Just such powerful works of grace as that at the Sandwich Islands, are to be expected in the progress of missions; and they must become frequent, numerous, general in the heathen world, if the conversion of the world be not yet remote. Even now, though the work at the Sandwich Islands is unparalleled in extent, it is so only in that one respect. There are analogous facts in other parts of the heathen world.

The churches at the islands are now 17 in number. The number of church members in June of last year, was about 6,000.

There are 8,000 or 9,000 pupils in the common schools, taught by natives; 2,300 in the station schools, taught by missionaries or missionary teachers aided by natives; 31 boys in the boardingschool at Hilo; 33 girls in the female seminary at Wailuku; and 58 boys in the seminary at Lahainaluna.

The amount of printing during the year was 1,681 pages of distinct matter, and 17,746,650 pages in the whole. There have been 83,284,857 pages printed from the beginning.

It is of immense importance that the people be taught very speedily, not only how to live so as to secure, individually, the salvation of their souls, but how to improve their social condition. They can raise cotton and silk; their soil can support a million of inhabitants; their climate is one of the best in the world; and their rulers are anxious to improve their system of government. But the rulers do not know how to change their system of government for a better. The people are imperfectly clothed; nineteen twentieths of their land lies untilled; and the population is yet diminishing from disease, as the result of foreign intercourse in past times.

One point of difficulty has, in the providence of God, been unexpectedly surmounted. On the return of Mr. Richards, the king and chiefs requested him to become their chaplain, teacher, and interpreter, and engaged to provide for his support. He felt it to be his duty to comply with their wishes; and in this he had the approbation of his brethren, and he has that of the Committee.

[Report, 1839.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

INDIAN MISSIONS.

It will be seen that the names of these mis

sions, and their arrangement, are not in all cases the same as those given in the last Survey. Some are new missions; some have probably been discontinued, and the names of others changed; but the Report does not contain explanations. We follow the arrangement of the Report.

1. WYANDOTS: number in 1837, 575; in Ohio and Michigan.—P. 107.

One missionary and a school teacher, who have charge of 200 church members and about 30 scholars. [Report, 1839.

2. ONEIDAS: in Western New York.

One missionary and school teacher; 140 church members; about 100 scholars. The mission is in a state of progressive improvement. [Report, 1839.

3. ONEIDAS: near Green Bay; number in 1837, 725.

This mission has been greatly pros-' pered during the year. [Report, 1839. 4. Mission [ONEWAS ?] at the Sault de St. Marie; near Lake Superior.

There are 15 native converts, and 23 scholars. [Report, 1839.

5. Mission at Kewawenon. [The Report does not mention where this station is, nor among whom.]

One native missionary; about 40 members. [Report, 1839.

6. Sioux in the Illinois Conference.

:

Only two native converts.

[Report, 1839.

8. Ottawa Lake mission; in the Illinois Conference.

This mission has four converts.
[Report, 1839.

9. A new mission; on the east shore of Winnebago Lake; in the Milwaukee district, Illinois Conference.

Among a settlement of Brothertown Indians, descendants of the tribe of that name that formerly inhabited New England. They have adopted our language, and to some extent, our modes of living, and many of them seem very desirous of being instructed in the principles and duties of Christianity. [Report, 1839. 9. The CHOCTAW mission; west of the Mississippi.

Whole number of native members, 733; Sabbath school scholars, 150. There are also connected with this mission 14 white and 70 colored members of the church; five local preachers; three exhorters.

[Report, 1839.

10. The CHEROKEE mission; west of the Mississippi.

The mission numbers 300 church members, and the missionary is assisted by three local preachers. [Report, 1839.

11. The SENECA mission.

It has been a year of great trial among the Senecas, and but little apparent good has been done.-There are seven missionaries in this district. [Report, 1839.

12. The CHEROKEE mission; in the Holstein Conference.

This mission has been much disturbed by the removal of the Indians west of the Mississippi river. When collected in the camps for removal, there were found 480 church members.-The Christian party generally remained faithful. Two native preachers were with them, discharging their duties of preaching and visiting. Their missionary, the Rev. D. B. Cumming, goes with them to their future home. [Report, 1839.

13. Indian missions in the Missouri Conference.

These missions are in a prosperous state. There are six stations; 12 missionaries; 5 school teachers; 397 members of the church, of whom 23 are whites, and 78 scholars.

It has been determined to establish a manual labor school, on an extensive plan, for the special benefit of the Indian youth attached to this mission, and those who may move into that region of country. [Report, 1839.

14. Oregon mission; northwest coast.

There are now employed in this mission upward of twenty persons, including minors; namely, four missionaries, two of whom are married, a physician, blacksmith, and a carpenter, the latter all men of families.

Already intoxicating liquors have been banished the settlement where the mission is located, several of the natives brought under serious impressions, a school put in operation, in which about thirty are taught.-A large farm is also brought under cultivation.

From the local advantages of the territory, the salubrity of its climate, and richness of its soil, and the prospect of gain by opening a more extensive trade with the natives, it may be presumed that the country will be, at no distant period, filled with white inhabitants. It is therefore highly important, that the best interests of all concerned may be secured, for the institutions of Christianity to be early established there, that the settlements may be saved from the contaminating influence of vicious indulgences.

These representations being made to the board of managers,—it has been determined to send out a reinforcement of five missionaries, one physician, a blacksmith, millwright, cabinet maker, three carpenters and joiners, three farmers, a mission steward to take charge of the temporal affairs of the mission, and some young ladies for teachers, together with those farming and mechanical utensils, which are necessary to carry on their respec

tive trades and occupations, as well as a quantity of goods, composed of such articles as are needful for the supply of the mission family, and to enable them to purchase such articles as they may procure of the natives. [Report, 1839.

