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Wm. Craig,

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5.25

17.00

Union-Town, Pa., Rev. J. Stoneroad,

8.62

20.16

3.75

76.78

Mansfield,, Collection,

New Castle Presbytery, by Mr. Pinney, Newark, Ohio, Mrs. Wylie,1.00; Miss N .J. Wylie, 2.33; three little girls, 431; New York, from 1st Presbyterian church, for the support of one missionary, by Rev. Dr. Phillips, 600; collection in Murray street church, 67.27; Northumberland & Sunbury Congregations, Pa., by Mr. Reed,

Philadelphia, Collection in the 6th Presbyterian church, at the ordination, 114.80; congregation of the 6th Pres. byterian church, by Mr. Pinney, 65.85; a female in 6th Presbyterian church, by Mr. Pinney, 5.00; a friend in 6th Presbyterian church, by Mr. Pinney, 5.00; a. lady of Arch st. church, 1.00; unknown friend, 5.00; Rev. Dr. Green, 10.00; a friend of the African Mission, by E. P. Swift 20.00; collected by Mrs. J. P. Engles, principally among members of the 8th Presbyterian church, 82.00; by Mr. Engles, 16.08; received, by deduction on bill of arti cles purchased by Mr. Pinney of Mr. Pelec, 5.00; Mr. Farr, 9.00; Messrs. Ellis & Crowell, 5.00; Mr. Mills, 1.50; Miss M'Cullough, by Mr. Barr, 17.16; collection in 1st Presbyterian church, Northern Liberties, by Mr. Pinney, 23.00; S. Allen, Esq., 100.00; A. Henry, Esq., 25.00; Pennsborough, Pa., collection, Pittsburgh, 1st Pres. church monthly concert coll. $58.00, contribution for 1832, $357.85; Society of young ladies, members of 1st Pres. ch. to constitute their Pastor, Rev. Dr. Herron, a life-member $30.00: total 445.85; on subs. of 2d Pres. ch. 65.00, Juvenile Society of do. to constitute E. P. Swift life-member, 30.00; Miss Henderson's Inf. School, 1.00; Mrs. R. L. Patterson thank-offering, 2.00; Princeton, N. J., from Rev. Dr. Sam'l Miller, to constitute him a life-director, by Mr. J. C. Lowrie,

Princess Anne, Md., don. of Rev. R. M. Laird,

667.27

Truro Cong., Ohio,

3.763 Upper Buffalo, Pa., per Wm. Wallace, Waterford and Evansburgh, Pa., Washington, Pa., cong. coll. 48.50, monthly concert 23.20, Rev. D. Elliott 5, Wheeling, Va., coll. Pres. church 87.69; children of S. School, per R. M'Kee 6.75; 94.44 West-Liberty, Pa., Rev. J. Buchanan, Williamsport, Pa., (North. Pres.) by Mr. Reed,

23.73

509.39

10.00

543.85

50.00

21.00

Zanesville and Putnam, Ohio, Rev. J. Culbertson,

24.00

41.62

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All communications relating to remittances and the transmission of funds, should be directed to Rev. Elisha Macurdy, Briceland's Cross Roads, Washington county, Pa., or Mr. Samuel Thompson, No. 10, Market street, Pittsburgh.

All others should be directed to Elisha P. Swift, Corresponding Secretary of the 3.75 Society, Pittsburgh.

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ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

