It is on this principle that Dr Carey in the College, Dr Marshman in the School, and Mr. Ward in the Printing-office, have each contributed considerably more than 1000l. a year to the undertaking.

But little success has attended their labours: procured by any member of the family should through their exertions have been great and be appropriated to the benefit of the Mission." persevering, and equal to those of any of the Brethren's Missionaries in other countries. Some Brethren even resided for a considerable time among the Calmucka, conforming to their manner of living in tents, and accompanying them, when they removed their camp to differ- The premises occupied for the Mission cost ent parts of the Steppes, (immense plains co- near 4000l. sterling; were purchased at three vered with long grass) They omitted no op different times; and are vested in the Missionportunity of preaching to them Jesus; direct-aries, as trustees for the Society They coning them, from their numberless idols and tain dwelling-houses for the Missionaries, wretched superstitions, to the only true God, School-rooms, and a spacious Hall for public and to the way of life and salvation; but worship; also a Printing-office, in which ten though they were heard and treated with civi- presses are constantly employed; a Type lity, no impression could be made upon the Foundry, in which are cast types for the hearts of these Heathen. At last, the main greater part of the Eastern Languages; and a horde, or tribe, quitted those parts. Mill for making Paper, which is expected to cost 10,000 rupees, or 12507. sterling. The material for making paper grows in great abundance in the country. If success attend this undertaking, it will probably prove a great blessing to the whole country. At this Station the Translation of the Scriptures has been carried to an extent exceeding all expectation and example. The Missionaries, by their own So

Finding that nothing was likely to be effected among the Calmucks, the Brethren turned their attention to the education of Heathen Children; and having, in 1808, ransomed four Girls of the Kirgese Nation, they had the satisfaction to see them grow up in the fear of the Lord They were baptized in 1810. A poor Calmuck Woman also, left to perish on the road, was some years ago brought into the|ciety, by the British and Foreign Bible SociSettlement, kindly cared for by the inhabitants, and, after previous instruction, baptized: she départed this life, rejoicing in her Saviour.

Meanwhile the Brethren were visited by the German Colonists living on the Wolga; and, by God's blessing, were made useful to them. Ministers of the Gospel were provided for most of the Colonies, by their instrumentality.

ety, by the liberality of the Christian Public in Britain and America, and by their own literary labours, have been enabled in different degrees, to translate the Scriptures into twenty-seven languages, and to print them in nearly the same number; affording a prospect of the most important advantages to the immense po pulation of Asia.

Very lately, the Brethren have renewed At this Station Dr. Marshman keeps a boardtheir attempts to awaken the Calmuck Tribes ing-school for young gentlemen, and Mrs. Two Brethren, John Gottfried Schill and Marshman another for young ladies; besides Christian Hübner, left Sarepta for this purpose, which, they conduct a charity-school upon the in May, 1815; and settled with the Torgutsk Lancasterian, or British, System, for the chilHorde, by whom they were well received.dren of the poor The London Missionary Society assisted this design by a liberal benefaction.

Soon after the Missionaries were settled at Serampore, Mr. Carey being appointed Professor of Sanscrit, Bengalee, and Mahratta in the College of Fort William, and his colleagues having frequent occasion to be at Calcutta, they were invited to preach there in a private house.

Since then, a commodious place of worship has been erected at nearly 4000l. expense. Here a respectable congregation attends, and a very considerable number of Hindoos, Mussul. men, Portuguese, Armenians, and Europeans have been added to the Church; and several Native Converts of good talents are employed in preaching from house to house, and in different parts of the city.

SIRDHANA.

The capital of a small independent territory,
near the Punjab, or country of the Sieks, about
920 miles N. W. from Calcutta, and 200 from
Agra.

BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY-1813.
John Chamberlain.

