SMYRNA.-Elias Riggs, Thomas P. Johnston, Missionaries; Mrs. Martha I. Riggs, Mrs. Marianne C. Johnston.-Two native helpers. MARSOVAN.-Edwin E. Bliss, Missionary; Mrs. Isabella H. Bliss, Mrs. Susan H. Sutphen.-One native helper. TREBIZOND.-Philander O. Powers, Missionary ; Mrs. Sarah L. Powers.-One native preacher, and one helper. business streets, near the grand bazars, with no restriction on the part of the authorities, except that "only Protestant books" are to be sold there. The necessity for an effective occupation of places in the interior is becoming more and more urgent. Marsovan, fifty miles from the Black Sea, is now a regu ERZRUM.-Josiah Peabody, Missionary; Mrs. Mary L. Peabody. Two native preachers and three help-lar station. Sivas, with its infant church, AINTAB.-Benjamin Schneider, Oliver Crane, Missionaries; Mrs. Corinth I. Smith, Mrs. Marion D. Crane-Two native preachers and nine helpers. OUT-STATIONS.-Brusa, one native preacher and one helper. Nicomedia, one native preacher and three helpers. Ada Bazar, one native preacher and two helpers. Rodesto, one native preacher and one helper. Cesarea, one native helper. Magnesia, one native helper. Sivas, one native helper. Tocat, one native helper. Killis, one native helper. Oorfa, one native helper. Kessab, one native helper. Marash, one native helper. In this country-William Goodell, Isaac G. Bliss, Missionaries; Mrs. Abigail P. Goodell, Mrs. Eunice B. Bliss, Mrs. Eliza C. Schneider. (6 stations; 12 out-stations, 15 missionaries, 18 female assistant missionaries, 11 native preachers, 36 native helpers;-total, 80.) demands the immediate presence of missionaries. So does Tocat, where the spirit of inquiry, not being met by the true light, is leading to an infidelity worse than the old system of superstition and error. What little of the gospel they have, proves only "a savor of death unto death." The Protestant brethren in Cesarea, within the ancient Cappadocia, still continue their earnest entreaties for missionaries; and so do our friends at Arabkir on the Euphrates, at Marash and Killis near Aintab, and at Oorfa. Erzrûm and Aintab require reinforcements without any further delay. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin have been Two churches have been organized transferred to Constantinople by vote of during the year under review, one at the mission. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Bliss were Haskeuy, and one at Rodosto. The requested to commence a new station at whole number of communicants reported Marsovan; Mr. and Mrs. Sutphen, who is two hundred and sixty-five, thirty-two arrived at Smyrna on the 16th of Janu- of whom have been received into Chrisary, having been associated with them. tian fellowship within a twelvemonth. They had scarcely entered this new field, The mission have twelve free schools, however, when Mr. Sutphen was cut containing in all about four hundred down by disease. His death occurred pupils, under their care. Eight of the on the 9th of October. Mr. Hamlin was school masters are church members. married to Miss Lovell on the 18th of But these statistics give a very inadeMay. Mrs. Schneider visits this country quate idea of the rapid advance which on account of her health. Mr. Wood the missionary work is making in Turhas become one of the Corresponding key. Secretarics of the Board. SYRIA. BEIRUT.-Eli Smith, George B. Whiting, Missionaries; Henry A. De Forest, M. D., Physician; George C. Hurter, Printer; Mrs. Hetty S. Smith, Mrs. MaElizabeth Hurter.-Two native preachers. tilda S. Whiting, Mrs. Catharine De Forest, Mrs. ABEIH.-Simeon H. Calhoun, Missionary; Mrs. Emily P. Calhoun. HASBEIYA and SIDON.-William M. Thomson, C. V. A. Van Dyck, M. D., Missionaries: Mrs. Thom son, Mrs. Van Dyck.-Two native preachers. TRIPOLI.-David M Wilson, Horace Foot, Mission Though much has been said of the reformation among the Armenians in past years, its progress and its promise have never been so cheering as at this very moment. More than one hundred places have been reported to the Prudential Committee, as furnishing more or less evidence of religious inquiry. At Constantinople there is an increasing interest in the truth; and hereafter it is to be the centre for the press, which is to be re-aries; Mrs. Eveline Wilson, Mrs. Roxanna Foot. moved from Smyrna, as well as for all the other evangelical influences. Such has been the pressure upon the seminary at Bebek, that it has nearly doubled the number of its students, and forty-four are now enjoying its advantages. The female seminary, a necessary accompaniment of the other, is also prosperous, the number of pupils being twenty-four. Books, of which nearly 8,000,000 pages have been printed, are now freely exMr. and Mrs. Eddy arrived at Aleppo, posed for sale in one of the principal | the station to which they were assigned, ALEPPO.