from the privileges of the East. This has||continuing a partial aid after they shall been done; and I can say, "it is more have become permanently located. blessed to give than to receive." But the blessing of God has been beyond all this: He has been so gracious as to draw nigh to us. During one week we held prayer meetings every evening but one. On the Sabbath the meetings were solemn and melting-they are so now. Two young men have hopefully come out on the side of the Lord; and a number, who had been reluctant, have united themselves with the church. The people have been so prompt, that I shall call for not half of my allow. ance from you this quarter. I have many things to write, which I must defer to a future time. Recommend the interests of churches in this region, and of perishing man, and the destiny of our country, and of a world that lies in wickedness, as wrapt up in that of this mighty West, to the prayers and the liberality of that land of gospel privilege where you are. CANADA. SOMETHING DONE FOR CANADA The following communication is from the Rev. G. W. Perkins, of Montreal, dated Feb. 12, 1834-We are happy to stato that the individuals recommended to the patronage of the A. H. M. S. have been appointed, as suggested by Mr. Perkins, and it is hoped they will soon be on the field. After the first three months we trust the Canada Home Mission Society will be able to sustain these labourers, and that others will be found to join them. May the Lord speed and prosper their work and labour of love. Since I saw you in New-York last spring, and since the welcome visit of Mr. Storrs, we have been earnestly desirous of obtaining missionaries. At length, we commissioned the Rev. A. J. Parker, of Shipton, L. C, who is well acquainted in the townships, and in New England, to spend a few weeks in ascertaining the practicability of procuring them. As the result he has found four, whom, from his own personal acquaintance, and from accurate investigation, he esteems well qualified to become missionaries in this country, and who are willing to enter this field of labour. As the stations into which they must be introduced are new, the people without organization or churches, the expense of introducing them, and of sustaining them for a period, till the people can become acquainted with them, and willing to sub. scribe something for their support, will be considerable. We hardly feel able to defray all that expense with the prospect of VOL. VI To one of these gentlemen, Rev. Mr. Kellogg, of Albany, Vt., we shall forward a commission immediately, and all his expenses we shall defray. There are three others whom we wish to introduce. Rev. Joseph Curtiss of Windsor, Vt., to go to Lenoxville and the adjacent towns. Rev. Orlando G. Thatcher, Bradford South, NewHampshire, to go to Stukely and vicinity. Rev. Jubilee Wellman, of Warner, N. H., to go to Milbourne and vicinity. If they were already on the ground, and with people able to do something, we should not hesitate to assume the responsibility of giving them the remainder of their support. But for the reasons given above, the expense will be more than we can well sustain, without some help. We calculate, that if we should give each one a commission for three months, and for that time assume the whole responsibility of his support, as we must do, and as you would know that we must do, if you knew the circumstances of the case, the expense for the four would be about $400. We should then, for the first year after their location, be obliged to give them $150 each at least. My object in writing now is to ascertain if your Society would co-operate with us; and the proposition we have to make is this: Let your Society give these three gentlemen a commission for three months to those places named, with the ordinary allowance for that time; at the end of that time the people will be prepared to take some measures to retain and support them. them, application could be made to you; Then, if your Society chose to retain If not, application could be made to us, and we will then take them off your hands. Our Sunday school will support one. Per. haps in no way could you more effectually aid us. We feel that this is a peculiarly favour. able time to obtain that ministerial aid which we have been so long seeking. AND YET THERE IS ROOM. If these four missionaries come, there will then be three more places whose wants are very pressing. Stanstead. We have passed by this, because we understand that Mr. Storrs has promised to send a man there. Next to Montreal, it is the most important station. in the province. Hull.-A house of worship built; a church organized. Mr. Nichols laboured there three years with excellent effect. Left on account of ill health. Situated 28 on the Ottawa, 120 miles above Montreal. We have lately received a most pressing and affecting application for a minister from there. they had ability, the amount received, and oven more than the amount. In taking my leave of your Society, whose missionary I have been from the Rawdon. About 40 miles from Mont-day I entered the ministry, I would express real, north of the St. Lawrence; a new town. The people are just beginning to erect a church, and are very desirous to obtain a minister. The Catholics have built a church, and have drawn some of our people into it. At these places there must be stanch men, willing to labour among the poor, the wicked, the ignorant, in the midst of the woods. But let them remember they are laying foundations for many generations. my best wishes for your prosperity; nor shall I forget to commend you to the Great Head of the Church in my prayers and supplications. I am still your servant, to labour for your prosperity, and shall rejoice in your usefulness to immortal souls. RESULTS OF FIVE YEARS IN HONESDALE. Your efforts to plant the Gospel in this village have not