Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-06-26
From the Bap. Missionary Magazine.

From the Bap. Missionary Magazine
MISSIONS OF THR UNITED BRETH-
REN.-At the close of 1887, the missions /
OF the United Brethren embraced 46 sta
lions, $50 missionaries, (including five
and 450,6 converts. ofwhom
about l5.400 were communicates. 2,758 |
of these were Greenlanders and Esqui- |
maux, $50 Indians, 43,942 negroes, and !
1877 Hottentots and other natives Of
South Africa. In the enumeration of
converts at their stations all are included
who, having passed through prescribed
course Of instruction and probation, have
been baptized COmmaaacGRts embrace
those only who, giving evidence of
work of grace on their hearts, have been
admitted as members of the congregation,
and, after due trial have been confirmed
American and Foreign Bible Society.
We noticed briefly few weeks since,
the reception of the second annual Report
of this Society, subsequent to the meeting
of the Philadelphia Bible Convention in
1887. but its importance demands more
than mere passing notice. The amount
of receipts since the last Report, is S24,-
745 rs; expenditures, S37 Sc; bal
ance on hand. S6,275 "A. During the
past year. $4,000 have been appropriat-
ed 10 the Baptist General Convention in
the United States, for printing and circu-
lating the Scriptures in Asia by their
missionaries, and $4,000 to the London
Baptist Missionary Society for similar
purposes. The Report also states thai
since the organization of the Society,
| S5O,5O0 have been appropriated to trans
lating and distributing the Bible.
| During the year, the work of home
! distribution has been commended, by the
preparation of twenty-five thousand copies
of the New Testament in small tyoe fol
Sabbath-schools. and five thousand COME:
of the New Testament, and the same
number of the whole Bible in larger type
| all of which are sold at a very cheap rate
We have seen specimens of the first, anc
can pronounce it very neat in its execu
ton. The report also contains surve,
of the field of foreign distribution open t
their labors, in various parts ofthe world
1t is a deeply interesting circumstanc
that Carey, the great pioneer in modern
/ missions, should have been personally en-
gagged to so great an extent in the transla
f ton OF the Bible into so many languages
So early as 1915, he and his associate
were employed in translating and print
ing the Bible In twenty-seven language
OF Asia, spoken by more than half The in
4 habitants of the globe. With the assist
ance of his coadjutors, he has publishe
!, the Bible entire, or in part, in thirty-nin
, languages. He published the New Tes
lament entire in twenty-three language
or dialects.
4 The Calcutta missionaries have nov
in course of revision, the Scriptures i
) Bengali, Hindustani, Sanskrit Hindi, an
E Armenian. An immense field is openin
!. in China for the circulation of faithful
/ translations of the Scriptures. Morrison
: translation is now generally allowed /:
be very defective. Leang Ala, the Oh
nese evangelist, learned man, told M
: Lay, the agent, of the British and For
: elgn Bible Society, that Christians i
: England were spending their money t
circulate book which his countryme
could not understand. We have ourselye
! seen specimen of this translation, wit
, the corrections of Leang Afa in his han
/, writing, which were numerous Tw
other translations have been made bv D.
; Marshman, the other by Medhurst an
! Gutzlatf.-Chrastaan Waterman.