ganized, on condition of some aid from this Board.

The Rev. Garry Bishop, in fulfilling his mission of four months in Centre and Clearfield counties, Pennsylvania, delivered fifty-seven discourses, and visited one hundred families. He found the missionary ground very interesting. The meetings almost uniformly were thronged; people were very anxious to hear, and of ten very much affected by the word. The mission of Mr. Bishop has resulted in his settlement as a stated pastor on the field of his labour.

Mr. James F. Irvine, after performing a mission of three months in Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, was commissioned again for one month to labour among three societies he had collected. In his last mission he collected a fourth; and it is expected that they will be organized into regular congregations.

The Rev. Pierce Chamberlain has fulfilled his term of three months' missionary service. He itinerated in Erie and Crawford counties, the western section of Erie Presbytery. He states that the country is overrun with errors on the fundamental doctrines of religion, and that the population is rapidly increasing. The people are generally poor and seem desirous of hearing the gospel. There are several very weak congregations; yet some are able to support ministers in the way usual in that quarter. Four ministers are needed. Speaking of the monthly concert prayer meeting, held in one of Mr. Condit's houses for worship, at which he was present, Mr. C. says-" The evening meeting was particularly solemn. A number, especially the young, appeared to feel the importance of things eternal." He preach. ed fifty-six times, visited seventy families, and distributed a number of tracts.

The Rev. Alvin Coe fulfilled a mission of three months in the Michigan Territory. Mr. Hugh Caldwell, who was appointed a missionary in Orange, Spotsylvania, Culpepper, Madison and Louisa, Virginia, for three months, to ascertain whether churches could be formed in that region, says in his report, "I still think this is one of the most important missionary fields in Virginia. The people are exceedingly kind and hospitable; turn out well to hear the preaching."

The Rev. Jonathan Winchester, in fulfilling his mission of five months in the counties of Cuyahoga and Geauga, Ohio, preached eighty-three sermons, made one bundred and thirty-one family visits, attended five church and prayer meetings, visited three schools, received four persons into the church, two on certificates and two on profession of their faith, bap. VOL. V. Ch. Adv.

tized two infants, and administered the Lord's Supper three times.

Mr. Benjamin Graves, who was appointed to labour for three months in vacant and feeble congregations, in the Presbyteries of Cincinnati and Miami, spent but two months in missionary service. In that time he delivered forty-eight discourses. Speaking of Reading congregation in the Presbytery of Cincinnati, he observes,

"This is a small but interesting congregation, and there appears reason to hope, that the Spirit of the Lord is about to commence a work among them.

"March 12. I visited from house to house, accompanied by the Elders, and had the pleasure to find many weeping on account of their sins, and anxiously inquiring the way to God. Preached in the evening to a large and very feeling congregation.

"13th. Preached at 1 o'clock, P. M. and again in the evening, to large and weeping assemblies. The Lord indeed appears to be at work with this people.

"14th. Spent the day, accompanied by the elders, in family visitation, and found many weeping on account of their sins, and inquiring what shall we do to be saved. Preached in the evening to a weeping assembly. Continued my visitation among the congregation.

"15th. Preached at night to a large and weeping audience, where the tears of conviction, and we hope of repentance, might be seen in every part of the congregation. The Lord is evidently with this people. This society has done and is doing considerable for the missionary cause."

Again, in another part of his journal he remarks, in relation to the same congregation:

"Spent part of the day (March 24th, 1827) in visitation. Attended a prayer meeting in the evening. The work of the Lord appears still to be going on among this people.

"25th. Sabbath, preached at 12 o'clock, and again in the evening, to very large, attentive and weeping assemblies.

"26th. Spent the day with one of the Elders, in visiting from house to house. This appears the most profitable way in which Missionary labour can be spent in vacant and feeble congregations in this Western country, and best calculated to build up the waste places of Zion.

"27th. Spent the day, accompanied by the Elders, in visiting the families of the congregation; found many weeping on account of their sins, and anxiously inquir ing what shall we do to be saved.

28th. Sick, unable to do but little. Spent the day in visiting from house to house.

