In consequence of the state of our affairs, Prof. Shattuck has been unwilling to enter upon his professorship, and I have been left with two college classes on my hands. They are small, it is true, but requiring no less labor on that account. Yet their instruction has been a comparatively small source of anxiety. Alone I am hardly expected to exert that controlling influence over the young men that shall keep them in what shall seem to them an arbitrary course of study. They have not had in early life that training that teaches obedience, and their circumstances have tended to increase natural self-confidence. They are all young men of fair talents, one or two of them of great promise.

I think that we have raised the standard of education in the country, and more than many would have admitted as possible. In the class that enters this Fall, there will be a son of one of our missionaries, and that class I shall hope to see graduate. The prospects of the country are brightening, and if we can only hold on, we shall see the fruits of our undertaking.

I wish I could write any thing that would lead Eastern Christians to appreciate the magnitude of the work to be done at the West by foreign help, if done in any way. I asked a gentleman in New York to do something for us, and his reply was that money was abundant in Oregon, and the people there quite able to build and endow all the schools they needed. This is true, but the conclusion that they should therefore be left to do for themselves, or do without the various institutions essential to the wellbeing of society, must be absurd to any one who will reflect upon or acknowledge the first principles of Christian charity. The truth is, the Eastern States must settle the question, whether these vast commonwealths west of the Mississippi are to be Christian or not. They will not become so of themselves. The tendency here, without salutary influences from abroad, is to barbarism.

Among all conceivable instrumentalities, what can compare with institutions such as this to educate young men; not merely to teach them the sciences, but to give them the training that shall give them just views of their duties and of society in which they are to act, and have a direct tendency, so far as human instrumentality can, to make them Christians?

The Rev. G. H. Atkinson subsequently wrote:

I have your favor of January 5th, giving notice of the annual appropriation to Pacific University, We are grateful for this continued and increased aid. But for it we could not sustain our collegiate department at all. The want of means has operated to prevent our employing other teachers, as we desired, and this has discouraged some of our promising students. The Prof. elect, E. D. Shattuck, Esq., is now turning to the law. But we have appointed, since your appropriation, Rev. H. Lyman, a graduate of Williams College, to the professorship of mathematics. Uniting with President Marsh, who has labored on faithfully, he will give more character as well as more strength to our faculty. Bro. Lyman has been long and favorably known in Oregon. You will remember that he was the second Home missionary here. His qualities as a guide and teacher of youth are superior, and while we hope much from his proposed union with President Marsh in the work, we trust that the Colleigate Society will also see cause for continued confidence in our humble endeavors to establish a Pacific University.

An intelligent gentleman, himself a graduate of Williams College, said

to me a week since: "I regard your college as more firmly established than ever before. If you live through present trials, I think you can go on. You have helped to build institutions, and you know what their first struggles for life are."

At our last meeting, three weeks ago, we voted to sell land enough to pay all old debts, and to contract new ones only as we could pay at once. This, we trust, will be done before our next meeting in August.

Under a recent date, he says:—

The past year has been one of unusal trial for want of teachers. Our two classes could not be retained by a single teacher, and in the Spring the students left to engage in other pursuits. A class of students are now coming forward who are younger, and who will be retained probably through a whole course. The additional professor will render the college classes much more stable.

The Rev. T. Dwight Hunt, writing to the A. H. M. S.,

says:

The men whom you have sent hither give themselves wholly to their work. Their hearts are in it. It is their life-work. Oregon is their home and their field: and their ambition is to make it worthy of the father-land. They have made a good beginning. Slowly, but surely, they have laid good foundations. In the large towns, as well as in rural districts, their influence is important. They and their little churches are prominent among others. They have planted a college, with the son of President Marsh, of Vermont, at the head of it, which promises to be as powerful for good on the Pacific, as any similar institution has grown to be on the Atlantic. They have started into life and active usefulness three academies, that will be centres of light and truth long after they shall have gone to their rest.

No regular reports have been received from Heidelberg College, and the College of St. Paul.

REVIVALS.

