New Zealand (continued.) Persia. Letter from Rev. Samuel Marsden to Rev. J. Pratt 214200 Letter from Governor MacCarthy to the Rev. Josiah Pratt 569 Church Missionary Society (continued.) Page St. Matthew's Gospel in Bullom ib. ib. Third Hymn of the Second Book of Dr. Watts, in Bullom 70000 599 On the Rebuilding of Bashia....................................................... Baptism at Bashia 606 610 List of Children baptized at Rashia 612 613 Reflections on the Offerings of Children ................................................................ 615 ib. AMERICA (NORTH.) Wesleyan Methodist Missions (continued.) Present State of the Dominica Mission.............................. Contributions to the Church Missionary Society ..... 107, 167, 215, 275, 335, 392, 454, 511, 573, 634, 683 Contributions to the School Fund of the Church Missionary Society.. 48 214, 391 Notice from the Committee of the Church Missionary Society Rise and Progress of Christianity and Mahometanism throughout the World, To the Close of the Eighteenth Century. THIS Chart, which accompanies the present Number, may, with great propriety; be placed by the binder to face the Title Page of our First Volume; as a full elucidation of it will be found in the Buchanan Prize Essay, by the Rev. Hugh Pearson,' which was given in the Numbers for February and March, 1813. : It is reduced from the large Chart prefixed to that Essay, published at Oxford, in 4to. In that Chart, which is coloured, Christianity is denoted by yellow, Mahometanism by red, and Paganism by a dark shade: in the present, the graver alone is employed and exhibits to the eye, with sufficient precision, the partial emancipation of Mahometans from the thick darkness of Paganism, and the clear light which beams on Christians. It were well, indeed, if that light were not partially obscured by the medium through which it shines on many parts of Christendom; but, blessed be Gód, every day are its powerful rays dissipating, the mists which the su B |