At Calcutta, a School-house has been erected by the Missionaries, capable of containing 800 children, divided into two parts, one for boys, and the other for girls; where they are taught to read the Scriptures in the Bengalee and Euglish Languages, also writing and accounts, on what is now termed "The British System." The objects of the "Benevolent Institution" Mr. Chamberlain established this Mission, in are the children of the poor of various nations, 1813, at the request of the Prime Minister of including the children of Europeans by native Her Highness the Begum Sumroo, by whom be women (a neglected and destitute class of so- was favourably received. Five Schools are ciety.) of Armenians, Hindoos, Mussulmen, established for teaching Persian and Hindoosnatives of Sumatra, Mosambique, and Abys-tanee. The Gospel has been preached and the sinia, and especially those of the Portuguese Scriptures dispersed, at Delhi; and also at Catholics, thousands of whom were wandering Hurdwar, where 100,000 pilgrims of different about the streets, in all manner of vice and nations were assembled. wretchedness. Nearly 500 are already on the books of the School. Mr. Leonard, a pious and active man, superintends it. One of the monitors of this School voluntarily went with Mr. Thompson to Patna, and there established a School for Native Christians; and another, the son of Mr. Leonard, accompanied Mr Robinson to Java, where Schools on a similar principle are opened. At Taldanga also, about ten miles west of Serampore, and at Vidyuvattee, a large village lying between them, Schools bave been opened.

These Schools, and others at different Mis sionary Stations, are so conducted as to render a Christian Teacher unnecessary: a Heathen, for the sake of the salary, will superintend them, and must go through the process, or be detected And as in all the Schools the Scriptures are taught, Heathens thus become the instruments of instructing Heathen Children in the principles of Christianity.

SIERRA LEONE.

SOMMELSDYK.

In Guiana, South America.
UNITED BRETHREN-1735.
J. Daniel Lutzke, T. Blitt.
The Negro Congregation consists of 89 per-
sons, of whom 30 are Communicants.
SPRING PLACE

A Station among the Cherokee Indians, in the
State of Tennessee, in North America.
UNITED BRETHREN-1735.
Michael Jung.

John Gambold,

Many pleasing proofs of the fruits of the Missionaries' labours have appeared among the young.

STELLENBOSCH.

In South Africa, 26 miles from Cape Town.
CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.-1802.
J. Bakker.
SURAT.

A large city on the western side of the Penin-
sula of India, to the north-east of Bombay.
said to contain 600,000 inhabitants. The Hin-

A colony belonging to Great Britain, on the doos are numerous. The Parsees, of whom

Western Coast of Africa

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. The Society's Missionaries have, for many years, supplied the Chaplaincy of the Colony. The Rev. William Garnon, an English Clergy man, has been appointed to this Station; for which he sailed, with Mrs. Garnon, some months since. On the representation of his Excellency Governor Mac Carthy, seconded by the proposal of the Society to bear a portion of the expense, Government have agreed to enlarge the number of Chaplains. The whole Colony will be divided into Parishes, and proper provision made for the Christian Instruction of the inhabitants.

See in this List, under the heads-Free Town, · Congo Town, Kissey Town, Leicester Mountain, and Regent's Town.

there are 12,000, are active, and eager after gain. The Mahomedans, Brahmins, Jews, and Armenians, are all in a low state.

BAPTIST SOCIETY.-1812. Carapeit Aratoon, Armenian. Carapeit Aratoon is, by birth, an Armenian. His father's father was an Armenian Clergyman, and was born near Mount Ararat. After encountering many difficulties in Persia, his grandfather and father settled at Bussorah, where he was born. No person is admitted to the sacred office in Armenia, unless he can trace his ancestors to the tenth or twelfth generation This Carapeit could have done. He speaks Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Guzurat→ tee, Bengalee, Portuguese. Hindoostanee. Armenian, and English; but the last three better than the rest. He first settled at Bombay; but

removed to Surat, where his wife was born, and itinerates through the provinces. He speaks of a new sect of Hindoos, which sprang up about sixteen years ago, and is said to comprise 100,000 persons: they affirm that every religion is equally acceptable to God. An other sect, called Baboojee, exists at Surat: it is not numerous they sing Hymns, far su perior to the Heathen Hymns: they equally oppose Idolatry and Mahomedanism. Carapeit distributes books, and has preached to thousands; but mourns his present want of success. "Oh!" he exclaims with simplicity, "that I may see some of the Idolaters in this country, sitting close to the feet of Jesus our Lord!-then I may die !"

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY.-1815.

James Skinner, Wm. Fyvie.

MORAVIAN MISSIONS.

Address to all who favour the propagation of Christianity among the Heathen, in behalf of the missions of the Church of the United Brethren, commonly call ed Moravians.

that Christian love which binds together the hearts of the people of God, in supporting the cause of their Redeemer, however distinguished by various names and forms.

