in Trinidad.

The Netherlands Missionary Society have one Missionary in Guiana. The Society for the Conversion of West India Slaves have two Missionaries in Antigua, one in Barbadoes, one in St. Christopher's, one in Jamaica and three more appointed, and two in Nevis. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel have one chaplain in Barbadoes. The United Brethren (Moravians) have five Missionaries in St. Thomas, eight in St. Croix, four in St. Jan, five at Parimaribo, in Guiana, four in Jamaica, eight in Antigua, two in Barbadoes, and three in St. Christopher's. For the particulars of the Wesleyan Missionary Society's operations in the West Indies we refer our readers to the last number of the Friend of India, page 263. They employ fifty regular Missionaries, beside catechists and other agents. In this division, then, there appear to be one hundred and sixteen Missionaries, besides Ca techists and Schoolmasters, &c.

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NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.-"In bringing before our readers, on the present occasion, a view of the exertions in behalf of the North-American Indians, we shall begin from the southward. Passing from the last division of the Survey to the sent, we find no Protestant Missions to the Native Tribes yet established southward of the United States, though one has been, for some time, in contemplation, to the Mosquitos. Of the Indians connected with the United States, amounting, as noticed in the last Survey, to 471,417, no Missions have yet been attempted among the 170,000 inhabiting the country be tween the Pacific and the Rocky Mountains-among the 180,000 between those mountains and the Mississippi, Missi ons are as yet chiefly confined to the Osages, and a migration of the Cherokees-among the 130,000, however, scattered through the States lying between the Mississippi and the Atlantic, Missions are in active operation. Within the last few years, they have been established among the Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Cherokees of the southern States; while in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and the North-West Tere

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ritory, about 45,000 Indians open a wide field for benevolent exertion among the Chippawas of the last two States, upwards of 15,000 in number, Missions have been recently formed. To the Indians of Ohio, of whom there are about 2400, attention has been paid by different bodies: a Mission has been lately established among the Wyandots of this State and the Society of Friends is attempting the civilization of another Tribe. In the State of New York, upwards of 5000 Indians, consisting chiefly of Oneidas, Senecas, Onondagas, and Tuscaroras, the remnant of the former Confederacy of the SIX NATIONS, together with 2500 Indians of various tribes in the New England States, have been supplied, for many years, more or less, with religious and moral instruction. To the north of the United States, in the British territories, religious instruction is given to the Mohawks, Delawares, and Red-River Indians.

"These labours were first directed to the Aborigines of NewEngland, now reduced to a pitiful remnant. In reference to these Indians, Dr. Morse remarks:

"On these tribes, formerly, and on others now extinct, were bestowed the Mis sionary labours, almost single-handed, of Elliot, the Mayhews, Edwards, the Sergeants, Kirkland, Wheelock, Badger, Occum, and others; whose zeal, trials and faithful services are remembered and rewarded on earth, and, we doubt not, in heaven."

The Mission to the Mosquito Indians is an undertaking of the English Baptist Missionary Society, who have one Missionary, at present, at Belize in Honduras. Amongst the Osages, the United Missionary Society (American) have two stations, which are occupied by five missionaries, two physicians, and eleven assistants. Amongst the Creeks, the American Methodists have two missionaries and one assistant: and the Baptist (American) Missions, have one missionary and one assistant. Amongst the Choctaws, the American Board of Missions have four stations, occupied by five missionaries and eleven assistTo the Chickasaws, the Synod of South Carolina and Georgia have sent one missionary. Amongst the Cherokees, the Moravian Brethren have three missionaries; the American

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Board of Missions eight missionaries, one physician, and nine assistants; the Baptist (American) Missions have one missionand one assistant; and the American Methodists one mis

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sionary. Amongst the Chippawas. the United Missionary Society (American) have one missionary. To the Wyandots, the American Methodists have sent one missionary. Amongst the Six Nations are four missionaries and one assistant besides female teachers. To the Delawares the Moravian Brethren have given two missionaries. And lastly to the North-West Indians, the Church Missionary Society have sent two missionaries, and a schoolmaster and school mistress.

