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anto himself; in him, sinners find wisdom,
righteousness and sanctification.
For of him, and through him. and to
him, are ali things: to whom b# glory for
ever. Amen.”
“ To m„n, Hit Weeding cross ha* promised all;
The hi- etiing cross has sworn eternal grace ;
Who fc.tve his life, what grace shall he deny ?
O ye. who from this rock of ages leap
Disdainful, phtuging headlong in the deep,
What cordial joy, what cortsolation strong,
■Whatever w inds arise, or billows roll.
Our interest’s in the Master of the storm :
Cling there, and in wreck'd nature’s ruin siiiilt
While ‘ ile apostates tremble in a calm. W.
TURKISH FUNERAL.
In the Journal of Mr. Goodell, an American
Missionary in Palestine, inserted in the Missiona
rv Herald for Net ember, we find the following ac
count of a Turkish funeral under the date of the
20lh of March last.
** This* morning a Turk of considerable
distinction was buried. This event wa
earlv announced by the screams of the wo
men a* they passed mournfully along to the
place of interment. They, being collect
ed in great numbers, and in still greater
numbers among the graves, wrapped as
they are on all occasions, in a large white
sheet, smote upon their breast* or waved
their handkerchiefs in the air, and addres*
ing the deceased, cried, “You are gone!
you are nothing ! you are dead ! You have
no mother to weep over your grave ! you
have no sister to weep over your gt av- !
Why did yon die ! O why did you die ?”
They would then vent their feelings in the
loudest scream*, and appear franttck with
gnef.— After this had continued more than
an Hour, being repeated on every accession j
to their number*, a large concoure of men
appeared with the corpse, and with various
garments and articles of the deceased, and
with about twenty banners unfurled. They
w,ilked last, and singing and bowing down
their heads to the earth. The standards
were placed, several together, in opposite
point* near the grave, ami all the men ar
ranging themselves around them, went
throtign their service in a low key of voice,
hut with all their strength, and at the same
time bowing their heads and bodies, with
all the violence possible. The body is al
wav*. I believe, taken out of the coffin to
be placed beneath the ground, and the cos
fin returned to the city for future occasions.
Every morning and evening, for perhaps
a moo'h, the friends vi*it the grave ; the
women and children to slrew myrtle upon
it, and the men to say their prayers with
the vehemence above described. Thi- bu
ri.il place l should think, contained not less
than ten acres of ground. There are two
others near the city, which are not so large
The grave* art* generally arranged with
gre • order and neatness.
A- wp walked along, and viewed the
r.iini Tons “ grassy hillock*,” on the iig I
ban-) an.l on the left, and asked, “ Whe
are now the souls that core animated the
bodies of thi~ great coogreg tioo nf th*’
dead?” it ha been an awful reflection, th-r
no’ ae professed follower of the Lamb rests
in fjenileslumbers here. Not an individu
al, vbo could say, ‘■ I hid a friend of Cbri\
aDid hope to lie and re:g:i with him forev
er,” was ever permitted to lodge in these
darksome celi*, until the bright morn of
delivery from the abodes of corruption. ()
ve disciples of Jesus, who hope to have
a par’ in th* tir-t resurrection, is it nothing
to you. that geuera'ions of the deluded fol
lower* of the false prophet go down to
the grave with a lie in their right hand ?
that they give op the ghost,i: not f xecratu.g,
yet abhorring the very name ofthatFaviour.
whose blood onlv can wash away their pol
lotions, and make them tit for a holy heav
en ? Among the raanv objects of prayer,
which the churches have before them a!
the “Monthly Concert,” let this he on*',
—that amidst the present political disturb
ances ard revolutions in ‘he9e countries,
the wav may he prepaid for preaching
“ the Gospel of peace” to these men of
cruelty and blood, and for directing them
unto Him, who is “the way, the truth, am)
the life,” these wanderers from happiness
and heaven. 5 ’
CURIOSITIES FROM EGYPT AND
SYRIA.
Mr. Fisk, American missionary in Palestine,
recently sent a box of curiosities from Egypt and
Syria to a gentleman in Hartford, Conn. The fol
lowing letter, dated Beyroot, May 11th, which
we copr (Vom the Connecticut Mirrior, accom
panied tnc box.
