No! blessed be God, I feel every day, more and more, the ineffable privilege of being an Ambassador of Christ to the Gentile World-of proclaiming reconciliation with an offended God to the dark and bewildered Indian!

At the last dates Mr. Jones was in perfect health, and gives the following view of the Mission:

When I take into consideration the once-dreadful prevalency of irreligion in this country, the scattered state of its inhabitants, together with the inclemency of its seasons, and many other inconveniences which the Servants of the Lord have to encounter, my wonder is, not that more has not been done, but that so much has been accomplished. We want nothing but faith, and humble dependence on the promises of God, which are all Yea and Amen in that Saviour, whom we endeavour, day and night, to recommend to the notice of all around us.

PUBLICATIONS.

It was stated, under the head of "Missionaries and Students," that the Rev. Professor Lee has undertaken the superintendence of the Society's Students in the Institution, in respect of the Oriental Languages. On occasion of this engagement with Mr. Lee, the Committee think it right to put on record a memorial of the various Works connected with the Propagation of the Gospel, which the Professor has been enabled to accomplish since he has been connected with the Society. The Committee are anxious to bear this public testimony to his great and successful exertions in a department of labour, which, though it does not afford matter of interesting detail, and therefore attracts little general notice, yet involves more than a common share of patience and wearisome labour, and furnishes essential aid to the Missionary Cause; as will be abundantly manifest from the following statement.

Professor Lee has not only given instruction in the Oriental Languages to most of the Students and Missionaries whose attention was directed to such Languages before they left this country; but he has been laboriously occupied in preparing and

editing various Works: some of these have been for the immediate service of the Society; and others have been taken charge of, with the full concurrence of your Committee, for the British and Foreign Bible Society, to the operations of which Institution both the Society and the Professor have had great pleasure in rendering every practicable aid.

Of the Works issued by the Society, Mr. Lee translated a Tract entitled "THE WAY OF TRUTH AND LIFE " into both Persian and Arabic, and edited these pieces together with Professor Macbride's Arabic Tract on the SYSTEM OF MUTUAL EDUCATION. In a Work edited by him, containing an Arabic Version of OSTERVALD'S COMPENDIUM OF SACRED HISTORY and DIALOGUES ON THE PRINCIPAL DOCTRINES OF CHRISTIANITY, the Dialogues were revised by the Professor, and much new matter added on several of the most important doctrines. A NEW-ZEALAND GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY were compiled and edited by Mr. Lee, being the first attempt to reduce that language to system.

SYRIAC PSALTER.

For the British and Foreign Bible Society, Professor Lee has had the charge of the SYRIAC NEW TESTAMENT, the SYRIAC OLD TESTAMENT, and the The New Testament was first undertaken by the late Rev. Dr. Claudius Buchanan, but was afterward re-commenced by Mr. Lee: three ancient Manuscripts and the Commentaries of Ephraim Syrus were collated; and, on their authority, in conjunction with the Collations of Jones, Ridley, and Wetstein, the Text was emended. For the Old Testament, six ancient Manuscripts of the Pentateuch were collated, and three of other parts of the Bible, together with the Commentaries of Ephraim Syrus. A new fount of types was prepared for these Works, under Mr. Lee's inspection, Mr. Lee also corrected, for the same Society, an edition of the MALAY BIBLE, in Roman Characters; and revised and edited the Propaganda ARABIC BIBLE, the Propaganda ARABIC PSALTER, Sabat's ARABIC NEW-TESTAMENT, the PERSIC PSAL

TER, Martyn's HINDOOSTANEE NEW-TESTAMENT, and the FOUR GOSPELS in AMHARIC newfounts of types or stereotype plates were prepared, under the direction of Mr. Lee, for all these Works, except the Malay Bible*. The Professor is now engaged in carrying through the Press an edition of a COPTIC AND ARABIC PSALTER in parallel columns; and in revising a translation of the OLD TESTAMENT INTO PERSIAN, which is preparing, with the assistance of Learned Natives, by the Scottish Missionaries on the borders of Persia.

For the Prayer-Book and Homily Society, Professor Lee has revised and edited Archdeacon Corrie's translation of the COMMON PRAYER INTO

HINDOOSTANEE.

In addition to all these Works, he published, last year, an Octavo Volume of more than 700 pages, of

CONTROVERSIAL TRACTS ON CHRISTIANITY AND

MOHAMMEDANISM, by the late Rev. Henry Martyn and some of the most eminent Writers of Persia ; translated and explained by the Professor, together with an original Tract by him and an extended account of a former controversy on the same subject.

The Committee cannot close this record without the expression of their gratitude to Him, who thus raises up instruments for carrying on His gracious designs toward mankind.

