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very wicked white people among both the nations, even to that day; that those wicked people ever have had the first chance to live on the borders of the Indians to use the natives as they please. And I often told them, that if the good religious people had had the first chance to settie among the natives, the destruction of so many thousands of both colours might have been prevented and that since the United States have obtained Independence, the President and his great counsellors have taken measures to protect the natives; and many of their religious people are looking on Indians with an eye of pity. By talking to them repeatedly in this manner, they by degrees appear to be willing to lay aside their prejudices, and acknowledge what I have related must be true. And I have found that there are many well disposed Indians, who would be glad to hear instruction, but still afraid

and many of them have often told me, that if my people should come and live in that country, they would join them immediately, to live with them, and follow civilization, &c.

HENDRICK AUPAUMUT. 66 'New-Stockbridge, March 4th, 1816."

Narragansets.-Mr. SHORES, after an intermission of the Indian School from the 6th of October 1814, (the date of our last account of it,) until the 26th of December, then resumed his instructions, and continued them until the 30th of march 1815. He appears to have been zealous in his endeavours and unwearied in his labours to diffuse useful knowledge among the Indian children and youth, and to promote Christian virtue and piety among the Indians at large. Having enumerated many difficulties, which he had to encounter, he adds: "Yet, in the midst of all these, it hath pleased GoD, in answer to the united prayers of his people, to crown, in some degree, with success, the benevolent exertions made by the Society for propagating the Gospel. I feel highly gratified that I can say, the children have attended better than before, notwithstanding the unusual severity of the winter, which,

in their circumstances, might have justified negligence; and that their improvement in reading, catechism, spelling and a little in arithmetick, has been as great as in schools in general in Massachusetts."

District of Maine.--The Rev. DANIEL LOVEJOY has performed two missions, of two months each, during the two last years. On the first mission, he preached four sabbaths at Vassalborough, one at Fairfax, one at Unity, one at Dixmont, one at Readfield, and one at Harlem.

The Rev. Dr. NATHANIEL PORTER, appointed the last year to a mission of two months at Alfred, Limerick and the vicinity, performed the service assigned him.

The Rev. ASA PIPER, appointed the last year to a mission of two months at Belfast and the vicinity, performed the service assigned him, apparently to good acceptance. The mission, though "unexpected" by the people of Belfast," was received with gratitude," and, the missionary had reason to conclude, would "produce some good effect."

Mr. ROBERT COCHRAN, appointed the last year to a mission of two months, commenced it at Palermo, where were a few persons who had been members of a presbyterian church, but had not for a long time heard a minister of their persuasion. He found a respectable audience there;" and advised the 'friends of religious order to make exertions towards obtaining assistance for themselves. They promised to do "what they were able."

Mr. JOSIAH PEET, at the very time of receiving a commission from the Society, in 1814, as a missionary for the vicinity of Norridgewock, was presented with a call from the town of Norridgewock to settle with them in the gospel ministry: with the offer of two fifths of his support from the town, and liberty to employ the remainder of his time, beyond what they might thus claim, in doing missionary service in the vicinity. Encouraged by the Maine Missionary Society, and by this

appointment from ours, he concluded to accept the call, and to enter immediately on his mission.

creasing the happiness of a considerable number of their fellow creatures, they will continue to it, I hope, their

Mr.STETSON RAYMOND,recommended fostering kindness." to the Committee by Rev. Dr. Patten, performed a mission of two months the last year, at Dartmouth and the vicinity.

Mr. RAYMOND has recently complet ed a second mission of two months at Dartmouth and the vicinity, assigned him by the Society at its last annual meeting. He performed missionary service in a parish in Rochester and Freetown, where the people had been destitute of a minister for more than twelve years; and where the prevalence of an epidemical and mortal disease rendered his labours peculiarly seasonable and useful.

The Rev. JOHN SAWYER has performed a mission of two months, to which he was appointed the last year, at Brownville and the vicinity.

The Committee have great pleasure in reporting to the Society, the continued and highly favourable results of their annual appropriations to the support of the ministry and schools at Ellsworth, and the vicinity. The Rev. Mr. NURSE, in his last year's Report, observes: "The liberality of your Society to the school under my instruc tion, and the means, which they have put into my hands for the encouragement of women schools in the neighbouring towns, are peculiarly gratifying."

Having mentioned his attention to economy in the management of the society's bounty, he adds: "Upwards of a dozen females of this town will be employed out of it this season in the business of instruction. Some of these will receive their compensation wholly from their employers; but most of them will receive one half, or one third, of their wages from your bounty. The influence of our school has become much more extensive than I had anticipated in so short a time. If your Society should continue to think that the school promises to be a mean of enlightening the minds, of improving the condition, of extending the usefulness, and of in

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In regard to the influence of this school on children and youth in the vicinity, and in regard to the appropriation of the money entrusted to him, Mr. Nurse observes, that eighteen young women, educated in his school, were employed last summer, and six young men last winter in teaching schools. Eleven of these schools were in part supported by the money intrusted to his hand by this society, and half the sum intrusted with him by the Evangelical Missionary Society. Most of these schools he visited, and "had the happiness to find them accurately taught and well governed, and the teachers of them highly acceptable to their employers. These eleven schools were continued in operation from ten to twenty weeks."

