But the usual way, and, stretching out my hand, expressed my pleasure at seeing him again. He put his hand behind him, and asked me, rather wildly, who I was. I replied that I was Moffat, expressing my wonder that he should have forgotten me. "Moffat," he rejoined, in a faltering voice, "it is your ghost!" and moved some steps backward. I am no ghost, I said. "Don't come near me !" he exclaimed, "you have been long murdered by Africaner." I am no ghost, I said, feeling my hands, as if to convince him and myself too, of my materiality; but his alarm only increased. "Every body says you were murdered, and a man told me he had seen your bones ;" and he continued to gaze at me, to the no small astonishment of the good wife and children, who were standing at the door, as also to that of my people, who were looking on from the wagon below. At length he extended his trembling hand, saying, "When did you rise from the dead?" As he feared my presence would alarm his wife, we bent our steps towards the wagon, and Africaner was the subject of our conversation. I gave him in a few words my views of his present character, saying, he is now a truly good man. To which he replied, "I can believe almost any thing you say, but that I cannot credit; there are seven wonders in the world; that would be the eighth." I appealed to the displays of Divine grace in a Paul, a Manasseh, and referred to his own experience. He replied, "These were another description of men, but that Africaner was one of the accursed sons of Ham, enumerating some of the atrocities of which he had been guilty. By this time we were standing with Africaner at our feet, on whose countenance sat a smile, well knowing the prejudices of some of the farmers. The farmer closed the conversation by saying, with much earnestness, "Well, if what you assert be true respecting that man, I have only one wish, and that is, to see him before I die; and when you return, as sure as the sun is over our heads, I will go with you to see him, though he killed my own uncle." I was not before aware of this fact, and now felt some hesitation whether to discover to him the object of his wonder; but knowing the sincerity of the farmer, and the goodness of his disposition, I said, This, then, is Africaner! He started back, looking intensely at the man, as if he had just dropped from the clouds. "Are you Africaner ?" he exclaimed. He arose, doffed his old hat, and making a polite bow, answered, "I am The farmer seemed thunder-struck; but when, by a few questions, he had assured himself of the fact, that the former bugbear of the border stood before him, now meek and lamb-like in his whole deportment, he lifted up his eyes and exclaimed, "O God, what a miracle of thy power! what cannot thy grace accomplish!" The kind farmer and his no less hospitable wife, now abundantly supplied our wants; but we hastened our departure, lest the intelligence might get abroad that Africaner was with me, and bring unpleasant visitors. ,, Africaner's appearance in Cape Town, excited considerable attention, as his name and exploits had been familiar to many of its inhabitants for more than twenty years. Many were struck with the unexpected mildness and gentleness of his demeanor, and others with his piety and accurate knowledge of the Scriptures. His New Testament was an interesting object of attention, it was so completely thumbed and worn by use. His answers to questions pat to him by the friends in Cape Town, and at a public meeting, exhibited his diligence as a student in the doctrines of the gospel, especially when it is remembered that Africaner never saw a catechism in his life, but obtained all his knowledge on theological subjects from a careful perusal of the Scriptures, and the verbal instructions of the missionary. Respecting an interview which Africaner had with a rival chieftain, of similar character, both