WOMAN'S BOARD OF MISSIONS; (HERETOFORE THE NEW ENGLAND "WOMEN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.")

DONATIONS received since the report in October: Massachusetts, Jamaica Plain, Central Cong. Church, from the ladies, additional, $13; Walpole, Mrs. Loring Johnson, a thank-offering, 5; Neponset, a few praying sisters, 6; Dorchester, a few ladies in Rev. Mr. Means's Society, by Mrs. Clapp, 21; in reply to an appeal from China, 5; a friend, 75 cents; Boston, Dr. Daniel T. Coit, to constitute Mrs. J. G. L. Coit a life member, 25; Monson, Mrs. A. W. Porter, to constitute her a life member, 25. Connecticut, Colebrook, Mrs. Janette C. Stillman, to constitute Mrs. Julia P. Carrington a life member, 25. New York, Mrs. George F. Betts, to constitute her a life member, 25. Iowa Falls, Iowa, la dies of Cong. Church, 5. For the month, $155.75. Total, $4,159.57.

MISSIONS OF THE BOARD.

Western Turkey. A letter from Mr. Morse, of Eski Zagra, reports an examination of the girls' school, July 23d and 24th, "creditable both to teachers and pupils," and attended, on the second day, by 50 spectators, among whom were "persons quietly and respectfully listening, who, nine months before, were either spectators of or participators in the assault upon the school buildings." One young man, who had been for five years a student in the school at Philippopolis, was licensed to preach the gospel July 24th, and on the next Sabbath two men seem to have been received for the first time to the communion of the church. "Ten Bulgarians sat down to the Lord's table, in the presence of forty attentive spectators. Six of these were girls admitted to communion in April." "The occasion was one of deep interest, and of encouragement to all." Two students from Philippopolis have been sent "into the Samokove field and Macedonia, besides the helper there."

Mr. Parsons writes from Baghchejuk, September 3, that they have now, what has been long desired, a place for public worship at Koordbeleng; says the Turkish

villages in that district appear almost innumerable, and "the Koordbeleng brethren report many Turks of their acquaintance interested in the study of the Scriptures"; mentions that the Baghchejuk church has given a "call" to a native preacher; and adds, at the close of his letter: "The Bible-woman in Nicomedia reports a visit to Karamoosal, a Turkish town on the south of the Gulf of Nicomedia. Last October she passed through the place in going to the Armenian villages in that vicinity. One who heard her preach Christ as the greatest of the prophets, and the Divine Redeemer, having treasured up her words, sent her an earnest invitation to visit her, requesting her to bring the Book. She found the person thus inviting her to be a woman of great influence in the community, a leader of twenty other women who have held, for some months, regular meetings for prayer; and for ten days she preached the gospel of Christ to that company of women, with none to oppose.”

Central Turkey. Mr. Powers writes from Kessab of a state of things, generally, among the churches in the Oorfa field, more satisfactory than he had dared to hope," of late. The church at Antioch, also, "has made progress the year past, and things there look more hopeful." Respecting Kessab, and the Protestants there, he was constrained to write, August 7th: "They are still suffering, as during the previous year, from oppression and want. Poverty is on the increase among them, and what is to be the result I know not. Tax-gatherers are here again, and not being able to find money, they are taking any thing they can lay their hands onhousehold utensils of every possible description and selling them at auction. Many families are reduced to all but starvation, and many men, during the coming winter, must go abroad for employment, or their families will be left without bread. These circumstances afford some palliation for the coldness in the church, but do not justify it. Indeed there is wrong here. The church are very fastidious about their preachers, and not willing to do what they can for the support of the gospel, and so

they have now neither pastor nor preacher. This state of things oppresses me sadly." Ten days later, however, he remarks: "We are taking measures for the reviving of this church, which promise good results."

Eastern Turkey. Mr. Allen wrote from Harpoot, August 5, that Messrs. Williams and Barnum had gone to Mardin to see what could be done for the Protestant brethren there, who, under the influence of a new Papal Patriarch, were imprisoned on a false charge, shockingly beaten for refusing to pay unjust exactions, compelled to do the hardest and dirtiest work, "each man committed to two brutal soldiers," "old men, long unused to labor, loaded with stones and water till they fell in the streets, and then unmercifully beaten," etc. August 8th he added: "A telegram from Mardin, last evening, announced the arrival of our brethren there, and that the Protestants, on paying 20,000 piasters, were released. The Turkish Government ought to be compelled to make speedy reparation for this unjust exaction, and the instigator of this affair deserves severe punishment."

