the county of Lycoming, adjoining Luzerne, there were two church es and one pastor. In the adjacent county of Tioga, there was neither church nor minister. He found more missionaries, therefore, very greatly needed, and, by many, very earnestly desired. He was gratefully and hospitably received; and many thanks were presented for the attention of the Society, and for the pious beneficence of the charitable in Connecticut.

The Rev. Worthington Wright commenced missionary service in the northern counties of Pennsylvania, the latter end of May, 1812. His labors, through the summer of that year, were noticed by the Trustees, in their last annual account. From the commencement of the following autumn, he labored in the same counties, a large portion of the time, until June, 1813, when he was installed in a pastoral charge, at Bethany, county of Wayne. His journals of service, for nearly three months, since that event-so important to an extensive tract around him, have been received. In many places, great stupidity prevailed, though Sabbath day meetings were well attended. He devoted himself much to family visits for pious conversation and teaching. Several instances of special impression and of hopeful conversion occurred within his observation. In one considerable settlement, he found, quite recently, a general seriousness of enquiry, and a lively attention to the concerns of the soul.

Late in June, the Rev. Daniel Waldo re-commenced the missionary service in the county of Sullivan. N. York. Thence he proceeded in various directions through the county of Wayne, and the neighboring counties of Pennsylvania, visiting, as occasions invited, the parts of N. York located in their vicinity. He persevered in his labors till near the middle of October. Feeling the immense importance of having parental talents and influence rightly directed, he spent much time in visiting from house to house; exhorting heads of households to the duty of strictly maintaining family worship and instruction; and admonishing them sacredly to observe the Sabbath, as they regarded the well being of themselves and their children both here and hereafter, and would hope, at last, to be acknowledged as having been faithful to "train them up in the way they should go." Great was the number of settlements, in which the people had no religious meetings upon the Lord's day, excepting the rare occasions, when they were favored with missionary assistance. To parents and children, and especially to children, the consequences were melancholy beyond description. On heads of families, thus situated, and thus negligent, he urged the duty and the usefulness of leading their households, every Sabbath to public worship.-Feeling, also, the inexpressible value of correct early impressions, he was assiduous in his attention to schools. He endeavored to fix in the tender mind a permanent regard to the worth of excelling in goodness, as the way of supporting unspotted and reputable characters in worldly society; and, above all, the necessity of " loving God and keeping his commandments," as the only way to a peaceful death and a happy eternity. He hoped that these efforts were not, in all instances, unprofitable. He distributed some hundreds of Tracts, connecting the gift with remarks designed to excite an earnest attention to re

ligion.-Numbers complained of abounding iniquity, sighing and groaning for the wickedness of the land; while few exerted themselves in favor of a reformation.-Intemperance, profane swearing, and notorious violations of God's law instituting the Sabbath, were prominent sins. In some villages a large majority devoted to hunting, rioting, and drunkenness, that seventh part of time which God, in mercy to man, has consecrated and set apart for worldly rest, for spiritual improvement, and preparation for heaven. Nevertheless, as might be expected, he was conversant with great diversities of character. By numbers, a fervent gratitude to the Society was expressed for their kind attention in sending the occasional ministrations of the gospel; and many earnest wishes were manifested, that they might continue to be remembered with these privileges. He observed that the gratuitous distribution of the Bible was very acceptable and very useful.

From the latter part of September, 1812, to the middle of Sept. 1813, the Rev. David Harrower labored eight months as a missionary, chiefly in the counties of Otsego, Chenango, and Delaware, N. Y. In this service, he travelled nearly eleven hundred miles; delivered one hundred and fifty-six sermons: visited more than one hundred families; and performed the other numerous duties of an evangelist. It appears, that the divine smiles attended his labors. Solemn impressions were, in many instances manifest. He was called to spend much time in conversation with persons inquiring seriously on the greatest and weightiest of all subjects. He had, also, occasion to deal particularly with those, who, "loving darkness rather than light," had embraced perilous opinions. In general he was kindly received. Many thanks to the Missionary Society were expressed, and many prayers offered by the pious for their success.— But great varieties were observable. There were settlements, in which the people appeared to be almost universally in a deep sleep. In others, individuals, here and there, had their eyes opened on their sinfulness, and in view of" wrath unto the utmost." Numbers, also, gave hopeful evidence, that grace had "brought them up out of the horrible pit and miry clay." In a few villages, were glorious revivals. In others, abounding heresies, pleasing to the unrenewed mind, excited strong and violent opposition to "the truth as it is in Jesus."

