GENESEE EVANGELIST.—WhoIe No. 752.
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For the American Presbyterian.
FEARFULNESsi
_,—NATT. VIII. 26.
BY J. 0 BLYTIIII
Come, thn'rous one, with thy complaint—
Why dost thou, ero the morning, faint,
•
Or ere the sun is risen high,
Or rays direct glance down the sky ?
Art storm-tossed on a raging sea
Of trouble and anxiety,
Do rough winds whistle in thy ears,
And conjure up a thousand fears?
Do surging waves around thee roll,
And threaten to submerge-thy soul,
Of faith and hope, too, strip thee bare,
And nuthiug leave than but despair?
Poor 44 lth
roils sou , allay y fears,
'TN Jesus, who thy vessel steers—
Be sure of this — he'snot asleep
While thou art tossing on the deep.
The clouds look black, and threatening tool"
What harm can mists and darkness do?
The eyes of' Jesus see as clear,
.As though a thousand suns were here.
What if the darkness now were gone,
And sun-light splendor on thee shone?
Might not thy courage faint as soon,
Beneath the burning blaze of noon?
As safe art thou as if at noon,
The sun in brightest radiance shone,
Or wild waves round thee were as calm
As waveless lake, or breezeless palm.
Como, cheer thee, soul, and do not think,
Thy bark rooks on perdition's brink;
There are no dangers on the sea
Unknown to him who guideth thee.
At His command the waves shall cease
To harass, and disturb thy pease,
And dismal winds, too, cease to howl
At thy distress, poor, timid soul.
His breath shell all the mists disperse,
And scatter far the blackest curse,
That e'er hung threatening o'er thy,bead
To sink thee damned among the dead.
What, timid still? trust, trust in God,
His love is sweeter than the rod—
Had'et thou no fear, thou'dst feel no smart,
His love would fill thy trembling heart.
Fear not, fear not, in Him repose, .
He soon shall still thy raging foes;
Fear not, all things shall yet be well,
Ho reigns In heaven, and rules in hell.
ABSTRACT OF THE ANNUAL REPORT OF
THE AMERICAN BOARD OF COMMIS.
SIONERS FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS, 1860.
HOME DEPARTMENT.
Five Corporate members have died since the last
meeting of the Board, to wit : William Neil, D. D.',
John W. Ellingvrood, D. D. Rev. Harvey Coe,
Chauncey A. Goodrich, D. D. , and Abel M'Ewen,
D. D. ; I
Twenty-six persons have entered upon the mis
sionary work, for the first time, within the past
year; and six have returned to their respective
fields, after a sojourn in the United States, more
or lase protracted. Thirteen persons - are under
appointment.
Three Distriot Secretaries have resigned—
Messrs. Tracy, Cowles, and Pettingill. The Dis
trict of Mr. Tracy, for the present, is divided be
tween Mr. Dl'Leod and Mr. C. Clark. It is ex
pected that Connecticut and Rhode Island will be
united with Massachusetts. The District of East
ern New York is in charge of Messrs. Wood,Uan
non, and others
The receipts for the last financial year were as fol
lows, to wit:—Ordinary donations ,
8302,443.52;
'
legacies $52,597.53; offerings for the debt,
$70,798.20; other sources, $3,959.83; making a
total of $429,799.08; of which $12,704.03 come
from foreign lands, and $6,887.52 are the contri
butions of children for the "Mission School En
terprise." The current expenditures of the year
have been $361,958.76. As the debt at the be
ginning of the year was $66,374;13, the whole sum
to be provided for was $428,332.89. Hence the
balance in the treasury, Augu'st 1, 1860, was
$1,460.19.
GENERAL VIEW OP THE MISSIONS.
The French "emigrant trade" seems likely to
be coming to an end in the region of the 0 - AI3OON,
and in some other respects the mission in Western
Africa has better prospects. The ZULU mission,
,
in Southern Africa, has a gradual but uninterrupted
progress. Through the labours of Mr. Grout,
in his late visit to this country, and of Mr. Lind
ley, who is now with us, it is becoming better
known and more highly appreciated by our
churches. The annual report of the mission has
not been received.
Another persecution, in the form of a legal pro
secution, has been impending over Dr. King, at'
Athens, the past year; so that he has been unable
to visit his native land, as proposed a year ago,
without a misapprehension of his motives. Mean
while he has been completing his preparations
for making a very valuable accession to the reli
gious literature of the Greek people.
The missions in Turkey standing connected with
peoples of different languages, and even races, a
change of names for them has to some extent been
found expedient. The Northern Armenian has
been divided into two, Eastern and Western, and
the Assyrian has been connected with the former.
The Western Armenian will hereafter be known
as the " Mission to Western Turkey;" the East
ern Armenian and the Assyrian missions, forming,
one, will be the " Mission to Eastern Turkey;
and the Southern Armenian will be the " 4Jssion
to Central Turkey." South of that is the ' , Syria,
Mission;" and east of all is the "Nestorian." ,
These are our.four missions in Western. Asia and
European Turkey south , of the Balkan mountains.
Our report, the present year, will follow; the old
divisions and nomenclature.
The NORTHERN ARMENIAN mission has 13 sta
tions and 45 out stations, 38 ordained missiona
ries, and others, male and female, making the la
bourers for this country 72; also four native pas
tors; 21 native preachers, 34 native teachers ;
and 55 other native helpers; making the native
force 114. One of these, the pastor of the first
c h urc h in Constantinople, from which he derives
his whole support, is with us to-day. The branch
of the mission among the Bulgarians of European
Turkey, with three stations, is opening a most pro
mising field for future labours, comparatively safe
from the outbreaks of Turkish fanaticism, owing
to the great predominance of numbers in the Chris
tian population. The Bulgarians are struggling
to be freed from their ecclesiastical thraldom to
the Greek Church. The welcome they give to
Protestant aid is not yet froni a spiritual want,
but from a desire for civil, intellectual, and social
elevation. They eagerly receive the . Scriptures.
