seems to rest upon him,' as on his predecessor, Mr. Ling-yin. . . There has been no communion season since he went there, at which some have not been bap tized from among the heathen.""

The Missionary Advocate, of the Methodist Episcopal Board, states: "It has pleased God so to bless our mission in China as to raise up a good number of native preachers, and thus to give the brethren from America time and opportunity to extend their mission into the adjoining province of Kiangsi. They have appointed the Rev. V. C. Hart to proceed to Kin-kiang, the capital city of the province; and have designated Rev. E. S. Todd and wife to join them in Kin-kiang, and lay the foundation of the first Protestant mission in that populous province."

Japan. Some months since Rev. J. Goble wrote from Nagasaki to the Missionary Recorder, (Foochow, China,) "I am as busy as I can be, teaching school, editing a native paper, and doing a little at translating. I am engaged by the Prince of Tosa to lay the foundation of an English college; and in prosecution of this plan, we expect soon to go up into the country of Tosa to live. We are getting a font of Japanese type cast, and expect soon to be able to print Bibles, tracts, books and papers, with press and movable types. The English, Dutch, and Chinese versions of the Bible are already introduced as a reading-book in our school. Some of the pupils have, of their own accord, asked to be admitted to family worship, and others ask particular instruction in the Christian religion. One of the latter is a high officer of State to the Prince. We have been praying the good Lord to prepare for us a way of access to this people, and just when and where we could have least expected it, the way seems to be suddenly opened before us, and that too by a specially marked providence."

Burmah. A letter from Mr. Cross, of the Toungoo mission, (Baptist Union,) in the Missionary Magazine for February, says: "The reports from the jungle are far more interesting than they have been at any time since 1862. All parts of the

field have been thoroughly visited by the traveling preachers, and these are, for the most part, the ordained preachers. There were six ordained men at the meeting, and they report something over three hundred baptisms. The destitute churches are again asking for preachers, and rebuilding their fallen-down chapels; and heathen villages are also asking for teachers. The olden days of Toungoo seem in some measure to be returning. A vast field is opening to the east of us. We see how inadequate are all the means of men and money which we now can command."

North American Indians. The Record of the Presbyterian Board, for April, states, respecting the mission to the Seminoles: "The church was organized in February of last year, with sixty-six members, of whom twenty-three were received on examination. The ruling Elders were then ordained. Since that time the Holy Spirit has been manifestly present with power in the religious meetings; thirtysix persons have been added to the church on examination, one by letter, and two who had fallen away were restored to church privileges on giving suitable evidence of repentance. The whole number of church members reorganized and received is one hundred and five, besides eight infant children baptized. Among the members are some who should probably be encouraged to prepare for usefulness as catechists, teachers, or perhaps eventually as ministers of the gospel. The members of this church are liberal, in proportion to their small means, in supporting the gospel among themselves, and in their gifts at monthly concert meetings, to send the gospel to those who are still heathen."

EMBARKATION.

Mr. Phineas R. Hunt and wife, formerly of Madras, Miss Mary E. Andrews, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Miss Mary H. Porter, of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, sailed from New York in the steamer of March 21, for Aspinwall, on the way to the North China mission, via San Francisco. In connection with this departure, some

facts, connected with Mr. Hunt's success as mission-printer at Madras, will interest the reader. When it was known that he was about to leave that place, near the close of 1866, a meeting of English and native citizens of Madras was held, and a committee was appointed to prepare a suitable address, and to raise, by subscription, a sum of money to be presented to him, as an expression of the sense entertained of the great work he had performed in the country as a missionary-printer. A circular letter issued in furtherance of the object stated: "It is, we believe, admitted on all hands, that the printing executed by Mr. Hunt, in Tamil, Telugu, and Hindustani, is superior to any other in these languages; and, moreover, that the present superior style of our vernacular printing generally, is mainly to be traced to Mr.

Hunt's labors. It is further believed, that the accuracy with which the sacred Scriptures and Christian books have been printed, together with the beautiful execution of the work, have been a great boon to native Christians generally, and, consequently, an important help to all missionaries."

