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and the Persian Gulf. We are indebt- voted labourers in this field, and to ed for the following particulars to the awaken fervent prayer for the abunvaluable digest in the annual survey in dant influences of the Holy Spirit on the Missionary Register, to which we these now benighted regions, preparefer those of our readers who wish to ratory to that signal overthrow of antiexamine the detail of proceedings at christ which shall take place in the each particular station.

predicted battle of that great day of The shores of the above-mentioned God Almighty. seas are inhabited chiefly by two great The course of proceeding required in classes of persons-Mohammedans and these parts is sketched in the Instrucnon-Protestant Christians. Access is tions of the Church Missionary Socieobtained by these seas to all the strong ty delivered to the Rev. W. Jowett, in holds of Mohammedanism; and they the year 1815. The proper object and wash the shores of all those nations present work of missions in these seas which form the strength of Popery, and are there stated to be twofold: 1. Acof those other countries also whose quiring information, by corresponChristianity has suffered under its blight- dence, conference, and observation, on ing influence or its corrupt example the state of religion and of society, and There bas been an almost simultaneous on the best means of meliorating that movement, of late years, for the benefit state : 2. The propagation of Christian of these regions, among the three great knowledge ; by the press, by journeys, divisions of Protestants--those of the and by the education of natives ;- such United Kingdom, of the Continent of journeys being prosecuted not only Europe, and of the United States of with the view of extending the sphere America. At the beginning of the pre- of conference and observation, but to sent century, not a single missionary communicating Christian knowledge, from these quarters could be found by the circulation of books, by the dethroughout these vast regions; there are claration of truth whenever practicanow more than forty, a considerable ble, by promoting the establishment of number of whom are married, actually schools and searching out young naengaged in the different labours appro- tives to educate for the Christian mi. priate to these countries, or on their nistry. This course of proceeding is way thither: and many of these are amply developed in the two volumes of men of high character, not only in re- Researches since furnished by Mr. spect of piety, but of talents and attain- Jowett; and its advantages are fully ments also. The number would have confirmed by the experience of other been, however, still greater, had not missionaries. some difficulties led to the withdrawing By the instrumentality of Protestant of about twelve missionaries from the Christians only, is there any reasonable territory of Russia ; part by the United hope that the full power of religion Brethren and the London Missionary will be felt throughout these regions. Society from Sarepta, and the rest by The fallen churches will not reform the Scottish Missionary Society from themselves, till stimulated by those Karass, the Crimea, Astrachan, and which are already reformed ; nor will Orenburg.

the Mohammedan antichrist be subduMany circumstances combine thus to ed but by that sword of the Spirit attract the hopes and efforts of the purer which reformed churches alone can part of the Christian church to this and will wield with effect. But Proquarter. The field is indeed of a na- testant Christians have, in almost eveture so different from that offered ry part of these countries, to make throughout the many hundred millions their way with difficulty. The characof the pagan world that it requires a ter of their proceedings must, perhaps, course of proceeding in some measure for a long season, be migratory, rather peculiar to itself, as there are special than fixed and local; and their work difficulties and obstacles in the way; preparatory rather than that of open such progress has, nevertheless, been and avowed ministers of the Gospel. already made, as to offer the fullest They have to communicate truth in encouragement to increased exertions. the very regions where the apostles On these several topics we shall dwell first diffused it, but under very differa little : for we are anxious to see a ent circumstances : they are not only great augmentation of able and de- devoid of that authoritative commission,

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sanctioned by constant interpositions monk or nun, from holding intercourse of the Divine power, which demanded with the missionaries, or receiving obedience; but they have to labour their Bibles or Tracts. Mr. Lewis, a among a people, not merely indifferent missionary, remarks on this apathema, or contemptuous as the ancient Pagans as connected with the Firman of the were, or prejudiced as the Jews, but Porte; “ The Patriarch and Council among Mohammedans hostile to Christ, took great care to prevent this producand among professed Christians, many tion from falling into our hands. Howof whom are determined against all ever, notwithstanding every precaureformation.

