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William Crossfield,

Samuel,

Catherasy,

Carnatty,
Lydia,

July 21, 1831.
Harriet B. Meigs,
Mary Ann Poor,
F. E. Cooley,

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26 Manepy schoolmaster.
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Of these 117 have been connected with the boarding schools and seminary-30 schoolmas ters and superintendents--and 50 villagers, including some domestics. Of the last two classes, 30 are more than 40 years old-13 are over 50-one is seventy or upwards-and one above 80;-38 were females-11 have died7 have been excommunicated-8 or 10 were teachers in the seminary or the preparatory or female boarding school-12 were employed as readers and catechists-4 have been licensed to preach the gospel, and another was prevented only by sickness. All but six are natives.

The foregoing statements give occasion for several remarks.

1. The progress of this mission has been remarkably steady and encouraging, The Spirit of God soon gave success to the labors of the missionaries and the fruits of these labors have been thickening from year to year since. The first native received to the church as the fruit of the mission was Gabriel Tissera, Oct. 10th, 1819; three years after the commencement of the mission; and who, since the year 1821, has been a licensed preacher of the gospel. Since that period two hundred and four persons have been received-in 1819, four; 1820, three; 1821, nine; 1822, eight; 1823, five; 1824, eight; 1825, fortynine; 1826, ten; 1827, twelve; 1828, twenty; 1829, eight; 1830, six; 1831, sixty-two. Besides these several have died giving hopeful evidence of a change of heart, but without making a public profession of religion; of some of whom interesting biographies have been published in the Missionary Herald; and many others, giving similar evidence, have not yet joined the church. 2. No class of the heathen are beyond the reach of the gospel. More than half the converts have indeed been from the young; yet a sufficient number of adults, and even of the middle aged and the aged, have been gathered in to show that the opinion commonly expressed of the hopeless state of adult heathen is not warranted by experience.

3. This mission has been favored with seasons of special religious attention and inquiry, more nearly resembling the revivals in the American churches than any thing else to be found in the history of modern missions. Three periods have been particularly marked; one in the beginning of the year 1824, another near the close of that year, and a third at the close of the year 1830.

4. The divine blessing has obviously followed the labors bestowed and been proportioned to them. More than half of the 204 church members have been members of the seminary and

boarding schools. The missionaries from the several stations often visit these schools and set apart whole days for exhortation and personal religious conversation with the pupils. Such days have in nearly all cases been followed with increased seriousness and conversions.

5. These revivals have been obviously in answer to prayer. The first was traced to a day of fasting and prayer of the missionaries; the second to a communion season; and the third to a general missionary prayer meeting.

6. The history of this mission shows the benefit of concentrated action. The stated labors of the six missionaries, with the native preachers, and catechists, are principally limited to a populous district about ten miles square, which includes the five stations and nearly all the native free schools.

7. This church manifests a good degree of Christian activity and zeal. The youthful converts do much more for the direct promotion of religion among their own countrymen than is expected from individuals of the same age in a Christian country, and greatly aid the missionaries by distributing and reading portions of the Scriptures and religious tracts, and conducting religious meetings. Probably the missionaries can accomplish twice as much with their aid as they could do without it. They also contribute liberally, according to their means, to Bible and tract societies established among them.

8. The facts respecting this church afford much encouragement, as they show how the gospel may be propagated among the heathen by converted natives. This church already furnishes more than thirty Christian superintendents and teachers of native free schools, besides eight or ten who teach in the seminary and boarding schools, twelve or fourteen readers and catechists, and four or five preachers of the gospel; besides a theological class of 20 who are preparing for the ministry.

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AMERICAN MISSION CHAPEL AT BOMBAY.

THE above is a front view of the American Mission Chapel at Bombay, erected in the year 1823. The walls of the edifice are built of stone and mortar, and are plastered and white-washed. The chapel is 60 feet long, 35 wide, and 20 in height, with a verandah, or piazza, projecting ten feet from the two sides, and a portico in front. The verandahs are open, excepting the ends upon the street, which are walled up, as in the engraving. The main body of the house, with three doors, is seen behind the pillars of the portico in front. The chapel faces the north, and stands in the midst of a dense native population. The principal street of the city, running north and south, is distant only about a hundred feet westward. The native town extends more than half a mile on the north side of the chapel, and more than a mile on the south, and through the whole extent the houses, almost without exception, join each other.

The chapel was planned, and the erection of it gratuitously superintended, by Daniel West, Esq., a distinguished English architect then residing at Bombay, and cost about $3,900, exclusive of $600 paid for the land. Of this sum about $1,700 were contributed by friends of the cause in Calcutta and Bombay, and about $1,300 in this country, expressly for the chapel. The rest of the expense was defrayed from the general treasury of the Board. The building is neat and commodious, and has been a very important acquisition to the mission. It was solemnly dedicated to the worship of God on the 30th of May, 1823, and ever since there have been regular services in English and Mahratta. Schools are taught in the verandahs.

