Sacrifice. As she was pregnant, the diabolical rite was put off till after her delivery. As soon as she recovered she stole a horse and made her escape. Being obliged to leave her babe in the hands of those bloody idolaters, it was immediately transfixed to a sharp pole, and in this situation offered to "the Great Star." Parents, mothers, do you love your children? does the innocent prattle, the artless smile, the playful gestures of your children fill your breasts with exquisite delight? Oh! think of these wretched Pawnees whe sacrifice more or less children every year to an imaginary deity. Oh, ye young men, who have devoted, or are about to devote yourselves to the work of the ministry-will you prefer the case and the enjoyments of civilized and Christian society to a few privations and hardships, and suffer these Pawnees to go on from generation to generation, murdering women, sacrificing children-and not feel one anxious desire to teach them the knowledge of a Saviour?

A direct communication, by means of the United States' trading post, is now open into any part of the Indian country, and all that is wanted, as it respects means, is Missionaries to enter the field. In fraternal affection, yours, &c.

J. M. PECK.

P. S. Our Meeting-house goes on rapidly; the brick work is finished. We shall have a commodious room designed for a school room and vestry in the lower part, finished in a few weeks.

HEATHEN YOUTH,

The following letter, received from one of the natives of the Sandwich Islands, now at the Foreign Mission School, by his friend in Boston, evinces the improvement he has made during the eighteen months he has been in the School:

RESPECTED FRIEND,

Cornwall, Noy. 21, 1818.

I have but a moment to write a line to inform you of my pleasant situation in Cornwall. Here I have great advantages; the religious instruction which I receive is great. I need to be thankful to God for it. I feel myself under great obligations to my Maker for bringing me from heathen darkness to this Christian land, where I am taught the true precepts of the Gospel. I think I take great comfort in reading the Holy Bible, which is sent from Heaven, to teach man his true case, and show him what he must be in order to obtain eternal life. My health is very good, and I feel myself very much contented with my situation, and I hope to improve my. time well here, so that I may soon return to my country with the word of God, and declare to my fellow men the wonders of salvation. I hope these lines will find you in health, and happy in the Lord. I am your sincere friend, GEORGE SANDWICH.

THE HEATHEN.

The Rev. Mr. Beecher, in his sermon delivered in Park-street church, Boston, at the ordination of a number of missionaries to the heathen, makes the following pathetic appeal to his audience:

"If the gospel would be no blessing to the heathen, it is none to us. If their superstitions are as salutary to them in their moral influences as the gospel would be, they would be as great a blessing to us as the gospel is. Make the exchange then, ye who profess such charity and philanthropy towards the heathen. Give them your Bible, and pastors, and Sabbaths; and receive their idol gods, and Brahmins, and religious rites. Demolish the temples of Jehovah; and rear up to roll through your streets the car of Juggernaut, "besmeared with blood of human sacrifice," covered with emblems of pollution. Put out the Sun of Righteousness and bring back the darkness visible. Kindle up the fires that shall consume annually in a circumference of thirty miles, two hundred and seventy-five widows on the dead bodies of their husbands, and leave behind thousands of children doubly orphans. Welcome to your shores the religion which shall teach your children, when you are sick, to lay you down by the cold river side to die; and when their mothers shall shrink from the glowing flame, with their own hands to thrust them in. Welcome to your hearts a religion which shall teach you to entice your smiling children to the waves and plunge them in, to attract by their cries the sympathy of strangers, or to perish, and become the food of alligators. Welcome to your hearts a religion which, if sin shall annoy, and the fear of punishment invade, will send you to drink of the waters that lave your shores, and wash in their flood as your most effectual remedy. Fill your houses with Indian gods of brass, and wood, and stone; and blow the trumpet of jubilee at your emancipation from the Gospel; and shout before your idols, "These be thy gods, O Israel!"

On the establishment of Schools, or Orphan Houses, in the Turkish Empire. In a letter of the Rev. W. Jowett, dated Malta, April 25th, he remarks

"While the cause of the Bible and of Missions is irresistibly making its way in the hearts of our countrymen, how delightful is it to behold the spirit of toleration, and even of religious inquiry, springing up among the very people for whom we labour and pray! While we seek to bless them, they seem to ask the blessing! Such hopeful signs of better days should teach us not to be soon weary in well doing; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

There is something in the mixed character of the inhabitants of Mahomedan countries, when well understood, peculiarly favourable to the introduction of Divine Truth. Every degree of indulgence and toleration afforded by law, usage, or public opinion, on the part of the dominant power, should be improved to the utmost, for the purposes of fair argument and kind persuasion, among the Mahom

edans themselves. On the other hand, the immense and variously divided Christian population would afford to the Missionary some recommendation of his objects; some protection in occasional difficulties; and the hope of gaining, at no very distant period, enlightened fellow-labourers.

"The latter part of this remark applies more particularly to the Asiatic Christians, and those in Greece and Egypt. Through all the North of Africa, from Lybia westward to Morocco, a Christian bishop has not been known for centuries.

"But I proceed to the extracts, which will prove interesting to the members of many religious societies in England; and oh! that multitudes might be awakened to hear and answer the piercing cry of these people, Come over and help us.

SMYRNA, MARCH 14, 1818.

'God be with you (Mr. Williamson writes) in your journeyings in Egypt, and conduct you safe through the ancient land of promise! May you be well prepared for disappointments, to lessen their weight, and to blunt their poignancy.

'I proceed to inform you what can be done respecting school establishments such as are on the West-African coast.

