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desirous that the children and youth should be instructed. He has given us a bell for the use of our school, which is a valuable acquisition to our establishment. We have a flock of almost 20 goats, which furnish milk for our family ; and we hope soon to be able to make a little butter. In an es tablishment like ours, we find the want of many things to make us comfortable, with which, if we were supplied, we should find less occasion to spend our lime in secular concerns ; and could devote ourselves more entirely to the great work of instruction. dßut our greatest need is a faithful minister to break to ns the bread of life, and guide our wandering feet into the paths of righte ousness and truth. We trust our Christian friends and patrons will not forget us in this respect. We do hope and fervently pray, that before many months some favouring breeze may waft to this shore one, who will strengthen our hands and encourage our hearts ; one calculated to endure, with fortitude and meekness, all the trials, pri vations and discouragements, attendant on the missionary life. We send by the volunteer, capt. Bennett, a small box containing two of king Tamo ree's favourite idols, which he lately pre sented to us. One is for yourself, and the other is intended for President Day. We remain yours in the bonds of Chris tian affection, Samuei, Whitney, Samvel Rcggles. A letter to the Corresponding Secretary, hy the Ann, capt. Hale, dated Oct. I Jtli, aud written by Mr. Bingham, commences thus : “ Rev. and Dear Sir—lt is with heart felt gratitude to the Author of all our mer cies, that we are enabled to say, after half a year’s residence among heathen, the smiles of Divine Providence still attend our labours, and cheer our hearts with the prospect of usefulness. The same holy hand, that conducted us in safety over the great waters, has kindly smoothed the rough path in which we bad expected to walk, and spread around us many comforts, which we clid not expect to enjoy. From the children of paganism we have met with no opposition, in the prosecution of our ap propriate work. From many of the for eigners, with whom we have had inter course, we have found more, permanent, efficient and valuable triends than might have been expected. The trials, which have called forth our tears, and agitated our hearts, and covered our faces with blushing, have arisen principally from a source, where we had looked, with too much confidence, for comfort and support. We need your kind sympathy, your fervent prayers, your affectionate counsels ; and still we would gladly spare you the pain, 1 nor add to your multiplied cares and your! most important concerns, the sad story of! our disappointment and distress. We! would ardently desire to turn your parental 1 eye- from our trials to behold the unnum-i bered blessings tendered to us as missiona-i ries of the cross. Yet with the feelings of filial affection, are we impelled to say, al though we are allowed, as a tittle band of pilgrims, without interruption, to tell the passing stranger of Zion’s God, and to point the perishing heathen to the Redeemer of Israel, it is our little church that mourns, and sits solitary, and weeps by the turbid waters of Babylon.” Mr. B. then proceeds to mention the nn bappy defection of Tennooe, and the unex pected departure of Dr. Holman from the I mission ; for such it was considered, when j he resolved to reside on the island Mowee alone, more than 80 miies from any of his 1 brethren, and contrary to their unanimous I advice and request. Since the preceding letter was written, I Dr. Holman had gone down to Alooi, after a short residence in .Mowee, He was pre sent at the birth f Mrs. Whitney’s child; and trom that station wrote a long letter to the Corresponding Secretary, giving the reasons which induced him to leave Kiroo ah. These reasons are not satisfactory. He expressed the design of returning to Mowee ; but he did not seem to have fixed, in his own mind, upon any place as his per manent residence. Though the mission to the Sandwich Islands has been prosperous beyond expec tation, there are still many reasons why earnest and importunate prayer should be offered in its behalf. It is exposed to nu merous dangers ; and must be successful (if successful at all) only in consequence of the peculiar favour of the Lord of Missions. PALESTINE MISSION. Extracts from the Journal of Messrs. Parsons and Fisk, during their tour in Asia Minor. From the Missionary Herald for July. Smyrna, Oct. 31, 1820. Called on the Greek Archbishop, and gave him 40 tracts, which he said he should distribute. Spent