of God, and others yet remain out of the visible church. Since my last report, nearly fifty have been added to the Congregational Church in Medina-about thirty by letter, and the remainder by confession of their faith. Great'things hath God wrought for this people;-all their efforts have been abundantly blessed.

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forget. Through the activity and fidelity of a few in the church, the Sabbath Schools among us have the past spring and summer been much extended. We have eight in town, containing nearly four hundred scholars. The most of them have libraries. Our Bible Classes, two in number, contain fifty. The desire for biblical

mises much good. The spirit of benevolence is increasing. I presume three times the amount has this year been paid to benevolent societies than in any year before.

The Lord has sent us many faithful lay-instruction is much increased, and promen, whose hearts and hands are devoted to the cause of Zion. Our Sabbath Schools are all flourishing and doing a amount of good; but the want of suitable libraries for all the schools very much diminishes the interest which would otherFrom Rev. R. Dunning, North Penfield. wise be taken in them. I have been recently making considerable efforts to Nothing very interesting occurred in the arouse my people to a sense of their obliga- religious prospects of the church till the tions to do more for the extension of the protracted meeting held the last of June, Redeemer's kingdom by way of contribu-notice of which you have probably seen in tions to the treasury of the Lord. I spent the public prints. This meeting was callseveral days in visiting my church and soed by our Baptist brethren, with whom ciety, for the purpose of correcting their our church united by express invitation. views and awakening their feelings to a Our church generally united with much sense of their duty in reference to the cordiality, in all the exercises, and the great objects of benevolence. As the result Lord poured out his Spirit. Nearly one of my efforts, I have obtained and trans-hundred souls are supposed to have been mitted to the Agent of the American Ed. converted during the meeting which was Society twenty-five dollars, and have ob-held fourteen days. tained subscriptions to be paid in December, for the A. H. M. S. to the amount of nearly forty dollars. Twenty-five dollars, the sum specified by the terms of my commission, to be raised for your Society. But we shall not feel that we exhibit the gratitude we feel to God for his unspeakable blessings, or that we owe to your Society, unless we raise at least forty dollars.

Unless some unforeseen event should

prevent us, we shall, I hope, be able to support the Gospel another year without your assistance; but we shall ever hold in grate. ful remembrance what we have received, and hope to have hearts ever to do all in our power to advance the cause of the A.

H. M. S.

From Rev. J. B. Preston, Ripley, NY.

From the Rev. Justin Marsh, West Au

rora, N. Y.

We are now in a very different state from what we have been when I made my former reports. We have held a protracted meeting, which has been greatly blessed to the conversion of sinners. Twenty-four are examined for the church, and to be admitted the next Sabbath. This I think

is far from being the greatest portion of the converts. The meeting continued eleven days. The operations of the Holy Spirit were very powerful. The young men of influence and talents in the society, and our excellent choir of singers, almost without exception, give evidence that they are called out of darkness into God's mar. vellous light. Our Sabbath School has been greatly blessed, and many of the My last report contained an account of children belonging to it, from 8 to 12 years a protracted meeting held in this place the old, give very promising evidence of con1st of January. As fruits of that meeting, version. In almost every neighbourhood about twenty have made a public profes- within the limits of my labours, seasons of sion of religion; others are indulging hope mirth, and levity and amusement among who have united with no church. The the youth and children have given way to feeling in the church since that meeting to the prayer meeting, and the conversation the present time has not become so lan-is on Jesus Christ, and the things of his guid as before. Wo have had among us kingdom. If the greater part of these converts should unite with this church, as they since, impenitent sinners who were solemn, and inquiring, "what shall I do to be probably will, it may perhaps bring a ma. saved?" Some have indulged hope. "Wejority of the church to be under 21 years have as a people received too many spirit- of age. I believe that about one third are ual blessings at the hand of God ever to now under 24.

I returned yesterday from Colden. The little church there, containing 33 members, is destitute of any preaching. A protracted meeting was appointed. I was the most of the time the only minister on the ground. As a result of the meeting. about 20 Sabbath School scholars and

several youth, and one or two adult persons, give evidence of being converted to God. So that you may see, that the money appropriated to your unworthy missionary here is not wholly lost. I hope, if God continues my labours, I shall be more faithful in future.

MISCELLANEOUS.

EXTRACTS FROM THE ADDRESS OF REV. MR. TODD,

At the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Missionary Society.

It seems to me that the time is come for the church of God to be awakened to her vows, her trust, and her destiny-that the time has come when the people of God ought to make sacrifices, practise self-denial, and give freely and liberally for the advancement of the Redeemer's kingdom. Look first at our country.

