love be our motive, his grace our preparation, his life our example, and his reward shall be our blessed portion forever. We would add a few words concerning the support of the Chronicle. It is with regret we have noticed a slight falling off in its circu⚫lation during the two last years, of from 5100 copies to 4800. This falling off has not occurred, to an extent worth noticing, in those parts of the Church in which "The Foreign Missionary" has its main circulation; and we are disposed to attribute it chiefly to the "pressure of the times;" but although "the times are now better," we cannot hope to regain the ground we have lost, much less to make an advance, without the co-operation of our present readers, and especially of our brethren in the ministry. This remark we make after due thought on the subject. The circulation of this Magazine will not increase, nor will that of any Magazine, without one of two things: the labours of paid canvassers for subscribers, or the zealous patronage of its friends. The low price at which this work is published, forbids our employing the former; and at any rate we would prefer to rely on the latter. If our readers will glance over the pages of the twelve numbers which form this volume, or even read with care the Lists of Contents which follow, and will consider the place which such a work as this ought to occupy in the families of our communion, we shall then feel sure of their kind help in promoting its circulation. NEW-YORK, December, 1843. FOREIGN MISSIONARY CHRONICLE. Acknowledgment, 343. Address of the Executive Committee to the Address to the 60,000 communicants, &c., 272. Allahabad mission, 6, 12, 46, 109, 240, 267, 289, British-Afghan war, 15. Central Board of Foreign Missions, extracts China mission, 6, 43, 75, 114, 134, 173, 204, 212, China: notices of, 307; extent of missionary Creek mission, 6, 22, 52, 244, 266, 306. Donations to the Board, 24, 55, 87, 125, 151, 183, 216, 244, 278, 312, 344, 375. First Monday in January, 22. Letters from missionaries, acknowledged, 22, Lodiana mission, 6, 7, 142, 161, 241, 292. Man, not every where religious, 18. Marriages, early, and widowhood in India, 97. Moffat, Rev. R., on South Africa, 119. Nations destitute of the Gospel, a general view Orphan convent, notice of, 375. Orr, Rev. R. W., communication from, 234. Plumer, Rev. Dr., sermon of, 225. Presbyterian Boards: of Education, 264; of Rarotongan chief, speech of, 194. Resolutions of the General Assembly on For- Receiving Agent at Pittsburgh, 22. Samoa Islands, progress of the Gospel at the, 193. Sandwich Islands, social improvement, &c. 328. Siamese mission, 6, 41, 147, 207, 373. Statistics, Anniversary, 196, 260. Texas mission, 6, 214. Funds, should be provided in proper season, 255. Scovel, Rev. Mr., letter from, 158. General Assembly: Action of, 221; Extract The new year, 25. from Minutes of, 125. The duty of sending the Gospel to the destitute, 57. Home Missions, should be sustained with vigour, The West, 345. 313. Honorary members, 63. Letter from a Pastor in the West, 346. Missionaries: communications from, in Alaba- To the Presbyteries, 32. To Pastors and Elders, 127. To our friends, 352. To our readers, 381. To the missionaries of the Board, 383. Wood, Rev. Prof., letter from, 345. THE FOREIGN MISSIONARY CHRONICLE. JANUARY, 1843. A GENERAL VIEW OF PROTESTANT MISSIONS. COMPILED FOR THE FOREIGN MISSIONARY CHRONICLE. THE following tabular statements have been prepared with considerable care, and yet they are by no means complete. The returns of stations and missionaries, and particu larly of communicants and scholars, are in many cases defective; and the missions of the Netherlands' Missionary Society, and of the Free Will Baptist body, and perhaps of some others, have been omitted for want of information; but as far as these statements extend, they may be regarded as worthy of confidence. Most of these statistics have been obtained from the Annual Reports of the various Boards and Societies of 1842; but some of them, particularly of the smaller European Societies, are dated in 1841. They may serve to give our readers a general view of Protestant Missions. *Under the titles of Missionaries, and Assistant Missionaries, no females are included. Ministers, or preachers, are classed as Missionaries; physicians, teachers, catechists, printers, &c., as Assistant Missionaries. VOL. XI.-1 These tables give the following general returns: Stations, 708; Missionarics, 974; Assistant Missionaries, 131; Native Assistants, 4089; Communicants, 146,886; Scholars, 163,658. If we omit the returns from the West Indies, the statistics of the other missionary fields will be: Stations, 456; Missionaries, 700; Assistant Missionaries, 131; Native Assistants, 2132; Communicants, 44,750; Scholars, 91,169. |