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he will not take away his Holy Spirit from us, but continue his sacred influence and awaken sinners all around to come and fill the place of his sanctuary as inquirers after Zion, with their faces thitherward, weeping as they go.

"In closing this report I would mention that Bible and catechetical instruction is regularly administered to the youth. Meettings for prayer are held weekly in several parts of the congregation and its vicinity. The Bible and Tract associations are continued with increasing interest and usefulness. I bave fulfilled the appointment of three months' missionary service. Beside preaching in the church and village regularly, I have delivered sixty-seven discourses in the field, particularly known as missionary ground; and would be willing, should the Board think best, to have the appointment renewed for the same length of time."

Mr. Joseph M. Ogden spent five months in missionary labour alternately at Kingston and Conyngham town, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. In that time he preached 64 times, and paid particular attention to Sabbath schools and Bible classes and prayer meetings.

He represents religion in Westmore. land, a place which he visited three times, as being in a comparatively flourishing state. The almost universal cry," he says, "was, Why do not the Missionary Society send us a missionary? They surely must be unacquainted with our perish. ing state."

Of Conyngham town he says, "During the whole of my stay here, meetings have increased in numbers and in interest.

The way seems now to be opened for the formation of a Presbyterian church. A great anxiety is manifested to have preaching. Tell the society not to for get us, is the almost universal cry. In all my travels I have not found a more flourishing field of labour. Every thing is to be done. The first elements of Christianity are to be taught. The character and habits of the people are to be formed.

The Rev. Burr Baldwin has reported the fulfilment of his mission. He laboured chiefly in Towanda and Wysox in Sus. quehanna county. His audiences were generally attentive and solemn. In regard to Towanda, he states, that the remark was frequently made to him by different individuals that the moral aspect of things was considerably changed since the commencement of his mission. One person, he says, has in this place indulged a hope, and two or three others have been under deep conviction, and a more than usual seriousness has been apparent among numbers.

In Wysox the state of things in the

church has greatly changed for the bet ter. There has been four hopeful com versions, doubting Christians have been established, and numbers become the subjects of religious impressions: but what the result will be, time must determine. He preached sixty times and attended fourteen prayer meetings, and made many family visits.

The Rev. John Rhoads reports the fulfilment of his mission of two months in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. He preached twenty times.

The Rev. Moses Hunter laboured two months at the Painted Post and in the ad

jacent country. Besides preaching thirty. five times, he organized two Sabbath schools and two Bible classes, assisted at the organization of one church, and baptized four households.

The Painted Post is in the midst of a region of country containing a population sufficient to employ four ministers, and wealth enough to support them.

Mr. John Stockton in his mission of two months along the line in the western part of New York and Pennsylvania, organized one Sabbath school, held four conference meetings, distributed between one and two thousand pages of tracts, and preached forty-nine sermons. Speaking of a ser vice at Springfield, be says, "This wa the most interesting assembly I have met with upon my tour. The Lord, I trust, was in the midst of us, melting the hard hearts of some and constraining them to come to Christ, inflaming the hearts of his children with love, and giving us unusual freedom in his service."

The Rev. Alexander Campbell has reported the fulfilment of his mission of three months, at Dover, Smyrna and Milford, on the Peninsula. His prospects of success in attempting to resuscitate those ancient, but almost dilapidated churches, is cheering not only to his own heart, but to many who have mourned over the dess lations of Zion.

Mr. Samuel M'Farren, who was appointed to itinerate three months in Bedford and Somerset counties, Pennsylvania, laboured there but one month, and in that term he preached twenty-five times.

The Rev. Amos Chase performed his mission of two months in Warren county, Pennsylvania. He was instrumental in or ganizing a church of seventeen members on the field of his labours; and says that he was permitted to witness excitements of a serious and deep-felt character in dif ferent sections of the country in which he laboured. Mr. Chase was last year installed pastor of Oil Creek church, to serve half his time, and he has accepted a unanimous call from Centerville church, which he or

The Rev. Jonathan Leslie, has reported the fulfilment of his mission of two months, in Stark and Tuscarawas counties, Ohio. He preached forty-eight times.

