men : Rev. Behari Lal De, "Jagadishwar Bhattachargya, 46 Prasunna Kumar Chattargya. Several native catechists, who are at present before the Presbytery of Calcutta in the different stages of their trials, are employed in the The numbers now attending the Calcutta Institution amount to three thousand. same way. Madras. Rev. John Anderson, 66 Rev. Dhanjibhai Nauroji, ordained ministers; "Hormasdji Pestonji, "N. Sheshadri, preacher of the gospel. In Satara, at some distance from Bombay, the Rev. James Aitken has been for some time laboring; and at the different seminaries in and connected with Bombay from fifteen hundred to two thousand are receiving a Christian education. Two converts from Abyssinia have proceeded to their native country, and opened schools, where the word of God is taught. Puna. Rev. James Mitchell has long labored at this station. Rev. William Kinnaird Mitchell lately sailed to join him. He is also assisted by Rev. Wezir Beg, a converted Mohammedan, now a preacher of the gospel. Nagpore. Rev. Stephen Hislop, "Robert Hunter. Through good report and bad these brethren have continued to labor with success; and some hundreds of youth are instructed in the truth. The Free Church of Scotland has also a mission in Southern Africa; but the Committee were unable to describe its actual condition in December last, in consequence of the ravages of the Kaffir war. The efforts of the Free Church in behalf of the Jews are committed to another "scheme;" " hence the Committee on foreign missions did not speak of the force employed Robert Johnstone, at present in Scot- among the seed of Abraham. John Braidwood, } land. Christian life. Though they possess the word of God, and meetings and schools are held by faithful national assistants at places where greater numbers of them reside, they painfully feel their absence from the services of the congregation, and the loss of that special care on the part of the missionaries which their weak character so much requires. Meanwhile our brethren are the more anxious to pay periodical visits to these poor scattered people, and to improve faithfully the opportunities afforded for spiritual intercourse with them. It would, however, be very wrong to conclude that our mission in Greenland, which has been the chief instrument in the hand of God of bringing the blessings of Christianity to the whole Greenland or Esquimaux nation, has now become inefficient and unfruitful. The consistent and Christian walk of many members, and the cheerful faith with which others are enabled to meet the hour of death, are sufficient evidences that the gospel is not preached to them in vain. They cherish a value for the word of God, such as might put to shame the more enlightened Christian world at home. The words of Jesus are still considered as incontestible truths, even by the most degenerate member of our Greenland flocks. However we may deplore the circumstances referred to, we will not lose courage nor quit our post; but we will trust in the help of the Lord. Nor will we be too much disheartened by the order, lately received from the Board of Trade in Denmark to baptize and receive no more heathen, but to direct them to the Danish mission. This proposition, however indicative of an unfriendly spirit, has reference chiefly to Fredericksthal, the most southern of our stations, since heathen (probably descendants of the ancient Normans) are found in any number only on the east coast, a coast almost inaccessible to us on account of the ice. From that quarter the congregation at Fredericksthal has hitherto had a considerable increase; while such as came only on a visit, and could not resolve to remain there, took with them what they had heard, and thus assisted in spreading the gospel. At New-Herrnhut the newly established training-school for national assistants was making satisfactory progress under the direction of Br. S. Kleinschmidt. One of the pupils, called Simon, is a descendant of the first convert of the Greenlandish nation, Kayarnak. Br. Kleinschmidt says of him: “He is a hopeful youth of eighteen years, modest, honest, thirsting after knowledge, not unacquainted with the corruption of his heart, and consequently open to correction, and, which is a rare virtue among young Greenlanders, obedient." At Lichtenau, the largest settlement, evidences of spiritual life were not wanting. On the 5th of July, e. g., so many out-dwellers had flocked together for the enjoyment of the Lord's Supper, that the total number of communicants amounted to 237. A painful loss was sustained by this congregation in the departure of the aged national assistant, Benjamin, a man of great influence among his countrymen, and truly faithful in the discharge of the duties of his office. Labrador. Hopedale was visited during the passionweek by a great number of southlanders, Europeans and half-castes, many of whom came from considerable distances, and made by their demeanor a salutary impression upon the congregation. As these poor people are deprived of all other spiritual care, it is pleasing that they begin to find in Hopedale a place for edification and furtherance in Christian knowledge. The continued advancement in spiritual grace of the Esquimaux from Saeglek is a matter of joy and thankfulness to the missionaries at Hebron. Several of them were already baptized. In the school they took great pains, and made much progress. The former sorcerer, Packsaut, now testifies to the visiting heathen how happy both he and his wife Kommak feel, since they came to live at Hebron, and have overcome their reluctance to be converted. The missionaries in all the stations take great pains with the instruction of the young; and the blessing of the Lord has accompanied their labors. West Indies. Our extensive missionary work in the West Indian Islands appears to be prospering. The negro congregations there are advancing in Christian knowledge, and the word of God dwells richly among them. The