This reinforcement sailed from NewYork, in October last, by way of the Sandwich Islands, and including women and children, numbered fifty persons. The Rev. Jason Lee returned to this interesting missionary field at the same time.

MISSIONS IN TEXAS.

There are now eight missionaries employed, all of whom are much encouraged in their work; there are about 400 church members; and 25 local preachers.

A township of land has been purchased,

called "Rutersville," in honor of the lamented Rev. Dr. Ruter, who had proposed a plan for promoting the interests of education. In the centre of this township is the site for a College, which " has commenced, and the government of Texas have granted it a charter, and an appropriation of 8883 acres of land for its endowment." [From the Report, 1839,

SOUTH AMERICAN MISSIONS.

Rio de Janeiro; capital of BRAZIL-1836 -two missionaries and their families; Mr. M'Murdy having resigned his station as teacher.-P. 102.

Difficulties have been met in the spirit of the Gospel. The missionaries have been encouraged by the facility with which they have been enabled to circulate the holy scriptures in the Portuguese language.

On the whole, we think there is good reason to hope that success will yet accompany their labors.

[From the Report, 1839.

Buenos Ayres; capital of the UNITED PROVINCES-1836-Rev. Mr. Dempster, and a pious teacher, graduate of the Wesleyan University.-P. 102.

A school has been opened with fair prospects of success. Towards the erection of a church, $10,000 has been appro

priated, and Mr. Dempster is now going forward in this good work. The impression made upon the public mind by the labors of the missionary is of the most favorable character.

Mr. D. had visited Monte-Video, and from what he learned there, was induced to request a Missionary for that place, to labor as a school-teacher and a preacher of the Gospel; a suitable person has been selected and appointed for that station. [From the Report, 1839.

WEST AFRICAN MISSION.

LIBERIA-1832-The Rev. John Seys is the superintendent of the mission.-P. 3.

There are now employed on this mission 17 missionaries, [most of them colored men, and laboring chiefly among the colonists,] and 10 teachers; a printer; a missionary steward, who has the charge of its temporal interests; and also a physician. There are 420 members of the church; 221 scholars; 300 Sabbath school scholars. A classical school is to be established; a young man of piety and promise, a graduate of Alleghany College, Penn., having accompanied the last reinforcement as a teacher.

[From the Report, 1839.

EPISCOPAL BOARD OF MISSIONS.

INDIAN MISSIONS.

ONEIDAS. Duck Creek-Rev. S. Davis and wife; Miss Williams, assistant.-P.

108.

The mission is still regarded as in a prosperous condition. [Report, 1839.

The Mission School at Green Bay, under the superintendence of Mr. Davis, assisted by Miss Sarah Crawford, Misa Susan Crawford, and Mr. E. Sherwood, is to be continued some time longer-but is eventually to be merged into a College, according to certain specified principles, which give the entire control of it to the Episcopal Church.

[From the Report, 1839.

nese:

If difficulties had appalled the Apostles and primitive Christians, and they had desisted from spreading the glad tidings of the Redeemer's sacrifices, except where their path was wholly unobstructed, very different had been the result of their labors. May it not be questioned whether a century would not have elapsed before they had extended beyond the bounds of Judea? and how much longer before there would have been ground for such a decla

ration as that of the Apostle, that "their

sound went out into all the earth, and

their words to the ends of the world?", The promises of God must be believed, and his commands obeyed, and the result be left to the orderings of his Providence and grace.

AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY.

We have collected the following statistics from the last Annual Report of this catholic institution:

Receipts $95, 128 26-Bibles printed, 38,000; Testaments, 76,000. Bibles and Testaments issued, 134,037; making an aggregate, since the formation of the Society, of 2,488,235. Grants of money in aid of Foreign Missions, viz., to the American Board of Foreign Missions for Sandwich Islands, $5,000; for Madras, $4,000; to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, for India, $1,000;-to the Methodist Missionary Society, $500; to Messrs. Rapes and others, Russia, $500;-to Rev. S. H. Calhoun, at Smyrna, for services and distribution of the Scriptures, [chiefly through the missionaries of the American Board,] $8,465 44 ; -total, $19,465 94.

AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY.

during the year, 356,000 volumes; 3,657,000 publications; 124,744,000 pages.-Circulated, 299,165 vols ; 4,099,170 the total circulated since the formation publications; 119,733,356 pages; making 51,039,678 publications; 917,983,578 paof the Society, 1,153,390 volumes; 51,039,678 publications; 917,983,578 pages.-New publications during the year 33; making the whole number of the Society's publications, 944, of which 58

are volumes.

There has been paid in aid of Foreign Missions, during the year, $30,000— viz., for China, Singapore, &c., including $1,000 for Episcopal mission, $2,500; Siam, including $1,500 for American Baptist mission, $2,200; Shyans, $700; Burmah, Karens, &c., $4,000; Northern India, $2,500; Calcutta, $500; Orissa, $500; Madras, including $500 for Teloogoos, $2,500; Ceylon, $2,000; Mahrattas, $500; Sandwich Islands, $2,800; Nestorians, $500; Smyrna, including $80 for Rev. J. Brewer, $1,280 ; Greece, including $1,000 for Episcopal mission, $1,800; Russia, $2,000; Sweden, $800; Denmark, $300; Poland, $500; Berlin, $400; Hungary, $300; France, including $320 for Tract Association of English and Americans, in Paris, $1,020; Spain, $400.

AMERICAN SEAMEN'S FRIEND SOCIETY.

A notice of the proceedings of this Society comes with peculiar propriety within the range of our Survey, as sca-faring men are Missionaries of great influence, for good or for evil, to the numerous and widelyspread places which they visit in heathen and anti-Christian countries. From the last Annual Report we learn that