the purpose of the Committee to use all diligence in strengthening this mission the ordination of Messrs. Myron Winslow, Levi Spaulding and Henry Woodward, for the Gospel ministry among the heathen, which solemn ceremony took place at Salem, (Mass.) on the 4th of November last, and the delay of their embarkation for the field of their labours during the winter and spring, occupies an interesting part of the Report, but our limits oblige us to emit many appropriate observations and reflections which this highly valuable document contains, and pass on to that part which notices an important acquisition to the mission in the person of Dr. John Scudder.*

The delay was irksome; but Providence had a kind intention. Just in season to go at the time finally fixed upon, yet not without the necessity of great despatch in preparation, John Scudder, M. D. a young physician of good professional reputation and practice in the city of New-York, and of well established Christian character, after having long deliberated on the subject, came to the determination to make a sacrifice of his worldly prospects, and of all that could attach him to his native country, for the benefit of the heathen, and the glory of Christ. Being apprised of the expected departure of the three waiting missionaries, he made a solemn offer of himself, his wife and child, to be sent with them to Ceylon.

Desirable as it was, that the deeply deplored breach, made by the removal of Mr. Warren from the mission, from its hospital, and from the miserable multitudes to whom his medical practice promised to open the most hopeful access for the Gospel, should be supplied; your committee could not but regard the offer of Dr. Scudder, as signally providential. His testimonies were ample and satisfactory; and he was gratefully accepted.

For an account of the departure of the Missionaries which took place on the 8th of June, see page 157.

The circumstances and operations of the mission at Ceylon are considerably different from those at Bombay. As there has been extant for many years a good translation of the Scriptures into the Tamul or Malabarian, the common language of the northern part of Ceylon, where the mission is established; our missionaries there have no occasion to employ themselves in making a translation, an arduous work, which occupies no inconsiderable portion of the time and laborious attention of our Bombay mission. Nor have they yet at Ceylon got the printing establishment into operation. They have a press and types, both Tamul and English, and apparatus and paper; and in no long time, it is hoped, will have a sufficiency of hands for commencing the printing of the Scriptures and other books and tracts. An edition of the Tamul Scriptures is greatly needed; as are also other books for their schools, for distribution, and the various purposes of the mission.

See Herald for June last, page 128

The labours of this mission have consisted chiefly, hitherto, inpreaching to the people, establishing and superintending schools, and instructing children in the family; with the necessary prepa-. rations for these important departments of labour.

At the three stations of the Bombay mission, the brethren are in the midst of large cities, comprising in all not less than two hundred thousand souls; and throughout which they preach and distribute books and tracts to people in the streets, at their houses and temples, and different places of resort, as opportunities are afforded,—but without the satisfaction and advantage of stated places and regular assemblies. The Ceylon mission is in a country of villages, where the people, though not thinly scattered, are yet very differently situated from those in crowded cities. In general they are less deeply immersed in the darkness and corruptions of paganism, and have more activity of intellect, more knowledge and more disposition to listen and inquire, than the mass of the Hindoos of Bombay.

Besides Tillipally and Batticotta, the two stations of the mission, the brethren have six other large parishes under their particular care: Mallagum, Milette and Panditeripo, belonging to the Tillipally station; and Changane, Oodooville and Manepy, belonging to the station of Batticotta.

In these parishes, as formerly reported, there are ancient church buildings and glebes, which our missionaries have been permitted to occupy, and which, after considerable expense in repairs, are of great advantage to the mission. And within these parishes chiefly, though not solely, the brethren have bestowed their labours and attentions; making their circuits from week to week, for preaching, visiting the schools, and the various purposes of the mission.

For a considerable time, they would of course preach to the native people only by interpreters; but now, for more than a year, both Mr. Poor and Mr. Meigs have been able to preach in the language of the country.