most of the dav in preparing to set out to morrow on a lour in Asia Minor. Nov. 1. At half past eight left Smyrna. We took Martino* to provide food and in terpret for us. Had agreed beforehand with Serkish, an Armehian, to furnish hor ses, and go ag our guide. He provides one horse for our baggage, one for Martino, and two for us. He takes a servant to assist him in the care of the horses, so that we are, in all, five men with six horses. He defrays all expenses for himself, his ser vant, and his horses, and we pay him 37 1-2 piastres ($5) a day. We carry a trunk, and two large sacks, filled with Testaments, tracts, clothes, &.c. We took a circuitous course around the east end of the Gulf of Smyrna, left Bour nnbat on the right, passed along the north eastern shores of the gulf, having on our right broken mountains, apparently of gra nite. At half past twelve stopped for dinner at a Turkish coffeehouse. It was built of mud and small stones; and was about 10 * This man had lived with the missionaries at Scio, in the capacity of interpreter, &c. m feet square and 10 high. The roof was of pine bushes. The ground served for a floor. The front was entirely open to the road. The furniture consisted of a sofa, pip#?, and coffee cups. The Turkish land lord sat on the sofa, with a pipe in his hand and a sword and pistols behind him. He invited us to sit down with him, and a young Arab slave brought us sweetmeats and cot fiee. After eating ts food which we carri ed with ns, we obtained a watermelon of the Turk, paid 30 cents, and resumed our journey. In the course of the day passed three similar taverns. In the afternoon our course was nearly north. Passed in sight of a few scattered houses, and three small villages, one of which had been a mosque. At half past three reached the village Men iraen. Our road all day was level, passing’ over a rich plain, having the sea at no I great distance on our left, and a range ofi barren mountains on our right. Met with j many camels on the road, and saw some j flocks of sheep and herds of cattle, feediog on the plains. * Description of Menimtn. At Meniinen put up at the house of an Ar menian. After resting a fetv moments, went out to visit the Greek priests and schools. The first school which we found, was in a room adjoining the Greek church, and consists of 25 boys. A second school consists of 10, and a third of 5 scholars. There are five Greek priests belonging to the church. Among them and the scholars, and others who were with them, we distrib uted 50 tracts. *We shewed the priests a Romaick Testament. They told us they had one like it, and we then spoke of re serving this for some other place; but when they tol l ns that live priests and 1000 people had only one, and earnestly request ed this, we gave it to them. The town is situated on the south side of the plains, through which the Hermus runs: it is about 20 mile 9 from Smyrna, a little VV. of N. and is the seat of an Aga,* who commands 20 or 30 villages in the vi cinity, which are said to contain 10 or 12,000 people. The houses of Menimen are small and low, generally 8 or 10 feet high, built of mud, or of small stones and mud, with flat roofs. The publick build ings are 7 mosques with minarets, (or stee ples) one Greek church, one Armenian church, and several Turkish baths. The population is estimated at 2,000; 60 of them Armenians, the rest, half Greeks and half Turks. On the north and west is a large plain, affording rich meadows for grain and pas turage. Through this plain runs the Ye diz, (the ancient Hermus.) In the evening three or four Armenians came to our lodgings, and spent some time I in conversation. They say that they have i no books, except such as belong to the; church ; and these they cannot understand because the style is so ancient. We show-1 ed thpm a Testament printed in the Turk ish language, with the Armenian letters. One young man read in it and seemed high ly delighted. Journey from Menimen to Haivali. Thursday, Nov. 2. At 7 o’clock com-! menced our journey. In three quarters of an hour crossed the Hermus. It is now! about 6 or 8 rods wide, and not above three ! feel deep, but sometimes, in rainy seasons, it swells into a torrent. Passed in sight of 10 small villages, one of which has a mi-j naret. At 12 slopped at a Greek tavern, i It was a small mud house, without a floor,! and almost without furniture. Diupd on! food which we carried with us. Left 24 tracts for a Greek school in the vicinity, j which we bad not time to visit. At half past four we saw, on our left hand, near the road, the ruins of a town which we concluded must have been the ancient My ra. The place is near