In this Division, therefore, there are thirty-seven Missiona ries, and upwards of forty American or European assistants.

LABRADOR. In this Division are three stations, Nain, Okkak and Hopedale, all of which are occupied by missionaries from the Moravian Brethren. They are seventeen in number.

GREENLAND. This Division is also cultivated solely by the Moravian Brethren, who have eleven missionaries, at the three stations New Hernhutt, Lichtenfels, and Lichtenau.

Conclusion. From the whole of this Survey it will appear that little short of four hundred Europeans or Americans are employed in Protestant Missions. If we have an opportunity year, we shall endeavour

of traversing the same ground next to regard what has been accomplished, rather than numerical strength; and we doubt not we shall obtain a result equally satisfactory with the present.

"ASK OF ME, AND I SHALL GIVE THEE THE HEATHEN FOR THINE INHERITANCE, AND THE UTTERMOST FARTS OF THE EARTH FOR THY POSSESSION." Psalm ii. 8.

SWITZERLAND.

The Rev. M. Wilks has transmitted to the Editor of the Evangelical Magazine, the following letters of M. Auguste Rochat, who has been compelled to quit the degenerate and persecuting church of which he was a minister and an ornament. It affords us evidence of that important struggle, which is now taking place on the Continent of Europe, between nominal and real Christianity.

Letter of M. Auguste Rochat to the Landamman and Council of

State in the Canton de Vaud.

"I have long felt that the reasons for separation alleged by those who have seceded from the national church, had great weight and merited se ious consideration; and if I have continued in the communion of the national church, it has been only in the hope that, in time the abuses signalized would be perceived and corected by the majority of the pastors of this Canton, and that the body of ministers would, ere long, preachdoctrines conformable to the gospel and to the Helvetic confession of faith * I hoped---I prayed to God our Father that he would hear the voice of the blood of his Son, in behalf of our national church, and by his spirit revive among us the faith and zeal of our fathers the Reformers. While continuing to

preach fully the truth, as I found it in the word of God, I endeavoured to observe in all my actions a measure of prudence, which perhaps I even carried too far. I said to myself, we must be patient-perhaps the truth will yet prevail-perhaps the national church will yet acknowledge as true Christians, those whom she now treats as enthusiastic and dangerous sec tarians But God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts. Your Decree of the 15th of January, and your Circular Letters of the 16th and 17th, which I yesterday

*M. Rochat allows to the dominant church the title of National, that she, continues to assume; but it is evident she has no longer a right to be considered national, as she has abandoned the confession and discipline on which the nati onal church was established,

received, have convinced me, that no remedy is now to be hoped for; and that every faithful minister of Christ ought to obey the exhortation of St. Paul, and 'go without the camp, bearing his reproach.'

"Persuaded that such is my duty, before God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, I resign into your hands the church of Biere, of which I am pastor; I renounce every claim that I'may have on other cures of the Canton, and separate myself entirely from the clergy who exercise over the churches an ecclesiastical control. I request you, therefore, to appoint some one to receive the registers of the parish, I shall cease the performance of all my pastoral functions on Saturday evening next. The justice of the peace, if he shall think proper, may remit your Decree, which I yesterday received, to the minister who may officiate next Sunday.

"I do not intend, Gentlemen, by this public measure, to justify every individual act of those who are insultingly called Momiers, that is, fools; though I esteem them in general as real Christians, and am united to them by affection and fellowship in Christ Jesus. Some individuals may have manifested, on some occasions, an indiscreet zeal, and may even have acted reprehensively in a religious point of view; for so I consider the administration of the communion by the hands of a layman. But all are not to be judged by the conduct of one, nor a whole system by a single act. Such judgment would be manifestly unjust. Persons who are not actuated by the purest motives may associate themselves with true Christians, and even the most sincere are still imperfect. Without, therefore, pretending to justify what may have been improper,- I declare, that I consider, as the sound doctrine of the Gospel, the doctrine that has been preached by my dear brethren Juvet, Chavannes and Olivier, and by my beloved brother after the flesh and in Christ, Charles Rochat.*-I declare that I am united in heart and affection with those in every country and

M. C. Rochat was minister at Pevay.