Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-11-01
RELIGIOUS.
AMERICAN BOARD OF COMMlS-
.StONERS FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Abstract ofthe twen,y-cighth Annual Report.
DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT.

Abstract ofthe twen,y-eighth Annual Report.
DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT.
The Hon. VIM. Reed OF Marblehead, a
member Of the Board eighteen years, and
of the Prudential Committee sixteen years
died on the 18th of February.
Two ordanined missionaries; one physl-
cian, and one male and two female assis.
<tant missionaries have died since the las
meeting ofthe Board
Eight missionaries, one physician, and
five male seventeen female assistant mis-.
scenarios have been discharged from the
service Of the Board, on account changes
in the missions, future of health. and 9th.
: er causes.
Twenty-nine missionaries, and five male
seventeen female assistant mss onaries, ,harc
received appointments during the. year. 1t
is known that others would have offered
: their services, ifthey had not been discour.
asedby hedeteniion ofthorc already appoin.
led.
Sixty-three missionaries and assistan,
missionaries have beeusent out since The last
naeetingsef the Board-viz;to Cape Palmas
three; 10 Southern Iudia fourteen; TO the
Sandwich Islands thirty two; to Ooroo.
miah four; 10 the Island ofScio two; 10 the
Ghoctaw Indians four; TO the Pawnees one;
to the Sioux two; to Indians in the State oi
: New York one.
There are now under appointment and
waiting till funds can be obtained to send
: them out, thirty. four missionaries, and four
male and six female assistant missionaries.
The debt ofthe Board at tho close of the
: last year was $35,s66 81. The expendi.
: lures of the year were $253, ,5s7 81, excee-
ding those of the last year by S44,le1 81.
The RS, eip,s into the Treasury from all the
ordinary sources ofincome foi the year en-.
! ding July 31st. were $252,076 55, being
an increase upon deficiency on that day
: ,ofS41,379 5S.
The increased expenses of the year are
owing partly to the cost ofsending out SO
many laborers, and partly to the great in
creased expense of making remiitances to
the missions abroad, through the dranged
state ofthe finances of the country.
But other causes lie at the foundation of
the augmented expenses of the las. two
wears. These arc, l. The fact tha. from
! the yearls32 until this year. the receipts
5 have increased very little, only $4,000 in
the four years, There has been gene. .al
impression that the Board wanted men, not
funds.
9. While the receipts have increased so
slowly, there has been rapid extension Of
the operations Of the Board. From 1888
to 1886, one hundred and eighty. five la
5 .borers have been sent out. This tie a..
borers have increased in a ratio quite out Of
proportionte the increase Of funds.
8. This disproportion has beer still grea.
ter as it re CARDS l.e schools, seminaries
printing presses, and other operations ofshe
missionaries. For the Committee, being
assured by the friends ofthe cause, ia every
: part of the country, OF sae;r rrutiiurss 70
provide any amour, ef funds that could be
sjudiciously and economically expended, and
not beng able to obtain as many men as
we're needed, we're led mcrs than three
wears ago to encourage the missionaries
then in the field, TO take steps for enlarging
theirinAuence aud usefulness.
The effect of these measures IN swelling
,he expenses Of the Board was not felt until
slast year, owing to the great distance of the
principal missions. For the same reason
the measures adopted twelve mouths ago TO
lessen expenses, viii not diminish the drafts
UPON the treasury Until 1888.
The expenses last year have been based
upon estimates made when the pecuniary
situation ofthe Board and Of the country
were very different from what they are now.
The increas ofreceipts last year does in
reality but axe up the deficiency Of pre-.
yious years. The cost ofsending out sixty.
three >laborers, and the debt due at the COM
mencement of the year exhaust it,leaving
deficiency of the amount necessary to meet
the cnrrent expenses of the year, a little
greater Than that of last year.
The Agencies of the Board are filed by
The same persons who have labored so di.
ligently and successfully in them in former
years. No important change has taken
place In them during the years under re.
view.
DEPARTMENT OF MISSIONS BE-
YOND SEA.
MISSION AT CAPE PALMAs.
) FAIR HopE.-John Leighton Wilson,
: 2msissionara; benjamin. Van Rensselaer,
James, Printer; Mrs. Wilson.
Il station; missionary, printer, and l
female assistant missionary;-totaL 81
Mr.. and Mrs. White and MIR. James
arrived at Cape Palmas in December, in
GOOD health. Mrs. White became sick Of
a fever on the 10th Of January, and died on
the 2sth. Her husbands anxious care Of
= e 1 =. Il Il