MISSIONS TO THE HEATHEN VINDICATED. | population, we deduct a population 14 times Many persons are unwilling to engage as large as our present number, still the earnestly in the cause of Foreign Missions, heathen world would number nearly 30 because the moral and religious necessities times a greater multitude of immortal souls of our own country are so great. "There than our land at present contains. We are heathen enough at home," is their com- must recollect, however, that we live with mon remark. In considering the claims of a more immediate reference to the present our own country, in comparison with those than to any future age. When our lives of the heathen, on the benevolence of the close, the lives of a generation of our race American church, every thing is to be de- will also have closed, and cannot be influprecated which would excite feelings of ri- enced by those who are to succeed us. It valry. If we think the claims of our own is true our influence will live after we are land the most pressing, we need not there- laid in our graves, but this is equally true in fore underrate the necessities of the heathen, Christian or in heathen lands; or perhaps it nor vice versa. Far from it; the same is more impressive among the latter, as the 'great principles are true in regard to both numberto be influenced is so much greater. fields. Sin is as offensive among the pagan 2. The character of this population.— nations, though not so criminal, as among The general character of any people denominal Christians. Souls are as valuable pends on the character of the individuals in one field as in the other. God is as wor- who corstitute the nation at large. In the thy to be adored, and the Savior to be lo- United States, the great mass of the people ved, among the degraded children of Asia, are correct in their external conduct, and as among the polished Europeans. In both live more or less under the influence of redepartments of labor we should cherish the ligious truth. The valley of the Mississip sentiment, that there is "but one Lord, one pi is considered one of the most interesting, faith, one baptism," one way to salvation, and perhaps the most important, section of and one heaven where all hope to arrive. our county. One year ago, after deductIndeed, so far from having feelings of rival- ing two-thirds of all who are termed Bapry in this matter, we should never forget tists, and thus setting aside the Campbellthat the domestic and foreign fields are in-ites, Storites, &c., there were in this valseparably and vitally connected. The ley 330,425 professing Christians, in the cause of Christ can never prosper among communion of the Methodist, Presbyterian, the heathen, apart from the benevolence of Episcopa, Lutheran, German Reformed, the church in Christian lands; and yet the Unionist, Seceding, Covenanting, and Cumchurch can never prosper unless she exert berland Presbyterian Churches. After all her energies to diffuse abroad the influence of the Gospel. Unless she refresh others, she can never be watered herself.

It may, however, be profitable to consider the comparative claims of the pagan world and of our own country, on our prayers and our efforts; and here we may no*tice

making the same deduction throughout, there were in these churches 2540 ministers of the Gospel, and 3448 churches. If there were an average of three elders (or corresponding officers) to each church, there were then 10,344 elders. There were also about 3,500 Sabbath schools; if we suppose cach school to have, on the average, four teach1. The population. We may estimate ers and thirty scholars, there were 13,200 the number of inhabitants in this country teachers and 105,000 scholars. The numat 13,500,000. This is making allowance ber of Bibles, Testaments, Religious Books, for the increase of population since the last Newspapers and Tracts, is as the sand of census. The population of the anti-chris-the sea shore, innumerable. It is true there tian world may be safely estimated at are many irreligious and careless, many in600,000,000.—About 44 times as numer-fidels, many Romanists and other errorists, ous as that of this country. If, to counter-and that these are increasing as every thing lance the progressing increase of our is increasing in this great valley; but it is

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also true that these do not form anything | In the valley of the | In anti-christian nalike a majority of the people. It is also true that their efforts to promote their views 1 minister do not keep pace with those made by Chris- to every 1810 souls tians, in extent, in system, or in energy. It 1 elder to is also most painfully true, (for we should every never forget that they are our fellow crea- 1 S.S.Teatures, for whom we should pray, and over cher to evwhom we should weep,) true to a distres- ery sing extent, that they are wilfully and delib- 1 professing erately what they are, that they sin in the Christian to midst of privileges, and are going down to every. 12" perdition with the lamp of life in their hands. Among a Christian When, on the other hand, we contem- people, acquainted plate the character of the heathen, we find with the true God, an almost entire contrast. "Gross dark- and the way of acness covers the nations." Justice is disre- ceptance in his sight; garded; mercy is trampled under foot; wo- and having Bibles man is degraded and unpitied; children are and religious publireared amidst ignorance and vicc; the pre- cations without numsent is full of misery, the future, of despair. ber. Could we burn up all the Bibles and Testaments and Tracts in our land, but a few; could we disperse all the Sabbath schools, While so many thousands of the chilteachers and scholars, but a few; could we dren of our country are enjoying the beneconvert all the temples of the living God in- fits of moral training, in Sabbath Schools to temples for dumb idols; and all the min- and other ways, and acquiring habits of isters into priests before gods of wood and thinking and acting which must have an stone; and all the elders and professing important and lasting influence upon the Christians into heathen devotees, but a few; future condition of our own and other counand then could we distribute a few among tries, it cannot be uninteresting to recognize 600,000,000, we should have but a feeble the pleasure and animation with which they picture of the character of the heathen. engage in such plans of doing good, as are Ah yes! if every man, and woman, and presented to their consideration and are adchild, in this beloved land, were a careless apted to their comprehension. A child sinner, or even a despiser of religion, or an can compare its own situation, surrounded infidel, or a papist, still their character with the sources of happiness, with that of would be by no means worse than that of others, to whom the circumstances of humany heathen nations of much greater pop-man life are directly the reverse; and when ulation. If the state of Virginia were in- the result of this comparison is to awaken habited by Hindoos, in all their ignorance kind and sympathetic feeling, and that feeland degradation, and a single minister were ing is expressed by voluntary labor, or the sent to toil, almost alone, unsustained by free gift of what would be spent in trifles, private Christians, unsupported by an elder- in order to convey the blessings of educaship of prudent praying men, and if he tion and religious knowledge to the children were to build up a few schools, print a few of untaught savages, the immediate and the hundred Bibles and a few thousand Tracts, remote consequences of such liberality must quite as much comparatively would have be salutary.