Somewhat more than a year since, Mr. Charles Theodore Huntridge, an inhabitant of Bombay, left a legacy for the support of public worship in this chapel amounting to 7,000 rupees, or more than 3,000 dollars.

The American Mission Chapel at Bombay was the first erected by Protestants in that part of India, for the purpose of accommodating the natives of the country with the regular ministrations of the gospel.

PART OF THE DYING APPEAL OF GORDON HALL, ONE OF THE FIRST AMERICAN MISSIONARIES TO BOMBAY, TO THE CHURCHES OF THE UNITED STATES.

THIS appeal was written by Mr. Hall in February, 1826, a few weeks before his death, and twelve years after the mission became establish

too will rejoice in them; and let us all praise the Lord for them.

But there is something in the weakness

ed in Bombay. The facts stated in the appeal of our nature, or in the deep subtlety of have not materially changed.

Beloved in the Lord, do you from Zion's most favored mount, turn a pitying, waiting, longing eye to this dark hemisphere, and ask, "Watchman, what of the night?" I am permitted to stand in the place of a watchman; but it is on a slender, incipient outwork, very far distant from the walls of Jerusalem. O that I may always be found vigilant and faithful at my post, and ready to give a true report.

I will send you tidings. In some respects they are joyous; but in others they are grievous. I see much around me that is joyous. If I turn back no farther than to the period of my own arrival on this spot, and survey but what seems to be our own neighborhood, much that is cheering greets the eye. Then from Cape Comorin through the whole range of sea coast by Cochin, Goa, Bombay, Surat, Cambay, Bussora, Mocha, and by Mosambique, including Madagascar, Mauritius and other Islands, to the Cape of Good Hope, there was not one Protestant missionary; if we except a native missionary who was for a short time, partially established at Surat.

But about three months ago, delegates from five missions met in the Bombay Mission Chapel, and formed a Missionary "Union to promote Christian fellowship, and to consult on the best means of advancing the kingdom of Christ in this country."

The individual missionary who constituted one of these missions, has since gone to England not to return, and therefore, for the present, that mission is extinct. To the other four belong nine missionaries, and two European assistant missionaries. These missions have two common printing establishments, and one lithographic press, consecrated to Christ as so many powerful engines for scattering abroad the light of life. These four missions have in operation about sixty schools, in which are more than 3,000 children, reading, or daily learning to read the word of God, and receiving catechetical instruction. The missionaries, some or all of them, are every day preaching Christ and him crucified to the heathen. The Scriptures and tracts are travelling abroad, and the word of God is working its way to immortal minds in every direction. Prayer is made, and the promises of Jehovah are laid hold on; while the means (missionaries excepted) of doing a thousand times more in similar ways for the cause of Zion here, are ready at hand. These are good things: and we rejoice in them. You

our adversary, which, even while we contemplate such good things, and are praising God for them, is exceedingly liable to practise a mortal mischief upon us, by so alluring and engrossing the mind with the little that is done or doing, as to render it seemingly blind to the almost all that still remains to be done. This brings us to the grievous part of the subject.

It is grievous to behold such an extent of country and so teeming with immortal souls, but yet so destitute of the messengers of life.

From Bombay, we look down the coast for seventy miles, and we see two missionaries; and fourteen miles farther on, we see two more. Looking in a more easterly direction, at the distance of about 300 miles, we see one missionary, chiefly_occupied, however, as a chaplain among Europeans. In an eastern direction, the nearest missionary is about 1,000 miles from us. Looking a little to the north of east, at the distance of 1,300 miles, we see ten or twelve missionaries in little more than as many miles in length on the banks of the Ganges. Turning thence northward, at nearly the same distance from us, we see three, four, or five more, separated from each other by almost as many hundred intervening miles. And looking onward bevond these distant posts, in a northeast direction, through the Chinese empire and Tartary, to Kamschatka, and thence down the northwestern coast of America, to the river Columbia, and thence across the mountains to the Missouri, the first missionaries we see, in that direction, are brethren Vaill and Chapman among the Osages.

Again we look north, and, at a distance of 180 miles, we see two missionaries; but from thence (with two or three doubtful exceptions) through all the north of Asia, to the pole, not a single missionary is to be seen. In a northwestern direction, it is doubtful whether there is now one missionary between us and St. Petersburgh. Westerly, the nearest is at Jerusalem, or Beyroot. Southwest, the nearest is at Sierra Leone; and more to the south, the nearest may be among the Hottentots, or on Madagascar.

Can you count the millions and millions comprised in this range? Can any but an adamantine heart survey them, and not be grieved?