tion, we have at last obtained it; and To the direct exercise of the minis- now I give it for the benefit of the Britry among the natives there is, indeed, tish public, as a specimen of a Mount in most of these countries, an almost Lebanon Bull. If the people of the insuperable bar. Sound principles of Roman Catholic persuasion (whether civil liberty will, however, wherever they wish it or not) must be debarred they prevail, relax the bonds of reli- from the use of the word of God, is this gious intolerence: Mr. Lowndes, Mr. a reason why thousands and tens of Hartley, and others, begin to feel this thousands of others, of different persuawith respect to the Greeks; but till suasions, and unconnccted with the the time shall come when the public Roman Church, should be likewise der preaching of Christ crucified shall prived of the sacred Scriptures? Why bless these regions, enlightened and de- should not the Armenians, and Syrians, vont ministers may still in various and Copts, and Abyssinians, as well as ways become the means of effecting the thousands of the Greek Church, be incalculable good.

permitted to avail themselves of BriThe restraints on the exercise of the tish benevolence, and of the bread of Christian ministry form, however, but heaven; famishing as they are, in want a part of the obstacles opposed, in these of the staff of life, and willing to recountries, to the propagation of the Gos- ceive it when offered to them? And pel. The circulation of the Scriptures is the Gospel of the blessed Saviour to is becoming an object of dread both to be denied to the Jewish people scatterRoman Catholics and Mohammedans ; ed throughout the Ottoman empire ? and from Rome and from Mecca, sys« Such, however, and more, are the evil tematic and determined opposition is consequences intended to be the result shown to the enlightening of these re- of the present prohibitory Firmâns.” gions. Where the Pope can exercise

Of the influence of these violent authority in directly crushing the cir- measures, however, the American culation of the Scriptures, he exer

Board take a different view, which circises it without reserve; but where his cumstances have since confirmed. subjects live under Mohammedan go- They remarked; “ Difficulties, great vernments, he employs the arm of the and many, do indeed lie in the way. latter. The arrest and temporary im- The errors of a thousand years are not prisonment, in this manner, of the to be easily and at once eradicated. American Missionaries, the Rev. Pliny The sons of the false prophet will not Fisk and the Rev. Isaac Bird, at Jeru- be inclined to rejoice in the progress salem, are known to our readers. of truth; nor can the disciples of the Another instance of the fears and hos- man of sin be expected to favour the tility of the Romanists has occurred in growth of righteousness. With regard reference to the College of Antoura to the Firmãn of the Grand Seignior, on Mount Lebanon, which the Rev. though by far the most serious instance Lewis Way rented for the use of mis- of opposition which has hitherto occur. sionaries, who have been obliged to red, the prevailing belief of the misleave it, through the interference of sionaries is, that it will not long opethe College of the Propaganda at rate as a material bindrance to their Rome. The anathema of the Maronite proceedings. At Aleppo, although the Patriarch against the Scriptures and people who had received copies of the against the Protestant missionaries, Scriptures were threatened with death issued in January 1824,) is a most hos- if they refused to give them up, it was tile edict; utterly forbidding all the not ascertained that a single copy was Maronites, of whatsoever state or con- given up, or that a single individual dition, whether secular or regular; suffered injury on that accotat.” Of the progress which has been already The communications made to the ipade, the Board say ; “ At Malta, at Church Missionary Society, to the Alexandria, along the banks of the American Board, and to the Jews' SoNile, at Jerusalem, and on the shores ciety, by their respective representaof the Mediterranean, from El Arish on tives, are full of interest : those to the the south to Tripolis on the north, Church Missionary Society have been tracts filled with Divine truth, and the rendered peculiarly useful by having holy Scriptures, the fountain of truth, been embodied in the two volumes of have been disseminated; and, in nume- Researches by Mr. Jowett ; in each rous instances, have been placed in the of which he has furnished hints and hands of those who will carry them in- suggestions for shaping future measures, to remote and still more benighted occupying nearly a third of his first, countries. In Jerusalem, the ancient and more than a fourth of his second capital o the visible church, the stand- volume, which could not have been ard of ruth and righteousness has supplied but by experience and obserbeen erected-it is hoped never more vation in the midst of the people for to be permanently removed. Among whose advantage he labours, and 'The mountains of Lebanon, the Gospel which will incalculably assist those has been proclaimed to Druses, Ma- who may follow. ronites, Syrians, and Creeks. Jordan Not discouraged, therefore, with the and the Dead Sea have heard the sound, difficulties in their way, the progress and Bethlehem, Capernaum, and Naz- already made, and the opportunities for areth. In that most interesting portion new exertions opening before them, inof the world, the light of life, after cline the great body of missionaries, having been for ages quite extinguish- not only to patient perseverance in that ed, has been rekindled.”

course of proceeding which the pecuWe might greatly extend this re- liar circumstances of these countries cord of beneficial operations. The isk require, but to plead earnestly for an ands and continent of Greece, Asia increase of labourers.-Chr. Obs. Minor, Constantinople, the shores of the Black and Caspian Seas, the bauks

the Tigris and Euphrates, and remote Abyssinia, with some of the Barbary States, have all, in a greater or less degree, felt the advantage of the

In the month of March. recent researches and exertions of To the American Education Society, Christian societies.

