(TOBAGO.-1790-RENEWED 1826.)

1 STATION.-Montgomery.

4 MISSIONARIES.-Married, Eberman and Zetsche.

CONVERTS.-Five hundred and seventy-two negroes.

The missionaries bestow much attention on the work of negro education; and the schools increase in number and usefulness. In Jamaica, a new settlement has been begun in St. Elizabeth's parish, called New Fulnec; and the mission at Mesopotamia, in Westmoreland, has been renewed. In Antigua, many changes have taken place among the missionaries, owing to the lamented decease of brother Johansen: there are five settlements in that island. At St. John's, the spiritual charge of nearly seven thousand negroes is attended with much labor and not a few difficulties, arising from various causes. In St. Kitt's and Barbadoes, the meetings in the church and schools are well attended. In the island of Tobago, where a mission was renewed three years ago, from five hundred to six hundred negroes attend the brethren's ministry.

VII. SOUTH AFRICA.-1736.

After being relinquished for nearly fifty years, the mission was renewed in 1792.

6 SETTLEMENTS.-Gnadenthal, Groenekloof, Enon, Hemel-en-Arde, Elim, and Shiloh (on the Klipplaat.)

36 MISSIONARIES.-Married, Clemens, Fritsch, Hallbeck, Halter, Hoffman, Hornig, Lehman, Lemmertz, Luttringshausen, Meyer, Nauhaus, Sonderman, Stein, Teutsch, Tietze, and Genth. Unmarried, Shoppman and Bonatz. Widows, Kohrhammer and Scultz.

CONVERTS.-Two thousand seven hundred and thirty-two, chiefly Hottentots, a few Caffrees, and Tambookies.

We have here six settlements. The missionaries are diligently employed, and God's grace prevails among them and their congregations. At Gnadenthal, the schools flourish more and more. At Hem-el-en-Arde, brother and sister Tietze were eagerly received by the poor lepers, as successors to brother and sister Leitner; and their labor is not in vain. At Elim, the number of converts, as well as of residents, is on the increase. The great and destructive drought throughout the cape colony did great injury to Enon. The mission among the Tambookies, at Shiloh, affords the means of instruction to many savages of different tribes; and numbered one hundred and thirteen inhabitants at the close of the year, whose spiritual and temporal welfare the brethren seek to promote, by every possible means. Brother Hallbeck's visit was productive of many useful arrangements.

TOTAL.-Seven missions, forty-one stations, two hundred and nine missionaries, and about forty-three thousand and six hundred con

verts."

VI. BOOK SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING RELIGIOUS Knowledge amoNG THE POOR.-In 1750, the "Book Society for Promoting Religious Knowledge among the Poor" was formed by several benevolent persons, both Dissenters and Churchmen. The design of this society was to circulate, at the lowest possible price, Bibles, hymn-books, catechisms, and tracts, and the standard writings of the most eminent authors of different denominations of Christians, excluding their peculiarities of church policy or modes of worship. The revered names of Doddridge and Hervey are found in the early annals of this society, as some of its most active and liberal supporters, affording a pledge of a still more extensive union between Churchmen and Dissenters in the work of God. The operations of this institution have been incalculably beneficial in circulating the best religious works among the poor, at the lowest prices; and although its labors have been partly superseded by the Bible, Tract, and Sunday. school Societies, it deserves universal support, as the means of diffusing sound scriptural knowledge, particularly to furnish libraries for the cottage, village, or vestry. Notwithstanding other societies, the issues of its valuable publications are greater now than at any former period of its existence. The receipts of this society, for the year ending December, 1829, as reported, were sixteen hundred and fifty-three pounds, nine shillings, and one penny, and from its commencement up to that period, sixty-seven thousand one hundred and fifty-two pounds, thirteen shillings, and one penny.

VII. NAVAL AND MILITARY BIBLE SOCIETY.-In 1780, the "Naval and Military Bible Society" was formed. In that year, a military camp was pitched in Hyde Park, on account of the riots in London; when "a very few plain Christians," affected with the profaneness of the soldiers, introduced the Gospel among them by conversation and prayer, and suggested the propriety of an attempt to supply them with Bibles. The noble idea was cherished by a few pious officers, and the plan was framed to furnish the whole army and navy with the blessed Word of God. This society has progressively advanced from "the day of small things," and has greatly increased. For several years it has included, in its benevolent regards, the seamen of the merchant-service, with "all descriptions of watermen," and the naval and military servants of the East India Company. From its commencement to the year 1830, there have

been issued two hundred and forty-four thousand four hundred and seventy-seven copies of the Holy Scriptures, by the Naval and Military Bible Society!

VIII. METHODIST MISSIONS.-In 1783, the "Methodist Missions" originated, when Mr. Wesley, at the Conference held at Leeds, declared his intention of sending Dr. Coke, and some other preachers, to America, after the independence of that country had been acknowledged. Mr. Wesley says, in a letter, dated Bristol, September 10, 1784, "I have accordingly appointed Dr. Coke, and Mr. Francis Asbury, to be joint superintendents over our brethren in North America; as also Richard Whatcoat, and Thomas Vasey, to act as elders among them, by baptizing and administering the Lord's Supper." In 1787, Dr. Coke sailed for Nova Scotia with three missionaries, but they were driven by contrary winds among the West India islands, and landed at Antigua, December 25. Here in 1760, Mr. Nathaniel Gilbert, speaker of the house of assembly, had labored in preaching the Gospel; and nearly twenty years after his death, in 1778, Mr. John Baxter, a shipwright, a Methodist from England, with much success. The devoted Moravians also had been the happy instruments of infinite benefits to the negroes; and the door was opened to the Methodists to prosecute their work of mercy. Dr. Coke took other laborers to St. Vincent, St. Christopher's, St. Eustathius. In 1788, he extended the work to Barbadoes, Nevis, and Tortola; in 1789, to Jamaica; in 1790, to Grenada and Dominica. This zealous and laborious man continued to superintend and to direct the missionary affairs of the Methodists during thirty years, with great and progressive success, and on that account he crossed the Atlantic eighteen times! On a voyage to commence a mission in the island of Ceylon he died, in 1814. In 1817, the "Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society" was organized; and since that period its operations have increased, in many places, with most evident tokens of the Divine benediction in the conversion of sinners to God. The following is an abstract of the report presented at the annual meeting of the Society, May 7, 1832.

"The first station noticed was Ireland, all of whose evils were attributed to the want of evangelical piety, which teaches men to live soberly, righteously, and godly, in the present world. In continental Europe, and the Mediterranean, the missions were generally prospering. In Stockholm and Sweden, there were indications of considerable good. At Wirtemburg, there had been some opposition, but there were upwards of one hundred members joined in Christian fellowship. In France, the doctrines of God our Savior were widely spreading, and various new