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yet entirely subsided, though visibly and greatly abated. "God has done great things for us, whereof we are glad." And may Christians every where be excited to more earnest prayer, that God would pour out his Spirit, so that the wilderness may become a fruitful field and the desert as the garden of G›d. A. E.

Monson, (Mass.) Aug. 2, 1813.

FOREIGN MISSION.

IT is presumed that the principal facts relative to the foreign Mission from this country are generally known; a very concise sketch only, therefore, will be given of them here. The Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, was instituted in June 1810, and held their first meeting in the following September. Near the close of 1811, their Committee examined and approved Messrs. Hall, Judson, Newel, and Nott, as future Missionaries to the Heathen. These brethren had for a considerable time been known as candidates for this service, and desirous of engaging in it as early as possible. Before the annual meeting of the Board in Sept. 1811, steps were taken to procure information, and to prepare the way for regular and vigorous operations. At this meeting the Board more particularly appointed the four Missionaries above named, to labor among the Heathen in Asia, at such place as the Committee should deem most eligible.— They also received under their patronage Messrs. James Richards and Edward Warren, then students in this Seminary. On the 6th of Feb. 1812, Messrs. Hall, Judson, Newel, Nott, and Rice were ord ined, in Salem, to the work of the ministry among the Heathen; Mr. Rice having just been taken under the patronage of the Board.— Two of the brethren Messrs. Hall and Newel, had attended courses of Medical Lectures both at Boston and Philadelphia, and were qualified to be useful among the Heathen as Physicians. The Committee were enabled by great exertions to raise money sufficient to pay the expence of conveying the Missionaries to India, and to advance more than a years salary to each of them, though the opportunity for their conveyance was known but a short time before they were required to embark. Messrs. Judson and Newel with their wives sailed from Salem in the brig Caravan on the 19th of February, and about the same time Messrs. Hall, Nott, and Rice, with Mr. Nott's wife, sailed from Philadelphia in the ship Harmany, for Calcutta.

During the year which preceded the 3d annual meeting of the Board, the Committee exerted themselves in various ways to promote the objects of the institution. About twenty Missionary societies auxiliary to the Board were formed previously to the third meeting t The attention of the Committee, (as also of the Board at their 2d meeting,) was directed to the Cahnawaga tribe of Indians in Canada, and their patronage and support extended to Mr. E. Williams, a young man belonging to that tribe who was preparing to labor among them as a Missionary. The Committee also made application to the Le

* Andover.

About ten such Societies have been formed since.

gislature of Massachusetts for an act enduing the Board with corporate powers and privileges, which was granted.

At a meeting of the Board in September, 1812, they elected thirteen gentlemen to be members,-directed the committee to pay an immediate and particular attention to the circulation of the Holy Scriptures in the languages of the unevangelized nations,-voted to support Mr. E. Williams while completing his education, in case he submitted himself to their direction, and transacted various other business. Not long after this meeting the Committee remitted 1000 dollars to Calcutta to be expended in publishing and distributing the Scriptures in the vernacular languages of Asia.

In December intelligence was received that Messrs. Judson and Newel and their wives arrived at Calcutta about the middle of June. On the 8th of August the other Missionaries also reached Calcutta, having on their way tarried near a month at the Isle of France, where they obtained such information respecting Madagascar, and the facilities which would be afforded to Missionaries who should settle there as strongly attracted their attention. Soon after the arrival of the Missionaries at Calcutta they were ordered by the government to leave the country in the vessel in which they came.They however obtained leave to return to the Isle of France, and Mr. and Mrs. Newel sailed for that place about the first of August, expect-ing before long to be joined by their brethren and sisters. By the last accounts however, it appears that Messrs..Hall and Nott were still at Calcutta, the difficulties in the way of their residing at some places within the Company's dominions were removed, and they were diligently occupied in procuring information to guide them in forming a permanent establishment. Their attention seemed to be directed chiefly to Surat, where they might, without great difficulty, be joined by Mr. and Mrs Newel, from the Isle of France. They were about to take a passage to Ceylon, and it may be expected that they will shortly write from the field of their future missionary labors. Messrs. Judson and Rice have left the service of the Board, and connected themselves with the Baptist Missionaries at Serampore.