the sea shore, at the head of a gulf. Strabo speaks of Mv rina as situated here, or not far distant; and some maps insert the name in this place. Many pillars of granite Bor 10 feet long, and a foot and a half thick, and some fragments of marble, were scattered on the ground. Among them was a large statue ot white marble. The arms and part of the head are gone. The body is about 6 feet long and three thick. Once, perhaps, it was an object of worship; now it lies entirely neglected, as we trust all relicks of idolatry will be, at some future day. No walls remain, and there is no building on the spot. At sunset crossed the Caicus. It was about as large as the Hermus, and is now sometimes called the Rindicus. At 6, we came to an old khan, now de serted, on account of the place being un healthy. It is nine and a half hours north from Menimen. Friday, Nov. 3. Resumed our journey at 7 ; road level and good. At 9 our atten tion was arrested by a smoke arising from a small pond of water in a marsh meadow. We left our attendants, and went to exam ine it. The pond was about three rods in diameter, and the water, near the centre, boiled in several places. At the edge it was as hot as the hand could hear without pain. The vapour was strongly impreg nated with sulphur. At 12 we stopped at anew Greek khan. Saw several carts, the first we have seen in Asia. In Scio and in Smyrna all burdens are carried by men, or by beasts of burden, on their backs. At 2we set out again. A heavy rain soon commenced and continued till night. At 4we passed a small Turkish village with two mosques; and then rode for some miles through a complete orchard of olive trees. From the produce of these trees immense quantities of oil are made, and exported from Haivali. After leaving this place we found our way mountainous aDd stony. Entered Haivali at 7; that is, in 25 hours, or about 75 miles from Smyr na. With some difficulty we found our way to a tavern ; and after much delay aud * A Turkish officer who preserves order and ad ministers justice. 30 perplexity, obtained the use of a small apartment. A wooden platform covered one half of it, and this served us for-chairs, table, and bed. * Description of Hawaii. Saturday, Nov. 4. At an early hour Martino went to the Russian consul with a letter given us by the Russian consul in Smyrna; and he immediately sent bis jani zary to conduct us to his house. There we found a room ready for us, and every necessary comfort generously offered. Such hospitality is welcome indeed, alter the fatigue of our journey. At 1 o’clock the consul accompanied us to the college. The two principal instruc ted are Gregory and Theophilc.s, to whom we had a letter from Professor Bambas. They received us very affectionately. Lord's Day, Nov. 5. lu the afternoon went out to distribute tracts among the priests. Went to eight churches and dis tributed tracts to all the priests. There are 40 belonging to these 8 churches ; they have also, at each church, a small school under their care, in which the children are taught to read the church service. Haivali is situated oa the sea shore, op posite the island Musconisi, which lies be tween the town and the north part of Myli lene. The Turkish name is Haivali; the Greek name Kidonia; both signifying quinces. Why these names were given we know not, as the place produces very few quinces. Olives and oil are its princi pal productions. The Bishop, the Consul, and the Professors, united iu stating the population at 20,000 souls, all Greeks. This estimate seemed to us very high. The missionaries departed, at about it o’clock, from Haivali, on their Journey to Pergamos. At a tavern, where they called, in the course of this day’s journey, the landlord expressed sur prise “ that men should go atout, giving away books for nothing.” They also observed several boiling springs similar to that which they examin ed on Friday, except that they were smaller. Visit to Pergamos. Tuesday, Nov. 7. At 2, we reached Per gamos, now called Bergamo. Went first to see the ruins of an old monastery. The walls are still standing, as high as a four story house, and perhaps 150 feet long. In it there are now several Turkish huts. In passing through the town, we found two ancient Greek inscrip tions, which we copied. Passed an im mensely large building, formerly a Chris tian church, now a Turkish mosque. This is said to be the church in which the disci ples met, to whom St. John wrote. Wednesday, Nov. 8. Went up to the old castle, north of the town. Vast walls are still standing, composed principally of gra nite,with some fine pillars of marble. The castle includes 5 or six acres of ground. Within