and communicated in the subjoined letter of the Rev. J. C. Brigham, one of the Corresponding Secretaries, are questions demanding the consideration of this Board, at its present meeting.

STATE OF THE TREASURY.

It was stated in our last Annual Report, that the receipts from the churches, during the year just closed, had fallen far short of the expenditures of the Board, and that to sustain and carry forward our operations, as Divine Providence led the way, their contributions must be greatly augmented. The Convention accordingly voted to endeavor to raise $100,000, as the lowest sum requisite for the ensuing year. The Board are now under the necessity of reporting a still greater deficiency. The gross receipts the past year, as appears from the Treasury records, have fallen short of the expenditures by more than twenty thousand dollars; while a large portion of the funds previously on hand, has been also exhausted, with the exception of such only as are retained according to the will of their respective donors. This striking disparity between the receipts and the expenditures of the past year, has been owing in part to the enlargement of our missions, and in part to the want of a more general and deep impression, in some sections of the country, relative to the consequent unavoidable increase in our disbursements. The Board indulge no distrust of the ability or the willingness of their brethren to sustain their labors. At the present time, especially, when the Word of life has been translated into so many languages, and millions are waiting to receive it, and missionaries, both at home and abroad, are ready to engage in the work, we feel assured that no want of pecuniary means will be suffered to prevent or retard its widest distribution.

So soon, at least, as it shall be understood by the churches, what is obviously the fact, that an urgent demand is made by the exigencies of the Board for immediate, general, and greatly enlarged contributions, we trust they will be prompt in affording all requisite aid. We cheerfully submit, therefore, to their consideration, the statement we have now made. The work committed to our agency, is their own, and so far as, with the blessing of God, it is conducted toward a prosperous issue, it must be borne forward by them.

SUMMARY.

The number of missions conducted by the Board, is twenty-three, two of which have been commenced since the last Annual Meeting; and the number of stations, thirty-four, of which ten have been located within the year. The number of missionaries and assistant missionaries, laboring at these stations, or on their way to them, is one hundred and thirty-two, exclusive of about thirty native assistants in the printing department. Fifty-three of these are preachers, and six are printers. Thirty-two missionaries and assistants have entered on the service of the Board, and three have left; one native assistant has been dismissed; three missionaries and three native assistants have died. There are also three domestic agencies, and one foreign agency. The number of churches is twenty-one; of schools reported to the Board, twenty-eight; of baptisms, on profession of faith, two hundred and thirty-two.

Five presses have been in operation, and three, including a lithographic press and a power press, have been added during the year: founts of type in English, Karen, Burman, and Taling, have been procured, founts of Chinese, Siamese, and Shan, have been ordered, and are in a course of preparation; and more than twenty-three hundred reams of printing paper, with a proportionate supply of other printing materials, have been sent out.

The revision of the Bible in Burmese, had been nearly finished, and the printing of the third and last volume, commenced in June, 1835. The whole Bible was undoubtedly completed before the close of the year, and is now in circulation among the people. The Taling New Testament was prepared, also, in June, as far as the end of the 2d Corinthians, the Karen dictionary enlarged, the Karen Testament commenced, and several Burman, Taling and Karen tracts printed, the gospel by Matthew translated and printed in Siamese, and, partly, in Shawanoe, and the gospel by John, with extracts from Matthew and Mark, in Creek. Translations have also been made, the past year, into Cherokee and

Ojibwa, and works prepared and printed in several other Indian languages. The number of pages printed since the close of 1833, of tracts and translations of scripture, prepared by missionaries of the Board, in fourteen languages, is more than 7,000,000. The Shawanoe Sun, a monthly periodical, has also been printed in Shawanoe and English, and about 1200 additional copies of the Missionary Magazine have been put into circulation. Preparations are in progress for the establishment of a new mission, and five mission families have been received under the patronage of the Board, to enter on their labors the current year.

CONCLUSION.

In view of the facts presented in the Report, the Board affectionately, yet most earnestly, call on their Christian brethren to renew their faith and their zeal in giving the gospel to the heathen. Aside from considerations which ever and with uniform force bind the disciples of Christ to his service, and the work of saving men, the position of the Board at the present moment, in reference to a large portion of the heathen world, is a special motive to increased

exertions.

Could we point you, dear brethren, to those missions only, which first aroused your sympathies, and shared your benefactions, even there, the fields already white could employ advantageously far more than the entire amount of the means you have hitherto placed at our disposal. The simple fact that 18,000,000 of our fellow-men are waiting to receive the Word of God, which is able to save their souls, and that this Word is already prepared to be distributed with a rapidity which nothing but the measure of our ability need limit, might alone incite us to the most laborious efforts. But the printing and distributing of the Burman Bible is a part only of the work required at our hands. Not to dwell on the claims of our western tribes, or of nations which, having the form of godliness, deny its power, God has given us access, or is manifestly preparing our way, to the tribes of Western Africa, to the numerous population of Hyderabad, and the Northern Collectorates-to Siam, Arracan and Pegu, and the Karens in the wilderness-to the borders of China, and the islands of the China Sea-to the multitudes of Shans and Yiens, of Thibet and Cassay. All these, with their countless millions still buried in the darkness of paganism, without God, and without hope, call on us and implore our aid. And shall we not heed their cry? Shall we, from stupidity, or avarice, or love of ease, let go the proffered honor of bearing the tidings of salvation to half our race? We might have been almost tempted to despond, had so many and large regions been opened upon us in the beginning of our course. But missionaries have been sent out, and stations planted, the Bible has been translated, in whole or in part, into numerous languages, religious tracts have been prepared and schools established, and a system of means matured for more extended application, through which the charities of every individual of our community may directly bear on whatever object his pious liberality would delight to bless. And it was for this purpose, we trust, that God has sustained us, and borne us forward these many years: and having provided us with ample facilities and means, if we will be faithful, to fulfil his gracious designs, he now invites us to enter these territories of darkness and sin, and fill them with the knowledge and love of our Redeemer. Let us not, then, be slow to follow where God leads. Let our habitual temper and purpose correspond more worthily with the glorious ministration to which we are called. Let our property, our reputation, our domestic and social joys-let life itself be valueless, in contrast with the glory of Christ, and the salvation of the heathen; and let our future efforts, as individuals, and as a community, find in the past no parallel.

