Assam. S. M. WHITING, Aug. 20, 21, Oct. 3.-A. H. DANFORTH, Aug. 22, Oct. 24 (2).-M. BRONSON, Aug. 17, 24, Sept. 4, 15, 28 (2), Oct. 8, 21.-I. J. STODDARD, Aug. 18, Sept. 2, 18, Oct. 8, 11.-W. WARD, Oct. 8, 13. Teloogoos. MISSION, Nov. 7.-L. JEWETT, Sept. 24, Oct. 11, 24 (2), Nov. 10.-F. A. DOUGLASS, Nov. 9. Siam. W. ASHMORE, July 17.-J. H. CHANDLER, July 28, Sept. 11.-R. TELFORD, Aug. 22.-Miss H. H. MORSE, Nov. 7. China. NINGPO.-E. C. LORD, Aug. 31, j. April 7— Sept. 18. HONGKONG.-J. W. JOHNSON, Oct. 11. France. E. WILLARD, Oct. 30 (2), Dec. 1 (2). Germany. G. W. LEHMANN, Nov. 17.-J. G. ONCKEN, Dec. 5. Cherokees. W. P. UPHAM, Nov. 3.-J. B. JONES, Oct. 30. -E. JONES, Dec. 24. Ojibwas. A. BINGHAM, Nov. 13. DONATIONS. RECEIVED IN DECEMBER, 1855. Brooklin, Fem. Miss. Soc., Sarah New Hampshire. Stratham, ch. 5; Dover, Michael Grant 1; Nashua, Miss Mary Johnson. to cons. herself L. M., 100; Exeter, Rev. F. Merriam, 10 per ct. on L. M. for def., 10; State Convention, A. J. Prescott tr., Vermont. West Haven, ch. 12; Passumpsic, ch., L. P. Parks tr., 19; Jericho, ch., of wh. 25 fr. Fem. Miss. Soc., and to cons. Dea. Elijah B. Reed L. M., 100; Massachusetts. Brookline, ch., mon. con. 23; New Bedford, 1st ch. 125; William G. E. Pope, for def. and to cons. his son, Edward Ritchie Pope, and Mrs. Emily B. Pope, L. M.'s, 200; Holyoke Sem., a friend" 180.00 130.00 116.00 100.00 216.00 Orph. Sch., 25; Charles S. Kendall, Esq., for def., 100; Rockport, ch. 5; Abington, 1st ch. 113.34; Worcester County Asso. N. Uxbridge, ch., N. Tyler tr., Charlestown, 1st ch. and soc., per Joseph Carter, tr., to cons. Mrs. Lavantia Hopper L. M., 102; Lexington, ch. 14: Newton, Rev. B. A. Edwards, 10 per ct. on L. M., for def., 10; Lanesboro,' ch. 6; Worcester, Pleasant St. ch., mon. con. 9; Amherst, ch., J. C. Nelson tr., 12; West Boylston, ch., per Rev. J. Aldrich, agent, Rhode Island. State Convention, R. B. Chapman tr., Providence, 1st ch., mon. con. Nov. and Dec., 31.61; an. sub., O. Johnson, collector, 18; fem. members, per Mrs. S. N. Boiles, tr., 136.97; 5th ch., Sab. Sch. 7.37; Pawtucket, 1st ch., of wh. 100 fr. Mrs. Whitman Bates, to cons. herself L. M., per Rev. J. Aldrich, agent, Connecticut. 443 34 State Convention, W. Griswold tr., Packersville, ch., for def., 5; Willington, ch., for def., 14 25; Stafford, ch., tow. Miss Vinton's outfit and passage, 18; Rev. F. L. Batchelder, for def., 10; Meriden, ch., 44.82; Suffield, Dea. Chauncy Sheldon, 10 per ct. on L. M., for def., 10; Henry P. Kent, 10 per ct. on L. M., for def., 10; Saybrook, 1st ch. 10; 10.00 153.00 "A Lady in Connecticut," for def., East Lime, 1st ch., of wh. 25 fr. Dr. J. L. Smith, for Nowgong Orph. Sch., 70.50; 2nd ch. 66.12; per Rev. J. Aldrich, agent, New York. 40.00 1125.89 193.95 233.84 427.79 92.07 30.00 1000.00 136.62 1258.69 800.00 71.24 17.75 80.00 New York city, 1st ch., For. Miss. Soc., additional for def., per John B. Durbrow, tr., Broome and Tioga Asso., J. B. Todd, 1; Spencer, ch. 28.46; J. Willsey 5; Maine, 1st ch. 13.50; Willseyville, ch. 1; Caroline, 1st ch. 17; Tioga Centre, ch. 4.66; Barton, a friend 62 cents; per Rev. H. A. Smith, agent, St. Lawrence Asso., Ogdensburg, ch., per Rev. H. A. S., agent, Oswego Asso., Oswego, 1st ch., per Rev. II. A S., agent, Cattaraugus Asso, P. Burlingame tr., per Rev. S. M.Osgood,agent, 30.00 Erie Asso., H. Crissey tr., Dunkirk, ch. 6.50; Forestville, ch., 12.25; Randolph, ch. 4.22; Stockton, ch. 257; H. Crissey, 10 per ct. on L. M., for def., 10; per Rev. S. M. O., agent, Genesee Asso., George Kempt tr., Perry ch., Emily Olin 3; Ann Olin 1; Mrs. L. Moss 1; per Rev. S. M. O., agent, Genesee River Asso., Geo. Wheeler tr., Allen, ch., Rev. H. H. Cutler 1; Gainsville, ch. 6.31; Grove and Portage, ch. 10.25; Hermitage, ch. 4.57; Pike, ch. 30.36; per Rev. S. M. O., agent, 52.49 Hudson River Asso North, Rondout, ch. 5; Rosendale, ch. 12.33; Saugerties, ch. 21.67; Catskill, 35.54 5.00 ch. 80; Athens, ch. 17; Hudson, ch. 42; A.B. Hathaway 5: Kingston, ch. 38; West Hillsdale, eh. 30; A. Van De Boe, 10 per ct. on L. M., for def., 10; Mrs. Hannah Van De Boe, to cons, herself L. M., 100; T. M. Burt, with other donas. to cons. Mrs. T. M. Burt L. M., 25; Mrs. S. Luddington 