the castle are large subterranean reservoirs, which used to serve for water and provisions. The foundations, and part i of the wall, are said to be the work of the ancient Greeks. The more modern part is attributed to the Genoese. Returned from the castle, and went to | the site of an ancient theatre, west of the town. Ft is a semicircular cavity in the side of a hill. The semicircle measures about 600 feet. Massy walls of granite are vet standing. Went next to the amphitheatre. It is a deep circular valley, formerly no doubt filled with rows of seats rising one above another to enable the spectators to witness the fighting of beasts, or the destruction of men, on the arena, at the bottom of it. Passed by what is said to be the tomb of Antipas, near the old monastery. See Rev. ; ii. 13. We next visited a building which is called the Temple of Esculapius. It is a lofty vaulted dome, the inside about4o feet in diameter; the gnnite wall about 8 feet thick. We remember to have seen it somewhere stated, that Esculapius once practised physick in Pergamos; that the in habitants erected a temple to him, and offer ed sacrifices and adored him as a god. Messrs. Parsons and Fisk visited the churches and schools in Pergamos, and distributed tracts and Testaments, which were received with many expressions of gratitude. A young Greek went to their lodgings and purchased two Testaments. The population of Pergamos is said to be about 15,000: viz. 1,500 Greeks, 2 or 300 Armenians, 100 Jews, and the rest Turks. The Journal is to be continued in the Herald for August, from which we shall make selections. CHOCTAW MISSION. Letters from Mr. Kingsbury. The operations of the Missions at Elliot and Mayhew were greatly embarrassed for want of funds. Speaking on Ihis subject in his last letter but one, Mr. K.says, “ With tears of sorrow 1 sit down once more to ad dress you. On readingyour letter address ed to brother Washburn I immediately re solved to visit the agent, and see if any re lief could be obtained from him. Having received another appointment, he was in Alabama, about 100 miles distant. 1 have just returned. He had njt received any communications from the var department, since I last saw him ; but loped there was some money for us at the agency.” Mr. Kingsbury’s hopes of money from the gov ernment were disappointed, as the new agent had not arrived, and no funds were provided, fifteen hundred dollars were due from the government, out of the ap propriations for the school and buildings at Elliot, and nothing had been received on account of the buildings at Mayhew. After observing, (hat if this pressure could have been foreseen, the plan of the mission might have been different, Mr. K. proceeds : “ But now what shall we do ? Shall we not pay our debts ? Shall we not procure provisions for our family ? Just as ,we were expecting to enter into the har vest, shall we see all the hopes which have i been raised respecting this nation, dashed to theground ? Shall we be compelled to leave these missions, and to seek our bread 1 at some other place, and in some other way? On our own account (his would be of ccm paratively little consequence; but what will become of the cause oI missions ? What will be said of all the zeal which has been manifested of late for the cause of missions, and for the universal spread of the Re deemer’s kingdom.” “By the assistance of God, we are re solved to do all in our power to keep up these missions. If we sink, we hope it will be found that we have not deserted out post, while it could be maintained.” Mr. Kingsbury’s last letter to the Treas urer is dated May 14th. We select the following passages for publication. “ Since I wrote to you, we have enjoyed the favour of a visit from our dear friend and patron, Dr. Worcester. He has been with us in much weakness of body, hut was strong in the faith, and zealous for the cause of the Redeemer. His presence and counsels have greatly strengthened and encouraged us, under present embarrass ments and trials. He reachedMayhew on the 23d of April, and left us with improved health, on the 7th of May, for the Chero kee nation. He goes accompanied by our most fervent prayers, that he may be ena bled to accomplish all the benevolent ob jects of his mission ; and that in due time, he may be returned to the bosom ot his family and friends, who are looking with so much anxiety for his return. It was an occasion of extreme regret, that his health would not permit him to visit Elliot. Dr. Pride wiil attend him on his journey to the north.” “ Dr. Worcester is decidedly of opinion that the work must not stop ; and that prep aration must be made, with