perpetuate among the Heathen the endeared name of some Christian Friend, but who may wisely judge that the separation of promising Children from the habits and practices of a depraved population, is the most likely method, under the blessing of God, to train up Native Preachers of Truth and Righteousness. The little School of Kandean Children will plead powerfully with such persons for support and enlargement: so also will the Nellore and Baddagamme Stations all are in the midst of Heathens, from whose evil example the Missionaries would gladly withdraw as many Children as Christian Benevolence may enable them to do, in order to their being brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. A considerable reduction has taken place in the Schools: in the former Survey, they were stated at 84 Schools, containing 4878 Scholars, under 160 Teachers: the last Report states them at 63 Schools, containing 3335 Scholars, under 84 Teachers. On this subject, the Committee say This has arisen from the extension of the Schools beyond the means for their support placed at the disposal of the Missionaries by the Coinmittee. The sum allowed, for this important department, is One Thousand Pounds per annum: beyond which, in the present state of the Funds and in justice to the claims of other Missions, the Committee could not go. This has occasioned a considerable part of the reduction, and it has been increased by the ravages of epidemic disorders. In no instance has it arisen from any change in the disposition of the Native Parents to have their Children instructed in useful knowledge and Christian principles united. Mr. Clough remarks on the necessity of visiting the people The conviction is daily strengthened in my mind, that our duty as Missionaries in heathen lands, is by no means done, when we have attended to the improvement, of the children in their books, and have preached to them and their parents. The principal part of the work to be done is in going from house to house, and having personal intercourse with the people. In this respect, the RomanCatholic Missionaries are an honour to their character: they go from house to house, as well as from village to village: and, however little I might be disposed to admire their proceedings in other respects, I certainly do in this: and I will not deny, that this is one reason why they carry all before them almost in this country.. NEGOMBO. Twenty miles north of Colombo-Inhabitants WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. W. A. Lalmon, Assistant. From a communication of Mr. Newstead, dated Jan. 15, 1822, we collect the following view of the Mission at Negombo, with which he has been chiefly connected: Our Schools have afforded me real pleasure. Several of the Native Teachers have well repaid our pains; though, in many, we have been disappointed. In four years we have had, in all, 17 Schools established, including about 700 Boys and 200 Girls: these have all received some Christian Instruction, and are scattered round the neighbourhood, in some measure, we would hope, be The Committee thus Report the general nefitted by our labours. At present, 11 Schools state of the Mission: It continues to support the hope of extensive usefulness; and, though not without exercises of difficulty and discouragenients, is gradually, producing a striking and most beneficial change in the sentiments and conduct of both the Professed Christian and the Pagan Population. The Missionaries themselves writeThe rapid progress making by the Brethren in the languages of the country, is a matter of sincere congratulation. We are laying aside our interpreters; and in at least four or five different languages, are constantly employed in making known the riches of Divine Grace: while a still increasing number are daily hearing the Gospel; and are giving manifest proofs of their love to the ways of God. The Press has not only been occupied with the Cingalese Old Testament, but has completed several works, and particularly Mr. Clough's Cingalese and English Dictionary. Mr. Fox says of this Dictionary – It forms a very handsome octavo volume of 612 pages. It will be of incalculable use in translating, especially from English. It contains, according to my calculation, about 45,000 words. Colombo Station. W. B. Fox, B. Clough, Missionaries. In this Station there are 98 Members, 8 Schools, 510 Scholars, and 18 Catechists and Teachers. The Congregations and Members were increasing; and a growth in pioty and zeal had been latterly observed among the Schoolmasters, (inclusive of the two in the Kandian Territories, are in existence, which are tolerably efficient: they contain about 400 Boys and 86 Girls. We have 54 persons in society, chiefly our elder Scholars and their Parents; and 24 on trial. Our Congregations often grieve us: there is an incorrigible apathy prevalent among them, and it is difficult to prevail upon them to attend the House of God. Our faithful few at Negombo are ever present, and often express their joy at hearing the Word. Chapels have been built in the villages of Seedua, Tempale, and