BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS.

Recent Intelligence.

DEATH OF MR. REUTLINGER. It is with much regret that we learn the death of the Rev. Salomon Reutlinger, at Benita, July 17th. His disease was erysipelas, which hindered his communion with the Christian friends who ministered to him in his last days, but his life of simple, earnest piety leaves no room for doubt that it was gain for him to die. Mr. Reutlinger was a native of Switzerland, but was appointed as a missionary of the Board after being for some years the pastor of a church in Wisconsin. His widow will receive the tender sympathy of our readers. They will be glad to learn that she will continue in the missionary work, with special reference to the instruction of women and children.

NEW MISSIONARIES SENT OUT.-The Rev. Messrs. David N. Lyon, Algernon Marcellus, and William E. McChesney, and their wives, embarked for China, from New York, on the 1st of November. Mr. Lyon is a member of the Presbytery of Wooster, and his destination is to Hangchow. Mr. Marcellus is a member of the Presbytery of West Lexington, and Mr. McChesney of the Presbytery of Monmouth; they will go to Canton. At San Francisco it is expected that this company will be joined by the Rev. Andrew P. Happer, D.D., returning to Canton, with his wife and children, except his oldest son, whom he leaves at college, and also by Miss Hannah J. Shaw, a member of the church of Sharpsburg, Pa., who accompanies Dr. and Mrs. Happer under the appointment of the Board as a missionary teacher. Miss Lucy A. Happer also goes out under the same appointment, to be associated with her father and the other missionaries at Canton in their work. They will all sail from San Francisco, if the Lord will, about the 1st of December. On the 16th of October, the Rev. Paul H. Pitkin, who had been at home on a visit, sailed with his wife for his field of labour at Bogota.-We ask for these missionaries a continued interest in the prayers of our readers.

ARRIVALS OUT.-We have heard of the arrival of Dr. Hepburn at Yokohama ; Mr. Capp, at the same port, on his way to Tungchow; and Dr. Martin, at Shanghai, on his way to Peking.

“Added to the CHURCH."-At Corisco, two adults and two children were baptized on the 26th of July; several persons who had been backsliders had applied to be restored to the communion of the church, and one of them was received again; there were also some candidates for admission.

NATIVE MINISTRY.-The Presbytery of Shanghai ordained Mr. Hwang Wenlau, (or Mr. Wong, as sometimes written,) a licentiate preacher of more than a year's standing, to the full work of the ministry. One of the students in the school was taken under the care of the Presbytery as a candidate for the ministry. The brethren of this Presbytery mourn over the death of the licentiate preacher, Mr. Yang Wenm'n. Mr. Wherry says of him, "He was a clear-minded, straightforward, and devoted young man, and as a preacher of the gospel already stood in the first rank."

IN JAPAN-The missionaries are much impressed with the importance of forming a station at Yedo, and sending soon one or two of their number to live there, and engage in such labours as may be practicable.

DISCOURAGEMENTS IN INDIAN MISSIONS.-The Rev. Joseph M. Wilson has felt

constrained by his own convictions of duty to withdraw from the Winnebago Mission, and he expects to engage in missionary work under the Domestic Board in the West. This suspends the mission; whether it will be resumed cannot now be foreseen. But little encouragement has attended it thus far, yet we grieve to think of this interesting tribe as deprived of evangelical instruction.—The Omaha boarding school was discontinued on the 30th of September. This was caused by the decision of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, on the recommendation of the new Indian Agents, to terminate the contract by which a considerable part of the pecuniary support of the school was defrayed from the annuity funds of the Omahas. This school has been of great benefit to the Indians, though not acco lishing all that was hoped for. Whether the use of the money withdrawn will do more good in the attempt to support day-schools under the direction of the Agents time will show. We hope our esteemed missionary, Rev. W. Hamilton, will meet with no hinderance in the fulfilment of his work as a minister of the gospel among the Omahas, to some of whom his labours have already been of the greatest benefit. AMONG THE OTHER INDIAN MISSIONS, we still receive good accounts of those to the Creeks and Seminoles. In the former, the boarding school meets with great favour, and many more scholars could be obtained than can be received. One of the scholars has united with the Southern Presbyterian Church, to which her parents belonged. The missionaries are anxious that they and their pupils should be remembered in the prayers of the churches. They also need at least two more teachers; but it is hoped that one is secured, leaving another to be obtained. Mr. Robertson has continued to prepare Creek works for the press. In the Navajo Mission, Mr. Roberts writes of good progress in getting a house for his family and for a few scholars whom he expects to receive.