Under the direction of the Committee, Messrs. Richards and Warren have been favored with opportunities of Medical instruction. They are now at Philadelphia pursuing the study of physic, and will be ready to embark for the East whenever the Mission sent out shall be established, and other circumstances concur to favour their departure. [E. Lord's His. of Missions.]

Extracts of a letter from Mr. Rice to the Rev Dr. Worcester, dated at Bahia, in the Brazils, June 5, 1813.

Rev. and dear Sir,

SOME news from our missionaries in India, have undoubtedly been received before now. Probably you are already apprized of brother Judson's change of sentiments in relation to baptism, and the consequent division of the mission into two branches. A division in point of locality, might perhaps have been deemed expedient had not a change of sentiment previously made a division in point of religious denomination.

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"Brothers Hall and Nott embarked at Calcutta near the last of November, in a ship bound to Bombay; but would touch at Ceylon.Perhaps one of them might proceed to Bombay, as they were anxious to commence missionary labors in that very important field. But should they fail in that region, still an important field, bounded, generally speaking by the Tamul language, is easily accessible. This language may be acquired in Ceylon, where, without the smallest obstruction, missionaries are permitted to reside, and to exercise freely their functions. About the middle of January, I arrived in the Isle of France, having been under the necessity, as was also brother Judson, of hastily taking passage from Calcutta for that place. There we found brother Newel borne down under an exceeding pressure of affliction He had departed from Calcutta previously to the arrival of the Harmony there; and the ship in which he embarked being obliged to put in at Coringa in distress, made the passage long as well as unpleasant. During the passage he had been called to the painful office of consigning to the waves an infant daughter, which died at five days old and in about three weeks after reaching the Isle of France, was summoned to the deeper affliction of resigning Mrs. Newel to the arms of death. She died of a consumption the last of November; was comfortable in her mind till her decease; and desired Mr. Newel to state explicitly to her friends, that she never felt the smallest legret for having gone out in the mission. Brother Newel embarked at the Isle of France, the 24th of February, in a brig owned at Bombay, but might touch at Ceylon.

"I abstain from stating many things which I should deem it my duty to state, had I not the prospect of being able to communicate them in another manner soon. I cannot, however, refuse myself the freedom to observe with deference, that if other missionaries are ready to proceed, the uncertainty respecting a reception at Bombay need not detain them at a painful distance from the missionary field.— Whatever may be the success or failure in that important regionand even should it be judged inexpedient for them to join the others at Ceylon in case they should there fix their residence; still the Isle of France itself presents an inviting, and by no means unimportant, object of missionary effort. And there, from communication actually had with his Excellency Governor Farquhar, through the Rev. Chaplain, Mr. Jones, I feel authorized to say, that missionaries would be favorably received and countenanced.

"It is with peculiar pleasure and gratitude, I have often to acknowledge, on behalf of my venerable and beloved patrons, my great obligations to the kind attentions of individuals. Here I am particularly indebted to Mr. Consul Hill and his lady, who have politely and kindly given me a home in their house and family, during my detention in this place.

"With the sincerest respect I remain dear Sir,

"Yours in our blessed Lord, "Rev. Dr. WORCESTER."

LUTHER RICE.

Mr. Rice also states that he left the Isle of France, March 15th, having taken passge to the Brazils in a Portuguese vessel; that Mr. Judson and his wife were waiting for a passage to Penang, or

Prince of Wale's Island, intending there to effectuate a mission, if practicable; that himself was expecting to sail for New York, in a cartel, about the first of July, and hoped to reach this country about the last of August; and that he was peculiarly anxious to arrive at Boston before the annual meeting of the Board in September next.

LETTER FROM MR. NEWELL.

A Letter has been received from Mr. Newell by Mrs. Atwood of Haverhill, (Mass.) the mother of Mrs. Newell. We have obtained leave to publish such extracts, as will exhibit the closing scene of this excellent and promising woman's life.

"Port Louis, (Isle of France,) Dec. 10, 1812.

