Fort Ann, Cong. Ch., by Rev. P. Barbour, Quincy, Cong. Ch., by Rev. T. Baldwin, Rochester, by Rev. S. G. Wright, Washington, by Rev. W. Andrews, Waverly, Cong. Ch., by Rev. C. G. Clark, 12 50 10 00 5 80 12 25 12 00 MICHIGAN Lumberland and Barryville, by Rev. F. Moira, by Rev. F. B. Reed, Allen St. Presb. Ch., Ladies, for Eleventh Presb. Ch., by E. B. Littell, Pearl St. Ch., a Lady, to const. Mrs. C. H. Reed a L. M., $30; Coll., by Sixth St. Ch., J. R. M'Comb, to const. Donations of clothing, &c. Mrs. Mary Lindsley, Green River, Spring St. Ch., by S. Stiles, L. B. Ward, $50; Mrs. C. Willett, to const. her son, Marinus Willett, a L. M., $30; Friend, $10; Rev. J. H. Agnew, $5; Samuel Walker, $5, Plattsburgh, Mrs. Ames, by M. Myers, Westville, by Rev. F. B. Reed, Yorktown, by Rev. J. B. Stoddard, NEW-JERSEY Elizabethport, Coll., by Rev. O. S. St. John, Hanover, First Presb. Ch., by J. M. Jud 35 00 De Witt, 11 07 Newark, Third Ch., Young Ladies' Sew. Soc., by Rev. H. N. Brinsmade, D. D., Orange, First Presb. Ch., by A. Harrison, Treas., Hannibal 8.00 Second Presb. Ch., of which $100 is 164 52 5 00 Mexicoville, P. Chandler, $10; Coll. $7 20, Mount Vernon, New Hartford, $46 83; Rev. D. Clark, $5, in full, to const. Rev. Daniel Clark, Jr., a L. M., Oswego, First Presb. Ch., of which $15 is in full, to const. Miss Mary F. Condit a L. M.; $5, in part, to const. J. B. Park a L. M.; and $7, in part, to const. Miss Harriet W. Condit a L. M., Second Presb. Ch., Coll., Poolville, by Rev. S. W. Edson, 17 20 20 00 51 83 Hanover St. Ch., Wilmington, Del., Mon. Con. Coll, by Hon. W. Hall, Millford, Pres. Ch., Pa., Rev. Wm. Belden, $10; I. H. Wallace, $3; H. Dunning, $2; others, $17 25, by Rev. Mr. Belden, $32 25; also by Rev. Mr. Hastings, $6.50, Clinton St. Presb. Ch., Phila., Alexander Read, $5; James Bruen, $20, Christiana, Del., by Rev. Nicholas Patter 38 77 70 25.00 Westford, fourth instalment of Horace Kelso's bequest, Deac. John Kelso, Ex'r., $100; Coll., by Rev. L. Clark, $31 73, Westmoreland, bal. of Miss Betsey Crane's bequest, by Deac. A. Pratt, Ex'r., 17.50 Darby, Pa., Presb. Ch., Coll., by Rev. M. 131 73 E. Cross, 10.58 160 70 Neshamony Presb. Ch., Pa., Coll. by Mr. J. Carroll, 14.00 13 00 186 East Whiteland Presb. Ch., Pa., Coll. in Eleventh Presb. Ch., Phila., Robert Cornelius, $5; Ed. Sprague, $3; Mrs. E. Grant, $2.50; Miss E. Grant, $2 50; C. B. Dungan, $2; A. M. Harkness, $2; James Henry, $2; D. B. Kershaw, $2; Mrs. Senat and daughter, $2; Wm. Baner, $1; Wm. G. Baker, $1; Miss E. J. Calboun, $1; C. Cavanaugh, $1; J. Collins, $!; S. Garra, $1; J. M. Heston, $1; M. and A. Lutz, $1; S. Mathews, $1; Mrs. Neff, $1; R. R. Porter, $1; J. Richmond, $1; M. H. Radford, $1; Jane Shunk, $1; Charlotte Shank, $1; Mary Shoemaker, $1; J. Smylie, $1; others, $19 50, (as far as collected), First Presb. Ch., Washington City, D. C., 17 91 2.50 59 50 50.00 Huron, 6 60 Ithaca, Timothy S. Williams, 2d quarterly payment, Littleville, by Rev. Mr. Hurlbut, 25.00 5.00 Ovid, Dr. I. L. Eastman, in full, to make Ars. Sally Eastman a L. M., $20; others, $36 50, 56 50 Owego, Cong. Ch., $82 22; Mon. Con. Coll., $47 85; Ladies' Asso'n, $56 44, to make Rev. Samuel C. Wilcox, L. D., Painted Post, by Rev. B. F. Pratt, Parma Centre, Pen Yan, E. Jones, Perry Village, to make Mrs. Laura H. Page a L. M., Rochester, First Ch., Ebenezer Ely, $25; Dr. M. Strong, $10, 35 00 Third Ch., in full, to make Rev. A. G. 211 50 Hall, a L. D., 76 00 Richford, by Rev. D. S. Morse, 18 00 Rushville, Scottsville, 2.00 South Danville, Daniel M'Kenzie, in part, Strykersville, Fem. Benev. Soc., 95.00 5.00 Sweden, 16.00 Trumansburgh, in part, by Rev. Mr. Tay 26 75 21 91 $1003 15 Fifth Presb. Ch., Phila., G. W. McClel- 100 00 50 00 The Philadelphia Home Missionary Society ac knowledges the receipt of the following sums, during the months of October, November, and December, 1843. Rev. E. R. Fairchild, Secretary, viz.: Snowhill, Md., Pres. Ch., Mon. Con. Coll., by Rev. J. J. Graff, Cool Spring and Lewes Presb. Chs., Del. A. Marshall, $10; L. West, §5; P. J. Hopkins, $2; A. Warrington, $1; others, $4 37, (in part), Berlin, Md., Presb. Ch., John J. Williams, $5; Rev. J. W. K. Handy, $2; Wm. Nelson, $1; Mrs. H. Stevenson, 50 cents; G. A. Parker, 50 cents; Cash 50 cents; Miss Mary Hudson, 50 cents; L. A. Powell, 25 cents, Honesdale, Pa., Presb. Ch., Coll. in Ch., by Rev. G. H. Hastings, Dundaff, Pa., Presb. Ch., Coll. in Ch., by Rev. G. H. Hastings. 