ry part of the Prussian dominions, but especially in this city. Here, within the last ten years, God has raised up a number of able preachers and professors, who are unanimous in the defence of his cause, and the pleasure of the Lord prospers in their hands.

"My stay in this city has been longer than I intended, in consequence of the prince royal having informed the British minister that he wished to become personally acquainted with me. I repaired to the palace at the appointed time, and had a very gratifying interview with his royal highness the crown prince, who was pleased to express his great satisfaction at the progress of our good cause in the Prussian dominions. Every pious and benevolent undertaking finds a protector in him."

The Neuwied Bible Society, according to its last Report, continues to receive the support of the Prince and his august family. "The introduction of the New Testament into several Catholic parishes (writes the treasurer of the Society) is a subject of real exultation: exclusively of the Catholic clergymen, noticed in our Report, several others have applied for New Testaments for the purpose of distributing them among the youth at school." Your committee have purchased of the

Institution at Halle, for the use of the Silesian Society, a small stock of an edition of the Bohemian New Testament bound up together with the Psalms; an edition very much in request both at Breslau and at Hernnhutt. They have also been induced by intelligence from Breslau, that a spirit of inquiry had arisen among the younger branches of the numerous Jewish families in that city, to present 200 copies of the Jewish German New Testament to the Silesian Society.

DENMARK.

The proceedings of the Bible Societies established in the Danish dominions, as exhibited by the seventh Report of the Central Society, will be surveyed with heartfelt satisfaction. Your cause still continues to receive the sanction of his Majesty the King, who has facilitated its

From Dean Helgasen, Secretary to the Icelandic Bible Society, the following gratifying communication has been received:- "It is a well founded opinion, that every family throughout this island is now in possession of a Bible, or a New Testament, and many of more than one copy. The Sacred Volume is read with diligence, during the long winter evenings. The revision of the Icelandic New Testament is almost completed, and it is hoped that means will be found to enable us to print it, an object equally desired by the whole population.

The West Indian possessions of his Danish Majesty have been supplied with Creole New Testaments, for the use of the negroes. The Faroe Islands will shortly receive the Gospel of St. Matthew in their own language, printed in

parallel columns with the Danish ver

sion.

The number of Bibles and Testaments circulated in the duchies of Sleswig and Holstein, amounts to upwards of 27,000 copies. Your committee have purchased 5,000 Bibles of different sizes, of which 1,500 copies have been presented to the Sleswig Society, and the rest distributed among the Pomeranian and other neighbouring Societies in the north of Germany. Your committee have further encouraged the Deaf and Dumb Institution by a supply of paper and ink for 5,000 copies of the Bible from the large octavo plates.

SWEDEN.

making rapid progress in our labours, though with limited means. I feel more and more the importance of making every effort to promote this great cause, as my time on earth cannot be very long, and I know not into whose hands it may be consigned. God is abundantly sowing the good seed; but the enemy is no less active in sowing tares. Had not Bible Societies been established, through the merciful providence of God, to counteract the evils of ignorance and infidelity in spiritual things, to what a state of moral degradation must the world have sunk at this moment! What an awful responsibility shall we incur, if we do not improve the present favourable opportunity!"

The Norwegian Society having completed the distribution of the 6,000 co

holm, of which 1,803 Bibles and 265 Tes taments, were distributed gratuitously.

The edition of 10,000 copies of the whole Bible in quarto is completed; a fresh impression of 5,000 Bibles and 15,000 New Testaments, from standing types of the octavo size, has been struck off; an edition of the New Testament, on large standing types, has also left the press.

The Ladies' Association at Stockholm has pursued its benevolent exertions with vigour, though with limited means. The efforts which have been made by the Central Society at Stockholm, either independently or in connexion with its auxiliaries, have nearly exhausted its resources. Your committee have again come forward to its assistance, with a grant of £500. Of this sum, £100, expended in Bibles, will be appropriated to the use of the Ladies' Association; another £100 in a similar manner to the use of the Society at Gothenburg; and the remaining £300 will be employed in printing the edition of the New Testament with large types.

The seasonable application of this grant to the wants of the Swedish Bible Society, will appear from the brief but impressive comment on its proceedings, contained in a letter from its President, His

Excellency Count Rosenblad. "We are

new edition of 10,000 copies had left the press, suffered an interruption in the progress of its labours. This edition of the New Testament will be followed by one of 3,000 copies of the whole Bible, in the same large type.