The religious movement among the Moslema has
had u marked development the past year.. Doors
of entrance to this people have been opening more
or less in many places besides Constantinople,
among which are Philippopolis, Smyrna, Yozgat,
Cesarea, and Diarbekir. Six Moslem converts
were baptized at the capital, one of them an Imtlm,
of 70 years. In one instance, a missionary read
the Scriptures and bowed in prayer with a high
Turkish officer of the army in the palace of a Pa- n i
in the presence of servants, and in the Mua
sulinan quarter of Constantinople, the officer ap
peering to be strongly under the influence of even
gelical ideas and feelings. The converts, how
ever, are as yet mostly Armenians. There are 28
churches, with a membership numbering 6SO, of
whom 119 were received the past year. Nearly
1,400 children are in the free schools; the two
seminaries contain 66 scholars, and the female
boarding-school 24. Nearly 12,000,000 pages
were printed in different languages. Dr. Goodell
is revising the Old Testament for the Armenians,
who read the Turkish language with their national
alphabet;, and Dr. Schauffier is now devoting him
self mainly to preparing this version of the Scrip
tures for Mohammedan readers. Other books are
being prepared in Armenian and Armeno-Turkish.
The church in Pera, already mentioned, is seek
ing to erect a church edifice, which shall serve as
a centre of attraction to their countrymen, visiting
the Capital from all parts of the empire, and as a
model for the better class of Protestant churches.
The progress of the work of grace has been most
signal in the So - mu:RN AnKENTari mission. With
not half the number of stations, and not a third
as many , missionaries, and a comparatively recent
prigin, the remits bear pomparison remarkably
Witt? those, orilke.: Northern mission.- Twelve.
churches, eight of them only six years old, con
tain almest 600 members, receiving 107 the past
year. The membership has trebled in that time.
The schools number more than 1,300 pupils. No
mission has been more favoured with native la
bowers of the true apostolic spirit. Private un
learned church members have done much to spread
the knowledge of the gospel. The churches are
being gradually supplied with native pastors, and
there are "schools of the prophets" at Aintab and
Marash. A girls' boarding-school is coming into
existence at Aintab. The average Sabbath con
gregation at Aintab is 900, and the Sabbath-school,
composed of men, women, and children, has risen
to above 1,600., At Marash, where•only eight or
nine years, ago, 'native helpers were imprisoned,
and Dr. Schneider was forbidden hy the Pasha to
preach, the congregations on'special occasions
amount to from 1,400 to 1,600; and this in. a
stone clirch, built entirely by their own. efforts.
At Kessab, :where a missionary had, only a resi
dence of a few months the last season, there is a
church of sixty-one members, and they, with aid
from their fellow-townsmen, have completed a 'meet
ing -house thaeill hold one thousand persons, and
this number as been counted within its `walls:
Rome Missionary:Societies have .been formed at
Aintab and. Marash, called:by,a native name sig
nifying " Soul-loving." 'Within 'the hounds, of
this missionihere ls also a movement among -the
Moslems, . ' -
The mission in SYRIA-has been. interrupted by
a civil war of unexampled-barbarity, the appalling
facts of which are tonmell-knmin- to - the Board-to
need - recapitulation here. One' . of • our stations,
Deir43l-lionar, has been nearly blotted from exist
epee, .and those portions . of t the mountain where
the. Protestant doctrines and influence most -pre- -
railed, in the regions of .-Hasbeiya and Rasheiya;
have • been deaolated , with.fire and swford. Some
scores of thousands of homeless widows and father
•lpfe children, who a-few- months . ago were living
comfortably ,112. the Villages of Lebanon, are now
dependent on charity for shelter;clothing, and food.
13ut. our: missionaries and their -families - have . hi- .
therto: remained unharmed,' protected by - the re
spect of -the Druies, and :by a kind ProVidene,e..
The p'eat ,aehievernent of the: mission, the past
year, *leen...the .pnbliention otthe Arabic New
Testament, in the version commenced ,by Dr.
Smith, and“,eelnpleted.!by Dr.-Valt -Dyck. The
schools and, o,ther, ?prat:imp were muck as 4ere
korgrei untiehrOlieri upliy •
Dlarbekir, in the ASSYRIAN mission, is one of
the.mest prospered of the missionary-stations-in the
Emit. -It has a church - of seventy-three members,
and Protestants are a recognised power among the
people. In other - districts there is an increase*
disposition, to listen to gospel truth: Even Boors'
at times give interested attention, and Moslems al-:
low the divine claims of the Messiah to be dis
cussed in their presence. But the results :of mis
sionary labour are.se.en more in the-general change
of public sentimentnnd in- the increase of know
ledge, than in a large number-of converts,- or even
of nominal Protestants. Mardin is an important
Post. The great heat at Mosul renders it im
proper to reside . there -during summer...
The time has come for. a, more ,decisive- move , .
meat among the NES " TORTANS.,.,.The emissaries of
Rome . are active.im the mountains, and : Russian
influence .ia exerted to draw 'emigrants from the
plain of Oreoratah, and indeed from all : quarters:
The time. seems to have come,,moreover for int
badYing the true disciples - of the Lord ,jesus for
more effective action in- those dark . places/of the
earth. .It is remarkable -that, Inst.at this time
the requisite number of young niinisterwfor such
a . work .canreferwnrd with, a desire to .13e. sent to
that field. This-as the more observable; AS se
veral - w
of the older- labourers in the-field : are peed
ing a furlough - for recruiting their wasted energies. 1
The Committee have gladly -sent them forth, and
hope it is the last considerable re-enforcement that
Will be needed for this field. Scattered over plain
and mountains is a native force of 45 - preachers.
The male seminary has 50 'pupils,
'prepils, and the female
seminary 30. Sixty-eight village: enhOolacontain
fourteen hundred pupils; about five -hundred-of
them. femalea. The: press, under the. - effidient
care of Mr.- Breath, sent forth 700,000 pages.
More than three hundred Nestorians are recognised
by the mission as church members. Even in Per
sia, Moslems have' een drawn to the gospel by the
true light which
,shines among them: through- the
. .
The Bombay, Ahmednuggur, and Satara mis
sions have been re-united, and resume the old name
of " M.SHRATTA. MISSION!' The mission has
had to mourn the sudden' decease of Mrs. Wood.