The present Address is occasioned by the same necessity, and encouraged by a simi

IN the year 1814, it is well known that the accumulated distresses of the Continent affected all classes and descriptions of persons. The same calamities were likewise severely felt in all the settlements of the United Brethren in Germany, Holland, Denmark, and Russia, and considerably dimilar call on the Society by friends out of their nished the contributions both of the Bre-circle, who are acquainted with the prothren's congregations, and of friends parti-ceedings of their missions, and with the cipating in the welfare and support of their great difficulty of maintaining them. This missions among the heathen. Under these indeed amounts almost to an impossibility, circumstances, an appeal was made to the unless it shall please the Lord to incline the religious public by some very respectable hearts of those to whom he has imparted persons in England, who became acquaint- the power, again to afford their generous ed with the embarrassments under which assistance. The effects of that dreadful war, this important concern laboured. That appeal was not undertaken in vain; and the Committee to whom the general management of the Brethren's missions is intrusted by their synods, feel how much they owe to the kindness and liberality of the numerous well-wishers to the spread of Christianity among the heathen, who very nobly stepped forward on this occasion; and, by their generous donations, contributed in a great measure to remove the existing difficulty. In this work of charity, benefactors of various denominations were united, exhibiting a most encouraging proof of the power of

by which the continent was wholly impo-
verished, trade annihilated, and even the
common necessaries of life in many instan-
ces withdrawn, are still felt by most class-
es, so as to render them unable, as formerly,
to direct their attention to subjects beyond
their own personal existence; while the set-
tlements of the Brethren, though by God's
mercy spared from total destruction by fire
and sword, were so much exhausted, from
being continually made the head-quarters
of different armies, that they were plunged
into debt, and their usual sources of income,
for some time, nearly dried up.
The ex-

America suffered much, both before and during the first American war. Great loss has been sustained by the burning of Fairfield in Upper Canada, the principal settlement among the Indians, which it will cost no small sum to repair.

God has been pleased to bless the Mission at the Cape of Good Hope with much success. The forming of a third settlement is in contemplation, when means can he

ertions of individuals, however, and of the congregations of Christian Indians in North congregations collectively, have not been wanting; and though greatly reduced in means, they have done what they could to assist in preventing any relaxation in the prosecution of the work. Yet, with every exertion, it is impossible to meet the great and accumulated expenditure of the past years. The sum of about 4000l. which, by the unexpected liberality of our brethren and friends in England, was collected in 1814 and 1815, was indeed a relief for which found to support it. About 1600 Hottenwe cannot sufficiently thank the Lord, who tots constitute the two congregations at thus disposed the hearts of so many bene- Gnadenthal and Gruenekloof; many more factors to favour the Brethren's missions; attend public worship; and in the interior but as the circumstances which then occa- there is a great desire among the heathen sioned the deficiency remain the same, the to receive more teachers. As the rooms Committee is again under the necessity of used as a chapel in Gruenekloof have for making their case known, and expressing a some time been too small to accommodate hope that their petition for help will not the congregation and other hearers, and pass unregarded. government have kindly granted permission To show how extensively the Church of to build, the erection of a new chapel has the United Brethren is employed in attempts been undertaken, though at present the to propagate the Gospel in the heathen state of the finances scarcely warrants the world, and how long they have maintained undertaking.* their numerous missions in different countries, the following statement is subjoined: Establish- Settle- Missionments. ments. aries.

The communication with the three settlements in Labrador, which can only be maintained by a vessel of their own annually sent to the settlements, proves a great expense; but the Lord has hitherto enabled the Brethren's Society for the furtherance of the Gospel, established in London, to persevere in their exertions, notwithstanding the smallness of their means, and the uncertainty of a return equal to the expense of the outfit. Nor would it be consistent with that gratitude which we feel to God our Saviour, did we not here observe how graciously he has preserved the communication with the Brethren's Missionaries in that inhospitable region; so that since the commencement of the Mission, now fiftythree years ago, no interruption has occur

The Rev. Mr. Latrobe arrived in England in December last year, from a visit to the above settlements at the Cape, from which he has derived peculiar pleasure; and may possibly after his return from one of the principal settlements of the Brethren in Germany, lay some interesting particulars before the public.