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duties of the Chaplaincy at Freetown. By an arrangement made with the Government in 1824, the Society pledged itself to the preparation and maintenance of all the Clergy within the Colony, whether stationed at Freetown or in the country parishes. This arrangement, which, under more favourable circumstances, might have been the means of supplying the Colony with duly-qualified and spiritual Teachers, eventually proved burdensome to the Missionaries, as their number decreased; and this burden, under which they have so long laboured, has only recently been removed, by the appointment to the Chaplaincy of the Rev. David Morgan, who left this country for Sierra Leone at the end of November last.

While the Society has thus endeavoured, by the appointed instrument, the PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL, to promote the spiritual interest of Africa, it has not been unmindful of the important subsidiary aid afforded by CHRISTIAN EDUCATION; and has, from time to time, taken measures for affording the benefits of such an education to the children in the Colony. The children, those excepted who lived with their parents, were placed under the care of the Society's Labourers, from the time of their being landed from the slave-ships; they were taught to pray, to keep holy the Lord's-day, and to reverence the Name and Word of God; and, while some have received early religious impressions in the Society's Schools, which have been matured in afterlife, many have become respectable and well-behaved members of society, even where evident proofs of real conversion to God have not been subsequently afforded. The system originally pursued by the Society with respect to the Schools, in fulfilment of its arrangement with the Government, was adhered to till January 1827; when the then Governor introduced a new plan, which, in effect, entirely altered the relation which had subsisted between the

Schools and the Society. The Missionaries had hitherto had the entire controul over the Schools, appointing to the charge of them such persons as they deemed duly qualified for the situation; but, at the time above mentioned, the Governor assumed the charge of the education of the people, and engaged 'persons of colour to undertake it; the Society's Labourers being invited to visit the Schools during the hours allotted to instruction, for the purpose of examining the Scholars, with the liberty of advising and admonishing the Teachers, if they deemed it necessary; but having no power to make any improvement, should they think it advisable, in the mode of conducting the Schools, without reporting to the Governor, and obtaining his sanction. The Missionaries finding an efficient superintendence of the Schools impracticable on this principle, felt it their painful duty, after experiencing its injurious effects, to relinquish the superintendence altogether, and to establish Schools, maintained at the Society's expense, of which they could have the entire regulation. These were accordingly commenced, in 1828, at two of the Stations in the Mountain District, in addition to an Infants' School previously established.

The care of the Colonial Schools in Freetown had also been committed to the Society's Labourers, and they continued the superintendence of them after relinquishing that of the Schools in the country parishes. A School was also established, in 1822, out of the Colony, in the Plantain Islands; but has since been given up.

Besides the education of the great body of African Children in the knowledge of the Gospel, it has ever been a principal object of the Society's solicitude to train up Native Labourers, whose constitutions, inured to the climate, and whose acquaintance with the native languages, would qualify them, should God call them by His grace, to become the

Church Missionary Record,

DETAILING THE

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY

FOR

THE YEAR 1830.

STOR LIBRARY

NEW-YORK

LONDON:

PRINTED BY RICHARD WATTS.

SOLD AT THE

CHURCH MISSIONARY HOUSE, SALISBURY SQUARE;

AND BY SEELEY & SONS, FLEET STREET; HATCHARD & SON, PICCADILLY';^ BALDWIN & CRADOCK, PATERNOSTER ROW;

T. JOHNSON, DUBLIN;

AND OLIPHANT, WAUGH, & INNES, EDINBURGH.

Price, Three Shillings and Sixpence.

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BIOGRAPHY.

Memoir and Character of the Rev. C. Friend, Missionar" in North India.. Memoir and Obitu of the Rev. T. T. Thomason, M.A e of the Chaplains

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to the Hon. East-India Company, on

the Bengal Establishment..

Memoir of Samuel, a Converted Malabar, in Ceylon..

PROCEEDINGS.

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HOME Departure of the Rev. T. Sandys and Mrs. Sandys; Mr. Thomas Chapman and his Wife; and the Rev. Charles Blackman and Mrs. Blackman...... Dismissal and Departure of Missionaries: Rev. Joseph Marsh.. Rev. W. Smith, and Mrs. Wilkinson, Mr. William Ridsdale; the Rev. J. A. Jetter and Mrs.Jetter; the Rev. J. J. Weitbrecht and Mr. J. Thompson; and Mr. James Preece. Rev. J. Raban, and Messrs.W. Tubb, W. Young, and R. Lloyd Proceedings of Associations, 69, 70, 94, 95 119, 142, 143, 166,167,190,191,215,263,264 Thirtieth Anniversary .

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Return towards Caïro Bulak, near Caïro.. Proceedings of Rev. Messrs. Gobat and

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Kugler, on their Mission to Abyssinia, 169 Suez-Departure from Suez..... 169 Yambo, Jidda Conversation with Abyssinian Pilgrim, 170 Arrival at Massowah

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Calcutta and North-India Mission.
General Sketch of the Mission
Calcutta:

Ministry of the Word-Schools....
Press-Native-Female Education..
Examination of the Schools

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Atrocities of African Slavery.

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Account of the Magaginé, an African Tribe, 15 Geographical Situation of the Tribe

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Burdwan & Culna:

Government, Customs, and Manners.. 15 Religious Notions and Customs

Baptisms-Schools

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Difficulty of obtaining suitable Native Teachers....

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