having now embraced the gospel, Mr. Moffat writes Mr. Campbell being about to return to Eng. land, Africaner travelled with us as far as Daniel's Kuil to accompany him, where he met the Griqua chief, Berend Berend, with whom, as stated in a former chapter, he had had many a deadly contest. Being now both converts to the faith, all their former animosities were melted away by the gospel of peace and love. These chiefs sat down together in our tent with a number of people, when all united in singing a hymn of praise to God, and listening to an address, from the invitation of Jehovah to the ends of the earth to look to him, and him alone, for salvation. which they knelt at the same stool, before the peaceful throne of the Redeemer; thus the gospel makes "Lions, and beasts of savage name, After We parted with some hope that we might see him again; but no-it was the last farewell; for scarcely two years had elapsed when he was called to enter into the joy of his Lord. This he had anticipated, with the full assurance of hope, believing that, "when his earthly house should be dissolved, he would have a building of God."-The closing scene of life is faithfully delineated by the Rev. J. Archbell, Wesleyan missionary, in a letter to Dr. Philip, dated March 14th, 1623 "When he found his end approaching, he called all the people together, after the example of Joshua, and gave them directions as to their future conduct. "We are not,' said he, 'what we were, savages, but men professing to be taught according to the gospel. Let us then do accordingly. Live peaceably with all men, if possible: and if impossible, consult those who are placed over you, before you engage in any thing. Remain together, as you have done since I knew you. Then, when the directors think fit to send you a mis. sionary, you may be ready to receive him. Behave to any teacher you may have sent as one sent of God, as I have great hope that God will bless you in this respect when I am gone to heaven. I feel that I love God, and that he has done much for me, of which I am totally unworthy. My former life is stained with blood; but Jesus Christ has pardoned me, and I am going to heaven. Oh! beware of falling into the same evils into which I have led you frequently; but seek God, and he will be found of you to direct you."" American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. RECENT INTELLIGENCE. WESTERN AFRICA.-Mr. Wilson writes on the 31st of March Mr. Griswold and I have made arrangements to leave Cape Palmas for the leeward, about the first of May, in search of a suitable place for the commencement of our new station. We have our eye on two points, Cape Lahon and the river Gaboon. The place last mentioned, as is seen by the map, is situated beyond the Bight of Benin, and very nearly under the equator. Our fast friend, captain Lawlin, is well known at both these places, and will take us there and give us all the aid he can. There is very little direct intercourse between American traders and the Gaboon, but a good deal between London and that place. The distance from Gaboon to Prince's and St. ries. Thomas's Islands is not more than one day's sail. With these islands there is trade with some American ports. These islands would be good recruiting places for invalid missionaThe natives of Gaboon are represented as mild, and the place is thought to be healthful. Captain Lawlin once made an excursion into the country in the rear of Gaboon, and states that it is populous, and the people mild and friendly. NESTORIANS.