Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-11-08
MipURA MISSION

EDlNDRGAL.--Robert 0. Dwight, missea.
arg. and wiie.-Five naive helpers.
Stations not knopn.-Henry Cherry,
Cope, Nathaniel NJ. Crane, Claredon +.
Mazzy, William Tracy. Physieain and their
wives. = ,,rs
f2 stations; 10 missionaries, physician,
IL female assistants missionaries, end Is ma.
I'VE helpers; total, 90.
Mr.. and Mrs Poor, who have long been
members ofthe Ceyion m $ ON, removed
o Madura early last year. Mr.. and Mrs,
Eckard have been reunited to the Ceylon
mission. Mr. Hall, on account Of ,is,heaLh,
returned to this country. Mr.. and Mrs.
Dwight joined the mission in April of last
year. Mr.. Todd has been united in mar:
riagc 10 Mrs. Woodward Of the Ceyast
MISSION. Six missionaries and a physician,
with their wives, embarked at Boston for
this mission, Nov. % J, and arrived al Md.
ras in March. Mr.. Dwight commenced a
station at Dmdesal near the close of lls:
year.. The schools connected with the
mission are 80 in number, con- aiming ] PA
pupils. A school of higt er ctiarac.er has
been opened. Nearly halfioi tiie 4 8 naive
helpers are from the Seminary at Battico:.
ia, in Ceylon. This field is one of great
extent and promise. and is'so regarded by
the mission. -
- MISSION TO cEyLoN.'
TILL1PALLY.--Bcnjtmin, C. Meigs. Ms
sioaary, and wife Nine native helpe:s.
$ BArr1coTrA Henry R. Hosiugton and
John NJ. Perry, missionaries; Ma han Ward,
M. D.. Physician; and their wives On
native preacher, aud seventeeeen native hel.
-pers. :, - =
OoDeoylLLE. Lew Spaalling, missiona.
ry. aud wife. Seventeen native helpers.
PANDIrERIpo. Samuel Read Eckard,
missionary, and wife. Five native help
els. - ., -. =
CHavAGAcHERY. Samuel IJa,chipgs,
aassloaary,.and wife. oae3natiye preacher.
and eleven native helpers.
!, EARANT, George H. Bpthrop, n,iss'o,a-
rg and wife,. Six native helpers. :, 2
Eight aaa stations. Twelve native hepl's
ers. = g. -
f7 stations 8 out stations; missionaries,
/ physician, printer ,9sfemate assls AMI
MISSIONARIES, 2 nntye preachers, and u /.
native helpers; total, 81.
: In this missicn there are 155 free schools.
with Q, ,035 pupils, nearly one lenth OF "hoga
are females; 81 pious schoolnasters; ie.l
made SEMINARY, Wit. IS boarding scholars;
302fnative memeers of the c!,urc IN gooi'
standing; aud an nyrrage native congrega'
ton on the Sabbath ii each STAT OH, of near
ly 400 persons, a considerable ppopor''on
ofwhoml are native youth in the schools.
NetIessihan 1880 children have been
taught in the schools since ...e commence.
ment ofthe mission. The desire of fparenfs
10 enter shcir children in the' semninary
has been so great, Notwithstanding e,
stroug probability thatthey wlthere become
Christians, that the mission has resolved no
longer TO give board to any in their prepara-
tory studies. The parents will bear the ex.
pense.
OF books and tracts in tie Tamul Ian.
guage, 346, 500 copies and s,947,s00 pa.
ges we're printed the last year; making a..
7s5, 400 pages were from the beginning.
Three pressis are in operation. This mis-.
sion has been blessed with as many as seven
gracious yisitaiiops, or reyivals Of religions,
Since its commencement. AS consequece
of the sixth, 81 were addedto the churches;
and ~ as consequence otthe last.
s MISSION TO SIAM. ),
BANKoK. Stephen Johnson and Char es
Robinson, missionaries; Dan B. Bradley
M. D., Physician and their wives.
i Il station; 2 missionaries, / physlcian,
and 8 femalesassistant mssionaries;-to al,
s..
e The Siamese posses country OF almost
unequalled fertility, and by immigration and
.o,horwise, are rapidly increasing in mum.
bers. They are rising, also, on the scale
Of civilization. They generally are mild
and tractable, and treat Europeans with
Difference.
There seems to be nosserious obstacle at
present in the way of prosecuting all kinds
Of missionary labor in Siam, and OF gaming
access to alfclasses of The people. Within
three or four miles of our missionaries,
thsre are a iiiiou aiiaiou Of human beings, and
the eoantry is full Of Inhabitants. Mr.. John.
son di5ecls his labors chiefly to the Chinese,
and Mr.. Robinsonto to the Siamese. The
whole number of those who we have re.
ceiiyed medical aid from Doc,. Bradley, is
$500. They were Of oil classes, and from
all warts Of the country. Very many OF
them have carried away some knowledge OF
the gospel.
The mission has printing establishment
butno printer, The first and only siamese
tract they have is Of eight pages and con,
tains summary of the divine law and. .ol
,ha ,os,ol bout 4 0rf) SiameSc tracts