10; Poughkeepsie, Central sq. ch. 12.25; M. Vassar 20; M. Vassar 2d 7; M. Vanderhoop 5; per Rev. O. Dodge, agent, New York Asso., Newburgh, ch., per Rev. O. D., agent, Saratoga Asso., Burnt Hills, ch., per Rev. O. D., agent, Worcester Asso., Maryland, ch. 2; W. M. Goddard 25; per Rev. O. D., agent, Dutchess Asso., Red Hook, ch. 1.50; Rhinebeck, ch. 6.86; Mr. Kelley's family, with other donas. to cons. Mrs. S. W. Culver L. M., as follows: William Kelley 25; Mrs. W. Kelley 5; Miss Mary Jane Kelley 10; Hyde Park, ch. 3.57; Poughkeepsie, 1st ch. 20; J. C. Harvey 10; per Rev. O. D., agent, Harmony Asso., J. B. Burrows tr., per Rev. O. D., agent, Albany, 1st ch. Ladies Miss. Soc., Mrs. Alfred Mayell tr., to sup. Reuben Jeffery in Assam Orph. Sch., 25; J. F. Rathbone, for German Mission, 500; L. Rathbone, for the German Mission, 500; Morrisania, Stephen Angell 10; Tioga, J. A. Hadley 1; Guilford, 2nd ch., mon. con. 4; Fayette, ch., mon. con. 2; Troy, North ch., a fem. mem. 5; Jay, David Piper, 10 per ct. on L. M., for def., 10; Nassau, Miss Mary Harder, for def, 2.75; Rockwood, Eld. William and S. Thomson 5; Albion, ch., for def., 41; Lowville, ch. and cong. 11.75; Orangeville, Mrs. Lydia Sayse 1; Willsboro', Miss Isabella Sheldon 75 cts. Monroe Asso, William N. Sage tr., Rochester, 1st ch.. 184.25; Rochester, German ch. 5; Henrietta, ch. 10.50; United Henrietta, ch. 7.50; Wheatland, ch. 9.00; Penfield, ch. 47.12; Churchville, ch. 46: Mendon, ch. 10; Chili, 2.50; Mumford, ch. 9; 2nd Sab. Sch. 28.26; to cons. Gideon W. Burbank and E. T. Whitney L. M.'s, Pennsylvania. Monongahela Asso., Mt. Moriah ch., Ladies' sew. soc., 10 per ct. on Rev. J. D. King's L. M., for def., 10; per Rev. S. M. Osgood, agent, Philadelphia Asso., Upland, ch. 41,69; Philadelphia, 11th ch., Rev. S. M. Osgood, Mrs. C. W. Osgood, Miss Julia M. Osgood, Mrs. Ada B. Osgood and the late Miss F. M. Osgood, each 10 per ct. on L. M., for def., 50; per Rev. S. M. O., agent, Pittsburg Asso., McKeesport, ch., per Rev. S. M. O., agent, Wyoming Asso., Eaton, ch., per Rev. S. M. O., agent, Bellmont, Welch Bap. ch. 10; Eaton, Thomas Mitchel 2; Braintrem, Mrs. H. Gregory 1.50; Lois Baldwin 25 cts; Adelaide Baldwin 25 cts; 440.25 32.00 7.82 27.00 81.93 Delaware. Philadelphia Asso., Wilmington, 2nd chi., per Rev. S. M. Osgood, agent, Ohio. Oak Hill, Thomas W. Evans, 1; Le Roy, Sally Phillips 2; Paines ville,ch., for def, 5.50; Norwalk, ch., mon. con. July to Dec. 51; Berlin, ch. 5; Rev. A. J. Ellis 5; Peru, P. E. Eaton 10; Bedford, a friend 3; Casstown,ch. 8; Union, ch. 4; Cincinnati, 9th st. ch., J. Emery, for def., 5; Cutter, st. Sab. Sch. 15: Dayton, Wayne st. ch. 5.53; Lebanon, ch. 45.12; do., Sab. Sch. 5.42; Huntington, ch. 4; Columbus, ch. 100; per Rev. J. Stevens, agent, Indiana. Indianapolis, J. R. Osgood, for def., 57; Sab. Sch., to sup. J. R. Osgood, Ora Osgood and Sydney Dyer in Nowgong Orph. Sch., 75; 56.87 Illinois. Kaneville, ch. 1119.25 359.13 10.00 Michigan. Pipe Stone, Mrs. Boughton 1; Safine, ladies of the ch., tow. sup. of Martha L. Evans in Assain Orph. Sch., 15; Medina, ch., per Rev. J. Stevens, agent, Wisconsin. Sheboygan, ch. 3; Rev. Perley Work, 10 per ct. on L. M., for def., 10; Iowa. Burlington, ch., of wh. 10 is 10 per et. on Rev. G. J. Johnson's L M., for def., 94.50 300.00 181.07 275.57 132.00 20.00 20.00 16.00 6.00 22.00 13.00 13 00 25.00 25.00 intrigue, and lecture occasionally on Chinese or Indian history? - Relieve the annals of popery and the Reformation with the history of the parallel conflict of Brahmanism and Buddhism? Of the hundreds of Americans that annually A liberal man is one who gives largely in proportion to his means. Should his see no land after they lose sight of Nameans increase, his donations must in-hant or Sandy Hook till reaching the crease also, or he ceases to be liberal. desolate Sunderbunds at the mouths of So with education. When our attain- the Ganges; how few are aware that able objects of knowledge were confined those islands, now without an inhabitant, to Europe, to become acquainted with and wholly abandoned to the tigers and the things of Europe constituted a lib-crocodiles, were the site of a famous eral education; but