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Engraving of Dr. Worcester.

schools for females, in villages near the station, and when it was in contemplation to admit several persons, the first fruits from the heathen in this place, to the ordinance of baptism and the Lord's supper, she observed, "that if she saw those two objects accomplished, she should be ready to say with Simeon, Now lettest thou, &c. She witnessed the latter the day before her last sickness com. menced. The schools had been previously established.

During the time of her remarks on the subjects abovementioned, she was more free from pain, than she had been for several days before. Her mind was composed and active as usual; though on account of her weakness of body, she was obliged often to desist from speaking and take cordials.

After lying quiet for some time, she requested me to bring from her writing desk, her covenant, which she wished to have read. This paper I discovered, for the first time, a few weeks previous to her last illness. It contains a formal dedication of herself to God, and an enumeration of the blessings she wished him to bestow upon her. Having read the covenant, she observed, "The Lord has been faithful on his part: he has done all things well; but I have been unfaithful; I have many times broken my engagements: I have forfeited all claim to the blessings of the covenant; yet it is a covenant well ordered in all things and sure." "Yes," said she, (repeating the words of the covenant,) "He does look down with pity upon his languishing, dying child; he does embrace me in his everlasting arms, &c." The date of this paper is Salem, Jan. 11th, 1811.

Towards evening Dr. Scudder returned from Manepy, in company with Mrs. Winslow. The brethren Scudder and Richards thought it their duty to inform us, that they could indulge little or no hope of her recov ery. She received this information with a smile, observing, "that it was a confirmation of her own opinion." A new excitement ap: peared to be given to her mind. "Now," said she; "I think I can see my children once more; where are they?" After they were called in, she gave each of them a parting embrace and kiss, and made some observations similar to those already related. She then commended them to God, in a fervent prayer, beginning with "Lord Jesus, receive these Lambs," &c. In this prayer, she expressed much confidence in the belief that God would not forsake them.

She then expressed a wish to have the servants called around her. As this occasioned some alarm, the native boys and girls connected with the family hastily entered, and filled the room. Addressing the servants in their own language, she told them that she should soon leave them. She reminded them of what she had often said to them, concerning their souls, and exhorted them to prepare for death, by turning from their idols, and by repentance and faith in Christ the only Savior. She spoke to the native school girls to the same effect. Then taking Nicholas, my native assistant, by the hand, she addressed him as a brother of the church;-pointed outhis duty and obligations to the heathen, and

exhorted him to do what he could to aid me
in the work of the mission. Afterwards she
took Niles and Jordan by the hand, (two na-
tive boys who joined the church on the pre-
ceding Sabbath,) and addressed them in Ta
mul as her children, and as babes in Christ;
solemnly warned them against drawing back;
encouraged them to persevere; and expressed
a hope that she should meet them at the
right hand of Christ. Both of them were
deeply affected The other boys appeared
desirous of taking her hand; but as she was
then quite exhausted, she told Nicholas, to go
and address them in her name. She again ex-
pressed her belief, in strong terms, that God
would soon visit the heathen in mercy. She
prayed fervently for their salvation and for the
prosperity of Zion.

Soon after, in the course of the evening, she gave many directions concerning the temporal affairs of the family and station. He mind continued to be in a sweet and heavenly frame. Frequently she would abruptly exclaim, "What a wonder, what a wonder, what a wonder! that even should have such joy and peace in this hour. It is more than I prayed for. I can say with brother Warren, Is this death? Yes, this is death. O that was a good exhortation which he sent to us. 'Be ye faithful unto death.' But I do not see the kind angel, whom he saw. Yet I can trust in Jesus." (To be continued.)

LAST NOTICES:-Palestine Mission.
LETTERS have recently been received from
Messrs. Parsons and Fisk, dated in November.

When Mr. Parsons wrote, in the early
part of that month, he was still at Syra,
where he had been afflicted with a severe fit
of sickness, during which, for a considerable
time, his life was in imminent danger. At the
time of writing, he was nearly restored; for
which gracious interposition of Providence
his numerous friends, and the friends of the
cause, will give thanks.