REPORT OF THE TREASURER,

For the year ending April 20, 1836.

The General Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States for Foreign Missions, in account with Heman Lincoln, Treasurer,

BURMAN, SIAM AND CHINA MISSIONS.

DR.

Passages, outfit, expenses and supplies of Rev. H. Malcom and fourteen missionaries from Boston,

5,593,36

Payments made here and charged to missionaries and agents, belonging to the above missions,

2,829,96

Remittances for the support of the missions and schools in Burmah and Siam, publishing the bible, tracts, &c.,

13,333,33

Passages, outfit and expenses of missionaries, with supplies for them after their arrival in Africa,

1,807,72

MISSION TO FRANCE.

Passages, preparatory expenses and outfit of four missionaries,

1,110,00

MISSION TO HAYTI.

Outfit, passage and salary of Rev. W. C. Munroe,

586,13

NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN MISSIONS.

Cherokees.

VALLEY TOWNS.-Rev. E. Jones's drafts, and sundries,

Ottawas.

THOMAS.-Rev. L. Slater's drafts, and sundries,

Ojibwas.

Sault de ste. MARIE.-Rev. A. Bingham's draft, &c.,

Oneidas, &c.

TONAWANDA.-Remittance to the treasurer, for the Indian school,

three quarters,

Western Cherokees.

Missionaries' drafts and supplies,

Western Creeks.

Missionaries' drafts and supplies,

1,432,29

941,42

1,520,00

800,00

850,00

580,34

Shawanoes, and other Indian Missions at the West. Missionaries' drafts for buildings for the Delawares and Otoes, teachers' and interpreters' salaries and supplies,

PRINTING DEPARTMENT FOR INDIANS.

Printer's salary, paper, ink, type, printer's and binder's tools and

materials,

3,404,06

790,00

GENERAL MISSIONARY PURPOSES.

Sums applied to missions in Asia,

456,80

Post Office bills,

176,70

Fuel for the missionary rooms, sundry small payments, and pay

ments not otherwise specified,

245,14

Printing annual reports at Boston and Cincinnati, and magazines, &c., for gratuitous distribution,

418,15

Books and periodicals to distribute to missionaries,

91,74

Money refunded, having been sent to the treasurer by mistake, Sundry articles of furniture for the Rooms, including carpet, book case, boxes and work,

Expenses of visits and delegations from the Board, by the Cor. Secretary, Treasurer and others, with applications of candidates for missionary appointments, including several sums previous to last year,

Rent of Missionary Rooms,

25,25

76,33

1,053,23

253,34

Salaries of the Corresponding Secretary, the Assistant Cor. Secre

tary, and the Treasurer,

2,425,00

Clerk hire,

562,67

Travelling Agents in the Middle, Southern and Western States,

1,364,98

7,149,33

AMERICAN BAPTIST MAGAZINE.

Editor's services, &c.,

PREMIUM AND DISCOUNT.

Paid interest on cash borrowed, commissions for collecting drafts on other
places, discount on foreign bank notes, and premium on bank
stock and bills of exchange purchased,

Permanent and temporary loans,

INVESTMENTS.

CASH.

Balance on hand, April 20, 1836,

471,33

1,584,87

6,971,65

162,01

59,770,15

The expenditures of the missions in Asia and France have far exceeded the sums which appear in the foregoing account, they having been sustained to a considerable amount by investments in the hands of agents, advanced by the Treasurer, before the close of last year's

account.

The General Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States for Foreign Missions, in account with Heman Lincoln, Treasurer,

CASH.

Balance on hand, as reported April 18, 1835,

CR.

3,602,82

Donations for the support of Burman schools,
Do. to educate heathen children who are benefi-
ciaries, and have had American names given them,

589,06

1,023,21

1,612,27

Interest on part of Mrs. Bull's legacy for translations,
One half of J. Harpham'st legacy for

56,70

do.,

500,00

Donations from churches, societies, and individuals,
Received from the American Bible Society, for Burmah,+

1,313,96

6,000,00

7,870,66

SIAM MISSION.

Donations,

930,39

Received from the Am. Tract Society, for Siamese tracts, 1,500,00

2,430,39

CHINA MISSION.

Donations received,

360,79

Received from the American Bible Society, for distributing the Scriptures to the Chinese in Burmah,

* $3000 were also received from the American Tract Society, for the Orissa Mission, which was paid to Rev. Amos Sutton.

†The other half has since been received.

Besides this sum, $1000 were received from the American Bible Society, June 27, 1885, for the Orissa Mission, which, with $200 from the Oliver Street (N. Y.) Foreign Missionary Society, were paid to Rev. Amos Sutton.