"Although the present Auxiliaries are very respectable both in numbers and zeal, yet there are extensive and wealthy portions of our country, in which no attempt has hitherto been made to organize and establish either Auxiliary Societies, or Bible Associations. The Board do not believe that this arises from indifference to the cause, but that much would soon be done if the attention of Christians in such places was earnestly and respectfully called to the importance of the subject. "With this view the Board have resolved that there shall be annually appointed at the first meeting of the Managers, after the Annual meeting of the Society, a committee of five persons, to be called the AUXILIARY SOCIETY COMMITTEE, whose duty it shall be to devise and suggest to the Board of Managers such measures, as in their opinion will promote the establishment and animate the exertions of Auxiliaries to the American Bible Society.That in cases in which there shall be time to receive the direction of the board of Managers, the said Committee shall be authorized to depute one or more persons to attend meetings for the above purposes, and to advise and assist therein; and in such cases to defray out of the funds of this Society the necessary travelling expenses of the persons so deputed, and that authority be given to said Committee to open a correspondence with the different parts of the country, for the purpose of gaining all necessary information. Such a committee have accordingly been appointed, and have commenced their labors." There have received into the Treasury during the past year, By remittances from Auxiliary Societies, By remittances from Societies not auxiliary, By congregational collections, By legacies and donations from individuals, By contributions from various congregations Masonic Lodges, and individuals, to constitute Ministers, members or directors for life, By annual dues and life subscriptions from members, $26 288 34 2 579 45 375 25 105 80 1 117 60 6 203 00 1 366 25 $38 036 29 EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM REV. DANIEL S. BUTRICK, MISSIONARY AT BRAINERD, to mr. LINUS NORTH, DATED BRAINERD, MARCH 15, 1819. VERY DEAR BROTHER, YOUR very interesting letter arrived in a box of goods, two weeks ago; but as the mail passes through the Nation but once in two weeks, I have delayed answering it till now. We bless our dear Savior for what he is doing in the Christian and heathen world. The effects of divine grace are no less apparent in the churches of Christ, than in the temples and the wilds of the heathen. The children of God, though awake to other duties and precious in the sight of their Savior, have not seen the situation of the heathen, nor their duty towards them, as they do now.-Now there is not only a solitary Christian here and there, whose heart glows with love to his divine Master, and for the souls of the heathen; but the divine flame is almost every where kindling, and the spirit of Brainerd, or rather of his Lord, is exciting millions and millions of sighs, and prayers, and tears, and alms, for the spread of the Gospel among the perishing heathen; and the missionary, instead of being an object of pity, is rather the object of envy. If that hateful passion could exist in a heart fired with love for souls, surely nothing would call it forth quicker than the sight of a band of missionaries going just behind the blessed Savior, and the holy company of apostles and martyrs of the Lamb,to preach glad tidings of peace and pardon to dear immortals who have for ages been in darkness And well may the dear lambs of Christ long to do something for the heathen: for this service is peculiarly pleasing to God our Savior. He died for them, and charged his friends to tell them of his love, and plead with them to turn from all their miserable wicked ways to God. And if after hearing and knowing this command we should sit down with indifference, and let the heathen perish, with what propriety might the Savior say, "Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I command you." But does it not seem strange that Christians should ever need urging to relinquish earthly enjoyments, or endure hardships for the Savior, when all their enjoyments and all their hopes, were purchased for them by his blood. No, my dear brother, if we had a thousand lives, and could lay them down at his feet every day for ten thousand years, we should do nothing towards repaying his infinite kindness. And if the salvation of one individual soul is of such importance, what is that of hundreds of millions? But what does the death of Christ profit those who never heard of him? I do not say that it is impossible for them to be converted and taught the knowledge of Christ by the immediate influence of the Spirit of God. But this evidently is seldom the case. It has pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. Nothing, generally, fit for the kingdom of heaven, is found among