sick, but are now improving. Of ne- Protracted meeting-General improvement. impression left was good, promising still more for the future. As we have long lived with the Indians, and so long looked in disappointment for indications of improvement, it is cheering to see occasionally some ugly feature of Indian character give way; to notice the absence of one and another item, which goes to make up the fantastic dress of the people about us. Much, very much, remains yet to be done; but we will be grateful for indications which exist, that the work of improvement is commenced; while we toil on, and hope for more success in the future. We have just closed a meeting of much interest. It had continued three days, and was quite numerously at- Our school is progressing with intended, there being between 300 and terest, and our situation, as respects 400 persons present. What was pe- the Indians, is quiet. Our health at culiarly encouraging was the presence present is improving, though in the of several of the leading men of the midst of our usual sickly season. The station, among them the principal indications of cholera have disappearchief, who came on the first and re-ed, and the Indians are returning to mained until the last day. The meet- their homes and fields. ing was a quiet one, free from noise and confusion; at its close three interesting young persons, one man and two women, were baptized. Every thing connected with this religious occasion affords high satisfaction and pleasure. When I first visited this people, nearly twelve years since, the usual Sabbath attendance did not exceed half a dozen persons. When special meetings were held, like the one just closed, the number was scarcely augmented. The contrast last Sabbath caused my heart to overflow with gratitude. Our new meeting-house, though spacious, was not large enough to hold the numbers who came forward to hear the word. The improved appearance, also, of the congregation could but strike every one with pleasure, who, like us, had been desirous to witness just such a result. Nearly all the men were attired in English dress; and so with the young of the other sex. This shows the effect of our school system on the general character of the people. Again, those who, like the Pharisees, were inclined to ask if "any of the rulers believed," were answered by the presence of their chieftains, and especially by the ardent prayers of the aged chief, who so earnestly plead with the people to put their confidence in the Savior. Very often during our season of worship, tears flowed from eyes unused to weep. There were not great numbers disposed to unite with the church; the persons baptized had it in mind before the meeting; but the District schools not to be established. With respect to school operations among the Delawares, Mr. Pratt expresses the following views (Aug. 20). Before the recent sickness, as the Indians were located on their lands, they were too widely separated to have their children collected into district schools. Since the general scattering of all classes in every direction, to avoid the epidemic, and with the prospect, which is now apparent, that the Indians will make permanent abode in some remote section of their country, it will be entirely impracticable to collect schools among them. Our operations in general are materially embarrassed by the changes consequent upon this recent visitation ; and it is our decided opinion that no effort at educating the Delaware children could at present succeed out of our inmediate control and supervision. It is with me doubtful, whether district schools among unimproved Indians are proper in any case. At Stockbridge we had a flourishing district school; but there the parents were mostly members of the church, and so far advanced in civilization as to be desirous to appear well in society themselves, and to have their children know more, and do generally better, than themselves. Among them also we had the advantage of a compact settlement; the sound of our bell was heard at every house, and the call was promptly obeyed. With the Del ple are too widely scattered over their lands; 2. The parents are not sufficiently hearty and interested, to