The Madras Auxiliary Bible Society also adopted and sent to Mr. Hunt a very complimentary Minute, expressing their sense of obligation to him "as a valued and most successful fellow-laborer;" and taking leave of him "with the expression of their united prayer and hope, that his labors in China may be equally successful, and equally appreciated in connection with the great cause of missions in that vast empire."

longer or shorter passages in the vessel. By her aid, the annual meetings of three distinct bodies of missionaries have been held, one of the Hawaiian missionaries in the Gilbert Islands; one of the American missionaries of Micronesia, on Ponape; and one of the Hawaiian missionaries in the Marshall Islands.

By means of your little vessel, the inhabitants of Nui, a small island in Ellice's Group, which lies south and east of the Gilbert Islands, have been furnished with a good supply of the Gospels by Matthew and John, of the Epistle to the Ephesians, and of copies of a book of Bible Stories, published by the American Tract Society of New York. These are in their own language, which is that of the Gilbert Islands, although they are surrounded by islands of Ellice's Group, where a dialect of the Samoan language is spoken. I might fill my whole sheet in telling you of our delightful visit at that island, where so many are becoming the friends of Jesus, and where nearly all the inhabitants can read, although no missionary has been long among them. It was very pleasant there to shake hands with our English brethren,

50 pupils. Cost $154, &c.

dura school (Pasumalie), $25. Ceylon school, Batticotta, $30. Chinese schools, - Foochow, $35; Tientsin, $35. Female Boarding-Schools and Semina

Madura West, 31 boys, 9 girls. Undiur,

Cost $77. One teacher, 29 pupils.

$56.

$50.

Some small schools cost still less.

Other missionaries, in other fields, report in like manner. It costs, therefore, all the way from $30 a year up to about $200, according to the place and the size of the school.

Boarding-schools and seminaries are for older scholars. They are under the care of missionaries, assisted by native teachers. The scholars in these are removed from the bad influences of their own homes and old associates, and placed under the best influences of a Christian family. A great many thus become Christians. The young men become teachers and preachers to their own people; and the young women, teachers, or the wives of the educated young men. Thus Christian homes are being established around all our mission stations, and their example is a great help to the missionary. Who can tell how much good may be done by these scholars, whom our Sabbath-schools are helping to become teachers to those who, but for them, would never hear of the way of life and of a Saviour's love? I think of it every time I look at the donations on the last page of the Herald, and see what the Sabbath-schools, and other good friends, all over the country, are doing. Boarding Schools and Seminaries for Young Men. The cost in currency for each pupil in these, for a year, as nearly as it can be estimated, is—in the Bulgarian school, at Philippopolis, $40. In Armenian schools, at Marsovan, $40; at Marash, $35; and at Harpoot, $30. The Abeih school, Syria, $40. Nestorian school, at Oroomiah, $30. In Africa, Schools at the Gaboon, $20; Zulu school, at Amanzimtote, $50. In India, — Mah

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Chinese, Peking, in charge of Mrs. Bridgman, $40; Foochow, $40.

The annual amount required for the support of a native preacher, or a colporter, in any one of the mission fields, is about $100; for a native Christian woman, to act as a Bible-reader, to visit families, and hold religious conversations and female prayer-meetings, about $45. Sixteen women are employed for these purposes in the Nestorian mission alone. The way is opening for such labor in the Armenian and in the India missions.

Individuals, Sabbath-schools, or Sabbath-school classes, can designate, if they prefer, the special object to which their contributions may be applied; and they will be so acknowledged in the Herald.

The missionaries have so much to do that they cannot always write to the Sabbath-schools, as they would be glad to have them; but when any Sabbath-school desires a special report from the school or pupil it is supporting, a report will be sent once a year, if this desire is expressed when the contribution is sent. It was proposed, last year, to send letters every quarter to all the Sabbath-schools helping in this work, but it has seemed to be better