Green Bay. The following notice of the mission we take from the Missionary Herald for January, 1832.

"Another society for missionary and other benevolent purposes has been formed, and many have joined it, and are much interested in its objects.'

"Begun in 1827: one station, one missionary, and one male and one fe- GREENLAND, an extensive remale assistant. Cutting Marsh, mis- gion towards the N. pole, which, sionary; Jedediah D. Stevens, teach- whether continental or insular, is er; Mrs. Stevens. regarded as belonging to North Amer"There are about 300 of these In- ica. This country was discovered in dians, settled in two villages. They the year 983, by some Norwegians, are agriculturalists, generally indus- from Iceland; and it was named trious, and live comfortably. The Greenland, from its superior verdure Menominies belonging in that vicini- to Iceland. They planted a colony ty are estimated at about 4,000; who on the eastern coast; and the interare debased and miserable. The mis- course between this colony, Iceland, sionaries have little access to them. and Denmark, was continued till the "Preaching and pastoral labor. Be- beginning of the fifteenth century. sides regular public worship twice on In that century, by the gradual inthe Sabbath, which is attended by crease of the arctic ice upon the nearly all the people who are able to coast, the colony became completely attend, there are two or three other inaccessible; while on the W. a range meetings each week, which are also of mountains, covered with perpetual well attended and highly interesting, snow, precluded all approach.

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In December the church embraced settlement contained several churchforty-three members, of whom fifteen es and monasteries; and is said to were men. Ten persons, mostly have extended about 200 m. in the young, were proposed as candidates S. E. part. In more recent times, for the church in July. The mem- the western coast was chiefly explor bers of the church are thought to give ed by Davis and other English navias satisfactory evidence of piety, as the members of evangelical churches generally in the white settlements.

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gators; but there was no attempt to settle a colony. The country is said to be inhabited as far as 76 N. lat., Schools. There are in the settle- but the Moravian settlements are ment sixty-eight children between the in the S. W. part. The people have ages of five and twenty; fifty-two of some beeves, and a considerable numwhom were last winter enrolled in ber of sheep, for whose winter subthe school under Mr. Stevens. The sistence they cut the grass in sumcommon attendance was thirty-five or mer, and make it into hay. forty. Thirty of them could read in short summer is very warm, but the New Testament; and some of the foggy; and the northern lights diverhigher classes were considerably ad-sify the gloom of winter, which is vanced in writing, and in a knowledge very severe. It is said that the N. W. of geography and arithmetic. In the coast of Greenland is separated from summer the school was taught by a America by a narrow strait; that the native, and contained about twenty-natives of the two countries have five pupils. Nearly all are full blood-some intercourse; and that the Esed Indians. quimaux of America perfectly resem"About sixty children and youth, ble the Greenlanders, in their aspect, with some adults, attend the Sabbath dress, mode of living, and language. school and Bible class, where much Cape Farewell, the S. W. point, is good appears to be effected. in W. long. 42° 42', N. lat. 59° 38'.

"A school was taught in the upper settlement three evenings in a week, last winter, by a native.

The population was estimated, in 1805, at 6000: though the rambling life of the natives renders it difficult "Various notices. The temperance to ascertain the exact number. society now embraces about eighty The three first missionaries of the members, including all the men and U. B., Matthew Stach, Christian women of influence. The rules of Stach, and Christian David, went to this society are very rigorously en- Greenland in 1733. They labored 6 forced by a committee of vigilance. years without any apparent success.

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The year 1740 was rendered re- "Some time ofter this, Christian markable by the change which took Henry, one of the brethren, came to place in the brethren's mode of me, into my hut, and sat down by preaching; which is most happily me. The contents of his discourse to described in the following narration me were nearly these: I come to of an encouraging instance of useful- thee in the name of the Lord of heaven and earth; he sends me to Johannes, an Indian of the Mahi- acquaint thee that he would gladly kander nation, who had formerly save thee, and make thee happy, and been a very wicked man, was the deliver thee from the miserable state first of that tribe whose heart was in which thou liest at present. powerfully awakened. Through the this end, he became a man, gave his preaching of the missionary, Christian life a ransom for man, and shed his Henry Rauch, the Divine power was blood for man. All that believe in manifested in him in so powerful a the name of this Jesus, obtain the manner, that he not only became a be- forgiveness of sin; to all them that liever in Jesus Christ, but a blessed receive him, by faith, he giveth power witness of the truth to his own nation. to become the sons of God: the Holy The change which took place in Spirit dwelleth in their hearts, and the heart and conduct of this man they are made free, through the blood was very striking; for he had been of Christ, from the slavery and dodistinguished in all parties met for minion of sin. And though thou art riotous diversion as the most out- the chief of sinners, yet, if thou rageous, and had even made himself prayest to the Father, in his name, a cripple by debauchery. He after- and believest in him, as a sacrifice for wards became a fellow-laborer in the thy sins, thou shalt be heard and congregation gathered from among saved, and he will give thee a crown the heathen. At one of the meetings of life, and thou shalt live with him which the brethren held for pastoral in heaven, for ever.'

