is the case with their missionaries. Of course their expenditure is small. Their missionaries in a great measure support themselves. None engage in the work except from their own choice, and none are retained who would relinquish it.

They first began their missionary operations in the Danish West Indies, in 1732, and they have now, besides this field, six others under cultivation, namely, one in Greenland, first occupied in 1733; one in Labrador, first occupied in 1770; one in North America, first occupied in 1734; one in South America, first occupied in 1735; one in British West Indies, first occupied in 1732; and one in South Africa, first occupied in 1736, and renewed in 1792. The whole number of stations in all these fields is 41; of missionaries 209, and of converts about 43,600. The amount of the moneys by which their missionaries are sustained is $10,056.*

The Missionary Society of the English Wesleyan Methodists was formed in 1786, by the Rev. John Wesley, and the Rev. Thomas Coke, D. D., and others. It has its annual meeting in May, and is under the care of the Conference, the President and Secretary of the same for the time, being the President and Secretary of the Missionary Society. The business of the Society is conducted by a General Committee, consisting of the President and Secretary of the Conference and 48 other members. From the Report of 1837-8 the following items are taken. Missionaries.-In Ireland 24, Sweden 1, Germany 1, France 14, Gibraltar and Cadiz 2, Western Africa 14, South Africa 20, Malta 1, South India 15, North Ceylon 8, South Ceylon 15, New South Wales 5, Van Dieman's Land 7, Swan River 1, New Zealand 4, Friendly Islands 8, Fejee Islands 4, West Indies 85, British America 85; total 314-of whom 173 are principally connected with heathen and converts from heathenism, and 141 chiefly labor among Europeans and British colonists. Assistants. These missionaries are assisted by 3,176 catechists and readers, 295 salaried and 2,918 gratuitous teachers; of whom 5,386 labor in missions among the heathen, and 1,003 among professed Christians. Members in Society.-66,729. Scholars.-49,538. Receipts.-£83,648. Expenditures.—£91,419.

The English Baptist Missionary Society owes its origin to the zeal and influence of the Rev. William Carey, (Dr. Carey,) one of its first missionaries, and was formed at Kittering, October 2, 1789. Previously to this time, at a meeting of the Baptist Association in Nottingham, Mr. Carey preached a sermon from Isaiah ii. 3, the principal divisions of which

* Missionary Intelligencer of the United Brethren for Feb. 1832.

were, "expect great things; attempt great things." This produced a favorable influence. The title or name by which the Society announced itself was that of "The Particular Baptist Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Heathen." The first Committee were the Rev. Messrs. John Ryland, Reynold Hogg, William Carey, John Sutcliff, and Andrew Fuller. The Rev. Reynold Hogg was Treasurer, and the Rev. Andrew Fuller, Secretary.

The officers of the Society, for 1830, were John Broadley Wilson, Esq., Treasurer; Rev. John Dyer, Secretary; and a General Committee of 42 clergymen and 14 laymen. The amount of funds subscribed when the Society was formed, was £13 2s. 6d. Receipts and expenditures for 1830, about £19,000. The first missionaries sent out were Rev. William Carey, and Mr. Thomas, a pious surgeon. They went, in March, 1793, and in 1796 were joined by Mr. Fountain, who was succeeded in 1799 by the Rev. Messrs. Marshman, Grant, and Brunsdow, with their wives, and Mr. Ward and Miss Field, who were unmarried. After about thirteen years' labor, they baptized Kristnoo, their first convert. This particular mission was supported for a time by Drs. Carey and Marshman; having become rich and increased in goods, through the income from its schools, college, &c.* It has recently come under the care of the old Society again.

The Missions under the care of the Society are, on the continent of India, 8; among the Asiatic Islands, 4; in the West Indies, 25; in South America, 1. Members in church fellowship, 10,000. The number of Baptist churches in England, in 1828, was 900.