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may see us living unto him and for him, there is safety. Here is the first spot on which I would take my stand in urging our churches to a higher and holier standard of Christian action. The Pope may send his missionaries, the press may groan under its labour in pouring out its infidelity and blasphemy, the teachers of error For the last two or three years we have may encompass and walk through the been looking out from our homes of peace, land, the roaring lion may go abroad in all and gazing at that heaving and shaking shapes, from that of an angel of light to which has been going on among the na- that of the dark spirit of persecution, seektions of the earth. Every ship that comes ing whom he may devour,-the whole across the ocean is expected to bear tidings mass of our population may be agitated great in their consequences. Thrones and ready for convulsions,-but if the which have been purchased and sustained church of God will do her duty, we need by many a field of blood through many ge- not fear. The wings of everlasting mercy nerations, are crumbling-it may be, fall and salvation shall be spread over us. ing. There is an uneasiness among man- silver, is gold of any worth to the Christkind much like the presages of the volcano.ian, in comparison with this great, overAdd to this, the plague, which seems to come directly from the cup of the angel of wo, and is dreaded every where. The destroyer rides on the wings of the wind, and it seems as if a third part of the earth was literally to be swept away by him. It is a time when the arm of patriotism hangs The past year has been, I had almost drooping, and his heart is faint. I believe said, a year of revelations. We have had it is a general conviction that some-authentic accounts of nations, who for unthing besides patriotism is needed in a land whose air is tainted by the breath of more than two million of slaves-whose unmeasured forests are filled with the groans of the sons of oppression-and whose moral desolations are such, that the heart of a Nehemiah might ache a thousand times during one journey over the land.

whelming consideration, that our country must stand or fall, rise or sink, in the very proportion with which the churches meto out their charities and their exertions!

Look at the light under which we are acting.

told periods have been given up to all that is low, cruel, abominable and demon-like, in Gentile idolatry,-cannibals-and yet, who have been raised, purified and made to sit in heavenly places, with the song of salvation upon their tongue. Never since the days of Paul has there been any thing seen like what has taken place among But there is one place of hope. If the those isles which are waiting for his law. Sabbath can be rescued and sanctified,- No Christian can now hoard his property, if the Bible can be put into every family, without feeling that he is robbing the souls if the Sabbath School may flourish in every of men. He cannot waste it without guilt, parish, if every church may have a godly great and awful. He cannot be idle, withpastor, if our feeble churches may be sus-out drawing down the frown of his God. tained and built up,-if the God of heaven

Facilities for action.

was not

count.

Look at the revivals of the last year.

safe ground. If she cries forbear, you are on dangerous ground. There is a luxury You may send your gifts to any spot, and in idolizing our money, and the heart to any object on earth. It was not so once. clings to it as to an idol. But there is a The pathway over the ocean known. The press was not discovered. far higher luxury. It is to lay this idol The poor man had then to labour thir-at the feet of Christ, and lay down weary teen years for the cheapest copy of the at night with the sweet recollection that Scriptures. But now-the Life-boat is this day you have done something you will going out on the stormy billows to gather not be ashamed of in the great day of acin the poor wretches who have been wrecked and who are sinking in deep waters: and we hear the shouts of joy as one and another company are rescued and brought to the everlasting rest. And all may aid in manning and sending out the boat, and shout with the shout of redeemed souls. The gift of tongues, the power to work miracles, and power over scorpions, was nothing to the facilities of this day. The way-side of Christian benevolence is thronged with those who are crying after the son of David. The business of living, feeling, acting for Christ, is thrown into strong light, and we cannot but feel our responsibilities.

Look at our ability to be active and liberal.

I will say nothing of our prosperityand our saving in consequence of the Temperance Reformation. Others will doubtless do justice to this point.

But the very constitution of the church makes her economical, and able. While her members belonged to the world, they must conform to the plans of the world. You must have fashionable parties-you must graduate all your expenses on this scale. But when you become a Christian, this is all saved-and therefore you can afford to be liberal. The more of the spirit of Christ you have, the more you can give. A Christian is said, very justly, never to be any poorer for what he does for Christ. There is no mystery in this. He saves enough to make all up.

And here is a point at which I fear we fail. We are scrupulous as to how we obtain property. We would not pass counterfeited money-we would not break the Sabbath for hire-we would not oppress the widow and the fatherless-we would not be dishonest in any way. But are wel as scrupulous as to how we spend our property? The real necessaries of life are few-the comforts, many-the luxu ries, legions. If the Christian, as he is about to spend his money, would pause, and ask one plain, easy, simple question, he would have wherewith to meet the calls of Christ. It is this: if Christ were here, and in my circumstances, would he buy this? If conscience says yes, you are on

Go through the length and the breadth of the land, and see what God hath wrought. Here are families. Those parents can now afford to be liberal,-for their children have been converted, and the sources of extravagance and folly are dried up. They do not want money to squander at the horse-race, the gaming-table or the bar-room. They have become hopeful heirs of salvation, and ought not these parents now to have something more for Christ? Thousands of such in this land have had a load of anxiety removed, which they would have esteemed cheap at the price of half their estate. Do such parents feel as they ought? Do they treat Christ with gratitude, to receive their children from his hand, created anew, with a hope full of immortality, and yet feel just as unwilling to put forth their hand to aid his cause, as if these children were still sleeping in their sins? Where is the Christian father or mother who would not offer a great sum, if their sons and daughters might be converted during the coming year? But, if they should be, would they not forget even to bring God a thank of. fering Perhaps thousands have wept over friends born into the kingdom of God, who yet never felt bound to do any thing more for Christ, than if those friends had never been made to sing the new song! What mean they?