as much des patch as is consistent n ith economy, to have i a school commenced at Mayhew in the fall; at the same time avoiding all expense for labour not absolutely necessary. “ Major Pitchlynn, the publick interpre ter, to whom I read your letter of March Bth, said with emphasis, the zeork mast not stop. Os his own accord, he immediately proposed to lend me S2OO in specie, and to put into my hands ten shares of stock in the Mississippi Bank, worth SI,OOO or $l,lOO, which he wished me to sell, and make use of the money. He expects us to allow in terest, but not to refund the money until we are able ; and remarked, that if we should be prospered, it would all come into our hand? for the education of his children. When such liberal aid is afforded us, how can we stop ? The people here will not hear a word of it; and, my dear sir, would not our integrity, and that of the Society be questioned, if, after having expended $2,000 of the money of the natives, we quit the work or let it remain in statu quo. “ Dr. Worcester has advised that 1 go. into Mississippi, as soon as it is practicable, and endeavour to collect some money as donations. I shall leave this place for El liot, on Tuesday next, the Lord willing; and as soon as the necessary arrangements \ can be made there, shall proceed on the proposed tour. In the mean time, l hope you will be able to pay three or four small drafts. I “ I am sensible I shall go out to make collections under great disadvantages. 1 can make no preparation ; the hot and sickly season is approaching ; the people will be removing from the country ; and every moment of my time is required here. But I must do what 1 can. “ I am in a state of anxious suspense as to what aid we shall receive from the govern ment, having had no information on that subject for a long time.” A letter from Elliot, dated April 25th, contains the disagreeable intelligence that two of the log dwelling bouses at that es tablishment were consumed by fire the pre ceding night. One was occupied by Mr. Jewell’s family, and the other by Mr. Wright as a study and sleeping room. The fire was communicated by a candle, taken with them by small boys, who slept in the chamber of Mr. Wright’s 9tudy, and who forgot to extinguish it. It was not custom ary for these children to carry candles in this manner ; but Mr. Wright being absent they ventured to do so. By great exertions the fire was prevented from destroying other buildings ; and the greater part of the property in these was preserved, par ticularly the mission library. The loss is estimated at something more than S4OO. — As all the houses were much crowded be fore this loss, it will be necessary immedi ately to erect new ones in place of those which were burnt; and this will of course derange the agricultural business of the es tablishment, to some extent at least. Thus one cause of embarrassment is followed by auother. But we are happy to say, that we have an article of pleasing intelligence from this mission, which is more than sufficient to balance all the adverse occurrences. When Mr. Byington was at Elliot, about the middle of April, several of the boys in the school were anxiously inquiring what they should do to be saved. This state of mind continued,when the last letter was written. The brethren say ; “ The Lord, as we trust, has recently appeared by the influ ences of his Holy Spirit, and is calling up the attention of some of the dear children of this school to the concerns of their pre cious and immortal souls. The Bible and psalm-book have become the almost con stant companions of some few; and we would fain hope, that the time is not distant when they will have anew song put into their mouth, even praise to our God.” [MUsionary Herald. An Association has been formed in Lon don, to aid the Hindoo college of Calcutta. This institution is chiefly supported and managed by Hindoos themselves, for the purpose o( furnishing a liberal education to native youths in European as well as Eastern literature. [Boston JlecoriU'T.', ARKANSAW MISSION. Mr. Finney slates in a letter to the Cor responding Secretary, that for about four weeks in August and Sept. Mr. Washburn was so well as to labour very hard with his hands ; that on their passage down the Ar kansaw capt. Ballard was very kind to them, and furnished them with provisions gratuitously ; that they were so weak as not to be able to ascend the bank of the river, when they occasionally stopped, ex cept by crawling on their hands and feet; and that the journey from the Walnut Hills to Elliot, in the heavy and cold rains of the winter solstice,w ithout shelter, without comfortable provisions, and