The native - pastor Ramkrishriapunt has been re
moved frorathe Second church in Ahmednuggur to
the first church in Bombay; and another, Vishnu
Karmarknr, has taken his place. The church at Se
roor has also received 'a native pastor, Sidoba,
whoa had been preaching there four - years ai
centiate.. Mr. Ballantine is training tcsmall thno
logiest elms at Ahmedeuggur. The Ahmedimg-
Tur field has an admirable division of labours.
he churches and Converts are chiefly here. The
13 churches in the mission received 69 Converts,
and contain almost 400 members. There are 56
native helpers, besides four pastors and one licen
tiate.
Dr.. Winslow still continues his labours at, MA
DRAB, and devotes a portion of his time to a Tamil
Lexicon, which has already had much labour be
stowed upon it. The printing establishment, one
of the'best in. India, has a very competent printer,
and is doing good service. The printing, in all
languages, was 22,630,970 pages. The grammar
school contains 197 pupils, and there are 400 pu
pils in the free schools.
The MADURA mission has an excellent working
apparatus. Each of the 14 missionaries has his
distinct, province, and there are 6 native pastors,
108 native helpers, 52 school-masters, and, what
is remarkable, . -18 school-mistresses, who had been
educated in the female boarding-sehool. The cli
mate of the Madura District is regarded as health
ful. In twelve years '
there i has been no death of
an adult in the mission families. The seminary
contains 49 pupils, the girls', boarding-pchool 54,••
and the free schools 1,076. The. 29 churches: re-,
ceived new . members, and number 1,012 in all.
The Christian congregations number 6,000. The
oases of discipline in the churches hate been few,
and the general condition of the churches is healthy
and hopeful.
Crossing the strait, we came to the.field occupied
by the CEYLON mission. Three of the nine churches,
have native pastors, and these churches are among
the Most flourishing. Two of the native helpers
are formally licensed preachers, and 26 are licensed
informally, ' Fifteen others are reckoned as help
ers, and ,(i4 are schonl. ( 4achers, Forty-six were
received into the churUhes,,and the membership is
now 457.' The 47 village sehOhlt4 have more than
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1860.
1,700 pupils, but suffer from incompetent teach
ers. The passion for the English language, as a
peens of gain, still sways the people. The re
port contains some striking remarks of Dr. Duff,
of Calcutta, adverse to the teaching of English to
village teachers. The training school contains 20
pupils, and the Oodooville female boarding-school
39. Both are prosperous. The mission has passed
and is passing through trials, but is coming out
of them like gold tried in the fire.
The three CHINA missions are all more or legs af
fected by the transition, state of that great empire.
The Canton province has been the sat of war, both
civil and foreign. One of the large' cities near
Canton was totally destroyed by the " rebels" a
few years since, but promises, in its gradual resto
ration, to become an eligible site for us.. Shang
hai is now disturbed by the near approach of re
volution, and every thing at the north is in sus
pense, awaiting the results of the English and
French invasion. The death of Mr. Aitchison, on
lig•return, with, the American Embassy,frora Pe
kin, following •that of Mr. Macy mentioned last
year;is a loss that fora long time cannot be re
paired. The mission at Fah-chair has not been
disturbed, and is evidently gaining ground. The
Committee, feel that the Board ought to have a
larger missionary force in this great nation, since
every thing tends to open it more and more to the
gospel.
The SANDWICH. ISLANTIS have, been Christian
ized; but as the people came up from the lowest
barbarism and the most debased foreign corrup
tion, which thoroughly pervaded the social mass,
it is slow work—if it will ever be, possible—to
make the institutions of the gospel wholly self-sus
taining among them. But they, are themselves
doing much towards this result, and, the report
gives important facts bearing on this point. The
national revenue conaiderahly exceeds 000,000.
More than 830,00 Q are, raised for, the wheels,
which contain. nearly 10,000 pupils. There are
also some dozen or more select schools,-from the
"Oahu College" downwards. Towards the en
dowment of this College, the Hawaiian government
has given land valued at $10,000; and the fo
reign residents on the Islands hope to found one of
the professorships. The 23 churches contain
14,413 members in regular standing, and report
the number received. the past year at 573. The
contributions by the, native. Christians, for various
objects, were near twenty thousand dollars.
The MuntoNzsra. mission, occupying four posi
tions in the great Archipelago, with the effective
aid 'of the "Morning Star," is getting under pros
perous way. , There are • many difficulties to be
surmounted. : The influence of such a mission
upon the sea-faring, world in those remote regions,
is considerable, and all of it salutary. It is re
markable how safe our brethren and, sisters are
and feel among those savages. They should be
remembered every where in the prayers of God's
people. ,The gospel prepares the way for the work
of the Spirit; .- and when he puts forth his gra
cious.power, "the isles shall wait for his law."
The attendance upon the means of grace among
the DAKOTAS is less than it was a' year ago. A
murder committed in Dr. Williamson's neighbour
hood, last winter, drove away apart 'of his hear
ers, some of them church members; and the." re
taliation," in May, drove away a part of Mr.
Riggs' hearers, some of whom were also church
members: • In .both eases, the innocent were
;obliged to flee 'with the guilty. Five persons
have made a profession Of their faith in the gos
pel, since• the last report, so that the present
number of Dakota communicants is fifty.
The educational interests of these Indians are
receiving the careful attention of the missionaries.
They propose, hereafter, to give the native language
more prominence than it has received in past years.
The boarding-school has had eighteen pupils,
during a part of the time; now it has only fourteen.
There are four day schools in operation, one of
which only is in charge of the mission, the other
three,beine. t " supported by the United States go
vernment.
Owing to the continued ill health of Mr. Whee
ler, the amount of labor devoted-to the spiritual
interests of the aTIBWAS is found to be less than
usual. The ordinary services have been sustained;
however; and the Sabbath school was never so
large and interesting, at any previous time, as it
is now. Cases of serious inquiry have occurred,
from time to time; but none have made a public
avowal of their love to the Saviour. The mem
bers of the churches-9f whom twenty-two are
Ojibwas—are supposed to be advancing in know
ledge as also stability of character.
