admitted; two or three of whom, after sound bodies, ired to labor,-and of longer or shorter trial, have been disapproved civil and Christian character; missed. Care however, has been taken, 4 are men in middle life with well govthat those, who have been dismissed, erned and well educated families,-the should be placed in good families, where || they might still have the benefit of Christian instruction. rest, young men, 8 of whom are married; the most of them have been exercised in the instruction of schools, and The present number of pupils is all of them are deemed well qualified twenty-nine; four from the Sandwich to take part in the arduous, benevolent, Islands-one from Otaheite-one from and sacred work of evangelizing and the Marquesas-one Malay-eight || civilizing pagan and uncultured people. Cherokees-two Choctaws-three of The fitting out of missionaries, and the Stockbridge Tribe-two Oneidas- getting them to the fields of labor, must one Tuscarora-two Caughnewagas- be attended with not inconsiderable exone Indian youth from Pennsylvania, pense. Many things are to be done in and three youths of our own country. the preparations, requiring various atUnder the instruction of the able and tentions, and journeyings, and labors, highly respected Principal, the Rev. and occasioning numberless contingent Mr. Daggett, and his very capable and || expenses. Many articles are comprisfaithful Assistant, Mr. Prentice, the im- ed in the necessary outfits and proviprovement of the pupils, in general, has sion, for the individuals, and families, been increasing and satisfactory, and in and establishments. And conveyances not a few instances uncommonly good. by water or by land are expensive. Besides being taught in various branch- The total expense of the Sandwich es of learning, and made practically ac- Mission, paid from the Treasury, bequainted with the useful arts of civiliz- sides much which was given by liberal ed life; they are instructed constantly individuals in various articles not inand with especial care in the doctrines|cluded in the Treasurer's account, was and duties of Christianity. Nor has this instruction been communicated in vain. Of the thirty-one Heathen Youths -including with the twenty-six now at school, the deceased Obookiah, and the four, who have gone with the Mission to their native Islands-seventeen are thought to have given evidence of a living faith in the Gospel; and several others are very seriously thoughtful on religious concerns. The Lord, in his Sovereign goodness, has made it strik ingly manifest, that his face is toward this favored Seminary, and that his blessing rests upon it. May it be eminently instrumental in making known the glory of his Name in many lands, and of bringing multitudes of different nations and tongues, to unite in songs of everlasting joy and praise. somewhat more than $10,000. Of this sum $224 were paid for the travelling expenses of the Members of the Mission,-$275 for transportation of baggage to Boston,-$2,500 for passage to the Islands,-almost $2,000 for stores for the use of the missionaries on their passage and after their arrival,-almost $1,000 for family furniture, clothing, and mechanical and agricultural implements,-$775 for printing, press and apparatus,-and $866 for mathematical, philosophical, and surgical instru ments. To persons not conversant with these matters, these items and the total amount might appear extravagant. And yet in proportion to the magnitude of the mission the expenditure was small. It would appear so on comparison with the cost of English missions. Expenditures and Receipts. If it costs less to fit out and convey SINCE the last Annual Meeting, your men to our stations in the wilderness of Committee have sent forth to different our own country, it does not however fields 23 men and 13 women: 10 men cost less to get an establishment there and 7 women to the Sandwich Islands into operation, or in its early stages to 1 man to Ceylon-2 men to Western maintain it. And during the year, the Asia-8 men and 6 women to the Choc- missionaries already in the field were to taw nation—and 2 men to the Chero- be provided for, and the establishments kees of the Arkansaw. Of the men, 5 already in operation to be supported, as are ordained missionaries-1 is a physi-well as new men to be sent out and new cian, 1 is a printer, and the rest, be- establishments to be commenced. sides being skilled in husbandry and various mechanical arts, are men of vigorous and well informed minds, in Within the year the Treasury has disbursed for the Bombay Mission, $7,221-for the Ceylon, $7,135-for Mr. Calvin Cushman, Teacher and 1820 V. MISSION AMONG THE CHERO- Rev. Alfred Finney, Mrs. Finney, Rev. Cephas Washburn, Mr. Jacob Hitchcock, Teacher and Mr. James Orr, Teacher Farmer, VI. SANDWICH ISLANDS. Rev. Asa Thurston, Mrs. Lucy Thurston, Mr. Daniel Chamberlain, Farmer, Mrs. Lucia Holman, Mr. Samuel Whitney, Teacher & Mrs, Mercy Whitney, Mr. Elisha Loomis, Printer, Mrs. Maria T. Loomis. barn, and other out-buildings, and a garden, for the Principal;-a house, barn, &c. with a few acres of good tillage land for the Steward and Commons:-all situated sufficiently near to each other and to the Congregational meeting-house, in the south parish of Cornwall, Con.and eighty acres of excellent wood land, about a mile and a half distant. The object of the School as set forth in the Constitution, is-"The education in our own country of Heathen Youths, in such manner, as, with subsequent 1820 professional instruction will qualify them to become useful Missionaries, Physicians, Surgeons, School Masters, or Interpreters; and to communicate to the Heathen Nations such knowledge in agriculture and the arts, as may prove the means of promoting Chris. tianity and civilization." As these youths are designed for a higher education, than is expected to be obtained at our Mission Schools in heathen countries, it is deemed of no small importance, that they be only such as are of suitable age, of docile dispositions, and of promising talents. MISSION TO PALESTINE. 