22 37 660 mountains, the rough, rocky soil, and REPORTS FROM THE NEW MISSION- the stone fence, I should have thought ARIES. FOR the gratification of those numerous friends of Home Missions who feel a special interest in the missionary reinforcement sent last autumn to Iowa, we publish extracts from several of the first reports. We wish it to be borne in mind, however, that none of these were intended for publication, but only to communicate to the officers of the Society, the first impressions made on the minds of the writers, and which a longer residence may modify or entirely change. From Rev. E. B. Turner, Cascade, Dubuque Co., Iowa. Tour in the Territory. In this new country, it is with religion as with farming-it takes a great while to get a start. There are so many things that need to be done at once, that it is impossible to labor upon one thing long enough to complete it, without letting other things suffer. I landed in Iowa Territory on the 25th of October. Circumstances being such that we could not decide upon our destinations immediately, brother Salter and I concluded to improve a week in travelling. myself in New-England. Their houses and fields show enterprise and habits of industry which are truly commendable and worthy of imitation. We went from there to Farmington, in Van Buren county, where we found from the Eastern and Middle States. a large settlement of people, mostly The minister who had been laboring there during the summer, we found upon a sick bed. Meetings had been interrupted for several weeks by sickness. We found a few good people, who welcomed us to their homes, and were anxious to have one of our num ber settle among them. On our way to this place, we passed through West Point, a settlement of some importance, a county seat. It stands upon a high rolling prairie, and commands an extensive and beautiful prospect. There is a church in Farmington of about twenty-five members, some of them excellent men, and disposed to do all in their power to establish gospel institutions among them. There are many young men, who are exposed to Kneelandism, though I know not that any of them have embraced his view. Abner Kneeland, you are aware, lives but a short distance from this place, and has often lectured in the village. From there we went up the banks of We went first to Denmark, where the Des Moines River, through Benwe found a very interesting settlement of tonsport and one or two other small seteastern people. Had I seen the high tlements, to Keosauqua, the county seat of Van Buren county. It is beautifully situated in the bend of the river, and the scenery around it is wild but charming to the lover of nature. They have but few good buildings-a small neat court-house stands back upon the bluff; a public house of some dimensions is near it. The place is new, and hence it is impossible to tell what, in the future changes of the country, it will come to. It has a very favorable location, and will probably, at no distant day, become a place of some note. We found a Presbyterian church there of some six or seven members. They worship in a school-house which was built by a good deacon, whose family constitutes the principal part of the church. The New Purchase. From thence we went to Davis county, on the new purchase, to a place called Troy. We found an interesting settlement from East Tennessee. A Pres. byterian church has been formed, of about thirty members. The people were hungry for the bread of life, and were extremely anxious that one of our company should settle among them. They are poor, (like all other settlements in this country,) but were willing to do all in their power to support the Gospel. From there we went to the Indian Agency, in Wapello county, on the New Purchase. On our way to that place, we passed through a part of the country which had been settled but two or three months. It was literally a new country. Many of the settlers had not struck a furrow or erected anxious to have the Gospel preached in that place, and expressed a strong desire to have one of our number settle among them. It will probably be a thickly settled place in a few years. A town has been laid out near the Agency house, and such is the character of the land, and the facilities for procuring timber, that settlers will soon be induced to come in. A good, faithful, persevering minister, might, in the course of a few years, build up a flourishing church there. We visited the grave of General Street, the late Indian Agent, and also the grave of Wapello, an Indian chief, which are side by side. The tribe of which Wapello was chief, were devotedly attached to General S. and his family, and as an expression of their friendship they presented him a section of land containing 640 acres, which is now in the possession of his widow. From the Agency we turned our towards Denmark, passing course through Fairfield, a flourishing and beautiful town, the county seat of Jefferson county; also through Salem, a flourishing settlement of Quakers. We were gone from D. six days-travelled nearly two hundred miles, and expended but fifty cents in the whole route. We returned with a deep conviction, that the Gospel only is needed to make this a happy and prosperous country. It is literally true, that this people have a goodly heritage! A more beautiful country was never trodden by the foot of man. This people must soon be a wealthy people; but it will be a wretched people just in proportion as they are wealthy, unless they have the Gospel. "How shall they hear without a preacher, and how shall they preach except they be sent ?" Oh, that