who are not indulging hope of pardoning || well, and it is hoped that the Wabash camercy, through the blood of Christ. Our Sabbath school has also shared largely in the divine blessing. Whole classes, in which, before the meeting, not an individual was of the "household of faith," are now rejoicing in hope of the glory of God. Christians, too, have shared largely in the blessing of God in their own souls. An elevated state of religious feeling now brightens up every countenance, and swells every bosom. Our sorrows seem, for a time, at least, to have ended, and the song ef redeeming love is heard from all around. Truly the Lord hath done great things for us, and to His name be all the praise! The work of the Lord seems to be extending to other neighbourhoods. I have visited and preached at several places around, and Christians seem to be waking from their sleep, and sinners are beginning to inquire the way to Zion. We cannot give up the pleasing hope, that what we have seen in Bethel is only the beginning of glorious things throughout our county. The Lord hasten it in his time! I know you will pray for us. INDIANA. some From Rev. James Chute, Fort Wayne, In. The field in which I labour has not as yet been a very fruitful one, but among many discouragements there are things indicative of good. Our Sabbath School has become more interesting than formerly. We have just raised sixteen dollars towards increasing its library. We have had some addition to the number of our teachers, and such as promise to be a great benefit to the school. Our Bible Class has also been increased, and, I think, is becoming more popular. The monthly distribution of tracts has been continued. Cause of Temperance. The cause of temperance is gaining ground. We have monthly meetings, and usually we have some new members. Though we have more groceries now than there were a few months ago, it is doubtless owing to the expectation of custom from the canal. It is however worthy of remark, that a few days ago twelve or fourteen miles of canal, in the vicinity of this place, was let, and all the contractors have entered into obligations with the canal commissioners, not to give any of their men whiskey, under the penalty of forfeiting their contracts. This, indeed, looks VOL. V. nal will be made without ardent spirit. At the last session of the legislature, a law was passed prohibiting any person from giving or selling any whiskey to the Indians, under a heavy penalty. This law is in force, and some in this place who have been most notorious in this respect have given up the practice. Our communion was held on the first Sabbath in this month. The day was pleasant, and the house much crowded, and the assembly very attentive, and I hope the Lord was with us. Five were added to our little flock, three on certificate and two on examination. To pious Laymen. There are two places in this county where Sabbath Schools might be established, if there were any person to superintend and instruct; but I cannot find a solitary individual qualified and willing to undertake it. We greatly need the influence of a few active and pious laymen. A few men of this description would greatly change the moral aspect of things. And surely there is no part of the west, which affords more flattering prospects to the enterprising than this region. Every kind of produce can be raised in great abundance, and a demand for nearly double the amount at present raised. Moral and religious influence is greatly needed, and is no wise proportioned to the physical capaci ties of the county. Ministers wanted. North and north-west of this, in St. Jo seph, Elkhart, and La Grange counties there is no Presbyterian minister. In Elkhart county they need a minister very much, and from information received from a mem ber of the Presbyterian church there, it is probable a minister might receive the great. er part of his support from the people, and in many respects it would be an agreeable location for a minister. The country is settling with unparalleled rapidity. Goshen, the county seat, is about fifty miles north of this. Head of the Church. Those who have here been the recipients of your bounty, are by no means insensible to their obligations to God and the A. H. M. S., for the timely aid they have received. MAINE. From the Rev. W. Gale, Eastport, Me. REVIVAL. those who were disposed to be led away by these blasphemous theories. Accordingly I commenced in March last, delivering a course of lectures on the authenticity of the Bible. I have delivered twelve lectures on this subject, each at least an hour in length. These meetings have been thronged with solemn and attentive hearers; and, so far as we can judge, the effect of this effort has equalled our most sanguine expectations. It has apparently induced a goodly number, especially of young men, and those who were halting between two opinions, to attend public worship, who During the past year, we have witnessed were scarcely ever before seen at the house with pleasure a growing interest in the use of God. I am now confident that I had of the means of salvation; and the Holy neglected this important subject too long. Spirit has descended to render these means Had I performed this duty two years ago, to some extent savingly beneficial. At I think my labours would have proved times, in the spring and summer, we thought much more successful. I do think, Sir, we could discover some tokens of an apthat if the missionaries in our new states proaching revival. But it was not till the would make a special effort to establish the first week in November, that the desires of authenticity of the Bible, it would be atour hearts were granted. All the circum. tended with incalculable benefit. Infidel stances of a protracted meeting were highly writings abound in the West, and the pub-favourable; and we had not been long tolic mind has already become poisoned together before the impression became genean alarming extent. Those who are natural, that the time to favour Zion, yea, the