The boardin -school was opened last October the
first institution of the kind among the north-west,.
ern Ojibwas. It has fifteen pupils, 'with the pros
pect of an increase as fast as it shall be safe to add
to the nUmber. It seems to have secured the con
fidence of the people. A favorable report is made
of the day school.
The progress of the Indians in civilization is by
no means rapid; still a gratifying change has taken
place within a few years. " The people certainly
dress better," Mr. Wheeler sayS, "live better, pos...
sess More of the comforts of, ige, are more settled
in their habits, more industrious, More enter
'wising 'thy - th( 'n fort h& days."
prising, . Lan Aley were ,
The Schools which the Board'Once sustained
among the SENECAS ) are still receiving the, eons"
derate and efficient care a the State ofNew York.
The success of'the Cattaraugus Indians in their
industrial pursuits, is highly encouraging. "For
several years," Mr. Wright says, "there has been
constant improvement in this respect; but the pe
riod under review exhibits more decided progress
than any other since the first introduction of the
plough.' An Iroquois Agricultural Society has
been organized, which will hold its annual fair, in
October; and the premium list embraces nearly all
the items usually , found in the lists of the county
agricultural societies of the white people besides
a variety of articles exclusively Indian.
The second week in January, in a'coordanee with
the invitation so Widely 'circulated, was devoted to
speoial religious services on both Reservation&
The restilts appear to have'bee,a an increase of spi
ritual life among the converted Indians; while a
few others, it is hoped, experienced a saving change.
Fourteen have been admitted to the Cattaraugus
church, and five have been received into Christian
fellowship on the Allegheny Reservation within
the past year.
No important change has occurred in the con
dition of the TusomtouAs since the last annual
meeting. Intemperance is still a sore evil; and
though frequent efforts are made to arrest it, there
is but little reason to anticipate the, deliverance
which many long for, while the outside influences
are so unpropitious. Apart of the Indians are
advancing' in their temporal interests; and there
is an increasing desire among them for the com
forts of civilized life. Their progress in spiritual
things, it is supposed, is less satisfactory. It should
be mentioned with thankfulness, however, that
eight have joined the Tuscarora church.
Mr. Rockwood has received a release from his
connection with the Board, and the Committee
have felt constrained to Inquire whether these In
dians can be regarded, any longer, as constituting
a part of the foreign field. It is almost sixty years
since they became the Objects of missionary soli
citude. . At least one-third of their number belong
to the visible church of Christ. Eight years ago,
it * was said of them, "No one can look at their
fields of grain, their orchards, their houses and
barns, their roads, their public buildings, without
discovering the signs and proofs of manliness and
thrift." It is the testimony of Mr. Rockwood that
they have the ability to sustain the preaching of
the gospel, for the most part; and some of our
home missionary organizations would doubtless be
ready to meet any reasonable deficiency. Under
the present'rrangement, however; they do almost
nothing to lees= the"expense which the Board is
annually incurring in their behalf, audit is scarcely
to be expected that they will do more hereafter.
In view of all the circumstance's, - therefore, the
committee believe that the foreign missionary "work,
in this field, should be cloied at an early day.
THE •BOARD CLOSES ITS 'WORK, AMONG THE
CHEROKEES.
.
The Prudential Committee hnye 'deemed it ex
pedient to discontinue this mission. To this end
they have recently adopted tle,p ' resolutions that
follow--namely:
Resolved,-.-1. That, in the adoption of the Chris
tian religion by the Cherokee people, and the re
cognition of it by their government
i • in the general
,
diffusion among them of gospel institutions, though
under 'different forms; in the introduction and
permanent establishment of the. principles and
practices of piety, though of Course under many
imperfections; and in the creation ; notwithstand
ing formidable obstacles, of a imgalf4d civil com
munity from one of the largest*Oiginal tribes of
iiii?Continent,.Lithe Piti'dentia%mmittee grate
fullyi acknowledge vol. - it - or d : . p grace, amply
rewarding the exertions and eiF, expenditures which
have been made, by Christians of ifferent names,
in this behalf. i
2. That While the spiritual iiinovation of the
Cherokee people is confessedly imperfect, the Com
mittee regards the tipprpiniate *uric of the. Board
among that people as having been so far mom
plishedj and the further successfdl prosecution of
its labors as, at, the same time, '0
far impeded by
the intervention of other denornipations better si
tuated for operating there than Ourselves; as to
render it proper and expedient than;-ourselves
`tlie Board to
withdraw, and expend the funds hitherto devoted
to this field in other more needy'portions of the
ithevangelized world, where it' cap now work to
better advantage.
8. That, accordingly, the mission of the Board
among the Cherokees, should be And it is hereby,
discontinued.
4. That this does not at once terminate the per
sonal relations of the members of. this mission to
the Board.; but leaves them atAberty to make
such arrangements for the futare N iff,they.shall se
verally judge proper;, and the cqamittee will re
cogniselheir claim to Baeh r pecuniary aid, when
ever they retire from their connection with the
Board, as its rules, usages and means enable it to
afford.
• 5. To prevent the possibility of misapprehen
sion, it is farther resolved, that the mission is not
discontinued because of any unfaithfulness on the
part of our brethren in that mission; they having
been exemplary, so far as is known. to the Commit
thel in the discharge of all their 9ission a ry duties.
A correspondence will be opened with the Ame
rican Bible Society, with a vieivtO securing the
continuance of the translation and printing of the
Holy Scriptures, now in proctreas in the Cherokee
language.
CONCLUSION.
Net a few are present who have followed the
course of this mission from' its commencement , to
the, present day. He who.began the mission, the
beloved and venerated Kingsbury, now a veteran
in another field, lives to witnestits completion.