sustain a system of district school education. awares the case is quite different; | desirable. At present, for two reasons there is neither compactness of settle- it cannot be carried out. 1. The peoment, nor disposition on the part of most parents to have children punctual, or decently clad for a school exercise. In addition to this, children caunot be governed in a district school; they would desire to have their own way, or, on complaint to an illiterate heathen father or mother, the offending scholar would immediately be defended or removed. Daily contact also with the unimproved of the family and neighborhood, would undo much that could be done for them at school. Such children as we take under our care, we control both in and out of school. We endeavor to cultivate their manners, tastes, and intellects. Having them under our eye night and day, we know of the cleanliness of their persons, their manuer of speaking among themselves, their intercourse with others, their condition morally and intellectually, and are thereby enabled to shape our instructions to their circumstances. This could not be the case in a district school, where only occasionally the opportunity would occur for improving children in these several important particulars, and of elevating them personally as well as mentally. It is necessary not only to help them up, but for a season to hold them up, until they shall have acquired sufficient strength to support themselves. I am convinced, from observation and experience, that the elevation of the Indian race will be effected most rapidly by a plain exhibition of the truths of religion before the adult population, while we take their children under our own immediate fostering care. And this latter work is not so very hard to accomplish. In connection with the other stations around us, nearly all children whose parents are favorable to education, can be taken in, and trained for future usefulness. If this be done, the children growing up, will have acquired habits and tastes so different from the parents, that they will soon work an entire revolution in favor of generally sustaining their own schools, using their own funds, and the children receiving the benefit of the same. This tribe is not large, and is growing smaller. If we keep our school for a while in vigorous operation, it will be preparing the way for such a plan of operation as has been proposed, and it will then be both practicable and DESIGNATION OF MISSIONARIES. The following missionaries and assistants have been recently appointed by the Executive Committee. Rev. Harvey E. Knapp of Kingsville, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, and Mrs. Eunice R. Keyes Knapp of Norwich, N. Y.; Rev. Harvey M. Campbell of Hamilton, and Mrs. Clarissa C. Conant Campbell of Georgetown, N. Y.; and Miss H. Elizabeth T. Wright of Rochester, N.Y. Messrs. Knapp and Campbell are graduates of Madison University, and are to labor, the former among the Kemees, stationed at Akyab, Arracan, and the latter at Ramree among the Burmese. Miss Wright will be associate teacher in the Karen Normal School at Maulmain. The public services of designation were conducted in the meeting-house of the First Baptist Church in Roxbury, on Sunday evening, 14th ult.; Reading of the Scriptures and Prayer by Rev. J. S. Shailer of Tremont Church, Roxbury; Instructions by the Foreign Secretary; Prayer of Designation by Rev. J. H. Vinton of Burmah ; Address to the missionaries by Rev. T. D. Anderson, pastor of the church; Address to the congregation by Rev. Dr. Hague of Jamaica Plain; Concluding Prayer by Rev. A. C. Thompson, pastor of Eliot Church, Roxbury. On the 18th ult. the missionaries sailed for Calcutta in the ship Arab, Charles Thurston master, accompanied by Mrs. Brayton, who returns with her daughter to Mergui, and Myah A and Kone Louk, Karen assistants. THE MISSIONARY PERIODICALS. The exclusive proprietorship of the Macedonian having been secured to the Missionary Union, on terms which are deemed equi table, both the Magazine and the Macedonian, commencing with January, 1850, will be published at the Missionary Rooms, agreeably to the instructions of the Board. The form and