1820 REPORT OF THE PRUDENTIAL (Concluded from our last volume.) Foreign Mission School. THIS Consecrated Seminary was instituted in the autumn of 1816, and opened in the beginning of May 1817. There belong to it a commodious edifice for the School, a good mansion house, with a *This mission embarked Oct. 23, 1819, and, as is hoped, reached the Islands in the ensuing spring. George Sandwich sailed from Boston, Nov. 27, 1820. In the constitution there is a provision, that youths of our own country, of acknowledged piety may be admitted to the school, at their own expense, and at the discretion of the Agents. In the first year of the School twelve youths were admitted-two from heathen lands and two natives of Connecticut. Of these, Henry Obookiah, John Honooree, Thomas Hopoo, and William Tennooe, had before been objects of Christian liberality, and for some time under Christian instruction. The raised hopes, founded, under Providence, on the unquestioned piety, the distinguished talents, and the excellent character of Obookiah, terminated in his triumphant departure from these earthly scenes, before the first year of the school had expired. Of his three companions, Honooree, Hopoo, and Tennooe, Mr. Ruggles, one of the two Connecticut youths, and George Tamoree, particular mention has just been made under the head of the Sandwich Island Mission.Of the other six, adother Connecticut youth, and George mitted the first year, James Ely, the Sandwich and William Kummoo-olah from the Sandwich Islands, are still members of the School; one has been dismissed for misbehavior, one for incapacity, and the other is absent. From year to year, since the first, youths of different nations have been admitted; two or three of whom, after | sound bodies, inured to labor,-and of longer or shorter trial, have been disapproved civil and Christian character; missed. Care however, has been taken, that those, who have been dismissed, should be placed in good families, where they might still have the benefit of Christian instruction. 4 are men in middle life with well governed and well educated families,-the rest, young men, 8 of whom are married; the most of them have been exercised in the instruction of schools, and all of them are deemed well qualified to take part in the arduous, benevolent, and sacred work of evangelizing and civilizing pagan and uncultured people. The fitting out of missionaries, and getting them to the fields of labor, must be attended with not inconsiderable expense. Many things are to be done in the preparations, requiring various attentions, and journeyings, and labors, and occasioning numberless contingent expenses. Many articles are comprised in the necessary outfits and provision, for the individuals, and families, and establishments. And conveyances by water or by land are expensive. The present number of pupils is twenty-nine; four from the Sandwich Islands-one from Otaheite-one from the Marquesas-one Malay-eight Cherokees-two Choctaws-three of the Stockbridge Tribe-two Oneidasone Tuscarora-two Caughnewagasone Indian youth from Pennsylvania, and three youths of our own country. Under the instruction of the able and highly respected Principal, the Rev. Mr. Daggett, and his very capable and faithful Assistant, Mr. Prentice, the improvement of the pupils, in general, has been increasing and satisfactory, and in not a few instances uncommonly good. Besides being taught in various branch- The total expense of the Sandwich es of learning, and made practically ac- Mission, paid from the Treasury, bequainted with the useful arts of civiliz- || sides much which was given by liberal ed life; they are instructed constantly individuals in various articles not inand with especial care in the doctrines cluded in the Treasurer's account, was and duties of Christianity. Nor has somewhat more than $10,000. Of this this instruction been communicated in sum $224 were paid for the travelling vain. Of the thirty-one Heathen Youths expenses of the Members of the Mis-including with the twenty-six now at sion,-$275 for transportation of bagschool, the deceased Obookiah, and the gage to Boston,-$2,500 for passage to four, who have gone with the Mission to the Islands,-almost $2,000 for stores for their native Islands-seventeen are the use of the missionaries on their pasthought to have given evidence of a sage and after their arrival,—almost living faith in the Gospel; and several $1,000 for family furniture, clothing, others are very seriously thoughtful on and mechanical and agricultural implereligious concerns. The Lord, in his ments,-$775 for printing, press and Sovereign goodness, has made it strik apparatus,-and $866 for mathematiingly manifest, that his face is toward cal, philosophical, and surgical instruthis favored Seminary, and that his ments. blessing rests upon it. May it be eminently instrumental in