The Cherokee mission has had a strong hold upon
our churches. Its reacting influence, when the
people were in their old country east of the Mis
sissippi river, was scarcely , lose Aau that of any
other mission under the care of Woard: Here
Dr. 'reraeliter; : `the.' fi rstle4C ',Nif the Board,
trsi4
journeying through tliewilderneiin the last, stages
of his mortal disease, rested from his labors, and
was buried. -Here Father, Hoyt wrote that jour
nal of the . ,BMinerd , station, extraiding through
volumes 'of the Missionary Herald,'over which so
many, now passc4, the meridian of life, or now, in
heaven, have rejoiced, and wept, and prayed. Thi
ther the well-renaembered. Everts ;vent repeatedly,
when in pursuit of health, and imbibed that high ,
inspiration which, in the Letters of " Willigm
Penu," moved,the intellect and heart of the Ame
rican people. Here resided the missionaries, Wor
cester and Butler, now; gone to a better world, who,
from love to Christ and to the rights of the op
pressed Cherokees, allowed themselves to be in
carcerated in a Georgia penitentiary. Here, among
the hundreds, of converted Cherokees eonneeted at
different times with our mission churches, have
been some whose names are still cherished in the
memory of our Zion. It will suffice for us to
mention Catharine Brown and her brother David,
John Arch, and John Huss. The churches have
been amply repaid for all they have done for this
people, much as the mission has cost., It is not a
mournful duty we are performing. The mission is
not abandoned; but our, appropriate work is done.
The Cherokee people have bee% Christianized,
through the divine favor, and fvlAt. remains for
building up and sustaining the inititutions of the
gospel,—which is everywhere a work never brought
to a close,--must be left to others;—for the reason
that our appropriate work is.no longer there, and
that other Christian professors and teachers, with
methods of operating and modes of worship better
suited, perhaps, to the tastes „of, the people, have
so ,diffused themselves, that..there .is no longer
ample space for us, and, no longer a distinct call
of. Providence for our continuance. All has not
indeed been accomplished that we desired, nor: all
that we expected; but perhapsas lunch as we-were
entitled to expect. How hard it is, 'even among
the descendants of the Puritans, to overcome
the influences of the ' world; and how far from
perfect is our social. condition, and how far are
our churches from the gospel standard of perfec
tion. Let us be devoutly thankful for'what has
been accomplished among the . Cherokees, and 'be
lieve that our labor among them-has not been in
vain in the Lord.
• SUMMARY.—
-
Number of Missions 99
" " Stations ' • " 'llO
" " ' . . 150
Laborers employed.
Number of ordained Missionaries' (8 being
- Physicians,)...... • • '166 • •
Number of Physicians not ordained, 5
" " other Male Assistants,- 10
" " Female Assistants, 195
Whole number of laborers sent , from this
country, —376
Number of Native Pastore,2s
" Native Preachers,..--- . . 150
" " Native Helpers, " 274 -
Whole number of Native. Helpers"... — 458
" " " laborers connected with
the Missions, --824
The Press.
Nuraber of Printing Establishments„.....,. • 6
Pages printed last year, as far as. re
`ported..— 86,382,978
Pages printed from the 1,231,103,847
The Chicrehes.
Number of Churches, (including all at the Sand-
wich Islands,) • ••••41.. 144
Number of Church Members, (do. do.) so far
as reported,* ' • -
Added daring the year, (do ' 1,096
BduCational Departmen
Number of Seminaries, . ......... .
" " other Boarding Schools, .". . .. ........ .... 18
" Free Schools, (omitting, those at... Sand-.
with ,Islands,) ..... . .•
.
t; Pupils in Free Schools, (omit.
Ling those at ............ 9,744
Number of Pupils in Seminaries, 680
tt tt Boarding Schools,: 841
Whole number in Seminaries and
Schools, -,••••••
General Summary.
Ordained Missionaries sent forth since the for
widen of the Board, 415
Missionary PhySioians, not ordained; ........ . .—. .. . - 24
Male Assistant Missionarisd, .^, " 128
Female Assistant Missionaries, ....... ...... .... : ,690
Total;
* The repert fit= thechurehes at the &trawl& Islaimit to defee:
Live.
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AME
RICAN BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
[Prom the Report of the Boston Journal.]
Tho annual meeting of the American Board . of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions, it being the
fiftieth anniversary of the formation of the So
ciety, commenced its sessions at the: Tremont Tem
ple Tuesday afternoon. The house was quite full
at the opening of the meeting.
The Board was called to order, at four o'clock,
by Rev. Dr. Mark Hopkins, the President. Prayer
was offered by Rev. Dr. Pond, of Bangor. •
The record of the last meeting was read by
Rev. Dr. Worcester, of Salem, the Recording Se
cretary. Rev. Mr. Pettingill was appointed As
sistant Recording Seeretary.
The folloWing Committee were appointed—
Committee of Arrangements.—Rev. A. L.
Stone, Rev. H. B. Hooker Rev. P. A. Mills,
Rev. I. P. Langworthy, Rev. Edwin Johnson,
Rev. A. IL Quint.
Business Committee.---ilenry White, Esq.,Jolin
Kingsbury, Esq., Rev. George E. Adams, Rev.
S. G. Clapp, Rev. 1. K. Sprague.
Treasuror's Report
James M. Gordon, Treasurer, read an abstract
of his Animal Report. Some of the prinCipal
items of expenditure were as follows:
Zulu Mission, $12,738; Gaboon Mission, $5,-
879; Greece, $2,401; North Armenian, 883,314;
South Armenian, $16,666; Syrian ' $24,707; As
syrian, $9,693; Nestorian, $17,285; Bombay,
$3,681; Alunednuggur, $15,209; Satora, 62,815;
Madras, $6,022; liolapar, $1,590; Madura, $29-
223; Ceylon, $18,104; Canton, $4,733; Fuh
chat], $9,625; Shanghai, $5,382; Sandwich
Islands, $17,782; Micronesia, 67,571; Choctaw,
84,535; Cherokee, 86,245; Dakota, $2,599; Ojib
wa, $6,514; Tuscarora, $641; Seneca, $3,472;
Cost of Collect/v.—Agencies, 810,611; pub
lications, $12,906; correspondence, $4,708; Trea
surer's department, $4,142; expenses in New
York City, $4,949; miscellaneous charges, $6;-
The general permanent fund amounts to 864,-
715,32; permanent fund for officers, $39,840.
Uommittee on Ilreasurer's Accounts. -Governor
Buckingham, Abijah W. Fisher, W. IL Brown,
Dr. Ft. _Durkee, and Dr. L. 11.. Smith, were apl
pointed the Committee on the Treasurer's Ac
counts.
Annual Report.
