poses, that they have reaped a most abundant harvest of good wheat. The pasturage is also of the best kind, and their flocks and herds prosper exceedingly. Thus a large community will be collected, who will easily obtain the means of honest and comfortable subsistence; partly by labour on their own lands, and partly by engaging, at periods, in the service of the neighbouring colonists. The congregation and school are large, and will be much larger when the Mission-chapel is completed. At present the people assemble in a temporary building, which is inconveniently small. Mr. Ayliff will send you a statistical report of his station, which, I think, cannot fail to interest you deeply. This Mission has an important bearing on the Tambookies, (Abatembu,) whose territory adjoins the lands belonging to the Mission. I visited Mr. Warner's station, at the Imvane (Amahala). It is seven hours' ride on horseback from Haslope-Hills. I was pleased with the proofs which I witnessed of Mr. Warner's zeal and diligence since he commenced this Mission. I had an interview with the Chief Umtirara, the son and successor of the late Vossanie; and who, since the wars with the Amapondo tribe, resides here with his people. Having inspected a place about four or five miles to the southward of the spot where Mr. Wainer now resides, we were all so delighted with its great capabilities as a site for a village or town, that I requested the Chief to grant it to our Society for a Mission-village. No natives reside upon the spot; but there is a considerable population of Abatembu surrounding it. The Chief complied with my request; and I have directed Mr. Warner to remove to it as soon as convenient. The main induce. ment to this measure, is the facility with which the river (the Great Kei) may be led out so as to irrigate a very large tract of most valuable land. Mr. Warner will effect this with comparatively little labour; and then there will be a place which will afford the means of comfortable subsistence to a very large number of people, who will thus be able to reside together, and enjoy the means of grace and instruction. The spot selected is below the confluence of the three principal branches of the Kei river; and thus there will be an abundant supply of the best water for all purposes of irrigation, &c., in the most dry seasons: a point of great importance, as ensuring a supply of food to the people. The Moravian station, called Shiloh, is higher up, on one of the branches, called by the colo nists the "Klip Plaat river." They de rive great advantage from that stream, which enables them to keep at all times a population of seven or eight hundred souls on their Mission-village. We called at this station on our way back to Haslope-Hills. It is about half-way betwixt Imvane and that place, though somewhat out of the line of road. After visiting Haslope-Hills and neigh bourhood, and settling a variety of mat ters of great importance to the Mission, but which would be tedious to detail, we rode to Cradock, which is from ninety to one hundred miles from Haslope-Hills. Here we found the new chapel ready to be opened for public service. I and Mr. Boyce, with the Rev. Mr. Taylor, Minister of the Dutch Church, preached the opening sermons. The chapel is small, but neat; and it stands on land in the very centre of the village. There is ample room for a much larger chapel, Preacher's house, garden, &c., whenever the time shall come for further erections. The village of Cradock is now rapidly rising in importance: many English have settled in it, and in the neighbourhood, including several families connected with us in Albany. Many of the Dutch inhabitants of the town have shown a most friendly feeling towards us; and the Rev. Mr. Taylor, their Minister, has given unequivocal evidence that he hails our brethren as fellowlabourers in a great work. The contri butions of all classes of the inhabitants to the chapel were handsome; the col lections at the opening services were liberal; and a special effort was made at the tea-meeting, by which the entire debt on the premises will be reduced to about £100 sterling. Thus, Mr. Ed. wards, who has been appointed to reside here, will commence his work without any chapel-embarrassment to contend with. The brethren have visited this place from the surrounding Circuits (none of them nearer than one hundred miles) for some time past; and about a year ago, I sent Mr. Dennison to act as Local Preacher and Catechist. He has collected a very good congregation of coloured people, for whom service is held in the Dutch language. After Mr. Edwards is settled at Cradock, I shall be able to remove Mr. Dennison to some other field of usefulness. From Cradock we proceeded to Fort-Beaufort, to assist at the Missionary Meeting there. The congregations were large and respectable, and the kind feeling of the inhabitants, civil and military, towards our Mission was never more apparent. The collections were very liberal. We had the assistance of two of the Missionaries from Kaffraria, belonging to the Glasgow (Church of Scotland) Missionary Society. You will see by the account in the Graham's-Town Journal sent off last week, that our Missionary Anniversary, held on the 20th and 22d of March, was unusually interesting. The attendance was, as usual, numerous and respectable. The weather proved unfavourable on the Sunday; but the collections at this Anniversary, in the town only, exceeded £50; and it appeared by the statements received from the various Branch Societies, that the total receipts ALBANY.