I was installed over these two churches on the 13th of June. Rev. Mr. Eastman preached the sermon. Rev. Wm. Dickey gave the charge. Brother Beaman addressed the people. Rev. Mr. Crothers Since my last report, we have had an the introductory prayer. Brother Fuller. accession to our church of six by certificate, ton the installing prayer. The exercises making an addition of 58 since the comwere listened to with manifest interest,mencement of my labours with this people, and it is believed a good impression was made.

Though we see no special attention to roligion, no manifest and direct holy results from the exhibition of the truth, and from the ordinances of the Gospel; yet|| we do see an interest taken in the worship of God on the Sabbath ; a decided conviction, among the most prominent and influential persons of the place, that the principle of total abstinence from ardent spirits, is the only correct one; the gradual success of truth over infidelity, and an evident improvement in the morals of the people. Christians are encouraged, and when they compare the present state of the church and place with what it was formerly, they say with gratitude, "what hath God wrought!"

UPPER CANADA.

From Rev. A. K. Buell, St. Catherines,
U. C.

Our Bible Class and Sabbath School||
efforts are prosperous beyond all our ex-
pectation. We have now a school in this
village, distinct from the Methodists; and
in this alone, we have between sixty and
seventy scholars, with a library of more
than two hundred volumes.

I cannot say that we enjoy what is commonly called a revival; yet for nearly a year, and particularly since our protracted meeting, last November, we have had the pleasure to witness, all the time, more or less of the special operations of the Holy Spirit, in the salvation of sin

ners.

Since my last, eleven have been added to the church: a number more are candidates. All our benevolent institutions are most evidently under the holy patronage of the great Head of the church.

STATE OF NEW-YORK.

From Rev. S. Pratt, Parma Centre,

Monroe Co., N. Y.

ble accessions of strength and picty have been made to the congregation. There is now fully in their view the great importance of having a minister of the Gospel continually with them. After one year, they will, I expect, be able to support the Gospel independently of foreign aid, and begin to remunerate your Society for its favours to them in necessity. So that you may go on, stronger and stronger, to build up all the waste places in Zion. And will you not pray for all of your missionaries in the field?

Since my last communication there have been conversions every week. Preaching, prayer meetings and family visitings are the means which have been used, and much blessed. In family visiting, God has blessed my labours beyond all account. Christ has gone before me, and prepared the way. The persons converted are of all ages, from seventy-five down to twelve; but those who have joined the church, are principally heads of families.

GERMAN AND SWISS CHURCH IN BUFFALO.

[The following application has been forwarded to us, with an accompanying letter from the Rev. S. Eaton, of Buffalo; and the Executive Committeo have inade a small appropriation in aid of the church named. We publish the letter of the Elders entire, and without alteration, that our readers may feel the same interest in the spiritual prosperity of that little church, which has been excited in our own minds by the unsophisticated manner in which they have made their request.]

Buffalo, July 18, 1832.

The underwritten, elders of the german Evangilical church in this place, take the liberty to give notice that our church was organised under the 15th of Aprill last, for the purpose to walk close to the ad. vice of the holly scripture, Thess. v. 19, 20, 21. and Phil. iii. 14. Thank be to God and our Lord Jesus Christ, that he has taken us under his care so far. We have now the church organised after the holly Bibel, and are under the care of the Pressbytery of Buffalo: farther, we have, after the Proposal of our present minister, Rev. Mr. Joseph Merton Gumbell, the church regulation like the Pressbyterian church, under the care of Reverend Mr. Sylvester Eaton, and we feel alltogether thankful to the great Jehova, who has favoured us so much. But we are now

Since April 15, I have continued in the same field, and God has been with me, though all unworthy of his presence. My people are thankful to Him for his continued goodness. They appear, at present, to be humbled in view of it. More than their most sanguine expectations have been realized. On every sacramental occasion, more or less have been added to the church; and since our protract-in want of a standing minister, who leads ed meeting, in March last, we have been favoured with a continued revival. The Consequence of which is, that considera. VOL. V.

us further, and this we are not able to get without assistance from your side. We pray you, therefor, to assist us in mal

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up a salary for to support our minister,|| Rev. Mr. J. M. G. We have done as much as our strenght ables us to do, but we are poor, and can do but very little; may it pleas you to help this little church forward, and we will always remain, Gentlemen,

Your most obedient

Homb. Servts.

GEORG FLEYDER.
ANDREW SNYDER.

GEORG BOLLACHEN.

[The following is from the letter of Mr. Eaton, enclosing the above.]

The enclosed application is from a little church, lately formed in this place, among the Swiss and German emigrants, who have been residing here for four or five years past. Many of them have fixed rcsidences here-have purchased small lots, and feel this to be their home. They have very little knowledge of our language, as you will perceive by their communication, which you have in their own words.