schools, which are kept chiefly by colored teachers, are in a flourishing state. Much attention is given by the missionaries, as far as their strength allows, to the care of individual souls, an object of increasing importance. Our seven numerous congregations in the island of Antigua have given us generally cause for thankfulness to the Lord. The same may be observed in reference to the training-school at Cedar-hall, whose director, Br. A. Hamilton, has lately returned from a visit to Europe. The intelligence received from our missionaries in St. Kitts and Tobago has been likewise, upon the whole, of a cheering nature. From Barbadoes complaints are made of the injurious influence exercised upon some of our congregations by the spirit of pride and indifference to the word of God. Jamaica has continued to suffer more or less from the cholera and from various other severe visitations. The impoverishment of the colored population, in consequence of the depressed state of trade and the abandonment of many plantations, was increased by the failure of several natural productions, especially the yam, the principal food of the negroes. In consequence of these judgments the scoffers at religion were to a considerable extent silenced, and the churches were again better attended. Our thirteen congregations proved steadfast during that trying season, and were | surviving missionaries continued to labor in a pleasing state. The missionaries spent with diligence and self-denying faithfulness; much time and labor on the instruction of and the places of the departed were gradthe youth. The newly established country-ually supplied by other brethren and sisters, schools, whose number has increased to twenty-four, providing instruction for upwards of a thousand children, continue in satisfactory progress: The normal school at Fairfield, from which already many efficient colored teachers have proceeded, is about to be enlarged. willing to serve the Lord in that country, which has latterly proved the grave of missionaries. For the service of the congregation at Bambey in the bush-country, to which so many sacrifices have already been brought, we hope to appoint in future a national helper, under the inspection of In the Danish Island of St. Croix the in-visiting missionaries. sufficiency of the old churches had been long painfully felt, and it was therefore a most joyous event when on the 15th of February of the present year, at Friedensberg, the newly-built school-house, after receiving considerable enlargement, was solemnly dedicated as a church. The old church will be employed as a school. At Friedensthal the foundation-stone of an entirely new church was laid on the 27th of May. At Friedensfeld preparations have been made already for the erection of a new church. The blessing of God has everywhere accompanied the labors of his servants. This has been peculiarly the case on the newly established station on the Warappa Creek, in one of the most populous districts of the colony, which had been hitherto visited from Charlottenburg. Of the progress of the work of conversion among the negroes on the plantations, many a cheering instance might be reported. As such may justly be considered the conversion of the aged idol priestess Bandina, at Berg-en-dal, where As a peculiarly pleasing feature in the Sr. Hartman is laboring faithfully, both history of our West India mission, must be among young and old. That ill-famed idol mentioned the help which we derive in- worshiper became a triumph of grace, a creasingly from the natives themselves. Be- believing sinner, whose soul thirsted for the sides a great number of colored teachers, we living God, as the hart panteth after the have also several most useful national assist-water brooks; and at last she left this world ants, among whom we would mention particularly the Brn. Buckley in Antigua, and Alfred Lind in Jamaica, who have been appointed as regular assistants in the missionary service, and who take part in the preaching of the gospel. Surinam. with the full assurance of the forgiveness of her sins. The poor negro slaves on the plantation La Poule have provided from their own means a place of meeting, with a table and other appendages, besides offering a contribution to the expense of the mission. New plantations are constantly opened to the missionaries; and though in some of With deep emotion of heart we now pro- them obstacles of various kinds are placed ceed to report the events which have marked in the way of their labors, and though in the history of the mission in Surinam during others Satan still maintains his hold on the period under review. The Lord has, his vassals, the reports of the brethren reindeed, seen fit to cause the waves and bil-count many a victory over the kingdom of lows of tribulation to pass over it. In the autumn of 1851, the yellow fever broke out, accompanied by a violent influenza, which carried off numbers of negroes on the plantations. The mission family at Paramaribo also was visited by the former disease, which at first appeared in a milder form, so that several brethren and sisters attacked by it recovered; yet by degrees the disease assumed a most deadly character. On the 19th of September Br. A. Eisloffel departed this life by means of the pestilence; and after him no fewer than eleven brethren and sisters fell victims to it; so that, together with those who died of other complaints, we have lost in this mission fourteen brethren and sisters within the short period of ten months. That was, indeed, a season of darkness and mystery, which humbled us deeply. It is, however, a matter for devout gratitude that all our departed fellow-servants were enabled to leave this world in cheerful reliance on their Redeemer, and to bear witness, even in death, to the lively hope which is the portion of those who are God's dear children. Meanwhile the Lord did not suffer his work to remain stationary. The darkness. Many a death-blow