-Extract of a Letter from the Rev. John Richards, dated Salem, May 17th, 1842. THE people that still remain in this neighbourhood, with but very few exceptions, attend divine worship on the Sabbath with praiseworthy regularity. On the morning of that day our congregation is usually good, although many of its regular members come from a distance of from three to nine miles. These services I have much enjoyed. They have generally been to myself, and I trust to the people also, "times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord." Our native service, which takes place immediately after the English, is well attended. The congregation has considerably enlarged during the last two or three months. I am much encouraged by its general appearance. The native members of the society attend their class very regularly. Their conduct is in accordance with their professions. Three adults have recently been baptized, and two more have just begun to meet in class. Our Sunday evening and week-night services are not well attended, in consequence of the distance at which most of our people live from the chapel. We are about to build a little chapel at Norman's Party, where we have a small society. Of these members I may say, that, "in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, they have their conversation in the world." I doubt not but most or all the families residing near this place will attend divine service when the chapel is ready to receive them. Farmerfield adds greatly to the interest and importance of my Circuit. At this place the congregations are large, both on the Sabbath-day and on the week evening. I need not tell you that This has been rather a trying season to the people, with regard to their tem poral circumstances. We have had a very long drought, in consequence of which, crops, to a very considerable extent, have failed. Providence has, however, again smiled upon us; and we are now visited with the long-wished-for and long-prayed-for rains. Through the blessing of God on industrious habits, we apprehend no lack of the necessaries of life. We enjoy spiritual, and we enjoy temporal, blessings; for all which we are thankful. ALBANY.-Extract of a Letter from the Rev. William J. Davis, dated D'Urban, May 2d, 1842. You will, ere this, have received the Minutes of our District-Meeting; whereby you will have been apprized of my removal from Butterworth, and my appointment to this station. I think it may be both interesting and encouraging to the friends of Missions, if, in taking leave of my old station, I state a few circumstances connected with that Mission, that call for gratitude to the Giver of all good. One special ground of encouragement is, the scriptural character of the Christian experience of the members of our society. They not only have a knowledge of the saving truths of Christianity, as taught in the sacred volume, but they feel those truths in power applied to their souls; and while in the classes they often mourn over the natural depravity of their hearts, they at the same time profess unshaken confidence in Christ as their Saviour, know God as their reconciled Father, and endeavour to walk in all his ordinances blameless. Many have been the undoubted conversions from sin to holiness which have taken place during my ministry among them; and I confidently expect, that in the day" when He shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe," many from that society shall rise up to call Him blessed. Their zeal for God is untiring. Some of them are engaged as Local Preachers, and several as Sunday-school Teachers on the Sabbath-day, and are thus preparing for a more general outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the people. It is also cause of gratitude to see indications of good presenting themselves among many of the young females in the school, who, I trust, are seeing the evil of sin, and seeking the salvation of their souls. These serious impressions on the minds of the scholars I mainly attribute, under God, to the faithful discharge of his duties on the part of the native Teacher, and his constant solicitude for the conversion of the children. The welfare of their souls lies near his heart; and often in his class-meetings does he refer to the anxiety he is the subject of on their behalf, as one who, in the sight of God, is responsible for their instruction in righteousness. But that which affords the greatest encouragement, as connected with the work of God at Butterworth, is, the es tablishment of two out-posts in the