of the issuing of this volume, or in the first fifty years of its operations, has been $8,633,381. The expenditure for 1860 was $361,958; and, for the four years preceding, an average of $217,680 per annum. This Missionary Association is probably the best supported and most efficient Board in the country, and may be considered the model institution of its class.

The following tabular view of the missions of the Board, including the number of churches established, the number of converts received in the congregations during the year, the present number of the members in the several churches, and the number of converts from the beginning, will afford a true idea of the success attending the efforts of the Association:

The number of ordained missionaries and assistant missionaries sent forth from the beginning has been 1,258 ordained missionaries 415, physicians not ordained 24, assistants 819; males 567, females 691.

5. The BOARD OF MISSIONS OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN NORTH AMERICA held its twenty-fourth annual and eighth triennial meeting in Richmond, Virginia, October, 1859. The Report, in relation to the foreign fields, exhibits an expenditure of money, in the several missions, which indicates a great

degree of liberality, on the part of the people of this church, in the support of Gospel ordinances in the heathen world. The several amounts stood thus: The mission in Greece, $3,300; China, $19,902; Africa, $41,321; South America, $100; Japan, $1,832. Total, $66,455-fractions omitted.

"Very marked changes are going on in large portions of the continent of Africa. Exploration has done much to bring to light that which was before unknown, and to exhibit features in the condition of the country and its inhabitants, encouraging more intimate relations with those engaged in business and commercial pursuits, and inviting to largely-increased benevolent and missionary operations."*

In relation to the African mission under the charge of Bishop Payne, this devoted missionary writes, in October, 1861, that the mission stands thus: communicants, foreign and colonist, 211; native, 158: total, 369. Boarding scholars, colonist, 37; native, 103: total, 140. Day scholars, colonist, 133; native, 250: total, 383. Sunday-school scholars, colonist, 334; native, 150: total, 484. t

The China mission is comparatively of recent origin, but presents encouraging aspects. It consists of a bishop, 3 presbyters, 6 deacons, 2 native deacons, 3 candidates for orders, (2 foreign, 1 native,) 12 female missionaries: total, 27. Baptisms, 12; communicants, about 70. As there have been but 12 baptisms, it is inferred that the greater number of these communicants are foreigners, residing in China.

The Board, in reference to Japan, take pleasure in announcing that, in point of time, their mission was the first one actually established in that empire.

The mission in South America is also in its infancy.

The statistics of the Greek mission are not given in the work from which we quote the foregoing particulars. From the small amount appropriated for its support, it is inferred that it is an infant mission.

6. The American Christian Record, for 1860, has the following

American Christian Record, 1860.

† Report of Bishop Payne, African Repository. American Christian Record, 1860.

notice of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. It refers to the report of 1859:

"The missionaries have been instructed to labor for the overthrow of slavery, as of any other sin, and they do not receive slaveholders into the church, nor invite them to communion.

"The number of foreign missions was 8; stations and out-stations 29; and 9 out-preaching places. Number of laborers in the foreign field, including those about to sail, 69. . . . The Jamaica mission had 7 stations, 3 out-stations, and 24 missionary laborers, including 4 native assistants. The reports exhibit a less favorable condition than in former years. . . . The Ojibue mission being unpromising, the committee recommended its relinquishment. The Ojibue and Ottowa mission had had 7 additions to the church membership in the preceding eight months. . . . . Sixty had been added to the church at the Sandwich Islands. Several Sunday-schools and two churches had been formed among the colored population of the Canada mission, Mr. Hotchkiss had added 18 to the churches under his care, in a little more than a year. The Siam mission was at length beginning to present cheering indications. . . . . The Coptic mission had made no progress during the year, in consequence of the illness of Mr. Martin, who had asked and obtained permission to retire."

Of the African mission little more is said, in the work from which we quote, than what has been already stated. No statistics of membership are given, so that we are left without satisfactory data from which to judge of the progress of the foreign missionary work of this Board. It must be remarked, however, that with the exception of the West India, the African, and the Canada mission, the fields entered upon have not been long occupied. The membership in the West Indies is elsewhere stated at 400, and that of Africa at 300. Total, 700.

7. The REFORMED PROTESTANT DUTCH CHURCH has three foreign missions under its care-the Amoy, the Arcot, and the Japanese. The Amoy mission was founded in 1842, and, in 1859, was composed of 5 missionaries, and 3 assistant female missionaries, with 8 native helpers, making 16 in all. There were, in 1859, under the care of the mission, 185 communicants, 3 parochial schools, and 4 theological students under its patronage. The Arcot mission has 5 churches, with an aggregate of 146

members, 29 of whom were received during the year. The mission is composed of 7 missionaries, 5 of whom belong to the Scudder family, so eminent for their devotion to the cause of their Divine Master; and 6 female assistant missionaries and 1 male assistant-in all 14. Total communicants in these two missions, 331.

The Japanese mission is composed of 3 missionaries and 4 assistant missionaries. This mission is of recent origin.

The MORAVIANS of the United States act in concert with their

brethren throughout Europe. Their missions are, therefore, omitted in this statement of the operations of the American churches, but are included in another section, referring to the missions of Protestant Christendom.

We are now prepared to contrast the missions of the American churches among the heathen, with those which have been conducted among the slaves of the United States. They stand as follows:

If we deduct from the converts in the missions of the Ameriean Board, the church members in the Sandwich Islands, the remainder, belonging to all the other missions of the Board, will be 6,208, or only about the same number that the New School Presbyterians lost to their Assembly, among the blacks of the South, by the agitation of the subject of slavery.

*This includes all the colored membership in the border Conferences of the Church North, within the slave States, along with those in the Church South.

Comments upon the above figures are not required, to convince the intelligent reader that American Slavery presents no such obstacles to the progress of the Gospel as are found in the pagan world.

SECTION VIII. — GENERAL RESULTS OF THE MISSIONARY EFFORTS AMONG THE AFRICAN RACE, IN FREEDOM AND IN SLAVERY, PLACED

IN CONTRAST.

We are now prepared to look at results, in another direction, and to contrast the success of the Gospel among the slaves of the United States, with the progress it has made in all the other portions of the world, where the missionary has extended his aid to the African race.

The work of missions, for the benefit of the negro race, may be considered as having been fairly commenced, only a short time before the beginning of the present century. The Moravian missions had their origin at an earlier day; but those of the other denominations, in South Africa, the West Indies, and the United States, had then been in operation only a little more than a dozen years. The missions in West Africa are of a different type from all the others, as slavery has not prevailed in either Sierra Leone or Liberia. The British emancipation act gave freedom to both South Africa and the West Indies. The South African missions have had their own peculiar obstacles to overcome, and many of them are yet in a very embarrassing position. The contrast for the West Indies has already been drawn, between the periods of slavery and freedom; and the facts show that, with the advantages of all the previous missionary labor in the islands, upon which to found their free churches, and with double the number of societies actively at work, the colored membership, in these islands, is now but little advanced beyond what it was before emancipation; and the general testimony, contained in the missionary reports, is, that the membership does not increase.

This result is very different, indeed, from what was expected by British Christians, while laboring for West India emancipation, and supplies a striking example of the lack of foresight governing their actions.