When I first came here, we could devise no means by which this population could be reached. They were very poor, and could not speak a word of English. Their children were growing up in our streets, without education; and the adults had no means of religious instruction, excepting what they derived from a Lu. theran, or a worse than formal Catholic priest. But, in the good providence of God, Mr. J. M. Gumbell was sent here last fall, to instruct their children, and to exert a Christian influence over the adults. He was for several years an instructer in the school of De Fellenburgh, in Germany. Some time ago, he fell in with a company of evangelical Christians, in Switzerland, and became converted from the errors of popery, and is now a zealous, devoted and consistent Christian. immediately resigned his place in the school, and left what little property he had there, and came to this country.

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religious meetings among the adults. A little revival accompanied his labours, and he has succeeded in forming an evangelical church of between thirty and forty members. Our Presbytery have been so much interested in the man, and in the object he has in view, that we have li censed and ordained him to preach to this poor people. There are in this region as many as two thousand of these people. Mr. G. is the only man who can or will preach the true Gospel to them. But they are poor, and Mr. G. cannot be maintained without aid from some Missionary Society. Every member of his congregation has engaged to pay from one to two dollars a year for his support, but all they can raise falls rather short of $100 a year. He thinks he could live well on $250. Is there a greater object of Christian benevolence in all our country than this? And will not your board make a grant of $150 or $100 for the first year, to sustain this little church?

My congregation have hitherto supported him altogether-boarded and clothed him-and this is all he has asked. But he is now in great want of a little money; he has a wife, and wishes to keep house in a small way. I have never seen a man

so contented with a little as he is. He has written home to have his little property sold, and the money forwarded to him, which he is willing to invest in procuring a house and lot for the accommo. dation of his congregation.

THE STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND,

AND

THE CONNECTICUT MISSIONARY SOCIETY, The General Association of Connecti cut, at their meeting, in June last, resolved to request the Directors of the Connec ticut Missionary Society to render such aid to the feeble churches in Rhode-Island, through the A. H. M. S., as may be deemed expedient. We are happy to learn, by a letter from the Rev. H. Hooker, CorresI became acquainted with him soon af ter his arrival here, and introduced him ponding Secretary of that Society, that to my people, and to the ministers in this the Directors have voted to comply with This will enable the region. All were very much interested the above request. in his history, and delighted with the parent Society to direct to other and humble Christian spirit which he exhibit- more distant fields the aid which they a few ed. We first encouraged him in teaching have hitherto bestowed upon churches in Rhode-Island, while we trust a school among the Swiss children. Last winter his school numbered about eighty, those churches, and others that may be all attentive and anxious to learn. He taught needy in that state, will be more ef them in English, and they made interest-fectually sustained by the arrangement ing improvement. At the same time he held now adopted, which will bring them

more directly within the sympathies of they not accomplish as much as you can the benevolent in an adjoining state.

HIGHLY INTERESTING FROM MAINE.

reasonably ask of them? And when they shall have done this, they will be prepared to do more; every succeeding year will increase their strength, will inflame their zeal, and call up the efforts of other evangelical denominations, now languishing;

and open the door for no small amount of contribution from the farthest East to the

From Rev. R. S. Storrs, Secretary of the Massachusetts' Missionary Society, and Associate Secretary and General Agent of the A. H. M. S. for the New-England States; dated Braintree, Mass., Aug.sent, they have enough to do at home, 10, 1832.

You have learned already that God is turning back the captivity of Maine.

aid of the remotest West. Just at pre

but they will not long be content to la. bour in one solitary field. Even now they pant earnestly for a share in the glory of establishing churches in Indiana and Illi

moment that their character is forming-
and the moment should not be lost.

REMARKS ON THE AID TO BE EXPECTED
FROM NEW-ENGLAND.

The moral strength of New-England is by no means inconsiderable; but the surplus amount, that can be devoted to other states, I apprehend is often and greatly overrated. What though we have a larger