Full accounts of these proceedings, received from others, will probably be published in December. A line to the Treasurer of the Board, from Mr. I. G. Bliss, of Constantinople, dated September 15, states: "Mr. Elliot, the English Ambassador, has obtained an order to the Pasha of Diabekir, putting a stop to the infamous proceedings of that functionary until an investigation can be held. He has ordered his consul to communicate with Mr. Williams, and report the facts to him officially. The Prussian, Dutch, and Swedish Ambassadors are ready to take up the case. Mr. Morris has no instructions (!) to interfere with the internal regime of the Turkish Government, and declines taking any position in favor of these oppressed men."

Foochow. Mr. Peet reports a visit, in July, to the Langpuo out-station, where he baptized two young men, "whose examination appeared quite satisfactory." Several other persons there "seem to be quite serious, and attentive to the word

Ceylon. Mr. Sanders reports "a week's work at the Islands," accompanied by a colporter, a catechist, two teachers, and nine pupils of the upper class in the training-school. They visited 1,122 houses, conversed with 3,024 persons, held several meetings, and distributed and sold Scripture portions and tracts. On two islands mentioned the people earnestly desire a school. At Pungertive they are suffering greatly from famine; no rain for three successive years, so that "even the Palmyra Palm, the great reliance in times of want," does not yield its fruit. Here there were some cases of apparently earnest religious inquiry.

In another letter Mr. Sanders mentions the examination of village schools. During the day spent at Oodooville, 294 children (72 of them girls), were present, nearly filling the church. Twenty-three of these only were baptized in infancy and have Christian homes. "The others pass their days where idolatry, superstition, and ignorance unite their baneful influences to destroy the soul." It was delightful to hear "Father Spaulding, sitting by, whisper of this and that one- 'He prays'; ' She is regular and earnest in prayer'; and of a group, They are nice girls and true.””

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Sandwich Islands.. Rev. A. O. Forbes was installed as pastor of the church at Kaumakapili (Second Church Honolulu), in place of Rev. Lowell Smith, resigned,

on the 14th of June. In his charge to the pastor Mr. Smith stated, that that house of worship was built and dedicated in 1838, just thirty years ago; that during that period, he had baptized and received into the church 2,794 persons, and had received by letter from other churches, 1,149, making in all 3,943; that he had baptized 891 children, and had solemnized 2,655 marriages; that five missionaries and their wives had gone from that church to the Marquesas and Micronesian missions; that two of the native pastors now settled on Oahu, were also from that church; and that the church at Moanalua and Kalihi, of nearly 200 members, was an off-shoot from it.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Liberal Support of Idolatry. At the recent anniversary of the (English) Church Missionary Society, among examples of devotion to idolatry by some of the people of India, the following cases were mentioned. In one instance, a wealthy native sent as his contribution to one of the great festivals, 80,000 lbs. of sweetmeats, 80,000 lbs.

of sugar, 1,000 suits of cloth, 1,000 suits of silk, and 1,000 boxes of rice, plantains, and other fruits. Another gave $150,000, besides an annual contribution of $50,000!

A Worthy Life Work. At the same anniversary it was said that one missionary, the late Mr. Tucker, who sailed to India in 1842, and returned in 1864 on account of feeble health, was permitted to baptize 3,500 converts, induced the natives to destroy 54 idolatrous temples, aided in building 64 Christian churches, and had the joy of seeing 13 of his native converts ordained to the work of the gospel ministry.

Colonial Interest in Missions. The Record of the Free Church of Scotland, for July, states: "The total revenue of our great Foreign Mission Scheme was £33,439 12s. 8d. for the past year. Of this, however, only £17,967 5s. 2d. was raised at home. The remainder was raised in India and Africa, and it is surely a most significant tribute to the value of the missions, that Christians who are on the spot, and see their working, come forward so munificently to their aid. But the income is not equal to the expenditure."

Washington county.

Columbia Falls, George Harris, Milltown, (St. Stephen, N. B.), Cong. ch. and so., add'l, with prev. dona., to const. Rev. F. E. STURGESS, Skowhegan, Me., H. M. York county.

Saco, 1st Cong. ch. and so., Benev.
Soc., add'l,

South Berwick, Cong. ch. and so., of
wh. from John Plumer, to const.
ANTONIUS YANNI, Tripoli, Syria, H.
M., 100;

80 00

120--31 20

10 00

15 20--30 20

Delaware, a friend,

11 60

168 05-178 05

762 95 5 00 767 95

44 40--56 00

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Grafton county.