I have d< layed answering your Idler till
no w, in older to send with my answer an
other box of minerals. The box is now
full, and I send it to the core of Mr. Evarts,
by the way of Smyrna.—lt contains a great
variety of specimens, from different parts
of Egypt -od Syria, and among others sum
pies ot R'd Granite and Marble of Egypt
of the Temples of Thebe? and Denrlera —
of the Tombs of the Kings at Thebes, paint
ed, and in a good state of preservation—a
piece of a Mummy box, and ol the linen
used in wrapping a Mummy—a Scacabaeus
fruit of the Doom Tree—samples of the
wo I and fruit of the cedars of Lebanon—
of the Temple at Balbeck, and of the -nl
phiir<Mi“ stones from the mountains near the
Dead Sea.
I had heard very often that on one of thp
summits of Mount Carmel, there were very
curious petrifactions of fruit. The Arabs
saitl there were watermelons, and many
sorts of smaller fruit, so perfect that at first
sight you would take them for actual Iruit
In fry late journey from Jerusalem to this
place. I determined to investigate this mat
ter, and with the Arabs, who knew nr at
least pretended to know, where the water
melons werp to be found, I ascended the
mountain. We found no watermelons, but
wo found in the mountain, which is formed
of calcareous stcne, some very curious for
mations. You will find samples of them in
thp box. lam not smpri-ed that the igno
rol \r,d<- should have mistaken them for
petr ifit and fruits.
Among these numerous samples, I hope
yon will find a number that will please and
interest you.
From the Boston Telegraph.
REV. JOSEPH WOLFF
The character of this bold At indefatiga
ble missionary to Palestine-a Jew, yet
((reaching Christ crucified —is sufficiently
known to those who have taken any inter
e*t in the moral movements ol the day,
to awaken in their minds at least a wtl-
I ngness to know more concerning him.
He is the son of a Jewish Robbt—was
born at Weiler*bach in 1705, and during
tiia hnyhiMid was carefully, instructed in
the doctrines of the Jewish religion. The
first knowledge he obtained ot the truths
o* Christianity, such as to disturb hi*
Jewish faith, was from a pious barber, to
whom, at the age of seven years, he was in
•he habit of going every evening, to buy
•ntlk At length he became convinced that
Je-u* Christ was the true Messiah, and at
the age of eight years went to a Lutheran
clergyman, with a view of publicly erobrac
mg the Christian religion. “You are yet
too young ; (was the reply) return to me
after a few years.” These circumstances
he studioasly endeavoured to conceal Irom
his father; who nevertheless entertained
some suspicions of his secret departure
from the Jewish faith. In his 13th year,
young Wolff went to reside with an uncle
at Bamberg, with whom, for the first time,
he read the four Gospels. He was delight
ed with the perual, and once more resolv
ed to embrace the Christian religion. He
j accordingly went to Frankfort, and applied
.to a Protestant Professor—unfortunately a
I deist—who told him it was “ not necessary
to become a Christian !” “ Christ (*aid he)
was only a great man, such as our Luther,
and you can even be a moral man wi'hout
being a Christian, which is all that is neces
sary.” As might be expected, the influ
ence of this deluded scepuck upon the mind
of Wolff at the tender age of fourteen
years, was far from being salutary. He
tva even led to hope at time* that the sen
tunentsof his teacher were correct. That
he did not fall in the fearful conflict—that
he did not renounce the religion of Jesus
—is to be attributed in part to a sickness
with which he was mercifully visited after
three months’ re*idence in Frankfort, tlnr
iog which, as he lay in the hospital, his re
ligious impressions were revived by the so
lemn reflections to which hi* situation gave
ri*p. But the *ame kind Providence which
had mercifully *ent this affliction, again res
tored hitn to health ; ami he returned to
his native place to see his father. —But he
was no more!
Young Wolff being’ thus left an orphan,
at.once re-olveil to shape his studies to the
■ •fficeof a minister of religion. He appear*
to have been acluated by no higher oio
t ve* than literary ambition and a love of
- mtoenie. After wandering through va
rious parts ot Bavaria and Germany, resi
ding sometimes in convents, and at others
gaining a subsistence by teaching the He
brew language, he was baptized at Prague,
about the age of 17, as a convert to the
Oalholick religion. Not long alter he went
to Vienna, where, by a merciful Provi
donee, he gained admission into the family
of Count Stolberg, an exemplary Christian,
though by profession a Catholick. With
him r * read h>“ New Testameni in the
original; and from him appeared to catch
the spirit of piety aud devotion. After
thru. n> nths residence in the family of the
Count, circumstances of a political nature
rendered if necessary for the latter to re
move from Vienna: and Wolff set out for
Some, having been recommended as a pro
per per-on to be admitted to the College of
the Propaganda. Here his independent
mode ot thinking and acting, occasioned
him no small embarrassment. He boldly
denied thp infallibility of the Pope, found
fault wiffi the scholastick divinity, and be
came intimate with several members of the
Engii-h Bible Society, who were then in
Rome. The-e circumstances united, ren
dered him odious to the Itomish See, and
eventually caused his dismission from the
C ollege.