The letter of Mr. Fisk was dated at Smyr na, Nov. 27th. He had heard from Mr. Parsons at Scio, on his way to Smyrna, three day's before. On meeting they would fix upon a plan of operations for the winter. Particu lars hereafter.

THE ENGRAVING OF DR. WORCESTER, WHICH We mentioned at the close of our last number, is now published. We are happy to say, that the likeness is pronounced to be good, by those to whom the countenance of the deceased was familiar. It is sufficient to repeat, that the price is one dollar, and that the whole avails are applied to the benefit of a deserving family, to whom the Christian public are under peculiar obligations.

As the copies are sold by booksellers, and other agents, without any charge or compensation, all orders for the engraving should be accompanied with the money.

The above is for sale at Mr. Armstrong's bookstore, Boston;-at the office of John Punchard, Esq. Salem;-and at various other places, where they are deposited by Mr. Punchard, who has kindly undertaken the superintendence of this business.

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REPORT OF THE PRUDENTIAL COMMIT

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(Continued from p. 71.)

RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES.

DURING the year, which closed Aug. 31, 1821, the amount of donations received by the Treasurer in money was $46,397 68, and from income of stock, &c. $1,572 47, making the whole pecuniary receipts $47, 970 15. Donations in articles of clothing, furniture, &c. for the various missions, principally those among the Indians of our own continent, have also been received to a very generous amount. Of 245 boxes, and packages, received by the Treasurer, or reported to him, by agents of the Board, since Sept. 20, 1820, an hundred and twenty six, were estimated by the donors respectively to contain articles worth $7,388 74. If the remaining one hundred and nineteen boxes and packages be valued at the

particulars of which will appear in the Treasurer's account herewith presented. The amount of these payments is more than $10,000 less than the estimate, as laid before the public in the Report of last year. This reduction of contemplated expendi tures was made from necessity; as the receipts during the former part of the year upon the Treasury; and the operations of were very small, compared with the drafts the Board suffered great embarrassment, and were threatened with still severer calamities. The missions among the Indians, and especially that in the Choctaw nation, suffered most. It was disappointed in its expected resources from the government, the north, and in the delay experienced in in regard to the supplies to be purchased at obtaining the articles of clothing, &c. as well as by having its drafts on the Treasury curtailed. These disappointments were felt the more deeply, as contracts had been made for carrying forward the buildings at Mayhew; and the expectations of the natives, that a school would be opened speedily, could not be restrained without difficulty and hazard. The anxiety felt by all their multiplied labors and responsibiliMr. Kingsbury and his associates, amidst ties, naturally excites deep regret. The life of a faithful missionary must of course be a continuation of strenuous activity. It should be the part of his fellow Christians joyments of well-regulated society, to see at home, while in possession of all the enthat he is not compelled to lose any portion of his strength for the want of requi

same rate, their contents will be $6,978 26. Probably, however, these last were not, on an average, so valuable as those which were estimated by the donors; but as a considerable number of boxes, of which no intelligence was communicated to the Treasurer by the donors, were received at the mission stations, there is no danger of an extravagant estimate, if we suppose the value of all the donations in these articles to exceed, in a small degree, the amount of the two sums last mentioned. To this amount is to be added the articles of clothing and provisions, contributed princi-site supplies. pally in Ohio, and shipped by the mission | boat from Marietta, valued at $1,431 77, || Committee have it in their power to acIt is with lively satisfaction, that the making an aggregate of $15,798 76 in cloth-knowledge the relief which the Treasury ing, provisions, and a great variety of useful articles, almost the whole of which were for missions among the American Indians. There is no doubt that these donations, taking into account the expense of trans-bless, were frank and repeated disclosures portation, are worth at least the sum here -estimated. The receipts of the year may therefore be stated, in round numbers, at $48,000 in money, and 16,000 in various articles; $64,000 in the whole.

