de promovendo cursu Evangelii, which surpassed all other cstablishments of the kind for near a century, and has been blessed with a great harvest among the Indians on the coast of Malaber, in Lapland upou the Island St. Thomas, and in Greenland. The institution of professor Cal·lenberg at Halle, for the conversion of the Jews and Mahommedans, has been a blessing, at least to many Jews in Europe. He published and circulated by different missionaries, 20,000 copies of many valuable books and pamphlets in the Arabic, Hebrew and other languages; among which are a Hebrew translation of the Gospel of Luke, and the Acts of the apostles, with rabinical notes. They have been of benefit to Jews and Mahommedans, and may yet be of service on a future occasion.

The Reformed Church also identified this distinguishing characteristic of the woman in her second flight, by making early and successful exertions of this kind; for which they devised various expensive schemes. The Dutch established colonies in Asia for commercial purposes, on the islands of Cylon and Formosa, the coasts of Malaber, and among a great number of Indians, and founded many Christian congregations, which for years have enjoyed the labours of thirty-six ministers. Boron de Imhof, governor of Batavia, established A. D. 1737 a printing office at Columbo, from which the Indians were furnished with a great number of Bibles and other books in their native languages; he also founded a seminary for the education of young men to supply the missions. They sent a colony to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, which is attended by six ministers, who labour among the natives;

*For further information of the subject of Lutheran missions, the reader may consult The Accounts of late Mission in East India, pub lished at Halle, in many quarto vols. shewing their extent and evangelic nature as also the work of the Rev. Dr. Lochman, lately published, and entitled "The History, Doctrine and Discipline of the Evangelical Lutheran Church."

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and also another to Surinam, where they have three pla ces of public worship.

But of all Protestant nations, who have engaged in the extension of the Great Redeemers kingdom among the Heathen, the palm must now be yielded to the English. Their opportunities and facilities have been more numerous than those of other nations, as their ships covered the ocean, and sailed to every part of the globe, in quest of the riches of the world. However that nation is rich and possesses that peculiar character, that if they once engage in an undertaking with enthusiasm, they will make the greatest sacrifices in its accomplishment. Their most important achievements of this nature, have been their endeavours to colonize North America, and their missions in the East Indies. The emigration from Europe to America, are an important part of the second flight of the woman to the great wilderness of nations, Ezek. xx, 35. which greatly enlarged the Redeemer's kingdom. The English Independents claim the honour, of having first planted the banners of the Great Captain of our salvation, in this once dreary desert, when they formed a settlement about Boston, A. D. 1629, by a colony of Puritans, which in a few years increased to the number of 4000 souls; and laid the foundation for a new state in that part, which was since called New-Plymouth. They were early supplied by those eminent missionaries Mayhew, Sheppard and Elliot, who were remarkably zealous to erect churches, and schools among them, and even laid the foundation for a seminary of learning at New-Cambridge. Though they all laboured with courage and devotion among the Indians, yet John Elliot appears to have obtained the most shining reputation, as he acquired the language of the natives, and supplied them with a translation of the Bible, and other edifying books in their own tongue. They also erected A. D. 1704 a missionary establishment, which has been blessed with success to this day.

Soon after these, other colonies were established by Swedes, Dutch, and by emigrants from almost all parts of Europe, in the states of New-York, Pennsylvania, Carolina, and Georgia; and the success attending these first emigrations, annually induced great numbers to follow their example. Thousands fled either from civil or religious oppression, and sought for happiness in this blessed land of liberty; which thus became a place of refuge to the poor, the persecuted, the propagators of heresy, the fanatics, and to the faithful disciples of Jesus. These continual emigrations first occasioned the society in England, which was formed A. D. 1547, For the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts. It expended great sums in the education of the English youth in indigent circumstances, and in supporting the poor, who emigrated from different parts of Europe to America. Their exertions for the conversion of Pagans, have been greatly blessed. But the second establishment of that kind in England, entitled, Missionary society for the propagation of the faith in the East and West Indies, which was founded A. D. 1701, has met with a still more abundant harvest. It has a college at Oxford, the members of which are expressly educated for missionary purposes, many of whom have been useful men. The establishments which it has formed at Madras and Cudelur, upon the coast of Coromandel, erected schools for the conversion of the Indians, and also assisted in the support of the Danish missionaries since A. D. 1728. There are two missionary societies in Scoțland since Anno 1708 and 1709; and siuce 1725 one in the Bermuda islands, the members of which co-operate in erecting schools among the Heathen, and printing of Bibles for their instruclion.