-J. Edwards Ford, William W. Eddy, Missionaries; Mrs. Mary E. Ford, Mis. Hannah M. Eddy-One native helper. OUT-STATIONS -Bhamdun, Bhawarah, Kefr-Shima, connected with Beirût: Rusheiya, Ibel, connected with Hasbeiya; Jaffa -One native helper. a In this country-William A. Benton, Missionary ; Mrs. Loanza G. Benton. (5 stations, and 6 out-stations; 10 missionaries-one physician, 1 physician, I printer, 12 female assistant missionaries, 4 native preachers, 2 native helpers ;— total, 30.) NESTORIANS. M. D., Joseph G. Cochran, Missionaries; Edward SEIR-Justin Perkins, David T. Stoddard. Missionaries; Mrs. Charlotte B Perkins, Mrs. Sophia D. Stoddard.-Four native helpers. GAWAR.-George W. Coan, Samuel A. Rhea, Edward H. Crane, Missionaries; Mrs. Sarah P. Coan, Mrs. Ann Eliza Crane.-Two native preachers, and one native helper. OUT-STATIONS.-Geog Tapa, one native preacher; Ardishai, one native preacher. (3 stations and 2 out-stations; 8 missionaries—one a physician, 1 printer, 11 female assistant missionaries, 11 native preachers, 9 native helpers;-total, 40.) The male seminary at Abeih is still prosperous and useful. It has twenty scholars, representing the Druzes, Greeks, Greek Catholics, Maronites, &c. In the This mission has been taken once boarding school for girls there are nine- more under the formal protection of the teen pupils; and so popular is this insti- British embassy in Persia; which has tution, that all the applicants for its also obtained an edict of toleration from privileges cannot be received. The the Persian government, granting equal twelve free schools sustained and direct-protection to all Christian subjects, and ed by the mission have 332 pupils. Five allowing them to change their religion at of the teachers are professors of religion. The new version of the Scriptures has advanced nearly through the Pentateuch. The whole number of pages printed is about one million and a quarter. pleasure. The fifty-eight village schools on the plain contain more than a thousand pupils; and no where can more interesting institutions of the kind be found, than are the seminary for males at Seir, and the one for females at Orûmiah, the number of scholars in the former being forty, and in the latter forty-two. In Geog Tapa, where the truth has taken the strongest hold, the Sabbath school has three hundred pupils. The mission has devised a plan for soon tendering the offers of the gospel, if possible, to every Nestorian in the villages of Orûmiah. Nor are the comparatively wild mountaineers neglected; nor the Nestorians in Bootan, between the Koordish mountains and the Tigris. Mr. and Mrs. Dunmore have established themselves permanently at Diar- Mr. and Mrs. Coan, with Mr. Rhea, bekr; though it was deemed expedient spent the last winter among the mounfor them to repair to Erzrûm during the tains, amid intense cold, shut in for hot months. Dr. and Mrs. Lobdell ar- months by snow of impassable depth, rived at Mosûl on the 8th of May. This encountering these physical trials cheermission will be materially strengthened, when Mr. Marsh shall have returned to his station, and a new missionary, who is soon to embark, shall have reached Diarbekr. fully to secure a foothold for the gospel in those regions. They are obliged to endure opposition from the Nestorian Patriarch, and from the yet unbroken feudal Moslem powers of the mountains; The converts at Mosûl have suffered for feudalism is every where adverse to much from oppressive taxation; and their liberty, and especially to religious liberappeal to the civil authorities for redress ty. Lieut. Col. Williams, British Comis said not to have been successful. Eight missioner for settling the boundary be persons were formed into a Christian tween Turkey and Persia, has rendered church, November 3, 1851. Owing to our friends at this station invaluable the opposition of "wicked and unrea- assistance. He has received the formal sonable men," the school has had but thanks of the Prudential Committee. little success thus far; but a change may be expected at no distant day. Mr. and Mrs. Crane sailed from Boston on the 31st of May, and joined the mission last autumn. Miss Harris proceeded to Orûmiah at an earlier day. SOUTHERN ASIA. BOMBAY. BOMBAY.