invaluable boon to the people for whom he lived and died; and he was spared long enough to see the treasure in their possession at a time when the assaults of popery rendered it in the highest degree necessary as a safeguard to their faith. Our brethren in Tahiti testify that his end was peace.

American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions.

The following contains a summary of the condition of the missions as given in the annual survey, published in the Missionary Herald for January, 1845.

The number of missions under the care of the Board is twenty-five, connected with which are ninety-four stations. stations are laboring one hundred and thirty

At these

Mrs. Pratt. A few days before her death, Mr. Macdonald read promises from scripture, prayed, and then read some hymns. After this day was past, and when the prospect of death was not so immediate, I was collected enough to read to her at intervals, as she could bear it." Death-three ordained missionaries, eight of whom less principle arise," was her favorite hymn. are physicians, with seven physicians not She herself would often engage fervently in preachers; also sixteen teachers, nine prinprayer, expressing faith in Christ alone, ters and book-binders, five other lay helpand repeating portions of hymns. ers, and one hundred and seventy-eight married and unmarried females ;-in all three hundred and forty-eight laborers sent forth from this country. If we add to these seventeen native preachers and one hundred and twenty-two other native helpers, we shall have, as the whole number of persons laboring in connexion with the missions of the Board and sustained from its treasury, four hundred and eighty-seven. number, twenty-two, including nine preachers and thirteen female assistant mission

On Saturday night, after a day of severe suffering, she said she thought she was sinking, and desired that our brother, Mr. Macdonald, might be called. She then said, "I am going to my Father and my God.”. "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." Some moments after prayer by Mr. M., she said, "Why are his chariot wheels so long in coming?" The last person she recognised was Mr. M., on Sunday morning. At a little before ten in the evening her breathing became easier, then a convulsive move ment, the pulse ceased, and she was gone!

Of this

aries, have entered on their labors within the year.

Gathered by these missionaries, and under their immediate pastoral care, are sixty-two members in regular standing. The whole churches, embracing an aggregate of 25,612 number gathered into the mission churches since the missions were commenced, ex

Mrs. Hay. Mrs. H. had just commenced the work of a missionary among her sex in the south of India. She entered into her rest in the month of August last. Her bereaved husband writes to the Com-ceeds 32,800. This number does not inmittee,

Little did I think when I wrote my last letter to you, and spoke of our having arrived here in health and comfort, that even then the summons to leave me had been

clude some hundreds of hopeful converts among the Armenians, Nestorians, and other communities in Western Asia.

Printed during the year, 46,796,016 pages.

In the department of education there are, in connexion with the missions, six seminaries designed principally for training native teachers and preachers, in which are 383 students; also thirty-eight other boardingschools, embracing 526 male and 503 female pupils, making the whole number of boarding pupils under special Christian instruction 1412; also 639 free schools, in which are more than 30,000 pupils; raising the whole number of pupils in a course of education under the care of the missions to about 32,000.

put into the hand of my dear wife! but so it was; and it is now my mournful duty to convey to you the sad intelligence of her departure from this world. It pleased the Lord to call her spirit home on the 19th of last month, a year and eleven days after our marriage. Young, affectionate, zealously devoted to Jesus and his cause, she was hailed by all the Christian brethren here as just the kind of person needed in the present state of our mission. We all thought, surely the Lord has qualified her expressly for this work; but his thoughts are not as ours, and it seems he had fitted her for heaven. O, may the affliction be so sancReceipts reported for December, tified to me, that, in proportion as this $5531,06; corresponding month of preworld and all that is deemed lovely in it,vious year, $2645,50; increase, $2885,56. have become cheerless to me, heaven and

its holy joys may be more attractive and Decrease in November, $3967,77; desatisfying to my soul. crease in November and Dec., $1082,21.

Taboy Mission.

JOURNAL OF MR. MASON.

We have lately received some extracts from Mr. Mason's journal, embracing a particular account of a series of meetings at Pyeekhya, mentioned at p. 331, of last volume. The meetings were opened on the 14th of January, and continued daily for three weeks; a prayer meeting every morning at sunrise, preaching in the forenoon and afternoon, and a meeting for conference in the evening. The congregations consisted at first exclusively of members of the church, and the addresses were intermingled with confessions and prayers. In conducting the meetings Mr. Mason was assisted by Mr. Vinton, who had come from Maulmain for the purpose; and by one or more native preachers. Pyeekhya is on a river of the same name, south-east from Tavoy, a little more than half way to Mergai.

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as though his heart would break, and saying that he felt himself unworthy to preach the gospel.

In the prayer meeting this morning, one young man offered the best prayer I ever heard from the lips of a Karen. "The old man," remarked br. Vinton, after meeting, "prayed well; but the young man as if taught by the Holy Ghost." The whole subject of his prayer was the impenitent, and he kept to his point, as free from extraneous matter as if he had been writing a piece of composition. Another that led in and tears. could not proceed for his sobs prayer,

15. This morning while attempting to open the prayer meeting with a few her confessions, and I could not stop remarks, a woman interrupted me with her; so I went to prayer, which calmed her down. Br. Vinton observed, that by encouraging such outbreaks he had no doubt but that in a very little time, would become general throughout the perhaps in twenty-four hours, the spirit church. One thing is certain to my mind, that the natives of this country are as susceptible of religious excitement as the people in England or America. None of the unconverted came near us, but we are now direct

and others are praying; so I trust God will send us some in one way or other.

Jan. 14, 1844. In our meeting last evening we had evidence of the pre-ing the attention of the church to them, sence of God being with us, in the grief that some expressed for their sins. After we returned from meeting, a young man belonging to the Mergui district, who is here on a visit, came in to say that when he had attended meeting from day to day, he had felt some grief for sin, but that on returning home his feeling left him. To-day, however, his sorrow cleaved to him wherever he went. After he left us, br. Vinton's Rangoon assistant came to him to ask prayers, sobbing and crying

16. The young man before mentioned remarked at our evening conference, that he learned from the scriptures how the Lord Jesus gave himself up to his work, and how Paul did, and how Moses did; and he said that he wished to devote himself to the work of benefiting others in like manner. The old man, his father, whom we have received for baptism, said this morning that he had been led to pray seven