The last six or seven weeks have been devoted to that state. The pledges ob-nois, and it is not impossible this very tained there, from twenty-six churches, year, you will be requested to designate amount to $2,820, in addition to the two missionaries in one of those states to amount subscribed or paid at the general be sustained by two churches in Maine. meeting in Wiscasset, amounting to $900, But I could not encourage a spirit that I believe. During the forty-two days should overlook for a moment the claims spent in the state, I preached forty-seven of home. The truth is, that Maine can, sermons; not all of them directly on mis- and will, at no distant day, sustain a sions-but all of them seeming to be de-population of 4,000,000; and it is at this manded by circumstances, and contributing, I trust, indirectly to the furtherance of the great object. Were time and strength expended as they might be in Maine, there would be no difficulty in raising the $6,000 voted, or even $8,000, the present year. The prevailing spirit of the churches is good; ministers are generally awake, active and energetic. The cause is popular-none more so. Nothing is so much wanted as informa.proportion of organized churches and contion, followed up by a vigorous pressure gregations than are found on an equal exof all-commanding motive on the public tent of territory, and amid an equal mind. I have seen nowhere more sus- amount of population in other states-it ceptibility of impression, nor more prompt-should be remembered that a very large ness in resolve, nor more energy in ac. tion. And it will be much to be regretted, if, by negligence any where, the present opportunity of bringing up the whole state to action, should pass away unim. proved. I trust that it will not be so, but that the "Select Committee" will be on the alert, and go forward with the same energy, to prosecute this great enterprise of benevolence, that they carry into the labours of their respective parishes.

It has not been proposed to the churches in Maine to aid the operations of the A. H. M. S. directly, the present year; but simply to relieve your treasury of all charge for the missions sustained east of NewHampshire. If they do this, and enlarge the sphere of their operations; extend a helping hand to forty churches, that have asked in vain for aid heretofore, and are ready to die; and then place new churches also on their northern and eastern frontiers, as they are resolved to do; will

proportion of these are in a state of "liv. ing death,"-that they relied so long on the civil arm to sustain them, as to forget where their great strength lay; and be. camo enervated, paralyzed even, to the heart, before they were aware of danger. Five hundred missionaries are needed at this very hour in New-England; and all of them could be most usefully employed, if they could be obtained, and the means of sustaining them secured. Indeed, without a large proportion of the five hundred, the downward tendencies of our Zion cannot be arrested-much less can churches be brought up to that state of enlightened and vigorous action, which alone will make their influence felt over the whole length and breadth of the land.

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I will not, I cannot, plead for the comparative inaction of the New-England churches. It is a fact-and it shall be stated with tenderness-it must be stated with firmness too; that they are not do

powerful a bearing on the spiritual in terests of the West, as what they are do ing directly to plant the Gospel beyond the Alleghanies. Every church that we plant, or save and build up, east of the Hudson, forms a new fountain, whence

ing so much in the cause of Home Missions as they are able to do; and bound to do, by every consideration of philanthropy, patriotism, and Christian love. Thero is less thought, and said, and felt, and done-I will not say, than Heaven requires but less than reason and self-in-will issue streams to make glad the westterest demand; there is a holding back of sacrifice, and a cold questioning, of duty, and a reluctance to effort, on this subject, that is more easily mourned over than accounted for. But after all, something has been done, more is doing, and still more will be done, before they will have any rest. I wish it may be distinctly understood, and deeply felt, that what Massa. chusetts, and her sister states in NewEngland, are doing for themselves, has as NOTICE. We are obliged to omit the extracts from the last Report of the Mass. Miss. Soc., which we promised in the last number of the "Missionary." Shall notice that Report in our next; also the Report of the Conn., Miss. Soc., which we have just received.

ern valleys, so long as the sun and moon shall endure. We need to be quickened, and stimulated to greater efforts; and we hope in God, that two years will not pass away, before New-England will double the contributions of any former year, to the general cause of Home Missions. But let the moral strength of New-England be fairly estimated first-and then let her be put up to the full point of her duty.

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

Missionaries not in' Commission last year.
Rev. Edwin F. Hatfield, to go to Missouri.
Rev. J. M. Gumbell, German Evangelical congrega-
tion, Buffalo, N. Y.

Rev. J. A. Woodruff, Spencer, N. Y.

Rev. Abel C. Ward, Collins, Erie Co., N. Y.
Rev. Jeremiah Pomeroy, Woodhu!! and Jasper,
Steuben Co., N. Y.

Rev. Robert H. Conklin, Pike, Allegany Co, N. Y.
Rev.
Snyder, Columbia, Herkimer Co., N.Y.
Rev. Jesse Stratton, Greenville, Butler Co., Al.
Rev. L. G. Bell, Frankfort, Clinton Co., Ind.
Rev. Solomon Hardy, Quincy, Ill.

Re-appointments.

Rev. Lucien Farnam, Lewiston, Ill.
Rev. J. J. Buck, Cairo, N. Y.

Rev. Seth Williston, Greene Co., N. Y.

Rev. Luther Shaw, Romeo and Rochester, Mich.
Rev. William Todd, West Dresden, N. Y.
Rev. T. S. Harris, West Lodi, N. Y.
Rev. E. Ingalls, China and Freedom, N. Y.
Rev. L. Robbins, West Sparta and Ossian, N. Y.
Rev. Richard Dunning, North Penfield, N. Y.

The Treasurer of the American Home Missionary Society acknowledges the receipt of the following sums, from July 15th to August 15th, 1832.