our means for ac- college before the Christian era, when quiring more extensive knowledge have the ancestors of those who dash by in increased. Egypt and Assyria, India steamers were naked savages; and that and China, have as much to interest there were three cities on one island as Americans, in the nineteenth century, late as when the Portuguese first came to as Greece or Italy, Germany or France. India. How few missionaries, as they The hieroglyphics and the cunei-form pass to their field of labor, and see characters contain history older than St. Thomas' mount looming up in the Herodotus-the father of history-in a distance behind Madras, are aware that text that has not been corrupted by when St. Thomas came to India to careless copyists. Sanskrit and Pali preach the gospel, before them, the have wrapt up within them, the sources ruling prince was called Gond-o-phares, of both the language and philosophy of of a Scythian dynasty that then govRome and Athens. "Rivers unknown erned India, a name nearly identical to song" have been the scenes of more with Gundaforus, under whom, tradiearth-moving events than the Tiber or tion says, St. Thomas suffered martyrthe Ilissus; the Rhine, the Rhone, or dom. the Rubicon. Why should not our professors of history pause from the oft-told tale of European wars with European The missionary may have had the best education the academy, the college, and the theological school usually give; yet when he stands up to address a serpents, and tigers, - are neither rare crowd in India, however complacently nor agreeable; but they are far overhe may look on his own attainments, he balanced by the pleasure of cultivating stands there in their midst an ignorant the virgin soil, and watching truth deman, precisely as a Chinese would in velope itself in the untaught mind. In Faneuil Hall fresh from Pekin with his Christian lands, the hand of the artificer literary degree, learned in his own is seen in every thing; even in religion. eyes, it may be, but ignorant in the eyes The babes in Christ have the exact feaof his audience. He is in a new world. tures of the stereotyped catechisms. The literature is as new to him as the They are Calvinists or Arminians, Bapcountry, and their modes of thought as tists or Presbyterians, Methodists or their language. He has to commence Episcopalians, according to their godhis education anew. The people are so fathers and god-mothers. The church familiar with grammar, that Kalidasa, is like the conservatory. The flowers the Indian Shakspeare, compares the which often call forth the greatest admiunion of a general with his army to the ration, God never made in the form we connection of a verb and an inseparable see them. They are monsters. God preposition; and marriage to a crude created the flowers with petals, and noun united to its suffixes of case and stamens, and pistils; but man by cultinumber. "We pass you by," they will vation has changed the whole to petals, sometimes say, "as the river, flowing to calls them double flowers, and fancies he the ocean, passes the base of the moun- has greatly improved on the original tain. Your words make no more im- creation. pression upon us than the moon's rays on the petals of the lotus, unclosed till the sun appears. We worship the god of our fathers; immeasurable, yet meas-ism, because he has not the thing it deuring the world; free from desire, yet imparting it; ungoverned, yet conqueror; unmanifested, yet the source of all external manifestation; of one form, yet vested with various, like the variation of chrystal owing to superadded color; dwelling in the heart, yet not near; old, yet not growing old; omniscient, yet not known; the home of all things, yet selfexistent; ruler of all, subject to no ruler; one, yet of multiplied forms. As gems are more valuable than the ocean, as its effulgence is brighter than the sun, so are his deeds far too superior for praise." These are the cultivated heathen; but the missionary has lessons to learn also from the uncultivated. The Karen in his simplicity, where "ignorance is bliss," knows but one gospel, and no sect. He has no word for signates. Knowing no creed, he believes in the words of Christ and