has in view.

In the assistance rendered to the circulation of the Scriptures,by the journeyings and labours of the Society's Representatives in the Mediterranean, the Committee acknowledge, with thankfulness to God, that the Mission has been rendered subservient to His glory. Not only have friendly connections been formed with many persons of influence, by your visits to different quarters; but new channels have been opened for the circulation of the Scriptures: and preparations have been made for communicating them to the ancient Christian Empire of Abyssinia, to the Natives of the Island where you have taken up your abode, and to the inhabitants of the whole coast of Northern Africa, in their respective vernacular tongues.

The Committee cannot but take this occasion of thanking you, in the name of the Society, for that accumulation of remarks with which you have furnished them-the result of vigilant observation of all that passed under your notice, likely to contribute to the object of your Mission. In this course of proceeding, you have made them comparatively familiar with the scenes which you have visited; and have thereby the better enabled them to judge of the various questions, which, in the progress of the Mission, will probably come before them. You have excited, moreover, a warmer interest in the revival of those Ancient Churches, which long preceded us in the enjoyment of Christian Privileges, and which now seem mournfully to solicit at our hands a kind remembrance of their fallen condition. Considering the Sermon which you addressed to the Society at its last Anniversary as an epitome of your own views and feelings, acquired by your experience in the midst of the ruins of these Ancient Churches, the Committee are persuaded that they speak the sentiments of the whole body of the Society, when they say that they cordially participate with you in the most

fellow-Christians, and in a desire by wise and gentle measures to lead them back to the purity and vigour of their former days. The Volume of your Researches, now about to be com mitted to the press, will open to the Members of the Society, and to Christians at large, in a manner which has never before been done, the vast extent of the field of labour which the Mediterranean offers, and the peculiar character of that field.

That you are returning thither without companions of your toil, is a cause of serious regret to yourself and to the Committee: they cannot but hope, however, that some will be excited by the appeals already made, and about to be renewed from the press, to consecrate their learning and talents to the service of their Heavenly Master in this most interesting field.

Under the circumstances which have been stated, it will not be expected that the Committee have much to add to the Instructions first addressed to you. Your own Volume, indeed, will at once throw light on those Instructions and will enlarge the sphere of your future Researches. A steady perseverance in this course of observation, is the point which the Committee would chiefly press upon you. You have constantly had it in view, the Committee are satisfied, to state nothing on slight and insufficient grounds: yet the same things will appear in new lights, as occasions vary; and they will look, therefore, to your future communications, not only for further intelligence respecting the countries bor. dering on the great internal Seas near you, but for confirmation or modification, as the case may be, of the information which may have resulted from your first visit to the Mediter

ranean.

The efficient application of the Press, in the variety of ways by which that powerful engine may be rendered subservient, all round the Mediterranean, to the Cause of Truth and Righteousness, has been a subject of

frequent and serious deliberation with you. You will proceed herein, as it shall please God to give you opportunity-assured that the Committee will count it their duty to employ every means in their power, for the diffusion of Christian Knowledge among the vast reading population within the sphere of your labours.

In most cordially praying that the blessing of God may be with you in your return to these labours, the Committee cannot but advert to the interest which has been awakened in the public mind by the events that have occurred since you left the Mediterranean, The ultimate issue of these events is in the hands of the Great Head of the Church; but the duty of availing ourselves of times of affliction and distress to direct the sufferers to the admonitions and consolations of the Divine Word, is not only obvious, but the faithful and affectionate discharge of it will prove a blessing both to him that gives and to him that receives.

The Committee would refer those of youwho are proceeding toINDIA,not only to the Addresses and Instructions delivered to your predecessors in that field of labour, but to the counsels of the Corresponding Committee at Calcutta, in connection with which Committee you will be stationed.