the heathen. The Gospel, accompanied by the Spirit of God, is the only instrument of restraining their wild passions and causing them to oppose the torrent of their corruptions. And why should they not enjoy the Gospel? Since Christ died for all men and his blood is sufficient to wash away the sins of the whole world, why should it not be allowed to flow through the earth? But if we refuse to preach it, or to assist those who would do it, we set a barrier to the blood of Christ, and throw the heathen to eternal death. And what could we do to make amends for this? We should rob God of his glory-we should rob Christ of his purchase-we should rob the Holy Spirit of his temples-we should rob the heathen of heaven, and heap on them all the miseries of the second death. And should we not destroy, or at least endanger, our own souls? Let every Christian consider, that every individual soul among the heathen is as precious as his, and let him feel this, and then say if he would not be willing to give the life of his frail polluted body to save a world of dear immortals. I stop this strain of thought, my dear brother. I know you feel for the dear heathen. But our situation is peculiarly trying. Wherever we look, our eyes affect our hearts. We see the heathen world in worse than Egyptian darkness. We see the storm gathering blackness, and peal after peal is sinking them in eternal death. And the few dear souls around us, who have been snatched from the jaws of the lion,though they give us unspeakable joy, yet they increase our love for, and, of course, our grief on account of, their friends and nation still in darkness. Being situated thus, having so constant a view of the immediate wants of the heathen, great exertions in the Christian world seem small to us, yet we would not but mark with peculiar gratitude the precious gift from Otsego. Not only because we wanted clothes so exactly suitable for the children, but also because they were tokens of the remembrance of our dear Christian friends, and an evidence that those friends were engaged with us in publishing "glad tidings" to the heathen. Yes, tell those dear sisters, by whose kind hands these clothes were provided, that we recognize them as Missionaries to the heathen. No matter whether they ever see in this world the precious sons and daughters they bring home to glory-no matter whether they are employed by a Board of Commissioners, or by the immediate direction of the Savior; if they are instrumental of spreading the Gospel among the heathen, or if they endeavor by their prayers and alns to do this, they will doubtless be rewarded as missionaries of Christ at the last day, and perhaps receive a much brighter crown, when the Lord makes up his jewels, than many who are actually engaged among the heathen. But especially we desire their prayers. Even Moses grew weary, and Amalek would have prevailed, had not Aaron and Hur held up his hands,-how much sooner shall we, who have but a drop of benevolence, let go of the poor heathen, if not strengthened by the prayers and tears of the children of God. Rel. Intel. CALLS OF THE HEATHEN. Extract from the conclusion of the Eighteenth Report of the Church Missionary Society. "Oh! it needs nothing but an UNDERSTANDING of the immensity of human wretchedness and perdition to extinguish all jealousy and rivalry among Christians -that rivalry only excepted, which shall labor most assiduously to save souls from death, and to hide the multitude of sins! "Blessed be God!-the miseries of the heathen have reached our ears, and have moved our souls!-The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pin together until now. But not the misery only of the Heathen world-its anxieties perturbations, its reaching forth after that which we only can render to itTHESE have cried loudly in every awakened ear-the earnest expectations of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. DONATIONS TO THE AMERICAN BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS, FROM JULY 16th, TO AUG. 15th. $12.00 Ashfield, Ms. Young Fem. Char. Soc. for a child in Mrs. Richard's family Ceylon, 40.00 Total. $24.00 Rev. D. C. Lansing, 8.00 J. S. Seymour, J. Cole, Porter and Powers, E. Pease, R. and J. Patty, E. 34 00 C. Cole, Saml. Dill, Asa Munger, William Brown, and E. Williams, $3 each, 15 00 C. B. Hotchkiss, J. Grover, E Parker, M. Creed, H. Porter, and E. Hotchkiss, $2 each, 12.00 Several ladies, for the mission to Judea, Smaller Donations, Ballston, N. Y. the Soc. of Rev. Mr. Smith, by the Rev. L. Parsons, 20 11 1450 S2 12 - 12 00 Monthly concert of the Old South and Park-Street churches, for the mis- Pupils at the Sabbath-School in Hawkins-Street, by Mr. Samuel Train, Brimfield, Ms. a female friend of Missions, by the Rev. Joseph Vaill, Another Society, by Lieut. Brooks, Buffalo, N. Y. a contribution, by Rev. L. Parsons, Camden, S. C. Mr. Murray, by the Rev. P. Fisk, Canandaigua, NY. by the Rev. L. Parsons, from