in the winter, there was still much attention to means, and an earnest desire for gospel privileges. When he left them, a subscription was in circulation to raise money for procuring a partial supply of preaching; their intention being to place it in the funds of this Society, and request such supply from them. The other pla ces he describes as greatly in want of Missionary aid. Some of the people are indifferent, and others very much engaged as to spiritual things. Some infant churches are fanguishing for want of the means of grace. Some places, from great division of senti ment, are unable to procure religious instruction, while others, though abundantly able, care little about it. Sectaries, such as Universalists, Socinians, and Chrystians, abound in many places, while religious institutions are so utterly disregarded in some, that immorality is not ashamed to appear without a covering. The la bours of missionaries are, however, generally well received; many hear the word gladly, and the assemblies on the Sabbath and at conference, are often large, attentive, and solemn. In concluding his modest and interesting report, Mr. Barnard says, "On a review of the Mission, I have not the happiness to collect and present to your view an abundant ingathering that I have made from the Gospel field in which I have laboured. But, the seed is sown, I trust, in truth and sincerity. It remains with the great Head of the Church to give the increase. I could indeed tell you of some thronged assemblies of the silent and solemn attention that peryaded them-of the tears that told the anguish of the heart; but these are no certain indications of a gracious renovation. They may be like the morning cloud and the early dew; yet, I humbly trust, our prayers and labours have not been in vain. The want of Missionary labourers in this particular section of the country is great. It has, until quite recently, been almost entirely neglected by other Societies. To yours they now feel encouraged to look for assistance, and they do look with earnest importunity. Having become personally acquainted with these facts, and having heard the entreaties of the people, it is not without reluctance that I yield to the call of indispensable engagements, and decline a longer continuance on the mission." Mr. Barnard received $7 from two places in which he laboured, which have been credited by him to the Society.

In the latter part of July the Board agreed to employ the Rev. JOHN DAVENPORT, of the Presbyterian Church, who was recommended by Mr. Dunlap as an old, experienced, and very acceptable Missionary, to supply the place of Mr. Barnard. Mr. Davenport probably received notice of his appointment in the latter part of August, and it is presumed is now engaged in the performance of its duties, although no communication has as yet been received from him:*

*Since the Annual Meeting, the Board have been informed that Mr. Da-. venport entered on his Mission in the beginning of October, and was still diligently employed in fulfilling its duties.

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The Rev. JOHN DUNLAP, of the Associate Reformed Church, has spent another year in the service of the Society, as their Missionary in the counties of Oswego, Oneida, Herkimer, and St. LawThe Board have received from him a number of communications. During the year he has formed four new Presbyterian Churches-one at Volney, one at Western, another at Vienna, and the fourth at Oswego falls. There had been at Volney a Congregational church of some years' standing, but it had fallen into ruins. After labouring there for some time, he, in the month of December, at their earnest request, organized them into a Presbyterian Church, of twenty-eight members, ordained three Elders, and dispensed among them the Lord's Supper. In speaking of this event Mr. Dunlap remarks, "this, I think, was the most solemn day I ever witnessed. The solemnities lasted three hours and an half. The weather was extremely cold; and after taking some refreshment I rode four miles, through snow two feet deep, and preached in the evening." He gives the following account of the organization of the Church at Western, in a letter of the 20th January. "I have the satisfaction to inform you, that Western, a town to which I had given a part of my services during the last year, has exceeded my expectations. It was in the most deplorable state when I first visited it, and the most unpromising field I ever laboured in. It had never enjoyed the stated ordinances of God's worship, but was a thoroughfare for Chrystians, and other Sectaries. There was no place of public worship except a very small meeting house of the Friends. A request was made for a part of my services. I complied with it, and among other things urged upon them the duty of erecting a house for the worship of the Living God. Many of the people are rich, and they complied with my request. They have ⚫ finished a very commodious house, which will conveniently hold 700 people. I preached the dedication sermon on the 15th instant, from 1st Kings, viii. 13 and 27. The Church was overflowing, and all appeared very solemn. On the same day, with the assistance of two ministers, there were examined and approved for church membership, nine persons from the world. With them, and six professors, I formed a church of 15 members. I dispensed baptism to 3 adults. The whole of the exercises were attended to with the utmost solemnity, and I trust lasting impressions were made on all present. It was a day long to be remembered by the people of Western. The Lord's Supper was dispensed last Sabbath, The members unanimously resolved to become a Presbyterian Church, and two elders were chosen." He adds, "thus, through divine grace, I have accomplished what I have long laboured and prayed for, and may the Lord build up this infant church, and make it a praise in the earth."