-On the 29th of July the Rev. Thomas Laurie, of Jacksonville, Illinois, and recently from the Andover Theological Seminary, and Mrs. Laurie from Chelsea, Massachusetts, embarked at Boston for Smyrna, on board the barque Susan Jane, captain Fletcher. Mr. Laurie is destined to the Mountain Nesto rians, and will proceed immediately to Mosul on the banks of the river Tigris, opposite to the site of the ancient Nineveh. The instructions of the Prudential Committee were given to Mr. and Mrs. Laurie in Chelsea, on Sabbath evening, the 24th, on which occasion, in addition to the usual devotional services, an address was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Langworthy. At the embarkation prayer was offered by the Rev. President Beecher of the Illinois College. Smith, was called away by death on the 9th. The seeds of disease appear to have been sown in her system while in the United States, and began to develope themselves, even before her embarkation, which was on the 14th of October last. Still it was confidently believed that the long sea-voyage, with the repose and change of scene connected with it, would restore to her her wonted vigor. This expectation was to be disappointed. Her disease made steady progress till, in the wise providence of God, her state of pilgrimage and toil was terminated even before she could enter upon her contemplated work among the heathen.-Mrs. Smith was aware of her approaching dissolution and prepared for it. Her last hours were characterised by calmness and trust in Christ, and she departed, saying, "Precious Sovereign! Pre cious Savior!" BATAVIA. Rev. William T. Van Doren and wife arrived at Sag Harbor, 7th of June. Mr. Van Doren embarked at Boston for Batavia 17th November, 1840, destined to the Borneo mission; but a failure of health, while detained at Batavia, induced him to return to the United States. SANDWICH ISLANDS.-Writing on the 9th of March, Mr. Chamberlain says The cause of truth and religion is as prosperous now, as it has been for any time during ground, does not seem to have acquired any a year or more. Error, though it is gaining acceleration of progress. The number of church members who have gone over to the side of the papists is not large. Some, who for a season united with them, have come back to our congregations. PAWNEES.-Mr. Dunbar writes on the 10th Pawnees was going forward with promptness of May that the government agent among the and fidelity in fulfilling the treaty stipulations in their favor; taking effectual measures to suppress the introduction of whiskey; appoint MADRAS-Doct. Scudder, Mrs. Scudder, and four children arrived at Philadelphia, in the shiping only such men as farmers, mechanics, and Washington, captain Taylor, August 10th. They embarked at Madras on the 1st of April. Protracted ill health, which had laid Doct. S. almost wholly aside from his labors for a year or more, was the cause of his revisiting his native land. Doct. S. was formerly connected with the Ceylon mission. He has been engaged in the missionary work about twenty-three years, having embarked at Boston 8th of June, 1819. In 1836 he was transferred to the new mission then begun at Madras. CEYLON.-Mr. Minor writes on the 11th of May, that Mrs. Smith, the wife of the Rev. John C. teachers, as would be likely to co-operate with the missionaries in promoting their highest moral and social improvement. Between 200 and 300 Indians from all of the four bands, including most of their principal chiefs, had already removed to the place selected for their settlements, which is on the north side of the Loup fork of the Platte river, about thirty miles from their junction, and 100 or 125 miles from the agency at Bellevue. A missionary and a physician are urgently needed for these Indians in the present interesting crisis in their affairs. ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD. THE Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions will be held in the City of Norwich, Connecticut, to be opened on Tuesday, the 13th day of September next, at four o'clock in the afternoon. The annual sermon before the Board is expected to be preached on the evening of that day by the Rev. W. R. DeWitt, D. D., of Harrisburg, Penn. It will be borne in mind by the members of the Board that, at its last annual meeting, during the discussion on its financial affairs, the following questions were proposed to all the members present and responded to affirmatively with great unanimity. 