Lempster. Gent. Asso. Rev. Mr. Fisher, Pres. Dea. Belleville. Gent. Asso. Mr. J. Van Ransellaer, Pres. Mr. T. S. Uffington, V. Pres. Rev. S. Van Sandvoort, Sec. Mr. W. Stephens, Treas. 1 coll. Dec. 3. Bloomfield. Associations formed Dec. 4th-6 coll. in each. PENNSYLVANIA.-Washington Co. Upper Buffalo. Gent. Asso. Rev. John Anderson, D. D. Pres. R. Lyie, V. Pres. I. Me Williamson, do. William C. Anderson. Sec. David Crary, Treas. 4 coll.-Lad. Asso. Mrs. J. Anderson, Pres. Miss A Smylie, V. Pres. Miss J. Gordon, Sec. Mrs. A. Adams, Treas. 4 coll. Oct. 29. Taylor, V. Pres. Mr. Milton Bingham, Sec. Dea.- Hardy, Treas. 3 coll. Oct. 8.-Lad. Asso. Washington. Mrs. Fisher, Pres. Mrs. Abel, V. Pres. Mrs. S. Bingham, Sec. Mrs. Isabel Hurd, Treas. 6 coll. Oct. 9. MASSACHUSETTS.-Middlesex Co. Newton, E. Par. Gent. Asso. Jonathan Homer, D. D. Pres. Gen. Ebenezer Cheney, V. Pres Mr. William Jackson, Sec. Dea. E. F. Woodward, Treas. 6 coll-Lad. Asso. Miss Peck, Pres. Mrs. Ladd, V. Pres. Miss C. 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Mr. Mr. J. R. Strain, Treas. Dec. 16. Gent. and Lad. Asso. Rev. A. B. Mr. Andrew Barre, V. Pres. Col. Rev. A. B. Gilliland, Treas. Dec. New-Market. Gent. and Lad. Asso. Mr. Thomas Palmer, Pres. Mr. Joseph Shield, V. Pres. Mr. Jchn Barrett, Sec. Mr. Joel Berryman, Treas. Gallipolis. Gent. and Lad. Asso. Rev. J. S. Brooks, Pres. Gen. L. Newsom, V. Pres. Mr. L. S. Westgate, Se.. Mr. Robert Warth, Treas. 6 coll. Dec. 8. DONATIONS, FROM JANUARY 21ST, TO FEBRUARY 20TH, INCLUSIVE. La. 15 00 25 00--40 00 Hatfield. Ms. Rev. J. B. Waterbury, 5 00 500 00 Tr. in part, New-York city and vic. W. W. Chester, Palestine miss. so. Ms. E. Alden, Tr. in 2,923 00 Jamaica. N. Y. E. Wickes, part, 75 00 Windham co. Vt. J. Kenney, Tr. Henniker, N. H. Rev. JACOB SCALES, for Bombay miss. (which constitutes him an Honorary Member of the Board,) Lancaster, Pa. Mon. con. 21 82; W. Kirkpatrick, 10; a lady, 5; S. Rhine, 5; Litchfield co. Ct. Aux. so. (of which for ed. hea, youth, 4; for Joseph Harvey, at the Sandw. Isl. 25; for Uriel Gridley in Ceylon, from the Dorcas so. in Watertown, 20; for hea. chil. in India, 12:) Livonia, N. Y. Mon. con. in presb. so. Lyme, Ct. C. Griswold, 5 00 Mon. con. Gent. asso. 30; La. asso. 25; (of which to constitute the Rev. JOSEPH BRACKETT an Honorary Member of the Board, 50;) Seneca Mission, M. box in school room, Shippensburg, Pa. Rev. H. R. Wilson, 10; J. McClay, 5; mon. con. 7; Simsbury, Ct. Mon. con. 11 03; Mrs. Ely, 1; K. E. 25c. N. H. E. 25c. Somers, Ct. Mon. con. 8 81; read. so. in 9th dist. 1 19; E. Clark and wife, a thank off. 2; 10 00 Princeton, N. J. A friend, 5 00 32.92 Rushville, N. Y. 56 00 9 70 22 00 12 53 12.00 Springfield, Ms. Parents' off. Springfield, N. Y. Mon. con. Steubenville, O. Rev. C. C. Beatty, 2d pay. for Lydia Moore at Seneca, Sudbury, Ms. Relig. so. Sumner, Me. Contrib. of indiv. Upton, Ms. Fem. cent so. for Bombay miss. Whately, Ms. Mr. White's sel. sch. for Mack Wilkesbarre, Pa. Mon. con. 13 50; miss. so. 9 50; W. C. Gildersleeve, 27; Winchester, Va. L. Hoff, 50; D. Gold, 20, Unknown, Av. of needle work for hea. fem. 3.00 2.00 10 00 28 00 12.00 13 50 96 75 13 00 4 50 50 00 30 00 2.00 The following articles are respectfully solicited from Printing paper, to be used in publishing portions of the Scriptures, school-books, tracts, &c. at Bombay, and at the Sandwich Islands. Writing paper, writing books, blank books, quills, slates, &c. for all the missions and mission schools: especially for the Sandwich Islands. persons of Shoes of a good quality, of all sizes, for both sexes; principally for the Indian missions. Blankets, coverlets, sheets, &c. Fulled cloth, and domestic cottons of all kinds. A LIBERAL DONATION. SINCE the preceding list of donations was closed, and just as the last pages of this number were going to the press, a letter was received by the Treasurer, enclosing Five Hun-` dred Dollars. The donor conceals his name; but we may be allowed to publish his letter. Sir, The statement in the last. Herald, of the great want of funds, to enable the Board to carry on its present extensive operations, and to send out reinforcements to our missionary stations, should arouse the friends of the Redeemer to an immediate and vigorous exertion to remove the embarrassments, so feelingly described. Having contributed my usual donation to the Board, I rested satisfied, until I read the Herald. Since then, the wants of the heathen, our increasing obligations to God, the necessity of working while the day lasts, and the value of souls, has convinced me, that it is my duty to devote, not a part of my present income, but of my capital to the glorious work of evangelizing the world. I accordingly have set apart, and now enclose you, Five Hundred Dollars, for that purpose. May Almighty God bless the labors of the Board, replenish its Treasury, and send many more laborers into his fields, which are already white unto the harvest. EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE. The following lines are extracted from a letter containing a remittance. The residue. $1.67, is from a man by the name of I who lives far up the Penobscot river. He is far beyond the means of grace, and religious society. But loving Zion himself, he lays aside six cents a week for missionary purposes. A friend of his from this place, visited him, not long since, and brought away a part of what he has thus collected. Please to send a separate receipt, and it will, in due time, reach him in the wilderness. A pious lady in the island of Bermuda, to whom a gentleman in this country has regularly sent the Missionary Herald, lately wrote thus to that gentleman. The perusal of the Missionary Herald afforded me much gratification. I was particularly impressed (as no doubt many have been) by Mr. Hall's urgent letter from Bombay in behalf of the heathen, and resolved that the appeal should not be disregarded by me.