the Bible. The object of the author of this work is, to give a more popular view of the sacred scriptures, than has been common with others of his learned countrymen who have written on the same subject; and while he has collected from the best authors who have preceded him, whatever is essentially necessary to the theologian, he has adapted his work for the use and benefit of all classes of society.

Since the termination of hostilities on the continent of Europe, sacred literature has evidently revived in Switzerland, and especially in Geneva. The sermons of M. Cellreier are partally known in this country, by the interesting review of them in the Christian Observer for June last. The son of this gentleman, who is likewise one of the pastors of Geneva, and professor of oriental literature and sacred criticism, in the college of that city, has just published a Hebrew Grammar, which promises to Ford much aid to the cause of biblical learning in that country. The author of this grammar has taken for his guides the best grammarians of Germany, particularly Schræder and Gesenius, without, however, confining himself servilely to their decisions.

The English government are about establishing a Greek University in Ith aca, for the benefit of all the Ionian islands. As soon as it was known in Ithaca, that lord Guildford had fixed his eye on a particular spot in that isl. and for the scite of the proposed seminary, and had inquired whether the same could be purchased, the proprietors, the Messrs. Zabos, offered the land, as a present for the new estab

lishment. Count Zabos, governor of the island, in concert with the principal inhabitants, immediately opened a subscription for the University, which has been most liberally filled by all classes of citizens.

Among the subjects recently proposed by the French Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres, for prize dissertations, are the following:

The state of government, and legislation in France, at the time of the accession of St. Louis (Louis IX.) to the throne, and the effects, at the end of his reign, of the institutions of that prince.

A comparison of the monuments, which remain of the ancient empire of Persia, and of Chaldea, whether edifices, bas-reliefs, statues,-or inscriptions, medals, engraved stones, &c.with the doctrines and religious allegories contained in the Zendavesta, and with the notices of the opinions and usages of the Persians, and Chaldeans, which are preserved in the Hebrew, Greek, Latin and oriental writers, and an illustration, as far as may be, of the one by the other.

An inquiry after the historical monuments of the western nations of Europe, and what have been the causes of the numerous emigrations of the people known under the general name of Normans, in the middle age, and an abridged history of their incursions and establishments throughout ancient Gaul.

The prize for a successful dissertation in the French academy, is a gold medal of the value of 1500 francs.

Dissertations must be written either in the French or Latin language.

THEOLOGY.

A Sermon preached in Haddam, on the annual Thanksgiving, November 50th, 1820; by John Marsh, minister in Haddam.-Middletown.

A Sermon delivered in Boston, on the anniversary of the American Education Society, October 4th, 1820; by Ebenezer Porter, D. D. Bartlet Professor of Sacred Rhetoric in the Theological Seminary, Andover.

The New-England Fathers. A sermon delivered in the church in Essexstreet, Boston, Dec. 22nd, 1820; by James Sabine, Pastor of that church.

Religion a Social Principle. A Sermon delivered in the church in Federal-street, Boston, Dec. 10, 1820; by the Rev. William E. Channing. Strictures on a Sermon entitled 'Religion a Social Principle'; by the Rev. Hosea Ballou.

Mr. Moses Jewell, Mechanie,

Mrs. Jewell,

Farmer,

Mr. James Orr, Teacher & Farmer, Miss Minerva Washburn Teacher, VI. Sandwich Islands.

Rev. Hiram Bingham,t

Mrs. Siby! M. Bingham,
Rev. Asa Thurston,

Mes. Lucy Thurston,

Mr. Daniel Chamberlain, Farmer.
Mrs. Jerusha Chamberlain,
Dr. Thomas Holman,
Mrs. Lucia Holman,

Mr. Samuel Whitney, Teacher and
Mechanic,

Mrs. Mercy Whitney,

Mr. Samuel Ruggles, Teacher,

Mrs. Nancy Ruggles,

Mr. Elisha Loomis, Printer.

Mrs. Maria T. Loomnis.

John Honooree,

Thomas Hopoo,
William Tennooe,
George Sandwich,

Native Teachers.

1820

EXTRACT OF THE REPORT OF THE PRUDENTIAL COMMITTEE.

Foreign Mission School.