been in vain. Five years ago I formed, or rather organized this church; five male, and four female members composed the whole number. We, at once, established a Sabbath School, Temperance Society, Tract Society, and Bible Society, all which have increased in num. bers and influence from that time till the present. Weekly prayer meetings have also been regularly sustained—and our little church has grown and flourished beyond our expectations. There have been added within five years, fifty-one by profession, and forty-one by letters from other churches. Our village, for the first two years, remained very small, scarcely a dozen families in the whole congregation; and, as the village increased a little, there were churches of other denominations formed, so that our particular society has remained small. When we consider, however, how greatly the Lord has blessed us, in all our efforts for his cause here, we are encouraged to go forward and praise him for his free and sovereign grace. MISCELLANEOUS. CATHOLIC SEMINARIES IN MISSOURI. The following is from a correspondent in Missouri, whose statements are worthy of entire confidence. Surely it is time for Protestants to ponder these things in their hearts, and awake to the spiritual interests of the great West. "In Perry county, Missouri, is the Catholic seminary, or rather cluster of seminaries, called "St. Mary's." The whole consists of a collegiate department, a de At a meeting of the male members of our congregation, I was requested to re-partment for those who are to enter the turn their hearty thanks to your Society priesthood, and a convent about one fourth for the aid which has been granted for of a mile from the other buildings. In the support of the Gospel in this new vil- the college, there are about 130 pupils; lage; and, at the same time, I was request- in the seminary, about 20; and in the ed to say to you, that they would consider convent and female school, 30 or 35. themselves bound to make returns for They have a library of perhaps 10,000 voyour kindness, and would remunerate, as" lumes, and a large stone church going up. Catholicism is certainly taking deep and extensive root in that part of the state. Perry county contains about 3000 inhabit. ants, about half of whom are Catholics. They are starting another establishment a few miles from Perryville. Wherever they find an orphan girl about the coun. try, they take her up and educate her ;and, generally, her adherence to them may be considered sure. A lady told me with tears, of the conversion of one sister to the Catholic faith, as the result of her hav. ing been sent to the convent, while two others had received such a bias that way, that she now trembles for them. A family in the neighbourhood of the seminary, offer to board a Protestant female teacher gratuitously, for one year, provided any society will make up the remainder of her support, that she may teach a free school. The Catholic sister said to one of the others, that if she refused to come into the Mother Church, the blood of her soul would fall upon her own head. I was told, that they teach at this seminary, that it is right to tell a lie in order to make prose lytes. It was also stated, that a large majority of the Protestant females who attend that school become Catholics. Six cases were mentioned, that had occurred within a single year. Before these individuals went there, the declaration was solemnly made, that no influence would be used to make them Catholics; but in the face of this declaration, no means had been left untried to bring them over to that faith. CATHOLIC MIRACLES. The priests make pretensions to the power of working miracles; even Mother Benedicta, at this convent, is said to have sprinkled some holy water at night on a bed of peas that had almost been devoured by insects, and in the morning the insects were dead and the peas restored to their natural freshness and vigour; and this is related to the scholars as a miracle. The following ridiculous story is circulated among the scholars as an undoubted fact: That after Francis Zavier had been seated in a church for some centuries, where the breath left the body, which still retained all the freshness of life, the Pope sent to have that right arm, which had baptized so many, cut off and taken to Rome. But the instruments shrunk back and refused to perform their office. The Pope then sent a letter to the dead body, and it was read in its hearing, when at once it stretched out its right arm, which was then cut off and sent to Rome! From the Cincinnati Journal. AN ACRE OF CORN FOR HOME MISSIONS. Mr. Brainerd, He Some weeks ago, I was travelling among the higher waters of the Big Miami, and met a man of no considerable property, who had just conveyed a full load of corn to town, drawn by six horses, which he contributed to the A. H. M. Soc. rented two acres of good land last spring to a neighbour, for half the crop, and when it was gathered, transported it to town, and was selling it for thirty-one and a fourth cents per bushel, and told me that he designed to subscribe $5,00 in addition to this donation. Will you have the goodness to ask your subscribers if there are not some hundreds of farmers in this fertile country, who can devote a few of their acres the coming year to the same object, and thus pour thousands into our treasury, next autumn, to aid in the supply of the destitute churches in the West. The Lord is smiling upon us, and giving us success. One whole church, the other day, subscribed $400, which was about $4,00 each, to this one object. The gold and silver are the Lord's, and blessed be his name, that he is opening the hearts of his people, to contribute it for the furtherance of the Gospel. Affectionately yours, Appointments by the Executive Committee of the American Home Missionary Society, from Feb. 15th, to March 15th, 