The Rev. Mr. WARREN has given us favourable accounts of the schools in Jackson and the vicinity, the two last years. "Where good schools have been kept;" he observes, "there is such a difference in the manners and habits of the people, that those who have been most opposed" to education, "have contributed generously to encourage it." The last year (1815) he introduced ten young persons into schools, as teachers; visited all the schools in the vicinity, and found them, generally speaking, in good order."As far," he writes, " as I have extended my assistance in introducing teachers, the youth have made great improvement. Parents see the necessity of having teachers that are qualified to instruct.-In the summer season there were in Jackson two schools for small children, two in Lincoln, three in Knox, three in Dixmont, and one in Lee; in these schools there were two hundred and fifty scholars. In the winter there were schools in all these places, to accommodate large and small scholars; in all these there were three hundred and fifty scholars. These were all in good order, and the scholars have done well,"

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BOOKS. The Society, the last year, voted $200 for the purchase of books, including the expense of an Edition of WilEssay towards an Instruction for the Indians ;" the expediency of reprinting which was referred to the Select Committee. A large edition of that valuable work was procured to be printed by the Committee, and the remainder of the appropriation was applied to the purchase of Sermons for Children, Friendly Visit to the house of Mourning, Watt's Series of Catechisms, Flavel's Token for Mourners, Doddridge's Rise and Progress, Watt's Psalms and Hymns, and Webster's Spelling Books.

To these were added Bibles and Tes-、 taments, presented by the Massachusetts Bible Society- At the last annual meeting, the Society voted an appropriation of $200 for books. The Committee purchased 500 additional copies of Wilson's Essays, which, with 1000 copies the last year, took up the whole of the edition. The remainder was applied to the purchase of Friendly Visit, Watts's Psalms and Hymns, Watt's Series of Catechisms, Doddridge's Rise and Progress, Sermons for Children, Spelling Books and Tracts.

To these were added Bibles and Testaments, from the Massachusetts Bible Society. The number of books and tracts, distributed the last year, was 664; the number since May last, 440; total, since May 1815, 1104.

The books have been chiefly distributed in the District of Maine, where they were solicited, and where they have been gratefully received.

The Committee have thus endeavoured to give the Society a full view of

the transactions of the two last years. From this view, it is believed, they will derive satisfaction from the past, and encouragement for the future. If, in some instances, less has been done than was expected; in others, expectation has been exceeded by perfor

inance.

The society is now commencing the thirtieth year of its labours. If, in review, we can perceive the blessing of God accompanying our endeavours; if we are persuaded, that the benevolent and pious design of the founders and patrons of the Society has been, in some good degree, effected; if we can entertain no reasonable doubt that, through our instrumentality, some, at least, of the native inbabitants of our country have been rescued from heathenism, brought to the knowledge of the true God, and of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of sinners, and made wise unto salvation; and that many of our own people, in new and destitute settlements, have been preserved from Pagan ignorance, and made heirs of glory and immortality, by the Word of life, imparted to them by our means; let us not be weary in well doing, but persevere in the laborious, yet benevolent service, with increasing activity and zeal. Would we promote the best interests of our country? Would we, especially, save souls from death? Let us, so long as the pulse of life shall beat within us, do what in us lies towards diffusing the light and promoting the influence of the Gospel of Christ; and may God Almighty send us pros-perity!

By Order of the Select Committee,

STATEMENT OF FUNDS, 1816.

U. S. Six Per Cent. Stock.

Per face of Certificatereal value 1 Apr. 1816. Union Bank Stock, nominal value

A. HOLMES, Sec'ry.

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Massachusetts State Note,

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Bonds and Mortgages

Of the above capital $8886 42 is considered as the donation of Hon. JoHN ALFORD, Esq. and the income thereof appropriated exclusively for the benefit of the Indians.

$500 was presented to the Society in June, by His Honour WILLIAM PHILLIPS, Esq. to be expended during the current year.

The Collection at the Church in Chauncy Place, on the 7th November was $221 20.*

OFFICERS ELECTED, XXX MAY, MDCCCXVI,

His Honour WILLIAM PHILLIPS, Esq. President.
Rev. ELIPHALET PORTER, D.D. Vice President.
Rev. ABIEL HOLMES, D.D. Secretary.
Rev. WILLIAM E. CHANNING, Assist. Secretary.
Mr. SAMUEL H. WALLEY, Treasurer.
Mr. JOSIAH SALISBURY, Vice Treasurer.

SELECT COMMITTEE.

Samuel Salisbury, Esq. Rev. Jedediah Morse, D.D. Alden Bradford, Esq. Mr. James White, Rev. Charles Lowell, with the President, Secretary, and Treasurer.

LETTER FROM MR. HAWTREY, TO MISS. HANNAH ADAMS.