The Rev. Joel T. Benedict has a pastoral charge in Franklin, Delaware county, N. Y. Between the middle of Sept. 1812, and the close of August; 1813, he travelled, at different periods as circumstances permitted, and labored as a missonary, more than three months, in the counties of Chenango, Otsego, Delaware, and Schoharie. In March and April, the epidemic prevailed extensively over that district of our country. Multitudes were sick. To many, the disease was the messenger of mortality. Mourners were multiplied. In the space of six weeks, fifty died in a single town. This extreme distress among the people threw peculiar and interesting labor upon the hands of the missionary. It was, therefore, judged expedient, that Mr. Harrower accompany Mr. Benedict-the Lord's

days excepted. This alarming judgment, however, insted of awakening the generality of the people to the great concerns of salvation, seemed to render them more unfeeling, if possible, and more stupid. In no places did he find the inhabitants more indifferent upon this one point, than in those where the sickness and mortality were most prevalent. In some sections, vigorous, and, in many instances, successful exertions were made to spread the destructive opinions of infidelity. Books against Christianity were industriously circulated. Societies, called debating societies, were established for the same purpose. Teachers, contaminated with scepticism, were crowded into the schools; while prayer, the chatechism, and the Bible, were publicly and avowedly excluded from many of those, which he visited. But the labors of missionaries were not, on this account, accomplishing the less-probably, much greater good..... Though the affect of divine truth, upon the heart and conscience, was evidently less powerful, the last season, than in some of the preceding, in which he labored as a missionary over much of the same field; yet in a few settlements, there were considerable awakenings. Rebels against heaven were made to see, that "they had no cloak for their sin." By the blessing of Christ on missionary labor, numbers became hopefully reconciled to God, and were made able to rejoice in his holy government and salvation.

The latter part of February, the Rev. William F. Miller began missionary labor in the western sections of N. Y. and spent four months in this service. He was employed principally in the counties of Madison, Onondaga, Cortland, Cayuga, Seneca, Steuben, Ontario, Genesee, Allegany, Tioga, Broome, Chenango, and Delaware. In this extensive circuit, he discovered many varieties of denomination actuated by opinions altogether repellent to each other. As might be expected, in a great diversity of instances, erroneous opinions issued in a loose practice. In places not a few, the Sabbath, as a day to be kept holy, was in a manner lost: and with the Sabbath, moral order was deplorably gone. The intemperate use of ardent spirits was, likewise, evidently a mighty instrument in the destruction of all morality and religion in many of the new settlements. It proved not less deadly to the soul than to the body. Amidst this moral ruin, however, he observed numerous tokens for good, in the dispensations of a forbearing and gracious Providence. In several settlements were powerful revivals of religious attention. Individuals were found in a great number of places, who were exceedingly tender in their feeling, and who highly prized the privilege of hearing the gospel. He was impressed with a full conviction, that however great may seem to be the difficulties in the way of extending an acquaintance with the pure gospel among those "perishing with lack of vision," the Missionary Society, and the numerous friends of this cause, have no good reason for discouragement. The blessed effects of missionary exertions appeared very strikingly in the best settled parts of those new countries where he labored. Well regulated societies, and flourishing churches, are by the divine blessing, among the fruits of the missionary institution.

