proceedings of our Church have been commenced and prosecuted thus far, on a scale in some good degree worthy of the general policy here advocated-worthy, we mean, of the united effort and the common sup. port of the whole Church.

tablishment and diffusion of true reli gion in this land. We grant that our be loved missionaries are too few in number, and too slenderly provided with facilities for carrying on their work, but we are referring now chiefly to the policy of their labours; it is we fully believe a wise and enlarged policy, worthy of our Church, and such as God will assuredly bless, if carried out in a humble and believing spirit. Indeed, the || Divine blessing has already been granted to a most encouraging extent. Much leaven of the gospel has been diffused around our missionary stations; schools are now established in which hundreds of youth are receiving religious instruction; millions of religious publications have been circulated; churches have been gathered; Presbyteries have been organized; and the great work is going on. The Lord still bless and greatly prosper it!

We have Missions now among nations and tribes comprising more than five hundred millions of our race. These Missions are founded on the principle of concentrated effort, with the amplest scope for expansion. They have been projected and thus far conducted on the same enlightened policy, which our forefathers pursued when they laid the foundations of our Zion in this land. Able, learned, devoted missionaries have gone forth in the name of the Church. They are now preaching the gospel ; found. || ing various institutions of learning; rearing up a native ministry; employing the press; and in a word using the same means which our ministers and people employ for the es

DONATIONS TO THE BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS

SYNOD OF ALBANY. Pby. of Albany. Amsterdam village ch. 7,50; 1st ch. Amsterdam, 12,37; Hamilton Union ch. 3,

IN APRIL.

SYNOD OF NEW-YORK. Pby. of Hudson. Goodwill ch. 64; Hopewell ch. 34,88; Goshen ch. coll. and mo. con. 126,95; con. Rev. ROBERT MCCARTEE, D.D., a 1. d. in all, for sup. Rev. James R. Wilson, in North India,

22 87

225 83

Brooklyn, 1st ch. mo. con. 75.85, do. Sab. sch. ed. Melancthon W. Jacobus, and Anna Finley Sandford, in India, 1st qr. of third year, 10; Brooklyn, 2d ch. ann. coll. in part, 52,09; N. Y. Duane-st. ch. mo. con. April, 28,81; N. Y. 1st ch. mo. con April, 103,58; Nyack ch. mo. con. 17,28; N. Y. Rutgers-st ch. mo. con. April, 14,97; Fem. miss. assoc. 51,95; (also one box clothing for Chippewa mission, valued at over 179 dollars;) N. Y. Brick ch. D. Phyfe, 40, J. Adams, 10, others, 16; Anson G. Phelps, per Rev. Dr. Spring. 50; N. Y. Thomas Pringle, 25; Mr. Dyckman, 10; L. Moses, 10,

2d Pby. of New-York. Scotch Presb. ch. N. Y., mo. con. April, 61,13; Jno. Ferguson, 50, A. R. Walsh, 25, Mrs. E. Walsh, 25, Samuel Thompson, 20, Sarah Dustan, 10, W. Morrison, 10, S. Cochran, 5, C. H. Sears, 5, a fr end,' 2, Mr. Johnson, 5, Canal-st. ch. N. Y., a member,' 40; less erroneously reported last year, Canal-st. ch. 100,

515 53

183 13

SYNOD OF NEW-JERSEY. Pby. of Elizabethtown.
Rev. R. M. Badeau, 5; Liberty corner ch.
13,35; Mt. Freedom'ch. 4,

Pby. of New Brunswick.
Pennington ch. for church at Grand Tra-
verse, 45; Shrewsbury ch. Mrs. Throck-
morton, 3; Village ch. Freehold, mo.con.
Jan. to April, four months, 48; Rocky
Hill, Sab. sch. 10; Bound Brook ch. 10;
Lawrenceville ch. ann. coll 40. mo. con.
20 Grove Sab. sch. 10; N. Brunswick
ch. Sab. sch. children, for books for Chi-
nese mission schools under care of Mrs.
Cole, 15; Dutch Neck ch. 4,36; Notting-
ham square ch. 10,51,

Pby. of Newton.

Newton ch. 30,40; Easton ch. 69,60; Allen-
town, N. J., Fem. miss. soc. 18, less
disc. 32 cts.

Pby. of Susquehanna.
Wilkesbarre, Rev. T. P. Hunt,

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THE

DOMESTIC MISSIONARY CHRONICLE.

