society should direct its first scene of their labours for several years efforts to this part of the world. All was the Susoo Country. Various obattempts to obtain English Missio- stacles delayed the formation of a Setnaries having failed, two Lutheran tlement among these people till 1808; Clergymen, after the example of the when one was begun at Bashia and Society for Promoting Christian Know- another at Canoffee, both on the Ria ledge, were engaged; and early in Pongas, and distant about 100 miles the year 1804, these two, the Rev. N.W. from Sierra Leone. Mr. NyMelchior Renner and the Rev. Peter länder undertook a Mission to the Hartwig, with Mrs. Hartwig, left this Bulloms, a people in the neighbourcountry for that part of the western hood of the Sierra-Leone River, and coast of Africa which lies between the fixed himself in Yongroo-Pomoh in tropics, and which had been the chief 1812. Gambia, on the River Demseat of the Slave-Trade. They have bia, among the Bagoes, about 70 Vol. I. B miles N.W. of Sierra Leone, was and humanely maintained and clothed formed three years afterwards; and, by Government till able to support about the same time, Schools were themselves. The ignorance and suestablished in Goree, an Island off perstition of the people, and that deCape Verd. A revival of the Slave- pression of the whole man which is Trade, that inveterate bane of Africa, the direct consequence of slavery, rendering the presence of the Missio- have thrown no inconsiderable diffinaries in the country obnoxious to the culties in the way of the Mission : in Chiefs and people, measures of a most dependence, however, on the grace of nefarious description were resorted God, the Society's Missionaries and to, in order to expel them from the Schoolmasters entered on their work; coast; and all hopes of succeeding in and, by His blessing on their exerthe object of the Mission being for the tions, a decided and beneficial change present destroyed and the lives of the in the habits and manners of the peoMissionaries exposed to hazard, the ple has been generally produced; and, Society was reluctantly compelled to as far as man can judge, very many abandon, one after another, these once have experienced the power of true promising Stations. Bashia was given religion on their hearts. up in 1816, and Canoffee, Gambia, The Colony of Sierra Leone was and Yongroo Pomoh in 1818; about divided into 14 parishes; for each of which time Goree was restored to the which it was the object of the Society, French, and the Schools of the So- according to an arrangement with His ciety, in consequence, discontinued. Majesty's Government, to provide an Thus ended, for a season, the labours efficient Minister ; but the sickness of the Society in the territories of the and mortality which have prevailed Native Tribes of Africa; though not in the Colony have rendered this imwithout one instance, at least, of the practicable: 'and, owing to the inadeDivine Blessing attending them, in the quacy of their number, the Missionaconversion of a Youth, named Simeon ries have been compelled, within the Wilhelm, who was educated in the last year, to relinquish, for a season, School at Bashia, and a Memoir of one of the three Districts into which whom, published in 1817, is probably the Colony had been recently divided. well known to many who take an in- While the frequent reduction in the terest in the Society's proceedings. number of Labourers, by death, reThe painful, though necessary mea- movals through ill-health, and other sure, of retiring from the territories of causes, has necessarily circumscribed the Native Tribes, was greatly com the operations of the Society within a pensated by the important sphere of much narrower sphere than the limits Missionary Labour presented by the of the Colony, the regions around Colony of Sierra Leone; where the have been left almost untouched; objects of the Society could be pro- and, though some considerable tracts secuted beyond the influence of the of country have been placed under Slave-Traders. To this point, there- the authority of Great Britain by the fore, the Missionaries successively re Chiefs and people, and an advantatired; and to this spot the efforts geous opening thereby made for the of the Society in Africa have since introduction of the Gospel among been almost entirely confined. Sierra some neighbouring tribes, the Society, Leone having been made the depôt from these causes, has not had it in its for those Natives who were rescued power to avail itself of these opporfrom slavery by his Majesty's cruizers, tunities of extending its labours. great numbers of Africans, of many The difficulties, with which the Misdifferent tribes and dialects, have been sionaries have had to contend, have brought hither, liberated from the been further increased by their having slave-chain, distributed into villages, been charged for some years with the |