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CORRESPONDING SECRETARY OF THE AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY S()CIETY,

VOL. V.

FOR THE YEAR ENDING APRIL, 1833.

Published by the Executive Committee, at the Society's Office,
150 Nassau-street, New-York.

New-York:

PRINTED BY CLAYTON & VAN NORDEN,

No. 49 William-street.

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1833.

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Military Post, application for a Missionary at, Missionaries, a hint to,

129

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Buffalo, N. Y., Application from German

and Swiss church at,

Butler, B. F., Esq., a letter from,

Camp Meeting, result of,

Canal made without alcohol,

Central Agency in N. Y., Receipts of,

Catechising, plan for,

Central Com. of Agency in the Western

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160

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States, Receipts of,

12, 164

Ceylon, condition of the people in,

Cherokees of Arkansas,

122

Chinese passing through the fire,

Commendable effort,

112

Connecticut Miss. Soc., Anniversary of,

Considerations for the churches,

95 143

Converted Indian,

Cor. Secretary, letters from, 124, 140, 171, 176, 194

Crawfordsville Presbytery, account of,

Cry of the Needy,

Discouragements,

Ditilery, Gospel preached in,

Eaton, Rev. S., letter from

Economy in expenditure,

Effects of a Revival,

England, a voice from,

Feeble congregations, a hint to,

Field for Labourers,

Fourth of July celebration,

German and Swiss church in Buffalo, N. Y.,

application from,

73

"Go, or send a hand,"

Gospel preached in a Distillery,

91

Graham, Rev. W., acknowledgment of Re

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ceipts,

Gratitude for aid,

148

Hervey, Rev W., Death of,

106

Hints to 200d men and women,

52

Home Missions, to the friends of,

Houses of worship,

Hosey, Mrs. B. F., death of,

83

Iilizoi, notice of, 176-Statistical view of

charches in,

177

Ulinois College, notice of,

India, difficulties of spreading the Gospel in,

174 137

Indiana, notice of, 142-encouraging facts in,

159

Infidelity,

57

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do. and Agents, reports of, Rev. D. O. Allen, 147-Kev. C.W. Babbitt, 86, 191-Rev. R. Barnes, 39, 68, 190-Rev. W. Beardsley, 162-Rev. X. Betts, 83-Rev. D. C. Blood, 163-Rev. F. Bradshaw, 109-Rev. J. F. Brooks, 38, 129, 189-Rev. T. Brown, 147— Rev. A. K. Buell, 73-Rev. A. Campbell, 8-Rev. J. A. Carnahan, 159-Rev. J. Chute, 57, 111, 160-Rev. C. G. Clarke, 113-Rev. N. Cooke, 6-Rev. C. Corey, 113-Rev. B. C. Cressy, 58--Rev. J. Davis, 163-Rev. R. Dunning, 116-Rev. O. Eastman, 10-Rev. W. Ely, 8-Rev. L. Farnam, 68-Rev. S. Farnsworth, 111-Rev. J. Forbush, 147-Rev. W. Gage, 71-Rev. W. Gaio, 58-Rev. J. H. Gass, 130, 192Rev. M. Gelston, 115-Rev. J. Gray, 90Rev. S. Haight, 114-Rev. A. Hale, 55, 129, 159-Rev. E. F. Hatfield, 188-Rev. I. Headley, 9-Rev. E O. Hovey, 41, 111-Rev. B. F. Hoxey, 83-Rev. N. Hurd, 89-Rev. S. Hutchings, 72-Rev. E. Jenney, 85-Rev. A. Jinks, 130Rev. D. Jones, 8-Rev. W. J. Keith, 109-Rev. A. Kingsbury, 162-Rev. J. Lane, 7-Rev. W. Lewis, 69-Rev. J. G. Likens, 110-Rev. T. Lippincott, 110 -Rev. J. M'Aboy, 146, 162-Rev. R. L. M'Afee, 158-Rev. A. G. M'Nutt, 130 -Rev. J. Marsh, 90, 116-Rov. J. H. Martyn, 115-Rev. E. Mason, 9-Rev. B. Y. Messenger, 39-Froutier Missionary, 85Missionary in Indiana, 112-in New-York, 183-Rev. A. Nash, 80-Rev. J. H. Noble, 7-Rev. G. Painter, 112-Rev. J. U. Par sous, 40, 86, 160-Rev. S. Peet, 6-Rev. F. Pope, 161-Rev. J. Porter, 3, 36, 127 -Rev. M. Post, 193-Rev. S. Pratt, 73

Rev. J. B. Preston, 116-Rev. S. W. Rose, 8, 143-Rev. J. M. Sadd, 5, 54, 84, 157-Rev. E. S. Scott, 161-Rev. S. Scolt, 10-Rev. H. Shedd, 88-Rev. B. B. Smith, 182-Rev. T. A. Spilman, 67, 110-Rev. R. S. Storrs, 75-Rev. W. K. Talbot, 10-Rev. S. Toplitf, 8Rev. R. Torrey, 8-Rev. D. Van Valken

New-Hampshire General Association, meeting of,

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Reflections of a Missionary,