The Rev. William Page, according to appointment laboured three months in Washington county, particularly at Ann Arbour, Michigan Territory. His mission has resulted in his settlement in that region for a year. A church has been redecently organized at Mount Arbour. The

population of that territory is rapidly increasing; and we learn from several sources that Mr. Page is generally acceptable to the inhabitants.

The Rev. Isaac A. Ogden, in the course of a mission of four months, in Union, Franklin, and Fayette counties, Indiana, preached seventy-three times, attended four meetings of church sessions, ordained three elders, administered the Lord's Supper four times in four different churches, received four persons into the communion of churches, and baptized two children.

Mr. James H. Stuart, performed a mission of five months, chiefly in Indiana. He preached one hundred and thirty-four times, and formed five Sabbath Schools, and visited families. He was entreated by the people in several places to remain among them. He has since been ordained by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, and gone with a view to settle in the west. He was particularly invited by the church at Urbana, Ohio.

Mr. Joseph C. Harrison, in his mission of three months, made Lexington, Kentucky, the centre of his labours, and visited neighbouring destitute places. The result of his mission is an invitation from one of the churches visited by him to labour among them, and his acceptance of the invitation. Speaking of a school, he remarks, "In particular, I cannot omit to mention, that an overwhelming effect attended upon one exhortation," (a ministerial brother was with him,) "at a little school near the cliffs of Kentucky river. We found the children at their sports at the hour of twelve; and they had the appearance of those who had never heard the sound of the gospel, nor did their remarks belie their looks: but when we told them of sin, of righteousness, of a judgment, and of a Saviour, they became attentive-grew more and more so-by and by were solemn and anon were convulsed, and bathed in tears."

The Rev. Deway Whitney performed a mission of two months, among a few vacancies of the Ebenezer Presbytery; and in that time preached forty-five sermons, administered the Lord's Supper four times, admitted six persons to the communion on a profession of their faith, baptized two adults, and one infant, and made many fa

mily visits. In one or two places he had flattering appearances of success in his Master's work.

Mr. Zebulon Butler, who was sent to Vicksburg, Mississippi, for six months, at the expense of the people, informs the Board that he was cordially received; and that the majority of the people are regular attendants on the worship of God; particularly the lawyers, physicians, and merchants. He preached in this town and in Warrenton, a town on the Mississippi, below Vicksburg, alternately, on the Sabbath, and in the latter place, on every Thursday evening. A most interesting Sabbath School, he says has been instituted, which has about thirty-five pupils, who regularly attend on its instructions. A pleasant prayer meeting, too, has been established. Mr. Butler has engaged to remain with the people one year; and they have subscribed for his support.

The Rev. John S. Ball, in performing his mission of three months on both sides of the Missouri river, from its junction with the Mississippi, confined his labours chiefly to four destitute churches. He preached fifty-six sermons, besides attending some other religious meetings, baptized four children, and assisted at three sacramental occasions.

"There is a great coldness and deadness," he observes, "in religion generally, south of the Missouri river, where I have been. The holy Sabbath is much profaned; and many professors of religion, in some of the churches, are scandalous in their lives, and truly enemies to the cross of Christ. Some neighbourhoods seem anxious to have better preaching than they have in general."

Mr. John Dorrance, who was appointed to labour as a missionary six months in Mississippi under the direction of the Mississippi Missionary Society, has reported the fulfilment of five months of his commission. At the expiration of that term he passed from under the authority of this Board, by accepting an invitation for one year from the people in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, to whom he was directed to preach by the Mississippi Missionary Society.

"At Baton Rouge I preached," says he, "on every alternate Sabbath, and instituted a weekly lecture on Thursday evening.

"At first but few attended; the number of hearers has, however, gradually increased, and now the greater part of the American population are pretty regularly found at publick worship. Some few appear affected by the truths of the gospel, and one or two have expressed a determination to be on the Lord's side. This has been, and still is, a place of great immorality. A great majority of the popu

"29th. Preached at night to a large, at tentive, and weeping assembly.