making known the glory of his Name in many lands, and of bringing multitudes of different nations and tongues, to unite in songs of everlasting joy and praise. Expenditures and Receipts. SINCE the last Annual Meeting, your Committee have sent forth to different fields 23 men and 13 women: 10 men and 7 women to the Sandwich Islands 1 man to Ceylon-2 men to Western Asia-8 men and 6 women to the Choctaw nation-and 2 men to the Cherokees of the Arkansaw. Of the men, 5 are ordained missionaries—1 is a physician, 1 is a printer, and the rest, besides being skilled in husbandry and various mechanical arts, are men of vigorous and well informed minds, in To persons not conversant with these matters, these items and the total amount might appear extravagant. And yet in proportion to the magnitude of the mission the expenditure was small. It would appear so on comparison with the cost of English missions. If it costs less to fit out and convey men to our stations in the wilderness of our own country, it does not however cost less to get an establishment there into operation, or in its early stages to maintain it. And during the year, the missionaries already in the field were to be provided for, and the establishments already in operation to be supported, as well as new men to be sent out and new establishments to be commenced. Within the year the Treasury has disbursed for the Bombay Mission, $7,221-for the Ceylon, $7,135-for the Cherokee, $9,967-for the Choc- this cause, and felt in all parts of the taw.$10,414-for the Arkansaw,$1,150 country, and by all classes of the com-for the Palestine, $2,348-for the || munity-it were moderate to consider Foreign Mission School, $3,350-and || $36,000, given in this last year, as being for all the objects and purposes of the equal to $50,000 in times as they were Board, $57,420. in preceding years. And in this ratio, It was not to be expected-especially it may be right, in point of justice, and if the distressing scarcity, or stagnation gratitude, and encouragement, and conof the circulating medium were consid-fidence, to estimate the increase of ered, that there would be in the year liberality in the community towards the an advance, upon the receipts of pre- objects of the Board. ceding years, equal or proportionate to the large additions made to our missions, or the consequent augmentation of expense. It is not indeed according to the general course of things, that in the management of extensive and progressive concerns, public or private-incurring large expenditures, and depending upon many contingencies-the receipts in each year should be very exactly or nearly proportionate to the disbursements. In one year the disbursements will come short of the receipts,-in other years they will go beyond them; even in concerns conducted upon the soundest principles,and with the greatest success. It has been so with the concerns of this Board. In some former years there was a surplus of income which was kept in reserve, to be used in suc ceeding years, as the exigencies or interests of the Institution should require. Donations to the Board. to The donations, contributions and benefactions, from societies, churches, congregations, and individuals, received at the Treasury, within the year ending with the last month, amounted $36,500; and the income from the permanent fund, and other sources, to $2,600, making in the total sum $39,000. This, as will be seen, comes short of the total amount of expenditures by $18,000.-For the supply of the defi ciency, it has been found necessary to draw upon the disposable funds of the Board, accumulated from preceding years. Though these receipts are not equal to the disbursements, yet your Commit. tee have the high gratification to state, -and they would do it with a grateful sense of the liberality of individuals and of the Christian public, and with devout thankfulness to the God of all grace,that the donations exceeded those of any preceding year by $2,600. This deserves more especial notice on account of the scarcity or stagnation, before alluded to. Allowing for the embarassment and distress, arising from And it is deemed proper, and of some importance to be noted, that this increase of liberality, is not to be attributed to extraordinary efforts in the way of solicitation or excitement, Efforts of that kind were even less abundant and less expensive than in former years. Little, indeed, was done, excepting by an Address of the Committee to the Auxiliaries and Patrons, and Benefactors and Friends of the Board; and a considerable number of brief local agencies in connexion with it. Of the manner in which this Address was every where received and answered, the Committee would find it impossible adequately to express their grateful sense. It afforded a proof, inestimably valuable, of the affectionate and stable and liberal confidence and attachment of the Christian community towards the Board, and its great object. Besides the donations in money, numerous contributions have been made in various articles for the missions. These are not included in the Treasurer's account; and the amount of value cannot be ascertained. It is not, however, inconsiderable. For the Sandwich Mission a noble spirit of liberality was displayed; particularly in the places and vicinities where the missionaries had resided; and in Boston, Salem, and some of the neighboring towns, of whose cheering liberality every mission has participated. And for the Cherokee