Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-06-03

the local Auxiliaries employ Agents and many
employ Bible Colporteurs under their own dlrec-
tions Resides the Home distribution of books,
and the large grants for the army and for Seamen,
others have been sent the past year to three of
the West India Islands, to maracabo to Eastern
Mexico, to California, to Honduras, to Brazil,
to Buenos Ayres to Chill to the Sandwich Is
lands, to Gibralter, to Bremerhayen in Germany,
to Western Africa and to lndia-the latter for
the use of the natives who are learning the Eng
lish language. In addition to these grants Of
books already printed, grantsof money have been
made to publish other copies abroad in France,
Switzerland, Russia at Smyrna and CONSTANT
nople; at Oroomah in Persia; at Bombay, Mad
ras and lodiana in matchmaking total of
SIS, 600 The Board have also appropriated
$40 900 to aid in the circulation of new YER
sion about to be issued in China, and nearly the
same amount toward publishing the Hebrew
Spanish, llcbrew-Gcrman andmodcrn Armenian
Scriptures in the lcyant.
FoRElGN Missions. American Board OF
Commissioners for Foreign Missions held their
annual meeting ON Friday
DR. Anderson, one of the Secretaries, read a
statement of the operations of the Board, This
and character, of Rev. Dr. Armstrong; who, II
will be remembered persisted III the wreck Of
the steamer Atlantic The Mission cause had
also to mourn the loss of the following active Ia
borcrs Mr. Whitney, Mrs. Andrews and Mrs
Paris, of the Sandwich Island Mission Mr., Lave
renee and Mrs Muzzy of the Madras Mission
and Mr. Robinson Of the Siam Mission Dnuhl
the yeOr the Americans had separated from then
ecclesiastical organization and had formed free
chnrche7 among themselves The HISTORIANS
had also been helped with remarkable outpunf
ing of the Holy Spirit There had been na 10
Nu-ion since the great revival at the BthdWitl
lalanda The intelligence from China was high
" encouraging Each Of the stations NJ tbs
Board contained on an average sis missionaries
boalde male and female assistants IA all n"f,
than five hundred persona were connected viii
the mission operations of the Board The nunl
Der Of aborers had been greatly increased, Un'
so had the necessary expenditure. BUT NOT 81
THE RECEIPTS. For the year ending with Apri
last, there had been $4,000 less than for TIN
year preceding, or, deducting the cXtraordlnar
legacy of $40, 600 by Mr.. Waldo, they had beer
$40, 600 less. The treasury was thus empty
and the receipts no longer met the expenditure,
There were twenty new Missionaries ready to G
forth before next Winter, and over sixty wcr
needed. The falling off of the receipts did ne
prove decrease in Missionary interest in til
community They believed the reverse to b
the fact If the duration of the enterprise wer
divided into periods of five years, a constant il
crease would be found in the receipts of ever
period. There was an average increase Of 20
600 in each, beyond the amount of the first
The increase of the third period was $4,000
Of the fourth, $4,000; of the fifth, $1,000; {
the sixth, $4,000; of the seventh and last, 30
900. Judging from the past, the receipts of tt
present year would amount to 100000; an
they did not at all despair of reaching so large