My dear Madam,

Your kind letter enclosing a draft for one hundred pounds from the Ladies' Boston Society has just come to hand, and I hasten to send you the cordial thanks of our Committee for the same. I have also to acknowledge the receipt of your interesting work with the accompanying letter. Amidst some discouragements sent doubtless by God to try our faith and patience, a very bright prospect of a final blessing on our endeavours still lies open before us. We have just completed the four Gospels and Acts of the Apostles in pure Biblical Hebrew, and the Committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society has just also received such press ing calls for them from Russia and Poland, where there are near a million Jews, that they are about to take of us one thousand copies for immediate circulation there. This is a most providential interference in our favour, and shews at once that God is with us. We have also two young Jewish Rabbies who are studying for the ministry, in whom the grace of God is very conspicuously displayed. In our schools we have at this time forty-one boys and thirty-seven girls. Most sincerely praying that the God of Abraham may bless all those Ladies who have taken up the cause of poor outcast Israel, and that their example may be very widely followed in America.

I am, dear Madam,
Yours, very truly,

C. HAWTREY, Joint Sec'ry.

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The following extracts are from a letter recently received from a friend in England, dated at Ipswich the 4th of October, 1816. "The Solemn Review of the custom of war,' has had a great circulation in this country, considering the short time which has elapsed since its republication with us.

I first saw it at the house of an aged friend, who had it from an American correspondent. He had but one copy of it, and so valuable did he consider it, that he was not willing to lend it but to such as had shown an interest in the cause, and to such as he could rely on for returning it quickly.-I applied to my friend and gained his permission to republish it.-This edition was printed in Ipswich, consisting of 1000 copies, and sold in about six weeks. We then printed a second of 2000 copies of which about 1500 are sold, Since which time a friend at Stockport has applied for leave to print 3000 on his own account, and 1000 more for a PEACE SOCIETY established at Plough Court, London. Besides these editions,

* Sermon by Rev. William Greenough; a copy of which was requested, but not obtained.

a large one has been published by a LONDON PEACE SOCIETY, consisting chiefly of Unitarians."

"On reading the first number of the Friend of Peace, it so well pleased me that I directly concluded on reprinting it. I have 2000 of them just arrived from the press."

War

"Of the works lately published on the subjects of Peace here, Dr. Chalmers sermon on universal Peace''Christianity, a system of Peace in two letters' Extracts from Erasmus on war'-W. P. Scargill on the impolicy of war'-Extracts from Scott's inconsistent with the doctrines of Christianity'' Extracts from Grotius' --And now publishing the opinions of all authors who have written on the subject of war, excepting those of our religious society, by a Dissenting Minister at York. I have also a little pamphlet in hand to be entitled, observations on the subject of war, by Pacificator."

"That there is in this country an increasing desire for the promotion of every good work, that there is a more harmonious cooperation amongst all sects of professed christians, when any moral or religious advantage is practicable by the association of their exertions, is generally allowed; and it is pleasing to observe, that the sentiment in favour of peace is, though slowly, increasingly spreading, and that all appear willing to listen to information regarding war-the evils of which a considerate mind cannot think of but with feelings of regret mixed with horrour.

The letter contains the remarks of ministers of different denominations and of other publick characters on the Solemn Review; some of which are expressed in terms of approbation not proper to be given in the Christian Disciple. But the following observations it is hoped, will not be regarded as improper to be published, as they not only show the effect which that tract has had on the minds of individuals of different sects, but suggest modes of promoting its objects.

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A clergyman of the established religion came to me for some copies of the Solemn Review, and remarked that he

had read it and had derived satisfaction from the perusal-thought it should be generally circulated. He was then on a journey in which he intended to distribute the copies he had bought."

"A respectable attorney-upon seeing the Solemn Review, began to read it, and remarked, that he could not leave it until he had gone through the whole of it. And afterwards acknowledged the arguments unanswerable. He requested to purchase 20 copies to distribute."

"An independent minister who had a Solemn Review inclosed to him in a parcel, without any remark respecting it, wrote to me as follows:-' I have to thank you, which I do most sincerely, for the gratification I have derived from reading the Solemn Review.'--He adds, speaking of Peace Societies," Oh! my friend, let us make a beginning; I offer you, with feelings I cannot express, my name, my influence and my subscription!"

"A baptist minister pressed the establishment of a Peace Society in consequence of reading the Solemn Review."

"The printer of our present provincial Newspaper offered to insert two sections of the Solemn Review every week in his paper, free of cost. Several persons who had read it, by this means, mentioned to me the pleasure they had received, and the force of the arguments."

From these extracts it appears, that the subject of war had excited considerable attention in England; that various publications had been circulated; that three editions of the Solemn Review had been printed, and a fourth called for; that two Peace Societies had been formed in London, and propositions made for such societies in other places. These are the Lord's doings. Thus he is sowing the seeds of peace, which will spring up and bless the generations to come.

The doubting friends of peace, in our country, may lay aside their fears, that the Massachusetts Peace Society was formed too early, or that it will discourage a martial spirit too much to comport with the safety of the nation. "The God of Peace," under whose pa

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