Miscellaneous. Ministers for the West. teen counties, embracing an area nearly as large as the whole of Massachusetts, in which there is not a single Presbyterian or Congregational minister." We rejoice that young men of our theological Seminaries are turning [From Report of the Ed. Soc. of Essex North, their faces towards the setting sun, and direct (Mass.)] Some think it requires little talent, or learning, or religion, to qualify one for a western missionary. But the reverse of this is true. There are a plenty of ministers, such as they are, in some parts of the western country. In the words of a learned professor in a Western Seminary, "Uneducated ministers are as numerous as musquitoes, and about as useful. We knew a place at the West," he adds, "where there were seven ministers in an audience, to hear an educated man preach; only two of the seven could read a chapter in the Bible." Are these the men to pour through the valley of the Mississippi the light of Divine truth? How can they teach the Christian religion there, who are unable to read a chapter in the New Testament? If any portion of our country needs able ministers, men of education, deeply imbued with faith and holiness to lay broad foundations of piety, to mould the character of that mingled population which is to form the character of the nation, and through it that of the world, it is the great valley of the West. What but such a ministry is to make solid and consistent Christians of men of all nations, rushing together with minds chiefly intent on worldly gain? What but such a ministry is to counteract the wiles of the Jesuits, and contend successfully with the man of sin who has chosen that part of our country as the theatre on which to perform his last drama? Thousands, yes, millions of our countrymen at the West are living entirely without the stated means of grace. They have no opportunity to hear any minister of Christ, who is capable of teaching them the way of salvation. We want hundreds of men of the ability, piety, and energy of Beecher, going out in their youth from our Eastern Seminaries, or finishing their theological education at the Seminaries of the West, to form that population which rolls its waters with the power of the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri, over the countries washed by those noble rivers and their tributaries. The following facts speak much as to the want of ministers in Northern Indiana : "There are four : ing their course toward that wide country, which, though extensively like the valley of the shadow of death, will soon appear as the garden of the Lord. Under their benign influence may the desert rejoice and blossom as a rose. Ministers at the West. A Baptist missionary writes as follows: "I have heard much of the destitution of ministers in this country and presume it is really so, but if the remark applies to the sumber of men known as such, it is not true. In this sense there are plenty of them, more than is needed and some of them could be spared for New York, for they are of no manner of use here as ministers. I have more or less of them in my congregation every time I preach. The first Sunday I preached, there were four of them present. Men who are willing to neglect their ministerial duties, or can be tempted to engage in worldly business, would do better to stay in the old States. But if the remark is used concerning self-denying, faithful ministers, of such we are greatly in need. The state of society here I find very good. I have witnessed here but little intemperance or profanity, the people generally attend worship on the Lord's day. We have Sunday schools and Bible classes, and religious feeling is more apparent than for several months. In these respects I am agreeably disappointed. But there is much to be done, and it ought to be done immediately. Growing villages exist all around us, many of which have no regular preaching. I must repeat what has been said again and again by others, we want good ministers, men who love God and are willing to labor hard in the Master's vineyard. An aged minister's opinion. The following is from a venerable soldier of Christ, who has seen long and hard service | Missions! They would be necessary if our in the West: government were confined to the old thirteen States. What multitudes, thousands and tens of thousands in every portion of the old domain are living without God! But when we "I have long believed in what Dr. Hawes remarks, that the "salvation of America is the hope of the world." I have for many years often said to friends who were trem-look at the new States and Territories, settled bling for our republic during our political ferments, that I hope for the continuance of our government, because I think the Scripture and the signs of the times indicate that the time is drawing near, when the Gospel shall bless the whole earth. But such a season cannot take place while the reason and con science of the world are chained by the laws and regulations of tyrannical governments. Now if our republic should fall, civil and religious liberty would be bound with redoubled chains over the whole earth, and perhaps for centuries to come. But though I hope for the permanence of our republic, I rest assured that nothing but the prevalence of the Gospel of Christ can preserve it. And if so, how im portant, how