"30th. Travelled ten miles to Cincin nati. Preached in the evening to a large and attentive audience."

Mr. James R. Boyd, who was appointed to labour three months in the bounds of the Presbytery of Richland, and particular ly in Newman's Creek Society, has been spending his time on the Sabbath in three stated places of worship. As the Newman's Creek congregation will pay him for one-half of his services, he will spend six months in missionary labour; and consequently the time assigned by this Board will not expire till the termination of six months. When he sent his report he had laboured four months. In each of the places referred to "a respectable Bible class has been organized, consisting of from thirty to forty-five members. The text book used is the Scriptures themselves. This exercise follows the other services on Sabbath mornings. Its beneficial effects in awakening an interest in the sacred volume of divine truth, are very apparent. These classes embrace the old as well as the young. Besides these, I have formed in Newman's Creek Society, four catechetical classes of children and youth, who have been very highly blessed. It is usual for me in these, to explain the questions recited-to read some interesting tract, and make appropriate address es. One of these classes consists of about forty members; among whom for the last two months, there has been manifested an increasing seriousness. Many of them are now in an awakened state of mind, and at least half a dozen hopeful converts. Every meeting grows in interest. Last week I appointed a meeting for those who are in an anxious state of mind. It would be pleasing to enter into some detail, but I have not room. In each congregation there is a visible increase of attention to the means of grace, and many under serious impressions. The bounds within which most of my appointments are made, include a tract of about twenty-five miles in length and seven in breadth; so that much of my time is necessarily spent in riding. With regard to visiting from house to house,' I have visited a great number, and have made it a point to engage in practical conversation at the houses where I have made appointments to preach. With regard moreover to the Newman's Creek Society, nearly all the children and youth have assembled in the classes above referred to, and have been pointedly addressed in a manner suited to their capacity and circumstances. The extent of the field to be occupied has prevented me from attending further to this important object. With regard to

social meetings, three have been put in operation, one of which I have frequently attended. The others are conducted on the Sabbath, when I have been elsewhere engaged. It seems scarcely necessary to enter into detail, with regard to particular days on which I have preached, attended classes, visited, &c. I shall therefore merely give the amount, since the commencement of my labours here (December 1) to the present date (April 3). I have preached fifty times, attended to twelve Bible recitations, and twenty catechetical classes on week days. The audi ences to which I have preached vary in number, from 60 to 130-places of wor ship are, private log cabins, generally well filled, sometimes overflowing.

"With regard to the general, visible ef fects of my labours, they are of a flattering nature. The Spirit of God appears to be working on the hearts of many. Some remarkable cases of hopeful conversion have recently came to my knowledge. Numbers have conversed with me on the great question, and the prospect is now very promising of many being gathered into the church of such as shall be saved. The state of religion among God's profess ed people was at a low ebb three months since, but appears to be manifestly improv ing. A great anxiety is expressed by the societies in which I have been labouring, for a settlement among them. Whether I shall comply or not with their desire, it is to me at present a matter of great perplex. ity to determine."

Mr. Adrian Ater spent two months of his mission in the western vacancies of the Presbytery of Miami, and preached fiftyfour times.

The Rev. Stephen Frontis performed a mission of one month in preaching to the people of Queen Ann and Caroline counties, in Maryland.

The Rev. James M'Master fulfilled his mission of six months, to which he was appointed in 1825.

Rev. Samuel B. Lowry spent seventyone days of his mission in labouring in a line of appointments, in Delaware and Rush counties, Indiana. He preached sixty-one sermons. Several congrega tions he believes may be formed in the region visited by him. Eight different stations were selected by him, and among them were two regularly organized churches. He baptized four adults and nine infants, administered the Lord's Supper once, and received six persons into the communion of the church.

The Rev. Joseph Stevenson was instructed to preach regularly at different stations, in Shelby and Logan counties, Ohio: in the course of his mission he preached one hundred times.

