ALABAMA. From a very acceptable letter of the Rev. W. H. Williams, of Tuscaloosa, Ala. we copy the following: From the Rev. Fielding Pope, Athens, [Mr. P. has lately been called to the professorship in the Maryville Theological Probably we shall be constrained to so- Seminary. At the close of his year's lalicit your aid in obtaining and supportingbours at Athens, Columbiana, and Calan efficient minister for several destitute houn, M Minn Co., he thus writes:] settlements in Pickens, Fayette, and Ma- I am happy to state that, to these three rion counties, where a Presbyterian preach-Churches, during the year, there have er is seldom or never heard. Many of the been added by letter 15, by profession 33, scattered population of these counties are while 57, including the above named, have desirous of Presbyterian preaching, but been hopefully converted. they are people in moderate circum- I may add, as encouraging to the friends stances, cultivating poor and broken land, of Home Missions, that the tokens of the and unable to maintain stated preaching. Divine presence are striking, indicating, as I am pained with their condition, and hard-I hope, an abundant harvest. The quesly know what can be done for their relief."tion presents itself, who will come to reap [Let Ministers and the friends of Home it? The present labourer will not be adMissions remember, there are hundreds of mitted, being shortly to remove to another such counties in Alabama and other South- and different field. May God send these ern States.] people a pastor after his own heart; and may he smile upon your Society, and abundantly bless all of its benevolent ef KENTUCKY. From the Rev. Thomas Brown, Mount From the Rev. Thomas Cole, Newport, Ky. Zion Ch., Kingston, Ten. This day the term of my commission. as a missionary under the direction of the A. H. M. Society, expires. I believe that my efforts and your benevolence, during the past year, to build up this part of Zi on, have not been entirely in vain, although comparatively little has been done in this wide field. Forty-five souls have been brought, by the means of grace, as we hope, from darkness into the light of the Gospel, thirty-three of whom have been received into the communion of our church, and some have joined other churches. We have lately organized a Temperance Society; and although there has, heretofore, been very great opposition to the cause of temperance here, I now believe this society will do much good, although it has yet to contend with strong opposition. There is one denomination of Christians, quite numerous in this country, who make war with this cause on every hand; and not only their laity, but many of their clergy, make and sell large quantities of spirits. In Kingston, where I preach a part of my time, we have in the past year built up a comfortable brick church, in which to worship God. But in Mount Zion Church. there is, as yet, no house of worship that is near sufficient to hold the congregation; and it appears impracticable to raise money for that object, at the present time. BRIGHTENING PROSPECTS. But the [Mr. C. has laboured in Newport, a considerable village in Kentucky, about one year, with little visible success. precious seed shall not be lost. His prayers begin to be answered, and his faithful labours rewarded. The following is from his last report, received a few days since.] At our last communion, two weeks ago, two persons were received to our little Church, on examination. And since that time seven others have been received, one of whom was on letter. A considerable number are still inquiring, and many seem attentive. So far, this work has been among the young men; and of those who are inquiring five or six are teachers or scholars in our Sabbath School. This addition has been indeed like cool water to the thirsty soul, to me. I "thank God and take courage," while Christians begin to feel that, even in Newport, the Holy Spirit can make the word effectual. COMMENDABLE LIBERALITY, A few days since I met with a few friends for the purpose of taking into consideration the expediency of commencing the erection of a place of worship immediately in Newport. A subscription paper was drawn up, when our friend, Mr. M'C., formally gave the lot of ground which he purchased for the use of the Church some|| derable actor. The great revival in this time ago, valued at $600; and a suthicient sum to erect and furnish a basement story for school rooms, which he estimates at $1200 or $1500. He also subscribed $2000 for the upper part of the building, and engaged to endow a common school of $1000 dollars per year for children under fourteen years of age, free to all, without distinction of sect, the whole to be placed under the control of the Presbyterian Church of this village. city would probably not have taken place, FIFTY DOLLARS NEEDED FOR A SPECIFIC I feel very anxious for the state of this little handful of God's dear children, left now without a shepherd in the wilderness, and involved in an undertaking of great importance to their future welfare, but difficult of accomplishment in their money. From the Rev. L. D. Howell, Maysville, Ky. less state-the erection of a Church. I FIELDS OF LABOUR OPEN. administered the sacrament to them last Sabbath week, and found them greatly I regret that I had not the opportunity disappointed with the contents of your of conferring with you personally on your letter, relative to the fifty dollar donation, way eastward, especially in reference