-David O. Allen, Robert W. Hume, Samuel B. Fairbank, George Bowen, Missionaries; Mrs. Hannah D. Hume.-One native helper. (1 station; 4 missionaries, 1 female assistant mis sionary, I native helper ;-total, 6.) This mission has been divided; and Satara and Mahabulishwar now constitute a new mission. Mrs. Fairbank was called away from her earthly labors on the 21st of August. Much time has been spent in tours, particularly by Mr. Munger. These exThe time of Mr. Allen is devoted cursions make it more and more manifest mainly to the revision of the Scriptures that a change is taking place in the pubin Mahratta; while that of Mr. Fair-lic mind; and though there is still not a bank is chiefly spent in superintending little of opposition, the truth is gaining a the press, the influence of which upon stronger position every year. the people of India is very great. The last yearly report of the printing done at Bombay showed an aggregate of about eleven million five hundred thousand pages. Mr. Hume edits the Dnyanodaya; but he gives most of his time to the ministry of the Word; as does Mr. Bowen. At the close of 1851 the brethren had three places for the stated preaching of the gospel. Six persons have been admitted to the church, making the total membership twenty. The female boarding school, containing twenty-four pupils, continues to enjoy the divine favor. Four of the scholars are communicants. There are twelve day schools, male and female, in which there are about four hundred and thirty pupils. AHMEDNUGGUR. AHMEDNUGGUR-Henry Ballantine, Allen Bazen, Missionaries; Mrs. Elizabeth D. Ballantine, Mrs. Martha R. Hazen, Miss Cynthia Farrar.-One native preacher, four native helpers. BHINGAR.-Sendol B. Munger, Missionary-Two native helpers. SEROOR-Lemuel Bissell, Missionary; Mrs. Mary G. Bissell Two native helpers. OUT-STATIONS.-Wudaley, one native helper; Newase, one native preacher; Wadagaum, one native helper. Without station.-Royal G. Wilder, Missionary; Mrs. Eliza J. Wilder. (3 stations, 3 out-stations; 5 missionaries, 5 female assistant missionaries, 2 native preachers, 10 native helpers-total, 22.) Mr. and Mrs. Burgess have been transferred to the Satara mission; while Mr. and Mrs. Ballantine have returned to their old station; where they will have Mr. and Mrs. Hazen for their associates. Mr. and Mrs. Wilder are expected to commence operations in a new field. SATARA. sionaries; Mrs. Abigail M. Burgess.-Three native helpers. SATARA.-Ebenezer Burgess, William Wood, Mis MAHABULISHWAR, (Malcolm Peth.)-Mrs. Mary L Graves. (2 stations; 2 missionaries, 2 female assistant missionaries, 3 native helpers ;-total, 7.) This mission has been formed, as already intimated, from the Bombay mission. Satara is about one hundred and seventy miles from Bombay, in a southeasterly direction; and it is situated in a populous and healthy region. Mr. and Mrs. Burgess have found here an interesting and hopeful field of labor. The church had nine members at the date of the last report. The precise state of the schools does not appear. As yet it is but seed-time at Satara; at some future day, however, we may confidently expect to describe the joy of the reaper. MADRAS. ROYAPOORUM.-One native helper. CHINTADREPETTAH.-Miron Winslow, Missionary.-Two native helpers. ARMENIAN STREET.-John Scudder, M. D., Missionary.-One native helper. POPHAM'S BROADWAY.-Phineas R. Hunt, Printer i Mrs. Abigail N. Hunt. ARCOT.-Henry M. Scudder, Isaac N Hurd, Missionaries; Mrs. Fanny L. Scudder, Mrs. Mary C. Hurd. One native helper. On their way to this country.-John W. Dulles, Missionary; Mrs. Harriet L. Dulles. (5 stations; 5 missionaries-one a physician, 1 male and 4 female assistant missionaries, 5 native helpers;-total, 15.) This mission has been greatly afflictled by the death of Mrs. Winslow, which occurred April 20. Mr. and Mrs. Dulles | tions, the total membership in good stand have been directed by physicians to repair to the United States for the benefit of her health. Mr. and Mrs. Hurd sailed from Boston on the 24th of March, and arrived at Madras on the 13th of July. They are to be associated with Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Scudder at Arcot. The plans of the mission have undergone no material