place, in the growing attention among the young to letters and the useful arts." The older portions of the community are less improved; and under the exciting influences of the war have even retrograded. "Their attention has been withdrawn from quiet occupations, and they have sought in personal services or in speculation to form connections with the army. As a consequence, they have become more reckless,-care less for themselves, their families or their immortal interests." The Delaware church numbers at present but twenty-six members. Some names have been dropped from the records for various causes. Seven have been added by baptism. The Sabbath congregation, owing to the wide dispersion of the people upon their lands, is small. Some Stockbridge families assemble with the Delawares, when circumstances favor. Such of their children as can attend are received into the school, and the members of the church have united with the Delaware church. Religious services at Stockbridge are discontinued, and the settlement is decreasing. The Ottawa station has been conducted as in former years, the missionary attending meetings for prayer and preaching, and visiting from house to house. At the meetings, which continue from two to three hours, the native brethren generally take part. The missionary deplores the existence in the church, of worldly-mindedness and spiritual sloth to a greater extent than in former years. Four have been baptized, two received from another connection, four restored, and five excluded; four have died; present number sixty-eight.* MISSION TO THE CHEROKEES. CHEROKEE. Rev. Messrs. E. JONES and W. P. UPHAM; Mr. H. UPHAM, printer; and their wives. DELAWARE TOWN.-John Wickliffe, Oganaya, native preachers. Out-stations, Honey Creek, White Water. DSIYOHEE. Dsulaskee, native preacher. TAQUOHEE.-Tanenole, native preacher. Out-stations, Skin Bayou, Grand River, Spring Creek. 5 stations and 5 out-stations; 2 preachers, 1 a teacher; 1 printer, and 3 female assistants; 5 native preachers. The year has been signally blessed to the mission in the bestowal of spiritual influences and the hopeful conversion of many who have professed their faith in Christ by baptism. The religious interest prevailed most generally in the summer and autumn, and having for a while subsided, has begun of late to reäppear. Ninety-six were added to the churches in the for * A letter of recent date alluding to the attendance at a quarterly meeting, speaks of the very earnest attention of the Indians to preaching, especially while listening to a discourse of an hour and a half from "Eli, Eli, lama sabacthani." 150 were present, the missionary and his wife being the only white persons. mer part of the year, including fourteen Creeks. The whole number of baptisms reported in 1848 was 121. Several have been added the present year. Number of members in the Cherokee churches (by estimate) 1,100, the returns being incomplete. The number of stated preaching places is fourteen, at each of which is a meeting-house or other building for the accommodation of hearers, erected by the churches at a cost to themselves of about $3,400 ($3,390;) a very liberal expenditure, the native brethren being generally poor, and in their new location still struggling with many adverse circumstances. Meetings have been attended as formerly for the instruction of the native preachers, and of others accustomed to conduct social meetings for prayer and exhortation. At the last two-monthly meeting twenty-five were present, "who took a lively interest in the exercises, asking many pertinent questions, and evincing the attention they had given to the portions of the word of God which had been lately put into their hands." The books of the New Testament printed the last year are Ephesians, Galatians, Philippians, Colossians, and 1st and 2d Peter; making a total, with tracts, of 72,000 pages, and other publications, of 634,500 pages. The national school taught by Mr. Upham ranks well with any others in the nation. A considerable number of the pupils come from distant places, and from families of influence. Two are qualified to become teachers, and the scholars generally would compare to advantage with members of schools in our own community. Number of pupils forty-eight. RECAPITULATION. The number of Missions sustained by the Union is 17; of stations and out-stations 198; of missionaries 54, of whom 49 are preachers; and of female assistant missionaries 55; with 194 native preachers and other assistants; whole number of laborers 303. The number of churches is 148, with 11,534 members; and of schools 50, with 1,500 pupils; the number of additions to the churches on profession of faith, more than 2,000. The course of the year has thus, in almost every mission and in the various operations of the Home Department, been marked with the agency of a present God. God, even our own God, has blessed us, has blessed the missions, has blessed them with the blessing of many that were ready to perish, but who now are saved with a great salvation." May He also bless us with an humble spirit, and save us from the ingratitude that would arrogate the praise which belongs to HIM ALONE. *The church at Bushyheadville (or Cherokee) has seventy-six members; seventeen baptized last year. Table of Missions, Stations, &c., of the Union, in 1848-9. Mission to France, 66 Germany, Greece, Whole number in Europe, 3 10? 2 2 32? 18 6 14 19 2 3 5 42 ? 4 5 9 24 14 38 50 21136 50 44 1 7 25 1 25 22 131 2 43 121 1100? 1 48 REPORT OF THE TREASURER. Expenditures of the Union during the year ending March 31, 1849. do. of Mr. and Mrs. Van Meter, 597 36 Passage of Mr. and Mrs. Moore and Mr. and Mrs. Van Meter from Boston to Calcutta, 965 77 Balance of Mr. Kincaid's salary to June 17, 1846, 193 18 8,503 45 ASSAM MISSION. Remittances, drafts and purchases, Passage of Mrs. Brown from Boston to Calcutta, 6,756 51 244 38 232 50 1,350 00 8,583 39 |