1. Will you, in view of the facts presented, raise your subscription the coming year twentyfive per cent ? 2. Will you attempt to induce all others, upon whom it is, in your opinion, proper you should exert influence, to do the same? 3. Will you, with the leave of Providence, attend the meeting of this Board the next year and inform them what the Lord hath enabled you to do, and what he hath accomplished through your labors ? or if necessarily detained, will you communicate such information? By a vote of the Board the same questions were, by a circular, proposed to all the members not present at that meeting. As the appointment of the extra meeting of the Board was a subsequent transaction, the meeting intended in the last question is understood to be the approaching annual meeting. Considering the lively interest felt in the missions of the Board, indicated by the liberal contributions of the year now closing, and the importance of ascertaining, as far as practicable, whether the christian community, from whom the pecuniary resources must come, are prepared to sustain the Board in strengthening and enlarging the missions, it may be hoped that there will be a full attendance of the members, honorary as well as corporate, as the representaf the churches in all parts of the Franklin co. Ms. Aux. So. L. Stone, Tr. Charlemont, 1st cong. so. la. tha J. and Mary A. Sheldon, Ceylon, 15 71 Geneva and vic. N. Y. By C. A. Cook, Agent, Bristol, Mrs. P. Whitmarsh, 10 00 Centre Lisle, Gent. 23; la. 14,30; 37 30 Chenango Forks, Presb. chh. 18 23 Coventry, G. D. Phillips, 50 00 Lisle, Fem. cent. so. 4 32 Norwich, Mon. con. and coll. 86 90 Plymouth, I. Sheldon, for Mar 40.00 Falls, mon. con. 7,89; sab. sch. 15; Greenville, gent. and Ja. 100; 159 39 Sherburne, Cong. chh. 62,04; Smyrna, Cong. chh. 26; J. Triangle, Mon. con. Vienna, Presb. chh. for Madura miss. Windsor, Presb. chh. Grafton co. N. H. Aux. So. W. Green, Tr. Greene co. N. Y. Aux. So. Rev. Dr. Porter, Tr. Catskill, Presb. chh. mon. con. Litchfield co. Ct. Aux. So. C. L. Webb, Tr. Lowell and vic. Ms. Char. So. W. Davidson, Tr. for sup of Mr. Wheeler, Ojibwa miss. Michigan aux. so. E. Bingham, Tr. Orleans co. Vt. Conf. of Chhs. T. Jameson, Tr. Derby, Miss. so. Otsego co. N. Y. Aux. So. Rev. A. E. Campbell, Tr. Penobscot co. Me. Aux. So. E. F. Duren, Tr. Sebec, Two fem. friends, Rockingham co. N. H. Confer. of Chhs. Hampstead, Chh. and cong. Rye, 40.00 16 44-56 44 63 01 8 27 Rutland co. Vt. Aux. So. W. Page, Tr. East Rutland, Mon. con. Middleton, do. West Rutland, Cong. chh. and so. 33 65-105 83 Somerset co. Me. Aux. So. C. Selden, Tr. Madison, Cong, chh. Norridgewock, Rev. S. B. Weth erell, Skowhegan, Friends, South Solon, 550 50 4.50 6 53-17 03 St. Lawrence co. N. Y. Aux. So. J. Smith, Tr. Ogdensburg, STEPHEN HIGBY, which constitutes him an Hon. Mem. Strafford co. N. H. Aux. So. E. J. Lane, Tr. Moultonboro', Coll. Rochester, do. Tuftonboro', do. 15 00 67 49 100 00 3 55-86 04 Ashtabula co. Rome, 7; Rev. F. A. Demming, 5; Wayne, 10; Williamsfield, 4; Cuyahoga co, Euclid, 5; Mrs. S. Shaw, 15; Erie co. Milan, 40; Huron co. Peru, 8,50; Loraine co. Huntington, 1; Medina co. Chatham, Fem. benev. so. 3,62; Litchfield, 4,53; Sharon, 10; Portage co. Aurora, 1; Freedom, 6; Summit co. Bath, 8,37; Cuyahoga Falls, 22,59; Richfield, Mrs. L. Hammond, 15; Hudson, Wes. res. coll. 26,53; Rev. H. Coe and fam. for Jane Elizabeth Coe, Ceylon, 50; prev. ackn. 25; Trumbull co. Braceville, 14.50; Newton Falls, An Hon. Mem. 5; West Farmington, Av. of jew. 38c. Ded. dis. 10,75; Windsor co. Vt. Aux. So. E. C. Tracy and J. Francis, Trs. Philadelphia, Pa. 1st presb. chh. A. R. Perkins, 