rally of a skeptical turn of mind, and have set time had come. Compared with what had the reading of Paine, or some similar God has done and is now doing in many work, it is almost impossible to benefit with other places, the work of his Spirit here the Gospel, until, by fair argument, you has been small. But when viewed in conhave shown them the absurdity of the rea-nexion with the state of morals and relisonings which they use to disprove the Bi-gion in this town and vicinity, and with Notwithstanding all the infidelity the happy results which will probably flow which prevails in the west, I believe (so from it both in time and eternity, the work far as my information extends) there are appears great, and demands of us everlastbut few sermons preached to establish the ing gratitude and praise. We think as inspiration of the Scriptures. Thus, there many as forty persons have found the past are thousands who attend meeting more or few months a harvest season to their souls, less, who have never heard the authenti-aud have gathered fruit unto eternal life. city of the Bible fairly discussed. ble. From the Rev. B. C. Cressy, Salem, Ind. It is now three years since I commenced labouring in this county as your missionary. During this time, I have preached about five hundred sermons,-organized in the county one church-a Temperance Society has been formed, consisting at present of about 500 members. The county has been supplied with Bibles, and 98 members have been received, all, with very few exceptions, upon examination. Thus we ourselves, as well as our patrons, have cause of gratitude that the efforts which have been made to build up the cause of Christ in this vicinity, have not been utterly in vain. Though we have had our share of discouragements and trials, yet these deserve not to be menbioned in view of the smiles of the great Five Some of these belong to the Baptist soci- MISCELLANEOUS. APPOINTMENT OF REV. B. H. RICE, ASSOCIATE SECRETARY. The extended operations of the A. H. M. Society have so far increased and multiplied the duties of the Corresponding Secretary and General Agent, that the Executive Committee have for some time been convinced that the labours of another officer were needed in these departments. They have accordingly appointed the Rev. Benjamin H. Rice to the office of Associate Secretary of the Society, and we are now happy to announce his acceptance of this appointment, and that he is expected soon to enter upon its duties. The object of this increase of the officers of the Committee is, that they may have it in their power to visit more extensively the wide and increasing field of the Society's operations, become more intimately acquainted with its comparative wants, and, at the same time, conduct more promptly and efficiently its correspondence, and its agencies for raising funds. It is expected that the Secreta. ries will alternate in the performance of these duties, and thus render to the whole field, and to the several departments of their work, that amount of attention which the enlarged demands of the cause require. MASSACHUSETTS MISSIONARY SOCIETY, AUXILIARY TO THE A. H. M. S. This Society held its thirty-third anniversary in the city of Boston, May 29,1832, and the meeting appears to have been attended with unusual interest. Among the resolutions adopted, we notice with plea sure the following, viz. "The Executive Committee recommended that the Society become auxiliary to the American Home Missionary Society, agreeably to the 8th article of their constitution, instead of the 7th, as at present, which recommendation, after discussion, was unanimously adopted." By this arrangement the receipts of the Mass. M. S. will hereafter be paid or reported to the treasury of the parent Society, and its missionaries will be appointed with commissions furnished by the lat. ter, in the same manner that the missiona. aries of the other state societies have been appointed, and will be embraced in the annual reports of the A. H. M. S. From our experience of the effect of this plan in all other cases where it has been adopted, we doubt not it will be happy in its influence on the efficiency of this important auxiliary, while it will contribute to the unity as well as usefulness of the operations of the parent Society. ANNUAL REPORT. The Annual Report of the above Society, which has recently come to hand, is from the pen of the Corresponding Secretary and General Agent of the Society, Rev. R. S. Storrs. It is rich in its materials of information, able in its discussion of principles, and warm and moving in its appeals. We have seen no document on the subject of Home Missions more worthy the attention of the friends of the cause generally, and especially of the conductors of the operations of auxiliary societies and agencies. In the next No. of the "Missionary," we propose to insert several extracts from this report, on the "Field of the Mass. Miss. Society," its "relation to the A. H. M. S.,” &c. At present we have only room for the following PARTICULAR RESULTS OF THE YEAR. Receipts into the Treasury $8,697 83; payments in the state $6,310 74. The whole number of churches directly aided during the year is sixty, exclusive of the Gayhead Indians, among whom there is no Congregational church. Some others have drawn strength from your treasury, through the medium of the National Society. In 44 of these churches, the number of members reported, is 2,489. Of this number, 752-or nearly one third of the whole -have been added the past year. Special revivals are reported in 30, or one half the churches; and more than usual attention in some others. In 36 congregations, the average number of worshippers is stated to be 5,710. The others not reported. In 36 congregations, are 2,630 persons under Sabbath School instruction. The Bible Classes in 22 congregations, have 707 members. In 20 congregations, are 1,830 subscribers to the principle of entire abstinence from the use of ardent spirits. In four. congregations, no temperance society