change. The Word has been preached extensively at Madras and at Arcot, Dr. and Mr. H. M. Scudder having made their medical practice subservient to their ordinary missionary labors. The church in the former city has forty members, seven having been admitted to Christian fellowship within the last year; and the church at Arcot has three members. There are three vernacular boys' schools at Royapoorum, containing 180 pupils, and eight similar schools at Chintadrepettah, some of which are for girls, containing 325 pupils. The English and vernacular school at Chintadrepettah has 175 scholars. The Bible is made a prominent text-book in all these schools; and a large part of the expense is defrayed by English residents at Madras. MADURA. ing amounting to 276, the additions during the year having been 43. The present number of the village congregations is 61; and the number of those who are considered as belonging to them is 2,775, a majority of whom are found at public worship on the Sabbath. The value of this species of instrumentality is evidently increasing. The school system has been partially modified; and the free schools for the heathen are giving place to those which are intended more especially for Christians, and which are taught by nominally Christian teachers. The girls' schools are regarded as prosperous. The English school at Madura is still supported by the liberality of English residents in that city. The seminary at Pasumalie has twenty-seven pupils, of whom twenty are church members. Never has this institution seemed to be more promising than it is at the present time. Dr. Shelton has continued his medical practice, as in previous years, though the number of patients has been less, owing to the death of one of his assistants. By the aid of certain English friends, he has been enabled to erect a new and more convenient edifice for the accommodation of his patients. The MADURA FORT.-Clarendon F. Muzzy, Mission-cost was about three hundred dollars. ary; Mrs. Mary Ann Muzzy-Eight native helpers. MADURA EAST-John Rendall, Missionary; Charles 8. Shelton, M. D., Physician: Mrs. Jane B. Rendall, Mrs. Henrietta M. Shelton.-Four native helpers. DINDIGUL EAST.-Edward Webb, Missionary ; Mrs. Nancy A. Webb.-Five native helpers. DINDIGUL WEST.-George W. M'Millan, Missionary; Mrs. Rebecca N. M'Millan.-Twelve native helpers. CEYLON. TILLIPALLY.-Benjamin C. Meigs, Missionary.Five native helpers. BATTICOTTA-William W. Howland, Marshall D. Sanders, Missionaries; Samuel F. Green, M. D., TIRUMUNGALUM-George Ford, Missionary; Mrs. Physician; Mrs. Susan R. Howland, Mrs. Georgiana Ann Jennett Ford.-Five native helpers. PERIACOOLUM.-In charge of Mr. Ford.-Eight native helpers. PASUMALIE-James Herrick, Missionary; Mrs. Elizabeth C. Herrick. TIRUPOOVANUM.-In charge of Mr. Rendall.-One native helper. SIVAGUNGA-John E. Chandler, Missionary; Mrs. MANDAHASALIE.-Horace S. Taylor, Missionary; (10 stations; 10 missionaries, 1 physician, 10 female assistant missionaries, 67 native assistants, 11 teachers-total, 99.) Mr. Little has been obliged to return to this country for a short time on account of his health. In other respects the distribution of the mission families remains as it was a year ago. The field is too large, however, for the force which now occupies it. Our brethren call loudly and frequently for help. Sanders-Seth Payson, native preacher, and thirteen native helpers. OODOOVILLE-Levi Spaulding, Missionary; Mrs. Mary C. Spaulding, Miss Eliza Agnew. - Nathaniel Niles, native preacher, and four native helpers. MANEPY.-Daniel Poor, Missionary; Thomas S. Burnell, Printer; Mrs. Ann K. Poor, Mrs. Martha Burnell. Three native helpers. PANDITERIPO-John C. Smith, Missionary; Mrs. Mary Smith. Two native helpers. CHAVAGACHERRY-Joseph T. Noyes, Missionary ; Mrs. Elizabeth A. Noyes.-Two native helpers. VARANY.-Under care of Mr. Noyes.-One native helper. OODOOPITTY.-Under the care of Mr. Meigs.-Two native helpers. OUT-STATIONS.-Caradive, Valany, Poongerdive, On their way to the mission-William W. Scudder, In this country-Henry R. Hoisington, Eurotas P. On their way to this country.