"My dear Mother,

"Harriet enjoyed good health from the time we left you until we embarked on our voyage from Calcutta to the Isle of France. During the week previous to our sailing for this place, she went through much fatigue in making numerous calls on those dear friends in Calcutta, who were anxious to see her. The fatigue of riding in a palankeen, in that unhealthy place, threw her into a fever, which commenced the day after we were on board. She was confined about a week to her couch, but afterward recovered and enjoyed pretty good health. We left Calcutta on the 4th of August, but on account of contrary winds and bad weather, we were driven about in the bay of Bengal without making much progress during the whole of that month. or about the 27th it was discovered that the vessel had sprung a leak ; On and on the 30th the leak had increased to such an alarming degree, as to render our situation extremely perilous. A consultation of the officers was called, and it was determined to put about immediately, and make the nearest port, which was Coringa, a small town on the Coromandel coast, about 60 miles south of Vizagapatam. We got safe into port on Saturday September 5th. The vessel was found to be in a very bad case."

[Four days before the arrival of the vessel in port, Mrs. Newell was seized with severe pain in the stomach and bowels, the disease of the country; but in three days after going on shore she was so far recovered as to write thus in her journal: "Have been able to sit up most of the day. Begin to look around me a little-find myself again surrounded with Hindoo cottages, and the tawny natives as thick as bees." On the 19th of September they re-embarked, and Mrs. N. enjoyed comfortable health till nearly three weeks after leaving Coringa and about three weeke before reaching the Isle of France, when she became the joyful mother of a fine healthy daughter. Four days after in consequence of a severe storm of wind and rain, the child took cold, and died on the evening of the next day, after having been devoted to God in baptism.

On the 14th of October, Mr. N. writes thus in his journal: "About 8 o'clock last evening our dear little Harriet expired in her mother's arms. A sweet child. Though she had been but five days with us, it was painful, inexpressibly painful, especially to the mother, to part

with her. To-day, with many tears, we committed her to a watery grave. "So fades the lovely blooming flower," &e May God sancti

fy this bereavement to us, and Oh, may he spare my dear wife "

About a week after Mrs. N.'s confinement, the symptoms of a consumption appeared. Though Mr N. feared the worst, he did not consider her case as fatal, till the last fortnight of her life, which com menced about ten days after their arrival at the Isle of France. Mr. N. immediately on their arrival called in the aid of Dr. Burke, the chiet surgeon of the British army in that island, and · f Dr. Walluz, a Danish physician, a friend with whom they had become acquainted at Serampore, who had lately buried his wife in Bengal, and had come to the Isle of France for his health. There was but little alteration in Mrs N.'s health, (except that she gradually lost strengt) till about a fortnight before her death, when she declined more rapidly and all hope of her recovery was extinguished. About 4 o'clock P M. on Monday the 30th of November, her eye-sight failed her, soon after which she calmly, and with apparent ease, expired, seven weeks and four days after her confinement. These events with all the attending circumstances, are related by Mr. N. with great tenderness and particularity. He then proceeds as follows:]

There my dear mother, I have finished the story of Harriet's sufferings. Let us turn from the tale of woe to a brighter scene; one that will gladder your heart as I am sure it does mine. During this long series of sufferings, the bare recital of which must affect every feeling heart, she meekly yielded to the will of her Heavenly Father, without one murmuring word. "My wicked heart," slie writes, "is inclined to think it hard, that I should suffer such fatigue and hardship. I sinfully envy those whose lot it is to live in tranquility on land. Happy people! Ye know not the toils and trials of voyagers across the rough and stormy deep. Oh. for a little Indian but on land-But hush my warring passions, it is for Jesus who sacrificed the joys of his Father's kingdom, and expired on a cross to redeem a fallen world, that thus I wander from place to place and feel no where at home. How reviving the thought! How great the consolation it yields to my sinking heart! I will cherish it, and yet be happy."

"In view of these sufferings which she afterwards experienced, she writes thus: "I hope to reach the place of our destination in good health. But I feel no anxiety about that. I know that God orders every thing in the best possible manner. If he so orders events, that I shall suffer pain and sickness on the stormy ocean, without a female friend, exposed to the greatest inconvenience, shall I repine, and think he deals hardly with me? Oh no. Let the severest trials and disappointments fall to my lot, guilty and weak as I am, yet I think I can rejoice in the Lord, and joy in the God of my salvation.”

"In the first part of the sickness, which succeeded the birth of our babe, she had some doubts, which occasionally interrupted her spiritual comfort; but they were soon removed, and her mind was filled with that peace of God which passeth al! understanding. When I asked her, a few days before she died, if she had any remaining doubts respecting her spiritual state, she answered with an emphasis, that she had none. During the whole of her sickness she talked in the

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