ex. ists-though we are assured this will not long be the fact. In the remaining 36 congregations, such societies exist, but their numbers are not reported. In 27 congregations, the contributions to objects of benevolence are stated to be $1,321. The amount appropriated from LABOURS AND RESULTS OF FOURTEEN YEARS. Since the formation of the "Domestic Missionary Society of Massachusetts," in MasJune, 1818-incorporated with the " sachusetts Missionary Society," in 1827one hundred and four feeble churches and waste places in the state, have been as. sisted by its funds. Of these, thirty are now sustaining divine ordinances without assistance, and most of them are in a state of equal prosperity with our best parishes. of the whole number, sixty-eight were either the original churches of the Commonwealth, found in a state of rapid decline, or waste places where no church had previously existed; and thirty-five have originated from the predominating influence of fatal errors, in the several places of their location. Appointments by the Executive Committee of the American Home Missionary Society, from June 15th to July 15th, 1832. Missionaries not in Commission last year. Rev. Mann, Niagara Falls, N. Y. Re-appointments. Rev. Henry T. Kelley, Kingsville, O. Rev. Abel Caldwell, Hunt's Hollow, Alleghany Co. N. Y. Rev. J. Waters, Deerfield and Russia, Oneida Co. N. Y. Rev. N. Gillet, Nelson, N. Y. Rev. Joseph Butler, Brazier, N. Y. Rev. D. B. Butts, West Brunswick, N. Y. Rev. E. C. Beach, Lysander, N. Y. Rev. S. Sweezy, Florence and Williamstown, N.Y. The Treasurer of the American Home Missionary Society acknowledges the receipt of the following sums, from June 15th to July 15th, 1832. Albany, N. Y., Benjamin F. Butler, Esq. (which constitutes him a director for life,) 100 00 Connecticut Missionary Society, viz. from the Aux. Soc. in New Canaan, per Rev. Theophilus Smith, 28 82 Conway, Mass., Elijah Nash, per Dr. Cros by, 10 00 Newark, N. J., A. Dodd, per Rev. Mr. Hay, Oxford, Mass., per Rev. Ebenezer Newhall, Pompton plains, N. J., James Ryerson, Ridgebury, N. Y. Fem. M. S., per Marian Kerr, Sec., 3. 00 11 00 10.00 20 50 Durham, N. Y., Abijah Pratt, L. M. in full, 20; Abijah Pratt, jun., L. M. in part, 15; per Dr. Porter, 35.00 Granville, Mass., Charles Robinson, 5.00 Greenville, N. Y., Rev. Jonathan Hovey, Joanna Furnace, Pa., A friend to Missions, Long Meadow, Mass., Ladies of 1st Parish, to const. Rev. J. B. Condit L. M., Massachusetts Missionary Society, per jamin Perkins, Treas. Ben 10 00 20 00 30 00 1000 00 $2113 33 K. TAYLOR, Treasurer. AMERICAN PASTOR'S JOURNAL, OR, ORIGINAL SKETCHES OF REAL CHARACTERS, CONVERSATIONS, AND STRIKING FACTS, FURNISHED CHIEFLY BY CLERGYMEN. THE FRIDAY MEETING, OR THE GIFT OF PRAYER, THE SPIRIT OF [Furnished by a Clergyman.] almost ceased to weep over other delinquencies, they mourned the neglect of this ancient observance, so tenderly associated with the earlier days of their espousals. the earliest settlers of the place, in the toils and privations of planting the standard of the Gospel in a new country. Every Friday evening they were accustomed to meet for the purposes above Thirteen years ago the present Au- named; and even now, though other gust, I was called to preach the gospel religious observances were totally nein B-n. I was a stranger in the glected or carelessly attended by most of place, and being young, and without the church, a few remaining mothers experience in the ministry, I entered in Israel, and the "chief of the fathers, upon the work with much fear and trem- who were ancient men," with an attachbling. It was one of the old parishes ment which still retained much of the of New-England, embracing a large and ardor of their first love, adhered to the somewhat wealthy population, and in" Friday meeting." Though they had its earlier history it had been distinguished for the ability and faithfulness of its ministers, and the tone of piety which pervaded the church. But, for a number of years, it had been negligently cultivated, and, as a spiritual vineyard, The Friday meeting," then, though it exhibited a melancholy resemblance thinly attended, was still in existence, to the field of the sluggard. "Nettles and it soon became apparent that this had covered the face thereof," and ma- was second only to the services of the ny of the plants of righteousness seemed Sabbath, as a channel of access to the stinted and ready to die. There was sympathies of the church. In some nominally a church of some hundred respects it seemed to promise even and thirty members; but they were greater facilities for exerting an influscattered and dissociated. As a body ence to turn again their captivity. I they held but little Christian intercourse accordingly urged the members of the with each other, and social and even church, both publicly and privately, to family prayer were grievously neglect-attend the "Friday meeting," and not ed. But there was one good old New-without success. The fathers and moEngland custom which had not quite thers were always there, and the youngceased to be observed. It was the "Fri-er members began to attend in increasday meeting." The reader may need to be told that in many of the ancient churches in the land of the Pilgrims, it was customary for all the members to meet with their minister, about once in a week or two, to transact church business, and to unite in prayer and conference for Christian improvement. This practice was established in the church of B-n, under the ministry of its first pastor, who, some seventy years before, shared with ing numbers. Regularly, at the appointed hour, I was with them, and with a freedom encouraged by the character and usages of the meeting, and an earnestness inspired by the conviction that something must be done to break the slumbers of the church, I endeavoured to press upon the conscience of each individual the guilt of their spiritual condition, and its utter hopelessness, unless they could be aroused to the performance of duty. A revival of |