OF THE Church Missionary Soctety FOR AFRICA AND THE EAST. TWENTIETH YEAR. 1819-1820. CONTAINING THE ANNIVERSARY SERMON, BY THE REV. B. W. MATHIAS ; THE TWENTIETH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE, WITH APPENDIX ; AND A LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS AND BENEFACTORS. London: PRINTED BY R. WATTS, CROWN COURT, TEMPLE BAR. PUBLISHED FOR THE SOCIETY, BY L. B. SEELEY, 169, FLEET STREET; AND J. HATCHARD AND SON, PICCADILLY. SOLD BY M. KEENE, J. PARRY, AND T. JOHNSON, DUBLIN; 1820. PUBLİ !IORARY 0 ..ONS All Communications on the subject of the Society may be addressed to the Secretary, as follows: SALISBURY SQUARE, LONDON." The House is open Daily, from Nine in the Morning till Seven in the Evening. The Committee meet, at the Society's House, every Second Monday throughout the Year, at Twelve o'clock. SUBSCRIPTIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS WILL BE RECEIVED AT THE SOCIETY'S HOUSE, And at the following Places : Sir PETER POLE, Bart. & Co. Bartholomew Lane. In Dublin, by And, in Edinburgh, by Page and Vice-Presidents.... Lists of the Committee and Officers, and of the Honorary Governors for Life.....5 Lists of the Life and Annual Governors....6 Resolutions at the Twentieth Annual Laws and Regulations of the Society.....8 List of Missionary Stations and Missio- Plan of Church Missionary Associations...12 Rules for Ladies' Associations... 13 Notice respecting Collectors.. SERMON, by the Rev. B. Williams REPORT of the Committee... .49 Diffusion of Missionary Intelligence....49 Exertions of the Society's Friends.....50 Contributions by Associations.. ..54 MISSIONARIES and STUDENTS... ......60 IV. Documents relative to the Mission V. Documents relative to the Mission at Extracts of the Journal of Mr. W. Bowley, at Chunar and in its Vi- cinity, from October 1818 to Fe- VI. Return of the Madras Schools, in Extracts of the Journal of the Rev. C. T. E. Rhenias, at Madras and in its Vicinity, from January to VII. Extracts of the Correspondence of the Rev. J. C. Schvarrè, on the state of the School Establishments at and VIII. Address of Lieutenant-Colonel John Munro, Resident at the Court of Travancore, to the Government of Fort St. George, on the state of Christianity in that Residency......333 Abstract of an Address, by the Rev. Joseph Fenn, in an Assem- bly of the Catanars and Elders Mauvellicarre, on the 3d of De- Extracts of the Journal of the .205 1819, on occasion of the Dismission Society, by the Rev.W. Marsh, at St. Bride's Church. .223 delivered at Freemasons' Hall, ..230 the Rev. T. T. Biddulph... .248 .259 III. Journal of an Excursion from Sierra Leone to the Bassa Country, in West Africa, in the months of Fe- broary, March, and April 1819; by the late Mr. John Brereton Cates, accompanied by some Natives.....264 the Rev. James flough, on the state of the Schools at Palamcottah and in its Vicinity... .318 X. Extracts of the Communications of the Rev. Robert Mayor, from Bad- dagamme, in Ceylon..... .351 Extracts of the Journal of the Rev. Benjamin Ward, at Cal- pentyn, in Ceylon, from Mi- chaelmas 1818 to Midsunmer 1819.... ...353 Extracts of the Journal of the Rev Joseph Knight, at Nellore, bear Jaffna, in Ceylon, from Nov. 11, 1818, to Sep. 30, 1879.... .357 XI. Extracts of the Communications of Mr. Thwaites, respecting the An- tigua Schools... ..364 XII. Some Account of the Red-River Settlement, near Lake Winnipeg, in British North America... .367 Proposal for an Establishment in the Territories of the Hudson's-Bay Company, in British North America, for the Instruction of the Indians...368 |