AMONG THE CHINESE IN CALIFORNIA, Mr. Loomis is steadily carrying forward his work. In the letter acknowledged below he says, "Last Monday I sent out one of our members as a colporteur, one who has never been so employed before; as to earnestness and zeal, I hope much from him, but his knowledge of the Chinese written character is meagre. At present our church members are very much scattered, but this is characteristic of our work here."

THE RECEIPTS of the Mission Treasury, from May 1st, to November 1st:from the churches, legacies and miscellaneous donors, were $60,639; last year, in the same months, $62,844. From churches this year, $844 more; from legacies, $1,857 more; from miscellaneous, $4,907 less; total, $2,205 less.

LETTERS RECEIVED TO NOVEMBER 15TH.-From Omaha, November 5th; Winnebago, October 11th; Creek, October 11th; Seminole, October 4th; Navajo, October 14th; San Francisco, November 4th; Yokohama, September 29th; Peking, September 1st; Chefoo, August 30th; Hangchow, September 10th; Shanghai, September 17th; Canton, September 16th; Petchaburi, August 21st; Allahabad, September 22d; Mynpurie, September 9th; Dehra, September 2d; Kasauli and Murree hill. stations resorted to from Lodiana and Lahor, September 15th, and September 13th; Benita, July 28th; Corisco, July 26th; Rio de Janeiro, September 23d; Bogota, September 17th.

More Men Called For.

The wife of an officer of the army, who is stationed at Fort Sully, on the Missouri River, in Dacota Territory, writes to us concerning the Sioux Indians in that vicinity. The way is now prepared for Christian work among them. She is anxious that a missionary should be sent to them without delay, and certain facilities

for beginning his labours could now be obtained, which may not long be available. -The Presbytery of Southwest Missouri, urgently recommend the Board to send a missionary to the Quapaws, Senecas, and Shawnese, in the northeastern part of the Indian Territory.-And for the Pima and Maricopa Indians, in Arizona, an urgent request for a missionary has been made by some Christian ladies, one of them the wife of an officer of the army, in that territory.-In Liberia, there is pressing need of a well-qualified teacher, who would act also as superintendent, in the Alexander High School; the church in Monrovia also is still vacant.-In the Corisco Mission, the lamented death of the Mr. Reutlinger makes the call for additional labourers still more urgent.-At Tungchow, China, Petchaburi, Siam, and Chieng-mai, Laos country, the calls for missionary physicians have not yet been heard; it is indeed a matter of surprise as well as of regret that such calls for medical missionaries should have been so long addressed to the Church apparently in vain.

Besides the instances mentioned above, there is what may be described as a general call for more men from most of the missions-from South America, India, Siam, China, and Japan. In all these countries, the labourers are few, while the harvest is great. In whatever light we may consider the call for labourers, still their number should be increased. Be it so that our missionary plans should contemplate as one of their main objects the training of a native ministry, in whose hands the work of preaching the gospel to their countrymen can be placed; and let it be admitted that, in some countries, the work of our missionary brethren may have reached such a stage of progress, or else may be so modified by the work of other churches and by the more urgent claims of other fields of labour, that the Board should aim at expansion mainly by means of native labourers, and should endeavour to keep up rather than to increase the number of missionaries from this country; still, more men are needed. To keep the ranks unbroken in any large mission requires new men to be sent out from year to year; furloughs for health, advanced age, and the hand of death make sad reductions of the small band of missionaries in any of the heathen countries of large population. Even in most of the countries best supplied with missionaries, how few are the labourers! The largest mission of our Church is in Upper India, and in those provinces of that country, besides our brethren, there are American Methodist and United Presbyterian, English Episcopal and Baptist, and Scotch United and Established Presbyterian missionaries, to the number in all of about a hundred foreign ordained missionaries; while the population of the country north of a line drawn from Benares to the mouth of the river Indus, can hardly be less than fifty-five millions of souls. The number of native ministers in these provinces is yet but small. For all the people of North India we may safely say, there are not half as many ministers of the gospel as there are in New York or Philadelphia! And this is the state of the case, after that part of the heathen world has been open to the Church of Christ for thirty years or more.

