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nish you with a copy of the Treasurer's Minute on the subject, which will explain the grounds of this Resolution, and, we doubt not, excite your endeavours to keep within the smallest practicable limits, consistent with the due efficiency of the Mission, every item of its disbursements.

The Committee, in conclusion, beg you to be persuaded of the lively interest which they feel in your labours -of their sympathy in all your difficulties and discouragements-of their joy in whatever tends to your joy and comfort, in your persons, families, and ministry—and of their prayers on your behalf, to Him, who alone can prosper your measures for the benefit of the objects of your Ministry, and impart all needful grace for the sanctification and peace of your own souls.

To the Missionaries at Madras. The Committee have stated in their Report, the sense which they entertain of the benefits to be derived from the erection of the Church now attached to your Mission. The duties of the Church as divided into the English and Tamul Services, have been already apportioned between you; and until Mr. Ridsdale's proficiency in the Tamul Language shall enable him to take part in the Native Service, it seems desirable, that the division of duties should continue on the same footing as at present. But the Committee are anxious to keep constantly before you the understanding that the Church was chiefly designed for the use of Christian NATIVES, and that its paramount employment must always be for them. The English Service, accordingly, must always be considered as a secondary, though certainly important, branch of duty: and we wish Mr. Ridsdale to keep this consideration much in view; while, so far as is consistent with its due observance, we rejoice in the institution of the Service committed to him, and trust that the Ordinances will be blessed of the Lord to the essential benefit of the Congregation, and, col

laterally, to the advancement of the primary objects of the Mission.

With the general charge of the Native Department of the Mission, the Schools necessarily fall under Mr. Bärenbruck's superintendence; but, as Mr. Ridsdale's earliest colloquial efforts in the Native Language will probably be most advantageously made in the Schools, it is desirable that he should begin early to familiarize himself with the detail of their arrangements, and accompany and assist Mr. Bärenbruck in the stated inspection of them.

In giving to each of you a separate portion of the duties of the Mission, the Committee have in view the relief of Mr. Bärenbruck, and the systematic arrangement of the increasing work of the Mission: and with those views it will be desirable that the Rethe Mission should be prepared by the ports of the different departments of Superintendant of each.

The Committee have before them, at this time, plans for the buildings has so long been their wish to estarequired for the Seminary, which it blish within the Mission Ground; and they hope to commence upon them shortly. In the mean while, it is their desire, that you should seek for proper Youths to be placed in the Institution, when the Establishment can be formed; and to begin to prepare them for the more enlarged course of the Seminary. instruction, which will be pursued in

School and the Printing Office will The Central Mission form parts of the same buildings; and will thus afford the most convenient opportunity for due superintendence and inspection,

Circumstances have led the Committee to consider of the System of Native Schools lately established in this Mission; and their experience leads them to believe, that the Native Schools in respect to the object of their institution-which is paramount the instruction of the Children in the elements of Christianity as well as in learning-are nearly useless, unless

they are within the regular and frequent inspection of the Missionary: and, under this impression, they would wish you to consider, whether the benefits of the distant Schools of the Mission are equivalent to their expense; and whether the same expense might not be more advantageously employed, in extending the number of Schools within the town and environs of Madras on the North side, which is the quarter least occupied, the Committee believe, by the Missionaries of other Societies in this place, and where, consequently, it would seem advisable to concentrate the operations of your Mission.

Another point is deserving of notice. You will find in the Report on the Tinnevelly Mission, the Rules which the Rev. Mr. Hough has adopted, in concurrence with his Schoolmasters, to insure a certain number of Scholars in every School. The expenses of the Schools in Madras exceed those of the Society's Schools at every other Station, with the exception of those at Allepic; while the average number of Children in them is less than in any other.

I am further requested to intimate the wish of the Committee, that stated Half-yearly Public Examinations of the Children of the Mission Schools may be established; from the due observance of which the Committee expect much good; and at which the Members of the Committee would, of course, attend.

The Committee would wish you to consider the different matters relating to the Schools: and they will be happy afterward, at your convenience, to confer personally with you on the subject of them; with the view, if approved by you, of having the measures carried into effect, or of adapting them to your views.

The Committee are aware of the attention which Mr. Bärenbruck very early paid to the important duty of Pastoral Visits among the Members of the Tamul Congregation; and

they recommend earnestly the regular observance of these visits, so far as circumstances may permit. Of the utility of the practice in every country, every Christian Minister, who duly estimates the responsibility of his office, is fully sensible; but it seems especially needful in this country, for a Missionary to extend the influence of his office, from the Church to the Dwellings of his humble flock. It is the anxious wish of the Committee, that, in every place where the Society has a footing, the poor depressed Christian Natives may have a principal share in the labours of the Missionaries; and especially that their Children should be the objects of your tender regard. If, by the favour of their Heavenly Father, blessing the endeavours of the Missionaries, the rising generation of Christian Natives shall prove more worthy of the Holy Name which they bear, the distribution of such a class of persons in the country may be attended with very important effects. sufficient thus to advert to a subject, that has, no doubt, occupied your thoughts, in order to evince the interest which the Committee take in this important branch of your duties.

