ED. To the Editors of the Am. Bap. Magazine. Gentlemen, cuniary assistance it is still true, || England. We hope it may provoke many "we can do what we will do." mothers to abound in good works. Remember the motto of that man of God, who has spent his valuable life in successfully translating the Sacred Scriptures into the various languages of the East, "Attempt great things, expect great things." We anticipate with much pleasure, that at the meeting to which we have alluded, many of the representatives of the thousands of Israel, will be prepared to pour into the treasury of the Lord their grateful offerings, and find that it is more blessed to give than to receive. We have lately seen a letter from a highly esteemed minister in NewYork to the Treasurer, and obtained permission to publish an extract, which is herewith subjoined. This letter affords much encouragement, and ought to stimulate all to go and do likewise. Very dear Brother, A LAYMAN. I was exceedingly gratified a few weeks since with an instance of thoughtful liberality which occurred among the people of my charge, and which with your permission I will relate. A lady of my church called upon me shortly after the commencement of the present year, and accompanied by her two little sons. Each of them brought in his hand the missionary offering which he had saved from the donations he had received during the past year. The whole from themselves and their sister amounted to between two and three dollars. The amount it is true was not large, but its moral effect was far too important to be forgotten. Each cent of that self denial in the child, and had offering had witnessed an effort of taught him to feel for the miseries and strive for the relief of his fellow men. Those children had I have the pleasure of remitting $200 to the Treasurer of the Convention, in behalf of the New-York Baptist Foreign Mission Society. This is the last sum you will re-learned to deny their appetites for ceive from this Society, as it has been dissolved, and we hope that at least three, if not four Societies will grow out of the materials which constituted it. We have already organized one in Oliver Street, and I have set out with a determination to raise $1000, before the Convention assembles in New-York, if it be at all practicable. I have something more than $500 already subscribed, and the prospect for the balance is at present very encouraging. Yours truly, the cause of benevolence; a lesson which many an older man dies without having learned. I looked on them at that moment, and at the pious mother who had taught them, as a specimen of human nature, far more respectable, more valuable and more honourable than can be found in the selfish splendour of charioted wealth, or in the still more fascinating exhibitions of unsanctified intellect. I am yours truly, Many things are spoken of, in In addition to this very animating let-the Scriptures, as good: but there ter, we subjoin another lately received on is not one thing emphatically callthis subject from a clergyman of our own ed GOOD, which does not relate to denomination in a populous town in New-Christ or his coming. 1 MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE. FOREIGN MISSION. Ottawa boy, the fourth from that place now in our school. This circumstance is mentioned as an evidence that those Indians are really desirous to be favoured with a school, and this, in connexion with several other hopeful circumstances, exhibits the favourableness of our pros LETTERS have been received from Mr. Wade, under the date of September 1st, 1825. They contain nothing new respecting the mission. The printing of the Burman dictionary was proceeding. Mr. Hough was expected soon to leave Cal-pects there, notwithstanding the opposicutta for Rangoon, to make arrangements preparatory for the re-establishment of the mission in that place. Mrs. Wade had suffered two severe attacks of fever, but was then convalescent, and was considered out of danger. A letter has also been received by the assistant Corresponding Secretary, from Mr. Boardman, dated 52 days out from Philadelphia. The passage, though far from speedy, had been very pleasant. They were treated by the Captain and Supercargo in the most friendly manner. They had prayer in the cabin every evening, and services regularly every Sabbath. They are before this, in all probability, at the scene of their labours. The latest accounts from Mr. Judson and Dr. Price, are furnished by Edward A. Newton, Esq. late of Calcutta, who has just arrived in Boston. We have been favoured with the perusal of a note to him from an officer in the British army, who had returned to Calcutta. He states, on undoubted authority, that the situation of Dr. Judson and his companions is not at present perilous, and that their friends have but little reason to entertain any apprehensions of their final safety. CAREY STATION. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM REV. ISAAC M'COY TO HIS FRIEND IN BOSTON. Carey, 100 miles N. W. of Fort Wayne, Ind.-Oct. 15, 1825. Dear Brother, On returning from Thomas to Carey, in September, I brought with me a little tion of some of them. But this subject cannot be mentioned without sighing under a distressing want of missionaries. To our correspondents, we often com plain of the obstacles to Indian reform, occasioned by the introduction of ardent spirits into the Indian country. The following extract of a letter from a respectable friend at Fort Wayne, confirms the justness of our complaints. "I fear you will have troublesome times the enThe country is full of suing season. traders, and I have no doubt, of whiskey too. It goes from this place by waggon loads." The mind can never turn to this subject but with pain! The snares which are spread by this prevailing evil have entangled some of the natives, for whom we had indulged hopes of better things. But the enemy may not always triumph, and say, Aha! so would we have it! The following circumstances exhibit the power of Grace, and are by us gratefully acknowledged as tokens of encouragement. K-, about 22 years of age, who was baptized last winter, returned to his father's in the spring, under the impression that his