5 00

Piscataquis county.

Bristol, a friend, to const. Mrs. C. F. ABBOTT, H. M.

100 00

Otisfield, Thank-offering of a friend,

Hillsboro co. Conf. of Ch's. George

for China,

5.00

Swain, Tr.

Oxford county.

Bethel, 1st Cong. ch. and so., add'l,

Legacies.

Hampstead, Elisabeth E. Calef, by Amos Buck, Ex'r,

100 00

829 00

42 00

Conway, Rev. C. Harding,
Whately, Cong. ch. and so., with

prev. dona., to const. MARY E.
LANE, H. M.

Hampden co. Aux. Soc. J. L. Whit

ney, Tr.

10.00

33 25--101 60

Longmeadow, Gents Benev. Asso'n, 650 North Wilbraham, W. L. Phelps, 5;

Miss J. Woodward, 1;

Springfield, 1st Cong. ch. and so. coll. 293.58, m. c. 204.56;

Hampshire co. Aux. Soc. S. E. Bridg

man, Tr.

Florence, Cong, ch. and so.

South Hadley, 1st Cong. ch. and so., add'l,

Worthington, Cong. ch. and so. Middlesex county.

Arlington, Ortho. Cong. ch. and so., of wh. from W. S. Frost, Belmont, to const. SUSAN T. FROST, H. M., 100; Joseph Burrage, to const. WILLIAM T. BURRAGE, H. M., 100; m. c. 45.68;

Cambridgeport, Stearns Chapel, m. c., with other dona., to const. EDWARD KENDALL, H. M.

Charlestown, S. C. K.

Concord, 2d Cong, ch. and so.
Natick, 1st Cong. ch. and so.

Newton Corner, Eliot Cong. ch. and so., balance, 10, m. c. 54.68; Woburn, Cong. ch. and so., in part, Middlesex Union.

6:00

498 14--510 64

15.90

150 00

10 00

19 00--194 90

937 83

20 24

500 300 00

19.50

64.68

400 00-1,747 25

ruif, Tr.

2.50

annual

20.00

80 00

30 75

9.00

39 25

Colebrook, Cong. ch. and so., add'l,
Ellsworth, Cong, ch. and 80.,
coll., in part,
South Canaan, Cong. ch. and so.,
add'l,

Woodbury, North Cong. ch. and so.,

with other dona., to const. MARGARET C. JUDSON, H. M. Middlesex Asso`n. John Marvin, Tr. West Chester, Cong. ch. and so. New Haven City. F. T. Jarman, Agent. Yale College (595.50, less prev. ack'd, 571.50, of wh. from Class of 1871, 24), 24; North Cong. ch. and so., Miss N. Atwater, 20; Chapel st. Cong. ch. and so. m. c. 12.90; Davenport Cong. ch. and so. m. c. 11.67; College st. Cong. ch. and 80., Henry McNeil, 5; William Johnson, 400; Lyman Osborn, add'l, 10; Rev. S. C. Brace, 2; New London and vic. and Norwich and vic. C. Butier and L. A. Hyde,

Trs.

New London, 2d Cong. ch. and so.,

ann. coll., add'l, 30, a lady friend, 75c.;

Old Lyme, Cong, ch. and so.

Tolland co. Aux. Soc. C. H. Dillingham, Tr.

Willington, Cong. ch. and so.

Windham co. Aux. So. Rev. S. G. Willard, Tr.

Abington, Cong, ch. and so.

Plainfield, Cong. ch. and so m. c.

Woodstock, 1st Cong. ch. and so.

Lansingburg, Olivet Pres. ch.
Marathon, Pres. ch.

Mechanicsville, Pres. ch.

Miller's Place, Cong. ch. and so. m. c. New Hudson, Cong. ch. and so.

New Lebanon, Mrs. J. B. Peabody, Orange County," "The Orphan's Mite,"

Oswego, 1st Pres. ch. 200, less exc.

50c.;

15 00

8.20

9.00

40 00

500

500

100

199 50

Owego, 1st Pres. ch.

22 54

Geneva and vic., W. H. Smith, Tr.
Geneva, Pres. ch.

New York and Brooklyn, Agency of

the Board, Bible House,

Of wh. from Madison Sqr. Pres. ch., Rev. S. H. Cox, D. D., 10; C. A. Hedges, 500; R. H. Hine, 50; 0. B., 50; a friend, 25; a friend, by Editor "N. Y. Observer," 10; Syracuse and vic. Timothy Hough, Tr. Syracuse, 1st Pres. ch. m. c.