$685.35. In the acquisition of information for To the American Board, $2847.17. the wise adaptation of measures to va- To the Baptist General Convention, rying circumstances, advances have (from the 1st to the 24th March) been made beyond all expectation. $1783.03.

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ORDINATIONS AND INSTALLATIONS.

Feb. 22.- The Rev. STEPHEN PEET gregational church at New Ipswich was ordained and installed Pastor of the N. H. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Fay, church in Euclid, Ohio. Sermon by the of Charlestown. Rev. Joseph Treat.

March 14.--The Rev. JOSEPA UxMarch 8.--The Rev. John SMITH DERWOOD, at New Sharon, Me. Serwas ordained Pastor of the Presbyterian mon by the Rev. Mr. Thurston, of Winchurch at Trenton, N.J. Sermon by throp. the Rev. Professor Hodge, of Prince- March 16.-The Rev. Isaac ROGERS, ton.

over the First Congregational church March 8.The Rev. Isaac R. BAR- at Farmington. Sermon by the Rey. BOUR Was ordained Pastor of the Con- Dr. Gillet, of Hallowell.

April 19.--The Rev. AUSTIN DICK- April 19.--Mr. WILLIAM A. SAVAGE INSON, was ordained at Amherst, Mass. to the work of an Evangelist, by the as an Evangelist. Sermon by the Rev. Presbytery of New York. Sermon by Baxter Dickinson, of Long Meadow. the Rev. William Patton.

April. - The Rev. Milton P. BRA- April 20.—Mr. EBENEZER MASON, MAN, as Pastor of the first church in to the work of the Ministry, by the Danvers, Ms. Sermon by the Rev. Mr. Presbytery of New York. Sermon by Braman of Rowley.

the Rev. Dr. Knox.

PUBLIC AFFAIRS.

FOREIGN.

burnt alive there by order of ColocotroRussia.--A commission has been ap- ni, in retaliation for the churches they pointed by the emperor, to investigate had burned, the monks and priests marthe facts relative to the late conspira- tyred, and the women and children cy. This commission consists of seve- they had dragged into slavery. We do ral of the greatest characters in the not pity, so much, the fate of the forempire; among them are the grand eign officers who were found in the duke Michael and General Koutousoff. ranks of the Mahommedans. ThirtyIf all accounts are true respecting the six of these were spared, to be marchextent of the conspiracy, they will ed and shown from village to village, have business for a long session. There as infamous apostates, who, forgetting are mysteries to be cleared up; un- their title of Christians, have enlisted doubtedly the cloud which partially in the service of the Turks, and shared burst at Petersburgh extended over in all their crimes. The result of his other parts of the empire.

operations at Missolonghi, seems to Count Rostopchin, whose name is have occeasioned some perplexity to associated with the flames of Moscow, Ibrahim Pacha, and gave an appeardied in January

ance of hesitation and doubt to his sub

sequent movements. In the beginning GREECE.--While the world was wait- of January we find him collecting his ing to see the fall of Missolonghi and strength at Patras and Lepanto, to the the general rout of the Greek forces, latter of which places he was soon folnews comes that the Greeks have risen lowed by his emboldened and active with an energy equal to the crisis which enemies. A skirmish on the 12th at demanded it. There appears to have the village of St. Anne, near Lepanto, been much skirmishing and some seri- was followed by a general battle on ous and destructive fighting-in all the succeeding day. The forces enwhich the Greeks have had the advan- gaged were 10,000 Turks, opposed to tage. The Turkish fleet before Misso- 7,000 Greeks. The contest was furious longhi has been put to flight by twen- and deadly, and terminated in the dety-seven Greek vessels, and the town feat of the Turks. A Greek official relieved. Tripolizza, where the Turks account says, they fled in every direcwere reposing with a well disciplined tion, leaving 3000 dead, 900 prisoners, force, it is said, of 2500, fell into the and 400 wounded. The Greek loss hands of Colocotroni on the night of is stated at 800 killed and 700 woundDec. 18, after an obstinate combat in ed; but it should be remembered that which many lives were sacrificed. We this account comes from the victors. exceedingly regret that the spirit of A more important battle followed. fierce revenge which showed itself at In seven days from the affair at St. the commencement of this war, and Anne, the victorious Greeks were under which we hoped had in some measure