Being thus driven from Rome by thp
Pope, separated from the visible church,
and condemned by its bishop, Wolff began
to leel himself disconsolate :—the more so,
because it seemed necessary for hitn to re
linquish fur ever bis favourite purpose of
preaching the Gospel. With these consid
erations pressing upon his rensibiliiv, he
sought seclusion in the convent at Valsain
te, in Switzerland. Here he remained for
about seven months ; when, disgusted with
the insatiable cuvetousriess of its inmates,
and the ilogmas of Popery, he resolved on
leasing the convent at Valsainte, for ooe
which was less uoder the dominion of the
Romisb See. Passing through Vevay, with
this object in view, he met with a Proles
tant friend, with whom he had been ac
quainted in Rome. By him he was recoin
mended to some friends,who,it was thought,
might procure for him the patronage of
th( Emperor of Russia. While waiting at
Lausanne, to learn the result of this appli
cation, he fell in with an English Clprgy
man, at whose suggestion he gave up bis
former plan, and concluded to proceed un
mediately to England. He was now io his
24th year. Being recommended to the
London Jews Society, as a person likely to
prove a valuable missionary for Jerusalem
and the East, he was placed for a time un I
der the charge of Professors Simeon anJ
Lee,at the University in Cambridge. His j
deportment and conversation being approv- 1
ed, be was commissioned by the Society,
in 1821, to carry o Ins Jewish brethren in.
the east a renewed lender of salvation by
the Gospel. Since that time, he has been
indefatigably employed in Palestine, Malta,
and Egypt, shunning no reproach—heeding
no danger—shrinking from no fatigue—if
only he mig’it he the happy instrument of
bringing ba< k his far-wandering brethren
to the fold of Jesus.
NEWS FROM LIBERIA.
The Rev, R. R Gurley, Agent of the
Colonization Society, has just arrived in
this city from the coast of Alrica. lie
states that the Colony at Cape Meuratlo
is in encouraging circumstances. |'he na
tives have been peaceful, and tt.ere is no
danger to be apprehended from them. —
The Colonists felt ro more fear of being
attacked by the Ashaotees, of whose pro
ceediugs at Cape Goast we have heard so
much, than we do. They are so tar re
moved, and there are such various ob-ta
cles between, there is no prospect ot it
whatever.
The Colony has suffered for want ot
: medical aid, but the deaths have been com
! paratively few, ten or twelve siuce March
last, and ihose of ordinary diseases. Those
who went out from Petersburg, under War
tug, have erected houses, and are now con
veniently accommodated. Considerable
land, also, has been cleared and the Colon
ists, in general, have, on the whole, mani
fested great perseverance and industry.
During the absence of Mr. Ashman, who
went to the Cape do Verd islands for Ins
| health, they moved on harmoniously, under
i the direction of Lot Carey, Johnson, and
j Waring, three men of colour. Mr. Ash
linunbas since returned, and resumed his
j superintendence ; his health being in a
j great measure restored. Mr. A- is spoken
jof as deserving great credit for his un
wearied efforts for the good of the Col
ony.
Laud has been apportioned to the settlers,
and a satisfactory system of government
i established. The country is repre-ented
by Mr. G. as wi ll as by all others, as being
remarkable for fertility. Coffee, sugar,
] cotton, rice, indigo, may be cultivated to
[great advantage. Mr. G. brought with him
a specimen of indigo, raised by one of the
Colonists; also, of a peculiar kind of cot
ton, of a consistency like silk. Os this cot
ton oue of the Colonists from this city,
whose name, on account of her character
for great industry, ought to be mentioned,
(M. Poul.snn,) spun and knit him a pair of
socks which show of what the material is
capable.
Mr. G. brought with him various proofs
of the ingenuity of the natives; as pieeps
of cloth, baskets, Ate. made of grass, maoo
tae/iired gold, cotton, war utensil*, Sic
Several of these were from the interior, &
were made by the Fo ilahs.