This consecrated Seminary was instituted in the autumn of 1816, and opened in the beginning of May 1817. There belong to it a commodious edifice for the School, a good mansion house, with a barn and other out buildings, and a garden for the Principal ;-a house, barn, &c. with a few acres of good tillage land for the Steward and Commons:-all situated sufficiently near to each other and to the congregational meeting-house, in the south parish of Cornwall, Con.-and eighty acres of excellent wood land, about a mile and a half distant,

The object of the school as set forth in the constitution, is-" The education in our own country of heathen youths, in such manner, as, with subsequent professional instruction will qualify them to become useful missionaries, physicians, surgeons, schoolmasters, or interpreters; and to communicate to the heathen nations such knowledge in agriculture and the arts, as may prove the means of promoting christianity and civilisation." As these youths are designed for a higher education, than is expected to be obtained at our mission schools in heathen countries, it is deemed of no small importance, that they be only such as are of suitable age, of docile dispositions, and of promising talents.

In the constitution there is a provision, that youths of our own country, of acknowledged piety may be admitted to the school, at their own expense, and at the discretion of the agents.

In the first year of the school twelve youths were admitted-ten from heathen lands and two natives of Connecticut. Of these, Henry Obookiah, John Honooree, Thomas Hopoo, and William Tennooe, had before been objects of christian liberality, and for some time under christian instruction. The raised hopes, founded under providence, on the unquestioned piety, the distinguished talents, and the excellent character of Obookiah, terminated in his triumphant departure from these earthly scenes, before the first year of the school had expired. Of his three companions, Honooree, Hopoo, and Tennooe, Mr. Ruggles, one of the two Connecticut youths, and George Tamoree, particuLira mention has been made under the head of the Sandwich Island Mission.Of the other six, admitted the first year, James Ely, the other Connecticut youth, and George Sandwich and William Kummon-olah from the Sandwich Islands, are

still members of the school; one has been dismissed for misbehaviour, one for incapacity, and the other is absent.

From year to year, since the first, youths of different nations have been admitted; two or three of whom, after long er or shorter trial, bave been dismissed.Care however, has been taken, that those, who have been dismissed, should be placed in good families, where they might still have the benefit of christian instruction.

The present number of pupils is twenty-nine; four from the Sandwich Islands

one from Otaheite-one from the Marquesas-one Malay-eight Cherokeestwo Choctaws-three of the Stockbridge Tribe-two Oneidas--one Tuscarora-

two Caughinewagas--one Indian youth from Pennsylvania, and three youths of

our own country.

Under the instruction of the able and highly respected Principal, the Rev. Mr. Daggett, and his very capable and faith ful assistant, Mr. Prentice, the improvement of the pupils, in general, has been increasing and satisfactory, and in not a few instances uncommouly good. Besides being taught in various branches of learning, and made practically acquainted with the useful arts of civilized lite; they are instructed constantly and with especial care in the doctrines and duties of christianity. Nor has this instruction been cominunicated in vain. Of the thirty-one heathen youths-including with the twenty-six now at school, the deceased Obookiah, and the four, who have gone with the mission to their native Islands-seventeen are thought to have given evidence of a living faith in the gospel; and several others are very seriously thoughtful on religious concerns.

The

Lord, in his sovereign goodness, has made it strikingly manifest, that his face is toward this favored seminary, and that his blessing rests upon it. May it be eminently instrumental in making known the glory of his name in many lands, and of bringing multitudes of different nations and tongues to unite in songs of everlasting joy and praise.

Expenditures and Receipts.

SINCE the last Annual Meeting, your Committee have sent forth to different fields 23 men and 13 women: 10 men and 7 women to the Sandwich Islands -1 man to Ceylon-2 men to Western Asiá-8 men and 6 women to the Choctaw nation-and 2 men to the Cherokees of the Arkansaw. Of the men, 5 are ordained missionaries-1 is a physician, 1 is a printer, and the rest, besides being skilled in husbandry and various mechanical arts, are men of vigorous and well informed minds, in sound bodies, inured to labour,-and

of approved civil and Christian character; 4 are men in middle life with well governed and well educated families,-the rest, young men, 8 of whom are married; the most of them have been exercised in the instruction of schools, and all of them are deemed well qualified to take part in the arduous, benevolent, and sacred work of evangelizing and civilizing pagan and uncultured people.

The fitting out of missionaries, and getting them to the fields of labour, must be attended with no inconsiderable expense. Many things are to be done in the preparations, requiring various attentions, and journeyings, and labours, and occasioning numberless contingent expenses. Many articles are comprised in the necessary outfits and provision, for the individuals, and families, and establishments. And conveyances by water or by land are expensive.