-Cyrus T. Mills, Missionary; Mrs. Susan S. Mills. (8 stations and 7 out-stations; 12 missionaries, 1 physician, 1 printer, 12 female assistant missionaries, There are churches at each of the sta-12 native preachers, 32 native helpers ;-total, 60.) Mr. and Mrs. Sanders arrived at Cey- Having failed to obtain a reinforcelon on the 12th of March. Messrs. ment for Borneo, Mr. Steele has asked Scudder and Hastings came to the a release from his connection with the United States with the approbation of Board; and his request has been granted. the Committee. The latter will soon re- As Mr. and Mrs. Youngblood are unable turn to his mission; the former, with to return to their eastern home, the opeMrs. Scudder, having embarked in De- rations of the mission are suspended incember, in company with Mr. and Mrs. definitely. Lord. Mr. and Mrs. Minor have been released, at their own request, from their connection with the Board. The last report of this mission stated that the communicants amounted to 362, less than the number one year ago. This discrepancy is not accounted for; though it appears that there were various additions to the churches during the year. The contributions of the native Christians for benevolent objects have been more than three hundred dollars. It is gratifying to notice the zeal and efficiency of the Native Evangelical Society. An island has recently been taken under its care, which has a heathen pop ulation of three thousand. CANTON. CANTON.-Dyer Ball, M. D., Daniel Vrooman, Frederick H. Brewster, Missionaries; Samuel W. Bonney, Licensed Preacher; S. Wells Williams, Printer; Mrs Isabella Ball, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Vrooman, Mrs. Mary G. Brewster, Mrs. Sarah W. Williams.-Two native helpers. On their way to the mission-Elijah C. Bridgman, Missionary; Alts. Eliza J. Bridgman. and 5 female assistant missionaries, 2 native helpers; total, 13.) (1 station; 4 missionaries-one a physician, 2 male Mr. and Mrs. Bridgman visited this country for the benefit of his health. They sailed from New York on their return, October 11. Mr. and Mrs. Vroo man arrived at Canton on the 15th of The subject of temperance is exciting March. Mr. and Mrs. Brewster sailed unusual interest in the province of Jaffna from Boston on the 31st of July. It is at the present time. It would seem that expected that Mr. Bridgman will resume the movement began among the natives, his labors at Shanghai, as soon as his more especially among certain graduates health will permit; and Mrs. Bridgman of Batticotta seminary. They have sowill again assume the charge of her licited the co-operation of the missiona- interesting school. ries, which has been gladly rendered. The meetings are often large; and the topics discussed take a wide range. There is much reason to anticipate good from the movement. There are fourteen English day schools, with 501 pupils, and seventy-five free Tamil schools, with 3,250 pupils. The seminary at Batticotta has 99 scholars, and the boarding school at Oodooville has 95. The village schools are said to be "worth vastly more than they cost, as simple instruments for preaching the Word." And we are assured that the influence of the two boarding institutions is "deepening and widening." Dr. Green had 1,881 patients during the year ending April 1, 1851. He also gives medical instruction to five young men, all of whom are professing Christians, and all make good progress in their studies. The press has been less active than in some previous years, the number of pages issued from it having amounted to 3,023,000. EASTERN ASIA. BORNEO. Dr. Ball, Mr. Williams and Mr. Bonney have continued to proclaim the truths of the gospel, though they have not been cheered by any marked results. It is thought, however, that there is an increasing willingness among the Chinese to listen to the message of life; and two persons give some evidence of having been born of the Spirit. One of these has requested baptism. The distribution of tracts has received a large share of attention. From the Chinese press, under the care of Dr. Ball, 209,400 tracts issued during the year ending June 30, 1851, besides the tracts and books which were printed for other societies and individuals. At the Anglo-Chinese press, under the direction of Mr. Williams, 600,000 octavo pages were printed. ΑΜΟΥ. AMOY.-Elihu Doty, John Van Nest Talmage, Missionaries; Mrs. Elenor S. Doty, Mrs. Abby F. Talmage.-One native helper. (1 station; 2 missionaries, 2 female assistant missionaries, I native helper ;-total, 5.) The opportunities of usefulness which this mission enjoys, are constantly mul In this country-William Youngblood, Missiona-tiplying; but the brethren have not ry; Mrs. Josephina Youngblood. strength to meet the demand which is |