The London Missionary Society was formed Sept. 22, 1795, and is wholly catholic in its character, not being confined to any one sect or denomination of Christians, but open alike for evangelical Dissenters, as well as Churchmen, who may choose to be connected with it, holding infant baptism. The Rev. David Bogue, D. D. took a very active part in its formation, and prepared for publication its first Address. The business of the Society is in the hands of four Directors, and its officers are a Home Secretary, a Foreign Secretary, a Treasurer, and a Collector. The Society has 455 stations and out-stations, 135 missionaries, 32 European, and 473 native assistants; making a total of 640 European missionaries and assistants. Under the care of these are 93 churches, with 7,347 communicants, and 568 schools, containing 36,974

*See Baptist Magazine and Missionary Register for Nov. 1831. Also "Letters on the Serampore Controversy." London, 1831.

scholars. The Society has 17 printing establishments, and thirty-two missionary students. The receipts for the year were £70,255, and the expenditure £76,818.

The Scottish Missionary Society was formed in 1796, and has stations at Bankote, Hurnee, and Bombay in the East Indies, and-at Hampden, Port Maria, Lucea and Cornwall on the Island of Jamaica in the West Indies. In the West Indies particularly the missions are prosperous, the number of communicants being between three and four hundred. The receipts of the Society for the year ending March, 1831, were £7,487 4s. 6d. The seat of the Society's operations is at Edinburgh.

The Church Missionary Society, embracing members of the Established Church in England, was formed in 1800, and according to its plan of organization, its business is conducted by a General Committee, consisting of seven Governors and a Treasurer, and twenty-four other members, of whom not less than twelve must be of the Established Church. The General Committee elect from their number a Committee of Correspondence, and a Committee of Accounts. They meet also for business the first Monday in every month. The first Governors of the Society were Vice Admiral Gambier, Charles Grant, Esq., Sir Richard Hill, Bart. M. P., Henry Hoare, Esq., Edward Parry, Esq., Samuel Thornton, Esq., M. P., and William Wilberforce, Esq. M. P., Henry Thornton, Esq. M. P., Treasurer, Rev. Thomas Scott, Secretary. The receipts of the Society for the year 1837-8, £83,447 11s. 3d. The total number of laborers employed as ordained missionaries or catechists amount to 168, exclusive of native teachers and the wives of the married laborers. The Society has missions in West Africa, South East Africa, the Mediterranean, Calcutta and North India, Madras and South India, Bombay and Western India, Ceylon, China, Australasia, West Indies, North West America. The present officers of the Society are The Right Honorable the Earl of Chichester, Vice Patron and President, nineteen Vice Patrons, twenty Vice Presidents, Committee of twenty-three, Committee of Visitors of nine. John Thornton, Esq., Treasurer. Rev. John Norman Pearson, Principal of the Institution, Rev. William Jowett, and Dandeson Coates, Esq., Secretaries. Four associate Secretaries, and one Collector.-Besides its Missions, the Society has a Mission Literary and Theological Institution under its care at Islington, where many of its Missionaries are educated.

The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was formed June, 1810, at Bradford, Mass., and owes its origin to the circumstance, that at the meeting at that time in Bradford of the General Association of Congregational Ministers in Massachusetts, several young men about to engage in the ministry, but in whose breasts the spirit of Missions, had now for some time glowed with an intense heat, made known their state of mind to their brethren and fathers, asking counsel and advice. At first the Association were in doubt what to do. To repress so becoming a spirit in the young men they could not, and yet to encourage it, seemed unwarrantable. No society existed in the country, under whose patronage they could go out. The Association itself could not sustain them, and what might be the response of the churches to the proposal to engage in Missions, or how benevolent individuals of wealth might feel on the subject, they could not tell. After prayer and deliberation, however, faith and hope prevailed, and the Association ventured on the enterprise in a resolution to institute a Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions-to the salvation of how many souls, who can tell? The first meeting of the Board was at Farmington, Ct., Sept. 1810, and its first officers were the Hon. John Treadwell, LL. D. President; the Rev. Samuel Worcester, D. D. Corresponding Secretary; Jeremiah Evarts, Esq. Treasurer; and the Rev. Calvin Chapin, D. D. Recording Secretary. The Board was incorporated June, 1812, by the Legislature of Massachusetts;—and its principal executive organ is a Prudential Committee.-The receipts of the Board each year since its establishment have been as follows: 1811, $999 52; 1812, $13,611 50; 1813, $11,361 18; 1814, $12,265 56; 1815, $9,993 89; 1816, $12,501 03; 1817, $29,948 63; 1818, $34,727 72; 1819, $37,520 63; 1820, $39,949 45; 1821, $47,354 95; 1822, $59,083 87; 1823, $55,758 94; 1824, $47,483 58; 1825, $55,716 18; 1826, $61,616 25; 1827, $88,341 89; 1828, $102,009 64; 1829, $106,928 26; 1830, $83,019 37; 1831, $100,934 09; 1832, $130,574 12; 1833, $145,844 77; 1834, $152,386 10; 1835, $163,340 19; 1836, $176,232 15; 1837, $252,076 55; 1838, $236,170 98amounting in the whole to $2,267,757 98.