In the same letter he observes, "There are awakenings in several places in this region. The people of the town of Remsen have been in the habit of disregarding God's ordinances and institutions; but for some months there has been a solemn attention among them.

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I have lately spent one Sabbath with them, and Mr. Barnard two. I am requested to administer the Lord's Supper there, which I shall do on Sabbath next. Seven persons have offered themselves, and more are expected to join the Church of God at that place. In the town of Florence, which is destitute of Gospel ordinances, there is also a serious attention to religion. Twelve persons wish to join the Church, and I am earnestly desired to visit that place also, to dispense the Sacrament."

In a letter of March 6, he says, "Mr. Barnard has closed his mission. He has been very acceptable, and his ministry blessed wherever he laboured. I shall now be alone, unless the Board send others to take part with me in the important work. There is evidently an increased attention to divine things wherever we have visited. In a number of places in this region the Spirit of God is poured out. Many others are requesting the everlasting Gospel to be preached unto them, and the healing waters of the Sanctuary administered to their souls. What a howling wilderness presents itself to view! Oh LORD! pour out thy Spirit, and send forth labourers to proclaim salvation to those who are perishing in their sins."

On the fourth of May he writes, "I have frequently expressed my inability to answer all the calls made on me for ministerial labour. The fields are truly whitening to the harvest. On the third Sabbath of April, in answer to repeated solicitations, I dispensed the Lord's Supper in Florence, where a Church has existed for some years, but has never had a settled ministry. Twelve were received on profession of their faith. The day was very stormy, the roads extremely bad, yet a respectable audience attended, and solemnity marked their deportment. Last week I visited the Churches I had planted at Constantia and Volney. The first is reduced to four members, in consequence of removals from that place. The Church at Volney is prospering. Several persons are desirous of becoming members. They keep regular Sabbath meetings. I was pressed to administer the Lord's Supper, but could not tarry." The following is an extract of a letter, dated Rome, 24th June: "Since I brought my family to this place," (in the beginning of that month,) "I have been deeply engaged in my labours, and the Lord has evidently blessed them. I have organized two Churches, one in Vienna, of 12 members; the other at Oswego falls, of 18 members. There has been a great attention to religion in the latter place for some time past. Eight weeks ago I preached in the village, and on a short warning an audience of 200 convened in an evening. I preached with great freedom from these words, "God is love." All eyes were fixed, all ears were open, and I trust their hearts also. It was nearly 11 o'clock before I closed. There was not a sleeping Eutychus present; and if I had continued until midnight the people would have gladly heard me. To the 30 persons mentioned above as having been received in these two places, I have also received 8 in Western, and baptized 8 adults. I have dispensed the Lord's Supper twice in this

time." Mr. Dunlap, as well as Mr. Barnard, gives a most affecting account of the religious state of the population, generally, among whom he has laboured. Hunting and fishing are in some places the common amusements of the Lord's day. There are multitudes, however, extremely eager to hear the Gospel preached. The calls for it are numerous and urgent, while there is among them a grievous famine of the word of life. In the county of St. Lawrence, where Mr. Dunlap is fully persuaded that his ministry has been blessed, there is only one preacher of the Gospel, and he not permanently settled. The uninformed inhabitants of the counties in which Mr. Dunlap has laboured, are represented by him as in imminent danger of being carried away with every wind of false doctrine; as there are not wanting around them and among them many, who, to use his expressions, "are teaching for doctrines, not only the commandments of men, but the doctrines of devils. Such men," he adds," fly to places which are destitute of religious instruction, and lead captive ignorant persons, who become a prey to these apostles of error."

