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The Treasury. A little more than the whole amount asked for the month of August has been generously furnished by contributors, and the large debt which seemed so probable a few months since does not exist! All friends of the Board may well unite in a song of thanksgiving.

New England Women's Foreign Missionary Society. Donations received since the report in September: Chelsea, Mass., Broadway Church, Mrs. J. Q. Gilmore, 1; Hubbardston, Mrs. Hannah Bennet, 5; Williamstown, Mrs. Calvin Durfee, 2; Newton, Miss Catherine Campbell, 1; Williamsburg, Mrs. Luther Bodman, to constitute her a life member, 25; Boston Highlands, Eliot Church, 48, (of which from Mrs. Moses Day, to constitute her a life member, 25). Colchester, Conn., Mrs. Harriet T. Newton, to constitute her a life member, 25; Norwich 7, which, with previous donation, constitutes Mrs. Hiram P. Arms a life member; Colebrook, two friends, 2. New Ipswich, N. H., a thankoffering, to constitute Mrs. S. M. E. Fay, a life member, 25, by A. W. J.; Marlboro, from "our angel Lizzie," 2, Mrs. H. K. Stone, 1.38, a few praying sisters, 3.33; Tamworth, two friends, 2. Dansville, N. Y., Mrs. Mary B. Farwell, 2. St. Albans, Vt., Ladies' Foreign Missionary Society, to constitute Mrs. Luther L. Dutcher, Mrs. Charles Wyman, Mrs. Henry M. Stevens, and Mrs. John W. Newton, life members, 100. Princeville, Ill., Mrs. E. J., to constitute Susan Kimball Jones, of Andover, Mass., a life member, 25; Rockford, Mrs. E. R. Emerson, 5. West Salem, Wis., Mrs. M. L. Clark, 5. Total for the month, $311.71. Total receipts, $4,003.82.

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Hawaiian Board, $4,073.51; objects not mentioned (in English), $1,215.60; miscellaneous, $4,255.89; total, $29,023.17. The amount is an average of nearly $1.67 to each church member.

A letter from Mr. Paris, of Kona, Hawaii (page 320), notices various trials, but also a brighter side. Mr. Coan (page 321), speaks of the effects of the late earthquakes, of religious prospects, and of outward prosperity at Hilo.

Micronesia. Statistics have also been sent from Honolulu respecting the Micronesian and the Marquesas Islands churches. The number received by profession last year was, in Micronesia, 97, at the Marquesas Islands, 47. The deaths in Micronesia, were 24; excommunications, 8; members now in regular standing, 445. The contributions to religious objects, including the amount paid for books, were $459.33. Of this, $149.49 were to the "Hawaiian Board," and $115.59 to the American Board. At the Marquesas Islands the contributions reported are only for church building, $130.

Dr. Gulick wrote from Honolulu, July 8: "The Morning Star sailed on the 26th of June. We sent one new Hawaiian missionary and his wife to the Gilbert Islands. Mr. and Mrs. Bingham left in good spirits, with two new books, to labor a few months on Apaiang, and return with the Morning Star. We expect she will be absent about five months."

Letters from Mr. Snow of Ebon (page 319), and Mr. Doane, of Ponape (page 318), mention some pleasing facts respecting attendance upon public worship, contributions, a happy death, etc.

Ceylon. Mr. Hunt, native pastor at Chavagacherry, writing in April, reports the addition of eight, by profession, to the church there during the previous year. He dwells at some length upon the recent movement among Christian natives to start a college at Batticotta, which shall be under Christian influence, and not like the government institutions of India, "where the Bible is not recognized,” and notices, among the reasons for such a movement, infidel sentiments among the people, and

the recent issue, in Jaffna, of books and pamphlets "attacking the truths of the Bible."