to for the erection of a Church. They have one subject, i. c., sending or employing found it difficult to obtain funds, and had missionaries in this section of Kentucky calculated with much certainty upon the Whole counties are destitute of Presby donation. They seemed discouraged. I terian ministers, and others have but one told the elders I would represent their case or two, while the advocates of the grossest to you, and endeavour to enlist your errors are many and bold. Here and there are to be found a few Presbyterians; but sympathies in their behalf. Their design so scattered that the number of organized is to erect a substantial building, of stone or brick, 50 feet by 25 or 30, which will be Churches is small, and things are not yet sufficient for the settlement for many years in a state suitable for the permanent locato come, and without which I fear they cantion of ministers. It appears to me, and many other friends of Zion, that the best not even exist long. They have no place for method, and, indeed, the only method of worship that will hold half the congregation at present. The church asking this operating efficiently upon this mass of population, is, to employ active and labo-aid, is strictly a TEMPERANCE CHURCH. The county of St. Louis is a field of rious men to ride through them, preaching much importance, and ought to be occudaily the Gospel. The county of Mason, in which this pied immediately. It contains a popula. place is situated, contains a population of tion of more than 10,000 souls, indepenmore than 20,000, yet I am the only Pres-dent of the city, and is now without a byterian minister whose whole time is de- single Presbyterian minister. Do try and voted to the work of the ministry within furnish us with some men as speedily as possible. its bounds. The county is full of school-houses, and other buildings, convenient for preaching From the Rev. E. F. Hatfield, St. Louis, which can be had for that purpose. The people also are induced to give their attention to new and acceptable preachers. MISSOURI. Missouri. Churches of this city united in holding a At the close of February, the two protracted meeting in the First Church, which continued 5 days. Br. Beecher, of Illinois College, was our only ministerial From the Rev. William S. Polls, St. Louis, helper from abroad. The meeting re Missouri. AN APPEAL FOR LABOURERS. [Our missionary, the Rev. John Ingraham, having closed his labours in Des Pores Church, Mo., on account of ill health, to return to the state of New-York, Mr. Potts writes concerning him, and the field thus deprived of his useful labours.] He leaves traces of extensive good in this region, in which he has been a consi sulted in the hopeful conversion of about thirty persons, some of them remarkable for their former neglect of religion, and even opposition to the truth. As was to be expected, the greater part have joined or will join the First Church. Those who have joined the Second Church, were members of the Second Congregation, and received their first impressions, for the most part, among us. You will be pleased to learn, that Mr. W, the man with ||tions. The interest on this sum, which she has gowhom you conversed at the close of a nerously relinquished, amounts to more than 860, meeting in the house of Br. G., is now a which the Executive Committee gratefully acknow warm hearted, devoted, and praying mem-ledge as a donation to the Society from Mrs. Robinber of my Church. We are talking very son. The following is from her letter, dated St. seriously of building a house of worship Charles, April 5, 1833. during the coming season. A member of the Church has generously offered a very eligible lot of ground on a credit of ten years, and other arrangements are in progress. The draft from your Society of 210 dollars, bearing date August 28th, 1828, was received with emotions of unfeigned gratitude. After the death of my dear husband, I came to reside with my brother [Mr. H. also gives a very interesting ac-in-law. I disposed of books and various count of a protracted meeting at St. Charles, which apparently resulted in much good; but as we hope soon to hear more from it, we delay the publication of this account.] other articles, and my expenses not being great, I have not been under the absolute necessity of calling upon you for it. I could have increased its value if I had had it, but I felt desirous that it might remain in the Lord's treasury as long as I could do without it, and that you would make use of it in sending the glad tidings of sal vation through a crucified Redeemer to some benighted wanderers, some immortal beings, who would never have heard the glad sound of the Gospel, had it not been for your Society. May the Lord bless your labours of love. Be faithful, dear brethren, and he will give you a crown of life. Rev. G. C. Wood laboured a part of the year in St. Charles, and was succeeded by the Rev. W. W. Hall. The results of their successive labours were 64 hopeful converts within the year, 58 of whom became members of the Presbyterian Church. Under the ministry of the I sincerely thank you for your kindness Rev. Benjamin F. Hoxey, in the Aux in sending me the Home Missionary. May Vausse Church and vicinity, Calloway you be abundantly rewarded for all acts county, there were 70 hopeful conversions of benevolence; and when you have ceasand 85 added to that Church on profes-ed to act, may you be admitted to that sion of their faith. The Rev. Hiram house not made with