RUSSIA.

The vigour with which the Russian Bible Society prosecutes its various undertakings, relative to the promulgation of the Scriptures in the different languages and dialects spoken in the Russian empire, will appear from the following compendious statement.

Nine editions of the modern Russ Psalter, each consisting of 10,000 copies, have followed the first edition of 15,000 copies, mentioned in your last Report. The first edition of the Esthonian Bible on stereotype plates, consisting of 5,000 copies, has been completed. The first editions of the whole New Testament, in the Mongolian, the Calmuc, the Tscheremissian and the Mordwashian, will probably leave the press in the course of the present year; the Gospel of St. Matthew, in the Zirian language, and the Lettonian Bible, on stereotype plates, have considerably advanced; and the translation of the four Gospels, in the Ossitinian dialect, is undergoing revision.

Of the works mentioned in your last Report, as having been undertaken by

4. Of the Servian version, the New Testament has been comple ed, and is also under revision.

Your committee, abstaining from entering more at large upon a survey of the proceedings of the Russian Auxiliaries, will limit themselves to the simple statement, that these institutions, in conjunction with the Parent Society at St. Petersburg, aided by the exertions of your agents, and the grants of your Society, have advanced far towards effecting the promulgation of the Holy Scriptures, in more than thirty languages and dialects. Obstacles to the final acceptance of some of these versions will probably arise from the uncivilized habits and roving propensities of the tribes or nations for whose use they are destined. But still your committee, observing the unremitting zeal with which the St. Petersburg committee are animated, and the prompt and vigorous co-operation with which their efforts have been seconded by their fellowcountrymen, indulge with confidence the hope, that the present preparatory efforts of their enterprising associates may be rendered, under the direction of Providence, subservient to the ultimate extension of Christian knowledge to the inmost recess of Tartary, and the farthest imits of Siberia.

CATHOLIC DISTRIBUTION. Your committee will next briefly advert to the labours of Dr. Leander Van Ess, among his Roman Catholic brethren.

It appears, from a printed document published at Darmstadt by this indefatigable advocate of your cause, in August, 1822, that he had circulated, from the commencement of his operations up to May of the same year, 456,870 copies of his New Testament, besides 8,934 copies of Luther's German Bible, and a number of copies in the Greek, Latin, and Hebrew languages. His supporters, among persons of his own religious persuasion, were on the increase; the Societies of the Netherlands, of Geneva, of Bremen, had collectively contributed about £200 to his funds; and among the donations presented to him is one from the Prince of Thurn and Taxis.

The following extract of a letter, bearing date February 6th of the present year, from this distinguished coadjutor, whom your committee have aided by grants to the amount of £600, during the last year, will be listened to with pleasure.

"I praise God for the experience which my extended correspondence affords me, that the more the people drink from the fountain of living waters, the more a thirst for them increases; and the Lord has raised up many Catholic clergymen who promote this work with energy and spirit. How wonderful is the love of God towards wretched and sinful man. From all quarters I receive encouraging letters, written by Catholic clergymen, who approve of my exertions and struggles in the Biblical cause; but I exclaim, with the Psalmist, Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us; but unto thy name give the glory'.”

MEDITERRANEAN, &c.

The presses at Venice have furnished your committee with 3,700 Armenian New Testaments, and 2,000 copies of the Psalter, all of which have been forwarded to Malta, Smyrna, and Constantinople. The corresponding committee of Gibraltar have found means to circulate no less than 3,175 copies of the Scriptures. Of these, upwards of 1,500 copies were Spanish, 500 Italian, and 400 Por

tuguese. At Barcelona 10,000 copies of the Spanish New Testament, of Father Scio's version, have been printed.

The Bible Society at Malta, though embarrassed in its operations by the present disturbed state of Greece, continues assiduously to distribute the Scriptures, through various channels, to the surrounding islands and maritime nations. Italian, Greek, Armenian, Arabic, Syriac, Hebrew, and French Bibles and Testaments, have been transmitted to Alexandria, Cairo, Smyrna, Aleppo, Candia, Cyprus, Algiers, Tunis, Ioannina, and other places, by this Society. Its issues amounted in November, 1821, to 7,503 copies. Among the zealous coadjutors of the Malta Society, the late Rev. Mr. Parsons and the Rev. Mr. Fisk must be mentioned in terms of grateful commendation. Considerable services have also been rendered to that institution by Mr. Wolff.