Rev. Dr. Treat, one of the Secretaries, read an
abstract of the Annual Report.
The Board then adjourned until evening.
EVENING SESSION
A public meeting was held in the evening, com
mencing at quarter past .7 o'clock, to listen to a dis
course by Rev. President Fisher, of Hamilton
College, New York. The home was densely
crowded at an early hour.
The exercises were commenced by the, reading
of a hyttm by Rev. Dr. Taylor, of Bergen, N. J.,
commencing as follows :
"Assembled at thy great command,
Before thy face, dread King, we'stand."
After ,singing, Dr. TaYlOr. read 'the 24 Psalm,
and offered prayer.
4nother hymn was sing, commencing,
"Hail to the Lord's anointed." -
Dr. Fisher, in introducing his discourso, said
he, had hoped that Williamstown or Andover would
have performed the work assigned to hiin, as they
were more immediately 'connected-with the origin
of this Board.
SERMON 'DR; PISHER
Text—lsaiah 45 : 1-6 verses, and do. 43 2.
It was, he said, a fact, that for the enlargement
of His Church God selected special instruments.
This was shown by the text. Cyrus was pre-etni
neatly fitted for the.work as a restorer of the
church. There were two still more remarkable
examples of this character, Moses and Paul : they
were not like the multitude in their training and
discipline, and relations to the people, but pos
sessed special qualities for their great mission.
This view did not exalt the 'human above the di
vine, but assumed that the Divine selected means
adapted to the ends, as in the natural world. • Lu
ther, Calvin and Whitefield were also cited as ex
amples of fitness for a special mission.
The first lesson to be: .learned from the subject
was that God chooses peculiar nations to do his
work, as he does individuals. The Jew was
chosen for the purpose of conservation
.; he had a
wonderful power to .hold, and it was his mission
to hold, and not to give. It was not until. men
of another-.race .had received the Gospel, that
Christianity went forth to its grandest triumphs.
.Passing over minor tapies which were ofinte
rest, the preacher proceeded to consider the in
quiry, what , work. God has been forming this na
tion to accomplish. The pecUliarities of the peo
pie were dwelt upon, as belonging to the. Angl
o race, the constituents of which Were a,
hardy, constant, persistent nature; , these were the
qualities which fit a nation for conquest, to acquire
and to hold. A race like this combined all the
qualities for good in this world. It,was not for
merely temporal objects that God had created it.
With the same original qualities education makes
a vast difference: This nation had a peculiar
training, and just as the education of Cyrus,
Moses and Paul , was peculiar, so Divine Provi
dence gave to the Anglo-Saxon race 'the qualities
suited to its peculiar work.
The first result which: followed from the ad
,
venturous spirit peenliar to this race, was As 're
flexive action; it - became -the workshop of the
world. The second result.was, it reacted on the
race.. The spirit which peopled this continent
was not, the spirit of conquest, not the lust for
gold; it was • unique, had , a nobler origin, in the
spirit of Christianity. Education advanced with
increasing, power, but substantially in the same
direction. It was not in old, effete methods, but
of another style, giving laws to nations, inter
penetrating nations with the truth as it: was in
Jesus.
The common law, sense of justice, individual
independence, were ,enumerated among the great
results of the qualities specified, but these results
were only attained through great struggles. In,
view, of these qualities, it was argued, was to be
found the design of God to make us a missionary
race. The advance we have made in the abolition
of the law of primogeniture, the education of the,
people to believe, they were pilgrims and strangers
on the earth, the great possessions of the country,
its richness in minerals and productiveness, all
combined to that end. - .
This country had been taunted for its devotion
to material interests. Yet 'men-were material as
well as immaterial, and it was this qualitywhich
stimulates the ,enterprise seen everywhere, and
guided by spirituality it was just what ;was needed
to unfold the attributes necessary to impress our
selves on man. If devotion, to material interests
stood alone, it would soon corrupt itself. The
education which our nation received, gives the
race empire; and the missionary of this race is
fitted to. give education and ..refinement to every
portion of the pagan world.,
The character and condition of the Protestant
ism we po3sess, was enumerated as another efficient
source of power. Another feature mentioned as ;
peculiar to the American, church was the revivals
.of religion, which in every'petiod - of danger gave
.new life .and' vantage ground ::.and 'required the
ovprplus of Christian, energy giveri o us to ( seek-its
`end in the conversion of the world, or otherwise
it would turn and corrupt itself; the other thought
to complete the features was, that for half a een ;
fury God has been organizing and training us for
the work of foreign missions.
This Society, it was contended/ was born amid
prayers and faith, in the bosom of the young.
The influence of the first Missionaries of the
Board, and of the new literature which resulted
froni it, were depicted in an exceedingly eloquent
manner.
At its conclusion the benediction was pronminced.
A. meeting was. organized in the Young Men's
Christian Association Rooms, of clergymen and
others, who could not gain 'access to Tremont
Temple, M. H. Sargent in the Chair,
.and was
addressed by Rev. Dr. Lindley of Africa, and Rev.
Dr. Perkins of the Nestorian Mission. The room
was completely filled and the exercises exceedingly
interesting. , •
A prayer meeting will be held in Park Street
Church this morning at .8-1 o'clock. A meeting
will also be held at the same place at 10 o'clock,
which will be addressed by Rev. Dr. Hamlin and
Mr. Williams, Missionaries, and by Rev. Dr. Bud
dington.
SECOND DAY, WEDNESDAY.
The Prayer meeting at Park Street Church
this morning was very fully attended, the house
being densely crowded, and another meeting was
held in the vestry. Rev. Dr. Hooker, Secretary
of the Home Missionary Society, presided, and
made•souie remarks on the appropriateness of the
place for such a meeting, from its early associa
tions with the Board. Remarks were also made
by Rev. Dr. Hawes of Hartford, Rev. Mr. Squier of
lowa, and by Rev. G. Fisch of Paris. Dr. Hawes
believed it important that a right key note be
struck, and that was accomplished in such a meet
ing as was there assembled for prayer and confe
rence. Mr. Fisch expressed his sympathy in the.
labors of the Board, and remarked upon the ex.
traordinary spectacle of so young a nation taking
so leading a part in the evangelization of the
MEETING OP THE BOARD.