size of the MISSIONARY MAGAZINE are to remain as at present, but it will be printed with new type, and on better paper; and while single copies will continue to be furnished at one dollar a year, four copies will be sent for three dollars, or fifteen copies for ten dollars per year, when they are ordered by one individual, and payment is made strictly in ad vance. The MACEDONIAN will be enlarged to nearly double its present size, and printed with new type, and on better paper. The price of single copies will be twentyfive cents a year,-but six copies will be furnished for one dollar, twenty-four copies for three dollars, and one hundred copies for ten dollars a year. Payments in all cases to be strictly in advance. Both publications will be delivered, monthly, at central places within given districts, free of expense to subscribers. From these points, a list of which will be published in due time, the several packages will be forwarded to their destination agreeably to the directions, and at the expense, of subscribers. 38,60 61,75 Brunswick, 1st ch. 6,50; New Gloucester, ch. 13,35; Freeport, ch. 5.00; Lewiston Falls, ch. 11,00; Individuals at the Asso. 2,75, Damariscotta Asso., B. W. Plummer tr., viz.-Col. 7,97; Jefferson, 2d cn. 6,68; Bristol, ch. 3,25, 17,90 Hancock Asso., D. Morgan tr., viz.-Col. 15,68; Mr. Benton 1,00; D. Clark 50c.; Eden, ch. 6,65; Hancock, 1st ch. 9,20 Trenton, 1st ch. 10,50; do., East ch. 12,50; Sullivan, ch. 4,72; a friend 1,00, Waldo Asso., D. Merrill tr., viz.-Col. 7,96; Belfast, ch. 45,00; Frankfort, 2d ch. 6,11; Liberty, ch. 2,00, Lincoln Asso., A. Perkins tr., viz. Col. 11,97; John Wakefield 10,00; Union, Ist ch., three friends, 1,50; Warren, ch. 57,50; Hope, ch., males 3,00, females 4,00; Thomaston, 1st ch. 12,00; do., 2d ch., D. Brown, 2,00; Friendship, ch. 1,96, 103,93 Oxford Asso., Turner, ch. 26,83 Saco River Asso., I. M. Thompson tr., Buxton, ch. Bowdoinham Asso., Wm. R. Prescott tr., viz.Col. 19,61; Hallowell, ch. 81c.; Fayette, Fem. Miss. Soc. 17,75; Leeds, ch. 1,25; Bowdoinhamville. ch 17,00; Ware, ch. 6,05, 61,07 32,00 DONATIONS Received in September, 1849. Maine. 62,47 Augusta, 1st ch. 13,37 per Rev. J. Wilson, agent, 600,00 Nobleboro', 1st ch. 7,00; Zenas Hall 1,00, 8,00 814,00 Mrs. Eleanor J. Gault L. M., 100,00 Newport, Philip W. Kibbey 1,00; to cons. Samuel Stevens L.M., 100.00 Claremont, Rev. D. Wright Wiscasset, John Sylvester 5,00 1,00, 2,00 Cornville, Joshua Woodman, to 112,00 West Troy, ch. 30,00; Hoosick, ch. 25.62; Pittstown, ch. 1,25; Stephentown, Mr. Allen 1,00; Duanesburgh and Florida, ch. 8,94; Petersburgh, ch. 29,05; Grafton, Abigail M. Tilley 1,00; Olive Scrivner 1,00; Polly M. Jones 1,00; Hannah Scrivner 50c.; a friend 42c.; Kent and Fishkill 3,83; Patterson 4,88; I. M. Towner 1,00; Kent, Abigail Lee 3,00; Bradford, ch. 24,07; females 16,40; Red Mills, ch. 10,00; Cross River, ch. 2,00; Carmel, ch. 53,80; Yorktown, ch. 25,50; Sing Sing, ch. 9,59; Union Asso., col. 25,35; Kent, Hannah Denmons 12c.; Stanford, ch. 13,69; Pine Plains, ch. 3,12; Justus Booth, to cons. himself L. M., 100,00; Benjamin Keller 5,00; Cornelius Husted 5,00; Berlin, ch. 25,50; Schodack, ch. 20,00; Chatham, ch. 3,00; Henry M. Smith, to cons. himself L. M., 100,00; West Hillsdale, ch. 16,75; Hillsdale, R. S. Vandeusen 2,00; East Hillsdale, ch. 41,69; Stephentown Asso., H. T. Douglass tr., 33,03; Nassau, 1st ch. 14,75; Cold Springs, Isaac Jacox, to cons. himself L. M., 100,00; Rensselaerville Asso., A. Griffin tr., (of which $200 is to cons. Rev. Alfred Harvey and Rev. J. B. Van Husen L. M.,) 223,62; Amenia, ch., (of which Amanda Payne, Sally Gurnsey and Electa Reynolds contributed $12 each, to sup. three Karen scholars,) 85,00; Fem. Miss. Soc. 14,50; to cons. Joseph Reynolds L. M. Lebanon Springs, ch. 36,37; Poestenkill, a friend 25c.; Preston 33,75 10,00 Hollow, Rev. H. Cornell 1,00; Westerloo, Jared Reynolds 2,00; Greenville, ch. 7,25; N. Baltimore, Phebe Rundell 1,00; Albany, James Walker 2,00; a friend 37c.; South ch. 25,00; Stanford, Geo. Beckwith 1,00; Dover, 2d ch. 7,00; Dutchess Asso., Joseph German tr., 93,08; to cons. Rev. John Warren, Rev. John Warren, Jr., Isaac C. Brown, Rev. William Arthur, Rev. Alexander