tribe, under the care of two native Preachers, both the fruit of Missionary labours on that station. One of these is with a Fingo population, the other is with a section of the Kafir tribe. There are several circumstances connected with these sub-stations which are pleasing and encouraging. The name of one of the Preachers is connected with pleasing associations. He was one of the first converts on the Butterworth station, and is the fruit of the labours of the Rev. W. J. Shrewsbury, who named him in baptism after one who was specially interested in the prosperity of Missions in Southern Africa. Be it known, then, that the first native Preacher employed in taking charge of a Mission station in Southern Africa, bears the honoured name of Richard Watson. May he long live to be useful to his countrymen, and forward that work which lay so near the heart of him after whom he is named ! There is a population of about one hundred and fifty souls connected with this station, who regularly attend the Sabbath services. The other native Preacher (whose name is Bithle) is living with a Kafir Chief of the name of Potsana. This Chief, having been driven from that part of the country he formerly occupied by war, fixed his residence near the Mission station at Butterworth, where he remained some time. During his stay there he often attended on the means of grace; and the truths he there heard produced such an effect on his mind, that when he removed to his former residence, he earnestly requested that some person might be appointed to reside with his section of his tribe, to teach him and his people the way of life. This request was presented to our District-Meeting, and Bithle, who had long acted with acceptance as a Local Preacher, was se lected for this duty. He was received by the Chief as a messenger to him for good. He has attended regularly to all the means of grace since the arrival of his Teacher, and uniformly uses his influence with his people to induce them to accompany him. The most pleasing circumstance of all others connected with the reception of this native Preacher by Potsana, is, that the Preacher is a Fingo, the Chief and his people Kafirs, by nation. Now it is well known, that the Kafirs have long looked on the Fingoes as dogs, insomuch that when any act of oppression is charged on a Kafir towards a Fingo, the former easily justifies himself by saying, "Cannot I do as I please with my dog?" But behold here the power of divine grace! No sooner is the Kafir brought to see the value of divine things, than this power of caste is completely broken, and a Kafir Chief receives, and that cordially, a Fingo as his spiritual guide, and listens with attention and reverence to his instructions! It is indeed a sight most gratifying to see this Fingo Preacher and Teacher, not only preaching to his Kafir congregation, but teach ing this Kafir Chieftain and his children to read God's holy word,-a sight which the writer has felt to be more than a sufficient remuneration for all the sacrifices he has made, and the labours he has endured in the Mission field. May we not expect that this commencement of a native agency in South Africa, shall be but the prelude to a more extensive work of conversion among the native tribes? The saving work of conversion is by no means general among the Kafir tribes, and on this account we mourn before our God; but we hail the commencement of a native agency as fraught with promised and coming good; and while encouraged by the hundreds of converts over which we rejoice as those who have been gathered into Christ's fold, we earnestly expect to see thousands. May I not request the prayers of all those who have power with God, on behalf of these infant churches in the wilderness, that they may shine as lights in the midst of a dark land; that here the "little one may become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation?" May the Lord hasten it in his time! KAFFRARIA. Extract of a Letter from the Rev. William Impey, dated Wesleyville, April 26th, 1842. THE society, though small, is yet, I hope, in a prosperous state, the members walking worthy of their vocation. Two individuals remain on trial, to whom, I trust, many others, ere long, will be added. Much, I believe, depends upon the attention paid to visiting the people at their own homes, and upon an individual application of those great truths which form the subject of the Gospel ministry. The word must be preached in season and out of season: there must be line upon line, precept upon precept. Heedless of the coldness and apathy with which our ministrations are received on the part of many, we would not stagger at the promise of the Lord, but continue strong in faith, giving glory to God; not doubting but that in due time the word shall be accomplished, "The Heathen shall be his inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth his possession." We have lately been favoured with a visit from Mr. Shaw. The affection borne towards him by the people of this neighbourhood, once rejoicing under his truly