The Board assembled at the Tremont Temple
at 9i o'clock, the President, Dr. Hopkins, in the
chkir. Rev. Dr. Dwight of Portland offered
prayer.
The thanks of the Board were voted to Bev.
Di. Fisher for his sermon last evening, and a
copy solicited for publication.
Rev. Dr. Treat, Secretary, resumed the reading
of the report on the Home Department of Mis
sions.
Rev. Dr. Anderson, Secretary, read the report
of the Prudential Committee on the closing of the
work of the Board among tilt Cherokees.
[The concluding portion of this report may be
found in another column. At present we have
not space to publish it entire.]
Dr. Wood, Secretary, made a short report, as
follows:
At the last annual meeting a communication
was presented to the Board by a Committee of
the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church,
containing certain resolutions which had been
adopted by that body. • To three specifications in
those resolutions the attention of the Board was
particularly invited.
A Committee was appointed to confer with the
Committee of the Assembly. Their report was
presented at the closing session, and adopted by
the Board. In regard to the import of the
greater part of that phper the Prudential ,Com
mittee have no doubt, and it occasions them no
difficulty. On one of the points treated of, how
ever, viz., that of facilitating the formation of
foreign. Presbyteries by designating missionaries
with reference thereto, the language used is some
what indeterminate, and, as it appears to them,
capable of a more or less enlarged application.
It seems to them desirable that there should be a
clear and mutually satisfactory understanding of
what they are to do in the matter referred to;
and they therefore respectfully suggest the expe
diency to this end of further conference with the
General Assembly in such form a's the judgment
of the Board may approve.
Hon. Linus Child moved the reference of the
report to a special committee.
Dr. Anderson made a report upon the late in
debtedness of the Board, stating the crises of it,
and concluding with the statement that it will be
the aim of the committee hereafter to be governed
more fully by the receipts.
Judge Jessup of Pennsylvania moved a refer
ence of the report to a special committee, and in
view of the indebtedness, exonerated the Pruden
tial -Committee therefrom. Ho believed it to be
the. duty of the Board to go forward in their'work
of devising, liberal things, in a wise responsibility,
and .a further duty of the churches to see that
there should be the means of carrying on that
work. The ministers should speak to their
people on the subject, and the laymen should see
to it that they fail not in their duties.
Rev. Dr. Chickerino• of Portland said the
churches had admirably instructed the committee
during : the last half century by their contribu
tions, yet he believed that a greater responsibility
Muhl be felt by the committee in making their
appropriation&
„Rev. Dr. Worcester of Salem agreed ‘ with Dr.
°bickering that it did not devolve upon the
Board to take upon itself the entire conversion of
the world, any further than they were warranted
by,the means. lie quoted• the late Judge Hub
bard on a. similar occasion, that while, he had as
strong a belief in the bank of faith as any one, it
was .a matter.of consequence to the Secretaries,
that the notes of that bank were not negotiable
in State street.
Dr. Anderson made some further explanations
of the-plans of the committee in requiring each
mission annually to-mako , a statement
~of the
amount Which they would require.
Wm. E. Dodge, Esq., of New York, could not
quite agree with the last two speakers. 'The
churches had never yet refused the obligations of
the Board, and he believed they never would.
The committee had acted, in accordance with their
name, with prudence; they had acted with a
wisdom rarely .iven by God to any class of men.
When he looked back upon the meetings of the
past, the. concerts for prayer, he saw how wonder
fully the work had been opened for them. Per
secution, tyranny, oppression, could not stand be
fore the. labors of the missions. God had un
covered the treasures of the world for its benefits.
Ile is pouring into the lap of tbe church its
treasures for the conversion of the world. When
he considered the great inerease of wealth, of bu
siness, he could not but ask; is God putting into
the hands of his people such wealth, and is it not
to be used for the increase of the business of the
Board? The committee were constantly asked
retrench, and yet we meet to pray that God
would have his kirmlom come. He remembered
years,ago of making the remark, that there was
no need of retrenchment ) and he now saw no
nee.d of it. By a little` retrenchmentin-personal
expenditure p it would put'more additional money
into .the trea,sury of the Board than the Board
had ever been in possession of. He concluded
by a personal appeal to the me'inbers of the
churches on their responsibility in the matter.'
Gen. Williams of Norwich, Ct., alluded to - the
former indebtedness of the Board. The last in
debtedness was mainly through the financial em
barrassments of the country. He could not sub
scribe to the calls for retrenchment, for on the
experience of the past fifty years, and the necessi
ties of the world, there must be a demand upon
the committee which should be met. He would
say,only to them AO on in your labors in a spi
rit of, enlightened liberality, and'if it should be
proved. that a debt, be incurred, ' p ot foriseen, the
churches would see that - the debt, is paid.'
VOL. V.--NO. 7.—Whole k 224.
John Dougall,Esq., of Montreal, said the people
with whom he was connected had not heretofore
done what they might; their peculiar ability to
contribute had been brought out by the necessi
ties of the Board. They believed the debt was
justly incurred, and felt it to be the duty of the
church to meet it. Hereafter they would do
more than they had done. -
Rev. Dr. Taylor of Middletown, Ct., feared a
wrong spirit might go forth from this meetin g .
There were many men and churches who had
made great sacrifices, and could hardly do more.
If wealthy men had not done what they might,
they bad now a great opportunity for doing good.
The course recommended by Mr. Dodge, he
thought, would not be given by that gentleman
in his financial business.
Rev. Dr. Palmer of Albany thought there were
difficulties to be considered, not such as would be
paralleled in ordinary financial business. There
must be discretion used.
Rev. Dr. A. D. Smith of New York, considered
the difficulties resting upon the Prudential Com.
mittee—he bad felt that, with great force, and
as a member of the committee, his heart had
often been greatly pained. by the necessity of
curtailing their labors, and of refusing aid where
it *as needed.
Rev. Dr. Cleaveland of Boston said he - had
watched the Board leant its commencement, and
he felt constrained to say that they had managed
their affairs with the greatest prudence.