with constant pain, sickness and weariness, was ihe most distressing part of the whole perilous sea son of their absence and labour. These brethren have certainly had a harder service, so far as bodily pain, fa tigue and exposure to danger and death are concerned, than any missionaries em ployed by the Board. The Lord grant that they may hereafter see good “ accord ing to the days wherein they have seen evil.” The letter of Mr. Finney concludes as follows : “So far as I know the feelings of my own heart. I think no discouragement has been experienced on account of my long sickness, or any other obstacle in our way. I think it is the desire of my heart to live and die on missionary ground ; and do and bear what God shall appoint for mak ing known the glad tidings of the Gospel to the poor ignorant heathen. For this I need ever to feel the influence of grace ; to feel that 1 am not my own, but am bought with a price, even with the precious blood of Christ. May I, and all associated with me, have the prayers of the Prudential Committee ; not because we are worthy of a remembrance in the prayers of any ; but because the influence of our conduct ‘ may effect much good or evil to the cause of Christ, in the circle where we move.” Messrs. F. and W. with their families left the Choctaw nation early in the spring for the place of their mission. Nothing has been heard from them since their depar ture. Miss. Her. Abstracts of Religious Intelligence. PROM THE BOSTON RECORDER. An Auxiliary Bible Society has lately been formed at Lutterworth, where John Wickliffe, the distinguished harbinger of the Reformation, died, in the year 1387, and whence his bones were dug up in the year 1428, by order of the council of Con stance, for having translated the Holy Scrip tures into English, and maintained the au thority of those Scriptures, and their suffi ciency for saving instruction. The receipts of the Moravian, or United Brethren’s Committee of Missions for 1819 were £6686 2s. and their expenditures, £9085 0 2d. The Wesleyan Missionary Society, Eng. received £30,803 3s. 4d. during the eigh teen months preceding the 31st Dec. 1820, and expended considerably more. On their missions at Ceylon, and South India alone, they expended £10,989 14s. 2d. being sev eral thousand dollars more than the Ameri can Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions receive annually for the support of all their missionary establishments. The Wesleyan Methodist Missions in the West Indies are prospering more and more. Though many valuable missionaries have laid down their lives on those high places of the field, yet converts are multiplied, dis cipline is maintained, Christians grow in love, and the prejudices of the planters against the religious instruction of their a slaves have nearly quite vanished. Rev. D. Tyerman,of the Isle of Wight, and George Bennett, Esq. ofSheffield have been designated to visit the London Mis sionary Society’s stations in the islands of 1 the South Seas. The religious services preparatory to their departure, were per formed in Spafield’s chapel, the 19th April. 3 he object of this mission is the same with i that of Mr. Campbell, to South Africa—to obtain the most thorough knowledge of the state of the missions, to strengthen and en courage the missionaries, and to prepare the way, it possible, for more extended ex ertion. The Missionaries of the Church, London and Baptist Missionary Societies occupy 21 Missionary Stations in Calcutta and the su burbs, and have so arranged their services as to preach at every one of them once a ; week. “ One Spirit,” writes Mr. Mundy, “ pervades the whole.” The London Tract Society has sent out many thousand English Tracts to India, ; where they are circulated to the best ad vantage, and are laying the foundation for i the establishment of similar societies in that country, whose object it is to distribute tracts in the various Indian languages. On the first of October last, 111 negroes were added to the four Moravian congre gations in the island of Antigua, chiefly by baptism. The work of God greatly pros- Drs. Patterson and Henderson, those dis tinguished agents of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Russia, write from Novo gorod under date of, March 19, 1821, that they expected to form a Bible Society in that city—then to visit all the Russian Bi me Societies—to cross the Caucasus, visit Georgia, Persia, as far as Shiraz, then re turn by way of Bagdad to Astrachan, To-, bolsk, Orenburg, Casan, and the Northern provinces of Russia. The object is to find out the most important missionary stations,& ‘prepare the way to have them occupied