The instruction of children, however, has been with them, from the beginning, an object of very earnest attention. They carly took the resolution to establish schools in all the parishes under their care, the superintendence of which should be assigned in divisions to the several brethren of the mission; and to extend the system to as great an amplitude, as they should find themselves able. But their operations have been retarded by the afflictive dispensations towards Messrs. Warren and Richards.

It may be pretty safely estimated, that at the close of the year 1818, the period to which the present Report brings down the history of the mission, the total number of pupils in the schools, belonging to the two stations, was about seven hundred.

Highly gratifying, also, is the success in obtaining children to be held under the special care of the missionaries, and brought

up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, in their families. In Mr. Poor's there were, at the last dates, twenty-four native boys; to whom, or the most of whom, select names were given, denoting them as the beneficiaries, respectively, of particular societies or individuals in this country; and of whom, as to their minds, their behaviour, and their improvement, very pleasing accounts are given. The number in Mr. Meigs's family is not stated; but would seem, from facts and circumstances incidentally mentioned, to be considerable, and fast increasing.

The various communications to the Board

Afford ample evidence that the brethren of this mission have been laborious in their work, and much reason to hope that their zealous labours will not be in vain in the Lord. When joined by those, who are now on their passage, the mission will be strengthened, its schools may be multiplied, and its operations extended. Supyen, the interesting youth noticed at some length in the Report of the last year, was, at the time of the latest dates, upon the coast of the neighbouring peninsula, still suffering from persecution, but apparently steadfast in the faith. Of Maleappa it may reasonably be hoped, that he will not only prove himself to have been made a partaker of the grace of the Gospel, but also be a helper to the mission and a blessing to the heathen. Mention is made in the letters and journals, of one or two others, hopefully turned from darkness unto light; and of a prevailing conviction on the minds of not a few, that their idolatrous system is vanity and a lie.

(To be Continued.)

BEQUESTS.

MRS. HARRIET LEWIS.-Such was the life of this excellent woman, that the poor, within her acquaintance, now rise up and call her blessed. Many religious institutions too, will call to mind her repeated acts of munificence. Still her liberality in life is but partially known. With the same retiring spirit, in which her bounty was then given, she, at her death, made large bequests; which from the nature of them must be publicly known; though she was solicitous rather that they should pass unnoticed. She left a bequest of $1000 to the first ecclesiastical society in New London, Con.

One of $500 to a cent society for the benefit of the deserving poor in the same place.

One of $2000 to the asylum for deaf and dumb persons at Hartford..

One of $2000 to the domestic missionary society for Connecticut and its vicinity.

One of $2000 to the education society of Yale College; and One of $1200 to the Connecticut missionary society.

SUMMARY.

On Wednesday, the 13th ult. the Boston Baptist Foreign Mission Society held their annual meeting. The following persons were chosen officers for the three years next ensuing, viz.

Rev. Thomas Baldwin, D. D. President; Rev. Joseph Grafton, Vice Pres. E. Lincoln, Rec. Sec. Rev. Daniel Sharp, Cor. Sec. James Loring, Treasurer.

Trustees The above, with Rev. William Grammell, Rev. James M. Winchell, Rev. George Phippen, Josiah C. Ransford Heman Lincoln, Jonathan Carlton, and Col. Thomas Badger.

The Treasurer has received in the last year the following sums from societies and individuals:

For the translation of the Bible, $43 78; Christian Schools for the Heathen, $36 67; Western Mission, $50 62; Mission to Africa, $5 00; Foreign Mission, $913 03; total, $1049 10.

It ought to be noted in justice to the piety of the worthy sisters, who have organized themselves into charitable associations, that 447 dollars 35 cents of the above were contributed by Female Societies, being nearly half the whole amount.

