Missionaries and Students:Maintenance, Education, &c. Basle Institution Disabled Missionaries, &c., Purchase of Premises at Isling ton... Books Publications:- .... £. s. d. 1845 14 3 143 0 0 206 17 9 2182 12 6 297 14 8 450 19 11 1142 16 10 142 16 9 2221 18 1 Total.....33,111 16 4 Funded Property. Reduced 3 per Cents. 17,3007.- Consols 3 per Cents. 53004-New 4 per Cents. (invested for Bishop's College, Calcutta) 10291. 8s. 3d. From the abstract of the Report delivered to the Meeting, we subjoin the Committee's remarks on the State of the Funds : The Committee have to express their thanks, as in former years, for the very kind and efficient aid, which has, by different friends, been rendered to the Assistant Secretary in visiting the various Associations; and they earnestly request of every Clergyman, and of all other persons of influence, anxious for the prosperity of the Society, that they will, in every practicable way, promote the formation of New Asso, ciations, and the productiveness and effi. ciency of those which are already established. The Society's numerous Associations require a regular course of visiting, which it is now found impracticable to maintain, even with all the help of friends, without an increase of such Officers of the Society as are more especially devoted to this employ in the meanwhile, large districts of the country offer themselves to the hand of the cultivator, at present nearly wholly unproductive to the Society for want of Labourers. : It is ground of congratulation and thankfulness, that, under these circumstances, and considering the pressure of difficulties which has continued through the year, the Income of the Society still holds on its steady rate of increase. In its Twenty-second Year, the Income, without deducting the expenses incurred on acMay, 1823. count of the Associations, amounted to about 34,000l.: that of the Twenty-third Year, just brought to a close, reckoned in the same way, has advanced to 35,000l. The steady rate of the Society's increase has just been mentioned. That rate of progress has been greatly augmented during the last ten Years, chiefly in consequence of the establishment of Associations the Income of the Society in its Thirteenth Year having been 3000!; while in its Fourteenth, the formation of Associations, which had their origin chiefly in the zeal awakened throughout the country for opening India to Christianity, the Income rapidly rose to a gross amount of nearly 12,000l., not deducting the expenses attending the Associations. The first Thirteen Years of the Society may be considered, for the reasons just given, as its state of infancy: it has been since gradually acquiring strength and developing powers, which will one day, it may be hoped, arrive, under the blessing of God, at that maturity, which may enable the Society to achieve its full portion of that conquest over the Empire of Darkness and Sin which awaits the com bined efforts of all the true Members of the Church of Christ. The whole Income of these first Thirteen Years was little more than 22,000.-the Income of the last Year, alone, has been, as already stated, 35,000l. The average annual Income of each of these Thirteen Years was a little more than 1700-that of each of the last Ten has been upwards of 25,500l. Before the Committee quit the subject of the Society's Income, there is a fact to be stated which deserves attention. The amount of interest on Stock annually received, will serve as a criterion of the proportion which the Expenditure has borne to the Income. On a careful investigation of this point it appears that the Society never had since it began to send out Missioparies, and has not at this moment, more funds in hand than would serve to discharge its actual obligations on account of its Missions in various parts of the world. And yet it has never been put to any difficulty in discharging the obligations which it had contracted: nor has it been withheld, merely by the want of funds, from entering on any very promising undertaking brought before its Committees. The Committee state this fact as a ground of thankfulness to Almighty God, that He has enabled the Society to proceed with such an equal and steady course. Promising fields of labour are, indeed, 2 E opening on every side; and a far larger sum might be profitably expended in promoting the Conversion of the Heathen, than is as yet placed at the Society's disposal: the Missions already formed, particularly those in Africa and, India, are beginning to ask for more funds to enable them to extend their exertions: the Committee beg, therefore, to urge on all the Society's friends every practicable exertion to increase its means of usefulness. The Collections amounted to 3667. 11s. 9d.-of which that at the Church was 2171. 3s. 9d., and that at the Meeting 1491. 8s. About 150 Clergymen were present; among whom was the Rev. Dr. Heber, Lord Bishop (elect) of the See of Calcutta. BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. NINETEENTH ANNIVERSARY. ON Wednesday, May the 7th, the Chair was taken by the President, Lord Teignmouth, at the Annual Meeting in Freemasons' Hall, at Eleven o'clock. The Report was read by the Rev. W. Dealtry. Movers and Seconders. Lord Bexley, and Viscount Lorton-Earl of Harrowby, and Bishop of GloucesterLord Calthorpe, and Right Hon. C. Grant, M:P.