The payments from the Treasury, within the same period, were $46,771 61; the VOL. XVIII.

experienced during the latter part of the year. In doing this, they would humbly ascribe all the favor to the Lord of missions. The means, which he condescended to

of the necessities of the several missions, aided by appeals from the missionaries themselves, in behalf of the perishing heathens around them. The spirit, which was excited in many different places, seems to warrant the firm persuasion, that the Christian public of this country will not

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suffer the missionary cause to languish. Many individuals, who have regularly patronized this cause, are beginning greatly to enlarge their benefactions. The importance of the object is continually increasing in their eyes. They are willing to labor hard, and to practice rigorous economy, that they may be able to give considerable sums for the diffusion of the Gospel. If the same disposition should be extended to the members of our churches generally, most abundant resources would be furnished for sending heralds of salvation into every heathen country; while the flourishing state of religion would indicate, that the only sure way of obtaining happiness, is by laboring to communicate it to others.

These

The Committee have had repeated occasion, in preceding Reports, to acknowledge the fruits of female benevolence. fruits have recently been exhibited, to a very pleasing extent, in the provision which has been made, and is making to furnish articles of clothing, furniture, stationary, &c. for the different missions and schools. From the collections of this kind now preparing, and which are not included in the preceding estimate, very considerable shipments will be made, it is hoped, during the ensuing autumn. The Board and the Christian public are apprized, that the articles forwarded in consequence of these collections, can be sold to the natives, when not required for the comfort of the mission families and schools; and that this sale, or rather exchange, of valuable property for labor, or articles of food, is highly beneficial to both parties.

While recounting the exertions, made within a few months past, to increase the resources of the Board, it seems proper to mention the meetings held in Boston for this purpose, under the auspices of the Foreign Mission Society of Boston and the Vicinity. At these meetings several gentlemen of respectability, who had resided at Calcutta, for commercial purposes, bore most decided testimony to the good effects of missions, in that great capital, which is perhaps the most important city of the pagan world. The result of these meetings is not to be estimated by the subscriptions, which they occasioned, to the amount of about two thousand dollars, but rather by the more general interest, which was excited, and the favor which was obtained for the missionary cause.

CONCLUDING REMARKS.

After thus directing the attention of the Board to the missions under its care; to the various means of meliorating the condition of the heathen world; and to many topics of gatitude and encouragement

which the history of the past furnishes; the Committee would close their Report with the following considerations.

that

The Christian church is urgently invited to enter vigorously upon the work of missions by the fact, hitherto unparalleled, many pagan countries are now soliciting missionaries, and anxiously desiring their arrival. Not only are the inhabitants of these countries in perishing want of evangelical instruction; but they are in some degree sensible of their ignorance and their wretchedness. They stretch out their imploring hands to those, who are blessed with the true religion, and ask that this greatest of blessings may be imparted to them. Thus, while the fields already occupied imperiously demand more laborers, other fields of still greater extent spread themselves before the eye, and are ripe for the sickle. How painful is it, that the gathering of this spiritual harvest should be delayed. No disciple of Christ should consent to a delay in this momentous concern of a world's recovery; unless, after a diligent examination of the subject, it shall appear that a delay is unavoidable.

There are laborers enough.

In conducting such an examination, it is important to bear in mind, that, so far as our own country is concerned, there are young men and women, in sufficient numbers, and of the requisite qualifications, to fill every department of missionary labor. By sufficient numbers the Committee intend such an accession to those who are already employed, as would strengthen every mission, and make new establishments with every returning year. If this regular increase were made, and the work were to proceed abroad in geometrical progression, we need not be apprehensive lest the churches should languish at home. The thought is not to be entertained for a moment, that obedience to the great injunction of our Savior, which was given, immediately before his ascension, would diminish our spiritual privileges, or bring upon our Christian community his displeasure. In regard to the past, the matter of fact is apparent. Never before were half so many young men in a course of education for the ministry among ourselves, as at the present time; and it may be safely asserted, that hundreds of these young men were first led to think of becoming preachers of the Gospel, by the interest which they felt in missions to the heathen, and by the effect of these missions in exposing the wants and miseries of the greater part of the world, dead in sin, without God and without hope. Facts of a similar character have recently existed in Great Britain, and on the continent of Europe. The at