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The Committee trust, that you will find increasing assistance, in these and other offices of your Ministry, from the services of the Catechist and Readers of the Mission. They would suggest to you the importance of the most domestic communication, which it may be in your power to maintain with these Native Assistants: for the purpose of rendering them familiar with your views toward the people; and of endeavouring to impart to them the animating principles which govern your labours, in place of the mere formal observance of customary duties, which the business of their situation prescribes, and to which the habitual inertness of the native character has so unhappy a tendency.

The Committee hope that it will

eventually be in your power to establish a plan of Public Preaching abroad, in addition to the stated performance of Divine Service at Church and at the Koorookapetah School. In the mean while, it is desirable that the Catechist and Readers should be employed, according to their qualifications and under your direction, in this duty.

The Committee hope that the Mission Printing-Office will, in the course of this year, become an increasingly efficient help to all their Missions; by supplying Editions of the various useful Tracts possessed by the Committee, and the publication of School Books: and the Committee will be happy to receive any addition which you can make, from time to time, to their collection of such Works.

To the Missionaries in Tinnevelly. The District in which you are slationed presents the singular and encouraging view, of Heathen Natives seeking the benefits of Christianity, and entreating for Christian Instructors; and of a wide door voluntarily opened for the utterance of the Gospel, in a language with which you have made yourselves familiarly acquainted. A Native Congregation already attends your Ministry. Numerous Schools have been formed by the zealous and judicious Friend, whom you succeed in so interesting a scene of Missionary exertion and success and a Seminary is in progress, for training up more suitable Native Instruments for the different departments of your work, than can be obtained elsewhere. A more hopeful and pleasing scene for Missionary Exertion cannot be found in any other quarter of India. May a double portion of the Spirit, which guided the measures and conduct of your esteemed Predecessor, rest upon you; and qualify you perfectly to fulfil the high expectation which a review of the labours of a solitary and very infirm Minister, fully given to the great

work, cannot fail to excite on the part of the Society and all its Members !

For the efficient management of the business of so extensive a Station, it seems desirable to make a division of the duties of the Mission; and these class themselves naturally under the two heads of

1st. The Congregation and Preaching; and,

2d. Schools and Seminary.

Your respective qualifications ob viously point out the proper distribution of the duties of these two divisions. It is the wish of the Committee, that the first be placed under Mr. Rhenius, and the second under Mr.. Schmid. The Committee request, that in all reports and communications to them and to the Society, this division of subjects be attended to, and that the Superintendant of each shall compile the parts relating to his department of the work.

We need not impress upon you, at this period of your experience in all the details of a Mission in this country, the necessity of each of you exercising A CONTINUAL PERSONAL INSPECTION over your respective branches of the affairs of the Mission.

It is the wish of the Committee that Mr. Rhenius should employ himself much IN PREACHING, wherever the people manifest a disposition to listen; and especially to make frequent visits to those places, where the people would seem to be favourably inclined to receive the Gospel. Those visits should not be hastily performed; for from such visits no solid results can be expected: but as much time as is possible should be given to them. Thus visiting frequently the places which lift up their hands, as it were, crying, Come over and help us, and giving himself heartily to this chief labour of the Christian Ministry, it may be expected, from all the circumstances of the people, as hitherto as certained, that the effects of Mr. Rhenius's exertions, with the Divine blessing, will abundantly recompense his toil on their behalf.

The continual personal inspection of the SCHOOLS, the Committee doubt not will be Mr. Schmid's happy employment. The Printing Press here is about to be actively employed in the preparation, among other works, of School Publications; and supplies will be speedily forwarded, to aid Mr. Schmid's useful labours in his department of work.

To the Missionaries in Travancore.

The Committee have received great pleasure, from a Letter addressed to them by their valued Friend, the Rev. Mr. Hough, containing an account of his visit to the Syrian Christians, to your Mission, and to that of Allepie. Persuaded that this Document will be acceptable, and that it is calculated to be useful to you, I have been requested to forward the accompanying copy of it; and to express the satis faction which the Committee feel at the representation that it conveys of your beneficial labours-of your devotedness to the Cause, for which you are engaged and of the prospect, with which the measures of the Society are favoured, of realizing, in due time, the hopes, entertained by its Members of the benefits to be conferred, by their Institutions, on the depressed Church of Malabar.