Under this head we are permitted to furnish the following details:

Beloit College.-The winter term in the college commenced in the first week of the month of January. At the outset of the term the minds of some of the Faculty, and of the pious students, were separately moved to earnest desires for the revival of God's work in our little community. Soon the regular chapel exercises seemed to be marked by peculiar interest. The services at morning and evening prayers, without any change of method, lost something of that dull formality which is apt to steal oversuch regular exercises, and gained a fixed attention and thoughtful inter est on the part of the students as a body.

The truths presented in the Sabbath lectures seemed to find willing ears, and to be received with serious regard. Within three weeks of the beginning of the term, two or three members of the Preparatory Department were awakened to the concerns of their souls, and soon found peace in believing. These indications gave some stimulus to Christian hearts. but there was no general development until after the college-fast in February. Meantime the Baptist and Methodist churches in the city had

commenced some special efforts for the advancement of religion, which were marked by the presence and power of God. Members of other churches participated in them, and caught something of their spirit.

The day of fasting and prayer for colleges was a precious day to our whole community. It was made the occasion of establishing at one of the churches in the city a morning prayer-meeting, which has been continued with interest ever since. Christians of the various churches in the city joined with those connected with the college in public meetings at the college, and in the Presbyterian church. The interest which had been accumulating for weeks, found free and fit expression. Among the members of college, the fires which had been growing in intensity, yet pent up in individual souls, burst out and flowed together in mutual united action, producing not so much a bustling excitement, as the earnest activity of souls deeply moved, and thoroughly engaged. It was observed on the Fast day, that the irreligious students absented themselves from the services more than is usual on such occasions. This was interpreted, however, as an index of troubled thoughts on their part, and so prompted more fervent prayer and greater personal effort.

The results soon appeared in a pervading solemnity, and thoughtfulness, and when, a few days after the Fast, an appointment was made for an inquiry meeting, some twenty or more presented themselves at once, as seeking the way of salvation. The power of the Holy Ghost was manifest in the deep convictions of many hitherto impenitent ones, and a thorough heart-searching among Christians. The interest continued and increased through four or five weeks, to the end of the term. Those professors of religion who had previously maintained a consistent walk, obtained new experience in the divine life. With many, old hopes, groundless or doubtful, were given up, and Christ was sought anew. Christians seemed to love one another, and were very faithful with their impenitent companions. There was not one who was not often, and most affectionately, entreated to yield the heart to Christ. And over the newborn ones there was such a joy, as lighted up the countenance with a glow. The result of some former seasons of the kind produced a fear, lest the work should be superficial, and effort to guard against that danger. At the close of the term there were from thirty to forty cases of conversion which appeared bright and promising.

The vacation intervened, and on the commencement of the present term some solicitude was felt, lest the gracious influences which had been enjoyed might be withdrawn. But it was soon manifest that the Holy Ghost was still present, and his precious work we have reason to believe is still advancing. It appears not so much in the conversion of the impenitent as in the confirming and maturing the Christian life of those, to whom the elements of that life were before imparted. General prayer-meetings and class-meetings are well sustained, and the leading thought in all seems to be" to follow on to know the Lord," to look upon the work as but begun, and to reach forth with earnest aspirations after higher attainments. At the same time we find several of those who have not yet found peace, thoughtful, and deeply exercised. One happy effect of the work is, that the purposes of many are set to consecrate themselves to the service of Christ in the work of the Christian Ministry, with a high appreciation of the sacredness of that office, and the heart-work as well as the head-work essential to a fit preparation for it.

We trust that this season of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, will make a new era in the history of our College, making the religious element henceforth more than ever ascendant, and controlling in all our

work, and so identifying the institution more closely than ever with the kingdom of Christ. A. L. CHAPIN.

Beloit College, May 20, 1857.

Iowa College.-Prof. E. Ripley writes:

There is a most healthful religious feeling pervading the institution, and during the year our hearts have been cheered by several hopeful conversions. The daily prayer-meeting, of some four years' standing, is still kept up with unabated interest and profit.

College of California.-Rev. Henry Durant, under date of May 1st, says:

There is such a spirit of study as I have never seen before, and what is more interesting far, a seriousness with some of the pupils much deeper than an earnest love of study. It began to make its appearance before the close of the last session. I have introduced a daily devotional exercise into the school, which heretofore was confined to my family, and also a Bible lecture on the Sabbath. Yesterday I had the unspeakable joy of being asked by one of the more advanced pupils, What he must do to be saved? Another seems to be earnest to become a Christian, and I am hoping (with what emotion you may imagine), that the Lord is about to visit us with the operations of His grace. Pray for us, I beseech you, and interest others in our behalf.