1834. Re-appointments. Rev. W. H. Cooper, Wampsville, N. Y. Rev. B. B. Drake, Brooklyn, Cuyahoga Co., 0.3 Rev. Jeremiah Porter, Chicago, Ill. Rev. Henry Little, Agent at the West. Rev. Wm. Graham, Mount Pleasant, O. Rev. Jonathan Kitchell, Essex, N. Y. The Treasurer of the American Home Missionary Society acknowledges the receipt of the following sums, from Feb. 15th, to March 15th, 1834. Bellevue, Mo., J. Rynd, per Rev. T. Baldwin, 10 00 Brooklyn, N. Y., 1st Presb. Ch. in part of Cairo, N. Y., Amasa Mattoon, L. M., 30.00; mon. con. coll., 37.25, Caldwell, N. J., coll in part, Canada, Friend of Home Missions, Catskill, N. Y., donation, 10.00; Charles Connecticut Miss. Soc, Rev. A. Savage, Stonington, Fem. Aux., per Miss Shef- Coxsackie, N. Y., Abraham Van Dyck, Deposit, N. Y., Eleanor Wheeler, L. M. in Frankfort, N. J., 1st Presh. Ch., per Rev. Greene Co., N. Y., Miss. Soc., per E. Haw- Ithaca, N. Y., Young Ladies' H. M. Soc., payments, Amesbury, W. Chase, per. C. Whipple, Northampton, from property of a deceused youth, per Hamp. Ch. Dep., 73 64 105 00 75.04 67 25 43 63 2.00 55.00 2.06 10 00 50 00 15.00 50.00 650 32.00 41.00 5.00 20 00 50 00 140 00 20 00 3d Ch. coll. in part, 33.00 23.00 New-Providence, N. J., mon. con. coll., phant, 100.00; Fem. H. M. S., per Mrs. Chatham st. Chapel, coll., per J. H. Col. Rockaway, N. J., Fem. Cent Soc., Sing Sing, N. Y., Miss M. M. Prime, Mount South Orange, N. J., mon. con. coll., Vermont D. M. S., viz.. Sutherland's Falls, West Rutland, mon. Whitehall, N. Y., Ch. and Coog, per Mr. 135 280 K. TAYLOR, Treasurer. Receipts of the Central Agency at Utica, N. Y., from Feb. 14th to March 14th, 1834. East Coventry, Presb. Soc., per Rev. Mr. Butts, Florence, per Rev. 8. Sweezey, Mexico, Presb. Soc., Mexicoville, Presb. Soc., New Haven, do. Oswego, do., do. do., 16.00 Fem. Aux. Soc, Mrs. Brewster, Treas., 4.50, Pulaski, Presh. Soc., Rome, 1st Presb. Soc., J. W. Bloomfield, Sandy Creek, Deac. Duncan, Sherburn, Presb. Soc., 12 00 100 Skaneateles, Ladies' Sew, Soc., per Mr. Brace, Vernon Center, Presb. Soc., Whitesboro', Presb. Soc., per Desc. Hol brook, AMERICAN PASTOR'S JOURNAL, OR, ORIGINAL SKETCHES OF REAL CHAracters, CONVERSATIONS, AND STRIKING FACTS, FURNISHED CHIEFLY BY CLERGYMEN. "HIS DUST IS PRECIOUS." [Furnished by a Clergyman.] William had not received an expensive education. He possessed not the advantages of wealth, or superior "Do you see the end of that coffin, talents. It might naturally have been there?" asked the venerable sexton, asked, what can this poor boy do, with as we stood by the large opened vault such slender resources, to benefit his of the Presbyterian Church. "It fellow men? But he had a mind to is William H's. I have removed it work for God, and the Sabbath School near the door, that I may always see it afforded him precisely the field which when I go down. Precious dust is that." he desired; he became a regular and The partiality of our sexton for active member of the teachers' prayer William H. is not singular. A large meeting. Nor was he long in distinnumber of the church and congrega-guishing himself as a teacher. Always tion remembered him with the same affectionate interest. The whisper often goes round with painful satisfaction, on our repeated visits to the house appointed for all living, "that is William's coffin." at his post, during the hours of instruction, and in their meetings for business and prayer, he soon acquired a practical knowledge of the system and economy of the school, which rendered him competent to any service. The secret of his success is doubtless to be found in the singleness of heart with which William devoted himself to this department of Christian benevolence. He manifested no apathy to other pious enterprises. I never observed that he was desirous of urging forward this one to the disparagement of any other; but in this he seemed to have found his appropriate sphere for labour, and to have resolved to labour while his day should last. It is now almost seven years since William, then a youth of sixteen, became a teacher in our Sabbath School. He had been apprenticed as a mechanic. It was his privilege to have from infancy the prayers and instructions of a pious parent; but as yet he had not learned by the grace of God to appreciate their value, though his amiable manners and good moral character even then evinced that his Christian training was not lost upon him. His connexion with the Sabbath School From the time of his conversion introduced him to a circle of pious till the spring of 1832, William recompanions, who appear from the first mained the active friend of the Sabbath to have enjoyed his affectionate con- School. He had entertained, at one fidence. It was on occasion of a New- time, some thoughts of seeking an Year's lecture, preached to the youth education for the Christian ministry. of the congregation, that William The distant prospect of such a work received his first permanent religious evidently accorded with his feelings: impressions. The subject of the lec- he desired it much; but evinced the ture was David's advice to Solomon, most cheerful submission to Provirecorded in 1 Chron. xxviii. 9.-which 'dence, when he was constrained to William made up his mind prayerfully forego this desire. In the mean time, to follow. Nor was he left to draw God was pleased to pour out his Spirit back from this purpose. After a few upon the congregation. Many of the weeks of painful anxiety to secure his children and youth, and not a few in salvation, he began to exhibit good the Sabbath Schools, were visited by evidence of having experienced the the saving influence. None laboured new birth; and after a suitable time, more faithfully, or with more success, was admitted to make a public profes-in recommending the Gospel to others, sion of his faith in Christ. than did William H. It will create no |