Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-05-31

155, 900 Tracts were printed in
1885, embracing nearly 6,5O0,OOO pages;
and Abbott's Mother at Home and Sever
al new Tracts have been translated into
Russian. All their funds were exhausted
previous to the Society's remittance. ana
thew were 1000 roubles in debt. Their
circulation was widely extended over the
vast Russian empire, to Astrachan, bolta-
via, and the Black Sea; and to Esthon'o'
Sweden, and Finland, in the languages
of those countries. The government is
entirely friendly to their operations, the
Minister of Instruction having reported
that those publishing I" these beautiful and
useful little books deserve the thanks OF
every friend of the human race" The
report contains numerous and interesting
extracts from their extensive correspon-
dence, showing that among the common
people Tracts are universally we'll rccelv-
ed, and that many high in authority pur-
chase largely for distribution. Prince
Galitzin, Governor of Moscowhas publish
cd Tract on Intcmperance at his own
expense.
In Greece, there were printed in 1884
and 1885 at the Society's expense, by the
American Protestant Episcopal press,
1,7l4,00O pages; and Rev, DR.. Hing in
seven months had circulated from Athens
10000 school books and Tracts, and was
waiting for new supply from Smyrna.
I" | have now," he wrote, scarcely a
Tract in my depot. People come from all
parts of Greece, to solicit Tracts" The
law which it was feared might restrain the
mission press is removed. eve have
permission" they write, " from the Minis
ter of the Interior, TO distribute our pub
lications freely throughout the realm, and
circular has been forwarded to all the
Nomarchs, forbidding them to put any him
drance in our way"
From Smyrna 26, ,256 books and Tracts
had been circulated in fifteen months.
Progress is making in Syra: among
the HISTORIANS in Persia; and distributions
commenced among the European, Calfree,
and Malay population Of South africa.
Among the I'amul people in Ceylon,
and the adjacent continent,are l22 schools,
embracing 5243 scholars, and seminary
of 124 young men, by whom Tracts have
been largely dispersed among their rela-
tives and friends. AS the fruit ofthe late
revival, forty-three were added to the
Cburch in one day; and several hundreds
ofthe children in the schools were scri-
ously impressed. The Rev. DR.. Scudder
has distributed 10000 Tracts, since oc-
cupying the station at Chavagacherry !;
and in many instances they have prodn-
ced deep, and in some, it is hoped, a
saving impression. For the Tract, "The
Blind Way" (Hindooism,) he judges he
has hundred applications from native
heathens.
Orissa, the station of the English Cen
eral Baptist Missionary Society, and site
of the temple of Juggernaut, where the
Rev. Amos Sutton, who lately visited this
country, is laboring, is probably visited an
nually by half a million pilgrims, speak
ing all the languages of India from the,
mountains of Cashmere to Cape Comorin.
1t is one of the most interesting fields for
Tract distribution in the world many of
the Tracts being carried back by the pill
grims to their homes from one thousand to
two thousand miles. "Many of the con-
verts to the Saviour in India have receiv-
ed their first Christian light from religious
Tracts
The mission in Northern India is rein
forced with a press and fonts of type in
various languages, with fair prospects OF
usefulness.
In Burmah are four presses exclusively
applied to printing in Burmese, with
type and stereotype foundry, and fonts OF
type in Karen and falling. In 1888 no
less than 5,272.000 pages were printed;
and in 1884 2,514,456 were circulated.
1t is believed that the full amount ap-
propriated by the Society has been ex-
pended the past year. Mr.. kincaid has
made very extensive distributions at Ava,
the capital of the Burman empire, and
many triumphant results of Tract and
missionary labour have been witnessed.
An old man, who resided in the palace,
got little book of Mr.. X. and came to
him some months after, thinking himself
the only man in Burmah who had received
the new doctrine, and giving evidence that
a heaven-directed arrow had reached his
heart. Some villagers, residing sixty
miles distant, had obtained the view of
the Christian Religion and Golden Bal
ance,' and came, saying, all the people
in the village had read them, and wished
to hear more about the eternal God"
During festival of three days at Ran
COON, 5000 Tracts were distributed, and
40 900 nanns hy Messrs. Cutter and