Marietta College. -President Andrews, in his historical sketch of the Institution, gives the following statistics, which show how the power of God has been manifested there from year to year:

In a sketch of the College, prepared by Dr. Smith, and published in the Central Christian Herald in 1850, he says: " When the first President was inducted into office, he was solemnly charged by the organ of the Board, who officiated in the ceremony, to manage the Institution for 'Christ and the Church.' It was then a religious enterprise, strictly so, undertaken by religious men, who could not have been induced to encounter the trials and sacrifices which must of necessity be met in building up the Institution, by any motives less solemn and urgent than an earnest desire to promote the welfare of the Redeemer's kingdom." He says also, in speaking of the results up to that time, (1850.) "During the history of the Institution, seven distinctly marked and some of them powerful revivals of religion, have occurred, besides several other seasons of unusual religious interest. In regard to these, as no particular record of them has been preserved, the writer is not in a condition at present to furnish an accurate statement touching their dates or statistics. It is believed, however, that no young man has yet passed through the College course without having his attention summoned by special manifestations of the Divine presence, to the great interests of eternity."

Since the date of that article there have been two or three revivals, the last of which, in the spring of the present year, was one of the most interesting the Institution has ever experienced. At the present time about three-fifths of the students are hopefully pious. Of the 182 gradu

ates, about 100, as nearly as can be ascertained, were pious at the time of entering College, and about half of the remainder were converted during their College course.

Eighty of the Alumni have pursued, or are intending to pursue a course of Theological study. Twelve or fourteen are laboring in Ohio. Three are missionaries of the American Board; Rev. J. F. Pogue, at the Sandwich Islands; Rev. Ira M. Preston, in Africa; and Rev. J. G. Coffing, about to sail for the South Armenian Mission. One is preaching the gospel in Oregon. Twelve of the eighty have been called to their rest. Two of these, Rev. Isaiah N. Ford, of Jackson, and Rev. A. Bardwell, of Hanging Rock, were faithful and successful laborers in the Synod of Ohio.

Wabash College. The following extracts from Professor Hovey's History of the Institution, furnish cause for devout gratitude to God:

The religious history of this Institution is fraught with much interest. Quite a number of the students, it is believed, were brought to a proper knowledge of their spiritual relations and interests, and to yield to the great sanctions of religion, by a personal consecration of themselves to the service of God in Christ, during the first few years in the history of the College.

In the year 1838, there was a very deep and special interest in religion. The Spirit of God, for many weeks, evidently pervaded the Institution. The number of students in attendance, in the winter of 1838, was upwards of ninety, of whom thirty were professedly pious when they entered the Institution; of the others about thirty became hopefully the subjects of renewing grace, most of whom have since given evidence of sincere and devoted attachment to the cause of Christ. For its extent, power, and distinctly marked cases of special interest, this revival of religion will long be remembered.

Several of the subjects of this work of grace have, for some years, been successfully preaching the gospel. Seasons of religious interest were also witnessed in 1840 and 1841, in which a number of the students were hopefully converted. In 1843 there was a revival of uncommon power. Several young men of correct general deportment and high intellectual promise, but who had hitherto stood aloof from spiritual religion, were brought to bow to the sceptre of Christ's righteousness, and to cast their influence into the scale of piety. Others of a more reckless character, and whose religious advantages had been extremely limited, were made to experience the terrors of the law, and the sweet consolations of the Gospel.

Since 1838 the annual concert of prayer for Colleges has been uniformly observed in College, and almost invariably with special evidences of immediate answers to prayer; and in connection with a large number of these concerts, powerful revivals of religion have occurred.

In 1851 the President observed, that "No class has ever graduated here without having enjoyed from one to four revivals of religion, and four-fifths of all its Alumni have gone forth from their Alma Mater the enrolled servants of the living God."

In 1854, 55 and '56, there were many tokens of the Divine influence, and a goodly number in each of those years gave evidence of their conversion to God, and publicly professed their attachment to His cause.

But aside from these special and more obvious visitations, there have een very marked isolated cases of conversion of great interest. One