Mr. Smith, of Oodoopitty, reports the opening of the new boarding-school for girls at that station, under Miss Townsend, about the middle of May. There were 17 pupils, who were "making commendable progress, and seemed contented and happy." Mr. Smith says: "Our greatest deficiency is a set of maps, especially outline maps, and a good globe." "A set of common-school apparatus also, such as is used in Massachusetts and Connecticut, would be a great help.”

Madura Mission. Mr. Penfield, in a letter at page 317, speaks of his great joy as he begins to understand and use the language of the people, so that he can also begin to preach Christ among them. He notices a visit of some interest to a heathen festival, where he saw something of the hold which heathenism still has in India.

Mahratta Mission. Letters from Bombay announce the death of Mr. Munger, the oldest member of the mission, on the 23d of July. It had been arranged that the mission meeting in July should be at Bombay, to secure the benefit of his counsels and prayers. "But before the time of the meeting he was taken ill with fever, and soon partial paralysis ensued. Some of the brethren he was able to recognize, but for the last few days he was unable to speak or move, and most of the time remained unconscious. He had been appointed to preach the sermon at the meeting, and an impressive one it was. By his earnest life and labors he being dead yet speaketh.""

Zulus. Extracts from the General Letter of the Zulu mission, at page 314, will be found, on the whole, quite encouraging.

Syria. Letters from Mr. Lowry men*ion that the schism in the church at 'ums does not seem to be healing. The ive pastor, to whom there was opposiA has left. The people are still urgentfifty-ning for a 'missionary' to reside with F. M. wirThere is a prosperous school in the

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Western Turkey. Mr. Parsons, writing from Nicomedia, July 6, says: "My impression is that the time has come for direct work among the Turks here. The two colporters from this point, exclusively for the Turkish villages, have met with great encouragement. The Biblewoman in this city has always something interesting to report in regard to the Turks. She has just told me of a woman who has repeatedly come to her for a talk about Jesus.

"Since I began this, a helper has come in from a tour. I have listened to his re-' port. Several times he exclaimed, ‘Oh that I knew Turkish, so as to talk with the Turks. I had such good opportunities in such and such places. I did the best I could, however, and bless God for the opportunity.""

Mr. Morse wrote from Eski Zagra, in the Bulgarian field, July 7: "Two weeks ago I was at Kizanlik, to baptize the child of our colporter there. We greatly feared a commotion, but everything passed off quietly.

"Mr. and Mrs. Bond arrived at Constantinople May 29th, and at Eski Zagra June 3d."

The next day he wrote again: "A letter received to-day, from the sister of one of the girls from Macedonia, says she, with two others, intend to come to the school in the fall, and that in Monastir there is quite a movement in favor of Protestantism. While in Constantinople, I saw a man from Bansko, the interesting town of which I wrote you last summer. He said that more than a hundred persons met there every Sabbath for reading the

Scriptures and a sermon. These things show that not only Samokov but also Velles should be occupied just as soon as possible. Send on the men ;- good men, strong men."

OTHER MISSIONS.

Baptist Missionary Union. The Fiftyfourth annual meeting of the Union was held in New York, commencing May 21. The Report makes the following state

ment:

"The total receipts into the Treasury for the year ending March 31, 1868, were $191,637.58. Of this sum, $156,985.61, were from donations, and $6,406.24 from legacies. The donations were $14,324.25 in excess of those of the previous year, while the legacies were $7,592.77 less. Considering the general derangement of business, and the consequent depression in financial matters, this large increase in donations is highly encouraging. Had the monetary condition of the country been as buoyant as during the two or three years preceding, there is every reason to believe that a much larger sum would have been realized.

