ries, to clergymen and teachers laboring among the scat- tered settlers of Australia, and to mission statious and schools in several of the British colonies.
" The London Sonety .for Promotinii Christianitu among the Jews was founded in the year ISus, although it was not fully organized until the f«illowiug year. The consti- tution originally contemplated two objects: 'To relieve the temporal distress of the Jews, and to promote their spiritual welfare.' Public worship, and the education of the children under the care of the society, within the I'niled Kingdom, arc conducted in strict conformity to the principles and formularies of the Church of England, with which it has always been identitied both in its'man- ageineiil aixl principal supp<irt. The tirst sphere of its action was among the Jews iu London. In 1^11 a print- ing-press was established to give emidoymeut to ))oor Jewish converts. Two years later a chapel and stho<ds were ojiened for the benefit of seventy-nine proselytes and their families. In ISIS the first foreign ndssionary was sent forth to labor in Poland, where aseminary was soon afterwards established for the training of Jewish converts as missionaries. The society also published a Hebrew edition of the Sciijituics for the Jews generally, and |)repaicd a .liida. "-polish version for I'oland, and a Svriac vei-ion for the C.ibalislic Jews. In 1S40 the Jew- i^h colicL'c f.'i- the complete liainin- of missionarv agents u;i- .-i;i!ili-lnd. It has prove. i all imiionant auxiliary to •lowi-li in;>-ions, nol only in coniiecti.m with the London socieiy. Inn ;il-.. lo kind'ird in?! li .u ions which were af- terwards 1 ;i :< .1 :!;...,:..., i i ■ l...iidon Society has above 30 111 1 i i lit of the Jews iu
Europe, Asi I. . n missionaries, of
whom upwiid. .1 till .i:>. c ii.Liu .; l-iaelites; about 20 schools, with an aggregate of Hebrew children during the last thirty years of upwards of Ui,hOO. This society has seen 50 of its converts ordained as clergymen of Christian coiiL-n-ji-i I - n- liome. and it has distributed above 60,000 CO]. . . ' ■ ' 1 1 111 cw Sci i|iliii es.
/ /' tor I'll] ii'Ktiiifj Christian K7iovledge.
—Till- i:,-i; i,;:..ii \M,- r-ial.li>hed in Edinburszh in the
ias
, 1 1 acts, etc. — at il dependencies. Its of the coun- by subscribing
JgtheAn Thrc<. I
and cspeciallv in il,. 1 1 :. The pagan world sulisc., the directors, and called f About twenty years .-ifie lered into corn tions anion, England the aborigines of ; i . -. -. . i • n toward ciicumstanccs « Inrh on i been wanting in adai)tation withdrawn. In 1741 a mis^ion Delaware Indians, which met w her of native converts were k baptism, and the heart <d' manifest tokens of Ihe di L'ood work was also carii Indians of Lonu' Island l.\
, . -.11 in Hi,' iiiili-h mil. ire, !i':i: M- iii.d Miilids of S.-.. Hand, nciilly aricsled the attention of irtli their sympathies and elTorls. r its formation this society en-
New
leir work, and were
-tablished amoi g the
eat success. A num-
1 into the Church by
missionarv was cheeied by
inesencc and blessini:. A
II for some time among the
.'_. n. \ of this society ; but
... - -. iilcd on the banks
quel
'J'hc Sri'tti.-ih Mi^s^oiiai,; >iici,i,: was instituted in the month of February, 179(5,' under the designation of the Edinburgh .Missionary Socieiy. The first mission of this society to Sierra Leone was not a success. iNolhing
Mi
lireclion oft ns. The fill .plieil in the
Ch
daunted bv Western Afi sent out two failed in c.n
lie comparative failure
niti
md hi
the institution has inc
and at jiiililic meet
been supported in a very liberal manner. 1
'•The principal spheres of labor entered upon and efh- ciently worked by the agents of the I'huiih Mis.-ionaiy Society have becii in Western Africa, Coiiiinenial India. and Cevlon, British North Ameiica,and the W<sl Indies. In all these countries, but esjiecially in iheoiielirsl named, the missionaries, catechisis, and leacbers of this instilu- tion have toiled with commendable zeal and diliirence, and have been fav.rcd to see the fruit of their labor on a lai-.'c -.■ .'•■ 'I'll.- V-- ■' . ' /.■■.■</,-i/ ._rives slalistics of the Chunh Ml - .-, - .. l>;;(iaiidls7orespeclively:
'The 1.1 ..1 1 . i-ly tlien was xiio.ci;-.' : now
of the m
Miss
This m -ive and of this s( l.'ussia. v
isl
to
irv Society
■;es
thev are -1,71'.'. (iiicliidin .i,. - iu istVJ to the native i hir 'i inimber of European ml -, n r 20:!. There was not then ..i;.> n eni)iloved by the society ; now tin i l,lsr,-.';i.herehad gone forth on fo: ti(m with the Church Missionary rious countries ami races; of I he- Germans. Since that period ii laiji clenrymen have eiiL'aged in mis-i.. "the Colonial Chinrh and N. 7e garded as suppU'inentarv lr> the C elv. It has rendered valuable assi ries employed in the far north
jferr
. ii.'.r.-lergvnian . '.'. Ip to .March II \ i.e. in coniiec- V, .'.I'.'J men of va- . -- than 121 were ...1 ti.in of English \.ik.'
.. '' may be re-
Mi^sionary Soci- ■ to the missiona-
wilds of British
were :il-o s.nl M India, when l',..inbav ami Puna were oc- laipied as principal stations. In ]s:!.1 this branch of the woik was transferied to the General Assembly t>( the Chinch of Scotland, which had recently commenced oper- ations in India. In ls24 a missi.m was organized for Ja- maica, which was productive of much good. This pro- duced a mission t.. Old Calabar, W.'sterii Africa, which has been proseculed with vigor and success. In I>>47 the stations of this society in Jamaica were transferied lo Ihe rnitcd Presbyterian Church, by which they are now car- ried on Willi ellicieiicv and success.