He visited Sierra Leone, and found that
Colony in safety and prosperity. The A*
hantee war is entirely beyond the Sierra
Leone region; also, there is no connexion
between that and Cape Coast, except that
both are governed by the British. On his
way from Mesurado, Mr. G. sfjoke a ves
sel going to Cape Coast with supplies
[Phil. Recorder.
From the Western Recorder.
AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY
Fellow Citizens: —He who now addres
-es you, has been for three year* past, the
Agent of the Colonization Society on the
Western Coast of Africa. A great part of
that time, he has resided on the coast; and
he is intimately acquainted with all the
concerns of the Colony cf Free Blacks
which is planted there. Many important
tacts relative to that interesting country,
have come to his knowledge, and he takes
this method of communicating some of them
to you.
The American Colonization Society, has
-uff-red much from misrepresentation. Its
concerns have been understood by few; and
the vast capabilities and resources of the
Continent of Africa, are fully known, and
appreciated by none.
We see her sable sons torn from their na
tive country, degraded and depressed;
without capacity, or without opportunity to
call it forth ; and we are ready to conclude,
that stupidity is an inherent quality with
them. With their degraded condition, we
naturally associate every thing which in any
way relates to them—even their country
is believed, by*most people, to bp as barren
as their mental faculties are; and to finih
out the picture, some have filled the air in
Africa, with pestilence, with the hissing of
serpents, the growling of panthers, and the
roaring of Lions: and death has been rep
resented as standing with his poisoned ar
rows, ready to transfix the vitals of him,
who shall audaciously presume to make
footsteps on his ancient domain.
Such is the deep impression which this
picture of the imagination has wrought on
many, that it is said, that even some of oor
wicked and hardy Tars “ commence reading
the Bible as soon as they receive orders
from the Department, to repair to the Coast
of Africa.”
The unfortunate result of the first expe
dition of the colonists which sailed for Afri
ca, was such, and it has made such a deep
impression upon the publick feeling, that
little attention has since been paid lo any
accounts from that country which were not
calculated to corroborate early impressions;
but, when the nature of those disast.-rs
come to be duly considered , it will be seen
that the misfortunes resulted entirely from
local causes , and that they are not at all
chargeable to the general climate of Africa.
The colonists arrived on the coast, a short
time before the commencement of the rainy
season ; they were not accompanied by a
physician, or any other person sufficiently
; qualified by education to select a healthy
! situation. They were allured by a design
ing native, as well as by the British at Sier
'’ ra Leone, who were unreasonably- jealous,
into the very unheaUhiest part of the coast.
They located themselves for a time, on the
island of Sherbro, a low sunken place, sur
! rounded by mangroves—unfanned by the
: breezes of the Ocean and nearly covered
with water. They were without houses
sufficient to defend them from the rain, and
the water they used for culinary purposes
was constantly issuing through the mud and
mangrove roots. Under such cjrcumstan
1 ces, what else could have been expected,
but the scenes which did actually occur l
All the white Agent- and twenty two ol the
coloured people d’ed in a lew days.
.On a second expedition, the O*wego sail
ied also at an unfavourable season of the
I year, and arrived iwo weeks alter the rams
had commenced. The emigrants were
without houses to cover them —without
suitable food for the sick ; —and destitute of
ucli medicines as were necessary to the
successful treatment of their disease. Be
mg myself the only physician, and arriving
there in this unfavourable season of the year;
and with the d.-advantages above mention
e,|—oppressed and borne down with a
weight of care and anxiety, I was soon tak
en ill, and the sick among the emigrants
were left without medical aid. Under these
circumstances, twelve died in six months,
making thirty four deaths out of these two
: expeditions containing oue-htindred and for
ly people.
There have since gone four expeditions
containing in all more than three hundred:
and yet, but five children and four adult*
have died. These emigrants went out at a
proper season to the fine, healthy situation
where the colony is now located.
Now who can see in these circumstances
any thing to damp the ardour ot benevo
lence in prosecuting this great enterpriz- ?
1 —an enterprize, which, if promptly cameo
into eff cl. is calculated to preserve the po
; litical institutions of our country from that
| shock which must otherwise soon shake
(hem to their centre —an enterprize too,
which is calculated to introduce civilization
and the Gospel, to one hundred and fifty
millions of perishing heathens in Africa-
Such is the character of the human mind,
that passions and prejudice* are perpetually
liable to mislead the judgement We see
i the African in this country to be every wav
| a degraded being; and we have hence im
i agined a similar slate of barrenness to exist
| even in the soil of that country which ha-
I nourished him. But I will give a few ex
ample* of the productiveness of that soil.