The Corresponding Committees in India deliver Instructions to the Society's Missionaries, when circumstances may call for them. These Instructions are grounded on their local knowledge and experience, and become invaluable guides in the labours of the Missions. The Committee quote, with much pleasure, from an Address of the Madras Corresponding Committee to the Rev. Isaac Wilson, some suggestions relative to his views and proceedings among the Natives, which may be of the utmost service to yourselves:

The first and paramount object, must be the attainment of a competent knowledge of the Language: make every thing subBervient to this object. You will have excellent help in the principal Native Chris

tians, for obtaining the colloquial use of the language; while your Moonshee and Books must be depended on for a classical knowledge of it. You must learn to study the language, to write, and to think, as with the learned; while, in conversation, you acquire a habit of conforming yourself, by turns, to all classes of Natives, to the poorest and most ignorant, as well as to the highest and most learned. The

gradations of language in this country

would seem to be as inconsiderable as the differences of caste and civil station. Attention to this circumstance must be im

portant, in order to attain a discriminating knowledge of the use of the Vernacular Tongue.

all descriptions of Natives, early: let no Above all, familiarize yourselves with exertion be thought too much to place yourself where you will see, hear, and, so far as it may be practicable, mix with the people themselves,

let it be known in what capacity and light Among the Native Christians especially, you desire to be viewed. Penetrate into every particular of their situation and character. Let no circumstance connected with them, which may throw light on their modes of thinking, speaking, or action, be deemed too inconsiderable for your attention. Impress upon the Catechists and principal Christian Natives, the consideration, that you wish to see and know every thing as it really is, not as they may suppose you would wish things to be shewn; for it is a characteristic of all Natives, to represent every thing to Europeans as they suppose the European wishes, rather than as the things are. You will, in such pursuits find, no doubt, very much to distress and disappoint you: but, without such a correct knowledge of all things within the scope of a Missionary's office, you can never labour intelligently, nor apply the remedies really suited to the disorders which prevail among the people.

Toward the Heathen, also, endeavour to acquaintance and intercourse. Study every establish an equal degree of familiarity of thing relating to them-their modes of life, in all their details-the divisions and distinctions of their castes-the full extent of the influence of caste-the essentials and non-essentials of it.

Study, especially, to counteract the im pression, which always prevails at first and

which sometimes never leaves even a

Missionary, of your being what is understood by the term a EUROPEAN GENTLEMAN -one, who necessarily is of a station, views, and manners, infinitely distant from and above the people-one, whom every Native endeavours, in some shape or other, to cajole and deceive. Establish early and maintain invariably the impression of your being, what you really wish to be, an humble, simple Missionary, or Teacher of Religion-living above the world and at a visible distance from it, in your habits of life, purposes, and desireshaving few things in common with the Gentry of India; but desirous earnestly and sincerely to spend yourself and be spent, in humble efforts to make known to every one, who comes within the sphere of your labours or intercourse, the blessed tidings of Salvation with which you are charged. Thus making yourself all things to those around you; and labouring, in earnestness and singleness of heart as though all the work were your own, while inwardly all your hope and strength and success is fervently sought of the Lord, in dependence on His promised influence accompanying the obedient endeavours of His Messengers, you cannot fail to find present comfort in your work, and in due time receive the fruit of your labours.

The Committee must impress one consideration, in reference to correspondence, more particularly on their German Missionaries. They wish you, and all your countrymen, ever to retain a grateful regard to your friends at Bâsle and in other quarters, under whom you have been prepared for the work of the Lord; but they must claim for the Society under which you are sent forth, a warm interest in your affections and prayers, and a regular communication of whatever is important in reference to your Mission. They take this opportunity of explaining to you, and to all your Brethren who are already engaged, or may be hereafter engaged, in the service of Christ under the Society, that, while they do not object to your direct communication of occasional Missionary Intelligence to the Institution at Bâsle or to your friends elsewhere, they must lay it

down as a Regulation never to be departed from, that you send, by the same conveyance, to the Society, through the Corresponding Committee, a translation, in English, of all Missionary Intelligence communicated to your friends. It is not meant by this Regulation, in any measure to restrain you from communicating, in the fullest manner, your Views and Feelings confidentially to your relatives and friends: it is only in reference to Intelligence connected with your Mission, that this Regulation is adopted.