absolutely necessary are Home. by multitudes of unconverted sinners from the old States and foreign lands, and their number rapidly on the increase-while infidelity and every kind of deadly error, and the subtle agents of the MAN OF SIN are all zealously at work. What can save these millions, but the pure Gospel? Instead of too much attention, prayer, time, money, and sacrifice of ease and life being devoted to this cause, the work must increase ten-fold in order that America may be saved, and become the hope of the world. I believe those who feel the most on this subject do not feel enough. I hope the Home Missionary Society will live and increase until our wilderness shall all blossom as the rose." THE TREASURY. Great need of immediate relief. The friends of Home Missions, we fear, are trusting too much to the general popularity of the cause, forgetting that kind feelings and fair words cannot supply the place of personal sacrifice and liberality. It therefore becomes necessary to stir up the pure minds of our patrons, by informing them, that the Society is in circumstances requiring immediate relief. The treasury is exhausted, and the arrearages due to missionaries are rapidly accumulating. After a sickly season, in which our brethren and their families have suffered in common with others, and which has prevented their people from fulfilling their pledges of support, they are now, on the verge of winter, compelled to await the ability of the Society to remit to them their much needed instalments. How long they must wait, is for the churches to say. There is no other source of relief but the donations to the treasury, since the policy of making loans has long since been condemned by the public, and laid aside by the Committee. As the season of the year has now arrived, when a large portion of the churches are accustomed to take up collections for Home Missions, we hope they will not wait for the solicitation of an agent, but proceed to give every individual the opportunity of casting his offering into the Treasury of the Lord; and to remit the proceeds to the Society without needless delay. *** Missionaries who are expecting remittances from the Society, will understand from the above the reasons of delay. Painful as it is to the Committee, it is, on their part, unavoidable. Appointments by the Executive Committee of the A. H. M. S., from Oct. 1st to Not in commission last year. Rev. W. C. Boyce, Unadilla, N. Y. Nov. 1st, Rev. Saml. Robinson, Williamstown, N. Y. Rev. C. Bradshaw, Salem Ch., Henry Co., Mo. Rev. J. N. Lewis, Lisle, N. Y. Rev. E. B. Fancher, McGrawville, N. Y. 1844. The Treasurer of the American Home Missionary Society acknowledges the receipt of the following sums, from October 1st to November 1st, 1844. NEW-HAMPSHIRE New-Haven, North Ch. and Soc., of which $30 is from Timothy Bishop, L. M., and $30 is from Wm. Johnson, Esq., to const. Mrs. Mary Eliza Johnson a L. M., by A. H. Maltby, 489 85 Crosby, freight, 3.00 VERMONT Mrs. Maria H. Waring, to const Charles B. Waring a L. M., 30 00 Domestic Miss. Soc., viz: Burlington, Mrs. Eliza W. Buel, to coust. berself, Rev. John K. Converse, and Mrs. Sarah Converse, Life Members, New London, Robert Coit, L. D., 100 00 30.00 3.00 10 00 Stamford, by T. Davenport, 7500 Stonington, Ladies' Aux., by Miss L. A. Sheffield, 26.00 NEW-YORK 60 00 2.00 J. A. Davenport, 45.00 West Springfield, in part of legacy of the late Rev. J. L. Pomeroy, by Lewis Strong, Ex'r., Busti, Cong. Ch., per Rev. L. S. Morgan, Canterbury, a friend, 300 5.00 150 00 Cattskill, a friend of Missions, 250 00 2000 15 35 30 00 Brooklyn, Cong Soc., by E Newbury, $112 82; Ladies, freight, $3, East Otto, by Rev. M. Doolittle, 9.00 115 82 3 12 gan, Jamestown, Rev. Ephraim Taylor, L. M., 43 00 Mayville, by Rev. M. Doolittle, 16 00 Eastbury, Ladies, by A. Snow, freight, Fair Haven, Cong. Ch., by Rev. B. L. Swan, 200 Mercer St. Ch., Mon. Con. Coll., by R. 35.00 350 00 Spring St. Ch., Mon. Con. Coll., $4; Youth's Miss. Soc., by J. J. Linson, $65, 69.00 Tabernacle Ch., an Individual, by 23 00 Rev. J. C. Holbrook, 2.00 New Haven, West Cons., by A. Town Sabbath Sch. No. 34, by Mr. Lester, Friend, $10; a Lady, $5; Miss M. L. Baldwin, 25 cts., 15 95 Milford, 2d Ch., 25 00 Panama, by Rev. M. Doolittle, 10@ 12.50 75.00 18.50 15 07 30 50 43 00 Nunda Valley, by Rev. E. Marsh, to make Mrs. Harriet Welchman a L. M., Hunt's Hollow, Rev. L. Hamilton, $6 25; others, $625, Ithaca, T. S. Williams, 2 quarterly payments, $50; J. B. Williams, quarterly payment, $25, Lakeville, Le Roy, Miss Ingham, $11; others, $4 07, Lima, Rev. Johu Barnard, $5; Abby Barnard, $5; Coll., $14 85; Ladies' Bible Class, $10; Mon. Con. Coll., $13 98, Lyons, (box, $120, by Mrs. Spencer, seut to lowa;) Jesse Smith, to const. Mrs. Emily Smith L. M., $30; Charles W. Smith, avails of a little boy's corn plot, 50 cts., Ludlowville, rell. $2; Salem-st. Ch., bal. of Coll, $2 37, Billerica, Evan. Cong. Soc., Andover, Society of Inquiry in Phillips Woburn, Meeting of General Association, 48 83 Irvingsville. Ladies' and Gent. Assoc., Erving, Ladies' and Gent. Assoc., Fitchburg, Miss Lucy Davis, 75 37 15.03 Bedford, Fem. Char. Assoc., $20; Mon. Con. Coll., $23 93, 43 93 46.00 40 25 13.00 12.00 10.00 New-Orleans, E. G. Hyde, 383 46 00 Woburn, Men. Con. Coll., in Rev. Mr. Ogden, Coll., $10 72; Ladies' Miss. Soc., $25, |