heathen :

conversation, and inquiry into the "When he had finished his disstate of the congregations, he related course, he lay down upon a beard in the occasion of his conversion in the my hut, fatigued by his journey, and following manner, in consequence fell into a sound sleep. I thought of their speaking with one another within myself, what manner of man about the method of preaching to the is this? There he lies, and sleeps so sweetly; I might kill him and throw "Brethren; I have been a heathen, him out into the forest-and who and have grown old amongst them would regard it?-But he is uncontherefore I know very well how it is cerned;-this cannot be a bad man; with the heathen, and how they he fears no evil, not even from us, who think, A preacher once came to us, are so savage, but sleeps comfortably, desiring to instruct us, and began by and places his life in our hands. proving to us that there was a God; However, I could not forget his words, on which we said to him- Well; they constantly recurred to my mind; and dost thou think we are ignorant even though I went to sleep, yet I of that? Now go back again to the dreamed of the blood which Christ place from whence thou camest.' had shed for us. I thought-this is "Then, again, another preacher very strange, and quite different from came, and began to instruct us, say- what I have ever heard; so I went ing, You must not steal, nor drink and interpreted Christian Henry's too much, nor lie, nor lead wicked words to the other Indians." lives.' We answered him, Fool As the result of the preaching of that thou art! dost thou think we do the cross, an extensive awakening not know that? Go, and learn it took place. One of the baptized first thyself, and teach the people Greenlanders informed the missionwho thou belongest to not to do these aries, that he had found his countrythings; for who are greater drunk- men many leagues N. to be so anxious ards, or thieves, or liars, than thine to be instructed in the things of God, own people?' Thus we sent him that they urged him to spend a whole away, alsɔ, night with them in conversation;

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and after he had retired, on the sec-posure. They had also the most ond night, some of them followed pleasing and substantial proofs of the him, and constrained him to resume reality of divine grace in many of the subject. Even one of the ange- their surviving disciples, when they koks, or necromancers, was brought saw the readiness with which they under such serious impressions, that undertook to assist in the support of he wept almost incessantly during the widows and orphans of the detwo days, and asserted that he had ceased; and they were especially dreamed he was in hell, where he grateful for the triumph of divine witnessed scenes which it would be influence, when they saw such of the utterly impossible for him to describe. female converts as were mothers alAt the close the year 1748, no less ternately suckling the helpless inthan 230 Greenlanders resided at fants, who must have perished without New Herrnhut, of whom 35 had been their timely aid, and who, if left in baptized in the course of that year. similar circumstances among the heaThe unusual intensity of cold, some years after, was productive of all the horrors of famine. In an account of one of their visits to the heathen, at this awful crisis, the missionaries ob

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then, must have been buried alive with their parents; as nothing is so abhorrent to the feelings of a Greenland woman, unacquainted with the Gospel, as the idea of nourishing, with her own milk, the child of another. "Near a habitation, which had Another pleasing instance of the been long since forsaken, we found power of Gospel truth, in expanding 15 persons half starved, lying in such the heart and exciting to sympathy a small and low provision-house, that and active benevolence, is thus rewe could not stand upright, but were lated:-"It was customary with the forced to creep in on our bellies. brethren, at some of their meetings, They lay upon one another in order to read to their flock the accounts to keep themselves warm; having no which they received from their confire, nor the least morsel to eat; and gregations in Europe, and especially they were so emaciated that they did such as related to missions among not care to raise themselves, or even the heathen. These communications to speak to us. At length a man were generally heard with a considbrought in a couple of fishes; when erable degree of interest; but no ina girl, who looked pale as death, and telligence ever affected them so deepwhose countenance was truly ghastly, ly as that of the destruction of the seized one of them, raw as it was, Moravian settlement among the Intore it in pieces with her teeth, and dians at Gnadenhutten. When they devoured it with the utmost avidity. were told that most of the missionaFour children had already perished ries were either shot or burnt to with hunger. We distributed among death, by the savages in the interest them a portion of our own scanty of France, but that the Indians had pittance, and advised them to go to escaped to the settlement at Bethleour settlement; which, however, they hem, they burst into tears, and imseemed rather reluctant to do, as they mediately prepared to raise a little evinced no inclination to hear the contribution among themselves. 'I,' Gospel, and carefully avoided all in- exclained one, 'have a fine rein-deer tercourse with our Greenlanders." skin, which I will give.' 'I,' said a To the horrors of famine were now second, have a new pair of rein-deer superadded the calamities of disease. boots, which I will cheerfully conNo less than 35 of the Greenland tribute.' 'And I,' added a third, converts were carried off; but whilst will send them a seal, that they may the brethren wept over so extensive have something both to eat and to and unexpected a bereavement, they burn.' Such contributions could not were excited to rejoice in the success fail to be highly appreciated by the of that precious Gospel which had missionaries, and the value of them supported these poor creatures in their was faithfully transmitted according most trying circumstances, and had to the wish of the simple-hearted and even enabled them to exchange benevolent donors.'

worlds with serenity and holy com-[ In 1758, a new station was formed,