Bassein and to his labors in the Burmese department, he thus speaks of his connection with the Karen work.

"The above summary shows but in part what our work has been since we returned to Bassein. Br. Scott, on account of the failure of his wife's health, and no prospect of her being able to return to Bur mah, decided to join her in the United States. In accordance with instructions which he had received from the Society, in case he should return, he decided to sell all the property in Bassein belonging to the Free Mission Society, and transfer the superintendence of the mission to other hands. At the urgent solicitation of the Sgau Karen pastor and br. Scott, I took oversight of the property, apparatus, funds, &c. pertaining to the Sgau Karen Industrial Institute. This school was established, and for a number of years most vigorously and successfully conducted by br. Beecher; and after he left, by br. Scott. For the past six years it has annually received one thousand five hundred rupee of 'grant in aid' from the English Government. The Sgau Karer churches have annually furnished for the school about four thousand rupees, and there have been constantly in the school two and three native teachers, and from eighty to one hundred and forty pupils."

"As most of the eighty-seven pupils in our Burmese school wer day pupils, and we had no care of their board or government excep during school hours, and as the one hundred and five pupils in the Karen school all boarded and lodged on the mission grounds, that we might have them constantly under our watch-care, we moved the early part of July into the house erected by br. Beecher. From that tim until the first of November, my wife gave her entire time to the instruc tion of the Karen girls in the school. Miss De Wolfe also heard som of the classes recite in their English studies. For four months after w took the oversight of the Karen school, I taught and lectured in the tw schools six hours each day. I also superintended the Sabbath-school preached in Burmese on the Sabbath, preached in the Karen chapel or Wednesday, preached to the Burmese church on Friday evenings, and gave instruction in singing or conducted a religious meeting every other evening in the week. Following this routine, you may judge how much time I have had for writing letters or furnishing articles for the peri odicals."

"Our work has been very pleasant. The Karen pastors, teachers and pupils, have given us every aid and every mark of affection tha we could possibly desire, and before the school term closed, we receive a long communication signed by all the teachers and the leading pastors entreating us to remain permanently in charge of the school and the educational department of the mission. At the meeting of the Con vention held here the first week in November, arrangements were com pleted for br. and sister Carpenter to remove from the Karen Theolog ical Seminary in Rangoon to Bassein, and take charge of the school and also of the entire Sgau Department of the mission."

"Soon after the meeting of the Convention, we returned to our ol house, and are now able to devote our entire time to the work among the Karens. Additional laborers are much needed; but with the pres ent working force we expect the blessing of God and progress in a departments."

Statistics.Churches, 58; baptized, 281; excluded, 36; restored, 31; died, 66; whole number, 5,883. Pupils in school, 892. Contributions for religious purposes, Rs. 8,946; for school purposes, 3,918. Preachers, 51, of whom 13 are ordained.

The foregoing statistics furnish the following summary of the Karen churches connected with the Missionary Union.

Summary.Churches, 277; baptized, 937: excluded, 150; restored, 94; died, 158; whole number, 14,184. Pupils in school, 2,491. Contributions for religious and educational purposes, Rs. 23,993 ($10,905.45). Preachers, 313, of whom 59 are ordained.

THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY FOR THE KARENS.

RANGOON. Rev. J. G. BINNEY, D. D., and Rev. D. A. W. SMITH, associate teachers, assisted by Mrs. BINNEY and Mrs. SMITH.

The exigencies of the service in other parts of the Karen Mission have made necessary important changes in the Seminary;— changes which, under other circumstances, the Committee would have contemplated with extreme reluctance. The death of Mr. Thomas, of the Bassein Sgau Karen department, left a vacancy at that station, and no sooner had the Committee performed the rites of sepulture for their lamented brother, than they began to devise ways for filling that vacancy. On the instant, plans which seemed wise suggested themselves to many. minds; these could not be set in motion until interested parties on the field were consulted; and accordingly, letters of suggestion and inquiry were dispatched to such brethren as Douglass, Van Meter, Binney, Carpenter, Stevens, and Smith. It was not till near the end of October that responses arrived, and these were happily of such a nature as to make plain the action to be taken. The case was an urgent one. special meeting of the Committee was called on the 26th day of that month. A decision was soon reached, and the Atlantic Cable was for the first time used as a medium of communicating with your mission. The dispatch ran thus

"Carpenter transferred to Bassein, and Smith to Rangoon."

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This message was addressed to the Treasurer of the missions in Burmah, Dr. Stevens. It reached Rangoon on the third day from Boston, and was sent at once to Bassein, where the Burmah Baptist Missionary Convention was earnestly discussing the very subject to which it related. It ministered instant relief, and brought diverse opinions into harmony. All said, it was of the Lord.

The arrangement thus indicated, has since been perfected, Mr. Carpenter removing his family to Bassein in December, and Mr. Smith transferring his residence to Rangoon in the end of February. The Karen churches of Henthada are left in sadness and sorrow. The pastors have sent an imploring cry to the Committee for a teacher to take the place occupied so well, first by teacher Thomas and afterwards by teacher Smith. You cannot let them cry in vain.

The school has been conducted in all essential particulars as in former years and with similar results. In the absence of the usual detailed account, we copy a summary statement from Dr. Binney's pen, printed in the minutes of the Burmah Convention.

"In reporting the progress of the Institution during the past year,

though there is nothing new to present, it gives me pleasure to say that the year has been one full of mercies, and we trust one in which we know there has been some progress.

"We have averaged about eighty pupils, and they have conducted themselves, I think, with as much propriety as is usually found in our best Institutions at home. They have been industrious, and, we trust, prosecuted their studies with a good degree of success.

"The usual curriculum has guided us, with the exception of Algebra, for the time omitted, owing to the overcrowded course of study.

"The religious state of the Institution has been very encouraging, not only as regards the personal character and condition of the pupils, but also as regards the view taken by them of their relation to a lost world, and of the duty that may devolve on them in behalf of those who have not yet had the gospel light."

MISSION PRESS AND DEPOSITORY.

REV. CEPHAS BENNETT, Superintendent, aided by Mrs. BENNETT, as Proof-reader.

In the early part of the year, Mr. Hancock, at his own motion, retired from the printing office to Maulmain, and engaged in general missionary service. For some months past he has, by appointment of the Committee, exercised a general supervision of the Burman work, in the absence of Mr. Haswell in this country, and of Mr. Norris at Tavoy, whither he removed in December, to take charge of the Karen Mission of that province.

The following Tables show the books and tracts issued from the Depository to the several stations during the year ending with September, 1868, tables worthy of a more careful inspection and analysis than such tables commonly receive.