Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-12-26

At the last Monthly Concert for Prayer, in Fed
eral Street Westinghouse, MIR. Malcom read from
his unpublished travels some statements in regard
TO the effects of missionary exertions. Presenting
that our friends abroad would be interested in the
tacts,and at the same time be pleased to speci
men of the expected work, we have obtained the
extract which follows:- Christian Waterman.
Great mechanical facilities have been
created. There are now in full operation
i'll heather lands more than forty printing
offices, belonging to missionary societies,
beside the printing-ofices employed in
foreign languages, by the Bible and Tract
societies of Europe and America. Some
of these have from five to ten presses, gen
orally of the best construction. The fonts
oftype are numerous, and in many differ
ent characters. Each of these fonts have
cost thousands of dollars, because in addi-
ton to the usual expenses of font, there
has to be incurred in each case, the cut
ting of punches, sinking of matrices, and
apparatus of casting. The aIphabets, too,
consist not of letters like ours, but Of a
thousand or more, including symbols and
compounds. In addition to all thess IA
cilities, we may enumerate school houses,
chapels, dwellings,, libraries, apparatus,
tools, globes, orreries, etc. at the different
stations, and procured at an outlay of hun.
dreds of thousands of dollars. All OF the
printing -offices have binderes, supplied
with tools sufficient to do the work of the
respective establishments.
Many natives, at the cost of much la
Dor and time, have been trained to all the
branches of mechanics connected with
these Offices. In bringing matters to their
present position, the missionaries have moi
only been obliged to devise, teach and
oversee, but in many cases. to perform
every par: Of the manual labor. These
services and expenses are not again to b.
performed in the same places. The cost
ly>scafoIding is up, for large portions o
the growing ediice, and future labor ant
money, on these sections may 90 direct,
= to the increase of the building.
: Beside the property invested in thes
:. facilities, and forming a large availabl
S capital, we are to consider the saving
: which will be made hereafter, by the i'm
: provements which have been effected
e This point may be made plain By singl
). specification. In 1905 the cost of prin,
i ing manuscript Chinese version of tn
: New Testament then existing in the Bri
e ish Museum, it was ascertained would b
e two guineas (Sl0) per copy. In 1873;
: NJ. Hughes, of Malacca. wrote to tn
e British and Foreign Bible Society, tn;
e the cost of an hundred copies of the whoI
a Bible, from the blocks, would be SlO4,
t. difference of about three thousand pt
n cent! Whenever punches and matric'
IT have been made, the casting of type ma
e hereafter be done at comparatively chea
: rate.
ID
in Schools of various grades have bee
y established. ard multitude of youth T
ceiyed Christian education. To Apr
in ciate, in any proper degree, the magn
i tude of this result, it is necessary to CO
s. slider the difficulties which have been owe
IN come. In almost every case the first
a. fers of gratuitous instruction are spurne
" When at length few pupils are obtaine
ne priestly influence has often driven the
ms away. When even this is overcome, t
of children themselves were too waywa
al and idle to continue at school. Our vic
ms ry. therefore. over the prejudices and je
sly ousy Of parents, the influence of prize.