Chilaw, chiefly by local contributions: that at Tempale cost 221 rix-dollars, and that at Chilaw 411. Of Chilaw, it is said The people are, in general, very friendly; and have no Means of Grace but such as we conduct among them: and as there is no resident Priest among the Roman Catholics, though they have a Church, we do not calculate on that excessive opposition which we have ever had to encounter at Negombo, where two or three reside, and constantly threaten all who approach either our Chapel or our School. On the cost of the Mission Premises, brick was looking for a retired place in Mr. Newstead says Kandy, in order, as he writes -that I may get among the Natives as much as possible, and converse with them on their own affairs; mingiing, as the Lord may enable me, the good news of Salvation by a Crucified Saviour. The whole has been raised at a far less expense than could have been calculated on, in so remote a situation. A large Mission House and Chapel, with a terraced viranda fifty feet long, with two ranges of detached offices, a large shool-room, and garden well fenced in, have been completed for a sum not exceeding 3300 rix-dollars, out of which, I trust, we shall only have to bring the cost of the out-mentioned in the last Survey, was, for the buildings on our fund. Great assistance had been rendered by Government, and liberal contributions from the British Resident and other Gentlemen. Under these circumstances, the plan of a permanent Establishment at Kandy, present at least, relinquished. It was proposed to erect temporary buildings; and to establish there a Press, which had arrived from home, with a Fount of English Types; a Cingalese Fount being expected from Calcutta. Mr. Lambrick visited Colombo in Fe. The School had been increasing; and was likely still further to increase, as it was countenanced by the Kandian Chiefs.bruary, for the purpose of laying before Sir Edward Paget the state and prospects of the Mission; and proceeded to BaddaAbout 80 miles east-north-east of Colombo-con-gamme, to confer thereon with his Brethren. sists of one principal street, about two miles long. On his return, Mr. and Mrs. Browning with many branches. KANDY. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 1818. took, in April, the same route, for the relief of Mrs. Browning's mind, depressed by the loss of their infant, and for the re S. Lambrick, T. Browning, Missionaries.storation of her health: at Colombo, they In the early part of last year, Mr. Lambrick was disengaged, by the arrival of another Chaplain, from all pastoral relation to the Europeans at Kandy; and received the thanks of Government for his exem were hospitably entertained, for some time, by their friend Sir Richard Ottley. Four Orphan Boys were under the care of the Missionaries. The Girls were dismissed during Mrs. Browning's absence: she returned in good health, and was about to collect her Scholars. The Master of the Boys' School established in Kandy had proved unfaithful, and was dismissed. The two Village Schools were continued, and afforded a medium of intercourse with the Natives. The Caffre Drummer, mentioned in the Survey of 1821, and baptized Nov. 12, 1820, the first-fruits of this Mission, gives the Missionaries much pleasure by his simple and consistent course as a Christian. Mr. The Missionaries are anxious to obtain a translation, both of the Scriptures and the Liturgy, in a style more generally intelligible than the present Versions. Lambrick having endeavoured to prepare some portion of Scripture in such a Version, the Committee have recommended the printing of a single Gospel, in the first instance, in order to ascertain the acceptableness of such a translation to the Cingales Population. plary discharge of that duty. Becoming free, in consequence, to devote themselves to the direct objects of the Mission, the Missionaries turned their attention to the best means of benefitting the Kandians. Kandy itself, on the grounds stated in the last Survey, had been found but little favourable to the instruction of the proper Kandians: to the grounds there stated, it may be added, that, the river nearly surrounding the town, and the great body of the neighbouring Natives living in scattered villages beyond the river, free intercourse with them from Kandy is greatly obstructed. Residence in the midst of the Natives, where no English is spoken, would promote the more rapid and perfect acquisition of the colloquial language, while it would enable the Missionaries to conciliate the regard of the people and promote their instruction. An eligible place presented itself, Anamapoora, about nine miles from Kandy; in the neighbourhood of which two Schools had been opened, in the latter part of 1821, at the Villages of Embilmegama and Danture, on the request of the people. His Excellency Sir Edward Paget is desirous to promote, in every way which he deems practicable, the propagation of Christianity in the Island; but the British Resident at Kandy not judging it safe or expedient that the Missionaries should settle out of the reach of military protection, the plan