In China the inadequate supply of labourers is still more manifest. The missions of our Church in that country have been spoken of lately by one of the best missionaries of another Board, as "the best organized in China;" the foreign ordained missionaries of our Church, we see by the Chinese Recorder of August last, are somewhat more in number than those of any other Board or Society; and yet, what is our foreign missionary force in the land of Sinim?

We may group our stations in three divisions, calling them the Southern, Central, and Northern. In the first, we may take Canton as the main station, from which the gospel may penetrate into the surrounding and interior regions of

spiritual darkness and death. In the second, we find our stations of Shanghai, Ningpo, and Hangchow. In the third, we have stations at Chefoo, Tungchow, and Peking. The population to be reached by these three missions may be stated as follows:

1. Canton, and three adjacent provinces in which there is no missionary, (omitting the fourth adjacent province, in which there are mission stations of other churches,)-population, 75,538,000.

2. Chekiang and Kiangsu-population, 64,100,000.

3. Shantung and Pechelee-population, 56,948,000.

The number of ordained missionaries of our Board in China from this country, counting all, though some of them are yet on their way, and two are at home for health, is but twenty-one. They are assisted by six native ordained ministers, by two missionary physicians and a printer, and by a goodly company of Christian women from the churches of our country, twenty-four in number. And these are all! The whole number of Protestant missionaries in China, as enumerated in the Chinese Recorder of August last, is one hundred and twenty-nine. Now, when we thus see the immense multitudes of people, and the mere handful of missionaries; when we look at the doors so wonderfully opened within a score of years for sending the gospel into that country; when we consider the great encouragement that has attended our missionary work there; and when we see how within a short time the Chinese people and our countrymen have been brought into near and even visible relations, so that we are now their nearest Christian neighbours, and have peculiar opportunities of making known to them the way of eternal life, must we not feel called upon to rise up and do far more for their help? Do not the facts of the case make a strong plea for more men? What stronger could be made?

It is to the Lord of the harvest we must look for the labourers. It is to him also we must look for the means of sending them out and supporting them. It is to him, moreover, we must ever look for a blessing on their work. Our prayers should constantly have reference to these things.

Progress in India.

The Rev. J. J. Ullmann sends us the following accounts of church matters, and of the training school for native women, in stations of the Furrukhabad Mission. These accounts will be read with great interest. Mr. Ullmann's letter is dated at Futtehgurh, August 6th.

In all our stations of the Furrukhabad Mission we are going to have native pastors for the churches. The subject has been brought forward, preached upon, talked about, and the native brethren are now looking about for pastors. The subject of Systematic Beneficence, too, has been brought forward, and is, to some degree, acted upon. I called the church together, explained everything, reminded them of their duty, brought forward Scripture and example, and the result was

that the church declared themselves
willing to make a collection "every
first day of the week," and they have
been doing it. A deacon being required
to take charge of it, they chose one of
them, Brother-
to be their dea-
con, whom I ordained the Sunday after.
He is a man who is, perhaps, the best
they could have chosen for that post.

The next was the election of a pastor. I advised them not to be in a hurry, but look about, have their own meetings first without a missionary, and see whether they could agree in regard to such a pastor. I told them that, in my opinion, a well educated, pious brother, who does not know English, but has the requisite gifts and graces, as mentioned in 1 Tim. iii., would be much preferable to one who knows English; and that, moreover, such a brother would be contented with smaller salary (say twenty-five or thirty rupees a month at most—twelve or fifteen dollars) than another, who,

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