The subject of Caste is one of the most difficult connected with India.

You will be less affected by it in Bengal, than the Missionaries are in the southern part of India. It begins, however, to attract much attention;

and it may be hoped that Christian

Societies and Labourers will be enabled to agree on the most promising mode of treating this matter, in reference to the Native Christians and

Native Schools.

In addressing you, Mr. SAWYER, among those who are proceeding to India, the Committee refer, with much pleasure, to the manner in which you have received their intimation of a change in your destination. Though originally designed for India, circumstances had led to your appointment to another quarter; and, on this appointment you had dwelt, from scveral considerations, with much satisfaction. But, as a change of circumstances has led the Committee to wish you to proceed to your first destination, they notice, with thankfulness, the readiness of mind with which you and Mrs. Sawyer have followed what appeared to be the path of your duty; and they trust that they may consider the Christian Spirit manifested on this occasion, as an earnest, that, by the grace of God, the same spirit will prevail throughout your lives.

You, Mr. MAISCH and Mr. REICHARDT, are following into the field of labour, some who had received, fike yourselves, the benefits of Christian

that there are indeed great convulsions, both moral and political, as though the breaker had gone up before us. On the other side, we see none that move all, in Africa, seems still to lie buried in the slumber of ages. It is to the broken and contrite heart, that the righteousness of God by faith in Christ Jesus is revealed-where then, alas! shall we find individuals, families, households, communities, or nations, ready to embrace and to propagate the true spirit of the Gospel? Those only, who enter upon this Research, know the pang of looking around among millions of immortal beings, and counting but here and there one single known, tried, intelligent, and zealous Christian Brother. Where, in all this ample sphere, is the spot on which there rests the fulness of the blessings of the Gospel of Christ-or where is there even the door wide-opened for its reception?

2. The second consideration isWhen, or in what manner, Evangelists may be found, to meet the spiritual wants of these regions - either themselves to preach, or to excite others to preach, the truth as it is in Jesus. To what quarter must we look for this supply? When, or in what manner, my Brethren in the Ministry, or our younger friends of the rising generation in our Universities, may be brought to meet the claims of the countries of this Mission on their devoted services, is a question which we respectfully ask of this Christian Nation; while we shall not cease importunately to implore, that the Lord Himself would stir up the hearts of His faithful people to this holy work. On these subjects, however, which might lead me to a length not suited to the present occasion, I forbear to dwell. I would rather now retire to my destination, entreating your fervent and effectual prayers for the success of our efforts, and for our own personal growth in grace, in every necessary gift, and in all things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.

However others, occupied at home,

may feel with respect to these things, it would be in me, who have been an eye-witness of the guilty, wretched, and degraded state of many parts of the Levant, most unpardonable, could I feel cold or lukewarm in this work. I know that it is a blessed service! Oftentimes, even when bowed down with anguish and pity at the state of those whom I was visiting, I have yet experienced such strong and sustaining consolation, in contemplating and pleading and acting upon the promises of a Faithful God, that my spirit has been ready to say, 66 It is enough!-One or another may sink : yet this work will not fail."

But I desire to feel yet more than this. Feelings of delight are, indeed, through infirmity and sinfulness of the heart, not always at hand to impel or to support the spirit: may I, then, and all united with me, feel-in every circumstance, in every emergency, at every turn-that necessity is laid upon us-that, if our hearts could betray us into a reluctance to lay ourselves out to alleviate those miseries which we have witnessed, there meets us a woe, far more tremendous than all the ills which we either feel or fear-and that it were better for us to die, than to suffer others to perish in ignorance and sin. What others may feel I know not: for myself, both the love of Christ to constrain, and the terrors of the Lord to

compel me, are most necessary.

Pray for us, then, Brethren, that the might and mercy of our Saviour may keep us faithful in His service. You know that no real progress can be made, nor can we even stand our ground, without the aid of the prayers of the Church of God. Without these, your labours and ours will utterly fail. We are, not sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God. May He make us able Ministers of the New Testament! May He, through us, give life to all those who are now sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death! And, especially, when