Even the Russian Church has made some efferts since the year 1712, to carry the light of the Gospel into Tartary, and Siberia. The archbishop of Tobolsk in Siberia, Philothæus, divested himself of his dignity, and in his old

age, with a few other clergymen, undertook the conver sion of Pagans. Historians affirín, that his labours were blessed with success amongst the Ostiacks, but of little effect amongst the Moguls.

It must be confessed in praise of the Moravian brethren at Herrenhut, that they have formed settlements in the remotest quarters of the globe, at an early period of their own establishment by Count. Zinzendorff, for the express purpose of propagating the Gospel among the Heathen. They commenced their first missions A. D. 1732, and since that time they have increased them to upwards of 26 missionary settlements in atl parts of the world; in which 140 brethren are engaged, to nourish more than 25000 souls by the word of eternal life, and daily extend the banners of the Lord into Satans kingdom.

The Methodists, who formed themselves into a separate society by the pious labours of John Wesley and George Whitefield in England, since the year 1729, also realize this character of the woman on the continent of America, and in the East and West Indies. Independently of their labours of reformation within the limits of the Church, they have certainly made great sacrifices, and spared neither labour nor personal happiness, to diffuse the benign light of Christianity among the poor Negro-slaves; thousands of whom they have formed into congregations, which are in a promising way, to save their immortal souls. We may affirm the same with justice of the Baptists in England and America, who now carry on a glo rious mission in India with spirit and success.

The Roman Catholic writers have furnished us with pompous accounts, of the numerous missions of that Church, in almost every place and corner upon the face of the whole earth. And it must be confessed, that of all Christian communities, the Romish possesses most abundant means and resources for such a difficult and important enterprise. That famous Congregation for the propaga

iion of the faith, founded at Rome A. D. 1622, is very rich, and sends, directs, and supports, no less than 2000 missionaries in all four quarters of the globe. The cardinal Spinola presented it A. D. 1735, 140,000 Rials and an Italian banker A. D. 1753 with an almost incredible quantity of gold; exclusive of what it received from the munificence of the Roman Pontiffs Gregory XV. and Ur. ban VIII. and by the liberality of an incredible number of donors. To this were afterwards added, the College for the propagation of the faith, and many other associations of inferior note and revenue. Their first missionaries to

South America were sent A. D. 1537; where some time after, the Jesuits founded an independent government for themselves, and acquired immense riches, before the European powers obtained information of their proceedings. John III, king of Portugal, sent Francis Xavier, a truly pious missionary, to the East Indies, where he is said to have converted a great number at Goa, upon the coast of Malaber, and in Japan to the Christian faith. Since 1575 they have established missions in China, and in the kingdoms of Carnate, Madura, Marava and Tonquin, and in almost every other Pagan country. It cannot be denied, that they have propagated a form of Christianity, though seldom its spirit, and that they have made many converts but only few to the Lord. However, they still preach Christ, and their labours may be considered as preparatory to a purer state of religion.

The missionary spirit, which pervaded and animated the primative Christian Church, died with the rise of Papacy. During the middle centuries, the Roman pontiffs engaged only in vigorous measures to establish their spiritual monarchy; and their clergy, to obtain wealth and privileges. And even since they have made arduous attempts to extend the limits of the Church, the missionaries were more zealous to execute the lordly views of the Pope, and acquire wealth and honour to their own cleri