several sources as follows, viz. N. W. Howell, for western Indians, N. Gorham S15, Mrs. Greig $15, for western Indians, H. Mc Nair, $5, Thos. Beals, $2, J. D. Bemis, $2, 13.00 28 00 - 9 00 Mr. Stevenson, S2; Miss M. Shepard, $5; Miss S. Moseley, $30, Charity box in Miss Shepard's school $5; Char. box in Miss Moseley's school, $10, 37 00 13 00 454 39 A female friend of Missions, $4; S. Parish, for W. Indians, SS; Mrs. Mumford, for the school at Brainerd, $3; D. Mc Intosh, $3, Christ-Church Parish, S. C. Ladies, for the child named THOMAS SPENCER, 2d. payment, by Mrs. Eliza Osborn, 30 00 60 00 Cooperstown, N. Y. from the following sources, by the Rev. L. Parsons; viz. Geo. Pomroy, James Averil, M. Bowers, and Thomas Fuller, $10 each, 40 00 8.00 Smaller donations, 6 84 Cummington, Ms. The Hea. School Soc. by Wm. Packard, for Sch. fund, An English gentleman, by Mr. Porter, for the For. Mission School, Cutchogue, L. Isla. A collection, on the 4th of July, by the Rev. Lathrop Thomson, East Bloomfield, N. Y. by the Rev. L. Parsons, from East Hampton, L. Island: Fem. Soc. in aid of Foreign Missions, by Rev. E. Fairfield, N. Y. Mr. Linus Evarts, $5.00 Total. Fayetteville, N. G. collection at the monthly concert, by the Rev. P. Fisk, 40 25 Geneva, N. Y. a contribution in the Presbyterian Society, Haverhill, Ms. a little boy, recd. as a reward in a Sunday School, for heathen children at Bombay, A little girl, since deceased, for the same purpose, 1.00 20 10 00 Homer, N. Y. Fem. Miss. Soc. for the Mission to Jerusalem, by the Rev. L. Asahel Lyman $5; G. and T. Hoar, S6, Keene, N. H. collection at the monthly concert, by the Rev. Z. S. Barstow, Lexington, Geo. children in Mrs. Washburn's school for supporting a Sab- A little boy, by Rev. C. Washburn, Liberty County, Geo. The Fem. Cent Soc. by the Rev. Mr. Me. Wbir, 7 49 44 12 200 06 Lima, N. Y. a contribution in the Presbyterian Soc. by the Rev. L. Parsons, 23 87 Manlius, N. Y. by the Rev. L. Parsons, a contribution, Mexico, N. Y. from a lady, the avails of a gold ring, for the school at Cornwall, by the Rev. D. R. Dixon. Middle Granville, Ms. Fem. Char. Soc. by the Rev. Isaac Knapp, Monthly concert in the chapel of the 1st Presbyterian church, by do. Northampton, Ms. a Soc. of persons who meet for prayer, by Mr. Enos Clark, 15 00 Do. in 2d Presbyterian Soc. by Rev. L. Parsons, as follows, viz. W. H. Fem. Foreign Mission Soc. Rev. Mr. Mc Laren S5; O. W. Brewster, W. Rayner, $2 each, Children in Miss Treadwell's school, Collection in the academy, J. Peck, $3; a friend, S3; Mr. Webb, S3, Philadelphia, the first Adult School Soc. for a child to be named HARRIET Other persons, Painsville, Ohio, Dr. Matthews, for the mission to Judea, NEWELL, to be ed. at Brainerd, by Ann T. Da Costa, Treas. Pittsfield, Ver. a friend, by the Rev. L. Parsons, Plainfield, Ms. the Hea. School Soc. by Jacob Porter, Treas. Plympton, Ms. the Aiding For. Miss. Soc. by the Rev. Elijah Dexter, Treas. Mr. and Mrs. Seymour, $20; V. Birdseye, $5, D. Wood, 83; smaller donations, $2 06, Several individuals in the west parish, 85 68, John Hall, $5,00 Quincy, Ms. the Fem. Evangel. Soc. by Lucy Savil, Treasr. P. Fisk, Raleigh, N. C. John Heywood, Esq. 5; Mrs. Heywood, $5, by the Rev. Reading, Ver. a friend of Missions, by the Rev. L. Parsons, Seneca Falls, N. Y. an individual, by the Rev. L. Parsons, James Avery $10; John Brace, Levi Follet, $3 each, 16.00 Joshua Cushman, $2; a Char. box, kept in the Presbyterian church, $3 06, 5 06 Smaller donations, 35 00 10 00 1.00 18 35 30 50 18.00 South Salem, N. Y. the following persons, by Mr. John Sayre: viz. Thomas Springfield, N. Y. by the Rev. L. Parsons, a contrib. by a few individuals, 6 59 The Fem. Tract Society. 8 79 Topsfield, Ms. the Soc. for ed. Heathen children, by Dea. Bixby, remitted by the Rev. Dr. Worcester, Vernon, Con. the monthly concert, by the Rev. Wm. Ely, for the Choctaw Waterloo, N. Y. from individuals, by the Rev. L. Parsons, Westborough, Ms. the Fem. Assoc. for the child named ELISHA ROCKWOOD, A friend of missions, by the Rev. L. Parsons, Windham County, Con. Char. Soc. by Dea. John H. Payson, Treasr. reed. from the Char. Soc. of Pomfret, Woodstock, Ver. Ed. and For. Miss. Soc. by David Pierce, Treasr. for Missions, $25 50, for ed. heath. children $3. Worcester, Ms. from three sisters in a letter with the Worcester post mark, appropriated to the Choctaw Mission, The sources of the following are unknown. July 17. From some person, dropped into the box, 3 37 19. Ornaments recd. as donations in different places, by Rev. L. Parsons 5 88 95 The following donations were received by the accountant of the Foreign Mission Schoo between May 25 and July 31. Blandford, Ms. Mr. Eli Pease, Amenia, N. Y. Four young ladies, Bristol, Con. several females, by the Rev. J. Harvey, Brookfield, Ms. Dea. Chamberlain, Camden, N. Y. a friend of missions, by A. Clark, Canton, Con. The Ladies' Society, by the Rev. Joseph Harvey, |