Utica, (N. Y.) Sept. 25.-On Sunday the 19th inst. the Rt. Rev. Bishop Hobart performe divine service in this town, and administered confirmation to 22 persons. On the day following, St. Paul's church at Paris was consecrated, and 69 persons received confirmation. On Tuesday last, the chapel erected for the Oneida Indians at Oneida Castle was consecrated by the Bishop by the name of St. Peter's Church, and 56 Indians, who had been previously prepared for that service by Mr. Eleazer Williams, received confirmation. At the visit of the Bishop the last year, 94 Indians were confirmed. Too much praise cannot be bestowed upon the exertions and pious zeal of Mr. Williams in his successful efforts to bring into the Christian Church his infidel brethren. When he arrived among them 2 or 3 years ago, more than half of the Oneidas were of that character.

MR. GRAY, New-York, 23d Dec. 1319. Sir-In Vol. VI. No. 10, of your Christian Herald, at page 304, is the following extract from the Loudon Missionary Register, which being erroneous, I would thank you to correct. "The attempts made by several missionaries of the brethren to bring the Gospel to the Cherokees in 1801, and to the Creeks in 1807, had been productive of little fruit: and, on various accounts have been abandoned."

The mission of the United Brethren to the Cherokees was never abandoned since its commencement in 1801; nor has it ever, that I know of, been contemplated to abandon it. That to the Creeks was discontinued at the commencement of the late war between that people and the United States. I am, respectfully, Sir, your very humble servant, BENJAMIN MORTIMER.

OBITUARY.-Died, on Friday evening, Nov. 12th, the Rev. JESSE APPLETON, D.D. President of Bowdoin College, in the 47th year of his age.-We are able to present our readers with the following brief particulars of his life:

President Appleton was born at New-Ipswich, in New-Hampshire, Nov. 19, 1772; graduated at Dartmouth College, in 1792;

after two years employment in the Office of Instruction at Dover and Amherst, N. H. and pursuing the study of Divinity about nine months, with the Rev. Dr. Lathrop, of West-Springfield, Mass. he commenced preaching in the summer of 1795. In February, 1797, he was settled as successor of the Rev. Eben. Thayer, in the Ministry at Hampton, N. H. where he continued several years, increasing in the affections of the people, and in the estimation of the public, and acquiring a solid and extensive reputation, as an able and accomplished Theologian. He was afterwards a candidate for the Chair of the Theological Professorship at the University of Cambridge. Upon the decease of the Rev. Dr. M'Keen, in 1807, he was chosen President of Bowdoin College, and on his acceptance of that office, removed to Brunswick, in November of the same year. His sickness commenced in May last. He left a widow, the daughter of the Hon. Robert Means, of Amherst, N. H. to whom he was married in 1800, and five children-two sons and three daughters. He received the degree of Doctor in Divinity from Harvard and Dartmouth Colleges, and was appointed to preach the Election and Convention Sermons in 1814. Among his other public performances, are the Discourses delivered before the Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance, and the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, the Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and the Maine Missionary, Bible and Peace Societies. Several of his occasional funeral and ordination Sermons are also published.

Of the merits of the reverend and beloved head of our young and growing institution-of the Apostolical simplicity and directness of his character-the purity of his excellent spirit, and the energy of his profound and comprehensive intellect-the ardor of his zeal in the cause of religion, and his devotion to the interests of literature and humanity we forbear to speak. The best attes tation of their importance is perhaps expressed in the general sense of the irreparable extent of their loss. We trust that some suitable tribute to their worth will be presented to the public through the medium of the press. The most precious monument to his memory is the prosperity of the Institution lately under his care, and which has never flourished more, than towards the close of his Presidency. May his prophetic dying declaration be inscribed upon its walls-God has taken care of the College, and God will take care of the College.

His remains were respectfully interred on Tuesday last, at Brunswick, near those of the former President. The solemnity of the occasion drew a number of gentlemen, besides those belonging to the Boards, from a considerable distance, notwithstanding the weather. The services were performed in the MeetingHouse. The prayer was made by the Rev. Mr. Gillet, of Hallowell. An appropriate Discourse was delivered by the Rev.