Rhode Island, State,

Rice, Rev. B. H., appointment of,
Salary of a Missionary,

burgh, 10-Rev. P. W. Warriner, 70, 148 -Rev. J. Waters, 149-Rev. I. M. Wead, 70-Rev. I. S. Winter, 7-Rev. G. C. Wood, 25, 66-Rev. A. Wright, 83. Missionary appointments, 11, 26, 43, 60, 76, 100, 119, St. Louis, Mo., 2d church, notice of, 131, 151, 164, 183 Salem Presbytery, Plan of Missions, 191, 199Schoolmaster wanted,

Missionary experience,

Missouri, notice of, 176-Voice from, 129-
Statistical view of churches in,

Monthly Concert, article for, 1, 33, 66, 82, 105, 121,
137, 153, 169, 185

New-England, Remarks on the aid to be ex

pected from,

Scripture, new interpretation of,
Seeking in earnest,

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Shaw, Mr., letter from,

108

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South Africa, letter from,

Soldiers of the U. S. Army, Mission
among,

127

108

State of the world,

153

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New-Orleans, notice of,

Ohio, appeal from,

146

Patriotism,

155

Pledge of aid,

43

Poor woman, example of,

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"Preaching the Gospel by proxy,"

Presbyterianism, progress of, in the west,

Protracted Bible Class,

Read, Rev. H., letter from,

Report of the A. H. M. S., Abstract of,
Results of a year,,

Revival, effects of,

In Adams co., O., 147-Ashtabula, O., 161 -Athens, Tenn., 161-Bethel, Ill., 39, 55Carrollton, Ill., 110-Collinsville, Ill., 189 -East Richfield, N. Y., 10--Eastport, Mo, 58-Farmington, Mo., 54-Greenville, Ill., 67-Jennings co., Ind., 86-Kingston, Tenn., 147-Lebanon, N. Y., 10-Lo Roy, N. Y., 9-Logan, O., 146-Monroe, Ct., 8-Newark, N. Y., 9-New-Lisbon, N. Y., 9-New-Market, Tenn., 192-St. Charles, Mo, 25.

Van Rensselaer, Hon. S., Address of,
Vermont Dom. Miss. Soc. Anniversary of,

Voice from England,

Wabash Country, account of,

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Thomas, Rev. Mr., letter from,

195 Table, comparing the last, with preceding

years,

Temperance has done all this for me,"
Temperance Measures,

The wrath of man shall praise thee,"

Thompson, Rev. James, letter from,

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144

Todd, Rev. Mr., Address of,

117

Treasurer's account of Receipts, 11, 26, 44, 60, 76,

100, 120, 132, 151, 164, 183, 200

Treasury, state of,

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..PREACH the GOSPEL........

Mark xvi. 15.

Go,.....
How shall they PREACH except they be SENT?....Rom. x. 15.

VOL. V.

MAY 1, 1832.

NO. 1.

MONTHLY CONCERT.

SELECTION OF INTELLIGENCE ADAPTED TO THE MONTHLY CONCERT OF PRAYER.

PRESENT MORAL CONDITION OF THE WORLD.

In the commission given by our Lord to his disciples, what an immense field did he open for the exercise of Christian philanthropy and heroic enterprise! "Go ye into all the world; and preach the gospel to every creature."

But what is now the spiritual condition of our race?-Five hundred millions, it is notorious, remain to this hour pagan idolaters, and one hundred millions more are the followers of the impostor Mohammed. Two hundred millions only are left wearing the Christian name, i. e. living in Christian countries; and in order to make the calculation respecting the real state of this remnant as favourable as possible, we will suppose the place of your residence to be a fair epitome of the whole Christian world. Is there one person in four there who appears to be brought decidedly under the influence of Christian principles? I fear not. We have then less than 50,000,000 of real Christians on earth at any given time, and all the rest (750,000,000) are living and dying without God in the world! And this is not the picture of the worst, but of the best period of time, next to the days of the apostles. Perhaps there never existed more good men on earth at one time than there are at present; and yet this leaves more than fifteen out of sixteen of the human race unacquainted with the salvation which is in Christ Jesus;-and this havoc made by sin and death has continued without interruption, day by day, and hour by hour, through all the ages since

the fall.

If in this fearful condition the world is not to remain-if a brighter destiny, a most glorious transformation awaits it-and if the command "to teach all nations," has never been repealed nor suspended, then there must have been a most shocking neglect of duty somewhere.

Seeing so many prophets had painted this brighter period in the most glowing colours, and had raised their loftiest, their sweetest strains to usher in the reign and universal conquests of the Messiah; and seeing our Lord himself repeatedly referred to these halcyon days, and directed his disciples to a universal dissemination of his gospel, and to the work of universal teaching,-how shall we account for Christians having left, for seventeen hundred years, in a state of perfect brutality and crime, seven hundred and fifty millions of deathless minds, committed to their especial care by the Great Head of the church?

What makes this neglect the more strar e and unaccountable is, that the command comes from the highest possible authority-that this command is most express, and its meaning most palpable-that the Being who issued it said, at the very time it proceeded from his lips," Mark! I am with you, even unto the end of the world."-hat this Being has "all power in heaven and upon earth," that this command is closely connected with the eternal condition of all these successive swarms of men, eight hundred millions composing each generation-and that every one of those to whom the execution of this commission is confided, is supposed to possess the mind that was in Christ Jesus, who came "to seek and to save that which was lost," and to have, as the distinguishing feature of his character, an overwhelming sense of the value of the human soul. How, with a provision perfectly commensurate with the extent of the comVOL. V.

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