tempt to send salvation to remote pagans has proved as life from the dead to many slumbering churches; and from the very nature of Christianity, the same results must be expected, till there shall be no ignorance abroad to be enlightened, and no lukewarmness at home from which professed Christians are to be aroused. Let it ever remain, then, fixed and settled in the mind, that there are in our country young men enough to carry forward the work of missions to an indefinite extent; young men of undoubted piety, qualified to rank high in their several callings, as evangelists, pastors, founders of rising churches, translators of the Bible, directors of the press, physicians, magistrates of colonies in their incipient state, teachers of children and youth, husbandmen, mechanics of every useful occupation, and seamen of every class, from the experienced navigator, who can guide his gallant ship in unknown seas, to the hardy sailor, who is willing to buffet the waves of every ocean, and run the hazard of every climate. Persons of all these descriptions stand ready, and wait only for the word from our churches to go forth into all lands, and proclaim the unsearchable riches of Christ to the ends of the world.

There is ability to support them.

If the inquiry be made, whether the people of the United States are able to send forth such a number of missionaries, as the heathen nations seem to demand from us, the answer must be in the affirmative. We profess, as a people, to receive Christianity; and it is not common to hear infidelity openly avowed. A great multitude scattered throughout our extensive empire, profess to have evidence of a personal interest in the promises of the Gospel; and this multitude embraces many individuals of great wealth, a more numerous class who possess competent fortunes, and a class still more numerous, composed of persons, who, in consequence of their activity and industry, are capable of imparting a continual and powerful impulse to any beneficent exertions, in which they should be generally and heartily engaged. Could not such a Christian community achieve wonders in the work of benevolence, compared with which all that the world has yet witnessed would appear small and unworthy of the cause? There are many ways of estimating our ability as a people, in all of which no man can avoid coming to the same result; viz. that the process of enlightening mankind by the Gospel, could be carried on by us to an extent, which should leave all present exertions out of comparison and out of remembrance. When it is considered how

much a nation will cheerfully pay, through a long series of years, to support a war, and to discharge a debt imposed by war; when the millions annually wasted in the consumption of spirituous liquors are computed; and when the numerous other millions, expended in the thousand modifications of extravagance, are taken into the estimate, to what an astonishing sum would the whole amount; and how would it change the moral face of the world, if brought by the willing hands, and accompanied by the fervent prayers, and applied by the collected wisdom, of such a community? If we take as a rule what is known to be paid to this great object, by a few individuals of enlarged benevolence, and suppose the same disposition were graciously imparted to the mass of professed Christians, we arrive at a similar conclusion. What an awful picture does it give of mankind, to reflect, that, even in Christian countries, it should be thought impossible to spend as much for the salvation of our fellow creatures, as is freely spent to effectuate their destruction. How strange that it should be deemed chimerical even to desire, that one tenth part as much should be appropri ated, to send the Bible and preachers of righteousness among the ignorant and destitute, as is actually spent to bring intemperance, misery, and pauperism among ourselves.

Effects of Christianity on converted pagans.

One of the first effects of the prevalence of Christianity among a people, who had hitherto been pagans, is, that they make great sacrifices to send the Gospel to other pagans. Having lately escaped from the bondage of Satan, they feel the greatness of their deliverance, and gladly aid in breaking off the manacles by which any of their fellow men are held. If the highly favored Christians of this country were to make sacrifices, in proportion to their numbers, and property, as the newly converted South sea islanders have done; -or the Esquimaux on the Labrador coast; -or the Hottentots of south Africa;-or the negroes of Sierra Leone;-a revenue would be furnished corresponding with the magnitude of the cause, and the claims which it has on the best affections of the heart. But is the enlightened Christian of Europe or America under less obligation to spread the Gospel, than the converted Esquimaux, or Otaheitan? And why

should he wish to be excused from a service, which is their glory, and their joy? a service more dignified in its nature, more beneficent in its aspect on mankind, and more acceptable to God, than any other service performed by men, since the creation of the world.