"The number of missions connected with the Union is 12. In the Asiatic missions are 18 stations where American missionaries reside, and not far from 400 out-stations. In the European missions are 1,328 stations and out-stations. The whole number of American missionaries connected with the Asiatic missions, including wives of missionaries and female assistants, is 93, of whom 43 are males, and all but one ordained ministers. Native preachers, teachers, colporters, Bible - readers, etc., including those in course of training for the ministry, about 400, of whom over 60 are ordained. In Europe, the preachers and assistants are over 300. The whole number baptized in Europe for the year under review was 2,824; in the Asiatic missions, 1,376; total, 4,200. Whole number of churches, in Europe, 297; in Asia, 268; total, 568. Present number, as reported from the European churches, 23,867; from the Asiatic churches, 19,908. Total in Europe and Asia, 43,775."

The missions in Europe of course are not among pagan nations, as those in Asia

are.

Burmah. Letters in the Macedonian, from missionaries of the Baptist Union, continue to give very interesting facts respecting the work among the Shans. Mr. Cushing wrote, March 7: "It has been my privilege to go where Protestant missionary has never been before, and I have come back only to work much more earnestly in acquiring fluency in the Shan language. I look upon the Shan country as the land of my adoption, and its people as my own brethren. I bless God every day that he has brought me hither." And Mr. Bixby states (February 25): “I have just finished a seven weeks' tour on the mountains, in which I have baptized twenty-two, making thirty in a few months, among the number my own dear daughter. I hope to make one tour more. I am working my passage into the Shan country as fast as I can, and evangelize as I go. This, I believe, is the right way - evangelize as we go. The work is spreading further and further every dry season."

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of Christian worship, both in town and country, have been crowded to excess. Such is the wonderful eagerness to hear the Word of God, that on the Sunday previous to the departure of the last mail 2,450 persons were counted out at Mr. Toy's church, while 230 were listening outside during the service. The Queen and Government have publicly renounced idolatry; the great national idol has been sent away, and the Queen sends her household to attend Mr. Toy's ministry. The Government works have been stopped on the Lord's-day, and a representative of a foreign Power on his way to the capital to obtain a ratification of a commercial treaty, having reached the last station on a Saturday night, instead of finding the usual escort, was informed that he could not be received at Court until Monday. The eldest son of the Prime Minister, together with the Prime Minister's sister, are candidates for church fellowship. Thus abundantly has the word of the Lord grown and prevailed."

EMBARKATIONS.

AT New York, August 15, in steamer Erin, for Liverpool, on the way to Turkey, Rev. and Mrs. C. H. Wheeler and two children, of Harpoot, and Rev. and Mrs. M. P. Parmelee and two children, of Erzroom, returning to their fields in Eastern Turkey; Rev. John E. Pierce and Mrs. Lizzie (Gray) Pierce, of Monmouth, Maine, Rev. Royal M. Cole, of Stark, N. H., and Mrs. Lizzie (Cobleigh) Cole, of Littleton, N. H., Miss Olive L. Parmelee, of Toledo, Ohio, Miss Isabella C. Baker, of Wiscasset, Maine, and Miss Cyrene O. Van Duzee, of Buffalo, N.. Y., all to join the Eastern Turkey mission; and Miss Harriet G. Powers, who is to join her father at Antioch, Central Turkey. Mr. Pierce was educated at Bowdoin College and Bangor Theological Seminary, Mr. Cole at Amherst College and Princeton and Bangor Seminaries: Misses Parmelee and Baker are expected to take charge of a female boarding-school at Mardin, and Miss Van Duzee goes with Mr. and Mrs. Parmelee to Erzroom.

Misses Parmelee, Baker, and Powers are graduates from Mount Holyoke Seminary, and Miss Parmelee has been for some years a teacher there.

At Boston, August 19, (in the bark G. T. Kemp, Captain Whiting,) for South Africa, to join the Zulu mission, as teacher of a girls' school at Inanda, Mrs. Mary K..Edwards, of Troy, Ohio.

DEATHS.

