New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-10-03


Later from the Foreign Mississs.
AT the Monthly Concert OF Prayer Cor Foreign
Missions IN tie Bowdoinss. Chapel Boston, on Sunday
evening last number OF communications we're 70
c,yed containing recent ls,slhgenc from several Mic
.oas We copy the material portions
AsRIcA.-The reports from southern And West.
ern Africa were quite encouraging The additions to
the churches in southern Africa were steady sod. %
late, somewhat increasing and there 10 believed 70 se
hopeful movement throughout the entire held OF the
Nissonaries lseors In that region.
CHocrAws.-rhs res1lts OF the last year smons
this Tribe OF indians have been very gratifying. The
additions 10 the churches have been l13 making toe
present total OF COMMITMENTS nearly 900 IL would
be dhcut 10 nnd an equal number Of churches N any
par, If the world, which have been 90 uniformly aud
greatly blessed for the last nine year, Indeed during
all this period there mas been continuous revival
GkEgcE.--A letter received by the last steamer
from Dr. King At Athena represents HE prospects IS
more encouraging than they have been at any time
since dis 70 Greece. Twenty nlns pcrsons nov
attend on bis instructions from Sabbath TO sabbath
and amoDg them students OF the University OF
Athens lie mentions also the very unusual and en-.
courssng circumstance for that country, that two
Greeks hsonsly attended the private prayer meetings
which were held in he own house, end took part Ia
them, praying exserporsneousy-s thing OF very
occurrence In Greece.
IspA-Rev. Mr.. French. from the Ahmed
nuggur Mission, occupied some time In developing the
encouraging ssns of the tinss in India. He d~ed nrst
on the success OF Missionary abors In that county
In the two Churches under the of thu Assicn with
watch he Ma connected, there were ll9 native m m.
bers and the ratio OF additions OF late years bad been
much greater than during the rst ycsrs Of their lsbors
There 10 influences At work In every direction.
which 10 lesvenir- the whc!r macs OF Indian mind.
The effects OF this from time TO time, developed BY
the coming In from distant part OF the country az
persons who, years ago perhaps, received tract
casually heard a Missionary preach, aud thus were
awakened 20 think seriously religious truth Truth
has wrought in them secretly but powerfully .l 1t has
constrained them to abandon their superstuons snd
embrace the truth. Another encour aging ssu Of the
times in India Is the waning power OF hindooisn
This In the temples of dostry, which every
whore going 10 decay. Where new temple IL
now being erected, Ave old crumbling down
The formation OF societies among the natives for
publishing In the native language books OF science hs
tory &c lie another encouraging sigu so also 10 the
fact that the sacred books of the tndoos beios
translated from the sanscrt and Published In The yer
nscusr tongue. The general desirc OF the natives lOr
knowledge Is shown by their readiness to subscribe for
a newspaper published by the Missionaries Not lees
than 10 subscribers have )een added to their lst
within one year.
MApuRs-Tbis Mission has heretofore been
much troubled with the Caste question; indeed. they
have been obliged 10 cut of many church menbers,
and OF their most promising converts have gooe
from them. During the past year. however, the
Mission has made considerable advance In Its various
departments OF labor. Thirty 1--WE have been admitted
to the churches and the influence OF the Mission is
and more ielt in the villages which surround the
different stations
NEsToRIAss.-A letter from Rev. Mr.. StochiBe.
of the HISTORIAN Mission, gives Interesting account
OF recent journey from oroomiah across ne -.oun
tain. TO M9;u was made io a,n ne he Mission At Mo
WI uSicn' q. vii be- remembered opened at that
80 several years since In behalf OF the mountain
S~storisns but IL broken up by concurrence OF
able circumssnces-the death OF the Mssions
les designed for the station and the wsrliks incurson
into the territory OF the mountanirbes BY neighbor
ing chief. For some time past the Missionaries at
Or0omish have been receiving encouraging accounts
from Mosu, and on visiting the place Mr.. stocking aud
his companion found hundred persons or more under
the influence OF Evangelical truth. The British Consui
of Mosu had become friendly to The American Mission
aries and evinced strong desire 20 have them rces
tiblish their Mission at Mosu. The Patriarch will. OF
but his for evil has been very mstesly abridged.
and his ability to prosecute hs people for embracing
Evangelical doctrines very essentially curtsiled FOR
the present he remains quiet among The mountabs--
The effects Of the revival at Oroomiah reported to
be very encouraging spirit OF reform had been
awakened among the Nestorisrs, which promised great
good.
sAspwroH IsLAsDs-Prosperity has attended
tho efforts of this misson and tho additions to the
churches, during the past year. have amounted 10
about 600 There has been. likewise, considersbe
progress in piety and social Improvement but the
epdemcs which prevailed In the Island the close
oi eie carried hither from our shores have proved
very fatal The statements heretofore published Ia this
country this subject fully borne out by the lat
est intelligence. More than one tenth OF the popus
ton have been cut down OF these, 1850 were church
members The effect OF this calamity upon the natives
nas been dsheartenins and tho missionaries arc lear
full that other diseases Will be Introduced from Caitor
MIA and Oregon and they are aso spprehensive that
there will be- an importation OF morals that will DO
moro disastrous still Ga the whole, the prospects OF
the Islands must be regarded somewhat uncertain
The Providence OF God has nterposed In their behalf
in a very remarkable manner hitherto, but he may
have designs which cannot now fatnom. Should
the Hawaiian race, however be ultimately lost In ths
great ApgoSaxon family, tho influence OF ths mission
will appear vastly more important than IL now does
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