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Large funds easily managed.

If it should be suggested, that so vast an increase of funds, as is here supposed, would render the concerns of the Bible and Missionary Societies unwieldy and unmanageable, on account of their magnitude; let it be considered, that in the conduct of worldly affairs, whenever the hearts of millions are set upon the accomplishment of any object, the work does not stop for want of agents. The immense revenues, which are collected for war, do not fail of application from this cause. The opulent merchant can find factors to manage his hundreds of thousands annually, at the extremity of the globe. And shall it be said, that a vast Christian community, embracing in its limits so many gentlemen of tried character, of liberal education, of professional eminence, of practical knowledge, of unquestioned piety, cannot bring into concentrated operation, wisdom, and experience, and Christian integrity sufficient to make a faithful and judicious application of the resources placed at their disposal? We would not for a moment forget, that no missionary work can pros per, whatever may be the talents and attainments of its conductors, unless it enjoy the favor of God, But is it not as easy for God to provide faithful and competent agents at home, as to send faithful missionaries abroad?

The men to be selected for responsible stations in religious charitable societies.

great cause in which they are embarked, the unhesitating, uninterrupted confidence of the churches, and of the world around them. Whether the Committee, who make the present Report, shall have any further agency in this divine work, and what that agency shall be, is submitted to the disposal of Providence. The work itself must proceed, however, with accelerated steps, long after their feeble labors on earth shall have ceased. If any good shall have been effected by their instrumentality, to God would they unfeignedly ascribe all the praise; and most sincerely would they pray, that all who succeed them in this office, may greatly surpass them in every requisite qualification, and receive continual tokens of the divine presence and blessing.

Standard of Christian exertion.

It is to be always remembered, that the standard of Christian exertion is not to be taken from what the church has ever done, except in the apostolic age, nor from what is now doing in any part of Christendom; but from what the church is able to do; what the plainest dictates of benevolence require; and what the express command of Christ enjoins. In reference to this subject, as well as many others, we are not to count ourselves to have attained, but are bound rather to press forward. Glorious will be the days, and greatly are they to be desired, when all who profess to be disciples of the Savior, shall put forth their full and united powers, to extend that spiritual kingdom, which shall at length become universal.

Obligations of different classes, in relation to this work.

The design of converting the world has for several years been distinctly before the church. The indispensable duty of promoting this design has been clearly proved, in many different ways, and with irresisti ble force, The proof must have been brought home to many consciences, and taken hold of many hearts. At such a period, ignorance cannot be pleaded in extenuation of indifference. No person in a Christian country, endowed with common intelligence, can with propriety be ignorant of what God is doing for his peo

And here the Committee would earnestly solicit the prayers of the members of this Board, and of all who contribute to its funds, or desire its success, and of all who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity, that the persons who shall be designated at this meeting, or at any future time, to manage its growing concerns, may be qualified for this responsible station by eminent piety, zeal, industry, activity, and disinterestedness, Nor do we deem it out of place to suggest, as a subject of continual prayer among all friends to the promulgation of the Gospel, that the Lord of the harvest would select such laborers as HE will approve; and especially, that the higher and more responsible stations, in all our charitable, societies of a religious nature, may be held by men of God, desig-ple, and of what he has promised to do. nated with the full and hearty approbation of their brethren; men who seek not the offices, directly nor indirectly, but are sought for the offices; men, whom the Savior will honor, by making them the suc cessful instruments of his mercy, and who shall secure, not for their own gratification or distinction, but for the success of the

Every person must therefore be responsible for the part he takes, or neglects to take, in this great business. But upon those who possess influence in the church, and in the community, a peculiar weight of responsibility rests.

Ministers of the Gospel have it in their power to do more than any other class of

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