Discounts on drafts, bank notes and counterfeit money, Legal documents, and services in settling wills, &c., Copying papers, Porter, and care of rooms, Balance of expense of removal of book-keeper from Hartford, Distribution of periodicals in Calcutta, 48 68 217 13 89 20 11 32 2291 94 158 07 67 63 29 00 194 59 12.00 15 92 Portrait of Dr. Judson, 150 00 Total expenditures of the Union, Balance for which the Union was in debt April 1, 1855, $104,528 42 61,333 25 $165,861 67 RECEIPTS OF THE UNION DURING THE YEAR ENDING MARCH 31,1856. Donations as acknowledged in the Missionary Magazine, 111,646 43 One year's interest on bequest of the late Miss Martha 6,488 38 563 00 100 00 Paid balance of salaries of Secretaries and Assistant 2,370 00 Balance on hand April 1, 1856, 2 62 The Auditing Committee, having examined the account of the Treasurer of the American Baptist Missionary Union for the year ending March 31, 1856, with the vouchers, hereby certify that they find the same correct, and that a balance of thirty-eight thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars and eighty-six cents was due from the Union on the first day of April, A. D. 1856. They have also examined the evidences of stocks, &c., belonging to the Union, and find that they agree with the statements on the treasury books. J. B. WITHERBEE, Missionary Rooms, Boston, May 5, 1856. Auditing Committee. PREACHERS AT TRIENNIAL AND ANNUAL MEETINGS. NAMES. Richard Furman, D. D., S. C.... Thomas Baldwin, D. D., Mass.... O. B. Brown, D. C. .... William Staughton, D. D., D. C.... Elon Galusha, N. Y. G. W. Eaton, D. D., N. Y. M. J. Rhees, Del. E L. Magoon, N. Y. Robert Turnbull, D. D., Conn... Robert W. Cushman, D.D., Mass.. Heb. 12: 28, 29... * The appointed preacher having failed. SAU QUALA: THE SECOND KAREN CONVERT. (Continued from p. 169.) Revival Labors. When God had created man in his own image, only a little lower than himself, he said not, "Look upwards toward heaven my throne, and study the stars;" nor, "downwards toward the earth my footstool, and study the rocks, flowers and butterflies;" nor "inward on thine own mind, and gaze on the theatre of thought." But he said, "Cultivate the land and become a farmer." Adam, who either could not or would not dig, soon tired of the work, and determined to become a philosopher. He was a great lover of wisdom, had irrepressible cravings for knowledge, and sought to be like God. He obtained the inverse of his pursuit. He was driven away from the Divine presence, and the godhead, to which he aspired, passed away from his conceptions. It was an inspired thought, to represent the knowledge of God among the heathen nations, as forgotten knowledge. That which is forgotten still exists in the mind. Every impression made on the soul remains fixed by immutable laws, never to be erased. A daguerreotype plate, thrown up to the sun, receives an image. It is there stamped. Yet we may gaze upon it in vain to discover the slightest trace, till placed in the appointed circumstances for its development; but no sooner is the heat applied, than out leaps the picture with all the freshness of a new creation. So with our forgotten knowledge. It lies on the tablets of memory, as the likeness on the plate, it may be for tens of years, without revealing a single line. But when some favorable circumstance occurs, up it springs in bold relief, as life-like and perfect as the knowledge of yesterday. The laws by which our forgotten knowledge is thus revivified have not been discovered, but they are clearly dependent on our feelings. By some law of mental affinity, our knowledge appears to classify itself, and to take its place in different compartments of the cabinet of memory, connected with different emotions; like the wires and keys in a piano. Touch the emotion, and the slumbering knowledge speaks out. Thus grief for the death of a friend calls up a multitude of his praiseworthy acts that had been forgotten; a sudden fall from prosperity to adversity brings vividly to remembrance the details of former enjoyments, that had passed away unnoted; while deep and pungent sorrow for sin raises the ghosts of all our past sins of thought, word and deed, in panorama before us. Hence the Bible teaches that the instrumentality by which the forgot- | have had the work of grace deepened in ten knowledge of God is to be recalled their hearts, and some in a very remark to the nations is the preaching of Christ crucified. When the emotion of thankfulness to God for his "unspeakable gift" to redeem lost man from his sins is aroused, the knowledge of God springs up after it spontaneously. able manner. One man, of whom I stood in doubt when he first came forward, became, before the meeting closed, one of the most active and prayerful in the congregation. Among the strangers that came who were converted, there were a few very remarkable cases. I will mention one. At nearly the close of the first week, Mr. Vinton had one of the assistants write down the names of some of the principal unconverted people in the neighborhood, and he read them at one of the evening meetings as sub There are analogies in the world of nature. I have seen the Hopia trees felled that have stood for untold generations, and the ground all burnt over; and after a crop of rice has been planted and gathered on the spot, I have watched a thick growth of the camphor plant, belonging to a widely different natural fam-jects for prayer. Among these names ily, springing up in the same place, not a single individual of which had ever been seen there before. The seeds had lain in the earth, perhaps ever since the deluge, waiting for the favorable circum-we had no business to write down his stances for their development. The work of the missionary then, is not so much to communicate the knowledge of God, as to use God's appointed means to awaken the emotion by which the knowledge of God is revived in the heathen mind. Facts sustain these principles. No sooner has the convert from idolatry received Christ as his Saviour, than his knowledge of God appears complete, as if by intuition; and his remarkable intelligence in divine things is often the subject of remark, contrasting so strongly, as it frequently does, with his other attainments. "I write you," was my language twelve years ago, "from the midst of one of the most interesting scenes ever witnessed in the Karen jungles. Our protracted meeting of three weeks' continuance closed last Sunday in the most interesting of circumstances. Forty-three were baptized, and about twenty more expressed hopes during the last week of the meeting, or since it closed. Of those baptized, only three dated their conversion since the meeting commenced; but many of them were very doubtful cases before, and had no idea of putting on Christ by baptism when they first assembled with us. Nearly, nay, perhaps all, was that of a bookho, or religious teacher, a man of some importance in his circle, who, hearing that his name had thus been used, became very angry. He said name, and pray for him. Nothing further was heard of him till the close of the second week, when, on Saturday afternoon, he walked with his wife into the meeting. On being interrogated, after worship, he said: "I have not come to be a Christian, but to hear." We saw the hand of God in his coming, and be fore Sunday evening had passed away, he publicly declared himself on the Lord's side; he was determined to become a Christian, he said, and that now. On Monday morning, he and his wife came up to be prayed with, and before returning home they were changed persons. As soon as they reached their house, a son-in-law, who lived with them, on learning they had become Christians became greatly enraged, and declared that he would leave both their house and their neighborhood, which he ultimately did. This is a grievous trial to the old people. The son-in-law has lived with them many years, and their grand-children have multiplied around them.Moreover, according to Karen custom, the sons-in-law usually cultivate the field for the parents of their wives. Still the old man is as calm and unmoved as if nothing had occurred. After communion last Sabbath, this same man, that had |