The Rev. Comfort Williams had accepted an invitation to take a pastoral charge, at Ogdensburg, on the St. Lawrence. He had re- . sided there with his family a number of months, and a day had been assigned for his ordination. The perils of war, however, impelled him to retire from that place. On the 19th of December, he commenced missionary labors, and travelled in the counties of Lewis, Jefferson, St. Lawrence, and Oneida, N. York. Near the beginning of February, 1813, he received ordination as an evangelist, by the Oneida Presbytery, at Utica. The amount of time spent as a missionary, both before and after his ordination, was about three months. He delivered fifty sermons; visited two hundred and fifty-nine families for the purposes of religious instruction; and attended schools and conferences, with the other duties pertaining to an evangelical teacher. It was a time of sore distress by the epidemic in that region. With very few exceptions, he was kindly received wherever he called. The serious people in those settlements expressed a tender sense of their obligations to the Missionary Society of Connecticut; and they rejoice to have missionaries visit their families.... The judgments of heaven,-desolation by pestilence and the sword, then suffered in that section of our land,—instead of leading the wicked to repentance and reformation,-seemed rather to produce a hardenning and demoralizing effect.---There was urgent need, and, among the considerate, an anxious desire, of missionary aid. In a few places, he observed hopeful appearances of a saving work.

Early in February, the Rev. Ebenezer I. Leavenworth, then pastor of a church in Camden, state of N. York, entered on missionary labor in that vicinity. His appointment was for sixteen weeks, which he fulfilled in the following autumn. He found many settlements in a much more awful state than he expected; though, in preceding years, he had been considerably conversant with those parts. The demoralizing influence of public commotions there was astonishing. Error was rolling on like a sweeping flood. In some places, and especially in those, where missionaries had rarely or never been, he could hardly discover the appearance of respect for moral and religious instruction. More than half of the families in a considerable settlement were destitute of the Bible. In others, the few friends of God were famishing with the want of spiritual food. Others, however, there were, in which he had the satisfaction of finding, that the true religion was gaining strength. Missionary labors, as far as they had extended, had been useful beyond calculation. One clear, plain, and faithful missionary sermon had seemed to be rendered the means, in the divine hand, of preserving a settlement from total depravation of morals, for a number of years.

The Rev. Israel Brainerd has a pastoral charge at Verona, county of Oneida. This is, also in the midst of a wide region, destitute in a great measure, of spiritual privileges. Between the middle of July, 1812, and the close of march, 1813, he travelled, several months, and labored as a missionary. He distributed many books among the poor. The satisfaction which he took in this branch of his employment, was an abundant compensation for his trouble. The emotions of graitude excited in the receivers, gave hopeful evidence, that

they would be read with attention, and preserved with care. He should always feel himself happy in being employed as an agent by the Society in the distribution of books....It was his deliberate purpose to visit those places which stood in most need of missionary labors. In some settlements, there was an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and a revival of religion....He found people in a diversity of conditions; many unconcerned about their peace with God; some listening with eager attention to the public and private illustrations of divine truth; some anxiously inquiring the way of escape from the wrath to come; some rejoicing in a recent hope of eternal life; some distressed above measure by the loss of friends, during the prevalence of the wasting epidemic; and some on the borders of the grave, about to close, in a few moments, and finally, their opportunities of preparing to meet their Judge in peace....Amidst crying sins and overwhelming judgments, he beheld many proofs, that "the mercies of the Lord are not clean gone forever."

In Avon, the western part of the state of N. York, the Rev. John F. Bliss has a pastoral charge. The last summer, he spent a few weeks in missionary service. He travelled as far as Lake Ontario, visiting a considerable number of towns, and many families, in that very destitute region. The people in general were awfully stupid. The spirit of infidelity manifested itself with its characteristic impudence. In every place, however, he found a remnant, preserved and kept by distinguishing grace. These "wept when they remembered Zion." Though he became acquainted with nothing, that might be called a revival of religion, yet Christ appeared to be gathering souls, here and there one, into his kingdom not leaving himself wholly without witness.

The Rev. John Spencer, of Canadawa, on the south east border of lake Erie, Penn. labored the whole year, as a missionary, chiefly in the Holland purchase. From mid-summer 1812, until the following winter, universal and distressing agitations of that border rendered his prospects of usefulnesss more discouraging and gloomy. In the succeeding winter, spring and summer, however, meetings were better attended. No special revivals have been enjoyed within the circle of his labors. He observed, nevertheless, that the attention to preaching, and the anxiety manifested for more evangelical instruction, were increasing, at the time of his last communication -He has been long experienced in this service, through that extensive, but rapidly settling, wilderness. His travels, as a missionary, have, probably, exceeded seven thousand miles.

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