Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-05-24

MISSIONARIES, naive Ill IIStIdHSs oho oi'
whose services can be secured, are engaged
in the distribution. Millions among whom
some portions of divine truth have been
distributed, wait for further supplies
Thousands of pagans, who have read
the Tracts they have seen, call for
new ones. Original Tracts are preparing;
,ranslating; punches, and matrices, and
foun,s OF new type (iucluding metal NOV.
cable type for Chiaa) arc in preparation at
great expense.
There are employed, in connection with
| foreign Missionary Institutions aided BY
the Society, $50 Missionaries and assistants
ofwhom nearly 200 are ordained preachers
eighteen mission printing establishments,
four Of chich embrace steyerotype fonadtrics
and trenty.n.ne presses; besides six Tract
Societies in Europe and the Iaborers in
Rassia,. No less than 44G Tracts and 36
volumes, published, abroad, are translations
| of this Society's publications, or have beep
| approved by the Publishing Committee;
and the Society and the various Institutions
aided, issue Tracts in 6fy.six different
languages, embracing very large part Of
the earth's population.
To meet these claims the Society have
remitted the past year. for China, $4,000
Northern India, 1000; Orissa, $1,000;
Telingas, $500; Ceylon, $4,000; Southern
India, 81 500; Mahrattas, $1,000; Sand.
wich Islands, $1,000; Persia, $500; Nesto
rians, $500; Asia Minor, 81 800; Greece
$1,000; Constantinople, 81 900; Hamburg
5000; France, $500; South Africa, $500
United Brethren, 500, n. A. Indians
S1OO.-Total, $4,000. Of this sun
sl5,500 is granted through the American
Board of Commissioners; S,300the Ameri
can Baptist Board and for Orissa; $4,000
through Western Foreign Missionary So
cicty; and $500 through Board of Pro.
testant Episcopal Church.
Larger appropriations have beenrequcs
ted, especially for the new Mission al
Madras; the Religious Tract Society, a
Paris; for Belgium; $1,000 for Sweden
and $500 for Denmark, which are reserved
for the coming year.
! At the Sandwich Islands three presses
issue from six to ten million pages annually
but the mission have at no time been able
to meet the immediate pressing demand
for books.
Facts from the Tract Societies on the
| Continent of Europe, and particularly from
Russia, Sweden and Finland, show tha,
there are many laborers, wide openings
and that Tracts make their way amid the
opposition of Popery and the influence o
dead and corrupt religions, and are owned
and blessed by the Greal Head of tho
church.
The opposition awakened in Greece
and other countries on the Mediterranean,
by clandesline Tract issued al Paris, and
misrepresentation from other sources, has
not stopped the influence of The press
Rev. DR.. King, at Athens, has had more
applications for books than he has beer
able to answer. ''ln one day." he says
"tcachers applied for school books anc
Tracts, and | gave upwards Of thirteen
hundred copies including New Testaments
for schools alone" Againhc says, "With'
in the last week Or ten days, should think
a hundred soldiers had applied to me fo
New Testaments and Tracts
OF the HISTORIANS in Persia, Rev. Mr.
Perkins says, 1.-The whole nation arc
hungering and thirs,ing for religious books
The Ecclesiastics, from the patriarch dowr
to the most obscure priest, are foremost ii
their importunitics, that we circulate among
them and their people christian knowledge
with all practicable despatch. They arc
constantly importuning US to procure fo'
them printing press"
In South Africa, Rev. DR.. Phillip says
"There is nothing within the range of hu
man means, that we more need, at the
present moment, than money to assist us
in printing!
Among the Mahrattas and the Tamul
people extensive tours for distribution are
made; some souls are converted; and the
light of the Gospel is dif1using with The
rapid introduction of the English language.
The new Mission at Madras is full of prom
ise, and the Missionaries ask for thousands
of dollars the coming year, to meet the
claims on the christian press.
Rev. Mr.. Sutton, of the -Orissa Mission
with brother Missionary and two native
preachers, attended the late festival OF
Juggernaut, preaching, conversing, and
distributing Tracts. 20 the scenes OF
wretchedness," he says, "of dying ghas'ly
despair, of inhuman cruelty, of unmingled
misery where we could afford no relief; OF
disgusting filth and loathsome depravity; oi
human nature debased, degraded, insulted,
outraged, which we every year witness at
this scene of internal revelry! How often,
in my thoughts, have contrasted this fes-
tival with the anniversary of your Society
| which I wac porn,;ttol m ctfprd n that