and Choctaw missions, a || spirit not less noble has been very extensively manifested, and continually increasing and spreading. From more than a hundred different places in the North and in the South-boxes of clothing, of almost every kind suitable for the children of the schools-and some for the missionaries and their familieshave been prepared and sent forward. Of about a fifth part of them, the value was estimated and marked by the donors; and the amount is about $1,140. This taken as a general average, would give the amount of the whole at $5,700. This sum, added to the $36,500 in money, would make a total of $42,200. The articles of clothing are chiefly the fruits of female benevolence;-that rich and perennial source, whose streams give life and beauty to Zion, and shall make the wilderness glad, and the desert to rejoice and blossom as the rose. "We ought to be very grateful to God," says the Brainerd Journal, "for putting it into the hearts of his children, to send from the most remote parts of the United States, these seasonable supplies-to cover these naked children of the forest, and in that way to evince the power and excellency of his Gospel, which he has commanded to be preached to every creature.' Liberality of the Choctaws. To these donations from the Christian community, ought surely to be added, and with a strong note of grateful admiration, the unprecedented donations of the Choctaws. That poor, pagan, and lost people of the wilderness have, within a year, pledged the annual sum of $6,000, to be received by them from the govern ment, during the whole time it shall be paid, that is, for 16 or 17 years to come, in aid of the operations of this Board, for the instruction of themselves and their children in Christianity and civili zation. It should be observed, however, that as the Choctaw donations do not come into our treasury, they do not afford to the Board all the strength and facilities and advantages, that would be afforded by the same amount in the state of our ordinary funds. No part of these donations was at disposal for supplying the insufficiency of the receipts of the year from the customary sources, not even in regard to the Choctaw mission, the expenses of which exceeded those of either of the other missions. Still, for the purposes of that mission it is a substantial endowment, and will, from year to year, relieve the general funds, and facilitate and strengthen the general operations. "The establishment at Elliot," say the missionaries there, is not yet complete. Houses for the accommodation of the mission families are needed; as are a barn and two or three small buildings. A hundred more acres of land ought to be opened and cultivated. When this is done, and the young stock grown so as to supply the family in a considerable degree, which will be in the course of two or three years, we think the $2,000 a year, appropriated by the natives, in connexion with the donations of provisions and clothing, which may be expected from the states, will go very far towards supporting the establishment. But to complete the buildings, open sufficient land, and provide for the support of the family until other means can be brought into operation, considerable money will be required. for the two other establishments, though they "The appropriations made by the natives, will do much towards supporting them when put into operation, will be wholly inadequate to laying the foundation. Unless there are means, in the first instance, for procuring a large stock, and bringing under cultivation an extensive plantation, the expenses of provision would be so great, that it is doubtful whether it would long be supported." Patronage of the Government. The Board have been made acquainted heretofore, with the patronage afforded to our Indian missions by the general Government, with a view, expressly, to the instruction of the Indians in the arts of civilized life. At the commencement, assurance was given by the Executive that for each establishment the expenses of erecting a school house and a dwelling house should be defrayed from the public funds, and that a specified number of certain kinds of implements and utensils for husbandry and domestic manufacture should be furnished. "The limited appropriations for the Indian Department," said the Secretary of War at the time, "will for the present preclude the Executive Government from extending a more liberal patronage to the Board, in their laudable efforts for the accomplishment of objects so very desirable." Agreeably, however, to a hope then expressed by the Secretary, Congress has passed a law for an appropriation of $10 000 a year, to be applied under the direction of the President to the instruction of the Indian Tribes. Of this sum, $1,000 is "for the present allowed to our establishment at Brainerd, and $1,000 to that at Elliot." "When," says the Secretary, "the Department is in possession of the necessary information [respecting the several establishments commenced by this Board and other Societies] a more full and complete distribuscribed regulations.” tion will be made, agreeably to pre The favorable disposition manifested by the Government, and with increasing strength and benignity, towards the great object of civilizing the Aborigines, is to be most gratefully recognized and highly valued: not only on account of the direct pecuniary aid afforded; but more especially for the security which it gives to the Aborigines themselves, to |