course with us was completed, and that he would enter upon business for himself. His father was a Canadian trader with an Indian family, and Khad been taken into our family, from the Indian dress, and manners, and country. He now proposed joining his father in the Indian trade. Soon after his departure from us, he found himself exposed to many sneers of the impious, who often ridiculed him for his sobriety, saying he was like an old man; it was no crime to use profane language, it was only an act of the lips, and not of the heart, &c. He had commonly || where, to his surprise and joy, he found entertained lowly ideas of himself, and at a letter we had written him, informing this time his unworthiness was more sen- of our wish to send him, and some others sibly felt than usual. "It seemed to me," of our religious pupils, to some favorable says he, "that I could do nothing that institution at the eastward, with a view to was good." He felt much discouraged, their obtaining a liberal education, that disconsolate, and uncomfortable, there they might become the more useful to being none to speak a word of encour- their countrymen, and requesting him to agement to him, or to whom he might come and see us on the subject. This tell his sorrows; and he became lethar- circumstance afforded a pretext for his gick in Christian duties, and too much coming on to this place. neglected prayer. After waiting here some days for some expected intelligence from the eastward, and none having come to hand, we advised him to return and take his leave of his father and friends, and afterwards prosecute his studies in this place, until ar His father sent him with several hands under his direction to T to purchase whiskey. This was a grief and trial to him; yet, in obedience to his father's instructions, he purchased and brought back into the wilderness 20 bar-rangements could be made for his journey rels of whiskey. to the eastward. It was with much reluctance that he consented to follow this advice. At length, after declaring how very desirous he was to obtain a liberal education, and acknowledging the deference he paid to our advice, he said, with deep affection, and with tears in his eyes, A powerful temptation, especially to a young man commencing business, now assailed him. His father required him to sell out the liquor to the Indians, and for his encouragement in business, promised him the whole proceeds of the sales, which would amount to, at least, $1200.||“Well, next Tuesday or Wednesday I He intimated some doubts respecting the will start to my father's; but I know I propriety of vending ardent spirits to the shall be gone! (ruined) I cannot return Indians, and was answered, it was no to this place again." It was at this time crime to sell whiskey, or any thing else, that I became acquainted with the circumto any one who would purchase and pay. stance of his father's wish that he should Nevertheless, he persisted in the belief deal out ardent spirits to the Indians, as that the course required of him would be mentioned above. He supposed that if sinful. He reflected on the pity he had he saw his father before arrangements sometimes indulged on seeing the Indians were certainly made for his going to Colintoxicated, and the great anxiety he had lege, he would be required to assist in felt to afford them relief, rather than to this wicked traffick until the matter was augment their woes. He could not but settled. He feared to put himself again believe that the murders, and other crimes in the way of this trial and temptation. committed by the Indians in consequence" If," says he, "I should sin in this thing, of their intemperance, were, in part, chargeable to those who supplied them with whiskey. But "how can I disobey my father," was the trying question. At length he told his father that he would be happy to visit some of his acquaintances before he proceeded further in business. To this his father consented, and he made a journey to F————, eighty miles from his He has since visited, and taken leave of father's. By this measure the trying hour || his people, (his father feeling himself not was delayed a few days longer; but what a little disappointed,) and is, at the mostep he should take next, he could not ment of my writing this, united with six conceive. other promising religious Indian youths In this state of things, he arrived at F., in our school, pursuing his studies with then I must be dismissed from your family and from the Church. When I joined the Church, I feared that I should, at some time, do bad; but I thought I would endeavour to be religious. Had I known that my conduct would be such as to oblige you to dismiss me, I would not have been baptized." great assiduity; thankful for, and animat- || in a civil as well as a religious point of ed with, the prospect of obtaining, in some classical school, a liberal education. view, because it tends to the establishment of order. About the first of last Another delightful instance of Christian month, the Putawatomies within the stability occurs in a neighbouring Indian agency of Chicago were called into that woman who was baptized last June.- place to receive an annuity from our govEvery method which wickedness could ernment. Topnibee, the principal Chief, invent, has been used by some of her re- and his party, had appointed a day to set lations and acquaintances to induce her to out on their journey, which turned out to unite with them in their inebriation and be the Sabbath, on the morning of which revelry, but all without success. Fre- he called to inform us of their intention quently she has left her house, and some- to leave, and to inquire if it were proper times in the night, to avoid the disorders for them so to do, saying, “If you think of the people around the place, and has it improper for us to commence our jourtaken shelter at the mission establishment.ney on prayer-day, I will wait until tomorTo you, sir, and others who feel interest-row." This old man had spent about ed in the welfare of the mission, it will eighty years, almost wholly ignorant even afford satisfaction to know, that our heav- of the existence of the Sabbath. His scruenly Father, guarding us with paternal