-The enclosed ten dollars have the goodness to present to the American Board of Missions for the Bombay Mission;-from a Widow. We now give a resolution of a respectable shipmaster. It was written at sea, and at the time specified. The sum of eight dollars was paid, some time since, into the Treasury, as the consecrated results of the pious seaman's systematic charity. At Sea, April 15th, 1826. Lat. 42° N. and Long. 25° 30 W.-Having, through the grace of God, been brought to feel it my duty to contribute more liberally towards the support of the missionary cause, for the purpose of sending the light of the Gospel into heathen lands, I do this day, in the presence of God, tax myself one cent per day, and as much more as I may feel disposed to contribute; but not less than the rate of one cent per day. And be it known to any, into whose hands this box may fall, that its contents are devoted to the cause of missions. Palestine Mission. PUBLIC STATEMENT OF ASAAD SHI DIAK. (Concluded from p. 76.) ONE of my friends told me, that he had suggested to the patriarch the grand reason why I did not believe in the pope, which was, that, among other doctrines of his, he taught, that he could not commit an error, and that now, though a pope should see any one of his predecessors had erred, he could not say this, for fear that he also should appear to be an unbeliever. This friend also told me, that the patriarch wondered how I should pretend that I held to the Christian religion, and still converse in such abusive terms against it; and I also wondered, that after he saw this, he should not be willing so much as to ask me, in mildness, and self-possession, and forbearance, for what reasons I was unwilling to receive the doctrines of the pope, or to say I believed as he did; but he would not consent that the above mentioned Armenian priest should hold a discussion with me, and more than this, laid every person, and even his own brother, under excommunication, if he should presume to dispute or converse with me on the subject of religion. Under this prohibition from conversation, and this bereavement of books, from what quarter could I get the necessary evidence to believe in their opinion? Another cause 1 had of wonder, which was, that not one of all with whom I conversed, after he saw me to be heretical and declining from the truth, thought proper to advise me to use the only means of becoming strong in the faith, viz. prayer to God the Most High, and searching his Holy Word, which a child may understand. I wondered, too, that they should ridicule me, and report me abroad as one mad; and after all this, be so fearful to VOL. XXIII. engage in a dispute with the madman, lest he should vanquish them in argument, or spoil their understandings, or turn them away from the truth. After some time came the bishop of Beyroot. I gave him the usual salutation, and was greatly rejoiced to see him, as I knew the excellency of his understanding, and his quickness of apprehension, and hoped that, after some discussion between us, he would explain the truth, and that he would rest on clear evidence to support his views. But in this case also, I was disappointed; for one day, when I asked him a question, and during the whole short conversation which followed, whenever I began to bring evidence against him, he was angry, and finally drove me from my chamber in a fury, and that with no other cause, as he pretended, than that he did not wish to converse with a heretic. Some time after this, Hoory Joseph Shaheen came down to the convent of Alma, and I endeavored to get him to unite with me in persuading the patriarch to send out among the people preachers of the Gospel, or that there should be preaching in the churches as before mentioned. But he would not co-operate with me in this, and I was again disappointed. Then, when the patriarch and the bishop of Beyroot wished to dispute with me, I expressed the hope that the discussion might be in meekness, and without anger. It was concluded, that the discussion should be in writing, that no one should afterwards be able to alter what he had once said. They then commenced by asking me questions; the first question was, in amount, this, "Has the Messiah given us a new law?" At first, I did not grant that he had, strictly speaking, given us a new law, and quoted the words of John, that "the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ;" but when I afterwards saw that by "a new law" they meant merely the Gospel, or the 13 |