In the Syriac Old Testament, and throughout the Psalter, valuable assistance in correcting the press was rendered by the Rev. Joseph Jowett, Rector of Silk Willoughby. Throughout the Arabic Bible, and in the latter half of Sabat's Arabic Testament, Professor Macbride, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Church Missionary Society, gave very important aid in the revision and correction of these Works. On the acquisition of the Manuscript of the Amharic Bible by the British and Foreign Bible Society, Mr. Lee, having made himself master of the Ethiopic and Amharic Languages with the valuable but imperfect assistance afforded by the Works of Ludolf, undertook to edit the Amharic Gospels: after the first Gospel had been completed, Thomas Pell Platt, Esq. Honorary Librarian of the British and Foreign Bible Society, continued the work, in consequence of Professor Lee's multiplied engagements. Mr. Platt assisted, also, in the revision of the latter part of Sabat's Arabic Testament.

In giving a Summary View of the Society's Proceedings, its efforts for the diffusion of Divine Truth among the Heathen may be thus stated

In the NINE MISSIONS of the Society, there are FORTY-FIVE STATIONS, with which are connected TWO HUNDRED AND NINETYSIX SCHOOLS. These Stations and Schools are occupied by four hundred AND FORTY LABOURERS: of these, 119 are Europeans, including a few Females born of British Parents in India; and 321 were born in the respective countries, chiefly, where they are employed. The number of SCHOLARS under the Society is FOURTEEN THOUSAND AND NINETY; of whom 10,457 are Boys, 2957 Girls, and 676 Youths and Adults. In connection with the principal Missions, PRINTING-PRESSES are established; and are coming, in some places, into very active and beneficial operation.

In conclusion, your Committee cannot but avow their full conviction, with thankfulness to Him who guides all things to the advancement of His Kingdom, that, amidst numberless and augmenting difficulties, that Kingdom is steadily advancing. Severe trials, indeed, continue to attend the Servants of God, in their combined exertions to fulfil His will: of these trials, particularly in that most interesting of all the scenes of Christian Labour, among the Liberated Africans, a large portion has befallen the Society, and still exercises the faith and patience of its friends. Not only, however, is countervailing success granted in other quarters, but, as the Committee rejoice to witness, the Reports of the Associations throughout the United Kingdom indicate the prevalence of a spirit so truly Christian, in reference both to the Trials of the Society and its own Duties and those of its members, that the Committee cannot but hail this as a manifest token for good: and they feel that they cannot better close their own Report, than by bringing before the Members some of the admirable remarks which occur on these topics in the Reports of the Associations.

On the necessity and benefit of Trials, the Committee of one of the Associations thus speak

We are sometimes disposed to demur at applying to the

work of God those general rules of perseverance and calm endurance, of which the relevancy is acknowledged in matters pertaining to our individual experience. As if the consciousness that we have no personal interest to serve nor private ends to gain begat a claim of exemption from ordinary reverses and trials, we are apt to interpret the occurrence of them as enjoining a pause or cessation of operations. It is forgotten, that the Gospel was planted by labours and sufferings, such as no Missionaries have,. in the present day, to endure it is forgotten, that the great Apostle of the Gentiles, when speaking of his labours, so far from generally adopting language of uninterrupted triumph, was often pressed down above measure by cares, anxieties, and troubles. Trials, therefore, are appointed. We must expect them. They are useful in causing us to examine the simplicity of our motives--the proportion of effort to our means -the fervency of our zeal the importunity and incessancy of our prayers-and, above all, they tend to fix our eye more steadfastly on Him, "without whom nothing is strong, nothing is holy"; who can frustrate in a moment the most splendid and costly array of means, and prosper those whose manifest disproportion seems to give the faintest prospects of success. The same Committee thus point out the Rule of the Society's Duty

Were our duty respecting the nations who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, only to be collected from the facilities which presented for their conversion and the success attending the whole process of means used, how feeble and unsteady would probably be our exertions! Especially at the commencement of a Mission-when the difficulties to be surmounted are usually the greatest and most appalling, when the prospects of success are most doubtful and obscure -we should readily find a plea to cover our indolence and indifference in doing nothing. "The time is not yet-the mind of God is not sufficiently declared-the opposing obstacles are insuperable"-these, or similar arguments, would seem to justify us in ceasing to use any further means; and in beholding, without any serious trouble, millions of our fellowcreatures perishing for lack of knowledge. Viewing, however, the Divine Will as made known, so far as respects our duty, in plain commands and promises, the course is obvious: we must labour, sow the seed, tend the rising plant with vigilance and diligence, and in faith leave the event. Thus the very trials and difficulties, which, in the other view of the subject, would be interpreted as an intimation to relax, will, in this, be deemed a call to redouble our efforts, and yet cast into the shade all these efforts by directing the eye more singly to the Divine Power and Sufficiency.