JUNE, 1843.

BOARD OF MISSIONS..

BRIEF REPORT FROM THE CENTRAL AGENCY OF THE BOARD AT PITTSBURG, PA.

My time of service in the employ of the Board, has been so recent that I have nothing of a very interesting character to communicate.

And were I

that hitherto manifested, the Board can-
not get along without them.
a member of the coming Assembly, I
would like to sound the solemn impres-
sions of my mind in the ears of its mem-
bers on this subject. Never, I believe
was there a time in the history of our
country, when its condition so imperious-
ly demanded the attention of the church of
Christ. We have now a population probably
exceeding eighteen millions of souls, and
an annual increase of some five hundred
and fifty thousand. This population, like a
mighty tide, is rolling rapidly westward.
And there cannot be a doubt that in a
very few years from this time, the destiny
of this nation will be in the hands of the
inhabitants of this great valley. And
without the Gospel, what will its popula-

The field of labour assigned me by the Board, is in many respects interesting, but at present feels the embarrassments of the times, in a degree unparalleled hitherto. The people, generally speaking, are willing to do what they can, and I think feel a deep and growing interest on the subject of Domestic Missions. The idea is becoming wide-spread, and taking a fast hold of the minds of all those who can make any just pretensions to piety-that the salvation of our beloved country, and the healthful, and glorious perpetuation of our free institutions under God, are identified with the progress and success of the blessed cause in which we labour.tion be? The answer is obvious,-a I have been in the service of the Board race of infidels, or closely wedded to all now nearly six months. During this time, the abominations of Romanism. And I have visited between fifty and sixty what then? Civil and religious liberty churches, preached one hundred and will be only known in the history of the forty-seven times, delivered over fifty past. And shall the Christian and patriot, missionary addresses, travelled between the man of God and lover of his country, eleven and twelve hundred miles, entirely stand and gaze on a scene like this, with on horseback, was present at ten commu- cold indifference? Will not the love of nion seasons, and laboured in a number of Christ, the love of souls, the love of counchurches where there were clear indica- try-yea, if nothing else, the love of their tions of the special presence of the Spirit own children inspire them with ardour, of God. The amount of funds raised dur- and call forth a spirit of sacrifice, that our ing the short period of my service, has been country may be blessed with the Gospel, between two and three thousand dollars. souls saved, Heaven filled with joy, and There is with some pastors, an opposi liberty, civil and religious, remain for ever tion to agents, but my honest conviction our rich boon and glorious inheritance ? is, that until ministers and sessions take On this subject I would like to expatiate, hold of this matter with zeal different from "but cannot at present. G. MARSHALL. VOL. XI.-24

COMMUNICATIONS FROM

MISSOURI.

The following communication is from the Rev. W. W. Robertson, who has laboured much in the west, both as an agent of the Board, and as an itinerant missionary. He is now located at Fulton, Missouri, from which place he writes. We think his letter will be read with deep interest, and we hope and pray that his appeal to our young men, and to the churches, may not be in vain.

MISSIONARIES,

mon in a year, my heart sinks within me. My dear Brother, is there no help for us? Have you no young men ready to enter the ministry who could be induced to turn their faces hitherward? Can you not spare from the east at least half a dozen this spring for this field? We want men who are willing to endure hardships for Christ's sake, who are willing to live and labour any where, so they may win souls to Christ. Such men we must have, or the cause will suffer great loss. FULTON, Mo., Apr 26, 1843. Many important places are now looking Dear Brother, Some time since I for, and anxiously expecting our Church gave you an account of the precious out- to send them the living Teacher, and yet pouring of God's Spirit in this part of his they feel they cannot live without the vineyard. Again the blessed Spirit has Gospel, by Presbyterian preachers if they manifested his presence amongst us by can be had, and if we do not supply them his reviving and quickening influences. they will look elsewhere. Shall we say In the early part of January, another bro-to them, we cannot grant your request? ther and myself assisted Brother Jones in What say the dear young brethren soon a protracted meeting in Columbia, twenty- to leave the seminaries, and to enter the five miles west of this place. This meet-wide field? Our population is enterprising ing continued many days. About one and intelligent, hospitable and generous, hundred professed to have found Christ precious to their souls during the meeting; about eighty have since joined our Church. Among the converts are the aged, the middle aged, and the young, by far the greater number however of the latter. Men and women, of the first respectability and standing in society, who were given to the pleasures of the world, are now rejoicing in pleasures which flow || from the service of God. In reviewing the labours of the past year, I have great reason to be thankful that I was directed to this part of the "wastes" of Zion, the three churches to which I especially preach, have been greatly increased in number and in influence; one twofold, another three-fold, and a third four-fold. But, my dear brother, when I look around and see the many, very many important points unoccupied, and hear their Macedonian cry, "Come over and help us," when all that possibly can be done, leaves more than one-half still unvisited, unsupplied with even one ser