is given to the idol worship of the negroes by the preaching of the cross and the destruction of their fetishes; and the poor ignorant heathen come in crowds to hear the word of life. What is most needed at present is the establishment, on the plantations to which the brethren have access, of elementary schools for the children, many of whom are most desirous after Christian instruction. In the hope that we shall be allowed in the course of time to bestow greater care upon the neglected negro youth, the new trainingschool for elementary teachers at Beckhuizen was commenced by the late Br. Voss. From several estates, the owners of which are favorable to the mission, and from certain government plantations, ten pupils, some of whom are heathen in a state of gross ignorance, have been intrusted to us. These are now to be prepared for future service as teachers in our elementary schools. A new school-house is building for the large day-school in the town of Paramaribo. Here, where often twenty to thirty adults have been baptized at once, the number of members of the congre gation has increased to five thousand five | have escaped the injurious influence of the hundred. South Africa. times. Our missionaries had to contend particularly against the vice of drunkenness; but they were supported by the general In South Africa, though the war with the feeling of the congregation. The bottle or Caffres continues to be attended with deso-wine-stores, established in the neighborhood lation and bloodshed, our brethren and sis- of Genadendal and Groenekloof, were to be ters have been mercifully preserved from given up, in compliance with the urgent falling into the hands of man. In our last representations made to the Legislative year's report we mentioned the safe return Council by the missionaries and other resiof the missionaries from Colesberg to Shiloh. dents. The majority of the volunteers from Finding the settlement occupied by English our congregations, who had served in the troops, they took up their quarters in war, have now returned, very few of the the mission premises which were yet whole number having lost their lives. Br. standing, viz. the school and smithy; and and Sr. Wedeman are engaged in blessed the mill was again set a going. The activity among the lepers in Robben Island. church had to serve as a barrack. Thus far the Lord has given our fellow-servants strength and courage to hold out in the spirit of hope, and to minister to their faithful Fingoe flock amidst many privations and dangers. They, as well as the other inhabitants of the place, have been frequently exposed to great danger, and have been saved only by the wonderworking hand of the Lord. This was particularly the case on the 4th of January, when the settlement was surrounded by swarms of Caffres eager for spoil, and probably ready for slaughter. Although on this occasion they lost all their cattle, they had cause for the liveliest gratitude to the Lord, who in the hour of danger held his hand over them, and kept them as the apple of his eye. The assurances of sympathy and intercession which they were continually receiving from their brethren and friends at home, afforded them much encouragement. Of the gifts of Christian love sent them, a portion has reached their hands, to their great joy. An unusually plentiful harvest had also contributed to the supply of their most pressing necessities. Mosquito Coast. Our brethren and sisters on the Mosquito Coast have prosecuted their labors, which have been mercifully owned by the Lord. Br. Kandler, having recovered from a serious injury, is now engaged in the building of a new church, the old one being quite been well attended; and the school, in which also some Indian boys are instructed, is prospering under the superintendence of Br. Lundberg. While the preaching of the gospel is beginning to take root at Bluefields, and while a negro congregation is collecting there, the missionaries have not yet been enabled to extend their labors much among the Indians. Several Indian families who had shown an inclination to ruinous. Divine service at Bluefields has settle at Bluefields, have, with their customary instability, left them again after a short sojourn. Meanwhile the brethren, and especially Br. Pfeiffer, have undertaken several laborious voyages to visit the Indian villages near Pearl-Key Lagoon, and many of the inhabitants showed themselves not unwilling to listen to them. Australia. Goshen and Mamre are still deserted. From the latter station the missionaries had fled to Fort Peddie, where they had to en- From our two messengers to the poor dure many hardships. From thence Br. and aborigines in Australia, we have received Sr. T. Kuster proceeded to Clarkson; while intelligence up to January of the present Br. and Sr. C. Nauhaus went to Enon. year. Since October, 1851, they have been Enon also was in great danger, the enemies settled on Lake Boga, about 200 miles northinfesting in large numbers the neighboring west from Melbourne, a country apparently Zuurberg. Br. and Sr. Klinghardt, there- suited to the attainment of their object, fore, fled to Clarkson with the families of Previous to this they had resided at several their congregation; and Br. Lehman re- colonist stations, especially at Ganawarra, mained several months alone with a number where they experienced much kindness of Hottentot men to protect the place, which, from Mr. Campbell, and where frequent ophowever, by the grace of God remained un-portunity was afforded them for intercourse molested. The congregation is at present again united at Enon. At Clarkson the fugitives were cordially received by the Fingoe flock, which is in a promising state, and with whom their fellowship in the house of God was to mutual edification. Our older and larger Hottentot congregations at Genadendal, Elim, and Groenekloof have approved themselves as loyal subjects in these trying times; and the majority of their members