Zion that he would send forth more lawould "pray the Lord of the harvest borers!" a fence. All that reminded us that we were in a settled country, was the occasional sight of an uncompleted cabin, in which we found families staying rather than living. They were not only destitute of all conveniences, but were so open that the family could be seen about as well from the outside as by Looking up materials for a Church. going into the door-or rather, the hole which was left for the door. How those families were to be kept comforta Mr. T. thus describes the commencement ble, and how they were to be supplied of his labors in the field assigned him in the with provisions, during the inclement northern part of the Territory. season, were questions which often occurred to us. We found but few inhabitants at the Agency. A few were My first business, on coming to my field, which is Cascade and Jones coun I have made considerable effort to interest the people in this place in a SabI have obtained about bath-school. thirty scholars, and expect to increase I am in it to forty, and perhaps more. hopes to establish one or two Bible classes. The school will be opened as soon as the spring will admit. When I came here there had been some little done for the cause of Temperance. We have made vigorous efforts to increase the interest, and the result has been that a society has been formed, and the number of names on the pledge increased from about twenty to seventy. Help from abroad needful, ties, was to find out who was here. 1 of the men who assisted in forming this borrowed a horse sometimes, and some-church, (one being over fifty and the times caught a ride with others, and at other over sixty,) came twelve miles on other times went on foot from one settle-foot, and that too when the walking was We have at present ment to another, and preached in every exceedingly bad. place I visited. I did not travel a day no house of worship-there is some talk in which I did not find Christians who of putting up one for this church next welcomed me to the country and to summer. their homes. Some of them had come from the land of the Pilgrims, and had lived here for years, without hearing a single sermon. One old lady I found of about seventy years of age, from Connecticut. You can better imagine than I can describe the joy which beamed from her countenance at the sight of a New-England minister. “Especially," said she, "do I rejoice to see one from Andover." In the whole circuit which I have travelled, I have found twenty or twenty-five professors, Congregationalists and Presbyterians, with their letters in their hands, from three to six years old. They had been situated so that it was impossible for them to join the church, and some, I am sorry to say, have so lived that their neighbors did not know that they were professors. I found others who came here with letters, but who carried them so long in their pocket that they wore them out; and still others have come without any letters. As a matter of course, many of these Christians have become cold and backslidden; but without an exception, I have found them anxious to return and do their first works, and come once more into communion with God's people. Of these, I have collected twelve in the vicinity of this place, and formed a Congregational church here. We completed the formation of the church last Sabbath, and partook of the communion together. It was truly a good season to us all. It not only reminded us of the happy scenes we once enjoyed in lands far away, but also of the kindness of Him who has watched over us in our wanderings, and permitted us to sit together in heavenly places, and commune together and with God in these ends of the earth. More would have joined us had not the severe cold weather kept them away. To show you the anxiety that Christians feel here on the subject of forming churches, and promoting Christ's kingdom, I have only to state that two From a Report. I have found many men here who have large farms enclosed, and comfortable houses, who cannot raise money enough to pay the postage on a letter. But this cannot be the case long. In a few years this people will not only be able to support the Gospel here, but they will soon give their hundreds and thousands to send the Gospel to the heathen world. I rejoice that I have been permitted by Divine Providence to come to this field, notwithstanding the trials incident to this work. I have had my hours of sadness and discouragement, but I have also had seasons of joy that I have been counted worthy to preach I would the Gospel of Christ here. not for the world give up this field. So long as God makes me useful here I shall remain. To the West I have given my life and my all. Her destiny is my destiny, and with her sufferings I wish to suffer. I find that men will willingly come here and suffer all manner of fatigue-will put up with rude, uncomfortable houses-will be content with coarse fare, and will wear patched clothing, for the sake of acquiring pro |