I should like to see a new chart of the earth adjusted to a double scale of measurement, one shewing the comparative surface, and the other the comparative population, of the different sections of the earth-all presenting a black ground, except those

spots where the gospel is preached. And on a slip of white ground, 1 would have a note of reference to Mark xvi. 15, 16; and this I would have bound up in every Bible, so as to face the same divine charge of Christ to his disciples. It might be recommended to all church members, deacons, pastors, and teachers of theology, to add to the note on their map, Romans x. 14, 15, and Isaiah vi. 8, to the last clause; which latter clause I would have every student in theology, and every young believer of good talents and education, print on his chart in GRAND CAPITALS; preceded by, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?

As we must habitually set the Lord Jesus before us, or not expect his love will habitually constrain us; so must we habitually contemplate a fallen world, lying in the wicked one, or not expect that our hearts will be exercised with any proper sympathies for the perishing.

But I will take a more limited view. Here are the Mahrattas. They have been estimated at 12,000,000. To preach the gospel to these 12,000,000 of heathen, there are now six missionaries, four from the Scottish Missionary Society, and two from our Society, that is, one missionary to 2,000,000 of souls. And to furnish these 12,000,000 with the Christian Scriptures, and tracts, and school books, there is one small printing establishment. It is now about twelve years since the mission here began, in some very small degree, to communicate the truth to some of this great multitude. Let these facts be well weighed.

During those twelve years, the facilities for imparting Christian knowledge among this people, or for employing among them the appointed means of salvation, have so multiplied and improved, that I think it moderate to say, that a missionary arriving here now could, in an equal period, do ten times as much for the diffusion of Christian knowledge, as could have been done by one arriving here twelve years ago. Then there was no school in which to catechise and give lectures-no chapel-no Scriptures and tracts to disperse. Now we have a chapel-more than thirty school-rooms and the Scriptures and tracts for distribution-while hundreds of towns and villages, by all the eloquence and pathos that the most imperious want and the direst necessity can inspire, are supplicating for more mission schools-millions of people, calling for Scriptures, and tracts, and preaching and an untold number of large towns, in population like Boston, Cambridge, Andover, Providence, Dartmouth, Williamstown, New Haven, Albany, and Schenectady, calling for missionary establishments in them. If some of these places are not quite open for the reception of missionaries, others doubtless are, and all, we believe, will be by and by; while all are now open, in various ways, for the reception of Chris

tian books.

Under such circumstances, with such facilities, what number of Christian books might be prepared, printed, and distributed; what number of children taught to read the word of God, and catechised; and what number of perishing sinners pointed to the Savior's cross, in one year, if there were but a supply of missionaries! Is it not a grievous thing to witness such facilities for missionary action, lying comparatively neglected? Is not here a vast and fertile field broken up and ready for the casting in of the seed? And is not the seed already in the field waiting for the sowers to scatter it? What should we say of the farmer, who would turn away from such a field, and leave the seed in the field to perish unscat tered, and go to some comparatively desolate heath, where much must be done before even that can be prepared for the seed?

Surely no one can understandingly answer the question "where is it best to send missionaries?" without first duly considering the comparative population of the places in question, and the comparative facilities for imparting Christian knowledge to that population. On this score, I plead that justice may be shown to these 12,000,000 of heathen. Here I ground my plea. Let the facts speak. Twelve millions of your race are prostrate at your feet. You can need no delineation of their moral character. It is enough to know that they are your brethren, but are heathen-that they are idolaters and in ignorance of their Maker and their Redeemer; and that you can, if you will, send them the gospel. Their untold miseries supplicate you to open your hands, and give them that salva

The following facts, from the last report of our schools, show how extensively Christian knowledge might be diffused among a rising generation of idolaters, were there only a supply of missionaries and funds; and if but the Spirit of God were given, in answer to prayer, to seal upon the youthful wind such Christian instructions, what would not soon be accomplished.

Our number of schools at present is thirty-two. The number of children on the teachers' lists is 1,750. Of these 75 are girls, and 133 are Jewish children.

During the past year, as nearly as we can calcu late, 1,000 have left our schools, most of them having obtained what the natives esteem a sufficiently good school education. Among these, together with those who have left in former years, are many boys and young men, who can read with a fluency and propriety that would put to shame a great majority of the common brahmins. And the fact is peculiarly gratifying that, instead of having imbibed any prejudice against us, or our books, from the Christian instruction given in our schools, these very youth, and their relatives, wherever we meet with them in the country, are

of all others the most forward to receive, and read, and beg, the Christian scriptures and tracts. In not a few instances, fathers earnestly solicit them for their little sons.

During the year, about 786 children have committed to memory the Ten Commandinents, and 376 a Catechism of sixteen small piges. A much greater number have committed to memory parts of the same.

plications for additional schools; but shall be obliged

We continue to have numerous and urgent ap

to decline them, until we are furnished with larger funds, and more fellow-laborers.

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