The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-05-13
Anniversary Week in New York.

love thy church. o God
Her walls before thee stand,
Dear as the apple Of thine eye,
And craven on thy hand
For her my tears shall fall,
For her my prayers ascend
To her my tolls and cares be given,
Till tolls and cares shall end.
Beyond my highest joy
prize her heavenly ways;
Her sweet communion solemn VOWS
Her hymns Of love and praise
Jesus, thou friend divine,
Our Savior and our King,
Thy hand from every snare and foe
Shall great deliverance bring.
Sure as thy truth shall last,
To Zion shall be given
The brightest glories earth can yield,
And brighter bliss Of heaven.
The Rev Rurus ANDERSON hereupon was introduced
to the meeting and took occasion to refer TO the nd
stract statement Of the annual report which show
have been renforced-the South African, Syrian, Mes:
torian, Bombay, Madura. China, Sandwich Islands and
teen assistant missionaries thirty in all. Nnetee n
clerical missionaries under appointment from seven
theological fseminares with two missionary phyaicans
and other assistant missionaries These are all much
needed in the missions and expected to go during
the year to come; nearly all Of them in the autumn
Two have been set apart for mission to the Jews OF
Saonica, (anciently Thessaonica.) in European Tur
key. Several applications for appointments as mis-
sonaries now before the Prudential Committed
THE MIssIoss.-The system under tho care Of the
Board contains 20 MISSIONS about 100 stations 100 Or
daned missionaries licensed 81 lay helpers
and 204 female assistant missonariesin oil 3s0 sent
from this country Associated with these, are 20
native preachers and about 100 other native helpers
making SIS laborers among the heather, who are do
pendent the Treasury of the Board for their means
of support In these missions rs churches, con-
tanning upwards Of 5000 members SO seminaries and
Neutrality-suspicious. containing 1858 boarding scholars;
1867 free schools containing about 10000 pupils and
printing establishments At which about 600 OOOO00 OF
pages have been printed, from tho beginning in 80
languages. Tho common schools at the Sandwich
Islands, containing IS 900 pupils are now wholly sup
ported by the native government. The number OF
admitted TO tne enuFcnes AZ 'n nose
hundred And that the tenth year since the great
ingahering to the Christian church In those Islands
Though many missionaries have been sent forth,
the Prudential Committee have felt the necessity Of
keeping down the expenses in the missions; and the
estimated expenditure Of the financial year ending
with July next does not exceed that of tho last year
by v exs
penditure S27000 Add the debt Of last year amount
ing to 000 and the proper expenditure Of the year
ceipts These have been Sl7S,00o for tho first nine
months; $4,000 (nearly rs per cent? moro than
be equal advance tho receipts in the three
manning months-May, June, Juy-the receipts OF the
current will be and the indebtedness OF
the Board will be about Sal 900; it Is ut present about
100000 The advance of 40 per cent, recommended by
the Special Committee to which the subject was ro-
ferred by the Board at Buffalo, would have paid the
expenses of the year. and freed the Board from debt
An advance to that amount in the remaining months
Of the year. will meet the current EXPENSE and leave
1t should be remembered, that tho last financial
year commenced with balance in the Treasury of
the monthly receipts had then fallen below the neces
sary expenditures and that they yet below It, This
is the reason why the balance Ii still on the wrong
side.
Shall the Board DO enabled to enter upon its next
year free from embarrassment Shall it send out the
goodly company Of missionaries now under appoint
men without the necessity Of curtang for this pur
pose, the expenditure in the several missions!
The Rev john LEIGHTON WILSON. from the Gaboon
Mission, in Western Africa, introduced, and ad-
dressed the meeting He sad-Through the providence
of God am about to leave this land after week, for
Africa this is the first time, and probably will
be the last that shall have the opportunity to address
an assembly like this will do 1t with all that socmni-
ty which n should feel in pleading the claims of
one hundred millions of men, before Christian public.
regret that much of the time which is permitted to me
and in relation to Africa There is
part of the world about which there less accurate
information. than Africa. People know that 1t Is
large countryhas large desert, and that it is popu
lated by negroes II has frequently been remarked to
me- by many in the United States, what they thought
of Africa--that it had oasis here and there, and
was possessed of scattered population. Nothing
be more mistaken than this. No can tell the ac-
tual population Of that country No man can with &C.
curacy tell the statistical amount Of its population but
it IL variousy estimated at from fifty to one hundred
and fifty millions From what have seen myself
should suppose the population to be to the latter
In place being hundred square miles it is quite
largo as the most populous part Of these United
States and from what have known the population is
nearer to two hundred millions OF these onefourth
Moors and Arabs and belong to the northeast part
of the continent The remaining the black race,
that occupy three fourths of tho continent We have
heard. since the Of these meetings of
France, of Ireland; but Fra and Ireland, and Ike
population Of these United States, is not much more
than half the population Of Africa and is serious
thought. and II ought to be overwhelming thought
that Of these millions not million has heard Of the
word Of Jesus Christ. In relation to the physical ap
pearance and natural scenery Of that country, the
opinions equally erroneous and II any person here
find Sierra Leone the Gold Coast Cape Mount and
many other parts Of Africa present natural cencry
unsurpassed by any thing that have In any
part of the world Sailing along the coast Of that
country, you enter and gain the ascent Of elevated
hills: you will there see beautiful valleys, rich
foliagei. with the Palmetto and cattle graz
ng along the valleys; and you will also ace
the native villages 1t IL impossible to give any
idea of these villages and besides those villages appear
on every part of the Those the grain coast
represented resembling clusters of hay stacks, and
they several Of land and huddled much
together. stranger would be astonsled ut the ex-
tensive that to be found around them
These castles fortifcatons. constructed two
hundred years ago by the Portuguese in the time OF
trade They are built on the coast on parts Of solid
rocks and in these Notifications one hundred to one
thousand persons can be accommodated kept
During the last forty years these Notifications have
been in the hands Of the British government and arc
now the purpose of sppressng the very trade
few remarks this occasion, the social and physi
cal condition Of the country SO far as their usagcs and
customs they resemble scarcely known part Of the
world. One by his energy, from which he main
tans asccndency by working upon the credulity OF
crcsc. powerful influence. There IL no security for
life or property. The atrocities committed by thcsc
dcspots without Legislature, without laws without
courts of justice are unparalleled No man in that
ountry. lies down Mt night with security
If YOU can be free from wtchcraft, you may deem,
your self nate there You may often produced
awless riot occasoned by witchcraft often resulting
In stripping man of his property; and he may con-
slider himself fortunate If he escape with his life In
relation the FORM you have never thing
of the kind i'm America These people, having lost all
kno wledge of God have been thrown upon their own
rcso urces will state fact in relation to their be-
lief in witchcraf and the means which they resort to
prehe nd They rely upon charms aud witchcrat
and suny employ these occasions pieces OF brass
of ro n and other matters OF this kind which undergo
sort of process and when you go to their country you
,yiII And hat hair will