"By the laws of the Ottoman empire, every foreigner and all denominations of Christians have a perfect toleration; a full liberty to worship God according to their own manner and discipline; and publicly to teach the doctrines of Christianity to all who are desirous of learning them, excepting to Mahomedans. No blame is attached to a preacher if a Turk voluntarily joins a Christian assembly; the danger impends only over the convert; his blood, should it be spilt, would be on his own head-a crown of glory! 'Granting no instance of a conversion took place among the Turks for these ten years, still the sowing of the seed of salvation among thousands of our fellow-creatures, bearing the name of Christ, but ignorant even of the first principles of Christianity, would be an ample recompense for our brethren in England, to induce them to undertake that labour of love, of establishing schools on the coasts of Asia Minor and in the Greek Islands. Our friends might here have great opportunities of clothing the naked, feeding the hungry, and sheltering the friendless orphan.

On this point Mr. Jowett remarks :—

"Is it possible to forget, in how many instances the care of orphans has issued in the establishment of missionary institutions and colleges? Thus it has happened in Germany, in America, in India, in West Africa, It might form an interesting subject for a detached history."

Mr. Williamson proceeds→→

'After a great plague, numbers of young innocents, destitute of every protector, are left to the mercies of a hard hearted world. One family I have discovered so miserably ignorant, through vice and poverty, that they were neither Protestants, Greeks, Armeniang,

nor Papists. They bear, however, the name of Christians. One of this family, a boy of nine years of age, I have undertaken to educate.

Of stations for schools, there are not fewer than six, at the distances of from two to ten hours ride from Smyrna ; and many more, at a greater distance, and in the Islands. The names of the towns and villages alluded to, are Smyrna, Magnisi, (the farthest, distant nine hours ride,) Boojah, Hajelah, Boornabat, and Sediquy. Magnisi is half as large a Smyrna, without, I believe, a single European.

With respect to Missionaries, I have to observe, that an individual ignorant of the principal language of the country, would be of very little service. So long as there is a Chaplain in Smyrna, where there is a chapel full large enough for the number of English residing in the city, and so long as there is no other English settlement in Asia Minor, there is no necessity at all for an English preacher. "Should a school be established in Smyrna similar to those in Africa, the master and mistress should be perfectly well acquainted with the French language; and the master should know something of Greek. Three only of the Smyrna ladies speak English. Could not Jersey or Guernsey produce a person well qualified, having a willing mind to come over and help us, if the Society felt inclined to favour the object?

Mr. Williamson observing, 'I could wish you to have some French, and one or two Greek sermons ready by the time that you arrive here,' Mr. Jowett says, "The Homilies, in excellent modern Greek, of Bishop Miniati, contain two of the most simple and pathetic discourses upon the Passion that I have ever seen."

In the subsequent letter of April 6th, Mr. Williamson adds

'Should schools be established at convenient distances, I could superintend or visit them about once a month; or oftener, upon any emergency.

I would propose such establishments to be called Orphan houses; and that the object should be to teach, without distinction, the poor, but to feed and clothe only the destitute orphan. In such a place, and to an audience of which the children would make a part, the gospel would appear in a more amiable form. The comfortable provision and happiness of the little innocents snatched from indigence, shame, and death, would stifle the jealousy and displeasure of many; and light and reformation would extend their happy influence, with fewer obstructions to stop their progress.'

REVIVAL IN BELCHERTOWN.

We have seen a Gentleman from Belchertown, who informs, that fifty persons made a publick profession of religion in that town, on the last Sabbath. About 150 more are expected soon to make profession. There are probably, as before stated, as many as 500 persons more or less affected by the work, but not so many that have as yet given evidence of a change. The Rev. Mr. Porter has been obliged to call for assistance from his

ministering brethren, so great is the desire of the people for religious instruction. We hope at a proper time to be favoured with a particular account of this glorious work.

From the Panoplist.

JEWISH SCHOOL AT BOMBAY.

Leller from the Rev. Gordon Hall, to the Secretary of the Female Society of Boston and the vicinity, for the propagation of Christianity among the Jews, dated Bombay, April 1, 1818.

DEAR MADAM,

In behalf of my brethren of the Bombay mission, I have the happiness of acknowledging the receipt of your letter of October 2, 1817, apprising us of the appropriation of one hundred dollars by your Society towards the support of the Jewish school under our care in Bombay. The money has been duly received through Mr. Evarts, for which we desire you will present our most cordial thanks to the society; assuring them that we feel a high pleasure at the formation of such a society, and that it will be our delight to apply the money already appropriated, or any other sums which they may see fit to appropriate, agreeably to their wishes.

We have much pleasure in stating, for the information of the society, that the Jewish school was commenced in May last. About forty Jewish boys soon entered it, and the number has continued, without essential variation, until now. The boys are from six to eighteen years of age. Some of them remain but a few months in the school; others a longer time. Soon after the formation of the school the ten commandments and other moral precepts and lessons were given to the boys, all in the Mahratta language, which is best understood by them. A hymn also was given them, expressive of repentance for sin, faith in Christ, as the only Saviour of sinners, praise to Him, and a desire that all may know and praise him. More or less of these are daily read, and repeated in the school; and not unfrequently a number of the adult Jews are present, who must receive some Christian instruction from what they hear. As soon as the Gospel of Matthew and our religious Tracts were printed, they were introduced into the school; and as yet there is no objection to any thing which we have proposed to teach the boys. We say boys, because in this country it is never expected that girls will be taught to read and write. The school is instructed by a Jew about forty years of age, from Choule, a large town on the coast, twentyfive miles south from Bombay. But few among the Jews so well understood the Mahratta language as this man. His brother, from the same place, teaches the school which we have established among the outcasts of the Hindoos, called Mhars. It will be interesting to the society to know, that numbers of the Jews in Bombay have solicited and received copies of the Gospel of Matthew, and that copies have also been sent to the Jews in Choule.