was relinquished, and Mr. Lam-couraging. These which we have been able to re CALTURA. A village about 27 miles south of Colombo. - WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. John M'Kenny, James Sutherland, Missionaries. dren, and 9 Masters and Catechists. In January, Mr. M'Kenny writes This Station has 6 Schools, 329 Chil The visitation of our Schools has been very en | tain, on the present scale of allowance, in general promise well. The work of the Mission goes forward with regularity. Weekly Prayer-Meetings were established in the latter part of 1821, in the houses of many of the principal Dutch and Portuguese, with great advantage: many, particularly Servants, are thus brought to hear the Word of God, who would not otherwise bear it. At the Annual Collection, about 60 rix-dollars were contributed. In September 1821, the Mission House was in imminent danger from fire: the Chapel and School would almost inevitably have followed; but God mercifully averted the calamity. BADDAGAMME. A Village 12 or 13 miles from Galle. CHURCH MISSIO NARY SOCIETY. 1819. Robert Mayor, Benj. Ward, Missionaries. places Schools had been earnestly requested, and would be established when provision could be made for their being duly taught and visited. The labours of the Missionaries have, indeed, been much extended in this department, by the superintendance of nearly Forty Government Schools in the Districts of Galle and Matura, which they undertook from the 1st Day of last year, at the request of the Rev. Mr. Glenie, Principal of Government Schools, whe anxiously wishes to render all the Schools under his care the means of diffusing Chris tian Knowledge among the people. The field of usefulness opened to the Missio naries by these Schools may be judged of by Mr. Ward's statements. He writes These Schools have been established by Govern. ment for many years, but have always been inefficient, from want of regular superintendance. They extend over all this and the adjoining District, and are situated in the most populous vil lages. Two Masters are attached to each School, many of whom are, at present, very ignorant of the Christian Religion: we are directing our first care to them; trusting that they will become the regular The Missionaries have been pursuing only to the rising generation, but to the people of channels for conveying religious knowledge, not their usual course of labour. The Gar- their respective villages. These Schools will give rison Duty of Galle, though encouraging us access to many thousand Natives: they will increase our influence, and will afford us many more in its effects, was found to interfere so opportunities of preaching the Gospel and of disgreatly with the direct work of the Mis-tributing the Scriptures and Tracts than we could sion, that they had requested to be relieved of the charge. In February, the Church was nearly finished: the difficulty of erecting it may be judged from the fact, that 700lbs. of Gunpowder were required to blast the rock for the foundation. Mr. Mayor says of it It will contain 400 persons, and is so constructed that a Gallery may be added without inuch expense. It is built of stone; and will remain, I doubt not, a monument to future ages of the day when the Sun of Righteousness first arose upon this benighted village; and of that compassion with which the Saviour has inspired British Christians toward the deluded Natives of Ceylon. It is the first Church which has ever been erected in the interior of this Island, for the sole benefit of the Cingalese. The House, which is inhabited by both the Mission Families, consists of six rooms, with an enclosed verandah and a centre room: three rooms are occupied by each Family, and the verandah and centre room are common to both. Offices and storerooms form a separate building. Public Worship is attended by upward of 100 Children and from 20 to 100 Adults. The Missionaries have resolutely set their faces against that prevalent abuse of the Sacred Ordinance of Baptism, which has led to the degradation of the Christian Name; and admit the Children of those persons only who attend the Public Wor ship of the True God, or those Children who regularly frequent the Mission Schools. The Schools were increasing both in number and in attendance. In various have had without them. Were, we, indeed, but competently qualified in the languages, and could but expose ourselves to the sun, we might spend our days, like the first Great Missionary, the Lord from Heaven, in travelling from village to village, preaching the things which concern the Kingdom of God. Mission was given at pp. 525 and 526 of A report of the state and prospects of the our last Volume; and much information, relative to the Schools and to the condition of the Heathen, will be found in the Twenty-second Report and its Fifteenth Appendix. On the advantages of their situation, Mr. Mayor adds Our Station has, in every respect, answered our expectations. It has proved exceedingly healthy has afforded us very ready access to the Natives, and gives us an influence among them which we establish