In the summer of

AT Cohasset, Mass., August 22, Mrs. Mary Ann Jewett, widow of Dr. Fayette Jewett, formerly of the Northern Armenian mission. Mrs. Jewett was from St. Johnsbury, Vt. (born at Landaff, N. H., January 30, 1825), was married to Dr. Jewett February 16, 1853, and soon after sailed with him for the mission field in Turkey, where they labored at Tocat, Sivas, and Yozgat. 1860 the state of his health required their return to the United States. Encouraged by medical advisers to hope that he might again safely engage in the missionary work, the family sailed a second time, for Liverpool, on the way, now, to join the Eastern Turkey mission, May 31, 1862. But the husband and father died soon after reaching Liverpool, and the widow returned, with her children, to her native land. She has resided of late at Grafton, Mass., where she had a brother; was spending the summer at Cohasset (two brothers and her children being with her), in the hope of deriving benefit to her health, and was there attacked with fever, which from the first obscured her mental powers, and in a few days resulted in death. She could bear no dying testimony, but has left the far better evidence of Christian character -a life spent in the service of Christ. Two orphan children, whom she was carefully and prayerfully training in the hope that they might become missionaries, and other relatives and friends, will deeply feel the loss of her instruction, example, and influence.

At Bombay, Western India, July 23, Rev. Sendol B. Munger, for 34 years connected with the Mahratta mission, aged 65.

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FOR THE CHILDREN.

A MOSLEM BOY IN SYRIA.

HERE is a story, pretty long, but the children, and older persons too, will be pleased with it. It was written in July last by Mr. Samuel Jessup, of Sidon, Syria, and sent to his brother, now in this country; and he sent it to the editor, who has shortened it a little.

"I have before told you of our boys' day-school in Sidon. It has been very successful indeed, and has grown up under very opposing circumstances. At the commencement of the next term we expect to find our nice rooms crowded full. The Moslems began patronizing us, and the Metwallies also. One Moslem after another came, until we numbered thirteen of that fanatical sect.

'He is sent to the Mission School. "One of the Moslems was a black Metwalli ser

vant boy, thirteen years old. His employer sent him, as he had not work enough for him to do and wished him to learn. He seemed very bright, and when I heard the marks read every Saturday, I never heard a mark against him. No boy ever complained of his doing an ugly thing, and he never had a complaint to utter about the other boys.

Talks about Religion and goes to Church. "After a while he began to stay in at recess to talk with the teacher about religion, and about the chapters he heard read and the prayers he heard, and about the principles of the Christian religion. Then he began to come to church on Sunday, and to declare that he could never remain a Moslem, and especially of the Metwalli sect. Yet he kept himself from becoming unclean, by eating food that had been touched by other Moslems, or by Christians.

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they still sent him, though they whipped him several times for saying that the Christians were better than the Moslems, and that he wanted to become a Protestant.

"He came several times to our house, and without waiting for any explanation or introduction, said, as he entered the door, Sir, I want to be baptized.' He had, and still has, rather vague ideas of the Christian religion, but he seems to have taken hold of the principal distinguishing feature, that of worshiping God in spirit and of trusting in Christ for salvation.

Is Turned Out. "As he became more and more open in his talk about Christ, and it became apparent to his employers that he was a Protestant at heart, the woman declared him unclean and turned him out. He went to the teacher of the school to stay with him, and as he had nowhere else to eat, he ate from Christian food, and so became to his employers absolutely and utterly unclean. Nevertheless, after a few days they sent for him, and he went back. They made a great uproar about his being unclean, etc., and had him wash thoroughly, and then would not eat or drink any thing he touched, but told him he must hire some one else to bring things for him. He said he had no money to hire servants for them, but he was ready to do any work they wished. Again he was virtually turned out, and came back laughing, and said to the teacher, The Metwalli religion says, touch not, taste not, drink not, etc. The Christian religion says, lie not, steal not, curse not, etc., and I think I know which is the best.' He staid a few days, until the teacher went away for his vacation, and then came to our house, and said he wished to live with us, or do anything we pleased to have him, only let him be a Christian.

In Danger. "When it became known that he was here his employer, or rather his employer's brother, tried to persuade

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