When I arrived in Africa, I found the colo
nists occupying a plantation, within two
miles of Freetown, in the Briti-h settle
ment. It consisted of five hundred acres,
regularly laid out into sections, tormed by
walks of from fifteen to twenty feet in
width, bordered with Lime, Lemon, and
Orange trees, interspersed with Pineap
ples, Bananas, and Plantains, and with the
beautiful Tamarind and Locust trees. The
whole plantation, which had formerly been
devoted to the cultivation of Arrow Root,
had been neglected by our people and snf
sered that season, to grow np to gras, which
springs spontaneously like the crab grass of
America, in the fall of the year. The grass
which had sprung up m this plantation, was
of a species called Guinea Grass, and it pre
sented a beautiful verdant growth from
three to twelve feet high over the wholp
five hundred acres.
Think what must have been my impres
sions, on viewing this beautiful prospect,
with a mind previously stored with the com
mon place ideas of the barrenness of Africa, i
Those who are acquainted with the value
of that gra*s for pasture, may form some
idea of the capability of the country for
grazing The Banana grows there, in the
greatest perfection, and is a very good sub
stitute for bread. Humboldt say*, that the |
same quantity of land which will rate wheat
sufficient to make bread for two persons, will
raise Banana* sufficient to sustain fifty per
sons ; and 1 believe his statement to he cor
rect. This vegetable produces fruit in
perfection all the year round; and the la
bour which is necessary for its production,
after the root is put into the ground, is only
to throw a little litter round its root®, and af
ter the fruit is gathered, to cut down the
succulent stalk, which is done at one stroke
with a stalk knife Each stalk will produce
from twenty to fifty pounds ot bread. Two
hour* labour is sufficient to produce bread
enough for a family of eight or ten per
sons, for one year Hogs are easily raised:
they readily thrive when kept up, though
if suffered to run at large, many of them
get poisoned and die. Goats are produced
in great plenty, and may be purchased ot
the natives, for from three to four pounds
of tobacco, which is worth here, from twelve
to sixteen cents. A cow may be purchased
for from eighteen to thirty pounds ol to
bacco, the prime cost of which is, trom sev
enty-two cents, to one dollar and twenty
cents. Rice may be purchased in auy
quantity for twelve cents a hundred weight.
It is now cultivated with an iron instrument,
about two and a half inches wide, by three
inches long, having a handle eighteen inch
e* in length. How much less would be the
cost of this article, if cultivated with a
plough? It can be produced in the greatest
abundance, and at as cheap a rate, as oats
can in America. Sugar Cane abounds tn
Africa, and labourers may be obtained to
cultivate it, to any amount, from one man
to ten millions of men, for twenty lour cents
per month each, and fed, only with one
quart of Rice per day, which now costs but
oue fourth of a cent.
The Coloured people of this country,
can be sent to the land ol their fathers, lr
les9 mony than they can be sent to Hayti,
ior over the Mississippi- Those who ac
compained me in the Oswego, a small ves
sel without a return cargo, cost forty four
dollars and thirty-five cents each. If a
large ship were to be put in the trade, it
would reduce the rate of passage one
third ; and the last load of one hundred and
five persons were sent lor twenty-six dol
lars per head. If the trade of the country
would admit of a return cargo, which will
soon be the case, this would reduce the
passage to about fifteen dollars per head.
Fifteen pounds of Ivory are here worth fif
teen dollar* ; forty live pounds of Tobacco,
would purchase that Ivory in Africa : and
1 the prime cost of the tobacco in this court
j try, will be One Dollar and eighty cents.
I New facilities are daily offering to the
scheme of getting rid of our Coloured peo
pie, much to their own advantage,-os well
as to our*. Hayti, is already <jlTeimg au
asylum for many ; and there can be little
doubt, but other Islands in the West Indies,
if the present blind policy ol the planters
should he continued, will soon be in the
possession of tree blacks, and rpady to re*
ceive emigrants from this country —W©
may look forward to the time, when eve.
rv vessel leaving our por(9 for those Islands,
will he laden with emigrants;
Colony in Africa, will have carried the arts
of agriculture, and civilization tuto ‘h* ex
tensive and fertile region which surrounds
them; and when the natives shall have
seen that the labour of any man for one
year, will be worth more than the *am
(hey are now sold for on the coast, this will
either prevent their being offered for slaves
so as nearly to amount to an interdiction of
the trade ; while a! the same time, i -Vi
!e.-e i the demand for them here ; —awd
thus, by degrees, the slave trade will final
ly cease.