the walls of Lepanto. Here their numsubsided, seems to be reviving. “The ber was increased to 9000, by the arEgyptians," says the account before us, rival of 1500 French and Italian and the negroes from Darfour, thrown volunteers, with a few cannon and morinto a castle situated on a height, were

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enemy came out to attack them. The battle raged for seven hours, when up- CONGRESS. -The Panama question, on the blowing up of a convent and 700 at our last dates from Washington, was Turks with it, their line was broken still before the House. Argument, we and they fled to the town followed to the should think, must have been exhaustgates by the Greek cavalry. Their loss ed upon it long since; but the minoris stated at 4000 killed, 800 wounded, ity, or rather the minorities in Conand 2000 prisoners. The Pacha was gress-for except in their common wounded and narrowly escaped cap- cause against the administration, the ture. The Greek loss (but this too is a respective partisans of the late canGreek account) was 2000 killed and didates for the presidency show do 400 wounded.

more fellowship for one another than

friendship for the executive seem to SOUTH AMERICA.-Callao, the last have discovered that breath is quite as fortress in the possession of the Span- good as argument for the purposes of iards in Peru, was surrendered on the opposition. From the length and as23d of January; and Bolivar, having pect of the speeches on this question, it finished his work in that country, had might be thought we were about to beresigned his command to the Peruvian come a party to the Holy Alliance, or Congress, and was about to return to at least that our nation was to be comhis country, scarcely less deeply affect- mitted to the councils and entangled in ed with the gratitude of the people he the policy of foreign nations. Ēxcept was leaving, than they with a sense of in the halls of Congress, we hear but his magnanimous devotion to their one voice on this subject, and that is

In Chili also, the show of war for the mission. has ceased, by the surrendry of Chiloe, Mr M‘Duffie's resolutions to amend the last place which was in Spanish the constitution, one of which is to prehands in that country.

vent the election of President from deNothing very important has yet oc- volving in any case on the house of recurred in the war of Brazil and Buenos presentatives, and another to prevent a Ayres. The La Plata is blockaded by third election of the same person, have a Brazilian fleet which is sufficient to made some progress in the House. On destroy the trade of Buenos Ayres, but the general subject of amending the not very formidable for the purposes of constitution, Mr. Randolph made war.

short, characteristic speech, which we Several of the plenipotentiaries who are happy to say-for we cannot say it were to compose the congress at Pana- of all his wild, erratic, harangues-was ma, had arrived there in December. full of good sense and just views. He

would vote, he said, for no amendment HAYTI.-Upon the publication of of the constitution whatsoever, unless the late treaty acknowledging the in- it were to restore it to its primitive dependence of Hayti by the king of state. It had already been encumber France, much- doubt arose from the ed with amendments till nobody could peculiar style of the act of recognition, tell what the constitution was. And respecting the sincerity of the French these provisions and amendments, ingovernment. There was an indefinite, troduced out of abundant caution, had ness in the provisions of the treaty originated the evils they proposed to which rendered it capable of very op- guard against. It was their being in posite constructions, and which, we are the constitution that had given colour glad to see, the Haytien President was to the claims and usurpation under it. not so eager to obtain a nominal inde- Mr. Randolph was for ne quid nimis. pendence as not to perceive. He felt for the old doctrine of doing nothing it necessary to ask explanations, and for a wise and masterly inactivity about his commissioners to the French court the constitution. were instructed to that effect. Ex- There have been-we are pained and planations, it seems, have not been give mortified to say-some disgraceful feuds en, and President Boyer, prudently at Washington. In the discussion of declines ratifying the treaty in the the proposed amendments of the conpresent state of things. He express- stitution relating to the election of Prees a hope however that future nego- sident, the disappointed ambition of tiations may produce the desired result. parties in the late election has shown

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