and everywhere the field is "white already for the harvest." This is evident to every one who can read the "signs of the times." In the places where I have laboured with other brethren, more than three hundred, as we hope, have been added to the Lord, and wherever similar efforts have been made, the same blessed results have followed. Nor is the enemy slothful or idle: he is busy sowing his tares, his emissaries are passing "to and fro through the land," blinding the minds, and stupefying the consciences of thousands.

But how are the men who come to labour for us to be supported? This is a question the Church must answer. In many of the most important fields in this State, there are but few members of our Church, and they not generally in affluent circumstances, so that, with the exception of only a few places, not more than half of the support of a minister can be even promised. But must they be told, you cannot have a minister, unless you

are able to give the full amount necessary || of this life, as in this valley of the west, for his support? Such, certainly, would and never so refreshed with a full asnot be the answer, if our Church would surance of a recompense at the resurrecdo her duty. Our Board of Missions tion of the just. Oh! it is a luxury to should be able to answer to every "Ma- labour for Christ, and have talents of any cedonian cry," Do what you can, and we kind to consecrate to him. If our brethren, will supply your lack; and such an answer to whom God has committed the silver I do hope the Churches will enable them and the gold, take as much pleasure in to give. giving to the Lord his due, as your missionaries do in their toils, privations, and labours, they can truly say, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

INDIANA.

FROM A MISSIONARY IN HENRY CO.

I have preached regularly three evenings in the week, and conversed on the subject of religion from house to house; there is an open and anxious ear to hear; the concerns of the soul are the engrossing topic of conversation in the family, by the way side, in the tavern, store, work-shop, and in the court-house, and instruction is most eagerly sought. Many diversities of religious opinion prevail, often blended with fatal error, and yet all profess to believe the Bible; this makes it easy for the missionary to present the truth with satisfaction to himself, and profit to his hearers. I can go in no direction, and enforce religious truth, but it is well, and gratefully received. It seems that every man will have some religious belief; and before it is established, is easily led, and generally embraces the views of his teacher. Could we obtain missionaries of the right qualifications, and for a few years aid in supporting them to cultivate this extensive moral waste, where the fields are ripe to the harvestthe happy results for time and eternity would be beyond all human calculation. The people are poor, but will feed as many missionaries as are needed. This is all they can do. If Christians in the older settlements will supply the deficiency for a few years, by the blessing of God we can support the Gospel ourselves, and aid abundantly in causing it to be preached to every creature. I have laboured very extensively in the Eastern, Middle, and Western States in times of apathy, and in seasons of refreshing never God's service. so poorly supported with the comforts" tidings of the Gospel to those regions

FROM A MISSIONARY IN

Calls for Missionary Labour. I have continued as heretofore to labour at my four stations. During the year now closed, my labours have been manifestly blessed, although no very large additions have been made to the Churches. That cannot be expected from the state of things with which we are surrounded. I have travelled some three thousand miles, or more; have preached one hundred and forty sermons; besides a great many other public addresses; have lectured and explained the scriptures, exhorted and prayed in a goodly number of families, talked by the way of Jesus and his salvation, administered the Lord's supper eight times in my own Churches, besides aiding on similar occasions in other Churches, and have received fourteen into the Redeemer's fold.

I have latterly commenced the gratuitous distribution of tracts, which I find the people very eager to receive: I hope to be enabled to continue this mode of doing good; perhaps there is not a more destitute region in all the South Western country, than that in which I am labouring; there is room, and work enough for three or four others if they could be sustained. I often hear the Macedonian cry from places of entire destitution beyond the circle of my labours hitherto ; and I feel constrained in spirit to go over and see what the Lord has for me to do there. I trust I am willing to spend and be spent in Unless I carry the glad