ples, and his ready acquiescence in our care, inspires with compassion and gene- advice to delay his journey, were, thererosity, many distant friends who liberally fore, the more gratifying to us. contribute to the support of the school. On the 1st inst. we received eleven boxes of clothing, &c. from friends in different places in New-England. Some other box-journey with the poor Indian, or rest with es from New-York, and elsewhere, are on him in his wigwam, we must be pained the way hither. Regular acknowledg-with a view of his poverty. Those with ments of these favours had been made to the donors by letter, and in our accounts to the Board of missions, submitted quarterly. While we are constrained to lament the poorness of our labours, we can, nevertheless, assure those who have aided in this work, that their gifts have not been wholly wasted on people not profited thereby. Some of the wild wanderers || may now be found at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in their right mind. In this humble, proper place I would be their companion, on bidding an agreeable correspondent an affectionate || In company of a considerable number of Indians, I made a journey to Chicago myself about this time. Whether we whom I travelled, and the multitude I passed on the way, were almost wholly destitute of food, except as they rarely, and with difficulty, caught some small animal. At one village, we saw a considerable number of travellers, who were preparing to send out some of their young men in quest of deer. When at any time I halted to take refreshments, the hungry travellers in company would stop also, to whom my feelings obliged me to divide my own stock of provisions as long as it could be divided. On the 8th, about 40 chiefs and many others were called together at the Council room at Chicago. Many of them were from Illinois and the western shores of Lake Michigan, whom I had never seen before, to whom the United States Agent gave me a very appropriate introduction. The chiefs with whom I had not been previously acquainted came forward and gave me the hand with the appearance of much affection. The salutation of one of them was, "Brother, we join our hands-our hearts also are united. I salute you in the name of the Great Spirit." I then arose, and delivered a short address || would never be alienated by them, should to them. Usually the Indians, soon after receiving a payment from the United States, find ardent spirits, and intoxication, disorder, and sometimes several murders, follow. I was delighted on this occasion, that through the prompt measures of the Agent, not an intoxicated Indian was to be seen. I have reason to believe that my visit to that place will promote the interests of, at least, the school department of the mission. I carried home on my horse (90 miles through the wilderness) a poor little outcast boy, and three others from that neighbourhood have since been brought into our school. The want of Missionaries obliges us to keep a hired teacher in the school. This is expensive, and not quite so pleasant as if a competent supply of missionaries would allow one to that department.— Nevertheless, I may safely say the school flourishes. It is delightful to see many of these late suffering children, now comfortably clad, and daily acquiring a knowledge of labour and of letters, and often bowing with us before the throne of God. How differently situated are hundreds of other little wanderers in the wilderness! In so large an assemblage of Indian youth as are with us, it is not strange that there is with some, at times, an apparent want of gratitude. Very different, however, were the feelings of one of our pupils, when, the other day, he said to me with tears of thankfulness, "I have many a time thought what a good thing it was that I became acquainted with the mission! My father never gave me any good advice. I did not see or hear any thing that was good. Here you give me good advice. If I had not found you, I should now be a wild Indian." speedily be originated, for the education of both females and males, in those branches which would qualify the former to take the management of female schools, and the latter to fill, with acceptance, every department of the schools, of the church, and of the State, in a civil community. This is a subject in which we feel much interested, and we are, at this time, doing what we can towards its promotion. With hopes well founded that the time is drawing near when the Indians will fill their own pulpits, teach their own schools, and govern, by good laws, their own com||munity, it is with satisfaction I say to a zealous promoter of these good things, I am respectfully, || Your obedient Servant, ISAAC M'COY. FROM THE SAME, DATED Carey, Nov. 30, 1825. Dear Brother, THE affliction of one of my little daughters obliged me to make a journey to Fort Wayne, between the 25th of last month and the 7th of the present. This was one case among many, and some of them very serious ones, in which the want of medical skill at the Mission was sensibly felt. It would be a great blessing indeed if missions in the Indian country could each have a regular bred physician connected with it. It would also be a relief to many poor suffering Indians. The superstition of the natives would warn a physician to be cautious in his prescriptions on his first practice among them. But he might soon inspire a confidence that would render him safe. We are often called on by our neighbours to visit the sick, and solicited to administer medicine. Among the natives, the idea of magic is always associated with the science of medicine as practised by themselves, and few instances of sickness occur in our Notwithstanding the attention given to the subject of education by the promoters of Indian reform, we doubt whether the true importance of this thing has been ful-neighbourhood, in which there are not ly understood by many. Our doubts multiply on the subject of the education of Indian females. We believe that schools located in some Indian country, that dancing and conjuring performed around the afflicted for his relief. In my acquaintance with the Indians, I have found nothing to induce me to unite in the |