time for one year. I feel deeply interested for the state of the frontiers, and especially for the infant churches I have planted."

To this, however, we must add an appeal to the friends of missions, in the words of the Report:-"Already have your Board, extended their utmost aid, and more than all your funds have been given to the service of the LORD, and the souls of his people. We are in debt to the amount of several hundred dollars, advanced on the credit of your Christian liberality. May we not say-advanced in faith, that HE, whose is the silver and the gold, will stir up your hearts, and open your hands, to bring into his treasury, of his own, committed to your trust, as his faithful stewards? To you, the Board appeal; to you, look with cheerful confidence, that their hands shall be strengthened, and their spirits reanimated, in their arduous, yet pleasing duties, as your representatives in the cause of GOD."

CONCLUDING ADDRESS.

The present number closes the sixth volume of the Christian Herald. We have had great satisfaction in the perusal of those documents which we have brought before the public, and we close the year under the full and joyful conviction that the kingdom of the Redeemer is visibly advancing. We can repeat, with a still stronger faith, and livelier hope, those words of ancient prophecy, which were impressed as a motto upon the title of the volume :-"His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun, and men shall be blessed in Him all nations shall call him blessed."-Psalms lxxii. 17. "For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea."Isaiah xi. 9. What divine delight must have filled the holy soul of David, when, as he attempted to chaunt the future glories of the kingdom of Solomon, his mind was carried along by an inspiration from God, to the boundless, endless glories of another descendant, greater than himself, the beloved Sovereign of all nations, blessed in Him, and calling Him blessed.-And of Isaiah, when with a nearer and clearer, though still distant view, he beheld his reign full of righteousness and peace, giving a glorious rest to all the habitations of men.

But it is our higher privilege to live when these prophecies are verging to fulfilment; to see the kingdom of the Redeemer already widely spread abroad, and to observe those continual accessions which verify the truth of prophecy, and which every day strengthen the faith and hope of the believer.

We have not room to follow up this suggestion, and can only briefly specify three particulars in the present state of things, which justify our strongest faith and highest hopes, and which encourage us to the most steady and laborious exertion.

1st.-All classes of Christians are engaged in the work of spreading the knowledge of the gospel. See the different deno

minations-the Episcopalians, the Independents, the Presbyterians, the Baptists, the Moravians, the Methodists, though differing in minor points, are engaged in attempts to spread the doctrine of salvation for fallen man, by the sufferings and death of the Son of God. See the different nations-Britain foremost in every contribution and in every toil; Germany and Holland furnishing their messengers of peace; Russia, spreading abroad through all her wide extended provinces the word of life: America, inviting the savages of her wilderness to civilization and religion, and sending to the shores of Asia the doctrine of the cross. See the different conditions of men-the rich and the poor, the old and the young, bringing their contributions; and men of every occupation, ready to give their personal services in behalf of the Heathen. But we pause:lest in pursuing this train of thought, we should seem to intimate, that Christendom is putting forth all her efforts for the conversion of the world. It is not the greatness, or the adequacy of her efforts, which we notice, but their universality; and, though her efforts are faint and few, both in comparison with the wants of perishing men, and her own capacities in their universality, we see abundant evidence, that the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

2d. In all parts of the world Christians are making attempts to spread the gospel. Thirty years ago there was but here and there a Protestant mission upon the face of the whole earth. In all its coasts, and continents, and islands, except in the little spot called Christendom, what traces were there of the visit of a Saviour to the ruined habitations of sinful men? Now, though each individual, and each society, occupy but a little sphere, and are accomplishing but little, that great Master whom they all serve, has dispersed them far and wide among the tribes of men in all the parts of the world, and seems preparing by a combination of efforts, in which there is no visible concert, to bring about, at no distant period, not the conversion of an island, a city, or a nation, but the conversion of the whole world.

3d. This impression is strengthened by the wonderful fact, that, in general, all the missions founded of late, are either in a promising state of progress, or have become, to all human appearance, permanently established. Instead of failing, we have seen them triumphing over all opposition, and continuing unimpaired by sickness or death, until, after a due season of patient labour, they have been crowned with success.

If there be still remaining the power to discern the signs of the times; if the Lord has not made the most extensive arrangements in vain; if the word proclaimed in hundreds of stations cannot return void, then is the Saviour advanceing, to bless the nations of the world.

Happy they, who in their charities to His disciples, in their labours and prayers, accept the privilege of helping on his progress to the dominion of the world!