Rev. Dr. Bacon of New Raven was encouraged
by the fact that the fears of debt were felt mostly
by clergymen who knew little of financial affairs
except of being in debt, while the men of means
urged us to go forward. The Prudential Com
mittee were men of prudence, and he was willing
to trust them. Whenever the time should come
that the American Board had arrived at what
should be considered an established revenue, say
$300,000, then the contributions would begin to
diminish. Ile had full confidence in going on,
increasing in wisdom, and believed that the
means would be provided for such an increase of
funds as would be required.
Wm. A. Booth, Esq., of New York, referred to
the scene of disbanding schools in the East, to
which be was a witness. The appropriation for
1860 was dowa as low as could be sustained, but
when they learned what it was to be for 1861,
they could .go on no further. In reference to
business, he said no commercial business could
succeed in a work of standing still, as was pro
posed in this case—a standing still would be but
going backward.
Dr. Anderson stated, that as the result of
Mr. Booth's visit to the East, in view of the ne
cessities of the Board, he left five hundred dollars
to relieve the mission.
Dr. Worcester further statedllie" difficulties la
raising contributions for the Board, and expressed
the opinion, as the result of his experience, that
the missionary spirit bad advanced but little during
the last twenty-five years.
Hon. E. A. Newton, of Pittsfield, related as a
maxim of his old employer in business, on leaving
him, not to get in debt in small sums. He had
had much experience in missionary operations,
and concurred in the views which had been ex
pressed in relation to furthering missionary opera
tions.
Judge Terry of Hartford remarked, as the dif
ference between ourselves-- and the Jews,that
while they paid one tenth into treasury f the
Lord, Christians hardly paid two per cent.
Rev. Dr. 131agden of Boston moved an amend
ment to the motion of Judge Jessup, that an in
finity be made whether some means, if any, can
be adopted to bring churches into a greater re
sponsibility in support of the missions of the
Board.
Rev. Dr. Squier, of lowa, believed in the doc
trine of progression in the work of missions.
Dr. Dufree, of Fall River, rejoiced in the pros
perous condition of the Board, and was in no fear
to trust the Committee in all their proceedings.
He believed it was, an advantage to the Board to
have a - debt hanging over it occasionally.
Hon. Daniel Adams of Newburg, had an entire
confidence in the Committee, yet he thought
there might .be a reduction in the number of
agencies. He thought the pastors should pret - ent
the subject of Missions to the churches, and with
a much better rcsult. While he felt gratefu; for
the noble men who had contributed to the raising
of the debt, he would like to know if they were
ready every other year to repeat such contribu=
tions.
Rev. Dr, Treat offered a series of resolations as
follows:
Resolved, That we record it as the deliberate
judgment of the Board that the churches, sus
taining its operations, are summoned to higher
obligations and higher privileges.
1. God has committed to our spiritual husban
dry some of the largest and noblest fields in the
world.
2. He has blessed our work to such a degree,
that for us to remain stationary has become im
possible, without a manifest apd perilous disregard
of duty.
3. Having the undoubted ability to do much
more than we have yet done, it will be for our
spiritual enlargement and our comfort of hope,
that we place ourselves at once in harmony with
the merciful designs of our enthroned Emmanuel.
4. In that season of prosperity, more dangerous
than adversity, which is beginning to diffuse its
cheerful light in all our• borders, our best safe
nuard against worldliness and luxury, the love of
gain and the love of pleasure, will be a ready and
hearty'consecration, day by 'day, of our property,
as well as of ourselves, to Christ's honored and
chosen work.
5. The honor of.= ascended-Lord imperatively
requires that-Wre "go forwatd," seeing that he has
opened the - world .so widely. to his people, and
placed in their"ha:nds such multiplied facilities for
speedy and efficient action, and given them the
silver and the gold for this very end, that now at
length, when this nineteenth century is waning to
its close ; , his people should go forth, and proclaim
the acceptable year of the Lord in all the world.
The President announced the following commit
tees, viz.: •
Conference with the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church—Dr. Silas Aiken, Dr. Alvan
Bond, Rev. H. G. Ludlow,Hon. Linus Child, Dr.
D. IV: Poor, Rev. T. S. ard, Rev. G. W. Wood.
North Western Indians—Dr. George Shepard,
Rev. David Greene, Dr. Joseph Vaill, Prof. Wm.
Thompson, Dr. John K. Young, X. M. Schermer
horn, Esq., Rev. J. E. Rankin.-'
Cherokee Mission—Dr. Beman, Judge Jessup,
Wm. O. Gilman, Dr. Asa D. Smith, Dr. Sabin,
Dr. Wm. N. Nichols, Rev. J. G. Davis.
Sandwich Islands—Chancelldr Walworth, Dr.
E. W. Hooker, Gen. Williams, Dr. Squier, Dr.
Calhoun, Rev. R. S. Cushman, Julius A. Palmer,
China—Dr.. Chas: Walker, Dr. Todd, Dr. Ed
ward Hitchcock, George M. Davison, Dr. David
0. Allen, Rev. Wm. Clark, Rev. Edward Ebbs.
Mahratta,Drs. Dwight, Beaton, Clement, Dr.
Bardwell, Judge Cole, Rev. B. B. Beckwith, Rev.
A. -E. P. Perkins.
. Nestorian—Drs. Labaree, William A. Stearns,
Chiekering, Rev. S. Rains, A. Tobey, Edward
Strong, 0. E. Wood, Esq.
Southern Armenian and Assyrian—Drs. J. W.
MeLanO, Emerson Davis, Revs. J. L. Dudley, S.
Thurston, N. Beach, IL. Foster, James T. Hyde.
North Armenian—Drs. Bacon, .S. T.. Seelye
Revs. S. Wolcott; IL P. Arms, J. R. Herrick, E.
H. Greeley, T. Dwight Hunt.
Tamil—Drs. Brainerd, Willard Child, A. Rich
ards, Dimon; Revs. W. H. Bidwell, J. T. Mc-
Collum, J. C. Thatcher.
Syria and Greece—Prof. W. S. Tyler, Hon. W.
J. Hubbard, Dr. Gee. S. Boardman, Jas. Barrett,
Revs. Jeremiah Taylor, C. H. Leach, A. H. Twom
bl Es,.