''Aiii'jiicaii, Indian Mission Association. —This society was founded also in 1842, and is connected with the Bap- tist churches in the south-west, having its executive in Louisville. The agents of this society, numbering abont thirty, have labored among different tribes of American Indians with a consiilcraliU- measure of success, uotwith- staudiiig the ditliciiitics « liich they have had to encoun- ter. Tiiev report upwards id' Hind converted native:; as united in'c'hui-rh Irll.iw-hip <m ihcii- ic^pri'tivc statinns.
"Fr,.- liapti.'^t Mt^xinnnni Suri^l ■ --This Miiall Uut Um'- ful iiisliimi.ni was ,.r-anizrd in \-V:. at itira, in Ilir Siaic ofNew Y..rk, on the brnad ( 'lin~: ian -r-iind oiliaviii- no COnncitidii with slavery. l''or several years it has had a successlul inissinii in Hayti, with 1 missionary, 3 female assistant.-, 1 native pastor, and 4 native teachers.
'' AssuciuteJlr/uniictl I'nshnti'i inn C/ini-ch.— This organ- ization dates from 1>44. and has ^oiit forth three mission- aries to India, two to 'I'nrkey, and three to the Pacific; but we have been unable to gather any very delinite in- formation with reference to the history or the results of their labors.
^'Southern Baptvst Convention's Missions.— The Foreign Missionary Society of the Southern Baptists was formally instituted in 1845, missionaries having been sent out to Cliina the year before. Important stations were formed at Macao, Hong-Kong, and Shanghai, which were very prosperous. In 1848 a gloom was cast over the mission by the loss of Dr. and Mrs. James, who were drowned by the upsetting of a boat when on their way to Shanghai; but the places of the dear departed were soon supplied by other laborers, and the good work continued to advance. The next field of labor occupied by this society was West- ern Africa. Soon after a station had been established in Liberia the work was extended to the Yarriba country, where several colored missionaries were usefully em- ployed, who, from their being of African descent, could better endure the climate. According to the last returns, this society had 40 missionaiies, i'6 native assistants, 12-25 Chureh in.'nibers, and (SS selr.lars in the mis-ion schools.
^•AnhiiK,! Mi.^.sinniliil .|.s.-;i/r(V(//(.,/. — TIlis .-orjetv WES fornir;l ai .\lhanv, X. V., in ihe vrar Is-IC. 1 v llm-e friends of missions win', deelared thenVrlves a.-irievrd by the countenance given by some other i)hi!anthropic in'stitti- lions to slavery, polygamy, aiul kindred forms of evil. Their avowed object was to secure a broad, catholic Viasis for the co-operation of Christians, but to exclude from their organization all persons living in or connivinu- at the flagrant forms of iniquity alluded to. The formation of this society was no sooner made known than it was joined by other smaller institutions, as the 'West India Mission,' the ' Western Evangelical Missionary Associa- tion,' and the ' Union Missiomfry Society,' who transferred their influence and their agencies to it, and thus gave to the new or-auizatioii laborers in the We.-t Indies, umong the North American Indians, and in Wr-imi Africa. The labors of the society were snl)se(|nrnilv extended to Siam, the Saudwicli Islands, California, and EL^ypt. In 1807 it supported over 2(i0 missitmaries at home and abroad. Since that time the pressim;- needs of the freedmen of the Southern States have absorbed almost all the means at the disposal of the board, which they withdrew from other work to do this duty which lay nearest to them. This association have their schools and churches scattered through the f )rmer .slave and border states. The whole number of missionaries and teachers commissioned dur- ing the last ten vears amount to 3470; and schools have been e-ialilisind" in 343 localities, the pupils under in- stru.tion numbering 23,324, who, as a rule, make rapid progress in learning. The interest and zeal of the colored people in urging their children's education increases ev- ery year, and every year they also become more able to assist in the work. In a short time both schools and churches are expected to become self-supportintr.
"American and Foreign Christian Union.— Thii^ institu- tion was oi'ganized in New York in 1S49. It was, in fact, the union of three other small societies— the 'Foreign Evan- gelical Society,' the 'American Protestant Society,' and *u ' f hilo-Italiau Society'— which was afterward.s' called the Christian Alliance. The principal fields of labor culti- vated by these associations, both before and after their union, were the papal countries of France, Belgium, Swe- den, Canada, Hayti, and South America. In 18.54, the fifth year of the new organization, it numbered 140 missiona-
ries of all grades, one half of whom were ordained, and belonged to seven diflerent nations, and a proportionate number of converted natives united in Church fellowship, and scholars in tlie mission schools.
" French Canadian Missionary Society.— This society was organized in 1S39. Its object is to evangelize the French Canadian Itoman Catholics, of whom there are neai'ly a millicHi in the province of Quebec. It is conducted by a committee in Montreal, and employs a threefold agency — education, evangelization, ;ind colportage. Above '240 scholars are supported in whole or in part'by the mission ; eight small French Protestant churches have beeu organ- ized, and about 1300 copies or portions of the Scriptures are annually circulatecl, in addition to other religious works which have been translated for the purpose.
"Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia. — The board was organized in 1844 in con- sequence of an overture on foreign missions by the Pres- bytery of Prince Edward's Island. The principal pro- moter of the enterprise, the Rev. John Geddie, was the first missionary who jiroceedcd to Polynesia, accompanied by Mr. Isaac Archibald as catechist. On reaching their destination, they were kindly received by the agents of the London Missionary Society, and proceeded to estab- lish a station at Anetteum, one of the New Hebrides group, where Ihey arrived in July, 1S4S. The entire pop- ulation of the island soon renounced their pagan prac- tices, and became professing Christians. An an.xious de- sire for religious instruction was manifested, and a goodly number of the natives were brought under gracious relig- ious influences.