The Colonization Society, solicit your
attention to this important subject. They
have purchased a tract of land or* the
coast of Africa, and planted a Colony—
which is now thriving and nearly able to
support itself. There is land in that coun
try, rich and fertile, sufficient to support
one fourth of the whole human family, now
lying uncultivated and untrodden by human
foot. The Society intend presenting a
memorial before the nex> Congress, pray
ing that body to take up the business, and
afford such ineau- as *hall be sufficient foit
carrying it into operation, and relieve our*
country irom the class of free coloured
people.
It i- their intention to send out an expe
dition this fall, with some additional emi
grants,accompainpd if possible with Agents,
Phy-iciaos and Missionaries; and for this,
they crave your asjistance and co-opera
tion E. Ayers.
mummm inr
MOUNT ZION, MONDAY, NOV. 29. 1024.
Circulation of the Scriptures We have seen
an abstract of the proceeriines of the British and
Foreign Bible Society, during the past year ; but
rts length prevents us from laying it before our
reader-in its present form. VVe have, however,
collected most of the important facts, from which
some idea may he formed of the immense bene
fits whieh already have, and may hereafter be
expected to result from this grand institution.
In addition to the doinestick operations of the
Society, means are constantly using by the nu
merous agents, to disseminate ’he Sacred Scrip
tures in the British possessions throughout Asia,
Africa and America ; and the success which has
attended these exertions is generally of the most
flattering nature.
In India, versions of the Scriptures have been
published in the three principal languages, the
Persian, Hindostanee and Bengalee. Copies of
the new Chinese Bible have been presented to
the Society by the Rev. Dr. Morrison, the inde
fatigable translator. In Egypt and Abyssinia :he
members of the Coptick Church have been re
ceiving copies of the Scripture* from Malta, and
provision has been made for the publication of
the four gospels, iu the vernacular language, for
Abyssinia. The New Testament has been print
ed in the Turkish language, and an edition of the
whole Bible is advancing towards completion.—
An improved translation of the Testament into
modem Greek is going on in England under ibe
direction of the Society ; a vast number of Bibles
have already been di-tributed in Greece. he
Scriptures have at length found admission - to
South America, and the demand is ex'ensiv
From Lima especially, the most gratifying ac
counts have been received ; the sum 0f£229 lias
been remitted for Bibles already sold, an I .‘he
Society is informed that 10.000 copies would
a ready sale. Indeed, the applications from hao
quarter have become so numerous, that the com
mittee are unable to meet them. Letters from
the Missionaries in Labrador and Greenland ac
knowledge the seasonable supplies of the Scrip
tures which the Esquimaux and Greenlanders
have received ; and the printing of the New
Testament designed for the islands of the South
ern Ocean is going on. Some copies of the Acts
of the Apostles in the Tahitean language, from
the missionary press in those regions, have reach
ed England. The operations of the Society are
indeed extended to the “ ends of the earth,’’ and
the most distant “ isles of the sea.”
In France,the number of auxiliary-societies has
increased to 75. The Bible Society of the Nether
lands distributed during the last year above 8000
Bibles, and have now turned their attention to the
Dutch possessions abroad —a translation of the
Bible into the Javanese language has just been
completed. In Germany and Switzerland, socie
ties exist in most of the principal towns, and the
friends of the Bible cause are zealous and active.
In Prussia, Denmark and Sweden, similar exer
tions are made, and the learned and pious Dr.
Van Ess has been instrumental in circulating more
than 50,000 Bibles and Testaments during the
last year.
The great Bible Society of Russia has formed
a chain of Biblical institutions extending from
Georgia to Archangel, and from Riga to the inte
riour of Siberia. Versions have been completed
or attempted in almost every dialect spoken
throughout this immense territory, and a recent
translation into the Russ language will enable mil
lions of people to read the words of eternal life in
their owq tongue. Twenty thousand copies had
already been printed. The Society is fostered by
seme of the most influential noblemen in the em
pire, and has received many tokens of the empe
rour’s friendship. In several instances supplies of
Bibles have been sent to distant quarters at the
expense of the imperial treasury.
American Baptist Mission in Burirah — This
mission consist* of four missionaries, with then