hands, eternal in the Chamberlin, Boonville and vicinity, heavens, and there hear the plaudit from Cooper county, reports 23 hopeful conver- your glorious Master, "Well done, good sions and twenty added to the Church and faithful servants, enter ye into the within the year. Each of these missiona- joys of your Lord." ries has been greatly blessed in occasional labours in the vicinity of the Churches where they statedly minister, while they have sustained efficient Sabbath Schools From the Rev. John F. Brooks, Belleville, and Bible Classes, and exerted other influences whose importance to the souls of thousands cannot be estimated. Who, then, that has aided Home Missions in Missouri, will feel that he has bestowed his contribution in vain? And what disciple of Christ will turn a deaf ear to the appeals which still reach us from many fields, white unto the harvest, in that interesting state? A GRATEFUL RETURN. At the time of the lamented death of our former beloved missionary at St. Charles, Mo., the Rov. Chs. S. Robinson, in 182, there was due to him for Missionary labours the sum of $210. A draft for this amount was forwarded to his afflicted widow, Mrs. Jane N. Robinson, which she delayed to collect, and has supported herself and children by her own exer ILLINOIS. Ill. The Lord has been much better to us the last quarter than our fondest hopes. When our little Church was organized about three months since, our prospect of any addi tion, at present, especially from the village, increase of religious attention among the was very dark; but there was a gradual people during nearly the whole winter. The other denominations held several protracted meetings of two or three days each, and at each of these meetings had more or less addition to their churches. The Baptist brethren held a protracted meeting about the middle of February, which seemed to leave the public mind more deeply impressed than any thing which had preceded it; and it seemed to me greatly desirable that these impressions should be followed up by vigorous efforts. PROTRACTED BIBLE CLASS. 1 accordingly appointed a protracted meet- || the open windows of heaven has not been ing, to commence on the 7th of March. so abundant and glorious as that twelve The meeting was conducted much in the months since. ordinary way of conducting such meet. ings in this country and elsewhere. A number of the Brethren from Collinsville came over to sing and pray with us; and the meeting from the commencement was solemn, and the audience very attentive. It was held in the Court House, which, on the Sabbath, was very crowded. On Sabbath night, about twenty requested prayers, and probably about that number of others during the meeting, and at dif ferent times. I think the Spirit of the Lord directed me, in March, to commence a protracted Bible Class; some had been inquiring the way of life, and some were hoping previously, and there was a spirit of prayer; an impulse only, the grace of God assisting, seemed necessary to cause many to come over to the Lord's side. The Bible Class continued through a week, on Such interest was awakened, that we each evening. I felt it would give this deemed it necessary to appoint preaching impulse, sacred truth being made to blaze on Monday night, and again on Tuesday daily before the mind. Christian friends night. On Tuesday night, five or six in-approved, and brother Bingham united in fluential men, belonging to the village, the effort, all praying with the feeling that came forward to the anxious seat, three or the Lord would bless us. We closed the four of whom have formerly professed in-series of meetings on the ninth evening, fidelity. We reckon about seventeen hopeful conversions as the fruits of this meeting. Six have already joined our Church, and some others I have no doubt will. These six are are all heads of families except one; and one of them was an important member of Owen's establishment at New-Harmony until it broke up. I feel that a great responsibility devolves upon me to guide these new disciples of the Lord in the paths of holiness. I hope the prayers of those, by whose munificence I am sustained, will prevail with God in my behalf, and in behalf of this little flock. [Mr. B. reports forty-two hopeful conversions under his ministry at Collinsville and Belleville, within the year ending April 1, 1833, twenty-eight of whom were added to the Presbyterian Churches in those places during the year.] MORE LABOURERS NEEDED. with the monthly concert of prayer. The season was refreshing and delightful. The post-school-house was filled each evening with eager listeners; but, two thirds of them being, at first, professing Christians, the number of conversions was comparatively few. Eighteen hope they have found the Saviour during the past season. Twelve of these will probably look to the protracted class, as the blessed means, under Providence, of bringing them to the marvellous light of the Gospel. The Spirit's converting operations have been confined almost wholly to those who were not here to sear their hearts last winter twelve months. Company A, when it reached this post last autumn, was called the worst for intemperance and profligacy in the regiment. It consists of about thirty men. Of these, twenty-one are now members of the Temperance Society. Ten are professing Christians. Several others are inquiring the way of life. The change in the com. We learn from our Agent, the Rev. The-pany seems almost like that of magic. The ron Baldwin, that he is pursuing his work with energy in different parts of the State; but the most touching of the topics upon which he speaks, is the need of more la. bourers to occupy the fields of usefulness opening to receive the missionaries of the A. H. M. S. Who will go for us? MICHIGAN TERRITORY. From the Rev. Jeremiah Porter, Sault Ste. Marie, M. T., May 4, 1833. It is again my blessed privilege to com. municate that the Lord has been with us indeed, though the shower of grace from flesh of the drunkard has come again upon him, like the flesh of a little child, and he is clean. Five of the non-commissioned officers of Company A, being now Christians, as we trust, they have evening pray. ers in their company quarters. [See Pastor's Journal.] REMOVAL TO CHICAGO. May 14th.