100; 5th presb. chh. male sab. sch. for ed. of hea. youth, 20; G. D. 5; Reading, Ms. La. cent. so. Rockspring, Va. Presb. cong. Savannah, Ga. Male and fem. miss. so. in Ind. presb. chh. 224,30; less prem. 2,80; Washington, Pa. Rev. W. A. Hall, 125 00 20 40 5.00 221 50 12 58 10:00 81 58 25.00 346 00 146 96 5 00 5.00 2.00 A lady, For Joan Maine, Ceylon, 20; do. 5; Abingdon, Va. Mrs. M. Preston, 10; fem. miss. so. 18; mon. con. 29,50; Wythe and Pulaski, Va. Fem. tract so. 25 00 57 50 31,50; miss. so. 17; Miss E. Graham, for miss. in Africa, 20; 68.50 X. Y. 17.00 Amity, N. Y. Presb. chh. 40 00 Andover, Ms. S. chh. mon. con. 49,64; Mr. Page's so. for Jesse Page, Ceylon, 20; Baltimore, Md. 5th presb. chh. 220 00 Barrington, R. I. La. benev. asso. 29 00 Ded. am't ack. in June 1838, fr. Alton, Ill. not remitted by A. Alexander, 72 35 Bedford, N. Y. Mrs. M. H. Green, for M. II. Green, Ceylon, Belfast, Me. Head of the Tide, mon. con. Bethany, Pa. Presb. cong. mon. con. Bloomfield, N. J. Miss. so. in fem. acad. 12.00 Bridgehampton, N. Y. Select sch. 3.00 Bryan co. Ga. Miss. so. 58 50 Buffalo, N. Y. 1st presb. chh. sab. sch. for Abner Bryant, Ceylon, 20 00 Chelsea, Ms. Winnisimmet chh. and so. mon. con. 14 42 Darien, Ga. E. W. S. Easton, Pa. F. M. L. 3. 00 10 00 Fort Towson, Ark. Mon. con. 30,50; a friend, 2; Dick, 2,50; 35 00 Frankfort, N. Y., I. B. Mills, 10 00 Granada, Mo. A. C. Baine, Greenport, N. Y. Av. of m. box, for Sandw. Jacksonville, Fla. P. Conger, Kingsboro', N. Y. Dr. Yale's cong. C. Mills, 15; Mrs. S. B. Place, 15; N. G. and J. A. Case, 13; indiv. 19,25; S. G. Hildreth, which and prev. dona. constitute Mrs. LUCY HILDRETH, an Нon. Mem. 40; 5 00 4.00 Boston, Ms. Mrs. Christian Baker, 2,357,94; (prev. rec'd, 14,642,06;) Mrs. Margaret Gibbens, by S. H. Walley, Jr., Ex'r, (prev. rec'd, 800;) 1,000; Bridgewater, Ms. Mrs. Eunice Leach, by Isaac Fobes, Ex'r, Medfield, Ms. Artemas Woodward, by E. F. Woodward, Ex'r, (prev. rec'd, 200;) New Bedford, Ms. Mrs. Rebecca Nickerson, by Thomas Nickerson, Ex'r, (prev. rec'd, 100;) Sherburne, Ms. Emerson Adams, by Alexander Clark, Ex'r, 3,357 94 20 00 50.00 100 00 121 09 50 00 $3,679 03 10 00 102 25 Malden, Ms. Mr. McClure's so. mon. con. 4,94; la. benev. so. 20; Malden, N. Y. Presb. chh. 116,25; mon. con. 30. union dis. do. 12; Marion, Va. Mrs. S. Gibson, and Mrs. Watson, Amount of donations and legacies acknowledged in the preceding lists, $13,970 55. Total from August 1st, to July 30th, $316,583 35. DONATIONS IN CLOTHING, &c. Maumee Valley, O. Asso. Amboy, Rev. G. Charlestown, N. H., A box, fr. la. sew. so. of evan. chh. 21 91 Geneva, N. Y. 10 doz. writing books, fr. 33 33 H. Smith, 10 00 5.00 Lovell, Me. A box, fr. sew. so. Middleton, N. Y. Presb. chh. Minersville, Pa. do. 83 85 20.00 Ontario, N. Y., A box, fr. fem. sem. for Miss Agnew, Ceylon. Providence, R. I., A box, for A. Wright, Monroe, Mich. Mon. con. in presb. chh. Newark, N. J. 1st chh. mon. con. 100; young people's miss. so. to constitute Rev. MAR ABRAHAM of Persia, an Hon. Mem. 100; Newburgh, N. Y., W. C. Foote, 50; Miss M. Wood, for sup. of a teacher in India, 9; rea. party, for Helen M. Wells, Cape Palmas, 15; 62 50 200 00 74.00 Seneca. Shoreham, Vt. A barrel, fr. F. S. Hemenway, for Mr. Hemenway, Bankok. South New Marlboro', Ms. A box, fr. la. North Chelmsford, Ms. Evan, chh. and so. North Granville, N. Y. 1st presb. chh. 75.00 mon. con. 32 00 Otsego, Mich. Cong. so. mon. con. 7 61 Ottowa, Ill. Mrs. S. G. Rockwood, 3 00 Paterson, N. J. 2d presb. chh. 8.00 Pekatonic, Ill. Mrs. P. Blish, 20; W. Talcott, 10; 30 00 50 00 100 00 The following articles are respectfully solicited from Printing paper, writing paper, blank-books, quills, slates, etc., for the missions and mission schools. Shoes, hats, blankets, sheets, pillow cases, 640 00 towels, shirts, socks, stockings, fulled cloth, 20 00 flannel, domestic cotton, etc. |