But where are the 200,000 souls who have hopefully been converted during the past year? They have vowed to give thermselves to Christ,-and a cold, dry offering it is,-if, when the case comes to hand, it be found that they have no idea of laying any part of their possessions at the feet of Jesus. Oh! Sir, what offering is that-when we present Him the body, the cold body, while the spirit, the warm, living spirit, must still be devoted to the

world!

Suppose all the rest to be at once called to their home in the heavens, save those who hope they have been converted the past year. If their names have indeed been written in the book of life, there has been many a wave of joy in heaven, and they are able to carry forward every plan which the

church has commenced. What, then,,, ought we to expect from the whole, united, accumulated, awakened, enlightened, sanctified strength of our churches! Why, that we pour all this into the channel of Christian action.

We have lately heard the voice from the death-bed of some of the most devoted, faithful servants of Christ, whose breath is What was their testimony? That they were too devoted, faithful, zealous? No-their only regret was that Jesus Christ had received no more from them. Their voice comes from the dying bed-almost from the altar near the throne of God-beseeching us to be up and doing, to carry forward those glorious plans which are the forerunners of millennial hopes and millennial glory.

even now warm upon us.

more particularly, when the tidings greeted me of many souls through their instrumentality born to glory.

How great and how glorious, thought I, is this work-the salvation of souls!And dear Brother, as the importance of this cause came up more and more before my imperfect vision, the question forced itself upon my mind-Have I done what I can, to aid in this labour of love? Have I put a helping hand to this work as I should? On reviewing for one moment my past life, I found that, as regards prayer, I had not; and so, also, as regards returning God's substance which he had committed to my care. Being a clerk, and receiving but a small salary, and that but a little more than sufficient to pay my necessary expenses, (as I before thought,) I resolved to try the retrenching principle still more than I had done before. The result of which is, to secure to you the enclosed, and something The enclosed I send you for the support above for other purposes of benevolence of the gospel ministry in the Valley of the elsewhere. A rule of conduct which one Mississippi, it being part of the avails of Christian may think both duty and priviRETRENCHMENT IN DRESS, which I had pur-lege, to others may not appear applicable chased and proposed to purchase for the unnecessary adorning my body this winter. On reading the "Home Missionary" for this month, my mind was awakened to the extent and importance of your Society, (and here permit me to say, forever after this, God willing,) and " my Society too." My heart could not but "leap for joy," as I perused the reports of the labours of our Society in the thinly settled and benighted wilderness of the west. And

From "A Clerk," enclosing a donation.

to their situation in life. But O, sir, if some of the safety chains, &c., and other superfluous articles of dress, were dispensed with, which we see on many a professing Christian, as the same things were by the children of Israel in the building of the tabernacle, (Exodus xxxv. 22.,) what glorious results might reasonably be expected to follow! How soon might we see the valley of the west, that is now comparatively barren, blossom as the rose.

Appointments by the Executive Committee of the American Home Missionary Society, from September 15th, to October 15th, 1832.

APPOINTMENT TO THE WESTERN AGENCY

OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK.

It is known to many of the friends of Home Missions in the western part of New-York, that our agent, Rev. Miles P. Squier, has been obliged, through ill health, to suspend his labours, which have been so useful in building up the waste places, and strengthening the feeble churches in that section of the country. The great importance of the station, and the difficul. ty of properly filling it, has rendered the selection of a successor, a matter of no small solicitude to the Executive Committee. We are now happy to announce the appointment of Rev. GEORGE A. CALHOUN, of Connecticut, and confidently hope that the public spirit and discretion he is known to possess in labours of this kind, will soon be employed in the ample sphere to which the society has invited himn.

Re-appointments.

Rev. D. D. Gregory, Fredonia, N. Y.
Rev. Stephen Porter, Castleton, N. Y.
Rev. Horace Galpin, Centreville, N. Y.
Rev. Eli Adams, Port Bay, N. Y.
Rev. Warren Smith, Central part of Ohio.
Rev. G. C. Beaman, Piketon, Ohio.
Rev. M. Butolph, La Grange, N. Y.
Rev. Fielding Pope, Athers, Ten.

Rev. Jeremiah Porter, Sault Ste. Marie, foot of Lake
Superior.

Rev Solomon Williams, Jr., Lewis, Essex Co., N.Y.
Missionaries not in Commission last year.

Rev. Abijah Crane, Agent in Connecticut.
Rev. Amos Savage, to go to Tallahasse, Florida. }
Rev. Jesso Townsend, Chapinville, N. Y.
Rev. Richard De Forest, Cohocton, N. Y.
Rev. E. Brainerd, Portsmouth, Sciota Co., O.
Rev. A. S. Wells, to go to Michigan.
Rev. Joseph J. Gray, to go to Indiana.

Rev. Thomas Cratty, Marion and Pleasant-town-
ship, O.

Rev. Roswell Brooks, to go to Missouri or Illinois.
Rev. Alfred Worthington, to go to Michigan.
Rev. Joel Parker, of New York, to the city of New-
Orleans.