-This letter commenced at my late delightful residence: I terminate it under very different circumstances. An order arrived a few days before the first date of this, for the removal of the troops of Fort Brady to garrison Fort Dearborn at this place; Mr. Schoolcraft, || for a minister, and feeling that this is now my beloved patron, was soon, with his fa- the most needy point in any of this westmily, to remove to Mackinac; 55 from 75 ern region, until I can hear from yourself, professing Christians, lately associated in whether you can send a man to Winne. that community, were to leave, probably || bago,* which should be done by all means, never to return; and, as the Episcopal if possible, or whether you have listened and Baptist Church has each its Mission- to Mr. Wright and Mr. Carpenter, to send ary there, and as the Methodist is to send one here. If you have a man engaged one ordained preacher, Peter Jones, whose for either of the posts, and not for both, reputation you know, this summer, in if you please to send me a commission for addition to the successful native teachers the one not designated, I shall receive it already there, I felt that the way was with pleasure. We have between 25 and opened by Providence for me to leave the 30 professing Christians in this Fort; and field in which I had laboured with so much eight or ten will be found out of it probapleasure, to go and look up the more des- bly. I hope we have brought in our colotitute. I thought I should be most efficiently ny Military Church the leaven of the forwarding the plans of your Society and Gospel. the cause of our common Master, by mak ing a tour, suggested by yourself to me, before I left N. Y., to visit the settle. A Papal priest reached this from St. ments on the west of Lake Michigan. I Louis a fortnight since; and I hope Protherefore proposed to the Church to leave vidence has sent a counteracting influ. them and visit the posts here, at Winne-ence here just in season. bago, and Green Bay, and urge each to its Winnebago is about 150 miles north. duty with regard to supporting the Gos-west of this, no settlement between the pel. Mr. S. felt that the path of duty two, and no post route. That must be seemed plain; the Society therefore voted reached from this by an Indian trail to release me from my further engage-with much difficulty. It is accessible ment with them. from Green Bay by water more easily. We had a delightful communion season on the last Sabbath in April, when eight were admitted, by profession of faith, to the blessed ordinances of the Gospel: two of these were educated in the Romish Church. We felt that it was the last time we should thus meet as one on earth. I have had the pleasure of distribut. ing the sacred elements to about 50 at that outpost, and about 70 have expressed hope in Christ since I first reached there. On May the 5th I preached in that favoured spot for the last time. Major Fowle offered me a free passage to this place. I embarked with his troops on May the 6th. A majority of my Church were on board. Of the 100 individuals in the vessel, about 30 were professing Christians. We had some delightful seasons of worship on deck, and reached this on the seventh day. The universal voice here is, that I ought to remain. Soon, I trust, this place will be able to build a Church and support their minister. There will probably be a great tide of emigration here this season, and I suppose there is not a Presbyterian preacher within 150 miles of us. OHIO. From the Rev. Hervey O. Higley, Hartford, Licking Co., Ohio. [The following is a specimen of the gradual influence of the stated administration of the Gospel, in many places, where our hearts are not cheered with accounts of the more signal triumphs of grace.] In this last report of my second year's ministry in this place, I may cast a glance back over two years, and see that during this time the Church has increased in number from 26 to 41. The congregation which assembles with us has increased in Having learned that at Fort Winneba- the same, or nearly the same proportion, go they have already subscribed 400 dol-being not far from three times the numlars for the support of a minister, and writ-ber in the Church: the Sabbath School ten to your Society for one, and they at has almost doubled in number, and gainGreen Bay having written to another ed some in interest, and other Sabbath board, I think best so far to modify my Schools have been conducted in the original plan, as to remain, at the earnest township, and an impression made decidsolicitation of my Church, and some of this people, who have been long sighingther, who, we hope, will go to Winnebago. VOL. VI. 7 *We are in correspondence with a young bro |