Milne and Rev. Edward B. Crandall L. M.; per Rev. O. Dodge, agent, Mrs. Elizabeth Adams 1,00; Central Square 5,00; Jeremiah Higby 10,00; Palaske 19,00; Richland, ch. 3,68; Ebenezer Ferris 1,00; Mexicoville 1,85; Oswego, ch. 23,00; Broad St. ch., Sab. Sch. Miss. Soc, to sup. a Karen teacher under the care of Rev. C. Bennett, 25,00; Hannibal, 6,05; Fulton, 22,00; Roger Thompson 25c.; Joseph Vickery 1,00; Samuel Foot 1,00; Phoenix 84c.; Mr. Hayden 1,00; Skaneateles 8,02; H. L. Bean 5,00; Broome and Tioga Asso., E. Steadman tr., 21,69; Ann M. Conklin 5,00; Martha Conklin 2,00; B. G. Harris 1,00; a friend 2,00; Mary Carr 50c.; Mrs. Hovey 12c.; Mrs. Betsey Buck 1,00; Solomon Morse 5,00; B. J. Haight 5,00; Rev. D. Leach 1,00; Mrs. M. Leach 1,00; H. M. Champlin 5,00; Allen Newton 1,00; per Rev. A. Bennett, agent, Rochester, L. C. H. Pennsylvania. Newcastle, Fem. For. Miss. Soc. Eaton, ch. and cong. 3,50; Monroe, ch. and cong. 2,05; Tunkhannock 45c., Smithfield, viz. Samuel Farwell 2,00; Lucy T. Farwell 1,00; Louisa Farwell 25c.; Olive Farwell 13c.; S. B. Gerald 25c.; cash 37c., Indiana. 1267,70 Northern Indiana Asso., Wm. H. H. Whitehead tr., of (which $10 is from Wm. Leith, of Doorvill, and $10 from Fem. Miss. Soc. of do,) to cons. Rev. Alex. Nickerson L. M., Assam. Gowahatti, Major Francis Jenkins, towards the passage of two Assamese lads to the United States, 186,00 20,00 -1473,70 5,00 6,00 4,00 15,00 110,00 90,91 $3518,46 Total from April 1 to Sept. 29, $26,155,01. THE BAPTIST MISSIONARY MAGAZINE. VOL. XXIX. DECEMBER, 1849. NO. 12. American Baptist Missionary Union. MAULMAIN. Journal of Rev. Mr. Ste- the earth, and are exerting a salutary vens. (Continued from p. 402.) Kandote-Accustomed to evil. 66 "O yes; influence upon this place and the surrounding villages. Called at the house of Ko Shoon and had much conversation with his Ko will yet become a Christian. Shoon formerly lived at Kaudote, and was baptized with Ko A by br. Haswell. His wife gave me a very interesting account of br. Haswell's first visit to their village, and of the effect produced upon her own mind and the minds of others, by his exposure of the folly of their idol worship. It opened their eyes at once and awakened new trains of thought, although they could not immediately embrace Christianity. This woman has abandoned many of her heathen notions, and seems to be drawing nearer and nearer to the gospel. Her confidence is increasing, so that she has said to many of her relatives that she intends to become a disciple. 12. Through Ko Tau Mngay as in-wife, who gives us reason to hope she terpreter from Burmese into Taling, I conversed with a company of women who were preparing materials for braiding mats. They were ready with the old story, "Our fathers from time immemorial trod this path and we cannot forsake it." "Do you not worship the nats?" I asked. Talings could not live without that," they replied. "But do you not know, that according to the law of Gaudama, which you profess so much to revere, nat worship is heresy?" "Yes," said an old woman, the chief person of the company, "I have heard so; but whatever be the consequence, we must go on in our old way." How applicable the language of Ezekiel, "He set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones; and caused me to pass by them round about; and behold, there were very many in the open valley, and lo, they were very dry." Nevertheless must and will we preach, that these dry bones may live. 25. Sabbath. Before breakfast a man from Hneet-king called. I endeavored to impress on his mind the He acknowledged that all I said was infinite importance of eternal realities. good; but, said he, "Teacher, to be honest, my attachment to the customs of my fathers is yet too strong to allow me to enter your religion." Questioned and addressed the Sabbath school; preached at the usual hour, and administered the ordinance of the Lord's Supper to a promising band of disciples. 26. Came up to Kyouktan with my fellow-laborers, Ko Oung Men, Moung Shway Moung and Moung Ket. An open zayat, with a few borrowed mats, furnishes us with very good accommodations, and it being a public place on the bank of the stream, we found a |