The Board close their account of Mr. Dunlap's labours, with some extracts from his latest communication of September 25th. "Through the infinite mercy of the God of grace and providence, my life has been prolonged two years in the service of the Society. My health has been so good as not to prevent me from fulfilling any appointment for religious service. I have preached twice, but more generally three times, on the Sabbath, and often in the week. I have humbly attempted, in the strength of the Lord Jesus, to perform the duties of a minister of the Cross; preaching salvation to sinners, edifying saints, comforting the afflicted, visiting and teaching from house to house, conversing with many on the concerns of their souls, organizing churches, receiving members, ordaining officers in the house of God, exercising its discipline, and administering the seals of the Covenant to adults and infants. I have the pleasure to observe, that not one whom I have received on confession, have hitherto wounded their profession, or made shipwreck of their faith. May the living God keep them by his mighty power, and receive them into the kingdom of his glory. I have observed that the more I am enabled to deliver divine truth in a plain and Scriptural style, the more is it relished, and the more good, I trust, is done by it. I have generally adhered to my original plan, of labouring in a circuit, watering what I have sown, giving line upon line, and precept upon precept. I have however found it necessary, at times, to deviate from this rule, in answer to pressing calls."

"During my two years' labour I have organized eight churches, have dispensed the Lord's Supper as often as once a month, and received nearly two hundred persons into communion. I have frequently visited and examined schools, and have distributed the greater part of the Bibles, Testaments, Catechisms, and Tracts furnished by the Board, which have been thankfully received, and no doubt done much good. I have laboured one third of the last year at Wes

tern, have received $200 from the church there, and $38 from other places which sums I have credited to the Society."

He thus concludes, "My time for Missionary labours and exertions will soon be over; and the few churches I have planted will soon dwindle and die without further aid; I therefore earnestly en treat the Board and the Society to take active measures for procuring suitable missionaries, who may be placed among them. I cannot boast of that rapid success in my ministry which many have enjoyed; the residue of the Spirit is with the LORD; but I consider it as an infinite mercy, that the God of grace has, in any measure, condescended to bless my very feeble and unprofitable labours with success. To his name be all the glory."

The Board congratulate the Society, that they have been able to secure for another year the valuable services of this venerable, zealpus, and indefatigable missionary. In every letter he earnestly entreats an interest in your prayers, and the Directors hope that the members will not be unmindful of lim, and their other Missionaries, at the Throne of Grace: for, a Paul may plant and an Apollos water, but it is God alone who can succeed, their efforts and give the increase.

In the month of June the Rev. SYMMES C. HENRY, of the Presbyterian church, was appointed to labour in the Southwestern counties of this State, in the direction of Buffaloe. Mr. Henry spent two months on his mission, and finding that Pittsford and Carthage, two villages to the west of Canandaigua, were particularly in want of a preached gospel, he spent the principal part of his time at those two places. In Pittsford he found a church organized, but no stated dispensation of the means of grace. In consequence of this, many of the people were very negligent in the observance of the Sabbath, and apparently indifferent about securing to themselves a preached gospel. He was received in a very friendly manner, and while he continued among them, had no cause to complain of the want of hearers at a single meeting. The audiences on the Sabbath, and at the weekly meetings, were very large and attentive. Towards the close of his labours among them, the number of hearers at the evening meetings became so great as to render it necessary to transfer them from the School-house to the Church. Even those who were formerly scoffers at every thing sacred, and were seldom or never at a religious meeting of any kind, became punctual in their attendance at the house of prayer. He observes, "I know of nothing special occurring under my ministry at this place, except the general and increasing attention to the means of grace; and left them, much more disposed than before to obtain some spiritual guide to point out to them the way to eternal life. Carthage, the other place, and which was the principal scene of his labours, is a small village of about forty families, at the head of navigation on the Genessee river." This," says Mr. Henry, (6 was the spot where I had the happiness to witness the blessing of God on my feeble attempts to promote his cause among a people perishing for lack of

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