-Rev. Robert Daly, and Rev. Joseph Fletcher-Mr. Wilberforce, and Rev. Dr. Pinkerton-Hon. C. J. Shore, and Rev. Robert Newton-Sir G. H. Rose, M.P., and Rev. Professor Farish-and John Hardy, Esq. (Recorder of Leeds), and John Gurney, Esq. K.C. His Excellency Mr. Papoff, Secretary of the Russian Bible Society, was introduced by the Rev. Dr. Paterson; and the Rev. Professor Stapfer of Paris, and Professor Gautier of Geneva, by the Rev. Dr. Steinkopff. These three Gentleman addressed the Meeting in English. The death of Mr. Owen was referred to, with much feeling, by the Noble President, in opening the Meeting, and by most of the Speakers. It was announced that the Rev. Andrew Brandram, M. A. of Oriel College, and Curate of Beckenham, had been appointed his Suc cessor. ELEVENTH ANNIVERSARY. ON Wednesday Evening, May the 7th, the Rev. Henry Budd, M.A. Minister of Bridewell Precinct, and Rector of White Roothing, Essex, preached the Annual Sermon at Christ Church, Newgate Street, from 2 Pet. i. 15. Moreover, I will endeavour that you may be able, after my decease, to have these things always in remembrance. The Annual Meeting took place on Thursday, at Twelve o'clock, at Stationers' Hall ; the Rt. Hon. Lord Bexley in the Chair. Lord Gambier, and W. W. Carus Wilson, Esq. M.P.-Z. Macaulay, Esq., and Rev. Peter Treschow-Rev. W. Marsh, and the Earl of Gosford-Alderman Sir Claudius Stephen Hunter, Bart. and Rev. Edward Movers and Seconders. Burn-Lord Calthorpe, and Rev. Basil Woodd. The Meeting was addressed also by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester, and by the Rev. H. Budd. The Collection at the Church amounted to 311. 8s. 8d., and that at the Meeting to 311. 2s. 4d. Bishop of Gloucester, and Lord Calthorpe At the close of the Meeting a Young Jew, a professed Convert to Christianity, addressed the Members in a manner which greatly affected them. Resolutions. -That the multiplied evidences of the increasing spirit of inquiry among the Jews in Poland, and the eagerness with which they continue to seek after New Testaments and Tracts, are viewed by this Meeting, not only as motives to greater exertions, but as circumstances which should excite the gratitude of the Society to the Almighty, and stimulate Christians to more fervent prayers for the promised outpouring of His Holy Spirit on His Ancient People to give effect to His Word among those who have been thus inclined to receive it. -That the increasing number of Societies formed on the Continent to co-operate in the great Work in which this Society is engaged, is a subject for thankfulness to God, and of earnest congratulation to the Friends of the Cause; and inspires a hope that the Servants of God in every country, will, ere long, be awakened to the imperative duty which lies on all Christians to, unite in seeking the salvation of their long neglected Brethren of the House of Israel. -That this Meeting hails, with unfeigned joy, the encouraging accounts communicated during the past year of the reception of Mr. Wolf by the Synagogues at Jerusalem; and of the readiness with which many of the chief Rabbies of these Synagogues were disposed to enter into discussions on the subject of Christianity, and their willingness to receive and read the New Testament Scriptures: and, under these circumstances, this Meeting views with peculiar satisfaction the establishment of a permanent Mission in that country, where the Work of Redemption was accomplished, and from whence the Gospel first sounded forth to the Gentile World; and they therefore highly approve of the establishment of a Separate Fund for this end. State of the Funds. Auxiliaries, Associations, and £. s. d. 978 10 0 598 13 5 8265 19 9 81 12 9 655 8 9 86 6 8 257 11 3 10,924 2 7 476 7 3 Total....11,400 910 Total....12,418 16 7 The Collection after the Sermon was 561. 11s. 2d. and at the Meeting 1007.16s.9d. A Safeof Ladies' Work, for the benefit of the Society, held a few days before the Meeting, in Freemasons' Hall, produced 2501. Subscription for Two Greek Boys. Two Greek Boys were introduced to the Meeting. They have been sent to this country by Mr. Wolf, who gives the following account of these Youths; Two Noblemen of the Greek Nation were condemned to death before I arrived in Cyprus. One of them was beheaded, and all his property confiscated; and the other saved his life. Their two Boys, one of them eleven years of age and the other fourteen, ran the danger of being educated in Mahomedan Darkness. I took them with me, with the written consent of their Mothers, and the British Consul-General, and the approbation of all the European Consuls and all the European Inhabitants of the Island. They cause to me much joy they have talent; and I intend to send them to England, where they may be educated, and sent back as Missionaries : to their own Nation. They read, and write, and speak modern Greek, and understand the Ancient; and they know a little Italian. The Turkish Governor of the Island of Cyprus called together 232 of the noble Greeks, under the pretext to read to them a Firman of the Sultan, in which the Sub lime Porte expressed its satisfaction with the conduct of the Greeks in the Island of Cyprus. The poor Greeks, among whom were the Fathers of my two Boys, appeared in the Divan: and at this moment, the Heads of 230 fell by the Sword of the Governor. Two renounced Christ to save their lives. Almost every European in the Levant takes one or two of these boys-Brother Fisk has sent two to America. The friends to whom Mr. Wolf has sent these Youths have opened a subscription, with a view to promote his wishes respecting them. They are placed under the care of the British and Foreign School So+ ciety and it is intended that they shall return to their own country, as soon as they have acquired sufficient knowledge to enable them to assist in the establishment of a Seminary of Mutual Instruction in one of the Greek Islands. UNITED BRETHREN, Annual Sermon, THE Annual Sermon in behalf of the Brethren's Missions was preached, on Friday Evening, May the 9th, at St. Clement Danes, in the Strand, by the Rev. Thomas Mor timer, Sunday Afternoon Lecturer of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, and Sunday Evening Lecturer of St. Olave, Southwark, from 2 Cor. viii. 23.