The Board has a permanent fund amounting to $87,205 83. Besides its annual report and missionary papers, the Society publishes a periodical entitled the Missionary Herald, the most valuable work of the kind published in this country.

The Board has Missions in West Africa, South Africa, Greece, Turkey, Syria and the Holy Land, to the Nestorians, Mohammedans of Persia, Mahrattas, at Madras, Madura, in Ceylon, Siam, China, Singapore, Borneo, Sandwich Islands, to the Cherokees, the Arkansas Cherokees, the Choctaws, the

Pawnees, the Indians in the Oregon country, the Sioux, the Ojibwas, the Stockbridge Indians, the New York Indians, the Abernaquis. These 26 missions embrace 85 stations, at which are laboring 126 ordained missionaries, 9 of whom are physicians, 11 physicians not preachers, 25 teachers, 10 printers and book-binders, 8 other male, and 178 female assistant missionaries; in all 358 missionary laborers sent from this country; who, with 7 native preachers and 108 other native helpers, make the whole number of persons laboring at the several missions under the patronage of the Board, and depending on its treasury for support, 473. Of these 7 ordained missionaries, 1 male and 10 female assistants-in all 18, have been sent forth during the year now closed.

Through the instrumentality of the missionaries, 49 churches have been gathered among the heathen, embracing 6,062 members. Seven seminaries have been established by the missionaries, and are sustained at the expense of the Board, for the education of native preachers and other assistants, in which are 336 pupils. There are also 8 other boarding schools, embracing 304 pupils; besides 154 free schools, in which 6,140 children and youth are receiving a Christian education. Under the care of the missions are 13 printing establishments, with three type founderies and 24 presses. The amount of printing executed at these presses during the year 1838, including school-books, portions of Scriptures, religious tracts, etc., amounted to 665,862 copies, and 29,880,404 pages.

The officers of the Board are Hon. John Cotton Smith, LL. D., President, Hon. Stephen Van Rensselaer, LL. D., Vice President, Rev. Calvin Chapin, D. D., Recording Secretary, Charles Stoddard, Esq., Assistant Recording Secretary; Hon. Samuel Hubbard, LL. D., Rev. Warren Fay, D. D., Hon. Samuel T. Armstrong, Charles Stoddard, Esq., John Tappan, Esq., Daniel Noyes, Esq., and Rev. Nehemiah Adams, Prudential Committee; Rev. Rufus Anderson, D. D., Rev. David Greene, and Rev. William J. Armstrong, Secretaries for Correspondence, Henry Hill, Esq., Treasurer, William J. Hubbard, Esq., and Charles Scudder, Esq., Auditors.

The General Convention of the Baptist denomination in the United States for Foreign Missions, and other important objects relating to the Redeemer's kingdom, owes its origin to the interest awakened among the Baptists in this country by the accession to their denomination of two of the missionaries, (Messrs. Judson and Rice,) who were sent out to India with Mr. Newell and others, in 1812, by the American Board of