a School for Females, the regular daily should not otherwise have had-has enabled us to attendance of whom averages 60-and brings round us on the Sabbath, to hear the Word of God, a greater number, I believe, of Adult Heathen than assemble at any other Station on the coast. The Committee remark Experience has taught the Missionaries to view appearances of success with much caution. One or two Adults had awakened hope concerning them; worldly-mindedness which characterize this people. but they soon sunk hack into the apathy and The gross darkness which hangs over them, is, how ever, gradually dispersing; but patience must here have her perfect work, until the arm of the Lord be revealed. In this spirit, the Missionaries say→→ We have need of patience; and we desire, rather that our Brethren every where should unite with us in earnest prayer for the manifestation of the Divine Glory in these benighted regions, than that they should raise the voice of triumphant praise as though the Kingdom of God and of his Christ were already established among us. MATURA. A Village about 100 miles south-south-east of WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Alexander Hume, Missionary. Don Corn de Silva Wijesingha, Assistant. There are on this Station, 9 Schools, 498 Children, and 12 Masters and Catechists. Mr. Hume, in October 1819, thus speaks of his Mission: The last three months have been the most encouraging which I have yet had in this place. To all of you who are in any degree acquainted with the Maturians, their proverbial profligacy, their rooted superstition, and devotedness to the worship of demons and innumerable deities, it will be gratifying to hear, that, at length, upon some even of these the Gospel of Christ is manifesting its energy. On the third of this month, we celebrated the Lord's-Supper, when we had Nine Natives present. After the many forbidding appearances and melancholy reflections, with which during the last two years I bave been distracted, to see this little flock, gathered out of so unpromising a wild, assembled with me to commemorate the love of Jesus, could not fail to rouse the languid expectation, that the wilderness would yet blossom, and the barren desert would yet repay the labours of the husbandman. At Belligam, where Cornelius has been since the beginning of the year, our work, amidst much tribulation, is gaining ground. Tamul Division. BATTICALOE. 61 This Station has 4 Schools, 304 Children, and 5 Masters. Applications for New Schools have been declined from want of funds. An Obituary of Abraham, the Head Schoolmaster, was printed at pp. 489 and 490 of our last Volume. tion, so much injury from the violence of The New Chapel received, in its erecthe weather, that the damage exceeds 2007. TILLIPALLY. 1816. Daniel Poor, Jas. Richards, Missionaries. BATTICOTTA. 1817. B. C. Meigs, H. Woodward, Missionaries. OODOOVILLE. Miron Winslow, Missionary. PANDITERIPO. John Scudder, M.D. Missionary. Levi Spaulding, Missionary. Mr. Woodward had left Tillipally for the New Station at Manepy, in the early part of 1821. Mr. Poor being deprived of his Wife, by the death of that excellent Woman in May of that year, Mr. and Mrs. Richards removed from Batticotta on the 25th of June, to join him at Tillipally. A Town on the east coast, about 60 miles from Mr. Woodward's health failing soon after Joseph Roberts, Missionary. We have usually placed Batticaloe in the Cingalese Division of the Island, but as Tamul is chiefly spoken it seems properly to belong to that Division. Mr. Roberts had acquired Tamul at Jaffna: the Natives hear him with pleasure in their own tongue. There are 4 Schools, 136 Children, and 4 Masters. TRINCOMALEE. A Town on the north-east coast. WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Rob. Carver, Jos. Bott, Missionaries. he went to Manepy, he was advised to try the effect of a voyage; and embarked, accordingly, for Madras, on the 12th of September: at Madras, Captain Chapman, of the Woodford, willingly gave him a free the pleasure to sail with Mr. Ward: on his passage to Calcutta, in which ship he had return to Ceylon, at the beginning of last year, he joined Mr. Meigs at Batticotta. In contemplation of Mr. Woodward's voy. age, Mr. Spaulding had taken his place at Manepy; removing, August 25, 1821, from Oodooville. The licensing of Dr. Scudder to preach was noticed at p. 523 of our Volume for 1821 and in the last Survey: he was ordained, according to the practice of his Church, at Jaffna, May 15, 1821. and bid fair to be extensively useful in preaching Christ to their perishing countrymen. While Mr. Woodward was at Calcutta, he frequently visited Mr. and Mrs. Schmid at the Female Asylum over which they preside. His affectionate and impressive labours to benefit the Children are spoken of by Mr. Schmid with gratitude: they were not without evidence of a manifest blessing. A very interesting view of the state of the Mission, furnished by Mr. Woodward to his friends at Calcutta, was printed at pp. 521-525 of our last Volume. The Meetings which are held daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly, connected with the personal piety and the work of the Missionaries, are described in those pages, and deserve the imitation, so far as circumstances will allow, of all other Mission Families: the course of labour also among the people, and the method pursued with the Children and Youth, and the good prospects in this department of the Mission, will have been read with pleasure. A constant course of instruction is pursued in the Places of Worship and in visits among the people. The Communicants were 27, of whom 13 were Missionaries and their Wives; the rest being chiefly Native Converts, the fruits of the Mission. In 25 Schools, each having from 20 to 50 Scholars, the total would, of course, average 875 besides these Schools, distant generally one or two miles from the Stations, there are Four Boarding Schools, in which 90 Children named after their Benefactors are maintained and educated. The blessing of God has evidently attended these Schools, as it has done those of the Church Missionary Society at Sierra Leone. At Tillipally, in particular, from the time of Mrs. Poor's death, who had taken a very affectionate interest in the Young Natives under the care of the Missionaries, the gracious influences of the Holy Spirit appear to have rested on many, and especially on some of the Elder Boys and Girls: Seven Girls came to Mr. Poor under serious concern for their eternal salvation: he himself seems to have been much awakened to feel the need of the special power and grace of the Holy Spirit, and to have been stirred up to earnest prayer for His blessing. Of the Elder Youths, the Missionaries say Since the commencement of this Mission, ten persons have been added to our Church, Nine of whom are Young Men of promising piety and talents; and who, we hope, will hereafter be Preachers of the everlasting Gospel. The dealings of God with us thus far, give us encouragement to hope, that, in a few years, we shall have a number of Native Preachers. Of the three Young Natives, above named, who have been appointed ers, the Missionaries report The intercourse of the Children with their relatives is under proper regulation ; and, in the case of those who become truly religious, is likely to be beneficial, as will appear from the following extract of one of the Journals: July 1, 1821, Sunday.-The Boys and Girls in the Boarding School visit their friends once a month. Those who live near go and return the same day : others are absent longer; the time of their absence being regulated by the distance at which their friends live and the frequency of their going home. When the Girls came in this evening, to take leave preparatory to going home to-morrow morning, two of them repeated, of their own accord, the substance of several chapters of St. John's Gospel, which has been for a short time past their reading-book in the School: they gave me a particular account of their conversation with their friends when they visited them last month; and requested permission to go together to visit each other's friends, and to take St. John's Gospel to read to them: they also requested, that, on Saturday Afternoons, they might go into the village here, and converse with the Girls and Women of their acquaintance. One of the Missionaries appears to have Children useful, which is well worthy of adopted a plan of rendering the Elder imitation. He addresses Letters to the Inhabitants of the Village near him, explaining the objects of the Mission, the motives which actuate the Society and the Missionaries, the manner in which the Funds are raised, the kind wishes and earnest prayers of Christians for the salvation of the people, the nature of that Salvation, and the need in which they stand of it, with other topics calculated to affect and enlarge their minds. These Letters are copied by the Boys in the School: and are circulated, at intervals, among the people, not without a manifest influence upon their minds. The Missionaries maintain an affectionate intercourse with the fellow-labourers of other Societies, who are stationed near them; and cherish toward such as they may see but occasionally, those kind feelings which adorn the Christian Character, Of a visit paid them by Mr. Lambrick and Mr. Ward, when attending at Nellore the Annual Meeting of the Church Missionaries, it is said We feel much strengthened in our work, by op. portunities of personal acquaintance with such fellow-labourers. We earnestly desire and pray that the Church Missionary Society may be able to send forth many such labourers into the widely extended harvest, which is wasting, because it is fully ripe and the reapers are very few. Under the temporary embarrassments of the Board, the Missionaries conclude their Journal with the following disinterested and strong appeal: We are much distressed to hear of the pecuniary embarrassments of the Board, and regret exceed Preachingly to be obliged to draw so often and so largely They adorn the profession which they have made, upon their funds. To do what we can to lighten the expense, we have resolved to attempt living on |