-Or our brethren te inquired of, they are the messengers of the Churches and the glory of Christ. claims of the Brethren for support Mr. Mortimer, in urging the in their Missions, referred to the sanction given to their Church by the British Legislature and the Episcopal Bench: and read a Letter of Congratulation, addressed, by Archbishop Potter, to their Bishop Count Zinzendorf, on his consecration; and the testimony to their primitive purity of doctrine and discipline, delivered by the Bishop of Worcester, in the House of Lords, in the debate on the Bill passed in their favour in 1749. We shall take an early opportunity of resuming this subject; and shall give a brief account of the Origin and Progress of the Brethren's Church, especially as connected with its recognition by the Church and Government of this country, which cannot fail to interest our Readers in the support of its Missions. Mr. Mortimer illustrated the devotedness, perseverance, patience, self-denial, and success of the Brethren in their Missions, by many striking facts; referring, among others, in proof of the spirit in which their Missions were begun, to the views and feelings with which those to the West Indies and GreenJand were entered on: see p. 203 of the Life of Matthew Stach, in our present Number. The Collection amounted to 70l. Is 3d. The Receipts of the London Association, for the last Year, were 26911. 8s. 3d.: of this amount, the sum of 22671.9s. 6d. has been paid to the Brethren's Society for the Furtirerance of the Gospel. HIBERNIAN SOCIETY. SEVENTEENTH ANNIVERSARY. In the evening of Friday, the 2d of May, the Rev. Robert Daly, Rector of Powerscourt, near Dublin, preached for the Society, at St. Anne's, Blackfriars. The Annual Meeting was held on Saturday, the 10th, at Twelve o'Clock, in Freemasons' Hall; the Patron, H. R. H. the Duke of Gloucester, in the Chair. The Report was read by the Rev. John Morison, one of the Secretaries. Movers and Seconders. Viscount Lorton, and Rev. J. W. Cunningham-Earl of Gosford, and Hon. C. J. Shore-Lord Gambier, and Rev. Dr. Wardlaw-Rev. R. C. Dillon, and Rev. Joseph Fletcher-Hon. Baptiste Noel, and Rev. Jabez Banting-and the Earl of Caledon, and the Hon. F. G. Calthorpe. The Meeting was addressed also by Lieutenant Gordon; and by the Treasurer, Robert Steven, Esq. State of the Funds. Receipts of the Year. Collection at 16th Anniversary Donations £. s. d. 183 8 8 417 18 3 467 2 0 3330 16 7 1890 0 0 2695 8 0 This surplus of Income beyond the Expenditure, added to the balance in hand at the beginning of the year, having placed a considerable sum at the disposal of the Society, the Committee make the following cautionary remarks on the subject: It is with feelings of gratitude to the "Author and Giver of every good gift" that they report a balance of 30007. in favour of the Treasurer of the Society. This novel circumstance in the History of the Institution is a consequence of 180 l. Legacy left by the Will of Mrs. Elizabeth Elkins; and 19147. collected in Scotland, by the active exertions of Robert Steven, Esq., the Rev. Mr. Brotherton of Dysart, the Rev. Mr. Morison, one of the Secre taries, and others. So unequivocal a proof of liberality on the part of Scotland, at the same time that it evinces the feeling of that country on the subject of Scriptural Education, entitles it to the common gratitude of Ireland and the Institution; and the Committee avail themselves of the present occasion to express for the Society the acknowledgment of a sincere and grateful obligation. That such a surplus should have found its way to the hands of the Treasurer at the mo ment when the most expensive and extended improvements were dictated by the actual state of the Institution, is another and a pleasing manifestation of the Divine Favour; but it would be a serious abridgment of the satisfaction which is felt by your Committee, if this circumstance, so new in the History of the Society, was received by the public as evidence of its ability to meet the current demand upon its resources. Against an impression so deceptive in point of fact, and withal so seriously calculated to injure the Funds of the Institution, the Committee would give out a distinct and most anxious warning. The demand on the Society's resources has varied with every year of its existence, and must never be confounded with its actual expenditure: they are distinct and almost opposite considerations; and the one exceeds the other in the exact proportion, that the Society's ability to widen the sphere of its operations exceeds the limit at which these operations are arrested by the pecuniary inadequacy of its resources. It is thus while they are reporting a balance in favour of the Treasurer, that their experience is strongly in favour of the practicability of opening FIVE Schools to ONE of the number which it would be possible to establish on the foundation of their average |