The Committee contemplate these interesting proceedings, with thankfulness toward the Great Head of the Church; and unite with the devout Members of the Society at large, in prayer to Him, for the more abundant supply of His grace, to qualify you for all the arduous duties of your situation; and for the effusion of the Holy Spirit upon the whole Church, to render your endeavours, on behalf of its Members, conducive to the Divine Glory, and their present and everlasting welfare.

The measures lately sanctioned by the Committee, at your suggestion, for extending the system of education and the increased efficiency of the College at Cotym, seconded, as they trust they will shortly be, by the establishment of a Printing Office at the

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There are a few points, connected with the duties of the Mission and the state of the people, upon which I am requested to state the wishes of the Committee.

The Committee highly approve of the arrangement which you adopted, sometime ago, for the more systematic distribution of the labours of your united work; and they think that it will tend to the efficiency of the plan, as it certainly will to the developement of its results, if, in the stated reports to the Committee, each Missionary shall compile the parts belonging to his own department of labour. We desire to acknowledge, what we very sensibly feel, the obligation which we owe to you for the valuable general Reports hitherto addressed to us: but it will be but reasonable for each to take his share, in the duty of preparing such statements of your proceedings; and they will probably admit of more particular detail on each branch of your interesting occupations, when compiled by each for the portion belonging especially to himself, than the most comprehensive but general representations admit.

The Committee, both on general principles and on such experience as is applicable to the point, are led to lay much stress on the importance of each Missionary, in his proper department of labour, exercising, to the utmost possible extent, personal intercourse and inspection of the people with whom his duty brings him into connection, and as frequent visits as may be practicable among the

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Churches and Schools, which, from their distance, are beyond the reach of immediate superintendence from your head Station.

The remarkable improvement in the instance of the Catanar of Neranum, noticed by Mr. Hough, and attributed to the Catanar's former intimacy with Mr. Norton, is a proof of the beneficial effect of such near communication: and the success, that attended Mr. Bailey's visit to a Church, which had before resolutely refused to contribute to the maintenance of its Parish School, is an important instance of the favourable influence which may be exerted by personal address, where even the authority of Official Power had failed. And, in respect of Schools, our experience in other places leads us to fear, that they will not be found really useful in view to the paramount object of Christian Instruction, until suitable Native Superintendence can be depended on, only while under the regular inspection of a Missionary.

The Committee may mistake, but there is something like an intimation, in some instances, of the Heads of the Syrian Church entertaining the supposition of the measures of our revered Society toward them being those of the Church of England. Should such an impression exist, you will, of course, correct it; and convey a right understanding of the con, stitution of the Church Missionary Society, and of its motives and views, as a Benevolent but Unofficial Association, toward the Syrian Church.

The Committee have noticed, with attention, Mr. Hough's remarks respecting Cochin: and it is among the chief places, which they wish to be enabled to provide with a resident Missionary; but, till they can do so, they consider it important to possess the hold upon the Station, which your regular visits thither maintain; independently of the actual benefit, which, they trust, is conferred by your ministrations among the inhabi

tants, however limited they may necessarily be at present.

There are also some points of Official Detail, which I am requested to take the opportunity of mentioning.

The first is, to beg that you will forward to the Committee a copy of every Tract, hitherto circulated by you; and that, henceforth, none may be distributed, until their sanction has been obtained, when the Tract consists of any matter except extracts from the Sacred Scriptures: of such, also, a specimen should be forwarded for the information of the Committee; to be lodged in the Central Library, and to be entered in its Lists.

The Committee also request, that the progress made in the Malayalim Translation of the Scriptures, may be occasionally noticed in your Reports; while the detail of that work will continue to be communicated, of course, to the Auxiliary Bible Society.

I am also to request, that you will forward, for deposit here, all the Grants of Land or other property held by the Society in your Mission, copies being preserved by you; it being desirable, that all original documents of that nature should be deposited here.

It would answer many useful ends, if you would make a practice of taking Geographical and Statistical Notes of the Country, upon all occasions of visiting the various parts of it, and would send the substance of them, as your leisure permits, to the Committee.

With the exception of the Writings of some of the Romish Missionaries, scarcely any thing is known, in detail, of the country inhabited by the Syrian Christians, or of the present state of their villages, occupations, and numbers. Mr. Bailey's account of his tour last year was, in this respect also, very acceptable. If it were possible to furnish a Sketch Map of the country, it would be a most interesting document.

To the Rev. T. Norton, at Allepie.
The Committee rejoice with you

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