To the Ionian Society your committee have forwarded a further supply of 1,000 Greek New Testaments and 200 Hebrew Bibles.

In Constantinople and its vicinity, about 1,300 copies of the Scriptures in various languages, have either been distributed, or sent into Syria and Armenia for circulation From the Rev. Mr. Leeves your committee have received the MS. of the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Mark, translated into the Jewish-Spanish dialect, spoken by the numerous Jews in the Ottoman empire. The revision of Hilarion's version of the New Testament, in modern Greek, had advanced as far as the Epistle to the Galatians.

In Syria the operations of your Society have sustained a temporary interruption from the appalling catastrophe which has recently befallen the city of Aleppo and the surrounding territories. Of this awful dispensation of Providence, an affecting account from Mr. Barker, your agent in that quarter, will appear in the appendix. It affords your committee great satisfaction to state, that Mr. Barker, previously to his retreat from that city, had found means to distribute among its inhabitants 1,000 copies of the Arabic New Testament and Psalter. On his arrival at Smyrna, he recommenced his exertions in your cause, and distributed the stock of the Scriptures which had been sent

thither.

To Smyrna, as well as to Alexandria, supplies of the edition of the Hebrew Bible, executed at Halle, have been transmitted.

The printing of the Amharic version, destined for the use of Abyssinia, is now in active progress.

In the course of the past year, Mr. Platt proceeded to Paris, at the request of your committee, to examine the Oriental MSS. of that city, for materials to assist in the prosecution of another department of their Abyssinian labours, the publication of a correct edition of the Scriptures, or parts of them, in the Ethiopic language. The aid which he thus procured was such as will, it is hoped, enable your committee to proceed in a short time to an edition of the four Gospels of this version. [To be concluded in our next.]

UNION MISSION.

The Superintendent to the Domestic Secretary-August 18, 1823.

The Assistant to the Domestic Secretary, dated Fort Smith, August 26.

This day, the Osage chiefs and warriors pass by us on their way to Fort Smith. They take with them the murderer, whom they are to deliver up to the commanding officer at the Fort, in order to settle their differences with the Cherokees. This murder was committed last winter, as mentioned in our Journal for January. After so long a time, they have agreed to take the criminal to the Fort. Should they settle this delicate business, and heal the breach, the prospect of our usefulness in this nation may be considered as brighter than at any former period since our arrival. The present crisis is, therefore, particularly interesting. Thus far we see the hand of God displayed. More has been done towards a settlement of the differences than we had expected. Although the agent has been faithful and judicious, yet it is the Lord's doing; and we indulge the hope that He will not leave this poor people to themselves, but will finish the work in righteous

ness.

The health of the family at the present moment is not so good as usual. Sister Chapman has been ill for a few days, but is now recovering. Sister Requa has been sick for four weeks, and sister Fuller ever since the 8th of March. One of our hired

men from Ohio is dangerously ill of the bilious remittent, and several others are complaining.

sented to accompany them to this place. The man, however, made his escape in the night, about fifty miles from the Fort. The disappointed chiefs acknowledged their impotency, and requested the subagent to make such use of their annuities, in his interview with the Cherokees, as may be necessary to prevent a war. This request they made, notwithstanding the Cherokees have lately taken from them upwards of eighty horses, (of which forty have not been recovered,) and killed one man who was attempting, in the pursuit, to regain his property.

I am confident that, if the officers of government duly exert their influence, there will not be a war. We rejoice that the Lord reigns, and feel assured that these things will be so managed by the over-ruling Providence of God, as to promote his own glory and the ultimate salvation of the Heathen.

JOURNAL OF THE MISSION FOR THE MONTH OF MAY.

This Journal came to hand after the Journal for the succeeding month had been received and published. As its contents, in point of interest, are in some measure diminished by more recent intelligence, only a few extracts will now be selected.

Communion Sabbath.

Lord's Day, May 4.-Jesus invites us to feast upon the symbols of his body and

blood. Yes! fountains of our Saviour's love are open in the wilderness, and re

In our school we have thirteen promising Osage children. We have also four who are too young for the school;

and three of the adult Indians are employed as labourers-making, in all, twenty of the tribe at our table, receiving the benefit of the mission.

then also. Instructed from 2 Cor. vi. 14, and Matt. xviii. 16, as well as by the sacred use of these precious memorials, stand to each other, and to Christ, our concerning the relation in which we Almighty Head.

Indian Labourers.
Monday, May 5.-Our Osage labour-