his apostles. Having no commentary, he interprets the Bible by the light of his Christian experience based on his innate common sense. Occasionally the missionary hears of a member of his jungle congregation preaching the truth with power, before he hears of his conversion. The man has become a new creature, determined both on what he believes and on what he can recommend others to believe, received a call to preach, obeyed it, and gathered the fruits of his labors around him, in less time than a "standing committee" would decide on his fitness to enter the church. A Karen never stands The dangers and discomforts of a doubting. If he believes, there is no voyage to the antipodes are neither few question in his mind but he has faith; nor small, and the last, to the missionary, and unsuggested, he proceeds to show are usually more than the first; "the his faith by his works. Should he dehair-breadth escapes" now in open ceive himself, he discovers it not by reboats on the coast by squalls and bores-flection, but by action. He says to himanon in journeys by land from crocodiles, self in the language of Goethe: "Try to do thy duty, and thou wilt quickly pursue a more judicious course with a know what is in thee."* violent, unbelieving father? All whom he encountered, Karens and Burmans, had to hear him tell, "What a dear Saviour I have found!" and have it demonstrated that he was a Saviour to all who believed, by an appeal to the books he carried in his wallet. I first met him three or four weeks after his baptism, when a party of Karens came in to Tavoy to accompany Mr. Boardman out to the jungles. They were the first Karens I had seen; and whenever we met, in town, by the way, and at our encampment, I improved the leisure moments by asking the Karen nearest to me the names of objects in his own language, and noted down the answers. I soon found that one young man was always near me to reply to my inquiries, and on asking his name was told " Moung Shatoo." This proved in the end to be the Burman name of Sau Quala, and the only name by which he was known in the mission for several years. Preaching the gospel, with a converted Karen, is a spontaneous act. He no more thinks of asking for a license to preach, than he does for a license to pray. He thinks as little about the duty to preach, as he does of the duty to eat when he is hungry. He does the latter from the instinct of his animal nature, the former from the impulse of his spiritual life. When I took charge of the station at Tavoy, I found, among the first Karens baptized by Mr. Boardman, one man who could read Burmese very well, but had no power to communicate his ideas with facility to others. Another was unable to read, but was 66 apt to teach," and able to speak with great fluency and animation. Without consulting the missionary, without asking for authority or permission, without soliciting, expecting, or receiving remuneration for their labors, whenever circumstances allowed, they went out together itinerating throughout the region around. Whenever they got together an assem- While encamped in the forest, exambly, the reader read a portion of a Bur-ining the candidates who came crowding man tract or Scripture, and the speaker for baptism-the last act of Mr. Boardexpounded and exhorted in Karen.-man's missionary life, the first of mine Very few men who have left our theological schools have been so successful preachers as these were. They sent to the missionary multitudes of inquirers. This was done by "ignorant Karens," the wholly untaught sons of the forest; but with all the accumulated experience of nineteen centuries, what wiser course, to improve the talents that God had given them, could be suggested by the wisest synod in Christendom? So soon as Quala had commenced to read, he began to read and expound the Christian books to all he met. His mother and brother engaged his first attention; and when his father listened and opposed, he replied to all his arguments, not in his own language but in the words of Scripture. Could this untutored boy have been counselled to *Versuche deine Pflicht zu thun, und du weist gleich, was in dir ist." They we had three meetings daily; and Quala, |