pastoral care, is of no ordinary kind: the theme on which they love to dwell is the remembrance of the period of his sojourn amongst them: they look upon him as their "father," and so they call him. We were not a little pleased to mark the deep feeling of some who, in the earlier days of the Mission, did run well, but have turned aside from the paths of righteousness; and would gladly hail their emotion as the harbinger of return to the Shepherd and Bishop of their souls. Mr. Shaw gives us the welcome intelligence, that a gracious work is going on in our society in Graham's-Town, in both native and European departments, but more especially the latter; the particulars of which you will doubtless learn from some one of the resident Ministers. I would almost go in the hope of myself partaking of the quickening influence; how much needed the Lord knoweth. Fathers, brethren, pray for your Missionaries, that the little cares and anxieties to which their life, above that of the other Christian Minister, is subject, may not lead them to quench the Spirit; but that these, as well as the more weighty ones which not unfrequently are their portion, may be sanctified to personal growth in grace, and to the furtherance of the Gospel. GREAT NAMACQUALAND. SINCE the publication of Mr. Hodgson's journal of his visit to the Missions in the interior, a few months ago, many of our readers will have entertained a much deeper interest in the progress of divine knowledge among the widely-scattered tribes connected with the station at Nisbet-Bath. They will therefore be the more concerned to learn, that Mr. Cook, who has been the instrument of so much good, has been under the necessity, through the failure of his health, of quitting his station. A society of about four hundred members is thus temporarily left without suitable pastoral care and oversight; and schools, containing nearly eight hundred children, are left chiefly to the care of native Teachers. The financially-straitened circumstances of the Society render such occurrences doubly painful, as the Committee have it not in their power to supply at once the vacancies which are thus occasioned. The truly Missionary spirit of Mr. Tindall, as expressed in the extract of his letter, given by Mr. Cook, is very honourable to him, and will be observed with pleasure and thankful ness. CAPE-DISTRICT.-Extract of a Letter from the Rev. Edward Cook, dated NisbetBath, Great-Namacqualand, May 4th, 1842. UNDER the influence of no common feelings I sit down to address you. The present state of my health appears to leave me no choice as to my continuing in this country; and therefore we propose setting off in August, to try some other situation, as we may be advised by the District-Meeting. Such being the circumstances of the case, I am most concerned lest, with our limited means, we should not be able to send a Missionary to supply the vacancy thus occasioned; the necessary consequence of which would be, neglect of the members collected, a disorderly scattering, and perhaps an entire loss of influence with the people. I can enter into the difficulties of the Committee, and sympathize with all the kind supporters who bear a share of the present burden. I am overcome by excited feelings of interest for the Mission which has been established through your care and benevolent support; and a fear lest the little enclosures formed should again become waste, and the fields, opening bright with promise, be suffered to close against us in darkness; and cannot refrain from appealing to you for such assistance as may be necessary to meet our case. I again entreat you, by the neglected condition of these tribes, and their frequent applications to us for assistance, to give this object all the support which your But circumstances will permit. We have already suffered these poor outcasts to sit in darkness too long, hoping, and in many instances longing, for the light of the Gospel. And the present favourable disposition of almost every tribe inhabiting the country, from the skirts of the desert which separates the Namacquas from the Bechuanas, to the west coast, and northward to the boundary of the Damara country, appears to me an irresistible indication that this is, in a peculiar degree, the time to favour them; and that, if our Committee intend ever to help them, they must do it now. We have been expecting a party of Missionaries sent expressly for the commencement of a Mission in the Damara country by the Rhenish Society; but they have not yet visited us; and, rain having fallen copiously on the 2d of April somewhat unexpectedly, so as to render the country favourable for travelling, we immediately determined that Mr. and Mrs. Tindall should set off to visit the tribes in that direction, although they had just returned from Blyde Verwacht; and accordingly they left us on the 8th ult. On the 19th Mr. Tindall thus writes from the residence of the late Derk Isaac at Lion-River, Kamope:" Jan Water Boer, and a number of his people, and a few of Ameral's people, have arrived |