The Rev. Jonathan Leslie, has reported ie fulfilment of his mission of two months, Stark and Tuscarawas counties, Ohio. le preached forty-eight times.

The Rev. William Page, according to ppointment laboured three months in Washington county, particularly at Ann Arbour, Michigan Territory. His mission as resulted in his settlement in that retion for a year. A church has been reently organized at Mount Arbour. The population of that territory is rapidly increasing; and we learn from several sources that Mr. Page is generally acceptable to the inhabitants.

The Rev. Isaac A. Ogden, in the course of a mission of four months, in Union, Franklin, and Fayette counties, Indiana, preached seventy-three times, attended four meetings of church sessions, ordained three elders, administered the Lord's Supper four times in four different churches, received four persons into the communion of churches, and baptized two children.

Mr. James H. Stuart, performed a mission of five months, chiefly in Indiana. He preached one hundred and thirty-four times, and formed five Sabbath Schools, and visited families. He was entreated by the people in several places to remain among them. He has since been ordained by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, and gone with a view to settle in the west. He was particularly invited by the church at Urbana, Ohio.

Mr. Joseph C. Harrison, in his mission of three months, made Lexington, Kentucky, the centre of his labours, and visited neighbouring destitute places. The result of his mission is an invitation from one of the churches visited by him to labour among them, and his acceptance of the invitation. Speaking of a school, he remarks, “In particular, I cannot omit to mention, that an overwhelming effect attended upon one exhortation," (a ministerial brother was with him,) "at a little school near the cliffs of Kentucky river. We found the children at their sports at the hour of twelve; and they had the appearance of those who had never heard the sound of the gospel, nor did their remarks belie their looks: but when we told them of sin, of righteousness, of a judgment, and of a Saviour, they became attentive-grew more and more so-by and by were solemn and anon were convulsed, and

bathed in tears."

The Rev. Deway Whitney performed a mission of two months, among a few va cancies of the Ebenezer Presbytery; and in that time preached forty-five sermons, administered the Lord's Supper four times, admitted six persons to the communion on a profession of their faith, baptized two adults, and one infant, and made many fa

mily visits. In one or two places he had flattering appearances of success in his Master's work.

Mr. Zebulon Butler, who was sent to Vicksburg, Mississippi, for six months, at the expense of the people, informs the Board that he was cordially received; and that the majority of the people are regular attendants on the worship of God; particularly the lawyers, physicians, and merchants. He preached in this town and in Warrenton, a town on the Mississippi, below Vicksburg, alternately, on the Sabbath, and in the latter place, on every Thursday evening. A most interesting Sabbath School, he says has been instituted, which has about thirty-five pupils, who regularly attend on its instructions. A pleasant prayer meeting, too, has been established. Mr. Butler has engaged to remain with the people one year; and they have subscribed for his support.

The Rev. John S. Ball, in performing his mission of three months on both sides of the Missouri river, from its junction with the Mississippi, confined his labours chiefly to four destitute churches. He preached fifty-six sermons, besides attending some other religious meetings, baptized four children, and assisted at three sacramental occasions.

"There is a great coldness and deadness," he observes, "in religion generally, south of the Missouri river, where I have been. The holy Sabbath is much profaned; and many professors of religion, in some of the churches, are scandalous in their lives, and truly enemies to the cross of Christ. Some neighbourhoods seem anxious to have better preaching than they have in general."

Mr. John Dorrance, who was appointed to labour as a missionary six months in Mississippi under the direction of the Mississippi Missionary Society, has reported the fulfilment of five months of bis commission. At the expiration of that term he passed from under the authority of this Board, by accepting an invitation for one year from the people in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, to whom he was directed to preach by the Mississippi Missionary Society.

"At Baton Rouge I preached," says he, "on every alternate Sabbath, and instituted a weekly lecture on Thursday evening.

"At first but few attended; the number of hearers has, however, gradually increased, and now the greater part of the American population are pretty regularly found at publick worship. Some few ap. pear affected by the truths of the gospel, and one or two have expressed a determination to be on the Lord's side. This has been, and still is, a place of great immorality. A great majority of the popu