Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-05-23

raltar9 $500; Chippewa Indians, Cana
da,l (for hymn book) S500-total, $40,
900. $1,000 designated last year for the
mission of the General Assernbly,s BOARD
at Smyrna, has been transferred to theil
mission in Northern India; and 5000 de-
slgnated for Temperance publications in
Russia, has been transferred to Holland.
( The Foreign Missionary. institutions
are Increasing the number of their presses
and all the means of giving to benighted
[ millions the word of life on the printed
page-not merely for the Immediate con-
version of individuals, but by the divine
blessing to lay permanent foundations for
the establishment Of the gospel among
them-to render them, in a word, what
every enIig htened, evangelical protestant
community as-an1 what every communi-
ty underline dark, iron sway of popery is
not-a people having 10 their own hands
the means of light. and themselves daily
" Searching the Scriptures, whether these
things are So"
Missionaries also enforcethe appeal, &
heather converts, in in illustration of this
very point, ask, eff [ direct a man to
make me door, shall l rebuke him for
bringing his ADDE'S and his planes ?" The
little Chinese church, collected by Rev.
Mr.. Dean, in Bankok, appropriated the
81 ,O2 they had contributed the last year
at their monthly concert, for "Christian
books to be sent By junks to China for cir
cuLotiona
The Committee feel bound to urge eve.
ry effort Immediately to raise and remit
the remaining hirty thousand dolIars
the items yet to be paid being as follows:
For use Ct missions TO China and Indian
Archipelago, $500; missions in Siam
$4,000; Shyars, 500; Burman and Ka
ZEN missions, $4,000; Northern India,
$4,000; Armenians in India, $500; Oris.
sa, $500; TeIoogoos, $500; Madras and
Southern India, $1,000; CeyIon, $4,000;
Mahrattas, $1,000 Sandwich Islands,
$4,000; HISTORIANS, $500; Asia Minor
and Constantinop!e, $1,000; missions in
Greece, $1,000; Russia. $4,000; Swe-
den. $500; Poland, $500; Berlin, $500;
Hungary. $500; France, 5000; Spain,
$500; reserved for new claims, $500
total, $4,000.
There are now sustained by American
Foreign Mission'y Institutions, (including
six American Missionaries at Orssa,) 1856
missionaries and assistants. Thev have
t,oenty printing stations, viz: in Greece,
Northern India, Orissa, Maulmein, Tavoy,
Bhnkok. Singapoor, Sodiya, West Africa,
South Africa, Smy rna, Beyroot- Ooroomi-
ali, Bombay, CeyIon, Canton, Honolulu,
Lahainaluna and ParkhiIl At these sta
lions are torty-three printing presses; and
these, and the various Tract and other in
stitutions aided by the Society, issue pub
LEGATIONS in at least JJ1y-si1 different lam
guages, Of which publications no less
than 4l8 have been approved by the pub
fishing committee for circulation abroad.
In Spain. Rev. Mr.. Rule is now print
ing Bogue's Essay on the Evidences Of
Christianity; and Nevins' Thoughts on
Popery, is translated, and soon to BE- print
ed both TO BE- published at the Society's
expense.
The History the Temperance Reform
alton, prepared by Rev Robert B ird, Fl ON
the permantn mt documents of the Ameri-
can Temperance Society, and printed in
French. has been also translated and
printed IN Dutch, in Holland; in German
at Berlin; and in Sredish at Stockholm :;
and is now TRANSMITTING into RusS, at Mos.
COW; with prospect OF its being transla-
ted into Hungarian In turherance OF
this work, the Society have RENTED $l,-
900.
| In Russia, 100000 Tracts had been
printed in the last ten months, and the
friends in ST. Peter<burgh had never more
encouragement or apparent V more enter
prise in pushing their circulation in every
accessible portion Of that immense empire,
and wherever any access can be gained.
The Censor comments the work-nob!e-
men engage in the distribution, and no
peasant, who can read, refuses a Tract
the censorship having fectuaIIy secluded
him from the poison of icenlious and inf,
del publications.
Rev. DR.. King has translated Abbotl's
Mother at Home into modern Greek, pre-
senting a copy elegantly bound 10 the
Queen and other distinguished indivldu-
ais He distributed 2O,27l school books
and tracts from January | to July l, and
says, IF had been well supplied with
tracts, think might have distributed
twenty or thirty thousand more" He is
now translating Baater's Saints Rest i'll
to modern G eek.
AT the SandWict Islands, 1l,6O6,429
pages were printed the last year; & Rev.
MIR. Coan. of Hawaii says, 1t is impossi,
BILE to Meet the demand for aoant of a SUI
feieat supply from the press. / have dis,
tributed many thousands this year, and
might have distributed many thousands
more had they been at our disposal
Sometimes [ have stood and distributed
books to teachers and others from different