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THE MISSIONARY CHRONICLE.

My Young Friends,

for the heathen world. Under such cir- ADDRESS TO THE YOUTHFUL READERS OF cumstances the wonder is, not that missions have been so little blessed, have accomplished so much. capitulate as follows

We may re

While I take my pen, the impress forces itself upon my mind, that man

you, after glancing over a few of the first remarkable passage in the Word of God, lines of this letter, will lay it by without which you have often read, which connects giving it any further perusal; and the im- baptism and the spread of the gospel topression is equally strong, that others of gether in a peculiar way. "Go ye, thereyou, who may read it with attention, will fore, and teach all nations, baptizing them soon forget the subject, or if you do not for- in the name of the Father, and of the Son, get it, will not suffer it to influence your and of the Holy Ghost." Baptism is here conduct. But I feel encouraged to hope, considered a very great privilege, and one that some of you will think much and do of the rich blessings which the gospel bemuch in relation to that object about which stows. You have been baptized. You I now wish to address you. You all know are, therefore, on the Lord's side; and if that there is a society formed for the pur-you have enjoyed so precious a blessing, pose of sending the gospel to the heathen, should you not think of those in distant called the Western Foreign Missionary So- lands, who have never been baptized, and ciety. You have read about the death of who are out of the church? Do you not Mr. Barr, who expected to go to Africa desire to send the gospel to the heathen, under the care of this society, and you have that they may be baptized and enjoy all the no doubt felt ready to shed a tear over his accompanying privileges? Or do you think early grave. And you have pitied the poor so little of your own baptism, that you do children in Africa, who will now be depri- not care whether others enjoy it or not? It ved of the Bible and Sabbath schools and is to be lamented, that many young persons the other advantages which you enjoy. But who have been baptized esteem it no privihas it never occurred to you, that you have lege, and Ive as though the vows of God something to do in sending the blessings were not upon them. But, my young which you possess to the suffering children friends, you are by your baptism brought in heathen lands? I am aware that young under the greatest obligation to your Sapersons are ready to conclude that they vior. He has set up a kingdom on earth, have nothing to do in this business till they and the members of his church are memshall arrive to that time in life when they bers of that kingdom. You are, therefore, shall be engaged in business of their own; members, and bound to advance his kingthat it is quite too carly for them to think dom in the world. You should have no of subjects so great and important. This, interest separate from his. The heathen my young friends, was long my impres- are to be given him for his inheritance, and When the missionary subject was the uttermost parts of the earth for his posbrought before me, I concluded at once, session; and you should endeavor to make that it belonged to my parents; and not to every possible effort, as members of his me, to engage in this undertaking. But it kingdom and soldiers of his cross, to assist was doubtless a very erroneous conclusion. him in acquiring this possession. OtherThe wise, you are treacherous to your Master! His frowns will rest upon you!

sion.

young can do much, very much; they are required to do much in this blessed work. Would the young people who read the Missionary Chronicle do what they can, would they read all that they can procure on the subject, and form societies for aiding the missionary society, we should soon see the good work making new and happy

progress.

Several reasons, my dear young friends, lead me of late to conclude, that you ought by all means to engage in the missionary work.

But some will read these lines who have not been baptized. To such let me say, God has been very kind to you. Though out of his kingdom, he has not destroyed you, but has given you thousands of precious privileges; to many of you, the Sabbath school and Bible class; to all, the gospel. O, then, water others, and your own souls will be more likely to be watered.

2. Another reason why you should now engage in the missionary work, is, the im1. A principal reason is, that the most of portance of acquiring a habit of doing you have been baptized, and are therefore something for Christ in this way. Great members of Christ's Church. There is a guilt, my young friends, rests upon this

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