have, by their Christian conduct, afforded joy to their teachers and honor to the gospel. Not all of them, however, with the Papoos. On the plot of ground assigned them by the Governor, Br. Ch. Jos. La Trobe, stands their little log-hut on a solitary hill, commanding a pleasant view of the lake and surrounding country. The soil is fertile, and they hope to cultivate their gardens successfully. Their main reason, however, for selecting this place, is the number of Papoos found in its vicinity. In the acquirement of the language they have so far succeeded, that they are able to make themselves understood; for the effectual proclamation of the joyful message of salva other mechanic arts they have made but little progress. They trade with the Portuguese, to whom they carry ivory, traveling four days' journey to the Kunene (Great River) for this purpose, and then crossing by the aid of the Ovapangari. Their weapons are small bows, arrows with iron points, spears and daggers. They are not warlike; and they live in peace with nearly all the adjacent tribes. They have no springs; but they have wells forty feet deep. Much rain falls during the year, and the soil is light. The language of the Ovampo is supposed to resemble that of the Herero, among whom the Rhenish Missionary Society has commenced operations. Between the Herero and Ovampo there is an uninhabitable desert, which must necessarily be traversed. tion in Christ Jesus their knowledge is, however, yet insufficient. The fearless and affectionate manner in which they converse with the natives has already gained them the confidence of many. Yet the ground into which the good seed is to be sown is a very barren one. The brutal rudeness, indolence, and inhuman cruelty of this people, appear to be without a parallel. Their numbers are continually decreasing, in consequence of both the progress of the Europeans into the country, and of the wars in which they are continually engaged with each other, and of infectious, disgusting diseases by which they are carried off. Our missionaries, however, are of good courage, and doubt not that the Lord will grant them success. "And if by our coming here," they write, "no other object were obtained, than that the sun of the gospel should enlighten only the parting hours of this dying nation, and if only a few of its last descendants should taste the sweetness of the word AGGRESSIONS OF THE BOERS IN SOUTH of God, we shall have accomplished a great end." North American Indians. AFRICA. THE last number of the Herald contained a notice of the destruction of Kolobeng, one of the Of our mission among the North Ameri- stations of the London Missionary Society in can Indians, nothing of a striking nature South Africa. The following extract from a can be reported. The congregations are letter of Dr. Livingston, written at Kuruman, small; nevertheless the preaching of the cross has not been in vain among them. September 20, throws additional light on this The progress made in the schools has given melancholy instance of unprovoked aggression: much satisfaction to the missionaries. Their hope of getting access to some of the neigh-from the Cape than I anticipated; but I I have been delayed longer on the way boring tribes has been frustrated by the unstable, roving habits of the Indians. The now see that the hinderances have been the mission among the negroes in East Florida means, in the good providence of God, of has proceeded peacefully, and not without preventing me from falling into the hands of tokens of the divine blessing. RHENISH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. the Boers. In their late foray they often expressed regret that they had not caught me. The least they would have done, would be to take wagon and everything else, and thereby prevent me from proceeding on my intended tour. As it has turned out, I reached this in time to become aware of their plans, and I shall pick up all the information the various hunters and travelers have learned of their movements, and then shape my course so as to steer clear of them. I have no doubt of succeeding in the plans I mentioned to you in my last. I only feel a little disgusted at being obstructed by a parcel of Boers, whose independence was lately recognized by our government, on the express condition that no hinderance was to be put in the way of British subjects going towards the Lake. A LATE number of the Berichte Rheinischen Missionsgesellschaft contains the substance of a letter from Rev. Hugo Hahn, one of the missionaries of the Rhenish Missionary Society in South Africa, in which he describes the results of a visit made by Messrs. Gaston and Anderson to the Ovampo, a people residing about 18° south of the equator. From his statement it appears that this tribe is both agricultural and pastoral, a part of its land being set apart for tillage. and a part for grazing. Mr. Gaston estimates their number at six thousand; but Mr. Anderson and seven hundred natives appeared in the On the 28th ultimo, six hundred Boers thinks there may be twelve thousand. Each Bakwani country. The natives were comfamily lives by itself, in the midst of its farm, the pelled to accompany them. Before going to various buildings deemed necessary for its use Sechele's town, they sent a party with four being uniformly inclosed; but the habitations are wagons down the Kolobeng to my house. so near together, that the occupant of one can The town is eight miles distant; and, ever since the removal of the Bakwanis, the call to his neighbor. So fond are the people of house was guarded by a few Balala placed dances and games, that every family has a place by it for that purpose by Sechele. It reprovided especially therefor. Their musical in-mained in perfect security for two years, struments are a rude drum and a seven-stringed and gentlemen passing northward deposited guitar. They are skillful in pottery; but in the a portion of their stores in it till their re |