The total expense of the Sandwich Mission, paid from the Treasury, besides much which was given by liberal individuals in various articles not included in the Treasurer's account, was somewhat more than $10,000. Of this sum $224 were paid for the travelling expenses of the Members of the Mission,-$275 for transportation of baggage to Boston,-$2,500 for passage to the Islands,-almost $2,000 for stores for the use of the missionaries on their passage and after their arrival,-almost $1,000 for family furniture, clothing, and mechanical and agricultural implements,-$775 for printing press and apparatus,-and $886 for mathematical, philosophical, and surgical instru

ments.

To persons not conversant with these matters, these items and the total amount might appear extravagant. And yet in proportion to the magnitude of the mission the expenditure was small. It would appear so on comparison with the cost of English missions.

If it costs less to fit out and convey men to our stations in the wilderness of our own country, it does not howerer cost less to get an establishment there into operation, or in its early stages to maintain it. And during the year, the missionaries already in the field were to be provided for, and the establishments already in operation to be supported, as well as new men to be sent out and new establishments to be commenced.

Within the year the Treasury has disbursed for the Bombay Mission, $7,221-for the Ceylon, $7,135-for the Cherokee, $9,967-for the Choctaw, $10,414-for the Arkansaw, $1,150 -for the Palestine, $2,348-for the Foreign Mission School, $3,350-and for all the objects and purposes of the Board, $57,420.

It was not to be expected-especially if the distressing scarcity, or stagnation of the circulating medium were considered, that there would be in the year an advance, upon the receipts of preceding years, equal or proportionate to the large additions made to our missions, or the consequent aug mentation of expense. It is not indeed according to the general course of things, that in the management of extensive and progressive concerns, public or private-incurring large expenditures, and depending upon many contingencies-the receipts in each year should be very exactly or nearly proportionate to the disbursements. In one year the disbursements will come short of the receipts,-in other years they will go beyond them; even in concerns conducted upon the soundest principles, and with the greatest success. It has been so with the concerns of this Board. In some former years there was a surplus of income which was kept in reserve, to be used in succeeding years, as the exigencies or interests of the Institution should require.

Donations to the Board.

The donations, contributions and benefactions, from societies, churches, congregations, and individuals, received at the Treasury, within the year ending with the last month, amounted to $36,500; and the income from the permanent fund, and other sources, to $2,600,making in the totalsum $39,000. This, as will be seen, comes short of the total amount of expenditures by $18,000. For the supply of the deficiency, it has been found necessary to draw upon the disposable funds of the Board, accumulated from preceding

years.

Though these receipts are not equal to the disbursements, yet your committee have the high gratification to state, and they would do it with a grateful sense of the liberality of individuals and of the Christian public, and with devout thankfulness to the

God of all grace,-that the donations exceeded those of any preceding year by $2,600. This deserves more especial notice on account of the scarcity or stagnation, before alluded to. Allowing for the embarrassment and distress, arising from this cause, and felt in all parts of the country, and by all classes of the community-it were moderate to consider $36,000, given in this last year, as being equal to $50,000 in times as they were in preceding years. And in this ratio, it may be right in point of justice, and gratitude, and encouragement, and confidence,-to estimate the increase of liberality in the community towards the objects of the Board.

And it is deemed proper, and of some importance to be noted, that this increase of liberality, is not to be attributed to extraordinary efforts in the way of solicitation or excitement. Efforts of that kind were even less abundant and less expensive than in former years. Little, indeed, was done, excepting by an Address of the Committee to the Auxiliaries and Patrons, and Benefactors and Friends of the Board; and a considerable number of brief local agencies in connexion with it. Of the manner in which this Address was every where received and answered, the Committee would find it impossible adequately to express their grateful sense. It afforded a proof, inestimably valuable, of the affectionate and stable and liberal confidence and attachment of the Christian community towards the Board, and its great object.

Besides the donations in money, numerous contributions have been made in various articles for the missions. These are not included in the Treasurer's account; and the amount of value cannot be ascertained. It is not, however, inconsiderable. For the Sandwich Mission a noble spirit of liberality was displayed; particularly in the places and vicinities where the missionaries had resided; and in Boston, Salem, and in some of the neighbouring towns, of whose cheering liberality evcry mission has participated. And for the Cherokee and Choctaw missions, a spirit not less noble has been manifested, and continually increasing and spreading. From more than a hundred different places in the north and in the south--boxes of clothing, of almost every kind suitable for the children of the schools-and some for the